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Speaker 1: in Frisco. It is back and better than ever after
Speaker 1: the Buy a week. We've got our normal crew back
Speaker 1: in the building as well, Patrick Nosey Walker, Isaiah stand
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Speaker 1: Trio getting things underway here on this Monday. Heading into
Speaker 1: week number ten and a rivalry for the Ages, the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys will travel up to lambeau Field and take
Speaker 1: on the Green Bay Packers. It's the return of Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy for the first time in lambeau Field. It's been
Speaker 1: a couple of years, but that's still a big storyline.
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna hit it, including us at some point this week,
Speaker 1: but it will be certainly a storyline. Gentlemen, how are
Speaker 1: we doing, solid, Ben? How is the bye week? Anybody
Speaker 1: doing anything crazy? Anybody travel to the East coast or
Speaker 1: do something like that, maybe go see family something like that.
Speaker 1: To saw some family in Raleigh, you know, had fun.
Speaker 1: Jett said, Yeah, it never last as you wanted to last. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which I mean, it'll never last as long as I
Speaker 1: wanted to last because I never wanted to end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you see that paradox. Yeah, yeah, so um but yeah,
Speaker 1: I got back in uh late last night, and we'll
Speaker 1: back to the ground baby, just like the Cowboys. This weekend.
Speaker 1: He took a little bit of time away from from
Speaker 1: the Twitter verse, which was nice. I'm sure I kind
Speaker 1: of tried to do the same thing, but yeah, doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily work out. Constant break from Yeah, Isaiah's never on Twitter,
Speaker 1: so he's on Twitter when he needs to be. You
Speaker 1: get a gift back and forth with one particular Yeah Isaiah,
Speaker 1: Like Isaiah's the Twitter that comes in and just only
Speaker 1: throws fire, just jifts, just boom, that's it. That's all
Speaker 1: he does. Get and gets up, I mean out in
Speaker 1: and out. He didn't the reply and surgeon gets up.
Speaker 1: I'm a freaking insurge your Twitter assassin. Yeah, you come
Speaker 1: in and roast somebody and then you're the I'm gone.
Speaker 1: That's it. You're dial stuff. Uh, Isaiah, would you do
Speaker 1: over the break man? I worked on the house. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got a shit so I had a bunch of
Speaker 1: house stuff that hadn't got tended to. You said you
Speaker 1: were going to hit that. Yeah, this week should get
Speaker 1: to you're all gonna write. I got to. It took
Speaker 1: me two days to get the ship organized, get all
Speaker 1: the patio stuff cleaned up and organized and pressure washed
Speaker 1: and everything. So now have another living space at the house.
Speaker 1: You have to pay additional money, just more place to
Speaker 1: watch film, to get away from my kids. Tell them,
Speaker 1: tell exactly, have y'all put up Christmas decorations yet? No?
Speaker 1: I looked at him because I had to put stuff
Speaker 1: in anic yesterday. I looked at them and I thought
Speaker 1: about taking them down. I was like, heck, no, no,
Speaker 1: not taking that down yet even considering it. After they's
Speaker 1: giving me some ham and can you sweep and tat
Speaker 1: pound on my plate? Like, once I'm done with Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: then we'll talk about See. I'm such a Thanksgiving stand.
Speaker 1: I have this conversation every year with my fiance that she,
Speaker 1: I mean hers is November first, like Christmas music on
Speaker 1: the pillows are out like everything's just there and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: no I'm not. I'm not really there. I like Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with celebrating what you want to celebrate, because
Speaker 1: go out be happy, especially nowadays, do what you want
Speaker 1: to do. Be happy. However, Thanksgiving needs it's it's due diligence.
Speaker 1: That is one of the best holidays of the year.
Speaker 1: This is I'm going to hit you with the d
Speaker 1: Q quote that Dan Quinn be where your feet are. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's not look too far to head. Yeah, let's not
Speaker 1: look too far ahead. Let's enjoy the moment. And in
Speaker 1: the moment we're approaching Thanksgiving, this is a month of
Speaker 1: thanks Let's let's use that ass such and you know
Speaker 1: it's uh. The climax of it is when we get two, three,
Speaker 1: four plates of heavenly goodness in front of us, and
Speaker 1: then and then then and only then, as I'm in
Speaker 1: my food coma, will I begin considering are you cooking?
Speaker 1: I can get I can get in there. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I know you can't. Are you going to It's
Speaker 1: a question you and your fiance I'm planning on doing
Speaker 1: the cook you're the cup. Yeah, last night I made
Speaker 1: and I was actually gonna show you this recipe. I
Speaker 1: made a protein pasta, protein pasta. It is fifty one
Speaker 1: grahams of protein per serving, only two hundred and ten calories.
Speaker 1: And it's uh, it was only like ten carps. The
Speaker 1: Man out of Kingdom black bean. What is it? No,
Speaker 1: it's I don't know what it is. I don't. It's
Speaker 1: just protein pasta. But it's it's almost like ham. It's
Speaker 1: home ain't Hamburger helper. But it's healthy. Okay, it's really good.
Speaker 1: I'll give it to you. It's got like it's got
Speaker 1: like enchilada sauce in it. We didna pizza nice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really good. Now we have our patio space back,
Speaker 1: yeah it did. And baked pizza last night, and then
Speaker 1: we got we can't see those things given because not
Speaker 1: not today, but as we approach things him, we gotta
Speaker 1: have the you know, the perennial argument of Turkey versus Ham,
Speaker 1: and you know Turkey, I make two different variations doing
Speaker 1: in Turkey. We deep front that those are the conversations
Speaker 1: that need to be had eventually, Like we can't skip over. No,
Speaker 1: but we're pretty sure that I'm the only vegetarian that
Speaker 1: makes two different turkeys. Really, he deep fries it too.
