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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are

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Speaker 1: much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and

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Speaker 1: bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, December thirtieth,

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Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty one, Season seventeen, episode number eighty eight.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. It is

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Speaker 1: our final show of the year, final show of two

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Speaker 1: thousand and twenty one. We will be getting you guys

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Speaker 1: ready for Cowboys versus Cardinals that happens this Sunday. It

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Speaker 1: is a three twenty five five kickoff, Yes, three twenty

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Speaker 1: five kickoff at AT and T Stadium. We'll get you

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Speaker 1: guys ready on what we think is going to happen

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Speaker 1: this weekend. Uh Nicholas, get the show started right. Give

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Speaker 1: me actually, go back and give me an eighty seven

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Speaker 1: from yesterday, and then we'll do an eighty eight because

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Speaker 1: Dave didn't do the number yesterday, so we'll make sure

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Speaker 1: we get that in today. Although he did a great job.

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to stiate you did a great job

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Speaker 1: hosting yesterday. I wanted to talk about John Madden. But

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Speaker 1: let's get let's get an eighty seven eighty seven. I'm

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite names of all time. Kenyon Rambo. Yes,

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Speaker 1: like that name. Ohio State, right, yeah, Ohio State. Was

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Speaker 1: he a good player now here? Yeah? I mean, I

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Speaker 1: mean I was a good player in No, I'm not well,

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to hate. That's like, you should be good.

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Speaker 1: It's like with a name that bad ass, you should

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Speaker 1: be good. Wasn't a pretty good special teams player? He

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Speaker 1: was a receiver. Okay, Um he was. He was tough

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Speaker 1: and you didn't want to mess with him. He was

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Speaker 1: on the off all all I'm going into a fight.

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Speaker 1: I want to have this dog with me team. Yeah. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say nickas No, I'm trying about these off

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Speaker 1: the field stories. Well, I just I just know this.

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Speaker 1: He was from Los Angeles. Yeah. Uh. Kareem Larmore was

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Speaker 1: know their homies were not always seeing eye to eye

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Speaker 1: part of you know that. So he was tough. I

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Speaker 1: think he was a tough player. Yeah, so as I

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Speaker 1: nice guy too, actually, Kenyon ram But I know there's

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Speaker 1: other eighty sevens and there I'll get tweeted right now.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight. I'll let you go. I'm not touching that.

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Speaker 1: Take one. You can choose who's your favorite eighty eight.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's not favorite, your favorite your favorite kid.

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Speaker 1: I have your favorite. I mean it for me, for me,

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Speaker 1: absolutely for you. It's this. Yeah, he's the only one

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Speaker 1: but like I covered des for almost a decade. And

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Speaker 1: He's just one of the most electric football players I've

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Speaker 1: I remember him in Oklahoma State and just being like,

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Speaker 1: this guy's an alien, Like, this guy's a freak. Uh

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Speaker 1: right God your concept of times. He was right there.

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Speaker 1: sure you were like what the like? I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: going to set somebody off. That's it's not a coincidence

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Speaker 1: have to deal with that. You can kind of live

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Speaker 1: you know, every day it gets old. You gotta look

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Speaker 1: Let's let's move into it. Dave, give me a quick

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Speaker 1: update on Tyron Smith and Germany's Tyron Smith Is. He

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Speaker 1: because going back to Nick's point is what hurts you

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Speaker 1: is when you commit to it to the point that

424
00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:22,720
Speaker 1: you've got more guys, you're overly committed to it, to

425
00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:25,040
Speaker 1: the point where you can't recover if he breaks contain,

426
00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,359
Speaker 1: Like if you blitz and somebody swipes at his ankle,

427
00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,720
Speaker 1: but he keeps his feet and now there's twenty five

428
00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,160
Speaker 1: yards of open grass. That's also why you can't play

429
00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 1: man against this guy. Yeah, absolutely no, not want to

430
00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,240
Speaker 1: turn you back to him. I wouldn't, right, but I

431
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:40,879
Speaker 1: just you think about keeping him in the pocket. Like

432
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,800
Speaker 1: this is a game where I would love to just

433
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,200
Speaker 1: let let them rush with four and just have Micah

434
00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,240
Speaker 1: basically be the clean up guy. And y'all aren't huge

435
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,600
Speaker 1: soccer fans, but there's a position called sweeper. He's like

436
00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:58,200
Speaker 1: a defensive minded midfielder who he's a midfielder, but he

437
00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,680
Speaker 1: really just kind of hangs out near his own box

438
00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,560
Speaker 1: and he's like an extra guy who can help you

439
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,399
Speaker 1: clean up your messes. That's what I would love Michael

440
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,400
Speaker 1: to be in this game. It's like what I'm saying

441
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,400
Speaker 1: that because I mean, if you listen to him yesterday,

442
00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,040
Speaker 1: he was talking about the name Cowboys Zoo over there

443
00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 1: with all the you know he was and and I

444
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,520
Speaker 1: don't know about you, I don't know about you, but

445
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,919
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think any sweeper and soccer has ever been

446
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 1: called the lion to go hunt and stuff like that.

