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Speaker 2: It is Monday, September twenty first, twenty twenty four, Season twenty,
Speaker 2: episode number thirty five. Welcome to the latest edition of
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Speaker 2: have a rough day yesterday. But in the there were
Speaker 2: some things that I think we'll talk about that as
Speaker 2: the game wore on, some areas where there could be
Speaker 2: some things that could be positives. All in all, though,
Speaker 2: it's hard to get positives out of yesterday. That was
Speaker 2: a tough tough game for them, especially coming off after
Speaker 2: what you saw a week ago against the New Orleans States,
Speaker 2: both times in the comfy confines of at and T Stadium.
Speaker 2: So let's start first. Baltimore wins twenty eight twenty five.
Speaker 2: Let's go around the table, give me the story of
Speaker 2: the game. We'll start with you Nick.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I talked about it last week, the structure of
Speaker 4: losses over the course of these last two seasons. It's
Speaker 4: getting blown off the ball defensively in the run game specifically,
Speaker 4: and Baltimore definitely had that game plan ready to go.
Speaker 4: Michael Parson said it after the game. They did exactly
Speaker 4: what everybody expected. They lined up in multiple situations where
Speaker 4: they were lining up Derrick Henry to have blockers in
Speaker 4: front of him between the tackles, and he went after
Speaker 4: that defensive line. I saw stat this morning. He had
Speaker 4: over one hundred yards in both of his touchdowns running
Speaker 4: between the tackles specifically, and Lamar Jackson obviously he had
Speaker 4: his ATHOUGHTICISNM on display. Everything that you expected from the
Speaker 4: Ravens offense, they did and they executed well. Now you
Speaker 4: mentioned the positives, and there were some positives I think
Speaker 4: you could take away, especially in that second half. They
Speaker 4: only allow the one Derek Henry touchdown in the second half,
Speaker 4: and other than that, it looked pretty clean from a
Speaker 4: defensive perspective, especially as they were starting to pick up
Speaker 4: some steam late. But I think whenever you look at
Speaker 4: how this team cannot stop the run at a historic level,
Speaker 4: it's a problem and it's kind of tough. I wrote
Speaker 4: about it a little bit last night because it's not
Speaker 4: like they can bring in personnel to make this situation better.
Speaker 4: It's not like there's a there's a fixed all out there.
Speaker 4: There's just kind of hanging in the balance that could
Speaker 4: help bring in. There are multiple issues up front. It
Speaker 4: kind of extends to all eleven.
Speaker 3: I think when you play against a quarterback that's this
Speaker 3: elite as a ball handler and as a runner, it's
Speaker 3: going to be difficult day. That quarterback was amazing, and
Speaker 3: then the way he played and it's the second week
Speaker 3: where quarterback hasn't had to throw the ball, which tells
Speaker 3: you the running game is But Lamar Jackson his ability
Speaker 3: to put pressure on you, to stress you in every
Speaker 3: way possible, they've got. Really that was a team that
Speaker 3: was in you know, they've lost coaches and some players.
Speaker 3: That's an AFC championship team last year, you know, going
Speaker 3: to and you could kind of see why they add
Speaker 3: Derrick Henry which was a great get for them. The
Speaker 3: physical the way that Dallas in this running game, and
Speaker 3: to me, honestly, on film, the New Orleans game looked
Speaker 3: worse than this one did. And I know it's Derrick
Speaker 3: Henry and it's big and all that I expect. I
Speaker 3: expect this quarterback to make plays. I knew that going
Speaker 3: in this was going to be a difficult task. The
Speaker 3: problems with your Cowboys defense is though, even when you
Speaker 3: get some guys that are doing exactly what they needed
Speaker 3: to do, you don't fit. Maybe you have the front
Speaker 3: does some thing and then the backers don't fit, and
Speaker 3: then you get the fit, but then you don't get
Speaker 3: the tackle. The margin of error for this Cowboys defense
Speaker 3: in the running game is very, very very small. They
Speaker 3: almost have to play everything perfect. And even when they
Speaker 3: get you know, they get crash ends and no fill
Speaker 3: and then they get upfield and then they get no
Speaker 3: fill and then they and then they get a fill
Speaker 3: and then they miss a tackle, you know, or the
Speaker 3: ball cuts back. I mean, you're gonna watch this game
Speaker 3: and you're gonna go There's some guys that played really
Speaker 3: actually pretty well. I mean Mazzie Smith for defensive tackle
Speaker 3: played pretty well in this football game. He did he
Speaker 3: did things he actually they needed to do with the
Speaker 3: defensive line. But their margin of error again is so
Speaker 3: so small because when they do get somebody in position
Speaker 3: to make a play. They had they had several carries
Speaker 3: yesterday where it was three yards, no yards, three yards,
Speaker 3: two yards, three yards. You know you're capable. You see
Speaker 3: them the abillity to play when they had to get
Speaker 3: the ball back. They really ratcheted it down on defense.
Speaker 3: I mean they got after it and they were controlling
Speaker 3: some blocks, and they were in position, and guys were
Speaker 3: playing and doing what they exactly need to do. But
Speaker 3: when they when one guy does not do his job
Speaker 3: in this run defense, it ends up being a twenty
Speaker 3: seven yard run or a touchdown run. You know, they
Speaker 3: got you in unbalanced one time on the goal line,
Speaker 3: and and Dallas was confused on how to play the front. Well, okay,
Speaker 3: give them credit for unbalanced line. They put the tackle over,
Speaker 3: they created a strength. Dallas wasn't sure guys standing around
Speaker 3: bull right there. You know, margin vera are very very
Speaker 3: small for this team playing run defense.
Speaker 5: Right now, I'm trying to keep my emotions neutral to
Speaker 5: where I'm not exaggerating too much, because again you got
Speaker 5: to keep in mind this is still very very early
Speaker 5: on in the season, but it moves alone very quickly.
Speaker 5: There's another game that's going to be played this Thursday,
Speaker 5: and I respect so many people on that side of
Speaker 5: the building and what they do and their job, and individually,
Speaker 5: I think there is a lot of talent on this
Speaker 5: team for players. But at the same time, a am
Speaker 5: I surprised in a way. And I'm saying this because
Speaker 5: it all goes back to that last game against Green Bay.
