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Dak Prescott Injury, Highlights from Buccaneers V. Cowboys, & Opinions About Justin Fields · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: oh god, what is happening here? He gets another chance,
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  Speaker 1: that's out winner. Yeah, I was entertained, were you? I
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  Speaker 1: was entertained as wild a thirty or forty minutes to
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  Speaker 1: end the early games yesterday and then a great set
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  Speaker 1: of games in the four o'clock window, and plus Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady and Dak Prescott in the late game. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: a Monday Week one edition of NFL Now on NFL Network.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Andrew Siciliano. This right here is Steve White.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready to overreact. I am remember it's week one.
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  Speaker 1: The winners aren't as good as you think. The losers
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  Speaker 1: aren't as bad as you think. In those two teams
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  Speaker 1: that tied, well they tied, they tied. Love me Smith,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Put on the football? In the
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  Speaker 1: forty nine yard Life. Mike McDaniels said it last week
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  Speaker 1: about Week one. Either they're going to crown you or
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna say you suck. Either way, you have week two.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys half Week two, however, and here's our top
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  Speaker 1: story without Dak Prescott if you missed it. In a
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  Speaker 1: game that was a defensive struggle late Sunday evening, Dak
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  Speaker 1: Prescott left in the fourth quarter with what the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: described after the game was an injury to his right hand,
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  Speaker 1: his throwing hand. At Dak Prescott needs surgery. He is
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  Speaker 1: going to be out a while. The question is how long?
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  Speaker 1: What do we know? What do they do now? It
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  Speaker 1: went from a disappointing Cowboys Week one performance too late
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  Speaker 1: in the game, Oh they're in a bad spot. Ian Rappabore,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Pella, Sero, Jane Slater, Ian start with you. Surgery today?
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  Speaker 1: The details? Yeah, of all the bad things this game
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  Speaker 1: had basically all of them for the Dallas Cowboys. Let's start,
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  Speaker 1: of course, with the Dak Prescott injury. Going to have
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  Speaker 1: surgery to stabilize that fracture in his thumb, A fracture
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  Speaker 1: at the base of his thumb, relatively clean fracture, which
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  Speaker 1: is good. Complicated would be worse. Hopefully, maybe this will
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  Speaker 1: quicken the return for Dak Prescott. As far as some
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  Speaker 1: of the details, he's gonna have a sure drew from
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  Speaker 1: Dr Thomas Diliberti at the Texas Hand and Arms Center,
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  Speaker 1: one of the local experts there for the Dallas Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: and in the area he has been meeting and consulting.
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  Speaker 1: This was the surgeon that they chose. I'm gonna have surgery.
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  Speaker 1: The plan is today for Dak Prescott, and at that
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  Speaker 1: point guys come up with a plan. As far as
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  Speaker 1: the timetable, we'll see if DC is able to get
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  Speaker 1: back before the end of October. Seems to be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a stretch. Now we'll see after surgery. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I was at the game and let me walk you
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  Speaker 1: through with the post. Felt like Jerry Jones typically wait
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  Speaker 1: till the end. He walked the locker room the players
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  Speaker 1: that typically come in front of us. We only saw
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott and Ceedee Lamb. The rest of the guys
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  Speaker 1: went in through the back door, and once we were
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  Speaker 1: able to talk to Jerry, I think he caught all
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  Speaker 1: of us off guard when he told us that Dac
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  Speaker 1: was going to need surgery for this hand. And when
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  Speaker 1: we walked into the locker room, we had Ceedee Lamb
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  Speaker 1: there and I informed CD of the prognosis and he
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  Speaker 1: was shocked. He said, we've got to do better. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, essentially Cooper Rush is the guy. They've got
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  Speaker 1: to have him step up. And you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: even Dak Prescott. I looked over to his locker where
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  Speaker 1: he had his his hand obviously taped up. He just
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be staring off in the distance a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a day's It was Cooper Rush who said,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to lean on the experience that we had
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  Speaker 1: from Minnesota, which was of course a win with Cooper
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  Speaker 1: Rush under center, but we're now looking at possibly six
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  Speaker 1: to eight weeks. Stephen Jones was on one oh five
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  Speaker 1: through the Fan and said they didn't quite have a
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  Speaker 1: timetable yet. He was also asked is Cooper Rusher guy
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. He said, it's early on a Monday. They're
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  Speaker 1: exploring all of their options, but right now that option
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  Speaker 1: is Cooper Rush and Will Grews on the practice squad
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  Speaker 1: will be activated back up and he will be the
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  Speaker 1: backup quarterback right now against the Bengals on Sunday. There's
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  Speaker 1: always the possibility, Jane, of a trade, But as one
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  Speaker 1: person involved in the situation said to me, who are
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  Speaker 1: they going to trade for at this point? Mason Rudolph
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  Speaker 1: potentially could be available, but the Steelers aren't just going
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  Speaker 1: to give him away. How much of an upgrade is
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  Speaker 1: that over Cooper Rush at a time that Rudolph does
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  Speaker 1: not know the offense and Cooper Rush does. Obviously, the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles not gonna trade Gardner Minshew within the division with
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  Speaker 1: the forty if you consider trading Jimmy Garoppolo to another
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  Speaker 1: team that it views as a threat in the NFC.
