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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette.
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  Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, September the 9th. I'm Nick Eatman. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: some Cowboys football for you. Whatever you got, call us 888-855-2297.
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  Speaker 2: You guys know the number. You guys know the drill.
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  Speaker 2: It is officially football season. Kicks off tonight. Cowboys opponent
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  Speaker 2: this year, Seattle Seahawks defending champions. They take on the
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  Speaker 2: New England Patriots.
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not even really. I mean, if I have fantasy
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  Speaker 2: football players, I've got to figure that out and all
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  Speaker 2: that stuff. But, I mean, I'm obviously focused on Sunday night,
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys and the Giants. I do know there's a game
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  Speaker 2: tonight and one tomorrow. I think Rams and 49ers. So
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  Speaker 2: that's fun. Football's back officially. Get your fantasy lineups in,
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  Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. You know, we'll see. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: Seattle's just as good. Or they're not as good. Watch
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  Speaker 2: out for New England. I mean, we're going to make all.
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  Speaker 2: everybody's going to have their assessments of how things are
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  Speaker 2: going to be and what kind of matchups the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: are going to have later on. I mean, they face
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  Speaker 2: three of those four teams that play here tonight and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: But still, the focus is the Giants, like it always is,
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  Speaker 2: like it has been since the schedule came out. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about that and what the Cowboys need to do
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  Speaker 2: to get this first win of the season. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's start us off in Colorado Springs. Cowboys' Nico is first.
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  Speaker 4: What's up?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, what up, Cowboy Nation?
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  Speaker 6: How's it going, Nick? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, man. How are you?
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  Speaker 6: I am stoked, as you can tell.
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  Speaker 7: Now, last year, I took a new career job. I
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  Speaker 7: went from corrections to throwing trash. I don't know if
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  Speaker 7: you remember that, but I finally did get my CDL,
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  Speaker 7: so now I'm not throwing, I'm driving. But I am
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  Speaker 7: still throwing away those nasty, ugly, blue, crappy trash. God-awful
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  Speaker 7: midget trash cans, and that's what I'm expecting us to
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  Speaker 7: do this Sunday. Now, I do need to tap my
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  Speaker 7: brakes on something as much as I want some guy
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  Speaker 7: out of Vegas. Honestly, man, you.
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  Speaker 6: Guys have convinced me. Dylan, man, you lay down some
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  Speaker 6: great info, man. I really do think we might need
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  Speaker 6: a corner, and I'm hoping maybe Jerry looks there. But
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  Speaker 6: if that guy from Vegas comes, you know I'm not
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  Speaker 6: going to be mad. That's all I got today except for...
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  Speaker 6: I cannot wait. It is football season. Let's get rowdy.
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  Speaker 6: Let's get loud.
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  Speaker 7: Always remember, ask for help. Hug your mothers. Please hug
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  Speaker 7: your mothers. Tell them you love them.
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  Speaker 6: And Nick, let's get rowdy. All right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we can start the show off better
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  Speaker 2: than that. Cowboy Nico. He's fired up. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: was trying to tell you guys, hey, it's football season.
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  Speaker 2: You guys know it. You guys feel it. If you
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  Speaker 2: don't know by the sound of Nico's voice, then you're
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  Speaker 2: not paying attention. He's ready. He's ready to go. Good
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  Speaker 2: luck on the new job. I do remember you saying that.
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  Speaker 2: As far as making trades and not making trades and
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  Speaker 2: which position would it be, you know, I It's still
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  Speaker 2: got to be the right move. It's got to be
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  Speaker 2: the right move for down the road. And because I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if they have players that you would trade
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  Speaker 2: depth-wise to go and get draft picks and get players
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  Speaker 2: as well. So if you're going to get a player,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to get a corner, you're going to get
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  Speaker 2: a pass rusher, you're going to trade more draft picks.
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  Speaker 2: And they've already done that. I mean, they don't have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of draft picks left. four maybe for next year.
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  Speaker 2: So as it stands right now, and they didn't lose anybody,
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  Speaker 2: so don't expect a lot of comp picks, if any,
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  Speaker 2: to be added to the group because they didn't lose
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  Speaker 2: hardly any of unrestricted free agents, and they definitely signed
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  Speaker 2: more than that. All right, let's go to KC Joe
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  Speaker 2: in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. How are you?
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  Speaker 8: All right, sir, how are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: You got the same energy as Nico or no? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 9: I think our line's going to be okay with Bass.
