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Speaker 1: Chris Beam in the back, I'm Kyle Yeoman's where the
Speaker 1: trade deadline is in the rear view mirror in the
Speaker 1: Dallas cow Cowboys were not buyers, or at least not
Speaker 1: even sellers. It came and gone and that was about it.
Speaker 1: That's that's the trade deadline for standing by the clock.
Speaker 1: I was, I was working, We're working. Yeah, I'm a
Speaker 1: fine call. You're gonna crush me out, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: had a two hour show doing a trade deadline. Man,
Speaker 1: I was waiting and you know what they you know
Speaker 1: what they said to me? What they say, they said
Speaker 1: I was being biased to the Cowboys. Can you believe that?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, they must don't know you. They have
Speaker 1: no idea who you are. They don't know. Tell them
Speaker 1: to come watch a game with you. Industry. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: sounds like slander, asked me. Yeah, it sounds like slander.
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I mean, I'm on an unbiased I'm an
Speaker 1: insider right for locked on podcast, and and I was
Speaker 1: I was reporting on all the teams, all the teams,
Speaker 1: all the news, all this stuff. And they said I
Speaker 1: was being biased to the Cowboys because I kept throwing
Speaker 1: the Cowboys name in the hat. When they brought up
Speaker 1: the MVP conversation, they were talking about uh, they were
Speaker 1: talking about why am I blaking all right now? They're
Speaker 1: talking about Green Bay, right, and Aaron Rodgers, they were
Speaker 1: talking about Alan, they were talking about Kyler Murray and
Speaker 1: they left dak out and I was like, well, there's
Speaker 1: a guy in Dallas who you might want to throw
Speaker 1: in that hat. Just he missed one game, but let's
Speaker 1: not disrespect him. And they're like, oh okay. But then
Speaker 1: they start talking about they know the teams that could
Speaker 1: potentially go the go to distance and I was like, well,
Speaker 1: there's a team in Dallas, and they like they were
Speaker 1: like dismissing it. So every time I kept bringing up Dallas,
Speaker 1: they thought I was being biased impartial, and I was like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: these these guys are good. These guys are good. They're
Speaker 1: six and one, these guys are good. They just won
Speaker 1: a game with your backup quarterback's throwing three passes in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Again again, I kept throwing the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: in the in the pot simply because they deserve to
Speaker 1: be not because I worked for the Dallas Cowboys. I
Speaker 1: love it. I keep that same energy, stay over there,
Speaker 1: stay over there. I don't want all that all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, everybody's trying to temper what they had said
Speaker 1: before us. Keep that same energy. Say what you said,
Speaker 1: when you said what you said. Yeah, keep saying that
Speaker 1: people want the Cowboys to be good. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like the Yank he's you know, the Cowboys good, the
Speaker 1: NFL is better. But then they don't want to be
Speaker 1: too good then because then it's over hype. Then it's
Speaker 1: then it's Josh Dallen over Dak. Of course they will,
Speaker 1: of course they will put they put the bills over
Speaker 1: to Cowboys. Of course they would. It's a really good team.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, it's I guess you could. They're five
Speaker 1: and two, still a really good team, though they don't
Speaker 1: have the Cowboys. They're not six and one. Look at
Speaker 1: you tell you that much inside? You know, you guys know,
Speaker 1: I'm I am not partial, can't real I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I rep Seattle everything. I'm y'all see a Seattle weather today,
Speaker 1: I'm straight. I brought all my Seattle gear out. All right.
Speaker 1: Seattle have a water podle team, and I'm a Rep Seattle.
Speaker 1: That's his home, right, you rep home. But but but
Speaker 1: I love my Cowboys and they're representing. There's a look
Speaker 1: outside at the Tostito's Championship Plaza. That is the live look,
Speaker 1: and yes is up. It is nine oh four Tacoma.
Speaker 1: VM am oh, don't confuse him start at night talking
Speaker 1: cowboys at night. But no, I agree with you on
Speaker 1: that Dad needs to be in that conversation. Maybe from
Speaker 1: a national standpoint, the fact that the Cowboys did actually
Speaker 1: win that game without Dak maybe discount. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: don't see that. If you actually know the Cowboys, you've
Speaker 1: seen the way Dak is playing. That is not the case.
Speaker 1: It would, however, bode for your second point of them
Speaker 1: being in the conversation to go to the distance, because
Speaker 1: they won that game without Dak Prescott, they didn't. They
Speaker 1: go four straight games with thirty five plus points and
Speaker 1: then no signs of slowing down. Yeah, and then they
Speaker 1: didn't have Dak and they scored twenty, which is and
Speaker 1: they won. But that's that's basically been their average the
Speaker 1: last two years when they haven't had Dak. I think
Speaker 1: you haven't rained helps. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, not rain
Speaker 1: outside rain Dakota, rain Dakota. Now, you can't dismiss the truth.
Speaker 1: You can't when you see a football team, a complete
Speaker 1: football team. Into all those people that doubt where the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are right now, they can't doubt the truth. I
Speaker 1: mean you you have a team right now that's a
Speaker 1: total team, and that was a total team win last week.
Speaker 1: And moving on to the Broncos, who obviously are are
Speaker 1: going to give us some problems if you if you
Speaker 1: want to think about no, no, no, hold on, now,
Speaker 1: let's be unbiased, right, how about that a minute? Whatever
Speaker 1: happened to respecting your opponent? And I respect, respect, respect,
Speaker 1: he's got you trash. He's got some trash. I'm putting
Speaker 1: my boat in right now. We ain't got to wait
Speaker 1: to Friday. You see if I had jumped out the
Speaker 1: cake with the trash. Did you watch the Cleveland game?
Speaker 1: I watch the clear Do you know I'm watching the game?
Speaker 1: How do you see? High school games are right now?
Speaker 1: If you had one word to describe the Broncos, what
Speaker 1: would you describe in that dump trucks? Juice? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: okay exactly. Still got to show up. We gotta show up.
