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

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Speaker 1: Garcia and Derek Eagleton. Hey, guys, welcome back to another

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Speaker 1: episode of The Break. I remember Garcia joined by Nickiman,

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Speaker 1: number today, Nick, you want to, you want to know

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Speaker 1: have breaking news. Uh. Coach Mike McCarthy, just guess Enter,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess I means he tested positive,

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Speaker 1: he will not be on the side of the Thursday game,

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Speaker 1: him on the gatorade jug And he seems like somebody

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Speaker 1: So McCarthy is in COVID protocol. Uh. That brings the

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Speaker 1: This holiday season, it's the chance to get your photo

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Speaker 1: of Santa Santa Claus will be at this Cowboys theme

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Speaker 1: cottage at the Star District across from the Extension on

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Speaker 1: the Star Boulevard from November twenty sixth through December twenty fourth.

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Speaker 1: Visit Star District dot com slash Santa from more details.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the break. Although the loss against the

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Speaker 1: Raiders feels like ages ago, crazy, let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: game a little bit. Let's talk about what happened on

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Speaker 1: offense and since it is a very very short week

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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys playing this Thursday, another game over there

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Speaker 1: in New Orleans, let's talk about the things that need

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Speaker 1: to happen for this game and how do we condense

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Speaker 1: everything into a little segment here. Well, that's just I'm

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Speaker 1: this is probably the third time I've said it, but

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Speaker 1: like I'm just sitting here, like, well, can I wait

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Speaker 1: and see who all's even going to be available for

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Speaker 1: this game before I worry about what they need to

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Speaker 1: do or what's going to happen. I mean yesterday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like again, like we just kind of talked

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Speaker 1: about it, Like you get the Terrence Steel News on

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Speaker 1: Sunday morning and you're lying, okay, Like as far as

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Speaker 1: losing a guy to COVID goes, that's pretty manageable and Ceedee.

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Speaker 1: Lamb is supposed to be back this week. Amari Cooper

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Speaker 1: is supposed to be back in the building today, So

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Speaker 1: that's huge. And you would imagine Amari just coming off

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Speaker 1: the COVID list. He's probably not going to catch it

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Speaker 1: during this current outbreak. But but we we have no

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Speaker 1: clue and we'll probably, like I said, we'll probably be

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Speaker 1: kind of holding our breath and waiting for updates through

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Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon, if I had to guess. So that just

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Speaker 1: makes it kind of difficult for me. But on paper,

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Speaker 1: from a roster standpoint, they look like they're in a

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Speaker 1: decent spot to kind of have some guys back. I

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Speaker 1: already mentioned Lamb and Amar DeMarcus Lawrence has at least

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Speaker 1: a chance to play in this game. We'll have to

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Speaker 1: wait and see on that. But the roster is social

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Speaker 1: media alive. Yeah no, he's tweeting little gifts about being

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Speaker 1: back like he was like soon, so like, yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's this is what we've We're finally getting to the

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Speaker 1: point we've been talking about for a month of like okay,

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Speaker 1: they're they're starting to get some of these important players back,

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Speaker 1: and of course they're dealing with one of the larger

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Speaker 1: COVID outbreaks in the league this year. At the same time,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just always got to be something. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I guarantee there's a lot of fans out there

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Speaker 1: that are like, so, who cares a coach? I mean,

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Speaker 1: the players play coaches. Coach. That's that's true to you know, obviously.

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Speaker 1: But but if you're not prepared in this league, you

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Speaker 1: get your ass kicked. I mean, that's just that's just

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Speaker 1: the way it is. If you don't prepare, especially against

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Speaker 1: I mean, the Saints from a talent standpoint, do not

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Speaker 1: have the same players that the Cowboys do. What they have, though,

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Speaker 1: is an outstanding football coach in my opinion, and a

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Speaker 1: system that continues to work. And it's on Peyton. We

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Speaker 1: talked about the Saints fans, not Karen John. Payton really

479
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Speaker 1: doesn't care either. He wants to bring it in every game.

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Speaker 1: He loves playing against the Cowboys. He does a good

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Speaker 1: job obviously against them, and so if the Cowboys aren't

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Speaker 1: prepared this week, it's you know, getting d lawback, getting

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Speaker 1: the receivers back. All that sounds great, but it'll be tough.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be a very big challenge. Well,

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Speaker 1: I was just going to ask you with what you

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Speaker 1: just mentioned, and I know that they have said that

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Speaker 1: they're going to be holding virtual meetings and they're still

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Speaker 1: going to go through practice, but us speaking of preparation, like,

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Speaker 1: how does that look for you right now? Like how

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Speaker 1: do you think or expect that to affect the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: for this week's preparation. I would like to think that

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Speaker 1: it will feel familiar to them because this is the

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Speaker 1: type of stuff they had to do all through last season.

