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Speaker 5: It is Monday, November fourth, two, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 5: episode number eighty one. Welcome to the latest edition of
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Speaker 5: Weekend, weekend, like you go back to Thursday and this
Speaker 5: has been. This has been an epic all time sports
Speaker 5: weekend between the Cowboys win in the way that they
Speaker 5: want it. We talked about that on Friday. On Saturday,
Speaker 5: friends and family started rolling in. We had I mean, sorry,
Speaker 5: Friday started rolling in. Saturday. We've got the big game.
Speaker 5: We win in grand fashion. Sunday we wake up and
Speaker 5: realize that we've now gotten into the playoff, and then
Speaker 5: the cap it Yesterday afternoon, the Eagles get destroyed by
Speaker 5: the forty nine ers. I mean, everything that I wanted
Speaker 5: to happen this weekend, and by the way, I put
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Speaker 5: happen this weekend from a sports standpoint happened. And I
Speaker 5: earned this voice right now. I earned that this weekend.
Speaker 2: It's amazing what alcohol will do to your voice.
Speaker 5: Alcohol scream and talking loud, barking, a little bit of barking.
Speaker 5: That's part of his that's what we do, that's inside
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Speaker 2: Yeah they bar yeah, part of the.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a little bit of that. That's a little
Speaker 5: bit of that. We had a good time. We had
Speaker 5: a good time, all right. Where I want to start
Speaker 5: though today is Philadelphia versus uh, San Francisco. I guess
Speaker 5: give me your general thoughts on the game. I assume
Speaker 5: everybody watched it. What were general thoughts on the game?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: The thing with you got to San Francisco when they
Speaker 7: are healthy, they're a hard team to deal with. And
Speaker 7: we've seen the lull that they had, if you want
Speaker 7: to call it that, And they weren't a bad little
Speaker 7: stretch there for about three weeks. Their quarterback really wasn't
Speaker 7: playing well because they were down, you know, their left tackle,
Speaker 7: there were down a running back. There was various things
Speaker 7: that they were dealing with. You know, played against some teams.
Speaker 7: I think at the time Cleveland's defense was pretty good,
Speaker 7: you know what they were dealing with that. So that's
Speaker 7: really the nature of the National Football League right now,
Speaker 7: if you could find a way to have your best
Speaker 7: players being healthy but have them playing at.
Speaker 2: Such a high level. And we all understand that, I mean.
Speaker 7: Philadelphia, we've experienced here what Philadelphia experienced yesterday. When you
Speaker 7: deal with the team that plays with the intensity that
Speaker 7: the forty nine ers do their ability to play on defense,
Speaker 7: I don't think well, their defense gets credit. Their offense
Speaker 7: gets a lot of credit. That secondary should get a
Speaker 7: lot more credit than we give them. And I know
Speaker 7: the next time around, you know, if you get to
Speaker 7: see them, then you'll you'll probably appreciate it a little
Speaker 7: bit more. But man, that that is a well built
Speaker 7: team when it's healthy, it's very good to outstanding, and
Speaker 7: they're very well coached, and so they make it makes
Speaker 7: it difficult. And you know, not to give Philadelphia the excuses,
Speaker 7: but they're coming off a run, a pretty difficult run
Speaker 7: if you look at the games that they've played up
Speaker 7: until this point, that game against Buffalo, the overtime game,
Speaker 7: that took a lot out of them, and so you know,
Speaker 7: that's the part that's tough in the National Football League.
Speaker 7: You play your schedule and you hope that you can
Speaker 7: survive and move on.
Speaker 6: It's a very very physical team and you saw that
Speaker 6: on the field, how much on both sides of the team,
Speaker 6: how much everybody care you. The emotions were really really
Speaker 6: high in that game, and it felt like a playoff
Speaker 6: type of game vibe and everything. And also that's karma,
Speaker 6: that's what happens when you run your mouth about the
Speaker 6: you know, and then it happens to you because and
Speaker 6: I'm saying this in reference to all those Eagle fans.
Speaker 6: I like to get on Twitter and say how bad
Speaker 6: the Cowboys got beat down by the forty nine ers,
Speaker 6: which was absolutely true, but then this happens to them
Speaker 6: as well. So it's just funny how just a dynamic
Speaker 6: between the fandom and the things that they say online
Speaker 6: as far as like how certain things only applied to
Speaker 6: the Cowboys and not to everybody else. And it was
Speaker 6: an entertaining game. Obviously we're not fans of the forty
Speaker 6: nine ers, but definitely wanted them to win rather than
Speaker 6: the Eagles, and hopefully they come to a T and
Speaker 6: T stadium. A little shook shook after that game because
Speaker 6: it was a tough game for them. So it's gonna
Speaker 6: be interesting to see how their energy level and how
Speaker 6: they show up when they get here for this weekend.
Speaker 2: That was a game.
Speaker 7: If we all remember the playoff game last year where
Speaker 7: Brock Perdy got hurt. After the game, there were a
Speaker 7: lot of comments from the forty nine ers that like, hey, no,
Speaker 7: if we'd had our guy playing you guys would have
Speaker 7: won this football game.
Speaker 2: So there was a lot of talk from that.
Speaker 7: Forty nine side about all the things leading up to
Speaker 7: if we see you again, this is what we're going
Speaker 7: to do. They wrote a lot of checks in the offseason.
Speaker 7: They cashed every one of them yesterday in that football game.
Speaker 5: Yeah you got right now. Philadelphia sitting at ten and two,
Speaker 5: and then Cowboys in Detroit both at ninety three with
Speaker 5: the forty nine ers, and the forty nine ers have
Speaker 5: now put up forty two points on both the Cowboys
Speaker 5: and the Eagles.
Speaker 2: Is there a.
Speaker 5: Team or who is the team that presents the best
Speaker 5: challenge to San Francisco when you look at Dallas, Philadelphia
Speaker 5: and Detroit.
Speaker 6: H Honestly, I think it comes down to how healthy
Speaker 6: are the forty nine ers at that moment, because currently.
Speaker 5: Let's assume they're totally healthy.
Speaker 2: See the guys there.
Speaker 6: I still think I would say Detroit.
