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Speaker 1: It is Monday, November twelve, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode

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Speaker 1: number seventy eight. Welcome to another edition of The Break,

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Speaker 1: live in the SWBC Board of Studios. At the start,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm the only one with some energy

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Speaker 1: here today. Let's go. No, what is wrong with you?

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Espresso does wonders. Let's see when when

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Speaker 1: we we took off yesterday. Yeah, I mean, like I know,

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Speaker 1: Dave was grinding, working, pretty good working. I was working.

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Speaker 1: Amber wasn't working. I was sitting beside her. Amber was.

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Speaker 1: At one point I looked over at Amber and Amber

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Speaker 1: little more to do. Yeah, I know what they were like. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I was done with everything when we hit the tarmac. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that game took It took a lot of everyone, really,

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Speaker 1: including the players. I don't think I've heard a and

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Speaker 1: quiet after a big win. Yeah, I know, it was

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Speaker 1: a that was a tough game that they went against.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna talk about a lot of the

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Speaker 1: things that happens, but I don't want this one thing

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Speaker 1: last week, and it started with Dave's assessment of what

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Speaker 1: He took some contact to the region that you're talking about.

427
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that here later on Tommy John

428
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Speaker 1: I I I mean, I don't I don't, like I said,

429
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Speaker 1: I don't get it, and I don't Maybe Zaviers, Okay,

430
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Speaker 1: everybody is angry in the NFL like that, talk about

431
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Speaker 1: Christopher Shard's talking about Ahead. I mean, maybe zue Xavier

432
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Speaker 1: sue a Philo. You know, he's he's a highly talented

433
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Speaker 1: guy who's a top forty pick. He's bigger, more experienced,

434
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Speaker 1: more powerful than Connor Williams. But am I to believe

435
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Speaker 1: he said he was top forty pick? Yeah, he was

436
00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:56,440
Speaker 1: Connor selected sixty. Okay, I'm just I'm just asking like

437
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Speaker 1: he also, I mean he also didn't catch on between drafted.

438
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 1: I understand that. What the reason why I say it

439
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 1: like that is because The one thing that I think

440
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Speaker 1: we've talked about before on this show is when you've

441
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 1: got a guy like Tyren Smith beside you, you don't

442
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 1: necessarily have to be great. He was what we saw

443
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Speaker 1: with Cooper. Cooper hasn't been great. He was a first

444
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Speaker 1: round pick. He hasn't been great in his career, but

445
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Speaker 1: you put him beside beside Tyron and he had a

446
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Speaker 1: pretty good year last year. Donathan Cooper. Yeah. So all

447
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,720
Speaker 1: I'm saying is, and I talked about this before the show,

448
00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:27,880
Speaker 1: could we find a situation where because he is stronger

449
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 1: and more acclimated to the NFL game, he is a

450
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Speaker 1: better solution for you right now, not necessarily down the line,

451
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Speaker 1: but a better solution right now than Connor Williams. Letting

452
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Speaker 1: me go back to my point, which is that I refused.

453
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Speaker 1: I refused to believe it. I refuse to believe that

454
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Speaker 1: he's the difference between not getting fifty yards rushing against

455
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Speaker 1: Washington Houston and this like, are you are you kidding me?

456
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,399
Speaker 1: One hundred and seventy one yards one hundred and fifty

457
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Speaker 1: one for Zeke on nineteen carries. That is a college line.

458
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,080
Speaker 1: That is what Adrian Peterson does to Iowa State. He's like,

459
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Speaker 1: let me go out here and mess around and I'm

460
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Speaker 1: gonna rip half of these for forty and nobody can

461
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Speaker 1: really hang with me. Like this doesn't happen in the NFL. Now.

462
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's the difference, but can you at

463
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Speaker 1: least allow for the fact that he is a part

464
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Speaker 1: of the difference. Oh yeah, that was part of it.

465
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Speaker 1: I think you know what Amber said earlier. The offense

466
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Speaker 1: did great, but the defense. Really the stems from the defense.

467
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Speaker 1: Think about it. This team, I don't know if all

468
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Speaker 1: coaches do this, but this team will go away from

469
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Speaker 1: their game plan if they get down, if they get

470
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Speaker 1: down by seven or ten, you know, the score was

471
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Speaker 1: prohibitive and they have to change. But the defense made

472
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Speaker 1: sure that that never happened. The Cowboys never trailed this game, actually,

473
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Speaker 1: and so the defense kept them to a point where

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Speaker 1: they could still be patient and run the offense that

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Speaker 1: they want to do. And I thought, you know, it

476
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Speaker 1: just kept coming back to the defense. The defense kept

477
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Speaker 1: putting him in situations good field position, gotta turnover, got

478
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Speaker 1: off the field at times. Just every time. There's so

479
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Speaker 1: many boxing references here, but every time they were kind

480
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Speaker 1: of staggered. They just came back and then they kept fighting.

481
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Speaker 1: We obviously need to talk about the defense. They were amazing,

482
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Speaker 1: but just one. I mean I'd have to go pull

483
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Speaker 1: the stats, but I feel comfortable betting that there were

484
00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: at least three or four games this season where Zeke

485
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,959
Speaker 1: didn't have a run longer than fifteen yards. He had

486
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Speaker 1: about five of those last night. I mean it was

487
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Speaker 1: it was just the staggering difference. And Xavier Suafilo. Give

488
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Speaker 1: credit to Mark Colombo, like, I'm sure he's had more

489
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Speaker 1: time to install some of the changes he wants to make,

490
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Speaker 1: more zone blocking runs, some stuff they're more familiar with.

