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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, September tenth, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode
Speaker 1: number forty. Welcome to another edition of The Break. We're
Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: Got Dave Nick, and we've got our very special Tuesday
Speaker 1: guest Danny Serect with us today. We're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: to some Cowboys football here with you guys for about
Speaker 1: forty five minutes. It's a gumbo show, so, as you
Speaker 1: guys remember from last year, we like to hit a
Speaker 1: lot of topics on Tuesday. We'll jump around. There'll be
Speaker 1: lots of different things we'll hit. We'll also take some
Speaker 1: questions from you guys. You can also hit me on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Derek Eagleton and I'll get your questions there
Speaker 1: and we'll have a segment where we'll go through those
Speaker 1: questions and again, hit a lot of different topics out
Speaker 1: of where I feel in this morning, great, great, good, lovely, awesome, fantastic,
Speaker 1: Danny victory Tuesday, right, that carries over from Monday? Why not?
Speaker 1: I mean a victory like that that lasts longer than
Speaker 1: just your standard twenty four hours. Right, so twenty four
Speaker 1: hour rule only applies to coaches and players anyway, good point.
Speaker 1: You can write that all week if it's if you
Speaker 1: want to. Yeah, absolutely, going all right, So let's first.
Speaker 1: I want to talk first about injuries. There were a
Speaker 1: couple of injury updates we had yesterday. Pretty remarkable that
Speaker 1: Cowboys finish this game, that not only did they play
Speaker 1: a great game, but they came out relatively clean. There
Speaker 1: were two injuries though, of note. Tell us about those
Speaker 1: two injuries and what we can expect this week with
Speaker 1: regards to Randall Cobb and Jeff Heath. Jeff Heath, he's
Speaker 1: dealing with a couple of different things. But he spoke
Speaker 1: in the locker room yesterday. He you know, I believe
Speaker 1: he called it regular football stuff. He's going to be
Speaker 1: there Wednesday, he says that shouldn't be a problem. We
Speaker 1: didn't talk to cop, but I'm gonna go out on
Speaker 1: a limb and say, I think it's probably something similar.
Speaker 1: I mean, football is incredibly violent, especially at the pro level,
Speaker 1: and every guy has something really painful happened to him
Speaker 1: in every game. So Cobb's got a lower rib thing,
Speaker 1: is what Jason Garrett described it as. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's severely limiting, but we'll see what he does tomorrow
Speaker 1: at practice. Ye, any question, I mean in those offensive linemen,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that Zack Martin, that's something he's
Speaker 1: just going to have to deal with. I mean, he
Speaker 1: was able to go out of the game just because
Speaker 1: that you know the score, But I think that it's
Speaker 1: something Wednesday or Thursday. You're gonna see limit limited from
Speaker 1: him every week, and you know he's just gonna have
Speaker 1: to manage this thing. But he didn't play his best game,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, he had a couple of penalties
Speaker 1: when I used to see in that out of him,
Speaker 1: but I think overall he played pretty well. What are
Speaker 1: the what do we what do we know about guys
Speaker 1: like Donovan Wilson, Deary and Thompson. If anything, just because
Speaker 1: now you got Heath a little banged up, starts to
Speaker 1: wonder a little bit with those other two safeties also
Speaker 1: being they were out last week due to injury. What
Speaker 1: do you hear about them? Thompson it was a high
Speaker 1: ankle sprain. He's been out for a few weeks now. Um.
Speaker 1: I think he's been back with the trainers on the
Speaker 1: on the side fields doing some running. I would doubt
Speaker 1: that he's ready this week. And again I never knew
Speaker 1: about Donovan Wilson. Was it high ankle sprain on him? Yes,
Speaker 1: or it's an ankle sprain. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: was high ankles, so I don't know if it's the
Speaker 1: dreaded high Yeah, but I'm serious when you'd put that
Speaker 1: high high, everybody gets rially nervous, right, Yeah. That it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if if if Heath is kind
Speaker 1: of banged up, and if they can get Thompson back
Speaker 1: in there. But it was Stephen Jones was the one
Speaker 1: that said right around roster cuts that Wilson probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: be available for the first few weeks. So, I mean
Speaker 1: thinking at least two games, maybe three, but we'll see. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I mean, does that raising level of concern for
Speaker 1: you when you start thinking about the fact that last
Speaker 1: week they entered with three safeties, and now you'd be
Speaker 1: inter presumably be three. That one is a little banged up.
Speaker 1: I mean I was standing right there, Danny, you were too,
Speaker 1: And Jeff Heath I'm going to take him at his word,
Speaker 1: and he didn't seem very concerned about it. And I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody gets hurt one way or another in every game.
Speaker 1: I also think the next two opponents maybe not so
Speaker 1: worried about what Washington Miami's pass game to kind of
Speaker 1: rush back right just writing them off. I love it,
Speaker 1: let's go. I'm just saying, like I I would not
Speaker 1: rush them back for the next two weeks if there's
Speaker 1: no need to. You mean you're talking about Wilson and yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah. I mean three three safeties does seem a
Speaker 1: little light, but they made it through this game. I
Speaker 1: think Goodwin can play some safety if you needed to.
Speaker 1: It's probably I mean, he's not not ideal because he
Speaker 1: hasn't practiced it, but the guy really can run. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's one thing about him that he's one of the
Speaker 1: fastest players they've got on the team. We didn't talk
Speaker 1: about that tackle. From our angle on the press box,
Speaker 1: you could just see it coming a mile away. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was just flying down there, and you know that
Speaker 1: doesn't feel good for anyone. I mean, I can kind
Speaker 1: of see why they try to get the kickoffs limited
Speaker 1: and not because that's where this is nothing but like
Speaker 1: a train wreck going on there. It's the most dangerous
Speaker 1: play in the game. Probably that's fun why they're trying
Speaker 1: to take it within the next well, I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess it would have to be this CBA. Well maybe not.
