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Speaker 4: Nicole is out at the NFL Combine, which we have
Speaker 4: plenty to talk about when it comes.
Speaker 3: In terms to the combine. So before we get there, ladies,
Speaker 3: how are you Another week has passed by? How are
Speaker 3: you doing this weekday?
Speaker 2: We only get to do this once every four years
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Speaker 5: We do.
Speaker 6: We have to make it count.
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Speaker 6: Break, and it's combine. It's combine, y'all.
Speaker 7: Is we're gonna start seeing players actually do workouts and
Speaker 7: stuff today.
Speaker 6: It's so excited. It just came up on TV and.
Speaker 2: Watching which of the workouts over the next you know,
Speaker 2: through the weekend are you most looking forward to?
Speaker 5: Number?
Speaker 6: One?
Speaker 7: I think one of the favorite workouts I have is
Speaker 7: where they I forgot the name of it, but when
Speaker 7: the corner's back pedal and they have to do insurrection
Speaker 7: and they have.
Speaker 6: To flip their hips really quickly.
Speaker 7: I'm fascinated by it because of something that someone that
Speaker 7: has sustained a hip injury, the elasticity that you like
Speaker 7: have to maintain the way you have to be able,
Speaker 7: like it looks easy sometimes when you see it, but
Speaker 7: to flip your hips as quickly as corners do and
Speaker 7: DB's do is not normal.
Speaker 2: I see, that's so interesting. You pick that particular drill
Speaker 2: not because.
Speaker 8: Of your injury.
Speaker 2: But I remember my first one of my first years
Speaker 2: covering the Cowboys and was out at Valley Ranch and
Speaker 2: Irving and it was one of the off season mini camps.
Speaker 2: Back then, you had multiple mini camps during the off season.
Speaker 2: But Albert Lewis is this great cornerback, multi time pro
Speaker 2: bowler for the Kansas City Chiefs, and he was visiting
Speaker 2: and so we were kind of standing in the end
Speaker 2: zone watching these rookies out there. I think it was
Speaker 2: obviously it had to be rookie camp, and he was
Speaker 2: just observing and he was standing with the media and
Speaker 2: he said.
Speaker 8: Watch this guy, watch the hips. Now watch this guy.
Speaker 8: Now watch this guy.
Speaker 2: As they were just doing the fundamental drills, Attorney says,
Speaker 2: this guy's got it and this guy doesn't. And it's
Speaker 2: like and then once he told me what to look for,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh my god, yes, it's like I never
Speaker 2: thought of it that way before. And just like you're saying, Ayisha,
Speaker 2: once you kind of know what to look for, and
Speaker 2: now every time and now you hear the scouts with
Speaker 2: their words and stuff. And anyway, that was I just
Speaker 2: remember that as a precedent thing and just having this
Speaker 2: pro bowler tell me this and it's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: it like all came together.
Speaker 4: See and this is why Combine week is so important,
Speaker 4: because you get to see who has it, who doesn't,
Speaker 4: who could be a good fit. We talked about this
Speaker 4: last week, but now that it's here, it's here. So yesterday,
Speaker 4: on Wednesday they saw defensive tackles, linebackers. Today they'll look
Speaker 4: at defensive backs, tight ends. Tomorrow, on Friday they'll look
Speaker 4: at quarterbacks and running backs.
Speaker 3: And then on Saturday it's a line time baby.
Speaker 4: So Nick, Harris and Nicole are there on the ground
Speaker 4: and so we're kind of seeing some live tweets and updates,
Speaker 4: So if anything pops up, we'll mention it on here.
Speaker 4: But we're really going to go over what we saw
Speaker 4: yesterday a little bit. The combine also time to talk
Speaker 4: to head coaches, front office staff. In the Cowboys case,
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy did not attend. Mike Zimmer did not attend.
Speaker 4: They're staying back here to kind of get things going
Speaker 4: with Zimmer's new hire and all of that. However, we
Speaker 4: did hear from Stephen Jones. Ladies, I want to start
Speaker 4: with that and then we'll get into the rest of
Speaker 4: the combine. Nisha has some notes for some of the gentlemen.
Speaker 3: That they talked to yesterday.
Speaker 4: But let's start with some Stephen Jones notes. Because I
Speaker 4: listened to the full twenty five minute interview, there was
Speaker 4: a lot to take out of it, So I figured
Speaker 4: there was a lot of discussion for us to have,
Speaker 4: which when we get into the slow period of time,
Speaker 4: it's exciting that we have so much to talk about.
Speaker 4: All right, let's start with I think one of the
Speaker 4: most pressing conversations right now, which is Dak Prescott's potential
Speaker 4: contract extension or not.
Speaker 3: We don't know what the state of that is.
Speaker 4: Stephen was very adamant that he didn't want to make
Speaker 4: contact or make any kind of comment on the contract status.
Speaker 4: He wanted to be respectful of any negotiations. And then
Speaker 4: he was asked if they really want to extend Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4: He said, oh, yes, absolutely. However, Michael Gelkin came out
Speaker 4: with a fantastic article. I don't know if you all
Speaker 4: have read it with the Dallas Morning News, and if
Speaker 4: you haven't and you're listening, please go read it. Michael's
Speaker 4: fantastic journalist, always does very great work. There was some
Speaker 4: speculation in there that perhaps there's a multiverse, and this
Speaker 4: is the multiverse. That they don't extend Dak, and he
Speaker 4: could also be on a one year deal because guess
Speaker 4: who else is all of the new hires as far
Speaker 4: as coaches this year as well.
Speaker 2: That's very unusual yet for someone like Zimmer to sign
Speaker 2: a one year deal.
Speaker 4: Right and Mike McCarthy on the final year of his contract,
Speaker 4: So it seems like there's a lot of ones going
Speaker 4: around here. Dak Prescott's not exempt from that being a
Speaker 4: possibility either. So I wanted to open up that discussion
Speaker 4: here for you ladies. How do you kind of see
Speaker 4: this going? Where do you see this going? Obviously it's
Speaker 4: a possibility, but we were talking about the cap room
Speaker 4: that that kind of contract would take. I mean, if
Speaker 4: you're the front office and you've seen kind of what
Speaker 4: Dak has been doing the last eight years at this
Speaker 4: point in his career, the lack of playoff success, is
Speaker 4: that a possibility.
