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Speaker 3: Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, screening live from the Dallas

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Speaker 4: Straight past Kid says Touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda,

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Speaker 2: and Kyle Yeomans.

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Speaker 3: As we welcome you into the SWBC studios at the

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Speaker 3: Star in Frisco, we have Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, Chris

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Speaker 3: Beam in the back of Kyle Yeomans. Not John Machoda

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Speaker 3: today because the Cowboys are on the practice field and

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Speaker 3: John works for the athletic and he's got other duties

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Speaker 3: to attend to. But he'll be back at some point,

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Speaker 3: probably tomorrow, I would assume, yeah, I would assume tomorrow

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Speaker 3: he'll be back. But we've got a wild schedule this week.

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Speaker 3: It is all over the place. Everybody trying to find

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Speaker 3: the rhythm in the building, somebody trying to find the

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Speaker 3: rhythm on the practice field. I mean, it's really kind

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Speaker 3: of all over the place here in week one. But

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Speaker 3: that's that's what it's supposed to be. Like, ye, you're

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Speaker 3: supposed to be finding that rhythm right now.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, I'm trying to find my rhythm. I had

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Speaker 5: woke up a little late this morning and missed the

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Speaker 5: press conference. That's that's my rhythm today. You know what.

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Speaker 3: We got to give you the flowers though, where the

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Speaker 3: flowers are due because our man Nick Harras signed up

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Speaker 3: for the gym yesterday.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Cowboys fit. Let's go remember right here? Boom boom.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they give you a talking Cowboys discount.

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Speaker 1: You ask him about it.

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Speaker 3: They did.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, completely free, sweet non plan.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely not see Isaiah standback discount.

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Speaker 1: I get charged double well.

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Speaker 6: Because you're like two people in there.

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Speaker 7: You know that.

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Speaker 6: It can't charge him the same.

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Speaker 3: It takes up twice the amount of weights.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 9: I was in awe Than this past weekend for a

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Speaker 9: soccer tournament from my daughter, and there was a Cowboys

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Speaker 9: fit right by the hotel and I was like, Oh,

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Speaker 9: that'd be dope if I could just go in there.

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Speaker 5: It was in like Hudder right like North Austin, right

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Speaker 5: off the tour. I saw that too, when I was

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Speaker 5: at Austin this past week. That is hilarious because I

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Speaker 5: have had.

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Speaker 6: This down here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we have a much Yeah you didn't meet

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Speaker 3: up early enough though, uh down down in Austin. I

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Speaker 3: don't know what's on the opening here they're open, really.

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Speaker 6: I think it was like five to ten here though.

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Speaker 1: That's good. It wasn't that in Austin. Think they open

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Speaker 1: to like seven? All right, interesting, that's late.

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Speaker 3: We got to get our Austin nights on it. Get

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Speaker 3: them up at X baby the ars in Austin.

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Speaker 1: That's what it is, everybody probably.

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Speaker 3: All right, We've got plenty to talk about because the Cowboys,

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Speaker 3: of course, are on the practice field as we speak.

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Speaker 3: We'll even pop out in the middle of the break

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Speaker 3: and see if we can see anything during the media segment.

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Speaker 3: But uh, Nick, any news and notes to kind of

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Speaker 3: really hit going into uh this Thursday, because we heard

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Speaker 5: Right, Yes, So this morning Mike McCarthy said about the

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Speaker 5: same with all of the guys that are battling injury.

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Speaker 5: With Tyler Smith. He said that if he practices on Saturday,

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Speaker 5: then he's gonna have a chance to go on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: So it looks like the goal is to get him

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Speaker 6: But he said if he practices Saturday, he's gonna give

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Speaker 5: Today, he'll be working with the rehab group again. Donovan Wilson,

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Speaker 5: who's still battling his little calf issue, he actually won't

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Speaker 5: be in the building today. Sounds like he's having a newborn.

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Speaker 5: The third player to have a baby on the team

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Speaker 3: Hopefully that's all good luck.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, hopefully it is. So hopefully he comes with

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Speaker 5: It's like here, dad, here's a new And then Sam Williams,

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Speaker 5: who's dealing with a turf toe, he'll be off to

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Speaker 3: Liked the mobility I saw from Sam Williams yesterday when

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Speaker 3: he was working though he looked like he was moving well.

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Speaker 3: He was testing out the toe. He was kind of

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Speaker 3: working around a little bit. Turf to is an interesting

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Speaker 3: No, I've never had a diagnosed turf toe. I've heard

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Speaker 3: don't know if that's even it because it wasn't as

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Speaker 6: But have you no, no, no, imous you were leading

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Speaker 6: into something.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no.

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Speaker 6: I was just curious what that's like.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I probably don't want to know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, I definitely don't want to know.

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Speaker 5: Let me knock on what actually.

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Speaker 3: Want to go back to Tyler Smith though, and the

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Speaker 3: first injury report was out yesterday. Jordan Lewis was a

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Speaker 3: last week. But Tyler Smith in the rain on the hamstring.

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Speaker 3: You kind of like perked up whenever Nick said that

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean hamstrings suck altogether for skill set positions specifically, right,

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Speaker 9: that's typically where you hear those soft tissue injuries.

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Speaker 1: But it's pretty rare that you hear about those.

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Speaker 9: Soft tissue injuries in offensivelignment, being that that office alignment

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Speaker 9: Your hamstring has to lock up, right, It now has

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Speaker 1: And when you have that's tough enough.

