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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, guys to another episode of The Break. We
Speaker 1: are here, Derek, it's not but we got a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff to talk about. How are you guys doing.
Speaker 1: Happy belated birthday by the way, thank you. I don't
Speaker 1: like it, but thank you. Well. I hope it was
Speaker 1: good regardless of how you felt. We got it birthday
Speaker 1: week or on here. Yeah, a lot of December babies
Speaker 1: here is coming up. Yeah, Nicky, Nicky brought us still
Speaker 1: his birthday, Still his birthday. He's across town, but still
Speaker 1: his birthday. Have to reach out to him. Yep. And
Speaker 1: then Derek, oh, yeah, he's back for New Years though. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we we got some things to talk about.
Speaker 1: The first thing is this three kickers, right, three of
Speaker 1: them that are coming back for a tryout. I believe
Speaker 1: there's two guys that were here from last week's tryout
Speaker 1: that the guys decided not to sign any of them,
Speaker 1: but now brought back two of them plus another guy.
Speaker 1: What are we hearing about these three kickers? The big
Speaker 1: one is kai for Bath because he's been around for
Speaker 1: a long time. Um, he's been you know, he's I
Speaker 1: think he's played like eighty games going all the way
Speaker 1: back to two thousan eleven, which was a weird year
Speaker 1: because we had a trading camp. We had five kickers
Speaker 1: on the team in two thousand and eleven. He was
Speaker 1: one of them, was injured. Another one was this rookie
Speaker 1: named Dan Bailey. They ended up going with him. That
Speaker 1: worked out. The four Bath has been around, you know,
Speaker 1: and he but his issue was missing extra points. Say
Speaker 1: tell me on the air the stat you told me
Speaker 1: this morning. Twelve missed extra points in his career. He
Speaker 1: played one game this year with the Patriots. They brought
Speaker 1: him in. He made a field goal twenty three yards
Speaker 1: and then missed an extra point. Cut So, you know,
Speaker 1: mar is as bad as it's been, he hasn't missed
Speaker 1: extra points. That's where we're at, right, That's where we're at.
Speaker 1: The guy that they're trying to sign has missed extra
Speaker 1: points and other guys that brought in Nick Rose who's
Speaker 1: played Nick Rose, who went to Texas, who's spent a
Speaker 1: little bit time in the league. I think he's got
Speaker 1: fourteen career attempts. Yeah, Tristan Vizcaino. I'll if they signed him,
Speaker 1: I'll figure out how to say his name. I don't.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything. It's just a big They brought
Speaker 1: him in last week hour leg from University of Washington's
Speaker 1: never kicked in a game. That's I just I looked
Speaker 1: up his stats when they worked him out the first time,
Speaker 1: and he went twelve of twenty in his final season
Speaker 1: at Washington, which I think. I think the reason why
Speaker 1: he gets like to go to training camp because he's
Speaker 1: been to two camps, it's because he can kick and punt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe not either one of them, well, but he does both.
Speaker 1: And that's a perfect guy. You want it camp. Can
Speaker 1: I just bluntly ask you how you feel about this?
Speaker 1: So you know maher misses from forty two on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean we said on Friday like that
Speaker 1: should probably be the last straw. Like he hasn't been
Speaker 1: performing very well. They haven't done anything they have another
Speaker 1: kicker work out today, and I mean it's only Monday.
Speaker 1: The players are off. There's not a lot going on
Speaker 1: right now, so they could make a move. But I'm
Speaker 1: just perplexed at this whole process. Yeah, it's obviously the
Speaker 1: guys on the street. I mean, think about it. If
Speaker 1: they cut Maher, there's three other teams that might have
Speaker 1: to sign a kicker. And I guarantee you Maha is
Speaker 1: going to be like at the top of the list
Speaker 1: of like, oh, we gotta go. You know he's out there.
Speaker 1: It's just like it's just right there. Of like four,
Speaker 1: there's probably fifteen guys that are about them miss or
Speaker 1: two away from getting cut, and it's just it's just
Speaker 1: the cycle that rotates through like they're not any better.
Speaker 1: I mean, Nick Folks a great example. In two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine, he made the Pro Bowl and No. Seven
Speaker 1: as a rookie. By O nine, he was struggling, missed
Speaker 1: a kick in New Orleans, cut gone. He's still kick
Speaker 1: him today. I mean ten years later, Manor will still
Speaker 1: have a career. He'll just be in that that mode.
Speaker 1: But it's just as of right now, it's like you
Speaker 1: gotta get somebody different. Anybody, But yeah, my thing. It
Speaker 1: just reminds me of like you know, you do you
Speaker 1: online shop? Do you online shop? Yeah? I online shop exclusively.
Speaker 1: Like you've seen the pile of packages at my desk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And like you know, like when you want something, you're
Speaker 1: a little iffy about the price or like how much
Speaker 1: you want it, and you just like let it sit
Speaker 1: in your cart for like you'll just leave it there
Speaker 1: for like days. You know, You're like, yeah, I really
Speaker 1: want that, but I wish it was thirty nine ninety
Speaker 1: nine instead of sixty bucks or whatever. And I'll I'll
Speaker 1: just let it sit in my cart. I'll leave the
Speaker 1: tab open on my browser for like three days at
Speaker 1: a time, and it's like I either wanted or I don't,
Speaker 1: like either buy it or close it out. And you're
Speaker 1: just you're just kidding yourself to let me sit there.
Speaker 1: Sign somebody one of these kickers bring it in. Just
Speaker 1: keep ma hurt and cut somebody else. You're something on
Speaker 1: the roster that you could cut. You're not the first
Speaker 1: person that suggested that to me, which I mean, that's
Speaker 1: not conventional NFL roster building, Yeah, because you only have
Speaker 1: fifty three spots. But I mean I don't necessarily disagree
Speaker 1: with you, Like they kept two quarter two backup quarterbacks
Speaker 1: last year, you know, I mean different positions. You can
Speaker 1: put one on the practice squad. You could like four
Speaker 1: Bath wouldn't be eligible yet one of those other guys
Speaker 1: maybe on the practice but I know because like I
Speaker 1: need this guy for a game, don't I Like? What if?
