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  Speaker 1: This is these Cowboys Storylines with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: the storylines before we go to the phone lines, because
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  Speaker 2: I can already hear it ringing over there, which is great.
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  Speaker 2: Injuries is the big deal. Tyler Smith, he was out
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  Speaker 2: at practice. They had they moved practice a little bit earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Today he's out there working just with with the strength
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  Speaker 2: coaches and the athletic trainers, trying to rehab that hamstring injury.
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  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy said he believes that if Tyler Smith is
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  Speaker 2: able to do something at least by Saturday, that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to give him a chance to play. This is
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  Speaker 2: probably gonna be a game time decision. Just gut feeling
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  Speaker 2: for me, just the way he was kind of moving
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  Speaker 2: At first, I was thinking maybe not, but because of
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  Speaker 2: the nature of the position and where he is and
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  Speaker 2: he's not gonna be running forty yard dashes hopefully, I
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  Speaker 2: think that I think he has a chance to play.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Smith. The other guys, Donovan Wilson did not practice today.
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  Speaker 2: He's not going to practice with the calf strains. Probably
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  Speaker 2: not gonna happen for him. And then Sam Williams did
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  Speaker 2: some stuff. He's working with the rehab group on a
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  Speaker 2: toe injury. Did a little bit more than we thought
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  Speaker 2: he was going to do. So it's the arrows trending
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  Speaker 2: up maybe for Sam Williams to play. And I still
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  Speaker 2: think Tyler Smith has a shot. And Jordan Lewis was
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  Speaker 2: a full participant in practice yesterday. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: they'll they'll throw him out there for this game, but
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  Speaker 2: at least he is practicing to the point where he's
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  Speaker 2: probably gonna play. If not this week, I would say
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  Speaker 2: next week, all right, eight eight eight eight five five
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  Speaker 2: two two ninety seven. If you're able to watch right now,
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  Speaker 2: you can see we've added that on the screen, which
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  Speaker 2: is great because I forget the number sometimes was right there,
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  Speaker 2: and the text line as well. Eight one seven two
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  Speaker 2: nine zero three two nine to eight. Give us a call,
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  Speaker 2: give us a text, whatever you want, but we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: start with the phone lines. We're going with Joe and Stanford.
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  Speaker 3: What's up man, Hey, good morning, brother, good morning.
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  Speaker 4: And so a couple of things. First, I was thinking
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  Speaker 4: about how we were gonna deal with Waller the tied end.
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  Speaker 4: Uh So, I think you know what we did with
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  Speaker 4: those big receivers in Tampa and the playoff game with Israel.
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  Speaker 4: I think I think there's probably a good chance that's
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  Speaker 4: what our plan is going to be with Waller. That's
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  Speaker 4: just the observation. I think we probably will see this Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: And I had another thing I was thinking about, So,
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  Speaker 4: why do you think we kept are are we? We
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  Speaker 4: went along on running back? In wide receiver, we kept
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  Speaker 4: Vaughn and the little guy, the return guy, the wide receiver. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so you do you think we're gonna have both those
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  Speaker 4: guys active every week? I don't see. I don't see
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  Speaker 4: enough touches for both of those guys. And I think
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  Speaker 4: that Vonn could do stuff. So I think at some
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  Speaker 4: point this year we're gonna have to figure out who's
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  Speaker 4: gonna actually get more touches on offense, because I don't
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  Speaker 4: think that there's enough room on the active roster for
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  Speaker 4: us to keep that many running backs and that many receivers,
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  Speaker 4: especially if we're gonna use the kid from North Dakota
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  Speaker 4: for special teams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate the call. Good good stuff there for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Let me let's start with the first part on tight end.
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  Speaker 2: I do think, you know Waller's that's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: matchup to watch because the Giants, you know, they had
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  Speaker 2: Evan Ingram back in the day. Now they've got Waller
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  Speaker 2: and and and he's a better I think he's a
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  Speaker 2: better tied end and he's more improven when he's healthy.
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  Speaker 2: He's been banged up some, but but yeah, whether it's Macwamu,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's Marquise Bell, you know, and even jay Ron Curse,
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  Speaker 2: I mean those guys because you know, without Donovan Wilson,
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  Speaker 2: I think Kurs will play a little bit more safety,
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  Speaker 2: But the Cowboys have some athletic safeties that will be
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  Speaker 2: able to play in this game and go, you know,
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  Speaker 2: go against the tight end. The thing about mcwamu is
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  Speaker 2: he said, remember when he was drafted, he said he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be the best cornerback in the draft, and they said,
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  Speaker 2: well that's cool, but we're moving you to safety and
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  Speaker 2: he's like, okay, well then I'll be the best safety.
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  Speaker 2: He's got confidence, but he's got coverage skills. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he was the opposite corner to j. C. Horn at
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina, So I think I think mkwamu has some
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  Speaker 2: coverage skills. Going up against the tight ends probably a
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  Speaker 2: good matchup. So I like that. I like where you're
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  Speaker 2: thinking there, Vaughn and Turpin. Me personally, I've said this
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  Speaker 2: a thousand times in the offseason since the forty nine
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  Speaker 2: ers lost that. I think that they just didn't have
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  Speaker 2: enough playmakers. So now you know you got playmakers. And
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  Speaker 2: if they're going to use Turping on offense, then yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think I think you've got some touches. I saw
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  Speaker 2: some things at training camp that some packages where it
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  Speaker 2: looks like they both were out there doing the things
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  Speaker 2: on offense. So I think they're going to try to
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  Speaker 2: utilize these guys in space. You know, they're gonna they're
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  Speaker 2: going to do the whole width of the field. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to get these little guys out there and give
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  Speaker 2: them the ball. I think there are they are going
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  Speaker 2: to find ways to have some some touches. And Turpin
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  Speaker 2: was a threat. He didn't always break the long, you know,
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  Speaker 2: punt return, kick return, but what he showed in that
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  Speaker 2: preseason game scared teams enough to they didn't always kick
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  Speaker 2: at him. He was a threat. Let's see if he
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  Speaker 2: continues to be that way. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: deuce Vaughn's ready to be that kind of guy yet.
