WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Fantasy World 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.000 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:06.600 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:17.479 Cowboys. Are you ready for a Break? Yes? Are you 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:22.160 ready for a break? Absolutely ready for a break? Yeah, 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:23.880 and so much for that. 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.280 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:35.960 with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought us, Nick Harris and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.919 Hey, guys, welcome back to another episode of The Break 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.559 live from s WBC, and we are here presented by 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:48.800 Lgo led Evil, the. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.120 Best TV in the game, And right now I'm here 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.040 with Brian and Nick. Derek is gonna join us in 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.960 a little bit, but he'll be back to join us 0:00:58.960 --> 0:00:59.640 here today. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:00.640 Exciting. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.240 Yes, you guys were watching last week, you may have 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:05.280 heard that me and Ambar were in the middle of 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:09.440 a trade negotiation. She did not end up accepting that trade. 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.840 Had she accepted that trade, she would have won her 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:12.680 fantasy matchup. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:13.520 That's all I'm saying. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.280 What's wild is that I lost by four points. So yeah, sure, 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.600 you're right what I battle in that game. 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:21.959 Somebody won this week. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.240 Good for you. It's just Kyle's team. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:30.680 Sometimes sometimes the trades you don't make are the best. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.640 Trades or the ones you think about for the rest 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:33.039 of time. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:37.200 Yeah, yeah, there's h I remember one time there was 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.520 a player here and he might listen because I think 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.200 he still might be local. This guy named James Whalen. 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:46.040 It was a tight end here and uh I called 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:47.960 the since A. We were trying to move him, and 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:52.760 I called the Cincinnati Bengals and they they're like, hey, 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.480 would you be interested in James Whalen And They're like, yeah, 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.920 we'd like to kind of move TJ. Housman Zada, who 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:02.080 was a wide receiver well for the Bengals, And so 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:02.800 I'm like, he was. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.160 My flight back from Mobile last year. He was Dallas too. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.280 Does he living Dallas? He might be listening as well. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.040 But the thing about it was, it's funny because Jim Lippicott, 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.240 who was the director of player personnel for the Bengals, 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.560 I'm like, I was too anxious. I was too anxious 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:18.280 on the trade. Like when he said, hey, would you 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.480 take t. J. Husseman's out, I said, Jim, you want 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.120 to hand in the papers you want me to And 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.560 I did it without even talking to Stephen and Jerry. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.480 They just gave me the go ahead to make a trade, 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:33.520 and I just I learned that day. I was too 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:35.880 anxious because t J. Husseman's out. It turned out to 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.840 be a pretty good football player after that, and and 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.680 but I was too like I saw how Ambar was 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.600 slow playing the other day, and I was thinking, Ambar's 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.840 doing this the right way, because if it was me, 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:49.680 I would have immediately taken the trade. 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.119 And I went through a rollercoaster of emotion. Initially, I'm like, ohn, 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.680 hold on, let me look at this. And then I 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:00.240 started I looked out your trade proposal, and I was like, oh, okay, 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.240 I'll take it. But then I took a step back. 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.239 I'm like, well, hold on, yeah, and then I started 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.040 thinking more. So It's just like one of those things 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.320 that one I got to stommarch. I'm okay with my decision, 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.880 by the way, but I could never do that actual 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.720 job what they do there, because it's just you just 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.919 get tooing your head and thinking of every outcome. You're like, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.799 oh my god, am I doing this right? I'm or not? 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.240 Do I take this gamble? Do I not? Are you 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:24.920 screwing me? 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:25.360 Over? 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.840 See? That's what happened. That's what happened with its Cincinnati 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.840 because when I told Lippicott that I go, do you 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:33.280 want me to hand in the papers or do you 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.280 want to do it? And he goes, well, hey, let 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.320 me let me think about this for a second. Let 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.400 me think and I'll get back to you. He called 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.400 the next day and said, nah, we're not going to 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:43.360 do it, but thank you. 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.000 You know, Hushmnzata could have been here. 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.240 Tj husse Manzata could have been here. I had traded 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.120 for James Whalen, who was a tight end, have a 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.040 backup tight end, you know, you know, it would have 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.640 been like a third tight end for this crew right here. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.800 And and yeah, but you know they said the Jones 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.320 just said, hey, you know, let's see if we could 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.600 get something for Aames Whalen. And I, you know, so 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.240 I got on the phone and start calling people in 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:08.720 Cincinnati's the one team you never call because they they 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.760 don't do anything. They have a history of not like 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:13.880 I call up to you know, I used to call 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.919 up with with Jim was there, Jimlipacott. And then you know, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.400 and then also Duke Tobin took it over, you know, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.719 running the personnel department, and I would like, hey, Duke, 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.479 it's Brian and Dallas. Hey, Brian, how's it going great, 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.040 Just calling to make sure everything's good with you. Yeah, 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.800 everything's fine, Thanks for calling, Okay, take care. And I 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.479 wouldn't talk to him until the next year because you 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.040 knew that. You know, there's some teams that were super 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.839 aggressive with with the way they traded, and you could 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:41.600 kind of like guy less Snead when less Sneed was, 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.480 he's now with the Rams. Less Need's famously his the 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.960 FOS picks guy. He's got the T shirt at the 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.919 super Boy wore f M picks. You know, he was 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:51.800 a guy he didn't care. You know, he would trade. