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Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the Player's Lunge,

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Speaker 1: broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the Star.

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Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCrae, and Newey Scrugs.

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Speaker 1: All right, we are rolling with you here. Hump Day, Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: It is week number three of the NFL season of

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Speaker 1: Newis Scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter, joined by former Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: safety Barry Church. Our other partner, Danny McCray, former Cowboys safety,

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Speaker 1: is at home with a brand new daughter, the first

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Speaker 1: child Danny and his wife. Welcome to the girl Club,

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Speaker 1: the Girl Dad Club. Danny McCray. Yeah, it was so heartwarming,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just just as I say, I got chills,

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Speaker 1: just as I said, it was so heartwarming to get

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Speaker 1: that picture from Danny, to see him holding his daughter.

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Speaker 1: Because one it's it's life, and you know, just so

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Speaker 1: precious your first child. You never forget it. And the

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Speaker 1: baby's healthy and that his and that his wife is okay.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just warned by that, and I just get chills,

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Speaker 1: eyes watered up when I just looked at the picture

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Speaker 1: because it's a miracle, man, and I'm really happy for

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Speaker 1: Danny McCrae. Yeah, I mean, shouts goes out to Danny

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Speaker 1: and Kiki. I mean that. I mean, that's just a

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Speaker 1: beautiful blessing. And then just to have your firstborn child

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Speaker 1: in your hands, I mean it just it just gives

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Speaker 1: you a whole new perspective on life. And he and

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Speaker 1: he's welcome into the girl club. I mean, that's just

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Speaker 1: like when I had my first girl was just unbelievable experienced.

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Speaker 1: So shout out to Danny and Kekey for bringing a

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Speaker 1: beautiful blessing like this into our world. And man, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna hold it down and tell you get back. Man.

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Speaker 1: But man, that's like you said, that's an extreme blessing

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Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, so you get the holder she wants

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Speaker 1: to be near. It was cool. My oldest will be

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Speaker 1: a better shot of communicating with her on TikTok or

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Speaker 1: getting any contact with my daughter. You know, man, she hey,

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Speaker 1: you know how you know how it is with the

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Speaker 1: teen social media has taken over everything. Man. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: hopefully they take their time with that. Man, enjoy it

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Speaker 1: while you can enjoy it while you can. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: my kids are older now, they talk back to you.

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Speaker 1: You know, they got their own minds and their own

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Speaker 1: things they want to go do. And I mean I

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Speaker 1: weeks back. So when I tell you things, that just

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Speaker 1: change it. Man. And and I see Danny's little baby,

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Speaker 1: I just look at like I remember those days because

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Speaker 1: because the days he's in the girl club, baby in

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Speaker 1: the in the girl dad club, and that's it is.

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Speaker 1: That is a good place to be, all right, A

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Speaker 1: place you don't want to be right now. If you're

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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, is

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Speaker 1: dealing with, you're ever changing secondary No Cheeto Alousier. This

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Speaker 1: week for the Cowboys is a face Seattle, and Cheeto's

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Speaker 1: gonna be down a few weeks. According to the coach,

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Speaker 1: he's been dealing with a hamstring injury. So an addition

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Speaker 1: that they made two weeks ago, give Will McClay and

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys a whole lot of credit, because how fortunate

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Speaker 1: are they to have Brandon car on this football team

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Speaker 1: right now? Because they need Brandon Car You've got Jordan Lewis,

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Speaker 1: who came back in Week no. Last week Week two

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Speaker 1: you got Anthony Brown on the IR. I mean, Church,

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Speaker 1: this is this is some tough times here for this

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Speaker 1: football team. When he comes to the injury standpoint, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I feel like you know, the Dallas Cowboys have been

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Speaker 1: So and you saw it last week he struggled a

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Speaker 1: from bringing him in. Let's just hope, you know, the

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Speaker 1: So Seattle is got two receivers that are really good

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Speaker 1: at some notes here dk Metcalf has run twenty three

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Speaker 1: if you're the Cowboys and you see that that that

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Speaker 1: do you attack it? And it's and it's Julio Jones.

