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  Speaker 1: Here's Nick Eatman. Hello and welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented
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  Speaker 1: by Gellette. I'm Nick Eatman. It's Monday, December twenty second.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys lose a tough one. I don't know if it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's tough for you guys. Maybe it wasn't. But
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  Speaker 1: they lost thirty four seventeen to the Chargers. Man, that
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  Speaker 1: sucks nobody. I want to see them lose to more
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  Speaker 1: than that. You know, it's one of those This is
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  Speaker 1: one of those seasons where I can't remember remember the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys being out of it with three games to go,
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  Speaker 1: and of course that happened Saturday night. And even in
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  Speaker 1: the really bad years, like worse than this, it felt
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  Speaker 1: like the Cowboys still had some kind of weird chance.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, even the last game of the year, if
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  Speaker 1: you remember in twenty twenty, I believe there was an
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  Speaker 1: outside shot that they could maybe get in and then
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  Speaker 1: they finished six and ten, but they still, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're fighting til the very end. So three games to
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  Speaker 1: go like this, a lot of decisions, you know, most
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  Speaker 1: teams don't have to make, or the Cowboys really haven't.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't done that in a while, and so they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to make some decisions based off personnel and who
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  Speaker 1: they play and all that, and the players want to play.
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  Speaker 1: Dak says, you know, he's going to play and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. But we'll see, we'll see what happens here.
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  Speaker 1: Short rest going into Washington. So Washington's banged up as
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  Speaker 1: anybody in the league, it seems like. So it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be it's gonna be interesting to see how the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: kind of navigate this last two games going up against
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  Speaker 1: Washington and the Giants are eight eight eight f five
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  Speaker 1: two two nine seven. Let's go to Michael and Bowling
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  Speaker 1: green Man.
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  Speaker 3: This is crazy. Three days from now, got to go
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  Speaker 3: back on the go on the road, play another game.
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  Speaker 3: Two teams that that are eliminated. I'm feel sorry for y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all got to go and watch two teams that you know,
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  Speaker 3: both eliminated on Christmas. It's just I don't know, it's
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  Speaker 3: just terrible, I believe, I mean, you know, I'll probably
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  Speaker 3: watch it this still, it's like seems like a waste.
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  Speaker 3: It's a it's a it's a holiday. But uh, let
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  Speaker 3: me ask you real quick, what do you think about
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  Speaker 3: that if Dak's last two games, if he does five
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  Speaker 3: yards better than Stafford, it'd be the first Cowboys quarterback
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  Speaker 3: ever to finished the season with the most yards in
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  Speaker 3: the season, first one ever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a hard time thinking that that he'll
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  Speaker 1: get that many you know reps. I know that they
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  Speaker 1: you know, Dak says he wants to play. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you saw, I mean, they sat down seventeen and
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  Speaker 1: they put Milton in, and you know, I think that
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  Speaker 1: there's some people that want to see Milton going into
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  Speaker 1: next year, to just see him a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: But he can sling it. I mean, he threw that
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  Speaker 1: that deep ball to CD and it got negated because
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  Speaker 1: it was a PI, but CD lined up off sides.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, if he you know, I'm I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the Rams, if the Rams are
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  Speaker 1: going to keep Stafford in, and I mean that feels
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  Speaker 1: like they're going to have to play this out for
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  Speaker 1: the for the you know, for the one seed or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, trust me, I know the Cowboys are
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  Speaker 1: out of it, but on top of that, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really know all the all the all the stand there,
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I would have thought that at
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  Speaker 1: some point in sixty something year, sixty sixty six seasons,
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  Speaker 1: I guess that somebody would lead the league in the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys history with passing yards. But I know obviously had
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  Speaker 1: some runners do it, but not not the passer, so
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  Speaker 1: that that would be interesting. You know, I saw that
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  Speaker 1: the stat where the Cowboys were actually found the stat myself,
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  Speaker 1: so I didn't see it. I found it. But the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys that had two one thousand yard receivers, a thousand
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  Speaker 1: yard runner in a four thousand yard passers only the
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  Speaker 1: second time that's happened, and Dak is to be in
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback both times twenty nineteen and then twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: and both times they didn't make the playoffs. So all
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  Speaker 1: these stats, all these yards, all these this you know,
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  Speaker 1: milestone type things, they don't lead to wins. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know, Michael, I mean, thanks for saying that. I
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  Speaker 1: guess about feeling sorry for us, but I mean I
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  Speaker 1: trust me when I tell you, I mean, don't feel
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  Speaker 1: sorry for me, like like you can feel sorry for
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  Speaker 1: other people, what not for me. I believe me, nobody
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  Speaker 1: loves Christmas Day more than me. Nobody loves being there
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  Speaker 1: and with their family and the kids all over there
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  Speaker 1: and the paper wrappers, everything and toys. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: And it's it's going to be taken from us this
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  Speaker 1: year on that day, But the next day it'll feel
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  Speaker 1: the same, hopefully, hopefully it'll feel the same, and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: it'll be the same, and it'll be it'll be great,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we'll talk about it more. Other people,
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  Speaker 1: I guess call in about it, but I just I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel bad about it, all right, Uh, davey
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  Speaker 1: on and Illinois.
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  Speaker 4: Next, Hey, what's that big job?
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  Speaker 1: Hey? How you doing what it do?
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  Speaker 4: I'm all, I'm I'm not all right, but I'm okay.
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  Speaker 5: H m hm.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be. It's gonna be along off season
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  Speaker 4: once again. It's been thirty years of pain. But uh,
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  Speaker 4: I really wanted to see the fight yesterday and I
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  Speaker 4: don't know what happened. I just really don't. I really
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  Speaker 4: don't understand how we have nothing on the line but
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  Speaker 4: we still come out and come flat. We have two
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  Speaker 4: halves of one half of good, good football, the second
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  Speaker 4: half of just I don't know, spressing with the offense.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm you know, last couple of weeks now we
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  Speaker 4: started to look at Shotty light, what's up?
