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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.

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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, May eleven, twenty twenty two, Season eighteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number eight. Welcome to the latest edition of The

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Speaker 1: Break Life and s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star.

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Speaker 1: We've got a little bit of time here today to

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Speaker 1: talk to you guys about a lot of different things.

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Speaker 1: We have the Rookie Minicamp coming up this weekend. We

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Speaker 1: and what you guys will be looking for this weekend.

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Speaker 1: If anything, we'll talk about a little bit about that.

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Speaker 1: We'll also talk about schedule release that's coming up tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Lots of interesting things coming out of that. As usual.

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Speaker 1: The NFL UH that is a super Bowl for digital

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Speaker 1: media groups around the NFL. Should be fun tomorrow. Stop it.

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Speaker 1: Dave cares what you think about that. I didn't say

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Speaker 1: anything you invited me into that, I did, uh, And

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Speaker 1: a little time to talk about a second NFL team

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Speaker 1: maybe we won't, but we'll see how that goes. How

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Speaker 1: you doing, Nike Goode? Yeah, you know, I figure if

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Speaker 1: we have a little time, we might throw it out

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Speaker 1: I know, we'll get to that. Um. So let's start

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Speaker 1: first with the rookies. UM, we last week did a

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Speaker 1: deep dive into each player that was drafting your thoughts

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Speaker 1: in this weekend, some of the things that are intriguing

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Speaker 1: do know the rookie mini campus coming up Friday Saturday.

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Speaker 1: They'll be arriving on Thursday. We'll have lots of content

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Speaker 1: following those guys interviewing those guys will get to see

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Speaker 1: the rookies for the first time in Cowboys uniforms, so

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Speaker 1: that should be somewhat exciting for fans out there. Let's

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Speaker 1: go back to the draft, though, and as you look

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Speaker 1: across the entire draft, the entire lot of Cowboys picks,

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Speaker 1: who was the most intriguing draft pick for you? Most

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Speaker 1: Real quick. Going back to Sam Williams, I forget, uh whatever, man,

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Speaker 1: from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we're

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Speaker 1: talking about the rookie class. They will be in on

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Speaker 1: Thursday to start the rookie manning camp practices on Friday

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Speaker 1: and Saturday. Here's a question for you guys. What will

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Speaker 1: the holes or what holes do you think still exist

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Speaker 1: on this team after the draft that maybe the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: will have to address in free agent. Address in free

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Speaker 1: agency at some point and how should they address them?

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Speaker 1: I mean, we spend a decent amount of time on

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. I just and they've already said they're

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Speaker 1: not going to do it, so that's fine. We'll see

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Speaker 1: how it goes. But I could see a scenario where

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Speaker 1: you don't feel good about your swing tackle at some

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Speaker 1: point this summer, maybe during training camp, maybe during roster cuts.

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Speaker 1: Give Tyler Smith the benefit of the doubt. But if

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Speaker 1: he and I feel fine that he'll be good or

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Speaker 1: he'll be But I mean if he's not and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, now Connor McGovern is, you know, that's

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Speaker 1: not a wonderful situation to be in. But we'll give

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Speaker 1: We'll give Tyler Smith the benefit of the doubt. I

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Speaker 1: feel okay about that. Um after offensive line or specifically

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Speaker 1: swing tackle, I would say linebacker, like I just said

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Speaker 1: in the last segment. Yeah, I mean, I'm tired of

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Speaker 1: saying that I think center is a problem because they

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Speaker 1: don't so well they obviously may I mean I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: say obviously may. It's obvious to me that they're at

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Speaker 1: least thinking about it because they're looking at Fanniac right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but they also signed two undrafted guys, not that that

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Speaker 1: that is not a you know what I mean, a

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Speaker 1: late draft pick, So it's not like he's like was

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Speaker 1: brought in here to take his job. I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: I think they're looking at and saying all the better

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Speaker 1: options at least asking that question. Well, you know, that's

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Speaker 1: that's a fair that's a fair point. But also you

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Speaker 1: could say you had nine draft picks and you didn't

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Speaker 1: take you know, I think you had a chance to

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Speaker 1: take the best center in the draft, whoever they think

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Speaker 1: that is. They were all available to them. That maybe

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Speaker 1: they think that this is a very weak draft class.

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Speaker 1: You know, they probably do, But I'm just saying they

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Speaker 1: didn't even you know, you're you're you're going to go

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Speaker 1: off of Farniok, who hasn't played as many snaps at

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Speaker 1: center as McGovern. So you know, they didn't really thrown

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Speaker 1: anybody else out there a little bit. Couldn't that also

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Speaker 1: be the fact, though, that the positions that they did

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Speaker 1: that center that you were talking about. And that takes

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Speaker 1: all back to what I'm saying. They don't view that

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Speaker 1: issue as much as I as I do. I just

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Speaker 1: think it's still seems to be a problem. But if

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Speaker 1: they're if they're going to keep trying to get him developed,

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Speaker 1: that's fine. I mean that's what they did with Terrence

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Speaker 1: Steele and it worked. Is there a position that they

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Speaker 1: where you felt like that position was less of an

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean I would have I would have

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Speaker 1: taken a center there, but um, you know, I'm not

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Speaker 1: as sold and I haven't seen as much tape, so

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Speaker 1: I just get maybe I'm going with the small school there,

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Speaker 1: but I just I'm not as sold as t toldber

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Speaker 1: going to come right in and help at receiver. I

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Speaker 1: still think they have some issues at receiver. Um, they're

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Speaker 1: just banking on a South Alabama rookie to be good,

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Speaker 1: or James Washington to finally kind of resurrect his career

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Speaker 1: or whatever it is, the kind of banking on something

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Speaker 1: or Gallop getting healthy or CD proving that he could

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Speaker 1: be number one when he hasn't shown that yet. Well,

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Speaker 1: he's already number one, right, proving to be a worthy

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Speaker 1: number one that you can count on every game, including

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, when you're getting beat by the forty nine ers,

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Speaker 1: show up. That's all I'm saying. Prove that he hasn't

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Speaker 1: proven that has he known? But Cooper had neat Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that. I don't know that Cooper was

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Speaker 1: a he showed up every game, Like, seriously, he showed

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Speaker 1: up enough. Yeah, I mean he's taken over enough games

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Speaker 1: in his career. I get that he had some and

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Speaker 1: some really great games. I don't think I don't think

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Speaker 1: that every game they relied on him agreed. Okay, that's

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Speaker 1: that's their m O anyway. Okay, and maybe maybe it is.

