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Speaker 2: Cowboys Talk today. Plenty to talk about going into week.
Speaker 2: It's six crazy that we're already a month and a
Speaker 2: half into this.
Speaker 1: I don't like it.
Speaker 4: You don't like it.
Speaker 1: I like it, but I don't like it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fine, we're in it.
Speaker 1: But then like it just means that we're getting closer
Speaker 1: to the end.
Speaker 6: We're in the thick of it. I mean, who knows
Speaker 6: who knows in the thick of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, time is flying, man, Bye week is next week.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 8: That is wild seven so seven verses eight, it's still
Speaker 8: mid season four.
Speaker 4: Les, I mean after this we are a third of away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, third.
Speaker 9: That and the third man.
Speaker 2: It's making its way maybes, but we've got QB vision
Speaker 2: today is I say, it's going to break down what
Speaker 2: we see on the Lions defensive side of things, and
Speaker 2: if there's any.
Speaker 4: Sort of susceptible opportunity a little bit of a Florida
Speaker 4: uh well, a little bit of lights.
Speaker 2: Going out first, but second now, yeah, that's speaking of
Speaker 2: for all those that are down in Florida.
Speaker 4: I hope he stayed safe for tonight. It looked rough.
Speaker 1: It really did look rough, But I'm glad that it
Speaker 1: eased up.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, no disrespect to
Speaker 8: you know, people who are you know, faced hard times
Speaker 8: in regards to this storm and people who have lost ones,
Speaker 8: but it could have been substantially worse. Right, I think
Speaker 8: it eased up to a to a three or two
Speaker 8: got grated last night. Yeah that's good man, because I
Speaker 8: was when it was at that five. I'm like, that's
Speaker 8: that's catastrophic. Yeah, it's I mean, it's a beast situation
Speaker 8: oi the way, because with with the hurricane comes the flooding,
Speaker 8: which does the most damage.
Speaker 1: And then I saw fifteen feet of storm feet of
Speaker 1: storm surgeon.
Speaker 8: I saw a couple of people, a couple of my
Speaker 8: followers send me some video of like multiple tornadoes like that,
Speaker 8: twisters and things like that, like touching down simultaneously. So
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously some some catastrophic catastrophic damage has still
Speaker 8: been occurring in Florida. But Isaiah's point, thankful, it wasn't
Speaker 8: the category five that made landfall that everyone was afraid of.
Speaker 8: So hopefully everyone's staying safe and hopefully everyone is okay.
Speaker 2: And just know you're in our thoughts and pray, you know,
Speaker 2: and we're thinking about you here. And we had two
Speaker 2: of our three callers on talking Tuesday.
Speaker 1: We're from Florida and from in the.
Speaker 6: Middle of the path of the storm listening to the
Speaker 6: podcast while they're dealing with.
Speaker 1: You guys, see that, Lieutenant, I say, go check on Lieutenant. Dan.
Speaker 8: Dude was like in a little like a little single
Speaker 8: person boat. This boat twenty Yeah, it's twenty foot boat.
Speaker 1: Bro. This dude's in there.
Speaker 8: He's like, I'm writing it out and like he did
Speaker 8: like a whole Did you see the stream that he did.
Speaker 8: He did a stream with live stream, did a live
Speaker 8: stream from the boat with some popular you know streamer. Yeah,
Speaker 8: and they're like gifting him like one hundred thousand dollars
Speaker 8: boat because he made it through.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's cool, he said.
Speaker 10: He said he wanted to keep the boat because that's
Speaker 10: the only thing he had. He's been living on the
Speaker 10: street and finally got this boat and he's always been
Speaker 10: living on his boat, and that's the only thing you had.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna, wow, take it out.
Speaker 10: This is the mayor went out there, told him to hey, man,
Speaker 10: we got we got shelter for you, and he's like, no, man,
Speaker 10: I'm staying with.
Speaker 11: My boat life stories.
Speaker 4: Gosh, crazy stuff.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to check it out.
Speaker 2: I had an opportunity to do so. And thoughts and
Speaker 2: prayers to all those out in Florida. All Right, news
Speaker 2: and notes, yesterday we had a very interesting injury.
Speaker 8: We did you want the bad news or the good
Speaker 8: news versus give me the bad knock it out?
Speaker 1: Take the bad news.
Speaker 8: Bad news is as the cowboys are dealing with issues
Speaker 8: with their defensive line depth, specifically defensive end. They might
Speaker 8: be dealing with some issues with the linebacker depth as
Speaker 8: well this week. Eric Kendricks did not participate in Wednesday's practice.
Speaker 8: He's two separate injuries a calf and a shoulder going
Speaker 8: into this matchup against the Lions, and.
Speaker 4: Those aren't connected, right like the side of things.
Speaker 1: Connected to the is it opposing? Good question?
Speaker 8: Good question doesn't specify, But I'm going to ask that
Speaker 8: today because I want to know that's that Tilton, all right?
Speaker 8: So Eric Kendricks, that is absolutely something to keep an
Speaker 8: eye on. And Nick Vigil, which is the backup green
Speaker 8: dot for Eric Kendricks, he also did not participate yesterday.
Speaker 8: He's dealing with a foot injury. And yesterday was a
Speaker 8: limited practice overall because the Cowboys got in later than
Speaker 8: usual because of the rain delay in Pittsburgh. Today, being Thursday,
Speaker 8: is going to be a full blown heavy shell practice
Speaker 8: two hours, so we'll see what the report looks like
Speaker 8: after that. Marquise Bell he did not participate, but it
Speaker 8: was with an illness, so presumably he'll be fined as
Speaker 8: long as the illness passes in time. We've seen those
Speaker 8: can kind of drag out as well, but for the
Speaker 8: most part, everyone else participated like they should have. Kaitlyn
Speaker 8: Carson was a full participant with that shoulder injury for
Speaker 8: the first time since suffering that shoulder injury against the Ravens,
Speaker 8: So that's good news. And Doran Bland what everybody's waiting on.
Speaker 8: Doran Bland was a full participant. Interesting, and yesterday's practice
Speaker 8: his twenty one day practice window has been activated. They
Speaker 8: have until October thirtieth to make a decision on him,
Speaker 8: but at this rate it'll be way before then when he.