Speaker 3: For you to keep him on a one year deal? Essentially?
Speaker 8: At this point, here's the thing.
Speaker 2: Dak holds the cards, and Dak has bet on himself
Speaker 2: before and it has paid off more than handsomely.
Speaker 8: So to assume that a multi.
Speaker 2: Year extension is going to get done with a huge
Speaker 2: bonus that they can pro ratee out. You know, for
Speaker 2: most players, I would say that would happen, but in
Speaker 2: my opinion, it's not a given with Dak. And the
Speaker 2: other thing is, to me, the biggest thing in this
Speaker 2: past week is the explosive increase in the salary cap.
Speaker 2: And so when each team has an additional thirty million
Speaker 2: dollars to play with, and we'll talk about some of
Speaker 2: those numbers a little later, it gives you more padding
Speaker 2: for this year that you could take a bigger cap hit.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about it? I can see your face.
Speaker 7: We're just it's just a weird place to be in.
Speaker 7: I you just don't hear that often that a quarterback
Speaker 7: that was in the MVP conversation top ten, those type
Speaker 7: of things would be on a one year deal. We
Speaker 7: look across the NFL right now, and quarterback is important
Speaker 7: out there in the street. It's not only quarterback back
Speaker 7: up quarterback too. We're not gonna go there.
Speaker 6: So I just think it's dicey.
Speaker 2: This is yeah, dicey is a great word. Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: playing with fire.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because this is a big year for some of
Speaker 7: these even some of these coaches that are coming in.
Speaker 7: I to your point, it doesn't sound normal for.
Speaker 6: Something like this to happen.
Speaker 7: Maybe we'll get more explanations and stuff like that, but
Speaker 7: it's concerning a bit because his extension could possibly open
Speaker 7: up we've talked about it could open up their finances.
Speaker 3: A little bit more.
Speaker 7: Despite the fact that they did raise the cap, it's
Speaker 7: still free. Agency is somewhere they need to really attack.
Speaker 6: They do. They need to be aggressive this.
Speaker 7: Year, and so to me, I just I think it's
Speaker 7: very taboo and I just don't like the way that
Speaker 7: this feels, if I'm being honest, and because there's no.
Speaker 6: Your foundation is shaky right now, boss and players.
Speaker 7: I think players can feel that because it's not just
Speaker 7: about It's not just about the quarterback and the coaches.
Speaker 7: The rest of the players are affected by this as well,
Speaker 7: because not only are they going to learn different schemes,
Speaker 7: have to adjust to different coaches, specifically on the defensive
Speaker 7: side of the ball, to do all of that and
Speaker 7: to maybe know and I get it to people say,
Speaker 7: it's the business.
Speaker 6: It's the business.
Speaker 7: These are humans, right, This is like not this is
Speaker 7: like your boss being like, hey, I'm gonna be here
Speaker 7: for another year.
Speaker 6: I don't know after that.
Speaker 7: But I'm gonna teach you how to do this job
Speaker 7: how I would do it.
Speaker 3: No guarantee that you can develop it.
Speaker 2: Then you have to draft to players to suit the now.
Speaker 2: Of course, yes, coaches adapt to track the players have,
Speaker 2: but still you're going for a certain proto type, right, so.
Speaker 4: I under I also wonder, I guess if draft capital
Speaker 4: kind of comes in play in this, because this is
Speaker 4: kind of what you saw with both the Gilmour and
Speaker 4: Cooks trade last year. If that comes into play at
Speaker 4: some point, not so much money when it comes to
Speaker 4: really diving deep and going all income free agency. And
Speaker 4: that's really why it's not a concern that one the
Speaker 4: cap space is increased now and two it's not so
Speaker 4: much of a cap casualty for Dak's contract, and especially
Speaker 4: I guess as a way of having a repercussion for
Speaker 4: the embarrassing loss.
Speaker 3: I mean, it doesn't all fall on Dak. We talked
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 4: I don't think it was all Dak Prescott's fault, especially
Speaker 4: with the season he had to be able to get
Speaker 4: the Cowboys in that position. Had he not played like that,
Speaker 4: the Cowboys would not have been the number two seed
Speaker 4: in the NFC.
Speaker 3: Period.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, it kind of
Speaker 4: just seems like his success is being measured by playoffs
Speaker 4: and playoff success, which has not been there. And when
Speaker 4: there's such an embarrassing loss, somebody has to take the hit.
Speaker 4: And I think that's Mike McCarthy not getting an extension himself.
Speaker 4: I think that's Dak Prescott potentially having just one more
Speaker 4: year on his deal.
Speaker 3: Somebody has to take the fall and.
Speaker 2: People not being sad that Dan Quinn is gone, which
Speaker 2: is very unfair for Dan for what he did right
Speaker 2: in his time here. He's a fall guy for the
Speaker 2: defense which has been so good under him, but played
Speaker 2: poorly and gave up.
Speaker 8: Too many explosive play. So here's the thing, all.
Speaker 4: You Dak haters, talk to him, Christy, tell him, would
Speaker 4: you as.
Speaker 7: You asked for because I'm looking at the I'm looking
Speaker 7: at some of these these quarterbacks even in this draft, honey, honey,
Speaker 7: like having a good quarterback in this league right now,
Speaker 7: even if they even despite what happened in the playoffs,
Speaker 7: and I'm gonna get there.
Speaker 9: Is valuable now.
Speaker 7: Like I just I don't I don't understand why so
Speaker 7: many people think it's easy to quickly move on.
Speaker 8: Yeah, because they have short memories.
Speaker 2: They don't remember the quarterback wilderness we were in after
Speaker 2: Troy and they draft Quincy and then he flames out
Speaker 2: and is let go, and you know, you've got the
Speaker 2: Drew Hinson's and Chad Hutchinson's of the world. And trust me,
Speaker 2: it was not a good time.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Also, lightning, I guess kind of can strike twice in
Speaker 4: the same place. When it did with Tony Romo and Dak.
Speaker 8: Presley, the Cowboys lucked into those.
Speaker 4: Two were not supposed to be starting quarterbacks in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Exactly, You're not going to have that happen again.
