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Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek

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Speaker 1: Eagleton this Tuesday, number four, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode

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Speaker 1: number eighty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break.

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Speaker 1: We're live from the s WBC Morty Studios at the Star.

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Speaker 1: Got Nick and Dave with me. Ambers out today. She

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Speaker 1: will be back tomorrow and that's when we'll start getting

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Speaker 1: you guys ready for the upcoming Cowboys versus Philadelphia Eagles matchup.

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Speaker 1: How's everybody doing today? Great? Derek? You good? Dave? Yeah? Nick, wonderful,

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Speaker 1: awesome here see yeah, I mean all right, good you go.

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Speaker 1: We we could hear you. I don't think you know,

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Speaker 1: I got it. I'm all good to good. We got

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Speaker 1: a lot to talk about today. We're gonna we're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a big picture look around the NFL today. And

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Speaker 1: it's no better day to take a big picture look

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Speaker 1: than today, because thank god we did that show Friday.

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Speaker 1: You would have come in here and ben all right,

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Speaker 1: first quarter against the Saints, Yes we would. We would

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Speaker 1: have had to jump into the game, But we did

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Speaker 1: that on Friday. That's old news. That's a team we

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Speaker 1: already beat us tonight. Ain't It doesn't matter, it's just

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Speaker 1: the Saints five years ago. It does, It absolutely does.

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Speaker 1: But I mean it's just really if you go back

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Speaker 1: is just going to Cowboys away. All the teams that

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Speaker 1: on Sunday and on Monday, and it's put the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: in a really really unique position just from the standpoint

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Speaker 1: of where they sit right now. Cowboys are leading the

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Speaker 1: division at seven and five. You've got Philadelphia, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: you got Philadelphia second at six and six. Washington tied

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Speaker 1: can win the next two games, which will be at home,

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Speaker 1: then if Washington loses one of the next two games

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Speaker 1: against either the Giants or at the Jacksonville Jaguars Cowboys

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Speaker 1: will clinch the nfcast. Amazing that we are here. WTF,

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Speaker 1: wtf happened? How did? How did we get here? Which?

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Speaker 1: They were three and five? They were three and five,

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Speaker 1: And I mean, yeah, it's not mathematic, but I mean

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Speaker 1: And I mean a lot of people were like tweeting

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Speaker 1: them last night. An important piece They've now found this

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Speaker 1: What else do you want? You just said it's all

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Speaker 1: Here's the Green Bay won't get back in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: I know he said, he tore, he ruptured his plants,

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Speaker 1: are fascists whatever it's Yeah, it sounds very painful. And

429
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Speaker 1: they've got the Saints twice. They're six and six, and

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Speaker 1: then you got obviously Philly in Washington. Listen to what

431
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Speaker 1: the schedule looks like for Minnesota, for Carolina, Minnesota for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the season, they'll play Seattle, so one

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Speaker 1: of them has to take a loss at Seattle. They'll

434
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Speaker 1: play Miami, then they'll play at Detroit, and then they

435
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Speaker 1: finished the season against Chicago, So they got two games

436
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Speaker 1: there that are gonna be really tough for them, and

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Speaker 1: then Carolina plays at Cleveland, they play New Orleans at home,

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Speaker 1: they play at Lanta at home, and then they finished

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Speaker 1: the season at New Orleans. So two games against New Orleans. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe that last game at New Orleans may not matter,

441
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Speaker 1: who knows, But all that being said, those two teams

442
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Speaker 1: are gonna battle each other a little bit. There's gonna

443
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Speaker 1: be some jockeying for position there. And so it does

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Speaker 1: line up to where even if the Cowboys lose to Philly,

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Speaker 1: they still are sitting in a really really good spot

446
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Speaker 1: to finish out. If they can finish out strong, to

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Speaker 1: finish out and be able to be a wild card team. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean if Philly, If Philly is capable of getting

449
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Speaker 1: on the type of role that you're describing, obviously, like

450
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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to beat some good teams to do it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I won't be surprised if Dallas and Philly both make

452
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah, you don't want which is amazing. You

453
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Speaker 1: don't want that in that four or five game, if

454
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Speaker 1: Dallas is the four, you know you have to go

455
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Speaker 1: to Philly. No way, just play him again. Yeah, are fat?