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Speaker 1: I mean, who knows whether it's them, whether it's him,

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Speaker 1: whether it's the quarterback. Like, there's a lot of different

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Speaker 1: factors of what that could what could be the issue there.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think he was like a consistent every

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Speaker 1: game he was like and they traded him for a

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Speaker 1: bag of chip. So my point is is that that's

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Speaker 1: still the problem. But none of the receivers you have

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Speaker 1: have to me, they all have some kind of major

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Speaker 1: question marks. Whether can they take it to the next level,

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Speaker 1: can they be quality? I mean, there's they all have

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Speaker 1: their question marks, and so that's that's gonna be interesting.

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Speaker 1: I'm very high on Jalen Tolder, but it's undeniable. They

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Speaker 1: purposefully got worse at that position and they're not They're

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Speaker 1: not better than they were, and they just yeah, we

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Speaker 1: didn't even mention Cedric, but yeah, Cooper and Cedric together,

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Speaker 1: they purposefully got worse. I mean, losing Cedric. There's only

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Speaker 1: so much you can do. But they sent a Mario away.

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Speaker 1: They clearly wasn't about money at the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: They feel that way, that's fine, we'll see if they're right.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they are. I don't either. I would

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Speaker 1: have I would have restructured a mari and not signed Gallop.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would have done. And if if I

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Speaker 1: would have had Jalen Tilbert in the third round, he

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Speaker 1: still draft them there because you still could get James Washington.

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Speaker 1: You can still do that. But I would have liked

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Speaker 1: that situation better. Bus they're going to be catching balls

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Speaker 1: this weekend as opposed to you know, the chords and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. But I saw I saw Gallop the

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Speaker 1: other day like out there. I mean, I think it's good.

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Speaker 1: It seems like it's a you know, I don't know

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Speaker 1: much about acl injuries and when they come back and

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Speaker 1: all that, but you just know what the guy's able

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Speaker 1: to do here at early May or mid May. You know,

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Speaker 1: it seems optimistic. He seems like he's where he's supposed

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Speaker 1: to be. Yeah, So yeah, I think I agree with

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Speaker 1: you guys. I think that they're probably as many question

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Speaker 1: marks at the wide receiver position as an any position

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Speaker 1: on this team. Although I think they've addressed it from

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Speaker 1: the standpoint of a numbers game, like they got numbers

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Speaker 1: at this point. It's just they all got question marks.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, can everybody take the next step up? Right?

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Speaker 1: Everybody has to take the next step up And although

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Speaker 1: you know, although CD is he was the number one

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Speaker 1: receiver last year statistically, he didn't have to do it

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Speaker 1: without Anamaria on the opposite side. That's the part that

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Speaker 1: you got to think about, figure out what that looks

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Speaker 1: like the game, yeah, and see what happened exactly. So

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Speaker 1: that's the part that I think there's just a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions at that position, and I think that they

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Speaker 1: addressed it as they see fit. And I don't have

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Speaker 1: as much of a problem with the move from Amari

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Speaker 1: if it is what I think it is, which is

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Speaker 1: they felt like maybe they wanted a different kind of

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Speaker 1: mentality at the receiver position, which that's fair if they

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Speaker 1: want to go with somebody seems to be a little

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Speaker 1: bit more, you know, kind of cut your throat kind

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Speaker 1: of player. By all means to do that, if that's

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Speaker 1: what you choose to do. But I don't think that

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Speaker 1: just from a pure ability standpoint, I don't think they

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Speaker 1: got better. And I mean, clear Ma was the same

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Speaker 1: guy the whole time he was here, as far I'm aware,

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Speaker 1: and that it led to some really successful moments, not

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Speaker 1: all the time, You're right, but to just be like

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Speaker 1: this is so bad that we got to get rid

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Speaker 1: of it right now, and our receiver corps will be

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Speaker 1: lesser because of it. Coming off of a twelve and

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Speaker 1: five season, it's just hard to record. So well, you

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Speaker 1: know what I do one day, if they could have

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Speaker 1: drafted Tilbert, like Manick just said, they could have still

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Speaker 1: drafted Tilbert with a mari on the team, and then

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Speaker 1: maybe even you've got a long term succession plan, like

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Speaker 1: this guy can sit and develop for a year, and

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Speaker 1: if he only catches fifteen passes, that's not the end

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Speaker 1: of the world. And then next year we can talk

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Speaker 1: about the future. But now it's like, no, this guy

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Speaker 1: needs to be good right away. Could Could it be

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Speaker 1: the fact that Cowboys decision makers saw what happened against

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, They saw that final half quarter of the

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Speaker 1: season where it felt like it felt like in a

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Speaker 1: lot of situations, the Cowboys were getting beat up, and

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Speaker 1: maybe they just felt like, yeah, we got some talented guys,

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Speaker 1: but we don't have enough guys that that when we're

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Speaker 1: getting beat up, are willing to kind of be willing

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Speaker 1: to fight back. And I don't want to make it

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Speaker 1: seem like they weren't playing hard. That wasn't the issue,

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I just think that just that mentality.