Speaker 4: And if you do, I want to know what magic
Speaker 4: this franchise has to find these quarterbacks. Jack Prescott in
Speaker 4: the Tony Romo era fell into their lap of Thank
Speaker 4: god they had a good quarterback that was ready to
Speaker 4: take that starting position, because then what would have happened, Lord,
Speaker 4: what would have happened? Who would have been the starting quarterback?
Speaker 6: Oh, it was supposed to be killing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got his ankle broke, so it was right,
Speaker 4: but he got hurt and then Dak was not ever
Speaker 4: supposed to get that opportunity behind Kellen and so my
Speaker 4: thing is, yeah, be careful what you wish for it's
Speaker 4: and everybody, let's get into this conversation because everybody kind
Speaker 4: of goes back to Trey Lance being here now, having
Speaker 4: a year under his belt to work and kind of
Speaker 4: learn the language and the scheme, the playbook here in Dallas.
Speaker 4: What did you guys see from Trey Because there was
Speaker 4: a lot of speculation last year with the quick trade
Speaker 4: and how quick Jerry was to kind of grab him
Speaker 4: from San Francisco that that could be I guess the
Speaker 4: quarterback in training at some point. And yes, we do
Speaker 4: have to kind of discuss that Dak is getting older.
Speaker 4: He's getting to that point in his career where maybe
Speaker 4: it is time to start thinking ahead of the future.
Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean your immediate future. Both things can
Speaker 3: be true.
Speaker 4: Where you have your franchise quarterback and you start thinking
Speaker 4: ahead for who takes his spot when his time is
Speaker 4: done here in the next however many years that he
Speaker 4: has left, both things can both be true.
Speaker 3: But what did you guys see out of Trey Lance
Speaker 3: this season?
Speaker 4: Where we did get to see some of him at
Speaker 4: practice or whispers around the building, whatever have you. I
Speaker 4: just don't understand why people think.
Speaker 3: Immediately that he would be the answer considering what we
Speaker 3: saw in practice, and that's no shame to him. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I'll tell you what I saw of Trey Lance,
Speaker 2: and that was only when he would come out in
Speaker 2: pregame warmups with Scott Tolzen, the quarterback's coach, and then
Speaker 2: some of the either practice squad or inactive wide receivers
Speaker 2: and would throw to them and have a session early
Speaker 2: in pregame.
Speaker 8: Okay, and then I know that he did.
Speaker 2: A lot more scout team work than most third team
Speaker 2: quarterbacks get. The way it works in the NFL is
Speaker 2: the starter gets the vast, fast, vast, fast, vast vast
Speaker 2: majority of snaps in practice.
Speaker 8: A backup quarterback if he gets.
Speaker 2: Ten snaps in a week in his own team's offense,
Speaker 2: that's a lot because the backup number two, backup runs
Speaker 2: the scout team so Cooper Rush runs. In previous years,
Speaker 2: like all of scout team work or the vast, vast,
Speaker 2: vast majority, Trey Lance got quite a bit of scout
Speaker 2: team work, not ahead of Cooper Rush, but along with
Speaker 2: Cooper Rush, so he did get more work than most
Speaker 2: third teamers in terms of practice. The team portion and
Speaker 2: not just like after practice when the veterans have gone.
Speaker 4: Inside and I will say to you, asking around the
Speaker 4: locker room, it still seemed that Cooper Rush was still
Speaker 4: getting those second snaps and it was never Lance getting
Speaker 4: those snaps ahead of Cooper.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, for the backup stuff, it's Cooper. But in
Speaker 2: terms of scout team, Trey got a bit. But yeah,
Speaker 2: he Trey Lance did not jump Cooper Rush past year
Speaker 2: exactly with da If something happened with Dak, it was
Speaker 2: going to be Cooper.
Speaker 7: If you're betting on your success from like even from
Speaker 7: some of the injuries he's dealt with and things like that.
Speaker 6: It's not my business. I mean, it is our business,
Speaker 6: but it's not my business.
Speaker 7: Like I don't know what is going on. You want
Speaker 7: to help your quarterback like I do.
Speaker 6: Think it's important to address the run game, yes.
Speaker 7: Because and not addressing the game like the lack of
Speaker 7: run game efficiency has been was very evident this year.
Speaker 7: Other teams know that, man, I'm sorry, Like you could
Speaker 7: see it on film plenty of times that yeah, they're like, oh,
Speaker 7: then they line it up in twenty one personnel.
Speaker 6: We don't care.
Speaker 7: We know they can't run the ball successfully right now,
Speaker 7: put a lot of pressure in your quarterback.
Speaker 6: And that's what happened in the playoff game also too.
Speaker 7: Not only could you not stop the run, you couldn't
Speaker 7: run so either.
Speaker 8: You were so far behind, yes, you had to pass.
Speaker 7: Absolutely, But even when that game wasn't super out of thing,
Speaker 7: still they were down two scores, they had time.
Speaker 3: You could have.
Speaker 6: Ran the ball and found some.
Speaker 7: I don't know, some some physicality and some momentum with
Speaker 7: the run game, and it just was never there. And
Speaker 7: that's been a problem in quite a few of these games.
Speaker 7: And even when I think back to San fran the
Speaker 7: year before, it was like, listen, hear me out, I
Speaker 7: understand Tony, Tony Poller got injured.
Speaker 6: I shouldn't shut down your whole running game operation.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 7: It's been a problem for a while, and it manifested
Speaker 7: these playoff games as well. But we saw it midway
Speaker 7: almost halfway through the season, and it was a problem
Speaker 7: all season.
Speaker 6: Help your quarterback out.
Speaker 7: If we're gonna evaluate him, we need to evaluate him
Speaker 7: in totality, because hey, listen, even that big dog up
Speaker 7: in Kse but Chaco breaking some of those big runs
Speaker 7: and the Super Bowl helped him out.
Speaker 6: And kept that defense.
Speaker 7: Honest, yep, So listen, I'm not I'm off my soapbox,
Speaker 7: but I'm I'm definitely at a point where I'm like,
Speaker 7: y'all keep playing with fire. It's gonna be real. It's
Speaker 7: gonna be right, tumble weeds and cars, the cowardly dog
Speaker 7: looking out here, it's gonna be sad every day.
