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Speaker 1: where you get treated like you are in the locker room, Hayes,
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Speaker 1: of it. You step in here, you step in here,
Speaker 1: the bullets will fly your way. You will get stabbed
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Speaker 1: the balcony section jumping off the top road and getting
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Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to face the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.
Speaker 1: They are a nine point favorite in this football game.
Speaker 1: That's what Vegas is saying. So they're basically in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas saying, hey, we trust the Cowboys that this was
Speaker 1: a stinker against the Broncos. They're gonna get right back
Speaker 1: and go forward. Wednesday is their next practice here off today.
Speaker 1: When you see a line like that, guys, how do
Speaker 1: you feel? It makes me a little nervous, um, just
Speaker 1: because you know, the week that we're coming off of
Speaker 1: playing against the Broncos. There is a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: that we need to fix, and mainly what we need
Speaker 1: to fix this I'm listening to Dan Quinn, you know,
Speaker 1: yesterday and his press conference, and it sounds like he's
Speaker 1: talking about people not giving a hundred percent effort, the hustling,
Speaker 1: not the one hundred. Yeah. So I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a nine point spread, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: be clicking on all cylinders and everybody needs to buy
Speaker 1: back in in order for you to cover that. So
Speaker 1: it makes me a little nervous because we came off
Speaker 1: a pretty pretty disastrous performance on Sunday. Yeah, it makes
Speaker 1: me nervous too, because I didn't like how all run
Speaker 1: defense was handled. Now I'm not saying Atlanta got, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the premier rushing attacks or one of the
Speaker 1: premier offenses in football, but they still can run the
Speaker 1: ball a little bit and they got Matt Ryan out
Speaker 1: there behind the himp or at the quarterback position, and
Speaker 1: he's seemed pretty much everything. The guy's been in the
Speaker 1: league forever, so it's gonna be hard to kind of
Speaker 1: get him off his game and disguise things against him.
Speaker 1: But we know he can't be got. But if we
Speaker 1: go out there like we did against the Broncos, you know,
Speaker 1: feeling themselves and going out there saying, hi, we can
Speaker 1: just flip switch and won't be able to go ahead
Speaker 1: and turn it on. I think that's a bad recipe
Speaker 1: right there. Man. I think this coaching staff think they
Speaker 1: need to be on this team throughout the week, just
Speaker 1: letting them know, like, man, hey, these guys get paid
Speaker 1: too over there. And there was a lot of bulletin
Speaker 1: board material, you know, mainly by myself and a couple
Speaker 1: other people out there who gave the Broncos bulletin board material.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, man, they need to keep
Speaker 1: their heads low and go out here in Atlanta and
Speaker 1: let them know that Atlanta does not deserve to be
Speaker 1: on the same field. Stop on their throats from the beginning.
Speaker 1: I think what we did last week, once we gave
Speaker 1: bront the Broncos juice. We gave him a little bit
Speaker 1: of momentum. They stopped us on fourth down a couple
Speaker 1: of times, a couple of penalties, couple stalled out drives,
Speaker 1: and they felt like, hey, we can hang with these boys.
Speaker 1: But if we go out there and shut it down early,
Speaker 1: jump on this Atlanta team early, I'm sure they'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and close it up and get ready for next
Speaker 1: week and we can get back in the wind. Call them,
Speaker 1: but we cannot sleep on this team because, like you said,
Speaker 1: the professionals as well, we know that we know that
Speaker 1: Atlanta has seen a lot of dan quinn. All right,
Speaker 1: Matt Bryan, you say Matt Ryan has seen everything. He's
Speaker 1: seen a lot of dan Quinna. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a nice little chess game, I believe on Sunday between
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan offensive coordinator and then my man DQ. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, to get us back on track,
Speaker 1: what's DQ going, what's he gonna do to provide some
Speaker 1: pressure out there, because it's like that d Lion last
Speaker 1: art Ard Lion last week. It was like, man, they
Speaker 1: got stagnant out there, there was no pressure. Teddy two
Speaker 1: Gloves went out there and picked. I'm just telling you, listen,
Speaker 1: we all agree that we were sleep walking over We
Speaker 1: slept walk out there, and like I said, I heard
Speaker 1: dan Quinn say out of his own mouth that the
Speaker 1: thing that was a little disappointing was that you weren't
Speaker 1: seeing guys hustling to the ball like they usually do
Speaker 1: as far as uh. There were a lot too many
Speaker 1: one on one tackles instead of gang tacklers, where if if,
Speaker 1: if you have three or four guys running to the ball,
Speaker 1: when that first person misses the tackle, then that second
Speaker 1: and third person to be able to clean him up.
Speaker 1: And he said he didn't see enough of that in
Speaker 1: the previous game. And to me, that sounds like hustle
Speaker 1: yea and being there and not depending on your teammate
Speaker 1: to make the play, but going and make sure you
Speaker 1: doing what you're supposed to do just in case he doesn't.
Speaker 1: And it was one clip. There was one clip that
Speaker 1: we saw from that game I sent to y'all in
Speaker 1: the in the group chat we had, and it was
Speaker 1: it was a pretty much a microcosm of what happened
Speaker 1: against the Broncos. When number thirty three Williams he ran
Speaker 1: up the gut for about six yards. There was a
Speaker 1: couple of cowboys jumped on him and he ended up
Speaker 1: driving them boards another six yards through the defensive tackle
Speaker 1: off of them. You know, get up off from me
Speaker 1: out here. I don't know what Kazy was doing because
Speaker 1: Casey just came in and just kind of threw a
Speaker 1: shoulder and fell to the ground. It just looked super bad.
Speaker 1: But Javarte runs for another twenty yards after that, And
Speaker 1: that's what dan Quinn was talking about. There wasn't enough
Speaker 1: people hustling, nothing, enough people finishing out there. And when
Speaker 1: you do that, you're in trouble. You get beat down.
Speaker 1: The great brand sham Man in the end of Wet
Speaker 1: Wet bandamaham over Man behind us, you know, chopping it up.
