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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Cowboys, this is.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Media match, a roundtable of Cowboys insiders, drumping wisdom and
offering takes on the current state of your Dallas Cowboys.
Now your host, Newie scrugs.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
It is that time hump day right here from the
Star in Frisco, headquarters of the Dallas Cowboys. This is
the media match where you come to get your wisdom,
your thoughts, all your hopes and dreams fulfilled right here.
Really from yes Jean Jacques Taylor, former Cowboy Beat writer
and the author We Got Bobby Belt one three the Fan,
the Flack, She's Station of the Dallas Cowboys, and Young

(00:45):
Nick Hare's foot Worth Star Telegram. I'm merely Newie Skirts
to help conversate with these gentlemen here. Brice Schottenheimer stepped
to the mic today and had some uh interesting take
about Treyvon Diggs and his availability when Jason Garrett was here.
I learned to listen to what Jason didn't say, oh

(01:07):
as to what he really would mean at times, because
he'd be very effusive about certain players and if you
ask about one guy kind of go lukewarm here so
young Nick, your thoughts on his Trayvon Digg's ability to
play and what he needs to do to get.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Back on Can I read the quote or is that
bad radio?

Speaker 5 (01:23):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
No, all right, quote, I read your quote on the
players line, but go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Thank you, sir. Appreciate that, all right.

Speaker 6 (01:27):
Brian Schottenheimer on Trayvon Diggs's potential to play versus Minnesota
on Sunday night.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
He said he's still in the ramp up period. He
does feel healthy.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
I know he wants to play, but at the end
of the day, we have to do what we think
is in the best interest of not just him but
also the football team. When you miss time, there's a
ramp up period for not just your body but your
mind figuring out the defense and there's some new faces
in the huddle. I love him as a player, but
ultimately he's got to show us that he's ready to
do everything the right way.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Pull your head at your keista man. Whatever that means,
whether it means show up on time, whether it means
go through individual to drills at the right tempo, that
means show to you, rehab on time, whatever that means,
do it or you could sit there and watch us play.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Jack Taylor's interpretation of Bobby.

Speaker 7 (02:08):
What was I just did the final quote there? Try
that with anybody else, you know, mm hmm. I love
my wife, but I love I love I love my kids.
But this is whenever there's an I love him, but
it okay, all right? There was a he gave a
really interesting quote Calvin Watkins. I think it was last week,

(02:28):
two weeks ago maybe where he did Trayvon dig said
in reference to shot he said, uh, you know, different
coaches have different rules. I guess you can say it's
a growing relationship. It's like, well, that doesn't sound super
awesome right there. And then there was after that. We
had asked Shotty about it on the Morning Show on
Wednesday when he came on, and I think the the

(02:51):
way it was worded to him was, has Trayvon had
a more difficult time than other guys adjusting to your style?
Something along those lines, and shot he was like, A,
you know, that's probably fair, and then went on into
other stuff. But it's like, there are little tidbits here
and there that show you there's some frictions I think
that exists there.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
This is the question you can ask is does that
give you things to do on your job?

Speaker 7 (03:12):
Hit me, It'll have to be next week because I'm
off the rest.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Of the week, right, he sho, Which are the rules?
Tray Vine has the toughest time following?

Speaker 7 (03:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Like really like?

Speaker 3 (03:21):
And you know which ones? Is it showing up the
rehab on time? Is it being on meetings? Which rules
are the hardest for him to follow?

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Claire's Hill on his social media page asked a question,
what does everything the right way mean in regards to
me rehab? And you just touched on there talking about.

Speaker 7 (03:39):
No, no, not need rehab, mental too. You're right, he
said it mental too. He said you got to get
your mind right too. It's not just how you feel,
it's also your mentals and how you're seeing the game.
But you know he's giving you the context clusive.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
It does you know what's probably happening is tray Vine,
because of his talent, has been babied everywhere he's ever
gotten and allowed to do whatever he wanted to do,
even at Alabama.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, maybe he was allowed to do it. Maybe he
was under such strict rules and then he got here
he could do whatever he wanted to.

Speaker 6 (04:12):
I would say the talent always super seded the is.
That's what I'm saying, and so much so that I
would be pulling if I'm Shoddy, I'm pulling George Pickens
into my office. I'm being like, look, you're a fantastic player.
We have loved having you around here. Take a look
at number seven.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Though.

