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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:08Speaker 3: Cowboys, This's Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:23Speaker 4: What is up? It is Cowboys storyline. It is time
- 0:27Speaker 4: to do this thing. It's Tuesday, November twenty eighth, the
- 0:30Speaker 4: Cowboys taking on the Seahawks this week, short week, so
- 0:33Speaker 4: this is it's a Tuesday. The people in the building
- 0:37Speaker 4: will tell you it's a Friday, but it's definitely a Tuesday.
- 0:41Speaker 4: We've got a game on Thursday here in a couple
- 0:42Speaker 4: of days. Cowboys trying to get to nine and three,
- 0:46Speaker 4: obviously chasing the Eagles. But the best way to do
- 0:49Speaker 4: that is just keep stacking up Whens. That's all they
- 0:52Speaker 4: can really do at this point. And I want to
- 0:55Speaker 4: hear from you guys. Eight eight eight eight five five
- 0:58Speaker 4: two two nine seven. I'm sure you want to talk
- 1:00Speaker 4: about Shaq Lenard, the free agent linebacker. He's in the
- 1:03Speaker 4: building right now. That sounds like that I've seen. I've
- 1:07Speaker 4: heard a drop from that before from Will Ferrell. But no,
- 1:12Speaker 4: he is in the building. Uh and he We'll see,
- 1:16Speaker 4: We'll see what happens. Jerry Jones talked about it on
- 1:18Speaker 4: One on five three. The fan said that he doesn't
- 1:21Speaker 4: think money is gonna come down to the the siding
- 1:25Speaker 4: factor in this which it is kind of hard to
- 1:27Speaker 4: believe because it always seems to be the deciding factor.
- 1:30Speaker 4: But but I think it's for him, it's a fit
- 1:32Speaker 4: of where he wants things to be. One thing that'll
- 1:35Speaker 4: that will help here is you know, Uh, we got
- 1:38Speaker 4: a good question yesterday and I just didn't have the
- 1:40Speaker 4: right answer because I didn't know. On his relationship with
- 1:44Speaker 4: Stefan Gilmore. Apparently it's pretty good though, because Gilmore talked
- 1:48Speaker 4: about him as a friend and said he's one of
- 1:50Speaker 4: my better friends that I've ever had in the league. Also,
- 1:53Speaker 4: you know, Malie Hooker has known him for a long time.
- 1:56Speaker 4: Obviously with the Colts, Uh, they were they were, you know,
- 1:59Speaker 4: together for a couple of seasons there. So you know,
- 2:02Speaker 4: he's got some ties here. At the end of the day,
- 2:04Speaker 4: I don't know how much that matters. It's it's got
- 2:08Speaker 4: to be a good fit for him, you know, for
- 2:10Speaker 4: this year, maybe down the road as well. But he's
- 2:13Speaker 4: here now and I don't know if any other scheduled visits.
- 2:16Speaker 4: There's talk about the Eagles having interest. I'm sure they
- 2:19Speaker 4: do some other teams as well, but but Cowboys are
- 2:23Speaker 4: first up, and you know, if maybe they say the
- 2:25Speaker 4: right things, then he doesn't leave the building. Maybe he
- 2:28Speaker 4: never does take another visit. So who knows. But that's
- 2:31Speaker 4: that's where we are right now. Let's get to the
- 2:32Speaker 4: phone lines. Let's start it off here. We got Greg.
- 2:35Speaker 4: He's in Columbus, Ohio. Greg, what's up.
- 2:40Speaker 5: Hey, Nick, been watching you for a long time. And
- 2:45Speaker 5: all right, I became a Dallas Cowboys fan. I believe
- 2:49Speaker 5: is nineteen seventy seven. Is after Conny Dorsa's rookie year.
- 2:53Speaker 5: He came to a department's score in Columbus autograph signing
- 2:58Speaker 5: thing and he had a big old fur code on
- 3:01Speaker 5: and yeah.
- 3:03Speaker 6: You know, it was back in the seventies, you know,
- 3:05Speaker 6: but pretty cool.
- 3:06Speaker 7: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
- 3:08Speaker 6: And but I wish, you know, everything's going good everything,
- 3:13Speaker 6: But now it's December football, and I wish they would
- 3:17Speaker 6: do a little switch through and feature Hunter Linskey as
- 3:21Speaker 6: the punisher, then bring Conny Pollard in to finish people off.
- 3:27Speaker 6: I think, uh, you know, because I'm thinking about Buffalo
- 3:31Speaker 6: and those guys ain't gonna.
- 3:32Speaker 8: Want to touch this dude.
- 3:34Speaker 1: Uh, you know, it's gonna be cold, it's.
- 3:36Speaker 7: Gonna be nasty, and it's gonna be a time of
- 3:40Speaker 7: possession type of game.
- 3:42Speaker 9: Uh.
- 3:42Speaker 6: And that's what I think.
- 3:46Speaker 7: These smaller backs are getting bounded weekend and week out,
- 3:50Speaker 7: and I think brings some new blood in there and
- 3:54Speaker 7: let this kid. I mean, he's an athlete, he's fast,
- 3:58Speaker 7: is strong, and I think they should. It seems like
- 4:02Speaker 7: it would fit right into Mike McCarthy.
- 4:05Speaker 4: All right, Well, I mean, you know, I appreciate the call.
- 4:09Speaker 4: And that's the first time caller there for for Greg
- 4:12Speaker 4: and Columbus, Ohio. So thank you for calling and leading
- 4:15Speaker 4: us off here on a Tuesday. I you know, I've
- 4:19Speaker 4: heard a lot a lot of people have said that
- 4:20Speaker 4: about about Hunter Lipkey, and they think that he's going
- 4:22Speaker 4: to be a guy that could really help. I don't
- 4:25Speaker 4: know if he's a punisher type runner yet. I mean,
- 4:27Speaker 4: he's a big guy. I've said this a few times
- 4:31Speaker 4: and and I'm I'm a fan. I mean, I am
- 4:34Speaker 4: a fan of Hunter Lipkey, but I just I don't
- 4:36Speaker 4: want to rush the thing. I don't think you know,
- 4:39Speaker 4: he's not Darryl Johnston, you know right away, I mean,
- 4:42Speaker 4: remember Darryl Johnson wasn't really himself until like the fourth
- 4:46Speaker 4: season of his career, Like nineteen ninety two NFC Championship
- 4:50Speaker 4: game was really the game that he It was kind
- 4:52Speaker 4: of like his coming out party where I was like,
- 4:54Speaker 4: all right, well he's he's more than just a fullback
- 4:58Speaker 4: and special teams guy. He can do a little bit
- 5:00Speaker 4: more and it takes some time. And so I think
- 5:03Speaker 4: that that's the same with all these these these running backs.
- 5:07Speaker 4: You know, he's just trying to figure out what his
- 5:09Speaker 4: role is. I think he's got a roll in and
- 5:11Speaker 4: maybe this is a good time to try it. I mean,
- 5:14Speaker 4: you know this point in the season, mixing, mixing things up,
- 5:17Speaker 4: and you are gonna need to run the football, There's
- 5:19Speaker 4: no doubt about it. You go up to Buffalo, you
- 5:21Speaker 4: can Washington. There's gonna be some times or maybe in
- 5:23Speaker 4: the playoffs as well, where you're gonna have to to
- 5:25Speaker 4: run the ball and it's gonna be tougher to throw
- 5:28Speaker 4: the throw it around. So I'm fine with that, if if,
- 5:31Speaker 4: if it works, really all right, let's go to our
- 5:34Speaker 4: second caller is Travis Travis and san Antonio? Is that right?
- 5:40Speaker 10: Yeah?
- 5:41Speaker 8: Ay?
- 5:41Speaker 11: Neck?
- 5:41Speaker 9: What's going on?
- 5:42Speaker 4: Not much? How are you doing I had.
- 5:45Speaker 11: I had a great Thanksgiving week, Go Blue. I just
- 5:49Speaker 11: wanted to let you know that Michigan is being investigated
- 5:53Speaker 11: again by the n C double A for stealing whow
- 5:55Speaker 11: State souls.
- 5:56Speaker 4: So uh, we got that going just as we got
- 5:59Speaker 4: a call from Columbus.
- 6:00Speaker 10: I'll hire.
- 6:00Speaker 4: I'm not not to say that that that he cares
- 6:03Speaker 4: about the buck Eyes, but I would imagine everybody does
- 6:06Speaker 4: over there. So I get a call from Columbus and
- 6:07Speaker 4: the second call is.
- 6:11Speaker 11: I can't I can't be brought down right now, so
- 6:13Speaker 11: he can say whatever he wants. I'm good to go.
