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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number forty three. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the latest tradition of the Break, Real life from
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Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, so we got a lot of things we're
Speaker 1: gonna hit today. A lot of different topics we'll hit today.
Speaker 1: Brian's got a game for us, so we'll do it
Speaker 1: to that and have a little bit of fun. I
Speaker 1: also have some questions at out toss these guys to
Speaker 1: give us a little bit of a quarter review now
Speaker 1: that we're about a quarterway through the season. Now it's
Speaker 1: seventeen games. It's not really an even breakdown of the
Speaker 1: quarters a quarter of the season, but we're almost here,
Speaker 1: So we'll give a little breakdown there. If you just
Speaker 1: make it twenty you know they're going to play twenty games,
Speaker 1: and then you would like that. And I'm not sure
Speaker 1: the players would like that, but I would like that, well,
Speaker 1: I mean theffs. You know, I got three playoff game.
Speaker 1: You would like that. I would like that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't control that, though, can't control that. I would love that.
Speaker 1: That would be outstanding. If the season ended today, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we haven't gotten there yet. Well,
Speaker 1: if the season ended today, you do know your Cowboys
Speaker 1: would be in the player probably like five seeds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that. I think. You know. The interesting part is,
Speaker 1: and this is kind of dovetails into the topic I
Speaker 1: wanted to hit first, there would actually be three teams
Speaker 1: from the NFC East in the playoffs if the season
Speaker 1: ended today. The Giants would be the seventh seed, The
Speaker 1: Cowboys I think, were like the fifth seed, and the
Speaker 1: Eagles would be I think the number one. And they're terrible.
Speaker 1: Who is a Giant? Oh? I thought the Eagles? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: now Eagles are good. Yeah, I'm not I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how good the Giants are, but I
Speaker 1: will say this, whatever they are, I think they're better
Speaker 1: than they were last year, because last year they were
Speaker 1: losing the bad teams. These they're beating bad teams now.
Speaker 1: So I think that's there's something that said about that
Speaker 1: brought us is famous line of NFL as a strange lady.
Speaker 1: That's it. It's it's it's very she's really weird. This year.
Speaker 1: We're still trying to figure out everything, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: but because I don't know how good the Giants are.
Speaker 1: Who knows how good the Cowboys are? I mean, who knows?
Speaker 1: But their defense looks pretty good. I'll tell else that's
Speaker 1: a good defense. Forty nine ers, Yeah, god, forty Niners
Speaker 1: have always had they when they're healthy, like they just
Speaker 1: don't know, you just don't know when they're going to
Speaker 1: be healthy. But when they're healthy, they got a ton
Speaker 1: of talent on that defense. So so so Washington gave
Speaker 1: up nine sacks to the Eagles, and then played the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and give up two, and then the Niners and
Speaker 1: then the Rams give up seven sacks to the forty Niners.
Speaker 1: Will see what happens this game. Well, here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Let's be clear, the Cowboys won't sneak up on anybody
Speaker 1: when it comes to their defensive front. So every team
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys played, just like I think the Commanders,
Speaker 1: came into that game with a very clear game plan.
Speaker 1: We're gonna run the ball, We're gonna throw a lot
Speaker 1: of short, quick passes. We are not going to expose
Speaker 1: our quarterback to getting hit. Yeah, and I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys can probably expect that's going to be the game
Speaker 1: plan for a ton of teams that they will play
Speaker 1: this year, because they've already shown teams if you don't
Speaker 1: do that, you are putting your quarterback at risk. That
Speaker 1: would be a real challenge. No, this week is going
Speaker 1: to be a real challenge, especially when you get embarrassed
Speaker 1: to just nine points. I would assume as a team,
Speaker 1: especially playing at home, you'll be pretty pissed off and
Speaker 1: ready to go. So this would be a real test
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys offense to see how they perform, because
Speaker 1: I don't think with Cooper Rush, we haven't really seen
Speaker 1: them play against a team with this type of caliber. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is on the defensive side of the ball though, too.
Speaker 1: This is all going to be about and we'll get
Speaker 1: into all that. You know, it's going to be about
Speaker 1: a tight end and a wide receiver. Really, for the Rams,
Speaker 1: running the football has just been so painful for them,
Speaker 1: And we'll study more about that this evening. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's whoever's got Cooper Cup in this game. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be an all days struggle for all day and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be nineteen targets, and it's gonna be You're probably
Speaker 1: gonna get thrown on. You're probably gonna get fourteen of
Speaker 1: them caught. It's gonna how you're gonna defend the other five.
Speaker 1: You know, that's how you're gonna That's how this game
Speaker 1: could very well play out for you or Tyler Higbee.
Speaker 1: You know, whoever's gonna have to carry Tyler Higbee the
Speaker 1: tight end, it's gonna be twelve targets for him. So
Speaker 1: it it's gonna come down to a couple of different
Speaker 1: players for them. I think in a weird way, I
Speaker 1: think it almost hurts their team a little bit when
Speaker 1: when now here we are all offseason, c Lamar has
Speaker 1: got to figure out a way to get Ceedee Land
Speaker 1: the ball, to get your number one guys, all the
Speaker 1: Rams they get Cooper Cup the ball, Yeah they do.
Speaker 1: But it's almost it's almost at a point where like
Speaker 1: that's all they do, and that's all they want to do.
Speaker 1: And therefore once I mean, yeah, he got fourteen passes,
Speaker 1: where'd you go? You know? I mean like like caught
Speaker 1: it eighty nine yards of cat and he gets age yeah,
Speaker 1: all the time. So like I don't know, Like I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's just the strategy, get your number
Speaker 1: one guy the ball all the time, if if if
Speaker 1: no one else can can do anything, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's got to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more balance. It can't just be dump off dump
Speaker 1: off dump offs and let this little guy's not that big,
Speaker 1: it's getting crushed. I mean, Jayron Curse if he comes back,
Speaker 1: Donor Wilson, those guys would love to be hitting on
Speaker 1: him all like that. They used to be able to
Speaker 1: run the ball, you know. And then and then they
Speaker 1: had Odell Beckham too, so he had a weapon to
Speaker 1: go along with Cooper cut They've lost they've lost Van Jefferson,
Speaker 1: he has not yet, but they lost jeff Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that that was gonna be their number two and he's
Speaker 1: out now in I R I think for us to
Speaker 1: return and something Odell hasn't signed. No Odell. I just
Speaker 1: thought the fact he just visited, he was he was
Speaker 1: going to see Shepherd. He just went to go see
Speaker 1: Shepherd after his surgery. I saw on Fantasy where it
Speaker 1: was trending where where Odell Beckhams is now people are
Speaker 1: picking him up on Fantasy. So I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what he was in New York yesterday, but
Speaker 1: I mean, he's still unsigned, but I don't know that
Speaker 1: he'd be ready November. November doesn't help them, And I
Speaker 1: do think there's gonna be a lot of conversations this
Speaker 1: week on not just here but everywhere. I think that
Speaker 1: a lot of people are talking about the Rams from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of is it enough to just have Cooper Cup?