Speaker 1: Still got to play. I want to do it, but
Speaker 1: they used to keep it real. Take all the emotion
Speaker 1: out of it. You gotta take all them. That's right, team,
Speaker 1: no emotions that talk to my wife about it. We
Speaker 1: are going to preview the Broncos offense and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense today on this show. But before we do that,
Speaker 1: we've got some news and notes, and let's start with
Speaker 1: a positive one. Okay, there was an award handed out
Speaker 1: this week. For the third time this year, a Cowboys
Speaker 1: defender is the NFC Defensive Player of the Week. Rob
Speaker 1: Phillips has more Michael Parsons sticks. Michael Parsons, please come
Speaker 1: to the front first rookie in NFL history with ten
Speaker 1: tackles and four for loss in a game no takeaways.
Speaker 1: I thought no takeaways might get him from getting this award.
Speaker 1: But best game of his young career. Heck, I got
Speaker 1: beef with you, p I got real beef with what
Speaker 1: you got. Why didn't you come on the show and
Speaker 1: tell us that Jeron Curse was wearing the green dot?
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't notice that. I didn't notice that
Speaker 1: at all. I didn't even notice that either. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the group who pointed that out on ESPN, Ryan Clark, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a I mean Ryan Clark, Yeah, pointed that
Speaker 1: out and I was like, so, Rob, you watched the
Speaker 1: game too, I didn't. I had a better angle than
Speaker 1: I didn't see the green dot. Pe Come on, man,
Speaker 1: we can't miss on. It's bad. I wasn't here on Monday,
Speaker 1: so it's a good pass. SEBZ, you're on the sideline.
Speaker 1: Private jet was delayed. Yeah, one of those. So what
Speaker 1: is that significant for the first off, explain the green
Speaker 1: dot for fans that might not know it out there,
Speaker 1: and secondly, why is that insignificant the fact that Curse
Speaker 1: is wearing it and not the same guy who's been
Speaker 1: wearing it throughout the question earlier parts of the year.
Speaker 1: You guys can explain it better than I can. But
Speaker 1: you're you're calling the defense, You're you're the you're the quarterback,
Speaker 1: You're getting the signals and and relaying it to the
Speaker 1: rest of the defense pre snap. So presumably if you
Speaker 1: take that off of his plate, Micah's plate, maybe that's
Speaker 1: you know, let's him just kind of worry about his
Speaker 1: responsibilities and play. You know. So it didn't it's a
Speaker 1: good it was a good catch. I wish we'd asked
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn about it on Monday, because maybe I did
Speaker 1: have something to do with, you know, him balling out
Speaker 1: balling out may maybe it's showing up at five thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning during the week and devoting more of
Speaker 1: his time to studying and said it kind of lounging,
Speaker 1: as he said, you know, which I don't think he's
Speaker 1: not a hard worker, but he said, he said he
Speaker 1: had even more focus this past week. How big is
Speaker 1: the green dot, Isaiah, it's a major, it's a it's
Speaker 1: an indication as to the value that Kurs provides to
Speaker 1: his team. I know when we talked about him yesterday
Speaker 1: and him coming onto this roster. We thought it was
Speaker 1: just a just a kind of a insert, right, just
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a spot filler or a placeholder,
Speaker 1: um somebody that if if he plays well, great, you know,
Speaker 1: but we're not expecting that. But he stepped into that
Speaker 1: leadership role. He stepped into that role. Now he's playing
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of snaps. He's been close to that
Speaker 1: pretty consistent this entire season. So it just lets you
Speaker 1: know the importance that he has an impact that he
Speaker 1: has not only at his position, but how the team
Speaker 1: views him. The team views him as a leader. He's
Speaker 1: performing as a leader, and now the coaches are him
Speaker 1: that responsibility to be able to be the one that's
Speaker 1: a quarterback on that side of the ball, right, he's
Speaker 1: the dock on that side of the ball as of
Speaker 1: last week. He gets to play a call in the
Speaker 1: air up until a certain pointing up at that time
Speaker 1: was a fifteen seconds twenty seconds, and then it cuts
Speaker 1: off and he communicates all the information that he just
Speaker 1: received the play call to the defense, gets everybody lined
Speaker 1: up or we don't know how in depth that goes,
Speaker 1: but he's at least relaying the play to everybody on
Speaker 1: that side of the ball. That's important. So every every play,
Speaker 1: everybody looks to him and says, what's the play? Heck
Speaker 1: that part then exactly what he just said. I mean,
Speaker 1: really you you you exemple of everything that you just said.
Speaker 1: Exemplifies what the green dot is about, and it speaks
Speaker 1: volumes about him. And if anybody goes back to when
Speaker 1: we brought him on uh to the squad as a
Speaker 1: free agent, I don't think anyone thought that he would
Speaker 1: be what he is right now. Just says what how
Speaker 1: the guys respect him and are responded to him in
Speaker 1: the locker room, and that's just that's just leadership and trust.
Speaker 1: You talk about how many reps he play, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's not coming off the field and one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: So that just like I said, that just says the
Speaker 1: leader that he is and the responsibility of Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: to give him that, how much he trusts him. And yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody might be going to the brings truck. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of guys trying to do that. Yeah, right on
Speaker 1: that team, there's a lot of those. It happens. By
Speaker 1: the way, through seven games, Parsons tied for third on
Speaker 1: the team with thirty seven tackles, second on the team
Speaker 1: in sacks with two and a half, and then quarterback
Speaker 1: hits as well with thirteen. Before Parsons, he's the first
Speaker 1: Cowboys rookie to win the award since Layton vander Rash
Speaker 1: did in twenty eighteen. In that game he did, he
Speaker 1: played against Atlanta, which was just a masterful performance as
Speaker 1: a rookie. So hey, lots of excitement around Micah Parsons.
