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Speaker 2: Exciting.
Speaker 5: Yes, you guys were watching last week, you may have
Speaker 5: heard that me and Ambar were in the middle of
Speaker 5: a trade negotiation. She did not end up accepting that trade.
Speaker 5: Had she accepted that trade, she would have won her
Speaker 5: fantasy matchup.
Speaker 6: That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 4: What's wild is that I lost by four points. So yeah, sure,
Speaker 4: you're right what I battle in that game.
Speaker 6: Somebody won this week.
Speaker 4: Good for you. It's just Kyle's team.
Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes the trades you don't make are the best.
Speaker 6: Trades or the ones you think about for the rest
Speaker 6: of time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there's h I remember one time there was
Speaker 2: a player here and he might listen because I think
Speaker 2: he still might be local. This guy named James Whalen.
Speaker 2: It was a tight end here and uh I called
Speaker 2: the since A. We were trying to move him, and
Speaker 2: I called the Cincinnati Bengals and they they're like, hey,
Speaker 2: would you be interested in James Whalen And They're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we'd like to kind of move TJ. Housman Zada, who
Speaker 2: was a wide receiver well for the Bengals, And so
Speaker 2: I'm like, he was.
Speaker 6: My flight back from Mobile last year. He was Dallas too.
Speaker 2: Does he living Dallas? He might be listening as well.
Speaker 2: But the thing about it was, it's funny because Jim Lippicott,
Speaker 2: who was the director of player personnel for the Bengals,
Speaker 2: I'm like, I was too anxious. I was too anxious
Speaker 2: on the trade. Like when he said, hey, would you
Speaker 2: take t. J. Husseman's out, I said, Jim, you want
Speaker 2: to hand in the papers you want me to And
Speaker 2: I did it without even talking to Stephen and Jerry.
Speaker 2: They just gave me the go ahead to make a trade,
Speaker 2: and I just I learned that day. I was too
Speaker 2: anxious because t J. Husseman's out. It turned out to
Speaker 2: be a pretty good football player after that, and and
Speaker 2: but I was too like I saw how Ambar was
Speaker 2: slow playing the other day, and I was thinking, Ambar's
Speaker 2: doing this the right way, because if it was me,
Speaker 2: I would have immediately taken the trade.
Speaker 4: And I went through a rollercoaster of emotion. Initially, I'm like, ohn,
Speaker 4: hold on, let me look at this. And then I
Speaker 4: started I looked out your trade proposal, and I was like, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: I'll take it. But then I took a step back.
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, hold on, yeah, and then I started
Speaker 4: thinking more. So It's just like one of those things
Speaker 4: that one I got to stommarch. I'm okay with my decision,
Speaker 4: by the way, but I could never do that actual
Speaker 4: job what they do there, because it's just you just
Speaker 4: get tooing your head and thinking of every outcome. You're like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, am I doing this right? I'm or not?
Speaker 4: Do I take this gamble? Do I not? Are you
Speaker 4: screwing me?
Speaker 7: Over?
Speaker 2: See? That's what happened. That's what happened with its Cincinnati
Speaker 2: because when I told Lippicott that I go, do you
Speaker 2: want me to hand in the papers or do you
Speaker 2: want to do it? And he goes, well, hey, let
Speaker 2: me let me think about this for a second. Let
Speaker 2: me think and I'll get back to you. He called
Speaker 2: the next day and said, nah, we're not going to
Speaker 2: do it, but thank you.
Speaker 6: You know, Hushmnzata could have been here.
Speaker 2: Tj husse Manzata could have been here. I had traded
Speaker 2: for James Whalen, who was a tight end, have a
Speaker 2: backup tight end, you know, you know, it would have
Speaker 2: been like a third tight end for this crew right here.
Speaker 2: And and yeah, but you know they said the Jones
Speaker 2: just said, hey, you know, let's see if we could
Speaker 2: get something for Aames Whalen. And I, you know, so
Speaker 2: I got on the phone and start calling people in
Speaker 2: Cincinnati's the one team you never call because they they
Speaker 2: don't do anything. They have a history of not like
Speaker 2: I call up to you know, I used to call
Speaker 2: up with with Jim was there, Jimlipacott. And then you know,
Speaker 2: and then also Duke Tobin took it over, you know,
Speaker 2: running the personnel department, and I would like, hey, Duke,
Speaker 2: it's Brian and Dallas. Hey, Brian, how's it going great,
Speaker 2: Just calling to make sure everything's good with you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: everything's fine, Thanks for calling, Okay, take care. And I
Speaker 2: wouldn't talk to him until the next year because you
Speaker 2: knew that. You know, there's some teams that were super
Speaker 2: aggressive with with the way they traded, and you could
Speaker 2: kind of like guy less Snead when less Sneed was,
Speaker 2: he's now with the Rams. Less Need's famously his the
Speaker 2: FOS picks guy. He's got the T shirt at the
Speaker 2: super Boy wore f M picks. You know, he was
Speaker 2: a guy he didn't care. You know, he would trade.
Speaker 2: He you know, you could get on him on the
Speaker 2: phone and like you'd make a trade. He's like who
Speaker 2: else you got? Got anybody else? You know, and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think we're good here. Lest Let's yeah, I'll call
Speaker 2: you back.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: But but you do think about it. You do think
Speaker 2: about it when you're on the front. We know, when
Speaker 2: you're making deals because you you wonder, gosh, is that
Speaker 2: guy gonna go and see I'm not gonna lie. I
Speaker 2: looked up and saw what Phillips did the other day
Speaker 2: for Buffalo, you know, and that and just youd want
Speaker 2: to take a guess how he played in that game
Speaker 2: the other day for Buffalo against the Indianapolis Cults.
Speaker 6: I honestly could not even guess.
Speaker 2: Two tackles, one pressure.
Speaker 6: Yeah you played, but how many snaps he played?
Speaker 2: It was over twenty snaps, Like twenty five snaps. See
Speaker 2: that's I'm saying. You know, you may sometimes you make
Speaker 2: trades and it works out, and then then you trade
Speaker 2: a guy away and then the next you know, he's
Speaker 2: playing like a he's playing great for them.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you never know. Next here you might we might
Speaker 4: be sitting here and you're like, man, I was so
Speaker 4: wrong about that Jonathan Mingle, guy, they actually got this
Speaker 4: one right. Well, yeah, you never know.