Speaker 1: Gets back on the field. Talk to Jordan Lewis yesterday
Speaker 1: in the locker room.
Speaker 8: Didn't get a chance to talk to Doroan He he
Speaker 8: was going to do something before we had a chance
Speaker 8: to get in there. But Jordan Lewis basically just could
Speaker 8: not be more excited for the possibility of maybe as
Speaker 8: early as this weekend, getting Jordan Lewis, Trayvon Diggs and
Speaker 8: Deron Bland on the field at the same time.
Speaker 9: Dag you what we're gonna need him.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So Doron Bland is trending rapidly. It's good toward
Speaker 8: his return.
Speaker 3: It's interesting you gave.
Speaker 2: That hypothetical yesterday, how would it make you feel if
Speaker 2: he was a full participant. You just kind of threw
Speaker 2: it out there, and sure enough.
Speaker 1: That's what happened.
Speaker 4: And honestly, that was just hypothetical.
Speaker 6: I genuinely was like, Okay, if that twenty one day
Speaker 6: practice was opens starting tomorrow and it's he goes for
Speaker 6: the full practice, what do we think? Uh to me
Speaker 6: that it indicates obviously trended stores you're gonna see him
Speaker 6: on the field on Sunday, which was very exciting.
Speaker 8: Joe and Lewis said that he being Deron Bland, almost
Speaker 8: had an interception in his first team for.
Speaker 1: The first time, like Luda in Old one. I like that.
Speaker 2: Now my question to you, you talked about it being
Speaker 2: a limited practice, right, a limited sense of practicing. Does
Speaker 2: that change today as they go into a further ramp up.
Speaker 2: If that's the case, do you expect a limited tag
Speaker 2: on a lot of these guys that were full participants
Speaker 2: because it was limited, Like, hey, let's put you out there,
Speaker 2: We're not doing a whole lot, We're going to categorize
Speaker 2: you as full.
Speaker 1: So if there's a step back.
Speaker 2: Today from guys like Bland and guys like Diggs and
Speaker 2: guys like Carson.
Speaker 4: Is that something to worry about?
Speaker 1: I that's an excellent point.
Speaker 8: I wouldn't expe fact that a guy like Trayvon Diggs
Speaker 8: would be downgraded from full limited.
Speaker 1: I could see Carson.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I could see a guy like Kayln Carson being
Speaker 8: downgraded to limited because of the added workload from Wednesday's
Speaker 8: practice to a full blown Thursday's practice. And then speaking
Speaker 8: with Kayln yesterday, he said in the locker room, he said,
Speaker 8: he is feeling better, but he's working to get his
Speaker 8: full range of motion back. So to that point, there
Speaker 8: is a likelihood that Kayln Carson will be limited today.
Speaker 8: But don't view that as a setback for all intents
Speaker 8: and purposes. Just view it as a ramping up with
Speaker 8: the workload versus if he's staying on this same even
Speaker 8: keel as yesterday. Technically contextually, like Kyle is saying, it
Speaker 8: makes him limited today whereas it made him full yesterday.
Speaker 6: Do you think they're considering the optics of that though?
Speaker 6: If they do end up being limited at the end
Speaker 6: of the day today, are they thinking we're outwardsly looking
Speaker 6: in If they're limited and they were full yesterday, does
Speaker 6: that mean like, Okay, they.
Speaker 1: Brought it back too soon?
Speaker 9: What do we doing?
Speaker 6: Like, do you think they consider the optics or are
Speaker 6: they just dealing with it as.
Speaker 1: They care about it up?
Speaker 2: If anything, they may use the optics to their advantationship
Speaker 2: because Detroit gets the same injury report that we do,
Speaker 2: and you get the same injury report that that the
Speaker 2: Lions send out. So if you're the Lions, you're looking like, wow,
Speaker 2: Doron blaying back full participant up. Never mind he was limited.
Speaker 2: Maybe they were just doing some small stuff. So if anything, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think the competitiveship gives an opportunity there and interesting
Speaker 2: we'll see.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but I can promise you that the medical staff
Speaker 8: doesn't care about optics. They care if the player is
Speaker 8: cleared ready or transitioning. Yeah, and then work with the
Speaker 8: coaching staff and what are their reps.
Speaker 1: That's how it goes.
Speaker 2: How big of a win is that for the defense
Speaker 2: if Deron Bland is back out there, even for limited
Speaker 2: snaps we talked about fifteen snaps, twenty snaps.
Speaker 4: However, it may be going into the weekends huge.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have your starting lineup out there in
Speaker 1: terms of your defensive backs.
Speaker 4: That's which never happens.
Speaker 8: It hasn't happened here much at all. Actually, we've been
Speaker 8: waiting on blanding digs that play together and when those
Speaker 8: guys are not together and Jay Lou is down and
Speaker 8: Jay Lou's down, those me so you know, we need
Speaker 8: to trifecta. So we're finally gonna get the trifecta. But
Speaker 8: you still won't have the full the full gravity of
Speaker 8: what this defense capable of because the pressures probably won't
Speaker 8: be there to help those guys in their coverage.
Speaker 6: Of course, there's how many pick sixes can we get
Speaker 6: on fifteen snaps?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean? Yeah, you know I mean
Speaker 4: fifteen fifteen.
Speaker 1: Let's go for that.
Speaker 2: This it sounds like a good idea now you brought
Speaker 2: up the point there. They've always had Michael Parsons in
Speaker 2: front of him as a trio. Anyways, in the small
Speaker 2: snaps or even limited snaps that they've had together, they've
Speaker 2: always had Michael Parsons or.
Speaker 4: DeMarcus Lawrence in front of them. They do not have
Speaker 4: those guys.
Speaker 2: Nope, going into the week and there's no update on
Speaker 2: Micah right like he's.
Speaker 1: He didn't present. You're still missing your top four d
Speaker 1: he's not looking good for the top four.
Speaker 4: Marshawn six.
Speaker 2: If we go back to last those two previous guys yeah,
Speaker 2: and then the two guys from last year.
Speaker 1: Too well, then the six rough Yeah that's right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so now you.
Speaker 2: Have significantly do you think that that, Yes, they won't
Speaker 2: play as well as a unit and it may not
Speaker 2: look as clean from their standpoint.
