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  Speaker 1: The following.
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  Speaker 2: This is Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette, the official shave
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  Speaker 4: Here's Nick Eatman, Hello and welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented
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  Speaker 4: by Gillette. Wednesday, June seventeenth, The final show before training camp.
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  Speaker 4: We are wrapping this thing up this week and summ
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  Speaker 4: into next week. But this will be our last show
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  Speaker 4: before training camp goes. So let's make it a good one,
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  Speaker 4: all right, eight eight eight eight five five two two
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  Speaker 4: nine seven. You can talk to us. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys Mini camp. And yes, George Preakins showed up. That
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  Speaker 4: was the question. He showed up, He answered it. And
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  Speaker 4: now the next question is how how is he going
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  Speaker 4: to perform on this tag? Is he going to play
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  Speaker 4: on the tag? Is he going to go to training camp?
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna hold out, He's gonna have a hold in.
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  Speaker 4: He did a pretty good job of answering that. I
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  Speaker 4: think if you got a chance to to watch that
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  Speaker 4: video yesterday of his press conference with the media, was
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  Speaker 4: was pretty good. I thought he you know, he's obviously
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  Speaker 4: been coached up with his advisors. But they did a
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  Speaker 4: good job, and he did a good job. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he said the right things and which I think the
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys would want to hear and the fans would want
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  Speaker 4: to hear. So, you know, so far, so good on
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  Speaker 4: that he's here when he's supposed to be here, and
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  Speaker 4: you know, you can't really fault him for anything else.
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  Speaker 4: If they want to make it, you know, mandatory, make
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  Speaker 4: it mandatory. And that's just the way that that it's
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  Speaker 4: always been. And you know, he's playing the game. They're
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  Speaker 4: playing the game. Doesn't sound like Cowboy's really playing it
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  Speaker 4: that they've said, hey, you're going to play on the
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  Speaker 4: tag this year and and and that's we're not going
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  Speaker 4: to negotiate. So I don't know who's got leverage here
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  Speaker 4: or there, but it's going to be a situation where
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  Speaker 4: I think, I think it's going to be good for
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  Speaker 4: the cop was good for pickings, and well, we'll see
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  Speaker 4: what happens. But so far, so good as far as
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  Speaker 4: the mini camp goes. And he didn't do a lot
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  Speaker 4: in the team period. That was by design. That's not
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  Speaker 4: part of the holdout, that's just part of them ramping
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  Speaker 4: up to getting him ready to roll all right, eight
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  Speaker 4: a A eight five five two two nine seven. We
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  Speaker 4: already have two callers on the line, so let's get
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  Speaker 4: to it. Brian in Kansas City, what's up?
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: What's up?
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  Speaker 5: Hey? Before I ask any questions, I just want to
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  Speaker 5: wish our friend Kyle Yeomans the very best and his
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  Speaker 5: whatever his new endeavors are, and thank him for all
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  Speaker 5: the content and work he's put in over the last
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  Speaker 5: seven years. It's been fantastic. And hope he does I'm
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  Speaker 5: sure he's gonna do fantastic and whatever he does next.
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  Speaker 4: All right, all right, that's cool. He's got a show
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  Speaker 4: for that, So I think I guess they are not
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  Speaker 4: doing any more shows this uh, I guess they they're
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  Speaker 4: done with their talking cowboys, so he won't get to
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  Speaker 4: do that again. But all right, I'll pass it on
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  Speaker 4: Brud to that.
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  Speaker 5: So, you know, I was thinking about this year, you know,
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  Speaker 5: looking at at the outcomes we had last year, both
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  Speaker 5: on offense, special teams and defense, and and just seeing,
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  Speaker 5: you know, what we have on talent wise, and we
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  Speaker 5: think and and I'm I'm in that boat. I think
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  Speaker 5: we've upgraded our defensive talent, right, I think we've done
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  Speaker 5: a good job at at you know, getting people. I
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  Speaker 5: thought we did okay last year too, I was wrong,
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  Speaker 5: but but you know, this year, I think there's a
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  Speaker 5: big difference.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: So on offense, I would say you have Dak and
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  Speaker 5: Pickens and c d and and uh uh. I always
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  Speaker 5: say the wrong name Tyler Smith. Always start to say Tyron, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: Tyler Smith. Those guys every time they lace them up,
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  Speaker 5: they're competing to be in All Pro. And I would
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  Speaker 5: say on special teams, Turpin has that ability, He's proven it,
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  Speaker 5: and Aubrey has that ability. On defense, I think there's
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  Speaker 5: only one that's proven it and that's max Q. Right,
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  Speaker 5: Big number ninety two has proven that he can be
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  Speaker 5: an All Pro because he has been. Is there anybody
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  Speaker 5: else on our defense in your opinion that you think, hey,
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  Speaker 5: if this year goes well, that's the ceiling for that person.
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  Speaker 5: And I give you mine. I think if he's healthy,
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  Speaker 5: I think Demo can play the role that Zach Bond
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  Speaker 5: did for the Eagles. I think that's the possibility if
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  Speaker 5: he's healthy. So that would be my guy that I
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  Speaker 5: think that's the ceiling for him. And I'll hang up
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  Speaker 5: and listen to your answer. Man, enjoy your time off man.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks Nick, all right, thank you. If who could be
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  Speaker 4: an All Pro if they hit their ceiling, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean I think everybody thinks that they could be
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  Speaker 4: that guy. You know that they think they have that
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  Speaker 4: in them. You know, part of being All Pro and
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  Speaker 4: Pro Bowl is the recognition, So you know, I would
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  Speaker 4: I would think that Caleb downs is it's probably you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to have to do some things early on,
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  Speaker 4: but you know he's he's that's the expectations and so
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  Speaker 4: if he can get closer to that already, he'll have
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  Speaker 4: the name recognition and all that, so he's he's got
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  Speaker 4: a shot over shown. Yeah, I mean, he's going to
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  Speaker 4: have to do it at the at the big moments too.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the good thing about this team and the
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  Speaker 4: schedule is that you get those opportunities to to have
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  Speaker 4: those nationally televised games and primetime games and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, we've seen players do that, make make
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  Speaker 4: big plays, big moments on things giving or on Monday
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  Speaker 4: Night football, Sunday Night football at the right time, and
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  Speaker 4: it can kind of propel you to to make Pro
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  Speaker 4: Bowls and All Pros and things like that. So you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to do it at the right time, ask
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  Speaker 4: for who. It's hard to say. Don't really want to
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  Speaker 4: put that out there on these guys. You know, we've
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  Speaker 4: seen it with Bland, you know, but Bland was scoring
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  Speaker 4: touchdowns too, I mean that that was he was setting
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  Speaker 4: records doing that. I think down's Bland overshown. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to take some some dynamic plays and then
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  Speaker 4: you know, somebody gets hot on the other side with
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  Speaker 4: a lot of sacks, whether it be Gary, whether it
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  Speaker 4: be as Aaku, who knows who who that is. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, socks can can come in bunches, and if
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  Speaker 4: that could happen, just like turnovers and pick sixes can
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  Speaker 4: come in bunches. So it's just gonna have to be
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  Speaker 4: those dynamic type plays and a few of them we've seen,
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  Speaker 4: like with Trayvon Diggs and he just kept getting interceptions
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  Speaker 4: and Bland just kept getting interceptions. So you know, I
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  Speaker 4: anybody can do that if they if if you know,
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  Speaker 4: if it hits just right. So but I you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think as a Rocky could be that guy too,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and we'll see how he does this this year.
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  Speaker 4: He looks a little bigger he looks like he's ready
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  Speaker 4: to kind of take it to the next level, so
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  Speaker 4: that that would be awesome step if if he could,
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  Speaker 4: he could definitely do that. All right, let's go to
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  Speaker 4: Irene and falls Church. Irene. What's up?
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  Speaker 6: Hey?
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  Speaker 7: Good morning?
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  Speaker 8: How are you good?
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  Speaker 4: How are you good?
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  Speaker 8: Hey?
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  Speaker 9: Next time we talk it will be an Oxnard at
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  Speaker 9: least with voices, So that would be we got a
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  Speaker 9: cool group come in, a few of us from last year,
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  Speaker 9: and then some even an ambassador might be showing up.
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  Speaker 9: So nice, Yeah, very very nice. So I wanted to
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  Speaker 9: talk about I got training camp and then also mini camps.
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  Speaker 9: So last season when we were there, we we noticed,
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  Speaker 9: I mean I think I mentioned on the on the
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  Speaker 9: show that we had that it was very obvious that
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  Speaker 9: George Pickens was trusted by Dak right, so I'm on
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  Speaker 9: the opposite side. We were like, oh man, the Rams
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  Speaker 9: are picking us apart on defense, but we don't have Micah.