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Speaker 9: When you already have a strained hamstring, right, that's already

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Speaker 9: a big question marking can you even accomplish that? But

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Speaker 9: And one of the things that can add to or

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Speaker 1: That can be very aggravating for somebody who already has

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Speaker 5: Does it help anymore being on turf.

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Speaker 9: It really doesn't even matter. I mean, if you lose

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Speaker 9: you're on turf and you know your cleats just don't

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Speaker 1: Either way is not good. It's not good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And is that is his right leg or left leg?

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Speaker 6: I believe it's his left hamstring.

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Speaker 3: It's hard to tell because they haven't designated it, and

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Speaker 11: Speculation off the way he was hobbling me for sure,

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Speaker 11: so we don't We don't know, all right, But if

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Speaker 11: it is the left side, that's more important than the

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Speaker 3: How we talked about this preview yesterday. But I mean,

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Speaker 3: the more that I look at the defensive front for

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Speaker 3: And that is actually our our preview today is we're

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Speaker 3: previewing the Cowboys offense versus the Giants defense and the

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Speaker 3: fact that you might not have your strongest outside of

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Speaker 3: Tyron Smith, your strongest guy up front that worries me significantly.

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Speaker 3: Should on a scale of one to push the panic button.

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Speaker 3: Where are you right now?

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Speaker 1: Pretty close to panic?

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Speaker 3: Pretty close to the panic button? Pretty are you like

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Speaker 3: hovering over the pants? But sneeze, it's going off.

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Speaker 1: I'm going on, Yeah, it's going off.

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Speaker 3: Wow, you're really close.

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Speaker 1: What about you?

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Speaker 5: I had a dream about Chaz Green last night, did

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Speaker 5: you really? It's not that bad.

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Speaker 6: It's not that bad, but it's just purely a dream.

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Speaker 5: But no, if Dexter Lawrence is going up against a

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Speaker 6: They better hope that that quick game is ready to go.

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Speaker 6: And hey, this offense is built for that, so maybe

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Speaker 5: But I don't know.

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Speaker 6: How are you going to establish the running game to

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Speaker 6: the left side? Probably not at all.

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Speaker 3: But I don't know.

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Speaker 5: It's tough because you also have the factor in the

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Speaker 5: fact that Tyrann's as you know, I guess he's going

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Speaker 5: into a season that we're kind of expecting him to

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Speaker 5: that throughout the year. This is kind of a prove

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Speaker 5: it year for him in a sense, just because you know,

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Speaker 5: he's coming off of a couple of major injuries. He

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Speaker 6: Show that that ability is back.

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Speaker 5: So if he's having to work with a guy that

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Speaker 5: he hasn't worked with at all during camp at left guard,

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Speaker 5: that's that's gonna be tough to run to.

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Speaker 3: That left side.

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Speaker 9: And I know a lot of people out there whenever

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Speaker 9: we start giving flowers to the opposing teams, they like

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Speaker 9: to get a little angry because.

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Speaker 1: It's like, Oh, here you go, you guys are talking

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Speaker 1: about how good the other team is. Listen up this.

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Speaker 9: These guys are professionals, and there's levels to the professionals.

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Speaker 9: These two interior defense alignment are some of the best

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Speaker 9: in the business. Yeah, that's just puer facts. Okay, I

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Speaker 9: don't care how you feel about it. I don't care

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Speaker 9: how much you're you're a fan. These two guys are

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Speaker 9: a problem with your starters. Full a full problem with

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Speaker 9: your starters. Right, a challenge every single down. Sometimes they'll win,

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Speaker 9: sometimes you win. Right, that's under the battle. That's how

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Speaker 9: good these guys are. Well, now we were talking about

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Speaker 9: potential backup advantage goes to the other side of the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, does it make you feel any better the fact

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Speaker 1: For Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 6: It's because I.

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Speaker 8: Have it.

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Speaker 3: You gotta have it, have its tie.

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Speaker 6: I can't do a tie. It either has to win

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Speaker 3: Say it's play.

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Speaker 1: That's what it was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah for four and a half? Is the over? Under?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Under?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Under that you have a responsibility to get your your

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Speaker 6: I think I'm going over there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Here fifteen offenses.

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Speaker 3: Is he ready and built for that?

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Speaker 3: What is your confidence level?

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Speaker 9: I don't think that they're gonna be running necessarily straight

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Speaker 9: But I don't think that's gonna be their primary.

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Speaker 1: Man. I foresee him getting a lot of screens this year.

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Speaker 3: of the Dallas Cowboys. Welcome back in everybody here on

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Speaker 3: this Thursday edition, Cowboys out on the practice field. Nick

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Speaker 3: Harris went out there and tried to find a bit

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Speaker 3: of a nugget. Were they stretching?

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Speaker 1: I saw, I did it?

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Speaker 3: Againscap strike too.

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Speaker 5: All I saw was Cavante Turbin returning upunt.

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Speaker 1: So oh was it lightning fast? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, speedy.

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Speaker 5: He's all the way in New Mexico by now.

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Speaker 3: He's going for six this week. There you go. Nick

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Speaker 3: Harris has it, and well we'll see you next week

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Speaker 3: here on Talking Cowboys. No great, So we got got

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Speaker 3: some special teams work going on on outside of course,

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Speaker 3: like we talked about yesterday, if you missed the show yesterday,

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Speaker 3: it was a lot of fun breaking down the Cowboys

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Speaker 3: defense versus the Giants offense. And I mean this is

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Speaker 3: the portion of the year where the media doesn't get

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Speaker 3: to see practice.

