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Jerry Jones on the punt block that led to the Bengals victory · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: I would say this, I understand what you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: and your feelings and all the other kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but let me also say this, boy, you can no, No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not discounting what you're saying at all. I get
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying about your on the wall of the dialogue.
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  Speaker 1: There are many Cowboy fans who are not in denial.
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  Speaker 1: They're very angry about Jerry Jones. I'm very unhappy about
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones and that sort of thing, just like you.
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  Speaker 1: But they're not. They're not in denial about that, but
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  Speaker 1: they they're not abandoning their fandom. Is you are trending
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  Speaker 1: toward doing you know, they're not. They're not abandoning their fandom. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: some are just.
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  Speaker 2: Think about it.
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  Speaker 1: I started saying, I know that my own son has
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  Speaker 1: done it. I know some other people have said I'm
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  Speaker 1: done with them, or at least and I think I've
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  Speaker 1: heard you make this kind of comment. You're done with
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  Speaker 1: them until Jerry Jones is not in control anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And oh it was more like until Mike McCarthy's is
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  Speaker 2: gone or they hire a head coach. I have faith,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll tell you what, Craig, if what happened last night.
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  Speaker 2: If it happened last year or the year before, I
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  Speaker 2: would have my phone have been blowing up with texts
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  Speaker 2: from people just you know, trolling the Cowboys. But because
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys are in are just so downtrodden, I think,
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  Speaker 2: in a single text from anyone like making fun of me,
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  Speaker 2: like hey, nice, nice job in the pump block, nobody
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  Speaker 2: cares because the Cowboys are just that bad. If it
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  Speaker 2: was a year ago, and of course the Cowboys at
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  Speaker 2: a winning record, steven A would still be talking about
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  Speaker 2: it right now at two thirty Central time. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: because of their their record and their five wins, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just kind of like, you know, it's just beating
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  Speaker 2: a dead horse. I'm fair.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, again, I agree with all of that. It does
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  Speaker 1: not mean, however, that you can't continue to be a fan.
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  Speaker 1: There is a term for this. It's called long suffering.
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  Speaker 1: I was same with suffering. Yeah, suffering. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to suffer. Okay, then.
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  Speaker 2: Who wants to suffer?
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  Speaker 1: Then fandom is not for you, you know, fans. It is
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  Speaker 1: our lot in life as sports fans to suffer because
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  Speaker 1: nobody's team wins every single year. Nobody's team does. Alabama
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  Speaker 1: fans are finding that out the hard way of these
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  Speaker 1: past couple of years, especially this year. Nobody's team wins
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  Speaker 1: every year. And I've said like and I repeated it.
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  Speaker 1: I'd said it long before in the past, and I
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  Speaker 1: echo it again. When the Dodgers won the World Series
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  Speaker 1: this year, and I was so thrilled as a fan,
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  Speaker 1: I said, every fan. I even said it on Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: every fan of a pro sports team anyway, or your
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  Speaker 1: favorite team that you just give your heart and soul to.
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  Speaker 1: Every fan deserves to see their team win a championship
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  Speaker 1: at least once in their lifetime, whether it's a pro
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  Speaker 1: football team or basketball or baseball. You've already experienced it
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  Speaker 1: with the Rain. You were so young when the long
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  Speaker 1: Wrens won the National Championships. He probably didn't enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: I remember it, but yeah I didn't. I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed it as I would a championship this year, right exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: But in order to enjoy that, to get the full
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  Speaker 1: fulfillment of it, you have to walk through the valley
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  Speaker 1: of the shadow of death, my friend, you have to
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  Speaker 1: deal with you have to walk through the misery of
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  Speaker 1: being a sports fan. If you are truly tied to
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  Speaker 1: that team. That's all I'm saying. You don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that it's it makes being a fan
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  Speaker 1: more worthwhile if you have suffered with him. The problem
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  Speaker 1: is for you and for a lot of Cowboy fans,
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  Speaker 1: is that you've suffered too long.