Speaker 8: Quarterback has more time, receivers have more time to get open.
Speaker 8: It will have a negative impact, most likely on your
Speaker 8: defensive backs ability to cover.
Speaker 4: So what should the expectation.
Speaker 8: Be for them to get their feet underneath them? I mean,
Speaker 8: Jay Lou's playing well. Diggs has been pretty quiet. I
Speaker 8: haven't paid much attention to Diggs, and obviously we usually
Speaker 8: talk about him in regards to clamp down corner. I
Speaker 8: need to go back and watch more film on him
Speaker 8: to see exactly how he's doing.
Speaker 2: But he's has been throwing away from Diggs.
Speaker 9: They run at him, They run at him.
Speaker 1: For a bit of a ride on that one tackle
Speaker 1: against the Steelers.
Speaker 8: He's been playing so yeah, I mean, so Diggs, Diggs
Speaker 8: and jaylu are doing their things. So now you just
Speaker 8: want to get you want to get bland and you
Speaker 8: know what Bland is capable of. But you know, let's
Speaker 8: let's have some some low expectations for somebody coming off
Speaker 8: of a foot injury, right Like, let's get him, let's
Speaker 8: get him in there, let's see what he looks like,
Speaker 8: and hopefully he's what we remember him being. And if
Speaker 8: that's the case, and you have a solid three out
Speaker 8: there that can play against the solid core of receivers
Speaker 8: that you're about to face, and then you need your
Speaker 8: safety to be able to obviously help.
Speaker 6: Over the top, and hopefully that leads to coverage sacks,
Speaker 6: coverage pressure, right.
Speaker 8: Yes, absolutely, yes, So from that standpoint, yes, you not
Speaker 8: what we're what we're referring to. Okay, for those that
Speaker 8: are listening, Okay, these I'm not saying that their defensive
Speaker 8: backs can't cover, correct, I'm saying that our defensive backs
Speaker 8: are more effective with their coverage ability when they have pressure.
Speaker 1: That's that's any defensive that's any dbs.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 1: It's the reason why the Seattle, the Seattle Legion of Boom.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the Legion of Boom and the Seahawks were so
Speaker 8: good back in the day because they have pressure.
Speaker 4: Jets are good right now in their defense, right.
Speaker 1: So I mean it goes hand in hand.
Speaker 8: So it doesn't mean because you don't have those guys
Speaker 8: listening to pressure up front, that you no longer have
Speaker 8: the ability to cover. It just means that the quarterback
Speaker 8: has more time, right, So you have to cover longer, right.
Speaker 8: And if you have to cover longer, then obviously you
Speaker 8: have a greater chance of getting tired and they have
Speaker 8: more chance to get open. It's like an extended play, right,
Speaker 8: So it has a negative negative correlation in that regard.
Speaker 8: But these guys can still cover. So I'm looking forward
Speaker 8: to seeing those three together because this receivering core is solid.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, we talked about it yesterday. We
Speaker 8: talked about Jamison Williams, Jameson Williams, we talked about maras
Speaker 8: A Brown. You know, they got some dudes, right, So,
Speaker 8: Tim Patrick, that's a solid three receivers. You need solid
Speaker 8: three defensive backs, and then you need some safeties that
Speaker 8: can come down there and take care of those tight ends.
Speaker 8: And we have that. So it's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 8: be fun to see that unit looking forward, seeing what
Speaker 8: happens at the linebacker side of thing. Damon Clark, he's
Speaker 8: he's obviously just been a special teams player up to
Speaker 8: this part of the year. I'm looking forward to him
Speaker 8: possibly have an opportunity to get in there proove this week. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean so, I mean you talk about somebody who's
Speaker 8: had their opportunity, who thought they were going to be
Speaker 8: a more intricate part of this this defense, and that
Speaker 8: pretty that rug pool kind of happened to them when
Speaker 8: these new these new faces showed up in the locker room.
Speaker 8: Injuries usually provide opportunities. So if Kendricks is unable to go,
Speaker 8: you're gonna see a lot of eighteen in there. And
Speaker 8: I'm pretty sure when you have that one opportunity, you
Speaker 8: don't want to miss it.
Speaker 1: So you got one shot.
Speaker 8: One thing that we've we've been seeing with the Cowboys.
Speaker 8: It's one thing we've been seeing with the Cowboys is
Speaker 8: that guys are taking advantage of the opportunities that they
Speaker 8: otherwise may not have without injury. I mean, look at
Speaker 8: what Jalen Tobert did, look at what Chauncey Ghost and
Speaker 8: Tyrs Weed, Carl Lost and TJ Bess last week.
Speaker 1: Limited opportunities like really.
Speaker 8: Take huge Absolutely, he's he I mean that needs to
Speaker 8: be talked about more. I can't pronounce his name.
Speaker 9: O Yo, understand, give respect.
Speaker 8: We we've really done it a few times this week
Speaker 8: in terms of the front office, right and Will McLay
Speaker 8: and the whole scouting department. The job they do of
Speaker 8: going and getting guys. When they pulled him on the roster,
Speaker 8: nobody knew who the heck you was. Let's call it
Speaker 8: what it is, respect. I didn't know what. I didn't
Speaker 8: know his body at work, I didn't I don't know
Speaker 8: him right, So why we had to work to pronounce it? Yeah,
Speaker 8: and I'm still right. But but what I'm gonna say
Speaker 8: thenate Newton Nutch approject. I'm just gonna give initials. But
Speaker 8: the fact that he showed up, you know, booth booth
Speaker 8: is still to me right now. But Ao showed up
Speaker 8: in a major way. And having a contributor like that
Speaker 8: that you know can come in when called upon, when
Speaker 8: they didn't have a body of work within your even
Speaker 8: your training camp. They want a training camp. They' when
Speaker 8: the ots and then that stuff, and they show up
Speaker 8: and started making plays for you. When your depth chart
Speaker 8: is down. Now you look at it, you have four
Speaker 8: guys the team want to go, four wives, and so
Speaker 8: we got a fourth guy that we trust, you know,
Speaker 8: so like and that was somebody that that's an You
Speaker 8: ever had a contribution that you just didn't expect, you
Speaker 8: know what I mean, Like something added to your budget.