Speaker 1: They're going to take that play out of out of
Speaker 1: the NFL because it out of the Pro Bowl. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but out of something where I forgot what
Speaker 1: it was, but I was watching not too long ago,
Speaker 1: or I think that was going on this year they
Speaker 1: would do it. Oh the American Alliance of whatever, No
Speaker 1: something I watched. Um wow, I didn't watch that. Okay,
Speaker 1: no one else did either. Obviously that was no one
Speaker 1: else did either. NFL games are gonna just start at
Speaker 1: the twenty five, like within the next decade. Well, you
Speaker 1: saw that this preseason when they had the game where
Speaker 1: they had the field that was jacked up and they
Speaker 1: were like, well, let's not do kickoff so we had
Speaker 1: an eighty yard field, Let's just start there and go.
Speaker 1: So all right, let's let's watch another topic. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about Dak Prescott. After after his amazing day
Speaker 1: on Sunday, four and five yards, four touchdowns, no interception,
Speaker 1: a perfect hundred and fifty eight point three quarterback rating, UM,
Speaker 1: Jerry made the comment that his contract was imminent. That's
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of press since then. It seems to me,
Speaker 1: at least you guys can tell me from what Jerry
Speaker 1: said this morning, it seems like he'd walked that back
Speaker 1: a little bit from the standpoint that, Okay, when I
Speaker 1: say imminent, it might not necessarily be imminent in Dak's mind.
Speaker 1: Is what he said sounded like a dictionary when he
Speaker 1: was asked about it, because it was like near close,
Speaker 1: you know, in other words, with everyone. He kind of
Speaker 1: was backing it up just a little bit. But it
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like that's like this happening today, although it
Speaker 1: does seem like it's something that they want to happen
Speaker 1: relatively quickly. How close are you getting the sense that
Speaker 1: this deal is or is it any closer today than
Speaker 1: it was last week? Sounds like what him and Stephen
Speaker 1: Jones been saying the whole time of this can really
Speaker 1: just happen really quickly, kind of not out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: but it's not something that's drawn out necessarily for three
Speaker 1: or four days. But things can just happen really quickly.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of the vibe I was getting when
Speaker 1: he was saying it's imminent, like he probably wishes he
Speaker 1: would have paid Dak before that game, so I think
Speaker 1: it'll happen soon. And he did say that if he
Speaker 1: would have had a bad game, it wouldn't have changed anything.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I buy it. Maybe that's maybe
Speaker 1: that's just just kind of saying it now because he
Speaker 1: was the other one, right, But I bet you you know,
Speaker 1: he made his point. I mean, whatever the point they
Speaker 1: were making, he made it in a strong way. So
Speaker 1: I think it does affect it. And I don't think
Speaker 1: I want to let another game go by where he
Speaker 1: does it again. But that might be to Jerry's point.
Speaker 1: He's like, in my mind, it's on the cusp. I
Speaker 1: don't that wasn't his Zach wording, but that's basically what
Speaker 1: he said, and he's like, you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: how Dak and his people feel, which now that makes
Speaker 1: me think, like what if Dack's like, let's let's ride
Speaker 1: this thing out and see if I really can put
Speaker 1: some more zeros on that check. If I do this
Speaker 1: a few more times, you know what I mean, whatever,
Speaker 1: that would be amazing. What's kind of interesting because when
Speaker 1: he was asked about Cooper he said something like, well,
Speaker 1: I know Cooper is getting a deal done. You know well,
Speaker 1: and that's I mean, I didn't read too much into
Speaker 1: that because I Stephen and Jerry have said from the
Speaker 1: beginning they're both getting deals. Like people try to make
Speaker 1: it this dramatic thing like, oh, then maybe they The
Speaker 1: only way, the only way the Cooper thing the trade
Speaker 1: ever made sense was if you sign him and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys know that, and he went out and had a
Speaker 1: like that's gonna happen. The only thing about Bill, he said,
Speaker 1: is this a lot like the Dack thing. And he said, well,
Speaker 1: I know that. The thing about Cooper, I know that
Speaker 1: it's getting done. So he said that about Dak too,
Speaker 1: though he said, like, um, you just said the game.
Speaker 1: He was like, it would matter if you played a
Speaker 1: bad game. I think they asked them. They're like, you know,
Speaker 1: are you are you still evaluating and he's like, with
Speaker 1: the type of money that goes into this like we're
Speaker 1: way past the point of evaluation, right, Like that's so,
Speaker 1: I mean, I just feel very confident both are going
Speaker 1: to get done. It would be awesome if it happened
Speaker 1: in the next week or so, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: So here's the question I have for you, guys, as
Speaker 1: of Saturday, what would you And I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: the team. I'm saying if you were the GM, what
Speaker 1: would you have been willing to pay Dak Is it
Speaker 1: around that thirty two million, which is kind of where
Speaker 1: you net out for guys like Wentz and Golf, or
Speaker 1: was it more? And now on Tuesday following the game
Speaker 1: that he had, has that price gone up at all?
Speaker 1: Or you still write where you were before. Let's start
Speaker 1: with you, Dave, I would be willing to pay him
Speaker 1: slightly more than what Jared Goff got, just because the
Speaker 1: resumes are comparable as of Saturday or as of today, No,
Speaker 1: as of Saturday like that. I mean, that's the way
Speaker 1: these things work. I've been saying that for six months.
Speaker 1: Is like, regardless of you know, whether or not he's
Speaker 1: elite or like definitively better, like the next guy just
Speaker 1: gets a little bit more money. Like Goff got a
Speaker 1: little bit more than Wins. I think most people would
Speaker 1: agree Wins is better than golf to this point in
Speaker 1: their careers. Winz isn't as healthy. But that's just kind
Speaker 1: of how it is. Like the next guy gets a
Speaker 1: little bit more. I would be willing to pay Dak
Speaker 1: a little bit more than Jared Goff I would have
Speaker 1: been on Saturday. I definitely am. Now, Hey, what people
Speaker 1: that go to California teams or any any state with
Speaker 1: an income tax. I mean, it's completely different because if
Speaker 1: you think about, like in any industry, a writer. We
Speaker 1: got writers that have left here that work in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles probably making way more money than we are just
Speaker 1: because of the cost of living. But in the NFL scope,
Speaker 1: it's not the same. I mean, I guarantee they can
Speaker 1: make exactly what Jared Goff is making, and Dak's going
Speaker 1: to see way more of it golf will and then
Speaker 1: cowboys are trying to put that figure that in factor
Speaker 1: it in and the agents not having any part of it.
