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Speaker 3: for the final week of Training Camp twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: Welcome in everybody alongside Patrick, no, Cy Walker and Josh
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Speaker 3: So glad you're with us. No Isaiah standback today he
Speaker 3: is on the physically unable to perform list.
Speaker 4: The pup lists on the mend is one Isaiah Stambay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a poor guy had back surgery last week.
Speaker 2: A wee could go today, we could go today.
Speaker 3: He had back surgery and he's got a story on
Speaker 3: his Instagram, telling all about it and kind of showing
Speaker 3: them behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was down for the count.
Speaker 3: He mustered up enough strength to throw on a back brace,
Speaker 3: throw on a suit, get in the booth at at
Speaker 3: and T Stadium on Saturday from a Tuesday this Saturday turnaround.
Speaker 3: And I texted him yesterday and I was like, Hey,
Speaker 3: how are you feeling after working through it being the
Speaker 3: color analyst on the game against the Ravens, doing a
Speaker 3: great job up in the booth as always, said how
Speaker 3: you feeling today? How you feeling two days after that?
Speaker 3: And you had to muster it up? He said, man,
Speaker 3: you have no eye idea?
Speaker 2: Oh he said, it is it is sore. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And so I don't blame him for missing today because he.
Speaker 4: He just shows his priority, you know, calling the game
Speaker 4: and then you know NFL Network and then talking Cowboys
Speaker 4: is somewhere in the pits, you know.
Speaker 2: Listen.
Speaker 5: Bottom line, Isaiah, you're a glady friend. You are a
Speaker 5: Roman gladiator to go through the back procedure, and you know,
Speaker 5: I know exactly what the procedure.
Speaker 2: We knew what the procedure was. Cofusion.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's a pretty big deal and to be
Speaker 5: in the booth calling the game alongside Bill Jones.
Speaker 4: As a Roman gladiator. He could say, are you not entertained?
Speaker 5: Are you not entertained? Is this not why you were here?
Speaker 5: Theil bitter heel up. We'll see you soon, bro.
Speaker 2: Love you buddy.
Speaker 3: I know he's listening because he texted Beemer this morning
Speaker 3: and said, man, I'm not gonna make it.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Well, if you listen to Isaiah, you suck
Speaker 2: whoa whoa wow.
Speaker 5: We are using if you're listening, and then let me
Speaker 5: throw let me throw some smoke. How we do That's
Speaker 5: how it goes right. If you're not listening, I say,
Speaker 5: it's the man. He's great.
Speaker 2: I love buddy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is how brotherly love works.
Speaker 3: Hopefully he'll be here on Thursday and we'll make it
Speaker 3: happen on Thursday.
Speaker 2: But glad to be back here and at the Star
Speaker 2: and Fristco.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you guys had safe travels back from California.
Speaker 3: You guys did a great job last week holding down
Speaker 3: the show. We've got a lot to catch up on
Speaker 3: and it feels like that now because we're still on
Speaker 3: that every other day schedule.
Speaker 2: We've got like two days forty eight hours worth of.
Speaker 3: Stuff to catch up on, especially when it goes over
Speaker 3: a weekend like it has.
Speaker 2: So let's start with some news and notes. Let's get
Speaker 2: into it.
Speaker 3: Lots of roster transactions, injuries, and stuff all popping up
Speaker 3: from Saturday's matchup.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So first and foremost, we'll go with the headliner,
Speaker 5: Jonathan Mingo. Jonathan Mingo suffered a pco injury in his
Speaker 5: knee on that deep pass on to the right side
Speaker 5: from Joe Milton. He is expected to miss four to
Speaker 5: six weeks. Obviously, the regular season is September fourth, so
Speaker 5: this is going to spill into the regular season. He
Speaker 5: is now a prime candidate for injured reserve with designation
Speaker 5: to return out, explaining that here momentarily to make room
Speaker 5: for an addition, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Going to try this name.
Speaker 5: You want to give this last name of try Kyle, Josh,
Speaker 5: you want to give this last name of try, It's
Speaker 5: name's Michael.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Michael. I can say that one.
Speaker 5: Listen, we are now practiced that we could say Banogay
Speaker 5: all the loftlong day. Michael Oja Moody cornerback signed by
Speaker 5: the Cowboys yesterday. He has He's a former third round
Speaker 5: pick of the Denver Broncos. Spent some time as a
Speaker 5: rookie with the Broncos several seasons before going on to
Speaker 5: the Bears in twenty two, which is when he spent
Speaker 5: some time with Guess.
Speaker 4: Who isn't that Eberflu?
Speaker 2: That is Iberflus. Yeah, you gotta know the eber Flu's.
Speaker 2: You might know a thing or two about this guy,
Speaker 2: might know a thing or two.
Speaker 5: So iber Flu went out and convinced the Cowboys to
Speaker 5: pluck this young man so that they can see what
Speaker 5: he has going into the regular season. Because yes, Cowboys
Speaker 5: are absolutely ravaged at cornerbacks, so ad Bruce Harmon to
Speaker 5: the injured list, But he's been waived to make room,
Speaker 5: like I said to add Oju Moudia. And with that,
Speaker 5: you're also looking at Christian Matthew. He went down in
Speaker 5: the game on Saturday against the Ravens. He did not return.
Speaker 5: We don't know his status at this moment either. Cowboys
Speaker 5: are trying to figure out what to do with Mingo.
Speaker 5: Kind of circling back to that really quickly. With injury
Speaker 5: injury reserve designation to return, teams are allowed to put
Speaker 5: two players to start the season. With that designation, neither
Speaker 5: of those two players will count against the fifty three
Speaker 5: man rosters, so no roster gymnastics required for those two gentlemen,
Speaker 5: as far as it used to be. You have to
Speaker 5: carry them for one day on the active roster, and
Speaker 5: that led to things like, you know, releasing Trent City
Speaker 5: against the next days, right, so helps in that capacity.
Speaker 5: Mingo will be able to return as early as if
Speaker 5: he's ready week four. After week four, I should say,
Speaker 5: twenty one day practice window could be activated then. And
Speaker 5: then if they do activate the window and he's not
Speaker 5: ready by the twenty first day, then he reverts to
Speaker 5: season ending injured reserve. God, there are a lot of
Speaker 5: translations missing a lot, there's a lot. Let's let's talk
Speaker 5: about Mingo for a second though, because that that's going
Speaker 5: to send ripple effects down the fifty three man roster conversation.
Speaker 5: As far as the wide receivers are concerned, Does that
Speaker 5: help with Jalen Tobrit solidify? Was Jalen Tobrat already solidified?