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  Speaker 9: I think they'll put the tight ends in there and
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  Speaker 9: help them block. I think that's what they'll do. And then,
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  Speaker 9: of course, you know, Big Blue's got to see our
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  Speaker 9: secret weapon, you know, number 17, you know, our kicker.
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  Speaker 9: I think that's the game winner right there.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they know. They know about him. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think he went 64 yards to tie the game in
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  Speaker 2: week two and then won it in regulation. The only
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  Speaker 2: kicker in the history of the NFL to tie the
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  Speaker 2: game in regulation and then win it at the end
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  Speaker 2: of overtime. They know. They know about him. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if he's a secret anymore. He's the highest paid
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  Speaker 2: kicker in the league.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we have him.
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  Speaker 9: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. He's here. And I don't know if Cowboy
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  Speaker 2: fans wanted to go down to that, you know, but
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  Speaker 2: it might. It might. I mean, Harbaugh's going to bring
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  Speaker 2: a different attitude over there. And, you know, I was
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  Speaker 2: doing some research on that and Looking at the success,
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  Speaker 2: I still can't believe Baltimore let him go. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't make sense to me. But, hey, he's with
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  Speaker 2: the Giants, and he'll make them better, and they've got
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  Speaker 2: some talent. So it'll be a good matchup this game
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  Speaker 2: and probably every time they face the Giants.
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  Speaker 8: Yep.
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  Speaker 9: Remember, he left on a kick. That's what cost him
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  Speaker 9: his job. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Which is weird to me. That kicker had a good year,
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  Speaker 2: and then he missed a kick in Pittsburgh or Baltimore,
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  Speaker 2: wherever that game was. But it's like, if he makes
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  Speaker 2: the kick, is he a better coach? Do they win
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  Speaker 2: the playoff game, and then do they go to the
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  Speaker 2: divisional round, and is he still fired?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't make sense to me. So there's obviously more
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  Speaker 2: to it than that. He was in Baltimore 18 years, Joe,
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  Speaker 2: and he made the playoffs 12th. And a kick away
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  Speaker 2: from being 13. So he'll breathe some needed life into
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  Speaker 2: that Giants organization.
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  Speaker 4: All right, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Well, that's all I have today.
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  Speaker 9: You have a wonderful day.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 2: You too. Yeah, I was doing some research on the matchup,
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  Speaker 2: on the article that's on there about the storylines. And
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  Speaker 2: they made the playoffs 12 out of 18 times. and
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  Speaker 2: won a couple Super Bowls in there, too. And that's
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  Speaker 2: always been a tough division. I mean, those teams, Pittsburgh's competitive, usually,
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  Speaker 2: and Cincinnati has been for a little bit, too. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's more to it than that as far
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  Speaker 2: as why they made that move and that change. But
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  Speaker 2: I think from a culture standpoint, he'll do a good
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  Speaker 2: job of making that franchise better. So that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a tough matchup.
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  Speaker 8: But, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys are pretty good, too. I mean, like, they are.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like, yeah, you could look at, oh, the
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  Speaker 2: Giants could be better, and maybe the Eagles aren't going
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  Speaker 2: to be as good or whatever. But I think those,
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  Speaker 2: even in Washington, I think these four teams are going to,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be very competitive division games. The first
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  Speaker 2: two weeks of the season are going to be so
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  Speaker 2: important for the Cowboys here. I mean, yeah, there's talk
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  Speaker 2: about going to Brazil and playing the Ravens and how
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  Speaker 2: unique that is, and it definitely is. But you can't
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  Speaker 2: start the season anything I don't know if it's tougher,
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  Speaker 2: but as important as these games here, Giants and Washington back-to-back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you can get both of them, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that would be a huge, huge boost for this team.
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  Speaker 2: And I think they're definitely winnable. I mean, if they're not,
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  Speaker 2: if they're not winnable, then the Cowboys are going to
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  Speaker 2: have major problems this year. But you got to go
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  Speaker 2: and handle those two. All right, Michael in Bowling Green,
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  Speaker 2: what's up, man?
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  Speaker 12: What's going on, man?
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  Speaker 6: How are you?
