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Speaker 2: Here's Nick Eatman.
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Speaker 3: What's up? Welcome to Cowboys storyline presented by Gellelette. It's Thursday,
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Speaker 3: October the thirtieth. Winding up here this month of October.
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Speaker 3: It's been kind of scary, just like just like Halloween
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Speaker 3: is supposed to be, right, it's been a scary up
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Speaker 3: and down. Is this one of those haunted house seasons
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Speaker 3: where you know it's you know what's coming, It's still
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Speaker 3: scary any anyway, that's probably what the What the next
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Speaker 3: when we look at the schedule is kind of what
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Speaker 3: it looks like. But we'll let you guys talk about it.
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Speaker 3: Eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven.
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Speaker 3: Chris says, the lines are open today. There is one
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Speaker 3: color on the line. But this might be your day
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Speaker 3: if it's one. If you're one of those that says
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Speaker 3: I can ever get in, well maybe today's your day.
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Speaker 3: Let's see if we can we can hear for some
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Speaker 3: new callers, or at least ones we haven't heard from
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Speaker 3: in a while. But let's go to Chris and Saratoga Springs,
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Speaker 3: New York. He's first, Chris, what's up?
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Speaker 4: Happy Thursday?
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Speaker 5: Nick? How are you?
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Speaker 6: My man?
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Speaker 7: Good?
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Speaker 3: Thank you?
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Speaker 8: Just need to comment a little bit on the defense,
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Speaker 8: and then we've been talking about it on the show.
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Speaker 8: Linebackers obviously have to play better. It's you know, there's
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Speaker 8: no doubt about it. I'm hoping we go out a
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Speaker 8: Gates to some kind of linebacker. Jerry said it, we're
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Speaker 8: not just one player away. I agree one hundred percent
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Speaker 8: we're not. But if we can get a linebacker, get
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Speaker 8: Demo back, get Revel back, and get our two safeties back.
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Speaker 8: I think that's not just one player. That's four or
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Speaker 8: five players that can really help our defense. And it's
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Speaker 8: definitely needed. During the offseason, I said, we should have
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Speaker 8: shined Greenwaw from San fran and we didn't want to
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Speaker 8: pony up a little bit on the money to get him.
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Speaker 8: But now we're you know, fast forward now to you know,
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Speaker 8: this time the season, we're looking, you know, we need
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Speaker 8: linebacker help. So I really think we should go out
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Speaker 8: and sign a linebacker. I would be willing to give
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Speaker 8: up like a second round type pick to get somebody
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Speaker 8: that can step right in there and play and help
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Speaker 8: Demo when he comes back. What are your thoughts on that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, well thanks for the call, Chris. You know,
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Speaker 3: Drake Greenlaw was a player that I actually was told
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Speaker 3: to start working on a story when it was that
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Speaker 3: time of free agency. That looked like he was going
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Speaker 3: to agree to terms. It was really close, and then
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Speaker 3: last second he changed and went went to Denver. And
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Speaker 3: I don't believe the money was that was was different
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Speaker 3: at all. Honestly, it was just the last second thing.
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Speaker 3: And again I don't know all the details. I just
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Speaker 3: know that it's not like they didn't want them or
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Speaker 3: they didn't think they could get him. It was it
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Speaker 3: was so close that it was like, yeah, it looks
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Speaker 3: like we're going to they're gonna be signing him, and
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Speaker 3: then all of a sudden, you know, it's not the
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Speaker 3: first time that's happened. Right with Randy Gregory too, I'm
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Speaker 3: sure we had a story done on that as well.
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Speaker 3: So I don't know. I don't know. I don't want
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Speaker 3: to speculate. I can speculate on some players, but on
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Speaker 3: green Law, I don't really know why that happened. But
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Speaker 3: you're right about linebacker, and you're right about getting some
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Speaker 3: help in here. It's a it's a it's one of
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Speaker 3: those tricky positions because you want those guys to be quick,
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Speaker 3: be able to get to the football, be aware. And
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Speaker 3: usually those guys that do that are aren't the biggest
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Speaker 3: guys in the world. And so we saw that with
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Speaker 3: Shamar James. He can he can definitely get to the football.
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Speaker 3: But everybody I'm sure has seen the touchdown run from
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Speaker 3: Denver in the first run of the game for the
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Speaker 3: touchdown where the guard basically got to the next level
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Speaker 3: and blocked James into the third level and then turned
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Speaker 3: around and blocked another guy down and another guy and
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Speaker 3: so he had a nice little highlight. But Chamar James,
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Speaker 3: that's kind of what you get when you get a quick,
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Speaker 3: speedy linebacker that can get to the football. Marquis Bell
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Speaker 3: showed us that, you know, he had one hundred tackles
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Speaker 3: one year, but when when the guards wanted to get
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Speaker 3: to the next level and block them, it was a mismatch.
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Speaker 3: So remember mismatches worked both ways. Irene and Falls Church,
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Speaker 3: Virginia is next.
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Speaker 9: Hey, good morning, how you doing there?
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Speaker 3: How are you.
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Speaker 10: All right?
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Speaker 9: Looking at Cardinals. You know, we got Kyler Murray with
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Speaker 9: his runs. He's had at least twenty five yards per
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Speaker 9: game each of the games he's played this year, so
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Speaker 9: I always have to look out for that. That hasn't
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Speaker 9: killed us as much this year since the first game
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Speaker 9: of the season, so maybe we can contain it.
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Speaker 11: I don't know, but their offense isn't that amazing, although
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Speaker 11: I will say when I was looking at fantasy football
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Speaker 11: waiver wires for running backs, Bam Knight apparently is emerging.
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Speaker 9: So I hope that's not the Bam Knight breakout game
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Speaker 9: of the year, you know whatever. On running for running,
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Speaker 9: but what we'll see with our defense on their end,
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Speaker 9: their defense, I mean, I wish we were nineteenth in
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Speaker 9: the league. They're nineteenths in the league.
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Speaker 12: They don't.
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Speaker 9: They're a third worst pass rushing team, So I think
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Speaker 9: that Dak will drop them down in the rankings. I
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Speaker 9: think he's gonna have a clean pocket put up the yards.
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Speaker 5: I guess I'll give it.
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Speaker 9: I think it's gonna be I think this will be
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Speaker 9: another like thirty five. I don't like thirty eight. Let's
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Speaker 9: give him thirty eight to twenty seven Cowboys.
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Speaker 3: All right, thanks, the average goes down. Remember this team
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Speaker 3: scored forty points in each of the three home games
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Speaker 3: this year, so thirty eight twenty seven would be still
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Speaker 3: pretty good and probably would keep the average at forty.
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Speaker 3: Maybe I don't know about that math, but I think so.