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:53.680 He you know, you could get on him on the 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:55.600 phone and like you'd make a trade. He's like who 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.800 else you got? Got anybody else? You know, and you're like, yeah, 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.640 I think we're good here. Lest Let's yeah, I'll call 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:02.080 you back. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:02.400 You know. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.680 But but you do think about it. You do think 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.320 about it when you're on the front. We know, when 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.560 you're making deals because you you wonder, gosh, is that 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.599 guy gonna go and see I'm not gonna lie. I 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:15.960 looked up and saw what Phillips did the other day 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:20.040 for Buffalo, you know, and that and just youd want 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:21.680 to take a guess how he played in that game 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.920 the other day for Buffalo against the Indianapolis Cults. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.080 I honestly could not even guess. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:27.280 Two tackles, one pressure. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.120 Yeah you played, but how many snaps he played? 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.720 It was over twenty snaps, Like twenty five snaps. See 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.040 that's I'm saying. You know, you may sometimes you make 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:39.240 trades and it works out, and then then you trade 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.000 a guy away and then the next you know, he's 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.400 playing like a he's playing great for them. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:45.880 Sometimes you never know. Next here you might we might 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.760 be sitting here and you're like, man, I was so 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.880 wrong about that Jonathan Mingle, guy, they actually got this 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.560 one right. Well, yeah, you never know. 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.599 You never know. But see that's the thing with Ward. 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.160 You know, the corner for San Francisco. You know they 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.960 traded Tivis Ward when they Travarious Ward when they and 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.040 you know, and I remember Amber, were you with us. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.160 We were playing a preseason game in Houston and we 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.400 were it was down it was the last preseason game 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.479 and we pull him out of the lineup. We see 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.200 him get pulled out of the lineup because he's going 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.359 to get traded. So he's given everybody a hug on 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.320 the sidelines. Hey give trade for a guard from Kansas 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.320 City that never played a down here, and he goes 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:25.960 on and has has just an incredible career with Kansas 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.600 City and now with the San Francisco forty nine ers. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.119 And sometimes you just you just just hang your head 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.120 when things like that happen. You know, you make a deal. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.000 So sorry, that was trade talk there for about seven hours. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:39.800 Yeah, that was story. 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.520 Well, the funny thing is, like those trades actually matter 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.360 what we're doing on this fantasy Like it's so mad, 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:51.840 literally no, but we literally he's mad, right because you're 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.479 a draft guy too and you're into that. I'm more like, 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.000 I don't know, I'm just like, nah, I'm not giving 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:57.840 you my quarterback. 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.200 By the way, the seven guys already. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.440 Oh, let's go right here, right here, we're starting. 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:03.400 We're on the run. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.760 All right. Well, let's talk about some of the latest news. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.240 And this is something we are we have already been 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.720 hearing about when it comes to Dak in his situation. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.240 It turns out that it has been confirmed that he 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:18.840 will be undergoing the surgery and he's gonna that's gonna 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.480 put him out for the rest of the season, he's 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:23.280 gonna be moved to I r my question here for 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:30.560 you guys. One. I've seen people getting really upset about 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.440 this and just panicking and everything and what this could 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.720 potentially mean for the future. Obviously we don't know until 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:42.400 we get there. But does this surgery and being out 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.280 for the rest of the season, will it mentally affect 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:50.920 him next year as far as like this happened right 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.240 on the play on the day they claim it wasn't 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.440 that specific play of him running, but mentally from a 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.720 guy that we've been asking to run and that's something 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.000 that was missing in his game. Do you think this 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.440 will or could affect him in the future and how 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:10.080 he operates that's the quarterback. 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.800 I think it's something that you know, definitely have to 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:15.680 ask whenever he's he's done with his recovery, because the 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.520 mental aspect of it doesn't really kick in until you're 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.240 on your back for six weeks and you have to 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:23.640 you can't walk for six weeks or however long it's 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.080 going to be for Dak I think for him though 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:29.000 this is his fourth surgery that he's going to go 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.280 through as as a member of the Cowboys, he had 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.200 that dislocated ankle, and coming back from that, I think 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:34.440 that was. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:35.920 More of a mental challenge than anything. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.960 He's had surgery on his shoulder, He's had surgery on 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.360 his right thumb. Now he's gonna have surgery on this 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.280 on this hamstring. So he's been through this before, and 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.400 the ankle was obviously a lot worse, and I think 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.319 it would I would assume it would be a lot 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.640 worse mentally, But I think that's something that we look 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.480 up after this four month recovery for Dak, which should 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.120 have him ready to go by OTAs. I think whenever 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.520 he comes around to OTAs, that's probably the question that 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.400 you ask is like, Okay, how does this affect. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.280 Your running style going forward? 