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  Speaker 9: We don't have Micah, so you can't see everything at
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  Speaker 9: training camp. But there definitely were signs of what the
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  Speaker 9: season was going to be, and of course we thought
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  Speaker 9: Mike could be back. Didn't happen. They didn't manufacture pressure.
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  Speaker 3: The rest of history.
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  Speaker 9: But so we'll get a good idea there. I was
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  Speaker 9: wondering though, with mini camp, what do you focus on
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  Speaker 9: personally or what do other people really focus on? Is
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  Speaker 9: it how they try different lineups or I'll take that
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  Speaker 9: off air, but yeah, that's kind of my question about
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  Speaker 9: what mini camp is about.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks good all right, Thanks Ireen. Looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 4: you guys at camp this year and that's always always
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  Speaker 4: a good time and see what the what the setup
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  Speaker 4: looks like, and as far as camp goes, and what
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  Speaker 4: time our show will be and all that, we're still
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  Speaker 4: gonna I have a feeling we're going to have some
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  Speaker 4: some changes at training camp as far as shows go,
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  Speaker 4: so nothing's kind of guaranteed as far as like my
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  Speaker 4: show goes. I mean, I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 4: about the same. We'll see how Chris gets the phone
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  Speaker 4: line working or phone lines is it two lines? Maybe
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  Speaker 4: just one line? But out there, but it should be
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  Speaker 4: it should be fun again and see what kind of
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  Speaker 4: setup we've got. But looking forward to having you guys
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  Speaker 4: out there for a couple of days. Looks like you
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  Speaker 4: picked the right days too to be out there.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Ask your question on what to look for here. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's I think it's it's always the same as far
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  Speaker 4: as as you evaluate what you can evaluate, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And so if you really want to go into a
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  Speaker 4: mini camp with no pads on and say I want
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  Speaker 4: to see these defensive tackles and see how strong they
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  Speaker 4: are and how how they're stopping the run, it's like, well,
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  Speaker 4: there's really no run and there's really no stopping anybody,
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  Speaker 4: and there's really no blocking and there's no tackling. So
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  Speaker 4: you really can't get that that sense, now what. So
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  Speaker 4: it always goes back to the things that you can see.
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  Speaker 4: Is that quarterback throwing the ball, well, does the receiver
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  Speaker 4: catch it? Is he wide open or is he kind
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  Speaker 4: of open? Or was the defensive back there? And did
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  Speaker 4: he make a play on the ball? And is the
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  Speaker 4: guy rushing off the edge he's getting his hands up
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  Speaker 4: there and knocking down passes and making things. So it's
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  Speaker 4: it's just playing and simple to evaluating what you can evaluate,
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  Speaker 4: and it's usually comes down to the skill players. And
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  Speaker 4: so you know, you don't ever look at defense. Who's
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  Speaker 4: doing what? Who won the day? Things like that. I
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  Speaker 4: remember the OTAs last week. I remember people saying, wow,
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  Speaker 4: defense had a great day. Those defensive backs looked really good,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, well, I you know, yeah, if
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna go off against Turpin and Flinoy and and
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  Speaker 4: Valdez Scantling, you're probably gonna win. You should. But CD
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  Speaker 4: and Pickings aren't here, so that's a big part of
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  Speaker 4: the team, so, you know, and they were they were back,
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  Speaker 4: or at least CD was back yesterday today as far
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  Speaker 4: as the team goes, and I'm sure you know, offense
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  Speaker 4: looked looked pretty good there too. So it really just
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  Speaker 4: comes down to valuing what you can and let's don't
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  Speaker 4: get too crazy about it, you know, taking attendance, who's here,
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  Speaker 4: who's not here, who's practicing, who's who's who looks pretty
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  Speaker 4: good returning from injury. You know, it's really not rocket
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  Speaker 4: science there, It's it's just the thing you evaluate what
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  Speaker 4: you can evaluate, all right. Dylan in Northport, Florida, Dylan,
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  Speaker 4: what's up?
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  Speaker 6: Hey?
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  Speaker 3: How you doing good?
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  Speaker 4: Do you?
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  Speaker 10: Hey?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good?
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  Speaker 11: So does this marks the end of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 11: five storyline season?
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  Speaker 12: Yes?
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  Speaker 8: The Breakers?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? Well no, no, no, no, Actually, you know it's
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  Speaker 4: funny you say that. I was thinking about that going it.
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  Speaker 4: I should do it that way. But I don't. I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I actually like turn it over whenever we do the
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  Speaker 4: all storyline team is really when I turn it over.
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  Speaker 4: And I was thinking about that, like, I probably shouldn't.
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  Speaker 4: I probably should just take it all the way to
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  Speaker 4: the end of this year, announce the team today, and
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  Speaker 4: then send it off and then we started the next
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  Speaker 4: That's what I should do, especially if people are going
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  Speaker 4: to get upset about it, I should just say boom,
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  Speaker 4: like sorry, drop it good, We'll see you in August
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  Speaker 4: or July or whatever that is. But yeah, it really
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  Speaker 4: I kind of flip it and I started like in
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  Speaker 4: April or March whenever, like the league year kind of
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  Speaker 4: turnover is. That's typically what I've done.
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  Speaker 13: So well.
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  Speaker 11: Another good season, man. I love the show, favorite show obviously,
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  Speaker 11: and I'm glad to be be part of it. I
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  Speaker 11: was doing some math this morning, just real quick on
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  Speaker 11: George Pickens, and I just want to touch on kind
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  Speaker 11: of the excitement for heading into next season.
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  Speaker 4: Hold on, I just want to write this down real
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  Speaker 4: quick and see if anyone else says the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to make sure that anyone else says, hey,
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  Speaker 4: I was doing some math this morning. Just didn't want
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  Speaker 4: to see if that's a common phrase, especially on June seventeenth,
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  Speaker 4: or if it's not.
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  Speaker 9: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 11: You know, I'm kind of a football nerd, and I
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  Speaker 11: try to find interesting things to dig into. A I'm
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  Speaker 11: a why guy and a Howe guy and not really
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  Speaker 11: a results guy, so I get in a nady, gritty
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  Speaker 11: So I just wanted this morning, how does if George
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  Speaker 11: Pickens gets franchise tag and obviously this year he did,
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  Speaker 11: and then next year again if he plays in the tag,
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  Speaker 11: how much like in pocket cash does that mean for
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  Speaker 11: him compared to other top end receivers. And after looking
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  Speaker 11: at like the actual take home cash and pocket that
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  Speaker 11: would make him the third highest paid receiver over two
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  Speaker 11: years in the NFL actual cash and pocket So I
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  Speaker 11: know NFL players crave the you know, the long contracts
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  Speaker 11: and the guarantees money and all that so that they
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  Speaker 11: can kind of lock themselves in place and be comfortable.
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  Speaker 11: But from a money standpoint, if he were to get
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  Speaker 11: tagged again next year, it's not necessarily the worst thing
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  Speaker 11: in the world for him because that will have made
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  Speaker 11: him one of the league's top highest paired for top
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  Speaker 11: highest paid players over the course of the.
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  Speaker 3: Last two years.
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  Speaker 11: So just kind of food for thought.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose on that what is that figure.
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  Speaker 11: Gets fifty eight point eight million, and that's estimated because
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  Speaker 11: we don't know what it's going to be the tag
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  Speaker 11: for next year, the rough estimate from what you know
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  Speaker 11: the websites are saying online with the second year in
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  Speaker 11: a row tag and the increase in revenue and all that,
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  Speaker 11: the two highos would be Jackson Smith and Jake Bunjemar Chase.
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  Speaker 11: That's sixty nine and sixty three million, and then justin
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  Speaker 11: Jefferson would be just below picking to fifty five million,
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  Speaker 11: taking to that fifty eight over that that course. So
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  Speaker 11: and that's higher than CD Drake London, just got it.
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  Speaker 11: It's higher than Drake London. So, I mean, it's not
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  Speaker 11: the worst thing in the world. I know, it's not
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  Speaker 11: necessarily what the player wants, but I mean it's a
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  Speaker 11: pretty pretty good sized bag when you compare with his
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  Speaker 11: colleague across the league.
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  Speaker 14: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I'm guessing that that that the projected tag
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  Speaker 4: for the second year for him would be around thirty
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  Speaker 4: thirty one something like that, but.
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  Speaker 11: Thirty one something I think it was.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Well, I mean, I think about the interview
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  Speaker 4: he did yesterday, and you know, it seems pretty cordial
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  Speaker 4: and understanding the business side of it and both sides
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  Speaker 4: of what he's got to do and prove and all that.
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  Speaker 4: And I have a hard time thinking that it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be the same way when you tag a guy
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  Speaker 4: the second time. Yeah, you know, so money wise, that
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  Speaker 4: sounds good, but for them to make the decision like
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  Speaker 4: we're just tagging you again, like what does that look like?