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  Speaker 1: All of which is to say it makes sense for
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  Speaker 1: them to evaluate all the options. There just aren't when
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  Speaker 1: you get into this portion of the season a ton
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  Speaker 1: of good options available. The best backup quarterbacks in the
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  Speaker 1: league can get by for shorter types of stretches. There's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of guys, if Dak Prescott ends up
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  Speaker 1: missing let's say half the season, who are going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to get through and win a majority of
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  Speaker 1: those games. That's something against Cooper Rush. He came in
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  Speaker 1: here to Minnesota last year when Dak Prescott missed the game,
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  Speaker 1: played pretty well and they won. I believe he had
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  Speaker 1: three touchdown passes in that game. So Goossless, an experience backup,
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  Speaker 1: knows the system can get the ball into his playmaker's hands.
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  Speaker 1: But even when Dak was out there last night, absolutely
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  Speaker 1: they struggled to get the ball too much of anybody
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  Speaker 1: on offense, right, much of anybody. A lot of people saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: Marie Cooper must be laughing. Listen, it goes deeper than that.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Gallup will be back soon. You'd have to think
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  Speaker 1: that offense would have looked better with a healthy Michael
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  Speaker 1: Gallup there last night. But they couldn't get much going
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  Speaker 1: credit the tie Bowls in that defense. And now the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys have to figure out what to do and we'll
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  Speaker 1: figure out how long they're going to have to do
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  Speaker 1: that once Dak Prescott gets out of surgery. Alright, Ian Tom,
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  Speaker 1: thank you back in a little bit on t J Watt.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what the Cowboys have without Dak Prescott, at least
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  Speaker 1: for the first couple of games. They get Joe Burrow
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  Speaker 1: and the Bengals coming in next week, then a trip
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  Speaker 1: to New York to face the Giants, the Commanders. Both
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  Speaker 1: of those teams won their game, and oh, then just
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  Speaker 1: the Rams and the Eagles. No big deal. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: bring Mark Ross into this conversation as well for some
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  Speaker 1: proNT office perspective. Steve White here with the as well. Mark.
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  Speaker 1: Steve and I were sitting at Cowboys Chargers joint practice
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and on air I said
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  Speaker 1: to Steve Mark that I think the Cowboys have one
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  Speaker 1: of the most suspect backup quarterback situations in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: And right now I'd make a call for Jimmy Garoppolo.
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  Speaker 1: That was a month ago. They're gonna get him now.
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  Speaker 1: I doubt they could have gotten him a month ago.
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  Speaker 1: But you're going into a season with Cooper Rush and
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  Speaker 1: Will Career as your backups. You you're barely hanging on.
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  Speaker 1: You're keeping your fingers crossed. Yeah, you're struggling with Dak
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  Speaker 1: Prescott as your quarterback. Last night and now you've got
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, and this is all about the team building.
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  Speaker 1: But who's building the team Andrew and Stephen, that's Jerry Jones.
