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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is the player's

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Speaker 1: Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny mccrai, and NEWI scrugs.

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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, it's Friday Friday, and the Cowboys are

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Speaker 1: gonna find themselves in a battle with the Seattle Seahawks

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. No fans in the stadium, so the twelfth

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Speaker 1: Cowboys face Seattle and KNWI scrugs, longtime Cowboys reporter, and

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Speaker 1: we marked the return of our man Danny, Daddy, Daddy, Matt,

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Speaker 1: Danny and Ride welcomed in a bay be a girl

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Speaker 1: this week. He took some days off. I wanted him

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Speaker 1: got things handled right now, so he's gonna come back

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Speaker 1: launch a bought to you by Hotels dot Com. So, um,

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Speaker 1: take me through the experience. Man, man, it was it

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Speaker 1: was crazy, right, so we uh, you know, late at

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Speaker 1: So it's just it's just been great. You know, no

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Speaker 1: So tell me when you drove home, did you drive

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Speaker 1: And I think I found myself doing that day too

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Speaker 1: But yes, it's one of those protective feelings. Yes, And

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Speaker 1: Lounge on a football Friday in new restricts, A long

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Speaker 1: time Cowboy Boys reporter, and we're joined by Danny mcraie,

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Speaker 1: former Dallas Cowboys safety. Our other running buddy, Barry Church

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Speaker 1: is off today, so let me dive into something that

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Speaker 1: was a topic for Mike McCarthy, the head coach, and

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Speaker 1: that was being asked about the defense and Mike Knowles

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinate and he was basically asked, you're given guys

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Speaker 1: too much because you're trying to install a new defense,

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Speaker 1: trying to run some three four concepts and four three concepts.

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Speaker 1: These guys are pretty much used to a four three

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Speaker 1: And Mike mccarthur will make sure to read this right.

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Speaker 1: He says, you cut the volume back when he talked

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Speaker 1: talked about simplifying the defenses his time is a head coach.

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Speaker 1: When guys are having issues and missing the sims, you

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Speaker 1: cut the volume back. So Jaylen Smith was asked about

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Speaker 1: that and he said yes. And here's another quote from

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Speaker 1: Jaylen Smith and when he was spoke to the media,

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Speaker 1: he says, I believe it's important that each and every

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Speaker 1: player knows in and out what they have to do,

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Speaker 1: and with the smaller playbook, it gives us a better

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Speaker 1: opportunity to do that. Jaylen Smith is getting lit up

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Speaker 1: on social media for saying that people. Oh he can't

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Speaker 1: handle it. Oh he didn't know what to do. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Jayalen needs to study more. Danny, you spoke about the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys defense and having a whole lot in the playbook

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Speaker 1: from the time you got to the Cowboys and there

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Speaker 1: was the lockout and Rob Ryan was the head coach.

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Speaker 1: So please remind listeners and viewers what you said. Yeah, so,

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Speaker 1: you know, when when Rob Ryan was first hired as

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Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator, it was the year of the lockout,

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Speaker 1: so we didn't have any offseason and we had to

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Speaker 1: report straight to training camp. Right. So Rob Ryan has

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Speaker 1: this this very complex defense with a lot of players,

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Speaker 1: a lot of different blizzers, a lot of players playing

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Speaker 1: different positions, and he tried to install the same thing,

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Speaker 1: and you know, credit to him, he tried to do

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Speaker 1: what he could. He had never, you know, experienced having

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Speaker 1: to do that during the lockout, but you know he

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Speaker 1: figured his players could pick it up. And when you

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Speaker 1: saw us out there on the field, the first thing

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Speaker 1: that you said was, man, miscommunication. These guys look, you know,

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Speaker 1: they don't know what they're doing, and you know they're

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Speaker 1: forgotten that we hadn't had much time to input this stuff,

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Speaker 1: and Rob kind of forgot that too. So as we

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Speaker 1: moved throughout the season, we did try to cut back

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Speaker 1: and run a few different things, but you know, for us.

