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

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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, March thirty, first, twenty twenty one, Season sixteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number one oh three. Welcome to the latest edition

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Speaker 1: of The Break. We're alive from the s WBC Morriage

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Speaker 1: Studios at the Star. Got Dave Amber and Nick All

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Speaker 1: here in studio. We're gonna break down the Mike McCarthy

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Speaker 1: press conference from last week. He had a lot of

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Speaker 1: Mike ready to roll. All right, let's jump right in.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Mike McCarthy's press conference. He had a

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Speaker 1: lot to say. And before I get into some of

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Speaker 1: to know if there was anything that stuck out to you,

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Speaker 1: if there was like a big headline that you would

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Speaker 1: thing that really stood out to you from that Prescott Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think Nick Nick asked the question and it was

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy gave to Nick question about Jayleen Smith and

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Speaker 1: kind of his performance, the fact that he said, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to think. Kind I'm starting to

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Speaker 1: just so positive about everything that it's like, you guys

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Speaker 1: he just rubs people the wrong way. But he's I

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Speaker 1: his positivity isn't what bothers me about his personality. Like,

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Speaker 1: I just don't think he's self aware. I don't think

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Speaker 1: But we'll get to that. The first area I want

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Speaker 1: Dan Quinn. Well, I will say this, he did say,

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Speaker 1: you don't necessarily need preseason games. But there's a ton

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Speaker 1: of players that do, and so I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: good for everybody to say something like that. But I know, well,

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Speaker 1: I just want to clarify Tredder's thing is more about

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Speaker 1: OTA's kind of yeah, he's talking about OTAs off season.

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Speaker 1: But I kind of agree with what McCarthy said, and

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Speaker 1: I said it during the season. I believe that you know, um,

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Speaker 1: teams like say the Saints whatever, you know, Sean Payton

435
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Speaker 1: has been there forever. I think I think that they

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Speaker 1: kind of benefited from the fact of all right, you know,

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Speaker 1: we're finally back to practice here. What are we doing

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Speaker 1: at where? The Cowboys might be a team like what's

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Speaker 1: our defense? You know, we don't even know as other

440
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Speaker 1: teams can maybe step up. I I agree with you,

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Speaker 1: I just don't really want to hear it when a

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Speaker 1: first year coach won the division, that's all. I mean,

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Speaker 1: like it's other first somebody had to win it. But

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Speaker 1: they were But they're a bad football team. They're not

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Speaker 1: a bad football team. They gave the Bucks a ban

446
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Speaker 1: any bad not a bad football team. They got a

447
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Speaker 1: really good They came closer to being than anybody Tampa

448
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Speaker 1: played in the playoffs, right, Okay, but they weren't I mean,

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Speaker 1: were they a good team. I mean, I think they

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Speaker 1: are a middle road team that has a great defense.

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Speaker 1: So so the matchups as they all you always did

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Speaker 1: the term, you know, matchups makes fights, right, like a

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Speaker 1: team that that is susceptible to a really playing a

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Speaker 1: really good defense, like they have a shot against that

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Speaker 1: kind of team. I think my point with sorry, my

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Speaker 1: point was always, yes, you are at a disadvantage trying

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Speaker 1: to install a new program during a pandemic. Other teams

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Speaker 1: that were doing the same thing seemed and from the outside,

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Speaker 1: I do have to admit I'm way closer to this

460
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Speaker 1: team than others. They seem to have their stuff a

461
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Speaker 1: lot more together than the Cowboys did for much of

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Speaker 1: the season. That's all. That was my only point with that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean there, I think I mean the Browns did

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Speaker 1: it with their you know, they they you know, finally,

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Speaker 1: I mean they've had a lot They got a lot

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Speaker 1: of great players over there, and and they and they

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Speaker 1: get got it together, and they figured out how to

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Speaker 1: how to win. And they figured out it's okay to

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Speaker 1: have a number one overall pick and not lean on

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Speaker 1: him every second. You know, they leaned on a running

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Speaker 1: game was great. Higher Washington figured it out with you

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Speaker 1: with their defense, leaned on them. You know. I think

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Speaker 1: Carolina Carolina was the first year coach that Carolina struggled.

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Speaker 1: They lost their best player. The Cowboys you could say

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Speaker 1: the same thing for them, So it doesn't if you

476
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Speaker 1: lose your best player. New England now they let their

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Speaker 1: best players go and they had a ton of guys

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Speaker 1: sit out. I think they probably have more teams that

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Speaker 1: decided more players decided to sit out, players of consequence

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Speaker 1: sided to sit out than any other team in the league. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Cowboys get them right when they're right there. You talk

482
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Speaker 1: about some bad luck. I mean the one year that

483
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Speaker 1: the Patriots suck, they match up with you in third place,

484
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Speaker 1: and he guess what, you get to go play them

485
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Speaker 1: again because they're not gonna suck next year. They spent

486
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Speaker 1: about one hundred and fifty million dollars on their run recording.

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Speaker 1: Don't they have a lot of draft picks as well?