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  Speaker 6: What's up?
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  Speaker 7: Bro?
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  Speaker 4: The offense ain't really cooking like it needs to be
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  Speaker 4: cooking because we already know the defenses. It is what
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  Speaker 4: it is. We're gonna still for Murray out there, but
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  Speaker 4: we need offense at least I do a little something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: So it was a tough watch yesterday. So I guess
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  Speaker 4: last class couple of weeks, we're gonna probably see that
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  Speaker 4: that much, especially in the last game. I'm hoping they
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  Speaker 4: play him in the Washington game, but we'll see how
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  Speaker 4: long he goes. It'll be a blowout because there's two
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  Speaker 4: teams that really got nothing to play for, really getting
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  Speaker 4: to play for but thing washing on their third quarterback
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  Speaker 4: of Mary. Other team make it back. But I really so,
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  Speaker 4: I guess Christmas Christmas game? What what are the things
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  Speaker 4: you're looking forward to see? Maybe before the future.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, all right, Davian, thanks thanks for the call.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I mean for the for the future. I
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  Speaker 1: mean when you when the first thing that popped up
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  Speaker 1: when you said that was just revel I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and now you got to make sure he's okay.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how you know he I think he's he's fine.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna be playing through him. He's a guy there
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  Speaker 1: that you you want to you know, you want him
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  Speaker 1: to get out there and get the reps and develop.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I'd like to see Tyler Giton get
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  Speaker 1: back out there. I mean, just just because he and
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  Speaker 1: I think he needs to. He needs to do that now.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see. But this Tyler Smith situation,
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  Speaker 1: if he's going to play, I mean, it was out
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  Speaker 1: of necessity and they wanted their five best linemen out there.
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  Speaker 1: But something makes me think maybe, you know, maybe maybe
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  Speaker 1: they do look at this long term. And I've said
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  Speaker 1: all along, I think he's a guard. I think he's
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  Speaker 1: I think he's amazing where he can do both. But
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing to do both. It's another thing to
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  Speaker 1: be elite at both. And there's a reason why Zach
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  Speaker 1: Martin didn't want to do it. Jack Martin was pretty
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  Speaker 1: adamant about it. I'm a guard. Could he play tackle?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: And he did a couple of times. Larry Allen moved
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  Speaker 1: out there, Larry Allen moved back to gard and that's
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  Speaker 1: where they were great and that's why they're both going
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  Speaker 1: to be in the Hall of Fame, those two. If
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Smith can be a great left tackle, okay, all
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  Speaker 1: day long, let's do it. If he and they got
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  Speaker 1: to make sure to the contract right, because they did
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  Speaker 1: a contract for him being one of the best guards.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't do that for tackle, so they got to
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  Speaker 1: make sure his work and he even I think alluded
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  Speaker 1: to that, like you know what what it is worth
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  Speaker 1: is and all that. So long as that that's right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. However, but he's got he can't
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  Speaker 1: just be a good left tackle. I mean wherever he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be elite and all pro, that's where he
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  Speaker 1: needs to be. And if he can do that, great,
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  Speaker 1: But because I think you can find a guard, think
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  Speaker 1: about if you were drafting late in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: You're drafting late in the first round and try to
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  Speaker 1: get a tackle, good luck, and they tried with Geiton
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  Speaker 1: it's not working out yet. You get a guard in
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  Speaker 1: the first round, even if it's late, you're probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: get a really good one. So the value there, I'd
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  Speaker 1: be okay with that. Again, the caveat is he's got
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  Speaker 1: to be elite. He's got to be elite. I mean
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  Speaker 1: wherever he is going to be elite is where he
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  Speaker 1: needs to play. All right, Raza in Virginia is next Rosa.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Chris, how you doing? Happy holidays?
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 9: Nick? Nick?
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  Speaker 10: Nick?
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  Speaker 8: I know, yeah, good good good. So last time yesterday's game,
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  Speaker 8: uh just gave me that. So basically I want to
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  Speaker 8: just talk about because the holiday is my holiday wish list.
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  Speaker 8: After watching yesterday's game, I would hope we get a
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  Speaker 8: new DC just I don't know someone that. I just
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  Speaker 8: think we need a new DC and just revamp that
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  Speaker 8: whole defense. Another holiday wish list I would have is
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  Speaker 8: we can sign GP with this offseason with no drama.
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  Speaker 8: I would like to have a drama free contract negotiation
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  Speaker 8: if that's possible. And then and then on Javonte Williams,
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  Speaker 8: I think I wouldn't. I like him. I want to
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  Speaker 8: go over like five million for him. I think the
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  Speaker 8: past couple of years we've had two running backs that
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  Speaker 8: hit us hit a thousand yards.
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  Speaker 11: That you know, didn't go over the banks.
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  Speaker 8: I think we can do that again or may be
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  Speaker 8: draft a rookie in this draft, and then that's like
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  Speaker 8: my offseason wishless and uh. And then just stack up
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  Speaker 8: on defense and get this defense right for next year,
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  Speaker 8: because I think if you can fun DP, this offense
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  Speaker 8: has mostly basically all the pieces we need. We saw
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  Speaker 8: that this year, and just you know, shack up on
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  Speaker 8: defense and then let's let's see what happens next year.