Speaker 1: But I mean, it is a thing. It's a thing
Speaker 1: for Wentz and golf and it's not a thing for Dak. No.
Speaker 1: I agree, I agree a lot with you. Dave of
Speaker 1: I would have paid him around the thirty thirty two before,
Speaker 1: and there's so many DAC caters and I don't I
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with paying him that. And the
Speaker 1: Cowboys know that this is who they want their long
Speaker 1: term quarterback to be. I think after his performance on Sunday,
Speaker 1: you have even more confidence in him. And I think
Speaker 1: it's helpful that now they have a lot more threats
Speaker 1: as opposed to, you know, this point. Last year it
Speaker 1: was wide receiver by committee. I think I think Prescott's
Speaker 1: going to have a phenomenal year just with the people
Speaker 1: around him. I'm telling you where quarterback exactly where the
Speaker 1: hold up is. The hold up is that guaranteed money
Speaker 1: because of golf and wins, and they got their money
Speaker 1: way beforehand, and so it's ballooning that price up to
Speaker 1: a hunt was one ten, one O five was the
Speaker 1: was the guarantee one ten and guarantees I believe, But
Speaker 1: twenty six of it was already from which previous contract
Speaker 1: and that's the DA didn't have anything like that. So
Speaker 1: it's really that's what the Cowboys. That's the big sticking
Speaker 1: point right now is that guaranteed money. Yeah, but they're
Speaker 1: I mean, and it's not Dak's responsibility to care about this,
Speaker 1: but like the report is that he makes like fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars in endorsements, and I guarantee you Jared Goff
Speaker 1: doesn't make that much endorsement. And I think that's the
Speaker 1: Cowboys whole thing from the beginning. And I think it's
Speaker 1: a valid point for the Cowboys. I mean, like, you
Speaker 1: didn't get that because of you, You got that because
Speaker 1: of what? Because of us? Yep, and not only that.
Speaker 1: And somebody pointed this out to me the other day,
Speaker 1: and it's so true. All they have to do is
Speaker 1: just look around the landscape of the NFL. And what
Speaker 1: I mean by that is the guys that are doing media,
Speaker 1: the guys that are getting opportunities to do big, big
Speaker 1: things in media, that's not because of anything more than
Speaker 1: they were good players, not even sometimes great, good players
Speaker 1: that happen to be playing for the Dallas Cowboys. So
Speaker 1: their brand is much higher elevated, their name recognition is
Speaker 1: much higher. You have a much better chance of getting
Speaker 1: those opportunities. And so I think for some players who
Speaker 1: want have ambitions of doing things beyond football once they're done,
Speaker 1: this gives you just one. It gets you one step
Speaker 1: closer to being able to get some of those kinds
Speaker 1: of opportunities that other guys just won't get because they
Speaker 1: don't have the name recognition that the Cowboys can afford it.
Speaker 1: J Smith with this extent, I mean, that's basically what
Speaker 1: he was saying. Why he took the money he did,
Speaker 1: was he understands the importance of this brand in long
Speaker 1: term to make money after football. He understood that. It's
Speaker 1: exactly right. All right, let's take our first break. We
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Speaker 1: get a chance to talk about yesterday, and what that
Speaker 1: could mean for the future of those two players here
Speaker 1: with the Dallas Cowboys. We'll talk about that when we
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. It is the second segment of the Break
Speaker 1: Life from this WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star and
Speaker 1: I want to talk about a couple of guys this
Speaker 1: last weekend that we're not active for the game and
Speaker 1: what that could possibly mean. Tuckle, Charlton Tristan Hill both
Speaker 1: missed the game. We're inactive. We started seeing some tweets.
Speaker 1: I guess the morning of I think of Sunday morning
Speaker 1: from Taco or actually it might have been Saturday when
Speaker 1: he started counting tweeting and letting people know in cryptic
Speaker 1: ways that he wasn't going to be playing. And the
Speaker 1: question that I that kind of rang out to me,
Speaker 1: and I got this from someone on Twitter, is why
Speaker 1: is it that a guy like Taco is inactive when
Speaker 1: for fans who watched him during the preseason, at least
Speaker 1: in preseason games, he seemed to be performing pretty well
Speaker 1: as a defensive end, had some games where he had
Speaker 1: some sacks, and there seems to be there seemed to
Speaker 1: be an arrow pointing up at least from the standpoint,
Speaker 1: how fan see him watching him in those preseason games.
Speaker 1: What have you guys heard behind the scenes as to
Speaker 1: why maybe he is still a healthy scratch here the
Speaker 1: first week of his third season. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a good question because it's kind of head scratching.
Speaker 1: He's better than Joe Jackson to play now. You could
Speaker 1: say that Joe Jackson's got position flex. I don't see
Speaker 1: him play a lot of defensive tackles, so I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. I've seen Tacco play inside. I think
Speaker 1: if they're making a statement or or for just being honest,
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they're trying to trade him. Maybe they've
Speaker 1: been working on something. Maybe they didn't want to Maybe
Speaker 1: they didn't want to play him for that reason that
Speaker 1: maybe he's not in their in their plans. Maybe they
Speaker 1: didn't want to get hurt because they have to cut
Speaker 1: somebody here in two weeks or in a week when
Speaker 1: Quinn comes when Quinn comes back. So it's hard to imagine.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if he'll be cut or traded
Speaker 1: or whatever, but like it's hard to imagine they have
Speaker 1: these huge plans for him if he's a healthy scratch
Speaker 1: in year three, week one, all that good stuff, and
Speaker 1: it's it is what it is. Um, yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're right. I haven't seen Joe Jackson play a ton
Speaker 1: of defensive tackle that they say he's got that flexibility.