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Speaker 1: I thought Tyrn Smith played maybe his best game of

492
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Speaker 1: the year last night. But to just drag a top

493
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Speaker 1: level run defense like that, especially, I mean if this

494
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Speaker 1: was twenty sixteen and they'd been doing it to everybody

495
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:48,680
Speaker 1: all year, I wouldn't bat an eye. But this running

496
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 1: game has struggled to play up to it's standard all

497
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Speaker 1: year long, So to break out like that against the

498
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Speaker 1: defense that good was really impressive. Yeah, I think what's

499
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Speaker 1: what's not being talked about enough right now in our

500
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Speaker 1: show about Suafhilo, though, is who he did it. Against

501
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Speaker 1: I mean, if that was Marco Branch or some random dude.

502
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Speaker 1: I know he's not a player, that was just some

503
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Speaker 1: random dude out there, but you know that would have

504
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Speaker 1: been just the random dude, the random defensive tackle. Then

505
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Speaker 1: you're like, okay, but this was Fletcher Coppins And how

506
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: much did we talk last week about how great this

507
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Speaker 1: guy is? And those first couple of series he was

508
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Speaker 1: moving around and making you know he was in the mix,

509
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Speaker 1: and after that, I don't remember hearing much from him

510
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Speaker 1: the rest of the game, and that has to be

511
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Speaker 1: accounted for. And when you're talking about Suepilo, I think

512
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Speaker 1: you have to mention the fact that that's the guy

513
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Speaker 1: he went against for a good part of the night

514
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Speaker 1: and basically shut him down. It is worth noting that

515
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Speaker 1: top notch defensive tackles have messed things up for this

516
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Speaker 1: team all year. Kawan Shore, Jonathan Allen, and Ron Payne.

517
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna step out on a limb. I don't know

518
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Speaker 1: this for sure, but I'm gonna step out on a

519
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Speaker 1: limb and say Connor probably won't be ready to play

520
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Speaker 1: against Atlanta. If I had to guess he had a scope, well,

521
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Speaker 1: I think I would guess Suaphilo will get another start.

522
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Speaker 1: He's gonna have a Grady Jarret's pretty damn good player too.

523
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Speaker 1: We can get into that. Yeah, we'll see what you're

524
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Speaker 1: gonna happen if it If it happens again, then then

525
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Speaker 1: I think you got yourself a conversation about who needs

526
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Speaker 1: to be starting at left guard and the Redskins, that's

527
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Speaker 1: another one that'll be I mean, he's gonna have some well,

528
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Speaker 1: like I mean Randy, Randy Gregory got the same procedure

529
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Speaker 1: heading into the bye week, and he played last night,

530
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Speaker 1: played well. I don't know if we're gonna get into him.

531
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Speaker 1: He really did a nice job he's played. I think

532
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Speaker 1: injury will provide Zavier Suaphilo at least one more opportunity

533
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Speaker 1: if I had to guess, So we'll see what he

534
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Speaker 1: does with it. Yep, all right. Um. We talked a

535
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Speaker 1: little bit about the offensive line and dak Um. I

536
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,439
Speaker 1: don't know if we spent enough time talking about Amari

537
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Speaker 1: Cooper Um. And the reason why is because I wanted

538
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Speaker 1: to ask you guys the question, what is the best

539
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: thing that he provides this offense? You look at how

540
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Speaker 1: he performed last night. It really over the last two weeks,

541
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Speaker 1: he's made like a he's been able to get himself open.

542
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: He tends to make the catch. We haven't seen him

543
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Speaker 1: drop balls, and there have been more times than not

544
00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 1: that he's been even open on some players that the

545
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,159
Speaker 1: ball just didn't connect and he in the quarterback didn't connect.

546
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Speaker 1: What is the best thing that he brings to this

547
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Speaker 1: offense at this point, Well, I think it's his route running.

548
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,239
Speaker 1: I think that his ability. He understands what defenses are

549
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 1: trying to do to him, and he just knows how

550
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Speaker 1: to get open. And you know, he didn't do a

551
00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 1: lot to get to get deep on that that one

552
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: throw that Dak missed him. But he just he just

553
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 1: kind of knows how to just run by a guy

554
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: or get open and just kind of uses his body

555
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: to his strength. He's just a smart player. He is.

556
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Speaker 1: He's kind of a student of the game. He knows

557
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Speaker 1: what he can do out there in the field. And

558
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Speaker 1: I think that it's just a he's not flashy, But

559
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: they don't need that. They really don't need that. They

560
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 1: just need a guy that understands how to get open,

561
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Speaker 1: and he does that. Well, Yeah, he seems like a

562
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: technician and I don't know, the jury is still out

563
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,440
Speaker 1: for me because he played well against Tennessee and it

564
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: didn't help anybody else. It did, I mean, it didn't

565
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:04,400
Speaker 1: help Cole Beasley, that's for sure. I want to see more,

566
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,199
Speaker 1: but I have to believe that if he can continue

567
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 1: to play like this, it'll keep opening opportunities up for Beasley, Gallup, Hearns, Zeke, etc. Yeah.