Speaker 6 (04:24):
When things don't go right and you have these issues
that have been happening behind the scenes, that stuff gets
a lot more difficult to deal with. And I think
they're starting to see that, and that's ultimately why Trayvon
Dicks is not gonna be a cowboy after June first
next year.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
But these are the final four games unless they make
the playoffs. This is we're seeing the end, and.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
We ain't gonna let you put on no good tape
until you shows that you ready to do all the
things that you need to do. I think that's good
for Shoddy man stand for something or a fall free thing.

Speaker 7 (04:55):
I think I want to be very particular how I
say it.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
There you go.

Speaker 7 (05:02):
I think that the previous regime, at times there there
was a thought of like why is he allowed to
do so much stuff? Why is he able to get
away with all this stuff that that other people wouldn't
get away with. And I think some of that now
is it's just down to code enforcement.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Now I get that, you know, this to me is
no different than you know, different teachers that have different rules.

Speaker 7 (05:26):
Sure, and you know it's you know, it's a hundred.
So we made this point earlier this week with or
last week with George Pickens when the question is out
there about Pickens, and it can apply to Digs too.
The idea of I may be more of a disciplinarian
in my house with my kids than on our morning

(05:46):
show r J Choppy is in fact I know I am.
But so you could have my kid living with me
and people be like, man, he's always in trouble. That
same kid could go live with r J Choppy do
the same things he's been doing and does not have
an Howard reputation. Well can always in trouble because he's
not in trouble over there. It's it's not a rule
that they're breaking over there. So yeah, I think that's

(06:07):
a big part of it is just new enforcement, new rules,
new way of doing things, new standards. That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
As I like to say, it's not good at Bad's
just what it is. And you can choose to follow
them or you can choose to not follow them.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
When I worked with Klay Travis and or NBC Sports Trader,
how do you just have this great line? He says,
as long as your talent outweighs your problems, people will
deal with you. But at some point in time when
your talent doesn't do it, they don't want the problems.
And absolutely, and from listening to what Shoddy's saying, what
you're decoding here is, Hey, guess what, man.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
You got all these knee things, You got all this
stuff O. You ain't worth the trouble no more. Man,
take your but somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
You're not an all pro anymore. Yeah, we don't need
to deal with it. We'll be okay.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
And that's hard for a player to hear because he
ain't never heard that before. Because his talent is nixed.
It has always allowed him certain privileges, certain rights, certain
second chances.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Now, he was very he was very tight still is
today with Michael Parsons and the rope Michael was given
was you know, it.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Was a good rope, and it's a good rope wherever
Mike is right now, and.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
They were they were running mates. They sent part of
a message.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
You know what, man, let me tell you something. It
was the It was the fall of nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
It was a very good year.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
It was a very good year. I was the aged
clerk at the Columbus Dispatch, one of the prize atgic
clerks at the Columbus Dispatch because I could type up
the box scores from nagged that was that's a newspaper, kid, Yeah,
that's a newspaper. That's a newspaper term. And I called
my boy, who worked in journalism turned into being an
award winning investigator report. I said, Mike, we need a spot,

(07:47):
come work down here. Came down, got the job. Within
a month. They called Mike in and said what are
you doing? You sit back here, you do all this
other stuff, and he said, you got one more time
and we're going to fire you. And you know what,
he was doing everything I was doing. But he hadn't
been there long enough and he wasn't good as me,
and so they told him you can't do what he
does until you've been here like three years. That's Trayvon

(08:08):
and Michael Man.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Too, you know the old line is two of us
are the same, one of us is not needed.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
And I used that at the house the other day.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
I don't think i've ever heard that. I like it.
I don't think I have I like it, and I said,
there can't be two people like us like me.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
A lot of times duplication isn't good. No, sometimes it's good,
but yeah, oh look it's it's real clear. We saw it,
you know when when they this summer, when the whole
that you saw where the relationship was ending. And now
it's just gone even further because we still have yet
to hear from Trayvon Diggs about what happened in his

(08:47):
home that find.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
And you'll never find out. I don't think anyone ever
will find out.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Well, no, what you mean, well, I don't want nobody
to find I.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
Don't think anyone's really going to have one hundred percent
know what's gonna Let me.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Tell you when, let me tell you when, let me
say you when it's gonna get reported the day they could.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
Him, probably the day they could him.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
I'm just saying that there are people back there that
have heard very different stories.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Well they're gonna put it, They're gonna put them all
a lot and then say you the public can choose
which one you choose to believe.