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Speaker 1: And you brought up the Ravens game last year that

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Speaker 1: got moved around eighteen times. I mean, they shouldn't be

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Speaker 1: strangers to this stuff. I mean, I know there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of new faces on this team, but most of

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Speaker 1: them were playing in the league last year when this

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Speaker 1: was common stuff, when you were doing everything virtually um,

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Speaker 1: when you kind of had to work with that tolerance

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Speaker 1: of ambiguity about what was going to happen the next day.

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Speaker 1: So they got their ass kicked a lot. They they

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Speaker 1: know they were. They thank you, Nick, just saying that's

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Speaker 1: not that's not a good thing, where you're like, well,

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Speaker 1: they did it. Last year, you know, I mean, like

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Speaker 1: I'm at least they have familiarity doing it. I guess

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Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying. I know, this whole thing is

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Speaker 1: weird because all these receivers that are coming back, it's

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Speaker 1: not like they practiced a lot last week. So a

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Speaker 1: lot of times, you know, you just have a carryover

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Speaker 1: for what you did last week. But last week the

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Speaker 1: two receivers weren't even in and they barely practiced much then,

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Speaker 1: you know, coming off of this, so you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: the league, okay, well, it's just you know, this is

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Speaker 1: what they want, all right. They want these games. They

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Speaker 1: want to play football when there's nothing else on. They

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Speaker 1: play the Thursday games and all this stuff. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is it is a challenge. You can say it

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Speaker 1: all you want to that this isn't a short week

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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. Yes it is. It is a short

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Speaker 1: week because last week was was very short. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're playing you're playing two games in ten eleven days,

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Speaker 1: and so are the Saints, and I get it, and

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Speaker 1: and but this is for when this kind of stuff

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Speaker 1: happens COVID and even there's gonna be guys that don't

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Speaker 1: have symptoms that are vaccinated, that might miss the game

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Speaker 1: because they just don't have the time. If I was

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Speaker 1: made commissioner for a day, I would abolish Thursday football

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Speaker 1: other than maybe the season opener and Thanksgiving would be

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Speaker 1: like one of the first three things I did. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just I it is or or you're coming off

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Speaker 1: a bye. Okay, that's I still figure that out. Coming

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Speaker 1: off a bye, you can play Thursday or whatever. I

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Speaker 1: just don't. I just don't think they should that every

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Speaker 1: team should have to do it, and like it's just like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: like we just we have a three day week this week.

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Speaker 1: That's just what it is. It's like, No, it's the

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Speaker 1: peak of hypocrisy to say you care about player safety

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Speaker 1: and make every team in the league do that. I

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Speaker 1: think it's awful. And I I mean, I'm part of

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Speaker 1: the problem because I'm gonna watch it if it's on ye.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I just I hate it. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: it does. It's a it doesn't make a lot of sense,

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Speaker 1: you know, with the word s now. If you spell

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Speaker 1: it with the sea, then yeah, it makes a lot

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Speaker 1: of sense. And that's what we care about. But um

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Speaker 1: dollars and sense I got don't know. It was good,

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Speaker 1: I was, I got it. Yeah, But anyway, U to

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Speaker 1: my favorite, my my favorite quote in recent years coming,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, what, Yeah, as Mike Tomlin famously said last year,

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Speaker 1: we do not care. Nobody cares and it's fun. I

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Speaker 1: I got I got some really fun perspective on this

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Speaker 1: game this week because my family was in town, diehard

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Speaker 1: Saints fans. Everybody thinks I'm a sleeper Saints fan. I

555
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Speaker 1: don't have time. I don't know anything about that team

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Speaker 1: other than like when the game week rolls around and

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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, let me see what the Saints are doing.

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Speaker 1: So all weekend, my family we're sitting here talking about

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Speaker 1: like Amari's coming back, Lamb's coming back, this is DeMarcus

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Speaker 1: is practicing over in Saints world. My parents and my

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Speaker 1: brother are like, well, yeah, Kamara should be back, Ryan

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Speaker 1: Ramschick and Toronto Armstead should be healthy for the first

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Speaker 1: time in a month. Taysom Hill might play for the

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Speaker 1: first time in a month. I'm like, oh, so they

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00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: sound like they might be ready for a challenge, just

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Speaker 1: in time for the Cowboys. Like just like clockwork, that's

567
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Speaker 1: how it happens that the Saints team that got its

568
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,679
Speaker 1: ass kicked by Buffalo and Philly was decimated just like

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys have been. And then that's everybody in the

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Speaker 1: league is dealing with it at this time of year.