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  Speaker 12: I'm good. I don't know what's more exciting, storyline or
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  Speaker 12: the game on Sunday. They're both pretty exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I go off the numbers. There's going to be
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  Speaker 2: millions of people watching the Giants-Cowboys game. We haven't hit
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  Speaker 2: that number yet on storyline, so I'm going to say
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  Speaker 2: most people would say the other, but the fact that
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  Speaker 2: you're putting in the same sentence, I appreciate.
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  Speaker 12: Well, you need to advertise more. This is just for
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  Speaker 12: me prediction day, not for the game, but for a player.
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  Speaker 12: This is my prediction for the season for George Pickens.
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  Speaker 12: Number one wide receiver in the NFL at the end
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  Speaker 12: of the year. I believe, truly, not because I'm a
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  Speaker 12: Cowboys fan, but I truly believe he's going to be
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  Speaker 12: the number one wide receiver. So I don't know how
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  Speaker 12: far the Cowboys are going to get. I hope a
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  Speaker 12: long ways. But I think going into next season, George
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  Speaker 12: Pickens will have to be your number one for the
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  Speaker 12: Cowboys because I believe he's going to yardage, touchdowns, catches.
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  Speaker 12: He's going to be number one. What are you thinking?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was going to ask you, like, when you
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  Speaker 2: say the number one, just in as far as, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just looking at it, like, on paper, or are you saying, like,
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  Speaker 2: based off of yards or catches or touchdowns or all that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Number one in the NFL, when they list it, it'll
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  Speaker 12: be George Pickens, like, CD, Jefferson, da-da-da, but George Pickens
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  Speaker 12: is going to be number one.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 2: That's a bold statement.
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  Speaker 12: That's my prediction.
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  Speaker 13: All right.
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  Speaker 12: That's all I got.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 12: See ya.
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  Speaker 2: All right. You know what? I say this respectfully. I
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  Speaker 2: hope not. I hope that's not the case. And I
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  Speaker 2: mean that. I.
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  Speaker 2: You want him to be up there. You want him
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  Speaker 2: to be, you know, a difference maker and all that.
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  Speaker 2: But they've got two of these guys. And if one
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  Speaker 2: of them is leading the league, there could be an
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  Speaker 2: exception to the rule. But usually, you know, I get
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  Speaker 2: asked this a lot. Do you think the Cowboys can
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  Speaker 2: have three 1,000-yard receivers like Flanoy? And my answer is
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  Speaker 2: I hope not. because that isn't a good recipe for
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  Speaker 2: what you're trying to do and go and win games.
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  Speaker 2: Get down 21-7 in the second quarter, and guess what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing for the next two and a half quarters? Throwing, throwing, throwing, throwing, throwing.
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  Speaker 2: So Dak gets 5,000 yards and all this stuff. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but it's hollow. Go look at the history of teams
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  Speaker 2: that have three 1,000-yard receivers. It's not a long list,
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  Speaker 2: but there's not a lot of success there. Typically, that
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  Speaker 2: goes with that. So going back to Pickens, it's great
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  Speaker 2: if he is, you know, the best receiver in the league,
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  Speaker 2: but it doesn't necessarily have to show with numbers. And also,
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  Speaker 2: here's another point, too. George Pickens can, and we saw
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  Speaker 2: it in the first game last year, there was a
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  Speaker 2: drive where George Pickens, the Cowboys, went from the 20-yard
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  Speaker 2: line to scoring a touchdown. And George Pickens was a
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  Speaker 2: huge factor in that drive and didn't catch a pass.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't catch one pass. Got double teamed on one play.
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  Speaker 2: Ferguson over the middle for about 15, 20 yards. Then
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  Speaker 2: another 40-yard bomb, which was a pass interference. And they
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  Speaker 2: got the ball at the six. I think Javante scored, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: And you saw the impact of George Pickens on that
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  Speaker 2: drive without even catching a pass.
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  Speaker 10: So.
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  Speaker 2: To say he's the most dangerous receiver, most dynamic, he
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  Speaker 2: could be. Man, the training camp he had was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: But to say that he's number one in catches, number
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  Speaker 2: one in yards, touchdowns, and all that, I find that
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  Speaker 2: hard to believe. They don't throw the same type of
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  Speaker 2: passes to him. Jackson, Smith, and Jig was going to
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  Speaker 2: get a lot of those, and so was St. Brown
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  Speaker 2: with the Lions. um, because that's kind of the, the, the,
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  Speaker 2: the routes that they get with Pickens. It's more vertical
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  Speaker 2: down the field. Now, if Pickens is leading the league
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  Speaker 2: in average per catch, great. If he's leading the league
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  Speaker 2: in pass interference, strong, great. Uh, those, those are the
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  Speaker 2: things I see. So I'm not, not knocking what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: Just know that because of the way this offense is,
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  Speaker 2: it works, how they use Pickens and don't forget about CD. Um,
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  Speaker 2: I hope they're both up there. Top 10 receivers, as
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  Speaker 2: far as all those stats. And, uh, Kind of hope
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  Speaker 2: Javante Williams is doing a lot of running in the
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  Speaker 2: fourth quarter, if you know what I mean. All right,
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  Speaker 2: Brian in Kansas City. What's up, Brian?