Speaker 2: You never know. But see that's the thing with Ward.
Speaker 2: You know, the corner for San Francisco. You know they
Speaker 2: traded Tivis Ward when they Travarious Ward when they and
Speaker 2: you know, and I remember Amber, were you with us.
Speaker 2: We were playing a preseason game in Houston and we
Speaker 2: were it was down it was the last preseason game
Speaker 2: and we pull him out of the lineup. We see
Speaker 2: him get pulled out of the lineup because he's going
Speaker 2: to get traded. So he's given everybody a hug on
Speaker 2: the sidelines. Hey give trade for a guard from Kansas
Speaker 2: City that never played a down here, and he goes
Speaker 2: on and has has just an incredible career with Kansas
Speaker 2: City and now with the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 2: And sometimes you just you just just hang your head
Speaker 2: when things like that happen. You know, you make a deal.
Speaker 2: So sorry, that was trade talk there for about seven hours.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was story.
Speaker 4: Well, the funny thing is, like those trades actually matter
Speaker 4: what we're doing on this fantasy Like it's so mad,
Speaker 4: literally no, but we literally he's mad, right because you're
Speaker 4: a draft guy too and you're into that. I'm more like,
Speaker 4: I don't know, I'm just like, nah, I'm not giving
Speaker 4: you my quarterback.
Speaker 2: By the way, the seven guys already.
Speaker 6: Oh, let's go right here, right here, we're starting.
Speaker 2: We're on the run.
Speaker 4: All right. Well, let's talk about some of the latest news.
Speaker 4: And this is something we are we have already been
Speaker 4: hearing about when it comes to Dak in his situation.
Speaker 4: It turns out that it has been confirmed that he
Speaker 4: will be undergoing the surgery and he's gonna that's gonna
Speaker 4: put him out for the rest of the season, he's
Speaker 4: gonna be moved to I r my question here for
Speaker 4: you guys. One. I've seen people getting really upset about
Speaker 4: this and just panicking and everything and what this could
Speaker 4: potentially mean for the future. Obviously we don't know until
Speaker 4: we get there. But does this surgery and being out
Speaker 4: for the rest of the season, will it mentally affect
Speaker 4: him next year as far as like this happened right
Speaker 4: on the play on the day they claim it wasn't
Speaker 4: that specific play of him running, but mentally from a
Speaker 4: guy that we've been asking to run and that's something
Speaker 4: that was missing in his game. Do you think this
Speaker 4: will or could affect him in the future and how
Speaker 4: he operates that's the quarterback.
Speaker 5: I think it's something that you know, definitely have to
Speaker 5: ask whenever he's he's done with his recovery, because the
Speaker 5: mental aspect of it doesn't really kick in until you're
Speaker 5: on your back for six weeks and you have to
Speaker 5: you can't walk for six weeks or however long it's
Speaker 5: going to be for Dak I think for him though
Speaker 5: this is his fourth surgery that he's going to go
Speaker 5: through as as a member of the Cowboys, he had
Speaker 5: that dislocated ankle, and coming back from that, I think
Speaker 5: that was.
Speaker 6: More of a mental challenge than anything.
Speaker 5: He's had surgery on his shoulder, He's had surgery on
Speaker 5: his right thumb. Now he's gonna have surgery on this
Speaker 5: on this hamstring. So he's been through this before, and
Speaker 5: the ankle was obviously a lot worse, and I think
Speaker 5: it would I would assume it would be a lot
Speaker 5: worse mentally, But I think that's something that we look
Speaker 5: up after this four month recovery for Dak, which should
Speaker 5: have him ready to go by OTAs. I think whenever
Speaker 5: he comes around to OTAs, that's probably the question that
Speaker 5: you ask is like, Okay, how does this affect.
Speaker 6: Your running style going forward?
Speaker 5: Because we already did see a little bit of a
Speaker 5: dip there coming coming into this season, and you know,
Speaker 5: you factor in the him being in a boot in
Speaker 5: can kub before before training camp, and is he dealing
Speaker 5: with some tendonitis in that ankle as a result of
Speaker 5: the injury? Is that a reason why his rush attempts
Speaker 5: have decreased over the course of this season, And then
Speaker 5: the one game that he gets back into scramble mode,
Speaker 5: he tears his hamstring. So I think that's certainly a
Speaker 5: mental challenge that you would have to ask of him
Speaker 5: at that point. But I think that's probably something that
Speaker 5: he'll have to go through and experience over the course
Speaker 5: of these next four months and then come to a
Speaker 5: conclusion at the end of it for how these next
Speaker 5: four years will go.
Speaker 2: From a rushing perspective to me, there's concern, you know,
Speaker 2: in this concern in this way because we didn't see
Speaker 2: We saw a guy that doesn't have the mobility that
Speaker 2: he once had, you know, his ability to move and
Speaker 2: you know, we've seen him in the pocket been able
Speaker 2: to kind of navigate things and kind of buy some time,
Speaker 2: you know, when he can he you know, we were
Speaker 2: asking for him to run, you know, I mean, hey,
Speaker 2: those injuries happen, but you've already seen a guy that
Speaker 2: doesn't look really as flexible as he once did, you know,
Speaker 2: And now are you are you are you going into
Speaker 2: that even more? Are you dipping into that part of
Speaker 2: his game? Where are you taking that away? Him and
Speaker 2: Britt Brown will work really hard to rehab and get back.