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Speaker 1: It's the mentality of way San Francisco came in there.

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Speaker 1: It's just a different kind of mentality. The Niners bullied them,

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Speaker 1: and there every pick they made looks like it was

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Speaker 1: aimed at addressing that fright, right, I keep going back

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Speaker 1: to the New England game. You know, I think we

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Speaker 1: all think that Bill Belichick's one of the greatest to

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Speaker 1: ever do it, if not the best. He told you

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Speaker 1: who he thought was the best player on the team,

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Speaker 1: and he tried to take him out of the game.

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Speaker 1: Plus if you look at the salaries. Now, yeah, you

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Speaker 1: look at the pretty nice, doesn't it. But it wasn't

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Speaker 1: about money. We all we've all said that we know

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Speaker 1: that money was not the driver of this. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I think it. I mean, I've said it before.

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Speaker 1: It it all snowballs together. I think money was in

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Speaker 1: the front seat. I mean, yes, I mean, don't you

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Speaker 1: don't think I think it was a byproduct. Honestly, I

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Speaker 1: think I think that they wanted a different kind of receiver.

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Speaker 1: I honestly do. I don't think it was about the money,

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Speaker 1: because it wouldn't like they turned around and use that

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Speaker 1: money on a lot of other stuff. Like, I don't

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Speaker 1: think it was about the money. Well, I mean, they

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Speaker 1: could have kept him and they would have been in

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Speaker 1: a in a they would not have been in a

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Speaker 1: bad cap situation. Right, Um, I mean it depends on

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Speaker 1: what they had the restructure. They they'd have the restructure

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Speaker 1: and then but yeah, they didn't sound like maybe he

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Speaker 1: wanted to do Yeah, they didn't really want to restructure.

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Speaker 1: I do think money was a factor. Clearly, they had

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Speaker 1: their reasons to do what they did and make the

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Speaker 1: decisions that they made. But as I'm sitting here listening

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Speaker 1: to you guys, I'm just I find it so hard

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Speaker 1: to think that this season, as the team looks right now,

646
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Speaker 1: it's gonna turn out okay for the Cowboys. Like I

647
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: am having a hard time visualizing that because you talked

648
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: about the wide receiver position. I just think they did

649
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: take a step back overall, and they're counting on so

650
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: many young guys all around the offense. And you look

651
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Speaker 1: at the oline. We keep talking about the oline. I

652
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: look at a game or I think I'm not trusting

653
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Speaker 1: Tyren Smith to be there. I think we can all

654
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Speaker 1: agree on that that at some point he's going to

655
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Speaker 1: come out of the game. What does that look like? Now?

656
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Speaker 1: Then you got a guy like Dad Prescott that got

657
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 1: injured two years ago, came back, Okay, he's doing great.

658
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: Then he reinjured himself. What was it the shoulder? Then

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00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,920
Speaker 1: he went through the procedures. He's coming back. He looks

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Speaker 1: healthy and everything like that. But that's still in the

661
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Speaker 1: back of your mind, you know, being cautious of that.

662
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Speaker 1: Then you see how the running game was affected. Now

663
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Speaker 1: you're trying to count on these young guys to be

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Speaker 1: able to protect to help the run game the past game,

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Speaker 1: then also white receivers to hope that they do what

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Speaker 1: they need to do to hope that city Land and

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Speaker 1: I think that city Land can definitely be that guy,

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Speaker 1: but the players around him while he's trying to do that,

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Speaker 1: it's just gonna be really really hard for them to

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Speaker 1: be able to accomplish all of that with all those

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Speaker 1: moving pieces and make it work as well as they

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Speaker 1: did last year with what they've got. And I think

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Speaker 1: that clearly they've putting a lot of trust on a

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Speaker 1: lot of people, but I can't see it. I really

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Speaker 1: can't you know ultimately who they're putting their trust in.

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Speaker 1: Dak like this is all like this is what happens

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Speaker 1: when you pay a quarterback huge money like that is

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Speaker 1: at some point you gotta be like man, you have

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Speaker 1: to be the man, and sometimes you got to be

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Speaker 1: the man when others around you are not. So it

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Speaker 1: might just be the situation that can Da be that

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Speaker 1: kind of guy. We don't know. We don't know, but

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Speaker 1: we've seen. We can only talk about and speak about

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Speaker 1: what we've seen so far, and what we've seen is

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Speaker 1: that he is the kind of guy who does need

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Speaker 1: help around him. And yes, he can make great throws.

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Speaker 1: We've seen the way that he's the developed as a

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Speaker 1: player from when he started to where he's at now

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Speaker 1: being able to throw down feel he's improved so much

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Speaker 1: in that aspect. But he needs help around him and

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen We haven't, I mean unless you guys

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Speaker 1: saw plays that I missed, But we haven't seen him

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Speaker 1: be the guy that the team can fully rely on.

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Speaker 1: He needs the protection at least, and he needs those

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Speaker 1: guys that can catch the ball for him. This conversation

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Speaker 1: doesn't sit right with me, because they all do and

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Speaker 1: we've seen it time and time again. Patrick Mahomes was

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Speaker 1: nothing without his offensive line he had. He's got arguably

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Speaker 1: the best like duo of past catchers in the league.

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Speaker 1: And now we're about to find out just how I mean.

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Speaker 1: I know he's amazing, but we'll see what do you

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Speaker 1: look without? What do you look like without Tyreek Hill?

