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Speaker 1: Good morning, guys, welcome to the Break. We're happy to

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Speaker 1: here you go. Okay, today we're gonna get into the

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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions offense versus the Cowboys defense. But before we

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Speaker 1: get into that end, I'm sorry if you guys talked

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Speaker 1: through a few of the injuries that the Cowboys have

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Speaker 1: right now and how this may affect the game this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Um defensive tackle Dayton Jones, he was moved to her

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Speaker 1: I r out of here out most likely to go

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Speaker 1: under surgery right on his hamstring, I believe. So that's

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Speaker 1: that's surgery on a hamstring. That seems bad. I've never

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Speaker 1: even heard of a surgery on a hamstring, honestly, Nier

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Speaker 1: of I which I mean, you hear people like Nicks

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Speaker 1: the bone? Well, Dayton Jones is probably off the bone.

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Speaker 1: I didn't remember the play where he was running fifty

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Speaker 1: severe hamstring injuries like that. Never never allow yourself to

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Speaker 1: forget how brutal this game is. It's yeah, anyway, so

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Speaker 1: he's on I Karen Read. They signed Koran Read and

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Speaker 1: another guy dealing with hamstring problems, obviously Sean Lee. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and it seems like this might be possibly a few

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Speaker 1: weeks that he's out. I would call it a virtual

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Speaker 1: know see after that, by ye think the trainers and

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Speaker 1: we know this through you know, emails and stuff like

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Speaker 1: that over the years. One thing they hate is to

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Speaker 1: bring a guy back to early or in this case,

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that they did, but you know, you

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Speaker 1: reinjure it, then it's like cheeto, I believe last year

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Speaker 1: And that's pretty much how it works in a situation

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Speaker 1: like that. And Sean dealt with this whole thing last

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Speaker 1: unfortunate because that we're trying to take care of him

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Speaker 1: and you know, protect him during training camp and once

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Speaker 1: think that maybe just kind of overprotecting him in that

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Speaker 1: way could have affected him. No, it's just what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's that's classic hindsight twenty twenty. And I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: if you're going to hurt your hamstring, at least it

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Speaker 1: guarantee you they've approached it all kinds of different ways,

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Speaker 1: and it's I mean, it's unfortunate. It's just a thing

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Speaker 1: for sure, he had hamstring. I think he's done figure

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Speaker 1: wonder just how great he would have been. And then

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's got um there are seven seven games

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Speaker 1: And now that the Cowboys have a linebacker group that

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Speaker 1: But let's be honest, and there's other factors involved there.

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Speaker 1: would have been nice to have him out there. It

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Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford, I really do. I got a chance to

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Speaker 1: from stories awesome. Yeah, but when he gets hurt, doesn't

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Speaker 1: it seemed like like it's over, Like the whole season

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Speaker 1: when he's on the ground, It's like, I just is

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Speaker 1: it for the season? Like I maybe it heard that bad?

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Speaker 1: Maybe how many games as this guy missed? No, you're

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Speaker 1: Now he got hurt, you know, he hurt his ankle,

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Speaker 1: a messed up shoulder for all of twenty sixteen. I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they could win with Adam. We'll see if they're better

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Speaker 1: Malie Colin, I mean, you're you're trying to figure that out.

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Speaker 1: Yet one more week before Irving comes back I'm not

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure, David Irving some you're ready to play, No,

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Speaker 1: I would think they've held and Tyrone Crawford's gonna play. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I'm not I'm not sweating it yet. What about

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Speaker 1: every since that injury happened. I'm not trying to be cynical,

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Speaker 1: but welcome to the NFL. Like, that's these are just things.

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Speaker 1: I mean again, Tyron Crawford like played a whole season

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Speaker 1: Lawrence gets tons of credit from this coaching staff for

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Speaker 1: that we have been talking about forever. So Jeff, actually,

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Speaker 1: know what you're Yeah, I know. I mean that's why.

