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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Thursday, August eight, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode
Speaker 1: number twenty three. Welcome to another edition of The Break.
Speaker 1: We are alive, Maxnard, California. The crowd is starting to
Speaker 1: settle in. Cowboys are going to have a morning practice
Speaker 1: this morning, starting up at ten forty five Pacific time.
Speaker 1: It is there last practice before they hit to San
Speaker 1: Francisco to take on the forty nine Ers in their
Speaker 1: first preseason game of the twenty nineteen season. These guys
Speaker 1: will get you prepared for that. Throughout this show, we
Speaker 1: got a lot of topics we're going to hit. We
Speaker 1: got a little bit of a transactor. We had a
Speaker 1: transaction yesterday. We'll talk a little bit about later in
Speaker 1: the show. I do want to talk about this offensive line.
Speaker 1: That's going to be our bigger topic of the show
Speaker 1: and kind of where everything sits there. But before we
Speaker 1: do that, let's first start off talking a little bit
Speaker 1: about Lance Lenore, wide receiver that was released yesterday. Talk
Speaker 1: to me about kind of what would happened with him
Speaker 1: and what kind of the overall because it's not just
Speaker 1: a typical like you release the guy, he's gone forever.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about what that what really happened. We
Speaker 1: might see him around I guess like in the lunch
Speaker 1: area or something for years. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know how that works. Now he's released, and if he's
Speaker 1: not claimed off waivers because he was injured with a
Speaker 1: knee injury, he will revert back to the injured reserve.
Speaker 1: So their friend, I think you could stay with the
Speaker 1: with the team and rehab. But what is his injury.
Speaker 1: It's a knee. It's like a sore knee, sprain knee.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think anything that needed surgery or anything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's I don't even know how to put it,
Speaker 1: but that's something that you see kind of happen with
Speaker 1: guys on the bottom of the depth chart, like Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson last year is a great example, sprained his shoulder,
Speaker 1: although I mean he needed surgery and he was in
Speaker 1: a sling and stuff, but they put him on injured reserve,
Speaker 1: and you ended his season by doing that because the
Speaker 1: alternative was to release him and open him up to
Speaker 1: be snatched up by thirty one other teams. So you
Speaker 1: see that happen with younger guys. This obviously is a
Speaker 1: little bit different because they did cut Lance, but they
Speaker 1: could easily bring him back to develop with them and
Speaker 1: he'll go on the shelf for the season. But better
Speaker 1: than not having any work, I guess, my assistant. The
Speaker 1: suspicion is based upon what we've been talking about on
Speaker 1: this show. He was not a guy that necessarily you
Speaker 1: guys thought would make the team, right amber, I mean,
Speaker 1: they like him for some reason. I don't see no. Okay, stop,
Speaker 1: let me, let me be nice. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: be mean. But he's just a guy that you know,
Speaker 1: I've watched in practice and you see him show up
Speaker 1: like he'll flash here and there, but then when it
Speaker 1: comes down to the game, he doesn't really show up.
Speaker 1: And how long has he been here for third year?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just I don't. I don't see it.
Speaker 1: He doesn't excite me that much. But he does have
Speaker 1: something that for whatever reason, the scouts like him and
Speaker 1: the coaches like him, so we'll see what happens with him.
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate that that happened at this point because of
Speaker 1: all the competition that's at the one receiver position that
Speaker 1: you don't have any chance to be getting hurt right now.
Speaker 1: You get hurt and you're forgotten very quickly. Because these
Speaker 1: guys there's a lot of talent right there. I think
Speaker 1: the reason, if you're looking for a reason why they
Speaker 1: like him, it's the classic the more you can do.
Speaker 1: He's he's a smart guy. He's got the athleticism, he
Speaker 1: knows all three of the main positions in the In
Speaker 1: the offense, he can play inside and out, and he
Speaker 1: can do a lot on special teams, whether that's flyer,
Speaker 1: whether that's punt return, all that good stuff. If you're
Speaker 1: not a starter, the more stuff you can do, that
Speaker 1: type of stuff endears you to coaches and scouts. I
Speaker 1: think that's why they like Lance and he obviously over
Speaker 1: the years he's flashed the potential to make really impressive plays,
Speaker 1: never able to put it together on a consistent basis.
Speaker 1: It kind of reminds me of Rico a little bit like.
Speaker 1: Rico and Lance are two guys that have been kicking
Speaker 1: around the roster with a minor role for a few
Speaker 1: years now, and they're both gone within a couple of
Speaker 1: days of each other. On Twitter yesterday, a reporter said
Speaker 1: Lance lean or Era is over in Dallas, and he
Speaker 1: responded with a quote tweet this said, it's not though,
Speaker 1: know your facts before you start tweeting with your fingers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with your fingers trigger fingers do turn to Twitter fingers.
Speaker 1: I mean it's and it's an old added they got
Speaker 1: a little ahead of themselves on that as old as time. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it was after he was cut and so
Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, but that's the thing, like you
Speaker 1: don't know all the details of you know, was he
Speaker 1: cut or was he does he return if he's you
Speaker 1: know he's not. That's our seventy seven lists you can
Speaker 1: put a player on right and one of them is
Speaker 1: you know, he can injured reserve. You don't have to
Speaker 1: do anything. Waived injured means we really don't want you
Speaker 1: on our roster. Got it, But he might end up
Speaker 1: right back on their rosters. So it's a classic move.