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  Speaker 1: So Jerry Jones has been building this team. He's at
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  Speaker 1: the GM and this is pretty much on him. And
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  Speaker 1: it's almost as if the mis evaluation of how to
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  Speaker 1: play in the modern NFL where a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago it's we're gonna build a team around Zeke and
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  Speaker 1: how Zeke goes. Well, that philosophy has been out for
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  Speaker 1: a while, and now you've got Dak Prescott and you're saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he's been injured for the past few years, but we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to put a backup quarterback in there who's
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  Speaker 1: worthy to step in if Dak misses some time to
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  Speaker 1: win games for us. With Cooper Rush, they got no
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  Speaker 1: chance for him. The idea of trading for someone, even
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  Speaker 1: if they get a body in there, it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be good enough to overcome what the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the team building, where it's suspected the old line Ceedee
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  Speaker 1: Lamb's your number one receiver, doesn't look like he's ready
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  Speaker 1: for that. You lose a Marian Cooper, you don't adequately
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  Speaker 1: adequately replace that. So when I looked at the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys as a whole, they had a lot of losses
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  Speaker 1: and didn't adequately replace them, and that's on the owner.
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  Speaker 1: But of course Jerry Jone is going to still be
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  Speaker 1: the GM and there's no accountability there, So this might
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  Speaker 1: get ugly real quick for the Cowboys there. Steve, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: look Mark in the situation, and Andrew brings up the
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  Speaker 1: point because we were talking about Jimmy Garoppolo a month ago,
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  Speaker 1: and even though it seems feasible, we still don't know
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  Speaker 1: if Jimmy Garoppolo is fully healthy to come in and
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  Speaker 1: do something. But you know, this is where you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to Jane because it seems like they
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  Speaker 1: have to do something right here, because I thought overall,
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  Speaker 1: their defense played well, you know, for for having to
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  Speaker 1: face the Buccaneers are putting the pressure on Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 1: so they've got one half of a team, but the
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  Speaker 1: rest of that offense, I mean, Todd Bowles was not
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  Speaker 1: afraid to bring anybody last night because they knew they
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  Speaker 1: could not block them and they didn't fear any receiving threat.
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  Speaker 1: So it seems like whoever they would bring in or
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  Speaker 1: they go with Cooper Rush. This offense is just not there.
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  Speaker 1: And now if they tried, okay, we're gonna go through Zeke, well,
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  Speaker 1: Zeke couldn't get really going. He had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: nice ones last night, but then everyone knew they were
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  Speaker 1: going to run the ball. So now teams are really
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  Speaker 1: going to load up and put the game on Cooper Rush. So, Jane,
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  Speaker 1: you know this is kind of where you know, I
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  Speaker 1: want to come to you your familiarity with this team.
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  Speaker 1: What is the structure of the rest that locker room
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  Speaker 1: to galvanize and rally knowing that they're going into fights
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  Speaker 1: the next month or so with one hand tied behind
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  Speaker 1: their back. Well, I expect that Dak Prescott won't be
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  Speaker 1: far from this locker room. And as Dalton Schultz in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of guys reiterated last night, he is the
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  Speaker 1: heart and soul of it, but he can't be out
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  Speaker 1: there on the field because he's gonna likely go into
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  Speaker 1: I R. And so you bring up a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good questions. The problem is, and we saw this when
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  Speaker 1: we were in training camp, Steve, this wide receiver group
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  Speaker 1: was not impressive, and they've expected Ceedee Lamb to step
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  Speaker 1: in as wide receiver one. Let's go through what his
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  Speaker 1: line was last night. Targeted eleven times he hauled into
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  Speaker 1: for It's an outside of the first drive. They weren't
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  Speaker 1: able to really move the chains. They did try to
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  Speaker 1: commit to the run game. We saw Ezekiel Elliott get
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  Speaker 1: going there for a little bit, but they were employing
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  Speaker 1: three tight ends, two tight ends. You had Tony Poller
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  Speaker 1: in the field. They were trying to get creative and
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  Speaker 1: nothing was working. It didn't help that obviously you lost
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  Speaker 1: Connor McGovern on your left side, so that's now impacting
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  Speaker 1: your depth on the offensive line. And then the penalties
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  Speaker 1: I talked about this was gonna be an issue for them.
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  Speaker 1: They were so undisciplined last year. The penalties. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. They had ten penalties for seventy three yards.
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  Speaker 1: They were three for fifteen on third down conversions. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the big things I thought was interesting that
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  Speaker 1: was asked to Stephen Jonson wanted five through the fan.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't see any of these starters in the preseason.
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  Speaker 1: Remember they said the joint practices were more important to them.
