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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, Brian brought us, and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is twos the October eighteenth, twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: season eighteen, episode number fifty three. Welcome to the latest

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Speaker 1: edition of The Break. We are Life Net WBC more

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Speaker 1: We got a couple of big, quick picture questions we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about today. Brian has a little game for

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Speaker 1: us that I just heard about here, I guess at

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Speaker 1: some point maybe in the second or third segment, and

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Speaker 1: and we'll try to get you guys ready and kind

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Speaker 1: of give you a good recap of that Philly game

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Speaker 1: and what it means kind of going forward as they

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Speaker 1: entered these next two weeks against opponents that you think

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Speaker 1: Cowboys have a good chance of being able to beat.

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Speaker 1: Let's start first with the topic. I think that everybody

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Speaker 1: cares most about is where is Dak and is he

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Speaker 1: going to be back this week? Nick, you were there

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Speaker 1: with me, we were at the game Sunday watching Dak

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Speaker 1: and him during his pregame workout. What do you think

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Speaker 1: you looked like? What what was your impression as you

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Speaker 1: watched him get that workout before the game. I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing for me was the snaps that he

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Speaker 1: up there and you throw it. And then the throws

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Speaker 1: after that were good. I mean they were good throws.

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Speaker 1: They were twenty yard, twenty five yard throws. I know Chris,

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Speaker 1: our producer, was there getting some good video of it,

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Speaker 1: and you know, he was there and it looked good,

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Speaker 1: and it definitely looked good. Seven days away from playing again,

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Speaker 1: so he's not playing. He wouldn't planning that night. As

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Speaker 1: long as there's no setbacks, you know, you would think

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Speaker 1: it would keep healing the right way. Do you think

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Speaker 1: the Cowboy fans were bummed that he didn't try and

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Speaker 1: give it a go against Philly. I mean after the

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Speaker 1: I don't know about your timeline, but my timeline was, Okay,

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Speaker 1: he's out there throwing the ball around. He's taken snaps.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing I noticed first, Nick, A good eye

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Speaker 1: there was all this stuff, and there were people like, question,

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Speaker 1: if he's like, he's healthy enough here, why does he

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Speaker 1: I'm glad they didn't do that. You know. I think

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Speaker 1: they fall into this fallacy of thinking that players are

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Speaker 1: like maddened pieces. Right. Sure, once they're once a player

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Speaker 1: is healthy and I'm putting up air quotes, once they're healthy,

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Speaker 1: it comes to I don't know the whole, whole whole.

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Speaker 1: we go. I was gonna wait for that day. It's

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Speaker 1: about to remind you. Thank you. Here we go. A

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Speaker 1: g oh boy who benefits most from DAK returning m

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Speaker 1: who benefits could be a coach player who benefits the most, fans,

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Speaker 1: who benefits the most? Well, um playing his wife. She

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Speaker 1: didn't have to. She's short term because next year, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure she wants some more games. Increase that paycheck for

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Speaker 1: next year. I don't think he's gonna be making the

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Speaker 1: south of a million dollars next year. Okay, go ahead, Sorry,

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Speaker 1: who could who benefits the most? Who benefits the most?

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Speaker 1: Ag Uh? Well, I said Dalton shoals if it's back.

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Speaker 1: I don't know his injury status right now? Sound like

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Speaker 1: Jerry does he eat there? Jerry's like, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. I was a little surprised.

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Speaker 1: It just seems that as soon as I mean, he

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Speaker 1: just completely disappeared with Cooper Rush and you got other

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Speaker 1: guys going in, I mean Jake Ferguson and all that,

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Speaker 1: he just I think Dalton and he's in the franchise

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Speaker 1: tag big here for him, So what was going on? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: But as far as like guys who because we don't

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Speaker 1: know his status. Really, as far as guys for this weekend,

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Speaker 1: I would like to think in between Michael Gallup and

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Speaker 1: City Lamb, I think their game just kind of takes

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Speaker 1: the next level, a next step. I mean, they just

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Speaker 1: they just start playing better together. When Dak was in

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Speaker 1: there the first game, even though it wasn't a good outcome,

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Speaker 1: Cide Lamb was still struggling and we didn't see that

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Speaker 1: come to fruition. Him being the number one receiver. So

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Speaker 1: I think that now with the addition of Michael Gallup

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Speaker 1: and you got them three together now with Dak, I