Speaker 1: And that's that's my point. That was my analogy, is
Speaker 1: like you're either done with Maher or you're not, and
Speaker 1: like you could get like just make the decision that
Speaker 1: you're switching, or there's three weeks left and you don't
Speaker 1: feel confident that these guys are better, Like it just
Speaker 1: seems so wishy washy to me, Like Maher Sira all
Speaker 1: through the weekend and then on Monday it's like, well,
Speaker 1: let's take another look at these guys that we didn't
Speaker 1: like last week. Let me ask you about your analogy.
Speaker 1: Is it mostly clothes? Shoes? Clothes because stuff for my apartment?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Usually when it comes to that, it's
Speaker 1: like it looks good, but how's it gonna feel and
Speaker 1: how's it gonna fit? And now that's the issue you have.
Speaker 1: That's the point. That's what you're talking about. I thought
Speaker 1: you were talking about that analogy for the kicker you're
Speaker 1: gonna bring in you're kind of talking about it's just
Speaker 1: either way, like decide that this is something you want
Speaker 1: or don't and on, Like, I'm not gonna kill you
Speaker 1: either way because I'm not convinced that these guys are yeah,
Speaker 1: astoundingly better. I like bringing the guy in for the week,
Speaker 1: Let them kick because you know what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: You know, Maha will never miss at all in practice,
Speaker 1: like like with this other guy sitting here taking some
Speaker 1: of the kicks, like Mars is gonna drill like sixty
Speaker 1: eight yarders. But even still, like I don't like, what
Speaker 1: does that decision process look like? Like let's say they
Speaker 1: sign Kai for Bath today and we don't know that
Speaker 1: they will just hype hypothetical and you let them practice
Speaker 1: all week and then you cut one of them on Friday?
Speaker 1: Or do you make one of them inactive and yeah,
Speaker 1: carry them both of the game. I mean, what do
Speaker 1: you say, not not the roster? If you're gonna do
Speaker 1: Kai for Bath, then I would love to see the
Speaker 1: Cowboys handle this like a college team and like, you know,
Speaker 1: have them both on the roster and Maher can take
Speaker 1: the six, the fifty five and up and four Bath
Speaker 1: can take the you know, forty five and in. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, it's not it doesn't follow conventional wisdom.
Speaker 1: But I'm sitting here, I'm thinking, like, Okay, I don't
Speaker 1: want to single anybody out, but like we know that
Speaker 1: there are guys on this team that do nothing on
Speaker 1: game day and having most of the season. I mean,
Speaker 1: you have your inactives that are inactive week after week,
Speaker 1: and I know you feel good about like Joe Jackson.
Speaker 1: I like, obviously you feel good about him. He played
Speaker 1: well in training camp. You think he can develop. But
Speaker 1: like you know, you're trying to reverse course and you know,
Speaker 1: get some positive s team going for the playoffs. I mean,
Speaker 1: be more useful than a guy that you just know
Speaker 1: is going to be a healthy scratch. It's gonna matter, no,
Speaker 1: I mean, because you know. I mean, it's just because
Speaker 1: you know the Rams. You knew the Rams were gonna
Speaker 1: turn this thing around by the time they played you.
Speaker 1: It's like they're gonna be a good, good team, Like like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they've had some struggles, they got to be bad at home.
Speaker 1: They got it figured out. They're playing well, they're a
Speaker 1: win out of a wildcard spot right now. I mean,
Speaker 1: Minnesota's doing their thing. They'd have to. They got to
Speaker 1: catch Minnesota. But if Minnesota were to lose and they
Speaker 1: were to win, then all of a sudden, they're the
Speaker 1: sixth seat in the playoffs. I mean, did you see
Speaker 1: how they were how they were rushing the pastor last
Speaker 1: night like Russell Wilson it was like one, two, three,
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball like it was. They were
Speaker 1: collapsing him. And I know that this offensive line has
Speaker 1: played well at times, but um, you know, as one
Speaker 1: of the starters just walked by. But uh no, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. They're gonna have theirn you know, absolutely, because
Speaker 1: the last time they played the Rams, he got fifty
Speaker 1: yards rushing, and I mean it was a problem. And
Speaker 1: so Aaron Donald still seems like he's the best in
Speaker 1: the league. We were joking on Cover four this morning,
Speaker 1: like I was just getting buried in tweets from people
Speaker 1: last night that were like, well, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a demolition like this is and I don't know, it
Speaker 1: never plays out that way like in the NFL. Maybe
Speaker 1: in college, but like in the NFL, it's never like, well,
Speaker 1: the Rams look really good and the Cowboys look really bad,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be forty five ten Like that hardly
Speaker 1: ever comes to pass, but it does look like it's
Speaker 1: going to be a heck of a challenge. Did you
Speaker 1: ever say the words strange lady yesterday? I did? I didn't.
Speaker 1: Didn't tell you the game that which one was definitely Well,
Speaker 1: you can say the Saints and the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: with these two great defense defenses. Yeah, but to me,
Speaker 1: the strange Lady one was was Denver and oh god,
Speaker 1: Houston had just beaten the Patriots at home, and next
Speaker 1: thing I know, it's thirty eight three Denver at Houston.
Speaker 1: I'm like, with a rookie quarterback starting, strange Lady's Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: is like the Pittsburgh is eight and five with there
Speaker 1: with a guy named Duck who's like their fourth option
Speaker 1: at quarterback. It's yeah, you're not wrong, which please don't
Speaker 1: roll your eyes too hard at me, but like that's why, like,
Speaker 1: you can't rule out the possibility that the Cowboys will
Speaker 1: play really well in this game. I know it doesn't
Speaker 1: seem likely based on what we've seen in the last
Speaker 1: three weeks, but it is a strange lady. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we talked about the kicker in that position. It's still
Speaker 1: to be determined. We'll see what happened, what kind of
Speaker 1: decisions the Cowboys decide to make in the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if they make a move, they'll have to
Speaker 1: announce something. But like Jason Garrett's not talking to the
Speaker 1: media today and everybody's off tomorrow, so we won't have
Speaker 1: a chance to pick his brain about that until Wednesday morning.
