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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Cowboy Surprise. Your forecast for tonight seventy five degrees in Philadelphia,
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thirty three chance of rain. Oh, dude, Dak can throw
a wet ball. Yeah, unlike Troy No. So I don't
know if that matters too much. What I want to
focus on in this segment is I was thinking about
this overnight. I think I woke up in the middle
of the night and couldn't go back to sleep, So
I was thinking about this. There's a list of guys
that are really trying to rewrite their specific narrative on
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their career, who they are and moving forward, that could
be playing for a contract. You give me a lot
of different things, So I thought, go one by one,
let's just run it down the list of these like
intriguing things to actually start the season. We'll start the
head coach, Brian Schottenheimer, who has declined NFL head coaching
jobs before he thought he would get plenty of offers
in the early twenty tenths. He had a couple of
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head coaching gigs and turned him down. He got some
big interviews and you know, a couple of interviews and
didn't get the job as well. But he had a
couple jobs offered to him that he turned down, which
I think is interesting. Not an inspiring hire at the time,
but there's something about the guy who's always wanted this
finally gets it. Has he been saving anything? Is there's
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something there that's different? And I'm excited for the offense
to be a little different than what it was last year.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So yeah, if he if they don't succeed this year
and they have a bad year, could you see them
keeping him as an offensive coordinator and hiring a different
head coach.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
No, I think he can get this.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
He's gonna have to leave. Once you get to this point,
he is either gonna have to leave, and.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I think I think minimum they give him two years minimum. Yeah,
unless they go one in sixteen and he makes a
terrible call at the end of every game, you know.
I mean, I think it has to be beyond disaster
for them to give up so quickly.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I do think the witting thing is still out there lingering.
I think he could end up being a part of
this thing at some point, but maybe it's just as
a tight ends coach or an offensive coordinator. Maybe it's
not that he'll be a head coach, but I would
keep an eye on that one. But yeah, I'm interested
in this, Like you listen to shoddy speak and you're
he's very likable and maybe he's got some curveballs and
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maybe he's.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Gonna be good at this.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It is just weird that he was just standing there
and he was the closest one to empty office and
nobody else in the league was trying to hire him.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
I know that this is semantics, right, but I think
outside of just like hardcore football people, and I'm talking
about fans, like there's different levels of fans. There's people
that are way into it and know all the stuff,
and that's a very small percentage. Then there's most people
who follow it what I would call sports center style,
Like those are the guys that you have that you
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know they have whatever jobs, business jobs. They go hey
and you see the story, so they kind of know
the stories. Those people, they really have no idea who
Brian Schottenheimer is. It's only the super football nerd who
knows who Brian Schottenheimer is. So it's almost like he
doesn't have a chance to rewrite his narrative for the
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He has a chance to write a narrative people and
write a new narrative period. Most people really don't know
anything about him. It's a good point. And also, I
just feeling I could be wrong, but I feel like
McCarthy was pretty shut to the outside noise of like people.
I'm not saying you didn't take any input into his offense,
but when moves are made to get rid of Kellen,
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the cowboy said, fine, is your offense? Then did you
do it? And that's how that ended up. And Kellen
went to win a Super Bowl with the Eagles, and
as they have a new offensive coordinator. That's a whole
other thing next to the list Dak. Do you guys
think Dak plays seventeen games this year? Oh? That's good.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I mean I I would be shocked if he did.
And they don't really have a backup quarterback. If I
mean he is, They're they're attached to Core.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Can we amend that to if he misses a game
it's by choice at the end of the season. Oh sure, Okay,
So it's the question is can he stay healthy? That's
a big question for me. Is Dak is now the
weapons are here. There are no excuses for a bad
year now, like you hurt him for him excuses at all,
you're the highest player in football and we last year
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they didn't have weapons.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I don't have confidence in there or their running game,
so you could that could be something that fault. Like
if Geydon totally sucks and is a bust, then he's
going to get killed back there probably. But if they
can't run the ball, I mean they don't. They didn't
really address the running back position. Like they drafted a
little water bug change of pace guy who's nice, but
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they didn't really address the running game.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You know. Yeah, so he Here's what I think about
the initial question of health. I think that Dak is
at a point in his career brain power wise where
he knows how to keep himself healthy. In other words,
like a freakman. But I think I mean, look at
out Tom Brady, look at Peyton Manning in his final
year in Denver. I mean, he couldn't even throw the
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ball anymore. He's just using his brain. And so I
think at this point in his career, outside of a
freak play, I think Dak knows how to get rid
of the ball and do the things to keep himself healthy.
