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Speaker 1: episode number fifty. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
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Speaker 1: Cowboys football for the next forty five minutes. Got my
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Speaker 1: My parents I don't I don't know how much of
Speaker 1: a fan. They argue Dave because you didn't call me special.
Speaker 1: And since my whole life, I've never been at Dannyelle.
Speaker 1: It's always been Danny And for some reason, Dave is
Speaker 1: calling me Danielle, and so my parents are well, why
Speaker 1: are we not allowed to call you Danny Ellen. It's
Speaker 1: the can you're changing that dynamic a little bit. Not
Speaker 1: another Danny that's up at your house like there is
Speaker 1: here with Danny McCrae. So we have to what what
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Speaker 1: we are going through our office dynamics here on the podcast.
Speaker 1: That's what we're not that anybody cares. All Right, here
Speaker 1: we go. Let's talk about this team. It's a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so we're taking a big picture look around the NFL
Speaker 1: and how it relates to the Cowboys. First thing stands
Speaker 1: out to me is Cowboys sitting at three and Owen's
Speaker 1: vision and there's the next closest team is one in
Speaker 1: two Philadelphias one and two. It's got to win this
Speaker 1: last week by some I don't know, some fluke chance
Speaker 1: and they're now one and two. Flup chants or a
Speaker 1: good quarterback. Well, good quarterback got in a position. But
Speaker 1: that missfield goal. That's that's true. They should have lost.
Speaker 1: They should have lost, but hey, hey, that's the NFL,
Speaker 1: and you take the wins where you can get them.
Speaker 1: But the Washington Redskins after watching them last night, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, it's the wheels have fallen off that thing. Fire. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh and three, do you guys think at this point
Speaker 1: Philly still is the greatest? If there is a threat,
Speaker 1: the greatest right here in the NFC. We do this.
Speaker 1: We and I'm guilty, everybody does it. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to throw shade. Like you watch the games, you see
Speaker 1: the problems, and you overreact because you're only given so
Speaker 1: much evidence. But need we forget that the Cowboys were
Speaker 1: three and five at the halfway point of last year.
Speaker 1: Like to write off a team with as much talent
Speaker 1: as the Eagles because they are one and two is silly.
Speaker 1: How much does the loss of their they like, they
Speaker 1: had a lot of guys that have been injured now
Speaker 1: and one their defensive tackle out the year, I think,
Speaker 1: I mean, how much does that affect what you think
Speaker 1: of them as a team and what kind of threat
Speaker 1: they posted the Cowboys? Well, they have done a good
Speaker 1: job in recent years of rallying with those injuries, so
Speaker 1: I yeah, that hurts and we saw just the Cowboys
Speaker 1: the way they played. I mean, we didn't talk about
Speaker 1: it at all yesterday that injuries were a factor. But
Speaker 1: no one wants to hear injuries that you're talking about
Speaker 1: your own team. But other teams you can talk about
Speaker 1: it and if the same struggle, we will know why,
Speaker 1: you know. But but if the Cowboy, if anybody struggles
Speaker 1: with injuries, you know, it's it's an excuse. But I
Speaker 1: do think the Eagles can turn it around. Let's not
Speaker 1: forget though they've won one game and they beat the
Speaker 1: Redskins at home when they fell behind and behind and
Speaker 1: had they do not look good. I'm not. I mean,
Speaker 1: they haven't looked good in any of the games that
Speaker 1: they've played, really if but you know, Nelson Agilar catches
Speaker 1: that passed down the sideline, it's a touchdown, and they
Speaker 1: probably beat the Falcons. The irony, that's what I was
Speaker 1: going to bring up, is like the irony is that
Speaker 1: it's their their skill players are not showing up for
Speaker 1: them right now. And they got a lot of credit
Speaker 1: for that. I Mean, the Cowboys got killed for giving
Speaker 1: up what they gave for Amari Cooper, and the Eagles
Speaker 1: got praised as this forward thing, and they are the
Speaker 1: Eagles there. That is a smart front office. But they
Speaker 1: gave up a third for a Golden Tate who's not
Speaker 1: on the team anymore. But I thought he just help
Speaker 1: for he's with the Giants. Now oh yeah, he's up
Speaker 1: for the Giants. But yes, yes, I got the Eagles
Speaker 1: were the smarter of the two teams. Meanwhile, Marie Cooper's
Speaker 1: killing it, Golden Tate's not even there, Nelson Agilar can't
Speaker 1: catch anything. Two injuries that are huge for them right now.
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard who also you know, the Eagles got a
Speaker 1: lot of praise for jumping up and getting him too.
Speaker 1: He's had problems with drops. So you know, I know
Speaker 1: Wins and Dak are always going to be compared because
Speaker 1: of their draft class, and that's the argument everybody wants
Speaker 1: to have, like Carson Wentz is not getting a ton
Speaker 1: of help right now, which maybe the Eagles didn't do
Speaker 1: as good of a job investing in their skill players
Speaker 1: as a lot of people thought they did. How much
Speaker 1: is that changing change in your opinion when they get
Speaker 1: alshon Jeffrey and to Shaun Jackson back. Yeah, no for sure,
Speaker 1: And that's I don't think just temporary. Obviously, both those
Speaker 1: guys are into but it's not long term. You cannot
Speaker 1: right before the Cowboy game, that's no doubt. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that the Eagles are gonna like rip off
Speaker 1: ten wins in a row or win the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: or any of that stuff. But like if I just
Speaker 1: I don't believe that they're going to be like this
Speaker 1: for the whole season, Like they're gonna They'll be fine
Speaker 1: in the long run. Right all right, Um, here's something
Speaker 1: else that stood out to me. There are right now,
Speaker 1: there are eight teams in the NFL that are unbeaten.
Speaker 1: Cowboys are one of them. Here are the others, New
Speaker 1: England Patriots, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams,
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs, San Francisco forty nine Ers.
