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The Players Returning from Injury Reserve, Vikings - Cowboys Matchup, & Edgerrin James Joins The Show · NFL Now

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Speaker 1: NFL Now is a production of the NFL in partnership
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Speaker 1: with I Heart Radio. Any chance, Edrin James joins Jeff
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Speaker 1: Saturday on the coaching staff in Indianapolis. I don't know
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask the Hall of Famer when he joins
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Speaker 1: us a little bit later in this hour of NFL
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Speaker 1: Now on NFL Network from our newsroom in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: my name is ANDREWS. Ceciliano will also talk t NF
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Speaker 1: the Packers the Titans coming up tomorrow night to open
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Speaker 1: up week number eleven. We begin this hour in Cleveland
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Speaker 1: with a quarterback we will not see on the field
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Speaker 1: until week thirteen. But today is the first day that
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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is allowed to practice in the regular season
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Speaker 1: with the Cleveland Browns. There are two big stories today
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Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Number one, the big snowstorm coming to Buffalo.
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Speaker 1: They are in Orchard Park on Sunday. And number two,
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Speaker 1: Ian rappaport ore ANFL Network insider, the fact that DeShawn
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Speaker 1: Watson is on the practice field with two more games
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Speaker 1: scheduled here for Jacoby percent that's right December four against
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Speaker 1: his old team in the Houston Texans, is when we're
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Speaker 1: going to see Deshaun Watson on the field for real
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Speaker 1: in a game. But the fact that he's able to
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Speaker 1: practice today is not something that's going to affect the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns right now, but it is going to affect
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Speaker 1: him and it is significant because everything they've tried to
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Speaker 1: do this season was just maintain some sort of uh,
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Speaker 1: be in the mix essentially in the race. Just try
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Speaker 1: to get to where you're winning, touching grasp of the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Make sure you're staying connected because Deshaun Watson is going
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Speaker 1: to come back and when he plays, and it's been
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Speaker 1: a little while, he's been one of the best quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, no doubt about it. The fact that
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Speaker 1: he has been suspended or is being suspended eleven games
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Speaker 1: for sexual misconduct is also part of his story. But
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Speaker 1: the football part of it is he is going to
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Speaker 1: help the Cleveland brown is a lot a significant step
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Speaker 1: today being back at practice. Previously he was only allowed
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Speaker 1: to be in meetings. Um, so this is this is
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Speaker 1: meaningful now and the Cleveland Browns, uh, if they can
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Speaker 1: view the playoffs. It is a long way down the
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Speaker 1: road here. After losing this past week in Miami and
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Speaker 1: losing badly, they're now three and six, they get the
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Speaker 1: bills potentially in the snow. More in that a little
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Speaker 1: bit later coming up on Sunday. Meantime, we're just talking
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Speaker 1: in with Bucky about Kyler Murray and the hamstring and
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Speaker 1: Colt McCoy and how the offense operated last week. I
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Speaker 1: can say this with certainty, regardless of the quarterback, if
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Speaker 1: they were to get Hollywood Brown back, that would be
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Speaker 1: a plus. We haven't seen him since week six. What's
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Speaker 1: his story? It's a plus. Hollywood Broun is expected back.
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Speaker 1: We actually may see him on Monday night for the
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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardos. This is one engine win. As soon as
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Speaker 1: he got injured and suffered that foot injury, it seemed
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Speaker 1: to be significant. They just wanted to get the m r.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to do some extra rays, cat skin, make
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Speaker 1: sure that everything was okay. Uh, And it was more
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Speaker 1: okay than they ever realized and end of being out
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Speaker 1: for the season. It was a non operative tiny fracture
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Speaker 1: essentially in his foot something. The belief was at the
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Speaker 1: time that he'll be able to come back after six weeks.
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Speaker 1: We are around that wind down now, maybe a little sooner.
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Speaker 1: So Yeah, the fact that he has his practice window open.
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Speaker 1: I would say significant. He's not the only receiver. D J.