Speaker 1: You we're gonna see at eighteen times this year. Where
Speaker 1: will McClay or whoever's gonna go up to so and
Speaker 1: so and say we're gonna cut you. Assuming you clear
Speaker 1: the waivers, which we think you will, you'll be right
Speaker 1: back here on Tuesday morning. So right, But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying the chances of him playing for the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: really very, very very as slim as he is. That's true,
Speaker 1: right that part. I agree, it's probably true. But he
Speaker 1: could in back on the roster though, right, for a
Speaker 1: variety of reasons. You see those things. What roster are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Are back on the team, back on
Speaker 1: their injured reserve as a part of the club. He
Speaker 1: will be in as they said, we'll see him at
Speaker 1: lunch will yeah, all over his gym, short everything you
Speaker 1: know the show. For the show, we were talking about
Speaker 1: patience and how see I don't have the patience really
Speaker 1: for to wait around too much. Like once a third
Speaker 1: year hits, I'm like, okay, I'm done. I don't really
Speaker 1: know what the time limit is for, Like how long
Speaker 1: do you give a guy to actually start showing you
Speaker 1: what you need? I don't know. There's there's no baseline
Speaker 1: for that. It depends on how much money you spent
Speaker 1: on him, how much he's shown you, how much of
Speaker 1: at the position, how much you have at the position,
Speaker 1: how much of a pain in the butt he is,
Speaker 1: like off the field, away from football, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean that's you know, like not to bring him
Speaker 1: back up like Taco. I understand why people are impatient
Speaker 1: with the first round pick, lanceland or undrafted free agent
Speaker 1: whatever like. That's and and he's shown some stuff like
Speaker 1: I don't judge those two things similarly. So I'm just
Speaker 1: like Lands can be here, he can't be here. It
Speaker 1: doesn't really affect one way or the other. We've talked
Speaker 1: about it on this show. You know the whole, whether
Speaker 1: it's Parcels or Landry. I think you just mentioned it
Speaker 1: the other day that had the philosophy that I think
Speaker 1: a lot of coaches and a lot of personnel guys
Speaker 1: around the league have. It's like three to four years,
Speaker 1: and once you get to that point, if you're not
Speaker 1: seeing seeing it from those guys, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: a Rico. You get to four years and if he's
Speaker 1: not showing you, you're gonna said. You said, get the
Speaker 1: f And I was like you no, not what I
Speaker 1: was saying, um no, I mean you have three or
Speaker 1: four years, and if you get to that fourth year
Speaker 1: and you're not really showing anything, and it's like at
Speaker 1: some point you just have there one and assume that
Speaker 1: if he's going to show it at this point, somebody
Speaker 1: else is gonna have to get it out of him
Speaker 1: because what you're doing around here isn't working here. There's
Speaker 1: some exceptions to the rule, Showers, but see that's that's
Speaker 1: where you get go ahead, and it's it's a classic
Speaker 1: case that like Jamie Shower, he's never going to play
Speaker 1: a meaningful snap for the Dallas Cowboys, but I admire
Speaker 1: the hell out of the way he has carved out
Speaker 1: a career for himself by again, the more you can do?
Speaker 1: Can you play Scout team quarterback? Can you please special teams?
Speaker 1: Are you do they love having you around because you're
Speaker 1: such a high character guy? Do you you make everybody
Speaker 1: feel better about themselves? Which clearly he does. Like find
Speaker 1: a person anywhere out here that has a negative thing
Speaker 1: to say about Jamie Showers, Like that type of stuff matters,
Speaker 1: and he will never He's not gonna dress for a
Speaker 1: real Cowboys game. But even when he is eventually let
Speaker 1: go when this is all said and done, he's out
Speaker 1: of practice squad eligibility. I would. I'm just not going
Speaker 1: to be shocked if they find a way to keep
Speaker 1: him here too, because they like having him around. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Good guys have a way of cowboys, have a way
Speaker 1: of keeping them in the family, and I think that's
Speaker 1: exactly if you're if you're good to people and one
Speaker 1: way or another you can help the football team, they'll
Speaker 1: find a way to keep you around. And Jim I
Speaker 1: have no problem with that. I'm not talking trash on
Speaker 1: Jamale Showers. I admire it. Yeah, all right, let's move
Speaker 1: on to a little blanket coverage to have some statements here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll out for you, guys. You feel in
Speaker 1: the blanks. Here's the first Rod Marinelli sis of Taco.
Speaker 1: He's been very impressed, been very impressed with him right now.
Speaker 1: Been playing hard in there, playing physical, hustling. Just let
Speaker 1: him keep working now. As your statement, I would characterize
Speaker 1: his camp as blank Dave, I would characterize Taco's camp
Speaker 1: as somewhere in between the super positive reviews you hear
Speaker 1: from the likes of Rod Marinelli and the super negatives
Speaker 1: that you hear from fans of media, like that's a
Speaker 1: whole spectrum days. He's he's somewhere in the middle. He
Speaker 1: is assistant. Yeah, okay, all right, thank you. He's he's inconsistent.
Speaker 1: He's I've seen him put together some really nice rushes.
Speaker 1: He had two sacks two days ago. I looked like
Speaker 1: he got the better of Lyle once or twice yesterday,
Speaker 1: Like he's done some stuff. He also knows he's still
Speaker 1: obsessed with the spin move, and he just doesn't flash
Speaker 1: as consistently or as well as you would expect from
Speaker 1: a third year player that was the first round pick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: bo yeah. I mean when I heard Ron Mary Nelly
Speaker 1: say that I was in I was shook, like people
Speaker 1: say around here, shook. He shook me because I was like, whoa.
Speaker 1: And when coming from a guy like Mary Nelly, I mean,
Speaker 1: you have to, you know, you take that into account.
Speaker 1: What he says matters, So it just confused me a
Speaker 1: little bit. I'm like, Okay, maybe I don't understand what
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be watching here, but I think I
Speaker 1: kind of do, so I'm now confused on what you're
Speaker 1: telling me. I will say this though, in the past
Speaker 1: few days, I've seen Taco do some things that at
Speaker 1: least motivates you to watch him in the preseason, in
Speaker 1: the season and hope that he's able to do something.
Speaker 1: You know, he has started. I think the light came
Speaker 1: on a little bit and he has started to progress
Speaker 1: and do some things and put up a battle rather
Speaker 1: than being on the ground all the time. Nick top
Speaker 1: goals camp has been blank. I think it's uh skewed
Speaker 1: by expectations. That's the biggest problem. Yeah, I just think
Speaker 1: now because we don't know if he'll make the team,
Speaker 1: and so if he makes a few plays, it's like, oh, okay, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe he will make the team. You know, the writings
Speaker 1: on the wall. I mean, the opportunities are available for
Speaker 1: him to contribute with the way the defensive imposition is
Speaker 1: shaking out. But I just think that that we don't
Speaker 1: view him the same as a first round pick. That's like,
Speaker 1: when is he gonna make you know, the Pro Bowl?