Speaker 1: The interesting thing apart about that is five of those
Speaker 1: out of the seven that are unbeaten, that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are not one. I mean obviously that you showing count
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are on the Cowboys schedule here and the
Speaker 1: rest of the season. Which of those five, and I
Speaker 1: want you to put them in rank order, do you
Speaker 1: think pose the most to least Okay, so let's take
Speaker 1: it for granted. Everybody can let the Patriots number one,
Speaker 1: but most the least who poses the biggest threats for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys as they have, They'll have to play all
Speaker 1: five of those teams. And I would say the Patriots
Speaker 1: probably regardless where the game is, but the fact that
Speaker 1: it's there, I mean, obviously, no doubt. I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: little annoyed, is which And I guess there's a point
Speaker 1: there is, like it's a new season. You can never
Speaker 1: take anything for granted. None of the Patriots opponents have
Speaker 1: won a game. I know that they've played in the
Speaker 1: last three Super Bowls. It's okay to assume that they're
Speaker 1: probably pretty good. It's fine, and maybe this year even
Speaker 1: a little better than they've been. Certainly on their defense,
Speaker 1: their defense is played really really remarkably good football. There's
Speaker 1: a guy on Twitter that that was kind of mad
Speaker 1: at us for not saying something yesterday, remember about the
Speaker 1: not mad, but he was just saying that, you know,
Speaker 1: Amber was talking about slow starts by Dacks, Like why
Speaker 1: didn't you say anything about Tom Brady? AND's because he's
Speaker 1: won six Super Bowl rings. Yeah, so that's really why
Speaker 1: that mean that's it's hard to compare them. The Patriots
Speaker 1: will be number one for me. Give me the Patriots one.
Speaker 1: And I try to keep his close n eye on
Speaker 1: the league as possible. I haven't seen all these teams
Speaker 1: play all their games. The Packers. The Packers with their
Speaker 1: combination of their defense, and I know their offense has
Speaker 1: been pretty But when you have a quarterback like that,
Speaker 1: I trust that you can figure it out enough, especially
Speaker 1: if your defense is doing what their's is. I say
Speaker 1: New England and Green Bay two. The only thing I
Speaker 1: think I would switch as Kansas City. Oh the schedule.
Speaker 1: So you've got New England, Green Bay, Los Angeles, Buffalo
Speaker 1: and Detroit. Detroit five, New England one. You guys figure
Speaker 1: out the middle. Well, the one that's interesting to me
Speaker 1: is really two and three. Where do you put green
Speaker 1: Bay in the Rams? Yeah? Who Who's Who's higher between
Speaker 1: Green Bay and the ram That is tough. I say
Speaker 1: Packers because we know, we think we know what we're
Speaker 1: gonna get, you know, because they're gonna they're gonna have
Speaker 1: ten days of rest on you and the Caboys will
Speaker 1: play Sunday night. They're gonna play the Eagles Thursday. Then
Speaker 1: they'll have ten days, and you're smart, you're thinking of
Speaker 1: it literally in exact terms of how they're gonna be
Speaker 1: on the schedule, right, which, yeah, the Packers get a
Speaker 1: lot of fans there and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: where who knows what any team's gonna look like in December. Um,
Speaker 1: but if Aaron Donald's on the field, then they're gonna be.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be, will say, two Rams. I mean we've
Speaker 1: seen the last couple of times Cowboys have played them,
Speaker 1: the struggles of playing that team, I mean offensively, but
Speaker 1: even still, I mean, they've still proven that they can
Speaker 1: disrupt the defense. You have Aaron Donald on their defense,
Speaker 1: I think that might be right now more balanced, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean now I still think Aaron Rodgers is probably right.
Speaker 1: You know, even without it what you expect, what would
Speaker 1: you be most surprised that Cowboys win against the Packers
Speaker 1: in Week five or that they beat the Rams at home?
Speaker 1: I think I surprised to be more surprised about the
Speaker 1: Rams win, So I would not. I would be the opposite.
Speaker 1: And again maybe it's because I have PTSD dealing with
Speaker 1: aa Ron. I mean, I just that it's interesting and
Speaker 1: anybody who's ever listened to this show, knows how I
Speaker 1: feel about Rogers. Cowboys fans tell me they hate how
Speaker 1: much I love him all the time. He really since
Speaker 1: the sixteen season when he beat them here, he hasn't
Speaker 1: been that guy. Really. Whether it's because of injury or
Speaker 1: problems with the scheme, he has not been that, I
Speaker 1: don't know. But here's the thing. The rant like, the
Speaker 1: Rams have everything else, but I'm not sold on Jared Goff.
Speaker 1: There you go, right, The Packers really don't have I mean,
Speaker 1: Davante Adams is great, but they don't have nearly as
Speaker 1: many weapons that scare you. But they have that quarterback
Speaker 1: who can flip it on and be transcendent whenever he wants. Basically,
Speaker 1: I mean, even if he hasn't been that guy recently,
Speaker 1: he can't be a one hundred percent sure that he
Speaker 1: won't be. And let's remember this is a new offense
Speaker 1: for him. So I'm giving the offense. I'm giving their
Speaker 1: off there's scoring enough points obviously because they're winning, but
Speaker 1: I'm giving him the benefit. I'm giving them the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt that as this thing keeps going, their
Speaker 1: offense is going to get better and better. And I
Speaker 1: think I'd rather visibility, So I think I would rank
Speaker 1: it New England Green Bay than the Rams, just because
Speaker 1: of how much respect I have for Rodgers. But I
Speaker 1: think it's very good for the Cowboys that they get
Speaker 1: that game out of the way on sixth, and because
Speaker 1: you know, it still looks kind of ugly, like their
Speaker 1: offense has not been in sank to any points so
Speaker 1: far this season, kicking a lot of field goals ten
Speaker 1: points against the Bears, three field goals against the Broncos.