Speaker 1: But there was some other news coming out yesterday, including
Speaker 1: a couple of guys that may not be on the
Speaker 1: team for the rest of the year. Well, Jabril Cox
Speaker 1: has headed to IR the rest of the season. He
Speaker 1: won't play the rest of the year. And then Bradley
Speaker 1: and I waived two days after the penalty on the
Speaker 1: punt that uh I think led to a Vikings field
Speaker 1: goal in a very tight game. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was just that, but you know, if you're not
Speaker 1: making winning plays, you talk about culture. I think it
Speaker 1: had probably something to do with it. Part of it
Speaker 1: is he's not playing a lot, Yeah, part of it
Speaker 1: is they've got at least a couple of guys getting
Speaker 1: ready to come off of IR slash Pop and they
Speaker 1: got to create roster spots. But interesting timing. What what
Speaker 1: for those that that that don't have the source in
Speaker 1: front of them right now? What's another term for waived
Speaker 1: in NFL? Cut? Cut, fired, fired for what you want
Speaker 1: to go? Well, I'm just I just trying to make
Speaker 1: it a common term for people to understand and really
Speaker 1: connect with that he was fired. That's tough Mansten season,
Speaker 1: He's gonna remember there is a chance he comes back,
Speaker 1: absolutely if he clears waivers. Absolutely, as of right now,
Speaker 1: he has been relieved of his duties, and all indications
Speaker 1: points out, yes, we knew that. We been talking about
Speaker 1: how rosters, roster spots gonna have to become available as
Speaker 1: guys like gall Up come back and giving Nevilla Galamore
Speaker 1: starts getting healthy, d law, all these guys started getting
Speaker 1: ready to come back. Roster spots were born to have
Speaker 1: to come open. And when you make plays like that
Speaker 1: that put your team potentially in a position to lose
Speaker 1: a ball game doesn't necessarily help your case. It makes
Speaker 1: it easier to make the decision. So he didn't you know,
Speaker 1: he wasn't playing a lot to begin with. I mean,
Speaker 1: but but you say it perfectly and we're still churning
Speaker 1: this roster. And I think at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: when coach Mike McCarthy was addressing the team and talking
Speaker 1: about when he was at Green Bay and they had
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl winning season, how many players that it
Speaker 1: took to actually win the Lombardi. I think we're in
Speaker 1: that phase where you're seeing like guys coming back from
Speaker 1: my R and Pulp, and there are guys that are
Speaker 1: going to be released Bradley and I is deserves a
Speaker 1: chance on another NFL roster. I think he was your
Speaker 1: young guy that had promise. You're just seeing right now
Speaker 1: how much how much depth the Cowboys have Darren so
Speaker 1: Armstrong's back and he look he made a little an
Speaker 1: impact on the game versus the Vikings, And I think
Speaker 1: people are forgetting although we're looking for Tank to come back,
Speaker 1: we're just getting guys back that are making an impact.
Speaker 1: Bash him. It's starting to make an impact. So like
Speaker 1: that was just there wasn't anymore room for Braley And
Speaker 1: now you see him coming back on practice squad, I
Speaker 1: would think they he's a draft pick last year Like
Speaker 1: that wouldn't surprise me at all. If you think he
Speaker 1: clears waiver yeah, if he clears. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he clears. But we say that every year, we say,
Speaker 1: oh that guy's cut. There's no way because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of teams that need to get I think he's
Speaker 1: a San Diego or not. Who wow, Wow, it's like
Speaker 1: locked in. I played with Junior Sale, right, so like
Speaker 1: it's just like you know, you said it just come
Speaker 1: on Sale. I played with Junior's last year. You did.
Speaker 1: Yeah wow, Yeah, great, dude, man freaking amazing. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's a Los Angeles Chargers type of defensive end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. You could be in that rotate. I do so.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't clear waivers, I think he's back here.
Speaker 1: I don't think they just leg. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about all this? I'm sad. I'm a little dude. He
Speaker 1: was my dude. So your tweet it was or is
Speaker 1: was He's I've kind of come to the realization that
Speaker 1: he may just be another guy. I like him a
Speaker 1: lot still, and I think he's got He's gonna have
Speaker 1: a career. I think, what's it, Yes, Kyle, I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a career. I do. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a starter. You legit. Heard about that.
Speaker 1: I'm a little heard listened to his play the music
Speaker 1: Chris the world smallest violin mister said, are we not
Speaker 1: going to address the elephant that's in the room? What
Speaker 1: is the elephant? Was? That was the elephant that was
Speaker 1: here a couple of weeks ago, Savage Chris, When somebody
Speaker 1: that just got released, not from the Cowboys here recently,
Speaker 1: he got released here a couple of weeks back. We
Speaker 1: just we just Smith? Are we just not gonna address
Speaker 1: that like that? Notes? Yeah, Jesus, yeah, Jay I mean
Speaker 1: went from being a cornerstone to the corner store. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. Yes, Jayleen Smith was released by the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers yesterday, right around the same time that Bradley
Speaker 1: and News nine News came down. It was it was
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith also out in Green Bay. So he's back
Speaker 1: in the free agent market as well. There were a
Speaker 1: lot of people yesterday, Rob asking you guys on the
Speaker 1: mail bag about bringing him back. Is that a legit
Speaker 1: thing or is that just Cowboys fans looking for something.
Speaker 1: I don't really see it personally. Nobody's told me that.
Speaker 1: But I just think they moved on and they need
Speaker 1: they need a backup linebacker to play special teams. And
Speaker 1: that's one reason why he's not here. I mean, salary
Speaker 1: is the biggest reason, and that injury doesn't guarantee and
Speaker 1: all that that was in his clause. But like they
Speaker 1: need somebody who can fill to Bill Cox's role. He
Speaker 1: doesn't play special team So I don't I don't see
Speaker 1: how that that fits. I hope he catches on somewhere,
Speaker 1: I really do. I mean, I think that that sucks
Speaker 1: for him. You know, you go to Green Bay, you
Speaker 1: go and another one lost team. It's a good opportunity
Speaker 1: on a good football team. And the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: But with that right understanding, the one some of the
Speaker 1: rumbifications reasons why he left this organization, right because of
Speaker 1: his contract and how the stipulations that we're built into that.