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  Speaker 2: I you know, I think for now, I think you
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  Speaker 2: can get away with with playing both of them out there.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's go back to the phone lines again.
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  Speaker 2: Tim In Grapevine. Tim, what's up?
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  Speaker 3: Nick? Good morning?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning?
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  Speaker 4: All right? Football?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, football season is a pawn us the weather. The
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  Speaker 5: weather is finally showing signs of cooling off. Really so
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  Speaker 5: glory glory, hell, I think so? I think this next week?
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  Speaker 2: Next week, Okay, I got it. Next week, I went
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  Speaker 2: out to practice. I can still feel sweat, and now, okay,
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  Speaker 2: got it all right? Next week though it's it's coming.
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  Speaker 5: It's fair.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So two questions.
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  Speaker 5: Number one, who would win in a hypothetical the two
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  Speaker 5: thousand and seven Cowboys are this year's team? And why?
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  Speaker 5: And then my second question for you, and then I'll
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  Speaker 5: hang up. My second question is do you think Sunday
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  Speaker 5: Night against the Giants is the key to victory? Is
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  Speaker 5: it as simple as shutting down Saquon Barkley.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna before you hang up, I'm gonna because I
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  Speaker 2: always say this, It's not just it's not just my show.
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  Speaker 2: This is a fan show. What's your Well, who are
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  Speaker 2: you taking two thousand and seven versus twenty three? I
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  Speaker 2: already know my answer, So who are you picking?
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  Speaker 5: I'm taking two thousand and seven Cowboys regular season the playoffs,
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  Speaker 5: though obviously you know what happened with Patrick Creighton dropping
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  Speaker 5: that ball. The reason why I'm taking two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 5: I just think Trell Owens against I mean, I like
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  Speaker 5: our defensive backs this year, but t O was t O.
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  Speaker 5: I mean he's a Hall of Famer for a reason.
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  Speaker 5: Jason Witton hall of Famer. And then DeMarcus Ware was,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he was a monster that year, and he
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  Speaker 5: was such a young pup. This year's team, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: obviously they're not second to anyone. I think that's this
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  Speaker 5: year's team is the best team I've seen Sinzo seven.
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  Speaker 5: But I got to take Romo in the seven team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm with you there. Thanks for the call.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with two thousand and seven as well.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the best football team that I've covered
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  Speaker 2: since I've been with the team. Now this is my
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifth year, and I will put this team, you know,
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  Speaker 2: ahead of any of the others. It had thirteen Pro Bowlers,
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  Speaker 2: but they were you know, it was it was a
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  Speaker 2: legit thirteen. I mean every across the line, everywhere you go.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't just the Ware. Greg Ellis was
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  Speaker 2: the comeback player of the Year that year, coming off
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  Speaker 2: of injury. He had a lot of sacks, he had
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  Speaker 2: handling in the backfield. You had Terrence Newman. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you had the offensive line, had three guys. He had
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  Speaker 2: two running backs that were good, Julis Jones and Marian
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  Speaker 2: Barber who made the Pro Bowl. If TiO doesn't get
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  Speaker 2: hurt in that Panthers game late in the season, that
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  Speaker 2: changes everything. So I think that I think that's the
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  Speaker 2: best football team that I've covered, and that would you know,
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  Speaker 2: from top to bottom, so good Romo. That was his
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  Speaker 2: first year of a starter. He had a Roland. I
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  Speaker 2: really love that that team. We'll see what this one
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  Speaker 2: does as well. You know, a little bit more question
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  Speaker 2: marks I think on the roster running back, even though
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  Speaker 2: I think they're gonna be fine, just there's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more question marks there. Uh key to victory. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think anytime you shut down the team's best player,
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  Speaker 2: particularly at running back, it changes everything. Can they can
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  Speaker 2: they shut shut him down? That's the big question. But
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, stopping Barkley making him a non factor the
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  Speaker 2: best that you possibly can and just makes you know,
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  Speaker 2: make sure you limit the chunk plays. That's I think
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  Speaker 2: gonna be the biggest thing going on right, there is
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  Speaker 2: just start to limit him from from going off and
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  Speaker 2: making big plays. All right, let's go to the text line.
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  Speaker 2: I got some some text messages coming in here speaking
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  Speaker 2: of Tony Pollard. I had one from see it was
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  Speaker 2: from Daniel in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Uh. He's talking about fantasy football.
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  Speaker 2: He said he went with his gut and drafted Tony
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  Speaker 2: Pollard instead of b John Robinson.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And and he's just he's just feeling like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: please reassure this cowboy fan that I did the right
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  Speaker 2: thing of making the case that TP is gonna have
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  Speaker 2: it unbelievably amazing season. You know, I didn't do that.
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  Speaker 2: And in my fantasy I picked I picked Barkley actually
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  Speaker 2: over over TP, which is fine. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because I have I do things a little differently, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Like I pick Eagles. I picked Giants if if they
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  Speaker 2: if they do poorly for me, well I'll lose fantasy.
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  Speaker 2: But maybe that helps the big picture. But I always
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  Speaker 2: I'm always hedging the bet there. I do think Tony
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  Speaker 2: Poller is gonna have a good season, though, I really do.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna catch the ball. My only concern
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  Speaker 2: is just are they gonna give him the ball and
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  Speaker 2: third and one at the one. That's you know, that's
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  Speaker 2: what I want to know. Is they're gonna do that
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  Speaker 2: or is that gonna take some of these touches around
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  Speaker 2: the goal line. But as long as he's gonna find
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  Speaker 2: the end zone and and make some plays, he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: get catches. I think he's gonna be fine for you.
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  Speaker 2: And and the Falcons are such a wild card. Who
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  Speaker 2: knows about rookie running backs. I think I think you
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  Speaker 2: probably made the right choice there, especially that's this is
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  Speaker 2: your team, this is who you want to win. Then yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I'm all about it right there. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's go back to the text line. Uh, we've got
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  Speaker 2: this one from the five from a Joe in Montrose, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: Got a couple of Pennsylvania you know, he said, how
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  Speaker 2: do you how do you think Tyron will hold up
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  Speaker 2: in pass protection against the speed rushers? You know, if
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  Speaker 2: he can get his hands on him, he's still Tyron Smith.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's that's the key for him, is still
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  Speaker 2: being able to you know, he's got to move the feet.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're not hearing anything out of Tyrant. That's
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  Speaker 2: a good thing. Knocklin Wood. You know, we didn't expect
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Smith to be the one banged up this week.
