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Speaker 1: We're about to break it down Cowboys defense. Wait, Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense versus the Broncos defense. Sorry y'all got on, but yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do Offense v. Defense today. And can the
Speaker 1: Cowboys get Dak Prescott back? And if they do, then
Speaker 1: how much can they put up on a Broncos defense
Speaker 1: that actually has some pretty good pieces to it? Heck Harrison,
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand Back, Rob Phillips, Chris Beam in the back
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Speaker 1: think he just forgets a just loses track. You know, honestly,
Speaker 1: I can see that nice nice coolos and hoodies that
Speaker 1: we've never seen before, you know, the one drops. You know,
Speaker 1: just I feel bad for the fans at home because
Speaker 1: they can't even see his kit game. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: even see it today. Let me se, Yeah, it's it's
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Speaker 1: News and notes for the Cowboys yesterday. We've got some
Speaker 1: on the field news and some really cool off the
Speaker 1: field news as well. So tons of things here. Make
Speaker 1: a play. What would you like me to start with.
Speaker 1: Let's start on the field. On the field, um, let's see,
Speaker 1: Cowboys had a modified practice on Wednesday. It was an
Speaker 1: hour and sixteen minutes to the dot, according to head
Speaker 1: coach Mike McCarthy, in sixteen including warm ups, including warm ups,
Speaker 1: just got on the field. This new age. Man, Hey,
Speaker 1: your chase. Yeah, I had at least four more games
Speaker 1: than me this schedule. It's not soft, it's not sawft,
Speaker 1: it's not I don't that's not why whatever. So partially
Speaker 1: it's coming off the late game, right in the late
Speaker 1: road trip. The other part is he wants this is
Speaker 1: his style. He wants to devote more film time yesterday
Speaker 1: to an uncommon opponent. They haven't played the Broncos in
Speaker 1: four years, and the team's completely different than it was
Speaker 1: last time, so that's why they did that. They're back
Speaker 1: in pads today and I'll be interested, We'll all be
Speaker 1: very interesting to see how much Dak Prescott does because
Speaker 1: we'll talk about him later. But the hope and expectation
Speaker 1: was if everything goes good, he'd be full go today
Speaker 1: and that would obviously be a very good sign for Sunday.
Speaker 1: Do you want to see that full go today? Is
Speaker 1: that a course? If that is the case, do you
Speaker 1: think that Sunday comes along if everything goes right and
Speaker 1: at the end of the day or I guess going
Speaker 1: into tomorrow. We talked to Mike McCarthy and he says,
Speaker 1: thumbs up on Dak Prescott number four is going to
Speaker 1: be behind center. I still think it's like, how does
Speaker 1: he respond the rest of the week, because it's a
Speaker 1: calf and calves are weird. But it would it be
Speaker 1: trending in that direction the right way. Absolutely, it would be.
Speaker 1: I think, what do you think, Isaiah? Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: like to see him full go. I mean it's it's Thursday, Thursday,
Speaker 1: so seventy two hours roll um, actually seventy five hours
Speaker 1: from right now. So you know we're we need to
Speaker 1: see that. We need to see that to have that
Speaker 1: sense of security. Otherwise we're gonna be rushing back to
Speaker 1: It's gonna be rush hour, can be rush hour five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: clever transition by Isaiah stand back. Of course, you want
Speaker 1: to see him out there. You want to see him,
Speaker 1: you know, moving, not having any problems. I think when
Speaker 1: the pregame happened and everybody was waiting on the tweet
Speaker 1: from Rob He to say whether he was playing or not,
Speaker 1: it was important to know if he'd had any residual
Speaker 1: effects after the week that he had against New England.
Speaker 1: Right now, what's important, it's just him being healthy. And
Speaker 1: I believe that britt Brown, and as much as we
Speaker 1: talk about how extensive he is would rehab up and
Speaker 1: how guys trust him, it's in his hands. And you
Speaker 1: saw when he came to Dack before in the pregame
Speaker 1: and told me what playing dad didn't argue much with
Speaker 1: him and he was okay with it. So whatever this week,
Speaker 1: what if that happened this week? You know, I think
Speaker 1: whatever course I think, I think whatever course we take,
Speaker 1: and right now, the way that things are, we need
Speaker 1: a healthy Dak Prescott over the next half of this season.
Speaker 1: That's I think that's what's important. And if there's any
Speaker 1: any effects, anything that slightly could be wrong, and you've
Speaker 1: talked about this before, Isaiah, is that you don't want
Speaker 1: this to be a lingering thing through the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. And if we could put that to bed,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. Yeah, I'm okay with that as well.
Speaker 1: And plus Thursday of last week was when he really
Speaker 1: pushed it, just to try and see what he could
Speaker 1: do in his rehab, and he came out and said, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, coach. I'm a little sore, and Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said that to the media as well as Dak's
Speaker 1: feeling it a little bit on that Friday from last week.
Speaker 1: We'll see what he's feeling tomorrow as well. So Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott potentially a full strength today at practice. Should be
Speaker 1: fun to watch. Yeah, going down the other injuries, I
Speaker 1: just wanted also to point out, Um, DeMarcus Lawrence did
Speaker 1: more off to the side with Britt than I've I've
Speaker 1: seen that I can recall, and he looked good. He
Speaker 1: was moving well. Um not saying he's going to be
Speaker 1: imminently back to practice, but I think he's headed closer
Speaker 1: in that direction. So that's really good. How motivated is
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence right now? Gotta be right. How motivated is
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence to get back on his horse and get
Speaker 1: his his season back started? Oh my god? You ever? Yeah,
Speaker 1: did you ever hurt yourself? As like a second grader,
Speaker 1: you're playing football or something, you like fractured your arm,
Speaker 1: broke a leg, sprained an ankle or something, and you're
Speaker 1: sitting on the bench at recess and you've got like
Speaker 1: a sling and you're just sitting there and you're watching
Speaker 1: all your other friends have fun and getting on the
Speaker 1: slide and swings and stuff. That's what DeMarcus Lawrence. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: but I had a safe place. Kyle. This is a place.