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.680 Because we already did see a little bit of a 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.640 dip there coming coming into this season, and you know, 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.680 you factor in the him being in a boot in 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.600 can kub before before training camp, and is he dealing 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.640 with some tendonitis in that ankle as a result of 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.880 the injury? Is that a reason why his rush attempts 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:24.000 have decreased over the course of this season, And then 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.480 the one game that he gets back into scramble mode, 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.320 he tears his hamstring. So I think that's certainly a 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:31.960 mental challenge that you would have to ask of him 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.080 at that point. But I think that's probably something that 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.040 he'll have to go through and experience over the course 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:37.880 of these next four months and then come to a 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:39.480 conclusion at the end of it for how these next 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:40.200 four years will go. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:45.000 From a rushing perspective to me, there's concern, you know, 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.840 in this concern in this way because we didn't see 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.960 We saw a guy that doesn't have the mobility that 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.199 he once had, you know, his ability to move and 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.920 you know, we've seen him in the pocket been able 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.480 to kind of navigate things and kind of buy some time, 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.080 you know, when he can he you know, we were 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.160 asking for him to run, you know, I mean, hey, 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.920 those injuries happen, but you've already seen a guy that 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.800 doesn't look really as flexible as he once did, you know, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.680 And now are you are you are you going into 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.240 that even more? Are you dipping into that part of 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.200 his game? Where are you taking that away? Him and 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.280 Britt Brown will work really hard to rehab and get back. 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.200 You know, He'll try and keep his weight down, He'll 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.800 do everything he can to kind of defeat Father Time, 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.080 which will be difficult. But these injuries start adding up, 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.560 and especially when you start to talk about lower body injuries, hamstrings, ankles, 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:41.559 you know, if he doesn't have a lot of flexibility 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.439 in his ankle, you know, because he's dealing with a 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.679 lot of that stuff. That was a pretty horrific injury 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.640 that he's suffered, you know, and he and he's fought back, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.360 he's battled through things, and he always going to battle 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.920 through things. But how many can you take before it 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:58.720 starts to show with your play? You know, I remember 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.440 way back in the day when Dan Marino towards hamstring, well, 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.280 the greatest quarterbacks ever to play, what Scutorio is achilles, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.120 and he just couldn't move anymore. And then he was 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.000 kind of a sitting duck in the pocket and he 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.439 just couldn't buy himself another chance to throw the ball, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.760 you know, or a second chance. The mobility, he couldn't 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.800 do that. And you know, you just kind of wonder 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.560 with Dak is this going to be one of those 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.360 things that we've kind of seen him not have a 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.400 lot of flexibility, a lot of mobility, uh, you know, 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.000 to be able to navigate stuff. And so that's that's 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.000 my concern right there. I think he'll you know, they'll say, hey, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.720 well as good as new. Well it's not as good 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:35.680 as new. You know. He deal he's dealing with a 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:38.960 lot of things physically that he hit. To his credit, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.200 he plays through, you know, and and like say, when 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.800 they tell you that, oh, the walking boot's nothing, don't 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.199 worry about it. Nothing to see here. There's something to 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.960 see here. You know, this is not just Hey, the 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.080 walking boot looks very stylish. I'm a jump Man Nike guy, 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.840 you know, Nike jump boot, you know whatever, that's. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.240 Not that's the thing in Mexico these days. 0:11:58.559 --> 0:11:59.960 Yeah, I mean, you don't want to be on a 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.120 fishing boat all day with a boot on. Trust me, 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.000 I've been on a fishing boat all day. You know 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.320 you don't. So it's it's it's it's tough. These things 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.439 are tough and they and they start to add up 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.280 and it and you know you're not. You know, there's 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.560 there's some guys that are able to kind of overcome 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.240 these things, and others it's it's a lot harder. I mean, 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.560 he works so hard as is to get ready. Now 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.600 you know, it's going to be even more for him 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.520 to to get back and you know, and get the 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:27.679 mobility that he had. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.400 Well, big question mark for the future. I'm sure we'll 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:36.040 be discussing it later on uh again. But in the meantime, 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.760 as far as the current quarterbacks right now, Jerry Jones 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.120 did mention they're sticking with Cooper Rush to be the 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.600 starter and planning on throwing in some packages with Trey Lanz. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.920 I haven't seen any confirmed by us here in the building, 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:53.160 but I've been hearing with the move Will Greer. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.439 Yeah, the name the name that I've heard on outside 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.280 the building, you know, at one oh five three the 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.920 fan just talking to some people that Will Greer was 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.640 going to step back into the role of being on 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:05.920 the practice squad and then you know, being able to 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.480 elevate if they if they need him. But familiarity with 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:13.480 Will Greer, you know, everybody likes Will Greer. You know 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.880 he'll fit in just fine doing what they need to do. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.480 You know, he's He's the most important thing is that 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:22.000 you know Will Greer will know his role in what 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.200 he has to do, and so that's that's a positive. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:27.000 If you have to make one of these moves with 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.040 eight weeks left in the season, you know Will Grier 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.840 that you could do far worse than than Will Greer 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:33.280 out there. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:37.080 Familiarity with Will Greer, and then also Will Greer's familiarity 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:38.760 with how to run scout team, because that's going to 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.640 obviously become a lot more important over these next few weeks. 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.000 But yeah, him added to the practice squad. Expect that 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:45.160 to happen sometime this week. 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.199 I remember it was a very emotional departure. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.520 I was there for that Lance right after they had 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.040 traded for Trey Lance, and they basically told Will like, hey, 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.640 so this is your last audition, go have fun. And yeah, 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.840 he certainly did the thing. He threw for over three 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.800 hundred yards in that game. It was the only preseason 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:03.720 game they won that year. 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.200 And and then he cried in the press conference after. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:10.240 The Yeah yeah, so does that that final look that 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.240 we got from him at that moment, does that inside 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:18.600 any will to see more more of will see more 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.920 of him uh in this next weeks. 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:23.360 What he's a gun slinger. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.680 Yeah, he is a gun slinger. There's no doubt about. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:27.440 I mean when he when you watched him playing in college, 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.440 he was a gunslinger. The way he played there in 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.600 West Virginia. If I'm right about that. But if I 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.720 could circle back about about the other the two quarterbacks 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:39.680 with with Cooper Rush and Trey Lance, Trey Lance needs 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.280 to be incorporated a little bit earlier into the game 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.720 in my opinion. If you go the first series, and 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.080 you know, maybe go second series, think about getting Trey 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.120 Lance in there a little bit. Maybe you know you 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.920 don't if you want to just run some packages and stuff, 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.080 don't just wait till the second half and say, okay, 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.640 go try and save us. Now, you know, Trey Lance, 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.200 you try and find some things that that you know 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.160 that you're comfortable at doing. We call him design runs. 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.440 He had a design run for eleven yards the other day, 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:10.080 just straight snap quarterback run, you know, with Ezekiel Ellett leading. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:11.960 You know they blocked it up. Well, you know it's 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.160 eleven yard run. Some RPO stuff, the read option stuff, 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.440 make Houston have to kind of prepare or as the 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.440 game goes on, everybody talks about halftime adjustments. The really 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:27.800 good teams adjust series the series they do make make 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.560 make Houston have to worry about now that you've got 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.720 an RPO part to their game. Now they see it, 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:35.800 They see it a lot with their own team. They 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:39.400 practice against it, so they should be comfortable playing that way. 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.320 But but don't wait till like some weird moment in 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.240 the third quarter that you're going to put Trey Lanston 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.920 and like, you know, if if if all of a sudden, 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.200 there's it, doesn't you know, the first series and Cooper 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:54.760 rush is inaccurate and the balls going behind the line 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:59.240 of scrimmage and it's two yards passing and three three snaps, hell, 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.760 get get Trey Lance. And then the next series, try 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:03.560 and get something going with the running game, try and 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.240 kind of make something happen, you know, don't just sit 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.440 there and plod on, plot on, plod on and then 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:13.520 it's too late. Just you know, play play really unconventionally. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.240 Just play two quarterbacks and just see if you can, 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.760 if you can maybe find some offense along the way. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:24.120 I'm hoping that the outcome of this last game against 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.240 the Eagles maybe it serves us. And I don't want 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.800 to say release some pressure, because there's a lot of 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.960 pressure with people that this is their last year in 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.200 their contract, but at the same time to maybe just 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.960 let loose, like let's just try different things and and 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.800 just go in with the different mentality of like it 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:44.240 is what it is, now, let me just relax a 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:47.520 little bit and just do things differently. 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:49.440 Well, this is where this is where you have to 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.600 look at it now. As a coach, you can you can. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.600 You can go in your office, close your door at 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:56.080 night and then start to call all your buddies and 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.080 find out, you know, at the Senior Bowl, who's going 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.520 to be hiring coaches, or what's staffs are going to 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.320 be put together, or hey, do you know Ben Johnson? 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.199 Do you know Mike Vrabel? Do you know? You know? 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.080 Don't that's the kind of that that that kind of 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.560 mentality right there. That's that's not going to get it done. 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.040 Or you could put good film out there. You could 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.720 you know, maybe things aren't perfect right now, but you 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.040 could put good film out there for somebody to look at, like, hey, 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.120 look when they had all these injuries, Look what they did. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.120 Look what these coaches came up with. That that's your 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.320 that's your calling card right there. That's you're like, hey, 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.720 look what Look how these guys rallied the last eight 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.480 weeks without their starting quarterback. Look what they did with 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.920 their offense, Look what they did. You know, maybe it's 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:38.399 not going to be perfect. Maybe it's not going to 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.600 translate into wins, but you could. You could put tape 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:44.960 out there to show people as a coach that your 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:48.199 guys didn't quit, they were well prepared, they were they 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.800 were buttoned up assignment wise, and you did a good 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.679 job of making sure seeing the season through. You know, 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:56.120 a lot of coaches get hired by word of mouth, 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:57.840 but you could also get hired by the tape you 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.439 put out there, you know, and players of the same way. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.400 Now you've got to worry about the players now too. 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:04.760 You know, the players. I don't think they'll quit on MIC, 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.239 but you got to make sure that you're trying your 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.520 best and you're competitive. Because what happens is the closer 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.840 we get to Thanksgiving, players start to talk about the holidays, 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:15.760 and they start to talk about plans, they start to 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:17.720 talk about being out of the building, and hey, what 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.399 are we doing after the season. Maybe we're not watching 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.800 two or three extra games of film. You know. Maybe 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:24.760 we're like, ah, I can do that tomorrow. And then 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:26.640 you don't do it tomorrow, you know, and now you're 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:28.639 really not prepped, and now you're going out there and 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.400 getting really embarrassed because you're not doing everything you need 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.000 to do. You've got to try and avoid that. You know, 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.080 the season looks or excuse me, appears to be lost, 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.840 you know, but make sure that you're a pro and 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:43.040 you handle your preparation. And that's the challenge of these 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.560 coaches here in this locker room. Now. You know, when 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.400 they get to the holidays, they don't need this thing 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:51.000 to have a five or six game losing streak, you know, 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.359 and all of a sudden, the players have completely checked out. 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.800 You know. That's that's the challenge right now for not 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:58.840 only the coaches but also for the players. 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:02.040 Let's go ahead and take our first break. 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Nick, I'll start with 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:19.720 you on this one. Is your questions that I've kind 0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:22.560 of come up with in every Tuesday. If you're new 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:24.200 to the show, I should have probably explained what we're 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:28.040 doing every Tuesday. I kind of have questions for the guys, 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:29.760 and they do a great job of answering them. 0:22:29.840 --> 0:22:32.240 So sometimes know all the time. 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:34.000 You guys do a great job. But let me go 0:22:34.080 --> 0:22:36.280 with you on this first one, Nick, do you feel 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:38.720 like you'll get a good evaluation of Jonathan Mingo with 0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:39.560 these quarterbacks? 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:44.080 Oh that's a good question. 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:46.280 I mean, damn right, it's a good questions. 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:52.520 Don't break yourself thinks A good question, isn't it. 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:55.159 I think, considering the fact that Dak Prescott will be 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:58.959 his quarterback, I think there's a layer that layer of 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:03.080 that too, there's a layer of what's the word I'm 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:04.320 looking for, realism? 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:05.840 I guess you're you found there. 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:08.680 However, I do think there is a way to look 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:10.640 at him and see, Okay, is he creating separation? 0:23:11.160 --> 0:23:12.879 Is he getting out in the open field? 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:16.360 Is he whenever he's taking jet sweeps or anything out 0:23:16.359 --> 0:23:18.520 of the backfield if if they try to do something 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:20.680 like that with him, is he making the right raids? 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:23.000 Is he doing the right things? And is he going 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:24.119 to be ready this week? 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.159 I think him being ready this week would also be 0:23:26.240 --> 0:23:28.439 kind of an indicator as to how he's got an 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:32.920 acclimate coming into the building. Mike McCarthy did a praise 0:23:33.000 --> 0:23:35.760 Mingo yesterday and saying that he's come into the building 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:38.679 and he's attacked everything. He's attacked the playbook and he 0:23:38.760 --> 0:23:40.399 was close to being able to go on Sunday, but 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:43.879 you know he only had one full practice. Sure, I 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:45.520 expect him to be able to go into this week 0:23:45.560 --> 0:23:48.440 but I don't think you can take a full evaluation 0:23:48.480 --> 0:23:49.520 of Mingo right now. 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:51.480 I think I think you're I think you're onto something there. 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:53.840 But I think if we're looking up in week three 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:57.600 next year and he doesn't have some sort of impact, 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:00.000 then I think that's probably where we look at it. 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:01.720 We can give a full evaluation. 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:04.800 Hey, g you feel like you get a good evaluation 0:24:04.840 --> 0:24:07.199 a Mingo. With these quarterbacks, I feel like. 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:11.680 I could actually do a little bit because expand because 0:24:12.400 --> 0:24:16.600 one if we're talking about game type of experience and 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:21.040 all of that would was to happen down the road. 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:23.920 I feel like what you were getting with Dak wasn't 0:24:24.280 --> 0:24:27.600 that much different anyways with while you're currently getting with 0:24:27.720 --> 0:24:30.640 the other backup quarterbacks in that sense. But I think 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:35.280 with practices you can still get evaluation of him. And 0:24:35.359 --> 0:24:38.919 like what you just mentioned, the separation how he's handling that, 0:24:38.960 --> 0:24:41.840 can he run the right routes? Is how is he 0:24:42.560 --> 0:24:46.520 learning all these routes and different schemes. And then as 0:24:46.560 --> 0:24:49.400 far as the quarterbacks and how they throw, they're here 0:24:49.400 --> 0:24:52.879 for a reason. It might not be great during actual 0:24:53.040 --> 0:24:55.840 game days, but as far as practices, we know they 0:24:55.840 --> 0:25:00.120 can throw. We've seen them have a good arm. Not always. 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:02.320 We've been there on training camps and things like that, 0:25:02.480 --> 0:25:05.679 so we know that as well. But I think you 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:08.720 can get a good feel of what he is and 0:25:08.760 --> 0:25:11.919 what he could be, and even then the things that 0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:15.639 he shows you could be mentally like, Okay, maybe he 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:17.800 could be a little bit better with a better quarterback 0:25:18.040 --> 0:25:22.320 or not. It's a good question. I agree, But I 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:25.119 don't think that just by not having that kid just 0:25:25.200 --> 0:25:27.200 messes up your holy volation on it. 0:25:27.600 --> 0:25:29.440 I kind of feel like though, to me, if if 0:25:29.480 --> 0:25:32.440 he is, I think you guys are right. You could 0:25:32.480 --> 0:25:35.359 see the route running, you can see the separation, you 0:25:35.400 --> 0:25:37.480 could see the man they're not getting him, the ball 0:25:38.280 --> 0:25:41.359 man they're missing, like you know, Tolbert running an inbreaking 0:25:41.440 --> 0:25:45.199 route or Turping running in breaking round and then the 0:25:45.200 --> 0:25:47.199 ball goes flying over their heads or they're you know, 0:25:47.359 --> 0:25:50.359 running out routes and the balls going over their head. 0:25:50.400 --> 0:25:54.639 You're thinking like, Okay, good route, good separation, where's the throw? 