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  Speaker 2: But I still feel like Tyler's going to be out there,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that that certainly will will help Tyron
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  Speaker 2: and vice versa, uh there at left tackle. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Giants have some speed rushers for sure, Tipodau is
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  Speaker 2: one of them, and and you know, he's he's probably
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  Speaker 2: ready to to make that big leap in his career.
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  Speaker 2: But I still will feel like when when he's playing
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  Speaker 2: left tackle, Tyler's Tyron Smith at left tackle, I still
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  Speaker 2: feel like, uh, he's he can be one of the best.
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  Speaker 2: Uh he's you know, once he's healthy, he's feeling good
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  Speaker 2: and he's got some strength that that it doesn't go away. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's turned into grown man strength at this point because
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  Speaker 2: he uh he's a little bit older in his career,
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  Speaker 2: but he's still is a very very good technique wise,
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  Speaker 2: strength wise, and I still think he can be a
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  Speaker 2: really good left tackle certainly when he when he you know,
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  Speaker 2: he can get his hands on him and get these
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  Speaker 2: guys in check, all right. Eight eight eight eight five
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  Speaker 2: five two two ninety seven. That is the phone line
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  Speaker 2: you can text us at eight one seven two nine
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  Speaker 2: zero three two nine eight got one from Noah in Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: and he says, with Nick Bosa's new deal with the
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  Speaker 2: forty nine ers done, does Parsons become easier? Bosa? But
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  Speaker 2: five years, one hundred and seventy million, thirty four million
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  Speaker 2: a year, Okay, easier? No, it's not. It's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be easier. I mean it sets the bar, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if that makes it easier
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  Speaker 2: or not. You still got to you got to get
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  Speaker 2: a contract for that. And it's not so much what
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  Speaker 2: the forty nine ers have to think about that. What
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  Speaker 2: the forty nine ers are able to do their quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: making six hundred thousand dollars right now, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: he that's that's where they that's where they stand with
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  Speaker 2: with Purty and so you can you can do the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys quarterbacks not making that and he won't make that
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  Speaker 2: even next year. So they have they have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: everyone's got their their issues. But yeah, this kind of
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  Speaker 2: sets the bar, and this is what MICA's agents probably
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  Speaker 2: going to be looking at and going over that. That's
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  Speaker 2: just natural to to do that. But I don't think
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be easy to get him in. Yes, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be. Now we kind of know where where
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  Speaker 2: we're looking at, where the floor is, and uh that
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  Speaker 2: that's not always going to be fun. So they you know,
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  Speaker 2: they still have CD to get done, Dak, we'll probably
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  Speaker 2: be done as well, So it's never gonna be easy
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  Speaker 2: to get that kind of contract into your salary cap.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I think you do kind of know what's
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  Speaker 2: going on here. All right, We've got Lewis in Texas
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  Speaker 2: on the line, going back to the phone lines, Lewis,
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  Speaker 2: what's up.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Nick?
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  Speaker 8: First of all, let me take congratulations on show. Have
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  Speaker 8: been watching a long time.
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  Speaker 5: Thank he deserves me.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 8: My question is this, and we've talked about it for
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  Speaker 8: a while, the offensive line. One guy we haven't talked about.
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  Speaker 8: You did mention majority En yesterday was TJ Beass. But
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  Speaker 8: my biggest concern with this offensive line is the depth.
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  Speaker 8: Like we talked about on the show, on your show
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  Speaker 8: for a couple of days. Now, do we have an
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  Speaker 8: update on where Tyler Smith's at. It's hard to get
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  Speaker 8: something offline and my guy to fill in that role
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  Speaker 8: if they had to the number one guy would be TJ.
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  Speaker 7: Bass.
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  Speaker 8: I haven't seen anybody play as well as him through
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  Speaker 8: the entire appreciating yep.
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  Speaker 2: TJ bass Is is the guy that that has has
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  Speaker 2: been impressive. And he was one of those names when
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  Speaker 2: you looked at the list of free agents and you said, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know he he was on draft boards fifth round,
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  Speaker 2: sixth round, three times, all Pac twelve at Oregon and
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  Speaker 2: play different positions. So I was very intriguing right off
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  Speaker 2: the bat that that he was gonna to join this team.
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  Speaker 2: And anytime the draft is over, you're always thinking, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: who are who are the two or three names, because
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  Speaker 2: there's always going to be a few, And Hunter Lipke
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  Speaker 2: was one and he made the team, and and so
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  Speaker 2: did TJ. Bass And I feel like there's another one
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  Speaker 2: there missing it. But but I do think that there
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  Speaker 2: was there was two or three that that made this team.
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned it early. Tyler Smith. He's gonna do some
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  Speaker 2: some practicing today as far as really more individual stuff
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  Speaker 2: trying to get in there. Not really team they're they're
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  Speaker 2: they're they're kind of holding him out until maybe Saturday's
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  Speaker 2: the day. Saturday, we'll see what he can do. And
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  Speaker 2: there's a walk through before they get on the plane.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna go right up to Sunday, just
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  Speaker 2: to see how he feels. My gut just watching him
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: on the cords moving, you know, a little bit of
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: jogging that it's Thursday. Now you have a Sunday night game.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: I think Sunday night and I mean think about seven
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: hour eight hour difference there from playing a night from
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: a noon game. I think that that that'll help him.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: I mean it's a little bit more time. So I
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: think he'll he'll be fine. And you know, I just
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: think that he's gonna be able to play. But if
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: he doesn't, I think they'll go with Cheumaidoga. But I'm
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: with you there that I kind of would like to
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: see what TJ. Basket do. Maybe not against the Giants
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: week one against Exter Lawrence, but I am intrigued on
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: what he can do. All right, Do we have another
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• 16:48
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  Speaker 2: We got a few more minutes here. We'll see if
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  Speaker 2: we go a little overtime. That depends on you guys.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: You guys get some calls. We do have some calls
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• 19:20
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• 19:23
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• 19:25
  Speaker 2: give me some random Cowboy players from the past and
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: a few that have come in here. I love these
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: some old old names here. Eugene the hitting machine Lockhart.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Eugene Lockhart had two hundred and twenty two tackles one
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: year as the record in nineteen eighty nine. That team
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: couldn't tackle, but one guy was doing it and it
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: was Eugene Lockhart. Doug Donneley bat Man had the blonde
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: hair in the back number eighty three. Loved him. Ron
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Springs outstanding, outstanding utility player. And Dexter Clinkscale maybe has
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: the best name ever. Dexter Clinkscale love that played a
• 20:00
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• 20:04
  Speaker 2: know the funny thing about Gerald Cencible, I think the
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: record's been broken, but he had the record at the
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Combine for the highest vertical leap. I was like forty
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: six inches or something. Some of the ridiculous. I think
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: it's been broken, but very good athlete. He played for
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys about what ten years ago. All right, phone
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: lines are not open. We got a couple of guys
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: on the line. Victor for mal Passo. Victor, what's up?
