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Speaker 1: It is a Tuesday following the bye week. Let's get it.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys were on the practice field yesterday. Usually at
Speaker 1: this point I would go to Rob Phillips for our
Speaker 1: news and our notes. He is not at the moment.
Speaker 1: He is doing more important things. I guess to lead in,
Speaker 1: but I'll start off with how are you guys doing.
Speaker 1: I'm fan Tabuloso. That's a new one. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1: It's new. Got the orange John for for Halloween? Is
Speaker 1: that what that is? You know? What do you guys?
Speaker 1: What do you guys coming as it's for Halloween? Are
Speaker 1: you guys doing anything special? I've got the scariest costume
Speaker 1: out there. Okay, I'm Treyvon Dix and I'm gonna wear
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. I like that. He's
Speaker 1: the scariest thing to opposing quarterbacks right now? Suit you
Speaker 1: do there? Oh good, I'm not actually gonna do that.
Speaker 1: Just by the way, I haven't full on dressed uff
Speaker 1: for Halloween in a very long time. Yeah, yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 1: I haven't committed to Halloween in a long time. Are
Speaker 1: you in though this year? I mean, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: we may or may not have an appearance on a show.
Speaker 1: You know, we might. We may be doing some thinking,
Speaker 1: am I running? There's a lot of shows on Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys that come. There are a ton of them, Okay,
Speaker 1: ton of them. Just gotta stay tuned. Maybe people need
Speaker 1: to watch them all. I kind of like Pokemon. You
Speaker 1: gotta catch them all, you need to watch them all.
Speaker 1: Oh good? You know what I think? I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: brother Man this year. Oh Iman, brother Man this year.
Speaker 1: Like that. Man, I've been. I've been Rome, Rome even. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll Dragonfly Joe. Yeah, I've done my share Martin characters. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh good man, that's that's what get my get money.
Speaker 1: I was Party Bob one time. No Party Bob from
Speaker 1: you were not. When I was playing in Seattle, we
Speaker 1: did with the Halloween party. I think my Markus truth fun.
Speaker 1: I think through a party and we went. I went
Speaker 1: as party Bob from mark If you guys don't know
Speaker 1: who party Bob is, go look up Martin Lawrence and
Speaker 1: then party party Bob looking up on YouTube. That was me.
Speaker 1: I had to hear and in the face jacket, in
Speaker 1: the jeans and the boot. Oh yes, I would have
Speaker 1: paid money to see that. I know that was hilarious. Awesome.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I don't know that character yet, but I
Speaker 1: am going to get a look at it. Please as
Speaker 1: soon as the show is please look at because I
Speaker 1: can just imagine just from your written Yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: The best I've ever looked at it. Well, good, So
Speaker 1: you got brother Man to be determined later or to
Speaker 1: be appeared later. I stay totally the best way to
Speaker 1: say it. I don't know what I'm gonna do. I
Speaker 1: have a party on Saturday that requires a costume, okay,
Speaker 1: and I have no clue what I'm doing, zero idea.
Speaker 1: So we're going to leave that up to someone else
Speaker 1: and then she'll take care of it for you. Larna. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's working, so I'm kind of on my own. Well,
Speaker 1: so you can go to us hot a house, but
Speaker 1: so you can do a hunt of house and she's busy.
Speaker 1: You want to go to a hunted house, you can go.
Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go. All right, we'll do it. Heck,
Speaker 1: what's coming to him? Out Snooper loop? Agree, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at I'm looking at I'm looking at the door for Rob.
Speaker 1: Usually Rob hungry nobody graduate. Rob helped me. Oh CB,
Speaker 1: do you do scary houses? Yeah, I'll do scary houses,
Speaker 1: haunted house. It was delay no, no, no, no. I
Speaker 1: well and here you have to turn down. I know
Speaker 1: that too. Oh goodness. But I will not be in
Speaker 1: town on Saturday. Well, if anybody out there, we're playing
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Bro, I thought you got a private jet.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you know no, I have a private jet
Speaker 1: called American Airlines. This yeah, Rob has a built in excuse.
Speaker 1: Heckment is not. So it'll be us three go into
Speaker 1: the Hounted House and whoever else out there for talking
Speaker 1: Cowboys nation was you'll tell me how I go. Anybody
Speaker 1: in Dallas let us know. Hit us up on Twitter.
Speaker 1: We'll go down Brouse. I'm definite and I'll support you.
Speaker 1: But tell me how I hate it. Anybody who's working
Speaker 1: at Hunting House. I promise you if you touch me,
Speaker 1: I'm swinging. I don't care what liability for my side
Speaker 1: of me. I'm swinging his fair game. Yeah, call in,
Speaker 1: you can take your guys to the hunting hot House's
Speaker 1: call in. We got your number. Boom any suggest you guys,
Speaker 1: please send in your suggestions. Please tweet us your hot
Speaker 1: your haunted house, suggestions that the four of us should go. Yes,
Speaker 1: look at it. As soon as he said, welcome to
Speaker 1: the show, look at that island. But I walk into
Speaker 1: that conversation talking haunted houses were sounds wonderful. We're waiting
Speaker 1: on some tweets to come through it. We're waiting on
Speaker 1: the news and notes segment. It's just set down that right,
Speaker 1: fair enough, So you want to update us on news
Speaker 1: and notes First of all, I just want to say,
Speaker 1: first of all, I'm out on that, just like I'm
Speaker 1: out on it, like I'm out on this competition that's
Speaker 1: never gonna happen. I'm out on both. I told him,
Speaker 1: I said, I'm waiting on you to come through the door.
Speaker 1: I'm basic af man, like, I don't want to do
Speaker 1: any of that crazy Stace. This is Tuesday and roller coasters, Rob,
Speaker 1: I didn't get on a roller coaster till I was
Speaker 1: twenty five. Oh my, and I only did like two
Speaker 1: and was like, I need you to watch the original
Speaker 1: Fast and Furious. I love it. You know I need
Speaker 1: you to watch that. I love that. Do you like
Speaker 1: I live my life a quartermlin, I need you to
Speaker 1: live your life a quarter mile at a time. When
Speaker 1: you turn forty, things change, can't don't you just five?