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Speaker 1: Every team in the league is like, if we just

572
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Speaker 1: had so and so, if we could just do this,

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Speaker 1: and you know what, nobody cares. You gotta find a

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Speaker 1: way anyway. It sucks because speaking of short weeks, with

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Speaker 1: this Thursday, and I'll just realize, I'm like, okay, travel

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday. We wouldn't have a show on Wednesday. So

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Speaker 1: we gotta discuss the Saints offense, defense, how that game's

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Speaker 1: gonna look like against the was We haven't even talked

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Speaker 1: about really what happened with the Raiders, And you know

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Speaker 1: the main thing. I came out officials too, and oh

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Speaker 1: woe of the people when you get mad, let's talk

582
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: about the flags flag football. I don't want to see

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Speaker 1: Sean Hokule again. I just I just don't want to

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Speaker 1: have to look at his face again. And that's exactly

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Speaker 1: what I said this morn on the radio, Like how

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Speaker 1: many times and I don't know how many times Dak

587
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Speaker 1: Prescott got got shown by CBS or how many times

588
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Speaker 1: McCarthy so CBS. I don't know how many times they

589
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Speaker 1: show him in the middle of a game, but it's

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Speaker 1: probably thirty twenty five. There it means the quarterback. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but how many times did they show hockey Lee? I

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Speaker 1: mean thirty three times? Thirty three times? Even even to

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Speaker 1: say the penalty on seventy two whatever declined or whatever

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Speaker 1: it was, still they still threw the flag thirty something time.

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Speaker 1: That's I'm I don't even like, I don't feel like

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Speaker 1: it was even unfairly officiated toward the Cowboys, you know,

597
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 1: like that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying, keep your

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Speaker 1: flags in your pockets, you nerds, Like let the professional

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Speaker 1: football teams play football. Every single time, it felt like

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Speaker 1: the game was establishing that rhythm that kind of makes

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Speaker 1: it fun. Here comes there the ref crew to get

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Speaker 1: in the way. Okay, I mean the Raiders caught fourteen flags. Now,

603
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,719
Speaker 1: the Cowboys got most of the egregious ones, but like

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Speaker 1: they just they just wanted to be part of the narrative.

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Speaker 1: And I got real sick of it by half. So

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Speaker 1: we were sitting pretty close to each other, and at

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Speaker 1: one point Derek wasn't even sitting in between, so it

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Speaker 1: was just you and me, and we I mean, we

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Speaker 1: definitely want to see the Cowboys win. I do, at

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Speaker 1: least I want to see them win. I go go

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Speaker 1: down there. It's easier, way more fun. It's more fun.

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Speaker 1: It's odd easier. We want to see that. And there

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Speaker 1: was a point in the game where the Cowboys needed

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Speaker 1: a few breaks. The Raiders started getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: holding calls that were helping the Cowboys, like this would

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Speaker 1: help them here. If they score touchdown, the games over.

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Speaker 1: If they get a field goal, then there's a chance.

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Speaker 1: And that's what happened, and they called holding twice in

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Speaker 1: a row, and David I looked at each other and

620
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Speaker 1: like it was getting annoying, like are you serious, even

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Speaker 1: though the crowd cheered and it was like yes, move

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Speaker 1: them back and finally we get a call blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: But we were like, I'm tired of seeing this. Even

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Speaker 1: the last play, the kick off, yeah, he was like,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna block this damn kick. I don't care if

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Speaker 1: I'm two yards in the backfield. Yeah he turned it

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Speaker 1: into an extra point. But I mean, okay, Anthony Brown,

628
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Speaker 1: like like here, here's here's my thing about Anthony Brown.

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Speaker 1: If you're going to say that, Anthony, you know, like

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Speaker 1: I've I've heard it. I've seen it in the same tweet,

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Speaker 1: like the officials ruined the game. They killed us. They

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Speaker 1: they they don't love the Cowboys. They did this and that. Oh,

633
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: by the way, cut Anthony Brown, so one or the other,

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Speaker 1: like like blame Anthony Brown or the officials or whatever.

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Speaker 1: I don't think all four of those penalties probably should

636
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Speaker 1: have been called. I think two of them were good

637
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: and two of them were bad. Right, Anthony Brown has

638
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: had a good season. Um, he's had a much better

639
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: season than we thought, like expectation wise, he's he's he's

640
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: done way better than that before this game. But he's

641
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: but he's been a good corner. Not just about expectation,

642
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: he's been a good, solid player. Um, hasn't had a

643
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: lot of issues. So, you know, I just think it's ridiculous.