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  Speaker 8: And then I just one quick question for you. I'll
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  Speaker 8: listen off there. What's your favorite moment you've had in
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  Speaker 8: this rivalry Commander's Cowboys rivalry?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you well that that's an easy one RASA for me,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean I've said all along, it's not just
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  Speaker 1: a favorite game in the robbery, it's my favorite game
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  Speaker 1: of all time in the history of working. Here is
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  Speaker 1: the first game I ever covered, you know, for that
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  Speaker 1: was a regular season game, and it was Washington nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine. I mean, it's it's obviously my my favorite
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  Speaker 1: and for a lot of reasons, because you know, I
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  Speaker 1: love you know, I love college football, and I loved
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  Speaker 1: watching rocket Ismael. I mean, rocket Is Mall was awesome, man.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that I wasn't really a Notre Dame fan,
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  Speaker 1: but I rooted for them just because he was just
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  Speaker 1: such a fun player to watch, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought they were gonna maybe get him in ninety
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  Speaker 1: one and it didn't happen in the CFO and went
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  Speaker 1: to other places all that, and here I am. I
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  Speaker 1: start working for the team in ninety nine and they
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  Speaker 1: signed Rocket and I'm like, wow, this is awesome. And
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  Speaker 1: so that whole game, I mean, em and Michael Troy,
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  Speaker 1: they they're the reason that the copies were down twenty one,
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  Speaker 1: They're the reason they came back tied. A game gets overtime,
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  Speaker 1: Rocket wins it with a seventy five yard bomb. I
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  Speaker 1: mean that was my very first game first, you know,
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  Speaker 1: road Trip and all that, and you're just like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is what's going to be like and and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't really, but that was that was amazing and I'll
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  Speaker 1: never forget that one. So that's my favorite game and
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  Speaker 1: of all time. And so obviously the favorite Washington game.
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  Speaker 1: Got a wishlist there in New DC. Okay, sign GP
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  Speaker 1: and don't go overboard on Javante. I don't think they
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  Speaker 1: will go overboard because I think they see what you see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like, Okay, we're gonna sign this guy for
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  Speaker 1: cheap and he has a really good year. They you know,
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  Speaker 1: Rico dal had a good year. I mean, so it's
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  Speaker 1: three guys in a row, three different players have had
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  Speaker 1: one thousand yard rushing seasons. It's the most in Cowboys history.
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  Speaker 1: I think it tied another year. But they've never had four. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because in fourteen, DeMarco Murray had a huge year, McFadden
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  Speaker 1: in fifteen, and then obviously Zeke and sixteen. But they've
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  Speaker 1: never had four consecutive guys that have had a thousand
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  Speaker 1: yard seasons in a row. And then Tony Poler did it.
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  Speaker 1: Rico Davante. I'd like to see Javonte back, but again,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, it's got to be at the right
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  Speaker 1: price on that one. All right, let's go back to
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  Speaker 1: the phone line. Chris, call him up. I can't. I
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  Speaker 1: can't pull it up. I know we have a color les.
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  Speaker 11: What's up, Less, what's up?
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  Speaker 9: Nick?
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Hey?
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  Speaker 10: I'm doing good man? Uh? My boys lost, but you
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  Speaker 10: know whatever, but we still got next year. Always, I
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  Speaker 10: want to I want to just go back to something
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  Speaker 10: I said a couple of years ago, and I've just
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  Speaker 10: been holding my my thoughts since then. I really believe
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  Speaker 10: Tyler Smith for what we have right now, he should
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  Speaker 10: be the left tackle. Rather have a good left tackle
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  Speaker 10: than the left tackle. That's kind of questionable and maybe
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  Speaker 10: not great, but good at least good. This would be
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  Speaker 10: my lineup for the offensive line starting to starting a
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  Speaker 10: training camp with what we have now. I know it's
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  Speaker 10: changed because people could leave or whatever, but this would
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  Speaker 10: be my starting lineup what we have now, Tyler Smith
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  Speaker 10: at left tackle, still left guard, Phoebe Thinner, Booker, Guidon Uh.
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  Speaker 10: If we don't half steal, I say putting Nate at
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  Speaker 10: left guard, starting to let at training camp what we
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  Speaker 10: have now. I also want to say something about what
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  Speaker 10: I was talking about the other day about leadership and
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  Speaker 10: trading people or getting rid of them, and they may
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  Speaker 10: be a leader or whatever. No, we don't know that.
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  Speaker 10: Nick Elsa's fans don't know that. But the people who
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  Speaker 10: are evaluating them, the Cowboys upper echeline of whoever evaluates,
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  Speaker 10: they should know who the leaders are. Okay, we don't know,
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  Speaker 10: of course, but they should know and they should have
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  Speaker 10: a replacement for them.
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  Speaker 7: If that's the.
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  Speaker 10: Case, Cowboys should win on Christmas. Merry Christmas, everybody go.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys all right, all right, thank you, Lester. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: guess you're carrying over a conversation from last week about
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  Speaker 1: the leadership, and I can't remember exactly how how that
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  Speaker 1: went down. And you know, leadership has done in its
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  Speaker 1: own and different ways too. I mean, and that's one
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  Speaker 1: thing I remember saying. But you know this, this team's
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  Speaker 1: got to I said this on the radio this morning
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  Speaker 1: and kind of turned into a rant, but I'll say
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  Speaker 1: it again here. I think one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: needs to change with this football team and the philosophy
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  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, there's one thing if
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to see differently. I mean, yeah, I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to see some some changes on maybe a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more aggressive free agency wise, because I do think you
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  Speaker 1: know that it's adapted a little differently now than it
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  Speaker 1: has in the past. But I would like to see
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  Speaker 1: a little less focus on the combine results and the
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  Speaker 1: measurables and traits and all that stuff. And a guy
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  Speaker 1: runs a four two nine, and this guy only runs
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  Speaker 1: a four to four to one, okay, But who loves football,
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  Speaker 1: who absolutely he hates to lose, Who is going to
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  Speaker 1: put in every ounce of their time and effort to
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  Speaker 1: go and be the best football player. I'm really tired
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  Speaker 1: of seeing these second round picks, third round picks, these
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  Speaker 1: guys that you're trying to steal first round talent. You're
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  Speaker 1: trying to you know, this guy, Oh, he's just as
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  Speaker 1: good as this guy, but he's in the second round
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  Speaker 1: because of this. And then a lot of times it's character,
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  Speaker 1: or it's an injury or any kind of off the
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  Speaker 1: field issues or just whatever it is, just doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: what it takes to be that first round pick, really
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  Speaker 1: good player. I don't know, has it worked out? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: really has it worked out? I mean Trayvon Diggs, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you would even put in them in
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  Speaker 1: that category. And you know, you're starting to see some
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons why he didn't make it in the
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  Speaker 1: first round, but you also saw some of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: why he was that. You know, so he Trayvon Diggs
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  Speaker 1: is kind of a tough one. But I mean some
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  Speaker 1: of the other guys that they drafted in the second
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  Speaker 1: round and third round like that, I'd rather not do that.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a player that absolutely hates to lose, because
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: if you hate to lose, even if you're not as fast,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: not as strong, whatever, but you're still a really good
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: player and you're gonna do everything it takes to win.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: If you care about football, you're gonna care about football
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. You're gonna do everything
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: you can to go out there and succeed and overachieve.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: And I think if you just look around, and body
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: language is tough to tell, but so many times you
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: look at these guys, it doesn't look like they care.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: It really doesn't. And they need more of those guys.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: And so they're a little bit slower on their forty
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: time or a little bit less on their bench press,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: They'll they'll figure it out. They'll be the ones in
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the weight room all all year in March, April, May,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: they'll be in here. They'll be in here and make
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: a tournament corner. From year one, year two, year three,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: they'll do it. You got to get those guys. And again,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I don't care if if they don't maybe don't have
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the same type of stuff. I mean, you still got
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: to be a good player. I'm not saying just just
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: draft all these you know, these boy scouts. I'm not
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: saying that. What I'm saying is is that they need
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I think they need to shift the focus a little
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: bit on guys that absolutely one hundred percent care about football,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Because if you care about football, you're always going to
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: care and you're going to make sure that you don't
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: suck it'll you'll you'll go out there with a little
• 19:24
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• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Let's get back to the phone lines. We got Josh
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: in Chicago. Josh what's up, Bud?