Speaker 1: So you know, when you're thinking about defenses, I think
Speaker 1: the Rams would have the best defense. I think the
Speaker 1: next one would be the Bills. You know, the Bills
Speaker 1: defense is really good right now. Well, I think New
Speaker 1: Englands up there. Yeah, and they play each other this week,
Speaker 1: so we'll find out. It'd be a great test for
Speaker 1: that Bill's defense. But Bills Thanksgiving, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: that could be a hard game New England has. When
Speaker 1: you look at points allowed and points scored, New England
Speaker 1: is I think they are one in one category and
Speaker 1: two in the other. Cowboys are only other team in
Speaker 1: the top five that are Among these teams, Cowboys are
Speaker 1: number four both points scored and points allowed, and that's
Speaker 1: where Cowboys fans will yell at you, because the Patriots
Speaker 1: have played arguably the three worst teams in the league.
Speaker 1: They've played the Jets, the Dolphins, and who they play
Speaker 1: last week they play the Steelers, the Steelers who have
Speaker 1: not looked good. Yeah, they're struggling, and I get that,
Speaker 1: and they probably won't be as utterly dominant as the
Speaker 1: season goes along, but it's still a pretty good bet
Speaker 1: they're gonna win eleven or twelve games, because they do
Speaker 1: every year. And you know, the thing about it is
Speaker 1: is the two and there's a couple of two and
Speaker 1: one teams that are probably you know, scarier than you know,
Speaker 1: the Bills and the and the lying in you're facing
Speaker 1: this weekend with the Saints and the Bears. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Bears looked pretty good on defense, and you know
Speaker 1: a lot of people were saying about, Man, I wish
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were like the Bears, you know, taking but
Speaker 1: would you would you take that? And then their offense? No,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I would take the Cowboys offense with their
Speaker 1: defense over that. And that's kind of the point of
Speaker 1: what I was saying about the Cowboys and the Patriots
Speaker 1: being the only two in the top five that are
Speaker 1: ranked in the top five in both those categories. Is
Speaker 1: what I love about this Cowboys team is they're really balanced. Um,
Speaker 1: and you can look at a lot of teams. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of teams that in this grouping that
Speaker 1: we're in the top five in offense points scored. There
Speaker 1: were then another group of them that were in the
Speaker 1: top five in points allowed. It's only two that are
Speaker 1: in the top five in both, and I think that's
Speaker 1: the balance now. Of course, both those teams again playing
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins helps, and both those teams played the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. So let's see how all the season progresses.
Speaker 1: But as of right now, what we've seen so far,
Speaker 1: there seems to be a lot of balance on the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and a lot of balance with the Patriots. All Right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our first break. When we come back,
Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit about some injured guys.
Speaker 1: There were some guys that missed this last game, and
Speaker 1: I want to talk about how their replacements played relative
Speaker 1: to them and what that may mean for the future
Speaker 1: when those guys comes back. We'll do that when we
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Speaker 1: just kind of predicting one hundred yards for zeke you
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Speaker 1: twent thousand. No, no no, no, no, you can play, and
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, after this we'll have a
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Speaker 1: if you haven't checked out free to play, make sure
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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump back in. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about these injuries. There were three guys in particular that
Speaker 1: missed this last week's game due to injury. I want you,
Speaker 1: guys to tell me three different things as I as
Speaker 1: I tell you a name, I want you to tell
Speaker 1: me what you know of their current injury status. I
Speaker 1: want you to tell me how comfortable you are with
Speaker 1: the person that replaced them in this last game, how
Speaker 1: they played. And then number three oh, and I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Those are the two things. And then I want to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit specifically more about Tyrone Crawford and
Speaker 1: kind of what his role will be when he comes back.
Speaker 1: So let's start first with Xavier Woods. Tell me what
Speaker 1: you know of his injury status at this point, he's
Speaker 1: expected to practice tomorrow. Good, so we'll see four to six.
Speaker 1: That was just completely bad report, which we'll see. We
Speaker 1: got to see if he actually practices, but he is
Speaker 1: expected slash their optimists, the trainers, Stephen Jones, everybody was like,
Speaker 1: what what was that? Like, you know, the report? It
Speaker 1: was just that one. You know. Then they're not always
Speaker 1: like that. You know, where usually there's where they're smoked,
Speaker 1: there's fire, it's closed. But with this one, I think
Speaker 1: he might have been able to get in there and
Speaker 1: practice and play. Um if I kind of think that
Speaker 1: even the Cowboys looked at the Dolphins and said, you
Speaker 1: know what we're gonna We're gonna give, you know, the
Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt on some of these injuries here,
Speaker 1: and we think we can win without him. And they did.
Speaker 1: But I mean you could tell that it was kind
Speaker 1: of adding up a little bit. But I'll answer the
Speaker 1: second part that being said, um and our list of
Speaker 1: top ten performers for the game. Darien Thompson came in,
Speaker 1: played well. Jason Garrett praised him. He did a nice job.
Speaker 1: They're replacing Xavier Woods more depth. Another example of a
Speaker 1: guy like Devin Smith drafted in the third round, didn't
Speaker 1: work out with his first stop with the Giants, and
Speaker 1: he's getting a chance to play here and he's making
Speaker 1: most of it. Good depth there for the safety. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had that that tackle that forced him to go
Speaker 1: for that field goal early on. It's exciting to see
Speaker 1: a guy who was dealing with injuries early on in
Speaker 1: his career. And I've been playing on special teams, but
Speaker 1: to get that opportunity to start and then perform well,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's reassuring and then you just have more confidence.
