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  Speaker 1: Is a production of Dallas Cowboys.com and the Dallas Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: football club. This is Cowboys storyline presented by Gillette, the
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  Speaker 1: official shave of the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Nick Eatman. It's that time. It's the regular season.
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  Speaker 2: It's officially here. Off season is over. No more off-season.
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday is the start of the season. It could be
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  Speaker 2: any Tuesday, right? It could be any day. This is
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  Speaker 2: the schedule. Cowboys are off today, but they are getting ready.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, getting ready for a football game Sunday against
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  Speaker 2: the Giants, the first one of the year. This is
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette. I'm Nick Eatman. It's Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: September the 8th. But let's get the main stuff out
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  Speaker 2: of the way. How about the fact that this is it?
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  Speaker 2: This is our regular season schedule, 10 a.m. Central Time,
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  Speaker 2: every day, unless some crazy parts of the schedule happen.
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  Speaker 2: It's usually later in the year when that, but this
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  Speaker 2: is what you can expect every day at 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hear from you guys.
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  Speaker 3: 888-855-2297.
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  Speaker 2: We know the news. Tyler Smith, first injury, really the
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  Speaker 2: first big injury of the offseason. I guess Maris Leofal
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  Speaker 2: was an injury probably going to make the team, but
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  Speaker 2: not to the level of the Tyler Smith injury. He's
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  Speaker 2: going to have thumb surgery today, and timing is not great,
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  Speaker 2: but it is what it is. This is the time
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  Speaker 2: to do it and for them to get this thing
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  Speaker 2: cleared up and get ready to go. It's why you
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  Speaker 2: keep T.J.
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  Speaker 4: Bass.
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  Speaker 2: It's why when we looked at the top 15 salaries
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  Speaker 2: of this roster, T.J. Bass is 15th. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if it still is with some of the restructures, but
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  Speaker 2: he's 15th on the team. Now, you have 11 starters
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  Speaker 2: on each side of the ball, and top rated kicker
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  Speaker 2: and kick returner and all that stuff in here and
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  Speaker 2: your backup guard uh is the is you know he's
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  Speaker 2: making five and a half million a year so now
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  Speaker 2: he's not the backup now he's the starter all right
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about it uh we'll start with irene irene's
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  Speaker 2: first falls church virginia what's up hey.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning how are you good how are you yeah
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  Speaker 5: all right i mean obviously that was a I don't
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  Speaker 5: know about gut punch, but it's not a happy way
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  Speaker 5: to start the first week of the season.
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  Speaker 6: But it is what it is.
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  Speaker 5: Luckily, it's like our position that we might have the
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  Speaker 5: best backup at, so that's good. I was trying to
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  Speaker 5: look into his stats a little, at least through TFF.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't go watch his film. It looks like run-blocking
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  Speaker 5: grade is where the most significant drop-off is with him.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't know if that means we're going to
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  Speaker 5: be running to the right more than we would.
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  Speaker 7: My other.
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  Speaker 5: My other concern is with I already have a worry
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  Speaker 5: about the right tackle, and you think, okay, well, we
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  Speaker 5: might put Brevin Spanford over there. Does this impact how
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  Speaker 5: they're going to be able to do their pins, pulls,
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  Speaker 5: whatever kind of rushes, because now they have an issue
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  Speaker 5: on both sides, at least in the run grade, it
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  Speaker 5: seems like. So if you could talk a little bit
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  Speaker 5: about that, that would be great, and I will take
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  Speaker 5: that offer.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 2: You know, some of the games that– TJ Bass has played,
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  Speaker 2: they have run the ball really well. I think they
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  Speaker 2: ran for over 200 yards in this first start against
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  Speaker 2: Arizona a couple years ago when he went in there
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  Speaker 2: and played with a lot of those other backups who
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  Speaker 2: were in there, too. So there hasn't been a big drop-off, really.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess we could do a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: studies on this, but I don't believe there's been a
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  Speaker 2: big drop-off when he's gone in there and played. Now,
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  Speaker 2: there's a reason why he's not the starter, and certainly–
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  Speaker 2: There's not many in the league, if any, that would
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  Speaker 2: start over Tyler Smith. So I get that. But there
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  Speaker 2: was a consensus that, or at least there's some people
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  Speaker 2: in the building that think that TJ Bass has always
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  Speaker 2: been one of your top five linemen. So does that
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  Speaker 2: mean Tyler Smith should have been playing left tackle? And
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about this on this show. Is he a
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  Speaker 2: better left guard than Tyler Guyton is at left tackle,
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  Speaker 2: and so there's been debate. Now, Tyler Guyton's had a
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  Speaker 2: really good training camp, and we'll see how that carries
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  Speaker 2: over to the regular season. But as far as what
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  Speaker 2: Bass is going to provide and all that in the
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  Speaker 2: run game, I still think technically sound he's pretty good. Now,
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  Speaker 2: he's not a mauler like Tyler Smith, so they're going
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  Speaker 2: to lose some of that there. But I don't think
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  Speaker 2: that's going to be– major, major loss because of what
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  Speaker 2: you said, Irene, that he's probably the best backup of
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  Speaker 2: any position on the team, of a guy that's not
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  Speaker 2: projected in your starting lineup that can jump right in.
