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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, May seventeenth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 2: episode number seven. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
Speaker 2: We are alive from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Start,
Speaker 2: presenter by Millo like the Only Beer of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2: And today it is the first of four final shows
Speaker 2: before we take a little hiatus here. So we got
Speaker 2: four more shows and what I want to do in
Speaker 2: those four shows is do a recap. We're gonna take
Speaker 2: a couple positions every day and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: what the Cowboys have done this offseason. We're going to
Speaker 2: compare where they were at the end of last season
Speaker 2: to where they are at this point and try to
Speaker 2: see if we can shed some light on how much
Speaker 2: they've improved or not over these last several months. Heading
Speaker 2: into the twenty twenty three training camp this year, we'll
Speaker 2: be out knox Nard, I assume late July or so, Brian,
Speaker 2: I hope your station's gonna let you come out and
Speaker 2: we'll get a little time with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they plan on it. So yeah, So we'll be
Speaker 3: out there eventually one time or another.
Speaker 2: Good and we know Nick and Amber will be out there.
Speaker 2: I will be out there, so looking forward to that
Speaker 2: later this summer. But for today, we're going to focus
Speaker 2: in on quarterbacks and linebackers, the quarterback of the offense
Speaker 2: and the defense. Before we do that, though, I wanted
Speaker 2: to get some reaction from you guys. Twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: schedule was released last week. What do you think about it?
Speaker 2: Was anything on it that stood out to you as
Speaker 2: far as how the Cowboys will have to approach this season?
Speaker 7: Not really. I mean, you know, I'm kind of I
Speaker 7: used to do that. I used to play that game
Speaker 7: and go, oh man, this looks tough and December looks tough.
Speaker 7: I don't know who. I mean, it looks like it
Speaker 7: could be if you're playing it now. But you know,
Speaker 7: who knows who's healthy and all that, and how teams are.
Speaker 7: There's always two or three games that are going to
Speaker 7: be tougher than you expecting two or three games that aren't.
Speaker 7: So you know, it's the things I look at or
Speaker 7: just you know, just how they got to get off
Speaker 7: to a pretty good start is what it seems like.
Speaker 7: And then you know, just stay healthy. I mean I
Speaker 7: think that I looked at it. They'll be favored, you know,
Speaker 7: unless things change dramatically, they'll be favored in twelve or
Speaker 7: thirteen games. So they should go out and.
Speaker 2: Got a lot of night games.
Speaker 7: Man, got some night games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's for guys that do postgame shows until two
Speaker 3: in the morning. That's no fun. Well, hopefully we'll talk
Speaker 3: about it like someone that might know something. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: know all about that. I will say, I don't think
Speaker 3: the league did them any favors in December. I just don't.
Speaker 3: I think when you start to talk about having you
Speaker 3: get the game at Philadelphia at home on the tenth
Speaker 3: and then at Buffalo Miami Detroit could be playing for
Speaker 3: division title. You know, we'll see what happens with the
Speaker 3: Commanders are you know, the division I think is going
Speaker 3: to be pretty tight, So there's gonna be a gauntlet
Speaker 3: that they're going to have to run, and I think
Speaker 3: they catch a break on the heat in Miami, even
Speaker 3: though you're a hot weather team here. Usually if you
Speaker 3: go to Miami earlier in the years, we've all known,
Speaker 3: you could melt in that place. Umid hut. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: you got a amber. I'm sorry, Christmas Eve, you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to spend in Miami. I can think of worse
Speaker 3: places to be. Well, he'll be in Miami. You'll be
Speaker 3: in Miami that day. But the trip to Buffalo, as
Speaker 3: we all know, and we've all made that trip to Buffalo,
Speaker 3: it could be it could be very daunting as is.
Speaker 3: So I don't think they did him many favors, you know,
Speaker 3: with the way that part of the schedule rolls out,
Speaker 3: because I think every one of those teams are going
Speaker 3: to be playing for something, you know, and yes, you
Speaker 3: would kind of hope that you had somebody in there
Speaker 3: that wasn't playing for something like Carolina or maybe even
Speaker 3: we'll see what the rams if they had to turn
Speaker 3: around or anything like that. But that part of I
Speaker 3: think is going to be difficult.
Speaker 8: I feel terrible because you asked that question and I'm like, uh,
Speaker 8: what did I think? Because everything that I'm looking at
Speaker 8: it in a non football perspective. When the schedule comes out,
Speaker 8: I'm looking at the video we produced, that you guys produced,
Speaker 8: that the company put out.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at what.
Speaker 8: Other teams put out production wise. A lot of questionable
Speaker 8: things out there that some teams decided to do. But
Speaker 8: also I'm looking at, Okay, how many back to back
Speaker 8: home games do we have? How many on the road games?
Speaker 8: So I did not even look at when we're playing
Speaker 8: what opponent because to me, which is terrible, but I mean,
Speaker 8: I just know I got to be there. I'm going
Speaker 8: to be there for all of them.
Speaker 3: So it doesn't know, well, the two the two me personally, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the two games to the West Coast to the San
Speaker 3: Francisco and Chargers game back to back. It's a Sunday
Speaker 3: night and a Monday night, correct, So that, man, that
Speaker 3: could be a little bit of another.
Speaker 2: To get a buy immediately after that, Yeah, it kind
Speaker 2: of helps a little.
Speaker 3: You might you're gonna you might need that buy for sure.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, the Aaron. I think getting Aaron
Speaker 3: Rodgers out of the way in week two I think
Speaker 3: is a good thing. Maybe the Jets haven't kind of
Speaker 3: figured things out with him. And you never want him
Speaker 3: to get rolled in the way he can. So maybe
Speaker 3: that that gives you a little bit of a break
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 7: I mean you're supposed to have nine nine you know,
Speaker 7: road games, eight home games, but you do have you
Speaker 7: do have a break with two games that you'll have
Speaker 7: more fans. You will, I mean you'll have more fans
Speaker 7: in Arizona and then and uh at the other LA.
Speaker 7: So you know there will be two games that you
Speaker 7: should be able to. You're not gonna be like it's
Speaker 7: not like gonna be the black hole in Oakland. I mean,
Speaker 7: you know you'll have a chance to.
Speaker 2: Nose won't be the game it shouldn't be.