Speaker 1: And that's and that's the Taco Charlton and guys like
Speaker 1: that that you know, Steven said, he's even Jones will
Speaker 1: say he's gonna go and play well. He thinks he'll
Speaker 1: have a good career. But these guys just need a
Speaker 1: fresh start for whatever the reason. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think Thompson's in that boat definitely. Devin Smith has shown
Speaker 1: it the best one on the team so far, I
Speaker 1: think is Antoine Woods. Antoine Woods is a key player
Speaker 1: for this team, and he might be a guy you're
Speaker 1: going to mention here in a second, but he's another
Speaker 1: guy that didn't work out the first stop around, gets
Speaker 1: a new spot, gets in a group hot boys, all
Speaker 1: that next thing, you know. Leaning on Antoine Woods. This
Speaker 1: is a question that I kind of already know the
Speaker 1: answer too, but I have to ask it because I
Speaker 1: know fans will ask it. Is Deary and Thompson the
Speaker 1: kind of guy that's good enough that win. Xavier Woods
Speaker 1: is back, that maybe he still works in and maybe
Speaker 1: they have a rotation or that maybe he becomes a
Speaker 1: viable option at some point, maybe even not this year,
Speaker 1: maybe after this year's done to replace m Heath. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen. They really loved that three safety thing in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen when JJ Wilcox was here, they did it
Speaker 1: a lot. I haven't done it as much recently, and
Speaker 1: I think Wilson might be a little might be the
Speaker 1: guy even more ahead of Darry and Thompson. Oh you're
Speaker 1: saying next year, Yeah, I mean, I'm just talking about
Speaker 1: if you're not going to resign it Heath, but I
Speaker 1: think I think, I think they'll look at both of them,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, Yeah, I any. I mean,
Speaker 1: and over the course of the year, they'll throw a
Speaker 1: lot of different stuff out there, But like, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't expect them to be doing a three safety
Speaker 1: look on a heavy basis. I am. I'm long term.
Speaker 1: I'm curious what that means. You know, Jeff Heaths in
Speaker 1: a contract year, he could probably resign him for a
Speaker 1: reasonable amount of money. Like I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: that he's going to be in huge demand or will
Speaker 1: Thompson or Wilson be good enough to move into that
Speaker 1: role next year. I believe Thompson was the first player
Speaker 1: they signed in free agency. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of talk about him and nod Jamay's like they were
Speaker 1: like the first two guys and obvious, you know, and
Speaker 1: there were lots of jokes about it. Well, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was like they're trying to get safety is the whole time.
Speaker 1: I was gonna be the guy, like we got a safety.
Speaker 1: He's a veteran, he was a high pick. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: his name is Darian Thompson and played pretty good. So
Speaker 1: he played he played well Yeah, all right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Antoine Woods. Tell me what his current injury status is,
Speaker 1: and then how comfortable you feel with him being replaced
Speaker 1: by Tristan Hill. Knee injury not expected back. Weird, I've
Speaker 1: been not going to play in this game. Okay, are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Tristan this last game? I thought he
Speaker 1: played well and when Christiana it was Covington really ask
Speaker 1: me as because Tristan was the guy that actually got
Speaker 1: the bump to to actually getting playing. But yeah, talk
Speaker 1: about both of them and how you think they performed
Speaker 1: relativity and got hurt with the you know, grew some
Speaker 1: terrible calf injury, but came back and you will always
Speaker 1: have respect for the calf injury, no doubt, man. And
Speaker 1: during the game knicks like man that calf and he
Speaker 1: can come back late on that thing. Man, it's good
Speaker 1: calf injuries, no joke, but probably getting a much better
Speaker 1: rehab over there than I did. But anyways, I thought
Speaker 1: he played pretty well and and Tristan in the in
Speaker 1: the on those goal line plays, did a good job
Speaker 1: of kind of knife and in there making some plays.
Speaker 1: Danny brought up Thompson's tackle on the goal line. Hill
Speaker 1: blew up the lines that he so he had the
Speaker 1: alley to make the tackle. So, um, I actually looks
Speaker 1: way better than ninety seven. I actually I was just
Speaker 1: looking at the snap counts because I was looking at
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn and I didn't I don't, I didn't look
Speaker 1: at Hills. I'm curious. I need to go back and
Speaker 1: look at that. Like he didn't play a gigantic amount
Speaker 1: of snaps like Covington really did, you know, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: he didn't come off the field a lot, but in
Speaker 1: the opportunities he got, thought he'll look good. How do
Speaker 1: you think with regards to Covington, did you feel comfortable
Speaker 1: about him being the guy? With Antoine Woods out presumably
Speaker 1: more games, especially now facing two teams back to back
Speaker 1: that are really good teams. We had offs of teams.
Speaker 1: When you say comfortable, I mean I want Antoine Woods
Speaker 1: to come back. But like, do you think there's an
Speaker 1: appreciable difference between the two. That's that's a lot of
Speaker 1: dead air. I like, I don't think it's okay. I
Speaker 1: don't know if Antoine Woods is like and you know
Speaker 1: this all pro just Fletcher Cox disrupt the line. But
Speaker 1: I think you want all hands on deck. My point
Speaker 1: was going to be, I don't think it's a dire
Speaker 1: enough situation that they call a guy up from the
Speaker 1: practice squad or something about that say that. I was
Speaker 1: kind of I think they will said let's look into that.
Speaker 1: Let's on the numbers, because they did get into situation
Speaker 1: with obviously Tyrone Crawford is he's probably next on your
Speaker 1: list to talk about. But I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: play this week either, and so he's your best defensive
Speaker 1: end that can slide in. We saw Carrie hyder do
Speaker 1: it um may matter of fact, he played every position
Speaker 1: this last yea um. But you know, when you when
Speaker 1: you get to the game, I mean, could Daniel Wise
Speaker 1: maybe be someone that you think about, because let's just
Speaker 1: look at the numbers. You're gonna you're gonna start with
Speaker 1: Covington and Malik in the inside, with Quinn and d
Speaker 1: Law on the outside, and then you're gonna rotate in
Speaker 1: Your next four guys are gonna be Dorm's, Armstrong, hyder Um,
Speaker 1: Tristan Hill, and then I'm missing Joe Jackson. Uh. I
Speaker 1: guess they haven't done more than eight anyways, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they haven't done nine. Joe Jackson slide down. Yes, he
Speaker 1: hasn't done it a lot, but he can. I'm just
Speaker 1: thinking about what are your options if you lose a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle during this game? Right? They lost a defensive
Speaker 1: tackle during the Week three, and basically you just say
Speaker 1: you got to just go with the hold. And I
Speaker 1: don't know if why is the I mean he's he
Speaker 1: hasn't played. I don't know. Do you think he would
Speaker 1: be ready welcome to the NFL and just go up
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football the Saints. The other thing, too, is
Speaker 1: the way the roster is right now. How comfortable do
Speaker 1: you feel about cutting a guy to move Daniel Wise
Speaker 1: onto the rosters? I mean it's a guard, I'll be
Speaker 1: all right. Well, yeah, I mean you, I mean you
Speaker 1: have Brandon Knight and Adam Remember. I'm just thinking if
Speaker 1: you think Crawford and Woods can be back for Week
Speaker 1: five for maybe you just try to get through safeties.