Speaker 1: I guess that's fair. But assuming they're not doing something
Speaker 1: like stashing him so they can trade him, the coaches
Speaker 1: are in charge of those evaluations. They watched him in
Speaker 1: the preseason, probably considered okay, who did he do that against?
Speaker 1: And are those players actually any good? And we have
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence, Tyrone, Crawford, Dorn's Armstrong and Carrie Hyder who
Speaker 1: we all think are better than him. I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: It could be as simple as that, it's not a
Speaker 1: great look for Taco. But it's not just about the
Speaker 1: preseason games. You're right, because you're not playing starters. It's
Speaker 1: also about practice and how you're doing throughout the week.
Speaker 1: I don't know. My gut feeling is I don't know
Speaker 1: that he'll be here throughout the whole season. I think
Speaker 1: maybe a trade. I agree, I just don't. I just
Speaker 1: don't know. Like Dave said, you everyone's saying it. I mean,
Speaker 1: how is he in your plans if that's the case. Now.
Speaker 1: I also, I said this before the game, and this
Speaker 1: is about both of them. You know, this is a
Speaker 1: this is a really good football team. Like we know that.
Speaker 1: We knew that going into the game, and I think
Speaker 1: it was it was evident by the fact that you
Speaker 1: got a first round pick from a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: a second round pick this year. You know, you got health,
Speaker 1: you got healthy scratches, a first and second round picks.
Speaker 1: It's tough to make the roster, it's tough to make
Speaker 1: the forty six. You talked to Stephen Jones about that
Speaker 1: in the pregame show. Just the depth Yea they have
Speaker 1: on this. He said, it's the deepest team he could
Speaker 1: remember in many, many years. Yeah, it's a very good point,
Speaker 1: and it's totally true. It's it's still it's it's just
Speaker 1: not so much Hill but Taco. I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: bad look. He's the twenty eighth all pick. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a bad pick. I think I think you could
Speaker 1: just say it was a bad pick. He's not been
Speaker 1: good at this point. If you if you're a healthy
Speaker 1: scratch at the start of year three, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: not many ways to sugarcoat that. What game was it
Speaker 1: San Francisco? When he was talking like that, I was
Speaker 1: standing next to him, and I hated that. I hated
Speaker 1: that whole mantra thing he was going. He was saying that,
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't care if fans don't like me,
Speaker 1: they don't let me. Maybe I don't understand all of it,
Speaker 1: but I just didn't like the vibes he was saying.
Speaker 1: There just almost felt like he was sort of just
Speaker 1: kind of done with it, you know, it just kind
Speaker 1: of I don't know. Maybe I haven't really talked to
Speaker 1: him about it, I mean, but I just it just
Speaker 1: felt like he was just like, I don't care anymore
Speaker 1: what people think and that's not a good thing. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know how he's perceived
Speaker 1: by his teammates or whatever. It's just a tough situation.
Speaker 1: Maybe he he needs a fresh start. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That didn't bother me that much because I think a
Speaker 1: lot of times players do need to let go of
Speaker 1: what people think. Because and and Taco, like, I don't
Speaker 1: need to ask him about that. I can see it
Speaker 1: by his social media activity, like he there are players
Speaker 1: that are constantly chirping at fans and they're in you know,
Speaker 1: people's mentions on Twitter and Instagram, arguing their point, defending themselves,
Speaker 1: and like, I understand that very human impulse, but it
Speaker 1: ain't gonna take you anywhere good. And so sometimes I
Speaker 1: do think it's useful to let go of what the
Speaker 1: public perception is. Has have you seen a differences as
Speaker 1: he stopped doing it? Seems like he has, although but
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's a great look to
Speaker 1: basically passive aggressively tweet about the fact that you're going
Speaker 1: to be an active on Sunday on Saturday morning, being like, well,
Speaker 1: I'd love to play against you, Eli, but somebody's not
Speaker 1: gonna let me and it's not that good. No, But
Speaker 1: that also maybe a part of this um It may
Speaker 1: be part of it that the attitude is the issue. Yea.
Speaker 1: You know, they may be seeing some things on the
Speaker 1: field that suggests he's got some talent, but he just
Speaker 1: may not have the attitude. The one thing I've seen
Speaker 1: from Taco quite a bit that I think could probably
Speaker 1: problematic for him is if you watch him during the preseason,
Speaker 1: he'd have those plays where he had some sacks. There
Speaker 1: were also a lot of plays where he would make
Speaker 1: his first move didn't work, and you would just see
Speaker 1: him kind of just okay, kind of live to play
Speaker 1: the next play, right. He didn't seem to have that
Speaker 1: relentless motor that if you listen to guys like Rod Marinelli,
Speaker 1: that's all they care about is are you relentless? Are
Speaker 1: you keep do you keep coming to your motor go
Speaker 1: all the time? He doesn't seem to be, at least
Speaker 1: in my opinion, doesn't seem to be that guy. And
Speaker 1: I wonder if some of this last year, him being inactive,
Speaker 1: him being an active first game this year, it's more
Speaker 1: about the attitude and how you approach playing the game
Speaker 1: more so than even the results. I buy that to
Speaker 1: a degree, but like there are so many examples across
Speaker 1: the league and this team, Like if you're a badass,
Speaker 1: you can be the biggest problem child, pain in the butt,
Speaker 1: like wrong attitude. But I'm not Let's be clear, I'm
Speaker 1: not talking so much about attitude from him being a
Speaker 1: bad person or malcontent in the locker room or anything
Speaker 1: like that. I don't think he's that. What I'm saying
Speaker 1: is he's not He's not the guy that is that
Speaker 1: they're looking for. When they talk about the relentless defensive rushman,
Speaker 1: which is what they call them right, they want him
Speaker 1: to be relentless every play, every play until the whistle
Speaker 1: is blown. I don't think he's that. Gushes don't be
Speaker 1: the right fit. I think fresh stir. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's a bad player by any means. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys picked him in the first round for a reason.
