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All right, 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:08.920 we got a lot that we're gonna get into today. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.440 We'll talk about some different things on the game. Um, 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:13.480 we're gonna do a little game today. If see on. No, 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.600 I think Camber has that ready for us, and I 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:18.880 think Nick, I don't know. I think you have a 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.800 story for us. Yeah, I got a story. You got 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.680 a good story for us. Uh, debatable on that. You know, 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.280 I don't ever like you don't tell bad stories. So, well, 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.120 you have a story. It's a good one. Right, I'll 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:30.920 tell you this. I'm gonna I'm gonna tell the story 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.880 backwards today. Tell that should be interesting. Yeah, it's gonna 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.080 be interesting. Ends up being hate. When someone says that 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.559 I got a good idea, you're like, hold on, let's 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.520 we'll see. If you see, we'll see. All right. So 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.160 let's let's get into the Cowboys and the Rams. Let's 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.360 start first with some injury talk. Um, Dave, you have 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:51.120 a look like you want to say something about injuries. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:52.560 So tell us what's going on with the injuries with 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.000 the Cowboys. It's a very specific look. It's impressive that 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.520 you know that. I know. Um, well, I think the 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.280 big thing for this game as Shaun Lee, and this 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.400 is one of those situations I'm just gonna try my 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:06.640 best to predict the future. I think he's gonna be 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:11.040 ruled questionable on today's injury report. I would imagine he'll 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:15.240 either be limited or did not participate, And I don't 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.080 think we'll know for sure what he's gonna do until 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.120 ten thirty am on Sunday. You know, I would lean 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:25.000 toward no, but he's an all pro and this isn't 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:28.200 a serious, serious hamstring strain, so if he feels good 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.280 on Sunday, they might let him go. I mean, there's 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.959 really it's just like Odell Beckham, there's really no way 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:34.840 to know for sure until he gets out there on 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.280 Sunday and decides how he feels. So that's the big 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.480 thing I think. I think everybody else on this team 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:44.280 is going to be good to go. I know Cavon 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.919 Frazier popped up as limited yesterday. I don't think that's 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.120 a big deal. Same thing with Jordan Lewis. I know 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.640 they kind of limited him, but I think they feel 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.680 good about his hamstring. Were you not at all? And 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.680 I mean this question for all you guys, but were 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.799 you all? Were you guys at all concerned that Lewis 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.280 was not on the injury on Wednesday but then popped 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.560 up yesterday as limited or do you just think it 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:05.919 was one of those things they had to walk through 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.640 so he wasn't limited for a walkthrough, but yited for 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:10.679 I think that's exactly it. Yeah, I think, I mean, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:12.919 you have to read between the lines a little bit, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.480 but I think it's more a case of all right, 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.239 this is a full practice. We're not going to ask 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.440 you to do the whole thing. But I get the 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:23.200 feeling that they expect him to play. Okay, yes, um 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.800 you're right, Nick, Cheeto, Cheeto. I don't think will be 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.400 ready for this game, but I sort of went into 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.320 this week thinking that, so no one Carroll, though no 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.440 one Carroll will be there, he'll be available. Um, so 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.960 you'll have the majority of your defensive backs I think 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.960 are ready to go. Stephen Paia is another guy, But 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.880 again I think that's just his life right now. I 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:46.840 don't think, you know, I think he's probably gonna be 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.640 limited most weeks and suit up on Sunday. I think 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:54.280 the interesting thing for for Sean Lee and this team 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.040 is what happens at linebacker. Do they did work out 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.760 some guys? Do they sign anyone? Because if he doesn't go, 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.320 now you're down and Hitchens is not going to play obviously, 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.560 but Hitchens is getting better. There's a chance for Hitchens 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:11.680 maybe next week, maybe maybe the week after what I'm hearing. Yeah, 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.920 but you know, if Lee doesn't play, now you're down 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.800 to four linebackers on the roster that they can go. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:23.200 Beef beef, Yeah, beef. I don't know. I talk about 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:27.600 Keith Smith, the fullback beefy, Keith Smith coming back on defense. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.640 I'm ready for it. I'm excited. I don't know if 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.520 he's actually gonna play in the game. Stakes Ober here, 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:39.040 that is beef, right, Kent. I mean, without without Sean Lee, 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.159 without Anthony Hitchins for this game, you're definitely limited. If 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.599 Sean Lee can't go, you probably start. You start justin 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.039 Durant at will you start, Jalen Smith at Mike Damien 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:53.000 Wilson is your do everything, Sam Slash back up everywhere else. 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:56.160 Kyle Wilber does what he can do. And then seriously, 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:00.520 Keith Smith is probably your emergence Mary, you know Glass 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:05.040 if ever, if something happens. Yeah, So my point was, 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.960 I think that Shaun Lee could probably be active to 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.600 even if he's not. Now I know that that's kind 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.360 of he's not the easiest guy to probably to sit 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.160 like in that situation. But but I think you might. 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.160 It might be something where he could play or at 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:22.839 least be active, dress out and see see if he 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.680 can go. He can go because you don't have it's 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.360 not like you're you're sitting another guy for him. Now 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.560 the guy you're sitting is like a defensive end or 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:33.360 corner or something like that. He did say, And I 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.240 think I remembered you guys saying that. Sean said in 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.560 the locker room earlier this week that the hamstring is 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.440 one of those things where go either it fires or 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.560 it doesn't. All right. It's not like, yeah, I can 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.600 kind of do it. It's it's either it's firing or 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.280 it's not. And if it's not, you just can't go. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.839 Here's a guy that decided not to play and with 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.599 two million dollars sitting on the table and decided not 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.400 to play because he couldn't go and uh, twenty fifteen 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.520 season finale. So I mean, if he can't go, he 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.480 can't go, right, not the you know, it's not like 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.960 a sore ankle, like you can't shoot it up with 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.840 a painkiller and go play through it. You can't run 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:09.400 if your hamstrings not right, so so I don't know 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.560 that if if that's the case, it would be hard 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.279 to consider him the emergency, even if you know he 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.480 would kind of like let him dress and then if 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.840 it doesn't fire, it just doesn't fire in you, right, 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.160 Keith Smith really is your only recourse unless you're gonna 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.720 pull somebody up, right, which mark there's nobody to pull 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:28.080 Martin Zaches of San Francisco forty nine ers they signed. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.000 I guess I shouldn't have said pull up. You have 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:31.360 to go and get somebody, which you have to go 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.360 and find somebody in sign it's for Brinkley. Good luck 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.960 with that. Yeah, it's Friday. I think it's too late 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:41.279 to do that and expect what they're doing. So um seriously, 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.600 can't didn't bust a drop on you right there if 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.160 Sean If Sean Lee can't go, I think you go. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.239 You go really light with four and then Keith Smith 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.040 is there, right, they all stay out, just say it's 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:58.360 the RAMS, dude, MS dude, not because that's not all right. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.800 Let's let's talk about it in active. I think there 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.240 are three and this is gonna sound weird, but I 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.200 do think there are only three this week that I 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.400 feel like there are no question marks about, and I 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.040 want to get your opinions. You may think they're more, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.880 but I think there are three. Cooper Rush, Jonathan Cooper, 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.440 Anthony Hitchins. I think we feel very certain that those 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.720 three will not play this week. You got a running 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.400 back debate you want to have or I kind of do? Okay, 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.840 And here's the question I have about the running back position. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:24.360 I don't really want to do this or whatever it's 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.640 worth about. Go ahead. I think that there is more 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.400 that they can expect or want from their backup running back. 