Speaker 1: But if I mean, if they were to make a
Speaker 1: roster move, we would hear about it for sure. And
Speaker 1: needless to say, that's not like it's going to fix
Speaker 1: all the Cowboys problem. I mean, yes, it's going to
Speaker 1: fix something. But at the same time, there are a
Speaker 1: lot bigger things going around the team, and one of
Speaker 1: them being that it's going all through social media and
Speaker 1: people really questioning whether this roster is or not a
Speaker 1: talented team that we were talking about during training camp
Speaker 1: and we were praising how much talent there was, and
Speaker 1: now there is a whole conversation between coaching and whether
Speaker 1: it's talented or not. So let's take a quick break
Speaker 1: and when we come back, we'll dive into that whole conversation.
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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back now. One of the most current
Speaker 1: debates happening around this Cowboys team is aside from coaching,
Speaker 1: and the whole thing is aside from that. Aside from
Speaker 1: that's just like the dominant storyline of the month, right,
Speaker 1: But there's also another storyline that's coming out, and it's
Speaker 1: is this Cowboys roster as talented as we have been
Speaker 1: talking about scenes at the beginning of training camp, I
Speaker 1: wanted to get your thoughts on this whole conversation and
Speaker 1: what you really think of whether or not this Cowboys
Speaker 1: team is talented. Okay, I think mean I think. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I don't mean to cut you off. Well, I just
Speaker 1: you guys know my stance on this because I've been
Speaker 1: saying it. I mean, you say it's a current debate.
Speaker 1: I mean I've been trying to debate it for a while.
Speaker 1: After the Jets game, you have been mentioning the Jets
Speaker 1: are one game behind the Cowboys. Who are they really
Speaker 1: five and nine? They're five and eight? Oh my god?
Speaker 1: So it all it all makes sense now when you
Speaker 1: put it into perspective. I think you framed it in
Speaker 1: a really interesting way, like are they as talented as
Speaker 1: we said they are at training camp? And the answer
Speaker 1: is no, Because at training camp it was this is
Speaker 1: the most talented team since the nineties, and YadA, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 1: And it was predicated on a lot of stuff happening,
Speaker 1: right Like MALIEK. Collins, he's gonna be this, He's gonna
Speaker 1: be this badass pass rushing defensive tackle and he's been
Speaker 1: good for whatever that's worth. Not as crazy as we
Speaker 1: thought he'd be. Xavier Woods was a guy we thought
Speaker 1: would make this crazy jump into being a you know,
Speaker 1: maybe not elite, but a really solid starter hasn't happened,
Speaker 1: Cheeto Woozier hasn't happened. Travis Frederick, he's gonna get back
Speaker 1: to playing at that freakish all pro level hasn't happened.
Speaker 1: So let's don't leave out the two linebackers because we thought,
Speaker 1: of course, and I left them out on purpose just because.
Speaker 1: But my point, I still think those are talented guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's that's kind of I got into this argument
Speaker 1: with Clarence Hill on Twitter last night, is like, don't
Speaker 1: tell me they're not a talented team. They have talent.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can go down the line like they're
Speaker 1: dealing with injuries and that's not an excuse. Like the
Speaker 1: offensive line is talented. We know they are. The linebackers
Speaker 1: are talented. They sure as hell haven't been playing like it.
Speaker 1: But you can't tell me they're not talented. Byron Jones,
Speaker 1: All Pro last year and in my opinion, playing pretty well.
Speaker 1: He doesn't get picks, but we knew that about him.
Speaker 1: He's doing his job. He's played at an all Pro
Speaker 1: level before. Amari Cooper speaks for himself. Michael Gallup is
Speaker 1: one of the lone guys that did take the jump
Speaker 1: we thought he would. Ezekiel Elliott not living up to
Speaker 1: his contract. Would you say he's a talented player. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's my that's my thing is So it's more
Speaker 1: meeting that expectation. I just they're not they're not good.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean they're not talented. Am I crazy for
Speaker 1: thinking that I made this? You know, I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to take shots at Derek's team just because he's not here.
Speaker 1: The Texas Longhorns are talented. They recruit at the top
Speaker 1: of the sport year after year after year. That doesn't
Speaker 1: mean they're good. You got to play up to that
Speaker 1: level of expectation you. I mean, coaching is part of it,
Speaker 1: scheme is part of it, personal accountability, players rising to
Speaker 1: the level of their own talent. I don't think not
Speaker 1: being good means you're not talented. I guess that's where
Speaker 1: I come down on and where I've always said is that,
Speaker 1: you know, you can't sit here all day long and
Speaker 1: talk about the entire team, But I just don't think
Speaker 1: that the team is talented all the way through. Yes,
Speaker 1: they had their top heavy and that's that's always been
Speaker 1: the case. When you have Jerry Jonesy likes the big
Speaker 1: splash guys and and he'll go and get some of
Speaker 1: these guys and pay him at a high level, which
Speaker 1: ultimately we kind of view that, as you know they're
Speaker 1: making a lot of money, then they're obviously worth it.
Speaker 1: But it's not always the case. But I think the
Speaker 1: big issue is just down in the in the backup
Speaker 1: area when you have to go next man up is
Speaker 1: a huge drop off and I just don't which is
Speaker 1: unfortunate because even at back at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: we were talking how much depth there was all around
Speaker 1: this whole roster. We thought so for sure? Is that
Speaker 1: I honestly, I tend to place that on coaching, Like
Speaker 1: I don't believe the way the NFL is structured, you know,
Speaker 1: I agree with if you're if you're the if you're
Speaker 1: the twenty thirteen Seattle Seahawks, and you've got a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl calib or quarterback playing for six hundred thousand, and
Speaker 1: you've got four future Hall of Fame defenders playing on
Speaker 1: rookie contracts, then you might be deeper than the average
Speaker 1: NFL team. But most teams are very similar in the
Speaker 1: sense that you got your big money guys. You got
Speaker 1: some solid to replacement level starters and some decent depth,
Speaker 1: and if you lose that, you're probably screwed. Like I
Speaker 1: don't think the San Francisco forty nine ers just lucked
Speaker 1: into having fantastic backup tackles like they played without their
Speaker 1: starting offensive tackles for like six weeks. Am I to
Speaker 1: believe that those guys are just magically that much better?
