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Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, January fourth, twenty twenty two, Season seventeen,
Speaker 1: Episode number ninety. Welcome to the latest edition of The
Speaker 1: Break Life INSBBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. David Nick
Speaker 1: here with me ambers out today Nicholas Star with a
Speaker 1: ninety What you got the best you got? Yeah, they
Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of ninety. They didn't have a
Speaker 1: lot of nineties in like in the eighties and seventies.
Speaker 1: They really didn't start doing ninety too late. About Jay Ratliffe,
Speaker 1: it was ninety. I like that. It's a pretty good player,
Speaker 1: scariest player. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jay Ratliffe. I don't know
Speaker 1: what y'all were talking about upstairs. I guess it was
Speaker 1: on the air from the previous show about fight about
Speaker 1: a grizzly bear and a gorilla idea. What they were talking.
Speaker 1: I don't know either. But Jay Ratliffe I put him
Speaker 1: in there, and I mean like he had one scariest
Speaker 1: players I've ever seen. Yeah, yeah, and he kind of
Speaker 1: helps if you're playing defensive tackle, like I kind of
Speaker 1: want you to be scary, right, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think Jay Ratliffe was the most scariest ninety though. Who was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm agreeing with you. Yeah, that didn't take long. I
Speaker 1: didn't cover him. Hey, Ratliffe scared the hell out of me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Lonzo Spellman was big. It was big. You remember the
Speaker 1: time in the on the airplane, Nick, Yeah, that was funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lonzo Spellman and Chris and I are we both saw this.
Speaker 1: We were sitting in the back back in the days.
Speaker 1: We were sitting very back. Spellman literally with didn't He
Speaker 1: was sitting down in his seat and he on the
Speaker 1: plane and he opened the door. But I mean he
Speaker 1: opened like the what's it called the cabin overhead had been.
Speaker 1: He opened it sitting down and closed it. Now he
Speaker 1: turned out his bag, went through his bag, put it
Speaker 1: back in and closed it without getting out. Never got up.
Speaker 1: So everybody out there listening, like, get catch a mental
Speaker 1: image of this. You're sitting in your seat. Someone reaches
Speaker 1: up to the overhead, opened it. You know, the little
Speaker 1: thing you pull up. Opening it is the easiest part.
Speaker 1: Then grab your bag, pull it down without it dropping
Speaker 1: on your head, look through it, put it back up closed.
Speaker 1: The overhead met that guy pretty good. Not only is
Speaker 1: he big, Like that tells you how long his arms were.
Speaker 1: He was in the top percentile in his combat. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing he was in the window seat. OK, that would
Speaker 1: have been a whole different level. I was a spellman boy.
Speaker 1: He had some crazy and you know, it's sad because
Speaker 1: he went through some some things and he was it
Speaker 1: was he was and maybe he still is and you know,
Speaker 1: he just there were some incidents there. It was tough
Speaker 1: for him. Um and the cowboy. I mean there was
Speaker 1: times where they couldn't get him off the field. One
Speaker 1: time he would not sub remember, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: the recubon tells the story like they were like, good,
Speaker 1: go go in there for for Zoe. And he goes
Speaker 1: in there and he's like, I'm not coming out. So
Speaker 1: then he runs out and the coaches are yelling at him.
Speaker 1: He's like, what do you want me to do? Right?
Speaker 1: Why don't y'all go get him off the field? How
Speaker 1: about that? There was the time where the trainers went
Speaker 1: into the locker room in Tampa Bay. Where's he's not?
Speaker 1: He's on in the pregame warm ups? Where is he?
Speaker 1: They go in there and he's sitting in his locker
Speaker 1: with his jersey on backwards. His jersey's on backwards, and
Speaker 1: he's sitting in his locker, and they're like, I don't
Speaker 1: know how to help this guy. That's tough man. Yeah
Speaker 1: he was. He was a good football player for Trump.
Speaker 1: Yet some things he was having to work with and
Speaker 1: deal with. But about I said, tank and yesterday eighty nine,
Speaker 1: I was gonna go with Randy Williams Randall Williams. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I do remember Randy Williams. What was three point how
Speaker 1: many second point? Five seconds? Five seconds? Her touchdown? Eagles
Speaker 1: went on sidekick, Williams got it, rand it in for
Speaker 1: a touchdown. I just think the clock operator was eating
Speaker 1: a hot dog, wasn't wasn't ready for it? And but
Speaker 1: either way, now correct me here because you have a
Speaker 1: better memory. Obviously. Um. The reason why that was really
Speaker 1: interesting was wasn't it the year before when the Eagles
Speaker 1: started the game with a an on side kick and
Speaker 1: they got it. And then the next year they tried
Speaker 1: it again. He recovers it and runs it back. Is
Speaker 1: that what happened? No, but that's explains your story is better.
Speaker 1: But it was three years later, three years later, two
Speaker 1: thousand the Pickle Juice game to start the season, they
Speaker 1: went on sidekick, they got it. They beat the Cowboys
Speaker 1: forty one seventeen whatever. Terrible games, one hundred, probably the
Speaker 1: worst game in my time. Covering the two thousand and
Speaker 1: three they tried it again on site kick to start
Speaker 1: the game and Randall Williams got it and ran it
Speaker 1: in for a touchdown. And it goes three years later,
Speaker 1: three years later, same thing. Exactly, we've already established, same thing.
Speaker 1: You're now your perception of time is skew. I just
Speaker 1: put it all together, like, put it all together. They've
Speaker 1: you been here? What? Four years? Five? Yeah? Exactly? I
Speaker 1: have the memories. I just don't know where they all fit.
Speaker 1: Do you think Dave's been here? How many seasons is
Speaker 1: this for a day? If I had to guess seven,
Speaker 1: it's not awful. Where are you nine? How many of
Speaker 1: you think Amber has been here? Oh? God, twenty five.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, it's just that on or Ollam listening. No,
Speaker 1: I would I would guess right around the same time
Speaker 1: as a little bit lessan you probably like seven seven,
Speaker 1: three years after me. I think it's about six. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Well, Rob Ever Riveting Radio Radio. They
Speaker 1: love it, Dave. Every time we do it and you
Speaker 1: say that people on Twitter comeback. I can say, we
Speaker 1: like these old stories for some people. For every person
Speaker 1: that does that, there's somebody in their car right now
Speaker 1: that's just screaming at us to shut up. Cowpoys. Play
Speaker 1: the Eagles this week. They're gonna play with some of
Speaker 1: their guys. That's what they're saying. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: they really really believe that, but they say right now
Speaker 1: that they're gonna play these guys, and they may treat
Speaker 1: this game like the third preseason game. All right, in
Speaker 1: and out, let's go. So let's get into that that
Speaker 1: was on the rundown, but it's farther down. But we'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and jump into it now since you did it.