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Speaker 1: I honestly don't know. I thought they had been like

489
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Speaker 1: stockpile and draft picks, trade up to go get a

490
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Speaker 1: young quarterback, all I know, or a young tight end

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Speaker 1: fair Yeah, yeah, could you imagine that? Pits? Yeah, yeah,

492
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Speaker 1: well they just signed two tight ends though. Yeah, you're right,

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Speaker 1: they gave a lot. Yeah. That's the last game, right, Uh.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about it. We haven't the teenth. It's

495
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Speaker 1: gonna be a seven thirty kickoff. I promise you that,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about absolutely no doubt. It could be the

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Speaker 1: first game of the season, could be we usually do

498
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Speaker 1: the defending champ but you Sunday night, that's perfect, That's

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Speaker 1: typical Cowboys primetime game week one day. You know what's

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Speaker 1: interesting about that is that usually when let's say the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys are playing at the Patriots, that means now, things

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Speaker 1: have changed some with the networks over the years, but

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Speaker 1: like Fox would be like, all right, we get the

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Speaker 1: Patriots because you know, we don't get many games with

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Speaker 1: the Patriots, so we're not giving them up. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of like when the Cowboys are playing a home home

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Speaker 1: AFC game, that means CBS is like we find you know,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna put the Cowboys were on NBC taking them

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Speaker 1: for there. But this is different because it's the seventeenth

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Speaker 1: game networks. There's nothing really I also think, I'm I

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Speaker 1: don't know for sure, but I'm like the whole CBS

512
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Speaker 1: Fox thing I think is basically dead in this new deal.

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Speaker 1: I know, like that does matter for twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: because it doesn't kick in yet, but like, I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure the new TV deal is just like it's all

516
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Speaker 1: in the same pool. Like, no, there's no a NFC

517
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Speaker 1: thing is gonna be gone in the next three in

518
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Speaker 1: the next few years. I think that would be interesting.

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Speaker 1: That would be really interesting. It's probably a good thing

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Speaker 1: for the network too, because they're probably like, let's just

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Speaker 1: give me good games and we'll give you the good games. Right. Well,

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Speaker 1: that also probably tells you that you're you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: get any You're not gonna get many Cowboy games that

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Speaker 1: are gonna have a color commentator that didn't play quarterback

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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, right, because it's gonna probably be eight

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Speaker 1: men this week, Bromo this week, I mean because they

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Speaker 1: where do they live here? Yeah? And the Cowboys will

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Speaker 1: be relevant to the point to give them that. You know,

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Speaker 1: it happens all the time. So all right, let's take

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Speaker 1: our first break and we come back. We got more

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Speaker 1: talking about Mike McCarthy and his press conference last week.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned this in the earlier part of the show.

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Speaker 1: He was asked about Alden Smith. He said, despite reports,

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Speaker 1: the situation with Aldon Smith is still fluid. My question

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Speaker 1: for you guys, is with what they have on the

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Speaker 1: roster right now, does he feel a need for them

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Speaker 1: that they don't currently have. And what I'm pointing to

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Speaker 1: is he did say that they're gonna probably do some

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Speaker 1: multiple frontsom three four from four to three. I look

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Speaker 1: at the body type of an Aldon Smith and I

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Speaker 1: think he is a guy that really could fit well,

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Speaker 1: I think as a three four defensive end, and I

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Speaker 1: don't know that they have a lot of guys like

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Speaker 1: that on this roster now. They've signed some guys that

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Speaker 1: they could put on the defensive line who might be

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Speaker 1: able to fill some of those roles. But to me,

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Speaker 1: he seems like that kind of guy that can be

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Speaker 1: an impact three four defensive end. You know, some defensive

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Speaker 1: ends in the three four they're just guys that kind

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Speaker 1: of eat up space, right I think he's one of

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Speaker 1: those kind of guys that can eat up space, be

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Speaker 1: good against the run, but he also can give you

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Speaker 1: some pass rush. So does he create a Is he

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Speaker 1: a person that that maybe they should really be considering

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Speaker 1: if they're not because of the fact that he could

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Speaker 1: fill a role for them that that maybe they don't

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Speaker 1: have right now. I think you want to go first.

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably because the edge rusher class in

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Speaker 1: this draft is not crazy. You know, it's not inspiring

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Speaker 1: just in I think he feels a need because like

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Speaker 1: they don't have bodies at pass rusher, and like we

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Speaker 1: all love Randy, I feel great about his trajectory, and

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Speaker 1: he's gonna have an offseason, he'll be around. What's up.

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Speaker 1: They have bodies, they do, think about it. That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's what they bodies that you can put in a

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Speaker 1: game and count on to sack the Q. One of

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Speaker 1: the ones they love. I don't know where you put him,

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Speaker 1: but I mean they love um Durance Arstraw, Like they

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Speaker 1: absolutely love Doran's Armstrong and we all forget about him,

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Speaker 1: but they love no. I definitely, I couldn't if I

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Speaker 1: wanted to, I couldn't forget about him, about him every week.

