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Speaker 1: Now your hosts Barry Church, Heckma Harrison, and Newie Scrugs.
Speaker 2: Guess who's back in the house. It's the Players Lounge
Speaker 2: and you are now rocking with the best. I'm Hecmharrison
Speaker 2: alongside former Dallas Cowboys safety Barry Churches in the building
Speaker 2: and man, listen, tonight today we are going to dedicate
Speaker 2: this show to Rosie Rosie. This is the Rosie Show
Speaker 2: because my man knew Scrugs lost his dog, Rosie row
Speaker 2: Row and so he's not in the building. He's not
Speaker 2: in the building today with us because uh, yes, dog
Speaker 2: passed away. And I know it's a tough thing, man,
Speaker 2: So yeah, I want to make sure that I send
Speaker 2: my condolencens out to him and the Scrugs family. And
Speaker 2: dealing with the loss of a pet, I don't you know.
Speaker 3: I couldn't.
Speaker 4: I only lost one pet my lifetime, when I was
Speaker 4: my childhood dog.
Speaker 3: What's the childhood doll's name?
Speaker 4: It was Flash, not Flash flash Man, And so Flash
Speaker 4: was gone sorry, no, no, no, not flash Cleo clear, I'm sorry, Clil, Clil.
Speaker 3: She lasted about I want to say.
Speaker 4: Thirteen years, thirteen thirteen years, and she was she was
Speaker 4: the heck of a dog, smartest heck. Got a family
Speaker 4: dog now, Coco. She's on her way up there now,
Speaker 4: twelve years now. I was like, man, you know what,
Speaker 4: that's just what I'm telling you. I know how tough
Speaker 4: that is. Growing up, I didn't have any pets. My
Speaker 4: mom just she wasn't a pet person. She is, but
Speaker 4: she wasn't with the pets at all. So you know,
Speaker 4: I was the only one. But then it wasn't until
Speaker 4: I was an adult. And you know, my wife she
Speaker 4: had a dog, and so when we got married, we
Speaker 4: had to get a dog. So I raised my dog Kato.
Speaker 4: You made me say Coco Kato, and uh man, he
Speaker 4: passed away and Barry, I didn't want another dog. I
Speaker 4: didn't want another dog. I did not want another dog.
Speaker 2: But then we saved the dog went down to the
Speaker 2: pet you know, the shelter found someone that last chance
Speaker 2: dog and we adopted the dog. Man we got papers
Speaker 2: on it. I don't know how old she is, she
Speaker 2: might years, I know, but we love her to death,
Speaker 2: and I couldn't even I couldn't even imagine. I couldn't
Speaker 2: even imagine being here so newly. Listen, man, I want
Speaker 2: I want to make sure I send my condolcens out
Speaker 2: to you and your family.
Speaker 3: I know that's a tough thing.
Speaker 2: And look, we gotta do the players lounge, man, So
Speaker 2: we're gonna get into it.
Speaker 3: What have we been talking about this whole time before
Speaker 3: we do that? What we gotta do? You know, you
Speaker 3: know how bad?
Speaker 2: But see, listen, listen, hold on, hold on, no, but
Speaker 2: see I felt like because I was, you know, Rosie,
Speaker 2: and we was doing all that.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I just want to thank you.
Speaker 3: I just you know what I'm saying, Man, accountable, I
Speaker 3: heard trying to do. I'm just trying to help my
Speaker 3: very arry.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know what I do when I'm on these shows, man,
Speaker 2: Always make sure I check in. I want to check
Speaker 2: in with your brother. How are you today? Thank you
Speaker 2: for asking?
Speaker 4: And I'm doing amazing as always, man, super bluffs. You
Speaker 4: know life is good, family, you know friends. Everybody is
Speaker 4: healthy for the most part, so you know life is good.
Speaker 3: Man. How about yourself?
Speaker 2: Man, I'm doing good, man, yesterday, my son had his
Speaker 2: first scrimmage, young young heck man, and I'm telling you
Speaker 2: it's uh, my nerves, well my nerves. I'm so was
Speaker 2: so happy when the game was over. But he did good.
Speaker 2: An inner squad or like they went against Louisville. They
Speaker 2: went against louis came all the way out here from Saxony.
Speaker 2: My son plays wide receiver for the Saxony Mustangs. Here
Speaker 2: in town in Texas, Texas is a football thing here.
Speaker 2: But we went to Louisville. He plays first schedule scrimmage
Speaker 2: and it was awesome. Man, he did good. Finch with
Speaker 2: three three catches, I think forty yards, you know, just
Speaker 2: some men solid. So getting our feet wet man ready
Speaker 2: for the season. So mental, my mentals are cooking. My brother,
Speaker 2: I'm ready, love, ready to go. Now let's get let's
Speaker 2: get into it.
Speaker 3: So listen.
Speaker 2: Linval Joseph, We've been talking about lin Val Joseph for
Speaker 2: a while now, and we said that Mike Zimmer was
Speaker 2: going to need his tools, was the way we put it.
Speaker 3: You know, Carbinger needs his tools.
Speaker 2: And there was some some names being thrown around, and
Speaker 2: lin Val Joseph obviously his name came up because he
Speaker 2: was a free agent. Number one, but number two. Uh
Speaker 2: he played for Mike Zimber Zimmer for a number of years. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Minnesota and so Linval Joseph now going into its fifteenth year.
Speaker 4: Kudos of that. That's a big especially at that position.
Speaker 4: That's a big time. Fifteen years, that's a lot in
Speaker 4: the league.
Speaker 2: So what do you what was your I mean, obviously
Speaker 2: didn't surprise you, but when you saw the signing, what
Speaker 2: did you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you know, starting off, we knew, you know from.
Speaker 4: The comments that Jerry made that you know, they weren't done,
Speaker 4: you know, trying to make this roster better, make it
Speaker 4: more complete heading into the season. And we all understand
Speaker 4: that's what NFL teams do heading into the You won
Speaker 4: your roster as strong as possible, with as much depth
Speaker 4: as possible, because, like new he says, this is a
Speaker 4: long season.
Speaker 3: Seventeen gats a long season.
Speaker 4: So I understand they were gonna go out there and
Speaker 4: grab somebody that they felt one knew the system, that
Speaker 4: Zimmer you know, likes the place for his defense and
Speaker 4: could also be that veteran presence. You know, I didn't
Speaker 4: think they were gonna go after a guy in year fifteen.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to be honest.