Speaker 1: All right, So, Mike McCarthy says yesterday, we need to
Speaker 1: stay in a rhythm. This is our first time in
Speaker 1: the playoffs together. We want to go in there as
Speaker 1: strong as possible with momentum and play style. My question
Speaker 1: for you guys is do you think it's important to
Speaker 1: use the Philly game to build momentum into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: because I don't think they really have any right now. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know where was the momentum on Sunday. I
Speaker 1: get it, but I'm asking you the question. No, I
Speaker 1: had four game winning streak with the best win they've
Speaker 1: had all year against Washington, and then you wouldn't have
Speaker 1: known any of that when they played the game. That's
Speaker 1: my big thing. I like, I don't want to say
Speaker 1: that you're wrong. That stuff all sounds great, but they
Speaker 1: just showed me that it doesn't really account for all
Speaker 1: that much. At the end of the day, when you kick,
Speaker 1: when you kick the ball off, especially if you're playing
Speaker 1: a good team, and say what you will. The Eagles
Speaker 1: have turned it around impressively this year. Honestly, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of that's who they've played in the second
Speaker 1: half of the season. But even if they're great, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna be playing anybody. They've got twelve guys on
Speaker 1: the COVID list and they're on a short week, and
Speaker 1: they know that they're gonna have to get ready to
Speaker 1: play a good team in the playoffs. Not just to
Speaker 1: be clear the expectations, the majority of them probably will
Speaker 1: come back if they're symptom. If they're having symptoms, number one,
Speaker 1: if those symptoms are lessening by Friday, they can be
Speaker 1: back to play on Saturday because of the interpose new protocol,
Speaker 1: that's the protocol if they're lesson Basically, basically, here's how
Speaker 1: the protocol goes. You have five days where you have
Speaker 1: to be quarantined, but if your symptoms have lessened, then
Speaker 1: you can go back and you can play as long
Speaker 1: as you're not have like fever. But if you're if
Speaker 1: you if you are basically the way they said it was,
Speaker 1: if your your symptoms aren't lessening. So for example, um,
Speaker 1: if you've got a cough and your cough is better
Speaker 1: on Friday than it was on Thursday, in you're okay
Speaker 1: to go back and play. Okay, So if you had
Speaker 1: explosive diarrhea and now it's just diarrhea, it's a symptom
Speaker 1: of COVID. I think it is. Yeah, I think it
Speaker 1: is that What is going I don't know where, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just think I just think that it's
Speaker 1: so weird about lessening. It's lessening. Well, do you have
Speaker 1: a st throat kind of all right, you're in, you're in,
Speaker 1: You're good. That goes back to my even whatever the
Speaker 1: protocols are, though, like if let your Cox still feels
Speaker 1: kind of sick on Friday, even if he feels well
Speaker 1: enough to play, how many snaps are you gonna make
Speaker 1: him play? Like what you're gonna put him through that?
Speaker 1: In a game that really does Philly has less to
Speaker 1: play for than Dallas does. They're already in. They can't hang,
Speaker 1: they can't get higher than six. They're gonna they're gonna
Speaker 1: go play a division champion in the warm weather city,
Speaker 1: like they're either going to be in Tampa, La or Arizona.
Speaker 1: That so like it's not even like you can avoid
Speaker 1: a cold weather situation outside Dallas. Or can they play
Speaker 1: I don't they can't play Dallas. I thought that was
Speaker 1: the Philly if Dallas gets up to the to the
Speaker 1: third or you're right, it's okay, No, there are two
Speaker 1: scenarios where I think it's it's a long shot. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: okay again another indoor stadium, like they're just you're playing
Speaker 1: a good team indoors or in warm weather, like, they
Speaker 1: just don't have a lot to play for. And so
Speaker 1: even if some of these guys come back from covin,
Speaker 1: I sure, absolutely sure, Which goes back to my point that,
Speaker 1: like I mean, I don't want to sit everybody. You
Speaker 1: can't sit everybody anyway. You only have forty eight. That's
Speaker 1: and I love I love Mike McCarthy's transparency. They're just
Speaker 1: sort of breaking it down for maybe people that don't
Speaker 1: think about it that minutely. You only have forty eight players.
Speaker 1: If you just sit eleven starters, then you're just decimating
Speaker 1: the rest of the game in terms of like who's
Speaker 1: got to do special teams, who's got to play snaps?
Speaker 1: Unless you put twelve players on COVID. Sure, oh I
Speaker 1: thought about five people up. I'm just saying you could
Speaker 1: definitely do that. You throw all your practice squad guys
Speaker 1: up to play this game, and then so this is
Speaker 1: a week, Well, maybe you do your test on Thursday.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I'm saying maybe that the eagle because
Speaker 1: because you get COVID replacements for all of When I
Speaker 1: saw the announcement, that flashed through my brain, like I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to accuse them of doing that, but
Speaker 1: I was, like a lot of veteran you know, Rodney
Speaker 1: McCloud's on the list, Fletcher Cox is on the list.
Speaker 1: You never know, you never know, you never know. But
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just the offense needs to play
Speaker 1: some snaps. I get that you definitely don't want them
Speaker 1: just absolutely taking the week off. But I have a
Speaker 1: hard time buying this momentum thing. When they had all
Speaker 1: the momentum in the world on their side going into
Speaker 1: Sunday and they looked as disjointed as they ever have.
Speaker 1: I thought about this this morning. The NFL schedule makers
Speaker 1: keep doing this and it's not working. So you know,
Speaker 1: every year we look at the schedule and we see
Speaker 1: this last game of the year at Philly or whatever.
Speaker 1: You're like, well, this game could be I can remember
Speaker 1: three now in the last ten years, and they haven't
Speaker 1: meant anything, and it's been bad football every time, and
Speaker 1: this one's gonna be the fourth. I mean, remember when
Speaker 1: Stephen McGee had to play and they had wrapped up
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys won that game. And then and then
Speaker 1: in twenty and sixteen, Mark Sanchez played and Romo played
Speaker 1: and everyone sat and it boosted the Eagles to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl for the next year. That's what they say.
Speaker 1: Seventeen is one of the worst sketball games I've ever
Speaker 1: watched in my life. And it's and anytime the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are shutting out a team through three quarters and you
Speaker 1: start Todd Archer looked over and starts flipping through like
Speaker 1: once a last time I had to shut out. It's
Speaker 1: like six nothing over the Eagles in two thou seventeen
Speaker 1: six nothing Bryce Butler's count. Bryce Butler scored that touchdown
Speaker 1: like pretty late, right like it was late in the game,
Speaker 1: bad game, and Dan Bailey missed the extra point if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly, that's why it was six. Yeah, Bryce
Speaker 1: didn't score until the it was early fourth, but so
Speaker 1: we didn't get our first heard first score until the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Bailey misses the extra point. Wow, it wasn't
Speaker 1: ninety nine yard drive. I don't remember that. I don't either,
Speaker 1: But they they were, they were the good team. They
Speaker 1: had already wrapped everything up, and so here we are
Speaker 1: both teams kind of wrapped things up. That That game
Speaker 1: was the epitome of Jason Garrett saying I'll be damned
Speaker 1: if I'm going eight and eight, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1: Because they finished nine and seven, they were out of
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they had lost the Seattle the week before,
Speaker 1: and Jason, Jason Garrett was like, you're not putting another
Speaker 1: eight and eight on my resume? Screw you guy. Yet
Speaker 1: not until not until eight years later. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's let's go ahead. Oh, actually, we'll know the question
Speaker 1: for you guys on that now. Knowing that and Jerry
Speaker 1: said it, Stephen said it, Mike has said it. They
Speaker 1: all expect they're going to play, they say play to win,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, but we all know that
Speaker 1: in this kind of scenario, there still might be situations
Speaker 1: where you look at certain players and you like, you know,
Speaker 1: they need a week to not play because of injuries
Speaker 1: that they're trying to nurse. Who are some of those guys?