447
00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:26,879
Speaker 1: So and he's also hunting for something else, like he

448
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,120
Speaker 1: really wants that that damp record, that sack record. He does,

449
00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,880
Speaker 1: so it's it's so I don't get to you can hunt.

450
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,960
Speaker 1: You can hunt as a spy when he breaks contain

451
00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 1: and he's trying to run and run him down and

452
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:39,560
Speaker 1: get him behind a lot of scrammity. Yeah, there's some

453
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,440
Speaker 1: opportunities there, and I also think there are going to

454
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 1: be some opportunities where they may not show blitz. I

455
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,040
Speaker 1: media like it's a delayed blitz and then next thing

456
00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,760
Speaker 1: you know, he's through the a gap and he's right

457
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 1: on him. Now you gotta, like you said, like Dave said,

458
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,200
Speaker 1: you got you gotta do that right, and you gotta

459
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 1: get him because if he gets outside, now that guy

460
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 1: that was spying, he doesn't have a chance to get him,

461
00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 1: and he might have twenty five thirty yards. My prediction

462
00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,159
Speaker 1: on Micah Parsons is that he gets zero sacks this

463
00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 1: game and then against Philly he will play and he

464
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 1: will be a defensive end and he will rush. He

465
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:11,880
Speaker 1: will like Bill Calver says, rush the quarter, he will

466
00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:13,760
Speaker 1: rush the entire game. You think he will be a

467
00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,680
Speaker 1: defensive end because you assume that they will not play.

468
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,120
Speaker 1: I just think he's going to rush that He'll rush

469
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 1: a lot, he'll get he'll try to get that right.

470
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,080
Speaker 1: It's like, we want you to get the record, but well,

471
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 1: depending on it's so hard to predict because there's so

472
00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: many variables. But even if you've got something to play for,

473
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 1: and they probably will, but even if you've got something

474
00:22:33,359 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: to play for a week eighteen, like DeMarcus Lawrence is

475
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,280
Speaker 1: the exact type of guy that I'm sitting down like,

476
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,720
Speaker 1: we can win this game. Well without him, we wont.

477
00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,080
Speaker 1: He's limited with a foot injury, which was what was

478
00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:48,399
Speaker 1: you know broken, and so if he's limited in practice

479
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 1: yesterday with the foot injury, then they're managing that that foot. Um,

480
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,160
Speaker 1: what I wonder is I get the three three seed

481
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,480
Speaker 1: to try to get the two I get playing for that.

482
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,480
Speaker 1: I wonder how aggressive you are if you're the four

483
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 1: and the best you can do is the three. That's

484
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 1: what I wonder I would be. I mean, I don't

485
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 1: know about you, guys, I would be that would be

486
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:11,160
Speaker 1: important to me just because the caliber of that opponent

487
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 1: in the first round, Arizona, it'll be Arizona or La. Yeah,

488
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 1: probably one of those two verses playing San Francisco. So yeah,

489
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Speaker 1: I think that's worth it in my opinion. Yeah, I

490
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,760
Speaker 1: mean what do you guys think did I think you play?

491
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 1: But also think that if you've got a guy you

492
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: have to sit, you need to sit him, you sh'll play. Okay,

493
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,600
Speaker 1: So you're saying, you're saying, if I got a guy

494
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 1: who's got something going on with him, not just the

495
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,399
Speaker 1: typical stuff everyone's got going If I've got I got

496
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 1: a guy's got it, got something, I'm sitting him down. Yeah,

497
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 1: I can give it. That's probably the case in any situation,

498
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,680
Speaker 1: you know, even even even even if it's yea, even

499
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,680
Speaker 1: if it's a two to go to the one, Yeah,

500
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 1: I still think if it's the smart thing to do

501
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 1: to rest Tyren Smith, you probably would. Yeah. You know,

502
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 1: so we're probably just getting ahead of ourselves here. Yeah,

503
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 1: that's interesting because at this point, if they wind up

504
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: with the four, they probably probably have to lose this game,

505
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 1: which they could. I'm not saying that they can't lose