Speaker 3: With you on that.
Speaker 4: Look, if this was twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen lin Val Joseph,
Speaker 4: I'd be a static.
Speaker 3: I'd be jumping on them.
Speaker 4: I was still in the league, he was doing that,
Speaker 4: and I'd be on the table jumping up and down, like, man,
Speaker 4: this is it. This is that guy. Because when you
Speaker 4: look at it back then, he was that gap stopper.
Speaker 3: He was that guy that let those linebackers.
Speaker 4: Kendricks had some of his best years, you know, behind
Speaker 4: lind Val Joseph because he didn't get touched. He was
Speaker 4: able to go sideline the sideline with those Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 4: when linv Vald Joseph was there.
Speaker 3: But man, I was eight years ago, eight seasons ago.
Speaker 3: That's a while ago.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: We look at you know, liv vald Joseph.
Speaker 4: Now past two seasons, he's played fifteen games total, you know,
Speaker 4: out of thirty four he played fifteen games.
Speaker 3: Total these past two seasons. So when I look at it,
Speaker 3: I'm like, man, what what am.
Speaker 4: I really going to expect out of the veterans vet
Speaker 4: because that's what he is at this point, fifteen years
Speaker 4: in the game. On that defensive line. You're the veterans
Speaker 4: of vet right. There usually only quarterbacks get that that
Speaker 4: long in the game. So what do I want to
Speaker 4: expect from him going into this season. I'm and I
Speaker 4: think about it, I'm like, he could be that gap
Speaker 4: stopper still because you know, he's a big man. It
Speaker 4: ain't like he slimmed up or anything like that. He's
Speaker 4: a big man. I don't expect him to, you know,
Speaker 4: get much penetration when it comes to getting after the passer.
Speaker 4: But at the very least, you know he can keep
Speaker 4: those offensive linemen off of Kendricks, off of Clark, off
Speaker 4: of over shown he could that he can do that
Speaker 4: still in my opinion, But you know, how many games
Speaker 4: is he going to play?
Speaker 3: You know, how long is he going to be able
Speaker 3: to do that?
Speaker 4: This is already a defense that's depending on Kendricks to
Speaker 4: remain healthy.
Speaker 3: He's in year eleven.
Speaker 4: The Marcus Lawrence, they're depending on him to produce. He's
Speaker 4: in year eleven, and now you're depending on you know,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to say put it all on his shoulders,
Speaker 4: but you want him to produce as well at year fifteen,
Speaker 4: and it's you know, that's a tall task for somebody
Speaker 4: playing that defensive line. So I guess if the rotation
Speaker 4: is right, you can get the most out of them,
Speaker 4: you know, for a stretch of games. But you know,
Speaker 4: I just to me, just like I said, this was
Speaker 4: twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, I'd be a static right now.
Speaker 4: I see it as a depth piece and you know,
Speaker 4: hopefully hope him maybe we can squeeze you know, twelve
Speaker 4: games out of him this year, and that's just my hope.
Speaker 4: But that's depending a lot on a veteran presence of
Speaker 4: a defense.
Speaker 2: Look, I mean everything that you brought, I think the
Speaker 2: one thing that stuck out to me what you just
Speaker 2: said was Kendricks having his best years with so like
Speaker 2: I think, man, with your years in the NFL, you
Speaker 2: know for sure, Barry, that a a one technique can
Speaker 2: make a linebacker look outstand, outstand and make it look outstand.
Speaker 3: And when you have a guy of lin.
Speaker 2: Voss Joseph's caliber, and what what exactly is Mike Zimmer
Speaker 2: going to ask of him? I mean, if you think
Speaker 2: of him in his first year in twenty ten, when
Speaker 2: he played for the New York Giants, that's when I
Speaker 2: was Linvald Joseph because he won a Super Bowl. People
Speaker 2: forget about that about part of that Super Bowl team,
Speaker 2: and he was a part of a defense that was
Speaker 2: you know in those years with the Giants, man, they
Speaker 2: shut down the run and a lot of the things
Speaker 2: that you want to do. You saw m mass he
Speaker 2: went those Viking years again, a presence in the middle.
Speaker 3: I know that right now.
Speaker 2: The Dallas Cowboys, when you talk about what their main
Speaker 2: objective is coming into twenty twenty four, it has to
Speaker 2: be stopping the run.
Speaker 3: That's gotta be it. You got the.
Speaker 2: Secondary, you got this look, you got all the other pieces.
Speaker 2: You got all the other pieces that you know you can.
Speaker 2: You can get stops in the run. You can definitely
Speaker 2: create turnovers with those dbs. You trust those guys. You
Speaker 2: have some all pro guys at both sides of corners.
Speaker 2: On your corners, your safeties are sure fi These guys
Speaker 2: can tackle. But your linebackers last year showed you that
Speaker 2: if you did, we're not able to hold that ground.
Speaker 2: Your linebackers could not work. And it didn't matter. I mean,
Speaker 2: you can get on these young guys and say, man,
Speaker 2: they didn't look too good. You could talk about an
Speaker 2: undersized linebacker and bel his specialty is his speed. When
Speaker 2: he can't use his speed, he is less than average.
Speaker 2: He is left less than average. And so the bigger
Speaker 2: thing also calls to MASI okay, because now you understand,
Speaker 2: and I think it's not a sound the alarm. It's
Speaker 2: just that this guy that we are, we drafted high
Speaker 2: and we expected for him to hit the ground run
Speaker 2: and hasn't gotten there yet. And it's not that we
Speaker 2: can give him a full sample side. We can't give
Speaker 2: him all of it yet, we're still having to unveil
Speaker 2: it to it and look, bring this guy along and
Speaker 2: a guy like Linval Joseph to me, is going to
Speaker 2: be great for the development of Mazzie Smith. I mean,
Speaker 2: you think about your years and I think you came
Speaker 2: in Gerald Sena.
Speaker 3: Was that guy, was a guy that was ahead of you.
Speaker 2: Talk about that as as being even that piece you know,
Speaker 2: you ask what he has in the tank, but also
Speaker 2: being a presence in the locker room for.
Speaker 3: A young guy like Mazzie Smith.
