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  Speaker 1: This is Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette, the official shave
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 3: Well, looks like there's been a trade. The Cowboys have
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  Speaker 3: added a cornerback joey porter jr let's talk about it
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  Speaker 3: here on cowboys storyline presented by gillette it's thursday october
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  Speaker 3: the first i'm nick eatman you guys know all of
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  Speaker 3: that now let's talk about the new cornerback the cowboys
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  Speaker 3: have just traded for happened in the i would say
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  Speaker 3: happened overnight for me i figured that it was about
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  Speaker 3: one o'clock in the morning when i was seeing all
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  Speaker 3: this stuff was going on a little bit earlier than
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  Speaker 3: that but uh have it on the website uh you
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  Speaker 3: can story on Joey Porter Jr. and what the Cowboys
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  Speaker 3: have sent over. And you guys, if you don't know
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  Speaker 3: all the details, it's the sixth round pick next year,
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  Speaker 3: 2027 draft, and then a second round pick in 2028.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll dissect what that means and whether that's good
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  Speaker 3: for the Cowboys. To me, my first thought is that
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  Speaker 3: they didn't give up a ton, especially right now, for
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  Speaker 3: this And then, you know, let's see what he does
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  Speaker 3: when he gets here. And then, you know, cornerback, his
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  Speaker 3: position is kind of tough to evaluate in terms of
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  Speaker 3: just stats. It's kind of like alignment. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: times you'll just look at it like picks. Do you
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  Speaker 3: have picks or you don't have picks? And it has
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  Speaker 3: to go a little deeper than that. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 3: but that's probably one of the rubs of why he
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  Speaker 3: hasn't got a contract, you know, and why Pittsburgh didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to give him what he thinks he's worth and
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  Speaker 3: Maybe other teams, the agent kind of figured out what
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  Speaker 3: other teams are thinking on that as well. And so
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  Speaker 3: there's a gray area when you're talking about evaluating corners.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of stats out there, more than just interceptions.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll talk about all that and more here.
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  Speaker 4: 888-855-2297.
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  Speaker 3: Let's start it off with the phone lines. Anthony, is
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  Speaker 3: that right? Anthony Miami first?
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  Speaker 4: That's right, Nick.
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  Speaker 5: Better believe it.
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  Speaker 4: What's up, my guy?
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  Speaker 3: How you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing pretty good, pulled over. Storming out here has
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  Speaker 4: been the last month in Miami. I'm making a run
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  Speaker 4: for my ball, so I got time to talk to you.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to the Dallas Cowboys, Joey Porter. He's worth that,
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  Speaker 4: of course, but you know, Nick, if you give up that,
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  Speaker 4: you got to give up some money if you plan
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  Speaker 4: on keeping him, and I hope that's what they do.
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  Speaker 4: So he probably get a three-, four-year deal. He's not
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  Speaker 4: making less than 28 mil. So I hope his performance
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  Speaker 4: for us does it and he can be a Cowboy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm happy because guess what that does? When building a defense,
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  Speaker 4: you know, up the middle, like in baseball, up the
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  Speaker 4: middle is the thing on defense. So now you got
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  Speaker 4: Caleb at safety, Barnham in the middle, and Corning at
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  Speaker 4: deep tackle, right up the middle. So you're getting there.
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  Speaker 4: And the guy, the CP just got here, man. We
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  Speaker 4: had some mess-ups last week, but come on, man. It's
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  Speaker 4: three games. I mean, we got to give them some time.
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  Speaker 4: I like where we're going with it. Now, if we
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  Speaker 4: could just add a pass rush, you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 4: If we had a pass rush, I'd be happy.
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  Speaker 7: So, that's that.
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  Speaker 4: This next game is Houston. I gave you some keys
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  Speaker 4: to the game last week. Had a three-point margin. I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to go with the same thing this time, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go with my running backs again, but
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to go one-point margin. So, my score for
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  Speaker 4: the Houston game, Cowboys win. Barry and Barbara, rest in peace, 24.
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  Speaker 4: The charge choice, 23. That's all, Nick. I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: let everybody get in on this one. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Anthony. Appreciate that. All right. Usually when you make
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  Speaker 3: a trade like this, the plan is for you to
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  Speaker 3: sign him long-term. I mean, you don't want to give
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  Speaker 3: up a second-round pick in 2028. It's not a guarantee
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  Speaker 3: that you would definitely do that. They've made the trade.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see if he's going to play on the contract
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  Speaker 3: this year. He didn't really want to play on it, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: with Pittsburgh, but I think the Cowboys have gotten some
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  Speaker 3: assurance that they'll be able to, that he's going to
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  Speaker 3: play regardless, without the contract. They're going to obviously try
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  Speaker 3: to get a deal, but No, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you necessarily have to. We'll talk about that a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more, though, and what the potential comp pick, if
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  Speaker 3: you didn't sign him, and what that might look like
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  Speaker 3: and all that. All right, Irene in Falls Church, Virginia.
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  Speaker 5: Hey there.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 8: I'll let most people talk about the Porter trade because
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  Speaker 8: I did want to break down Houston, but one thing
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  Speaker 8: that you just mentioned with the compensation for the If
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  Speaker 8: they don't sign him, it basically is like the Roderick
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  Speaker 8: Jones thing all over again, a pick-swap of a second
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  Speaker 8: for a third, potentially, if he gets a big contract elsewhere.