Speaker 1: Or are the forty nine ers really well coached and
Speaker 1: they schemed around it? Same with the Eagles in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl run. I agree, it's a combination of both.
Speaker 1: This team is not as talented as we thought. It's
Speaker 1: actually three things. They're not as talented as we thought
Speaker 1: all the way across the board. Their depth really isn't
Speaker 1: that great and it's noticeable, and the coaching staff has
Speaker 1: not been able to bring that out when they've really
Speaker 1: needed it. So it's a it's all three. I think
Speaker 1: you're basically are any of the big, big money guys
Speaker 1: on this team just really and truly living up to
Speaker 1: their deal? Not one guy, I would argue Lyle. I
Speaker 1: think Flyle's fine, and honestly, I know he disappears on
Speaker 1: the road. I know he put up a donut in
Speaker 1: New England. I'm Amari Cooper is playing worth thirteen million
Speaker 1: dollars right now. In my opinion, Dak is playing worth
Speaker 1: the two million he's making. Dak is playing worth the
Speaker 1: salary's on right now, maybe not the salary that he's
Speaker 1: gonna get now. And that one's tricky too with Dak
Speaker 1: because you know, everybody loves him and everyone loves how
Speaker 1: he you know, he plays, and how him as a leader.
Speaker 1: And I've had some people tell me that, you know,
Speaker 1: he don't doesn't really seem like he's a really good
Speaker 1: vocal leader. And I'm like, I don't think you're you're
Speaker 1: actually getting I see. I've never heard that criticism, but
Speaker 1: I think it's crazy. It's crazy. But the thing is
Speaker 1: is that he can't have it both ways. For people
Speaker 1: that say, you know, Dad's having a good year, there's
Speaker 1: only one reason they would say that stats, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's putting up numbers and stats, leading the league all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, But he had his team is
Speaker 1: six and seven, so that matters. And so if you're
Speaker 1: going to go off stats, we saw one example, not
Speaker 1: every game, but one example Thursday night that stats can
Speaker 1: lie He didn't have a great game, lied on Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: So I sit here and go, do I think he's
Speaker 1: the future quarterback of the team without a doubt? Do
Speaker 1: I think he's playing really well? No, there's there's a
Speaker 1: fun parallel there because like for Hi Derek, for three years,
Speaker 1: Dak's stats were like the middle of the road, like
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty yards. His career high for touchdowns
Speaker 1: is twenty three. You're like, we're paying this guy thirty
Speaker 1: five million, But he won and then just win. He
Speaker 1: like he's leads the league and comebacks and fourth quarter
Speaker 1: winning drives, all that stupid stuff. It's not stupid, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? All those stats. He's not doing
Speaker 1: that this year. Like he's got the stats that make
Speaker 1: him look like a forty million dollars quarterback. Has he
Speaker 1: had like just a moment in the fourth quarter of
Speaker 1: a game this season? They have not been They have
Speaker 1: not won a game when they've trailed in the second half.
Speaker 1: Then that answers my questions. I have a fourth quarter
Speaker 1: comback or second half For the sake of the argument,
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree he has made a
Speaker 1: jump since John Kinton came in, and he has developed
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, right, yeah, all right, So for the
Speaker 1: sake of the argument, could you take into account the
Speaker 1: whole fact of coaching, you know, as an whole, not
Speaker 1: just a quarterback coach, but as a whole, and what
Speaker 1: they're doing in offense and him maybe not getting the
Speaker 1: help that he needs in order to take it up
Speaker 1: a much. You have to say that that's the only
Speaker 1: answer because he's not going anywhere. So if you're Jerry Jones,
Speaker 1: you have to say that. And I'm not saying it's right,
Speaker 1: it's wrong, and you're just that's that's the only recourse
Speaker 1: here because Dak's the quarterback. He's going to be the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and I think he should be. You got to help
Speaker 1: him in a better way. Devil's advocate of all, Devil's advocate,
Speaker 1: which I agree with you, But we're one hundred percent
Speaker 1: confident of that. Like I mean, there's there's no there's
Speaker 1: nothing tangible tying them to him. Nothing is Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: So the headline is going to be yeah. So I
Speaker 1: think it's very clear Dak's going to be here for
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future. Dave's been driving the Dak bandwagon for years.
Speaker 1: I just am curious. I mean, you know, Arry's gonna
Speaker 1: sit down with the We're going to start over, Like,
Speaker 1: what's the alternative? Tell me the alternative. The alternative would
Speaker 1: probably be to franchise Dak In this scenario, there's a
Speaker 1: new coaching staff coming in, they use twenty twenty as
Speaker 1: an audition year, and either draft or replacement in this
Speaker 1: upcoming draft, or then you do it again the year
Speaker 1: after year. Let me break your scenario down. If you're
Speaker 1: going to go back to the well and try to
Speaker 1: draft a quarterback, how bad is this thing going to
Speaker 1: have to get for you to get up there to
Speaker 1: where you can actually draft the core? How well you
Speaker 1: draw the third round quarterback and hope he comes Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson Yeah, and say, well, that is doing such a
Speaker 1: great thing work. You're not a plan. You're not hitting lightning.
Speaker 1: You're not having lightning strikes twice, which but and again
Speaker 1: I'm just we're just arguing here because it's Monday and
Speaker 1: they haven't played a game since Thursday. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you could get up to the top of the draft.
Speaker 1: The Eagles got there from sixteen. Okay, let's take that
Speaker 1: that side and let's play that out. What we still
Speaker 1: know is even if you get up to that part
Speaker 1: of the draft, the prospect on getting a quarterback that's
Speaker 1: going to be better, appreciably better than what you already
Speaker 1: have is a fifty fifty prospect. Yeah. So, if you've
Speaker 1: got a quarterback, and I believe this wholeheartedly about the NFL,
Speaker 1: if you have a quarterback that you think can be
Speaker 1: good enough, can be good enough, you have to pay
Speaker 1: him and keep him because the alternative is you go
Speaker 1: back to the well, and it is literally go fish.