Speaker 7 (09:13):
You know, it's to the point that you're talking about though,
of like your talent and does it supersede the headache
that you are every every player eventually who's too good
for the rules and then ed is worth putting up
with that ache? Eventually every player gets the fall in
line talk like all right, fall in line now, like

(09:35):
that this is the time and and if you do
when your ability gets to a certain point, it's like,
all right, we're not putting up with it. You could
do this when you were doing what you're doing on Sundays.
You're not doing those same things anymore. I think it's
just this is the time now where he's getting that talk,
and I think he's having a hard time.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
I'll give you the perfect example. We already saw sports
last week Chris Paul Yeah, yep, hey, Jeff Bank and man,
you don't go to call you don't get to call
off the defensive switches not here.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
I didn't call it up. I just suggested you.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Might have done that with it. So one of the
things is what people who I would say, people who
didn't follow deeply the NBA. Oh my gosh, what Chris Paul,
He's this, he's that. And then you had other people
who follow the league like this dude is not easy
to deal with. This guy could be a first class
pain in the neck. And at forty years old, you're
not that good to sit here be a pain in

(10:25):
the neck. And oh, by the way, you and the
coach got a problem here. Yeah, hey, Chris, go home
middle of the night.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
This happens in every business man, Yes, yeah, every business.

Speaker 7 (10:37):
Yeah, I mean right here with the cop was the
best example of this problem in the last ten years?
Does Brian does Brian? Was?

Speaker 2 (10:43):
It was?

Speaker 7 (10:44):
It was a lot of It was a lot of
different little things that's like, all right, I will put
up with it. And then they reached where it does
You're not playing like you were playing before. So this
stuff is getting a little more annoying now.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
And they say thank you, thank you for that's why
I got one more season.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I say thank you for your SERVI and like, there's
four more regular seasons left here for number seven And.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Okay, let's go around the table. Is that interrupt you?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (11:07):
You think he'll play here again?

Speaker 8 (11:09):
No?

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Okay, that was gonna say, what do you think including
this year? Yeah, that's what I mean. Will he get
in one of these last four years?

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (11:18):
I've been sticking with no since the Denver game when
he don't put on IR I just feel like that's
the turkey.

Speaker 7 (11:24):
I've gone back and forward throughight. Now it feels like no.
See I feel no, But I also don't know, like
if Philly starts slipping and you've got corner problems and.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
So if Philly loses to Washington, we'll see him again here.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
And the reason why I say yes.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Is don't let your money get mad.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Well, not that your money be man, but you know what,
you may need him depending on how this thing go.
You may need him. There could be an injury. You
may be Hey, look we're right here, and I'll say this.
We all know dudes get extra checked in the playoffs,
so hey, man Coke, bring him on in help.

Speaker 7 (11:59):
So it feels like they need him now you're just
coming out of three games and with these receivers. Yeah,
but now you're coming out of three games in eleven days.
Savone Revelt cannot stop tugging at his knee brace between
every snap against Detroit and a really good offense, and
you still said he needs to sit again said.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
You get to that point in time where the ability
to make the playoffs and just how much do you
want to carry something personal versus hey, let's try to
win some games.

Speaker 7 (12:28):
And Chris is also maybe send it again, like you
said earlier. Standard. It may just also be like emphasizing standard,
especially year one, like for the next few years. Understand
this is the standard.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
And the standard I mean old Totten is going to
be after the season is going to be sent anyway.

Speaker 7 (12:44):
Yeah, but I mean like it's the same thing as
like the Pickens things. So like when people talk about
what kind of a punishment is sitting Pickens for three
plays for being late or CD for three to well,
I specifically for Pickens. You want to talk about a
guy who league wide had a certain reputation before getting here,
is about to enter a year to get paid at
the very least those three place in a very public
signal to people like, hey, it's maybe not been all
perfect behavior around here.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
So let's dive into mister Pickens's next. Some very interesting
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(15:42):
George Pickens. So, George Pickens had his worst game of
the year on Thursday against the Detroit Lines. That's fair
to say. I mean, nobody's gonna play seventeen perfect games.
It happens. He got criticized by Richard Sherman. He took
social med and let his opinion be known. Mark Shalaire

(16:03):
had appeared on Bobby's radio station one five three the
fanas this mine. Yes, I've been trying to tell people
that that's what you know. I called the Sean RJ
and Bobby Show.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, you're the real toil let a cuss word.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yes. Mark Shalaire, three times Super Bowl champion, went said
he would not pay George Pickens, and then he used
the Detroit Lions game as an emphasis of this is
why you don't pay him. Once again, his worst game
of the year.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
Well, he's you know, stink, angry old dude, and.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
And I say he's had a lot of good games.
Nobody plays seventeen great games.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Here stink did when he wasn't peeing on the set.