Speaker 1: You see the guys on Smoke, You see the guys
Speaker 1: on TikTok that are like dropping things and it's like
Speaker 1: blowing up. That's Isaiah definitely. It's absolutely you were You
Speaker 1: were not until he got he was not doing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh wait, all right, let's stark cowboys here
Speaker 1: for a little bit. It's it's the bye week. We've
Speaker 1: got a little bit more time to kill, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about with Thanksgiving and whatever. But Cowboys got
Speaker 1: the buy a week. Uh. We didn't get a chance,
Speaker 1: at least with this crew to talk about what happened
Speaker 1: at the trade deadline. And I want to get to
Speaker 1: it because we hit it with Brian, we hit it
Speaker 1: with Nate, and the trade deadline was disappointing for a
Speaker 1: lot of Cowboys nation. It really was, including I say,
Speaker 1: standback is popping his microphone and read anymore. Don't exactly,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I want to get you'all thoughts on the
Speaker 1: trade deadline? Was it as disappointing as it was made
Speaker 1: out to be from a lot of Cowboys fans or
Speaker 1: was it just the right deal didn't go through and
Speaker 1: thus no move happened. Isaiah, I am able to disappoint it.
Speaker 1: You're disappointed? Yes? Why is that? Because last year we
Speaker 1: had a perfect example of Dallas being in a really
Speaker 1: good position, a really good position going into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and you're feeling good, You're feeling confident. Offenses at top
Speaker 1: of the league, defenses make it as the highest turnover
Speaker 1: margin in the league. I mean, things are going great, right,
Speaker 1: and then you just didn't have enough. You just knew
Speaker 1: that you needed something more. You felt good going into
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but then when you got to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh crap, we need more people. Right, So
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, guess what, these are going good?
Speaker 1: You've overcome the greatest form of adversity that you could
Speaker 1: imagined that you would face. This year, You're in a
Speaker 1: good position, right, record is good, and you're looking at
Speaker 1: the rest of your schedule. You're like, oh, yeah, we
Speaker 1: feel good about this. Why not ensure that you have
Speaker 1: more people when you have last year to remember that
Speaker 1: you didn't have enough people. You had a chance to
Speaker 1: pull the trigger on some people. I would imagine I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna not gonna gas and speculating all that jazz.
Speaker 1: But there are guys, Okay, teams that are planning on
Speaker 1: being competitive in the playoffs made moves to strategically positioning
Speaker 1: themselves to have more people and have more weapons and
Speaker 1: have more goons when the time comes that matters most,
Speaker 1: when you need to win three, three, four games, that's
Speaker 1: when that's when you have those guys there. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: Dallas didn't do it. That's not to say that they
Speaker 1: didn't try. I don't know. I'm not in those meetings.
Speaker 1: They tried. I'm sure they tried. I'm sure they tried.
Speaker 1: So did the Green Bay Packers. They tried to, but
Speaker 1: it didn't happen. Okay, So at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you're stuck with the same guys, and that's okay. Now
Speaker 1: let's have some guys. I would have liked for them
Speaker 1: to be aggressive, step outside of themselves, outside of what
Speaker 1: the organization typically does. And when they say, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta make sure we protect our future. Hey, we
Speaker 1: gotta make sure we keep our draft picks. Oh we gotta,
Speaker 1: you know, we gotta go. We got the guys, you do,
Speaker 1: got the guys, but get another guy. They go out
Speaker 1: there and just dominate. Okay, I'll say this, and I'll
Speaker 1: I'll try to do it without hogging the mic, so
Speaker 1: to speak. I like the attempt becut attempts plural, attempts
Speaker 1: plural because not all attempts are created equal. So if
Speaker 1: it was simply then putting out a feeler to the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, for example, if it was just a feeler,
Speaker 1: that's disappointing. But it wasn't a feeler. It was a
Speaker 1: full blown conversation that had legs and had traction. And
Speaker 1: I kind of said this on media match after the fact,
Speaker 1: I said, I wonder and it turns out that I
Speaker 1: was right. I wonder if and we can't sell the
Speaker 1: player's name, but in conversations with the Houston Texans for
Speaker 1: player X, if those conversations kind of went left after
Speaker 1: Player WHY from Pittsburgh was traded and that that price
Speaker 1: was set, And as it turns out, reportedly Houston wanted
Speaker 1: a second and a fourth for player X and they
Speaker 1: refused to eat a single penny of a fully guaranteed
Speaker 1: eighteen million dollars salary that's coming due. No right, So
Speaker 1: no reports have come out that the organization took a
Speaker 1: swing towards Denver for Jerry Judy, that conversation had a
Speaker 1: little bit of attraction, but the price couldn't be agreed upon.
Speaker 1: So I don't think that this was well, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: confident this wasn't a situation where the Cowboys were just
Speaker 1: kind of putting out feelers to give the illusion that hey,
Speaker 1: we're trying. They actually were, and these the prices that
Speaker 1: were being set and paid. I'm out on that. I'm
Speaker 1: out only especially when I wouldn't he and hear your segue,
Speaker 1: especially when you have free agents out there that so
Speaker 1: maybe if said free agent wasn't available, we'll get to
Speaker 1: him in a few seconds, then maybe you're a little
Speaker 1: bit more willing to just break that bank. But that notwithstanding,
Speaker 1: I'm not paying those prices, so I'm just not. It
Speaker 1: almost irritates me that they were willing to have the
Speaker 1: conversations with those teams about those particular about that one.
