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Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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

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Speaker 1: ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely?

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Speaker 1: Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Wait were with Nick Eatman, David Hellman and bar Garcia

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Speaker 1: and Derek Eagleton. It is Tusday, September seven, twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: Season seventeen, Episode number seventeen. Welcome the latest edition of

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Speaker 1: The Break Life in the s WBC Mortgage Studios at

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Speaker 1: the Star and Nick, all right, give me a seventeen

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Speaker 1: seventeen about Quincy Carter. All right, it's Quincy car today

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Speaker 1: here on the Break. Thank you, Jason Jeyer, Quincy Carter,

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Speaker 1: Kellen Moore all right, Okay, I think it's the most

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Speaker 1: fascinating number in Cowboy's history. If you really did love

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Speaker 1: when Nick has takes, like if you were gonna do

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Speaker 1: a documentary on a number seventeen would be a good one. Yes.

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Speaker 1: So you know, you guys know, Nick has been pitching

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Speaker 1: this idea of doing a documentary on the number seventeen

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Speaker 1: for a while. I think so I think there's some

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Speaker 1: very interesting players and interesting stories that have come from

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Speaker 1: seventeen and not to derail not Sam Hurts, Sam Hurd

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Speaker 1: and Don Meredith and Quincy Carter and Harold Carmarchael. Yeah, okay, Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about Dwayne Harris. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: he really did, but it's a pretty decent player. Decent players,

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Speaker 1: better player, better player when he left. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think it's pretty good for Oakland for what I'm saying. Like,

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Speaker 1: he was a pretty good player here too, So he

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Speaker 1: was a rare player of it that could return kicks,

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Speaker 1: at it, you know. So all right, let's just think

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Speaker 1: Dwayne Harris would be talked about it. No, I when

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Speaker 1: we do stuff like this, I just imagine the guy

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Speaker 1: who just he needs to know about Zach Martin status

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Speaker 1: and we're like, yeah, Quincy Carter, let's talk about him. Sorry, everybody,

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Speaker 1: He'll be okay, Yeah, I know he'll be okay. All right,

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Speaker 1: so let's jump in. We do need to talk about

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Speaker 1: Zach Martin. Obviously, the news was out days ago. Zach

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Speaker 1: Martin tested positive for COVID. He is now on the

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Speaker 1: on the COVID list. Jerry kind of suggested yesterday and

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Speaker 1: then again today that there's still a chance, like there's

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Speaker 1: still a chance that maybe he could possibly play this week.

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Speaker 1: What are we hearing right now? What do we think

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Speaker 1: is his status at this point with regards him playing

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. It's the doors just like cracked open and

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys refused to close it. Okay, I mean, we

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Speaker 1: can joke about doctor Jerry all we want. But Mike

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Speaker 1: McCarthy's the same way. Like he I just got back

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Speaker 1: from his press conference, and the reporters were more or

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Speaker 1: less like, tell us that Zach is out. Tell like,

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Speaker 1: give us the clarity that this is done. And he

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Speaker 1: is capable of getting on a plane Thursday morning without

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Speaker 1: having done anything and playing against the Bucks, it's Zack Martin.

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Speaker 1: I mean that should make your eyebrows rates. He did

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Speaker 1: He was asked a few follow ups and pressed to clarify,

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Speaker 1: do not think Zack's going to play. But he didn't

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Speaker 1: rule it out entirely. Um, I would rule him out.

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Speaker 1: this some gamesmanship going on here? Is that? What do

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Speaker 1: you think? It's just the optimism maybe, But let's also

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Speaker 1: remember this. He tested positive for it, okay, so he

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Speaker 1: really good point that I've been thinking about this whole time.

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Speaker 1: That's all I was gonna say. I mean, I'm not

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Speaker 1: a show like this and talking about is he gonna play?

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Speaker 1: Is he not going to play? From the guard position?

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Speaker 1: You gotta be a damn good player, and he is.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what chance. It was just national

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Speaker 1: And it was just kind of this last little line.

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Speaker 1: you think, uh, it sucks for him, but like living

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Speaker 1: Tyron Smith and Dak Prescott. Exactly right, That's exactly right,

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Speaker 1: for me, how much does this change your expectation of

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Speaker 1: much do you think that affects what they can do offensively? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't and I think the world is Zach Martin,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think this is a loss that just

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Speaker 1: that's when we've really seen stuff go south. And part

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Speaker 1: and knows how to take advantage of guys. I just

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Speaker 1: worry about that, and I think you gotta be aggressive.