Speaker 7 (16:44):
It's about callous.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Has come on, Petty here? What are our thoughts about
what he had to say?

Speaker 6 (16:52):
Nicholas, Yeah, I'm I'm in the train of George Pickens
has been way too productive this year.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
He's been way too valuable to this team.

Speaker 6 (16:59):
To let's that he did have effort issues on Thursday,
which I think there's a little bit of truth to that.
I think the one hundred percent I look at the
deep shot right before the two minute warning, even on
the interception where the slat bounced off his chest, I
think there was some things. You can look at the
comeback route where it was deflected and he wasn't necessarily
running the stem of the route to one hundred percent effectiveness. Yes, sure,
let's say that there were effort issues. Has he not

(17:20):
been afforded that chance at this point? I mean to say,
to have the understanding and expectation of what he was
going to be when he arrived in this building versus
what you've got the return on investment has been. It's
given him the leeway. So I don't understand why one
issue has all of a sudden completely flipped the narrative
on yeah, you can't pay him.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
And this is why.

Speaker 6 (17:39):
It's like, because he has five hundred yards this year,
he doesn't have a touchdown.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
I would get it. Then it's like, damn, I one game.

Speaker 6 (17:46):
I'll let that happen. And maybe that's me. Maybe that's
me just allowing things to go by the wayside. But
I don't have a problem with anything that happened on Thursday,
as long as it's not repeated. And shot he had
the conversation with him over the weekend. Yeah, Shoty, that's
probably what I would do too, to be like, look,
you know these certain things, we can't have them here.
That's not the standard. Let's make sure they're improved this week.
And you say, hey, hit the practice field and this

(18:08):
is water under the bridge because it's the first time
it's happened. So I'm went you new week. You can't
be perfect in the seventeen game season.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Now, I'm I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
I'd had a conversation be like, Doug, you better than
this for sure, and then you show them to cut up,
so you go, look, is this you really? I mean,
right now, your first team all pro. You know how
much money that is, Doug, that's what you are right
now today? Is this? You come on? You better than that.
I've seen you play better than that. If he responds
to that, because some of it some of you got kids.

(18:38):
You got kids, so you know some of it is
what your particular kid player responds.

Speaker 7 (18:42):
To pushing the right buttons.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
My son responded to, I'm so disappointed in you. My
other kidd tap that ass.

Speaker 7 (18:50):
Don't cut me a switch?

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Is that you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 7 (18:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Game one, ceedee lamb? Yeah, terrible. Yeah game then the
Philly up a game came back around again. Oh ceedee
lamb terrible. You're not getting rid of CD lamb and
he's already been paid. But it's just that interesting thing.

Speaker 7 (19:11):
Did it feel different to you though? Like I played poorly?
George Pickens didn't always look like he was out there trying.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
He was disengaged.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
Like it's just two different reasons, Like I think one
is a bad game that you expect him to move past.

Speaker 6 (19:24):
I would put the bad body language from CD right
in that same.

Speaker 7 (19:27):
Game, body sure, sure, that's thank you. Yes, the body
language is an issue, but like when that sort of
stuff happens, it's just I would say that like one
is a bad response to playing poorly the others it
felt very self inflicting.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
So I go back to what I used to say
all the time I was doing radio is interesting on
who we choose to condemn and who we choose to forgive.

Speaker 7 (19:47):
Sure, but why, like like in terms of if you
talk about with CD, what was CD's problem that those
games that's been drops And it's like, how are you
not finishing the play with George very first snap of
the game next Gen stats, it's a handoff. It's it's
a ball going to Georgia side dak ran one mile
per hour faster handing the ball off to Javonte Williams
and George Pickens did off the line of scripts. I
mean that right there, That's that shows an issue with that.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Go back to what Jack said, Hey, you get the
tape man his issue?

