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Speaker 1: Beer of the Dallas Cowboys. And today we start talking
Speaker 1: Cowboys versus Colts. We'll get you ready, Brian has his
Speaker 1: updates for us there. I'm good. We'll talk about someone.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk about some things regarding that matchup, particularly
Speaker 1: off the Indianapolis offense versus the Dallas defense. Before we
Speaker 1: get to that, though, I did want to talk about
Speaker 1: one transaction that happened yesterday. Cowboys release Terrell Bash him.
Speaker 1: He wasn't active against the Giants, spent a lot of
Speaker 1: this season on injured Was he on injured reserve or
Speaker 1: just out? Yeah, he was on injured reserve. So I
Speaker 1: hadn't really played a ton for them this year. Why now? Why? Why? Why?
Speaker 1: Why make the move now? Well, it sounds like I
Speaker 1: mean they you know, last week was kind of interesting
Speaker 1: because they put Tyck McKinley up from They called him up,
Speaker 1: which you only get three of these, So they called
Speaker 1: him up and then didn't play him. So that was
Speaker 1: kind of weird. And I think it was mainly because
Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out all these guys that were
Speaker 1: sick and do they need him or not, So you
Speaker 1: wouldn't waste to call up if you were going to
Speaker 1: keep doing that with him, He's gonna get moved up
Speaker 1: at some point. So McKinley, I think that's the one
Speaker 1: of the reasons there. I mean, the main reason is
Speaker 1: he's not playing that great. I mean, he's not. They
Speaker 1: got so many guys, I mean, how many pass rushers
Speaker 1: do you need? Not even by playing great, he's just
Speaker 1: not playing right, I'm not playing And he's not better
Speaker 1: than you know. I mean, I I think he's comfortable
Speaker 1: to Fowler, but they like Fowler better and he's got
Speaker 1: more production. So but McKinley, I think it's the big reason.
Speaker 1: You know, I was gonna say that it was surprising
Speaker 1: to me and when I think back, okay, this happened,
Speaker 1: and then the Tristan Hill situation, and then going back
Speaker 1: to where before the deadline for trading, and when we
Speaker 1: were thinking, okay, who were who were some guys that
Speaker 1: you could possibly use to trade, to form some kind
Speaker 1: of trade to bring somebody in. It just it's just
Speaker 1: interesting to think that you would just get rid of
Speaker 1: two guys that you've talked about even if he wasn't playing.
Speaker 1: He's a guy whose name was mentioned quite a lot.
Speaker 1: You saw some talent and potential there, But to think
Speaker 1: that it was just you know, neither of those two
Speaker 1: guys specifically defensive ends or at the defensive line that
Speaker 1: you were kind of got some use out of them
Speaker 1: and just kind of decided to get rid of them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I played really well in the preseason. If you remember,
Speaker 1: it was one of those things where you were kind
Speaker 1: of training camp. You were like going him armstrong, those guys.
Speaker 1: You were kind of like, oh, maybe they've got something here.
Speaker 1: You know. Then you start to think about with Sam
Speaker 1: Williams and you know Fowler and all that, and I
Speaker 1: think Nick is dead on right. This was more about
Speaker 1: wanting to see Tack McKinley play. You know. This is
Speaker 1: about like trying to find a way to to you know,
Speaker 1: get him potentially on the field. Dan Quinn has a
Speaker 1: little bit of history with him, you know, understands his
Speaker 1: game and you know maybe could help you a little
Speaker 1: bit and some of that that, you know, the combo
Speaker 1: of being a run defender and all so being a
Speaker 1: pass rusher. Uh so. Yeah, and and to Ambar's point too.
Speaker 1: I know, talking to a lot of guys around the
Speaker 1: league during the trading deadline though that Basham's name was
Speaker 1: being thrown out there. That was a name that people like.
Speaker 1: I had a couple of teams say, yeah, you guys
Speaker 1: are kind of moving some guys. I'm like really, and
Speaker 1: Basham was one of the name And they end up
Speaker 1: moving on from guys that were on that, you know,
Speaker 1: on that trade deadline that you know, when you talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, with Tristan Hill, they're okay, we move on
Speaker 1: from him, and then Basham, Well, hey we got a guy,
Speaker 1: we like what we're seeing in the guy, and let's
Speaker 1: you know, let's give him a go here. So not
Speaker 1: not surprising in that way. It's three guys. Really, if
Speaker 1: you think about back to the preseason, you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: Basham and then Tristan Hill and Ridgeway. I mean, Bashway
Speaker 1: it was a guy that they thought, oh he was
Speaker 1: gonna make it, you know, but but Bohanna played better.
Speaker 1: This is other guys has played better. And Sam Williams
Speaker 1: is development is a big part of this too. They
Speaker 1: might have made a mistake on Ridgeway because starting any well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm playing Overyeah was playing over there. I mean,
Speaker 1: make it tackles. See, that's the thing that plays in Arkansas.
Speaker 1: They were keeping the keeping the wide receivers, you know,
Speaker 1: they kept that wide receiver room kind of intact. And
Speaker 1: then you know, they went they kept all those guys,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you're like, well, these
Speaker 1: guys are playing just okay, you know. And and so
Speaker 1: then you sacrifice a defensive tackle that you know that
Speaker 1: you know when you're struggling against the run and not
Speaker 1: all of it is inside, but you're maybe a guy
Speaker 1: that down the line, you know, and Nick, you know,
Speaker 1: covers Arkansas loves Arkansas. I've seen a guy play a bunch.
Speaker 1: I mean he was a he was a kind of
Speaker 1: a difference maker as a big guy in there. And
Speaker 1: you're kind of like thinking, well, why you get rid
Speaker 1: of an offensive defensive lineman and then they go off
Speaker 1: and play and then you're looking at your wide receiver
Speaker 1: situation and go, well, you just could have very easily
Speaker 1: moved on from you know, one of these guys Hill
Speaker 1: if you're going to cut him eventually, I mean, just
Speaker 1: let him go. I think I think they got caught
Speaker 1: in a situation where if they were to do that over, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't put it put Ridgeway out there. They just
Speaker 1: wouldn't have done well. It goes to what you were
Speaker 1: talking about yesterday. Coaches tend to like what they know, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so you get in a situation like that where
Speaker 1: you're kind of debating Tristan Hill a Ridgeway and they're
Speaker 1: probably like, yeah, you know, I think we want to
Speaker 1: give Tristni a little bit more of an opportunity. We
Speaker 1: think we might have something well see. And also, I
Speaker 1: talked to some teams last night. I think Basham is
Speaker 1: going to get claimed, just from listening to some teams.