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Speaker 1: Last week they held up fine, Julio dropped an easy

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping DK Metcalf lines up in the slot position

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Speaker 1: Danny McCrae is off because his wife gave birth to

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Speaker 1: a beautiful baby girl. So I'm hoping we don't see

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Speaker 1: I thought I was done too, Okay, I thought I

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Speaker 1: here's what happened. Church. So. Um it was the two

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Speaker 1: don't know his status in terms of Sunday, and even

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Speaker 1: if he can go Sunday church, how good. Canny be

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Speaker 1: Bate Law from BA Cowboys radio broadcaster said Tank was

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Speaker 1: basically playing on one leg last week. It should have

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Speaker 1: got pulled earlier. Yeah, and that and that's what to me,

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00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,439
Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to with this Dallas Cowboys defense.

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00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 1: It's how can we get after the quarterback. We know

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Speaker 1: going into this season we were gonna have a younger

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Speaker 1: secondary experienced. I mean, they played a little bit in

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Speaker 1: their first year and their second year, but we were

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Speaker 1: gonna have an overall a young secondary. And we thought

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Speaker 1: going into this season that that front seven, especially that

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Speaker 1: defensive line, with the additions of Everson Griffin, you know,

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Speaker 1: Alden Smith coming in here, you know you still got Tank,

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00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 1: you still got Crawford in there. We thought at the

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Speaker 1: beginning of the season, this was going to be the strength.

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Speaker 1: This was going to be that unit that pushes this

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Speaker 1: defense over the edge and gets them that pressure that

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Speaker 1: they need, gets after the quarterback and gets the ball

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Speaker 1: back to their offense. But for these first two games,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it's the lack of training camps,

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Speaker 1: the lack of mini camps, or the lack of OTAs,

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00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: but and having this new system brought in with Mike Nolan,

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Speaker 1: but we just haven't seen that pressure generated, whether it

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Speaker 1: be four man rush, whether it be them bringing guys

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Speaker 1: from the secondary, whether it be them bringing gays from

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Speaker 1: the linebacking corps. We just haven't seen that pressure. And

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Speaker 1: I think with this defense needs is they need to

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Speaker 1: get after this quarterback. Their secondary they can hold up

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Speaker 1: as much as they can, but if they if the

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Speaker 1: quarterback's back there, especially if Matt Ryan or Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 1: if they have time back there, they're gonna pick apart

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Speaker 1: any defense there is out there. I mean, they just

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Speaker 1: they've just seen it too much. In Russell Wilson right now,

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Speaker 1: he's playing at an all time level, at an MVP

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Speaker 1: type level. So with us, I feel like the key

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Speaker 1: is to get after this quarterback. We gotta figure out

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Speaker 1: a way to generate a pass rush. And since it's

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Speaker 1: not coming from our twenty one million dollar man, who

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00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,879
Speaker 1: now he has a neat issue, we gotta find it somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Whether it be Aldon Smith, whether it be you know,

466
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Speaker 1: Crawford in the middle of Everson Griffin. Somebody has to

467
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,959
Speaker 1: find a way to generate this pressure because if not,

468
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is gonna tear this defense apart. And you

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Speaker 1: talk about, you know, our injuries to our corners. Right now,

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Speaker 1: we got a Woozier out, Brown's out. What are we

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Speaker 1: gonna do. We're gonna bring car down there, or we're

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Speaker 1: gonna put Robinson move him back from safety to the corner.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a couple of things that we can do,

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Speaker 1: but overall, I think this defense has to rely on

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Speaker 1: that defensive line in that front seven to not only

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Speaker 1: get after the quarterback, but they got to stop the run.

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Speaker 1: If not, it's gonna be a field day in Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Is gonna be like just picking their poison. Do we

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Speaker 1: want to run and gash you with Carson and hide

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Speaker 1: or do we want to put you over top with

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Speaker 1: you know, DK Metcalf and lock it. So for me,

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Speaker 1: it all predicates on getting after the quarterback, and it's

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Speaker 1: a must, especially this game in Seattle, that we get

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Speaker 1: after Russell Wilson. Let's let's start with the run, because

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00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,719
Speaker 1: I just went back and looked at numbers here. So

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys allowed one hundred and fifty nine yards of

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Speaker 1: rushing to the Rams on thirty three carries. They allowed

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Speaker 1: one hundred nine yards of rushing to Atlanta on thirty

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Speaker 1: three carries. So we're seeing teams who are running of

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Speaker 1: football and the other teams are winning the time of possessions.