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Speaker 1: That's why, because I really do. It's a weird, strange

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Speaker 1: lady trouble. I'm not weird. I'm not ready to make

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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday. How are y'all making that Pickle's Let's keep

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Speaker 1: talking about their offense. I'll like what you said yesterday

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Speaker 1: about it was it Dak You said I'm not ready

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Speaker 1: to to call him a good quarterback or not or

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Speaker 1: whatever because I don't have to. I don't. You don't.

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Speaker 1: It's smart, I mean, but that's the world we live in.

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Speaker 1: Every every play is he's not very good. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: need to be playing, he doesn't need a job. Every

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Speaker 1: with every play, it's not it's just like this is

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Speaker 1: the end of it. I'll tell you that. I really,

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Speaker 1: I'm not bssing. I don't know who to pick yet,

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Speaker 1: but watching this Detroit offense does not inspire confidence because

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Speaker 1: he I mean, and I'm not knocking the Dallas defense.

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Speaker 1: They've been really good, but this, this is a difficult

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Speaker 1: defense to defend, which you know, that's what we were

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Speaker 1: talking about. Offense. They can run the ball. Sorry, thanks,

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Speaker 1: difficult offense to defend. They can run the ball, throwing

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Speaker 1: of their running backs nine times a game. Stafford averages

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Speaker 1: forty five attempts per game. I think that's a little

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Speaker 1: bit skewed because they were trying to dig their way

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Speaker 1: out in that Jets game, and in the forty nine

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Speaker 1: Ers game, actually they fell behind by seventeen points. So

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Speaker 1: ideally Matt Patricia wants to run the ball. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how realistic that is. When Matt Staffords your quarterback,

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Speaker 1: let that guy rip. But no, that's the other problem. Really.

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Speaker 1: They have allowed three sacks this year. That is best

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Speaker 1: in the league now, and he's got a lot of

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Speaker 1: passing attempts. Yeah, well, here's a couple couple things. I

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Speaker 1: looked this up. They've allowed three sacks. They've gone against

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Speaker 1: pass rushes that are currently ranked tenth, seventeenth, and twenty ninth.

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Speaker 1: The Patriots are twenty ninth. I think that actually gets

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Speaker 1: worse as you get so the forty nine ers or seventeenth.

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Speaker 1: The Jets are tenth in the league. Three sacks a

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Speaker 1: little bit of two things at work here. The Giants

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Speaker 1: chot geez, where am I today? The Lions offensive line

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Speaker 1: is pretty good because they've invested in it. Taylor Decker

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Speaker 1: is a first round pick at left accle Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: Zeke's teammate Frank Ragnow, you're a guy from Arkansas, first

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Speaker 1: round pick playing left guard instead of center. Graham Glasgow's

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Speaker 1: your center. He's a third round pick. T J. Lange

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Speaker 1: is a very good unrestricted free agent. Green Bay cut

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Speaker 1: him in a contract dispute. Lions snatched him up right away,

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Speaker 1: and they took Ricky Wagner, who's a starter from Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: So literally, the whole line is either premium draft picks

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Speaker 1: or veterans that they paid good money for. So you

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Speaker 1: know I heard that before. Yeah, and it leads to

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Speaker 1: a good offensive line. They're playing like it though. That's

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Speaker 1: I know, sixteen best rushing game doesn't sound that great,

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Speaker 1: but it's way better than the Lions are used to.

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Speaker 1: Carry On Johnson's their first one hundred yard rusher on

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Speaker 1: Sunday night, first time they've done that in five years.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're talking about. What carry On Johnson ran

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Speaker 1: for one hundred yards against the Patriots. It's the first

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Speaker 1: time a Detroit Lion has run for one hundred yards

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Speaker 1: since the twenty thirteen season. That cannot be accurate, one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent accurate. It was so accurate that Barry Sanders

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Speaker 1: tweeted a congratulations to him, like, hey, way to go, man,

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Speaker 1: like carry on that, carry on that tradition and get

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Speaker 1: it crazy. He used to get one hundred yard half.