Speaker 5: Does that free up a spot for Flinoy, Trey Shawn Holding,
Speaker 5: you know, getting kind of.
Speaker 4: That third segment that's gonna be a good kind of
Speaker 4: fuck it.
Speaker 3: That's the thing is you would look at it as
Speaker 3: who's at the best camp across the board, but also
Speaker 3: who also has been I guess invest it in the
Speaker 3: most and by the time and.
Speaker 2: Body of work for Tolbert would say he's on the roster.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't think anybody's really looking at Tolbert and
Speaker 3: saying he's off the team right now. We'll play our
Speaker 3: fifty three man game later in the show, but I
Speaker 3: don't think Tolbert's really on that bubble.
Speaker 2: Flinoy might be.
Speaker 3: And so I think, if anything, this Mingo injury affects
Speaker 3: Flinoy in his ability to be on the roster.
Speaker 4: I'm excited to get to the third segment in our game,
Speaker 4: like you're saying, to kind of start whittling down the
Speaker 4: fifty three.
Speaker 2: I did it. It's a quality word, Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, But for me, I took it as an exercise
Speaker 4: of just what I'm seeing. To your point, you're saying
Speaker 4: how much they invested in players like Tolbird or maybe
Speaker 4: like a fifty eight. You know, they invested in those
Speaker 4: things that I didn't necessarily take into account, And I'm
Speaker 4: saying that with my chest on a Tuesday.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, I like it talking too spicy.
Speaker 4: The tease for the rest of the show, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know Jim will see Jim.
Speaker 5: But yeah, the Cowboys, I mean, as they get ready
Speaker 5: for this short week going into Friday's game against the
Speaker 5: Atlanta Falcons preseason finale. We also have some news on
Speaker 5: Jaydon Blue, Herb, Brian shot and Heimer. Jaydon Blue is
Speaker 5: trending positively. Shottenheimer and the Cowboys are optimistic quote unquote
Speaker 5: that he will that he has a great chance of
Speaker 5: making his preseason debut in the finale against the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 5: That's a pretty big deal as you try to figure
Speaker 5: out this running back.
Speaker 2: As is Jadon Blue, He's very optimistic.
Speaker 4: He tweeted about it yesterday and yeah, the hour glasses
Speaker 4: running out and he said basically, it's time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5: We're ready to see Jayson Blue out there. We talked
Speaker 5: to Tyler Guyton yesterday in the locker room. He said
Speaker 5: that he is feeling much better. He's making a lot
Speaker 5: of progress. Obviously he's not going to put a timeline
Speaker 5: on it. But between speaking to Tyler got in, which
Speaker 5: is something I've done frequently from the point of the injury.
Speaker 5: Out in Oxnar had some all the record conversations. We
Speaker 5: had an on the record conversation yesterday in the locker room,
Speaker 5: and then we all talked to Brian Schottenheimer. All signs
Speaker 5: are pointing positively toward a potential return for Week one
Speaker 5: against the Philadelphia Eagles. Across your fingers that that holds true.
Speaker 5: But Barne is setback. He's still at this point on
Speaker 5: track for that, and that is huge news. As the
Speaker 5: Cowboys also still try to figure out what their left
Speaker 5: tackle situation looks like in the absence of Tyler got
Speaker 5: and obviously Nate Thomas has really started to take the
Speaker 5: lead there. But don't count out a guy like a Dynergy.
Speaker 5: I think that's wide open.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the whole offensive line scenario is still wide isn't
Speaker 3: it just because.
Speaker 2: They they haven't played particularly well?
Speaker 5: Agreed with the exception games of two guys we saw
Speaker 5: in preseason game.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's one and Tyler Booker. Yep, there's two.
Speaker 5: Tyler Booker allowed zero zero sattle pressures in past protection
Speaker 5: and and his run his run grade was pretty damn high.
Speaker 5: You saw them running behind him quite frequently and he was, Uh,
Speaker 5: he was moving bodies.
Speaker 2: T Booker is gonna get you, sucker.
Speaker 3: I liked what uh what shot he said yesterday when
Speaker 3: he talked about T Booker is the fact that they
Speaker 3: knew he was going to be a road grader on it.
Speaker 3: That's why they drafted him. The pass protection is is
Speaker 3: a separate thing. There was one play where I mean
Speaker 3: it was just one on one. It wasn't taken on
Speaker 3: a double team and facing two different guys or whatever
Speaker 3: it may be. I mean he was pretty one on
Speaker 3: one with a defender and he stood him up yep,
Speaker 3: and then pushed him back on a on a pass
Speaker 3: block where the breakdown happened around him. There wasn't any space.
Speaker 3: He was on an island in at the guard spot,
Speaker 3: which is not a.
Speaker 2: Good thing typically. Uh not. He was on an island,
Speaker 2: but he handled his island.
Speaker 3: And I liked a couple of the reps that we
Speaker 3: saw from Tyler Booker, and then I think run blocking
Speaker 3: was good. Shoddy also mentioned if we have bb and
Speaker 3: Booker out there, we should be able to run the
Speaker 3: football better. They didn't. They didn't necessarily run the football
Speaker 3: great thirty one to thirteen. The final scores the Ravens
Speaker 3: beat the Cowboys in preseason Week two. Still a lot
Speaker 3: of up and down there from the overall ground game and.
Speaker 2: Things like that. The offense was gross.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the offense was gross when you look at the
Speaker 5: fact that going into halftime it was single digit net
Speaker 5: gain yardage for the Cowboys offense.
Speaker 2: And then what they get second week in a row,
Speaker 2: they did.
Speaker 5: The negative yardage on the ground. To your point, going
Speaker 5: into the half against the Ravens, They've got to get
Speaker 5: it fixed. I mean, there are positive positives to take away,
Speaker 5: Tyler Booker being one, Cooper bb being one. Eventually in
Speaker 5: the game, Jonathan Mingo, but now it comes to bad
Speaker 5: news with Jonathan Mingo. There are some positives. I mean,
Speaker 5: Andrew Booth took a step forward with the pick six. Obviously,
Speaker 5: I still I love what Zion Childress is putting out there,
Speaker 5: Kemon Hall is putting out there. But on the whole,
Speaker 5: the positive I would say is I think the defense.
Speaker 5: The thirty one points to me is eventually the defense
Speaker 5: got worn down and got tired. But for the most part,
Speaker 5: I saw a defense that was stopping, started to stop
Speaker 5: them on the run, started to step up their red
Speaker 5: zone defense. For the most part, at least over the
Speaker 5: first two and a half quarters. I thought the run
Speaker 5: defense down the stretch was not absolutely linebackers were hair
Speaker 5: on fire.