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00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 1: The Cowboys these last two games have lost the time

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Speaker 1: of possession. The other folks are out here deciding we're

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Speaker 1: going to try to run the football, and if the

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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks can run the football and win first down,

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00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: then that's at a disadvantage for the Cowboys. So right

496
00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: out of the gate, to me, the defensive line has

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00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,359
Speaker 1: got to be gap sound and stop the run and

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Speaker 1: make sure that Carlos High and Chris Carson they're starting

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Speaker 1: running back, that these guys are not out here put

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Speaker 1: in Seattle in the situation where they're looking at a

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Speaker 1: second and seven, I mean a second and three gaining

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Speaker 1: seven yards or a second and four because they're gaining

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Speaker 1: six yards on a run. They've got to do that.

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Speaker 1: So that's where I'm looking at. Terry Pole, Tristan Hill,

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Speaker 1: Antoine Woods. You need these guys to be upfront holding

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Speaker 1: their blocks. The Seattle offensive line is not there's no,

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00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,120
Speaker 1: Zach Martin's over there. Okay, there's you know, they don't

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00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 1: have any great offensive line, they're good enough. They know

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Speaker 1: how to win, and Russ makes up for a whole

510
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,239
Speaker 1: lot of issues and mistakes and guys that I think

511
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 1: are just average. But the Cowboys who were just average

512
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:22,159
Speaker 1: as well, I had to figure out a way to

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00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 1: be better than they've been. They've got to improve, in

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00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,880
Speaker 1: your hope, and that's all that's that's always a scary words.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about football. Yeah, what your hope is that

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00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: they're getting used to this system a little bit and

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Speaker 1: they can't And one other point, they can't be bad

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Speaker 1: on third downs. I mean, that's the money down. That's

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Speaker 1: how you get off the field. That's how you get

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Speaker 1: the ball back in your offensive's hand, back in Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott's hand, and being able to win the game. And

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Speaker 1: when we saw that last game, the first half, they

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Speaker 1: were horrendous on third down. I believe they were maybe

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Speaker 1: you know, I think the Falcons were maybe over sixty

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Speaker 1: percent and third down. But in the second half they

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Speaker 1: were able to get those fortunate stops. Now they did

527
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Speaker 1: have a couple drops by Atlanta, but they were able

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Speaker 1: to get those stops and able to get the ball

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Speaker 1: back in Dak Prescott's hand, and we saw the rest

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00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,239
Speaker 1: is history. So the first two games, I think they

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00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 1: were a little bit shaky on third down. If they're

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Speaker 1: able to you know, get their percentages up and get

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Speaker 1: the ball back to this offense, like you said in

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00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: the past, I mean, the offense, in my opinion, is

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00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: the best defense to stop Russell Wilson. If they're staying

536
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: on this field as Dak Prescott and Zekiel Elliott, those

537
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:23,640
Speaker 1: boys are on the field for twenty five thirty five

538
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: plus minutes. I think that that basically limits the amount

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Speaker 1: of time that Russell Wilson has back there to basically

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00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: pick apart your defense. And I think going into this

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00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: game that can be your best defense instead of just

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00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: relying on our you know, four to three or our

543
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: front seven and shut down Russell Wilson, I think this

544
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 1: offense has to maintain the possession of the ball throughout

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Speaker 1: the whole game. Okay, here's something else. Okay, and you

546
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: get this one. Haven't been a safety buried Church. We

547
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,239
Speaker 1: saw Matt Ryan running for first downs last week, and

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00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: that's You've got Russell Wilson here now with that ability

549
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: that if the Cowboys are covering guys to go ahead

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00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,639
Speaker 1: and pick up some first downs. And Russ is not

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00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:05,879
Speaker 1: a guy who takes hits either, He's not so. And

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00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: from a defensive standpoint, how do you how do they

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00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: cover or account for Russell Wilson on a third and six,

554
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: a third and seven? How do you do that? Well,

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00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 1: let me tell you first, it's demoralizing. It's like a

556
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: dagger in the heart when, especially as a secondary, when

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00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: I feel like you're holding up your own You got

558
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: your man locked up, everybody's locked up around the board.