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Speaker 1: They love him. There's a lot of they talking here.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think he likes him, Jerry likes him.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. I'm saying ownership of head coach,

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Speaker 1: like they all have talked about him before. I sound

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Speaker 1: too much like a smart alec. I like Doran's Armstrong

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Speaker 1: deserves some love like he was a core special teamer, Yes,

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Speaker 1: underrated in that role, like made that great play on

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Speaker 1: the part return against San Francisco, Like did some really

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Speaker 1: really good things. Have not seen him consistently rushed the

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Speaker 1: quarterback to a degree that I like trust that he

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Speaker 1: can do it. But but I don't want to sleep

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Speaker 1: on the fact that I think he is a really

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Speaker 1: good I shouldn't say really good. I think he is

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Speaker 1: a solid too good, uh run defender on the edge,

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Speaker 1: I really do. I think I think that's the value

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Speaker 1: that you have and a guy like him, like he

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Speaker 1: may not be a guy whos gonna get you a

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Speaker 1: ton of sacks, but I think he is a solid

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Speaker 1: guy to have there on the edge. He's great, like

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Speaker 1: love it. And he's also this is a contract year

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Speaker 1: for him, which feels insane, Like I can't believe that

640
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: this is already his fourth season, but he was in

641
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: that eighteen draft class. Um. So when you look at

642
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: pass rushers, because I mean, I hate ends three four linebackers,

643
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 1: your head will hurt with this because you know it's

644
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 1: pass rushers. There's gonna be somebody you know, going off

645
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 1: the edge here. So you've got DeMarcus Lawrence, Randy Gregory, Terrell, Basham,

646
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: Dorence Armstrong, Bradley, and I I don't know exactly where

647
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 1: Urban fits here. He might be an inside guy and

648
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: he's played end and he played, but I think in

649
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,920
Speaker 1: this defense he might slide inside, you know how they

650
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: like to do that. Um Am, I missing another rusher

651
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: and I think Rondel Carter and Carter Yeah, And I

652
00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: think that especially if they draft a linebacker, signed a

653
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: linebacker whatever. I know there's some talk with kJ Wright,

654
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's really gonna materialize. But I

655
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see Jay Lenn Smith rush off the edge.

656
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: I really do. I hope. So if they are in

657
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: a three man front and they've got an outside linebacker

658
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: that's gonna be rushing like a three or four defense,

659
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: I would love to see that. I think that would

660
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: be a role he actually could play really well. He

661
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: can go north, yeah, no doubt. And if you just

662
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: say go get the quarterback, I kind of like that. Yeah,

663
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 1: I will say. I don't want to say I forgot

664
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 1: about him, but like, you know, bash him, Urban and

665
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: Watkins all signed. It felt like within like fifteen minutes

666
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: of each other, and so yeah, I mean, like basham,

667
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: basham is your third end isn't the worst thing I've

668
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: ever heard. It's definitely not. Yeah, you know, this is

669
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: not the strength of the team. And I mean, you know,

670
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: Randy is an incredibly still a developing player. Like it's

671
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: hard to say what you like what you're gonna get

672
00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: from him over Yeah it is, but it's and Tank

673
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: has had plenty of injury issues in his own right

674
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 1: over his careers. It just it makes you nervous. I

675
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: feel good about those two, but I would love, I

676
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: would love to have a little bit more there. Yeah,

677
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: there's just nothing there in the draft too, right, just

678
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: not at the top. There are guys, I mean, you know,

679
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: and you know, we could talk about Quitty pay or

680
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: Jalen phillips Um. There are some guys later on. But like,

681
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: and this is just my own personal bias. If you're

682
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: not drafting an edge rusher in the top like forty picks,

683
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: I'm just not convinced it's even worth it. Yeah, I mean, yeah,

684
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: don Timstrong and Bradley and I right, what's the difference

685
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: better than the NFL finds the stud pass rushers and

686
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: they get drafted highly. Like I know, there are something

687
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: like Jared Allen was a late round pick, but like

688
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen very often. Yeah, like true stud pass

689
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: rushers are taken high, and so you know we could like, um,

690
00:33:54,600 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: actually Bashm Terrell, Basham's cousin. Um what's his name? He

691
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: plays for Wake Forrest. Uh, He's he's out there. He's

692
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: a guy. Um, I'm gonna tell you, man. And I

693
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: don't get into draft too much, and you guys know

694
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: I'm usually not so big on my own guys. I

695
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: really think Joseph Side is gonna be a player in

696
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,319
Speaker 1: the NFL. I really do. Like there are a lot

697
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: of guys that come through Texas. I'm like, I ain't

698
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: sold on it, right, and they may be guys that

699
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: go go you know, high or med and he he

700
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: probably think he is a guy that's gonna be a

701
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: player in the NFL. He fits in that range where

702
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: you could maybe draft him in the second round. I

703
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: won't be surprised at all if they drafted an edge

704
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: rusher with I mean they got a billion picks, so yeah,

705
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: just not at ten, right, not at ten? But you know,

706
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: if there's a trade down scenario, sure, oh, I mean

707
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: of course, was it the guy the only really rusher

708
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: was the Miami guy, right, and he didn't have a well.

709
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips also plays for Miami. He had a really

710
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 1: nice day. Um quitty pays from Michigan, like those are

711
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: and and Gregory Rousseau, the guy you're talking about. How

712
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: terrible pro day, but like he's still probably a first

713
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 1: round pick. May maybe I don't know his pro day.

714
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: It was pretty bad, but but he gets the quarterback

715
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: yeah in college second Yeah, so we'd take chances in

716
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 1: second round, you know. Oh no, we're already penciling. We're

717
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: penciling Caleb Farley into the sole as soon as soon

718
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 1: as it said that they said he was having back

719
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,280
Speaker 1: surgery and he would slip it. Like the jokes started

720
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:29,280
Speaker 1: flowing in, like, so pick for you forty four Caleb Farley.

