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Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is Mediamasch, a

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Speaker 1: roundtable of Cowboys insiders, dropping wisdom and offering sizzling takes

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Speaker 1: on the current state of your Dallas Cowboys. Now your host,

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Speaker 1: Steve Dennis. Man, we're so glad you're with us, all

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Speaker 1: of you across Cowboys Nation mediamash gathered for a Wednesday

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Speaker 1: Cowboys getting set for another divisional foe against the New

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Speaker 1: York Giants, the one team all year that the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: handled in all all aspects offensively, did whatever they want it,

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Speaker 1: pass it, run it whatever. Maybe they need a dose

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Speaker 1: of that this weekend. I am Steve Dennis, happy to

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Speaker 1: be here. I'm in a great mood. I'll explain in

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Speaker 1: a minute. John machowed us here from the Athletic We're

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Speaker 1: from Dallas Cowboys Platforms, and man, what a star. James

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Speaker 1: Later from the NFL Network. Look at her, It's like

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Speaker 1: WWE's like, uh, my hype guy. As I walk out,

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Speaker 1: see I always feel like I'm one of your favorite

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Speaker 1: guys in your life. You actually are. I felt like

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Speaker 1: that for some time now, And I could be wrong,

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Speaker 1: but you're gonna really love me today because I'm coming.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming from such a positive point of view when

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Speaker 1: it comes to the Dallas Cowboys. Now. Maybe it's because

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Speaker 1: I'm going to pick up my kid from college at

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Speaker 1: the airport when the show's over today, daughter, and she's

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Speaker 1: home for a month for Christmas. Oh, that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: Every parent should feel the pain of your only child

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Speaker 1: leaving home and then the excitement of them returning for

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Speaker 1: Christmas and the letdown when they go hang out with

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Speaker 1: all of their flat home and don't see Mom and Dawn. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's fine. Happens to me when I dropped the kid

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Speaker 1: off for daycare for three just so I can't imagine college.

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Speaker 1: I'm as excited as I was when I was a

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Speaker 1: freshman and went home for the first time from college.

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Speaker 1: But we'll put that aside. I'm funneling that toward Cowboys positivity,

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Speaker 1: and I hope you guys will play along. If you

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Speaker 1: don't want to, that's fine, because I'm I love the

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Speaker 1: negative side, always have, as Jane will attest. But I

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Speaker 1: feel like there's a lot of negativity flying around this

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Speaker 1: football team. Right now. Everywhere you turn, there are arguments

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Speaker 1: about DAK. There are discussions about their pretenders. I mean

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Speaker 1: this and that. It's it's everywhere. Do you guys feel

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Speaker 1: like I'm right about that? Is there a very strong

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Speaker 1: whiff of negativity flowing out there? Well, it's funny that

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Speaker 1: you say that, because you know, as I'm prepping for

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Speaker 1: this week, we're talking about a number two offense and

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Speaker 1: a defense that's scoring touchdowns and keeping this team and

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Speaker 1: the game. And then you also look around the league

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Speaker 1: at some of these other teams. Scott hands and had

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Speaker 1: the perfect tweet after the Arizona Cardinal Ram game, which

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Speaker 1: I was at on Monday night football. We don't know

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Speaker 1: who the best team is because you had Matthew Stafford

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Speaker 1: and the Rams. I just said that with an accent.

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Speaker 1: Stafford and the Rams that had what a three game

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Speaker 1: losing streak that they snapped playing Jacksonville, so you weren't

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Speaker 1: expecting much from them, and they were missing all these

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, who had been limited I think career lows

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Speaker 1: And so I John and I were sort of joking

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Speaker 1: see a sort of turnaround with this offense the way

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Speaker 1: between Dak and his wide receivers as it relates to

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Speaker 1: just timing and rhythm. But we've also seen this kind

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Speaker 1: because I feel like we have these conversations with Michael

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Speaker 1: and need some time. Well, let's not jump ahead, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna fix Dak in the second segment. We're gonna all

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Speaker 1: go around saying that's part of the piece of the puzzles. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but I think people are freaking out because what's up

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Speaker 1: as it relates to making a deep run. We've talked

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Speaker 1: how they fare in the postseason. All right, Well, let's

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Speaker 1: Can we do that? Yeah? Can we try to do that?

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Speaker 1: I mean, the record by itself, they are nine and four.

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Speaker 1: But they're nine and four. To me, that is something

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Speaker 1: That's what's exciting because I think if you want to

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Speaker 1: And one of the reasons why is because you look

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Speaker 1: We know what Michael Parsons is. He's an absolute star,

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Speaker 1: not four people getting hurt, Okay, so I'm not I

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Speaker 1: get all into Dak. We're gonna try to fix him

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Speaker 1: Everyone's expectations changed. Everyone's like, yeah, they play in an

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Speaker 1: could this be a super Bowl? And to be in

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Speaker 1: without their quarterback, right, you're not beating either of those teams.

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Speaker 1: have to score points, and that's been the struggle right now.

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Speaker 1: You guys are all busier than me. I'll give you that.

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Speaker 1: I like to fiddle around, And today I fiddled around

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Speaker 1: and looked back. Twenty seven takeaways, fourth best in the

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Speaker 1: So they're on pace with four games left to finish

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Speaker 1: with thirty five takeaways. If they continue their pace, thirty

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Speaker 1: five takeaways I brought up to nine and four record.

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Speaker 1: You got to go back to two thousand and one, well,

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Speaker 1: when they had more takeaways. I don't know why they didn't.

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Speaker 1: They went five games six takeaways in two thousand and one. Now,

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Speaker 1: Aikman was done. In two thousand they had thirty four

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Speaker 1: And we all think they're going to get to it.

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Speaker 1: Accomplishment's very easy, and it's a fair and it's a

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Speaker 1: all right now, I feel like I'm gonna get a

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Speaker 1: little bit more into character. Jane. Here we go. I

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00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,640
Speaker 1: feel like, I mean, you know, even if it never

445
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 1: go full positive, even if it's perfect, it's not perfect

446
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 1: no matter what it is in life. Steve Dennis here

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00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 1: happier with us for mediumsh on this Wednesday, December fifteen,

448
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 1: ten days away from Christmas. Already, could somebody slow down

449
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 1: time please? I'm with you, good grief? Have it shop

450
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,399
Speaker 1: at a ridiculous I know. I watched Sex in the

451
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,720
Speaker 1: City and I got depressed, so I need it. We

452
00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,920
Speaker 1: watched that. My wife loves that show, the new one,

453
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: and then that and just like that, and just like that.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to be when I was in college and

455
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,119
Speaker 1: now I'm just it makes me feel like I'm getting ruled.