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  Speaker 8: If not, then he might just be with us again
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  Speaker 8: if he doesn't get snatched. So I looked at Buffalo
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  Speaker 8: game film this time because I thought that was, even
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  Speaker 8: though it was week one, a good high-powered offense like
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  Speaker 8: ours and a defense that's a bit suspect, at least
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  Speaker 8: for the time being. And they also had Nico Collins
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  Speaker 8: in their lineup, which seems to be what we'll face
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  Speaker 8: as well. So they rush four and drop back seven,
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  Speaker 8: which that's my only concern because Dak is really great
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  Speaker 8: against the blitz. Sometimes when it gets clogged and covered,
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  Speaker 8: you know, he's not as good. I mean, it makes sense,
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  Speaker 8: especially if the wide receivers aren't getting separation. So that's
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  Speaker 8: my one, like, if the game goes wonky, it's probably
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  Speaker 8: because of that. Josh Allen, obviously, is a great runner.
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  Speaker 8: He took advantage of some of the open space up
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  Speaker 8: the middle. I know that's not Dak's primary game, but
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  Speaker 8: I'd like to see some spots If it's covered, just
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  Speaker 8: kind of take it up the middle because it will
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  Speaker 8: be there. Houston's O-line is terrible, and their injuries are
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  Speaker 8: not helping, so we should get some pressure. One of
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  Speaker 8: our listeners who doesn't, isn't able to call in, wants
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  Speaker 8: to know if Houston can be brought up, and I'll
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  Speaker 8: give my score prediction so I don't call tomorrow, and
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  Speaker 8: a role player. I think Malachi Lawrence, his pressure rates
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  Speaker 8: are high, snap count's low. Let's get him in there.
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  Speaker 9: Strict step, fumble.
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  Speaker 8: 30 to 17 Cowboys.
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  Speaker 6: Irene, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, thanks. I'm just making sure she knows that traded
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  Speaker 3: for Joey Porter Jr. I think she does. We talked
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  Speaker 3: about that. Okay.
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  Speaker 10: Cool.
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  Speaker 3: Breakdown. Things change a little bit, you know, when you
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  Speaker 3: make a trade like this. Let's talk about the trade
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  Speaker 3: if we can because, you know, just kind of what
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  Speaker 3: this means. Is he playing? Is he not going to play?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, those are some questions that we need to
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  Speaker 3: kind of figure out there. Now, you're you know, to
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  Speaker 3: her point, I mean, there's a game and we got to,
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  Speaker 3: we got to play this game and, and, and Houston,
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  Speaker 3: I think is desperate team. And, but my, my thought
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  Speaker 3: is he's got to be ready to go. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he was in practice and full participation. And I think
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  Speaker 3: if there's a position where one, you know, a guy
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  Speaker 3: can get traded for on a Thursday and, and, and
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  Speaker 3: play in the game, you know, other than kicker, um,
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  Speaker 3: and punter, I, I think it is corner. Um, You
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  Speaker 3: need to know the calls. You need to know some
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  Speaker 3: of the coverage schemes, cover one, two, three, all that man.
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  Speaker 3: But for the most part, and he's a man corner,
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  Speaker 3: he may not play every snap or whatever, but I
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  Speaker 3: think he should be ready to go and to play some.
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  Speaker 3: Let's not forget the fact that a week from tonight,
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  Speaker 3: they'll be playing another game. So it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a short week, obviously, against Tampa. Might be a situation
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  Speaker 3: where he only plays limited snaps this game and then
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  Speaker 3: kind of gets ready to go because he hasn't done anything,
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  Speaker 3: and then he's going to have two games in a
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  Speaker 3: four-day period. So it doesn't have to be a short
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  Speaker 3: week for Joey Porter. It certainly doesn't have to be
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  Speaker 3: a short week for Tyler Smith, who could be coming
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  Speaker 3: off of IR. But, no, I think, you know, let's
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  Speaker 3: try to— Let's see what people think here about the
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  Speaker 3: Joey Porter trade. Let's go Dylan, Northport, Florida.
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  Speaker 11: Hey man, yeah, so if Joey Porter is miraculously healed
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  Speaker 11: on Sunday and Mr. Miyagi comes in and does the
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  Speaker 11: little sensei stuff.
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  Speaker 12: And he's good to go, it.
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  Speaker 11: Might be a situation where if they feel good about
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  Speaker 11: him and he's able to play, I wonder if It'll
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  Speaker 11: just be, hey, match up on Nico Collins because in
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  Speaker 11: the scheme, like the zone match concept, you've got to
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  Speaker 11: be able to communicate really well. You've got to have
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  Speaker 11: a lot of practice and work with these guys next
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  Speaker 11: to you, and he's obviously not going to have that.
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  Speaker 11: So I just wonder how ready he's going to be
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  Speaker 11: to play in the scheme in that regard. Whereas you
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  Speaker 11: could just be like, okay, take this guy and just
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  Speaker 11: follow him around.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like as crazy as that sounds, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that sounds crazy just on the surface of light. All right.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't done anything. You're on the team. You're just
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  Speaker 3: going to be the travel guy on their best guy.
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  Speaker 3: But it actually makes a lot of sense. What you're
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  Speaker 3: saying of like, you don't, you don't know everything, what
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  Speaker 3: we're doing. The other guys do a nail adjust. You
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  Speaker 3: just cover him.
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  Speaker 11: If he goes out there and is expected to be
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  Speaker 11: able to communicate with these guys and they spent the
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  Speaker 11: entire offseason working on exactly that and have still had
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  Speaker 11: some mistakes, you're going to see pockets out there that
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  Speaker 11: are empty and mistakes made. And it's not necessarily his fault.
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  Speaker 11: He just hasn't had the practice. So I like to
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  Speaker 11: see him obviously play. And if they do, just give
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  Speaker 11: him an easy assignment. Whatever they dictate the easiest thing
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  Speaker 11: for him to come in and do is just let
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  Speaker 11: him do that, turn his brain off, and.
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  Speaker 6: Just go play.
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  Speaker 11: Because the dude's an absolute baller. I was watching Keepin'
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  Speaker 11: It Cowboys, and you mentioned that he only had three INTs.
