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Speaker 4: This He's Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
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Speaker 1: Up everyone, what's up? Everyone? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. We'll
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Speaker 1: start this thing off better than that. All right, It's Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: March twenty sixth, and it is time to get this
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Speaker 1: thing Roland. I'm Nick Eatman here Cowboys Storyline. We have
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Speaker 1: a couple of people already on the line. There's the
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Speaker 1: NFL owners meetings going on in Orlando. Nick Harris is
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Speaker 1: covering that for us. He's been there getting headlines from
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Speaker 1: Mike Karthy Talk this morning Jerry Jones, I think uh
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Speaker 1: talked just a few minutes ago. So a lot of
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Speaker 1: different topics going on, rule changes, which we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: some of that. I'm sure you guys will have some
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Speaker 1: thoughts on some of the new things. The kickoffs is
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Speaker 1: the big one that they change that's going to look
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Speaker 1: really different right off the bat next year, first game
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Speaker 1: of the season's going to look different with the just
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Speaker 1: the way and if you haven't seen the XFL game,
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Speaker 1: so that's basically where they adopted it from. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the kicker is just sitting out there by himself. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's basically like forty or twenty five yards away from everyone,
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Speaker 1: and everyone else is on this side of the field.
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Speaker 1: He's just gonna kick it off. So it's going to
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Speaker 1: look different. But I don't know how different it'll really
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Speaker 1: be once the ball's caught, but yeah, it might look
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Speaker 1: different to start it definitely. Well, but that's one of
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Speaker 1: the changes. We can talk more about that. Eight eight
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Speaker 1: nine eight. All right, let's go to the line. Let's
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Speaker 1: start this thing with Daniel in Longview, Texas.
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Speaker 4: Hey, brother, how are you doing?
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Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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Speaker 4: Not too bad? Starting a week off? Weather's good out here,
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Speaker 4: is finally not raining, so we're happy about that. I
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Speaker 4: just got a couple of quick things for you, So
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Speaker 4: don't top the line just a little bit before the
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Speaker 4: show started, uh when it guys from NFL network I
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Speaker 4: in Rappaport reported there's a basically a mutual agreement as
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Speaker 4: far as D's contract, and Jerry's pretty much saying they're
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Speaker 4: just going to kind of let it ride, and it
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Speaker 4: doesn't appear that there's any deal imminent.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 4: I know I talked to you last Tuesday. You said
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Speaker 4: you don't see you know why they want to get
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Speaker 4: a deal done. I didn't know your thoughts on if
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Speaker 4: that changed anything as far as you're concerned. The other
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Speaker 4: question I had, and I'll hang up and listen, reports
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Speaker 4: out that Mazie and Schoonmaker both had to have older surgeries,
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Speaker 4: which definitely is an ideal. Right, do you think maybe
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Speaker 4: they look at to get in some help with the
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Speaker 4: defensive tackle situation a little earlier than maybe anticipated, or
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Speaker 4: how's that look in your opinion?
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Speaker 1: All right, okay, I appreciate it. Thanks for the thanks
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Speaker 1: for the call of Daniel. Do you have anything else?
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Speaker 4: I appreciate it. That's it. That's it today. All hang up
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Speaker 4: and catch a player, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, thank you? All right. I'll start with the with
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Speaker 1: the injury stuff. Mazie. You know that that sounds like
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Speaker 1: it's a four month thing, four to five months, which
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Speaker 1: is going to be most of the off season, So
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Speaker 1: not not ideal for for a guy that they really
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Speaker 1: were counting on to be, you know, a lot stronger,
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Speaker 1: better technique. All that just you're gonna miss a lot
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Speaker 1: in the off season when when you're trying to learn
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Speaker 1: new you know, new schemes, new alignments that that Mike
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Speaker 1: Zimmer has. So that that's one thing there. And then
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Speaker 1: a scoon Maker I don't think is on the same.
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Speaker 1: Uh he's been doing some some running around and sprints
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Speaker 1: and things like that. I don't think he he will
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Speaker 1: miss that much time. I think he might miss some
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Speaker 1: of the offseason O tas and stuff, just to kind
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Speaker 1: of be cautious, but I don't foresee that being a
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Speaker 1: big deal, uh for scoon Maker. So and then ask
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Speaker 1: for the Dak stuff. I think that you know, it'll,
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Speaker 1: this deal is gonna get done. I didn't see uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, not being down there exactly what what is
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Speaker 1: being reported, but uh, you know, I I I think
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Speaker 1: that they'll I've never had any doubt that that they're
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Speaker 1: going to sign back to a to a deal or
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Speaker 1: you know, and probably one that that makes the most sense.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Jerry said it just two days ago that
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Speaker 1: he thinks this his contract will affect the cap for
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Speaker 1: five years to come. I mean that's probably looking like
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Speaker 1: a five year deal. I mean, I don't think anyone
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Speaker 1: expects anything different than that, so that I don't know
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Speaker 1: exactly what the report was, but but you know, sometimes
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Speaker 1: it's just you know, word salad, if you will, just
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Speaker 1: all the different kinds of things that's been thrown in
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Speaker 1: there to make it look different, but it's really kind
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Speaker 1: of saying the same thing. I think Dak's going to
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Speaker 1: be a quarterback here and everyone knows that. All right,
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Speaker 1: Brian in Kansas City is next.
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Speaker 6: Good afternoon, sir.
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Speaker 1: How you doing.
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Speaker 6: I'm doing all right, man, we're having I was just
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Speaker 6: telling Bimber we're having spring break this week, and it
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Speaker 6: does not feel like spring. It was twenty five when
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Speaker 6: I woke up.
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Speaker 1: Wow, and different, different call than what we just had.
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Speaker 1: So we got we West Report.
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Speaker 6: Sorry about that. I didn't mean to give you the
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Speaker 6: Mickey Stagnola weather report, but we'll move on. So, you know,
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Speaker 6: I could understand the with the new rule changes. I
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Speaker 6: don't watch the other league, so I don't know what
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Speaker 6: those kickoffs look like. I'm excited to see the preseason
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Speaker 6: and kind of get an understanding of it. But with
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Speaker 6: the with the hip drop, you know, it's you always
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Speaker 6: want to see something better for player safety, you know,
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Speaker 6: I do understand the players coming out and saying, how
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Speaker 6: how do we tackle people? Nowadays? You know it's getting
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Speaker 6: harder and harder, and you know now the now the
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Speaker 6: window for where you can hit somebody's pretty small. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: and I understand that. You know, Well, we'll have to
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Speaker 6: see how it plays out. How often it's called. I'm
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Speaker 6: sure Tony Pollard is a fan.
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Speaker 1: Right, well, I mean yeah, I mean he is now Yeah,
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Speaker 1: is that it didn't go back and change the game
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Speaker 1: that they.
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Speaker 6: Lost right in the yea in the playoffs. So, uh,
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Speaker 6: you know, I haven't called in in a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 6: So I got two things for you that I that
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Speaker 6: other people have talked about. I do always watch at
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Speaker 6: night when I can't call in. So having watched what
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Speaker 6: they did and didn't do, especially in the trenches, because
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Speaker 6: I think it's all one and lost in the trenches.
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Speaker 6: They didn't replace the one tech, they didn't replace the
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Speaker 6: two two offensive linemen that they lost. I don't think
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Speaker 6: you could do it all in the draft. I don't
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Speaker 6: think that's going to be possible to get three starters.
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Speaker 6: I think he probably going to take a little step
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Speaker 6: back this year. I really thought we would sign one
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Speaker 6: of one of those three players, and we didn't. And
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Speaker 6: you know, I think I do think now having watched
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Speaker 6: that play out, I think maybe we're going to take
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Speaker 6: a little step back. The other thing that we've heard
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Speaker 6: a bunch of times is fans talking about wanting to
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Speaker 6: trade Micah because you know, we think we could get
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Speaker 6: the world for him, right, maybe he could get two
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Speaker 6: number ones or something, or a one and a two.
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Speaker 6: I do think that because of his size, just like
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Speaker 6: he kind of peters out at the end of the year,
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Speaker 6: I think that's going to happen in his career too.
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Speaker 6: I don't know that I want him on a second
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Speaker 6: contract if I don't think he's big enough to play
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Speaker 6: the position he's trying to play, and he can control that.
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Speaker 6: He could put on the size if he wants to.
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Speaker 6: Don't know if he will. And then my my player
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Speaker 6: for this week is somebody he was on the mid
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Speaker 6: mid nineties roster and he was the center, Clay Shiver.
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Speaker 6: And I'll hang up and listen to what you.