456
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 1: I don't want to be. How do you think I

457
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,919
Speaker 1: feel when I hop on the elliptical every morning? Now?

458
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 1: After watching that, I at least it's not a peloton.

459
00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna start the new show with that.

460
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Speaker 1: But my wife has always loved that show, so I

461
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Speaker 1: sit there and watch it with her. Somebody died. No,

462
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: we're not gonna say We're not gonna say it, but

463
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Speaker 1: it's a big we'll talk about story for the show

464
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: people already know, all right, there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: stats flying around. We're not going to throw a bunch

466
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Speaker 1: of negative stats at you. I do like this one though,

467
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Speaker 1: real quick, and to me, turnover largin and third down

468
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Speaker 1: completion third third down percentage or the two most important

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Speaker 1: stats in a football game to me, and the Cowboys

470
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:29,880
Speaker 1: are plus nine in turnover, which is ridiculous. Third downs

471
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Speaker 1: is the only place that I'm going to state stats

472
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Speaker 1: as we try to fix Dac here. It has changed

473
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Speaker 1: immensely in the last four games seventeen of fifty nine

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Speaker 1: on third down that's twenty nine percent. They're now forty

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Speaker 1: percent on the season, but the first nine games they

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Speaker 1: were forty six percent. Forty six percent would be third

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Speaker 1: in the league right now, behind only Kansas City in

478
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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. But the Cowboys are sitting at forty because

479
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,880
Speaker 1: they're in a funk when it comes to third down conversions.

480
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: And if we're gonna sit here and talk about fixing Dak,

481
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: and we will, first we may try to figure out

482
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,760
Speaker 1: what his affliction is. To me, that's where to start.

483
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 1: You have got to convert third downs, and Dak is

484
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 1: usually very very good at it. As the chieftain in

485
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,000
Speaker 1: the effort. It takes them all. But the Cowboys are

486
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Speaker 1: typically since Dak's been here, really good at that, and

487
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: suddenly they're not. Let's start there. How does Dak fix that? Well,

488
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: first of all, it's that's bigger than him. The run

489
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 1: game has to get fixed. There's too much pressing on

490
00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: the passing game that it's going to have to just

491
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Speaker 1: pick up all these third downs. When you start getting

492
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Speaker 1: more yards on first down, then that opens things up.

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Speaker 1: It makes these third downs more manageable. Why do you

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Speaker 1: have to get to third down? Can you just convert

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Speaker 1: on second down? Like why does it have to be?

496
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Speaker 1: Like no, we only have to get three yards per

497
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Speaker 1: play and then on fourth down or third down will

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Speaker 1: convert it on a third and four and you can

499
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Speaker 1: keep getting first downs. You don't need to get to

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Speaker 1: third down all the time. But I just think it's

501
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,119
Speaker 1: so much bigger than just to say, And that's the

502
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 1: thing with sports. Everyone wants you to say like, oh, no,

503
00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: it's it's DA's calf, that's it. That's the answer to it.

504
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,879
Speaker 1: We're good. No, it's not, it's everything. It's it's that

505
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 1: the receivers aren't making catches. Dack's not seeing things. He

506
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: doesn't throw those two picks in Washington if he's seeing

507
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 1: everything right, I mean, those are just unlike him. And

508
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: they don't have to run that play if they're running

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Speaker 1: the ball and finishing the game. To your point, he's

510
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 1: not in a pass mode situation there. Well, it is crazy.

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Speaker 1: If you look at his passing touchdowns at interceptions. Before

512
00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:38,200
Speaker 1: the calf injury, he had sixteen touchdowns, four interceptions. Since

513
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:44,680
Speaker 1: Week nine, eight touchdowns and six interceptions. I've been saying

514
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: this whole season, it's a continuity thing, you know. If

515
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: you look at this, he's during his six games bout

516
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 1: from the injury, the Cowboys rough without Tyren Smith for three,

517
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 1: Marii for two, Ceedee Lamb, and Michael Gallot for one.

518
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: And I don't necessarily think it's Russ, but I was

519
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 1: talking to you guys about this earlier. They've always had

520
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: a timing thing. In other words, these guys have needed

521
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: a lot of reps in order to get into their rhythm.

522
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Speaker 1: And I think that all of that has been compounded.

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Speaker 1: And I think when you're not having continuing on your

524
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: offensive line, that is where you're seeing some of these struggles.

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00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,199
Speaker 1: I had to sit down with Travis Frederick for an

526
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: event that I did a couple of weeks ago, and

527
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: I asked him about that. He watches the games on Sunday,

528
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 1: moved back to Wisconsin, sends these guys some of his

529
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: game notes afterwards. Tons of money with him, right, But

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00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 1: he talks about the importance and the significance of that

531
00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: offensive line and how he has to in his own

532
00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: friend circles explained to people how hard it is to

533
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Speaker 1: just switch one guy from one sided line to the other,

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00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: and the importance of that continuity. And so I just

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00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: don't think we can overstate how much that is I

536
00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 1: think has affected this team this season. All right, well,

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00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 1: let's stop there real quick, because when did we make

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00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,879
Speaker 1: the Connor Williams change. What week was that, Casey the

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00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 1: Chiefs week? Okay, so that was week what? Oh shit?

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00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: And I think they did that. I mean, that's a

541
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: tough week to move Connor McGovern into that Week eleven,

542
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Speaker 1: But I think they did it because it was maybe

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00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: they wanted to give him. So he struggled on downfield

544
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: passes since Week eleven after before I get a talk,

545
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: he wasn't He wasn't great in Week nine against going

546
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,080
Speaker 1: next gen stats on you on that one. They tried

547
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 1: to get McGovern in that role I think before the

548
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving stretch because that wouldn't have been easy for him

549
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,719
Speaker 1: to you know, for sure, it's not the only reason why,

550
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: but Jane changed, right. I mean, Mike has said continuity

551
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,479
Speaker 1: is important on the offensive line, but you also got

552
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: to produce, and so that's why they've shoveled things. Injuries

553
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: have been a part of it, but they're also trying

554
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: to find the right mix. Well, we can't fix that

555
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: yet because Tyrant's going to miss this game. Well that's yeah, okay,

556
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: but let me ask you guys this. I know we're

557
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: talking about DAK, but this is all about helping DAK.