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Speaker 1: It was just, you know, too little, too late. So,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I said the same thing about about

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Speaker 1: fossil Um, I'm sorry Mike Nolan. I said the same

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Speaker 1: thing about Mike Nolan. You know that hopefully he comes

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Speaker 1: in and he's able to input his defense, but he

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Speaker 1: takes it slow, especially having all these young players and

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Speaker 1: draft picks that will be playing, and he just puts

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Speaker 1: it in, you know, slowly, so these guys can focus

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Speaker 1: and know where they're supposed to be at. And it

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Speaker 1: looks like he did not do that, and I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't take anything away from Jayalen for saying what

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Speaker 1: he said, because if that's the way it is, that's

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Speaker 1: the way it is, right because you know you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get on him when you see him out of position

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Speaker 1: and missing plays. So it's it's his right to defend

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Speaker 1: itself and say, hey, look, it's fine. You know that

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Speaker 1: we have all this stuff in, but you know some

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Speaker 1: guys aren't picking it up. And I think it'll be

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Speaker 1: best for us if we cut back and let us

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Speaker 1: play fast with our ears, pent back and go make

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Speaker 1: the players like we usually make, because when you have

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Speaker 1: players out there overthinking, that's the worst thing you could do,

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Speaker 1: especially on defense, because that'll get you beat all day.

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Speaker 1: And I think you know, we've been seeing some of that,

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Speaker 1: you know, on the field defensively. Everson Griffin told the

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Speaker 1: media that he prefers to play with a three point

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Speaker 1: stands that he wants to go ahead and play with

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Speaker 1: his hand down, that he basically likes playing in the

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Speaker 1: four three. That's what he knows. Tank Moritz is another

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Speaker 1: four three guy. Then, and to ask guys to try

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Speaker 1: and make this switch here without an ota, without a

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Speaker 1: meeting camp, without a full training camp, that's a challenge here.

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Speaker 1: And so the question starts to become is Mike Nolan

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Speaker 1: going to decide that, hey, I'd better do what these

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Speaker 1: guys know how to do and then slowly bringing my system.

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Speaker 1: I go back to when Bill Parcells was here. Bill

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Speaker 1: Parcells takes over, he's a four three defensive guy. When

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Speaker 1: two Super Bowls running the four three defense. That arguably

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Speaker 1: the greatest linebacker ever in Lawrence Taylor. But when he

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Speaker 1: came to the Cowboys, Mike Zimmer was a defensive his

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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. They ran a four to three and then

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Speaker 1: as he went into his second year, they started transitioning

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Speaker 1: into a three four, drafting three four linebackers and making

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Speaker 1: that change. But even he didn't come in here and

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Speaker 1: try and switch it in one year. It's like, let's

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Speaker 1: do what we know how to do. And then he

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Speaker 1: was able to switch it and get things more into

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Speaker 1: what he wanted. And to me, Mike Nolan, especially with

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Speaker 1: as you said, you know, a shortened offseason, you have

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Speaker 1: to really try and do what these guys do best

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Speaker 1: because right now two games in, this defense has got

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Speaker 1: a lot of issues. You're not good up front. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're not good up friend, let me run some of

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Speaker 1: these numbers here for you. Danny two sacks, seven quarterback hits,

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Speaker 1: fourteen quarterback pressures and that is tied for twentieth in

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Speaker 1: the league when it comes to pressures. There. When you

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Speaker 1: look at their run defense here, they are twenty first

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Atlanta ran thirty three times against this

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Speaker 1: team for one hundred and nine yards, and then you

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Speaker 1: had the Rams run against the Cowboys four thirty three

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Speaker 1: times over one hundred and fifty one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: nine yards. So you're not good up front. And if

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Speaker 1: you're not good up front, and that's what they talked

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Speaker 1: about Hey, we're gonna be real good up front and

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Speaker 1: let these linebackers roam free. No, Jayleen Smith is not

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Speaker 1: doing what we thought he would do, because right up front,

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Speaker 1: they're not any good. So it's more than just pointing

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Speaker 1: it at fifty four and thinking, hey man, you stink

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Speaker 1: you're the whole problem. There's a lot of problems on

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Speaker 1: this defense. Two games into this, well, listen, if you listen,

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Speaker 1: we had Will McClay on here, right, And if you

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Speaker 1: don't want to put any stock into what we're saying

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Speaker 1: or what the players are saying, Will McClay came in

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Speaker 1: and straight said, you know, I asked them, you know what,

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Speaker 1: you know what's going on the defense. How can we

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Speaker 1: get better? He said, Hey, we have some guys, you

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Speaker 1: know on the defensive lines that have been playing in

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Speaker 1: a four to three and they've been one gap in

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Speaker 1: their entire career, and now they have the two gap.