Speaker 1: It might just be he doesn't doesn't fit the best
Speaker 1: here that he could somewhere else. And you know, when
Speaker 1: you're talking about how people react to this, I think
Speaker 1: the same could be said with Tristan Hill. I'd like
Speaker 1: to see what happens with him. Um, you know, there's
Speaker 1: been some questions about his maturity levels and on and
Speaker 1: off the field, and let's see how he reacts to
Speaker 1: being a second round pick that was a healthy scratch
Speaker 1: as well. And and that's and to be I don't
Speaker 1: want to defend it too much because again, I mean
Speaker 1: top sixty picks should should play regardless, and I mean
Speaker 1: maybe even start. I mean, you think about Malie Collins
Speaker 1: started as a rookie and he was picked later than
Speaker 1: where was Yeah, but having said that Malie Collins had
Speaker 1: a hell of a training camp, we would all agree.
Speaker 1: So I mean, it's certainly not surprising that he's not starting.
Speaker 1: And if you've only got really what didn't they roll
Speaker 1: with three defensive tackles? So I'm a little more forgiving
Speaker 1: of that. Like I don't think that many people expected
Speaker 1: Tristan Hill to make this immediate impact when he was drafted.
Speaker 1: You know, the value of the position and the traits
Speaker 1: that he had made him somebody that they wanted. I
Speaker 1: will say, you know, hopefully that's you know, that's not
Speaker 1: a season long trend. Like you met Chris Covington's sixth
Speaker 1: round pick. He was inactive like every week last year,
Speaker 1: and that is totally understandable. If Tristan Hill is a
Speaker 1: healthy scratch in November, that that's not great. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that week one no big deal. Yeah, And I think
Speaker 1: what a lot of times fans forget, well this he's
Speaker 1: a first round pick, is second round pick, I mean,
Speaker 1: why aren't they there? Well, they've also got some wins
Speaker 1: on the back end too. I mean they just said,
Speaker 1: let's see if this Antoine Woods is worth anything any
Speaker 1: and look at him. He's starting, and he's better than
Speaker 1: Tristan Hell and Dorn's Armstrong is better than Taco. I
Speaker 1: mean he fell in to the fourth round. I think
Speaker 1: they were surprised that he lasted that long. And Joe
Speaker 1: Jackson same thing. So, I mean for every one of
Speaker 1: these guys that are that are high picks that are
Speaker 1: kind of busting, they've also got guys. And I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna call Tristan Hell bust. I'm just saying guys like
Speaker 1: that that have had slow starts or it's not working out.
Speaker 1: They got guys in the sixth, seventh round undrafted that
Speaker 1: are doing it all evens out. Yeah. The part that
Speaker 1: concerns me about any of this when you start talking
Speaker 1: about particularly Taco, about them letting him go or trading
Speaker 1: him or whatever. Is when I look at Byron Jones
Speaker 1: and how much everybody was willing to write him off.
Speaker 1: And we've seen this throughout, you know in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I know you and I watched with the same thing
Speaker 1: Halp with Flozo Adams. Everybody was convinced he needed to
Speaker 1: go and build Parcels came in and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he turned into this great player. Same thing with
Speaker 1: Byron Jones and christ Rah Shard. Sometimes it's about the
Speaker 1: coaching year here. Sometimes it's about other things that can
Speaker 1: help you get to the point where you need to be.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's just development. I'm not saying that's going to
Speaker 1: happen for Taco. What I am saying is it does
Speaker 1: give me pause when you see some traits and you
Speaker 1: see him make a play here and there, and then
Speaker 1: you're like, are you giving up too soon on him?
Speaker 1: I think you got to put a little bit more
Speaker 1: respect on Byron Jones's name there, because he had started
Speaker 1: every game of his career before he became an All
Speaker 1: Pro corner I mean, he was a serviceable to mass
Speaker 1: safety and then became a great cornerback. Taco, this isn't
Speaker 1: even his first healthy scratch. He has had a negligible role,
Speaker 1: to put it kindly, I don't think that's the same
Speaker 1: situation here. Like Byron was disappointing, but had played a
Speaker 1: meaningful role for this team for three years before he
Speaker 1: finally broke through. We haven't seen that, TiO. Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 1: And also, you know Rod Marinelli can coach you know,
Speaker 1: defensive ends and all that. I mean, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's the best, because I'm sure there's other ones out there,
Speaker 1: and it might just be, like Danny said, just a
Speaker 1: just different start, different different situation might be better for him.
Speaker 1: But who knows, I mean, who knows what's going to
Speaker 1: happen with this team, And you know, there might be
Speaker 1: another suspension down the road for this for this team.
Speaker 1: We I mean we videos have come out. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's gonna happen. I'm just saying that
Speaker 1: having some depth on this defensive I'm not really trying
Speaker 1: to imply we all saw it. I mean I heard
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it. No, I heard about it, though
Speaker 1: I heard about say him, it's talking about Crawford, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, different video came out tmzy and they definitely
Speaker 1: let you know. It's where Crawford is in every step
Speaker 1: of the video, and it's it's not great. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe the NFL has already seen that, maybe they haven't.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm just saying having depth on
Speaker 1: the defensive line, it wouldn't be bad. And you know,
Speaker 1: you also have some injuries coming in totally put like
Speaker 1: it's you know, and I think this conversation is totally justified.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with it, but like, it would be
Speaker 1: so typical if we're like the writings on the wall
Speaker 1: for Taco and like, and he's here all year and
Speaker 1: has a role to play, right, You just never know.