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Speaker 1: I tell you the one that I think is the

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Speaker 1: most favorable. I mean, if you can get to three,

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Speaker 1: I guess that that's that's fine. You might have to

459
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Speaker 1: face an NFC team. I have to face the Vikings,

460
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Speaker 1: But um, I think being a four seed and play

461
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Speaker 1: in Seattle like yesterday at the hospital visits, which by

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Speaker 1: the way, is one of my favorite things we get

463
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Speaker 1: to do now, it really is. It's a humbling thing.

464
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Speaker 1: We did it yesterday and the guys were great. DeMarcus Lawrence.

465
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Speaker 1: It's just amazing in so many ways. But and he

466
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Speaker 1: you know, he said something before the Saints game, obviously,

467
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Speaker 1: and he was right about how how he was. He

468
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Speaker 1: was right, I'm detailed on how we're gonna how they

469
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Speaker 1: gonna win that game. He was asked about a fan

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Speaker 1: that one of the kids as a Seattle fan, and

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Speaker 1: he he asked them about, you know, the question was

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Speaker 1: do you did you turn him? Did you turn him

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Speaker 1: as a as a Seattle fan? And they still you know,

474
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Speaker 1: or they cowboy fans down. He's like, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we turned him. But it's okay. He'll

476
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Speaker 1: know because we have to play them coming up in

477
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Speaker 1: a few weeks and it'll be I mean, he's just straight,

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Speaker 1: like like he really thinks that was on the schedule,

479
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Speaker 1: and I was like already putting him in the playoffs.

480
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Speaker 1: He's like, that's what's gonna have to be. I think

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Speaker 1: he acts. He said that about the Saints too, Like

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure after the game he was like, we

483
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Speaker 1: don't need to talk because we'll see him again or

484
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 1: something like he's kind of matched up four versus five.

485
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:57,959
Speaker 1: They win and then they go to FLA. I think

486
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Speaker 1: his mentality is probably just like everybody who ain't us

487
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 1: is in the way. I mean, I don't know which

488
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:08,720
Speaker 1: I love. Yeah, he is hands down my favorite player

489
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Speaker 1: on this team probably. I mean just the you know,

490
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Speaker 1: between production on the field, personality off the field, genuine dude,

491
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Speaker 1: good dude. Yeah. Just I think he took that that

492
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Speaker 1: spot for me yesterday too. I actually walked around with

493
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Speaker 1: him at the hospital and just the things that he

494
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Speaker 1: that he does and the stuff he thinks about, it's unbelievable.

495
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Speaker 1: He's got so much in front of him, so much

496
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Speaker 1: going on. He's the leader of this defense right now. Um,

497
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Speaker 1: and you know he's worried about going back to room

498
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Speaker 1: twenty four twelve because the little girl was crying and

499
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Speaker 1: didn't want to make sure that she she remembered the cowboys,

500
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Speaker 1: as you know, when she was crying, you know, they

501
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Speaker 1: woke her up basically. So he came back in there

502
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Speaker 1: and she was in a better mood. And that was

503
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Speaker 1: you know, his focus. Some little girl, you know, who's

504
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Speaker 1: beautiful girl, bald head, just going through chemo, and she

505
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Speaker 1: wanted a different toy, a specific toy, and he was like,

506
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Speaker 1: you want that for okay, And he turned around to

507
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Speaker 1: the pr lady that was working there and he said,

508
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Speaker 1: write that down, please, her name and all that, because

509
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Speaker 1: he's gonna make sure it happens. Yeah, I'm glad you. Yeah,

510
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 1: we should have talked about at the top of the show, Joe.

511
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,520
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's so cool when they do those visits.

512
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Speaker 1: I was with um, I was with Dak Jalen, Byron

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Speaker 1: Travis and some other guys at the Children's hospital in Dallas,

514
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Speaker 1: and it's I mean, the way those kids and you

515
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Speaker 1: know obviously the kids, but in their families too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, I can't even imagine like living my life

517
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Speaker 1: in a hospital with my kid, and I mean and

518
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Speaker 1: the worst part of that being you can't take away

519
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Speaker 1: what's harming your child. Yeah, like nothing you can do.

520
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't just comfort them. That's as much it. I mean,

521
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Speaker 1: you know parents are Cowboys fans too. It lights there.