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00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: Everybody needs help and the Tharon Rodgers might be the

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Speaker 1: only exception in the NFL right now because he's had

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Speaker 1: to kind of adapt to different receivers. Well do you

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Speaker 1: think the Cowboys have given Dak no no? And what

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Speaker 1: rubs me the wrong way is that they got rid

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Speaker 1: of a lot of it needlessly. We'll see, and I yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think they're setting him up for a bad time

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Speaker 1: this year at least. And that's why I go back

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Speaker 1: to the fact that I just like they're they're not

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Speaker 1: better for twenty twenty two, and I think deep in

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Speaker 1: the recesses of their inner sanctum, I think they're okay

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Speaker 1: with that. Because they play in a week division. They

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Speaker 1: can still make the playoffs with They can make the

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Speaker 1: playoffs with this team. Once again, Dave set up the

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Speaker 1: next second so far perfectly. We're gonna take our final break.

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Speaker 1: When to come back, We're gonna talk about schedule release.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about some of the matchups that the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys have, some interesting matchups. There was also one of

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Speaker 1: the games I was released today that we do know already.

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Speaker 1: When that's gonna happen, we'll talk about that. We'll come back.

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Speaker 1: at the Star And tomorrow is the day the schedule

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Speaker 1: is released. I'm very excited. We got some surprises for

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Speaker 1: you fans out there. I have not have I have

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Speaker 1: I seen what the schedule. I'm not gonna answer that question,

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Speaker 1: but they're the schedule will be released for the general

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Speaker 1: public on tomorrow and uh yeah, yeah, and uh and

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Speaker 1: we have we'll have some weap video as we do

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Speaker 1: every year. Last year, if you remember, it was the

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Speaker 1: post malone video. This year, it'll be some other little

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Speaker 1: surprises for you guys. And um, what what are you laughing?

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Speaker 1: Because I've heard some whispers of what that could be,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know. I haven't seen it yet. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure it's going to be good. It's gonna be good.

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Speaker 1: I wonder. I love the you said it. You're you're like,

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Speaker 1: this is the super Bowl for more digital media teams,

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00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: like this is the event every year where you measure

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Speaker 1: yourself against the rest of the league and everybody else

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Speaker 1: is like you still only the freaking games. I don't

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Speaker 1: care the schedule. Yeah, I don't know. I think playing

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Speaker 1: fans have kind of gotten you no No, and and

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Speaker 1: the really good ones are great, like the post video

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Speaker 1: was amazing. I'll never forget the one the Falcons did

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Speaker 1: that was like Game of Thrones a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: That one they controlled the Saints. I don't remember in

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Speaker 1: the middle of it. There's usually like an Easter egg

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Speaker 1: in there somewhere. They are cool and I will enjoy

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Speaker 1: a few of them, but at the same time, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I just get a PDF with the games, can't I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to book flights, I'm trying to figure things out

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Speaker 1: all the Yeah, I know the videos are just for

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Speaker 1: just for the fun of it, right, Like as a

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Speaker 1: matter of fact, like in our video, the schedule is

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Speaker 1: Like it's a long video, but it's only up for

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Speaker 1: a few seconds. The schedule is kind of irrelevant to it,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of like just to do something fun.

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Speaker 1: It's like how the Super Bowl has become such a

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Speaker 1: big deal for advertising agencies. Yeah, I mean, and and well,

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Speaker 1: I think what makes it fun about these videos is

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Speaker 1: so like like there's some times when you're like, yeah, okay, no,

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Speaker 1: let's try it next year. Yeah. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the beautiful things about working here. I've

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Speaker 1: had ownership tell me a number of times, look, whyn't

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Speaker 1: you guys a swing for the fences. Sometimes that means

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Speaker 1: you're gonna strike out, like it's okay, but go out

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Speaker 1: going for something that's really cool and interesting and so yeah.

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Speaker 1: There have been some years we thought it might do

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Speaker 1: well and it just didn't do so well. There are

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Speaker 1: other years that it went really crazy and people loved it.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, you just you It's with any creative work, right,

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Speaker 1: best and see how it goes. I don't seen it yet.

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Speaker 1: I do think this is gonna be pretty interesting because

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little bit shocking, a little bit surprising.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see as I'm looking up. Um, okay, so

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Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. Here's the schedule. We do

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Speaker 1: know today. There was a game that was announced today

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Speaker 1: to lambeau Field in Green Bay, three twenty five kick time,

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Speaker 1: expecting a blizzard. Nick Or did the Cowboys kind of

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Speaker 1: escape one because anytime you know, you gotta go to

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Speaker 1: Green Bay, you always are looking at that date of

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Speaker 1: when that game is gonna fall, right, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be cold. I mean, but I definitely think

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Speaker 1: that you escaped that. Um yeah, I mean that's that's

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Speaker 1: good for both though. I mean, but think about it too,

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Speaker 1: like to be the team that the Cowboys probably need.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna need to run the football better. So you know,

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Speaker 1: be the team, like I said that they want to be,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they shouldn't be. Was worried about games like that,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'd rather I mean, we saw Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: that was the forty Niners had to block. They might

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Speaker 1: have scored one touchdown, but he wasn't the same. So

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not saying it's really a great thing

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Speaker 1: like you know, I mean for us, yeah, we don't

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848
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Speaker 1: don't have to pack your fur coat. But average temperature

849
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: on November thirteenth and Green Bay is about forty. It

850
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: was thirty five for their game that weekend last year.

851
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's a wine place in the world.

852
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: That's that's actually really great weather for a football game. Yeah,

853
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: you know, you're talking low forties, maybe upper thirties. That's

854
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: a pretty good game in the NFL. If there's five

855
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: when you're speaking, that's way too cold for you studio.

856
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: I mean, go into our studio and that happens there.

857
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: All right. So you look at some of the teams

858
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: that Cowboys are gonna play this year. We do know

859
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: that they got home games against the MFC East. They

860
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: got Chicago, Detroit, Tampa Bay, Indie, Houston, and Cincinnati. Are

861
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 1: your last Chicago? Do you have Chicago schedule? I'm more

862
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: worried about Chicago. Why, Well, Chicago is a home game.