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Speaker 1: Really.

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Speaker 3: You get to see the stretching, a little bit of

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Speaker 3: special teams, maybe an individual drill depending on the day,

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Speaker 3: and then you're kicked out and you can't really talk

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Speaker 3: about anything else. So part of that, yeah, part of that,

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Speaker 3: that schedule and the update along the way. But we'll

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Speaker 3: continue to keep you updated. Of course, if you have

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Speaker 3: anything to know about from practice throughout the gear. All Right,

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Speaker 3: we talked about it going into the break. I want

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Speaker 3: you to rank top three one, two and three and

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Speaker 3: give me a reason why these three guys are your

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Speaker 3: most confident parts of the offense going into Sunday night

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Speaker 3: football against the Giants.

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Speaker 9: I'll start with you, Isaiah Tony Pollard. Okay, his ability

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Speaker 9: to be dynamic?

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Speaker 3: Is he ranking one or three?

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Speaker 1: He's one?

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Speaker 9: Okay, Tony Poller's number one. I have full confidence and

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Speaker 9: Tony Pollard. I also have full confidence in Ced Lamb,

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Speaker 9: Ceedee Lamb and be Cooked.

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Speaker 3: Can they be a pair? I will pretty much the

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Speaker 3: same lie. I will allow it just just so we

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Speaker 3: can get a third things in there too. And then

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Speaker 3: my number three is going to be Zach Martin. I

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Speaker 3: was about to say no love for Zack Martin. So okay,

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Speaker 3: so one Pollard, two and three I mean two and

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Speaker 3: two two A and two B is Lamb and Cooks,

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Speaker 3: and then three is Zach Martin.

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Speaker 5: You had the same guys, I had just a different

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Speaker 5: order Zach Martin one two CD, and then I was

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Speaker 5: gonna go Brandon Cooks three. But ifore pairing them together

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Speaker 5: two A, two B yeah, yeah, and then I'll put

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Speaker 5: Pollard three for sure.

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Speaker 3: Isn't that nice to say that there is a one

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Speaker 3: A and one B in terms of your guys at

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Speaker 3: wide receiver? I mean, when's the last time you could

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Speaker 3: realistically say that? And it's This isn't a knock on

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Speaker 3: CD Lamb. He's clearly the number one, but the fact

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Speaker 3: that Brandon Cooks could certainly elevate this offense to the

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Speaker 3: point where you're saying, okay, he could be at number

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Speaker 3: one in any other offense along the league. That's exciting.

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Speaker 5: Even towards the end of Amriy Cooper's tenure here, it

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Speaker 5: was still Ceedee Lamb too, because the conversation was so

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Speaker 5: hot going into CD's year as the guy can he

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Speaker 5: be a wide receiver one? I mean, I feel like

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Speaker 5: we knew that answer, but.

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Speaker 6: The conversation was still there.

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Speaker 5: So it feels a little bit elevated this time with

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Speaker 5: Brandon Cooks, but we got a seat on the field though.

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Speaker 5: On field results are the only thing that matters, so

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Speaker 5: I really hope Cooks can can have a good year

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Speaker 5: as well. But I'm really excited about it. I'm really

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Speaker 5: excited about it.

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Speaker 3: Which wide receiver corps. Did you have more confidence in

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Speaker 3: going into the year twenty twenty where you had Mary Cooper,

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Speaker 3: he had rookie ceed Lamb, Michael Gallup completely healthy or

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Speaker 3: this one where you've got Ceedee Lamb, Brandon Cooks and

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Speaker 3: then you've got a make sure of Gallup and Tolbert

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Speaker 3: At that three and four.

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Speaker 5: Sun question, I would say the twenty twenty group only

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Speaker 5: because it was a little bit more depth there.

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Speaker 6: But it's close, ed Zedric Wills it in the fold two.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, exactly, et cetera. That was the year, a

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Speaker 5: really good year. Yeah, he had like two touchdowns and

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Speaker 5: talk about going into the year.

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Speaker 6: Sure, yeah, but it's close.

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Speaker 1: It's close.

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Speaker 6: It's really close.

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Speaker 9: Where would you put them? It's good radio, Yeah, it's great.

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Speaker 9: Uh yeah Coop and CD.

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Speaker 3: Yeah twenty twenty. Yeah, it's close though, like it's a

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Speaker 3: decision that has to be made. There were I mean

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Speaker 3: there was talk that year that it was going to

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Speaker 3: be three one thousand yard receivers. Yeah, and now you've

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Speaker 3: got the chance to turn things around and not have

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Speaker 3: uh Coop in the fold, but still have the same

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Speaker 3: level excite.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, be Cooks is right there. I mean, if not

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Speaker 9: more he's had. I don't know what they don't know

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Speaker 9: what a Mario Cooper's stat line is in terms of

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Speaker 9: thousand of ur seasons, but probably about the same. It's

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Speaker 9: probably about the same. But yeah, I mean those guys

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Speaker 9: are interchangeable. One is just bigger than the other.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 3: With all of this being said, though we haven't even

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Speaker 3: mentioned Dak Prescott at all in terms of confidence level,

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Speaker 3: where would your confidence level rang for Dak in this game?