Speaker 1: I just never know. All Right, we're gonna take our
Speaker 1: final break. We'll come back. I'm gonna ask these guys
Speaker 1: a question after such a huge Week one, what is
Speaker 1: your biggest concern going for this team going down to
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Speaker 1: to make a couple of announcements for you guys. There
Speaker 1: are a couple of new shows we got to start
Speaker 1: up this week. One starting this afternoon at three pm
Speaker 1: called The Players Lounge. It is a new podcast that
Speaker 1: will be every Tuesday at three pm. It will be
Speaker 1: hosted by Newi Scrugs, but we will also have on
Speaker 1: the show Danny McCrae and Barry Church, two former Safeties
Speaker 1: here with the Dallas Cowboys give them an opportunity to
Speaker 1: talk about this team from a player's perspective. So we
Speaker 1: think that'll be a really great show. Make sure you
Speaker 1: check it out this afternoon three pm Central Time, and
Speaker 1: then tomorrow we're gonna be starting up a new show
Speaker 1: at two thirty pm. It's actually gonna film around that time,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be on the site a little bit later.
Speaker 1: It's not a live show, but it's called Playmaker Playmaker
Speaker 1: Spell with an h for playmakers and the point of
Speaker 1: it is this is a lifestyle show that this is
Speaker 1: a lifestyle show for It's a lifestyle show for females,
Speaker 1: buy females, and it has a lot of different ladies
Speaker 1: around our organization. I'm sure Danny will be on it
Speaker 1: at some point, but they will be part of the
Speaker 1: Castle Show. And then mar they have the wife of
Speaker 1: a Randall Cobb, who is if you don't know a
Speaker 1: lot about her, she is just she's bad. She's an attorney,
Speaker 1: very very smart lady. She is. I was gonna say
Speaker 1: something else, but yes, she's bad and she's she's an attorney.
Speaker 1: And so it's gonna be a show that's gonna just
Speaker 1: talk about football from a ladies perspective, but also life
Speaker 1: around football and working in football and having family members
Speaker 1: playing in football and that kind of thing. So again,
Speaker 1: really interesting show. Make sure you check it out tomorrow.
Speaker 1: It's called Playmaker. And those are two new shows are
Speaker 1: gonna be starting up this week. I hope you guys enjoy.
Speaker 1: All Right, let's get to this question I have for
Speaker 1: you guys. This is a kind of a big, big
Speaker 1: picture question. After the first game, Cowboys played extremely well.
Speaker 1: Everybody's still riding the high of how well they performed.
Speaker 1: Based on that, though, what is the thing that kind
Speaker 1: of pulls you back? What is the one lingering concern
Speaker 1: if you had to point to one that you still
Speaker 1: have for this team as they move forward into Week
Speaker 1: two and throughout the remain of this season. Let's start
Speaker 1: with you, Danny Um. I guess maybe run defense. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know we're playing Saquon Barkley, so that alone is
Speaker 1: a challenge. I think a lot of it also played
Speaker 1: into the fact that it was the first regular season.
Speaker 1: I mean, we saw the Cowboys defense had kind of
Speaker 1: a slow start. They didn't, you know, recover the force fumble.
Speaker 1: There were what I write down four hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: yards given up. But they improved in the second half,
Speaker 1: and so I think it'll get better. I think that's
Speaker 1: just kind of things that happened in the first game.
Speaker 1: But I think that would probably be one of my
Speaker 1: only concerns that I really saw that stood out from
Speaker 1: that game. Yeah, they weren't many, Yeah, Dave. I just
Speaker 1: hotel hotels in South Beach are hard to get in February.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much all I got. Kidding, I'm kidding, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, does it starting first go and go all
Speaker 1: the way to Arlington through Dallas. How are we doing
Speaker 1: this such an absurd Please don't hold that against me, No,
Speaker 1: please please hold that We need to use that throughout
Speaker 1: the year here look good or bad. They did exactly
Speaker 1: what I've been wanting them to do on offense for
Speaker 1: three years. Like I couldn't have dreamed it up any
Speaker 1: better with the you know, the tricker not trickery, but
Speaker 1: the presentation, the motion and the and the play action,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. We always talk about the jet action
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. But they're going to play better defenses,
Speaker 1: Like I'm you know, you can only play who's in
Speaker 1: front of you. But the Giants aren't a good football team. Um,
Speaker 1: they were. They threw a rookie out there. He got
Speaker 1: him exposed, as you probably expect. There's gonna be defenses
Speaker 1: that can that can limit that, starting probably Sunday, even
Speaker 1: without Jonathan Allen. There's some studs on that Washington defense
Speaker 1: and we'll get into that. Um what what's it gonna
Speaker 1: look like when it's not that effortless? Um? That's probably
Speaker 1: my biggest concern is I'm I'm not ready to declare
Speaker 1: them the new Rams after one win against the probably
Speaker 1: very bad team. UM yeah, that's probably it, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that to Dave's point, let's see
Speaker 1: what happens when you know you have to counter something else. Right,
Speaker 1: you could do anything you wanted to in that game,
Speaker 1: and they were are always two or three steps ahead.
Speaker 1: But but you know what happens. Do you come back
Speaker 1: and try the same things, or you're gonna try to
Speaker 1: be different, or you're gonna try to be innovative. You know,
Speaker 1: we've seen last year and I'm not trying to compare
Speaker 1: Lenahan two more. I'm just saying we saw Tavon Austin
Speaker 1: really involved in one game. In the next game he's
Speaker 1: not at all. And we saw Dak run eleven times
Speaker 1: and the next game he didn't run at all. So like,
Speaker 1: let's just see if if if they if they stick
Speaker 1: to what works, and how he comes back with a
Speaker 1: week two, week three, things like that. But I mean,
Speaker 1: it's hard to complain about anything. Yeah, I actually I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, I really actually, That's one of the
Speaker 1: things I'm really kind of paying attention to is how
Speaker 1: does Kellen Warren calling this offense allow one game to
Speaker 1: build on the other. Um, I was interested here. After
Speaker 1: the game, when he was talking to the media, he said,
Speaker 1: you know, there were some things that that we didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily want to throw out this first week, and we
Speaker 1: were able to hold some of those things back, which
Speaker 1: is a good thing because again, the biggest problem you
Speaker 1: would have is if you threw everything out there and
Speaker 1: now everything's on tape, because I guarantee you all that
Speaker 1: stuff that was on tape that looks so easy last
Speaker 1: week may not look as easy. If a team is
Speaker 1: preparing knowing what they like to do this in this situation,
Speaker 1: they like to do this in this situation, when they're
Speaker 1: in this formation and they have these motions, this is
Speaker 1: what they like to do. Teams will build that kind
Speaker 1: of dossier on them over the next four or five,
Speaker 1: thank you sir, four or five games, and they'll know
Speaker 1: they'll have some tendencies for them. Right. So, if he
Speaker 1: is able to take what they did this game and
Speaker 1: then use that knowing that that is now what the
Speaker 1: other team is thinking, their next opponents thinking, and now
Speaker 1: be able to play off of what he anticipates they'll
Speaker 1: do to react to it. Now you got yourself something.
