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Texans and Jets and Cowboys...Oh My. · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: It's the Craig Way Show with the voice of the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Longhorns and Hall of Vaine broadcaster Craig Way.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now we shift back to the NFL off of
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  Speaker 2: college football, and we'll talk talk some National Football League action.
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  Speaker 2: Texan's playing the night against the Jets. I get the
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  Speaker 2: feeling you're probably not expecting an awful lot to come
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  Speaker 2: out of this deal. Is that the thing?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe? You know, we'll see how this Houston Texans offense looks,
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  Speaker 1: you know, no Nico Collins, no Stefon Diggs. I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people kind of expect the Jets. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is a must win game for Aaron Rodgers, no Brechton,
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  Speaker 1: this entire staff. So the Jets injuries or the Texans
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  Speaker 1: injuries pulling up? Maybe the Jets could. I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: line is New York is favorite, Craig. They are a
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  Speaker 1: two and six football team playing the Houston Texans, who
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  Speaker 1: are six and two, and New York is favored by
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  Speaker 1: two and a half points. So I think I guess
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  Speaker 1: the betting public just thinks that this is, okay, a
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  Speaker 1: must win game for New York. Injuries piling up for Houston,
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  Speaker 1: maybe the Jets get the win, but I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Jets are awful, Craig. I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people just assume that with Aaron Rodgers and
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  Speaker 1: the Fonte Adams and Brece Hall and Garrick Wilson, they'll
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  Speaker 1: figure it out. But they lost the New England Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: The New England Patriots. They lost to the New England Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: So they're gonna beat the Houston Texans.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, We'll see. I think the Texans are
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  Speaker 1: a really good football team. Maybe this is just one
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  Speaker 1: of those weird losses on a short week, but I
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  Speaker 1: just I can't fathom the Jets being favored in this
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  Speaker 1: game against the Houston Texans.
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  Speaker 2: Here's something else I want to get to get your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts on the trade deadlines coming up in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: So the deadline for deals, you know, in previous years
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  Speaker 2: came on the Tuesday following the eighth game of the
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  Speaker 2: year after Week eight, but following the offseason vote, the
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  Speaker 2: league pushed back the deadline by one week, so it
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  Speaker 2: gave teams an extra game to evaluate their roster and
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  Speaker 2: their playoff chances before deciding whether or not they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to make a move. Now here's a weird deal. The
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  Speaker 2: Bill Barnwell, who covers the NFL for ESPN, wrote a
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  Speaker 2: piece and it's kind of broken down in the categories
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  Speaker 2: one teams that clearly should add before the deadline. And
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  Speaker 2: in that group he has forty nine Ers, Bears, Bills, Chargers, Chiefs, Commanders, Eagles, Lions, Packers, Ravens, Steelers, Texans, Vikings,
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  Speaker 2: anybody left in the NFL, all right, So he lists
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  Speaker 2: all those. Then he has teams that clearly should subtract
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  Speaker 2: before the deadline, Browns, Giants, Jaguars, Panthers, Patriots, Raiders, Titans.
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  Speaker 2: So he has that and then he goes with and
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  Speaker 2: then he breaks down in the teams of big questions.
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  Speaker 2: Here's where I'm going with you on this deal. If
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  Speaker 2: you watch any of the Sports Center or NFL related programming,
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  Speaker 2: if you watch any of those things and they're talking
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  Speaker 2: about this about the player that just about all of
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  Speaker 2: them are saying hey or asking the question, Hey, well
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys make a deal. Should the Cowboys make a
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  Speaker 2: deal or the Cowboys definitely going to make a deal.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the deal maybe should be Have you seen or
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  Speaker 2: heard anything anything that would lead you to believe that
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  Speaker 2: would suggest that Jerry Jones and his staff are going
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  Speaker 2: to make a trade. No, just what I don't get.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like I always get about this that
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  Speaker 2: in the past, if the logoards were struggling in a
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  Speaker 2: given sport didn't matter the sport, football, basketball, baseball, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it was, and there might be newspaper writers or columnists
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  Speaker 2: or fan site writers or whatever who say, well, coach
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  Speaker 2: so and so should be fired. And then you would say, well,
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  Speaker 2: it isn't going to happen, because the athletic director said
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  Speaker 2: there wasn't going to be a fire. And then the
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  Speaker 2: response was, well they should, and they're injecting opinion into deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's a similar thing here with the Cowboys. Well, everything
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  Speaker 2: I'm reading and hearing says that there are those from
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  Speaker 2: the national media and others who suggest who suggest that
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  Speaker 2: the that the Cowboys should make a trade, or that
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  Speaker 2: they're going to make a trade. But if the response is,
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  Speaker 2: like you and I just talking about, they are they
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  Speaker 2: even hinting thinking about making a trade, I think the
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  Speaker 2: answer is no, which would then prompt the response from
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  Speaker 2: the reporters and analyst, well they should. Whether they should
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  Speaker 2: or not, there's a lot of that should stuff when
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  Speaker 2: they when the Cowboys are referenced, isn't there and Jerry
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  Speaker 2: Jones is reference stuff that just goes undone, unattended, unaddressed,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak. And I think this is another one
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  Speaker 2: of those deals here.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was last week, maybe the week when
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  Speaker 1: he had his when he threatened the fire Shannon Arjay.