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  Speaker 1: With that?
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  Speaker 4: That means he did enough to show man, this guy
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  Speaker 4: can be really good, but he's obviously not doing as
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  Speaker 4: much to say I want to hand over the bag,
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  Speaker 4: like you said. So that that just sets up for
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  Speaker 4: another interesting off season and season to say, if you
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  Speaker 4: tag a guy again, what he showed and what he
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  Speaker 4: didn't show at the same time kind of mixed together.
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  Speaker 4: Be interesting.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, And it also kind of starts to conflict with
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  Speaker 11: all the contracts that are coming up as well. Right
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  Speaker 11: ced he is going to be due here again. At
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  Speaker 11: some point we're gonna start talking about Dak again. So
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  Speaker 11: you tag him and now you're kind of running over
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  Speaker 11: into other lanes, And how does that affect those negotiations?
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  Speaker 11: It's one less tool to use, so I totally get that,
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  Speaker 11: and there's also other circumstances surrounding that as well. You know,
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  Speaker 11: what did he do off the field this year was
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  Speaker 11: you know, I know there were some fines behind the
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  Speaker 11: scenes and stuff for late meetings and all that in
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  Speaker 11: addition to you know, to what it was on the field.
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  Speaker 11: So it just depends. And I think they were smart
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  Speaker 11: by doing what they did with the tag where they
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  Speaker 11: could go explore their options this year, get valuations, and
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  Speaker 11: then come back to the team and maybe that's something
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  Speaker 11: to do again next year, see if there's a market.
• 16:17
  Speaker 11: But that's all I guess. The future problem is kind
• 16:19
  Speaker 11: of something interesting that I was thinking about this morning. Yeah,
• 16:24
  Speaker 11: as far as I'll go real quick on this next
• 16:26
  Speaker 11: one here, just my excitement for this team. It's really
• 16:29
  Speaker 11: built around the continuity on offense and what we can
• 16:32
  Speaker 11: expect on defense. Offense, you got Ryan Flinoy developing, the
• 16:36
  Speaker 11: running backs developing. Other than that really all continuous from
• 16:40
  Speaker 11: that standpoint. The concern is the tackle play. Hopefully that's
• 16:44
  Speaker 11: that's better this year and Guidance can stay healthy and develop.
• 16:46
  Speaker 11: If so, that'll be really big for this offense. But
• 16:49
  Speaker 11: not too worried about the offense. But the defense, You've
• 16:51
  Speaker 11: got like eight or nine new expected starters that weren't
• 16:54
  Speaker 11: around in training camp last year. And that's like your
• 16:57
  Speaker 11: I know, Kenny Clark got here like five days before
• 16:58
  Speaker 11: the season, but that conclusion can Clark, Quinn and Williams,
• 17:01
  Speaker 11: obviously the rookie Caleb Downs and you're talking Kobe Durant.
• 17:05
  Speaker 11: So that were all these guys that weren't here last year.
• 17:07
  Speaker 11: Like you're gonna see guys week one that you're like, huh,
• 17:09
  Speaker 11: that's the name. I totally forgot that even brought in
• 17:12
  Speaker 11: or you know, it's the guy who wasn't around. It
• 17:14
  Speaker 11: was gonna make a big difference, whatever it might be.
• 17:16
  Speaker 11: It's just an entirely, entirely new defense. Even the guys
• 17:19
  Speaker 11: that were here, like the Blands and those guys, the Dmos,
• 17:21
  Speaker 11: those guys are all going to be healthy hopefully heading
• 17:24
  Speaker 11: into the season. And I'm excited, man. There's a lot
• 17:27
  Speaker 11: of reasons to be excited about this team heading into
• 17:29
  Speaker 11: this the season. It's not gonna be perfect out of
• 17:31
  Speaker 11: the gate defensively, but I have a hard time believing
• 17:34
  Speaker 11: with the the IQ levels from the DC and a
• 17:37
  Speaker 11: lot of the players they brought in that you're going
• 17:39
  Speaker 11: to see a lot of them, same mistakes made twice.
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: You're just gonna see them get better over the course
• 17:42
  Speaker 11: of the season and hopefully that leads to a playoff
• 17:45
  Speaker 11: birth and who knows from there.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think that's good to have that
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: much turnover on a defense. I mean it was kind
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: of a blow that whole thing up type situation. So
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: eight or nine seems a little low. I mean when
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: you think about like who was held over.
• 18:02
  Speaker 11: Both are just the starters, right, but there's also the
• 18:04
  Speaker 11: contributors behind those guys. I mean you're talking really, you're
• 18:06
  Speaker 11: probably I think I did the mass sheets. I did
• 18:08
  Speaker 11: the math. It was like eighteen new names or something
• 18:11
  Speaker 11: like that can be between the starters and contributors.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: It was a ton of guys.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, It's like you could.
• 18:16
  Speaker 11: Count on probably on one hand, the amount of guys
• 18:17
  Speaker 11: that are coming back that are going to get significant
• 18:20
  Speaker 11: playing time over the new guys.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: All right, all right, good stuff. That's your second math
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: reference of the day. I wonder if my son's going
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: to be like that. I did some math this morning.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: I doubt it. Then it is middle of June. But
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: that's why we love That's that's why you're the captain, Dylan.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: You you know, everyone brings something else to the table,
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: so he's bringing the numbers part of it as well.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: Interesting about that much turnover on defense, but it had
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: to happen. I mean, how much how much holdovers can
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: you have on one of the worst defenses in the
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: NFL and the worst that the Cowboys have ever seen.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: So you had to flip that, starting with the coordinator
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: to play caller and then obviously the personnel as well.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Lewis and Linkston, Oklahoma. Lewis,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: what's up?
• 19:10
  Speaker 15: What's going on?
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: How are you doing?
• 19:13
  Speaker 15: Man out here? Trying to survive? Trying to survive.
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: That's it.
• 19:16
  Speaker 15: Other than that, man, just been listening for the podcast
• 19:19
  Speaker 15: and trying.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: To catch up on everything.
• 19:20
  Speaker 15: My hour's been crazy at my job. So finally got
• 19:23
  Speaker 15: in and give him a little two cents in while
• 19:27
  Speaker 15: I him and just from the things I've been reading there,
• 19:30
  Speaker 15: the things I've been saying, I try not to be
• 19:34
  Speaker 15: like one of those guys that jump off the ledge.
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: At first sight.
• 19:38
  Speaker 15: You want to see the team play. But what I've
• 19:40
  Speaker 15: been reading about Christian Parker and stuff like that. Man,
• 19:43
  Speaker 15: I love the guy, I mean so far, but he's
• 19:46
  Speaker 15: never coached dese by hisself. So hopefully that works out.
• 19:50
  Speaker 15: And I'm real optimistic about that because like dealing with
• 19:54
  Speaker 15: saying like it's a lot, it's a big turnover.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: It's not like one or two pieces.
• 19:58
  Speaker 15: It's pretty much a whole overload the defense. And so
• 20:01
  Speaker 15: I'm down with that to see how that runs. And
• 20:04
  Speaker 15: I'm happy that George kicking Saga is over quote unquote
• 20:07
  Speaker 15: if you want to call it that, I laugh.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Because you think it's over, like nothing's ever over here,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Like it's not. It seems okay at the moment. But
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: I think with George, I think who he is. I
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: don't think it's ever going to be over over a
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: player like that, you know, even like think of it
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: like CD, like CD saga. There's always gonna be something
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: with those guys. I mean hopefully not not anything bad,
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: but it's just it's just kind of who they are
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: what they do, which is fun.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:40
  Speaker 15: I mean about said it was a big quote unquote
• 20:42
  Speaker 15: because you know, you never you never know, it's day
• 20:46
  Speaker 15: to day. But I mean, I'm glad he showed up.
• 20:48
  Speaker 15: It's not a talking point every on every hour of hour, true,
• 20:52
  Speaker 15: and so I'm glad with that. And then I'm really
• 20:56
  Speaker 15: just looking forward to seeing what a training cam do
• 21:00
  Speaker 15: through it. Like I said, I ain't go. I never
• 21:01
  Speaker 15: stay all too long, so I'll get in when I can.