Speaker 1: This is why I'm talking about this, this is why
Speaker 1: I'm opening in the nest. Yeah. I knocked out my
Speaker 1: two front teeth when I was a kid playing football.
Speaker 1: I hit it, hit a guy in the knee and
Speaker 1: knocked out both of them clean. And I remember sitting
Speaker 1: over their ass for the rest of recess, for the
Speaker 1: rest of the recess because I was bleeding, and I
Speaker 1: looked over and my friends just kept playing football, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, this is not fun. So but yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what Marcus Lawrence is right now. He's looking at
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory and ter It's l Basham and Lawrence Armstrong.
Speaker 1: Thank you, We're here for him. Oh man, two front teeth,
Speaker 1: yeahdivisual and the trauma. It's okay, all right, But I
Speaker 1: think Isaiah said it though, like when when a defense
Speaker 1: is playing like this and the whole teams playing, you
Speaker 1: don't want to be left out. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 1: tanks feeling that because tanks the guy that sets the
Speaker 1: tone from this defense when he's out there, so you
Speaker 1: know it's got to be driving him crazy. So he
Speaker 1: was all smiles after practice. I think I think he's
Speaker 1: getting closer. If you had to give an estimate, doctor
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, where would you think? What week? I don't, no, guests,
Speaker 1: I'm not going there. I think I think he could.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe they start the practice window later this
Speaker 1: month and and see where he's at into and get
Speaker 1: that three weeks going. But obviously they're not going to
Speaker 1: do it this week. Um real quick. On the injuries,
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper was limited with the hamstring that was bothering
Speaker 1: him late in the game. Ceedee Lamb was limited with
Speaker 1: an ankle issue, and uh, I think that was it
Speaker 1: for limited. Draymond Diggs was full. So that's incourage awesome.
Speaker 1: That's my next question, Yeah, Diggs. The big one is
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith did not practice and it didn't sound like
Speaker 1: for Mike McCarthy like he's very likely to play in
Speaker 1: this game. Okay, so let's put a pin right there. Please,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, don't want hijack the show. No, we can
Speaker 1: talk about it right now to go later in the show.
Speaker 1: We can wait. I mean, what you want to do
Speaker 1: because we gotta, we gotta, we gotta get this thing.
Speaker 1: I'll taken care of. Yeah, let's well, well let's talk
Speaker 1: about it. Let's take a full segment to it. So
Speaker 1: we'll do it in segment three because I agree. I
Speaker 1: think that is a big deal. And I mean, if
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith's not all, we've got another debate on our
Speaker 1: hands for the tackle position. Just flip flopping sides. Now, Um,
Speaker 1: you guys think Murray Cooper's playing, I don't see. I
Speaker 1: don't see him playing if he was limited, I don't
Speaker 1: see him playing. Why for the same reasons. Why why
Speaker 1: Dak didn't play last week? He has a hamstring that
Speaker 1: obviously not healed. Right, he played through it before, right,
Speaker 1: we said, okay, you know he can take some time
Speaker 1: off or you can played through it. Well, he played
Speaker 1: through it, and any way, he came back and bite him,
Speaker 1: came back to buy him last week. Right, So Hammy's
Speaker 1: don't go away. We know that did it really come
Speaker 1: back to buy him? Because he had he made a
Speaker 1: play but two yards and he didn't make the game
Speaker 1: winning I mean, yeah, I mean he's a specimen. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that he's this that he's Super Day's not human, right,
Speaker 1: So mean you keep testing that hammy if you want to.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bought a softball just in case, you know,
Speaker 1: blow minds softball, whatever it is. I mean, because if
Speaker 1: you guys he was out, I thought at that point,
Speaker 1: when he's laying on the ground that that's hey, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be hurt. Now we got to think about how
Speaker 1: we gonna go forward, and we don't have Mike g CD.
Speaker 1: He's over there with a hamstring. And then next thing
Speaker 1: I know, Cooper Russia is throwing a dime to the
Speaker 1: edge and there's number nineteen running around. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't I mean, he's toughed it out. For all
Speaker 1: the criticism that he's gotten over the previous years, man,
Speaker 1: he has shut his critics mouth tight. So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to think about Amark Cooper and
Speaker 1: injuries anymore, and he's just muscling through. That's my thing is,
Speaker 1: if you're going by the history of what this season
Speaker 1: has been, he's it seems like he's had an ailment
Speaker 1: every single week, and yet he's played every single week.
Speaker 1: So I hear you. I don't know. I feel like
Speaker 1: if he was limited in practice. Now, if he was
Speaker 1: a non participant, then I think that might be a
Speaker 1: little different. I might be a little worried. But the
Speaker 1: fact that he was even out there says well, I
Speaker 1: think I'm expecting Amari Cooper the least. And these designations
Speaker 1: I've forgot to mention are based off of what a
Speaker 1: normal practice would be, so like if they had a
Speaker 1: normal Wednesday, he would have been limited. So I think
Speaker 1: that's that's encouraging. But your point's well taken. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's been banged up all year and hamstrings are no fun.
Speaker 1: But we'll see. I mean, obviously Wednesday, today's a big day,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't have an indication at this
Speaker 1: point he's not gonna play, but we'll see. Any other
Speaker 1: notes from practice sand or on the field stuff from yesterday.
Speaker 1: I know they brought Bradley and I back to the
Speaker 1: practice squad. Sprinkles nice here feeling better now, he feeling better,
Speaker 1: little bit better. Yeah, I like him in the building.
Speaker 1: There was also news off the field. I said this
Speaker 1: as well. There are two things, one of them really
Speaker 1: really cool, and that is the the Medal of Honor
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are gonna be wearing a commemorative stripe on
Speaker 1: their helmet. The red, white and blue is back for
Speaker 1: the first time since nineteen seventy six, when seventy six, Yeah,
Speaker 1: when Roger stawback and stuff. There's a helmet right there.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a it's super cool look, and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna support it at at and T Stadium
Speaker 1: on Sunday. You see it right there. It's the normal
Speaker 1: blue and white stripe and then accompanied by that red stripe.
Speaker 1: And they've also got the Medal of Honor patch on
Speaker 1: the end or on the back end underneath that American flag,
Speaker 1: and then the Salute to Service ribbon on the right.