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: Hey man, how you doing?
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you?
• 21:28
  Speaker 14: Oh?
• 21:28
  Speaker 15: You know, I'm trying to get there there. Yeah, you know,
• 21:32
  Speaker 15: I usually try to be pretty quick in my calls,
• 21:34
  Speaker 15: but I might be a little long winded here. I apologize, right, Well,
• 21:37
  Speaker 15: I like what you.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Were just saying.
• 21:38
  Speaker 15: And I think Tyler Booker and Tyler Smith are some
• 21:40
  Speaker 15: guys that are kind of both. Right, they have the
• 21:42
  Speaker 15: physical traits, but they also love football and they study
• 21:46
  Speaker 15: and it's obvious, right, Like, I mean you're talking about
• 21:49
  Speaker 15: Tyler Smith earlier and just just look at him. I mean,
• 21:52
  Speaker 15: like he does it all, and he's smart and he
• 21:54
  Speaker 15: knows the scheme and he knows that what he has
• 21:57
  Speaker 15: to do.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Can I cut you off real quick? Because those of
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the guys that you drafted in the first round, because
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: because they love football and they have that and that
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: when you get to the second, third round, you're going
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to miss something. And so that's that's kind of what
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Yeah, I love the first round picks,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: but that leads me to another point. When you're done,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that later, yep.
• 22:15
  Speaker 15: And I mean we got a good guy in the
• 22:16
  Speaker 15: fourth round before, right, But it's not panning out all
• 22:18
  Speaker 15: the time, and that's the problem. I read your article
• 22:21
  Speaker 15: and I'll try to link it up about the can't
• 22:24
  Speaker 15: be bend and break, and I think that's one of
• 22:27
  Speaker 15: the things that really concerns me about eber Flus into
• 22:29
  Speaker 15: the future and this defense is it's hard to evaluate.
• 22:32
  Speaker 15: Is it the scheme, is it the coach?
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: Is it?
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: The talent?
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: Is it everything?
• 22:37
  Speaker 15: And that's what concerns me about having two first round picks,
• 22:39
  Speaker 15: and a lot of people are saying we got to
• 22:40
  Speaker 15: go defense on both of these. Well, if we go
• 22:43
  Speaker 15: defense and eber Flus is still here and I'm not
• 22:45
  Speaker 15: trying to call for his job necessarily, but how do
• 22:48
  Speaker 15: we know we don't pick up a scheme guy and
• 22:49
  Speaker 15: end up with another Morse Clayborn. And that's what's really
• 22:53
  Speaker 15: kind of fearful for me, is what are we really
• 22:55
  Speaker 15: going to draft for in the future, because we don't
• 22:57
  Speaker 15: have a lot of picks, and I think we'll probably
• 22:59
  Speaker 15: get some compensive and we'll probably trade around and make
• 23:02
  Speaker 15: some more picks. But to what you're saying, you know,
• 23:04
  Speaker 15: you've got to get the right people who understand football
• 23:09
  Speaker 15: and want to play football and love this sport, right right,
• 23:11
  Speaker 15: And that's my biggest fear going into the next season
• 23:13
  Speaker 15: and my biggest concern. The other thing I'll say, and
• 23:16
  Speaker 15: I know you were saying at the start of the show,
• 23:18
  Speaker 15: but personally for me, you know, I deployed in twenty twenty.
• 23:21
  Speaker 15: I missed everything, all the holidays, all that stuff. I
• 23:24
  Speaker 15: think it's a load of crap to have football games
• 23:28
  Speaker 15: on Christmas. We don't need it as a society. We
• 23:31
  Speaker 15: just don't, you know, let people be home with their families.