644
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: I mean, somebody, somebody tweeted me and that goes. If

645
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: they don't cut Anthony Brown, I'm gonna be a Ravens vandomorrow.

646
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: That's what I got. And I was like, well, lamar

647
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: is fun. I mean enjoy that, I mean cool, because

648
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,239
Speaker 1: he's not getting cut. I thought jay Ron Curse had

649
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: a great quote about AB. Somebody asked him after the game, like,

650
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: you know, what do you say to Anthony Brown after

651
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: a game like that? And like he looked legitimately confused.

652
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: He's like, what am I supposed to say to him?

653
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: Like he's been awesome for us this year? And you

654
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: have bad games, you're dB, You're gonna get beat. I

655
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: have all the faith in the world with him. He

656
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: said something else about like, you know, if you do

657
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: nine good things for a person and one bad thing,

658
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: they're gonna remember the one bad over the nine good.

659
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: It's definitely true with cornerbacks. I mean, yeah, whatever, we

660
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: defend AB on this show. I don't care if it

661
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: makes you mad. Like he's been he had a rough

662
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: night in Tampa, and he had a rough night on Thanksgiving.

663
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,239
Speaker 1: Other than that, he's been pretty damn good this year.

664
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Speaker 1: And this is how it's mostly gonna be. Anyways. We

665
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: see it happening when they're bashing on a guy, and

666
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: sometimes it's fair because they're not perfect. But then that

667
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: guy gets cut or leaves through free agency or whatever.

668
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 1: Then you got the next guy, and then that next

669
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: guy is the one getting attacked. So it's it's never

670
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: gonna end. There's always gonna be that guy that people

671
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: don't like, and it's just how it is. It's gonna happen,

672
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,840
Speaker 1: and it's he's just gonna be solid. Cut him. Decent

673
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: players sometimes and bats sometimes cut him for who I mean,

674
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: for Kelvin Joseph who got kicked out of the game,

675
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: and I mean, I don't think he should have been

676
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 1: kicked out of the game, but I thought that was ridiculous.

677
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: But like, he's not ready to play funny to just

678
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: pick this one point, people say, well, oh, that they

679
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: were picking on Anthony Brown. They're going to continue to

680
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: pick on him. They've been picking on Anthony Brown for

681
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: three years. They've done it all this year when dis

682
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: was doing all his things, they were kept throwing at

683
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown and it wasn't really working. So I mean,

684
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: he's he's been the guy. He's been the waal though

685
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: that Bucky always talks about for a while, and it

686
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: hasn't always worked out for the opposing team. So keep

687
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: doing it, keep trying it. I don't think that the officials,

688
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll call it that way. Every time. I

689
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: think he's he's he's still at this point he's still

690
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: had a good year. It's so, I mean, it's good on,

691
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: good on Derek Carr for recognizing the way the refs

692
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: were calling the game. But like the one that decided

693
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: the game's just so weak to me, Like by I

694
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: keep saying this, like by the strict letter of the law,

695
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,720
Speaker 1: you can throw a flag on it and you're not wrong.

696
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: But like he didn't touch the guy, the guy slowed

697
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: down his route. Derek Carr, he's a very good quarterback.

698
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 1: He likely underthrew it on purpose to create contact because

699
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: he knew he'd get a flag. Like he's good enough

700
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: to purposefully do that, And it's just it's just lame,

701
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: Like he didn't look back for the ball, but face

702
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 1: guarding's not a penalty. Like he did not aggressively make contact.

703
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: He'd pat his hands out as if to signify, like

704
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 1: I'm not touching this dude. He's just backing into me.

705
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: Because the ball was underthrown and the refs just wanted

706
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: to make it a not fun game. Yeah, and they

707
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: had already established I thought. See. The thing that bothered

708
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: me about it is that they they felt like, you know,

709
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: you could say, well, don't make that call at that

710
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: point in the game, which a lot of people would

711
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 1: rather than not do. But they'd already kind of played

712
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: those rules in the previous drive when the Cowboys were

713
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: driving Dalton Schultz got got interfered with over the middle two.