568
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: And you know, interesting thing that you just mentioned, you

569
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: said he's not flashy. I think everything about that fits

570
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: this team. You kind of want if you're gonna have

571
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Speaker 1: a number one receiver, you kind of want the kind

572
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: of guy that makes the plays that are there and

573
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Speaker 1: is okay with the idea that some weeks they may

574
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Speaker 1: not need him as much because the running game is

575
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: still going to be the predominant thing. But he will

576
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: make those those underneath catches as well. The five for

577
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: fifty eight, the you know, the six for seventy five,

578
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: those are huge days. But he made some catches yesterday

579
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,400
Speaker 1: that made a difference. The best receiver in the game

580
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: right now this year is not flashy at all. He's

581
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:53,159
Speaker 1: actually kind of boring. Who Michael Thomas he pulled a

582
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: phone on in the end zone after he scored. That's

583
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,119
Speaker 1: kind of fresh. Still pretty now, you get it. I

584
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:00,600
Speaker 1: thought you're going to him he did it for them,

585
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,439
Speaker 1: you know what, for the purposes of giving homage to us,

586
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: you know, to do that. I thought he was going

587
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,960
Speaker 1: to say, Adam Feeling, I thought so too. Yeah, yeah,

588
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,639
Speaker 1: he's pretty good. AJ Green wouldn't isn't really you know, flashy.

589
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: He's not playing anymore right now, he's but I mean,

590
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: Hulil Jones, those guys right there, I think Antonio Brown

591
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: and Odell Beckham are your flashy receivers like that. These

592
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: other guys, they get their job done. And that's okay.

593
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: I don't know where Cooper ranks on all that. He

594
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: would probably be in the top twenty, but you know,

595
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: but they do have a number one or two running

596
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,400
Speaker 1: back in the league, and so and he's pretty flashy

597
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: and so it I think you said it best. It's

598
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: just like how he fits this team and what they

599
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: need and they need that. And I think the Cowboys

600
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: have have have learned, you know, they learned their lesson

601
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: this year that they thought they didn't need a number

602
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 1: one and a true number one, and and I think

603
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: that they've figured out that they do and it helps,

604
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: and it helped last night. Dave, You're right, didn't really

605
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: help that first game. We'll see how it helps in Atlanta.

606
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: I'm moving forward, but yeah, we'll say I do think

607
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: it kind of helped in the first game. Now, there

608
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: were a lot of other things that were going round

609
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: in that first game, but that's when we first started

610
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: to see his ability to be able to get open

611
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 1: and present himself in a way that where the quarterback

612
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: could get makes some easy throws. Super for sure, I

613
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: just didn't trickle down effect did not did not happen

614
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: against the Titans. And you know what you might end

615
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: up seeing is you might end up seeing that the

616
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: more he's in this offense, the more that it helps.

617
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Speaker 1: Last night could have been the byproduct of that. Where

618
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: the Eagles went into the game may be saying, we're

619
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: depleted a set in the secondary. We know this guy

620
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: has some ability, we gotta pay a little bit more

621
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Speaker 1: attention to him. The running game starts opening up a

622
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: little bit more than it has to this point. So

623
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Speaker 1: I think you have to factor all that stuff in

624
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: because you don't really know what the difference was, but

625
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 1: it has to be a part of the factor, right,

626
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the defense. Say that was

627
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: actually where I wanted to start the show, and Nick

628
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: just kind of laughed at me and said, really, after

629
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Speaker 1: the running back did what he did, but I think

630
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: equal but I think equally as impressive was what your

631
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Speaker 1: linebacker Layton vander Esch did. Thirteen solo tackles yesterday. He

632
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 1: had one tackle for a loss, one interception, which that

633
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: happens early in the game. You almost forget about it.

634
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: It was like his least impressive play obviously, right. He

635
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: was just all over the place and he was making tackles.

636
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the tackle for a lot. I mean,

637
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: this team does anything this year and where we're still

638
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: talking about plays throughout the year, that one's gonna go

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Speaker 1: down as one. That was a huge, huge play. The

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Speaker 1: tackle for a loss. He had no business making that play.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's two guys out there to block him

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Speaker 1: for him for the way, yeah, yeah, yeah, to block him,

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Speaker 1: and Clement's gonna go for a little bit and this

644
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Speaker 1: game is gonna be totally different, probably gonna go into

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Speaker 1: overtime maybe, and he just snuffs it out and goes

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Speaker 1: and makes the play. I mean, that's a veteran like play.

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Speaker 1: It was not a Shawn Lee type play. It was

648
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Speaker 1: Sean Lee. Like literally, Sean Lee made the same play

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen against Darren sproles at and t took

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Speaker 1: him out of field goal rang and changed the whole

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Speaker 1: game senate to overtime win and wins the game. Same things,

652
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Speaker 1: just the old dynamic of the of the franchise. In

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Speaker 1: my opinion, I really think that play changed everything because

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Speaker 1: if he doesn't make that play, and there's almost starts

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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks, pointnant but valid, point yeah

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Speaker 1: is going to start because Dak was horrible that game.

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Speaker 1: But then the Dak was like, you know what, let's

658
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Speaker 1: go win the game. Let's go tie the game, Let's

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Speaker 1: go win the game. That changed the whole France. But

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Speaker 1: that play reminded me of that. I mean, if if

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Speaker 1: the play is even moderately successful, it's probably a first

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Speaker 1: down or at least a fourth and short, and instead

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Speaker 1: just completely ruined it. His instincts are off the charts,

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Speaker 1: and if you go back and watch it, like he

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Speaker 1: he said it after the game, but you can tell

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Speaker 1: he knew what was coming before before Clement even had

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Speaker 1: the ball. He was already he had already diagnosed it.