• 23:33
  Speaker 15: So I hope you guys get home in time to
• 23:35
  Speaker 15: at least, you know, have some dessert or something or
• 23:37
  Speaker 15: dinner with your guys families and you know, at safe travels,
• 23:40
  Speaker 15: Merry Christmas and talk to guys next week.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: All right, thanks, Josh. I'm just different about that, I am.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, I thanks for saying that. And believe me,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: my wife's not happy about it. Okay. I think Chris
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: will say the same his wife. We're not really happy
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: about this situation this year. And you can say all this,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: we can say whatever we want, sorry about how it's
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: going to be. But oh, I know I'll get a
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: phone call there at some point early in the morning
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: when we're in Washington and my wife's looking at Instagram
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and Facebook and all these other pictures of their friends
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: and all this stuff, and we don't have that. And
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: then you know, to see whoever's playing, you know, hopefully
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: it's that, but I it's not, you know. I mean,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it'd be one thing if the game went meant a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: little bit more, but that's nothing that you can predict.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, Cowboys Washington this late in the season, you
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: would expect one of the two teams is going to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: be fighting for something that's you know, asked for playing
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: on Christmas and all that stuff. Listen, I uh, it
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: just doesn't It doesn't really bother me.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: We know that there's a hypocrisy when it comes to
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the NFL and what they care about with with you know,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: concussion protocols and things like that and safety of the players.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: But you know, if they can find a way to
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: tap into them at market and play on a Tuesday night,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: they you know that that made sense. They probably would
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: do it. But I just look at it from a
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: standpoint of the obligation and Dak said it perfectly. I'm
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: not trying to be like Dak. I mean what he
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: said about him obligated to go out there and play.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: This is what we get to do. But but for me,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and I've always said this about Thanksgiving and I'll say
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: it about Christmas. You know, there are people that's their tradition.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: They watch the games. They have you know, family, and
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: they you know, they eat and all that stuff and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: they watch football. That's what they do. There's some people
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that do all their Christmas and then that night they
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: go to the movies. There are some people that are
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: going to be flying on airplanes and on Christmas Day. Well,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: somebody's got to do it. Someone's got to fly it,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: someone's got to work it. Someone's got to work the
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: movie theater. Someone's got to be get the games. Someone's
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: got to do it to give these people, you know,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: their tradition. And I'm okay with that. For me, I'm
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: okay with that. I'm okay with that obligation. I mean,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: we have a really awesome job. We really do. I mean,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: it's an awesome job. I got to take my daughter,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: who you know, eighteen years old, she's in freshman in college.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: She comes down, she gets to go to the game.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: She was at the game yesterday. She sit there. Need
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: to scoot over a little bit. You know, we we
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: have to do this interview. Stoo over, you have to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: go hang out with Lady Wilson for a little bit,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: get a picture and take out. She thought that was
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the coolest thing ever, you know, and it was. And
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: so my job has gotten me and to do some
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: really cool things. My family's got to do some cool things.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: It's just their sacrifices. And some of the sacrifices are
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: you're not there on Thanksgiving, or you're never there on Thanksgiving,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: and sometimes you're not there on Christmas. It doesn't matter
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: what the game is. And I'm okay with that. Then
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying everyone is or whatever, but you want
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to be you want to call in today and talk
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: to some of these people that are going to be
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: in Washington, and yeah, they'll they they might take you
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: up on that and be like, yeah, feel sorry for me.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Me personally, I'm okay with it because I understand what
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: what comes with the job. And I'm telling I mean,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I haven't missed the game in twenty five years. I'm
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: about to wrap up twenty five full years of not
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: missing the game. So and there's been Christmases, there's been birthdays,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: There's been things happening, and this is what we do.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: This is what we do, and so i'm i'm I'm
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: fine with it, and I'll be there and it'll be
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: press box food and Washington will be awful, but it'll
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: be you know what. We'll get home soon enough. Sorry,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: guys for the rant Keep ranting today, Lewis and Langston, Oklahoma.
• 27:39
  Speaker 16: No blessings, man, I understand. I definitely understand traditions and
• 27:43
  Speaker 16: traditions right, So blessed, blessed to see y'all because I
• 27:46
  Speaker 16: know y'all do. Y'all do what y'all do, and we
• 27:49
  Speaker 16: get to do what we do. So thank y'all for
• 27:51
  Speaker 16: all the.
• 27:51
  Speaker 15: Whole work that y'all do.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you, and thank you for saying that.
• 27:55
  Speaker 16: Well I was calling because lord, how's and man, oh man,
• 28:01
  Speaker 16: I don't know what I watched yesterday. I mean, I
• 28:03
  Speaker 16: ain't even gonna talk about the defense anymore. The defense
• 28:07
  Speaker 16: is the defense, but I think I bought it up
• 28:09
  Speaker 16: a couple of weeks ago, and it's starting to become
• 28:12
  Speaker 16: an issue to me. I love Shotty play calling the
• 28:15
  Speaker 16: first quarter, quarter and a half and then I know,
• 28:21
  Speaker 16: like the game gets out of hand. And you kind
• 28:23
  Speaker 16: of got a shotgun and then fill.
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: It out and stuff like that.
• 28:26
  Speaker 16: But I feel like there's times where they get inside the.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: Red zone and they just go to and I.
• 28:31
  Speaker 16: Don't know if it's da checking out of plays or whatever,
• 28:34
  Speaker 16: but yet again, you have this nice size running back,
• 28:37
  Speaker 16: you got a nice size full back, you got a
• 28:40
  Speaker 16: nice backup, fast runs back up, But then you constantly
• 28:44
  Speaker 16: throw the ball all the time. And I'm not saying that,
• 28:47
  Speaker 16: like I said, maybe it's what to look for and
• 28:49
  Speaker 16: stuff like that, but like, I feel like they don't
• 28:52
  Speaker 16: want to run the ball inside the twenty yard line.
• 28:56
  Speaker 16: And like I said, I'm not a coach, I'm a
• 28:58
  Speaker 16: thigh line coach. I'm looking from the outside end and
• 29:02
  Speaker 16: stuff like that. But at times I feel like and
• 29:05
  Speaker 16: like and I kind of and I guess I'm gonna
• 29:08
  Speaker 16: be talking out the side of my neck with this
• 29:10
  Speaker 16: one because I watched them do the Hunter a Lifty
• 29:13
  Speaker 16: play and Hunter Lifty gets stuff and I'm like, well,
• 29:17
  Speaker 16: he was two hundred and forty pounds.