Speaker 7: And you're a better team. I think they're a better
Speaker 7: team than both of those teams. So when you factor
Speaker 7: that in, I mean that you have a couple of
Speaker 7: opportunities to you know, to you know, have some success there.
Speaker 3: You're back. You got that Thursday to Thursday game again. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know that's something that you missed that last.
Speaker 6: Year, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, to me, that only affects like that's like a
Speaker 7: gamer was saying that just that only it kind of
Speaker 7: affects like personally, like Thanksgiving, your Thanksgiving weekend, that you
Speaker 7: wanted to have as little afterwards is a little different,
Speaker 7: but you know, you still get the break after that,
Speaker 7: So I don't know. I don't know how much that
Speaker 7: effects I guess it affects it so honestly for a team,
Speaker 7: but I don't know for the team.
Speaker 2: I actually thought it was a little bit of an
Speaker 2: advantage because they get that even though you got that
Speaker 2: short week for the Thursday game, then you get a
Speaker 2: full week for the next Thursday game, and then they
Speaker 2: actually have a long week because they don't play until
Speaker 2: the following Sunday and it's a Sunday night game. So
Speaker 2: when you factor all that in, like there's actually it
Speaker 2: makes that three week period, not the front part of
Speaker 2: the three weeks, but the back part.
Speaker 7: Of the three weeks.
Speaker 2: It makes it a little easier for them to kind
Speaker 2: of manage. I think at a time of the year
Speaker 2: where you think you probably need that a little bit
Speaker 2: of extra rest to be able to get that heading
Speaker 2: into December of a couple extra days, I think that's
Speaker 2: actually a benefit for them. But yeah, I think the
Speaker 2: interesting thing here really for me was about what you
Speaker 2: were saying, Brian about that December stretch. I think that's
Speaker 2: the part you look at and Nick, you're absolutely right,
Speaker 2: we don't know what that's going to look. Yeah, we've
Speaker 2: had other years where you go into December thinking, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, and then you get to that point you
Speaker 2: know it's going to be.
Speaker 7: So you know that, and you got to be able
Speaker 7: to run the football like they want to do because
Speaker 7: I mean throwing the ball around in Buffalo, we saw it.
Speaker 3: I mean could be tough for you know, you never
Speaker 3: know about that. The thing about it is too that
Speaker 3: you always worry about December those flex games. Potentially You've
Speaker 3: already got two night games in December, you know, and
Speaker 3: the only games that they could flex on you would
Speaker 3: be the at Buffalo and at Miami. But they flex
Speaker 3: you knowing that you've already got two night games or Washington. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess well they could flex the day on that one.
Speaker 3: That's the that could be a Saturday, is what that
Speaker 3: one could be.
Speaker 7: I doubt they flexed the Christmas Eve game, right, I mean,
Speaker 7: is there a.
Speaker 2: Game that's already there already a is that? Isn't that
Speaker 2: a night an afternoon game?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Three twenty five?
Speaker 3: How many? I didn't check. How many do they have?
Speaker 3: Three Christmas games this year one Christmas game.
Speaker 2: I don't really honestly, I think what I saw and.
Speaker 3: I thought there was one was a Jets Miami or
Speaker 3: am I thinking about something else? Somebody else was? Or
Speaker 3: Giants Giants Giants Eagles, Giants Eagles on Christmas? So is
Speaker 3: that the only Christmas Day game that that would be?
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, do you flex? I mean, does
Speaker 3: that turn into a deal where you have to flex that?
Speaker 3: I I think with the fact that you've got the
Speaker 3: two games in December that are already TV games, I
Speaker 3: don't think you have to worry about those getting flexed.
Speaker 3: But that's something you always have to consider when you're
Speaker 3: you know, you're playing for these games late in the year.
Speaker 2: Somewhere I thought I saw the eighteenth. The weekend of
Speaker 2: the eighteenth was the only was the weekend that could
Speaker 2: have been flexed and not the one after that. But
Speaker 2: I don't know that for sure.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know about that Christmas. If I would hope,
Speaker 2: I would hope that they don't. It's already better if
Speaker 2: we're doing a road Christmas Eve game. I would hate
Speaker 2: that to be a night game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, we'll see you think about it. Just
Speaker 7: from a standpoint of you start off on the road
Speaker 7: in the season on the road, and then you know
Speaker 7: Christmas is also on the road, all on the East coast,
Speaker 7: so you know, not that there's any short trips really
Speaker 7: for the Cowboys ever except for Houston.
Speaker 3: But man, there's going to be some pressure pack games
Speaker 3: in that month. I mean, I think it actually could start.
Speaker 3: And I say December. I think it actually could start
Speaker 3: at the home game against Seattle, that Thursday, Thursday game.
Speaker 3: You know, Seattle, Seattle, Philly, Buffalo, Miami, Detroit Command is
Speaker 3: all gonna be playing for something. I mean, and you're
Speaker 3: likely playing for something too.
Speaker 7: So Seattle's on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: Off, No, it's the Thursday after your game against the Command.
Speaker 7: But Seattle's on Thanksgiving as well, right that.
Speaker 2: Oh are they playing things right? I guess. I guess
Speaker 2: they probably are. I don't know every team's gonna play
Speaker 2: a Thursday night game, so yeah, it could be. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would they could.
Speaker 7: They would play on Sunday. And but I mean it
Speaker 7: happens all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, every team, Most teams will have a Sunday to
Speaker 2: third a game.
Speaker 3: Every single seats playing San Francisco the week before on
Speaker 3: thanks after the night game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I'm thinking, like always, I mean, happens every
Speaker 8: year where that final month of December is kind of
Speaker 8: you're playing to get into the playoffs. I'm trying to think,
Speaker 8: when has it not been that way?
Speaker 3: Well, you got the Colts that one time, right, didn't
Speaker 3: you get the Colts there last year where they were
Speaker 3: just was it last year or two years?
Speaker 7: I remember?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sometimes you get teams that just completely out of it
Speaker 3: and you and that's your hope that you get somebody
Speaker 3: that that you know is not they're not going anywhere,
Speaker 3: and then you just beat them up and then you
Speaker 3: move on.
Speaker 7: But sometimes those teams can be dangerous too, you know,
Speaker 7: like Washington at the end of the season last year.
Speaker 7: You know, I mean, I know the Cowboys didn't play
Speaker 7: a lot of players, but that you know, they.