Speaker 1: You know, when you got the guy getting you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, fifteen targets a game, they're off at
Speaker 1: some point you gotta think, like, what are you going
Speaker 1: to do offensively other than Cooper Cup? Right? Yeah? Their
Speaker 1: offensive line, you know, is really that's been the biggest problem.
Speaker 1: They've been banged up. They're on multiple centers, multiple guards,
Speaker 1: they lose a you know, an all pro tackle. You know.
Speaker 1: Now they've got note Boom playing and he doesn't look
Speaker 1: really completely ready to take the job. So it's going
Speaker 1: to be an interesting game from the Cowboys. Aspect of
Speaker 1: attacking the Rams, I mean, if if Matthew Staffu is
Speaker 1: gonna throw the ball forty eight times and it's only
Speaker 1: going to go for a little over five yards, she's
Speaker 1: give me that all day, Give me that all day.
Speaker 1: If it's the same recipe, you just beat the Commanders, right,
Speaker 1: you know, they threw the ball forty something times and
Speaker 1: they only through for four yards a completion. Just bring
Speaker 1: it on without the power running game that Washington kind
Speaker 1: of has, because they don't have that. They quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I don't think their defense necessarily is a sack scared
Speaker 1: of right now, no sacks for that scared of that defense.
Speaker 1: So if if the offense can do what they've been doing,
Speaker 1: get them right right there around that twenty point range,
Speaker 1: then you know they got a shot. The pressure, the
Speaker 1: pressure that the Rams. I was looking some numbers, not
Speaker 1: that I'm nerding on numbers, but I mean just sometimes
Speaker 1: you do. But the pressures that they're bringing on blitzes
Speaker 1: and not getting home is alarming. That they're having to
Speaker 1: bring pressure and they're not getting rushed or something. Again,
Speaker 1: they give up no sacks. I think the forty nine
Speaker 1: Ers have got a good offensive line, even though Trent
Speaker 1: Williams has been banged up for them. But yeah, the
Speaker 1: fact that the Rams get little pressure, and you know,
Speaker 1: and if you can hold, if you can hold that
Speaker 1: defensive tackle Aaron Donald to no sacks in the game
Speaker 1: and only four tackles, man, sign me up for that too. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I just think this is going to be
Speaker 1: really fun game. I think that Cowboys have some advantages
Speaker 1: obviously with defense against the Rams offense, and then you know,
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball, we'll see I mean,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough, like you said, Aaron Donald. But
Speaker 1: but also I mean this game has been on schedule
Speaker 1: since it came out in May. I mean, Cowboy fans
Speaker 1: will be there. Home Gate will be a it will
Speaker 1: be a lot of fans. We saw it with the Chargers,
Speaker 1: you know, last year. It'll be the same this year.
Speaker 1: You know, their season, they won Super Bowl last year
Speaker 1: and they I'm sure that those fans of you know,
Speaker 1: and they're selling some tickets. The Cowboys will have a
Speaker 1: huge crowd. It'll be a really fun like Bowl game
Speaker 1: type atmosphere. It'll be really fun. I made that point
Speaker 1: yesterdar in the radio, and the guys look at me like,
Speaker 1: I said, this is going to be a home game
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. Watch and they kind of looking at
Speaker 1: me like what do you mean? I go at Southern
Speaker 1: California fan base for the Cowboys is huge. We see it.
Speaker 1: We go to Oxnard. You understand that this is their opportunity.
Speaker 1: The Chargers game last year. I mean the Chargers had
Speaker 1: to go silent count in the game last year because
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys fans and was their first game ever
Speaker 1: Yeah with fans, Yeah so far. Yeah, So I think
Speaker 1: that I think it's the same thing. Cowboy fans will
Speaker 1: show up in Southern California. It'll be it'll be a
Speaker 1: good crowd. And I don't know about saying a home
Speaker 1: game because I did. I don't care. Well I think,
Speaker 1: but I think it'll be like fifty fifty. But what
Speaker 1: happens and those those games we've all been, Yeah, where
Speaker 1: like the fans bring out the best in each other
Speaker 1: or worst, but they bring out the enthusiasm and each other.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be hearing the Rams fans. Don't
Speaker 1: want to be here and let's go Cowboys, and then
Speaker 1: they start getting in and then it just and it
Speaker 1: just makes everything huge. It'd be really fun. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a fun game, and I think the Cowboys can compete.
Speaker 1: I really do. The one thing I'm interested in saying,
Speaker 1: I agree with you that it will be a lot
Speaker 1: of Cowboys fans. I want to see if at all
Speaker 1: that's affected by the fact that they want a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: because I do think that fans can often be you know,
Speaker 1: you can you can have a lot more fans that'll
Speaker 1: show up when you just want a super Bowl, right,
Speaker 1: there are a lot more people who want to jump
Speaker 1: on the bandwagon at that point. I wonder how much
Speaker 1: that has affected their fan base in LA to the
Speaker 1: point where does it now are they now having more
Speaker 1: people that are going to those games that bought the
Speaker 1: tickets rather than selling them, let's say, to Cowboys fans,
Speaker 1: so I'll be interested to see. I'm not saying it
Speaker 1: won't be I'm just saying I'll be interested to see.
Speaker 1: I think that's a little bit of a wrinkle there
Speaker 1: that could change maybe the dynamic of what that game
Speaker 1: feels like. And in typical situations where we've gone now later, Well,
Speaker 1: they got smoked by Buffalo an opening day, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean that was a home loss. It was bad,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you have some bad losses along the way.