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Speaker 1: That's a hard middle ground to strike because you gotta

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Speaker 1: be aggressive. I would like to blitz Tom and make

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Speaker 1: him uncomfortable. That's why Michael Parsons is here. Kean O'Neil

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Speaker 1: can do some of that stuff. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: you're I mean, if you're giving you know, if you're

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Speaker 1: giving up two play scoring drives, two plays seventy five

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Speaker 1: yards Antonio Brown. I'm just thinking about like Christian Kerr

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Speaker 1: last year and what the Seahawks did to them. You're

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Speaker 1: not winning that way either. You got to make them

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Speaker 1: work for it, is my point. So just maybe time

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Speaker 1: that stuff really well, like look for the right opportunities

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Speaker 1: to take those chances, because I think this is going

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Speaker 1: to be a big enough problem if you're not giving

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Speaker 1: up easy points, and I just frankly, I'll be surprised

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Speaker 1: if they don't, if they don't have like a single

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Speaker 1: bust that leads to an easy touchdown, I'll be impressed.

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Speaker 1: You think both those things can be true in some respects.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that is because I

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Speaker 1: agree with both of you that this is a game

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Speaker 1: where you gotta be a little more aggressive. But in

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Speaker 1: being aggressive, that means sometimes you might swing and miss,

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Speaker 1: which means you could give up a big play. But

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Speaker 1: I think that's also necessary. I think if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: win this kind of game, you're gonna have to be aggressive,

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Speaker 1: which means you might have to give some up some back.

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Speaker 1: That that's on dan Quinn to find that balance, because

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can afford to just throw the

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Speaker 1: kitchen sink at Brady all the time and hope that

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Speaker 1: you get home every time. But when you take those shots,

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Speaker 1: they've got to work, they I mean, and that's have fun.

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Speaker 1: That's why you make that much money. I guess. I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's a perfect answer to that. I think

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Speaker 1: you're gonna see. You know, we haven't really seen what

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Speaker 1: dan Quinn's can do yet. I mean, I hope not,

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Speaker 1: because I mean, that's that's not the point of the

461
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Speaker 1: preseason is to go out there and let those guys

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Speaker 1: run around. But from a you know, exotic scheme, blitz

463
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Speaker 1: is all that I do think you're gonna see guys

464
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Speaker 1: coming from all different areas and it's gonna speak to

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Speaker 1: the versatility of your other guys. You know, when when

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Speaker 1: a d law or Gregory drops into coverage, can they

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Speaker 1: do that because because Jalen's blitzing or Ylan Layton leylan

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Speaker 1: Leyla Yeah, Um, if you can combine those two guys

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Speaker 1: into Leyland, I mean, there'd be a damn good player

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Speaker 1: of Leyland. But no, I mean, but but Layton and

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Speaker 1: and Mike and all those guys. You're just gonna see

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Speaker 1: it coming from different directions. And you know when when

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Speaker 1: when somebody's asked to do something that's out of their realm,

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Speaker 1: like a press rusher to cover or vice versa, they're

475
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Speaker 1: gonna have to They're gonna have to do it with

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Speaker 1: no drop off. And I think that's gonna be the

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Speaker 1: biggest key here. I can't help but think about when

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Speaker 1: they announced the number change rule. Tom Brady was pissed

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Speaker 1: he didn't like, which I thought was hilarious because he's

480
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Speaker 1: like the greatest ever. Surely he can identify the mic

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Speaker 1: no matter what they're wearing. But cowboys gotten eleven, they

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Speaker 1: got a nine, they got a corner playing seven, they

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Speaker 1: got some goofy stuff out there that might jump in there,

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Speaker 1: and eighteen at safety. Let's get just different, Let's get

485
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Speaker 1: whacky with it. Let's get whacky with it and try

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Speaker 1: to Yeah, I'm being tongue in cheek, like, I really

487
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Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna help confuse the best to ever

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Speaker 1: do it. He didn't like it. He didn't like it,

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Speaker 1: and every little bit of help something. Honestly, I just

490
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Speaker 1: think it's probably for him. It's just like I have

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Speaker 1: a way I do things, and and so this is

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Speaker 1: gonna cool force me to do something different. I gotta

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Speaker 1: look at things a little differently than I have for

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Speaker 1: the last who knows, like since most of us were

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Speaker 1: young men, like you've been doing this for a long

496
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Speaker 1: time as a change, you know. All right, Let's talk

497
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Speaker 1: about the other side of the ball. Tampa Bay last

498
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Speaker 1: year was top rushing defense in the league. They didn't

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Speaker 1: give up a lot of yards on the ground. You've

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Speaker 1: lost your offensive lineman, your best offensive lineman. What's the

501
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Speaker 1: most important key for the Cowboys offense to be successful?