Speaker 3: Were funny if Washington would have won the week before
Speaker 3: they were playing to get into the playoffs. They they
Speaker 3: started Carson Wentz the week before and it messed them up.
Speaker 3: The thing that I could say this the one thing
Speaker 3: we've also kind of learned is the lead league tends
Speaker 3: to schedule if they're trying to move on get the
Speaker 3: AFC teams done. It's always like in the month of
Speaker 3: December they put AFC, you get two AFC teams. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know in that in that you know, it would
Speaker 3: be better to me personally if you had somebody like
Speaker 3: maybe I don't think New England. I will see about
Speaker 3: New England how they're going to be. I would much
Speaker 3: rather have New England than I would Buffalo or one
Speaker 3: of those other teams down there. And that you know thing.
Speaker 3: I think Buffalo and Miami are going to be battling
Speaker 3: for the division title.
Speaker 2: The fact is, though we knew going into this year,
Speaker 2: even before the schedule came out, you knew the teams
Speaker 2: they were playing. That's a daunting list of opponents just
Speaker 2: in general. So however they were going to match them up.
Speaker 2: It was going to be a daunting task for the
Speaker 2: Cowboys this season because the NFC East is so tough
Speaker 2: and you're playing a division AFC East that also has
Speaker 2: some pretty good teams and NFC East as well, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, NFC West as well.
Speaker 3: The quarterback better.
Speaker 8: Or worse calendar than last.
Speaker 2: Year schedule ever since?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say worse.
Speaker 2: When you say worse than you're saying worse for the Cowboys.
Speaker 8: Or yeah for the Cowboys in all aspects.
Speaker 2: Based on what I thought this time last year, South
Speaker 2: time this year, Yeah, I agree with you. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: would say it's probably it's a harder scheduled this year
Speaker 2: than it was last year.
Speaker 3: You got those games, but you played Houston later in
Speaker 3: the season, didn't you last year, and that that game
Speaker 3: turned out to be a last drive game.
Speaker 7: You got a second place schedule, which means that three
Speaker 7: teams you're playing that Finnish second are Carolina, Detroit and
Speaker 7: the Chargers or Seattle. It well, Seattle, I think you
Speaker 7: played the whole divisions, but the ones that you're playing
Speaker 7: because you're finish second, those teams. You know, those teams
Speaker 7: are all battling. You know, it's not like you're getting
Speaker 7: a huge break there.
Speaker 2: I'd rather take Minnesota than Detroit, right, going that way,
Speaker 2: give me team versus Detroit.
Speaker 3: Detroit might win the North. Right Troitt team, they can
Speaker 3: win the North.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely got a team. All right, we're gonna
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Speaker 2: So, here's what we're going to do. We're going to
Speaker 2: a off season review We've got We're going to go
Speaker 2: through every position here over the next four shows. Today
Speaker 2: we're going to focus in on the quarterbacks and the linebackers.
Speaker 2: And I want to start with this simple question. We're
Speaker 2: talking quarterbacks first. Are they better, worse, or the same
Speaker 2: as they were in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: I think they're better. I think they're better, and I
Speaker 3: think they're better because they know what they have in
Speaker 3: Cooper Rush. I think that's the thing. I think you
Speaker 3: have to have a little bit of confidence. I know
Speaker 3: there's a big turnover on the offensive staff, new line coach,
Speaker 3: new running back coach, new play caller, you know, new OC.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of things going on here.
Speaker 3: But I think that when you look at the quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: their job is going to be to work with Dak Prescott.
Speaker 3: We all understand that. But I think there's a confidence
Speaker 3: within the organization about Cooper Rush. If we played to
Speaker 3: a certain level, if we play a certain way, we
Speaker 3: can win football games with him playing there. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, four and one during the year, heck had
Speaker 3: a chance to win at Philadelphia. I mean if they didn't,
Speaker 3: you know, if it was the first time in the
Speaker 3: of his five games that he had some turnovers in
Speaker 3: that game, or they might have had a chance to
Speaker 3: win it. But I think they have to be really
Speaker 3: confident about their backup situation and a lot of people
Speaker 3: like Will Greer here as well, So I think they're
Speaker 3: I think they're in a much better better spot.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would probably just say the same, and that's
Speaker 7: not anything bad or good. And the personnel's the same,
Speaker 7: and so you know, with a new coaching staff and
Speaker 7: new play callers, it could go better, could go worse.
Speaker 7: So because of that, I would say the same. But
Speaker 7: I mean, I think there's some optimism for for Dak,
Speaker 7: you know. I mean those all those interceptions obviously weren't
Speaker 7: on him, some of them were, so they could clean
Speaker 7: those up, and let's see if you can take those
Speaker 7: away and eliminate that and manage the game differently, and
Speaker 7: then I think it could be better. I think I
Speaker 7: think we're done with the Dak has to go win
Speaker 7: the football game all the time, you know, forget the money,
Speaker 7: forget what he's paying the salary and all that. Just
Speaker 7: just go play the smart way. And I think if
Speaker 7: they're all on the same page there, then I think
Speaker 7: this offense could be better.
Speaker 8: I think to me, I would be it would be
Speaker 8: the same because so far, none of the changes they
Speaker 8: have made is an indicator yet that it's going to
Speaker 8: be improved or even worse. I mean, it's up in
Speaker 8: the air. We'll see what happens there. But as far
Speaker 8: as like what we've seen from Dak, we haven't really
Speaker 8: seen him yet again out in the field really throwing
Speaker 8: those passes to tell you, Okay, where he's at with
Speaker 8: the offense and the guy's catching the passes and all that,
Speaker 8: and how is that running game going to be looking?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 8: What's the protection around him? But also one of the
Speaker 8: things that does make me think that it could be
Speaker 8: better is the fact, and you were mentioning, I think
Speaker 8: yesterday off the show, Derek, how they use him running
Speaker 8: with the football, him trying to escape using his legs,
Speaker 8: the running game, quarterback sneaks and things like that. That
Speaker 8: he's proven he's good at it. He's proven that he
Speaker 8: can do it, and he's proven to be successful getting
Speaker 8: into the end zone. I forgot how many touchdowns he
Speaker 8: was able to get last year just running the ball.
Speaker 8: But that's one aspect that I really hope they can
Speaker 8: carry over this year as well and just really really
Speaker 8: benefit from that that I think overall, as far as quarterback,
Speaker 8: I think he can take it even further, he.