- 6:17Speaker 11: I just wanted to say this. I don't know if
- 6:19Speaker 11: how many games you caught this week, but the I
- 6:22Speaker 11: know we tried about a couple times of the officiating
- 6:24Speaker 11: mm hm. I don't know if it's going to take
- 6:26Speaker 11: a coach going NBA or MLB and getting thrown out
- 6:30Speaker 11: of the game, but man, it is that the Eagles
- 6:33Speaker 11: call with the uh not calling the was it hor
- 6:38Speaker 11: horse collar?
- 6:39Speaker 10: Yep?
- 6:39Speaker 11: And then they missed that call and they call him
- 6:41Speaker 11: potential grounding, so double whammy. And then I'm not a
- 6:45Speaker 11: big Grand Stay fan, but I watched you know that
- 6:47Speaker 11: late hit on Herbert. That was the moment where I
- 6:50Speaker 11: said I would have broke my head to cussed out
- 6:52Speaker 11: like the head official and just like lost my mind
- 6:54Speaker 11: and got and thrown it. It's gonna take something like that.
- 6:58Speaker 11: I mean, I don't know what's gonna take, to be
- 6:59Speaker 11: honest with you, but like those two calls. You missed
- 7:01Speaker 11: the first call, you miss a blatant first call, and
- 7:04Speaker 11: then you kindalyze the team for retaliating, So you know
- 7:08Speaker 11: something happened. Yeah, it's just like, I don't understand how
- 7:12Speaker 11: it's that bad.
- 7:13Speaker 4: I guess I didn't. I didn't see that that Josh
- 7:17Speaker 4: Allen got called for a grounding on that same play
- 7:19Speaker 4: that he did he did.
- 7:20Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, so they missed that, they call him for grounding,
- 7:23Speaker 11: so they lose a fifteen hour penalty, right, and then
- 7:26Speaker 11: they get assessed a loss of down, and it's just
- 7:28Speaker 11: like those two calls. So I don't know that's that.
- 7:33Speaker 10: I was happy.
- 7:34Speaker 11: You know, we played awesome again. Dak is in a
- 7:38Speaker 11: great rhythm right now. I wanted to point out and
- 7:40Speaker 11: this is not a I know what it's been talked about,
- 7:43Speaker 11: and it's not I think there's a lot of great
- 7:46Speaker 11: offensive coordinators and to his defense, Kelling Moore is young,
- 7:50Speaker 11: Like that's the part that I wasn't a big Kelling
- 7:52Speaker 11: Moore van. But that's not saying that he can't get better.
- 7:54Speaker 11: I think he will get better as a play caller.
- 7:57Speaker 11: But I think we are seeing a little bit of
- 7:59Speaker 11: a different in the way Mike McCarthy sets up plays.
- 8:03Speaker 11: And I also think if you look at like Keller
- 8:05Speaker 11: Moore us a sports analogy as like a pitcher. He
- 8:08Speaker 11: has a great fastball, but my complaint was he never
- 8:11Speaker 11: really developed like a good change up. He never really
- 8:14Speaker 11: caught you like off speed like his his fastballs were great,
- 8:17Speaker 11: like they were he was on it. But I think
- 8:20Speaker 11: you're seeing a little bit of difference in the nuance
- 8:22Speaker 11: of like Mike McCarthy having all this experience, he's just
- 8:24Speaker 11: better at setting up things. And I think that maybe, uh,
- 8:27Speaker 11: you know, we got to give him his followers and say, hey,
- 8:31Speaker 11: he's doing it. I think he's doing it better at
- 8:33Speaker 11: moments of the game and he's setting up things five six, seven,
- 8:36Speaker 11: eight plays from what he's calling this one player, right,
- 8:38Speaker 11: I just want to see what you thought on that.
- 8:40Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, thanks for the call. You know what
- 8:42Speaker 4: I like about that? Is is that you know, he's
- 8:45Speaker 4: he's the head coach, so he's managing the game. I
- 8:47Speaker 4: think sometimes as an offensive coordinator, and this isn't always
- 8:50Speaker 4: a bad thing. This could be good and bad. Is
- 8:52Speaker 4: that you're focused on, you know, hey, when we get
- 8:54Speaker 4: the ball back, we're going to do this, We're going
- 8:56Speaker 4: to get the ball. We're gonna do this, this and
- 8:57Speaker 4: this and this and and Okay, that's fine, but you
- 9:01Speaker 4: know you can tell your offense that. But you got
- 9:03Speaker 4: the ball back at your own two yard line, or
- 9:05Speaker 4: you got the ball back, you know, after a turnover
- 9:08Speaker 4: here almost in the red zone. So it's a little
- 9:10Speaker 4: bit different sometimes. And I think as a you know,
- 9:13Speaker 4: game manager, you can look at the ebbs and flows
- 9:16Speaker 4: of it and go, all right, what I liked here
- 9:18Speaker 4: in the first and second quarter is not what I
- 9:20Speaker 4: like so much in the third and the fourth, and
- 9:22Speaker 4: so you know that. I think it's that Jacksonville game
- 9:24Speaker 4: from last year that really bothered McCarthy more than anything.
- 9:27Speaker 4: It's just how they the offense kept kind of calling
- 9:30Speaker 4: a certain thing. When you're up by seventeen points in
- 9:33Speaker 4: the third quarter with the ball, I mean, you should
- 9:36Speaker 4: you should dial it up a little bit differently to
- 9:38Speaker 4: go and win the game. That's why I say all
- 9:40Speaker 4: the time, and I know people will argue with me
- 9:43Speaker 4: this about are you playing to win? Are you playing
- 9:45Speaker 4: not to lose? And I always say it's the same thing.
- 9:48Speaker 4: It really is. Playing not to lose is playing to
- 9:50Speaker 4: win in different times. It's all about how aggressive you
- 9:54Speaker 4: need to be. But sometimes you don't need to be aggressive.
- 9:57Speaker 4: You need to be smart. And I'm not this is
- 10:00Speaker 4: really about Kellen Moore. I just think Mike McCarthy's done
- 10:02Speaker 4: a really nice job of managing the game and also
- 10:04Speaker 4: play calling at the same time. All right, let's go
- 10:07Speaker 4: to Skyler. He's did Washington.
- 10:11Speaker 9: Hey, good to be on the show.
- 10:13Speaker 4: Are you there in Washington?
- 10:14Speaker 8: Or all right?
- 10:19Speaker 9: I live about an hour and a half from Seattle,
- 10:22Speaker 9: so I go.
- 10:23Speaker 5: With all these costs bands all the time. All right,
- 10:26Speaker 5: what do you got for no reason?
- 10:31Speaker 8: Uh?
- 10:34Speaker 4: Hello, are you there?
- 10:36Speaker 9: Let's go?
- 10:36Speaker 12: Man?
- 10:38Speaker 13: Oh god him.
- 10:40Speaker 9: I listened myself later.
- 10:41Speaker 5: It was very funny.
- 10:44Speaker 12: What do you think about have the tension on them?
- 10:46Speaker 12: Finding Leonard?
- 10:48Speaker 13: The next day?
- 10:49Speaker 4: Jack Leonard? Okay, yep, sorry it was hard to hear him.
- 10:56Speaker 4: We had four calls yesterday. I think from the State
- 10:58Speaker 4: of Washington. They didn't sound like that. I don't know.
- 11:00Speaker 4: Maybe he was out like I think any get the
- 11:03Speaker 4: windows down, he was cruising down the highway, all right,
- 11:07Speaker 4: Shaq Leonard. Though that's the story of the day though,
- 11:09Speaker 4: So it's you know, good question for sure, because that's
- 11:12Speaker 4: that's kind of where we're are. What are the chances.
- 11:14Speaker 4: I think they're pretty good. I mean, I honestly, I mean,
- 11:17Speaker 4: I think, you know, it just depends on you know, if, if,
- 11:22Speaker 4: what where the cowboys feel like he's going to be
- 11:24Speaker 4: able to contribute maybe down the road. And you don't
- 11:28Speaker 4: have to have those things figured out right now, but
- 11:30Speaker 4: I think he needs to be somebody that they say, hey,
- 11:32Speaker 4: could he help us now? Yes?
- 11:34Speaker 10: Or no?
- 11:34Speaker 4: Yes? Does it make sense for us financially right now? Yes?
- 11:39Speaker 4: Is this somebody we think we would want to sign
- 11:42Speaker 4: next year? Probably? Okay? Then then if that's the case,
- 11:46Speaker 4: then I think you try to get it done. You
- 11:47Speaker 4: don't have to know the answer right now, but you
- 11:50Speaker 4: just have to say, you know, this could be a
- 11:52Speaker 4: situation that we you know, be a position of needs.