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Speaker 1: Communication among the offensive line? Probably Tyler Beotich has only

503
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Speaker 1: started four games. Zach Martin is probably not going to play.

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Speaker 1: So you've got Connor McGovern who would be making his

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Speaker 1: game in two years because he was out all last year.

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Speaker 1: So and Todd Tod Bowls is a wizard if you think,

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Speaker 1: and I know Kansas City's line was compromised, but guess

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Speaker 1: what so is the Cowboys right now? So, like I said,

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Speaker 1: Devin White, Lavante David, we hope the Cowboys are gonna

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Speaker 1: get wild with it. We know the Bucks are, or

512
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Speaker 1: they should anyway, And so communicating finding those blitzes, I'm

513
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Speaker 1: sure they're gonna stunt. They're like, they're gonna do things,

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Speaker 1: you know, And Sue can play a little bit of

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Speaker 1: Andy can play tackle. You got Barrett, you got Jpp.

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Speaker 1: These guys can do a lot of scary stuff. And

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Speaker 1: with that much youth on the offensive line as particularly

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Speaker 1: in the middle, that's something I would try to exploit.

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Speaker 1: So those guys are gonna need to be on their

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Speaker 1: p's and q's. Yeah, if this was me, you know

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Speaker 1: how I feel about trick plays or flee flickers or

522
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Speaker 1: stuff like that, but I would. I would probably if

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Speaker 1: I'm killing Moore and I've got six, seven, eight nine

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Speaker 1: of those in the bag, I'm probably throwing three or

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Speaker 1: four or five of them out in this game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying to use them. I think it's important. I think,

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Speaker 1: not only do you want to you gotta do what

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Speaker 1: is not going to win this game, you know, this

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Speaker 1: it's going to get even out when you play the

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Speaker 1: Chargers and you play the Eagles and you play so

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have a chance is to be is good

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Speaker 1: or if not better. I like to throw some of

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Speaker 1: that out there on tape, and this is a perfect

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Speaker 1: game to do it, because this is a game that

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Speaker 1: you need it. And also, like I said, get it

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Speaker 1: out there on tape. Show people what Pollard can do

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Speaker 1: our picks here in just a second. Before we do that, though,

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Speaker 1: looking at the season as a whole, what do you

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Speaker 1: think is the ceiling? And what do you think is

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Speaker 1: the floor in terms of wins for this team? And

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Speaker 1: it cannot be seventeen and zero, Nick, you gotta give

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Speaker 1: me something more than seventeen and zero. All right, what

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Speaker 1: do you think is the ceiling? What do you think

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Speaker 1: is the floor? Convenience store with a lot of slurpees?

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Speaker 1: Seven eleven? That is my floor floor. Okay, I thought

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Speaker 1: you were about to say that was the ceiling. I

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Speaker 1: was like, whoa, I'm sorry. Seven wins, eleven wins? I mean,

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Speaker 1: but guess what, there's thirty one. There's twenty eight other

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Speaker 1: teams in the league that that's probably as well. There's

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Speaker 1: some that aren't going to get there, and there's some

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Speaker 1: that are probably gonna be better than that. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think that's where we are in our in our

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Speaker 1: NFL right now, and that's where the Cowboys have been

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Speaker 1: for a while right there. And so if you're asking

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Speaker 1: me what that range is, I think this is a

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Speaker 1: team is good enough to be better. It would better

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Speaker 1: than what it is last year over six and ten.

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Speaker 1: So I think they'll be better than that. But um,

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Speaker 1: if are we asking for a specific I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think this is a tenant seven football team. Okay, I

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna go ten and seven. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's good enough to win, to win the East,

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Speaker 1: It's going to depend on I Well, I don't. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're right, I don't know either. But I feel confident

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Speaker 1: bit better on offense with as with as great as

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Speaker 1: they can be on defense, I mean, I think can

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Speaker 1: be scary. They can. Fitzpatrick has a pretty long resume

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Speaker 1: that suggests that he isn't that consistent fizzles out. But

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Speaker 1: also I think the thing you got to think about

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Speaker 1: you know, I think ten wins is enough to win

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Speaker 1: this division. I don't know if the Cowboys are capable

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00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: of getting there. Yeah it could, it could be, but

636
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,640
Speaker 1: I think that they're gonna have to, you know, beat

637
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 1: Washington in that to those ten wins, and if they

638
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: do December twenty sixth game, it's gonna be big, yeah, huge, Yeah.