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  Speaker 14: Hey, Nick?
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  Speaker 15: How's it going?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: I'm great man, how are you?
• 20:32
  Speaker 15: I'm doing good.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: I'm doing good.
• 20:33
  Speaker 15: I just want to tell you that I enjoy the
• 20:34
  Speaker 15: show and thank you. I'm really enjoying all the feedback
• 20:36
  Speaker 15: and questions from the fans.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: It's yeah good to listen to.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is y'all show. I say it every show,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: and you know, I just want to hear from you guys.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: So when you ask a question, I'm not just asking
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: right back and get your thoughts.
• 20:48
  Speaker 15: Okay, Well my question is I just wanted to get
• 20:50
  Speaker 15: your overall thoughts on the NFC East, Like, do you
• 20:54
  Speaker 15: think it's going to be better? Do you think the
• 20:55
  Speaker 15: teams are all going to be stronger in general? Or
• 20:58
  Speaker 15: I know some of the teams made some moves and
• 21:00
  Speaker 15: you know, the Giants made the playoffs last year and
• 21:02
  Speaker 15: obviously the Eagles and US. So I just wanted to
• 21:05
  Speaker 15: get your take on that. And also I have an
• 21:08
  Speaker 15: old player for you, Richie Anderson. I believe he led
• 21:12
  Speaker 15: the team in receptions when.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: You're yeah, two thousand and four, left handed Richie Anderson
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: threw a touchdown against Washington on a Sunday or Monday
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: night game. I remember left handed past to Terry Glenn.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: I remember Parcels loved him. He was a bill parcels
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: guy for sure, So.
• 21:33
  Speaker 15: I do remember that those are the Parcels years right
• 21:35
  Speaker 15: before or right around the Romo time, right before Romo
• 21:38
  Speaker 15: came in, right.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Right, all right. Thanks for the call, Victor. To answer
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the question about the NFC East, I mean, I think
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: it's I mean, I think it's going to be competitive.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: And he kind of goes up and down, you know.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, a couple of years ago it was the
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: worst division and football seemed like and then last year
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: was it was I think it was the best, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: so I think it's going to be pretty good again.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, it always has its peaks and valleys. We'll
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: see if that the street continues. I think we're up
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: till a twenty years in a row, we have not
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: had a consecutive NFC East winner. I know Philly's trying
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: to change that, but I think Philly's gonna be really good.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I think the Cowboys are gonna be good. I think
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: the Giants are still right there third, but they're they're
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: probably the best third place team in the NFC East,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: and we'll find out. I mean that they have something
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: to say about it. Washington, their defense is still is
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: still gonna be good. And when you have a good
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: defense that travels. We saw that with Philly last year.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Their first loss was at home against Washington. So they're
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: always gonna be tough because they have a really strong defense.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: So that those guys right there, I think are gonna
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: are gonna be really good. All right, another phone call,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I think Geo on the line. Is that? Who we got?
• 22:44
  Speaker 16: Geo?
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Jersey?
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Nick?
• 22:47
  Speaker 17: Oh?
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: What's up man?
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: I'm good brother. Listen, I got two quick questions for you.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: You've been around the Boys forever. It's the fastest Cowboys
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: offense you've seen. I mean, we've got wide receivers like
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: burn Us, like Cook's lamb, and then the half back
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: position were Pollard and vond you had turfing in there.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: And then our tight ends now they're faster than what
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: we've usually had right shut and we're witting before And
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: then my second question is is that this division is
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: stacked with good to elite defensive lines. Does losing an
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: elite past blocking back like Zeke, Well, that hurt it
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: this year, and how do you counter that this year?
