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

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, November twenty first, twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: Season fifteen, episode number eighty seven, eighty seven. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: another edition of The Break. We're alive in SWBC Mortgage

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Speaker 1: Studios at the Star and appreciate you guys joining us today.

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Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk about. We're going to

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Speaker 1: talk about the Cowboys versus the New England Patriots. That

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Speaker 1: happens this Sunday three fifteen here Central Time, and today

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Speaker 1: Dave He's going to dive into the Cowboys offense versus

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Speaker 1: the Yes, Yes, I am right, I was playing New

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Speaker 1: the New England defense. The matchup the New England defense

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Speaker 1: There were a couple of guys are actually yeah, there

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Speaker 1: so let's talk about them. Lyle Collins didn't practice, Joe

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Speaker 1: the guys that were limited. Well Lyle, Lyle's still out

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Speaker 1: They think he's gonna play just like last week. Manage

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Speaker 1: And Joe Thomas he wasn't there today, so I guess

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Speaker 1: you start getting those guys and you get a good

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Speaker 1: collection of those guys and it ends up being like

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Speaker 1: this defense where they got some skill. Don't get me wrong,

428
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Speaker 1: they're not your top skill guys. They're guys that are

429
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Speaker 1: just smart and versatile. And if you get smart and

430
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Speaker 1: versatile guys that have some skill, you can create a really,

431
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Speaker 1: really great unit. Can't you just see like a conversation

432
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Speaker 1: Like this guy, we should look at him? His forty

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Speaker 1: is this? He benched this at the comp what's his

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Speaker 1: wonder ALI score? Yeah, well, I don't know, I haven't checked,

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Speaker 1: like find that out. Yeah, I bet you that they

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Speaker 1: do that. I bet they have a high I would

437
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Speaker 1: bet they put a high premium on that. I also

438
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Speaker 1: don't think it's a coincidence that they love guys from Alabama. Well,

439
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Speaker 1: I mean the Saban Belichick connection is so obvious. But again,

440
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Speaker 1: I mean Saban's very similar in the way that you

441
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Speaker 1: know he asks a lot of his players on the

442
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Speaker 1: mentally emotional thing. Yeah, it's like the guy that the

443
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Speaker 1: story I heard from a scout that says, you can

444
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Speaker 1: tell Alabama guys when they walk in the room because

445
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Speaker 1: they have that look like PTSD, like they've just been

446
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Speaker 1: beaten up for four years because physically and mental, mentally

447
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Speaker 1: and physically, right, exactly, you've been beaten down because you're

448
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Speaker 1: kind of battle hardened at that point. Right, most of

449
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 1: their good players have been there three years. That's true.

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Speaker 1: I told you I would. They don't get the four.

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Speaker 1: I told you I would, and I did. I watched

452
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Speaker 1: the Baltimore game. Baltimore made them look pretty foolish though,

453
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Speaker 1: and I don't mean to suggest that the Cowboys can't,

454
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Speaker 1: but it's hard to watch that and really get a

455
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Speaker 1: good sense for how the Cowboys are going to replicate it,

456
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,360
Speaker 1: because the Ravens were basically running the wishbone like they

457
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Speaker 1: have a mobile quarterback and Dak's mobile, but obviously Lamar's

458
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Speaker 1: a different animal entirely. They've got a mobile quarterback. They

459
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Speaker 1: were putting two tight ends in the backfield with mark

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Speaker 1: Ingram or a fullback in mark Ingram and just readoption

461
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Speaker 1: these guys to death to a comical degree, like to

462
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Speaker 1: the point like tight ends or flexing off the line

463
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Speaker 1: coming through the backfield, give and go Ingram, you know

464
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Speaker 1: Ingram hits the hole and gets fifty three or Lamar

465
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Speaker 1: keeps and gets sixteen, and like for the first two drives,

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Speaker 1: I feel like the Ravens weren't even throwing the ball.

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Speaker 1: They were just doing that, and the Pats took a

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Speaker 1: half to adjust to it. They eventually did. I think

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Speaker 1: a big not I think like a big part of

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Speaker 1: the reason that game looked as lopsided as it did

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Speaker 1: was turnovers. Marlon Humphrey had a fumble six touchdown that

472
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Speaker 1: kind of blew it open in the second half, but

473
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Speaker 1: the Patriots had a really hard time adjusting to all that.