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Speaker 1: That's well. I mean, honestly, the parallels to the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: of Romo's you know, pre the pre Travis Frederick and

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Speaker 1: Zach Martin Romo Cowboys, I think they're very similar. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's a team couldn't rush for a hundred yards to

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Speaker 1: save its life from like twenty ten to twenty two.

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Speaker 1: What's weird about that is if any team, you would,

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Speaker 1: especially here in Dallas, if the Cowboys did not have

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Speaker 1: a hundred yard rushing game, they would go into the

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Speaker 1: draft and it would be like the biggest thing that

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Speaker 1: they didn't have a hundred rusher, and they would they'd

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Speaker 1: get one, and then if they didn't have it for

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Speaker 1: two years, it would be like, oh my god, you

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Speaker 1: would try to get em it out of retirement or something.

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Speaker 1: That's the funny. They've spent the resources, Like I know,

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Speaker 1: Abdilla is not like the second round. Yeah, he's not

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Speaker 1: like this bruiser back, but they've spent draft picks on

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Speaker 1: running backs. They didn't have the offensive line, and I

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Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know that this is like, you know,

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Speaker 1: this insanely good offensive line, but they're talented enough to

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Speaker 1: get that done. And then Stafford is a highly confident,

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Speaker 1: competent quarterback who gets the ball out quick. And it's

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Speaker 1: a hell of a combination. And that was part of

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Speaker 1: it over the course of these years that you know,

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Speaker 1: Stafford's probably up there high and passing yards too, because

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Speaker 1: he's not running the ball a lot. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: choosen to throw. You know, Romo had that two for

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Speaker 1: a lot of the years. Romo only had one one

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Speaker 1: thousand yard rusher for the first five or those guys

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Speaker 1: like to throw. They know where the stats are, then

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Speaker 1: they know that's where the money is. But still in

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Speaker 1: a game, one hundred yard rusher in a game for

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Speaker 1: five years, I want to it was November of twenty thirteen.

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Speaker 1: You do it against Belichick, you do it against the Pats.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive. Well, then you don't have to worry

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Speaker 1: about for another five years. Well, I don't know, like

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Speaker 1: I said, la Garrett Blunt is their starter in name.

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Speaker 1: I really think Carrie on Johnson's going to have something

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Speaker 1: to say about that as the season goes. Unfortunately, the

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Speaker 1: other Like I love these receivers, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: they'd be as good as they are with a lesser quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I'd be interested to see what Golden Tate, Kenny Galladay,

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Speaker 1: and Marvin Jones look like here in this passing attack.

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Speaker 1: With what we've seen so far, it would probably be better.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if they'd be as good as

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Speaker 1: they are because with Matt Stafford, these guys are great.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Tate's already on twenty catches. Galladay is underrated

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Speaker 1: as hell, He's got nineteen catches already. Jones is there.

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Speaker 1: These guys are yak monsters. You know, they'll take a

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Speaker 1: ten yard route and gain forty. They're hard to tackle,

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Speaker 1: kind of not as talented as O'Dell Beckham, but they

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Speaker 1: just remind me of Odell Beckham in that sense that

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Speaker 1: they can turn small games into big plays. Catches for Tate,

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Speaker 1: Tate has twenty, in Galaday nineteen, and Jones has twelve

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Speaker 1: fifty one. If I had to guess, all three of

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Speaker 1: them have more than the cow oh no, not Beasley.

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Speaker 1: What's Beasley at twelve? So that's fifty one catches for

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Speaker 1: your top three wide receivers, right, yep. The Cowboys have

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Speaker 1: a combined fifty four catches between everybody, everyone and your

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Speaker 1: top three receivers twelve and nine. That's twenty one and

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Speaker 1: five twenty six. It's your top three receivers right there.