639
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: But that's what I think they are. I think they're

640
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: better football team. I think Dak will make them better.

641
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: I think those guys coming back, I think dan Quinn's

642
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: gonna make them better. Um, but I mean it, we'll

643
00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: find out. I mean, like I say every year, I

644
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: think the Week two season, the Week two games is

645
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: gonna be very very important to see just where they

646
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: stand because it's gonna be hard to tell him maybe

647
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: after this one unless they win. If they win, then

648
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: then then they'll be like, Okay, well the parade will

649
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: go here and then it'll go down this street and

650
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 1: then we'll go this street. If they be at the

651
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 1: bucks Man My goal after this game is to stay

652
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 1: even win or loss. I just want to stay even

653
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,960
Speaker 1: because I don't know that this game is gonna tell

654
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: me Mark back for Friday, because he's gonna come in here,

655
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: come in here, like, oh my god, Derek's gonna come

656
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: in here with a foam finger on his hand. If

657
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: they win, yeah, but if they lose, we sure lyles

658
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 1: even is he good at all? Like or no, he'll

659
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: just be like, well, this doesn't even really count. Let's

660
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 1: talk about the charger on his like either way, win

661
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,240
Speaker 1: a loss. I really think my goal is to come

662
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: back after this game and be like it unless I'm

663
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 1: looking for different things. I'm looking for specific things to

664
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: win and the loss like they could get blown out

665
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: in this game. Honestly, this is we'll see about them

666
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: just second good day. When you say ceiling, I just

667
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: assume it means best case scenario. Basically everything falls away

668
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: if everything goes their way and they're healthy all year

669
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: and the defense gets substantially right well yeah, well I

670
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: know best case it's already not a best case scenario, right. Well,

671
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: if it gets a lot better starting week two and

672
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:40,560
Speaker 1: the defense substantially better, they're forcing takeaways. Dak is who

673
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: we think he is, and the ground game gets back

674
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: up so that they can lean on teams in the

675
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: second half. The ceiling, I think is like twelve or

676
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: thirteen wins. Like I think they're that good. If they

677
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: achieve all of those benchmarks. They won't be though I don't.

678
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: I mean, they're already banged up. They haven't shown any

679
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: inkling that they can be that insistent. We still don't

680
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: know what this defense is, so the floor is the

681
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 1: defense is just as bad. The floor is probably what

682
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: we saw in twenty nineteen because the personnel's pretty similar.

683
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: I know a lot of names have changed, but the

684
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: level of talent seems similar. And that was an eight

685
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: and eighteen because they were inconsistent and any fishing. So

686
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: you can't go eight in eight this year, I guess

687
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: you could go eight eight and one um in the face.

688
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: I swear if we have a tie game like that'll

689
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: be a saltis. I hate the rule. I hate it's

690
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: ridiculous that you have a tie. I think. I think

691
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: it's one of the one of the reasons why in

692
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: the US that we don't love a soccer as much

693
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: as other countries, because there's no way I think that

694
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: that hurts, I really do, but I just didn't ties

695
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: with terrible. I'm sorry, Dave Good. The ceiling is probably

696
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: I mean sorry, the floor is probably like six or

697
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: seven wins and so split the difference. The realistic scenario is,

698
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with Nick, but I don't completely You

699
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: can't know. No, No, I'm nine and eight, nine and

700
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: eight and win the East. That's my expectation for this team.

701
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: I'm not sold on Washington, definitely not sold on the Giants,

702
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:13,680
Speaker 1: and so nine wins prefer mentioned the Eagles. H No,

703
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: well worth mention here, but not so nine nine wins

704
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: and win the division is what I think they are

705
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,600
Speaker 1: capable of, and I will be uh disappointed if they

706
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: can't at least get to that, barring some sort of

707
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: crazy rash of injuries. Again, you know, that's what they're

708
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: paying that to do that. They're paying him to be

709
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 1: a quarterback that can that can carry the team. I mean,

710
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: that's what going well and and I I like, I

711
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: think he has the ability to do that. Um. Like

712
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,879
Speaker 1: I said the other day, I've said this a couple

713
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: of times. I think he's good enough. He's going to

714
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: keep you win games. He showed that last year and

715
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,879
Speaker 1: the team wasn't very good, and he's he kept him

716
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: in games, uh didn't always win though. That's the that's

717
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: where his next level's gotta be. You gotta win those games.