Speaker 1: That fan base there's other things they can go do.
Speaker 1: You know, that's not that's not like a that's not
Speaker 1: a fan base. It's like, cheez, we gotta go to
Speaker 1: the game this week because we got nothing going on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, have your thought about going up to Ventura
Speaker 1: this weekend? I know the Rams are playing, but let's
Speaker 1: just go up, you know. I mean that's the kind
Speaker 1: of you know, let's go to Santa Bar. You know,
Speaker 1: there's things to do in California. Some places you don't
Speaker 1: have that advantage. Ye. All right, we're gonna check our
Speaker 1: first break and we come back. I got some questions
Speaker 1: for these guys. We'll do some first quarter of the
Speaker 1: season reaction and then the final secondent we'll get to
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Speaker 1: little quarter review. I got a few questions here that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw at you guys on some different topics,
Speaker 1: just kind of a let's look and see what you
Speaker 1: guys think. The first question out for you is which
Speaker 1: free agent loss do you think the Cowboys missed the most.
Speaker 1: Here are the answers that you can choose from Randy Gregory,
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins, Amari Cooper or none of the above. Be
Speaker 1: a Marie Cooper. I mean I think, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a team, like they still lead the league in sacks,
Speaker 1: but they may not now, but they did last week.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they lead the league in sacks,
Speaker 1: but they still did. Okay, Well, yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: can't say that they miss them. Then, I mean, and
Speaker 1: then Lyle, I mean we saw Lyle's work or this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, and he's now hurt. Yeah, Okay, which is
Speaker 1: which is availability? Remember they kept saying availability and I
Speaker 1: don't know. I saw Randy Gregory's name pop up on something.
Speaker 1: Saw that Randy Gregor was hurt as well. I haven't
Speaker 1: heard this meniscus. He's gonna be about three or four games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had to get some two to six weeks Carle shape,
Speaker 1: some Cartlet shaped or something like that. Got to be
Speaker 1: Cooper then, because the offense, I mean, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean the offensive receivers are Donal Kay, I mean Brown
Speaker 1: and the starting but I mean I think Cooper looks
Speaker 1: pretty good over there too with a plane with the
Speaker 1: backup quarterback. So I think I think the answer there
Speaker 1: is Cooper. Yeah, I agree with that. And aside from injury,
Speaker 1: like just looking at talent wise, what they were, what
Speaker 1: they were bringing to you, and what you currently have,
Speaker 1: I think that maybe the Cowboys would have won that
Speaker 1: game for Week one against Tampa had they had Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper in the roster in the offense, I think the
Speaker 1: offense would have looked differently. They would have been able
Speaker 1: to maybe move the ball a lot better and score
Speaker 1: some points enough for you to get to win. Because
Speaker 1: we know the defense was able to hold Tom Brady down.
Speaker 1: But despite Noah Brown having a great season, so far
Speaker 1: showing things that me personally, I didn't think he would
Speaker 1: be able to take that kind of weight on him.
Speaker 1: He's been good, but I think that Ceedee Lamb would
Speaker 1: have kind of stepped up a lot sooner had Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper been here already. And I know he would have
Speaker 1: maybe been the number one receiver, but still it would
Speaker 1: have created that balance on offense that you are currently
Speaker 1: I feel like still missing because regardless with Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: being back, it's gonna take a couple more weeks for
Speaker 1: you to hopefully start looking like it's working together. None
Speaker 1: of them they missed. None of them. Absolutely, none of them.
Speaker 1: Your point about the receiver stepping up, Ceedee Lamb stepping up,
Speaker 1: Noah Brown stepping up, you got Michael Gallup stepping back.
Speaker 1: When we were all in Oxnard, they were telling us like,
Speaker 1: why are you guys so worried about these receivers. Don't
Speaker 1: be worried about these receivers. Don't be worried about these receivers,
Speaker 1: you know, and we kept asking the question. Washington got hurt, well,
Speaker 1: and you're going to get a receiver, need a veteran guy.
Speaker 1: They knew where Michael Gallup was going to be in
Speaker 1: all this. They really really do, and so to me,
Speaker 1: I feel like though they've got the receivers. I like
Speaker 1: what you're saying about a Maury Cooper excu Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: having to elevate his game. I think that's I think
Speaker 1: that's something that's been a real positive for them. I
Speaker 1: think Noah Brown stepping up out of the shadow. They
Speaker 1: tried to make Noah Brown and Cedric Wilson the same guy.
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson just became a little bit better player, and
Speaker 1: they went, Okay, Cedric, you're our guy nowhere. You're now
Speaker 1: on special teams. Noah's seen what happened to him last year.
Speaker 1: He elevated his game too. He's a guy that you
Speaker 1: can go out and be reliable. I think his numbers
Speaker 1: are very similar to what am. I think a Maury
Speaker 1: had one catch for nine yards the other day. His
Speaker 1: home road splits are still bad, and he plays on
Speaker 1: the road. He's a bad player at home. He's he's
Speaker 1: an all pro. But see that's what I'm saying that
Speaker 1: you know, the thing is, as much as I hate so,
Speaker 1: he'd be fine this week against the Rams because they're
Speaker 1: playing at home. Yeah, they play home yea. So, but
Speaker 1: the thing about it is, to me, as critical as
Speaker 1: I am with Steel, they're getting away with that. They
Speaker 1: trust Steal more than they trust Collins. The health he
Speaker 1: couldn't bend because the hips. She can't play him at tackle. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean he's play m at guard now he's hurt.
Speaker 1: You know, the reliability factor. And besides, they made that
Speaker 1: a little personal in my opinion, not the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: dot Com opinion. Brian brought us his opinion. Okay, so
Speaker 1: to me, they're they're looking at Randy Gregory. They figured
Speaker 1: it out, they figured out what they went out and
Speaker 1: got Fouler, They got Armstrong. Armstrong with this coaching has
Speaker 1: gotten better. You know, they've gotten better with this coaching.
Speaker 1: It's proven that. You know, they wanted to sign Randy Gregory.