Speaker 1: Because of the contract, we pretty much paid him to
Speaker 1: go to almost all of his contract, right in terms
Speaker 1: of terms of this year, right, Yeah, we pretty much
Speaker 1: paid him all his money. So now that he's a
Speaker 1: free agent, we can bring him back and the new
Speaker 1: contract can be worked in such that it doesn't have
Speaker 1: that verbiage in there and doesn't have those stipulations, correct,
Speaker 1: I think so? Yeah, So being that. That's why I
Speaker 1: pose that question. And yesterday to you guys before the show,
Speaker 1: was we could bring him back, take all those all
Speaker 1: that wording out the contract, fill a role that we
Speaker 1: just lost. But we do lose the special teams. He's
Speaker 1: not going to be a special teams guy, but he
Speaker 1: does give you a linebacker that you know what's what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get out of him, right, you know positionally
Speaker 1: what he can do for you, and he knows your
Speaker 1: system already. And guess what you just lost, Bill Cox,
Speaker 1: he had he would add depth, I mean for sure,
Speaker 1: like and that's a position where you guys get hurt
Speaker 1: all the time. So I see what you're saying. I
Speaker 1: just I personally don't see it. But but I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not sure of that number nine still available.
Speaker 1: He's spend a lot of money on it, right he did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm saying, I hear you, I see you. Heckma,
Speaker 1: it makes sense. He wasn't disliked. No, they love him
Speaker 1: around here. It wasn't they didn't leave him in bad blood. Wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't bad terms. It was just it was contract. Right,
Speaker 1: But now those stipulations would be gone. That's what I
Speaker 1: love about you when you set up your argument because
Speaker 1: I remember you from last year. Week you're good, So
Speaker 1: you're good. Dog. I love this guy. Man, that's good.
Speaker 1: What you just did? You don't know what did you do? No,
Speaker 1: he was the guy that was saying you gotta get
Speaker 1: X nay, yeah, straight for the top. And then once
Speaker 1: he got cut, it was like, well, I've been saying this, Look,
Speaker 1: this guy can't. He's a businessman. Yeah, he's looking at out.
Speaker 1: But now but now with fin now it financially makes
Speaker 1: you've already paid him. You already paid him, so now
Speaker 1: you're gonna get him for let's keep remaining four hundred
Speaker 1: some thousand dollars that you have to pay for the
Speaker 1: rest of this year. And he goes right back to
Speaker 1: what you expecting them to be before. But guess what,
Speaker 1: now you don't have to worry about him getting hurt,
Speaker 1: and if he does get hurt, you don't have to
Speaker 1: pay him the money for next year. All those things
Speaker 1: are gone, and you just lost your other linebacker that
Speaker 1: gives you depth, the guy that you were expecting to
Speaker 1: be your depth player. Really one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: you were able to get rid of him is because
Speaker 1: you had a Jabril Cox, but now you don't. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: and then you still have a Francis Bernard that's coming back.
Speaker 1: You still have Louke Gifford. I just think he was
Speaker 1: compromised and green Bay saw the same thing that we
Speaker 1: had been dealing with. And I don't know if they
Speaker 1: bring him back. If they do that, I mean that
Speaker 1: would be a special case and maybe it'd be completely
Speaker 1: business to rework that. But they paid him seven million
Speaker 1: dollars to go, so and then green Bay wouldn't even
Speaker 1: give him nine hundred and ninety which is the league minimum.
Speaker 1: You know that. That's tough. Yeah, and it's not at
Speaker 1: this point. Like I said, injuries happened, but it's not
Speaker 1: like they're replacing Jabril Cox's defensiveuty snaps. He's playing him.
Speaker 1: He played nine snaps in seven games. So yeah, what
Speaker 1: do you think if he's not going to be on
Speaker 1: special teams? He's not, And honestly, I don't really want
Speaker 1: him on special teams. So then that, I mean, you
Speaker 1: guys would not want to well feel that spot. That's
Speaker 1: not the same. He can't do it, I mean, could
Speaker 1: he do it if he's never done it before. Is
Speaker 1: that possible? I mean, how how difficult is that to
Speaker 1: take on that? He has to be willing to be
Speaker 1: willing to right, he has to be willing. I don't
Speaker 1: think he has any physical attributes that are preventing him
Speaker 1: from being a contributor on special teams. It's a mentality.
Speaker 1: Are you willing to play special teams? When he was
Speaker 1: here before, I don't think he was willing when he
Speaker 1: went to Green Bay. I don't think he was willing.
Speaker 1: Now that he's had life happened to him, I think
Speaker 1: he might be a little bit more open to play
Speaker 1: in some positions and and creating that value again because
Speaker 1: guess what, he's not going to get paid again unless
Speaker 1: he shows he can play. And I think he's shown
Speaker 1: you that he can't. Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, and I think that's the that's
Speaker 1: what makes the decision so much easier. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't see the Cowboys trying to reman is just
Speaker 1: not there. And we did the thing right now. You
Speaker 1: we were talking about giving the Green doctor Curson. Where
Speaker 1: mica is I mean, mica is is Leavi tackles for
Speaker 1: for a loss you're not gonna stop me that. And
Speaker 1: if last year, if you're Jalen Smith looking at the draft,
Speaker 1: and once we drafted Micah, he probably said in his head,
Speaker 1: old S, you know, this guy's gonna come in and
Speaker 1: probably take my job. I mean, it's that's that's the
Speaker 1: way that it is. And you know, this is a
Speaker 1: tough business. He's just dealing with the ramifications of it.
Speaker 1: He has his money. I wish him well. I've always
Speaker 1: been a Jalen Smith supporter, but in this situation, dealing
Speaker 1: with this defense and the linebackers that we have no way.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking of him running downfield on an assignment
Speaker 1: on special teams and just being in the open field,
Speaker 1: and it's giving me the he'd be hold up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he would be a hold up guy. I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at it just financially now, you know. I mean, you
Speaker 1: would get him. You would get him for cheaper than
Speaker 1: you're paying for a Noah Brown, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: you would get him cheaper. He would be the cheapest
Speaker 1: guy in your roster. Technically you already are paying him
Speaker 1: seven miles, but he's gonna get that regardless, you might
Speaker 1: as well get some of them all right, when we
Speaker 1: come back here on talking Cowboys, what does Teddy Bridgewater,
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy and the Broncos offense bring to challenge that
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Speaker 1: all right. Second segment here we talked about a little
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Let's talk about the Broncos offense, what
Speaker 1: challenges they will bring to the Cowboys defense. Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: has not been playing exceptionally well. He played pretty well
Speaker 1: through the first four games of the year. They were
Speaker 1: four and oh then or excuse me, three and oh.