863
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: That's a home game. Yeah, home game, so they're coming here,

864
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: so we're not worried about that. Uh yeah, Well that's

865
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: been the coldest I've ever been is at that game

866
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: that was at on the road. Yeah, that was a

867
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: cold gang all right. And then on the road they've

868
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: got the NFC East again, Green Bay, Minnesota, the Rams, Jacksonville,

869
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: and Tennessee. Dave, you mentioned it a little earlier. They

870
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: have the easiest schedule in if NFL. If you want

871
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: to look at it from the standpoint of the win

872
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,320
Speaker 1: loss record of their opponents in twenty twenty one. My

873
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: question for you guys, how much does that matter? It

874
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: doesn't matter every every year. We do this every every year.

875
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: You're trying to assign wins and losses based on what

876
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: the schedule looks like in May. And nobody in their

877
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: right mind saw the Bengals making a run at the

878
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 1: super Bowl like all of us. You know, this time

879
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,439
Speaker 1: last year, you're like, it should be a win. That's

880
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 1: I mean, we're better like Burrows good, but we're better

881
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 1: than the Bengals. Now it's like, well, crap, the super

882
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: Bowl runner ups coming to town. Like, I mean, it's

883
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: ridiculous to try to guess this stuff. Having said that,

884
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: I do think there's a difference. I say this all

885
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: the time. There's like four teams that are clearly better

886
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: than everyone, and four teams that are clearly worse, and

887
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: then the rest is anybody's guests. But a few of

888
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: those teams that are clearly very bad are on the

889
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: Cowboys schedule, Like you shouldn't if they make the playoffs,

890
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 1: can come. I'll eat all the crow you want. Like,

891
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:15,399
Speaker 1: you should be able to beat Houston, Detroit, Chicago, like

892
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: those three teams. I hold off on Jacksonville. Really you

893
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: hold off on jackson I'm not saying Jacksonville is going

894
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 1: to like make the playoffs, but I hold off on

895
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: saying Jacksonville is gonna be absolutely terrible. I mean with

896
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:32,719
Speaker 1: the investments that they've made. Actually, I just I mean

897
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: with the amount of money that they've spent. I still

898
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 1: don't know why they gave Christian Kirk eighteen million dollars

899
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:41,839
Speaker 1: a year. But like, their offensive line looks nice. All

900
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they've added a badass pass rusher to

901
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: go with Josh Allen. They sign a bunch of linebackers. Like,

902
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: do I think they're gonna be amazing? No, But I

903
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: would be shocked if they pick first in the draft. Like,

904
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: I think that's a team that's capable of winning five

905
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: or six games. Yeah, but I'll even throw them in there.

906
00:45:57,880 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: I mean, the Cowboys should beat the Jacks. I will

907
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: say that that's four games that you should win right there, Jacksonville, Houston, Detroit, Chicago,

908
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: you should win those games. And then you've got just

909
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: the opposite of that. You've got some really tough games

910
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: against some of those teams you said that, you know

911
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna be good, Tampa Bay, the Rams, like, it's

912
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the Cowboys have you know, it's

913
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: kind of feast or fami. You got some of the

914
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: worst teams in the league. You got some of the

915
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: best teams in the league. Not a lot of in

916
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 1: between there. But going back to my point from the

917
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: last segment, if you can sweep those four potential awful teams,

918
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: a few of which will probably be fighting for the

919
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: number one overall pick Houston, and then you got the

920
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 1: division where they've dominated for most of Dak's career when

921
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: he's been healthy. Four and two in the division plus

922
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: four wins against I mean, you're all of the eight

923
00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: already at eight like, and that's why I sit here.

924
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, maybe the Cowboys are okay with taking

925
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: a slight step back, because if they just handle their

926
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 1: business in the games they should win. They'll be a

927
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: playoff team. And I'm not saying that's good enough for

928
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,919
Speaker 1: fans that are listening to me. But I can see

929
00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:04,360
Speaker 1: the rationale there of like I can't, which I appreciate

930
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: that viewpoint because I'm tired of hearing that. I'm tired

931
00:47:06,719 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: of hearing yeah they don't care. Yeah, like you look

932
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: at it, Oh, it should be an easy schedule for

933
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. How does that help them? Really? Okay, we

934
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: get to the playoffs over whatever, But then we're embarrassed

935
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: because you see the reality of things when you are

936
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 1: coming up against better teams and throughout the season we're like, Okay,

937
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:27,600
Speaker 1: that's look good. Well what matters is the win? Yeah,

938
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: sure it does matter, but how much is that really

939
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: helping them? We saw it happen last year where they

940
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,479
Speaker 1: faced a lot of teams that weren't really that good,

941
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys might have looked better than what they

942
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 1: really were, and maybe we start being hypnotized by that

943
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: or like seeing this illusion of what they were creating

944
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 1: when in reality they weren't what we thought they were

945
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year. So this whole thing

946
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 1: of like, sure, easy schedule, whatever, they get to the

947
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 1: playoffs and then what we're again, we're sitting here another year,

948
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: No ye're repeating the same thing over and over. Yeah.

949
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: I think you're absolutely saying what every fan out there

950
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: total thinking right now and it has been thinking to

951
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: since the end of this year, is they're not going

952
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: to get full this upcoming year by what happens in

953
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 1: the regular season, because I think that's where a lot

954
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: of people were upset. They felt like, I thought this

955
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 1: team was one thing, and then we got to the

956
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 1: second half of the year and we got to the

957
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 1: playoffs and I found out they were something different. Yeah,

958
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:28,359
Speaker 1: And I think that's the hard part for fans right now.

959
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: That's the juxtaposition that they're in is how much do

960
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:32,759
Speaker 1: I want to buy in and believe what I see

961
00:48:32,800 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: in the season versus what I think they'll be in

962
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,359
Speaker 1: the postseason. That is your right as a fan, And

963
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you you should be excited by that.