Speaker 1: You know, with Byron Jones, it's like, if you know,
Speaker 1: he's pretty good, but like his first round pick, he
Speaker 1: should make the Pro Bowl. And then then he finally
Speaker 1: did and he lived up to it and maybe surpassed it.
Speaker 1: But you know, right now, or wonder if he's gonna
Speaker 1: make the team. So when he makes a big play,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh, that's pretty good, when in reality he
Speaker 1: should be making four or five of those plays. But
Speaker 1: he did come off the ball in a drill yesterday
Speaker 1: that I thought it was as quick as I've ever
Speaker 1: seen him. Looked like it was shot out of a
Speaker 1: cannon and went right past Um five cam Flem. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I just revert back to players that've been here,
Speaker 1: like seven years ago. Sometimes I just want to say
Speaker 1: Darien Wams, Oh man, Darien Weams. That's a name. Time
Speaker 1: I see Antoine Woods and want to say either carry
Speaker 1: Lofton or Willy Blade. Yeah, yeah, Willy Blade, like eighteen
Speaker 1: years ago. For like he's got to claim to fan
Speaker 1: that's not so good. Remember that hard knocks. No, yeah,
Speaker 1: he number two in practice. Now, can we talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about him real quick, real quick? I will.
Speaker 1: I feel I feel better about Tacos odds of making
Speaker 1: the team than I did a week ago. I'll just
Speaker 1: say that. Okay, So no, I mean, I'm not not
Speaker 1: writing his name and sharpie or anything, but he still
Speaker 1: in pensil Yeah, alright, with a new razor on the
Speaker 1: other hand guy. Um No, I was gonna ask you,
Speaker 1: you know, how Antoine has lost weight and like he's
Speaker 1: like slimming down or to me, I haven't watched him
Speaker 1: a whole ton, but the times I've seen him, I
Speaker 1: feel like he has kind of lost that power that
Speaker 1: we're used to see him from him from like last year.
Speaker 1: Do you feel the same way that he's him losing
Speaker 1: weight has kind of affected the way that he's playing.
Speaker 1: We'll find out. I mean, that's a good that's a
Speaker 1: good question you you wonder about that. I've always said
Speaker 1: I want this big, you know, sloppy looking guy that's
Speaker 1: just hard to Still he's still a big guy and
Speaker 1: he looks he has but I mean, like when you're
Speaker 1: talking about a big plugger in the middle, it might
Speaker 1: be guy. He might be more, you know, chiseled and powerful. Right,
Speaker 1: you can put on strength like a muscle strengths. But
Speaker 1: but it just the maybe I've seen just the bad ones,
Speaker 1: you know, and and missed the good ones. But it
Speaker 1: just made me curious to see how that's affecting him
Speaker 1: in the way he's playing. Part of it be all
Speaker 1: also that last year he was going up against Travis
Speaker 1: and at the time. We didn't know Travis had this syndrome,
Speaker 1: and so what we were seeing was a little skewed
Speaker 1: or very skewed. I would, I would suspect, and so
Speaker 1: we were thinking, oh my god, it's ninety nine. He's
Speaker 1: really like he's battling in there, and this year you
Speaker 1: don't have that same Damn. We watched him during the season, though,
Speaker 1: so you've seen him go up against different guys and
Speaker 1: it still seems a little different, but we'll see. They
Speaker 1: let they let Travis get a one on one rep
Speaker 1: for the first time yesterday, and they put him up
Speaker 1: against Antoine and I just don't think that was a coincidence. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think that they I don't ask
Speaker 1: for that, or the coaches were guys, and Travis handled
Speaker 1: himself well he did, he did all right. Here's the
Speaker 1: next statement. Yesterday, much to to Nick's delight, we saw
Speaker 1: fleeflickers in practice. Was it gonna say it? Here's the thing, though,
Speaker 1: if I set the over under on how many times
Speaker 1: we will see that this year at three, I take
Speaker 1: the sixteen. I got a way what a game, I think,
Speaker 1: I'll say over because of what happened with the play well,
Speaker 1: it was a flee flicker than the went to Witten
Speaker 1: like out in the flat, So we're not necessarily it's
Speaker 1: not necessarily you know, Terry Glenn down the scene for
Speaker 1: a long touchdown. I mean sometimes it could be. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a home run. It could be
Speaker 1: a first down. So I think there'll be more than that.
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be kind of hopefully be a
Speaker 1: part of the offense a little bit, but i'll say
Speaker 1: more amber over under three, Uh, let's go over. You know,
Speaker 1: I have hopes in Kellen Moore and what he's doing
Speaker 1: with the offense and just doing mixing it up. And
Speaker 1: when you do that, I don't do it once a season.
Speaker 1: That's not surprising anybody. You know. If you throw it
Speaker 1: here and there, now you can put that in the
Speaker 1: back of the head of the other team's coaches. You
Speaker 1: know that, oh the Cows might do this here and there.
Speaker 1: But I would say over three, Dave, I will definitely
Speaker 1: say over, and I'll tell you why. It wasn't just
Speaker 1: a short pass to Witten. It was a mind screen.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen that before. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying Calamore came up with it, but I've never seen
Speaker 1: that before, and so when you're basing it off different looks.
Speaker 1: This is also training camp. Like typically, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: run one trick play, you put that in on Wednesday
Speaker 1: of game week and you run it a couple of
Speaker 1: times during the week, like like you know, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have the running back throw it, like they'll work on
Speaker 1: that on game week. This is training camp where you're
Speaker 1: kind of, hey, these are the base concepts and the
Speaker 1: bread and butter stuff that we want to work on
Speaker 1: all year. Now. I don't think that means they'll do
Speaker 1: it every week, but that's to me suggests that it's
Speaker 1: something that they'll look at doing just every net like
Speaker 1: on a way more regular basis than what we're used
Speaker 1: to seeing. And the beautiful part about it is, and
Speaker 1: Nick is sit this many times. There is no there's
Speaker 1: no bad Like you don't have to catch them by surprise,
Speaker 1: because the point is you don't care about catching them
Speaker 1: by surprise. What you care about is I want that
Speaker 1: safety always thinking. I want that those guys always that lot.