Speaker 1: That's how you keep longevity in doing that job. It's
Speaker 1: not just about the one game. It's about the game
Speaker 1: and how it follows up to the next game, in
Speaker 1: the next game, in the next game. I'm really I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about that with Calamar, which I just said
Speaker 1: I need to see more, but like, I just I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about that with him. Like I don't think
Speaker 1: you're just gonna be scratching your head, like where where'd
Speaker 1: Tavon go? Where? Where's you know? Why? What are they doing? Why?
Speaker 1: Like I think it's gonna be consistent, and the consistency
Speaker 1: will be kind of what you're talking about, unpredictability. To
Speaker 1: Danny's point, I feel not troubled at all by the
Speaker 1: defensive struggles like struggles in scare quotes, and I'm not
Speaker 1: It's just things that happen in the first game. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that's who this defense is. That's not their identity.
Speaker 1: It sounded like I was contradicting you, but I'm actually not,
Speaker 1: because what I was gonna say is, you know, Darius
Speaker 1: guys probably isn't going to play in this game. But
Speaker 1: what does that mean. It means that they're gonna be
Speaker 1: going against the Hall of Famer who's a little bit
Speaker 1: of sim he's a little bit angry, and one thing
Speaker 1: you know about him, when he's angry, he has a
Speaker 1: way in his career when he's angry, he has a
Speaker 1: ways showing you he's things. So if it is a
Speaker 1: problem that actually persists, then where I feel like we'll
Speaker 1: find out on today that was not what I was
Speaker 1: talking about. Go ahead, and well we're gonna find out
Speaker 1: if it's a problem because Adrian Peterson is still really
Speaker 1: damn good at thirty three, and he'll probably be running
Speaker 1: angry right So, and I it's going to your point, Danny,
Speaker 1: I don't just look at this as one rushing out
Speaker 1: in standing by itself like this. Now, I take it
Speaker 1: back and put it back to put put it back
Speaker 1: to last year as well. In this season, got the
Speaker 1: Rams in December, you had the Colts. Like that's now
Speaker 1: three out of the last five games. I think it
Speaker 1: is where the Cowboys have not been able to stop
Speaker 1: the well stop the run effectively. And there are gonna
Speaker 1: be other good running backs. And they may be able
Speaker 1: to stop a running back that's kind of middle of
Speaker 1: the pack, but they're gonna have other good running backs.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to play the rest of this year.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? What happens when you go to
Speaker 1: New Orleans and you got Alvin Camaro you got to
Speaker 1: deal with, right. So I just think that that is
Speaker 1: something worth in my opinion, that's something worth looking at
Speaker 1: and keeping an eye on and we'll see what happens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put that game in the other two because
Speaker 1: I don't think you know, it's not like the Giants
Speaker 1: for just running the ball into the end zone and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I mean, yeah, they had they boasted
Speaker 1: out a big run. They did that in last game
Speaker 1: up in the Meadowlands. He had a fifty something yard
Speaker 1: run like that too. I mean, he's great. But they
Speaker 1: when they needed to, they shut it down. So I
Speaker 1: thought the defense played pretty well. It's just a perfect
Speaker 1: offensive performance. So therefore the defense is going to have
Speaker 1: a hard I keep going back to first possession was bad.
Speaker 1: By the it wasn't good. But then from when they
Speaker 1: tie the game at seven seven, from then until it
Speaker 1: was thirty five to ten, the defense was pretty good.
Speaker 1: And that is Maybe it's just I don't know, bias
Speaker 1: or selective reasoning on my part, but like that's what
Speaker 1: I focus on more than the blob final ten minutes
Speaker 1: when there's a twenty five point lead. And I mean
Speaker 1: they were bad at the start of the game, but
Speaker 1: stuff like that happened such a good game. Mix, right,
Speaker 1: you have to if the offense layed so well, okay,
Speaker 1: well then let's just let's look to the defense. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. Let's take a question from Kyle Ransom. He says,
Speaker 1: what are the chances we get to one two, one
Speaker 1: thousand yard receivers this year in Gallop and Cooper. Well,
Speaker 1: then if that's the case, you know, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: wondering if Zeke's worth that much money, you know, because
Speaker 1: he's not gonna have probably that much. You know, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna have a sixteen hundred yard rushing season if
Speaker 1: you got that much going on. Unless you're gonna do
Speaker 1: this what you did to the Giants, to every team, well,
Speaker 1: then yeah, then you better get a hotel room. And
Speaker 1: I just don't think. I don't know, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's gonna be there for them. I really don't. I
Speaker 1: think teams I think it's like, we gotta stop Zeke,
Speaker 1: stop Zeke. And then they tried, and they did a
Speaker 1: decent job, but look what happened. Next week, it'll be different.
Speaker 1: They're gonna take away some of the other stuff, and
Speaker 1: then other guys will come in. I just don't and
Speaker 1: the reason why I said, and then, how do you
Speaker 1: mean interrupted will they though? Because the way I look
Speaker 1: at this, I wonder if teams are gonna be like
Speaker 1: you know, I'd still rather go the route of stopping Zeke.
Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna make Dak do this for half this
Speaker 1: year before I say I'm going to start worrying about yeah,
Speaker 1: And so I do wonder if I do wonder if
Speaker 1: for a good part of the season we see the
Speaker 1: Cowboys at least trying to do those kind of things,
Speaker 1: going aggressively in the passing game. Because teams are like,
Speaker 1: we know about that. I mean, we know about Zeke,
Speaker 1: we know what he can do to you. We're gonna
Speaker 1: make Dak do it regularly and consistently to us before
Speaker 1: we would change maybe let's sorry, go ahead. I think
Speaker 1: you know what, Now that I think about it, it
Speaker 1: probably won't happen. But the one way that it could
Speaker 1: is that when you think back to the game, there
Speaker 1: was deep balls to gallop, perfect throat down the sideline
Speaker 1: and a perfect throat to the touchdown to Cooper. They
Speaker 1: both have that ability. They also both caught passes over
Speaker 1: the middle that they turned into forty and sixty two
Speaker 1: yard plays, and then Cop can kind of do both
Speaker 1: of that as well. So the fact that you've got
Speaker 1: receivers that can kind of hurt you deep, short, short,
Speaker 1: to deep, all that stuff, they may be able to
Speaker 1: rack up some yards like that. Yeah, if even if
Speaker 1: let's just assume that they just keep this going. Maybe
Speaker 1: like not like that, but like, let they just keep rolling,
Speaker 1: like this is a top seven or eight offense in
Speaker 1: the league. Like even still, there's so many people to
Speaker 1: spread the ball to Cooper, Gallop, Cob Witten, Jarwin Zeke Pollard, Tavon.
Speaker 1: I think I got them all. I just like I
Speaker 1: would I would be I did, I would have. I
Speaker 1: would need to see two one thousand yard receivers to
Speaker 1: believe it, just because teams do that. MS. Harrison and
Speaker 1: Reggie Wayne. If the Falcons haven't done it since they
Speaker 1: got some new they've come awfully closed. They would have
Speaker 1: done it back when what was the guy's name, I'm
Speaker 1: John a blank right now, Roddy White, Roddy White, When
Speaker 1: Roddy White and there together what happens. But I just well,
Speaker 1: digs and digs and dealing, and that's a good one.
Speaker 1: Just I know it didn't look like it on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But I still think like an eighty nine rushing yards
Speaker 1: is not going to be the norm for this team.
Speaker 1: I don't think we even saw that in previous seasons
Speaker 1: with Zeke. His numbers were so much lower in the
Speaker 1: first two or three weeks of the season, So I
Speaker 1: think you still have to take that in consideration. It's
Speaker 1: easy to forget because they just pummeled them, but Zeke
Speaker 1: was on a pitch count and so and and they
Speaker 1: teams will they might they might prefer to make Dak
Speaker 1: do this, but they will correct, like they're not just
Speaker 1: gonna if Dad keeps doing stuff like this, They're not
Speaker 1: gonna put eight and nine in the box like they're
Speaker 1: just not going through. Its very fun. It's awesome about
Speaker 1: that pitch count, though, I think that a lot of
Speaker 1: those carries he would normally get that we'll probably see
Speaker 1: him get as the season goes on, will be those
Speaker 1: ones that Paulo was getting at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: That will be when they will put teams away because
Speaker 1: they will try to pound them just into the ground
Speaker 1: because they have a lead. They're trying to solve that
Speaker 1: lead away. He will probably will He'll be more effective
Speaker 1: than what Tony Pollitt was just because it's Zeke, right,
Speaker 1: But the point is he's gonna get POLITI will decrease.
Speaker 1: So even if you think of it from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: you probably could have into that game. They would have
Speaker 1: played that game as they will probably play the games
Speaker 1: four weeks from now, and you have that kind of
Speaker 1: offensive firepower early in the game, you could still put
Speaker 1: up those kinds of numbers in the passing game, and
Speaker 1: Zeke could still get close, if not over that hundred
Speaker 1: yard mark in that second half. This is vintage nineties
Speaker 1: football for the Cowboys, right, You get get a lead
Speaker 1: and then you just pound them with Emma Smith. And again,
Speaker 1: I mean the pitcher of kool aid is just like
Speaker 1: absolutely three feet tall right now. Absolutely great. They looked awesome.
Speaker 1: They deserve like it's the NFL, it's not college football.
Speaker 1: Style points aren't a thing, but like it won't be
Speaker 1: that easy every week. It will just won't be it will.
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right about that, and that's why again, we're
Speaker 1: kind of pulling this back just a little bit. All
Speaker 1: I'm saying is that's what they're going for, that's the back.
Speaker 1: But at the same time we're like, well, yeah, when
Speaker 1: they're up by forty in the second half, that's when
Speaker 1: early on. Michael Gallup was talking to the meet in
Speaker 1: the locker room yesterday and I asked him how important
Speaker 1: it was to connect with press got the first game
Speaker 1: of the season, because they struggled three quarters of the
Speaker 1: pretty much most of the regular season until the playoffs
Speaker 1: to really hit those long balls. He said, it's incredibly important.
Speaker 1: They've been working a lot in the offseason and for confidence,
Speaker 1: you want to be able to show that you can
Speaker 1: connect on those long balls. So even though this probably
Speaker 1: won't happen many other games in the season, I think
Speaker 1: it was so really important that this is what happened
Speaker 1: the first game of the season. And you know, Zeke
Speaker 1: can miss a whole month and a half or whatever,
Speaker 1: come back and still contribute like that. Dak would have
Speaker 1: done that, and then comes back, they're not hitting those
Speaker 1: passes like that, they're not playing like that, and Dak
Speaker 1: knows that, he knows that it's different for him to
Speaker 1: and he's in a different situation, but he knows that
Speaker 1: he had to be there to kind of keep this
Speaker 1: thing going. All right, guys, appreciate you joining us. We
Speaker 1: were back tomorrow normal time, eleven forty five am. We're
Speaker 1: going to get into the Redskins offense versus the Cowboys defense.
Speaker 1: Day will have his breakdown, We'll talk about some other
Speaker 1: issues and face this team heading into this week two
Speaker 1: matchup against the Washington Redskins. Till then for Nick Even,
Speaker 1: Dave Hellman, and Danny Serect. This is has been The
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