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Speaker 1: This is how Crawford's telling Will this right, So he's

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Speaker 1: adjusting and trying to get used to playing playing a

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Speaker 1: two gap system. So Will McClay come up, came on

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Speaker 1: here and said the same thing that Jaalen said, the

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Speaker 1: same thing that McCarthy said. As far as our players

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Speaker 1: are trying to learn something new and you know, and

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Speaker 1: learn a new system. So if you're not taking any stock,

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Speaker 1: putting any stock into what we're saying, put some stock

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Speaker 1: in what Will is saying, because you have to listen

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Speaker 1: to somebody and this is the whole the whole band

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Speaker 1: is saying the same thing. So yeah, you know, minimize

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Speaker 1: the playbook. Put these guys in positions to where they're

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Speaker 1: running fast and they're not thinking. Put one or two

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Speaker 1: blitzes in. You know, put a put a put a

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Speaker 1: blitz into where wherever the team runs. Whenever they run

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Speaker 1: a certain formation, you always blitz that formation. Do something

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Speaker 1: as simple as that, and then build on it. Right,

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Speaker 1: because we want we should be creating more pressure too.

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Speaker 1: We should not be as lost as as we are,

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Speaker 1: you know, considering what Jalen said, like so it's a

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Speaker 1: way for him to minimize the defense and still be

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Speaker 1: effective and not be vanilla, you know, like like like

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Speaker 1: we were in previous years. He can still get this done,

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Speaker 1: and that's why they get paid the big bucks. You know.

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Speaker 1: He has to come out here and create a different

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Speaker 1: game plan and he has to fit it to the players,

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Speaker 1: fit the system to the players. Those are Those are

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Speaker 1: what the great coaches doing. That's what the great coaches

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Speaker 1: do for the teams to win, in their players to

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Speaker 1: perform at the highest level. Yeah, and I'm not sitting

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Speaker 1: here saying that Jalen is playing perfect and he has

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Speaker 1: no room from proving. What I am saying is fans

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Speaker 1: that are making it seem as though fifty four is

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Speaker 1: the biggest problem here. No. And if I'm going to

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Speaker 1: call a player out and say, look, I need more

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Speaker 1: from you, it's number ninety. If DeMarcus Lawrence is getting

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Speaker 1: to the quarterback, then this whole defense is a different

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Speaker 1: deal because you didn't bringing Alden Smith and Everson Griffin

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Speaker 1: to be the guy. You brought them in to help

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Speaker 1: the guy in this old D line. Also, we look

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Speaker 1: at don Terry Poe, who Jerry Jones said today was

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Speaker 1: playing well. A lot of people have a disagreement with

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Speaker 1: their Tristan Hill. These guys have got to be better

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Speaker 1: at plugging up the run, Danny. When you're running thirty

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Speaker 1: three times in the football game as an offense, that's

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Speaker 1: that's telling you what they're They're saying, we feel like

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Speaker 1: we can attack you, and that's what both teams did.

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Speaker 1: The Rams did it in Game one. They were effective.

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Speaker 1: The Falcons tried to do it, not as effective. And

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this week, you better believe Brian

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Speaker 1: Schottenheimer's gonna take Chris Carson and Carlos high and run

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Speaker 1: right at the Cowboys here. So I expect another thirty

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Speaker 1: point I just thirty point, but a thirty carry day

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Speaker 1: for a team against the Cowboys. You'd be crazy not

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Speaker 1: to try and put this. Put your team out here

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Speaker 1: to run and keep this Cowboys defense on the field

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Speaker 1: as long as you can. They're playing over thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: a game. That's how you've beaten the Cowboys a past

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Speaker 1: few seasons, Danny is win the time of possession and

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Speaker 1: wear out their defense. Yeah, listen, as we said, you know,

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Speaker 1: once you put something bad on tape, the other teams

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Speaker 1: around the league that you're playing, they're going to try

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Speaker 1: to do the same thing. Right we put we put

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Speaker 1: that on tape that we're we're we're susceptible to the

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Speaker 1: run against what our offense, I mean on our defensive

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Speaker 1: line and our linebackers. And Atlanta saw that tape and

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Speaker 1: they said, hey, we probably can do the same thing.

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Speaker 1: So let's focus on trying to do that now. They

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Speaker 1: weren't as successful as a team before, but they had

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Speaker 1: some success at some points, you know, the floor of

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Speaker 1: the game kind of change that form. So Seattle will

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Speaker 1: will definitely do the same thing. I also want to

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Speaker 1: at the combine, you see that they can take off

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Speaker 1: over and over again so they can run as fast

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Speaker 1: rushing to putting his hand in the dirt, right, and

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Speaker 1: if he complains about it, he's going to be standing

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Speaker 1: up again. The same thing with our defensive line every

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Speaker 1: time you watch the Marcus Lawrence, he has his hand

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Speaker 1: when you put them in a different position, of course

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Speaker 1: you're going to see see a little, you know, a

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Speaker 1: adapt it to what their players are able to do.