Speaker 4: Linebackers are just linebackers, and they've been the most taste
Speaker 4: so far.
Speaker 5: The Moone Clark this week, previous week, Marris Lea File.
Speaker 2: I like what jack Son jack Sanborn went out there.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, And we still haven't even seen Kenneth Murray yet
Speaker 5: in preseason action. So I love what the linebackers are doing.
Speaker 5: So the defense I believe took a step forward from
Speaker 5: week one to week two as far as preseason goes.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 4: However, hold on at this point, would you say linebackers
Speaker 4: are strength of this team right now?
Speaker 2: Right now? Strength? Crazy?
Speaker 5: The defense on defense? Sure right now? Yes, sure crazy
Speaker 5: to consider.
Speaker 4: Right it's crazy to consider over the past two seasons
Speaker 4: for that to be the case. But my question more
Speaker 4: so is like, is it surprising to you that in
Speaker 4: one season they've changed from you know, arguably a weakness
Speaker 4: to maybe the defense's greatest strength.
Speaker 3: I think part of that is you're so banged up
Speaker 3: at corner. You don't have a ton of guys rotating
Speaker 3: in as starters at corner. And you haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 3: The one guy that's out there and has played that
Speaker 3: it is supposed to be a starter as Kyrie Elam.
Speaker 3: That's the only guy at corner. So I think that's
Speaker 3: a factor. Of course, you don't have Michael Parsons out there,
Speaker 3: you don't have Dante Feller Junior out there, you don't
Speaker 3: have Sam Williams for the.
Speaker 2: Most part out there.
Speaker 3: I mean, all of those things kind of play a
Speaker 3: factor when you're saying, Wow, these linebackers look great. I
Speaker 3: stood on the table for the offseason moves at linebacker.
Speaker 3: I liked the addition of Kenneth Murray. I liked the
Speaker 3: addition of Jack Sanborn. I think this is a better
Speaker 3: linebacker group now, especially when they get to Marvin overshown
Speaker 3: back than they ever had in the past two or
Speaker 3: three years, because of the depth that they have at
Speaker 3: the position and the coach that they have running it
Speaker 3: in Matti Eberflus. However, when you look at this defense,
Speaker 3: I still think it's going to be predicated off of
Speaker 3: getting to the passer, still predicated off of getting pressures
Speaker 3: and having Parsons and Dante Valler Junior and all these
Speaker 3: guys that we've heralded over the last couple of years
Speaker 3: is either early round draft picks or superstars at the position.
Speaker 3: That's who you have to rely on. And then we
Speaker 3: can talk about the linebackers. So right now, as preseason
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five continues, I would agree with you the
Speaker 3: linebackers have been tremendous and they have been the stars
Speaker 3: of the show on defense. But when we're building this
Speaker 3: roster out and we're looking to what it will be
Speaker 3: full strength, hopefully in twenty twenty five, I still think
Speaker 3: it's the edge rushers that lead the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I agree with everything that Kyle just said because from
Speaker 5: a preseason standpoint, as we have the conversation, oh, the
Speaker 5: show stealers are the linebackers right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but two reasons this Leah has been great. You
Speaker 2: haven't even mention him right now.
Speaker 5: I did, Oh sorry last week against the Rams, he
Speaker 5: was just like unbelievable. As we have this conversation, the
Speaker 5: linebackers are stealing the show for two reasons. Number One,
Speaker 5: they put in the work. Number Two, they're being led
Speaker 5: by coach Cuogonzo Borganzi and of course coordinated by linebackers
Speaker 5: Guru and Eber Flus. All of those things matter, so
Speaker 5: not to take away from them, but it's also true
Speaker 5: that Michael Parsons isn't on the field yet, Sam Williams
Speaker 5: isn't on the fiel yet, Dante Fowler is not on
Speaker 5: the field yet, so forth and so on. So once
Speaker 5: we get to the regular season, the strength of this
Speaker 5: defense is absolutely going to be your defensive end. It's
Speaker 5: absolutely going to be your past rush and the ability
Speaker 5: to try to stop the run at those at those edges.
Speaker 5: But the linebacker corps is going to be and we're
Speaker 5: seeing this bear itself out already. They're going to be
Speaker 5: so pivotal in run support that they're going to be
Speaker 5: the next most important unit on Matt Eberflus's defense. So
Speaker 5: it's it's great to see knowing that that they can
Speaker 5: get the job done, that they're really taking some stridge
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 4: I say that because my point of it was, you're
Speaker 4: not seeing a lot of defensive scheme out of I Refluse.
Speaker 4: He's playing base defense over the past two games. That
Speaker 4: is why the linebackers are cleaning up across the board
Speaker 4: because of it's not moving. He's not showing you anything
Speaker 4: on corner wise, I mean the corners are playing, you know.
Speaker 2: Five eight yards off of receivers, so I.
Speaker 4: Just think that is indicative of them playing bass and
Speaker 4: how good the linebackers are just in that assignments.
Speaker 2: And they're doing it without good defensive tackle.
Speaker 5: Play agree which is arguably really Yeah, number one, Josh,
Speaker 5: you're doing the hand thing. So I never want to
Speaker 5: hear you tell me I'm doing the hand thing again,
Speaker 5: because you were just hand.
Speaker 2: Thing.
Speaker 5: He said, how I paced my words with the very
Speaker 5: Jerry Madaline.
Speaker 2: He said it behind the scenes something on the air.
Speaker 3: We said it on the air too, and I just
Speaker 3: caught him doing it, so I'm start doing it in
Speaker 3: my camera shot.
Speaker 5: It's a pacing ticket, it's a pacing technique.
Speaker 2: But the other thing with your hands, that's possible. I
Speaker 2: do it all the time.
Speaker 5: That's a freaking Lolian I can, yes, you keep judging. So, yeah,
Speaker 5: there are concerns on defense defensive tackle. Being one cornerback
Speaker 5: of position, you're in dire straits right now. You flip
Speaker 5: to the offensive side of the ball. And outside of
Speaker 5: Cooper BB and Tyler Smith, we know what he is
Speaker 5: and Tyler Booker, they're trying to get Tyler guy in
Speaker 5: back and figure out left tackle. Can Terence still get
Speaker 5: back the top form? We'll see. Your running game is struggling.
Speaker 5: Your passing game is virtually non existing. In the preseason,
Speaker 5: Joe Milton again grated himself as a D D minus.