Speaker 1: I want all those guys thinking watch the fleeflick watching
Speaker 1: because because that helps your offense. BA. That's just one
Speaker 1: more thing the defense has to be preoccupied with. So
Speaker 1: it really isn't a matter of a surprise attack or
Speaker 1: some surprise play as much as it is. You have
Speaker 1: enough stuff to keep teams off balance, and they don't
Speaker 1: know what's coming at any given moment, so they have
Speaker 1: to stay true to their principles, which opens up opportunities
Speaker 1: for you. What did you you said three and a half?
Speaker 1: Was that your over un three was the overrun? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: over You would have said seven and a half. Oh,
Speaker 1: I actually I actually thought you guys are except for Nick,
Speaker 1: I thought you always gonna say under. And the reason
Speaker 1: why is because still until we see it in a season,
Speaker 1: this offense, what I know of this offense as long
Speaker 1: as Jason Garrett's been involved in it, is it does
Speaker 1: not take a ton of those kinds of chances. Like
Speaker 1: they aren't a big, you know, trick play kind of
Speaker 1: offense like they are. They kind of run their offense,
Speaker 1: and so until I see it, I kind of think
Speaker 1: that's nice. It may be in the offense. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I expect to see it during the regular season,
Speaker 1: but we'll see. We'll see. All right, let's go and
Speaker 1: take our first break when we come back, I want
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about this offensive line. Will
Speaker 1: dive in a little bit and talk about some of
Speaker 1: the starters and what we've seen out here from some
Speaker 1: of these guys who we sometimes take for granted because
Speaker 1: they're as good as they are. But we're going to
Speaker 1: break that down a little bit. We'll do that when
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Speaker 1: It is the second segment of The Break live from Oxboard, California.
Speaker 1: Everyone's out today. Cowboys have their morning practice at ten
Speaker 1: forty five am. They'll be out here on the field
Speaker 1: for a couple hours here, and then this afternoon it's
Speaker 1: going to be a walk through that is not open
Speaker 1: to the public. So if you're in the area you're
Speaker 1: meaning to come out to practice, you better hurry and
Speaker 1: get here. This is the only practice left this week.
Speaker 1: Next weekday, we'll have practices on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.
Speaker 1: I think thursdays a morning practice and then we head
Speaker 1: out for Hawaii. All right, so it's probably like a
Speaker 1: morning walkthrough, I would guess so, but I would assume
Speaker 1: it's gonna be open to the public. But check the website.
Speaker 1: I know we have more information on that out there.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this offensive line. What I wanted to
Speaker 1: do was I'm gonna I want to go through the
Speaker 1: starters first, because sometimes we don't spend as much time
Speaker 1: talking about the starters because it's just kind of taken
Speaker 1: for grant that they're great, right, But what I want
Speaker 1: to do is for each guy, I want you guys
Speaker 1: to answer two questions for me. One how does he
Speaker 1: look so far at camp? And two what is your
Speaker 1: biggest question mark with regard to that player this season? Okay,
Speaker 1: we got that, ye, all right? So let's start first
Speaker 1: with the big dog, Tyren Smith Nick. What's he been
Speaker 1: like a camp? And what's your biggest question for him
Speaker 1: this season? He looks good, he looks ready to go.
Speaker 1: Don't get hurt. I mean those are my two things
Speaker 1: I answered both of him. I mean, he looks like
Speaker 1: he is ready to be all pro whatever. So if
Speaker 1: there's there's something that can keep him from playing until
Speaker 1: we get to the Giants game, I'm fine for that.
Speaker 1: I just mean, you don't need to do it. I
Speaker 1: don't need to see anything more. I think he's ready
Speaker 1: to go. On the question for you is just can
Speaker 1: you stay healthy. That you can say that for everyone,
Speaker 1: but with him with this big old elbow thing, no,
Speaker 1: I think, but it's I think it's more. I think
Speaker 1: it's more prevalent for Tyron just because of the issues
Speaker 1: that he's had the last three years. Can he play
Speaker 1: sixteen games and hopefully more, without encountering some sort of
Speaker 1: chronic problem, whether that's the stingers that he dealt with
Speaker 1: last year, or the back issue or the knee issues
Speaker 1: or that. I mean, he's the bionic Man. He's so impressive.
Speaker 1: But like the list is long, and rightfully so, it's
Speaker 1: a physical position. So he looks amazing, he looks like
Speaker 1: he's ready to be all pro. He's just he's he
Speaker 1: feels great. He's the only question is whether he can
Speaker 1: hold up. I mean everything that they both said, it's
Speaker 1: absolutely right. The only thing at least I feel okay
Speaker 1: with the backup position to where previous years it was
Speaker 1: a big concern. We've seen in the past how that
Speaker 1: affected the game and how they sacked Dak Prescott in
Speaker 1: that game. But was it like nine times, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: something like that. So at least if something was to happen, yeah,
Speaker 1: that suck, Yeah that sucks. But at least if something
Speaker 1: was to happen, I feel okay with the backup coming
Speaker 1: in and helping out in the meantime. All right, the
Speaker 1: next no one, real quick? Do you think, Lyle, if
Speaker 1: he has a good year, will sign? I know I'm
Speaker 1: not skipping around. I'm really talking about tying one. Do
Speaker 1: you think Lil will make more than ten million a
Speaker 1: year in a new deal? Yeah? Here or just anywhere
Speaker 1: if he has a good season. Yeah, yeah, okay, So
Speaker 1: if Tyron has a good season, I think what what
Speaker 1: you need to look at is his contract will be
Speaker 1: kind of interesting because he's supposed to make ten million
Speaker 1: next year and ten point five or for that and
Speaker 1: thirteen point five. It is an underrated storyline how he
Speaker 1: is helping this team by playing the deal. He's hope
Speaker 1: he didn't go back to the whale. He got enough problem.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if Tyron has a really good year,
Speaker 1: they need to think about this, or he need He'll
Speaker 1: He'll probably be thinking about it, you know, saying he's
Speaker 1: gonna be way way. You know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he will. If there's a guy that wouldn't right, it
Speaker 1: might be because he when he signed, like when he
Speaker 1: signed the deal in twenty fourteen. Everybody was like, this
Speaker 1: is really team friendly. Yeah, and he was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, the Joneses were good to me. I don't
Speaker 1: want to think about this. I want to get it
Speaker 1: out of the way. I'm not I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's impossible, and I wouldn't blame him if he did.