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: I mean, what would.
• 29:19
  Speaker 16: Javonte would have done. But at the same time, I'm
• 29:22
  Speaker 16: kind of looking at it, like you get inside the
• 29:24
  Speaker 16: red zone and you throw a past and then you
• 29:26
  Speaker 16: get the flag be holding and maybe if you would
• 29:30
  Speaker 16: have rained, you might not get the flag or running
• 29:32
  Speaker 16: or I mean, and so it's frustrating all the way around,
• 29:36
  Speaker 16: and I know everybody's frustrated. You kind of start guess
• 29:39
  Speaker 16: second guests for yourself. But that's my biggest brace. I've
• 29:42
  Speaker 16: become like I'm starting to enjoy the play calling, but
• 29:46
  Speaker 16: then at the same time, I'm like, I almost can
• 29:48
  Speaker 16: tell once they get inside the twenty, they might not
• 29:52
  Speaker 16: run maybe once, maybe two more times, and then it'll
• 29:55
  Speaker 16: be all of that show. And so I mean, you
• 29:58
  Speaker 16: pay him sixty million dollars and you want him to
• 30:00
  Speaker 16: do all of the stuff, but sometimes you gotta let
• 30:03
  Speaker 16: somebody else rely on, you know, getting his zone. And
• 30:06
  Speaker 16: like I said, I'm not even gonna start on the defense.
• 30:08
  Speaker 16: I'll let somebody else talk about it. But like I said,
• 30:11
  Speaker 16: blessing to you guys, Mary Christmas, Happy New Year. If
• 30:13
  Speaker 16: I don't get in anymore, and thank you for letting me.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Write all right, thank you. You know you can sit
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: here and say, well, yeah, well as un more about
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the defense is what it is. The defense is everything
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: you just said. Everything you just said about the offense
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: and the red zone and all these things. It's because
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, first quarter, it was pretty good
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: play call and all that. But then in that second half, Yeah,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: what happened in the second half, Well, Shoddy realizes, Okay,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: we're not stopping Justin Herbert. We're just not. I mean,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: their punter hadn't even come on the field. So everything
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: we do has to go and score a touchdown and
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: all that because we're absolutely not gonna get the you know,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: a stop on defense. So yeah, maybe they got a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: little bit in the second half, but that's the mindset
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: it has to be. I mean, and so you kind
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: of just glossing over the defense because there's no helping him.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I get it. But it changes everything. It's everything with
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: what they're doing. And I'm not giving the offensive pass.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I'm not giving Shod yet a pass there. I would
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: run the ball a little bit more. I don't know
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: how many times I've seen Javonte Williams get stopped for
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: losses this year. You know, Hunter Lifkey, I was surprised
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: by that. I mean, that guy made a great play,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: he really did. He made a great play to get
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: in there, and just and and stuff. It's it's almost
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: like you knew the play was coming, which it's not
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: like they run that very often. It was just an
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: outstanding play. Really, he really did. He got to given
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: credit for that, you know, because I I don't hate
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the play call. I mean when did they run Hunter Lifkey?
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I mean that that would have been a good play,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: But the guy they made a better one. But Javonte Williams,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. I mean, I'm running the ball down
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: there a little bit more. I think with especially with Booker.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, Booker is he's a man child. Todd Brooker
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: is going to be a really really good player. That's
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: gonna be a great pick. That's kind of why I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: want to keep Tyler Smith in the middle. I just
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: think those three guys, with Babe and Booker, Tyler Smith,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I think you have a chance to really be dominant
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: up front. I mean, they're going to continue to get it.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: You got a guy in the third year, second year,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: first year, they're going to figure that out and they're
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: going to be really really good. If you know, if
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: that doesn't happen, if you move Tyler Smith to tackle, okay,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I hope he's really good there too. But I'm I'm
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: getting another elite guard because I think I think that's
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: very important. But you got to run the ball with
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: him though, though too. All right, Ronnie in New Jersey's
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Next Ronnie Nick.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Nick, Listen. I loved everything you said about
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: drafting in the second round and third round. Yeah, we
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: we've been going to guys like that since since I've
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: been watching uh tallboys, I think, and yeah, they got
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: to switch that up, switch that up. And this year
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: you can't get like, if there's to get a linebacker,
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: you got to get somebody that's actually really really good
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: and you know they's had experience, and you're gonna have
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: to get him in the free agency. You're gonna have
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: to spend money in free agency if you want something
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: like that. If we want to actually change, yes, this disaster.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: Aside from that, do you know what, Nick, when you
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: were saying all that about these players and stuff like that, Man,
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: we need somebody like somebody that's crazy, somebody the opponent
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: has fear, that put fear into the opponent, Somebody that
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: can remember also spellman Jay Ratliffe on offense. We need
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: somebody like an Eric Williams, just one of those mean big,
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: and these guys weren't first round picks. Eric Williams wasn't
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: a first round pick.