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: I'll let you go.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, man, thank you? And I love
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: two questions that to me tie into each other. Love
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: that and I don't know if you meant to do that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: I'll go with the second one first, because yeah, I mean,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: running the ball right up the middle is gonna be
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: gonna be tough. I think it's one of the reasons
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: why Tyler Smith is playing left guard. I mean, they
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: need that push right up the middle. It's one of
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: the reasons that they said, you know what, we do
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: need to pay Zach Martin. We'ren't expecting to, but we
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: have to. We got it. We got to show up
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: that middle. You got to be able to run the ball.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Terrence Steels also a really good run blocker as well.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: So yeah, they're gonna run the football against it. They're
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: gonna try, at least against these teams. But if it
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: doesn't work out, goes back to your first point. Speed.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Speed can alleviate a lot of these issues. And sometimes
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: when you can't run the ball right up the middle,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have to take it to the outside. And
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: what do you need for that? You obviously have to
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: have speed. I think. I think it's a great point.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: It is the fastest offense I've seen in a long time.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, because your quarterback is able to move more
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: than the other quarterbacks that have been here. The receivers though,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: just from top to bottom, you've got some home run
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: threats running back to even your third running back Douce
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: font and Rico Daddles. Your second running back Tony Pollard
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: obviously can take it to the house. So yeah, tight
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: ends as well. I think that they're athletic. They've got
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: some guys that can stretch the field. So yeah, this
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: is probably the most athletic offense that I've seen in
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: a long time, and I think that you're gonna have
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: to to do that. You're gonna need to utilize these
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: guys all over the field. All right, Terry from Shawnee, Oklahoma,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: We're going to go back to the phone line. Terry
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: from Shawnee, Oklahoma.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: Terry, Yeah, the reason I'm calling. I saw where the
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: Cowboys signed two players and to the hear myself, yeah,
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: Hallow is one of them and another guy which is
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: a defensive tackle. But I hadn't heard anything about them
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: and what positions do they really play.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate the call there from Shawnee, Oklahoma. I
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: believe that's Oklahoma Baptist University is there. It's where my
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: mom went to school, so that I know a little
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: bit about Shawnee, Oklahoma. Harlowe. I believe so you're talking
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: about there on offense, a guard or center actually is
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: a center that they picked up on. He's on the
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: practice squad. I think eventual he might be a guy
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: that they can elevate to the game if they need
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: it this week, it would probably be brought Hoffman instead,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: and I'd have to I'd have to go look at
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: the roster again. On another guy that they brought in
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: defensive tackle. I'm now one hundred percent sure on that
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: it doesn't ring a bell. It's a practice squad player.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I believe who you're referring to. Don't remember another guy
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: that they brought in. But I don't think that that
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: he's gonna be somebody that will be active this week.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Harlow probably won't. I would think Hoffman is the one
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: if they if they need all right, we're gonna we're
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: gonna keep going to the phone lines here Maurice to
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: come and wash that. What's up?
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, how you doing it?
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I'm great, man, you I'm doing great man.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: It's a beautiful day. Hey. My question is, I'm still
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: a little bit concerned about this Tyler Smith situation. I'm
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: wondering how much does that affect the scheme and the
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: game plan if he's not able to go? What you
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: think about that?
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I think, uh, I think with if he doesn't play,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: I think you you lose a little bit of an
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: interior strength, and I think that you're gonna go more
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: sideline to sideline. You're gonna have some some stretch plays
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: or running wide. You know. I We'll see what what
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: E Dooga's got. I mean, I've said all along I
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: thought he's a guard. I mean, they played him in tackle.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I would have he's got guard body like he you know,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: he's got That's where he played well, uh, right before
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: he got hurt. I believe it was with Atlanta last year.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: So I kind of thought he was gonna be the
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: guy to compete at left guard this year. If Tyler
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Smith was playing left tackle. They resigned you know, or
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: not resigned, but they restructured uh Tyron Smith and removed
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Tyler inside. But I think he doga can handle it.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I don't think you changed that much. He's got some
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: size and strength to him. But but I you know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: the screen game may not be the same. That's one
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: thing about this team. I don't want to give away things,
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: but I think they may run the screen a little
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: bit more then then we've seen in the past, which
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: hasn't been a great screen screen pass team since Dorset
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: was doing it back in the day. Really, but I
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: think that they have the players on the team now,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: going back to the last call with the speed, I
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: think that this could be something that we see a
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: little bit more screen passes. And if that's the case,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: you do need those athletic guys to get out there
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: in space and pull all right, the phones or phone
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: lines are going in, Bob from Grand Valley, Bob, what's up?
• 28:28
  Speaker 18: Hey, Nick?
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: How you doing, Buddy?
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Great Man? How are you? Bob?
• 28:31
  Speaker 18: I'll tell you what I'm really looking forward to. Sunday
• 28:33
  Speaker 18: night out. Yeah, you know, the giants hurtin. You're not
• 28:38
  Speaker 18: going to have an advantage despite having an extra man
• 28:41
  Speaker 18: in the bike bill Sunday night, because that extra man
• 28:43
  Speaker 18: in their back bill is going to be one number
• 28:46
  Speaker 18: of eleven eleven one. Mister Michael Parker, He's going to
• 28:48
  Speaker 18: live back there, h hey. And what that's going to
• 28:52
  Speaker 18: do is not only him making sacks and pressure in
• 28:55
  Speaker 18: the quarterback. That pressure that he's going to put on
• 28:58
  Speaker 18: a quarterback is going to mister Jones to make newmore
• 29:05
  Speaker 18: a mistake. And uh, I think our secondary is going
• 29:09
  Speaker 18: to feast off of that and they're going to really
• 29:11
  Speaker 18: come up with some turnovers. That's what I got for you, Betty.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: I have a great day.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Thank you so much for the call. Bob.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I did get a text line question about that Dan
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: from Philly.
• 29:22
  Speaker 19: Uh.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: He said, not worried as much about Barkley, more worried
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: about Daniel Jones scrambling on broken plays to extend the drive. So, yeah,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Daniel Jones can can make some plays. And that's one thing.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy said that that Trey Lance was actually used
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: on the scout team and and kind of able to
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: to simulate a little bit of what what Daniel Jones
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: can do. He's probably a little better athlete, but but
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: but you know, I think Jones is good at those
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: type of plays, broken plays where where you know it's
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: wide open there in the middle and he can go
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: and slide, get your first down and all that stuff.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Michael Parsons, I think that's going to be the key
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: is is how they how they go, you know, away
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: from him at times. That's why it's so important for
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: him to be able to rush really from three spots.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: He needs to rush from left side, right side, and
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: sometimes up the middle because that is going to be
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: the first read. I remember, uh, there's a game way
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: back in the day with Patriots played the Ravens. I
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: think it was in the playoffs, and it's been it's
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: been you know, well documented that that on on Brady's
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: wristband it said find twenty every play talking about Ed Reid.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: I probably need to find Ray Lewis too, but find
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: twenty every play and read Ed Reid would go all
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: over the place. I don't think anyone's going to just
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: write that on their on their armband, but find eleven
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: on every play. Has got to be something that Daniel
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Jones and every other quarterback has to has to to
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: realize because he's going to be that much of a
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: difference maker all over the place. All right, A little
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: bit on overtime here we'll see if we got any
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: more calls. We got some some throwback players though from
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Stephen Vermont, he said, what about Kevin Olgletree, especially for
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: playing the Giants this week? You know, that's one of
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: my favorite stories, honest. I actually in the book that
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: I wrote, If These Walls Could Talk, it was one
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: of the stories in there on Kevin Ogletree in the
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: twenty twelve game. It was a Wednesday night game, the
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: only time we've ever played on a Wednesday night, and
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: to open the year, they had just won the Super Bowl.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Kevin Ogletree's brother, I believe was in the hospital and
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: in New Jersey because that's where he was from that
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: day that Wednesday afternoon. He went and visited him in
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: the hospital, and then he comes back and has the
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: greatest game of his career, without a doubt. I think
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: he had two touchdowns, I had a huge third down
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: conversion to win the game. And that was the Kevin
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Ogletree game, if there is one, And he won that game.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: And that's why it's so exciting about a game like
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: this here on, you know, to start the season, because
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: you know, we wrote an article yesterday the X factors.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: It's Micah, It's dak It's Daniel Jones, It's Barkley. It's
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: gonna be someone else. It's gonna be someone else is
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: gonna make a huge play. Deimone Clark's gonna have an
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: interception or force fumble or something something big.