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Speaker 1: Misdirection counterplays seem like they work really well, like get

475
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Speaker 1: a guy going one direction and have them reverse field

476
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Speaker 1: and saw the Eagles got that to work a couple

477
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Speaker 1: of times. So if traditional running team has been successful

478
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Speaker 1: against them, or was it just did it get blown

479
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Speaker 1: out by that game, which is not a traditional running game.

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Speaker 1: I didn't watch anything from further ago than three weeks

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Speaker 1: or whatever the Ravens game was. But I mean they're

482
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Speaker 1: giving up what three three in something yards per carried,

483
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Speaker 1: still less than a hundred yards per games, So if

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Speaker 1: you're lining up and making it easy on them, I

485
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Speaker 1: don't know how well that's gonna go for you, which

486
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Speaker 1: is what like. But at the same time, I don't

487
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Speaker 1: expect the Cowboys to do anything drastic in the sense of,

488
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Speaker 1: like all of a sudden they're running read option exclusively,

489
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Speaker 1: like that's not who they are. That's a but it

490
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Speaker 1: sure did work against New England, which honestly, I was

491
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Speaker 1: watching it last night to the point where I was like, Belichick,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't I probably wouldn't do it because Belichick was

493
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Speaker 1: probably so pissed off by how poorly they played against

494
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Speaker 1: that that they worked on it. And they know the

495
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Speaker 1: Cowboys have a mobile quarterback, so so they're prepared if

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Speaker 1: you get Yeah, they're like, if you want to try it,

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Speaker 1: they'll probably play a lot better against it than they did. Yeah. Again,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about smart players, right. Yeah. I looked this up.

499
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Speaker 1: I went through all their games and looked up how

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Speaker 1: many purely offensive scoring drives they've allowed. It's pretty funny.

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Speaker 1: They've allowed excuse me, not scoring touchdown they have allowed

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Speaker 1: in Okay, in all their other games, they've only allowed

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Speaker 1: one touchdown drive like pure offense, so nine plays, seventy

504
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Speaker 1: five yards. The Eagles only touchdown of that game was

505
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Speaker 1: a sixteen play ninety five yard drive. So just making

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Speaker 1: them convert down after down piece at a time. Then

507
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:37,840
Speaker 1: the Ravens had four in one game. They just they

508
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Speaker 1: cut them to shreds. And I mean, I think a

509
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Speaker 1: lot of that is kind of unique. Not saying that

510
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Speaker 1: you can't do it, but I think misdirection could be

511
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Speaker 1: a big part of that outside of the Ravens, obviously,

512
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Speaker 1: had there been another offense that they've played this year

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Speaker 1: that has been near the top of the league as

514
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Speaker 1: an offensive unit, like Cowboys? Obviously they're number one in offense.

515
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Speaker 1: I think right now, is there another team even in

516
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Speaker 1: the top ten that they've beaten? Because I'm trying to

517
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Speaker 1: get a gauge for is this defense a really great

518
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Speaker 1: defense on its own? Or is this a really great

519
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: defense because the people that they've played haven't had great offense.

520
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Speaker 1: I'm not interested in taking credit away from the Pats,

521
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Speaker 1: but they have had a bit of a perfect storm

522
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Speaker 1: of playing crap offenses. I mean, they play so well

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Speaker 1: right off the bat. They played Baltimore, who's two in

524
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Speaker 1: Baltimore kicked their ass? Yeah? Um, who else we got?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know they they've played two games against

526
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Speaker 1: the Jets, they played the Giants, they played the Browns,

527
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Speaker 1: who were nowhere near as good as their talent has

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Speaker 1: suggests the Dolphins. Thank you. Hang on one second, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you besides the raven who's the next best that

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Speaker 1: they've did they played? They haven't played the Chief shit,

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Speaker 1: you know they have not. That's coming up next. I

532
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Speaker 1: think it's the Bills guys. Yeah, and again, but I

533
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Speaker 1: don't think the Bill is a top ten I don't think.