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Speaker 1: Got man, All right, thank you, Brian. You know I
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Speaker 1: think that it does. I mean, it appears like they
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Speaker 1: they aren't as good as last year. I mean, that's
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Speaker 1: what it looks like just right now, you throw that
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Speaker 1: in and say, all right, they're they're they're missing some
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Speaker 1: some key you know, players that they lost in free agency,
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Speaker 1: you know, who have they signed? Uh, and then they're
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Speaker 1: they're asking for a lot of these second and third
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Speaker 1: year guys to make this big leap, and who knows
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Speaker 1: if they will. The schedule looks like it could be
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Speaker 1: tougher usually first play schedules are, but you know, it's
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Speaker 1: still it's still early in the game. And it's not
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Speaker 1: just those guys that are making that leap that that
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Speaker 1: they're counting on. And you're also counting on your your
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Speaker 1: star players and your good players to be even better.
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Speaker 1: You know, you're counting on Ceedee Lamb type jumps. Ceedee
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Speaker 1: Lamb was the star two years ago, and he was
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Speaker 1: last year, and then this past year, I mean he
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Speaker 1: was he was one of the best players in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: So it's not just the unproven guys that are gonna
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Speaker 1: make big leaps. It's it's it's your your star players
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Speaker 1: as well, you know, your Pro Bowl guys that might
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Speaker 1: maybe are gonna be all pro. You know what kind
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Speaker 1: of what if Jake Ferguson takes a leap, and what
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Speaker 1: does that look like? I mean, what is he going
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Speaker 1: to be an all pro? I mean, I'm just saying,
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Speaker 1: you're you're hoping that a lot of these guys keep
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Speaker 1: keep going forward, but it is it is tough to
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Speaker 1: ask and to to think that, you know, it's all
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Speaker 1: just gonna work out and you're gonna you know, this
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Speaker 1: team didn't draft any starters last year, but now they're
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Speaker 1: gonna draft three or four and they're not picking any
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Speaker 1: differently too. I mean, they actually have less picks. So
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Speaker 1: it's got to be a good draft and and and
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Speaker 1: they've got to turn the last couple of drafts into
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Speaker 1: good drafts. I don't want to talk about Micah trading
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Speaker 1: Micah and all that kind of stuff. I mean, he's
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Speaker 1: here right now. He's the guy, and and I would
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Speaker 1: imagine he's going to get a big deal too, So
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Speaker 1: that kind of seems irrelevant to talk about. And uh,
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Speaker 1: Klay Shiver, I was and here when they drafted him.
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Speaker 1: I think it was in ninety seven from Florida State,
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Speaker 1: I believe, you know. So he played a little bit
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Speaker 1: right after Stepnowsky. He was actually the starter between or
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Speaker 1: before and after Stepnovsky because they let Stepnosky go and
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Speaker 1: I take that back. Ray Donaldson came in then Shiver
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Speaker 1: and Shiver was just good enough for them to say,
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Speaker 1: we want to get Stepnowsky back from the Titans or
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Speaker 1: Oilers wherever they were at that point. So he didn't
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Speaker 1: have a long career and played it just good enough
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Speaker 1: for them to say we got to get somebody else.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to The next caller is Bill
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Speaker 1: in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Speaker 7: Hey, Nick, what's going on, Bunny?
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Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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Speaker 7: I'm doing well? How about yourself?
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Speaker 1: I'm good? What's up here?
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Speaker 8: We go? Hey? I wish I had some new and
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Speaker 8: exciting stuff.
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Speaker 7: To talk about, but I'm not exactly putting Adam here
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Speaker 7: with my commentary. But first thing. First, I was just
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Speaker 7: like to say, the Cowboys fans please stop with the
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Speaker 7: trading Mica and Parson stuff. It's just it's ridiculous.
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Speaker 8: You're mad about them losing players.
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Speaker 7: That are good now, but yet you want to trade
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Speaker 7: your generational defensive player. But I digress. But as I
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Speaker 7: think fact about the off season, Nick, I think about
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Speaker 7: something you said a couple of years ago, and you
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Speaker 7: might not even remember saying it, but it was on.
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Speaker 8: One of the other shows and you said, no, said,
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Speaker 8: don't worry. It's uh, every every season starts with the
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Speaker 8: number now for the Cowboys, And it was just in
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Speaker 8: the context of the disappointment of you know, no super Bowl,
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Speaker 8: no championship game appearances, and when you I guess what
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Speaker 8: I'm trying to say is when you hear that this
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Speaker 8: year is really going to be a year for the
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Speaker 8: Cowboys to reset the cap and next year will be
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Speaker 8: more of the same, it's it's kind of hard to
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Speaker 8: hear that when when you would think there's a burning
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Speaker 8: hunger for this.
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Speaker 7: To end that streak.
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Speaker 8: And I'm not saying the front.
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Speaker 7: Office doesn't want to win.
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Speaker 8: I think that's ridiculous. I do think they want to win,
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Speaker 8: but I think that the reliance I'm basically what the
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Speaker 8: last car said before me. I'm hoping that unproven players
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Speaker 8: develop and make a leap and hoping that your draft
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Speaker 8: picks hit. I just it's really frustrating that they finally
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Speaker 8: have a team that is a playoff. They're in the
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Speaker 8: playoffs every year. They're in a good spot and there
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Speaker 8: may not be a leap, but they're not that far off,
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Speaker 8: and we're just almost like we're going two steps forward,
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Speaker 8: one step back. You got a quarterback who's going to
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Speaker 8: be thirty one years old in July. He's coming back
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Speaker 8: in my opinion, and he should in my opinion. So
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Speaker 8: for the next two years, you're going to try to
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Speaker 8: get the cap situation right with him when we know
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Speaker 8: he's not and this isn't a knock on him. He's
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Speaker 8: not a guy like Mahomes, who you put on your
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Speaker 8: you're instantly a Super Bowl content contender. And there's there
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Speaker 8: two guys in the league that are like that. So
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Speaker 8: he needs help. And I'm not saying he doesn't have help,
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Speaker 8: let me make that clear, but he needs as much
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Speaker 8: as he can get. And the front office has made
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Speaker 8: a decision that they're not gonna do that. They're actually
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Speaker 8: gonna try to develop players. And it's just hard because
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Speaker 8: I've seen this team kick the can down the road, restructure,
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Speaker 8: do extensions with teams that had no chance, teams that
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Speaker 8: if everything went right, they might win ten games and
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Speaker 8: win the division and they get bounced in the wildcare round.
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Speaker 8: And now they actually have a team that's pretty good,
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Speaker 8: and it's just it's.
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Speaker 1: Just no, what do you want them to do differently?
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Speaker 8: Okay, well, I mean what I would like to do.
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Speaker 8: I would have brought back Tyren Smith and that chief deal.
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Speaker 8: I definitely think we could wait, wait with what deal?
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Speaker 8: Tyron Smith's deal that's incentively didn't it's basically tied into
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Speaker 8: how many games played, and if he does play that
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Speaker 8: many games, that means you're getting an old pro left tackle.
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Speaker 1: Okay, right, It's not a question of okay.
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Speaker 8: Tyler can play or not. It's if he's healthy. Do
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Speaker 8: you agree with that?
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Speaker 1: Well? Not not anymore. No, it's it's do they want
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Speaker 1: to pay twenty million dollars for their left tackle or
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Speaker 1: do they want to pay one?
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Speaker 8: But Nick, it's not It might not even be twenty million.
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Speaker 8: It couldn't be twenty million.
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Speaker 1: If it's not, then who are you paying? And who
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Speaker 1: are you playing?
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Speaker 8: But you wouldn't rather that thirteen twelve thirteen games of Tyler's.
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Speaker 1: Yeap, No, I would have. I would have, But I'm
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Speaker 1: saying they to do that, it would have been it's
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Speaker 1: about twenty would have about twenty three million dollars per
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Speaker 1: year for one year, twenty three. Don't say twenty that's
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Speaker 1: what the Jets got. He wanted twenty three from the Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: He didn't do a hometown. This guy he wanted more
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Speaker 1: from the Cowboys. He felt like over the years he's
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Speaker 1: been paid less, so he did more.
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Speaker 9: Right, Okay, Okay, all right, okay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll do it all all week. We'll be you
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Speaker 1: can call back Thursday. I get it. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: get what you're saying. But they they don't And I'm
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Speaker 1: not trying to defend them. I mean I get the
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Speaker 1: frustration I'm not doing stuff.
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Speaker 6: But.
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Speaker 1: They, you know, they they don't feel like this next
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Speaker 1: two years it's gonna work out to just you know,
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Speaker 1: sign a bunch of players this year. The money is
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Speaker 1: real Next year, I mean next year and we're looking
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Speaker 1: at seventy something million dollars and just dead money, and
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Speaker 1: so that's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough, especially
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Speaker 1: with some of those players probably won't be on the team,
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Speaker 1: you know, Zach, Martin and Tank and unless they do
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Speaker 1: something creative and resign them, but you know, in which
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Speaker 1: they could do for for for Zach. But actually, let's
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Speaker 1: go back to somebody had called just now or or
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Speaker 1: one of the calls that was talking about ian rap
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Speaker 1: report's report on Dak and actually the report is that
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Speaker 1: they don't think Dak's going to get a long term deal.