• 21:04
  Speaker 15: And y'all have a good.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: One, all right, appreciate that, Thanks for the call, And
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: you're right. I mean I was kind of, you know,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: having fun with that with the Pickens part, but being
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: here and not not having a lot of drama from
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: that standpoint. If he shows up to training camp, uh,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: no problems, gonna be there, good, ready to work. That
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: is going to feel weird when you have that very
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: first press conference, which will probably be like July twenty eighth,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: I think, I think I don't know if that's been
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: announced just yet on when we're going, but looks like
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: the twenty seventh, and but the first press conference to
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: be like, yes, Pickens is here, like I could just
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: I could just see or hear Steven saying that, like yeah, yeah,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Pickts is here and everyone's here and we're ready to go,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: and yeah, I mean we're we're expecting him to have
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: a good season again and we'll see, we'll see what happens.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: Like if that's if that's the answer, then like what's
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: what's the questions here? Like what are what are we
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: going to be looking at? You know, I mean what
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: what injuries or what what? You know? Dilemma. It's always something,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: but doesn't seem like it would be major. I don't
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: know what the talking heads at ESPN and all that
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: would have to be uh talking about there for the Cowboys.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: But like I said, if it ain't one thing, it's another.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: I didn't say that. I think Snoop said it. But
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: it's always it's always something, you know, all right, Chris
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: and Saratoga Springs. What's up?
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Hey?
• 22:29
  Speaker 16: Nick? How's it going good? How are you not too bad?
• 22:32
  Speaker 16: I'm not used to this no drama right now at
• 22:35
  Speaker 16: this time of year. I'm used to something going on
• 22:37
  Speaker 16: with somebody's contracts. So having GPN it's just weird to
• 22:41
  Speaker 16: me because there's always normally some kind of drama going
• 22:43
  Speaker 16: on right right about.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Now, right, Well, yep, it'll happen.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: It will happen.
• 22:52
  Speaker 16: I got a question for it. Uh, everybody talks about
• 22:56
  Speaker 16: the linebackers. If we want to sign a linebacker and
• 22:57
  Speaker 16: they mentioned Bobby Wagner or other other linebackers. But let
• 23:01
  Speaker 16: me ask you this question. It's if we sign one
• 23:04
  Speaker 16: of those linebackers, who who are you taking out? Because
• 23:08
  Speaker 16: you got right now it's Demo and Winters in the
• 23:11
  Speaker 16: middle of those two linebackers in the middle. So which
• 23:13
  Speaker 16: one of those players you're going to take out if
• 23:15
  Speaker 16: we sign another linebacker?
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, great question, which is probably why they're
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: not doing it. You know. I think that, you know,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: if you want to bring in a guy like that,
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: he's going to have to come in and be the guy,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: and be the starter and get paid as such, and
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: and be the leader and all that. And I just
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: don't know if the Cowboys want to do that. I
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: think that they feel good about what they have. I
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: think Winters was the guy that they brought in. They
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: brought in Winners, and they they're pairing them next over
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: shown and then they they've got bar Ham and and
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Shamar James, guys that they are young guys that they're
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: really excited about. So I don't know if they're going
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: to do that. I mean, I don't I just don't
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: feel like that makes sense at this point because us
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: you're you're you want them to come in and be
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: a veteran leader, and I don't think that they feel
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: like they need that at the moment. I'm not saying
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Wagner is not better than that, but for what it
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: would cost and what it might ruffle as what you're
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: kind of suggesting, I don't know if it's worth it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: I mean that that's just my take.
• 24:22
  Speaker 16: No, I agree with it, and I love the signing
• 24:25
  Speaker 16: of Winners. I think that was huge for us, and
• 24:28
  Speaker 16: I think Demo, you know, contract year, wants to take
• 24:31
  Speaker 16: a big step forward, wants that green dot and I
• 24:34
  Speaker 16: think you probably will get the chance to get it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 16: And I'm excited to see what those two were going
• 24:39
  Speaker 16: to do in the middle.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Both of them are contract years, correct, I mean Winters
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: also Winters and Overshown if I oh, uh, Chris Ryan
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: want to help me on that, but I think Overshown
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: and Winners came in the same year, same draft class,
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: their fourth year uh TCU guy, Texas guy. I think
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: that's what they they were talking about, so this should
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: be a contract year for Winters also. I will have
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: to look that up, but I'm just saying, you got
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: two guys with two young guys behind them chomping at
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: the bit there and Shamar James and Barham two guys, uh,
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: one of them win a contract here for sure. I
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: think Winters is also you're setting up an opportunity for
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: guys to really really good competition there at linebacker.
• 25:22
  Speaker 16: Yeah, agreed, last thing, real quick. I just I don't think,
• 25:27
  Speaker 16: I mean, we needed a turnover on all these players
• 25:29
  Speaker 16: on defense. Our defense was terrible last year, so we
• 25:32
  Speaker 16: needed that turnover and I'm happy with it and the
• 25:34
  Speaker 16: guys that we got. And I think we're not going
• 25:36
  Speaker 16: to have a problem this year of people lining up
• 25:39
  Speaker 16: in the wrong spot or not knowing where to go.
• 25:42
  Speaker 16: I've been watching CP listening to them on the sidelines
• 25:45
  Speaker 16: and they had the little clips of them and stuff,
• 25:46
  Speaker 16: and I don't think we're going to have that problem.
• 25:48
  Speaker 16: That's gonna be huge because that's number one, being lined up,
• 25:51
  Speaker 16: being lined up in the right spot and knowing where
• 25:53
  Speaker 16: you're going to be going is huge, and I think
• 25:55
  Speaker 16: that's gonna We're gonna take a huge step up on that.
• 25:57
  Speaker 16: So I'm happy with that as well.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Caleb Downs is a big part of that.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: I think Jalen Thompson said something yesterday you know what,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Chris will be good. Thanks for the call. Yeah, thank you.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: We'll talk to you later on. We'll talk to you
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: when we get to training camp. I'm sure you'll be
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: calling in a lot. But but you mentioned that about
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: about lining up in the right way, and Jalen Thompson
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: had some really great things to say, What a what
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: a what a fun interview that is. And I mean,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: this guy, you know, being with the Cardinals for a
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: few years and you know, and and just understanding what
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: it is to play for the Cowboys and America's team.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: He's just so appreciative of being here. But he he
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: was just saying how how smart Caleb Downs is and
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: he said, I just never seen a rookie that smart
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: before that just comes in and he's just all about football.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: He's all about getting guys lined up the right way
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: and and understanding everybody's position. I mean, that's that's what
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: a true leader is. And that's really what a true
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: quarterback of the defense. We say it all the time,
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: like quarterback of the defense, but a quarterback knows exactly
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: where the guard's supposed to be and where he's going
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: to go, and where he's pulling here and this receiver.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, how many times have you seen the quarterback
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: like no, get over here, like oh okay, and turns
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: around the running backs on this side, but it needs
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: to be on this side. He knows everyone's spot at
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: everyone's position, and I would imagine if if it means
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: you making a throw or getting hit by Micah Parson's
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: coming off the edge, you're going to know what everyone's
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: position is. But on defense, same type of thing. And
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: that's how you can get everyone lined up when you
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: have a guy that can do that, and if he's
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: a if he's a rookie, it's even more impressive. So
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: that's that's what we're seeing so far. It's early. No
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: one's no one's try you know, the Rams and Matthew
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Stafford haven't come in and trying to, you know, exploit
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: the defense yet or anything like that. But from what
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: we see so far, things look look a lot better.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: They have to be better, right, They have to be
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: better because the expectations are low and from what we
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: saw last year. But so far, so good on the
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: defensive partment. All right, Lester in Minnesota, Lester, what's up?
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: Good morning, Nick?
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Are you.
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: I'm doing well?
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: How are you good.
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: Hey, I just got about three points to make here maybefore.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: I like the communication that Parker is implementing with our
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: new young defense, new and young defense. I think if
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: we reach reach the potential that the expectation that I
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: put on them, not anyone else, I think we could
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: be the defense can be ranked number nineteen and with that,
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: I think we can win at least ten games, maybe eleven.
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: What's the status on Asiaku? And I'm glad that Pickens
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: finally showed up down. Everybody's here. Let's go Cowboys.
• 29:02
  Speaker 13: Hey man, have a.
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: Good, good break, good little vacation break or whatever you do.
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: Go Cowboys?
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: All right? Was that four points?
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: Like?
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: I was expecting a longer call there. Uh, you know,
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: with he mentioned that about about you know, as a roku,
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: I think I kind of think like he's the key,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: like or or somebody like that, Like that role of
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: of somebody that's here has to develop and you can't
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: just sign all these other players and draft and you
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: just don't have enough money for the free agency and draft.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Somebody has to develop and and and have to take
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: that that leap somebody from within, And as a roku
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: seems to be like that best chance for that could
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: be over shown. How about both, you know it'd be
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: great for both. But as a Raku just looks like
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: like he could be that guy to kind of take
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: that to another level. And if that happens, I'll just
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: say this, if as Iraku has a great season turns
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: out to be a really great player, anything negative that
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: you have to say that you could say about Matt
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Iberflus and what happened last year and his one year
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: as defensive coordinator, just just know this. Ibra Flus was
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: the one that stood on the table and said as Iraku,
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: he was the one coach who do you like? And
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: he was like, well, I like the Boston college kid.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I think this kid, I don't can't. I can't believe
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: he's still on the board. Like it was ibra Flus
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: that kind of like opened that door like they were
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: looking at some other positions. I can't remember exactly. I
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: think corner maybe, but I know that he was like, well,
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: if you're asking me, I say as a Roku and
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: and and so you know, if that happens, and I
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: think he's going to be a good player, you know,
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: I know, I know ibra Flus and what happened last year,
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: and it was it was tough, you know, to say
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: the But if he could provide that and help get
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: a young player like that in here, you know, maybe
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: it won't be too bad. When we talk about ebra flus,
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: everybody likes flus. It just it just didn't work out.