Speaker 1: You just told me he didn't ride a roller coaster
Speaker 1: until you were twenty five. Yeah, because I'm scared of heights.
Speaker 1: That just opens the door to so many more questions
Speaker 1: falling from heights, both, Rob, you haven't wrote a roller
Speaker 1: coaster till you? Are you serious? Where to God? I
Speaker 1: used to make up excuses not to go with my friends.
Speaker 1: Do you know how to roller skate. Yeah, skateboard, but
Speaker 1: I can do it. Skateboard. You're you're rock climbing, bro,
Speaker 1: never rock climber. Every legs are shaking. I've never tried
Speaker 1: to gone, Hey, the Christmas Life. The thing is Rob's tall.
Speaker 1: Can we table this till later? I mean, we got
Speaker 1: things to talk about. Man, this guy's not a thrill
Speaker 1: secret at all. Oh Man, I don't know about I
Speaker 1: love that. That was. That might have been my first,
Speaker 1: my favorite first eight minutes of this show ever. All right, Rob,
Speaker 1: let's get in. Let's get into talking cowboys. Let's talk cowboys.
Speaker 1: Let's talk cowboys. What happened yesterday? If anybody's still listening, Yeah,
Speaker 1: News and notes for the Cowboys. Jerry Jones went early
Speaker 1: today on the fanom and gave a little bit of
Speaker 1: a Dak update. He said he was very encouraged by
Speaker 1: what Dack did out there yesterday. I don't think they
Speaker 1: had like a full full normal practice, but they did
Speaker 1: a little out there apparently, so that's encouraging. But he said, look,
Speaker 1: I mean I talked about this yesterday. They're going to
Speaker 1: take the whole week and make sure there's nothing that
Speaker 1: he's not responding well too with the calf after practice
Speaker 1: and all that. So they're leaving their options open there,
Speaker 1: but I think they're they're very hopeful he will start
Speaker 1: Sunday and no boot. Yesterday was a big storyline. He
Speaker 1: walked out of the facility to cheer on a team member,
Speaker 1: cheron a staff member doing the workout on the field
Speaker 1: and thus showing that the boot is no longer there
Speaker 1: on that right foot. Yeah, nutritionists on staff was running
Speaker 1: and he was he was encouraging him. Jeron Curse was
Speaker 1: also talking at the time, and I think that kind
Speaker 1: of made a point to kind of slip both feet
Speaker 1: out the door just to kind of show there's no
Speaker 1: boot there. I think maybe he was doing that just
Speaker 1: to kind of show the media like y'all are y'all
Speaker 1: are tripping, like this is gonna be fine. We'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see. But I think they're they're very hopeful. Do
Speaker 1: you think kind of we laid it out yesterday on
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys, so if you want to go back and
Speaker 1: listen to it, you can, But we kind of talked
Speaker 1: about how much are they going to push him in practice?
Speaker 1: Do you think anything has changed in that regard of
Speaker 1: how much he'll be limited throughout the week leading into Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I'm not sure if like Wednesday, they're
Speaker 1: gonna jump him right into full practice. They might, you know,
Speaker 1: it may be kind of like, hey, how's it going,
Speaker 1: how do you feel after individual? How much do you
Speaker 1: want to do, and just kind of go from there.
Speaker 1: Zack Martin talked about how he remember restrained his calfo
Speaker 1: late in the season and he said, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's the exact same injury, but you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: it feels great, sometimes it doesn't. You know, I might
Speaker 1: wake up one day and it's great the next day. No,
Speaker 1: So they really just want to keep it, you know,
Speaker 1: just on a day by day by day by day
Speaker 1: basis quarter mile at a time. Yeah, comparison, Yeah, makes
Speaker 1: that's a good way to put in. Stephen Jones also
Speaker 1: talked on the fan about Lyle Collins. He had some
Speaker 1: interesting things to say about the starting right tackle. And
Speaker 1: I say that starting right tackle with a little bit
Speaker 1: of a question mark around it. What did what did
Speaker 1: Steven Jones say specifically? And what did you take from
Speaker 1: what his remarks were? Um, I would be paraphrasing. I
Speaker 1: think he said something to the effect of, you know,
Speaker 1: they they're really excited he's back. Jerry said the same
Speaker 1: thing this morning. Basically, he has not played a lot
Speaker 1: of football if you go all the way back to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. So they want to get him into practice
Speaker 1: and see how he responds, and you know, I think
Speaker 1: conditioning is a factor there too, and just see where
Speaker 1: he's at. I don't get the sense they're they're willing
Speaker 1: to just take the job from him, but I think
Speaker 1: in the back of their minds they know they have
Speaker 1: options if it's not if it doesn't go how they hope. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't think they have to say that publicly, but
Speaker 1: Terence Steele has played well, so Lyle Collins, you mean
Speaker 1: a lot to us, We're gonna get you back in here.
Speaker 1: But they do have a guy who's shown he can
Speaker 1: step in and play at that position. Is that a possibility, guys,
Speaker 1: because of I mean Lyle Collins, like you just said,
Speaker 1: he hasn't played a whole lot. One game in what's
Speaker 1: twenty one games is what he had played. Now twenty
Speaker 1: two games, I guess one out of twenty two is
Speaker 1: what it would be. That's not a lot of football
Speaker 1: that he's been playing over the last two seasons, going
Speaker 1: back to twenty nineteen, is there a possibility he is
Speaker 1: not the starter on Sunday and maybe just adding a
Speaker 1: layer to that when you talk about options, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think those options have picked, you know, kind of pricked
Speaker 1: their ears a little bit too. The fact that maybe
Speaker 1: right now, especially the way that this whole suspension was
Speaker 1: handled in the controversy involved in it, that they're like,
Speaker 1: they're probably a little pled with him with the way
Speaker 1: that he handled his business off of the field. So
Speaker 1: having still there's maybe just a way to let him
Speaker 1: know as well, oh yeah, we have options and to
Speaker 1: just basically say, look, you gotta get your stuff together.
