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- 0:04Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:14Speaker 4: This these Cowboys storylines with Nick Eatman?
- 0:21Speaker 1: What is up at his time? For a victory Monday
- 0:25Speaker 1: edition of Cowboys Storyline. I am Nick Eatman here, and
- 0:29Speaker 1: it is a beautiful day here in Fresco, Texas, and
- 0:35Speaker 1: doesn't really matter what it looks like outside, because I
- 0:37Speaker 1: think if you beat the Patriots thirty eight to three,
- 0:41Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's worst loss ever ever as a head coach,
- 0:47Speaker 1: the worst loss from Bill Belichick, if you do that,
- 0:50Speaker 1: it's going to be a beautiful day. Or we're certainly
- 0:52Speaker 1: not talking weather here, We're just talking about the state
- 0:55Speaker 1: of mind. And it's pretty good for the Cowboys, especially
- 0:58Speaker 1: after the way they bounced back from that game in Arizona.
- 1:03Speaker 1: That's what I wrote on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Maybe
- 1:05Speaker 1: not a perfect game, pretty close, but it was a
- 1:10Speaker 1: perfect response to the adversity that was facing them. And
- 1:14Speaker 1: you know, can can this team? Is the defense this good?
- 1:17Speaker 1: I mean that was questions. I mean, can can they
- 1:19Speaker 1: rely on the defense? Can the offense score? Can can
- 1:22Speaker 1: they can they can they beat teams that are supposed
- 1:25Speaker 1: to be can they can they win? You know, games
- 1:28Speaker 1: would win. Coaching is involved. Here's Bill Belichick coming to town.
- 1:32Speaker 1: They got out coached against Arizona. They did not get
- 1:34Speaker 1: out coached in this game. They actually, uh, they actually
- 1:38Speaker 1: you know, won the game. I thought, I thought the
- 1:40Speaker 1: coaching staff did a remarkable job in this game. So
- 1:45Speaker 1: you know, that's football. This is what football. This is
- 1:47Speaker 1: why we love it. That's why we hate it and
- 1:49Speaker 1: love it all at the same time, because this is
- 1:53Speaker 1: it's just a as I'm steal Brian brought us his
- 1:57Speaker 1: term football is strangely, it's a strange, lady, And it
- 2:02Speaker 1: was strange yesterday to go thirty eight to three. Well,
- 2:05Speaker 1: let's talk about it. Eight eight eight eight five five
- 2:07Speaker 1: two to two ninety seven. You can text eight one
- 2:10Speaker 1: seven two nine zero three two ninety eight. We already
- 2:13Speaker 1: have a couple of callers on the line, so we're
- 2:16Speaker 1: not gonna waste really any more time going to get
- 2:17Speaker 1: right to it. Let's go to our first caller. This
- 2:20Speaker 1: is a first time caller. I believe Alfonso in Miami. Alfonso,
- 2:26Speaker 1: how you doing?
- 2:26Speaker 5: How you doing?
- 2:27Speaker 6: I'm good man, how are you I'm feeling? Good man?
- 2:31Speaker 6: You can't do nothing but feel good after a blowout
- 2:33Speaker 6: win like that, man as a Cowboys fan. Man, so
- 2:36Speaker 6: I'm feeling.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Good, true, Yep, yep. What'd you like the most about
- 2:39Speaker 1: the game?
- 2:41Speaker 3: Man?
- 2:41Speaker 7: Ah?
- 2:42Speaker 6: Man, it was so many bright sides of that game.
- 2:44Speaker 3: Man.
- 2:44Speaker 6: I like to just I like the most things. The
- 2:47Speaker 6: thing that I liked to the most in that game,
- 2:48Speaker 6: I like to see I defense get back on track
- 2:52Speaker 6: and be dumbinant like I know we was, you know
- 2:54Speaker 6: in the first two games.
- 2:56Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know the scary part is is that
- 3:00Speaker 1: is that this is the this is Michael Parsons did
- 3:03Speaker 1: not really dominate. He was a factor. He's always gonna
- 3:06Speaker 1: be a factor because he's gonna come in double teams
- 3:08Speaker 1: and all that. But he didn't dominate like we have
- 3:11Speaker 1: seen him exactly.
- 3:12Speaker 4: He didn't.
- 3:13Speaker 6: But what make us so special, like I put on
- 3:16Speaker 6: my Twitter, is that people don't understand that we have
- 3:20Speaker 6: a lot of depth behind Michael Parson. That's rushing off
- 3:23Speaker 6: the edge behind Michael Parson and the last we have
- 3:28Speaker 6: a lot of depth. We got Armstrong, we got Sam Williams,
- 3:31Speaker 6: and we also got one yeah, Dante, Yeah, we still
- 3:36Speaker 6: got Dante. So in them, that's a lot of good depth.
- 3:39Speaker 6: Coming behind Michael Parson, as y'all seen on a couple
- 3:42Speaker 6: of plays when he got injured and he was out
- 3:45Speaker 6: a couple of plays, were still able to get pressure
- 3:47Speaker 6: on the quarterback.
- 3:47Speaker 1: That's right.
- 3:48Speaker 6: So that show you how good of a debt we
- 3:50Speaker 6: have at defensive end.
- 3:51Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's that's been evident all trading camp. They
- 3:54Speaker 1: just come in waves and it starts with Micah and
- 3:58Speaker 1: and it just kind of goes down the line. Thanks
- 4:00Speaker 1: for the call, Alfonso. Appreciate that, man.
- 4:04Speaker 6: Yeah, Man, appreciate for having me, man, and all go Cowboys.
- 4:07Speaker 8: Man.
- 4:08Speaker 6: I will we continue this thing going forward. We got
- 4:10Speaker 6: forty nine of this week. Man, I'm looking forward to
- 4:12Speaker 6: another great game from us.
- 4:13Speaker 1: All right, thank you. He's right. We can talk about
- 4:18Speaker 1: the forty nine ers now, we can do it. It's
- 4:20Speaker 1: it's fine. It's here talk about the forty nine ers
- 4:23Speaker 1: because the game is the next game. We're gonna still
- 4:26Speaker 1: talk about the Patriots because if we do on Monday.
- 4:30Speaker 1: But yes, it's it's not it's not illegal, never was illegal,
- 4:35Speaker 1: but it's appropriate now I think to talk about the
- 4:39Speaker 1: forty nine ers when we want to get there. But yeah,
- 4:42Speaker 1: Alfonso is right. The depth of defensive line and the
- 4:45Speaker 1: pass rusher. I've been saying it for a while. I
- 4:47Speaker 1: mean Dante Fowlers, the guy I keep kind of circling
- 4:50Speaker 1: is because if this is your fourth or fifth, really
- 4:52Speaker 1: your fifth best pass rusher pretty good. And that's what happens.
- 4:55Speaker 1: I mean, the right tackle, left tackle, that they never
- 4:57Speaker 1: get a break. You don't get a break. Yeah, you
- 4:59Speaker 1: get a break a little bit when Mikey goes out,
- 5:02Speaker 1: you know, for a breather or his knee he had
- 5:05Speaker 1: kind of banged up for a little bit, but you
- 5:08Speaker 1: really don't, you know, you don't. You don't get that
- 5:10Speaker 1: much of a break. And it was evident in that game.
- 5:13Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the second call Joe and Stanford.
- 5:16Speaker 9: Joe, what's up, Hey, morning, Nick, great victory Monday.
- 5:20Speaker 1: Sir, definitely, how are you good?
- 5:23Speaker 5: So a point and then a question for you?
- 5:26Speaker 1: So okay.
- 5:27Speaker 5: My point is just sort of what is going along
- 5:30Speaker 5: with what you were saying. I think this victory really
- 5:33Speaker 5: has highlighted the superior depth that we have, especially along
- 5:37Speaker 5: the line. For me, the guy who stood out and
- 5:40Speaker 5: hasn't really stood out with Neville Gallimore. That dude was
- 5:44Speaker 5: getting off the ball in the backfield. He played good
- 5:47Speaker 5: against the run. He stood out to me during the game,
- 5:50Speaker 5: so I went back and watched his snaps. Dude played
- 5:53Speaker 5: really well. You couple that along with, of course, the
- 5:57Speaker 5: depth we have everywhere else, the fact that we've got
- 6:01Speaker 5: a Pro Bowl second string corner. It's it's ridiculous. It's crazy, man,
- 6:05Speaker 5: this this defense. I'm like the first caller said, I'm
- 6:09Speaker 5: so stoked that we came back and really showed who
- 6:12Speaker 5: we were on the defensive side. My question is, of
- 6:17Speaker 5: course we struggled in the red zone again, it's been
- 6:19Speaker 5: a broken record. Do you think that we are saving
- 6:23Speaker 5: stuff for these big games?