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Speaker 1: They're going to just play this out. That's what That's
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Speaker 1: what the report is that they've pretty much agreed that
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Speaker 1: they're not going to do a deal. It's been a
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Speaker 1: mutual understanding. As it pops up on the screen here,
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Speaker 1: thank you, there will be no offerers from Dallas despite
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Speaker 1: him being on the contract year. We are where we
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Speaker 1: are locked in and loaded for this year. No indication
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Speaker 1: that a deal is coming. That was a report just
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Speaker 1: now from the NFL network. No indication of a deal.
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Speaker 1: I mean, which can change in an hour or less
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Speaker 1: than that. So cool. I mean, as it stands right now,
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be that way, but that can change
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Speaker 1: if that's what the Cowboys decide to do.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 1: I still think Dak's going to be the quarterback here.
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Speaker 1: I mean that's what I really believe. I think he'll
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Speaker 1: be the quarterback here for a few years. So we'll
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Speaker 1: see how it all plays out. All right, Let's go
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Speaker 1: to Robin Vegas. Hey, Nick, what's up?
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Speaker 10: It's a weird offseason. I mean, it's like Jerry is
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Speaker 10: saying to himself, that's it. I'm taking the allowance away.
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Speaker 10: You guys are on your own. I mean, I don't
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Speaker 10: see what he's doing. I don't think he's bringing deck.
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Speaker 10: I mean thatk is going to play out. I don't
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Speaker 10: think there'll be a new contract if that. If it is,
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Speaker 10: he's dumb. He should have did it before free agency.
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Speaker 10: It's like he's going to use Dak as well. You know,
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Speaker 10: he just wasn't good enough to carry this team. But
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Speaker 10: we already know that Dek isn't good enough to carry
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Speaker 10: the team. He's a very good quarterback. I throw him
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Speaker 10: anywhere between six and ten ranking, but there's only one
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Speaker 10: quarterback in the league that's proven he's good enough, and
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Speaker 10: that's Mahomes. So by him doing that, you already already
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Speaker 10: got him. You know fail, he's gonna fail. Second of all,
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Speaker 10: I think he's gonna I think he's gonna use it
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Speaker 10: as the money thing. Well, you know, he wasn't good
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Speaker 10: enough to carry the team, and he's he wants sixty
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Speaker 10: million dollars.
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Speaker 6: And I agree with it.
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Speaker 10: I said, if his contract is fifty two fifty three,
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Speaker 10: I do it. Lamar Jackson just got that. And let's
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Speaker 10: be honest, they're both kind of the same player in
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Speaker 10: the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Wow, So they all are they all are rob I
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Speaker 1: mean you just said it yourself that there's only one,
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Speaker 1: so I.
18:39
Speaker 10: Know, and that's that's why we said, if he wants sixty,
18:42
Speaker 10: I let him walk, absolutely, but I but but it
18:46
Speaker 10: just doesn't make sense. Jerry says, one thing that's gonna
18:51
Speaker 10: be here for years to come. I see him winning
18:53
Speaker 10: a super Bowl. No, you don't, because you would have
18:56
Speaker 10: already gave him a contract and built the team. Because
19:00
Speaker 10: you were close, like the last caller said, we are,
19:03
Speaker 10: we were, we were. We're closer to getting to the
19:07
Speaker 10: super Bowl than not. And that's I think one has sayings,
19:11
Speaker 10: you know, saying that something what's going on here? Like
19:14
Speaker 10: I said before, we weren't five and.
19:15
Speaker 2: Twelve three years in a row.
19:17
Speaker 10: We were twelve five. We all needed we all know
19:19
Speaker 10: what we needed. We needed a nice defensive tackle that
19:22
Speaker 10: could actually do something. We definitely need a linebacker help,
19:26
Speaker 10: and we didn't do any of that. We got it.
19:30
Speaker 10: We got an older linebacker, so we'll see what happens
19:32
Speaker 10: with that. We we've lost so many players on defense,
19:35
Speaker 10: and no they weren't great, but their bodies. I mean,
19:38
Speaker 10: we haven't and you can't replace everybody in the drift.
19:41
Speaker 10: It's just a weird season. It's like Jerry Jermy's gonna
19:45
Speaker 10: set this up for failure in a way, and hopefully
19:48
Speaker 10: I'm I'm proven wrong, and then he's gonna let He's
19:51
Speaker 10: gonna let him walk because he's gonna just say, listen,
19:55
Speaker 10: he's just he just wanted too much money and he
19:58
Speaker 10: couldn't he can't win, and he's right. I just I mean,
20:05
Speaker 10: unless you know something that that I don't know, I
20:09
Speaker 10: don't see a contract getting done. Why wouldn't you have
20:11
Speaker 10: gotten that contract done already, because if you get it
20:14
Speaker 10: done right now, it's meaningless. You can't go get anybody.
20:20
Speaker 10: So we already know, Okay, what are you gonna do.
20:22
Speaker 10: You're gonna sign Michael Parsons. Okay, well we already figured
20:25
Speaker 10: that you're gonna sign Ceedee Lamb. He's seed the Lamb's
20:29
Speaker 10: your best player. We already know you're gonna do that.
20:32
Speaker 10: You'd be crazy not to do those two moves. But
20:37
Speaker 10: you sign those two guys, and and you let Dak go,
20:40
Speaker 10: and now you don't have a quarterback, what's the difference,
20:43
Speaker 10: You'll be right back where you started. There's a quarterback
20:45
Speaker 10: driven league. So I don't think Dak is great, but
20:50
Speaker 10: I think you should, you know, surround him with some
20:53
Speaker 10: more help and I and I think you'd have a
20:57
Speaker 10: way better chance.
20:58
Speaker 6: And that the.
20:59
Speaker 10: Pirates contract was twelve million dollars if he hits all
21:04
Speaker 10: his goals, and I think the Cowboys could have done
21:08
Speaker 10: something like that. He's not going to hit all his
21:10
Speaker 10: goals to get the twelve I think last week when
21:13
Speaker 10: I called, I thought, I said it was ten. I mean,
21:16
Speaker 10: you would have paid Tyrant's bit ten million dollars for
21:18
Speaker 10: one year.
21:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't have the money to do that, so
21:21
Speaker 1: they didn't. They didn't have two million to pay Hankins.
21:25
Speaker 10: So well they listen, they didn't want Hankins, and I
21:29
Speaker 10: get it. Hankards was older, hank It. Its no, they
21:33
Speaker 10: didn't want them. And I don't blame all. Hankins is
21:36
Speaker 10: past his prime now. Million and a half dollars I
21:39
Speaker 10: think he signed, but that's not a lot of money.
21:42
Speaker 10: So that just goes to show you that they said
21:44
Speaker 10: this guy isn't that good. And I'm okay with that.
21:47
Speaker 1: And I don't think Tyron Smith wanted to play here.
21:49
Speaker 11: I don't.
21:50
Speaker 1: I don't think he did.
21:51
Speaker 8: I mean I.
21:53
Speaker 9: I mean, yeah, that's I mean, he's terrible.
21:57
Speaker 10: A lot of him and that's that's a terrible, terrible
22:00
Speaker 10: thing by And they bent over up backwards to keep
22:05
Speaker 10: you on this team. They bent over backwards to now
22:08
Speaker 10: you didn't even have to practice. What else did you want.
22:11
Speaker 1: Toby don't Again, I don't know all that. I just
22:14
Speaker 1: think I know he was. His asking price with the
22:16
Speaker 1: Cowboys was higher than it was at other places where
22:19
Speaker 1: you have a where you have to play, you know,
22:22
Speaker 1: have it to pay an income tax, a state income tax.
22:25
Speaker 1: So it was pretty clear he didn't want to he
22:27
Speaker 1: want to play here in Dallas. I don't know all
22:29
Speaker 1: behind the scenes on the on what happened with the negotiations.
22:32
Speaker 1: All right, Rob, thanks for the call, appreciate it. Let's
22:34
Speaker 1: keep moving here. Let me go to a text question
22:37
Speaker 1: from Dan and Philly. He said, what's your thoughts on
22:40
Speaker 1: the kickoff rules? His past cowboys? Russell Maryland? So Maryland
22:45
Speaker 1: one of the three number one overall picks in Cowboys history,
22:50
Speaker 1: probably ranked third on that list, I would say, behind
22:53
Speaker 1: eightman and two tall Jones, still number one overall pick
22:56
Speaker 1: ninety one thoughts on the new kickoff rule? You know,
23:03
Speaker 1: hold on, Chris, is my ear Chris? What you got?