Speaker 7: I would say Detroit, and I say Detroit because I
Speaker 7: feel like their offensive line is really good. They've got
Speaker 7: a veteran quarterback that doesn't turn it over very much.
Speaker 7: I know in the New Orleans game yesterday, there was
Speaker 7: you know, it was kind of a you know, they
Speaker 7: got out to a little bit of lead, and things
Speaker 7: were kind of falling apart at the end, but they
Speaker 7: were But that's how New Orleans plays. New Orleans has
Speaker 7: been that way all year. They get they let you
Speaker 7: get a lead, their quarterback gets knocked out, and then
Speaker 7: they rally that kind of thing. I think Detroit is
Speaker 7: more built, and I think we'll see this when Detroit
Speaker 7: comes to town. I think Detroit's built more like the forty.
Speaker 2: Nine ers than any other team. You're going to see
Speaker 2: something very similar.
Speaker 7: The offensive line, the quarterback is you know the way
Speaker 7: the quarterback plays, the wide receivers, the defense, they don't
Speaker 7: let you run the ball. There's some questions about the secondary.
Speaker 7: You got a coach that's kind of a They've got
Speaker 7: a Ben Johnson. They've got an offensive coordinator that's kind
Speaker 7: of a wide open, creative kind of a guy. Aaron
Speaker 7: Glynn has done a heck of a job on the
Speaker 7: defensive side of the ball as the defensive coordinator. It's
Speaker 7: going to be a difficult game because I think they're
Speaker 7: kind of mirror teams.
Speaker 2: But I like the physicality with which the.
Speaker 7: Lions play with Right now, the team I'm terrified of
Speaker 7: is the forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: I think the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: I mean, I can't sit there and say, you know,
Speaker 7: we'll see how those AFC games come up. For the Cowboys,
Speaker 7: they've got Buffalo, which is a wounded team right now.
Speaker 7: Miami speed terrifies me on the on offense and the
Speaker 7: way that they play, So you'll see a couple of
Speaker 7: how you'll match up against those kinds of teams. I
Speaker 7: don't know if you necessarily want to play Baltimore right
Speaker 7: now the way that they're kind of rolling on. But Detroit,
Speaker 7: I think is the team that could give San Francisco
Speaker 7: the most problems right now if I had to guess.
Speaker 6: Well, also, you've already seen what it looks like against
Speaker 6: the Cowboys and the Eagles, and how bad like that
Speaker 6: wasn't even close, you know, it was a total beat down.
Speaker 6: And what you haven't seen yet is against Detroit. So
Speaker 6: you would imagine and the Cowboys how many three times
Speaker 6: now total where they've gone and beat by the forty
Speaker 6: nine ers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's like two playoff games and then.
Speaker 7: This last you really had no answer this last one,
Speaker 7: this last game, and it's getting worse defensively, defensively, Dan
Speaker 7: and then they define job in the playoff games of
Speaker 7: dealing with that. With that offense, you some of the
Speaker 7: now your quarterback is playing at such a high level,
Speaker 7: your play callers on it. Your offensive line has not
Speaker 7: allowed a sack I think since the Reagan administration was
Speaker 7: in present. So yeah, that that's kind of where you're
Speaker 7: at right now. Your team is, you know, they're the
Speaker 7: team that scares me. You're going the right direction. It's
Speaker 7: not like you're going to limp into this thing and
Speaker 7: you're going to play You're playing bad football offensively, you know, defensively,
Speaker 7: you know there's some some question marks. But but but
Speaker 7: I'll say this, I you know, you got to give
Speaker 7: the Cowboys. I feel like they're a lot better offensively
Speaker 7: than they were the first time they met. I don't
Speaker 7: know if they're better defensively the last time that the
Speaker 7: forty nine Ers and the Cowboys. You know, maybe if
Speaker 7: you had Shack Leonard to that, it might be a
Speaker 7: little bit different story.
Speaker 5: Ironically. I think that's what it's ultimately going to come
Speaker 5: down to, is Dallas's defense good enough to make a
Speaker 5: couple stops Because if they play those playoff games like
Speaker 5: what they played last week, when you're playing a playoff
Speaker 5: caliber tea, although right now they're sitting outside the playoffs, Seattle.
Speaker 5: Is the fact of the matter is, like your defense
Speaker 5: really wasn't they really wanted their best, They really weren't
Speaker 5: playing at the level we were customed to see, right,
Speaker 5: But they made the stop stops absolutely, and that's more
Speaker 5: playoff football anyway. I think in the NFL there's only
Speaker 5: a few times in history where you have that that
Speaker 5: shut down defense that really is special. Most of the
Speaker 5: time you got teams that are very offense heavy and
Speaker 5: they have a defense that's opportunistic. And I think that's
Speaker 5: ultimately what you're going to be asking this defense. If
Speaker 5: you go up against a forty nine ers team, can
Speaker 5: you match them offensively and then can your defense make
Speaker 5: the stop at whatever point in the game it's going
Speaker 5: to make the difference.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's gonna be an interesting month. I'm super excited
Speaker 6: to see kind of how everything shakes up because these
Speaker 6: are very competitive team with a lot of talent, and
Speaker 6: now I think the key part of everything is just health,
Speaker 6: not just for the Cowboys, but for even the forty
Speaker 6: nine ers and the Eagles as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, the interesting part about it Brian, when
Speaker 5: you were talking about the lines being the most like
Speaker 5: the forty nine Ers, I actually look at it and
Speaker 5: I think the Cowboys and the Eagles are built to
Speaker 5: play well against Detroit. I think Detroit is built to
Speaker 5: play well against San Francisco. And that's where I'm like,
Speaker 5: it's not gonna end up like that in the playoffs,
Speaker 5: because if these are your top teams, the Cowboys and
Speaker 5: the Eagles, they can't be in the top four. Both
Speaker 5: can't be in the top four. So one of them
Speaker 5: is gonna have to go up to San Francisco if
Speaker 5: San Francisco is the one. If San Francisco the twos
Speaker 5: is the two, that actually sets it up where Detroit
Speaker 5: would have an opportunity to take them on in the
Speaker 5: second round, presuming that all thing holds true and the
Speaker 5: fifteen beats the fourteen. Now you got the four there,
Speaker 5: and it would be the Cowboys Eagles matchup and forty
Speaker 5: nine Ers Detroit matchup, where those would be very very
Speaker 5: closely matched teams. In my opinion, both those teams I
Speaker 5: think are matched to be able to play well against
Speaker 5: one another. And then it presents that interesting challenge there
Speaker 5: for an NFC championship game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think when you look at, you know, with Dallas,
Speaker 7: the way they're playing offensively right now has been it's
Speaker 7: just super impressive.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody really wants to match up with Dallas.
