May 18, 2023 • 33 mins
Nate and Isaiah go over the pre-season and regular season schedule for the Cowboys and put in their 2 cents. Nate also makes sure to pour some salt on Isaiah’s fresh wound of the Seattle Kraken being eliminated by the Dallas Stars.
Isaiah also takes a moment to speak out on the new “EV Tax” implemented by Governor Abbott in the State of Texas.
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Isaiah also takes a moment to speak out on the new “EV Tax” implemented by Governor Abbott in the State of Texas.
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and you know what, Nay,I really don't appreciate how hype you
are right now because I know whyyou are a little excited right now,
Nate, I don't really appreciate it. Man, Hey, I'm just excited
that you are here and you ownair because you are tap. This is
what gets me. You're so uhup with the latest technology. But he's
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always the last to get on thepodcast. You're right, You're right.
Yeah, I'll be having some technicalerrors as of late. Try to get
on this podcast, y'all, butyou know what, I'm gonna go ahead.
We don't have a drink sponsor yet, but I'm gonna ahead and pop
this drink real quickly because I feellike I'm gonna need I'm gonna need to
wet my whistle before before we getinto this conversation today, because I just
know you're gonna come with some heatthat I really don't want to hear.
I'm not, but he has arant about some of his technology. See
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I'm an old school guy. Youknow, I got gasoline cause and diesel
cause. But you want you wantto take consation guy? Okay, all
right, Well, since since theBig Nate dogg take the conversation there,
let me help y'all understand exactly whatright now. I'm a little I'm a
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little angry right now, okay.And the reason why I'm a little angry
is because Governor Abbott here. We'rehere in Texas and the big state of
Texas, Big Nate Dog. Youknow, it's a big oil country.
Oil oils, big business. Amatter of fact, I was in Midland,
Texas yesterday during an event with theNFL and Feel up to play sixty
and Dairy Max and all that jazz. Right, it was all good stuff
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right for the kids and Midland,Texas is right there. In West Texas,
it's oil country. Boom country,big boom, oil country. A
matter of fact, my driver whowas taking me to the event, said,
ninety percent of the business in MidlandTexas is all oil. That's a
lot of bread. But I havenothing wrong with oil. I have nothing
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wrong with gasoline vehicles. I haveanothering round with combustion, none of those
things. But I do understand thatthe world came the globe. There's only
so many resources, and in someresources are not renewable, right, which
means that and if it's not renewable, that means that there's an expiration.
Yes it is, Yes it is. There's much much like our careers,
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right, we used to be Weused to be fine killing machines that you
know what I'm saying, specimens oflife that we weren't born, We were
created. Would you say that's right? We were created to do what we
do. Yes, exactly. Butbut at some point in time, when
we go back to that pot ofgold, Nade, it ain't there.
Oh it's gone, it's gone,Nate, right, So we gotta find
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so we got to find another direction. So now you and I sit with
headphones on our head, microphones infront of our face, and this is
our new direction. Okay, thisis our new our new life, right
much like I feel I feel thesame way with gasoline vehicles. I love
gasoline vehicles. They're awesome, theydo they do amazing things. But eventually
we have to find another resource andanother way to go in order to be
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able to get from point A topoint being. I feel as if that's
going to be an electric vehicle space. And then you know, I'm a
big ev head. That's right.You are you? You do it all
like that, and on the oppositeend, much like you're on the opposite
end of this camera, you're abig diesel dude. That's right. Everything
I got this diesel truck and car, Yes, sir, truck, car
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van. It don't matter everything.Why why are you like diesel versus regular
gasoline? Because any vehicle that cancan can maintain diesel. Uh, it
can pull anything, it can moveanything. It goes a little bit farther,
it's a little bit tough, it'sa little bit durable, more durable
than a gasoline car. I mean, if you get one hundred thousand miles
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in the gasoline car, over aperiod of time, you get two hundred
three hundred thousand miles and the dieselin a diesel VI because they just have
to be built a little bit moresturdier. That's me. I looked at
myself Offnce, and I was adiesel see you as a little gas power
maleser ROTI but I was a dieseltruck. Yeah, that's right, they
do. I had that EV.I had that that zero to sixty at
one point nine. Baby, youknow what I'm saying, right, But
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now you're an electric guy, Imean what, I'm all electric now,
team electric. Now my wife stilldrives a big boy five point seven Leader
truck, you know, but Idrive I driven electric vehicle. You know.
I'm a Tesla guy myself, butI'll drive any electric car that wants
to sponsor us right now. Soy'all holl at your boy. But I'm
a big time EV guy. ButI do like my deesels, okay,
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But most likely going forward, I'mprobably gonna be all ev. With that
said, here in Texas, Natebeing that is oil country, being that
the number one EV brain in theworld, Elon Musk, is now operating
out of Austin, Texas. Youwould think that him and Governor Applet would
have some have some nice little handshakes. Oh yeah, they should. Big
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business meeting politics, that's what it'sall about. That's what it's all about,
Nate. Big money going underneath thetable, how all that stuff goes.
We stay out of that stuff.But Governor Applet doesn't like the fact
that there's so many evs now,even though he made the deal for Tesla
to come here, he doesn't likethe fact that these evs are coming in
and taking away from the pot ofgold that is of the oil industry,
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meaning that gasoline combustion engines, peoplelike me buying electric vehicles are no longer
buying gas every single day, andthat is taking away from the front of
the front of GDP obviously here inTexas. So with that said, Governor
Abbott imposing a four hundred dollars ayear evch Wow for real? Yeah,
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for real? So, I mean, wow, that's that's a lot of
that's a lot of jack man,that's jack. I mean you know,
you know that you may look atone person, but is this per car,
just per household, her her vehiclenow just to drive a vehicle that
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as of right now, as longas I'm driving the vehicle, it's good
for It's good for our our ourglobe. Right, it's good for the
world, it's good for the UHfor environment. Okay. Now, when
we start to talk about recycling batteriesand all that stuff, that's a whole
other conversation. But we haven't gottento that point yet. But right now,
with me just driving the electric vehicle, we know that it is good
for our environment. And now Ihave to pay taxes. I got to
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pay taxes because I'm not buying thatthis per vehicle, per vehicle. I
got it right now, Nate,Wow, send it. Bill five oh
five requires an electric vehicle owners topay four hundred dollars to register a new
electric vehicle. On top of otherfees, Renewing your registration will cost two
hundred dollars. Wow, man,did it Bill five old five? That's
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six hundred dollars a year. Youcan go buy plenty of things for six
hundred dollars. I don't like it, Nate Man, I don't. I
don't know. Man. You gottago up there with the big legislation man
and and put your put your toosent in man, stand on the floor
or something. I'm not. I'mnot messing that stuff. People like me
disappear when you gonna start talking aboutpolitics, n I ain't go forward.