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Speaker 3: I think it would still be around forty. But you know,
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Speaker 3: with this defense, I mean there's been games we've seen
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Speaker 3: thirty eight points wouldn't win two of the games in
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Speaker 3: regulation this year, so we I take that back. I
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Speaker 3: guess it was thirty seven, thirty seven against the Packers,
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Speaker 3: so they would have won. But uh, you know my
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Speaker 3: point there, I mean, thirty you got to score points
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Speaker 3: with this defense.
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Speaker 8: We know that.
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Speaker 3: And and Ireen was talking about how, you know, the
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Speaker 3: offense for the Cardinals hasn't been that great and there's
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Speaker 3: there's a few teams, you know, I mean denver Den,
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Speaker 3: I mean Sean Payton was I mean, the storyline going
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Speaker 3: into the Broncos game was, is Sean Payton gonna give
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Speaker 3: up the the play calling duties? That's how that's how
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Speaker 3: bad it's gotten. And he said, no, he's gonna They're
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Speaker 3: gonna stick with that, but they're gonna make some big changes,
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Speaker 3: So I mean that's where their offense was at the time.
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Speaker 3: So you know, the Cowboys have been a get right
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Speaker 3: game obviously for a lot of offenses. So with a
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Speaker 3: with a week off, for the Cardinals to just look
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Speaker 3: at this and look at what they're doing, Uh yeah,
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Speaker 3: I expect them to come in and give the Cowboys
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Speaker 3: a lot of problems, just like every other offense has
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Speaker 3: this year. Josh and Princeton, Texas's next.
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Speaker 7: Hey, Nicky, Josh, Hey, I have no idea what to
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Speaker 7: think about this game. Haven't had great experiences recently, so
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Speaker 7: I want to play along with the fantasy game that
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Speaker 7: your dad came up with. Yeah, and I can give.
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Speaker 13: You mine real quick.
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Speaker 3: Okay, let's do it quick, because that's it's eleven. It's
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Speaker 3: eleven people, but let's let's do it quick. What do
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Speaker 3: you got?
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Speaker 7: Okay, I'm an just name Moore?
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 14: On offense, I got Romo, Emitt Smith, Dad Bryant, C
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Speaker 14: d Lamb, tight end, Jayan noverchecked offensive line, Terrence Smith,
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Speaker 14: Barry Allen Travis, Frederick, Nate Newton, Eric Williams. On defense,
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Speaker 14: I got Michael and Charge Haley, Jay Radlift and Leon
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Speaker 14: lett I got Dion and Trayvon as my corners, Darren
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Speaker 14: Woodson and Charlie Waters as my safeties and linebacker. I
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Speaker 14: have Sean Lee, dat Wynn and Ken Norton.
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Speaker 7: Nice.
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Speaker 3: Okay, good stuff. Who's your kicker?
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Speaker 7: All right?
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Speaker 3: Sounds good? All right, all good?
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Speaker 15: All right?
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Speaker 3: Josh, appreciate that. You know that that's a that's a
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Speaker 3: fun game, and especially if you do it like that,
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Speaker 3: I mean, like because it's gonna come down to how
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Speaker 3: old you know people are and what they've seen what
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Speaker 3: they haven't seen. Obviously, Josh seems to be a little
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Speaker 3: bit younger generation. Now Charlie Waters makes the list, So
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Speaker 3: I'll give you a lot of credit for that. As
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Speaker 3: far as you know, mixing it up a little bit,
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Speaker 3: I don't know, leon Lett Ratliffe, I mean you know
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Speaker 3: that's where I was like, Okay, those are great, great
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Speaker 3: picks you made me. Maybe you didn't see Bob Lily
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Speaker 3: and Randy White. I didn't see Bob Lilly, I saw
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Speaker 3: Randy White. But I love I love this perspective because
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Speaker 3: that's kind of that's kind of what it is, and
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Speaker 3: you can't go wrong. That's one of these things. These
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Speaker 3: are great because it's undefeated. You're not going to be wrong,
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Speaker 3: you know, but there's some that's a really good defense.
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Speaker 3: And I and I see some some great players, you know,
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Speaker 3: the DeMarcus Wears and Randy White, Bob Lily, any of
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Speaker 3: your linebackers really on Lee Roy Jordan. I mean, got
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Speaker 3: a lot of Ring of Honor Hall of Famers not
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Speaker 3: in there. That's what makes this thing good because it's
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Speaker 3: a it's fun. But I but I don't think we're
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Speaker 3: gonna We're not gonna do that for the re call
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Speaker 3: because that's one of those things. It takes a little
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Speaker 3: bit of time. But that's good. Thanks for doing that, Josh,
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Speaker 3: you got at that end. Today, let's go to Big
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Speaker 3: Mo in California. Big Mo.
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Speaker 4: Hey, it's Big Mo from CALLI. Man, how you doing today?
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Speaker 3: I'm good man, How are you?
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Speaker 4: I'm doing okay?
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Speaker 5: Man?
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Speaker 4: Hey listen. You know I've been looking at tape and
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Speaker 4: you know, at the end of the day, these guys
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Speaker 4: are professional players, and it looks to me like they're
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Speaker 4: not buying into this scheme. You know, they look lost
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Speaker 4: their There are two steps behind the offense out there,
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Speaker 4: and I just want your thoughts on.
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Speaker 12: Has Eberflus lost the defensive locker room.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and my yeah.
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Speaker 4: And my second point would be, do you think this defense.
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Speaker 12: At some times should maybe consider going to a five
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Speaker 12: man line to help stop the run. And also, you know,
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Speaker 12: maybe put deron bland On Arizona's number one receiver and
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Speaker 12: roll the coverage to the other guys. And I'll get
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Speaker 12: your thoughts on that and watch you next time.
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Speaker 3: All right, appreciate that. You know, somebody mentioned that to
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Speaker 3: me the other day as well, and I thought, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I hadn't even thought about that, but like bland On,
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Speaker 3: Courtland Sutton or somebody like that, that sounds good. And
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Speaker 3: and this is where this is. This is probably not
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Speaker 3: good for Cowboy fans to hear because they just paid
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Speaker 3: him a lot of money. I don't know if he's
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Speaker 3: that corner. I mean, I'm he's a good corner. He's
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Speaker 3: a really good corner, and he's and he's made it,
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Speaker 3: and he's a playmaking type corner. But I don't know
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Speaker 3: if there is a shutdown corner and you don't see
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Speaker 3: it happen a lot. And and you know, credit credit
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Speaker 3: Denver for being able to do it for a while
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Speaker 3: there with with Sutton on on pickings and and then
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Speaker 3: they they didn't let CD really burn him at all.