721
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: Let's could you imagine if they ended up getting both

722
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: those guys, yeah, you know, like they got certain and

723
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:40,479
Speaker 1: then Farley sitting there. I not hurt feelings. Nothing would

724
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: surprise me at this point. I mean, hurt Anthony Brown's feelings,

725
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,320
Speaker 1: but it wouldn't hurt. Yeah, it might hurt yeah, yeah,

726
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 1: one of those guys going when guy's leaving like nobody's

727
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 1: all those guys won't still be here. Yeah, maybe you

728
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: use Caleb. You know, if you circle Caleb Farley there

729
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: in the medical round, the let's take a chance round

730
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: and draft Kyle Pitts, let's go. Kyle Pitts is not

731
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: going to be their ten. Let's just be clear. Probably

732
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: there's no way. Okay, there's absolutely no way. He can.

733
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: You want me to pull up the tweets where I

734
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: laughed at people who try to talk to me about CD.

735
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 1: What I will say about CD is last year there

736
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 1: were at least two other guys that we said were

737
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 1: comparable to CD, right, and when it played out in

738
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: the draft, there were two other guys that were comparable. Now,

739
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: you could take your your pick of which flavor you like,

740
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 1: but there were two other guys that were comparable. Name

741
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 1: a guy that's even close to being comparable to cal

742
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: Pitz a tight end. Do not in the last twenty

743
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: years coming into like. The closest comp physically to Kyle

744
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: Pitts is probably Calvin Johnson, which is terrifying. I don't

745
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: think he'll be there either, But I didn't think CD

746
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: would be there. I didn't think the Giants were dumb

747
00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: enough to draft Daniel Jones sixth overall. I didn't think

748
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: Cleveland Farrell would go in the top five. Like teams

749
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: do dumb stuff. All yeah, but this is going to

750
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: require five teams that don't need a quarterback to say

751
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 1: I want somebody other than a guy like outpits, who

752
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: who can really create matchup problems every single week? How

753
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,480
Speaker 1: about that? How about you just let me have it.

754
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: I'll let you for another month. All right, I'll let

755
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: you have it. All right, let's me want to the

756
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 1: next topic. Next topic. Um, Mike McCarthy anticipates a very

757
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: competitive situation with the interior offensive lineman. My question for

758
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: you guys are who are the competitors at each of

759
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: those positions. Obviously we know right tackle, I mean, right

760
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 1: guard is going to be right guard. That's not changing.

761
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 1: It's really left guard and center. Who are the players

762
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: that are involved here in this competition that he think

763
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 1: is going to be really good? Well, Connor Williams um

764
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:35,959
Speaker 1: is going to be the front runner there at left guard.

765
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: This is a contract year for him. Um. He said

766
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: the other day in an interview that his goal is

767
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. I mean that's where he's like he said,

768
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: it's it's as obtainable now as it's ever been. So

769
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: he's not really looking to compete against other players. He's

770
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,239
Speaker 1: looking to compete against other guards for a Pro Bowl spot,

771
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: which is good. That's what his mindset should be. Um,

772
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: you know and center. I would say with Joe lu

773
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: he hasn't been resigned. And do you think this says

774
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: anything about that possibility? Like, do you think the fact

775
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: that he thinks there's gonna be a good competition here,

776
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 1: do you think maybe that's about the fact that they

777
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: are gonna bring Looney back? I don't. I think if

778
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: Looney was gonna come back, I think he'd be back. Honestly,

779
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: well I don't. I'm not going to close the door

780
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: on him, but I don't. There's something that's I'm pretty

781
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: sure about. A couple of weeks I talked to him

782
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: um over a balcony down yelled down on the down.

783
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: He was in the Star Joe I was. I was

784
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: eating dinner in the Star district and I looked I

785
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: saw him down there, and I yelled at him and

786
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: he was like, Hey, what's up? And I don't kind

787
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: of forgot where it was for a second. I just

788
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 1: asked him if he's coming back out Yeah, and he too.

789
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: Can it cost Cowboy players at the Star District right

790
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 1: here in first right, come on down setting the example, Yeah,

791
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 1: he was dining at the Cowboys theme campus and uh,

792
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: he kind of like he said, yeah, and he gotta

793
00:38:57,800 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: talked about just got to go over there and sign.

794
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 1: But it hasn't really it's been more than that. I

795
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: think so, but I don't. I don't know if I

796
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,760
Speaker 1: agree with you that if he were going to be signed,

797
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 1: he would already be signed, because the way I look

798
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: at it is like a player like him, the Cowboys

799
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: can kind of wait around on that. If nobody else

800
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: is like sniffing around and ready to sign him right now,

801
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: they can hold. They can see what happens with the draft,

802
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: and then they can make a decision like they never know,

803
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: maybe some center that they're kind of looking at in

804
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: the third fourth round drops to him and they're like, hey,

805
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and go there. You're right, I mean,

806
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 1: they're not closing the book on that. They obviously though

807
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: have I mean, he's not like their top priority. Mean, well,

808
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: I agree with Derek, and I don't know. I'm I'm

809
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: surprised he's not back just because he seems to love

810
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: it here. Everybody loves him. There's not a huge demand

811
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 1: for his services somewhere else much. I wouldn't think no.