• 32:05
  Speaker 16: You know.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: That's that's what makes this thing so exciting. You don't
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: really know who who's gonna do it, Who's gonna make
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: that play. It's gonna be somebody and and you know,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: and hopefully for the Cowboys it's it's it's someone you know,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: like who's this year? Is Kevin Ogletree? You know, maybe
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: it's Jalen Tolbert or wouldn't that be a great story?
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: All right? Phone line again, This is Marquis from Alexandria, Virginia.
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  Speaker 14: Hey, Marti Marquing.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Sorry about that, Mark Marquis, Yeah, messes me up a
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: little bit, all right, Markey.
• 32:35
  Speaker 14: I think we all know D line O line and
• 32:38
  Speaker 14: very big. But I think a real key factor will
• 32:40
  Speaker 14: be our how we utilize the middle of the field
• 32:43
  Speaker 14: with our slide receivers are running backs off the backfield
• 32:45
  Speaker 14: to slow down their pass rush. But I think for us,
• 32:47
  Speaker 14: our biggest k on defense is gonna be on nickel
• 32:50
  Speaker 14: corner Blaine or Jordan Lewis, because big I'm trying to
• 32:53
  Speaker 14: get the ball out their hands quickly. They're gonna know,
• 32:55
  Speaker 14: trying to go to Diggs, trying to go to Gilmore,
• 32:57
  Speaker 14: how must gonna be a waste of time? That pass
• 32:59
  Speaker 14: rus't gonna be. So I'm sure the game plan is
• 33:02
  Speaker 14: going to be to get the ball out of Jones's
• 33:04
  Speaker 14: hands quickly. So our nickel corners are gonna have to
• 33:07
  Speaker 14: really be good, and vander Ash and Clark are gonna
• 33:11
  Speaker 14: really have to cover those flats. But I really am
• 33:14
  Speaker 14: looking forward.
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: To the game.
• 33:15
  Speaker 14: I like your new show.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
• 33:17
  Speaker 20: That's all I got.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Thank you, man, Markus. And I can tell you this, Uh,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: he played football. Marquis played football, and he probably played
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: in the slot because his keys for the Cowboys offense
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: is the slot receivers and also on defense it's the
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: slot corner. And and that's and he's he's right because
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: because that's that's where the game happens, that's where it's
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: so fast, that's where you know you can do everything
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: you want to protect the outside, protect the corners. They
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: have a sideline to help these inside slot cornerbacks though
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: they have no help, and and you're going up against
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: and you know, I think gone are the days where
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: you're just going up against the Oza Keem or something
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: like that in the slot that's a short little guy,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: possession guy or Wayne Corbette. No, no, no, these these studs,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: these ce d Lambs and AJ Brown's and all the
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: all the top receivers, they line up all over the place,
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: and so you know, it really puts a lot of
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: pressure on your slot corner. And Deron Bland I think
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: they found somebody special there. And Jordan Lewis is really
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: good at it as well, but I think Dern Bland
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: is a guy that they're going to have in here
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: for a long time to be playing in the slot.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: And the same goes the other ways with the Cowboys
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: because Brandon Cooks can line up inside. We've seen Gallup
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: do it at times in CD as well, so that
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: that's gonna be a big match up there. I know
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: the Giants were really excited about their guy Dorry Jackson
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: this year. They think he's going to have it take
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: it to another level. Well, we're gonna find out, because
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: you know, you go up against Cede lamb to start
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: the year. All right, the phone line again, Joe in Florida.
• 34:46
  Speaker 16: Hey, how's it going?
• 34:47
  Speaker 19: Man?
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: Joe?
• 34:49
  Speaker 18: God?
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Too much?
• 34:50
  Speaker 17: Man?
• 34:50
  Speaker 16: Long time.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: I love you guys.
• 34:51
  Speaker 17: I love you on the break man, So I really
• 34:53
  Speaker 17: love love your your new new show here. But I appreciate.
• 34:56
  Speaker 17: I have a quick question. I'm always curious about why NFL,
• 35:00
  Speaker 17: pretty much every other sports league makes makes this knowledgeable
• 35:04
  Speaker 17: to the public on what a player gets paid. I'm
• 35:07
  Speaker 17: always curious about that because your job, my job, everybody
• 35:09
  Speaker 17: else's job. We don't do that, And I was just
• 35:11
  Speaker 17: wondering why that is.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I think I think the the reason why it
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: is is because of your you have a salary cap
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: that that that everybody can can pull from. Everybody knows
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: what the salary cap is, and everyone has the same amount.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: So really it's not so much I don't I don't
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: know if it's so much about the players. It's also
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: about the management of the team and the GM and
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: how they structure things and and and why and and
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: and probably all stems from the fact of back in
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: the day, the early parts of the salary cap, like
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: why would this team cut this player? Why would the
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: forty nine ers, get rid of Joe Montana or the
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Cowboys ever cut Troy Aikman. I mean, that's what I
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: would guess. And then it's like, well, well we didn't.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: We love Troy Aigman. He's gonna be in our Ring
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: of honor. But it's because of this. It's because of
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Look look at the salary. Look and I think I
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: think that's kind of where it all, where it all
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: stems from. I mean, it's also the structure of the team. Uh,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: you're right, it's it's different. But then again, everything's different
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: between what we're making and what they're making, and and
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: and you know, and you know, I think I think
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: when when you have ticket prices the way they do
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: for the fans, I mean, I think the fans feel
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: obligated to kind of know that I there's probably more
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: stories behind it. It's the first time I've actually been
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: asked that question, so you kind of got me on
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: that one. But but I you know, that's what I
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: would think. It would more to justify some of the
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: moves that they made from the front office positions. All right,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: another caller, Irwin in Denver, Irwin.