Speaker 5: He said after that game that he would have given
Speaker 5: himself a C if not for the interception. I am
Speaker 5: not there with.
Speaker 2: Him on that. That's a little generous. I do think.
Speaker 5: I do think he flunked that that game against the Ravens,
Speaker 5: with the sole exception being better than it was worse
Speaker 5: than we thought so too. It was worse than Week
Speaker 5: one with the exception of that pass he made to
Speaker 5: Jonathan Mingo.
Speaker 2: Now we'll give him credit.
Speaker 5: For the middle deep right scene pass to Jalen Cropper
Speaker 5: that was a dot in the bucket, hit Cropper in
Speaker 5: both hands, and he just couldn't.
Speaker 2: That both of his completions in the first that would
Speaker 2: have been both of his completions.
Speaker 5: So so for me, outside of that, I think he
Speaker 5: regressed over the preseason opener, and that is just not
Speaker 5: what you want to see from the young.
Speaker 4: Quarterback, especially whenever Schottenhammer was talking yesterday like he didn't
Speaker 4: necessarily you know, forgive all of those things. He's talking
Speaker 4: about how Joe Milton needs to settle in much like
Speaker 4: he settled in the second half against the Rams.
Speaker 2: This did feel like a regression.
Speaker 4: And then if you see him on the sidelines too,
Speaker 4: Joe Milton is sort of just in his head about everything.
Speaker 4: Every pass feels, you know, like it's, of course, it's
Speaker 4: this one opportunity to be the backup for Dak Prescott,
Speaker 4: and you feel that when you look at him on
Speaker 4: the sidelines, you feel that pressure on him versus you know,
Speaker 4: going out there and just trying to play ball.
Speaker 5: Listen, you know, first three possessions for the Cowboys, you basically,
Speaker 5: as an offense led by Joe Milton, you basically did
Speaker 5: nothing more than award two points to the Ravens defense.
Speaker 4: The awareness that the safety.
Speaker 5: With that blitz, that free blitzer coming off of your
Speaker 5: sight side, you have to come off your read and
Speaker 5: adjust and just realize where you are.
Speaker 2: You're standing in the end zone. You cannot take that sack.
Speaker 5: And to his credit, he did say that he was,
Speaker 5: you know, doing his hot his heart read and everything.
Speaker 5: He just didn't come off of it in time. I
Speaker 5: appreciate the explanation That doesn't excuse it away, though, because
Speaker 5: if this was a blind side attack, okay, then you're
Speaker 5: looking at the left tackle like, come on, help your
Speaker 5: quarterback out on this end. It's a it's a it's
Speaker 5: a corner blitz. I believe it was. You've got to
Speaker 5: see that. You've got to see that, whether it be
Speaker 5: identifying it right safety, rather it be identifying it pre snap,
Speaker 5: which goes to, hey, I understand that was his second
Speaker 5: air quote, third NFL game, third game in the NFL,
Speaker 5: first being the one that he played with the Patriots.
Speaker 2: Well, he played the preseason. It wasn't fair and just
Speaker 2: didn't start fair enough.
Speaker 5: Granted that's more of a veteran, you know, seeing and
Speaker 5: identifying the mic and here's the blitzer.
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, but you need to learn to do that.
Speaker 5: If you fail to do that because of an experience, okay,
Speaker 5: worst case scenario, especially considering.
Speaker 2: How mobile you are and that being one of your.
Speaker 5: Biggest attribute attributes, see pressure, leave good bye. It's that
Speaker 5: simple to stand ready, not see it, not feel it,
Speaker 5: and just get obliterated in the end zone.
Speaker 2: Everything went downhill from that play forward.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and if you consider what we were looking at
Speaker 4: whenever Joe Milton came in as was that dual threat.
Speaker 4: You kind of felt like that was going to be
Speaker 4: part of his game, and you saw that early on
Speaker 4: in preseason where he was willing to take off in
Speaker 4: moments like that. But you're just not seeing it in
Speaker 4: the preseason games because it just feels like he's playing
Speaker 4: mind games with himself, trying to get it right the
Speaker 4: first time, and every rep is or every snap is
Speaker 4: just the most crucial thing imaginable. But I also think
Speaker 4: part of that was due to the inexperience of the
Speaker 4: offensive line and like how many snaps has that offensive
Speaker 4: line taken together, and could they have with more experience,
Speaker 4: diagnosed that blitz maybe so and communicated that to their
Speaker 4: quarterback who did not make that.
Speaker 5: Read maybe so? And a lot of parts fell apart
Speaker 5: in that. But again I'm speaking break glass in case
Speaker 5: of emergency, you've gotta see that Blitzer're.
Speaker 2: Coming, gotta run, you gotta go.
Speaker 5: But I will say, Josh, you point out something that
Speaker 5: really probably makes a point as an undercurrent for why
Speaker 5: what happened with that safety play is that maybe Joe
Speaker 5: Milton is starting to hear and understand that you know,
Speaker 5: you need to go through your progressions. Okay, stay with
Speaker 5: your progressions. Trust your progressions. Come off of one. If
Speaker 5: there's no one, go to two, go to three, et cetera.
Speaker 5: So maybe on that play he was overthinking and said
Speaker 5: I just need to stick in the pocket and not
Speaker 5: bail as quickly.
Speaker 6: Will.
Speaker 7: Now, I don't think you got to complete that. I
Speaker 7: think the poet you think, I think done. I think
Speaker 7: there's an aspect of overthinking. That's that's happening right now. Overcorrection,
Speaker 7: if you will.
Speaker 3: If he was over correcting in that specific moment, I
Speaker 3: agree with you in the general sense because we've seen
Speaker 3: it in practice.
Speaker 2: We've been out of practice. He takes it and runs
Speaker 2: way too much.
Speaker 3: And maybe there's an element from a coaching staff to say, hey,
Speaker 3: like dial that we but in that moment.
Speaker 2: The receivers, I get it.
Speaker 7: But in that moment, dude, you are dead to right
Speaker 7: inexcusable in that moment.
Speaker 5: I cannot stress it enough. It's inexcuseable in that moment.
Speaker 5: And I do again the play to Jonathan Mingle, notwithstanding
Speaker 5: the good throat of Jayalen Cropper that was dropped, Notwithstanding
Speaker 5: that was an f for me, like that was a
Speaker 5: regression and he flunked it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't a great outing and won't break down
Speaker 3: more of Joe Milton and his situation on Thursday. Going
Speaker 3: into the final preseason game, He's already been named the starter.
Speaker 3: Brian Schottenheimer said he will start on Friday against the Falcons.
