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Spurs Win at MSG Making Series 2-1 and Cowboys Defensive Line Still in Question · The Daily Play With Joy Taylor

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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to the Daily Play with Joy Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me. Make sure that you
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  Speaker 1: hit subscribe and follow us on social at the Daily
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  Speaker 1: Play Joy Taylor. Game three at the NBA Finals was intense.
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  Speaker 1: I love that feeling at the end of a playoff game,
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  Speaker 1: at a postseason game, where every single second almost feels
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  Speaker 1: like it's in slow motion.
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  Speaker 2: And that was the ending of this game.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Spurs were able to pull off the one fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: one to eleven win in front of the star studded
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  Speaker 1: crowd at Madison Square Garden.
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  Speaker 2: It was a.
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  Speaker 1: Very intense atmosphere. President Trump was there, he did good food.
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  Speaker 1: But on the San Antonio side, it was all about maturity.
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  Speaker 2: So the team's.
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  Speaker 1: Oldest starter is Daron Fox, who is twenty eight years
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  Speaker 1: old and has limited playoff experience. And this has been
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  Speaker 1: a question about the Spurs throughout the postseason and particularly
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  Speaker 1: in this series, how they have shown a bit of their.
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  Speaker 2: Postseason and.
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  Speaker 1: Crunch time moments immaturity, and they were able to push.
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  Speaker 2: Through that and mature through that throughout this game.
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  Speaker 1: Head coach Mitch Johnson talked about Wemby and how his
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  Speaker 1: team will respond. He said I'm sure Victor has numerous
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  Speaker 1: sources of motivation. I don't think any of us are
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  Speaker 1: surprised or expect anything different than a strong performance in
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  Speaker 1: him being on his front foot in terms of attack mode.
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  Speaker 2: For me and the staff, it's our job to help
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  Speaker 2: the guys.
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  Speaker 1: There's no momentum, there's no carryover and of the same
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  Speaker 1: approach over the next forty eight hours. Love to hear
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  Speaker 1: that because at this point in the series, being down
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  Speaker 1: two one and the next game is going to be
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  Speaker 1: another intense experience at MSG up probably a little bit
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  Speaker 1: different because the President will not be in attendance, so
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  Speaker 1: that tension will be out of the building. The Spurs
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  Speaker 1: did show a little bit of growth tonight. There's been
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  Speaker 1: these chapters of growth spurts for the Spurs throughout the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: making it to the Western Conference Finals, taking down OKAC,
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  Speaker 1: and now it's been a rocky start, losing two at home,
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  Speaker 1: and then you come into MSG all of the pressure
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  Speaker 1: is on you. Yes, I understand there was pressure on
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks as well, but if you go down oh three,
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  Speaker 1: the series is over. It's historically speaking, no one's ever
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  Speaker 1: come back from that. This was a must win game
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  Speaker 1: as far as non elimination games go, and I love
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  Speaker 1: that they were able to hang on the tension at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the game to see if they were
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  Speaker 1: going to make the mistake the Aaron Fox turns the
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  Speaker 1: ball over and it felt like, Ah, are.
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  Speaker 2: They going to do it again?
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  Speaker 1: Are they gonna trick this off again and make some
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  Speaker 1: mistakes that the Knicks can capitalize on. Jalen Brunson is
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  Speaker 1: going to hit those shots at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And I really feel like they're San Antonio's first Finals
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  Speaker 1: one in twelve years. Really came at the hands of
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  Speaker 1: visible growth for this particular Spurs team. Keep in mind
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  Speaker 1: they're current Finals veteranist Harrison Barnes, who won his title
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  Speaker 1: with the Warriors in twenty fifteen, so quite some time ago.
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  Speaker 1: This is a very interesting ensemble of players of youth
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  Speaker 1: and inexperience of veterans but not necessarily Finals experience, and
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  Speaker 1: this type of experience is the kind that you can
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  Speaker 1: only get trial by fire.
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  Speaker 2: And they're very new here.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously a lot of the Knicks are new here as well,
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  Speaker 1: but in a completely different capacity. So I loved seeing
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  Speaker 1: them hold on make the right decisions down the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: Make the shots down the stretch. You know, throughout the
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  Speaker 1: game they had these these leads that they sort of
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  Speaker 1: held on too, and then they would lose momentum and
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  Speaker 1: then they would gain it back with a couple shots.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously there's gonna be conversations about the fouls.