Speaker 3: Might have to be their short yardage option without Ezekiel
Speaker 3: Elliott here. You know, that's the one thing. I mean,
Speaker 3: if you're one of those people that believe in analytics
Speaker 3: and stuff, they will say that Zeke is you know,
Speaker 3: it's five percent less than what you believe the averaging,
Speaker 3: I mean, there's all these numbers you could throw out there,
Speaker 3: but they're going to have to when we get to
Speaker 3: the running back portion of this conversation, where are they
Speaker 3: going to have that short yardage third and one? Third
Speaker 3: and two? Is Is it going to be Dak Prescott
Speaker 3: fourth one? Are they going to have to find a
Speaker 3: way to make up for what we thought with our
Speaker 3: eyes or saw with our eyes Ezekiel Elliott converting a
Speaker 3: lot of those things. So the running aspect of Dak
Speaker 3: maybe not as a scrambler, but the running aspect of
Speaker 3: him being they got to get first outs and that's
Speaker 3: that would be his area.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Dak running the ball, and this was the
Speaker 2: stat I throw out to you guys yesterday when I
Speaker 2: was mentioning it. Dak average. He was average his second
Speaker 2: highest total of rush attempts per game at three point
Speaker 2: eight last year of his career, and it seemed like
Speaker 2: a bit of a shock to me. Do you guys
Speaker 2: think that that because it seemed like he didn't run
Speaker 2: that much. But all that being said, do you guys
Speaker 2: think that that's enough or do you think that they
Speaker 2: really have to make more of a concerted effort of
Speaker 2: integrating him more into the offense from the standpoint of
Speaker 2: using his legs and actually calling more plays for him
Speaker 2: to run as opposed to him just running when the
Speaker 2: opportunity presents itself.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think there are some times on those those
Speaker 7: read options that you know, I like to see him
Speaker 7: keep it a little bit more. He's got to get
Speaker 7: more comfortable doing it. I think some of those those
Speaker 7: numbers were sneaks last year. And I'm gonna throw something
Speaker 7: else out there about the quarterback sneaks. Everyone says, Okay,
Speaker 7: look at Philly, they're doing it. Jalen hurts, you know,
Speaker 7: but Jason Kelcey. Don't forget that that he's the best
Speaker 7: center in the league, and he knows how to get
Speaker 7: leverage and he knows how to, you know, to create
Speaker 7: a push. It's not just about the quarterback being strong.
Speaker 7: That's part of it, but you also have to win
Speaker 7: right off the line, and the Eagles have a good line,
Speaker 7: and some of the teams that have quarterback snakes they
Speaker 7: do it a lot. They have that offensive line, and
Speaker 7: so be Honish Martin. Whoever's playing left guard, they have
Speaker 7: to figure that out too, if they're gonna run those
Speaker 7: quarterbacks snaks. So it's not always fourth in inches, it's
Speaker 7: fourth and one and a half, Then what happens on
Speaker 7: fourth and one and a half that's where you miss
Speaker 7: zeke fourth one and a half and two. And I
Speaker 7: think teams with like the Eagles, they'll still run the sneak,
Speaker 7: especially if they're being able to push from the back.
Speaker 7: They still they didn't change that rule, did they.
Speaker 3: No, they didn't change that rule.
Speaker 2: I don't think they will.
Speaker 3: Actually, No, I think it's gonna be a little bit
Speaker 3: different from the Eagles this year because of Cam Jurgens
Speaker 3: now takes over at guard, and you know, and he's
Speaker 3: not the bigger of the body of the guys, you know,
Speaker 3: And so to me, with Dickerson and Jurgens and Kelsey,
Speaker 3: that's that's a good size group, but it's not what
Speaker 3: they've had before. And so maybe that'll that dynamic will
Speaker 3: change a little bit for them. But yeah, Dallas, as
Speaker 3: you mentioned, I mean, they've got questions at left guard.
Speaker 3: Is that going to be Tyler Smith? Who is that
Speaker 3: going to be? Is that going to be somebody that
Speaker 3: you know? I mean, I think it's a lot different
Speaker 3: to say if Steel would. I mean, everybody's talking about
Speaker 3: Steel playing left guard, and I think that's to me,
Speaker 3: that's just it blows my mind to even think of that.
Speaker 3: But you know, it depends on who you have inside block,
Speaker 3: and that really makes a difference.
Speaker 8: No, I was just gonna say, I just hope that
Speaker 8: the runs are intentional, not because it's out of need
Speaker 8: and he's being forced to kind of just scramble and
Speaker 8: try to get away. And also keeping in mind and
Speaker 8: we talk about Cooper rush, the backup and all that,
Speaker 8: but you got to always remember the more you run
Speaker 8: as a quarterback, the higher the risk of you getting injured.
Speaker 8: And this is not a year that I want to
Speaker 8: see that happening whatsoever, especially when you talk about going
Speaker 8: all in with the defense and everything that's happening this year.
Speaker 8: But there are a lot of concerns on the with
Speaker 8: the O line and the running game. I am very
Speaker 8: very unsure as to how exactly that's going to look
Speaker 8: like until I get to see Tony Poller actually running
Speaker 8: a training camp with the ball.
Speaker 7: You know, I was going to say this about a
Speaker 7: left tackle. Usually when you have a domino effect, it
Speaker 7: starts at the top and it kind of dominoes down
Speaker 7: and affects other players. Left tackle or tackle seems to
Speaker 7: be one that the domino might even start at the
Speaker 7: bottom or in the middle, because look at Tyler Smith.
Speaker 7: Most people think, all right, who is going to affect
Speaker 7: where he plays? Tyron Smith and Terrence Steele. To me,
Speaker 7: the wild card of it all is will let's go
Speaker 7: if Matt will Letsko comes in and does what they
Speaker 7: think he might do, that providing a left tackle, right
Speaker 7: tackle swing type of guy. Now you've got and maybe
Speaker 7: that both these other tackles are healthy. Now it just
Speaker 7: makes sense to put Tyler Smith at left guard because
Speaker 7: now you really are getting your your top five. So
Speaker 7: I don't think it's just the domino effect a top
Speaker 7: I think, if well, let's go show them something, he
Speaker 7: could be the wild card in this whole thing that
Speaker 7: they give them depth that they really need.