- 11:55Speaker 4: So when you when you factor all that in, I
- 11:57Speaker 4: think Shack Leonard will get here or is here I
- 12:00Speaker 4: think he will. We'll see what they have here. Obviously,
- 12:04Speaker 4: facilities are top notch. And dan Quinn. I think dan
- 12:08Speaker 4: Quinn will be a big selling point come here, you know,
- 12:11Speaker 4: because he's just the he's just the players coach. I mean,
- 12:13Speaker 4: it's what he is. He's just the dude. He comes
- 12:15Speaker 4: in and be like, hey, what's up, you know, and
- 12:17Speaker 4: let's get in here, let's get to work, you know,
- 12:19Speaker 4: and you want to play for him, So I I
- 12:21Speaker 4: think you factor that in. I think they have a
- 12:23Speaker 4: really good chance that their first first up here. And
- 12:26Speaker 4: you know, if he wants to go and play football
- 12:28Speaker 4: right now, if that's what he wants to do, he's
- 12:30Speaker 4: in football shape. He should be if they if he
- 12:32Speaker 4: wants to get it done and and and you know,
- 12:34Speaker 4: get on a team that's that has a chance to compete.
- 12:37Speaker 4: You know, here's here's a good one. I think the
- 12:39Speaker 4: Cowboys are a top five team in the NFL right now,
- 12:42Speaker 4: So why not join him, especially with the position of need.
- 12:45Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Big al and San Antonio.
- 12:49Speaker 4: He right, how are you doing? All right? From food
- 12:57Speaker 4: or from the Thanksgiving Day win or.
- 12:59Speaker 10: Both the win and the and the food, you know,
- 13:04Speaker 10: all right, Hey, I want to go back to the
- 13:06Speaker 10: last week. Got tired to get in last week, but
- 13:08Speaker 10: I couldn't get in. So but anyway, but my favorite players,
- 13:12Speaker 10: I got three of them, all right, Robert Newhouse, Oh yeah,
- 13:16Speaker 10: Bobby hay and Walk Garrett.
- 13:21Speaker 4: Who is your second guy, Bob hay Oh, Bob Hayes.
- 13:25Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I did not hear what you said. I
- 13:27Speaker 4: thought you said Bobby A.
- 13:28Speaker 10: I was like going to see the bullet Yeah yeah, yeah.
- 13:34Speaker 4: Of course new House Bob Hayes. And who your your
- 13:38Speaker 4: third one was?
- 13:38Speaker 9: Who?
- 13:40Speaker 10: Robert Newhouse?
- 13:41Speaker 9: All right?
- 13:41Speaker 10: I mean Walk Garrett, Walk.
- 13:44Speaker 4: Garrett, old school, old old time. He liked the rugged guys,
- 13:49Speaker 4: but also the fast ones too.
- 13:51Speaker 10: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'll tell you what.
- 13:53Speaker 4: Robert Newhouse.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I mean, he he's I mean, yeah.
- 13:59Speaker 4: You know, I mean he I mean he's obviously not
- 14:01Speaker 4: with us anymore. But man, he was the most he
- 14:04Speaker 4: was the classiest guy. I loved him. He was so
- 14:09Speaker 4: awesome when he worked for the Cowboys, and he was
- 14:12Speaker 4: so he just had so much wisdom. It was kind
- 14:16Speaker 4: of surreal for me to actually be working with Robert
- 14:19Speaker 4: Newhouse because I was a young kid, and you know,
- 14:21Speaker 4: he was a player and all that. But man, he's
- 14:24Speaker 4: one of my favorites. I man, we miss him. We
- 14:26Speaker 4: definitely miss him.
- 14:27Speaker 10: Yes, he was. And the best football Thanksgiving game I've seen,
- 14:31Speaker 10: I thought was what's the Clint Lonely? That was our
- 14:36Speaker 10: standing game?
- 14:37Speaker 11: Yep.
- 14:37Speaker 4: I don't know if you guys heard. Last week Brian
- 14:39Speaker 4: broad Us came in and told some stories and and
- 14:42Speaker 4: and mentioned that he was at the game with his
- 14:44Speaker 4: with his family and they left early and they missed it.
- 14:47Speaker 4: They missed the game, they missed the end. So he
- 14:49Speaker 4: doesn't he doesn't. Well, I would say he doesn't do
- 14:51Speaker 4: that anymore. I think he did it again for the Rangers.
- 14:53Speaker 10: It's okay, well, but anyway, I don't have no question cowboy.
- 14:58Speaker 4: Right, all right, see you later appreciate that? All right,
- 15:06Speaker 4: good stuff. We're gonna go to Rob. He's in Vegas. Rob,
- 15:11Speaker 4: what's up?
- 15:13Speaker 9: Hey?
- 15:14Speaker 4: How are you doing?
- 15:16Speaker 12: I'm good? Are you good?
- 15:17Speaker 4: What was the what was the give me three or
- 15:19Speaker 4: four dishes that you had on Thanksgiving? What was the
- 15:23Speaker 4: you know the size of the meal?
- 15:25Speaker 12: Let's see fried turkey?
- 15:27Speaker 10: Oh wow?
- 15:27Speaker 12: Which which is is so much better than I can't
- 15:31Speaker 12: believe it took me thirty years to discover it.
- 15:33Speaker 4: Well fried anything is better than regular, right, I mean
- 15:36Speaker 4: for the most part except pickles, no, not sort.
- 15:43Speaker 9: Being a tan. So it was.
- 15:47Speaker 12: It was a whole bunch of food.
- 15:48Speaker 6: It was great.
- 15:49Speaker 12: It was really great Thanksgiving.
- 15:51Speaker 4: So what do you got what's on your mind?
- 15:53Speaker 12: Well, like you know or the previous call, talk about
- 15:56Speaker 12: Keller Moore. The difference between Keller Moore is Mike McCarthy.
- 16:00Speaker 12: One is a head coach and one's auditioning to be
- 16:02Speaker 12: a head coach. Let's face said, every offensive coordinator, especially
- 16:07Speaker 12: at X quarterback, it's an air dna to throw the ball.
- 16:11Speaker 12: We talked about this. It's not that we hated.
- 16:15Speaker 1: Would when he would.
- 16:17Speaker 12: Call certain plays, and I think that's what you're seeing
- 16:20Speaker 12: with Mike McCarthy. But honestly, I got to give a
- 16:25Speaker 12: shout out congratulations that Dak Press girlfriend Sarah Jane, because
- 16:32Speaker 12: you see it clicked with Dak.
- 16:34Speaker 1: Whatever it is his.
- 16:36Speaker 12: Personal life on the field, he's got it now. I
- 16:40Speaker 12: mean we kind of seen him with Tony Romo in
- 16:43Speaker 12: twenty fourteen. He was a different quarterback.
- 16:47Speaker 9: It just clicked, and.
- 16:48Speaker 12: That's what I see with Dak. The way he throws
- 16:50Speaker 12: the ball. He's never thrown the ball this good, with
- 16:52Speaker 12: this much confidence. The ball comes off his hand, it
- 16:56Speaker 12: the spirals are tight, his mind like he's got it now,
- 17:02Speaker 12: and we would, you know, and I would talk about him,
- 17:04Speaker 12: and you know, I would say, Okay, he wasn't good.
- 17:07Speaker 12: He's the least of my worries on this team. Uh,
- 17:12Speaker 12: this guy could carry you away. He's directed. And I say, well,
- 17:17Speaker 12: I want to see in detail, and yes, I do too.
- 17:19Speaker 12: I want to see him win in crunch time. But
- 17:22Speaker 12: I also want to see Michael Posits make a play
- 17:24Speaker 12: in the playoffs. I want to see ceedee Lamb. It's
- 17:27Speaker 12: not just Dak the guy out they're bringing in this
- 17:32Speaker 12: this linebacker, if he could, if he's good against the run,
- 17:36Speaker 12: you got to get him because we are still struggling.
- 17:39Speaker 12: Even in the Washington game, we were giving up like
- 17:42Speaker 12: seven eight yards on first teams that we have to
- 17:46Speaker 12: get through Philly San Francisco. If you're giving him second
- 17:50Speaker 12: and two, second and three, we're gonna we're in big trouble.
- 17:55Speaker 12: So we still got to secure the run.
- 17:58Speaker 4: But now, all right, well, good stuff, No, I mean
- 18:03Speaker 4: it's good stuff. I'm making sure are you feeling okay?
- 18:06Speaker 14: Rob?