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  Speaker 2: And I get that. And what makes the suffering worse
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  Speaker 2: is that we have an owner like Jerry Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no doubt, which brings us to some sound
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. So let's let's hear from Jay and again,
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  Speaker 1: this is what he does every Tuesday, goes on one
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  Speaker 1: O five three of the fan the Convery station there
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas Fort Worth, and he gets on there with
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  Speaker 1: r J and Sean the rest of the crew. And
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  Speaker 1: so they asked him a lot of different questions. So
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  Speaker 1: here's here's one here, how about his overall view of
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  Speaker 1: the loss to the Cincinnati Bengals last night?
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  Speaker 3: Still very disappointed, just feel like we finished up the game,
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  Speaker 3: but at this juncture, But sure disappointed to these players overall.
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  Speaker 3: I thought they gave an outstanding effort. We had a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people get in there and contribute that we
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  Speaker 3: frankly hadn't expected to be playing with at this time
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  Speaker 3: to this degree, and so in that side it was
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  Speaker 3: a plus. It's just a real this pointing to for
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  Speaker 3: everyone concerned. I know the play feel the sad way
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  Speaker 3: to lose a ball game, like the way we lost
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  Speaker 3: that game after giving ourself that shot to win him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, that's one thing. So then they asked
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  Speaker 1: him about the punt block and the block that comes,
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  Speaker 1: and then the money warrior touching the ball and they
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  Speaker 1: get a little light ball and Bengals recovered. It's just
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  Speaker 1: bad all the way around.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, let me let me say this, or they kicked
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  Speaker 3: the ball, Yes, let me let me say this, or
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  Speaker 3: they kicked cabal. Let's say they get a good punt.
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  Speaker 3: It had been booming them all night long. He'd had
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  Speaker 3: good yardage on his punts. We've got to go down
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  Speaker 3: uh and get with them close enough that field goal
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  Speaker 3: to get about thirty forty four yards if you assume
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  Speaker 3: that he gets a good punt off. Our offense had
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  Speaker 3: had it's plus is, but it also been stemning a
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  Speaker 3: couple of times there too. Frankly, when I really reviewed
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  Speaker 3: it after the dust had settled, it was not a
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  Speaker 3: bad call and was executed on the front end of
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  Speaker 3: the punt block very very effectively. And I had revisited
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  Speaker 3: the look on the way the ball hit and it
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  Speaker 3: really kind of bounced up in a way that was
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  Speaker 3: almost unavoidable. The players are coached up, they talk it up,
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  Speaker 3: they are constantly reminded that when a ball is blocked
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  Speaker 3: on special teams, you run from the ball. You don't
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  Speaker 3: ever get near the ball. And of course that ball
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  Speaker 3: hit just right and back up into our player. I
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  Speaker 3: liked to call I'm going to second guess that call.
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  Speaker 3: That call had a lot of logitude. There's organized the
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  Speaker 3: kicking game is organized. Chaos out there, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: moving parts. Everybody's got a lot of different things to
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  Speaker 3: keep in mind. And that was a mistake not to
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  Speaker 3: run from the ball. But you've got to assume that
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  Speaker 3: he saw the ball. You've got to assume he knew
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  Speaker 3: where the ball was, all of those kinds of things.
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  Speaker 3: So unquestionably, it was a play that you'll keep in
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  Speaker 3: your mind forever. Probably that had the player done differently,
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  Speaker 3: then we would have got possession right there and a
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  Speaker 3: good chance would win the ball game. But the second
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  Speaker 3: guessing would come from letting them kick it free and
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  Speaker 3: taking the ball to wink to the field to get
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  Speaker 3: within the field goal range, or whether or not you
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  Speaker 3: should risk all the nuances of trying to block a kick,
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  Speaker 3: getting possession and then making it. And the more you
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  Speaker 3: look at it, the more you see that it was
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  Speaker 3: a well thought out, had well scouted. It was a
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  Speaker 3: really diagram well, I said, out with a special teams
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  Speaker 3: coach at the game and he showed me before the
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  Speaker 3: play diagram. It was very well caught out and they
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  Speaker 3: lined up and the way they tried to block it,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the way they tried to block us up
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  Speaker 3: to keep us from blocking the kit panned out excellent force.