Speaker 3: Are you more concerned about And I'll ask everybody here,
Speaker 3: but are you more concerned about about Tyron Smith is
Speaker 3: regressing as a player or his injury history?
Speaker 7: Injury, his injury history, But but that does affect him
Speaker 7: regressing as a player. Yes, I think they go hand
Speaker 7: in hand a little bit. But I do think the injury.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as I'm watching him play, I'm where are you
Speaker 3: playing him? See, that's that's the that's the problem. They're
Speaker 3: gonna play at left tackle. I believe they're going to
Speaker 3: play at left tackle, and so you know, and that's
Speaker 3: his natural position, that's what he's done all these years.
Speaker 3: I think for so many years now, we always talk
Speaker 3: about him the potential of him getting injured, you know,
Speaker 3: and you just kind of know it. It's okay, we're
Speaker 3: gonna miss three games. It's gonna be week seven, eight nine,
Speaker 3: or it's gonna be you know, something's going to happen,
Speaker 3: and then it'll be like, okay, well, then you know,
Speaker 3: Tyler Smith will have to go back outside to me.
Speaker 3: But I think it's more to Tyron Smith's game than
Speaker 3: it is just the injury history. I think there is
Speaker 3: some actual regression there as a player, and I and
Speaker 3: I think maybe it is because of some of the
Speaker 3: things that have happened to him throughout his career injury wise,
Speaker 3: but when he was healthy, you know, I was expecting
Speaker 3: that right side with him and Martin. It wasn't as
Speaker 3: clean as it. And people could say, well, Brian, he's
Speaker 3: a left tackle and all that. Well, then why did
Speaker 3: they think that they had to play him? Why didn't
Speaker 3: they move Tyler Smith over there?
Speaker 2: Well, that's same on them, not saying on him necessarily, right.
Speaker 3: So I'm saying though, that's what I'm saying. Though, Maybe
Speaker 3: him being back on the left side will be better,
Speaker 3: excuse me, will be better for him. Yeah, But I
Speaker 3: just I don't know. There's times where I was seeing
Speaker 3: a regressing player, and I'm thinking, why continue with a
Speaker 3: regressing player? If you got this young player that has
Speaker 3: this future at that spot, don't mess with the young
Speaker 3: player who's proven that he could play the position, you know,
Speaker 3: don't make him have to play guard when he looks
Speaker 3: like a natural left tackle. He looks like a young
Speaker 3: Tyron Smith out there at times playing the way he's
Speaker 3: moving around.
Speaker 7: Just comes down to who that left guard is as
Speaker 7: opposed to the left tackle For Tyron Smith, I mean,
Speaker 7: what's your better option there? And also like how much
Speaker 7: are we regressing?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 7: I mean, I think Lebron James has probably regressed some,
Speaker 7: you know, over his career, and he's still playing at
Speaker 7: a high level. I want to see Tyler Tyron Smith regress.
Speaker 7: I don't want to see that. But if he regresses
Speaker 7: that left tackle, like all right, now, you're right now, now, right,
Speaker 7: we gave him a pass for the right side, and
Speaker 7: he was coming back from injury. Now he's had all
Speaker 7: off season, now he's back to his normal position, and
Speaker 7: it's still not there. Then yeah, I think that's.
Speaker 3: So I definitely am going to keep the eye on
Speaker 3: because to me, I I would have never believed this,
Speaker 3: and I thought, man, they're going to have more power
Speaker 3: over there on the right side, Martin and Smith, Tyron
Speaker 3: Smith are going to get that done over there. They
Speaker 3: didn't run the ball well enough over there. They just didn't.
Speaker 3: And you know, there were a lot of things that
Speaker 3: were going on, and there was a natural fit between
Speaker 3: between Steel and Martin in the running game. You clearly
Speaker 3: saw it that when they ran the football, those two
Speaker 3: guys had it. They were working, and it wasn't the
Speaker 3: same with and I think it's a little bit more
Speaker 3: about the regression of Tyron Smith. And that's and and
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, I worry about the injury history, but
Speaker 3: I think we're starting to see I think we're starting
Speaker 3: to see it. It show up a little bit more
Speaker 3: of the regression part.
Speaker 2: On that point, both of you guys talked about the regression.
Speaker 2: Right now, if you had to order the tackles on
Speaker 2: this team, where does Tyler I mean, where does Tyron
Speaker 2: Smith fit in that?
Speaker 3: I me, personally, I have to go with Tyler Smith
Speaker 3: at left tackle and Terrence Still at right tackle. From
Speaker 3: what I saw the way that they.
Speaker 2: You think he's the third best tackle on this team.
Speaker 3: I do right now, yeah I do.
Speaker 2: What would you think?
Speaker 7: I still? I mean, I'm just one of those benefit
Speaker 7: of the doubt guys. So I give him, I give him,
Speaker 7: you know, the first. But it's also because I know
Speaker 7: that I can put Tyler Smith at left guard. See,
Speaker 7: I'm just not worried about the left guard left tackle
Speaker 7: for him because this isn't going to be something happens
Speaker 7: for five years. See Tyrone Crawford, that was always a
Speaker 7: thing because it was where was his best fit. But
Speaker 7: Tyler Smith, like Tyrone's not gonna be here forever. So
Speaker 7: if he's got one more year, fine, if he's not.
Speaker 7: If he doesn't, he doesn't, But I'm okay with with
Speaker 7: one more year because Tyler Smith is about the smartest
Speaker 7: player in that locker. He's really smart. He can figure
Speaker 7: that out. And I just don't think that he's going
Speaker 7: to regress back and forth. And you know, because we'll
Speaker 7: get this figured out.
Speaker 3: The chance for regression of Tyler Smith and maybe for
Speaker 3: all these offensive linemens if is if they're going to
Speaker 3: really miss Joe Philbin. But I'm willing to give I'm
Speaker 3: willing to give the new coach the opportunity, Mike Silari,
Speaker 3: I'm willing to give him the new opportunity. There are
Speaker 3: a lot of moving pieces on this offense, and most
Speaker 3: of it's on the coaching staff. That's the thing that
Speaker 3: you have to keep an eye on. How you know,
Speaker 3: is Tyler Smith. And let's be honest, there's people in
Speaker 3: the organization will admit this. You know, Joe Philbin wasn't
Speaker 3: totally on board with Tyler Smith. But what did he
Speaker 3: do with Tyler Smith? He coached him up. You know,
Speaker 3: he said, Okay, maybe he's not my guy, but he
Speaker 3: coached him up. He took a liking to Terrence Steele,
Speaker 3: proved a lot of people wrong about Terrence Steele, including me.