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Speaker 1: Chark with the Detroit lines also had his practice window
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Speaker 1: opening for the Detroit lines and this was so when
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Speaker 1: they signed Fred and to expect big things from him
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Speaker 1: being back on the practice field is major. Just doesn't
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Speaker 1: sound like you're gonna see Jamison Williams. He really really
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Speaker 1: talented rookie they traded all the way up to get
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Speaker 1: just yet, remember he is coming back from an a
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Speaker 1: c L injury. They think you're gonna see him this season,
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Speaker 1: but it sounds like after Thanksgiving is a better target. Okay,
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Speaker 1: A lot of teams here are trying to a stock
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Speaker 1: up on the d line as they get ready for
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Speaker 1: the postseason. The Chargers, I mean have fifteen injuries. They
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Speaker 1: need a lot of bodies here at the Eagles after
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Speaker 1: watching the run defense the last couple of weeks, could
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Speaker 1: also use somebody's Linvall Joseph, a former Charger. Here's the connection,
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Speaker 1: heading to Philly. Heading to Philly, he has officially agreed
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Speaker 1: to terms. Linval Joseph, the former pro bowler who despite
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Speaker 1: being thirty four something years old, he still can do it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, these guys who can just plug the middle,
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Speaker 1: stop the run. Just be really tough, rugged dudes on
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Speaker 1: either side of the line. These guys could play forever.
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Speaker 1: Lindbell Joseph is one of those guys that can play forever.
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Speaker 1: Expect big things from him in Philadelphia. And you know,
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Speaker 1: if you ever wonder about Jordan Davis, the really talented
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Speaker 1: rookie from Georgia, how valuable he is. He's proved more
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Speaker 1: valuable than we anticipated since he went out with a
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Speaker 1: high ankle spray. So Linval Joseph comes in to help
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Speaker 1: fill that void. Andrew forty seven rushing attempts by the
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Speaker 1: Commanders Monday night in their victory first loss of the
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Speaker 1: year for the Commander or for the Eagles rather in Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: I in Rappaport, Thanks you, sir, our NFL network in Cider.
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Speaker 1: Let's get ahead to the late window on Sunday. What
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Speaker 1: a game we have in Minnesota. It's the Cowboys following
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Speaker 1: a loss at Lambeo against the Vikings following a huge
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Speaker 1: win in Buffalo's great challenge this week again another really
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Speaker 1: good football team. Um. You know, when you watch the tape,
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Speaker 1: you see a team that's athletic, will coach, play fast,
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Speaker 1: You play hard, and they've given us a great challenge
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Speaker 1: the last several times we've played them. So, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: I have several guys in that team on that defense
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Speaker 1: we've played for a lot of years and I think
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Speaker 1: very highly of them, and um, so we gotta be
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Speaker 1: ready to go. I gotta a great week of prep
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Speaker 1: starting today. All right, let's get the Cowboys side of
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Speaker 1: this change. Slater live with us at the Star of
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Speaker 1: the Ford Center and Frisco Bucky Brooks with us as well.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of things that I'm sure the
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Speaker 1: Cowboys are trying to fix, Jane from Sunday Run defense
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Speaker 1: being one of them. Also on the offensive side, seemingly
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Speaker 1: miscommunication here between Dak Prescott and some of the guys
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Speaker 1: who are charged with catching passes. What are they saying
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Speaker 1: about that? Yeah, it's been roaring its head at different
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Speaker 1: times this year, Andrew, and it wasn't a b are
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Speaker 1: on the road against the Packers to hear Mike McCarthy
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Speaker 1: explained it after the game. The issue for Dak Prescott
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Speaker 1: and some of his receivers was route adjustment in timing.
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Speaker 1: And let me walk you through one of those plays.
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Speaker 1: Uh fans will remember this one they basically thought, or
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Speaker 1: according to Dak Prescott, he thought that Seede Lamb was
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Speaker 1: going to cross face the safety there. He didn't and said, yet,
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Speaker 1: what Rudy Ford right there who grabbed the interception. Incidentally,
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Speaker 1: that happened against the Bears, almost an identical play, so
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Speaker 1: they didn't quite get it figured out. What was more
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Speaker 1: frustrating is that was a back to back interception. They
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Speaker 1: also had a misque from Dalton Schultz, and what you
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Speaker 1: essentially saw was the Packers were able to capitalize on
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Speaker 1: both situations. That's not something that you want to see
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Speaker 1: in a game. It's something that happened against the Packers.