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  Speaker 2: I bet you TJ Bass would have been considered the
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  Speaker 2: top guy there. Maybe Tito Obonia would also be in
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  Speaker 2: that mix, but But for sure, you know, for sure,
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  Speaker 2: those guys and both of them that were mentioned are
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  Speaker 2: playing behind pro bowler type guys. And so it's good
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  Speaker 2: to have that kind of depth as far as your
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  Speaker 2: right tackle. You know, Jerry Jones said on his radio
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  Speaker 2: show this morning on 105.3, the fan in Dallas that that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that the Broderick Jones moves makes him feel
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  Speaker 2: a lot better about this injury that just happened with
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Smith. So he didn't really elaborate into that, saying
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  Speaker 2: that maybe him or Steele could play guard. I think
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  Speaker 2: what he was saying was that Tyler Smith was the
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  Speaker 2: backup tackle. He was probably your next option at tackle.
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  Speaker 2: And now, because of Roderick Jones, that's not the case.
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  Speaker 2: Now that they have a backup tackle, whether it be
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  Speaker 2: Jones or Steele. All right, let's go to Chris in
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  Speaker 2: Saratoga Springs is next.
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  Speaker 8: What's going on, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Eatman?
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. What's up with you?
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  Speaker 8: Not too much. I'm up in the Adirondacks with my
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  Speaker 8: parents hanging out. My dad's out taking my son fishing
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  Speaker 8: right now.
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  Speaker 7: As I'm working. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Working.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I am working. Love working from home. I agree
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  Speaker 8: with what you and I both just said. There was
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  Speaker 8: one position on the offensive line that I was most
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  Speaker 8: confident with a backup. It's Tyler Bass. That's why we
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  Speaker 8: kept him around. That's why we didn't re-sign Brock Hoffman
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  Speaker 8: last year. I'm more concerned if we go down and
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  Speaker 8: left tackle now that we don't have, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 8: the backup left tackle with Smith there. I'm more concerned
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  Speaker 8: about that than I am guard. But I'm trying to
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  Speaker 8: stay positive. We've still got Bass. And, you know, with
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  Speaker 8: this hard training camp and the physicality of it, we
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  Speaker 8: only really lost, what, Leofow and Smith for a couple weeks.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm still thinking that's okay. It could have been.
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  Speaker 7: A lot worse.
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  Speaker 8: Right. As far as my question for you today, coming
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  Speaker 8: up close to the season, I still think we need
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  Speaker 8: maybe another corner. If you had the choice of going
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  Speaker 8: out and getting maybe, everybody talks about the guy out
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  Speaker 8: there in California, defensive end, and then you got cornerbacks
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  Speaker 8: that are in Pittsburgh, for instance. If you had to
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  Speaker 8: choose which one to add on the roster, if we
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  Speaker 8: did add somebody, would it be corner or would it
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  Speaker 8: be the addresser?
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Good question. Thanks for the call. Usually I would say
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  Speaker 2: the pass rusher because I do believe the pass rusher
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  Speaker 2: makes the cornerbacks better than the corners make the pass rusher.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're not talking about that kind of corner. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: those corners, I don't know if they even exist anymore.
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  Speaker 2: The ones that, you know, they just cover for all
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  Speaker 2: day long, not really against these receivers now in this league.
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  Speaker 2: So I really think it's more of the pass rusher that–
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  Speaker 2: you know, it impacts the defense more. Having said that,
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  Speaker 2: I think, though, at some point you're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to roll the ball out and play with these pass rushers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like, I get it. I get the guy
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  Speaker 2: that's out there and he's going to be better than
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  Speaker 2: everybody that you have. But I don't know. I think that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you've added Von Miller. to a defense that's
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  Speaker 2: got rishon gary he's got devin donovan as a raku
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  Speaker 2: drafted malachi lawrence in the first round he's gonna have
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  Speaker 2: need some development but there'll be some time where it'll
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  Speaker 2: it'll click and you'll see that athletic ability there um
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  Speaker 2: you know you've you've got guys you know i'm james
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  Speaker 2: houston's on the back end of that of the depth
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  Speaker 2: chart and i mean but At some point, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to just play with these guys. And I
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  Speaker 2: get it, the trading for whoever's out there and we
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  Speaker 2: know who it is. Yeah, that would be an upgrade.
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  Speaker 2: But running out of draft picks for next year, too.
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  Speaker 2: You don't really have a ton. Now, Jerry Jones said
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  Speaker 2: this morning, he did say that they created some cap
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  Speaker 2: space for multiple reasons. Next year's cap is one of them.
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  Speaker 2: but also it gives them some flexibility to go do
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  Speaker 2: whatever they want this year. They could go make a
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  Speaker 2: trade right now and add a player with their contract
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  Speaker 2: right now and put them on this team. I think
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  Speaker 2: for the way the roster is set up, I think
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  Speaker 2: adding a corner makes more sense than the defensive end.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, it's also probably that you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to have to give up as much. As much.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But, I think where I stand, like a defensive end,
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  Speaker 2: you got so many options. I think I just kind
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  Speaker 2: of want to see that, but still at, at, at corner,
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  Speaker 2: you've got some, some spots where, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: another corner could help. So that would be my answer
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  Speaker 2: to that. All right, let's go to Albert in Philly. Albert.
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  Speaker 10: Hey Nick, what's up?
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  Speaker 7: What's up?
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: I'm all right, man.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all right.
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  Speaker 10: How are you? Just first, I was screaming at the
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  Speaker 10: computer last week, this song that was played at Texas
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  Speaker 10: Stadium in the late 70s, early 80s, that was Texas
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  Speaker 10: When I Die by Tanya Tucker.
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  Speaker 2: Think I'll Go to Heaven or something like that? When
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  Speaker 2: I Die?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 7: Yep. Yep.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 11: When I Die.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 8: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: You're exactly right. Okay.