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Nick.
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  Speaker 11: How are you?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, good, man.
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  Speaker 6: Good, good.
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  Speaker 8: Glad to talk to you. Hey, you know, the thing
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  Speaker 8: that's most exciting to me about the beginning of every season,
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  Speaker 8: you know, we go through all this long offseason and
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  Speaker 8: the draft and training camps and You know, very few
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  Speaker 8: teams play their starters anymore in the preseason. There's still
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  Speaker 8: a couple, but most do what the Cowboys do. Nobody plays.
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  Speaker 8: You don't show anything. You know, here's the thing. When
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  Speaker 8: you look at what happened last year, who had this
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  Speaker 8: on their dance card? The Patriots and the Seahawks in
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  Speaker 8: the Super Bowl and the Chiefs not making the playoffs
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  Speaker 8: at all. Right. Right. The newness of a new season,
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  Speaker 8: you just don't know. Like everybody says we have the
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  Speaker 8: hardest schedule this year, you know, looking at strength of
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  Speaker 8: schedule from last year. But, man, things change.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely. I've always said that, too. I agree with you
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  Speaker 2: on this.
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  Speaker 8: Teams that were good last year, you know, if they
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  Speaker 8: lose a key player or two or just have some
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  Speaker 8: turnover in the offseason, may not be. And the opposite,
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  Speaker 8: you know, the Bears. The Bears was another huge surprise
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  Speaker 8: last year. You know, so anyway, the thing that's the
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  Speaker 8: big gray area for our game this year, the opening
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  Speaker 8: day this year, is I don't know what to expect
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  Speaker 8: because both teams have had massive turnover. You know, you
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  Speaker 8: look at the Giants and how many brand-new starters they have,
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  Speaker 8: DJ Reeder, Edmonds, Malinoa, you know, on top of a
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  Speaker 8: new coaching staff. You know, and the same thing for us.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we've got eight or nine new starters, right?
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  Speaker 8: And a brand-new defense. I'll be honest with you. I
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  Speaker 8: listened to all the pundits telling us what to put.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know what to think is going to happen
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  Speaker 8: on Sunday night. I really don't. There's just so much
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  Speaker 8: gray area. Anyway, I want to know, from your point
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  Speaker 8: of view, what's the one thing you want to know?
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  Speaker 8: You feel like, hey, I now understand this because I've
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  Speaker 8: seen real football. What do you want to feel like
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  Speaker 8: you know coming out of this game today? Sunday night.
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  Speaker 8: For me, I want to see our defense get punched
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  Speaker 8: in the face and see how CP reacts and adjust
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  Speaker 8: to it. That's my answer. I'll hang up and listen, brother.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that was an interesting call and an interesting
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  Speaker 2: way of wording it there at the end. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if I ever want to get punched in the face,
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  Speaker 2: but I think you've been around enough of these games
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  Speaker 2: to know what happens. So how do you react to adversity?
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  Speaker 2: And that's a good one. For me, what do I
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  Speaker 2: want to know? Man, you got a stapler? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I got a list. My first thought when you said it, though,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just because when was the draft? Late April?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're talking like four months now. And since
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  Speaker 2: those guys were going ballistic in the war room about
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  Speaker 2: Caleb Downs, And we've seen eight snaps. We've seen some
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  Speaker 2: stuff here and there in some of the scrimmage plays
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. But, I mean, I want to
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  Speaker 2: see him. That's what I want to see. I want
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  Speaker 2: to see what this guy is really all about and
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  Speaker 2: what he does and how he helps everybody around him.
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  Speaker 2: So kind of excited about that and just that part
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  Speaker 2: of the defense and just what he's going to do.
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  Speaker 2: But let me say this, too, just also to temper some,
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you're just going to call him a safety,
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  Speaker 2: that's fine. But don't forget, he's going to be playing...