Speaker 1: His agent didn't allow him to sign here. His agent says, well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shop this deal to Denver and see what
Speaker 1: we get. You know, Randy, you know Jerry Jones is
Speaker 1: talking about what you got three for one. That's a
Speaker 1: good you know, But in reality, they wanted to sign
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory. Yeah, they don't miss any of these players
Speaker 1: right now. You know, you got you got a factor
Speaker 1: into You can't just say, well, put Amari Cooper on
Speaker 1: this team because now they still have some money available.
Speaker 1: But when you go and look at you know, jay
Speaker 1: Ron Curse that they added, and Malie Cooker and Layton
Speaker 1: vander Ash and Dorin's Armstrong and Fowler and Brian Anger,
Speaker 1: and you know they added all all of these other
Speaker 1: guys in here that I don't know if you can
Speaker 1: get all of them with with just keeping the twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars tag, which you know Cooper said he would
Speaker 1: he would, he would bring it down a little bit.
Speaker 1: But you know, if they wanted to do that. But still,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're going to sign these guys, you
Speaker 1: don't have the depth at some of the other positions.
Speaker 1: I still think you can get some of them, but
Speaker 1: not all of them. And I think depth at safety,
Speaker 1: depth a defensive end is helping this team thrive. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's I agree with you, Brian. I don't think
Speaker 1: I don't think they're noticing any of them. I mean,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, if you had Amari Cooper's talent
Speaker 1: on paper, you are a better team. I get that.
Speaker 1: I think that Ultimately, I actually liked the idea of
Speaker 1: forcing cd Lamb to step up his say at Amber
Speaker 1: and so for me, that's actually positive if it's gonna
Speaker 1: make him. And by the way, if we're starting to
Speaker 1: see signs that maybe he's gonna do that, we won't
Speaker 1: know until the season is done whether he really did
Speaker 1: that and really assert himself to be the number one guy.
Speaker 1: And he is among those receivers in the league that
Speaker 1: are number one receivers. But I do like the idea
Speaker 1: of forcing him to do that and not letting Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper be a crutch for him. I've got to I've
Speaker 1: got to figure out if I gotta pay Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: here soon enough if you have to your point, which
Speaker 1: I thought was really really good, and it to me,
Speaker 1: if I can't figure out what Ceedee Lamb is. His
Speaker 1: numbers are good the first two years. Everybody's like killing
Speaker 1: him because of his numbers. So I'm like, he let
Speaker 1: the team last year, and that's what I'm saying, look
Speaker 1: at the numbers. And so to me, that's where I
Speaker 1: got to figure out. I'm not willing to This receiver
Speaker 1: market is crazy with the money they're spending for guys.
Speaker 1: You know that guy from Arizona leaves and he goes
Speaker 1: to Miami or Jacksonville. Yeah, that should to Jacksonville, Christian
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk And I'm like, what, yeah, what you know
Speaker 1: that kind of thing, And you know, no, I need
Speaker 1: to figure this thing out before show me that you're
Speaker 1: the guy. Show me I could rely on you. If not,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get another guy. But I can't give
Speaker 1: a guy twenty twenty five million dollars just on hope.
Speaker 1: You know, I got to give it on the performance.
Speaker 1: And people out there right now are going, whoa broad
Speaker 1: us They've given money to guys on hope before. You know,
Speaker 1: I think this organization's in a different mindset with that now.
Speaker 1: I think that if they go if you go back
Speaker 1: and look at and this is again me talking the
Speaker 1: Zeke deal and other deals, they might have been not
Speaker 1: so willing to step up the way they did. You know.
Speaker 1: They they moved on from from Jalen Smith. They moved
Speaker 1: on from him. Yeah, Dan Quinn, somebody went in and said,
Speaker 1: kat can't play, can't play. Why why do'd you give
Speaker 1: nine million dollars you can't play? You know some And
Speaker 1: they said, okay, you're right, We'll move on so I
Speaker 1: think we're maybe getting a little bit of a trend
Speaker 1: of that of guys moving on from guys. All right,
Speaker 1: here's our next question. If you could sign one upcoming
Speaker 1: free agent to a new deal right now, who would
Speaker 1: it be. I'll give you a few names. Actually, they
Speaker 1: got a lot of guys that are on this list
Speaker 1: free just for next year. But Cooper Rush, Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, Terrence Steele, Brett Maher if you could sign
Speaker 1: one of them right now, And it could be for
Speaker 1: different reasons. It could be because you feel like if
Speaker 1: you do it now, you get a better deal. But
Speaker 1: if you could sign one of those guys right now,
Speaker 1: who would it be? Man Um, you said, Rush Brown,
Speaker 1: Rush Brown, Wilson, Steele, And all right, I could sign
Speaker 1: him right now. You can sign him right now, Cooper Rush,
Speaker 1: because I'm signing my backup quarterback and not having to
Speaker 1: deal with trying to get another backup quarterback. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's Cooper Rush. If you can get him now,
Speaker 1: he needed to. He would need to fire his agent
Speaker 1: for doing that. Yeahs agent would be an idiot to
Speaker 1: do that right now. M But I mean, yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be my guy. Well, if you gave him enough money,
Speaker 1: I think, oh, yeah, you could definitely do it. But
Speaker 1: I mean right now, I mean, I haven't lost as
Speaker 1: a starter. So there's teams, there's teams in around the
Speaker 1: NFL that were like, oh, I would like quarterbacks that win,
Speaker 1: you know, and so, and I know it's not just him,
Speaker 1: it's not. He even said it. That's what I like
Speaker 1: about it. He says, it's the defense. Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: like that he's aware. You know, quarterbacks need awareness, and
Speaker 1: he's aware of everything. I think I agree with that.
Speaker 1: I would probably do him because I know how difficult
Speaker 1: we've seen it happen here, how difficult it is to
Speaker 1: have a capable backup quarterback. And he's a guy that
Speaker 1: although the offense hasn't been explosive whatsoever and scoring a
Speaker 1: bunch of points or anything like that, he's played very clean.
Speaker 1: He's made his game look very clean. And to me,
Speaker 1: everything that he's shown so far and the way he
Speaker 1: acts after the game, he's just so humble about everything.
Speaker 1: I just I'm becoming a fan again of Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: and what he brings to the table in this scheme.