0:25:55.119 --> 0:25:57.600 You know, because you can look at CD from Sunday's game, Yeah, 0:25:57.640 --> 0:25:58.600 he had a hell of a game. 0:25:59.280 --> 0:26:00.800 Cooper just can't I couldn't. 0:26:00.480 --> 0:26:02.640 Find it, couldn't I could not find see see that's 0:26:02.680 --> 0:26:04.840 the issues that I worry about then and then we 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:08.240 get into the well we got Mingo at receiver. Now 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:10.679 he's one of our guys, you know, And now it 0:26:10.760 --> 0:26:13.159 goes back to that whole thing is are you willing 0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:15.840 to draft somebody? Are you willing to draft? I know, 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:18.520 you know you've talked about, you know, a Travis Hunter. 0:26:18.600 --> 0:26:21.879 Not that, not that Mingo keeps you from drafting Travis Hunter, 0:26:22.600 --> 0:26:24.879 but maybe it keeps you from drafting somebody in the 0:26:24.960 --> 0:26:27.159 second round or the third round. You know. All of 0:26:27.200 --> 0:26:31.280 a sudden, it's like, well, did we really understand what 0:26:31.280 --> 0:26:33.720 what you know, what Mingo was all about? Well, we 0:26:33.760 --> 0:26:36.159 saw him run routes. We didn't see him you know, well, 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:38.399 yeah we and it's the whole thing over. We go 0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:41.440 into camp and we start talking about our expectations are 0:26:41.480 --> 0:26:43.200 that this guy is going to you know, and then 0:26:43.200 --> 0:26:46.160 you're like, now you're back to you know, in week eleven, 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:49.159 you're going, well, this roster's bad because you know they 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:52.080 didn't do Those are the things that always I just 0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:54.800 worry about the new evaluation of a player halfway through 0:26:54.800 --> 0:26:57.320 the season, and as that keep them from maybe doing 0:26:57.400 --> 0:26:59.679 something in the off season about it. 0:26:59.720 --> 0:27:02.639 I just feel like there's a possibility that they traded 0:27:02.640 --> 0:27:05.119 for wide receiver Trede Lance in the sense that they 0:27:05.119 --> 0:27:07.000 gave up a fourth round pick. Yeah, he's not gonna 0:27:07.080 --> 0:27:09.400 end up playing a lot next year. I hope I'm 0:27:09.400 --> 0:27:11.960 proven wrong on that, but that's the initial indication, the 0:27:12.000 --> 0:27:12.840 initial indication. 0:27:12.920 --> 0:27:14.760 All Right, I'm gonna go with you on this one, Nick, 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:17.879 is it a shame that Chauncey Golson is playing this 0:27:17.920 --> 0:27:19.960 well and you'll lose him like you'll lose like you 0:27:20.040 --> 0:27:21.399 lost Armstrong and Fallied. 0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:26.879 Yeah, he's playing. He's playing himself into a little bit 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:29.080 more money, for sure. I think that's a guy they 0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:30.960 need to bring back. I think if I'm looking at 0:27:31.280 --> 0:27:34.200 this defensive end room and how it's gonna shake shake 0:27:34.320 --> 0:27:38.760 up throughout the offseason, you probably will not be able 0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:42.080 to afford bringing Lawrence back. That's if Lawrence is still 0:27:42.200 --> 0:27:45.719 wanting to come back at that point, right, More so 0:27:45.800 --> 0:27:48.240 for retirement issues, not anything that's happened in the building. 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:52.639 But if you're looking for that big body defensive end 0:27:52.680 --> 0:27:54.920 on the outside, you got Marshawn neland but you could 0:27:54.960 --> 0:27:57.359 also have Chauncey Golson as a rotational guy. And then 0:27:57.400 --> 0:27:59.160 you got Carl laws, and I feel like if they 0:27:59.160 --> 0:28:02.000 had those four it's like the key defensive ends, that 0:28:02.040 --> 0:28:03.800 could be a really good group. I would pay money 0:28:03.840 --> 0:28:06.040 to bring back Golston personally. 0:28:05.680 --> 0:28:08.320 Okay, if the money turns into like Armstrong. 0:28:08.160 --> 0:28:12.120 Oh there's there's no way, right then, yeah, you would 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:13.600 have to go draft somebody at that point. 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:16.240 It's a shame. And but right it's a shame. 0:28:17.080 --> 0:28:19.959 It's a shame. It's a shame, a lot of shame. 0:28:21.320 --> 0:28:25.760 I mean, we don't really know. They got money issues, 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:29.520 you know that. But again, it's like with some of 0:28:29.560 --> 0:28:32.960 these moves that you've made in the contract that you 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:35.480 gave Dak, don't ask me about cap money. 0:28:35.560 --> 0:28:36.600 I don't agree. 0:28:36.680 --> 0:28:40.000 I don't know. But obviously if it gets two way 0:28:40.000 --> 0:28:43.600 out of budget, you just can't deal it. But what 0:28:43.880 --> 0:28:46.120 we have seen in the past that they that when 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:49.120 they do sign people in free agency, they tend to 0:28:49.200 --> 0:28:52.520 sign their own. So maybe that's something that is not 0:28:52.640 --> 0:28:56.920 completely out of the question there, but only and only, 0:28:56.960 --> 0:28:59.280 and we see this year after your if the money 0:28:59.520 --> 0:29:02.400 makes sense. Otherwise you're having to rely back again on 0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:03.880 young Talen and the draft. 0:29:04.200 --> 0:29:07.880 This reminds me a lot about the guy, like like 0:29:08.680 --> 0:29:11.920 the running back that you lost to Tennessee. You know, 0:29:12.680 --> 0:29:17.240 this reminds me of a guy that for four years 0:29:17.880 --> 0:29:20.440 really just kind of just I used the word here again, 0:29:20.480 --> 0:29:22.480 plotting along, just kind of plot along, and then he 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:25.280 gets the opportunity to play, and you're kind of like, damn, 0:29:25.280 --> 0:29:27.560 maybe he should have played more, you know, and you 0:29:27.600 --> 0:29:31.440 feel like that maybe you developed him for somebody else, 0:29:31.480 --> 0:29:36.000 for somebody else. You know, you did, you drafted and developed, 0:29:36.520 --> 0:29:39.440 but you're not keeping the guy, you know, you know, 0:29:39.800 --> 0:29:42.680 Tony Pollard. I feel like we drafted and developed, and 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:45.040 I know the money got really high for Tony Pollard, 0:29:45.640 --> 0:29:47.880 but I kind of feel like you drafted and developed 0:29:48.240 --> 0:29:53.640 Armstrong for the Commanders. Yeah, you draft and develop, and 0:29:53.720 --> 0:29:56.680 you know, unfortunately you can't keep them all, but the 0:29:56.760 --> 0:29:58.960 decisions of the one maybe you try and get ahead 0:29:58.960 --> 0:30:00.880 of it. And they've tried, they've tried to get ahead 0:30:00.880 --> 0:30:03.840 of some of these things just hasn't worked out in 0:30:03.880 --> 0:30:06.440 the way. But I have a feeling you've drafted and 0:30:06.520 --> 0:30:11.560 developed Goldston for somebody else. Just my opinion. Having a 0:30:11.560 --> 0:30:15.280 career year, I mean, yeah, yeah, the three years prior 0:30:15.360 --> 0:30:17.880 to this, you were kind of like, nah, yeah, it's 0:30:17.920 --> 0:30:20.400 a good player. Rotational backup guy. 0:30:20.560 --> 0:30:22.480 Now you're kind of like playing on a position before 0:30:22.480 --> 0:30:24.080 this year though, in my opinion. 0:30:23.720 --> 0:30:27.120 There you go. There's another asked Jerry Jones the same 0:30:27.200 --> 0:30:29.120 question I asked him about Pollard, where he looked at 0:30:29.120 --> 0:30:31.400 me and said, I'm an idiot. Basically, he goes, see, 0:30:31.400 --> 0:30:34.760 you feel like you waste his career here, and he goes, no, 0:30:35.000 --> 0:30:39.160 I really don't. But you know, yes you did, sir. 0:30:39.920 --> 0:30:41.800 You know you guys didn't use him like you needed 0:30:41.800 --> 0:30:43.560 to use him, you know. And I think the same 0:30:43.600 --> 0:30:50.080 thing could probably be said about Golston Nick. Does Richards 0:30:50.120 --> 0:30:53.320 make you feel better about the swing tackle position? Yes? 0:30:53.640 --> 0:30:55.280 Yeah, awesome Richardson. 0:30:56.520 --> 0:30:59.640 Richards had had a great game on Sunday, honestly better 0:30:59.640 --> 0:31:03.520 than I's. I know there's a lot of awesome Richard's 0:31:03.560 --> 0:31:05.320 believers out there, and I'm not necessarily saying I'm a 0:31:05.360 --> 0:31:07.440 non believer, but I didn't think he would be ready 0:31:07.480 --> 0:31:11.680 to start against a front like Philadelphia. But he did, 0:31:11.680 --> 0:31:14.800 and he played well, arguably I'd say, probably the second 0:31:14.840 --> 0:31:18.440 best guy overall and probably the best in passpro from Sunday. 0:31:18.480 --> 0:31:21.400 From from going back and watching, Yeah, makes me feel 0:31:21.440 --> 0:31:24.360 a lot better about about swing tackle specifically. 0:31:23.840 --> 0:31:24.280 I think it. 0:31:24.640 --> 0:31:27.040 He played well enough to where you could, if you 0:31:27.040 --> 0:31:29.280 wanted to later in the season, play some musical chairs 0:31:29.320 --> 0:31:31.200 there you can integrate him into the lineup. 0:31:31.920 --> 0:31:34.760 You played musical chairs, where you move, You're gonna move 0:31:35.160 --> 0:31:37.840 your left tackle, get into right tackle and see what 0:31:37.880 --> 0:31:39.040 that's all about. 0:31:39.360 --> 0:31:40.480 Certainly a possibility. 0:31:41.200 --> 0:31:44.360 Ambart Nick wants to shuffle the offensive line around, but 0:31:44.480 --> 0:31:47.240 does But do you feel better right now about awesome Richards? 