- 18:07Speaker 4: Because I mean I mean, when you think about where
- 18:10Speaker 4: things have have have gone here from the first part
- 18:13Speaker 4: of this show, I would say, what six weeks ago,
- 18:16Speaker 4: seven weeks ago, Dak's not it, Dak's not the guy.
- 18:19Speaker 4: Now he's the least of your concerns. I mean, but
- 18:23Speaker 4: that's a credit to Dak. And I don't know, if
- 18:25Speaker 4: you know, I don't want to get into personal life.
- 18:28Speaker 4: Is it is it the is it? You know, his
- 18:30Speaker 4: relationship or whatever. I think it's I think it's a
- 18:32Speaker 4: lot of things. He's just playing really really good football
- 18:36Speaker 4: right now. But but you know, none of it matters
- 18:40Speaker 4: really if they don't go win the games that count
- 18:42Speaker 4: the most. We all know that. We know that. And
- 18:44Speaker 4: if he doesn't play well well, you will have callers
- 18:47Speaker 4: and maybe even yourself that have you know, big picture
- 18:51Speaker 4: valuations of Dak. But right now he's playing great, and
- 18:55Speaker 4: you know, and I appreciate the call. I appreciate you
- 18:57Speaker 4: you saying, hey, it is what it is. I mean,
- 19:00Speaker 4: and you know, when it was bad, you said it
- 19:02Speaker 4: was bad, and now it's really good and you're saying
- 19:05Speaker 4: it's really good. And that's what I think all fans
- 19:07Speaker 4: should be. Just be down the middle and just just
- 19:09Speaker 4: let the let's let the TV or the game tell
- 19:12Speaker 4: you where it is. You don't have to have, you know,
- 19:15Speaker 4: preconceived notion of what you want to think. And I
- 19:17Speaker 4: appreciate the call honestly. All right, all right, thank you, Robin.
- 19:23Speaker 4: And we were having a little bit of issues there anyways,
- 19:25Speaker 4: but a good, good call. And and I mean that,
- 19:27Speaker 4: I really do. I mean I he's one of my
- 19:30Speaker 4: favorite callers because he's because he'll challenge me. He challenges
- 19:35Speaker 4: a lot of cowboy fans. He doesn't just tell you
- 19:37Speaker 4: what you want to hear. But when it's good, it's good,
- 19:40Speaker 4: you know, and when it's bad, it's it's bad. I mean,
- 19:42Speaker 4: that's that's the way it is.
- 19:43Speaker 10: Uh.
- 19:44Speaker 4: I know he's from Vegas. I don't think he's I
- 19:45Speaker 4: don't think he's from Vegas though obviously just listen to him.
- 19:48Speaker 4: I think he said he said before, he's from New York.
- 19:50Speaker 4: And that's kind of the mentality that you know, he
- 19:52Speaker 4: kind of have. I mean that the same with those
- 19:54Speaker 4: a lot of fans from you know, the Northeast. You
- 19:57Speaker 4: just kind of see it that way. Hey, it's good
- 19:59Speaker 4: when it's good, and when it's not, it's not. And
- 20:01Speaker 4: they'll tell you in you sometimes in a way you
- 20:03Speaker 4: kind of appreciate it. Really. All right, let's go to Arthur.
- 20:06Speaker 4: He's in Spring Texas.
- 20:09Speaker 9: Arthur, good morning, Next, how are you.
- 20:12Speaker 4: How are you?
- 20:14Speaker 9: I'm doing well, getting back to listening to the podcast
- 20:19Speaker 9: and and your your show is rapidly shooting to the
- 20:23Speaker 9: top because at least you deal to fans. The opportunity is,
- 20:30Speaker 9: you know, there's sometimes that well, for the most part,
- 20:33Speaker 9: most of the time, Cowboys fans that star might as
- 20:37Speaker 9: well be a bullseye because everybody takes a shot at
- 20:40Speaker 9: it, and it doesn't matter whether it's the fan base or
- 20:44Speaker 9: whether or not it's other teams. I'm of the mindset
- 20:48Speaker 9: as far as the team itself is concerned, is take
- 20:52Speaker 9: each game week to week, play your best, and move
- 20:55Speaker 9: on to the next one, because you're going to get
- 20:58Speaker 9: criticized whether you do a good job or whether you
- 21:01Speaker 9: do a sloppy job. I was kind of listening to
- 21:05Speaker 9: some of the other Force related shows on TV this
- 21:09Speaker 9: morning and they were chatting, chatting about dron Bland. Well,
- 21:13Speaker 9: do you guys realize he gave up one hundred and
- 21:15Speaker 9: twenty yards on Okay, I'll take one one pick six
- 21:21Speaker 9: over over that nonsense in any day of the week,
- 21:24Speaker 9: because the fact that the commander that got those catches,
- 21:31Speaker 9: he didn't get in the end zone that one time. So,
- 21:33Speaker 9: as far as I'm concerned, Duran did did his job,
- 21:37Speaker 9: and because of his youth, they're not going to give
- 21:42Speaker 9: him any kind of break. You know, they're pushing this
- 21:45Speaker 9: narrative now about him. Well, it might be just the
- 21:49Speaker 9: fruit that he's gotten this farm taking. Say they won't, don't.
- 21:54Speaker 9: I don't based on what I've seen darn Bland. He
- 21:56Speaker 9: doesn't have the personality that he doesn't have that me
- 21:59Speaker 9: me me personality, And I think, I seriously think that
- 22:03Speaker 9: everything that he does he's doing for the betterment of
- 22:06Speaker 9: the team. And all I can say is keep doing
- 22:09Speaker 9: what he's doing.
- 22:10Speaker 4: Hey, Arthur, I'm gonna ask you this. Let me ask
- 22:12Speaker 4: you this though, because I I don't know if the
- 22:14Speaker 4: I don't. I don't hear all the narratives. I hear
- 22:16Speaker 4: some of it, and some of its stuff we hear
- 22:18Speaker 4: here in the building. Do you think he's the best
- 22:21Speaker 4: defensive player on the team. No, Okay, that's fine. Is
- 22:27Speaker 4: he having the best season? Yeah? Is he having the
- 22:31Speaker 4: best season of any player on the team on defense.
- 22:35Speaker 9: I would say he's if he's not at the top,
- 22:38Speaker 9: he's right.
- 22:39Speaker 4: Right, And I agree with that. And I'm having to
- 22:42Speaker 4: kind of come full circle on this as well, because
- 22:45Speaker 4: you know, I've kind of said, hey, I don't know
- 22:46Speaker 4: if he's defensive Player of the Year. And I say
- 22:48Speaker 4: that because I don't know if the voters are going
- 22:50Speaker 4: to give that to him, because it's not about it's
- 22:52Speaker 4: not about a record that you have to go get yourself.
- 22:54Speaker 4: You have to get the voters fifty of them to
- 22:57Speaker 4: agree that he is the best. But I think he's
- 23:00Speaker 4: having the best season. How could you not ignore those numbers?
- 23:04Speaker 4: You can't ignore them. And so you know, I, yeah,
- 23:07Speaker 4: he gives up some yards. I mean he's he's not
- 23:09Speaker 4: shutting down the field. We know this, Okay, this is
- 23:12Speaker 4: not Deon. That's okay, though, that's okay. They're still throwing
- 23:15Speaker 4: at him and they're getting burned. So you know, my
- 23:19Speaker 4: mom told me the first time, don't touch the stove.
- 23:21Speaker 4: I did it. I did it. I was at a
- 23:22Speaker 4: habachi grill. I was about six years old. Don't touch
- 23:25Speaker 4: that that grill. And I did it, and it burned me.
- 23:27Speaker 4: Guess who's never done it since me. But but these
- 23:31Speaker 4: quarterbacks keep throwing at him, so you know what, if
- 23:34Speaker 4: they're not scared, fine, because he keeps scoring touchdown, so
- 23:38Speaker 4: maybe they should be.
- 23:40Speaker 9: That's exactly it. And I'm with you. There's no left
- 23:46Speaker 9: left appreciate it to come.
- 23:48Speaker 4: All right? Thanks all right, Arthur and springtext is good stuff.
- 23:50Speaker 4: All right, we get another caller in. I did want
- 23:52Speaker 4: to say one thing though, Chris, being our producer, just
- 23:56Speaker 4: pointed out I did see it this morning. The NFL
- 23:58Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame has brought down the the finalist
- 24:02Speaker 4: to twenty five for the next year's class. There's twenty
- 24:05Speaker 4: five semi finalists and one of them has actually been
- 24:10Speaker 4: on the show a couple of times. That's Darren Woodson.