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Speaker 3: So that that's that's a great defensive scheme there. Uh,
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Speaker 3: there's been so much in and out of this defense
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Speaker 3: that to go back to your question of has eber
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Speaker 3: Flus lost the defense, I mean he's lost the players
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Speaker 3: like that he thought he was going to have. I mean,
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Speaker 3: that's that's what he's lost. I don't think he's lost
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Speaker 3: them as far as them buying in. I just think
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Speaker 3: that that it has been a carousel so much of
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Speaker 3: this guy's been coming in here and then this guy,
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Speaker 3: and now we're moving this safety to the corner, and
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Speaker 3: and and that he's on the practice squad. Now he's elevated,
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Speaker 3: Now he's up. Now, you know. I mean Zion Childrens
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Speaker 3: goes to the Texans, he come back, and he's probably
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Speaker 3: gonna have to play this week. There's so many things
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Speaker 3: moving parts going on, and it's not in a good way.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you're losing some really really key players. I
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Speaker 3: don't think they they I don't think they're not buying in.
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Speaker 3: I don't think he's lost them. I think it's it's
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Speaker 3: just been it's been a it was an uphill battle
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Speaker 3: from the start. This year. It was an uphill battle.
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Speaker 3: If Michael was on the team, then he's not on
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Speaker 3: the team. And and they have not replaced them. And
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Speaker 3: that's that's just the quarterback sits there for too long.
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Speaker 3: So we we look at it and go, man, who's
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Speaker 3: whose guy is this? It's it's nobody's guy. I mean, like,
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Speaker 3: like the quarterback had six seconds, so of course he's
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Speaker 3: gonna get open. I mean, and so and I'm not
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Speaker 3: saying there's no bus. I'm not saying that they have
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Speaker 3: not done a good job. It doesn't look like they practice.
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Speaker 3: I get all that, you're you're not wrong and all that.
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Speaker 3: This is an excuses. It's just saying that that. I
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Speaker 3: don't think he's lost the team, I think or the defense.
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Speaker 3: I think he's lost too many key players to make
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Speaker 3: this work. And and it's just it's been a bad mix.
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Speaker 3: It's just there's no other way around. It's been a
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Speaker 3: bad mix. All right. Ali, He's next. Ali? Where you
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Speaker 3: at Portugal?
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Speaker 15: Good morning there?
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Speaker 10: Yes, it's not very Portugal. Have you been there?
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Speaker 3: No? Just kidd if if the Cowboys haven't played there,
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Speaker 3: I haven't been there. No, I have not been there.
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Speaker 3: But man, it sounds nice.
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Speaker 10: Is there January of everybody to have the biggest surf
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Speaker 10: contest to have one hundred foot waves, people that come
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Speaker 10: all the big surfaces that come from all over the world,
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Speaker 10: and it looks like a joint mountain the surf right down.
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Speaker 10: So I'm here a little good practice shot, but I've
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Speaker 10: gotta take for you, and I have a question. Okay,
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Speaker 10: I'm gonna give a shout out to all the storyliners,
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Speaker 10: because truly is not easy to be a Cowboys fan
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Speaker 10: go up and down every week.
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Speaker 12: I'm not a coach.
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Speaker 10: I can judge the defensive coordinators and all that that's
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Speaker 10: above my pay grade. But sitting in my little room yesterday,
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Speaker 10: I tried to figure out if I can pinpoints, see
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Speaker 10: if you agree with it. Since twenty seventeen, only first
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Speaker 10: round and the second round draft picks, we only have
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Speaker 10: three people, three players on our team that CV Dicks
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Speaker 10: and Tyler Smith, and most of them don't not even
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Speaker 10: with the team or.
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Speaker 8: At the best our average.
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Speaker 10: So I'm saying to myself the lack of producing every year,
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Speaker 10: maybe one or two, I mean lower level, the lower draphtics,
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Speaker 10: we do good, but I don't know if the pro
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Speaker 10: scout or national scout or front office. I think we
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Speaker 10: should do a lot better, so we supply just live
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Speaker 10: better play every year. That's not including Michael Parson Marsa
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Speaker 10: being traded them. But I want to see your take,
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Speaker 10: what you think just the first and the second round
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Speaker 10: be emphasized that we only every year you have fifteen
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Speaker 10: or sixteen first rounders, So just trying to trade the
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Speaker 10: second round and get some sure bets versus mediocracy. Love you, brother,
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Speaker 10: I will talk to you later.
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Speaker 3: All right, thank you? All right, Ollie, be safe wherever
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Speaker 3: you are, Portugal. But wherever you're going sounds like you're
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Speaker 3: over the all over the map. I think I'm understanding,
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Speaker 3: I mean understanding. What you're saying is you're not drafting
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Speaker 3: that well past the first round, so why not load
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Speaker 3: up and get some first guys with first round grades?
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Speaker 3: And that is the key. I mean, like some year's
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Speaker 3: first round talent, there's about you know what they would
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Speaker 3: call first round grades about fifteen seventeen, sometimes sometimes twelve thirteen,
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Speaker 3: and uh, you know you're not gonna always get that.
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Speaker 3: Even if you're drafted in in the twenties, you're still
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Speaker 3: gonna get it's a first round pick. But it's not
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Speaker 3: necessarily you know, what they consider to have a first
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Speaker 3: round grade happens, happens a lot. You know that they
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Speaker 3: don't if they picked two guys the next year, that
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Speaker 3: they probably won't have two first round grades. I would
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Speaker 3: imagine they have one. But uh, and I think to
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Speaker 3: all these point is to you know, make sure you know,
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Speaker 3: package some things up, package your second package, your first
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Speaker 3: move up. Uh, don't be sitting there on the borderline
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Speaker 3: of eighteen nineteen twenty and get getting the top fifteen,
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Speaker 3: getting the top twelve. Yeah, I mean, and that's that's fair.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's fair to say. I think going back
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Speaker 3: and looking at the draft, I mean, I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 3: they told us that Tyler Smith had a first round grade,
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Speaker 3: that they had a first round grade on Tyler Smith.
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Speaker 3: Nobody believed that. No one thought, No, wasn't even I mean,
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of the draft experts that covered everything
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Speaker 3: that had him in the third round. I know there
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Speaker 3: was a lot of scrambling going on on draft day
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Speaker 3: that year, when when you know, words started coming out
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Speaker 3: like who you know, who are you gonna take? And
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Speaker 3: I remember fitting, well, I'm gonna take this Tyler Smith
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Speaker 3: out of Tulsa, and I remember we had some some
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Speaker 3: people around here that that didn't have him rated that high.
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Speaker 3: There's some scrambling going on. But but but they they
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Speaker 3: had him as a first round pick. Males Smith was
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Speaker 3: not did not have first round grade. I don't believe
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Speaker 3: Goeyton did, either Booker or twelve. Obviously he did. Uh,
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Speaker 3: So you know it's uh that's where that's kind of
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Speaker 3: where it is. But still draft, you know, second round,
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Speaker 3: third round, fourth round, that that's that's kind of where
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Speaker 3: the problem is as well as you know, I look
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Speaker 3: at the third round. The third round to me is
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Speaker 3: why this team hasn't been that great. You know in
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Speaker 3: the draft. Third round is where do you expect him
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Speaker 3: to be a starter or No. I mean you can
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Speaker 3: go back the last ten years or so, and I'm
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Speaker 3: looking at Chaz Green, Malik Collins, Jordan Lewis. That was
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Speaker 3: a good pick, Michael Gallup, Yeah, Connor mcgovernor, Neville Gallimore, Osa,
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Speaker 3: Chauncey Golston, nay Sean Wright. I mean that's that was solid.