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Speaker 1: Which this all of your receivers adds up to twenty

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Speaker 1: nine thirty one thirty eight top three receivers or six receivers.

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Speaker 1: They're not great, Bob, it's not great. It's not I mean,

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Speaker 1: it goes back. I'm okay. I just gave you the catches.

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00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: But look at the targets too. Tate's been targeted thirty

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Speaker 1: six times. Jones have been targeted twenty three times. Galladay

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Speaker 1: has been targeted twenty eight times. So this team doesn't

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Speaker 1: have a number one receiver either. They just have three

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Speaker 1: really competent receivers and a quarterback who can get them

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Speaker 1: the ball. It's and then on and like I said,

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Speaker 1: on top of that, theoretic can carry on. Johnson have

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Speaker 1: twenty seven combined receptions in three games. So if you know,

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Speaker 1: Stafford checks down a lot too. But actively. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: and that's that's my point. Like I watched this team

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Speaker 1: and again I get it. Matt Stafford's the number one

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Speaker 1: pick in the draft. He is arguably the most naturally

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Speaker 1: gifted quarterback in the whole league. But this is how

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Speaker 1: I would want to play offense in today's NFL. It

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Speaker 1: is a heavily passing oriented game with a good enough

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Speaker 1: rushing attack to make you balance. And you know, and

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Speaker 1: Rob talked about this yesterday on one of the shows

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Speaker 1: that we did, and you know, I think it's a

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Speaker 1: good point. It's it's not so much about how great

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Speaker 1: this offense is, but it's like how many points can

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Speaker 1: you hold them too? Because if, if, if they're still

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Speaker 1: gonna be good enough to get to twenty one points,

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Speaker 1: is that enough to win? That's what we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about tomorrow with the Lions defense against this offense. But

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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's maybe not gonna score forty points,

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Speaker 1: but half of that could probably win twenty one points.

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Speaker 1: Would would beat the Cowboys in any three games this year.

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Speaker 1: That's that's interesting. I mean for everything that you don't

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Speaker 1: need that, yeah you're at I'm gonna break the mic

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00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: for everything I just said, like this ain't this ain't

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Speaker 1: the twenty thirteen Broncos. Like they scored twenty six points,

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Speaker 1: they had to settle for three field goals against the

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Speaker 1: Patriot four and to settle for four field goals. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's right. Um, they scored seventeen against the Jets mainly

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Speaker 1: because of turnovers. They're averaging right in the twenties. Wait, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have that written down. They're scoring offense is only

585
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Speaker 1: fourteenth best in the league. It's so they can stall.

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Speaker 1: And I think the way to do that. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you're just gonna You're not gonna sack Matt Stafford

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Speaker 1: five times. If I had to guess, what I would

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Speaker 1: do is once this is not what people want to hear,

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Speaker 1: but I would just try to clog the throwing lanes

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Speaker 1: and play ben but don't break and acknowledge that you're

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Speaker 1: probably going to give up some yardage and hope you

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Speaker 1: can either get turnovers or stall their offense out when

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Speaker 1: the field gets smaller, like get an interception that you

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Speaker 1: don't have. I know they don't have one, but this

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Speaker 1: is the guy to get you out of that. Right,

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Speaker 1: he's got we need a bunch. He's got six touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: but five picks. Now, granted four of those came in

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Speaker 1: Week one, but he threw one against It's been two weeks,

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Speaker 1: maybe week four. He's like, Okay, this is the time

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Speaker 1: to know a few. He is insanely talented. But we

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Speaker 1: don't talk about him as one of the best quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: in the league for a reason, and that's because he's

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Speaker 1: going to try to give you the ball. So all right,

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Speaker 1: let's take our final break and when we come back.