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:32.760 And the reason why I say that is because you 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.920 do see on a lot of teams where even when 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.440 you have a really good running back, the second guy 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.920 comes in and when he gets an opportunity, he is 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:41.880 able to give you a little something, a little something 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.880 more than I think what we've seen from Alfred Morris 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.160 here in these first couple of games. Do you guys 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.080 agree with that premise first of all? And if so, 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:51.880 do you think there's another running back on this team 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.160 that possibly could give them a little bit more as 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.480 the backup running back than what they're getting right now 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.600 from Alfred Morris. It's like a trick question here. I 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.240 don't know. I'm just really I'm just asking because I 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.200 think it's worth a discussion. Yeah, I think that the 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.760 every team should play more than one running back. I 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.240 believe that he is as great as Zeke is. I 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.640 think he needs a little bit of relief now and 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.640 then whoever it is, So are you Are you happy 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.760 with what you're getting right now from Outfred Morris in 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.560 that role. No, he hasn't done anything, so no, you 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.320 can't be happy with it. They didn't even play him 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.640 last week, you know, you know, I feel I think 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.720 McFadden would be a better for this role and would 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.520 I would rather see him in there. But I do 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.400 even if it's Morris. I mean, whoever it is, I 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.480 think I don't think Zeke should get every carry, get 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.960 every rep. I mean, at least get a guy in 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.640 there to block and just get him off the field something. 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.080 I mean, he was stronger in the fourth quarter, but 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.079 I still think that he needs a little bit of 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.000 a break. But I would go McFadden if they do that. 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:45.720 I don't know if they're gonna make change this week, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:48.319 but I would If you're not gonna play Morris at all. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.199 I think McFadden could give you a snap or two. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:55.000 I don't care about this. I mean that they clearly 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.160 like Morris more than McFadden, and they didn't even play 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.000 him last week. Like what am I supposed to make 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:03.000 of that? I don't even you picked him, You specifically 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.400 picked him, put him up and put McFadden down, and 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.600 then didn't play him. You gave Rod Smith one one 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:11.400 touch or one snap. I don't know. I don't know 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.480 what they're doing there. I'm tempted to believe right now 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.440 that that they want to keep McFadden fresh if they 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.880 need him, if something happens with Zeke's legal issues. That's 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.520 really because we still really don't know, because we don't 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.079 um and there's gonna be a hearing on Monday, right 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.880 or he's not a hearing or a decision. I don't know, No, 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.880 not a decision. There's supposed to be a hearing. There's 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.800 more developments to come, and everything they're doing a backup 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.440 running back doesn't make sense to me. And I'm starting 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.680 to think that they want to have McFadden fresh and 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.240 healthy if they need him. Otherwise, none of this makes sense. 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:44.080 Your backup running back is one of two guys that 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.079 didn't get into that game on Monday. That doesn't make 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.520 any sense to me. Having said that, Zeke's an all pro, 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.240 and I don't really care as the whole thing's dumb. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.880 This is matter to you, Amber, I mean, at this point, 0:09:55.960 --> 0:10:00.720 I just really believe that it they're relatively similar to 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.240 each other with what they've done. I don't think one 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.800 is really much better than the other one. So I'm 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.400 good with either one. Honestly, they can do whatever there. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.400 I haven't been doing whatever they want. So if a 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.960 guy that's not Ezekiel Elliott, it's gonna line up in 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.080 the backfield and do running back stuff. I want to 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.120 see more of Ryan Switzer back there as a shotgun guy. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.960 I thought that was interesting. Yeah, let me ask you 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:25.960 this question, as they start to kind of go through 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.559 this and this whole thing with injuries and kind of 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.559 figure out who's active who's inactive, if they get into 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.400 a pinch, would there ever be the consideration on your part, 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.200 like as far as you guys see it, and maybe 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:39.439 sit down both those older guys and keep Rods Smith 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.840 up because Rods, especially if they're not going to play 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.920 Alfred Morris you know, Rod Smith's gonna play special teams 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.400 take that extra spot and put it on another position, 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.520 so at least you have an extra guy somewhere else 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.880 where you may need it, because right now they're not. 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.160 They didn't at least this last game, they didn't use 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.920 that position. You're just asking for it though, that that 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.240 is just asking it. That's when something bad happen. Thing 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.080 face and then you don't have anyone, Well, you go 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.559 with two. You go with two quarterbacks, right, I mean yeah, 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:08.160 So that's why. And that right there is why Kellen 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.600 Moore is the guy that's active and not Cooper Rush 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.880 because they want the guy that's actually played in the 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.040 NFL to have to go in if he has to. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.200 But worst case scenario, you lost both those running backs 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.120 in the game, you still got Keith Smith that could 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.000 played him in that role at times. I mean, you 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.280 still got other options if you got into it like 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.120 you just had to run somebody out there. Let's be honest, 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.040 if Zeke goes down, the likelihood of your offense being 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:32.680 able to run the way it needs to no matter 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.520 who those other three of those other three guys is 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.800 in there, it's probably not going to be the same, right, Yes, 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.560 we need to be able to run the football. See, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.920 I think if Zeke were to go down, either Morris 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.040 or McFadden would be fine if he was given twenty carries. 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:48.800 That's all that's there. Don't think Rod would would be 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.400 Oh I don't know. I mean maybe, but if you 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.440 don't have Morris or McFadden active, then you're talking about 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.440 giving the ball either way. Keith or Rod. Those guys 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:00.400 have combined for like three NFL carries. Yeah, so that 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.240 just gets not the experience makes me a little queasy. Okay, 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.360 but all right, Um, it's one thing to have a 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.760 thousand yard rusher as inactive, but to have two. They 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.160 wouldn't do that. I mean, they're keeping killing Moore a 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:17.480 backup quarterback. You think, No, they're not gonna do that. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.000 And not even with the running back position. If they're 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.760 doing that with quarterback position, which I don't even want 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.199 to get into, but you know how they are, they're 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.600 gonna be over protective at quarterback. They're certainly not gonna 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.079 do it at running back. All right, let's let's talk 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:35.319 about the defensive end for the translation. Yeah, you got 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.199 you got two guys and there's one that will probably 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.040 be inactive. Last week it was Charles Tapper. Any chance 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:42.840 this week it's Taco Charlton or do you think they 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:47.120 stick with keeping Tapper as the inactive guy? Taco. I 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.960 don't think they're gonna sit Taco. He's the first round pick. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.439 He needs snaps to get better. Yeah, I don't think 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.559 they'll do that. Yeah. I like it, can't can't pick it. 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.520 You like Taco? I like it Taco. You think Taco 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.080 got the happy fingers today? Yeah? I mean I think 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:09.800 so he gives you. I think he's more, he's more versaally, 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.400 can play a little bit more if you needed to. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.920 He has done some stuff on the inside, and this 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.800 is all about the development with him. I mean, he 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.959 needs to keep playing. This is your first round pick. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.880 Who's better right this second? It's probably it's probably you 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.040 think it's tappering. I don't think there's probably about it. 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.360 I think Tapper is a better player, right Why, He's 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:33.199 done more, He's got an NFL sack, He's done more 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.360 stuff in the two games that he's played. He's done 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.839 more than Taco. Okay, I don't think he's clearly better, 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:44.760 but it doesn't matter who's got more upside. I mean Tacco, 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.480 I would have hope it has more upside, or you 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.960 wouldn't have taken them where they did. So this isn't 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.280 about who's going to start, and this is about who 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.080 the backup is. I think you need to get that 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.320 guy ready to play, keep him out there. I completely 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.360 agree with you. I just think Tapper's better right now. 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.800 But that's what happens when you draft a guy in 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:01.600 the first try. You're gonna make him active, You're gonna 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.360 give him every chance to get better. Tapper did a 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.760 nice job of getting up the line that I mean, 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.559 was it who was it? Eli? Yeah? I mean Eli 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.520 said okay, like he wasn't gonna take a hit. I 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.720 mean it wasn't like it was like the greatest play ever. 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.760 But he did a nice job of getting up the field. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.720 And he's but I don't know if he's clearly better. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:27.080 Maybe he is. He's just done more than Tacco right now. Okay, Okay, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:28.880 I gotta get what you're saying, Nick, Like, yeah, you 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.760 could say he's done more, he's got one more sack, 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.040 but look at when you look at the body of 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:35.200 body of work. I don't know if I agree that 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.320 he's done more. I think they're about the same. And 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.880 the discussion we just had about running back, I think 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.040 it probably applies here to let's agree that there's not 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.800 a spiritual difference. Let's let's do some blind taste testing. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.600 Then if they were just both dudes and one of 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:53.400 them wasn't a first round pick, who would sit just no, Again, 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.760 I think it would be based on whoever the coaches 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.080 thought had the biggest like Nick was saying, whoever has 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.400 the biggest potential to grow from being act and right? 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.520 Whoever you think has the bigger upside between the two. Well, 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.240 and you can only have so many guys active of 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:07.960 the game. Okay, if the guy starts playing in the 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:09.880 first quarter, who has a better chance to get hurt 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.240 and get out of the game. I mean, who has 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.320 a better chance? I mean, because I know this, every 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.720 defensive end that was getting hurt, it wasn't Taco. He 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.360 had a little bit of a back issue, but he 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.600 practiced the next week, the next day he was like 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:22.600 he was out there the whole time. You can't say 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.880 that for Tapper, And so from a reliability standpoint, I mean, 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.600 I think it's the edge would be Taco. I'm I'm 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.480 not trying to arguing about backups here. I'm not trying 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.440 to hate on Taco Charlton because I think he's going 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.400 to be a good player. I've defended him against people 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.120 who think he's a bust already time and time again. 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.160 But right now, I think Tapper is a better player, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.600 and there's nothing wrong with him being active because he's 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.040 a first round pick. If he's going to live up 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.200 to his potential, he needs to play and get better 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.360 and on and at the end of the day, even 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.840 if Tapper is better right now, it's a negligible difference 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.080 to them. I mean, you know, Tapper's not von Miller, 0:15:58.160 --> 0:15:59.880 so I think that's the point. Yeah, if he has 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:02.600 to set, that's fine, because you've spent a twenty eighth 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.760 overall pick on Taco. Okay, let's move on to the 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.040 cornerback position. The assumption is that at least one of 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:12.240 these guys will be inactive Banaban, Wickery, um A Woozier 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.040 or Carol. Which of those three do you assume is 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:19.760 going to be inactive? Cheetah, Cheetah. And that's just because 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.120 he's just not ready. The hamstring is just not ready. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.480 That's the vibe I get, and even if it is 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.960 sort of ready, you've got to eat. It was out 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.360 like three weeks of training camp, and then he comes back, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.840 he plays a game and a half and he gets hurt, 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.360 and I mean, I don't think they want him to 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.600 just rush anything back into it. So okay, um, and 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.520 then that leaves you one more spot. Yeah, we're at six. 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:50.600 So so Cooper Rush are running back, Jonathan Cooper, Anthony Hitchens, 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.560 Anthony Hitchins, Alls, Tap ARLs Tapper, and then in Cheetah 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.440 receiver Cheeto. I mean, I think it has to be Brown. Yeah, 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.640 I mean it probably should be. I mean, in a 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.720 nice play last week. But the thing about it is 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.520 is that you know he had Terrence and he had 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:07.520 Bryce Butler banged up. Uh, there haven't. I don't believe 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.520 if they have Throw on the injury report this week, 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.280 they're not really They're still practicing, so I didn't see 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:14.040 him on the injury report. I think I just think 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.200 six receivers is too many. I don't think you need 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.840 that many in the game. Well, what about Sean Lee? 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.600 Are we just assuming he's gonna be good? That's the 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.520 other option is that? But I don't know that they're 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.080 going to know that until Sunday morning. Right, Sure, So 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.400 let's assume for a second. If he is the one, 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.280 then obviously he's your seventh inactive Brown. If he's not, 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:37.760 then who's your guy? Probably Noah Brown if Sean Lee 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:43.159 can go. But I'm I'm I'm gonna be bold and 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.240 say I think Sean Lee's gonna sit this week. I 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:50.760 we'll see. I might be wrong, but okay, Michael fifty, 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.480 I mean what else would Shaun Lee be? All Right, 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.080 We're gonna go first break like DeMarcus Ware. Yeah. 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