506
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,439
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals, but like, yeah, I'm really I'm honed

507
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 1: in on the two and the three. Probably I think

508
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,479
Speaker 1: what would happen is Arizona has a chance to win

509
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: the division and then because the record would be the same, right,

510
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: and they beat you. But you know, and like it's

511
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 1: it's all statistics. It doesn't actually, I mean, you have

512
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,640
Speaker 1: to play the games. But like the experts are only

513
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,919
Speaker 1: giving the Cardinals like a thirty percent chance to win

514
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: the division at this point because I think they'd have

515
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 1: to win out and they need the Rams to lose

516
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 1: at least one. Yeah, it makes my head hurt thinking

517
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,640
Speaker 1: about it, like I don't, And it makes sense because

518
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 1: I think twenty four of thirty two teams are mathematically

519
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: alive or already in the playoffs, and so just the

520
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,680
Speaker 1: scenarios just are mind bottling, like it's it's I feel

521
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,160
Speaker 1: like it's never this wide open this late in the season.

522
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: You could be cemented at the four spot if you

523
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 1: lose in the Rams lose, right, Sure, I don't know

524
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,480
Speaker 1: that that sounds. I would guess that you might be

525
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 1: at that point, you might be submented at for but

526
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,520
Speaker 1: I don't, right, maybe not all right, Next topic I

527
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: have for you guys. Next storyline. Was Dallas's offensive production

528
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,200
Speaker 1: versus Washington a sign that they were clicking again or

529
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: was it just a bad Washington defense. I think both

530
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:19,120
Speaker 1: can be true. I do think. I mean, Washington, it's

531
00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: easy to gloss over how unprepared they probably were to

532
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 1: play that game like they were decimated in terms of

533
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 1: guys that they didn't have available. A lot of their

534
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 1: preferred defensive backs didn't play in that game, and they

535
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: played on Tuesday like they I mean, they very short week,

536
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,479
Speaker 1: very banged up team. There's no ravage. There's no way

537
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:39,879
Speaker 1: they were gonna win that game. I didn't know it

538
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 1: was going to look like that, but there no way.

539
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:47,399
Speaker 1: So that yes, bad team, but also just look at

540
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 1: the numbers and what they did, and like Da Dak

541
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: feeling confident and comfortable to maneuver around and throw on

542
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 1: the run to Michael Gallop and rifle balls in there

543
00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 1: and Ceedee Lamb eating hit over the middle of the

544
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 1: field and holding onto the ball. Dalton Schultz getting annihilated

545
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: and holding on the ball. That doesn't necessarily have anything

546
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: to do with your level of competition. That's just you

547
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 1: playing good football. Yeah, yeah, I think I think that

548
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: it starts with Dak. I thought he was throwing the

549
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 1: ball better than we've seen and I really think that

550
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: he just the way he was running with the ball,

551
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 1: I think that that was that was the key. We

552
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: said that earlier. I thought he felt as he looked

553
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 1: as comfortable as he's been, and and and then it

554
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: just trickles down to everybody else. If you thought confidence

555
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: was an issue for dak Um, then I think that's

556
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: the kind of game you wanted to see him have,

557
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: regardless of the opponent, because that's the kind of game

558
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: that can reignite the confidence is never an issue with him.

559
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 1: But sometimes that's not a good thing. You know, it's

560
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: not Well, I think there are some people. And the

561
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: reason why I said that, I think there's some people

562
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 1: that thought confidence was the issue with him over the

563
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,159
Speaker 1: last you know, definitely in the month of November. But

564
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:50,399
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true. I'm just saying if

565
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: there were people that felt like that. He says, he

566
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,919
Speaker 1: says he's greedy a lot, so some of these interceptions,

567
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 1: some of these turnovers have been because he's greedy, and

568
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 1: I think greedy comes with confidence that you're gonna make

569
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: this play. Go back to Romo. Romo's big ro almost

570
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: biggest faults sometimes was over confidence. I can make that

571
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: throw because I made it one time at Eastern Illinois

572
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 1: when we took on Western Illinois and I won. Okay, Well,

573
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you can throw it here against the Redskins.

574
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,360
Speaker 1: You know, so do you not think that the lack

575
00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: of running was in some ways maybe him not being

576
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: confident in either his ability to run or feeling comfortable running.