Speaker 1: Who are some of the guys you could still if
Speaker 1: they're still saying that they're playing to win, that you
Speaker 1: could see them say, hey, this is a week that
Speaker 1: we really do need to sit this guy. I would
Speaker 1: love to sit both of the running backs. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's going to happen, especially if Dak's gonna play, Like,
Speaker 1: do you send Corey Clement and maybe Edo Smith out
Speaker 1: there to protect Dak Prescott. I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: at the Flemino's Eagles. Yeah, good point. At the very least,
Speaker 1: I would like to see a limited role for Zeke
Speaker 1: and Tony Pollard, like just get them off their feed,
Speaker 1: give them a week to get right. Tyrant Smith is
Speaker 1: another one, going back to the COVID thing. No idea
Speaker 1: how severe his symptoms are, but maybe give Kean O'Neill
Speaker 1: a week to just not be out there running around
Speaker 1: short of breath or whatever might be bothering him. Are
Speaker 1: we sure about Keian O'Neill even being available? No, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the new rules are with with players
Speaker 1: that are vaccinated or unvaccinated or whatever. Well, for unvacced
Speaker 1: it's the same, right, so, well I thought it was.
Speaker 1: Is it not five? Is it even for unvaccinated? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because Carson Wentz played, Yeah, I think it's five for
Speaker 1: all players. I think for all players it's five. And
Speaker 1: then it's a matter of what are your symptoms, like
Speaker 1: do you have still have symptoms or the symptoms symptoms lessening?
Speaker 1: Like it's that kind of stuff that's the equation. Now,
Speaker 1: so there's I would assume he has a possibility of
Speaker 1: being back unless he's like really experiencing some some really
Speaker 1: tough symptoms, I would assume he has a possibility to
Speaker 1: be back. DeMarcus Lawrence, Like, again, that's a one not
Speaker 1: somebody that you're just gonna take out of the game.
Speaker 1: But not all of these guys. I want everybody to play.
Speaker 1: I just don't see the benefit of playing like seventy five.
Speaker 1: Do you think in twenty eighteen when they went up
Speaker 1: to New York in a game that they'd already wrapped
Speaker 1: things up and Zeke didn't play, but but Dad did,
Speaker 1: And that was one of those games where you know,
Speaker 1: they rallied to win thirty six thirty five, and there
Speaker 1: was a lot of people that think that that helped
Speaker 1: them the next week, at least for Dak. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: winning that game against Seattle that that was one where
Speaker 1: I think momentum maybe did help because they been Dak
Speaker 1: drove down and they wanted the great game. Yeah, one
Speaker 1: of the best throws of his career. Basically, I get it.
Speaker 1: I like I said, I don't think it's silly. I
Speaker 1: guess I just make light of it because you didn't
Speaker 1: see it in practice at all the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: The momentum didn't help them giving them a chance to
Speaker 1: play and game plan against an opponent. Again, this is
Speaker 1: a team that's going on the playoffs. You can't just
Speaker 1: completely write the Eagles off as a bad opponent. I get, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's value in that, and that's why I do think
Speaker 1: they should play. Isn't momentum too, It's not just a
Speaker 1: result because obviously you look at a game where you
Speaker 1: score fifty six points and you're like, man, that was
Speaker 1: that must have been a really great game. But there
Speaker 1: was still some of the same lingering things that we've
Speaker 1: seen from this offense that weren't quite right that have persisted, right,
Speaker 1: So it is momentum more maybe figuring out how to
Speaker 1: get some of those things going. How do you get
Speaker 1: more rhythm in your offense? How do you get more
Speaker 1: can you sustain drives without killing yourselves with penalties? Like,
Speaker 1: maybe that's more of the momentum that you're looking for
Speaker 1: that you can get maybe out of this game that
Speaker 1: you hadn't gotten in the last I don't know how
Speaker 1: many weeks. How about the benefit of giving your workhorse
Speaker 1: running backs who were beat up eight days to not
Speaker 1: get pounded. I mean that that could factor into that stuff.
Speaker 1: I think if I could fix anything with this Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense right now, it would be the running game, just
Speaker 1: to get it to a level of competency where you
Speaker 1: feel like you can average north of four yards a
Speaker 1: carry and flirt with one twenty one thirty, maybe even
Speaker 1: one fifty yards on the day. I mean that again, Like,
Speaker 1: I hate to take credit away from Dak because I
Speaker 1: do think he is good enough to carry it. But
Speaker 1: you don't want him to, you know what I mean? Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 1: go ahead, No, you don't want them to. Like this
Speaker 1: team is at its best when they are when it's
Speaker 1: pick your poison, when it's fine clog our throwing lanes.
Speaker 1: We're gonna run for five and a half yards to
Speaker 1: carry on you stack the box, We're gonna throw it
Speaker 1: all over the field. They haven't had that on a
Speaker 1: consistent basis since the bye week. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: our first break when we come back. I don't want
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about that. I actually want
Speaker 1: to dive a little bit deeper into that which you
Speaker 1: think has been the biggest problem for this offense. The
Speaker 1: running game, or the passing game, and which do you
Speaker 1: think has a better chance of getting back on track.
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Speaker 1: of the Break Life NESTUBC Mortgage Studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about the offense. I want
Speaker 1: to dive into the running game. Passing game is two
Speaker 1: different parts. We've talked a lot about DAK and the
Speaker 1: struggles of their passing game. DAK, the receivers, the offensive
Speaker 1: line keeping people off DAK, all that stuff, right. I
Speaker 1: noticed something interesting though, when I started looking at the
Speaker 1: rushing totals for the Cowboys this year against what I
Speaker 1: think we all agree and you can correct me if
Speaker 1: you think this is wrong, but against what I think
Speaker 1: of the three toughest opponents the Cowboys have played, Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Arizona. They have had their three worst rushing
Speaker 1: performances against Tampa Bay. They only had sixty yards on
Speaker 1: the ground against Kansas City. They had eighty two against Arizona.
Speaker 1: They had forty five not very good days on the
Speaker 1: ground against those teams. New England another one, but they
Speaker 1: were able to get one hundred and twenty two yards.
Speaker 1: Pretty decent day of rushing that day. My question for
Speaker 1: you is when you think about what they're doing right
Speaker 1: now offensively throwing the ball, and then what they're doing
Speaker 1: running the ball, which is a bigger concern for you,
Speaker 1: the rushing game or the passing game. The run game
Speaker 1: easily without a question. I mean even Sunday was the
Speaker 1: was It wasn't great, Like Dak had some accuracy issues.
Speaker 1: There were some drop balls there, I mean, miscommunication, all
Speaker 1: that good stuff. But like it's not like they couldn't
Speaker 1: throw the ball. And that's it's the classic case of
Speaker 1: the and they keep saying it because kes he keep
Speaker 1: doing it. They're they're clogging the back end, they're keeping
Speaker 1: a lid on it. And like every week we asked
Speaker 1: the same questions because every week the Cowboys can't shake
Speaker 1: him out of those looks. I mean, Dak average six
Speaker 1: yards per attempt, which isn't not good, but it's passable.
Speaker 1: I mean Kyler was at seven, so even that's low.