Speaker 3: You know, I do worry about when you flip I
Speaker 3: think the I think the offensive line coach is probably
Speaker 3: the third most important coach on the staff, the OC,
Speaker 3: the DC offensive line coach, and you know, changing that
Speaker 3: out is something that I always one way okay, and
Speaker 3: then but you know, Zach Martin's coming out, Hey, I
Speaker 3: really like what's going on here? Like what you know,
Speaker 3: you hear that stuff, so that part of his encouraging
Speaker 3: what you don't need is a pall out Alexander coming
Speaker 3: in here. And in mid season they're all going, we
Speaker 3: can't block the save our rears here, you know.
Speaker 8: Because see that's the problem with to me, the benefit
Speaker 8: of the doubt. The problem with the benefit of the
Speaker 8: doubt is that it equates to a few games of
Speaker 8: let's see how it's going. What are the results of
Speaker 8: each and one of those games we don't know. And
Speaker 8: to be fair, this staff has proven, as opposed to
Speaker 8: the previous staff, that they're not afraid to make changes whenever.
Speaker 8: And if you got to change someone out, switch them out,
Speaker 8: take them out, they'll do it. But how how long
Speaker 8: are they giving Tyren Smith and what is that looking like?
Speaker 8: And at what point do you pull him out and say, okay,
Speaker 8: there's other options, and then you got.
Speaker 3: Might actual great. Yeah Tyron Smith might look great, and
Speaker 3: it'd be in my concerns about it would be completely
Speaker 3: you know, but it is concerns going forward. I've got
Speaker 3: to the point now where I don't think about the
Speaker 3: injury anymore. I just don't. I think out where is
Speaker 3: he is a player? When he plays? You know, is
Speaker 3: he still playing at this level? And I think there's
Speaker 3: times last year where he wasn't And it might be
Speaker 3: because he was on the right side there that might
Speaker 3: have been you know, hey, good for him to go
Speaker 3: out there and say, hey, I'll do whatever I have
Speaker 3: to do. But the fact that a Hall of Fame
Speaker 3: tackle said I'll play on the right side tells you
Speaker 3: all you need to know about the left tackle that
Speaker 3: you're trying to move to guard. Now that a Hall
Speaker 3: of Fame tackle was willing to play right tackle so
Speaker 3: the left tackle, who was doing damn well could stay
Speaker 3: at a spot.
Speaker 7: That's because the right tackle was hurt. The turn steel
Speaker 7: was also hurt. I mean that that was part of
Speaker 7: it too, So you know this, they got a lot
Speaker 7: of moving parts. And the good thing is that when
Speaker 7: you get to training camp, you know, Tyron Smith's not
Speaker 7: going to be out there a ton It'll be he'll
Speaker 7: be doing something that'll give a let's go, that'll give
Speaker 7: I think, let's go.
Speaker 3: I think yeah, Austin Richards Richards another one.
Speaker 7: He has a chance to get in there. So they
Speaker 7: have a lot of depth there. And that's why Josh
Speaker 7: Ball is going to be playing guard or both back
Speaker 7: and forth. It's the biggest guard you've ever seen.
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Speaker 2: our conversation on quarterbacks and offensive line. Let's talk about
Speaker 2: the center position. Lash that's wrong.
Speaker 3: I'm just laughing about how that quickly I tend to
Speaker 3: do that.
Speaker 2: That's I switched it, Okay, but it was fine, Like
Speaker 2: I do that all the time.
Speaker 3: That's how we do it.
Speaker 7: Linebacker Mike is still linebacker.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, do that.
Speaker 2: Don't know were you saving linebacker?
Speaker 8: How hard Derek works.
Speaker 2: I don't even want you to mention linebacker. No talk
Speaker 2: of defense right, not that position? All right, center, Let's
Speaker 2: talk about the honest he ended up in the Pro
Speaker 2: Bowl last year in the mouth, I mean, I've just
Speaker 2: I was like, get rid of this guy. Yeah, but
Speaker 2: you know, honestly that that's where I was going with.
Speaker 3: Let me save.
Speaker 2: He went to the Pro Bowl. And you know we
Speaker 2: see this sometimes NFL guys ended up in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 2: You can make it. It's an argument as to whether
Speaker 2: they really are that caliber of player. Where is he
Speaker 2: at this point in your mind? Is he a top
Speaker 2: five player, which if you're in the Pro Bowl typically
Speaker 2: you should be in that range. Is he that kind
Speaker 2: of player. Was he a player that kind of got
Speaker 2: the benefit of this guy couldn't go, this guy couldn't go,
Speaker 2: So here you go.
Speaker 7: I don't think it was that deep. I think it
Speaker 7: was second, you know, second guy which make my top five, Yeah,
Speaker 7: I think so. And he's played and he played on
Speaker 7: a good team last year too, good offense that that
Speaker 7: moved the ball, and so it plays on a lot
Speaker 7: of those night games that we talked about. So and
Speaker 7: you just didn't notice him a whole lot what you
Speaker 7: did the year before fall starts bad snaps, you know,
Speaker 7: getting kind of pushed back a lot. I thought he
Speaker 7: when you're not noticing a lot from him, that means
Speaker 7: he's doing his job. And I thought he did a
Speaker 7: good jump.
Speaker 3: Yeah. When you when you look at overall about how
Speaker 3: he might be the fourth best center in the conference.
Speaker 3: When you start to talk about, you know, Philadelphia with
Speaker 3: Kelsey Ragnow from Detroit, Jensen from Tampa, you know, those
Speaker 3: are the guys that are kind of like everybody talks
Speaker 3: about is the better centers. I would say he's somewhere
Speaker 3: in that conversation with those guys. I think we would
Speaker 3: all you know, from what I've seen, might take those
Speaker 3: guys over him, but he has gotten better. And that's
Speaker 3: again what I talk about, maybe with the switch at
Speaker 3: offensive line coach, are you going to hurt somebody's you know,
Speaker 3: ability to get better if in fact now he's hearing
Speaker 3: a different message or a different techniques along the way.