Speaker 1: So it had it had to give a salute to
Speaker 1: the to the legend right there. The National Football League
Speaker 1: was full of teams that just didn't have their best
Speaker 1: effort on Sunday. So looking at the Cowboys and the
Speaker 1: fact that they were right there in the mix with
Speaker 1: other teams, does it give you any pause in the
Speaker 1: locker room? Do you do you guys in the room saying, hey, look,
Speaker 1: yeah we played bad, but guess what a whole lot
Speaker 1: of league played that yesterday too, I mean to some extent,
Speaker 1: But but I think you're professional enough to look in
Speaker 1: the mirror and say that the only one that really
Speaker 1: mattered is you not playing up to the standard that
Speaker 1: that you've set throughout the first seven games of the season.
Speaker 1: And uh, we can look back and say, you know,
Speaker 1: LA played this way? Whoever played this way? But the
Speaker 1: team in our division that we're trying to catch is
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals, and they won all right out the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I mean, they still won. So the team that we're
Speaker 1: trying to chase, an NFC, who were who we want
Speaker 1: to beat out to get that number one spot and
Speaker 1: get that first bye week, they won last week. So
Speaker 1: we can't afford to be like every other team in
Speaker 1: the league. We need to be on our game every
Speaker 1: every time we go out there on the field and
Speaker 1: lead that lead that field with a W. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't look out of the squads because
Speaker 1: I mean, that's when it comes into the built in
Speaker 1: excuse and you're like, well, everybody messed up, so it's
Speaker 1: all right, we'll be back next week, and then you'll
Speaker 1: come back next week and perform the same way and
Speaker 1: get beat down. So you can't worry about what everybody
Speaker 1: else is doing out there. You gotta focus and they've
Speaker 1: done a good job. But it's so far this season,
Speaker 1: you know, taking the game back game play back play
Speaker 1: a little cliche, but they've been doing it at a
Speaker 1: pretty good job so far this season. So I don't
Speaker 1: think they can look at any other team. They just
Speaker 1: got to focus up and say, hey, we went out there,
Speaker 1: we got beat down. You gotta take accountability, and so
Speaker 1: far this season they've been doing a great job of
Speaker 1: keeping each other accountable, whether it's coaches, players, whatever it
Speaker 1: may be. They've done a great job of doing that
Speaker 1: so far. So they got to take accountability for it
Speaker 1: and say, hey, let's move forward. You know, we watched
Speaker 1: the tape, got our corrections. Let's move forward and hopefully
Speaker 1: start a new when we go against Atlanta, because like
Speaker 1: I said, we can't sleep on them either, because they cut,
Speaker 1: they mess around and come out here and look like
Speaker 1: Teddy two gloves for sure, all right. Jerry Jones on
Speaker 1: one or five three the Fan Today had this to
Speaker 1: say when asked about offensive tackle Tyrn Smith, if you'll
Speaker 1: play against Atlanta, he says it will get better as
Speaker 1: we go along, so I don't look at it as
Speaker 1: long term. But he says that you know there's a
Speaker 1: chance he might not play. So if Tyron Smith is
Speaker 1: not a left tackle, Danny, what combination do you want
Speaker 1: to change? Get? Didn't getting right? Out right? Just a
Speaker 1: set up getting right? It's just a shop. Yes, neuis
Speaker 1: no Bill Bill Bill Parcel, Bill Bill Parcells. Who's to
Speaker 1: have a line where he said, I reserve the right
Speaker 1: to change my mind. Change my mind? Ain't jasen? Okay,
Speaker 1: um Leo Collins needs to be playing left tackle. Okay,
Speaker 1: he needs to be playing left tackle. When gave still
Speaker 1: the shot, which you know, against my wishes, shot to
Speaker 1: get out there and play left tackle, and it did
Speaker 1: not work out. Put that man in the spot that
Speaker 1: he earned on the right side of your officsive line
Speaker 1: at right tackle. Put Leela left and let it roll. Okay,
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, if Leo plays, what
Speaker 1: we do know is at least the right side is
Speaker 1: gonna be good. Well, we don't want to go out
Speaker 1: there with us having to worry about both sides of
Speaker 1: our offensive line, both tackles struggling, and we having to
Speaker 1: figure out ways to help them out with chips or
Speaker 1: tight ends coming in motion over and chipping that way.
Speaker 1: Our backs chipping on the left side. We don't want
Speaker 1: to have to do that. So put my man still
Speaker 1: back where he's been performing to his best best of
Speaker 1: visibility and let LC see what he can do with
Speaker 1: his fifty meal. Yeah. I might have to agree with
Speaker 1: you there, d Mac. I know all one of them
Speaker 1: on the left side last last week because I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, he had momentum going. He was our best
Speaker 1: tack or our best offensive lineman outside the two Hall
Speaker 1: of Famers, So go ahead and move him over there.
Speaker 1: But he struggled immensely and he gave up nine pressures.
Speaker 1: I think he gave up two sacks as well, So
Speaker 1: that was a big hurt to his confidence. Like that
Speaker 1: stabbed his confidence a little bit. So I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: him back on that right side and hopefully he's able
Speaker 1: to perform like he did in those previous five or
Speaker 1: six games that he was at the right tackle, just
Speaker 1: to get his confidence back up there, because if we
Speaker 1: had a guy going where he thought, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: playing at this such a high level, I could be
Speaker 1: one of these Pro Bowl tackles as well, and we
Speaker 1: want to keep that momentum going. We don't want to
Speaker 1: back to back weeks where he's getting drums on the
Speaker 1: left side. Now, if he goes back to the right
Speaker 1: side and gets drummed as well, then I mean that
Speaker 1: you had your opportunity and then your loss. It they
Speaker 1: took it from, and they took it from So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put him back on the right side where he
Speaker 1: feels more comfortable. He's a naturally a right handed guy,
Speaker 1: so hopefully he's able to block a little bit better
Speaker 1: on that side, handle all the stunts they got going
Speaker 1: over there, and get his confidence back up. And then,
Speaker 1: like you said, if if Lyell stinks it up on
Speaker 1: the left side, we know we're gonna have Terrence or
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith come back there eventually, so we'll know that
Speaker 1: left side is gonna be down solidified if he's in
Speaker 1: the game, which I don't know. I mean, these injuries
Speaker 1: are piling up, but at least if he can hold
Speaker 1: it down on the right side, we got one side secure,
Speaker 1: and then when Tyron gets back, he can do that
Speaker 1: left side, and then we got all Pro Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: potential guy as a swing tackle. But I still see
Speaker 1: it as a good problem to have, but we got
Speaker 1: to solidify one side and hopefully still is able to
Speaker 1: do that. A right nui NOUI listen, I know you
Speaker 1: heard Church over here talking about you know, we expect
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith to be back and all this other stuff.