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  Speaker 13: Over three years.
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  Speaker 11: He's also struggled with penalties, too. But he got better
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  Speaker 11: last year, right? Best year last year. And then as
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  Speaker 11: far as his completion percentage allowed, top four in the
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  Speaker 11: NFL since he's been drafted, and third best passer rating allowed,
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  Speaker 11: or third lowest passer rating around. allowed in the same
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  Speaker 11: time span. So definitely a baller. I'm glad we got him.
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  Speaker 11: I'm glad it was for 2028 Jeff Capital, too. I
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  Speaker 11: did not want to trade 2027, so I'm glad they
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  Speaker 11: got the deal the way they did.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the sixth rounder in 2027, but I know what
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  Speaker 3: you're talking about. You're talking about the big pick.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 11: The big one, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Thanks for the call, Dylan. Good stuff. Good
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  Speaker 3: stats there. I'm glad. I knew somebody would have him,
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  Speaker 3: and I should have figured it was you. A lot
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  Speaker 3: more than just interceptions. But it's kind of like You know,
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  Speaker 3: the pressures and the sacks, you know, getting pressures, hitting
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback. Those are good things. You also want to
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  Speaker 3: get a sack and things like that. And same with
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  Speaker 3: with like Joey Porter. You know, you want you want
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  Speaker 3: to see some some interceptions there. And I think one
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  Speaker 3: of those three picks is against Dak. If I if
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  Speaker 3: I heard that right again, it's kind of been a
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  Speaker 3: scramble mode a little bit this morning. And we don't
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  Speaker 3: talk weather, but it's an absolute monsoon out here first time.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the calendar shifts to October, and it seems
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  Speaker 3: like everything has changed here, including the Cowboys getting— cornerback,
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  Speaker 3: so we're not going to talk anything more. Irene, I
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  Speaker 3: hope you know I love you. You're great. You're the best.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, talking about what Houston does, breakdown and all that,
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  Speaker 3: let's get through a few more of these calls with
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  Speaker 3: Joey Porter Jr., but not to dismiss the game. There
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  Speaker 3: is a football game, whether he plays or not. It's
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  Speaker 3: in that must-win type variety. They've got to go out
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  Speaker 3: there and you can't fall behind here in an NFC
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  Speaker 3: East that I don't think nobody really wants to run
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  Speaker 3: away with it anyways. But still, you can't be the
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  Speaker 3: one lagging behind. So big game, a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: to address here. Let's go to Brian in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 10: Good morning, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Morning. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing good, sir. Hey, you know what I was
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  Speaker 6: thinking as soon as you said, this might be the
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  Speaker 6: one position where you could just come in and play
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  Speaker 6: on the, I, you know, play on the, you know, with,
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  Speaker 6: with little to no practice. Yeah. You know what I
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  Speaker 6: was thinking is think back to the day when Dion
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  Speaker 6: was flying back and forth.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Between baseball and football. Yeah. You know, like he was,
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  Speaker 6: you know, and you would think those are two totally
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  Speaker 6: different skill sets, you know, and of course he was
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  Speaker 6: an elite, elite, he was an elite athlete of elite athletes.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that too, but I didn't really want
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  Speaker 3: to go there because, you know, Deion's Deion. And he
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  Speaker 3: was doing something, right? He was playing baseball. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he was, you know, it was definitely– I really say
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  Speaker 3: it more from a communication of learning a system where
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  Speaker 3: I think the cornerback spot could kind of, you know, learn–
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  Speaker 3: not have to learn all of the system but still
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  Speaker 3: kind of know and function for a game.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so my concern would be twofold. One would be
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  Speaker 6: soft tissue injury because he hasn't played a game since
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  Speaker 6: last year.
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  Speaker 16: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: And I know they said that he was practicing, but
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  Speaker 6: that's not the same thing.
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  Speaker 13: No, you're right.
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  Speaker 6: We just learned that, right, in September that, you know,
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  Speaker 6: our defense practiced all offseason and it didn't quite get
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  Speaker 6: them ready, you know, in that famous clip of, barham
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  Speaker 6: throwing up on the field yeah you know it just
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  Speaker 6: takes a while you know it's not the same thing
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  Speaker 6: so i those would be my two concerns um and
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  Speaker 6: i think of anything the injury would be the bigger
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  Speaker 6: concern and i don't think i would want to put
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  Speaker 6: him in a position where he's playing on sunday and
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  Speaker 6: thursday yeah just that would just be my feeling In
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  Speaker 6: terms of just knowing the scheme, it just depends on
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  Speaker 6: his football acumen. You don't know until you meet the guy.
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  Speaker 6: Is he one of these guys that plays on talent,
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  Speaker 6: or is he Sean Lee with his nose? He knows
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  Speaker 6: the scheme better than the coach after week two. It
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  Speaker 6: just depends. I'm going to give you my pick because
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  Speaker 6: I don't think I'm going to call in tomorrow. Uh,
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to go, I think this one, I think
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  Speaker 6: Houston's finally going to get a little better on track for,
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  Speaker 6: for defense. I'm going to go with a little bit
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  Speaker 6: of a lower scoring game. I'm going to go 24, 19, uh, Cowboys.