Speaker 2: You know, He'll try and keep his weight down, He'll
Speaker 2: do everything he can to kind of defeat Father Time,
Speaker 2: which will be difficult. But these injuries start adding up,
Speaker 2: and especially when you start to talk about lower body injuries, hamstrings, ankles,
Speaker 2: you know, if he doesn't have a lot of flexibility
Speaker 2: in his ankle, you know, because he's dealing with a
Speaker 2: lot of that stuff. That was a pretty horrific injury
Speaker 2: that he's suffered, you know, and he and he's fought back,
Speaker 2: he's battled through things, and he always going to battle
Speaker 2: through things. But how many can you take before it
Speaker 2: starts to show with your play? You know, I remember
Speaker 2: way back in the day when Dan Marino towards hamstring, well,
Speaker 2: the greatest quarterbacks ever to play, what Scutorio is achilles,
Speaker 2: and he just couldn't move anymore. And then he was
Speaker 2: kind of a sitting duck in the pocket and he
Speaker 2: just couldn't buy himself another chance to throw the ball,
Speaker 2: you know, or a second chance. The mobility, he couldn't
Speaker 2: do that. And you know, you just kind of wonder
Speaker 2: with Dak is this going to be one of those
Speaker 2: things that we've kind of seen him not have a
Speaker 2: lot of flexibility, a lot of mobility, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: to be able to navigate stuff. And so that's that's
Speaker 2: my concern right there. I think he'll you know, they'll say, hey,
Speaker 2: well as good as new. Well it's not as good
Speaker 2: as new. You know. He deal he's dealing with a
Speaker 2: lot of things physically that he hit. To his credit,
Speaker 2: he plays through, you know, and and like say, when
Speaker 2: they tell you that, oh, the walking boot's nothing, don't
Speaker 2: worry about it. Nothing to see here. There's something to
Speaker 2: see here. You know, this is not just Hey, the
Speaker 2: walking boot looks very stylish. I'm a jump Man Nike guy,
Speaker 2: you know, Nike jump boot, you know whatever, that's.
Speaker 6: Not that's the thing in Mexico these days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you don't want to be on a
Speaker 2: fishing boat all day with a boot on. Trust me,
Speaker 2: I've been on a fishing boat all day. You know
Speaker 2: you don't. So it's it's it's it's tough. These things
Speaker 2: are tough and they and they start to add up
Speaker 2: and it and you know you're not. You know, there's
Speaker 2: there's some guys that are able to kind of overcome
Speaker 2: these things, and others it's it's a lot harder. I mean,
Speaker 2: he works so hard as is to get ready. Now
Speaker 2: you know, it's going to be even more for him
Speaker 2: to to get back and you know, and get the
Speaker 2: mobility that he had.
Speaker 4: Well, big question mark for the future. I'm sure we'll
Speaker 4: be discussing it later on uh again. But in the meantime,
Speaker 4: as far as the current quarterbacks right now, Jerry Jones
Speaker 4: did mention they're sticking with Cooper Rush to be the
Speaker 4: starter and planning on throwing in some packages with Trey Lanz.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen any confirmed by us here in the building,
Speaker 4: but I've been hearing with the move Will Greer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the name the name that I've heard on outside
Speaker 2: the building, you know, at one oh five three the
Speaker 2: fan just talking to some people that Will Greer was
Speaker 2: going to step back into the role of being on
Speaker 2: the practice squad and then you know, being able to
Speaker 2: elevate if they if they need him. But familiarity with
Speaker 2: Will Greer, you know, everybody likes Will Greer. You know
Speaker 2: he'll fit in just fine doing what they need to do.
Speaker 2: You know, he's He's the most important thing is that
Speaker 2: you know Will Greer will know his role in what
Speaker 2: he has to do, and so that's that's a positive.
Speaker 2: If you have to make one of these moves with
Speaker 2: eight weeks left in the season, you know Will Grier
Speaker 2: that you could do far worse than than Will Greer
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 5: Familiarity with Will Greer, and then also Will Greer's familiarity
Speaker 5: with how to run scout team, because that's going to
Speaker 5: obviously become a lot more important over these next few weeks.
Speaker 5: But yeah, him added to the practice squad. Expect that
Speaker 5: to happen sometime this week.
Speaker 4: I remember it was a very emotional departure.
Speaker 5: I was there for that Lance right after they had
Speaker 5: traded for Trey Lance, and they basically told Will like, hey,
Speaker 5: so this is your last audition, go have fun. And yeah,
Speaker 5: he certainly did the thing. He threw for over three
Speaker 5: hundred yards in that game. It was the only preseason
Speaker 5: game they won that year.
Speaker 6: And and then he cried in the press conference after.
Speaker 4: The Yeah yeah, so does that that final look that
Speaker 4: we got from him at that moment, does that inside
Speaker 4: any will to see more more of will see more
Speaker 4: of him uh in this next weeks.
Speaker 6: What he's a gun slinger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is a gun slinger. There's no doubt about.
Speaker 2: I mean when he when you watched him playing in college,
Speaker 2: he was a gunslinger. The way he played there in
Speaker 2: West Virginia. If I'm right about that. But if I
Speaker 2: could circle back about about the other the two quarterbacks
Speaker 2: with with Cooper Rush and Trey Lance, Trey Lance needs
Speaker 2: to be incorporated a little bit earlier into the game
Speaker 2: in my opinion. If you go the first series, and
Speaker 2: you know, maybe go second series, think about getting Trey
Speaker 2: Lance in there a little bit. Maybe you know you
Speaker 2: don't if you want to just run some packages and stuff,
Speaker 2: don't just wait till the second half and say, okay,
Speaker 2: go try and save us. Now, you know, Trey Lance,
Speaker 2: you try and find some things that that you know
Speaker 2: that you're comfortable at doing. We call him design runs.
Speaker 2: He had a design run for eleven yards the other day,
Speaker 2: just straight snap quarterback run, you know, with Ezekiel Ellett leading.
Speaker 2: You know they blocked it up. Well, you know it's
Speaker 2: eleven yard run. Some RPO stuff, the read option stuff,
Speaker 2: make Houston have to kind of prepare or as the
Speaker 2: game goes on, everybody talks about halftime adjustments. The really
Speaker 2: good teams adjust series the series they do make make
Speaker 2: make Houston have to worry about now that you've got
Speaker 2: an RPO part to their game. Now they see it,
Speaker 2: They see it a lot with their own team. They
Speaker 2: practice against it, so they should be comfortable playing that way.
