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Speaker 1: Now your hosts Barry Church, Danny McCray, Ritt Johnson, and
Speaker 1: Nui Scrugs. Well, Welcome to Friday edition of The Players Lounge,
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Speaker 1: me today. We have a lot to talk about. Let's
Speaker 1: just roll right into it. You want to start with
Speaker 1: yesterday's game. What I nowis the Texas will lose by fourteen.
Speaker 1: They lost by a few team. I figured that's that's
Speaker 1: pretty pretty spot one, pretty spot on. I think it
Speaker 1: was twenty twenty four to nine. Uh, game played out.
Speaker 1: It was actually a little closer than I expected it
Speaker 1: to be throughout the first half and maybe the third quarter.
Speaker 1: But they got that score at the end of the game. Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: they won. They won about fifteen, and we knew it
Speaker 1: was they were they were shorthanded, yeah, they yeah, but
Speaker 1: they but they fought hard. They fought pretty hard out there.
Speaker 1: You know. I'd say, I was slightly impressed with Davis Mills,
Speaker 1: the rookie quarterback out of Houston. They didn't provide much
Speaker 1: as points, but he was able to throw a touchdown,
Speaker 1: didn't have any interceptions out there. My boy C Matt
Speaker 1: got hurt. That's gonna hurt my other fantasy team. But
Speaker 1: I was devastating. But the thing that stood out to
Speaker 1: me the most about that game was that defense for Carolina. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the boys just real. I know they didn't have Tyrode, now,
Speaker 1: they didn't have Watson and all that good stuff, but
Speaker 1: that defense is flying around the ball. You talk about
Speaker 1: some fast linebackers. Man, she killed I actually killed bear.
Speaker 1: But um shot Thompson in and up he Cardier whatever
Speaker 1: his name is. Them boys are rolling out there. We
Speaker 1: got them coming next week. We got him here coming, Yes,
Speaker 1: we doc. That's a big time. Listen. If you drafted
Speaker 1: first in your league, I'm I'm pretty sure the first
Speaker 1: person you took was Christian McCaffrey. Sorry for you, but uh,
Speaker 1: that Dalvid Cook trade is looking real, real good, right,
Speaker 1: he did well. I speaking of that injury four years ago,
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman kind of came out and he was talking
Speaker 1: about after he tore his achilles in a Thursday night
Speaker 1: football game. That he was upset that the NFL was,
Speaker 1: you know, big on player safety, but then having players
Speaker 1: just get three days in between till the next game.
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey was injured. He pulled his hamstring early in
Speaker 1: the second quarter. J C. Horne, their rookie, was also injured.
Speaker 1: He actually reports came out this morning that it could
Speaker 1: be multiple broken bones in his foot. He will be
Speaker 1: out probably at least three months. They said there were
Speaker 1: a couple other injuries. I think a safety was injury
Speaker 1: at injured two. What are you? What are your guys
Speaker 1: thoughts on these Thursday night games? You make a great Yeah,
Speaker 1: you make a great point right there, because I didn't
Speaker 1: even realize it. But you know, the NFL always talks about,
Speaker 1: you know, players safety. We got to keep these guys
Speaker 1: right and got to make sure our players are protected.
Speaker 1: But then you go out there, you add an extra game.
Speaker 1: So it's now seventeen games. We saw this Thursday thing
Speaker 1: come around, and forget what time it came around, It
Speaker 1: was it before we got in the league. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we were already playing Thursday just for things giving. But
Speaker 1: then they made it like a weekly, weekly thing. I
Speaker 1: want to say, probably at the end of our career.
Speaker 1: I think it towards the end. And I don't agree
Speaker 1: with it, man, because it's already hard enough to get
Speaker 1: your body ready get going for a game a week apart.
Speaker 1: I mean, it takes a while to get going, and
Speaker 1: then the habit come that Thursday. I don't care how
Speaker 1: much rest the coach throws towards you. You might not
Speaker 1: being passed the whole week. Maybe he walked through the
Speaker 1: whole week, but still your body's gonna be hurt. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't even feel right really until about Friday. So
Speaker 1: when you had that Thursday game, it's all about just
Speaker 1: mustering enough. You know, we're not courage but you know
Speaker 1: I'm missing out the word right now, But you got
Speaker 1: to muster enough, whatever it is, Maxie, whatever it may be,
Speaker 1: to get going on a Thursday. And that's when a
Speaker 1: lot of these injuries happen. Well, yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: told you I was a tour doll guy, right, So
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't start feeling the pain until Wednesday, right,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, oh wait, but tomorrow we gotta get
Speaker 1: back out there again. Um, And usually you do see
Speaker 1: those type of injuries happens, it happens on Thursday nights.
Speaker 1: I will say this, I did enjoy playing on Thursday
Speaker 1: after the game, right because you get that, you know,
Speaker 1: essentially another bible, right, you get Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Speaker 1: You know you might come back in for Monday, then
Speaker 1: Tuesdays the off day, and then you start back on
Speaker 1: that on that next next week. So I think it's
Speaker 1: a doublehead sword to some extent. But yeah, man, that
Speaker 1: player safety think is crazy getting getting those guys out
Speaker 1: there like that, especially if you have the data that
Speaker 1: shows that these Thursday night games are really causing these
Speaker 1: type of injuries. And if that, if they if they
Speaker 1: figure that out, then they have to come up with something.
Speaker 1: And I don't understand why they don't just start Thursday
Speaker 1: night games during week six when the first team or
Speaker 1: like after week week six when the first teams have
Speaker 1: their bye weeks. So it's like maybe the guys that
Speaker 1: have their bye week, they play that first Thursday after
Speaker 1: the bye week, so you're not having those games so
Speaker 1: close together. We also found out today that Super Wildcard
Speaker 1: weekend has added another day there, so there's going to
Speaker 1: be a Monday night games, So there'll be two games
Speaker 1: on Saturday, three games on Sunday, and then one game
Speaker 1: on Monday. This actually kind of goes into my injury
Speaker 1: thing too, because now you're going to have one team
Speaker 1: whoever plays on that Monday game that is either going
Speaker 1: to have to play on Saturday or Sunday that next weekend.