522
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's just it's cool to see

523
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Speaker 1: the impact that those guys, the brand. You always talking

524
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Speaker 1: about the brand and the star and all that. Just

525
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Speaker 1: the impact of it. And I mean, as great as

526
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Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence is, these little kids don't know DeMarcus Lawrence

527
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Speaker 1: and they know two players on the team, probably Um

528
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Speaker 1: and and that, you know, just just by face and

529
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Speaker 1: they see him and they definitely don't know Damian Wilson

530
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Speaker 1: or cheerleaders, but the uniform and start in the star

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Speaker 1: and then they come in and just like you said,

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Speaker 1: it just kind of it brightens their day. I mean,

533
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Speaker 1: they woke up some parents, you know, they had long nights.

534
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Speaker 1: Parents are there, you know, and they're trying to get

535
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Speaker 1: their phone and to take pictures and all that. It's

536
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Speaker 1: just it's awesome. It's really one of the best things

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Speaker 1: that the Cowboys do. I'm glad they do it. I'm

538
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Speaker 1: glad we get to kind of tag along for it. Yeah, yeah,

539
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Speaker 1: those are those are the really cool moments to show

540
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Speaker 1: you that what you do, because I know sometimes I'll

541
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Speaker 1: have conversation with different people and they'll be like, you

542
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Speaker 1: know they you know they're a doctor or their teacher,

543
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Speaker 1: or you know, they have careers that that really matter.

544
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Speaker 1: And what I mean is like they are touching people's lives.

545
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Speaker 1: And it takes moments like that for you to realize

546
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Speaker 1: how much these jobs and I'm talking about working for

547
00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,679
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can affect people's lives because it does have

548
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Speaker 1: a way of bringing joy to people. It does have

549
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Speaker 1: a way of helping people escape from their reality. Sometimes

550
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 1: it's a pretty hard reality, and so really it does

551
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Speaker 1: in a way have its own place in society of

552
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Speaker 1: being able to be a help to people in times

553
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Speaker 1: of need. Ye, this little kid, he I don't know

554
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Speaker 1: what he was dealing with, but I'm sure it was

555
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Speaker 1: terrible based on the setup in his hospital room. But

556
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Speaker 1: they woke him up to it, like this little kid.

557
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Speaker 1: And this little guy woke up and dak Byron Jaalen

558
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Speaker 1: or like at his bedside, like that's like the first

559
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560
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Speaker 1: And I was like, that's probably pretty cool. Yeah, that's

561
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Speaker 1: pretty cool. You wake up, dad, don't wake me up

562
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Speaker 1: right now, Like I'm in this great dream. Don't wake

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Speaker 1: me up. It was actually funny. I'll change something a

564
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Speaker 1: little bit. Last night at the Christmas party, I was

565
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Speaker 1: and you know Steven, and Steven kind of walks around

567
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Speaker 1: there and he's talking to to take and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I wonder what that conversation is, Like he's like patting,

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Speaker 1: I'm on the back, yeah, And I'm like, I wonder

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Speaker 1: what that conversation is, Like, I wonder what exactly is

572
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Speaker 1: being said in them home. It's probably nothing, but you

573
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 1: could probably go and put some pretty funny lines that

574
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: you could add to that conversation. Hey me, he can't

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Speaker 1: wait till February. Although February soon enough. Yep, it's it's

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Speaker 1: soon enough, all right, So let's let's flip back over

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Speaker 1: to that other conversation. Actually, we do need to take

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Speaker 1: made some adjustments. But when it comes to your bridges

640
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Speaker 1: down there, they don't want you have to mess with them.

641
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Speaker 1: You haven't heard that one bridges briches, all right, the

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Speaker 1: best bridges in the business. Tommy John dot com Forward

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Speaker 1: slash Cowboys, off your first order, Tommy John dot com

644
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Speaker 1: Forward slash Cowboys, slash draws. That's that's my favorite. My

645
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: my old football coach in like middle school said that

646
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: all draws, you draws, ro your draws in the laundry

647
00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: or whatever. I don't know has had this draw great word.

648
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: But until I got to college, I realized drawls. Would

649
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: they oh like I'm in I'm from the country, Yeah, drawls?

650
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: You know, sorry, not really anyway, all right, let's go um,

651
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about Jared Jerry Jones had

652
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: a couple of things to say this morning on his

653
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: local on his show with the local radio station, The Fan,

654
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: he did mention that Tyren Smith um looks like he

655
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: should be able to come back this week against Philadelphia.