So I don't think he's going to have an injury
this year. That's what I'm going with. It's good to
have a refresher here. Though. Here's what happened last year.
The media starts talking about how Joe Flacco has got
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more rushing yards than he does. They go to Atlanta,
Dak tries to use his legs and then the hammy
falls off the bone. Yeah, which, don't you think he
learned a lesson from that? Maybe maybe? And hey, could
just be a freak thing too. That just sucks, though.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
If you're sixty million dollars quarterback, if you take off
your hamstring will detach from your like.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
That's a bad thing. It's not good. I have a
few more names I want to throw at you guys
in the next segment, Okay, because there's one very fascinating one,
and we'll discuss that next On ninety seven won the
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We're gonna celebrate Cowboys Eagles by going to the wayback
machine at the bottom of the hour a time when
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Mosquito and an Eagles guy and it's really funny and yes,
his name is Kevin Brosteak. We're gonna relive it. It's funny.
Will laugh Stick around for all that. But we're in
the middle of a little cuss in the Cowboys segment,
and KT's going down the list of people who can
change their narratives. George Pickens the wide receivers, the next one.
I want to get to known as a guy who's
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a little insane on the field, and you know, pretty
much all training camp when I asked questions, he keeps saying,
I'm a team guy. I'm a team guy. I'm a
team guy, he said over and over and over. People
don't know that about me. I'm a team guy, which
strikes me as a guy who's really thinking about maybe
his numbers. And he's a free agent next year and
go a contract. By the way, his agent is MICA's agent,
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so he's going to be a backer. But this could
be a huge year and the Cowboys could have the
best two wide receivers, like ma'am, maybe not Jamar Chase
and t Higgins, but close to that, right there, close
to that. Yeah. It's also Dak is the best quarterback
by far he's ever played with in the NFL. So
this is a very good chance for George Pickens to
change the narrative from oh, he's just a deep ball
guy who gets in fights with cornerbacks all the time.
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Like now he can completely change that as an all
around player now.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, and it's he's probably going to face more single
coverage than he has ever in his life because CD
is still going to get all the attention. So it'll
be interesting to see, Like you can't double team everybody,
and so it'll be interesting to see what he can do.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And I wonder how early they'll go to that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Like, to me, the worst thing it could happen for
my soul is for the Cowboys to come out and
do a three and out off the rip the Cowboy.
After all this, you get into the new season, it's
just a three and out, dude, what hold on?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Know, let let's let's be more pacific. What if the
first two players are running plays and it's third and nine.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Yeah, you know it's gonna be third nine. It's maybe
underneath to lipke or something, you know, for a two
yard game on third and nine, you know, or maybe
Tyler Guiden gets blown up and Deck gets killed.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
I was thinking about this earlier. If Guiden does, it
does become a turnstile. You are going to get a
lot of lipkey because there's gonna be a lot of
sending your fullback over there to help. They gave him
a contract yesterday, by the way, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But you know, do they is there like a screen
to Jaden Blue? Is there? You know?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Is it Camante Turpin doing? You know they're a trick thing.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
You know, he's you know, shot, he's had Tavon Austin before,
he's had a guy that's kind of like this, So
hopefully he's but you know, there are there going to
be some offensive genius wrinkles where.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You're like, wow, that's what was holding us back. There's
a genius running the offense. Now, let me ask you, guys,
if I gave you an over under of six and
a half touchdowns on Turpin, what would you take under?
I'd take the over. How many do you have last year?
Probably four? They're gonna prove to me they're gonna play dude.
I just don't think he's gonna get burned.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
I I hope he does. I hope they're creative about
getting him the ball. But he's also eighty bitty man.