• 31:12
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  Speaker 4: long distance call here. How about Donald and Italy?
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  Speaker 7: What's up? What's up?
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  Speaker 4: How you doing?
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing good. I called you from Thailand maybe a
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  Speaker 7: week or two ago. I can't remember, but I'm bucking
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  Speaker 7: Italy all right? And yeah, so I I just want
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  Speaker 7: it was something I wanted to bring up the last time,
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  Speaker 7: and I forgot, but I remember this time. Through all
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  Speaker 7: those years we were playing Who Wants to be quarterback.
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  Speaker 7: And then we finally got Tony Romo, and we thought
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  Speaker 7: we had us a quarterback and what we did have
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  Speaker 7: as a quarterback because I think Tony Room was really
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  Speaker 7: really good. And then but I was always looking, you know,
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  Speaker 7: watching those games and just somebody please make a play,
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  Speaker 7: somebody please make a play. And what I want to
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  Speaker 7: say is, I think Sam Williams takes a lot of
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  Speaker 7: shots from a lot of people, but that guy makes
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  Speaker 7: plays in games. Yeah, he might bumble up, but you know,
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  Speaker 7: the most agreevous thing I ever seen was no, no,
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  Speaker 7: not ever, but Mary Leisfile with that hit and uh,
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  Speaker 7: I forget that game, but I think maybe they were
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  Speaker 7: playing Washington. I can't remember, but Mayor Lei File made
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  Speaker 7: a late hit that was so obvious.
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  Speaker 8: It was pretty bad.
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  Speaker 7: And but Sam Williams just takes a knock over the head,
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  Speaker 7: but this guy makes play. I don't know a lot
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  Speaker 7: about this new defense that's coming up, but I think
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  Speaker 7: from the things that I'm here, it benefit Sam Williams.
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  Speaker 7: I think that he could really really show us something
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  Speaker 7: in this new defense. And just wanted to know what
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  Speaker 7: you thought about that.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're onto something here. Donald. Thank you for
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  Speaker 4: the for the call and safe travels if you still
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  Speaker 4: move and around there, but have a good one. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you for for the called Sam Williams. That that is
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  Speaker 4: a that's a guy that I'll be honest, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: think was really going to be in the in the
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  Speaker 4: mix to to come back. And so the fact that
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  Speaker 4: you know, when you look at all the turnover there
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  Speaker 4: and the coaching staff, that's how it starts, and Christiah
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  Speaker 4: Parker and the guys that they have and say all right,
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  Speaker 4: what are we trying to do here? And then you know,
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  Speaker 4: I can imagine it being like, all right, here are
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  Speaker 4: the free agents that are gone. I'm is there anybody
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  Speaker 4: here that you did that you did want?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 4: Probably not right. And then but they look at it
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  Speaker 4: and they're like, well, you know, for what we're gonna do,
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna move Sam Williams to this role a role
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  Speaker 4: that he's done in college and and he had success
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  Speaker 4: doing that, and you know he can get that that
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  Speaker 4: burst off the edge and and and that's what he
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  Speaker 4: does well and and and if he can if he
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  Speaker 4: can do that on a consistent basis, you know, especially
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  Speaker 4: for the money, I think he was like three million,
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  Speaker 4: you know, nothing too great.
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  Speaker 7: But.
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  Speaker 4: NFL relative obviously, But I just I just feel like
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  Speaker 4: the more I think about what what he could do
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  Speaker 4: and how he might fit, I think that he could
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  Speaker 4: be a guy that that has a Dante Fowler type,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and like season like where where we've seen five, six,
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  Speaker 4: maybe seven sacks where you don't have a lot of roles,
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  Speaker 4: just go in there and and and rush off the edge.
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  Speaker 4: We've seen him play special teams. He's got a knack
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  Speaker 4: for blocking kicks. I think he can have a role.
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  Speaker 4: And the fact that Christian Parker and this and this
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  Speaker 4: staff said no, no, no, here's a guy that that
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  Speaker 4: we would like to bring back, you know, and I
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  Speaker 4: think that there could be something good there. So all right,
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  Speaker 4: let's go to Michael and Bowling Green. Michael, what's up, Michael?
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  Speaker 4: Are you there?
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  Speaker 11: All right?
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  Speaker 10: I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, America. I
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  Speaker 10: actually he right. I got a question here, Which one
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  Speaker 10: of these is the worst case scenario in your opinion?
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  Speaker 10: Number one, We've finished the same record as last year,
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  Speaker 10: but the defense is the only reason we win seven
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  Speaker 10: games of the offense struggles and they got problems, or
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  Speaker 10: we win enough games to get in the playoffs, get
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  Speaker 10: the NFC Championship Game and lose. But after that happens,
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  Speaker 10: we lose our offensive and defensive coordinators. Which one is
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  Speaker 10: the worst case.
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  Speaker 4: Scenario You're saying, which is the worst case scenario going
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  Speaker 4: to the NFC championship game. We're finishing seven to nine
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  Speaker 4: and one again, Yeah, but.
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  Speaker 10: We go to the NFC Championship game and we lose
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  Speaker 10: both coordinators.
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  Speaker 4: Bye, Like good luck, have a good time. I've seen
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  Speaker 4: it in ninety ninety three North Turner Bye wants that. Bye,
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  Speaker 4: But Davis Bye, It's okay. I mean, like, I'd rather
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  Speaker 4: do that and then find because how many coaches are
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  Speaker 4: there that were like I could coach those guys. I
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  Speaker 4: could coach those guys like, yeah, you know, bring that
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  Speaker 4: over me. What is seven nine and one doing for you?
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  Speaker 14: Again?
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  Speaker 4: That means there's another tie. We have to do that again.
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  Speaker 4: Now that's worst case. Once you said the same record,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, that means another tie? No, thanks, man,
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  Speaker 4: I've just seen it so many times. I mean think
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  Speaker 4: about like, I'm not trying to compare the Cowboys to
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  Speaker 4: the Patriots, but you remember when when the Patriots were
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  Speaker 4: winning Super Bowls and all these coaches they would leave
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  Speaker 4: and Romeo Cornell goes here and Josh McDaniels goes here. Well,
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  Speaker 4: Tom Brady stayed, Bill Belichick stayed, and they kept winning,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And so I'm not saying assistant coaches don't matter,
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  Speaker 4: coordinators don't matter. But I'll take my chances. If I'm
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  Speaker 4: in the NFC Championship game, I'll take my kansas that
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  Speaker 4: it's the players more than it is the coach.
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  Speaker 1: So that's all right.
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  Speaker 10: I just wanted your perspective, that's my take.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've never been to the NFC Championship game, so
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  Speaker 4: let me see you know what that feels like. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing that all right. Good stuff. Cools got me
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  Speaker 4: riled up a little bit there. I don't know why anyways.
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  Speaker 4: William West Virginia, what's up?
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  Speaker 8: Have we doing?
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  Speaker 12: Neck good?
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 6: Ah?
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  Speaker 8: Doing pretty good? Getting ready for that game?
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  Speaker 18: But North Carolina day at two o'clock. Hopefully the baseball
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  Speaker 18: team can get a little payback for that loss they
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  Speaker 18: did the other day.
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  Speaker 7: But hopefully they can, you know.
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  Speaker 18: Just as far as they've ever gone in this thing,
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  Speaker 18: and hope they can make history.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I'd be good to see I'm actually now
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  Speaker 6: pulling for.
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  Speaker 4: A loss there for your team, If that's okay. I
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  Speaker 4: appreciate that, you know, not that I have any money
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  Speaker 4: on the line, but you know, I'm I'm for the
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  Speaker 4: tar Heels in this one. But it's okay.
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  Speaker 18: I understand. I like North Carolina too, but I me
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  Speaker 18: a bull for WVU. But yeah, I understand what you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you what, if we were talking about anything
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  Speaker 4: non football, I did not expect it to be college
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  Speaker 4: baseball to start it off here. I would think there's
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  Speaker 4: some soccer matches going on that people would talk about.