656
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: That's a big thing for the Cowboys, I think, um,

657
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that more as the week goes on.

658
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: And we started talking about the matchups. But in addition

659
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,320
Speaker 1: that he also talked about Sean Lee and his statement

660
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: was that Sean Lee is going to resume his role

661
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,080
Speaker 1: as a starter. Um, but he was the caveat he said,

662
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: but we're not going to rush him back. So I

663
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of things to take from that.

664
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Speaker 1: What did you guys take from from that statement from Jerry? Yeah,

665
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. It seems like, I mean, you gotta

666
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: have something to talk about, I guess. So, Yeah, that's

667
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: the big debate. I was tweeting about it this morning.

668
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: It's like, I can't bring myself to get worked up

669
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: about this. If it was quarterback, I would understand. But

670
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 1: for the millionth time since they drafted Layton Vanderesh, like

671
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: you need three guys to play two spots, it doesn't

672
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: matter who's listed on the program as the starter. Like

673
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: I you know, I think they'll find a way to

674
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: use them all. They'll rotate them. If that means that

675
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: Sean Lee's on the field for the first series of

676
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: the game, that's cool, because Layton Vanderesh has been too

677
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: good to play a signal Like they're not just going

678
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: to take him off the field, you know what I mean.

679
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: I actually I was curious about this. I went and

680
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: looked it up. From the time, you know, from the

681
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: first time League got hurt, which is when vander Esh

682
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: really took over and started playing well as a starter.

683
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: They've only all been healthy for one game. Wow. Yeah,

684
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: because Sean came back for Washington and then he got

685
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: hurt the next game like halfway through the Tennessee So

686
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: they've only really been healthy. So the snap count in

687
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 1: that game, there were sixty defensive snaps. Sean played thirty

688
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,959
Speaker 1: eight of them, Jalen played fifty eight of them, and

689
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: Vanderesh played twenty one, which obviously that's a little low

690
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: on the Vanderesh side, but that was also that was

691
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: really before he kind of hit his stride, because it

692
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: was the Eagles game where he really kind of announced

693
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: himself and he's been playing great ever since. So I'm

694
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: flipping that. Yeah, no, I I guarantee you, and we

695
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: don't for we don't know if Sean will be available

696
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 1: for this game. He said on Friday that he hopes

697
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,719
Speaker 1: to come back to practice this week. We'll see tomorrow. Um,

698
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: but I you know, if they play sixty five snaps

699
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: against the Eagles, I can't imagine Vanderesh playing less than

700
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: forty of them. You know, I watched the Eagles and

701
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: we'll get into their offense, I guess tomorrow. But but um,

702
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: you know, it just looks like because you know, when

703
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: you when you watch fantasy, when you have when you're

704
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: playing fantasy football, and you see like you want to

705
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: know who's on the field, and they actually on Monday

706
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: nights show you every play. Like the guys that are

707
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: out there, it's a lot of three receiver sets a lot,

708
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,239
Speaker 1: and so I think they might have found something with

709
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: the Jordan Lewis thing playing in some dime, I could

710
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: see that that happening a little bit more. And they

711
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: don't have they don't have Kamara, but they've got a

712
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 1: Sprowls and he's similar, you know, similar. I mean he's

713
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: not the same as Kamara, but I mean he's he

714
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 1: was he was at one point he was Kamara before.

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00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, the Saints have had four or five

716
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: of those guys. I mean he wasn't as Smara gets

717
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,399
Speaker 1: the ball in the middle of the field more than

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Speaker 1: than than you know, than I remember, like a Sprowls

719
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: getting you mean runs up the middle, runs up but

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00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: oh no, for sure. Yeah, and again they have a

721
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,279
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy winner. Not sure why they don't give Ingram

722
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: the ball and some of that, but I don't know.

723
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: He gets it plenty who Ingram? Yeah, he gets a plenty.

724
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 1: I just I they're gonna they'll they will find they

725
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: will find jobs for all of them, and having all

726
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 1: three of them healthy for the home stretch can only

727
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: be a good thing. Like, yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.