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My family needs me. We don'tneed any of that drama. I don't
need that drama. But okay,so let's go ahead and get the elephant
out of the room, Nate,get the elephant up the room. You
know, I repped my city.I rep my city, Seattle, cracking
second year in the NHL. Wentahead, took care of business, knocked
out the Colorado Avalanche, the defendingStanley Cup champions, in seven games series.
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Ba ba ba ba yeah yeah outof seven. We took care of
business. Then we had to flystraight down to Detailed Boogie and go head
to head with the Dallas Stars withall the pretty boy floyds they got on
their team. Okay, all right, we got they got they got Taydas
Sagans and the Bins and all themjokers. Okay, they went games seven
again, Wow, and they droppedthe ball name what happened? Explained to
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me. What happened. They hadopportunities, Nate. That's all we can
ask for US athletes to have opportunitiesto win a ball game and the Seattle
Cracking took Dallas to seven games.Nobody thought it would happen, but they
went seven games with them fought hard, played hard, all that jazz.
But when they had their opportunities toseal their fate, they missed the opportunity
to the window of opportunity cloths.Wow, So where where did this put
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y'all? I mean, we're doneas well. No, no, no,
I know that is the playoffs.So but what does this does this
take? Y'all? Is the expectationsthe same next year? Is it is
something? Respect? Man? Wegot respect. We was the new kids
on the block, all right,as we used to saying for football,
we got new booty, new booty. Sattle Cracker was the new booty,
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all right. And it came outhere and they earned we always talked about
earning respect. They they earned therespect of everybody. Everybody. There's three
rs and everybody didn't know there's nov ebonic or ebonic curriculum right there,
all right, it's airbody right right. They earned respect that everybody NHL.
So now I think people were Iknow I have friends that were played in
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that were professional NHL athletes and professionalhockey athletes, and they said before,
nobody wants to go up to Seattleand play. It's a joke up there.
It's that's too far. I thinkhas changed now. I think it's
changed. I think this team,the way they came out and competed in
the playoffs has earned the respect notonly the entire league, but earned the
respect of the players in the league. And now more primetime players might be
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opt to signing free agent deals upthere coming this next season. So I
think Seattle is going to be ateam to be reckoned with going forward.
They have their core players, theyhave their care they have identity as an
organization, and I think now there'sgonna be more people that want to be
a part of that going forward.You know, he's just amazing, man.
I love you to death because Imean, you would rep anything out
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of Seattle and it didn't no matterif his hop scotch. You know,
hockey, it's a battle, man. You try to be on top of
it and you and you have knowledgeand so but I ain't loving it like
that. I'm from Florida and Ithink we got a hockey team and I
don't even know the name, butI think what the Panthers is somebody I
don't even know the name of thecan't Hey, hey, you know what?
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Hey, what's your name? Florida? Now, Florida has a good
team. Yeah, Nate, we'rejust kicking butt right now about the Miami.
Let me pull this up now,speaking on how I rep Seattle,
Nate, I find myself in alittle bit of a quandary, a little
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bit of a dilemma now as wetalk about the some one of our employers
in that of the Dallas Cowboys formeremployees and now current employer. You and
I both work for the Dallas Cowboys, and in the media side of the
things, Dallas has to play theSeattle Seahawks not only in the preseason,
Nate, dog, yes, butalso in the regular season. We're gonna
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double dog. Yeah deal, Yeah, Yeah, We're gonna go to y'all.
Doing the preseason, that's the goodthing. But guess that's a good
thing using the regular season so Iget a free trip home, Nate,
because I most likely would be callingthat ball game back back home in the
free season if if I still havethe opportunities I had last year, I'll
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be doing color commentary for the Cowboys. In the preseason. But let's talk
about this schedule release, Nate,since since we since we last spoke,
the schedule has came out before theDallas Cowboys and obviously for the rest of
the NFL. But we're talking tothe detailed boogie here. What are some
of the things that you see onthis matter. Let me run through the
schedule, Okay, Nate, preseasonJaguars, Giants, and I'm off,
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I'm off Jacksonville, Sea, LasVegas, Jacksonville, yep, Seattle,
Las Vegas. Okay. Then youget to the regular season and you get
to you got the Giants. Allright, let's just talk about it out
of out of division because we knowabout who we're gonna play during the division.
We got the Jets yes September seven, Market down, m M.
That's gonna be a big game.A ron what you call them? Hey,
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John Wick? John Wi? Yeah, John Wick? Wow? All
right? So you got the Jets. You got the Cardinals, which is
it's probably one of the only twogames that they have on the schedule that
are easy should be easy based uponuh their current rosters. Then you got
the Patriots, Nate doc and Idon't know how to take them I don't
know how to take them, butgo ahead on. You know they're always
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gonna be tough. Then you gotyour your guerrillas down there in San Francisco.
In San Francisco, yes, thenback you got the Chargers back to
back, will be on the road, the Charge San Francisco. Then the
Charge just kill them, they killthem. Moore's kill him Moores. So
you got the Chargers, you havethe Rams, you have the Panthers,
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the Seahawks, the Buffalo Bills,that Miami Dolphins, the trade once again
on the road. When you callyourself a prime time uh team, like
we are we on the road.This is gonna be in December back to
back, one week freezing cole inBuffalo. The next week these m twenty
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four Christmas eve will be in Miamiburning hot. So yes, they dog,
we gotta closed it out. Scheduleman, Who who are the who
are the wind links? Because thingscan change when the seasons start. Who
are you looking at? It isthe weak links, you know. And
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it was only two games on theNate that you could look a look at
and say, you know what,we should handle these guys without any issues.
And that is the Arizona Cardinals andthe Los Angeles Rams, the Arizona
Cardinals. I think they're dismantled rightnow. Obviously they're still trying to figure
out who they are as an organization. And you looked at the Los Angeles
Rams, they totally just dismembered theirteam. And the only person they still
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have there is Stafford and Aaron Donald. So other than that, they got
rid of absolutely everybody on their roster. They're in the rebuild and I don't
think that they even have highest spectationsfor themselves. They know over the next
three to four years, they prettymuch they sacrifice. They put all the
cards in for that one Super Bowl, and I can't be mad at them.
They got ask your goal every year. But now they find themselves in
a situation where they have to rebuildtheir roster. So but you know,
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they got a management team that knowshow to build. You know, they
knows how they got they you know, they not this year, but the
next year twenty five, they're gonnabe owned and popping with draft choices.
And uh, Aaron Donald will bea little long in the tooth and the
quarterback would be way past the tooth, you know, So it's tooth fell
out, but uh so when sowhen you look at this roster, Nate,
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how would you how would you ratethe difficulty of this of this not
this roster, but this schedule.How would you rate the difficulty of this
season? Because this last season,I feel like Dallas on paper, had
one of the easier schedule. Ain'tthat easy? This year? The East,
the NFC East gotta be one ofthe top three divisions. Easy.