Speaker 7: Uh. You know when you look at the quarterback, you know,
Speaker 7: they're starting to run the ball, they get a hint
Speaker 7: of a running game if they could find a way
Speaker 7: to somehow in the next month get that thing where
Speaker 7: it's where it's a buck twenty five, buck thirty five
Speaker 7: a game. Now you're in that and that includes potentially
Speaker 7: Dak having to run the ball some himself. So you know,
Speaker 7: they find a way of getting a running game. Where
Speaker 7: I was, we were all talking about the four minute offense,
Speaker 7: you know, and and Dallas got into a four minute
Speaker 7: offense game last week and it you know, then they
Speaker 7: had to you know it they they can you know,
Speaker 7: they couldn't completely run it out. But in the playoffs
Speaker 7: and down the stretch here, you're going to have to
Speaker 7: be good in that four minute offense to be able
Speaker 7: to And I always like to talk about the middle eight.
Speaker 7: You know, they got beat in the middle eight, and
Speaker 7: the middle eight is the first four minute, the last
Speaker 7: the last four minutes of the first half. In the
Speaker 7: first four minutes in Seattle scored fourteen points in the
Speaker 7: middle eight on you.
Speaker 2: So you know you got to be able.
Speaker 7: You know, coming out of coming going into half, you
Speaker 7: gotta be on it, and then coming out of half,
Speaker 7: you gotta be on it. And Dallas really wasn't on
Speaker 7: it last week like they need to be.
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Speaker 5: of those six and six teams you think is most dangerous.
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Speaker 5: It is the second segment of The Break live from
Speaker 5: the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. UH, let's talk
Speaker 5: about the NFC. I want you guys to rank these teams.
Speaker 5: We got at the top Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit, Dallas, UH,
Speaker 5: and then a whole cluster of six and six teams Minnesota,
Speaker 5: Green Bay, Atlanta, the Rams, and Seattle. How would you
Speaker 5: rank those NFC teams right now?
Speaker 7: You know, it's just looking at something. I think the
Speaker 7: Packers are playing really really well right now. And you know,
Speaker 7: if you look at their they're in a three game
Speaker 7: winning streak. I think they've beaten the Chargers, the Lions
Speaker 7: in Detroit, and then they also beat the Chiefs and
Speaker 7: so and then and then the remaining schedule. I think
Speaker 7: they've got Giants, Tampa Bay, a Bears on there. Yeah,
Speaker 7: this thing is gonna Yeah, They've got some They've got
Speaker 7: some games that they should absolutely win. You know, Minnesota's
Speaker 7: right now, they were kind of writing the Josh Dobbs
Speaker 7: train and now it's like, you know, they lose a game,
Speaker 7: but you know, and then all of a sudden, it's like, well,
Speaker 7: we've got to look at our quarterback situation. So they
Speaker 7: might be a team that's faltering down the stretch. The
Speaker 7: the Rams are an interesting one because that is really
Speaker 7: about we talk about health and when when the Rams
Speaker 7: are healthy on offense, they're very capable of.
Speaker 2: Putting up a lot of points.
Speaker 7: And Matthew Stafford actually looks healthy playing football right now.
Speaker 7: So the Rams at six and six, we'll see. Seattle's
Speaker 7: a team we all saw, so we know what Seattle is.
Speaker 7: Seattle's a team you could put points on. The problem
Speaker 7: is dealing with those wide receivers. I don't want to
Speaker 7: see them again, you know, I really really don't. I
Speaker 7: made that very clear on Friday. I didn't want to
Speaker 7: see him ever again. And but you know that's their
Speaker 7: quarterback can also have problems, and I would I would
Speaker 7: say that to me. The team, I feel like it
Speaker 7: has the best chance of going forward and being a
Speaker 7: team that could be a six or seven team in
Speaker 7: the playoffs and then go win a game against it.
Speaker 7: You know, a two or three kind of thing. I
Speaker 7: think it's Green Bay because I really do. I think
Speaker 7: that they're kind of figuring things out defensively. Their receivers
Speaker 7: are coming around, but their quarterbacks playing at a really
Speaker 7: nice level right now. They're and they're learning a lot
Speaker 7: about him. So I would give the Packers and the Seahawks.
Speaker 7: I go Packers, Rams, Seahawks kind of my three right now.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think. I mean with the Packers, you see
Speaker 6: them trending upwards, and you see the teams that they
Speaker 6: have faced in the last few weeks and that they beat,
Speaker 6: So that's impressive and you gotta start keeping an eye
Speaker 6: on them. But you talk about teams like Seattle, the Rams,
Speaker 6: things like they just don't have the consistency they There
Speaker 6: are teams that they have talented players. You see them
Speaker 6: be competitive, but it's just like one of those tops
Speaker 6: you toss the coin and it's like, Okay, which team
Speaker 6: is going to show up? How are they going to
Speaker 6: perform today? Type of situation. Nothing can like I wouldn't
Speaker 6: bet on any of those teams. So not that we
Speaker 6: can't do any beting, but we don't bet. No, we
Speaker 6: did not against the law. No, But it's it's impressive,
Speaker 6: honestly to see the Packers kind of start turning things around,
Speaker 6: and especially it's still hard to see a Packers team
Speaker 6: without Aaron Rodgers and just see them be successful. So
Speaker 6: it's it's interesting and impressive some of the things that
Speaker 6: they've been able to accomplish here in the last few months.
Speaker 5: Last month, I like what I'm saying from Green Bay.