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  Speaker 10: And just to say that the Cowboys Stampede song, just
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  Speaker 10: so you know, I have the original 45 record that
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  Speaker 10: was handed out at the Cowboys luncheon in 1966. There's
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  Speaker 10: actually two more Cowboys songs that lead into that. So
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  Speaker 10: there's a longer edition of it.
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  Speaker 2: You have the record right now?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, with the picture sleeve and everything.
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  Speaker 2: I have a question for you. Albert, I have a
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  Speaker 2: question for you. How many people in Philadelphia do you
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  Speaker 2: think have that record?
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  Speaker 7: No one.
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  Speaker 10: I can tell you what I do. I collect Cowboys
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  Speaker 10: records that are about the Cowboys and everything. I have
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  Speaker 10: about 10 of them. I'll open up my windows on
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  Speaker 10: game day and blare them outside the window.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've ever been in a fist fight,
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  Speaker 2: but I bet you've had some people.
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  Speaker 10: I've been going to games since 1979 here.
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  Speaker 2: I applaud that. I really do. I applaud that because
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  Speaker 2: it's not fun. I had a niece that went Cowboy fan,
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  Speaker 2: and she went to the game last year, first one
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  Speaker 2: of the season, and I was like, nah, wear a jacket.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just not, you know, I get it.
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  Speaker 2: She's got a Dak jersey on underneath, but I just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, let's not do it. And it's not just Philly.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of other places that are that way, too.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I've traveled around with Cowboys travel agency, so.
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  Speaker 12: Um, I gotcha.
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  Speaker 10: And last thing to say, um, do you know what
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  Speaker 10: song they played on third down when they got up
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  Speaker 10: on third down at Texas stadium?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 10: Uh, Don Henley, dirty laundry, dirty laundry. So check that out. Um,
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  Speaker 10: I'm not one of these go all in persons. I
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  Speaker 10: don't want them trading anymore at all. We're playing football
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  Speaker 10: next year and we're playing a football in the next
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  Speaker 10: year unless something crazy happens. So I'm not one of
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  Speaker 10: these go, go all in people. Um, So my question
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  Speaker 10: is this, and this is what I think about. I
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  Speaker 10: love T.J. Bass, but what I'm afraid of is I
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  Speaker 10: know Tyler Smith helps out Guyton just because he's a
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  Speaker 10: better player. Will Guyton be able to play off T.J.
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  Speaker 10: Bass as he would off Tyler Smith?
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  Speaker 12: That's my problem.
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  Speaker 2: That's fair. That's a good question. That's one where we're
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  Speaker 2: going to have to see what these young guys have
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  Speaker 2: grown into, and they're both Kind of at that point,
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  Speaker 2: Bass is his fourth year, Guyton his third year, and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to have to kind of be their own dude, really.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a great point. That's a great point.
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  Speaker 2: And it's really because Tyler Smith has got his guy. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, you're fine there. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to give a little bit of help,
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  Speaker 2: then you give some help to Guyton. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: does Bass need help? Is Javante Williams going to have
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  Speaker 2: to be, you know, watching what's going on inside? So
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  Speaker 2: it's a great point. It's a great point. These guys
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  Speaker 2: are going to have to grow up. That's just all
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  Speaker 2: there is to it.
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  Speaker 9: Yep.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Nick.
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  Speaker 10: I'll talk to you later.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Dom. Have a good one. Enjoy your records
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  Speaker 2: there and all your guys. There's not many people that
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  Speaker 2: know all the Cowboys songs like that. So I love it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Dylan in North Port, Florida.
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  Speaker 7: Dylan.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, dude?
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  Speaker 12: Hey, how's it going?
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  Speaker 7: Good.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 13: I'm doing good, man.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 13: I agree with you on the cornerback thing, 100%. If
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  Speaker 13: they're going to add something, it's got to be cornerback
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  Speaker 13: after cornerback three. I'm not comfortable with anything there. It
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  Speaker 13: does help that you've got some of these safeties that'll
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  Speaker 13: play some of the nickel stuff, so that does help
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  Speaker 13: for sure.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 13: But you've got two corners there with some significant injury history,
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  Speaker 13: so if one of those guys goes down, this is
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  Speaker 13: pretty bad news, I think, at that point in time.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: I don't want to trade anything out. I'm looking more
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  Speaker 13: at free agents, which there's still some guys out there
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  Speaker 13: that you can bring in if you want to, that
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  Speaker 13: are adequate players. So maybe they shop in that realm
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  Speaker 13: at some point in time. The Tyler Smith stuff, I
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  Speaker 13: think somebody else said, I'm really more concerned about the
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  Speaker 13: backup left tackle. We brought in Broderick Jones to compete
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  Speaker 13: at right tackle, and he's not really a left tackle.
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  Speaker 13: So something happened with that left tackle. The Tyler Smith
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  Speaker 13: is like a two-for-one situation. So I'm wondering, is there...
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  Speaker 13: they're going to elevate somebody off the practice squad. Is
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  Speaker 13: it going to be just the guard slash center with Leverett,
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  Speaker 13: or would they consider, because you kind of lost your
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  Speaker 13: backup left tackle as well, would they consider bringing up
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  Speaker 13: Wanya Morris or whatever his name is that we just
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  Speaker 13: got in the practice squad and send somebody else down?
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  Speaker 13: I'm kind of curious what the plan is now at
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  Speaker 13: backup left tackle, or if they're just going to go
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  Speaker 13: with Roger Drone slash Terrence Steele, whoever it might be.