- 6:26Speaker 1: Oh, thanks for the call. Always thinks for the call, Joe,
- 6:31Speaker 1: But I don't think you're I don't think they're saving anything.
- 6:34Speaker 1: I really, I really don't. I mean, because because it
- 6:38Speaker 1: was about midway through the second quarter in Arizona, do
- 6:42Speaker 1: you realize this is a big game because we could
- 6:45Speaker 1: we could lose and they did so, I mean, saving
- 6:48Speaker 1: things doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
- 6:53Speaker 1: Not not things that you've practiced. It's it's different to you.
- 6:57Speaker 1: You have plays in the playbook, whatever, but that doesn't
- 7:01Speaker 1: mean you necessarily practice them. In the game plan throughout
- 7:03Speaker 1: the week, so they might be saving some things that
- 7:08Speaker 1: they haven't actually implemented yet, that they haven't practiced, they
- 7:11Speaker 1: haven't put in there. But I don't think. I don't
- 7:14Speaker 1: think there's things that they have been working on all
- 7:17Speaker 1: of training camp and work on throughout the week and
- 7:19Speaker 1: then they just don't use them for games like that.
- 7:21Speaker 1: So there's something to be said for it, But I
- 7:25Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think there's just things in the
- 7:26Speaker 1: bag that you're like, we're not flipping over to the
- 7:28Speaker 1: other side of the car because that's where all the
- 7:30Speaker 1: cool stuff is now. No, I think that they desperately
- 7:33Speaker 1: wanted to get red zone touchdowns. They want to end
- 7:36Speaker 1: that narrative, and they didn't really do it, but it
- 7:40Speaker 1: was better. It was better had to find out from
- 7:44Speaker 1: the NFL that a twenty yard touchdown is not in
- 7:46Speaker 1: the red zone. I'll be honest, I didn't know that.
- 7:48Speaker 1: I kind of thought twenty and in is the red zone.
- 7:52Speaker 1: I think you get twenty yards and so the balls
- 7:54Speaker 1: of the twenty that's twenty yards. I thought that would
- 7:56Speaker 1: be a red zone touchdown. But either way, I mean,
- 8:00Speaker 1: they they did score, they did, you know, I think,
- 8:01Speaker 1: but the problem is is that when they get inside
- 8:04Speaker 1: the ten that's really the issue. Is they get inside
- 8:06Speaker 1: the ten yard line when things get really tight, they're
- 8:09Speaker 1: not able to throw it in. They're not running it in.
- 8:13Speaker 1: They're running into each other. I mean, I mean, it
- 8:15Speaker 1: was just I mean, you could have cued the circus
- 8:17Speaker 1: music there for a little bit on that play, and
- 8:19Speaker 1: that was a wide open run. I mean, I think
- 8:21Speaker 1: Pollard scores there, but you know, weird, weird things are
- 8:26Speaker 1: kind of happening there. They did score with Hunter Lipke
- 8:28Speaker 1: there at the end, so maybe that's a good thing.
- 8:30Speaker 1: Going back to the first part, the depth, Neville Gallimore,
- 8:33Speaker 1: you know, they I think the defensive line, especially the
- 8:35Speaker 1: tackles kind of they they had to answer the bell,
- 8:39Speaker 1: you know, they they got they got run over. The
- 8:41Speaker 1: whole defense got run over. And it starts with the
- 8:44Speaker 1: with the defensive line. That's where it always starts. And
- 8:47Speaker 1: so guys like you know, Hankins, he played well too,
- 8:51Speaker 1: and Neville Gallamore. Oh so those guys didn't see Mazzi
- 8:55Speaker 1: a lot. But then again, I didn't go back and
- 8:57Speaker 1: really look at it all right. Brian from Kansas City's
- 9:00Speaker 1: our next caller, Brian, what's up?
- 9:02Speaker 10: Hey, Good morning, Nick, Good morning.
- 9:04Speaker 1: How are you.
- 9:05Speaker 10: Well, that's a pretty good game to watch yesterday. I
- 9:07Speaker 10: was pretty happy with that with that result.
- 9:10Speaker 1: Definitely definitely great great win, great bounce back.
- 9:14Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I was.
- 9:16Speaker 10: I was really glad they put that special team's trickery
- 9:19Speaker 10: in the out there on tape. It just gives an
- 9:22Speaker 10: other teams just one more thing you got to prepare for.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I have a comment on that. I'll say
- 9:28Speaker 1: after after the call. Do you have another call comment
- 9:31Speaker 1: or question?
- 9:32Speaker 10: Yeah? I actually got two questions for you, all right.
- 9:35Speaker 10: So one is I you know, so I heard you say,
- 9:38Speaker 10: I don't know if it was last I guess it
- 9:40Speaker 10: was last.
- 9:40Speaker 3: Week that both you and and.
- 9:45Speaker 10: Derek were a little surprised that they didn't kick Smith
- 9:48Speaker 10: out to left tackle, and I was surprised with an
- 9:51Speaker 10: entire week to prepare that that wasn't it. So just
- 9:54Speaker 10: whatever you know about that? Do you think that that
- 9:58Speaker 10: is the plan going forward? And then the other thing
- 10:01Speaker 10: is just anything you know about Zach Martin and Micah
- 10:04Speaker 10: Parsons from the you know they both got at dinged up.
- 10:08Speaker 10: Anything you know about that and hang up and listen,
- 10:10Speaker 10: have a good one.
- 10:11Speaker 3: Brother.
- 10:11Speaker 1: All right, all right, thank you. Always appreciate the call there.
- 10:17Speaker 1: I think you said, what's the long term plan? There
- 10:19Speaker 1: left the long term plan, I mean long term as
- 10:22Speaker 1: in this season is Tyron Smith. That's still the plan.
- 10:25Speaker 1: I mean, that's still what they're trying to do and
- 10:27Speaker 1: have him at left tackle. I think, and this is
- 10:31Speaker 1: what I was told before the game. It's actually kind
- 10:33Speaker 1: of encouraging because I asked this question. I asked it
- 10:37Speaker 1: to Stephen Jones on This wasn't anything secret of this
- 10:40Speaker 1: was on this was on our pregame show. I asked
- 10:42Speaker 1: Stephen Jones that very you know scenario, Why why is
- 10:46Speaker 1: it that that Tyler Smith not at left tackle? Idoga
- 10:50Speaker 1: at tackle? And he said, it speaks more for what
- 10:53Speaker 1: we think of how when we think Tyron Smith is
- 10:56Speaker 1: gonna be able to come back, so they're not just
- 10:59Speaker 1: gonna move Tyler's Smith and then Tyron comes back and
- 11:01Speaker 1: then they got to shuffle him again. So I think
- 11:04Speaker 1: if this was a little this was a long term
- 11:06Speaker 1: injury throughout the season, they might look at it going
- 11:09Speaker 1: with their best five. But as it is right now,
- 11:10Speaker 1: they're trying to keep Tyler, keep him where he is.
- 11:14Speaker 1: He's been really good there and then just kind of
- 11:16Speaker 1: patch it up on the left side, and and I
- 11:18Speaker 1: thought he Duga played played well. I mean I didn't
- 11:21Speaker 1: see it. And they had that penalty on the on
- 11:23Speaker 1: the field goal, which that's interesting. I mean, did he
- 11:28Speaker 1: did that penalty prevent history or did it save history?
- 11:33Speaker 1: Because I mean, the guy's made thirteen in a row.
- 11:36Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what the record. We're getting
- 11:37Speaker 1: close to the NFL record now for for most field
- 11:40Speaker 1: goals to begin a career. I think at the record
- 11:42Speaker 1: of seventeen, he's at thirteen sixty six yarder might might
- 11:47Speaker 1: it would hate to end it on that if he
- 11:48Speaker 1: missed it, But what if he made it, that's pretty
- 11:52Speaker 1: cool too. So anyways, uh, he could have gone, he
- 11:55Speaker 1: could have been short, and then then you got those
- 11:58Speaker 1: guys got to go chase somebody from thet's running around there.
- 12:01Speaker 1: So that's always a scary thing on those long field goals.
- 12:04Speaker 1: So that and then if Mike, I think Mike is fine.