Speaker 5: But the fact is, if I'm looking at the playoffs,
Speaker 5: I still put the Rams and Seahawks ahead of them
Speaker 5: as a dangerous team because of the veteran presence on
Speaker 5: those terms. I mean, you've got I mean with the Rams,
Speaker 5: you got those guys, they got they got several of
Speaker 5: their their leaders that were there when they won the
Speaker 5: Super Bowl, So they know how to play that playoff football,
Speaker 5: right And I think, you know the Packers right now,
Speaker 5: they're kind of surprising people, kind of jumping up. You
Speaker 5: get to the playoffs, it's a whole different ballgame. Oh
Speaker 5: it is so, and so I still if I'm having
Speaker 5: to to just as you said bet on It, I
Speaker 5: would say I'm more concerned about I would be more
Speaker 5: concerned about the Rams and the Seahawks because they're veteran
Speaker 5: there's a veteran presence there that will understand the playoffs
Speaker 5: a little bit better than the Packers. But I agree
Speaker 5: with that. I think the Packers are playing as well
Speaker 5: as anybody, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the Rams, if you look at the remaining schedule,
Speaker 7: there's probably a couple of games they are going to lose.
Speaker 7: They're at the Ravens this weekend, and then they finish
Speaker 7: up with San Francisco at San Francisco and then they
Speaker 7: traditionally play the forty nine Ers pretty well yep, and
Speaker 7: so you know that that's something to kind of keep
Speaker 7: an eye on.
Speaker 2: As we like to say, Uh, but I.
Speaker 6: Look at Seattle's schedules. The next few games forty nine
Speaker 6: Ers Eagles and then the Titans, Steelers and then Cardinals.
Speaker 6: Well those next these next two games for them, those
Speaker 6: are tough games.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The thing about it is like, yeah, it's it's just
Speaker 7: a matter of you know, can you find ways to
Speaker 7: win those games?
Speaker 2: Or you know that that's the thing.
Speaker 7: You're you're along the way, You're gonna win some games
Speaker 7: that you probably shouldn't and you're gonna lose a couple
Speaker 7: that you probably shouldn't either, So you know that's where
Speaker 7: we're at right. I never would have believed that that
Speaker 7: Arizona could have gone into Pittsburgh and won a game yesterday,
Speaker 7: but they did with all the weather delays and things that.
Speaker 2: They had yesterday.
Speaker 7: You know that that's that's a really really there's some
Speaker 7: bad losses, and Arizona is usually involved with your bad loss.
Speaker 7: You know, if you're one of those teams like Pittsburgh
Speaker 7: Dallas kind of have a shared of the that was
Speaker 7: a bad loss deal right there.
Speaker 5: One of the tough things is that the Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 5: or somebody from the NFC South is going to take
Speaker 5: a spot from one of these other teams because I
Speaker 5: don't think, I don't think. I don't think there's a
Speaker 5: team in the NFC South that is as good as
Speaker 5: the top probably eight teams seven eight teams in the NFC.
Speaker 5: But but they're gonna have da have a spot obvious,
Speaker 5: because they're gonna have a division winner. Who do you
Speaker 5: think right now is in line to be that division winner?
Speaker 7: I think it's probably going to be Atlanta myself. But
Speaker 7: the thing with the thing that makes Atlanta hard to
Speaker 7: deal with is they're really not very good on offense.
Speaker 7: I don't think you know, if you just believe in
Speaker 7: metrics and statistics and things like that, you know, they
Speaker 7: really really struggle in the passing game, and you know,
Speaker 7: but they want to try and run the football that's there.
Speaker 7: That's if you're if you're a team that are playing them,
Speaker 7: you have to worry about their ground game, yep, because
Speaker 7: they will. They they they're top three in attempts, they're
Speaker 7: top six or seven in yards, and so if you
Speaker 7: know you're going to get a heavy dose of them
Speaker 7: running the football at you, they're going to try and
Speaker 7: make the game ugly and all that to deal with.
Speaker 7: But defensively they're kind of midpack. You know, I just
Speaker 7: think that they're better to me. The Saints are a
Speaker 7: some weeks they find it. Other weeks. The Saints never
Speaker 7: can get a lead in a game and then be
Speaker 7: able to It always seems like they're playing from behind,
Speaker 7: and they turn the ball over at an alarming rate.
Speaker 7: So I feel like that's why Atlanta will probably win.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 6: Neither team, the Falcons or the Bugs. Offensively, they're not
Speaker 6: good at scoring, Like, they cannot score many many points,
Speaker 6: and that's gonna be a problem at some point. You
Speaker 6: got to figure out how to get it in the
Speaker 6: end zone and start summing up some points. But right now,
Speaker 6: out of the two, I would say I would agree
Speaker 6: with the Falcons, and also with the schedule that they
Speaker 6: got coming up, and they're gonna face the Bucks here soon.
Speaker 6: I think that's the game that the Falcons would end
Speaker 6: up winning against the Buccaneers. But it's one of them
Speaker 6: is gonna make it. But I think though it won't
Speaker 6: be one of those scenarios where all of a sudden
Speaker 6: you get surprised and they end up making it to
Speaker 6: the top. They're gonna be eliminated in the well.
Speaker 2: It's to Derek's point too, if I say.
Speaker 6: That, because you never freaking know in the end, Yeah.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 7: No, it's the thing Derek said about the young quarterback.
Speaker 7: If Atlanta makes it with with with their with their
Speaker 7: young quarterback there, I mean his first time and all
Speaker 7: the like I said, they're going to lean on. I
Speaker 7: mean it is going to be can you stop the run?
Speaker 7: They are not going to throw a ball in a
Speaker 7: playoff game.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 7: The problem, to your point, Ambar, is Dallas can also
Speaker 7: put a lot of points up on a board, and
Speaker 7: that that puts a lot of pressure on you. To
Speaker 7: have to make plays and if you can't do that,
Speaker 7: then Dallas will run you out of the park.
Speaker 5: And that's really any one of those teams you want
Speaker 5: to mention NFC South, I think the one that would.