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And you know, we went throughall the guys that, uh, we
don't know them to play. Butyou gotta understand, we're opening up on
September two versus the New York Giants. They just paid Danny Dimes. They
just got them a receiver in there. They resigned a couple of their defensive
linemen, so everybody is intact.The only person is running back Barclay,
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who's gonna a little uh you don'tknow where he's staying right now, but
he's a bull, he's a ballplayer. So I figured when they crank
up a September tenth, he'll bethere. And you told me this last
year, Isaiah, and it hasbeen so spot on. Don't fear the
players, fear the coaches. Theyare the type of coaches is if they
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can get you in the game,and they can get you to the fourth
quarter with seven points, they havea great chance to win. So the
Cowboys is gonna have a dog fightcomes September tenth against the New York Giants.
That's gonna be a hellable a hellof a deal. And this is
a must win, I think forthe Cowboys to get their season off right.
I mean, let me ask youthis question, Nate, can you
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remember somebody asked me to another day, you know, do you remember a
time where you had a really toughschedule um at the schedule release, and
I honestly can't remember because I lookedat I looked at the schedule every year
the same just didn't matter every teamthat popped up. But our job is
and knocked them down when we play, when we play, when we played,
you know what, I didn't lookat Michael Irvin and MN and Dion
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the music can be can look atthis chet. But me, to me,
I had so many bulldogs I wasplaying against and Hall of famers.
I didn't know this Hall of Famousthen, but I know they now.
I was like, every week wasgonna be a dog fight for me.
So I didn't look at wins andlosses. I looked at the people I
was back, Nick, So Imean, so, so, how do
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you feel when you look at thisfor it for Dallas? Right when you
look at Dallas' schedule and you seethese opponents that you typically don't face.
Okay, we're talking about the Jets, You talking about the Panthers, the
Jets, the Patriots, the youknow, the forty nine ers that we've
seen them a few time past years. We saw Seattle, we saw the
Chargers last year. But yeah,you got Seattle, you got Buffalo,
Miami, Detroit, Like who whodid double j piss off Nate that they
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gave him that December? You know? Uh, I don't know, but
you gotta understand from Thanksgiving facing theWashington Commanders through Seattle all the way to
the ending of the season with Washington, that ain't no joke because you got
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Washington, Seattle, who's got adevastating run game, Uh, Philadelphia,
who's got a devastate defense and gettingbigger. And Buffalo. Uh, if
they quarterback ever learned that his armis more dangerous than his legs, he
gonna be unstoppable. And Miami allthey gotta do is that their quarterback just
be stable. They got a team, their quarterback just has to be stable.
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Uh. In Detroit, they upand comment they met I had a
talent as the guys that I've justmeant. But they got a coach in
a belief system in place that theycan't be beat and watching it, they
just got a defense. And I'mtelling you, is it young? He
mad they didn't give him his fifthyear. He is trying to play at
this last year because he won't bewith watching the next year because they can't
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keep playing every defensive player, sohe won't be watching the next year.
So he gonna be on display seventeentimes next year. This coming season.
When I look at the last part, when I know everybody always wants to
know what's the toughest run that theCowboys are gonna have, you know,
during the season, and I lookat the schedule and I say the last
dog on one, two, three, four or five to the last six
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games in Philadelphia to watching, Imean, it's it's it's it's gonna be,
It's gonna be I hate to useit's gonna be hel I hate to
use that word. It's gonna gethell, I'm telling tell the people when
you when you look at these opponentsand you know the physicality of the organization,
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that joke going up against back toback to back, what could you
expect? Tell people from a player'sperspective, what is their bodies going to
be going through from from Washington toSeattle to Philly to Buffalo to Miami to
Detroit. You know the way theway I used to get ready for runs
like this is. And I'm justbeing honest with departing will be over,
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you know for us me getting out, you know, I was a Tuesday
Winsday, Thursday type guy, Friday, you know, getting out that having
fun, you know, doing mything. But man, I'll be I'll
be very low key in the lastsix weeks because we would always be in
a position cause we will be fightfor home field advantage. When I played
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with this schedule, that means wehad a successful last season. So now
when I look at these last fouror five six games, I'm a curttail.
What I do off the field,so I can be very very effective
on field. I'm gonna be worldpooling. Back then, we didn't have
had a crowd chamber and all that. It was the ice World pool gone,
the big world, the big heatedworld pool. Then go back to
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the and I would make sure mybody would be right, because this would
be the home stretch that's going todetermine whether you would be traveling in them
for a few weeks or whether yougot everybody coming to you through the whole
playoffs. And that's what we wereseeking. So what are some of the
things that are going through these playersheads right now that they understand what their
season is going to look like froma competitive standpoint, What are like just
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from the average citizen, they don'tknow right they see this, they're like,
oh, there's some tough games,but you know, Dallas Cowboys,
you know we're much better than thisteam on this side, and like,
but all that out, what isyour What is your mindset as a player,
Nate? When you look at thisschedule and you're going through OTAs right
now and you're ramping up getting readyto go to many camps and then you
have a break and then you goto camp. What is your Does your
mindset change based upon your schedule?Not for these young guys, not until
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the season start, not until theGiants set them in the mouth and then
then they have to get really getready real quick for these Jet for the
Os, for these Jets, becausethey got a defense that coach over there's
put together defense. That's when they'regonna realize how physical New York is,
how physical the Jets is. That'swhen it's gonna darn them. When the
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seasons start and they can't lose thefirst two games. They can't lose two
of these first two. They can'tlose those games back to back. That's
gonna throw these seasons to a tailsman. They're gonna have to win one of
these games. They're gonna have towin one of these games, as that
promised you. Their mindset gonna change. The rookies Definissey speed like they ain't
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never seen before. They Finissey schemeslike they ain't never seen before. The
tight end screw screw to maker orshootermaker. Yeah, he fini feel physicalists
like he never felt back. MarziveRoddy, you better crank it up.
You better either plug in. Youbetter to plug in like your boys plug
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in. Are you better get somethese up in, your brother, because
man's been coming, you know.Yeah, So all right, if you
have to put your finger, Nateon two games that you must have I
know, as hard as dude rightnow. Obviously you must beat the Giants.
Do not lose to the Giant oneweek one. That is so that
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is so huge because the hype,the hype, You're going to New York.
Then next week New York coming toyou again in the form of the
Jetson Aaron Rodgers, this dude isthis dude is gonna show the world.