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Speaker 3: I guess with Osa, Jalen Tolbert, Overshown bbe so revel.
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Speaker 3: We'll see, we'll see. But that's to me where those
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Speaker 3: are some solid players, but you're not. I don't think
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Speaker 3: any of those guys have made a Pro Bowl. And
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Speaker 3: that's asking a lot for a third round pick, but
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Speaker 3: that's kind of why teams get to where they are.
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Speaker 3: I think you have to steal something. Now, I picked
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Speaker 3: the third round. I could have gone with the fourth round.
18:52
Speaker 3: The fourth round there have been some success. I mean,
18:55
Speaker 3: how many guys have been franchised out of the fourth
18:57
Speaker 3: round for the Cowboys? I mean Dak twice, Elton Schultz
19:00
Speaker 3: was franchised. I mean yeah, I mean I think I'm
19:05
Speaker 3: missing somebody here that for sure. Pollard maybe, I mean
19:08
Speaker 3: like they they you know. And then Jake Ferguson's been
19:10
Speaker 3: really good. So fourth round has been a better round.
19:13
Speaker 3: But the third round is one of those where you
19:15
Speaker 3: kind of just expect that once in a while they're
19:18
Speaker 3: gonna hit big and they just haven't yet. They're all right,
19:21
Speaker 3: let's go Randy in San Antonio.
19:25
Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, how are you doing, sir?
19:27
Speaker 3: Good? How are you?
19:29
Speaker 6: I'm doing well? Love the show. Nick Gedle hasn't allowed
19:32
Speaker 6: me to call in as much, but love the show.
19:35
Speaker 6: Love how much of a neighborhood the storylines become so
19:39
Speaker 6: love that didn't want to weigh in. I would really
19:42
Speaker 6: like to see a trade. I love the draft, so
19:45
Speaker 6: draft capital cum draft I love. But right now, if
19:49
Speaker 6: you tell me you don't make a trade, you're saying,
19:52
Speaker 6: after eight weeks of what we've seen that the defense
19:55
Speaker 6: is fine if you don't do anything. And I know
19:57
Speaker 6: you have to have trade partners. You know, I don't
20:01
Speaker 6: need to see the first round, but do something to
20:04
Speaker 6: show you're trying to make it better this year. Yeah,
20:07
Speaker 6: that's what I'd like to see. And then real quick,
20:10
Speaker 6: I won't do the offense, but I wanted to weigh
20:11
Speaker 6: in on my fantasy storyline defense. So I'll go Lily
20:16
Speaker 6: and White will be my tackles. I'm going Hayley and
20:20
Speaker 6: Harvey Martin as my ends. I'm going Chuck Halley at linebacker,
20:25
Speaker 6: with Sean Lee playing my week's side. I couldn't think
20:28
Speaker 6: of who to play strong side. I know he ended
20:29
Speaker 6: up in the middle, but I'll go Ken Norton Junior
20:32
Speaker 6: playing my strong side linebacker. I know eventually he moved
20:35
Speaker 6: to the middle permanently, but that gives me three great linebackers.
20:38
Speaker 6: And then I'll take Dion and Everson as my corners
20:42
Speaker 6: and Woodson and Waters as my safeties.
20:45
Speaker 3: Nice, all right, I like it. That's good stuff, Manath,
20:50
Speaker 3: thanks for the call. Just just so you know, you know,
20:53
Speaker 3: I've said this all the time. You know, like opinions
20:55
Speaker 3: are undefeated around here and all that true. But if
20:59
Speaker 3: we're doing a team here, I mean, better just pick
21:02
Speaker 3: one safety because other one's locked in. I'm not locking
21:05
Speaker 3: in any other position, no other position. Take any quarterback
21:08
Speaker 3: you want, any running back, and the receiver. I tell
21:11
Speaker 3: you this, there's only one safety available for this spot
21:15
Speaker 3: because I mean, nobody else is sat in this chair.
21:18
Speaker 3: So Woodson's come here several times. Woodson's on the team.
21:21
Speaker 4: Now.
21:22
Speaker 3: Luckily, I think the three people that have turned theirs in,
21:24
Speaker 3: I'm out. This isn't a project. I'm not saying turn
21:26
Speaker 3: it in. The three people that have have given their
21:30
Speaker 3: answers all have had Woodson. And if I hear one
21:33
Speaker 3: that doesn't have Woodson and be like what I didn't
21:35
Speaker 3: hear you, you're missing a spot here. Darren Woodson's on
21:38
Speaker 3: the team. That's the only picture that I've that I've
21:40
Speaker 3: got in there. Good stuff though, a lot of fun
21:42
Speaker 3: to do that. Let's go to break real quick. On
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24:19
Speaker 19: Good morning, Nick. How are you doing today?
24:21
Speaker 3: Kin, sir, I'm good. Thank you for asking.
24:24
Speaker 19: That's good. I'm glad to hear that.
24:26
Speaker 5: Hey.
24:28
Speaker 19: My prediction for tomorrow, or my prediction in case I
24:31
Speaker 19: don't get in tomorrow is thirty twenty seven Dallas, okay.
24:35
Speaker 19: And then Brian from Casey brought this up. He was
24:38
Speaker 19: on the break the other day. He was talking about
24:41
Speaker 19: maybe the lack of communication is Murray the one that
24:45
Speaker 19: has the green dot.
24:46
Speaker 8: Maybe he's not.
24:47
Speaker 19: Communicating what E reflus once on the defense, Maybe he's
24:53
Speaker 19: not communicat kting right may He said, maybe we should
24:56
Speaker 19: give that green dot to somebody else.
24:58
Speaker 4: What do you think?
25:00
Speaker 3: Ah, I'm fine with that. I mean, I mean there's
25:03
Speaker 3: more to it than just saying all right, well you
25:05
Speaker 3: know now you have it. I mean, like, because the
25:08
Speaker 3: position that you play is also kind of where you
25:11
Speaker 3: know you would want those calls to come from. So
25:14
Speaker 3: it's not just about switching helmets so much, but it
25:18
Speaker 3: could happen, and a bye week is a time where
25:21
Speaker 3: where that that could happen. I'm just reluctant to say
25:26
Speaker 3: everything goes back to overshown, you know, I don't. I
25:28
Speaker 3: don't think he's gonna play at that level. Not at
25:31
Speaker 3: that level. He's not gonna play that much to you know,
25:34
Speaker 3: to start off with, to say, all right, you're taking
25:37
Speaker 3: all these responsibilities. He just needs to ease in there
25:40
Speaker 3: and play. So I don't know if he's if he's
25:41
Speaker 3: the guy for it. And you know, I don't know
25:45
Speaker 3: if we're too far removed from Sandborn coming back and
25:49
Speaker 3: playing some I mean, he was leading the team in tackles.