Speaker 1: Some of the guys that I talked to around the league,
Speaker 1: they're like, well, what did you know? Is he a
Speaker 1: bad guy? I'm like, no, no, no training camp everything.
Speaker 1: You know, they were asking me my opinion on him,
Speaker 1: and you know, they'd studied the tape on him. So
Speaker 1: I have a feeling today that you guys will probably
Speaker 1: write a little blip that he got claimed by somebody.
Speaker 1: You know, listen to what talking to guys from last night.
Speaker 1: There are obviously a few ahead. Then for one more thing,
Speaker 1: I said that about Tych McKinley, and I do believe
Speaker 1: McKinley's going to play, but they could still elevate him
Speaker 1: a couple of times. His roster spot they have fifty two.
Speaker 1: That roster spot, by Baschlor may not go to McKinley.
Speaker 1: It could go to James Washington, who because he's not
Speaker 1: on the practice squad, you could just move him over
Speaker 1: if they decide to do that. They have to do
Speaker 1: that today, and if that's what they're gonna do, maybe
Speaker 1: they could. So it is today a deadline, No, No,
Speaker 1: I just think that they've talked about it. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jerry's Washington, James Washington. Yes, but they're going to activate
Speaker 1: the twenty one day window practice right he could play
Speaker 1: if yeah, he want him to. So I'm just saying
Speaker 1: McKinley may not be the fifty third right now, but
Speaker 1: him playing and getting on the field with reps, it's
Speaker 1: probably you know, this whole thing with Odell Beckham and Washington.
Speaker 1: I really do believe that they were tied together because
Speaker 1: I didn't think they wanted to make two moves for
Speaker 1: wide receivers. I just really didn't. And maybe it's one
Speaker 1: of those things where they're preparing themselves for getting him
Speaker 1: practice time and getting him ready and get him acclimated
Speaker 1: again in like, Okay, if the Beckham thing doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: then we'll plug him in. But I was talking to
Speaker 1: somebody in the team and they're like, they're really not connected.
Speaker 1: But I just don't. I just you know, making two
Speaker 1: moves at wide receiver, you know, to add Beckham and
Speaker 1: then to have to add Washington, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're like, I just didn't think they wanted to do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, a veteran receiver that don't play special teams
Speaker 1: d you need? Yeah, I mean, yeah, one's really dynamic obviously,
Speaker 1: and I'd be ready yet that that's the whole thing
Speaker 1: is about it. What's the knee looking? There's there's teams,
Speaker 1: by the way, there's people around the league that I'm
Speaker 1: talking to again last night that believe that Beckham's gonna
Speaker 1: end up in Buffalo. There's people saying that that that
Speaker 1: they feel like that he could very well end up
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. I guess that's the last of the last
Speaker 1: things that at a guy tell me, I'd a guy
Speaker 1: tell me. He said, listen, you think he wants to
Speaker 1: go to New York and play on that turf? He
Speaker 1: was he was. He was complaining about the turf. The
Speaker 1: Giants lost, somebody lost, the receiver lost, a player on
Speaker 1: the turf got all messed up, and you're like, the
Speaker 1: guy goes. You think he wants to go play on
Speaker 1: that turf after he's complaining about it, Well, well he's
Speaker 1: but he But the thing about it is they're saying,
Speaker 1: because Buffalo's, Buffalo's medical staff might just clear him, and
Speaker 1: and maybe that you'll get others will be like, maybe
Speaker 1: Dallas would be a little bit more, little bit more, Well,
Speaker 1: the knees not really this And I mean, nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: know this because we talked about this yesterday. You could
Speaker 1: bring him in and all that. But I had people
Speaker 1: tell me, you know, is he going to work out
Speaker 1: for you? Is he going to go out on the
Speaker 1: field and physically work out for you? That's how you
Speaker 1: would tell you could pull on and push on the
Speaker 1: knee and all that. But the guy told me around
Speaker 1: in the league, he says, when is a veteran player
Speaker 1: ever gone in and worked out for somebody like that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but I don't know that that's necessarily a
Speaker 1: precursor here, Like, yeah, I honestly, the way I look
Speaker 1: at this as much as we've heard Jerry talk about
Speaker 1: the fact that they are definitely in this question they
Speaker 1: want him. Yeah, I don't know that that would be
Speaker 1: the thing that stopped them from saying, like I think
Speaker 1: they want their medical staff obviously to look at it. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I don't know that getting him to do a workout
Speaker 1: is necessarily a precursor. And quite frankly, the way I
Speaker 1: look at it is, yeah, there's a chance he goes
Speaker 1: to Buffalo. I mean, obviously he's gonna go to Buffalo
Speaker 1: before he comes to Dallas. But also I'm hearing from
Speaker 1: a lot of people and Michael Irvan this morning talking
Speaker 1: on Sean and RJ on one on five out three
Speaker 1: the Fan, and he was like, Hey, I know, Olddel,
Speaker 1: I've talked to him, I've talked this shortly. He has
Speaker 1: always wanted to play in Dallas. That has been something
Speaker 1: he's always wanted to do because of the fact he's
Speaker 1: got family here and he's just always wanted to play
Speaker 1: for this team. So there's there's a lot of factors here.
Speaker 1: And no, there's no question. I mean I'm on the
Speaker 1: seventy five percent train of him being here and then
Speaker 1: but the more you talk to people around the league.