Speaker 1: And I appreciate that. There's no he didn't lose it
Speaker 1: due to an injury. He lost his position due to
Speaker 1: a suspension, and still has filled in nicely, and so look,
Speaker 1: let's not play around this. We won't layout back. But
Speaker 1: still has done a really good job. And I think
Speaker 1: the way that Dak is getting the ball out of
Speaker 1: his hands has definitely helped his offensive line. And so
Speaker 1: continuing that, knowing that these guys have rhythm with each
Speaker 1: other for the last five games, do you want to
Speaker 1: interrupt that, But I just believe as a player, Leo
Speaker 1: Collins is leaps and bounds better than what we have
Speaker 1: seen with Still. Yeah, I'll just be reiterating what you
Speaker 1: guys have said. Still has done a great job feeling
Speaker 1: in Lyle's obviously that dude, that's why he gets paid
Speaker 1: like that dude. But to you guys the point, he
Speaker 1: hasn't played a lot and so the coaches are not
Speaker 1: going to put somebody who is not in condition yet
Speaker 1: at that position that is fully responsible to the health
Speaker 1: of your quarterback. So if Lyle goes out there, they
Speaker 1: put him on the field and he is not in
Speaker 1: game shape and he gets tired and not to play
Speaker 1: because he's gas because you did not get him in
Speaker 1: enough shape to play in the game. That player goes
Speaker 1: off and he hits Dak and hurts Dak. Who's that fault? Now, Yes, better,
Speaker 1: So they're not going to put him in that position.
Speaker 1: So if he doesn't play, it's because of his conditioning
Speaker 1: or risk an injury to him. That too, that too,
Speaker 1: because the other part of it was Layton training camp.
Speaker 1: He had I think he had multiple stingers. It kind
Speaker 1: of or resurface Layton camp. He didn't practice a lot.
Speaker 1: Then he's got these five games, and he was here
Speaker 1: part of the time, not the whole time. During suspension,
Speaker 1: he was able to do certain things at the building.
Speaker 1: I think it could be as simple as and you
Speaker 1: know what, Sean asked a great Shariff asked a great
Speaker 1: question to Jerry to your point, heck about do you
Speaker 1: trust Is there any problem there with reliability based on
Speaker 1: the suspension? And Jerry said no, I trust him. So
Speaker 1: it may simply just be maybe he doesn't start against Minnesota,
Speaker 1: maybe there's this kind of ramp up period and if
Speaker 1: they like what they see within a week or so,
Speaker 1: maybe it's I don't I forget the next game. We'll
Speaker 1: see yea. They played the Broncos after Minnesota. But kind
Speaker 1: of to your point about what Jerry said, that was
Speaker 1: really kind of what laid it out for me, and
Speaker 1: it goes along with both of what you guys were saying.
Speaker 1: I don't think anything with the suspension is going to
Speaker 1: play into the whole situation with him starting over Terren Steele,
Speaker 1: it's whoever's the best suited right tackle to protect Dak
Speaker 1: Prescin this week. Gotta be the best guy out there
Speaker 1: at this moment. And if it is Terrence Steele, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be seventy eight out there. But for the most part,
Speaker 1: like you said, Lyell Collins is the guy and seventy
Speaker 1: one most likely he's going to be your starter on Sunday.
Speaker 1: So Tyren Smith is Tyren Smith, and you don't worry
Speaker 1: about his matchup. And so every week we've been talking
Speaker 1: about Terren Steele and his matchup and what we're gonna
Speaker 1: do with tight ends to protect him. You're gonna need
Speaker 1: your tight ends a lot in this game to get
Speaker 1: out and coverage because of what they do so well
Speaker 1: for the Vikings at the second level. But he has
Speaker 1: a matchup versu Danil Hunter, and Danil Hunter is as
Speaker 1: a dude and he's known for putting pressure on So
Speaker 1: Terren Steele, he's going up against the bossas he's gone
Speaker 1: all the names he's seen, So Danil Hunter is just
Speaker 1: gonna be another name on that list. And when you
Speaker 1: talk about going what we're gonna do next week, I
Speaker 1: think the Broncos have a guy that's pretty good too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've got that fifty eight m coming up at the
Speaker 1: edge something like that. I've got a couple of guys
Speaker 1: actually in them. Yeah. Seven. Uh do you think there
Speaker 1: will be a rotation then? Based on that because of
Speaker 1: maybe the conditioning from le Collins and then the game
Speaker 1: readiness of Terrence Steel and what he's showing you, there's
Speaker 1: a chance, there's a chance. You see couple plays, a
Speaker 1: couple drives off here. I mean, if I'm the coach,
Speaker 1: I want to get him, get him, you know, a
Speaker 1: quarter of not a half of reps in in preparation
Speaker 1: for next for next game, So maybe as steal the
Speaker 1: first half and in Collins, depending on what bred the
Speaker 1: games at. Hopefully you're up enough where you feel good
Speaker 1: enough to say, okay, Collins ahead and get out there.
Speaker 1: Let's get you to get some reps underneath your legs
Speaker 1: before you take on that Fifda, dude, have you heard
Speaker 1: anything about that? I have not, but I that was
Speaker 1: our mail back question today. I don't think it's on
Speaker 1: the website yet. And maybe I thought maybe it's a
Speaker 1: silly question, like because you don't see offensive lineman rotate,
Speaker 1: you see defensive lineman rotate. Is there is that possible?
Speaker 1: Or is that is there so much chemistry that's needed
Speaker 1: there that you can't really do that? Because the fan
Speaker 1: was asked not only about Steele and Lyell, but maybe
Speaker 1: McGovern rotating in some too, which I think that's a
Speaker 1: lot of pieces to shovel in the course of it.
Speaker 1: I think I think, I think steel and columns are
Speaker 1: interchangeable in that regard. I think you can afford to
Speaker 1: rotate those guys one half in other half in um
Speaker 1: because he's playing next to play. But no, I mean
Speaker 1: not only that, I mean how about how guys those
Speaker 1: guys have played next to each other for a while? Ye, right,
Speaker 1: So I mean there's no lack of communication in that regard.