Speaker 4: Like, oh dude, I had one recently. Yeah, the same
Speaker 4: thing tax return there.
Speaker 2: I like was expecting like taxes, like like paying taxes.
Speaker 2: I was like, so not looking forward. But it's a
Speaker 2: huge game changer. The amount of diapers in formula. I'm
Speaker 2: buying all now. It's like, so you did that, you.
Speaker 1: Got the extra checking this like I was. I was
Speaker 1: planning to be okay without it. But since I have, yeah,
Speaker 1: all welcome.
Speaker 4: In your pocket, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But look what that does for the defense though.
Speaker 8: For the defense, I mean you go out there and
Speaker 8: dye in personnel now and feel confident no matter.
Speaker 1: Who linees up out there, bring your best ward receivers.
Speaker 8: I don't care. We're solid. Instead of being like, okay,
Speaker 8: I'm feel good about our three. This fourth one, we
Speaker 8: got to protect him a little bit. Maybe we got
Speaker 8: to play a little bit safer. You don't have to
Speaker 8: do that now because you're confident, right, I'm not saying
Speaker 8: that he's a.
Speaker 4: World playing with house money and house money.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's a good analogy.
Speaker 4: Not that we're gambling people on talking.
Speaker 8: Unless you guys want to embrace me or something that's
Speaker 8: probably not good in my advantage right now, this hamstring.
Speaker 2: The only thing you can win at is a ball game,
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've already established this. Now I want to take firstran.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the second part of it. Isaiah posted the
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Speaker 4: I'm shocked I voted.
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Speaker 2: Well, of course today is our Cowboys offense versus the
Speaker 2: Detroit Lions defensive preview. This is a Lion's defense that
Speaker 2: has given up some points and some passing yards. Isaiah,
Speaker 2: and I want you to outline how the Cowboys can
Speaker 2: dice apart the Detroit defense in some.
Speaker 1: M wait for m why.
Speaker 5: It's time for QB vision with Isaiah's standback.
Speaker 1: It's good forms though. Thanks Hi, guys, get your pants
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Speaker 1: are good? We're good, good man, let's talk about it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about the cowboys.
Speaker 4: Still look like you at the fair, just.
Speaker 8: Shaking hands after the high probability of that happening, because
Speaker 8: these guys are not very good.
Speaker 9: WHA sorry, call it.
Speaker 4: Like you sees them.
Speaker 1: There we go. I'm sorry. I mean, I'm just calling
Speaker 1: how I see it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm unimpressed by this, my ex teammate, you know,
Speaker 8: I'm saying there in Gland's lead defense.
Speaker 16: A G.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a G. You're a great dude.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure what's going on with their defense right now.
Speaker 8: But again to the point of their defensive backs to
Speaker 8: start back there, unimpressed there.
Speaker 1: These guys their physical they're they're feisty.
Speaker 8: They embody the personality not only of AG but they
Speaker 8: embodied Dan Campbell obviously, so they're they're fighters, right, They're scrappy,
Speaker 8: they're gonna get up in your face a little bit.
Speaker 8: But they're gonna hold and they're gonna be talking, and
Speaker 8: they're gonna be undisciplined, and they're gonna want to be heroes.
Speaker 8: We talk about playing hero ball. They do that often
Speaker 8: if they have a responsibility at they're a zone that
Speaker 8: they're responsible for, they say, screw that right, I'm in
Speaker 8: the middle of an argument with this dude. We're beefing,
Speaker 8: so I'm locking him up wherever he goes. And by
Speaker 8: doing that, playing that hero ball, playing selfish ball, they
Speaker 8: leave their teammates out to dry. So there are a
Speaker 8: lot of opportunities within their defensive scheme. They mix up
Speaker 8: their coverages. They're not a primary one or primary two.
Speaker 8: I mean stats might say differently, but as I watched
Speaker 8: the film, is really based upon what personnel you're coming
Speaker 8: out in. So for like Dallas, Dallas likes to be
Speaker 8: an eleven personnel. They want to be single high. They
Speaker 8: want to be single high. These guys run the cover three.
Speaker 8: They'll run man in their man coverage. Their communication is
Speaker 8: trash like pepulate pew. If you guys want to go
Speaker 8: back and look at the Seattle game, Seattle ran.
Speaker 9: A lot of.
Speaker 8: Seattle ran a lot of crossing routes because of because
Speaker 8: of the fact that Detroit was trying to play man
Speaker 8: to man defense on them. Seattle obviously has a plethora
Speaker 8: of receivers, so they were pretty much like catch me
Speaker 8: if you can type of deal. They they want to
Speaker 8: play aggressive, their defensive backs want to undercut. They want
Speaker 8: to go out there and get the interception. So being
Speaker 8: that that's the case, double moves are right there for
Speaker 8: the taking. You can get these guys on slug gos,
Speaker 8: hitching goals, over and ups, you know, post corners, you
Speaker 8: can get them on anything that's gonna get these guys
Speaker 8: going in one direction, no, no dance moves and then
Speaker 8: take it to the corner.
Speaker 1: Wow, take it to the brig.
Speaker 8: So yeah, so their dbs can be exposed, their secondary
Speaker 8: can definitely be exposed. The seams, especially when these guys
Speaker 8: are playing.
Speaker 9: Is that good the seam throw?
Speaker 8: That's very good at the seams. So there's gonna be
Speaker 8: a lot of opportunities for splash.
Speaker 4: Does he have a wide receiver or a tight end maybe?
Speaker 6: Yeah, running down he always throws a perfect seam to
Speaker 6: and you know, and CD.
Speaker 8: I think this is a game where CD can really
Speaker 8: go off in the in the slot right, So I'm
Speaker 8: talking about lining up CD LAMB and a short split,
Speaker 8: meaning are around the numbers, maybe motioning out a duce
Speaker 8: vawn if he can be active, or we go now
Speaker 8: that he's shown the ability to catch the ball down
Speaker 8: the field. If you can motion these guys out, there's
Speaker 8: some some alignments, some coverage.
Speaker 2: Deck just real quick off of that. Does it worry
Speaker 2: you the fact that Duce Vaughan was not active, it
Speaker 2: does work. I don't like it, Yeah, I don't like it.