Speaker 1: There's doubt, there's there's there's creative doubting. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: The way I look at it is I always look
Speaker 1: at it like, who's gonna be doing the selling. I
Speaker 1: don't know who's doing the selling in Buffalo. I know
Speaker 1: the guy doing the selling here. He's probably one of
Speaker 1: the best sellers and I've ever met. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bet on the fact that if it comes down to
Speaker 1: selling and if he really wants him, yeah, if he
Speaker 1: really wants him, I don't think there's I think he'll
Speaker 1: probably end up on Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 1: This might be unfair to you. Then, since you've taken
Speaker 1: that approach, do you worry about Jerry over right? Do
Speaker 1: you do? You do you worry about the situation where
Speaker 1: if Jerry wants the guy, he gets the guy. Do
Speaker 1: you think he gets any interference from Stephen on this one?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Okay, I don't think so. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I know it's probably an unfair question. I think, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think and I know there's a lot of talk
Speaker 1: about Jerry Steven that hole, that nature let's be honest.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, if Jerry really wants something,
Speaker 1: I totally agree. I don't care who in the building,
Speaker 1: including Steven, that doesn't want it. Jerry is still in
Speaker 1: the position where he is the final safe. Absolutely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and let's let's not forget that that that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, like like him. Everyone knows the story pushed
Speaker 1: him up against the wall against you know, with Deon
Speaker 1: and is this a smart move and all this kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. But I mean, you know, you don't have
Speaker 1: Zach Martin and you have and you have Johnny Manzel.
Speaker 1: If somebody doesn't stand up to Jerry to Jerry sometimes
Speaker 1: and go, this isn't the best move for us. So
Speaker 1: it's not the worst thing in the world to have
Speaker 1: a guy that says, all right, let's think about this
Speaker 1: long term, you know. And they still got yeah, well
Speaker 1: they got Deon, but but but yeah, you might do
Speaker 1: whatever it takes to get Odell Beckham. And then and
Speaker 1: you know, March comes and you're like, dang, we lost Pollard,
Speaker 1: we lost this guy. We lost this guy. Will we
Speaker 1: home the money? But you got Odell, who we played
Speaker 1: two games for me and limped around for a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, like he somebody has to think
Speaker 1: about next year, and I know everyone's just focused all in,
Speaker 1: but that's that's not the way it works. Ask you
Speaker 1: guys something. And since we don't know what's going to happen,
Speaker 1: and we've seen it before, we're like Earl Thomas, we
Speaker 1: talked about him since forever and ever actually happened. We
Speaker 1: know this is something very well well different fact. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but um in an instance that it does not happen
Speaker 1: for whatever reason. Uh, Based on what you've seen so
Speaker 1: far since Dak's return and how the offense has been operating,
Speaker 1: do you guys currently feel that this offense, specifically talking
Speaker 1: about the wide receiver position, is this offense enough to
Speaker 1: be competitive to that level without the need of adding
Speaker 1: extra talent at the white receiver? Has your mind changed
Speaker 1: whatsoever so far? Remember that question we had yesterday about
Speaker 1: who would you who's going to help you more? Tyrann
Speaker 1: Smith or Odell Beckham. Yeah, See that's the thing I
Speaker 1: look at To answer your question. I just focus back
Speaker 1: to the Green Bay game in that fourth and three
Speaker 1: and I just know this guy can go and make plays.
Speaker 1: I mean, can he make two three of those a
Speaker 1: game that that might be all you need. You know,
Speaker 1: that might be all you need. He might have five targets.
Speaker 1: Nick went through the targets with you yesterday. It seemed
Speaker 1: like it was eleven and it was five. It was three,
Speaker 1: it was five, it was seven. It was kind of
Speaker 1: if I know that five times, I'm gonna throw them
Speaker 1: the ball and he's gonna probably catch the ball all
Speaker 1: five times. I have a feeling they're gonna be big, big,
Speaker 1: big plays. I do. I just feel like third down,
Speaker 1: four downs, you know the way that this coach goes
Speaker 1: for it, you know, throw it at this guy separates
Speaker 1: in the red zone. You know you could throw the
Speaker 1: ball to him down there. He's gonna make somebody miss.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm the guy that is. I'm about pushing the
Speaker 1: chips now, and I think the owner is too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the owner. And that's why I asked Derek
Speaker 1: that question, because I think the owner will tell Stevens like, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm eighty years old. Have you've seen what's going on
Speaker 1: in this conference? Right now? Brady ain't worth a damn
Speaker 1: right now, Rogers ain't even part of this thing. We
Speaker 1: gotta go beat San Francisco or Philadelphia who we almost
Speaker 1: beat with a backup quarterback and three turnovers. Yeah, everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta give me this one last shot here. You
Speaker 1: figure this thing out. If like Nick told you, which
Speaker 1: was great information yesterday, if you have Beckham contract, you
Speaker 1: gotta think about CD contract two. Yeah, that's great information
Speaker 1: right there. You know you're I'm sure I'm looking to
Speaker 1: see him like you figure it out. You figure it out.
Speaker 1: I'm eighty damn years old. You know I might not
Speaker 1: have another run at this again. You know, you figure
Speaker 1: this out. And I think the thing about it too,
Speaker 1: is you this um kind of lost my thought. I
Speaker 1: was just gonna let me, let me just jump in then,
Speaker 1: because I think Will McClay has the factor into this
Speaker 1: as well. And not and and project Okay is uh,
Speaker 1: how old is Odell? I don't even thirty years old? Okay,
Speaker 1: so thirty one two thirty three year old Odell Beckham?
Speaker 1: You know if he wants to four year deal? Yeah right,
Speaker 1: that's my story because I want the player right now.
Speaker 1: But I think it's it's important though, to have to
Speaker 1: look at what he's going to do next year, the
Speaker 1: year after. I mean, this is an investment this is
Speaker 1: what you you know, I kind of compared to the
Speaker 1: Dion Sanders thing. He's played seven eight years. But we're
Speaker 1: doing this for that last half of his career, the
Speaker 1: last few years, last big contract for him. It's not
Speaker 1: just about these few games. Does he fit into what
Speaker 1: you're trying to do for the next couple of years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think that's what they have to figure out.
Speaker 1: I will throw us out. I just remember what else.