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Speaker 1: And keep in mind this was a Packers team that
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Speaker 1: was hurt defensively, Bucky. They didn't even have Rashawn Gary
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Speaker 1: in this game. That's what was really really frustrating in
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Speaker 1: this one. So we'll see if they can get on
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Speaker 1: the same page. I don't know if some of this
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Speaker 1: is playing into and I am curious your thoughts. You know,
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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott obviously miss a number of games because of
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Speaker 1: the fracture it was thumb, but he also didn't get
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Speaker 1: a lot of time in the preseason with his wide
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Speaker 1: receiver so that time a get middlely wouldn't be a
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Speaker 1: little bit off Cooper Rush of course, and did have
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Speaker 1: the timing. And I'm not sitting here saying Cooper rushes
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Speaker 1: any better, but it does seem like with whatever they
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Speaker 1: were doing that offense with Cooper Rush was making a
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Speaker 1: little bit more sense than it has at time since
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Speaker 1: Dac has been back. Yeah, Jane, I think what you
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Speaker 1: speak to is sometimes coaches can't help themselves. You get
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Speaker 1: a better player quarterback, you want to do too much
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Speaker 1: rather than sticking to the game plan in the blueprint
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Speaker 1: that was verily established for them running the football, being
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Speaker 1: a little more ball control over line on the defense
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Speaker 1: to set them up, they have allowed themselves to open
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Speaker 1: up the playbook and we've seen some turnovers result. I
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Speaker 1: think the big thing though, when you're the coaching staff,
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Speaker 1: you've got to talk about the run defense because that
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Speaker 1: is the problem area. That is the area that every
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Speaker 1: team is going to exploit. And we can talk about
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Speaker 1: He is gaff integrity, he is make sure everyone fits
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Speaker 1: to the lane. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: when it comes to stop in the run, it's about
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Speaker 1: toughness and physicale Yes, you got to be in the
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Speaker 1: gap and do those things. But if the Cowboys are
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Speaker 1: going to be a physical team, they have to be
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Speaker 1: able to stop the run because no opponent is going
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Speaker 1: to respect him as a physical, hard nosed team. If
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Speaker 1: they're not able to stop the run right now, they've
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Speaker 1: been more for the nest than physical and that has
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Speaker 1: to change if this team is going to live up
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Speaker 1: to see some of these aspirations that they've chatted about
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Speaker 1: in terms of being a title content. Alright, talking about
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Speaker 1: stopping the run is fun, but Jane, you know what
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Speaker 1: moves the needle there in Dallas is talking about whether
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Speaker 1: or not they're going to get Odell Beckham Jr. Go ahead,
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Speaker 1: take it away. Your daily dose of O b J
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Speaker 1: news is is what what are they saying? I always
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Speaker 1: feel like I'm on some sort of watch around here,
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Speaker 1: you know, so right now it's O b J watch.
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Speaker 1: And as I've described to fans, this is one of
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Speaker 1: the more real free agent conversations that they've had around
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Speaker 1: here that actually does make sense and actually could see
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Speaker 1: this thing happening. But it's not helping that the Cowboys
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Speaker 1: are finding themselves in a tighter playoff picture. In other words,
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Speaker 1: we saw Washington did did the Eagles, And I described
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Speaker 1: last week the reason why there was a hold up
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Speaker 1: for O. B J. How to do with the fact
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Speaker 1: that he's waiting to see who's gonna be in the
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Speaker 1: playoff picture when he comes back from this knee injury.
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Speaker 1: He wants to make sure that he's going to a
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Speaker 1: team that has a chance to win it all. And
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Speaker 1: if you're looking at the standings, things are getting a
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Speaker 1: little money. But yes, even though Seedee Lamb, according to
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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones this week, I want to fight through the
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Speaker 1: fan having one of his best games since becoming a
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy against the Green Bay Packers, he absolutely still
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Speaker 1: would love to see O. B J here calling a
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Speaker 1: talent like Odell Beckham just an additive something that can
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Speaker 1: help them take the top off. But again, if you're
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Speaker 1: already dealing with some of the misques from Dak Prescott
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Speaker 1: to his wide receivers, does a veteran like O. B
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Speaker 1: J help when he didn't have a training camp And
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Speaker 1: we'll see when he gets in here, buck, Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: guess that's my question to you. Well, look, I don't
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Speaker 1: know if he else, but I's only know v Box
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Speaker 1: Office because Jerry Jones understands what Odell Beckham Junior brings.
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Speaker 1: He's a superstar, and I mean really a rock star.
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Speaker 1: If you've been around him, you know what that is.
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Speaker 1: You know the magnetism that he brings to the field,
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Speaker 1: and so Jerry Jones won't some of that. Oh by
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Speaker 1: the way, he also is a good receiver. So to
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Speaker 1: think about oh b j having the star on the
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Speaker 1: side of his helmet, you're talking about a lot of attention.