Speaker 1: Fifty percent chance I'm gonna pull out a guy that's
Speaker 1: better than what I got, and it's fifty per percent
Speaker 1: chance I'm gonna get somebody worse. And now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put my franchise even farther back until I can find
Speaker 1: that guy. And I may be chasing that guy as
Speaker 1: franchisees for thirty years. How good are you at fishing?
Speaker 1: How good is that? That's all nice, that's all nice.
Speaker 1: Say here that they're pretty good at well. Okay, let
Speaker 1: me let me let me tell you like this, look
Speaker 1: at look at the Philadelphia Eagles. Everybody thought they hit
Speaker 1: with wins. Now there are people that are questioning whether
Speaker 1: they hit with wins. They gave up a boatload to
Speaker 1: get up there to the second pick in the draft
Speaker 1: to be able to get him. Let's assume for a
Speaker 1: second it continues to go the way it's going and
Speaker 1: he ends up being a guy that's just a guy.
Speaker 1: They gave up all that capital for a guy that's
Speaker 1: just Again, that's all I'm saying, Yeah you are, you
Speaker 1: are really playing. Look at the fifty fifty propositions five
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the in the league in the last three
Speaker 1: or four years. When you're talking about golf wins Um Trubisky,
Speaker 1: not Thursday Night, but just normal Trubisky when he's when
Speaker 1: he's not made out to be like a stud Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. I'm missing a draft class in between, like
Speaker 1: the sixth the seventeen draft class. Seventeen was well, you
Speaker 1: said Rubisky, but you left that was seventeen. Yeah, although
Speaker 1: eighteen seven, I mean Watson and Mahomes, so they weren't
Speaker 1: top five, okay, but they were picked so they were
Speaker 1: later in the first round, and that even tells you
Speaker 1: a little something about where you're picking in your level
Speaker 1: of set, the opportunity for at some point the NFL
Speaker 1: is going to figure out here. I don't know how
Speaker 1: many times they got to get hit in the face
Speaker 1: to figure out that. You know what, don't try to
Speaker 1: make these guys into wide receivers. They're freaking quarterbacks. Lamar
Speaker 1: and Jackson's a quarterback to Shaun Watson. So all the
Speaker 1: stereotypes about its crap. And that's why Mahomes probably fell.
Speaker 1: That's why Watson fell, and those teams are probably kicking
Speaker 1: themselves now because these guys that may not be the
Speaker 1: traditional quarterback. One of them won MVP last year. One
Speaker 1: of them is gonna win MVP this year. Figure it out.
Speaker 1: I mean, like the athletic mobile quarterback. That's what the
Speaker 1: game is right now. And I think if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: go back to coaching, if the Cowboys would just do
Speaker 1: their own analytics and go, wow, Dad gets twenty five
Speaker 1: yards rushing or more, they're like twelve and won. And
Speaker 1: then when he doesn't, they don't win. I mean to
Speaker 1: take the ball to take it back. I like, I'm
Speaker 1: firmly comfortable giving Dak a contract. Having said having said that, uh,
Speaker 1: he hasn't. I mean, he hasn't been winning in the
Speaker 1: crunch the way that we've gotten used to seeing and
Speaker 1: I know. I know that scares fans because he's not
Speaker 1: lifting this roster when he's not accounting for that cap hit,
Speaker 1: not right now, and so he will hurt the cap soon,
Speaker 1: and I know that freaks people out. I think what
Speaker 1: I'm finding out this year is that Dak has gotten better.
Speaker 1: Dak is becoming a really good quarterback. Dak is not
Speaker 1: ready yet for the team to put everything on his
Speaker 1: shoulders and say, go win ball games for us. And
Speaker 1: even we think that that was the case like a
Speaker 1: month ago, though with the performances that I put together,
Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd say that because I don't
Speaker 1: know that we'd we'd seen him, like we said, we
Speaker 1: hadn't seen him make those game winning drives. Win game
Speaker 1: is on the line, you have the ball, you got
Speaker 1: two minutes. What are you gonna do with it? He
Speaker 1: hadn't been doing that this season, and so I don't
Speaker 1: think that they're ready yet to say, hey, put everything
Speaker 1: on our quarterback, like the Seattle Seahawks to do with
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. I don't think he's there yet. What I
Speaker 1: think is he still is on that trajectory. Let's see
Speaker 1: if he continues to grow. But like I said before,
Speaker 1: if you have a guy that he thinks on that trajectory,
Speaker 1: you gotta pay him. Mike, he's that guy because you
Speaker 1: don't want to go back to the well. You know
Speaker 1: who's who's helped mahomes a lot, who's helped Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: I know, Jimmy, Jimmy g Yeah, okay say that, but
Speaker 1: I'm talking about on the offense, guys that they rely on.
Speaker 1: Look at those three guys and now tell me who
Speaker 1: the three best tight ends in the league are. I
Speaker 1: bet you it's Kelsey Kittle, maybe Mark Andrews. I mean,
Speaker 1: if he's that good, I think Mark Andrews really too
Speaker 1: beat up on us a lot. Does the Sean have
Speaker 1: a He doesn't have a tight end, but Seattle and
Speaker 1: Houston don't have like amazing Titans probably got the best
Speaker 1: receiver in the game. I think that guy's I'm amazing Hopkins.
Speaker 1: I love Hopkins. I love the way you play. He
Speaker 1: does it with whoever the backup is. He's the question
Speaker 1: the facts, big facts. But I think you also need
Speaker 1: a guy that knows how to call the plays the
Speaker 1: right way. It became apparent to me as I was
Speaker 1: watching the San Francisco forty nine ers and looking at
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons, how much the coach matters, because if
Speaker 1: you think about it, the last time we saw that
Speaker 1: Atlanta offense clicking, it was when the coach that's now
Speaker 1: the head coach in San Francisco was calling their plays.
Speaker 1: Everything fell apart after that, Like, their offense has not
Speaker 1: been the same since he left, and by the way,
Speaker 1: San Francisco's offense now is clicking. I think the person,
Speaker 1: the person that calls the plays, the person that organizes
Speaker 1: the offense, really dictates how good that offense is going
Speaker 1: to be. And I personally believe the Cowboys just may
Speaker 1: not have enough experience at that position to be able
Speaker 1: to be as good as some of those a lot
Speaker 1: of positions. If you think about their coaching staff, yep,
Speaker 1: you can say, is this guy may be inexperience or
Speaker 1: in over his head. I mean think about it from
Speaker 1: play caller. Yeah, he's had his moments, but he is
Speaker 1: still young and he's doing all that. Christmas Shard has
Speaker 1: been the defensive coordinator before. That's a weird dynamic there.