Speaker 1: So they're not you know, now they're going into their
Speaker 1: second week of the playoffs not getting that extra time
Speaker 1: that everybody else gets. So what are your guys thoughts
Speaker 1: on that, and what are your thoughts on just that
Speaker 1: Monday game being added. Well, first I'll say this, we
Speaker 1: all know why Thursday night games are being employed, all right.
Speaker 1: That that money, that money, that money is there, right,
Speaker 1: so they make a lot of money or whatever sponsors
Speaker 1: or whoever who's buying it, NFL Network, Amazon, whatever, Amazon.
Speaker 1: So the money is there, and this is a business,
Speaker 1: so we know we know how that's going. Uh And
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that, right, you got you
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta play on Monday. And then if the
Speaker 1: schedule stay is the same, yeah, you play on Monday,
Speaker 1: and then possible they won't make those guys play on Saturday.
Speaker 1: But then you have to play again on that Sunday.
Speaker 1: Uh that that? Yeah, that would be crazy, especially for
Speaker 1: a playoff team. I wonder if it's like punishment, right
Speaker 1: if you're like that last because you know they added
Speaker 1: the team, feel like like that last team, Are you
Speaker 1: like automatically playing on Monday Second? I mean it goes
Speaker 1: by the seeds though, so obviously second is gonna play
Speaker 1: seventh and stuff like that, so it's still going to
Speaker 1: go in that tier. So what Yeah, maybe Monday it'll
Speaker 1: be a worst team versus well, I guess it would
Speaker 1: be an even team in the middle, and then depending
Speaker 1: on the seats will depend if you're going to play
Speaker 1: on Saturday or Sunday. So it's like they don't even
Speaker 1: know that part of it, which I think is I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't I don't love it, because yes,
Speaker 1: I get the money aspect of it, and I get
Speaker 1: fans are gonna love it, but I just think players
Speaker 1: are gonna hurt. Victor Cruz was talking about it this morning,
Speaker 1: and he was just saying, like, players don't like Thursday games,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if they're gonna like this Monday
Speaker 1: night came. Yeah, if I'm if I'm a player, I
Speaker 1: hate it. I'm like, man, this is I'm all hate.
Speaker 1: I believe this. What are we doing out here? So
Speaker 1: I'm definitely with y'all on a player aspect, but as
Speaker 1: a football fan watching it all weekend, then you get
Speaker 1: that Monday too. I mean it's like, oh, we're in
Speaker 1: football heaven right here. We get the two games Saturday,
Speaker 1: two games Sunday, three Sunday and then one on my man,
Speaker 1: I'm all four, don't want to couch all day, but
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on church, because I don't want you
Speaker 1: to listen. Don't put those words in my mouth. Okay,
Speaker 1: because I've never been to the playoffs. So if you
Speaker 1: called me to play on Monday, I'm playing on Monday,
Speaker 1: all right. On Wednesday, I just want to get to
Speaker 1: the tournay. Yeah, never made it. Every time I left
Speaker 1: this place, y'all went to the playoffs. Okay, I left
Speaker 1: to go to the Bears. Y'all come in there, y'all
Speaker 1: stop a holding us. Go to the playoffs out there,
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett, don't call me back. I think he told
Speaker 1: me call me back. I'm at home and I watched
Speaker 1: y'all in the playoffs, all right, and turns over here
Speaker 1: talking about, Yeah, get any playoffs checks? Come on, bro,
Speaker 1: come on, come on together, super Monday, call me, baby,
Speaker 1: call somebody. Somebody getting hurt, y'all need me? Why you
Speaker 1: watch survival? I'm in shape. Do you think those playoff
Speaker 1: checks they should go up a little bit? Uh? They
Speaker 1: ain't giving away no wild can we get the voet John?
Speaker 1: The players now split a percentage of the TV things
Speaker 1: with the NFL, Now, isn't that That's a good question
Speaker 1: in the I thought, so that's a good question. I
Speaker 1: gotta true. So I think they are splitting that money
Speaker 1: the playoff revenue. But the whole season they didn't getting
Speaker 1: them a playoffs. They ain't getting the playoff money. But see,
Speaker 1: and that's the crazy. But that's the tricky part about it, right,
Speaker 1: the players do. Yeah, the ones that's making two three
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. It allows those type of guys like
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott and Patrick Mahomes to make more money. But
Speaker 1: the guys who are making minimum, they make it. The
Speaker 1: money's not going to them. It helps them, help helps
Speaker 1: teams be able to allocate more money to the top
Speaker 1: twenty percent of the roster. Right. So yeah, so people
Speaker 1: are like, yeah, the players get more money. Yeah, some
Speaker 1: of them. Actually, a very small chunk of the players
Speaker 1: are getting a lot more money, right telling us that
Speaker 1: they game in that top ten and it Church got
Speaker 1: mad because they didn't want to allocate that money to Hill. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what you here? Yeah, you're right about that overcharging
Speaker 1: from the Do you guys think this is possibility or
Speaker 1: possibly because they have been so the NFL has been
Speaker 1: so unsuccessful with trying to get people to watch the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, Like the Pro Bowl is the most like
Speaker 1: obviously players like being accepted into the Pro Bowl or
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl that season or whatever, but nobody watches the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. They tried to have different things where Team
Speaker 1: Dion team like you know, all these kind of things different,
Speaker 1: Cap didn't stop do cool stuff, and nobody watches. Everybody
Speaker 1: watches NBA all start, but nobody watches the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: Do you think this is like trying to help to
Speaker 1: get just that extra like, okay, well miss so much
Speaker 1: money on Pro Bowl. Let's get some money by having
Speaker 1: a Monday night game. Now, I think I think you
Speaker 1: know well, and we talked about it a little earlier.