Speaker 5: I mean, all of their offenses can tend to be
Speaker 5: very sporadic. Yeah, New Orleans, if they get on a roll,
Speaker 5: they can make they can score sho points, but they're
Speaker 5: so erratic and they turn the ball over. Tampa Bay
Speaker 5: the same thing. Like Tampa Bay's a team that's kind
Speaker 5: of erratic. If you get them on a roll, they
Speaker 5: got some weapons that can kill you, but they're just
Speaker 5: so erratic you don't know what you're going.
Speaker 7: There used to be a big, big home field advantage
Speaker 7: in New Orleans, right and I don't think it's there anymore.
Speaker 7: I think New Orleans used to have that ability to
Speaker 7: kind of hurt you like Seattle used to hurt you
Speaker 7: with their crowd, you know. And I think that if
Speaker 7: they have to go, if Dallas has to go to Atlanta,
Speaker 7: huge crowd based from the east coming that way, if
Speaker 7: they go to New Orleans, huge crowd based coming, you know,
Speaker 7: We'll find a way to get down to New Orleans
Speaker 7: for that game, so they'll they'll make it difficult.
Speaker 2: They'll battle either.
Speaker 7: Atlanta's fans or the Saints fans for that stadium for sure.
Speaker 5: Before we go to break, I want to selfishly talk
Speaker 5: a little bit about college football and I want to
Speaker 5: get your opinion on where do you think the college
Speaker 5: football Playoff Committee got it right? I think that's kind
Speaker 5: of the topic that's dominating football fans around the country.
Speaker 5: They put in Michigan, Washington, Texas, and Alabama. Yeah, two
Speaker 5: teams in there, Texas and Alabama who both have one lost.
Speaker 5: Florida State did not lose this season. Did they get
Speaker 5: it right?
Speaker 7: Well, they might not have got the first team right.
Speaker 7: If you want to be honest with you. The Washington
Speaker 7: I think is I know Washington has had its moments.
Speaker 7: Michigan's schedule does nothing for me right now. They won
Speaker 7: the Ohio State game, which is a big win, huge win.
Speaker 7: It's one of the legendary wins and Jim Harbaugh has
Speaker 7: done it three times in a row now, which is huge,
Speaker 7: which is huge for his because there was a time
Speaker 7: three four years ago where Jim Harball they were talking
Speaker 7: about getting rid of him, and now the circles they're
Speaker 7: still hearing circles about him leaving Michigan in that program
Speaker 7: and going to coach the Bears. So that just shows
Speaker 7: you kind of where maybe everything's at Michigan right now.
Speaker 7: I do feel like though that I do feel terrible
Speaker 7: for Florida State, and I feel terrible for the reason
Speaker 7: why I think they're punishing them for their quarterback not
Speaker 7: being in the you know, not being in the in
Speaker 7: the in the part of the game now, and you know,
Speaker 7: it's it's unfortunate part of the game, the injuries. And
Speaker 7: they talk, but that's scheduled that they've played. They've you know,
Speaker 7: they've managed it. They play tremendous defense. I mean Florida State.
Speaker 7: They they turned the ball over. They turned the ball
Speaker 7: over in that game the other night against Louisville basically
Speaker 7: on their own ten yard line, and they get an
Speaker 7: interception to stop that, you know, and they all they've
Speaker 7: done is.
Speaker 2: All the games that they've played.
Speaker 7: You know, they've asked these kids to play, keep playing,
Speaker 7: keep playing, keep playing next man up, and they keep winning.
Speaker 7: And I think that you have to respect that at
Speaker 7: some point in time. Now, is it pretty to not
Speaker 7: have a quarterback and go into one of these games.
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
Speaker 7: It's not that you know, we've we've seen that bad
Speaker 7: quarterback play leads to blog games and nobody wants to
Speaker 7: blog game. But Florida State the way that they're everybody
Speaker 7: talks about offense and that the team's left, you know,
Speaker 7: Michigan and Washington and Texas, Florida State's defense is capable
Speaker 7: of stopping any one of those offensive attacks.
Speaker 2: And Alabama.
Speaker 7: To me, and I'm not saying this because I'm an
Speaker 7: LSU guy, I have the utmost respect for Alabama, but
Speaker 7: they there, They were a fourth and thirty one away
Speaker 7: from not being in this thing at all. And you
Speaker 7: want to talk about and you want to talk about
Speaker 7: the eye test and all that stuff. Hey, they won,
Speaker 7: they won the game. They beat Auburn, but Florida State
Speaker 7: won under a lot of duress themselves. I just feel
Speaker 7: like it's completely unfair to keep a thirteen win team
Speaker 7: out of this playoff, you know. And I think, whether
Speaker 7: it's the quarterback or not, their defense could play with
Speaker 7: anybody in the country and make it that type of
Speaker 7: a game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's kind of part of my issue with this too.
Speaker 5: And I'm gonna be honest with you, guys like even
Speaker 5: As Texas being the third seed. I personally believe that's
Speaker 5: a travesty. I don't think Florida State should be ranked
Speaker 5: lower than Texas in this case. They should have been
Speaker 5: the number three team in this poll because everybody they
Speaker 5: face they beat exactly, that's it. Everybody they face they beat.
Speaker 5: And my belief is that when we start talking about,
Speaker 5: well the quarterback is out, this is how much how
Speaker 5: many times do we talk about football being a three
Speaker 5: phase Sportland. Sure, the offense, you got defense down, special teams,
Speaker 5: really good teams, Really good teams know how to even
Speaker 5: if one phase lacks, they know how to bring it
Speaker 5: up another notch. And that's exactly what we've seen them do.
Speaker 5: That Louisville team has a good offense, they do they
Speaker 5: shut them down. They completely. Defense is legit, and and
Speaker 5: my problem is they should have had the ability and
Speaker 5: the opportunity to be able to go out there and say, yeah,
Speaker 5: we don't have our starting quarterback, but our defense may
Speaker 5: still be good enough, as you said, to stop all
Speaker 5: those other offenses. And if we can do that and
Speaker 5: manufacture some points as they did in a Louisville game,
Speaker 5: we could win some game.
Speaker 7: Gave up, they gave up a block punt and didn't
Speaker 7: give up. I mean, it's it's amazing the things that
Speaker 7: happened to Florida State in that game, and their defense
Speaker 7: would not allow them to lose that game. They you know,
Speaker 7: and and really they tried to. They tried to coach
Speaker 7: around the quarterback. They did, and they you know, their
Speaker 7: second quarterbacks and concussion protocol and by the time the
Speaker 7: games are going to be played, he should be fine.