Speaker 1: Let's go over the Texas. Okay, the Texas. I was
Speaker 1: actually disgusted that they were having those conversations. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: the guy sitting here saying that I wish they would
Speaker 1: have put a trigger on somebody, whether offensively, defense whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm the guy sitting here saying that. But if they
Speaker 1: would have got that guy would have been hot because
Speaker 1: you just let a guy go last year. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I would have been what you think we can agree
Speaker 1: that that guy shit. So don't don't talk about don't
Speaker 1: go talking to them about their guys amount of our
Speaker 1: guy that we had. You know what I'm saying. When
Speaker 1: you had a guy who was in the building, who
Speaker 1: was doing his job, being quiet, being a leader, being effective,
Speaker 1: under utilize, and you let him go and you're gonna
Speaker 1: go talk to somebody who's making the same amount, don't
Speaker 1: do that. Don't do which is why the only way
Speaker 1: it would have were in one hundred we were the
Speaker 1: same page, which is why, and I said this on Twitter,
Speaker 1: the only way it would have worked for me, first
Speaker 1: of all, second and fourth if that holds true, that's
Speaker 1: why pick a middle finger. Yeah. Um. But but on
Speaker 1: top of that, um to not eat any of that
Speaker 1: eighteen million. No, just just absolutely not, because, like as
Speaker 1: they are saying, I mean, if you if you're willing
Speaker 1: to bring on a fully guaranteed eighteen then the question
Speaker 1: immediately becomes why why Michael Jackson style eighteen. Yeah, eighteen,
Speaker 1: and it would be it would be one of those
Speaker 1: moves where every ounce of Cowboys Nation would have said
Speaker 1: you were wrong. Therapy from from you would just admitted
Speaker 1: that you were wrong. So from the get cold. Now,
Speaker 1: if the price was different, then that's a completely different conversation.
Speaker 1: But for that price, no, I agree. Also, now, hindsight
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, when Brandon Cook excuse me, sorry, a player
Speaker 1: X couldn't get traded. Then you turn around and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he's not playing the next day. I
Speaker 1: mean that that's a problem. That means he's not in
Speaker 1: the right headspace to be playing. Well, he's pile sure,
Speaker 1: he's pissed because he thought he could go to a contender. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you spent six months ago, you just signed big deal,
Speaker 1: big boy Country. So quiet, right, you just s and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys weren't the only team calling about so, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Houston Texas were in a situation where they had
Speaker 1: an out, in a situation that's devolving rapidly, just unraveling
Speaker 1: in front of them, and they could have gotten something
Speaker 1: for it. But you know, it's like my grandma used
Speaker 1: to Grandma used to say you're smelling yourself. You're smelling yourself.
Speaker 1: You should have been more reasonable. Like I've told you
Speaker 1: guys before, that front office. I know that front office
Speaker 1: because the individual that runs that front Texas was my
Speaker 1: receiver's coach slash GM in New England. So any negotiating
Speaker 1: with him is going to be very, very difficult. So
Speaker 1: he might have found himself in a in a little
Speaker 1: bit of it. Would be interested to see how it
Speaker 1: all plays out, because this is not a pretty situation.
Speaker 1: And now you know, we'll see if they end up
Speaker 1: partying ways with player X and not getting anything out
Speaker 1: to deal. So yeah, how about that? That'd bit crazy.
Speaker 1: But there are other options on the table. There are,
Speaker 1: so we've talked about it on this show before and
Speaker 1: I don't think the answer was resounding yes to go
Speaker 1: and get this guy. But it has been reported by
Speaker 1: multiple sources at the moment that Odell Beckham Junior is
Speaker 1: firmly on the Cowboys radar. That is the report you've heard, murmurs,
Speaker 1: We've we've seen the list, we've seen the guys you
Speaker 1: strike out on the trade deadline on finding a receiver
Speaker 1: that could add to this receiving corps with Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup, potentially James Washington coming back into the fold soon,
Speaker 1: Jaalen Tolbert and so on and so forth. You forgot
Speaker 1: his wide receiver one. Oh no, no oh, Noah Brown.
Speaker 1: That's fair disrespect Yeah, sorry, very disrespectful. What does the
Speaker 1: trade deadline change your mind? Yes? No about Odeha No yes? Um? Wait,
Speaker 1: so does my statements from last week okay, prior to
Speaker 1: you guys firing me for two days to another podcast
Speaker 1: kick you off. I think that he is an exceptional player.
Speaker 1: I think he is a generational player. I think he's
Speaker 1: overcome a lot in his career, no doubt, physically, mentally, emotionally. Um.
Speaker 1: I think that he's going to make an impact for
Speaker 1: whatever team he goes to, if if he's healthy. My
Speaker 1: concerns with that particular individual are the leadership quidies, and
Speaker 1: as we talk about a room that lost a leader
Speaker 1: and seemingly still doesn't have one from what we can see,
Speaker 1: I have hesitation in acquiring somebody who has had issues
Speaker 1: in that regard. So if you have, if you have
Speaker 1: a little grease fire going on in your in your pan, okay,
Speaker 1: and that we call the receiver room just a little
Speaker 1: what's a little grease fire? But this is manageable. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't pour water on it. Don't pour water on it
Speaker 1: because you think that pouring water on it is gonna
Speaker 1: is gonna put out your fire. You learn the horrid
Speaker 1: way that pouring water on a grease fire, Kyle sparks
Speaker 1: that thing up. So why do that? So your left
Speaker 1: in a scenario where it's like, crap, we didn't pull
Speaker 1: the trigger on any and now he who has the leverage,
Speaker 1: Now we couldn't find the fire extinguish. He has the leverage.
Speaker 1: We couldn't find a fire signature right before it got crazy. Right,
Speaker 1: we don't have no flour all we got. Now it's
Speaker 1: freaking water and we got a grease fire. What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do with it? No, see better road, some
Speaker 1: dirt on that thing, Find some dirt, throw it outside
Speaker 1: of the Let's just let's put it plainly. Let's state
Speaker 1: it plainly when it comes to obj Um, this is
Speaker 1: not a knock on him as a human being. He's
Speaker 1: a good he's a good dude. Really is a good dude. Um.
Speaker 1: This is most certainly not a knock on his skill set.
Speaker 1: Skill set is phenomenal phenomenal, um. But it goes to fit,
Speaker 1: it's to fit there. We talked about it before the
Speaker 1: trade deadline. Is this being a possible scenario? Um? And
Speaker 1: for me, if he's not getting his targets, I wonder
Speaker 1: if the dark side of OBJ shows up that the
Speaker 1: guy who wants the ball throw me the ball. And
Speaker 1: you're not coming into a situation where you're w R one,
Speaker 1: You're not coming into a situation where you're w R two.