Speaker 1: What we did expect Tyren Smith to be is out. Okay,
Speaker 1: we expect him to be out. So my confidence in
Speaker 1: having him for long term and a stretch of eight
Speaker 1: nine games carrying you into the playoffs, it's really low.
Speaker 1: It's really low because we talked to the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season about the old two thy ten Tyrnt Smith
Speaker 1: and feeling better than you ever felt. Now we got bonespurs,
Speaker 1: we let the we let the ankle sprain, you know, slide,
Speaker 1: because that was one of those things where it just happened.
Speaker 1: But now you know, now you getting into having bones,
Speaker 1: furs and stuff that that you really can't explain and
Speaker 1: really can't put a time table on when you'll be
Speaker 1: back in the game. Yeah, that that is concerning to
Speaker 1: me at the left tackle position. So no, we don't
Speaker 1: we don't really expect Tyren Smith to be back anytime soon.
Speaker 1: If we want him to be healthy enough to carry
Speaker 1: us through the end of the season and into the playoffs. Danny,
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna be really upset to find out
Speaker 1: they're gonna keep still at that left tackles. I just
Speaker 1: believe that's what they're gonna do. That's gonna be upset.
Speaker 1: I mean while he running around. Really, because we're talking
Speaker 1: about you guys were professional players. We're talking about trying
Speaker 1: to have le Collins do something he hasn't done in
Speaker 1: the NFL, play left tackle. Yes, he did it at LSU,
Speaker 1: but now you talk about put him in here in
Speaker 1: the Nashville Football League left tackle. I don't know about that, man,
Speaker 1: But I'm confused on the thought process, right because still,
Speaker 1: I mean he played. They worked on his training camp,
Speaker 1: training camp, you know what I'm saying, Training camp and
Speaker 1: training camp. All right, that's when you get your hand
Speaker 1: you try to work on, get your hand placement right,
Speaker 1: get your foot places right. But you ain't really seeing
Speaker 1: them dogs coming around that corner like he saw on Sunday.
Speaker 1: All right, So he's gonna be in the same position
Speaker 1: that Leo Collins was in. All right, let's see if
Speaker 1: he can do it. But he played in the SEC
Speaker 1: at left tackle. He got drafted, he played with them
Speaker 1: knowing that he had experienced playing the left tackle position.
Speaker 1: Give him a shot. My man still is not like
Speaker 1: it's not fair, But I don't think it's gonna work
Speaker 1: out for him at left tackle should be a he
Speaker 1: should stay on that right side, the natural right side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I don't think it's gonna work
Speaker 1: out for him. And they're gonna continue to put him
Speaker 1: out there and continue to ruin this dude when you
Speaker 1: already uh you know, lifted him up from last year
Speaker 1: to be a starting right tackle in the league. I
Speaker 1: just don't think it makes sense. So let me come
Speaker 1: back it this way. We saw Terrence still getting a
Speaker 1: little bit of help. What if you put him back
Speaker 1: at left tackle and you just say, okay, look, we
Speaker 1: know we got to put Dalton Schultz over here, Jeremy
Speaker 1: Sprinkle over here. We just gotta just from the jump,
Speaker 1: go ahead and help this guy at the left tackle
Speaker 1: spot and keep LC over at the right. Would that
Speaker 1: make you feel any better day? You know? I mean
Speaker 1: as far as protection, it would, But for him as
Speaker 1: a player, it would make me feel better. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, this guy is becoming a better, better
Speaker 1: player in the league. His progress is now being halted
Speaker 1: by injury to Tyrn Smith and Leel not wanting to
Speaker 1: play left. For us people not feeling comfortable enough for
Speaker 1: him playing level. We don't feel comfortable with still playing left,
Speaker 1: but we do feel good with him playing on the
Speaker 1: right side. Like I'm like, if you can, if you
Speaker 1: have the option to show up one side and not
Speaker 1: be uh, you know, having leakage on both, then I'm
Speaker 1: going to show up with that one side and see
Speaker 1: what see what my fifty million dollar guy has on
Speaker 1: the left. I'm gonna just see because what we've seen
Speaker 1: from Terry still, like you said, nine pressures, two sacks,
Speaker 1: and the pressures that were like he wasn't touching the
Speaker 1: guy and it's hand like I think it's hand placement,
Speaker 1: Like he wasn't able to really to really get the
Speaker 1: groove going on that side. So let's let's see what
Speaker 1: seventy one has. Let's see try it out. And if
Speaker 1: they do end up putting still on that left side, Nui,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to They're gonna have to bring some
Speaker 1: protection with them, Like they're gonna have to have either
Speaker 1: shoults or Zeke polar chip on the way out, whatever
Speaker 1: it may be, because like Daddy said, he struggled. He struggled,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't just like he was getting just bull
Speaker 1: like hit with a doll. These different moves, cats seem
Speaker 1: to be able to just get around them with the quickness,
Speaker 1: just hit him with the one one little inside out
Speaker 1: move and then they're around the corner. So it maybe
Speaker 1: you know his foot placement, he's not used to being
Speaker 1: on that left side, move leading with that left side,
Speaker 1: or hand placement with the left hand or anything like that,
Speaker 1: and maybe stronger with the right. But if they do
Speaker 1: put him out there, he's definitely gonna need help, definitely
Speaker 1: have to chip on with some with some tight ends,
Speaker 1: some running backs, whatever the case may be. Maybe some
Speaker 1: screens that help slow that pass rush down. But Kelly Moore,
Speaker 1: get into your bag like you've been in all season.