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Speaker 3: This is a quarterback who has had plenty of success

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Speaker 3: against the New York Giants, and we've heard that storyline

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Speaker 3: all week, how he's never lost to the New York

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Speaker 3: Giants as a starter, and YadA, YadA, YadA. But do

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Speaker 3: you have that same level of confidence going into the

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Speaker 3: year and what would it take for him to have

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Speaker 3: a successful game? What would it take for him to

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Speaker 3: for you to look at Dak after the case and say,

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Speaker 3: all right, that was a good night. Other than a win.

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Speaker 1: There's two things that I'm looking for from Deck.

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Speaker 9: I'd say three, Okay, I would say number one obviously

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Speaker 9: his decision making, especially in this offense. You're gonna have

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Speaker 9: to be very decisive as to let's say, what side

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Speaker 9: of the field. There's gonna be times when he comes

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Speaker 9: in line of scrimmage he's got to decide which side

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Speaker 9: he wants to throw the ball to.

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Speaker 1: That's how this offense is really built.

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Speaker 9: You're not gonna have time a lot of times with

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Speaker 9: these route concepts, depending on what down the distance of course,

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Speaker 9: to be able to look front side, go with one

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Speaker 9: to two and then flip backside and trying to come

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Speaker 9: to two, three, and four. You just don't have that

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Speaker 9: time because these routes aren't as deep as they have

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Speaker 9: been with killing Moore in the past. So he's got

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Speaker 9: to be very decisive, basic and identa being able to

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Speaker 9: identify the coverage and make the right decision in terms

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Speaker 9: of which concept he wants to go to. The second

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Speaker 9: thing I want to see out of Dak Prescott is

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Speaker 9: I want to see his ball location severely increase. And

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Speaker 9: I nitpick obviously being an analyst and being a former quarterback,

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Speaker 9: slash whatever else you want to say, ball location matters,

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Speaker 9: and I say even more so in this offense because

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Speaker 9: guys are going to be getting the ball in their

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Speaker 9: hand and being expected to do something with it, being

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Speaker 9: that the ball is not going to get pushed down

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Speaker 9: the field as much. Okay, aside from play action, getting

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Speaker 9: the ball on a slant route on my front shoulder

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Speaker 9: versus my back shoulder makes all the difference in the

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Speaker 9: world between getting tackled for four a five yard game

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Speaker 9: or being able to actually shed up a tackle and

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Speaker 9: being able to turn some yak into something right. So

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Speaker 9: that's number two, and then number three. I want to

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Speaker 9: see him get out of his comfort zone and utilize

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Speaker 9: his legs to help move the chains. Yeah, those are

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Speaker 9: the three things that I'm looking for out of Dak Prescott.

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Speaker 9: So decision making, identify, being able to properly identify a

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Speaker 9: coverage and make their proper concept decision off of that

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Speaker 9: number two ball location. Number three, utilize his legs to

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Speaker 9: advance his team down the field.

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Speaker 6: I love all those things.

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Speaker 5: I talked about it in Nick at Knight on Tuesday Night.

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Speaker 5: There's gonna be a lot of newness when he hits

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Speaker 5: the field. We've talked about it during the preseason, them

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Speaker 5: not being able to get on the field during the

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Speaker 5: preseason for even her driver to It's gonna be Brandon

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Speaker 5: Cook's first snap, It's gonna be Dak's first nap with

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Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy and his ear Jake Ferguson and Tony Poller.

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Speaker 5: The first snaps is the full time starters. Hopefully if

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Speaker 5: Tyler Smith does play, it's the uh, it's it's the

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Speaker 5: first time all five are upfront together. Well still didn't

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Speaker 5: see that at all last year. So a lot of

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Speaker 5: newness around that. And DAK is the focal point of

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Speaker 5: all of it, because Dak is is what make the machine,

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Speaker 5: is what's gonna make the machine run. I guess yeah,

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Speaker 5: I love I love Isaiah's stance on not taking anything

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Speaker 5: statistically because then I can take the statistics that you

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Speaker 5: have all day. But I really loved everything you said.

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Speaker 5: I think a healthy game for DAK would be I

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Speaker 5: hate to say one turnover, but I would love zero turnovers.

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Speaker 5: I think that would be ideal. But just an efficient day,

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Speaker 5: efficient day over sixty five to seventy percent passing, making

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Speaker 5: good decisions, two hundred and eighty plus yards and a

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Speaker 5: W I think that's all you could ask for.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think if you're able to stack those things together,

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Speaker 3: even with one turnover, I think you'll still be okay.

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Speaker 3: You get the win you passed efficiently. Maybe one gets

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Speaker 3: tipped or something like that.

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Speaker 9: You're fine, That's that's how I see turnovers happening for

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Speaker 9: Deak this year, tipped.

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Speaker 3: If that's the case, I mean he throws in the

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Speaker 3: tight windows. I mean that's kind of his thing. He

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Speaker 3: passed into a tight window twenty percent of the time

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Speaker 3: last season, highest debating quarterbacks since twenty twenty one. So,

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Speaker 3: I mean you talk about it specifically like he will

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Speaker 3: throw into tight coverage, But that goes back to ball placement.

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Speaker 3: That goes back to exactly what Isaiah's talking about. It's

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Speaker 3: not always about whether or not the throw was just caught.