This dude has never been that isaccommodating as he been for the New York
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media and putting on the show thathe's He's never did that. In Wisconsin,
he was to himself, I'm chilling. I'm a serial killer. You
know. Yeah, I'm just gonnado what I gotta do. But the
Jets, this is a whole NewYork is a whole different world. It's
two places, it's two or threeplaces that you play, and if you
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don't perform, they don't care whoyou are. So, you know,
when he go with the Jets,he's got to build a bond with the
coaching staff, he's got to builda bond with the players because they're going
in there with that finning gattitude thatain't gonna work in New York. You
know. So you're saying, ifI'm hearing you correct, you're saying out
of the entire schedule, the entireseventeen games, you're saying that first two
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games are the most important, mostimportant. You can't get behind it because
look, okay, you you youlose either one of these games, your
rebound game is Arizona. Okay,yeah, fine, Arizona is in a
tail spin right now. They're tryingto see if their quarterback can lead them.
He's just another guy that got themoney New England that he's not gonna
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be easy about that. New Englandget pumped up for the Cowboys. That's
one of the few teams that NewEngland say, you know, we're not
quote quote bigger than so. Andthen you got San Francisco, Bro.
Then you got Herbert uh for forYeah, you got Keller Morris coming.
This kid gonna gonna put it finallyput thegether a real game plan because he's
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gonna be like, yeah, hegot a playbook set aside for that week
alone, Nate, you know hedoes the two easiest games you have.
One is that the third game,and one is about the sixth game.
You have a buy out of thecharge. But you had the Rams,
the two easy games to me asArizona and the Rams. If you lose
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to the Giants and the Jets,you you you, that means you're gonna
be hurt, I mean physically,and you're gonna be mentally hurt. Your
confidence ain't gonna be as high,you know. And new in Arizona you
may get it up just a littlebit, but New England ain't coming in
here playing man. You can't behold on one, two, three,
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four, five, six. Hegot six games before the buy. You
can't be three and three. Youcan't be you. You want to be
four and two at the worst.You want to be four and two at
the worst. I have a littlebit different look outlook on this, Nate.
I believe, I do believe.I agree with you. The first
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game New York has to be avictory. I think New York has to
be a victory. You can't losethe first game of your season. You
just can't. But if I hadto put my finger on another must have
game, I put my figure outanother must have game, Nate, I
am going to say San Francisco,it was really tosses between San Francisco and
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Buffalo. The reason why I saySan Francisco is because San Francisco owns you
right now, Okay, san Franciscoowns you, so in terms of your
development and your outlook as a competitor, you could not go the rest of
your season and knowing and fearing oneteam because they take care of business.
Every time they see you. Everytime they see you, they beat you
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up. I think they have towin that game against the forty nine ers
for that reason. You I justthink you have to come out the gate.
You got your head coach now threeyears later being the offensive coordinator,
which I needed him to be theofficsive coordinator from day one, but now
three years later he is offensive coordinator. They're addressed the issue that was not
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the issue that men you wanted toaddress. That was the office line.
But they addressed the defense, themiddle of the defense. They addressed the
tight end position better than I thinkit ever been addressed in the last four
or five years. So we havea running back the five offensive linement that
they have up there now and stillthe right guard all worlds Zat Martin Beardish
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the center, Tyler Smith the leftguard in Tyron Smith until you know,
as long as he lasts at theleft tackle, so that that is a
solid offensive line. I don't thinkit's a great offensive line because it hasn't
played together in fire. But Ithink it's a good offensive line, and
they should be able to do somethings when they're adding enough to tight end.
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Uh so, but if they betterhave it together against New York and
the Jet I agree. Are whenyou look at this name before we get
about of here, what's the onething that stands out most about this schedule?
I have minds, but I wantto see if you if you're looking
at the same thing. The onething that I that bothers me the most
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about this schedule, it's Philadelphia.No, that's what bothers me the most.
Philadelphia is when I think, ifthis kid from Georgia comes in with
the right state of mind, theycaught him. Yeah, they're they're They're
back in the race, stay backin the hunt. They have the money,
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they signed their quarterback. They havethe money to still go out and
get those one one year call themgame stoppers, like they did with Sue
last year. They got the abilityto go out and get a one a
one year game stopper. You know, hey, they don't need nobody else.
They got Carter. No. I'mjust saying, if they need somebody
offensive or defensive, they still haveenough flexibility with their cap to go out
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and get that one year game stopper. Dallas needs to go get in dem
coan Zoo. That's what they needto go to get. They need to
get that insurance policy. I'm justsaying, you ask me my problem.
My problem is Philadelphia, not oncebut twice twice. Yeah, every year,
every year. All right, Idon't disagree with you that that's a
problem, but that is not mybiggest problem with this particular schedule. My
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biggest problem with this particular schedule isweek seven eight. Okay, what happens
to west By week? That's aboutso you're saying you only play six games
before you're buy right, and thenyou have to go on an eleven game
stretch. But we have the Thanksgivinggame that's gonna give you some time.
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It's gonna give you some time.Let me say, oh, no,
you don't Thanksgiving third, Oh youyou're gonna play right after that? Nah,
you're right, Ain't no, ain'tno time to breathe, Bro ain't
on time. We should have gottenthat by around by the team BRO game
eleven straight games, you're eleven straightgames in that In that eleven game stretch,
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you're playing against Philadelphia Eagles twice,Washington Commanders twice, Giants, Wants,
the Panthers, Seattle, Buffalo,Miami Detroit. And what does all
of these have in common? Dfence? Nah, just playoff experience.
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They have D fence. That meansour defense has to come to play every
week to give that ball back toDad in party so that they can have
as many opportunities as they can tobeat these site teams. These are run
These are every team we're facing isa run first team. Now, when
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you get down to that, Now, when you get down to that Buffalo
in Miami, Oh no, buttheir quarterback gonna take off and run.
He ain't showed me when when thegame gets on the line, he ain't
gonna run let them boards run ball. He gonna take We didn't talk about
this. How do I not seethis week fifteen? What that's Miami Buffalo?
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What's the matchup of that week?But I don't know? Buffalo is
the quarters versus Yeah? Oh youmy brother on brother man that I almost
forgot that myself. I talked aboudyyesterday. Oh shoot, wow, that's
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a conversation for another day, GodDog. That's that's comes in for another
day. That's next week. That'snext week. That's yeah, but that's
that's next week. We're gonna talkabout that. Put that anyways, Hey,
and a synopsis, y'all. BigNate Dog says week wanted two our
absolute must haves. Isaiah says numberone and number five or must have.
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And I say Nate DOGG said Phillyis the big bad wolf out there.