Speaker 1: I mean, this just wasn't a game where you were
Speaker 1: winging the ball all over the yard. Um He's had
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, got a rating of one oh six. If
Speaker 1: he doesn't fumble there, it's probably even better. Like the
Speaker 1: passing offense, and the week before obviously speaks for itself.
Speaker 1: He did whatever he wanted to as a passer against Washington.
Speaker 1: I know, I don't like it's been fine. It has
Speaker 1: not been complimented by a worthwhile running game. That is
Speaker 1: the problem. I think teams are kind of on to
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore a little bit. I think that there they've
Speaker 1: figured out his tendencies on on what what he likes
Speaker 1: to call in certain situations. UM and I think I
Speaker 1: think one of the biggest problems is first down and running.
Speaker 1: They they're trying to establish on first down, and there's
Speaker 1: just too many times it's second and nine second and
Speaker 1: eight second and ten and then that changes everything. I
Speaker 1: think that that they're just not getting a good feel
Speaker 1: there about when to run and when to kind of
Speaker 1: catch teams in these looks and when it when it's
Speaker 1: first and tend and they're running that they're just not
Speaker 1: having success. I think it's setting them back. Do you
Speaker 1: think part of that is And they've talked about this
Speaker 1: that teams are basically and they actually the Cardinals talked
Speaker 1: about it after the game. Buddha Baker was talking about it.
Speaker 1: Um just throwing so many different disguised looks at the
Speaker 1: Cowboys to where they really can't adapt at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. They got to run it and they and
Speaker 1: they got I'm sorry, they got to run their play,
Speaker 1: whatever the play is. They really adapt and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we see this look, let's change it. Because at the
Speaker 1: moment they do that, the disguise changes and now you've
Speaker 1: got something different. And I was watching the safeties in
Speaker 1: this game. They did a bunch of I'll show you
Speaker 1: too high and at the last minute, somebody's shooting down,
Speaker 1: or I'll show you that one guy's down and at
Speaker 1: the last minute, somebody's shooting out. Like they did that
Speaker 1: throughout the entire game. And I think that may be
Speaker 1: part of it. And they tried to use tempo to
Speaker 1: help them. That's not something you can do when you're
Speaker 1: not effective at actually keeping the ball going. So Dallas
Speaker 1: just really doesn't have an answer for it right now. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, and the greatest quarterback of all time in
Speaker 1: my opinion, and everyone will change. I mean, but I'm
Speaker 1: talking about just to go win one game, pay pay Manning.
Speaker 1: To me, it's the greatest quarterback of all time in
Speaker 1: my opinion, but it's hard to say that with the rings.
Speaker 1: But I think he's one of the smartest quarterbacks to
Speaker 1: ever play. Watching him last night, did y'all watch him?
Speaker 1: It was absolutely gold by the way. I mean, Snoop
Speaker 1: Dogg is this That was awesome by the way, But
Speaker 1: I was watching the mask the Mavericks. You were was
Speaker 1: at the game, so, oh, mister Kyle was there, and
Speaker 1: so was Michael Parsons. We made a Michael Parson who's
Speaker 1: the first ruding Kyle in the same sentence, mister Kyle.
Speaker 1: Just in the same sentences Kyle and Michael Parson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were all all three of us were there, so
Speaker 1: it was good. Kyle said, you had better seats than him.
Speaker 1: Were you on the floor? It was pretty nice? E
Speaker 1: VP perks baby, it was pretty well. No, Literally, five
Speaker 1: o'clock yesterday evening, I get a phone call for my
Speaker 1: boss and he's like, you want to go to game
Speaker 1: I'm like, uh yeah, yea, So here we go. We're
Speaker 1: off in rolling. So nice. That's fun. That's Dallas in
Speaker 1: a nutshell right there is like where are the seats,
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, the acts really far away. The
Speaker 1: MAVs are kind of media oh courtside. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's go. You can't pass up that opportunity. Literally, you're
Speaker 1: sitting on the opponent's bitch like you're sitting there in
Speaker 1: there done the same thing. Awesome. Just saying if I
Speaker 1: told you they were second deck behind the basket, you
Speaker 1: might have been, like, I live. I'm guessing made that happen.
Speaker 1: You're guessing I would not have made that happen. If
Speaker 1: you're but if your boss says, hey, hey, let's go
Speaker 1: to the game, you're probably going, well, he's just like
Speaker 1: you want some tickets? Go? He was just like, you
Speaker 1: want the Yeah, no, I would have done the same thing.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that is that is a very Dallas experience.
Speaker 1: I'm a ticket snob. Yeah, I said, no doubt. I
Speaker 1: watched Alabama Cincinnati the other day and the fourth fourth
Speaker 1: deck up there, yea, and not the whole time going
Speaker 1: to the game. I was kind of like we'll see.
Speaker 1: I was just watching on the video board. I had
Speaker 1: a had a had a great time. It was I mean,
Speaker 1: it was a great seat. There's there's really not bad seat.
Speaker 1: I'm spoiled after working here. Yeah, Like I usually don't
Speaker 1: want to deal with traffic. I usually don't want to
Speaker 1: have to deal with security and lines. I don't want
Speaker 1: to deal with any of that stuff because we don't
Speaker 1: have to deal with it in our normal jobs. So
Speaker 1: going to a live game for me is not a
Speaker 1: real treat most of the time. This is a that
Speaker 1: was a treat like that. Yeah that is a MAV's run, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: killed him and we'll talk about self there. But I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm all of a sudden not as much of
Speaker 1: a Luca fan. How he complains so much, so much,
Speaker 1: it reminds me of Tim Duncan, Like that's what I
Speaker 1: hated about Tim Duncan, always complaining to the rest, not
Speaker 1: always well that's I don't know, that's Yeah, he does
Speaker 1: whine a lot, but that's just smart, like you gotta
Speaker 1: work for get it. It just kind of it kind
Speaker 1: of just bothers me. After There's there's like six plays
Speaker 1: that they've even found where he's doing it during the play.
Speaker 1: He's given up layups, he's given up, he's not even
Speaker 1: given up not play Because I'm not defending him. It's annoying.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like most of the good players in
Speaker 1: the NBA seem like they whined to the refs a lot. Well,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this quick little bit. Plays No, they
Speaker 1: played Nuggets. Here's an interesting little thing, and it may
Speaker 1: remind him of this team, the Cowboys. We were sitting
Speaker 1: there and we're listening to Popeye Jones because he was playing.
Speaker 1: He was the coach for Denver last night. I assume
Speaker 1: their coaches out on COVID. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what why he wasn't there, But they're in
Speaker 1: their huddle, and if you watch the game like they
Speaker 1: they were probably getting jobbed a little bit by the rest,
Speaker 1: Like you could say that they were like living. Their
Speaker 1: bench was going crazy because all these calls and misscalls.
Speaker 1: And at one point he's like, I know they're in
Speaker 1: there huddle. He's like, I know the refs are fffing us,
Speaker 1: but you gotta figure it out. And I'm thinking, yeah,
Speaker 1: here this is And by the way, this applies to
Speaker 1: my job. But the point is this is every team
Speaker 1: and every sport like you're gonna have games are you're
Speaker 1: gonna feel like the refs are against you. Like that's
Speaker 1: just a part of it, yea, and you gotta figure
Speaker 1: it out. I think his point was the same point
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys need to figure out some point, like
Speaker 1: stop complaining about that and you gotta figure it out.