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Speaker 1: We've discussed about the Detroit's offense, but how does this

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Speaker 1: That's why the Cowboys rely on more than stats and

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Speaker 1: very good. Thank you, Tommy John. All right, So you

654
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: talked about this offense line offensive line being pretty good. Now,

655
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 1: how does this really match up with the Cowboys defensive line. Well, well,

656
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: my main thing is this is gonna be a fun

657
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: week to see how good the linebackers really are without

658
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Speaker 1: Sean Lee, because again, you know, this isn't This isn't

659
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: the Cowboys with Ezekiel Elliott. You know, twenty sixteen Cowboys

660
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: running for two hundred yards a game. But this is

661
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: as formidable as the Lions rushing attack has been in

662
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 1: recent memory and the linebackers. It's going to be on

663
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,400
Speaker 1: the linebackers to keep that from being a dominant story

664
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Speaker 1: in this game. Because we just talked about the defensive

665
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 1: tackle depth. I don't want to bet on Malik Collins

666
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 1: to play this game. Tyrone Crawford is banged up, so

667
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith, Layton vander Esh, Joe Thomas. Those guys gotta

668
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 1: gotta limit that yards per carry. You gotta keep those

669
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Speaker 1: guys from taking advantage in the passing game as well,

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00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: because from what we've seen, I think the secondary can

671
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,959
Speaker 1: match up with these receivers. Okay, I mean you're gonna

672
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 1: give up yards, you just are, but I think they

673
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: can keep it from being I mean twenty thirteen comes

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Speaker 1: to mind. Yeah, every time the Cowboys play the Lions,

675
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: I think about that Megatron game. I think they can

676
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 1: keep that from happening. Yeah, are you expecting the pass

677
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Speaker 1: rush to be able to pressure the quarterback? Well, I mean,

678
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Speaker 1: you know the fact that he's only he's not the

679
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: most mobile quarterback in the world. I mean, but he does.

680
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: Those good quarterbacks, even like Peyton Manning, they know how

681
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Speaker 1: to get around in the pocket and not prevent sacks.

682
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Speaker 1: But that's it's not because of their mobility is so

683
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Speaker 1: much as it is that it's a you know, designed

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Speaker 1: to get the ball out quick and they've got receivers

685
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 1: to do it. They've got receivers that will probably make

686
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Speaker 1: the catch and go make some plays. So you know,

687
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: that's one of the things Eli Manning has done well

688
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: for so many years, So I think he does a

689
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: good job with that. Getting to the quarterback is going

690
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:58,919
Speaker 1: to be tough. You're gonna have to get in his face.

691
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,919
Speaker 1: That's the thing. That's why Chris Rashard plays this type

692
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: of defense. Get it, get in their face, make it

693
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: tough to throw early, and then he has to make

694
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: some decisions. And that's where that pass rush needs to

695
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: get home. So I would imagine that they will get

696
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Speaker 1: some sacks. I mean, it'll be their worst game as

697
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: far as the Lions. As far as giving up sacks,

698
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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna get at least two or three

699
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: maybe now with Sean Lee being out possibly being out.

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Speaker 1: Do you expect them to use the linebackers in the

701
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: pass rush as well? Like that's probab, We've been seeing it.

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00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: That's what I was about to say, because I mean,

703
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,320
Speaker 1: no disrespect to the edge rushers, but I don't expect

704
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Speaker 1: them to just get sacks. I mean, three three so

705
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: far this season is not good. And again Stafford's gonna

706
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Speaker 1: get it out quick. Like I don't think you're just

707
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: gonna beat the right tackle and sack Matt Stafford. But

708
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Speaker 1: I say, I do think that Joe Thomas is going

709
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Speaker 1: to play really well. He did a nice job in

710
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Speaker 1: training camp. He really did when when Sean Lee was out.