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  Speaker 4: We did get a call from Italy and I thought
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  Speaker 4: he no, Italy didn't make it. So anyways, all right,
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  Speaker 4: what do you got?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I ask you.
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  Speaker 18: I mean, I was I'm really excited about Pickings being
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  Speaker 18: there in the offense and everything. But the thing that
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  Speaker 18: concerned me a bit Tyler Golton. He's probably playing the
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  Speaker 18: second most courtant position on offense side quarterback, and I
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  Speaker 18: would just wonder, what do you how do you think
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  Speaker 18: he's looked so far, and do you think he's this
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  Speaker 18: year will finally you know, snap through and being the
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  Speaker 18: left tackle they envisioning.
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  Speaker 4: To be yeah. I it's so far, so good with him.
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  Speaker 4: I think that he's surrounded by guys that that is
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  Speaker 4: going to help him. Also, you know, I think that
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  Speaker 4: Tyler Smith, Tyler, Booker, Cooper Bebe, you know, these young guys,
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  Speaker 4: they're they're all trying to get themselves better. And I
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  Speaker 4: think he's right in that mix with that. Uh, they
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  Speaker 4: got their little Tyler connection. He's he's there. He just
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe I just want that to happen
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  Speaker 4: because I like him, and you know how important it is.
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  Speaker 4: You just mentioned that. I just have positive thoughts that
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  Speaker 4: it's going to get there. But he has to stay healthy,
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  Speaker 4: like he just has to. He just can't get hurt.
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  Speaker 4: And he has to get where it just slows down
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  Speaker 4: for him where he's not jumping, you know, like off
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  Speaker 4: sides or or false start or things like that, where
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  Speaker 4: he's thinking about stuff. He needs to go out there
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  Speaker 4: and play.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: They knew it would be like this, They knew that
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  Speaker 4: he would it would be raw and he would have
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  Speaker 4: to develop. And here we are third year. He needs
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  Speaker 4: to develop. I mean the play.
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  Speaker 18: You know, Booker just slid right into guard position last year,
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  Speaker 18: and I know we know Zach Martin retired.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, you can't even play the Hall of Famer.
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  Speaker 18: But Booker just slid right in and he looked really
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  Speaker 18: good most of the year. And then Geyton, I'm just like, wow,
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  Speaker 18: I'm just I'm hoping he can finally get it.
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  Speaker 16: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's a huge difference. It's funny twelve and twenty
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  Speaker 4: seven or twenty eight, I believe was Geiden. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: mean the twelfth pick at guard, which Booker was the
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  Speaker 4: number one guard. I think Geyton at twenty eight, I
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  Speaker 4: think he might have been like the seventh tackle, you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe six or seventh tackles. So that's just the point
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  Speaker 4: is that, you know, that's the difference of drafting a
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  Speaker 4: tackle late in the first round, a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: of a of a project, and you take a guard
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  Speaker 4: at twelve. He's he's ready to play, and that's why
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  Speaker 4: you take it. That's why you know. So, yeah, he
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: was ready to play. But I think I still think
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  Speaker 4: it's a situation where these guys will kind of help
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  Speaker 4: them help each other. And he's got Tyler Smith next
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  Speaker 4: to him, uh, and Tyler Smith wants him to be good.
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  Speaker 4: Think about it, Tyler Smith does not want to play
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  Speaker 4: left tackle. Tyler wants to play left guard. So who's
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: who's he rooting for? Tyler? Guy? He wants to have
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  Speaker 4: a great season because that means I don't have to
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: do it, you know what I mean. I mean, you
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: want your kids. If you tell your kids to do
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: the chores around the house, like mow the lawn and
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: and and you know, the dishwasher, you want them to
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  Speaker 4: do it, do a good job, because that means you don't.
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  Speaker 13: Have to do it exactly.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if that's the same comparison, but we'll see.
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  Speaker 18: All right, we'll have a good one.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's keep it rolling here. Before we take
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  Speaker 4: another break, Let's go to Robbie and Coco Beach. Robbie,
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: what's up, hey.
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  Speaker 3: Nick today? Good?
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: How are you well?
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: At disappointed that I will be coming out of the
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: training camp, but I've been spending money on other places.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: It would have been fun. Yeah, gotta make your choices right, right?
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: But hey, so I was doing some masks today, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: just kidding. Yeah, No, I heard what Dylans said would
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  Speaker 3: have made me laugh. I am happy about what George
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Pickens said, although I really expected to hear him say, hey, look,
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  Speaker 3: you're not going to see me laying on the training
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  Speaker 3: table over there. I'm going to be practicing. Just the
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  Speaker 3: way they're asking him questions. They kept like poking at
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: him and everything else. You guys just said, like the
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: last three calls, I wanted to talk about Sam Williams.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's going to have a great I hope
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  Speaker 3: he has a great year.
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  Speaker 16: I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. You never know. But going back to
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  Speaker 3: what he did at college, it seems more appropriate for
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  Speaker 3: him a little more just go attack seaball, attack ball
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  Speaker 3: instead of all the other responsibilities that he had. Maybe
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: better for him, Tyler Guiden here three you just said
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  Speaker 3: in the last call, if he's healthy, I think he
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: takes that leap. I've been listening to some other podcasts
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: you most foremost, but listen to other ones too, and
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: just what Manny Leather says about him, or Duke Merryweather
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Many Weather and talking about man Well, yeah, talk about
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  Speaker 3: Guide and it's like, Wow, this guy sounds like he's
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: going to be a star. And that's kind of what
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: we said when we drafted him, was that, hey, this
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: is the first round guy, but he's only played tackle
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  Speaker 3: for two years or three years. He's very raw, so
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: maybe this is the year that it clinches. So other
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: than that, man, have a great week off, enjoy or
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: two or whatever your time off is, and we'll see
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: you when you get back. Oh and lastly, I bought
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: a bunch of these razor blades for this this new
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Gillette razor. I need one so I could save my face.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Have been getting along over here, all.
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  Speaker 4: Right, we'll get we'll get one.
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  Speaker 6: Said to you, I appreciate that.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: Back back to Guidon, like he's he's so so tall,
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: like he's not you know, he's not Tyron Smith, who
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: is like nobody is that guy, so you know, it
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: really makes you kind of appreciate him a little bit
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: more or because because he he was everything you wanted
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: and then he was just super like strong, Like I
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: think Tyron Smith could be in wrestling, Like I think
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: he would be that type of guy like that that
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: big I mean he could. He had that kind of
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: physique and it's just hard to think anybody can can
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: be that guy. But Tyler Geyton is like he's tall,
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: he's not like as strong, but still with those long arms,
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: he's gotta he's got to learn to use that as
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: his strength and it can happen that way. You can
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: you can use you know, your your your leverage to
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: your advantage. He's just like you said, he's just got
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: to keep doing it, got to keep playing. Gotta understand that.
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: It's it's too bad honestly that you know Micah wasn't
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: here for other reasons, but you kind of want that.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: You know, remember the where and Tyron Smith thing, you know,
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: where was pun intended? Where was wearing him out, you know,
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: like his first couple of years, but then it then
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: it switched and tired, like you're not doing that anymore.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: You kind of wish and hope that there is a
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: situation like that. Maybe it's ver Sean Garry or Isaaaku.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: Maybe they can kind of be like that where they
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: push each other. But you want that. You want him
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: to be able to go up against somebody like that
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: all the time, not just when the Rams come in
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: and bring Miles Garrett, but every day in practice. You
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: want that kind of competition. And I'm not saying it
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: won't happen, but you know that's that would be good
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: for both of them, and you want him to be
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: good enough to push the other guys too. All right Jr.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: And Avondale Arizona. What's up?
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Nick?
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: How you doing.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: I'm good. How are you?
• 47:50
  Speaker 6: I'm doing all right? Man doing okay. I don't have
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: much today. A couple of things. I'm glad GP showed
• 47:57
  Speaker 6: up and hopefully he keeps showing up. Just think with
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: all the everything that's so new about this about this team,
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: especially on defense, I think the last thing they need
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: is a distraction, like you know, we've seen the last
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: few years, whether it was back and he was in camp,
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: but you know, that's all they talked about was his
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: contractor CD not being there. So I'm glad he's there
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: so they don't have to deal with those distractions. And
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: I looked for the defense to be better than I
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: can't Mayber who said nineteen, I think they're going to
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: be coach to the twelve. Between ten and fifteen. On
• 48:33
  Speaker 6: the defense, I think it's going to be a lot better.
• 48:36
  Speaker 6: So hopefully that that comes true.
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean it's one of those things where it's
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: it has to be better, but just how much better?
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: And also how much did the offense did the offense regret?
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Did the offense get better? Because if the offense is
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: better than it was last year, and the defense is
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: a little bit better than I mean, it could be
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: a really good season, right, I know.