964
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what their rationale might be for like,

965
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 1: very quietly, they're like, Okay, we take a step back

966
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:47,879
Speaker 1: this year, we clean up our cap. We can still

967
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:49,800
Speaker 1: make the playoffs, and you never know what's going to

968
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 1: happen once we get there, and then in twenty three

969
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,720
Speaker 1: and twenty four we can make moves toward really improving

970
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: this team. It shouldn't make you feel better about this year,

971
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: and it's I think it's for us. It's a straighting

972
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 1: mentality if that is their mentality. But I can see

973
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: the logic unless, of course, unless, of course, it is

974
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: what I think it might be, that they're trying to

975
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: remake the as Jalen said, the culture of this team,

976
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: like they're trying to build this team in a way

977
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: that maybe has either a little bit less talent but

978
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 1: a lot more bravado and a lot more attitude, or

979
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: equal talent and more bravado and attitude. It seems it

980
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 1: seems like a very cowboys thing to between the way

981
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: that they run the ball, the way that they get

982
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: after the quarterback, and the way that they're physical and

983
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: kind of got some s in their neck like the

984
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: Cowboys are like, Yeah, the forty nine ers got this

985
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: thing figured out. We want to be like that. I

986
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: can see that. Yeah, perfectly, that's me too, Like, that's

987
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: that's what I think I'm seeing. Now. Again, I've not

988
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 1: been told that that's what I think. I'm just guessing. Yeah,

989
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: And we kind of I don't remember if we talked

990
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: about this on the break or not. But it'll be

991
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: interesting because this year is a very very important year

992
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: for someone in a high position of power, which is

993
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 1: the head coach. And you know clearly there's no possible

994
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: way that he's gonna take this lightly or whatever. He's

995
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: gonna try the best that he can to make it

996
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: happy years. Yeah, this is I mean, this is a

997
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: proven like, this is it I think for him. We

998
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: all talked about it this past i mean this offseason,

999
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 1: So we'll see what he can actually do with what

1000
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:38,359
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have given him. So when the schedule comes

1001
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 1: out tomorrow, what do you guys typically look for? What

1002
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: do you look for in a schedule to kind of

1003
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: figure out you want the honest answer to that. Yeah,

1004
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:45,320
Speaker 1: you can give me the honest answer, and then you

1005
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: can tell me the answer from the standpoint of the Cowboys.

1006
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: I know it's personal. Yeah, I mean I look at like, Okay,

1007
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: I got a wedding, I'm supposed to be at. What

1008
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: weekend is that? Like? When when's the bye week? Who's

1009
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: LSU playing during the bye week? Like it's purely selfish

1010
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 1: on my end, And then after the first twenty and

1011
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: it's once I've got all that, let's talk about the yeah.

1012
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: Then I'm like, oh man, they play a lot of

1013
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 1: road games in December. Who's the team before Thanksgiving? I

1014
00:51:06,800 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: think that's all. I mean, Kansas City beat the hell

1015
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: out of them the game before Thanksgiving last year. I

1016
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: think the wear and tear in that in that situation

1017
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: and whether or not you have to travel, uh, that

1018
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,360
Speaker 1: type of stuff. Yeah, and when when the bye comes,

1019
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,320
Speaker 1: Like if they get to training camp on July twenty fifth,

1020
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: how long are they playing football before they get a break?

1021
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 1: Stuff like that? Holidays, you know, Thanksgiving. You know they

1022
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: have two this year because Christmas Day is on a

1023
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: Sunday this year, so its possibility could be playing is

1024
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:36,919
Speaker 1: they're playing on Christmas Day too? Sorry, Mom and Dad?

1025
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: Which that's all My road becomes a big deal for

1026
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 1: that game, I don't think. I don't think the Cowboys

1027
00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: are they all on Christmas Day? Not necessarily, but I'm

1028
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 1: saying it's a Sunday, so there will be a full

1029
00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: slate of games, all right, it's only three on Sunday,

1030
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: the only three on Sunday and all the rest of

1031
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,960
Speaker 1: them one day Saturday. I'd be surprised if the Cowboys

1032
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:59,760
Speaker 1: are on are on that on Sunday yeah, and because

1033
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: the thing is is that they're gonna make those games close,

1034
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: you know, geographically. So the Cowboys, well, Houston is Houston.

1035
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: They play Houston right yes, home, that that could be that,

1036
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 1: it could be that I could see the Houston being

1037
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,279
Speaker 1: that game. Then you think the league cares that much

1038
00:52:16,280 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: about people's travel on Christmas weekend? Go look at it. Yeah,

1039
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:21,279
Speaker 1: I didn't mean that in like, I don't believe you know,

1040
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:23,279
Speaker 1: just go look at the last few years on the

1041
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. I mean, like it's Cleveland versus Green Bay.

1042
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's probably I don't think you would

1043
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: go one day trips. I don't think the teams do that.

1044
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:32,399
Speaker 1: I don't think they allow you to do that. But

1045
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's quick travel, you get home quicker.

1046
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: Well early games, Yes, it could be different. One game

1047
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 1: on Christmas, Rams, don't tell me it's Rams versus like

1048
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:45,239
Speaker 1: the Giants, Rams Dolphins. No, Denver, Rams, Denver. I'm sorry,

1049
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 1: I'm sorry Rams Dolphins that I'm not trying to argue

1050
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: with you. But I remember vividly the Vikings played the

1051
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 1: Saints on Christmas a couple of years ago, and that

1052
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,239
Speaker 1: ain't I mean, that's not a quick trip. I think it.

1053
00:52:57,640 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: I mean, I bet you there. Here's a go we had?