711
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Speaker 1: He's played in Green Bay for two years, He's faced

712
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: this type of offense, you know, this offense. Actually, I

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00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: think he you know, he's got he plays with a

714
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Speaker 1: good chip on his shoulder. He's very physical. I think

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Speaker 1: he's going to be a really big game. This will

716
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Speaker 1: be the best game the Cowboys defense has ever played

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00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: without Sean Lee. I mean recent history, and there's been

718
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,399
Speaker 1: so many I don't know if it's the number one,

719
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 1: but I mean it's been many of them. I did

720
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Speaker 1: not like the idea of blitzing Russell Wilson last week

721
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: a lot, because if it doesn't work, he's gonna kill

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Speaker 1: you with his arm or his legs, preferably his legs,

723
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Speaker 1: because if it doesn't get home, then you would imagine

724
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Speaker 1: he's got the whole middle of the field to do

725
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Speaker 1: whatever he wants. Stafford's more mobile than Eli. Anybody is

726
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: more mobile than Eli, but he's not so mobile that

727
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Speaker 1: he's going to get away from Jalen Smith if he's

728
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Speaker 1: coming through. So that's how I would pressure him, and

729
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Speaker 1: even if you don't get home again, that's how you

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Speaker 1: force him into making dumb decisions because he's got an

731
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Speaker 1: insane amount of confidence in his arm. Like his picks

732
00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: against the Jets are literally like dude on a plant

733
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Speaker 1: was double covered and he just tried to fit it

734
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Speaker 1: in there anyway because he thinks he can like and

735
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Speaker 1: so if you can pressure him, hopefully he can he'll

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Speaker 1: make those types of decisions. I definitely don't want to

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Speaker 1: give him all day, but I think you're gonna need

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Speaker 1: to blitz to do that, um, because again, these games

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Speaker 1: bear it out. I don't think with just four down linemen,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how how often you're gonna get to him. Yeah, now,

741
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Speaker 1: what's here's a question from Twitter. What's the toughest matchup

742
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Speaker 1: between the receiver and corner? That's that's the we like,

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Speaker 1: you know, this is again, this is the way the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys would want to play. I think, like they don't

745
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: have this. You know, this guy's gonna be on the

746
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: left and he's their X receiver, like they all go everywhere,

747
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: like and they bunch too. The Lions love to use

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Speaker 1: them all. You know, they'll bunch all three of them

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Speaker 1: on the same side and have Luke Wilson the tight

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Speaker 1: end on the other side. Like. So I don't sit

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00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: here and say like, well this is this is a

752
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 1: big Cheeto game, because it's gonna be Cheeto verse eight.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna be answer that because I

754
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 1: think that there's a significant drop off between your first

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Speaker 1: two corners and your third one. I mean, I don't,

756
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Speaker 1: but I would argue that Brown has played well through

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Speaker 1: three weeks. I think he's played well, but I don't

758
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Speaker 1: think there's a big drop off between the three receivers

759
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Speaker 1: that the Lions have, So I think that matchup there

760
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Speaker 1: against Anthony Brown, I think he's somebody that you need

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Speaker 1: to watch because they have three really talented receivers. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you could say that about the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going wrong with Jordan Lewis. Not

764
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: sure why the guy can't get on the field and

765
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Speaker 1: play a snap when he's when he's out there there,

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Speaker 1: I mean, when you have injury issues at safety and

767
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 1: he's having to play special teams and Jordan Lewis can't

768
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Speaker 1: go down there and run on special teams. My goal

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Speaker 1: for this week is to get an answer to that

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Speaker 1: on the record or off the record. But like it is,

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Speaker 1: I mean, even even if Anthony Brown's playing out of

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Speaker 1: his mind like one snapt off the record answer, let's

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Speaker 1: get an on the record answer. I got bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, well, I mentioned if you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna talk about it, I think he could. I

776
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 1: think he needs to be more physical and special teams.