728
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: I'll ask this question, Um, Sean Lee is a guy

729
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: that before this year, I think he was probably regarded

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00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: by most people as, if not the best in one

731
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: of the two best players on this defense. Is there

732
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 1: something that that vander esh and Jalen Smith can do

733
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: that you don't think Sean Lee can do? Good question? Um,

734
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: I would imagine at this at this point, and they're

735
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 1: they're a little bit more athletic than he is. I mean,

736
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: they're just they're freaks of nature and they're better tacklers

737
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: in terms of the contact was made at the twenty

738
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: five and the ball is now going to be spotted

739
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: at the twenty five or the twenty six. And I'm

740
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: not saying that Sean Lee goes on you know, piggyback

741
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: rides and all that, but I'm saying just from a

742
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: strength standpoint, those guys and Rolando McClean was better than

743
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: Shan Lee at that as well. I mean, bigger, stronger.

744
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: You know from the press box, that was a Rolando hit.

745
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: That was a or Jalen hit. Sean doesn't provide those

746
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: type of hits, but that's the one thing he does better,

747
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: and then he's always overcome everyone else with his instincts.

748
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: They have the instincts as well, so they're better linebackers

749
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: than Shan Lee is. Right now, That's okay, I think so,

750
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: But that's my question because I look at Sean Lee

751
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: and I think he is a playmaking linebacker. I mean,

752
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:25,040
Speaker 1: there were many years that Sean Lee was the only guy,

753
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 1: the only guy, one of the few guys on this

754
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 1: defense that you could that could make a play for

755
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: you and you needed it. And so I do think

756
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: to some degree this is one of those situations where

757
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: his injury status is clouding people's judgment about him as

758
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: a player well and his injury status, and maybe he

759
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: struggled a little bit because of that too, because honestly,

760
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I agree with you like Sean Lee.

761
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: His hits don't just jump off the tape at you

762
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: the way that like a Jalen Smith does. But before

763
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: this season, he was such a sure tackler, like if

764
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: he got his hands on you, you were not going

765
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: to break the tackle. And I remember him making tackles

766
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: behind a lot of scrimmage with a guy didn't get

767
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: an extra yard, he dropped it. He it's an art form,

768
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 1: like he's the tackle for Lost King, and it's mainly

769
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: instincts like that got it done for him. But this season,

770
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: in the early going, when he was still healthy, like

771
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: it kind of he seemed like you saw that slip,

772
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 1: like miss tackles against Carolina, miss tackles in the Seattle

773
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 1: game before he got hurt, which you know, chalk that

774
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 1: up to more of an aberration because we've seen him

775
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: been doing it for so long. But it was definite

776
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: Seattle game. I thought he had about ten tackles in

777
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: the first two drives. He probably did. I remember, I

778
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 1: remember it being it feels like ancient history. But in

779
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: September I remember multiple times being like, yeah, it's not

780
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: that's not what you're used to see him from Shawn

781
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:53,839
Speaker 1: Lee specific the Carolina game specifically, um and so yeah,

782
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think I think it's easy

783
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: to forget how good a guy is when he doesn't

784
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 1: have a chance to be out there making plays. To

785
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: that point, the play you know, that that amazing play

786
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: that Layton made in Philly on the screen, that's a

787
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: shan Lee Like that's Sean Lee's play, and which was

788
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: what made it so impressive. It's like, whoa, this guy's

789
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,439
Speaker 1: doing Sean Lee stuff at the age of twenty two.

790
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: That's amazing. So um, it's just hard to say because

791
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: we haven't seen much of him this year, which that's

792
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 1: a theme unfortunately. But that's also why I mean, when

793
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: I look at it, I think this is much ado

794
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: about nothing. If you've got three really good linebackers at

795
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 1: all can make plays for you, the more the better.

796
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: Like I don't have a problem with taking Layton or

797
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: j Jalen off the field. It just means to me

798
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: they're gonna be fresh, and all the three of them

799
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 1: will be fresher than they would have been if it

800
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,760
Speaker 1: were just two that they were rotating in. I would

801
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: like to it doesn't really, it doesn't concern me from

802
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: that standpoint. This is a question for brought us. We

803
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: should talk to him about this, but like, Okay, that's great.

804
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: You're gonna obviously rotating is good, I think, but you're

805
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: not just gonna rotate arbitrarily like you're gonna have so

806
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: who do you want in there? On third and long?