Speaker 4: Now, if that's what we're we're basically saying, like that's
Speaker 4: what lim voh I'm assuming will come that We're all
Speaker 4: we're all assuming right here. But if that's his you know,
Speaker 4: kind of role here is to be that veteran presidence
Speaker 4: not only in the locker room, but to teach these
Speaker 4: young guys on the field what Mike Zimmer wants out
Speaker 4: of his defense. Then I think it's an unbelievable signing because,
Speaker 4: like you said, he he was with Zimmer through those
Speaker 4: Minnesota years. He understands what he wants that one tech
Speaker 4: three tech to play and how to play it, so
Speaker 4: he can definitely teach these young guys, mainly Mazzie Smith,
Speaker 4: the way to go about it.
Speaker 3: At the defensive tackle position.
Speaker 4: Now, the thing is, can he can he get out
Speaker 4: of Masi what maybe the coaching staff hasn't been able
Speaker 4: to so far in his two years here at with
Speaker 4: the Dallas Cowboys. Can he show him the techniques to
Speaker 4: bring out that potential because like you said, hey, we
Speaker 4: we still.
Speaker 3: Haven't seen it. We still haven't seen it.
Speaker 4: And I'm not gonna put Mazi in the taco category
Speaker 4: just yet because he's like the sample size has been
Speaker 4: too small. But we need as many people possible, coaches, players,
Speaker 4: vets coming in there to try to get this guy
Speaker 4: to tap into his potential to get to that next level,
Speaker 4: because we all understand how important that position is when
Speaker 4: you talk about stopping to run, and last year it
Speaker 4: was a big eyesaw that middle of that defense. Now
Speaker 4: you had Osa who played you know, in my opinion,
Speaker 4: he played out standing, but he was more of a
Speaker 4: let me get.
Speaker 3: After the pass rusher type defensive tack.
Speaker 4: And to me, when you talk about needing for this defense,
Speaker 4: you need a guy that's gonna sit and have concrete
Speaker 4: blocks on his feet and nobody's gonna be able to
Speaker 4: move him out the way, no matter if you've got
Speaker 4: a guy trying to double team him from the left right,
Speaker 4: he's gonna stand his ground.
Speaker 3: You know, he may not get up the field get
Speaker 3: all these sacks, but he's.
Speaker 4: Gonna stand his ground so that Kendricks and all those
Speaker 4: other guys can do what they do best, and that's
Speaker 4: come down here.
Speaker 3: He'll stop the run.
Speaker 4: If that's what lim Vaugh is here to do to
Speaker 4: get the most out of Mizzi Smith, I'm all for.
Speaker 3: I just get nervous because I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know if Mozzi if he got that, if
Speaker 4: he got that mentality to be able to go out
Speaker 4: there and be that one technique that this defense needs.
Speaker 4: And then then you're gonna put more on the plate
Speaker 4: of a Limbaugh Joseph who's in year fifteen.
Speaker 3: So it's it's a slippery slope.
Speaker 4: But if he can get Mazi to get that untapped
Speaker 4: potential out of there then or out of himself, then
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 3: Then this defense then you're cooking with grease.
Speaker 2: And then also please remember, as you mentioned before, Jerry
Speaker 2: said that, look, we're not done with calming other rosters.
Speaker 2: And you bring in Karl Lawson and Jordan Phillips, and
Speaker 2: so Carl Lawson obviously a five technique guys gonna play
Speaker 2: out on the outside, but Jordan Phillips is a guy
Speaker 2: that you're gonna move down internally that can also be
Speaker 2: that piece to have some tweener between one and a
Speaker 2: three technique. But before we go to break, I want
Speaker 2: to switch. I want to switch up here and talk
Speaker 2: about the NFC East because a lot of people on
Speaker 2: the outside of this building believe that there are teams,
Speaker 2: and you've been seeing it through these signings. There are
Speaker 2: teams that are getting really good and right now in
Speaker 2: the NFC's In one signing in particular, something that I
Speaker 2: thought was really weird, Dan Quinn takes it upon himself
Speaker 2: to trade some picks, but also since Johan Dotson he
Speaker 2: receives picks. But since Jahan Dotson, a former first round, sixteenth.
Speaker 3: Pick in the first round wide receiver to.
Speaker 4: Philly within the division, within the division, that's rare. Wait
Speaker 4: a second, So, Dan Quinn, do me a favor, don't
Speaker 4: do us no favor?
Speaker 5: What is that?
Speaker 2: What is that? That was a weird That was a
Speaker 2: weird trade. Now to me, that's super weird.
Speaker 4: I've only seen it happen maybe once or twice, where
Speaker 4: a guy gets traded within the division, and it goes
Speaker 4: to show you what that coaching staff thinks of Johan Dotson.
Speaker 4: Because if you're sitting here saying, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 4: trade you for some pigs, knowing you gotta go against
Speaker 4: this guy twice a year, you would think, oh, we're
Speaker 4: gonna send him somewhere else, maybe still within the NFC,
Speaker 4: but not the NFC East.
Speaker 3: So basically twice, see him twice.
Speaker 4: So basically, what Dack what was saying is, you know, hey,
Speaker 4: we don't think much of you, and we don't think
Speaker 4: going going to one of our division rivals will affect
Speaker 4: us playing them twice a year.
Speaker 3: But to me that was that was a weird trade,
Speaker 3: but kind of a kind of a sneaky good one
Speaker 3: for Philly. I think it's sneaky good.
Speaker 2: You know, talent talent wise, if you just do a
Speaker 2: comparison on the rosters Philly, Philly that has gotten better.
Speaker 2: I think the signing of Saquon Barkley is the one
Speaker 2: is the one I think that everyone points to then
Speaker 2: they go, they got Squon, And that's what what Saquon
Speaker 2: signing gonna do is gonna cut down on a lot
Speaker 2: of Jalen Hurts running and that's the thing that ends up,
Speaker 2: you know, wearing him down towards the end of season.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna start to get the best part of
Speaker 2: Jalen also with that running game being as effective as
Speaker 2: it can be. But John Dotson coming out of Penn
Speaker 2: State back in twenty twenty two was a one of
Speaker 2: those receivers you look, take the top off a guy
Speaker 2: that could get you that yackyard and she could do
Speaker 2: it all. But for some reason out in Washington with
Speaker 2: Terry McLaurin, it never kind of started to materialize. And
Speaker 2: I guess Washington figure like that we got enough weapons
Speaker 2: already as it is now. Washington, on the other hand,
Speaker 2: that's another team that if you look at their roster
Speaker 2: and it looks young quarterback that you look you cannot
Speaker 2: go out here and put too much on a young
Speaker 2: especially team with a young quarterback.