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Speaker 1: His instincts are uh freaky for a rookie. I think, um,

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Speaker 1: he looked awesome. So here's a big picture question when

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Speaker 1: suddenly comes exact same want. Do you want Layton Vanderesh

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Speaker 1: off the field at any point during the game, because

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Speaker 1: that's what it's going to require. It's going to require

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Speaker 1: a rotation, which is that's what they were doing before

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Speaker 1: Sean got hurt, between those three lineback which when they

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Speaker 1: would go to Nickel, you would see that one of

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Speaker 1: them would be off the field and the other two

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00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: would be. Honest, they just kind of rotated the three.

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Speaker 1: Do you want scenarios where where Vanderesh is off the field?

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Speaker 1: First of all, they're calling this afford a six week

680
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Speaker 1: injury in the first place, So like that's future Dave's problem,

681
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: that's future Cowboys problem. Like I don't think I don't

682
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Speaker 1: think Sean Lee is going to be back until December,

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Speaker 1: and at that point, who knows what the season looks

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Speaker 1: like anyway, But if you know, I trust Sean Lee,

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Speaker 1: Shawn Lee is one of the best defensive players in

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Speaker 1: the recent memory of this franchise. They can rotate them

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Speaker 1: and it'll be fine. There's It's what we've been saying

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Speaker 1: since July. There's more than enough tackles to go around,

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Speaker 1: assuming Sean is healthy. I got to go back to

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Speaker 1: the interview we did on the field in the pregame

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Speaker 1: show with Stephen because he said something, you know, I

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Speaker 1: was just thinking about the next question or something, but

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Speaker 1: he said something like this tonight, we finally have the

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Speaker 1: way it should be, where we have two linebackers and

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Speaker 1: you play and you know, you have the two starters

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Speaker 1: and you don't really rotate. And he kind of said

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Speaker 1: it like that on Stephen. I gotta go listen to

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Speaker 1: it again, but it just made it sound like it

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Speaker 1: was like he's like, Oh, we don't actually want to

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Speaker 1: be rotating. Kind of Yeah, we got our two guys

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Speaker 1: and they're really good, so we have them out all

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Speaker 1: the time, which is what they should do, because I mean,

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Speaker 1: these two are playing better. Yeah, they're healthier. And if

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Speaker 1: Sean Lee Gunna rotates in that that'll be fine. But

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Speaker 1: that's and that I at this point, if he misses

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Speaker 1: six weeks and comes back in December, it's Sean Lee

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Speaker 1: that should be rotating in right right, not late in Vanderesh. Well,

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Speaker 1: but that's the thing. How much you rotating him in?

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Speaker 1: Is this a twenty snap of game type situation? Every

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Speaker 1: thirty game is every third series? I don't know, and

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Speaker 1: maybe rotate for for Jalen. We're still not talking late.

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Speaker 1: We're still not talking about the great game that this

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Speaker 1: defense played right now. No, we're talking about late, but

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Speaker 1: we have another twenty eight. Really yet was good? But

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Speaker 1: was he the best? Is Xavier? No? No, And I

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Speaker 1: know they say their names differently, Xavier Xavier, Xavier Xavier Woods. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he was great. You know what was funny? Best game

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Speaker 1: of his career. It was probably after the maybe about

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Speaker 1: the first quarter or so. I looked over at Nick

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Speaker 1: and said, man, Xavier's not having a good night because

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Speaker 1: he had a couple of miss tackles and I was

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Speaker 1: just kind of like, I don't know what's going on.

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Speaker 1: And sure enough, on que he made a play and

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Speaker 1: then made another play and it just kind of kept coming.

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Speaker 1: And I was like, man, okay, well that that's take

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Speaker 1: Take whatever I said at the beginning of the game

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Speaker 1: and just get rid of that because he had just

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Speaker 1: a really really great game. What play was that he got?

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Speaker 1: It was probably they no, No, well no, but I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking I think it was Arts, because Arts did everything

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Speaker 1: for them last night. But he took a terrible angle

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Speaker 1: and then Ertz just dragged him like a sack of

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Speaker 1: potatoes for about five yards. And that was early in

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Speaker 1: the game. It was and I was like, and I'm like, oh, Xavier,

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Speaker 1: come on, dude. And then he spent the next two

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Speaker 1: hours erasing that from my memory. He played three pass breakups,

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Speaker 1: saved a touchdown, Uh did one? One of them was

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Speaker 1: in nickel coverage or third and two that forced him

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Speaker 1: to try or either forced them to try a field

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Speaker 1: goal or it forced him to go for it. I

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Speaker 1: don't remember. They've failed either way. So yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: on third down and then on fourth down they got stopped.

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Speaker 1: But he made a nice play out there in the

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Speaker 1: flat front the Eagles bench, which and you know, Layton

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Speaker 1: vander esh deserves all the credit. He's the wolf hunter.

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Speaker 1: He played like a beast. Jale Smith. J Smith not

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Speaker 1: too bad either. He annihilated that guy on the fourth

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Speaker 1: and one. Just got about four other guys that played.

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Speaker 1: Oh we'll tell you what, let's go to break. When

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Speaker 1: we come back from break, Nick's gonna run down those

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Speaker 1: four guys and we may even get to your five

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Speaker 1: to win that game. You know, it's interesting. I haven't

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Speaker 1: they would play them regardless because they play the South.