577
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe the irony is that I asked him about

578
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: this after the game, Yeah, and he got kind of

579
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 1: aggravated with me, I think, But I was like, I

580
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: brought up the gallop throw specifically. I was like, you

581
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: know you you did this. You ran up to the

582
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: line like it's a play we've seen you do a

583
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 1: million times, but you haven't been doing it recently, and

584
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: I just wonder, like, do you have you gained more

585
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: confidence in yourself to do that again after the time

586
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: off from the calf. I think as soon as I

587
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 1: said the word calf, he was just like he was like,

588
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 1: I thought we put that to bed weeks ago, Like

589
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: why are we talking about this? And I'm like, I'm

590
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 1: not asking you didn't. I'm like, I'm not asking you

591
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,640
Speaker 1: delete the part that's it's so. I mean, at first

592
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 1: world you sucks since the calf. I mean, like that's

593
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,719
Speaker 1: the problem. Like he hasn't been DAK since the calf injury,

594
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter what the injury report says, what's

595
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 1: the problem. Is your arm hurt? Is it back to

596
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 1: the shoulder. What's the issue? Is it confidence? And things

597
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: we can't see? So like, like, I think it's fair

598
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: to say, hey, you were doing great, you got her,

599
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: you came back, and you haven't been the same. It's

600
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: the same stuff with Dan Bailey, same issue for like

601
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 1: three years ago, when the trainer was all upset because

602
00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,560
Speaker 1: I was, we were questioning what was going on with kicker.

603
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: Kicker gets hurt, he misses four games, he comes back,

604
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 1: he starts missing extra points. Yeah, yeah, you say you're healthy,

605
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: but now you're not playing the same level. What what

606
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: else are we supposed to assume here? Especially me, I

607
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: can sit here and say I have a calf injury

608
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: from two years ago. They don't just heal ride Away.

609
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: Michael Gallups didn't heal ride Away. Randy Gregory's didn't either,

610
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: you know, so something's not right, and I think it's

611
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,479
Speaker 1: fair to say no. Well, And that's the funny thing.

612
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: Like I wasn't trying to ask him if he was healthy.

613
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: I was like, do you feel more confidence that you

614
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: can make the plays you've always made and not have

615
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: it be an issue? But these things are hard to

616
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: communicate in press conference situations sometimes, and you don't usually

617
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: get a chance to be like, oh no, that's not

618
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: what I meant, because then somebody else is already onto

619
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: their question and whatever. But I think, me, I think

620
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: that's a thing. I not necessarily that he hasn't been healthy.

621
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: But again, he hurt the calf throwing an over to

622
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: CD on the run, and so is there some element

623
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: where he's like, don't want to do that, because that's

624
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: how I got up in this mess in the first place.

625
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: And now, however many weeks removed, we are from that,

626
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: what two months at this point now, it's it looked

627
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: like on Sunday that he's settling into a spot where

628
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: he's like, I can do what I've always done and

629
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: everything's going to be okay. I hope that's what's happening,

630
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: because he looked amazing on Sunday. Yep, yep, you think

631
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: he'll lead the all quarterbacks in rushing on Sunday. No,

632
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure where you were going with that. Probably not,

633
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: I don't think so. See first question. If he'd a segment.

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Speaker 1: Studios at the Star. We're gonna take some questions from

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Speaker 1: fans from Twitter. Start with a question from Thickles and uh,

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Speaker 1: this question me, that's me, that's my name. After the holidays,

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Speaker 1: like it all contracts aside, would you prefer to lock

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Speaker 1: down cornerback that can cover tight ends or a cornerback

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Speaker 1: that gives up the occasional deep play while also having

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Speaker 1: double digit interceptions. Let me make this easy for what

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Speaker 1: he's what he's basically crying is, do you do you

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Speaker 1: prefer a Trayvon Diggs or do you prefer a Byron

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what he's asking Trayvon Dicks talking about, which

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Speaker 1: and I, well, I think I think it's a fair thing.

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Speaker 1: It is. I think it's well, no one tell you

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Speaker 1: why I think it's fair. Well, I think it's a

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Speaker 1: fair conversation. Is because it's kind of what we talk

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Speaker 1: about with kicker two. Do you want the guy that

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Speaker 1: can kick greater than fifty two at a higher rate

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Speaker 1: than most kickers, so you know that you might get

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Speaker 1: him in later in games where you have a shot

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Speaker 1: to be able to win, but but he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: kind of erratic sometimes when it's when it's a thirty

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Speaker 1: five forty yarder. Or do you prefer the guy that's

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Speaker 1: money under fifty and can't kick beyond fifty to save

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Speaker 1: his life. I think it's the same thing here. Do

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Speaker 1: you want the home run guy got it can get

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Speaker 1: you to turn over, but he's gonna give up some

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Speaker 1: or do you want a guy at cornerback. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: lock down his side. He's not gonna get any picks,