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00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: He has to throw the ball away. There's no way

560
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 1: he's gonna get the ball off. And this guy, somehow,

561
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,879
Speaker 1: some way escapes the pocket and picks up six, and

562
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: before you're able to stop him, before you're able to

563
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: let your frustrations out on him, he slides. He slides

564
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: right before you, and you gotta go over top of you.

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00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 1: It's probably one of the most demoralizing things an offense

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00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: can do to a defense, because you first you get

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Speaker 1: another set of downs when you're probably tired from already

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00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: doing those first three downs, and then you can't even

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00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: let out your frustration on a guy like that. It's extremely,

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Speaker 1: extremely heartening. But to me, what this defensive line has

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Speaker 1: to do is they have to have an ability to

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Speaker 1: contain this guy. If they line up in their gaps,

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00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: they can't have a hero ball or what I call

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00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: it hero ball. You can't have a guy out there

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Speaker 1: who's rushing the passer and thinks, oh, let me take

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Speaker 1: this easy path. Let me take this easy path inside

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00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: to him because I can go ahead and get them.

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Speaker 1: And that's all that's gonna happen is Russell Wilson's gonna

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Speaker 1: spin right up out of there. You're gonna lose contain.

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Speaker 1: And that's where we've seen all their big plays happen

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00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: when Russell gets out of the pocket and he got

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00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: time to throw it, to lock it, throw it to Metcalf.

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Speaker 1: So I think this defensive line they have to do

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00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: an amazing job of keeping him contained. If that's putting,

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00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: you know, a spy somewhere, if that's moving you know,

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00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: taint Lawrence or Alden Smith on the inside, just to

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00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 1: kind of hold a block of there in spy on them.

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00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: They have to figure out a way to do it

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00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: because if he goes there and picks up first downs

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00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: and extends the drive with his legs. I mean, you're

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00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: asking for a lot from this defense. So they got

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Speaker 1: to be able to find a way to contain him

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Speaker 1: and hopefully not let him use his legs to pick

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Speaker 1: up first downs, and hopefully on the other side, Dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott can do the same thing and use his legs

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Speaker 1: a little bit more to pick up first downs. Because

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00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: this offense has got to find a way to help

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Speaker 1: to win the time of possession battle in this football game.

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Speaker 1: I think they've got to win the time of possession battle.

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Speaker 1: They've also got to win the turnover battle. Here, let's

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Speaker 1: that some news just happened here From John Machoda, the

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Speaker 1: athletic who covers the Cowboys, it's a good job for

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Speaker 1: the John's a friend of mine. Diggs the corner the

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Speaker 1: Trey Digs going on there. Yeah, from from the reports

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Speaker 1: from Cowboys campus, seems that Trayvon Diggs, um, you're starting

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Speaker 1: cornerback and arguably your best corner Um, did not practice today.

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Speaker 1: He's listed as a shoulder injury. I'm sure we'll hear

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Speaker 1: more about it later in the week, but that's just

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Speaker 1: another injury and another big time part of this Instead,

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Speaker 1: it's just not practicing today. I don't know what's going

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Speaker 1: on over there in Cowboys Can what they're doing in

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00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: practice or what, but this is just another injury for

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Speaker 1: that secondary man. So a shoulder injury to Digs. Exusier

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Speaker 1: out with a hamstring. Jordan Lewis has just come back.

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Speaker 1: They've signed Brandon car For those Cowboy fans who come

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Speaker 1: on our feed and want Earl Thomas, Earl Thomas you're

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Speaker 1: concerned right now, you need some corners. You may want

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Speaker 1: to call Dion see if he can leave Jackson stay

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Speaker 1: for a week or two just to come over here

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Speaker 1: and defend somebody. I mean, it is right, It is

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Speaker 1: right by the way. You see Byron Jones left the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins game on Sunday he had suffered an injury. I mean,

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00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: the injury bug is all across the NFL and right now, man,

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Speaker 1: you just got to be hopeful that you can make

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00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 1: it week to week. And also, who is on your

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00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 1: practice squad right now really matters. I mean, you gotta

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Speaker 1: have some people that you're working with because this is

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00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: not going to stop. We're going to keep seeing injuries

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Speaker 1: throughout this season. I think we'll see more guys on

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Speaker 1: IR than we've ever seen before. I haven't seen this

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Speaker 1: when the ACLA injuries in a long long time. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: here's Diggs. Maybe Diggs has to take Maybe he has