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Speaker 1: You're talking about a lot of prime time TV games
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Speaker 1: that everyone wants to see. That's part of it. But
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Speaker 1: really he absolutely can help the Cowboys because Michael Gallup
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Speaker 1: is still coming back from their knee injury, and if
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Speaker 1: you ask me, I think he's more of a wide
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Speaker 1: receiver too. Three, With Odell Beckham Jr. On the field,
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Speaker 1: you now have a proven number two to go with
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Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb. You open up the offense and that creates
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Speaker 1: more running room for Tony Poll and Ezekiel Elliott because
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, the Cowboys are at
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Speaker 1: their best when they're running the football and then throwing
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Speaker 1: as a compliment. We never talked about the Cowboys on
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Speaker 1: this show. I promise you we'll talk. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. If they get Odell Beckham Jr. Every day,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Jane Chops Rtie NFL, No, NFL that work.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Colts. Let's talk with that guy.
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Speaker 1: He's getting the football life treatment. Coming up on Friday.
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Speaker 1: Eder and James gold jacket and all alight were black
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Speaker 1: sweatshirt and all waiting in the wings coming on the
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Speaker 1: next I was missing. Joe's doing my life. So I
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Speaker 1: use that to my advantage. They're gonna know that was here.
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Speaker 1: He is the most complete back I've ever been around.
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Speaker 1: He was the best teammate I ever had ed. And James,
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Speaker 1: Mr gluegt holds the whole thing to go everybody in Arizona.
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Speaker 1: Don't go to Arizona. But it gave me another challenge.
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Speaker 1: His value to what we needed was so important my career.
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Speaker 1: Sting gold teeth hand with this gold jacket. One of
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Speaker 1: my favorite speeches in Canton, gold teeth, gold Jacket actually
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Speaker 1: the name of his book as we all talked about
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Speaker 1: that book come up in the second but Hall of Fame,
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Speaker 1: regrin James. Good to have you. Let's talk about You're
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Speaker 1: a football life coming up on NFL Network on Friday.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen it yet, but like,
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Speaker 1: what are you most proud about your journey that that
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Speaker 1: we're gonna learn on Friday? What are you most proud
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Speaker 1: about your football life? I just think it's just being
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Speaker 1: yourself and keeping the main thing the main thing. You know,
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Speaker 1: a football player, and I came in and played football
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Speaker 1: and then I didn't let other things distract me or
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Speaker 1: get me away from the main thing. So that's that's
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Speaker 1: the beauty of you can be yourself and you still
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Speaker 1: can make it to the highest of the high and
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Speaker 1: becoming mortal and can't Ohio. I mean, there's so many
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Speaker 1: great anecdotes from growing up in Florida, from going to
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Speaker 1: Miami to overcoming injury and getting to Indie. One of
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Speaker 1: my favorite is the fact that Jim Mercy has taken
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Speaker 1: a lot of criticism in the last week, the fact
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Speaker 1: that he gave you a Super Bowl ring. You weren't
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Speaker 1: on that team. You've already moved on to Arizona, but
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Speaker 1: you've been part of six playoff teams if my count
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Speaker 1: is right before that in Indianapolis with the horseshoe on
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Speaker 1: the side of your helmet. Yet fifteen hundred Yards the
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Speaker 1: year before, Edrian, what did that ring mean to you?
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Speaker 1: That means a lot. You know, it's like real recognized.
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Speaker 1: A lot of times. Man people you know they blow
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Speaker 1: things off, but the real people, they know the impact
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Speaker 1: you've had, and they know the relationship that you have
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Speaker 1: with with an organization and they don't. You know, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't goes out noticed. You know, a lot of times
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Speaker 1: you have a lot of players that a lot of
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Speaker 1: players that have actually helped organizations and they just kind
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Speaker 1: of get pushed to the waist side. But you know,
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Speaker 1: Mr Earths to day, it made sure that you know
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Speaker 1: that he knew I was part of that team and
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Speaker 1: if it wasn't from the business side of things, and
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Speaker 1: I would have been on that team. Absolutely. You were
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Speaker 1: in Arizona, we saw our friend Kurt Warner is going
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Speaker 1: to join us shortly talking about what you meant to
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Speaker 1: that team as well. But you were in Vegas this
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Speaker 1: past Sunday to be with the Colts and to be
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Speaker 1: with your guy Chief Saturday, to be there for his
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Speaker 1: first win over the Las Vegas Raiders. Let's throw that
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Speaker 1: tweet up on the screen because I know you support
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Speaker 1: your guy and you pointed out that We've got a
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Speaker 1: bunch of presidents that had never been elected to public
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Speaker 1: office before they became president. So why can't Jeff Saturday
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Speaker 1: coach in NFL Team Edge? After watching the way they performed.