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: But and how much better does the offense get if
• 49:07
  Speaker 6: we're the defense is getting turnovers and they're having a
• 49:10
  Speaker 6: short field, not having to go eighty yards everything to
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: get the ball. Yeah, I think that's going to be
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: a factor.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: And other than that, I've been I've been Collings for
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: going on a year as much as I possibly can,
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: and unfortunately I'm not probably able to call very much.
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: I had an opportunity to make some money and so
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: I decided to do that. And I'll be listening, but
• 49:33
  Speaker 6: i'll call when I can. But i've been I'm really
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: happy to be part of the community, a vocal part.
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: I've always listened. But I'll call when I can and
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: hopefully that and that'll be soon.
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: So well, well, congrats on the opportunity that you got.
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: That sounds like a great thing. And you know we've
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: been joking about you know, doing math. Everyone does math.
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: Everyone does math. Especially when you get opportunities like that,
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: You're like, all right, I make this. I have a
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: chance to make this. That's this much more. That's math
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: and and and it sounds like you're making some some
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: good math decisions there.
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: Well, my wife and is planning a trip to Europe,
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: and I think I'm included, so I'm sure I need
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: to make some money to pay for it. So anyway,
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: I'll be listening and I'll call what I can and
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: hopefully it'll work out so I can call boards. Then
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: I think anyway, I'm a great day, Nick, go cowboy,
• 50:29
  Speaker 6: all right, j R.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: I love that that. That is such a that is
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: such a marriage statement right there. My wife's planning a
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: trip to Europe. I think I'm able. I think I'm
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: a part of it, but I got to make some
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: money to pay for it. Boy, that you've got it
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: all figured out right there. I've never met you, I've
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: never met your wife, but I know that whole situation
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: right there. I think I'm going on this trip. I
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: think I'm allow I'm allowed to go. I know I'm
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: paying for it. Not sure if I if I'm going that.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: I love that, all right? Good stuff? All right, Let's
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: go to Mike Birmingham, England. Mike, what is up?
• 51:08
  Speaker 14: Greetings from England?
• 51:09
  Speaker 13: Nick?
• 51:09
  Speaker 8: How are you?
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: I'm good? So you're in England. Now I am.
• 51:14
  Speaker 14: Indeed, yes, I'm in the wrong place, Dallas.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: The entire I thought like the entire country was here
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: in Dallas. I guess not. I guess there's a couple
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: of people left over.
• 51:25
  Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, I'm still here. I'm afraid. I was just
• 51:28
  Speaker 14: talking to Chris. I take it your you're not going
• 51:31
  Speaker 14: to the game tonight.
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: No.
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: I did some math this morning, and I realized that
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: I would rather have a house and a car than
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: go to the game against England and Croatia. But you know,
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: I could trade in. I could. I could trade in
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: the car and the house and just walk there, and
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: that would be good. But then you know, I don't
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: have to pay for parking, which would also be tickets.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: Are tickets are high as they should be.
• 51:55
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm sure Chris will give you a lift. But no, no,
• 51:59
  Speaker 14: that I mean. We always lose to Croatia anyway. It's
• 52:02
  Speaker 14: really annoying. They've got a population of about twenty seven
• 52:05
  Speaker 14: and we just never beat them. So there we go.
• 52:09
  Speaker 14: Maybe today's the day.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: Nick.
• 52:12
  Speaker 14: I just wanted to just pay a tribute to Kyle
• 52:15
  Speaker 14: Yeomans because obviously he's leaving the squad unless he's just
• 52:20
  Speaker 14: negotiating for a bigger contract. I think he's absolutely terrific.
• 52:24
  Speaker 14: He's a great host, and from what they were saying,
• 52:27
  Speaker 14: I'm talking yesterday, it sounds like he's a really terrific
• 52:30
  Speaker 14: bloke as well. So whatever it is he's going to
• 52:32
  Speaker 14: announce that he's doing next, they wishing all the very best.
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: Let me just tell you this, You're not going to
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: wish him all the very best. You can just wish
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: him the best, but not all the very best, right, okay,
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: saying he wanted him to do well most of the time,
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: most of the time, but not every time.
• 52:53
  Speaker 14: Right, gotcha? Okay, Well, I wish him well personally, but
• 52:57
  Speaker 14: not necessarily the organization that he's going to.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: So let's say that.
• 53:03
  Speaker 14: So it's quiet, isn't it? Like George Pickens was meant
• 53:08
  Speaker 14: to be the big story. But of course he just
• 53:10
  Speaker 14: turns up and there's nothing to see here. You know,
• 53:12
  Speaker 14: is this really the cowboys? And it got me thinking
• 53:18
  Speaker 14: a couple of weeks ago. You know, most cowboys sounds
• 53:21
  Speaker 14: are very kind of measured about it, but a few
• 53:22
  Speaker 14: people losing their rag about the Miles Garrett trade, and
• 53:28
  Speaker 14: you know, we should have sold the farm to get
• 53:30
  Speaker 14: him and so on, and it just got me thinking
• 53:34
  Speaker 14: to those people. But I've also be interested to know
• 53:36
  Speaker 14: what you think because we had our elite past Rusher
• 53:40
  Speaker 14: who was in very much the same sort of ability level,
• 53:45
  Speaker 14: a bit younger. We had one and we let him go.
• 53:47
  Speaker 14: So for the last ever time, let's just talk about
• 53:51
  Speaker 14: Mica one more time, because this time of year always
• 53:54
  Speaker 14: reminds me of him and the circus around him.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: Knowing what we know now.
• 54:01
  Speaker 14: Aside from the injury, but with everything that's come since then,
• 54:05
  Speaker 14: knowing what we know now, if you could undo that trade,
• 54:09
  Speaker 14: would you undo it? Or do you feel like it's
• 54:12
  Speaker 14: turned out yet? Actually we're on top there. We've done
• 54:16
  Speaker 14: well out of that, and for me, I'm very happy
• 54:20
  Speaker 14: with where we've landed, and I'm very happy that you know,
• 54:22
  Speaker 14: it was a sensible decision. Could we have tried to
• 54:25
  Speaker 14: throw all the chips in to get Garrett?
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: Probably not.
• 54:27
  Speaker 14: We didn't have enough chips, But if we did, did
• 54:29
  Speaker 14: I want to throw everything at it?
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: No?
• 54:32
  Speaker 14: I think we've got we've got good depths, we've got
• 54:35
  Speaker 14: good balance across our roster, and for me, I think
• 54:39
  Speaker 14: the Mica trade has has worked out pretty well for us.
• 54:43
  Speaker 14: Green Bay would probably say it's worked out well for
• 54:45
  Speaker 14: them as well, apart from the injury, and that's fine.
• 54:48
  Speaker 14: Everyone's a winner. But I just wonder what you think.
• 54:51
  Speaker 14: And yeah, all the very best and I will see
• 54:53
  Speaker 14: you in Oxnard.
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: All right, oh good, all right, thanks thanks for the
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: car mate. It's such a it's such a tough question
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: with layers, just because you have to It's like when
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: when when did this happen? When did that happen? You
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: can't just go back and say, would you do the
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: trade again? If if it got to the point, like
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: if you laid it on the table again, I'm making
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: the trade. I'm sorry. I mean if I if I'm
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: old school for that, fine, but what he what that
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: symbolized to me? And how tough it's all. You just
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: can't come back from that. You can't as a leader,
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: You just can't do that. So if if you got
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: to that point and that happened again, then yeah, could
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: they have done something before that? Could it? Could it
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: have gotten to a point where it wasn't nasty? Yeah, yeah,
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: that that would be nice. What or what about making
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: that trade for for forgett just because obviously Verse was
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: a huge part of that. For for Cleveland. I mean
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: that had to happen. Well, what, there's really not much
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: difference there. I mean, he's a better player than Verse,
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: so you could have you could have made that trade,
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: you know, if maybe it would have happened before he
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: set the record and all that kind of stuff, so
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: the price wouldn't have been as much. So in hindsight
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: there maybe, but you know, it is what it is.
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: They tried to make the deal that they they really
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: thought all along it was going to happen. And that's
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: not what Michael was wanting here. He wanted, you know,
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: way way higher than the market values that suggested. And
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: he kind of did different antics, I mean, trying to
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: you know, basically faking a back injury and laying down
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: on the table in the middle of the game when
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: you're trying to you know, you should be supporting your teammates.
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: So when that situation hit, it had to go. So,
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: all right, we have to go to break. We'll be
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: right back after this.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Cowboys storyline. This segment brought to
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• 58:16
  Speaker 4: All right, a couple more callers here before we take
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: a big break this off season and won't be back
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: until ox Chart. This will be my last indoor show
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: for a while. Unless Chris has got something set up
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: at training camp. I don't know about, but I think
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be. We're gonna be out there, out in
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: the sun, out with Mo Clayborn and the mowers in
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: the back, and it should be a lot of fun.