- 12:06Speaker 1: He came back, he played, Mike was trying to get
- 12:08Speaker 1: sacks till the very last whistle. Zach Martin I believe
- 12:11Speaker 1: just got taken out because of just because of the score,
- 12:15Speaker 1: you know, and they put basket. They want to see
- 12:17Speaker 1: what bass can do. The fake field, fake point. After
- 12:22Speaker 1: that's that's when we say this all the time. That's
- 12:24Speaker 1: when you win games. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Thursday, that's
- 12:27Speaker 1: how you win games. That's when you're your coaching staff
- 12:30Speaker 1: sees things on tape and says, look, look at this.
- 12:34Speaker 1: This this line up that the Patriots do. We could
- 12:36Speaker 1: score on this. We could get an extra point and
- 12:38Speaker 1: we could get a two point conversion on this, just
- 12:41Speaker 1: because the way that they line up. So let's look
- 12:43Speaker 1: at this. Let's practice it all week long. We get
- 12:46Speaker 1: to the game. They got to the game one uh
- 12:50Speaker 1: extra point, and they looked at it on tape and said, yep,
- 12:53Speaker 1: they did it again. All right, if we get down
- 12:55Speaker 1: there again, we're gonna do this. And sure enough, and
- 12:58Speaker 1: and I think something to be pointed out here. It's
- 13:01Speaker 1: real easy to be driving down the field and getting
- 13:04Speaker 1: close to a touchdown and then saying, all right, if
- 13:07Speaker 1: we score a touchdown here, we're gonna do this. We're
- 13:09Speaker 1: gonna do this trick play. But this happened after a
- 13:12Speaker 1: defensive touchdown. It was a quick change, It was a
- 13:14Speaker 1: lot happened. Boom, touchdown? What we scored?
- 13:16Speaker 11: All?
- 13:16Speaker 1: Okay? Extra point? Oh no, no, we're gonna do the fake.
- 13:18Speaker 1: I mean that that was That's pretty impressive to me
- 13:21Speaker 1: to run out there and do that anger you know,
- 13:24Speaker 1: makes the throw. I mean, you got to sit in there.
- 13:26Speaker 1: You gotta fake it. You gotta hope that that guy
- 13:27Speaker 1: comes down there and doesn't doesn't hit the holder. And
- 13:30Speaker 1: he didn't. He faked it and got up and do
- 13:33Speaker 1: a touchdown to Golston. Great not touchdown? Sorry to two
- 13:36Speaker 1: point play to Golston. All right, let's go to the
- 13:39Speaker 1: next caller. It is Travis and San Antonio.
- 13:43Speaker 9: Ain't it? Happy victory Monday to you?
- 13:46Speaker 1: Thank you man. How are you doing?
- 13:49Speaker 9: I'm doing good. I just had three kind of quick
- 13:52Speaker 9: things I wanted to point.
- 13:53Speaker 1: Out, shooting three yesterday. All right, let's go.
- 13:56Speaker 9: I got three. So I think we saw, know we
- 14:00Speaker 9: the narrative for the first three games was about the offense,
- 14:03Speaker 9: like how is the offense going to look? And I
- 14:04Speaker 9: don't think we really saw it because of you know,
- 14:06Speaker 9: different factors, whether all that type of stuff. How the
- 14:09Speaker 9: games went, and I think we saw like this is
- 14:12Speaker 9: how the offense is. And I think you saw everyone
- 14:14Speaker 9: saw that Dak can be very effective in this offense,
- 14:16Speaker 9: and it's very We use the term Dak friendly in
- 14:19Speaker 9: the past, but I think this is maybe the most
- 14:21Speaker 9: Dak friendly offense that I've seen him in. And I
- 14:24Speaker 9: think those two interceptions by Bland are going to prove
- 14:27Speaker 9: to be the two most important interceptions for our defense
- 14:30Speaker 9: all year, because now that's on tape, even though he
- 14:34Speaker 9: did it last year with the whole you know, when
- 14:37Speaker 9: Diggs goes out, everyone's gonna go I don't know, they're
- 14:39Speaker 9: gonna be the same defense. And he gets those two interceptions.
- 14:42Speaker 9: Now it's kind of like, all right, we really can't
- 14:43Speaker 9: pick on that side like we thought we could. It
- 14:46Speaker 9: just kind of reinforces that that they still have two
- 14:48Speaker 9: good corners and Jordan Lewis. And then the last thing
- 14:51Speaker 9: was the red zone. I kind of my buddy during
- 14:56Speaker 9: the game texta me and he was like, should we
- 14:59Speaker 9: take out Dak? So I'm not taking out Dak until
- 15:01Speaker 9: we get a red zone touchdown, I think so, which
- 15:04Speaker 9: it was kind of just, you know, I was kind
- 15:06Speaker 9: of wishing it, but I'm glad that we end up
- 15:08Speaker 9: getting one because it kind of gives them some momentum
- 15:11Speaker 9: at least a little bit. And I think the key
- 15:13Speaker 9: to it to me is more hunter litty and more
- 15:16Speaker 9: turping in the red zone. See what you think. A
- 15:18Speaker 9: great week?
- 15:19Speaker 1: Thank you? All right, let's go. Let's go to the offense.
- 15:23Speaker 1: The Dak friendly I mean, yeah, I think it is.
- 15:26Speaker 1: It is a Dak friendly offense. I mean it's quarterback friendly.
- 15:29Speaker 1: I mean that that's that's what it is. And you
- 15:30Speaker 1: can do that. You can beat quarterback friendly if you're
- 15:32Speaker 1: gonna be your defense is gonna play like that. But
- 15:34Speaker 1: we as we saw last week in Arizona, that that
- 15:37Speaker 1: you have to have the ability to score and and
- 15:40Speaker 1: and you have to you know, step on the gas
- 15:42Speaker 1: when you need to. And they didn't do that. Because
- 15:43Speaker 1: the defense is not always going to have a game
- 15:46Speaker 1: like this. There's gonna be things that happen, you know.
- 15:49Speaker 1: The the the Scoon Maker drop was unfortunate because that
- 15:52Speaker 1: was that was a dime that Dack threw. That was
- 15:55Speaker 1: that was I mean, and it's the same type of
- 15:57Speaker 1: that you threw it in there. It was. It was
- 15:59Speaker 1: not triple coverage, but I mean he he he fit
- 16:02Speaker 1: the ball in exactly where it had to be, and
- 16:05Speaker 1: you know, it's disappointing this scooon maker didn't didn't come
- 16:07Speaker 1: down with that. It would have been a tough catch.
- 16:09Speaker 1: But that's what second round tight ends of the NFL
- 16:11Speaker 1: is supposed to do. He's supposed to make that catch
- 16:13Speaker 1: and it was a great throw and that that could
- 16:15Speaker 1: have changed a lot of the narrative here about the
- 16:17Speaker 1: red zone in that one the Bland, you're right about Bland.
- 16:21Speaker 1: Remember this though, look at his two interceptions. They were
- 16:23Speaker 1: both doing what he was. He was jumping. He was
- 16:26Speaker 1: jumping routes, which is great. That's also going to be
- 16:29Speaker 1: on tape. Double moves if if that's that's why the
- 16:33Speaker 1: pass rush is so important, because a double move on
- 16:35Speaker 1: a guy like that is going to be there. Okay,
- 16:37Speaker 1: he's gonna I'm just gonna call right now. Ron Bland's
- 16:39Speaker 1: gonna give up a big, big play, because that's that's
- 16:42Speaker 1: what it is. Cornerbacks make plays. That's unless you're Dion,
- 16:46Speaker 1: who didn't. He gave up some, not many, but you
- 16:49Speaker 1: know Dion would also bait people because they how quick
- 16:51Speaker 1: he was. But but when you play aggressive like that,
- 16:54Speaker 1: you're going to get some interceptions. You're also going to
- 16:57Speaker 1: give up some give up some some big plays now, Bland,
- 17:00Speaker 1: Bland's giving up some not not a lot. It's just
- 17:03Speaker 1: a it's just an aggressive style. That's why you really
- 17:05Speaker 1: want to have a good pass rush, you want to
- 17:07Speaker 1: have a good safety. But yeah, putting that out there
- 17:10Speaker 1: just to show that he's a playmaker. You know, now
- 17:12Speaker 1: you're gonna have to go to the other side and
- 17:14Speaker 1: throw it to to Gilmour some and then that's that's
- 17:16Speaker 1: a good thing too, because he's he's covered his side.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Red zone Turpin and uh Hunter Lipke. I mean, he's
- 17:22Speaker 1: gonna have to be You gotta figure it out. You
- 17:23Speaker 1: gotta keep doing different things. And Lifkey was different and
- 17:27Speaker 1: that that worked. That might be something else that they
- 17:29Speaker 1: that they do here. All right, we have a text
- 17:31Speaker 1: message question here from Michael Scott in Oregon, probably not
- 17:36Speaker 1: the guy from the office Nick, what's up with our
- 17:39Speaker 1: tight ends in the red zone? Seems like they drop
- 17:41Speaker 1: a touchdown every week. I don't know if it's every week,
- 17:45Speaker 1: but but yeah, I mean they're not there. I've seen
- 17:49Speaker 1: a hinder shot. Hindershot had had one, uh Schoonmaker had one,
- 17:53Speaker 1: and Ferguson as well. Yeah. Probably, I mean, I guess
- 17:56Speaker 1: maybe not every week. But it's it's up there. I mean,
- 17:58Speaker 1: it isn't. They haven't. They haven't come down with those
- 18:01Speaker 1: clutch plays now and now Ferguson's starting to take that
- 18:04Speaker 1: next level though. Ferguson, Uh, he's he's separated himself as
- 18:08Speaker 1: as the guy. So uh, They're still going to run
- 18:11Speaker 1: two tight end sets. But I thought with Hindershot out
- 18:15Speaker 1: of the game he had an ankle injury, it didn't play.