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys got some cool stuff coming up this weekend.
Speaker 1: I mean, the stadium is gonna be lit. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be really really cool because they're gonna honor a
Speaker 1: ton of the Medal of Honor. You wrote the article, correct,
Speaker 1: I did not. Oh, okay, but David Nick did. What
Speaker 1: What did you see from the article or at least
Speaker 1: from the announcement itself. No, I think you said it.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's it's go the celebration of our
Speaker 1: armed forces, like you said in the National Medal of
Speaker 1: Honor recipients, and I didn't. I forgot that that was
Speaker 1: a look that they had in seventy six. I don't
Speaker 1: know your your Cowboys historian. I didn't remember that. Actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: well seventy six. I don't either. But it's all good.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna bring it back, so yeah, you
Speaker 1: are bringing it back. Was minus five minus five? Where
Speaker 1: were you? Minus two? It was around so yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. Uh National Medal of Honor. We were We
Speaker 1: were just shown a couple of different angles of it.
Speaker 1: On the actual video stream. Chris Bean put a couple
Speaker 1: pictures up of the National Medal of Honor museum that
Speaker 1: will take place and start construction in Arlington in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. So really cool subtle from the Jones family
Speaker 1: and saluting our armed forces as well. Also, there was
Speaker 1: a report this morning. I don't know how much validity
Speaker 1: there is in this, but TCU a head coach position
Speaker 1: is open. No more Gary Patterson there and apparently one
Speaker 1: of the candidates for that offensive coordinator, Kellen Moore. Whoa, whoa, hey,
Speaker 1: stop just aren't even talking about this. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to throw it out there. What that he's on their list?
Speaker 1: He's on their list. Okay, that's all it is that
Speaker 1: there was no validity to it. I mean basically they
Speaker 1: were saying we're interested. That was the quote from a source.
Speaker 1: So that one just came down this morning. I just
Speaker 1: saw that as I woke up. So it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: He's going to be inquired about, no doubt about it everywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like if NFL college the previous coach jobs come up
Speaker 1: and around here. How much it was a previous coach
Speaker 1: making Gary Patterson? No, do not know off the top
Speaker 1: of my head. A lot. Yeah, not more, not more
Speaker 1: than good. I'm not more than six. Ain't that he'll
Speaker 1: be here. We'll right to check for that. All right,
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Speaker 1: with you as we start previewing the Cowboys offense. Will
Speaker 1: they have Dak Prescott back. Maybe will they put up
Speaker 1: big numbers against the Broncos? What say you, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: I suggestion, who's playing quarterback? Now? I think they got
Speaker 1: a chance to. They showed regardless of who's in there,
Speaker 1: they can move the ball. Uh. Now, they only had
Speaker 1: twenty points against Minnesota. But Denver's got like you said, Kyle,
Speaker 1: Denver's got some players on this defense, and they made
Speaker 1: some plays late in the Washington game that were impressive.
Speaker 1: Justin Simmons is a really good safety for them. Um,
Speaker 1: they got to replace Von Miller, and they made a
Speaker 1: trade late in October for Stephen Weatherly, who made some
Speaker 1: plays late in the game for them. But there's they've
Speaker 1: had issues on defense, and sure you guys have seen
Speaker 1: that as well. I mean, teams have been able to
Speaker 1: run on him a little bit. And so I'm interested.
Speaker 1: I'm just interested to see how their defense responds after
Speaker 1: they trade away their franchise player. That's anytime that happens,
Speaker 1: even though you're four and four and you're still in it, Like,
Speaker 1: what's the what's the mindset, what's the mentality for that,
Speaker 1: especially after starting three and ol And that was gonna
Speaker 1: be my question for you. I mean, that isn't that
Speaker 1: a little demoralizing or does that signify we are packing
Speaker 1: it up for next year? When you trade off von
Speaker 1: Miller at four and four, what does that say to
Speaker 1: the rest of your team and what will that defense
Speaker 1: their vibration be like in a game that they need
Speaker 1: to win. Yeah, I mean, they they're gonna find out
Speaker 1: the character of their team. Right. They're in a very
Speaker 1: competitive division right now that they're down one game really
Speaker 1: pretty much place are down one game first place, So
Speaker 1: regardless of who's there who's not there, they all need
Speaker 1: to show up and ball out. Von Miller being gone
Speaker 1: doesn't do anything to these guys in the locker rooms,
Speaker 1: I mean in terms of their play, simply because of
Speaker 1: the fact that they knew he was gonna come back
Speaker 1: next year. Right, So to your point yesterday, trade them away,
Speaker 1: get the dog on, you know, equity um, and utilize
Speaker 1: that to build your team going forward. So they understand.
Speaker 1: Guys understand the business aspect of the game. But somebody
Speaker 1: does have to fulfill that role. Now. Somebody has to
Speaker 1: step up, and unfortunately they've been getting triggering. Just Jesus
Speaker 1: trampled on defense on front there they got a couple
Speaker 1: of dud with Shelby Harris. He shows up on film
Speaker 1: a lot, but on the author I think the majority
Speaker 1: of their weapons are at the end of the secondary
Speaker 1: cornerback position and in the second at the safety position. Now,
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you, man, because watching past Serten and
Speaker 1: I was, you know, giving you a little shade during
Speaker 1: the draft and all that about past Suten because that's
Speaker 1: a guy you really wanted. And I agree, Man, it's
Speaker 1: his first couple of games. When you go back and
Speaker 1: watch him, he's playing lights out in Vangil scheme. Um.
Speaker 1: But I just feel as though even with Justin Simmons
Speaker 1: and he is somebody I wish we would have been
Speaker 1: able to get in free agency. But those two guys
Speaker 1: together probably are going to be the future of this
Speaker 1: defense going forward if you just think about just them,
Speaker 1: their age and what. But how do you feel about
Speaker 1: Pat sir ten because he's not traveling uh and like
Speaker 1: like our guy, how do you feel about him in
Speaker 1: the matchup this week with Ceedee Lamb or Mary Cooper?