Speaker 2: Now they were able to be effective on the ground
Speaker 2: a lot of that because of Rico doubtle and what
Speaker 2: he was able.
Speaker 1: For sure, and Rico proved that he can catch the
Speaker 1: ball right. Yeah, I like I like. I like Douce though.
Speaker 8: I like what it provides in terms of a change
Speaker 8: of pace. So I would like to see him be
Speaker 8: utilized more because I think he gives this offense more versatility.
Speaker 8: I think this is a game where he can be
Speaker 8: highlighted because I think he could create to match up
Speaker 8: Nightmare for their overly aggressive linebackers if they do want
Speaker 8: to match up in their second level. Linebackers are very aggressive,
Speaker 8: very fast. They want to come hit you in the mouth.
Speaker 8: This is a physical team, no, no doubt about it.
Speaker 8: Forty six Jack Campbell, Solid, Alex Azolon. I like him
Speaker 8: a lot. He's number thirty four. He is a wild man.
Speaker 8: He's the dude with the hair hanging out his helmet.
Speaker 8: You've always liked him.
Speaker 1: I've always liked him.
Speaker 9: He's a very Campbell esque.
Speaker 1: I like him, like he reminds me.
Speaker 8: Of like the Van Ginko Kat who now plays for Minnesota.
Speaker 8: I like those guys remind me of each other. Just
Speaker 8: you know, balls of the wall, just NonStop. They're not
Speaker 8: going to stop. They're relentless in their pursuit. Yeah, high
Speaker 8: motor guys, right, they don't turn it off. So that's
Speaker 8: how their whole defense plays. But their secondary is just
Speaker 8: not disciplined. So take advantage of that. CD can go off.
Speaker 8: Like I said, get him in the slot to take
Speaker 8: advantage of those seams and Cover two and in Cover three,
Speaker 8: they're underneath coverage guys. They stay played deep, so they'll
Speaker 8: give more than they're supposed to. So imagine if you're
Speaker 8: playing it. If you're a linebacker and you're supposed to
Speaker 8: be playing anywhere from five to seven yards depth, these
Speaker 8: guys will sink about thirteen to fourteen.
Speaker 1: Yards deep to try to get underneath your deeper receivers.
Speaker 1: Well what does that allow for.
Speaker 8: Well, if you're if you're strategic enough and you're disciplined enough,
Speaker 8: you'll take the easy pass underneath.
Speaker 1: And let your guys go get some yards up the
Speaker 1: catch y.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so you they want to protect because I think
Speaker 8: they know that these guys are undisciplined, so they ask
Speaker 8: their underneath guys to say, hey, go back there and
Speaker 8: help these guys out a little bit because these are
Speaker 8: these they're there wild men. But it opens things up
Speaker 8: for your running back to be able to catch about
Speaker 8: the backfield. So that's what I'm talking about, dous and
Speaker 8: things of that nature. Low dunk downs. You know, Jake
Speaker 8: can get some things underneath five seven yards easy high
Speaker 8: precision passes and then use your yard us, your legs,
Speaker 8: and your abilities to get.
Speaker 1: Some extra yardage.
Speaker 8: So that's the first that's the third level. Obviously, the
Speaker 8: DB's the linebackers. I said, they're running hit.
Speaker 2: They will run a hit the extra point on your
Speaker 2: defensive backs here too. They're without Melifan Wu, who was
Speaker 2: one of the better safeties in football over the last
Speaker 2: couple of years. Then you've got Brian Branch who's kind
Speaker 2: of that two way guy who can play safety and corner.
Speaker 4: He was inactive last week. He's on the injury reporting
Speaker 4: in this week.
Speaker 2: So something to keep an eye out in terms of
Speaker 2: their depth at the safety spot because now they're rolling
Speaker 2: out Carlton Davis on the outside and Terry on Arnold
Speaker 2: both are decent players in the right but like you said,
Speaker 2: the communication just communications.
Speaker 8: Trash, and like I said, they play immature, and Terry
Speaker 8: and Arnold especially, he plays immature. He talks a lot,
Speaker 8: grabs a lot, a lot of penalties. I mean he
Speaker 8: probably had five pis on DK rookie. Yeah, he's four
Speaker 8: games in first round pick though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he's learning and so it's hard for him enough.
Speaker 8: But the thing is, oddly enough, as big as there's
Speaker 8: a lot of players that have been left on the
Speaker 8: table against them, the people just had not connected. And
Speaker 8: I think because those guys are so fisty, the ball
Speaker 8: kind of has to be on the money, which Deck
Speaker 8: has been very accurate this year. So there's so many
Speaker 8: opportunities for those one on one matchups there, but they
Speaker 8: buckle down. They've only given up four passing touchdowns. Yeah,
Speaker 8: So as much as I'm saying that you can get
Speaker 8: splash plays against them, you still got to score because
Speaker 8: they've only given up four touchdowns. They have four interceptions
Speaker 8: because they just taking their rolling the dice on their guys.
Speaker 4: So how important is it because Kenneth Walker torched them?
Speaker 1: Yes he did in Detroit.
Speaker 2: Yes he did, even though you had Jerry Goff in
Speaker 2: the offense dicing it up and going eighteen for eighteen
Speaker 2: on that side of things. The way that Kenneth Walker
Speaker 2: was able to have success and it wasn't the passing
Speaker 2: game from Gino Smith and the Seahawks, how important is
Speaker 2: this game for Riko more important than what he had
Speaker 2: to do in Pittsburgh or less.
Speaker 8: I think it's about the same thing. It's about the
Speaker 8: same I think in terms of running the ball. If
Speaker 8: you can have an effective running game against these guys,
Speaker 8: their d line is not world beaters. They don't get
Speaker 8: home in terms of passing, so you don't have to
Speaker 8: worry about Dak necessarily being under pressure, even though we
Speaker 8: talked about Dak throwing the ball better under pressure. Substantially,
Speaker 8: they're one of the worst in the league in terms
Speaker 8: of pressures. But they have the leading sacker in the
Speaker 8: game and Aiden Hutchinson, and that most of that came
Speaker 8: from one game where he had four sacks. He has
Speaker 8: six and a half on the season right now. But
Speaker 8: he's not doing it necessarily great right now either, So
Speaker 8: I'm not concerned about the pressure. But I think this
Speaker 8: is a team as much as we talk about their
Speaker 8: their attitude and their grit, I think.