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Speaker 1: to take a shot in order to play against see

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about taking shots anymore. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's dive into that right now. So b Taylor, the

686
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Speaker 1: Charger starting quarterback Tyrod Taylor is going to take an

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Speaker 1: injection before their game against Kansas City on Sunday, and

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00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: the team doctor punctured his lung. He didn't play. They

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Speaker 1: ended up having to take him to the hospital during

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Speaker 1: the football game, and Steve Wise of NFL Network talked

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Speaker 1: about the things that could happen for the Chargers based

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Speaker 1: on this is number one, that they don't trust the

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Speaker 1: team doctors anymore. The guys you're like, yeah, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go see somebody else before I just rely on the

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Speaker 1: word from your doctors. And then also, Barry, you will

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Speaker 1: get this one because you understand it very much. What

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Speaker 1: if Tyrod Taylor ends up losing his position because of this?

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Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, the rookie, came in, played well, the Chargers

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Speaker 1: held their own against Kansas City ended up losing to

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Speaker 1: the Chargers in overtime, So Herbert is supposed likely getting

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Speaker 1: the start this week. If Tyrod Taylor's no longer a

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Speaker 1: starter because of the team doctor puncturing his lung, that's

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Speaker 1: just a bad look for the Chargers, not only within

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Speaker 1: this team, but when you're trying to recruit free agents

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Speaker 1: as well. Oh yeah, it's a huge bad looking. And

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with the team and the doctors to

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Speaker 1: begin with. What this look does is, how are you,

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00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: like you pointed out earlier, how are you as a player.

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Speaker 1: If let's just say you get injured, you know, you

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00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: tweak something or something like that, how are you supposed

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Speaker 1: to go to the doctor and say, you know, what

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00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: do you have that's best? What's what's your best advice?

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Speaker 1: So how do I fix this up real quick? If

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Speaker 1: you can't trust them to get you healthy? Um, and

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Speaker 1: that'll make a huge, huge divide amongst the team if

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00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,320
Speaker 1: if you can't trust the doctors. Now, you know, everybody

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00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: makes mistakes, but that right there, I mean, that is

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Speaker 1: a huge mistake to make. And they put you that doctor,

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Speaker 1: that specific doctor, and not sure what his name is,

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Speaker 1: but they put you in charge of that like you're

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Speaker 1: the head of all that. You can't make a mistake

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Speaker 1: like that. Now it brings me to Tyrod Taylor. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure you know, with the CBA and you know

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Speaker 1: if he if he was just like you know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can accept this this help from this doctor. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure what he can do legally, but if it

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Speaker 1: was me, I would be looking at every single angle

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Speaker 1: of how I can sue the crap out of this team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's no way that you're supposed to be

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Speaker 1: a professional doctor injecting this for your ribs to try

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Speaker 1: to get the pain down for your ribs and you

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Speaker 1: go too deep and you puncture my lung, Like, I

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Speaker 1: just don't understand how that can happen. And you're right,

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Speaker 1: new if he if he goes out there, just say, Herbert,

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Speaker 1: who looked phenomenal in his opening game the other week,

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Speaker 1: if he goes out there, and let's just say Tyrod

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Speaker 1: can't play this week and Herbert has another amazing performance

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Speaker 1: and this time they get the W and Coach Lynn

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Speaker 1: is over there like, hey, you know, I feel for

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Speaker 1: my guy. I said, what, he's one hundred percent healthy,

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Speaker 1: he'll be back in the starting lineup. But if Herbert's

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Speaker 1: bawling like this, you just can't take that momentum away

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Speaker 1: from a team. I mean, the team is greater than

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Speaker 1: one player. We all know that. But if he's bawling

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Speaker 1: like that, you cannot take that momentum away. So let's

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Speaker 1: just say he loses his starting spot. I mean, then

747
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: where does that put him? I mean if he if

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Speaker 1: he becomes a free agent next week, you know, teams

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Speaker 1: aren't gonna look at him like, oh, this could be

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Speaker 1: our franchise starting quarterback. They're gonna look at him. It's like, Okay,

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00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: he's a he's a backup type. He'll you know, he'll

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00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 1: be like a Chase Daniel, you know, be around the

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00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: league for a long time just backing people up. And

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Speaker 1: I could take a huge hit on his money. So