Speaker 2: But but don't wait till like some weird moment in
Speaker 2: the third quarter that you're going to put Trey Lanston
Speaker 2: and like, you know, if if if all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: there's it, doesn't you know, the first series and Cooper
Speaker 2: rush is inaccurate and the balls going behind the line
Speaker 2: of scrimmage and it's two yards passing and three three snaps, hell,
Speaker 2: get get Trey Lance. And then the next series, try
Speaker 2: and get something going with the running game, try and
Speaker 2: kind of make something happen, you know, don't just sit
Speaker 2: there and plod on, plot on, plod on and then
Speaker 2: it's too late. Just you know, play play really unconventionally.
Speaker 2: Just play two quarterbacks and just see if you can,
Speaker 2: if you can maybe find some offense along the way.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that the outcome of this last game against
Speaker 4: the Eagles maybe it serves us. And I don't want
Speaker 4: to say release some pressure, because there's a lot of
Speaker 4: pressure with people that this is their last year in
Speaker 4: their contract, but at the same time to maybe just
Speaker 4: let loose, like let's just try different things and and
Speaker 4: just go in with the different mentality of like it
Speaker 4: is what it is, now, let me just relax a
Speaker 4: little bit and just do things differently.
Speaker 2: Well, this is where this is where you have to
Speaker 2: look at it now. As a coach, you can you can.
Speaker 2: You can go in your office, close your door at
Speaker 2: night and then start to call all your buddies and
Speaker 2: find out, you know, at the Senior Bowl, who's going
Speaker 2: to be hiring coaches, or what's staffs are going to
Speaker 2: be put together, or hey, do you know Ben Johnson?
Speaker 2: Do you know Mike Vrabel? Do you know? You know?
Speaker 2: Don't that's the kind of that that that kind of
Speaker 2: mentality right there. That's that's not going to get it done.
Speaker 2: Or you could put good film out there. You could
Speaker 2: you know, maybe things aren't perfect right now, but you
Speaker 2: could put good film out there for somebody to look at, like, hey,
Speaker 2: look when they had all these injuries, Look what they did.
Speaker 2: Look what these coaches came up with. That that's your
Speaker 2: that's your calling card right there. That's you're like, hey,
Speaker 2: look what Look how these guys rallied the last eight
Speaker 2: weeks without their starting quarterback. Look what they did with
Speaker 2: their offense, Look what they did. You know, maybe it's
Speaker 2: not going to be perfect. Maybe it's not going to
Speaker 2: translate into wins, but you could. You could put tape
Speaker 2: out there to show people as a coach that your
Speaker 2: guys didn't quit, they were well prepared, they were they
Speaker 2: were buttoned up assignment wise, and you did a good
Speaker 2: job of making sure seeing the season through. You know,
Speaker 2: a lot of coaches get hired by word of mouth,
Speaker 2: but you could also get hired by the tape you
Speaker 2: put out there, you know, and players of the same way.
Speaker 2: Now you've got to worry about the players now too.
Speaker 2: You know, the players. I don't think they'll quit on MIC,
Speaker 2: but you got to make sure that you're trying your
Speaker 2: best and you're competitive. Because what happens is the closer
Speaker 2: we get to Thanksgiving, players start to talk about the holidays,
Speaker 2: and they start to talk about plans, they start to
Speaker 2: talk about being out of the building, and hey, what
Speaker 2: are we doing after the season. Maybe we're not watching
Speaker 2: two or three extra games of film. You know. Maybe
Speaker 2: we're like, ah, I can do that tomorrow. And then
Speaker 2: you don't do it tomorrow, you know, and now you're
Speaker 2: really not prepped, and now you're going out there and
Speaker 2: getting really embarrassed because you're not doing everything you need
Speaker 2: to do. You've got to try and avoid that. You know,
Speaker 2: the season looks or excuse me, appears to be lost,
Speaker 2: you know, but make sure that you're a pro and
Speaker 2: you handle your preparation. And that's the challenge of these
Speaker 2: coaches here in this locker room. Now. You know, when
Speaker 2: they get to the holidays, they don't need this thing
Speaker 2: to have a five or six game losing streak, you know,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, the players have completely checked out.
Speaker 2: You know. That's that's the challenge right now for not
Speaker 2: only the coaches but also for the players.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and take our first break. When we
Speaker 4: come back, do you have a game?
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 4: Let's get into Brian's game.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, hambar uh. Nick, I'll start with
Speaker 2: you on this one. Is your questions that I've kind
Speaker 2: of come up with in every Tuesday. If you're new
Speaker 2: to the show, I should have probably explained what we're
Speaker 2: doing every Tuesday. I kind of have questions for the guys,
Speaker 2: and they do a great job of answering them.
Speaker 6: So sometimes know all the time.
Speaker 2: You guys do a great job. But let me go
Speaker 2: with you on this first one, Nick, do you feel
Speaker 2: like you'll get a good evaluation of Jonathan Mingo with
Speaker 2: these quarterbacks?
Speaker 6: Oh that's a good question.
Speaker 2: I mean, damn right, it's a good questions.
Speaker 4: Don't break yourself thinks A good question, isn't it.
Speaker 5: I think, considering the fact that Dak Prescott will be
Speaker 5: his quarterback, I think there's a layer that layer of
Speaker 5: that too, there's a layer of what's the word I'm
Speaker 5: looking for, realism?
Speaker 6: I guess you're you found there.
Speaker 5: However, I do think there is a way to look
Speaker 5: at him and see, Okay, is he creating separation?
Speaker 6: Is he getting out in the open field?
Speaker 5: Is he whenever he's taking jet sweeps or anything out
Speaker 5: of the backfield if if they try to do something
Speaker 5: like that with him, is he making the right raids?
Speaker 6: Is he doing the right things? And is he going
Speaker 6: to be ready this week?
Speaker 5: I think him being ready this week would also be
Speaker 5: kind of an indicator as to how he's got an
Speaker 5: acclimate coming into the building. Mike McCarthy did a praise
Speaker 5: Mingo yesterday and saying that he's come into the building
Speaker 5: and he's attacked everything. He's attacked the playbook and he
Speaker 5: was close to being able to go on Sunday, but
Speaker 5: you know he only had one full practice. Sure, I
Speaker 5: expect him to be able to go into this week
Speaker 5: but I don't think you can take a full evaluation
Speaker 5: of Mingo right now.
Speaker 6: I think I think you're I think you're onto something there.