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Speaker 1: But they got the Saints next. Wait, the Eagles have

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Speaker 1: the Saints next, so what's saying? Okay, yeah, and the

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Speaker 1: Redskins have the Texans next, who are on a really

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Speaker 1: really they're probably one of the hottest teams in the

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Speaker 1: league right now. They've gotten on a nice little role

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Speaker 1: of here. You know, every one of the Cowboys losses

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Speaker 1: I mean even and it seems like every time they've

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Speaker 1: Seattle sucks. So then Seattle gets hot, and Houston got hot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the Redskins have been pretty hot. And then Titans,

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Speaker 1: Didn't make that loss look so bad from Monday nights.

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Speaker 1: So it just looks like we're finding out a little

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Speaker 1: it looked bad. Maybe arn't is bad. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: you know, we're still finding out a lot about this league.

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Speaker 1: I think there's three really good teams right now in

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Speaker 1: the league. That's I think that's and then everyone else's.

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Speaker 1: You said that five months ago. There's four or five

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Literally, I feel confident that the Rams,

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00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: feel confident about any other team, but I will say this,

850
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: and we've seen this happen in the NFL, those teams,

851
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: I would I would be willing to put money on

852
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,879
Speaker 1: it that there will be another one, two, maybe three

853
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,720
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL that at this point we're starting

854
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: to say, huh that at the end of the season,

855
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:58,239
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be right there in the mix. I think

856
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's want to say if what I'm mean by that

857
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: is just like it's hard to tell right now who

858
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: are going to be the dominant teams because s teams

859
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: start getting on their roles here at the middle of

860
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: the season, like Pittsburgh's doing, like Chicago, Like there are

861
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: some teams that that will get it going right now

862
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: and through the rest of the year, will play like

863
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,240
Speaker 1: those teams have played through the beginning of the season,

864
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: and and one of those teams that you think right

865
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: now is just unbeatable will probably cool a bit. And

866
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 1: that's just how the NFL works over and over a

867
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 1: seventeen I don't think those Your point is well made,

868
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: and you're absolutely I mean, I've bet on Pittsburgh's gonna

869
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: be in the AFC title game. They're going to be,

870
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: no doubt about right now. But I don't see I

871
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: don't see Kansas City, LA or New Orleans fading away

872
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: unless something terrible happens to them, like a you know,

873
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: a drastic injury or something like that. You know too,

874
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,439
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Well, those things happen in the NFL.

875
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: Going into Week ten, two teams in the league that

876
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: you thought were pretty good, I mean, they got pretty

877
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: good records that they're gonna be in the mix here.

878
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 1: They both got fifty put on them this week, the

879
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: Bengals and the Panthers. So yeah, weird, that's this is

880
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: a Tuesday talk. It is. Sorry, let's get back to

881
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: this defense. Nick, you said you had some players you

882
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 1: wanted to throw out there that we didn't mention on

883
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:07,399
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the bay. I thought the best

884
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: defensive tackle in the game last night was Tyrone Crawford.

885
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: I thought he was he played better than than Fletcher Cox.

886
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: He's not a better player than Fletcher Coox, but he

887
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: really did a nice job. He's quietly had a really

888
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,439
Speaker 1: good season irving spending and out of the lineup, he's

889
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: kind of moved around. He's played really well. I thought

890
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory had the best play of his career with

891
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: that sack. Showed some freakish skills. Don't forget about that

892
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: play in the last end of the game. Yeah, he

893
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: was great. Yeah, Jeff, he you know, he's had a

894
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: really nice tackle there at the end on arts Um.

895
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: Of course he had the special team's play had eight tackles.

896
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: I thought. I thought he did a nice job. Cheeto

897
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: had a really big play in the game too. I

898
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: was gonna ask the fact that and I agree with, like,

899
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: all those guys played great, but we got that far

900
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: down the line without mentioning Cheeto was probably the best

901
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: play of his career at this point. That was that

902
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 1: was big that we were both Nick and I. The

903
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: angle that we had on that play. It looked like

904
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 1: that was just going to be a touchdown and we

905
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: were like, oh oh oh, and then all of a

906
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: sudden he comes flying in there. That I had the

907
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: binoculars on that guy, so it was really close and

908
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't see anyone that all of

909
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: a sudden he comes flying in. That was the If

910
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: we want to go five plays, that was the first one.

911
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: We'll talk me through those five plays. What were the

912
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: five plays in yesterday's game? And for those of you

913
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: who don't know, Nick writes an article every week where

914
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: he details is five plays from the games that you

915
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: may have missed or you may not consider, but they

916
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: are plays that change the game. Nicholas, that one right

917
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 1: there we talked about. The Eagles were driving. It was

918
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: a third down play. He was our second down play.

919
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: He looked wide open down the sideline and Cheeto comes

920
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: in and knocks it out. They get a field goal

921
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: only to make it six to three. I thought that

922
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: was a really big play. They come back on the

923
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: next series and Peterson's calling time out to try to

924
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: get the ball back. He's helping the Cowboys third and fifteen.

925
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: Good play call there for gallup twenty five yard play

926
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: that flipped the whole game around. The Cowboys are just

927
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 1: trying to eat up the clock and gets you know, halftime,

928
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: twenty five yards play. All of a sudden, now the

929
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 1: Cowboys are going score and scoring. Um. I thought, I'm

930
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,160
Speaker 1: actually don't have him in front of me. But there's

931
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: there's a couple there down at the end in the

932
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I'm gonna skip to the one right before

933
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: Zeke's game winning touchdown first and goal in the nine

934
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: four forty two to go. The fact that he did

935
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: not score on first and second down was big. I

936
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 1: used trying to score, you're trying to take the lead.