Speaker 1: You can run the ball against them. I truly think
Speaker 1: you can run a ball against these guys.
Speaker 8: You just have to be determined enough to take it
Speaker 8: to them and go head up with them and just say, hey,
Speaker 8: it's me and you square up. You know, let's go
Speaker 8: Oklahoma drill and just just run them over. If you
Speaker 8: could take that from them, you could take their will
Speaker 8: from them. You could take their will, and that's going
Speaker 8: to be a blow not only to their defense but
Speaker 8: to their entire team because that's the identity of their team.
Speaker 1: They want to run, they want to hit right.
Speaker 8: Their guys want to play downhill, and because of that,
Speaker 8: play action is oh so sweet. If you can get
Speaker 8: these guys coming downhill, yes, play action, but in order
Speaker 8: to have play action, red of the rent. So that's
Speaker 8: pretty much what I have there. Man, I wish there
Speaker 8: was more. I've I've looked, I've searched, I've done all
Speaker 8: those things. These guys are the bottom of league and
Speaker 8: pressures are at the bottom of the league. Of sacks,
Speaker 8: they're they're they're not they're at the top of the
Speaker 8: league in terms of giving up yardage in the air.
Speaker 8: They're just they're just not good statistically and then defensively.
Speaker 8: They only have a handful of guys that you're necessarily
Speaker 8: concerned about. Like I said, Hutchison, keep your eye on them,
Speaker 8: but you've faced way better this year. You know, he's
Speaker 8: he's a high motor guy. He's not a skilled guy.
Speaker 8: He's a high motor guy, not a skill guy very
Speaker 8: much at the next level. Alex ends alone, high motor guy,
Speaker 8: not necessarily a high skill guy, but you better get
Speaker 8: your hat on him because he'll be a disruptor. Outside
Speaker 8: of that, there's just not a lot of dudes, man,
Speaker 8: DJ Reader. He's just a big boy. But and you know,
Speaker 8: I'm like, I'm just I'm just not impressed. I'm not impressed.
Speaker 8: If you can shut down their office, you're you're you're
Speaker 8: a good position.
Speaker 1: This is weird.
Speaker 2: Hearing Isaiah and not impressed about an imposing defense.
Speaker 8: I'm not They're a good team, right, so like they're
Speaker 8: a good team overall team, but out of their team,
Speaker 8: this is probably the worst third of their of their game.
Speaker 6: What's strange to me is whenever I was going through
Speaker 6: the tape and outside looking in, I was like, this
Speaker 6: is a great team that we're about to play. I'm
Speaker 6: afraid of them, Like I'm intimidated by this team. However,
Speaker 6: when I was writing down my notes looking at the
Speaker 6: defensive film, the defensive side of the ball, I was
Speaker 6: kind of coming up with the same thing. I was like, Okay, well,
Speaker 6: Aaron Glenn is almost aggressive to a fault, Like he
Speaker 6: wasn't even double covering DK Metcalf for the most of
Speaker 6: that Seahawks game. And I'm like, okay, well, thank you,
Speaker 6: Please keep doing that. Please keep doing that. I would
Speaker 6: love to do that because that just opens cdlam down
Speaker 6: the field, and thank you for that. They play a
Speaker 6: lot of man coverage, and I think you can scheme
Speaker 6: them to death with the right offensive play calls, but
Speaker 6: they have.
Speaker 1: To be creative.
Speaker 6: And that's another thing with at least on the cowboy side,
Speaker 6: where I don't feel like they've been as creative down
Speaker 6: the field throwing the football, You know what I mean,
Speaker 6: It's very much the same hit routes, the same go routes,
Speaker 6: the same I think if you're able to do more
Speaker 6: crossers and play off of because they are doing a
Speaker 6: lot of off ball or what is it offman exactly,
Speaker 6: if you're able to run crossers, I think that's where
Speaker 6: you you find the juice, right almost.
Speaker 1: Like the one that got Jaylen Tobert the go ahead touchdown.
Speaker 9: Almost like exactly exactly.
Speaker 8: Seattle ran about six of them in the game. You
Speaker 8: go back to watch Seattle film set, it ran a
Speaker 8: ton of them. Gino Smith missed a lot of throws
Speaker 8: in that game. That just missed a lot of throws.
Speaker 8: And you talk about DK, about four or five of
Speaker 8: those things were to DK for big plays and DK's
Speaker 8: you see him just throwing his hands up like bruh,
Speaker 8: could you get there?
Speaker 6: And talking about undisciplined Arnold for one. Whenever he was
Speaker 6: covering DK like he was, it was strange. So he
Speaker 6: had his back turned to the sideline where he was
Speaker 6: just leaving DK open. He was mainly looking downfield and
Speaker 6: back to the quarterback obviously, but to the center of
Speaker 6: the jump. It exactly when it's like this is DK
Speaker 6: metcalf Man. He could play the sideline all day long,
Speaker 6: and guess who can also play the sideline all day long,
Speaker 6: CD lamb. So to me, they won't be able to
Speaker 6: beat you with speed at all. You want to get
Speaker 6: Cavante Turpin involved early and often, like we talked about
Speaker 6: giving him that confidence in getting them the ball early enough,
Speaker 6: and being creative with his routes as well, and giving
Speaker 6: him those crossers too, because you'd think they would change
Speaker 6: their ways a little bit and maybe double cover CD.
Speaker 6: But I don't think Aaron Glenn's gonna do it.
Speaker 9: He likes his guy.
Speaker 1: He's only I mean, he's only blitzing.
Speaker 8: To your point, you talk about how aggresive he is,
Speaker 8: he'sk about aggressive in terms of his defensive backs techniques
Speaker 8: because they're only blitching twenty nine percent, right, we're.
Speaker 1: Talking about techniques, right.
Speaker 8: These guys trust, they trust in their defensive backs coverage ability, right,
Speaker 8: so they will they have no problem leaving these guys
Speaker 8: man to man. So you got to win, You gotta win,
Speaker 8: and they will come up in two hand punch you
Speaker 8: in the mouth at the line of scrimmage and say
Speaker 8: get off the ball.