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Speaker 1: think their game just kind of goes up, or at

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Speaker 1: least that's what I hope that they as a receiver

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Speaker 1: corps just get better with Dak back in the mix. Derek,

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Speaker 1: I actually think of Ceedee Lamb, and the reason why

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Speaker 1: is because Ceede Lamb right now, this organization is trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out if Ceede Lamb is truly a number

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Speaker 1: one receiver in another two years a year and a half,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have to make a decision on do you

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Speaker 1: pay him Davante Adams kind of money like, or are

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Speaker 1: you paying him money closer to Cedric Wilson like what

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Speaker 1: is he? And I think if he's going to show

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Speaker 1: that he can be a number one receiver, a true

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Speaker 1: number one receiver and demand that kind of muny money,

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Speaker 1: then I think that means that he's gonna need his quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's why Dak was very important to

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Speaker 1: him right now. My answer would be this is a

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Speaker 1: kind of contingent on him being the guy that he

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Speaker 1: was and running the ball. But I think it could

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Speaker 1: be Zeke specifically on the play like the RPOs that

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Speaker 1: we've seen where if your quarterback, if your quarterback is

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Speaker 1: not going to run and z Cooper Rush does not run,

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Speaker 1: then then I think it just kind of jams up

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Speaker 1: the middle and he didn't. Zeke did a nice running,

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Speaker 1: but I think if you have a little bit more

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Speaker 1: threat to run, I think that would help the running backs,

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Speaker 1: particularly ze Catherine. An honorable mention sure, Kellen Moore. I

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Speaker 1: think Kellen Moore wants to get back and throwing the

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Speaker 1: ball a little bit more, and I think this allows

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Speaker 1: him to do it. Maybe, So I hope that's I

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Speaker 1: hope they all hope the fans been a fit too.

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Speaker 1: That'd be nice. Okay, Uh, Derek, I'll go with you

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Speaker 1: on this one, right, Who's been better? Tyler Smith or

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Speaker 1: Daret's Armstrong. Hmm, that's a good one. They both have

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Speaker 1: some warts. Still, Um, I would probably have to say

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Speaker 1: Tyler Smith just because I think when Tyler Smith is

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Speaker 1: bad you notice it more obviously because you see those

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Speaker 1: poor play. Yeah, and that's the thing, Like the team

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Speaker 1: may have. He may have one or two really bad

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Speaker 1: plays in the game, but I think Duran's probably has

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Speaker 1: more of those bad plays, you just don't notice them

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Speaker 1: as readily. So if I had to say one or

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Speaker 1: the other, I would go with Tyler Smith. I think

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Speaker 1: he has been really, really good for a rookie. Nick,

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Speaker 1: that's a good one. And it's and you only do

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Speaker 1: that because you probably like caught yourself, like you it's

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Speaker 1: probably like, Okay, who are these you know? Like these

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Speaker 1: two are tough? These are questions I get watching that

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Speaker 1: to all twenty two. Yeah, and it's and it's good because,

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Speaker 1: like you said, there's times when when when Tyler doesn't

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Speaker 1: do well, you kind of see it, you don't see it,

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Speaker 1: and he doesn't. He doesn't have the stats that like

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Speaker 1: Armstrong has. But five sacks, a blocked punt, and a

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Speaker 1: blocked field goal, I want to, I want to, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go upstairs. I'm gonna have the PR department

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Speaker 1: find that when the last time someone's had five sacks,

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Speaker 1: a blocked punt, and a block field goal in the

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Speaker 1: same year. He might be number one. He might be

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Speaker 1: and we're not even halfway through the year, not even close. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think he's been from a stat standpoint, I know

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Speaker 1: he's not the best on them against the run. But

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Dorrance on that. Just you know,

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Speaker 1: Nate Newton just texting me and see it Armstrong. So

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Speaker 1: he agrees with you, Well there's a first you know what.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call that a moral victory that he agrees

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Speaker 1: with me, Well I disagree. There we go, There we go. No,

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Speaker 1: I think for sure, if to me would be and

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Speaker 1: I love everything that Dorian's have been doing. But when

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Speaker 1: you take into the consideration the guys who are next

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Speaker 1: to him, the guys are on the side of the defense,

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Speaker 1: playing with him, the opportunities that that creates for him,

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Speaker 1: not to take any credit away from him, but also

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Speaker 1: adding that he's a veteran. Now how many times I