Speaker 3: But he doesn't take a backseat to any of those
Speaker 3: guys I mentioned. All those other guys really good centers,
Speaker 3: but he fits right into that group. When you look
Speaker 3: at overall the run blocking skill, the pass blocking skill,
Speaker 3: his ability to communicate with the others. You don't see
Speaker 3: the break the breakdowns in the middle of the of
Speaker 3: the offensive line with him. So I think that he's
Speaker 3: probably in that top four or five in the conference,
Speaker 3: is what I would say. And Jason be my main concern.
Speaker 8: I mean, you've criticized him a moment, which fair. There
Speaker 8: were areas, you know, areas of improvement, But to me personally,
Speaker 8: when looking at the olne, he's never made. He's never
Speaker 8: been my main concern. There also kind of tough when
Speaker 8: you go from what you had in Travis Frederick. I
Speaker 8: know we had him between Joe Looney right before Tyler
Speaker 8: took over, but when you look at what you were
Speaker 8: used to someone that barely ever made any mistakes with
Speaker 8: Travis Fredericks, and then you get a guy like Kim
Speaker 8: coming in here, rookie jumping into that role. I think
Speaker 8: all in all, he's done a pretty decent job at
Speaker 8: the position.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The only time I really worried about him was when
Speaker 2: he was playing people like Vidavea, which you don't play
Speaker 2: those guys every week, but when you played those guys.
Speaker 3: It was the so does everybody that plays right exactly.
Speaker 2: It's the strength that you worry about. But but you're right, Brian,
Speaker 2: that's every every team playing them has that same concern.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that necessarily takes him down in
Speaker 2: my book as far as no he's.
Speaker 8: Been killed, you know, yeah, even when players playing players
Speaker 8: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he would just have moments in games like that
Speaker 2: in the past be like WHOA, Well, So.
Speaker 3: I think that I think, if you really want to
Speaker 3: be honest with it, the breakdowns were more maybe on
Speaker 3: the left side, on the on the left guard, and
Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you know, you're trying to help,
Speaker 3: trying to cover you know, there's you know, they're really
Speaker 3: there were times where I mean, he was dealing with
Speaker 3: the revolving door over there at left guard, you know,
Speaker 3: and how about going through the whole how about going
Speaker 3: through training camp, working with you know, with Tyler Smith
Speaker 3: and others over there, and then now Tyler Smith has
Speaker 3: to move to tackle a wait a minute, it's uh uh,
Speaker 3: you know Connor McGovern over there, and now Connor McGovern's
Speaker 3: kind of having his struggles and you know, oh wait,
Speaker 3: now now I'm having my struggles. So it's not an
Speaker 3: easy thing. But I think overall, to Amber's point, he
Speaker 3: hasn't been to the point where it's like every week
Speaker 3: you're watching him and going, gosh, he is the He's
Speaker 3: the reason we did it with Connor Williams. You know,
Speaker 3: Connor Williams. Every week it felt like there were those
Speaker 3: two or three plays where he just he was just overwhelmed.
Speaker 3: And and maybe there were some times with Bey Oddish
Speaker 3: that happened, but not as much as you did think.
Speaker 2: If you had to wrap it up for this offensive
Speaker 2: line discussion and say, do you think they're better, worse,
Speaker 2: or the same as last year? What do you fall?
Speaker 7: I think they're going to be better.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 7: Aweso mcgoverned, but I yeah, I think they they're just
Speaker 7: going to have a little bit more depth. The depth
Speaker 7: across the line, I think be oddish is better, so
Speaker 7: that you got to factor that part in still comes back.
Speaker 7: You got a little bit more depth there at tackle
Speaker 7: and and you know, well let's go and Richard's and
Speaker 7: you're just throwing more things out there. Idoga at guard
Speaker 7: he might be a good option there.
Speaker 8: So I it's still a little fifth second.
Speaker 7: Year Tyler Smith second year should be I mean, yeah,
Speaker 7: you're right, that should be a big jump for him.
Speaker 7: Depends on where he plays. But I think he you know,
Speaker 7: like I said, I think he'd be fine either way.
Speaker 3: We've heard, you've heard my concerns about Tyron Smith. You
Speaker 3: need to get steal back for sure. The thing with
Speaker 3: well let's go is a great point. How well can
Speaker 3: awesome Richards pick things up? This is not just a
Speaker 3: fifth round. Sometimes in the fifth round you're taking a
Speaker 3: guy from directional university that you know doesn't do this.
Speaker 3: This kid played football in the ACC big time. He
Speaker 3: should have been picked earlier than the fifth round on
Speaker 3: my on my book, and I'll tell you Adoga is
Speaker 3: the one the big unknown for me. Right now. You
Speaker 3: know how they went and got a veteran guy will
Speaker 3: usually does a pretty good job of protecting himself. With
Speaker 3: those veteran type players, he might be the one guy
Speaker 3: that steps in and fills in at that guard spot
Speaker 3: that allows them a little bit more flexibility at the
Speaker 3: tackle spot. Those they've got it. To me, it's not
Speaker 3: so much about the starters, it's about who the backups are,
Speaker 3: because if the backups play well enough, that might be
Speaker 3: able to solidify some other spots on the on the
Speaker 3: starting five.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would think, and you probably you've you've been
Speaker 7: in these conversations. Everyone's got like support groups, cheering sections,
Speaker 7: you know, the ones that that want Tyler Smith to
Speaker 7: play left tackle. They're also going to be really big
Speaker 7: Idoga fans. Yeah, like, oh's good. I mean, he's good
Speaker 7: at left guard. You know, just keep the guy at
Speaker 7: tackle and the Adoga can do it. And the guys
Speaker 7: that want to move him, they're like, this guy's not good.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Well, we didn't even mention Farniac either. Yeah, and Farniac
Speaker 3: was a guy if you remember, and like at the
Speaker 3: beginning of the season, what happened when McGovern went down
Speaker 3: in the Tampa game, who was playing left guard? It
Speaker 3: was Farniac and so there are guys that they like
Speaker 3: a lot more than Brian Broadest likes. But Brian Bross
Speaker 3: is doing radio and they're doing scouting, and that's and
Speaker 3: we'll also.
Speaker 2: See if they really still like him as much with
Speaker 2: a new offensive line coach.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: That's also part of it too, that that.
Speaker 3: There, you know, these line coaches come in and they
Speaker 3: get a little stubborn and they get a lot they
Speaker 3: you know, well, this is not my well, none of
Speaker 3: these you know, Mike Solari, none of these are your guys.