Speaker 7 (20:13):
Right?

Speaker 2 (20:14):
What did it take us week what thirteen fourteen until
you said, hey man, this is a problem.

Speaker 7 (20:21):
This is a dude that was helping you win games.
Oh yeah, I'm paying it. Look here, this is the
analogy that dawned on me when I was driving back
from the airport Friday morning. He's if you follow baseball,
if you ever follow baseball, He's Manny Ramirez. That's who
he is. George Pickens is the NFL version of Manny Ramirez,
where he's ridiculously naturally talented at what he does. He

(20:41):
is either unstoppable or sometimes looks uninterested, and it can
change from play to play or week to week or whatever.
You're just like, you don't even know why, but you
know what. You pay Manny Ramirez every day of the
week two because you go he's that good and you'll
put up with it. Same sort of thing with George Pickens.
You pay George Pickens because he's good enough that you
you deal with that stuff happening. You try your damnedest
to make it better. But even if you're told it

(21:04):
comes with that, and then you go, okay, cool, I'll
still sign up for the Raiders game. I'll sign up
for the Eagles game. I'll sign up for the Washington game.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
This again, does it make the money different?

Speaker 8 (21:12):
Though?

Speaker 6 (21:12):
I think that's a different conversation in which I would
probably dip into That's probably the difference between three and
four years. That's probably the difference between thirty and thirty
five million. I would have that conversation when it comes
to these little things, but that's the overall concept of
not paying him, the concept of not paying him at
all and doing the MICA and trading him somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
No, that's all part of conversation we had when we
pulled in and talked about it is this you?

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, do you want it?

Speaker 3 (21:36):
You know, even when I mentor people, I ask him
real tough is before we get started to say so, Nick,
you want to be good, you want to be great?
You wanna be average because it's different level of commitment
to alogy. Yes, And so you asked, George, what is
it that you really want? And I'm not judging you
just tell.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Me once again, in a seventeen game season, you're not
gonna have seventeen great games. There's gonna be some games
you look up to. And this was I mean, look,
Dak Prescott, who all of us here at the table
respect and like he got seventeen great ones. This happens,
This happens. Does it happen again? It's the first thing.
You know, how does he respond? And this is something

(22:15):
along the way you kind of go through all of
you have significant others. There's gonna be a bumping the road, right.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Yeah, yeah, sometimes you cut them though.

Speaker 7 (22:31):
Hold Travis Kelsey said he and Tylor Swift have never fought.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
You're you're a little harsher. You're you're you're Bobby Bobby
Knight type coach. Jack Taylor a little bit different.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
She didn't get the contract.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
You may come with that. John wouldn't love look at
the pyramid of success, this kind of thing you might
have had John Thompson with the towel. He just told her,
you know so, But when with them, theory has some though.
But George Pickens helps you and at least you go

(23:06):
back to last year where you were with CD into Maybies.
I'll live with this. If this is what I have
to live with, I'll do that.

Speaker 7 (23:17):
Yeah. It probably just is the most. The reason it
probably got the spotlight it did is because it's national television.
It's when the Margins have reached no room for air
and you still had guys like Ryan Flinoy out there
torching their secondary and it's like man, yeah, right right,
And so I think the feeling is like, man, it
feels like if you would have been locked in, this

(23:40):
could have been a completely different ballgame. But like I
felt like that may have been the difference in what ultimately,
especially after the Chargers loss on Monday after the Eagles,
now looks like, man, you that effort issue on a
couple of snaps, even if it's just one time, Like
that's why it can't be even one time, Like you
got to lock in and that has I'm sure that's
the message from shot and learn from it.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
So I go back into this game and I'm like, Okay,
I got more concerns about what the heck Cavante Turpin's
doing on these punts and Jake Ferguson now a couple
weeks in Row, what you just giving up the ball?
I'm now seeing this in consecutive weeks where these are
mistakes that we just can't have. You can have a
one off week, you know, all of us have a
one off week. You know, it happens, It happens, Does

(24:20):
it happen again? This is what we'll see. But right now,
if I'm looking at this team, I'm like, Okay, George
Pickens issue or is it. Ferguson here giving up the
ball two weeks in a row is a cavante On
putt return, Like, dude, do you know what?