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Speaker 1: forget what year he's on currently fourth, fourth year in

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Speaker 1: the league. But then now you look at okay Tyler Smith,

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Speaker 1: the fact that he's a rookie, the fact that usually

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Speaker 1: he's going one on one on situations like that, the

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Speaker 1: fact that he's limited his mistakes. Yes, there are times,

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Speaker 1: but to see how well because I didn't think he

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Speaker 1: was gonna be playing the way that he is playing

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Speaker 1: that quickly. We saw the potential, but I didn't think

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Speaker 1: he would be as good as he's been and also

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Speaker 1: considering what happened during training at like you didn't know

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Speaker 1: what position he's gonna be add specifically, So taking all

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Speaker 1: that into account, I think that he deserves a lot

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Speaker 1: more credit for that aspect that he's a rookie. He's

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Speaker 1: been doing a very very good job, and the penalties

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Speaker 1: have not really been a full issue, like okn Like

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not like we're sitting here week after

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Speaker 1: week talking about holding penalties, and that was an area

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Speaker 1: of concern that people were questioning and wondering why if

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Speaker 1: that was gonna be a negative aspect of things for

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Speaker 1: him when he started the season, Nick, fifth year for

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Speaker 1: Duran's arm drawing by the way, fifth, yea is he

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Speaker 1: and he's and he had seven and a half sacks

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Speaker 1: his first four seasons and now he has five this year.

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Speaker 1: So he's up next year, not this year, Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: year and then one more you got it? Okay, Dan

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Speaker 1: Quinn and ad on that one coaching him up. Nick,

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Speaker 1: Even if opponents don't run RPOs on offense, do they

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Speaker 1: try something? After watching the Eagles hold Parsons in check,

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Speaker 1: I think that I think what they're gonna try to

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Speaker 1: do is see figure out the ways to get him

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Speaker 1: in coverage. I thought that that was was key. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he was, he was uncoverage a lot, and he's just

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Speaker 1: not the same. I mean, he's good, he's good at

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Speaker 1: doing it. He's he's an athletic freak. But he doesn't

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Speaker 1: hurt you as much as he does. He doesn't dominate

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Speaker 1: the game when you're taking out a tight end unless

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Speaker 1: it's a Kelsey or a Kittle or something that is

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Speaker 1: the main part of what they do, which I don't

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Speaker 1: even know if he would be able to do that. So, um,

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna try to find mismatches. I think

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Speaker 1: what it'll do is it's going to force dan Quinn's

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Speaker 1: hand to say, you know what, we gotta get him

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Speaker 1: as rushing. We just gotta get him a defensive end

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Speaker 1: most of the time, or rushing up the middle or whatever.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, there was something there to get him out

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Speaker 1: in coverage. And then and he gets frustrated. And when

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Speaker 1: he's frustrated, I don't know what who it hurts the most.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it hurts him or if it

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Speaker 1: hurts the tackle he's going up against on the next play.

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Speaker 1: Because he pissed off Mike is pretty good, but he

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Speaker 1: does kind of get in his own head a little bit. Yeah. Look,

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Speaker 1: I think I think the issue here or that the

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Speaker 1: interesting part for the Cowboys is they do have an

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Speaker 1: issue when it comes to stopping the run. And I

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Speaker 1: do think that if you're watching it, you say, Wow,

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Speaker 1: what the Eagles are doing with the RPOs. That's something

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Speaker 1: we can really kind of consider. I think the problem

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Speaker 1: to just do that right. The quarterback makes a huge difference.

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Speaker 1: Isn't going to be scaring you as much like if

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Speaker 1: if he opts if he opts to keep the ball. Now,

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Speaker 1: here's where it could it get interesting. Do the Giants

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Speaker 1: start using that when they play the Cowboys? Because they

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Speaker 1: do have a quarterback that's fairly mobile and they have

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Speaker 1: a running back that's dangerous, And so when you start

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Speaker 1: thinking about it from that perspective, there are certain teams

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Speaker 1: that maybe they wouldn't be great at it, but they

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Speaker 1: may use it a little bit to kind of in

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Speaker 1: critical moments maybe get I don't know if be like

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Speaker 1: their quarterback is that, but are you scared about anybody else?