1054
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: Was it Arizona? I think we had on Christmas those

1055
00:53:03,960 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 1: think about it though, those are pout as good as

1056
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 1: you can get. It was in Seattle, right, I mean Arizona, Tennessee.

1057
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: You know I'm only only play the Saints Kansas City

1058
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: in Houston so many times. If we travel might be day. Yeah,

1059
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,080
Speaker 1: so am I writing? So if there's three games on

1060
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: Christmas Day, what that means there will be like twelve

1061
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,759
Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve plus maybe a Thursday night football Yeah,

1062
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: which I wouldn't mind if we're Christmas Eve home or way,

1063
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. Watch back by Christmas morning. I'm

1064
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: okay watch the watch the Cowboys be the Saturday night

1065
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 1: game on Christmas Eve, like seven thirty Christmas Eve. That

1066
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 1: does sound as kind of cowboys, very cowboys. Get it

1067
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: for you? Yeah you literally run? Yeah I could. I

1068
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: could see that. That sounds kind of fun though to

1069
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: be on I like, no see spoken to someone with

1070
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: no kids. Hey, better Christmas Eve you have in Christmas Day? Right?

1071
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 1: I mean, like to Derek's point, you'll be home, You'll

1072
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,240
Speaker 1: be home on Christmas morning. Problem still is like Christmas

1073
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: Eve for all of us that apparently, like you know,

1074
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 1: that's put together time, Like you gotta put all that

1075
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: stuff together and get in there. Isn't actually a man

1076
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: that shows up at your house and he he does it

1077
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: for you, Derek, you don't know who could be listening

1078
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: to this. I'm just saying, Okay, sure, but I'm just saying.

1079
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like in my house, I get the

1080
00:54:25,120 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: lions here of that he doesn't help me enough, So

1081
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: I guess see into the drill, no deal, no, no,

1082
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. What's a bummer for me, Like,

1083
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: what really depresses me is when Christmas Day is on

1084
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: like a Thursday, and you there, you gotta work so

1085
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 1: you can't go home, but it's just practice and press conferences.

1086
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: But like when there's a game on a big like

1087
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 1: I'm never bummed about We've talked, we talked about this

1088
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: all the time. I'm never bummed about missing Thanksgiving because

1089
00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: it's the game of the week, everybody's watching, it's a

1090
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,479
Speaker 1: big event. You kind of you feel like you're part

1091
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: of something. So like to play a game on Christmas

1092
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:06,479
Speaker 1: Eve or Christmas Day would actually be more exciting than

1093
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,359
Speaker 1: just being like, well, I couldn't go home to see

1094
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 1: my family, but at least I get to listen to

1095
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 1: Dak's press conference. This is great. So like that, if

1096
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it, I might as well do it big.

1097
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:18,879
Speaker 1: It's all about perspective. Sure. Yeah, again, this is all

1098
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 1: coming from somebody with no kids and no wife. That's

1099
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: totally fair. Yeah, fine, but yeah, it's I'm hopeful. I'm

1100
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 1: hopeful that that wherever we play, it's it's a Christmas Eve,

1101
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: because I don't want that Christmas Day one, definitely don't

1102
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:32,839
Speaker 1: want it on the road. That's that's not what we're

1103
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: talking about. Stuff that really like fans don't care about

1104
00:55:35,880 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 1: the fans, Oh they don't. They're actually probably like, man,

1105
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:39,799
Speaker 1: it'd be nice to open gifts and then sit down

1106
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 1: and watch the cowboys getting Like that's what they care

1107
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,919
Speaker 1: about the fans are I mean? And that's it's fair

1108
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: to I mean, we're gonna be looking at you know,

1109
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 1: are they gonna have like a triple triple road game

1110
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 1: or back to back short the walls in December? Like

1111
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 1: that's a huge one. Who what are the cold Yeah?

1112
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 1: You got cold weather cities in December? Like what does December.

1113
00:55:57,840 --> 00:55:59,919
Speaker 1: Look like that's to me? Like, you know, I say

1114
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: this every year and um and even more so this year.

1115
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 1: I think I haven't seen the schedule yet, but you know,

1116
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 1: I always say Week two is huge, and it's a

1117
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: broken record. I say it all the time. What kind

1118
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 1: of team are you gonna be? Are you gonna be

1119
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: a team that that you know if you win with

1120
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: the first one, or are you going to be a

1121
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: team that goes one and one and you're in that

1122
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: eight and eight track or eight nine or whatever, or

1123
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,880
Speaker 1: are you gonna you're gonna stack some wins together? Or

1124
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 1: if you go oh and one, are you gonna go

1125
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:29,879
Speaker 1: oh and two? I mean, I always think week two

1126
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 1: is a really big year, and uh, it seems like

1127
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 1: this year is even bigger. From what it sounds like

1128
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 1: you're implying something. Yeah, have you seen I haven't seen

1129
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 1: seen the schedule. I just I hear that that Week

1130
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: two has has a little ring to it or a

1131
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: few rings to it. Oh boy, So that's all I know.

1132
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 1: I just think a week two could be a could

1133
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: be a big year, and it always is. I say

1134
00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 1: it every single year, watch out for Week two. So

1135
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 1: what so, what do you got was a week to

1136
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 1: last year. I don't remember. Yes, it was, and it

1137
00:57:07,239 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 1: was the biggest it was and it was the biggest

1138
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: win of the year. You think about it, think about

1139
00:57:13,160 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 1: like again you start off. Oh, I guess from the

1140
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,919
Speaker 1: standpoint a lot of things happened out of that game. Yeah,

1141
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,360
Speaker 1: you found out that your best player on the field,

1142
00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 1: it could do everything, do everything. That was a huge game. Yeah.

1143
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 1: I was realized wrong, Yeah, I was wrong during that game.