If he takes too hard of a hit, he's he's cooked.
He might get you two on special teams, but yeah,
he could. He could definitely take a couple to the house.
If Guidan is bad too, which we won't really know.
If Terrence still, I guess, could be in this conversation too.
If those guys aren't what we need them to be,
then they're gonna play a lot of two tight ends
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as well, just to get through it right. Keep in mind,
yes we have schoonmaker. Oh, don't forget about it.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Another Michigan great.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
I haven't heard anything about Jonathan Mingo and so long
is he hurt?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah? Oh, what's his injury? He had at Torres LCL
or PCL. He'll be back in like you week four probably.
I don't think he played till week five, but he
was having a good, good camp, good preseason till till then. Uh.
All three running backs. Jayden Blue is a fifth round
pick who is known to be a little bit immature
in the bit of a fumbler. It happens, it happens,
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grow up. Got more juice than pretty much anyone on
your team not named Ceedee Lamb. So I think I
think Shoty doesn't really care about ball protection, so I
think not that much he is. Jayden Blue is the
guy who could take this offense to a whole different level.
If he is just explosive and can stay healthy and
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doesn't fumble. He's probably too little to be a bell
cow or whatever. But if they, you know, get him.
I just I have no high hopes for Javonte Williams
at all.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I just don't think there. I think it's a below
average running back as your starter. There's gonna be nothing
special there. Jayden Blue is the guy who could make
the running back position be anything impactful.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Javonte Williams did seem surprised that he wasn't asked to
play at all in the preseason, but this goes back
to the offensive coordinator, Clayton Adams. Who know it's again
football nerd stuff, but Clayton Adams highly respective. When the
Cows hired him as off coordinator, football dorks were like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
they're onto something here, Like they could fix the run
game through the weird schemes and things like that that
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they were doing. That's all I own last year because
the are'zon only nearly made the playoffs. Lash and that's
why I believe in Turbin. Yeah, because when you start
scheming stuff like that in a dynamic weapon in space.
Oh yeah, by the way, how's Rico Gathers doing in life?
I hope he's still with us man. To be honest,
Rico Gathers the Rico Rico gon Rico. Uh. Sam Williams
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is my next contract year, dude, MIC's gone, So it'd
be great if you can go get ten sacks, you know,
have at it, buddy, Yeah, it's your time.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
They need somebody to you know, is it Asaraku?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Is it Kneeland?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Like, who's the person who's gonna who's the person that's
gonna step up and get pressure on the quarterback for them?
Or are they gonna be able to get pressure with
just four? Are they gonna have to blitz more? I
think that's I think it's a good point about Sam Williams.
But he didn't have like some great preseason is I can't.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Remember his off injury? So iber Fleus is a blitzky
right a little bit. The problem with thee it has
been awesome defensive coordinator. It did not work for him
as a head coach, but that doesn't mean he can't
be a head coach. Ever, the thing that bothers me
about him is they give up so many and he
did this when he was a defensive corner of the Colts.
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Give up so many, like a little playing ten yards
off and give a little five yard passes to a
wide receiver on the outside, just because they're not getting
up and pressing. And there's your next story, Treyvon Diggs
and drawing, Blam Tron bland Less. So get your contract.
It'll end up looking very team friendly. So not a
big deal there. Treyvon Diggs absolutely is playing for his
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football live, dude, whether they want you or not, next
year someone else might. So go have fun. And uh,
I don't know. If they're like really good and they're
sneaky good, that's how the team is better than we thought.
It's like, oh crap, okay, we misread this cornerback situation.
They're actually blow gets out there, right, you're looking good.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
If you have two lockdown corners who both get interceptions,
that could change things a lot.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Yeah, tonight's to night. Here we go, there we go
seventeen and oh who were picking?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Or oh and seventeen I have carved beef, I have
the Cowboys covering.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
How about that Eagles minus seven and a half.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I'm taking the Eagles. Eagles are going to roll. They're
Super Bowl champs. Cowboys are a dumpster fire, all right?
Coming up next, tough man already tank uh? Coming up next,
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