Speaker 1: You are coming into a situation where you're fighting with
Speaker 1: Noah Brown. Facts for the love of Dak Prescott and
Speaker 1: Noah had the inside track having been here for so
Speaker 1: many years. Now, I'm not saying he can't beat out
Speaker 1: Noah Brown. I think arguably he has a much better
Speaker 1: skill set. But then you also have to throw into
Speaker 1: the mix. Not only that, because if you're fighting for
Speaker 1: a wide receiver three slash four reps, that means you're
Speaker 1: not on the field for one hundred percent of the
Speaker 1: reps as you would see a CD Lamb or Michael
Speaker 1: Gallop or near it. But also hashtag keep that energy
Speaker 1: for those that are wondering how long it would take
Speaker 1: Michael Gallop to get back to top form after tearing
Speaker 1: his ACO or Michael Gallop is in his twenties with
Speaker 1: one ACO tear. This is a thirty year old with
Speaker 1: two ACO tears, and he will be coming in on
Speaker 1: the back half of the season. So you might not
Speaker 1: even see him reach top form until closer to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: which matters most. That's that's great, but that might not
Speaker 1: even time up correctly because he's not getting it. You know, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: the more you need more game reps, more game reps.
Speaker 1: But if he's fighting for three or four, then the
Speaker 1: game reps dwindle a bit. It's just too many concerns. It.
Speaker 1: Could he make an impact if they bought man figured out? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that's the argument, right, So the argument is will
Speaker 1: he be impactful Absolutely if the Dallas Cowboys went that rout. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: if he's healthy and if he's in the mindset, in
Speaker 1: the right mind frame. Right, nobody knows, right, I'm not
Speaker 1: in I'm not his at his house. I don't know
Speaker 1: what his mindset is. Maybe he's a lot more willing
Speaker 1: now understanding the situation. Jason Peter's train exactly right, So
Speaker 1: we don't know. We're going to go off a history. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he very well might have the right mindset, and
Speaker 1: he very well might be healthy enough at that point
Speaker 1: in time. If those are things come together, then you're
Speaker 1: adding a valuable asset, valuable weapon at the time, and
Speaker 1: he'd be hitting the ground running by the time that
Speaker 1: you need him to be hitting the ground running. Right,
Speaker 1: That's why you would acquire somebody like that for the
Speaker 1: playoff frame. Right, Okay, your regular season is going just fine. Okay,
Speaker 1: So all those things add up to be positives. It's
Speaker 1: just the question mark on the what if. And I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a negative on I don't ob j.
Speaker 1: I think it's passionate. I've been around some very passionate receivers.
Speaker 1: I played with Randy Moss and I played with Terrell Owens.
Speaker 1: Those guys are very passionate receivers of it just a
Speaker 1: little bit, Okay, they don't they perceive that as problem
Speaker 1: guys because they're so passionate about their craft. They want
Speaker 1: to be impactful. They don't want to just be a
Speaker 1: guy on the field. I think that's the same category
Speaker 1: OBJ is in. Not at the Hall of Fame. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that. I'm saying in terms of passion ships
Speaker 1: for the game I'm saying, he wants to have an
Speaker 1: impact on the game. He doesn't want to just be
Speaker 1: freaking present, right. He wants to actually get the ball.
Speaker 1: He wants to do something with the ball. He wants
Speaker 1: to have a positive impact on the outcome of the game.
Speaker 1: And that's the type of player you're talking about. He's
Speaker 1: not okay just collecting the check. He's not okay just
Speaker 1: being a decoy. He's not okay just lining up however
Speaker 1: many reps a game and not having a true impact
Speaker 1: getting two three catches. So that's the individual you're bringing
Speaker 1: in and you have to understand, and I'm sure they do,
Speaker 1: what type of personality that is that you're bringing him
Speaker 1: into a room that doesn't have clear direction right now,
Speaker 1: because the guy that you're asking to be number one,
Speaker 1: I think they're starting to realize we put too much
Speaker 1: weight on him. I think that's a good thing. What
Speaker 1: you're telling me about OBJ and his passion and wants.
Speaker 1: That's what I feel like he's missing in this wide
Speaker 1: receiver room. I'm not necessarily saying, yeah, you need some
Speaker 1: of that and the personality. I feel like it's the
Speaker 1: wrong word, but that fire. I mean, we kept them
Speaker 1: as the grease pan the fire right there. That's that's
Speaker 1: going on. I think he could be that fire. He
Speaker 1: could add to that. I don't know if it's immediately
Speaker 1: a move that the Cowboys would make and then automatically
Speaker 1: they're better that I don't think that should be the
Speaker 1: expectation if they were to make a move like this.
Speaker 1: But would they be a better wide receiving corps at
Speaker 1: the top the bottom The answer that it would be yes.
Speaker 1: And here's how you get me to buy in fully
Speaker 1: on this. And we won't know. We would not know
Speaker 1: until unless it actually happens. If if OBJ is more
Speaker 1: in the Jason Peters fold, obviously different positions, So Jason Peters,
Speaker 1: you can't rotate guys in on the offensive line like that.
Speaker 1: We talked about that set your offensive line wide receiver
Speaker 1: corp is much different, right, That's that's a free for all. Right,
Speaker 1: you go in there, you produce, you get your rips. Meritocracy,
Speaker 1: it's one of the true meritocracy. Autocracy is a position
Speaker 1: in football. So if OBJ can come in and he says,
Speaker 1: you know what, I know him thirty I know him
Speaker 1: coming off of a second toWin ACL. I know that
Speaker 1: at least at the top two spots on your on
Speaker 1: your wide receiver corps. You have that locked. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come in and try to fight for some of those reps.