Speaker 1: It's not he's not in over his head, he's just
Speaker 1: it hasn't clicked well. Offensive line coach. I mean Colombo
Speaker 1: is still rested. They gave him that chance. Keith o Quinn,
Speaker 1: they kind of gave him that chance. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think you can you can say that about some of
Speaker 1: these positions and think, well, you know, maybe maybe they
Speaker 1: do need to get a little bit more. How many
Speaker 1: of these guys this is their first even if they've
Speaker 1: been doing it for a few years, This is their
Speaker 1: first opportunity as a position coach coaching that position. I
Speaker 1: don't know Colombo, Kellen kit well Ness Myers, ness Myers
Speaker 1: resume has been around. Is this Bloom's first opportunity with linebackers? Yes, yep.
Speaker 1: Is this Gerard's first opportunity defensive line? Well, he's Gerard
Speaker 1: is not an assistant coach, but yeah, yeah, but let's
Speaker 1: don't follow him. Your point is well made. Yeah, The
Speaker 1: questions do you have enough? Do you have enough? And sperience?
Speaker 1: And Sanjay Low he's been around, he's been a receiver's
Speaker 1: coach before it. Okay, but look at his resume. One
Speaker 1: year here, one year here, a few years here, two
Speaker 1: years here, one year here. I mean, Warren loving him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's sounds like that's gonna be the same track for
Speaker 1: that pattern's gonna keep going. But keep the boxes were
Speaker 1: doing today. I think that's let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: a quick break. When we come back. We still need
Speaker 1: to hit on some of these injuries that happened um
Speaker 1: from last game. You know, Dak hurt his hand and
Speaker 1: we still have a question more on what's going on
Speaker 1: with late invendores. So let's figure out what we found
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Speaker 1: we're running out of time, but we still have some
Speaker 1: things to talk about. We got time. Oh it flies
Speaker 1: by talking went like five minutes over. We can do
Speaker 1: what we want. Yeah, we got the call, we got
Speaker 1: boss man. All right, well let's get over these injuries.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They've cut Brett Maher and they have
Speaker 1: signed Kai four baths there it's official. Was he was
Speaker 1: he on the thing the Patriots roster at the time
Speaker 1: they had the tryouts, I believe so. So that's why
Speaker 1: they did. Wouldn't have brought him in with those trials. Okay,
Speaker 1: got it? Okay, so scratch what we said on the
Speaker 1: first seg man, What do we feel that such? That
Speaker 1: was such a good analogy on my part, That was
Speaker 1: like one of my finer moments and it had an
Speaker 1: eighteen minute shelf. Yeah, now moving on, how do we
Speaker 1: feel about this decision that the kut was just you know,
Speaker 1: I said this earlier and you weren't here. I talked
Speaker 1: about the Nick Folk thing ten years ago when he
Speaker 1: was a good kicker but just went into a rut.
Speaker 1: They had to make a change. He's stills kicking now
Speaker 1: he's ten years later. Like it happens, Maha will still
Speaker 1: be in the mix. He'll have two or three tryouts,
Speaker 1: probably in the next few weeks. But I just think
Speaker 1: for what this team, they just needed a different, different guy. Um,
Speaker 1: get your two point plays ready, though I don't know
Speaker 1: he can't make extra points. Maybe that's the issue, but
Speaker 1: it's just gonna have a different set of problems. He
Speaker 1: has struggled his extra points four bath. He's a better
Speaker 1: kicker in the thirty forty range. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: It's this almost the same kick at point. At this point,
Speaker 1: it's just one of those things of don't keep doing
Speaker 1: the same thing expecting different results, Right, so you gotta
Speaker 1: change it up, and if this next guy does the
Speaker 1: exact same thing, then you'll have to change up again.
Speaker 1: Right now, you're chasing a kicker because it's holding your hostage,
Speaker 1: just Bill Parcels used to say. And there's no way
Speaker 1: to get out of that in the middle of a
Speaker 1: season other than just changing the face, yeah, and hoping
Speaker 1: that the guy gets on a stringle of made kicks.
Speaker 1: I think kickers just weird. I got into that argument
Speaker 1: when Bailey Bailey was kicking in a game, like right
Speaker 1: after maher had struggled, and everybody was like, oh, they
Speaker 1: made a mistake, They're dumb, they let Bailey go. And
Speaker 1: I don't even believe that to this day, Like it's
Speaker 1: it's such a mental thing and it affects you in
Speaker 1: a way that has nothing to do with what's actually
Speaker 1: happening on the field. Maybe he would never admit this,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure it's probably terrible for Brett Maher like
Speaker 1: was wandering around the facility and people are kind of
Speaker 1: looking at you out of the side of you know,
Speaker 1: giving you the side eye. It's in your hat, of course,
Speaker 1: everybody is uh. And I just think a change of
Speaker 1: scenery is um is necessary in those situations and and
Speaker 1: maybe Brett Mahur will go kick ass for somebody else,
Speaker 1: but in the environment here was hindering it. I'm just
Speaker 1: laughing because I you know, people don't even think I
Speaker 1: just tweeted it out and they're like, this is real,
Speaker 1: and that someone just tweeted out like a animated gift
Speaker 1: of something that just said sleep sleep well, ma hurt
Speaker 1: like the head hitting a pillow, which is what he
Speaker 1: said the other night. And you know what, that really
Speaker 1: pissed me off. I thought, that makes incredible right there,
Speaker 1: because I think I would if you made if he
Speaker 1: would have made plane. You don't even get what if
Speaker 1: he makes four field goals and two extra points in
Speaker 1: that game and then says, you know, I'm gonna sleep well,
Speaker 1: I get hit the ball well and you know we
Speaker 1: lost or whatever. I mean, if anyone would have said
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sleep well after a loss, doesn't matter how
Speaker 1: you performed like that, that's not what you say. Isn't
Speaker 1: that the comment that turned like half of the Cowboys
Speaker 1: fan base against Tony Romo. Yeah, by the way, what
Speaker 1: he said was totally accurate and totally the right thing
Speaker 1: to say, but not the right thing to say in
Speaker 1: that moment. It's the right thing to say when you're
Speaker 1: done with your career and you're sitting back with your
Speaker 1: kids and you're like, you know, I have a great life,
Speaker 1: Like that's the right thing to say. Then. I never
Speaker 1: did a huge problem with Romo said on that part.