Speaker 3: But we've seen in.
Speaker 2: Houston what the infusion of a young quarterback can do
Speaker 2: for your squad. And if you're sitting here and you're
Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys and you're seeing like everybody except for
Speaker 2: the Giants right now, the Giants right now, it's probably
Speaker 2: like that's the one team in the nfc S that
Speaker 2: you're like, are you guys like literally trying to be
Speaker 2: bad a win? But there has not been a repeat
Speaker 2: NFC East Divisional champ since two thousand and four. This
Speaker 2: is twenty years since this has happened. So that is
Speaker 2: wise wise and so if I mean, you got twenty
Speaker 2: years worth of history here, and I guess my, my,
Speaker 2: my biggest question to you is, after you think about
Speaker 2: these trades and think about how teams are getting better
Speaker 2: in the NFCS, what are the chances that this twenty
Speaker 2: year trend is broken with the Cowboys winning it again?
Speaker 3: Whoo? I mean, it's gonna be tight. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: I see you know, early early opinions on this, and
Speaker 4: you know, we all got to see the season play out,
Speaker 4: but early opinions. Man, it's definitely gonna be a three
Speaker 4: three team race. And I don't think anybody is just
Speaker 4: gonna you know, the past couple of years has always
Speaker 4: been either Philly or Dallas kind of pulling away one
Speaker 4: of the others gonna win.
Speaker 3: Washington.
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be a sneaky team this year
Speaker 4: because we you know, they got a rookie quarterback, but
Speaker 4: the one Achilles heeled you know, to a lot of defenses,
Speaker 4: and it's you know, Cowboys as well has been in
Speaker 4: that quarterback that can escape, that quarterback that can run
Speaker 4: by time with his feet, you know, look downfield to
Speaker 4: still make those big plays. And that's what they have
Speaker 4: in Jade Daniels, in my opinion, is a guy that
Speaker 4: can use his legs, but he can also throw the
Speaker 4: ball extremely well. So the guys Gry Terry McLaurin on
Speaker 4: the outside, they got a lot of weapons. And with
Speaker 4: Dan Quinn, you know, that defensive side of the football
Speaker 4: is gonna be ready. You know, they gonna come to
Speaker 4: play you've seen. But when he came in here and
Speaker 4: infused that talent on this defensive side of the ball,
Speaker 4: what they were able to do with the Cowboys, it
Speaker 4: turned everything around. So you understand what's gonna happen on
Speaker 4: that defensive side of the football for the for the Commanders,
Speaker 4: they're gonna have pressure on the quarterback. You already know
Speaker 4: that they're gonna be opportunistic in the secondary.
Speaker 3: So to me, Washington's gonna be a little sneaky team.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, I think it's
Speaker 4: really gonna come down to Philly in Dallas. I mean,
Speaker 4: we all understand that the Dallas Cowboys have the best
Speaker 4: quarterback in the division. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: when you have that best quarterback in the division, you're
Speaker 4: always gonna have a leg up.
Speaker 3: All right. Dak Prescott to me, is the best quarterback
Speaker 3: in this division. So I would give it about a.
Speaker 4: Sixty percent chance that the Cowboys break that that NFC
Speaker 4: East curse.
Speaker 3: I give I give it a sixty percent chance, And
Speaker 3: I need to start my little book.
Speaker 4: You got the best back and got the best defensive
Speaker 4: player in the in the in the in the division, sixty.
Speaker 4: I say that, I say sixty right now as of
Speaker 4: right now. You know, we still got time seasons. You know,
Speaker 4: a couple of weeks. I got in the book, We
Speaker 4: got tired, got that dandy Dad got in the book,
Speaker 4: got the best quarterback, the best defensive player.
Speaker 2: That's what I was just about to say, Dad Quinn
Speaker 2: doesn't have Dad Quinn, don't have Michael.
Speaker 3: That show made life easy. Quit.
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Speaker 2: make sure we dedicate this show to him, because I
Speaker 2: know our brother. His heart is heavy in the Scrugs family.
Speaker 2: But Saturday, Saturday, three o'clock, we have a scrimmage. That scrimmage,
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: A preseason game. Yeah, it's a scrimmage, Yes it is.
Speaker 2: It's a scrimmage pres a preseason game between the Los
Speaker 2: Angeles Chargers and the Dallas Cowboys. And I'm telling you, man,
Speaker 2: I wish this was a regular season game because I
Speaker 2: want to see I want to see what Harball is
Speaker 2: putting together over there.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, hey.
Speaker 2: Justin Herbert is walking in the boot right now with
Speaker 2: a bad case of plantar, so that hey, hey see
Speaker 2: how that affects him. But we're going to get a
Speaker 2: helping of well, I don't know if Easton stick and
Speaker 2: Lewis Perez east Stick. Yeah he's sticking still around, and
Speaker 2: look we still get an opportunity to see more of
Speaker 2: Probably this Trey Lancer probably played the entire games, made
Speaker 2: some made some advancement from his first game in the
Speaker 2: second game, so I got a lot, a lot better
Speaker 2: confidence there for what what should be your number three
Speaker 2: quarterback on this roster. But for a lot of guys,
Speaker 2: and you've been in this position before plenty of years
Speaker 2: at this position. This is this has been this, This
Speaker 2: Saturday's game is very important for a lot of guys
Speaker 2: go ahead, and it's one of those things like you
Speaker 2: you are now getting an opportunity to make a case
Speaker 2: for yourself for being able to make this fifty three
Speaker 2: band roster. And so man, just talk to that and
Speaker 2: what that pressure is like playing in that.