Speaker 1: Help these guys out and hopefully we can get his
Speaker 1: offense back back rolling. Okay, let's let's get our first
Speaker 1: break in hire. I've got one more question for you, Danny,
Speaker 1: about Collins and Barry. I want to add this into
Speaker 1: the into at you into this as well, because this
Speaker 1: is something that plays into next year's football team. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get into that next. Danny mccraie, Barry Church Newy scrugs.
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Speaker 1: gonna move in here to Dak Prescott and how he
Speaker 1: was playing as the team was down thirty to nothing
Speaker 1: looking in the next year and Danny, you have been
Speaker 1: correct in terms of trade tyrant Smith keeps Smiths in games.
Speaker 1: This happens every year. Maybe Tyrn Smith decides to call
Speaker 1: it a career at the end. Is this when you're saying, hey,
Speaker 1: put put college left tackle now? Is this a move
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Speaker 1: is gonna be able to adjust to being a left tackle,
Speaker 1: then we won't We won't even be able to answer
Speaker 1: that question at the end of the season. So I
Speaker 1: to your point, if that's the case, then yeah, try
Speaker 1: him out, because what we know is still is not
Speaker 1: the answer at left tackle. He's the answer at right tackle.
Speaker 1: What we know is is making fifty meal all right,
Speaker 1: So trying to figure out how you're going to move
Speaker 1: into next year with him playing guard, what you're gonna
Speaker 1: do with Terrence Still What if Tyren Smith decides that
Speaker 1: he's not coming back. Try lay ill and left tackle,
Speaker 1: see how it works. Or give him a couple of
Speaker 1: games games, right, because you already know it's a tough adjustment,
Speaker 1: So give him a couple of games, see if he
Speaker 1: continues to get better, and then make your decision at
Speaker 1: the in the year or to help you, yeah, to
Speaker 1: that point, you gotta at least try the guy out there.
Speaker 1: We saw what happened last week with Terren. Still I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep bringing up. He had what eleven was an
Speaker 1: eleven hurries, now eleven hurries nine pressures and gave up
Speaker 1: two sacks. So he definitely struggles on that left side.
Speaker 1: He's more predominantly on the right side. He's been holding
Speaker 1: down for a couple of games over there, So I
Speaker 1: leave him over there and then, lyell, as far as
Speaker 1: you know Tyren Smith, maybe he wants to leave or
Speaker 1: maybe he wants to you know, retire at the end
Speaker 1: of the season. I think you got you gotta see
Speaker 1: what else can do there first, So like you said,
Speaker 1: I would put him out there. If Tyren can't go
Speaker 1: this week, I put him out there just to see
Speaker 1: what he can do. Now if he if he ends
Speaker 1: up going out there and playing lights out and being
Speaker 1: that guy, then definitely you would have a good problem
Speaker 1: on your hands, because if Tyren Smith walked away, you
Speaker 1: can easily just slide ELC right in there. So I
Speaker 1: think they got to give him an option out there
Speaker 1: just to see. I don't think, you know, if they
Speaker 1: don't give him any type of reps out there, I
Speaker 1: don't think you can go into next year saying all right,
Speaker 1: if if Tyren Smith, if Tyren Smith's out, else just
Speaker 1: can slide in there because he had no reps that
Speaker 1: he hasn't done it since college. So I think in
Speaker 1: order for us to get that look, I would think
Speaker 1: they would have to put him in there for at
Speaker 1: least a game to see how he can adjust to it.
Speaker 1: But um, we just know for a fact that Terrence
Speaker 1: still right now at that at that right side, he's good.
Speaker 1: Left side, he struggles a bit. Yeah, it corrected, let's
Speaker 1: correct the eleven eleven and hurries in two sexs. He
Speaker 1: gave up a lot of that's a rough day. I
Speaker 1: was definitely wrong about that transition, but I thought for sure,
Speaker 1: this guy's rolling right now. He can go from the
Speaker 1: right to the left, no problem. But it's a lot
Speaker 1: of it's a lot harder than than anticipated because I
Speaker 1: mean the guys on the left side, they're coming from
Speaker 1: the blind side, So you're not gonna have a lot
Speaker 1: of help out there. And we've seen when you got
Speaker 1: put on the island as a tackle. If you ain't ready,
Speaker 1: they're gonna take you to school out there. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: on film, so you know what to expect when you
Speaker 1: see still a lot there left tackles. We get ready
Speaker 1: to dance one on ones, They're gonna figure out the
Speaker 1: way to get those one on ones. So the Cowboys
Speaker 1: next three games will be home against the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 1: on the road against the Kansas City Chiefs, and then
Speaker 1: their home game Thanksgiving Day against the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 1: And we'll see exactly what these defensive coordinators come up with.
Speaker 1: Is they get ready to go up against this Cowboys
Speaker 1: offensive line. Now there's something Danny you wanted to bring
Speaker 1: up from Sunday's game. The Cowboys are down getting drilled
Speaker 1: and dan Quinn dan Quinn, but Mike McCarthy decides that
Speaker 1: he wants to keep Dak Prescott and the first team
Speaker 1: offense out there. He says they wanted to get into
Speaker 1: two minute drill work. That was the reasoning. There a
Speaker 1: lot of people on social media saying, why in the
Speaker 1: heck is Dak Prescott out there having come off of
Speaker 1: a calf injury and a blowout where the game has
Speaker 1: already been decided. Yeah. Man, that's one of those things
Speaker 1: where I'm like, you know, it's not a problem till
Speaker 1: it's a problem. All right. You know, you don't suffer
Speaker 1: any setbacks because, you know, because he didn't get hurt.
Speaker 1: So then it seems like, Okay, we did get some
Speaker 1: two minute drill work, we did score two touch downs,
Speaker 1: but it only takes one play and then and then,
Speaker 1: not only the fans are questioning you, the ownership and
Speaker 1: the organization is questioning why you would have this guy
Speaker 1: out here knowing that he came off for injury all
Speaker 1: of last year. We see, we saw what it did
Speaker 1: to our team last year. He had to should shoulder
Speaker 1: injury during training camp. Well he had to sit out.