807
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: Who do you want in there? It's you know, are

808
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: you sure you're not? Just because it did seem like

809
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: when they all three were playing, it would be like

810
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: a series, this guy's in and in a series, this

811
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: guy's gonna be out, and it seemed like they were.

812
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: It was kind of like what they were running backs

813
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: back And remember the drive that the Redskins scored, They

814
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: drove down. It was the first drive of the game. Yeah,

815
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: screen passed two bibbs bibbs and Layton wasn't really on

816
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: the field. Sean started the game and they went down

817
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: the field and scored. And that's really the only time

818
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: that I believe that Washington drove the field and for

819
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: at least for a touchdown. They might have drove down

820
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,280
Speaker 1: for some field goals, yeah, because their other touchdown was defensive.

821
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: So I mean, and I just I remember tweeting about it, like, um,

822
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: can we get Vanderesh out there where we weren't even

823
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: doing that back then. That's that's how crazy this season is.

824
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: Like this dude has a whole You see his girlfriend

825
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,839
Speaker 1: on Instagram last night the picture. Yeah did you see

826
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: that cowboy's Christmas party? Everybody gets dressed up to the nines. Uh,

827
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: Layton and his girlfriend took a photo and he draped

828
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: a freaking wolf over his shoulders in the you know,

829
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: you know, coming to America. Yeah, yeah, it was. It

830
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 1: was like the head, the wolf head, Yeah, it was.

831
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: It was I'm just like a badass. And last he

832
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: was just kind of like, no, I couldn't quite wear

833
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: it all the way here, Like I thought about, well,

834
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,839
Speaker 1: I mean, if you've spent time around Layton vander Esch,

835
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: like great guy obviously, like he's so enthusiastic and passion

836
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: on the field, Like he's not like that, you know,

837
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: he's he's not that guy that's much more laid back,

838
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: laid back, but like he's unassuming. He's from freaking Riggins, Idaho,

839
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,640
Speaker 1: Like he's not he could never call himself the wolf

840
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: Hunter with a straight face. I don't think like if

841
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: we named DeMarcus Lawrence the wolf Hunter, he'd be walking

842
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 1: around T shirt. He would have a T shirt and

843
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: he would say, call me wolf and he would have

844
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: a wolf head. He would just big wolf medallion. Yeah, yeah,

845
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: I can't imagine Layton, although Layton. Did you see Layton's ring? Yeah,

846
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: he does have a wolf ring, like it's a big

847
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: gold wolf hid on a ring. I'm actually pretty cool

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Speaker 1: that dude hits the crap out of people and has

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00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: literally killed wolves, Like, I don't want to mess with him.

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00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,839
Speaker 1: And as great as Derwin James is playing right now,

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00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: they're they're almost playing the same position because I saw

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Speaker 1: several times the other than he is. He's up there

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00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:22,919
Speaker 1: playing like a linebacker. Um, remember he was drafted two

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00:41:22,960 --> 00:41:25,959
Speaker 1: spots ahead. It wasn't like the Cowboys had the choice three.

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00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: Actually to think, I thought it was seventeen nineteen. Anyways, anyways,

856
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: you're thinking right ahead, and the Cowboys would have had

857
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: to move up for it. And that's actually important. Was

858
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 1: it sixteen or seventeen? Because which draft pick do you

859
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 1: have to let go? I think I think right now,

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00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: even if you think James is better, there's no way

861
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: James is better than him and Gallop. And you're saying, right,

862
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 1: I think everybody. I mean, you know he's not gonna

863
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,879
Speaker 1: win offensive Rookie of the Year. About everybody is pretty

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00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: encouraged by what Michael Gallup is doing. And I think

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Speaker 1: I said after the like, in an alternate universe, Michael

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00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: Gallup has like three hundred more yards and four touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: Like if Dak it just gets five plays go the

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00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:10,319
Speaker 1: other way like a Gallup a few Washington Saints game,

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00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: I mean the Panthers game, that crossing route, Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel bad for Michael Gallup. He's they're like easily

871
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: left like two hundred yards on the field. But you

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00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 1: can also think about it like this, if you didn't

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00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: have Layton vandersch this season and Sean Lee did what

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00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: he did, which typically happens when those injuries, where would

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00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: this team be right now? If Jalen's out there and

876
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: you've got Damien Wilson out there with him. Not nothing