In terms of the schedule, I'msaying that week seven byas a little bit
too early, Miss Purly. Okay, that early, Miss Purly. But
y'all we need y'all tune in,continue to check us out, God Dog,
this schedule sucks. I don't know. So Double J pissed somebody off,
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Nate. I don't know who itwas, but somebody in the front
office said, you know what,Double J, this ain't the year for
you. We'll see y'all next timeanother episode. Let me tell you something,
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and you know what, Nay,I really don't appreciate how hype you
are right now because I know whyyou are a little excited right now,
Nate, I don't really appreciate it. Man, Hey, I'm just excited
that you are here and you ownair because you are tap. This is
what gets me. You're so uhup with the latest technology. But he's
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always the last to get on thepodcast. You're right, You're right.
Yeah, I'll be having some technicalerrors as of late. Try to get
on this podcast, y'all, butyou know what, I'm gonna go ahead.
We don't have a drink sponsor yet, but I'm gonna ahead and pop
this drink real quickly because I feellike I'm gonna need I'm gonna need to
wet my whistle before before we getinto this conversation today, because I just
know you're gonna come with some heatthat I really don't want to hear.
I'm not, but he has arant about some of his technology. See
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I'm an old school guy. Youknow, I got gasoline cause and diesel
cause. But you want you wantto take consation guy? Okay, all
right, Well, since since theBig Nate dogg take the conversation there,
let me help y'all understand exactly whatright now. I'm a little I'm a
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little angry right now, okay.And the reason why I'm a little angry
is because Governor Abbott here. We'rehere in Texas and the big state of
Texas, Big Nate Dog. Youknow, it's a big oil country.
Oil oils, big business. Amatter of fact, I was in Midland,
Texas yesterday during an event with theNFL and Feel up to play sixty
and Dairy Max and all that jazz. Right, it was all good stuff
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right for the kids and Midland,Texas is right there. In West Texas,
it's oil country. Boom country,big boom, oil country. A
matter of fact, my driver whowas taking me to the event, said,
ninety percent of the business in MidlandTexas is all oil. That's a
lot of bread. But I havenothing wrong with oil. I have nothing
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wrong with gasoline vehicles. I haveanothering round with combustion, none of those
things. But I do understand thatthe world came the globe. There's only
so many resources, and in someresources are not renewable, right, which
means that and if it's not renewable, that means that there's an expiration.
Yes it is, Yes it is. There's much much like our careers,
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right, we used to be Weused to be fine killing machines that you
know what I'm saying, specimens oflife that we weren't born, We were
created. Would you say that's right? We were created to do what we
do. Yes, exactly. Butbut at some point in time, when
we go back to that pot ofgold, Nade, it ain't there.
Oh it's gone, it's gone,Nate, right, So we gotta find
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so we got to find another direction. So now you and I sit with
headphones on our head, microphones infront of our face, and this is
our new direction. Okay, thisis our new our new life, right
much like I feel I feel thesame way with gasoline vehicles. I love
gasoline vehicles. They're awesome, theydo they do amazing things. But eventually
we have to find another resource andanother way to go in order to be
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able to get from point A topoint being. I feel as if that's
going to be an electric vehicle space. And then you know, I'm a
big ev head. That's right.You are you? You do it all
like that, and on the oppositeend, much like you're on the opposite
end of this camera, you're abig diesel dude. That's right. Everything
I got this diesel truck and car, Yes, sir, truck, car
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van. It don't matter everything.Why why are you like diesel versus regular
gasoline? Because any vehicle that cancan can maintain diesel. Uh, it
can pull anything, it can moveanything. It goes a little bit farther,
it's a little bit tough, it'sa little bit durable, more durable
than a gasoline car. I mean, if you get one hundred thousand miles
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in the gasoline car, over aperiod of time, you get two hundred
three hundred thousand miles and the dieselin a diesel VI because they just have
to be built a little bit moresturdier. That's me. I looked at
myself Offnce, and I was adiesel see you as a little gas power
maleser ROTI but I was a dieseltruck. Yeah, that's right, they
do. I had that EV.I had that that zero to sixty at
one point nine. Baby, youknow what I'm saying, right, But
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now you're an electric guy, Imean what, I'm all electric now,
team electric. Now my wife stilldrives a big boy five point seven Leader
truck, you know, but Idrive I driven electric vehicle. You know.
I'm a Tesla guy myself, butI'll drive any electric car that wants
to sponsor us right now. Soy'all holl at your boy. But I'm
a big time EV guy. ButI do like my deesels, okay,
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But most likely going forward, I'mprobably gonna be all ev. With that
said, here in Texas, Natebeing that is oil country, being that
the number one EV brain in theworld, Elon Musk, is now operating
out of Austin, Texas. Youwould think that him and Governor Applet would
have some have some nice little handshakes. Oh yeah, they should. Big
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business meeting politics, that's what it'sall about. That's what it's all about,
Nate. Big money going underneath thetable, how all that stuff goes.
We stay out of that stuff.But Governor Applet doesn't like the fact
that there's so many evs now,even though he made the deal for Tesla
to come here, he doesn't likethe fact that these evs are coming in
and taking away from the pot ofgold that is of the oil industry,
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meaning that gasoline combustion engines, peoplelike me buying electric vehicles are no longer
buying gas every single day, andthat is taking away from the front of
the front of GDP obviously here inTexas. So with that said, Governor
Abbott imposing a four hundred dollars ayear evch Wow for real? Yeah,
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for real? So, I mean, wow, that's that's a lot of
that's a lot of jack man,that's jack. I mean you know,
you know that you may look atone person, but is this per car,
just per household, her her vehiclenow just to drive a vehicle that
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as of right now, as longas I'm driving the vehicle, it's good
for It's good for our our ourglobe. Right, it's good for the
world, it's good for the UHfor environment. Okay. Now, when
we start to talk about recycling batteriesand all that stuff, that's a whole
other conversation. But we haven't gottento that point yet. But right now,
with me just driving the electric vehicle, we know that it is good
for our environment. And now Ihave to pay taxes. I got to
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pay taxes because I'm not buying thatthis per vehicle, per vehicle. I
got it right now, Nate,Wow, send it. Bill five oh
five requires an electric vehicle owners topay four hundred dollars to register a new
electric vehicle. On top of otherfees, Renewing your registration will cost two
hundred dollars. Wow, man,did it Bill five old five? That's
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six hundred dollars a year. Youcan go buy plenty of things for six
hundred dollars. I don't like it, Nate Man, I don't. I
don't know. Man. You gottago up there with the big legislation man
and and put your put your toosent in man, stand on the floor
or something. I'm not. I'mnot messing that stuff. People like me
disappear when you gonna start talking aboutpolitics, n I ain't go forward.
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My family needs me. We don'tneed any of that drama. I don't
need that drama. But okay,so let's go ahead and get the elephant
out of the room, Nate,get the elephant up the room. You
know, I repped my city.I rep my city, Seattle, cracking
second year in the NHL. Wentahead, took care of business, knocked
out the Colorado Avalanche, the defendingStanley Cup champions, in seven games series.