714
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 1: That ball could have been on the ten yard line

715
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: with about what twenty seconds to go, had chance to

716
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: maybe just win the game right there. It felt like

717
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: they didn't make that call because you're not going to

718
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: get that here are twenty seconds to go. That being said,

719
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: you hope that they continue that, and they didn't. Some

720
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: smart people brought up to me Hockeyle's crew did the

721
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: opener in Tampa and they threw that flag on Jordan

722
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: Lewis that kind of decided that game as well. So

723
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 1: they just didn't know they didn't didn't they didn't throw

724
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,880
Speaker 1: for OPI I'm sorry they didn't make that call. Yeah.

725
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: Let me throw this out there too about dan Quinn

726
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: and you know a lot of people were were upset

727
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: with the way that the coverage was in the game,

728
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 1: and you and I talked about this too. I think

729
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,479
Speaker 1: I think we did. It needs to be mentioned. It's

730
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: not third and eighteen. I mean, yes, that's what the

731
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: stick said. But twelve yards beats you. This isn't like

732
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, third and eighteen, get off the field.

733
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: This is you're protecting for a fuel goal and all

734
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: the Raiders get ten yards, They've already kicked a fifty

735
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: seven yard or here and they're going to kick another one.

736
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: So you they're trying to get in field goal, right,

737
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: So the coverage isn't necessarily make sure they don't get

738
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: eighteen yards and we can get off the field. No,

739
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: the coverage is, don't let them get six or seven

740
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,959
Speaker 1: yards here because they're gonna beat us with a field goal. Yeah,

741
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit different than a normal third

742
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: and eighteen. That's what Dan said on Friday. And I

743
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: just like Kellen Moore, like it's easy to hate a

744
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: play call when it doesn't work. But what Mica got.

745
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: Micah got to car for the first time on the

746
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 1: on that overtime possession. That was the that was the

747
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: first time they sacked him, right, Yeah, I just I

748
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: have no problem imagining like they drop in zone. Cars

749
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: got four seconds in the pocket, then he breaks contain,

750
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: steps up and hits a guy for sixteen yards. Like

751
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: the way that the defense pressured him aka they didn't. Yeah,

752
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: they didn't. It's very easy for me to imagine him

753
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: doing that. And then I everybody's like, oh, you play

754
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,720
Speaker 1: soft zone on third and eight? Are you kidding me again?

755
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: Quinn like, so, yeah, they called man a man coverage.

756
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,800
Speaker 1: They didn't work out. I don't have a problem with it.

757
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with it at all. I

758
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: kudos to Michael Parsons for getting a sack there and

759
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 1: over time because he was dog tired and because he

760
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: didn't really rotate that much. He played a lot of

761
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: the game and most all of it I think a

762
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: defensive end. I don't think he really rotated that much.

763
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: I don't remember that many plays where he was not

764
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: on the field, which is not normal for a pass rusher.

765
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: So that's been the knock on putting him at pass rushers,

766
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: like he has to come off the field. So they didn't.

767
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: They didn't take him up the field. He was really tired.

768
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: I think the case keeps going back and forth. Oh

769
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 1: is he an end? Is he a linebacker? I think

770
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 1: with these guys starting to come back and what we

771
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: saw from that game, I still think he's a linebacker.

772
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,399
Speaker 1: But he's got a rush to the passer when it's

773
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 1: time to rush the passer. And all I want in

774
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 1: life is to have Randy Gregory and DeMarcus Lawrence back

775
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: rushing as traditional ends, with Micah either hanging over the

776
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: strong side of the formation as an extra rusher or

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Speaker 1: just take that. Well, let's go ahead and take our

782
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Speaker 1: final break. When we come back, we'll keep talking about

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Speaker 1: So we talked about the refs, and we talked about

823
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: certain things, but I want to try to forget about

824
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Speaker 1: all those calls. Put in that aside whatever you can pick,

825
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Speaker 1: which was very very very hard, and Dave you mentioned

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Speaker 1: and it ruins the flow. Ezekiel Elliott mentioned it after

827
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: the game. He's like, you can never get in a

828
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: rhythm when you keep getting soopped every time. So looking

829
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,240
Speaker 1: at the game, at the plays that we were able

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Speaker 1: to see, what do you walk away with after that game,

831
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Speaker 1: whether that's on offense or defense, just in general, what

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Speaker 1: the cot was we're able to do or not do well.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think I'll start with a quarterback. He

834
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: needs to play better. I mean he does as I

835
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Speaker 1: just notice he's one of the Players of the Week

836
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: nominees for the quarterbacks. But I still feel like he

837
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: there were throws out there that he didn't make and

838
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: he got into a rhythm and every time Derek and

839
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Speaker 1: I talked about it, then he would make a play

840
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,879
Speaker 1: and he would get Speaking of Derek, you'd make a play.