Speaker 1: So CD's gonna have to be on top of his cubes.
Speaker 8: One thing that I want to highlight that I think
Speaker 8: is going to be very important to this game that
Speaker 8: we haven't had to worry about too much yet is
Speaker 8: ball security. I really want to stress ball security this
Speaker 8: week because this is a physical team that flies and
Speaker 8: hits you at full speed. They're not great tactles. No,
Speaker 8: not just talking about Jalleen'sober and they're not great tacklers.
Speaker 8: They're not great tacklers. These guys will run and they'll
Speaker 8: hit you full speed and they'll try to punch the
Speaker 8: ball out.
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Speaker 2: it's based off of something you said three years ago
Speaker 2: about this Lion's team. I'll tell you about it when
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Speaker 2: back alongside Isaiah standback, Patrick no C Walker, Josh Rodriguez, Chris.
Speaker 4: Beam in the back, Kyle Yeomans.
Speaker 2: Back in twenty twenty two, Isaiah Oh, Dan Campbell and
Speaker 2: the Lions made their trip to AT and T Stadium.
Speaker 4: The Lions weren't very good. They were one in five.
Speaker 4: They worked their way into AT and T. But there
Speaker 4: was something in QB vision.
Speaker 2: I don't even know if we called it that back
Speaker 2: then at that point, but it was something you saw in.
Speaker 4: Tape, and it was a willingness to be physical.
Speaker 2: It was a willingness to play downhill and it was
Speaker 2: a culture of physicality that Dan Campbell had continued to grow.
Speaker 4: Now we've seen them take steps.
Speaker 2: They started winning that year, nearly made the playoffs, lost
Speaker 2: in the final week of the regular season, or actually
Speaker 2: they won in the final week against Green Bay but
Speaker 2: didn't end up getting in because of some of the
Speaker 2: other outside actors. Then last year they did what they did,
Speaker 2: making their way all the way to the NFC title game.
Speaker 4: This time around is what has been the.
Speaker 2: Key for that physicality, growing and building that culture all
Speaker 2: the way through. And are they as physical or less
Speaker 2: physical than.
Speaker 11: They were last year when the Cowboys saw I think
Speaker 11: they're less physical. Interesting, Yeah, I don't think they're as
Speaker 11: physical as they once were. I think they're playing faster,
Speaker 11: but they're playing more reckless. They're playing faster, but more reckless,
Speaker 11: and they're not This is not as discipline. And I
Speaker 11: hate to say that because Mix teammates his unit, but
Speaker 11: this is a defense that used to be very confident
Speaker 11: in their ability to hit you and tackle you. Now
Speaker 11: they just hit you.
Speaker 8: And I don't know if that has to go back
Speaker 8: to training camp rules or all this stuff, you know,
Speaker 8: but they're not tackling well, you go back and watch
Speaker 8: some of their previous games. Guys are running through arm tackles.
Speaker 8: Guys were leaving their teammates out. They're not playing with leverage.
Speaker 8: You have cornerbacks that are making business decisions as as
Speaker 8: peers will say, you know where you're supposed to stay
Speaker 8: outside in and kind of funnel everything into your your
Speaker 8: guys that are coming from the inside. And these guys
Speaker 8: are just jumping around and saying, I'm not about to
Speaker 8: get hit, you know what I'm saying. They just totally
Speaker 8: abandoned what they're supposed to be doing responsibility wise. So
Speaker 8: you're seeing a lot of selfish play by these guys.
Speaker 8: And I think guys are being selective as to win.
Speaker 8: Certain guys on our defense of being selective as to
Speaker 8: win and what they want to do.
Speaker 2: Is that a byproduct of knowing that the offense is
Speaker 2: as good as they are and saying, now.
Speaker 4: I will get those points in someone.
Speaker 1: It might be. It might be.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think that's one that's something that you
Speaker 8: have to be concerned about, right when you have one
Speaker 8: unit as relatively dominant, the other unit is like, we
Speaker 8: don't have to be as good, you know. And I'm
Speaker 8: not saying that's something that should be the case, but
Speaker 8: it's human nature for some people, right. And depending on
Speaker 8: the guys that you have in that locker room, depending
Speaker 8: on the guys you have on that side of the ball,
Speaker 8: what points of emphasis are being instilled on that side.
Speaker 8: We don't know, right, We can speculate all day long,
Speaker 8: but the reality is they're not as good defensively as
Speaker 8: they have been. They're at the bottom of the league,
Speaker 8: literally at the bottom of the league and statistically, So
Speaker 8: that's not opinion.
Speaker 1: That's just facts, you know. That reminds me of.
Speaker 8: In looking at the Detroit Lions, how they're playing football
Speaker 8: in twenty twenty four, looking at the film, hearing what
Speaker 8: Isaiah is saying, which I completely agree with, and I'll
Speaker 8: get to QB vision.
Speaker 1: I had a great point that supports what you're saying.
Speaker 8: It feels like the Detroit Lions are currently what the
Speaker 8: high powered Dallas Cowboys were at the turn of the decade. Right,
Speaker 8: When you have a quarterback operating at a high level,
Speaker 8: you have two running backs that compliment each other so
Speaker 8: well that they're arguably the best RB duo in the
Speaker 8: league when you're talking about Zeke and Tony. Right, you
Speaker 8: had a Marii Cooper, you had CD Lamb and don't
Speaker 8: show who's operating at a high level because Dak Prescott
Speaker 8: made him his most targeted receiver at the time. Right,
Speaker 8: So you have Sam Laporter, so you have the tight
Speaker 8: end that's highly effective. You have the two dominant wide receivers,
Speaker 8: you have two dominant guys back there, and you have
Speaker 8: an offensive line that can block you up right.
Speaker 2: An uber aggressive offensive coordinator.
Speaker 8: Right, like all of these things, But what you didn't
Speaker 8: have was a secondary that scared the lights out of anyone.
Speaker 1: Right, you had a shaky secondary, but you.
Speaker 8: Kind of got away with it because you had an
Speaker 8: offense that would just light up the scoreboard at every turn.