Speaker 1: Do you need five safeties? Oh? No, For all the
Speaker 1: smack we've talked about him, Cabon Frazier almost blocked a
Speaker 1: punt the other day. Yeah, so I don't think they
Speaker 1: need to do that. I think Covington Hill and these
Speaker 1: other guys being able to move around. I think they
Speaker 1: can get through this game. All right, Let's move on
Speaker 1: to Tyrone Crawford. What's his status? And obviously the guy
Speaker 1: that replaced him is going to probably be his replacement.
Speaker 1: But that's a question for you guys of what happens
Speaker 1: even when he comes back. See that's I don't worry
Speaker 1: about that. People always try to make it a big deal.
Speaker 1: I did. I did look this up. Quinn played more
Speaker 1: than they thought he would and it was sixty five
Speaker 1: percent so and he was third on the D line
Speaker 1: in terms of snaps. The DeMarcus Lawrence got about sixty
Speaker 1: seven and Malie Collins played seventy six. That's probably because
Speaker 1: they're shorthanded at tackle more than anything. So even your
Speaker 1: best linemen are off the field a third of the time,
Speaker 1: so there's room for both of them. Like Quinn. I mean,
Speaker 1: Quinn don't get the start, and you probably have him
Speaker 1: in in obvious pass rushing situations because he's clearly got
Speaker 1: the speed and the bend. I'm that was impressive. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: And but but Tyron Crawford, there will be snaps for
Speaker 1: him to go there. Third and long is going to
Speaker 1: be much better because you know the guys you have
Speaker 1: to play in the interior. I've seen Malik out there.
Speaker 1: They put Hyder in there. You know, from a third
Speaker 1: and long pass rushing situation. If Crawford can be in there,
Speaker 1: that's a much better rusher than you got your two
Speaker 1: you know, Law and m d Law and Quentinn on
Speaker 1: the outside. So uh now when it gets the third
Speaker 1: and four, third and five, I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: the best spot. I still like to have Mileague and
Speaker 1: maybe Woods, you know, in case there's a draw or
Speaker 1: something like that. Because I'll tell you what this week,
Speaker 1: this is not there in Sprowls. I mean, this isn't
Speaker 1: this little, you know, Westbrook type of guy. He's that height,
Speaker 1: but he I mean, he's running right in the middle
Speaker 1: like he's a different animal. This He is a really
Speaker 1: really kamara, a really really good football. It's so impressive
Speaker 1: that it's so impressive to me that coming out of
Speaker 1: college people even questioned whether he could run between the tackles,
Speaker 1: and now you see him being a back that literally
Speaker 1: it is hard to take down. You get a hand
Speaker 1: on him, it's hard to take him down. It's not
Speaker 1: like it's yeah, it's not like it's a situation where
Speaker 1: he's just so slippery, which he's a quick guy, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, like he'll run through a tackle
Speaker 1: like it's it's just amazing to me that that was
Speaker 1: so off for so many people of thinking what he
Speaker 1: really could be. I love it when football people basically
Speaker 1: admit that they don't know everything, because like Pete Carroll
Speaker 1: went on the radio in Seattle on Monday and was like,
Speaker 1: I didn't know he could run between the tackles that,
Speaker 1: and like everybody on Twitter was like, you didn't because
Speaker 1: he's been doing it since he got in the league.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know he split time with Ingram and
Speaker 1: he was kind of the gadget guy, but like he
Speaker 1: can run and his balance might be the best in
Speaker 1: the league. Yeah, I think he's he's as close to
Speaker 1: and he's even quicker. But he's similar to Ladanian Tomlinson.
Speaker 1: I guess when you're talking about just hype not that
Speaker 1: big but yet really hard to bring down. But I
Speaker 1: think that he is faster and quicker than lt Um.
Speaker 1: And yes I call him lt without breeze. I think, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not because of that. It's because I was I
Speaker 1: was one time at a at a Conference or whatever
Speaker 1: with some other teams in the league, and I called
Speaker 1: them LT and the Giants guys were like, listen, there's
Speaker 1: only one LT. I'm like, actually, there's two. No, there's
Speaker 1: one LT. They're both in the Hall of Fame. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're good. Are you gonna say? I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: I think it'll be interesting too if Bridgewater instead of
Speaker 1: Breeze playing. I mean, they still have plenty of weapons
Speaker 1: down the field, but I mean kamaras I mean taking
Speaker 1: a heavy load now, so it'll be a tough test
Speaker 1: for the defense. I to go off that I put
Speaker 1: the I retweeted this one of my favorite football follows
Speaker 1: on Twitter. He cut up all of Teddy's completions against
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, and no disrespect intended to him, because I
Speaker 1: think it's the smart way to play it. Think and
Speaker 1: dunk city, like he maybe took two shots further than
Speaker 1: fifteen yards downfield, like literally just putting it in Kamara's
Speaker 1: hands and Michael Thomas's hands and letting them make the plays.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, it's your first start in three
Speaker 1: years on the road in a tough environment. That makes sense.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to look exactly like that.