Speaker 4: This this game is huge when you talk about guys
Speaker 4: towards the bottom half of the roster, because that's all
Speaker 4: you know, every team in the National Football League is
Speaker 4: trying to do. Spoke on it a little bit earlier,
Speaker 4: but they're trying to make sure that a roster as
Speaker 4: strong as possible going into the regular season. So guys
Speaker 4: towards the bottom of the depth chart, and I've been there,
Speaker 4: you know, my first probably two years. You know, I
Speaker 4: was at the bottom of the depth chart trying to
Speaker 4: figure out how ways to make this team. And this
Speaker 4: game right here is stressful and it's one of the hardest,
Speaker 4: if not the hardest game. I probably say I've played
Speaker 4: in the National Football League. When's when you talk about
Speaker 4: condition wise, because you're gonna be on every single special team, offense, defense,
Speaker 4: whatever you played, you're gonna get all those reps, especially
Speaker 4: if you're at the bottom and the roster trying to
Speaker 4: make this team or at least trying to put good
Speaker 4: tape out there for other teams to pick you up
Speaker 4: if you do end up getting released here. But you're
Speaker 4: on every single special teams I'm talking about, you're covering punts, well,
Speaker 4: straight from covering punts to playing safety or whatever position
Speaker 4: you play on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 3: You know, then you're going.
Speaker 4: On punt return, kickoff, kickoff return, like and you're getting
Speaker 4: about you know sixty, you know, so whatever snaps in
Speaker 4: that game on the defensive ward office side of the football.
Speaker 3: So to me, this is one of the hardest games.
Speaker 4: And I remember being McCrae, you know, after our rookie
Speaker 4: season and we had to do this last game. I
Speaker 4: think we played against Miami and at the time, they
Speaker 4: had a aging Ricky Williams was in there, and we
Speaker 4: was like, we ain't gonna have to go against Ricky, Like,
Speaker 4: ain't we aint gonna have to play against it. Man,
Speaker 4: lo and behold you know, I guess he was trying
Speaker 4: to make the ropters.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: So we go out there where you know, everybody's hyping everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we got to do this. We're gonna do this.
Speaker 3: Here comes Ricky Williams out the bet.
Speaker 4: I'm like, hold on, man, wain't a second against Ricky.
Speaker 3: Man, And let me tell you. I'm playing in the
Speaker 3: middle of the field.
Speaker 4: Ricky gets a draw, breaks through the D line, breaks
Speaker 4: through the second level. Man, it's me and Ricky one
Speaker 4: on one, and I'm like, man, here we go. Because
Speaker 4: I growing up, that's who I was watching Texas. But
Speaker 4: he was holding down man. That man hit me with
Speaker 4: the illus one two step and got up out of there. No,
Speaker 4: I'm talking about left me reaching. I'm real, I'm grabbing
Speaker 4: out there. I'm grabbing turf, you know, those little black
Speaker 4: beads that are in the turf flying up in my face.
Speaker 4: Ricky skated off, somebody else ended up tackling him up
Speaker 4: one of our corners, and I'm sitting there like, that's it, man,
Speaker 4: that's I'm thinking of myself.
Speaker 3: Man, I didn't do enohing this preseason.
Speaker 4: They have to be locked and then I made a
Speaker 4: you know, a missed the tackle and it made a
Speaker 4: big play.
Speaker 3: What's gonna happen, man, I'm thinking it's over with.
Speaker 4: But you know, our special teams coach at the time,
Speaker 4: Deacon Millis, you know, he showed love. He was like, nah,
Speaker 4: this guy got something, so we're gonna keep him on
Speaker 4: the roster. And that's why. And it brings me to
Speaker 4: my point. When you and these young guys and they're
Speaker 4: going out there, everybody thinks you gotta be great on
Speaker 4: either offense or defense. I gotta make an interception, I
Speaker 4: gotta you know, get a sack. I gotta make ten tackles.
Speaker 3: And that's good.
Speaker 4: That's all well and dandy, But where you want to
Speaker 4: make your hay at it, especially if you're on the
Speaker 4: bottom of that roster, is you got to make a
Speaker 4: play on special teams. You gotta show consistency on special teams,
Speaker 4: whether you're gonna you know, protecting the punter, hunt, return, blocking,
Speaker 4: whatever the case may be. That's where you want to
Speaker 4: make your hay at. You know, defense is great, offense
Speaker 4: is great, but nine times out of ten, if you're
Speaker 4: on the bottom of the roster, you ain't gonna see
Speaker 4: the offense or defense no time soon. So special teams
Speaker 4: in this last game for those guys, you've got to
Speaker 4: go out there and make sure you show Fossil coach
Speaker 4: Jim John Fossil that you belong on this field with
Speaker 4: these guys and you deserve a spot either on a
Speaker 4: fifty three or whatever. The dress how many players they
Speaker 4: dress nowadays, you got to make sure you go out
Speaker 4: there and show that coach that you can play.
Speaker 3: Offensive. Defense is great, but special teams, you gotta make
Speaker 3: it happen. There.
Speaker 2: Man who knew that Ricky Williams almost made you a
Speaker 2: financial advisorburgh, come see me.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about your forward game. How can we help
Speaker 4: you to I ain't the same Barry Church I known.
Speaker 4: Dude hit me because he had that mean like triple
Speaker 4: T man the advisor. I'm like this, dude, one two
Speaker 4: step was gone. I said, Oh, that's a rap for me.
Speaker 3: Dude.
Speaker 2: So you know, obviously watching all these preseason games, knowing
Speaker 2: what's going on in camp for you, who would be
Speaker 2: your dark horse player to make this roster?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 2: A guy that kind of reminds you of yourself the
Speaker 2: matter offense or defense. But the guy that you say look,
Speaker 2: this guy has an opportunity to make the squad. So
Speaker 2: I would have to say, and I don't know if
Speaker 2: he's you know, that far at the bottom of the house,
Speaker 2: he may be a lock already. But you know what,
Speaker 2: I would love to see a little bit more of
Speaker 2: him out there. But Brooks, Jaylen brook to the receiver.
Speaker 4: To me, you know, each year he's been here, he's
Speaker 4: made strides and when you talk about getting your opportunity
Speaker 4: on the football field.
Speaker 3: He's done a great job offensively.
Speaker 4: We've seen him in that first game when Cooper Rush
Speaker 4: was out there, I believe it was against the Chargers.
Speaker 4: He was the one that caught that deep ball from
Speaker 4: Cooper Rush early in the game. He makes those plays
Speaker 4: on a consistent basis, and he does, you know, great
Speaker 4: in training camp. You know, he just hasn't had that
Speaker 4: that he's had that chance during a regular season to
Speaker 4: go show what he can do. But to me, I
Speaker 4: understand you can do it on the offensive side of
Speaker 4: the football. We understand you can receiver, you can make plays.