Speaker 2: So we'll see one more good look at Joe Milton.
Speaker 3: And then the conversation turns to is the quarterback behind
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Speaker 3: Yeah, your darn rang comment of the day here on
Speaker 3: the YouTube channel.
Speaker 2: Uh, it was kind of a lame day comment wise.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie to step up your comment because Thursday, right,
Speaker 2: they're trying. Yeah, they're doing their best. It's not all
Speaker 2: their faults.
Speaker 3: Broke says, can't wait for week one, all our questions
Speaker 3: will be answered. I laughed at that because I can't
Speaker 3: tell if it's sarcasm or not.
Speaker 2: Because I am excited effectively week one.
Speaker 3: I am, and we will learn a lot about week one,
Speaker 3: but all of our questions are not going to be
Speaker 3: learned week one aren't going to be answered week one.
Speaker 3: I'm just excited to see what this team actually looks
Speaker 3: like whenever we get down to it. With that being said,
Speaker 3: I want to see what this team's going to look
Speaker 3: like when we get down to it. Brian Schottenheimer yesterday
Speaker 3: was asked about his philosophy and roster building in the
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Speaker 3: front office, the coordinators, and with himself to talk through
Speaker 3: what the fifty three man roster cutdown would look like.
Speaker 3: If the cutdown day was today, Well it's not. The
Speaker 3: cut down day is actually a week from today. It
Speaker 3: is next Tuesday, August twenty sixth. That is the roster
Speaker 3: cutdown day. And just like we've talked about in the
Speaker 3: past couple of years, it.
Speaker 2: Is different than what it used to be.
Speaker 3: It doesn't go from ninety to eighty to sixty five
Speaker 3: to fifty three anymore.
Speaker 2: It goes from ninety to fifty three. There is no
Speaker 2: in between.
Speaker 5: Now get next to it.
Speaker 2: You do have a bigger practice squad.
Speaker 3: You have the sixteen practice squad players that you can
Speaker 3: keep on your roster and that helps the scenario. However,
Speaker 3: let's cut down some fifty three man roster stuff.
Speaker 2: Happy to do it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna start on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 3: We are taking away four names. These are four names
Speaker 3: that are a lock on special teams. Brandon Aubrey, Brian Anger,
Speaker 3: Trent Sigg and C J.
Speaker 2: Goodwin. Can we all agree on those? Agreed?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I guess so you have fifty or you have forty nine, guys.
Speaker 2: I think choose specialist a receiver as a receiver. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because I think they're going to utilize them either way.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say they shouldn't count against the fifty three.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Like, let's just create a separate depth chart just for
Speaker 4: special scene works. All right?
Speaker 3: Fine, the NFL does not have a waiver where you could. Yeah,
Speaker 3: forty nine guys is what you've got.
Speaker 2: You're doing the idea on offense or defense. Uh, let's
Speaker 2: start with the edge rushers.
Speaker 3: I think that'll be pretty interesting because how many edge
Speaker 3: rushers are you keeping?
Speaker 2: That's the first question. I have six? You have six?
Speaker 2: Go for it? What you get?
Speaker 4: Micah marshn Neelan Okay, easy, Dante Fellow Junior, Sam Williams,
Speaker 4: Tyris Wheet.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, mm hmmm, Tyris whet Over, who oh.
Speaker 2: Well, not gonna pull my rock, you to pull it
Speaker 2: back out.
Speaker 5: He's taking tires sweet over Peyton Turner, Yeah, Turner, James.
Speaker 4: James Houston, Yes over him, Uh yeah, keeping tires sweet.
Speaker 4: I like what I see from him. I think he's
Speaker 4: a dog, I really do. I think he gives you
Speaker 4: a lot of attitude that you're not really seeing necessarily
Speaker 4: on the defensive line outside of your top guys. Something
Speaker 4: about Tyres sweet man, and that was showing prevalent over
Speaker 4: the last two years. Even on special teams, he shows up.
Speaker 2: So read those names again, the six names.
Speaker 4: My six names are Micah Parsons, marsh On Neelan Donovan, Azeraiku,
Speaker 4: Dante Fowl.
Speaker 2: Junior, Sam Williams, Tyres.
Speaker 3: Wheet, Tiris Wheet. Okay, So no Turner, no Houston. I
Speaker 3: guess in that realm. Houston's kind of like an outside linebacker.
Speaker 3: They have him as an edgdresser on the depth chart.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I love that, but and they
Speaker 4: were talking about him on the fan yesterday and shouts
Speaker 4: out to one of five through the fan. I like
Speaker 4: what they were saying, but just in terms of the
Speaker 4: snaps that he had, I think he had close to
Speaker 4: fifty and he only made like two tackles Like that
Speaker 4: to me was a little alarming, Like.
Speaker 2: That's because he's playing off the edge a little bit.
Speaker 2: Absolutely have to see where he lies.
Speaker 4: They were good plays that he made, but I don't
Speaker 4: think he's making enough of an impact going against second
Speaker 4: and third stringers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm I have six as will and I'm
Speaker 5: right there with Josh So. I got Michael Parsons, Dante
Speaker 5: foul Or, Marshawn Kneeland, Donovan as Roku, Sam Williams, and
Speaker 5: I have Tyrus Wheat as well. And the reason Tyris
Speaker 5: Wheat makes it for me is special teams. Ye special teams.
Speaker 5: Peyton Turner, I don't see him as making nearly the
Speaker 5: special team's impact that Tyres Wheat would make. And James Houston,
Speaker 5: though impressive as his camp has been, then it becomes
Speaker 5: again a special teams conversation, and I think Tyris Whedt
Speaker 5: edges him out there while also still giving you some
Speaker 5: break glass in case of emergency depth at the defensive
Speaker 5: en position in the event of injury knock on Woods.
Speaker 5: So yeah, for me, I got Micah, Dante Fowler, Tyris Whee,
Speaker 5: Sam Williams, jonavan As, Rocku and Marshaw Kneeland, not in
Speaker 5: that order, with the exception of Michael being the first
Speaker 5: name I put up there.
Speaker 2: All right, moving on the deed tackle, No, what about you?
Speaker 2: I would go as a Rocky.
Speaker 3: Parsons, Williams, Turner, Fowler, Kneelan.
Speaker 2: I would keep Turner ok, Tyrs Wheet.
Speaker 3: As much as I love Tyrus whet, I think there's
Speaker 3: a better chance you sneak him.
Speaker 2: To the practice squad fair enough. So that's six for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, six, guys, I've been going six and then four
Speaker 3: is where I'm at with the interior defensive line.