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  Speaker 2: I think for your roster, I think Nick Leverett is
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  Speaker 2: going to be the guy for the roster because Tyler
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  Speaker 2: Smith goes off the roster. He's going to go to
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  Speaker 2: IR to return. And Nick Leverett, I think, will be
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  Speaker 2: the guy there. Because T.J. Bass was going to be
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  Speaker 2: your backup center guard on game day. Now, Leverett will
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  Speaker 2: be your backup center as T.J. Bass goes to guard.
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  Speaker 2: As far as the practice squad guys go, don't forget
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  Speaker 2: about the elevations. Now, the game day elevations that you
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  Speaker 2: can put these guys in. So, you know, any spot
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  Speaker 2: that you might be banged up at or whatever, and say,
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  Speaker 2: we need a little bit more, you know, a little
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  Speaker 2: more availability there, that's where... A guy like Morris, like
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  Speaker 2: you said, could just be a game day elevation for
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  Speaker 2: this week, depending on what they need this week.
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  Speaker 13: Can you explain how that works? Do you have to
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  Speaker 13: send somebody down temporarily, or is it just an inactive
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  Speaker 13: that you make somebody, or how does that actually work
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  Speaker 13: for roster management?
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  Speaker 2: Game day elevations?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say that after I like to free up the lines.
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  Speaker 2: You got any other questions, Dylan?
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  Speaker 7: No, man.
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  Speaker 13: I had the Cowboys going two wins off the bat,
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  Speaker 13: which I still have, and I had them losing the
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  Speaker 13: next two out of three, and I was going to
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  Speaker 13: say this injury doesn't change that for me. So I
• 15:56
  Speaker 13: think we're still in all right shape.
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see how Bass plays. Thanks, thanks. I mean,
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I think Bass is going to play well. I really do.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: I think he's always kind of been that guy. And,
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: you know, I think the offensive line has gotten better
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: around him. I think Guyton is better equipped for– that
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: kind of role. Now, as far, as far as game
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: day elevations, it's something that they've, they've added the last
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: few years and it really does affect how you construct
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: your whole roster. And so, and it's another reason why
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: don't get caught up too much in, in how much
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: money the Cowboys have on the cap. I was, I
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: was explaining to someone to this the other day, let's
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: just say that your, your salary is a million dollars,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: you know, Let's say your salary is $ 1. 8 million because
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: it's 18 weeks of the season. So you get $ 100, 000
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: every Tuesday. That's your paycheck. That's for a guy that's
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: on the roster. Let's say your salary is about $ 500, 000
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: or so for practice squad. You know, practice squad guys.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: But still, whatever that is, divided by 18, I'm not
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: going to say. I don't really know what that would be. But,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: you know, let's say it's. $ 75, 000 or something like that.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: But it would be 1.8 if you get elevated because
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: you get elevated that week and you play on the roster,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: then you get a full roster salary. So if you're
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: doing that two times a game, then that's another maybe,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know, what was that difference there? I mean,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: it was probably... another $ 100, 000 every single week times two.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: So all I'm saying is that kind of stuff adds
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: up a little bit more than you think. You have
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: to factor in game day elevations. Now, as far as
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: the rule goes, what you're asking for, let's just say
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: you got Abanaconda on the roster. He's a practice squad guy,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: and you want to move him up. You got to
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: make that decision on Saturday. Usually when we're flying out,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: that's when those news comes out. Abanaconda is going to
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: be elevated for the game. He goes, he plays, he
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: will play in the game. You're not going to be inactive.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: He's going to play in the game, and then he
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: drops back down to the practice squad, and now he
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: only has two elevations left. So he can still get
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: taken from another team and all that, but you can
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: elevate these guys three times. So look at linebacker, for instance.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: You've got four guys on your team at linebacker. So
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I could see this being a game day elevation spot.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: You have Justin Barron and Curtis Robinson on the practice squad.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: That's at least six weeks into the season where you
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: can have an extra linebacker that you can play in
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: the game, at least six. Three times for Barron, three
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: times for Robinson. I don't know if they wanted to
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: do it that way. Then they, you know, who has
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the best week of practice or whatever that is, who
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: gives them the best chance to win. And then, you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: say you put in, say it's Barron. Say Barron has
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: you know, plays really well in special teams. Maybe he
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: gets an interception on defense or whatever. You may not
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: want to put him back on the practice squad. He
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: might have to get elevated to the actual roster. You've
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: got to create a roster spot. But that's how that works.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: So three times a player can go from the practice
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: squad to game day elevation back to the practice squad.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: So you use your game day elevations to your advantage,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: especially on a position that you might need to go
• 19:14
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  Speaker 7: So let's talk football, though, yeah? Because we're out of
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: training camp.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: That's what we do.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: That's what we do. And we've got to play the
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: Giants this Sunday night. And I'm a little leery about
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: that Giants front seven. I'd like to know your thoughts
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: on it. Other than that, Chris said from Saratoga to
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: the Springs, So all my questions, and you gave all
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: the answers I wanted between a pass rusher and a quarterback.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: So I think you answered everything. Yeah.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Well, all right. Appreciate it.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: And I'll take that off there, and good to be back.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: All right. Sounds good.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Rob. You know, the defensive line for the
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Giants is going to be stout, regardless if Tyler Smith's
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: in there or not. I mean, like, that's just what
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: they've done. They've continued to add those kind of pieces,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I think, you know, I think John Harbaugh is a really,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: really good coach. And I think that they, he's going
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: to get a defense, uh, that that's going to be stout.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, those guys are continuing to develop and they're
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: just going to come in waves. And so it, that's
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: going to be, that's going to be a challenge. Now
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: you'd have to run the football on them. There's no
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: doubt about it. You, you've got to run TJ Bass
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: is going to have to be able to, to be
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: at the, um, you know, good with the, with the
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: run blocking kind of like Irene alluded to early on. Um,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: They're going to have to figure out how to do that.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I think Dak's play-action passes are really good. I think
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: this team is a very good play-action pass type of offense,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: especially with the way Pickens and CD can get down
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: the field. I think Flanoy is going to have a
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: big year, and Ferguson, all those guys. But if you
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: can run the ball, you're going to have to run
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: it for the play-action and kind of keep that pass
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: rush kind of offset a little bit. So, yeah, I
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: think they lost Dexter Lawrence in the middle. But, you know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: they've got some guys that can play in there. I
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: think Reese can line up in there.