Speaker 1: I think you signed Cooper Rush if they change coaches
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would do that, but it's
Speaker 1: for right here, right now. I think I would go
Speaker 1: with Wilson is who I would go with, because I
Speaker 1: trust what dan Quinn's gonna do with him. I try
Speaker 1: as much as and I think you're gonna see this.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see Curse played down, Wilson and
Speaker 1: Hooker play deep. And I think you're gonna play Wilson
Speaker 1: as a robber. And I mean a robber, like a
Speaker 1: guy that plays in the middle between like the linebackers
Speaker 1: and the safeties, and when the people are trying to
Speaker 1: run all this crap it's crossing and all that. You
Speaker 1: got a guy that can go and react and go
Speaker 1: get the football, knock people out in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, make it difficult to catch the ball. Hey,
Speaker 1: I got a match up against a tight end. You know,
Speaker 1: we'll let Curse play the run because he's a bigger
Speaker 1: guy and he could tackle really well. Wilson could cover.
Speaker 1: We've seen him run like heck to cover the back,
Speaker 1: you know, third of the field. I think, man, this
Speaker 1: team has chased safeties forever ever. They finally figured it out.
Speaker 1: They finally figured it out. You know it took George
Speaker 1: Edwards saying, Hey, this Curse guy can play a little bit.
Speaker 1: There's not a out in the league that it would
Speaker 1: have told you that Curse can cover and play it
Speaker 1: down and do all those things as long as dan
Speaker 1: Quinn's as long as dan Quinn's a defensive coordinator. Here,
Speaker 1: give me all his guys, everybody he wants to sign
Speaker 1: that he plays in the scheme, Give me all those cats,
Speaker 1: because I know that that's gonna be worth my money,
Speaker 1: I really do. I would actually say Cooper Rush, but
Speaker 1: i'd say him for a little different reason. The way
Speaker 1: I look at this is having a quarterback that's a
Speaker 1: backup quarterback that can play and that team's think is
Speaker 1: a good Let's just say it, he's a good quarterback.
Speaker 1: There's value for that. Sure, you might be able to
Speaker 1: turn that around and leverage that in a trade where
Speaker 1: maybe now you're talking a significant trade option. Like literally,
Speaker 1: I don't know if a teams doing to give me
Speaker 1: a one, but maybe they're willing to give me a two.
Speaker 1: But you would you take a four right now? Right now? No, okay,
Speaker 1: because this is a game I play on one oh
Speaker 1: five three. The fan called my Gang of seven which
Speaker 1: are general managers and guys, old krusty guys I worked
Speaker 1: with throughout the league. There was three of them. Five
Speaker 1: of them got back to me. One of them said, nah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't give anything. Another guy said, I'd give you
Speaker 1: a five. The other three said they would give me
Speaker 1: a four. That's that's where they were at right now.
Speaker 1: And one of me, all those teams that they made
Speaker 1: a quarterback. Yeah, one of my guys is like, he's
Speaker 1: he's on he's right now working guys out kind of
Speaker 1: a deal. So you know, yeah, but he said he's like.
Speaker 1: Three of those guys said a four now before the
Speaker 1: season in training camp and bar I go and bar
Speaker 1: Cooper rush I could get a fourth round pick from
Speaker 1: him right now? What are you gonna say? Do it?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, there you go. I mean we're up there.
Speaker 1: We're like, I mean, frankly, there was better. I would
Speaker 1: hang up right now if I would first, I would
Speaker 1: do because I would tell you this, Yeah, you guys
Speaker 1: are hard to do at the second round is a wash? Sure?
Speaker 1: What what? What guy with a torn al? Character issues
Speaker 1: are we gonna get from the second round? You know?
Speaker 1: Jerry drafts of the second round, all of that I
Speaker 1: don't want that, But I'm just saying I can't what
Speaker 1: if that hurts them again and it's like, well, who's
Speaker 1: the backup? Like, well, we got Will Greer or somebody
Speaker 1: could have been Cooper Rush, but we got we sure
Speaker 1: did get Jake Ferguson. Though you just don't do it
Speaker 1: during the season, you don't know. I mean, I got
Speaker 1: a fourth round pick. I mean, like I always think
Speaker 1: of like the worst fourth round picks, not that, but
Speaker 1: I think of the Charles Tappers, Like what if you
Speaker 1: traded for a fourth round pick when you have a
Speaker 1: backup that can come into play. But I'll tell you this,
Speaker 1: so Bright, here's a question. Yeah, it is his value
Speaker 1: greater now or is value greater at the end of
Speaker 1: the season. I actually think you may actually sit on
Speaker 1: that now. At the end of the season, when teams
Speaker 1: are trying to reevaluate what they're gonna do at their
Speaker 1: quarterback position, you might actually be able to get a
Speaker 1: really good, really yeah trade dealing. So I gotta to
Speaker 1: the season, and you get that close to the season,
Speaker 1: the agent is like, no, no, no no, no, Well, I
Speaker 1: mean if he if he signed, if he signed, then
Speaker 1: you could do that. But this agent is not going
Speaker 1: to do that, like he Okay, so let me let
Speaker 1: me ask you this. If you went to his agent
Speaker 1: right now and said, we're willing to pay him twenty
Speaker 1: five million for a year for three years, Okay, that's cool,
Speaker 1: but your draft pick then and better be close to that. Well, look,
Speaker 1: this is why I look at it. Let's say, let's
Speaker 1: say he's willing to take that twenty five million for
Speaker 1: three years. Right way I look at that is if
Speaker 1: I then get to the off season and I'm willing
Speaker 1: to now trade him. How many teams that that, by
Speaker 1: the way, they they're bringing him in to be their starter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're now getting a three years starter for twenty five
Speaker 1: million a year. That is a bargain of a deal.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, then they're gonna have to trade a good
Speaker 1: pick for it. Exactly. So now I've created to leverage
Speaker 1: me to get an even better pick in the off
Speaker 1: season or heading into the next season. You know, then
Speaker 1: again he fires the agent because because if you don't
Speaker 1: do that and then teams are still wanting you in
Speaker 1: free agency, they're not gonna get you for eight million
Speaker 1: to clip, They're gonna get you a lot more than that. Well,
Speaker 1: but here. But here's the thing, that's all a bet.
