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Speaker 1: Welcome to a week five edition of Between the Horns,

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Speaker 1: presented by your Southern California Toya. The dealer's money is JB. Long.

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Speaker 1: The Rams are home this month three home games and

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Speaker 1: a bye around out the month of October at SOFI Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Stud Jackson is with us this morning to Marco Far

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Speaker 1: and Ricky Hollywood. All here, de far, Let me start

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Speaker 1: with you. Short week, tough week. How you doing. I'm okay,

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Speaker 1: you know, no smiles right now. I think a short

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Speaker 1: week is good considering what happened on Monday night. You

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Speaker 1: know you know what I'm saying. I mean, you want

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Speaker 1: to get back to the field as fast as possible

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Speaker 1: to try to correct that or erase that wrong. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's tough prep wise, but for a football player, you

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Speaker 1: want to get back out there as soon as possible

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Speaker 1: after a buck kicking like that. No smiles from Dfar.

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Speaker 1: We had a false start as we started this episode

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Speaker 1: Between the Horns, Ricky Hollywood logging in on like a

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Speaker 1: freeze frame, and it was a very intense, serious glaring.

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Speaker 1: It's like, oh, yeah, he's upset about Monday night football.

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Speaker 1: But there's a smile. She can be. First week, I

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Speaker 1: meant business this morning for sure. Yeah. No, a short week.

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Speaker 1: Like DeMarco said, there's a lot to improve. And I

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Speaker 1: think Cooper Cop said it best after the game that

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Speaker 1: you almost feel better watching the tape because it's all

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Speaker 1: stuff that I think this team can correct. So hopefully

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Speaker 1: they get you know, they get on the field and

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Speaker 1: Cowboys is a get right game. Interesting even though it's

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Speaker 1: minus eight, it was a one possession game deep into

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Speaker 1: that contest before the pick six. I used it all right,

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Speaker 1: Stu Jackson, we need you to do some accounting because

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Speaker 1: it is a short week. It's not a week where

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Speaker 1: the Rams can really look externally for much help. They're

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Speaker 1: going to have to find solutions within. That includes replacing

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Speaker 1: Colton Shelton, who we understand is going to be gone

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Speaker 1: a month or more. So let's start on the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: What might it look like against the Cowboys. Yeah, Well,

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford had a lot of confidence in Jeremiah Colonne,

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Speaker 1: even though they had never repped together in a team period.

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Speaker 1: In a practice before Colone stepped in really seemless Lee

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Speaker 1: and Stafford said he was constantly in his ear to

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Speaker 1: make sure he could just go play, and Stafford would

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Speaker 1: take care of the rest. So there's a chance we

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Speaker 1: see him at center, I would I would guess that's

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Speaker 1: probably the strongest chance. H McVay also mentioned there's a

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Speaker 1: possibility that they elevate Matt Scrow from the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: He's a veteran on there, someone who most people are

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Speaker 1: familiar with his time starting at center for the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: but he's also got experience starting at guard, so that's

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Speaker 1: kind of an interesting wrinkle there. If he does end

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Speaker 1: up getting activated off the practice squad, you could see

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Speaker 1: Bobby Evans at left guard again, and then of course,

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Speaker 1: you know you'll still have Joe Nopeum at left tackle,

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Speaker 1: Laric Jackson I'm sure we'll remain at right guard, and

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Speaker 1: of course you'll have Rob Havenstein at right tackle. The

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Speaker 1: other thing is too is they're you know, keeping their

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Speaker 1: options open with Brian Allen. So you know, while there's

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Speaker 1: You know they're they're leaving it up him for Allen

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Speaker 1: just kind of taking it day by day, and of

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Speaker 1: course they're just waiting to see what happens with David

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Speaker 1: they're hopeful that he'll be back this week. But as

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Speaker 1: McBay has mentioned before when talking about concussion protocol, you

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Speaker 1: can never be too careful or cautious with that. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts for that offensive line on

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Speaker 1: a short week. But we'll be fascinating to see how

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Speaker 1: that all comes together heading into Sunday. All right, d

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Speaker 1: far they may have optimism and confidence in what they

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Speaker 1: ran out there at the end of the San Francisco

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers loss. Having watched the All twenty two,

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Speaker 1: how bad was it? Is the offensive line really the

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Speaker 1: crux up the matter, both in terms of run and

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Speaker 1: more moving parts than the Space Shuttle, no doubt. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: is to have confidence in who's in front of you.

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Speaker 1: But those guys in front are going to have to

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Speaker 1: of Matthew Stafford this week. I mean they are a

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Speaker 1: second in sacks, third and opponent passer rating. They seldom blitz.

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Speaker 1: They've got their full complement of three safeties healthy and

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Speaker 1: available for this week five game at SOFI. All Right,

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Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood, I need reason for optimism, Help me spin

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Speaker 1: this forward, help me get my eyes on Sunday here

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Speaker 1: against the Star. Well, we know coach McVeagh. I know

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Speaker 1: you guys didn't get to sit down with him this week,

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Speaker 1: but I loved listening to general manager less sneed on

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Speaker 1: the coach mcface show with you guys this week, and

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Speaker 1: I think that this turn the page mentality for this

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Speaker 1: McVeigh he is. He probably didn't sleep Monday night at all,

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Speaker 1: drawing on whiteboards already planning for the Cowboys. Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 1: during his press conference a couple days ago, was like,

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Speaker 1: I don't even want to talk about the Mounday night

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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. That's what we're working on. I think

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Speaker 1: that this team coming out, you have Cup targeted nineteen times,

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Speaker 1: which is just unheard of insane. So all we have

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Speaker 1: But like you said earlier, JB, it was a one

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Speaker 1: there's optimism, yes, Do I feel this tension between allowing

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Speaker 1: you just don't have that option in the National Football

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Speaker 1: But there are other levers they can pull, whether it's

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Speaker 1: but McVay indicating this press conference this week, both at

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Speaker 1: not that was just exclusive for last week, and it

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Speaker 1: I have no doubt that McVeagh is working tirelessly to

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm literally looking at the available roster and

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out what other directions they might go.

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Speaker 1: You want to play more tight ends, try and extend

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Speaker 1: So maybe some stuff you haven't done before. So personnel wise,

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Speaker 1: to cover up that weakness. Stuart What about on defense

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Speaker 1: What do we know about Week five? Yeah, Well, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: Big bus that led to touchdowns, of course, but on

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Speaker 1: most nights they allowed a few enough points for their

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Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner had a great goal line stop and tackle

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Speaker 1: they when they happened. But otherwise, yeah, Jalen Ramsey got

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Speaker 1: you right now. You made me smile, Ricky. That's why

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Speaker 1: I'm trying not to smile. But come on, man, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo was on fire. He wasn't touched, he wasn't sacked.

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Speaker 1: football for two seconds? You gotta get you gotta get pressure.

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Speaker 1: have more than just Aaron That. That's another issue. I mean,

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Speaker 1: outside of Aaron Donald, who's your best pass rusher. Bobby Wagner, Well,

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Speaker 1: get more pressure on the quarterback from other from other areas.

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Speaker 1: Looking at the Cowboys, it's a Cooper against Cooper. Who's

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