• 23:33
  Speaker 13: Burns.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, those guys can get in there. Carter. But,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: you know, they're really more of a speed-rushing team. So
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I think the key is going to be establishing a run. And,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, you could say that about any game, you know, college,
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: high school, junior high. I mean, you could say that
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: you've got to run the football. If you run the football,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: it's going to make it a lot easier for you
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: to do your stuff. So, That's all eyes are going
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: to be on TJ Bass to make sure that he
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: can be that guy. You're not asking him to be
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Tyler Smith. He's going to have to be TJ Bass,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: and there's a reason why they've kept him like they did.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: They put that second-round tender on him. They knew no
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: one was going to take that. No one's ever, ever
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: actually been lost if you put the second-round tender on anyone.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: No other team has ever said, oh, we'll take that.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: We'll give up a second. And we'll take that. It's
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: never happened in the NFL, and it didn't happen this
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: year with T.J. Bass. It's not that teams didn't want him.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: It's just the Cowboys coveted him enough to say, yeah,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: we're keeping him. All right, let's go to Lewis. He's moved.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Lewis in Oklahoma City.
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: What's going on?
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: Man, I'm good.
• 24:42
  Speaker 10: I'm tired.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: I'm done moving now. I'm officially, like, all my stuff
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: is packed up and at.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: My other house.
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: Now I got to unpack.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: All right. Oklahoma City. It's a big city compared to Langston.
• 24:53
  Speaker 11: Yes, yes, yes.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: More traffic.
• 24:56
  Speaker 11: Oh, that too.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: But I came in here, man, I just want to
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: get it in. I was listening to Jerry Jones and
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: the fan this morning, and they get all those moves
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: with the money. I don't know if we talked about
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: it yet. And he didn't really specifically say that they
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: were trying to make moves to try to bring in
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: an offensive player, but he did kind of hit that, like,
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: we may make some room for a defensive player.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: He didn't hint. He didn't hint. He said that. That's
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: what he said.
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: You're right.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: He said that.
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: And so I was kind of like, okay, so with
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: that being said, I know they bought in Bob Miller.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: And I know we still kind of in a sense
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: looking at a linebacker. And I know we need a corner.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: I mean, I enjoy the corners that's on our team.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: But out of those three, do you bring in another lineman,
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: a linebacker.
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: Or a corner?
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: If it was up to me, I would say a linebacker,
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: because I don't know too much about Dee Winters. I
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: love Overshawn, but I don't know about his history. And
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: I think that the D-line may be okay. So I'm
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: going to bring in a linebacker, in my opinion.
• 26:01
  Speaker 11: But what would you.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Go to when it comes to that? And I know
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Tyler Smith being hurt, but I don't think you bring
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: in another extra O-lineman, unless it's going to be a tackle.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I don't think you do that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: As always, I'll listen and I'll get in when.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I fit in.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thank you, Lewis. Yeah, it wouldn't be linebacker
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: for me. I get what you, you know, there's uncertainty.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: There's uncertainty really at all those positions. I mean, if
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: you cross the board, I mean, everybody, all the corners,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: even safety. I mean, even safety. I mean, is Caleb
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Downs going to be what we think he is? I mean,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: you can have a question mark about anybody if he
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: really wants him. As far as linebackers go, overshown winners,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: I think they've had a good offseason. Like anything, it's
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: time to roll the ball out and play. I think
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Barham is going to be a guy that's going to
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: be hard to keep off the field. He's going to
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: figure it out. There was a little bit of regression
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: from his first preseason game to the second one.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: He kind of.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Overran the play a little bit. Just some awareness things,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: but that's to be expected from any rookie. that's to
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: be expected from any rookie that that's played linebacker his
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: whole life and Barham really hasn't. Um, so, you know,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: but he's, I think he'll, he'll, he'll figure it out. Um,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: there's a little, there was a little joke in the
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: locker room yesterday with him walking around and was like,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: does anybody want to go up to him and, and,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: and ask him about, you know, if, if he thought
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Michigan deserved to win that game with her one second
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Western Michigan and all that. And, consensus was nobody really
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: wanted to ask barham that so i think that was
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: fine and maybe some of the other guy maybe schoonmaker
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: he would have talked about a little bit i don't
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: know but barham was like nah we didn't ask about
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: it uh how crazy was that though right i mean
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: i didn't even i didn't watch much of the game
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: i did see it kind of the end i was
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: watched the final few minutes of that that's that's crazy
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: i mean they they're gonna have to figure that out
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: i mean just this is it's gonna turn into soccer
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: you know what i mean where like you never know
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: when the game ends that's like i guess if you
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: can't get it synced up right well i guess you
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: can just be like soccer and just say well i
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: think the game will be over here in a little
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: bit i mean i don't i don't really know extra
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: time um something tells me though if western michigan was
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: the one thrown into the end zone they wouldn't have
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: added another second just just saying um but but To
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: answer the question, I didn't really answer it. To answer
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: the question, I would say corner, pass rusher I'm fine with.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: The reason why at this point, to me, your linebackers