0:31:47.320 --> 0:31:50.120 I mean, clearly the combination is not working, so try 0:31:50.280 --> 0:31:57.640 a different combination there. But actually impressed with what he did, honestly, 0:31:57.680 --> 0:31:59.920 if I'm being honest, my I hope you're being My 0:32:00.160 --> 0:32:04.680 opinion about him and nothing against him is just every 0:32:04.680 --> 0:32:10.280 time I've personally watched them, I haven't seen anything exciting 0:32:10.520 --> 0:32:13.080 from my end the times I've looked at him, So 0:32:13.960 --> 0:32:17.560 in my own personal evaluation, I do think he exceeded 0:32:17.680 --> 0:32:20.520 my expectation and what I thought he would look like 0:32:20.640 --> 0:32:24.640 going into this game a lot better and definitely right 0:32:24.640 --> 0:32:28.160 now it looked like an upgrade. So curious to see 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:31.959 more of him and how he continues to play, because 0:32:32.360 --> 0:32:36.400 and that's if how long is guy in now? He's 0:32:36.440 --> 0:32:38.920 back this week? 0:32:38.960 --> 0:32:41.880 Most likely? Yeah, dealing with that shoulder sprain but or strained. 0:32:41.920 --> 0:32:43.240 But he should be he. 0:32:43.200 --> 0:32:47.480 Should be right, So I would like to see more 0:32:47.520 --> 0:32:53.240 of him, Okay, And it is those sometimes those one 0:32:53.320 --> 0:32:55.840 off games that you have a good gamage. So I 0:32:55.960 --> 0:33:00.760 just I would like to have more on tape to 0:33:00.800 --> 0:33:04.120 see whether or not he's a good like. 0:33:04.480 --> 0:33:07.719 I remember Chas Green did the same thing against San Francisco, 0:33:07.960 --> 0:33:10.560 played really really well and then they played Atlanta and 0:33:10.600 --> 0:33:12.400 it went south in a hurry. 0:33:12.640 --> 0:33:17.320 But you know, I agree, it's just let's just I 0:33:17.360 --> 0:33:18.480 would like to see more of him. 0:33:18.960 --> 0:33:19.479 I'll say this. 0:33:20.080 --> 0:33:24.840 My one question that I would have about awesome Richards 0:33:24.880 --> 0:33:29.000 is why did he not start against Detroit? Yeah, which 0:33:29.080 --> 0:33:30.920 maybe he just wasn't ready for the left tackle position 0:33:30.960 --> 0:33:32.320 at that point. They've been working him a lot at 0:33:32.360 --> 0:33:34.480 guard and maybe I think realized that Guiden was a 0:33:34.480 --> 0:33:36.960 little bit more bringed up than they expected. Hey let's 0:33:36.960 --> 0:33:38.800 get you some tackle reps going into the bye week, 0:33:38.840 --> 0:33:42.880 and then he was ready for Philadelphia. But I think 0:33:42.920 --> 0:33:45.400 at the very least, he at least played you into 0:33:45.440 --> 0:33:48.160 a situation to where offensive tackle is not as big 0:33:48.160 --> 0:33:49.240 of a necessity in the draft. 0:33:49.360 --> 0:33:52.280 I think they were really worried about Philadelphia's defensive tackles 0:33:52.280 --> 0:33:52.800 in this game. 0:33:52.880 --> 0:33:53.320 That's fair. 0:33:53.520 --> 0:33:55.520 I think they did not want to move Tyler Smith 0:33:55.560 --> 0:33:58.920 out of that with those monsters playing inside Carter and 0:33:58.960 --> 0:34:02.200 those guys, I don't think they wanted to do that. Uh, 0:34:02.400 --> 0:34:05.760 Nick Amber, you did just answered the question, right, you 0:34:05.840 --> 0:34:10.799 just did, Nick tight Ends. What's the problem? 0:34:11.880 --> 0:34:12.759 They only have one guy. 0:34:13.680 --> 0:34:15.600 I think at this point that they only have one guy, 0:34:16.040 --> 0:34:18.239 and he got banged up early in the season. I 0:34:18.640 --> 0:34:21.279 think he's still on pace, uh, yardage wise and catch 0:34:21.320 --> 0:34:23.239 wise for what he was last year, but he just 0:34:23.239 --> 0:34:25.279 lost his quarterback to so that's that's not gonna help 0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:27.919 him as far as keeping that pace. But they only 0:34:27.920 --> 0:34:30.320 have one guy, and that guy is not the best 0:34:30.400 --> 0:34:32.759 run blocker in the world. Sure, so they don't have 0:34:32.800 --> 0:34:35.520 a point of attack guy. Luke scoon Maker is almost 0:34:35.680 --> 0:34:37.440 entirely taking himself out of the lineup. 0:34:37.600 --> 0:34:40.799 Yes, and uh and Span four gets a holding call 0:34:40.880 --> 0:34:42.360 down in the fumble area. 0:34:42.200 --> 0:34:45.359 Yeah, exactly exactly. So they only have one guy. That's 0:34:45.360 --> 0:34:47.120 that's the problem. Which is which is crazy because we 0:34:47.120 --> 0:34:48.799 looked up a year ago and like, hey, they got 0:34:48.840 --> 0:34:51.080 like three and a half four guys here. There's there's 0:34:51.200 --> 0:34:53.360 there's the comfortably one guy left. 0:34:53.480 --> 0:34:56.080 There's me sitting an Oxnard thinking, man, this tight end 0:34:56.200 --> 0:34:58.520 room might be okay, you know it might be you know, 0:34:58.760 --> 0:35:02.560 no Amber tight end, And what's the problem it Spin four. 0:35:02.840 --> 0:35:06.520 He's a guy that a lot of people liked and 0:35:06.680 --> 0:35:10.000 going into this season, let's keep an eye on him. 0:35:10.239 --> 0:35:15.640 And it just hasn't hasn't happened Schoolmaker. I've always thought 0:35:16.080 --> 0:35:20.680 there's there's more to him and there it's just hasn't 0:35:20.760 --> 0:35:23.920 happened either. And he's currently healthy and I know in 0:35:23.920 --> 0:35:26.840 the past that has been the issue where he's dealt 0:35:26.840 --> 0:35:30.880 with different kinds of little injuries here and there. But 0:35:31.560 --> 0:35:35.719 I just I don't understand what's going on. It's just 0:35:35.800 --> 0:35:39.359 disappointing because again, I agree with you guys at one 0:35:39.400 --> 0:35:42.680 point you thought you had good depth there and it's 0:35:42.760 --> 0:35:46.680 just you haven't seen much. And for a guy like, 0:35:47.840 --> 0:35:51.200 oh my god, I'm blanking out on his name, no, 0:35:51.440 --> 0:35:58.479 the starter, I just completely just wouldn't that be nice? 0:35:59.080 --> 0:35:59.160 No? 0:35:59.280 --> 0:36:05.360 But Ferguson, I know you will disagree because he's he's 0:36:05.800 --> 0:36:08.680 he has these good moments. It just hasn't been the same. 0:36:08.719 --> 0:36:13.880 But and it's not necessarily a job towards him. Because 0:36:14.480 --> 0:36:18.200 collectively everyone has been bad in the offense overall. So 0:36:18.280 --> 0:36:21.480 I think it's just more nature of the scheme and 0:36:21.520 --> 0:36:23.719 the play calls and all of that, just the combination 0:36:23.760 --> 0:36:26.520 of all of that, where I would have expected to 0:36:26.560 --> 0:36:30.520 see Ferguson be a lot more this year, contribute more, 0:36:30.600 --> 0:36:33.040 especially at that position. That is a position to be 0:36:33.160 --> 0:36:37.200 known to be kind of like a safety comfort blanket 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:40.400 to Dak Prescott. It just never happened. And now with 0:36:40.480 --> 0:36:44.600 the change that quarterback, I don't know if we will 0:36:44.640 --> 0:36:48.640 see something different, maybe because now you're kind of asking 0:36:48.680 --> 0:36:52.279 for these quarterbacks to throw just shorter passes. Maybe the 0:36:52.320 --> 0:36:54.439 tight end kind of shines a little more here. 0:36:54.480 --> 0:36:56.799 I don't know, Hunter licks your second best tight end 0:36:56.800 --> 0:36:58.680 on his roster. That's the problem here. 0:36:58.760 --> 0:37:03.080 And whispers of that too, did a whisper good time 0:37:03.120 --> 0:37:06.959 for one more? You got to get a break? Go ahead, Nick, 0:37:08.800 --> 0:37:10.400 What do you do with Kaylen Carson? 0:37:11.880 --> 0:37:12.280 Yeah? 0:37:12.840 --> 0:37:16.000 I think his confidence has gone, especially after the way 0:37:16.040 --> 0:37:19.720 that Philadelphia started that second half. Zimmer talked about it yesterday. 0:37:19.719 --> 0:37:21.000 I mean, you can tell when a guy is just 0:37:21.040 --> 0:37:23.920 being targeted over and over and over again. If it's 0:37:23.960 --> 0:37:26.720 a situation where Deron Bland cannot go again this week. 0:37:29.280 --> 0:37:33.560 Yeah, and sometimes you need to be taken away a 0:37:33.560 --> 0:37:34.960 little bit and you'll. 0:37:34.640 --> 0:37:36.120 Think he's ready. I think he could be good. I 0:37:36.120 --> 0:37:37.000 shall think he's ready. 0:37:37.120 --> 0:37:39.880 I like him a lot. I know he's been targeted, 0:37:40.239 --> 0:37:43.600 but again, you've asked so much out of a rookie, 0:37:43.680 --> 0:37:48.640 and I just think I like him a lot. Mentally, Yeah, 0:37:48.680 --> 0:37:51.399 it's gonna it's a beatdown every time you are out 0:37:51.440 --> 0:37:53.960 there and they're just going at you over and over again, 0:37:54.040 --> 0:37:58.680 and they're having success and they're having success, so it's tough. 0:37:58.800 --> 0:38:01.120 I think the right decision be to give him just 0:38:01.160 --> 0:38:05.720 a little break out of the game. But I still 0:38:05.760 --> 0:38:07.319 like him and I would like to see him more. 0:38:07.360 --> 0:38:10.799 And I think next year, with a defense that has 0:38:12.080 --> 0:38:15.040 hopefully all of their starters back into the mix, I 0:38:15.040 --> 0:38:18.560 can see him thrive in a defense where he has 0:38:18.680 --> 0:38:22.520 help around him and just more time to practice and 0:38:22.600 --> 0:38:24.520 do everything that he needs to do. But mentally, I 0:38:24.560 --> 0:38:26.880 think it's yeah, he needs a little break. 0:38:26.760 --> 0:38:29.040 It Bland doesn't go. I'd like to see a rotation 0:38:29.160 --> 0:38:32.239 of him and MCUAMU. Yeah, mcuama can start maybe it's 0:38:32.400 --> 0:38:35.359 first series, second series, third series, and then put Carson in. 0:38:35.800 --> 0:38:37.799 You know, maybe the game is if some of these 0:38:37.800 --> 0:38:40.000 games are not in the balance anymore and all that, 0:38:40.280 --> 0:38:42.920 maybe you just go and give him the experience. But 0:38:43.000 --> 0:38:46.040 obviously as a starter, it's been a real struggle for him. 0:38:46.120 --> 0:38:48.480 So that's where you're at. Thank you, guys, appreciate it. 0:38:48.480 --> 0:38:52.520 Thank you, Brian. 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He has 0:42:11.400 --> 0:42:14.399 come out and basically said, you know, I'm being misunderstood. 