Speaker 5: Then you carry into what happened during the off season,
Speaker 5: which was not a whole lot. You're depending on these
Speaker 5: younger players, You're depending on drafting, and then hoping that
Speaker 5: Mike Simmer comes in here and changes the defense or
Speaker 5: gives the defense that extra bump that they needed, which
Speaker 5: I feel like right now is taking a step backwards
Speaker 5: from what we had with Dan Quinn. At the moment,
Speaker 5: I have my hopes were very very high based on
Speaker 5: what I saw during training camp, even the preseason, some
Speaker 5: of the things that Mike's showed defensively, I was very
Speaker 5: much looking forward to this defense just being so much
Speaker 5: better and having what they were missing. But it hasn't
Speaker 5: been the case. So it's just it's a lot to
Speaker 5: handle at the moment because given everything how last season ended,
Speaker 5: the off season, what happened, You're hoping not to have
Speaker 5: this kind of start of the year, and you're having
Speaker 5: that kind of start of the year, especially after you
Speaker 5: pay your quarterback and CD Lamb and I still think
Speaker 5: it's very well deserved money, and I still agree with
Speaker 5: the contract that they gave them both, But you cannot
Speaker 5: be playing that way, you know, City cannot be having
Speaker 5: because of now what happened with the contract and all that.
Speaker 5: You cannot be having those type of game games. And
Speaker 5: we talk about him being accent absent during training camp
Speaker 5: and holding out, and we had plenty of discussions around that,
Speaker 5: how is that going to affect his playing time once
Speaker 5: he gets on the field, And clearly it's been I mean,
Speaker 5: he hasn't been a playmaker so far in the offseason.
Speaker 5: He's had his moments where he's been good and successful,
Speaker 5: But it's just an as I'm speaking, I'm trying to
Speaker 5: come up with what could be the problem exactly, and
Speaker 5: I don't I don't know what the answer is here
Speaker 5: as far as what the issues are and how you
Speaker 5: quickly fix those problems. The only bright light blinking is,
Speaker 5: like you said, the running back. I mean, we'll talk
Speaker 5: about it later, but Dalvin Cook, that's another maybe hope there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think honestly, I think we all know, or
Speaker 2: at least I think there's a clear pattern of what
Speaker 2: we think. The problem is. They can't stop the run
Speaker 2: and they can't run. And when you play in the
Speaker 2: NFL and you can't stop the run and or run
Speaker 2: the ball, you're going to have a hard time to
Speaker 2: do because that means teams never have to on defense.
Speaker 2: Teams never have to get to that second thing. If
Speaker 2: you can't stop the run, they don't have to worry
Speaker 2: about the past. That's two weeks in a row been
Speaker 2: run out of the building and Team Devint had to
Speaker 2: throw the ball on you. So it's just it's hard
Speaker 2: to play defense when you can't stop the run and
Speaker 2: then being able to run the ball. I think some
Speaker 2: of the problems Dallas's experienced, particularly with the field goals
Speaker 2: and not being able to get farther than getting into
Speaker 2: field goal range, have been precisely because you can't run
Speaker 2: the ball. You get a compact field. If you can't
Speaker 2: run it makes it a lot harder to be able
Speaker 2: to pass. And so I think it really comes to
Speaker 2: those two things, running the ball stopping the run.
Speaker 4: And it's so funny because you go back to the
Speaker 4: very beginning of the offseason and Mobile Alabama, when Jerry
Speaker 4: Jones is like, Okay, this is what we want to
Speaker 4: do this offseason. Throw the all incomment out the window
Speaker 4: whenever he said, we want to run the ball better
Speaker 4: and we need to stop the run better. And they
Speaker 4: have not done either of those two things better than
Speaker 4: they did last season. And last season was putrid. And
Speaker 4: stopping the run and running the ball it was I
Speaker 4: think it was middle of the league. But now you're
Speaker 4: in the bottom of the league. You lost a playmaker
Speaker 4: and Tony Pollard at the end of the day, he
Speaker 4: was a thousand yard guy. At the end of the day,
Speaker 4: you do not have a thousand yard guy on this
Speaker 4: team right now. Going to the running stopping the run
Speaker 4: that point. This is via ESPN research. The Cowboys have
Speaker 4: allowed five hundred and fifty seven rushing yards. It's the
Speaker 4: most through three games in the entire NFL since nineteen
Speaker 4: sixty three. They have allowed five point four sixty three. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a long time nobody, but I was born six.
Speaker 2: You're born in sixty.
Speaker 4: This happened the year you went in sixty three. Remember, Oh, yes,
Speaker 4: so you weren't around for this. We're not around for this.
Speaker 4: They have allowed five point four yards per carry, the
Speaker 4: worst average through three games since nineteen seventy nine, and
Speaker 4: they have given up eight rushing touchdowns, the most of
Speaker 4: franchise history through three games. I mean, it's it's it's
Speaker 4: a historics pace how bad their run defense is. And
Speaker 4: like I said, it's such a compound problem that I
Speaker 4: don't know how you fix it with just one trade
Speaker 4: or one acquisition or one point. It's just it's it's
Speaker 4: mind blowing. Rian.
Speaker 2: I know you said you thought last week they were
Speaker 2: actually better this week than they were last year, stopping
Speaker 2: this last week, stopping the run. Yeah, talk me a
Speaker 2: little bit more about what specifically you mean by that
Speaker 2: one with regard to their what did they get better
Speaker 2: this week even though the results say that they were worse.
Speaker 3: Well, the thing that to me when you watched, the
Speaker 3: possibility of making plays was here this week. You know
Speaker 3: where you had you had gained It seemed like last
Speaker 3: week every time we looked up. It was second and
Speaker 3: two second in one. The whole day. You know, there
Speaker 3: were some times where they had a run for three,
Speaker 3: a run for three, a run for four, and then
Speaker 3: but you had chunk runs. You had those explosive runs.