Speaker 1: That's all a bet right now. The values high enough
Speaker 1: where if I go to him right now, it's that
Speaker 1: it's that do I want to get paid now and
Speaker 1: secure myself now? I love football, we just enjoy them now.
Speaker 1: Controversy because the order watch quarterback. I'm getting rid of
Speaker 1: the quarterback controversy, Like I want the next year. He
Speaker 1: doesn't need to be here, like give me another guy.
Speaker 1: You see. That's the thing about it is if you
Speaker 1: if you don't do anything with Cooper Rush and he
Speaker 1: then goes on, he doesn't you don't sign him back,
Speaker 1: and he goes and has some success, Uh, you can
Speaker 1: likely get your third or fourth on the on the
Speaker 1: compensatory pick side of things. It's true. So you have
Speaker 1: to determine if if you feel like that, Listen, I
Speaker 1: could if he signs a big deal, I'm likely going
Speaker 1: to get a third. If he signs a good deal,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna probably get a fourth. So you got to
Speaker 1: determine do you want to play the compensatory game to
Speaker 1: protect yourself in case something. Now there's people that will
Speaker 1: tweet at me and say Dack's injury prone. Yeah, Dack's
Speaker 1: injury prone, Brian, I'm telling you, Dack's injury prone. So
Speaker 1: to me, I'm kind of taking the San Francisco approach,
Speaker 1: even though they wanted to start Trey Lance. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: keeping Jimmy Garoppolo. Yeah, you know, there's a big difference
Speaker 1: between Gimmy Garoppolo and Cooper Rush. I would rather have
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo because I heard somebody says, Jimmy garoppolos when
Speaker 1: I forty something games. I mean, but and I was like,
Speaker 1: and I was like, honestly, I don't know that there's
Speaker 1: a big difference between those two players. You know, Stafford
Speaker 1: tried to throw. Was it Tart the safety that dropped
Speaker 1: the ball for the forty I mean, they catch that ball.
Speaker 1: The forty nine ers are through, They're into the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and they might beat the Bengals. You know, with Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo at quarterback. Every time anybody says Jimmy Garoppolo, you
Speaker 1: know I'm the Giants, I'm going, yeah, what do you
Speaker 1: want for Jimmy Garo? Yeah, I've never thought for the season.
Speaker 1: He's not a bad player for all the seat. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: when you put things around him, when you block for him,
Speaker 1: when you run the ball, you know he's not gonna
Speaker 1: mess it up totally. He tried against the Cowboys though,
Speaker 1: remember through a pick and he tried. He was he
Speaker 1: was trying to get them back in the game, but
Speaker 1: then they moved on and beat Green Bay or yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that was a week before that week after right, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, real quick, let's get one the one more
Speaker 1: before we take our final break. And I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: this from Nick. Nick threw this out there yesterday. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a good question. What do you think
Speaker 1: is the bigger who's been the bigger surprise? Brett Maher,
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush or Tyler Smith? I mean, I think I
Speaker 1: think we could probably sidestep Rush, don't you think, I mean,
Speaker 1: didn't he the obvious here because we kind of talked
Speaker 1: about it and we've I mean, when you start paying
Speaker 1: the biggest surprise. Maher was not even on a team
Speaker 1: in training camp, and the Cowboys had already been there,
Speaker 1: done that and brought him back. And for him to
Speaker 1: be doing what just go back to training camp. You
Speaker 1: and I are sitting there and they're like, I bet you.
Speaker 1: Maher makes five of his first six kicks, HiT's a
Speaker 1: couple of fifty yards in the game winner, Like really, Like, okay,
Speaker 1: I bet you that Cooper Rush comes in and wins
Speaker 1: all three of his starts, win, dacks her, and creates
Speaker 1: a quarterback controversy. You were like, what did you drink
Speaker 1: last night? Are you drinking? Now? That's why he's not
Speaker 1: created a quarterback controversy. But I get your point. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, no, his owner is, but I'm you're saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: so kind of crawfish from that state. I think. I
Speaker 1: think that's I think that's just the biggest one. I
Speaker 1: think if you said I'm not trying to change the games,
Speaker 1: the answer absolutely. I remember very clearly after the game,
Speaker 1: everybody's surrounding Jerry Jones outside the locker room and you
Speaker 1: hear him say he's gonna go under surgery or something,
Speaker 1: and everybody's like, what like a panic mode, like what what?
Speaker 1: What are we listening? And immediately, because of how that
Speaker 1: game went down and everything that we saw there on
Speaker 1: the offense, you immediately thought, man, that's it, like there
Speaker 1: goes to season, there goes another year. And surely I
Speaker 1: was one fighting or saying I want Will Greer to
Speaker 1: go in there. Why Cooper Rush. Why he looked terrible, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, and I've had my roller coaster with with
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, but lately mine was all the way down.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not up for Cooper Rush. So the
Speaker 1: fact that he went in there and he's done it
Speaker 1: so effortlessly in a sense, and so clean and just
Speaker 1: so poised and composed, I think has been really a
Speaker 1: huge surprise to me. I wasn't surprised about Tyler Smith
Speaker 1: because I do have the advantage of seeing him, like
Speaker 1: for the Draft Show and stuff like that. To Anabar's point,
Speaker 1: that night after Tampa and Jerry's standing there giving us
Speaker 1: like the doctor medical report he's given, and then you
Speaker 1: know that curse is leaving the building two on crutches,
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, hmmm, our best offensive player, our best
Speaker 1: defensive player, of our best you know, I mean after
Speaker 1: this game. Yeah, and you're like going, well, and fifteen
Speaker 1: text messages or tweets at me brought us, when's Derek
Speaker 1: going to start the Draft show? Brought us? When's you
Speaker 1: know this is week one? Yeah. So I'm on the
Speaker 1: roller coaster with Ambar. I'm strapped in hands up, screaming
Speaker 1: over the hill, because I'm yelling for Will Green. I'm
Speaker 1: doing that because in training camp, I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: I'm watching you guys do your work at Broncos practice.