23:08
Speaker 1: That's okay? All right, all right, let's start with let's
23:12
Speaker 1: go with the kickoff rules. Sorry, we're having little technical
23:14
Speaker 1: issues today here. Sorry we had some last week too.
23:17
Speaker 1: This is better than last week. I promise you that.
23:21
Speaker 1: I think kickoff rules are going to be interesting. I mean,
23:23
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be I mean, there's a lot more
23:26
Speaker 1: strategy than it ever was. I mean, I mean, I'm
23:29
Speaker 1: not saying it was always just kick it deep and
23:31
Speaker 1: go cover. But you know they had different plays, you know,
23:33
Speaker 1: different rules you could do. But this one, you know,
23:36
Speaker 1: the ball could be at the twenty yard line, it
23:38
Speaker 1: could be at the thirty and then or you could
23:42
Speaker 1: just kick it off and see what happens. To take
23:46
Speaker 1: your chances. I think a guy like Turpin has a
23:49
Speaker 1: chance that he's gonna have a lot more open space.
23:53
Speaker 1: You know, the team's the kickoff team is gonna be
23:55
Speaker 1: at the forty yard line, and then the receiving team's
23:58
Speaker 1: gonna be in like the twenty five to thirty range.
24:01
Speaker 1: So you're looking at about ten yards there to block
24:04
Speaker 1: and they can't Neither team can move until the ball
24:07
Speaker 1: is caught. So you know, you could catch it. Turpid
24:10
Speaker 1: could catch this thing seven eight yards deep. But with
24:13
Speaker 1: a running start, you know, then it's it's just going
24:16
Speaker 1: to be a battle. Can you get to the thirty
24:18
Speaker 1: because if you're not getting to the thirty, then then
24:20
Speaker 1: you should probably just you know, let it go or
24:23
Speaker 1: kneel it down and take the ball at the thirty
24:25
Speaker 1: yard line, which is a pretty good starting field position.
24:28
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of open room there. So I'm
24:31
Speaker 1: anxious to see how the kick, how the kicking team
24:34
Speaker 1: is going to handle it. You know, does everybody go
24:36
Speaker 1: forward to do all ten guys go forward? Because if
24:42
Speaker 1: you just if he pops it once, I mean, it's
24:44
Speaker 1: just him and the kicker, So I like my chances there,
24:47
Speaker 1: I would think with any return specialists there. So it'll
24:50
Speaker 1: be it'll be interesting to see that that that'll be
24:52
Speaker 1: a new dynamic of football that we just haven't seen,
24:55
Speaker 1: and that's exciting to me. All Right, let's go to
24:59
Speaker 1: our next car is running in New Jersey.
25:03
Speaker 5: Hey, Nick, how are you doing?
25:04
Speaker 1: Running?
25:05
Speaker 9: Not too bad? How are you going? I'm good with
25:10
Speaker 9: everything that everybody's talking about and what Rob was mentioning
25:15
Speaker 9: and everybody else. Honestly, I see this, and with what
25:22
Speaker 9: you just mentioned about next year's salary cap, they're going
25:25
Speaker 9: to be what thirty forty million dollars under with dead money.
25:29
Speaker 9: That right there tells you everything. Like they weren't active
25:33
Speaker 9: in free agency, they didn't extend dakh and all these
25:38
Speaker 9: other players that they could have. I think the windows
25:41
Speaker 9: closed basically, and without they went all in last year,
25:49
Speaker 9: it didn't get done. I don't I don't if if
25:55
Speaker 9: we as fans like I think we should just lower
25:57
Speaker 9: the expectations. And at the same time, you can't sign
26:02
Speaker 9: and re sign everybody you have on your team. I
26:05
Speaker 9: get you know you wanted to. I want to tire
26:06
Speaker 9: on Smith's back. But if there's no money, there's no
26:10
Speaker 9: money and you draft. This is a draft and build
26:13
Speaker 9: team through the draft. Right, Well, we've been drafting players
26:17
Speaker 9: that haven't played these last two years. Our first three
26:21
Speaker 9: picks last year didn't really contribute that much. You got
26:26
Speaker 9: to give these guys a chance. You got to give
26:28
Speaker 9: the guys from the year before a chance to see
26:30
Speaker 9: what they got for ko. I know these guys that
26:33
Speaker 9: they drafted. Yeah, we're changing scheme and everything, So now
26:37
Speaker 9: you got to draft players according to what Mike Simmer
26:40
Speaker 9: wants as a bigger defensive tackles, bigger linebackers, and we
26:45
Speaker 9: have small linebackers, small defensive tackles, so you're changing a lot.
26:50
Speaker 9: This is not going to be in my eyes, I
26:52
Speaker 9: don't see this as a one year turnaround. I see
26:55
Speaker 9: this in a two year turnaround because that year the
26:59
Speaker 9: salary captain. We're strapped right now and we couldn't sign
27:03
Speaker 9: guys that we wanted this year. I don't see are
27:05
Speaker 9: signing guys next year, and I see there's a uh
27:09
Speaker 9: these next two drafts for the future. Whether they want
27:12
Speaker 9: to say, no, no, we're all in this year, I
27:13
Speaker 9: don't believe they're.
27:14
Speaker 1: They didn't say that they're not your thanks for the
27:17
Speaker 1: call running, and they didn't say that we've established that.
27:20
Speaker 1: They didn't say that we're all in this year. That
27:23
Speaker 1: they're saying that we've basically been all in and this
27:26
Speaker 1: is the all in approach, and and and signing these
27:28
Speaker 1: guys you know that they're going to have to to
27:31
Speaker 1: re sign is their version of of all in. If
27:35
Speaker 1: we're going to keep going down that road. But that's
27:37
Speaker 1: not you know that that's really not the way it
27:40
Speaker 1: should be interpreted. Is how you guys think and that
27:43
Speaker 1: that's that's just not the way it is. This isn't
27:45
Speaker 1: a poker game where where they're they're actually pushing all
27:47
Speaker 1: the chips into the table. They feel like they've already
27:49
Speaker 1: kind of been there. Now they got to deal with it.
27:52
Speaker 1: So yeah, like you said, you know, it's going to
27:56
Speaker 1: be an uphill battle. It's not impossible because this team
28:01
Speaker 1: has drafted well and and you know the guys that
28:05
Speaker 1: they not only have they drafted well, that they've developed them.
28:07
Speaker 1: And so that's that's what has to happen here, is
28:11
Speaker 1: that you know, there's probably fifteen guys that are younger
28:16
Speaker 1: that need to take that leap, but you know there's
28:18
Speaker 1: about five that just have to. I mean, like Jalen Tolbert,
28:23
Speaker 1: like this has to be the year. I mean Jalen Tolbert,
28:26
Speaker 1: he has to be Michael Gallup third round pick, that
28:30
Speaker 1: is it's time to do something. Sam Williams, I mean
28:35
Speaker 1: Sam Williams that this is a huge opportunity for him
28:39
Speaker 1: with Dorren's Armstrong gone and Dante Fowler gone. I mean,
28:43
Speaker 1: you know they drafted him in the second round to
28:44
Speaker 1: be a difference maker and and he's got to do that.
28:47
Speaker 1: He's got to be able to be accountable and you know,
28:51
Speaker 1: somebody that they can depend on and on the field
28:54
Speaker 1: and off and especially on the field, you know where
28:58
Speaker 1: he's had some some penalties. But if he can be
29:01
Speaker 1: a dynamic pass rusher and a difference maker opposite of Micah,
29:07
Speaker 1: I mean, then you know you could have something really
29:09
Speaker 1: special there. But you know, he's got a show that
29:11
Speaker 1: he can do that. And the list goes on and
29:13
Speaker 1: on with those guys like that, but it's going to
29:15
Speaker 1: take players like that and jumps like that. You know
29:19
Speaker 1: that they need some They need a lot more Deron
29:22
Speaker 1: Bland picks and Jake Ferguson picks than than you know,
29:26
Speaker 1: anybody else. So then the Sean Wrights and Goldston and
29:30
Speaker 1: Kelvin Joseph and guys like that that you know, just
29:33
Speaker 1: haven't panned out really right now, all right? I answered
29:37
Speaker 1: this question earlier on the Kickoff Rules Gavin from Oklahomas
29:43
Speaker 1: in the text this is first time to text, he says,
29:46
Speaker 1: love the show, thanks for letting the fans see how
29:49
Speaker 1: other fans are feeling what they're thinking every week, and
29:51
Speaker 1: that that's really the big part of this. I mean,
29:53
Speaker 1: that's kind of what the show is all about, because
29:55
Speaker 1: I know, I know what happens all the time. You're like,
29:57
Speaker 1: I think this way? Does anyone else you know how
30:00
Speaker 1: many sentences start that way? Does anyone else think like this?