558
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: Do you put Connor Williams back in there even with

559
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: the with the penalties like a longhorn. I'm just saying

560
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: if if it was making more sense for this team.

561
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing it out there. My issue with that

562
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: as we just don't see an to know, Like we

563
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: get to watch the first fifteen twenty minutes of practice

564
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: and when these guys that this is their job professionals

565
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: to break this stuff down, there can be little things

566
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: here and there where they're like, yeah, we're not going

567
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: back to that because yeah, we have to deal with this,

568
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 1: but then we have to deal with this, this and this,

569
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: Like we're not doing this over and over again. This

570
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: is our group we're sticking with and as long as

571
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: these guys are healthy, we're going with this point. Well,

572
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: and that's December. The people who are coming after me

573
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 1: for the last two weeks, I've been saying dacneeds to

574
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: play better, and they're all getting angry at me. Well,

575
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: explain how he needs to play a bit. No, that's

576
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: that's not what I do. Yeah, he just needs to

577
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,719
Speaker 1: play better. He's getting paid forty million dollars a year

578
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 1: to figure out how we play. That's a separate conversation.

579
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: That's two conversations, how much money he makes and why

580
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: the offense isn't correct. It is it is, but that's

581
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: the magnifying glass everything. But just shot de Sive's point.

582
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: We sit here, the four of us talking about this,

583
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: and do you think that us four are going to

584
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: come up with a better plan. Maybe then Kellen Moore,

585
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: Doug nuss Meyer, Mike McCarthy and Ben McAdoo, Like with

586
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: all the success that they've had with offensive football over

587
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 1: to as two decades plus. There's so many fans out

588
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: there that did you leave somebody out? Well, Dak, did

589
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: you say Kelly, Yeah, yeah, those four gas. Here's what

590
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: I'll say real quick. But I think before, before he

591
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: got paid, you're you're just expecting him to do everything.

592
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: That part of the dinner. No, that's part of the part.

593
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,240
Speaker 1: That's part of the dinner. I don't want to hear that.

594
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's the answer, but I'm not against

595
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: people bringing it up. That's all I'm as say. Because

596
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: once you sign that deal, that's right, that comes with

597
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: a different ball game exactly, exactly. Uh And same with

598
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: Romo when he was undrafted, boom, big contract, different conversation.

599
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: Eliot's having the same conversation about his play. Yeah, but

600
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 1: people are bringing that up too. If he was the

601
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: quarterback of the team, they would mention the contract even more.

602
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: But it's the fact that when you're the quarterback, and

603
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: not just the Cowboys, any franchise, when they make you

604
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: that next highest quarterback in the run, you're everyone's gonna get.

605
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: If you're going to four and you have the number

606
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: two ranked offense in the NFL, you could argue has

607
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: a lot to do with your very well paid or

608
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: you could argue that Cooper Rush did fine again. No,

609
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: I'm just saying if you're gonna argue that way, I

610
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: want to say this real quickly before you guys go

611
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: to other issues. The continue of the offensive line was

612
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: a Jane slaterism there, and I want to say this

613
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: before we get to other issues, specifically about the third

614
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: down conversion rates. See to me, that is a quarterback

615
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: stat and I understand that it takes them all, but

616
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: I don't care what the reasons are that you're in

617
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: a third and six or a third and eight, or

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00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: a third and twelve. It could be holding now it's

619
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: third and twelve, whatever the circumstances are. That's where the

620
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: quarterbacks make their money. That's why you pay them forty million.

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Speaker 1: That is a quarterback down. And in my opinion, where

622
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: Dak is making a mistake right now mainly is his

623
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: decision making. He's usually really good at making the right decisions,

624
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: and on third down it gets magnified. You've got to

625
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: make the right decisions. And I think he's a little

626
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: slower than he's been. He's a little more hesitant on

627
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: being confident that this is the right decision. I think

628
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: he'll snap out of it because I think he's an

629
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: elite quarterback and worth before nically make the catches. You're

630
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: running back typically is able to have more than whatever

631
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: his I mean, it's not so the wide receiver point, though.

632
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Speaker 1: I want to add this in here because I want

633
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: to hear there. I want to hear your guys thoughts

634
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: on this. Who is Ben Deck's a one wide receiver

635
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: throughout his entire time his Cowboys quarterback. And I will

636
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: make the argument that Michael Gallant I will make. I

637
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 1: will make the argument that there has not been one.

638
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: And because the bar I'm putting it at is that

639
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski, DeVante Adams, Aaron Rodgers, even DeAndre Hopkins.

640
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: With Kyler Murray like now with Stafford Will used to

641
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: be Calvin Johnson, it's now Cooper Cup Like if you

642
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: look at all the numbers, there really has never been

643
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: that like a one guy that it's like, hey, when

644
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: stuff's really going wrong, Deck will definitely go to this player.

645
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: Because I'm gonna tell you this right now. You say

646
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: it's a Mark Cooper, there can't be games where he's

647
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 1: only getting three targets and making three catches and things

648
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: like that. That's the guy. But he's the one that

649
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: elevated Dak's game. That's that's why I was and so

650
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,239
Speaker 1: why I'm saying, because I don't believe there has been

651
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: maybe to get out of this slump that's going on

652
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,760
Speaker 1: right now, you have to find a guy that, Hey,

653
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 1: if I have to throw this guy thirteen times, even

654
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: if there's a little extra coverage, that's my guy. We're

655
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: going to be on the same page and everything else

656
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: will be built off of that as opposed to just

657
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: like I'll just take whatever's out there, whatever guy's open,

658
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: I'll go to because I just feel like then it's

659
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: like everything is off with that idea with Michells. You guys,

660
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: I haven't actually thought of it that way. It's actually

661
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: interesting I haven't. In the year. Yeah, every quarter namee.