812
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: But I also think he's in that class of free

813
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: agent where if you want to hang out until June,

814
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: you probably can, you know, and he probably doesn't want

815
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: to go anywhere. So I said that in our mail

816
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: back today about kJ Right. It's like, you know, kJ

817
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,320
Speaker 1: Wrights at a point in his career where he's probably

818
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: not just dying to sign something just to get money.

819
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,239
Speaker 1: You know, he's like, well, if I got to wait

820
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: a while to get the situation I want, I'll do it.

821
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: And Joel and he's not as good as a player

822
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,600
Speaker 1: as kJ Right, but I think it's similar. Yeah, well

823
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: that's that's fair to say that. And kJ Right could

824
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 1: maybe do that because he's gonna come right in whenever

825
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: and be like, yeah, I'm starting, you know, but Looney,

826
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: the more you sit out if he does come to

827
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, the more he waits. Maybe Tyler Beardist has

828
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: a camper too, Maybe Connor McGovern has gotten some mix

829
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: in there, so you know, maybe he'll be kind of

830
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: on the outside looking in. But but I'll say this

831
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: about from what I was told about beyondih and Looney,

832
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: beyondish this problem right now, as it's the snaps, the

833
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 1: shotgun snaps that was his issue before, and that's why

834
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 1: he didn't really come back and play at the end

835
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: of the season. It was Dalton had a hard time

836
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,879
Speaker 1: keeping his eyes on the field because the snaps were

837
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: all over the place and you look up and you

838
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: got you gotta take your eyes off the defense to

839
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 1: catch the ball. And so that's stuff we don't really

840
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: even think about. You know, you can get just peripheral vision,

841
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: you can get get the ball and you don't really

842
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: see the difference of the ball hit here. How long

843
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: I think takes for you to train someone to kind

844
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 1: of perfect that. That's I think it's so interesting because

845
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: if you think back, um when Dak got here, something

846
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,479
Speaker 1: that really impressed the coaches was like Dak never took

847
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: under center snaps in college. He was a shotgun quarterback,

848
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 1: like exclusively, and he wasn't very good at it. And

849
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett was like wowed because just over the course

850
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Speaker 1: of like rookie mini camp, he basically picked it up

851
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: in like two or three days. But you never think

852
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: about that from the center's perspective. And Tyler Biadas played

853
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: at like Wisconsin doesn't run shotgun. They're ground and pound

854
00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: all day. So that's that's interesting. But Wosie replacing Frederick, well,

855
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick was a first round No, no no, I'm just saying,

856
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: and so he figured it out, you know that would

857
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: like to think I would like to think you could

858
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 1: go into your backyard with a football and like paint

859
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: a circle on the fence and just do it one

860
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: hundred times every day. Better yet, go to your quarterbacks

861
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: house and just work with him. This seems like something

862
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: to me that is correctable if you're willing to put

863
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: in the time. This is not something that you have

864
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: to have a terrible a terribly high level of skill

865
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: in order to do. If you work at it, you

866
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 1: should be able to get it consistent. And I mean,

867
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is probably good in a lot of things,

868
00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 1: you know, but maybe Dak is better at that. You know,

869
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 1: maybe maybe Dak was, like you know what, some of

870
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: the centers I've had that good either, But I just

871
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 1: you know, he's more of an athlete. I can catch

872
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: a bad ball, yeah, you know, going back to the

873
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:45,759
Speaker 1: competition aspect, and I'm guilty of forgetting about this all

874
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 1: the time, and reader actually pointed it out to me.

875
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: Connor McGovern played basically a full season at center at

876
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: Penn State. He can do that, and he's there's your competition,

877
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: hasn't done it a lot here, there's your company, absolutely

878
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 1: and just good measure of Brandon Knight has played guard

879
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: as well, so you know, that's a healthy mix of

880
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: guys that could all jumble around in that part of

881
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: I think Connor wins that job. And I actually I

882
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: Williams Connor Williams, yes, I'm sorry, Williams is that left

883
00:43:13,120 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: guard position. And I actually think I was actually pleasantly

884
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: surprised with his play last year. I don't think he

885
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 1: was great, but I think he was pretty good. I

886
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: think he had pretty good games to hang in there

887
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: and only miss one snap on a unit. Yeah, that

888
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 1: was that much of a mess. I have the upmost

889
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 1: and if he didn't have those guys, he's normally used

890
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,399
Speaker 1: to having data there as the veteran presence to help

891
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: him out, Like he was the guy that people were

892
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: looking to get help from and he still had it.

893
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 1: I would I thought was a pretty good sense. I

894
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 1: think this honestly would be a better conversation after the draft.

895
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: I think then once the draft is done, then you

896
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 1: kind of see what happens with everybody, and then we

897
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: could kind of really get to get a good, you know,

898
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,320
Speaker 1: gauge on who's going to be competing. It's hard to

899
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Speaker 1: matching the competition right now because it's like, on one hand,

900
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: it's easy to imagine, but on the other hand, the

901
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: way they do things, it's like you'd rarely really see

902
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: a competition between these guys. It's usually they have somewhat

903
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: of a preference over one person versus the other. It's

904
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: never really a full, go out there compete. Let's see

905
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 1: who actually wins the job. They usually lean on someone

906
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: a lot more than the other. And that's a good point.