Speaker 1: I'll watch you do your work at at the Charger
Speaker 1: practices and stuff like that. I'm going, this doesn't sound
Speaker 1: very good. And then I'm doing the games, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm doing broadcast at games. I'm like going, throw it,
Speaker 1: throw it, throw it, you know that. And he's holding
Speaker 1: it and getting sacked and getting hit and you're like going,
Speaker 1: why why? And I was I was thinking about when
Speaker 1: am I going to start watching tape? When am I
Speaker 1: going to start watching college tape? And it was that
Speaker 1: I think, I think it's Cooper Rush with that. But
Speaker 1: because I just know I knew the Mahard one, I
Speaker 1: give the organization credit on that one, because that, to
Speaker 1: me is so cowboy front office, take out, take out,
Speaker 1: Cooper Rushing. I'm putting nor Brown in and I'll play
Speaker 1: the game. So Brown, no biggest surprise, No Brown Maha
Speaker 1: or Tyler Smith Maha, no all problem for me. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was ready to cut the guy it already too,
Speaker 1: like I'm because he's here so long, you tend to
Speaker 1: forget about him. He shows some things last year with
Speaker 1: Dak and all that, but even then, could he for me,
Speaker 1: could he step up to that role? I really didn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen him make some really good catches
Speaker 1: at times, I would think he was des Brian when
Speaker 1: that had just left. You would watch him from the
Speaker 1: press box and then you're like, oh, is that that's
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's no brow. But it was. I just
Speaker 1: didn't see him being so good as he's being so fun.
Speaker 1: But you see it every year training camp. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like we call it all a star Like every time
Speaker 1: would go need ten names from you, let's rate him
Speaker 1: one to ten. Who's had the best camp? Noah Brown
Speaker 1: number four, that's always number four. Happened last year team
Speaker 1: special teams. Yeah, It's like the thing with Cedric Wilson.
Speaker 1: They were trying Noah Brown and then all of sudden,
Speaker 1: circ Wilson says, I'm gonna go get paid from the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're doing, you know, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get a one year deal. Yeah. I think it's
Speaker 1: the old Brown for me. I mean, Tyler Smith's been
Speaker 1: I mean just the fact that he's moved around and
Speaker 1: didn't even practice at left tackle. That's a that's amazing too.
Speaker 1: All of it's amazing. Yeah. The only thing that's not
Speaker 1: amazing their first round offensive linemen or money. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: Every time they trapped the first out of linement, that
Speaker 1: that one they missed on any of them. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think they missed on him. They know they haven't,
Speaker 1: and there are some missises. Don't get it wrong. They
Speaker 1: were in the second round. I'm saying. I'm saying throughout
Speaker 1: the league to look at first round offensive linst Talk
Speaker 1: to the Giants about that. Yeah, sometimes you picked in
Speaker 1: the late late first round in twenties and nothing to guarantee.
Speaker 1: So I mean he's been very impressive. Yeah, yeah, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. All Right, we're gonna take our final break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. We got about five minutes. Bryan's gonna
Speaker 1: rush through this game. Okay, maybe maybe we say for
Speaker 1: mart that might be a good idea, because I do
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Speaker 1: gonna postpone Brian's game. We're gonna push that till tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna, I'm gonna I'm gonna work on it a
Speaker 1: little bit more. All right, good, make a little tougher.
Speaker 1: There we go. A little fighting going on. I do
Speaker 1: have one more question for you guys though, in our
Speaker 1: quarter review, Uh, tell me what was the best performance
Speaker 1: from an individual player so far? On the first four games,
Speaker 1: we've got ten Clarins versus the Giants, he had six
Speaker 1: tackles and three we have two. Huh can you kill
Speaker 1: coach in there too? Yeah, anybody, I'm gonna give you
Speaker 1: my three and if you got one, you want to
Speaker 1: go and you say, this is my answer you that's
Speaker 1: more than okay? Okay. Michael Parsons versus Cincinnati, he had
Speaker 1: four tackles and two sacks in that game. Noah Brown
Speaker 1: versus Cincinnati had five catches for ninety one yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Where do you think at the best perform
Speaker 1: Warman so far this season the first four games. For me,
Speaker 1: it's Mike against Cincinnati. It's one of the best performances
Speaker 1: I've seen any defensive player have since I've covered this team.
Speaker 1: So Mica against Cincinnati, I thought is completely a game wrecker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it didn't show up in the stat sheet all
Speaker 1: the time. If you watched the game, you know, people
Speaker 1: were like, where was he that good? I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I thought you watched the game. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: if you did, he was. If you didn't watch the
Speaker 1: game and really focus on the second half, you had
Speaker 1: been like, he was amazing. That's my pick. That's a
Speaker 1: tough one because I think everything comes down to Micah
Speaker 1: Parsons because everything comes out to what the defense is doing,
Speaker 1: and what the defense is doing realizes on what Mica
Speaker 1: Parsons is doing. So like initially I'm thinking, Okay, Noah
Speaker 1: Brown because the offense like wasn't you know you need
Speaker 1: the offense to be able to get you somewhere too,
Speaker 1: But the only reason the offense has been able to
Speaker 1: stay in games is because of the defense. So it's
Speaker 1: just automatically Mica Parsons one thousand percent said, I do
Speaker 1: like the other options, but I don't think they're that
Speaker 1: close to him, right, right, man? I go back to
Speaker 1: that Week two matchup against Cincinnati, and it's Noah Brown.
Speaker 1: Noah Brown had every he was five for five on
Speaker 1: targets and catches. Go back and look at every one
Speaker 1: of those catches and how important they were third down catches,
Speaker 1: fourth down catches, deflected ball catch to keep a drive
Speaker 1: going to go for the game winning field goal. His
Speaker 1: it was. It came out too and I looked at
Speaker 1: the numbers. It was eighteen yards or reception in that game.
Speaker 1: Played eighty five percent of the snaps in that game too.
Speaker 1: If you don't have Noah Brown on the field. And
Speaker 1: I love Michael Parsons usually say that when you're trying
Speaker 1: to sell something. But you love what another guy did
Speaker 1: and Parsons, but you expect that from Parsons, you really do.
Speaker 1: You expect Parsons to go out there and just wreck shop,
Speaker 1: as we like to say. But Noah Brown in that game,
Speaker 1: those five receptions, I would I would beg you to
Speaker 1: find a bigger, more clutch game from a Cowboy player
Speaker 1: in a while then, But you know what I've been wondering, um,
Speaker 1: because last game I saw Mica I just a little
Speaker 1: kind of tied for a little bit. I'm not saying,
Speaker 1: and hopefully nothing happens to him, But I've been wondering.