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Ba ba ba ba yeah yeah outof seven. We took care of
business. Then we had to flystraight down to Detailed Boogie and go head
to head with the Dallas Stars withall the pretty boy floyds they got on
their team. Okay, all right, we got they got they got Taydas
Sagans and the Bins and all themjokers. Okay, they went games seven
again, Wow, and they droppedthe ball name what happened? Explained to
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me. What happened. They hadopportunities, Nate. That's all we can
ask for US athletes to have opportunitiesto win a ball game and the Seattle
Cracking took Dallas to seven games.Nobody thought it would happen, but they
went seven games with them fought hard, played hard, all that jazz.
But when they had their opportunities toseal their fate, they missed the opportunity
to the window of opportunity cloths.Wow, So where where did this put
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y'all? I mean, we're doneas well. No, no, no,
I know that is the playoffs.So but what does this does this
take? Y'all? Is the expectationsthe same next year? Is it is
something? Respect? Man? Wegot respect. We was the new kids
on the block, all right,as we used to saying for football,
we got new booty, new booty. Sattle Cracker was the new booty,
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all right. And it came outhere and they earned we always talked about
earning respect. They they earned therespect of everybody. Everybody. There's three
rs and everybody didn't know there's nov ebonic or ebonic curriculum right there,
all right, it's airbody right right. They earned respect that everybody NHL.
So now I think people were Iknow I have friends that were played in
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that were professional NHL athletes and professionalhockey athletes, and they said before,
nobody wants to go up to Seattleand play. It's a joke up there.
It's that's too far. I thinkhas changed now. I think it's
changed. I think this team,the way they came out and competed in
the playoffs has earned the respect notonly the entire league, but earned the
respect of the players in the league. And now more primetime players might be
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opt to signing free agent deals upthere coming this next season. So I
think Seattle is going to be ateam to be reckoned with going forward.
They have their core players, theyhave their care they have identity as an
organization, and I think now there'sgonna be more people that want to be
a part of that going forward.You know, he's just amazing, man.
I love you to death because Imean, you would rep anything out
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of Seattle and it didn't no matterif his hop scotch. You know,
hockey, it's a battle, man. You try to be on top of
it and you and you have knowledgeand so but I ain't loving it like
that. I'm from Florida and Ithink we got a hockey team and I
don't even know the name, butI think what the Panthers is somebody I
don't even know the name of thecan't Hey, hey, you know what?
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Hey, what's your name? Florida? Now, Florida has a good
team. Yeah, Nate, we'rejust kicking butt right now about the Miami.
Let me pull this up now,speaking on how I rep Seattle,
Nate, I find myself in alittle bit of a quandary, a little
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bit of a dilemma now as wetalk about the some one of our employers
in that of the Dallas Cowboys formeremployees and now current employer. You and
I both work for the Dallas Cowboys, and in the media side of the
things, Dallas has to play theSeattle Seahawks not only in the preseason,
Nate, dog, yes, butalso in the regular season. We're gonna
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double dog. Yeah deal, Yeah, Yeah, We're gonna go to y'all.
Doing the preseason, that's the goodthing. But guess that's a good
thing using the regular season so Iget a free trip home, Nate,
because I most likely would be callingthat ball game back back home in the
free season if if I still havethe opportunities I had last year, I'll
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be doing color commentary for the Cowboys. In the preseason. But let's talk
about this schedule release, Nate,since since we since we last spoke,
the schedule has came out before theDallas Cowboys and obviously for the rest of
the NFL. But we're talking tothe detailed boogie here. What are some
of the things that you see onthis matter. Let me run through the
schedule, Okay, Nate, preseasonJaguars, Giants, and I'm off,
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I'm off Jacksonville, Sea, LasVegas, Jacksonville, yep, Seattle,
Las Vegas. Okay. Then youget to the regular season and you get
to you got the Giants. Allright, let's just talk about it out
of out of division because we knowabout who we're gonna play during the division.
We got the Jets yes September seven, Market down, m M.
That's gonna be a big game.A ron what you call them? Hey,
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John Wick? John Wi? Yeah, John Wick? Wow? All
right? So you got the Jets. You got the Cardinals, which is
it's probably one of the only twogames that they have on the schedule that
are easy should be easy based uponuh their current rosters. Then you got
the Patriots, Nate doc and Idon't know how to take them I don't
know how to take them, butgo ahead on. You know they're always
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gonna be tough. Then you gotyour your guerrillas down there in San Francisco.
In San Francisco, yes, thenback you got the Chargers back to
back, will be on the road, the Charge San Francisco. Then the
Charge just kill them, they killthem. Moore's kill him Moores. So
you got the Chargers, you havethe Rams, you have the Panthers,
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the Seahawks, the Buffalo Bills,that Miami Dolphins, the trade once again
on the road. When you callyourself a prime time uh team, like
we are we on the road.This is gonna be in December back to
back, one week freezing cole inBuffalo. The next week these m twenty
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four Christmas eve will be in Miamiburning hot. So yes, they dog,
we gotta closed it out. Scheduleman, Who who are the who
are the wind links? Because thingscan change when the seasons start. Who
are you looking at? It isthe weak links, you know. And
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it was only two games on theNate that you could look a look at
and say, you know what,we should handle these guys without any issues.
And that is the Arizona Cardinals andthe Los Angeles Rams, the Arizona
Cardinals. I think they're dismantled rightnow. Obviously they're still trying to figure
out who they are as an organization. And you looked at the Los Angeles
Rams, they totally just dismembered theirteam. And the only person they still
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have there is Stafford and Aaron Donald. So other than that, they got
rid of absolutely everybody on their roster. They're in the rebuild and I don't
think that they even have highest spectationsfor themselves. They know over the next
three to four years, they prettymuch they sacrifice. They put all the
cards in for that one Super Bowl, and I can't be mad at them.
They got ask your goal every year. But now they find themselves in
a situation where they have to rebuildtheir roster. So but you know,
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they got a management team that knowshow to build. You know, they
knows how they got they you know, they not this year, but the
next year twenty five, they're gonnabe owned and popping with draft choices.
And uh, Aaron Donald will bea little long in the tooth and the
quarterback would be way past the tooth, you know, So it's tooth fell
out, but uh so when sowhen you look at this roster, Nate,
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how would you how would you ratethe difficulty of this of this not
this roster, but this schedule.How would you rate the difficulty of this
season? Because this last season,I feel like Dallas on paper, had
one of the easier schedule. Ain'tthat easy? This year? The East,
the NFC East gotta be one ofthe top three divisions. Easy.