Speaker 1: Then they lost four straight and then they got to
Speaker 1: win last week and u lea fashion over the Washington
Speaker 1: football team. Seventeen to ten was the score. And that one.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the Broncos defense tomorrow. They were really
Speaker 1: the heroes of that game. But Isaiah, you're giving me
Speaker 1: a look, and you already said it in the first segment,
Speaker 1: what do you think about the Broncos? Oscar Oscar Oscar
Speaker 1: the grounds where's he lived and in the dog on
Speaker 1: trash can. Yeah, I mean not a good team. They're
Speaker 1: just not good. They're four and four and they're not
Speaker 1: a good team. Um, you know, to your point, they
Speaker 1: started out good. But what have you done for me lately?
Speaker 1: You got me worried right now. See, there's usually not you.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying the decisions that that he is making
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position, Teddy Bridgewater is literally throwing the
Speaker 1: ball up, throwing it up and hoping yep, right he is.
Speaker 1: He is Roger Stoback right now, he is just throwing
Speaker 1: it up there, hail Mary Tupac and hoping that somebody
Speaker 1: comes down with this thing. It is. He is so
Speaker 1: inaccrid right now. Is disturbing. Is disturbing, and I hope
Speaker 1: it continues for another week. I hope it continues for
Speaker 1: at least another week. These guys don't have a ground
Speaker 1: game right now. Melvin Gordon's not moving the ball for
Speaker 1: them hardly at all. They don't have any tight end
Speaker 1: play that I get recognized. No offense on the COVID
Speaker 1: list now there that goes right off. We're not talking
Speaker 1: about defense today, but they just lost one of the
Speaker 1: greatest defensive ends of all time, outside linebackers of all time.
Speaker 1: Right they don't have anybody to fulfill that role. These
Speaker 1: guys are not a threat, but you still have to
Speaker 1: show up and you still have to take care of
Speaker 1: your assignments because they are professionals. Right, But these guys
Speaker 1: don't have a guy that I'm worried about like we've
Speaker 1: had on every other team that we played to date.
Speaker 1: There's not one guy on this roster that I'm like, uh, oh,
Speaker 1: we better know where he's at. They're not one because
Speaker 1: even when you look at like Washington Terry McLaurin, there's
Speaker 1: a guy there, Chase Young on the other side of
Speaker 1: the ball. Yeah, Gibson's a good player. Then with Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: who I guess would also be one of the bottom teams,
Speaker 1: it's Jalen Hurts. We went into the Giants game thinking
Speaker 1: it was sae Quon Barkley. I agree with you. I
Speaker 1: think my number one on the offensive side would probably
Speaker 1: be Jerry Judy and he's been banged up throughout the year.
Speaker 1: He hasn't really gotten going and nor I don't know,
Speaker 1: do I expect him too if he's getting faced by
Speaker 1: his former teammate Trayvon Dis. Yeah, they're they're offensive schemes, right,
Speaker 1: and we started talking about personnel, were addressing personnel today.
Speaker 1: But their scheme right with their office coordinators presenting is
Speaker 1: not good stuff. It's just not These guys are playing
Speaker 1: at the sticks. They're running, They're turnaround, running little little
Speaker 1: curl routes or whatever you want to refer to as
Speaker 1: sit routes right at the chains every single time. They're
Speaker 1: easy to identify their mirrored routes on both sides. It's
Speaker 1: like old school Jason Garrett offense, right, throw back to
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett back in the day when he was running
Speaker 1: the same routes on both sides and you knew how
Speaker 1: to stop it. You go cover two, You negate everything
Speaker 1: that's going on. You can literally you can literally pinpoint
Speaker 1: where the ball is going to go based upon a
Speaker 1: defensive coverage as you present. They don't have guys that
Speaker 1: could beat you over the top. They have Courtland a
Speaker 1: Sudden that that's a big guy. He's made some good catches,
Speaker 1: but he's not gonna gas on you, right, He's not
Speaker 1: gonna run by you. So coverage wise, this should be
Speaker 1: a relatively easy game. We're gonna have to be disciplined
Speaker 1: in terms of being in our zones and kind of
Speaker 1: knowing where the balls are going to go. But scheme wise,
Speaker 1: these guys don't do anything amazing. We faced way better
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators to date and much better talent, and their
Speaker 1: offensive line has given up at least two sacks in
Speaker 1: every game so far this season. They came up four
Speaker 1: last week against Washington, and that's the problem. And you
Speaker 1: go back and you watch the tape against the football team,
Speaker 1: and the football team we just don't like. The defense
Speaker 1: hadn't completely fallen off a cliff yet, but Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: was able to make some read make some throws and
Speaker 1: pull that out. I just feel like Teddy Bridgewater since
Speaker 1: he came from Louisville and I know him from his
Speaker 1: high school days in Miami. Him and Amari Cooper were
Speaker 1: a setting high school football on fire. These guys are
Speaker 1: just tremendous, were tremendous team teammates and Teddy Bridgewater when
Speaker 1: he was at Minnesota, and I think it's our running
Speaker 1: that we played the Vikings last week and we're playing
Speaker 1: Bronkles this week. But when he was at Minnesota, now,
Speaker 1: he had so much promise and then he completely tore
Speaker 1: up his knee. I mean, he was one of the
Speaker 1: up and coming quarterbacks in this league because he can
Speaker 1: make every throw. There's nothing that he can't do from
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. But you're right, when he doesn't have
Speaker 1: any protection, he gets it erratic and he will throw
Speaker 1: it up and not even see where the ball comes down,
Speaker 1: which is a no no in football. Now'll get you out.