Speaker 4: I just love to see him be able to do
Speaker 4: that same thing and make an impact special teams wise,
Speaker 4: whether it's being a gunner getting down there like I said,
Speaker 4: or covering kickoffs, like I said, getting down there, because
Speaker 4: that'll get you dressed during the regular season. That'll get
Speaker 4: you out there on the football field running out of
Speaker 4: the tunnel.
Speaker 3: White's going crazy, you buckling them up. That'll get you.
Speaker 4: That opportunity is if you go out there and you're
Speaker 4: able to do it on special teams. So, like I said,
Speaker 4: receiver wise, I understand he's a good receiver. He'll probably
Speaker 4: end up being the you know, maybe fifth or sixth
Speaker 4: option out there.
Speaker 3: But if you want to go out there and get
Speaker 3: dressed on a regular.
Speaker 4: Basis, I want to see you do some of that
Speaker 4: on the on the special teams case.
Speaker 2: So I'm sitting here, I want to make sure that
Speaker 2: I'm looking at I mean, there is a ton of
Speaker 2: depth at the cornerback position, and obviously a ton of
Speaker 2: ton of depth, and you know, and you know how
Speaker 2: good you are on both sides, uh, Treyvon Diggs a
Speaker 2: lot doron Bland.
Speaker 3: All right, Jeorge Lewis Lock.
Speaker 2: You know you have guys in that secondary case Carson
Speaker 2: who's made his cases, he's been playing well. But a
Speaker 2: guy by the name of Keemon Hall he did his
Speaker 2: day last look look go me go mean Green, I'm
Speaker 2: going home world this one for sure. But Keemon Hall,
Speaker 2: to me, has made a case for himself. And look,
Speaker 2: they're guys like Eric Scott. There are other players on
Speaker 2: the scene that you know obviously are coming over to
Speaker 2: Mike Zimmer from another regime. But still I think you
Speaker 2: know they're gonna go.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's Rock's in.
Speaker 2: I see Rocks in the month, so I had to
Speaker 2: give a shout out. But but keem On Hall is
Speaker 2: a player that I think man has made a case
Speaker 2: for himself. Now as you stated, as you stated, it's
Speaker 2: gonna come down to special teams.
Speaker 3: What can you do? What can you do?
Speaker 2: And I think those are the Those are guys like
Speaker 2: that that even if you know, I would be watching
Speaker 2: him as a player to see if another team picks
Speaker 2: him up. I mean, because he's been in the league
Speaker 2: for quite some time. It's not like he's one of
Speaker 2: these young guys first year in the league. But you
Speaker 2: see that play making ability from him man, and it
Speaker 2: would be it would be good to see a guy
Speaker 2: like that make make the team. But also I got it,
Speaker 2: since you can pick me in. None of the guys
Speaker 2: that I thought you were gonna pick number number fifty seven,
Speaker 2: Buddy Johnson, Buddy Johnson, and I'm torn, and I'm torn
Speaker 2: between Buddy Johnson and Nick Vigil.
Speaker 3: Those you're saying Willie Harvey is a lot, I think
Speaker 3: will he's a lot. Yeah, I do too, I think
Speaker 3: he's a lot.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, he didn't have as good as
Speaker 2: showing that first time around, but I just think that
Speaker 2: what you've been hearing from him out of camp. So
Speaker 2: if he doesn't, I mean, look, it's it's really a
Speaker 2: toss up though there. And you never know when he
Speaker 2: especially when they're making spots for other guys which house
Speaker 2: they're still, So he may be one of those guys
Speaker 2: like c J.
Speaker 3: Goodwin. You know, you know CJ. Get cut. Yeah, they're
Speaker 3: gonna bring you so well repaired. We prepare ourselves for
Speaker 3: that right now. But those are the guys.
Speaker 2: And and I'm really interested, also, Barri, to see some
Speaker 2: of these other positions. What are they thinking in some
Speaker 2: of these other positions like running back We talked about
Speaker 2: this a couple of days ago, but how many do
Speaker 2: they playing on keeping in the running back room? How
Speaker 2: many wide receivers do they keep? I do think your
Speaker 2: guy Jalen Brooks is a lot you think I think
Speaker 2: I think he's locked in and I just think he's
Speaker 2: he's big, He's made a cast for himself. He's definitely
Speaker 2: improved on last season, and I think you need another
Speaker 2: presence and he's a young guy that's that's showing you
Speaker 2: that he has something.
Speaker 4: I'm with you on that one for sure. So I'm
Speaker 4: definitely good on the Jalen Brooks one one position. And
Speaker 4: I want to get you thoughts on this. And I'm
Speaker 4: not sure if either of these guys you know, will
Speaker 4: play or have a lot of playing time, but we've
Speaker 4: talked about it at length in this offseason. Which is
Speaker 4: the center position, brock Hoffman and bib which has been
Speaker 4: a battle back and forth. You've seen the coaches they're
Speaker 4: starting to grow with Bebe and as far as him,
Speaker 4: you know, understanding that center position because he played guard
Speaker 4: in college, but understanding as a unit how to play there.
Speaker 4: But then you also got I wouldn't call him a veteran,
Speaker 4: but you got Hoffman in there, who's had some experience
Speaker 4: at the center position as well. I would love to
Speaker 4: see those two in this preseason game. I know you're
Speaker 4: not gonna have, you know, Smith or Martin next to
Speaker 4: you and the starting offensive line, but just to get
Speaker 4: those guys more experienced and basically see, you know, whoever
Speaker 4: plays better is gonna get that spot because these right now,
Speaker 4: these guys are neck and neck, and usually it goes
Speaker 4: to the guy with the higher draft capital, which would
Speaker 4: be BB. But I don't know what are your what
Speaker 4: are your thoughts on on on them playing in this last.
Speaker 3: I said it.
Speaker 2: I said it on Wednesday, man, I'll say it again.
Speaker 2: I think that when you have two guys, you have
Speaker 2: an incumbent and you have a rookie in the same category,
Speaker 2: if the incumbent is in leaps and bounds better than
Speaker 2: the rookie, then you're gonna go with the rookie. I
Speaker 2: mean it seems to me like Hoffman, he has been
Speaker 2: a feel good story and a guy that I think
Speaker 2: you know has shown you that you have some added
Speaker 2: depth there. He can be that depth piece for you.