Speaker 1: Um with the season being extended, now you have a
Speaker 1: free Monday right, because it used to be that Monday
Speaker 1: for wild Card weekend was the National Championship Game. Now
Speaker 1: we got an extra week, so that won't be played,
Speaker 1: you know, on that Monday, right, So now you got
Speaker 1: a Monday where nobody's having anything. Right, Usually that's kind
Speaker 1: of the dead area. All the TV shows have gone off,
Speaker 1: gone to winter shows, right, and you're waiting for the
Speaker 1: spring to start up in the NFL. It's like, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, you said Monday open. Yeah, we all know
Speaker 1: the NFL. I mean that's they're a cash cow. They grab,
Speaker 1: they grab onto and everything that they can listen to.
Speaker 1: How excited you got what you're telling me on Monday?
Speaker 1: It's like it's like my reality team is I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh oh, let me get that, let me get let
Speaker 1: me get somebody to the NFL that took over. It's
Speaker 1: so for some people, if Valentie's Day is gone on
Speaker 1: the thirteenth, right is the thirteenth? Yeah, man, they just
Speaker 1: take it everything from everybody. Yeah, that's forgotten, Like no
Speaker 1: man is going to be thinking about getting his woman
Speaker 1: flowers there. They're gonna forget and they're not even used
Speaker 1: to it being that there. Oh, next week will be
Speaker 1: Valentine's weekend because super bowls this weekend. Like to have
Speaker 1: it on the same Like, it's just don't NFL. My
Speaker 1: birthday is February twenty four. Don't you dare ever try
Speaker 1: to go even later on. Don't be a hard games.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. The men are gonna be bay.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be getting the gifts for Valentine's Day. Oh
Speaker 1: but back guys will take to the super Bowl. Man
Speaker 1: that baby, yea, so yes the thing. Time's are changing,
Speaker 1: all right, Bobby's super Bowl six. I mean I would
Speaker 1: take that. I would love that. Like the first time
Speaker 1: I went to a super Bowl was in Atlanta a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago. I cried my eyes out. I
Speaker 1: actually was invited by Nike to just do a bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff during that week. I didn't know I was
Speaker 1: actually gonna get to go to the game. The morning of,
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, we're gonna do this Tellgate thing and
Speaker 1: they hand me my ticket. I was like, I'm going Granted,
Speaker 1: worst super Bowl I've ever seen that Rams in Patriots
Speaker 1: one because only one touchdown was terrible game, but I
Speaker 1: had a good time. We should have win. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: when the Rams beat us right up there, and Kelly,
Speaker 1: that game too, good stuff run. Yeah, all right, Well,
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Speaker 1: to the Players Lounge and Brett Johnson here with Barry
Speaker 1: Church and Danny McCray. We have a big game. We
Speaker 1: have the Dallas Cowboys on Monday, first home game of
Speaker 1: the season, home game of the season, and we are
Speaker 1: taking on our divisional rivals, the Eagles. I know you
Speaker 1: guys saw a coach with the beat Dallas on his shirt?
Speaker 1: A young boy, what are your thoughts about? I missed that?
Speaker 1: Who ended on the head coach Philly Eagles a little
Speaker 1: beat Cowboys shirt on with the Cowboys logo on and
Speaker 1: it was in the Cowboys Gray. Yeah, it seemed like
Speaker 1: he got it from my right, Jerry, y'all need to
Speaker 1: find a way. You need to sue him, okay, because
Speaker 1: you can't be using the marks. You can't use the logo.
Speaker 1: Don't be using the marks. Bro that's licensed. All right.
Speaker 1: It costs a lot of money for the star. All right,
Speaker 1: call him up, tell him take that off, and Misha,
Speaker 1: I could do that. Really listen, he shout out to him.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta have ultimate confidence telling the shirts
Speaker 1: he got like his own version of Team Danny Hurts.
Speaker 1: He's selling them. Oh yeah, by the way, yeah, man, Hey,
Speaker 1: Danny Craig murch about to be up shameless plug, you know,
Speaker 1: sameless team Danny Church. But I think who was that
Speaker 1: coach that just left for Philly. I'm talking about what's
Speaker 1: his name? Him and Carson, Carson's boy. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: I remember him saying some stuff like that when they
Speaker 1: were coming to playoffs, that he was going they were
Speaker 1: going to win again. They were supposed to the floor. Peterson, Peterson,
Speaker 1: Peterson got himself in trouble doing man, he was there,
Speaker 1: all right, so he didn't somebody didn't learn from it. Okay,
Speaker 1: you get you. I'll picking the Cowboys to win. So
Speaker 1: burn that church, burn that shirt. You messed up, players,
Speaker 1: you messed up. We're coming to put them palls on you.
Speaker 1: Like hey, like my boy Tea still didn't last week.
Speaker 1: We're putting paus on people. And look, man, I love
Speaker 1: it because I love all the responses we've been getting
Speaker 1: from Dallas. They ask Zeke the same thing. Zeke says, Now,
Speaker 1: we're good. We focus on what we gotta do. Same
Speaker 1: with McCarthy. Naw, we're good. We focus. So it shows
Speaker 1: me these guys they're not gonna reach down to that
Speaker 1: petty level and try to respond. They're just gonna respond
Speaker 1: on the field. And usually when we got that focused
Speaker 1: form of Cowboys, it turns out good. It turns out
Speaker 1: good for us. So I'm loving what I'm seeing out
Speaker 1: of my Cowboys as they get ready for this Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles matchup. But it's not gonna be a walk in
Speaker 1: the park. It's not gonna be a walk in the
Speaker 1: park because Jalen Hurts I believe can get the most
Speaker 1: out of that offense and that office can be very productive.