718
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 1: You got to you gotta complete that pass in Seattle,

719
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: you got to make those plays in Cleveland and all

720
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: against Cleveland, things like that, And so I think, and

721
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: he's got to be better in the first first half

722
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 1: two to not to get to that point, you know,

723
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 1: because this is a team with Zeke and the offensive

724
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,239
Speaker 1: line that's still built to run out the clock and

725
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: win games if they can get to that point. So

726
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the big key, killing Moore and himself.

727
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: They got to come out and be way better in

728
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: the first half. All right, real quick, give me your

729
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: picks for this week Cowboys versus Buccaneers Thursday Night Football. Dave,

730
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: I can't pick him to win this game, just I mean,

731
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 1: it was already against him. I keep saying this stat

732
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: but you know, they started playing this Thursday night. They

733
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 1: turned the Thursday night game into a spectacle around two

734
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: thousand and four. I'm well aware of. The Cowboys won

735
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: one of them in twenty twelve against the Giants, but

736
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: the track record for the home team is outstanding. It's

737
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: like fifteen and three. Yeah, Brady's one of those losses.

738
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: He is he lost to the Chiefs in twenty seventeen.

739
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: I think I get it. The odds aren't in your favor,

740
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: home crowd hanging a banner. They are a much more.

741
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: They've been together, They brought everybody, bought everybody back. Jordan

742
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: Whitehair is the only injury of note on that entire team.

743
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 1: It's just it's a lot to go against, even when

744
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:18,320
Speaker 1: you don't lose Zach Martin right before the game. So sorry, sorry,

745
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: I can't pick them. Um. I think Bucks thirty four

746
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: twenty four, and it's gonna be a little dejecting, I think.

747
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: I mean, if they lose by double digits to open

748
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: the season, that's a bummer for everybody. I don't think

749
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: it's an indictment on the season. I think this is

750
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: this is what happens when they put you to go

751
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: against the best. UM, if they win, it'll be that

752
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: would be amazing and all that like, and hopefully they do.

753
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: But I can't pick them thirty four twenty four Bucks.

754
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: I'll go with Tampa as well. I can't. We haven't

755
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: seen it. We haven't seen them do anything to say that,

756
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: you know, they're going to be better. And of course

757
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 1: we didn't see it in the preseason, and we couldn't.

758
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 1: We didn't allow that. But you know, Tampa's bringing everyone back.

759
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: There's there's just look at the question mark. They don't

760
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: have a lot of question marks on what they're doing.

761
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: Their question marks are can they keep it at the

762
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,879
Speaker 1: same level Cowboys question marks are you know, is Dac

763
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: back Zeke return to forms the line hold up? They

764
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: got bigger question marks, So there's no way you could

765
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: go in there and expect them to win. I'm gonna

766
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,800
Speaker 1: say twenty seven twenty one, I think they'll keep it close.

767
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: I do think the Cowboys will fight, and they'll be

768
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: will show you know, they'll be you know better. I

769
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: don't think it'll be a moral victory, if you want

770
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: to go down that road, but I do think that

771
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: they'll they'll keep this close with Tampa, and I think

772
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: they lose the twenty seven twenty one um and I

773
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: got Derek. I also think it's going to be hard

774
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 1: to pick them this week. Although I do think it

775
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 1: will be a close game. I do think that this

776
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: is going to be one of those games where I

777
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier in the show, they've now on there on

778
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: a six game streak of thirty plus games. I think

779
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: that continues. But I do think Tampa is I do

780
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: think though Dallas, as is the case typically when Dak

781
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 1: has been on the field the last couple of years,

782
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: they'll match them and they'll they'll stay in this game,

783
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 1: or they'll get back into this game and they'll make

784
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: it interesting. I just don't know if at the end

785
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: of the day they have enough to be able to

786
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 1: overcome losing somebody like Zack Martin had. It is a

787
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: huge loss to go against a team that again has

788
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 1: returned all twenty two starters for a week one of

789
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: a season. To lose one of your best players, I

790
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 1: just think that's going to be a lot to overcome.