Speaker 1: I feel fine. I don't think there's too many cornerbacks
Speaker 1: in this league that I wouldn't feel good about our matchups.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a young guy, he's talented. I think
Speaker 1: he still has a way to go to be a
Speaker 1: dominant guy. He's not He's not what Digs is to
Speaker 1: us right now. So, um, you know what that said.
Speaker 1: I'm not threatening, but but he has a good talent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And what do you think about the way that this
Speaker 1: defense is built? Because the front seven hasn't necessarily had
Speaker 1: a ton of success, and then, like we just talked about,
Speaker 1: they just gave away pretty much for a second and
Speaker 1: the third round pick. They're top pass rusher. So do
Speaker 1: you believe the secondary is built well enough on the
Speaker 1: backside that they can still take advantage. I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Not right now. They're gonna have to do more. Um.
Speaker 1: You know Kareem Jackson, he's okay. Ronald Darby, Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a good player, He's he's inconsistent though, right daddy. That's
Speaker 1: where you got to get shure of that up and
Speaker 1: get better. Um. And obviously again with them leaving losing Vaughan,
Speaker 1: that's where they're gonna be most pressed to try and
Speaker 1: get better is upfront. Um. They play a unique style
Speaker 1: of defense. Um through the broncos It's not as conventional
Speaker 1: as three four as you'd like to see it. I mean,
Speaker 1: they really have a lot of guys standing around the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, but they don't they don't present any
Speaker 1: problem to us as far as the pressure that they're
Speaker 1: gonna bring. And that's what I think. It's gonna make
Speaker 1: them a sitting duck and waiting on Dak or thinking
Speaker 1: that Dak can come back. I mean, I just feel
Speaker 1: like we're just gonna get right back on that highway
Speaker 1: of four hundred yard games and two tuddies from DA
Speaker 1: because you know, look, I just don't see them being
Speaker 1: able to match up with us. And again, Pastor Tan,
Speaker 1: I just want to go back to that. He's just
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that you know after the
Speaker 1: draft and Denver got in front of us and got
Speaker 1: the pick. But man, just think of how dynamic this
Speaker 1: guy is gonna be in years to come in the league.
Speaker 1: To me, it's kind of like, uh, we talked about
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson and see Lamb, how you can debate which
Speaker 1: receivers to have a better career, but both teams are
Speaker 1: happy with their selection. It's a great way to put it.
Speaker 1: I think the Tenver's probably looking at like we love
Speaker 1: pats are tan. I mean, Michael Parsons looks like he's
Speaker 1: gonna be great for a decade plus. But I mean,
Speaker 1: look at what he's doing. I mean, I think the
Speaker 1: PFF stats he's allowed fewer than forty yards and coverage
Speaker 1: in seven of eight games. Wow. I mean he's been
Speaker 1: he's been kind of a shutdown guy for them already.
Speaker 1: And I feel like it's been under the radar because
Speaker 1: at least with Denver being four and four, you're looking
Speaker 1: at the numbers that the offense is struggling to put up,
Speaker 1: and then the defense turns around and you're actually looking
Speaker 1: at the roster and saying, outside of the front seven,
Speaker 1: this is a pretty good secondary. I mean, they've got
Speaker 1: a good slot corner, they've got a good right cornerback.
Speaker 1: They've got a good safety they've got I mean, I
Speaker 1: like the Kareem Jackson Justin Simmons tandem. I mean that
Speaker 1: those are two decent safeties on the back end. And
Speaker 1: if I say decent, I mean actually really good. They
Speaker 1: have depth because Kyle Fuller's out there as well, they're
Speaker 1: not even using him, yeah, and Bryce Collahan's on ir right.
Speaker 1: They've been hurting at her a little bit, but yeah,
Speaker 1: their safety play is good, Sir Tan's bawling. It's definitely
Speaker 1: the strength of their defense because I think von Miller
Speaker 1: by far was their best sack guy, four and a
Speaker 1: half sacks. He's gone. You got Draymond Jones, Shelby Harris.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's not they're in the Washington game.
Speaker 1: They got home with some five man pressures and blitzes
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, but it's you know, oh, you're
Speaker 1: right up front, they haven't been as strong as in
Speaker 1: the back end. And look, I don't want to get
Speaker 1: a hit, but man, the football team is so bad.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait for the football team week because this team,
Speaker 1: they can't show up here and act like world beaters again.
Speaker 1: They better keep that same energy that I saw versus
Speaker 1: the Broncos, because right now they are horrible and what
Speaker 1: happened in their defense. One of their best players is
Speaker 1: out now too sweat broken. Jah, Yeah, that's what happened.
Speaker 1: When you talk too much, But that's what you're saying. Wow,
Speaker 1: you know making you're making two more, You're making three
Speaker 1: predictions this week. I just I was watching the tape.
Speaker 1: I was watching in the table, and I was like,
Speaker 1: how bad they look? Yeah, that's amazing. Did that happen
Speaker 1: when you got that much talent on your front? Well
Speaker 1: what about everybody going into this season saying that they
Speaker 1: were guaranteed to win the East? That? Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: agree with that either, because of the quarterback they got
Speaker 1: us magic, Yeah, and that's automatically put them ahead for
Speaker 1: some reason or another. But yeah, well people also probably
Speaker 1: had question marks around Dak and stuff, and so that
Speaker 1: was why they were saying it early on. But that's
Speaker 1: not the case anymore. Um. I agree with you, though,
Speaker 1: But keep that same energy Washington coming to AT and
Speaker 1: T Stadium that you had on Thanksgiving last year, because
Speaker 1: I want that again. I want to come back. I
Speaker 1: want to have some some revenge. That's your job, broke Wow, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: Whenever you come, whenever you look at a matchup and
Speaker 1: it's a secondary where the strength is of a defense
Speaker 1: as opposed to the front seven, you know you're probably
Speaker 1: going to have time for the most part throughout the game.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have time to find your targets. How does
Speaker 1: a mindset change from a quarterback standpoint? Whenever it's the
Speaker 1: secondary you have to worry about, you just gotta be
Speaker 1: on your p's and ques in terms of your your mechanics,
Speaker 1: making sure that the delivery or your ball is on point,
Speaker 1: on location. There's no room for error. You understand that
Speaker 1: you're still gonna throw the ball, You're still gonna push
Speaker 1: it down the field, but you know that you don't
Speaker 1: have those margins for error. Um, say, if you know,
Speaker 1: if you're if you're playing dB, you're on on my
Speaker 1: left side. I need to put that ball. I'm on
Speaker 1: the right side of shoulder right, and I can't afford
Speaker 1: to miss even you know, twelve inches because if I
Speaker 1: miss twelve inches, that d might make me pay. So
Speaker 1: you really just dialed in in terms of all the
Speaker 1: you know how precise you are with your passing, in
Speaker 1: your decision making. Heckma, which one do you think DAK
Speaker 1: is more a custom to or at least more I
Speaker 1: guess better at I should say it's just better at
Speaker 1: adjusting to front seven or adjusting to a good secondary
Speaker 1: man At this point in his career, I think it's
Speaker 1: got to be both. I mean, he's he's proven that
Speaker 1: you can't blitz him. Uh, you can't fool him with
Speaker 1: coverages anymore. Uh. There was a time in dak career
Speaker 1: where you know, he was facing those eight nine man
Speaker 1: boxes and I thought it was so disrespectful because people
Speaker 1: would never play Aaron Rodgers like that, They would never
Speaker 1: play Patrick Mahomes like that. And now he's gotten to
Speaker 1: the point where he's identifying and able to make the decision.