877
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,720
Speaker 1: against Damian Wilson, but he's not Layton Vandrett and Jodha

878
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: has been hurt too, So it's not like, yeah, so

879
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,439
Speaker 1: it's that would you would have been in a real

880
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,359
Speaker 1: pitch at linebacker had you not had Layton Vandersh Here

881
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: staggering how well that plan came and he's really you know,

882
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: when you think about the take Shawn Lee out because

883
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: he's been hurt. The four best players on defense, this

884
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,720
Speaker 1: might be kind of harder. Four best players of Tank

885
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: we know, Vandersch, Byron Jones, there you go, Jalen, and

886
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: to me, it's kind of a toss up between him

887
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: and Crawford. I think Crawford. I think Jayleen's probably here

888
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: for the mccrawford's at close fifth. I love Tyrone Crawford

889
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: to death, but he Jalen Smith is a freak right

890
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: and and but Crawford played much better for his role.

891
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: I think he's all right top five. And that's fine

892
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: because where I'm going with this is that personality wise,

893
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,919
Speaker 1: and he fits right in the middle, you've got two

894
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: guys that that like the camera, they liked to be

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00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: out there, they liked him, I guess, yes, Tank and

896
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 1: jal Yes, that's a great point. You've got two guys

897
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: that they're they guy's personality, but they but they're they

898
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: don't mind being quiet and laid back in both Layton

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00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 1: and Byron Jones. And then Crawford's kind of in the

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00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: middle him, Yeah, thanks pulling him. Yeah, he might be

901
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: all in over, but those guys are good to have

902
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 1: it's good to have a Layton that kind of does

903
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: this thing. It's good to have. I mean, I'm telling

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00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: you what, Daniel Ross and Antoine Woods, they owe a

905
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: lot of what they've been able to do to Jalen

906
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: I mean Tank, I mean, he just kind of makes

907
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: them part of the team and the and they thrive

908
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 1: off it and they've played pretty good for those are

909
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: those are those glue kind of guys that you just

910
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,879
Speaker 1: need him to play the role and play the role well.

911
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: And that's what they are there are mind, I'm remind

912
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,800
Speaker 1: of a guy like Brandon Noble was never a great player,

913
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: but he was one of those glue kind of guys.

914
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: They end up getting a pretty good contract to be

915
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,160
Speaker 1: able to leave. But he's just a good, solid player.

916
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: You need those kinds of the problems. He was the

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00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 1: best player on the defense. He was He wasn't, but

918
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: he was just he was just a good player that

919
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: was in a position where he was asked to be

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00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: the best player on the defense. That's the story of

921
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: the NFL. Jack Crawford and Terrell McLean were those guys

922
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,919
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, and they went and got better

923
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: contracts elsewhere. And if these guys keep playing that way,

924
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: I'll probably happen for them too, you know, and real quick, Yeah,

925
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: we have the time a little bit, so, but just

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00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: we could talk about this another time. But you know,

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, you gotta give credit to to Will McClay,

928
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: Jerry Stephen, Jason. You know that then they're drafting every

929
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: one of those guys is a guy that's been drafted

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00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 1: other than maybe David Irving who's not here, Jeff Heath

931
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: and well, okay, you're right, but I mean, I they

932
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,920
Speaker 1: deserve credit for bringing those guys in. And yeah, they

933
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: go and find a lot of those guys. Those are

934
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: gems that they find that other people are kind of

935
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: throwing away. So but mean, swell Field is a good example.

936
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:33,320
Speaker 1: But the drafting of of you know, DeMarcus Lawrence and

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00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: yeah Layton and jay Len, I mean, those are moves

938
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,439
Speaker 1: that you're like, sure, we want to do this. Yeah,

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00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: and and and look and Cheeto and those guys and

940
00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: look what it's got them Woods. Yeah, that was the

941
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:45,400
Speaker 1: graphic I think in the Eagles game. Woods is the

942
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: only guy that's playing a meaningful role for this team

943
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: that wasn't found in offense or defense. Just defense, just defense. Yeah,

944
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: but still it's huge. That's huge. All right, We appreciate you, guys,

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Speaker 1: Joan us. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll start breaking down

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Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Eagles. It'll be a fun week till and

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Speaker 1: for Nick Eatman, Dave Helm and I'm Derek Eagleton. This

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Speaker 1: has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio.

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