907
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: And the reason why it happens with offensive line is

908
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: think about when they come out for a game or

909
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: when they come out even at practice. They usually come

910
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: out together. You see those guys, but it's it's that

911
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: makes it difficult when there's two guards competing. Who's with

912
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:38,840
Speaker 1: the ones this group? You, I mean, that's such a

913
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: continuity based the position that you want to figure it out.

914
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Speaker 1: Put a guy in there and don't keep rotating it

915
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: back and forth. So that's kind of I think one

916
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: of the reasons why they do that. All right, we're

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919
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Speaker 1: out looking for a backup quarterback veteran backup quarterback to

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Speaker 1: We're talking one of the final segment of The Cowboys

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Speaker 1: quarterback veteran quarterbacks. Micha McCarthy says this team has talked

976
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: to some veteran quarterbacks and he also believes in competition

977
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position is important behind Dak Prescott, even

978
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: though obviously you know you got Dak and he's locked up,

979
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: he's gonna be here, but he thinks it's important to

980
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 1: have some competition there for that backup job. I'm gonna

981
00:48:15,160 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: throw out some names to you guys, and I want

982
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: you guys, whore gonna go around. I want you to

983
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: tell me, if you guys were to sign a veteran

984
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: quarterback to this team, which of these guys would you prefer.

985
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: And by the way, you can also throw out a

986
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: name that may not be on the list if you

987
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 1: have someone else you're thinking about. Alex Smith, A J. McCarron,

988
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: Coult McCoy, Robert Griffith, the third Colt McCoy has gone.

989
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 1: He's signed in Arizona. I think, like this morning, did

990
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: he sorry that was gonna be my pick? Blake Bortles

991
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,879
Speaker 1: or other. Let's start with you, Nick well, let's start

992
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: with Dave because Nick was gonna take so he's got

993
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: to think about it. Yeah, I mean thinking a J McCarron.

994
00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you that right now. And that was

995
00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: a decade ago. I don't hold grudges, Yeah I do, No,

996
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 1: I would. Yeah, I don't want to have to look

997
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: at that guy every day. No, I'm kidding, um, not really,

998
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. I'm kidding, but I'm sort of kidding. Um.

999
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: I it just makes so much sense to go get

1000
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: Alex Smith. Dak shouted him out in his press conference.

1001
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: He started last year wasn't amazing. But that's I mean,

1002
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,280
Speaker 1: you're talking about backup quarterbacks. That's what you get. Um.

1003
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: I know you know the reporters that he wants a

1004
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,919
Speaker 1: chance to start. I feel like that that is gone now.

1005
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 1: Like I can't think of a team that still needs

1006
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: a quarterback that hasn't done something about that. But that

1007
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:32,439
Speaker 1: may mean that he waits. He's one of those guys

1008
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: that's willing to wait until go through training camp. See

1009
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: if a quarterback, if he hurts, I mean, now he

1010
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 1: gets it, and he's he's probably at a point in

1011
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 1: his career he's like he's he's thirty seven. I think

1012
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: he's um. He might be at a point in his

1013
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: career where he wants to do that, But if he

1014
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: would be willing to sign here, I would love it.

1015
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: You know, Dak loves him, they have a relationship. He

1016
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: has started and won in the NFL, as recently his

1017
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: last season. I just think it makes too much sense,

1018
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:59,800
Speaker 1: right Amber. I just want a guy that's healthy and

1019
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: and throw some passes accurately. That's it. I don't ask

1020
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Speaker 1: for much shade, throwing, shade everything, be able to throw.

1021
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: I'm not even asking for a mobile quarterback. I'm not

1022
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: even asking you to and that might be a key too,

1023
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,840
Speaker 1: depending on what happens on the old line, the Cowboys

1024
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,800
Speaker 1: old line, health life. But I just want someone that

1025
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Speaker 1: doesn't need so much time to throw the ball and

1026
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: be accurate about it. That's it. Is it is it

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Speaker 1: that hard? I don't get it. Why is it so

1028
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 1: hard to get find a decent quarterback because there's only

1029
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: like twenty in the world that are good at the

1030
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Speaker 1: NFL level, so there aren't even enough to have a

1031
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,040
Speaker 1: good starter on every team. Yeah, it's it's why they

1032
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Speaker 1: get forty million dollars salary. Can I get the list again.

1033
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: All right, here's what I have. Alex Smith, A J.

1034
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Speaker 1: McCarn no, Robert Griffin third, and Blake Bortles. Roberts your guy,

1035
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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you guy. It's hard to not

1036
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Speaker 1: pick someone that wrote the forward of your book, right right,

1037
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 1: But Garrett Gilbert is I would just go with Garrett Gilbert.

1038
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:13,840
Speaker 1: I think that. I you know, he's probably cheaper, obviously,

1039
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 1: but I liked what I saw, and I understand what

1040
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 1: was happening before that, but I liked what I saw

1041
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 1: from him. I liked the deep ball he through to

1042
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 1: Marii Cooper. I like the fact that he ran the

1043
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 1: ball pretty well. I didn't like the red zone interception.