Speaker 1: It really comes down to conditioning. That's an interesting point
Speaker 1: because you see it at the collegiate level. I mean,
Speaker 1: heckmu and I did a game Saturday where outside of
Speaker 1: the center position, all four other offensive line spots would
Speaker 1: shift from drive to drive. I mean, it wasn't it
Speaker 1: was odd. They played a total of nine offensive lineman
Speaker 1: on a regular rotation. I don't encourage that happening, and
Speaker 1: nor is it fun to watch. But just based off
Speaker 1: of what Mike McCarthy has said, it looks like a
Speaker 1: Keystone Cops every play exactly. Who's this guy who's reporting?
Speaker 1: Based off of Mike McCarthy and what he has said
Speaker 1: about the continuity of the offensive line and having that
Speaker 1: lack of a revolving door and having that communication. I
Speaker 1: don't know if there would be much of a rotation,
Speaker 1: but if there wasn't position to do so, I think
Speaker 1: it would be easy to do it, or easier to
Speaker 1: do it at right tackle. All right, let's step aside.
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Speaker 1: so far and what you think about the upcoming matchup
Speaker 1: against the Minnesota Vikings. We've got Bob from Nashville on
Speaker 1: the line. Bob, thanks for calling again. We're on talking Cowboys. Sure,
Speaker 1: I fell us how you're doing. What's up? Hey? Um? Thanks?
Speaker 1: Great show. Um. Just three things that I wanted to
Speaker 1: run by you guys. I mean, you can answer one question,
Speaker 1: but three things that I really see a concern. And
Speaker 1: I love the way the Boys are playing right now,
Speaker 1: but penalties. I think we're thirty first in the league
Speaker 1: and penalties big plays. And then I'm really still concerned
Speaker 1: about our run defense. And I wanted to see what
Speaker 1: you guys thought about that because I think over the
Speaker 1: next five six games we're gonna be playing some teams
Speaker 1: that if we continue down that road with these three issues,
Speaker 1: I think it's going to buy this in the butt.
Speaker 1: But I just want to see what you guys thought
Speaker 1: about that. Thanks, I'm a good day. Thanks Bob. I
Speaker 1: appreciate your call. Bob with the tough question. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: and I agree on all three of those. I think
Speaker 1: there have been too many penalties. You saw that front
Speaker 1: and center in the first half of the New England game,
Speaker 1: where shooting yourself in the foot was ultimately what made
Speaker 1: that game close. The run defense has it's I think
Speaker 1: it might in the eye test it's been better, but
Speaker 1: rankings wise, it has not been better. And then, of course,
Speaker 1: like you said, the big play, we've known that's been
Speaker 1: an issue. But Rob, what do you think about those three?
Speaker 1: That was actually something we talked about. I brought it
Speaker 1: up at the end of Mick Shots last week was
Speaker 1: run defense and the big plays in the passing game
Speaker 1: are obvious. They got to cut down on those. Joe
Speaker 1: Witt talked a lot about that last week. But I
Speaker 1: wonder if teams are going to try to test the
Speaker 1: Cowboys on the run. The problem is they teams have
Speaker 1: been behind so much, they've been beating up on teams
Speaker 1: and they haven't run the ball. The Patriots made an
Speaker 1: effort on like two separate drives. We're just running right
Speaker 1: at you, and they had some success and I forget
Speaker 1: the number. Heck, I brought it up last week. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys have like one hundred and ninety carries so far,
Speaker 1: opponents are like one twenty something exactly. They haven't been
Speaker 1: tested as much I do. I'm with Kyle. I think
Speaker 1: it's better. But Dalvin Cook's coming, so how do they
Speaker 1: how do they handle that? They did a pretty good
Speaker 1: job on him last year, so we'll see. Unfortunately, Bob,
Speaker 1: you can't be great at everything. And when it comes
Speaker 1: to the big plays, big plays come with playing man
Speaker 1: to man. You play man to man coverage and get
Speaker 1: pressure up front. You're gonna be you know, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be subject to some big plays occasionally, So yes, you
Speaker 1: want to cut that down. But the big plays that
Speaker 1: we give up don't put us at a disadvantage to
Speaker 1: winning the ball games. It sounds real bad, but that's
Speaker 1: the reality of it. So you're gonna give up. You
Speaker 1: give up big plays occasionally to ensure that you play
Speaker 1: man and man coverage majority of the time and keep
Speaker 1: that pressure on you with your front seven um on
Speaker 1: the penalties. That's just guys, got to play smarter, that's guys.
Speaker 1: I gotta put the derener away, stop shooting themselves in
Speaker 1: the foot. And that's just that's just being intentional about
Speaker 1: being you know, fundamentally sound and then doing the things
Speaker 1: that you're supposed to do and not to hurt your team.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, personal fouls, that's holding, that's all
Speaker 1: those things. A lot of that stuff just comes from
Speaker 1: being lazy with your mechanics. Um and then what was
Speaker 1: the last portion. The last portion was the run defense.
Speaker 1: The run defense is, yes, I do agree with you,
Speaker 1: that's something that we have to show up. But to
Speaker 1: Rob's point, you know this particular team, it doesn't kill
Speaker 1: you as long as you're up long as as long
Speaker 1: as you're up, it doesn't kill you. So yes, you
Speaker 1: want to stop it, but you have to kind of
Speaker 1: pick your poison in this league. Do you want to
Speaker 1: stop the run? Do you want to stop the pass?