534
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Speaker 1: I think their defense seventeen. Yeah, they I mean the

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Speaker 1: Eagles would be the next best one, and they are

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Speaker 1: probably a mid league I would think offensively where they at,

537
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Speaker 1: where they at, I don't even see them in here.

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Speaker 1: So I mean you're right about that. But part of

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Speaker 1: that is, yeah, they're no, they're bottom third. They can

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Speaker 1: make you look like you said yesterday, they can they

541
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Speaker 1: can take you out of your game and make you

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Speaker 1: look even worse than what you are. So I mean

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Speaker 1: there are a reason the Patriots or the reason why

544
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Speaker 1: some of those teams are ranked as low as they

545
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: are because they've had really bad games against them, and

546
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Speaker 1: obviously that doesn't help your you know, help help your rating.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, I think you're right. I wouldn't give

548
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't take any credit away for what they're doing.

549
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 1: But yeah, they haven't faced the best guy, right, and

550
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,920
Speaker 1: that's what gives me. I guess, if you want to

551
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Speaker 1: call it, hope that the Cowboys will go into this

552
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: and it won't be a situation maybe like what you

553
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Speaker 1: saw in New Orleans where they just couldn't do anything,

554
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 1: couldn't get anything going. Maybe this defense is good, maybe

555
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: it's not great. Maybe it hasn't been challenged yet. I

556
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Speaker 1: don't know, but that's kind of what I was trying

557
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Speaker 1: to get. There's no secret here the Cowboys what the

558
00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: Patriots like to do. They're playing a lot of linebackers

559
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 1: on the field at once a lot. They're smaller than

560
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Speaker 1: than most. They fly around the ball. You've got to

561
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 1: actually run them over. That's the best way that they

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Speaker 1: that the Cowboys can do this as mallum, and that's

563
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: not hasn't been their strength, but you have to do

564
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 1: that get you out of third down. It moves the

565
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: chain and it forces them to kind of play bigger

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Speaker 1: than maybe the Patriots want to play. Which is why

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Speaker 1: going back to yesterday, I don't care what Dak Prescott's

568
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Speaker 1: and the written. The Ravens did run them over. They

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Speaker 1: ran for two hundred yards. I don't care what Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott is doing. If I were the Pats, I would

571
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: load up to stop the run like that would be

572
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Speaker 1: my emphasis and say, again, it's wintry conditions outdoors in November.

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00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: We've got great cornerbacks. If you're gonna beat us. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna make the quarterback do it. And that's not that

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00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: Dak can't. But if they give up, I mean, if

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Speaker 1: they give ground a zeke, I think the Cowboys could

577
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: just pound on them all day. Yeah, all right, let's

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Speaker 1: take our final break when we come back. I did

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Speaker 1: have a couple of questions for you guys about this team.

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Speaker 1: You just start touching on it, Dave. The weather weather's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a little different than what maybe with the

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Speaker 1: cow was of experienced this season. I wonder how much

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Speaker 1: that's gonna affect the game plan and what the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: are able to deal on do on offense. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see what you guys are getting me

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Speaker 1: I'll be sure to do that. It'd be fun. Well,

637
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Speaker 1: get you something good? Really? Yep, seriously, I don't know.

638
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: I mean, why why ruin it? I mean, it's I

639
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: can't wait. I remember the time when the director of

640
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: the department got all of us Christmas gifts? Am I

641
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: gonna do that every year? To have to do that

642
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: every year? It was nice? Yeah, see I thought about

643
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: it when I did it. I thought before you got here, Yes,

644
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 1: before you. Then you got here, We're like, no, I'm

645
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: not five years since you being nice to your employees

646
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: all nice to my employees all the time, just not

647
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: just not giving giving on Christmas. Yeah, everybody loves gifts.

648
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: I do too, every nunson while I'll be nice to

649
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: receive anyway, let's jump back in. We'll take some college

650
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: you guys calls eight at eight eight five, five, two

651
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: two nine seven real quick though, our producer Kyle actually

652
00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: told us in the break that check this out Ball

653
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: Ravens number two offense in the league. Obviously, they beat

654
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: the Pats pretty good. The next best offense the Pats

655
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: have faced this year is the nineteenth offense in the

656
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: league that would beat Buffalo. Everybody else was below that.