791
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: But I do think Dallas will make a run of it,

792
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: and I think it'll be a very interesting game. Oh

793
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,839
Speaker 1: it's all well, actually it isn't always interesting. That's some

794
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: of these Thursday night openers have gotten kind of out

795
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: of hand. It was a while ago, but like Seattle

796
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: beat the crap out of Green Bay when they hung

797
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: their banner a while back. So I don't know. I

798
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: just there's just a lot of factors working against them.

799
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: And you know, the first team offense hasn't really they

800
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 1: didn't really have a preseens and by the way, you're

801
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: playing against a team that their offense and defense. Not

802
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: only did they not have to worry about having a preseason,

803
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: they played a whole season together last year, So they're

804
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: very comfortable with each other, probably more than most teams

805
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: would be in a first week one game. I see

806
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 1: this as being a little bit more low scoring than

807
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: you guys didn't I said twenty seven twenty one, But

808
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,399
Speaker 1: I could see it taken a little while to get

809
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: both teams going, which could help the Cowboys obviously if

810
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: you keep it, if you keep the score relatively low.

811
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: So I just I just feel, especially from Dallas standpoint,

812
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: I think they'll they'll take them a little bit to

813
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: get get going in GEL so hopefully hopefully they can

814
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: withstand that. You know, that's just what we've seen. We've

815
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: seen slow starts out of that. I want to see

816
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: if if that can change. That's we talked about that

817
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,879
Speaker 1: earlier this week. It's one of the more frustrating things

818
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: about this team is that they start slow. That would

819
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 1: be awesome. If they flip the script on that, I

820
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: would not I would not be shocked though, if this game,

821
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,919
Speaker 1: you know, flips the script, I wouldn't be the most

822
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: Cowboys thing ever, which I'm so like. That's the thing

823
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: about the NFL. Once you think you know something, and

824
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: the more you think you know it, the more it

825
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: has a chance to flip on you. Friday Friday could

826
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 1: be really fun. I hope it is, because I'm getting

827
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: back to Dallas in just enough time to like drive

828
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: here to do the show. If they find a way

829
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: to win, I'll come in here and say and do

830
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:55,720
Speaker 1: whatever you want me to. I'll eat all I'll happily

831
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: eat all the crow I just I'm just saying, yeah,

832
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:01,399
Speaker 1: don't I'll see that they win, you know, a big

833
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 1: surprise because this is this is the best football team.

834
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: You know, this is the best football team there is

835
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: but the best quarterback to ever play so and I

836
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: think arguably the best coaching in the business right now.

837
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,759
Speaker 1: They get a lot of things working for him. So

838
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: I'll be really shocked if they win. Can they win, Yeah,

839
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: of course they can, but it's it's gonna take some

840
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: uncharacteristic things from Tampa Bay and and the Cowboys. Well, well,

841
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: I think, well, I think the important thing is we're

842
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 1: gonna learn some things about this team. I think we

843
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: will learn where's this defense in their in their you know,

844
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: their trek to try to be you know, back to

845
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: that middle of the at least middle of the league

846
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: type situation. Where's the run game? Where is that? There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of question marks that. Well, we'll start getting

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Speaker 1: some answers on that this week. You gotta hit him.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you gotta hear it is. I can't. I

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Speaker 1: can't believe that we're playing a game in two days.

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Speaker 1: Like I was like, that's day after tomorrow. I said

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Speaker 1: that we've we've this has been circled. I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if a season has ever centered so much,

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Speaker 1: not for me anyway, on the opener, just we've known

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Speaker 1: the schedule since April. They've been in camp since July twentieth,

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Speaker 1: like they had to be the Hall of Fame game.

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Speaker 1: All it's been this. I feel like we've been talking

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Speaker 1: about the Bucks for eight months. Well I know, because

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Speaker 1: it's like like in June they get asked, what about

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Speaker 1: September twenty third, what day of the week is that.

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Speaker 1: It's like, well, September ninth is a Thursday, so that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a third, you know what I mean, Because

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Speaker 1: you know September ninth is a Thursday. You've been writing

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Speaker 1: it one hundred times. So here we are. That's a rap.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back on Friday. We'll tell you guys what

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Speaker 1: then for Nick even Dave Helmet, I'm Derek Eagleson. This

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Speaker 1: has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio.

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