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  Speaker 3: So from that standpoint, it was a play that we executed.
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  Speaker 3: The ball, of course, didn't bounce our way.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's a little that's a little weird, because.
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  Speaker 2: A little weird.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone, whether you're a cowboy fan or
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  Speaker 1: a dispassionate analyst or whatever, I don't think anybody anyone
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  Speaker 1: had any issue with him going after the punt and
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  Speaker 1: blocking it. Yes, as special teams because John Fossil, right,
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  Speaker 1: is that right? Yeah? The way they drew it up,
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  Speaker 1: he talked about it, sat down with a Special teams coach,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked about, yes, it was well designed to
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  Speaker 1: go after and get it and block it and all
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  Speaker 1: that other kind of stuff. Great effort on that. Nobody's
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  Speaker 1: disputing that. He made it sound like he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to defend the decision to block the punt. Nobody that
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  Speaker 1: I have heard of, read, or seen has any problem
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  Speaker 1: with them going after the punt. That's not the thing.
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  Speaker 1: The thing is making sure all your guys know the rule,
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  Speaker 1: or even if they know the rule in the case
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  Speaker 1: of a warrior, maybe he just got aggressive because he
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  Speaker 1: thought he could feel it on the hop like a
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  Speaker 1: scoop and score and take off. But you got it.
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  Speaker 1: But is the reward worth the risk at that point
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  Speaker 1: or just let it go out of bounds around the
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  Speaker 1: forty yard line then you have it there. That's the
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  Speaker 1: issue here. It's not the decision to go after the pund.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna say, yeah, if you can block the pump,
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  Speaker 1: block the punt, just get the hell away, don't touch
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  Speaker 1: it when it comes through. And that's what he didn't
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  Speaker 1: really get into.
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  Speaker 2: One other thing.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked if he was satisfied with the team's
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  Speaker 1: attention to detail, because this would fall into that category
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  Speaker 1: of attention to detail, knowing the rule, understanding even if
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  Speaker 1: you can completely understand the rule, understanding the risk versus
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  Speaker 1: reward on this.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it's starting their attention to detail with this team,
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  Speaker 3: specially on special teams. And we've had special teams played
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  Speaker 3: work bots this year. We've had a backfire own this
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  Speaker 3: this year. It's a big point of emphsis. John does
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  Speaker 3: an outstanding job or Special Teams coach is considered one
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  Speaker 3: of the very best who is in a game, and
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  Speaker 3: I would tell you first hand being around his being
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  Speaker 3: around how he prepares these guys. It's unfortunate that the
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  Speaker 3: play didn't the execute and causes to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, And like you said, whether it's a lack
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  Speaker 1: of execution on that or is it not taking the
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  Speaker 1: better path by just letting it go out of bounds
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  Speaker 1: or just squib to a dead halt, Because if nobody
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  Speaker 1: touches it and it just lays there in play, then
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  Speaker 1: the officials blow it dead. It looked like it was
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  Speaker 1: gonna skid her out of bounds. Eventually, it wouldn't matter
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  Speaker 1: if even if one of the Bengals had picked it up.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you don't it doesn't matter. That's the
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  Speaker 1: issue here, all right. We're gonna hear more from Jerry
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  Speaker 1: next hour and in the four o'clock hour as well,
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  Speaker 1: talking about de Barbie had overshown with the unfortunate injury,
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts on whether they could still make the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and other guys as well on this team. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: do all that, but up next, we have Inconceivable for
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  Speaker 1: a Tuesday afternoon here on Sports Radio A.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thirteen under the Zone.