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Speaker 3: It's about where it was caught, how it sets your

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Speaker 3: receivers up for success and how their position to either

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Speaker 3: take a hit, hold onto the football or go down

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Speaker 3: and then those are or get out of bound. And

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Speaker 3: ball location is non verbal communication. Sure, Ball location for

666
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Speaker 3: those that don't know, is nonverbal communication. How is that

667
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,920
Speaker 3: from from a quarterback to your wide receiver.

668
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Speaker 9: So I know we're on one shots right now, right,

669
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Speaker 9: but if we're ever to go to a white shot, right,

670
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 9: Kyle is sitting on my right hand side, right, So

671
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 9: if Kyle, if I'm quarterback, okay, so come from this

672
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 9: if Kyle is running a slant route. Okay, if Kyle's

673
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 9: running a slant, he's coming in. If I put the

674
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 9: ball at that point on his left shoulder, right, that's

675
00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 9: a that's pretty much a back shoulder throw right. So

676
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 9: it's a bad ball because bad things can happen. He's

677
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:49,800
Speaker 9: moving that way. I'm putting the ball this way, and

678
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 9: if I put it right here he can catch it.

679
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 9: He's probably gonna get tackled right. The probability of him

680
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:55,719
Speaker 9: spinning out of it that is slim to none. If

681
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 9: I put it right here and it's too hot right,

682
00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 9: meaning there's too much too much fire on it, it's

683
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 9: going to bounce off his shoulder pad pop up, and

684
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Speaker 9: now there's probably at least three guys from the opposing

685
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Speaker 9: team that are in the area that can get that ball.

686
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Speaker 9: That's how a four C interception is happening this year

687
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 9: for Dak, He's going to have at least one right,

688
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 9: so he's That's how for seed thoes happening. If I

689
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 9: put it on his front shoulder, not only do I

690
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,479
Speaker 9: put him in a better position to avoid the guy

691
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Speaker 9: who's probably sitting on his back on his back hip,

692
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 9: because now he's outstretched. Okay, he can grab the ball,

693
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 9: the guy can't reach it. But also if that guy

694
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Speaker 9: tries to go for the tackle or tries to go

695
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 9: for this, to go for the PBu and missus. Now

696
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 9: all of a sudden, you have opportunity to keep running.

697
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

698
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Speaker 9: Right, And a lot of times, if you're coming on

699
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 9: a slant route, I could probably get it behind that

700
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 9: either in between or behind that second level defender. So

701
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 9: now if I catch you on the run, now all

702
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 9: of a sudden, you're on that backside safety and you

703
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 9: have one guy to be Yeah, and you'll.

704
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 5: Be able to know what the perfect ball placement is

705
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 5: pre snapp but just based on how how much leverage

706
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 5: I'd be given Kyle here. But I think an interesting,

707
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 5: an interesting wrinkle that I guess has been talked about

708
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 5: during preseason and even before that is Dak and the

709
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 5: offense are focusing on these tipped interceptions. They don't want

710
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 5: to have as many as they did last year. But

711
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 5: with this offense being so predicated on the short game

712
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 5: and getting you know, quick gains and those slants, working

713
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 5: those together and maybe quick out routes, it feels like

714
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Speaker 5: it increases the chances even just because you're going to

715
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 5: be fitting balls in the tight windows and it's gonna

716
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Speaker 5: be coming in hot regardless.

717
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Speaker 6: But how do they negate that?

718
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Speaker 9: So last year the issue that Dak had far as

719
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 9: his interceptions, were primarily decision making. He was for sure

720
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Speaker 9: he was having decision making errors and that's what was

721
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Speaker 9: causing the interceptions. This year, the probability is probably not

722
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Speaker 9: going to be decision making because decisions are going to

723
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Speaker 9: be relatively easy to make based upon this style of offense.

724
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Speaker 9: Pre snap, pre snap, okay, pre snap, post snap, breed

725
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Speaker 9: boom you're looking for you're looking for analy You'll be

726
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 9: able to come up to the line of scrimmage, analyze

727
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Speaker 9: what's going on, digest that information. So I got my

728
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 9: pre snap breed wants a ball snap. I'm looking for

729
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 9: confirmation and affirmation right now. I need to know, okay,

730
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 9: that what I saw before the snap is what it is. Okay,

731
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:58,800
Speaker 9: now I know exactly what side to go to because

732
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 9: this concept is created to beat that defense, right, So

733
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 9: the decision making should be relatively easier in comparison to

734
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 9: last year. Kellen Moore was doing some pretty complex stuff

735
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 9: in the beginning of the year. He eased way off

736
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 9: towards the second half of the season, and that's why

737
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 9: he saw some of that stuff cut back.

738
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Speaker 1: But I lost my training out there for one second.

739
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, But the.

740
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Speaker 9: Ball placement to that point, that aspect has to turn

741
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 9: up for him. Now, that has to turn up, and

742
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 9: that's ball placement. That's being able to have touch on

743
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 9: the ball for certain throws. Everything can't come out hot.

744
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 9: You gotta have some touch. You gotta have some goal

745
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 9: post throws, as I like to call it, which is

746
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 9: a little bit of loft, be able to get it

747
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 9: up over a goal post, drop it back down into

748
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 9: the bucket. It's a whole lot of little intricate aspects

749
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 9: to being able to deliver a nice ball. But that's

750
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 9: the emphasis for Dak this year. That has to be

751
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 9: it this year. And if he can figure that out,

752
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 9: I think he's good. But I think he can cut

753
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 9: his interceptional down to eight.