Speaker 1: Trying to say that, I still believe I'm being cautiously
Speaker 1: optimistic because that we talked about this weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: I said at the time, I was one of people
Speaker 1: are like, I don't know about this kind of signing
Speaker 1: because what I still don't know is is he Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham Junior that I'm used to sing, We don't know that.
Speaker 1: And so if he is. If he is, this will
Speaker 1: be a signing that could definitely put them over the top.
Speaker 1: To answer your question, this is the kind of signing
Speaker 1: that you get guy like this. I guarantee you it
Speaker 1: can pay dividends if he is the Odell Beckham that
Speaker 1: he was, because it certainly did for the Rams in
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl. He was having a game before he
Speaker 1: was a. Yeah, he was having a game, and so
Speaker 1: you put you had that kind of player to what
Speaker 1: you already have. Now I look at this offense and say, man,
Speaker 1: is the offense as good as the defense? Maybe they
Speaker 1: are right, and that's where you're really working with something,
Speaker 1: and you can contend with the teams like Philadelphia, like
Speaker 1: San Francisco, like the Chiefs, like the Bills, like you
Speaker 1: have that level of talent where you can compete with
Speaker 1: all those teams and don't feel in any way that
Speaker 1: you're compromised. I think he can provide that kind of
Speaker 1: value for you if he is Oldell Beckham that he
Speaker 1: was before. Remember when we were waiting for Dak's return
Speaker 1: and the thumb and you asked the question about like, okay,
Speaker 1: is ninety percent Dak better than what you got it
Speaker 1: with a Cooper Rush and what he was doing at
Speaker 1: the time. So same question, what would be the least
Speaker 1: I'm on a percentage that you would take an Odell
Speaker 1: beck You're not supposed to ask question. Those are my question.
Speaker 1: Now that's from my games. What do you do? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use that on the radio. By the way, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna use that on the radio. I'm gonna steal if
Speaker 1: I'll give you credit, there a g I don't know
Speaker 1: if you give me, you give him firt of all,
Speaker 1: Let's think about it like this, he's gonna be if
Speaker 1: if you think he's gonna be your third wide receiver.
Speaker 1: We talked about that yesterday where he falls on the
Speaker 1: depth chart, Let's say he's at least your third wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I do think in eighty percent, Odell Beckham Junior is
Speaker 1: probably better than Noel Brown, Right, so he adds value
Speaker 1: to you at eighty percent, maybe seventy five percent. I
Speaker 1: was going, I was going around sixty five. Ye at
Speaker 1: sixty five, I am just because I feel like though
Speaker 1: there could be those two or three players a game,
Speaker 1: there could be that you know, it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: they run the ball and run the ball. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: it's now it's third and six, you know, and now
Speaker 1: you need Okay, he's gonna shake somebody for a gain
Speaker 1: of eight or shake somebody for ten, you know, and
Speaker 1: then you're gonna keep playing the game, keep playing the game,
Speaker 1: and then you know they're gonna get down the goal
Speaker 1: line and it's gonna it's gonna be like it was
Speaker 1: like in the other day third and fifteen, they have
Speaker 1: to throw a clutch pass to Dalton Schultz to convert.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, and you got a guy like Beckham, you know,
Speaker 1: it's maybe sixty five percent, you know, catches that ball
Speaker 1: beat somebody, you know, get separation a little bit easier throw.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what I'm thinking about, you know what.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of I think it's a great question.
Speaker 1: But I also think in a way it's irrelevant because
Speaker 1: it Odell's gonna want one hundred percent of the money,
Speaker 1: you know, so if it takes it where you want
Speaker 1: to go, which is true super Bowl's And that's why
Speaker 1: I came back to what I said about the next
Speaker 1: year and the next year, like if you think, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll see what he can do. Can he help you
Speaker 1: a little bit a couple of plays a game like that,
Speaker 1: but then the next year, like you've got a really
Speaker 1: dynamic Yeah, That's That's where I'm at. Though. Two to me,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to if as a fan, I would be
Speaker 1: willing for them to try. You know, if you if
Speaker 1: you just try for me, you know, and if it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out, I can't blame you. You tried, you know,
Speaker 1: as a fan, you're like that, you can't call into
Speaker 1: our show here one oh five three and yell and say, oh,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys sucked it, don't do you know? No, you
Speaker 1: can't because they tried. I can't. I can do a
Speaker 1: little bit, though. If you pay him really good money
Speaker 1: to come in at the end of the season and
Speaker 1: do this and then we'll see what happens in the
Speaker 1: next couple of years, then you should have kept up
Speaker 1: Mary Cooper. That's what I view. You should have kept
Speaker 1: a Marie Cooper if that's what you want, because I
Speaker 1: think a Marie Cooper is probably better than Odell Beckham, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: But my issue with that is that I don't think
Speaker 1: they got rid of they got rid of a Mark Cooper.
Speaker 1: I think because they just didn't want him on this team,
Speaker 1: and that wasn't necessarily about and I didn't have a
Speaker 1: problem with them making that move. The problem I had
Speaker 1: was they didn't go in and get me more talent.
Speaker 1: If you're saying this particular guy doesn't fit our culture,
Speaker 1: he doesn't fit what we're trying to do, right, Okay, Fine,
Speaker 1: that's that's your choice. But don't just assume that I'm
Speaker 1: going to leave that back, and then I need you
Speaker 1: to explain that. I mean, I just if that's the case,
Speaker 1: then explain what he doesn't do for your culture. He's
Speaker 1: a quiet guy that that doesn't really rufle feathers. He
Speaker 1: wanted to take a pay cut, he gets open, he's
Speaker 1: a good route runner. I mean what I'm sorry, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't, Well, we know the elephant in the room
Speaker 1: that you can start with, but I mean, maybe it's
Speaker 1: all those things. Point is, they're not the general manager.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna They're not gonna come out and say that.
Speaker 1: But but the point is, the point is I do
Speaker 1: what are you really saying, verb run, I took a
Speaker 1: page out of your book. Point is, they're not They're not.
