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  Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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  Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: This is these Cowboys storylines with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 4: What is up? It is time for another Cowboys storyline.
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  Speaker 4: I'm your host, Nick Eatman. But this is a different storyline.
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  Speaker 4: This is different than any other one that we've done
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  Speaker 4: since we started back at training camp in late July,
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  Speaker 4: because this storyline is actually officially game week. It is
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  Speaker 4: game week. There's no more off season. Offseason is officially closed.
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  Speaker 4: It is a Tuesday. It's an off day, just like
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  Speaker 4: it normally will be here at the Star in Frisco,
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  Speaker 4: and it is time to focus only on this week's
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  Speaker 4: game against the Giants. Of course, I say that we'll
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  Speaker 4: probably bounce around and talk about a lot of other
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  Speaker 4: things because that's what we do here on the storyline,
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  Speaker 4: But the biggest one, obviously is the game Cowboys and Giants.
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  Speaker 4: Training camp has been long gone, the preseason is over.
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  Speaker 4: Roster cuts, roster moves all these time. I mean, roster
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  Speaker 4: moves will always kind of happen tweaking here and there,
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  Speaker 4: as Bill parcels you to say, churn the bottom of
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  Speaker 4: the roster. That will always happen, but the focus obviously
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  Speaker 4: will be against the Giants, and what happens here with
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  Speaker 4: any kind of injury setbacks before, it's not that big
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  Speaker 4: a deal. We'll see as long as they getting ready
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  Speaker 4: for the Giants. But if something happens this week, it
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  Speaker 4: certainly magnifies things a little bit like it did yesterday
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  Speaker 4: in practice Monday at the start, right when the media
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  Speaker 4: was leaving where media gets to be out there, like
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  Speaker 4: twenty minutes maybe, so I would say it about nineteen
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  Speaker 4: minute mark, Tyler Smith starts walking off the field. Didn't
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  Speaker 4: look too happy about it. Come to find out, looks
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  Speaker 4: like he's got a hamstring injury that will limit him
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  Speaker 4: probably this week. Well, we'll see how it goes. Jerry Jones,
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys owner GM said on his weekly radio segment on
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  Speaker 4: one O five to three the Fan this morning. He'll
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  Speaker 4: he'll do that every Tuesday morning, so always some storylines
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  Speaker 4: coming out of that, And the biggest one that he said,
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  Speaker 4: in my opinion, was just just about the question on
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  Speaker 4: Tyler Smith and his availability for this week. He's going
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  Speaker 4: to have an MRI today, but it sounds like they're
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  Speaker 4: pretty optimistic based off of what he was able to
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  Speaker 4: do and how he was feeling as the day went
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  Speaker 4: on yesterday. So as it stands right now, it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: seem like the Cowboys are concerned about his status for
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  Speaker 4: the first game. But again, he's going to have the MRI.
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  Speaker 4: I going to see how things are just officially, to
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  Speaker 4: see what it looks like. But as it stands right now,
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  Speaker 4: fingers crossed, Tyler Smith should be able to play. That's
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  Speaker 4: that's at least what the hope is. Then we'll see
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  Speaker 4: what the MRI reveals later on. But yeah, hamstring injury
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  Speaker 4: or at least the setback a hamstring tweak, you would
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  Speaker 4: say for Tyler Smith who plays left guard, and Cowboys
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  Speaker 4: can't have any issues when it comes to the offensive
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  Speaker 4: line because they really don't have a lot of depth.
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  Speaker 4: And when I'm looking at some questions here already on
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  Speaker 4: the text line, and again we'll take questions on the
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  Speaker 4: text line. I'll obviously take questions on the phone line.
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  Speaker 4: Last Friday show was amazing. You guys were all over
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  Speaker 4: the place there calling us. I think we counted sixteen
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  Speaker 4: phone calls there. We went a little overtime to get
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  Speaker 4: those in and then this is you know, this is
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  Speaker 4: the time slot here that we're hoping for ten am.