Speaker 4: Well, before we go to our next break, I want
Speaker 4: to get to some other points that that Stephen had,
Speaker 4: because there was also some reports that came out speaking
Speaker 4: of the run game that it's likely that both Tony
Speaker 4: Pollard and Rico Daubele are about to hit the market
Speaker 4: for free agency.
Speaker 3: So regardless, it kind of just.
Speaker 4: Seems like the running back room will look very very
Speaker 4: different this offseason.
Speaker 3: So just want to say that.
Speaker 4: A couple of other keynotes that we heard from Stephen.
Speaker 4: He was asked about Leyton vander Esch and kind of
Speaker 4: that whole situation. He said he wants to let late
Speaker 4: and speak on his decision going forward, and that decision
Speaker 4: obviously being whether he continues to play in the NFL
Speaker 4: or not. So we don't know officially anything on that,
Speaker 4: but I thought that was an interesting way for Stephen
Speaker 4: to answer that question. He was asked about Demarve and
Speaker 4: overshown in Trayvon Diggs their recovery process. He said, it's
Speaker 4: probably more realistic. You see them participating in training camp
Speaker 4: rather than OTAs he said, quote, they're coming along.
Speaker 3: Great, that's positive news. How far that's positive news?
Speaker 6: How far is Aco come?
Speaker 8: It's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember being kid.
Speaker 6: Yes, it was when I was a kid.
Speaker 3: Yep, you heard Aco.
Speaker 8: Immediately his career is over.
Speaker 7: Yes, and it's it's just remarkable to see them even
Speaker 7: to see like them walking on.
Speaker 6: The sidelines and stuff as quickly as they were.
Speaker 3: I was like, we see them here sometime. I like, right,
Speaker 3: I love, Yeah, what's going on here?
Speaker 7: Like so sorry, I was just no, no, no, it's fantastic
Speaker 7: that it is.
Speaker 4: And you know, he talked about how early it happened,
Speaker 4: both injuries happened to where they'll have the time to
Speaker 4: come back realistically and participate in more team drills come
Speaker 4: training camp, which is great to hear, considering you've seen
Speaker 4: the kind of impact it can have on a player
Speaker 4: to not have training camp time.
Speaker 3: Yes, so there's that. He talked about a couple more
Speaker 3: free agents Stefan Gilmour. He I thought this response was interesting.
Speaker 4: He said, they will be discussing things and how the
Speaker 4: overall picture looks to who they'll bring back. He said, quote,
Speaker 4: we were very pleased with what he did for this team,
Speaker 4: and I have nothing but respect for him. It sounds okay,
Speaker 4: but let's compare it to what he said about Tyrone Smith.
Speaker 3: He said.
Speaker 4: He talked about how he gave mich McCarthy a lot
Speaker 4: of credit for how Mike was scheduling out Tyrone's practice
Speaker 4: schedule and the veteran rest days, all of that. He said,
Speaker 4: We'll certainly be sitting down with him and look look
Speaker 4: at what it and looking at what it looks.
Speaker 3: Like for him to stay here.
Speaker 4: Two very different responses if you're comparing what he said
Speaker 4: about Stefan and Tyron.
Speaker 3: So that was interesting.
Speaker 4: Keeping it on the O line, he talked about keeping
Speaker 4: Tyler Smith at left guard.
Speaker 3: This was a fun one, he said, remains to be seen.
Speaker 3: Starting to feel a lot like Larry Allen all over again.
Speaker 4: His versatility brings options to the team. Essentially, we can
Speaker 4: get into that after the break. A couple more things
Speaker 4: I want to get into as well. He was asked
Speaker 4: about the culture. There's a culture problem with this team,
Speaker 4: he said. He doesn't worry about the culture. They all
Speaker 4: feel good about it, but they always want to be better,
Speaker 4: especially if they're not winning the super Bowl. On the
Speaker 4: other end of the break, we'll have a SoundBite about this,
Speaker 4: but he also talked about Jerry's all in comments. So
Speaker 4: let's go ahead and take that break. We'll hear that
Speaker 4: SoundBite from Stephen. We'll get into that discussion. Aisha has
Speaker 4: some notes on some of the guys that the Cowboys
Speaker 4: talk to, whether it be a formal or informal interview. Yesterday,
Speaker 4: we're going to talk about the salary cap increase.
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Speaker 4: All right, let's continue our Combine conversation. Ahead of the break,
Speaker 4: we talked about Stephen commenting on Jerry's all in comments. Jazzy,
Speaker 4: do that sound bite? Yes, okay, let's play that sound
Speaker 4: bite and then let's open up for discussion.
Speaker 5: I've never known Jerry not to be all in in
Speaker 5: any given year. But h uh, you know, you you know, certainly,
Speaker 5: you know we've got a great I think the great
Speaker 5: team put together. Uh, you know, I think you know,
Speaker 5: the last three years, we won a lot of football games,
Speaker 5: I think thirty six and uh, you know, certainly where
Speaker 5: we have to improve is the postseason. You know, we're
Speaker 5: going to get the right kind of guys who step
Speaker 5: up and make big plays in the postseason, and uh,
Speaker 5: it's been a challenge in terms of our success there,
Speaker 5: and uh that's where we have to improve.
Speaker 4: Ernie, all right, My question to you ladies is when
Speaker 4: we heard Jerry talking about going all in, was that
Speaker 4: really anything new?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: What else is he supposed to say?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, it's not a surprise at all. Brand
Speaker 2: But our definition of all in and the Jones definition
Speaker 2: of all in may be a little bit different. I
Speaker 2: think most people, when you hear all in casual fans
Speaker 2: or ones that don't pay super close attention, are going
Speaker 2: to think they're going to throw all that money in
Speaker 2: at free agency. And while the cap has increased markedly
Speaker 2: thirteen percent the season, over thirty million dollars, Well, you
Speaker 2: have big contracts and a quarterback that counts over fifty
Speaker 2: nine million against it. So even if they wanted to
Speaker 2: throw a bunch of money in free agency at linebacker,
Speaker 2: running back, or offensive line or some of these areas
Speaker 2: that fans are concerned about that we're all concerned about,
Speaker 2: you know, it's not feasible that you can hit all
Speaker 2: of those areas.
Speaker 8: I don't think. I think that it's going.