- 18:17Speaker 1: They put McEwan in there as the third tight end.
- 18:20Speaker 1: But it was a good opportunity for Schoonmaker. It really
- 18:22Speaker 1: was to kind of maybe put himself in there, and
- 18:24Speaker 1: I don't think he did that. I mean, Hendershot comes back,
- 18:28Speaker 1: and it could. They're gonna have a decision to make
- 18:31Speaker 1: on who they want to play more in the second
- 18:32Speaker 1: side end, but Ferguson's making it clear where he stands
- 18:35Speaker 1: on the first one. All right, let's go to Mark
- 18:39Speaker 1: in Florida. That's her next call. Yeah, Mark in Florida.
- 18:42Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, how you doing, buddy?
- 18:44Speaker 12: Good?
- 18:44Speaker 10: Mark?
- 18:44Speaker 8: Nick, don't call don't call me crazy, but I'm gonna
- 18:47Speaker 8: make your argument why I'm way more impressed with the
- 18:52Speaker 8: cowboy offense than the cowboy defense. You play who's on
- 18:56Speaker 8: your schedule, no doubt, but let's call it what it is.
- 19:00Speaker 8: To Jets and Patriots, all offensively challenged teams, they don't
- 19:04Speaker 8: pose many problems.
- 19:05Speaker 12: For defenses in general.
- 19:06Speaker 8: On the other hand, the best thing about those three
- 19:09Speaker 8: teams are the defenses and red zone A side cowboy
- 19:13Speaker 8: offense moof the ball up and down the field against
- 19:16Speaker 8: all three of those defenses. Right, So, uh, you know,
- 19:19Speaker 8: to me so far quarter to season in yeah, the
- 19:23Speaker 8: defense still has to do what they gotta do. My
- 19:25Speaker 8: only point is I think that the cowboy offense is
- 19:29Speaker 8: not getting enough credit.
- 19:31Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, that's a good that's a good perspective. I mean,
- 19:37Speaker 1: you're right. I mean, and it's I said it the
- 19:39Speaker 1: other day. After four weeks of the season, we can
- 19:41Speaker 1: kind of get a good gauge of what everything is,
- 19:43Speaker 1: what the league looks like. It's still going to be weird.
- 19:45Speaker 1: Things are going to happen week to week, you know.
- 19:49Speaker 1: I mean, good luck figuring out the Jets. I mean,
- 19:51Speaker 1: that's not our you know what, This isn't Jets storyline.
- 19:53Speaker 1: But they're they're a tough team to figure out. I
- 19:56Speaker 1: mean they they you know, losing their quarterback and then
- 20:00Speaker 1: you know they're playing Zach Wilson. I mean that game
- 20:02Speaker 1: last night, I mean it was that was a tough,
- 20:03Speaker 1: tough loss for them, but they were there. They were
- 20:06Speaker 1: they were hanging, and they're they're going to be a
- 20:09Speaker 1: tough out, you know, every every game. So it's hard
- 20:11Speaker 1: to kind of figure them out. Giants will see. You know,
- 20:14Speaker 1: they played tonight too, Giants kind of goneen tough to
- 20:17Speaker 1: figure them out. So yeah, you're you're right, though, They're
- 20:21Speaker 1: not going to be the greatest offenses, and the defense
- 20:23Speaker 1: has done really well. The one thing about the defense though,
- 20:27Speaker 1: is they have that Arizona game sitting up there, and
- 20:29Speaker 1: I don't think Arizona is going to be good this year.
- 20:32Speaker 1: I just don't. They're they're not. But they they beat
- 20:34Speaker 1: the Cowboys that that game. They were better, and uh
- 20:38Speaker 1: but yeah, the offenses, you know, the offense has moved
- 20:40Speaker 1: the ball. I'll take that all day long. I'll take
- 20:42Speaker 1: an offense. They can get up and down the field,
- 20:43Speaker 1: move the ball. They have the most red zone opportunities
- 20:46Speaker 1: than anybody, So that's good. I'd rather have that than
- 20:49Speaker 1: somebody that gets in there and scores every time. But
- 20:52Speaker 1: they've only been in there five times all season. I mean,
- 20:55Speaker 1: this team they'll they'll I think they'll they'll figure it out,
- 20:58Speaker 1: I really do. But the fact that they're getting in
- 21:00Speaker 1: there and then getting field goals, you know how at
- 21:03Speaker 1: least at least they're getting points, they're getting field goals,
- 21:06Speaker 1: they're getting points for to help that defense. I think
- 21:09Speaker 1: I think the touchdowns will come. It may not be
- 21:12Speaker 1: at the clip that that everyone is comfortable with, but
- 21:16Speaker 1: it's it's a good problem to have that you you
- 21:20Speaker 1: can't score touchdowns when you're down there. I mean, at
- 21:23Speaker 1: least it's that at least it's not we can't get
- 21:25Speaker 1: past midfield. I mean, like, and I'm not saying trying
- 21:28Speaker 1: to say glass half full, but you know, but I'm
- 21:30Speaker 1: just I just mean, like, I think they'll they'll figure
- 21:33Speaker 1: this out eventually, and at least in the meantime they are,
- 21:36Speaker 1: they're getting some points in there, and they're helping that
- 21:38Speaker 1: that defense. All right, let's go to uh, let's go
- 21:41Speaker 1: to another Mark, Mark and Georgia with Mark and Florida.
- 21:44Speaker 1: Now we've got Mark and Georgia, you guys in Jacksonville
- 21:47Speaker 1: just hanging out together.
- 21:48Speaker 12: Just hanging out, and join the wind man.
- 21:50Speaker 1: What's up man, How you doing get it?
- 21:53Speaker 6: Hey?
- 21:53Speaker 12: I wanted to piggyback on your article last night about
- 21:57Speaker 12: how critical we are McCarthy not being ready to last week,
- 22:00Speaker 12: but how prepared he was and how the team responds
- 22:03Speaker 12: after losses and and really back to the my My
- 22:07Speaker 12: big thing with with McCarthy that he seems so steady.
- 22:10Speaker 12: He's he's steady in the fact that he says we're
- 22:13Speaker 12: going to play behind the defense and we're gonna we're
- 22:15Speaker 12: gonna really plan everything around that, and he's been true
- 22:18Speaker 12: to that. I think he's steady with the run he study,
- 22:20Speaker 12: with not trying to put back in and opportunities to
- 22:23Speaker 12: make big mistakes. And with that comes times of being
- 22:26Speaker 12: a little bit more conservative than we'd like to be.
- 22:28Speaker 12: And then at times he's he's sometimes ultra aggressive, but
- 22:32Speaker 12: but really I think he's done a great job figuring
- 22:34Speaker 12: out the team and the red zone stuff, like you said,
- 22:37Speaker 12: I think will come in time. And but like you said,
- 22:40Speaker 12: from the beginning, this the defense is who we are
- 22:42Speaker 12: and who we're going to play behind, and and I
- 22:44Speaker 12: think that's really good.