Speaker 1: But I get it, you don't think you can fight
Speaker 1: for the number two spot at that point, at that
Speaker 1: point in the season. It's no, it's not like Michael
Speaker 1: Gallops played ten games healthy by that point though. I
Speaker 1: mean he's only been around for a couple You're starting
Speaker 1: to see him and Dak make connections sure, so that
Speaker 1: their chemistry is coming back. It's a fair point connection
Speaker 1: between Lamb and Dak. They're coming back. You saw it
Speaker 1: in the Lions game or one of the Bears, I
Speaker 1: should say. And again going back to what I said,
Speaker 1: you know second toWin a cl you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: give him several games. You might not get prime O
Speaker 1: b J until late December going into January. May never
Speaker 1: get and that's the possibility you may never get prime
Speaker 1: movie J. So all of this has to be a
Speaker 1: part of the discussion. And as long as he understands
Speaker 1: that and the expectation is set correctly, and he comes
Speaker 1: in saying, you know what I'm I'm I'm going to
Speaker 1: try my best to compete for one and two. But realistically,
Speaker 1: if I can do my best and I'm producing enough
Speaker 1: to get three, then okay, you're not going to hear
Speaker 1: anything from me, But then you get the fire from
Speaker 1: him kind of pushing everybody in just his presence. Do
Speaker 1: you think Dallas has the money to pay him, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I do, but his price is going up
Speaker 1: because the trade deadline has passed and they're not the
Speaker 1: only team that leages he has He's he's number one
Speaker 1: when you go out there in a free agent right
Speaker 1: you said, Okay, now we're passing to trade deadline. We
Speaker 1: want to add more weapons to every team in the
Speaker 1: league that needs a wide receiver. It's going to has
Speaker 1: had an interest in obi Jo absolutely. Now what helps
Speaker 1: them out is because and I'm of the mindset, well,
Speaker 1: I was until last nights a game that Los Angeles
Speaker 1: was still in play. I don't know if he wants
Speaker 1: to go into that situation now, but one of the
Speaker 1: other top teams that I figured would be in on
Speaker 1: him would be Kansas City. But Kansas City they trade
Speaker 1: for Kadarius Tone, so they feel like that's okay. So
Speaker 1: Kansas City is off the map. Now, now you're going
Speaker 1: up against teams like Green Bay and they're they don't
Speaker 1: feel like they're seeing talking about They feel they got
Speaker 1: to make a move and they might be willing to
Speaker 1: overpay to get OBJ up there. So we talk about
Speaker 1: a desperate desperate teams going up. I don't think unless
Speaker 1: he really just wants to play here, but they might.
Speaker 1: But that might be the case. My question is to
Speaker 1: you guys, my Dallas historians, how has Dak done with
Speaker 1: that type of personality? Does? Is really the only thing
Speaker 1: I can think of, But he did. They got along
Speaker 1: very very well. Now of course, at the same time
Speaker 1: that was um, that was yeah, that was rookie Dack
Speaker 1: versus Alpha dis Ye, right, it wasn't Alpha Dack versus
Speaker 1: Alpha did. So it's different. But now it's Alpha Dak um. So.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's an interesting interest in dynamic. But I mean,
Speaker 1: like you said, do the Cowboys have the money to
Speaker 1: pay them? Absolutely, they have more than enough salary cap
Speaker 1: to get him in for the you know, to finish
Speaker 1: up out and other teams to outbid. Mathematically, yes, the
Speaker 1: willingness has to come into play though, because it's a
Speaker 1: big thing. Because when you again and I say this
Speaker 1: name Green Bay. They're in dire straits, and you better
Speaker 1: believe Aaron Rodgers, even though even though the loss against
Speaker 1: the Lions was largely Aaron Rodgers's fault. Yeah, he is
Speaker 1: in that front office right now, throwing chairs. Get me, somebody,
Speaker 1: get me, somebody, get me somebody. So that's who you're
Speaker 1: going up against. Um. So you know OBJ is sitting
Speaker 1: at home like Marlow from the wire. Probably the bricks
Speaker 1: going up, Yeah, no doubt about that. All right, interesting conversation.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll touch on it throughout the week in
Speaker 1: news and notes and give you some updates along the way.
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Speaker 1: full of Michael Irving? Oh? Bro oh Michael including the
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Speaker 1: He was really good, Mike. I didn't spit on the
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Speaker 1: do you know about that? Mike never filmed himself. Come
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Speaker 1: to grade the first half of the season. Yeah, listen
Speaker 1: to Stephen next. Please, first half of the season. I
Speaker 1: want three grades A to F. Okay, on three guys,
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with Dan Quinn, defensive coordinator for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, based off of your expectations and the way
Speaker 1: they've been met to this point in the season. Into
Speaker 1: six and two, Dallas Cowboys. Patrick will start with you. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, even with the expectations being sky high, he's
Speaker 1: he's found a way to exceed them. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give him the A plus. I wish I could just
Speaker 1: go ahead and give him back and him coming loud
Speaker 1: because because good grief, dan Quinn so so absolutely so
Speaker 1: A with honors, Yeah, A with honors, belledictorian. Just give
Speaker 1: him just the cord and everything, man, dan Quinn A
Speaker 1: plus plus plus plus plus, A plus plus plus. Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: uh you know DCUs, my dog. You know that's my guy.
Speaker 1: So but I'm going with a minus. I'm going to
Speaker 1: a minus. I'm leading a little little little space in there,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, NOC. The reason why I'm
Speaker 1: leaving a little spaces because we knew that last year
Speaker 1: there was a problem stopping the run. In this first
Speaker 1: half of the Stevens season, it still hasn't been resolved.
Speaker 1: So even though he's might he's here, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: if it he's made efforts to try to negate that
Speaker 1: hole that was in the defense, right, it still hasn't happened. So,
Speaker 1: just like you were talking about Dallas making efforts, just
Speaker 1: how you talking about Green Bay making efforts and you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying with the free agency, we don't
Speaker 1: give out dog gone effort awards around here. Okay, So
Speaker 1: DCUs my dog. He knows it and that's why he
Speaker 1: went out there and got been Hankins. Okay and Hankins
Speaker 1: all right, but I can't give him an A plus
Speaker 1: because they're still being exposed on the Russian side of things.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that will improve, but to date, that's still
Speaker 1: the way that you attacked Dallas Cawtholics fair. I just
Speaker 1: need Jonathan every time we say his name this show
Speaker 1: moving forward, that is how he is being referred to. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm I think I'm right there with you, because he's
Speaker 1: been fantastic. Dan Quinn has just capped offenses off balance.