Speaker 2: To be more tactical in going with more mid priced
Speaker 2: free agents.
Speaker 8: And the other thing is, you know, you have.
Speaker 2: People like dan Quinn leaving and they're going to poach
Speaker 2: some of these free agents away. It's going to be
Speaker 2: harder to resign. You don't think dan Quinn would like
Speaker 2: to have Stefan Gilmour up in Washington with the yeah,
Speaker 2: with the first round pick that they had as a rookie,
Speaker 2: that cornerback he would be a great mentor to him.
Speaker 8: So there are a lot of moving parts in this.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: For me, as far as the culture questions and some
Speaker 7: of those things, I don't know. I wish that they
Speaker 7: could see some of the other side of things how
Speaker 7: we look at things at times, because I do think
Speaker 7: that there was some I just think there's some clear
Speaker 7: cut issues with the weight and the heaviness and all
Speaker 7: the media and so much like.
Speaker 9: I do think that it.
Speaker 7: Is starting to affect this team and the weight of
Speaker 7: being having to be the team that pulls, you know,
Speaker 7: the Cowboys as an organization out of this slump of
Speaker 7: not having a championship.
Speaker 4: It.
Speaker 7: I believe it is starting to weigh on some of
Speaker 7: these players, and I think until you acknowledge that, it's
Speaker 7: going to be a problem because I do think in
Speaker 7: order to the type of coach, like, the type of
Speaker 7: voices that you have to have in a room like
Speaker 7: this is.
Speaker 6: Unique to me.
Speaker 9: I don't believe that you can coach this team how
Speaker 9: you coach any other team in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, michae lccarthy said that at the start
Speaker 2: of the players and one of the things he talked
Speaker 2: about in one of the press conferences. It was a
Speaker 2: similar question, And how do you handle that is that
Speaker 2: I've told the team that they're not responsible for the
Speaker 2: things that came before them in terms of you know,
Speaker 2: at that what twenty eight years of not having a
Speaker 2: Super Bowl or a return to the NFC Championship game. So,
Speaker 2: but we talked about it here on this podcast. They
Speaker 2: may not be responsible, but they do feel the weight
Speaker 2: of it. Maybe not when they first come in, in
Speaker 2: the first couple of years, but after a while, yeah,
Speaker 2: it gets taxing.
Speaker 3: They get over and over.
Speaker 9: You know how I know it's taxing.
Speaker 4: Because it's aggravated for us.
Speaker 6: I can't imagine.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, yeah, I know Chris Christy, but Christy
Speaker 2: wants a Super Bowl parade.
Speaker 7: People, even in regard to the Stephan Gilmore and some
Speaker 7: of those guys, when you think about it, it goes
Speaker 7: back to the coaching thing as well.
Speaker 9: Is like Stephan Gilmour, who's a little later in age.
Speaker 7: I don't know if he from what he showed this
Speaker 7: past year, maybe he wants a two year ado, Maybe
Speaker 7: he wants something longer, because this might be he's thirty
Speaker 7: three and it was remarkable to see him played this year.
Speaker 7: But maybe he does want something with a tad bit
Speaker 7: of longevity because he understands what's next for him. So
Speaker 7: I just's this.
Speaker 9: This is truly, y'all, this is an odd place to
Speaker 9: be in.
Speaker 3: It feels there.
Speaker 7: I feel very uneasy about what is happening right now
Speaker 7: and how could is it possible for them to go
Speaker 7: out and draft go out and free agency and things
Speaker 7: kind of you know, but this doesn't feel together right now.
Speaker 7: There doesn't feel And again, the guys might be close
Speaker 7: in the locker room and everything fine, but I'm talking
Speaker 7: about marrying the upstairs folks.
Speaker 9: To these folks. It just feels weird right now, and
Speaker 9: I don't like the energy.
Speaker 4: Wait about y'all, It feels very make or break instead
Speaker 4: of all in. That's kind of how I would say,
Speaker 4: is this this feels very.
Speaker 8: Because because the one your staff, and I think staff.
Speaker 4: Right, and I think that's why it feels uneasy is
Speaker 4: because you haven't had a circumstance like this from recent
Speaker 4: history that I can remember, where you had so many
Speaker 4: people on a one year deal that's a make or break,
Speaker 4: that's a prove it season that's not necessarily that's hard
Speaker 4: to maneuver because there's little room for error with those
Speaker 4: kind of contracts, and that goes for anybody that goes
Speaker 4: for your head coach, that goes for your DC. I mean,
Speaker 4: and say they get to the playoffs again next season,
Speaker 4: same thing happens. And then what you're talking at that point,
Speaker 4: say they don't decide to extend Dak Prescott, then what
Speaker 4: you have to find a new head coach, a new DC,
Speaker 4: a new pretty much every coaching staff, pretty much on
Speaker 4: the defensive side, a new franchise quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's I don't even want to think about that.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying that. That's why I feel uneasy. You
Speaker 3: said it perfectly uneasy. It's just I don't like this now.
Speaker 8: I think with Dak, and.
Speaker 2: I think the more obvious option is doing those two
Speaker 2: voidable years right, because I'm sure you would, you know,
Speaker 2: have to pay more, you know, if it could cost
Speaker 2: you against the cap in those couple of years, but
Speaker 2: it would lessen the cap this year because if it's
Speaker 2: all in, what everybody.
Speaker 8: Wants, all right, allin.
Speaker 2: But I want to go back to that phrase, but
Speaker 2: if it's make or break, because it's a one year deal,
Speaker 2: you have to put all your chips.
Speaker 8: In on the table, right, and so.
Speaker 2: You don't want to be playing with a shorthand, right,
Speaker 2: and I don't know that you need. And the point
Speaker 2: of that is, if you've got one year, then you
Speaker 2: want them to go out in free agency and bring
Speaker 2: you all the talent that they can, because if it's
Speaker 2: your last year, I need to go out the way
Speaker 2: I want to go out with the players I want
Speaker 2: and not be, you know, saving money for the future.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, while we put a little bow on that conversation,
Speaker 4: I still want to go through some of the guys
Speaker 4: that the Cowboys had some formal and informal.