1144
00:57:29,160 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: I was wrong. I was like sitting up there in

1145
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,000
Speaker 1: the press, I think I was just like, he's so

1146
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 1: such a good player, why is he not on the

1147
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: field this? And the first half it wasn't working. Slater

1148
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: was beating him. But he went to the other side

1149
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 1: and he started rushing and it was like, okay, Like

1150
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: I could I could see it. But uh and they

1151
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: you know, Quinn smarter than me. I guess I'll give it,

1152
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: give him that when it comes to deef. So no,

1153
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: but I thought that was a huge game. He found

1154
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: out Tony Pollard could do a little bit more. He

1155
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 1: found out Terrence Steele can actually block Bosa. You don't

1156
00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: have to worry about it. There was a little a

1157
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 1: lot of good things you found out your kickers clutch.

1158
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:06,959
Speaker 1: If they could just get a division game or two,

1159
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 1: I'm that I just caught that. Sorry, he always throws it.

1160
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: If they could just get a division road game or

1161
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 1: two out of the way early, because remember they had

1162
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 1: to play all the division road games at the end

1163
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:22,080
Speaker 1: of the year last year? Am I right in remembering that?

1164
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,960
Speaker 1: Oh all the road games? Isn't that right? Seph Washington?

1165
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:28,520
Speaker 1: Washington was late? Remember late? Wait which one was? It

1166
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:29,920
Speaker 1: would seem like it was one of them that was

1167
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: not well, Philly was late. I'm pulling it up. Washing

1168
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 1: was late, and the Giants is always Yeah, I know

1169
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: the Giants was. I don't remember at Philly. Oh yeah,

1170
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:41,520
Speaker 1: they were all in. They were all they were all in.

1171
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:46,440
Speaker 1: They were all in December. Washington was in December, New

1172
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: York was in December, and Philly was in January. Yeah,

1173
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:49,840
Speaker 1: they were all at the end of the year. So

1174
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: if they could, if they could just get one or

1175
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,480
Speaker 1: two of those division road games out of the way,

1176
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: they kind of they catch some breaks with on the

1177
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 1: weather front, like we already know they got to go

1178
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 1: to Green Bay in November. That's a break, honestly, And

1179
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,360
Speaker 1: then they don't play in a ton of cold weather

1180
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: cities other than Division teams, Like they play at Minnesota,

1181
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 1: which is a dome. They play in Nashville, which shouldn't

1182
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:17,920
Speaker 1: ever be super cold. My tempting fah, seriously, it was.

1183
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: It was Christmas night. To go back to that Christmas

1184
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 1: Night two thousand, the Cowboys were the worst team they've

1185
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 1: ever been in all remember so bad got beat thirty

1186
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:29,480
Speaker 1: one that Anthony right was our quarterback. I did not

1187
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: make that. Yeah, you didn't make that. I like the

1188
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: odds of this not biting me in the butt. Nashville

1189
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: and LA are the only outdoor road trips outside of

1190
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 1: the Division. Yeah, so it can be cold there in

1191
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:45,600
Speaker 1: Nashville coming off the water Bella. It is it is.

1192
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 1: They're gonna have it's open. It's open. It's technically an

1193
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 1: open air stadium. But even even if it is, it's LA.

1194
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 1: I mean it does. We showed up for the first game,

1195
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:57,600
Speaker 1: was it twenty twenty the first game, and you know,

1196
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: of course it was like a the air quality was

1197
01:00:01,240 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: low there. They didn't even know if they're going to

1198
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: play the game. And the whole time, I'm like, why

1199
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: does this even matter? Like I really thought they had

1200
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,120
Speaker 1: a stadium but I think about as the covering. I

1201
01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: guess that's where there's no is the covering. I thought

1202
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: he had a coverage. I'll never It's burned into my brain. Yeah, yeah,

1203
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: that's my point. That's the only point I'm making. Like,

1204
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 1: I just think about open air as and I know

1205
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: what you guys are saying. I just think of as

1206
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 1: outside temperature has access to the playing field, right, seventy

1207
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,880
Speaker 1: four degree right, it's always hilt. They also play they

1208
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: play outdoors in Jacksonville, which you also have to think

1209
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: about the opposite there in Jacksonville is too hot. It

1210
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 1: can get pretty humid there. Yeah, absolutely, all right, I

1211
01:00:37,400 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys do want to j While I was

1212
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:44,640
Speaker 1: just mentioning, I think that Jacksonville is the only city

1213
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: that the cow in the NFL that the Cowboys have

1214
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:49,760
Speaker 1: never won it. I think that's right. Cowboys have never

1215
01:00:49,840 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 1: won in Jacksonville. I don't think they won. They've What

1216
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 1: about Baltimore, They have won there. It might have been

1217
01:00:56,400 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 1: three of quit trying to throw the facts around them.

1218
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm saying they've won in Jacksonville, not for

1219
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:06,440
Speaker 1: a regular They didn't play a lot, haven't played lot

1220
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 1: and then we went to London when we're play Oh yeah, yeah,

1221
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: that's thinking they haven't beaten the Jackals, but that would

1222
01:01:11,920 --> 01:01:15,760
Speaker 1: be to open the year. Yeah, you think that's gonna

1223
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:18,400
Speaker 1: happen open the year against Jacksonville again, and that's not

1224
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I don't think unlikely, that's not gonna happen.

1225
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:22,560
Speaker 1: All Right, We appreciate you guys. Johnas we were back tomorrow,

1226
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 1: I'm I'm sorry. We'll be back next week. H Make

1227
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Speaker 1: sure you check out all the content we're putting up

1228
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 1: tomorrow around schedule release and then coming up on Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

1229
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Speaker 1: We got rookies in the building. We'll be getting lots

1230
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 1: of content around that until then. For Nick Eatman, Dave

1231
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 1: helm and an Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eagleton. This

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Speaker 1: has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio.

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