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Speaker 1: Got the afternoon paper. Sorry, it's just a broad est jerke,

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Speaker 1: so broad est jerk there we have to throw in there. No,

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Speaker 1: it's kidding. I know what you've been going through. And

844
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: he would definitely like to have the paper and he'd

845
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: hit me with it if he had it. Um. We

846
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: were talking about dak Um needing to play a little bit,

847
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 1: talked about refs and we already talked about we did

848
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: the whole thing, man, we did it all. I missed

849
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 1: all of that. Yeah, favorite penalty over the weekend, Derek,

850
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: what favorite penalty? What was your favorite of all of them?

851
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: Quendi been doing that now? Favorite penalties, just anything you

852
00:42:18,239 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: want to invent. Let it out before we end the show.

853
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: I was just throwing out, Yeah, it's good. Divert the

854
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,320
Speaker 1: part that I was blaming. I'm not blaming Dak. I

855
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: just think he's got to play better. He yes, he

856
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 1: didn't have all his weapons. I get it, but there

857
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: are some throws out there that he's not making. And

858
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: it's been the last few games and he hasn't played

859
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,960
Speaker 1: his best football at all. And I would imagine he

860
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: stands up and says that, so this isn't you know,

861
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: that's great? I think I think he's been an outstanding quarterback.

862
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: There's nobody else I'd rather have right now than than

863
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:51,760
Speaker 1: than Dak. I say that because there's no other options,

864
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 1: because I mean, you can't know. I'm saying you can't

865
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: go get Aaron Rodgers or Mahomes or the Brady and

866
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: all that. He's the he's the best guy for this

867
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: team right now. But he's got to play better, and

868
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: I bet he'll He'll admit it. This offense needs to

869
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: have some kind of come to Jesus moment. They they've

870
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: lost their way a little bit, and I think it

871
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:15,120
Speaker 1: stems from for whatever reason, probably a lot of them.

872
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 1: The offensive line has been in flux. Zeke Elliot's hurt.

873
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: The run game is boo boo. It's not good right now,

874
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: and rather than trying to adapt around it, they seem

875
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: to be opting more for just like stubbornly trying to

876
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: force it, and it hasn't worked. They haven't been able

877
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: to get anything going on the ground, with the exception

878
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 1: of one trick play to Tony Pollard in Kansas City.

879
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: It's like, and to be, Nick's totally right, Like Da

880
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: Dak has been off for most of the last month.

881
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: He's missed so many uncharacteristic throws, his pocket awareness has

882
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 1: been off. But at the same time, he was and

883
00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: is capable of playing at an MVP level. And it

884
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: didn't really feel like they were comfortable putting the ball

885
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 1: in his hand until they had to in the fourth quarter,

886
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: And wouldn't you know, they zip up and down the

887
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: field throughout the fourth quarter. He I don't know off

888
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: the top of my head, but he probably had two

889
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,760
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty of his three hundred and seventy whatever

890
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: yards in the fourth quarter, partially his doing though, because

891
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 1: he wasn't that great in the first three quarters, sure,

892
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: but but I wonder it feels like with the amount

893
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: of guys that they have out, they are their game

894
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,319
Speaker 1: plans reflect like a college game where you know you're

895
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: the less talented team and you're like, how can we

896
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: stay on the field, How can we kind of just

897
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: keep the other guys out of this and just methodically

898
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: move it? And they don't have the pieces to do

899
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: that right now, And who knows, maybe it'll just magically

900
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 1: go back to being great with Amar and CD back

901
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: in the fold and all that good stuff. But I

902
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 1: just I don't like the way like they don't have

903
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: an identity right now, and they're it seems like they're

904
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,879
Speaker 1: calling these games as if they don't really trust any

905
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: of their pitches, so to speak. I think that in

906
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 1: and you guys said it last week, and I was

907
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: a little dubious of it, but Amari Cooper really matters,

908
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: and he matters a ton, and I think that's what

909
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: we saw at least these last two games. I think

910
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,399
Speaker 1: not having him matters probably more than any other guy

911
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: offensively other than the quarterback, because I think when he's out,

912
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: you can see that other guys just don't have that

913
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 1: ability when you run against a team that can match

914
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,240
Speaker 1: up with you pretty well. They just don't have anybody

915
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: else that's going to get open. I trust Amari to

916
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: get open, even in double coverage. He figures out ways

917
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,200
Speaker 1: to get open and present himself and create an opportunity

918
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 1: for the quarterback to make a completion. They don't have

919
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: that guy when he's not there other than possibly CD,

920
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:40,399
Speaker 1: and CD has been out the last game and a half.