Speaker 3: You know. Heck the quarterback, they bust a play, they
Speaker 3: bust he's fake and there's nobody to fake to. He
Speaker 3: just takes off running. But he gets you know, five yards,
Speaker 3: and you're you're kind of like going, damn, you got
Speaker 3: to get a stop there. The biggest problem to me
Speaker 3: right now is though, when they do put when they
Speaker 3: do get in position, they just like I say, overshown,
Speaker 3: miss some some tackles. You know, they had guys in
Speaker 3: position with Wilson to make plays. They've taken some poor
Speaker 3: angles along the way way. But you know, I, at
Speaker 3: least at the Saints, I kind of felt like every
Speaker 3: time the Saints handed the ball off that it was
Speaker 3: a chunk run. I mean, you go back and you go, okay,
Speaker 3: oh good stop, and you could kind of see why
Speaker 3: you could kind of you know, I the thing about
Speaker 3: you know, giving up eighty seven yards to Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 3: you kind of knew that was going to happen. You know,
Speaker 3: you knew that was gonna happen, that Henry Henry had
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty one yards Russian twenty nine on
Speaker 3: the long run. You know, but there were time I mean,
Speaker 3: you were you know it was there were times where
Speaker 3: he had a three yard gain, he had another three
Speaker 3: yard gain and then he cut the ball back for
Speaker 3: seven and then another three yard gain. And you know,
Speaker 3: so to me, I didn't see three yard gains against
Speaker 3: the Saints. I saw big chunk runs from you know,
Speaker 3: Alvin Kamara, and this one it was a little bit
Speaker 3: to me. You know, they they've they've they've got themselves
Speaker 3: in position where they can make plays. And if they
Speaker 3: don't make plays, that's why I say the margin of
Speaker 3: air from them is so small on defense. You know, heck,
Speaker 3: they had a chance late in the game Henry Henry
Speaker 3: has a run and they have a chance for a
Speaker 3: tackle to knock the ball loose. I mean, he's flagging
Speaker 3: the ball and you just any other time that's probably
Speaker 3: gonna be you know, it's going to be a fumble.
Speaker 3: I mean if you just you know, you get that,
Speaker 3: you get with the tackle and getting bodies of the
Speaker 3: ball and now you're going to get the ball. You
Speaker 3: know you're gonna get an opportunity, but you know they
Speaker 3: just can't. They can't finish like they need to finish.
Speaker 3: And I felt like that to me, they did a
Speaker 3: better job of playing blocks up front, but when the
Speaker 3: when it came down to having to make that tackle, Okay,
Speaker 3: he's going to cut the ball back. Everything's taken care
Speaker 3: of front side. Where's the backside, where's the backside, where's
Speaker 3: the squeeze, where's the linebacker? Where's the tackle there? They
Speaker 3: are just seem like they're they're one player out of
Speaker 3: position every single time in that game yesterday where the
Speaker 3: Saints game, I felt like they were blocked. Everybody was blocked,
Speaker 3: And yesterday it just gave me a little bit more
Speaker 3: hope that if they have better fits, then maybe they
Speaker 3: can play a little bit better run defense. But it
Speaker 3: won the case yesterday.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're going to check our first break when
Speaker 2: we come back. I want to dive a little more
Speaker 2: even into that conversation and really go from the standpoint
Speaker 2: of if you had to kind of grade these different
Speaker 2: levels of the defense, the defensive tackles, defensive ends, linebacker, safeties,
Speaker 2: which would you say were more responsible for what we
Speaker 2: saw yesterday in the run game and which you think
Speaker 2: were better at the run game, even though again the
Speaker 2: results were not what the Cowboys want at all. We'll
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Speaker 2: we're talking about the Cowboys versus Ravens. We're into it,
Speaker 2: We're into the defense. Here's my question for you. And
Speaker 2: I've heard what you guys said about this. So if
Speaker 2: we had to really kind of handicap this thing and say, okay,
Speaker 2: here were the position groups that were most responsible for
Speaker 2: the run defense being as good yesterday versus the ones
Speaker 2: that actually played Okay, where would you put them between
Speaker 2: the defensive tackles, defensive ends, linebackers, and safeties who were
Speaker 2: the most problematic yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't love the play from the defensive ends.
Speaker 4: I expected maybe a little bit more from them. That
Speaker 4: being said, the defensive tackle situation is still bad. And
Speaker 4: I Ohsa diggi zoo. I think had had some more
Speaker 4: moments yesterday than he had last week against the Saints.
Speaker 4: He called more good moments, more good moments. Yes, he
Speaker 4: called that game the worst game of his career, and
Speaker 4: I think that was pretty accurate looking back on it.
Speaker 4: And like Brian mentioned, Mazzi, Smith had a couple of moments,
Speaker 4: but I still feel like he's a way below average
Speaker 4: players as a defensive tackle. The defensive line as a
Speaker 4: whole just has to be better. They have to be
Speaker 4: better in defending the run because then it's a domino
Speaker 4: effect to the rest of the defense. Then you're asking
Speaker 4: the linebackers to do multiple things on a play when
Speaker 4: a certain guy is not doing their job up front.
Speaker 4: And then if you're looking in the safety group, I,
Speaker 4: you know, I really like Mollie Cooker and Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 4: and I liked them as players, you know, as they
Speaker 4: started to get ingrained into Dallas. But I haven't seen
Speaker 4: anything from either of those two to warrant you know,
Speaker 4: me saying that they have played well through three weeks.
Speaker 4: And that's in the past game as well, but specifically
Speaker 4: in the run game, if we're talking about that specifically,
Speaker 4: we've gotten used to seeing Malik Hooker Phil running lanes
Speaker 4: and come up and make a play. We've gotten used
Speaker 4: to seeing Donovan Wilson, you know, take a guy's head
Speaker 4: off across the middle of the field legally, and we,
Speaker 4: of course, and we haven't seen that happen. And it's
Speaker 4: the safety play has been pretty bad as well, and
Speaker 4: it makes you wonder what the health is of Marquise Bell.
Speaker 4: He left yesterday with the ankle injury. Sounds like we'll
Speaker 4: get more on that end today. But if if he's
Speaker 4: to miss some time, then that only makes things more
Speaker 4: difficult for a safety group that you know hasn't been
Speaker 4: playing well either.
Speaker 5: I think, I mean, for me, there's no one that
Speaker 5: has been doing better. Actually, people trying to be superman
Speaker 5: around here. That's the problem, Derek.