754
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be great. I think everybody would be pretty

755
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 3: excited about that. That's less than one every two games, right, Yeah,

756
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 3: So that'd be pretty nice. There's that math North Texas quick,

757
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 3: really quick.

758
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 5: One more question, how much more pre snap was he

759
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,280
Speaker 5: having to identify last year versus this year.

760
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 6: It feels like there was a lot.

761
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 5: Going on post snap for him last year, and that's

762
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 5: why things were getting complicated at times. So if you

763
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 5: had to put a percentage on just like I don't

764
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 5: know the looks that he was having to identify pre

765
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 5: snap last year as opposed to this year, is this

766
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 5: is probably like a thirty percent.

767
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 6: Why a gap there?

768
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: No, easily like forty to.

769
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 9: Seven because last year, I mean, quarterbacks always have to

770
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 9: read coverage, but the receivers were having to read coverage

771
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 9: and their routes were being dictated based upon that coverage.

772
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 9: So for instance, you go up there, you line up,

773
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 9: you have anywhere from two to three routes that you

774
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 9: could run, and they're all depending on what the coverage is.

775
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 9: So if you and a quarterback aren't seeing the same

776
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 9: coverage because they're disguising the crap out of it, and

777
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 9: all of a sudden, you think it's three and he

778
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 9: thinks it's two invert or something like that, something weird. Now,

779
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,560
Speaker 9: all of a sudden, you guys are running. You're running

780
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 9: a different route than he's expecting. He's putting the ball

781
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 9: where you're not at right, So there's a lot of confusion.

782
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 3: There.

783
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Speaker 9: So that took place last year. This year I foresee

784
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 9: them being, hey, this is your route. You're running a slant,

785
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 9: you're running a dig on the backside, Like that's what

786
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 9: it is now, Dak. Based upon those routes, what is

787
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 9: the coverage? What route beats that coverage go to that side?

788
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,720
Speaker 3: And there's times where that ball placement can be nonverbal

789
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 3: communication on where to go with the ball depending on

790
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 3: where the receiver is. Because if going back to where

791
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 3: we were talking about with the slant, you're not going

792
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 3: to throw it on my back shoulder on purpose on

793
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 3: a slant.

794
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,959
Speaker 9: Not unless somebody's right and you're abother to take your

795
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 9: head off and it's like third and two.

796
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 3: You're trying to take it incompletion more than anything. Yeah,

797
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 3: But if I'm face to you, if I'm facing the

798
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage'm running a dig or a curl, and

799
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 3: I'm turning around and I'm at you, throwing it on

800
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,240
Speaker 3: my left shoulder means go left, go left. If you're

801
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:35,719
Speaker 3: throwing it all my right shoulder, that I mean goes

802
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 3: go right. That stuff you can see on film with

803
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott that wasn't always perfect now compared to some

804
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 3: of the other quarterbacks, some of the other starting quarterbacks

805
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 3: in the NFL. He was still better than most of them.

806
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 3: But when you turn talk about the interceptions and things

807
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 3: of the sort, a lot of that came off of

808
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 3: the wrong ball placement turnovers that he put it on

809
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:57,959
Speaker 3: the left shoulder, go left and ope there's a guy

810
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 3: right there, and then things got out of sort there.

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Speaker 6: And you know what's kind of funky. He was really

812
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 6: good at doing that in twenty twenty, very good.

813
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 5: Like that was like the biggest thing that I saw

814
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 5: from him in twenty twenty before he got hurt.

815
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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's interesting. There's so much that is there's

816
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 3: such a high ceiling with Dak this year, and I

817
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 3: think that's why it's a hot button topic for Cowboys Nation,

818
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 3: I really do. I think that's why Cowboys fans are

819
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 3: and really NFC East fans in general are so hyper

820
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 3: focused on Dak Prescott because the ceiling is very very

821
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 3: much so there and you can't really deny that. But

822
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 3: there is a floor too, and we saw pieces of

823
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 3: that floor last year. But if it continues over the

824
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 3: course of an entire season, then things can really get

825
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 3: out of hand. And that's where the confusion comes in.

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Speaker 3: It's a hot button topic because he's the quarterback of

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Speaker 3: the Cowboys, but also because of who Dak Prescott is,

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Speaker 3: and it's going to be interesting to see how he

829
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Speaker 3: really responds to that pressure again this season. All right,

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Speaker 3: standback Nick Harris, I'm Kyle Yeoman's Chris Beam in the

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00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 3: back as the Cowboys prepare to face the New York

881
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Speaker 3: Giants on Sunday Night Football. How excited is it? Or

882
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 3: exciting is it? Nick? Just to be at this spot,

883
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Speaker 3: to have everything on the table, all of the goals

884
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 3: and aspirations for this team still there but also just

885
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 3: a tad bit of anxiety that it all goes wrong.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's the part that's the funny part of sports, right, Like,

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Speaker 3: that's the fun of it all.

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Speaker 6: It's part of the entry for sure. Yeah, it's fun man.

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Speaker 5: I really I really enjoyed that the Cowboys get an

890
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Speaker 5: opportunity in Week one to go up against a divisional

891
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 5: opponent on the road, a team they've had success with

892
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Speaker 5: in the recent past. All of the negatives that we

893
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 5: have talked about this week or quote unquote negatives, I

894
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 5: still feel like the Cowboys come out with the victory

895
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Speaker 5: on Sunday night, just just because of you know, everything

896
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 5: that that has played into I don't feel the same tomorrow.