- 24:13Speaker 4: He was really close. He was a finalist last year,
- 24:15Speaker 4: did not make it, and I think he will. I mean,
- 24:18Speaker 4: I think he's gonna get in. And I just scanned
- 24:21Speaker 4: over the twenty five names. I'm you know, it's not
- 24:25Speaker 4: gonna be this headliner class. There's gonna be good, you know,
- 24:29Speaker 4: great players, of course, but there's really not these these
- 24:32Speaker 4: names that you just well, they have to get in,
- 24:34Speaker 4: these first timers have to get in. I don't know
- 24:36Speaker 4: if there will be a first ballot Hall of Famer,
- 24:38Speaker 4: to be honest with you, so and I think that
- 24:40Speaker 4: that helps. You know, Darren and they if it's his turn,
- 24:43Speaker 4: it'll be his turn. He'll get in. I don't think
- 24:45Speaker 4: you get that this far in the process and then
- 24:47Speaker 4: eventually not get in. You see the pattern. Safeties are
- 24:50Speaker 4: getting in. They're putting safeties in. And Darren Woodson, I
- 24:53Speaker 4: know the people that vote for for the Cowboys, I
- 24:56Speaker 4: mean the Cowboys voters, the Dallas writers that that are
- 24:59Speaker 4: on the that panel, they love them now and who doesn't.
- 25:03Speaker 4: And Darren Woodson will get in if if it's this year, maybe,
- 25:07Speaker 4: but it would be would be great. Hopefully I'm there
- 25:09Speaker 4: when it when it happens, I would love to be
- 25:11Speaker 4: there for him. All right. Adam in Virginia is our
- 25:14Speaker 4: next caller, Adam, how you doing good? How are you?
- 25:18Speaker 9: Man?
- 25:19Speaker 15: I'm excited, man, I'm a I'm a long time Cowboy fan. Man,
- 25:22Speaker 15: I'm closer here to the to the commanders. So you know,
- 25:24Speaker 15: I get a lot of flax for being a Cowboys fan,
- 25:27Speaker 15: but I want to say, like man, for the this
- 25:30Speaker 15: is like the first time in a long time where man,
- 25:33Speaker 15: I'm in love with this team.
- 25:34Speaker 10: Man.
- 25:35Speaker 15: I feel like just just the when you even when
- 25:37Speaker 15: you looking at like the sideline videos that they put
- 25:40Speaker 15: up and stuff, you can see they have like a
- 25:42Speaker 15: fan like it's like a big family.
- 25:43Speaker 8: Man.
- 25:44Speaker 15: It's like everybody's holding each other accountable. They you know,
- 25:47Speaker 15: even when Dak after the San Francisco gave him and CD,
- 25:49Speaker 15: they not really a problem, but you know, they had
- 25:52Speaker 15: their differences and then you see since then, like things
- 25:54Speaker 15: have been on the up and up. I feel like,
- 25:57Speaker 15: I don't want to say this, but like this year
- 26:00Speaker 15: is it feels a lot different. You know, it feels
- 26:02Speaker 15: a lot different than other years where I just didn't
- 26:06Speaker 15: know what direction the team was really going. And I
- 26:09Speaker 15: just feel really excited.
- 26:10Speaker 10: Man.
- 26:10Speaker 15: I'm excited for the team, and not only that, I'm
- 26:13Speaker 15: excited for the fan base as well.
- 26:14Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, I mean I And the thing is is,
- 26:18Speaker 4: if they don't win some of these games against some
- 26:20Speaker 4: of these great teams, people are going to say, well
- 26:22Speaker 4: that this is just like what we've seen before, you know,
- 26:25Speaker 4: beat the bad teams and can't compete against the good ones.
- 26:28Speaker 4: But but all you can do is just it's just
- 26:30Speaker 4: put yourself in a position here at eight to three.
- 26:33Speaker 4: I mean, think about it, they got six games to go.
- 26:35Speaker 4: If they were to split these six games, you're you're
- 26:38Speaker 4: you know, eleven and six. I mean, that's that's that'll
- 26:42Speaker 4: get you. I mean, that's definitely gonna get you in
- 26:44Speaker 4: the playoffs. I mean, that's going to probably get you
- 26:46Speaker 4: the fifth seed, you know. And that's just if they
- 26:49Speaker 4: split here and don't. I don't know if they'll do that.
- 26:51Speaker 4: I think they'll be better than that.
- 26:52Speaker 15: I think they'll be better too, Nigga.
- 26:54Speaker 8: I think that.
- 26:55Speaker 15: I really feel like the first part of the season,
- 26:57Speaker 15: where they had their little adversity the forty nine and
- 27:00Speaker 15: all of that type of stuff, I understand that, and
- 27:01Speaker 15: I can understand fans being concerned. But I feel like
- 27:04Speaker 15: ever since then, we've seen a we've seen the forty
- 27:08Speaker 15: nine ers, and we played them today. I feel like
- 27:10Speaker 15: it'll be a totally different game because I feel like
- 27:12Speaker 15: they've been playing totally different. I don't feel like the
- 27:14Speaker 15: team isn't playing the same.
- 27:15Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 27:16Speaker 4: Well, and and the biggest difference is they are forcing
- 27:19Speaker 4: the ball to see d Lamb and it's not to
- 27:23Speaker 4: the detriment of the other players, and the other players
- 27:26Speaker 4: are getting big plays as well. But they are They're saying,
- 27:29Speaker 4: we're gonna get the ball to CD and we're gonna
- 27:32Speaker 4: see what happens, and it's and it's some great stuff,
- 27:34Speaker 4: is what's happening?
- 27:35Speaker 9: So? Uh?
- 27:36Speaker 8: Good?
- 27:37Speaker 9: Good?
- 27:37Speaker 4: Is this the first time call Adam?
- 27:39Speaker 15: This is my first time called. I've been I've been
- 27:42Speaker 15: always trying to get in. I listen to every one
- 27:45Speaker 15: of you guys, shows like I'm I'm a die how
- 27:47Speaker 15: Cowboys fan. I'm gonna tell you this last part and
- 27:50Speaker 15: then I'm gonna get off. But this is how big
- 27:52Speaker 15: of a Cowboy fan I am? All right, So my mother,
- 27:55Speaker 15: she wasn't a big fan of football, got to just
- 27:58Speaker 15: start watching the Cowboys this season. She fell in love
- 28:00Speaker 15: with Deron Bland. She fell in love so much that
- 28:02Speaker 15: she was at the Thanksgiving game on last week experiencing
- 28:06Speaker 15: the Cowboys field. She's worked four or five Jersey so man,
- 28:11Speaker 15: you know, we just like I said, I've been a
- 28:13Speaker 15: fan since.
- 28:15Speaker 4: So tough year to start being a fan.
- 28:18Speaker 11: But that's nice.
- 28:20Speaker 4: Yeah, that's great. Well, I appreciate it the call, Adam.
- 28:25Speaker 4: Thanks for for joining us, and uh and I'm happy
- 28:28Speaker 4: for you guys and your family. I mean that this
- 28:31Speaker 4: is this is a good thing. You know, you said
- 28:33Speaker 4: something about the players cheering for each other and and
- 28:37Speaker 4: you know you go back to Dak and see the
- 28:39Speaker 4: arguing or whatever on the sideline having a difference. You know,
- 28:41Speaker 4: it's it's the same with with any coworkers really when
- 28:45Speaker 4: you think about it. You know, I say it to
- 28:47Speaker 4: people all the time around here. You get getting the
- 28:50Speaker 4: dust ups with people all the time. But as long
- 28:52Speaker 4: as your goals the same, if you have the same
- 28:54Speaker 4: goal you want to be at the same place that
- 28:57Speaker 4: this person does, you just have a different vision for
- 28:59Speaker 4: that day on how to get there. That happens. But
- 29:01Speaker 4: as long as the goals the same, then I think
- 29:04Speaker 4: you can. You should be able to say, hey, at
- 29:07Speaker 4: least you hat at least you care. I care. Let's
- 29:10Speaker 4: handle it different next time. Let's you know, let's move on.
- 29:13Speaker 4: And I think that's kind of what's happened because I
- 29:16Speaker 4: think you look at this team, they all they know
- 29:18Speaker 4: what the goal is and it is all the same.
- 29:20Speaker 4: So it's pretty exciting, it really is. All right, let's
- 29:22Speaker 4: go to break real quick here on Cowboys storyline. We
- 29:24Speaker 4: got some more questions and phone calls to take, but
- 29:27Speaker 4: we're going to take a break, be right back.
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- 31:41Speaker 4: All right, let's get back to the phone lines. Here.
- 31:43Speaker 4: We've got Maurice. He's in Tacoma, Washington. Let's get it going, Maurice.
- 31:48Speaker 4: What's up?
- 31:49Speaker 8: Hey?