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: All right, Joe and Stanford is next. What's up, Joe?
• 58:48
  Speaker 13: What's up?
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: Brother?
• 58:49
  Speaker 13: I'll be out there with you, man, can't wait to
• 58:51
  Speaker 13: see you an Oxnard.
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: Nice do this?
• 58:54
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm excited. Irene found in a cool place for
• 58:58
  Speaker 13: us all to stay and we're gonna be there with
• 59:00
  Speaker 13: else on. Ready to see it.
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: Awesome, good time.
• 59:02
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm excited. So I had some other things to
• 59:05
  Speaker 13: talk about, but I want to touch on that Micah
• 59:07
  Speaker 13: thing that you were just talking about. I have a
• 59:10
  Speaker 13: really post friend here that I work with in Abilene,
• 59:14
  Speaker 13: who Kim and I had wanted to trade Michael two
• 59:19
  Speaker 13: years ago, three years ago. The reason why is because
• 59:22
  Speaker 13: he's a crap teammate. He's always been a crap teammate.
• 59:25
  Speaker 13: He's always throwing his teammates under the bus. He's always
• 59:28
  Speaker 13: about himself. I was not sad to see him go.
• 59:32
  Speaker 13: Did it sort of screw us last year? Yeah? I
• 59:35
  Speaker 13: think it probably did. Maybe we made the playoffs with
• 59:39
  Speaker 13: a crazy, great pass rusher like him, maybe so. But
• 59:42
  Speaker 13: I think we're in a much better place now. I
• 59:46
  Speaker 13: don't think we would have this awesome coaching staff that
• 59:49
  Speaker 13: we do. I think Hubrifus might have held on for
• 59:51
  Speaker 13: another year. So Micah's trade is a chain of events
• 59:56
  Speaker 13: that guide us to where we are right now. And
• 59:58
  Speaker 13: I am super optimistic about the staff and the players
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 13: and what's going to be happening in this next year.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 13: So that's that's why I feel about that. Anyway, I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 13: had a question that I was curious about gp is
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 13: is tagged. Do they pay them, does the does the
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 13: franchise tag pay just on the games, or do they
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 13: get some sort of signing bonus at the beginning of
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 13: the year. Do you have any idea about that?
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's divided by eighteen. I mean it's it's uh,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: he doesn't get there's no there's no signing bonus or
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: anything like that. He gets his base salary is twenty
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: seven point one whatever divided by eighteen, So that's that's
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: what he'll get and that's when he gets the money. So,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: you know, it was kind of kind of funny if
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: you talk about training camp, talking about now is he
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: going to miss that? And I and I said it
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: like this guy never been afraid to be fined. Well, okay, yeah,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: he got twenty seven million dollars, but he hadn't had it.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: He doesn't get it yet. Uh he I think he
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: in my understanding, he gets that each week, each Tuesday
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: of getting his paycheck. It's pretty hefty. But uh, that's
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 4: that's usually how to wait. Yeah, it has to wait
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: for it.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 13: Now, that's interesting. I never really contemplated that until this year.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 13: A couple other questions. One fun question for you and
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 13: then another question because I heard you talk about him,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 13: what's your favorite press box? Where do you like to
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 13: go the most?
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 5: And the other question is.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 13: Where do I find that Jalen Thompson interview you were
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 13: talking about, I'll take it off their brothers in California.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, man, good good stuff. I'm trying to
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: think if our Cowboys video is behind me. I think
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: they were they got in there, so it might be
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: it might be on the website. I haven't seen that
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: because they kind of put some of these guys, these
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: defensive guys together, so it might be in a group
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: of four or five different interviews. After the interview, after
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: the video, I kind of I asked a couple more
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: questions just in general, just kind of fun questions about
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: Dallas and versus Arizona and all that. So I can't
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: remember exactly all what was on cameraon what wasn't, but
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: just just in general just talking to him. Uh, he's
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: just he's just he's just a fun person to talk to.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 4: And I and I, you know, very smart guy as well.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: I think him and downs together for at least a
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: few years. I mean that that could be a really
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: good uh combination. You said favorite press box. You know
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: it comes down to like what is I don't know,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: like like view, Uh, you know, how how accessible it
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: is to the field, food, all those things. So if
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: you if you factor that in, it's usually places we
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: don't go to that often. Tennessee's goods, uh. Baltimore. The
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: the Ravens have a have a pretty good, uh press box.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: And in Seattle. You know what I love about Seattle
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: is the fact that that they've made some changes there.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: So I don't know if it's as good as it
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: used to be. But I do though that they have
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: an elevator just for the media, nobody else. No, not,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: we don't have that at dubtas I know that. But
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: but just just up down, up down, up down. That's
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 4: that's the way you like. Philly's not bad Philly, Philly.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: You know, overall for everything that that's you factor in there,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 4: they're they're not bad. But I mean ours is ours
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: is as good as anybody's, you know, I mean really
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: when you factor in all those those type of things. Uh,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: I like the I like the Cowboys press box for sure,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: you know, but it's not Washington. I mean that if
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: you if you want to go to that, to that
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: side of it, I mean, it's it's not Washington, all right.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 13: K C in l A.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 7: What's up, hey, Nick?
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 19: How's it going good? How are you good?
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 10: Man?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 19: The new gigs making out hard to call in, so
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 19: I might have to make some life choices with employment,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 19: but I just wanted to get in before you guys
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 19: take a break. I'm completely stoked with Caleb Downs. It
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 19: still feels like Christmas evens were this far past the draft,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 19: and I feel like he's really going to help police
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 19: this team and get the guys you've been talking about
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 19: that really want to play football. I think he's going
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 19: to be an extension of that on the field, So
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 19: I'm completely stoked about him. Schedule wise, it's brutal at
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 19: the beginning, but we don't play any teams coming out
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 19: there bye week, so that's kind of a way I
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 19: think that NFL helped us on that every schedule is
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 19: brutal though, and then just since we're going into summer,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 19: it's a little goofy. It's been a while since we
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 19: talked about our favorite wrestlers, but I go back. My
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 19: favorite as a kid was Iceman in Parsons. So here
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 19: we go into the drought, looking forward to getting back
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 19: to several skills during the week. Thinks again and to
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 19: quote my man Iceman like mom at this it beats
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 19: that way sometime.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: Thanks Nick.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: All right, Uh, that's two references to Parsons in Dallas.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: I thought, you know, I thought Iceman King was was
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: the best Parsons ever. I mean in doubt Chandler Parsons
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: maybe for about an hour. He played for the Mavericks
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 4: and then Micah for four years. But yeah, Ice Fan
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: King Parsons, you know, and some people had the head butt,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: some people did the butt butt. I mean that's you know,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: I think that's probably a good appropriate way to kind
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: of end the show. And and uh, this off season here,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: but guys, good stuff fourteen callers today, and I know that,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: you know, there's a there's not a lot to talk about,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: but you know, you guys did did your best. And
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of hope, a lot of optimism for
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: the season and and and there usually is around you know,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: this time of year. Everybody just kind of wants to
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: feel good about it, wants to feel, you know, something
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: good about But you know, I do think there's some
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: there's some good things happening here. I think think Shot
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: he's done a really good job of building up this culture.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: We'll see what this what this staff can do. You know,
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 4: on the defensive side of the ball, all these new players,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: and then the offense iss got to take another step,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: you know, and it's got to keep getting better. And
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 4: you add all that together and yeah, the schedule looks
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: looks challenging, but it's always going to be challenging, you know.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's the the nature of the NFL. But it's
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  Speaker 4: been a lot of fun looking forward to seeing you
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  Speaker 4: guys out there training camp and know there's some people
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  Speaker 4: going out there, but we'll have some some some shows
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  Speaker 4: from there. Again, not sure on the time, not sure
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  Speaker 4: on the days of the week and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 4: all the rotation, but we'll be out there. We'll be
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  Speaker 4: ready to go. We'll have some new things for you,
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  Speaker 4: have some new people, uh maybe that you haven't seen before. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: and people that that you know that you used to
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  Speaker 4: see in that that aren't there but uh, which we've
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  Speaker 4: already sort of talked about. But either way, we're back.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna do this thing again. We're ready to roll
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  Speaker 4: up the sleeves and and do it another time. We'll
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  Speaker 4: see you guys out there. Enjoy the break off you
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  Speaker 4: know that we'll have for the next few weeks. We've
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  Speaker 4: got a few more shows this week, maybe something into
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  Speaker 4: next week. Then we're gonna take a big break before
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  Speaker 4: we go to training camp. All right, guys. For Chris Beam,
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  Speaker 4: I'm Nick Eatman. We'll see out there in Oxtar here
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