657
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: So going back to that original point, and again I

658
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: think we can't reiterate this enough. This is not to

659
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: take anything away from this defense, because they have been

660
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: remarkably spectacular. The point is, though they have not had

661
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: they have not faced the better offenses in the league

662
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: to this point other than the Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore

663
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: beat them pretty good. So something to think about. Let's

664
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: see how how good this Cowboys offense is number one.

665
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: Let's also see how good this Patriots defense is. Also.

666
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: I told you I was going to do this earlier

667
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: in the week, so I did. I looked up not

668
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: just their home record, but where those losses came from,

669
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: which is highly enlightening. Not that it has doesn't really

670
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: have bearing on what happens in the future, but in

671
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: in eighteen years, they've lost twenty one games at home, period,

672
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: and right, yeah, they've gone undefeated at home seven times

673
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: and since that stadium was opened in two thousand and two,

674
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: and they're working on number eight right now. Of the

675
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: twenty one teams that have beaten them, twelve wound up

676
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,799
Speaker 1: making the playoffs. Only three finished the season with a

677
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,280
Speaker 1: losing record, and one of those three was a BS

678
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,879
Speaker 1: Week seventeen Patriots already have the division locked up game.

679
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: So twice in eighteen years has a team that was

680
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: bad enough to finish with a losing record beating them

681
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: in Gillette Stadium. Four of those sorry, four of those

682
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: twelve playoff teams wound up winning the Super Bowl. So

683
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: I'm just saying history suggests you gotta be pretty damn

684
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: good to win this game. So you can think about

685
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: that negatively if you want to. On the flip side,

686
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys managed to pull this off at it

687
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 1: says something pretty big. If they managed to win this

688
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 1: game and where it is in the season, I mean,

689
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: like we talked about seven and four, you know, they're

690
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: not gonna be a team that has a losing record.

691
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: I mean, they're not gonna go seven to four and

692
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: then probably finish five straight losses. They're not gonna be

693
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: seven and nine. They're not gonna be one of those

694
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: teams and they're probably going to be a playoff team

695
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: if they can win this game, especially if Seattle goes

696
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: and beats Philly. So if they win, get to the

697
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: super Bowl, can they beat the Patriots? Can it happen twice?

698
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: As long as you want to do that? The Patriots

699
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: have a big track record of not playing well in Miami.

700
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: So here we go. Just say here saying here we go?

701
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: How I hate myself? No, But you know, like when

702
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 1: I start listening to all those stats, I mean, yes,

703
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,919
Speaker 1: that sounds good for the Cowboys at least you're trying

704
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: to find something positive and to kind of hold on

705
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: to for this weekend. But at the same time, it's like,

706
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, yeah, that's irrelevant to me. Like it,

707
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: I mean, it is, it's irrelevant to this matchup, but one,

708
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: I mean you stack it up over enough years. Yeah,

709
00:35:56,640 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 1: But it's like the I mean, the Cowboys, they're issues.

710
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 1: They're doing it like themselves. It's not who they're facing necessarily.

711
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: It's like if they can clean up their crap and

712
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: tied it up and you know, tackle better, get some takeaways,

713
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: keep doing well in the passing game, that's gonna be big.

714
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: I mean, are they now becoming a passing team or

715
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: are they still a running team? That's still a question

716
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 1: mark there. How they're gonna be using Zeke And we're

717
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: gonna find out what Bill Belichick thinks about that. And

718
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 1: he's the best guy to ask are the Cowboys a

719
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: passing team or a running team? Because he goes out

720
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: and stacks the box and says, Zeke's not gonna beat this.

721
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: That tells you exactly what the number one coach thinks

722
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 1: about what this team is. I'm anxious to see just

723
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 1: from that standpoint. Yeah, And the fact of the the matter

724
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,439
Speaker 1: is he's probably gonna show you a little bit everything.