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  Speaker 2: What made him so valuable is the fact that he
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  Speaker 2: can play in the slot. Those guys get beat, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Guys in the slot get beat. Jordan Lewis, as good
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  Speaker 2: as he.
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  Speaker 2: It's the toughest position other than quarterback, I think, in
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  Speaker 2: the league is playing slot receiver with these fast, quick
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  Speaker 2: guys going left or right, and you've got no sideline
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  Speaker 2: to help you. You can get beat three different ways,
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  Speaker 2: and it's going to happen because he is a versatile safety,
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  Speaker 2: but he's going to go up against some slot receivers,
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  Speaker 2: and he's going to get beat at times. But what
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  Speaker 2: makes him so unique is the fact that they can
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  Speaker 2: play base defense and nickel pretty much at the same
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  Speaker 2: time having a guy like that. And I think that's
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: going to go a long ways. All right, that's a
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: really good call. Let's go to Blair, Newport News, Virginia. Blair,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: what's up?
• 17:35
  Speaker 14: Hey, not much. Super, super excited for the season. I mean,
• 17:41
  Speaker 14: only frustrations. I wish we were playing tonight. I'm ready
• 17:44
  Speaker 14: to see this season. On that topic of defense, though,
• 17:49
  Speaker 14: because I think part of the frustration we've had getting
• 17:52
  Speaker 14: ready for this season is it is a whole new team,
• 17:55
  Speaker 14: a whole new defense, lots of new pieces. We didn't
• 17:58
  Speaker 14: see much in the preseason, thankfully, to go on. But
• 18:03
  Speaker 14: yesterday and earlier this week, you were talking about how
• 18:08
  Speaker 14: with trades, you kind of want to hold off because
• 18:11
  Speaker 14: you want to see what you have. My big question is,
• 18:15
  Speaker 14: What is our window like to even evaluate this new defense?
• 18:19
  Speaker 14: Because it's all new. I have no idea how it's
• 18:23
  Speaker 14: going to come into play. And then how much time
• 18:28
  Speaker 14: do you have to tweak? Because I don't expect any
• 18:32
  Speaker 14: wholesale change or anything like that. But how much time
• 18:35
  Speaker 14: do you really have to evaluate so that you can
• 18:39
  Speaker 14: make a tweak or you can do something either big
• 18:42
  Speaker 14: or splashy or even subtle before the trade deadline? This
• 18:46
  Speaker 14: schedule is so brutal. And I'm just trying to figure
• 18:50
  Speaker 14: out how to evaluate that. And then one other question,
• 18:53
  Speaker 14: I'll let you go. I love it. I always think
• 18:57
  Speaker 14: of opening games, and so I'm wondering for you, what's
• 19:00
  Speaker 14: your favorite opening game? Mine is the Rocket Ishmael game
• 19:03
  Speaker 14: at the time, the Redskins, where we came back and
• 19:08
  Speaker 14: won very late in the game. I remember seeing the
• 19:11
  Speaker 14: NFL films highlights on that. uh, the next week.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: Love that game.
• 19:15
  Speaker 14: But to be honest, I want a new favorite first
• 19:18
  Speaker 14: opening week game. And I hope it's this week. Thanks
• 19:20
  Speaker 14: so much. Shelby says, hello, keep up the great work.