662
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: A quarterback that doesn't have that guy, Patrick Mahomes has,

663
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey, like literally all the elite quarterbacks have that guy.

664
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: CD's kind of been more of that guy. Like I

665
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: think I think CD is going to be the guy

666
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: going forward, and that's where they wanted to be. But

667
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: where is it right now? Okay, when was Amara Cooper

668
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: out with the vaccination status, what weeks was that it

669
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: was case ce and Raiders. Okay, so that's when we

670
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: started to see the sun happen. So maybe there's something

671
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: to that, because I felt like a mari was and

672
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,600
Speaker 1: there was almost like the bragging in Minnesota, like that

673
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: was mine, you know, to get it to him, not

674
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: to Seedee Lamb, because he was that guy. But the

675
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: chemistry and the timing has been off as of late.

676
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: And I would have argued in the past that Michael

677
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 1: Gallupin had been had a really really good chemistry out there. Um,

678
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: and I just Michael. He's made some uncharacteristic drops made Again,

679
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's DAK or if it's them,

680
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's fair to just point the

681
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: finger and say it's DAK. I appreciated Zeke's response saying

682
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: it's it's all of them, because it is. If the

683
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: running game was going, they wouldn't have to rely on

684
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: the wide receivers as much. Get what game do you think?

685
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:49,560
Speaker 1: What game do you think of? Marie Cooper had the

686
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,480
Speaker 1: most targets this year, and it's by a lot Minnesota.

687
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: I would guess Atlanta. Okay, thirteen against Minnesota. No other

688
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: game is he had more than eight? Wow? Oh eight?

689
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,720
Speaker 1: Actually I take that back seventeen against Wow, that's crazy.

690
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,400
Speaker 1: He hits seventeen targets against Tampa Bay. What has happened

691
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: since then? You like, literally look at the targets goes seventeen, five, four, three, six, eight, thirteen.

692
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 1: Tyrant Smith was five. They didn't drive. Offensive line was

693
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: only missing Zach Martin in that one. They didn't Why

694
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,720
Speaker 1: didn't Why didn't you see that against Washington? But everything

695
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: against Washing. I love the way that you're going after

696
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: Amar here after after just the idea has to be

697
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,280
Speaker 1: a number one. Going after Mari is fair game. Nobody

698
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: else will do it. Uh, you're right if you're gonna

699
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: have a relationship and you're gonna be the guy like

700
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 1: Witton was for Romo that you can always count on.

701
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 1: There is no reason why a Mari shouldn't get four

702
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: or five catches in a row, right, no reason. Other

703
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: top receivers do that, and he doesn't. He floats in,

704
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: and he floats out, and he floats in, and then

705
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: there's a big third down he makes a great play

706
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: whoa and then and then he's nowhere to be found

707
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: the next four third downs. Well, isn't that because he

708
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 1: does pull himself out of the game games a few

709
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: times because if he's not feeling right, and then we're

710
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: also seeing them temper them in practice at times. Yeah,

711
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: it's not and it's not going to be like him.

712
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: It's not his personality like some of these other receivers

713
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,760
Speaker 1: where they're like I need to be out there, nobody

714
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: else is going in. That's just not more of a

715
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: dog is headed. Look, this is also a unique offense

716
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: in terms of their their talent level when they're when

717
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 1: their whole it just is I mean they not many

718
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: teams have CD lamb oh and we can turn we

719
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,799
Speaker 1: can hand it off and to Zeke whatever and get

720
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: it wrong when they or Schultz has been a top guy,

721
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: like when they've been at their best, they spread it

722
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: around right and they can get back to their best.

723
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: I'm just saying if you had that one person, I

724
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 1: think that you can build off that and then that

725
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: allows everything to kind of get going when things aren't

726
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 1: going well. Number one. Number two, what about in a

727
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: big game, like we can go back to that the

728
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 1: last Cowboys playoff win with Romo, Like if if they

729
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,359
Speaker 1: don't have that option route that went and runs, they

730
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: probably don't beat the Lions on that. On that I

731
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: don't know if his third or fourth down play, I

732
00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: mean the game was on that, Like there has to

733
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 1: be a bread and butter that it's like, hey, we

734
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: have to be able to go to this And I

735
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: just ask you, what is that point? Is that play?

736
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: Who is that received? Should be a slant to a mari.

737
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 1: But also it was your point to Zeke. You knew

738
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: that this offense was predicated on Zeke no matter what,

739
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: Zeke had the rock right and they haven't had that

740
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: lately for sure Tony Pollard's cut. No, wait, how far

741
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: back you're going with that mentality that that the offense

742
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: was very very You knew who the guy was, even

743
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: though you had Dez on this team, you knew this

744
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: offense was Ezekiel Elliott. I think you bring up a

745
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: good point. Are you gonna write this for the Athletic? Yeah?

746
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: Maybe it's actually a really good point. I would hope

747
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 1: that you may criticize nineteen a little bit. Nobody else

748
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: is doing it, and but is it his fault? Jury

749
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: gets mad at me whenever I do it. But is

750
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: it the coaching staff or a Mari's fault? And how

751
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: much has he doubled, how much has he bracketed? And

752
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,840
Speaker 1: opens things up from again, everybody wants it to be

753
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: not just sports, but just arguments in general, to have

754
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: just the one answer, and there's probably isn't just it's

755
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: a very nuanced one as it were. See this off.

756
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: I'd love to compare what's happening across the league, especially

757
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 1: with the good players. And if you're noticing what Mahomes

758
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: has been doing, you're talking about how Kelsey's his guy

759
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,800
Speaker 1: not so much lately. He's got Tyreek. Mahomes is spreading

760
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: around to everybody. Sprinkle is getting or some Sprinkle Sprinkles

761
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: on this team. Sprinkle Lake Bell is now on their team.

762
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: He's got all kinds of guys. He is spreading it

763
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: around to all of them. And you're right, Stafford, isn't

764
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: Stafford acts like he has one guy. I mean, it's

765
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: like Michael Thomas to Drew Brees now in La Michelle too.

766
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: Though that opens it up for a guy like Cooper Cup. Well,

767
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: he's not getting that much. He's physical. He's opened the

768
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: game up for Cooper Cup to have a more success.