• 36:47
  Speaker 21: What's up, Hey, Nick, what's going on not much. Man,
• 36:50
  Speaker 21: How are you You're doing great? Hey, I gotta I
• 36:53
  Speaker 21: got a question for you. I just want your thoughts
• 36:56
  Speaker 21: on this. Always think about these preseason games and the
• 37:01
  Speaker 21: fact that McCarthy doesn't play the starters. Just kind of
• 37:05
  Speaker 21: wondering what you were thinking about this Sunday night when
• 37:09
  Speaker 21: they come out there and play. Are they how rusty
• 37:11
  Speaker 21: are they're going to be? In particular Dak Prescott, because
• 37:15
  Speaker 21: it seems to me like the other teams for the
• 37:17
  Speaker 21: most part place their starters were a little bit and
• 37:20
  Speaker 21: then we don't they get into that first game and
• 37:22
  Speaker 21: they just looked sluggish, rusty and.
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: Out of sync. What do you think?
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: You know, you have a good point because of last year.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, you have that you can point to. I mean,
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: they scored three points against Tampa, you know, and we
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: saw at the end of the year just how the
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Cowboys were related to Tampa, way better of a football team,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: and they did not look good. Dak did not look
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: good at all in that game, you know, And you know,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: you go back to twenty twenty one, Dak didn't do anything,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: had been out, he didn't even practice because he had
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: like a armpit injury or whatever. That was an arm injury,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: and they go out and he throws for about four
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: hundred yards and then you know, they lose thirty one
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: to twenty nine. But I thought the offense played well
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty, there wasn't preseason because of COVID. In twenty nineteen,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: they scored thirty five points against the Giants in Week
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: one and you know, look good doing that. And we
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: year before that eight points at Carolina. And I go
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: back to five years because since Romo got hurt in
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: that Seattle game, I don't think they've really used the
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: starters a whole lot. I mean maybe here and there.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Another counter to that, too, is think about in the
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: postseason when when a team takes a week off at
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: the end of the end of the year because they've
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: already locked something up and then they have a bye,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: and then then they go into the playoffs and we're all,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: what are we all were talking about? We're like, well,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: what happens? I mean, the Russ factor. It's been two weeks,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: they haven't done anything. Well, even if you played the
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: last preseason game, you still have two weeks. I mean,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: it's still two weeks off. So the risk reward just
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: isn't there for me. You could play, you could play
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: your starters for three straight games, You're still going to
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: have two weeks off, really two and a half weeks
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: off because those are usually Thursday games at the last
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: one Thursday or Friday, and then and then you know,
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: you still got to deal with that. So for me, it,
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I hear what you're saying, and you got to hope
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: that the Cowboys can kind of fight through that in
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: the first quarter or so. But I think most teams
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: are going to have that rust factor except for Kansas City.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: They just don't have any of that issues, which is
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: just good for them. All right. Another caller here, Dave
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: in a Popka, Florida. Dave, what's up, Hey?
• 39:32
  Speaker 16: What's going on?
• 39:32
  Speaker 17: Brother?
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 39:34
  Speaker 16: I'm doing well? Hey, Nick, I got a special teams
• 39:38
  Speaker 16: question for you. And I've asked people this question before.
• 39:41
  Speaker 16: Why don't they put Deuce Vaughn on the punt team
• 39:44
  Speaker 16: in the backfield with the punter. He is so short
• 39:47
  Speaker 16: they couldn't see him, and I thought think that they
• 39:50
  Speaker 16: lost an opportunity during the preseason to use him as
• 39:53
  Speaker 16: a fake. You just have him run left or right,
• 39:56
  Speaker 16: run up the middle, do a fake pass or something
• 39:58
  Speaker 16: like that. I think that be great if the Cowboys
• 40:01
  Speaker 16: special teams coach could incorporate something like that.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: What do you think, Well, I think that if if
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: there's a fake to be had on special teams, uh,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: you know, John Fossil is gonna do it, or he's
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: thinking he's you know, laying awake at night coming up
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: with another one. I mean that's what he does. I mean,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: he's gonna have some fake punts.
• 40:19
  Speaker 11: Now.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know about throwing it out in the preseason
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: unless you're just not gonna do it again, unless you
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: want to throw out fakes for the reason of just
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: to try to to to scare teams in their coverage.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Because that's what Fossil's done. He's he's thrown so many
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: fakes that teams that go up against them know, Okay,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: his reputation is fake punts. So we have to stop
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: for that. And he hardly ever does it. Of course,
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: he did it and Thanksgiving against Washington, and I don't know.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: If we've run another fake punts, it's then But no,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I think you know, who knows what duce Van's role
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: is going to be. I mean, they're they're gonna have
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: some some things for him. They'll have some wrinkles. As
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: great as that sounds, to put him back there and
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: see what he could do. Let's see what happens when
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: a when a linebacker shoots right up there, right over
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: the deep snapper and he's going one on one with
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: him at full speed. You know, Kenny Canny block him?
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Do you want him to block him? And make sure
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: you don't have a block punt. So there's always, as
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Bill Parcells would always say, there's two sides to the
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: pancake there, and yeah, you can put them out there,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: but you also have to make sure that you block them.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: I got every time I see text messages, but I
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: also see calls. When I see calls, I'm sorry, I
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: lean towards the calls because that's what makes the show
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: fun in my opinion. Chris in San Angelo, what's up, Chris?
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: I'm doing well?
• 41:37
  Speaker 18: Nick?
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Are you? Are you a Rams fan over there? I'm
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: not not not l a Rams a.