Speaker 5: But I think if we're looking up in week three
Speaker 5: next year and he doesn't have some sort of impact,
Speaker 5: then I think that's probably where we look at it.
Speaker 5: We can give a full evaluation.
Speaker 2: Hey, g you feel like you get a good evaluation
Speaker 2: a Mingo. With these quarterbacks, I feel like.
Speaker 4: I could actually do a little bit because expand because
Speaker 4: one if we're talking about game type of experience and
Speaker 4: all of that would was to happen down the road.
Speaker 4: I feel like what you were getting with Dak wasn't
Speaker 4: that much different anyways with while you're currently getting with
Speaker 4: the other backup quarterbacks in that sense. But I think
Speaker 4: with practices you can still get evaluation of him. And
Speaker 4: like what you just mentioned, the separation how he's handling that,
Speaker 4: can he run the right routes? Is how is he
Speaker 4: learning all these routes and different schemes. And then as
Speaker 4: far as the quarterbacks and how they throw, they're here
Speaker 4: for a reason. It might not be great during actual
Speaker 4: game days, but as far as practices, we know they
Speaker 4: can throw. We've seen them have a good arm. Not always.
Speaker 4: We've been there on training camps and things like that,
Speaker 4: so we know that as well. But I think you
Speaker 4: can get a good feel of what he is and
Speaker 4: what he could be, and even then the things that
Speaker 4: he shows you could be mentally like, Okay, maybe he
Speaker 4: could be a little bit better with a better quarterback
Speaker 4: or not. It's a good question. I agree, But I
Speaker 4: don't think that just by not having that kid just
Speaker 4: messes up your holy volation on it.
Speaker 2: I kind of feel like though, to me, if if
Speaker 2: he is, I think you guys are right. You could
Speaker 2: see the route running, you can see the separation, you
Speaker 2: could see the man they're not getting him, the ball
Speaker 2: man they're missing, like you know, Tolbert running an inbreaking
Speaker 2: route or Turping running in breaking round and then the
Speaker 2: ball goes flying over their heads or they're you know,
Speaker 2: running out routes and the balls going over their head.
Speaker 2: You're thinking like, Okay, good route, good separation, where's the throw?
Speaker 5: You know, because you can look at CD from Sunday's game, Yeah,
Speaker 5: he had a hell of a game.
Speaker 6: Cooper just can't I couldn't.
Speaker 2: Find it, couldn't I could not find see see that's
Speaker 2: the issues that I worry about then and then we
Speaker 2: get into the well we got Mingo at receiver. Now
Speaker 2: he's one of our guys, you know, And now it
Speaker 2: goes back to that whole thing is are you willing
Speaker 2: to draft somebody? Are you willing to draft? I know,
Speaker 2: you know you've talked about, you know, a Travis Hunter.
Speaker 2: Not that, not that Mingo keeps you from drafting Travis Hunter,
Speaker 2: but maybe it keeps you from drafting somebody in the
Speaker 2: second round or the third round. You know. All of
Speaker 2: a sudden, it's like, well, did we really understand what
Speaker 2: what you know, what Mingo was all about? Well, we
Speaker 2: saw him run routes. We didn't see him you know, well,
Speaker 2: yeah we and it's the whole thing over. We go
Speaker 2: into camp and we start talking about our expectations are
Speaker 2: that this guy is going to you know, and then
Speaker 2: you're like, now you're back to you know, in week eleven,
Speaker 2: you're going, well, this roster's bad because you know they
Speaker 2: didn't do Those are the things that always I just
Speaker 2: worry about the new evaluation of a player halfway through
Speaker 2: the season, and as that keep them from maybe doing
Speaker 2: something in the off season about it.
Speaker 5: I just feel like there's a possibility that they traded
Speaker 5: for wide receiver Trede Lance in the sense that they
Speaker 5: gave up a fourth round pick. Yeah, he's not gonna
Speaker 5: end up playing a lot next year. I hope I'm
Speaker 5: proven wrong on that, but that's the initial indication, the
Speaker 5: initial indication.
Speaker 2: All Right, I'm gonna go with you on this one, Nick,
Speaker 2: is it a shame that Chauncey Golson is playing this
Speaker 2: well and you'll lose him like you'll lose like you
Speaker 2: lost Armstrong and Fallied.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's playing. He's playing himself into a little bit
Speaker 5: more money, for sure. I think that's a guy they
Speaker 5: need to bring back. I think if I'm looking at
Speaker 5: this defensive end room and how it's gonna shake shake
Speaker 5: up throughout the offseason, you probably will not be able
Speaker 5: to afford bringing Lawrence back. That's if Lawrence is still
Speaker 5: wanting to come back at that point, right, More so
Speaker 5: for retirement issues, not anything that's happened in the building.
Speaker 5: But if you're looking for that big body defensive end
Speaker 5: on the outside, you got Marshawn neland but you could
Speaker 5: also have Chauncey Golson as a rotational guy. And then
Speaker 5: you got Carl laws, and I feel like if they
Speaker 5: had those four it's like the key defensive ends, that
Speaker 5: could be a really good group. I would pay money
Speaker 5: to bring back Golston personally.
Speaker 2: Okay, if the money turns into like Armstrong.
Speaker 5: Oh there's there's no way, right then, yeah, you would
Speaker 5: have to go draft somebody at that point.
Speaker 2: It's a shame. And but right it's a shame.
Speaker 4: It's a shame. It's a shame, a lot of shame.
Speaker 4: I mean, we don't really know. They got money issues,
Speaker 4: you know that. But again, it's like with some of
Speaker 4: these moves that you've made in the contract that you
Speaker 4: gave Dak, don't ask me about cap money.
Speaker 6: I don't agree.
Speaker 4: I don't know. But obviously if it gets two way
Speaker 4: out of budget, you just can't deal it. But what
Speaker 4: we have seen in the past that they that when
Speaker 4: they do sign people in free agency, they tend to
Speaker 4: sign their own. So maybe that's something that is not
Speaker 4: completely out of the question there, but only and only,
Speaker 4: and we see this year after your if the money
Speaker 4: makes sense. Otherwise you're having to rely back again on
Speaker 4: young Talen and the draft.