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: kind of have to be in sync with what's going on,
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: who's making the calls, who knows what we're doing here
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: on defense. I'm not saying there's never been a linebacker
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: added to the team late, but there's got to be
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: somebody that kind of knows what's going on. I think corner, corner.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: go out there, cover your guy. We're in cover too.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: We're in the, I mean, yeah, you need to know
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: the defense, but you can, you can plug right in
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: and play pass rusher too. It depends on, you know,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: when he, when he's going out there, but he kind
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: of knows what the role is and what you're doing. Um,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: it's gotta be a good one though for pass rusher.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's, I mean, you've got, I mean, it
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: will be a progress stopper and that's not necessarily a
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: bad word, but it's going to stop someone's progress. He's
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: gotta be good enough to, to, to do that. So
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I still lean to corner. Um, Pass rusher would have
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: to be the right move. But anybody that you're doing,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: anybody that you're trading for, that you're creating enough cap
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: space to fit it all into your cap, then it's
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: going to be somebody that you're giving up draft capital to.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: And it's got to be somebody that makes sense two
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: years from now. It's got to fit your football team
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: in 2022. If you're going to make a move like that,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: he's going to have to be on your team. And
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: don't forget, when they restructure these moves, Bland, Ferguson, and
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Kenny Clark, those three guys, what I took from that,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: especially from Bland, is Here's a guy they feel pretty
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: good about. Because you don't necessarily do those moves if
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: you're looking to kind of get out of the contract
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: or whatever. I mean, you kind of, you know, it's
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: a trigger that you put on the contract. They don't
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: get really any extra money or whatever. But it does
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: extend it out a little bit to the point, if
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: you were thinking, all right, one more year on Bland,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: if this doesn't work, we've got to figure this. No,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, like, you make a move like that, he's
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: in your plans. Same with Kenny Clark, same, obviously, with Ferguson.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: That's not that much of a surprise. But that point,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: I think if Bland, and I asked this question to
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: somebody in the building, if Bland didn't have the training
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: camp that he had, well, he was pretty good. And
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: he goes up against great receivers every day. If he
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: didn't have the camp that he had, would you have
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: considered doing this? And they said, probably not. So it's
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: kind of another example that Daron Bland's playing pretty well.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Does it mean go out and go get another corner?
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: You could if you wanted to, but it's got to
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: make sense. If you're going to give up draft capital,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: it's got to make sense. All right, let's go with
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Michael in Bowling Green.
• 31:02
  Speaker 9: What's going on, Nick?
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: Hey, Michael.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: All right, man.
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: I came up with a couple questions last week, so
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: I'm sure I haven't been listening because I'm working, but
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: just dialing, dialing, dialing. So I figured there's been a
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: lot of the same question about something. Well, first of all,
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: so you say you're doing good?
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  Speaker 7: Yes. All right.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I just hope all the Cowboys storyliners are doing good.
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  Speaker 9: Cause my gosh, the, the, the, the world you've created
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  Speaker 9: for us. It's incredible. I mean, you know, you and
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  Speaker 9: Chris doing this stuff and then these storyliners, I mean, I, I,
• 31:45
  Speaker 9: you know, Brian in Kansas city, I talked to him
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: on the phone, you know, every once in a while
• 31:50
  Speaker 9: we text all the time and that's awesome. You know,
• 31:52
  Speaker 9: and then, uh, uh, Irene and, uh, Different people, you know,
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: we text, and it's just awesome what you've done. And
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  Speaker 9: I'm sure you didn't realize it was going to be
• 32:03
  Speaker 9: like this. No, I did not.
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  Speaker 2: It's credit to you guys, though. It's credit to you
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: guys as, like, something that you guys, you know, maybe
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: were missing. Like, oh, I need more Cowboy fans. Because
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: everyone wants– you know how many statements start like this?
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  Speaker 2: Is it just me? You know, people say that all
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: the time. And this is a show that kind of
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: helps answer that stuff. Is it just me? Well, because
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: you guys have questions and all that, and now you
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: can kind of relate. There's not many people in, let's
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: just say, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that knows who the
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: third defensive tackle is or knows who the third running
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: back is or the practice squad guys for the Cowboys.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: So this is a community that everybody feels the same
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: way or at least everybody has the same kind of
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: worries and concerns about. because they're all on the same level.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: So that's what's awesome about it. And technology now, you
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: guys can just FaceTime and talk and do community spaces
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: and things like that. So it's perfect.
• 32:59
  Speaker 9: And fantasy football. I'm on the Storyliners fantasy football team.
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  Speaker 7: Nice.
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: Okay, so my two questions I thought of last week.
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: The first one, what does downs have to do to
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: win defensive rookie of the year, in your opinion? I'm
• 33:16
  Speaker 9: going to give you my second question, and then I'll
• 33:18
  Speaker 9: get off. That way I can just listen and get
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: more people on. And my second question is, it's kind
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: of funny, I thought of this last week, who is
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: the most important backup? You know, you've got all the starters,
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: you've got all the great players, but who is, to
• 33:36
  Speaker 9: your opinion, I think I know what you're going to say,
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: but who do you think is the most important backup
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: on the Cowboys team this year?
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Who would you say?
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: Well, before, when I thought of the thing, Had a
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: couple names in mind. But I think right now I'm
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: thinking it's Bass. Because, you know, he is.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: I think your most important backup for any team is
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: probably quarterback, right? I mean, just can you function the same?