Speaker 1: So you know, I just I just feel like where
Speaker 1: we were with Dak after the New England game just
Speaker 1: proved his progression from his first year all the way
Speaker 1: through the contract and where he is now. And that's
Speaker 1: why people are talking about mv pizzle you like that
Speaker 1: with Chest Yeah, I mean just watching that Washington game back,
Speaker 1: I couldn't tell if they're just playing playing off, trying
Speaker 1: to keep everything from them. Like you said, they got
Speaker 1: a good secondary that there's some opportunities in the run
Speaker 1: game in that case for sure for Zeke Tony Pollard. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, watching got the screen game going. They got
Speaker 1: guys out in space with a short passing game, and
Speaker 1: that's what we saw when before Dak got hurt, like
Speaker 1: most teams started playing back and saying we're not gonna
Speaker 1: let you beat us deep and then they get punished
Speaker 1: in the run game, and that that could happen again
Speaker 1: again Sunday. If Zeke an Tony get get going, assuming
Speaker 1: Dak plays in this game, and even if Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: doesn't play, you you like your your chances in the
Speaker 1: running game this week, just loading up versus them, because
Speaker 1: they give up so many yards rushing. So you know,
Speaker 1: again going back to that same game, like you said,
Speaker 1: they play, they play so soft, um and allow those
Speaker 1: open zones. And that's why I feel like this may
Speaker 1: be your schultz Enegger game this year. Yeah you can.
Speaker 1: You can run that back this week for thea they
Speaker 1: didn't have it last week. Actually, like Pollard a lot
Speaker 1: in this game, simply because when you watch, uh what
Speaker 1: a game was I watching it? Who was it? The
Speaker 1: Cleveland game? Um? Yeah, I was watching the Cleveland game
Speaker 1: and they're they're running back and how he was just
Speaker 1: cutting all over to Ernest Johnson, Yeah Johnson. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: but he mimics Pollard more so than some of these
Speaker 1: other backs and the abilities that he was that he
Speaker 1: was exuted when he was able to press, press, press
Speaker 1: and then cut backside and really just hit those seams
Speaker 1: and explode beyond that second level. That's what I that's
Speaker 1: why I envisioned Paular being able to do in this game.
Speaker 1: Obviously Zeke And when I say Paular, we're still going
Speaker 1: to see Zeke. But I think Paula can really like
Speaker 1: this game up with the explosiveness that he has. You
Speaker 1: think that's how about this? How about over under thirty
Speaker 1: throws for dak Presscott thirty pass attempts? Because he's thrown
Speaker 1: over thirty three times, he's thrown under thirty three times.
Speaker 1: Which one do you think it would be this week?
Speaker 1: You think because of the run game and what success
Speaker 1: that they could have there, that he puts the art
Speaker 1: the gun and the holster and he I'll say thirty
Speaker 1: two passes thirty two right around there, I'll go slightly over.
Speaker 1: Slightly over, Yeah, I would agree, um, you know, slightly
Speaker 1: over as well, because you're gonna really so much. It's
Speaker 1: so heavily on the running game. And I think that's
Speaker 1: a smart move, especially with what Denver gives up and
Speaker 1: the way that we got Cooper rush off was even
Speaker 1: in those first and second we were running on first down.
Speaker 1: We were not throwing the ball on the first down,
Speaker 1: but he was putting us in those Those third and
Speaker 1: eights are third and sevens because you know, maybe I've
Speaker 1: only picked up a yard or two, but just the
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore's resiliency or just the ability to stay with
Speaker 1: the run last week, I think is what we approach
Speaker 1: how we approach it this week, especially if Dak isn't
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. And we've talked a lot about Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore's play calling, but his game management and from start
Speaker 1: to finish, the way that he crescendos an offense is
Speaker 1: so impressive this year because of the way that he's
Speaker 1: not necessarily done that in the past. And also you
Speaker 1: can say it on third down two the Cowboys holding
Speaker 1: the Vikings to one of thirteen on third down, and
Speaker 1: then the fifty percent from your offense. What has been
Speaker 1: the biggest change rob Whenever you look at the third
Speaker 1: down offense and why they've been so successful in the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. I think, whenever you have a
Speaker 1: running game like this, you get in more manageable third
Speaker 1: downs and you're not I have to go back and
Speaker 1: look at it, but I don't. I think sometimes they
Speaker 1: get in themselves with pre snap penalties. They'll get in
Speaker 1: first and long or second and long, but they're always
Speaker 1: able to kind of get it back to a manageable
Speaker 1: third down where it's not there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: third nines there, you know, when it's more mid to
Speaker 1: short yard is on third down, he's in his bag
Speaker 1: and he can come up with a lot of different
Speaker 1: ways to throw you off balance. I think when you
Speaker 1: have a run game, it makes things so much easier. Isaiah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's a combination of those things. Obviously, you
Speaker 1: want to be a manageable down and distance, but I
Speaker 1: think Kellen Moore has got him a lot more creative.