Speaker 1: But it wouldn't shock me if he was just like,
Speaker 1: I don't whatever. I'm just I'm making enough money I
Speaker 1: feel good about on a one hundred million dollar deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but when you look at what the what that position is,
Speaker 1: get it calm. He's gonna be way way underpaid. And
Speaker 1: you know what, you know that stuff starts, but you
Speaker 1: know that stuff valid, it's a valid and it's not
Speaker 1: even Tyron. It'll be the agent agent that'll be like,
Speaker 1: do you happen to see what Lions making that? You know?
Speaker 1: That's I mean, that's because the contract, I mean, the
Speaker 1: for the agent, that's how he makes his money is
Speaker 1: off the player. I could I really, I don't know
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith super well, but I know him. You know,
Speaker 1: I know him over I've dealt with him over the years.
Speaker 1: He's a great guy. I can imagine him being like what,
Speaker 1: I got my money playing for the Cowboys. I love
Speaker 1: it here, I love this organization in this family, and
Speaker 1: I'm just not bothered by it like that wouldn't that
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me. I agree with you, all right. The
Speaker 1: next guy I want to talk about, actually Amber. You
Speaker 1: spend quite a bit of time within this sause and
Speaker 1: this just so you guys know, there's a little project
Speaker 1: that Amber's working on with him that's gonna be phenomenal.
Speaker 1: You guys got it. You'll see it. It becoming a
Speaker 1: play to this this year. But anyway, Connor Williams, talk
Speaker 1: to me about how he's looked in camp and what's
Speaker 1: the biggest question you have for him going into this season?
Speaker 1: Biggest question, I don't think I have a question. I'm
Speaker 1: just ready to see him play. I think he's looked
Speaker 1: really good. You can tell the strength that he's put on,
Speaker 1: that he's gained. You can tell that he really worked
Speaker 1: during this offseason. And that's one of the things we
Speaker 1: talk about with him, was, you know what, I just
Speaker 1: needed to get that offseason to be able to put
Speaker 1: on that strength and that way and do what the
Speaker 1: coaches needed me to do. So when you see him
Speaker 1: out here play. I don't really know the right terms,
Speaker 1: but he, I guess, stands there, boxes up. He looks
Speaker 1: like a box and he he stands there and he
Speaker 1: blocks you, and he's able to bully you, you know,
Speaker 1: and he can handle you the way he wants to.
Speaker 1: If he wants to move you in a way, he's
Speaker 1: going to move in a way. Basically, what you're saying
Speaker 1: looks like Zach Martin at times, at times with what
Speaker 1: not as consistent, because he gets he'll he'll lose here
Speaker 1: and there. Right. There are some moments when it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess I'll go next up. Sure, I
Speaker 1: think he's done. Really, like she said, the strength is there.
Speaker 1: It's very evident. The question I have is, um, are
Speaker 1: we doing all this for for for what? Like? Is
Speaker 1: he gonna play guard next year? Um? Question? Just because
Speaker 1: with Lael and all that stuff, I wonder if he's
Speaker 1: gonna end up moving. And I also wonder maybe if
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the swing tackle this year, even though
Speaker 1: he's gonna start at guard, maybe he's the swing tackle.
Speaker 1: I actually talk about that a little later. I have
Speaker 1: a question he could be because I don't know about
Speaker 1: seventy five. Go ahead, Dave. That's a really good point,
Speaker 1: and there's there's a conversation to be had about what
Speaker 1: the future holds. Connor looks great out here, not so
Speaker 1: great that he hasn't taken his share of els, especially
Speaker 1: to Malie Collins, which I gotta, I gotta see it
Speaker 1: when he's been handing out else I will so far
Speaker 1: in MVP camp, top top three for sure, him, him, woulds, Him,
Speaker 1: Woods and Gallop are probably my top three and the
Speaker 1: third round picks in a fifth round pick that's not
Speaker 1: including I mean, you can always throw Tying up there,
Speaker 1: but like he takes veteran days and YadA, YadA, so
Speaker 1: those three, Um, I just no offense to Malie Collins.
Speaker 1: He's great out here, but he's not the best defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: Connor Williams is gonna play this year. Uh And I
Speaker 1: want to see it when the lights come on. It's
Speaker 1: you know, Fletcher Cox, Jonathan Allen, Aaron Donald. Um er, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm throwing out guys on the schedule. You say,
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald at the very least, Aaron Donald's not till December.
Speaker 1: You got you got Kenny Clark coming up in September.
Speaker 1: You got snax Harrison, uh snooze and new Sue is
Speaker 1: in Tampa. Who is also on the schedule this year?
Speaker 1: Aren't they no? The preseason schedule? Uh? Adam Redman all
Speaker 1: over that. No, he's not, He's not playing that game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my point, My point being, there's a lot of good
Speaker 1: dts on the schedule this year. I want to see
Speaker 1: Connor do it when when it matters. It mattered in
Speaker 1: the playoff game and all absolutely. Next name Travis Frederick.
Speaker 1: How's he been a camp? What's the biggest question mark
Speaker 1: for him? Besides the obvious? Because I think that's the
Speaker 1: obvious question mark for him. Is there another question mark?