1044
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: I get it. But playing against the Steelers at the time,

1045
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: their defense was was really good and really aggressive. I

1046
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: thought he handled that situation. He drove it down. They're

1047
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 1: throwing into the end zone to beat the undefeated Steelers,

1048
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: who weren't as good as we thought they were at

1049
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:43,320
Speaker 1: the time. But but I think with another year, another

1050
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:48,240
Speaker 1: offseason with Kellen Moore, I think he is a capable

1051
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 1: back up. He's been around, he's a veteran. I would

1052
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: go there in that in that situation, and I think

1053
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: if you made me guess, I think that's what's gonna happen.

1054
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 1: He's already here, he's cheap. You don't have to spend

1055
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:01,400
Speaker 1: any more money, you know who. Garrett Gilbert reminds me

1056
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Speaker 1: of Jeff Keith, Well, well, I mean, okay, you can.

1057
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Speaker 1: I mean that's a more direct comparison. Extra points, I

1058
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,800
Speaker 1: don't think so. He reminds me of Jeff Heath, because

1059
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath played the game of his life in the

1060
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,800
Speaker 1: playoffs against Green Bay. You know, we almost forced a

1061
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: fumble that won him the game, picked off Aaron Rodgers

1062
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: almost picked him off twice, and the Cowboys were like, hell, yeah,

1063
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: he's We're gonna bump him up to starter. He'll be affordable,

1064
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: he'll be great. And how that work out, like, was

1065
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: he ever? Amazing? And I just think I think they

1066
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: struggled with you know, they Bend Nucci had a you know,

1067
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: a terrible night in Philly. They didn't look good. Garrett

1068
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: Gilbert comes out and plays competently. That's how I would

1069
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: describe it. And I think people are letting their imaginations

1070
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:54,120
Speaker 1: run wild a little bit. But each imagination. I don't

1071
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:57,360
Speaker 1: think what we saw in that game is like indicative

1072
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: of what you're well. But I think you're asking him

1073
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 1: to start like you with Jeff Heath, I ask her

1074
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 1: asking you to be ready and be ready, you know,

1075
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: if your quarterback goes down, to go out and give

1076
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 1: your team a chance to compete. And I think he

1077
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:11,959
Speaker 1: was able to kind of show that off for three

1078
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 1: weeks of being here. I think a whole offseason I'd

1079
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 1: like to see more from right if he's able to

1080
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: be competent in that scenario. And let's also remember what

1081
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: you said at the beginning of this segment. You said

1082
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 1: there are probably twenty people in the world who can

1083
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 1: do this job. Right, So if you're at your backup

1084
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:30,680
Speaker 1: guy and you got a guy that in three weeks

1085
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: can be competent, I think that's all you can ask

1086
00:53:33,640 --> 00:53:35,520
Speaker 1: for at a backup quarterback. You're not going to get

1087
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 1: great in a backup quarterback in a league where twenty

1088
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,439
Speaker 1: guys are capable and you got thirty two teen. Yeah,

1089
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:43,400
Speaker 1: But if I told you you could spend two or

1090
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: three million dollars and go get a guy like Alex

1091
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:50,399
Speaker 1: Smith who started six games and won five of them

1092
00:53:50,440 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 1: and helped his team get into playoff contention on a

1093
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: much worse offense. That just sounds so much more appealing

1094
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 1: to me. And are you gonna bring that defense with

1095
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 1: him too? No, I was wondering. I understand I never

1096
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 1: liked his game, and I mean, his story is amazing.

1097
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to get into all that. But even before,

1098
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:13,360
Speaker 1: did he get hurt in the Cowboy game? Is that? No? No? No? Okay,

1099
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 1: Well that I remember been on the sideline of a

1100
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: game that he played, and I think it was the one.

1101
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: It might have been the snapping fraction game maybe where

1102
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 1: he was making plays. He might have got hurt just

1103
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: a week or two after that, And I was thinking,

1104
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 1: if that was my quarterback, like, I'd hate I'd hate it.

1105
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: I mean, I would hate for him to be a quarterback.

1106
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: His decision making, he's just you know, he was He's

1107
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 1: always had bad luck, not only the injury, he's had

1108
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 1: bad luck because he played for what seven or eight

1109
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: different offensive coordinators in a row. I mean, he was

1110
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: just never finding any kind of stability. But I've never

1111
00:54:47,520 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 1: been a huge fan of his game when he was

1112
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 1: fully healthy, So I wouldn't I wouldn't pick him what

1113
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: I'd be willing to pay that little premium for to

1114
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: get Alex Smith. By the way, I agree with you. You

1115
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,400
Speaker 1: You can get Alex Smith. He is the guy I

1116
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: would get. But what I would be for and the

1117
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:02,440
Speaker 1: reason why I would opt for him, is because I

1118
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: do think there is some value to having his level

1119
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: of experience in the quarterback room too. It's not so

1120
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: much about what I think, because I think on the field,

1121
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: if Dak went down, I think what you would get

1122
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: from him or Garrett Gilbert would be pretty much about

1123
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: the same thing. I don't think there'd be a vast

1124
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: difference there. I am not ready to equate a man

1125
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,840
Speaker 1: who has started one hundred and sixty seven NFL games

1126
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: with a guy who started one. Well, what I know

1127
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: is that I don't know that the results, or I

1128
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: shouldn't say the results. I don't know that the play

1129
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: on the field last year suggested that they were that

1130
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 1: much of a different quarterback. Again, I don't think the

1131
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:37,759
Speaker 1: games I watched Washington play last year when he was

1132
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: playing quarterback, they weren't winning those games, the ones that

1133
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 1: they won because of his play, Like their offense was

1134
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: sputtering at times, absolutely sputtering at time. Again, keep in mind,

1135
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: he doesn't bring Washington's defense with him, but he moves

1136
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: into a way better offense, Like he might look like

1137
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:56,760
Speaker 1: a better player with all that firepower. I'm just saying,

1138
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: there's a reason why there's a reason why teams have

1139
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,799
Speaker 1: content tenuously moved on, Like I think there's a reason

1140
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: why it gets it gets lost in how terrible last

1141
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 1: season was. Andy Dalton was such a smart signing, like

1142
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: that worked out. They got a com pick for him.