Speaker 1: If we're a team that's built to stop the pass,
Speaker 1: then we are obviously going to give up some rushing
Speaker 1: yards built by a team rushing against us. Effectively, as
Speaker 1: long as we're ahead, they can't eat away too much
Speaker 1: clock because it's at a disadvantage to them have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to win a ballgame. The rushing yards thing is
Speaker 1: so intriguing to me because they're fifth in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Think you in terms of rushing yards allowed, that's not
Speaker 1: very not bad at all. They've been playing ahead. The
Speaker 1: other side of it is in terms of yards per play,
Speaker 1: they're eighteenth, so the middle of the road in terms
Speaker 1: of yards per play, and that I think it's a
Speaker 1: direct indication that teams are going away from the run
Speaker 1: throughout the course of a game because they're trying to
Speaker 1: play catch up and they're trying to keep pace with
Speaker 1: this offense. But if you're giving up eighty six yards
Speaker 1: per game, and like Rob said, it's not like they've
Speaker 1: been ultra tested at the moment. You had Sequon Barkley
Speaker 1: for a half, you had or not even a half
Speaker 1: at that point, you had Trebba Hubbard, no Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have Dalvin Cook on the horizon. This is
Speaker 1: going to be the best test to this point, I
Speaker 1: think for the run defense. So let's go in the
Speaker 1: Hotel Todd machine back to twenty twenty. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go all right, because right now, if you guys are
Speaker 1: forgotten about the Cleveland game where we gave up three
Speaker 1: hundred yards No, because because I think that we have
Speaker 1: to go to the comparison so that people can keep
Speaker 1: in context where this defense is right now, Hey, the
Speaker 1: first couple of games we were we didn't give up
Speaker 1: a hundred yard rusher, I think, and you guys are
Speaker 1: gonna fact check me on this, but I think the
Speaker 1: first hundred yard rushing we gave up was last week.
Speaker 1: It was okay. So like, I know, we're nitpicking, and
Speaker 1: we want this defense to be you know, eighty five years.
Speaker 1: That's when people pull out when they talk about a
Speaker 1: great defense. But still I think that when you look
Speaker 1: at what the defense did last year and you do
Speaker 1: in a comparison, I think these guys are leaps and
Speaker 1: bounds better than what they were. Yes, Dalvin Cook is
Speaker 1: going to be at Bank of American Stadium waiting on them,
Speaker 1: and he's one of the best in the business. But
Speaker 1: I believe our defensive front and our linebackers, and along
Speaker 1: with your run curse, I think that should help you
Speaker 1: sleep at night knowing that this defense is doing some
Speaker 1: really good things at the front line to stop the run.
Speaker 1: Where I think we definitely have to make a improvement
Speaker 1: is the big plays in the passing game. I think
Speaker 1: with teams are gashing us. And it is true we're
Speaker 1: playing with the lead and they're having to play from behind,
Speaker 1: and maybe that's where those yards are coming from. But
Speaker 1: that's all in all. I think from a rush defensive standpoint,
Speaker 1: we have fixed a lot of the cracks that we
Speaker 1: had no doubt, no doubt. It's definitely better. But Isaiah's
Speaker 1: right too about the big plays, because Trayvon Dix is
Speaker 1: gonna match up, he's gonna play man, and there's been
Speaker 1: times when he's gonna guess and he's gonna take some
Speaker 1: chances and it's it's helped him get turnovers. It will
Speaker 1: also he's gonna give up some plays too, and on
Speaker 1: the other side as well, and some of that is
Speaker 1: due to playing from behind. I'd like to see how
Speaker 1: many times teams have thrown on the Cowboys compared to
Speaker 1: other defenses. I mean, that's that's lopsided too, because they've
Speaker 1: been in some blowout games, So some of the stats
Speaker 1: are skewed. But I think there's definitely room for improvement
Speaker 1: on both sides. You have to look at the story
Speaker 1: that the stats tell you. Can't just look at rank
Speaker 1: can't say that yeah, please don't look at that mean
Speaker 1: because the reality is yes, heck, our running, our running
Speaker 1: defense has improved drastically. However, if we play a game, um,
Speaker 1: say we play Tampa again. Say we just run into
Speaker 1: those guys down the road and we have a close
Speaker 1: game because we were pretty evenly matched, and we get
Speaker 1: into a close, tight knit game, they're gonna run the ball.
Speaker 1: They're gonna run the ball, and we really aren't stopping
Speaker 1: anybody from running the ball. Teams are just simply abandoning
Speaker 1: the run. Yeah. Yeah, So this can come back and
Speaker 1: bite us if we don't sure this up to your point, Bob,
Speaker 1: if we don't tighten this up, when we get in
Speaker 1: a close game against a team that can, that can
Speaker 1: go head to hear what are scoring wise, and it's
Speaker 1: and it's tight end and where it's a one posession game,
Speaker 1: teams will decide, Okay, y'all can't y'all, you guys are
Speaker 1: giving up over four yards are rush We'll just run
Speaker 1: a ball three times straight? No, I and I agree
Speaker 1: with that, and I hope to and I hope to
Speaker 1: see Tampa again because because you know what, we're gonna
Speaker 1: run on them because we did. Yeah, and so that's
Speaker 1: gonna be the difference between seeing them again as hit.
Speaker 1: Let's go by the way out of the top five
Speaker 1: teams just kind of going along with with a band
Speaker 1: or with stopping the run and then giving up the
Speaker 1: big play. Additionally, out of the top five teams and
Speaker 1: run defense so far this year, Tampa Bay, Cleveland, New Orleans, Baltimore, Dallas,
Speaker 1: that's the five. Only one of those are in the
Speaker 1: top twenty in passing defense as well, only one, and
Speaker 1: that's Cleveland. Everybody else in the top five is twenty
Speaker 1: third if you're Tampa Bay, twentieth, if you're New Orleans,
Speaker 1: twenty ninth if you're Baltimore. And Dallas is sitting in
Speaker 1: the twenty eighth in terms of passing yardage allowed. So
Speaker 1: there is a balance. It's always going to be there.
Speaker 1: That balances, and especially like what Rob was saying, if
Speaker 1: teams are abandoning the run throwing more, that's how that
Speaker 1: number is going to skyrocket as well. All right, we've
Speaker 1: got Alex from Arkansas on the line. Alex, how's it going.
Speaker 1: It's all good. It's good. Hell y'all doing man, We're good. Alex.
Speaker 1: What's heavy? Man? I appreciate I appreciate the job you do.
Speaker 1: Rob P. Hagman. Hey, man, I don't even have a
Speaker 1: christ and I'm just gonna be honest with you guys.
Speaker 1: I've been in the valley down in the valley with
Speaker 1: the Cowboys one and fifteen seasons, and I've been to
Speaker 1: the Mountain Top three times in the nineties. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: just excited about the prospect of what we could do
Speaker 1: because as I hit the nail on the head about everything,
Speaker 1: the culture change, the talent, the competition in uh in camp, everything,
Speaker 1: and the only difference in this league that could stop
Speaker 1: our offense is the Cowboys offense. It's all about exce acution.