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  Speaker 4: We're still kind of trying to see what Mike McCarthy's
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  Speaker 4: schedule on his press conference is going to look like
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  Speaker 4: it might have to tweak a little bit, but we're
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  Speaker 4: hoping for this ten am time slot. Phone call one
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  Speaker 4: eight eight five five to nine seven eight one seven
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  Speaker 4: two nine zero three two nine eight is the text line.
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  Speaker 4: We do have some text questions, and like I was saying,
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  Speaker 4: the offensive line seems to be where everyone's guess is
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  Speaker 4: concern and and and I'm with you there. I mean
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  Speaker 4: that's where the backup, the backup offensive linemen are. They
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  Speaker 4: don't have a lot of depth there, and this is
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  Speaker 4: a position where you obviously need some depth. Jerry Jones
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  Speaker 4: did say that this morning that every team in the
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  Speaker 4: league is looking for offensive line depth. That's why you
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  Speaker 4: don't see a lot of great linemen on the waiver wire.
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  Speaker 4: Just go grab someone. It doesn't happen that way because
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  Speaker 4: people aren't letting them go like that just because you
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  Speaker 4: need offensive line depth, and the Cowboys certainly do. I
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  Speaker 4: got a question here from uh, Actually, let's look at Pete.
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  Speaker 4: He's from Marino Valley, California. So you think the front
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  Speaker 4: office will make a trade for an offensive line player soon.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know about making a trade. I mean I
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  Speaker 4: think that they they're they're exploring all options here. Like
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  Speaker 4: I said, though, who who's trading offensive lineman? Who's Who's said? Well,
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  Speaker 4: we got a lot of tackles here, We got a
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  Speaker 4: lot of guards and centers. It just doesn't happen very
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  Speaker 4: often because everyone knows. The one thing you that that
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  Speaker 4: you can really hurt your team is if you lose
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  Speaker 4: depth on the offensive line. Go look at the Super
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  Speaker 4: Bowl a couple of years ago, the Chiefs I guess
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  Speaker 4: it was Chiefs and and and Bucks. You know, Tom
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  Speaker 4: Brady was playing there, but it was really the defense
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  Speaker 4: for the Bucks that won that game. And the Chiefs
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  Speaker 4: had like three offensive line starters out and it just
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  Speaker 4: changed their whole, you know, game plan on offense. So
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  Speaker 4: that's the quickest way you can you can change the
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  Speaker 4: course of your season is to lose players on the
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  Speaker 4: offensive line and have some depth issues there. So that's
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of where I think the Cowboys stand there
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to the offensive line, and and and
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna be looking for depth as it stands. Right now,
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  Speaker 4: let's look at the depth you're gonna have. Assuming Tyler
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  Speaker 4: Smith will will play this week, and that's that's what
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  Speaker 4: again fingers crossed there that his hamstring injury will not
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  Speaker 4: hurt him. There Tyler, Tyron Smith, left tackle, Tyler Smith,
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  Speaker 4: left guard, Tyler Biattish center, say those that those three
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  Speaker 4: really fast and then right guard Zach Martin, right tackle,
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  Speaker 4: money bags McGee over there, Terrence Steele, which he did
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  Speaker 4: his interview yesterday and about seventeen players walked by. You know,
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  Speaker 4: show me the money. He must be the money money man,
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  Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff, and which is great for
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  Speaker 4: Terren Steel. He's earned it. And I just I just
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  Speaker 4: looked out of the of the window just to see
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  Speaker 4: the empty practice field, just looking at an empty practice field.
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  Speaker 4: But there's one guy out there jumping rope, Terren Steele.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just just right out there out there in
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  Speaker 4: the heat, ready to go. Ready. But that's that's what
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  Speaker 4: the offensive line starters look like. The backups awesome. Richard's
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  Speaker 4: Matt Will. Let's go the center. It could be the
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  Speaker 4: new guy that they have, Harlow or brock Hoffman. I
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  Speaker 4: would lean towards Hoffman. He's been here, understands the calls.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe a little bit better adoga. If he's healthy, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I mean that he's he's not on the injured you know,
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  Speaker 4: injury report will come out tomorrow, but he has been injured,
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  Speaker 4: not to the point where they wanted to keep him
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  Speaker 4: on IR. But that's your that's your offensive line depth
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  Speaker 4: right now, and so stay healthy starters. Uh, that's that's
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  Speaker 4: kind of where the concern is. All right, phone calls time.