Speaker 7 (24:32):
Yes, it's me, all of it. It is all of it,
isn't it? Like wouldn't we say it like it's yes?
But you're right, if we're gonna talk about pickings like that,
you also should be talking about Jake Ferguson. You had
zero fumbles in your first thirty five career games. You
have seven in your last twenty five. Cavante Turpin, you
have two fair catch penalties in eighteen days, the two
two hundred days before the entire NFL had one. Like,

(24:55):
you're doing things that absolutely should not be done, the
sort of stuff that should send you to the bench.
So I agree, I don't think it necessarily means. I
think we need to be careful about extrapolating how we're
talking about Pickens as like, here's some long term takeaways
from one week. I think it had definitely seasoned implication
to his issues the other night. But then it also

(25:16):
needs to be talked about in the same way with
Kevanti Turpin. You also put us in a bad hole.
Jake person, you put us in a bad hole like
those sort of things. Absolutely, Still, they gave.

Speaker 6 (25:23):
Up two hundred and sixty one yards on kickoffs. That's
the fourth most in the last decade in the NFL.

Speaker 7 (25:27):
Nate Thomas gave up eleven pressures the other night. That's bad.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
This is a Detroit team with a whole bunch of
question marks and they came out they got forty four
points on you. I mean, there's a whole there's a
whole lot of issues going on Thursday, but obviously the
chomp from Richard Sherman to just eat up on George
Pickens in kirk kurb Street that they put that folk
like we're gonna nail this guy. There's a lot of

(25:50):
other issues out there. And for me, one of the
things I'm like, okay, Matt Ebrif was what were we doing?
I mean, how far they played coverage off the receivers.
To me, Robert Saint Brown should have been jam up here,
you got a bad egg. Let's see something what you
got here and what we do nui And that's why
you went home. Ang. For some reason, Detroit, Detroit takes
eebra flutes right around the backyard and just takes him apart.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
But but they didn't see that defense for several years.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
I've just I just I just saw a lot of
stuff that I'm just not George picking on. George Pickings
was a good clickbait, and that's what got people going
no more than Dak had a bad game and and
you know you hear Shady McCoy and people like that go.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
Off on because we wouldn't be talking about Kioff covers
for six days.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
No, no, not no, no, But oh I don't pay
he's you know, to make it sound like this man
is a dog performer, he's been a dog and he's
gonna stay.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
That's that was how I took it.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
I'm just like, yeah, I disagree.

Speaker 7 (26:45):
With Yeah, I guess I'm trying to think of somebody
else who has a stereotypical issue throughout the NFL. Just
take any players jamarant for instance, if John Morant goes
somewhere and has a great year and for the very
first time, John Morant all of a sudden has an
issue confronting a teenager in a park outside of it,
it's just one time, but people go, uh yeah, but
this was something that people talked about with him previously,

(27:08):
so I think that that's probably why I got so
much intensity with Pickings, because people are like, we're not
sliding back into bad habits? Are we these bad habits
that got you out of Pittsburgh?

Speaker 10 (27:15):
Right?

Speaker 2 (27:16):
And he still has more production than the whole basic
stealer receiver.

Speaker 7 (27:21):
Yeah, I'm taking That's why I said I'm taking him.
But but I do think just kind of pulled back
and on like, hey, this isn't like a we're not
backsliding here, right. I think that's a fair thing to
just ask out loud of like, hey, should we just
make sure you're locked in? Right?

Speaker 2 (27:33):
It feels like a cable news topic where they just
jump on something politically and we just stay on the
stand like, you know, what really is this? Is this
that big a deal? You know, you get to make
it into what you want to. I just don't think
it was. I think it was a little bit overblown.
Now does it happen two weeks in a row? Then three?
Does this prevent you from you know, tradinishing these final four?
Then yeah, that can happen. But one game, I mean look,

(27:58):
two games ago shot he was saved by sea, Hey,
by ste some dumb decisions. But the team saved him.
Nobody's saying you up man, It's got get coach good.
He got the benefit of the doubt. It's just interesting,
once again, who we choose to forgive and who we
choose to condemn when we come back. What's your biggest
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Speaker 2 (31:14):
Free take three, Yes, yes, yes, I'm all about it
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I strugged out Jock Taylor got Bobby Belp and he
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getting in the college football playoffs.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
I appreciate that, man good and getting Michigan's coach fired.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yes, breaking news from young Nick Harris, says Adam Schefter, reporting.