Speaker 1: I'll start with you, Dave Um. I think I think
Speaker 1: it all rolls into one. Like he kind of looks
Speaker 1: like a guy who's coming back from a year long absence,
Speaker 1: like he's still trying to find his way and relearn
Speaker 1: the position and have it. You know, he talked about
Speaker 1: muscle memory. I think he's trying to have it become
Speaker 1: just instinct instead of having to think about it. He
Speaker 1: hasn't He hasn't looked bad by any stretch, but you know,
Speaker 1: he hasn't He hasn't been dominant. A big part of
Speaker 1: that too, is because they've been resting him and not
Speaker 1: letting him work in one on one so we haven't
Speaker 1: seen as much of him as other guys. Um, my
Speaker 1: question is, you know, how does that translate to the
Speaker 1: regular season. Like I said a week or two ago
Speaker 1: that he's on my list of guys that I won't
Speaker 1: bet against. I still kind of feel that way, but
Speaker 1: it until we see it, we we just can't assume
Speaker 1: he's going to play an all pro. So that's the
Speaker 1: big question for him is how quickly can he reacclimate
Speaker 1: to this NFL thing? Amber. You know, I see a
Speaker 1: lot of people on Twitter always asking, oh, House Travis
Speaker 1: is gonna be ready? Is he gready to go? Bla
Speaker 1: blah blah, And it's like, you have to remember, this
Speaker 1: is a guy. The condition that he had was very
Speaker 1: serious and he lost all his strength. He was limping around.
Speaker 1: You know, it was a really sad thing to see.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna take time. It's gonna take time for
Speaker 1: him to regain all that strength and all that muscle.
Speaker 1: He knows the position, he knows and you know, when
Speaker 1: we've seen him going up like in place you see
Speaker 1: him being careful. He's not going all out, you know,
Speaker 1: and trying to accelerate the process. He's taking it slow.
Speaker 1: And the great thing is because he is a veteran
Speaker 1: and he has the experience that he has, he's able
Speaker 1: to know his body and understand at what speed. You know,
Speaker 1: you're not dealing with a rookie that's trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: Oh am I feeling am I hurt? Or am I
Speaker 1: just feeling sore? You know he knows that, which is
Speaker 1: a plus. So I think he's being very cautious of
Speaker 1: himself and he understands where he's at. But he's making
Speaker 1: daily progress. Now, how fast and how soon we're going
Speaker 1: to see that going into the season, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but at least it's promising to see him where he's
Speaker 1: out from where he was before. Yeah, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to spend time on how he looks. He looks, you know,
Speaker 1: Okay at times it's different, but you know that that's
Speaker 1: part of the process. Here, two questions that I have.
Speaker 1: One is what I want to know and find out
Speaker 1: is when he's there, how much even if he's not
Speaker 1: at one hundred percent, it's his eighty five percent or
Speaker 1: what ninety or whatever it is from an awareness standpoint,
Speaker 1: how much that affects the team, especially down in the
Speaker 1: red zone his recognition, does that maybe make up for
Speaker 1: the fact that he doesn't have as much And if
Speaker 1: that isn't the case, if he does struggle, where's his
Speaker 1: hook with the team. This is a captain, this is
Speaker 1: a veteran, but this is a head coach that doesn't
Speaker 1: have a contract next year. So how much are we
Speaker 1: gonna try to spare someone's feelings? If Joe Looney is
Speaker 1: a better player, that's what I wonder how long it'll
Speaker 1: take if that is the case? Can they say, you
Speaker 1: know what, you know this is this is a great story.
Speaker 1: We want you to get back and don't discourage you,
Speaker 1: but we gotta we gotta make sure we don't lose this,
Speaker 1: which and you know, I'm the king of saying said
Speaker 1: anybody that's been to a Pro Bowl. But it sounds
Speaker 1: like it would be a good idea to get him
Speaker 1: some extended play in the preseason just to see where
Speaker 1: he is. I mean, is he capable of doing this
Speaker 1: right before you get to the regular real action. I
Speaker 1: think he would be kind of like Sean Lee as
Speaker 1: far as you know, not feeling but her if they
Speaker 1: chose not to put him out there. You know Shaun
Speaker 1: Lee's mentality, how he's being a team player and he
Speaker 1: carries about I mean, Travis is a team player too,
Speaker 1: But you know what I'm trying to sell. You never
Speaker 1: know until they're in that situation. I mean there have
Speaker 1: been guys that I kind of thought would be that
Speaker 1: that later I was like, nah, there was some little
Speaker 1: there was some chirpers behind the scenes, So you just
Speaker 1: never know. I mean, you know, guys take it very
Speaker 1: personally because this is your career. I think Travis will
Speaker 1: be the first one to say, guys, I can't do
Speaker 1: this like like I want to do. I think he would.
Speaker 1: I think he'd be like listening. I know I have
Speaker 1: a high standard for myself and I'm not hitting it.
Speaker 1: And if you see it, I definitely see it. And
Speaker 1: really I think it'll be okay if that happened, because
Speaker 1: he'd be he'd be the first one to recognize it.
Speaker 1: I hope not, because I think if it's all even
Speaker 1: talent wise, I still think he gives the Cowboys more.
Speaker 1: I mean, Looney, we all love Looney, but it was
Speaker 1: sacked fifty five times. I mean, I don't think he's
Speaker 1: sat that many times with Frederick. I think this recognition
Speaker 1: of where the mic is and where things are that
Speaker 1: he would he would do better than Looney. It doesn't
Speaker 1: do better than money, all right, Zack Martin, Great, tell
Speaker 1: me how you look before he can't. He got hurt.
Speaker 1: Typical Zack Martin. He looked like Za good. Any questions
Speaker 1: for him other than I mean, obviously the back injury,
Speaker 1: as we talked about, when you talk about a back
Speaker 1: injury for a guy before the season begins, especially an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, that is a huge question. Yeah, what do
Speaker 1: you guys think there? What are your what are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on kind of how you approach a season knowing
Speaker 1: that you're going in with all already that against you
Speaker 1: at a very critical position. Best case scenario is it's
Speaker 1: just a one off and having some downtime to rest
Speaker 1: it will help him and it won't be a big
Speaker 1: deal at all. But if I had to guess, we
Speaker 1: talked about this already, but the nature of the position,
Speaker 1: it's probably something he's gonna have to just deal with.