Speaker 1: We do give den Quinn so much, so much praise
Speaker 1: into what he's doing with all the talent on the
Speaker 1: defense and all that, But how do you think this
Speaker 1: offense would, sorry defense would actually look without a Mica parton.
Speaker 1: I'm glad because I'm glad you did that because I
Speaker 1: was driving in on the way and I thought, could
Speaker 1: you survive these games without Micah Parsons? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. No, I think I think you
Speaker 1: hit Michael Parsons most valuable player on this team. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's not even question because once again, once again, the
Speaker 1: only reason your quarterback has been able to win these
Speaker 1: games is because he doesn't have to score a ton
Speaker 1: of points to do it. That's because the defense is
Speaker 1: holding these teams to very very small numbers. That doesn't
Speaker 1: happen without Michael Parts. I said that last year, doesn't.
Speaker 1: After Thanksgiving, I remember telling Derek the press counts and
Speaker 1: press box. I think Michael Parsons is the best player
Speaker 1: on this team. If you have him, you have a shot.
Speaker 1: And I believe it even more now because that's just
Speaker 1: how more versatile he is he's shown. Do you think
Speaker 1: about Queen can manage to make something out of the defense. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no no, I'm not saying that, Like Dan can
Speaker 1: still get a good defense out there and get him
Speaker 1: to play good for a game or two. But point back,
Speaker 1: that's my point. You better score some points. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think about last year. Yea, even though Michael had a
Speaker 1: good year last year, I think he's been more impressive
Speaker 1: this year than last year because basically they've decided. Have
Speaker 1: you seen him line up at linebacker much? It's because
Speaker 1: they're like, this guy's a pass rusher. He's going to
Speaker 1: get the quarterback almost every place. I think they got
Speaker 1: better players today than they did last year. Yeah, I agree, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, And so it's a better defense man. I
Speaker 1: would knock on wood. I would never want to weather
Speaker 1: that storm. But I have that much faith in Dan Quinn.
Speaker 1: I have that much faith that. But but okay, I
Speaker 1: get but I get my I get my quarterback back, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean that's that's I have to have
Speaker 1: my quarterback to be able to do to survive. Wait,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean this guy's going. I don't
Speaker 1: think they lose Michael Parsons and win three straight. Let's
Speaker 1: be but let's be honest. Let's be honest. Looks like
Speaker 1: he looks is because he only has to make sure
Speaker 1: he doesn't mess it up and he's making a few
Speaker 1: throws a game to get you. But without Mica, you
Speaker 1: need more than I'm I'm on your side. Literally, like
Speaker 1: I'm saying, that's you know, that's what I'm saying. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't think I think Mica Partson is more valuable
Speaker 1: because if they lose him, I don't think that vanders
Speaker 1: just steps into the Cooper rest roll and they win
Speaker 1: three straight and and we're talking about what do you
Speaker 1: do with him? Do you resign Vander No? No, I
Speaker 1: think losing Michael part I said it before the season started.
Speaker 1: If Dak and Micah Parsons both play every game this year,
Speaker 1: year they will be in the super Bowl. Well, well
Speaker 1: I don't have to, that's already done. But I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: but it really is more Micah Parsons. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: I just don't see. I'm glad you asked that question
Speaker 1: because I was thinking about it. I really was. Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn is a phenomenal, phenomenal coach in mine all to
Speaker 1: be on the defensive staff. Yeah, you saw the difference
Speaker 1: when he came in here versus the year before of
Speaker 1: how much of a difference he makes with this defense.
Speaker 1: Like it's yeah, I mean it's a big difference. This
Speaker 1: guy knows what he's doing. No, it's not a button.
Speaker 1: He is a phenomenal defensive coordinator and at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, like I trust that he's gonna make
Speaker 1: this defense play good football. Yeah, without Bika Parsons, can
Speaker 1: you be great? That's the point. And you gotta be
Speaker 1: great right now if you don't have your quarterback, I
Speaker 1: just don't know. No, no, no, you gotta be great anyways,
Speaker 1: because I mean, I'm sorry. I mean, Dak needs some help,
Speaker 1: and he need he needs help. They needed to be
Speaker 1: great against Tampa Bay. That's nice to say, but last
Speaker 1: year he won a ton of games with a good defense.
Speaker 1: That wasn't a great defense last year, and he won
Speaker 1: a ton of those games. Where get you that? No plays,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about the playoffs we're talk about getting
Speaker 1: through the season. I'm on your side. They got as
Speaker 1: a team, not just Dak. As a team, they needed
Speaker 1: to be more competitive against the better teams. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just Dak, it was the whole team defense too. So
Speaker 1: that's you know, they had a favorable schedule last year
Speaker 1: and it played out and they worked. It worked well
Speaker 1: for them. This year not so much. I mean they
Speaker 1: have to play first play schedule, and first play schedule
Speaker 1: is more than it was last year or a a few
Speaker 1: years ago, because you play seventeen games. Now, you played Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Now you play three for three winners, three extra number
Speaker 1: one teams from the year before. And so that's something
Speaker 1: the Eagles don't have this year. I may have it
Speaker 1: the next year, but they don't have it. So they've
Speaker 1: already played. They played. Obviously the Rams would be that
Speaker 1: that they played this week. Who are the other team?
Speaker 1: Cincinnati would be because yes, yes, you already hit that
Speaker 1: that one game you won it. Yeah, damn you had
Speaker 1: Tampa you won, I mean you lost that one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and now you got the Rams coming up. Those they
Speaker 1: got one more. Right, Well, you play the NFC, you know,
Speaker 1: of those three games out of the difference makers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've you're one in one right now. Yeah. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: the Eagles are playing the number two teams they got
Speaker 1: and they got one more win than you do, right,
Speaker 1: and that maybe that's the difference, right. All right, We
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys. You back tomorrow. We're gonna jump into
Speaker 1: the Rams. Oh yeah, we'll jump into the Rams office
Speaker 1: versus the Cowboys defense. Still in for Nick Eatman, Brian
Speaker 1: broad Us, and Ambergarcia. I'm Derek Eagleson. This has been
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