Speaker 1: But on our side of things our young defense. That
Speaker 1: defense is rolling. My boy, Daddy Fronna jump. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be surprised when you hear my take said, Oh, I
Speaker 1: want I would hear it. I want to hear. We're
Speaker 1: gonna wait till we get to predictions, but gonna drop
Speaker 1: on us. Absolutely. But we gotta make sure young forty
Speaker 1: two the new forty two Keano nil. We gotta make
Speaker 1: sure that man can get in there. So whatever you
Speaker 1: gotta do, well, mask up, make sure you get whatever
Speaker 1: you got to do to get these negative test rolling,
Speaker 1: get them things rolling, because we need him in that spot,
Speaker 1: especially if you're gonna move Parsons to DN and try
Speaker 1: to get him some rush on on Jayla Hurst. But overall,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good about this Cowboys matchup Cocks. That's okay, bro,
Speaker 1: We're gonna be all right. He's gonna he's gonna step in.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's gonna play as good as for it,
Speaker 1: but it's like, I don't think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: huge drop off. I think he's gonna be okay. If
Speaker 1: he gets a chance to get in the game and shine,
Speaker 1: I think he's going to play well. He's gonna play
Speaker 1: like a rookie. But he's gonna play fast. He's gonna
Speaker 1: go hit something and jay La Hurst in a second year,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay. Ain't the way we're seeing cocks
Speaker 1: out there. Man, I mean, we got, we got. He ain't.
Speaker 1: He's just gonna jump over Vander and Ship and Smith.
Speaker 1: You know, as much as you know we made he might.
Speaker 1: He might have the nickel. He might big nickel. Listen,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. Them two tight ends, they
Speaker 1: guy can play ball. If they start working on you,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to find a solution. My man, Dave,
Speaker 1: my man, my man, da queen. He ain't gonna sit
Speaker 1: there and let them kill us like that, all right,
Speaker 1: especially if you know you got young talent back there.
Speaker 1: It's been said that he looked away in training camp,
Speaker 1: in practice that wasn't so good. When he got in
Speaker 1: to play in the game and the lights were on,
Speaker 1: he was a whole different guy. The lights don't get
Speaker 1: no brighter than time, Yes, don't get so. I'm just
Speaker 1: you know, in league, if that's how it is, no disrespect.
Speaker 1: But out right now, yeah, they weren't really playing all
Speaker 1: like that anyway. Yeah, we're hoping forty two gonna play,
Speaker 1: so hurts right now. I just I just hope Cots
Speaker 1: don't come in there like the Nucie because we saw
Speaker 1: what happened when the lights was too bright for the
Speaker 1: Ducci on there on Monday night. So don't come in
Speaker 1: there like the Dui. I was right, don't come in
Speaker 1: there like the Nucie. I don't, don't, don't, don't do
Speaker 1: no less you talk like that. But I'm just I
Speaker 1: don't think I don't know you people like like your
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt everything. We get to the league, we shine.
Speaker 1: When you get to the league, we shot. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna mention JaMarcus Russell. I'm just not. You know,
Speaker 1: we all we all fall. We all, yeah, we all
Speaker 1: have one of the biggest bust in NFL. We all
Speaker 1: have routed for him, sixty rut for him. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was tough to watch. God, we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about keys to the game, but obviously let's
Speaker 1: start off with like one that kind of everybody's been
Speaker 1: saying all week, and that's about containing Jalen. Jalen is
Speaker 1: actually only eighty four yards away rush yards away from
Speaker 1: joining Lamar Jackson as the only quarterback since nineteen fifty
Speaker 1: to have five hundred rushes in his first seven career
Speaker 1: games as starting Uh, Is he gonna do it this game?
Speaker 1: He's already. He has one hundred and forty four so
Speaker 1: far this season. He leads the team in rushing. How
Speaker 1: do we contain Jalen? Well, if we're talking about defensively,
Speaker 1: I mean we got to have some very discipline defensive
Speaker 1: ends and as well as just a very discipline game
Speaker 1: plan going in. You can't have guys playing hero ball
Speaker 1: out there. And what I mean by that is you
Speaker 1: can't have goad. You're responsible for the a gap or
Speaker 1: you're responsible for contain Oh, I see the ball going
Speaker 1: that way, Let me know, disregard my responsibilities and go
Speaker 1: try to make every play out there. That's how you
Speaker 1: get hurt. That's how guys can sit there and say, okay,
Speaker 1: let me set him up with a little play actual,
Speaker 1: let me set him up with a little little read
Speaker 1: here to make him bite and get rid of his responsibilities,
Speaker 1: and I'll go ahead and take that edge. That's what
Speaker 1: we can't have because if we let this guy become
Speaker 1: what he's comfortable in, and that's the dual threat quarterback.
Speaker 1: If we let him do that, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: long night for the Dallas Cowboys. So we gotta keep
Speaker 1: this guy and contained. We gotta be disciplined, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure d cure or not, I can't believe. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he'll draw up something to confuse this guy, because that's
Speaker 1: another aspect of the game. He's still only still young.
Speaker 1: He's still a second year quarterback, so he hasn't seen
Speaker 1: all the defenses out there. So I'm sure dan Quinnell
Speaker 1: hatch up some type of plan to kind of confuse
Speaker 1: this guy, get him to make decisions before he's ready to,
Speaker 1: and hopefully we can take the ball away that way.
Speaker 1: But if we don't contain him and we don't have
Speaker 1: him off balance, it could be a long afternoon. We
Speaker 1: got a special guy, man four three five. Not many
Speaker 1: people having four three five linebacker on their teams, and
Speaker 1: I'm talking about my man, Michael Parsons. When when you
Speaker 1: run an official four three five, if your coach puts
Speaker 1: you in the right position, when you're playing a spot
Speaker 1: like that and you're trying to shut somebody down like
Speaker 1: a Russell Wilson or Lamar Jackson, it's very helpful to
Speaker 1: have that type of speed. And I think Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: is a sea dog, I mean, seaball get ball guy,
Speaker 1: all right, So they're gonna say, hey man, at some
Speaker 1: points in the game, you look at that guy that's yours.
Speaker 1: All right. If he runs this to the left, you
Speaker 1: go to the level, he go to the bathroom, you
Speaker 1: go with. And we've seen that if Michael Parsons is
Speaker 1: keyed in on you, he's gonna make the play. So
Speaker 1: I got ultimate faith and the fact that if it's
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons versus Jalen Hurts, that we got to upprehend.