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Speaker 1: Because you're paying these guys too much money to try

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Speaker 1: So let them get back to what they do best,

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Speaker 1: and I think you will see some big change in

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Speaker 1: Got Danny mccraie, former Cowboys safety. Barry Church, former Cowboys safety,

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Speaker 1: is off today, all right, Tank Lawrence is still dealing

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Speaker 1: with the knee issue. Danny. Basically, they're telling us are

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Speaker 1: gonna be a game time decision on him and then

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Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith. According to Mike McCarthy, who missed last week

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Speaker 1: because of a stinger, he's making progress, which also means

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Speaker 1: we're going to have to see what the available ability

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Speaker 1: is on game day. So I expect those decisions to

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Speaker 1: get made then about when they do what they do.

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Speaker 1: Alden Smith was asked about this defense. Aldon Smith got

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Speaker 1: a sack in Game one against the Rams. Cowboys have

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Speaker 1: two sacks overall, Smith with one of them, Everson Griff

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Speaker 1: Them with the other, and he said, quote, I feel

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Speaker 1: like the coaches have made it fairly simple. I think

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Speaker 1: everyone needs to chill out. This is the third game

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Speaker 1: coming up. We didn't have too much of an offseason,

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Speaker 1: we didn't have a preseason. I know every week we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get better, Danny. What do you say to what

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Speaker 1: Alden Smith came out and told the media today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, I think it makes sense

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Speaker 1: or half of it. Anyway. It's the fact that they

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Speaker 1: didn't have much of an offseason, and you know, to him,

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Speaker 1: the defense could be simple. He he's a vet, right,

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Speaker 1: so he's been through different schemes. He's he's learned systems before.

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Speaker 1: So for him, it may be, you know, it may

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Speaker 1: be simple enough. But for some of those younger guys

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Speaker 1: that we have out there. We have a young safety,

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Speaker 1: we got a young linebacker, we got young corners, right,

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Speaker 1: it's not as simple simple for them, right, So I

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Speaker 1: think that they can't get better, you know, as the

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Speaker 1: year goes on and those guys, you know, they get

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Speaker 1: rid of those you know. You know, all rookies go

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Speaker 1: through go through a phase of like trying to pick

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Speaker 1: up the speed and the systems and things that they

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Speaker 1: do different from college to the NFL. So you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a learning curve for them, you know, and

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Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately, this is this is the season they're

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Speaker 1: we're in where we didn't have much time to learn,

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Speaker 1: so they're going to pick it up as they go.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think it's any reason for us to panic,

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Speaker 1: you know, as far as for them being able to

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Speaker 1: perform better and learn the scheme. You know, the biggest

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Speaker 1: thing to panic about his injuries, and that's happened all

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Speaker 1: over the league. So you know, you just got to

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Speaker 1: be able to plug and play, and that's difficult when

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Speaker 1: you have a system to where some people maybe maybe

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Speaker 1: think already that it's too difficult. The Cowboys, I'll go

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Speaker 1: back to say something we continue to say on the show.

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Speaker 1: The Cowboys offense has to take care of the defense here.

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Speaker 1: This defense isn't good enough to survive shootouts. I will

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Speaker 1: give the defense credit. Last week against Atlanta from the

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Speaker 1: standpoint of the offense put them in some horrendous positions

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Speaker 1: and they were holding the falcons to fit some field

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Speaker 1: goals on fake punting some of the fubbles here. I

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Speaker 1: thought they did a decent job of that. The Cowboys

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Speaker 1: have to win the time of possession battle. Okay, this

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Speaker 1: is two games in a row where they've not done that.