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  Speaker 2: Get over it that. I don't know what the refs
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  Speaker 2: were doing throughout this game.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of the most clumsily called performances by
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  Speaker 1: the refs, simply because they did not establish what the
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  Speaker 1: intensity was going to be in the beginning of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Are we allowing this.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of physicality? Level of physicality was quite silly. I
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  Speaker 1: mean they were just hanging on to Wemby at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the game, Carl Anthony Towns and Wemby were
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  Speaker 1: just locked up like they were in a boxing match,
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  Speaker 1: and they weren't calling anything either way, and it just
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  Speaker 1: got silly at one point. So I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: the well, I do think the.
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  Speaker 2: Refereeing was very inconsistent.
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  Speaker 1: I think it started from the very beginning that they
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  Speaker 1: were going to allow too much physicality, like a silly
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  Speaker 1: level of physicality, and then they would call a random,
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  Speaker 1: very obvious foul. But something that they were letting everyone
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  Speaker 1: get away with So I know that Knicks fans are
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  Speaker 1: going to be talking about the fouls and the disparity,
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  Speaker 1: but you also cannot hang on Victor Wembanyama's arms. And
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  Speaker 1: Victor got away with a very obvious intentional foul on
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  Speaker 1: Jalen earlier in the game. This is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a physical series throughout. That's to be expected. But I
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  Speaker 1: do think the refs need to establish what kind of
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  Speaker 1: physicality they're going to allow. So the conversation will continue
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  Speaker 1: and we can have some more of it right now
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  Speaker 1: on the Knick side.
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  Speaker 2: Game three was.
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  Speaker 1: I think a combination of things can only go this
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  Speaker 1: way for so long. The Spurs are a very good team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, all good things come to an end. They're
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  Speaker 1: on this winning streak, They've had all these things going
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  Speaker 1: in their direction. They've looked incredible, They've taken control in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of games, and you know, at some
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  Speaker 1: point a good team is going to win a game.
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  Speaker 2: And I expected the Spur.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what I expected from the Spurs, but
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  Speaker 1: I certainly expected Wemby to be more aggressive early, which
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  Speaker 1: is what you saw. And and yeah, I mean they
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  Speaker 1: didn't play great they had a lot of turnovers. They
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  Speaker 1: were really struggling with Wemby when he was out there.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Brown said, we didn't play good. San Antonio played great,
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  Speaker 1: but goos twenty four to three Thomps in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: That's forty eight for the game if you think about
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  Speaker 1: the way they called the second half compared to eight.
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  Speaker 1: I don't complain much, but I never thought they would
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  Speaker 1: see that in the NBA Finals. They won thirteen straight
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  Speaker 1: games in the playoffs. It felt like they would never
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  Speaker 1: lose again. They lead the series to one. Like the
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  Speaker 1: conversation about the referees is I think fair to have,
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  Speaker 1: but we also have to examine the way that the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks were playing defense and hanging on Victor wenbin Yama.
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  Speaker 1: I think they just didn't play their best game, and
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  Speaker 1: I would love to blame it on the president's presence,
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  Speaker 1: the pressure of MSG. I did not think that the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks were going to sweep san Antonio. Doesn't mean it
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  Speaker 1: won't be a gentlemen sweep because Game four it can
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  Speaker 1: go any which way. And while I do think that
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  Speaker 1: san Antonio played, you know, obviously their best game of
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  Speaker 1: the series, but their most mature game.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to need to be.
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  Speaker 1: Flawless, I believe throughout the rest of this series if
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  Speaker 1: they're going to win this series, and I don't think
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  Speaker 1: New York has to be flawless. I also don't think
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  Speaker 1: that the officiating is going to be That level of
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  Speaker 1: inconsistency from the officiating is going to continue throughout the series.
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  Speaker 2: So switching to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Despite struggling to get sacks last season, the Cowboys have
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  Speaker 1: yet to make any major moves to bring in a
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  Speaker 1: pass rusher this offseason. And it's not because they haven't
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  Speaker 1: had pass rushers. DeMarcus Lawrence left last season after sixty
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  Speaker 1: one and a half sacks over eleven seasons to win
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  Speaker 1: a championship in Seattle. Obviously, there's the Micah Parsons trade,
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  Speaker 1: which was incredibly shocking in a huge move. Osa Odigi
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  Speaker 1: Zua was trade he is with the Niners now. Javian
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  Speaker 1: Clowney led the Cowboys in sacks last season at eight
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  Speaker 1: and a half. He remains a free agent, and head
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  Speaker 1: coach Brian Schottenheimer says not gonna be an issue, not
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  Speaker 1: an issue that we don't have any stars because the
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  Speaker 1: defensive line will work as a group. He said some
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  Speaker 1: of the best pass wresting teams I know we've faced.