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  Speaker 6: All right. Thanks, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Brian.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Um, you make good points there about, about not wanting to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, put them out there too early. I mean, I'm,
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  Speaker 3: like as much as I would like to see them have,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the best players available for this game, which
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  Speaker 3: is always the case. I wouldn't be, you know, I,
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  Speaker 3: it wouldn't be disappointing or anything like that. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be upset with, if the fact that they didn't play
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  Speaker 3: him for this game, knowing what they've got, trying to
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  Speaker 3: ramp him up for the Tampa Bay game on Thursday,
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  Speaker 3: you know, week from today, like we mentioned. So, It wouldn't,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and it might be a limited situation, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, but we know how that goes, too. It's
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  Speaker 3: not like you can just keep all these guys active. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, maybe maybe he's there. Maybe he's active and
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  Speaker 3: doesn't play a lot. I mean, like because there are
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  Speaker 3: some options here with with corner and safety, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: for elevations. You know, Reddy Stewart can play a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of both there. Again, put him back there. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Darion Kendrick is on the roster as a corner that
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  Speaker 3: could be elevated if needed. The defensive tackle that they've signed,
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  Speaker 3: Elijah Garcia. I'm sorry. It may not be his name.
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  Speaker 3: Defensive tackle that they brought up to replace Bullard in
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  Speaker 3: his roster spot. so you know they they've got some
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  Speaker 3: some options here to to do some different things and
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  Speaker 3: i still think they could maybe make you know porter
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  Speaker 3: active but have enough backup help where he doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: to necessarily play the entire game at least that would
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  Speaker 3: be the plan going in let's go to chris in
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  Speaker 3: saratoga springs chris what do you think man.
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  Speaker 9: Oh i'm i'm beyond happy with this move um The
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  Speaker 9: Yankees won for me. I'm a big Yankees fan. They
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  Speaker 9: won last night to beat the Sox. And then I
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  Speaker 9: wake up and we got Joey Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 4: In the trade.
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  Speaker 9: I love it. He practiced two days in a row.
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: And I don't think he practiced yesterday because of this trade.
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: So I think he's going to be ready. I think
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: he's going to play this weekend. I think it will
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: be on limited snaps. But I do think he will play.
• 16:54
  Speaker 12: I think that.
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: player that benefits the most from this trade is Deron Bland.
• 17:00
  Speaker 9: I think he was the best one. He was the
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: number two when Diggs was our number one, and he
• 17:05
  Speaker 9: put up great, fantastic numbers against the number two wide receiver.
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: So I think it's going to help Deron a lot.
• 17:12
  Speaker 9: I heard a stat earlier that 1,400 snaps plus for
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: Joey Porter Jr. without giving up a touchdown. That's incredible.
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: You can't put it any other way. There's no other
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: cornerback in the NFL who's done what he's done in
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: the last 400 cover snaps. So I love it. I just,
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: I'm beyond happy. So it's a good day to be
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: a Cowboy fan, I can tell you that. And I
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: want to say thank you to Jerry, all the talk,
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: always talking to talk about we're going to empty the bucket,
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: we're going to, you know, this is our year, you know.
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: We're all in, and then you know what? He's putting
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: his money where his mouth is, and I love it.
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: And I absolutely want to give a couple claps to
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: Jerry and the organization for making this move. I absolutely
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: love it.
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: Nice.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: All right. All right, Chris.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Yeah, I mean, that was kind of a...
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Mailbag question we had this morning, is this an all-in
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: type situation now? Is this as close a thing to
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: all-in as we've seen, definitely since Jerry said that comment?
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: And I think it is. I mean, when you look
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: at some of the things that they've made for this year,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, the additions that they've made and the trades
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: and the players that they've acquired in the last– you know,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: 12 months. It's as close to it as you can get.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, there obviously are other moves that they could
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: have made with, you know, the ones in Vegas and
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: all that stuff. But they, you know, they're definitely throwing
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: it out there. I'm sorry, I'm looking to see where
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: this Baltimore, okay, so this Cleveland game. So tonight, just
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: because you were talking about not practicing yesterday, and I
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: was looking to see Pittsburgh plays Cleveland tonight. where that
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: game is. It's in Pittsburgh because, you know, the day
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: before a game is a travel day. And even if
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: they're at home, it's a little bit light. So it
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: would be like a light walkthrough for them. It's at Cleveland.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: It's at Cleveland. At Cleveland.
• 19:06
  Speaker 16: Okay.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Yes, at Cleveland. Oh, okay. I've got the wrong– I'm
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: looking at week nine, week three.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
• 19:14
  Speaker 13: There you go.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, at Cleveland. So they were traveling. Not far.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, that Pittsburgh to Cleveland is not a– But still,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: it's still within their schedule and their travel day. So
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: they didn't have a big practice. Anyways, all right, Isaac
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: and Amarillo is next.
• 19:30
  Speaker 14: What's going on, Mr.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Nick?
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Hey, how are you doing?
• 19:34
  Speaker 14: Doing just fine, sir. Thank you, thank you.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: How about y'all?
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: We're good. We're good.
• 19:38
  Speaker 15: Good.
• 19:38
  Speaker 14: Hey, sir, I just wanted to bring something up, get
• 19:40
  Speaker 14: your opinion on it. I know everybody's talked about, you know,
• 19:43
  Speaker 14: the Ravens game, and it's already, you know, it's well
• 19:45
  Speaker 14: past this now. The thing I'm remembering, though, is Dak
• 19:49
  Speaker 14: Prescott's draft. with the offense before all the shenanigans started
• 19:53
  Speaker 14: at the very end of the game, the way he
• 19:55
  Speaker 14: just methodically got the offense down the field. And I'm
• 19:58
  Speaker 14: sure you remember, it reminded me of back in 2015,
• 20:02
  Speaker 14: the season opener against New York, when Tony led the
• 20:05
  Speaker 14: team at the very end with like 20 seconds to go.
• 20:08
  Speaker 14: I think Dak's at a level, Mr. Nick, we've never
• 20:10
  Speaker 14: seen him before. He might even be the best quarterback
• 20:13
  Speaker 14: in the NFC. I just want to get your opinion.
• 20:16
  Speaker 14: Do you think he's a top two, top three quarterback
• 20:20
  Speaker 14: right now, just off of everything we're seeing him do?