937
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: But the fact that it went seventy yards and then

938
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: one and then he scores that took off seventy four seconds.

939
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: Seventy four seconds there when you get to the final minute,

940
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: you know, the final few seconds of the game, they're

941
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: all precious. So seventy four seconds to score that that

942
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 1: that definitely changed the course of of what the Eagles

943
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: were trying to do. And I don't have it all

944
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: in front of me either. I'm missing a couple of

945
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,799
Speaker 1: there in the third quarter that were that were big,

946
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 1: but uh, I can't think of it right now. I

947
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 1: wasn't prepared, damn you. I know, I'm trying to think.

948
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,279
Speaker 1: There were so a couple of big ones there in

949
00:44:56,320 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: the third quarter. But um, anyway, for god, sorry, let's

950
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: move on. Let's talk about the Uh let's finish this

951
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: conversation on the defense. With all that you saw yesterday,

952
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: are you this defense has played well. Let's be clear,

953
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: this defense has played well all season. But are you

954
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: at the point now where you're thinking this is enough

955
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: of a sample size that you can say this defense

956
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 1: can be relied on as the really as the unit

957
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:23,839
Speaker 1: that things have to flow through, because we've been used

958
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: to for the longest time now that this team's success

959
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 1: was built around the offense, and whatever the offense did

960
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: was going to dictate how whether how well the team

961
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,640
Speaker 1: was going to actually do from the standpoint of a

962
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:37,279
Speaker 1: win loss record. But do you think that at this

963
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: point that's starting to change and this defense really is

964
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: the unit that that everything has to flow from. It's funny.

965
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: I mean, it goes back to what I saw at

966
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: the top of the show. They dumped my expectations on

967
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,240
Speaker 1: their ear on Monday night because arguably the least impressive

968
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: offense they played put up a season high point total

969
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 1: on them. I mean, the Titans scored twenty eight, made

970
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: them look pretty pedestrian. And then how do they respond.

971
00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: They go out, they play, you know, arguably probably one

972
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: of the top five quarterbacks, top ten at least quarterbacks

973
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: in the league right now. Carson Wentz should have been

974
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: the NFL MVP last year. He got his stats, but

975
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 1: they were effective against him. Um, they played a great game,

976
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: held Philly to twenty points at home for the Eagles. Yeah,

977
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: they were. They were outstanding. And the thing for me

978
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: is um, I'm just so intrigued by the upside of

979
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: this unit. Actually, you know, I pride myself on how

980
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,959
Speaker 1: much I know about this team. NBC had a stat

981
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: last night that I had not considered that really shocked me,

982
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 1: did you. It was on the TVs in the press

983
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: box as you see it, Antoine Woods is the only

984
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: significant member of this defense. Like guy who gets a

985
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 1: lot of playing time, who's not who has ever played

986
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: for another team. Wow, I didn't realize that, but I

987
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: that's true. Literally, I mean, go down they built. He

988
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: was with the Titan for like a year. I mean

989
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: he practice squad whatever. But like, he's the only significant

990
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: member of this defense. So you don't count David Irving

991
00:47:07,040 --> 00:47:08,840
Speaker 1: and well even I mean David Irving's played like a

992
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: game and a half, which okay, but even still, but

993
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: he wasn't but he wasn't drafted by this I guess

994
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 1: is no drafted or discovered. But even if you want

995
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: to include him, that's two out of like eighteen guys.

996
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. And you know I did the math last night.

997
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: Late Vanner as just twenty two. Jalen Smith is twenty three.

998
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: Cheetos twenty three. Even some of your vet to Marcus

999
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,760
Speaker 1: Lawrence is only twenty six fire in his twenty seven.

1000
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: So they're homegrown. They are young, and they are coming

1001
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:42,479
Speaker 1: into their own quickly all together. So you know, i'd

1002
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: like to see you know, you can knitpick you know,

1003
00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: takeaways is still you know, still a thing. You'd like

1004
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 1: to see more of it. You know, they got one

1005
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 1: last night. Um, I don't know if I'm ready to

1006
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: say that, you know this, I don't know that this

1007
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 1: defense is ready to like carry a team into the

1008
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: deep rounds of the playoffs, you know, but they're they're

1009
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: working on it, and they're getting there quick. And the

1010
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:06,839
Speaker 1: I mean, the guys are young, and most of them

1011
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,759
Speaker 1: are under contract for the foreseeable future. And that's got

1012
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,360
Speaker 1: to be very encouraging. And what I loved about what

1013
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:14,399
Speaker 1: I loved about what I saw from this defense last

1014
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,759
Speaker 1: night is I think what has to happen in order

1015
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 1: for you to become a great defense is not so

1016
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: much can you make the stops during the game, because yeah,

1017
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 1: you need to make those stops as you go along

1018
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 1: during the game. Giving up a touchdown here and there's

1019
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: not a huge deal. The thing is when you get

1020
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter, and it is at the moment

1021
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: when this is where you win or lose the game,

1022
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: and the other team has the ball and you have

1023
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: X amount of minutes or seconds left on the clock,

1024
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: can you make those stops? Last night they made those stops.