Speaker 1: I think I just think he has I think he
Speaker 1: makes it up personnels, making up concepts, running, passing, all
Speaker 1: those things. He's made very He's made the defense play
Speaker 1: on their heels right. Defenses can't play down He'll they
Speaker 1: can't be that aggressive because he'll he'll make you pay
Speaker 1: for it. One of the crazy stats are just talking
Speaker 1: to our ability, you know, whether a pass or run.
Speaker 1: I just came across this Dallas is leading the league
Speaker 1: and average plays per game sixty nine point seven, just
Speaker 1: ahead of Buffalo. So our ability to be able to
Speaker 1: throw thirty times and still get forty runs in it's
Speaker 1: still something that's doable. Credit the defense for that too,
Speaker 1: because they're giving them extra possessions, right, and that's and
Speaker 1: that's dragging your defense through the mud if we have
Speaker 1: sixty nine seventy plays per game. But also back to
Speaker 1: Dalton shows, I think on third down you have a
Speaker 1: possession receiver that you know that you can go to,
Speaker 1: and you talk about to pick your poison aspect that
Speaker 1: the defenses have to deal with. On third down, you're
Speaker 1: looking on the outside to make sure that you don't
Speaker 1: get dashed for a big play. And somehow, some way
Speaker 1: they're losing tracks of Dalton shots. So that's just a
Speaker 1: testament to and Willson, yes, exactly. And so when you
Speaker 1: have guys like that that can sneak underneath and as
Speaker 1: shorthanded and get you that first down. And going back
Speaker 1: to Kelly Morris's ability to diagnose defenses and him and
Speaker 1: dak be on the same page again, I think that's
Speaker 1: just a testament to how well this year is going
Speaker 1: and how explosive this offense is. One of the things
Speaker 1: about our ability to convert on anybody's ability to convert
Speaker 1: on third down, is how confident the defense is and
Speaker 1: what you're presenting on third down down right, right, so
Speaker 1: when I when you're prepared for the week, I mean
Speaker 1: the offensive gas do an amazing job of giving you
Speaker 1: all these stats and analysis of Hey, when these guys
Speaker 1: are in this physics their life, what they like to dude,
Speaker 1: it's you know, you're being literally in a huddle. Hey
Speaker 1: if they you know when we come out of living
Speaker 1: personnel on third down and third and five, you know
Speaker 1: they're blitzing, you know, sixty two percent at a time,
Speaker 1: Like you're speaking in data, right, that's literally how how
Speaker 1: much information you receive. So when you are mixing up
Speaker 1: the personnels like these guys are doing on on our
Speaker 1: side of the ball um, it makes that really confusing.
Speaker 1: What data do they have to go to? Right, you
Speaker 1: come out in a dog on wishbone, they there's no
Speaker 1: data for that. Right when you come out in a
Speaker 1: big personnel, you come out in thirteen personnel, you come
Speaker 1: out in eleven. All of a sudden you got fly
Speaker 1: sweeps with pitches to Cedriy Wilson, He's throwing passes like
Speaker 1: what what what data do you have that shows there's
Speaker 1: no next gin stat can't do anything there. And it's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, like you said, a lot of
Speaker 1: weird stuff he'll throw out there that makes you work
Speaker 1: on that and maybe waste time on that during the week,
Speaker 1: but then you're hesitating. Right As as as a defender
Speaker 1: on third down, you need to know and act right
Speaker 1: because the sticks are right there. You gotta be able
Speaker 1: to jump on that thing when you have to. Now
Speaker 1: sit back and analyze what's going on. Now I'm on
Speaker 1: my heels. Now I'm I'm I'm doubled thing, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm overthinking what's gonna happen. And now guess what. That's
Speaker 1: hesitation and that hesitation costs you. Right, all I need
Speaker 1: is half a step and boom, we got you real quick.
Speaker 1: Something you dragged my memory about just how creative he's been.
Speaker 1: Something he said that was pretty cool a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago about how every Monday, and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's this is the only team that does this, but
Speaker 1: he gets with his some of his offensive staff, like
Speaker 1: Cavallero offensive assistant, and they just spend some time like
Speaker 1: kicking around things they saw him brainstorm and things they
Speaker 1: saw in the college game, things they saw in the
Speaker 1: NFL game, and just kind of compiled all together. It's
Speaker 1: he's a young. You know, he's a young offensive mind,
Speaker 1: and he's and he is creative, and I think, boy,
Speaker 1: he's got that playbook boy genius is also. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's dope though, right when when everything when you
Speaker 1: could put tradition to the side and say, I respect
Speaker 1: what's been in the past, but this I'm adding a wrinkle,
Speaker 1: right and I and as long as I stay within
Speaker 1: the rules of you know how many guys on the
Speaker 1: line of scribbage and all that stuff, I can do
Speaker 1: whatever the heck I want to. Once your mind is
Speaker 1: open to that, he'd beat a dog elon muskin football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, all of that, all of that, man,
Speaker 1: that sounds good in theory, but you have to have
Speaker 1: the personnel to pull it off. No, you gotta have
Speaker 1: a personnel to pull it off. He has a full
Speaker 1: tool kit. He has a whole garage full of tools,
Speaker 1: and he's just like, I might as well build something.
Speaker 1: And that's and that's and maybe that's something in the
Speaker 1: past that we absolutely didn't have and going up against
Speaker 1: other opponents, they didn't have to prepare the same way
Speaker 1: for us as we had for them. So what you
Speaker 1: bring up is very important is when you go to
Speaker 1: film study and you look at third down and they have,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty different packages that you have to look at.
Speaker 1: You spend all day out in the practice field trying
Speaker 1: to figure that out. Didn't you get in the game,
Speaker 1: and then they do something completely different. Maybe it's the
Speaker 1: Tony Stark of the NFL. We're gonna lose him for
Speaker 1: real now, Yeah, he's done. This is great. One of
Speaker 1: the tools of the tool shed, or I guess one
Speaker 1: of the weapons in the arsenal. Dak Prescott versus top
Speaker 1: five scoring defenses in his career. By the way, the
Speaker 1: Broncos are second in the NFL and scoring defense allowed
Speaker 1: seventeen points per game. Prior to this year, Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: was six and five and through and had twenty three
Speaker 1: points per game. This year, he's three and oz with
Speaker 1: over thirty seven points per game against top five scoring defenses.