725
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: So maybe hard to really decipher what he thinks, but

726
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: if you look at inside the game and really look

727
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: at when he does what If he's stacking the box

728
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 1: on specific downs, that tells you something he sees. If

729
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: he's not stacking about him, if he's playing more coverage

730
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: on specific downs, that tells you a little bit about

731
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: what he's seeing. Like, there's so many I'm just interested

732
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 1: to see how he looks at this team and how

733
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: he attacks the team, because to me, that does tell

734
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: you a lot about what he thinks of the team.

735
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: He's gonna play four three, He's gonna play three four,

736
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: He's gonna blitz. He's gonna na blitz. He's gonna travel

737
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: with Amar and he's not gonna travel with Mar. And

738
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: that's the first series. I don't know about that. That's

739
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: the thing. He can adjust so fast and just every

740
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: after every play. But the Cowboys they're not known to

741
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: really adjust. And I don't think they have the quickness

742
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: to even respond to something like that, Like what this

743
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: coach does? You know, even with the halftime they go

744
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: in the locker room and then come back, is Dyga

745
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: still gonna be enough then playing better in the second half.

746
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's gonna be interesting. Oh, this is

747
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: gonna be a game where fast starts matter because you

748
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: get down to this team on the road, good luck.

749
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: I mean, like that's just not that just doesn't know.

750
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,000
Speaker 1: They don't lose those kind of games, so fast starts

751
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: are important. And not to be honest with not to

752
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: give away my pick this week, but I honestly think

753
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 1: it's all gonna be about turnovers. Cowboys turnover to get

754
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: the ball. They're gonna lose. The Cowboys can manage to

755
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,479
Speaker 1: play a clean game where they can protect the ball.

756
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: They got a shot to win. I think it's going

757
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: to be all about terms because you look at it,

758
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: like you were saying earlier, most of the games this

759
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 1: year they get the ball, and a lot of times

760
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: they're getting the ball at scoring. So you just you

761
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: have to minimize the mistakes with this team because they

762
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: will take advantage of them. Cowboys also haven't, like I said,

763
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: they haven't played very many clean games, right and that

764
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: you know, I was thinking about that while you were talking,

765
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: and I agree with you, but you know, if they

766
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: can clean it up, they haven't they consistently. They have

767
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: not been able to do that. One week it's so

768
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: and so fumbled, the other week it's this past Scott

769
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: tipped or Dak made a bad read. But over ten weeks,

770
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: they haven't shown that ability to consistently play cleanly and

771
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: that's what worries me. So how much do you guys

772
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: think whether we'll be a factor in this game, because

773
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: what we've seen so far in these last at least

774
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,479
Speaker 1: last week, for sure, we've seen that this team will

775
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: chunk the ball around the yard when they need to.

776
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: If the past the Patriots come out in this game. Patriots.

777
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: Patriots come out in this game and decide they are

778
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 1: going to stack the box and they're gonna try to

779
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 1: stop Zeke first foremost. But the weather is rainy and wet.

780
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: What do you think happens? It is going to be

781
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 1: that is taken away what Dak will want to do

782
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: and throw the ball around like that. I mean you

783
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: also got to remember, it'll take away somewhat what what

784
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: New England likes to do, even though he's certainly been

785
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: a guy that can throw the ball and that way

786
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: in that weather and by the way, better at it

787
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 1: than Dak. Their offense is we talked about yesterday. They're

788
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: doing these little short passes so that doesn't get affected

789
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,720
Speaker 1: as much as you know some of the downfield throws

790
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys really have lived on. They had some

791
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: big plays this year with all three of their receivers.

792
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 1: You start messing with that. How effective is their offense

793
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 1: and being able to just dink and dunk down the film.

794
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're practicing, well, are they? Is there practice

795
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,440
Speaker 1: field outdoors the Pats? Yes, yeah, so they are practicing

796
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: whatever in this kind of weather. They have so much

797
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: experience in it and the Cowboys. I mean, we get

798
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: what we get here in Dallas and then we have

799
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: the indoor field. So, uh, it's gonna be interesting because

800
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: I definitely think that's gonna affect the passing. Then they

801
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: can always take it outside tomorrow because I think we're

802
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: gonna be raining starting this evening into tomorrow, so maybe

803
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: you can take them outside and get a little practice

804
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: in the rain. Who knows. That's always been a tough

805
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: situation there when you when you're dealing. Do you want

806
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: to practice where what you're gonna play in or do

807
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: you want to have a good Chris practice. There's two

808
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: sides to it. I think I kind of lean towards,

809
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: you know, getting used to what you're going to be in.