1025
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,720
Speaker 1: And yeah, and that's the part that this defense hasn't

1026
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: always I'm talking about going back over years. That's the

1027
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,359
Speaker 1: parts this defense hasn't always done well. They'll go through

1028
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 1: a game, they'll play pretty well, they'll hold teams to

1029
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 1: field goals, and then it gets to that last drive

1030
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: and they give up the touchdown or they give up

1031
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: the field goal in order to win. They finished it

1032
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 1: last night, and that's what you're gonna have to see

1033
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: from them in order for the video. The pass rush

1034
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: there late in the game, those last few plays, Um,

1035
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: you know, that's not what Carson Wentz really wanted to do,

1036
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 1: and they forced him to throw the ball excuse me,

1037
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: over the middle when that's not what they wanted. But

1038
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: Gregory on one end, d Law and the other they

1039
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: needed some pressure. Therey didn't make the sack, but they

1040
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: got there and they forced him to do things he

1041
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 1: didn't want to do. I thought that was that was

1042
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: really big there late in the game. There's not a

1043
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: big rotation going on in that whole game. I mean,

1044
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: they've had the injuries they were without Taco. I didn't

1045
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: think Doran's Armstrong played a lot. I don't even know

1046
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: what happened to Daniel Ross because he heard it. He

1047
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 1: don't even know he played. He left the game because

1048
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 1: it says he did not play, but he had played.

1049
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: He didn't get hurt in the pregame. He know he left.

1050
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: They made the announcement early in the game, so I

1051
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 1: don't know that we've seen that before. He definitely played,

1052
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: UM and where to see a Super Bowl MVP, and

1053
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: that didn't not wow, you know, just like oh super

1054
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 1: Bowl MVP Nick Foles didn't play. Uh yeah, Dan, I mean,

1055
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 1: Daniel Ross, that's something to watch. So that'll I mean,

1056
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: if David Irving needs more time, that affects your defensive

1057
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 1: tackle depth. But yeah, I mean, you know, I know

1058
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: this doesn't help him beat the Falcons. But you know me,

1059
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a draft and team building dork. And look,

1060
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: I mean, who who that's important to this defense is

1061
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 1: in flux for the future. UM obviously to Marcus David

1062
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 1: Irving well did David Irving and to Marcus Lawrence are

1063
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: the two, and I just I think the Cowboys cannot

1064
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 1: let to Marcus Lawrence be anything but a Cowboy. That's

1065
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: a drastic mistake if they do so, I'm just going

1066
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: to chalk him up to being here one way and Irving.

1067
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, I don't think they need Irving.

1068
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 1: I think they move on and it would be it

1069
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: would be nice to have Irving, but would but he

1070
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: it's always something with him. And on top of that,

1071
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: they've played well without him. It's you know, it's not

1072
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: like they're trying to stitch it together without him like

1073
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: they did with Sean Lee last year. They're playing well

1074
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 1: despite the fact that he hasn't been available for most

1075
00:50:57,800 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 1: of the year. I've kind of changed my tune a

1076
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: little bit with with Irving, and just because of the

1077
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: trade with you know, with Cooper and you don't have

1078
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: that first round pick and you don't need some help here.

1079
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: I would probably offer him a one year deal, Irving,

1080
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,399
Speaker 1: and then if he gets more than that, if somebody says,

1081
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: you know, this guy's freaking we want it, that's fine.

1082
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: But I think the Cowboys should be players. I don't

1083
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,279
Speaker 1: think they'll just wash their hands, but I think they'll

1084
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: be like another one year deal and just see if

1085
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 1: you can figure things out. My only thing would just

1086
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: be they need to really figure out if football is

1087
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:29,360
Speaker 1: his top priority because all the time that he's missing,

1088
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: you know, he's had some injuries and stuff like that.

1089
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:34,759
Speaker 1: But I just I would want to if I were

1090
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, make sure I knew beyond a shadow of

1091
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: a doubt, if I'm gonna be a player, Like you said,

1092
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 1: I know I'm not going to break the bank, But

1093
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna be a player, does he want to

1094
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 1: be out there? Is football his passion? And if it

1095
00:51:45,040 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: is great, go all in or not go all in,

1096
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: but but give him offer something that makes some sense.

1097
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,840
Speaker 1: But if not, then I just as soon say you

1098
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: can walk away and you can find more depth. Right now, Again,

1099
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: this defense has talent. You can find guys to add

1100
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 1: to that. You don't necessarily have to bring back a

1101
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,439
Speaker 1: guy that you just can't rely on for whatever reason.

1102
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: There are lots of different things going on with him,

1103
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,400
Speaker 1: including injury, some of the things beyond his control. But

1104
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: it's just it's always something it seems like and that

1105
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:13,840
Speaker 1: makes it a little bit. It makes it to the

1106
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:15,760
Speaker 1: point where you're you don't feel like he's as reliable

1107
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 1: just to be able to just come off the street

1108
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: and be like, oh, I'm getting to do this and

1109
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: I'm good. I mean, but it's how much do you want,

1110
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:26,320
Speaker 1: you know, do you want to how much do you

1111
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: want to tolerate? And with MALIEK. Collins, you know, I

1112
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: think I guess he'll he'll need a contract going in

1113
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: after next year. He's got one more season left on

1114
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: his deal after this kind of tricky too. Who I'm

1115
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: sorry MALIEK. Collins because he's you know, he gets banged

1116
00:52:39,080 --> 00:52:41,719
Speaker 1: up a lot. But defensive tackle is a sneaky big

1117
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: need for this team in the draft is and they

1118
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: don't have a first round pick, which means we don't

1119
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 1: have to sweat about them not picking one in the

1120
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: first round. But you can get talent those other rounds.