Speaker 1: They're not. They didn't go out and spend the money
Speaker 1: that they saved. If you're gonna save that money because
Speaker 1: you just didn't think he was the fit, then go
Speaker 1: out and spend the money and get a replacement, because
Speaker 1: we see they are clearly in the work for a
Speaker 1: wide receiver. But they will tell you that they got
Speaker 1: better on defense because they got rid of him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they will tell you because we get we were able
Speaker 1: to sign him and the Randy Gregory and all that.
Speaker 1: They will tell you, they will be quick to tell
Speaker 1: you that the money we saved on all this, we
Speaker 1: we we got better because they're helping. I mean, and
Speaker 1: Hooker and uh Fowler and Armstrong and and you know,
Speaker 1: James Washington not so much, but I mean, but those guys,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, that season would have been lost had
Speaker 1: they not been the way that they have been on defense,
Speaker 1: especially when you had Cooper Rush. And Cooper Rush did
Speaker 1: a nice job. But man, I don't even want to
Speaker 1: think of how many games we would have lost. You'd
Speaker 1: look like the Packers. You'd be like the Packers defense.
Speaker 1: You'd be like the Packers right now. Yeah, I appreciate
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Speaker 1: get now into the Indianapolis offense versus the Dallas defense.
Speaker 1: So Brian take it away. Derek's first question has always
Speaker 1: what do they do best? What do they do worse?
Speaker 1: I think, you know, they've got a really legitimate weapon,
Speaker 1: and with their running back with Jonathan Taylor, that's something
Speaker 1: that you know, they don't score a lot of points.
Speaker 1: They haven't. They've struggled on their offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: The one thing that they can do is they will
Speaker 1: they will run the football with this guy, and so
Speaker 1: you have to be ready for it, you know. And
Speaker 1: with Jonathan Taylor, it's it's inside, it's outside, it's inside, bounce,
Speaker 1: it's you know, he's a he's a he's a physical runner.
Speaker 1: He's not the tallest guy, you know, it's not one
Speaker 1: of these you know, big, but he's really thick and
Speaker 1: he's powerful. And what happens to you is if you
Speaker 1: don't get a good shot on him or get bodies
Speaker 1: to them. He will break tackles and continue on. I've
Speaker 1: seen several games this year where he's just carried the
Speaker 1: pile going forward, you know, for extra yards and stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So if you kind of go up and
Speaker 1: halfheartedly try and tackle him, wrap him up, he'll break
Speaker 1: that tackle and then he'll find a way to continue
Speaker 1: on and get yards. There's been some struggle the offensive
Speaker 1: line at times. I mean I watched the Philadelphia game.
Speaker 1: You know, I've watched the games that they played with
Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday as the coach, because that's a different offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator now with what they've done in the past, but
Speaker 1: you still have the thread of him running the football,
Speaker 1: and you know, that's something I think you're going to
Speaker 1: have to deal with with them. Matt Ryan being the quarterback,
Speaker 1: they've gone back to him that Sam Ellinger, he got
Speaker 1: the opportunity and then you know, when Saturday took the job,
Speaker 1: he said, no, we're going to play with you know,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan gives us the best opportunity to win. The
Speaker 1: ball is going to come out really really quick. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the whole idea. Matt Ryan does not want to
Speaker 1: hold the football, so everybody with the Cowboys in the secondary,
Speaker 1: it's going to be about routes, quick routes, the tight end,
Speaker 1: the drag routes, things like that. Underneath most of his
Speaker 1: throws out of the way or to the right. It's
Speaker 1: either middle to right the game. I mean, it just
Speaker 1: seems like that's where he's the most comfortable throw in
Speaker 1: the football. So we'll see what happens in this game.
Speaker 1: I like Michael Pittman. He's a big, tall, lanky receiver,
Speaker 1: likes to run those inside routes. Alec Pierce is another
Speaker 1: guy that they drafted from Cincinnati. I liked him coming
Speaker 1: out of the draft. Super tough kid in the way
Speaker 1: he plays. And then they get Paris Campbell involved too.
Speaker 1: I could say, a lot of routes to the right,
Speaker 1: a lot of routes in the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: Jilannie Woods, they're tight end. Had a really nice game.
Speaker 1: If you watched the Monday night game, you saw him,
Speaker 1: So he had a little bit, Yeah, he had a
Speaker 1: little bit of a reassurgence of you know what he
Speaker 1: was able to do. He was a really good college player.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Quintin Nelson up front at guard is comparable
Speaker 1: to what you have with Zach Martin. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a team that you kind of go. Man. Their records
Speaker 1: shouldn't be this bad, but they struggle to score points.
Speaker 1: And but you have to me personally, I would try
Speaker 1: and take Pittman out of this game and then commit
Speaker 1: everything to trying to stop Jonathan Taylor from running the ball.
Speaker 1: Is what I would do. When you have a guy
Speaker 1: like Matt Ryan, and I think the Cowboys have had
Speaker 1: success with quarterbacks that don't really run a lot. But
Speaker 1: when the ball gets out quick, where do you think
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons can be the most effective in that? I
Speaker 1: would rush him, like I would say, you know, if
Speaker 1: you rush him off, the would be the Cowboys right
Speaker 1: side because the ball is going everything I would want
Speaker 1: I want if I was the Cowboys, and this would
Speaker 1: be my plan of attack. I want Matt Ryan seeing
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons rushing and feel that. And so to me,
Speaker 1: if you put him on the side where if you
Speaker 1: put him to what would be Matt Ryan's right, which
Speaker 1: would be defensive left. Because the games I was watching
Speaker 1: three games I was watching, the ball was like I say,
Speaker 1: it was middle right, middle right, middle right the whole game,
Speaker 1: and so to me, if you rush him where he
Speaker 1: where that pressure, where he's throwing, the direction he's throwing,
Speaker 1: the chances for tip passes because the ball gets out
Speaker 1: of his hand quick. It's when people make him hold
Speaker 1: that that's where you see the sacks. That's where you
Speaker 1: see So to me, it's not on the back side.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not on the back side, even though
Speaker 1: they've got a rookie left tackle, you know, with a
Speaker 1: Raymond on the Raymond on the back side there, I
Speaker 1: kind of feel like that they will put him to
Speaker 1: the where the side that Ryan's throwing the ball, so
Speaker 1: he can he sees him, but he could also he
Speaker 1: feels and if you could get him to hold it.