897
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow.

898
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, we save our prediction segment for Fridays as well.

899
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 3: Say it with your chest.

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Speaker 6: That being said, you know, maybe not okay, there you go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's let's backtrack it a little bit. Uh No,

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Speaker 3: We'll we'll have our prediction segment on Friday. We also

903
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 3: will have our guest callers segment on Friday as well.

904
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Speaker 3: We usually have a fan call in there'll be our

905
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 3: guest picker for the week, kind of college game Day

906
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 3: esque style. But of course in podcast forms, so we

907
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Speaker 3: didn't copy.

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Speaker 1: Anything but the U.

909
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Speaker 3: But then we'll do that tomorrow in the third segment,

910
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Speaker 3: So along with talking about all the other storylines and

911
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 3: having John back in the fold, and maybe a special

912
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 3: guest tomorrow. Maybe, is that right? I don't want to

913
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Speaker 3: tease it just yet because we got to get a

914
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Speaker 3: reply back on text messaging. But we might have a

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Speaker 3: special guest, another former player in the building tomorrow. And

916
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Speaker 3: it's not Nate Newton, because we always have Nate pop

917
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 3: in on at random times as well. He should be

918
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Speaker 3: around at some point. All right, I teased it before

919
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 3: the break though. What did Mike McCarthy have?

920
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Speaker 1: What are you doing? I was stretching, Kyle, Yeah, whatever.

921
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Speaker 6: He was showing us two for one gym membership.

922
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Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy is the play caller in Green Bay ranked

923
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Speaker 3: first in average offensive line width. Speaking of that gym rate,

924
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Speaker 3: that's two for one ranked first from twenty sixteen to

925
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Speaker 3: twenty eighteen when he was the play caller in Green Bay.

926
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Speaker 3: Where do you think the Cowboys rank here in twenty

927
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Speaker 3: twenty three in that stat So we're talking about width

928
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Speaker 3: of the offensive line.

929
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Speaker 1: Okay, all the way through? Gotcha where do you think

930
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: they ran come about pure mass?

931
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Speaker 3: Pure mass?

932
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Speaker 1: Oh they're not.

933
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Speaker 3: I mean in the holy in the hole one through

934
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Speaker 3: thirty two. Where do you think they are?

935
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Speaker 1: Put them in the middle somewhere sixteen fifteen, Okay, where

936
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Speaker 1: would your guest be.

937
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Speaker 6: I would say about the same. But like ten to fifteen, ten.

938
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Speaker 3: To fifteen, they're twenty eighth. Oh they are twenty eighth,

939
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Speaker 3: fourth from the bottom in terms of pure mass on

940
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Speaker 3: the offensive line up front. For Mike McCarthy is a

941
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Speaker 3: play caller, and that brings me to the question to

942
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Speaker 3: ask you, Isaiah, how does that change things as a

943
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 3: play caller? Is it more so an emphasis on getting

944
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 3: the ball out quick? Now We're not going to sit

945
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Speaker 3: here and say that our offensive line isn't very good,

946
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Speaker 3: especially the five starters up front. It's more so the

947
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 3: depth that we're worried with upfront. But where does that

948
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Speaker 3: change things as a play caller when you don't have

949
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Speaker 3: something very similar to work with back Whenever McCarthy was

950
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Speaker 3: having success.

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Speaker 9: In Green Bay, the game's changed. You know, Lineman art

952
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 9: as big as they used to be. You know, guys

953
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Speaker 9: are a lot more in shape, should I say, and

954
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Speaker 9: even big Nate Newton would even attest to that. You know,

955
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Speaker 9: he's had the big nasties up front has he likes

956
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 9: to refer to it. Guys are aren't that anymore? You

957
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 9: don't see these three hundred and thirty five, three hundred

958
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,879
Speaker 9: and forty pounds Guy Ry Allens like the world sit

959
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 9: and eat, you know, at the at the places to

960
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 9: eat waffles and pancakes all day long. These guys are

961
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Speaker 9: in shape. I mean, Tyron Smith is as a he's

962
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Speaker 9: a house now. He's a big dude, and he's not

963
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,520
Speaker 9: he doesn't have much body fat on him, you know.

964
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Speaker 9: So the game is changing that regard, and guys are

965
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 9: more skills skillful in terms of athleticism. So I think

966
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Speaker 9: you still have the same approach, you just don't have

967
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 9: all the masks.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 5: I was, I was going through once you said that.

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Speaker 5: You said it was twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen for

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Speaker 5: green Bay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was.

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Speaker 3: He was first in twenty sixteen with seven point ten

974
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Speaker 3: is whatever the measure ranking is. Twenty seventeen he was

975
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Speaker 3: seven point oh nine, and then twenty eighteen he was

976
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Speaker 3: seven point three three.

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Speaker 5: So in twenty sixteen the Packers did not have a

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Speaker 5: five hundred yard rusher much as a two thousand yard rusher.

979
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Speaker 5: And twenty seventeen they had a guy who reached five

980
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Speaker 5: thirty by the name of Jamal Williams, one of my

981
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 5: favorite guys in the league. And then twenty eighteen Aaron

982
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Speaker 5: Jones hit seven twenty eight. So I found that surprising.