Speaker 1: It is ridiculous what Killen Moore and Dan Quinn has
Speaker 1: done to this team. Man, I just want to wish
Speaker 1: you all a blessed day. I love the Cowboys and hey, now,
Speaker 1: blessed day in a week. May y'all do a great job.
Speaker 1: We thank you, Okay, you guys. Out of the closest
Speaker 1: thing we could get to get to the Cowboys. And
Speaker 1: I listened to the podcast every day faithfully because I'm
Speaker 1: not able to call him and I need to get
Speaker 1: to work before get in troubles week Cowboys. Here you go, Alex. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the love and the many that's a smart dude.
Speaker 1: That is a smart dude. Man. I love that he
Speaker 1: kind of talks about just the kind of portrays what
Speaker 1: a lot of Cowboys fans are feeling right now, kind
Speaker 1: of portrays all of that. And so that's that's always awesome.
Speaker 1: We love calls like that. All right, Scott from Wyoming
Speaker 1: on the line, Scott, how's he going? You're on talking Cowboys?
Speaker 1: Oh excellent, Good morning, gentlemen, Good morning. I a long
Speaker 1: time fan. And one of the one of the cool
Speaker 1: things this season is watching Dak take command of the team,
Speaker 1: watch Stabok do it and and on. It's it's a
Speaker 1: neat process. H yeah, no doubt. I'm just yeah, Um,
Speaker 1: you guys, I think it was like yesterday, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: talking about you know, trades and stuff like that. You know,
Speaker 1: at the end of every season, we always are at
Speaker 1: the free agents period. We always end up, you know,
Speaker 1: we can't afford a lot of guys. So you know,
Speaker 1: I would I would try to keep as many people
Speaker 1: as they can afford, you know, looking at that and
Speaker 1: all and so um, that's uh, you know, it's that's
Speaker 1: definitely always something to think about. Yeah, those are two
Speaker 1: very good points. I mean, you talk about Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and the way that he is kind of transitioned into
Speaker 1: that leadership standpoint and from a quarterback position, especially at
Speaker 1: at the Cowboys. Thanks for the call, Scott, Especially at
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. You're the face of the franchise, and not
Speaker 1: just a franchise, the franchise in terms of sports and
Speaker 1: American sports and even across the world, you are the
Speaker 1: face of potentially the sport. And so Dak has really
Speaker 1: embraced that, not only with the contract but with his
Speaker 1: play on the field. And I think that's something that
Speaker 1: has definitely been looked at from Cowboys fans. And I'll
Speaker 1: get into the trade talk in a minute, because he
Speaker 1: did bring up an interesting point there, But what do
Speaker 1: you think about what he said about Dak. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would just say to his point, like, it takes a
Speaker 1: certain level of mental toughness to play here and play
Speaker 1: this position here, because there's a lot of great that
Speaker 1: comes with it and there's a lot of criticism that
Speaker 1: comes with it, probably too much on both sides, depending
Speaker 1: on how you how you're doing. So it takes a
Speaker 1: certain guy who's able to handle that all that pressure
Speaker 1: in addition to the physical talents that you have. And
Speaker 1: Dak has that and he showed it just by coming
Speaker 1: back from the injury last year, how mentally tough he is. Ye, No,
Speaker 1: I agree, he did him. I mean, he's he's he's
Speaker 1: the guy. I mean, he's the guy for a reason.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously everybody talks about New York when here
Speaker 1: talking about quarterbacks in the stress of being you know,
Speaker 1: the guy in New York, it's nothing in comparison there
Speaker 1: to hear. It just isn't um, I say, their second fiddle.
Speaker 1: But Dallas has a lot of stress and he handles
Speaker 1: it with grace. So he's he's a great dude for
Speaker 1: that one. Is there another place even close? Maybe if
Speaker 1: you're a fortune one hundred CEO or something like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's the premier job in the in
Speaker 1: the world. Who who wouldn't want to be the quarterback
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys and just the lineage and the
Speaker 1: legacy that comes with being a quarterback here, and I
Speaker 1: think he was born for the pressure that he's faced.
Speaker 1: I don't and I don't know if anyone has ever
Speaker 1: taken it so effortlessly as Dak has. I mean the
Speaker 1: way that he takes on the media, the way that
Speaker 1: you know, when problems happen, when the with the whole
Speaker 1: Him with Romo deal, he just took it with a
Speaker 1: matter of grace and just went about his business the
Speaker 1: right way. And so I can appreciate that, and especially
Speaker 1: when he makes note of the him commanding the offense,
Speaker 1: and I think that's just him being locking step as
Speaker 1: we've mentioned with Kellen Moore and all of those things click,
Speaker 1: and it's just good to see him come back from
Speaker 1: the ankle injury, get the the contract that he has
Speaker 1: and just be the man that he is for this
Speaker 1: team and represented he referenced stallback right off the bat,
Speaker 1: and that's that's the thing. It is the lineage, and
Speaker 1: it's what people expect. And you were here in the
Speaker 1: late oughts. I guess when Tony there was a honeymoon
Speaker 1: period for Tony, like in six and oh seven and
Speaker 1: then oh eight, things didn't go so good and a
Speaker 1: lot of people turn on him, and so that's that's
Speaker 1: part of this job. Yep. You know, I watched him
Speaker 1: boob Troy Aikman, and I still to this day I
Speaker 1: think it was one of the most disrespectful things I've
Speaker 1: ever seen, was was Troy Aikman being booed at home,
Speaker 1: and so it's it's a lot and Troy Troy won
Speaker 1: him three yep. So there's a lot of pressure. What
Speaker 1: was the toughest thing Tony went through while you were
Speaker 1: here that you remember? Is there anything that's stuck out specifically? No?
Speaker 1: I think really just meeting the expectations not only of
Speaker 1: the general public, but the organization and your teammates. I
Speaker 1: mean that those are all three different standards, you know.