• 20:22
  Speaker 14: and operating at the level that he's operating. I just
• 20:25
  Speaker 14: want to get your opinion.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Hold on.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: I'm going to have to stop you here for a second.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: I like where you're headed here, but I do want
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: to ask you about the final throw of his game.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: When you're thinking that and you're thinking he's playing at
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: this top level and all that, Are you disappointed with
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: the throw that went nine feet in the air, or
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: do you think you're going to put that on Shadi?
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Do you think that he was too conservative there, not
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: as accurate enough? What are your thoughts on that, though?
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Because that's his last throw.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: Go ahead.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 20:59
  Speaker 14: I think it's unfortunate because I think, what do the
• 21:03
  Speaker 14: kids say, he's got to have that dog in him
• 21:06
  Speaker 14: to be like, hey, I'm going to throw this to somebody,
• 21:09
  Speaker 14: and somebody's going to catch it. I think that's very real.
• 21:13
  Speaker 14: And that is a good point. And maybe the top
• 21:16
  Speaker 14: two or one quarterback does not throw it nine feet
• 21:20
  Speaker 14: in the air. That is a good point. But, man,
• 21:22
  Speaker 14: I can't shake the thought that. Oh, we still have
• 21:26
  Speaker 14: the best quarterback in the NFC?
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: Maybe?
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm not saying
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: you're wrong. I'm just, I just, I want you, you,
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: that your drive that you're mentioning is, is accurate. He
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: did kind of carve them up there, but as they say,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: you're only as good as your last throw and your
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: last throw hit a cloud. I just want to know, like,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: what do you, what do you think about that?
• 21:46
  Speaker 13: Good point, sir.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: But I, I, I'm not, I'm not hating on deck
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: at all like that. Um, But I just wanted to,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: you know, let's talk about everything. You're not wrong. He's
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: playing really well. I mean, I think he's playing well. But,
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: you know, this team's 1-2 right now. And, you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: he always says there's a throw I'd like to have back.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: There's two he would like to have back. That interception
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: against the Gentoo, he didn't throw it far enough. And then, ironically,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: the one against Baltimore, the last one of the game
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: where he threw it really far.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: So.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Uh, even those out a little bit in this, this
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: record might even look different. So, all right. All right.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Good stuff, Isaac. Appreciate it. Thanks for the call. Uh,
• 22:28
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  Speaker 3: feel like maybe we need to get some new reads.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: I feel like you guys at home could read the
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: same thing. You know what I mean? We've got to
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  Speaker 3: freshen it up a little bit. All right, Cowboys storyline here.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: 888-855-2297 is our number. To call, we are talking about
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: the Joey Porter trade the Cowboys have made. They made
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: late last night, acquired the cornerback from Pittsburgh who had
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: been holding out with a back injury. If that sounds familiar,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: it is. And he's back and ready to roll. I've
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: got a question for.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: You, Nick.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: All right, Chris. Who's Joey Porter's agent?
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Is it the same guy?
• 25:46
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: All right. David Mulligata?
• 25:48
  Speaker 15: Yes.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Just throwing it out there. I think I heard that, actually,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: like last week when he was kind of going through that.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: What I don't know is Pittsburgh. I don't know if
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh had one of their home games. I don't know
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: if he was there. I don't think he was there
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: laying on a table, so I don't know about that.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: So everything's a little different, but... Yes, I mean. I know,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying.
• 26:12
  Speaker 10: No, no.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: It's very like. Yeah, it's very similar. Very similar. And,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: you know, mysteriously, trades actually help your back. You know,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: I feel like what those guys. Parsons played in week one.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Pat on the back. That's all that they really need.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Lester in Minnesota.
• 26:28
  Speaker 12: Morning, Nick.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: Morning.
• 26:31
  Speaker 12: Hey, man. I looked up. I'm glad to have Joey Porter,
• 26:39
  Speaker 12: first of all. I looked up his attributes. He has
• 26:44
  Speaker 12: a good man press, decent speed, a good zone coverage,
• 26:52
  Speaker 12: and a decent change of direction. He's a little bit handsy.
• 26:58
  Speaker 12: He gets a few penalties, but that's okay. I mean,
• 27:00
  Speaker 12: to play that position, you've got to put your hands
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: on people, or they may just put their hands on
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: you and make you fall down or something.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 27:10
  Speaker 12: Now, my question is, this is obviously a man-pressed corner.
• 27:17
  Speaker 12: Do you think that our defensive coordinator, I know his,
• 27:22
  Speaker 12: at least it seems like his philosophy is a lot
• 27:26
  Speaker 12: of zone. Do you think that he would, because he
• 27:29
  Speaker 12: has this new man-pressed corner, that he would change up
• 27:35
  Speaker 12: a little bit his philosophy? Or do you think it
• 27:39
  Speaker 12: would stay the same?
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: What do you think, Nate? I do think you don't
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: trade for a guy like that. That's what he does
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: the best. He plays man better than anything else. You're
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: going to have to do that. I don't think you
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: trade for a guy and try to fit him into
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: your scheme so much. I think you have to fit
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: the scheme around what the players do best. I think
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: you'll see that probably more from him. That's what I
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: would imagine.
• 28:11
  Speaker 12: I mean, because, you know, he's still learning. I'm talking
• 28:16
  Speaker 12: about the D.C. He's still learning. He's new to everything.
• 28:20
  Speaker 12: So I think this might be a good challenge for him.