Speaker 1: But whatever, I'm not trying to judge people. But the
Speaker 1: thing about it is is as a kicker, like I've
Speaker 1: seen the knuckleball kick that just sneaks in and wins
Speaker 1: the game. Kicking hitting the ball well is not the
Speaker 1: prerequisite of what you're trying to do. I know, I
Speaker 1: said then the golf analogy last week, but I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: great analogy. Well, yeah, I've had a lot of people
Speaker 1: that talked about that because because it happens to them.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it hit the ball, great, it went
Speaker 1: way over here. You know how many four hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five foot foul home runs there are. I mean, congratulations,
Speaker 1: you just struck out hit it straight and good. That's
Speaker 1: what an NFL kicker does. I need you to kick
Speaker 1: it well and straight those two things. Please. Yeah, But
Speaker 1: that's the fun nature of the kicker position is like
Speaker 1: Kai for Bath got cut by the Pats because he
Speaker 1: couldn't hit an extra point. Like literally, Pats fans are like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, bring back Gaskowski. This guy's terrible me but
Speaker 1: he wasn't here. So now Cowboy fans are like, well,
Speaker 1: extra points are a problem, but this guy's nails from
Speaker 1: forty to forty nine, which is what we need. This
Speaker 1: is our guy. Just like if somebody signs Brett Maher
Speaker 1: in a week and a half, they're gonna be like
Speaker 1: this dude's got a can and like, okay, like we'll
Speaker 1: deal with all that stuff when we get him. Like
Speaker 1: this guy can hit from anywhere, and it's it's such
Speaker 1: a mental thing, like it's a clean slate. So for Bath,
Speaker 1: isn't the guy that's cost you a couple of games,
Speaker 1: So he's great, maher is and so he's got to go.
Speaker 1: And it's it's not fair, but it like it's a
Speaker 1: unique position in the sport where like the mentality of
Speaker 1: it is almost everything because everybody, every kicker in the
Speaker 1: league can hit from fifty they can. It all comes
Speaker 1: down to mental Yeah, But the thing that bothers me
Speaker 1: is that I've heard a lot of kickers say, or
Speaker 1: people that talked about kickers just from about thirty five end.
Speaker 1: Just put the ball down and laces, I don't care,
Speaker 1: just kick it. But you don't need to be on
Speaker 1: a certain hash like the play callers shouldn't have to.
Speaker 1: And you know he should have in the game the
Speaker 1: other day against the Bills. But ultimately that's not a
Speaker 1: good thing, Like yeah, right now, putt put this pass
Speaker 1: on the left side so he can kick it the
Speaker 1: way he wants it. But moving forward, that's not what
Speaker 1: we need and isn't that that's it to take it
Speaker 1: all the way back. That's what we heard about Bailey too,
Speaker 1: is like by the end of his tenure, he was
Speaker 1: like so concerned about the operation and like I needed
Speaker 1: this range, need the laces here, and needed on this
Speaker 1: hash mark like and it's like, well, if you're that
Speaker 1: worried about all of this, then how much do we
Speaker 1: really trust Go back to golf. Go back to golf.
Speaker 1: You have a terrible slice. Okay, everything goes left. You
Speaker 1: get to the point where you're on the tea box
Speaker 1: and you're like, everyone's watching. You just have to turn
Speaker 1: your whole body to the right. They're like, you know,
Speaker 1: that's a house right there. Like I know, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna trust me on this. It trusts me. This is
Speaker 1: to get through the fourteenth hole and everyone's watching. Let's
Speaker 1: get let's get in the cart and go. But that's
Speaker 1: not like a great way to do to play golf,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, you gotta get through it,
Speaker 1: but you got you typically want to hit straight. So
Speaker 1: if we're thinking, I mean, I'm skipping the last three
Speaker 1: or four weeks of the season for right now, but
Speaker 1: like offseason offseason priorities. Oh yeah, I was just thinking
Speaker 1: about the cornerback, safety, d tackle. Can I'd be the
Speaker 1: fan listening right now, height end coach. Well, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: that's honestly, you don't get You don't draft and acquire
Speaker 1: coaches and free agency might well, god, yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: you might. Can you just let me make that The
Speaker 1: point is, yes, kicker is on a long list of
Speaker 1: things that this team is going to need to look
Speaker 1: at in the office, and in my opinion, maybe near
Speaker 1: the top. Maybe not the top, but near the top,
Speaker 1: because you think about how many positions can affect the
Speaker 1: outcome of games, like kicker can. I don't know that
Speaker 1: they're a lot right now. With a Cowboys player, you
Speaker 1: can't do anything about it other than draft the lou
Speaker 1: Grozo Award winner in the third round, which and he
Speaker 1: still might suck. That's true. You know how many of
Speaker 1: them grow. It is hard. It is hard to find that, Bailey.
Speaker 1: It's very hard to find improve in getting the end
Speaker 1: zone and getting six points out there. Okay, that's where
Speaker 1: you start, where your start. But still right, you're right,
Speaker 1: you do limit your liability if you can figure out
Speaker 1: how to actually turn these red zone trips into actual touchdowns. God,
Speaker 1: they'll figure out at one point. Let's go over these. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. Let they'll figure it out, Like run the
Speaker 1: touchdown play? Damn it. Why can't you just run? They
Speaker 1: got it written right down. It's says touchdown play running exactly.