Speaker 1: But by virtue of being an NFL player, there will
Speaker 1: be an army of people to help him deal with
Speaker 1: it the best way that he can. And he is
Speaker 1: also a tough son of a you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: The fact that he did as much as he did
Speaker 1: last season with what he was going through is amazing.
Speaker 1: And you know, if any I mean, Zack Martin's eighty
Speaker 1: five percent is better than most people's one hundred. So
Speaker 1: it's concerning, but not to the point that I'm rethinking
Speaker 1: the season, you know what I mean. He's the same way.
Speaker 1: I'm the same way. So I'll just ask this to everybody,
Speaker 1: when's the next time you want to see him in
Speaker 1: the game? Giants? Giants? Absolutely, I don't want to see
Speaker 1: him in a uniform until now. Yeah, okay, And I
Speaker 1: know Zack Martin would disagree with that. He even he
Speaker 1: was like, I'm the type of guy that needs reps
Speaker 1: and I'm like, that's awesome him, and I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: but we're not gonna let you. But the only thing
Speaker 1: I would say to that, and the way it would
Speaker 1: be a little bit different. Let's say we get to
Speaker 1: that third preseason game and it's sort of a dress rehearsal,
Speaker 1: and here we are, Travis Frederick is now coming back
Speaker 1: and gonna play in this game. We want to get
Speaker 1: him those reps. Do you want to have your guy now?
Speaker 1: Does that matter as much for it? Oh? I don't know, honestly.
Speaker 1: Like I'm kind of with Dave on this one. I
Speaker 1: know he's always like that with vets, But in my opinion,
Speaker 1: when you got something like this that you feel like
Speaker 1: you might have to manage all year, the fewer reps
Speaker 1: the better. I'm not putting strain on him until it
Speaker 1: counts towards the post, exactly. That's exactly right, all right,
Speaker 1: real quick lyle Collins, tell me what you've seen from
Speaker 1: him or if there any questions that you have at
Speaker 1: this point with regard. Damn, it looks pretty good. I
Speaker 1: mean yesterday he was really good. I was fighting with it.
Speaker 1: Looks like a boxer in there, a nice little nice
Speaker 1: That was a nice exchange between him and Tristan Hill.
Speaker 1: Triston hill Man, he that guy kid is Uh, he's
Speaker 1: one of those like he doesn't know what he does, no,
Speaker 1: and and and that's kind of good. It's kind of good.
Speaker 1: Off the air, I'll tell you. I said it on
Speaker 1: We're practice. I said, you know who who Tristan Hill is?
Speaker 1: He's Helman. Oh. Good. But then that was before he
Speaker 1: started fighting someone. So I don't know. The saying I
Speaker 1: don't know what, I don't know, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: hurts not so much that it was. It was I'll
Speaker 1: explain it a little bit. At the break it was
Speaker 1: I had people going, yeah, um, so you're just gonna
Speaker 1: leave the listeners like that. Yeah. Sometimes he just forgets
Speaker 1: that we got people listening, We're just having a conversation,
Speaker 1: imply whatever, and they don't know. All right Lyle Collins
Speaker 1: is he's a grizzly bear like he's he's a big cuddly,
Speaker 1: chill dude most of the time. But man, don't piss
Speaker 1: him off. Do not sweat him most of the time.
Speaker 1: I don't know about cuddling. Oh stop it, Lyles, whatever,
Speaker 1: you ruined my analogy. He's I mean he you know,
Speaker 1: as we saw the other day when he got beat
Speaker 1: one play. In the next two plays, you could tell
Speaker 1: he was not very happy. You can you can beat
Speaker 1: him that you can beat him, but he will come
Speaker 1: right back at you. That's how I would describe it.
Speaker 1: We kind of had an extended talk about him yesterday.
Speaker 1: He's he's playing well out here. He's not He's not
Speaker 1: as effortlessly dominant as a Tyrant Smith, but very few
Speaker 1: people are. Um, I feel really good about him same.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's it's a physical position. He's had
Speaker 1: his injury issues too. He had back problems at the
Speaker 1: end of I think it was seventeen, Like he was
Speaker 1: a he was limping around and stiff as a board,
Speaker 1: and you know, hopefully he can hold up well and
Speaker 1: this time around him, just like Tyron. That's kind of
Speaker 1: where I'm at all we're gonna take our final break,
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Speaker 1: Back to the Break Welcome Back. It is the final
Speaker 1: segment of the Break live from ox Dark, California. This
Speaker 1: is the final practice of the Cowboys this morning at
Speaker 1: ten forty five Pacific time. Then we head out at
Speaker 1: tomorrow heading to San Francisco for the first preseason game
Speaker 1: at the twenty nineteen season. Have a few more questions
Speaker 1: on the offensive line for these guys. Here's my first question.
Speaker 1: If there's an injury at guard, who's the most capable replacement,
Speaker 1: Joe Looney or Xavier Suafilo. I would like to see
Speaker 1: that play out over the course of training camp, because
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer right now. You know, Xavier
Speaker 1: Suafilo played well in spots last year. He also had
Speaker 1: his fair share of struggles. We've obviously seen way more
Speaker 1: of Looney at center than guard, but they gave him
Speaker 1: some run at right guard yesterday with the first team,
Speaker 1: which maybe tells you they want to see that Davier
Speaker 1: had been happen in that spot when it's curious that
Speaker 1: they made that move. I don't know the answer. It's
Speaker 1: nice that they're both there. I'll tell you that. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say that when the segment started. Is it's
Speaker 1: funny how that happens. It's like, man, look at all
Speaker 1: this depth on the offensive line. Well, it's already being tested.
Speaker 1: I mean, Tyron's on a vet schedule, Zach is resting
Speaker 1: his back, Travis is on a vet schedule. Connor McGovern's
Speaker 1: peck issue has not let him get involved at all,
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, you're you're already kind of
Speaker 1: thin when you're trying to juggle for practices in a row.
Speaker 1: I'd say Suaphilo. I just think he's a better guard.