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Speaker 1: but they're not gonna complete a lot of passes on

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Speaker 1: his side either. Well, I loved Byron Jones, and I

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Speaker 1: would have been a okay with them resigning him, especially

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Speaker 1: given some of the big deals that they've done recently

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Speaker 1: that didn't pan out. But I can draft the guy

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Speaker 1: who can handle his side of the field like Byron Yet, Yes,

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Speaker 1: yes it is. We just talked about how good of

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Speaker 1: a job Anthony Brown's done. Yeah, but you just said

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Speaker 1: he can lock down his staff of the field. Anthony's

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Speaker 1: not doing that. He's not been asked to do. Will

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Speaker 1: you take to take him in the sixth round from Purdue?

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Speaker 1: You can take it a second or third. Will you

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Speaker 1: take that level of production with Trayvon Diggs versus what

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Speaker 1: we got from Byron Jones every time? Like, I can

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Speaker 1: find that guy who's like, yeah, this isn't perfect, but

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Speaker 1: like he handles his own more often than he doesn't. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: I've got a guy who gets eleven picks, has scored

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Speaker 1: at least now, he scored two touchdowns this year, and

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Speaker 1: lord knows how many short fields. His pick on Sunday

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Speaker 1: night put him at midfield on the for the second

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Speaker 1: possession of the game. They haven't had a guy do

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Speaker 1: stuff like that on any sort of remotely regular basis

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Speaker 1: in eons. No, and it's not a knock on Byron Jones,

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Speaker 1: but it's just not even close. Diggs could have four

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Speaker 1: interceptions this year, and I think he would be a

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl type player. I mean, I don't care what

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00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: that website that's saying, well, he's got the most yards

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00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: against whatever it is, like their grades are faulty, then

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Speaker 1: if his grades aren't great and they're not factoring in

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Speaker 1: more for interceptions, and the fact that he is going

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Speaker 1: up against top wide receivers every week, Like when McLaurin

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00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,359
Speaker 1: caught a pass in the third quarter of that game,

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00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: he tied Diggs for catches in the two meetings. They've

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Speaker 1: gone at it for two straight weeks and Diggs was

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00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,399
Speaker 1: up one to nothing on him and then he tied.

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Speaker 1: And he's the receiver. I mean that he went up

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Speaker 1: against Keenan Allen, He's Devanta, the Panthers guy forgot his name.

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00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gone up against those guys and that

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00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,719
Speaker 1: doesn't get factored in, and that's not something Byron Jones

754
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: did a lot of traveling and all that stuff. Treyvon

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00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: Diggs is taking their best guy and it's such a

756
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: weapon because it's like why you keep trying them, because

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00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: they're trying to get their best receiver involved. That is

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00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: a weapon right there, And I think he's been great

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00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:25,399
Speaker 1: the eleven picks. It's just the eleven cherries on top.

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00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: Not only that, it's ironic because like pff and looking

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00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: at this stuff, like people are getting smarter, people are

762
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 1: seeing the game within the game, but it's so it's

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00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: it's so basic to be like, oh my god, he's

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00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: given up eight hundred yards eighty five of that is

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Speaker 1: the Kendrick Born play in New England, which is just

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00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: as much on Demante Casey as it is on Treyvon Diggs.

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00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: The freaking he gave up sixty to Keenan Allen on

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00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: a whole shot that Justin Herbert's the only person in

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00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,359
Speaker 1: the world that can complete that. You remember the play

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about, He's like on the run. Diggs is

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Speaker 1: playing it perfectly, and Justin Herbert, I'm just like, what

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00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: are you supposed to do about that. That's just a

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00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: freak play. So there's at least three or four of

774
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 1: those where you're just like, what are you gonna do?

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00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: It's football, you know, And I think the one game

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00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: that really stands out to me where maybe he got

777
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: picked on is Minnesota, And you're aware of Justin Jefferson

778
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 1: just set the record for most yards by a receiver

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Speaker 1: in the first two years ever. Right Like he's on

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00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: a I mean, he's it's ironic he went to LSU

781
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: because he's doing what Odell was doing. He's amazing. So

782
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you're not going to lock down everybody you

783
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: play like this idea that he's a liability is ridiculous.

784
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,879
Speaker 1: And here's the irony of it that the passer rating.