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Speaker 1: What do you say to people that said Jeff Saturday
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Speaker 1: should have turned down that job because he didn't have
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Speaker 1: any experience. Why, he had a lot of experiences. Started
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Speaker 1: playing the game eight years old. You know, he started
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Speaker 1: playing for for a long time. He was successful. And
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Speaker 1: if you listen to Jeff speaking, you hear the quotes
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Speaker 1: and the comments. I started hearing a lot of our
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Speaker 1: offensive coordinate. I started hearing a lot of Tony Dungeons,
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Speaker 1: start seeing a lot of those great coaches that he
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Speaker 1: had been around all his life. So it starts coming
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Speaker 1: out of you, and and they needed somebody like Saturday
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Speaker 1: kind of pull the guys together. They have two former
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Speaker 1: coaches on the staff, so it's not like they're out
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Speaker 1: there without people that doesn't have experience. They have an
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Speaker 1: owner that's been a honest league forever, and they have
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Speaker 1: two former coaches on the staff and sadly knows the game.
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Speaker 1: If you know the game, you know the game. And
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Speaker 1: a lot of times we like to complicate football, but
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Speaker 1: it's not as complicated as a lot of people like
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Speaker 1: to make it. We saw I got Reggie Wayne in
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Speaker 1: that photo as well. I don't know if you heard this,
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Speaker 1: but Jeff Saturday was asked today about an hour ago
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Speaker 1: Adren on the podium about maybe adding you to the staff.
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Speaker 1: He didn't really answer the question, you're laughing. Is that
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Speaker 1: something you would ever do. I'd rather roll with the
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Speaker 1: big man. I'd rather rolle with the big in the
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Speaker 1: sweet So that's a no. He hasn't asked you. I
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Speaker 1: can't say. I never say know that anything. You know,
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Speaker 1: it may be something that it might be a position
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Speaker 1: that fits is lifestyle. You know my lifestyle is it's
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Speaker 1: a little bit different. I can't be I can't just
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Speaker 1: be at one place at all at all at all times. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so it's not a no that lifestyle right now, Edren. Also,
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Speaker 1: it includes being a football dad and a basketball dad.
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Speaker 1: How rewarding is this to see one son playing football
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Speaker 1: at Howard and another son committing to play basketball at Cincinnati.
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Speaker 1: That's that's what it's all about, you know. It's like
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Speaker 1: I committed my life to my children. So that's one
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Speaker 1: of the things that's super important to me. So but
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Speaker 1: before I do anything, I have to make sure I
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Speaker 1: have all access to get to always be around them,
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Speaker 1: to always have access to see them and actually help
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Speaker 1: guide them. I mean, that was that was very important
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Speaker 1: to me coming up the way I came up. You know,
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Speaker 1: I always wanted to be that dad. As I'm there,
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Speaker 1: I have you have to have omni president, I have
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Speaker 1: to be everywhere. So for me, you know, being able
16:46
Speaker 1: to watch them play football and play basketball, it's a
16:48
Speaker 1: beautiful thing. And the organization that they're with they're great.
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Speaker 1: Howard University one of the one of the best ABCU.
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Speaker 1: They've been great. You know, They've They've welcomed us with
16:58
Speaker 1: open arms. They've give me a lot of access, so
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Speaker 1: I get a chance to um actually be involved with
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Speaker 1: my with my son, and with Cincinnati. You know, Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: they made sure everything that was concerned. They assured that
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Speaker 1: that everything's gonna be great. So we're gonna enjoy coming
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Speaker 1: back to the Midwest. Looking forward to seeing both of
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Speaker 1: them succeed on the field and on the court as well.
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Speaker 1: I know your family certainly gets to mention in your book.