769
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup is getting seventeen targets a game, but he's

770
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: gonna break Michael Thomas's record, and and that's all. I mean.

771
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,439
Speaker 1: My wife and I are going Cooper Cup up again.

772
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 1: Stafford has nobody else. I mean, I Beckham had a

773
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,280
Speaker 1: decent game and whatever night that was was that Sunday.

774
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: You got to have that guy that you just trust that, Hey,

775
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:10,760
Speaker 1: I know he's always going to be in the right spot.

776
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 1: I know exactly where he's going to be because we've

777
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: played together, and I know every single time, no matter

778
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,320
Speaker 1: what breaks down, no matter how they readjust the route,

779
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,919
Speaker 1: I know that when I dropped back that on this step,

780
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: he's going to be there because he's always there. And

781
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: I don't know that they have that guy right now.

782
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: Very very good point. I hadn't thought about that with

783
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: the talent on this offense that we're having this discuss.

784
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: Not a good thing, but not a good thing. But

785
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: I think that they've honestly seen it as an advantage.

786
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and this goes back to Garrett. Garrett was

787
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: always about just hey, take what they give us. We

788
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: don't have one feature guy that we're going to force feed.

789
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 1: You know, they used to force feed TiO back in

790
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: the day, even Dez. We don't do that here, and

791
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: it's kind of carried over. Maybe it's the influence that

792
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore had when he was working under Garrett. I

793
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 1: don't know, well, the dog on the team. That's why

794
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 1: there's all this talk of moving him to running back.

795
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you've got to have that dog

796
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: on offense. Now Dad is the dog. But yeah, I

797
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: mean I have been against a Mari's sort of demeanor

798
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: many times because it just doesn't suit an elite wide receiver.

799
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: And to be honest with you, different people be critical

800
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: of you saying that. And that's why there's thirty two teams.

801
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: And I guarantee you that if we had all thirty

802
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: two gms in here, you'd have a split with maybe

803
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: not even a fifty fifty s, but you definitely have

804
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 1: teams that agree with you. I mean, to be one

805
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 1: the Raiders. That's why they traded a first round pick

806
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: for him. I mean, there's a lot of people that

807
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,800
Speaker 1: when everything's going well, you're like, you traded Amari Cooper

808
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 1: for a first round pick, And then there's other times

809
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 1: we were just like, yeah, I can kind of see

810
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:38,360
Speaker 1: why they did that. If they're if you're not a

811
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,720
Speaker 1: wide receiver and you're in the locker room before, after,

812
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: and during a game begging your quarterback to throw you

813
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:49,280
Speaker 1: the football, then to me, you're not an elite wide receiver.

814
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 1: But is that always good for a locker room? Because

815
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: Obj was that with the Browns, does was that with

816
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: the Cowboys? And that can to here in Dallas. It's

817
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 1: going to get Whitten in the Hall of Fame. That

818
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 1: can sometimes be an issue. I think what I appreciate

819
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 1: about this group as how well they support each other.

820
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 1: They are sort of this U wide receiver by committee.

821
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 1: But I see John's point. I just I think you

822
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: need a dog, but maybe not as vocal. I think

823
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: a Mari is a very misunderstood player because he's one

824
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: of the more cerebral ever interviews. But let me be

825
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: an excellent route runner, and I think he's an asset

826
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: on your team. Let me throw another idea out real

827
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 1: quick and see if you like this. I think that

828
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 1: they were so wounded by Dak being gone last year

829
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:40,479
Speaker 1: that they're all gonna show up when it's playoff time.

830
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody wants Dak to run. Dak is not

831
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 1: gonna run until he is sure that it is time

832
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: to run, and maybe a Mari is just kind of

833
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: waiting until it's time to go. And I mean it

834
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: isn't I look at having all these pieces as like

835
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: it could be a quick fit. Like it hasn't fixed,

836
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: been fixed in several weeks, so people think that, well,

837
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 1: that's it, it's the end of the season, Like, no,

838
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:07,840
Speaker 1: it could get fixed on a matter of like a

839
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: couple series. To be honest with you, I kind of

840
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: bought into the fool's goal. I thought it was fixed

841
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: on that on that one series in New Orleans where

842
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: it was like CD, oh yeah, then gallup, I mean

843
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: then a Mari then gallop, Like it was like, oh,

844
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: this is now they're back. This is gonna defensive line

845
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: in that game. But to your point, we're also like

846
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: sitting here trying to fix this offense. And again is

847
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,919
Speaker 1: the number two ranked offense in the league and they're

848
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: nine and four number one. Oh good. It's the teams

849
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: that they're gonna face in January. That's what it comes to,

850
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: assuming they win the division all that. But Mari's just pacing.

851
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 1: He's won. You know, there's a lot of messy stuff

852
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 1: going they got they got to re establish the line

853
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 1: of scrimmage first. That to me, that's that's the thing.

854
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: Whether you want to talk about the run the passing game,

855
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: and you're right, they got to get that going. The

856
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: run game, to me, it's no coincidence when they run

857
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 1: the ball, Dak plays better than they win. Well, here's

858
00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 1: the thing that weeks two through six Charger game through

859
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: the Patriots game, they were running people over and that

860
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 1: he was so much more efficient. The reason why they

861
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: have to get that offense fixed too is because you

862
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: get nauseated by hearing complimentary football. But this is what

863
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: complimentary football is. With this Dallas Cowboys team. They have

864
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 1: to throw and put up points because they want you

865
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: to throw back against them, so they can have Mica

866
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: pin his ears back and DeMarcus Lawrence and Randy and

867
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: Neville pin their ears back and have to come after

868
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Speaker 1: your quarterback. Other teams, the blueprint every single week is

869
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Speaker 1: this is what they want to do. They want to

870
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Speaker 1: have long possessions that keeps your offense off the field

871
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Speaker 1: and that they can sit there and they can run

872
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Speaker 1: clock and limit the number of possessions because then Mari,

873
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: I mean, then Micah and DeMarcus and Randy can't pin

874
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Speaker 1: their ears back. They have to play run defense. They

875
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Speaker 1: have to do this thing. They don't get as many

876
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 1: chances to wreck the game. But when you have to

877
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Speaker 1: throw against them, that's when they can sit there and