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  Speaker 4: It's time for a phone call Conrod Texas. We've got
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  Speaker 4: Richard Richard.
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  Speaker 5: What's up, Hey, Nick, big fan, longtime listener.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, love the news show.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: I know the concern is offensive line, but mine is
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  Speaker 5: more the linebacker position after losing over shown. Okay, so
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  Speaker 5: is it something that they address in free agency or
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  Speaker 5: do you think this is Roles that curse and Marquis
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  Speaker 5: Bell fill out. I'll hang up and let you answer.
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  Speaker 5: But man, a big fan, I'm sure the brick misses you,
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  Speaker 5: but I look forward to hearing your answer.
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  Speaker 4: What well, thank you for the call. And I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if they do, actually they if they miss me
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  Speaker 4: over there, because Patrick Walker is filled in nicely and
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  Speaker 4: that he's uh, he's taken it. To a different level too.
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  Speaker 4: So I hear some some big conversations that they have
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  Speaker 4: over there on the break, which most of the time
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  Speaker 4: and it'll include today as well, but it seems like
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  Speaker 4: the break will be following me. So I think I'm
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  Speaker 4: squeezing in right in between talking cowboys and Cowboys break.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good good spot to be in those two
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  Speaker 4: shows right there. Another question that I had on that
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  Speaker 4: linebacker depth was Chris from wichital Falls. He did a
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  Speaker 4: text line question about he sees the problem the offensive line,
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  Speaker 4: but he's also concerned about the thin linebacker depth as well,
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  Speaker 4: just like you, Richard, So going going to that that
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  Speaker 4: that would be number two I would think on the
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  Speaker 4: on the list of concerns just from a depth standpoint.
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  Speaker 4: But you kind of answer your own question just because
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  Speaker 4: you know the way that I think dan Quinn will
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  Speaker 4: play it. You know the linebackers you're gonna they're not
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  Speaker 4: playing three linebackers on the field very often, if ever.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, so you really don't need three. You don't
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  Speaker 4: need three backups for that really playing two and if
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  Speaker 4: and some of those times will be like you said, safety,
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  Speaker 4: I think Marquis Bell is going to get some spot
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  Speaker 4: sometime there, I think Israel mcwamu will have a role.
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  Speaker 4: I loved what he did in the playoff game against
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  Speaker 4: Tampa and that was that was kind of a that
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  Speaker 4: was the beauty of dan Quinn. I thought, I thought
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  Speaker 4: that that game right there, because if you go back
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  Speaker 4: the week before the Bucks game, that awful game in
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  Speaker 4: Washington where they just weren't inspired at all, played horribly,
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  Speaker 4: got blown out by a quarterback that's never played and
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  Speaker 4: you know, it just wasn't a great game. And mcquama
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  Speaker 4: was inactive for that game. And then come okay, well
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  Speaker 4: mcwama was inactive. They're trying different things at corner. It's
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  Speaker 4: not working out. And then but they knew all along
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  Speaker 4: what they were going to do. They made him an
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  Speaker 4: active all of a sudden. Next week against Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 4: Here's Israel mcwamu, who's six foot five, he's got this
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  Speaker 4: wingspan of like a nine foot wingspan. He's playing in
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the field, and you know, I thought,
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  Speaker 4: I thought it kind of disrupted what what Brady in
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  Speaker 4: the in the Bucks we're thinking about on offense, on offense.