Speaker 1: Now you got a calf injury. The best thing for
Speaker 1: our team and our chances to make it far into
Speaker 1: the playoffs and possibly make a Super Bowl, it is
Speaker 1: for Dak Prescott to be healthy. Without him healthy, this
Speaker 1: left tackle stuff don't matter, right, tackle stuff don't matter
Speaker 1: how good the defense plays, how bad, None of that
Speaker 1: matters if Dak Prescott is not healthy. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear nothing about Cooper Rush being able to
Speaker 1: come in and carry the team if Dak Prescott is
Speaker 1: out for an extended period of time, because that ain't
Speaker 1: the case. So I think he was risky. I ain't
Speaker 1: the coach, but if it was me, I would have
Speaker 1: pulled my under the sixty million dollars man out of
Speaker 1: the game. I ain't. Now if we had double g's
Speaker 1: to back up, you know, be a different story. But
Speaker 1: you know before that's the story for another day. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, I you know, I don't want to kill
Speaker 1: him for it. But if if that, you know, if
Speaker 1: he didn't come off that injury, like if he was
Speaker 1: an injury that week before and we went out there
Speaker 1: and we got drummed, I wouldn't mind him saying, all right, look,
Speaker 1: we need some type of momentum going forward to next week,
Speaker 1: so let's work on this two minute drill and get
Speaker 1: that thing going. And they did. They got two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: They showed that they you know, they can move the
Speaker 1: ball a little bit. But would come to him coming
Speaker 1: off that calf injury that week before. I just don't
Speaker 1: see the reward the risk verse reward there by keeping
Speaker 1: him out there any longer. We've seen when he hurt
Speaker 1: that calf. He didn't even get hit, it was just
Speaker 1: a non contact hit. He was rolling out through the
Speaker 1: ball off his calf, and you know he got hurt
Speaker 1: by it. So him just coming off of that calf
Speaker 1: muscle injury his first game back, if we're getting drum
Speaker 1: like that, I gotta sit him on the bench. I
Speaker 1: understand what he tried to do, trying to get you know,
Speaker 1: at least have some good film out there for this
Speaker 1: offense so they can go forward thinking, all right, you
Speaker 1: know that was just a bumping the road. We can
Speaker 1: get back to ourselves. But when he's coming off a
Speaker 1: calf injury like that just a week before or two
Speaker 1: weeks before, and he was kind of shaky for him
Speaker 1: coming into this game, I just don't see the reward
Speaker 1: of having him out there. It ain't like you can
Speaker 1: come back and get a victory by any stretch of
Speaker 1: the imagination. So I think Cooper rushould have just came
Speaker 1: in there and fielding the as a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: and we called it a day from that because, like
Speaker 1: you said, we do not want I mean no disrespect
Speaker 1: to Cooper Rush, but we do not want Rush in
Speaker 1: there for a large chunk of this season. If it's
Speaker 1: spot duty, sure he can come in there and do
Speaker 1: a Minnesota type game and perform well. But when it
Speaker 1: comes to a stretch and he's coordinated to start game
Speaker 1: planning for Cooper Rush, I don't think he'll survive very long.
Speaker 1: So we just gotta keep that man healthy. And by
Speaker 1: keeping them healthy, we gotta keep him off the field
Speaker 1: when we're getting our busts kicked like we were last weekend.
Speaker 1: And I think it's fair to say that you possibly
Speaker 1: already have a hamper to Mark Cooper. You got a
Speaker 1: zeke who's sitting on the sideline icing his knee, and
Speaker 1: then you know, saying, now you got your quarterback out there,
Speaker 1: you know, in harm's way, going into you know, a
Speaker 1: position in the game where we have no chance of
Speaker 1: coming back. I just think I think it was a
Speaker 1: really risky moment. You know, thankfully we you know, we
Speaker 1: made it out of there, no injury, that gets healthy
Speaker 1: and gonna play this week. But it was it was
Speaker 1: a very worrisome uh you know, couple of drives For me.
Speaker 1: I was like, man, I just don't get it because
Speaker 1: we got so much going on right now. We just
Speaker 1: came out for a six game win streak, were three
Speaker 1: games ahead in our division. Like, it's just you know,
Speaker 1: it's not like we're pressing to make sure we gotta
Speaker 1: get this or we gotta get this victory. We gotta
Speaker 1: do something here. We got space, We got time to
Speaker 1: go ahead and let guys rest if need be. If
Speaker 1: we're getting drum like that, get him out the game.
Speaker 1: We got time because our division is so terrible. So
Speaker 1: to me, it was a questionable move. I could see
Speaker 1: the I could see the pros, but I just think
Speaker 1: the cons outweighed the pros. And this and this, uh
Speaker 1: in this decision, man, A part of me says, yes,
Speaker 1: this is truth, what you guys are saying, what we're
Speaker 1: talking about, this is true. But the other part of
Speaker 1: me wonders, are we being too hard on these guys
Speaker 1: after this is a team that until this game, the
Speaker 1: other seven games were good football games. They won six
Speaker 1: of them. The game against Tampa, you're right there at
Speaker 1: the end. Can't we give him a mulligan, like you're
Speaker 1: doing golf, Danny can't give it? Yeah, Bury you to golf.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'm definitely taking a mulligan on that old
Speaker 1: don I gave a mulligan. They're not saying that's okay,
Speaker 1: they slept walk that's not who we were. That ain't
Speaker 1: who that's not who we are. We won six straight.
Speaker 1: It's hard to keep a street going. Nobody wins them all.
Speaker 1: And I said, it's fine, We're gonna be okay. We
Speaker 1: all right, that's a mulligan. I'm not The season ain't
Speaker 1: over the sky, ain't falling sixty two, both of y'all.