Speaker 1: Like I said, that's where you're going to get that sack.
Speaker 1: So the team they've allowed more sacks than any other teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: total of like forty three. And my question would be
Speaker 1: going back to Nack as seeing up on Michael Parson.
Speaker 1: Is this where you guys would focus on just pressuring
Speaker 1: and attacking the quarterback or do you kind of find
Speaker 1: a way to split and drive some of that attention
Speaker 1: on stopping the run. Yeah, I would if I'm the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I would worry about because they're going to try and
Speaker 1: protect Matt Ryan from not getting sacked. And to do that,
Speaker 1: it's about staying ahead of the chains. It's about like
Speaker 1: what the you know, with the almost what like the
Speaker 1: teams that have played the Cowboys, they don't want the
Speaker 1: Cowboys to like the Packers. The Cowboys didn't as the
Speaker 1: Packers didn't want the Cowboys to put them in second
Speaker 1: and long, third and long all day. They're like, listen,
Speaker 1: let's play ahead of the chains. Let's make it second
Speaker 1: and four, second and three. You know they're gonna try.
Speaker 1: I say, if I'm the Colts, I try and run
Speaker 1: the ball first and say, Okay, I'm gonna try and
Speaker 1: stay ahead, stay on schedule, and then that way maybe
Speaker 1: the pass rush won't be attacking won't be you know,
Speaker 1: because if you if they have like to say, the
Speaker 1: Minnesota game plan where they just come out and say
Speaker 1: we're just gonna throw, We're just gonna keep throwing, you
Speaker 1: know that that could be like you're just talking about
Speaker 1: all those sacks. You know, just it's funny when you
Speaker 1: watch the sacks. When Ryan he will he'll hold it
Speaker 1: and you know when he holds it, there's probably gonna
Speaker 1: get sacked because he's it's like he holds it and
Speaker 1: now he's having to reset and then delivered the ball.
Speaker 1: By that time the rush is on him. He is
Speaker 1: not the most mobile, even though we've seen him run.
Speaker 1: He scrambled for some for some some decent games, but
Speaker 1: that's not his game. It's like, get the ball out
Speaker 1: of the hand, try and get it short, and try
Speaker 1: and attack the and drive. You know, teams are making
Speaker 1: the Colts just try and drive the football and have
Speaker 1: success doing that. But if you can, if you can,
Speaker 1: I think the way to make the Colts one dimensional
Speaker 1: is how your offense plays. You just score and score
Speaker 1: and score and score, and that that puts a lot
Speaker 1: of press. They don't score a lot of points, so
Speaker 1: then it turns into now Michael Parsons and these guys
Speaker 1: getting to rush the passer. Yeah, people that play fantasy football,
Speaker 1: they obviously know Jonathan Taylor because he's a He's a
Speaker 1: great fantasy player, number one pick in a lot of
Speaker 1: drafts this year, but he doesn't get viewed a lot
Speaker 1: as you know, kind of an underrated superstar. Compare him
Speaker 1: to other running backs like no, not so much in
Speaker 1: the league now but like his style compared to former backs,
Speaker 1: they're just guy. I mean, he's a fast guy. He's
Speaker 1: a big compact. I mean yeah, I mean he's the
Speaker 1: thing about when you when you watch when you watch
Speaker 1: him play, the thing that I've always been super oppressed
Speaker 1: by him is he's he's like five ten, he's two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty six pounds, two hundred and twenty eight pounds,
Speaker 1: and so you're, you know, you're, you're the quickness and
Speaker 1: the explosiveness you know of these back I mean I
Speaker 1: was thinking like, like, well, I was thinking guys like Lord's.
Speaker 1: I mean, lt was Ladaniel Thomas I think was a
Speaker 1: little bit of a shorter a little bit shorter guy maybe,
Speaker 1: you know when when you talk about the running styles
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, I was kind of thinking like
Speaker 1: a Fred Taylor too. From jack you know Jackson, kind
Speaker 1: of the little bit of he's got really he's quick,
Speaker 1: he could be explosive, he's hard to bring down. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that mean when you mean, but this guy, I mean,
Speaker 1: the thing about is how thick he is, and you
Speaker 1: see the piles move with him. You know when you
Speaker 1: like I say, you have to get teams that have
Speaker 1: made him kind of play sideways, and I mean play sideways,
Speaker 1: like he gets the ball and now he's bouncing and
Speaker 1: he's still kind of going. It's when he can kind
Speaker 1: of get his shoulders turned and go forward that he
Speaker 1: has his best. But you know when you when you
Speaker 1: talk about he catches the ball, well too, they'll throw
Speaker 1: him screens, they'll flip him to him out, you know,
Speaker 1: in a swing routes and stuff like that, So you
Speaker 1: have to kind of be ready for that as well.
Speaker 1: Kind of under really a complete back for the for
Speaker 1: the Colts. Let's go ahead and take our final break
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Speaker 1: you can mentioning how they don't score a lot of points,
Speaker 1: which is true, and just to give people an idea,
Speaker 1: they've only scored twenty one or more points twice the
Speaker 1: whole season, thirty four versus Jacksonville and then twenty five
Speaker 1: against the Rams. Uh they've also they win both games.
Speaker 1: Do you know does it say that they won one
Speaker 1: game out of those two? Sure, they beat Jacksonville with
Speaker 1: thirty four points. I can't imagine the jagsers roll in that. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they beat the Jaguars and then where's the other one. Anyways,
Speaker 1: that's okay. They'll score a lot of points. Yeah, their drives.
Speaker 1: You know, they were going into what game was it?