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  Speaker 4: So I just feel like that they've got things like
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  Speaker 4: that up their sleeve. It might be a week to
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  Speaker 4: week thing, but they'll figure out how to how to
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  Speaker 4: get you know, the nickel and diying packages, and they'll
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  Speaker 4: get some of these safeties playing closer to the line
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  Speaker 4: of scrimmage and they'll they'll fix that linebacker position in
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  Speaker 4: my opinion that way. All right, go back to the
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  Speaker 4: phone lines. Steve in New York.
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  Speaker 7: What's up, hey, Nick, great show man, Thank.
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  Speaker 4: You man, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, just a quick question. I know everybody was not everybody,
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  Speaker 7: but a lot of people are okay with Zeke leaving.
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  Speaker 7: But I've been asking this since that day. The tough yards,
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  Speaker 7: the third down and short, fourth and short? Where where
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  Speaker 7: do you see that coming from? Who's going to go
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  Speaker 7: and you know, step in or do they alter maybe
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  Speaker 7: what they do on situations like that. Yeah, because I
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  Speaker 7: know everybody was kind of down on Zeke, But who
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  Speaker 7: was better at getting those yards than he was?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 4: What do you think, Steve?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, who?
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  Speaker 4: Who? Who would you give to fourth and one against
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  Speaker 4: the Giants midfield, middle of the game. You know the
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  Speaker 4: offense is going fourth and one, it's a long one.
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  Speaker 4: What do you what are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: I love Pollard, but I don't know if he's that guy,
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  Speaker 7: you know what I mean as far as most tough yards, obviously,
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  Speaker 7: I think he's going to be the guy. But you know,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if Zeke had a lot of those
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  Speaker 7: plays where he made a positive out of something that
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  Speaker 7: you know was probably going to be a loss, and
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  Speaker 7: I just I'm just concerned where they're going to get
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  Speaker 7: that from. Yeah, with the guys on the roster.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you're not wrong. I appreciate the call. You're You're
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  Speaker 4: definitely not wrong there, because you know, Zeke, one of
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  Speaker 4: the things that always concerned me about letting him go
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  Speaker 4: is that when did he when did he get stopped?
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  Speaker 4: Like when when did he really get stopped for fourth
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  Speaker 4: and one or third and one, third and two. I
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  Speaker 4: mean he got it most of the time. He would
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  Speaker 4: get it and maybe around the goal line, but he
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  Speaker 4: eventually would get in and scored twelve times last year.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I'm with you there. I think the
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  Speaker 4: guy that's gonna get most of the fourth and ones
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  Speaker 4: or third in the one the one yard, I think
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna be Dak. I really do. And if you haven't,
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  Speaker 4: you know, if you've done your fantasy league whatever, I
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  Speaker 4: think Dak's gonna probably score a lot of touchdowns running
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  Speaker 4: the ball. I think that's gonna be what they do.
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  Speaker 4: I think that it's a copycat league. I think until
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  Speaker 4: the NFL changes the rule, I think people are gonna
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  Speaker 4: push quarterbacks in the back like the Eagles were doing,
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  Speaker 4: and and and and Jalen Hurts is a big, strong guy.
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  Speaker 4: But also, you know, look look what they're doing, and
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  Speaker 4: that works. I mean, that's almost unstoppable. I think Dak's
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  Speaker 4: gonna get some of those carries. I think Pollard will
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  Speaker 4: get some. You know, we'll see, you know, Rico Dawdle
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  Speaker 4: just seems like he's got a little bit more power,
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  Speaker 4: but but not not a lot. Also not maybe not
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  Speaker 4: fourth and one third one. But I do think you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna see a little bit more receivers running the ball.
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  Speaker 4: Not saying that's your short yard, it's fixed, but I
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  Speaker 4: do think they're going to go side to side. I
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  Speaker 4: think you'll see CD running. I think you'll see Turpin
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  Speaker 4: Cooks those guys. But when it's time to really run
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  Speaker 4: the football and get in there, I think Dak will
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  Speaker 4: do it. And I think they're gonna try and see
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  Speaker 4: what Poler can do and who knows Hunter Lifkey might
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  Speaker 4: get a few snaps in there as well. All right,
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  Speaker 4: before we take a break, we're gonna go one more
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  Speaker 4: call here. I'll go back to the phone line. Brian,
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  Speaker 4: Kansas City.