Speaker 1: That's that you're trying to meet. This this isn't one
Speaker 1: is not one thing that you just add I have
Speaker 1: come in out have to be this guy and that
Speaker 1: that works for everybody. That's not the case. You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta be you gotta be a leader in the
Speaker 1: locker room, so you guys respect you. You got to
Speaker 1: be resilient on the field, so guys respect you in
Speaker 1: that regard. So you so you can't lead them. UM,
Speaker 1: you have to be a public um, a public figure
Speaker 1: to be able to handle all the responsibilities that that
Speaker 1: the organization places on you. UM. And then you have
Speaker 1: a responsibility just to be just simply a good guy.
Speaker 1: You mean he can't go out in public, right, he can't.
Speaker 1: He can't do normal stuff. Right. So there's a whole
Speaker 1: lot of things. There's certain every every aspect of your
Speaker 1: life is tested and um it's a lot to bear.
Speaker 1: And you know all about that you can't go ahead
Speaker 1: in public? Yeah yeah, they just said they know me
Speaker 1: as heck and a security guard. Yeah you know, you lie.
Speaker 1: It's a quick way to't hide money. Is all right?
Speaker 1: Well we come back. I want to hit the second
Speaker 1: part of of his topic, and that was the trade
Speaker 1: conversation that we had yesterday. Is that an added element
Speaker 1: that we're for getting around the potential to go make
Speaker 1: a trade for a big name player. When we returned
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Speaker 1: got was so uncomfortable, he get not at all. He
Speaker 1: was combos combos. It's that. Hey, I can't see crazy.
Speaker 1: Did you see how fresh he was looking on ESPN
Speaker 1: with the the other days? Yes? I did. Fired. He
Speaker 1: was suit game was his month of Betty. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to learn. I did the tie tie tie
Speaker 1: that you told me. That's why I'm learning. You give
Speaker 1: me something. I thought he did that his though. It
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Speaker 1: it was pretty nice. I like it. I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: it with all my ties from here on out, all right.
Speaker 1: I kind of wanted to go back off of what
Speaker 1: Scott's second question. Second part of his question was on
Speaker 1: the fan call. In the prior segment, he was talking
Speaker 1: about the trade conversation we had earlier. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of free agents available, and we mentioned that in the
Speaker 1: conversation about maybe Michael Gallop and who was a potential
Speaker 1: trade piece. Is that a possibility to shut down trade
Speaker 1: talks because you know, you want to save some of
Speaker 1: that capital later on, and the contracts that you would
Speaker 1: be bringing in would potentially upend any sort of cap
Speaker 1: space that you currently do have to bring anybody back
Speaker 1: next year. Yeah, I'm sure that's a factor because we
Speaker 1: mentioned the guys that are up after this year and
Speaker 1: hex right, I mean the CAP's gonna go up, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna go up substantially. I think it's probably closer
Speaker 1: to what it probably should have been last year. Now
Speaker 1: that you got at tendance back, the revenue for the
Speaker 1: league should definitely go up. But yeah, they got to
Speaker 1: factor that in. You know, there's only so much they
Speaker 1: can budget. Now, maybe maybe you don't care, Maybe you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it's you know, if the situation where you know,
Speaker 1: the NBA they do that as expiring contract, what you're
Speaker 1: going for it, you know, and that's something they could
Speaker 1: keep in the back of their mind. I'm not thinking
Speaker 1: any think specific, but they Jerry said it though yesterday
Speaker 1: they got a lot of guys coming off. I r
Speaker 1: that they're pretty deep in most spots. You know. I
Speaker 1: don't know, is there am I missing a position? His
Speaker 1: face right now, I'm just saying, you're this is as
Speaker 1: close as you've been in a very long time. This
Speaker 1: is as close as you've been. You feel good about it.
Speaker 1: You hope that you can continue pushing the envelope the
Speaker 1: way you in which you are Um, in the success
Speaker 1: that you're having, You're in a very competitive division, very
Speaker 1: competitive vision, not the NFC. We got all our conference?
Speaker 1: Is that the best way? Sorry? Sorry, a very competitive conference. Um,
Speaker 1: you're gonna need everything you got. You're gonna need everything
Speaker 1: you got. There's there's something to being competent with what
Speaker 1: you have. There's also something too, Let's let's let's double
Speaker 1: down on that. Let's add let's let's add to that,
Speaker 1: how about we secure the bag per se um. And
Speaker 1: I think that the Cowboys are in the best position
Speaker 1: to secure the bag. I think there are players out
Speaker 1: there that teams would be willing to deal. We can't
Speaker 1: say names on the show. There's players out there that
Speaker 1: can have a media impact on this team, whether I'm
Speaker 1: speaking specifically on defense that I have positions that I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about, and I think that there's a there's a
Speaker 1: player or two that we can add that would literally say,
Speaker 1: oh crap. When teams face they were all crap. This
Speaker 1: is a problem right, the way that teams feel about
Speaker 1: us on offense right now, right, you're not that feeling
Speaker 1: when we step out there when we have gall up
Speaker 1: and everybody out there, there's like, oh, we can't stop it.
Speaker 1: Right at this point, we're playing ben, but don't break
Speaker 1: because we just can't stop these guys. That's the offense
Speaker 1: we have. That's offense that Kansas City had prior to
Speaker 1: these first seven games, right, um, And that that fear
Speaker 1: that teams have. You want that same fear when they
Speaker 1: have the ball on offense. You want that same fear.
Speaker 1: And I think we're in a position to to have that.
Speaker 1: We have very competitive, flying or fast defense. These guys
Speaker 1: are doing so much better than what we've had. We
Speaker 1: have an ability for our defense, our whole defense, not
Speaker 1: just one player, our entire defense to be feared. And
Speaker 1: I think I would, if I was a gym, capitalize
Speaker 1: on this opportunity. And I love everything that you guys
Speaker 1: just said. And when I think about where we are
Speaker 1: right now, the saying success leads clues, failure obviously speaks louder.
Speaker 1: And you don't see teams that have been successful over
Speaker 1: the long period of time making those last minute try.
Speaker 1: I have never seen New England do such a thing.