Speaker 2: This reminds me a lot about the guy, like like
Speaker 2: the running back that you lost to Tennessee. You know,
Speaker 2: this reminds me of a guy that for four years
Speaker 2: really just kind of just I used the word here again,
Speaker 2: plotting along, just kind of plot along, and then he
Speaker 2: gets the opportunity to play, and you're kind of like, damn,
Speaker 2: maybe he should have played more, you know, and you
Speaker 2: feel like that maybe you developed him for somebody else,
Speaker 2: for somebody else. You know, you did, you drafted and developed,
Speaker 2: but you're not keeping the guy, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: Tony Pollard. I feel like we drafted and developed, and
Speaker 2: I know the money got really high for Tony Pollard,
Speaker 2: but I kind of feel like you drafted and developed
Speaker 2: Armstrong for the Commanders. Yeah, you draft and develop, and
Speaker 2: you know, unfortunately you can't keep them all, but the
Speaker 2: decisions of the one maybe you try and get ahead
Speaker 2: of it. And they've tried, they've tried to get ahead
Speaker 2: of some of these things just hasn't worked out in
Speaker 2: the way. But I have a feeling you've drafted and
Speaker 2: developed Goldston for somebody else. Just my opinion. Having a
Speaker 2: career year, I mean, yeah, yeah, the three years prior
Speaker 2: to this, you were kind of like, nah, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: a good player. Rotational backup guy.
Speaker 5: Now you're kind of like playing on a position before
Speaker 5: this year though, in my opinion.
Speaker 2: There you go. There's another asked Jerry Jones the same
Speaker 2: question I asked him about Pollard, where he looked at
Speaker 2: me and said, I'm an idiot. Basically, he goes, see,
Speaker 2: you feel like you waste his career here, and he goes, no,
Speaker 2: I really don't. But you know, yes you did, sir.
Speaker 2: You know you guys didn't use him like you needed
Speaker 2: to use him, you know. And I think the same
Speaker 2: thing could probably be said about Golston Nick. Does Richards
Speaker 2: make you feel better about the swing tackle position? Yes?
Speaker 6: Yeah, awesome Richardson.
Speaker 5: Richards had had a great game on Sunday, honestly better
Speaker 5: than I's. I know there's a lot of awesome Richard's
Speaker 5: believers out there, and I'm not necessarily saying I'm a
Speaker 5: non believer, but I didn't think he would be ready
Speaker 5: to start against a front like Philadelphia. But he did,
Speaker 5: and he played well, arguably I'd say, probably the second
Speaker 5: best guy overall and probably the best in passpro from Sunday.
Speaker 5: From from going back and watching, Yeah, makes me feel
Speaker 5: a lot better about about swing tackle specifically.
Speaker 6: I think it.
Speaker 5: He played well enough to where you could, if you
Speaker 5: wanted to later in the season, play some musical chairs
Speaker 5: there you can integrate him into the lineup.
Speaker 2: You played musical chairs, where you move, You're gonna move
Speaker 2: your left tackle, get into right tackle and see what
Speaker 2: that's all about.
Speaker 6: Certainly a possibility.
Speaker 2: Ambart Nick wants to shuffle the offensive line around, but
Speaker 2: does But do you feel better right now about awesome Richards?
Speaker 4: I mean, clearly the combination is not working, so try
Speaker 4: a different combination there. But actually impressed with what he did, honestly,
Speaker 4: if I'm being honest, my I hope you're being My
Speaker 4: opinion about him and nothing against him is just every
Speaker 4: time I've personally watched them, I haven't seen anything exciting
Speaker 4: from my end the times I've looked at him, So
Speaker 4: in my own personal evaluation, I do think he exceeded
Speaker 4: my expectation and what I thought he would look like
Speaker 4: going into this game a lot better and definitely right
Speaker 4: now it looked like an upgrade. So curious to see
Speaker 4: more of him and how he continues to play, because
Speaker 4: and that's if how long is guy in now? He's
Speaker 4: back this week?
Speaker 6: Most likely? Yeah, dealing with that shoulder sprain but or strained.
Speaker 6: But he should be he.
Speaker 4: Should be right, So I would like to see more
Speaker 4: of him, Okay, And it is those sometimes those one
Speaker 4: off games that you have a good gamage. So I
Speaker 4: just I would like to have more on tape to
Speaker 4: see whether or not he's a good like.
Speaker 2: I remember Chas Green did the same thing against San Francisco,
Speaker 2: played really really well and then they played Atlanta and
Speaker 2: it went south in a hurry.
Speaker 4: But you know, I agree, it's just let's just I
Speaker 4: would like to see more of him.
Speaker 6: I'll say this.
Speaker 5: My one question that I would have about awesome Richards
Speaker 5: is why did he not start against Detroit? Yeah, which
Speaker 5: maybe he just wasn't ready for the left tackle position
Speaker 5: at that point. They've been working him a lot at
Speaker 5: guard and maybe I think realized that Guiden was a
Speaker 5: little bit more bringed up than they expected. Hey let's
Speaker 5: get you some tackle reps going into the bye week,
Speaker 5: and then he was ready for Philadelphia. But I think
Speaker 5: at the very least, he at least played you into
Speaker 5: a situation to where offensive tackle is not as big
Speaker 5: of a necessity in the draft.
Speaker 2: I think they were really worried about Philadelphia's defensive tackles
Speaker 2: in this game.
Speaker 6: That's fair.
Speaker 2: I think they did not want to move Tyler Smith
Speaker 2: out of that with those monsters playing inside Carter and
Speaker 2: those guys, I don't think they wanted to do that. Uh,
Speaker 2: Nick Amber, you did just answered the question, right, you
Speaker 2: just did, Nick tight Ends. What's the problem?
Speaker 6: They only have one guy.
Speaker 5: I think at this point that they only have one guy,
Speaker 5: and he got banged up early in the season. I
Speaker 5: think he's still on pace, uh, yardage wise and catch
Speaker 5: wise for what he was last year, but he just
Speaker 5: lost his quarterback to so that's that's not gonna help
Speaker 5: him as far as keeping that pace. But they only
Speaker 5: have one guy, and that guy is not the best
Speaker 5: run blocker in the world. Sure, so they don't have
Speaker 5: a point of attack guy. Luke scoon Maker is almost
Speaker 5: entirely taking himself out of the lineup.