• 41:44
  Speaker 16: Absolutely all right.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Well, that's that's a rival to my school Midwestern state
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: national champions last year. That's right, that's right. So we'll
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: see what my Midwestern State Mustangs can do there against
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: the Rams, all right.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: What you we will.
• 42:02
  Speaker 19: My question is, you know, the Cowboys after some cuts,
• 42:07
  Speaker 19: a few of their players went to other NFC teams
• 42:11
  Speaker 19: and then they ended up getting one back from the Giants.
• 42:15
  Speaker 19: Are you any kind of believer in that could those
• 42:19
  Speaker 19: players could help with the game planning or do you
• 42:23
  Speaker 19: think that's just something that's fun to talk about it.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: I think it's fun to talk about. I really do.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: I don't. I think if it was a quarterback, you know,
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: I do I think that when Tom Brady played the
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: Patriots a year later, Do I think that he could
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: have helped their defensive coordinator, you know, with some stuff
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: or offensive coordinator. Yes, I do, but but I don't
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: think that certain guys that go, you know, like Dennis
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Houston at wide receiver just trying to learn that the
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: playbook over there the Giants. I don't know who you're
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: referring to, but I know that was one. He's not
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: going to help what they're trying to do over there,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Like like, he's not going to go into their defensive
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: coordinator and be able to talk to about he needs
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: to figure out just how that he can get on
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: the field. So you know, I no, I think it's
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: a little bit overblown. I think there are some quarterbacks
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: that could do it, and maybe some longtime veterans that
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: understand what they're doing. Yeah, they probably can help. But
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: maybe for somebody that you're cutting now, it's because they
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: couldn't pick up their own offense, but much less figure out, uh,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: you know, how to how to spread it to the
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: next team. All right, I do have another call Sam
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: and Philly. Sam, what do you got?
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: How you doing?
• 43:33
  Speaker 14: Nick?
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: I'm a big fan.
• 43:34
  Speaker 20: Of yours, man, I been listening for a long time.
• 43:36
  Speaker 20: I got your book right here too.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that, Thank you, man.
• 43:41
  Speaker 20: I just want to talk about the team in general, okay,
• 43:43
  Speaker 20: I mean, because we've been so used to like mediocrity
• 43:45
  Speaker 20: for so long. And then listen. I'm a big fan
• 43:48
  Speaker 20: of Jerry. I love Jerry, and Jerry's biggest fan. But
• 43:52
  Speaker 20: don't you see how like they brought in new coaches,
• 43:54
  Speaker 20: they brought in Dan Gunn, they brought Mike McCarthy, and
• 43:56
  Speaker 20: there's like some more stip stability going on where they're
• 44:00
  Speaker 20: actually winning and they're actually getting to the second round consistently.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's that's the question. Yeah, I mean,
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: it's not been like.
• 44:10
  Speaker 20: I don't think, like, I don't think that the players
• 44:12
  Speaker 20: were necessarily the problem of like, you know, they obviously
• 44:15
  Speaker 20: have better players nowadays. Yeah, but they had some good
• 44:18
  Speaker 20: teams with Romo and then like, I just think the
• 44:20
  Speaker 20: coaching was terrible and keep Jason Garrett around for that
• 44:23
  Speaker 20: long was like a big mistake.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Well, Jason Garrett was like, I mean Jason, you know,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: was it Jason Myers from or is his name from
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Friday the thirteenth? I mean, like or Freddy Kruger. I mean,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: like you think it's over, Like this is it? I mean,
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: you're the hot Seaton, you know. Then he goes twelve
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: and four, then he goes thirteen and three, and then
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: it's eight and eight, and every time you were like,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: I mean really go back and look at those years.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, you could make the case when he went
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: eight and eight three years in a row, one of
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: those he could have he could have moved on. But
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Jerry's not trying to do that. Jerry's not trying to
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: He wants to build some continuity, so he's not trying
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: to just just fire people after a year or two.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: So you know, he's gonna he's gonna let him in
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: every time. Jason Garrett kind of helped himself there with
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: with having a great season when he was when the
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: hot seat was was at its hottest. So that's I
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: think that I think that you're you're right. The coaching
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: could have been could have been better at times, but
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: you know, they Jason Garrett, I think that he.
• 45:22
  Speaker 20: Got extremely lucky getting dan Quinn. And I think he's
• 45:25
  Speaker 20: even luckier that he's sticking that he's sticking around.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, I mean, look at the look.
• 45:29
  Speaker 20: At what the guy does, dude. The guy took Seattle
• 45:32
  Speaker 20: and that that.
• 45:33
  Speaker 18: That team was all defense.
• 45:34
  Speaker 20: Dude, Like he was the reason why they won that
• 45:36
  Speaker 20: Super Bowl, why they got to the super Bowl. Then
• 45:39
  Speaker 20: he goes to Atlanta, they go to the super Bowl.
• 45:41
  Speaker 20: We're lucky to have that, dude. And like if he
• 45:43
  Speaker 20: would have just picked better coaches along the way, Romo
• 45:45
  Speaker 20: could have. You know, I'm a big Romo fan. Yeah,
• 45:48
  Speaker 20: huge Romo fan.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean also that they had.
• 45:51
  Speaker 20: Those good teams and you know what I mean, they
• 45:53
  Speaker 20: couldn't really do anything because they had Rod Marinelli and
• 45:55
  Speaker 20: Jason Gettt.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: I hear you. And also that they're lucky that dan
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Quinn wants to stay and he's not looking to be
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: a head coach right this second, so that they've been fortunate.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Most of the time you get a head coach that
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: when the when the when they're calling to become a
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: head coach, you take it. So, you know, and Jason
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Garrett had a couple of chances too, and he and
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: he didn't. He passed and he stayed, And you know,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: I think Jason Garrett was a good coach. But but
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: good coaches don't necessarily went. Great coaches I have got
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: to take you over the top. And I think that's
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: kind of where it stands. So all right, appreciate the call,
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Appreciate all the calls. This is great. We had a
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: lot of calls went over time today. Cowboys breaks coming
• 46:32
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• 46:33
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• 46:37
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• 46:39
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• 46:41
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• 46:43
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