Speaker 1: This Leto has both of y'all. This. We go out
Speaker 1: against Atlanta this week and let's just say it's a
Speaker 1: lot closer than we wanted to be, Like we had
Speaker 1: to scratching claw just to get back in and we
Speaker 1: want a close one at home. Do you start to
Speaker 1: worry them? Absolutely not. Atlanta's playing good football. Okay, Atlanta
Speaker 1: has turned around and they beat some teams. I think
Speaker 1: they got a five hundred record. Now, yeah, they they're
Speaker 1: playing good football. I don't expect it to be easy,
Speaker 1: especially with the history of US playing Atlanta, so for
Speaker 1: some reason when we playing Atlanta, it's always one of
Speaker 1: those games. It's always one of those games. So Nah,
Speaker 1: the only thing that matters is a winner. As Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: it don't matter how you win. I listened to Mike
Speaker 1: Thomlins said, we're not from the Paul jobs and nobody
Speaker 1: for how were winning these games or we're winning all right,
Speaker 1: that's and that's all that matters. I don't care how
Speaker 1: close to it was, what you think, Nellie. I look
Speaker 1: at this and I just keep saying that you're not
Speaker 1: gonna play sixteen seventeen great games. You're not. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have a stinker. And I am concerned about the offensive line.
Speaker 1: That's why we started about it, and we spent a
Speaker 1: whole lot of time talking about it with this this show.
Speaker 1: But I'll also kind of throw in this, how many
Speaker 1: other coordinators they got to face they could put together
Speaker 1: a scheme like Big Fangio. I mean Big Fangio came
Speaker 1: out here, had he basically had something for everything Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore wanted to do. And how many other teams can
Speaker 1: come out and give you that same kind of personnel,
Speaker 1: especially from the secondary standpoint that the Denver Broncos did.
Speaker 1: I just don't know. I don't think Atlantic can play
Speaker 1: that kind of defense on this Cowboys football team. Yeah
Speaker 1: that's just good. Yeah, but yeah, you gotta have a
Speaker 1: strong secondary, and we knew that was the strength of
Speaker 1: this Denver team coming into the game. They just traded
Speaker 1: away Vaughan Miller. We thought their front seven wasn't going
Speaker 1: to be able to hang with what the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: going on, and they put a lot of pressure on
Speaker 1: their secondary because they sat the box. They say, you
Speaker 1: know what, Dak, you're coming off of a calf injury.
Speaker 1: We want to see if you still got it. We
Speaker 1: can see if you can steal dices apart and win
Speaker 1: it on your arm alone. And they had a great
Speaker 1: game play because they had an extremely strong secondary out there.
Speaker 1: Sir Tam Fuller and those boys Derby they locked down
Speaker 1: Simmons as well. They locked down out there, and they
Speaker 1: made it hard for our receivers. They had a lot
Speaker 1: of windows out there that it was a tough contested.
Speaker 1: If it was a catcher would have been contested. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, they had a strong secondary. And I don't
Speaker 1: think I think you're right new Me. I don't think
Speaker 1: we're gonna go against for the rest of the remaining
Speaker 1: of the regular season a secondary as strong as Denvers
Speaker 1: that all allowed him to stack the box like that
Speaker 1: and still be able to strap up on the back
Speaker 1: and listen, We'll listen in fairness to killing more in
Speaker 1: our offense, all right, we had a couple of plays
Speaker 1: where Cede Lamb was behind the defense and we missed it.
Speaker 1: We had dropped out Tony Pollard, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like we had some plays where we could have Those
Speaker 1: would have been huge plays for our offense, all right,
Speaker 1: and it would have been it would have turned the game.
Speaker 1: And we just, like I said, we for some reason,
Speaker 1: the way that we went out to the game, I
Speaker 1: think our focus was a little off. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how you really put it into words, but something just
Speaker 1: wasn't clicking with us. But the opportunities for us to
Speaker 1: make those plays, as good as their defense did play,
Speaker 1: they were still out there. We just we just didn't
Speaker 1: capitalize on those plays. And that hadn't happened for us
Speaker 1: all season. We had usually been the team who we
Speaker 1: capitalized on every opportunity that we made, and I think
Speaker 1: that punt just was a sign for how the game
Speaker 1: was going for us that punp block where that's an
Speaker 1: opportunity that we capitalized on and it just did not
Speaker 1: fall away, And it was you know, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is this is How would you feel? D Mac?
Speaker 1: You know we both did it. We both was a
Speaker 1: special team of them, Jody meeting, so we know how
Speaker 1: it was. But how would you feel if that was
Speaker 1: the if you if you were in right shoes, you know,
Speaker 1: we got a block punt, it went over the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, you touched it, which means they get the
Speaker 1: ball back. Would you feel like, man, you know, I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta play better or is it just like man,
Speaker 1: I didn't even know that rule. I was just going
Speaker 1: out there trying to make a play. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: in his situation, I don't think that that. I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody would have had the wherewithal to say, hey,
Speaker 1: that ball actually crossed a line of scrimmage, let me
Speaker 1: not touch it. Was literally a bank Bank player like
Speaker 1: no you him him being on the field. I don't
Speaker 1: think he could have looked in the sideline to see
Speaker 1: that the line of skimmers right there, so he shouldn't
Speaker 1: touch the ball. So I don't feel bad. And when
Speaker 1: I'm in the meeting room, I don't think Joe, they's
Speaker 1: gonna make me feel bad either, because that is a
Speaker 1: Bank Bay play and also our whole entire team play bad.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make a play, all right, and it
Speaker 1: just didn't fall that way. You know, this is not
Speaker 1: the same as dropping the pass, roughing the kicker. This
Speaker 1: is not that. This is one of those flukey moments
Speaker 1: where it's like, dang, who knew? Who knew? We all
Speaker 1: texted each other in the group like, oh man, awful,
Speaker 1: Like who knew? I didn't know that? Right and right shoes,
Speaker 1: let me get that rock. Yeah, we still got it.