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And you know, we went throughall the guys that, uh, we
don't know them to play. Butyou gotta understand, we're opening up on
September two versus the New York Giants. They just paid Danny Dimes. They
just got them a receiver in there. They resigned a couple of their defensive
linemen, so everybody is intact.The only person is running back Barclay,
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who's gonna a little uh you don'tknow where he's staying right now, but
he's a bull, he's a ballplayer. So I figured when they crank
up a September tenth, he'll bethere. And you told me this last
year, Isaiah, and it hasbeen so spot on. Don't fear the
players, fear the coaches. Theyare the type of coaches is if they
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can get you in the game,and they can get you to the fourth
quarter with seven points, they havea great chance to win. So the
Cowboys is gonna have a dog fightcomes September tenth against the New York Giants.
That's gonna be a hellable a hellof a deal. And this is
a must win, I think forthe Cowboys to get their season off right.
I mean, let me ask youthis question, Nate, can you
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remember somebody asked me to another day, you know, do you remember a
time where you had a really toughschedule um at the schedule release, and
I honestly can't remember because I lookedat I looked at the schedule every year
the same just didn't matter every teamthat popped up. But our job is
and knocked them down when we play, when we play, when we played,
you know what, I didn't lookat Michael Irvin and MN and Dion
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the music can be can look atthis chet. But me, to me,
I had so many bulldogs I wasplaying against and Hall of famers.
I didn't know this Hall of Famousthen, but I know they now.
I was like, every week wasgonna be a dog fight for me.
So I didn't look at wins andlosses. I looked at the people I
was back, Nick, So Imean, so, so, how do
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you feel when you look at thisfor it for Dallas? Right when you
look at Dallas' schedule and you seethese opponents that you typically don't face.
Okay, we're talking about the Jets, You talking about the Panthers, the
Jets, the Patriots, the youknow, the forty nine ers that we've
seen them a few time past years. We saw Seattle, we saw the
Chargers last year. But yeah,you got Seattle, you got Buffalo,
Miami, Detroit, Like who whodid double j piss off Nate that they
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gave him that December? You know? Uh, I don't know, but
you gotta understand from Thanksgiving facing theWashington Commanders through Seattle all the way to
the ending of the season with Washington, that ain't no joke because you got
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Washington, Seattle, who's got adevastating run game, Uh, Philadelphia,
who's got a devastate defense and gettingbigger. And Buffalo. Uh, if
they quarterback ever learned that his armis more dangerous than his legs, he
gonna be unstoppable. And Miami allthey gotta do is that their quarterback just
be stable. They got a team, their quarterback just has to be stable.
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Uh. In Detroit, they upand comment they met I had a
talent as the guys that I've justmeant. But they got a coach in
a belief system in place that theycan't be beat and watching it, they
just got a defense. And I'mtelling you, is it young? He
mad they didn't give him his fifthyear. He is trying to play at
this last year because he won't bewith watching the next year because they can't
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keep playing every defensive player, sohe won't be watching the next year.
So he gonna be on display seventeentimes next year. This coming season.
When I look at the last part, when I know everybody always wants to
know what's the toughest run that theCowboys are gonna have, you know,
during the season, and I lookat the schedule and I say the last
dog on one, two, three, four or five to the last six
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games in Philadelphia to watching, Imean, it's it's it's it's gonna be,
It's gonna be I hate to useit's gonna be hel I hate to
use that word. It's gonna gethell, I'm telling tell the people when
you when you look at these opponentsand you know the physicality of the organization,
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that joke going up against back toback to back, what could you
expect? Tell people from a player'sperspective, what is their bodies going to
be going through from from Washington toSeattle to Philly to Buffalo to Miami to
Detroit. You know the way theway I used to get ready for runs
like this is. And I'm justbeing honest with departing will be over,
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you know for us me getting out, you know, I was a Tuesday
Winsday, Thursday type guy, Friday, you know, getting out that having
fun, you know, doing mything. But man, I'll be I'll
be very low key in the lastsix weeks because we would always be in
a position cause we will be fightfor home field advantage. When I played
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with this schedule, that means wehad a successful last season. So now
when I look at these last fouror five six games, I'm a curttail.
What I do off the field,so I can be very very effective
on field. I'm gonna be worldpooling. Back then, we didn't have
had a crowd chamber and all that. It was the ice World pool gone,
the big world, the big heatedworld pool. Then go back to
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the and I would make sure mybody would be right, because this would
be the home stretch that's going todetermine whether you would be traveling in them
for a few weeks or whether yougot everybody coming to you through the whole
playoffs. And that's what we wereseeking. So what are some of the
things that are going through these playersheads right now that they understand what their
season is going to look like froma competitive standpoint, What are like just
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from the average citizen, they don'tknow right they see this, they're like,
oh, there's some tough games,but you know, Dallas Cowboys,
you know we're much better than thisteam on this side, and like,
but all that out, what isyour What is your mindset as a player,
Nate? When you look at thisschedule and you're going through OTAs right
now and you're ramping up getting readyto go to many camps and then you
have a break and then you goto camp. What is your Does your
mindset change based upon your schedule?Not for these young guys, not until
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the season start, not until theGiants set them in the mouth and then
then they have to get really getready real quick for these Jet for the
Os, for these Jets, becausethey got a defense that coach over there's
put together defense. That's when they'regonna realize how physical New York is,
how physical the Jets is. That'swhen it's gonna darn them. When the
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seasons start and they can't lose thefirst two games. They can't lose two
of these first two. They can'tlose those games back to back. That's
gonna throw these seasons to a tailsman. They're gonna have to win one of
these games. They're gonna have towin one of these games, as that
promised you. Their mindset gonna change. The rookies Definissey speed like they ain't
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never seen before. They Finissey schemeslike they ain't never seen before. The
tight end screw screw to maker orshootermaker. Yeah, he fini feel physicalists
like he never felt back. MarziveRoddy, you better crank it up.
You better either plug in. Youbetter to plug in like your boys plug
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in. Are you better get somethese up in, your brother, because
man's been coming, you know.Yeah, So all right, if you
have to put your finger, Nateon two games that you must have I
know, as hard as dude rightnow. Obviously you must beat the Giants.
Do not lose to the Giant oneweek one. That is so that
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is so huge because the hype,the hype, You're going to New York.
Then next week New York coming toyou again in the form of the
Jetson Aaron Rodgers, this dude isthis dude is gonna show the world.
This dude has never been that isaccommodating as he been for the New York
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media and putting on the show thathe's He's never did that. In Wisconsin,
he was to himself, I'm chilling. I'm a serial killer. You
know. Yeah, I'm just gonnado what I gotta do. But the
Jets, this is a whole NewYork is a whole different world. It's
two places, it's two or threeplaces that you play, and if you
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don't perform, they don't care whoyou are. So, you know,
when he go with the Jets,he's got to build a bond with the
coaching staff, he's got to builda bond with the players because they're going
in there with that finning gattitude thatain't gonna work in New York. You
know. So you're saying, ifI'm hearing you correct, you're saying out
of the entire schedule, the entireseventeen games, you're saying that first two
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games are the most important, mostimportant. You can't get behind it because
look, okay, you you youlose either one of these games, your
rebound game is Arizona. Okay,yeah, fine, Arizona is in a
tail spin right now. They're tryingto see if their quarterback can lead them.