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  Speaker 9: What's up, Hey, Good morning, Nick? How are you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm great? Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Hey.
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  Speaker 9: I got a couple of backup questions now that we're
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  Speaker 9: getting into game week. So I'm not sure if Tyler
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  Speaker 9: Smith is out, I'm not sure who goes in for him.
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  Speaker 9: And you know, the other one I'm not sure about
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  Speaker 9: is who's not so I think Jay Lou fills in
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  Speaker 9: if Bland gets hurt. Who's the first up on the
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  Speaker 9: boundary at corners. I'm just not sure who that is.
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  Speaker 9: And I'll hang up and listen. Thanks, brother, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Don't make me say it. It's early, it's still like
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  Speaker 4: a Tuesday. It Benogay, Maybe I think that's I think
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  Speaker 4: that's how you say his name. I've been working on it. Noah, Noah, Igby,
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  Speaker 4: I Iszy whatever, he's gonna have a nicknamegy. I think
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  Speaker 4: that's right. I would see I would. I would probably
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  Speaker 4: say he'll get in there. But but again, this this
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  Speaker 4: first week, I don't see Jordan lewis being active. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think he's ready yet to be active for this game.
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  Speaker 4: So Deron Bland uh, like you said, will be like
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  Speaker 4: the third corner uh Igby, And then you know Eric
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  Speaker 4: Scott might have to play because you you have uh
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  Speaker 4: nay Sean Wright. Uh, he's he's he's not on the
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  Speaker 4: roster as of right now. The boot is off, but
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  Speaker 4: I I think they moved him over to to I
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  Speaker 4: R to return. So as it stands right now, I
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  Speaker 4: think Eric Scott or Igby, uh, what would be the
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  Speaker 4: guys to come in there. And then the first question
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  Speaker 4: you said about if Tyler Smith doesn't play at guard
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  Speaker 4: man don't even go down that road. I'm that that
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  Speaker 4: that shuffles some some things around. I think I think
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  Speaker 4: you would see brock Kauffman, he would, he would get
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  Speaker 4: in there at guard if Chiu Maidoga is not ready.
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  Speaker 4: So that's that's a good thing to monitor. Let's look
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  Speaker 4: at the roster moves for this week, and also we'll
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  Speaker 4: be able to see in practice on what they can do,
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  Speaker 4: because sometimes roster moves will tell you how a player
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  Speaker 4: is doing physically. When they start moving guys around or
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  Speaker 4: signing guys up from practice squad or things like that.
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  Speaker 4: So let's see, well, we'll monitor that this week. A
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  Speaker 4: lot of it will determine from the MRI today that
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  Speaker 4: Tyler Smith has all right, We're gonna take our only
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  Speaker 4: break here on Cowboys storyline will be right back for
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back to Cowboys Storyline. I'm nick Yapman here. We
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  Speaker 4: got the second half of the show and one of
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: the questions we had. Actually, I'm pulling this up from
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: a couple of days ago. Pete from California just had
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: another question. He sent me a random one. Here's a
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: random player of the day to remember. And I love
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: this because I love just bringing back former guys. He said,
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: what about Scott laidlaw Man. Now that that's a blast
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: from the past. That's like one of the first years.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: That's like early eighties, late seventies, like a backup, full
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: back type guy. He had long hair. I think he
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: played a lot of special teams. I have blocked a
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: couple of punts there. Scott Laidlaw cool name, but you know,
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Dorset was the guy running the ball, so he didn't
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: get a lot of a lot of tots there. But
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: I love it. I love bringing back Usually I'll have
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: a story for you, especially if it's somebody I covered that.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: You know, sometimes these guys trigger different things. Oh that
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: was the guy that did this and this. But Scott
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Laidlaw's a little bit before my time. But I do
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: know number thirty five running back? All right, let's go
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  Speaker 4: to the phone line. Allen from Montana, Alan, what's up.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Dick. It's awesome, good to hear the show.