Speaker 7: So they're you know, they're but you know, they're they're
Speaker 7: punishing Florida State for not having their quarterback and that's unfair.
Speaker 5: And the other thing we're saying here, and this is
Speaker 5: just the reality of where college football is going. It's
Speaker 5: not a Power and the Power two. It is the
Speaker 5: Big Ten and the SECC and they are never going
Speaker 5: to leave those conferences out of a playoff scenario like this.
Speaker 5: They're just not going to do it. This was the
Speaker 5: prime opportunity for them to do it. They're just not
Speaker 5: going to do it. And especially now that you have
Speaker 5: these big brands from the Pac twelve and the Big
Speaker 5: twelve now moving into the SEC and the Big Ten,
Speaker 5: it's only going to get worse. It is a two
Speaker 5: power conference well in college football, and that's where that's
Speaker 5: where the champions are going to typically come from.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we got twelve twelve teams next year and you
Speaker 7: know that, Well, hopefully that'll help them, but the thirteenth
Speaker 7: team will have a complaint. I think I think LSU's
Speaker 7: the thirteenth team right now, and.
Speaker 5: They have found a way to get LSU in this too.
Speaker 7: Well, we didn't deserve an opportunity, but how poorly. But
Speaker 7: you're going to have a Heistman Trophy winner from LSU
Speaker 7: this year. The thing about it is to me and
Speaker 7: I just you know, there's going to be a day
Speaker 7: and Derek, you know this because of your background in media,
Speaker 7: is that there's going to be a day where we
Speaker 7: have forty college football teams playing and they're going to
Speaker 7: play each other and it's going to be just for TV.
Speaker 7: It's going to be a TV driven league where number
Speaker 7: number two Texas plays number fourteen LSU, and it's gonna
Speaker 7: be those teams playing and they're going to control all
Speaker 7: the telem It's about inventory and they're going to have
Speaker 7: the best inventory and that's how they're going to sell
Speaker 7: these packages. You know, and maybe teams thirty nine and
Speaker 7: forty get relegated. If you're not good enough, then you
Speaker 7: get relegated, and we bring two more teams into the myth.
Speaker 5: That's going to be college foot it's going to be
Speaker 5: college football.
Speaker 7: But yeah, we're going to have forty teams playing each
Speaker 7: other every single week and it's going to be billions
Speaker 7: of dollars involved.
Speaker 5: I think that at the at the least, there's going
Speaker 5: to be two conferences, but I think it's going to
Speaker 5: all consolidate where you're right, You're going to have the
Speaker 5: best teams in the super conference. Well, these two super conferences,
Speaker 5: and that's where all the games are going to be,
Speaker 5: and it's going to fund the championship is gonna come
Speaker 5: from there.
Speaker 7: It's going to fund all the other sports that are
Speaker 7: involved in those athletic programs too that they you know,
Speaker 7: they always talk about, you know, hey, the women's sports
Speaker 7: and the lower sports men's sports and stuff, and that's
Speaker 7: what they're gonna do. It's going to make so much
Speaker 7: money in this thing that all the the the all
Speaker 7: these universities that are part of this are going to
Speaker 7: be rewarded for it, and their athletic.
Speaker 2: Programs will be rewarded to it through through through money.
Speaker 5: All Right, We're going to take our final break.
Speaker 6: Y'all know.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 6: Football, but just listening to this, I'm already stressed out.
Speaker 6: Like I'm like, man, I could not handle another layer
Speaker 6: of football level experience.
Speaker 2: It stress.
Speaker 6: That sounds very very stressful.
Speaker 7: It's stressful when your team's involved, it really really is.
Speaker 7: And I feel terrible for guys like a John Mashoda
Speaker 7: who is a huge fan. He spends his money and
Speaker 7: travels and goes and sees games at Florida State. We
Speaker 7: all love John and what he does. But you know,
Speaker 7: I mean, you know, you take that hard, you do.
Speaker 7: I mean, hey, trip to the Orange Bowl is nice,
Speaker 7: but it's not the same as being in New Orleans
Speaker 7: or in Pasadena for a match.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, That's exactly right. And that's fandom. And I
Speaker 5: was I was having this conversation with Steve Dennis on
Speaker 5: Twitter on Twitter and the fact, yeah, he was trying
Speaker 5: to make the difference between and a lum and a fan,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, no, man, fandom is hard.
Speaker 2: It's hard.
Speaker 5: If you're a real fan, you don't just pick up
Speaker 5: and leave because your team's losing. You go through it,
Speaker 5: and when you go through it, you go through the friar,
Speaker 5: however long it takes, so you can get back to
Speaker 5: that moment of glory, because those moments of winning are
Speaker 5: worth all the bad stuff you deal with the oi
Speaker 5: of the years. So that fantom is hard.
Speaker 2: Man, it is very hard.
Speaker 5: And I don't I don't ever.
Speaker 6: I deal with enough stress with the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: It's hardcasually when you got NFL and you've got college,
Speaker 5: it's a lot, just a lot. But in moments like this,
Speaker 5: as you can tell from a voice, man is so great.
Speaker 5: Team actually wins. It's so great. All Right, we're gonna
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Speaker 5: Welcome back to the final segment of the Break Life
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Speaker 6: One of the questions, I've been seen a lot any
Speaker 6: updates on Shack and I know people are waiting on this.
Speaker 7: I asked this morning and they're still waiting. So there
Speaker 7: was thought that maybe in talking to some folks in
Speaker 7: the front office, they thought maybe they would get an
Speaker 7: answer on Sunday, and then they got pushed to Monday,
Speaker 7: and as of say ten thirty this morning, they were
Speaker 7: still waiting.
Speaker 5: And as we thought, shack Letter is driving this decision. Ultimately,
Speaker 5: he'll decide what team he wants. This is a recruiting
Speaker 5: type situation. He'll decide which of those teams he wants
Speaker 5: to be on and that'll be how.
Speaker 6: It works us so many it should happen.