Speaker 4: Everyone trying. Is that like.
Speaker 5: Give me a laugh or a smile or something. A
Speaker 5: tough crowd, A tough crowd. No, but it's it's collectively. Honestly.
Speaker 5: There are times that I see players and you talk
Speaker 5: about like for example, overshown players like that. But again,
Speaker 5: you have, or me, I have to remember where they're
Speaker 5: at in their careers and that that's where you can
Speaker 5: be so tough on them or rely so much of them,
Speaker 5: because you need help around you. You need the team
Speaker 5: to collectively be making place. And I think, going back
Speaker 5: to what Nick just said, even Donovan Wilson just they've
Speaker 5: lost that aggressiveness that they once had. Sometimes you see
Speaker 5: it them the tackling. They're not being aggressive tackling and
Speaker 5: getting to to the point where they're getting to the
Speaker 5: player and attacking that way, but also playing slower football
Speaker 5: like always. I've seen a lot of plays where they're
Speaker 5: just like a step behind and not just kind of
Speaker 5: not being at the same speed as the opposing team.
Speaker 5: And to me, that has been the biggest issue for me.
Speaker 5: They're just playing a little slower than the opposing team
Speaker 5: and not tackling aggressively enough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the biggest problem, one of the one of the
Speaker 3: biggest problems they have is when that ball goes to
Speaker 3: the outside. They've been hurt so much by it that
Speaker 3: you get guys flying to get there or try to
Speaker 3: get there, and then all of a sudden you have
Speaker 3: everybody pinned to one side of the field and then
Speaker 3: the ball comes back, you know, the ball maybe comes
Speaker 3: back to the inside. I mean the immediately when that
Speaker 3: when it when the flow starts away from them, they
Speaker 3: are all flying to the ball. I don't you know,
Speaker 3: one time, when I used to live in this building
Speaker 3: or a valley ranch, you could walk down the hall
Speaker 3: and ask, what's your story with the crash ends? You know,
Speaker 3: you know you're talking about the ends and maybe is
Speaker 3: there something scheme wise you thought that like Okay, we're
Speaker 3: going to crash ends and fill on the outside. We're
Speaker 3: gonna fill with the safeties, We're gonna fill with the linebackers.
Speaker 3: You know, there was there was a couple of times
Speaker 3: where the where you see Tank and you see Micah
Speaker 3: just take inside charge and then there's nothing to the
Speaker 3: outside of that, you know, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: now the ball goes to where you know, you get
Speaker 3: Jackson sees crash in and now he takes it, or
Speaker 3: you know, you play wide and then he gets you know,
Speaker 3: he did a masterful job of reading whether you were
Speaker 3: playing crash ends or trying to keep things wide. And
Speaker 3: there was a couple of times there where you know,
Speaker 3: to me, I I felt like that the linebackers it
Speaker 3: wasn't their best game. It wasn't The defensive tackles aren't great.
Speaker 3: Don't give me but I think Osa, I think Mazi.
Speaker 3: I think when you watch, you're gonna see, Okay, that
Speaker 3: looks positive, that looks positive. There's a couple of times
Speaker 3: where it doesn't look positive, but you're going you know that.
Speaker 3: I think, ain't that the way the Ravens play, It
Speaker 3: puts so much stress on you. It means it just you,
Speaker 3: like I say, you have to be perfect with you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, how about the times like when they when
Speaker 3: they run the jet and then you make the tackle,
Speaker 3: looks like but you know it's he pulls it pulls
Speaker 3: the jet and now you know everybody's you make the
Speaker 3: tackle and now he's running for nine yards?
Speaker 4: I mean, calling it positive or are we calling it
Speaker 4: positive in comparison to last week?
Speaker 3: I think it's positive in the way that I think
Speaker 3: in last week's was. I think last week was a
Speaker 3: total defensive failure. I think it was a total the Saints.
Speaker 3: I think the Saints physically beat you well. And I
Speaker 3: think that yesterday Dallas got some stops. You know that
Speaker 3: they got some stops in this game. Did they get
Speaker 3: enough stops?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: But to me, it just looks worse with that big
Speaker 3: Derrick Henry running the way he does, you know. I mean,
Speaker 3: I think you could have survived that Derrick Henry aim
Speaker 3: if they didn't have Lamar Jackson running the football too.
Speaker 3: But I just don't know. I mean, I'd love to
Speaker 3: have been able to walk down the hall and say, hey,
Speaker 3: was our plans playing crash ins and trying to fill
Speaker 3: that with safeties or linebackers. What was our plan there?
Speaker 3: Because there were several times where, like I said, they're
Speaker 3: so Dallas is so mindful now of the ball going
Speaker 3: to the edge. They got everybody running and then it's
Speaker 3: just that that cutback or that you get everybody going
Speaker 3: and they just turn and they push you and now
Speaker 3: it's up the field. So but I want to say
Speaker 3: that I think the linebackers probably didn't with the missed tackles.
Speaker 3: And you could throw Wilson in there. Wilson. We've seen
Speaker 3: Wilson play. He takes some kind of questionable angles sometimes,
Speaker 3: you know, and I think that you know, you got
Speaker 3: you know, the I'll give Carson some credit. He missed
Speaker 3: Nelson Aguilar, which was a huge play, fifty seven yard
Speaker 3: huge play. But from that point on, my guy was
Speaker 3: trying to tackle. He wouldn't. He was not going to
Speaker 3: be the guy that they said, wow, this guy missed.
Speaker 3: He tried his best to make plays and make tackles.
Speaker 2: And what I hate about it is, obviously we all
Speaker 2: see the highlight now of when Derrick Henry. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: but question him, But but that's Derrick Henry. And I
Speaker 2: was telling my wife before this game, I was like
Speaker 2: I guarantee you, at some point in this game, Dereck
Speaker 2: Henry is going to make somebody look foolish. That's what
Speaker 2: he does to everybody. This is how he is. If
Speaker 2: he gets to a cornerback, if he gets in a
Speaker 2: situation where it's one on one with him in a cornerback,
Speaker 2: the vast majority of the time, that cornerback is gonna
Speaker 2: look foolish because that's the type running back that he is.