Speaker 2: And I don't feel good about it. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to lie to you. I have four as well. To you,
Speaker 2: I don't feel good about having.
Speaker 4: For who you have, I have Osaka Solomon Thomas, Yeah,
Speaker 4: ja got it, perry On Winfrey.
Speaker 2: Oh you're missing a name there, yep, on purpose. What's
Speaker 2: that name? Mozzie Smith? Okay for me, he doesn't make
Speaker 2: this team. You're done, You're done with the experiment. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I think you think you're alone.
Speaker 4: I think you've invested what you've needed to. I think
Speaker 4: you've seen what you've needed to form Mozzie Smith and
Speaker 4: he said to himself that he needed to make more
Speaker 4: plays here in the second game, and you're just not
Speaker 4: seeing it. It's there's a hurdle that you are just
Speaker 4: not getting over with Mozzy. All all the respect in
Speaker 4: the world to him, I think he has worked really hard,
Speaker 4: and you saw that in bits.
Speaker 2: You saw that in games.
Speaker 4: Last year especially. I go back to the away game
Speaker 4: at the Giants, where it's like, that's Mazzi. That's the
Speaker 4: guy you need to see. You just have not seen
Speaker 4: it on a consistent basis. I know is the first
Speaker 4: round pick. This is just my depth chart. I was
Speaker 4: having fun with this. I he doesn't make my team.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's not fun for Mozzie your death chart. Where
Speaker 5: are you gonnapologize?
Speaker 2: Fair?
Speaker 5: I they're not in my opinion, they're not waving Mozzi geta.
Speaker 2: They're not going to wave them.
Speaker 5: They if they are to end the relationship with Mazzie Smith,
Speaker 5: I think first they're going to try to trade him.
Speaker 2: If that's the case, they're going to try to.
Speaker 5: Get something and maybe that's the case something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, completely understandable.
Speaker 5: Right, So I'm going to have Mazzi on the roster
Speaker 5: to start the season because it's just rather you like
Speaker 5: what he's doing or don't like something. Right, he's a
Speaker 5: first round pick. Yeah, so I got Mazzie Smith Osa.
Speaker 4: I thought week questions are of my own just say enough,
Speaker 4: fair enough, not representative.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll cover this up. Mazzie Smith.
Speaker 5: Ohso DIGGI Zooa Solomon, Thomas, perry On, Winfree and J Toye.
Speaker 3: I got five, you got five, so I'll do four
Speaker 3: and then Winfrey is not there. Even though I did
Speaker 3: like some of the things we saw from Winfrey, I
Speaker 3: think he's been okay.
Speaker 5: Behind the Ocean has been perfect right behind the Osa,
Speaker 5: solid dynamic. Yeah, perry On has had the most flashes.
Speaker 3: The thing in the game is Winfrey hasn't looked great,
Speaker 3: and so that's why fair he's.
Speaker 5: Not getting walked away as often as like an Ernest
Speaker 5: Brown unfortunately.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, but yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 2: Right, four interior defensive lineman.
Speaker 3: I go Mazzi, Osa, Toya Solomon, those are the guys,
Speaker 3: all right, linebacker, Let's.
Speaker 2: Try and roll through these real quick linebacker is going
Speaker 2: to be kind of interesting. How many of you keep
Speaker 2: it on two, three, four, hold on five?
Speaker 3: Five linebackers? Yep, it's kind of where I was thinking.
Speaker 3: Go with yours, all.
Speaker 4: Right, Mary Sleefou, Timon Clark, Jack Sanborn, Kenneth Murg Junior,
Speaker 4: Shamar James.
Speaker 2: Okay, I have no problem with that, none at all.
Speaker 2: I wish I could keep justin Aaron. Yeah, I wish
Speaker 2: I James, and I'm not Yeah, I'm not willing to
Speaker 2: do play around. I really do like some of the
Speaker 2: things we've seen from Barn, but that's how deep this
Speaker 2: linebacker crew is. But do you think you could sneak
Speaker 2: him to the practice squad? Who? Probably? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably, I believe so, especially since he dealt with injury.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and may sneak sneak him on one of those
Speaker 3: you know, stash him away.
Speaker 2: Hangnail, Yeah, hang nail. Safety, This one might be a
Speaker 2: little easier. What do you think safety?
Speaker 4: I got four yep, And they're the same forces last
Speaker 4: year for.
Speaker 5: Donovan Wilson, Marquis spill In one year.
Speaker 2: Time right there with hundred percent? All right, going to
Speaker 2: corner corner? What are you doing? Am I going first again?
Speaker 2: I'll go first.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Patrick, so we got two one reserve, assuming they
Speaker 5: both started.
Speaker 2: Who is the reserves?
Speaker 5: Digs and revel. Okay, so I'm going k you're elum
Speaker 5: seek your elm this. I'm I'm stuck on Kayln Carson.
Speaker 5: I think he makes the team. I think he has
Speaker 5: a whole lot of show he'll make the team. But
Speaker 5: I think he makes the team. So let's say, Kayln Carson,
Speaker 5: give me Deron Bland. Obviously Andrew Booth is going to
Speaker 5: make the team. Please give me some Zion Childress.
Speaker 2: That's your starting nickel.
Speaker 5: Give me some Zion Childress and Israel mcquama.
Speaker 2: I'm going to six.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So to repeat ca Kaylyn Carson, Deron Bland, Andrew Booth,
Speaker 5: Zion Childress, and Israel mccuama.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna flip Israel mccuamu for Keemon Hall.
Speaker 5: Oh, just because just because you got to give us
Speaker 5: more than just because well, because he's play better.
Speaker 3: So also because no, not because I feel like just
Speaker 3: give him one for the No, because I I don't
Speaker 3: feel confident that Zion Childress. I think he is your
Speaker 3: starting nickel right now, but is he gonna play every
Speaker 3: single snap on defense. You're gonna need somebody else to
Speaker 3: play in the nickel at some point, and I don't
Speaker 3: think Israel Mukuamu, even though he has played a little
Speaker 3: bit in the slot.
Speaker 2: I would rather have a.
Speaker 3: True slot guy on the roster because Bland. If Bland
Speaker 3: is out there, he's not playing in the slot without
Speaker 3: Digs and without Uh, without Revel, without those other starters.
Speaker 3: If he's out there, it's Elam, it's Bland, It's those
Speaker 3: two outside. Plus I think you can get some stuff
Speaker 3: out out of Hall on special teams. I think Mukuamu
Speaker 3: and Hall is the decision here, and those are the
Speaker 3: two guys you got to benefit.