- 31:49Speaker 6: Look, how you doing.
- 31:50Speaker 1: Bud's good?
- 31:51Speaker 4: How are you? Do you know any Seahawk fans?
- 31:53Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a ton of them, and I
- 31:55Speaker 1: can't stand any of them?
- 31:58Speaker 4: What is a Seahawk fan? Like you, every fan has
- 32:01Speaker 4: their own kind of you know, you can stereotype all
- 32:04Speaker 4: fans whatever. What's a what's a Seahawks fan?
- 32:07Speaker 9: Well?
- 32:08Speaker 1: I could tell you. I think for the Seahawks, one
- 32:11Speaker 1: of their greatest enemies or one of the people that
- 32:13Speaker 1: they hit on the most, is absolutely the Cowboys, without
- 32:16Speaker 1: a doubt.
- 32:18Speaker 10: Why because there's something about.
- 32:21Speaker 1: The Star that they just don't like. I have friends
- 32:24Speaker 1: that are forty nine Ers.
- 32:25Speaker 6: Fans and you know, other divisional opponents.
- 32:28Speaker 1: That they would rather lose to them before they lose
- 32:31Speaker 1: to the Cowboys.
- 32:32Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, And also again we're talking about stereotypes,
- 32:36Speaker 4: but I think the people that live in Seattle, you know,
- 32:40Speaker 4: maybe a different group a little bit, you know, I mean.
- 32:42Speaker 4: And as far as a Seahawk fan, I mean, was
- 32:45Speaker 4: it raining all the time over there? You gotta yeah,
- 32:47Speaker 4: it's gotta be in a get in a good mood. H.
- 32:51Speaker 9: I don't know.
- 32:51Speaker 4: I'm just saying it's probably it's probably a cultural thing too,
- 32:54Speaker 4: Like I'm tired of seeing the cowboys, see the Cowboys
- 32:56Speaker 4: all the time. And that's probably the case for most
- 32:58Speaker 4: fan bases, you know. I mean, you don't necessarily if
- 33:00Speaker 4: you don't like them. I mean, if you don't like them,
- 33:02Speaker 4: then you probably just dislike them, you know. I don't think.
- 33:05Speaker 4: I don't think the Cowboys are really neutral to anyone.
- 33:10Speaker 4: Absolutely all right, what do you got, Maurice?
- 33:13Speaker 1: So my question for you, and this is really a
- 33:14Speaker 1: fact check for me because I'm not absolutely sure, but
- 33:17Speaker 1: who was the last Dallas Cowboy to win the Defensive
- 33:21Speaker 1: Player Award? And before you answer, I asked that because
- 33:25Speaker 1: I feel like, just being a cowboy alone, it's real
- 33:29Speaker 1: difficult to win these awards because it's, like I said,
- 33:31Speaker 1: it seems like we have a lot of people that
- 33:33Speaker 1: don't want to see us shine. It's like everybody outside
- 33:36Speaker 1: of Cowboys fans wants to see us loose. At least
- 33:39Speaker 1: that's how it feels. So it's hard for a defensive
- 33:42Speaker 1: player to win that award come out of Dallas. And
- 33:45Speaker 1: I was just wondering, do you know who it is
- 33:47Speaker 1: and does our guy brand actually have a good shot?
- 33:50Speaker 4: Yeah, well, somebody just mentioned it on the show yesterday.
- 33:54Speaker 4: I didn't know this. I didn't really look it up.
- 33:56Speaker 4: Harvey Martin I think has wonted at least that's what
- 33:59Speaker 4: someone said on the show, and I believe that that
- 34:02Speaker 4: makes sense. Do I think he can win it again?
- 34:04Speaker 4: Like I just said, I've had to kind of to
- 34:07Speaker 4: come around on this, and I've thought about it from
- 34:10Speaker 4: a standpoint of the Offensive Player of the Year, which
- 34:13Speaker 4: is not the MVP. The Offensive Player of the Year
- 34:15Speaker 4: usually gives it to somebody with incredible stats that you
- 34:19Speaker 4: just can't avoid. You just look at it and you're like,
- 34:22Speaker 4: oh wow, you know two thousand yard rusher or you
- 34:24Speaker 4: know two thousand yard receiver or something, just these stats
- 34:28Speaker 4: that are just eye popping. Well, if that's the case,
- 34:31Speaker 4: then then yes, defense, I mean five interceptions for a
- 34:34Speaker 4: touchdown is unheard of. We've never seen it before. So yeah,
- 34:39Speaker 4: I mean, I think from that standpoint alone, it's not
- 34:42Speaker 4: saying he's the best player in the league. It's not
- 34:45Speaker 4: saying he's even the best player on the team. He's
- 34:48Speaker 4: saying he is the best defensive player of the year.
- 34:52Speaker 4: And you know, I if that's the case, then I'm
- 34:55Speaker 4: all for it. Do I think he will get it?
- 34:59Speaker 4: I'm I'm not sure on that one, because, like I said,
- 35:02Speaker 4: you've got to have fifty voters on there, and if
- 35:04Speaker 4: you think there's something to the fact that people don't
- 35:06Speaker 4: don't like to see the Cowboys do that, maybe, but
- 35:11Speaker 4: you know, these are the same fifty voters that unanimously
- 35:15Speaker 4: voted Michael Parsons Defensive Rookie of the Year, which because
- 35:19Speaker 4: there was no other choice. I mean, you had to.
- 35:20Speaker 4: He was that good, that great. So if it gets
- 35:23Speaker 4: to the point where, you know, if that's the way
- 35:25Speaker 4: people feel about this, it's just tricky because he you know,
- 35:30Speaker 4: as I've said before, it's it's kind of I made
- 35:32Speaker 4: the analogy on baseball that it's almost like a pitcher
- 35:36Speaker 4: who's having a really good season. He's having a good
- 35:40Speaker 4: season with really good numbers, and then he's got three
- 35:44Speaker 4: perfect games, you know, and you're like, whoa, but but
- 35:48Speaker 4: is that is he? You know, is he having a
- 35:50Speaker 4: great season all the way around? He's not really shutting
- 35:53Speaker 4: down the field, but they keep throwing them the ball.
- 35:56Speaker 4: Maybe he is doing this right. Maybe Deron blance got
- 35:59Speaker 4: it all figured out. I'll give up a couple of
- 36:01Speaker 4: plays here and there, bait them in. Then when they
- 36:04Speaker 4: feel comfortable, boom interception. Most of these interceptions are coming
- 36:08Speaker 4: in the second half, if I recall, I know the
- 36:10Speaker 4: first one against the Giants wasn't, but I think the
- 36:12Speaker 4: rest have been in the second half so, or maybe
- 36:17Speaker 4: one right before halftime too. So but later on in
- 36:19Speaker 4: the game, he's kind of got it figured out. So
- 36:21Speaker 4: maybe he's got us all played here? All right, Gerald
- 36:24Speaker 4: is in North Carolina? Is our next caller?
- 36:26Speaker 9: Gerald? What's up?
- 36:28Speaker 8: Hey?
- 36:29Speaker 13: Nick?
- 36:29Speaker 8: Longtime Cowboy fans, Long time Nick.
- 36:33Speaker 4: Appreciate that? Hey, then that gets that gets two, That
- 36:37Speaker 4: gets two? You know too, there we go. If you're
- 36:40Speaker 4: a long time that Nick appreciate that. That makes seven
- 36:43Speaker 4: of you guys appreciate that. Awesome kidding? What's up? Man?
- 36:47Speaker 8: All right? I was thinking Polard is doing well the
- 36:50Speaker 8: last few games, but I still think we're missing the
- 36:55Speaker 8: Zeke effect where we're pounding defenses early and then Hollard
- 37:01Speaker 8: shines a little bit more later on with his quickness
- 37:04Speaker 8: and versatility. And I was just wondering what you thought
- 37:07Speaker 8: about it.
- 37:07Speaker 4: I agree with that. I definitely agree. That's not it's
- 37:10Speaker 4: not the order that I think works best. But sometimes
- 37:13Speaker 4: we get caught up and who's starting, who runs through
- 37:16Speaker 4: the fire, and the starting lineup, who's you know, who
- 37:19Speaker 4: is your first on the depth chart and all that stuff,
- 37:21Speaker 4: what they're paying him. But there's no doubt that that
- 37:24Speaker 4: that the Zeke then Pollard was better for all of them.
- 37:29Speaker 4: I thought, But they don't have that guy, you know.
- 37:32Speaker 4: I don't know if Dalll is that guy, and I
- 37:34Speaker 4: don't know if they want to start him over over Pollard.