25:51
Speaker 3: I know he wasn't setting the world on fire or
25:54
Speaker 3: anything like that, but I mean he was playing, you know,
25:57
Speaker 3: just as good as anybody else. And maybe maybe that
26:00
Speaker 3: that's a situation that they could go roll back into.
26:03
Speaker 3: But you know, whatever you do, whatever you give that
26:07
Speaker 3: that duty to whoever you're playing in there, you've got
26:10
Speaker 3: some issues. Nobody's perfect. Murray Sanborn, smart James, He's not perfect.
26:15
Speaker 3: They're over shown. He's not going to be you know,
26:18
Speaker 3: ready to be to play all those snaps that got
26:21
Speaker 3: to keep him on a pitch town a little bit.
26:22
Speaker 3: So you know, that's that's one of those words. It's
26:26
Speaker 3: gonna be a little bit before I think Overshown is
26:30
Speaker 3: a you know, one hundred percent of the snaps type
26:33
Speaker 3: of guy. So all right, Robin Vegas is next?
26:36
Speaker 20: Hey? Nick?
26:37
Speaker 3: Hey, Rob?
26:39
Speaker 21: Well he did it, Nick, he said the quiet pot
26:43
Speaker 21: out loud. Oh, mister Jerry Jones, something that me and
26:48
Speaker 21: you been going back and forth on for years.
26:51
Speaker 3: What do you say?
26:52
Speaker 11: Oh?
26:52
Speaker 21: I always I always, well you said, he said. He
26:55
Speaker 21: basically said, the Cowboys are my number one priority, uh,
27:00
Speaker 21: oil and gases. And I always said, this guy is
27:06
Speaker 21: He said that he just invested a billion dollars into
27:10
Speaker 21: oil and gas and and he says, that's why I'm
27:14
Speaker 21: talking to you, and I'm not trying to fix the
27:19
Speaker 21: Dallas Cowboys defense. And I know it sounds tongue in cheap,
27:23
Speaker 21: but it's the truth. And that's you know, I've said
27:26
Speaker 21: this for years. The man is a businessman. Oh, every
27:29
Speaker 21: owner is a businessman. The difference is most owners hire
27:33
Speaker 21: people to run the football team, but Jerry doesn't. This
27:40
Speaker 21: is his fantasy football team. And in the beginning when
27:44
Speaker 21: he invested one hundred and forty million, Yeah, he gave
27:46
Speaker 21: it his all. He was all hands on, whatever it
27:49
Speaker 21: takes to win, let's do it. I gotta make money. Well,
27:52
Speaker 21: that mission has accomplished.
27:53
Speaker 4: It's a level he made.
27:54
Speaker 21: It's the team's worth eleven billion. And now he's moved
27:57
Speaker 21: on to other stuff. And now when you invest a
27:59
Speaker 21: billion dollars into oil and gas, that's going to be
28:03
Speaker 21: your number one priority because he said he could turn
28:05
Speaker 21: that billion into a hundred billion. So i'm you know,
28:09
Speaker 21: and that's why as a fan and the players.
28:13
Speaker 3: That's why I can't stop the run.
28:15
Speaker 21: I mean no, but yes, that is why they can't
28:17
Speaker 21: stop the run because the man doesn't is not trying
28:21
Speaker 21: to win a championship. He is not trying to build
28:24
Speaker 21: a championship caliber team. I'm sorry. At eighty something years old,
28:29
Speaker 21: you can't be concentrating on both. If you were going
28:32
Speaker 21: to hire somebody for your company and you told the guy,
28:35
Speaker 21: you know, over time is required, and the guy said, well,
28:40
Speaker 21: I can't work over time because I have another job
28:42
Speaker 21: I have to go to. You wouldn't hire him because
28:44
Speaker 21: you want somebody to give one hundred percent to your company. Well,
28:48
Speaker 21: Jerry's not giving one hundred percent. You cannot And I'm
28:53
Speaker 21: sorry that that's terrible for US fans. It's it's and
28:56
Speaker 21: it's bad for the players. And the best thing he
28:59
Speaker 21: can do is step down and let actually other people
29:03
Speaker 21: run it. But he will not do that. And he
29:06
Speaker 21: just said the choiet part out loud. And I always
29:09
Speaker 21: said he's he he would like to win. He just
29:13
Speaker 21: doesn't want to do what it takes to it. He
29:15
Speaker 21: wants to look into it. And you're seeing that. I
29:19
Speaker 21: don't see him doing anything at the trade deadline that
29:22
Speaker 21: would that should have been done already. He should have
29:24
Speaker 21: made that move already. He's going to wait till where
29:28
Speaker 21: a couple of games back and he's going to say,
29:31
Speaker 21: I'll hold on to the picks. And why because he
29:33
Speaker 21: doesn't want to take on these contracts. He rather draft
29:35
Speaker 21: guys he has control for four or five years and
29:40
Speaker 21: you know, doesn't have to pay them big contracts. And
29:42
Speaker 21: then unfortunately when the superstars come up, he kind of
29:47
Speaker 21: reluctant to pay. Look what he did with Micah. You know,
29:50
Speaker 21: he has no problem playing paying. Like you said, Deron Bland,
29:54
Speaker 21: who is a good player, but he's not a great player.
29:57
Speaker 21: Osa you know, good player, but he doesn't you know,
30:02
Speaker 21: Like I said, it's not his number one priority, and
30:04
Speaker 21: he just said it out loud, and as I said,
30:07
Speaker 21: it just sucks.
30:09
Speaker 3: All right, Thanks for the call, Rob. Let's go to
30:14
Speaker 3: a jr. In Evandale Arizona. Hold on right, Jr. What's up?
30:21
Speaker 6: Hey?
30:22
Speaker 5: Good morning, Nick? How's everything in Dallas's good?
30:25
Speaker 3: How are you all right?
30:26
Speaker 5: A little bit more optimistic than I've been, I guess
30:30
Speaker 5: because I'm just an optimistic person. So the Cowboys are
30:33
Speaker 5: in the playoffs. The actually they every game is a
30:36
Speaker 5: playoff game now if they want to actually make it
30:39
Speaker 5: to the postseason, So they have to win probably at
30:43
Speaker 5: least seven more games, That's what I think.
30:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, I seven out of nine.
30:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, everyone trying to hit on the points I was
30:54
Speaker 5: going to make. I watched I was watching the Chiefs
30:57
Speaker 5: game and watching Bolton and channel play and hears Shtel
31:01
Speaker 5: screaming out crack crack, because you saw that toss crack
31:05
Speaker 5: coming from the Commanders And just don't ever hear that
31:09
Speaker 5: for the Cowboys. No one's calling that I and I
31:13
Speaker 5: was it the Kansas City friend about Murray and the
31:18
Speaker 5: green dot and I completely agree with that, but also
31:21
Speaker 5: you don't have Hooker. Hooker's not out there, and Wilson's
31:24
Speaker 5: not out there, and just no experience on the defense.