Speaker 2: And I agree with you, Brian. I thought, I thought, Kaylen,
Speaker 2: as the game got on went on, I thought his tackling,
Speaker 2: he got a little tougher with his tackle, and I
Speaker 2: thought it became a little bit better now that play obviously,
Speaker 2: it is what it is.
Speaker 3: It's terrible. I mean, to give up. They gave up.
Speaker 3: They gave up two plays yesterday to a guy. They
Speaker 3: gave up a guy played to a guy named Charlie Kohler.
Speaker 3: To me tell you what, Charlie Cooler is your third
Speaker 3: tied end for the Ravens. I mean, they're they're Mark
Speaker 3: Andrews and and likely didn't hurt you in this game.
Speaker 2: Yesterday it was a guy named Charlie Coches that zero.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a gay named Charlie Kohler had had a had
Speaker 3: a thirty nine yard catch and Nelson Aguilar had one
Speaker 3: catch for fifty six yards. Think about that. That's I mean,
Speaker 3: those are just two huge plays right there in this game.
Speaker 3: But they but I just think the stress of this
Speaker 3: of this Ravens offense, it could be too much. It
Speaker 3: could be and but there were times where I felt
Speaker 3: like that Dallas was there where they needed to be.
Speaker 3: They've just got to do a better job of finishing
Speaker 3: these plays. And I think when you guys get the
Speaker 3: opportunity to sit down and watch it, you'll you'll say, well,
Speaker 3: it's not like that all the time. But at least
Speaker 3: there were some things Saints game. I wouldn't encouraged it
Speaker 3: at all. Yeah, you got your ass handed to you.
Speaker 3: This one was a little bit more you some self
Speaker 3: afflicted things happened to you in this one.
Speaker 4: There's still probably some self reflection that needs to go on.
Speaker 3: Even if you do fine, I totally agree.
Speaker 4: Yeah, even if you do finish a game offensively in
Speaker 4: defensive on a high note. With that being said, yes,
Speaker 4: you have the Giants this week on a short week,
Speaker 4: I think that's a positive. Being able to kind of
Speaker 4: bounce back and potentially have a really good opportunity to get.
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones can't throwybe huh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and then they got a wide receiver one that's legit,
Speaker 4: huh and one of your LSU guys, Brian. But I
Speaker 4: think when you look at the schedule after that, there's yes,
Speaker 4: it's early in the season, and you could probably use
Speaker 4: that as an excuse. Hey, there's fourteen games left. We
Speaker 4: can work some things out. The urgency kind of needs
Speaker 4: to be now though, you this thing could spiral out
Speaker 4: of control in a really quick way and a really
Speaker 4: tough manner. You go to Pittsburgh, who's all of a
Speaker 4: sudden three and oh, you come home and play Detroit,
Speaker 4: probably a pissed off Detroit team after what happened in
Speaker 4: Arlington last year. Then you got the bye week, and
Speaker 4: then you go to San Francisco, and then you got
Speaker 4: to play Philly and then Houston. I mean, it's it
Speaker 4: doesn't it doesn't stop. There are playoff teams waiting to
Speaker 4: come give you your best shot. And if you look
Speaker 4: up and you're two and five or three and four
Speaker 4: coming out of San Francisco, then we're talking about some
Speaker 4: some much different possibilities at the end.
Speaker 3: To me, guys, and correct me if I'm wrong, and
Speaker 3: I'm usually wrong, so you can correct me if you
Speaker 3: want to. But the thing about it is, though, if
Speaker 3: you if you're like two and five, like you're talking about,
Speaker 3: they're gonna let this thing ride. In my opinion, they're
Speaker 3: gonna let this thing ride. You know, they're gonna they're
Speaker 3: gonna say, okay, what do we you know, we'll take
Speaker 3: our ten draft eleven draft picks or how many draft
Speaker 3: picks you have, We'll take our cap money, We'll do
Speaker 3: what we have to do with the coaching situation. Again,
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm just saying, if it gets that point,
Speaker 3: I don't see them. This thing has to be going
Speaker 3: in a positive direction in order for me to believe
Speaker 3: that they're going to go out and make a trade
Speaker 3: if they had to make a trade. Yep, I just
Speaker 3: because if it's if it's okay, it is what it is.
Speaker 3: Let's just play it out. Let's see what happens, and
Speaker 3: we'll play all our young guys and see if we
Speaker 3: can get better that way. I know it's a terrible
Speaker 3: way to look at it, but I can see the
Speaker 3: front office just you know, why if we're two and
Speaker 3: five right now, why do we want to make a trade.
Speaker 2: Well, if you believe what Jerry's saying, it makes you
Speaker 2: think they're not making a trade at all.
Speaker 3: No, does.
Speaker 2: He keeps saying, I believe in that got the person
Speaker 2: some of that. That's why you have to be careful
Speaker 2: with Jerry because sometimes he says those things publicly because
Speaker 2: he's trying to make sure that publicly other teams don't
Speaker 2: look at and say, well, the Cowboys need it so
Speaker 2: you can get a lot out of them. But that's
Speaker 2: what he's saying publicly right now, is that he believes
Speaker 2: in this, in this, in this personnel. And if that's
Speaker 2: the case, it doesn't sound like that's something that they're
Speaker 2: moving toward.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if A lot Probably depends on
Speaker 3: how the division looks at the time too. You know,
Speaker 3: if you're but if you're two and five, you know,
Speaker 3: where are you going? Halfway?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know? Are you really?
Speaker 7: Are?
Speaker 8: You?
Speaker 3: Really? Should I make a trade here to try and
Speaker 3: get sing to five hundred right or you know? But
Speaker 3: a lot depends, I think on the division as well.
Speaker 4: I will say I think this, I think nine and
Speaker 4: eight wins this division I'm at. Every week goes by,
Speaker 4: I feel I thought it was at this division. I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't believe in Philly's ability to get to ten,
Speaker 4: and obviously I don't feel that way about the Cowboys,
Speaker 4: Giants and Commanders right now either.
Speaker 2: I will tell you this. I also don't think that
Speaker 2: at this point, I don't think there'll be two teams
Speaker 2: from the NFC is going to the playfast. So you
Speaker 2: better win the division if you have playoff fast pirations. Yeah,
Speaker 2: absolute division.