Speaker 3: Well maybe awesome Richards, awesome richards, TJ. Bass, Earl Bostic,
Speaker 3: maybe those are your guys because you were part of
Speaker 3: the process that brought these guys.
Speaker 2: To the Dallas And now, fairness to the coach, like,
Speaker 2: there may be things he's asking them to do that
Speaker 2: are different than what the previous offensive line coach was
Speaker 2: asking them to do, and they may be better at
Speaker 2: the things the previous offensive line coach wanted to do
Speaker 2: and not as good at the as the ones he
Speaker 2: wants them to do. It was what he wants them
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I hope, my hope is that that that Mike comes
Speaker 3: in here and then there's that group that they get
Speaker 3: and they work all together and there's not a fractured
Speaker 3: If this is a fractured group there all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: well this guy does this, and this guy does that,
Speaker 3: and this guy doesn't do that. That, well, your offensive
Speaker 3: line is not going to be as effective. And the
Speaker 3: one thing that that that that Joe Philbin had when
Speaker 3: these guys, when they were all healthy, they played really well.
Speaker 3: They you know, have the season with Steel and Smith
Speaker 3: and be Oddish and those guys got better. They got
Speaker 3: better with him coach, and we'll see how it plays out.
Speaker 2: To wrap up the quarterback conversation, I got a simple
Speaker 2: question for you. Dak's interceptions will be more less or
Speaker 2: about the same in twenty twenty three. It has to
Speaker 2: be less.
Speaker 7: It has to be less. This isn't working. Somebody else
Speaker 7: is calling the plays something. There're gonna be a major
Speaker 7: changes going on. Not major, not like Cooper Rush would
Speaker 7: take over, but I mean he's got to be less.
Speaker 7: It was too many in just a short amount of time,
Speaker 7: you know. I mean, you can't lead the league and
Speaker 7: interceptions and also miss five games. So it's gotta be less.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, there's nothing else to say to that
Speaker 8: it absolutely means to you. Otherwise we're gonna have freaking
Speaker 8: riots out here on fans. I mean, it's not going
Speaker 8: to be good if it happens. If it happens to
Speaker 8: be exactly the same as last year.
Speaker 3: The thing that scared me a little bit over the
Speaker 3: weekend was that Brian Schottenheimer told us this thing's not broke.
Speaker 3: You know, he started talking about that, that there were
Speaker 3: things that you know, the first the previous coaches did
Speaker 3: a fine job. Everything was fine about it. You know, Brian,
Speaker 3: I don't need to hear that. I really don't. There's
Speaker 3: a reason why you made all those changes or coach
Speaker 3: made all those changes, because obviously there were some issues there,
Speaker 3: you know. You know, maybe it's coach speak and all that,
Speaker 3: but to me, I would say, you know, if I'm
Speaker 3: a coach, I would think, well, yeah, we absolutely have
Speaker 3: to cut down on the turnovers. We sat down with
Speaker 3: Dak at the end of the season and told him
Speaker 3: we can't throw the ball here, we can't throw the
Speaker 3: ball here. You know. The thing that the thing that
Speaker 3: would would bother me, I think that it might be
Speaker 3: the same. I think it because I think you have
Speaker 3: a quarterback that plays the way he does, and he's
Speaker 3: willing to throw ball in places he's probably not willing
Speaker 3: he's not supposed to. How many times did we, like
Speaker 3: Nick or you guys would all be in the press
Speaker 3: conference after a game and he would go, I need
Speaker 3: to be better. Yeah, I need to be better. And
Speaker 3: it seemed like it was every week, and every question,
Speaker 3: even after a victory, would be what did you see
Speaker 3: when you threw that interception? You know, And it was
Speaker 3: always the question about the interception. I think it's I
Speaker 3: think it's in the player. I think it's in the player.
Speaker 3: I don't think you could sit there and pull the
Speaker 3: reins back on Dak and have him be the type
Speaker 3: of player he needs to be to win these games.
Speaker 3: And he plays on a lot of feel and guts,
Speaker 3: and you know, I think I can do this a
Speaker 3: lot of that, and maybe the skill isn't always there.
Speaker 3: I have a feeling you're going to see some of
Speaker 3: the similar some of the things that happened, and whether
Speaker 3: you're willing to live with it or not, that's what
Speaker 3: it's going to be.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you. From my standpoint, I think it's actually
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot better and The reason why is
Speaker 2: because I think last year was a big function of
Speaker 2: the fact that the receivers that he had just weren't
Speaker 2: good enough. And you can look at every position one
Speaker 2: through whatever number you want to go on the depth
Speaker 2: chart wide receiver, they are better this year than they
Speaker 2: were last year. Ceedee Lamb has ascended, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: to being one of the premier receivers in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Brandon Cooks is a better two than what you had
Speaker 2: last year, with whoever you want to put at two.
Speaker 2: Michael Gallup as a three is much better than than
Speaker 2: what definitely what you had at three last year. And
Speaker 2: my hope is that he's a better player than he
Speaker 2: was last year. And I still have hope for Jalen
Speaker 2: Tobert as a fourth, fifth, whatever that is, guy that's
Speaker 2: going to be trying to rise up the depth chart.
Speaker 2: So when you look at it, when you look at
Speaker 2: Dak and when he's had problems, you go back and
Speaker 2: look at that season where they had to go out
Speaker 2: and get Amari Cooper. That was another year where you
Speaker 2: were like, man, Dak doesn't look great, but it has
Speaker 2: something to do with the receivers he's throwing to. And
Speaker 2: so I have every faith in the fact that if
Speaker 2: you bring in a Brandon Cooks, and they did bring
Speaker 2: in a Brandon Cooks, I think that changed the dynamic.
Speaker 2: I think Dak gets immediately better. And this has not
Speaker 2: been a problem that consistently throughout his career has existed.
Speaker 2: He's not been a turnover machine. So I think it'll
Speaker 2: be much better. We'll see how it goes, but I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to him having a much better year here
Speaker 2: from the interception standpoint that he did in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: All Right, we appreciate you guys. Jones back next week.
Speaker 2: We'll get into some other positions of all these guys
Speaker 2: until we get there, and hopefully they'll stick to the
Speaker 2: script till then. For Nick even Brian brought us Ambergarci.
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