Speaker 1: There hasn't been a game to this point in the
Speaker 1: season where you can point at it and say the
Speaker 1: defense lost you the game. Maybe Philadelphia. There was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a murmur there with the back end
Speaker 1: of it, and I still I put that. I put
Speaker 1: that on the on the offense, put it on the quarterback,
Speaker 1: put it on the offense. Absolutely all right. So a
Speaker 1: minus minus, a plus plus, which is fine. What about
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore offensive coordinator. Where would you put him at?
Speaker 1: Because it's definitely not ALA plus. I mean there's a
Speaker 1: little bit more of a pause there. This would have
Speaker 1: been a failing grade as recently two weeks ago. Wow,
Speaker 1: failing grade greatest talking like a D or like a
Speaker 1: straight school undergraduating great great sod So ce SE's not
Speaker 1: passing in grad school there you go, would say that
Speaker 1: it would have been below. I was always told sees
Speaker 1: get degrees, so I mean my stress level. And when
Speaker 1: I heard that, we talked about expectation, about expectations, We
Speaker 1: expect these guys to perform at the grad school level. Right, Um,
Speaker 1: it would have been a D as recently as two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Because he got away from the run in
Speaker 1: week one. It cost it helped cost the team that
Speaker 1: lost or that that game. He went to the run
Speaker 1: week three. Who Week three stuck with it, Gray started,
Speaker 1: the buoy, started to go up, Um went back down
Speaker 1: because he got away from it again, you know, so
Speaker 1: forth and so on. So Lion's first half stunk up
Speaker 1: the joint just offensive league, but from the second half
Speaker 1: all the way through the Bears game in totality for
Speaker 1: the most part, he's he's he's out a seat. Now
Speaker 1: he's out a seat. Now. I've seen enough where I
Speaker 1: still have concern going forward as far as his commitment
Speaker 1: to the run and not, you know, getting two creative
Speaker 1: situations where he shouldn't. But I've also seen enough where
Speaker 1: I'm confident he can get the job done schematically and
Speaker 1: really tear up some offenses, especially as this offensive personnel
Speaker 1: his receivers start to get jailed and James Washington comes back.
Speaker 1: Maybe OBJ whatever OBJ signed and he's part of the
Speaker 1: see right now for me, Okay, Isaiah, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the sea right there. And since we're talking about
Speaker 1: grads see from no CEM finally got it, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pass that se on to Keller Moore. I like Kelly Moore.
Speaker 1: I have high expectations for Kelly Moore more than anybody
Speaker 1: knows that. I'm always on killing Moore's head. Just no
Speaker 1: doubt I know what he's capable of. I think we
Speaker 1: all we're pretty critical on this show of Kellen Moore. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: we'll give him his flowers when they're due. But for
Speaker 1: the most part, even when Rob and heckmo were on
Speaker 1: this show and then now No Ce kind of adds
Speaker 1: to it. We're critical of Kellen Moore because he's not perfect, no,
Speaker 1: nor has he been. But he can be better. He
Speaker 1: can be he could be amazing. He's fighting as Yeah,
Speaker 1: he fights himself. He fights himself and then that's I mean,
Speaker 1: he's still doing that. I think he's matured. I think
Speaker 1: he's slow trickling his bag like we talked about over
Speaker 1: the past year or two. You know, he used to
Speaker 1: just dump it out. You know, we talked about him
Speaker 1: dumping out the legos. Yeah, you know, he's slowly taking
Speaker 1: them out. He's showing restraint, but he's still he's still
Speaker 1: taking the legos out of the bag and his hands
Speaker 1: is shaken as he puts it down because he really
Speaker 1: just wants to dump it out, but he's trying to
Speaker 1: pull back a little bit. I have to give him
Speaker 1: a scene just because the inconsistency, the inconsistency in this offense.
Speaker 1: And I understand everybody's gonna say, oh, well, we just
Speaker 1: got Dak back. I get it. Okay, I get it.
Speaker 1: But you talk about week one when you had Dak
Speaker 1: didn't look good. Okay, we talked about Dak as soon
Speaker 1: as he came back oh, we pushed it a little
Speaker 1: bit too close, right. There was a couple of plays
Speaker 1: and there are two to three plays that we who
Speaker 1: just gotta wipe your brow a little because you got
Speaker 1: a little lucky in the game would have been totally different,
Speaker 1: just because you're being so overly aggressive, overly confident, as
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott would describe it. Okay, and then you come
Speaker 1: up there and you beat up on the Bears. Can't
Speaker 1: you beat up on the Bears? All right? Good good talk.
Speaker 1: I can't give more because the receivers haven't done more.
Speaker 1: I can't give more because they haven't been in position
Speaker 1: to do more. I can't give more because the running
Speaker 1: game is just now starting to figure itself out. This
Speaker 1: from where does offense fail last year to where they
Speaker 1: are now, it's a C. If I was grading it
Speaker 1: just on this year, I'll probably give it a B minus. Man, see,
Speaker 1: I still land one, but I still think i'd see
Speaker 1: if it's this year alone. But yeah, with the context
Speaker 1: of knowing what they were last year, I'd be inclined
Speaker 1: to give him a d. Oh. Yeah, that's even though
Speaker 1: it's losing Cooper is not his call. No, you take
Speaker 1: a receiver point that's not that's not him, or at
Speaker 1: least from what we know, it might not be on him.
Speaker 1: I think it would be probably more so on the
Speaker 1: head coach in the front office for a move like that.
Speaker 1: D No. I think you got the context going from
Speaker 1: where they were last year to now. Yeah, but with
Speaker 1: it being just straight this year, I'd give him a
Speaker 1: C minus. So mister irrelevant, Yeah, I'd give him C minus.