0:42:14.520 --> 0:42:16.640 You're just kind of flipping my words. What are your 0:42:16.680 --> 0:42:17.160 thoughts on? 0:42:18.120 --> 0:42:18.480 What is. 0:42:20.120 --> 0:42:21.680 Nick's face right now? Is pretty funny. 0:42:22.239 --> 0:42:26.759 I do I believe that he intended to throw Mike 0:42:26.840 --> 0:42:29.080 McCarthy under the bus as bad as it came across. 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:32.160 No, I do not believe that. I do believe that MICHAEH. 0:42:32.160 --> 0:42:34.600 Parsons does respect the only head coach he's had in 0:42:34.600 --> 0:42:37.560 his entire NFL career. I do believe that on that 0:42:37.600 --> 0:42:40.480 same token, he was given an opportunity in that moment 0:42:40.560 --> 0:42:42.719 to pour support into his head coach that is on 0:42:42.760 --> 0:42:47.160 an expiring contract, and he instead deflected it to other people. Now, 0:42:48.239 --> 0:42:50.360 does he want to win for those other people, Absolutely, 0:42:50.719 --> 0:42:55.080 But I think there's certain optics to that exchange that 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:59.680 leave room to believe that, you know, Micah could have 0:43:00.239 --> 0:43:02.319 supported his head coaches a little bit more than he did. 0:43:02.560 --> 0:43:02.759 Now. 0:43:02.760 --> 0:43:06.040 Granted, Mike McCarthy did say yesterday that they had a 0:43:06.080 --> 0:43:06.960 one on one conversation. 0:43:07.000 --> 0:43:07.759 They cleared the air. 0:43:07.920 --> 0:43:11.520 He Parsons communicated that was not his intention for how 0:43:11.520 --> 0:43:12.120 it came across. 0:43:12.120 --> 0:43:13.120 Blah blah blah. 0:43:13.320 --> 0:43:15.640 Micah came on his podcast later yesterday and it kind 0:43:15.640 --> 0:43:18.520 of explained the same thing. I think he took more 0:43:18.560 --> 0:43:21.640 of exception to former players and former coaches. Looking at 0:43:21.680 --> 0:43:24.640 the first part of that quote where he was talking about, 0:43:26.360 --> 0:43:29.320 you know, it's it's Mike McCarthy can go anywhere, because 0:43:29.320 --> 0:43:33.080 that's what I think TV stations took away from that 0:43:33.160 --> 0:43:35.680 quote was like it was the part where he was like, yeah, 0:43:35.760 --> 0:43:39.279 McCarthy can go anywhere and be fine. I don't I 0:43:39.400 --> 0:43:42.440 never took that as the quote unquote distance. It was 0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:45.279 the last part where he's like those veteran guys like 0:43:45.360 --> 0:43:47.719 Zach Martin, they worked, They put more time and work 0:43:47.800 --> 0:43:50.239 in than Mike McCarthy ever did. That's where I was like, 0:43:50.480 --> 0:43:53.160 he's gonna have to explain that one, because McCarthy is 0:43:53.160 --> 0:43:55.919 in this building, yeah, until midnight every day, And as 0:43:55.960 --> 0:43:57.719 someone who was in this building last year, can I 0:43:57.719 --> 0:43:59.759 can attest to that he was in here at eight 0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:01.960 o'clock the very next morning when they lost to Green Bay. 0:44:02.080 --> 0:44:04.080 I mean that he is in this building quite a 0:44:04.080 --> 0:44:08.440 bit so time. I don't know about that work. Probably physically, yes, absolutely, 0:44:08.480 --> 0:44:10.960 And that's eventually what Mike could try to communicate was like, no, 0:44:11.080 --> 0:44:13.440 these guys have been put putting in blood, sweat and 0:44:13.440 --> 0:44:16.799 tears on the field, which like, as a player, you 0:44:16.800 --> 0:44:18.680 you play for the guys around you. You play for 0:44:18.800 --> 0:44:20.560 the people who are on the field, yes, absolutely, and 0:44:20.560 --> 0:44:22.080 then you play for your coaches. So like part of 0:44:22.120 --> 0:44:24.480 me understands what Michael was trying to communicate there and 0:44:24.480 --> 0:44:26.480 being like, hey, no, like these guys, these are the 0:44:26.480 --> 0:44:30.800 guys that are you know, uh, messing up their shoulder, 0:44:30.840 --> 0:44:32.680 messing up their foot. And Zach Martin, he's battled a 0:44:32.719 --> 0:44:34.160 ton of injuries over the course of the last year. 0:44:34.239 --> 0:44:37.160 DeMarcus Lawrence dealing with the Lis Frank I think that's 0:44:37.160 --> 0:44:38.799 more so what he's talking about when he's talking about 0:44:38.800 --> 0:44:40.960 putting in more time and work than Mike McCarthy ever did. 0:44:41.080 --> 0:44:44.200 But it just came across very poor and an opportunity 0:44:44.239 --> 0:44:46.000 where he could have poured support into McCarthy. 0:44:46.120 --> 0:44:52.360 Somewhere, somewhere, Aaron Rodgers is agreeing with with Michael Persons. 0:44:52.520 --> 0:44:58.840 That wouldn't be the first. No, just uh uh you 0:44:58.880 --> 0:45:02.160 know to me, I I I have all these platforms 0:45:02.200 --> 0:45:03.680 I get to be on. I'm not the best speaker. 0:45:04.040 --> 0:45:08.040 I can understand that. But he did qualify it by saying, listen, 0:45:08.080 --> 0:45:09.200 it's above my pay grade. 0:45:09.360 --> 0:45:09.680 He did. 0:45:09.840 --> 0:45:12.240 He did say that. He said it's about my pay grade. 0:45:12.280 --> 0:45:14.320 So somebody else is going to have to make the decision. 0:45:14.680 --> 0:45:19.200 He chose to give praise to guys that he he 0:45:19.239 --> 0:45:22.120 feels like he spills blood with on that field. That's 0:45:22.160 --> 0:45:25.000 what he chose to do. Now, Now the next thing, 0:45:25.200 --> 0:45:27.560 I know, before we quit here, the next thing, did 0:45:27.560 --> 0:45:31.759 he nobody quit in here? No? No, no quit in 0:45:31.840 --> 0:45:36.680 the show. The thing now, the thing that that Michael 0:45:36.719 --> 0:45:38.839 Parsons now maybe needs to worry about a little bit 0:45:39.000 --> 0:45:42.799 is does information go does somebody become petty about this? 0:45:43.480 --> 0:45:46.960 And now national media start to pick up on things 0:45:47.000 --> 0:45:49.680 little whispers. Well, you know, he's talking about my work ethic. 0:45:50.040 --> 0:45:52.560 Let me tell you, we tell you about his work ethic. 0:45:53.000 --> 0:45:55.240 You know, things like that, you know, all of a sudden, 0:45:55.280 --> 0:45:59.880 the Tom Pelasarrow's and Dan Grasiano's and all those guys 0:46:00.120 --> 0:46:04.080 change slaters and all. Yeah, I mean I named I 0:46:04.160 --> 0:46:07.400 named like a really good law firm there. But but 0:46:07.719 --> 0:46:10.799 now he needs to worry about whispers. And maybe it's 0:46:10.800 --> 0:46:12.640 not from Mike, but maybe it's from other coaches and 0:46:12.680 --> 0:46:15.440 stuff in the building, you know, that defending Mike and 0:46:15.440 --> 0:46:19.200 stuff like that. So you know, Micah has had his 0:46:19.320 --> 0:46:22.719 share of whispers coming out of this building before, you know. 0:46:23.040 --> 0:46:25.080 So it's kind of one of those things like, yeah, 0:46:25.160 --> 0:46:28.000 he thinks I didn't work, how about him? You know, 0:46:28.040 --> 0:46:31.440 and and all of a sudden, now it's uh, you know, 0:46:31.520 --> 0:46:34.200 now now things don't look as good for Michael Parsons. 0:46:34.200 --> 0:46:36.160 That's the worry I would have if I was him. 0:46:36.239 --> 0:46:38.879 This generated questions in the locker room. It's why it's 0:46:38.880 --> 0:46:41.360 why McCarthy and Parsons had their one on one yesterday 0:46:41.480 --> 0:46:43.920 because because of people talking about in the locker room. 0:46:43.960 --> 0:46:45.439 So they got together to clear the air. 0:46:45.960 --> 0:46:50.040 If someone is still interpreting this entire situation in the 0:46:50.080 --> 0:46:53.000 sense that it came across on Sunday. Then you could 0:46:53.040 --> 0:46:55.239 point back to Micah not being here at Ota, so 0:46:55.280 --> 0:46:55.960 you could point. 0:46:55.760 --> 0:46:58.400 Back back that's what you're saying and things of that. 0:46:58.600 --> 0:47:00.160 So I I understand, we're no, No. 0:47:00.120 --> 0:47:02.360 That's exactly what I'm saying, because all of a sudden, 0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:05.040 you know, if you want to question my work ethic 0:47:05.080 --> 0:47:07.560 and you live in this you lived in this building 0:47:07.600 --> 0:47:09.960 at one time, you do too, Ambar, and you know 0:47:10.000 --> 0:47:11.960 you're hanging here till midnight riting a story, and you 0:47:12.000 --> 0:47:16.480 see Mike McCarthy going home, you have a point of reference. 0:47:16.960 --> 0:47:20.440 You know, coaches work really, really, really hard. I trust me. 0:47:20.480 --> 0:47:23.480 I I've been. I've been with coaches out until one 0:47:23.480 --> 0:47:26.359 in the morning working on stuff. Coaches work really hard, 0:47:26.400 --> 0:47:27.960 and they get here very early in the morning. I 0:47:28.040 --> 0:47:30.120 used to pick John Gruden up at four and am 0:47:30.160 --> 0:47:32.640 to get him to work in Green Bay. They worked very, 0:47:32.719 --> 0:47:35.439 very hard, you know. And but like I say, we've 0:47:35.440 --> 0:47:38.200 heard stuff from We've heard stuff from Aaron Rodgers. I 0:47:38.239 --> 0:47:39.720 was kind of making a joke, but we've heard stuff 0:47:39.719 --> 0:47:43.000 from Aaron Rodgers before, you know, so you know, it's 0:47:43.520 --> 0:47:46.600 it's your it's your own thought and and but they 0:47:46.680 --> 0:47:49.480 need to be careful because you know, Micah could very 0:47:49.480 --> 0:47:51.319 well be He could be now in the line of 0:47:51.360 --> 0:47:54.640 sight of some coaches, and it might not be Mike McCarthy, 0:47:54.640 --> 0:47:57.080 but other coaches say, let me tell you guy talking 0:47:57.120 --> 0:48:00.200 about our guy. Come on, man, this guy doesn't do 0:48:00.280 --> 0:48:02.839 this and this and this. That's just that's something you 0:48:02.840 --> 0:48:03.839 always have to worry about. 0:48:03.920 --> 0:48:06.839 We'll start hearing about it. If it happens, probably will 0:48:07.080 --> 0:48:10.040 we hear it. We'll hear it about it everywhere. And 0:48:10.160 --> 0:48:12.040 with that we end the show. 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