- 22:46Speaker 1: I think I think the thing with with McCarthy, what
- 22:51Speaker 1: what he thinks for to call Mark you're right, He's
- 22:54Speaker 1: going to do what he does. I mean, that's that's
- 22:56Speaker 1: what that's that's who he is. He doesn't change a
- 22:58Speaker 1: whole lot. That's the tough part about being an offensive
- 23:03Speaker 1: a play caller is that that's that's always the tough
- 23:08Speaker 1: balance of being who you are and running the stuff
- 23:12Speaker 1: that you think will work. But also you have to
- 23:14Speaker 1: be creative, you know, you you have to. You have
- 23:16Speaker 1: to mix it up. Because I don't know about other teams,
- 23:20Speaker 1: but the Cowboys have like thirty seven coaches, Okay, some
- 23:23Speaker 1: of them are a good handful of them, or like
- 23:25Speaker 1: analytics coaches and and and quality control and that's their
- 23:30Speaker 1: job is to see how many times you run the
- 23:32Speaker 1: ball to the right on third and five when the
- 23:35Speaker 1: sun's out, you know, east of the Mississippi. That's that's
- 23:38Speaker 1: they have analytics on all that. So you can't you
- 23:41Speaker 1: have to mix it up sometimes and but you but
- 23:43Speaker 1: so it's a tough balance staying true to who you
- 23:46Speaker 1: are and the plays that that that you believe in
- 23:48Speaker 1: and all that, but also mixing it up. And I
- 23:51Speaker 1: think so far he's done a good job. And he
- 23:52Speaker 1: doesn't he doesn't care as much about the red zone
- 23:55Speaker 1: problems as the fans do, the media does all that stuff.
- 23:58Speaker 1: He's going to keep kicking field goals, keep doing that.
- 24:00Speaker 1: And you know, he didn't in Arizona. He felt that
- 24:03Speaker 1: that they could score. They couldn't. But I think that
- 24:05Speaker 1: that he's going to keep doing what he thinks is
- 24:07Speaker 1: winning football. All right? Uh, Leo in Atlanta, Georgia, Leo,
- 24:12Speaker 1: what's up?
- 24:13Speaker 3: How you doing that? You're rapidly becoming my favorite podcast?
- 24:17Speaker 1: Yes, but I take that.
- 24:20Speaker 3: I want to talk about I want to talk about
- 24:22Speaker 3: the kicker. Everybody seems to relax, but I'm still holding
- 24:27Speaker 3: the right to reserve because it seems like we always
- 24:29Speaker 3: do good until the end of the season in the playoffs. Yeah.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I mean that's fine. I mean, I don't
- 24:36Speaker 1: know what to tell you. I mean, like, like I'm
- 24:38Speaker 1: I'm kind of the same way, and we'll see. Like
- 24:41Speaker 1: I think, you know, I'm starting to get to that sense,
- 24:44Speaker 1: like in extra points that he's gonna make him He's
- 24:47Speaker 1: gonna make these short ones. He's got a lot of practice,
- 24:49Speaker 1: He's got a lot of practice on these kicks, you know.
- 24:52Speaker 1: But I just I feel like he's been he's been steady,
- 24:55Speaker 1: he's been steady. That's all. That's all you can ask
- 24:57Speaker 1: for with him.
- 24:59Speaker 3: I mean true, But it was the same way with my,
- 25:02Speaker 3: my her and Garline. Yeah, laten season in the playoffs.
- 25:07Speaker 1: I okay, so you want to would you sign would
- 25:11Speaker 1: you cut him in and get a veteran? I mean,
- 25:13Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know what you're I mean, I
- 25:14Speaker 1: get what you're saying, Like you don't you don't have
- 25:16Speaker 1: to like start the fan club for Aubrey, Like I
- 25:18Speaker 1: I understand that. But at the same time, it's like,
- 25:21Speaker 1: this isn't the playoffs. This is this is week week five.
- 25:24Speaker 1: I mean, uh I. The thing with Aubrey is is
- 25:28Speaker 1: when the season started, to me, he had a short rope.
- 25:32Speaker 1: I mean it was the least wasn't long. You you
- 25:34Speaker 1: can't miss a lot. He missed that extra point. It
- 25:37Speaker 1: was bad extra point in the rain, but he came back,
- 25:40Speaker 1: made like four or five others, made some field goals. Okay,
- 25:43Speaker 1: next week's hit some more field goals, long field goal.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Now you're starting to have a longer rope. He could
- 25:48Speaker 1: miss some kicks this this game and you're not changing anything.
- 25:52Speaker 1: So that's all he's doing is he's just building the
- 25:54Speaker 1: confidence of the team and maybe building confidence in you.
- 25:56Speaker 1: I don't know, but I mean they're not going to
- 25:58Speaker 1: make any changes.
- 25:59Speaker 3: On it, know you right, doing confidence?
- 26:02Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean that's that's that's all he can do.
- 26:04Speaker 1: That's all he can do. And and and and you're right, Leo,
- 26:07Speaker 1: I mean you you don't have to. I was the
- 26:09Speaker 1: same way last year with Maher. And the main thing
- 26:11Speaker 1: is because I had seen him what three years before that,
- 26:14Speaker 1: we we saw him here and I wasn't really all
- 26:18Speaker 1: all all in on him. I was just kind of
- 26:20Speaker 1: waiting for the waiting for the any something bad to happen.
- 26:24Speaker 1: And then it did and did and then it did
- 26:26Speaker 1: again and in Tampa, but they were they were winning,
- 26:29Speaker 1: you know that, they won, and so it didn't really
- 26:30Speaker 1: hurt him, but it did. It did hurt him in
- 26:32Speaker 1: San Francisco the next game. So I get it. But
- 26:37Speaker 1: that's it's not just the kicker. Every talk show in
- 26:40Speaker 1: America is talking about, oh, nice win, nice wind out.
- 26:43Speaker 1: We'll see what happens when you get to play. That's
- 26:45Speaker 1: the way it is. That's why I hate these big
- 26:46Speaker 1: picture takes. I mean, we can't you can't get there.
- 26:50Speaker 1: We're not going to just you know, get in the
- 26:53Speaker 1: DeLorean and get to the play. It doesn't work like that.
- 26:56Speaker 1: You can't. You can't skip ahead. This is the fun
- 26:59Speaker 1: part of it is why would you want to?
- 27:00Speaker 3: This is?
- 27:01Speaker 1: This is a good time. All right, it's gonna take
- 27:02Speaker 1: Let's take one more call before we're gonna break. Emmanuel
- 27:04Speaker 1: and rock wall. Emmanuel heard him, but I hear myself.
- 27:10Speaker 1: What's up? Man?
- 27:13Speaker 13: How I'm good?
- 27:14Speaker 3: Man?
- 27:14Speaker 1: Can you turn down the the your radio or or
- 27:19Speaker 1: turned down the computer? There you go, Emmanuel, what's up?
- 27:23Speaker 7: How are you doing it?
- 27:24Speaker 1: I'm great, man?
- 27:25Speaker 3: Talk to me.
- 27:27Speaker 7: This is my first time talking to anyone in the Cowboys.
- 27:32Speaker 7: I mean I'm a Cowboys find since nineteen seventy five,
- 27:36Speaker 7: so I'm all.
- 27:37Speaker 1: School, all right.
- 27:40Speaker 7: You know I just called because everybody is worried about
- 27:45Speaker 7: the red line offense. Uh this we have a great
- 27:51Speaker 7: coach who is trying everything. He's trying everything that will work.
- 27:57Speaker 7: This is the beginning of the season. We need to
- 28:00Speaker 7: be patient and see what the teaming is doing. They're
- 28:04Speaker 7: playing well in defense, they're playing well offense, and especially
- 28:08Speaker 7: a team. So I just want you to tell everyone
- 28:13Speaker 7: to keep the cool and look at the games. Okay,
- 28:18Speaker 7: that's what I have to say this your program is
- 28:22Speaker 7: very good.
- 28:22Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. And that was and that's a
- 28:25Speaker 1: good point. Thank you Emmanuel for the call. And I
- 28:30Speaker 1: think I think and you're right, I mean, easier said
- 28:34Speaker 1: than done, Okay, easier said than done to say, hey,
- 28:36Speaker 1: everyone be patient. This is this is a group, this
- 28:39Speaker 1: is a fan base that was thinking about the San
- 28:41Speaker 1: Francisco game back in week one, week two, and so
- 28:45Speaker 1: it's finally here. But but I think we've all kind
- 28:48Speaker 1: of learned that, hey, this this team, they have to
- 28:51Speaker 1: be focused. Michael Parson said it perfectly the other at
- 28:54Speaker 1: the game yesterday. When we are focused, when we're prepared,
- 28:58Speaker 1: we know we can beat anyone and dominate anyone. When
- 29:02Speaker 1: we're not, when we're not focused, when we're not doing
- 29:04Speaker 1: the things we need to do in the middle of
- 29:06Speaker 1: the week, we can get beat by anyone. Basically admitting
- 29:09Speaker 1: that that was the issue. And I think we all
- 29:11Speaker 1: saw that when it comes to the red zone, like
- 29:14Speaker 1: E Manual was saying, yeah, I mean obviously obviously that
- 29:18Speaker 1: we're still trying to see everything. It's been four games.