878
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: they can pin their ears back. Trey Vondas can get

879
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: his hands on the balls. That's the way that they

880
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: need to play. That's why the passing game has to

881
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: be fixed for them to reach their potential out all

882
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: right now. One of my favorite things Jane Slater, I'm

883
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Speaker 1: gonna go around the table here, Jane Slater when I'm

884
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Speaker 1: doing nothing at three o'clock in the afternoon during the

885
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Speaker 1: week and she pops up on NFL Network and talks

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Speaker 1: cowboys to me. That's my favorite thing about her. Macholda,

887
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Speaker 1: my favorite thing about you is when you tweet the

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890
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Speaker 1: for me, and I go, thanks, John, how much are

891
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Speaker 1: you going to love it? If they just get wild

892
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:28,439
Speaker 1: one week? And do you have so many things saved

893
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Speaker 1: on this phone waiting for these moments to happen? Can

894
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Speaker 1: I get to Rob. Next. My favorite thing about Rob

895
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Speaker 1: is his three and out column on Dallas Cowboys dot com.

896
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Speaker 1: He always puts something in there of interest. This week

897
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Speaker 1: he put this in there, and it's got me kind

898
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: of changing my position, which upsets me. The first six

899
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: though the last six starts Dak is well. You mentioned

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Speaker 1: his pressure. He's been pressured eighty three times the six

901
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Speaker 1: previous start, sixty six sack thirteen the previous six nine.

902
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: But the rushing numbers one hundred and eighty five yards

903
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: per game in a five game stretch to start the

904
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,359
Speaker 1: season and the last six since the calf injury one

905
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen per game, and his quarterback rating was

906
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 1: one seventeen then it's eighty four now that that is

907
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: so strong. I still think that when you have an

908
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Speaker 1: elite quarterback, and I do believe the Cowboys do in

909
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: the same vein as Mahomes, Rogers, Brady, Josh Justin someday

910
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: out in LA. When you're running the field, sorry don't Herbert.

911
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: When you're not running the ball, your quarterback has to

912
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 1: make the difference, and I think Dak's not doing that.

913
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: He didn't do it against Denver, he didn't do it

914
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: against Kansas City. When when they're stopping the right he

915
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: did against New England. He was great that night. When

916
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: they stop up the run, it's great against Tampa Bay,

917
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 1: that's right. Well, they didn't even try to run against

918
00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. But see Dak can be that. He can

919
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 1: be great like Rogers and forget the run game. But

920
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: when Phillips throws these numbers at me, it's balanced. They

921
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:19,399
Speaker 1: going back to twenty sixteen and they're not run first

922
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: like they were that season. Necessarily, like John's right, they

923
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: got to hit chunk plays in the past game. That's

924
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: the lifeblood of any offense. But going back, Dak has

925
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,359
Speaker 1: always had a running game, it's all. There's always been

926
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: complimentary and they just haven't they haven't found it. They

927
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: feel like they take They've taken a couple of steps

928
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. We'll see. He needs to just

929
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: focus on the short passes in the air, because four

930
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: of his five interceptions since Week eleven one passes of

931
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,799
Speaker 1: ten plus marrying yards. Most CD talked about it today

932
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:46,919
Speaker 1: that the way teams are playing is just different. They're

933
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 1: not blitzing Dak really anymore. They're they're putting guys back deep.

934
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: They want you to throw underneath. They want you to

935
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,200
Speaker 1: sit there and hey, we'll give you this. I mean literally,

936
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: it's like you guys should a lot of you guys

937
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: and seem chandell this because this is what Marinelli was

938
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:00,040
Speaker 1: doing on defense, Like, hey, go ahead and Dank and

939
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: Dunk and Dank and Duncan and do all that stuff underneath.

940
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: And I feel like Dak almost is like I got

941
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: this arm I got these I got these weapons. Even

942
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,399
Speaker 1: if there's some guys back there, I'm gonna I'm gonna

943
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: put one in the window. Yeah, he only has one

944
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: touchdown versus the blitz since week eleven. Yeah, they just

945
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,479
Speaker 1: haven't been blitz in him or it's honestly what they've

946
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: been doing to Mahomes this year, and it was driving

947
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: Mahomes crazy, I think early in the season, and he

948
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,840
Speaker 1: was making like trying to fit stuff in and and

949
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: be heroic and he's throwing picks well. As Romo used

950
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: to always say, is the next one postist to Dak

951
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:32,760
Speaker 1: in terms of those stats right there. So he started

952
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Speaker 1: Dinking and Duncan and it started working for him. What

953
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:38,000
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954
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Speaker 1: they're doing. You gotta make them pay. Dak's not making

955
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Speaker 1: them pay right now. And in the last four games,

956
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Speaker 1: you're talking about a touchdowns interceptions, four touchdowns in the

957
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Speaker 1: last four games, five interceptions. Come on, man, that's not

958
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:56,359
Speaker 1: an offense. That is awful. All right, We're gonna take

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Speaker 1: The man's disappeared on me. He won't answer a text,

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Speaker 1: And I can't figure out why. But I think he's

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1015
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1017
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Speaker 1: exact same thing. I saw Quincy that Byron Nelson this

1018
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Speaker 1: doing like a roundtable with a bunch of former Cowboys

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Speaker 1: and someone asked me, can you include Quincy? And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: where is he sitting right in front of me? You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying for anybody out there that wants to

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Speaker 1: release Oh my god, check it out the way he

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Speaker 1: massage Quincy and got him to play winning football was miraculous.

1030
00:51:58,360 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 1: You know. Garrett did a nice job Dak too, his

1031
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: rookie year, absolutely to make sure his head was right

1032
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Speaker 1: with ball. You want to talk about things that a

1033
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: person will never get credit for that they deserved some

1034
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:11,800
Speaker 1: credit for, it is definitely Dak with Jason Garrett's his

1035
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: rookie year. He'll never Jason will never get any credit.

1036
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Speaker 1: You know. You know why that that year was so

1037
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,520
Speaker 1: important to Jason Garrett. Garrett had a little bit of

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Speaker 1: parcels in and when it came to Romo with the

1039
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: old you gotta keep him on the reservation quote. Garrett

1040
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: hated the willie nilly nature that Romo loved to play.