Speaker 2: I think I think today you get today, we'll get answered. Yeah,
Speaker 2: today you'll get answered.
Speaker 6: Yeah. What helps the Cowboys down this stretch with these
Speaker 6: tough games coming up? Red zone efficiency woos disappear or
Speaker 6: defensive penalties go down significantly?
Speaker 7: That's a really great question. Who answered that? Do you
Speaker 7: have an ant who answer asked that question?
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Speaker 7: Okay, yes, I'm sorry, great and Twitter nobody has their
Speaker 7: real name except us, right, we put our names out
Speaker 7: there on the line every day. But the the the
Speaker 7: thing about it is, I do think the penalties are
Speaker 7: a problem.
Speaker 2: I really do. And I know Dallas.
Speaker 7: To me, there's times that they can overcome things that
Speaker 7: happened to them in the red zone as long as
Speaker 7: they don't turn the ball. But they could get penalties
Speaker 7: down there is that and they kind of figure it
Speaker 7: all out, the defensive penalties, the way with the lining
Speaker 7: up of off sides and you know the false well
Speaker 7: the you know, jumping off sides, the defensive holdings, things
Speaker 7: like that.
Speaker 2: You know those penalties.
Speaker 7: I mean, we haven't seen any, you know, Sam Williams
Speaker 7: roughing the passer penalties or hands of the face here lately.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I think tho's some of these defensive finds.
Speaker 7: The DPI penalties were big. The other day, defensive passingerference
Speaker 7: penalties were big. So if you're going to be any
Speaker 7: good in these games, you can't give these offenses second
Speaker 7: chances and third chances. And I think the Cowboys did
Speaker 7: that in that Seattle game, you know, And so I'd
Speaker 7: like to see that go away.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was trying to pull it up. I couldn't
Speaker 5: get it up quickly enough to see. But the red
Speaker 5: zone efficiency seems to be a problem, and especially in
Speaker 5: the games that they've lost this year, and then it
Speaker 5: creaked back up here against Seattle. They were only fifty
Speaker 5: percent in the red zone, only fifty percent and this
Speaker 5: is the bigger one, only fifty percent in goal to
Speaker 5: go situation. Yeah, that's a problem because when you get
Speaker 5: into the playoffs, you're going to need those scores, especially
Speaker 5: when you're dealing with the likes of Philadelphia, with the
Speaker 5: likes of San Francisco, with the likes of Detroit. You're
Speaker 5: gonna have to score h And So although I think
Speaker 5: the penalties are a problem, I think the zone is
Speaker 5: an even bigger problem just because and it's like, the
Speaker 5: red zone isn't the problem itself, it's emblematic of other things.
Speaker 5: It's emblematic of the fact that you can't consistently run
Speaker 5: the ball.
Speaker 2: That's really what the problem is.
Speaker 5: And so you get down the red zone, you have
Speaker 5: compact feel and you can't effectively run the ball. You
Speaker 5: get in gold to gol situations. How many times we've
Speaker 5: seen you know, you know, first and goal at the
Speaker 5: eight and you only pick up one yard on first down.
Speaker 5: Like it's if you can't run the ball in those
Speaker 5: situations when there's a compact feel, you make it even
Speaker 5: harder to be able to throw because you don't have
Speaker 5: a lot of room to throw right. So at the
Speaker 5: end of the day, they got to figure out this
Speaker 5: running game. Because they solve the running game, that will solve,
Speaker 5: in my opinion, a lot of the red zone and
Speaker 5: goal to go situation.
Speaker 7: I think they're not showing you Dak Prescott pulling the
Speaker 7: ball down on the goal line.
Speaker 2: I think they're not. I think they're going to.
Speaker 7: I think we're going to see if it gets into playoffs,
Speaker 7: there's going to be a lot more of Dak pulling
Speaker 7: that ball and trying to hammer it, hammer it at home,
Speaker 7: you know, like they're on the eight first down, that
Speaker 7: pull the ball. Everybody's collapsing because they don't think Dak
Speaker 7: is going to run.
Speaker 6: But I think I think those have mostly been successful.
Speaker 2: They haven't been done it.
Speaker 7: If they have been, absolutely And I think that's something
Speaker 7: that you know that that to me, that would be
Speaker 7: a quick fix. More Dak pulling the ball and trying
Speaker 7: to get you know, the four or five yards or
Speaker 7: maybe even break that thing into the end zone.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what's your confidence level? And Terrence Steel putting together
Speaker 6: a good game against the Eagles this week?
Speaker 5: Man, he had another rough one last week, So I
Speaker 5: don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 5: The tough part is that he's going to be facing
Speaker 5: a guy in Reddick that I think is among the
Speaker 5: very best rushers in the league. And so even even
Speaker 5: giving up two to three pressures in this game is
Speaker 5: going to be somewhat of a win because that guy
Speaker 5: is a he's a beast. So I think you put
Speaker 5: it on it, you graded on a curve. I think
Speaker 5: he will have I think he will have a better
Speaker 5: day than he had last week. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 5: if it'll be without flaws. Though.
Speaker 7: The problem they run into is they have such good
Speaker 7: inside players that Zach Martin can't help him all the time.
Speaker 7: You know, they've got those big defensive tackles, and they've
Speaker 7: got guys they'll put inside and rush.
Speaker 2: The passer, and and you know.
Speaker 7: And so all of a sudden, Philadelphia turned you into
Speaker 7: a one on one blocking team. You know, how much
Speaker 7: can the out how much can Pollard help? You know
Speaker 7: how much can Rico Doubtle help? How much can putting
Speaker 7: Sean McEwan over there, or putting Ferguson over there, putting
Speaker 7: Schoonmaker over there. You know, you've got to find ways
Speaker 7: to widen him away from the ball, make him have
Speaker 7: to deal with a full man two gaps away from
Speaker 7: being If you put him right on the shoulder of steel,
Speaker 7: that's a that's a quicker path to the quarterback, move
Speaker 7: him out a whole player, another whole two gaps. That's
Speaker 7: maybe the ball gets out with Dak before he gets
Speaker 7: around the corner. But you got to be careful of
Speaker 7: helping him because if you get backs, they bump into
Speaker 7: linemen sometimes and it throws them off, It throws their
Speaker 7: blocking to their sets, and all of a sudden they
Speaker 7: have they get hit from the side and they're like,
Speaker 7: now they're thrown off, and now you've got two guys
Speaker 7: and the one guy gets around him. Because folk blockers
Speaker 7: are problems, you have to be really careful about trying
Speaker 7: to help him in how much in this game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the thing that also will save him
Speaker 5: and then the entire offensive line is the fact that
Speaker 5: Dak is just playing on a whole other level right now.