30:02
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what this show is designed to do.
30:06
Speaker 1: He's asking about, do I think the kicking rule will
30:08
Speaker 1: give Turpin a better chance to have greater impact? Shout
30:12
Speaker 1: out to Turpin from my hometown in Monroe, Louisiana. What
30:16
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on the drop tackle rule? Shannon Gross
30:21
Speaker 1: was also from Monroe, Louisiana, so shout out to him
30:24
Speaker 1: as well. I think Terpin has an opportunity to to,
30:28
Speaker 1: you know, to make some big plays. What you're trying
30:30
Speaker 1: to do is to get him in the open field. Now,
30:32
Speaker 1: I'm not saying every team has a Turpin, but every
30:35
Speaker 1: team's got to kick off return or that they probably
30:37
Speaker 1: like and so, uh, it's going to be it's gonna
30:40
Speaker 1: be an issue on the other side too. I mean,
30:42
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a really good, you know, athletic return
30:47
Speaker 1: specialist in space, and that's that's what it's designed to do.
30:51
Speaker 1: So on one hand, you have an opportunity for some
30:55
Speaker 1: big plays on the other hand, you know you you
30:58
Speaker 1: you may not, and so you know you've got a
31:01
Speaker 1: kicker though that led the led the league in touchbacks
31:04
Speaker 1: last year, broke an NFL record for touchbacks I think
31:08
Speaker 1: it was ninety nine in the season Brandon Aubrey had.
31:11
Speaker 1: So you can do that and start at the thirty.
31:14
Speaker 1: You know, just try to kick it deep, but it
31:16
Speaker 1: doesn't always go that way, and uh, and then and
31:19
Speaker 1: then when if not, you have to return it. So
31:21
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun strategy. I
31:23
Speaker 1: like that. I like that that rule change. I like
31:27
Speaker 1: the challenge the challenge rule change where that now, uh,
31:32
Speaker 1: if as long as you get one of the two
31:34
Speaker 1: challenges correctly, you get a third one. Before it was
31:38
Speaker 1: if you challenged early and you didn't get it, then
31:42
Speaker 1: you only have one left. And you know that because
31:44
Speaker 1: you've already you have to go two for two. Now
31:46
Speaker 1: you only have to go one for two to get
31:50
Speaker 1: a third challenge. So basically, if you have two challenges
31:53
Speaker 1: and you miss them both, then you don't get any
31:55
Speaker 1: more coaches challenges. The hip hip drop or whatever it's called,
32:01
Speaker 1: the hip drop tackle rule. I like it. I mean,
32:06
Speaker 1: I think it probably happens more than than people think.
32:10
Speaker 1: I mean, there's probably very variations of it. This isn't
32:13
Speaker 1: like the horse collar of did you grab the collar?
32:15
Speaker 1: Did you not? I mean, it's kind of where you
32:18
Speaker 1: end up putting your legs and how the guy falls.
32:21
Speaker 1: And but you know that they've done a lot of
32:24
Speaker 1: studies to it, and you know, I mean the Cowboys
32:26
Speaker 1: lost a playoff game because of it. I mean, I
32:29
Speaker 1: mean Tony Polar got hurt in the forty nine Ers game.
32:32
Speaker 1: We all saw it, and then the whole game change.
32:34
Speaker 1: So you know, that was that was big and that happened.
32:37
Speaker 1: So you know, there's there's a lot of times that
32:40
Speaker 1: there seems like the Cowboys have lost playoff games and
32:43
Speaker 1: they end up making rule changes like Daz catching the ball,
32:46
Speaker 1: you know, and and like Romo dropping the block of
32:51
Speaker 1: ice that came out to him within the snap in Seattle,
32:55
Speaker 1: which they changed the rules on that. Where now now
32:58
Speaker 1: the other team's ball boys just throw out kicking balls anymore.
33:01
Speaker 1: They actually have an NFL official that has the kicking
33:05
Speaker 1: balls himself. It's not just somebody from Seattle just taking out,
33:10
Speaker 1: you know, the sixth the ball in the bag and
33:12
Speaker 1: throwing it out there. So you know, things happen in
33:16
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You know, playoff games is where things always
33:20
Speaker 1: tend to change rules. We saw that when overtime was
33:23
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Chiefs. You know, Josh Allen didn't
33:25
Speaker 1: get a turn, so they had to change it, and
33:28
Speaker 1: you know, they had to change the rule. We're now
33:30
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, both teams get a turn. And then
33:33
Speaker 1: we saw it this year. It was at the Super Bowl.
33:35
Speaker 1: We saw it where everyone even knows the rules. All right,
33:38
Speaker 1: let's go to Ali. He's in Iceland.
33:43
Speaker 3: A little mistatement.
33:45
Speaker 1: How are you doing?
33:46
Speaker 3: Pretty good? Care? How about you?
33:48
Speaker 1: I'm good.
33:49
Speaker 3: I tried to call last show, but I'm here covering
33:53
Speaker 3: it up. The volcano is hot and your work shifts,
33:58
Speaker 3: so you're gonna pay attention. Pull up to self coverage
34:00
Speaker 3: is bad. I got I gotta comment and a question.
34:06
Speaker 3: I got an awesome trivia for you. Okay, the last call.
34:11
Speaker 3: The last time I called, I think I couldn't explain
34:16
Speaker 3: what I meant. I know Cowboys draft well, especially lower
34:21
Speaker 3: traffics and free agents. My question tried to explain was
34:28
Speaker 3: the sanity of this salary cap is? It's mind bargling
34:35
Speaker 3: and Cowboys always being thread center that I said a
34:40
Speaker 3: lot of trends in the NFL. Whoever is going to
34:43
Speaker 3: figure out this salary cap sanity, they're going to have
34:47
Speaker 3: the very success because this year is just going going
34:50
Speaker 3: up and down with every team. The question I have
34:54
Speaker 3: for you is can't I tribute for the t shirt
35:02
Speaker 3: agenda for a storyline Cowboys Nations?
35:10
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna have like a serious, serious question,
35:14
Speaker 1: and maybe that is serious. It is.
35:18
Speaker 3: Something else, yeah, because you know neck, honestly, I still
35:22
Speaker 3: haven't gone over the Green Bay. I forget about it.
35:25
Speaker 3: Then it just burnt. It was such a great opportunity.
35:29
Speaker 3: I know if I've heard, I know a lot of
35:31
Speaker 3: Cowboys out there feeling the head as well, because it's
35:35
Speaker 3: just like it's been so long and I feel like
35:38
Speaker 3: we are like a New York Yankee La Laker. You
35:41
Speaker 3: are so good, but we don't win anything, you know. So,
35:45
Speaker 3: but here's my trivia for you. Inside of the volcano,
35:50
Speaker 3: just watching the paint dry. So I dis barning it myself,
35:54
Speaker 3: I swear to God, so you can ask Chris for
35:57
Speaker 3: help if you wish to. So here you go. Okay,
36:01
Speaker 3: how many ex Cowboys players being drafted by Dallas Cowboys
36:09
Speaker 3: or signed as an undrafted free agent, left the Cowboys
36:19
Speaker 3: and won the Super Bowl with another team, excluding the
36:24
Speaker 3: Marcus there?
36:27
Speaker 1: Why why why are we excluding him?
36:30
Speaker 3: Because that is the obvious one, you know.
36:33
Speaker 1: So somebody the Cowboys drafted or they brought in as undrafted,
36:39
Speaker 1: so they were on the team. Then they left and
36:42
Speaker 1: they and they came back and then they won a
36:44
Speaker 1: super Bowl.
36:45
Speaker 3: They won the Super Bowl with the other team.
36:48
Speaker 7: This is easy.
36:50
Speaker 1: How are you asking how many?
36:52
Speaker 5: Yeah?
36:53
Speaker 3: Or just lame me three?
36:56
Speaker 1: I got one? Okay, well, all right, that's a good one.
37:01
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Appreciate that we're gonna we have
37:06
Speaker 1: to do this right now. Can we go through the whole?
37:08
Speaker 1: Can we go through the You can't do it?
37:10
Speaker 3: But by the way, I don't. I usually call one
37:14
Speaker 3: so twice a month. I don't want to hog the phone,
37:17
Speaker 3: give you opportunity. All the new phone calls up coming, right,
37:21
Speaker 3: So so I just tried to mind mind my manners. Plus,
37:24
Speaker 3: nobody want to hear from me every every every week,
37:27
Speaker 3: you know, right, right right?
37:28
Speaker 1: But I hang up on this out there covering well
37:32
Speaker 1: volcano in Iceland. Awesome, All right, let's go let's go
37:38
Speaker 1: to Josh in Chicago.
37:43
Speaker 11: Gosh, hey, Nick, how are you doing?