- 29:22Speaker 1: I think it's a problem. It's been a problem, and
- 29:24Speaker 1: you get into some games where your points are going
- 29:27Speaker 1: to be needed that. Yeah, you can't leave touchdowns on
- 29:30Speaker 1: the board so that they have to figure this out.
- 29:32Speaker 1: But it's good. It's good to have a thirty eight
- 29:34Speaker 1: to three win and still have things that you have
- 29:36Speaker 1: to work on, not just the players. McCarthy too. McCarthy
- 29:39Speaker 1: out coached Bill Belichick yesterday. He out coached him. I
- 29:42Speaker 1: guess what. He wasn't perfect either. He's the play caller.
- 29:45Speaker 1: They needed to score more. That's good for him. It's
- 29:48Speaker 1: good for the players. It's always good to have the
- 29:50Speaker 1: yeah butt games you won, you won convincingly, but more
- 29:54Speaker 1: to work on. We're gonna take a break here on
- 29:56Speaker 1: Cowboy storyline, be right back for more calls and text.
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- 32:00Speaker 7: The Cowboys storylines?
- 32:05Speaker 5: What is up?
- 32:05Speaker 1: Cowboys storyline? Back for the second half of the show,
- 32:08Speaker 1: I say, second half. We're kind of getting close to
- 32:11Speaker 1: the fourth quarter here. Big win for the Cowboys thirty
- 32:14Speaker 1: eight to three. They needed it, they needed to bounce back.
- 32:17Speaker 1: Show everyone calm everyone down a little bit as we
- 32:20Speaker 1: head into this huge game. I mean, it is a
- 32:22Speaker 1: it is a big game, and I've and I've said
- 32:24Speaker 1: it over and over. You guys kept wanting to talk
- 32:26Speaker 1: about it. I was like, let's let's let's you know,
- 32:29Speaker 1: in focus, let's slow down a little bit about these
- 32:31Speaker 1: other games. But it's here. Now, it's here, we can
- 32:34Speaker 1: talk about it. And I think I think the win
- 32:36Speaker 1: yesterday kind of helps a lot of things for this team.
- 32:39Speaker 1: Confidence wise going into it, because you know they San
- 32:43Speaker 1: Francisco's that's that's the team. I mean, the Eagles are.
- 32:47Speaker 1: Eagles are undefeated too. Eagles are going to be the
- 32:49Speaker 1: team in the in the division. But you know, San
- 32:52Speaker 1: Francisco's knocked out the Cowboys the last two years in
- 32:55Speaker 1: the playoffs.
- 32:56Speaker 8: We know this.
- 32:56Speaker 1: Everyone knows this. They've been better than Dallas for the
- 32:59Speaker 1: last two years. They have a better record this year.
- 33:03Speaker 1: They just beat the team in Arizona pretty easily. That
- 33:06Speaker 1: beat the Cowboys pretty easily, you know, the week before.
- 33:10Speaker 1: So it's all here. I mean, it's this is this
- 33:12Speaker 1: is a great early test to see exactly what this
- 33:16Speaker 1: team is. I want to point out one more guy
- 33:19Speaker 1: real quick before we get to another call. Brian Anger
- 33:23Speaker 1: had two punts yesterday. I averaged fifty six yards on
- 33:27Speaker 1: the two punts and fifty seven. One of the punts
- 33:32Speaker 1: I thought changed the entire game, the fifty five yard punt.
- 33:35Speaker 1: One didn't just go fifty five yards. It almost hit
- 33:37Speaker 1: the board up at the top. It was it was high,
- 33:40Speaker 1: and it was way out there, and it allowed Jalen Tolbert,
- 33:43Speaker 1: who had his best game his career, go down there
- 33:46Speaker 1: on special teams to make a great play, had to
- 33:49Speaker 1: knife through a couple of guys, go down there and
- 33:51Speaker 1: made the tackle that got him down to the ten
- 33:53Speaker 1: yard line. And then they had a penalty to the five.
- 33:55Speaker 1: And then a couple plays later was a touchdown that
- 33:57Speaker 1: flipped the field. That really changed the whole game in
- 34:00Speaker 1: that punt by Brian Anger. He had a pretty good
- 34:04Speaker 1: game also through a two point conversion, So really really
- 34:07Speaker 1: good game for him. Let's make sure and and and
- 34:10Speaker 1: don't forget that. Uh they didn't have to do a
- 34:12Speaker 1: lot of pun in but when they did it changed
- 34:13Speaker 1: the game. All right, let's go to Eric in North Carolina. Eric,
- 34:16Speaker 1: what's up?
- 34:17Speaker 14: Hey, what's going on? Nigga man? Happy cowboy Monday man?
- 34:20Speaker 1: All right, how you doing, buddy man?
- 34:22Speaker 5: Feeling great?
- 34:23Speaker 14: You know, starting off with a cowboy wins, coming off
- 34:27Speaker 14: a good weekend, mans keeping with my family and friends.
- 34:29Speaker 14: What more could you ask?
- 34:30Speaker 1: All right?
- 34:31Speaker 14: No, yeaes sirus A couple of things, manna take up
- 34:34Speaker 14: too much if you got time. I just want to
- 34:36Speaker 14: point out and give my flowers to Delian Blend. You know,
- 34:39Speaker 14: I think he's only gonna get better. He's gonna see
- 34:41Speaker 14: more tests along the way. But this kid has a
- 34:44Speaker 14: good head on his shoulders. He's confident. He shakes bad
- 34:47Speaker 14: plays and go back out there the next place and
- 34:49Speaker 14: visit is all. I like his mindset. I like his mentality. Man,
- 34:53Speaker 14: I think we're in good hands. Call said earlier, Man,
- 34:56Speaker 14: he's gonna he's he's putting back that wordation that on
- 34:59Speaker 14: his tide the field. Hey, he just can't throw up
- 35:02Speaker 14: this guy.
- 35:02Speaker 7: Man.
- 35:02Speaker 14: And you know, I really impressed by him secondary with
- 35:07Speaker 14: a call of touched on earlier. I want to see
- 35:09Speaker 14: more hunt and live key in that inside that ten
- 35:11Speaker 14: yard range.
- 35:12Speaker 15: Man.
- 35:12Speaker 14: I think he is a direct replacement where Ze Davis.
- 35:15Speaker 14: He's very extential, He's very smart and patient. He finds
- 35:19Speaker 14: a hole, he has let it enough to get through
- 35:21Speaker 14: there and and he just has a nose and all
- 35:23Speaker 14: getting to the end zone.
- 35:24Speaker 5: Man.
- 35:24Speaker 14: And I think he's a web throe. I think we're
- 35:26Speaker 14: onto something with him and also putting you know, turping
- 35:30Speaker 14: inside the area too. Man, they're threaten the deepest laterally
- 35:33Speaker 14: with his speed. I just really you know, encourage, man.
- 35:36Speaker 14: And I want to see more. And I think next
- 35:38Speaker 14: week is gonna be ulternate tenth And I have confidence
- 35:40Speaker 14: in the team that we can win as long as
- 35:42Speaker 14: we bottle up that boy McCaffrey, he's a headache. We
- 35:45Speaker 14: can find a way to do that. I think we
- 35:47Speaker 14: can kind of think we can be onto something.
- 35:49Speaker 15: Man.
- 35:49Speaker 7: But yeah, people taking.
- 35:50Speaker 14: My pall Nick, he's doing that. Sellar work man, God
- 35:53Speaker 14: bless you and cowboys for life. Brothers.
- 35:55Speaker 1: There you go, There you go, Eric, that's a that's
- 35:57Speaker 1: a Victor Monday call right there.
- 35:59Speaker 10: Eric.
- 35:59Speaker 1: I don't know if you played football, but if you did,
- 36:01Speaker 1: I bet you played defensive back because I think you
- 36:05Speaker 1: have to understand that. You understand the mentality of Duran Bland.