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  Speaker 4: Who's your random player? You got a random player?
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Favorite favorite player?
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: I always like when when I was a linebacker that win?
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  Speaker 9: Okay, ye, all right for sure?
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  Speaker 4: What's your question?
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: My question is always looking for comparisons and stuff where
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: a football fans were horrible at doing this. But with
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: the new offense, are we can we look at maybe
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: something close to what forty nine ers a couple of
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: years ago over running with their running backs and he'ven
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: throwing in some Deebo Samuel.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I mean who would be that guy?
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 9: Cd?
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  Speaker 4: Wh Who do you want to run the ball and
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  Speaker 4: do that with? Who do you think is the debo
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  Speaker 4: like guy?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah? And I don't know if we Probably the closest
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: comparison would be Tony.
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  Speaker 9: Pollard, But.
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  Speaker 6: As far as on the wide receiver, I don't know
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: if we have a young guy that would.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah close, That's that's a tough one. I mean, I
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: appreciate the call, and then I'll get our wheels in
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: motion there thinking about that. You know, like I said earlier,
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: it is a copycat league and you're always looking for that.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: But you got to find a Deebo Samuel. I mean, like,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: you got to find that guy like that. There's there's
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: not many receiver type guys that can run the ball
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: that way, and I think that's what it's got to be.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: I think it's receivers that can run, maybe not so
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: much the running back that can play receiver and line
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: up and go down the field and catch the deep
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: ball and all that. I think if the Cowboys are
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: going to do that, and they sort of have a
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: little bit with uh with CD, they've run the ball
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: with him a little bit, but not a lot, and
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: that's not He's pretty tall, and I remember they they
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: did are pitched against Washington and that press box is terrible.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: You can't see anything in there. But it was coming
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: like right at as. It was actually a good the
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: one good view we had, and he just got smashed
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: on the sideline and I was like, all right, enough
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: of that. Let him run routes like you know, it's
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: not a back. He'll do it occasionally and that's good,
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: but I think for the most part, you need a
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: guy a little bit shorter, stockier, you know, maybe Brandon Cooks,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: but he's really he's kind of he's kind of you know,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: fin and you know for his body frame. So I think,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: if you can do it, great, But again, there's not
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: a lot of Deebo Samuels out there. And his first
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: comment about that win, yeah, that went what a what
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: a fun player he was to cover and kind of
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: a funny story about him. I hadn't seen him in
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: about fifteen years. I had not seen that win by
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: fifteen years. We did an interview with him, just like
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: back in July, and he came up here. We did
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: an interview, we put some stuff with him. We're gonna
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: work on a project with him maybe later on down
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: the road. And then two days later, I amount a
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Ranger game, a foul ball comes right next to us.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: I almost got it, didn't get it. They gave it
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: to this kid next door that went that wind like
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: sitting right right next to me. So it's kind of funny.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: You see a guy twice and in a couple of days,
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: hadn't seen him in fifteen years. But he's looking great,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: uh and doing really really well for himself, just business
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: adventures and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Like that.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's go back to the text line here.
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  Speaker 4: Skip from Virginia. You're right, skip because I skipped the
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: player on a player that would probably fill in here,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: even though it was so weird because one of my
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: favorite players on this team rookie free agents is TJ. Bass,
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: and I just kind of skipped over him. I apologize
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: for that. TJ. Bass would factor into this backup line.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Maybe start maybe start at left guard. I say that
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: because it's like a little bit. I mean, anytime you're
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: going in the Meadowlands week one, you got you know,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: a rookie guard. But hey, it happened last you know,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: last year week one. I mean you had Tyler Smith.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Now he was a first round pick, but but he
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: was playing left tackle. It hadn't done it a lot,
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: and he played well. So yeah, I mean it's gonna
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: have to be somebody like that. You know, you do
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: have two rookies backing up and Austin Richards and then
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: uh t J. Bass, and so you know it's it'll
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: you hope that not go that that route. And then again,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: like I've said it three times already, well we'll see
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: on what the status is for for the left guard
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  Speaker 4: or Tyler Smith, and he'll have a hamstring injury that
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: he has this week. This today, he'll have the MR today.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: We'll see what his status is there, all right, looking
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: for some more questions here. This is a five oh
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: five area code. Didn't put a name there, but still
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: talking about Dexter Lawrence from the Giants. Other than neutralizing him.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: What's the biggest thing to worry about with the Giants defense?