37:45
Speaker 6: You?
37:46
Speaker 11: Sorry about that. I couldn't hear you at first. You're good,
37:50
Speaker 11: so not too bad here like most fans, you know,
37:54
Speaker 11: I understand Jerry didn't you know exactly come out and
37:57
Speaker 11: say all in. But the thing I've been thinking about
38:00
Speaker 11: out with this, the whole comment isn't so much free agency.
38:03
Speaker 11: I think we all know their approach. It's the in
38:05
Speaker 11: season trades that kind of bugged me personally. You're looking
38:08
Speaker 11: back at twenty twenty two, I kind of wonder why
38:11
Speaker 11: they didn't pull the trigger on Brandon Cooks until the
38:13
Speaker 11: off season of last year, right when we needed offensive weapons.
38:16
Speaker 11: And I think if we're looking for all in as fans,
38:19
Speaker 11: maybe we shouldn't be upset about free agency, but maybe
38:21
Speaker 11: be more looking to what they actually do in the season.
38:24
Speaker 11: If they need a piece like a linebacker, or they
38:27
Speaker 11: need a defensive tackle, or they need a running back
38:30
Speaker 11: this season, do we actually pull the trigger on giving
38:32
Speaker 11: up some of the future, then what we know what
38:35
Speaker 11: the team actually is, especially now that I think they're moving.
38:39
Speaker 11: One of the rules I think, or one of the
38:40
Speaker 11: changes coming out is they're moving the date for the
38:44
Speaker 11: trade deadline now, I think as well, so it might
38:48
Speaker 11: be more interesting to see where the team's at in
38:49
Speaker 11: week nine, I think is what they said they're going
38:52
Speaker 11: to change it to and see if there's a trade
38:55
Speaker 11: piece that we should give up for and maybe go
38:57
Speaker 11: all in at that point.
38:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean I like that. I do like
39:02
Speaker 1: that that the trade deadline getting pushed back. I don't
39:04
Speaker 1: really understand why they didn't in the first place. I
39:07
Speaker 1: think it's only like fifty five percent of the season
39:10
Speaker 1: is being played, and that was very low. They were
39:13
Speaker 1: playing at like forty percent of the season before they
39:15
Speaker 1: moved it. Before you know, did they close the trade deadline,
39:19
Speaker 1: So it makes more sense to me. I like that one.
39:22
Speaker 11: And then the only question I have for you, and
39:24
Speaker 11: I'm not sure if this was how it was last season,
39:27
Speaker 11: but I noticed that Hunter Lipkey was moot or his
39:31
Speaker 11: the on the depth chart and the roster it actually
39:34
Speaker 11: lists him as a running back now, So I don't
39:36
Speaker 11: know if they plan on maybe using him more as
39:38
Speaker 11: a running back than a fall back this year, or
39:40
Speaker 11: if they've completely changed it and said, hey, the mindset
39:43
Speaker 11: is your running back now. But I noticed that was
39:45
Speaker 11: a change. I was wondering if you may have heard
39:46
Speaker 11: anything about that.
39:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't know if there's a change
39:51
Speaker 1: so much on that. I mean, I think I think
39:54
Speaker 1: he's he's going to play some running back. I think that,
39:57
Speaker 1: you know, but the idea is to keep him kind
39:59
Speaker 1: of in a hybrid full back h back type role.
40:04
Speaker 1: I don't think he's necessarily going to be like a
40:07
Speaker 1: running back, but you know, they feel like that. You know,
40:09
Speaker 1: they can get him the football if as long as
40:11
Speaker 1: he hangs on to it. I mean, you know that
40:12
Speaker 1: that was he fumbled in Miami, and I don't think
40:15
Speaker 1: he got another carry the rest of the season. So, uh,
40:17
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's got to prove to them you know
40:19
Speaker 1: that he can do that for sure.
40:22
Speaker 11: Well good talking to a storyline team this year.
40:26
Speaker 1: All right, going for it. I love it, and thanks
40:28
Speaker 1: for the call. Let's go back. And Ali had said that,
40:31
Speaker 1: but he was asking to pay for the shirts. You know,
40:35
Speaker 1: I think we got I think we have the money
40:37
Speaker 1: for that. I mean, I mean, I know, Jerry, you
40:39
Speaker 1: know the salary cap, they're kind of they're under the cap,
40:43
Speaker 1: but you know, we might have a few bucks where
40:45
Speaker 1: we could do that. We'll see. We'll see. We got
40:48
Speaker 1: kind of a strict cap specialist in our department too. Well,
40:53
Speaker 1: we'll see. That's the goals. Get some get some T
40:55
Speaker 1: shirts for the for the all storyline. Uh team members. Uh,
40:59
Speaker 1: there was a few of them. I mean there was.
41:01
Speaker 1: There was definitely a few that made it. I think
41:04
Speaker 1: I think I did twenty four, maybe thirty two. I
41:07
Speaker 1: think at the thirty two if you count some honorable mentions,
41:10
Speaker 1: then we had a few more, so almost almost up
41:12
Speaker 1: to fifty. But that's okay, all right, good stuff, let's go.
41:17
Speaker 1: The trivia question that Ali asked was which players were
41:22
Speaker 1: drafted by the Cowboys, either drafted or signed in free
41:26
Speaker 1: agency and then went on to win a Super Bowl.
41:29
Speaker 1: And he's taking DeMarcus wear out because that was too easy.
41:33
Speaker 1: So he said there were three. I mean I've got
41:36
Speaker 1: I've got four. Chris, you said there was an easy
41:38
Speaker 1: one maybe on the phone. Now there is an easy one. Walls,
41:45
Speaker 1: Everson Walls. Okay, did Neverson Walls free agent by the Cowboys?
41:50
Speaker 2: Right?
41:51
Speaker 1: I mean I went on and won.
41:52
Speaker 10: The Super Bowl with the Giants?
41:54
Speaker 5: Right?
41:54
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean Damian Wilson, Right, I've got Gervarious Ward,
41:59
Speaker 1: Ken Norton Junior, Anthony Hitchins, Dan Hitchells, I got him. Yeah,
42:02
Speaker 1: So I don't know if there's just three. I may
42:04
Speaker 1: I think he just said just just name three. So yeah,
42:09
Speaker 1: there's definitely he just said name three. So those are three.
42:11
Speaker 1: I mean the Chiefs Chiefs are doing that for them. Yeah,
42:15
Speaker 1: but Ken Norton Junior did it in you know, ninety
42:19
Speaker 1: ninety four, I mean yeah, ninety four. I mean he
42:22
Speaker 1: had you know, went to went to the forty nine ers,
42:25
Speaker 1: so he won actually won three straight Super Bowls ninety two,
42:27
Speaker 1: ninety three, ninety four. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't think
42:31
Speaker 1: of of Everson Walls should have. I mean, you know,
42:35
Speaker 1: in those eighties, those eighties guys like that, there wasn't
42:38
Speaker 1: weren't a lot. I mean, Steve Diassi, I don't know,
42:42
Speaker 1: he might have won one.
42:43
Speaker 10: And if you really want to put it here, Isaiah standback,
42:48
Speaker 10: he has a Super Bowl with the Giant.
42:49
Speaker 1: Yep, he was drafted here. So yeah, yeah, Isaiah, Isaiah standback.
42:54
Speaker 1: Yeah that counts. Why had you whisper Chris, I'm just thinking,
42:58
Speaker 1: I mean he didn't play in the game, but he
42:59
Speaker 1: was part of teams. Yeah, all right, phones ringing. You
43:02
Speaker 1: get answered back there all right, Jeff in Salt Lake City, Utah.
43:07
Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, how you doing?
43:07
Speaker 1: I'm good? How you doing?
43:09
Speaker 2: I'm all right. Just wanted to bring up a past player.
43:12
Speaker 2: Do you remember Kareem Larimore, West Texas A and M.
43:16
Speaker 1: Yes, I remember.
43:18
Speaker 2: I believe that was the Dwayne Goodrich draft, as well
43:21
Speaker 2: as Mario Edwards, and I believe back then they said
43:24
Speaker 2: that he had the most talent at all the three corners.
43:27
Speaker 1: I remember walking out on the practice field at the
43:30
Speaker 1: first Ricky Mini camp and one of the scouts said
43:34
Speaker 1: that Larimore's got the quickest feat he's seen since Dion Sanders.
43:38
Speaker 1: Of course, I was like, you gotta remember I went
43:42
Speaker 1: to college at Midwestern State University to Division two school
43:45
Speaker 1: here in Texas and one of the rival schools is
43:48
Speaker 1: West Texas A and M. So Kareem Larimore, I kind
43:50
Speaker 1: of I had. I had heard of him for sure
43:54
Speaker 1: there at at at w T up there by Amarillo,
43:59
Speaker 1: and so I'd heard of him, and I knew he
44:02
Speaker 1: was a really talented player. Just had some you know,
44:04
Speaker 1: off the field issues to kind of deal with, but
44:07
Speaker 1: you know, he was. He never really panned out. He
44:10
Speaker 1: actually played in the Arena League for the Dallas Esperadoes.