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Because think about how much money is spent from your
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: salary cap to this position. So now... You taking that
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: away from your team, who can go in and function
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: on that? But I think that that would be the
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: same across the board. You know, like that's that there's
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: if you lose your quarterback, that's going to be tough.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: So let's just kind of throw that out there. I mean,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: throw that to the side. Other positions. Who's your most
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: important backup? I mean, yeah, I mean, I think this
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: is this is up there. I would say that I
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: would say corner to your backup corners that they have
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: to go in there and play. especially when you just
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: think of how many star receivers there are out there,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: bad matchups if you have to go play with your
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: backup corners. So I think offensively you can kind of
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: scheme your receivers, runners, and stuff like that. But I
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: would say your backup linemen, your backup corners.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, Michael. I'm going to answer the Caleb
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Downs question. What does he have to do to make
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: rookie of the year? Well, first of all– This is
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: some things that could help. Get an interception this Sunday night.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Get an interception. Everyone's watching. Everyone's watching this game. Cowboys-Giants
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: be one of the most watched games of the week.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: And everyone likes to watch this Cowboys-Giants game. They want
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: to see what Harbaugh is going to do with the Giants.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: And obviously the Cowboys, they're getting a lot of love
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: this year about what they've done. And then Caleb Downs
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: is one of the most intriguing draft picks this that
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: they've had. I think Caleb Downs is one of the
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: reasons why there's this excitement here. So get an interception
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: in the first game or make an impact-type play. Show
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: why you were picked. Show why the grown men in
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: the war room were chest-bumping each other and why they
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: were so excited to get this guy with the 11th
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: overall pick. Make a play like that. Get some interceptions.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Make some timely plays. Get a pick on the first game.
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  Speaker 2: Get a pick on Thanksgiving. when voting is starting to
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  Speaker 2: really ramp up, things like that. Those are things that
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  Speaker 2: you can do. Just show that, oh, this guy is
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: supposed to be really good. Just prove that. And obviously
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: this team has to be good. The defense has to
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: be good as well. But if he shows why he's
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: worth all the hype, then, yeah, I could see that
• 36:26
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  Speaker 2: all right i'm a in napa what's up.
• 38:03
  Speaker 12: Hey what's up nick good morning how are you.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I'm good how are you doing I'm great.
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: Thanks for asking.
• 38:09
  Speaker 12: Um, man, I was just listening in and I was
• 38:12
  Speaker 12: just thinking I was going to listen, uh, and not
• 38:14
  Speaker 12: really call, but, uh, uh, man, a lot of, a
• 38:18
  Speaker 12: lot of conversation about things that we need to do
• 38:21
  Speaker 12: and what we need to upgrade. And we haven't even
• 38:24
  Speaker 12: started playing any games. Um, you know, there's a reason
• 38:27
  Speaker 12: that Tyler Bass got a second, a second round tender designation.
• 38:32
  Speaker 12: You know, um, there's a reason that the Cowboys gave
• 38:34
  Speaker 12: him the contract that they gave him. Um, think that's
• 38:37
  Speaker 12: a lot of trust shoddy said um in his press
• 38:40
  Speaker 12: conference that he believes that tyler's uh or that tj's
• 38:45
  Speaker 12: a starting caliber type um offensive lineman it's just the
• 38:50
  Speaker 12: guys in front of them are better you know so
• 38:52
  Speaker 12: yeah um man it's you know we're uh what five
• 38:57
  Speaker 12: days before the season starts and we're talking about the
• 38:59
  Speaker 12: needs that we have and we haven't even started playing
• 39:02
  Speaker 12: i think uh you know, the defense is going to
• 39:04
  Speaker 12: be kind of unfold in front of us throughout the season.
• 39:07
  Speaker 12: They're young, you know, we got a new D coordinator,
• 39:10
  Speaker 12: so we got to be patient. It's a, it's a marathon.
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: It's not a sprint.
• 39:15
  Speaker 12: Um, man, I believe we have the pieces in place. Um, and,
• 39:20
  Speaker 12: and as we go, you know, there'll, there'll be things
• 39:22
  Speaker 12: that happen and, you know, the team will kind of
• 39:25
  Speaker 12: reveal itself as far as where there are holes or
• 39:27
  Speaker 12: where there are some needs. And I think we're, you know,
• 39:30
  Speaker 12: there'll be plenty of time to do that then. And,
• 39:33
  Speaker 12: you know, seeing what your thoughts about that are.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm with you. I mean, I think
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball, thanks for the call, Ime.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: I think on both sides, I mean, I could see
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: the argument there is that, you know, at some point
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: let's just play. Let's see what you got. um you
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: know you've constructed this roster you've done a good job
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: with it but now like let's see how good these
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: guys are let's see what what kind of development some
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: of these younger players have have have made um on
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: the on the other side you know you're getting yourself
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: ready for any potential move that that could happen i
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: mean like some of these guys that you that you've
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: evaluated you kind of know what they are in the
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: league and so if someone has them on the trading
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: block or wants to move them, you know, you, you,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: you know what, what they can do and you, you
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: want to add them to, to your team, you know?
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: And so usually though, after the couple of weeks, week one,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: week two teams will kind of get a sense a
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: little bit of what they are and, and, and where,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: where they're, they're headed. And if they do want to,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: you know, make a trade, the Cowboys are going to
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: be ready for it. I mean, that's all, that's all
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: it comes down to. So I think that the, the,
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: most of the mindset here in this building is like
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: you're saying is, Hey, let's see what we've got. Let's see.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of, but there are some positions that
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: you're like, man, I wouldn't, wouldn't mind getting better at that.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: I lean more towards let's, let's play. Let's see. There's
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: going to be four or five positions that four or
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: five players that are playing better than you thought. There
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: may be a few, you hope it's not four or five,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: but there may be a few that aren't playing as
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: well as you wanted to. But, That's why I kicked
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: this thing off Sunday night. Can't get here fast enough.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Joe in Stanford.