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00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: I think that that's that's part of it. But but

778
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: still you're having issues on special teams. I mean, you'd

779
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: like to think a guy could get on the field

780
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Speaker 1: and play. If he's going to be active, you need

781
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Speaker 1: him to be on the field and do something. I'm

782
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Speaker 1: flabbergasted that a guy who started seven games as a

783
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Speaker 1: rookie and played pretty well is so bad that he

784
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Speaker 1: can't get a handful of snaps. I don't know, well,

785
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Speaker 1: but like I said, Anthony Brown's playing well, so I

786
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Speaker 1: don't think it's the reason. It's certainly not the reason

787
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Speaker 1: why they're losing games, and the defense has been good.

788
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Speaker 1: But it is weird or is he from like from

789
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Speaker 1: like not college? Jordan Lewis, Detroit Man. I knew it

790
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Speaker 1: was probably Michigan, but I didn't know he's I'm pretty

791
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Speaker 1: sure he's a cast tech guy, which is like the

792
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Speaker 1: big powerhouse up there wants to play this game probably.

793
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how you can look at

794
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Speaker 1: this and just think, like, regardless of what Chris Rochard

795
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Speaker 1: said in the offseason that he's the exception of the rule,

796
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: they just don't think he fits what they want to

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Speaker 1: do in this scheme. Clear. I mean, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what else, what other explanation there is very disappointing, especially

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Speaker 1: after what you mentioned. Seeing a guy that played like

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Speaker 1: that towards the end of last year, and it's like,

801
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,919
Speaker 1: to me, it's very sad. I like the guy, and

802
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: it's seeing like somewhat of wasted talent. You know, I'd

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Speaker 1: say this the cleaning crew that's here throughout the off season,

804
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: they're probably confused because they're like, man, every time we

805
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: come in and clean, we see Lance Lenore and Jordan Lewis,

806
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,280
Speaker 1: like the two guys that probably were here the most.

807
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: That doesn't always mean you're gonna get on the field

808
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:29,080
Speaker 1: and play, but I'm just saying, but these two guys

809
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: were very, very dedicated all off season, and you would

810
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: you would think that it would be better, you know,

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Speaker 1: especially if strength is an issue. You can't predict. I mean,

812
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: you know, they fired their DB's coach and brought in

813
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: a new one, and I mean and chris Ter Shard

814
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: has more control over the scheme than anybody in recent memory.

815
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,680
Speaker 1: But so you can't predict that stuff. But it feels

816
00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:52,919
Speaker 1: like a wasted resource at this point, like you spent

817
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: a top one hundred pick on a guy that you

818
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: don't even want to play. Yeah, the one snap he

819
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,880
Speaker 1: got was when Byron Jones was hurt. So very confusing,

820
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: But that story to answer the question, it will be.

821
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: I think it'll be all hands on deck because all

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00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 1: three of those guys can do a little bit of everything.

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00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: He's gonna play this game, Jordan, Yeah, for what, Like

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00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,160
Speaker 1: why it's gonna for what you just said, There's gonna

825
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: be more passing, there's gonna be more more stuff going on,

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Speaker 1: and I think that you'll you'll probably need to rotate

827
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 1: that a little bit more. I hope, so for his sake, Like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I penciled him as as a starter

829
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Speaker 1: in the spring. And what makes you say that? Though?

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00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: For me, I just think this type of offense that

831
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: they're gonna face that's more wide open, more passing. I

832
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: think that you'll probably need to play more than three

833
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: cornerbacks in this game. Maybe not against the um the Seahawks,

834
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Speaker 1: or definitely not against the Seahawks who ran the ball

835
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: thirty five times a lot of times. But I don't

836
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: think that they're gonna run it through different times that

837
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 1: they're gonna throw it forty times. And I think Jordan

838
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: Lewis will be just more involved. It's it's fine. I mean,

839
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Speaker 1: I would the Lions are balanced for what they want

840
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: to do, Like it's very not balanced, but if you

841
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 1: can get ninety eight yards rushing when your quarterback is

842
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: capable of doing what he's capable of. This is a

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Speaker 1: very pass heavy attack. And I think, I mean, but

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, this is all the time we have

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Speaker 1: for today for Nick Inman, David Hellman. Remember your see

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