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  Speaker 1: Was that a mistake? I think all of those things
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  Speaker 1: are gonna be scrutinized and talked about because they certainly
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  Speaker 1: felt out of rhythm last night. A lot of teams
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  Speaker 1: started slowly yesterday. Look at the early window and how
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  Speaker 1: ugly those games were, many of them in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: Things picked up in the second half. The Cowboys never
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  Speaker 1: had it pick up in the second half. And I
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  Speaker 1: know people might be sitting at home saying, there's no
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  Speaker 1: way the Niners would trade Jimmy Garoppolo, whether now or
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  Speaker 1: last month, to a team they faced in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: a year ago. I get it, but both Cowboys backup
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks were cut and made it through waivers unscathed. Again
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  Speaker 1: older respect, but that tells you what their backup quarterback
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  Speaker 1: situation was heading into Week one, when Dak Prescott had
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  Speaker 1: missed games in each of the last two years. Thank you, Jane,
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  Speaker 1: thank you Mark. I'm sure we will talk about the
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  Speaker 1: story at all coming up in the next month. Meantime,
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  Speaker 1: other injuries as mentioned more significant, possibly than Dak Prescott.
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  Speaker 1: You see T J. Watt, who was dominant, went on
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  Speaker 1: the field yesterday for the Steelers, pointing to that left pack,
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  Speaker 1: that left shoulder, and if you read lips you could
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. Ian Rapp report, Tom Pelicero with me. Now, Ian,
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  Speaker 1: what is the latest on t J. Watt. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: is a pictorial injury. T J. Watt having an m
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  Speaker 1: r I today to determine the extent of it. My
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  Speaker 1: understanding is we may not get firm word on the
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  Speaker 1: injury to t J. Watt, how long he is out,
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  Speaker 1: and what the next step is until tomorrow is going
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  Speaker 1: to get a second opinion, likely to have a couple
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  Speaker 1: of different doctors review the scans and the reason why
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  Speaker 1: And this is my understanding of the current situation is
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  Speaker 1: that why and the Steelers are still trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out does he need surgery which would knock him out
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  Speaker 1: to at least the end of the season, or can
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  Speaker 1: he rehab and return in a couple of weeks. Both
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  Speaker 1: of those options are on the table. There is a
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  Speaker 1: possibility that he does not need surgery immediately, which would
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  Speaker 1: be great. That would mean it's more of a peck
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  Speaker 1: strain than a full tear. But more information coming likely
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  Speaker 1: within the next twenty four hours. Meanwhile, Naji Harris, they
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  Speaker 1: start running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers dealing with a
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  Speaker 1: foot injury, and this is related to my understanding to
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  Speaker 1: the list, Frank sprain that he had early on and
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  Speaker 1: Camp kind of tweaked that a little bit. As of
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  Speaker 1: right now, doesn't appear to be major, that is the
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  Speaker 1: general field, but he had an ema this morning. Still
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  Speaker 1: getting more tests to determine is there something else here
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  Speaker 1: or is just a small the aggravation of a previous injury.
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  Speaker 1: In another injury news, Patriots quarterback Mac Jones suffered a
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  Speaker 1: back injury in Sunday's loss to the Dolphins. Jones actually
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  Speaker 1: finished the game, but then the Patriots infeimned reporters that
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  Speaker 1: Jones is not going to be available. He went to
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  Speaker 1: get x rays. I was told that those x rays
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  Speaker 1: were negative, but there's a lot of different stuff that
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  Speaker 1: goes into back injuries. So the plan was for mac
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  Speaker 1: Jones to get additional tests once they got back to Foxborough.
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  Speaker 1: Those tests have been ongoing throughout the course of this morning. Certainly,
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  Speaker 1: the hope for the Patriots is that mac Jones has
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  Speaker 1: avoided a significant injury here, but if he does have
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  Speaker 1: to miss times, then the options on their roster would
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  Speaker 1: include Brian Hoyer or the rookie Bailey's appy. And one
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  Speaker 1: more injury of note, Buccaneers wide receiver Chris Godwin, who
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  Speaker 1: was just coming off of a torn a c l
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  Speaker 1: lasted nineteen snaps last night against the Cowboys before he
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  Speaker 1: suffered a hamstring injury and was ruled out for the game.