Speaker 2: But I think you cannot keep Cooper BB's nasty on
Speaker 2: the sideline. You need that, you need that. And the
Speaker 2: whole thing about your team the offseason on down has
Speaker 2: been toughness. Everybody's questioning our toughness. Are we tough? As
Speaker 2: a team, when you get another guy in there that
Speaker 2: you say, oh he got a little bit of nasty
Speaker 2: to him. That counts in December, you know it, you know.
Speaker 2: And so at some point, as we said, as you
Speaker 2: know that it's a long season, just knowing that you
Speaker 2: have that extra piece there, I think it's gonna be
Speaker 2: good for coach McCarthy going into the season. But when
Speaker 2: we come back, we're going to talk about expectation. I
Speaker 2: know that we haven't gotten to We're gonna wait until
Speaker 2: next week a couple weeks to start talking about the
Speaker 2: schedule and what we predict. But there are some players
Speaker 2: that have a little bit of extra pressure on them
Speaker 2: coming into this season. But also you know it, pressure
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Speaker 2: So we'll have a conversation. But so I was talking
Speaker 2: about expectation. I'm not gonna get myself in trouble talking
Speaker 2: about expectation. And look, I want to know from you
Speaker 2: because I think this off season, in this Cowboys camp has.
Speaker 3: Been filled with so much drama.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a lot of drama out here in these
Speaker 2: Cowboy streets, and a lot of it is concerned in
Speaker 2: certain position groups and certain players. So you don't have
Speaker 2: to pick one. You can mix and match, you don't.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to come from the same side of
Speaker 2: the ball. But I want you to tell me your expectation.
Speaker 2: Give me, give me what your expectation is going to
Speaker 2: be for a certain position group and expectation for a
Speaker 2: certain player.
Speaker 3: You say, all right, so.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna go with the you know what
Speaker 4: you had said at first, I'm gonna mix it match
Speaker 4: a little bit off the side, and I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: to defensive side of the football. But when you talk
Speaker 4: about a position group that I have high expectations for
Speaker 4: and I would hope that they were able to fulfill
Speaker 4: those expectations.
Speaker 3: Would be the.
Speaker 4: Tight end group, in my opinion, you have Ferguson, who
Speaker 4: that's your mass, and he has played outstanding last year
Speaker 4: and he's on the cusp of being one of the
Speaker 4: top tight ends in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: But to me, that.
Speaker 4: Group has got to play outstanding this year, not only
Speaker 4: in receiving, but blocking as well. You got a young,
Speaker 4: you know, left tackle out there. You're gonna need some
Speaker 4: help chipping players out there and holding double teams. So
Speaker 4: that tight end group, blocking wise, is gonna have to
Speaker 4: be outstanding. And then we talk about receiving wise. Ferguson's
Speaker 4: gonna have to make that lead you know, seven hundred
Speaker 4: I believe was sixty one yards seven sixty one last year,
Speaker 4: which is outstanding for a tight end. But I'm gonna
Speaker 4: need a little bit more because I believe, like you said,
Speaker 4: you know, last week, the tight end group, mainly Ferguson
Speaker 4: is gonna be that number two option Cooks who you know,
Speaker 4: still got speed out there. But but but he's an
Speaker 4: aging receiver out there, and last year he made a
Speaker 4: couple of plays here and there. But to me, you're
Speaker 4: gonna need that solid number two option. That's gonna need
Speaker 4: that security blanket, cause we all know what ceed's gonna represent.
Speaker 4: He's gonna get his stats, he's gonna get his yards,
Speaker 4: but teams are gonna make sure and they still might
Speaker 4: not be able to stop them, but they gonna triple him,
Speaker 4: quadruple team him out there. So you're gonna have to
Speaker 4: have that number two option in that security blanket. And
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be this tight end group, mainly Ferguson.
Speaker 4: You got Jalen Torbert out there, who's unproven, gonna get
Speaker 4: a lot of one on ones out there, and then
Speaker 4: you got Cooks out there, who's gonna get a lot
Speaker 4: of one on ones, but he had a lot of
Speaker 4: one one on ones last year and we still it
Speaker 4: didn't see that crazy production. So to me, that tight
Speaker 4: end group as a whole, whether it's blocking, receiving, they're
Speaker 4: gonna have to step their game up, and I believe
Speaker 4: they'll be able to cause Ferguson's a hell of a
Speaker 4: tight end and you got some guys in there that
Speaker 4: can block along the line of scrimmage as well.
Speaker 3: So that's the group I'm all with.
Speaker 4: And my expectations for them are being, you know, to
Speaker 4: play their butts off this season. Now when you talk
Speaker 4: about individual players, and you know, we keep piling on
Speaker 4: my guy, but you know it has to be said
Speaker 4: because it's the main problem when you talk about the
Speaker 4: defensive side of the football, and that's the run game.
Speaker 4: I expect Mozzi Smith not to take a massively. You know,
Speaker 4: I don't expect him to go from what he was
Speaker 4: last year to Aaron Donald or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 4: But I need him to be that guy that they
Speaker 4: drafted in the first round like when he was in college.
Speaker 4: I need him to be that guy to go out there,
Speaker 4: take on those double teams, be able to be a
Speaker 4: solid contributor against the run, and keep those offensive linemen
Speaker 4: off the second level. Let those guys do what they do.
Speaker 4: And I know we said it at NAZIM about Mizzi
Speaker 4: Smith being able to go in there, and it's tough because,
Speaker 4: you know, being a first round pick, I feel like
Speaker 4: all the pressure is on him to stop the run,
Speaker 4: like it's just him bass up. If he can't do it,
Speaker 4: then this defense is done, which is not the case.
Speaker 4: It takes you know, all eleven guys out there to
Speaker 4: stop the run. But to me, that interior part has
Speaker 4: got to be more solid than it was last year.
Speaker 4: And I believe if he can take that leap with
Speaker 4: the you know coaching under Zimmer, you know, you got
Speaker 4: lin Vald Joseph, you got some veterans around you that
Speaker 4: can teach you the game a little bit more and
Speaker 4: the ins and outs and the little sneaky tricks that
Speaker 4: those guys like to do on the inside.
Speaker 3: Then I believe he can take that leap.
Speaker 4: And the Cowboys are gonna need him to take that
Speaker 4: leap if they want to go to where they want
Speaker 4: to go, which we all understand where that is and
Speaker 4: gain goal or go at the end of the season.