Speaker 1: There was a there was a point. It was against
Speaker 1: the Raiders. I don't know why I say the Rams,
Speaker 1: but it was they did they won that game? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That was Jeff Saturday first. Yeah. The thing about that
Speaker 1: they were a team that struggled with with opening drives
Speaker 1: two in games they didn't they were struggling. They don't
Speaker 1: score on opening drives any points at all. That's that
Speaker 1: was something that they're dealing with. But you know, this
Speaker 1: game for the Cowboys, I think it's really going to
Speaker 1: be about your offense. I think it's but you know,
Speaker 1: you you put a lot of pressure, like we just mentioned,
Speaker 1: like we're talking about they don't score points, you make
Speaker 1: them have to keep up. It's going to be hard
Speaker 1: for them. It's going to be hard. They don't want
Speaker 1: to play that kind of game. They really really don't
Speaker 1: want to play that kind of game because they just
Speaker 1: they've got good receivers. I respect the heck out of
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman. I did when he came out of college.
Speaker 1: I think Alec Pierce was one of my guys that
Speaker 1: I you know, I had a really high grade coming
Speaker 1: out of Cincinnati. You know, they've got guys that are
Speaker 1: capable of making their tall, long guys that can give
Speaker 1: you problems. They're great contested catchers. They're just not those downfield,
Speaker 1: you know type of players. And you know, Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: just that's kind of not his game. He used to
Speaker 1: be able to throw the ball down the fielding and
Speaker 1: you just don't see it as much now. Maybe after
Speaker 1: watching some film against Anthony Brown and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: that they'll figure out. You know, maybe we need to try,
Speaker 1: you know, ki Ki Kuti and try and just take
Speaker 1: him on a vertical route and see if he runs
Speaker 1: past you know, see if he runs past you know Brown,
Speaker 1: and we can you know, either get a penalty out
Speaker 1: of it or uh, you know, make a catch and
Speaker 1: take you off the rails for a second. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like we've we've talked about their offense and
Speaker 1: then they struggle whatever. Um, You've been around in the
Speaker 1: NFL for a long time and I guess I have too.
Speaker 1: But like, do you were you offended by the fact
Speaker 1: that Jeff Saturday got that head coaching job? No, me either,
Speaker 1: I really wasn't. And if I could explain real quick,
Speaker 1: I'll try and explain you to me. I can't explain
Speaker 1: anything quick. Um, you know, I've I'm the guy that
Speaker 1: me personally that I look at I look at these
Speaker 1: these jobs for coaches, and it used to be, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I've never been more wrong about a guy
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Speaker 1: a guy. I saw Urban Meyer as a program builder.
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Speaker 1: whether it was at Florida, whether it was an Ohio state.
Speaker 1: I always saw a program builder there. I saw a
Speaker 1: guy with a plan and all that he gets the NFL,
Speaker 1: he's an absolute disaster. He can't treat he doesn't how
Speaker 1: to treat people. His demeanor, he thinks he has all
Speaker 1: the answers. You know, it's you know, he doesn't know
Speaker 1: how to treat the players. There's no interaction there. And
Speaker 1: so here's one of the most most highly decorated college
Speaker 1: coaches in the country and he goes to a pro
Speaker 1: team and just completely botches it up. And then so
Speaker 1: you're thinking, like, well, if you got guys like that,
Speaker 1: you know, we've seen guys like Nick Sabe and go
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins eight and eight and then go back
Speaker 1: to college and just fine. So there are coaches two
Speaker 1: and fourteen in there as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So I mean that's that's kind of where you're at.
Speaker 1: That you think that these guys that are highly touted
Speaker 1: and prepare and ready and all that, and they get
Speaker 1: these programs, they get screw it up just as bad
Speaker 1: as a guy that's never coached. You know. I think
Speaker 1: I think there's so much about managing people today in
Speaker 1: sports and in life. I think managing people is a
Speaker 1: skill that a lot of guys and gals, the ones
Speaker 1: that have that ability are going to be successful. And
Speaker 1: I think Jeff Saturday, you know, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: and watching the Colts play, they could have won all
Speaker 1: three games that Jeff Saturday's coached in. They had Philadelphia
Speaker 1: on the ropes. You know, they gave up a late
Speaker 1: they gave up a late touchdown. You know. The game management, Okay,
Speaker 1: that was in the Money Night game. You saw the
Speaker 1: lack of game management or time management in that game
Speaker 1: got him in a little bit of trouble. And he
Speaker 1: came back afterwards and said managed to have used the timeouts.
Speaker 1: So that kind of experience. But to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: they could have won. They won the game against the Raiders.
Speaker 1: They had Philadelphia on the ropes if they just you know,
Speaker 1: if they don't just kick field goals or somehow they
Speaker 1: can score, move the ball and score, you know, and
Speaker 1: you know, and they had they had the Steelers, I mean,
Speaker 1: they had the Steelers where kind of where they needed
Speaker 1: to have him. So and I I agree with you there.
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people that think it's prepared.
Speaker 1: Coaches can screw this up to yeah, but and you
Speaker 1: could tell the way McCarthy kind of answered it where
Speaker 1: he thinks where he lies on this. You know, as
Speaker 1: an old school coach, it's like, you know, there's a
Speaker 1: coaching tree. There's a lot of guys doing it the
Speaker 1: right way. But I'll say this, like we'll play ten
Speaker 1: years in the league and be a seven eight time
Speaker 1: pro bowler. I mean do that. I mean they have
Speaker 1: experience as well. I mean I get it if you
Speaker 1: just get handed a job. But you know, that's that's
Speaker 1: that's what I was saying. I was just about to say,
Speaker 1: Dion Sanders at Jackson State and then to get a
Speaker 1: job here. Yeah, exactly. He's in a situation right now
Speaker 1: where he you know we talk about with the prime
Speaker 1: prep and all that kind of a you know, kind
Speaker 1: of a little bit of crazy stuff going on there.
Speaker 1: But he goes to Jackson State with the attenta. What
Speaker 1: does he do. He gets people to rally around him,
Speaker 1: He has people that believe in him, He evaluates the
Speaker 1: right way. His it helps his son is probably one
Speaker 1: of the better quarterbacks in the country right now. You know,
Speaker 1: it's helping the program. But that's that's that's what it takes.