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: That is the biggest thing to worry about it. So
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: you want to you know, you start there, and you
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: start and that's always you know, in the middle, there
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: in the trenches. That's kind of where where it all originates.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: And and especially when you're looking at potentially you know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: changes at left guard if if if, if Tyler Smith
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: can't play, So it doesn't it doesn't branch out too
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: much more than that. I mean, they they they've got
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: some some some cornerbacks there you know that that have
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: played and and they're you know, they they've they've got talent.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: The Giants, they're scrappy team. I think what they do
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: is they they rally to the football well, and that's
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: that's kind of what they're their coach preaches. I mean,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: they are a tough football team, but they they have
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: to prove to me that that they've gotten better from
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: from last year, because the Cowboys wore a better football
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: team than the Giants easily they But I give New
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: York credit for staying in those games because I remember
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: in the first game up in the Meadowlands, the Giants
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: actually had the lead on a touchdown run by by
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Saquon and You're thinking, like, how is this happening? Like
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Dallas is a better football team. They just they just
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: shooting themselves in the foot and they dropping passes, their penalties,
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: and then once they kind of got it going, you know,
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: they took over and won that game. And then Thanksgiving
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: they were way better. They had a big lead and
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: then they let the Giants kind of score late, made
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: it look a little closer than it was, but it
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: really wasn't. I think in those two games, Dallas was
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: clearly better than the Giants. Let's see if things have
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: changed this year. We're gonna be about to find out
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: here in six days. But going back to that game,
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: I think whenever the CD LAMB documentary or Football Life
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: or whatever, you know, Deep Blue, whatever we end up
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: doing with Ceedee Lamb I think it's gonna come back
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: to that Giants game in Week three. I think that
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: is the game that propelled him for being that guy.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: He was, you know, number one receiver. This is his
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: first year doing it. First two games, you know, with
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Dak getting hurt in Cooper Rush, he hasn't really elevated
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: himself yet to that spot. And then he goes to
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: you know, Sunday Night football, drops a pass over the
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: middle was wide open. It could have been a touchdown, Like,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: what's wrong with this guy? And then it just you
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: can tell he just got he was pissed, you know,
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: and he started making catches and he was trying to
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: run over people and you know he doesn't have the
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: body to do that, but he's trying. He makes a
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: great touchdown, one handed catch, and he became that guy
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: in the game that that that game had started poorly,
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: it had ended well, and it just ignited him to
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: the rest of the season. You know, he was a
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: second team All Pro last year and it was I
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: think it all came down to that game right there.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: So all right, looking for some more more questions here, Uh,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: we've got one from Jay hen which taw Kansas. He
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: says how dangerous do you think a NASCAR pass rush
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: package would be? How often do you say, do you
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: see DQ deploying such a package with all the pass
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: rushers that they've got, So they do have some rushers
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: and and and a lot of that. I think the
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: reason why people think that maybe Mike should move to
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: linebacker some is just because it's why don't why don't
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: we just get our rushers on the field, the Sam
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Williams and the Dante Fowlers and Endorrance and and and
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: tanks and then and then we can have Micah linebacker
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: and all that stuff. But which I hear you, but
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: I do think that that Mica needs to be rushing
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: the passer, probably from the edge. That's what he's that's
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: what he's great at. So as long as he's doing
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: that for the most part, I'm okay switching it around
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: now and again before he needs to be getting after
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: the quarterback, flip sides, sometimes over the center, whatever whatever
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: he needs. But I I I definitely think that he
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: needs to to be a guy that that rushes all
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: over the field. And then you know, if you play
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: some linebacker, great. I think Demone Clark's gonna have a
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: really good season. I think he might be one of
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: those those wild cards to really put this this defense