Speaker 1: Because because it usually applies to a deep punt or
Speaker 1: a field goal where it closes a line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: but it's usually way like it's far. It doesn't usually
Speaker 1: happen that close as I bouncing up into your hands
Speaker 1: like that was just you know, just just a bad
Speaker 1: chain of events for for us on punt at that
Speaker 1: for a punt return at that time. All right, let's
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Speaker 1: used to play the game, former undrafted free agent Santi's
Speaker 1: Barry Church and Danny mccraig. Jerry Jones saying that DeMarcus
Speaker 1: Ware I should said, DeMarcus Lawrence is twenty one day
Speaker 1: window has not begun yet, so I should say. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said it so not expected to be in his
Speaker 1: twenty one day practice window this week, so he's not
Speaker 1: gonna play against the Falcons. But Michael gall expected to
Speaker 1: play against the Falcons. Tristan Hills to tackle we could
Speaker 1: see him playing two guys coming back into the lineup. Guys,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about that? Well, I definitely want
Speaker 1: to see what Michael Gallup got coming because we saw
Speaker 1: what said Wilson was able to do out there, and
Speaker 1: he proved that he's more than just a gadget guy.
Speaker 1: Like you know, in the past, I thought of him
Speaker 1: is just you know, a reverse guy. Kind of give
Speaker 1: him a pitch, you know, he got he can throw.
Speaker 1: He got a little arm on it, so he could
Speaker 1: throw the ball a little bit even with some reverses,
Speaker 1: some slants and stuff like that. But he's proven to
Speaker 1: be more than that. He's a good route runner, he
Speaker 1: has good hands, and he has a good connection with
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. We saw that on that fourth and four
Speaker 1: in New England when all options were took taken it
Speaker 1: was fourth down for the game. He went to say Wilson,
Speaker 1: who came through with the big clutch catch. So this
Speaker 1: guy has definitely proven to be a valuable piece out
Speaker 1: there for this offense. I think Michael Gallop overall is
Speaker 1: a better player and I'm definitely want to see how
Speaker 1: his impact is going to have on the rest of
Speaker 1: his trio. Receivers. Will it open up more looks for
Speaker 1: his Ceedee Lamb, will open up more looks for a
Speaker 1: Mark Cooper. But also it's just tough because what do
Speaker 1: you do with say said Wilson in that instance. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's done a great job in the slot. He's done
Speaker 1: a great job of playing off of those two big
Speaker 1: time receivers on the outside, and we haven't seen Gallup
Speaker 1: playing a slot that much, like he's mostly an outside receiver.
Speaker 1: So I'm not saying, well that mess up the funk sway,
Speaker 1: but will it you know, will it clog things up
Speaker 1: out there? Because you know, Ceedee Lamb, he can play inside, outside,
Speaker 1: but the more you move him around is harder for
Speaker 1: teams to double team him. So I think that was
Speaker 1: a nice piece for said Wilson to come in there
Speaker 1: and kind of get the slot duties there so he
Speaker 1: can play on the outside and teams don't have a
Speaker 1: good chance to double team them all like that. So
Speaker 1: I want to see what Michael Gallup can bring to
Speaker 1: this table. Tristan Hill, you know, hey, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you get a good rotational piece. I'm more excited to
Speaker 1: wait for Nevill Gallimore to come back, But I see
Speaker 1: Triston Hills. Like me, it's basically a rotational piece. I
Speaker 1: think Diggi Zuoa has proven that he's a better defensive
Speaker 1: tackle than Tristan Hill has been. So to me, it's
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup. I'm really interested to see what he can
Speaker 1: bring to this table come Sunday. Yeah, listen, my man,
Speaker 1: my man Church brought the fung says it's a speech. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, I think this is easy. M I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see Michael Gallup. Um. Kind of different from
Speaker 1: how Church thinks about it, because I think Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: is is our true deep threat. Um. He's usually that
Speaker 1: guy who's making those deep catches. And I think Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb is more dangerous, like you said, when he's able
Speaker 1: to move around. I think the same for Mark Cooper.
Speaker 1: Now that you see that Cede Lamber can also play
Speaker 1: on the outside, him and Mark Cooper are interchangeable. Which
Speaker 1: one do you want to put in the slot? Which
Speaker 1: one do you want to put outside? Make defenses figure
Speaker 1: out how they're gonna double team and who they're gonna
Speaker 1: double team. And oh, by the way, now you got
Speaker 1: your deep threat back right. Those deep balls that Ceedee
Speaker 1: lamb that were missing last week. Those are the ones
Speaker 1: that Michael Gallup has been catching and you've seen them
Speaker 1: doing it so and I think he's gonna come back
Speaker 1: hungry as long as he's one hundred percent healthy. I'm
Speaker 1: really really excited to see him back in this offense.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna bring a new level to us.
Speaker 1: And shout out to Tristan Hill. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be okay, Gator roll if he's continued to get better
Speaker 1: like he was at the last training camp and he
Speaker 1: gets away from that Gator role, I think he'll be okay.
Speaker 1: And you know, based off our run defense played last week,
Speaker 1: we can use we can use some help, So hopefully
Speaker 1: that turns out to be good. But I'm really excited
Speaker 1: to see Michael Gallop back in the offense. Yeah, Michael
Speaker 1: Gallo's gonna be extremely hungry out there. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a guy who missed so many weeks out there,
Speaker 1: he's seen said Wilson ball out. He's in a contract, yees,
Speaker 1: so he knows he's gonna have to when he gets
Speaker 1: back in these opportunities, he's gonna have to take advantage
Speaker 1: of him. So think it right, man, that Michael Gallop
Speaker 1: coming back, it should provide, you know, the dividends for
Speaker 1: this offense. But I'm more interested to see how he
Speaker 1: comes back and how he responds to that injury, and
Speaker 1: can he become a better football player. You know, I'd
Speaker 1: like to see Triston Hill add something to this defense.