- 37:37Speaker 4: But yeah, there there's but there's different ways to to
- 37:40Speaker 4: you know, do a change change of pace back. I
- 37:43Speaker 4: think there's different ways to do it. But but I
- 37:46Speaker 4: think that they miss having that that, you know, the hammer,
- 37:50Speaker 4: uh to start things off right right? What else you got?
- 37:55Speaker 9: Man?
- 37:57Speaker 8: I got nothing else?
- 37:58Speaker 9: Who appreciate the time?
- 37:59Speaker 4: Who do you watch college football?
- 38:04Speaker 12: I do?
- 38:05Speaker 8: Yeah?
- 38:06Speaker 4: I was gonna say, who's your Heisman Trophy winner? But
- 38:08Speaker 4: if you don't watch it, you don't watch it. But
- 38:10Speaker 4: that's I'm just throwing that out there.
- 38:13Speaker 8: I think that kids from the USC Caleb, I think
- 38:16Speaker 8: he's probably gonna lock it down.
- 38:17Speaker 4: I do, okay, all right, appreciate that. I think he's
- 38:21Speaker 4: gonna be number one pick in the draft. I definitely
- 38:23Speaker 4: think that, or he'll be up there for sure. I
- 38:26Speaker 4: don't know about I don't know about the Heisman. I
- 38:29Speaker 4: think he might have lost too many games, but he's
- 38:32Speaker 4: probably gonna be the number one pick in the draft.
- 38:33Speaker 4: You know, I always have a really weird thing about
- 38:35Speaker 4: the high I never the guy I think he's gonna win,
- 38:37Speaker 4: never wins. I don't know. Maybe I just have a
- 38:39Speaker 4: different view of it. I just I feel like it
- 38:42Speaker 4: should be somebody who's who's going to at least be
- 38:45Speaker 4: one of the top picks, I mean in the league.
- 38:47Speaker 4: And but this year is a little bit different. But
- 38:50Speaker 4: kid in Ohio State, it's pretty good for me. The
- 38:53Speaker 4: wide receiver. You know, his dad I think was pretty good.
- 38:56Speaker 4: Marvin Harrison pretty good. His son is really good too,
- 39:00Speaker 4: But I don't know, uh good stuff though. Appreciate that.
- 39:03Speaker 4: I don't know why I just randomly threw that part
- 39:05Speaker 4: in there. All right, let's go to Scott. He's in Atlanta. Scott,
- 39:11Speaker 4: he there, Scott. Oh, do we lose them? Don't have them?
- 39:18Speaker 10: All right?
- 39:19Speaker 4: See what we can call back? I think we got
- 39:22Speaker 4: open phone lines at this point. Yeah, so I yeah
- 39:27Speaker 4: eight eight eight eight five five two two ninety seven.
- 39:29Speaker 4: If you if you said, oh, I never can get
- 39:31Speaker 4: in I never can do in it right now, do it,
- 39:33Speaker 4: get on the line and call blow up the phone
- 39:35Speaker 4: lines back there for Chris. Put him to work here
- 39:37Speaker 4: for the next eight or nine minutes or so. Don't
- 39:40Speaker 4: how many text line questions? The reason why I said
- 39:43Speaker 4: that about the Heisman, And it's just it's so it's
- 39:47Speaker 4: so different. You know, we talk about awards and MVP
- 39:50Speaker 4: and things like that. You know, it's all it really
- 39:53Speaker 4: comes down to. It comes down to like what is
- 39:56Speaker 4: the definition? What is your definition? What's the voters definition
- 40:01Speaker 4: of it? And and you know, Defensive Player of the Year,
- 40:04Speaker 4: is he the best defense players? He having the best season?
- 40:07Speaker 4: That kind of stuff. So that's why I like that
- 40:09Speaker 4: they have a lot of voters and they have a
- 40:11Speaker 4: ton and for the Heisman, like a like thousands, I think, so,
- 40:15Speaker 4: you know, but you know, you you you get a
- 40:17Speaker 4: pretty good mix of what people think and all that,
- 40:20Speaker 4: and you know, I always, I always just feel like
- 40:22Speaker 4: it should be the guy that you know is just
- 40:25Speaker 4: the best player. And I wish we could see a
- 40:28Speaker 4: little bit more you know, position players or even alignment
- 40:32Speaker 4: or something like that, because there's well, there's like eight
- 40:36Speaker 4: different quarterback awards, was like O'Brien Maxwell, There's all kinds
- 40:40Speaker 4: of stuff like that. But I like to see, you know,
- 40:42Speaker 4: just best player get it. And that's why that kid
- 40:46Speaker 4: in Ohio State I think is amazing, Marvin Harrison. But
- 40:48Speaker 4: who knows, who knows what the what they'll do. It's
- 40:50Speaker 4: it's a fun debate though, MVP in the NFL Defensive
- 40:53Speaker 4: Player of the Year, all that good stuff.
- 40:56Speaker 10: You know.
- 40:56Speaker 4: I think Dak has a shot for MVP. But they're
- 40:58Speaker 4: gonna have to wins. They're gonna have to beat the Eagles,
- 41:01Speaker 4: They're gonna have to beat their quarterback because I you know,
- 41:05Speaker 4: like I said before, it hurts me to say it.
- 41:07Speaker 4: I think he's the MVP right now because they just, uh,
- 41:11Speaker 4: you know, he carries that team and they carry him
- 41:14Speaker 4: sometimes all fourth and one Scott in Atlanta. Uh, no,
- 41:17Speaker 4: we're gonna start. Sorry, Scott, We'll going back to Scott.
- 41:19Speaker 4: We'll go to Bruce in Houston. Bruce, what's up, man,
- 41:23Speaker 4: How are you doing?
- 41:24Speaker 13: I'm good? Yourself?
- 41:25Speaker 4: Great?
- 41:26Speaker 11: Great?
- 41:26Speaker 9: Great? Great?
- 41:28Speaker 13: Well, listen to everybody this morning. You know, I love
- 41:31Speaker 13: the upbeat. You know, a couple of callers before you know,
- 41:34Speaker 13: he said, I just feel something different about it. You're
- 41:36Speaker 13: and I do too. I really do there, you know.
- 41:38Speaker 13: But but then all the they say are, well, you've
- 41:40Speaker 13: done it against sub five hundred teams, and you can't.
- 41:43Speaker 13: He can't argue with them. They haven't done it. So
- 41:46Speaker 13: these next five games, as we talked about, are crucial.
- 41:50Speaker 13: I heard you say, even if they split three and three,
- 41:53Speaker 13: I think they'll do better than that because the last
- 41:55Speaker 13: game on the road is is against Washington, and you
- 41:59Speaker 13: know they'll they'll be done by then.
- 42:01Speaker 4: I don't you know what, Bruce, I don't think that
- 42:03Speaker 4: game's gonna matter. I really don't don't think. I don't
- 42:06Speaker 4: think it'll I don't think the Cowboys will. I'll be
- 42:08Speaker 4: surprised if they could catch Philly. Uh with tiebreakers, and
- 42:12Speaker 4: I don't think anyone can catch them to jump them
- 42:14Speaker 4: as the five seed. So I just feel like, yeah,
- 42:17Speaker 4: go ahead, No, no, I'm sorry.
- 42:19Speaker 13: And if that's the case, then then don't play them.
- 42:21Speaker 7: The whole game.
- 42:22Speaker 13: But don't see them either, because remember they did that
- 42:24Speaker 13: a couple of years ago and then they came out
- 42:26Speaker 13: flat the next team, play them a half, you know. Uh,
- 42:29Speaker 13: that way they get you know, prepared like they're supposed to,
- 42:33Speaker 13: and then let the second stringers go. My question, and
- 42:36Speaker 13: I hope they signed this linebacker, real quick question. Do
- 42:39Speaker 13: you think if they don't let him out of the building,
- 42:41Speaker 13: Jerry's pretty good without doing that, what would he play?
- 42:46Speaker 13: Is he football already play or is he yeah, practice
- 42:49Speaker 13: squad guy?
- 42:50Speaker 4: Oh, I think you know that's a great that's a
- 42:53Speaker 4: great question. I don't think he would play this game,
- 42:57Speaker 4: you know, you know this one now I don't. I
- 42:59Speaker 4: don't thing. So now he was on a team, though,
- 43:02Speaker 4: he was on a team, and he was playing games.
- 43:04Speaker 4: He's played nine games, so he's in football, he's in
- 43:07Speaker 4: football shape. He should be.
- 43:09Speaker 13: Well, yeah, I might take him, you know, but and
- 43:11Speaker 13: I hope they sign him because that and even possibly
- 43:14Speaker 13: next year. I think he's twenty eight. I didn't really
- 43:17Speaker 13: look at all his stats, but he's he's still pretty good.