Speaker 1: What do you think is the best If we're gonna
Speaker 1: put Parsons on Hurts, what do you think is the
Speaker 1: best way to do that? Having them down in a
Speaker 1: defensive line or having them back in that second level
Speaker 1: as a linebacker. I think I think you gotta mix
Speaker 1: it up. I think you have to if you're going
Speaker 1: to spy him, right, if you're gonna use him as
Speaker 1: that guy, you can't just have him sitting in one
Speaker 1: spot so they know exactly what he's one, right, Because
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you can run a screen and
Speaker 1: get it lining on him. You can figure out a
Speaker 1: way to get them blocked. I think the best thing
Speaker 1: you can do is have him on the right, have
Speaker 1: him on the left, have him lined up over the
Speaker 1: center like you saw against the Texans. Uh in that
Speaker 1: in that pre game, you know sense to confuse the
Speaker 1: coverage and then he dropped back and in any plays
Speaker 1: it from depth or he can rush the running back
Speaker 1: and then you know half contained on that side and
Speaker 1: Randy gregor real on the opposite side. Dan Quinn is
Speaker 1: gonna come with great creative ways to make sure that
Speaker 1: we keep him locked in as much as we can.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna start from rushing the entire game, but
Speaker 1: to minimize rush yards is the goal. If obviously most
Speaker 1: people want Michael Parsons to be, you know, the guy
Speaker 1: that's the spy on Jalen Hurts. If he is not,
Speaker 1: who would you say it's second best to be that spy.
Speaker 1: If he's you know, being more defensive end kind of
Speaker 1: guy in the game, it's gonna sound crazy, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. Okay, all right, listen, listen, listen. Because because
Speaker 1: because they have NFL experience, because they have NFL experience,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm going back and forth between Jalen and Vanderesh.
Speaker 1: All right, you gotta get them a shot. They're the guys,
Speaker 1: they're established guys. Giving them a shot to try to
Speaker 1: get it done. If it doesn't work, I'm not waiting
Speaker 1: to the second half to put in connect if he
Speaker 1: could be that guy quickly. Only in those situations though, right,
Speaker 1: because you still got to defend more to just that.
Speaker 1: But if you get into a situation where it's third
Speaker 1: and eight, right, and this is where this dude that
Speaker 1: is scrambling right when everything breaks down, that that extra
Speaker 1: running back is what he becomes because he can get
Speaker 1: around that edge and get those eight yards. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's getting spired. And I'm gonna start with those two.
Speaker 1: See how they do they do well, power to them
Speaker 1: they don't. I got my lsu got coming in and
Speaker 1: see if he can make it happen, because what you
Speaker 1: know is you're not giving him that much responsibility. What
Speaker 1: you're saying is that is your guy. When you give
Speaker 1: a football player the opportunity to pin his ears back
Speaker 1: and play fast and not have to think, that's when
Speaker 1: us that's when they usually play play the best, especially
Speaker 1: a rookie in his first game on the Monday night
Speaker 1: against the Eagles, no doubt. So to me, if if
Speaker 1: I'm Dan Quinn and I'm sitting in, I'm might look, man,
Speaker 1: we got to figure out a way, somehow, some way
Speaker 1: to contain this guy. And we're talking just third downs
Speaker 1: or just passing downs. You know, I might throw in
Speaker 1: a little dime. I might throw in a little dime
Speaker 1: or some type of big nickel situation. And I'm bringing
Speaker 1: in the guy that I believe, you know, needs to
Speaker 1: get more playing time because he's playing well. And that's
Speaker 1: Javon Kurse. I mean, this guy has safety. He's a
Speaker 1: bigger dude. He's six four, I think he's about two
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty. So he can he can, he can
Speaker 1: do some damage down there in their trenches. He can
Speaker 1: play that role down there. And he has more than
Speaker 1: enough speed, more than enough athletic ability to be that
Speaker 1: spy down there against hurts and not only spy against hurts,
Speaker 1: but he can get into coverage as well and being
Speaker 1: those windows, those those zone windows or those man windows
Speaker 1: to help deter you know, hurts from throwing the ball
Speaker 1: that way. So if it's me, I'm going towards a dime. Look,
Speaker 1: maybe take one of those linebackers out, especially if we
Speaker 1: have parsons down to the defensive end. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't want, you know, Jalen and Lvy having a responsibility
Speaker 1: of containing hurts because no disrespect. But you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure they can can accomplish that. So I'm taking
Speaker 1: one of those guys out, have a big nickel, big dime.
Speaker 1: Put Kurt at that position. Let those guys you know,
Speaker 1: either rush, either rush on their running back or spikes.
Speaker 1: I don't want to have them two guys going at
Speaker 1: it versus miles standers. I don't think they can do
Speaker 1: that as well. So who's starting? Who's Who's to start
Speaker 1: safeties in this in this package? And I thought he
Speaker 1: was back this week? Who because I'm saying, have you
Speaker 1: moving first, Curse or not? Cause and Hook I gotta
Speaker 1: be back? Then got to be back. I thought my
Speaker 1: man I forgot was still down. He earned some more
Speaker 1: playing time. Though about Curse earned some playing time at
Speaker 1: this safety position. I'm sure they're gonna find a way
Speaker 1: to get him in. My bias is towards Jabril Cox,
Speaker 1: and I totally forgot about Curse being able to come
Speaker 1: down down in spot. So you got me on that one.
Speaker 1: I would like to see him first second tier and
Speaker 1: Jalen and Vanderston and your third tier that don't work.
Speaker 1: We probably just look going into choking up. We can't
Speaker 1: stop him. They got us. But let's talk about our
Speaker 1: secondary because there's a guy that might be a secret
Speaker 1: weapon that I think we're missing out on. Trayvon Diggs.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget that in college he played with Devonte Smiths,
Speaker 1: so in practice he was saying that he's like I
Speaker 1: went against him everyday in practice, so I already know
Speaker 1: what he's like. Uh. Jalen Hurts was there with for
Speaker 1: a little bit with him too, so he knows some
Speaker 1: of these guys. He said, he knows Rigor Will really
Speaker 1: well as too. So do you think that I mean,
Speaker 1: I get now you're in the league, there's different schemes,
Speaker 1: different things going on, But do you think that that
Speaker 1: is somewhat of could be an advantage for him because
Speaker 1: he has played against him in practice and you know
Speaker 1: as a teammate. Yeah, I think so. I think having
Speaker 1: a having a beat on the receiver specifically, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: if you're guarding him, I think being familiar with him
Speaker 1: and what he likes to do and seeing him in
Speaker 1: practice of doing all that as an advantage, but I
Speaker 1: still believe that this is probably the best chance that
Speaker 1: our our defensive backs have to like beat dominant end game. Uh,
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts is not this this this quarterback like Tom
Speaker 1: Brady or Justin Herbert. So we have an opportunity get
Speaker 1: out there and get our hands on some of those balls,
Speaker 1: make some plays, and and really be dominant in this game.