Speaker 1: But I just remember him when we played against the
Speaker 1: Saints and they had all those weapons. He just won't
Speaker 1: blow a game for you, right. He's a good bus
Speaker 1: driver at this point because of the knee. One of
Speaker 1: the things that he does do well is that if
Speaker 1: you blitz him, he'll find an open man. He's there's
Speaker 1: still tops in the league. Get that. If you blitz him,
Speaker 1: come after him. He can find the open guy. But
Speaker 1: that's just the thing. I think the Cowboys in a
Speaker 1: position this game where we don't have to show a
Speaker 1: whole lot of blitz to Teddy. We can just get
Speaker 1: pressure with our guys up front and play coverage. And
Speaker 1: that's why I think my guy Trey Von Diggs will
Speaker 1: get back to his intercepting ways because he's gonna throw
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridge. I was gonna throw some balls up. Teddy's
Speaker 1: tied for the third most sacks taken so far the
Speaker 1: season twenty two. Wow. In eight games only, He's tied
Speaker 1: with Goff and Baker Mayfield, and only Tannehill and Justin
Speaker 1: Fields have more. That's a lot for Justin Fields. He
Speaker 1: hadn't played the whole season. So yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: think part of it, yeah, And I think part of
Speaker 1: what you guys are saying, I think Isaiah mentioned he
Speaker 1: throws it up. He's under pressure, He's just trying to
Speaker 1: make something happen downfield, and he's got guys who can
Speaker 1: go get it. Corton Sun can go get it. Judy's back,
Speaker 1: he can go get it. Not having no a Fanta
Speaker 1: this week hurst him a lot in the possession game.
Speaker 1: To me, it just comes down to a couple things.
Speaker 1: I mean, can they score enough points? They're averaging under
Speaker 1: twenty points a game against a Cowboys team that when
Speaker 1: they have Dak Prescott thirty five plus points in four
Speaker 1: straight games. Where's the stat I saw from the Broncos.
Speaker 1: They have only crossed the thirty five point mark twice
Speaker 1: since the start of the twenty nineteen season, two two
Speaker 1: and a half seasons. Basically yeah, and haven't gotten twenty
Speaker 1: five points since Week three. So not only can the
Speaker 1: bron can they manufacture that? Can they protect Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: from Randy Gregory? But is Dak Prescott playing in this game?
Speaker 1: And I think the Cowboys feel confident, definitely optimistic based
Speaker 1: on what Jerry Jones said that he will if he
Speaker 1: plays and he's himself, you can almost book thirty points
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. You know, can Denver match that if
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush plays. I don't know if that's a guaranteed,
Speaker 1: even though we showed he definitely showed that he can
Speaker 1: he can drive this offense down the field. So to me,
Speaker 1: it comes down to those two factors. He also look
Speaker 1: at Denver and their record against teams over five hundred
Speaker 1: and under five hundred. You want to hear this one.
Speaker 1: Teams under five hundred, they're four and zero with a
Speaker 1: twenty three and a half points per game. They have
Speaker 1: allowed nine points per game, so that defense has done
Speaker 1: well against teams that are under five hundred. They're also
Speaker 1: plus four and the turnover differential against teams over five hundred,
Speaker 1: which if you haven't necessarily figured it out yet, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are above five hundred, six and one. The Broncos
Speaker 1: are oh and four, sixteen points per game. They're giving
Speaker 1: up over twenty five points per game and their minds
Speaker 1: six in the turnover differential. So they haven't had any
Speaker 1: success against good teams here in twenty twenty one so far.
Speaker 1: And I'm with you if you need them to outscore you,
Speaker 1: or if you need to outscore the Cowboys. If you're
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. It's not going to happen. I even
Speaker 1: think with one game under his belt, Cooper Rush could
Speaker 1: score more than twenty points against the good defense, one
Speaker 1: of the better tea. I'm just saying, it's the difference
Speaker 1: between an MVP candidate as you're starting quarterback and I mean,
Speaker 1: you know it's it's Cooper Rush is still getting used
Speaker 1: to the starting quarterback thing in the NFL. It makes
Speaker 1: me curious why they traded Von Miller. You know, they're
Speaker 1: four and four, it's a young team. Are they rebuilding?
Speaker 1: I mean they're not. They're not out of the playoff
Speaker 1: race necessarily, and maybe your best chance in this game
Speaker 1: is for him to go wreck the game on defense
Speaker 1: and get your turnover and give your offense another They're
Speaker 1: gonna lose Vaughn. Anyway, Von was out of there and
Speaker 1: they had to get something for him, and if that
Speaker 1: was the move, they just you know they were gonna
Speaker 1: make that anyway. But defensively, you're right. I mean, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about their defense tomorrow, but they have a they're okay,
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be the difference between Rush playing and
Speaker 1: Doc planing that's gonna make the difference in this game,
Speaker 1: and I'm curious to see, finally, when we have an
Speaker 1: opponent that you can tell on paper and look at
Speaker 1: all the numbers and say, oh, these guys can't play
Speaker 1: with us, what's the mind state for our team going
Speaker 1: into that, because we've been every week it's like it's
Speaker 1: just a trap game. It's just a game. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a lit down. Well, finally you have a team
Speaker 1: that you really don't have any respect for and think
Speaker 1: we just can show up and roll our help us
Speaker 1: out there and go go beat these guys. It doesn't
Speaker 1: happen like that. And so that's what's making me a
Speaker 1: little paranoid in this situation, that we'd underestimate these guys.
Speaker 1: You know, I want I want to beat the ass
Speaker 1: and go home, you know what I mean. I want
Speaker 1: that to happen. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: I just we can't go out there and play without food.