Speaker 1: We saw how the Broncos had forty one rushes and
Speaker 1: and and they're two running backs went wild on the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defensive There's some more help that you can have
Speaker 1: a fairly remember bring Rban rban and has been out
Speaker 1: missing some time here. I think this can ultimately, as
Speaker 1: I start to look toward the December January run, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys team can be able to make Having as many
Speaker 1: guys which can be in a rotational atmosphere upfront for
Speaker 1: this defense, I think will help one thing I wanted
Speaker 1: to talk about. We can even dive into it more,
Speaker 1: but at least wanted to start in the conversation. Today's
Speaker 1: you guys are former players, how do you feel about
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley and seeing his situation where he stepped away
Speaker 1: from football to deal with mental health. With Julio Jones
Speaker 1: being gone, so many people thought that Calvin Ridley was
Speaker 1: going to step into a superstar status role this year,
Speaker 1: but he has taken some time away to work on
Speaker 1: himself and deal with his own issues. Danny, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give him some props because you know us as us
Speaker 1: as football players, we've been doing this our entire life,
Speaker 1: all right. So you see a lot of guys who
Speaker 1: retire and they cannot find a way to stay away
Speaker 1: from the from the game, and then when they are
Speaker 1: separated from the game, that they're not able to do
Speaker 1: anything else. So you see, sometimes that can go really
Speaker 1: really bad for him. Yeah, So the fact that he
Speaker 1: can look at himself in the mirror and say, I
Speaker 1: need to step away from the game. Takes some time
Speaker 1: away from this so I could work on myself. I
Speaker 1: think that takes a lot of a lot of heart.
Speaker 1: I think it takes a lot of courage for him
Speaker 1: to be able to do so. So come back right
Speaker 1: right that because football is just one part of your life,
Speaker 1: all right. You got a long you got a longer
Speaker 1: life to live when it's over with. So make sure
Speaker 1: that your mind and your body are in the right
Speaker 1: place to continue to be there for your family and
Speaker 1: friends more than it is for you to you know,
Speaker 1: play your five or six years, you know, in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So shout out to him for doing that and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, praying for them. Yeah, I definitely gotta give
Speaker 1: him a shout on this one because you know, you know,
Speaker 1: playing football, all we're todd is, Oh, you're not hurt,
Speaker 1: your masculine, your a warrior. You don't need to show
Speaker 1: your feelings like that. You know, you'd go out there
Speaker 1: and forget all that it's all about football, but like
Speaker 1: you're right, football is just a small portion of your life.
Speaker 1: And then for him to go out there and let
Speaker 1: everybody know and kind of put his emotions and kind
Speaker 1: of be his vulnerabilities out there for everybody to know,
Speaker 1: it takes extreme courage to do that. I mean, he
Speaker 1: sat there and he realized that he couldn't give his
Speaker 1: team one hundred percent. You know, his mind wasn't in
Speaker 1: the area. He was mentally checked out, and he needed
Speaker 1: to focus on himself a little bit so he can
Speaker 1: become a better guy, so he can be a better
Speaker 1: guy for his football team. And like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: that takes extremely a lot of courage because you know
Speaker 1: that locker room can't be brutal, and we're taught to
Speaker 1: never show emotion or never show any type of weakness.
Speaker 1: And for him to go out there and say, look, guys,
Speaker 1: you know I'm dealing with some things. I need this
Speaker 1: to clear my mind before I'm able to get back
Speaker 1: and give you guys my all. It takes a lot
Speaker 1: of courage. And shout out to him for that. So
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley fantastic player, a guy I thought was gonna
Speaker 1: have a really breakout year, stepping away from mental health issues,
Speaker 1: and I hope he can find the piece he's looking for.
Speaker 1: We saw Lane Johnson offensive line with the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: step away the same thing, trying to deal with mental health,
Speaker 1: and so I'm with you, guys, this is about your life.
Speaker 1: It's not just about football. And hopefully Ridley feels the
Speaker 1: support from his own team. Yes, because you guys were
Speaker 1: in that room. You know how. You know how some
Speaker 1: coaches treated guys if they felt like you were injured
Speaker 1: or you couldn't help them. Some of these coaches wouldn't
Speaker 1: even look at players and they act like they didn't exist.
Speaker 1: So hopefully that young man feels some support from from
Speaker 1: his teammates. Yep. Wait, and I want to add one
Speaker 1: thing outside of my man Ridley, because I got to
Speaker 1: going on. I couldn't let this go. I couldn't let
Speaker 1: this guy. Okay, let me tell you something. You were
Speaker 1: talking about what they're gonna do, and said Wilson technical Holly,
Speaker 1: Terrence still all right, they're gonna have a party, you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm saying, their own little party in the back,
Speaker 1: talking about how they feel about about being in there, improving,
Speaker 1: improving that they could play in the game. And then
Speaker 1: they ended up losing their spot somehow said a little
Speaker 1: different because Michael Gallup got injured. But they both gonna
Speaker 1: have some bones to pick. And it's a bad precedent
Speaker 1: to start in your locker room knowing that you can
Speaker 1: do everything you're supposed to do, be in the right place,
Speaker 1: do all the right things, and still not be put
Speaker 1: in the position to succeed. And Terrence still wasn't put
Speaker 1: in that position. But what about said was do you
Speaker 1: They said Wilson deserves to being a spot. I even
Speaker 1: know Gallup he got the spot that hurt. No, Gallup
Speaker 1: got hurt is different. Okay, Gallop got hurt as different. Okay,
Speaker 1: Leo Collins hurt mself. Yeah, he messed up and then
Speaker 1: Gallup got hurt, so he deserves the chance to chance
Speaker 1: get get his spot. Can't get Wally pipp But yeah,
Speaker 1: him and Terry still they're gonna be they have this conversation.
Speaker 1: We're talking back. Then the next picture you're gonna see
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys players out and about is gonna be
Speaker 1: them and Nicka SAMs. Can you believe I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what they I know how you feel. I know how
Speaker 1: you feel. An take a seat back, let's talk about
Speaker 1: this man. This has been the players Lounge on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1: We will end it on that. Any McCray, Barry Church,
Speaker 1: our new restructure, Chris being well, Scott Aaron, everybody who's
Speaker 1: been a part of this, we appreciate. We'll check with
Speaker 1: you all Wednesday as we get ready for another episode
Speaker 1: of Survivor forty one with that guy Danny McCray a
Speaker 1: part of the Castle. We'll talk to you late, everybody.
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