He's just another guy that got themoney New England that he's not gonna
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be easy about that. New Englandget pumped up for the Cowboys. That's
one of the few teams that NewEngland say, you know, we're not
quote quote bigger than so. Andthen you got San Francisco, Bro.
Then you got Herbert uh for forYeah, you got Keller Morris coming.
This kid gonna gonna put it finallyput thegether a real game plan because he's
(25:12):
gonna be like, yeah, hegot a playbook set aside for that week
alone, Nate, you know hedoes the two easiest games you have.
One is that the third game,and one is about the sixth game.
You have a buy out of thecharge. But you had the Rams,
the two easy games to me asArizona and the Rams. If you lose
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to the Giants and the Jets,you you you, that means you're gonna
be hurt, I mean physically,and you're gonna be mentally hurt. Your
confidence ain't gonna be as high,you know. And new in Arizona you
may get it up just a littlebit, but New England ain't coming in
here playing man. You can't behold on one, two, three,
(25:55):
four, five, six. Hegot six games before the buy. You
can't be three and three. Youcan't be you. You want to be
four and two at the worst.You want to be four and two at
the worst. I have a littlebit different look outlook on this, Nate.
I believe, I do believe.I agree with you. The first
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game New York has to be avictory. I think New York has to
be a victory. You can't losethe first game of your season. You
just can't. But if I hadto put my finger on another must have
game, I put my figure outanother must have game, Nate, I
am going to say San Francisco,it was really tosses between San Francisco and
(26:41):
Buffalo. The reason why I saySan Francisco is because San Francisco owns you
right now, Okay, san Franciscoowns you, so in terms of your
development and your outlook as a competitor, you could not go the rest of
your season and knowing and fearing oneteam because they take care of business.
Every time they see you. Everytime they see you, they beat you
(27:03):
up. I think they have towin that game against the forty nine ers
for that reason. You I justthink you have to come out the gate.
You got your head coach now threeyears later being the offensive coordinator,
which I needed him to be theofficsive coordinator from day one, but now
three years later he is offensive coordinator. They're addressed the issue that was not
(27:26):
the issue that men you wanted toaddress. That was the office line.
But they addressed the defense, themiddle of the defense. They addressed the
tight end position better than I thinkit ever been addressed in the last four
or five years. So we havea running back the five offensive linement that
they have up there now and stillthe right guard all worlds Zat Martin Beardish
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the center, Tyler Smith the leftguard in Tyron Smith until you know,
as long as he lasts at theleft tackle, so that that is a
solid offensive line. I don't thinkit's a great offensive line because it hasn't
played together in fire. But Ithink it's a good offensive line, and
they should be able to do somethings when they're adding enough to tight end.
(28:17):
Uh so, but if they betterhave it together against New York and
the Jet I agree. Are whenyou look at this name before we get
about of here, what's the onething that stands out most about this schedule?
I have minds, but I wantto see if you if you're looking
at the same thing. The onething that I that bothers me the most
(28:37):
about this schedule, it's Philadelphia.No, that's what bothers me the most.
Philadelphia is when I think, ifthis kid from Georgia comes in with
the right state of mind, theycaught him. Yeah, they're they're They're
back in the race, stay backin the hunt. They have the money,
(29:00):
they signed their quarterback. They havethe money to still go out and
get those one one year call themgame stoppers, like they did with Sue
last year. They got the abilityto go out and get a one a
one year game stopper. You know, hey, they don't need nobody else.
They got Carter. No. I'mjust saying, if they need somebody
offensive or defensive, they still haveenough flexibility with their cap to go out
(29:23):
and get that one year game stopper. Dallas needs to go get in dem
coan Zoo. That's what they needto go to get. They need to
get that insurance policy. I'm justsaying, you ask me my problem.
My problem is Philadelphia, not oncebut twice twice. Yeah, every year,
every year. All right, Idon't disagree with you that that's a
problem, but that is not mybiggest problem with this particular schedule. My
(29:47):
biggest problem with this particular schedule isweek seven eight. Okay, what happens
to west By week? That's aboutso you're saying you only play six games
before you're buy right, and thenyou have to go on an eleven game
stretch. But we have the Thanksgivinggame that's gonna give you some time.
(30:10):
It's gonna give you some time.Let me say, oh, no,
you don't Thanksgiving third, Oh youyou're gonna play right after that? Nah,
you're right, Ain't no, ain'tno time to breathe, Bro ain't
on time. We should have gottenthat by around by the team BRO game
eleven straight games, you're eleven straightgames in that In that eleven game stretch,
(30:33):
you're playing against Philadelphia Eagles twice,Washington Commanders twice, Giants, Wants,
the Panthers, Seattle, Buffalo,Miami Detroit. And what does all
of these have in common? Dfence? Nah, just playoff experience.
(30:56):
They have D fence. That meansour defense has to come to play every
week to give that ball back toDad in party so that they can have
as many opportunities as they can tobeat these site teams. These are run
These are every team we're facing isa run first team. Now, when
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you get down to that, Now, when you get down to that Buffalo
in Miami, Oh no, buttheir quarterback gonna take off and run.
He ain't showed me when when thegame gets on the line, he ain't
gonna run let them boards run ball. He gonna take We didn't talk about
this. How do I not seethis week fifteen? What that's Miami Buffalo?
(31:48):
What's the matchup of that week?But I don't know? Buffalo is
the quarters versus Yeah? Oh youmy brother on brother man that I almost
forgot that myself. I talked aboudyyesterday. Oh shoot, wow, that's
(32:14):
a conversation for another day, GodDog. That's that's comes in for another
day. That's next week. That'snext week. That's yeah, but that's
that's next week. We're gonna talkabout that. Put that anyways, Hey,
and a synopsis, y'all. BigNate Dog says week wanted two our
absolute must haves. Isaiah says numberone and number five or must have.
(32:34):
And I say Nate DOGG said Phillyis the big bad wolf out there.
In terms of the schedule, I'msaying that week seven byas a little bit
too early, Miss Purly. Okay, that early, Miss Purly. But
y'all we need y'all tune in,continue to check us out, God Dog,
this schedule sucks. I don't know. So Double J pissed somebody off,
(32:55):
Nate. I don't know who itwas, but somebody in the front
office said, you know what,Double J, this ain't the year for
you. We'll see y'all next timeanother episode. Let me tell you something,
your boy, Isaiah, your boy, Nack Doc. We'll all at
you gone. Thank you Niagara
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