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00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: I saw the stat the other day. You don't want

786
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 1: to guess what the passer rating is in four receivers

787
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: that he's covering. No. Fifty five passer rating in passes

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00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: going to receivers that are being covered by trey Lon

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00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: Dix at his paltry for those quarterbacks, like they are

790
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: not having a lot of success contre condre to what

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00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: people are saying about the yards, they are not having

792
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: a lot of success against Treyvon Dix when you look

793
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: at it from an overall stampole. Yes, he may give

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00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: up some big plays, and at the end of the day,

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00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: he is a he is really shutting down and that's

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00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: receiver and that is fair, and that's a better way

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00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: to analyze it to do it by passer rating. It's

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Speaker 1: the same. It's the same with um like Jamis Winston

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, he had all these yards, right,

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Speaker 1: so to Dak, the passing rating wasn't off the charts

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00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,439
Speaker 1: because they were also throwing some picks and not Dak wasn't.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, but I'm just saying that it's not

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Speaker 1: just about yards, it's you factor a lot of things

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Speaker 1: in so passer rating, I think it's a good way

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00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,359
Speaker 1: to also evaluate a corner. All Right, we're gonna get

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00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: another question here from Trey p. He says, outside of Dak,

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Speaker 1: give me one offensive and one defensive player whose health

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00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: is most vital for a deep postseason run. I'll say

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00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper. Okay, all right, I'm glad, I'll differ. Give

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Speaker 1: me a reason. I mean, not to discredit Tyrann Smith,

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Speaker 1: but they haven't had him for seven games this year,

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Speaker 1: and they haven't won all of those games, but it

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00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 1: hasn't been the disaster that it used to be, you know,

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00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,480
Speaker 1: like they've gotten by they I mean, they just be

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Speaker 1: They've this win streak has three of two and a

816
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: half of the wins have happened without him, and they

817
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: all they lost him in Minnesota, they won that game

818
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 1: without him or the end of it. They didn't play well,

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00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: nobody played well against the Chiefs um but they just

820
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 1: they can function. And I really, I just think Amari

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Speaker 1: Cooper is really important to what they do, and when

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Speaker 1: he's not there or when he doesn't get involved, it

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00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: looks clunky. I'm just gonna go with Tyren Smith. I

824
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: think he is without a doubt. I think the offense

825
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Speaker 1: is better with him there. And I get it. Those

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Speaker 1: guys that functioned well, and then you can say that

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Speaker 1: they function without a Maori two. They can't function without

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Speaker 1: two receivers. Though they can't do that that they need

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00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:53,919
Speaker 1: they need someone else. But I think they can still

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Speaker 1: function without Amari. But I mean, I want both. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not trying. I'm not trying to go

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Speaker 1: to the wildcard round here. I'm trying to go. You know,

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Speaker 1: let's go all the way. I think this team win

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Speaker 1: healthy with all those guys are there, I think this

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Speaker 1: team can go to the super Bowl. I think they're

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Speaker 1: that good and so I'm I'm gonna go for for both.

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Speaker 1: Give me a defensive player, Micah, I think he's Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think Michael Parsons is the I mean, I mean

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Speaker 1: we were asked on the mail back today, was it

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Speaker 1: is it Quinn? I mean, what's the difference for the turnaround?

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Speaker 1: Were they that bad? Whatever? And I was like, it's

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00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons. Michael Parsons is the reason why the defense

843
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: is what it is. Quinn. Yes, ask yourself, who, if

844
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,399
Speaker 1: I know he's not probably going to Jacksonville, who would

845
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: rather Quinn go to Jacksonville or Parsons. Well, that's not

846
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 1: a fair question, is No, it's not because because because

847
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: because basically you're just saying the defensive coordinare I mean,

848
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: give him anybody and he'll make it work. No. I

849
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 1: think the point that I would make is if I

850
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: have Quinn, then I feel like this defense would be

851
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: good either way. I think they can be great with

852
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons, because Michael Parson is just a great player. Also,

853
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: And this was the argument I was making the other day.

854
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: You give me another defensive question coordinator that doesn't quite

855
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: know how to use Mica in the way that dan

856
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: Quinn uses him. Maybe Mica is just a really good

857
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: middle linebacker. Yep. So that's that's why I don't I

858
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: don't think you can separate the two. I think they

859
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 1: both of them are the reason. Why are you taking

860
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: your chances with dan Quinn to draft another first round

861
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: linebacker next year or a new coordinator that comes in

862
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: here and says, oh yeah, especially with seventeen games of

863
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: tape of Mica, You're like, doing all those this is

864
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: all the stuff Dan did with him. You think you

865
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: can handle that, And yes, I can. And if you

866
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 1: come in and if we're sitting here in September with

867
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 1: a new coordinator and he hasn't he hasn't rushed him

868
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: at all, he'd be out faster than I forgot the

869
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 1: guy's names, Tabasca, Mike Nolan, Noland. He'd be out quicker

870
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: than him. Why am I struggling? I was thinking saying that,

871
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: you were thinking. I was like, what's his name? What's

872
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: his name? I remember his name? Was just taking Tabasca

873
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,359
Speaker 1: and the eye coached in the NFL for like thirty

874
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: five head coach um not very good. No, I just yeah,

875
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,760
Speaker 1: just pass rushes everything to me. It's not like I Trayvon.