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  Speaker 1: But in that same interview on one O five through
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  Speaker 1: the Fan and they talked about you're gonna add anybody,
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  Speaker 1: and he kind of said, to show me, show me
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  Speaker 1: where I can add someone. Show me, like, where can
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  Speaker 1: I get these players? And of course the Chiefs make
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  Speaker 1: a big trade, and the Ravens make a trade, and
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  Speaker 1: then Viking to make a trade. So there, Jerry, you
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  Speaker 1: can trade for other people that that is allowed. But
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  Speaker 1: off of Bill Barrel's article in his verdict is the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys to subtract the deadline, but will likely add I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know what they should do, correct, I really
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  Speaker 1: don't know. And I think Jerry will, Jerry and Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Jones will hold pat because they're thinking is, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense is awful. It's a lot worse than
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  Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. What they're thinking is Okay, they're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: to Ron Blatt back soon, Michaeh Parsons, de Marcus Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that will fix things. I don't think so. If
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  Speaker 1: they aren't gonna make moves, it needs to be on
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  Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. Offense, I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know where to start with adding a running back. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line needs so much help right tackle has
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  Speaker 1: been awful with Terrence Steele, and then the receivers aren't
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  Speaker 1: great either. But that's a lot of needs for this team,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if there's anyone out there that
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  Speaker 1: will fix this team from being a three and four
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  Speaker 1: maybe playoff team to a contender. I don't think there's
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  Speaker 1: moves out there, right, and there's moves that you can
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  Speaker 1: make to solely build this team back up, But there's
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  Speaker 1: so much work that needs to be done Craig that
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  Speaker 1: I kind of understand maybe just tearing it down, but
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones obviously says he's all in now. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it matters, and I don't think I would trade
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  Speaker 1: Michael Parsons or DeMarcus Lawrence and do a full rebuild,
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  Speaker 1: because you still have enough talent to win. I think
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  Speaker 1: some coaching and some free agency acquisitions could help fix
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  Speaker 1: this team. But I don't know if I see a
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  Speaker 1: single specific move that would help this team because there's
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  Speaker 1: so many issues at receiver, at running back, at offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: defensive line, linebacker, secondary, I don't I don't know where
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  Speaker 1: you start. So there's a lot of work to be
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  Speaker 1: done for this Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you make a great point when you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about most of the general conventional wisdom, whatever you
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  Speaker 2: want to call it, is that the Cowboys need to
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  Speaker 2: make deals if they're if they're really going to be
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  Speaker 2: a bona fide contender. Goes back to what we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about yesterday when Jerry was on on that radio
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  Speaker 2: program on Tuesday when he said, we have the people
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  Speaker 2: here to get it done, and I believe that we
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  Speaker 2: can turn this around and have this big story, but
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  Speaker 2: finish and all this sort of stuff, and that sound
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  Speaker 2: bite was played on one of the NFL programs, I
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  Speaker 2: believe on ESPN. It was on one of the networks,
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  Speaker 2: and the analysts were laughing, literally laughing. It's like, no,
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  Speaker 2: they don't, they don't have the pieces. So then it's
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  Speaker 2: going to come down to the difference of opinion. Do
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  Speaker 2: you believe you have the pieces in place to make
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  Speaker 2: a run. Jerry says they do, which makes you think
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  Speaker 2: then that he's not going to make a deal. The
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  Speaker 2: national analysts and pundits say they don't and that's why
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  Speaker 2: Jerry should make a deal. But it doesn't sound like
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  Speaker 2: that's in the offing, if only because Jerry believes they've
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  Speaker 2: got the pieces in place to turn this around, especially
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  Speaker 2: once you get a couple of guys healthy in back.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned Ron Bland. Once they get guys back and healthy,
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  Speaker 2: he believes they got the pieces together to make a run.
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  Speaker 2: You don't.
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  Speaker 1: I think he does. I think that's his thinking. Offensively,
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  Speaker 1: there's no injuries. Offense just sucks. That's it. The offense
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  Speaker 1: just sucks. So if there's gonna be any moves, it
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  Speaker 1: might be offensively. But what are you gonna do? Trade
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  Speaker 1: for Mike Williams and he's not gonna solve anything you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna trade for. I don't know what running back is
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  Speaker 1: out there. The offensive line and run blocking has been pathetic, awful.
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  Speaker 2: They just don't have anybody that can really run the ball.
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  Speaker 2: I think they've got enough receiving talent to try to
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  Speaker 2: make them a contender, but without proper Yeah, run talent.
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  Speaker 1: What differences with Brooks and Tolbert and for Andy, They're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna add anybody because they believe that they can
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  Speaker 1: develop those receivers, and you know that might just be
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys be naive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we'll be back. We've got a few
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  Speaker 2: final comments. We'll get to those. A reminder coming up
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  Speaker 2: of Fame Classic there. So we'll have a few final
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