• 19:23
  Speaker 14: We love you. And, uh, uh, sadly, I know more about, uh, uh, our,
• 19:29
  Speaker 14: our green dot Irene than I know about our, our
• 19:32
  Speaker 14: green dot that's going to play on Sunday, but I'm
• 19:34
  Speaker 14: hoping the best for.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: Both of them.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. Thanks for the call Blair. Appreciate that. Um, Yeah,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you say what's my favorite opening game,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's my favorite game. So it's the same.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: It's the one you just mentioned. So it's the first
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: game I ever was working on. with the Cowboys. I mean,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I did a couple of preseason games, but that was
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: the first real one. Down 21 points in the fourth quarter. And,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: you know, they came back and they won. And Rocket
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Ismail was a player that I loved watching in college
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: at Notre Dame. So the fact that he was with
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys and scored, that was phenomenal. And then not
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: only that, but getting back into the game was– you've
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: got to remember now, I was 23 years old in 1999.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: So when the decade started, just a teenager, and Emmitt, Michael, Troy,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: those guys making plays, and here they are in Washington–
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: And I'm working in the press box trying to keep
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: it professional. And I go down on the sidelines, though,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: and they scored a couple touchdowns to tie it. And
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: then when Rocket went deep for the touchdown, that was amazing. So, really,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: it can't get better than that for me. That will
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: always be my favorite. I'm kind of going through some
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: of the other ones just to see, you know, some
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: some interesting games, you know, openers and things like that. But,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it seems like it's the Giants
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: almost every year. You said that the question you asked
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: was how to evaluate and win and all that. I
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: don't think it takes that long, really. I mean, think
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: about it. Let's don't put it on the Cowboys. Let's
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: just put it on tonight's game. You know, I don't
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: know what. new england's issues are what what their their
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: their fans are worried about but you know if it
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: let's say it was safety or i don't even know
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: let's say it's safety position whatever well if the seahawks
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: you know bust the seam like four times in in
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the game and the safeties get beat i mean that's
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: what tomorrow morning that's what's going to be the issue
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: that's what their issue is that they need help they
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: need safety help i'm just throwing that out there i
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: don't want to speak anything into existence for the Cowboys.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: But if there's an issue that is very glaring, we'll
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: know by the first quarter, second quarter. And so that's
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: why I don't think it takes that long to really
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: evaluate what you need. There's some positions you think you
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: need some help with, but once the game starts, we'll
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: figure it out. I don't think it'll take long before
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: you know what you've got and what you don't have.
• 22:12
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• 24:13
  Speaker 2: back to the show. We've got some two callers on
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the line. We'll go right to them. Brandon in Fresno.
• 24:21
  Speaker 13: What up, Nick?
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: What's going on?
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Hey, Brandon. How are you?
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: I'm good, man. I'm ready for football.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you that.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: That seems to be the theme around here today.
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: I'm ready for football. First off, I like those YouTube videos,
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: those little short videos where I think it's Nicole recording
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: you and your reactions and stuff.
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: I like those ones, man.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you. We're trying to step up the game a
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: little bit there. So doing a little bit more of that.
• 24:48
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I got a little idea for you. Nick at night.
• 24:51
  Speaker 11: Storyline primetime edition. Get your take after the games. That
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: would be pretty cool after these primetime games, you know?
• 24:56
  Speaker 11: Just a little idea to throw out there.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Depends, you know.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I want to stay married, so I don't know how much,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: you know, nighttime time, you know, we'll be looking at that. But, no,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I'm kidding.
• 25:11
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know if we need a copyright
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: on that.
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: Nick at night.
• 25:16
  Speaker 11: But other than that, my take was on Dak. Does
• 25:20
  Speaker 11: Dak look different? I know you've been around him his
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: whole career. I know his rookie look different. But, I mean,
• 25:25
  Speaker 11: I don't know why. Just seeing him and his interviews
• 25:27
  Speaker 11: and his press conferences and all that, he just looks different. Yeah.
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: I mean, does he act different? Is he carrying himself different?
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: I know he's a dad now, you know, single father.
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: I mean, I just wanted to get your take on
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: Dak and how he still is in the room and
• 25:44
  Speaker 11: everything like that.
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: Yeah, man.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. That was a tough one. That's
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: a tough question to answer because Dak is always pretty positive.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I can't sit here and tell you that he looks
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: and sounds that much different. And I don't know if
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: any of that really matters. Not to dismiss the question.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: I think what they need is, and I don't know
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: if he even needs to play that different the results
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: just need to be different. That's what it comes down to.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: And no one knows that more than Dak. No one
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: wants that more than him. But from this chair, that's
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: what I say. I guarantee you Dak will say that, yeah,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: they've done this different, this different. He's always trying to
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: do things a little bit different with his body and
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: how he's preparing himself for the season. So I bet
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you there are some changes in that approach. But, you know,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: and whatever else he has going in his life, he
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: has a really good focus, he always has, of the
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: task at hand. And he's got that whole, he's really
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: got that whole side of the building. I would say
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: the locker room, but probably everybody on the perimeter there,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: from the equipment guys, the trainers, the doctors, all the
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: support staff. I mean, Dak is the true leader. And
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I think everybody wants to win for him just as
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: much as he wants to win in return. So it's
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: a healthy situation. But at the end of the day,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: you got to go out there and you got to
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: produce results. I mean, he's a He's been the quarterback
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the last two years, hasn't made it to the playoffs.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: That's not good enough for this standard for him, for
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: his standard. He knows that. And so I'm not sure
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: if I'm answering the question because I really don't know
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: the differences, but it's that whole look and feel different,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: and it does. It has a different feel to it,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: but none of that really matters until you go and
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: play and you want the results to be different. All right,
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Sebastian in Savannah, Georgia. Sebastian.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: What's going on, Nick? Happy New Year.