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Speaker 1: I would be like, don't let fields get off. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: who else is gonna get a gummery He's gonna run

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Speaker 1: it up the middle or whatever. I'm a little less

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Speaker 1: concerned about him taking it. Yeah, they don't have because

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Speaker 1: your quarterback in Phillies, I think the quarterback running almost

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Speaker 1: scared and more than miles centers. Yeah, which has been

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Speaker 1: miles and centers is benefiting all year because of its exactly.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think that golf is scares you more

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Speaker 1: than than or Jones. Doesn't. Daniel Jones is scary more

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Speaker 1: than Saquon Barkley. No, But Daniel Jones, if you don't

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Speaker 1: pay attention to him, can can break you on a

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Speaker 1: couple of So I do think there are a couple

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Speaker 1: of teams that can do it. Most teams they play

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Speaker 1: won't have that ability. I think that. I mean, just

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Speaker 1: as much as offenses are going to be looking at

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Speaker 1: the Eagles tape and seeing how they were able to

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Speaker 1: kind of neutralize Mica Parsons and play and attacking that way,

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Speaker 1: I think that our guys are gonna be looking at

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Speaker 1: that film quite a lot and trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: how to improve and get better in that aspect. So, yes,

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Speaker 1: imitate some of the things that the Eagles were able

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Speaker 1: I think that this is this is a week that

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Speaker 1: and we haven't seen them kind of that has been

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Speaker 1: the area that they have not been good even since

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Speaker 1: last year, the running defense, stopping the run. But seeing

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Speaker 1: Mike and putting that film up there, I know that

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be pissed off seeing that in front of

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Speaker 1: his teammates and kind of altogether, not even not just

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Speaker 1: Dan Quinn, but everybody in that room just trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out a way to really clean things up and

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Speaker 1: improve in that aspect that time. One more ag How

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Speaker 1: winnable is the NFC this year? The conference? How winnable

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Speaker 1: is the conference? I think there are some um Man,

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Speaker 1: I wish you guys spoke Spanish because I have a

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Speaker 1: word I want to use and I can't think of

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Speaker 1: the English word. But you know, when you're in the

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Speaker 1: desert and just kind of like you start seeing things

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Speaker 1: are not there. Yes, yes, I think there are some

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Speaker 1: teams that are like that, and I think that, um

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys can very much take the lead and and

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Speaker 1: win out. I think the Cowboys, even though on the

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Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. But I think that once

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Speaker 1: they do that, the defense is going to be it's

645
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Speaker 1: gonna keep playing better and better every week. I do

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Speaker 1: believe so. But with the help of the offense putting

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Speaker 1: in pulling their weight as well, I think that the

648
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Speaker 1: Cowboys can definitely take the lead. And it's not it's

649
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Speaker 1: not anything that's too far fetched for me. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think I think the Cowboys have a chance that

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to try to catch the Eagles. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a tough because the way they're playing right

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Speaker 1: now and their schedules not not that great either, neither's

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I feel like the Cowboys will probably be

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Speaker 1: the fifth seed in the playoffs and go to some

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Speaker 1: team that they'll have a better record than, though they'll

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Speaker 1: be well, we'll be talking about competition committee, like should

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Speaker 1: game or whatever. But you know, I feel like that's

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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen this year. I think there's good news

662
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Speaker 1: and bad news. The good news is, right now, the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys are four and two and they're third in their

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Speaker 1: the NFC right now. Like you look at it, there's

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Speaker 1: only one team outside of the NFC East that's in

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Speaker 1: the Eagles, the Giants at five and one, Dallas at

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Speaker 1: those four teams, right and so that's the good news.

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Speaker 1: The bad news and I don't even know if you

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Speaker 1: call it bad news, but what you do know about

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Speaker 1: the NFL is we're only at week six right there

674
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Speaker 1: are some teams right now that are down in at

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Speaker 1: or near the top of this conference by the time

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Speaker 1: season goes, they're gonna get hotter. I don't think the

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Speaker 1: Packers are necessarily in that boat, but it wouldn't surprise

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Speaker 1: me if they figure it out and they get hot. Like,

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Speaker 1: So yes, right now, you look at this, the NFC

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Speaker 1: East is basically running through this conference and they are

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Speaker 1: But I also think there are gonna be some other

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Speaker 1: get really good as the season goes, and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to challenge for everybody in the NFC. Thanks, guys,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you. All right'm gonna take our final break. We'll

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Speaker 1: It's a very simple question. Are you more optimistic or

743
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: pessimistic following Sunday's game? Optimistic? I think this is I mean,

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00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: the team they beat themselves in a game, you know,

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Speaker 1: where they had a chance to win. They rallied them

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Speaker 1: themselves back in it. I think, you know, the Eagles,

747
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Speaker 1: you know, give it the Eagles credit for taking it

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Speaker 1: to them and win in the game. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone's gonna be worried about playing them again.