Speaker 1: I think he's a better starter. That doesn't mean he's
Speaker 1: going to be active over Looney. I think Looney would
Speaker 1: be the better guy to be active. But if we
Speaker 1: know going into the game that this guy's gonna start,
Speaker 1: I think it would be Suaphilo. He's undefeated. Last year,
Speaker 1: Kabys were undefeated when he started and finished a game,
Speaker 1: I think it was seven and zero. So he came
Speaker 1: in at that Eagles game. The only game they lost
Speaker 1: was the Colts when he got hit in the eye
Speaker 1: I guess, and didn't play, and then he didn't play
Speaker 1: in the Rams game. So all right, when he's in there,
Speaker 1: you know, if there's an injury at tackle, who's a
Speaker 1: more capable replacement, Cam Fleming or Connor Williams, Amber m
Speaker 1: that's an interesting one, m I mean, and I'm assuming,
Speaker 1: let's assume that it is a longer injury. It's not
Speaker 1: like just to finish a game. You got to go
Speaker 1: into a game. You got to go into a series
Speaker 1: of games, and you need a replacement at tackle. Which
Speaker 1: one would you rather have out there? Dang, it's not
Speaker 1: about Connor Williams versus it's about it's about Cam Fleming
Speaker 1: versus uh Sue Filoa. I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's that hard right now, honestly, because you think, I mean,
Speaker 1: the best, the best hope you have for Connor Williams
Speaker 1: right now is purely a projection. He's played tackle one
Speaker 1: time in OTAs when there were no pads. Nobody out
Speaker 1: here can tell me that they know how he'll play
Speaker 1: if he's out there and we haven't seen it. Sobody
Speaker 1: did in college? Yeah, yeah, he and he was. He
Speaker 1: was a great college tackle. That doesn't mean a whole
Speaker 1: lot now, especially especially a year removed. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: been at guard for a year now, so but you've
Speaker 1: seen Cam and what he can do. Cam. Cam has
Speaker 1: had his struggles. But you know, we talk about Dak
Speaker 1: as a practice player all the time. Cam kind of
Speaker 1: gets his butt kicked out here on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: But he's gone in. He went in last year or
Speaker 1: over the course of three games, and he handled himself
Speaker 1: much better than Chaz Green did the year before the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl he started this. This is a guy with
Speaker 1: twenty plus career starts at tackle who has been adequate
Speaker 1: at least. So I'll take that guy over Connor until
Speaker 1: I would love to see Connor play some tackle. I
Speaker 1: want to see that I just haven't yet. I think
Speaker 1: I think that's the answer that you know for for
Speaker 1: right now, we're talking about this season. But you get
Speaker 1: to the offseason, you're like, should we resign Let's say
Speaker 1: we don't resign Lil And you're like, well, should we
Speaker 1: resign Cam or should we try to move him out?
Speaker 1: They don't have to resign Cam because they gave him
Speaker 1: a two year deal, which was smart on there. Okay,
Speaker 1: which one would you're going into an off season, I
Speaker 1: think everyone would say, you know what, I would like
Speaker 1: to see Connor at tackle in the offseason than than
Speaker 1: play Fleming right right or or Connor mcgovernor like you, well,
Speaker 1: I'm saying you got you've got more options. Hopefully, next offseason,
Speaker 1: then you have right now because McGovern will enter into
Speaker 1: the picture right after you what her prediction is after
Speaker 1: I'm gonna mess up your game. No, the game's done.
Speaker 1: The games then, okay, after four predictions, after four seasons,
Speaker 1: my prediction, let me just talk right after four preseason games,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna predict that we're talking about a tackle that's
Speaker 1: really into this mix. But we weren't even be talking
Speaker 1: about right now. Really, it could be it could be
Speaker 1: m Hyatt, it could be Branded Night. Yeah, it could
Speaker 1: be somebody like the I guess the guy that you
Speaker 1: think is gonna maybe make the team. And if he
Speaker 1: makes the team, does that push out? Yeah? These guys
Speaker 1: who were talking about you know, Night is interesting. I
Speaker 1: don't really know how he's playing because he does have position.
Speaker 1: Flex've been playing in d because of these injuries, because
Speaker 1: he was a consensus All American for a national championship
Speaker 1: team that just holds weight, but that screams you ought
Speaker 1: to be able to play well. You see it does.
Speaker 1: And then also seven teams went went through the you
Speaker 1: know there are thirty two teams went through seven rounds each.
Speaker 1: There a reason? Is there a reason he didn't get Drenning.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just asking his strength. His strength is
Speaker 1: not great and his foot quickness is not NFL standard.
Speaker 1: I mean we see it all the time. Michael Sam measurable.
Speaker 1: Michael Sam led the nation in sacks as a college
Speaker 1: defensive end and couldn't catch on in the pros. I
Speaker 1: mean you see that type of stuff all the time.
Speaker 1: So uh that that doesn't shock me. I did, I did?
Speaker 1: I mean all of that stuff aside, if he could
Speaker 1: really play, nobody would give a damn um. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: you see that stuff. But night is intriguing to me
Speaker 1: because they're moving him around. He's got a mean streak
Speaker 1: to him, just like Lyle does. So I've got my
Speaker 1: eye on him, really mean streak. Oh yeah, he's really
Speaker 1: he's nasty, like he's yeah. Uma. So that's something to
Speaker 1: watch if I could put on, if I could look
Speaker 1: into the crystal ball, I bet when the season's over
Speaker 1: and we're moving into the next season, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: like a lot of talk about Cam Fleming, like, well,
Speaker 1: we like what he can do a tackle, he's done this,
Speaker 1: he's done that for us, and they're gonna be real
Speaker 1: annoying about it. But then it's gonna turn into Cam
Speaker 1: Fleming or Connor Williams, and the hope will be that
Speaker 1: Connor Williams wins that job. And just just to throw
Speaker 1: another name in there, I talked to a guy the
Speaker 1: other day about the offensive line a little bit. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna ask about four or five guys. And the
Speaker 1: first question with the guy said, you've been watching Adam
Speaker 1: Redman looks pretty good. I was like, but really like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's Oh, he's looking really good. I'm like, okay, it's
Speaker 1: hard to him in the man, it's hard to juggle
Speaker 1: fifteen of these guys at once. Yeah, all right, guys,
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