31:28
Speaker 5: I don't think they're helping it helping the defense as
31:31
Speaker 5: a whole out. If you look at the offense, the
31:33
Speaker 5: green dot guy in the offense, he sees everything, he's
31:37
Speaker 5: moving people around to making decisions, and I just don't
31:41
Speaker 5: see that happening on our defense. And I don't think
31:43
Speaker 5: it's going to get better. We just have to outscore everybody.
31:46
Speaker 7: That's how I feel.
31:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's and that's the way it's happened for
31:50
Speaker 3: the wins that they've had, they have outscored people. You know,
31:54
Speaker 3: this isn't a twenty to seventeen type team that's gonna
31:57
Speaker 3: win some games like that. I don't see that.
32:00
Speaker 5: And you know what I don't see. I was watching.
32:02
Speaker 5: I don't even know what game it was, so I
32:04
Speaker 5: watched way too much football. The linebacker runs up and
32:07
Speaker 5: moves physically moves the defensive path of over because that's
32:10
Speaker 5: where the play is going. And I just don't ever
32:12
Speaker 5: see that from our guys. And I don't know why
32:16
Speaker 5: that is, but I think we need when that and
32:19
Speaker 5: Overshown won't share that problem. But we got the best
32:23
Speaker 5: we can and hopefully we can get better. That's all
32:27
Speaker 5: I got. Had a great day and go Cowboys.
32:28
Speaker 3: All right, thanks appreciate that. Uh yeah, I mean that's
32:33
Speaker 3: not sounded It sounded optimistic. You said optimistic to start
32:38
Speaker 3: the call, but uh but yeah, no, I hear you.
32:41
Speaker 3: The defense is just it's so alarming that you don't
32:46
Speaker 3: even you don't expect it to be, like, you don't
32:49
Speaker 3: expect the way. Well, if this guy comes back, this
32:51
Speaker 3: guy comes back, and we can you know, see this
32:54
Speaker 3: this happening. No, not not really, I don't. I don't
32:59
Speaker 3: expect Overshowing to fix a lot of things. I mean,
33:01
Speaker 3: I mean, I think he's a better player than what
33:03
Speaker 3: you have, but I think it's going to take some
33:05
Speaker 3: time revel I can't imagine him doing a whole lot
33:10
Speaker 3: this year. I mean, he hasn't played football since Week
33:12
Speaker 3: three of East Carolina season last year, so you know,
33:16
Speaker 3: there was a lot of projections that he is a
33:18
Speaker 3: first round type player, but we still have to see
33:21
Speaker 3: that and he had you know, he has, he's been out,
33:24
Speaker 3: so I don't I hear them say like help on
33:27
Speaker 3: the way. I don't necessarily see that like where the
33:31
Speaker 3: where the help is? It's not stuff of guys getting
33:34
Speaker 3: you know, injured coming back the safeties those guys like, yeah,
33:38
Speaker 3: they're better than the others. But it's not like Malie
33:41
Speaker 3: Cooker and and Donovan Wilson haven't been criticized for their
33:45
Speaker 3: play when they are healthy. So just them coming back
33:48
Speaker 3: is certainly going to cure everything. It's a it's a
33:52
Speaker 3: problem on defense, and and you're asking your offense to
33:55
Speaker 3: do you know, to just be absolutely perfect, and they're
33:59
Speaker 3: just not able to do that all the time, all right,
34:04
Speaker 3: you know. And and to go back to Rob, I
34:07
Speaker 3: don't have an answer for that quote. I don't know.
34:09
Speaker 3: I didn't see it obviously, you know, until I mean
34:13
Speaker 3: or obviously didn't hear it, you know, so you know,
34:16
Speaker 3: whether it was a joke or not, I mean, I
34:18
Speaker 3: don't know. I think what it shows though, and that
34:22
Speaker 3: you know, there's there's other there's other people that are
34:25
Speaker 3: doing more of the things here. I mean, that's that
34:28
Speaker 3: is certainly happening here. I mean, so you know, Jerry
34:32
Speaker 3: is the owner, no doubt about it. He's and he's
34:35
Speaker 3: the you know, the general manager. But as far as
34:39
Speaker 3: you know the day to day making the moves and
34:41
Speaker 3: the decisions and all that, I think I think we
34:43
Speaker 3: know and we've seen that over the time that you know,
34:46
Speaker 3: it's Steven Jones is doing most of that. Will McLay
34:51
Speaker 3: as well, so those guys and they're all doing stuff.
34:55
Speaker 3: You know, we don't know what's happening behind the scenes
34:57
Speaker 3: and all that. But I think don't really believe that
35:01
Speaker 3: quote as being true. And if it, if there is
35:05
Speaker 3: some truth to it, then I think it goes to
35:07
Speaker 3: show just just where just who's doing what around here,
35:11
Speaker 3: uh with the cowboys. So but again we're all just
35:15
Speaker 3: would just speculate and I and I get it. I mean,
35:18
Speaker 3: there are certain people fans, you know, callers on this show,
35:21
Speaker 3: media members, any chance if they could rip Jerry, they'll
35:24
Speaker 3: they'll do it, you know, and that and that's that's
35:27
Speaker 3: what happens. And it's a bad week to say it
35:29
Speaker 3: too after a loss. You can say it after a
35:30
Speaker 3: win because we know how these fans are, especially the one,
35:34
Speaker 3: you know, our captain. I mean, there's no more roller
35:36
Speaker 3: coaster than than Rob So and that's what being a
35:40
Speaker 3: Dallas cowboy fan is all right, Zach in Germany's next?
35:44
Speaker 5: Nick?
35:45
Speaker 3: You all right? I'm good? How are you good?
35:48
Speaker 15: That's fun to rip Jerry for a second. Kidding whatever,
35:52
Speaker 15: What I really want to talk about? So I saw
35:55
Speaker 15: something the other day Marcus Moser a post that it
35:58
Speaker 15: was related to our defense, right, And what it was
36:01
Speaker 15: referring to is over the last six or seven seasons,
36:05
Speaker 15: there's only one player that we actually drafted under the
36:09
Speaker 15: consensus average draft position for that player's capital, and it
36:13
Speaker 15: was Micah Parsons. I looked through the stat line and
36:17
Speaker 15: what it's basically referring to is we tend to overreach
36:20
Speaker 15: on those players and most of them haven't worked out.
36:23
Speaker 15: Not all because you can you can add guys like
36:25
Speaker 15: Bland or maybe Osa in there that that have. But
36:29
Speaker 15: do you think that there's a different strategy we need
36:33
Speaker 15: to approach when it comes to those players. I look
36:35
Speaker 15: at defensive tackles a great example. I've said at the
36:37
Speaker 15: last few seasons when I called in, we just cannot
36:40
Speaker 15: draft that position. Well, one, do you think we need
36:43
Speaker 15: to do to fix drafting when it comes to defensive players?