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Speaker 1: And I already talked about the numbers. When you talk

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Speaker 1: about rushing the football, when the team's running the ball,

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Speaker 1: thirty three times against you. That shows you that they're

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Speaker 1: they're being more aggressive and they're taking it too. But

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys front offensive standpoint can help this team by

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Speaker 1: running the ball. Church you and you McCrae. You guys

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Speaker 1: were at playing for the Cowboys when you went up

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Speaker 1: to Seattle and DeMarco Murray had a game of games

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Speaker 1: and it was a twenty fourteen and Seattle never had

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Speaker 1: the ball. And I remember because I was at that

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Speaker 1: game and Seattle and afterwards people people said to see,

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Speaker 1: you know, Pete Carroll, what happened? He said, we never

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Speaker 1: had the ball, and the Cowboys had the ball. They

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Speaker 1: ran it. Tony Romo did an excellent job with play

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Speaker 1: actually passing me. He was one of the best game

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Speaker 1: plans that Jason Garrett, Scott Lena had had, ever had

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Speaker 1: ever come up with. They need to do a lot

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Speaker 1: of that. And to me, not only is it giving

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Speaker 1: the ball to Zeke to run it, but I also

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Speaker 1: believe it's throwing the balls, you know, throwing some screen,

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Speaker 1: some wheel routes and using your best offensive player and

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Speaker 1: making the Seahawks have to defend him. We know the

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Speaker 1: Seattle passed. He's terrible. There's their thirty second in the league.

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Speaker 1: But if you're running it with Zeke Danny and if

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Speaker 1: you're able to get him out in that passing game,

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Speaker 1: that that's gonna make it even easier to try and

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Speaker 1: hit Amari Cooper, CD Lamb and Michael Galler. Yeah, most definitely.

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Speaker 1: So you know, knew we unfortunately, you know, I had

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Speaker 1: put that put that season together and get you know,

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Speaker 1: and get those guys running. But I did see them

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Speaker 1: when they came to Chicago and they definitely ran that

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Speaker 1: game plan on us. It was keep the ball away

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Speaker 1: from us, which they didn't really need to, but you know,

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Speaker 1: they controlled the clock, they ran it, and you know,

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Speaker 1: and they beat us pretty badly. So you know, I

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Speaker 1: think that is the recipes for success for us. And

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Speaker 1: getting Zeke involved early, having him start the game with

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Speaker 1: a couple of carriers and unlike we did last week,

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Speaker 1: I think will be huge. And I think getting us

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Speaker 1: into some third and shorts to be it passing it

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Speaker 1: to Zeke, getting into Schultz or just you know, creating

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Speaker 1: creating some third and threes with some with some hitch routes. Whatever.

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Speaker 1: She was on the outside will help us tremendously, right,

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Speaker 1: because that gives you the option to a run on

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Speaker 1: third down or pass on third down, or and that

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Speaker 1: opens up play action as well. And when you can

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Speaker 1: when you can have all those options open to you,

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Speaker 1: that's when that's when you had an opportunity to make

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Speaker 1: some big plays. And then you know, control the clock

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Speaker 1: and move methodically down the field, you know, and keep

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Speaker 1: our defense on the sideline. So I think if we

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Speaker 1: play that way, we can we can definitely get a W.

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Speaker 1: But we have to stick to it and uh and

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Speaker 1: try to make that happen when we get out there.

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Speaker 1: You know, things change once you get out there on

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Speaker 1: the field and things don't go your way. I go

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Speaker 1: back to a stat that I said yesterday with Church

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Speaker 1: that's talking about winning first down. Here's a number. The

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Speaker 1: Seattle defense allows six point eight yards per attempt on

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Speaker 1: first down, which is twenty seventh in the league. In

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Speaker 1: the Dallas offense is averaging six point six yards on

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Speaker 1: first down, which is seventh in the league. And that's

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Speaker 1: where I think about, Hey, what could you do by

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Speaker 1: throwing the ball out here and getting Ezekiel Elliott in space. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner is a fantastic linebacker. You could argue maybe

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Speaker 1: the best linebacker in the National Football League. And we

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Speaker 1: know kJ Wright is an awesome player. But if I'm

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I'm going to say I got an awesome

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Speaker 1: player here too. Let's see my guy against your guy here,

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Speaker 1: and I think Ezekiel Ellick can win his fair share.

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Speaker 1: And if the Cowboys Danny can win this first down battle,

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Speaker 1: I think I have an excellent opportunity to win the game.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of winning the game, Danny, what is your prediction

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Speaker 1: as the Cowboys or a four and a half point

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Speaker 1: underdog in Seattle? You know what, a lot of times

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Speaker 1: last year I picked, I picked us to win and

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Speaker 1: we lost. This year, I picked us to win and

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Speaker 1: we lost. Then I picked us to lose and we won. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: for the sake of us, you know, proving me wrong,

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00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say we should be at three point underdog

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00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: and we'll probably we'll probably fall to Seattle thirty or

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Speaker 1: to twenty seven, you know, on a late field goal

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00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 1: with you know, Russell's kind of driving down there at

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00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 1: the end of the game and giving their kicker a

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00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: chance to beat us. You know, hopefully hopefully that changes.