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Speaker 1: if I'm Tyrod Taylor, I'm telling you now, I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at every different avenue to try to recoup as much

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Speaker 1: financially as I can from this situation. But overall, it's

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Speaker 1: just a it's just a bad look for this Charges

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Speaker 1: organization because I don't think this is the first time

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Speaker 1: they've had trouble with the team doctors. It's not the

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Speaker 1: first time that the Charges have had issues with the

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Speaker 1: team doctor that. That is definitely true. You can just

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Speaker 1: go google that and you'll find stories there. The two

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Speaker 1: things come out of this. I wonder does the doctor

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Speaker 1: keep his job? Don't know, I don't know who the

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Speaker 1: doctor is, like you, I don't know how long they've

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Speaker 1: been there. But do you you know, is this one

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Speaker 1: of those where you got to tell the doctor, Hey, look,

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Speaker 1: you may we like you, but you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: go ahead and take this hell because they have our players,

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00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: our players and our player agents saying they don't want

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Speaker 1: you touching them. Because if you're if you're a player

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00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,760
Speaker 1: on the charges this week, you got to get a shot.

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna let him do it? I'm like, hey,

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00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: who else we got? I mean, you know, so that's

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Speaker 1: an issue right there. One to replacing the doctor and

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Speaker 1: two Verry. Does the Players Association get involved in something

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00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: like this for a guy like Taylor? I think they

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00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: would have to. I mean, you know, the NFLPA, you know,

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Speaker 1: they're supposed to have our our best interest in heart

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Speaker 1: and everything like that. So um, and there's already reports

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Speaker 1: out there, you know, Tyrod talking to the NFLPA out there.

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Speaker 1: But this is this is what you got a union

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Speaker 1: for it. This is what you got, you know, this

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Speaker 1: whole NFLPA. And I believe who's the head of a

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Speaker 1: deep Dean is it still Deans Dean? It's d Smith.

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Speaker 1: D Smith, Yeah, it's d Smith still head. This is

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Speaker 1: why he's the head. I mean, this is the reason

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Speaker 1: for that organization to help look out for the players

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Speaker 1: and have their best interest in hearts. So hopefully, if

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Speaker 1: I'm Tyrod Taylor. I'm contacting them, I'm contacting the legal team.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing whatever I can to get this situation better

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Speaker 1: in my favor because I mean, you see, how how

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Speaker 1: how can you trust a team doctor after that? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've had toward all shots and I've had you know,

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Speaker 1: pain killers in the past to get through games. Um,

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Speaker 1: and if you can't trust the doctor to get you

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Speaker 1: through that game pain wise, I mean, it causes a

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Speaker 1: whole It's just a slippery slope, as I should put.

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Speaker 1: It's a slippery slope. And to me, this is where

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00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,959
Speaker 1: the agent for Tyrod Taylor has to go to work.

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00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: That's his job now. I mean, ty Rod's gotta do

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Speaker 1: what he can and to get healthy and get into

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Speaker 1: playbook and see whatever he you know, where his status is.

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00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: He's got to worry about football. But this is where

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00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: the agent has to get involved. So he's on the

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00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 1: phone with a Spanos family about what happened. He's on

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00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: the phone with the nfl PA, and he needs to

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00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,800
Speaker 1: take this all Tyrod's you know, he just needs to

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Speaker 1: come from Tyrode with Okay, here's the latest details in

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Speaker 1: the Tyrode cannot get involved in the minutia of what

812
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Speaker 1: right now is I don't want to say mount practice,

813
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 1: but obviously it's a medical issue here and a mistake

814
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,400
Speaker 1: that was made. Um, they got to he's got to

815
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Speaker 1: do that for him. So the player can can do

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Speaker 1: his job, but he altos. Let me ask a job.

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00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yeah, let me ask you a question real quick.

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Speaker 1: So what what can the what can the that team do?

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Speaker 1: Can they can they contact Tyrode and say hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: like do they take their legal team to Tyrode and say, hey, man,

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00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: you know these are the options that you have. And

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Speaker 1: you know, we had imagine you not to do this, Like,

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Speaker 1: you know, what can they say to Tyrod right now?

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Speaker 1: It's basically what I'm what I'm asking you. No, it's

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00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: a good question. And to me, this is once again

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Speaker 1: this is the agent. The agent now has to step

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Speaker 1: in here and try to protect the player at all calls.