Speaker 1: But I just think tackling is going to be such
Speaker 1: a big part of this game because they're going to
Speaker 1: be leaning on the skill players more so than the quarterback,
Speaker 1: whereas obviously when you have breeze, it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a different story. Let's take our final break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we have to talk about Michael Gallop
Speaker 1: and how David Smith is playing replacing him. We'll also
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Speaker 1: is the final segment of the Break Life from the
Speaker 1: s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we're talking about
Speaker 1: some of the injured guys and the guys that have
Speaker 1: replaced them, how well they are playing. We had one
Speaker 1: more I wanted to talk about. Michael Gallup missed this
Speaker 1: last game. He's had surgery. At this point, it's a
Speaker 1: waiting game to see when he will return. Devin Smith
Speaker 1: has been taking his place. What do you guys think
Speaker 1: of his performance? And then going into the future, how
Speaker 1: comfortable do you feel with him being really that guy
Speaker 1: that's opposite of Mark Cooper and one of the top
Speaker 1: three on the scene. I think we kind of disagreed
Speaker 1: last week on how much of an impact it would be.
Speaker 1: I thought that they would do him. I thought Devin
Speaker 1: Smith would step in and nothing against Michael Gallop. But
Speaker 1: I just thought that it would be okay. But Dave
Speaker 1: was like, nah, I wasn't comfortable with that. And I
Speaker 1: think we did see that Gallup was missed more than
Speaker 1: I thought he would be. You think you think that
Speaker 1: what we saw at the beginning of the game was
Speaker 1: a result of Michael Gallup not be because they weren't
Speaker 1: getting open. I mean, like the line was, the line
Speaker 1: was blocking fine, and those guys weren't getting open. And
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard's a really good corner and he got beat
Speaker 1: at times by Mary. It was a great matchup, but
Speaker 1: he won some The other guys really weren't winning early
Speaker 1: in the game. They did later on, but early in
Speaker 1: the game they weren't, and I think Gallop was I
Speaker 1: think that would they missed that? Yeah, I think it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a testament to how good Gallup has
Speaker 1: become and how much work he did. He just he
Speaker 1: looks different out there. And I thought Devin Smith played fine.
Speaker 1: I just looked it up. He had two catches for
Speaker 1: thirty nine yards, and he has a role to play
Speaker 1: and I like having him on this team. And they
Speaker 1: obviously won. Credit to Dak. He still spread the ball around.
Speaker 1: It's not like they missed Gallop so much that the
Speaker 1: offense fell in the tank. But I'm really at the
Speaker 1: risk of overreacting, like I think Gallop could be one
Speaker 1: of the best number twos in the entire league by
Speaker 1: the end of the season. We saw a progression, a
Speaker 1: major progression from last year, and I think not seeing him,
Speaker 1: we realized how much he truly has improved. I think
Speaker 1: I think Smith and Wilson played fine. I mean they're
Speaker 1: obviously not to Gallop's level yet I mean maybe yet.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that'll just improve more chemistry with Dak,
Speaker 1: maybe just getting more time with him. I will say
Speaker 1: I am more relieved from what we saw on the backfield.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously we knew that Zeke could hold his own,
Speaker 1: but also knowing that you have Pollard who you can
Speaker 1: also use as a receiver, and you still have Cob
Speaker 1: I'm not like shaking in my boots over the fact
Speaker 1: that Gallup isn't ready. I think I'll miss him against
Speaker 1: the Saints secondary, but I think they I mean, they
Speaker 1: can obviously still win matchups, but I Gallop just takes
Speaker 1: this thing to another level in my opinion, which is
Speaker 1: and the prognosis was two to four weeks. So I
Speaker 1: get why people are asking, but he's not going to
Speaker 1: be ready for this game, and I just I wonder
Speaker 1: I can't see the Packer game either, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: And that's again I get why people are asking, but
Speaker 1: anytime somebody's cutting into your knee, I think you need
Speaker 1: to use the longer timeline, Like it's never gonna be
Speaker 1: if it's two to four weeks, I just don't believe
Speaker 1: it's ever going to be two when you're literally surgery,
Speaker 1: I just don't think that's real. Forget that, Like if
Speaker 1: they were a normal person likes especially for a position
Speaker 1: that you know, relies on your speed, relies on your cutting,
Speaker 1: and you know, sudden burst and all that stuff, I
Speaker 1: just can't see that that's going to happen. But um
Speaker 1: I will. I'll say another thing about why I think
Speaker 1: he's taken it to another level with Gallop is that
Speaker 1: he's he's a well rounded receiver for a second year guy.
Speaker 1: He's a deep threat, he's a he's an over the
Speaker 1: middle guy. He shows toughness. He's been hit hard at times,
Speaker 1: his hands have been he's had a bad ball catches
Speaker 1: at times. Early in the game when Dak wasn't really on,
Speaker 1: he was making some great throws just well in the air.