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Speaker 1: But if I'm just being honest with myself about what

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Speaker 1: I've seen last week, Um, that's that. That that's my pick. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So McCray thirty to twenty seven, Seahawks winning. Barry Church

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00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: gave us his pick for the game. He's got Seattle

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Speaker 1: winning thirty one to twenty four, got Seattle with a

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Speaker 1: seven point win, and I am going to go thirty

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Speaker 1: five thirty Seattle wins. I don't know. I'm still worried

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Speaker 1: about the Cowboys' ability to control the line of scribbage

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00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: on both sides of the football. Here, Tyran Smith possibly

873
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: not playing again, and even if Tyring comes back, you

874
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: never know what these next stingers. He could play a

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00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: couple of plays and it happens, or at any point

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00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: in time he could suffer another stinger. So Lell Collins

877
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: is not going to be there at right tackle. So

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00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: you're the offensive line overall, it's been an issue. Connor

879
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 1: Williams one of the guard spots. He's been an issue.

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00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: The offensive line has not been the strength that we

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00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: thought thought it would be. They haven't shown that they

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00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: can win the time of possession. So as bad as

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Speaker 1: Seattle's defense is, I'm gonna go ahead. And say the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys end up losing this game and they can start

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00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: to get healthy in October, starting with Cleveland coming to

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00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: town October fourth. But before the season started, when I

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00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: was going through my little win loss tracker, I had

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00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: the Seahawks winning this football game and I don't think

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00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: there'll be any shame and a Cowboys loss of five

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Speaker 1: points at all. This is two teams that could end

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Speaker 1: up meeting again in the playoffs. Because I actually have

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00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: Seattle winning this division. I think they're gonna be a

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00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:37,240
Speaker 1: really good football team. Day. Yeah, I think Seattle's Seattle

894
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: is gonna be good. It's a it's a good test

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Speaker 1: for us, you know, you know, to kind of phase

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Speaker 1: off what we did last week, because I know everybody's

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00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 1: riding high with the biggest comeback and happy. But I

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00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: think us playing a good quality team, you know, will

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Speaker 1: show us a lot about where we are and if

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Speaker 1: we're getting better throughout the season, you know, Like I said,

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Speaker 1: I hope we got some of those coaching things fixed

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00:44:57,719 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 1: and we're able, like if we lose this game. Let

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00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: us lose this game, because we got outplayed. Our players

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00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: went out there in fault, but we just didn't have

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Speaker 1: it to have it that day. Don't let it be

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Speaker 1: because we made some silly mistakes coaching wise, and you know,

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Speaker 1: and we come back here on Monday and we say,

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Speaker 1: what the heck were we doing again for the second

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Speaker 1: time in the row. So you know, I'm going for

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. But like I said, my honest feeling is

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00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 1: is that's where we are and hopefully, hopefully I'm proving wrong,

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00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: and hopefully our defense could get out there and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, and create some pressure. It's gonna be difficult

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Speaker 1: because that that scrambling quarterback is It's something very difficult

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00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: for a d line and linebackers to stop. But I

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Speaker 1: think if we if we can get that done, I

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Speaker 1: think we'll be all right. Keep keep Russell in the pocket,

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Speaker 1: you know, don't let them run around and create those

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Speaker 1: extended plays. And I think we give us give ourselves

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00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 1: a chance on defense. And DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett

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00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: are playing very well. Cheat to a Woosian, one of

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys starting corners is out with a hamstring injury.

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Speaker 1: Anthony Brown, another one of the Cowboys quarterbacks starting on

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Speaker 1: injured reserve, and Trayvon Boyk and the rookie on her

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00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: back had a shoulder injury earlier this week. So the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys secondary has got some misues and some things that

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Speaker 1: they've got to work on as well, which is once

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Speaker 1: again why I picked Seattle, just looking at what the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys have. They got to get some things cleaned up.

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Speaker 1: But as I said, you start looking at schedule in October,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a point where it gets schedule gets

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Speaker 1: a little bit easier and the Cowboys starting to get

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Speaker 1: some guys back, and then you start to see where

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Speaker 1: have a bunch of had a bunch of fun getting

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Speaker 1: back with you. Man. Enjoyed that baby this weekend, and

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Speaker 1: we'll chat on Monday. Okay. That is. This has been

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