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Speaker 1: And you know, you maybe go play him again in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs and go up there and play it again.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that, you know, you should be discouraged

753
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Speaker 1: by it. You look at the schedule, it's coming up,

754
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Speaker 1: You're gonna get better at certain positions. I mean, I

755
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Speaker 1: mean to be sitting if you look at the big picture,

756
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Speaker 1: to sit it four and two, where they are and

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Speaker 1: what they've been through and what's coming up next, I

758
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Speaker 1: think that it's they're gonna be in good shape. Just

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Speaker 1: look at the schedule. Just look at the schedule and

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Speaker 1: find find three more losses. I mean, it'll happen probably,

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Speaker 1: But I'm just saying twelve and five looks pretty good

762
00:37:56,640 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: again because it's tough to come up with three legitimate

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Speaker 1: losses on this schedule. Yeah, it's interesting the teams you

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Speaker 1: thought would be tough games like Indianapolis may not be

765
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Speaker 1: as tough as you thought that Green Bay, yeah, I mean,

766
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Speaker 1: not be as tough as you thought. Me. I'd like

767
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Speaker 1: to see. I'm gonna see it first before they actually go.

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Speaker 1: Bay beat Obi Wan Kenobi up there in Lambeau. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think they can do it. I'm definitely

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Speaker 1: optimistic of what the season holes. That attack is gonna

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Speaker 1: come back. No, I think that. I mean seeing the

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Speaker 1: way that they played, and again, the offense has not

773
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Speaker 1: been producing points for you and scoring points and all that,

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Speaker 1: so that's definitely a problem. But seeing the way that

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Speaker 1: they were able to handle things without your starting quarterback

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Speaker 1: was impressive. So in the and I think the defense, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was a bad week last week, but they still

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Speaker 1: held up and they were still able to come back

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Speaker 1: in that second half and still compete. So I think

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Speaker 1: that there's a lot of things to be optimistic about

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Speaker 1: at this point of the season, especially with the things

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Speaker 1: that are just finally to start piecing together. As far

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Speaker 1: as the offense, we haven't seen that yet other than

784
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Speaker 1: that little bit of taste at the beginning of the year.

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Speaker 1: But you can just based the rest of the season

786
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Speaker 1: on just a first loss, you know, against Tampa. So

787
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: I'm optimistic. I don't know how you cannot be optimistic.

788
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Speaker 1: You beat the two Super Bowl teams with backup quarterbacks,

789
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Speaker 1: Yet with your backup quarterback you found a way to

790
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 1: be four and one with your backup quarterback. You went

791
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Speaker 1: to Philadelphia and they had been killing people with their

792
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Speaker 1: their quarterback and they're tied end. Neither one of them

793
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: were really a factor in that football game. You know,

794
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: you didn't tackle well enough in the game. You didn't

795
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Speaker 1: really do enough offensively there. They held you check throwing

796
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: the ball in your receivers. That's something that should be

797
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Speaker 1: a concern. But the fact that you're able to like

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Speaker 1: survive what you did the last five weeks and to

799
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Speaker 1: live and tell about it, how could you not be optimistic?

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Speaker 1: This thing could be O in six and we're all

801
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Speaker 1: talking about when the draft show is going to start

802
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: or you know, what are you gonna do? What are

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Speaker 1: you gonna do with the trade deadline, Who are you

804
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: gonna get rid of contracts? So they're gonna fire the

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Speaker 1: coach all these things? Nah, you got to be optimistic

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Speaker 1: what's going on right now. And also, you know, we

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Speaker 1: don't always go back and remember different decisions that are made.