Speaker 1: And that's why I said, you still have to show up,
Speaker 1: you still have to execute, You still got to take
Speaker 1: care of responsibilities. But as in as in prior weeks,
Speaker 1: I always come out here and I identify who their
Speaker 1: threats are. And you know, the guys that you have
Speaker 1: to respect I don't I don't have that. We don't
Speaker 1: have those worries in this week. But you still gotta
Speaker 1: go out there and take care of business because you're
Speaker 1: playing against other professional athletes. It's the NFL. But I mean,
Speaker 1: look who they've beaten. When we talk about you know,
Speaker 1: they got off to a hot start. They beat the Giants. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they beat Jacksonville yeay, the Jets before White yeay, right like,
Speaker 1: and then they beat Washington right and Washington is not
Speaker 1: figuring things out right now. They beat four teams that
Speaker 1: are not good and they got seventeen points against Washington,
Speaker 1: which last year you would say, yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: This year, they're giving up more points than anybody. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've they've lost to Baltimore, that all the teams that
Speaker 1: were good they lost to They lost to Baltimore, they
Speaker 1: lost to Pittsburgh, they lost to Vegas, they lost to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Those are all respectable teams. Those are the four teams
Speaker 1: that they beat not respectable. So when we start looking
Speaker 1: at where you put your value at, it's not there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, we still gotta show up and
Speaker 1: take care of business. But yeah, these guys are is
Speaker 1: this is this is this is the worst we face
Speaker 1: by far. Oh yeah, we face nothing but good teams
Speaker 1: this year. You know, at least up to the point
Speaker 1: that they played us. We're good teams. Bridgewater one of
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks with seventy plus completion percentage this season, so
Speaker 1: he does know how to be efficient with the football
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, Dak Prescott, Russell Wilson or the other three.
Speaker 1: So Bridgewater's in that company. So when we come back
Speaker 1: after the break, what level of the defense is going
Speaker 1: to be most challenged by Teddy Bridgewater. I'm looking at you, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: You got to find one of the three units that's
Speaker 1: gonna find a way to be challenged by Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: when we come back on the other side of the break.
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Speaker 1: you're super Bowl. That's a stretch. I like that. Monstrous,
Speaker 1: It's a huge stretch. But it's yeah, I know, I
Speaker 1: know we'll see n LA. But yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun still to be had. This season a long
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Speaker 1: You've had now four minutes to think about it since
Speaker 1: I first teased the question, what level of the Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense is most challenged by the Broncos offense? Oh oh wow?
Speaker 1: Did you come up? That's what you came up with
Speaker 1: in the four part return unit? Yes, part return unit. Um,
Speaker 1: because they're gonna be on the we need we need
Speaker 1: that third of the game to show up. They haven't
Speaker 1: necessarily been be contributors yet this year. And that's that's defense.
Speaker 1: Don't try and make this into the series. It is
Speaker 1: a defense. I mean you're rushing the punter defense. Um,
Speaker 1: so part return that's what I'm gonna We've been pouring
Speaker 1: in and putting the whole I mean fantasy Football's defense
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Speaker 1: biased biased person I did. That's too much, man, You
Speaker 1: think how to come back from behind? Yes, before you
Speaker 1: make awesome? You know what it's it's for me. It's
Speaker 1: going to continue to be the big plays. And so
Speaker 1: I'm the wide receivers. I We've been giving up a
Speaker 1: lot of yards to wide receivers and well, obviously last
Speaker 1: week we didn't give up that much, but I'm still
Speaker 1: leary about the big play, and so that's where I'm
Speaker 1: going to keep my attention. That were you most concerned
Speaker 1: about you Judy or Yeah? I would say Jerry Judy
Speaker 1: just based off of his resume as a as a
Speaker 1: wide receiver and speed. But you know, I feel confident
Speaker 1: in our secondary. But if you have to press me
Speaker 1: on what I'm most concerned about, it is just a
Speaker 1: big play. We've given up a lot of them. I
Speaker 1: think the receiving ability out of the backfield is something
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys linebackers are gonna have to look at.
Speaker 1: I mean, Melvin Gordon and Javante Williams, they're one of
Speaker 1: only two duos in the NFL with over three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty rushing yards and one hundred receiving yards this season.
Speaker 1: You want to know the other duo, Ezekiel Elliott and
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard. Yeah, it's like very good. I mean, and
Speaker 1: they're both averaging over four point five yards to carry.
Speaker 1: It's not like they can't move the ball. No, Um,
Speaker 1: they haven't catched it on their drives clearly, it's time
Speaker 1: for Michael Parsons to get an intercession. Yeah, he's getting close.
Speaker 1: He got close last game. He doesn't have one from
Speaker 1: the high school. See there, it is brand statistics and
Speaker 1: research there. It is fact checked myself. The last time
Speaker 1: it was in the LA Metropolitan an area. Okay, I
Speaker 1: mean it's counts right. The Cowboys played the bill, So
Speaker 1: take the over, guys, nice, Yeah, take the over all right,
Speaker 1: thanks Chris. It's all coming together, isn't it. It's just
Speaker 1: all the stars are aligning. But I think I think
Speaker 1: the deep threat ability of Jerry Judy and Courtland Sutton
Speaker 1: for that matter. I mean Courtland Sutton's having a decent year.
Speaker 1: He's almost at six hundred receiving yards, tied for twelfth
Speaker 1: in the NFL. His yards per game is up more
Speaker 1: this year than it ever has been throughout his NFL career.
Speaker 1: So I think the deep threatability is something. And then
Speaker 1: the receiving threat from the tailbacks out of the backfield
Speaker 1: are two things that I want to keep an eye
Speaker 1: on because those are two things the Cowboys have not
Speaker 1: had a ton of success covering, with the exception of
Speaker 1: maybe last week against Minnesota. Yes, I mean Sutton does.
Speaker 1: He's he's has a deep threat ability. But I think,
Speaker 1: oh man, I'm digging here, guys. Come on, I'm no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm reaching. I think it's I think every week it's
Speaker 1: the big play. That's if that's one thing the defense
Speaker 1: has to get better at. Because the run defense, they're
Speaker 1: proven to us they can stop the run much better
Speaker 1: than last year. It's a big play down the field.
Speaker 1: Patrick's getting fourteen yards of catch for them too. So
Speaker 1: because the teams is this a team that you can
Speaker 1: go too high safety against and not be threatened by
Speaker 1: their run ability. M I would go out on a
Speaker 1: limb and say, no, what kind of lemur are we talking?
Speaker 1: It's probably thin. It's like a twig, a log that's
Speaker 1: been waterloged. Pretty thin limb. Because you could, you could
Speaker 1: do it. I don't think you do it one hundred
Speaker 1: percent of the tops. Of course, of course, yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say you could get you go into this game
Speaker 1: plan and saying we're going too high or single high.