Speaker 4: So those are about my group, tight end group gonna
Speaker 4: take it, take that next step, you know, block in
Speaker 4: being that number two solid, number two option and on
Speaker 4: the defense side of the football, get my Mansi to take
Speaker 4: take my get my boy Manzi to take that next league.
Speaker 2: So what I'm gonna say about the the tight end
Speaker 2: group is Jake Ferguson definitely, And Jake Ferguson is to me,
Speaker 2: is a guy that can have a thousand yards as
Speaker 2: a tight end. You haven't seen a thousand yard tight
Speaker 2: end since since j wit right and and I'm I'm
Speaker 2: gathering those numbers from the targets that Gallup left behind.
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be a there's gonna be guys
Speaker 2: that are can get more work than you saw before.
Speaker 2: So a young guy like Tober, his targets are gonna increase.
Speaker 2: Be Cooks, his targets are gonna increase. But there's also
Speaker 2: gonna be more balls for you on that end. For
Speaker 2: Jake Ferguson. So I think Jake Ferguson, Jake Gregsy, Jake
Speaker 2: fergus is gonna get that gonna get that work.
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go and look, man, amen to what you
Speaker 2: said about Mazie. But my position group that I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with is gonna be this offensive line. Offensive line
Speaker 2: and the reason the offensive line. Last season, the Dallas
Speaker 2: Cowboys finished in statistical top five in area area yards, touchdowns,
Speaker 2: all that all right, uh game, you know the amount
Speaker 2: of drive, the length of drives that they had, they
Speaker 2: were one of the best in the NFL. And I
Speaker 2: think you do that because you have a solid offensive line,
Speaker 2: right and those things protection for Dak This is a
Speaker 2: big year for DAK obviously, but if we are trying
Speaker 2: to get rid of the ghosts of Green Bay, you
Speaker 2: are going to need your offensive line to play up
Speaker 2: to par. And we know we're already a little nervous
Speaker 2: about this running back room. If you're gonna have any
Speaker 2: success on the ground, it's gonna be because your offensive
Speaker 2: line is the catalyst for that.
Speaker 3: And so uh definitely going there. Now.
Speaker 2: We did have a production meeting, so I didn't think
Speaker 2: he was just gonna take the tight hands away from
Speaker 2: me like that. Thank you for making me scramble berry.
Speaker 3: Fast on your feet.
Speaker 2: God, I'm gonna go o Sa Diggiza sego Mazi. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go Osa, I think. And here's my thing with Osa.
Speaker 2: We have been giving Osa, I almost we're not giving
Speaker 2: him a pass. But I think that for what we
Speaker 2: imagine he is and what he actually is, it's not
Speaker 2: going together right. I need Osa, Diggiezua to be a
Speaker 2: presence on this defense.
Speaker 3: And I understand. Look when sometimes when things are.
Speaker 2: Going downhill, it's easy for the lady downhill altogether, it's
Speaker 2: just not just them, It'll be me too.
Speaker 3: We could do it as a unit.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be left behind, right, But I
Speaker 2: think OSA has to to take that step, and that's
Speaker 2: like cliche, take the next step. What is that, you know,
Speaker 2: be consistent game in and game out. Don't be a
Speaker 2: guy that disappears after you've had you know, a sack
Speaker 2: or two, or a tackle for a loss or any
Speaker 2: of that. We need that consistency from a guy that
Speaker 2: you still view as a young guy, third round draft pick.
Speaker 2: He's been solid, he's giving you some good reps. But
Speaker 2: I think it's the consistency piece for OSA that I'm
Speaker 2: looking to man.
Speaker 3: But we got it done. We did group.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I forgot about one more group in there,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna put the the corners that I mean
Speaker 4: the secondary as a whole, but I'm gonna put the
Speaker 4: corners in there as well.
Speaker 3: Because if you know, Diggs.
Speaker 4: Is able to come back and be that player that
Speaker 4: we know he is, you know, defensive player of the year,
Speaker 4: you know in the running for that type of type
Speaker 4: of performance, if he and be that guy, and Bland
Speaker 4: can continue to take the football away like he did,
Speaker 4: if those guys can lock up on the outside, including
Speaker 4: Jordan Luis, if those guys can lock up on the outside.
Speaker 4: That'll allow Zimra to bring more guys in to help
Speaker 4: on that run. So that's to me, you know, I
Speaker 4: understand what we got on the outside. Those guys are special.
Speaker 4: If they're able to continue to play special like that,
Speaker 4: that'll allows Zimmer to put more pieces towards that run
Speaker 4: defense and allow maybe that you know, that Cowboys defense
Speaker 4: to I mean, if they can be top ten run
Speaker 4: that's all they need talking about. Then this guy's a
Speaker 4: limited So corners, they gonna be good on the outside. Though,
Speaker 4: one player that you have, you know, worries at all about, Oh, that's.
Speaker 3: The business gun. I mean, you know he's gonna Michael Parson.
Speaker 4: You know he's going ball out, whether it's you know,
Speaker 4: getting after the pass and making plays, whatever the case
Speaker 4: may be.
Speaker 3: I have no worries about him.
Speaker 4: I would say Kendricks as well, because Kendricks is a
Speaker 4: heck of a linebacker.
Speaker 3: The only issue year eleven durability will he make.
Speaker 4: It throughout the entire season, Because to me, that's gonna
Speaker 4: be a quarterback of the defense. He's gonna get that
Speaker 4: defensive line set up, he's gonna be the secondary knows
Speaker 4: what they gotta do.
Speaker 3: He understands Zimmer's defense. We can't lose that guy.
Speaker 4: That he's gotta be durable throughout the entire year.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: My one player then is gonna be uh, Brandon Oakcliffe Aubrey.
Speaker 4: From Cliff came from OAKLFT. He kick it for pleasant
Speaker 4: grown on some day. But Brandon Aubrey, that's the one
Speaker 4: guy I'm not worried about. Sixty six yarder in the preseason.
Speaker 4: That is banana's man. How how how big of a
Speaker 4: weapon is that that once you pass the fifties, it's
Speaker 4: basically an automatic three.
Speaker 3: That's no, that's that's crazy. Hey, that is ridiculous, man.
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, I'm like saying to myself, like, Brandon,
Speaker 2: come on, man, save some of this for the sixty
Speaker 2: six yards that is That is bananas man. But BC,
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