Speaker 3: At the combine. Shout out to Nick and Nicole for
Speaker 3: this beautiful list that just made life so much easier
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 4: I ushul I sent you this list. If you guys
Speaker 4: want to look at it, I'm not going to read
Speaker 4: it all. Nick Harris tweeted it yesterday. If you want
Speaker 4: to go through and look, I'm sure they'll keep doing that.
Speaker 4: But I usure you you saw that list. Who are
Speaker 4: some of the guys that stood out to you that
Speaker 4: these did the Cowboys talk to you while they're there,
Speaker 4: whether it be a formal informal informal interview, Who are
Speaker 4: some of the guys that stood out to you and that.
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, let me say that this is
Speaker 7: my favorite time because it's, uh, it's very humbling because you.
Speaker 9: Look at the list of some of the guys they
Speaker 9: talked to.
Speaker 6: I ain't watch them.
Speaker 7: I don't even know I didn't even know their names,
Speaker 7: and that it kind of kind of lets you know, like, yeah,
Speaker 7: these people do this for a living.
Speaker 6: You know, we just get on the mic and talk.
Speaker 6: But like, no, like.
Speaker 7: They're finding they're sifting through these teams that maybe you
Speaker 7: don't even think about. And some of these players' names
Speaker 7: came up. But one one that stood out to me
Speaker 7: and Trice Night linebacker Utip he's six two to thirty five. Again,
Speaker 7: I actually wrote down this is stuff that makes me
Speaker 7: excited because he even said yesterday in his interview, he
Speaker 7: was like, the biggest advice, best advice that he's gotten,
Speaker 7: is you know, stay at the school that you're at.
Speaker 6: Like it's a.
Speaker 7: Lot of guys transferring and trying to look for that,
Speaker 7: and he just was like, the tape is there, people
Speaker 7: will find you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And to me, I think that's that him even having
Speaker 7: you know, any level.
Speaker 9: Of an interview with the Cowboys kind of shows that
Speaker 9: that people.
Speaker 6: Are still gonna find your tape. I looked at him.
Speaker 7: He's a six year player, so he a little longer too.
Speaker 7: Then he plays some football. But at this point I don't.
Speaker 9: Dislike that a whole bunch with linebacker.
Speaker 7: Because I do think some of these guys that are
Speaker 7: played longer there, they've seen more. It slows down for them,
Speaker 7: some of them. So anyway, I'll tell you about the
Speaker 7: player a little bit. He plays with his eyes a lot,
Speaker 7: so he's constantly and I think it is a gift
Speaker 7: and a curse a little bit with him because he'll
Speaker 7: see it and there's times where I just want him
Speaker 7: to go drive and get it. However, he is a
Speaker 7: little feisty, got chip on his shoulder playing down there
Speaker 7: and now fast though he's bursty as a blitzer, he
Speaker 7: has sidelined to sideline speed in his reaction times.
Speaker 6: It's pretty good.
Speaker 7: I like some of the things I saw from him
Speaker 7: and coverage from his own perspective, he has the ability
Speaker 7: to do it. He can take undisciplined angles at time,
Speaker 7: but you know, listen, that's something to improve upon from
Speaker 7: a linebacker. And then also to like I said, He
Speaker 7: also plays with his hands and I think he could
Speaker 7: get stronger when he disengages.
Speaker 6: But this is a fiery player.
Speaker 7: He has fluid, fluid body movement, a lot of body control.
Speaker 6: He has ability.
Speaker 7: And when you see him, it's funny too, because it's
Speaker 7: like when you go to the gym.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you ever went.
Speaker 7: Hooping, but if you go to the gym, you can
Speaker 7: immediately look and be like, oh that guy.
Speaker 8: That guy played overseas or something.
Speaker 7: He looks just a little he pops out a little
Speaker 7: bit more than everybody else on the field.
Speaker 6: And yeah, he's a solid player and he's very solid.
Speaker 6: He's a run stopper.
Speaker 7: He's above average as a run stopper as a linebacker,
Speaker 7: which is good to hear.
Speaker 6: He stood out to me.
Speaker 7: I just was like, oh, they look at somebody on
Speaker 7: youtub number one for my girl here, but then number two.
Speaker 7: It's just so unique to me that, yeah, it's just
Speaker 7: a guy that I never saw coming.
Speaker 6: I can play the game.
Speaker 4: I feel obligated to say, go Aggie's because that's pretty
Speaker 4: much other than the Lobos, your next rival the UTEP
Speaker 4: Minors as as in New Mexico State alum So Go
Speaker 4: Aggie's on that note, but also so cool because UTEP
Speaker 4: is is a school that you know growing up in
Speaker 4: that area, there's not a lot of guys that actually
Speaker 4: make it. That's why it was such a big deal
Speaker 4: for Aaron Jones.
Speaker 3: To make it.
Speaker 4: And he is so highly praised in i'l passo because again,
Speaker 4: when you grow up in an area like El Paso,
Speaker 4: Los Crusis, even Albuquerque, in that area, it's just so
Speaker 4: raren in between that you find a talent that can
Speaker 4: make it to the NFL and that can stay there
Speaker 4: and maintain it. So I love hearing that it hits
Speaker 4: the hard strings.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I would love Aaron Jones, but not when
Speaker 2: he scores all the touchdowns against the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Time I root for Aaron Jones. I know this well.
Speaker 2: Laufenburg from Colbos Radio colleague, Yeah, his late son Luke
Speaker 2: was at UTEP. He knows Aaron Jones very well. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and speaks so highly of Aaron.
Speaker 8: But will have to get.
Speaker 2: With Babe because Babe goes to so many UTEP.
Speaker 7: Minor games now and see what he thinks really good
Speaker 7: insight on that.
Speaker 6: I was actually going to reach out for that.
Speaker 3: He really will anybody else let us have it.
Speaker 7: Let me tell you this gentleman has a story, and
Speaker 7: it's really his chance to write that. I believe his
Speaker 7: name is yaby Oki and he is from He's a
Speaker 7: d n He played in Charlotte. That's where he is.
Speaker 7: That's where he's being drafted out of. However, before he
Speaker 7: was at Charlotte, he spent some time at Michigan. Before
Speaker 7: he was at Michigan, he spent some time at Tennessee.
Speaker 7: I think it's I'm sorry, Tennessee is not Tennessee.
Speaker 8: Tech Tennessee Martin.