Speaker 1: I can go too high in this game and be okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not worried. So going too high in
Speaker 1: the gates take away jority of the big plays that
Speaker 1: you guys are concerned about. Yeah, present, prevent the chunk
Speaker 1: plays and make them drive the field because they they
Speaker 1: haven't scored a lot of points this year. They are
Speaker 1: third on their third down. They are twenty eighth in
Speaker 1: the league on third downs. They're twenty seventh in the
Speaker 1: league in red zone, twenty sixth in the league in
Speaker 1: big plays. So they should be worried about our punt return,
Speaker 1: you understand me. So I'm talking about their ability to
Speaker 1: move the chains. That's what I'm looking at, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: first and second to move most of the time. Right,
Speaker 1: you talk about their they're receiving out the backfield. Most
Speaker 1: of the time you get into the back is usually
Speaker 1: on third down, right, because of what coverage allows for
Speaker 1: a coverage falls back right, you're able to get to
Speaker 1: swing routes out to your back third downs usual to play.
Speaker 1: But guess what, they're twenty eighth in the league on
Speaker 1: third down. Right. If they do simply somehow get the
Speaker 1: ball down to the red zone, say they make a
Speaker 1: big play to get down to the red zone, they're
Speaker 1: only they're twenty seventh in the league and converting in
Speaker 1: the red zone, right, and then they still have to
Speaker 1: deal with our offense. Right on the other side of
Speaker 1: the ball. We get to tomorrow, So we take them
Speaker 1: out of a lot of the things that they want
Speaker 1: to do simply by us getting up in the game,
Speaker 1: which we're going to score points, right, especially if Dack
Speaker 1: is back, We're going to score our points, right. So
Speaker 1: what are they really allowed to do based upon both
Speaker 1: sides of the game for us? That makes sense. That
Speaker 1: makes sense. So that brings me to my next question though,
Speaker 1: is if you go if you go with the two
Speaker 1: high look and you want to take away the big play,
Speaker 1: is there a possibility that the Broncos out physical you
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage? Don't I agree? I'm saying
Speaker 1: so I'm okay with it. More I think about it,
Speaker 1: I think two high is probably the look there that
Speaker 1: you're going to see from dan Quinn the majority of
Speaker 1: the time. You take a Billichecker approach, right, Ben, but
Speaker 1: don't break. So should we even have a show tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Should we just skip to Friday? We know we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to have a show tomorrow. But I mean, everything
Speaker 1: you bring up and then you get the more courtless
Speaker 1: sudden comes in and goes you know, one fifty OUs
Speaker 1: And I think we're gonna We're gonna That's where the
Speaker 1: questions are gonna be sure, how did we show it up?
Speaker 1: What did we do to give them that alleyway. I
Speaker 1: just feel like for our defense, it's gonna be getting
Speaker 1: pressure upfront with just our base, not anything special versus guys.
Speaker 1: You talk about the chess game for looking ahead what
Speaker 1: other people are looking at? We can't you know, obviously
Speaker 1: we're going against an opponent like this where you know
Speaker 1: they don't have a lot to put points up on
Speaker 1: the board. Defensively, I think I look for Randy Gregory,
Speaker 1: Dorance Armstrong, Michael Parsons, all these guys to have a
Speaker 1: monster game. What is it? Rob is just smiling to
Speaker 1: the side. I'm just thinking about you, like on I
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Speaker 1: So if you're if you're Dan Quinn, you're coming into
Speaker 1: this and say, let's execute on our base game plan.
Speaker 1: Because on our base defense, let me see how we
Speaker 1: can execute that. And I'm not trying. So you're taking
Speaker 1: a preseason approach in terms of game plan. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to be that vanilla. Okay, not gonna be that vanilla.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is is I recognize the pressure
Speaker 1: that I can present to them with just our guys up,
Speaker 1: and so I'm okay, I'm okay with that. Okay. Is
Speaker 1: this a game where you give Kelvin Joseph more reps
Speaker 1: that corner? Yes? Oh yeah, I totally do that. Uh.
Speaker 1: I probably would have said that regardless, I mean, gets
Speaker 1: an opponent like this, You've already said and you already
Speaker 1: know what the numbers are, so I don't think you're
Speaker 1: that worried about him. But if you get to the
Speaker 1: point in the third quarter where you're just busting them,
Speaker 1: you put some of your guys in, absolutely, I mean,
Speaker 1: and you see you see teams doing that on every level,
Speaker 1: getting there guys some reps. And you've already talked about that.
Speaker 1: That that experience for our young guys is gonna be
Speaker 1: pivotal to what's going to happen in the future. Does
Speaker 1: Trayvon does he shadow somebody this game or do you
Speaker 1: just let him play aside? Yeah? Give me Courtland Sutton
Speaker 1: oh Man him on Jerry Judy would be fun though,
Speaker 1: But then, but then you're putting a Brown on six s.
Speaker 1: But I'm just asking, just asking. But Anthony has shown
Speaker 1: you that he can still be a force. He's doing
Speaker 1: better and coverage, we're rolling coverage that way, getting him
Speaker 1: help like we did versus the Vikings, and you feel
Speaker 1: he's comfortable in that situation. That Mike Evans argument that
Speaker 1: we had week two though, it's just pure size disadvantage
Speaker 1: and and maybe going back to that game, hell, should
Speaker 1: we have put a b on Mike Evans and what
Speaker 1: that team's built different? I mean, that's yeah, that's the game.
Speaker 1: Nobody can get out of their minds with a All
Speaker 1: I'm saying is all I'm saying. Antonio Brown has been
Speaker 1: baptizing everybody every week. The way that he did ab
Speaker 1: in the first week is he's ab. He one of
Speaker 1: the greatest receivers to play this game. It happened. If
Speaker 1: they see him again in January, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 1: Then than that they'll get robbed dropping the mic at
Speaker 1: the end of it. Don't don't doubt I like it.
Speaker 1: We can talk about it in January, says Robs. All Right,
Speaker 1: that's it for us. Already for the great heck My
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