36:47
Speaker 15: And then the second question I had do you see
36:49
Speaker 15: us being buyers or sellers or are we going to
36:52
Speaker 15: stay put when it comes to the trade deadline. What
36:54
Speaker 15: is your opinion on.
36:55
Speaker 3: Well, I'll say this, I because I got you know,
37:00
Speaker 3: we've got nine games of this and we're doing this show,
37:03
Speaker 3: you know what, fifty more times. I want them to
37:07
Speaker 3: be buyers. I don't want. I don't want. I'm not
37:10
Speaker 3: not interested in every single week going through, you know,
37:13
Speaker 3: and this team struggling, and then we talk about the
37:16
Speaker 3: Vikings game, the Chargers game and all that, when all
37:19
Speaker 3: people really want to talk about is this guy looks
37:22
Speaker 3: pretty good at this college and he could be drafted
37:25
Speaker 3: in the top ten. And I hope that we lose
37:27
Speaker 3: games because I want to have a better pick. I
37:30
Speaker 3: hate all that stuff. So I want them to be buyers.
37:32
Speaker 3: I want them to to kind of, you know, you know, compete.
37:36
Speaker 3: I mean, do what your what your signs say, what
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Speaker 3: your t shirts say, what your backpacks say, and all
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Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. You know, if you want to
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Speaker 3: compete every day, then compete every day. Compete every day.
37:47
Speaker 3: And that's why I think the biggest problem is is
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Speaker 3: it doesn't look like they're competing on Wednesday and Thursday
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Speaker 3: and Friday. It doesn't. It doesn't look like it. It
37:55
Speaker 3: doesn't look like we've got the great practices out there
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Speaker 3: where you know, the off is given it to the defense,
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Speaker 3: but then the defense comes back. Now, we don't see
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Speaker 3: that happening because it doesn't translate that way. Man, I honestly,
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Speaker 3: we're not allowed to watch practice. How bad do you
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Speaker 3: think that is? Seriously, your first team offense going up
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Speaker 3: against your second team, now the second team defense, not
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Speaker 3: the guys that are starting on this defense, second team.
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Speaker 3: How bad do you think that is every every day
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Speaker 3: in practice? It's gotta be terrible. Now, the answer another
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Speaker 3: part of your questions act about the draft. There's there's
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Speaker 3: a couple of things to this that that Again I'm
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Speaker 3: not I don't want to throw an excuse, but the
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Speaker 3: fact of the matter is is that you're drafting guys
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Speaker 3: and to develop them. But how many defensive coordinators since
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty? How many defense defensive coordinators have we seen?
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Speaker 3: I mean, it was Nolan and then he it didn't
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Speaker 3: last long obviously, and then dan Quinn that was that
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Speaker 3: was pretty good. I mean it was a really good coordinator.
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Speaker 3: But then since then we've seen a lot, we've seen changes.
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Speaker 3: You know, and you're probably gonna see more. You know,
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Speaker 3: when we talk about Zimmer and you talk about Eberflus,
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Speaker 3: just think, just think if a new coordinator comes in
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Speaker 3: next year, if that, if that does happen, I'm thinking
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Speaker 3: of an overshown that's been here since what twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, I mean overshown, I mean or twenty
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Speaker 3: twenty three for overshown. But he would have four different
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Speaker 3: coordinators in four years, because I mean you'd have Dan
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Speaker 3: Quinn and then Zimmer and then ebra Flus and if
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Speaker 3: another guy comes in then I mean. So what I'm
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Speaker 3: saying is I'm looking at the at the at the
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Speaker 3: Osa's and the Chauncey Golstons and and any of these players,
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Speaker 3: you know, Mazzie Smith, of course, I mean, yes, they
39:55
Speaker 3: they aren't as good. These guys haven't been as good
39:58
Speaker 3: because Michael Parsons could throw and other coordinators as well,
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Speaker 3: but guys that need a little bit more developing. It
40:04
Speaker 3: hasn't been a great place for defensive players to be
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Speaker 3: because there has been so much change. That's the problem.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's drafting right, it's getting the
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Speaker 3: right coordinator to come in here and fix this. I
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Speaker 3: Yetie dot Com. There, all right, Lester and Minnesota's next Leicester?
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Speaker 3: What's up man?
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Speaker 20: Good morning?
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Speaker 9: What's up?
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Speaker 11: Man?
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Speaker 7: Ah?
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Speaker 3: I'm good.
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Speaker 20: I just wanted to concur on a couple of the
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Speaker 20: callers that they're right, and then I'll put it into
42:01
Speaker 20: my perspective. I forget who it was the caller who
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Speaker 20: who ran down the draft the last ten years or
42:09
Speaker 20: whatever it was right and Rob right, And here's my perspective.
42:15
Speaker 20: I'm going to tie it all up. As I was
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Speaker 20: saying a few weeks ago, as you know, when we
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Speaker 20: had the GM question, what would you do or whatever?
42:27
Speaker 20: My thing is, you have to hire the right people
42:30
Speaker 20: and you have to stay with them. First of all,
42:32
Speaker 20: you gotta come up with a philosophy, whatever it is.
42:35
Speaker 20: You hire that person, those people, and you stick with
42:38
Speaker 20: that philosophy. As far as the draft, you know, I
42:43
Speaker 20: did some numbers here, I mean, we got thirty two
42:47
Speaker 20: teams right.
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Speaker 3: And Lester, hold on, Lester, I'm going to cut you
42:50
Speaker 3: off for a second. I want to ask you said
42:52
Speaker 3: hire you said, hire staff and keep that philosophy. What
42:58
Speaker 3: what Okay, what if that doesn't work? Because the philosophy
43:01
Speaker 3: has not changed. It's been draft, draft and maybe steal
43:07
Speaker 3: some value in free agency. That hasn't changed. They haven't
43:11
Speaker 3: gone and said this year we're gonna go big into
43:14
Speaker 3: free agency. That that doesn't happen. So the philosophy hasn't changed,
43:20
Speaker 3: and everyone's frustrated. Maybe the philosophy needs to change.