Speaker 1: Just know what's a part of it. You know, when
Speaker 1: we were in Washington and we're sitting next to the
Speaker 1: stack crew and there's that one lady's job. Her only
Speaker 1: job is to say shotgun. Yeah, that's her only job.
Speaker 1: There are when you sit that close and you sit
Speaker 1: on how many coaches there are the annoying coaches are
Speaker 1: the ones behind the bench? Yes, those there's one guy's
Speaker 1: job is to wait for the shot clock to get
Speaker 1: down into like seven when you're on offense and then
Speaker 1: just yell it out the whole time, just six five.
Speaker 1: You know, like that's his whole job. It's just me
Speaker 1: and another job of Hey, that's six possessions in a
Speaker 1: row for so and so he needs, you know, he
Speaker 1: needs to come out. I mean, we were honestly convinced
Speaker 1: at one point that all those coaches over there were
Speaker 1: just screaming random things just to confuse people, because he
Speaker 1: was like, everybody's just saying crazy stuff, like oh, he
Speaker 1: stepped out and he was like three feet from the line,
Speaker 1: what are we talking about? But it's like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: crazy over there, but it's it was a really fun experience.
Speaker 1: But I missed snooping, okay, And so I totally said that.
Speaker 1: The reason why I said that is Peyton Manning actually
Speaker 1: talked about that last night and he said, when teams,
Speaker 1: when when when a safety you know, is sitting there
Speaker 1: like showing blitz, like you almost have to think the
Speaker 1: opposite of because you know that he's not gonna do
Speaker 1: it the whole time. So when they're showing that in
Speaker 1: your head and when you're before the snap, you know
Speaker 1: he's going to be back, it's almost the opposite of
Speaker 1: what you're seeing. And so but then I'm sure there's
Speaker 1: times when the guy sits there and then he does
Speaker 1: blitz or whatever. So it's all about a cat and
Speaker 1: mouse game a little bit. But if if you know,
Speaker 1: if Peyton Manning at times could be confused, then they
Speaker 1: all can be that. That was kind of my point
Speaker 1: to that but yeah, the Manning broadcast was just it
Speaker 1: was Rogers was great. He's always good on that good really,
Speaker 1: I mean, Goodell was like, it's one of the worst
Speaker 1: games I've watched this season, and they made it entertaining. Anyway,
Speaker 1: they're great. Call me coach again. Goodell said, yeah, the
Speaker 1: coach again. Yeah, Yeah, that wasn't the best guest. But
Speaker 1: but Snoop Snoop was he said. He said, I wish
Speaker 1: I was a Manning. He's like, can Yell adopt me? Rogers.
Speaker 1: Rogers did a whole thing about how because if you
Speaker 1: know anything about Pittsburgh, like they have a dialogue, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: language all their own. And he was like, if you
Speaker 1: can understand Mike McCarthy on the headset, you can understand
Speaker 1: and it's right. He's like he gets going. And it
Speaker 1: made me laugh because yeah, like even I understand him,
Speaker 1: but he's just he just he's that Pittsburgh guy, Like
Speaker 1: he just talks that way and it's hilarious. I love it. Yeah, there,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is a is a place where I mean everyone
Speaker 1: probably knows somebody from Pittsburgh, and it's it's different. I
Speaker 1: I've only been there a couple of times, but like
Speaker 1: it's like it seems like it's one of those places.
Speaker 1: This might be most hometowns or whatever, but like you
Speaker 1: could like get hit and you know, on the on
Speaker 1: the road and buy a car and get out and
Speaker 1: be like what the hell you get You're like, well,
Speaker 1: you're from Pittsburgh. From Pittsburgh, all right, let's work this
Speaker 1: out and all right, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 1: it just seems like they're just kind of a brotherhood
Speaker 1: of people in Pittsburgh. Yes, I get you, And that
Speaker 1: might be a Louisiana thing that might be. Just think
Speaker 1: it's probably everywhere like most places, I should most places
Speaker 1: where it's probably a kinship of yea from this area.
Speaker 1: I'm from this area. It's like you I get you
Speaker 1: because I know what you've gone through in all experience.
Speaker 1: I think most hometowns are like that, but like Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: maybe is ratcheted up a little bit. It's it's almost
Speaker 1: tribal with them, just like how socely protective And so
Speaker 1: why does McCarthy give Rich such a hard time because
Speaker 1: that's he's talked about He's talked about this before. Their
Speaker 1: buddies like that. Well, he's like, where I'm from, you
Speaker 1: just give people hell, Like that's how you can. That's
Speaker 1: a part of the which I I identify with that.
Speaker 1: That's my love language too. So like when McCarthy said that,
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, I get you, Like you're gonna
Speaker 1: tease the people that you care about and give them
Speaker 1: crap Like that's what you do, all right? So real quick,
Speaker 1: we got to get back to the talk of this
Speaker 1: running game. How do you fix it? Any ideas on
Speaker 1: how you can fix it. I'm not saying this will work,
Speaker 1: but my best idea is to give the Backs a
Speaker 1: week off. I'm serious, Like what I mean, get him
Speaker 1: explosive again? Yeah, what I mean? Whatever? Everything else isn't working.
Speaker 1: And they had all their linement at their disposal, Arizona
Speaker 1: was injured. It's not like they just had all these
Speaker 1: and they didn't have the monstars out there. That was
Speaker 1: a compromised defense. More time on task, like having your
Speaker 1: starting five together, maybe a little bit more could help.
Speaker 1: But in terms of radical moves that they haven't done before,
Speaker 1: getting Tony and Zeke some time off would be mine.
Speaker 1: That's me cheering, Oh for what that? No? For what
Speaker 1: Chris being just set me? What do you think Chris well,
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Speaker 1: WBC Morgan Studios at the Star Man. This has been
Speaker 1: a Tuesday show. We have been all over the map
Speaker 1: on this show and hopefully you guys have enjoyed some
Speaker 1: story telling you today. I managed to get explosive diarrhea
Speaker 1: in the show twice. Wait you did? Yes? Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: speaking of your memory being bad, you don't even remember? No, no,
Speaker 1: I remember that. I thought the way he said it
Speaker 1: was like he's having a problem over there himself. Oh no,
Speaker 1: he said. I managed to get explosive diarrhea on the
Speaker 1: show twice. And I'm like, are you okay? What are
Speaker 1: you doing? But anyway, okay, Bay, I'm just saying, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Michael gallup. Um. He caught the touchdown pass
Speaker 1: in the game against Arizona Cardinals. He hurts his knee.
Speaker 1: We find out later he's out for the season with
Speaker 1: an ACL tear. Obviously, the big question, how does this
Speaker 1: affect his status as a free agent this year. Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, the Cowboys have a track record with this.
Speaker 1: It's not happening a lot. It happened with Barry church.
Speaker 1: Um I talked to I talked to Barry about this
Speaker 1: just the other day. He goes, yeah, they lowballed me. Well,
Speaker 1: of course they lowballed you, but you took it because
Speaker 1: you're sitting there with the torn achilles and so that's that.
Speaker 1: Now a torn a cl is a little bit different,
Speaker 1: not a huge He'll come back and on that. But
Speaker 1: if I'm the Cowboys, I'm calling the agent now and
Speaker 1: I'm like, let's let's work on this. Let's do a
Speaker 1: one year deal, Let's do a two year deal, two years,
Speaker 1: ten million, you know, not not sure exactly what they
Speaker 1: would want to do, but I would try to sign
Speaker 1: him right now. If you're Michael Gallup's agent, do you
Speaker 1: do that? Or if you're Michael Gallup, do you do this? Well?