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Speaker 1: From Gold Teeth to Gold Jacket Edge, you tell me
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Speaker 1: about that book. Oh, it's a great book, man. So
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Speaker 1: it's the American story, you know, it's where you come
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Speaker 1: from and where you end up, and it's all. It
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Speaker 1: gives a lot of insight, a lot of input on
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Speaker 1: what it's like to actually walk that walking on in
17:40
Speaker 1: that book. A lot of people can see themselves in
17:42
Speaker 1: that book because nothing is easy. But as long as
17:45
Speaker 1: you keep going, as long as you put forward the
17:47
Speaker 1: work and you believe, you have to have a lot
17:49
Speaker 1: of faith in yourself and what you're doing, and it
17:53
Speaker 1: will end up being the way that you actually envisioning
17:56
Speaker 1: if it's in the cause. And that's what that book
17:58
Speaker 1: actually entails. Fantastic And I love the name is part
18:01
Speaker 1: of your speech as well, Gold Teeth to gold Jacket
18:03
Speaker 1: love when we heard it on the party him in
18:05
Speaker 1: Canton a couple of years ago. No doubt the book
18:08
Speaker 1: is just as good. Edgren James A football life coming
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Speaker 1: up on Friday. Looking forward to seeing it, Edrian, thanks
18:14
Speaker 1: for joining us, man, all right, thanks for having me. Man,
18:18
Speaker 1: you got it, Thank you, sir, Edgroin James. By the way,
18:20
Speaker 1: I mentioned Kurt Warner coming up next, his forward teammate.
18:24
Speaker 1: We'll get the quarterback room. Can the Packers stay patient
18:28
Speaker 1: and run the football? What should Ron Rivera do? All
18:32
Speaker 1: of that? In mor straight ahead? All right? How about
18:43
Speaker 1: those Washington Commanders. They went into Philadelphia, Taylor Hide, he
18:46
Speaker 1: made enough plays, they ran the ball well, and they
18:49
Speaker 1: handed the Eagles their first loss of the year. What
18:52
Speaker 1: do you do now, Ron Rivera, when Carson Wentz comes back,
18:57
Speaker 1: Because look at these numbers, HEINRICHI three and one, and
19:01
Speaker 1: yes he does turned the ball over a bit, but
19:03
Speaker 1: so does the other And there seems to be something
19:06
Speaker 1: about momentum and positive energy. Ron, you see it. You
19:13
Speaker 1: look at what is best for the team man. At
19:15
Speaker 1: the end of the day, That's how it has to be.
19:17
Speaker 1: You know, you there's a great saying that you treat everybody,
19:19
Speaker 1: the saying you treat everybody fair, but you treat everybody
19:22
Speaker 1: according to the team. And and that's what this is about.
19:25
Speaker 1: So decision being made will be about the team first
19:27
Speaker 1: and foremost. Um, you know. And one thing that I've
19:31
Speaker 1: always done is, whoever the starter is, you know, I'm
19:33
Speaker 1: going to commit to him fully. And because I don't
19:35
Speaker 1: want them looking over the should I want to understand
19:37
Speaker 1: this is the opportunity and this is where we're going
19:40
Speaker 1: with it. So whatever the decision is made after you
19:43
Speaker 1: know my conversations today and tomorrow morning, that's what we're
19:46
Speaker 1: sticking to. Let's get in the quarterback room and dig
19:49
Speaker 1: a little deeper here. Great to have Kurt Warner, our
19:51
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, back with us from Germany. Great call
19:54
Speaker 1: with the entire Game Day Morning crew this past Sunday
19:57
Speaker 1: in Munich. Kurt, put yourself in Ron Rivera's shoes here. Um,
20:01
Speaker 1: there's some momentum. But remember they went out and they
20:04
Speaker 1: got Carson Wentz because probably they didn't think Taylor Heneke
20:06
Speaker 1: was good enough. Now they're winning. What do you think
20:09
Speaker 1: you should do? You know, this is a tough one, Andrew,
20:13
Speaker 1: because maybe if you looked at the tape and just
20:15
Speaker 1: broke it down quarterback to quarterback, Carson Wentz maybe overall
20:20
Speaker 1: was playing better football, making some better decisions than, uh,
20:23
Speaker 1: than Taylor Heineke was. But there is just something about
20:27
Speaker 1: the spark that Taylor Heneke brings this football team. And uh,
20:30
Speaker 1: you know, you can play better overall. But what I
20:33
Speaker 1: love about Taylor Henek is how well he plays in
20:35
Speaker 1: the moment when they need him to make a play,
20:38
Speaker 1: when they need a drive to be made. You believe,
20:41
Speaker 1: uh that we're gonna make it, that he's going to
20:44
Speaker 1: make it, that we're gonna find a way to win
20:45
Speaker 1: these football games. And that's what you need at the
20:48
Speaker 1: quarterback position. Can play as great as you want, you
20:51
Speaker 1: need those guys in the huddle and on the sideline
20:53
Speaker 1: to believe that you're going to win those tight football games.