Speaker 6: Yes, Tennessee Martin. I can't remind bababe.
Speaker 7: Before that, he spent some time at Houston. Before that,
Speaker 7: he started and was drafted to Alabama. This gentleman played
Speaker 7: football late. He didn't start playing into his junior year
Speaker 7: of high school. He's had some behavioral things and some
Speaker 7: issues that have taken him off the field, But in
Speaker 7: the last two years he's really focused his life back
Speaker 7: to Christ. He's he's really kind of buckled down and
Speaker 7: in his interviews I watched yesterday, he was just talking
Speaker 7: about how it improved he's he's been in and some
Speaker 7: of the people that are around him that you can
Speaker 7: I've read some articles about our saying the same things
Speaker 7: about him as that, and don't get it twisted. When
Speaker 7: he left Michigan, they were hurt. The I searched, and
Speaker 7: a lot of the fans and a lot of the
Speaker 7: people there were really looking forward to him.
Speaker 5: Dog.
Speaker 7: This is a this this guy has a potential to
Speaker 7: be a real dominant d N in this league. He's
Speaker 7: sixty three two fifty three, so he has great size,
Speaker 7: great weight. He rushes with speed to power. He's edgy,
Speaker 7: he has a motor. The temperament again is something that
Speaker 7: I think he's improving upon. But if he can figure
Speaker 7: out how to ride that fence, he's active in the
Speaker 7: run game. He's not afraid to come downhill. He's he's edgy,
Speaker 7: he is very much so like every play, he's one
Speaker 7: hundred percent almost And the pursuit is there, the backside
Speaker 7: pursuit is there. I said, holy wild card, because you
Speaker 7: look at a guy like this and this is this again.
Speaker 7: That's why scouting excites me, because there are times that
Speaker 7: you look at a guy like this and you look
Speaker 7: at his resume and a lot of people would be like,
Speaker 7: I'm not talking to this kid.
Speaker 6: He clearly doesn't have stability.
Speaker 7: But at the same time, you look at this, you
Speaker 7: turn on that tape, you can't ignore it. So you
Speaker 7: if you fish a little bit, you want to see
Speaker 7: if he's improved. And so anyway, I'm still looking at
Speaker 7: film on him. It is difficult to find, you know,
Speaker 7: concrete film from this past year. However, looking at him
Speaker 7: at Michigan, looking some of the past rush ability of
Speaker 7: the hand fighting, how he gets to the ball. He
Speaker 7: has a nose for the ball, y'all. I mean, he's
Speaker 7: he stands out. He stands out on film. So I'm
Speaker 7: just wondering how the interview process is gonna go from him,
Speaker 7: how he's gonna test.
Speaker 6: All that stuff's gonna matter.
Speaker 7: But I'm sure the character stuff is the biggest thing
Speaker 7: that people are trying to make sure it's been improved
Speaker 7: in the last.
Speaker 6: Couple of years.
Speaker 7: Outside of that, this guy has a lot of upside
Speaker 7: if he's in the right place.
Speaker 2: Well, but those those kinds of backgrounds where there are
Speaker 2: questions about that, if there are, that can make you
Speaker 2: slide in the draft, But can I yeah, make you
Speaker 2: a steal yep.
Speaker 8: If you're the team that decides to invest in.
Speaker 2: Potential, you see him as a mid to late now
Speaker 2: or more early day three.
Speaker 7: His ability ability wise, this to me is no later
Speaker 7: than a third round pill maybe late their round. Okay,
Speaker 7: with what's happening with his instability and stuff again, people
Speaker 7: are gonna worry, like can I fit him into this scheme?
Speaker 6: Can I fit him into this scheme?
Speaker 7: Temperament everything right, So it's like, Okay, I think he
Speaker 7: could slide to. I think he could definitely slide to
Speaker 7: like fifth round and things like that because of the
Speaker 7: character stuff.
Speaker 6: What if he tests well.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's make or break for him this weekend. This week,
Speaker 8: I can't wait is way into a higher higher pick.
Speaker 8: It's exciting.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: Stories are unique and I want it. So those are
Speaker 7: guys I want to highlight because that so and.
Speaker 3: You you'd come with the with the fire.
Speaker 8: And I want you to.
Speaker 2: I want you for next week, pick like three or
Speaker 2: four guys that for the whole draft.
Speaker 8: You know that that you are most excited about.
Speaker 2: So homework assignments, homework homework assign Let's let's.
Speaker 3: Take our next and final break.
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Speaker 4: All right, welcome back to Girls Talkboys Talk. This is
Speaker 4: our final and very quick last segment of the show.
Speaker 4: Christie Scales, I Asha Morris and Jazzy Jazz in the
Speaker 4: back as our producer. I'm Jessina Barr as your host.
Speaker 3: Today. Arnicle is out.
Speaker 4: At the Combine, so we miss her and we love her,
Speaker 4: but we know she's going to do some good work today.
Speaker 4: All Right, NFL salary cap increase, Christie Scales.
Speaker 3: What do you have for us on?
Speaker 2: Well, it went from two hundred and twenty four point
Speaker 2: eight million this past twenty twenty three season to up
Speaker 2: to two hundred and fifty five point four million. Some
Speaker 2: of the original projections were in the high too thirties,
Speaker 2: and then as the season was going along, and a
Speaker 2: lot of the gambling and.
Speaker 8: All of that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: But mainly it's the increase has to do with the
Speaker 2: new broadcasting rights kicking in from all the different not
Speaker 2: only networks and cable services, but the streaming services. So
Speaker 2: that thirteen point six percent increase from one year to
Speaker 2: the next is by far the largest in NFL history.
Speaker 2: The NFL started with the salary cap in nineteen ninety four,
Speaker 2: and so it usually increases about ten maybe twelve million
Speaker 2: a year, that's the range. So to go up by
Speaker 2: thirty million in a year, now that I know that,
Speaker 2: it's you know, everybody gets the same amount. There's a
Speaker 2: pie and you take it and you divide it into
Speaker 2: thirty two slices, so everybody gets the same same slice
Speaker 2: of same piece, you know, size of the slice of
Speaker 2: kind of pie.
Speaker 8: Ooh, what's your favorite pumpkin? Oh?
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna get a lot of hate.