Speaker 2: Either keep both of them and have those two guys available,
Speaker 2: or I would keep Paul if I had to make
Speaker 2: a decision.
Speaker 4: And I think at least for Zion being your starting nickel.
Speaker 4: Going into camp, I didn't know anything about this kid.
Speaker 4: He's a good player, and just the attitude and aggressiveness
Speaker 4: he brings to the defense, to me, is something you
Speaker 4: can't just bottle up, something you can't find in any player.
Speaker 4: To me, that is just indicative of him as a
Speaker 4: human being and what he brings to a team. And
Speaker 4: he's going to be surrounded by a lot of talent
Speaker 4: once we get healthy. For me, whatever you do, keep
Speaker 4: on Childress.
Speaker 2: So you are you keeping five guys? I'm keeping six,
Speaker 2: six corners. Who you're six?
Speaker 4: I have Kyrie elam Deron Bland Zion Childress, Booth, Izzy Carson.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's fine, Yeah, I'm okay with that. So I
Speaker 3: guess mine would be six too.
Speaker 2: So that means were you keeping Andrew Booth.
Speaker 3: Yes, reluctantly, yes, yes, I would keep him right this second.
Speaker 3: The so that that brings our total to six four
Speaker 3: five for that would be twenty five players on defense.
Speaker 3: It means we have twenty four spots on offense remaining, and.
Speaker 4: Our only difference really is Tyres Sweet and uh and
Speaker 4: Uh I forgot his name though.
Speaker 3: Yeah mcquamu and Hall Yeah yeah, yeah, those are really
Speaker 3: the two biggest ones.
Speaker 2: Let's go quarterback. Get it out of the way. You
Speaker 2: know who three are, right, it's Deck, Joe and Will there.
Speaker 2: You're going to keep all three there, carrying not in
Speaker 2: that order.
Speaker 5: They're carrying all three, especially because you get to do
Speaker 5: the emergency QB rule, So they're keeping all three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, if that's the case, then you would put
Speaker 3: one on practice squad and they wouldn't count toward the fifty.
Speaker 2: You would bring it up. If you're keeping three, you're
Speaker 2: keeping three. They're still keeping three, okay, I think right
Speaker 2: now they're keeping Yeah, they kept three last year. Correct, No,
Speaker 2: it was two and one, two and one. The one
Speaker 2: was the emergency quarterback. Yeah, they kept Lance stash on,
Speaker 2: but he was or not practice quad. Ye, it wasn't
Speaker 2: on the practice squad. Does he not?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 5: So the emergency QB rule is that you can carry
Speaker 5: them on. They don't count against the fifty three, but
Speaker 5: they don't have to be on the practice squad. There
Speaker 5: there's a specific pocket that they say, really there's a
Speaker 5: specific pocket that they sit in.
Speaker 2: Because that's a new rule. They're keeping three. They're keeping three. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's just what they keep them three. What are we're doing?
Speaker 2: I think you need three? Yeah? Right? Running back? Running back?
Speaker 2: I'm going short on running back. Who are you taking?
Speaker 2: I have three? Okay? All right?
Speaker 4: Javonte Williams, Jayden Blue film OFFA.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: You're cutting Sanders, yes, cutting Molie Davis, yes, cutting Deuce
Speaker 3: Farm yes?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: What about Hunter Lipkey? Does he count in this conversation. No,
Speaker 3: not in my commerce. He's in He's in his full back. Okay,
Speaker 3: so you've got a full back there, Yeah, I think I'm.
Speaker 2: M man.
Speaker 5: Josh are in sink?
Speaker 2: Are you in some patigo? We are in sink like
Speaker 2: timber Lake? And are those are those?
Speaker 5: Those are my That's my three plus one. Hunter is
Speaker 5: my plus one. So I got Javonte, which islake and
Speaker 5: which ones?
Speaker 2: Which ones? Let's let the people decide. People decide.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, I got Javonte, Williams, Jayden Blue, Film Mafu
Speaker 5: And in my plus one it's Hunter Lipke fullback.
Speaker 2: I'm not running with two rookies in my running back room.
Speaker 2: I want Williams, Sanders Blue. That's what I've got. Cut
Speaker 2: Mafa's going, oh.
Speaker 8: Listen.
Speaker 3: Always not super high on MafA coming out of the draft.
Speaker 3: I think he's done nothing but impressed me through training camp.
Speaker 3: I still don't think his ceiling.
Speaker 2: Is as high as Blues, which that is the decision
Speaker 2: that comes down to it.
Speaker 3: And I don't think he's as ready of a ball
Speaker 3: carrier as Sanders and Williams are currently. If it was
Speaker 3: a different situation and at a different season, if one
Speaker 3: of those guys goes down. I'm confident in MafA to
Speaker 3: fill that role, So let me try and get him
Speaker 3: another the practice squad and we'll see what happens from there.
Speaker 5: My concern there is not that there's this unbelievable chance
Speaker 5: that MafA won't make the practice squad. My thing is
Speaker 5: I expect it more from Miles Sanders in this case,
Speaker 5: he's been hurt. Even prior to him being hurt, he
Speaker 5: showed some things, but it.
Speaker 2: Wasn't a training camp. It's running back. You can't see
Speaker 2: anything in these practices. We're in there in.
Speaker 5: Pads and shorts, so don't tell me they did so
Speaker 5: they didn't have So they didn't have padded practice.
Speaker 2: No, I said, pads and shorts.
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, when they they were fully ye, brought to
Speaker 5: the rod. They were full go, not brought to the
Speaker 5: ground and.
Speaker 2: Hold at home.
Speaker 5: Was Davonte Williams even remotely more impressed than MOUs Sanders?
Speaker 2: Yes, not really what you have him as your lead? Yeah,
Speaker 2: because the film and everything backs it up. Okay. Were
Speaker 2: you more impressed with Jay and Blue or Miles Sanders? Yeah?
Speaker 9: I was.
Speaker 3: I was more impressed with Blue, Okay, so I would
Speaker 3: put blue as my number two.
Speaker 2: Okay, it is the decision is between Sanders and MafA. Okay,
Speaker 2: that is the decision three or four.
Speaker 5: So then the tiebreaker for me is good. It's a
Speaker 5: young guy, not nor not that it's a young guy.
Speaker 5: It's game film at the moment, most recent game film, preseason.
Speaker 5: So Miles sandersy comes back from injury.
Speaker 2: You're talking about the Ravens week two.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's all I got right now for him
Speaker 5: in a cowboy that's fair.
Speaker 2: But the run blocking business, for.