Speaker 2: Yes, and uh and Span four gets a holding call
Speaker 2: down in the fumble area.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly exactly. So they only have one guy. That's
Speaker 5: that's the problem. Which is which is crazy because we
Speaker 5: looked up a year ago and like, hey, they got
Speaker 5: like three and a half four guys here. There's there's
Speaker 5: there's the comfortably one guy left.
Speaker 2: There's me sitting an Oxnard thinking, man, this tight end
Speaker 2: room might be okay, you know it might be you know,
Speaker 2: no Amber tight end, And what's the problem it Spin four.
Speaker 4: He's a guy that a lot of people liked and
Speaker 4: going into this season, let's keep an eye on him.
Speaker 4: And it just hasn't hasn't happened Schoolmaker. I've always thought
Speaker 4: there's there's more to him and there it's just hasn't
Speaker 4: happened either. And he's currently healthy and I know in
Speaker 4: the past that has been the issue where he's dealt
Speaker 4: with different kinds of little injuries here and there. But
Speaker 4: I just I don't understand what's going on. It's just
Speaker 4: disappointing because again, I agree with you guys at one
Speaker 4: point you thought you had good depth there and it's
Speaker 4: just you haven't seen much. And for a guy like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, I'm blanking out on his name, no,
Speaker 4: the starter, I just completely just wouldn't that be nice?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: But Ferguson, I know you will disagree because he's he's
Speaker 4: he has these good moments. It just hasn't been the same.
Speaker 4: But and it's not necessarily a job towards him. Because
Speaker 4: collectively everyone has been bad in the offense overall. So
Speaker 4: I think it's just more nature of the scheme and
Speaker 4: the play calls and all of that, just the combination
Speaker 4: of all of that, where I would have expected to
Speaker 4: see Ferguson be a lot more this year, contribute more,
Speaker 4: especially at that position. That is a position to be
Speaker 4: known to be kind of like a safety comfort blanket
Speaker 4: to Dak Prescott. It just never happened. And now with
Speaker 4: the change that quarterback, I don't know if we will
Speaker 4: see something different, maybe because now you're kind of asking
Speaker 4: for these quarterbacks to throw just shorter passes. Maybe the
Speaker 4: tight end kind of shines a little more here.
Speaker 6: I don't know, Hunter licks your second best tight end
Speaker 6: on his roster. That's the problem here.
Speaker 2: And whispers of that too, did a whisper good time
Speaker 2: for one more? You got to get a break? Go ahead, Nick,
Speaker 2: What do you do with Kaylen Carson?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think his confidence has gone, especially after the way
Speaker 5: that Philadelphia started that second half. Zimmer talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 5: I mean, you can tell when a guy is just
Speaker 5: being targeted over and over and over again. If it's
Speaker 5: a situation where Deron Bland cannot go again this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and sometimes you need to be taken away a
Speaker 4: little bit and you'll.
Speaker 6: Think he's ready. I think he could be good. I
Speaker 6: shall think he's ready.
Speaker 4: I like him a lot. I know he's been targeted,
Speaker 4: but again, you've asked so much out of a rookie,
Speaker 4: and I just think I like him a lot. Mentally, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's gonna it's a beatdown every time you are out
Speaker 4: there and they're just going at you over and over again,
Speaker 4: and they're having success and they're having success, so it's tough.
Speaker 4: I think the right decision be to give him just
Speaker 4: a little break out of the game. But I still
Speaker 4: like him and I would like to see him more.
Speaker 4: And I think next year, with a defense that has
Speaker 4: hopefully all of their starters back into the mix, I
Speaker 4: can see him thrive in a defense where he has
Speaker 4: help around him and just more time to practice and
Speaker 4: do everything that he needs to do. But mentally, I
Speaker 4: think it's yeah, he needs a little break.
Speaker 2: It Bland doesn't go. I'd like to see a rotation
Speaker 2: of him and MCUAMU. Yeah, mcuama can start maybe it's
Speaker 2: first series, second series, third series, and then put Carson in.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe the game is if some of these
Speaker 2: games are not in the balance anymore and all that,
Speaker 2: maybe you just go and give him the experience. But
Speaker 2: obviously as a starter, it's been a real struggle for him.
Speaker 2: So that's where you're at. Thank you, guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Brian. Let's go ahead and hit our second
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Speaker 4: At and t connecting changes everything, and before we end
Speaker 4: the show, I wanted to kind of talk about the
Speaker 4: current thing that's happening around everyonere on social media and
Speaker 4: or the current thing current. I'm not talking about no
Speaker 4: current here. You can talk about it.
Speaker 6: I haven't tweeted about it one time.
Speaker 4: I'm touchy subject. But Michah Parsons. I wanted to talk
Speaker 4: about him though, and just kind of hit on that
Speaker 4: drama in your thoughts on the whole situation. He has
Speaker 4: come out and basically said, you know, I'm being misunderstood.
Speaker 4: You're just kind of flipping my words. What are your
Speaker 4: thoughts on?
Speaker 13: What is.
Speaker 4: Nick's face right now? Is pretty funny.
Speaker 5: I do I believe that he intended to throw Mike
Speaker 5: McCarthy under the bus as bad as it came across.
Speaker 6: No, I do not believe that. I do believe that MICHAEH.
Speaker 5: Parsons does respect the only head coach he's had in
Speaker 5: his entire NFL career. I do believe that on that
Speaker 5: same token, he was given an opportunity in that moment
Speaker 5: to pour support into his head coach that is on
Speaker 5: an expiring contract, and he instead deflected it to other people. Now,
Speaker 5: does he want to win for those other people, Absolutely,
Speaker 5: But I think there's certain optics to that exchange that
Speaker 5: leave room to believe that, you know, Micah could have
Speaker 5: supported his head coaches a little bit more than he did.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: Granted, Mike McCarthy did say yesterday that they had a
Speaker 5: one on one conversation.
Speaker 6: They cleared the air.
Speaker 5: He Parsons communicated that was not his intention for how
Speaker 5: it came across.