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: He was like, what a.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: Later in the draft for I'm sorry, yeah, third round okay,
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: so yeah, you can find guys like that. The last
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: the two best second round picks we've ever had its
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: Sean Lee and the Marcus Lawrence. Aside from that, we're
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: not I'm glad we have two first round picks. No, don't,
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: don't trade back. Don't trade back to get with Yeah, no, no,
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: don't trade back. You're not good at drafting in the
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: second or third round picks.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: That was my point.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I was going to say to Josh in Chicago, and
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you said that. Running I totally agree with you.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Even if you have to sit on your hands for
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: the entire night on Friday and not have a second
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: or third round pick, I'm fine with that. Pick two
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: picks in the first round, get two first round picks.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Not only are you getting two first round players, but
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: you're getting two five year deals. That's what the first
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: round is. Five it's four years with the with the
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: option for the for the fifth. And you need that.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: You need to have good players on the cheap, and
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: that's the only way you can. Really you can't guarantee anything,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: but I mean there's a really good chance you're going
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: to do that by staying in the first round. I'm
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: not about now. If you are sitting at fourteen and
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: you've got five guys that you love, and somebody wants
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: your pick, and they'll give you number eighteen for it,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: and you can get a third round or maybe a
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: late second for it, Okay, I mean, if you've got
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: five guys you love and you're gonna get one either way,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. And you know, let's be smart
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: about it from from that standpoint and move back a
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: little bit and pick up some But I'm not getting
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: out of the first round, so I can get a
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: second and a third and take another guy that, you know,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: another Sam Williams type or whatever, just just in hopes
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: that they're gonna be I need. I need more first
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: round guys that are going to be solid players. And
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: so even if I don't pick the second, third round,
• 35:43
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  Speaker 1: by Toilett. This we do our Gellett Position Player of
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the Week. How about Dak Prescott? How about that? I mean,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: he's the guy that you know, he's out here and
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: he's doing it every day's leading and you know they
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: didn't they didn't have the best game in the second half.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I get that. I understand they didn't score and all that,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: But you know, I think I think Dak the way
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: he's doing, the way he's playing this year, is not
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: just this week. It's sadly he's playing this year. And
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: that passed you through to George Prickens front touchdown him.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: He can't put it, You couldn't hand it off better
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: than that, And so you know, I think he's having
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: a phenomenal year. Too bad he didn't get more help.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: But and I understand that year sixty million a year quarterback.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: He's playing like it, though he played like it this year,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: but you understand that. But you know you need more
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: help and uh and and Dak definitely does that. But
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: when it comes to our Gellett Position Player of the Week,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I'll go Dak Prescott. All right, Chris and Saratoga Springs,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: what's up?
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: Man?
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: Hey? Nick?
• 37:54
  Speaker 11: How are you good? You not too bad? Another another
• 37:58
  Speaker 11: rough game? Do you have any up First of all,
• 38:01
  Speaker 11: do you have any updates on my boys Illinois with
• 38:03
  Speaker 11: the injury on him?
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: I don't, but man, four days he I mean, you know,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: four day rest and and the fact that he left
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: early and did not come back. I would I would say,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: probably not coming back for this one. I'd like to
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: see him more. I'd like to see him play more,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: but I if I had to guess, I would say
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: probably not this year. I mean this this week for sure.
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 38:27
  Speaker 11: I think if that catch would have been on Sports Center,
• 38:30
  Speaker 11: if the call stand, because that was the unbelievable one
• 38:32
  Speaker 11: headed catch and they called it back on that.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 38:36
  Speaker 11: Tyler Smith hole that I see that that hole on
• 38:39
  Speaker 11: every single plane, every every NFL game. They called it
• 38:42
  Speaker 11: on him.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: But well, Tomash Smith wasn't happy about it either. I
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: talked to him about it. He was, he was. He
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: had some some words to say about that and how
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: the Chargers bake calls and how they they you know,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: they they gave him that that call. Probably a little
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: different being on the outside than on the end. You're
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: an inside guard. You probably make that hold and it
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: probably doesn't get called as much as he does, kind
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: of on an island there at left tackle right.
• 39:08
  Speaker 11: And I'm glad Shotty in the Brass are listening to
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: your show and taking my advice and moving that boy
• 39:14
  Speaker 11: to tackle because we, like I said, we don't have
• 39:17
  Speaker 11: a guard problem, we have a tackle problem. And I
• 39:18
  Speaker 11: thought he played outstanding first start there at the left
• 39:21
  Speaker 11: tackle position, so I'm I'm glad they moved him. And
• 39:24
  Speaker 11: I think I heard shot he said he's there for
• 39:26
  Speaker 11: the rest of the year, So I'm glad he's there.
• 39:29
  Speaker 11: We need help on the obviously on the tackle positions.
• 39:33
  Speaker 11: As far as the draft next year, a thousand percent
• 39:35
  Speaker 11: agree with you pick those first two rounds. You're not
• 39:39
  Speaker 11: trade and we need we need players, and players you
• 39:41
  Speaker 11: know very well with the first round pick, so we
• 39:43
  Speaker 11: need to keep those two picks in drafts, two first
• 39:47
  Speaker 11: round picks. Other than that great show, happy how they
• 39:50
  Speaker 11: to everybody on the show, especially you and Chris Bean.
• 39:53
  Speaker 11: You guys are incredible. You do a great job every
• 39:55
  Speaker 11: single day. Twenty five years of not missing a game.
• 39:59
  Speaker 11: That's that's incredible. So congratulations on that.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Everybody, Thank you so much, thanks for saying that, And yeah,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: and and you know, we'll we'll see, we'll see what
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: happens with with Tyler Smith. If this is a permanent move,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: if this is just something to kind of get through,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: uh that that game the rest of the season. Again,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm not I'm okay with it. I'm okay with
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: it if if you if he can really be good,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: if he's just going to be a good player, I
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: don't know about that. But Tyler Smith, first of all,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: he's just he's the toughest guy. I mean, he's the
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: strongest guy on the team. I think he might be
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: the smartest guy on the team too. So he'll figure
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: it out. And he loves football. I mean, that's the thing.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: He'll he'll he'll figure it out. I don't have I
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: have a hard time thinking he's just gonna be okay
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: at anything. Uh Seriously, j R. And Avondale Arizona, you.
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: Other top more than another four something else by the defense.
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: But I like Tyler Smith as a guard because I
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: like Smith, Dobie and Booker in the middle of the field.
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: I think it gives da protection and you're talking about
• 41:13
  Speaker 7: going to be for years to come a great middle
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: of our offense. I just and about the defense. And
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: I'm not gonna talking about kens Murry today. I swaw
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't, But just the lack of improvement is what
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: I can't get by just no improvement. The same problems
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: it just week fifteen that existed Week one. On mcconkee's touchdown.
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: There's full receivers in that half of the field and
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: only three defenders. Nobody came over with konkey when he
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: came in motion. And this is just bad coaching. It's
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: got to be bad coaching because there's different players. I
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: know they know how to play, and I just don't
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: see how Matt Eberfluss and his staff are still on
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: this team next year. If they are, we got a
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: huge problem. I can't remember which call it was said.