Speaker 6 (31:42):
That a lot of people chefter family shron Moore out
at Michigan for a cause, poor cause.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Which means you ain't getting the you ain't getting paid.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
See that's that mail Tucker type thing.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
I was gonna say. It might not be cheating, it
might be well, it might be cheating man. Hm hm,
you know you must see Stephen signs or it might
be that's a program.

Speaker 7 (32:05):
They better be careful who they want to drag.

Speaker 8 (32:07):
Hm.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
You know, set for cause because he know where all
the body's buried, because he had to shovel in a
couple of.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Them, which means if they're going to fire him for cause,
he's going to bring out lawyers. Right.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Oh, he's kinda gett nasty.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
And he's coming. He's coming. Nobody just decides, and you
have no agent because you want your feet. Nobody's gonna
let you just fire a coach like that because that
you know, they want their multimillions but okay.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Ninety percent chance a hiring Brian Kelly. By the way,
it just feels too right.

Speaker 7 (32:35):
They also tried to fire for costs.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
That just feels too right.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
It doesn't matter Indiana runs that league anyway.

Speaker 7 (32:42):
So yeah, I mean the double what is the big
ten outside of the Indian Hoosiers?

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Hey man, you know google him?

Speaker 4 (32:48):
Yeah, google him?

Speaker 7 (32:49):
Google boy. That was the most sounded like the most
arrogant thing ever when he said at that press conference
and all he's done ever since, that's just show you
to prove everybody right he's he.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
I thought it was greatness.

Speaker 7 (32:58):
He shut Paul fire and bal down.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
I did like how Urban May tried to shake Kirk
Signette's hand on the set after the Big twelve championship came.
They just looked at him. I like, Petty. We know
Petty is good. We know that nobody likes Petty like
you and Clarence Hill.

Speaker 10 (33:14):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yoall now, don't don't excuse yourself from this compensation.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
I've learned from you. But you guys are older than me.
I've hung around these guys long enough, and Nick, you
know you see, if you want to hang out hang
with these guys, you got to be able to return Bobby.
But now Bobby Bell specializes in it too.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
By the way, while you're bull joy but then takes
his long.

Speaker 7 (33:33):
I mean it was very my petty's quiet?

Speaker 6 (33:42):
Is it his petty will be something that happens and
you never know it came from him.

Speaker 7 (33:47):
I'll tell you my best quiet, Petty when we get
off there.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
Okay, goes all right?

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Cowboys taking on the Minnesota Viking Sunday at ger World
game is on NBC. Tyler Goydon.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Never thought he looks so good to that said, Nate Thomas,
give up eleven precious.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
Nate Thomas is your other starting left tackle, Terrence Steels
your starting right tackle. Guys, Cowboys have four games that
they really need to win them all and get some
help from the Eagles to win this thing. But are
the tackles going to be a possible reasons why they
get held back a little bit? Here?

Speaker 6 (34:18):
I hate to start this conversation with like a slight sidebar.
You can't tell me, awesome Richards wasn't worse than Nate Thomas,
or was worse than Nate Thomas.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
I I was fan awesome Richard.

Speaker 4 (34:28):
Yeah, I don't, I don't. I didn't never get that one.

Speaker 6 (34:30):
And I understand wanting to develop the young guy, but
Austome was young in his own right. But nevertheless, I
mean this, uh, this Vikings defensive front. What Brian Flores
is gonna throw at this offensive line from a blitz
package standpoint? These boys better be ready. Oh there's Tyler
Guyden Nate Thomas. Guiden wasn't on the practice field today,
So at least it's starting the week looking like Thomas
might might go again. But you know you're gonna need

(34:52):
to see guiding on the practice field. But yeah, these tackles,
they've been really bad and it's got you wondering if
you need to take a tackle early in this draft again.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
And that's uh, that's tough reality.

Speaker 7 (35:02):
There was some there was some chatter a couple of
weeks ago, people going, oh, should should Nate Thomas beer
you're starting left tackle? And that was the first thing
I thought leaving the lines game was like, I don't
want to hear that discussion anymore because Tyler Goeyton. Look,
it's not always pretty with Tyler Goeyton. The last month
or so, Geiiton's been he gets it done. It's not

(35:23):
teach tape like this is terrible. But the way I've
compared this analogy is like he's the guy then when
he's swimming, like is he is.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
He is okay, Yeah, he stayed up.