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  Speaker 1: So tests for Chris Godwin to come as well. Certainly
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  Speaker 1: it was big for the Bucks to get him back
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  Speaker 1: on the field. Now they once again wait to figure
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  Speaker 1: out exactly how much time, if any, Godwin is gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to miss. Fans were chanting Mike twice yesterday. Giants
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  Speaker 1: fans were chanting, go for two, and they got it,
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  Speaker 1: and they've one coming up. The New York story, year
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  Speaker 1: old Tom Brady back, he's playing football, Let's go. He's
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas, NBC last year this game Week one had
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  Speaker 1: sixty points last night, only one touchdown one and it
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  Speaker 1: was spectacular. It was Mike Evans. Look at that one hand,
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  Speaker 1: one of his five catches on the nights. But the
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  Speaker 1: story here is Dak Prescott's Cowboys offense did nothing with him.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna now have to survive without him. How long,
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  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe a month, maybe more thumb surgery today.
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  Speaker 1: But in the meantime, can I interest you in the
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  Speaker 1: fact that Tom Brady is now never lost to the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys still seven, and oh, we got a long way
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  Speaker 1: to go. You know, I think we all do. And
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  Speaker 1: I think the team's got you know, I think the
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  Speaker 1: defense played awesome. Offensively, we can do a lot better
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  Speaker 1: than that tonight. So we're gonna have to We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to score in the red area. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna stay healthy. We're gonna have to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get back to work and find a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: regular season flow and um, just put these days together
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  Speaker 1: and see if we can make some improvements. Everybody wants
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  Speaker 1: to talk about gizl tweeting before the game, Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about this instead. That is Tom Brady given the game
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  Speaker 1: ball to a fan there in Dallas, taken by another fan.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty cool when the goat gives you the game ball.
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  Speaker 1: Some were calling Brian day Ball the go to New
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  Speaker 1: York today, making his head coaching debut on Night eleven
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  Speaker 1: with the f d N Y had on Giants rally back.
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  Speaker 1: They were down thirteen to nothing a minute ago. Chris
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  Speaker 1: Myrick with the touchdown pass and guess what Brian day
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  Speaker 1: Ball is going for to gain doesn't want overtime, Nope,
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  Speaker 1: He's given it to say Kuan, who had his best
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  Speaker 1: game since December of nineteen. Say Kwan gives him the lead,
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  Speaker 1: but there is time left on the clock and it
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  Speaker 1: came down to Randy Bullock. This is makeable. This is
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Randy Bullock from forty seven yards away. Uh. That's a
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: win for the Giants and Brian Davils coaching debut one
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: twenty in Nashville. One game, win or lose does not
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: break a season. Okay, but you got what it takes
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: every day. You keep grinding every day, we keep getting better. Okay,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: one game it's pretty day. Good football team. Give them credits. Hey,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Joe Davis, Mark Cross from a Giants executive with me,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: that's one way to win the locker room week one
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: hall Mark without a doubt. And Brian Dable and since
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: he's gotten in New York has kind of done all
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: the right things, unlike the past couple of coaches there
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: where he really has the personality that has led not
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: only the New York's New York City area, but the
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: team and the organization as well. It's, you know, it's
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: the confidence he has. He's not trying to be out
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: there boasting and doing different things like hey, this is
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: who I am I'm I'm confident in my team and
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the coaching and the preparation, and that manifested itself on
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the field yesterday, where in the past few four or
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: five years, if they got down thirty, the game would
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: have been over. But yesterday they just kept coming at them,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: they kept fighting. Tennessee made mistakes, the Giants capitalize on them,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: and it helped that you had the vintage Sat Kwon
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Barkley performance for the Giants, almost two hundred yards of
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: total offense. Looked like he didd as a rookie, So
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: that was huge for the Giants that their number one
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: guy there in Sa Kwon Barkley performed. Brian Dable seems
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: like they have a coach now to rally around. But
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: as Brian Dables said, it's just one game. It got
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: a long season. And the concern we won't talk about
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: the concern of the same old Daniel Jones in that
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: game yesterday. Let's just focus on the positives of Barclay's
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: back and day Balls, a legitimate coach there for the Giants.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Kwan because that was the first time
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: se Quon rushed for over a hundred and fifty yards
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: since December of twenty nineteen. And it's not just the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: stat sheet mark, it's the eye test that looked like
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: the Kuon that they took at the top of the
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: first round. Well, you saw the explosiveness Andrew the last
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: couple of years with the injuries, he just didn't look
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: like he had that initial burst that is very rare
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: on backs in this league. But she saw that yesterday