Speaker 8: So to your question and to your answer, I agree,
Speaker 8: this doesn't feel. This is not to say they're not
Speaker 8: still physical, but they feel less physical and more finesse
Speaker 8: and speed and flash than they were in last year
Speaker 8: or the year prior as they started to turn the
Speaker 8: culture around. And again this is we're not saying this
Speaker 8: is a bad thing or a bad football team, but
Speaker 8: the three in one. But when you contrast that with
Speaker 8: what the Cowboys have been forced to be this year,
Speaker 8: right with the struggling offense and the rushing attack not
Speaker 8: getting where it needs to get. They're scratching and clawing,
Speaker 8: having to learn how to be the bullies. No game
Speaker 8: was more evident than the one in Pittsburgh. Right. So
Speaker 8: now you have a more finesseful, flashy Lions team going
Speaker 8: up against a more scrappy man down hauling all cards
Speaker 8: right back against the wall mentality in this matchup, it's
Speaker 8: actually the Cowboys that feel like the more physical team.
Speaker 8: As odd as it is for me to say, but
Speaker 8: I said yesterday going to QB Vision, I love that
Speaker 8: you said the secondary is questionable because they are the
Speaker 8: defensive front not so much work, not so much to
Speaker 8: that point, because they are dominant eight Hutchison and those
Speaker 8: guys up front, they can do some damage, but that
Speaker 8: secondary undisciplined. Like Isaiah said, they play off the play
Speaker 8: safe because Dan.
Speaker 1: Campbell in the defensive court at Aaron Glynn.
Speaker 8: They don't necessarily trust that those guys technique is going
Speaker 8: to be what it's going to be.
Speaker 1: So what do you do?
Speaker 8: You cushing them a little bit and say, okay, well
Speaker 8: just keep the play in front of you. Okay, well
Speaker 8: that's fine. So then you attack the underneath throuts. And
Speaker 8: I say that to say yesterday, I was having a
Speaker 8: good conversation with our our friend ass who's on Girl
Speaker 8: Talk Boys Talk with with Nicole Hudgerson, and I said,
Speaker 8: I feel like this is the Jake Ferguson game. I
Speaker 8: feel like this is the Jake Ferguson game in both
Speaker 8: matchup and in demeanor. Right, you talked about it when
Speaker 8: you said the lack of discipline in their secondary, it's youth.
Speaker 8: It's they want to talk. They want a yap, they
Speaker 8: want a yammer unlike Jordan Lewis, though you haven't proved
Speaker 8: that you can stick to your technique to be able
Speaker 8: to do that.
Speaker 1: Yep. But in yammer, something about Jake Ferguson, What is
Speaker 1: he like to do? Oh, he'll talk.
Speaker 8: You want to talk, He'll talk back. He's going to
Speaker 8: get under your skin. He's going to get in your head.
Speaker 8: He did that to a veteran and Jamal Adams completely
Speaker 8: got Jamal Adams off of his game, right. So I
Speaker 8: think when you talk about being able to attack underneath,
Speaker 8: obviously Ceedee Lamb, Jaylen Tolbert underneath, but the seams, they're
Speaker 8: going to be right there. And I love how Jake
Speaker 8: is making guys miscal back. And look at what he
Speaker 8: was doing with against the Steelers, making guys misket in
Speaker 8: those extra yards Hunter Lipkey, if you're not going to
Speaker 8: have deuce von in the game, Hunter Lipkey, look at
Speaker 8: what he did on that critical late game drive right
Speaker 8: receive right of the back field, making guys miss so
Speaker 8: attack the underneath. But as far as like matchup and demeanor,
Speaker 8: give me this being a Jake Ferguson game to kind
Speaker 8: of help set that bully.
Speaker 1: We're more phys a cool than you tone.
Speaker 8: And it's kind of fun to think about it for
Speaker 8: a second because the Lions are the more finesseful team. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I punch him in the face, then, yeah, I think
Speaker 8: in the face. And this is a bold prediction, but
Speaker 8: I think CD goes for one fifty. Oh like that,
Speaker 8: how manyieswies?
Speaker 4: You're putting it on? You putting it on call your
Speaker 4: shot this week.
Speaker 1: We'll see, you're saying we'll see.
Speaker 8: And I say this because I know from what I'm
Speaker 8: seeing on film what's what's available. I just don't know
Speaker 8: if Coach McCarthy's gonna put him in position to do it,
Speaker 8: you know.
Speaker 1: I mean I can see it on filming. I know
Speaker 1: what I would do.
Speaker 4: Now I'm making prediction.
Speaker 1: Say it with your chest halfway, say see, I believe
Speaker 1: half that.
Speaker 8: If you line the camera, listen, listen, if you line
Speaker 8: CD Lamb, If Ceedee Lamb gets fifty percent of his
Speaker 8: snaps from the slot, he goes for one fifty if
Speaker 8: he just needs.
Speaker 4: Now, he got quiet as he said that.
Speaker 1: No, this is me talking to This is me talking
Speaker 1: to the people.
Speaker 8: Listen, Ceedee Lamb needs to be in a slot this
Speaker 8: week because the seams are there, right, These safeties are
Speaker 8: not disciplined.
Speaker 1: It you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: If you put them on the outside, and you put
Speaker 8: them on the boundary, why would you want to Why
Speaker 8: would you want to box him in?
Speaker 1: Don't box him? Man, Hi him space. I'm in the slot,
Speaker 1: Ceede Lamb on fifty and a Teddy. Oh cook, Oh,
Speaker 1: I feel dirty, I feel dirty. You gotta call my.
Speaker 3: Wife after this.
Speaker 9: We got a man I kind of liked it.
Speaker 4: Wrong that nothing nothing wrong.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's gonna do it for us?
Speaker 4: Way when wait end the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got some stuff because there's no topic that
Speaker 1: you gotta there's.
Speaker 4: No topic on that one.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: When we come back tomorrow, it will be a say
Speaker 2: it with your chest for Friday, for the rest of us.
Speaker 2: Isaiah already got it taken care of today for Patrick
Speaker 2: No see Walker, Josh Rodriguez, Isaiah stand back, Chris Beam
Speaker 2: in the back, come Kyle Yeoman saying so long.
Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow with more Talking Cowboys.
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