Speaker 5: So even when pressure gets there, escape, Dak is escaping,
Speaker 5: he's finding the open guy down field, he's getting the
Speaker 5: ball out. So you know, this last game, unless you
Speaker 5: went and looked at some of the specific stats around pressures,
Speaker 5: it didn't really look like Steele had a horrible day.
Speaker 5: You go look at his number of around pressures, you're like, oh,
Speaker 5: that's kind of a high number. I think what I
Speaker 5: saw was.
Speaker 2: Like Hian Smith had a high high pressure number. Time
Speaker 2: it happens.
Speaker 5: But the beautiful part about it is you don't notice
Speaker 5: it as much right now just because Dak's playing at
Speaker 5: such a high level. Man, it's it's just unconscient, unconscionable
Speaker 5: to think about how good he's playing relative to what
Speaker 5: this looked like at other times in his career. And
Speaker 5: that's not to say he was bad in those times.
Speaker 5: It's just saying he's been a good quarterback. Right now
Speaker 5: he's playing on a different level to well. Also, just
Speaker 5: such a higher.
Speaker 6: Level for being in sync with the receivers, Like now
Speaker 6: he doesn't have to stay there in the pocket holding
Speaker 6: the ball and thinking where am I going to throw
Speaker 6: it to?
Speaker 7: Is?
Speaker 6: I think it's a combination too, with some of the
Speaker 6: play calling and the receivers just doing what they're supposed
Speaker 6: to do, being on time in the route that they're doing,
Speaker 6: and Dak being able to kind of get rid of
Speaker 6: the ball very quickly.
Speaker 7: One of the big problems they had in the last
Speaker 7: meeting with Philadelphia was the pressures. And I think the
Speaker 7: coaches realize that playing at home will help. Yeah, but
Speaker 7: I think Mike now will Taylor a game plan to
Speaker 7: help in that way.
Speaker 6: I think this is a very, very different team than
Speaker 6: when they faced the last time. So I'm so pumped
Speaker 6: for this week.
Speaker 2: Really at home, they are a different Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: No doubt.
Speaker 6: Last question, real quick, can the Cowboys apply next Sunday
Speaker 6: some of the concepts that San Francisco used to this
Speaker 6: mantle the Eagles mostly on defense.
Speaker 7: I'm looking forward to sitting down and really studying that game,
Speaker 7: which I'll do tonight. But you can always steal things
Speaker 7: you could. Matter of fact, I know we talked about
Speaker 7: how to stop San Francisco with how what Cleveland did
Speaker 7: with We thought about playing too deep and then running
Speaker 7: the run in the running the safeties in the middle
Speaker 7: field as a robber that you know, so you're playing
Speaker 7: you're really playing at three levels. So yeah, you know,
Speaker 7: there's there's always things. There's always ideas that you could
Speaker 7: steal from previous games and say, Okay, we can do
Speaker 7: it this way. It might not be exactly what San
Speaker 7: Francisco does, but the thought of it, of how to
Speaker 7: get to it will come to Dan Quinn.
Speaker 2: And then watching this tape, Yeah to me, Buffalo too.
Speaker 7: I mean there'll be some things that even you know,
Speaker 7: you could go back to three games that maybe that
Speaker 7: you know that what what Winterally gave Philly problem and
Speaker 7: there's stuff that you gave them problem with when you
Speaker 7: played them last.
Speaker 2: Time, but you don't.
Speaker 7: You know, it's all about how you attack their in
Speaker 7: my opinion, how you attack their offensive line. That's how
Speaker 7: I that's how I think you get after Philly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think there are probably some things that that
Speaker 5: you could look at, but quite frankly, for me, this
Speaker 5: game is more of a measure stick on how much
Speaker 5: has this dac led offense evolved since they played Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: I want to see if they can finish the drives
Speaker 5: that they didn't finish in Philadelphia. I want to see
Speaker 5: if they can, you know, in situations where the rush
Speaker 5: got to them and really killed their drive. Can they
Speaker 5: take advantage of those situations now like they've been doing
Speaker 5: against some of these other teams. Can they have the
Speaker 5: same type of offense they can they have the type
Speaker 5: of offensive production in this game that they've been having
Speaker 5: the last several weeks. If they can do that, which,
Speaker 5: by the way, that was a good game they played
Speaker 5: in Philadelphia. They just had some slight things that they
Speaker 5: weren't clicking on, and if they get those things solved,
Speaker 5: I don't know they have to do something different. I
Speaker 5: just think they got to be better than they were
Speaker 5: in Philadelphia, and they've been better the last few weeks.
Speaker 5: Now we'll see if it translates against Philadelphia.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree, and oh my god, I can't, I
Speaker 6: cannot wait. I cannot wait for this weekend and how
Speaker 6: it's going to look because again, the Cowboys are so
Speaker 6: much better than the last time they face them. They
Speaker 6: have every like they have more things going to their
Speaker 6: advantage right now than Phelly does at the moment, and
Speaker 6: when they face them, like you said, it was such
Speaker 6: a close game, like it didn't come down to where
Speaker 6: it wasn't San Francisco and how that looked like where
Speaker 6: they got completely dominated. This was such a close game
Speaker 6: and it came down to the wire. So it's gonna
Speaker 6: be an exciting one for sure.
Speaker 5: All Right, we appreciate you guys joining us. We're back tomorrow.
Speaker 5: We will get to some more fan questions tomorrow. Amber
Speaker 5: will have a game for us. What is a little
Speaker 5: fun stuff tomorrow because we have another day before we
Speaker 5: got to jump right into Cowboys versus Eagles, So until
Speaker 5: that for Brian brought us Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagles
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