1143
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 1: If Dak had gone down for a month, they would

1144
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 1: have been fine. They would have won two or three

1145
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 1: of those games, especially if they would have had coupled

1146
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: with that both attack right, Like yeah, it like they

1147
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 1: were stuck under so many bad breaks that the fact

1148
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,400
Speaker 1: that Andy Dalton actually played pretty damn well for the

1149
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 1: situation he was in gets lost. I'm not saying he's

1150
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 1: like amazing, but he did exactly what they hired him

1151
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:38,319
Speaker 1: to do. And if that were the kid, you know,

1152
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: if you lose Dak for eleven or twelve games, you're

1153
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 1: probably screwed no matter what. But if you lose him

1154
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: for three, I'd way rather have somebody like I don't know, no,

1155
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 1: thank you, no thank you. I can't go with you

1156
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 1: on that one. I'm not trying to convince anybody else

1157
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 1: somewhere that nobody in this room him and Noah Cowboy

1158
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 1: quarterback has been including Romo in a championship game. Wee

1159
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 1: if it was a better player. He was so bad

1160
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: that he pissed off all of his defensive teammates. They

1161
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: were like, we gotta get the hell out of here.

1162
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:23,280
Speaker 1: Campbells was a was a juggernaut defense. And you know

1163
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, like that was not about him at all.

1164
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:27,880
Speaker 1: You think that they left because of Blake Bortles. Who

1165
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: think because they were living in Jacksonville. No, but I

1166
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 1: mean that's no if you're good question, Oh come on,

1167
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 1: you were just like, yeah, how could you stop? I'm

1168
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: sure NFL players hate living in a warm city with

1169
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:44,000
Speaker 1: no state income tax and a ton of golf courses.

1170
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: Stop it. That's not why Seattle didn't seem like a

1171
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: premier destination in the NFL either until they started A

1172
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: great place I love going to see hot Seattle was

1173
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: like the most forgotten about city in the NFL. I'm

1174
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: just talking about just just the city and enjoying being

1175
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: in the city. I love being Seattle. I would have

1176
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:02,240
Speaker 1: soon we all love being in Seattle. I don't say.

1177
00:58:02,280 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've heard anybody say I love

1178
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 1: being in Jacksonville. I know one, Jod Camillas, Yeah, calls

1179
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 1: it beach TV. Like I said, like interested you score

1180
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,400
Speaker 1: out and look outside of it's watch that's what you do.

1181
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: You just want to think. I don't think I've ever

1182
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: even spent more than two or three days in Jacksonville.

1183
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 1: But like I haven't either. There are worse places. I'm

1184
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: just saying, especially consider you only have to be there

1185
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:25,480
Speaker 1: half the year. It's never cold, there's no state incan.

1186
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: It's really humid, like it's just not cold, Like it's

1187
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 1: extremely I am from the most humid city in the

1188
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 1: world and we don't even have a beach to offset it.

1189
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 1: So that's pretty humid. Yeah, anyway, falls so much I

1190
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 1: get I get defensive when people like slander. I don't

1191
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: even know why, Like I have no tie Jacksonville. I'm

1192
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 1: sure it's fine. I'm sure it's fine. It's fine. He

1193
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 1: went up past Jale. Ramsey didn't leave jackson because it's

1194
00:58:57,720 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: a bad city, That's all I'm saying. Probably because they

1195
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 1: had a bad quarterback and he realized they weren't going

1196
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: any he went to play for Jared Goff. Well now

1197
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: he's playing for Matt Stafford. So you still haven't really

1198
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: don't get you started on Oh Matt, let's just do

1199
00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 1: another hour. I don't have anyone to be Yeah, that's

1200
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 1: kind of what we're doing at this point. We're just

1201
00:59:16,720 --> 00:59:18,600
Speaker 1: like going into the riff part of the show where

1202
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: you just kind of talk about whatever. All right, well,

1203
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, join us. We'll be back next week.

1204
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 1: And next week we're gonna actually gonna start getting too

1205
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 1: a little draft talk. We'll do a little bit of

1206
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: a little bit on draft, not a lot, because I

1207
00:59:27,760 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: don't want to get too far into all that, but

1208
00:59:29,240 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 1: we got some stuff to talk about in this first round.

1209
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 1: There was actually an interesting conversation we have been having

1210
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 1: off the air about tackle or cornerback. We might have

1211
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:38,400
Speaker 1: that next week. It has a lot to talk about

1212
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: there until then. For Nick Eatman, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia,

1213
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: I am Derek Eacleton. This has been The Break live

1214
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a

1215
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:52,320
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