Speaker 4: I think.
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Speaker 2: offense struggled, although the score doesn't show it as much,
Speaker 2: they struggled pretty much do most of that game. And
Speaker 2: we'll talk about that and what would wrong for them yesterday.
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Speaker 2: about the offense. DAK yesterday was twenty eight fifty one
Speaker 2: fifty five percent completion rate, three hundred and seventy nine yards,
Speaker 2: two touchdowns, zero I in t's a ninety one point
Speaker 2: nine rating. And the one thing I can say that
Speaker 2: I really loved about DAK yesterday, which I don't know
Speaker 2: that I always see a lot of times when games
Speaker 2: go off the rails for them, it just kind of
Speaker 2: keeps going off the rails for them. It doesn't seem
Speaker 2: like they ever find their way to get back in,
Speaker 2: and yesterday, I think in the fourth quarter they find
Speaker 2: found a way to get themselves back in. It wasn't enough,
Speaker 2: and it doesn't absolve them of all the problems that
Speaker 2: we're having before that, but it did show me something
Speaker 2: there where I don't always see that from this bunch.
Speaker 2: But let's talk about what went wrong. Tell me why
Speaker 2: in the first three quarters we saw on offense.
Speaker 4: I've said enough about the running game. I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: sound like a broken record there. I think everyone knows
Speaker 4: how I feel about that, But I want to give
Speaker 4: kind of context to a situation that has to do
Speaker 4: with with CD Lamb. You look at last year, when
Speaker 4: did this offense really start to turn things up. It's
Speaker 4: when CD spoke up after that San Francisco game, was like,
Speaker 4: throw me the damp ball, and they started throwing him
Speaker 4: the damn ball, and it ended up working out pretty
Speaker 4: well as the season went on that he ended up
Speaker 4: having a franchise record setting season. Dak had an awesome year.
Speaker 4: He could arguably say it's his best or second five
Speaker 4: week six, Week six that right after Week six, I
Speaker 4: believe you look at how ced Lamb has affected these
Speaker 4: first three games, and it's been minimal. It's it's not
Speaker 4: been to the level that you would expect from a
Speaker 4: CD Lamb. Now, let's look at yesterday specifically, he has
Speaker 4: the meltdown moment in the first half on the on
Speaker 4: the play where he was going into the end zone,
Speaker 4: there was a pass interference call, but it was offset
Speaker 4: by a holding call in the backfield, and he starts
Speaker 4: slapping his hands in the end zone and then he
Speaker 4: goes to the sideline at the end of that drive,
Speaker 4: gets into it with Dak and Zach Martin. And then
Speaker 4: in the second half and the second half where they
Speaker 4: put together nineteen points in the fourth quarter and they
Speaker 4: were mounting a comeback attempt, Ceede Lamb was nowhere to
Speaker 4: be found. He was on the field, but it was
Speaker 4: it was lazy route running. There was poor body language
Speaker 4: the entire second half. One reception for nine yards in
Speaker 4: the second half from the guy you just paid thirty
Speaker 4: four million dollars a year or two. And it's amplified
Speaker 4: whenever you go to the sideline and you see his
Speaker 4: body language, you see him communicating with Dak Prescott and
Speaker 4: in a not so friendly manner, Zach Martin in a
Speaker 4: not so friendly manner. When you see the on field
Speaker 4: performance and it's compounded with that, you have to look
Speaker 4: at it. And I think last year we saw this
Speaker 4: offense move at Cede Lamb's pace when it was at
Speaker 4: its best, and right now, Cede Lamb does not have
Speaker 4: a pace, He does not have a rhythm. Is that
Speaker 4: a product of him not having a training camp? Probably so,
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, he's gonna have
Speaker 4: to be able to in a sense grow up and
Speaker 4: be able to find that, be a little bit more
Speaker 4: accountable and answer to these questions about why he is
Speaker 4: not been the playmaker that we expect Cede Lamb to
Speaker 4: be week in and week out. Whether that's an early
Speaker 4: season thing, not having a training camp thing, whatever it is,
Speaker 4: He's gonna have to be able to find it because
Speaker 4: one reception for nine yards during a comeback attempt, it's
Speaker 4: not acceptable. And I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: whenever you look at, yes, the running game huge problem. Yes,
Speaker 4: there is probably not a huge playmaker outside of Ceedee
Speaker 4: Lamb and Jake Ferguson. Yes, but you still need CD
Speaker 4: Limb to show up because I think if Ceede Lamb
Speaker 4: shows up in that game yesterday, I think they won
Speaker 4: that ball game.
Speaker 3: As well said really well said, Yeah, I think that
Speaker 3: if you look at early in the game. They tried
Speaker 3: to take some shots and some opportunities and had some
Speaker 3: breakdowns at various times. Guys weren't open, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: the ball. You know, they take a deep shot down
Speaker 3: the sidelines to Cook. It looks like to me it
Speaker 3: was defensive holding. The guy kind of gets a little
Speaker 3: tug on the jersey there. They don't call it, but
Speaker 3: seemed like Ron Tolbert and that crew was going to
Speaker 3: call every penalty known to man in that game yesterday.
Speaker 3: They just didn't call that one. You know, you start
Speaker 3: to think about some of the other throws that they had,
Speaker 3: you know, the problems with some of the line, the
Speaker 3: pressure unblocked Guy Hamilton one time getting home. You know,
Speaker 3: there was some things that they just did not do
Speaker 3: in the first part of that game that was winning football.
Speaker 3: You know, they just would have a breakdown here, or
Speaker 3: quarterback would make a decision here, you know, the quarterbacks
Speaker 3: luck he didn't throw an interception, you know, right there,
Speaker 3: playing like a cover two look and he's trying to
Speaker 3: fit the ball inside. To Ferguson, that's a bad read.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's thinking cover too, But what happens to
Speaker 3: safety walks down we've talked about playing a robber, you know,
Speaker 3: where the safety gets in the middle and then they
Speaker 3: so they're trying to take away anything underneath. Well, he's
Speaker 3: throwing the ball to Ferguson. He never sees the safety
Speaker 3: come down. He just throws the ball thinking Ferguson's going
Speaker 3: to be open there. The offense was just really no
Speaker 3: rhythm to it. And you're talking about Lamb and what
Speaker 3: he he didn't do in this game. And there were
Speaker 3: a couple of times where ball went the other guy
Speaker 3: and you could see it on tape where he's like
Speaker 3: he's like shrugging and you know, palms up, and but
Speaker 3: let me tell you this, his the one time they
Speaker 3: did find some rhythm. His fumble was awful, Like the
Speaker 3: worst possible time you could fumble in a game.