Speaker 6: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Micah came on his podcast later yesterday and it kind
Speaker 5: of explained the same thing. I think he took more
Speaker 5: of exception to former players and former coaches. Looking at
Speaker 5: the first part of that quote where he was talking about,
Speaker 5: you know, it's it's Mike McCarthy can go anywhere, because
Speaker 5: that's what I think TV stations took away from that
Speaker 5: quote was like it was the part where he was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: McCarthy can go anywhere and be fine. I don't I
Speaker 5: never took that as the quote unquote distance. It was
Speaker 5: the last part where he's like those veteran guys like
Speaker 5: Zach Martin, they worked, They put more time and work
Speaker 5: in than Mike McCarthy ever did. That's where I was like,
Speaker 5: he's gonna have to explain that one, because McCarthy is
Speaker 5: in this building, yeah, until midnight every day, And as
Speaker 5: someone who was in this building last year, can I
Speaker 5: can attest to that he was in here at eight
Speaker 5: o'clock the very next morning when they lost to Green Bay.
Speaker 5: I mean that he is in this building quite a
Speaker 5: bit so time. I don't know about that work. Probably physically, yes, absolutely,
Speaker 5: And that's eventually what Mike could try to communicate was like, no,
Speaker 5: these guys have been put putting in blood, sweat and
Speaker 5: tears on the field, which like, as a player, you
Speaker 5: you play for the guys around you. You play for
Speaker 5: the people who are on the field, yes, absolutely, and
Speaker 5: then you play for your coaches. So like part of
Speaker 5: me understands what Michael was trying to communicate there and
Speaker 5: being like, hey, no, like these guys, these are the
Speaker 5: guys that are you know, uh, messing up their shoulder,
Speaker 5: messing up their foot. And Zach Martin, he's battled a
Speaker 5: ton of injuries over the course of the last year.
Speaker 5: DeMarcus Lawrence dealing with the Lis Frank I think that's
Speaker 5: more so what he's talking about when he's talking about
Speaker 5: putting in more time and work than Mike McCarthy ever did.
Speaker 5: But it just came across very poor and an opportunity
Speaker 5: where he could have poured support into McCarthy.
Speaker 2: Somewhere, somewhere, Aaron Rodgers is agreeing with with Michael Persons.
Speaker 2: That wouldn't be the first. No, just uh uh you
Speaker 2: know to me, I I I have all these platforms
Speaker 2: I get to be on. I'm not the best speaker.
Speaker 2: I can understand that. But he did qualify it by saying, listen,
Speaker 2: it's above my pay grade.
Speaker 6: He did.
Speaker 2: He did say that. He said it's about my pay grade.
Speaker 2: So somebody else is going to have to make the decision.
Speaker 2: He chose to give praise to guys that he he
Speaker 2: feels like he spills blood with on that field. That's
Speaker 2: what he chose to do. Now, Now the next thing,
Speaker 2: I know, before we quit here, the next thing, did
Speaker 2: he nobody quit in here? No? No, no quit in
Speaker 2: the show. The thing now, the thing that that Michael
Speaker 2: Parsons now maybe needs to worry about a little bit
Speaker 2: is does information go does somebody become petty about this?
Speaker 2: And now national media start to pick up on things
Speaker 2: little whispers. Well, you know, he's talking about my work ethic.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, we tell you about his work ethic.
Speaker 2: You know, things like that, you know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: the Tom Pelasarrow's and Dan Grasiano's and all those guys
Speaker 2: change slaters and all. Yeah, I mean I named I
Speaker 2: named like a really good law firm there. But but
Speaker 2: now he needs to worry about whispers. And maybe it's
Speaker 2: not from Mike, but maybe it's from other coaches and
Speaker 2: stuff in the building, you know, that defending Mike and
Speaker 2: stuff like that. So you know, Micah has had his
Speaker 2: share of whispers coming out of this building before, you know.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of one of those things like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he thinks I didn't work, how about him? You know,
Speaker 2: and and all of a sudden, now it's uh, you know,
Speaker 2: now now things don't look as good for Michael Parsons.
Speaker 2: That's the worry I would have if I was him.
Speaker 5: This generated questions in the locker room. It's why it's
Speaker 5: why McCarthy and Parsons had their one on one yesterday
Speaker 5: because because of people talking about in the locker room.
Speaker 6: So they got together to clear the air.
Speaker 5: If someone is still interpreting this entire situation in the
Speaker 5: sense that it came across on Sunday. Then you could
Speaker 5: point back to Micah not being here at Ota, so
Speaker 5: you could point.
Speaker 6: Back back that's what you're saying and things of that.
Speaker 6: So I I understand, we're no, No.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what I'm saying, because all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: you know, if you want to question my work ethic
Speaker 2: and you live in this you lived in this building
Speaker 2: at one time, you do too, Ambar, and you know
Speaker 2: you're hanging here till midnight riting a story, and you
Speaker 2: see Mike McCarthy going home, you have a point of reference.
Speaker 2: You know, coaches work really, really, really hard. I trust me.
Speaker 2: I I've been. I've been with coaches out until one
Speaker 2: in the morning working on stuff. Coaches work really hard,
Speaker 2: and they get here very early in the morning. I
Speaker 2: used to pick John Gruden up at four and am
Speaker 2: to get him to work in Green Bay. They worked very,
Speaker 2: very hard, you know. And but like I say, we've
Speaker 2: heard stuff from We've heard stuff from Aaron Rodgers. I
Speaker 2: was kind of making a joke, but we've heard stuff
Speaker 2: from Aaron Rodgers before, you know, so you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's your it's your own thought and and but they
Speaker 2: need to be careful because you know, Micah could very
Speaker 2: well be He could be now in the line of
Speaker 2: sight of some coaches, and it might not be Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 2: but other coaches say, let me tell you guy talking
Speaker 2: about our guy. Come on, man, this guy doesn't do
Speaker 2: this and this and this. That's just that's something you
Speaker 2: always have to worry about.
Speaker 4: We'll start hearing about it. If it happens, probably will
Speaker 4: we hear it. We'll hear it about it everywhere. And
Speaker 4: with that we end the show. Thank you so much
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