• 28:24
  Speaker 12: And that's all I got, Nick. Let's go, let's go,
• 28:27
  Speaker 12: let's go, boys.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: All right. All right, thanks, Lester. You know, and Christian
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: Parker does, on Thursday, the coordinators are available to talk. Now,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: he'll probably love the fact that he'll get to talk
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: about what Joey Porter does because without this trade, even
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: though he's focused on Houston, there will definitely be some
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: questions asked about the last play of the game, what
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: the coverage was there, and moving forward on how things
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: change there. And that's always been the issue since the
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: coordinators started talking. They've done it on Thursdays. They've done
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: it on Mondays. And it's always tough because on Monday,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: nobody wants to, you know, it's 4 o'clock, you're coming
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: back from a game and everyone's kind of tired and
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: it's really late and no one really wants to do
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: those interviews. Then they switch it to Thursday. The only
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: issue there is when a situation happens like in the game,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: the previous game, like this one, where you want to
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: talk about the coordinator, you want to talk about why
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: you did this or didn't do this. Usually the rhetoric
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: there is, We're moving on. Sorry, that was... four days ago.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: We're not talking about Baltimore or Rio anymore. We're talking
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: about Houston. And I'm not saying he'd be wrong, but
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying that's kind of what happened. So there'll
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: be some questions on that. I don't know how he'll
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: answer it, but he definitely will be asked to talk
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: about Joey Porter. All right, let's go to Rob in Vegas. Rob,
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: what's up?
• 29:58
  Speaker 13: Hey, Nick.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Hey, Rob.
• 30:01
  Speaker 13: Speaker 3 I'm always for acquiring proven talent.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I figured he's like they needed.
• 30:08
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 30:09
  Speaker 13: I mean, he's a physical guy. They definitely need it,
• 30:12
  Speaker 13: but don't stop there. Keep going. They'll get a pass.
• 30:16
  Speaker 13: The division is wide open. We, we talked about it.
• 30:19
  Speaker 13: Philadelphia don't look great giant now with a third string
• 30:23
  Speaker 13: quarterback who knows I'm not really worried about Washington. And
• 30:27
  Speaker 13: just the whole scale, Green Bay. So I'm sure Jerry
• 30:31
  Speaker 13: looked at it and said, listen, we got a really
• 30:34
  Speaker 13: good shot. Got some weaker teams in the next five
• 30:39
  Speaker 13: or so. Maybe we can make a run. Let's go
• 30:43
  Speaker 13: get this guy. But don't stop because we know if
• 30:48
  Speaker 13: you don't have a pass rush, I don't care if
• 30:50
  Speaker 13: Deion's out there in today's rules, it's hard. Good stuff.
• 30:55
  Speaker 13: And I'm glad he didn't wait. You know, the season
• 30:59
  Speaker 13: is young. You could make up for, okay, you gave
• 31:02
  Speaker 13: one away last week. Now we're going to have to
• 31:04
  Speaker 13: steal one from somebody else. So put this guy out there.
• 31:11
  Speaker 13: I don't watch Pittsburgh much, but listening to what people
• 31:15
  Speaker 13: say is big, physical. He may be your future cornerback.
• 31:19
  Speaker 13: You may have to move on. from Deron Bland next
• 31:23
  Speaker 13: year and eat some, I think, about $ 6. 5 million if
• 31:26
  Speaker 13: you're going to try to keep Pickens, because I don't
• 31:29
  Speaker 13: think you're keeping all three. But we'll worry about that later,
• 31:32
  Speaker 13: because you've got to sign him. There's no point in
• 31:35
  Speaker 13: giving up draft capital if you're just renting him. Unless
• 31:41
  Speaker 13: you win the Super Bowl, and then I don't care
• 31:43
  Speaker 13: what you do.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:47
  Speaker 13: They'll probably bring him back.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, because I talked about this yesterday.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: It was funny. The middle of the night, 3 o'clock
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: in the morning, I was thinking about the fact of
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: what I had said on the show yesterday. Somebody asked
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: about four games and how they go 2-2, and I
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: was like, I wanted to do better than that. But
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: then now that I thought about it last night, I
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: was like, it's three of the next four are on
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: the road. And so am I, am I actually getting
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: a little too greedy to think that three out of
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: four on the road and just splitting that would actually
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: not be good enough. What's your take on the next?
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: You said five, but the next four or so.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 32:26
  Speaker 13: I'm worried about the Texans game. Cause maybe cause I
• 32:31
  Speaker 13: live in Vegas, a team going to go all in
• 32:33
  Speaker 13: for we're beat up, you know, let's say the defense
• 32:37
  Speaker 13: wasn't great to begin with. And now you're, you're really
• 32:40
  Speaker 13: beat up. But And we're not a good row team.
• 32:45
  Speaker 13: You know, we haven't been a good row team. So, yeah,
• 32:48
  Speaker 13: I mean, of course, as fans, we look 0-3. That
• 32:51
  Speaker 13: team's bad. That team's bad. But we've got to forget,
• 32:54
  Speaker 13: we only got one win.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not much different.
• 32:59
  Speaker 13: But, yeah, I mean, could they do it?
• 33:02
  Speaker 10: Sure.
• 33:02
  Speaker 13: I mean, I definitely think if they beat the Texans
• 33:07
  Speaker 13: and don't get any more injuries and then Porter comes in,
• 33:11
  Speaker 13: I don't think he's going to play And now you
• 33:13
  Speaker 13: definitely could beat Tampa with a backup. And then you
• 33:18
  Speaker 13: get a longer rest and Tyler Smith will be back. Sure. I,
• 33:23
  Speaker 13: you could, you could beat those teams, but like I said,
• 33:25
  Speaker 13: we haven't been great on the road, but I think
• 33:27
  Speaker 13: Jerry said, look at the schedule, you know, let's do something.
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: Let's, Yeah.