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's that's why you're doing it. That's
Speaker 1: the decision. And he has to have He's like, do
Speaker 1: I want to bet on myself and say no, I'll
Speaker 1: be fine, because what is the free agent market gonna
Speaker 1: look like for him? As he goes and visits people
Speaker 1: well with crutches, and like, how does that work? Is
Speaker 1: he gonna get the money he's gonna get. I'll take
Speaker 1: it even one step further. Let's think of it from
Speaker 1: the standpoint of the production that he's had this year
Speaker 1: year that throughout his career. Thinking about the ACL and
Speaker 1: assuming that teams look at it like man acls these days,
Speaker 1: guys come back, He'll be fine, and they're just looking
Speaker 1: at the production. Is he a guy that you think
Speaker 1: is a coveted free agent pickup four team? It's so
Speaker 1: hard to answer because there's so many moving parts. I mean,
Speaker 1: for starters, let's look at the market like DeVante Adams
Speaker 1: is gonna set the market one way or the other.
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson's out there. Chris Godwin also tore his ACL
Speaker 1: on the heels of a much better season. That's not
Speaker 1: necessarily Mike's fault. He was hurt. And that's the brutal
Speaker 1: thing in all of this is that you could no,
Speaker 1: this is statistically Mike's worst season of his career. I mean,
Speaker 1: he finishes with thirty five catches for four forty five
Speaker 1: and two. Does that affect him? The fact that he
Speaker 1: missed so much time this year with two different injuries.
Speaker 1: I mean, all of this stuff is going to affect him.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's Teams are like, oh, he's injury prone,
Speaker 1: he can't play, But you just you didn't put all
Speaker 1: of that on tape that you are You're not. Your
Speaker 1: arrows not pointed up that you're like ascending into this
Speaker 1: category where you're worth all of this money. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think I said a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: that I thought he could get somewhere between ten and
Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars a year, and now I would guess
Speaker 1: it's somewhere between like six and I think just depending
Speaker 1: on what's but it's impossible to know. And it also
Speaker 1: it's Mike's preference too. Maybe he wants to sign a
Speaker 1: one year, six to eight million dollars proven deal so
Speaker 1: he can blow it out of the water and get
Speaker 1: something better next year. Maybe he wants to sign a
Speaker 1: deal here with the Cowboys. I mean, it's partially up
Speaker 1: to him, not completely, but you can't predict that type.
Speaker 1: I think he's an I think he's about an eight
Speaker 1: to ten million a year receiver before this injury. You know,
Speaker 1: That's what I think he is. And I kind of disagree.
Speaker 1: I think that's a little high on the numbers, but
Speaker 1: that's because that's we're going off of what we think
Speaker 1: and where he is. Where it's all projection on. Because
Speaker 1: I think if he's up into twelve to fifteen, that's
Speaker 1: probably somebody's number one. I just don't think he's a
Speaker 1: number one anywhere. I don't think there's that true though.
Speaker 1: I mean, the market is changing drastically. I'm I'm pulling.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to pull it up right now, like the
Speaker 1: numbers for receivers are going up. I mean, well, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll look at it. Though. How many receivers make fifteen
Speaker 1: million a year? Okay, well i'll tell you that. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you this right now. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: Because you need to get to twenty five or thirty
Speaker 1: for that to be right. I mean, there's That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. He's not a number one receiver. And I
Speaker 1: don't think he's going I don't think a team will say,
Speaker 1: you know what, Michael gallups our guy, because I don't
Speaker 1: believe he is that type of guy. I don't think
Speaker 1: he is. I think he is a really really good
Speaker 1: number two guy. And you need that you need I mean,
Speaker 1: I think you need a number two. There's seventeen receivers
Speaker 1: making more than fifteen million dollars a year right now?
Speaker 1: How many seventeen? Oh, that's my point point is I
Speaker 1: mean that and Adams is going to reset it. Uh,
Speaker 1: there's I mean Chris, all those guys expect all those
Speaker 1: guys are number one? But what point is that? I mean,
Speaker 1: are you making the point or did I make the point? No,
Speaker 1: I'm because because there's thirty two teams in the league.
Speaker 1: So I mean, if seventeen guys are making that, then
Speaker 1: somebody's then there's That means there's there's fifteen number one
Speaker 1: receivers that are making less than that. Are they any good?
Speaker 1: Is Michael gallupin number one for any team? Go through
Speaker 1: any team in the league and say they he would
Speaker 1: be the best receiver on that team. Pittsburgh's probably a few,
Speaker 1: there's probably is he with Pittsburgh? Would he be better
Speaker 1: than Claypool or Johnson? You think? Yeah, okay, I think
Speaker 1: at least that's good, that's fair. I mean, I'm just trying.
Speaker 1: I'm looking. I'm thinking about the Jets. What do they
Speaker 1: have it on their wide receiver corps? Is there anybody
Speaker 1: better Corey Davis? I don't think there's anybody I would
Speaker 1: say better, So I mean, yes, he could be the
Speaker 1: best receiver. I guess team the point I'm trying to
Speaker 1: the point, I'm trying to make regulations. I mean, what
Speaker 1: have you won? You get to guard the Jets. Tim
Speaker 1: Patrick is an eleven million dollars a year receiver, which
Speaker 1: like he's having a great year. He beat Trayvon Diggs here.
Speaker 1: He's not like a number one like this great receiver.
Speaker 1: Nelson Aguilar got twenty two million over two years to
Speaker 1: go to New England as one of their like five slide.
Speaker 1: You're right then, if that's the case, then you're right
Speaker 1: that he's not an eight million dollar guy. He's he's
Speaker 1: gonna get he's gonna get twelve, he's gonna get that.
Speaker 1: If that's if, well, now it's hard to say now
Speaker 1: because of the injury, and and you know, the Raiders
Speaker 1: used to do this for years. They would sign a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle or that they'd sign a player to some
Speaker 1: ridiculous deal that everybody in the league would go off
Speaker 1: of and it's like that got okay, but that sucks,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So, like, does Nelson Aguilar
Speaker 1: getting eleven million a year? Is that does that make
Speaker 1: the point for agents to say, well, we need more
Speaker 1: than that, or do other teams look at it and say, okay,
Speaker 1: that was bad, that was a bad move. I mean,
Speaker 1: it still becomes part of the negotiation yeah, Now teams
Speaker 1: are going to argue that, but the agents is going
Speaker 1: to probably stick to the Micael, this is the market.
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup said something after what game was that last
Speaker 1: year where he had like a hundred something maybe like
Speaker 1: San Francisco Philly he had one hundred in the first
Speaker 1: half hundred yards and he was like, I was good.
Speaker 1: I was done for the day. He was like, he
Speaker 1: was like, you didn't have any in the second half
Speaker 1: or maybe little He's like, well, I mean everybody had
Speaker 1: to get there as me. I got some and then
Speaker 1: it was time for everyone else. That right there still
Speaker 1: sticks out to me because it's like most receivers aren't
Speaker 1: that way. I'm sorry that there's not They're not built
Speaker 1: that way. They like my receivers like that though, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, but I'm I'm saying though that right there
Speaker 1: makes me think he loves his guys. He wants them
Speaker 1: already to have it. He wants CD. It's not all
Speaker 1: about that, and so that might factor into all this too.