1041
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:32,840
Speaker 1: You know, Garrett, he's he's like my wife. He's a

1042
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: control freak and h and he wanted to control he

1043
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: likes he loved that year control Dak because Dak would

1044
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: do everything he asked him to and and he just

1045
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 1: was coaching the way he wanted to coach. Yeah, and

1046
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 1: it worked. Yeah, championship, Yeah, it was. It was Garrett's

1047
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 1: best year. He didn't get Coach of the Year that

1048
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Speaker 1: year before he did. Nobody game credit for that. Yeah,

1049
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Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna talk about this us real quick.

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Speaker 1: It is very odd right now. And we've been in

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Speaker 1: We've had ups and downs with it. We've had surges,

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00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:20,800
Speaker 1: first shot, the second shot, and a booster shot. Some haven't.

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00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: But basically, when it comes to our sports, I feel

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00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: like we're all sort of living normal lives. Fans are

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00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: going to the stadiums. I sat in Ohio Stadium with

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00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 1: one hundred and eight fellow Buckeye fans with my wife

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00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,080
Speaker 1: and daughter this fall and didn't think anything of it

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00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 1: and didn't wear a mask. So we're basically. Of course,

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00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:47,440
Speaker 1: Ohio State is one hundred percent vaccinated campus. But all

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00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: of the sudden sports are getting clobbered with these positive tests,

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00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 1: ninety of them in the NFL right now. The NBA

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00:53:55,360 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 1: is calling off games, Chicago is hit bad, the NALL

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00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:06,359
Speaker 1: Carolina hit bad. There are positive test running rampant right now,

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00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:10,879
Speaker 1: so much so I think that the NFL is considering

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00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 1: some repercussions on what they may need to do. Cleveland's

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00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: got sixteen or seventeen players now positive. The Rams have fourteen.

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00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: This is a big time of the year. The NFL

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00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:27,239
Speaker 1: does not need this when the Rams are trying to

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00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 1: fight for the number one seed along with the Cowboys

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00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: and the other three, and the Browns are fighting for

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00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: a playoff spot. We can get into this a lot

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00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 1: of different ways, but let's start with this. The Players

1075
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: Association is saying I told you so to the NFL

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00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 1: because they went away from daily testing and they're only

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00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: testing once a week. And their point of view is

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00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: that these players are getting the virus and then spending

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00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 1: all weeks spreading it and then they're testing on Monday

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00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: and boom, you've got well positive tests. They want to

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00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: go back to the daily test. What do you all

1082
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: think the NFL should do, if anything, to try to

1083
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: curb what's happening right now? Well, I tell you it's

1084
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 1: ridiculous because I was at Monday Night football when Jalen

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00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:18,000
Speaker 1: Ramsey and Tyler Higbee travel with the team to Arizona.

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00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 1: They test on Mondays because Tuesday, because of the players Union,

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00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 1: they it's their day off. You've got two players just

1088
00:55:24,560 --> 00:55:27,319
Speaker 1: chilling in Arizona that have either tested positive or at

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00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: a close contact and they can't play in the game.

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00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: That's a little backwards for me. But yeah, to your point,

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00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: they are talking about this, what is it? Judy Batista

1092
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 1: at my network talking about it today that the shortening

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00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:44,080
Speaker 1: the time period for return of a vaccinated asymptomatic player

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00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:47,320
Speaker 1: who has tested positive if it wants to review with

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00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: the public Health authority. The thing keeps changing so much.

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00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:52,400
Speaker 1: That's what we have reporters at our network that are

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00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:55,479
Speaker 1: dedicated to these policies because I think even for you guys,

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00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I know for me,

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00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, explain this thing to me, because they're so

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00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: many different guidelines for different people. Let me just add

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00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 1: this real quick on there. And I could be wrong

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00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: in this. I just there isn't a player that's jumping

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00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: out to me for the Cowboys that has had it,

1104
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about even vaccinated that didn't get to

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00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 1: play in a game, but then was like, yeah, I

1106
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 1: was completely fine. I should have played. Now, A Mari

1107
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:20,840
Speaker 1: says that, But then A Mari also played an abbreviated

1108
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: amount of snaps in that New Orleans game and even

1109
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:25,560
Speaker 1: like still had a cough and wasn't feeling one hundred percent.

1110
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: Zack Martin talked about like how bad he was feeling

1111
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: and things like that. I don't know many players that

1112
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:31,800
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, I could have played through this, like

1113
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 1: they're just I haven't heard many of that with the Cowboys,

1114
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 1: And obviously the Cowboys have had more than their share

1115
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,239
Speaker 1: of positive tests. So while I understand that that's a

1116
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 1: talking point on this, I don't know how many guys

1117
00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:44,400
Speaker 1: are really feel like, yeah, they kept me out and

1118
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 1: I was good to go. I should have been able

1119
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: to start there, Like most of the guys that I

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00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:50,439
Speaker 1: know of on this team like said that they felt

1121
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: pretty bad. That's a great point because in the middle

1122
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:55,919
Speaker 1: of all this, there is no transparency what you're saying

1123
00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: you want answers on this, or that we don't get them,

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00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: we don't know it because privacy, etc. And once they

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00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 1: go into the protocol, we have no idea. But I

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00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:08,919
Speaker 1: do think that Jane makes a decent point. A lot

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00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 1: of these players that are testing positive right now are asymptomatic.

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00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: It's just a positive test, and the league may consider

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00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 1: letting those players play because they're out there practicing anyway

1130
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: with their team until they get the positive test. But

1131
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I'm not sick, I can play, but

1132
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: you can still pass it on. That's that's the thing.