20:56
Speaker 1: And I believe that's what they say when Taylor Heneke
20:59
Speaker 1: is behind center, because we've seen it over the last
21:01
Speaker 1: few weeks. I think regardless of the decision, if they
21:04
Speaker 1: could run the ball like they did against Philadelphia and
21:06
Speaker 1: Houston really can't stop the run, they probably win this
21:09
Speaker 1: Sunday coming up in Houston. Right now, they're five and five.
21:12
Speaker 1: They're the eight seed in the NFC. Amazingly. The Packers, Kurt, however,
21:17
Speaker 1: are four and six. It is our daily dose of
21:20
Speaker 1: getting out of the hood here with the Green Bay offense.
21:23
Speaker 1: Last week they also ran the ball well and Aaron
21:26
Speaker 1: Rodgers through it only twenty times. Do you think they
21:31
Speaker 1: can be that patient every week and succeed. I believe
21:37
Speaker 1: they can be that patient if they're winning like that
21:40
Speaker 1: on the outside in weeks to come. You know, I
21:43
Speaker 1: hadn't seen that from this team. You know, coming into
21:46
Speaker 1: this game that they had struggles being able to separate
21:49
Speaker 1: and make those plays in one on one coverage. So
21:52
Speaker 1: if you can run the football and teams have to
21:54
Speaker 1: commit to that and leave you one on one on
21:56
Speaker 1: the outside, if you can make those plays, yes, I
21:58
Speaker 1: believe this is a formula that can be sustainable and
22:01
Speaker 1: it plays to where the Packers are as a football team.
22:04
Speaker 1: But we just haven't seen that consistency. So that's what
22:06
Speaker 1: I want to see moving forward. Christian Watson staying healthy,
22:09
Speaker 1: can he use that speed to be a difference maker?
22:12
Speaker 1: And then I even saw plays being made by other
22:14
Speaker 1: guys like Sammy Watkins on the outside in those one
22:17
Speaker 1: on one situation. So if they can do that, which
22:20
Speaker 1: we haven't seen throughout most of the year and run
22:22
Speaker 1: the football, this is a good formula for them to
22:25
Speaker 1: get back into this thing and maybe make a push
22:27
Speaker 1: to sneak into the playoffs. Amazing. A week ago we're
22:30
Speaker 1: talking about the sink, the ship sinking. I beg your pardon,
22:33
Speaker 1: And now they could potentially get two wins in five days,
22:37
Speaker 1: potentially against good teams. Get the five and six and
22:39
Speaker 1: be suddenly right back in the conversation. Um, the Bears
22:43
Speaker 1: are not necessarily in that conversation here, but an odd
22:46
Speaker 1: thing is happening, Curt in Chicago. They are losing games,
22:48
Speaker 1: and they're heartbreaking losses here. But the light seemingly has
22:52
Speaker 1: gone on here for Justin Fields. A lot of it though,
22:54
Speaker 1: is with his legs. Just curious from your QB room perspective,
22:59
Speaker 1: what you have seen from Justin Fields the last couple
23:02
Speaker 1: of weeks and your take now on his future moving forward.
23:06
Speaker 1: He's an incredible playmaker and they've built the offense around
23:10
Speaker 1: that playmaking ability, and so it's been great and it's
23:13
Speaker 1: looked better because they've been explosive and made big plays.
23:17
Speaker 1: The question simply becomes, how sustainable is this sort of
23:21
Speaker 1: offense moving forward? And how do you develop your franchise
23:25
Speaker 1: quarterback when your offense is built this way. So it's
23:28
Speaker 1: always that give of give and take of being successful
23:31
Speaker 1: and being competitive while also getting our quarterback ready for
23:35
Speaker 1: the future and what we believe he's going to have
23:37
Speaker 1: to do if we're going to be a championship type team.
23:41
Speaker 1: And so I like what I've seen. I like the
23:43
Speaker 1: way that it's helped him settle in, made the passing
23:46
Speaker 1: game a little bit simpler because teams are committing to
23:48
Speaker 1: stopping the run. But how sustainable is this for him
23:52
Speaker 1: to play the game this way? Moving forward? All right,
23:54
Speaker 1: let's get to Buffalo here. What does the QB room?
23:56
Speaker 1: What does the tape tell you about the difference in
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Speaker 1: playmaking Josh Allen get out to the big lead, Josh Allen,
24:05
Speaker 1: and the Josh Allen that we see committing turnovers in
24:09
Speaker 1: the red zone, the Josh Allen that that ends up
24:13
Speaker 1: on the ground, you know, pounding the side of his helmet,
24:16
Speaker 1: and just the frustration there because it's like ninety percent
24:20
Speaker 1: at the time, it's great. And then and then in
24:21
Speaker 1: those moments, Kurt, what happens, Well, what happens is you
24:27
Speaker 1: have to realize when you're playing quarterback that some of
24:29
Speaker 1: the nuances of the game change when you're down in
24:33
Speaker 1: the red zone, you know where where there isn't guys
24:35
Speaker 1: out in the field when you're trying to make those plays,
24:37
Speaker 1: there's extra guys down in the red zone. When guys
24:39
Speaker 1: are you have to cover the entirety of the field.