Speaker 1: And he's doing all of the things except for scoring touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He hasn't done that just yet, but I mean the
Speaker 1: other guys are doing that. I just think he's very
Speaker 1: well rounded and for a third round pick in his
Speaker 1: second year at of Colorado State, to be like that
Speaker 1: is really impressive. And I think you have to give
Speaker 1: credit to the coaching and staff, and Sanjay was supposed
Speaker 1: to be a great teacher, and I think you're seeing
Speaker 1: that from him, not just coaching stuff. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: credit to them, but he talks to a lot about
Speaker 1: just watching Amari Cooper, watching him in practice, seeing how
Speaker 1: he runs his routes. How can I make that work
Speaker 1: for me? What is he doing to get open so
Speaker 1: many times in games? And I think that's really cool too,
Speaker 1: is they're working together and he's taking advantage and he's
Speaker 1: just he's saying, you know, during practice. I just watch
Speaker 1: Mari a watch and I learned from him. I can't
Speaker 1: believe Oakland wouldn't want him. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: what was going on, don't know how much. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say as good as Cooper is, like
Speaker 1: did you see Mac last night? Like how did you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the NFL teams do so much stupid stuff in
Speaker 1: the name of ego, and it happens here too. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how you chalk that up
Speaker 1: as anything other than ego out there to not want
Speaker 1: to just one, because no matter if you're rebuilding or not,
Speaker 1: I'd love to rebuild around a guy like that. Now,
Speaker 1: of course, they may be looking at it like, well,
Speaker 1: you start thinking about salaries and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: It's better to take lower salaries with guys that will
Speaker 1: grow together than what you have to pay him. But
Speaker 1: I just feel like, when you got a guy like that,
Speaker 1: he's gonna make you. He's gonna get you at least
Speaker 1: a couple of wins. Jet his ability will get you
Speaker 1: a couple wins that you Otherwise we're not going to
Speaker 1: get what were you going to say about Gallup? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I remembered an interview that Stephen Jones
Speaker 1: did after the injury, saying that there were times that
Speaker 1: he's seeing guys with this kind of surgery come back
Speaker 1: a little closer than two weeks time frame than the four,
Speaker 1: which is the only reason that it gave me some
Speaker 1: some months of a possibility that he could be back
Speaker 1: closer to the two rather than the four. But again,
Speaker 1: you just never know what those and what he might
Speaker 1: be talking about may not be right wide receivers where
Speaker 1: you're running, you know, a half marathon every game, right
Speaker 1: like that may be a difference there that he wasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily accounting for. Jerry and Stephen Jones both said that's
Speaker 1: it's just my personal experiences, Like I try to err
Speaker 1: on the side of caution with that. I would be
Speaker 1: I think they play the Jets after the Packers. That's
Speaker 1: the earliest that I would think he could come back.
Speaker 1: But we'll see for the Jets game. Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: I also did have a questionnaire it's kind of on
Speaker 1: the same topic from m Cactus. He says, are you
Speaker 1: gonna keep rolling with six wide receivers on Tavon's back
Speaker 1: and healthy. How does that work when Tavon comes back,
Speaker 1: He's expected to practice Wednesday too. Here we go, so
Speaker 1: again we'll see it's not Wednesday. He hasn't practiced yet.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I mean, what would
Speaker 1: you move Cedric back down because Tavon can return and similar?
Speaker 1: Now I would I mean, Cedric hasn't really given you
Speaker 1: something where you're like, well, we can't play without Cedric, right,
Speaker 1: and that's nothing against him, but I don't think he's
Speaker 1: done anything that made you think, well, Tavon's back, Tavon
Speaker 1: wouldn't be your return guy, right, what would you? I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a good point, but then you know for what,
Speaker 1: I mean, what are we moving him down for? I mean,
Speaker 1: who are you? Maybe you don't have to write that's true,
Speaker 1: you know who? Yeah, you don't have to move Cedric
Speaker 1: to get Tavon onto the field, So maybe you want
Speaker 1: to move up. Maybe that's your answer, right that maybe
Speaker 1: they get your defensive linement up. We got we got there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: may took a little while. We got there. If Tavon's
Speaker 1: if Tavon's completely healthy, I could roll with that and
Speaker 1: that gives you the spot. I mean no disrespect to Cedric.
Speaker 1: I think he's played well the last two weeks. But
Speaker 1: Tavan's got that speed that makes him a weapon in
Speaker 1: the offensive backfield. He can be one of your two
Speaker 1: return men. And you need all hands on deck for
Speaker 1: a game like this. I think you need to be
Speaker 1: able to throw as many different options at that defense
Speaker 1: as you could possibly had have it. I think that's
Speaker 1: just one extra one when you know at some point
Speaker 1: Gifford's going to come back here. Yeah, and when he
Speaker 1: done him doing rehab this morning, is he going to
Speaker 1: be active? So you know, I think you could get
Speaker 1: you could definitely get your ninth linemen on the team,
Speaker 1: but can you get him active. We couldn't get Taco active.
Speaker 1: You know, you couldn't get those guys active. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know how that's going to work out,
Speaker 1: because once these guys started getting injured, it's going to
Speaker 1: be tougher again to come up with these seven and actives. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see when when all these guys are
Speaker 1: injured are not injured, what happens at the safety position.
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about Donovan Wilson but is he
Speaker 1: the guy that sawed man out as far as being
Speaker 1: active just because they're like, he can still grow into
Speaker 1: the position. These other guys are playing force right now.
Speaker 1: It can't be as good as Cavon on special teams.
Speaker 1: That's that's why Cavon's here. I could absolutely see him
Speaker 1: being a healthy scratch, much to the consternation of his
Speaker 1: rapidly growing fan base. All right, um, let's let's give
Speaker 1: the second question here from your seven days from Twitter.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you guys know about this,
Speaker 1: but he asked, is there any truth to the Jamal
Speaker 1: Adams rooms? And really, let's kind of extend this out
Speaker 1: a little bit more of just is this a situation
Speaker 1: where this is even an option for the Cowboys based
Speaker 1: upon what they currently have and where they currently sit
Speaker 1: with regards to their salary. Nobody wants El Presidente Lsu
Speaker 1: Tiger Jamal Adams to be here more than I do.
Speaker 1: But just for the record, he like he unfollowed the
Speaker 1: Jets on Instagram actually and what? And then he went on.
Speaker 1: Diana Raussini, the ESPN reporter, cleared up with him and
Speaker 1: he's like, I've never followed them, which maybe that's a lie.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not, but like need more, I need more
Speaker 1: substantiation to believe that that. I mean, Jalen Ramsey's literally
Speaker 1: out here being like I want to be traded. I'm
Speaker 1: not coming in. I'm sick, and Jaell Adams hasn't done
Speaker 1: any of that. Just to be clear, there is a
Speaker 1: tweet from Jamal Adams that's circulating right now. It was
Speaker 1: actually from twenty sixteen where he said something about the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. He tagged the Dallas Cowboys and said something
Speaker 1: like I'm going to check something out or whatever and
Speaker 1: tagged the Cowboys. My understanding is app was a tweet
Speaker 1: that happened a long time. There are very much resurfacing.