Speaker 1: And also who's your who's your rehab guy? Do you
Speaker 1: want to stay here? Do you want to go in
Speaker 1: the middle of go over here now? Or do you
Speaker 1: want to rehab here? In the same care somewhere else.
Speaker 1: So I don't think. I think if they, if they
Speaker 1: they handle this the right way, maybe a one year
Speaker 1: deal and and say let's you know, we'll revisit it
Speaker 1: or something, or a two year deal with laced with
Speaker 1: some incentives that say if you do this and this
Speaker 1: and get back to yourself, then boom. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a nine million a year, but it can
Speaker 1: be up to twelve or fourteen if you hit these marks.
Speaker 1: You know, I completely agree, and I wish I had
Speaker 1: said this at the top. I just and it's all fair,
Speaker 1: it's a valid and it's an interesting conversation, but just
Speaker 1: on a personal level, I just hope it works out
Speaker 1: the best for him, regardless of what it is, because
Speaker 1: this industry and again everything we just talked about was justified,
Speaker 1: but it can be very callous. Like he's probably on
Speaker 1: pain meds because his ACL's torn in a half right
Speaker 1: now and he's in the contract year. Homegrown guy to
Speaker 1: your point, like he's had a fantastic attitude about this
Speaker 1: whole thing. I think he's one of the nicest guys
Speaker 1: on the team. It's two years and I thought about this,
Speaker 1: it's two years in a row where somebody who's done
Speaker 1: it the right way every step of the way has
Speaker 1: really gotten screwed by this whole thing. And I mean
Speaker 1: nobody's Dak. I mean, nobody's gonna cry for Dak because
Speaker 1: he was on a one million dollars franchise tag. But
Speaker 1: that still sucks. Like to have it all come down
Speaker 1: to this final year and you're out there to try
Speaker 1: to prove your worth and it ends like that, It
Speaker 1: just sucks, um And it had a very happy ending
Speaker 1: for Dak, and I just I hope it has a
Speaker 1: similarly good ending for Mike as well. Yeah, because that
Speaker 1: that didn't change the Cowboys in one one bit to
Speaker 1: sign him regardless of what had happened there. And I
Speaker 1: don't now, but but we do have to ask that,
Speaker 1: you know, because everything Dave said is right, everything he said.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a he's a I love his attitude,
Speaker 1: I love everything about it. And quiet has kept here.
Speaker 1: He's he's probably. I thought it was gonna be CD,
Speaker 1: but it hasn't been. CD has been Oxnard, you know, MVP,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't been that guy in the season yet.
Speaker 1: He hasn't been that. I'm I'm better than you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go up in dislike plays hasn't done that. Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup is the best contested catcher on the team, and
Speaker 1: if it's anywhere close to the sideline, he's gonna get it.
Speaker 1: Even if he tears his acl in the middle of
Speaker 1: the play, he's gonna catch it. He's gonna hold onto it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he tore it on the way up for that ball
Speaker 1: and caught that ball. Nuts. Yeah we didn't give him enough.
Speaker 1: But okay, all that being said, let's say he is
Speaker 1: a ten to twelve million a year guy. It can't
Speaker 1: be here, you know. Well, but here's what I would
Speaker 1: do if I were if is going to play like that, Well,
Speaker 1: if I were the Cowboys, here's how I would look
Speaker 1: at it. If there was a way for me to
Speaker 1: even if I paid a little bit of a premium
Speaker 1: to do it for one year, I would do a
Speaker 1: one to two year deal on him. Because what I
Speaker 1: want to see is where does Amari shake out a
Speaker 1: year two from now, Because you might end up in
Speaker 1: a situation where you're two receivers two years from now,
Speaker 1: are Michael Gallup and Cede lamp I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: ready to make that decision now, but give me another
Speaker 1: year or two and maybe I am. And so I
Speaker 1: would kind of want to hold on to him if
Speaker 1: I could for the short term, if I could get
Speaker 1: him to do a short term deal, just so I
Speaker 1: could see how that all pans out before I make
Speaker 1: a long term decision on that list that you're looking at.
Speaker 1: And you're right about that you got CD. I mean,
Speaker 1: Amari that you have to answered that question before you
Speaker 1: get to some of these other ones. So and also
Speaker 1: then you have to go It's like I feel like
Speaker 1: the second question is Michael Gallup. The first question is
Speaker 1: what's the long term thing with Cooper? Okay, let's slip
Speaker 1: down to the third question. What does Cedric Wilson get
Speaker 1: on the open market who's also a free agent. That's
Speaker 1: a wonderful quick because Nelson agular for That's what I
Speaker 1: would have said that four minutes ago. But after hearing
Speaker 1: some of this stuff, I don't think Cedric Wilson's a
Speaker 1: four million a year guy. Well, I think if if
Speaker 1: there's a team that's negotiating with his agent for a deal,
Speaker 1: I think what they're going to probably point out is
Speaker 1: when he had an opportunity to be moved up the
Speaker 1: depth chart. He didn't really deliver in that game? What
Speaker 1: was that? What game was that earlier this year when
Speaker 1: they had CD and Amar out and he didn't really
Speaker 1: deliver in the city. Yeah, he didn't really deliver him
Speaker 1: now by the way, Thanksgiving, Now by the way, there
Speaker 1: were other issues going on. He also he delivered in
Speaker 1: eight games when Michael wasn't available a third third. So
Speaker 1: the argument will be he is a great third receiver.
Speaker 1: He might even be able to be a pretty good
Speaker 1: number two. He's certainly not a number one, and he's
Speaker 1: not he can't be relied on in the instance of
Speaker 1: injury to necessarily step up and do that either on
Speaker 1: a short term basis. So that all being said, you
Speaker 1: pay him, but you don't pay him like he's a
Speaker 1: number two, like a solid number two probab. But he
Speaker 1: leads the team in quarterback rating fair fair And I
Speaker 1: joked that with that. But he's his versatility, got a
Speaker 1: nice arm. I mean, he was like all state in
Speaker 1: high school. Yeah, he's got a nice arm. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: he even said after the game, he was like about Poular,
Speaker 1: He's like, I could have let him a little bit
Speaker 1: more there, and then he would have scored. But you know,
Speaker 1: he just wants to make sure he catches it, love it,
Speaker 1: which is smart too. I mean, like he's wide open
Speaker 1: and make sure he catches it. Number one. Um, that's
Speaker 1: all I care about in that instance. When you got
Speaker 1: somebody other than the quarterbacks throw on the ball, just
Speaker 1: get it to him. And we've seen it twice now,
Speaker 1: Minnesota was one and this, and it's the angle that
Speaker 1: we are sitting at in the press box and the
Speaker 1: way he throws it across the field. It's just it's
Speaker 1: like that that pass that he threw to Cedee Lamb
Speaker 1: in that Minnesota game was one of the best throws.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's one of the best throws we've seen
Speaker 1: all year by anybody. Yeah, there's I mean there are
Speaker 1: receivers who throw it and just kind of pray that
Speaker 1: it gets where it's supposed to. Then then there are
Speaker 1: guys like Cedric and Dez was that way too. They
Speaker 1: only asked him to throw once, but when Dez threw
Speaker 1: the rocket, it looked like a quarterback was thrown. If
Speaker 1: you we would have said this a week ago, I
Speaker 1: would have said the same thing. I would I'm resigning
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson before I'm resigning Gallop. And obviously I know
Speaker 1: that the it's going to be cheaper, But I really
Speaker 1: feel like Cedric and Dak have a really good relationship
Speaker 1: and I think we've we've seen it and we're starting
Speaker 1: to see it. I think that touchdown was another example
Speaker 1: of that the other day, just kind of knowing where
Speaker 1: to be and where, you know, trusting him in the
Speaker 1: offense on when plays break down and where the guy's
Speaker 1: gonna be. Um. I think I think you just need
Speaker 1: Swiss Army knife players like that. And so I'm going
Speaker 1: to try to resign Cedric before Gallop, And that would
Speaker 1: have been my answer even before the injury. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just hard to gauge Cedric's UM contract value. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to know. I mean, so I don't even
Speaker 1: feel like I can take a stab at that. So
Speaker 1: all that being said, there's no way that they're going
Speaker 1: to draft my guy out of Arkansas on the first
Speaker 1: round trailer Burke's I really want that, but there's no
Speaker 1: I don't see that happening. I mean, I've so many
Speaker 1: other issues they for sure, but nobody saw a CD
Speaker 1: fall in that far either. But I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you're right, just in the sense sense that in this case,
Speaker 1: they will have made a decision in free agency about somebody.