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: over the top this year. I think I think Gilmore
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: the addition of him that will help with Bland and
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: of course Digs, but I think Gilmour Dmone Clark and
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: you know, I still think Mazzie Smith is going to
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: help this defense a lot because strength to strength and
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: he'll he'll figure it out. He's gonna get good coaching.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: He's gonna you know, and I'm not saying he's he's struggling,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: but he hasn't had that huge impact that you expect
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: so far. He hasn't had the opportunity just yet. These
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: preseason games he's played some he's not playing with with
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: you know, put Micah next to him and see if
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: he if his rush is a little better. Let's see
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: if he does a better job inside. I mean these
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: defensive tackles. He need the outside guys just like the
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: outside guys need the defensive tackles as well. All right,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: let's look at George from Orange City, Florida. So I
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: know it's early and not on the radar, how do
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: you see how do you see the Digs versus Diggs
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: match up? If they meet what what do you what
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: are you saying here? What we wear his digs? Gonna
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: play digs? I'm kidding, we do play what is that
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: late December? They're gonna they're gonna face each other. Then
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: they're gonna face each other a couple of times, maybe
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: in the Pro Bowl again, maybe in another game, you know,
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: if if the Cowboys and Bills were to ever do that.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: But they do play mid December up there in Buffalo,
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: and it will be cold, and it'll be I'll say
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be fun, but probably won't be. It's not
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: a it's not a great trip. But it should be
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: a good game though. I mean, that'll be a good
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: test because both teams will probably be fighting for for
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: some kind of you know, playoff implications. You know, there's
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: two guys that know each other well, they work out
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: with each other in the offseason. So I think that
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: that it'll that'll be a fun matchup. I'm not sure
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: if it's a you know, now, the Trayvon will probably
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: want to follow him all over the field. I don't
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: think you do that all the time. I think it
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: probably hurts your defense if you do that all the time,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: because you don't want to let people know what you're doing,
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: what coverages you're running, and things like that. So you know,
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: you we've seen him do that. We've seeing him go
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: after Washington's Terry McLaurin, and he'll follow him, but not
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: maybe for the entire game. But I think it'd be
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: a great matchup because they know each other well, and
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: you know, you don't have to do a lot of
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: studying for for that game. You have to study with
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: the with the offense, with the Bills offense is doing.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: But but I think that you know, from a from
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: a quickness standpoint, now Diggs likes the stuff on, likes
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: to line up in the slots some as well, so
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: that that might change what the Cowboys are doing. You know,
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: they have better slot corners, I think than Trayvon, but
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: you know that they'll go after It'll be fun. Of course,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: throwing the ball in mid December and Buffalo won't always
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: be the easiest thing in the world. So that's gonna
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: be one where you definitely got to get your running
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: game going. But that's not the game in New York
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: that we're really talking about. That that's down the road.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: They do go to New York a little earlier than that,
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: like in five days and Saturday will be heading up
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: there to uh take on the giants in the meadowlands,
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: and that's certainly gonna be a fun one. It's not
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: the first time the Cowverys and Giants have squared off
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: in week one, but it's the next time and that's
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: the one we're all excited about. All right. I think
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: that'll do it for today's show, quick, quick, and easy.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: That's why it's gonna be stay tuned to our schedule
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: to see if our time slot changes. I think it's
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: still gonna gonna stay at ten o'clock for this week,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: and then we'll see what it looks like maybe ten fifteen,
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: ten thirty. We'll see what McCarthy does with his press conference.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: But it's gonna be in this area right here, and
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: hope to it works for you guys. We'll want to
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: get a little bit more phone calls than we did today.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: But this was fun. This was a fun show, and
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: hopefully we'll keep the continuity going with this time slot.
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  Speaker 4: All right. For Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. We will
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