44:13
Speaker 1: But yeah, I do. I do remember him a little bit,
44:19
Speaker 1: and I just you know, I always was like rooting
44:21
Speaker 1: for him. I always thought he was going to be,
44:23
Speaker 1: you know, a good player. He just just didn didn't
44:26
Speaker 1: didn't pan out, didn't work out. You know.
44:28
Speaker 2: I always I love the skill guys. So I brought
44:31
Speaker 2: up another corner, just like Aaron or Derek Ross last week. Yeah,
44:35
Speaker 2: I gotta gotta gott a thing for the skill guys.
44:38
Speaker 2: But I wanted to ask you a question I told
44:41
Speaker 2: Chris I I hadn't been listening today, so sorry if
44:44
Speaker 2: I repeat anything, but just finding out today about the
44:48
Speaker 2: surgeries for Masie and Scoon Maker, and my question is
44:51
Speaker 2: more based towards Mazzie Smith with Hank and signing with Seattle.
44:56
Speaker 2: Probably gonna be a big year for Mazzi probably are
45:00
Speaker 2: I believe Zim says they're going to try to put
45:02
Speaker 2: weight on him, put the weight back on him to
45:05
Speaker 2: be a nose tackle. With the shoulder surgery and not
45:09
Speaker 2: being able to go through the offseason workout routine and
45:11
Speaker 2: probably lifting like that, you think it's obviously injuries a setback,
45:17
Speaker 2: but we're going to need him this year. What are
45:19
Speaker 2: your thoughts on that? You think it's going to be
45:21
Speaker 2: pretty difficult for him to gain that weight back and
45:24
Speaker 2: get that strength back that he was known for Michigan,
45:27
Speaker 2: because yeah, we're really going to need him to stop
45:30
Speaker 2: the run this year. So just wanted your thoughts on that.
45:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, a little disappointing that does hear about that, especially
45:35
Speaker 1: a guy that needs to have a great offseason. What
45:39
Speaker 1: if you're losing weight, gain and weight whatever it is,
45:41
Speaker 1: just get to the weight you need to be at
45:44
Speaker 1: strength to strength, You're going to be strong. He's very
45:47
Speaker 1: very strong already, but it's unfortunate that you're dealing with
45:51
Speaker 1: that and he's going to be out a lot, you know,
45:53
Speaker 1: a lot of the off season. You know, that's that
45:56
Speaker 1: That was the issue I thought was scoon Maker. Last
45:58
Speaker 1: year he missed some time in the offseason and then
46:02
Speaker 1: just didn't really get into the flow. So I don't
46:04
Speaker 1: think he's going to be in that same level. But
46:06
Speaker 1: I do Scoonmaker. I think he's much further along different surgery.
46:10
Speaker 1: But but yeah, down of a setback there, especially when
46:13
Speaker 1: you when you consider you've lost Gallimore, you've lost Hankins,
46:17
Speaker 1: and so you know, I don't know if they're going
46:18
Speaker 1: to draft a defensive tackle right off the bat, but
46:21
Speaker 1: they're they're they're definitely thin at that at that spot.
46:25
Speaker 2: Right and I know I mean strictly him and Osa
46:28
Speaker 2: right now. So I just I hope that the pressure
46:33
Speaker 2: isn't too big for him, especially now with the loss
46:36
Speaker 2: of d tackles and stuff like that and having to
46:38
Speaker 2: go through the offseason workout or not being able to
46:41
Speaker 2: go through the off season routine like I'm sure he
46:43
Speaker 2: was hoping to. So I just I hope he succeeds.
46:47
Speaker 2: Being an Ohio State fan, the rivalry they have with Michigan,
46:50
Speaker 2: He's he was a really good player in college, So
46:52
Speaker 2: I hope he. I hope he is able to figure
46:55
Speaker 2: it out and succeed this year. I just wanted to
46:58
Speaker 2: talk to you about that, and so thanks again for
47:00
Speaker 2: taking my call. And I'm going for that old storyline.
47:03
Speaker 5: You are.
47:04
Speaker 1: You definitely are. I think called three or four times
47:06
Speaker 1: in a row. Appreciate it. Thank you so much, Jeff,
47:09
Speaker 1: Jeff and Salt Lake City you tall. His numbers are
47:12
Speaker 1: getting up there as well. All right, let's go to
47:17
Speaker 1: Danny in Kentucky. First time caller, Danny.
47:21
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, first time caller. How's it going today?
47:26
Speaker 1: Here we go, here we go? Now it's efficient.
47:29
Speaker 11: How you doing doing pretty good?
47:31
Speaker 5: I just wanted to call.
47:32
Speaker 12: I listened to you all the time. I love all
47:35
Speaker 12: the shows. Listen to all the shows.
47:36
Speaker 6: Love Brian brought us a lot.
47:38
Speaker 12: Listen to him. I want to five fan too. But
47:41
Speaker 12: I had a question that I know a lot of
47:43
Speaker 12: the fans have called in and talked about. But if
47:48
Speaker 12: you had an option to trade Prescott, Deck, Prescott and
47:53
Speaker 12: Micah Parsons and get in the first first three picks
47:59
Speaker 12: this year and the most picture you can get from
48:02
Speaker 12: Mika And obviously Dak has a no trade clause, But
48:06
Speaker 12: I do know that there are pressures and things you
48:09
Speaker 12: can do to try to even if you have to
48:12
Speaker 12: pay some of his salary, like some of the other
48:14
Speaker 12: teams have done to trade him Draft one, two or
48:19
Speaker 12: three the quarterback this year one, two or three. I
48:21
Speaker 12: think all three of those guys are pretty strong, and
48:24
Speaker 12: load up on free agents. Now you have eighty million
48:31
Speaker 12: dollars of salary cap money to go out there and
48:34
Speaker 12: try to win this year. One's your thoughts on that?
48:39
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, that seems seems pretty fairy tale like.
48:43
Speaker 1: But I'll be honest, if I traded Dak and I
48:47
Speaker 1: had one of the top three picks, I don't think
48:49
Speaker 1: I'm taking a quarterback, so, which I know that sounds weird, probably,
48:55
Speaker 1: but I don't think I wouldn't do that. If I
48:57
Speaker 1: was in the top three picks, I would not draft
48:58
Speaker 1: a quarterback this year. So that's just my take.
49:03
Speaker 6: Why would you not draft the quarterback?
49:05
Speaker 3: I don't.
49:06
Speaker 1: I don't think you have to take a quarterback because
49:09
Speaker 1: they're the considered the top. I think if you get
49:13
Speaker 1: if you get a quarterback that is a you know,
49:16
Speaker 1: going to be a generational type player. Yes, I'm for that,
49:21
Speaker 1: but I think these guys are just the best of
49:23
Speaker 1: the of the group right now. And I still don't
49:26
Speaker 1: think I wouldn't trust them to say these are going
49:29
Speaker 1: to be the you know. I I think if you
49:31
Speaker 1: go with position players, you know, I mean you think
49:36
Speaker 1: about the quarterbacks. You get top quarterbacks up there, they
49:38
Speaker 1: don't always work out most of the time. If you
49:41
Speaker 1: get a if you get an offensive lineman or receiver
49:45
Speaker 1: or something, they're they're usually pretty good. You pass rusher,
49:49
Speaker 1: those guys are good. So I don't know, I mean,
49:52
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Joe Burrow comes wrong. You take him
49:55
Speaker 1: at Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, but I don't. I don't feel
49:57
Speaker 1: that way about Caleb Williams. I don't feel that way
50:00
Speaker 1: about May even jayde Daniels. And then now you've got
50:04
Speaker 1: McCarthy come in. I just I don't know, I don't
50:06
Speaker 1: feel I don't what's weird is that McCarthy's getting jumped
50:09
Speaker 1: up because of his record. Well, if that's the case,
50:12
Speaker 1: you know what, why is Caleb Williams up so high?
50:15
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? So it's just kind of weird.
50:16
Speaker 1: I neither one of those guys. And then I'm sorry
50:19
Speaker 1: I didn't play along with the question there. I just
50:21
Speaker 1: I probably would draft different guys. I would draft, you know,
50:25
Speaker 1: maybe the best offensive lineman or maybe one of those
50:28
Speaker 1: pass rushers or something like that. I don't know. I
50:31
Speaker 1: just see too many quarterbacks drafted in the middle rounds
50:33
Speaker 1: Dak included. That can get the job done. Now you
50:36
Speaker 1: have to deal with some bumps and bruises there, but
50:39
Speaker 1: for the most part, you know, I just I don't.