983
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 5: I figured that would they would pave the way. I

984
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 5: figured that would yield a little bit more so, just

985
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 5: because your opportunity so a more athletic offensive line, maybe

986
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 5: that that opens up more lanes then.

987
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 3: So yeah, just because you're big doesn't mean you can block.

988
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 3: I mean that's always the case too, And especially whenever

989
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 3: you're talking about the run game.

990
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: The fact that there's a lot of.

991
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,320
Speaker 3: Pulling and a lot of motion and a lot of movement,

992
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 3: maybe that's enough to get the screen game going too,

993
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Speaker 3: if everybody's healthy upfront.

994
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Speaker 5: A massive difference between even twenty eighteen, but especially twenty

995
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Speaker 5: sixteen and now is the emergence of extremely uber athletic

996
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 5: pass rushers and uber athletic defensive a move. So you

997
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 5: got to have guys like Tyron Smith that don't have

998
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 5: a lick of fat on them and that can get

999
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 5: out there if they need to.

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Speaker 6: I think that's a big difference, but.

1001
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Speaker 5: It's still it's still lining up against the rest of

1002
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 5: the teams in the league right now, and the Cowboys

1003
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Speaker 5: are twenty eighth, so that's fascinating.

1004
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's it's going to be interesting to

1005
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,280
Speaker 3: see how they utilize this offensive line, especially if Tyron

1006
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Speaker 3: Smith is not or excuse me, Tyler Smith is not

1007
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,880
Speaker 3: ready to go on Sunday Night. Has anything changed off

1008
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 3: of our conversation up front the other day? We talked

1009
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 3: about it on Tuesday, I believe whenever the injury happened.

1010
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 3: But are you still feeling that Chew mydoga is the

1011
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 3: fill in there for Tyler Smith?

1012
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's at least what it sounds like in the building.

1013
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 5: I feel more comfortable about Cheum at guard than I

1014
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 5: do a tackle, but that does not make me comfortable

1015
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 5: for him being a starting left guard against one of

1016
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Speaker 5: the best interior defensive lines in the in the league.

1017
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Speaker 3: Has anything changed for you in terms of who would

1018
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 3: fill in for Smith?

1019
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: No, I think it's aga.

1020
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Speaker 9: I think he is the most veteran of everybody that's

1021
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 9: out there options wise.

1022
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, Awsin Richards has been getting some work at

1023
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 5: left guard this week, and Mike McCarthy said today that

1024
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Speaker 5: both of those guys are getting work in anticipation of

1025
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Speaker 5: playing on Sunday.

1026
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Speaker 9: One the reason why I say those two the primarily

1027
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 9: those two because the size. Yeah, I mean, I like,

1028
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 9: I think bass would be a good option there. He's

1029
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,879
Speaker 9: gonna have a lot to learn. Let's not kid ourselves here.

1030
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 9: We would have a lot to learn, and it will

1031
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,800
Speaker 9: be a lot pretty overwhelming, I would assume. But he

1032
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 9: doesn't have the mass. And this division, it's hard.

1033
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Speaker 1: This division.

1034
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Speaker 9: You're gonna see this. You're gonna see thiswe seven times times,

1035
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,240
Speaker 9: six times. I'm sorry, my mass terrible six times. Okay,

1036
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 9: I mean you're gonna have You can go right down

1037
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 9: the line, Philly, not any any easier to actually have

1038
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 9: more guys. Okay, Washington, we know what those guys do

1039
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 9: on the interior defensive line. All right, then you got

1040
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 9: the dog on giants. I mean the interior d line

1041
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 9: for this division sucks to go up against. Like I said,

1042
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 9: you better have your bootstraps on and a belt and

1043
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 9: a waistband and a waist trainer and everything else on

1044
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 9: to be able to go out there and handle these guys.

1045
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Speaker 9: Even with your starters, So I don't care what backup

1046
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 9: you're throwing there, you better hold their hand.

1047
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 5: This division is a blood bathroom the trenches, especially in

1048
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:47,280
Speaker 5: the trenches like it's.

1049
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Speaker 3: Especially in a league where offensive linemen are at a

1050
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 3: premium and they do not grow on trees. That's where

1051
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 3: things can get really, really dicey. And I mean it's

1052
00:44:57,120 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 3: always dicey in the NFC East. But I'm excited to

1053
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 3: get it under on Saturday. I'm excited to be back

1054
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Speaker 3: tomorrow with some say it with your chest Friday. Do

1055
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 3: your film study tonight, everybody, gentlemen, film study again. Yep,

1056
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Speaker 3: back after it tonight. We got some matchups to predict tomorrow.

1057
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 3: Better come with the fire, the white hot fire, as

1058
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Speaker 3: Isaiah likes to call it. We've got plenty of work

1059
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Speaker 3: to do going into tomorrow. Will be back at nine

1060
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Speaker 3: a m. Central Time, possibly with a special guest, possibly

1061
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Speaker 3: with John Machoda. We'll tell you whenever we get here.

1062
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Speaker 3: We'll figure it out along the way. But that does

1063
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Speaker 3: it for us for Chris Beam in the back, Isaiah standback,

1064
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Speaker 3: Nick Harris, I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long from the

1065
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 3: Star in Frisco. We'll see you tomorrow with more Talking Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: This has been a production of dallascowboys dot Com and

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Speaker 3: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.