- 43:20Speaker 13: But I know he's had some injuries. But my question
- 43:23Speaker 13: to you is this, do you think our slot defender
- 43:30Speaker 13: is on our team right now? You mentioned the other
- 43:32Speaker 13: day Lewis might not be for next year, because if
- 43:34Speaker 13: you do, yeah, for next year, if you do push
- 43:36Speaker 13: out Bland, uh, because I think he's proven to everybody
- 43:41Speaker 13: I can hold this position down. You know, we always
- 43:43Speaker 13: wanted to put him back in the slot, as the
- 43:45Speaker 13: dude is just you know, he's got a superstar in
- 43:48Speaker 13: the making. So do you think he's on the team
- 43:51Speaker 13: like the guy that got from Miami. I don't know
- 43:53Speaker 13: if he could play the slot or some of the
- 43:55Speaker 13: other guys.
- 43:55Speaker 5: Maybe talk about that.
- 43:56Speaker 13: But because I want him to use a top two pick,
- 44:00Speaker 13: it's possible on a solid running back so that we
- 44:03Speaker 13: can play at more balanced team. But I'm looking forward
- 44:07Speaker 13: to Thursday. If they take care of the home games
- 44:10Speaker 13: and they beat the Washington game, that makes them twelve
- 44:12Speaker 13: and five. Even if they lost against Buffalo and Miami,
- 44:15Speaker 13: and the way Buffalo is playing, they may you know,
- 44:18Speaker 13: I like my chances with them, but I'll hang up
- 44:20Speaker 13: and listen.
- 44:20Speaker 4: All right, Good day, Okay, you too a lot of
- 44:23Speaker 4: stuff here. Cornerback on slot, corner on the team next year.
- 44:28Speaker 4: Don't know that.
- 44:29Speaker 1: I don't.
- 44:30Speaker 4: I'm not sure, you know, just because you know, we've
- 44:34Speaker 4: seen it several times here. Just because you're a free
- 44:35Speaker 4: agent doesn't mean you don't come back. The Cowboys have
- 44:38Speaker 4: signed a lot of these guys back to one year deals.
- 44:40Speaker 4: I think Jordan Lewis has been one of them. So
- 44:43Speaker 4: you know, I think they could bring Jordan Lewis back
- 44:45Speaker 4: if if that's what they want to do, if he's
- 44:47Speaker 4: one of their best corners. Just don't know what the
- 44:49Speaker 4: deal is was to find Gilmore. I mean, we'll see,
- 44:51Speaker 4: we'll see, We'll see what happens. And gotta remember too,
- 44:54Speaker 4: Trayvon Diggs will be back. But you know, just remember
- 44:57Speaker 4: what eeveryone said about Terrence Steele. You know, doesn't look say,
- 45:00Speaker 4: doesn't look the same, and he's not a guy that's
- 45:02Speaker 4: running and cutting on his knee. So you know, I'm
- 45:06Speaker 4: not saying that Trayvon will will, you know, be the same.
- 45:12Speaker 4: You know, I'm not saying he won't. He just I
- 45:13Speaker 4: think that that they have to protect themselves and at
- 45:16Speaker 4: that position. So we're getting ahead of ourselves a little bit.
- 45:19Speaker 4: But but to your point to Ron Bland, I think
- 45:22Speaker 4: needs to be on the outside. That's where these interceptions
- 45:24Speaker 4: are coming from. That's where he's making a lot of plays.
- 45:27Speaker 4: He is in definitely an outside corner, and you know
- 45:31Speaker 4: him and Digs both figure out the inside because I
- 45:34Speaker 4: think that's we're finding where he is playing his best.
- 45:37Speaker 4: As for Shack Leonard, uh, we'll see. We'll see if
- 45:40Speaker 4: Jerry and them can keep him in the building. If
- 45:42Speaker 4: they like what they see, you know, and what they hear,
- 45:45Speaker 4: maybe it's gotta fit. It's gotta fit for both sides.
- 45:49Speaker 4: And if it doesn't, it doesn't. And if he signs
- 45:50Speaker 4: with another team, and another team that's in this division,
- 45:53Speaker 4: then then that's what it's meant to be. You know,
- 45:55Speaker 4: Let's not forget he was a free agent. Let's not
- 45:57Speaker 4: forget the Colts decide to cut him for nothing and
- 46:01Speaker 4: are and are paying him to to not be on
- 46:03Speaker 4: the roster. So you know, there's there's there's more to
- 46:08Speaker 4: it here. They don't feel like he can play. Then again,
- 46:11Speaker 4: they din't feel like Stefan Gilmore really could either, and
- 46:13Speaker 4: he's played pretty well. So all right, let's go to
- 46:15Speaker 4: Scott in Atlanta. Scott, good, How you doing?
- 46:20Speaker 1: Is great to talk to you.
- 46:21Speaker 14: I've been listening to you for years on the break.
- 46:23Speaker 4: Awesome. Is this the first time called? Because I mean
- 46:27Speaker 4: you called, you called five minutes ago and that didn't
- 46:30Speaker 4: work out. So now we'll have the second call.
- 46:34Speaker 8: Considered.
- 46:36Speaker 4: How you doing, man, I'm doing good.
- 46:38Speaker 9: So hear me out.
- 46:39Speaker 14: I got this crazy radical idea on sopping this all right.
- 46:43Speaker 14: I wanted to get your your take on it. Bring in,
- 46:46Speaker 14: bringing the offensive line, keep, keep the linebackers and your
- 46:50Speaker 14: safeties and your corners of the same. In case they
- 46:52Speaker 14: decided to audible out of it, bringing the offensive line
- 46:55Speaker 14: push them back. Maybe blighte up Michael like he's gonna
- 46:58Speaker 14: be the quarterback and and see which which side wins.
- 47:02Speaker 14: I mean, nothing else works.
- 47:04Speaker 4: I mean you talk, you're talking about for the put
- 47:07Speaker 4: to go against the push. Is that what you're saying?
- 47:09Speaker 8: Yeah, okay, yeah.
- 47:12Speaker 14: So instead of having the defensive line bringing the offensive
- 47:14Speaker 14: line in.
- 47:15Speaker 4: Oh okay, okay, that's okay, sounds good. Then this is
- 47:21Speaker 4: what happens. Okay. Then all of a sudden, there's twelve
- 47:25Speaker 4: seconds on the play clock. Then Jalen hurts audibles out,
- 47:29Speaker 4: gets back in a shotgun. They spread out everybody a
- 47:31Speaker 4: little bit, and they run they run a play. I mean,
- 47:34Speaker 4: do you like Zach Martin's chances of beating you know,
- 47:37Speaker 4: like the guard up there. I mean, I'm just saying
- 47:40Speaker 4: the Eagles have got it figured out that they're running
- 47:42Speaker 4: plays on top of that. So, yeah, if it was
- 47:45Speaker 4: just one on one me versus you, tug of war,
- 47:48Speaker 4: let's see who can do it. Sure, But that's the thing.
- 47:51Speaker 4: The Eagles have been like one or two steps ahead,
- 47:53Speaker 4: and as soon as you think you've got it figured
- 47:55Speaker 4: out down, they run a playoff of it. So I mean,
- 47:57Speaker 4: as soon as the offensive line went onto the field,
- 48:00Speaker 4: the Eagles would would get out of that, they'd be
- 48:02Speaker 4: in a three wide shotgun and then you'd be screwed.
- 48:05Speaker 4: So it's easier said than done. It's just very, very
- 48:09Speaker 4: tough to stop. I don't know if anybody can stop
- 48:11Speaker 4: it other than Roger Goodell. Yeah, I hear you anything else, Scott,
- 48:20Speaker 4: all right, Well, thanks for calling for the first time.
- 48:22Speaker 4: Appreciate that we've got a lot of first time callers today.
- 48:25Speaker 4: This is good. It's good for us and love to
- 48:28Speaker 4: hear from the guys that that call every day and
- 48:30Speaker 4: love to hear from you guys for the first time
- 48:32Speaker 4: as well. So all right, the good show. We'll be
- 48:35Speaker 4: back tomorrow. Our schedule is obviously different this week with
- 48:37Speaker 4: the game. We'll be back tomorrow. No show on Thursday,
- 48:40Speaker 4: but we will be back on Friday to talk about it,
- 48:43Speaker 4: see if the Cowboys can get to nine and three.
- 48:45Speaker 4: But we'll be back tomorrow and maybe we'll have some
- 48:47Speaker 4: shock Lennard news as well. So for Chris By, I
- 48:50Speaker 4: am Nick Eatman. We will see tomorrow Cowboys storyline see him.
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