• 33:31
  Speaker 10: I agree with you.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I think the timing of the trade is probably the
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: best part. Uh, and that's a little different than what
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: we've seen the Cowboys kind of do before, but you know, they,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: they know what's out there. They, they know that they've
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: been struggling at corner. They know revel is banged up also.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: And it's like, let's, let's go and, and, and make
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: this move. So, all right. I like it. Well, and
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: it sounds like you do too. And I think, I
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: know the fans want to hear what you have to
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: say as well. So thanks for calling. Thanks for the, uh, well,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: let's keep it, keep it rolling. Um, I didn't see.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Is it Chris in San Angelo? I think that's what
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: I saw, right?
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Hey, Chris. How you doing, man?
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: Hey, good, Mr. Nick.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: How you doing, bud?
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: My iPad kind of froze on me, but I thought
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: that's what I read. What do you think, man?
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: I get that all the time. Well, hey, man, first
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: of all, I love waking up to a Cowboys trade
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: because it just helps me wake up in that sense, right?
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: But what I was going to say is– A comment
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: on that, I like it because it does seem like
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: a sense of urgency kind of trade. And I think
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: they're kind of saying that the term progress stopper, they're
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: kind of throwing that out the window. Because the Cowboys
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: are 1-2, and they can't worry about who isn't getting
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: the snaps and such. You've got a better player. You
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: put them out there.
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: And you play them.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: But my question was, do you think that they make
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: the trade? Just even if they, without the recent slew
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: of injuries that they had, you think they still do it?
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Or do you think that it was just kind of
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: like a reaction and let's solve this? Because, you know,
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: I said progress stopper thing, but they're trying for right now.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: So it could have been a knee-jerk thing, but what
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: do you think?
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: I think that's a good question. I have a hard
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: time thinking that Rebels injury, because it's not, I mean,
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: he actually practiced limited yesterday, so I don't know if
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Rebels injury was the one that did it. I don't know.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: This isn't a situation like in 1995 when Kevin Smith
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: had the Achilles injury, and then it's like, let's just
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: go sign Deion. I mean, I think that was already
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: in the works. Also, Kobe Durant injury, Revel. You know,
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be so sure that this isn't flipped on
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: the other side, where Pittsburgh's side of... Alright, Porter's practicing now,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: and he's ready to come back and play. What do
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: we want to do on this? Do we want to
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: go ahead and ship him? I think probably their compensation
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: got to the point that it finally matched Dallas. It
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: was like, alright, I don't know if we want to
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: send this guy out here and play him when we
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: think we're going to trade him. We don't want him
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: to get hurt, and so that messes up everything. So
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: let's go ahead and do this now, and I bet
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: you their compensation... dropped to the point where Dallas was
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: comfortable with that's that's that I haven't I haven't been
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: told that I just think it was a kind of
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: a combination of we need this and Pittsburgh kind of
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: needs to do something with it.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: Too awesome well I say you know what put him
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: out there he's a good player put him out there
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: well in place of Durant if you have to and
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: We will run, but I'm happy about it.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Sounds good. Well, I think they'll put him out there
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: if he's ready, if he's healthy, because as Brian from
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Kansas City said, soft tissue injuries are real. They're real
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: in situations like this. He kind of has to ramp
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: himself up. And every player is different. Everybody's kind of
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: ready to go corners, run for a living. So we'll
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: see how ready he is to play. And again, it
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: might not be a situation of the entire game, but
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: those are some questions we'll just try to get some
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: answers to later on in the day. You know, this
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: podcast is one of the early ones. It's still 10.30,
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: 7 a.m. Central Time. So Porter might be coming, supposed
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: to be coming in today. We'll see what, you know,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Shadi says and what Christian Parker has to say. And
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: who knows, maybe Jerry will be. weighing in on this one, too.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: All right, Cowboy Nico in Colorado Springs.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: Nico.
• 37:56
  Speaker 10: Hey, what's up, Cowboy Nation? How you doing? How's it going, Nick?
• 37:59
  Speaker 10: Hope you recovered fully from your long flight. So yesterday
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: I got a text message from Irene. Hey, we traded
• 38:09
  Speaker 10: for Joey Porter. I didn't believe it until I heard
• 38:12
  Speaker 10: it from my cousin because, as you know, half of
• 38:14
  Speaker 10: my family are Steelers and half of my family are Cowboys.
• 38:17
  Speaker 10: And just like GP, what, two years ago, I asked
• 38:21
  Speaker 10: you this two years ago when Jerry made this move.
• 38:24
  Speaker 10: I said, did somebody check on Jerry and make sure
• 38:27
  Speaker 10: that his pacemakers work in? Because this isn't normal. This
• 38:30
  Speaker 10: isn't normal. What's going on? Once again, can somebody check
• 38:35
  Speaker 10: on Jerry Jones? Because this isn't normal. And thank God
• 38:39
  Speaker 10: for not being normal, because the definition of being psychotic
• 38:44
  Speaker 10: and madness is being a Dallas Cowboy fan. It's not
• 38:46
  Speaker 10: beating your head over and over and over. It's just
• 38:48
  Speaker 10: being a Dallas Cowboy fan, and it's mostly thanks to
• 38:51
  Speaker 10: that man, Jerry Jones. Just saying. But this move here
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: is really interesting to me, and I'm going to make
• 38:57
  Speaker 10: it quick, and here's why. The man can play zone
• 39:02
  Speaker 10: as well as.
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: as man.
• 39:04
  Speaker 10: Now, I know he is a big man guy, but
• 39:08
  Speaker 10: I'm telling you, go back and watch film. This man
• 39:11
  Speaker 10: can play ball. And to Brian's point, to toot his horn,
• 39:16
  Speaker 10: that's a ready-to-go position like now. And that's what I've
• 39:22
  Speaker 10: got for you guys. Last thing, of course, hug your mothers.