Speaker 1: And I think, I know this doesn't need to be
Speaker 1: draft talk, but we've talked about everything else, so why
Speaker 1: not it's got to be. It's they've got a draft
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, right, oh yeah, my first round. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think they need to remake their offensive line up
Speaker 1: this coming on. I'm taking a best guard or center
Speaker 1: in the draft. And I've said this before, you getting
Speaker 1: good value and in the in the twenties or thirties
Speaker 1: or whever you're picking, I don't know, um, but but
Speaker 1: I mean, I just think you're gonna get even center,
Speaker 1: you know. I think I think if you can get
Speaker 1: a guy like that to upgrade, maybe it's an offensive tackle. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, if the tackles there could be
Speaker 1: in any and there's good depth at tackle position, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be against it could be. I just I think
Speaker 1: it's time to get stronger. And I no, I completely agree.
Speaker 1: I'm chuckling just because like I'm the draft nerd and
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you don't pigeonhole yourself in January. You
Speaker 1: wait and see the guard tackle or center. Okay, no,
Speaker 1: I know. I mean there could be a corner that falls.
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot of stuff is gonna happen. All
Speaker 1: I've been saying this for a while. I just think
Speaker 1: this offensive line needs a remake. I think I think.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this though, and they's only played
Speaker 1: a little bit. Is Kelvin Joseph done enough where let's say,
Speaker 1: corner is the best spot in the you said you
Speaker 1: pick twenty seventh. I don't know, just just say that
Speaker 1: if a corner is there, is he done enough where
Speaker 1: you're thinking we're good here? Or is corner always going
Speaker 1: to be a need? And I think it just depends.
Speaker 1: And I don't say that's a cop out, but like
Speaker 1: if if if some amazing corner, if you're in a
Speaker 1: CD situation where you can't believe this guy tell to you,
Speaker 1: you take him. But Anthony Brown's still under contract, Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis is still under contract. Kelvin and Nishan Wright just
Speaker 1: got here, obviously, feel good about digs Like that's not
Speaker 1: a situation where I'm just circling in red sharpie like
Speaker 1: like you were last year. Probably yeah, absolutely, um, but again,
Speaker 1: if if some stud out of whatever, if you know,
Speaker 1: if if if Georgia's guy, I'm sure they have a guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know. If some great guy falls to you,
Speaker 1: then do whatever. Frankly, there's no position on this team,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, nah, I can't take that guy. I'm good, Like,
Speaker 1: I just think every position is upgradeable right now. Um.
Speaker 1: And that's not to say, let's not say they got
Speaker 1: bad talent. I'm just saying there's no position where I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can't about and I don't know where he fell.
Speaker 1: I think he fell in the eighteen twenty range. Naji
Speaker 1: Harris from Pittsburgh. I took him last year. Yeah, running
Speaker 1: back like that. So we're sitting although I do. I mean,
Speaker 1: I hear what some people say about him. They're like,
Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't have that breakaway speed. Now, he
Speaker 1: played a heck of a game last night. He's had
Speaker 1: a good season this year. But any bath House from
Speaker 1: forty yeah right, but that but that's the knock on him.
Speaker 1: People are like, he doesn't have that kind of speed.
Speaker 1: I'm a believer in the fact that I would look
Speaker 1: at the production so I would take him, absolutely, I
Speaker 1: would take him. I mean people are always gonna say
Speaker 1: that you know you can you can get if your
Speaker 1: offensive lines in check, then your third or fourth round
Speaker 1: running back is going to be, you know, good and
Speaker 1: comfortable and all that kind of stuff too. Tony is
Speaker 1: Tony will be in a contract here and that year.
Speaker 1: Next year, you want to talk about uniforms, I mean,
Speaker 1: we haven't talked about that. No, it's it's it's time
Speaker 1: to call it a day. Uniforms will looking good, we
Speaker 1: put I mean, I'm sure everybody's upset that they lost
Speaker 1: in the Color Rush. I feel like for everybody that
Speaker 1: was excited about the Color Rush, a lot of people
Speaker 1: were upset that they so don't wear that when you're
Speaker 1: when you play Arizona in two weeks, which, no, they're
Speaker 1: gonna wear the American flag stripes and playoffs. Ready. Oh hey,
Speaker 1: I'm hiding, I'm worried. I'm kidding. That means that we're
Speaker 1: gonna get hijacked on to our our timelines on Twitter.
Speaker 1: We'll get highjack because people are gonna be talking. Don't
Speaker 1: be surprised if the Cowboys are playing Monday night are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Because are you talking about because of Jerry? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I heard that too, oh, I said this yesterday. What
Speaker 1: Jerry saying it was. It was just he didn't subtle.
Speaker 1: It was very subtle, but if you were paying attention,
Speaker 1: because he was talking about the Saturday night game in
Speaker 1: Philly and he was like, and this will give us
Speaker 1: more than a week to get ready for our playoff game.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, so you're not expecting to
Speaker 1: play on Saturday. No, And I could to play on
Speaker 1: Saturday and Monday night could be the thing. They could
Speaker 1: have that too. I was like, they could have eleven
Speaker 1: days okay, but then they're on a short week after
Speaker 1: if they win after the wildcard game, Yeah, that means
Speaker 1: you have to go back to Sunday in the divisional game.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I hate that. Do you want one list
Speaker 1: day to have to maybe go to Green Bay? I
Speaker 1: just I want Green Bay. You believe in that. I'll
Speaker 1: believe that would not not for the divisional round, maybe
Speaker 1: for the NFC championship game. But you and I've been
Speaker 1: here more than twenty years. We've never seen a NFC
Speaker 1: championship games. So I'm not believing that we will be
Speaker 1: in a championship game until I'm there. If you talk
Speaker 1: to anybody in the fan base. It's one and done.
Speaker 1: So all right, well, appreciate you guys joining us. We'll
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