1121
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 1: I don't need to be a first round to get

1122
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,320
Speaker 1: a defensive tack. My point is is Ross and Woods

1123
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 1: are playing great and they came from you know, other

1124
00:52:56,719 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: other places. We can we can, you know, we can

1125
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: actually talk about them drafting a defensive tackle with their

1126
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,799
Speaker 1: second or third round pick. Is my point, because I'm

1127
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: not trying to waste my energy talking about them spending

1128
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 1: a first round pick on a defensive tackle. Yeah, it

1129
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,320
Speaker 1: didn't seem like that's something they've ever wanted to do.

1130
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:14,880
Speaker 1: Nothing to do it, um, but no, I just uh,

1131
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 1: I've got everybody on this defense did something heroic. It

1132
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: seemed like, yes the last night, and they are all,

1133
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 1: for the most part, still coming into their own as players.

1134
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:28,439
Speaker 1: I mean, that was Randy Gregory's third career sack. Yeah, ever,

1135
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: m and for all the for all, for all the

1136
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: hype and debate about him, I mean, what has Randy

1137
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: Gregory done to like give you a headache since he

1138
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:40,759
Speaker 1: got back to this team? Like I know, you know,

1139
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 1: we made a big deal about him missing out. He's

1140
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 1: going to league mandated he has to do to stay

1141
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: on the field. He has been a model citizen as

1142
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 1: far as I'm aware. Maybe you know, you never know

1143
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: the whole story, but as far as I'm aware, Uh,

1144
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: and yeah, just a lot of talented players playing up

1145
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 1: to their potential and they're all under contract and that's

1146
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 1: very exciting. Before we in the show, I do one throughout.

1147
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 1: One extra little thing that came up last night Cowboys

1148
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:12,439
Speaker 1: faced a team uh this was now um or better,

1149
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: let me just say last night, the Philadelphia Eagles did

1150
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 1: not have a single pill. That has happened only thirty

1151
00:54:19,719 --> 00:54:23,879
Speaker 1: times since two thousand um. And here's the interesting part

1152
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 1: to me. There five of those thirty times it was

1153
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: the Cowboys opponent. It seem a little interesting. What's the

1154
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: record of those teams thirty times? Ah, gosh, I don't know.

1155
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 1: I mean, well, definitely not undefeated. No, definitely not. I

1156
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: mean you would think that, you know, if you're playing

1157
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: a clean game, and you know, the before we throw

1158
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 1: out conspiracy theory and all this crap. I mean, like

1159
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: five Cowboys were a flagged five times, So this crew

1160
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:51,320
Speaker 1: obviously doesn't throw a lot of flags. I think we

1161
00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: all appreciate that. Yeah, I don't see. I didn't see zero.

1162
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: I know, those zero for the Eagles are ridiculous because

1163
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 1: because you know, and I even asked Tyrone Crawford about it.

1164
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: If thinks he gets, you know, held every play, yeah

1165
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: he's not. He's not a fan of refs right now. No,

1166
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying we all saw a couple of

1167
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: plays here and there. But yeah, I mean, Damien was

1168
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 1: in a chokehold on that one, you know, the yeah yeah,

1169
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: which I NBC was like, look, Carson wentz still through

1170
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:16,800
Speaker 1: the ball even though he had his hand and his

1171
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:21,319
Speaker 1: wrist band, and I'm like, Amy Wilson is being like suffocated. Yeah,

1172
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:23,920
Speaker 1: I thought they were showing, yeah, they were showing this

1173
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: other play. But zero penalties. That seems anything. I mean,

1174
00:55:29,320 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 1: I can't even remember anything being declined. I'm not sure.

1175
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I never tracked that once it's declined,

1176
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: but maybe maybe. But that's that's still to me, that's

1177
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 1: just curious. And that the reason why I brought up

1178
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: at the end show because I don't think it's a

1179
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: huge deal obviously, but I do think it's something that

1180
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:45,720
Speaker 1: that does raise my eyebrow. That this is only happened

1181
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 1: thirty times, that you would go through any game and

1182
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:50,720
Speaker 1: a team would have zero penalties, to me is curious.

1183
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: But for its only have happened thirty times since two

1184
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: thousand and one, sixth of that is against is one

1185
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,399
Speaker 1: team's opponents. When you got thirty two teams out there,

1186
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 1: that seems curious. That seems very curious to me, and

1187
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Cowboys are probably looking into it and

1188
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,399
Speaker 1: maybe sending some letters to league off this or whatever.

1189
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:11,400
Speaker 1: But they just seems curious. They can send all the

1190
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 1: letters they went, they went what like, they went eight

1191
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 1: weeks last year without drawing a holding flag on an opponent.

1192
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 1: And I'm the number ain't high this year. I don't

1193
00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,439
Speaker 1: have it with me, but I promise you it's not high.

1194
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:26,880
Speaker 1: So they send the calls in every single week, and

1195
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much it's doing them. But all right, guys,

1196
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:32,080
Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us. We're back tomorrow. We'll give you

1197
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 1: a big picture look at what's happening around the NFC.

1198
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 1: Was East what's happening around the NFL? To then for

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00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,840
Speaker 1: Nick Even, Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleton.

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