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Speaker 20: Nicks as you go along, I mean, you know, he's
43:28
Speaker 20: been a GM for about forty years, almost thirty years
43:31
Speaker 20: or whatever. As you go along, you adapt, you say, Okay,
43:33
Speaker 20: this philosophy not working. So let's start you know, doing
43:37
Speaker 20: other things a little bit more, but stick with our
43:39
Speaker 20: basic philosophy. But let's start doing this, you know, more
43:43
Speaker 20: drafted whatever it is. If we're not doing whatever that is,
43:46
Speaker 20: let's start doing it more. Okay. But so we got
43:51
Speaker 20: thirty two teams, right, and so that's roughly you know,
43:58
Speaker 20: they they get seven picks most of the time. I mean,
44:01
Speaker 20: I mean some years it's more or less whatever. So
44:04
Speaker 20: but I did the numbers. That's two hundred and twenty
44:07
Speaker 20: four picks. You know, with all the teams. Now, if
44:10
Speaker 20: you if you look at all the college players that's
44:14
Speaker 20: coming out, and if you include you know, the black
44:18
Speaker 20: colleges and and some of the players that come out
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Speaker 20: a little earlier, that's roughly about three thousand players. So
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Speaker 20: I mean, I'm just looking at this. So we can't
44:32
Speaker 20: And when I say we, I mean all the gams
44:34
Speaker 20: we can't find barn injury because we don't know about injuries.
44:37
Speaker 20: Barring that, we can't find seven picks that shifts fit
44:42
Speaker 20: whatevery system you're running. And I'm talking about all thirty
44:45
Speaker 20: two gyms. That doesn't make any sense. You've got three
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Speaker 20: thousand picks roughly you can't find you can't find five.
44:54
Speaker 20: I mean every year you should be at least find
44:56
Speaker 20: five buy an injury. We don't know about injuries. That's
45:01
Speaker 20: all I have. I want more to course BB playing
45:04
Speaker 20: this week Cowboys.
45:06
Speaker 3: I hope, So I hope he does, and I think
45:08
Speaker 3: he's on track to do that. All right, let's go.
45:12
Speaker 3: Chris and Saratoga Springs started the show. I guess he's
45:15
Speaker 3: gonna end it. Chris what's up.
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Speaker 8: I just wanted to give you my two things my
45:20
Speaker 8: fantasy defense, So I got Leroy, Jordan, Shawn Lee, Chuck
45:25
Speaker 8: Holly's my linebackers. Defensive ends, I got where and Haley
45:30
Speaker 8: the defensive tackles. I got Randy White and Bob Lilly
45:33
Speaker 8: uh safety. Obviously, Will Woodson not my other one. I'm
45:38
Speaker 8: gonna go Roy Williams. And then the DB's. I'm gonna
45:41
Speaker 8: go Dion and Everson for my DB's and my last
45:46
Speaker 8: thing real quick, as far as our draft strategy and
45:50
Speaker 8: my opinion, I think they should lean more on William
45:54
Speaker 8: mcclacause I think he's one of the best in the
45:55
Speaker 8: business is talent evaluators, instead of more leaning towards who
46:00
Speaker 8: we have at that defensive coordinator at that certain time,
46:02
Speaker 8: because we're going through the defensive coordinators a lot, in
46:05
Speaker 8: my opinion, so I think they should lean more on,
46:08
Speaker 8: you know, Will mcclay's expertise and let him do more
46:12
Speaker 8: of the picking of these players than more such as
46:14
Speaker 8: like Dan Quinn. I think I'm pretty sure he wonted
46:17
Speaker 8: Bobby Smith a lot that didn't go too well for us.
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Speaker 8: But I think they should lean on Will McClay and
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Speaker 8: give him more autonomy as far as you know, the
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Speaker 8: draft picks that we that we pick.
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Speaker 3: That's all I got, all right, And I don't know
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Speaker 3: if that that they don't do that. I mean, and
46:31
Speaker 3: you know, he he's he's in every press conference, he gets,
46:35
Speaker 3: he gets his say in things. I mean, he's a
46:37
Speaker 3: big part of it. He runs the draft meetings all
46:40
Speaker 3: of that. So he's a big part of it. To me,
46:45
Speaker 3: I just don't believe that that this locker room has
46:49
Speaker 3: a ton of guys that are just one all football
46:55
Speaker 3: all the time. And and you can argue, know based
47:00
Speaker 3: off of the quote that Rob throughout that okay, should
47:04
Speaker 3: we you know, I mean like like should we be
47:07
Speaker 3: all in and all that? I mean, can't we have
47:09
Speaker 3: other things going on to because that's that seems to
47:13
Speaker 3: be okay. But what I'm saying is is that I'm
47:17
Speaker 3: drafting players. I'm looking at players that that that you know,
47:24
Speaker 3: winning matters, it really really matters to them. And and
47:29
Speaker 3: you know, one of they just traded away a guy
47:31
Speaker 3: that that that loves you know, loves to play football.
47:34
Speaker 3: I don't know if he loves to, you know, to
47:36
Speaker 3: do everything it takes to be the greatest player, but
47:38
Speaker 3: right now he he is, and we we've seen that.
47:42
Speaker 3: You know, you can kind of get away with it
47:43
Speaker 3: for a few years, but they that's one of the
47:46
Speaker 3: things that that I you know, I wonder that that
47:49
Speaker 3: we see people say he loves football, but but I
47:53
Speaker 3: don't know if you if the guys really do all
47:55
Speaker 3: the time. And I think that's a that's a huge
47:57
Speaker 3: thing that they're looking at. When you look at all
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Speaker 3: these three thousand players that Lester's talking about, you've got
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Speaker 3: like what fifteen scouts to do it. That's one of
48:06
Speaker 3: the things that needs to be addressed a lot. You know,
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Speaker 3: captains on your on your team in college film room, study,
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Speaker 3: guys that are trying to get an edge, that are
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Speaker 3: trying to get better all the time, Guys that don't
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Speaker 3: celebrate because they make a tackle when they're down by
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Speaker 3: twenty points. You know, make sure winning matters. Because if
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Speaker 3: winning matters all the time, that it's gonna matter during
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Speaker 3: the week when they're trying to study, and it's gonna
48:30
Speaker 3: matter in the offseason when they're trying to get better.
48:32
Speaker 3: So you know, not just playing for contract, but playing
48:35
Speaker 3: to win. There's a way to play for both I
48:38
Speaker 3: really do. I mean, if you play to win and
48:40
Speaker 3: you play well, you're going to get a contract. And
48:43
Speaker 3: I and I think that and I'm not saying it's not,
48:45
Speaker 3: but I think that needs to be the number one
48:48
Speaker 3: emphasis because these guys, you get them in here, guys
48:51
Speaker 3: that absolutely love to play football, they'll figure out how to,
48:54
Speaker 3: you know, to do everything it takes to win that possession,
48:58
Speaker 3: to win that drive, to win that quarter, to win
49:00
Speaker 3: that game, and then you can win from there. But
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Speaker 3: I think the love of the football, it's not just
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Speaker 3: a cliche. It's something that needs to be addressed even
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Speaker 3: more because I think you got too many guys in
49:10
Speaker 3: here that are looking for that next contract and not
49:13
Speaker 3: necessarily looking for that next opponent that they're going to
49:16
Speaker 3: be facing. And I think I think it hurts them, honestly.
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Speaker 3: All Right, we'll do it again tomorrow on Cowboys Storyline
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Speaker 3: for Chris Beam. I'm Nick Eatman. See tomorrow.
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