50:42
Speaker 1: I don't get pressured into taking a quarterback just because
50:44
Speaker 1: you kind of need one. And these guys are considered
50:46
Speaker 1: the best. There's just been too many.
50:49
Speaker 12: I agree on that completely. I agree that it just
50:52
Speaker 12: resets that five year money that you're paying Dak after
50:55
Speaker 12: eight years, Yeah, feel we need to reset that money
50:58
Speaker 12: and get that's why all these teams are now winning.
51:01
Speaker 12: And again, the top three picks I would do this
51:04
Speaker 12: year is the center from Oregon, Sweat from Texas, and
51:07
Speaker 12: that Peyton Wilson linebacker in the third. If you can
51:10
Speaker 12: do that, and then if you just reset it with
51:13
Speaker 12: all this money that you got going on and then
51:15
Speaker 12: you're adding these free agents, you have a great chance.
51:19
Speaker 12: And I think again brought us some of those guys
51:21
Speaker 12: they're talking about, they're they're kind of resetting it now
51:23
Speaker 12: and not telling anybody.
51:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, maybe, but yeah, Sweat from Texas, he
51:30
Speaker 1: definitely looks good. I mean, he looks like a good player.
51:32
Speaker 1: And Murphy from Texas too.
51:35
Speaker 6: Yeah.
51:35
Speaker 1: So all right, well, Danny, how's your bracket looking?
51:41
Speaker 7: You know, not too bad.
51:42
Speaker 5: I grew up in North Carolina. I live in Kentucky now,
51:45
Speaker 5: but I'm big Tar Hills fans.
51:46
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so you're doing good?
51:48
Speaker 12: Yeah, you and me, Holly hope every thing win The whole.
51:51
Speaker 6: Thing this year.
51:52
Speaker 1: Nice. Uh yeah, most most practice from Kentucky probably aren't
51:56
Speaker 1: doing so no.
51:57
Speaker 12: No, no, no, that's I make fun of those guys
52:00
Speaker 12: every day. We have a good time with that.
52:03
Speaker 1: Nice all right, thanks for the call, appreciate it all right,
52:06
Speaker 1: first time caller there from Kentucky. Uh not a first
52:09
Speaker 1: time caller. This will be our last call. Tenth called
52:12
Speaker 1: Anthony in Miami. Let's close this thing out, right, Anthony,
52:15
Speaker 1: what's up?
52:17
Speaker 5: Nick? The quick? Let's close it out all right? Maybe
52:19
Speaker 5: how you doing?
52:19
Speaker 1: I'm good man, always thinking every time you say that,
52:22
Speaker 1: every time you call, I just think of Nick van
52:24
Speaker 1: Exell coming up down the court, you know, like doing
52:26
Speaker 1: his little like all. I think it's a little punching air.
52:31
Speaker 1: You know, Nick fight never been in a fight in
52:33
Speaker 1: his life, but he always did that. I loved him.
52:35
Speaker 5: He was always exactly exactly check this out. Let's close
52:40
Speaker 5: it out right then, Hey man, you said some important stuff, man,
52:43
Speaker 5: and I hope that people listen last week about other
52:46
Speaker 5: guys stepping up. You know, I tried to bring that
52:48
Speaker 5: up a couple of weeks ago, but not in the
52:49
Speaker 5: right way. But you you know, on that line, you know,
52:52
Speaker 5: Bass Hoffman they've got some action, they can do some things.
52:55
Speaker 5: They kind of interchangeable guard and center that might work.
52:58
Speaker 5: You know, Brooks and the other wide receiver jayaln Tober
53:02
Speaker 5: is time. Let's go step into your roles and the
53:04
Speaker 5: safety not really, I didn't want another say. I don't
53:07
Speaker 5: want a free and safety. I want I think Thomas
53:09
Speaker 5: number thirty and they got twenty four and mcconmmell, you
53:12
Speaker 5: know it's time and bail. Let's see what you got
53:14
Speaker 5: back there. Man, we don't need to spend money on that.
53:16
Speaker 5: I think we got some guys, some studs, actually, I
53:19
Speaker 5: really do.
53:20
Speaker 1: They're gonna find out. And I don't know if I
53:22
Speaker 1: disagree with you. I mean, I really like Janie Thomas.
53:25
Speaker 1: I think he has a chance to be a really
53:27
Speaker 1: good player. He's always around the ball, always doing some things.
53:31
Speaker 1: I like him a lot, and I think he just
53:33
Speaker 1: needs more playing time.
53:35
Speaker 5: Hey, he was on the Girls Their Girl Girls Talk Boys.
53:38
Speaker 5: I heard him on that podcast one time, right, he
53:40
Speaker 5: was there, And I mean, you know this guy, he
53:43
Speaker 5: knows the stuff and he wants to learn. So when
53:45
Speaker 5: you get a guy like that, and I saw some talent,
53:48
Speaker 5: you know that's it. Secondly, and last, once again. Michael Parsons. Man,
53:53
Speaker 5: I'm becoming a big Michael Parsons fan, and I know
53:55
Speaker 5: people are tired of him. Say he canceled out at
53:58
Speaker 5: the end of some games. Got a big mouth. Don't
54:00
Speaker 5: care about that. The man, what I'm saying is an anomaly.
54:03
Speaker 5: Trust me. I watch some more footage on him. I
54:05
Speaker 5: don't do no all twenty two. I just watch some
54:07
Speaker 5: games we played. That guy would have had four more
54:10
Speaker 5: secks easily. Look at the Seattle game with Geno. I
54:13
Speaker 5: mean the one when he had him on the ground
54:15
Speaker 5: and he should have been. I mean, they couldn't even
54:17
Speaker 5: block him. He gets through the line so quick. So
54:19
Speaker 5: all I can say is on defense, like how our
54:22
Speaker 5: offen shoul going around that? Give him his weapons. Give
54:24
Speaker 5: the man some help. You know, you got to cover
54:26
Speaker 5: him up with some good tackles. I mean, I know
54:28
Speaker 5: Hankins is okay, but give him that. Give him a
54:31
Speaker 5: middle linebacker, stud linebacker and just some tackle, some pluggers,
54:35
Speaker 5: and watch this guy go to work. That's all I
54:38
Speaker 5: want to say, right all right, I don't know.
54:39
Speaker 1: If I disagree with that either. I like that. I
54:41
Speaker 1: think they need something.
54:42
Speaker 5: Let's bring it.
54:43
Speaker 11: We brought it.
54:43
Speaker 5: Today, right, we brought.
54:45
Speaker 1: It all, right, Anthony, Yeah, I mean, you know, that's
54:49
Speaker 1: one thing we haven't really seen. It's kind of like
54:53
Speaker 1: a quarterback, you know, like you Romo was good for
54:56
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of those years, but he never
54:57
Speaker 1: had it, like a thousand yard rusher, so got DeMarco Murray.
55:01
Speaker 1: He had some good running games, but not a dynamic
55:04
Speaker 1: runner until like Murray came on and he rushed for
55:08
Speaker 1: a thousand yards a couple of times, and then you
55:10
Speaker 1: really started to see and then you're gonna pair him
55:11
Speaker 1: with you know, with Zeke, and that was you know,
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Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. So it's it's kind of the same
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Speaker 1: way I think of Parsons. He's never really had those
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Speaker 1: run stuffing middle linebackers to kind of stop the run
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Speaker 1: that can you know, allow you to do his thing.
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Speaker 1: So uh yeah, you know, Micah. Micah can be frustrating
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Speaker 1: for some fans that they just kind of wish he
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Speaker 1: would stay off of, you know, social media. It's it
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Speaker 1: seems like at times, you know, because he's so he
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Speaker 1: is different. I mean, it just seems like maybe he
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Speaker 1: doesn't care about the same things you think he should
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Speaker 1: care about, or not a team guy or whatever. I
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Speaker 1: don't know all that. I do know he's you know,
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Speaker 1: he's a unique person and player, and I think he
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Speaker 1: has a chance to mature and and you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: counting on that players people mature, and I think if
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Speaker 1: he does that just a little bit, gets it a
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Speaker 1: little bit more, you know, just shows more of a
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Speaker 1: team guy. He's a team guy. But just do it
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Speaker 1: a little bit more. Understand the game, keep getting better,
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Speaker 1: keep figuring out how to get better later in the season,
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Speaker 1: take care of his body, that kind of stuff. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he started out great, He started out great. I mean,
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Speaker 1: so who knows where this thing's going. I'm not a
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Speaker 1: big fan of trying to trade a player like that.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's so hard to get great football players,
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Speaker 1: and they drafted one that already was great. You know,
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Speaker 1: the sky's the limit on what it could be. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: I agree with kind of what Anthony was saying there.
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