Speaker 1: They got to kick an extra point? Bat will missing
Speaker 1: point your two point on pay? Yeah? All right? Dagher
Speaker 1: his index finger on his right throwing hand and sprain
Speaker 1: his left hand after the Bears game. How is that
Speaker 1: going now? Days? You're good? I think he's he'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Put some tape on it, have some tape on his
Speaker 1: little finger, it would be good. Like during the press
Speaker 1: or during the press guy he had like a tape
Speaker 1: on his finger. And I don't know what's up to
Speaker 1: the left hand, but that'll be fine. Tape it up,
Speaker 1: all right, Cedric Wilson, he'll be out for from I
Speaker 1: guess the timetable is four to six week which with
Speaker 1: the knee injury, they said it was a better prognosis
Speaker 1: than they hoped for. But I mean four to six
Speaker 1: weeks super Bowl? Oh wow? Okay, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: that's probably a season ender. By are out? You think so?
Speaker 1: Is that a done deal. No, it's not done deal.
Speaker 1: It's got to be him. I mean, you're barely playing anyways.
Speaker 1: You only played because Tony Pollard was hurt. Yeah, yeah, which,
Speaker 1: thanks Tony. Yeah that's your next guy, next guy, Tony Paul.
Speaker 1: He didn't play. We thought he might play, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: I'd like to think they were that close. They were
Speaker 1: days later optimistic he could get up for the game
Speaker 1: and he'll have ten days. I would assume ten days
Speaker 1: off and then another week of oh wait, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're something. I'm gonna be ten days between games. Don't
Speaker 1: listen to me. No, I think he'll be all right.
Speaker 1: The next guy. Yeah, late And the first time we
Speaker 1: heard about this injury, Gary came out saying, oh, this
Speaker 1: is not gonna end his career. This is you know,
Speaker 1: this injury wanted. We had to say. That was the
Speaker 1: part that really got vibe up. And we have yet
Speaker 1: to see him doing anything. So he's still out and
Speaker 1: updates on this. I don't think we would see him
Speaker 1: and unless it was a potential playoff game. I mean
Speaker 1: there's three games left and he's like typically, you know,
Speaker 1: you see guys working on the on the band, on
Speaker 1: the conditioning bands with britt Brown and you kind of
Speaker 1: see signs that they're getting ready. We haven't seen any
Speaker 1: of that from Layton, and I think that's fine. The
Speaker 1: injury is neck injury, yes, with yeah, you're talking about
Speaker 1: like your nervous system and your I mean your neck
Speaker 1: is like pretty crucial to your ability to like walk
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Be as cautious as you want to, um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I just sort of think I'd be surprised
Speaker 1: if we see him in the regular season next and none.
Speaker 1: The joke with there is well and then we'll we'll
Speaker 1: have to find out with Jeff Heath and any updates
Speaker 1: on him, him and his shoulder deal because he's the
Speaker 1: backup kicker and you can get Jeff heat to kick
Speaker 1: extra points if you're worried about four bath ing down
Speaker 1: down for It's so funny about when he made one
Speaker 1: like off the crossbar an end and it was just like, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is the goat. I just want to see some
Speaker 1: wacky stuff these final three weeks, like just like like
Speaker 1: we haven't though, I mean we have has been a
Speaker 1: season of thinking about it. I mean, look at what
Speaker 1: we yeah, we we have we see different stuff. It's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: what's a fourth time out? What happened twice in the game?
Speaker 1: What is that's not ever called tripping? Yeah they call
Speaker 1: it twice on the Cowboys like that there was another calling. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't that's all wacky stuff that happened to the
Speaker 1: Cowboys card for first down. I would like to see
Speaker 1: the Cowboys elected two years ago. I would like to
Speaker 1: see the Cowboys elect to do Oh yeah, elect to
Speaker 1: do it. Like, well, our kickers not very good at
Speaker 1: extra points. Maybe we should run some more two point plays,
Speaker 1: or let's let our safety kick extra points, like, just
Speaker 1: do something? Turning, the Patriots couldn't move the ball at
Speaker 1: all fourth quarter and then all of a sudden, James
Speaker 1: White throws a past try the whole Saints forty nine
Speaker 1: ers game, Like, yeah, that was tons of wacky stuff
Speaker 1: that they all pulled out. But if Cooper rushed through
Speaker 1: a fake punt like Taysom Hill did in that game yet, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just want to let's get weird. Do you really
Speaker 1: think let's I know we won't, but like, let's get
Speaker 1: this seasonally this season, like would we all agree, Like
Speaker 1: even if they make the playoffs, this is a disappointing
Speaker 1: season unless they go So let's just get weird. Gonna
Speaker 1: get to Philly and we're gonna have these little cards
Speaker 1: and it's gonna just say trick it up, because that
Speaker 1: was gonna be on the room key. Car. No, it's
Speaker 1: gonna say, like, do what we do, yeah, trick it up?
Speaker 1: That would that would be interesting if the car, if
Speaker 1: the room key said let's get on weird key, I
Speaker 1: would it would. I would be so happy, really weird
Speaker 1: on the room key. Yeah, that doesn't read well on
Speaker 1: a hotel kid. Never mind, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: The Eagles like trick it up. The Eagles play tonight
Speaker 1: against the Giants. Anything can happen. Let me all right.
Speaker 1: Actually I thought about this this morning. You think you
Speaker 1: want the Giants? Wait, actually, never mind, you want the
Speaker 1: Giant Actually you you're My point is you're worried about
Speaker 1: the Eagles because of playoff seating. You want the Giants
Speaker 1: to win so they can't draft Chase Young. That's my
Speaker 1: new thing. Don't let them draft the Ohio state pass rusher.
Speaker 1: They need to win games and get out of that range. Yeah,
Speaker 1: socha gonna be number one overall. No. Joe Burrow will
Speaker 1: be number one overall. But this our LSU glasses kind
Speaker 1: of what quarterbacks do? I mean? But he's good enough
Speaker 1: to be an Ohio kid. If Baker Mayfield can go
Speaker 1: one overall, then Joe can for sure. Especially Cincinnati's number
Speaker 1: one right now and they probably need a quarterback. He
Speaker 1: lives like there's no doubt. Jake Young is the best.
Speaker 1: Keep place Young out of the NFC. He's down about it,
Speaker 1: all right, put it on a T shirt, little mini
Speaker 1: draft shows, all right, So we do this time. This
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