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  Speaker 2: Don't necessarily have one guy.
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  Speaker 1: It's easier to shut one guy down, one elite guy
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  Speaker 1: you can pay a lot of attention to. I really
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  Speaker 1: do think it's more of the unit, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're excited about, with the depth that we feel we have.
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  Speaker 2: Look, that sounds good, right, like that it's easy to
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  Speaker 2: shut down one guy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm quite sure that plenty of people have game plans
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  Speaker 1: to shut down Miles Garrett. They've gained plan to shut
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  Speaker 1: down Michaeh Parsons, they gain plan to shut down Stars,
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  Speaker 1: they gain plan to shut down Aaron Donald.
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  Speaker 2: How did that work out for them?
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  Speaker 1: This is smelling a lot like Cowboys propaganda here, it
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  Speaker 1: really is.
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  Speaker 2: I get it. They have a Sean Gary Donovan.
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  Speaker 1: Is Zari Kua, they have a rookie first rounder Malachi Lawrence.
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  Speaker 2: It takes a village approach.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think you can have a solid line,
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  Speaker 1: but I do think you need a star otherwise, what
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  Speaker 1: what are they game planning for? They're just everyone's just
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  Speaker 1: gonna play their role. You never have to double team anyone. Look,
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  Speaker 1: the result last year was Dallas was seven nine and one,
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  Speaker 1: and their defense was thirty second in points allowed. Like
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  Speaker 1: the defense has been a big conversation with Dallas lately.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime Dallas starts doing this, like like you get a
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  Speaker 1: quote from them where you're like, I don't, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's like an elite pass rush is kind of
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  Speaker 1: the thing. Like the Rams just did it. They've they've
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  Speaker 1: been to quite a few Super Bowls and lately and
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  Speaker 1: and one one there at the top of your conference.
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  Speaker 1: They just went and got an elite pass rusher. The
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  Speaker 1: Packers certainly were interested in Micah Parsons. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: every team. The Seahawks were known for their chief ense
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  Speaker 1: this year, and as I just mentioned, they have DeMarcus Lawrence.
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  Speaker 2: They just won a championship.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just anytime the Cowboys start doing this saying
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  Speaker 1: these quotes that just sound a little bit like I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's the strategy. It's because they're usually trying
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  Speaker 1: to do that, they're trying to misdirect. I do think
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  Speaker 1: that they need a standout star on defense. I do
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  Speaker 1: think they need someone that you have to gain plan
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  Speaker 1: for the reason that you gain plan for one and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that has is when you do have other
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  Speaker 1: strong players on the line than they are able to
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  Speaker 1: eat because the attention is going towards the star.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really interested to see what the Cowboys put out
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  Speaker 1: on the field this year and what the results look like.
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  Speaker 2: I said this last year, it feels.
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  Speaker 1: Like the Cowboys have reached a point after all of
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  Speaker 1: this time not truly being a championship contender.
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  Speaker 2: They're in sort of.
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  Speaker 1: The snowman's land as an organization where the bit isn't
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  Speaker 1: really working anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Like the results have to come, and they've.
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  Speaker 1: Made a lot of really big moves. They always draft well,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to give them that. They are going to
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  Speaker 1: draft some stars and then they're going to develop them,
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  Speaker 1: but are they going to keep them? I really want
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  Speaker 1: to see what they do this year. It feels like
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  Speaker 1: not a make or break year for them as an organization,
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  Speaker 1: but it does feel like a year where the relevancy
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  Speaker 1: could slip.
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  Speaker 2: It's already slipping. You already have another dynasty.
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  Speaker 1: You already have other teams putting things together more quickly,
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  Speaker 1: being more aggressive and getting results. So I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 1: even within your division, you've got solid competition across the board,
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  Speaker 1: not really the Giants, but certainly with Washington and with Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just curious if things like this are a
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  Speaker 1: sign that they usually are with the Cowboys, that they're
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  Speaker 1: not really putting the strongest product.
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  Speaker 2: Out in the field, but they are.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to convince ourselves that this is a tactic
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  Speaker 1: that's going to work. Thanks so much for joining me
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