Speaker 6: My favorite pie is chess pie.
Speaker 8: I love chess pie. Wow, I'm gonna vote for that.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna take it to a barbecue.
Speaker 3: Bible love even better.
Speaker 8: Jess has your own theory.
Speaker 3: I have my own theory on that on that increase.
Speaker 3: Thank your local swifties for that. I'm not look. I
Speaker 3: know you guys think I'm take it.
Speaker 4: I think you guys think I'm obsessed, but genuinely being
Speaker 4: in the Swifty community, I have never seen and I'm
Speaker 4: an O. G swiftye Like I saw Taylor Swift as
Speaker 4: an opener for George straight As my first concert when
Speaker 4: I was literally in the fifth grade. Maybe I'm not
Speaker 4: like a new Swifty in this. This fan base is
Speaker 4: so invested in football, like I'm not kidding, and I
Speaker 4: can tell you like the Swifties have studied and learned football.
Speaker 3: To understand what's going on.
Speaker 4: And yes they were watching the KC games obviously to
Speaker 4: see Taylor.
Speaker 3: But people have an.
Speaker 4: Interest now in the NFL that never had an interest before.
Speaker 4: This whole fan base has a new interest. So thank
Speaker 4: your local Swifties for.
Speaker 8: A rising tide carries all both.
Speaker 7: The only only way I will all the reason I'll
Speaker 7: concede to some of this is because you love me. No,
Speaker 7: because you said number thirteen and is thirteen percent.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 9: I thanking co wincidence and that's all I.
Speaker 4: Gott's let's talk about that the Chiefs win the Super
Speaker 4: Bowl from the thirteen yard line. It's her thirteenth game.
Speaker 4: We don't have to get into it. I'm just saying,
Speaker 4: not a coincidence.
Speaker 8: And yet for all the Chiefs have accomplished.
Speaker 2: They're like near the bottom of the nfl PA player poll.
Speaker 3: Oh, here we go, and that is it's crazy.
Speaker 4: Speaking of that real quick, we have a couple of
Speaker 4: minutes left, Let's go down the NFLPA port card for
Speaker 4: the Cowboys. Treatment of families got an A minus that's
Speaker 4: fourth in the league compared to the other teams.
Speaker 3: Food cafteriry got to B that's eleventh.
Speaker 4: Nutritionists slash dietitian gotta b also ranking eleventh. Locker room
Speaker 4: got an A ranking second in the NFL across all teams.
Speaker 4: Training room gott a C minus twenty sixth in the league.
Speaker 4: Training staff got a D plus thirtieth in the league.
Speaker 4: Weight room a fifth in the league. Strength coaches got
Speaker 4: to be plus seventeenth in the league.
Speaker 3: Team travel.
Speaker 4: I think this one's a little interesting too, C minus
Speaker 4: ranking twenty second.
Speaker 3: In the league.
Speaker 4: Head coach a ninth in the league. Ownership B nineteenth.
Speaker 6: In the league.
Speaker 4: Of all of that, obviously there's some eyes and there's
Speaker 4: some lows.
Speaker 3: What sticks out to both of you of the.
Speaker 2: Most and training staff, because Cowboys have an awesome training staff,
Speaker 2: but it's really based more on number of trainers and
Speaker 2: saying that, you know, just they would like to have
Speaker 2: more the Cowboys have. You only have to have three
Speaker 2: trainers by rule of the NFL collective bargaining. The Cowboys
Speaker 2: have four and then two assistants like graduate assistants and so.
Speaker 2: But still, when you have ninety players in the off
Speaker 2: season and through training camp, and when you have it's
Speaker 2: not fifty three players plus sixteen on a practice squad
Speaker 2: and guys on ir and things like that, you know,
Speaker 2: there's only so much time in a day. So you
Speaker 2: have terrific. Yeah, Britt Brown, director of rehab, best in
Speaker 2: the business, but he can only be in one place
Speaker 2: at one time. And Jim and Ranson and the guys
Speaker 2: do a wonderful job. But when you play a violent
Speaker 2: sport and you have so many guys that get dinged
Speaker 2: up and you have to come in so early for
Speaker 2: your treatment. So it's I don't it's not an indictment
Speaker 2: on the ability of the training staff that we have.
Speaker 2: It's just sounds like they would just like to have.
Speaker 8: More.
Speaker 2: Well, they have access, but just maybe increase the number
Speaker 2: of staff.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't have much to add, but I mean,
Speaker 7: did they say that the training equipment was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it says. Michael Gilkin tweeted this, The major issue
Speaker 4: in Dallas, based on responses, is centered around the training room.
Speaker 4: The players feel that they're very understaffed in this department.
Speaker 4: It's difficult to get the necessary preparation treatment to.
Speaker 3: Perform their best.
Speaker 4: Sixty two percent of the players feel like they get
Speaker 4: an inadequate amount of one on one time treatment treatment time,
Speaker 4: which is what Christie said. The other issue mentioned players
Speaker 4: feel the training room lacks basic equipment that you would
Speaker 4: expect to be standard in any other training facility, which
Speaker 4: I thought was interesting.
Speaker 7: I find it interesting too because where are we yep, sorry.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, But the one thing about the trial. We
Speaker 2: had a really brutal travel schedule this year with the
Speaker 2: overnight games and the late nights and especially the early
Speaker 2: in the season.
Speaker 8: Oh my gosh. So the Cowboys, you know, they always play.
Speaker 2: The maximum amount of primetime games because there's such a
Speaker 2: draw for the network, but godly, the way that it
Speaker 2: was road trips and around the holidays, you know, Christmas
Speaker 2: Eve and things like that that it was. It was
Speaker 2: particularly tough this year, I thought, And so I think
Speaker 2: that part of that with the travel, may be a
Speaker 2: reflection on so many of the overnight coming back home,
Speaker 2: and that's not up to the team, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's being a victim of your own circumstances.
Speaker 8: Popularity.
Speaker 3: Well, there you go.
Speaker 4: Next week when we come back here, we'll touch more
Speaker 4: on all things combine going on some other news that
Speaker 4: I'm sure will pop up throughout the week is well,
Speaker 4: we'll be here to discuss it again Thursdays.
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Speaker 3: little bit long today, but that's okay. Always fun. Christy,
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