Speaker 1: I don't entirely disagree. I just feel like they're we
Speaker 1: should put a little bit of a curve on that,
Speaker 1: because let's assume it wasn't his call to get rid
Speaker 1: of Cooper. The team has already stated and we already
Speaker 1: knew this, they tried to retain Cedric Wilson. But the
Speaker 1: bigger bag in Miami, you lost two of your top receivers, right,
Speaker 1: you had like you didn't have four, You had like this,
Speaker 1: I mean you to have like three like most people
Speaker 1: thought you had like this four headed monster. Yeah, for
Speaker 1: the most part, you lost two of those. And then
Speaker 1: you look at Kelling Mouren, you say, technically three if
Speaker 1: you want to talk about Michael Gallop, right, yeah, So,
Speaker 1: and then you look at Kelling Moon and you say,
Speaker 1: I want what you gave me last year. Yeah, that's good. Now,
Speaker 1: it's a good point. Yeah. So with all of that
Speaker 1: being said, what about Mike McCarthy, Where would you grade
Speaker 1: mister McCarthy head coach making his return back to his
Speaker 1: old stopping grounds, lambeau Field this week. Isaiah, It's a
Speaker 1: hard one. It's hard. It's hard to rate a head
Speaker 1: coach that seemingly has a really good, you know, coordinators
Speaker 1: underneath them. It's really difficult. Um, you just gave one
Speaker 1: of them a sea going to the coordinators. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: but he's still really good. He just hasn't shown it,
Speaker 1: you know, from last year. Um, I'm inclined to give McCarthy.
Speaker 1: I'm inclined to give him an a plus. Wow. Seem
Speaker 1: what he and his staff has overcame this year to
Speaker 1: hold that ship together, to keep these guys focused. I
Speaker 1: know the feeling in locker rooms when you lose your
Speaker 1: you know, you you're one of your main players, not
Speaker 1: even necessarily your quarina, but one of your main dog
Speaker 1: out for that. Yeah, I mean when you lose that,
Speaker 1: I mean you talk about the camaraderie, you talk about
Speaker 1: the outlook, you talk about the inspiration all those kind
Speaker 1: of things go down the freaking shoot, right. Fans felt it,
Speaker 1: this locker room didn't show it. So something within this
Speaker 1: organization kept them afloat something that's going on in that
Speaker 1: locker room, kept them focused, kept them dialed in, kept
Speaker 1: them detailed oriented, and they overcame. And now that they
Speaker 1: have their guys back, we're seeing the outcome of it. Right,
Speaker 1: So I have no choice but to give him an
Speaker 1: A plus because I've seen nothing else to take anything
Speaker 1: away from him. I'll give him the A. I'll take
Speaker 1: the plus away. Well, I'll give him an A for
Speaker 1: everything that Isaiah just said, but again to echo his
Speaker 1: point you lose, to echo his point, but also to
Speaker 1: build up on the point that I just made in
Speaker 1: losing Amari Cooper and losing Cedric Wilson and the ladder
Speaker 1: of the Free Agency, and you definitely weren't expecting that.
Speaker 1: And then the organization and McCarthy they look at Keller
Speaker 1: Moore and they say, hey, we need the same type
Speaker 1: of prolific offense, and Kellen couldn't do it right. So
Speaker 1: then they lose QB one Alpha DAK for several games.
Speaker 1: And on top of this, this is all happening following
Speaker 1: what had to be the biggest migraine of an off
Speaker 1: season in McCarthy's career. And I know it's arguable because
Speaker 1: of what was happening in Green Bay before he departed,
Speaker 1: but let's say it's one of the most the biggest
Speaker 1: migraines because all he's heard all offseason Sean Payton rumors,
Speaker 1: and then when Dan Quinn was retained in the comments
Speaker 1: from Jerry Jones about of course everybody wants to coach
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and if you're McCarthy, you're like, come on, like,
Speaker 1: what's a guy gotta do? Like can I at least
Speaker 1: get to the season and prove myself? And then just
Speaker 1: last week we're talking about McCarthy arguably being in the conversation,
Speaker 1: probably won't win, but justifiable he's in the conversation for
Speaker 1: head coach of the Year right now because of what
Speaker 1: he was able to keep the Cowboys from doing, which
Speaker 1: was stirred into the iceberg. Right, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: add the plus now. Here's why I won't add the
Speaker 1: plus back, only because I feel like those times this
Speaker 1: season when Ken Lamore should have gotten this Pow Pow
Speaker 1: spanked one or two of those times it didn't happen.
Speaker 1: It should have and maybe the Cowboys only have one loss, right,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Philadelphia, right, that's why they lost against Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: You saw Cooper Rush was not having a good amount
Speaker 1: let's call it what it was. He was having a
Speaker 1: really bad, bad game, and you kept tasking him with
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. And by the time you figured out
Speaker 1: you shouldn't be running if Mike McCarthy. By the time
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy went in there and spanked the power pow, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they started to come back, but too little, too late
Speaker 1: defense start. You really think they were gonna beat Philly
Speaker 1: like that? They could have, Yeah, they could have. Absolutely
Speaker 1: they could have. I think they could have too in
Speaker 1: that game specifically, but they didn't. So disagree. So a
Speaker 1: I'll delete the plus only because I love how Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy has kept the locker room afloat, and he's hailed
Speaker 1: Kelling more accountable. But hold him accountable one more time.
Speaker 1: You could get that plus back. You'll get that plus back.
Speaker 1: I'll make mine quick. I think you take a look
Speaker 1: at some of the teams that the Cowboys have a
Speaker 1: better record than Tampa Bay. They've got their quarterback just fine.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's had a rough year, but still got
Speaker 1: their quarterback. Seattle they don't have their quarterback from last year.
Speaker 1: They've been bawling out with Geno Smith. But you're still
Speaker 1: better than they are. The Rams they've got their quarterback.