• 39:26
  Speaker 10: I miss mine dearly. I wanted to call her today
• 39:29
  Speaker 10: and tell her how... excited I am to hear we're
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: sticking it to the Steelers again, but I couldn't. So
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: please hug your mothers. Love your family. Love your friends.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: How about this, Cowboys?
• 39:39
  Speaker 10: Let's get out of here.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: I think the consensus is everyone's pretty excited about the trade.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Nico definitely sounds like he is as well. um you
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: know and it's one of those things if it doesn't
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: work out it doesn't work out but um and they'll
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: you know if if he's not worth signing to a
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: big big contract or they can't get a deal done
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: then they'll have to to figure something out and you
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: know that they should be getting a comp pick if
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: they don't sign him they'll be getting a comp pick
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: there um and it won't be a second rounder but
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: it'll be it'll be in the third or fourth round
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: range probably. Again, that's just assuming that that's just worst-case
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: scenario on this. Best-case scenario is that he goes and
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: he plays really well, and the fresh start from Pittsburgh
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: to here is going to be better for him. I'm
• 40:29
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• 40:32
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• 42:02
  Speaker 3: trade and one of the things that I was going
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: to say right before the break is that just you
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: know he he's a he's a Pittsburgh guy, obviously. His
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: dad played there. Joey Porter, obviously, a linebacker there. Played
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: for some other teams, Miami, Arizona. But he's a Pittsburgh guy,
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: and he grew up there in Pittsburgh and played at
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Penn State nearby. Then he gets drafted by the Steelers.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: What a great story. And he's played really well. For
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: a second-round pick, I think he's played better than that.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: um but I it also feel like you know it
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: might be a situation where he you know as good
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: as he played maybe he still was hard to live
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: up to those expectations and you know and wanted to
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: maybe kind of do his own path a little bit
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: it was a great story at first but now it's
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: it might be one where you know he does need
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: a fresh start and I only say that because you know,
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Pickens was good, but he, you know, he comes to
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Dallas and, and, and he just needed something different and,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: and all players are different, but I think that there's
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: an opportunity that maybe, maybe this could even be better
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: for him. We'll see. I mean, that's just, again, glass
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: half full, but, but fresh starts are real. And, and
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: this might be one where, where, you know, I, I
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: think the fan base maybe thought that he would just
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: take the, take a hometown discount and say, wow, you know,
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: I'm a Steeler for life. I grew up here, you know,
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: and it, didn't always work that way. Um, that doesn't
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: mean he's going to come to Dallas and take a
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: deal either. So, I mean, Hey, but, but let's see how,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: how he plays. Um, once he's here.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: I'm a in Napa is next. Hey, what's up, Nick?
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: How are you?
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: How are you doing?
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: I'm great, man.
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: Thanks for asking. Um, Man, I'm glad to hear the storyliners,
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: or some of them have talked themselves off the ledge.
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: And it's good to hear kind of the vibes turn
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: and much more happy moments. You know, the season's still young.
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: We've got a long ways to go. Defense is slowly
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: getting better. And we've got to applaud Jerry, man, for
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: all the times we're on him about he doesn't do this,
• 44:08
  Speaker 7: he didn't do that, he should have did this. He's
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: out there going for it and trying, whether it's the
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: right moves or not. I mean, he's trying. I think
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: Joey Porter's going to be good, man. I mean, I
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: don't think he's the answer and solves all the problems
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: and all of that stuff. I mean, you've talked about it.
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: I mean, everybody kind of knows, like, you know, the
• 44:29
  Speaker 7: pressure goes with the secondary or, you know, the— the
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: defensive line, what they're able to do to the quarterback,
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: you know, obviously helps the secondary. And then obviously the
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: more sticky the secondary is, then the better chance they
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: give the defensive line to, you know, get to the quarterback.
• 44:48
  Speaker 7: So they go hand in hand with each other. So,
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: you know, just like Rob said, you know, don't necessarily stop, huh? Again,
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: I think the team's still young as far as like
• 44:58
  Speaker 7: the defense and they're figuring things out. Obviously they needed
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: some help. So, you know, cheers to Jerry. He's going
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: for it, man. As a, as a fan, that's.
• 45:06
  Speaker 9: What you want.
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: You want your owners to go for it. You don't
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: want them to, you know, sit on their hands and
• 45:10
  Speaker 7: be like, Oh, well next year and this and that. So,
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: you know, uh, kudos to Jerry. Thanks for that. But, uh, yeah,
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: I don't think we're done yet. And, um, but, um, man, I'm,
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: I'm happy for it. I'm excited for it. I think, uh, again,
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: he's a good addition, but he's just not the final answer. And, uh,
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: let's go Cowboys, man.
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Well, appreciate it. I don't know if there's going to
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: be any more big trades or anything like that, but
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they're done with making moves or
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: splash moves or whatever, but they made this one. And
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: I think everybody's pretty excited about it. We'll see. The
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: big question now is, is he going to be ready
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: to play right now? Or do they wait a week
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: from today when they'll be playing another game? But still,
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: good problem to have to figure out when an elite
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: cornerback like Joey Porter Jr. is going to be playing
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: for your football team.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: Great stuff, guys. Appreciate the calls. It's been a good show.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: Brian Schottenheimer will be coming up soon. Press conference today.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: I think that press conference is next. I know Cowboys
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: break will be breaking it down here in a little bit,
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: talking about Joey Porter Jr. Brian talks tomorrow. Yeah, Shoddy
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: is tomorrow at this time. Coordinators today. Coordinators. Got it.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Coordinators today. Christian Parker will be talking about stuff. It's
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: not live, but he'll be talking about it. Make sure
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: and check that stuff out. All right, Chris. So for
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Chris Beam, Nick Eatman, see you tomorrow on Cowboys Storyline.
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