Speaker 1: So I think we're plus in almost every matchup. And
Speaker 1: even with Anthony Brown and us saying that he hasn't
Speaker 1: been playing as well, I think this is his best
Speaker 1: opportunity to step up and show that he's he's a
Speaker 1: serviceable cornerback in the league. Yeah, I'm with you one
Speaker 1: hundred percent on that one. I feel like this this
Speaker 1: secondary can be dominant against these pass catchers for the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles, especially Dicks. I mean, look, even if he
Speaker 1: wasn't with in college, I feel like he got he
Speaker 1: got the man straight. He can go ahead and push
Speaker 1: these guys around pretty much all day, and he has
Speaker 1: the speed to hang with these guys. I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like this guy he's starting to take that next
Speaker 1: step to becoming a lockdown corner. I mean, we saw
Speaker 1: the play he made against Keenan Allen, you know, last
Speaker 1: week on and over, and you know how hard that is.
Speaker 1: On and over. The best bet you can get is
Speaker 1: maybe a knockdown pass or or or just a catch
Speaker 1: tackle right there. But he was able to undercut that
Speaker 1: and get an interception. And as we've seen throughout this
Speaker 1: whole year so far, these two games, the guys, he's
Speaker 1: willing to take the ball away and he's willing to
Speaker 1: put his head in there and make tackles. So to me,
Speaker 1: I think he has the full advantage in this game,
Speaker 1: and I feel as though he's taking the next step
Speaker 1: to becoming one of the elite corners International Football League,
Speaker 1: a shutdown guy. Well, he said that he wants to
Speaker 1: go up against the number one guy because he is
Speaker 1: the number one guy. You guys agree better dv on
Speaker 1: the cornerback on the team. He is playing that way.
Speaker 1: He finished the season off last year playing that way.
Speaker 1: He came in the city. I got my hand on
Speaker 1: four teen balls that I didn't get interceptions. He came
Speaker 1: out and he's doing exactly what he's said he was
Speaker 1: gonna do while he was in training camp. So I
Speaker 1: got all the faith in him, all the faith and
Speaker 1: I'm with you too, I got the faith in him, innute.
Speaker 1: And look it's you can see during the off season
Speaker 1: when he when he works with his brother Stefan Dad.
Speaker 1: You can just see how much better he's getting and
Speaker 1: it releases everything like knowing the round concepts. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy's taken leap after leap after leap, and he's
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Speaker 1: the well was COVID Now? I know they used to
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Speaker 1: Omari Cooper. He actually said he's feeling better every day
Speaker 1: and he thinks he's ready for Monday night game, which
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see. He was actually asked if he
Speaker 1: would be offended or excited if the Number one corner
Speaker 1: decided to follow CD instead. He kind of laughed about it,
Speaker 1: and he said both honestly, And he kind of went
Speaker 1: in to talk about the opportunity you get when you
Speaker 1: don't have the first guy you know on you because
Speaker 1: then it's like, Okay, now it's my time to go
Speaker 1: off because they're worried about this guy, and I can
Speaker 1: go do whatever I want over here, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a good thing at the end of the
Speaker 1: day to have so many different weapons, and those are
Speaker 1: the teams that go on to win and do well.
Speaker 1: So what do you guys think about, you know, just
Speaker 1: even being in that situation yourselves is like when you're
Speaker 1: playing and you're like, huh, dang, they put this guy
Speaker 1: against me. I know him better than him. Well, did
Speaker 1: I tell y'all about who was going to emerge as
Speaker 1: the Number one I'm just adding no, no, no, and
Speaker 1: I'm just did I say it not? Because I listen
Speaker 1: if he gets shadowed, if he doesn't get shadow about
Speaker 1: the number one guy, the other the other team, they
Speaker 1: don't believe he's the number one guy. Usually it is um.
Speaker 1: So he should be offended to me, right, because you
Speaker 1: came out and said I think I do think I'm
Speaker 1: the best guy in the league. I haven't proven it yet,
Speaker 1: and it's no way for you that doesn't. This is
Speaker 1: the opposite of proving it, right if you go through
Speaker 1: a game, right, you go through two games of the season,
Speaker 1: and then the next defense says, you know what, that
Speaker 1: ain't the guy. He's the guy, right, So he shouldn't
Speaker 1: be offended. And I think if he is going up
Speaker 1: against the number two guys, this is an opportunity for
Speaker 1: him to show y'all not gonna make this mistake again.
Speaker 1: It's a great opportunity for him to to to emerge
Speaker 1: as one of the number one guys and get that
Speaker 1: double team back on him. I think that's a great
Speaker 1: competition within the within the locker room. I think that'd
Speaker 1: be great to see. So shout out to him if
Speaker 1: it happens and if it does, he better show up
Speaker 1: because if he doesn't, mant two Locke, Now, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be I'm first of all, I'm gonna be solt
Speaker 1: it because it's all my fantasy. So I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: you can't go off against number two. Now, let me
Speaker 1: quit disrespecting my boy. But yeah, I would feel a
Speaker 1: little I would feel slightly disrespected. If you know Darius
Speaker 1: Slay for the past couple of years, as he was
Speaker 1: here in Cowboy, it has been following in the market
Speaker 1: wherever he went, and then now you're come into the game,
Speaker 1: you line up, you look at Hell, You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: where's number two? He's alway over? Are you going to CD? Like, man,
Speaker 1: I would feel some type of way. I feel slightly
Speaker 1: slightly salty about that. But like you said, it's an
Speaker 1: opportunity for him to go off on a number two,
Speaker 1: and if he does do that, I'm sure eventually it
Speaker 1: don't bring Slay back over to try to deal with him.