Speaker 4: Even if you just come away with three points. Right there.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. It's crazy how they're not doing anything anything
Speaker 3: up to that point and now they find a little
Speaker 3: rhythm moving the ball. The Texas routes, you know, they're
Speaker 3: kind of they're kind of bulp, they're kind of going
Speaker 3: down the field, and then all of a sudden, you
Speaker 3: get that fumble, you know, and you're and it's like
Speaker 3: just totally just takes it out, you know, and then
Speaker 3: they didn't really come back. The Tucker miss field goal
Speaker 3: kind of got everybody. Okay, you know, defense is actually playing.
Speaker 3: You know, here we go and the Ravens will give
Speaker 3: it to you. Now we've we've talked about the Ravens.
Speaker 3: The Ravens will let you back. And we had Rod
Speaker 3: Woodson on the pregame show yesterday. Yeah, we have had
Speaker 3: some trouble finishing games here. You know, that's something. You know,
Speaker 3: the Ravens tried to kind of let you come back
Speaker 3: into this game. But you're right about CD and you know,
Speaker 3: but his but his fumble was was is backbreaking of
Speaker 3: a play of anyone you had. And they had a
Speaker 3: lot of bad plays just in run defense and stuff
Speaker 3: like that, but that right there, they needed those points,
Speaker 3: They needed that opportunity, and you know, they came away
Speaker 3: with nothing.
Speaker 4: It was the only turnover in the game yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was a back breaking Like you said.
Speaker 3: Well see and what I was talking about at the
Speaker 3: end when it was Clark, I went back and looked
Speaker 3: Clark had a chance. When you watch it, Henry's kind
Speaker 3: of in the air and the balls away and Clark's
Speaker 3: coming behind. That's a that's a punch out. And then
Speaker 3: the ball. You know, now you got bodies over there
Speaker 3: that could have been Dallas ball and you know, and
Speaker 3: now the momentum really is going your way, you know,
Speaker 3: but they it's young guys. You got to know when
Speaker 3: you have a runner exposed, go for the ball, try
Speaker 3: and knock that ball loose.
Speaker 5: Well, we've all played some type of sport of game
Speaker 5: where we've always been competitive and you get mad when
Speaker 5: you're losing and all of that. And you mentioned the
Speaker 5: whole CD Lambs reaction and we've seen the clips, even
Speaker 5: Micah Parson and the Marcus Lawrence. Are you guys concerned at
Speaker 5: all about kind of the attitude that's being showcase and
Speaker 5: shown right now or because we know one, yes, it
Speaker 5: can be part of the game and you being upset
Speaker 5: and caring about it, but two, we can easily derail
Speaker 5: to something else that you don't want to go.
Speaker 3: There or get.
Speaker 4: There's only one thing that can fix it.
Speaker 2: And by the way you start winning, all that turns
Speaker 2: into high fives and pats on the button. Hey man,
Speaker 2: we love you and all I'm seriously inappropriate, but it
Speaker 2: all it's all. It's all related to how are you performing?
Speaker 2: This is just a byproduct of what's happening on field.
Speaker 2: Guys are frustrated because they feel like they don't really
Speaker 2: and what it says to me more than anything else,
Speaker 2: is they don't have answers because you when you know
Speaker 2: the answer, then you're not as frustrated. You just know, Okay,
Speaker 2: we do this, we can do this. When you start
Speaker 2: getting where you're getting into it, that says to me,
Speaker 2: there's a level of frustration, and that makes me think,
Speaker 2: do they really know what the problem is.
Speaker 3: I think that fumble affected CD in a in a
Speaker 3: bad way, definitely. I think I think at that point
Speaker 3: in time, his attitude about you know, about how he
Speaker 3: was playing and what needed to be done, and he
Speaker 3: knew he tried had to try to make up for that,
Speaker 3: and he got more and more frustrated. I've I've made
Speaker 3: a living being on the sidelines of NFL games. You
Speaker 3: don't realize how much yelling and screaming really goes on
Speaker 3: in a game, at players and coaches, at coaches on
Speaker 3: players and players on coaches. I told stories before. You
Speaker 3: can't the number of f bombs that are that go
Speaker 3: back and forth, like you got to call this defense
Speaker 3: and you well, if I put you in this position,
Speaker 3: you've got to make the You know, there is a
Speaker 3: lot of where the camera doesn't always pick up, but
Speaker 3: there is.
Speaker 5: A different level of the world.
Speaker 3: Well no, but but but but but but there's frustrating
Speaker 3: moments of a game, you know, where you're not playing,
Speaker 3: you're just getting the ball run down your throat.
Speaker 2: And when they challenge each other, and they and they
Speaker 2: do challenging.
Speaker 3: They do, they very much challenge each other. And you know,
Speaker 3: you but I've lived down there and people have asked me,
Speaker 3: what does it bother you? And I'm like, no, because
Speaker 3: I've seen it. I've seen it go, I've seen it happen,
Speaker 3: and then it made things actually better. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: everybody kind of then just kind of racked.
Speaker 5: Well, the example that he brought up last year with
Speaker 5: CD of forty nine Ers game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think one thing that I brought about
Speaker 4: this as well last night too, after that San Francisco game,
Speaker 4: And what happened after the game last night after the
Speaker 4: San Francisco game, he was in the locker room, he
Speaker 4: was challenging people, and he was also taking a little
Speaker 4: bit of accountability in his own right. Yesterday he was
Speaker 4: nowhere to be seen. And open locker room is going
Speaker 4: on right now as we're recording, and I hope Cede
Speaker 4: Lamb is in there because he has questions to answer
Speaker 4: at the end of the day. And you know, having
Speaker 4: that one hundred and sixty or excuse me, one hundred
Speaker 4: and what is what is the what is the paycheck?