Speaker 1: It go in there and organize and and you know,
Speaker 1: delegate and and and make people have responsibility. That's what
Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday's done. He get they got rid of the coordinator,
Speaker 1: they got rid of the head coach, and he made
Speaker 1: a guy a first time play card. Yeah. Sure, it's
Speaker 1: not translating into a lot of points, but he's delegated
Speaker 1: those guys play hard for him even though he's not.
Speaker 1: But to your point, he played a lot of years
Speaker 1: in this league and he was a Pro Bowl type player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's I know that that's a big storyline with the
Speaker 1: Colts right now. There's a lot of people offended by that,
Speaker 1: and I'm not at all I'm not either, but but
Speaker 1: I mean it's there's there's a lot of elements and a
Speaker 1: a lot of layers to that. And and because you
Speaker 1: said Dion, I'll just say this too, Dion. The exposure
Speaker 1: that he has created for HBC schools is absolutely and
Speaker 1: and that that wherever he goes to another place, he's
Speaker 1: left that landscape uh much better than than it was. No.
Speaker 1: He and you know the thing about now too, with him,
Speaker 1: he can go in the transfer portals and things like that,
Speaker 1: where he can go out. If he goes to a
Speaker 1: Power five, you know Deon is going to be able
Speaker 1: to recruit and so he'll get players to come play
Speaker 1: for him, and all kids play, they play hard for him,
Speaker 1: These kids dads, Yeah, they idolized. And I'm at the
Speaker 1: kids too because it's still a figure. Yeah. And to me,
Speaker 1: that's you know again about the coult situation, that you
Speaker 1: don't have to you don't have to be a guy
Speaker 1: that has You don't have to be Bill Walsh as
Speaker 1: a coach. These coaches come from all walks of life.
Speaker 1: You know, the guy down in Miami, you know McDonald
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, McDaniel, and what he's doing down there,
Speaker 1: it's incredible, you know, I mean his look at his background,
Speaker 1: look at the look at those look at his background.
Speaker 1: I mean he kind of went along and but he
Speaker 1: was always kind of the lower tier guy. I was
Speaker 1: with Sean Payton. You know Sean Payton, you talk about
Speaker 1: the lower I mean, Sean Payton was getting coffee for
Speaker 1: guys in Philadelphia and now he's you know, one of
Speaker 1: the you know, most most decorated and highly recognized coaches.
Speaker 1: Everybody's background is different when it comes to coaching you
Speaker 1: and I just think that it's it's it's fine. You
Speaker 1: don't have to have the best guy well, I recently
Speaker 1: started reading up about the whole situation, and I feel
Speaker 1: like I don't know enough just yet to even form
Speaker 1: my own opinion on the subject. But I was curious
Speaker 1: as to why when you post the question, Nick, why
Speaker 1: you use the word offended. I think because there are
Speaker 1: coaches that have struggled and they that like they did
Speaker 1: it the Sean Payton way. They were offensive assistance that
Speaker 1: were you know, they getting coffee. Then they become you know,
Speaker 1: quality control. Then they become a quarterbacks coach, and then
Speaker 1: maybe they're a play caller, and then they they move
Speaker 1: themselves up as opposed to a guy that just played
Speaker 1: football and he was a great player, and then he
Speaker 1: goes at ESPN and next thing you know, they just
Speaker 1: put it and he just jumps everyone, which the owner
Speaker 1: could do whatever he wants. It's about people, and I
Speaker 1: agree with the people. Yeah, it's about people. If you
Speaker 1: can organize people and get him to share the belief
Speaker 1: that you have, they don't have to completely agree with
Speaker 1: everything you say, but if you get people all pulling
Speaker 1: the same way, there's a lot of things you can
Speaker 1: get done if if you have that kind of support.
Speaker 1: But you have to have that ability to be a leader,
Speaker 1: and Jeff Saturday is a leader. Have you seen that
Speaker 1: clip And they played it for years, the clip with
Speaker 1: Saturday and Peyton man Yeah, and Peyton's like, well, we'll
Speaker 1: call the plays, Jeff, and he's over there, let's run
Speaker 1: the ball, and then they're getting out of the sideline
Speaker 1: and yeah, Peyton's like he started it. Yeah, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: standing up to Peyton Manning. You know. It's funny. Jeff
Speaker 1: Saturday never got off the bench. He just kind of
Speaker 1: just kind of like just looked at him like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you can go stand over there somewhere. Yeah, we're fine here,
Speaker 1: just we'll make adjustments, will be good. I have a
Speaker 1: lot of respect. Like I said, I can understand coaches
Speaker 1: that that that went up that want to go up
Speaker 1: through the ranks, but there's a lot of coaches that
Speaker 1: have gone up through the ranks and failed at this
Speaker 1: same It happens. It's not just in football, you see
Speaker 1: that in other types of like industries around the world.
Speaker 1: Like that happens with other people, and it's just kind
Speaker 1: of who you know and where you came from and
Speaker 1: all that, and some people do get to kind of
Speaker 1: jump over all those steps and get it could be
Speaker 1: expensive making mistakes and and like it. And I know
Speaker 1: we'll finish up here. But Auburn, you know, Auburn University,
Speaker 1: and I hope I'm not offending anybody from Auburn, but
Speaker 1: you've had three coaches in four years. That's pretty expensive.
Speaker 1: That's that's millions of millions of dollars spent, you know,
Speaker 1: having to now pay coaches off for not getting the
Speaker 1: right guy or not having the patience. You know, they
Speaker 1: think you have the right guy, you know, and you
Speaker 1: know they went out, went out and hired a coach
Speaker 1: that has got some baggage to his name from when
Speaker 1: he was last in the SEC. But that just shows
Speaker 1: you they're thinking, we have to win. We have to win.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you make those mistakes. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: tomorrow we'll kind of flip the side of the things.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the Colts defense. It makes the place
Speaker 1: on these guys, and we'll see how that matchup kind
Speaker 1: of looks like for this weekend. And then this is
Speaker 1: the end of the show for Nickiman. Brian brought us
Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton, who stepped out a little bit earlier. Amember Garcia.
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