Speaker 1: And you may have more insight on that than I do,
Speaker 1: because I just don't remember them ever saying mid season,
Speaker 1: make this trade for this guy when you have a
Speaker 1: when you have when Stephen Jones and Will McClay have
Speaker 1: done that wonderful job of building the roster, and right now,
Speaker 1: even when you search around the league, you may have
Speaker 1: exactly what you think you're missing on your team. Still
Speaker 1: haven't seen Kelvin Joseph all right, and again real time action,
Speaker 1: we hadn't seen him. But he may be the piece
Speaker 1: that you're talking about of having that dominant dB on
Speaker 1: the other side of Trey Von. This we just don't know.
Speaker 1: It's the great unknown, all right. We still haven't got
Speaker 1: tanked back. So if we have Tank in that same
Speaker 1: rotation with our defensive lineup, that changes the way that
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are having to get back there and look because
Speaker 1: hey boy, ninety is coming and ninety four is coming
Speaker 1: and you have Michael barreling down on you as well.
Speaker 1: So again, I just feel as though from a team aspect,
Speaker 1: this team has been built up the right way. And
Speaker 1: if you feel like you're close to getting your your
Speaker 1: team is built up so well and you're getting close
Speaker 1: to say, hey man, we are we should legitimate super
Speaker 1: Bowl contenders. That's because your front office has done everything
Speaker 1: the right way blue drafting. So I mean I don't
Speaker 1: disagree that if you have an opportunity to go out there,
Speaker 1: because of the equity that you have and all everything
Speaker 1: that you alluded to yesterday, why not do it if
Speaker 1: you can, if you can, if you can do it.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like this team is right right
Speaker 1: now and everything that you may be missing may be
Speaker 1: on ir and ready to come back. The only I
Speaker 1: guess instances I can think of of having the top
Speaker 1: end teams going to the Super Bowl the last couple
Speaker 1: of years making trades to try and make it happen,
Speaker 1: because you're right, it doesn't happen a lot. Kansas City
Speaker 1: hasn't done it in each of the last two years,
Speaker 1: at least made a deadline esque type deal. Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: made a decent one yes or last year, traded a
Speaker 1: sixth round pick to the Jets for Steve mcclindon, that
Speaker 1: nose tackle who actually played a decent role in their run.
Speaker 1: That the rest of what they did was basically signing
Speaker 1: It was not even off season, but just Antonio Brown here,
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette there. I mean, they made some of those
Speaker 1: moves throughout the year that kind of got him to
Speaker 1: that point. But you're right, doesn't happen a whole lot.
Speaker 1: It's not like baseball where you see guys just going
Speaker 1: out and trading everybody at the deadline and emptying the
Speaker 1: farm system, emptying their depth to try and go get
Speaker 1: a guy. It doesn't happen as much in the NFL,
Speaker 1: but the Cowboys have seen it happen to their success
Speaker 1: in the past, So Cowboys fans are certainly going to
Speaker 1: rely on that. When they've done it, it's kind of
Speaker 1: been out of desperation, like they've made in season trades,
Speaker 1: but it was, you know, they they were struggling on defense.
Speaker 1: They get Michael Bennett, they don't have a number one
Speaker 1: wide receiver, so they go get Amari Cooper. H Romo
Speaker 1: gets hurt, so they get Matt Castle so and that
Speaker 1: didn't work out. But I'm just saying, like they haven't.
Speaker 1: They haven't done that to your point, it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: they shouldn't. If something comes up that that that fits on,
Speaker 1: you know, would you guys, okay, so make a move
Speaker 1: or sit still? Go sit still? I'm making a move.
Speaker 1: Sit still. I think I would sit still as well.
Speaker 1: I like it, though it depends on what's out there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna take it. If there's a position,
Speaker 1: I'm going to take it. If you tell me there
Speaker 1: is a Pro Bowl corner and a Pro Bowl defense.
Speaker 1: That's what he's talking. That's exactly what he's talking. And
Speaker 1: you can get him for nothing. I'm not saying nothing.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm saying I'm saying nothing. I'm saying, what what
Speaker 1: are you going after this year? Super Bowl? Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? Sure you have it. So let's let's talk
Speaker 1: about the cornerback position. Right. We have to have two
Speaker 1: cornerbacks that we're paying ten million dollars to collectively. Right,
Speaker 1: we have another cornerback. We have another couple of cornerbacks
Speaker 1: that we drafted. Right, they are gonna be waiting in
Speaker 1: the wings. Right, So those guys, the reality is those
Speaker 1: guys aren't ready, Right, one of them isn't ready. One
Speaker 1: of them we don't know yet. Um, so those guys
Speaker 1: aren't ready to make a huge impact on this team
Speaker 1: this year for this year's run. Right, they're there. They
Speaker 1: can add to what you got, but more sol and
Speaker 1: special teams and all that. If you have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to go, get you a complete dog and put him
Speaker 1: across from them from Diggs you're saying that you wouldn't
Speaker 1: do that for one year, but I would. But I
Speaker 1: don't want to give up a ton to get him. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the time. I'm not saying the time,
Speaker 1: but we have excess that we're not going to be
Speaker 1: able to retain all of No I and I've and
Speaker 1: I've even said that I agree with you to that
Speaker 1: degree that because of what you have and you're so
Speaker 1: you have so much depth and positions, it would behoove
Speaker 1: you if you if that's there for you to take
Speaker 1: advantage of it. I'm just saying that right now, Hell,
Speaker 1: you got everything. It feels good. It feel good. You
Speaker 1: know what I like to I like to know even
Speaker 1: though I got a half ten game and I got
Speaker 1: three quarters of a ten, if I'm about to hit
Speaker 1: a road trade, guess where I'm going. I'm going to
Speaker 1: the gas station. First gas station, but I'm wanted to gas.
Speaker 1: I know I can get there on three quarters, But
Speaker 1: guess what if I can go on four tank? Why not?
Speaker 1: Says the man with an electric car. Oh, that's a
Speaker 1: great play. That's it for us here, I'm talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: for Chris being Rob Phillips, Isaiah standback. Heck my Harrison.
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yelmons. We'll see you tomorrow nine an thanks
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