876
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: He hasn't gotten his fair due just because of everything

877
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:07,280
Speaker 1: Mike has done as a rookie. But just the speed

878
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: with which these guys are getting the quarterbacks helps everybody,

879
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: including Dick games. Yeah, we're about I want to let

880
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,440
Speaker 1: Day finish his thought. That's fine. Sorry, I don't even

881
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: know how much time we have left. I don't either.

882
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to forty five. Well, actually,

883
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,439
Speaker 1: we're gonna have Amber join us now, and we're gonna

884
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: pick some games. I'm gonna see what you guys think

885
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: about the game, like you know some y'all just like,

886
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: let me do this. I've been doing this for a while.

887
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 1: You didn't do it yesterday out yesterday. I know what

888
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: I'm doing today. If there was a rundown, maybe we

889
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: there is one. Didn't have him. If you didn't need

890
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,760
Speaker 1: an inbox, you didn't need it. All right, Amber, welcome

891
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: to the show. What's up? I was about to say,

892
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: y'all hang up on me and leave me here, finish

893
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 1: the show and you're still sitting there. Yeah, yeah, all right,

894
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: it's time to pick some games. I don't know if

895
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:56,600
Speaker 1: you heard any of that conversation. I'll throw it out

896
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 1: to you though, if you had to pick one offensive

897
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,840
Speaker 1: player and one defensive play or not, Dak, who do

898
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: you think is most important on the offense and on

899
00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: the defense that their health is important with if the

900
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to have a deep postseason, right, I

901
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: think that on defense one thousand percent, Mica. You guys

902
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 1: already talked about him. There's nothing else I can add

903
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: to that conversation that hasn't been already said. And on offense,

904
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: and I'm surprised I'm about to say this because I

905
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 1: was hating on the guy, but I would have to

906
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: say the tight end position. And it's crazy that I'm

907
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: even saying that, But with the struggles that we've seen

908
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 1: Dad having all that, I think that, especially at this

909
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,640
Speaker 1: time of the year, it's just it's gonna be key

910
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: the tight end position. It's gonna if Dad can really

911
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 1: rely on that tight end, it's gonna open up so

912
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: many other things for the offense in general. So I

913
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: think that right now, at this point of the season,

914
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 1: I'm not saying all year loans there are the MVP,

915
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: but I think for this stretch that would be the MVP. Um.

916
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and say that is an interesting that's

917
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: an interesting take. That's interesting. And honestly, you look at

918
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: the games where Dak has had his best games, typically

919
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 1: Dalton has been right there in the middle of all that.

920
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: So I think I think that's an interesting point. And

921
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: you compare it to Tomari, I think it's the same thing.

922
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: Those two guys, I think are typically having good games

923
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,439
Speaker 1: when Dak's having a good game, so I can see that. Yeah,

924
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,320
Speaker 1: it just shows that the offense is clicking in so

925
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: many ways that like you can't stop everyone and that

926
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: and that you know he's a good head benefits from that.

927
00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: I think that it's interesting too, because Amari, it's easy

928
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,959
Speaker 1: to talk about Cooper and Tyring and maybe even Lamb

929
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: to some degree because they've missed time. Dalton hasn't really

930
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,959
Speaker 1: missed any time, but the offense has struggled in games

931
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: where he disappears. That's totally fair. Yep, all right, let's

932
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: get to some game picking. What were gonna do this week? Dave?

933
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: I'll start with you, what's gonna happen. I just I'm

934
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pick against this team right now,

935
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: not with all of the different ways they've been winning

936
00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: and the performance that they put on Sunday and the

937
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,760
Speaker 1: advantages in their favor. I mean, we're doing this on Thursday,

938
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: which sucks because we aren't sure about everybody's availability. But

939
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 1: I mean the Cardinals, the Cardinals have a laundry list

940
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: of absences right now, like Buddha Baker didn't practice, James Connor,

941
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds, and Zach Ertz are limited. That's a lot, right,

942
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: that's all important pieces. They are already you know, missing

943
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: Hopkins and some of these other important players, and they

944
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: don't have any of those guys either. And I'm actually

945
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: I'm writing about this today, like the Cowboys are a

946
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 1: different team at home too, So um, I would be

947
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: very surprised and very impressed if it's an easy win.