24:42
Speaker 1: When when you're on the twenty yard line, it's different.
24:45
Speaker 1: When you're down tight in the red zone and they
24:47
Speaker 1: don't believe that you can throw the ball over him
24:49
Speaker 1: because they've got the back end line there. So some
24:51
Speaker 1: of the nuances of playing the position change when you
24:54
Speaker 1: get down to the red zone. I don't want to
24:56
Speaker 1: take the playmaking away from Josh Allen because it usually
24:59
Speaker 1: works out in his favor. He's just got to become
25:01
Speaker 1: a little bit more aware of the types of throws
25:04
Speaker 1: he has to make when he gets tight into the
25:06
Speaker 1: red zone because of those different nuances that that play
25:10
Speaker 1: out in the way defenses play a little bit differently
25:12
Speaker 1: technique wise down in the red zone. Yeah, and and
25:16
Speaker 1: look they they the pick of the Patrick Peterson pick
25:19
Speaker 1: when they're on the twenty yard line. He's firing the
25:21
Speaker 1: ball in the end zone in the game. That one
25:23
Speaker 1: is just it's just maddening. He saw the look on
25:25
Speaker 1: his face there. Um, I want to get back to
25:27
Speaker 1: Edger and James was with us before you hopped on
25:29
Speaker 1: here his A Football Life debuts on Friday, we played
25:32
Speaker 1: the trailer where you spoke of what he meant to
25:35
Speaker 1: the Cardinals after he left the Colts. Kurt, he was
25:39
Speaker 1: part of the team that obviously went to the Super
25:41
Speaker 1: Bowl and Tampa. What did Edger and James in the
25:43
Speaker 1: second part of his career mean, do you guys? Well,
25:47
Speaker 1: I would just say the biggest thing is that it
25:49
Speaker 1: was more about his personality. It was more about his
25:51
Speaker 1: character than it was about his play. And we all
25:54
Speaker 1: know he was a great player. He's a Hall of
25:56
Speaker 1: Fame player, but it just speaks to who the man
25:59
Speaker 1: of Edger and James is. And that's what I loved
26:02
Speaker 1: is he came down and he broke down that he
26:04
Speaker 1: came into Arizona and broke down a bunch of the
26:06
Speaker 1: barriers and he kind of just laid it out, Hey,
26:08
Speaker 1: we need to do this, we need to do that.
26:10
Speaker 1: He helped us to believe because of the way that
26:12
Speaker 1: he was a pro each and every day and focused
26:15
Speaker 1: on the things that were most important. So I have
26:18
Speaker 1: so much respect for the man of Veger and James,
26:21
Speaker 1: and I was so excited to be his teammate, to
26:23
Speaker 1: learn from him and also be a part of him
26:26
Speaker 1: getting a chance to play in the Super Bowl because
26:28
Speaker 1: he was too great of a player to not have
26:31
Speaker 1: that opportunity. I just wish I could have brought him
26:33
Speaker 1: home a ring part of a cold Jack at backfield
26:35
Speaker 1: and one day Larry Fitzgerald will get his as well.
26:38
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner, as always, sir, thank you, I appreciate it.
26:42
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Cardinals a little bit more, because
26:44
Speaker 1: remember they're going to be in Mexico City on Monday night.
26:48
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray did not play this past Sunday, Cult McCoy
26:51
Speaker 1: did and the Cardinals beat the Ramps. Cliff Kingsbury moments
26:55
Speaker 1: ago an update on both. I was really bad on
27:00
Speaker 1: predicting Buddha last week, so I don't want to get
27:02
Speaker 1: into predicting Kyler. But he's progressed well, I mean, like
27:06
Speaker 1: I said, he's still get intriment on it. We wanted
27:08
Speaker 1: to be when he's out there, particularly against this defensive line.
27:11
Speaker 1: So I won't have a feel for that till later
27:14
Speaker 1: in the week. Really. Colt McCoy also dealing with an injury.
27:17
Speaker 1: Kingsbury says they are both day to day. He hopes
27:20
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