Speaker 1: Guess what, they're three and five. Green Bay they've got
Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame quarterback. Three and six. You play
Speaker 1: them this week, Gotta beat them. Can't overlook those guys. Arizona,
Speaker 1: they've got their guys three and six. You lost your
Speaker 1: QB one, you lost your guy, and you won four
Speaker 1: of those five games. Give me an a plus for
Speaker 1: for Mike Lancarthur yea. Their job he has done has
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Speaker 1: you play Minnesota in a couple of weeks. You would
Speaker 1: have to beat them to even be in the conversation.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia has already beaten Minnesota. That's Minnesota's only lost this season.
Speaker 1: So if you win the division, are you winning the
Speaker 1: NFC at the same time. I mean, are you the
Speaker 1: one seed in the NFC if you win the division?
Speaker 1: If you don't, then you're the five seed. I don't
Speaker 1: think you have to win a division to the conference, huster. See.
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to win the conference and
Speaker 1: get the number one seed in order for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to make a potential playoff run. Obviously, so you ignore
Speaker 1: the question completely and just go straight to playoffs, you're
Speaker 1: gonna make regardless. Ask it again. So I'm asking is
Speaker 1: it one or the other? Are you either the one
Speaker 1: seed or the five seed? Because of how good Philadelphia
Speaker 1: has been so far? I think Philadelphia stumbles. Okay, oh
Speaker 1: there you go. I said this a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: They're going to stumble. They're not going seventeen and no,
Speaker 1: they're not going sixteen and one. That they're not going
Speaker 1: fourteen and two. I'll give it. Does Dallas beat Philadelphia
Speaker 1: next time they face each absolutely, that's what you want
Speaker 1: to get agreed to and handily. And we'll get to
Speaker 1: that Christmas Eve. So I think Philadelphia is going to stumble,
Speaker 1: and it's inevitable. And then they stumble, then the top
Speaker 1: seed is up for grabs, and you know at the
Speaker 1: same time. So it's the top of the NFC East,
Speaker 1: right because Philadelphia is only two games up, two games
Speaker 1: up right now, and I'll win over you at the
Speaker 1: same time, fair enough to get one of those back.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get one of those back on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: The Giants are going to Giant. They're doing it right now,
Speaker 1: out right in front of us, right ATV Rise and
Speaker 1: the Commanders, you know, so close right, You like that, right,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, finish you off when you had that, you
Speaker 1: had that. So yeah, the division is still well in hand,
Speaker 1: and you know, yeah Philly stumbles. What do you think
Speaker 1: you have a chance. You definitely have a chance. But
Speaker 1: obviously you got to take care of two really good teams,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia and Minnesota. So yeah, I and a desperate Green
Speaker 1: Bay team. Yeah, they're desperate. They're desperate. They're very desperate,
Speaker 1: but they unfortunately the desperation doesn't get you victories, so
Speaker 1: you know, and they don't have the weapons to compete
Speaker 1: with Dallas. Just keep it one. See it's so wide open,
Speaker 1: is street? It really is. We talked about again hashtag
Speaker 1: keep the energy. We talked about how legit the Minnesota
Speaker 1: Vikings are. I guess what. They almost gave up. The
Speaker 1: gave up the goose yesterday in Washington, and yeah they
Speaker 1: eked it out. And don't don't ever apologize for a win.
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying Minnesota should apologize where they win.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is these teams that you know
Speaker 1: everyone is saying is super contenders and things like that.
Speaker 1: You almost got dropped by the Washington Commanders. So you
Speaker 1: know that that game in Minnesota, a place where the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have played will at several times, looks a good
Speaker 1: bit easier. At Green Bay, it's in shambles right now.
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is go finish them off right
Speaker 1: and wait, keep doing what you need to do, and
Speaker 1: wait for the inevitability of Philadelphia stumbling. It's going to happen.
Speaker 1: So Philadelphia schedule Washington, Indie, Green Bay, Tennessee. Those are
Speaker 1: their next four games, pretty pretty easy games, and then
Speaker 1: final five games New York, Chicago, Dallas, New Orleans, New York.
Speaker 1: So they played the Giants twice. They played Dallas, of
Speaker 1: course on Christmas Eve. And don't shake your head at
Speaker 1: the Titans. Yeah they challenged the Chiefs last night, so
Speaker 1: got got all the way up there put them into overtime.
Speaker 1: So I'm telling you, Cowboys gotta play the Titans, right,
Speaker 1: But he primetime games, I'm saying, don't don't lump the
Speaker 1: Titans in with those bottom of the barrel NFL team.
Speaker 1: Beat Minnesota, beat Philly. No, that's all I beat green Bay,
Speaker 1: beat Minnesota unless you are you sitting up for Green
Speaker 1: Bay this week. That's the only chance they got this week.
Speaker 1: They don't have anybody. We'll get into the predicative people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk plenty about that matchup. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: that matchup. You know they're gonna be up to play
Speaker 1: because it's Mike McCarthy and there's a couple of guys
Speaker 1: that are still hanging around from the McCarthy era. McCarthy
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You talk about it all the time. Confidence,
Speaker 1: I know, and desperation are two different scary bonsters, just different.
Speaker 1: It's Dallas's very motivated when you're playing, when you love
Speaker 1: your coach, you're a plus coach, and you're coming off
Speaker 1: of a bye, You're well rested, you're feeling good, and
Speaker 1: you know how much this means to him, trust me,
Speaker 1: and it also helps the Green Bay. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: Green Bay. They don't trust each other. Those players don't.
Speaker 1: Rogers doesn't trust his receivers or his offensive. His receivers
Speaker 1: don't know what he's doing right, and they're tired of
Speaker 1: hearing him throw shade while he throws interceptions. And the
Speaker 1: defense is just sitting there like, y'all can't get it together,
Speaker 1: and we're tired, and they're all looking at the hit
Speaker 1: coach and he's like, man, y'all can get me fired,
Speaker 1: So go get obd I like it. Here we go.
Speaker 1: We got a whole week to break it all down
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