1133
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm saying, Like, what's the litmus test

1134
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: where I feel fine, I'm positive, but I can still

1135
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:41,520
Speaker 1: because there aren't going to be players like I'm playing

1136
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: no matter what. There are guys out there. There's guys

1137
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: that are playing. Zeke is playing through a knee injury

1138
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: right now. Um So the whole thing I thought, Well,

1139
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 1: it's a nightmare for the NFL. It's a nightmare for

1140
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: the NFL because their own protocols are threatening to shut

1141
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: down their league or a team or two, or a

1142
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: game or two at the absolute worst time of the year. Well,

1143
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: to your point, Washington is looking at they're injured and

1144
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:10,040
Speaker 1: their COVID list. I think there's thirty all totaled that

1145
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: you're and as this thing gets more contagious and again

1146
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 1: people are testing positive. But this omicron is a lot

1147
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 1: less severe in terms of what it does to you,

1148
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 1: and the symptoms are a lot so far, well, the

1149
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:24,080
Speaker 1: symptoms as described by people who've had it have been

1150
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: a lot more milder. But I just you're looking that

1151
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: it being a competitive disadvantage for We're just gonna stick

1152
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: to football as you get into playoffs. I mean, now

1153
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 1: we're looking at Kevin Stefanski and Baker Mayfield aren't available

1154
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 1: for the Browns this weekend. To our knowledge, DAC hasn't

1155
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 1: had it yet. What happens to this team, that's right?

1156
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: And what can the league do about it? Rob would

1157
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: I don't know anything, but I would be surprised if

1158
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: they didn't change their policy on some level. You know. Again,

1159
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: maybe that's got to be collectively bargained. And so does

1160
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 1: the booster shots for players. Now they've got Tier one

1161
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: and Tier two staff that's going to have to get

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00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: boostered in the next two weeks. I've got an email

1163
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: about that. That's yeah, that's a step forward. Maybe there's

1164
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 1: a compromise in the number of days testing per week.

1165
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not daily, but maybe it's more. I mean,

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00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: I hear the part about asymptomatic, but now you've got

1167
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: a new variant that you don't know everything about, and

1168
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: you can be asymptomatic, but you can pass it on

1169
00:59:18,680 --> 00:59:20,800
Speaker 1: to somebody who could have more severe symptoms. It's still

1170
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 1: such a new virus that there's still concerns about what

1171
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 1: it could do to anybody. Who gets it, so they've

1172
00:59:26,480 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: got to be very careful there. I agree. And if

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00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: you're the Players Union, you're like, well, what about player X,

1174
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 1: Y and Z who's had it this season, who has

1175
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: natural immunity? How do you force a Covido booster shot

1176
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: on them? There's that too, you know, you talk about

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00:59:39,840 --> 00:59:41,720
Speaker 1: Who are you talking about? I'm saying for players? Yeah,

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00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: I can't forceend any players. I'm saying because the cbif

1179
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: on the Players Union, I'm saying, We'll wait a minute,

1180
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 1: what about the players you've already had it this season? Okay?

1181
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 1: Can we force a booster shot on that? Here's my point.

1182
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: We all live our lives, right, we all have friends everywhere.

1183
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 1: I can honestly tell you that the only people I

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00:59:57,200 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 1: have heard about testing positive in my life in the

1185
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: last three weeks have been pro athletes. I have no friends,

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01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 1: and they're getting we went through many Hold up real

1187
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 1: quick here, how many? Yeah, That's what I'm saying. And

1188
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:14,480
Speaker 1: then how many of your friends and family are like

1189
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 1: going to go out of their way to tell you that? Like,

1190
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 1: these players wouldn't tell us this. It's just because of

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01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 1: the protocols we know about it. There's a lot of

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01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:22,400
Speaker 1: people that I know that have had COVID that didn't

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01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:24,560
Speaker 1: even tell me. Now I'm saying that people I was around,

1194
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Speaker 1: but friends and stuff that, like back in Michigan where

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01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 1: I'm front, they were like, I didn't find out about

1196
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 1: it until a couple months after, Like, yeah, I had

1197
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 1: it too, Like I had to go through. I felt

1198
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: like pretty sick for a little bit. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you never mentioned that. It's like, why would I just

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01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 1: offer that up? You know, I didn't even know I

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01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:38,919
Speaker 1: hadn't should it. Well, I didn't even know I hadn't

1202
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Speaker 1: until I took annibuddy test. So here I was just

1203
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:43,440
Speaker 1: floating around not knowing that I hadn't until I was

1204
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 1: just curious as I was getting ready to travel more

1205
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:47,840
Speaker 1: for work. I just want to know if I need

1206
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: to be looking over my shoulder. And I found out

1207
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:51,280
Speaker 1: that last year I had it at some point. But

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01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 1: if we all read, and we've all been reading, I

1209
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 1: mean we're all becoming little experts on because you feel

1210
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 1: like you have to read whatever you can. This is

1211
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: what a virus will do. It'll it'll latch on where

1212
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 1: it can, and it weekends. It weekends at weekends. So

1213
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 1: at this point many of us may have it, yeah,

1214
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 1: and would not pass a test, would get a positive test,

1215
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: But we're not testing, so we have no we're vaccinated

1216
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: and we get a little sniffle, we go is this it?

1217
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 1: Do I have it? And you wonder should I go?

1218
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 1: Get tested? So we have to get tested once a

1219
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 1: week here every Wednesday. I got tested at the beginning

1220
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Speaker 1: of the year downstairs. Yeah, it's the only time I've

1221
01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: ever been tested. Was here to do this show for

1222
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 1: the Cowboy. It's just still new. That's why you're still

1223
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:40,320
Speaker 1: learning about it. If if this ten years down the road,

1224
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: hopefully it's you treat it like a cold and you

1225
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:45,440
Speaker 1: get sick and you play through it, especially as they

1226
01:01:45,520 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: get more treatments available. Stuff. I'm with you right now.

1227
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Speaker 1: We gotta go. I gotta get my daughter at the airports. Later,

1228
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:53,919
Speaker 1: I gotta get my daughter. She's she's gonna be waiting

1229
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Speaker 1: at her gate. You don't want that to happen, do

1230
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:57,480
Speaker 1: you want that? I gotta go your check out, places

1231
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 1: to go. You always have places to go. Yeah, everybody

1232
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:04,760
Speaker 1: keep your eye out on this. The NFL may do something.

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01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 1: I don't know what they can do, but it's getting

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01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:11,479
Speaker 1: a little scary. For him at a very important time

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Speaker 1: of the year. I want to thank rookie Chris Beam

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01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:17,720
Speaker 1: as always, thank you guys for let me talk Cowboys again.

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01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 1: We'll do it again to mar at four o'clock. I

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01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: gotta go get my kid from the airport. Bye bye.

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Speaker 1: This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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