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Speaker 1: I didn't see it. I was trying to Can we
Speaker 1: please answer? I don't think we have a replay machine
Speaker 1: the two fingers, I put the two fires, my man, Mike.
Speaker 1: We will we will review the field. That was the
Speaker 1: David helmet approach coming from behind the mic. But you
Speaker 1: gave us like the Zoolander smile though it's not gonna
Speaker 1: pass your test. Oh no, see it? That's that's disappointing.
Speaker 1: I felt like I didn't There's just one aspect of anyways.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, So who's who's playing left tackle? Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and move on from that. Uh. Tyrant Smith not
Speaker 1: available with practice yesterday? Tyan Secki was who filled in
Speaker 1: for him against the Vikings. Should he do that again?
Speaker 1: That's my question, open ended, very loaded. Who wants it first?
Speaker 1: Tecmo wants it first? Oh god? You know when somebody says,
Speaker 1: you know, no disrespect, what do they do next they
Speaker 1: disrespect you? So look, all I'm saying the Tai Nikseki
Speaker 1: and when he came into the game for Tyrn Smith
Speaker 1: is it just did not look as though he was
Speaker 1: the natural swing tackle that we've been boasting about or
Speaker 1: talking about. Um, I don't know about Leo Collins right
Speaker 1: at left at left tackle. I wonder if it's even
Speaker 1: possible to take Steal over to left tackle at this point,
Speaker 1: but Tyni Seki for a full game. It worries me,
Speaker 1: and I think he would have to get way more
Speaker 1: help than we were giving to to steal and so
Speaker 1: that that in itself is going to handicap our offense.
Speaker 1: And from just that's what we say. Maybe he'll throw
Speaker 1: under thirty passes because of that. But I just think
Speaker 1: it's a problem, and I don't want an experiment experimental
Speaker 1: situation then to happen right now. But if we're gonna
Speaker 1: go with Tie and the sec, everybody to keep your
Speaker 1: things cross. And just because it looks like an experiment
Speaker 1: from the outside doesn't necessarily mean it's an experiment experiment
Speaker 1: from the inside as well. So whoever they're putting it
Speaker 1: left tackle, they're gonna be uber confident at who they're
Speaker 1: putting it left tackle. Don't think if if it is
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins that's out there, or if it is Terrence
Speaker 1: Steele that's out there instead of Tie and Secky, that
Speaker 1: automatically that's an experience or an experiment. Because maybe they've
Speaker 1: already tried that. I'm thinking back to Oxnard. Terrence Steel
Speaker 1: had snaps at left tackle quite a bit. Yes, and
Speaker 1: that's you know, if you listen to what Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: said earlier this week, he said they take into account
Speaker 1: those reps all the way back to training camp. Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins didn't have a rep and left tackle that I
Speaker 1: remember when he was out there. He was playing right tackle.
Speaker 1: So Terrence Steele's an option now that also kind of
Speaker 1: would cut against what Mike likes to do, and that's
Speaker 1: not go two different changes on your offensive line. Just
Speaker 1: maybe go one for one. And I think there is
Speaker 1: a line of thinking with Terrence Steele. It's like, dude,
Speaker 1: he's a young guy, he's playing really well out there.
Speaker 1: Don't mess with a good thing, you know. So Tiniski
Speaker 1: played out there, he's played at left tackle. I think
Speaker 1: loo Collins could do it, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: they want to throw that much at him coming right
Speaker 1: back and already got him working at two different spots
Speaker 1: last week. Other spots. So are you saying that Niesecki
Speaker 1: is aluminum and you'd rather have Steel? Oh well, no,
Speaker 1: that's not what I'm saying it because I go back
Speaker 1: to what he just said. Robbie made him playing when
Speaker 1: he said, let's not mess with Steele's confidence. And right now,
Speaker 1: I think we all feel confident that Steele can play
Speaker 1: the right tackle position. I just don't want to Niseki
Speaker 1: worries me. I think he's the weakest link on the
Speaker 1: offensive line and back up that we have. But obviously,
Speaker 1: if they trust, they're gonna put him out there, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with what Kyle said. Hey, they it
Speaker 1: may not be an experiment from their standpoint because he's
Speaker 1: gotten all the backup reps at left tackle. We just
Speaker 1: saw how he struggled last week, and he struggled. If
Speaker 1: I was playing coach Fieldbin, I would take the confidence
Speaker 1: steel and put him on the backside because I have
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins who now has some reps underneath his belt.
Speaker 1: He's well arrested, he got fresh legs, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put him in his natural position, the position that we
Speaker 1: paid him a lot of money to play right even
Speaker 1: though Still's playing really good now. Had had Smith not
Speaker 1: gotten hurt, we wouldn't be having this conversation, obviously, and
Speaker 1: I would leave Still at that position. But who's our
Speaker 1: swing tackle still, Terren Steele, who's playing really well, Terren Steele.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take that same confident player, put him on
Speaker 1: the opposite side, and I'm gonna insert my all pro
Speaker 1: and put him at that right tackle and say, now
Speaker 1: I need you to show up and play how you've
Speaker 1: been playing. But how do you feel about Terren Steele
Speaker 1: next to Connor? I feel I feel see Tern Steele
Speaker 1: is our swing tackle. That's what he's paid to do.
Speaker 1: He just so happened to be filling in at the
Speaker 1: right tackle for our All Pro guy who was gone.