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: Morning, sir.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: Good, brother. How about yourself?
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Great, great, great.
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: Great.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: I know you answer that question a ton of times,
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: so I already know you're great, but it's common courtesy, right?
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: No, of course.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: So I'm in the group of people who are not
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: so freaked out about Tyler Smith. Not this last caller,
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: but the caller before was asking about– most important backup,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: and I know quarterback does make sense of that answer,
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: but honestly, a guy like Bass who is going to
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: be the guy who backs up three positions on the line,
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: to me, has to be looked at as maybe the
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: most important backup you have on the team. And that's
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: on a lot of teams. So I feel pretty good
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: about Bass. If we were going to lose, I mean,
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: Tyler Smith is awesome. We all know that. But if
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: we were going to lose a great player anywhere on
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: the team, this would be the spot. that I would
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: be probably the most okay with and not panic anyway.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: As far as the defense goes or, like, trying to
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: pick up somebody, if it was me, I don't know
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: how you feel, but if it was me, I would
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: be more inclined to be worried about the back end,
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: sort of like the guys. It seems to me like
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: in CP's scheme, the back end has the most, like,
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: responsibilities to hold the defense together, that and the interior line.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: So I think I'd probably be more inclined to try
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: to pick up a cornerback than a pass rusher in
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: my opinion. What do you think about that?
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yes, that's what I've said earlier too.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: I do think that on the back end, in this
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: particular case, I'm not saying it's more important overall just
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: in general football terms, but I do think in this
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: case you've done enough for this defensive line. I mean,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: you've got the guys in the middle. that are really
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: going to cause some issues. And I think it's probably
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: as best as we've seen this interior defensive line before.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: So because of that, I think it's going to open
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: up some things on the outside. You've got Hall of
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Famer who's still playing at a pretty high level, still
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: called himself what Von Miller called himself the sack daddy.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: So he's still ready to be that guy. Let's see
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: if he's still got it. Rashawn Gary's got something to
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: prove as a rock, as a young guy, Malachi Lawrence.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: You got a lot of pieces there. So on the
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: back end, though, yeah, some more question marks at corner.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Casey in L.A.
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: What's up?
• 43:59
  Speaker 11: Hey, Nick, how's it going?
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: Good.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 44:02
  Speaker 11: Pretty good. Thanks. Getting stoked for the season. You know,
• 44:07
  Speaker 11: I'll be the first to admit when the Cowboys hired Shottie,
• 44:11
  Speaker 11: I wasn't completely moved by the hire. But every time
• 44:14
  Speaker 11: I hear this cat talk, I just feel like this
• 44:18
  Speaker 11: was obviously in his blood. But I think he's the
• 44:21
  Speaker 11: right dude for this job. And then going into year two,
• 44:26
  Speaker 11: I'm really excited about the progress I think he's going
• 44:29
  Speaker 11: to make. So I know you've been around a ton
• 44:30
  Speaker 11: of coaches. around this organization, and it's hard to compare,
• 44:34
  Speaker 11: but where would you kind of put Shadi and the
• 44:37
  Speaker 11: feel around him that you get being inside there? And
• 44:42
  Speaker 11: I'll take it off the air.
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: Thank you. Appreciate you.
• 44:44
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. You know, he's still a second-year coach.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: He hasn't had a winning record, hasn't got his team
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: into the playoffs, and that's the standard, and that's not
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: a knock on him. He'll be the first to say that.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: He has a standard to uphold from the Cowboys, also
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: with his father, who is, you know, legendary in his
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: own right. So, you know, Brian Schottenheimer has high standards,
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: and he hasn't reached that yet. He knows that. But
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: let's judge him off of what we can see. He's also,
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: what he's trying to do is build culture here and
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: change it to the point where it's, you know, it's
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: a different attitude, it's a different type of team. And
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: so far, he's done it. You don't change that overnight.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Thought he did a pretty good job last year with that.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: There was a few plays here and there that they
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: could have won, and that changes things. But they had
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: one of the worst defenses in the history of the
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: franchise and still managed to be somewhat competitive to the
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: point where you maybe had a shot to get into
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: the playoffs late in the year, but they just weren't balanced.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: So as far as what he's doing now, I thought
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: he's done a really good job. He knows the deal.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: He knows working in this franchise and working with Jerry
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: and Steven and Will McClay, and he's done that really well.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: What I love about him is that it's very hard
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: to say this about other coaches, but when you listen
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: to the press conference, if you really listen to the
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: press conferences, he's giving you the answers. I mean, he
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: definitely alludes to stuff. It's not just coach speak a
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: lot of times. He tells you the guys that they like.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: He was telling you for a while that Amir Speed
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: was a guy that they really liked. He was telling
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: you about Brevin Spanford in the offseason as well. I mean,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: he talked about Abanaconda more than he talked about Moffa
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: and Blue, who Abanaconda's still here on the practice squad
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: but still here. And there's other examples like that if
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: you just kind of go and listen. He was talking
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: about Joe Milton too and how he can't just be
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: just arm talent. It's got to be some other things
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: and factors as well. So he's honest with the media.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: He's honest with the players as well. You know, it's
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: hard to do sometimes as a coach. You don't want
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: to give away your hand and things like that. So,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: so far, so good. This is his second year. I
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: think he's got a good football team in front of him,
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: and he's a big reason for that. So let's see
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: if they can go out and win some games. All right, guys,
• 47:12
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• 47:14
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• 47:18
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• 47:20
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