921
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 1: So they just didn't have it this game. And that

922
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: I think, before I give too much to Dak not

923
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: being what I thought he was, I will give him

924
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: the benefit of doubt that he just didn't have guys

925
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: that were able to get open consistently. Because he made

926
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: some throws to gallop in this last game, they were

927
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: pretty good. You just can't do that every play, you know. Yeah, no,

928
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: I completely agree with you. But it's just since Denver

929
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: and they haven't had guys throughout that. You know, they

930
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: didn't have Tyron, they didn't have a Mari. But like

931
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: you just you haven't seen a consistency to generate that,

932
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 1: and like I said, like it just sort of feels

933
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: like Kellen Moore and I don't know this, I'm just speculating,

934
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: but he doesn't feel it doesn't I just don't feel

935
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:26,800
Speaker 1: this sense of confidence from their play calls, in the

936
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: way that they call things like it reminds me of

937
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: playing Madden and you like you don't feel confident and

938
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 1: you just wind up and you're like, all right, I

939
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: can I can hit this five yard out. I know

940
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:39,719
Speaker 1: I can do that, and I just maybe I can

941
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: just move down the field doing that and eventually it

942
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,360
Speaker 1: bites you. That's just kind of the impression that I

943
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: get from these guys is like, like I said, it's

944
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: like a pitcher who doesn't trust his pitches right now.

945
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: And hopefully getting these guys back will help with that.

946
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: But it hasn't been fun to watch Jazz. You guys

947
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: talk about the offensive line a lot, you missed a lot.

948
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: We covered some ground, y'all. Y'all did everything. I will

949
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: say real quick though, I heard you guys talking about

950
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: the coach and who should possibly be the head coach

951
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: this week. I actually think Rob Davis is right answer.

952
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 1: I know that's kind of crazy, but it allowed to

953
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: talk to well, I didn't talk to anybody. I saw

954
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: it on Twitter. I saw Brian talking about it with

955
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: someone and they threw out Rob Davis and because before that,

956
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: I was worried. I don't want my offensive play caller

957
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 1: and my defensive play caller to all of a sudden

958
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: not be my play caller and or focused on being

959
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: my play caller. And I don't want Bones being the

960
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 1: guy that's making the calls on managing the game, because

961
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: I think then you're you're asking, you're asking for some

962
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: stuff that maybe we don't want. Maybe I no, I

963
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: think Bones might be the answer because somebody I need

964
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 1: somebody to be able to tell him no, Like I

965
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:45,800
Speaker 1: don't need him to be the guy with his and

966
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: on the pulse, I mean, on the I don't think

967
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 1: you're crazy. I don't think you're crazy at all, because

968
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 1: we know what Mike McCarthy thinks of Rob Davis. And

969
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: again we talked about this before you were here, Like

970
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: Tom Palaceero's reporting it, and you should take that as

971
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: damn near gospel. When it comes to matters, he's going

972
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:05,720
Speaker 1: to have a bigger role. But that's a huge jump,

973
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: Like he's not like he doesn't coach a position, but no,

974
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: but think about it. The head coach on this team

975
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: as it's constructed, his main job is, Yeah, do we

976
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: need a time out right here? Uh do we want

977
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: to challenge this? And by the way, there's somebody in

978
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: his ear that's saying, hey guy, hey, challenge this. So

979
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: I mean, what is he really being asked to do

980
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: that he shouldn't be able to do, you know, it

981
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: seems so far out. And by the way, he does

982
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: have those other guys that can those other guys that

983
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,759
Speaker 1: can talk to like Dan can say hey, right here,

984
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:36,919
Speaker 1: you might want to think about this, Rob, right, yeah,

985
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:40,319
Speaker 1: just and just read the release that they sent out.

986
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: That's that's why if it is like if if it

987
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: is gonna be Rob Davis, it says this is what

988
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 1: the release from the team said. Dallas Cowboys head coach

989
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy has been entered into the NFL's COVID protocol

990
00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 1: calls this morning. Although he will not be on the

991
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: field for the Saints game, McCarthy will continue to direct

992
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: and be involved in all me and game preparations on

993
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:05,840
Speaker 1: a virtual basis. Now, is that just the preparation or

994
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: because it says he will not be on the field

995
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 1: for the game, he will continue to direct. So you

996
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:12,800
Speaker 1: are you saying maybe maybe they put him in a

997
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: suite somewhere isolated by himself and let him get to

998
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 1: New Orleans. But I think, I mean, but they don't.