948
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: But I'll take the Cowboys. I'll take the Cowboys thirty three,

949
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: two twenties seven. And I hope, I hope it's fun.

950
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: I hope it kind of. That's we got so excited

951
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: about the Chiefs game and it was a dud, Like

952
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: not only did they lose, but it just wasn't even

953
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: a good game. I hope this is a good game.

954
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 1: I got Cowboys thirty one to twenty. I think that

955
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: they're better than them. I don't think the Cowboys are

956
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 1: asked anymore, and I think that they will. They will

957
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,760
Speaker 1: fare much better than they did last year against Arizona.

958
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:28,560
Speaker 1: All right, hamber Well, I hate this. I don't know

959
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: why I do this for a living, because this thing

960
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: really messes up with my emotional stability. And I'll tell

961
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: you why, like I feel, and of course I'm going

962
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: to choose the Cowboys. And right now there are a

963
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: great spot. I mean, they couldn't be better. They are healthy,

964
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,879
Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith, it's working his way back in. You got

965
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 1: Dak finally kind of finding his groove that often seems

966
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:56,360
Speaker 1: to be clicking. They're coming up this amazing game against Washington.

967
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,879
Speaker 1: They're playing at home. You got a Cardinals team that's

968
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 1: struggling right now. So everything's blinding up perfectly. But part

969
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: of me, down deep below, it's like low key worried

970
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: about this game because I'm like, okay, are they are

971
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:16,800
Speaker 1: they really going to be able to carry what happened

972
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: last week and play this game and become consistent in

973
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:24,280
Speaker 1: the offense again and do something that you know, anytime

974
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 1: things seem to be lighting up really really well, that's

975
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,359
Speaker 1: when things go to crap, you know what I mean.

976
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,800
Speaker 1: So even though everything's good and all, that part of

977
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: me is still kind of worried and concern whether they're

978
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: gonna be able to put up a really great game

979
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: against a team that, although it's struggling currently, is still

980
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: one of the better teams that they have faced so

981
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: far here in their recent weeks. But anyways, I'm rambling now,

982
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna just finish up by saying cowboys for sure,

983
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: but I'm still scared, and they're gonna have a school

984
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 1: of like thirty seven twenty five or something like that.

985
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: All right. Interestingly, I I was on Twitter a few

986
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:11,239
Speaker 1: thirties ago. I know, well, I mean, round up, it's

987
00:48:11,239 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 1: close enough. Thirty seven's forty whatever. Thirty sevens forty in

988
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: my world. I wish you were my professor. Oh yeah, no,

989
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,000
Speaker 1: I would everybody gets stays and bees class. Yeah, I

990
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: was about to say eighty seven. Whether they actually I

991
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:26,399
Speaker 1: do that all the time. I'll be like, I can't

992
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: believe it's been a decade since that happened, and my

993
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: friend will be like, it's been eight years. I'm like, yeah, decade,

994
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: just whatever. We're rounding up bees. I just saw a

995
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: tweet from our former co worker Danny Sereku that now

996
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: actually is covering the Arizona Cardinals, and she said, Kyler

997
00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 1: Murray is eight and oh throughout his career, high school, college,

998
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: pro at at and T Stadium. I think that all

999
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: comes to an end this weekend. I think Dallas gets

1000
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,680
Speaker 1: to win, and I think it's actually a comfortable win

1001
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: for Dallas. I think Dallas makes a statement in this game.

1002
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: You think they made a statement last week, I think

1003
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 1: they make a statement this week because I think this

1004
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: is the game they're all pointing to, like, this is

1005
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: a game where we can really make a statement and

1006
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: we can show teams that, look, you're gonna have to

1007
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: deal with us in the playoffs. I think they win

1008
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: thirty four twenty. I don't think it really. I think

1009
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 1: at once the Cowboys get rolling. I think it's a

1010
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,319
Speaker 1: it's kind of a feels kind of like a blowout game.

1011
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: Didn't Ryan, No, this is not Didn't Ryan. But yeah,

1012
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: I think Cowboys get a comfortable win this weekend. We'll

1013
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys join us. We'll be back on Monday.

1014
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 1: We'll let you know what when right and wrong, and

1015
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, will let you know where they sit

1016
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: in the playoffs standings and what they have to do,

1017
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: if anything, the final week against Philadelphia. We'll do that

1018
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: next week. Till then. For Nick Eaton, Dave Helmi, and Ambergarcia,

1019
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: I am Derek Eacleton. This has been The Break live

1020
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