Speaker 1: People are thinking, oh my god, yes, he comes to
Speaker 1: Dallas all the time. He literally grew up fifteen miles away.
Speaker 1: He's he comes here to work out. He's visited the
Speaker 1: hebron team practices and stuff like he was the kid
Speaker 1: that was playing when we went to that high school.
Speaker 1: You and I watched him play senior in high school.
Speaker 1: Really good in high school. Yes, he took over, but Dave,
Speaker 1: you know, following Alla shoes like that kid is going
Speaker 1: to LSU And I'm like okay, and then yeah, I
Speaker 1: know y'all old, Yeah, that was that was my first
Speaker 1: huh not me, Yeah, you're now oh the other the
Speaker 1: other the other thing he did, I forgot, um, he
Speaker 1: got an I hate the fact that I know this.
Speaker 1: It's so lame. Like he got a new iPhone and
Speaker 1: he took a picture of it and it was like
Speaker 1: new number soon and he just so happened to position
Speaker 1: he just so happened to position the phone next to
Speaker 1: his tattoo of the Dallas Stars logo because he's from
Speaker 1: Dallas or was it? I mean no, it's not a mistake.
Speaker 1: But literally it could mean eighteen different things. What year
Speaker 1: is he in? This is his third season? Is third,
Speaker 1: he's got two years left under rookie. This is the
Speaker 1: guy that's been to the Pro Bowl one or two times?
Speaker 1: One one time has he been? Was overall? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think he was all pro. He's a good player.
Speaker 1: He's really very good player. All right, would you do
Speaker 1: a one for him? But again, he there's no proof
Speaker 1: that he is seeking a trade. That's the thing that
Speaker 1: I'm because with Ramsey and Fitzpatrick, like their agents put
Speaker 1: that out there, right, This is just like would you
Speaker 1: like to have a great player on your team, of
Speaker 1: course I would. Yeah, do you want Tom Brady? Maybe? So? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What are they asking? I mean, yeah, I'd probably give
Speaker 1: up a first round pick and you get so you got.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't you have as mini games left in this
Speaker 1: season as so, sorry, thirteen games left, Then you got
Speaker 1: him again next year, Then you got him again on
Speaker 1: his fifth year option. So two cheap years and one
Speaker 1: still kind of cheap year because safety salaries aren't crazy anyway,
Speaker 1: And then you know you're gonna probably be a definitely
Speaker 1: in the lower half. I think of you know, anywhere
Speaker 1: from sixteen to maybe twenty seven, twenty eight. If you
Speaker 1: would do it for Minca Fitzpatrick, I don't see any
Speaker 1: reason why you wouldn't do it for the only thing
Speaker 1: at this point is and this is not about Jamal Adams.
Speaker 1: This is just overall, with all the money that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to be shelling out here to these
Speaker 1: guys on these second deals, your life blow is going
Speaker 1: to be the draft. You're gonna need to be able
Speaker 1: to get some really good talent in here well cheaply true,
Speaker 1: for the full five years, not for two years, for
Speaker 1: the full four or five years. True, you need that. True,
Speaker 1: But we just saw that when you pick twenty eight,
Speaker 1: you could he could be on the street in two years. Yep.
Speaker 1: But we also saw Travis Frederick. I understand, well, I
Speaker 1: mean there're been other guys that have been late in
Speaker 1: the first round that you hit on, right, So I
Speaker 1: mean he's got a drafting. But see, that's why I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to trade for Jalen Ramsey because one I
Speaker 1: have to believe it would cost you multiple picks, and two,
Speaker 1: you don't get that much time with him. It's just
Speaker 1: like a Maria money's going up as Jamedia Adams gonna do.
Speaker 1: What you know Zeke did is it might not even
Speaker 1: get that fit that those two years about. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe he's gonna. I don't think Jamal
Speaker 1: Adams is good enough to hold out two years ahead
Speaker 1: of time. Zeke is like the only person that's maybe
Speaker 1: a year, but maybe a year, and then only you're
Speaker 1: going to get that one year for cheap. My whole
Speaker 1: point is just that you get I believe right now.
Speaker 1: I believe right now I need four to five years
Speaker 1: in order to make it work with all the guys,
Speaker 1: I have to pay. I need four to five years
Speaker 1: on all those guys I'm bringing in. So I need
Speaker 1: that first round pick because that first round pick is
Speaker 1: gonna be my life. Blook. That's how I'm going to
Speaker 1: keep replenishing my team. I'm with you. I wouldn't give
Speaker 1: up multiple picks for him. Yeah, but I'd be sorely
Speaker 1: tempted to do. Okay, okay, if he wasn't your LSU
Speaker 1: guy would No. I'm definitely biased. He's one of money true,
Speaker 1: but good point. Jamal Adams is one of my all
Speaker 1: time favorite Tigers. Um. But okay, so you get thirteen games.
Speaker 1: Then next year, so you get twenty I can't do Matt.
Speaker 1: That's twenty nine games. Get twenty nine games before you
Speaker 1: have to worry about that. And then there's still the
Speaker 1: assuming he doesn't hold up, assuming he doesn't hold out early,
Speaker 1: and then ideally if he doesn't hold out at all,
Speaker 1: you get almost three complete seasons with him. I think
Speaker 1: that would be worth it. All right, We appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys for the record. He has not requested to track.
Speaker 1: I'm just yes, we're not tampering. We're not talking about this. No,
Speaker 1: this is just this is just one of those fun
Speaker 1: conjectures to throwing stuff at the wall. Right. We appreciate you, guys, Jonas.
Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow. Yeah, there's plenty of that. Eleven
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