Speaker 1: But by that time, he's already heated up, so he's
Speaker 1: ready to roll. So I'm hoping Slag up to me personally,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping Slay goes over there and mess with CD
Speaker 1: or whoever's over there, just so my boy can go
Speaker 1: off and fantasy. I need these points. I'm owing to
Speaker 1: too right now, I'm getting killed, and my boy, please, please,
Speaker 1: my boy, give me something like that. Fantasy is the
Speaker 1: only thing that matters. I disconnected. I disconnected from like
Speaker 1: the actual game. Now fantasy football brings like a different thing.
Speaker 1: Like now, I'm like more in tune when you usually
Speaker 1: just watching. I watched the Cowboys. Yeah, don't even pay
Speaker 1: attention to the rest of the games. Now I have
Speaker 1: a reason to go on and watch it. And then
Speaker 1: it also gives us more to talk about on the
Speaker 1: show because you're watching players outside of Cowboys. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there and I find myself it's third and one,
Speaker 1: thirty and two, like, get a ball to Coop. Get
Speaker 1: What do you mean just hand the ball off the seat? No,
Speaker 1: get a ball to Coop. It's thirty two. I start
Speaker 1: to tripping. Yeah, I started to trip my team. Listen, yo,
Speaker 1: if you own my team, y'all could be down by thirty.
Speaker 1: I'm ecstatic because I know that now you got to
Speaker 1: try to pat the garbage point. I don't care about that.
Speaker 1: I'm coming the game at all. I'm just like, hey man,
Speaker 1: you got down to the inch yard line, I got
Speaker 1: the receiver. I'm mad because I know you're gonna run it.
Speaker 1: Like that's That's the way I'm looking at the game now,
Speaker 1: which is which is fun, it's exciting. Yeah, Like I say,
Speaker 1: it helps us on the show as well. Would you
Speaker 1: guys say it makes a difference because obviously the Eagles,
Speaker 1: this is a team we see twice a year, a
Speaker 1: team like the Chargers you see them once every four years.
Speaker 1: Do you think that it makes a difference on who
Speaker 1: you're playing if you're up against the number one guy,
Speaker 1: because sometimes it could just like we're just trying to
Speaker 1: figure out this team because we don't play this team ever,
Speaker 1: compared to obviously the Eagles. You he's see Slay a
Speaker 1: couple of times a year, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So that would be a bigger to me. I would
Speaker 1: feel like that would be a bigger hurt. But coming
Speaker 1: from a player's perspective, is it a difference if it's
Speaker 1: a you know, divisional game compared to just a team
Speaker 1: you see every couple of years. Nah, I think if
Speaker 1: you're the number one guy, you're the number one guy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna. I'm gonna, I'm gonna list them, yo. DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins as like these guys, no matter who they playing,
Speaker 1: what the visit it is, whatever, they are going to
Speaker 1: see the number one guy because they have to be stopped.
Speaker 1: The offense used, the passing game usually runs through them, right,
Speaker 1: And that's why I say for us, it's no slight
Speaker 1: against the Maori. But the way killing caused the plays
Speaker 1: we don't have like isso right? Yeah, it's like basketball, right,
Speaker 1: Lebron James gets in the ISO. That's what it is
Speaker 1: in terms of football. When Davante Adams is going up
Speaker 1: against somebody, you're like, hey man, you gotta one on one,
Speaker 1: you gotta beat them. For us, killing don't do that.
Speaker 1: It's we got Tony Polla coming on the sea. We
Speaker 1: got a problem, you know. So it's different. It's different
Speaker 1: for us. And now to me, A's why I never understood,
Speaker 1: you know, as a DC and you going against an
Speaker 1: elite receiver like you're going against a Randy Moss and
Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson. Even when we went against Calvin Johnson, why
Speaker 1: didn't we just double team this dude? Like, I never
Speaker 1: understood how if you got the number one thre a
Speaker 1: bona fide number one threat like the Vonte Adams, and
Speaker 1: then you got the second dude who's way down here.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you just double Adams, double that guy and
Speaker 1: make the rest of them beat you. Now, if they
Speaker 1: go out there and the second guy, third guy go off,
Speaker 1: so be it. Y'all beat us like that, y'all deserve
Speaker 1: to win. But I never understood, like when we went
Speaker 1: against Calvin Johnson, let's just shade the safety over there.
Speaker 1: No double that dude like he's a punt. He's on punt.
Speaker 1: You got a visa, do something because you know he's
Speaker 1: the only way this offense is gonna be productive. So
Speaker 1: to me, I never understood that if I was a DC,
Speaker 1: I'm doubling everybody. I will say this. It didn't work.
Speaker 1: When we try to ee went for three twenty something.
Speaker 1: I think they were finally listen, you know, to go
Speaker 1: into that. Okay, that was I don't think that was
Speaker 1: good coaching. Okay. We talked about d Ware going into
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame for doing what being a pass rusher.
Speaker 1: When Calvin Joson went off on us for three hundred.
Speaker 1: Dware was the curl dropper and covered two and Calvin
Speaker 1: Jon's repeatedly ran twenty yard digs right behind dware boom,
Speaker 1: right behind the boom boom. You know he had throw
Speaker 1: over three hundred yards. I think that was that was
Speaker 1: just that was just okay, Well, we got matchups. You know,
Speaker 1: this is a team that sees each other twice a
Speaker 1: year where rivals. My favorite matchup that I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see is going to be Zach Martin and Fletcher Cox
Speaker 1: because this is a rivalry. This is a back and
Speaker 1: forth that's been going on. And you know, Cox has
Speaker 1: a was the other guy's name on the other side
Speaker 1: that's like young, he's a young new guy, but he's
Speaker 1: been doing a really good job for the Eagles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I sweat anyway anyway hard. It can be like a
Speaker 1: one on one situation here with them, just because Cox
Speaker 1: doesn't have to do anything else and he's still killing it.