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: where he got decreased. He was decisive and he hit
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: it and he went and he saw that in him yesterday.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: It wasn't the dancing around. So the thing with Sa
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Kwan is yes, it's the eye test. Oh yeah, that
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: looks like that dude that we saw at Penn State.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: And as a rookie, the concern is can he maintained
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: this game after game and for the Giants in order
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: to win, he will have to do that. Obviously, won't
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: go for two total every game, but at least somewhere
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: in that range where day Ball can focus him and
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: build it around him until the other defenses catch up
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: and say, hey man, we're gonna shut you down and
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: make Daniel Jones beat us. Flashback to the teen draft
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: next week, it's Baker Bayfield and the Panthers Kwon Barkley
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: and the Giants thank you. Mark Ross flashback a decade
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: ago to Russell Wilson in a Seahawks uniform getting drafted.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you haven't heard yet, you haven't,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: let me give you the breaking news. Russell Wilson on
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Monday Night football is going back to Seattle in a
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Broncos uniform. Such a big game. We sent James Palmer
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: from Denver to Seattle for that game to chronicle how
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks welcome him. What do you think the reaction
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: is going to be in the stands, James, Well, Andrew,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I'll give you a little indication. Sue Bird, one of
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the greatest players in the history of the w O
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: n b A, played her final home game just recently
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: here in Seattle and has played roughly twenty years in
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: this city. There was a video tribute to her in
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the arena pregame. Russell Wilson was part of that video tribute,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and the arena booed him during a video tribute for
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: one of the greatest athletes in the history of the
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: city of Seattle. So they're expecting an environment that is
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: going to be rather hostile. They've been preparing with their
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: silent count in their offense, actually dating back all the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: way to the spring. I'm told in the noise has
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: been cranked throughout practice this entire week now. I've been
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: in that locker room all week, and multiple teammates have
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: told me Russell Wilson isn't giving any Rob Ross speeches,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: isn't really talking about the Seahawks in the manner of
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I want to go beat my former team. He is
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: talking to them like so many players do about I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: know Pete Carroll and this team so well, this could work,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: this spot, we could do this. Obviously, that happens around
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the league. But when I talked to a couple of
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: his receivers, Courtland Sutton told me, I know he wants
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: to find me deep. I know that something he wants
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: to do. I'm gonna give him that opportunity. And his
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: speedster kJ Hamler, who's questionable for this game and I'm
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: told is going to play. He told me, and maybe
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: put it best Andrew, that we want to go out
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and dominate this game Monday night. For Russell Wilson, He's
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: not going to say that, but we know he feels
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the exact same way, and you know they want to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: run the ball as well. With Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: no matter how they split up, those carries big picture
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: here with Hammler, what is this offense? James gonna look like?
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: It's interesting you bring up Javonte Williams goes a long
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: talk at his locker, going, what am I going to
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: see from you guys? We haven't seen any of the starters,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson included this entire preseason. He goes, you
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: know what I think. I think we're gonna go up tempo.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: We're gonna go up tempo a lot. We're gonna be
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a team that pushes the football and tries to keep
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: defenses on their toes. He said, that is something that
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: is in Nathaniel Hackett's philosophy and he has been preaching
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: it to us throughout all of training camp. To make
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: sure we're in tremendous shape, that we can play at
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: this speed that he wants us to play, and also
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: be able to rotate players and as you mentioned with
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon and Javonte Williams, be able to change guys
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: and be able to keep defenses from having the key
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: on certain individual Javante Williams Andrew told me that I
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: have lined up at every receiving position and ran almost
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the entire route tree as opposed to just the deep stuff.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I didn't do that, but I ran all the stuff
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the receivers run. We're gonna mix and match things all
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: over the field. It's gonna be exciting to see what
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett has under his sleeve. In his first game
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: as a head coach in the NFL. One more game
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: to go, Week number one, James Palmer is there in Seattle,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: signed up for Russell Wilson the Broncos. DK Metcalf at
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Undoubtably you'll see a promo during that game
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: of DK Metcalf playing the piano getting you're ready for
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: still dre uh guarantee, guarantee or your money? Then coming
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: out next, Michael Thomas is back and look like the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: guy from twenty nineteen? What does that mean for the Saints?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Steve White? But that one in focus coming up now?