Speaker 1: So being that he's our swing tackle. Now that all
Speaker 1: Pro guy's gone and our other All Pro guy can't
Speaker 1: be there, he has to swing over to the left
Speaker 1: side and keep fulfilling his obligations that he was, that
Speaker 1: he's been doing for this team, keep making those contributions
Speaker 1: we just said it you don't feel good about in
Speaker 1: the second and the Seky's a backup, right, I don't
Speaker 1: consider I consider Still a backup. Still is a two
Speaker 1: person backup versus the SEC. He's a one person backup, right,
Speaker 1: So I feel a lot more confident with Still. And
Speaker 1: then you add in the fact that he's been playing
Speaker 1: really well. Take that confident young man and put him
Speaker 1: on the backside. I said, just like we needed you
Speaker 1: to fill in for Collins, we now need you to
Speaker 1: fill in for Smith because we don't know when Smith
Speaker 1: is going to come back. This is I don't I
Speaker 1: don't foresee this being a one game fixed. I think
Speaker 1: Smith might be out for a little bit. Heckman brought
Speaker 1: up a great point and it kind of jogged a
Speaker 1: thought process. What if the reason why Terren Steele is
Speaker 1: playing so well, he is so improved, is because of
Speaker 1: the availability and the consistency of Zach martinoff to his left.
Speaker 1: If you put him against Connor Williams, will he get exposed?
Speaker 1: Because now that's a worry of mine, just thinking about
Speaker 1: those two on the left side. You don't have a
Speaker 1: ton of confidence because if you think back to what
Speaker 1: Terren still did in twenty twenty, you can you can
Speaker 1: give him help on the left side too, And that's true,
Speaker 1: that's what they've done partially on the right side as well. Look,
Speaker 1: this team's gotten by with Cam Fleming at left tackle
Speaker 1: for two or three games. I mean, I think as
Speaker 1: well as Terrence still has played. I think I think
Speaker 1: you would feel better about as much as he's played
Speaker 1: putting him on the left side as opposed to the
Speaker 1: Titan Seki. If if you don't want to mess with
Speaker 1: low Collins having to play left tackle for the first
Speaker 1: time in seven years, I think that would be maybe
Speaker 1: a better scenario and we'll see what they do. Just logistically,
Speaker 1: it makes sense, and you make a perfect case for
Speaker 1: why you put still at left tackle because that's his job.
Speaker 1: I just feel like where he is and the confidence
Speaker 1: that he's built up on the right side, I don't
Speaker 1: want to tinker with that, and I'm just would just
Speaker 1: in a position where tyne Seki has to play. If
Speaker 1: if we know how good Tyron Smith is and that's
Speaker 1: something that you go to bed at night not even
Speaker 1: having to worry about Dak's blindside, you're gonna worry about that.
Speaker 1: If tyne Seki is at the left tackle, he still
Speaker 1: oh hit Sorry. Here's the other thing too, What if
Speaker 1: what if Lyle Collins is working his way back into
Speaker 1: the right tackle spot anyway and it is natural transition.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just throwing that out there. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think Terrence Steele has played well enough to keep keep
Speaker 1: starting there. But Lyle Collins is a really good player,
Speaker 1: and I think the main reason why he didn't play
Speaker 1: much was that they're working him back in last week. Now,
Speaker 1: I think that's a great point, because there's a hypop
Speaker 1: probability that that's the case. I mean, just because of
Speaker 1: the contract, because of the way that Lyle Collins is played.
Speaker 1: Maybe Terrence Steele does move out to left tackle and
Speaker 1: he gets some extra reps there and sees what happens
Speaker 1: from then on out. Is dak back this week? Pee
Speaker 1: come one? At this point the way they've talked about it,
Speaker 1: I think yes. I can't say that with certainty though,
Speaker 1: because it's a calf. It's a calf. We felt good
Speaker 1: about it early last week and they didn't do it
Speaker 1: percentage wise. Percentage on whether he'll go how to ask
Speaker 1: me tomorrow? Okay, ask me Today's a real big benchmarkt Yeah,
Speaker 1: if he if he has full practice today, then yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'd be very surprised, honestly. So full are
Speaker 1: limited as one hundred percent, one hundred scent. I think
Speaker 1: he's playing two. He's playing He's playing I put it
Speaker 1: at eighty right now. There you go. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: seventy six point six. But it doesn't matter where sports
Speaker 1: you're in. That's day all good. You can't play football
Speaker 1: in my house with a say that's a C gray.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about in education sport name one sports.
Speaker 1: Seventy six percent isn't good. That's pretty good, all right.
Speaker 1: Baseball you don't gotta be three something free throws, that's
Speaker 1: not great. He still hasn't had a full practice in
Speaker 1: team drills. I'd like to see him do that before
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable saying he's gonna start, and the plan is
Speaker 1: for him to do that today. So at that position,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter that much though the team stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: unless you're scrambling in practice, which quarterbacks aren't really doing
Speaker 1: in this league. They're protecting a crep out of those
Speaker 1: guys that position. Reps without the team are just as
Speaker 1: valuable as reps with the team in terms of health,
Speaker 1: because it's the same speed. If I go back there
Speaker 1: and drop back seven or seven, it's the same as
Speaker 1: me dropping back with a line in front of me.
Speaker 1: If I go back there and fake a handoff, it's
Speaker 1: the same speed. Right, So none of those things affect
Speaker 1: you at the quarterback position. Is just that if they're
Speaker 1: allowing guys to pressure you in practice, now you're having
Speaker 1: to cut and all those stuffs, maybe like not structured
Speaker 1: movements kind of thing. I guess that's where I'm getting at.
Speaker 1: I mean, just based off what Jerry said, we have
Speaker 1: every reason to think he's started. Yeah, now again, how
Speaker 1: does it feel Friday? How does it feel Saturday? All
Speaker 1: that stuff got to go through the whole process in
Speaker 1: order to get it there, and we're going through the
Speaker 1: process of the week tomorrow. We've got a mid season
Speaker 1: edition of Move On or Groove On. We've got draft kings,
Speaker 1: we've got pick them segments. It is a from Ohio
Speaker 1: stacks with b from Ohio. I need to pick him
Speaker 1: segment from Ohio. Came and visited us up stairs yesterday. Dude,
Speaker 1: he was trash. Came all the way from Ohio. I
Speaker 1: think he went two A four, two and four. I
Speaker 1: gotta go back and look. It was by far the
Speaker 1: worst fan picker of the year so far. He also
Speaker 1: picked the exact same lineup that Isaiah did, just so
Speaker 1: you know, where's the where's the science sounder in the back.
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