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00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: I mean, this is one where okay, you just go

829
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 1: to you know, you just say, hey, talk to my people.

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00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: You know, hey, Barry, let's talk to about you know what,

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Speaker 1: talk to my people. I have to go worry about,

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00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: you know, my job right now. Talk to my people.

833
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: Almost like when you're selling your house, you got to

834
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: go to the realtors or when you go into court

835
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: and you say it tells him. I talk to my

836
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Speaker 1: lawyer here that that's what needs to happen for Tyrod Taylor,

837
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: and he should be dealing with at all, with the

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Speaker 1: medical staff or or the Chargers legal team at all.

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Speaker 1: This is why you have representation. This is also why

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00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: you have the NFLPA, because anything that they bring to you,

841
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: if you're Tyrod, you're taking it to your agent, You're

842
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: taking it to the NFLPA. You're not signing anything. And

843
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: I don't even know if you want to have a

844
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Speaker 1: conversation with anybody without your people around, just because this

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Speaker 1: is this is serious. This is a serious I mean,

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Speaker 1: like tyrode rehab, that's right, Where does he go to

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Speaker 1: get better? Like, like, how how did that work? Is

848
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Speaker 1: the team hand for that as well? Or does he

849
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Speaker 1: because I wouldn't trust going back into the facility. He's

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00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 1: talking about, I need this rehab for my lung after

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00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: that happened. So do they pay for his you know,

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00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: medical issues and medical rehab outside of the team. I mean,

853
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: it's just there's a lot of things going on with

854
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: this right now. Steve, which of NFL Network had spoken

855
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 1: about how he covered teams where where players had lost

856
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: the confidence of the medical staff and how debilitating that

857
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,959
Speaker 1: could be. The person I feel bad for right now

858
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: it's head coach Anthony Lynn, because he's now put in

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00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 1: a situation that really, you know, it's unfair to him

860
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: from the standpoint. Okay, if Herbert keeps playing well as

861
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: you brought up and he was drafted to be the future,

862
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,240
Speaker 1: he's got to have the conversation now with the team

863
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,880
Speaker 1: and with the quarterback about how this aul went down. Barry,

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Speaker 1: let me ask you this because you were you've been

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00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: around two NFL teams now between the Cowboys and Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: Is that old adage you don't lose your job to injury?

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Speaker 1: Does that is still apply or are we dealing with

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00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,160
Speaker 1: different things now? You tell me no, that doesn't apply

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Speaker 1: at all. I mean I've seen it happen left and right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can't tell me, you know, or Tony

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00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: Romo didn't lose his job because of injury. I mean

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00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 1: if he never gets injured, who knows? If we ever

873
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: hear about you know, Dak Prescott, but um and in

874
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: my case, when when they brought in Brodny pool Um

875
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: to be the starting safety back in twenty thirteen. Um,

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00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: it was you know, I'm back in two thousand and twelve, Um,

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Speaker 1: he got injured. He got injured early in camp and

878
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: he just wasn't in shape you know, during OTAs and

879
00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: during camp to pretty much to take over that starting job.

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00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 1: So I was able to supplant him. But if he

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00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: doesn't get injured, and you know, he stays in shape,

882
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 1: you know, I might still be on special teams or

883
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 1: it might still be you know, vuying for a job

884
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: somewhere else. So, UM, that whole that whole old adage

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00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,440
Speaker 1: of just you know, you know, if he's injured, he'll

886
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: he'll he'll have his job when he get returns. I

887
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: think that's a little crap. And yeah, I mean that's

888
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: just how it isn't in today's NFL, and the quarterback

889
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 1: situation is much different than any other position. And I

890
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: go back to Dak Prescott and Tony Rowe. Dak had

891
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 1: won so many games and he'd also won the confidence

892
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,919
Speaker 1: of the locker room that they were able to make

893
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,319
Speaker 1: that decision and everyone was okay with it. That that's

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00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: something else that I think a lot of people haven't

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00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: talked about enough. You could never find anybody who wasn't

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00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: a Dak person. I mean even guys who were close

897
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: to Romo were all saying, yet, Dak's the guy, this

898
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: is the guy. So so he had that spinning his way.