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Got a few for the Falcons here. I had a
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: two touchdown lead in the fourth quarter against Dennis Allen
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: and his Saints head coaching debut and Jamis Winston, first
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: game back since Week eight of last year in the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: bad knee injury. Michael Thomas had only played seven games
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: since nineteen. He's in the end zone. They went for
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: two to tie. It didn't get it, but they get
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the ball back and then Will Loot's everybody from fifty
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: one good for about the lightness. Dennis Allen is a
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: head coaching winner Whites for the first time since this
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: is why it's so difficult. It's so hard in training camp.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: So we're ready for mulloks like this. And I said
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I said it last week. I'll say it again. Okay,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: this ain't gonna be the last time we do this. Okay,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: hell of the job part of you guys, let's sick
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: from take care of first game. Okay, I'm gonna say
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: little everybody. Former Raider head coach Dennis Allen. Steve White
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: gets a second shot there and his team rallies back.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Here's a stat about your Falcon. Steve works with the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Falcons in the preseason, since they have blown three fourth
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: quarter leads of fifteen or more points. The rest of
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the NFL has blown only two such leads in that time.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: And then you have the Saint side of it, where
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: their offense got clicking in the fourth quarter. How do
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: you read this one? So I read this says, oh,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: two parts for the falcon you talked about giving up
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the leads. We can look at the defense saying that
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: they blew it, but it's the offense. Repeatedly, this happening
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: when Matt Ryan was there. They can't get a first
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: down when they need it. It happened in the fourth
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: quarter again. But here's the bigger Oh. If you watch
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that game and you saw after a slow start, how
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Jamis Winston looked throwing it to can't guard Mike. The
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: rest of the league better get ready if they get
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: it going. That's a J. Tarrell Garden, a J. Charles
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: were the best corners in the league. Jamis was putting
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the ball in places where only his guy can catch it.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: And then some of the catches that Mike Thomas, there's
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry. The way they got going and the way
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: they were able to spread those dvs out was just
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. Landry again, again, the Saints offense look kind
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: of sloppy and sluggage, like they really hadn't worked together,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: which was the case. And then in the fourth quarter
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: to rally from sixteen downs, Jamison throw for two d
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: seventeen yard plus look at that catch in coverage. Okay,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of people have said that, you know, the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Saints are a sleeper team to win the NFC South
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: with that offense, the way it was rolling in the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. If they can continue that with that defense,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: people better start recognizing this is a very dangerous With
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, with Jarvis Landry, with Crystal lav we we
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: projected a lot during the summer. We saw that in
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the fourth course. Two hundred yards of offense from Jamis
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and those guys in the fourth quarter. All right, keep
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: an eye on that. But again the Falcons couldn't get
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a first aid that this replay replay. Arthur Smith walked
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: off the podium pretty angry. UM. A lot of consternation
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: today in San Francisco about Trey Lance in the rain.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: In Chicago, a lot of celebration as well in Chicago
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: about Justin Fields rallying them back in the rain. Remember,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: remember Dante Pettis for the diners, I do they would
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: rather not because they let him go and he just
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: roasted them on that play. Fields remembered he was there
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: on the backside after scrambling away from a sack. And
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: then we remember the Bears had defensive talent here and
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: that Eddie Jackson with the interception. Eddie Jackson seals this
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: deal and Matt Eberflus is a game winner. Everybody slipped
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and slide and celebrate meantime in the other locker room.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I made too many mistakes, Um, defense kept us in
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the game. Had a big miss too, to Tyler Croft
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: in the end zone. I tried to throw a perfect boss,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: just put it right on him and he was wide open. Uh,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: turned the ball over, took a sack, the knocks out
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of fieldal range that I shouldn't have missed evo on
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the third down. Um, it's another third down to Juwan. Uh.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Just too many mistakes, a lot of stuff to clean
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: up for sure for me. Um, but man excited and
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: still got my head up, excited to get ready to
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: go next week. Just what we were built on. Um.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: You know, coach always says, you know, it's uh mentonal stamina,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: mental and physical stamina. Who can play the longest, uh
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the hardest, and you know, just just play every play.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: So UM, I think you know we won this game
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: with mental and physical statement. So I'm proud of the defense,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: prout of the old line, just just proud of everybody today.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I want to make something Claire Mark Ross not here
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to pile off Trey Lance the futurist, right, He's an
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: inexperienced quarterback playing in a monsoon yesterday and without George Kittle.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Find this comment though from Bears dB Jalen Johnson interesting.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Asked about Trey Lance, he says, quote, what do you
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: think he did? He ain't do bleep. We made him
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: play quarterback and and that's what you. Players look at
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: things differently than the media does or coaches and say, oh,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: he's going to develop and he's going to get better
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and all those excuses. Players don't care about that, Andrew.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: They're like, this is the guy I'm lining up against,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and this is what he did against us, And they
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: don't care about the narratives and whatnot. And for Trey Lance,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: it was a struggle and the things that worried you
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: about him. Yes, since this is truly first started last year.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: He had a couple of starts, but first started this
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: year with all the off season preparation as the number
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: one are things that are independent of the weather. And
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: that was the vision where he just locks on two
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: receivers and kind of just throws right there. That was
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: a sword of how he looked in college as well,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: where the concern of okay, if he just plays more,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: plays more, the vision will get better. But will it?