Speaker 4: What four years thirty four million dollars for or whatever
Speaker 4: whatever it is? More than what that comes more responsibility,
Speaker 4: and it also comes more accountability. And you got to
Speaker 4: be able to answer to those things. And Dak Prescott's
Speaker 4: having to go to the podium and answer for you
Speaker 4: because you weren't in the locker room to answer that
Speaker 4: answer those questions. You know that That's kind of where
Speaker 4: where I feel.
Speaker 2: Like up And one thing I will say is I
Speaker 2: loved how Trayvon after the game was accountable in that way,
Speaker 2: like he stood up there and said, I got to
Speaker 2: make that play, which he does like he is your
Speaker 2: big time yeah, big playmaking paid cornerback. And for there
Speaker 2: to be a situation like that, We've come all this
Speaker 2: way back into this game and it's a simple out
Speaker 2: route and you're not there to make the play. Like
Speaker 2: He's right, he's got to make that play. But I
Speaker 2: like the fact that he's accountable to that, and my
Speaker 2: expectation is he will be better in future weeks as
Speaker 2: a result of that. But that's that's the point. When
Speaker 2: you're the big time paid, relied upon player, when you
Speaker 2: are the face because of the amount of money that
Speaker 2: you make, there's an expectation that you're going to deliver
Speaker 2: in the most critical moments, in the moments when nobody
Speaker 2: else is stepping up, that's when you should be the
Speaker 2: one stepping up. And that's where I'm looking at at
Speaker 2: CD and saying, hey man, this is what comes with
Speaker 2: the dinner when you get that big payday. This is
Speaker 2: what comes with it.
Speaker 5: I know we're about to end the show, but super
Speaker 5: quick while were y'all's thoughts on the comments that Michaeh.
Speaker 4: Parsons made, understanding and putting in an into context for
Speaker 4: what DeMarcus Lawrence also said. I think there's probably you
Speaker 4: got the two leaders on that defensive side of the
Speaker 4: ball vocally, who are DeMarcus Lawrence and Michael Parsons, And
Speaker 4: I think sometimes they probably contradict each other and I
Speaker 4: think one of those moments was yesterday and you see
Speaker 4: the moments of frustration between DeMarcus Lawrence and Michael Parsons
Speaker 4: on the sideline, and you know that being amplified on
Speaker 4: you know, Sports Center and whatever last night. I think
Speaker 4: when you take that into context of what the comments
Speaker 4: Michael Parsons made, he's like everybody's trying to be Superman.
Speaker 4: If everybody just does their job, like we'll be fine,
Speaker 4: I think he also kind of needs to look in
Speaker 4: the mirror and look a look at some sense in
Speaker 4: some ways that he can do his job as well.
Speaker 4: I a was hoping for a little bit more accountability
Speaker 4: in that sense too, But nevertheless, at least he's speaking,
Speaker 4: at least he's vocal about it, and at least he's
Speaker 4: challenging others rather than you know, kind of sitting in
Speaker 4: the corner and then walking out.
Speaker 3: What bothered me yesterday I heard three different things Mike
Speaker 3: McCarthy about preparation, Dak Prescott about preparation, and Tank Lawrence
Speaker 3: about preparation.
Speaker 5: Those comments made me raise an eyebrow, for sure, and
Speaker 5: they were very clear about it.
Speaker 2: And when Dak talked about professionalism and was asked about
Speaker 2: what that really means. It was all about hey, being
Speaker 2: a pro. That means the amount of time he mentioned,
Speaker 2: the amount of time you spend in the in the
Speaker 2: in the watching film, like those are the kinds of
Speaker 2: things that make me say, WHOA Is that a product.
Speaker 4: Of being a young team? Is that a part oft
Speaker 4: of being a young team or is it a product
Speaker 4: of having too many immature bodies around? Because I I
Speaker 4: feel like whenever you look at the youth of the
Speaker 4: team and the guys who are young, I don't feel
Speaker 4: like those guys are immature. If you look at a
Speaker 4: Tyler Guiden, or you look at Harris Lua Foul, if
Speaker 4: you look at a marshawn neland even though like a
Speaker 4: Luke scoon Maker, these guys are not necessarily immature.
Speaker 2: But youth would be a thing. If it was youth,
Speaker 2: then then my question is how are they being led?
Speaker 2: Because you know is when you're a young guy, you
Speaker 2: kind of going in looking around, like what do we
Speaker 2: do around? And if the vets are in there watching film,
Speaker 2: you're probably thinking like I probably should be in there too.
Speaker 5: We just got into the good conversation at a rundown
Speaker 5: for tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But you know, we'll get think about it getting good.
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott's preparation is off the charts kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, that's the thing that you know you're never
Speaker 3: going to be to his level. But to me, when
Speaker 3: he makes that coming and then McCarthy, that's the one
Speaker 3: that got me because you're the head coach, you know,
Speaker 3: and he's like, well, some weeks you could have bad
Speaker 3: practices and play really well. And I'm like, so you're
Speaker 3: telling me you didn't practice very well.
Speaker 4: This Thursday's practice was really bad. And talking to the
Speaker 4: players in the locker room talking McCarthy, Thursday's practice was bad.
Speaker 4: And that's that's the final, real big practice and put together.
Speaker 3: Because nobody practices on Wednesday. They'll take the veteran days
Speaker 3: and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Sorr, he wasn't there. I mean, yeah, that's
Speaker 4: the wrap.
Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow, and tomorrow we will get into
Speaker 2: this because I had a whole topic I wanted to
Speaker 2: do on accountability because there were some very interesting comments.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that a little bit more tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Wednesday, can we do the scouting report for the offense
Speaker 3: and defense for the.
Speaker 2: Ironically, we won't be doing shows Lane yes, So tomorrow
Speaker 2: we're gonna do a Giants in Defense breakdown tomorrow UH
Speaker 2: for for the Giants on Wednesday night. And then Wednesday
Speaker 2: we will all be on a flight heading out to
Speaker 2: UH to New York getting ready for Cowboys versus Giants.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a quick tun around until then for
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