Speaker 7 (35:33):
He's making Yeah, yeah, he's making. He passes it. He
got a seventy, but he passed like it's it looks
it does not look technically beautiful, but he fights and
he plays nasty and like, I'll give him credit for that,
and he's he's done a really good job. One of
the things that Mazie Smith that doomed him here as
the first round pick was he started hanging his head.

(35:55):
When you start hanging your head when things go poorly
early on in your career, that has doomed so many
guys are Tristan Hill, Taco Charles, and Mazzie Smith. Tyler
Geyton was at a point last year where it's like,
is he going to hang his head? And if he did,
if he dropped his head, it's going to be a problem.
He didn't fought through it. Has managed to stay encouraged
and not let that get him down, and I think
that's why he's been able to kind of come out
the other side and play okay. Steele was not good

(36:17):
the other day. Steel has been good enough consistently in
the run game that to me, it's like, I know
who my tackles are. There's no question about how I'm
going to tie this up if everybody's healthy to meet
his guiding and Steel, But it is enough to make
you wonder, like how much extra help do I need
to Does Javonte need to be chipping somebody on the
way out? Do I need to have an extra tight
end in there picking some stuff up? Because it's it

(36:39):
can be an issue at times.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
Practice sport just came out officially.

Speaker 6 (36:43):
Tyler Guiden did not practice along with Malie Hooker, who
was dealing with a personal issue today.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
Only two that did not practice, though, what is a pozzan.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
That? To me? When I started to think about where
things are going for the Cowboys in these last four games,
You're going to have to get better play from your
offensive line. It was very clear in the in the
game against Detroit that you you weren't where you needed
to be. Nick, you bring up a good point about
what Brian Flores can do defensively. Then after that it's
a home game against the Chargers that you've got coming up,
and then you got into the season with two road games,

(37:13):
uh Christmas night in Washington, and uh then you get
the Giants in the season. But you've got to you
got to be better. And yes, they scored thirty three
points against Detroit, Yes they scored thirty two points. You've
got to be better. Yeah, And I'm i'm i'm I'm
concerned on the offensive line about just where they're going

(37:33):
because these two next these next two games, in my opinion,
these are gonna be pretty there's gonna be too two
pretty good uh defensive lines and you know things you
got to go.

Speaker 7 (37:44):
Yeah, you don't want to have to do this. But
the one solid here, silver lining in order going This
year has been Dak's best season. When you talk about
just being able to feel the rush, make a little
slides stuff, he's getting to that veteran point that a
lot of these guys do around the stage of like
it's just a step here, it's a shoulder shift here,
and you know how to avoid the rush, step up,

(38:05):
make a throw, so he's able to neutralize them. That
Micah Parson's getting thirty pressures against them or whatever he
got when when he came to down but not really
getting to Dak at any point. It was just an
example of Dak going how to maneuver the pocket, no
matter how much guys were struggling. So I think, if
you can get some chips in there and you can
kind of slow some things down, Dak is playing at
a level hopefully where that is not going to be

(38:27):
as big of a.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Blinking quarterback and help hide some words.

Speaker 7 (38:29):
Yeah, you hope that would be the hope.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Cover up the wars. Okay, very interesting here, but this
is a game. Was a Vega's got six and a half?
I thought, anyway, just I get scared.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
That's a big spread.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
I get. I get scared.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
JJ who's playing quarterback?

Speaker 2 (38:45):
JJ McCarthy, Michigan Gang.

Speaker 7 (38:48):
If it's six and a half, it's McCarthy. If it's Brosener,
it might be twenty six and a half.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
And you know what, I go back into this, you know,
once again, I start looking at that and I got
fooled by Arizona. So tired of getting fooled the.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Game that ultimately is cost these fellas. It's not Carolina's
not Chicago, it's Arizona, which ain't one says they came
here in one.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah, that's the one, and they might be looking for
a new head coach after the season. I mean, it's
it's a bad thing going out there in Arizona right here.
But you just can't lose. You can't lose these kind
of games. And but more available.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
He's offensive mine.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
Stop stop the buck it's not the buck eye. Pettiness man,
Stop the buck eye pettiness man.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
This is a sad day.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
We liked them, you know, we go. I'm just gonna
end the show.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
So you know, I state fans are more upset.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Man Man is unemployed and you know, life changing.

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That just got you got to show you this text
that jokes out here.

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