810
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,240
Speaker 1: But you know, then you could have a bad practice

811
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: where you're not focused right, But but then you know

812
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,240
Speaker 1: what to correct, Like if you know this is happening

813
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: in these kind of conditions, maybe I do a little something,

814
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: maybe I use different gloves, maybe you know, whatever it is.

815
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: Here's the thing about the little weather apps that we

816
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: all have, you know, when when you go through no

817
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: but but the thing is that they do tell the

818
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: truth most of the time. It's just that. No, it's

819
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: just that when you look at your little go to

820
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: Sunday and then have he have showers. Okay, well from

821
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,560
Speaker 1: ten to eleven thirty, it's gonna pour. So yeah, what

822
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: you have to put it on there because it's gonna rain.

823
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean it's gonna be twenty four hours a

824
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 1: day rain. Well, right, if you break it down by hours,

825
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: it'll tell you what's gonna rain, and it'll say it's

826
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: at that point it said, yeah, I mean, of course

827
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: it can be wrong. It says four o'clock Sunday, seventy

828
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: percent chance of rain forty five degrees. That sounds like

829
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 1: rain's gonna happen. Okay, at the very least, I will

830
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: be in a press box. Can't tell you if it's

831
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: gonna rain, but I can tell you the weather won't

832
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: be ideal for throwing the ball. You know, we do

833
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 1: work with someone that is very good at weather and

834
00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: keeping up with all of that. Oh, mister Spagna, Oh

835
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: Bred is the weather god. I just I took an

836
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,439
Speaker 1: inadvertent shot. I took an inadvertent shot at Mickey because

837
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: he likes to talk at the about the weather. But

838
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: Fred literally has like Fred is a guy that works

839
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: he's one of our graphic designers. Fred is like, you, guys,

840
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,319
Speaker 1: if you're gonna go home, go now, because it's gonna

841
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:57,800
Speaker 1: start raining in eight minutes. I'm like, what, okay, Jim Cantory.

842
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 1: Cool anyway, But you know the other thing to consider here,

843
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: and you see this all the time in the NFL.

844
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: We all talk about weather and how that affects. But honestly,

845
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 1: if you watch games and rain, these quarterbacks and these

846
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 1: receivers are very, very skilled. I have not seen unless

847
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: there's a lot of wind, I've not seen a lot

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Speaker 1: I've not seen a lot of games were throughout the

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Speaker 1: entire game unless there's big wind where that's been a factor.

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Speaker 1: I do the Probably the only game I can remember

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Speaker 1: I thought a funnel cloud was coming down because it

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Speaker 1: the stadium. But that was only four period. That was

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Speaker 1: for three hours. I still weather. Regardless of weather, I

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Speaker 1: think the Patriots have the personnel to make it a chance.

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Speaker 1: All John Dak, he's still a young quarterback going against

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Speaker 1: the greatest coach ever. If I were the Patriots, I

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Speaker 1: And again, like it's not that Dak isn't good, but

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Speaker 1: I still think that gives you the best success to

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Speaker 1: get turnovers and stop the Cowboys. Their defense will be

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Speaker 1: a much bigger factor than the weather in my opinion. Well,

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Speaker 1: New England and has expert analysis, you know Cowboys right, Well,

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Speaker 1: New England has played, think about it. They play and

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Speaker 1: you know, the road to the super Bowl has gone

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Speaker 1: through New England a lot of times. And it's not

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Speaker 1: just the rain, it's it's snow and the cold and

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Speaker 1: especially if the balls aren't you know, one hundred percent,

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Speaker 1: you know, with air, I mean it's hard to win

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Speaker 1: some of those things like that shot I'm saying, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's part of it, right, that's happened. You're gonna say

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Speaker 1: something about videotapes, but anyway, No, I don't know. All right,

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