Speaker 1: People always try to These guys are getting older now
Speaker 1: looks like same as two three years ago. So I
Speaker 1: have this as my top matchup. What do you guys have?
Speaker 1: What should we be watching? And key matchups for this week?
Speaker 1: My key matchup. If I'm joking, I'm saying Tony Paula
Speaker 1: versus Kelly. If I'm being serious though, it's literally whoever
Speaker 1: eleven is lined up on. I want to see. If
Speaker 1: he's lined up on offensive tackle, that's that's the matchup
Speaker 1: that I'm looking at, right. How does he win that matchup?
Speaker 1: How does it help us defensively against Jalen Hurts. If
Speaker 1: he's lined up at linebacker, then it's him against Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see how that shakes out. This is
Speaker 1: a four three guy able to stop a running quarterback
Speaker 1: because in the league, you're gonna see these guys, right,
Speaker 1: do we have an answer for mobile quarterbacks? So I'm
Speaker 1: looking at eleven and wherever he's ad on the field,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the matchup that he that he has.
Speaker 1: All Right, for me, I'm gonna do kind of a
Speaker 1: two on two scenario here. I'm gonna do Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders versus whoever they chot out there at linebacker.
Speaker 1: I wish it was Parsons, but we all know. If
Speaker 1: it's vander esh and Smith, all right, I'll take that
Speaker 1: as well. But I want to do that matchup right there,
Speaker 1: because last year and throughout a lot of the times
Speaker 1: last year we got exposed from running backs coming out
Speaker 1: of the backfield, getting yards after the catch, third and fives,
Speaker 1: getting all that good stuff. So I want to see
Speaker 1: if those two are the linebackers. If Smith and lv
Speaker 1: are the linebackers, how have they grown Are they able
Speaker 1: to go out there and get coverage in because last
Speaker 1: week they actually played pretty well. They played pretty well
Speaker 1: last week. I think Smith led the team and tackles
Speaker 1: out there. Vanderess was all over the field, had to
Speaker 1: masak as well. So if they've grown to the point
Speaker 1: where we can handle these running backs out of the backfield,
Speaker 1: we can do all that stuff, then you got then
Speaker 1: you're in an advantage because you can put parsons while
Speaker 1: d while d laws are, you can put parsons at
Speaker 1: that defensive end. If these two guys have grown into
Speaker 1: the linebackers that they weren't were, so to me, I'm
Speaker 1: interested to see that matchup and how that boils down.
Speaker 1: I still think the Cowboys have the advantage, though. Well
Speaker 1: let's get into who's going to win this game, because
Speaker 1: this is a big one and we actually have kind
Speaker 1: of you know, issues in here sometimes because we're very
Speaker 1: competitive and you know, we break it down to the
Speaker 1: little little little things, the little things because you guys
Speaker 1: kind of tied. I still think I'm in the running.
Speaker 1: One last week, one last week, and I'm trying. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to come back. I'm trying to come back. So
Speaker 1: what is the spread this week? That I don't know?
Speaker 1: But I don't know either. Really, I didn't do my job.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Now I let you down, New I let
Speaker 1: you down. So um we for thank you, see thank you,
Speaker 1: see me the great back game. Appreciate you. All right?
Speaker 1: So spread is for oh, you gotta go first, and
Speaker 1: I'm going so you can't you get I'm very for Piggy. Okay,
Speaker 1: but I have the Cowboys winning by seven. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: picking the same thing that I did last night, not
Speaker 1: four but fourteen fourteen. I think absolutely we come out
Speaker 1: and I think we play one of our best games
Speaker 1: as a team. I think special teams plays well, offense
Speaker 1: plays well, and I think that we come out and
Speaker 1: we show tomorrow that the Eagles are gonna have trouble
Speaker 1: when they see us the next time. All Right, We're
Speaker 1: gonna come out on defense and we're gonna let them
Speaker 1: know we're ready to see Jakeman Hurts plus fourteen Dallas Cowboys. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one to me. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot closer than that. I still have the
Speaker 1: Cowboys winning. I saw the Cowboys winning. I say they
Speaker 1: win by three points. I say it's gonna be like
Speaker 1: a twenty to seventeen type of type of ball game,
Speaker 1: because look, it's a division game, and we all know
Speaker 1: when division opponents, it's always closer, even if that team
Speaker 1: is owing whatever and this team is undefeated. When you
Speaker 1: got a division opponent like that, you know each other
Speaker 1: like the back of your hands. So it's always gonna
Speaker 1: be a competitive battle out there. I say the Cowboys
Speaker 1: win by three, closer to what most people think. I
Speaker 1: don't think they get a takeaway, and I think that's
Speaker 1: what makes it close, because I don't think they get
Speaker 1: a takeaway. Philly does good. I'm still think I'm sorry
Speaker 1: thirty one seventeen. Sorry, thirty one seventeen, thirty one seventeen,
Speaker 1: that's my plus fourteen, but thirty So you don't you
Speaker 1: don't think or you think that the Eagles are not
Speaker 1: going to cover the spread. Okay, now I got the
Speaker 1: Cowboys by three. Okay, the spreads befour right spreads four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Cowboys by three, twenty to seventeen, right here, firm.
Speaker 1: I think CB one more time. I think we're picked
Speaker 1: to win by four Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Philly
Speaker 1: cover cover. But we still win yep, but we'll still
Speaker 1: win seventeen. And then once we win by fourteen, then
Speaker 1: I actually win win, and then y'all, y'all win, y'all win.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that is the shew for today. We
Speaker 1: will not have a show on Monday Day because there
Speaker 1: is a game on Monday, and maybe we'll be tailgating
Speaker 1: by that. Now I'll be working Barry, we'll be working
Speaker 1: Danny will be tailgating. Maybe the game the middle of
Speaker 1: the middle. I saw it last time I was in
Speaker 1: the stadium. Zoe mccraehouse Again, thanks for tuning to the
Speaker 1: Players Lounge. Everybody, have a great weekend. We'll see you
Speaker 1: guys on Monday or Tuesday. Go Cowboys. This has been
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