999
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,760
Speaker 1: The league rules are telecommunications can't happen on the sideline.

1000
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: Can't actually make a phone call or have connection with

1001
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: somebody that's not in the coach's booth or on the

1002
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,720
Speaker 1: field like anybody else like you or I cannot have access.

1003
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: And I threw this out there. We can't put McCarthy

1004
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,800
Speaker 1: on zoom on a surface and hit that on the gatorage.

1005
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: Although I do think I do think in today's I

1006
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: do think in today's COVID world, I do think the

1007
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: league should think about that. Like, if you got a

1008
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:51,040
Speaker 1: coach that's out and he's just sitting at home and

1009
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 1: he's got no symptoms and he's watching his team play,

1010
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 1: what's the harm Like, it's not like you're doing something

1011
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 1: that I mean, he would be there anyway, So what's

1012
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,319
Speaker 1: the harm in having It's like, got a roster limit

1013
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: on coaches NICs we know around here, So I mean,

1014
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 1: it's just why not. I just think in today's well,

1015
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: you probably should. I don't know. I just across this league,

1016
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: like two thirds of the head coaches in this league

1017
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 1: call plays for some somebody offense or defense. Sean Payton's

1018
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 1: going to be doing it on Thursday night, So Dan Quinn,

1019
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,319
Speaker 1: I just don't feel like that. Why Dan didn't call

1020
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:27,239
Speaker 1: it in Atlanta? Well, I get that, but these are

1021
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: extenuating circumstances like this is a it's a weird situation.

1022
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. You just gotta do what you gotta do.

1023
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:34,600
Speaker 1: I just feel like a head coach, the head coach here,

1024
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: he has a very limited scope on what he has

1025
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: to manage on game day. I think you could do

1026
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 1: that with somebody else and not disrupt what you're doing

1027
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 1: offensivelian defensively. I mean, I don't think you're crazy. Like

1028
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: I said, there's a lot of reasons why you could

1029
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: read those tea leaves. No, I don't think you're crazy

1030
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: for suggesting it. I don't know that it's the best idea.

1031
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: I think we could put Nick down there as the

1032
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 1: head coach for this game and you'd be fine. Like again,

1033
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: it's not give me a shot, Jerry, it's now gonna

1034
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: go for it on every fourth. You know what would happen?

1035
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: Ice crunching your Yeah, coaches are getting pissed at you.

1036
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: I think we all know what would happen and flor

1037
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:11,319
Speaker 1: fleeflicker would definitely Did you see that in the Giants game?

1038
00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: I thought about you and I was looking on Twitter.

1039
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:16,440
Speaker 1: Nobody said anything. I get it. I get every fleeflicker.

1040
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: When Holy Cross does it against Dartmouth, I get. I

1041
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen a fleeflicker screen though. That

1042
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 1: was kind of weird. But I saw the fake flee

1043
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: flicker the other day. The guy ran into the line,

1044
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: faked it, came back. Man, he went like fourteen yards

1045
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: up the middle. I was like, whoa one other thing

1046
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:33,839
Speaker 1: you could do? Awful fleeflicker. A lot of fakes going

1047
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 1: on there, A lot of stuff happened this. Imagine like

1048
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: every time the Cowboys get beyond their own thirty five,

1049
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,319
Speaker 1: you just go for it. Every time that's four out

1050
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: of six on fourth down, Cowboys score thirty eight points.

1051
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: Sounds awesome. You're just over there rubbing the eyebrows. Just

1052
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,800
Speaker 1: I'm here and I got I got the playheet on

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Speaker 1: one hand and rubbing the eyebrow with the other. Would

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Speaker 1: you still get on Twitter though, in the middle of

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Speaker 1: I'm not allowed, he would try. You'd have a boy'd

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Speaker 1: be losing his mind that he wasn't on his phone. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would at Helman DC just tweets in the second

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Speaker 1: quarter like get ready for this guy, suggestions anyone awesome

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Speaker 1: sounds fun. Well, unfortunately that is all the time we have.

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Speaker 1: I feel like there's so much more to talk about.

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Speaker 1: We got another day tomorrow. Yeah, we do have another

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Speaker 1: day tomorrow. I just hope, I just hope that this

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Speaker 1: is all still relevant in two hours. Honestly, this is

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Speaker 1: crazy times, guys, crazy times. Well, do you want to

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Speaker 1: do the honors? Sure? We appreciate you, guys, Jonas. We'll

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Speaker 1: be back tomorrow. We'll have lots to talk about and

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Speaker 1: we'll get you ready for Cowboys versus Saints. Till then

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