- 36:09Speaker 1: Understand how important mindset is. It's very important for a
- 36:13Speaker 1: corner I would say quarterback, cornerback and kicker, those three
- 36:20Speaker 1: right there. You you got to have the right frame
- 36:23Speaker 1: of mind to play the position. And it's different. But
- 36:26Speaker 1: at cornerback, you you you can't remember the play you
- 36:31Speaker 1: gave up or the play you just made. You have
- 36:33Speaker 1: to pull. You have to play the ball or play
- 36:35Speaker 1: the man or whatever you know. You play your assignment.
- 36:37Speaker 1: That's what you have to do. And Deran Bland, I've
- 36:40Speaker 1: been so impressed with him and I don't understand how
- 36:44Speaker 1: he got through so many rounds and with not getting
- 36:47Speaker 1: drafted into the fifth round. I just I don't know.
- 36:49Speaker 1: I mean, you know, community played, it was he was
- 36:52Speaker 1: a junior college and was Fresno State, and but but
- 36:55Speaker 1: some of these some of the highlights, I mean were
- 36:57Speaker 1: really really good. But lucky he did, you know, for
- 37:01Speaker 1: the Cowboys. But but yeah, I mean, and then as
- 37:05Speaker 1: for the for the for the red zone stuff, Hunter Lipke, Yeah,
- 37:09Speaker 1: I'd like to see him down there. Not Maybe the
- 37:12Speaker 1: thing with him is that he can be he can
- 37:14Speaker 1: get the ball, and there's times where he might be
- 37:16Speaker 1: the lead blocker. So I think he's his role is
- 37:18Speaker 1: going to keep, you know, increasing. I'm I don't know
- 37:23Speaker 1: if they would want me to say this, but I'm
- 37:25Speaker 1: I'm at the point where you got to keep trying
- 37:28Speaker 1: something different. I think they need a defensive guy in
- 37:32Speaker 1: the game. I I that's what I would do. I
- 37:33Speaker 1: would put a defensive lineman in the game, somebody with
- 37:38Speaker 1: a quick, you know, quick first step, somebody that can
- 37:42Speaker 1: provide maybe a Maazi Smith, maybe a Chauncey Golston. You know,
- 37:48Speaker 1: he's already he's scored, so but somebody down there that
- 37:51Speaker 1: can provide a little bit more push. We see it.
- 37:53Speaker 1: We've seen it in the past, seen in college a lot.
- 37:56Speaker 1: I mean, and maybe that maybe it's a push situation,
- 37:59Speaker 1: or maybe it's just it's just a lead blocker. But
- 38:02Speaker 1: I would I would like to see that, you know,
- 38:04Speaker 1: an oversized guy in there that can do some things.
- 38:07Speaker 1: You gotta try some some stuff different at this point,
- 38:09Speaker 1: and you know, maybe it's Turping Lifty, maybe somebody else.
- 38:13Speaker 1: All right, Robbie in Florida is next, Robbie in Florida.
- 38:17Speaker 15: What's up?
- 38:18Speaker 8: Nick?
- 38:18Speaker 1: Hey, Robbie, how are you doing?
- 38:20Speaker 15: Hey man, I'm great man. I hope you are as well. Yeah,
- 38:23Speaker 15: first to shout out to you guys. Man, I've listening
- 38:25Speaker 15: to you guys, been a fan for years and when
- 38:26Speaker 15: you and Derek got there twentieth years ago, I read
- 38:29Speaker 15: your book. I love all the content you guys put out.
- 38:32Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Thank you so much for me.
- 38:36Speaker 15: You just changed my question what about putting Mike in there?
- 38:39Speaker 15: And my question was do you think Mike is gonna
- 38:41Speaker 15: be all right? And then he looked a little.
- 38:42Speaker 1: Hurt, But you want to play him on offense? I'm kidding,
- 38:45Speaker 1: I'm just wondering. No, no, no, no, no, no, I'm joking. No,
- 38:48Speaker 1: I think Micah, I think Mike is fine. I think
- 38:52Speaker 1: I think he's fine. I think his feelings are hurt
- 38:54Speaker 1: more more than the knee. And I only say that
- 38:57Speaker 1: only kid, because this guy wants to get sacks. He
- 39:00Speaker 1: wants to get played, he wants to make plays. He
- 39:01Speaker 1: wants to be a difference maker. He was a difference
- 39:03Speaker 1: maker in the game, just didn't get sacks.
- 39:05Speaker 11: Uh.
- 39:06Speaker 1: He's going back out there after a little knee, you know,
- 39:08Speaker 1: banged up. He wants That's what he wants. He wants
- 39:11Speaker 1: to go make plays. That's and and that mentality is
- 39:15Speaker 1: what you love about him. You know, the Patriots had
- 39:19Speaker 1: a chance to score in the first you know, first
- 39:21Speaker 1: drive of the game. Uh, they had Gasecki was open.
- 39:25Speaker 1: Uh he almost ran into Chris being there in the
- 39:27Speaker 1: back and if he saw that, good job Chris getting
- 39:28Speaker 1: out of the way, a little stiff arm there. I
- 39:30Speaker 1: was like, oh, I was watching. I was worried about
- 39:32Speaker 1: my producer for the show. But but no, nice nice
- 39:36Speaker 1: job kind of sidestepping. But he was open. Gasecki was open.
- 39:39Speaker 1: Mike mac Jones. He had Mike and right in his face.
- 39:42Speaker 1: I mean that he that was a pressure that that
- 39:44Speaker 1: caused that throw, so he didn't get the sacks. But
- 39:46Speaker 1: he always makes a difference in the game. I think
- 39:49Speaker 1: he's fine for sure, So I think he'll he'll be
- 39:53Speaker 1: he'll be finding there and then I don't know about
- 39:55Speaker 1: offense though. I think he just sticks to that defensive
- 39:58Speaker 1: side of the ball. But we've seen it. When he
- 39:59Speaker 1: gets the ball in his hands, I mean he's going
- 40:01Speaker 1: to the house and he's going to the end zone
- 40:03Speaker 1: with it, for sure. Craig and l Passo, you're next.
- 40:07Speaker 16: Yes, thank you. Hey Craig, Hi, are you ready?
- 40:14Speaker 1: You're up, it's your time.
- 40:16Speaker 16: Thank you. I want to think about our short yardage
- 40:20Speaker 16: offense running the ball. It's bugging me that we don't
- 40:23Speaker 16: seem to even try. We have first and goal from
- 40:26Speaker 16: the four, and we immediately start throwing, and I'm thinking
- 40:28Speaker 16: run it three times quick, hitting up the middle, maybe
- 40:31Speaker 16: even four times. You could probably run four sneaks.
- 40:33Speaker 9: And get it in.
- 40:34Speaker 16: And we're third and one anywhere, and we throw it.
- 40:38Speaker 16: Do our guys, in your opinion, don't have the ability
- 40:40Speaker 16: to move them or our backs can't get that one yard?
- 40:43Speaker 16: Do we miss zeek that much? And does that contribute
- 40:46Speaker 16: to our red zone woes because everything is compressed when
- 40:48Speaker 16: we get down there first and goal from the nine.
- 40:51Speaker 16: What are your thoughts on that?
- 40:52Speaker 1: Yeah, well thanks for the call, Craig, And yes, I
- 40:54Speaker 1: mean the red zone. It's just it's every it seems
- 40:58Speaker 1: like every every button he's pushed McCarthy as the play card,
- 41:02Speaker 1: every It just it just hasn't worked. It hasn't worked.
- 41:06Speaker 1: And he's tried different ways. He's tried to throw it
- 41:09Speaker 1: three times in, he's tried to run it four times in.
- 41:12Speaker 1: He's tried, he's tried different things, and it just it
- 41:15Speaker 1: just hasn't. He hasn't found it just yet. And you
- 41:18Speaker 1: can't really blame it on the offensive line anymore. They
- 41:21Speaker 1: were they were, They had the line intact for the
- 41:24Speaker 1: most part, not not tiring. But but I mean, it
- 41:27Speaker 1: wasn't a line issue. It's just I don't I can't
- 41:32Speaker 1: put my finger on it, and I don't. They can't either.
- 41:34Speaker 1: That's the thing. I hated that that call on first
- 41:37Speaker 1: and goal from the from the four and a throw
- 41:40Speaker 1: to CD. I hated that call. And I agree with
- 41:43Speaker 1: what you just said. I'm running the football there. I
- 41:46Speaker 1: get two yards there. Now I know I got three
- 41:48Speaker 1: plays to go score touchdown. If I if I throw
- 41:51Speaker 1: an incomplete pass, I probably only have two plays there.