Speaker 5: It wasn't fantastic against the Rams either, and MafA was
Speaker 5: making some things happen, with the exception of penalties deleting
Speaker 5: some of his bigger.
Speaker 4: I agree with you, but but arguing for Kyle here
Speaker 4: in that moment, not that you need it is the
Speaker 4: run blocking was horrendous.
Speaker 2: Against the Ravens. I'm gonna whoop his cheeks now if
Speaker 2: we take our second break. I don't know if we know.
Speaker 3: Oops, let's take our second break. When we come back,
Speaker 3: we wrap up on the offensive side.
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Speaker 3: on Talking Cowboys all right, Moving on to the wide
Speaker 3: receiver spot. We had to get out of here because
Speaker 3: there's a show behind us. Moving on to wide receiver Josh,
Speaker 3: get us started.
Speaker 4: Oh man, this is tough, all right, ceedee lamb, George Pickens.
Speaker 4: This is my list, your list, This is my list,
Speaker 4: all your personally, I don't hold any bearings to any
Speaker 4: other players for the longevity that they put into the
Speaker 4: Cowboys and learning the system or anything like that. Ceedee lamb,
Speaker 4: George Pickens, Come on to Turpin, Ryan Flinoy.
Speaker 2: Raysh On, Holden, you're taking four? No, he went more
Speaker 2: than four?
Speaker 4: Five was yeah, CD, George Pickens, Okay, come on to Turpin. Okay,
Speaker 4: Floornoy got it? Holding, Okay, hold it, holding, hold it.
Speaker 2: He's impression that much. Say your list one more time.
Speaker 4: Ceedee lamb, George Pickens, come on toping.
Speaker 2: Okay, Ryan stopped there. I was making sure I heard Turp.
Speaker 2: You didn't hear Jalen Tobert. I did not. You didn't
Speaker 2: hear Jalen.
Speaker 5: That was not and I was trying to figure out
Speaker 5: it was okay not providing for me right now? This
Speaker 5: is what I think they'll do, and Migo is going
Speaker 5: I R so this is to me, this is what
Speaker 5: makes the most sense. Ceedee lamb, George Pickens. They're gonna
Speaker 5: stick with Jalen Tobert. Now does that mean no, No,
Speaker 5: I'm telling you. I'm telling they will. I know fans
Speaker 5: don't want to hear that. Hey, I'm just telling you
Speaker 5: what they're going to do.
Speaker 2: I know what they're going to do, but that's not
Speaker 2: what I want to do.
Speaker 5: Robert Lamb, Cavante, Turpin, Ryan Flinoy, Traetion Holden. So that's
Speaker 5: my six? Yeah, so I flipped who did that flip
Speaker 5: from you to get toburd In?
Speaker 2: There? You had six? I got Holden? Did you put holding?
Speaker 2: I put holding in? I'm carrying six. I have five.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, I thought ill flip on yours and I
Speaker 5: don't want I don't want.
Speaker 3: Remember we had twenty four players here, we're at three quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: three running backs, one full back, five or six wide receivers.
Speaker 4: Oh, I have sixty players on mine fifty three?
Speaker 2: Is that a laugh fight?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: I was about to say, wait, that's part of this
Speaker 2: is my list guy, it's your list, right?
Speaker 9: So?
Speaker 2: Uh, with that, that would mean we have tight ends
Speaker 2: to go. So where what are you thinking with tight end?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jake Luke and Brev and Brevin span Ford isreving
Speaker 2: gonna be ready for the start of the year.
Speaker 5: That's a good question, because if he's not, then it's
Speaker 5: going to be me hold on, then the conversation is
Speaker 5: between Fant and Mayweather. Yep, I don't know because Fant
Speaker 5: got injured.
Speaker 2: You're talking about fair Weather fair Weather.
Speaker 5: Fant got injured against the Ravens, so he's now he's
Speaker 5: in the same cause Brevin span four like, could they
Speaker 5: play a roster game there and keep Fairweather on. I'm
Speaker 5: trying to figure out a way to keep fair Weather
Speaker 5: to do so.
Speaker 3: You might they really liked him, yeah, I mean he
Speaker 3: was their highest graded non drafted player on their board
Speaker 3: left whenever they signed it.
Speaker 5: I play roster chess, and I'm going Jake Luke Fairweather,
Speaker 5: and I would let a Fant and Brevin span Ford
Speaker 5: heel up and I'll make a new decision in four weeks.
Speaker 2: I would go Fan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if he's a vailable Fant is healthy, then Fan
Speaker 5: over over Fair. But if I'm playing roster chess, I
Speaker 5: get them. That's my chess move offense blind.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go Yep, we got what eleven players left?
Speaker 2: Ten players? Nine? Nine?
Speaker 4: Okay, go guiton, Nate Thomas Tyler, Smith, T. J. Bass Cooper, B. B. Brock, Hoffman,
Speaker 4: Tyler Booker, Turn Steele, and I'm gonna keep playing O'Collins
Speaker 4: m okay, experience For me, it's it's the experience. I
Speaker 4: get that he's not necessarily in football shape yet. I
Speaker 4: know he slimmed down, but.
Speaker 2: I will I will take that experience twenty two. I
Speaker 2: will take that half will take that experience for the
Speaker 2: most part.
Speaker 5: Tyler Guyton, Tyler Smith, Cooper BB, Tyler Booker, Terrence Steele,
Speaker 5: Nate Thomas, t J. Bass, Brock Hoffman, we had nine spots,
Speaker 5: a little yeah, yeah, I came, I denergy nice.
Speaker 2: Okay, you can't make it the brock squady onn thing.
Speaker 2: He probably could.
Speaker 5: I seem to make sure that my left tackle, my
Speaker 5: active left tackle depth chart is as decent as as
Speaker 5: decent as it can be. I get you because I
Speaker 5: was nervous because even if Tyler Guyton does return Week one,
Speaker 5: you gotta you know, knock on wheel.
Speaker 2: But you got a plan for if it's a whole
Speaker 2: other conversation.
Speaker 4: But it's not even a sure like as far as
Speaker 4: Tyler Guyton like, I think we're putting a lot of
Speaker 4: stock into his ability. At this point, he's having a
Speaker 4: better camp than he did last year, but going against
Speaker 4: the Eagles Week.
Speaker 2: One, I don't know, man, I don't know gym.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so again, what about you, I'm going heavy on tackle.
Speaker 3: I lost my roster because I was closing it out
Speaker 3: because I'm good that. I'm good with what you guys have.
Speaker 2: Good with it?
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