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Speaker 1: Is justin Herbert able to have that same thing where

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00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: the locker room is all behind him, and that that's

901
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 1: going to be interesting because all you know, all rooms

902
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:47,760
Speaker 1: are different, man, All rooms are different, all coaches are different.

903
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 1: Here this is That's why I say I feel bad

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Speaker 1: for the head coach, Anthony Lynn, because you're now put

905
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,680
Speaker 1: into a position that you have to figure out a

906
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:59,320
Speaker 1: way to try and you're not gonna make everybody happy,

907
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,280
Speaker 1: but you try to figure out how do you treat

908
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: it in a in a classy fashion and you you

909
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 1: can keep everybody in your room together even as something

910
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: this may be and you're you're completely right. I mean

911
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: I think when it comes down to it, I think

912
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 1: only a couple if you can swing a few players

913
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: like it's it's in an instant. With that Dak and

914
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 1: Tony situation, Um, Dad can't have to get the whole

915
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:23,960
Speaker 1: locker room on his side. He just had to get

916
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Speaker 1: a few players on his side, and once he got

917
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 1: those few that basically swung the whole team. And um,

918
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Speaker 1: I'll we get off air, I'll tell you about the story.

919
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: And when when I tell you when I thought that

920
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 1: Dak pretty much took over that job. But UM, to me,

921
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Speaker 1: I think, you know, if if Herbert has you know,

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Speaker 1: the confidence of the Keelan Isllen and a you know

923
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Speaker 1: one Hunter Henry or whoever else is the leaders of

924
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: those teams, Um, I think it'll be pretty easily you know,

925
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: to sway or to to pitch that to to team

926
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Speaker 1: that Hey, Herbert's gonna take over from now one? Is

927
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: it right? You know? I don't know, but I think

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Speaker 1: it'll be pretty easy if he can get those guys

929
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Speaker 1: to to buy in with him. Kansas City ended up

930
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Speaker 1: beating the chart Argers in overtime. And if Herbert can

931
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Speaker 1: go out the way Dak Prescott did, Yeah, Dak Prescott

932
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: rolled off with seven, eight, nine, ten wins. Yeah, something

933
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,879
Speaker 1: like that. And I go back to the Pittsburgh game

934
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: where it looked like the Cowboys were going to lose

935
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Speaker 1: as Ben Roethlisberger faked the spike and and it is

936
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Speaker 1: just you know a little bit of time less than

937
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 1: sixty some odd seconds left. Then the Cowboys go down

938
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Speaker 1: the field and win the game. And then I remember

939
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: that Green Bay game at lambeau Field was another game

940
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,879
Speaker 1: where you're kind of thinking, okay, rookie quarterback, let's see

941
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Speaker 1: what he does. And Dak showed out, and Brett Farvee

942
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: was in the booth with Troy Aikman and they were

943
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:40,240
Speaker 1: just saying, how you can't you can't go back to Romo.

944
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:42,399
Speaker 1: It's Dak's job. And so when you got two Hall

945
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 1: of Fame quarterbacks in here saying Dak's the guy, then

946
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson's back in the studio, that's when I thought

947
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 1: Romo really lost. It's like, oh man, the national media

948
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 1: is now telling the Cowboys what to do, and they're

949
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: saying it over for Romo. And and then then of

950
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 1: course you're covering the team and that you were there

951
00:47:57,239 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 1: as well. But you could tell he won the locker room,

952
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 1: so you won. You won the media perception, then you

953
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: won the room, and it was really nowhere for Tony

954
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: to go. If Justin Herbert is able to do that

955
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: same type of thing, then it makes a job easier

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00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: for Anthony Lynn in terms of having to deal with it.

957
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: But if the charges are just a team that's under

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00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,959
Speaker 1: five hundred and he's starting to struggle because now guys

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00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: have have schemed up against against him, then he gets

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00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,880
Speaker 1: a lot tougher. Whenever today it's healthy and wants to

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Speaker 1: come back and play. So that's the tough thing about

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Speaker 1: the National Football League. But I'll say this for Dak Prescott,

963
00:48:29,719 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: since since he ended up winning that job, he's done

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Speaker 1: nothing but proved he is worthy of being the quarterback

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Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Hey man, that's our show. We've

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Speaker 1: been running here, running and gunn and so Barry church

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Speaker 1: Man always fun to chat with you. We do it

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