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: When you start drafting players with this knowing what the
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: problem is, I think that gets in even more problems
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: that being tall that somebody else get on and pay
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: Merry Christmas to you and your family into all the
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: storyliners and go Cowboys.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: All right, thanks Jay, I appreciate it. Yeah, then there's
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: gotta be some changes. I just I can't see. I
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: can't see how you would you would carry it over.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what's the cell. I mean,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: there's no way, there's really no way. And it's not
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: about people. I mean, I don't understand. They love Matt
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Eberflus as a person and all that, but this year
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: it's just it just hasn't. It just hasn't worked at all.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I think I think if they
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: move on, I think what you're gonna have to do
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: is you have to go back to that first press
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: conference after they traded Michael, and you got to remember
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: what was said, Uh, we got to stop the run.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: You gotta stop the run. You can always generate pass rush,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: but you gotta stop the run. They didn't generate pass rush.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: They didn't. This scheme didn't. It didn't matter who it
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: was they were supposed to do that. That's what they
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: told us. And that's not a line we've heard before.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: So it sounds like a new line, maybe from a
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: new coach that hadn't been here in a while. And
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: again I'm not saying that that's what eber flu said,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: but that's what they told us, that you could always
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: generate pass rush. This team is twenty third in the
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: league past in sacks, and this is after the last
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: four years with when Micah was here, they were a
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: team that had that. They were in the top twelve
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: every year. They were in the top three twice. So
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: they got sacks and they traded away one of the
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: best players in the NFL, and they there was I mean,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: that was a problem. The pass rush was a problem,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: made the linebackers bad, made the secondary look bad. And
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, you obviously have to figure out
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: a way to get pass rush, and so if there
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: is a change made, I think it's gonna have to
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: you know, you have to look right there. All right,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: let's go Lester again, Lester, what's up?
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: Hey, Nick?
• 43:58
  Speaker 10: I just wanted to make one work man. I forgot
• 44:00
  Speaker 10: to make we should be able to address all of
• 44:05
  Speaker 10: well not all, but a lot of our problems and
• 44:09
  Speaker 10: needs and the draft. And the reason why I say that,
• 44:12
  Speaker 10: remember what I said before, we had around three thousand
• 44:15
  Speaker 10: choices to draft from, so between that you should be
• 44:18
  Speaker 10: able to pick five to seven players to fit your
• 44:23
  Speaker 10: particular need.
• 44:24
  Speaker 11: Go Cowboys.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thanks, that sounds good. Three thousand players
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: out there, you got about fifteen scouts, though, so you
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: got to find them all. You got to find the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: right pick. And he also got to figure ot what
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: your defense is going to be, who your coordinador is
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: and all that, and what's your actual scheme in your
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: in your fit is going to be Zach in Atlanta.
• 44:45
  Speaker 8: Hey, what's up?
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: Nick?
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: And Frisco what's up?
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: And then you know, I declared earlier in the season
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: that we had to get right game against the Eagles,
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: which was, you know, it was a fun game, but
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: we are still to get right game for everybody else,
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: watch Washington come back to life and do something against us.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: They probably will, but just the season it is, it's
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: hard to see the Bears with the first year coach
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: and the Jaguars with the first year coach just sore
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: to new heights and you know, we're still treading water
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: and feels like we don't have a lot of direction,
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: a lot of that's the defense. I'm hoping like everybody else,
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: that Shoddy gets his choice at DC. But all that
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: to say, I really wanted to come on and say
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: thank you to you, thank you to Beam, Merry Christmas,
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: Happy Holidays to everybody, But it, dude, storyline year one,
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: you ended with the wild card Green Bay game. You
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: have had last season and this season. Good community, but tough,
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: tough years to start this show, and you've done a
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: great job.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: So I just want to say thanks than I appreciate that,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you, and you two thank you so much. You know,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: the first year it was we were rolling. I mean
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: it was with the first game, first regular season game
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: with this show was forty to nothing against the against
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: the Giants, and the whole year was great, twelve and five.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: It ended with with the worst loss in my time
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: with the Cowboys. The worst loss ever was the Packers
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: playoff game. I think it's the worst loss that I've
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: I've covered as a as a member of this organization.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: And then from there it's you know, it's gone downhill
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: since then, two years obviously in a row of not
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: making the playoffs. So yeah, I think thanks for the
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: you know call and thanks to the y'all. I mean,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: you can think me and Chris all you want, but
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: you know, without you guys calling and doing what you
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: guys do, I mean, we wouldn't have this show. So
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it. I know how tough it is, and
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: it's only gonna get tough for if if you know,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys don't try to find a way to turn
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: this thing around and create some more excitement. But you know,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: kind of the cycle that what we do, and we
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: will flip this thing around and and they'll do it again.
• 46:55
  Speaker 14: Uh.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: But we've got two more games to go. And now
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: as far as shows go, we got tomorrow's show. Remember
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: it's Tuesday. It's Tuesday show, so it'll be quick, but
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: not too quick. You guys still call in because it'll
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: be our last show of the week, so it'll be
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: the last show before Christmas. I'd love to hear from you, guys.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: We won't have a show Wednesday, we'll be traveling, some
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: of us will we'll be there, Chris and I'll be
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: in Washington. And then Thursday, obviously the game. Friday will
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: not have a show because it'll be Christmas for some
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: of us. And then we'll be back doing it again
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: on Monday. So we'll be back tomorrow. We'll do a
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: show tomorrow. We'll talk about whatever you want. We'll talk
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: about the Chargers game, look forward to Washington, look forward
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: to the draft, that's what y'all want to do, or
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: free agents here, whatever you want to talk about. All Right, guys,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: been a good show, Appreciate it. Thanks for the positivity
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: and also just keeping it real for Chris be I'm
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: nick Etan We'll see tomorrow on Cowboys storyline.
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