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Speaker 1: But I think you got to give uh, Jerry, will

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Speaker 1: McClay Mike McCarthy credit for looking at what's out there

810
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Speaker 1: and going, well, why is Cooper Rush going to be

811
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Speaker 1: your back up? And because their mind was if if

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Speaker 1: something happened to Dak, he can win games, and whether

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Speaker 1: or not anyone believed that or not here, um they

814
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: did and and and then then they had to they

815
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Speaker 1: had you had to come you know, out and really

816
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: see who could you know if that could happen? And

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00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: it did. So I mean we don't always think back

818
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Speaker 1: to those decisions like that, but they you know, they

819
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Speaker 1: decided he was better than Will Greer and both of

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Speaker 1: them were better than anyone that was available and out there,

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Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's proved to be a really

822
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Speaker 1: good decision. So you know, we don't always go back

823
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Speaker 1: and remember that. They should get credit for that. Yeah,

824
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Speaker 1: I think to me, I think it's you guys need

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Speaker 1: to hit the nail on the head. I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's any way you really can't be optimistic about what

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Speaker 1: you've seen so far. The one thing I do think

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Speaker 1: I know here is that there is one, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: clearing weakness of this defense, and I think when Dad

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Speaker 1: comes back, it will negate that to some degree, which

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Speaker 1: is their run defense. I think if you can score

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Speaker 1: more points, you will put pressure on teams where they

833
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Speaker 1: can't just say, hey, we're just gonna go with these

834
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Speaker 1: short passing games, a quick passing game and run the ball.

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Speaker 1: You can put them in situations where they really are

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Speaker 1: going to have to get more aggressive offensively, which plays

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Speaker 1: right into your hands. And I think that's something that

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00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 1: was kind of starting to concern me as time went on,

839
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Speaker 1: is that I think teams were realizing they can't really

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Speaker 1: have a choice. You can't play the kind of game

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Speaker 1: you want to play where you want to take a

842
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: little time and make those strolls down field against this defense.

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Speaker 1: Here's something that you know when you look at the division,

844
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Speaker 1: Giant Eagles, Washington. Washington's kind of out of it right now.

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Speaker 1: But you know, if you rank the six games that

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Speaker 1: you have to play in the division, how tough they are.

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Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys have already played the two toughest

848
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Speaker 1: at Philly at the Giants. The next one would probably

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Speaker 1: be Philly at home, and then Giants at home, and

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Speaker 1: then at Washington and then Washington at home. The Eagles

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Speaker 1: and Giants can't say that, you know, they can't say

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Speaker 1: that they've faced the toughest part of their division just yet.

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Speaker 1: They haven't gone to Dallas yet, they haven't even played

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Speaker 1: each other yet. So I mean, I just think when

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Speaker 1: you look at it two and one in the division,

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Speaker 1: you've played your toughest games. Like Brian said, you played

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Speaker 1: the Rams on the road, you played the Bengals. Those

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Speaker 1: teams are probably going to get up in there that

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Speaker 1: they have played the toughest part of their schedule, I

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Speaker 1: think already, and now they get a chance. I mean,

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Speaker 1: look at Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, the Texans, the Giants at

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Speaker 1: home at Jacksonville. They should really have a good chance

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Speaker 1: for eleve and twelve wins. Yeah, you just worry about

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Speaker 1: late in the season at Jacksonville game games before Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: and so you don't want to you don't need to

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Speaker 1: let down in that that could be yea all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, you're thinking, Okay, hey, you got a big

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Speaker 1: key divisional matchup coming up Christmas Eve, and then you

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Speaker 1: go to Jacksonville the week before and poop in the bed.

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Speaker 1: Drew Bledsoe was the quarterback the last time the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: played there, and I think there was going to be

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Speaker 1: a fan or a million that are going to be

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Speaker 1: at the game for the Cowboys. I guarantee you the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys will have more fans than that game in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, now Jacksonville is playing better, but I

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Speaker 1: mean it'll not be like a true road game. One

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Speaker 1: other thing to note about the Giants and the Eagles,

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Speaker 1: they don't even play each other until December. Really, both

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Speaker 1: their games are in December. They play on December eleventh

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Speaker 1: when we play the Texans, and then they play at

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Speaker 1: the end of the season, the final game of the season.

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Speaker 1: So that's interesting. That's interesting that they won't even match

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Speaker 1: up until you get to the end of the season.

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Speaker 1: One of them obviously has to take a loss in

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Speaker 1: those two games, and so that's that's going to also

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Speaker 1: shake things up in fcas because a lot of those teams,

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Speaker 1: like you said, have always we like to tie in

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Speaker 1: this league. All right, appreciate you guys join us, Welcome back. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: we'll get into Cowboys versus Lions, Lions, Cowboys versus Lions.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the Lions offense versus Dallas defense.

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Speaker 1: Till then for Nick even Brian brought us Amber Garcia.

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Speaker 1: I am Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break live

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