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: And the elephant in the room is still Jimmy G. Okay,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: he did he played poorly yesterday. What about next week
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: in the week after, if we continue to see these
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: struggles by Trey Lance. And I said this the week
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: before the game, will there now be like, well, what
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Jimmy G in there? We know Jimmy G can get
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: us to a certain level. We're not gonna stand for
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the struggles with Trey Lance. We're gonna We're not gonna
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: sacrifice his development for the team. So at least for
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: one game, this is still going to be an issue
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: until he proves Trey Lance that he is the guy
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and he can make plays. Andrew what you see from
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Justin Fields mark because when they were down, he made
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: a couple of throws and brought him back. Well, that's
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: why I love love Justin Fields in college and I
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: liked him better than Trey Lance. And the body of work,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the accomplishments, the production he had. But mostly I thought
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: of that draft class, of all those quarterbacks, he was
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the best playmaker. And in games like that, it's okay
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: you can struggle for quarters, you can struggle for series,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: but when it's time to make big time plays, those
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: are the players that can separate themselves. And I thought
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Justin Fields was that dude coming out of college. He
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: showed a little bit of it last year, and now
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: in game one, everything's against him. They're down, they look
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: they look bad, not a lot of talent around him.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: But he said, I can make plays, and he did that,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: and that's what I loved about him. And I think
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: that's why Chicago fans should be happy about it and
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: and optimistic about Justin fields growth and development because of
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: that playmaking element which he showed yesterday and separated himself
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: against Trey Lance, who didn't make those plays. Andrew, Oh,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: they they are optimistic this morning. There there were not
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of big expectations there from the fan base.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Woke up yesterday morning, biblical rain. This is going to
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: be ugly. Oh they won. Wait wait and the Packers lost,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and and we go to Lambeau next week. In prime
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: time on Sunday night. People are happy two minutes to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: minutes remaining. One more thing before we go in or
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: apaport up. First, we have an updated on the status
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: of Patriots quarterback Mac Jones, who was banged up yesterday.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Did not talk to reporters because a back injury. Sources
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: say he's dealing with back spasms. We know X rays
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: or negative is colleague Tom Plso reported not believed to
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: be a major injury. His status will be monitored throughout
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the week. Nothing major, Okay, potentially good news there, Judy.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: One more thing. I want to give a week one
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: shout out to dancing coaches. You're gonna see Mike Tomlin
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: come into the frame here. I love this during the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: A B dance here lots of celebrated Pittsburgh go look
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: up Brian Gable dancing in the victorious giant flock room
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: to more dancing coaches. That's what we need in the NFL.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: We're dancing coach. If we needed that on the screen, please,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: more dancing coaches. Mark Ross, One barding thing, Andrew, did
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: you see Mayweather packed out to this week? Wow? No?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Actually it was leban Bell against Adrian Peterson. And Abo
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: if Rida. Man, and someone give these guys some contractors
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: and get them from doing this stuff. Man, they're still
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: eligible to play. But that was vicious right there. Man.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Levian Bell can do more than just drop a mixtape.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: He can drop Adrian Peterson as well. That hurt me
• 32:19
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