- 41:55Speaker 1: So first down is so critical all the time. And
- 41:59Speaker 1: what's weird is when they get first and goal from
- 42:02Speaker 1: the nine or ten or eleven, which I always think
- 42:05Speaker 1: is so tough to score, they run there and they're
- 42:08Speaker 1: only getting a couple. That's always the key is what
- 42:10Speaker 1: happens on that first down run. So first down to
- 42:13Speaker 1: me is critical, and that's where they just kind of
- 42:15Speaker 1: struggled a little bit. Are a lot of bit actually
- 42:18Speaker 1: for being honest, We've got two more calls. Let's go
- 42:21Speaker 1: two more calls today, Sean and Bakersfield, California. Sean, thanks
- 42:25Speaker 1: for waking up out there in California.
- 42:28Speaker 16: What's going on?
- 42:29Speaker 9: Man?
- 42:30Speaker 1: How's going what's going on there? How are you?
- 42:33Speaker 17: I'm wonderful after that Cowboys winning, baby, I love to
- 42:37Speaker 17: see how they came back. But you know, I'm in California, man,
- 42:41Speaker 17: It's on to the big game that we've all been
- 42:44Speaker 17: waiting for. You know, I'm surrounded by Niner fans over here,
- 42:47Speaker 17: and all they've been talking all this years, you know,
- 42:51Speaker 17: all these months, been talking all this trash to me,
- 42:53Speaker 17: and I'm ready for the game. I just wanted to
- 42:57Speaker 17: say one team man, was one of them coaches over
- 43:01Speaker 17: there or any of them players. I'll be watching last
- 43:03Speaker 17: year's film and I would just get all worked up
- 43:07Speaker 17: for this week and just let it all out, kind
- 43:10Speaker 17: of like a cage rooster in the sense, you know
- 43:12Speaker 17: you you hold them in, make them watch those videos
- 43:16Speaker 17: of last year's game, and I hope they just unleashed
- 43:19Speaker 17: the fury on these freaking Niners.
- 43:21Speaker 3: Man.
- 43:21Speaker 1: I'm ready, all right, Sean. I mean, if we need
- 43:26Speaker 1: if there's a last second injury, we're gonna call you, Sean,
- 43:29Speaker 1: And I think that you you're ready to be suited
- 43:32Speaker 1: up and play in the game. I mean that's like
- 43:35Speaker 1: I love football, I really do love I love it because,
- 43:39Speaker 1: like you can hear the passion in his voice of
- 43:43Speaker 1: the stuff that he deals with. He's been dealing with
- 43:46Speaker 1: that since January and then the previous January as well.
- 43:49Speaker 1: And that's why it's that's why we love sports, because
- 43:54Speaker 1: because like this really matters to you guys, it does,
- 43:57Speaker 1: and I'm here for it. I'm here for it. I
- 44:01Speaker 1: don't know about caged roosters or anything like that. I
- 44:04Speaker 1: didn't know they get so bottled up and ready to fight.
- 44:07Speaker 1: I don't know. I would go with a little bit
- 44:09Speaker 1: more fear. A lion. We can get a lion, maybe
- 44:13Speaker 1: a wolf. I don't know any other of the player nicknames,
- 44:17Speaker 1: but all right, I mean yeah, Cowboys, nine ers, we're
- 44:20Speaker 1: gonna war here for it all week long. All right.
- 44:22Speaker 1: Last one, Curtis in Oklahoma. Curtis, Hey, good morning, Good morning.
- 44:28Speaker 1: How are you doing.
- 44:29Speaker 16: I'm excellent.
- 44:30Speaker 18: I don't know what's tougher, trying to get in the
- 44:32Speaker 18: phone lines on storyline or the Cowboys trying to get
- 44:35Speaker 18: in the red zone.
- 44:36Speaker 1: Nice. Take that as a compliment. I like that. But
- 44:40Speaker 1: you know what, you know what, you know what, Curtis,
- 44:42Speaker 1: I'm changing your name to Hunter Lipkey because you're the
- 44:45Speaker 1: last caller. You got in, just like Hunter lip Key.
- 44:49Speaker 1: So what's up?
- 44:49Speaker 11: Man?
- 44:50Speaker 18: He the biggest cheer moment that I had yesterday, Well,
- 44:54Speaker 18: there were two of them. One of them was whenever
- 44:57Speaker 18: he pulled the quarterback, Bill Belichick pulled the quarterback. That
- 45:01Speaker 18: was just I was like, oh man, it's like we
- 45:03Speaker 18: just started the fourth quarter and it wasn't necessarily a
- 45:06Speaker 18: safety thing.
- 45:08Speaker 9: He just knew that he you know, he was not.
- 45:10Speaker 18: Doing anything couldn't do anything right. The second The second one,
- 45:14Speaker 18: which I think was a huge reflection of the difference
- 45:17Speaker 18: between last week and this week, was my man Jalen
- 45:20Speaker 18: Tolbert flying down on the punt and just yeah Deebo
- 45:24Speaker 18: slaming the returners. So those are the just the two things.
- 45:28Speaker 18: And then finally, I just think that this is such
- 45:31Speaker 18: a huge game, not just like to know that you
- 45:35Speaker 18: can beat San Francisco and that you can you know,
- 45:37Speaker 18: be the one of the top teams in the NFL.
- 45:40Speaker 18: But I kind of alluded to this before, like this
- 45:44Speaker 18: could affect who you play in the postseason, Like I
- 45:47Speaker 18: want the first round by I want somebody else to
- 45:50Speaker 18: beat up and maybe even beat you know, the forty
- 45:52Speaker 18: nine ers in the first or second round, and let's
- 45:55Speaker 18: just get an easy path to the super Bowl.
- 45:57Speaker 9: And you can do that.
- 45:58Speaker 18: You know, you can help yourself do that this week.
- 46:01Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean you're you're right. I mean that's
- 46:03Speaker 1: that's not necessarily Thanks for the call, and thanks to
- 46:06Speaker 1: wrap it up for us here, Curtis, But uh, that's
- 46:09Speaker 1: not really looking ahead, uh to say about the playoffs
- 46:13Speaker 1: or all that. When you know you're right, games like
- 46:15Speaker 1: this matter, you know, I mean games against NFC. You
- 46:18Speaker 1: know NFC teams. I mean, are you know any anybody
- 46:21Speaker 1: in the NFC or the division? So they all matter
- 46:23Speaker 1: in their own way, but a game like this, if
- 46:25Speaker 1: if you think it's going to come down to the end,
- 46:27Speaker 1: which we all kind of think it will, those these
- 46:30Speaker 1: are probably the three best teams in the NFC, with
- 46:32Speaker 1: the Eagles, Cowboys and forty nine Ers, not really in
- 46:35Speaker 1: that order, but but those those three teams, then yeah,
- 46:38Speaker 1: this game, this game matters one and and uh it
- 46:42Speaker 1: also matters to just to see where you are, where
- 46:44Speaker 1: you stand. You know, are you good enough? Because you
- 46:46Speaker 1: know the forty nine ers are good. That's the thing
- 46:48Speaker 1: you don't know about these other teams. Forty nine Ers
- 46:50Speaker 1: are good and they've been better than the Cowboys. So
- 46:53Speaker 1: this is a great opportunity for the Cowboys to go
- 46:55Speaker 1: show them you're right. Pulling the quarterback was great. That
- 46:58Speaker 1: was that was good to see. I mean you had
- 47:00Speaker 1: to at that point. Belichick's looking at those stats and
- 47:02Speaker 1: you're like, all right, who's caught the most passes here?
- 47:05Speaker 1: I got Henry with four, Douglas with two, Bland with two.
- 47:08Speaker 1: Oh wait no, he's with them. So yeah, I mean, yeah,
- 47:11Speaker 1: pull this guy, get zappy in there, and just let's
- 47:14Speaker 1: finish it, just like we're gonna finish this show here.
- 47:15Speaker 1: We're went a little long today, you guys, great thirteen call.
- 47:18Speaker 1: That's awesome. Chris Beam in the back, appreciate you punching
- 47:22Speaker 1: the buttons. We'll be here tomorrow. Let's talk about We'll
- 47:26Speaker 1: talk about the forty nine ers even more tomorrow on
- 47:28Speaker 1: Cowboys storyline see then.
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