• 28:04
  Speaker 11: How you doing?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: You all right?
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: I'm doing good.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Low, kind of chill.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: I'm low. Let me talk louder.
• 28:10
  Speaker 10: How's that?
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: No, we're good. You know, everybody's got a different volume,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: but usually you're a little bit more amped up, you know.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: No, no, I'm amped up because somebody just said it
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: took me a different direction. I came in to call
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: about the offense, and my boy said he wanted to
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: see CP's defense get punched in the mouth to respond,
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: and I said, hell no, I don't.
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to see that.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: I said, I.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Want to see them boys stifle. Like, you got to realize, like,
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: the New York Giants are the little brother. You can't
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: let your little brother sneak up on you because then
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: we have multiple teams in our division chasing the same goal,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: thinking that they can get it, right? You got to
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: go out there and show them that they're little brother.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: You got to stifle that.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: You got to have OBJ thinking, like, man, maybe I
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: should have came out of retirement. And Malik Nabors thinking
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: about maybe he want to go back on IR for
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: a little bit after playing that game. I want to
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: see a fast and physical defense. And as far as
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: the injuries that we have on offense, injuries suck. They're
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: going to happen every year to every team, right? That's
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: why we don't have Jaden Blue in here. We got
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Amari DiMercato. He's a good run blocker. He's a good
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: pass blocker, right? So when there's that bleed that comes
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: through there, inevitably from the fact that we're missing a
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: star guard, you got to step up and you got
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: to bust that linebacker up. The same thing for Javante.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: And that's why we have these players on the team.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: I have confidence in Brian Schottenheimer's intelligence level to handle
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: the injuries that have happened across the offense. And I
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: have confidence in CP to handle what happens on the defense.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: I think we come out of this game with a
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: very strong statement victory. you know, but we got to
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: keep them as little bro. You already got to deal
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: with Philly on the other side of things, thinking that,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: you know, all over confidence. I'm not giving them any confidence.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: But I have a strong feeling about this game. I
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: think we get out of there 28 to, like, 17
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: after a nice defensive showing. And going forward, I think
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: the defense is going to have to lean in and
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: play a little bit harder leaning into the season, especially
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: with the injury that we suffered. But you've got to
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: do that by a thousand cuts and just sling it
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: around faster. You guys have a great day.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Thanks so much.
• 30:02
  Speaker 16: All right.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: You picked it up. Started kind of slow. Picked it up.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Little brother. I mean, that's, you know. Now, they did win.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: They did win the last game of the year. I
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: think if Dak plays that whole game, I don't know
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: if that's the scenario. And remember, that game was one
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: that a lot of people didn't even want the Cowboys
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: to win. If you go and win that game, I
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: don't think you get Caleb Downs. I don't remember exactly
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: what it did for positioning, but it would have hurt him,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: and I don't think Caleb– they didn't think Caleb Downs
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: was going to get one more pick to them, so
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: that's why they had to move up. So, you know–
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's going to turn out to be one of
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: the best losses ever, depending on how Caleb's career goes.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: But yeah, they're going to have to win a couple
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: more to get off of that moniker of little brother,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: especially when Dak plays and finishes the game. But yeah,
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: I agree with what you said and how it's going
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: to be one of those grinded out games and I
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: think the fan base has probably rejuvenated in New York,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: so that crowd will probably be really, really loud, and
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: there'll be a lot of Cowboy fans there, too. So
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: it should be an awesome atmosphere. All right, let's go
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: to Dylan, North Port, Florida. Dylan, what's up?
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Hey, Nick.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: How you doing?
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I'm good.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: You?
• 31:24
  Speaker 13: Good.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: I said I wasn't going to call today, but I
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: just can't help myself. I swear I'm not going to
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: call every day. I want to give other people a chance.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: But this is the first week, man. Like, what am
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: I going to do? I can't help myself.
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: I mean.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what kind of goal that is.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I appreciate the call, and if you
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: get in, you get in. So you've got something to say,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: and that's the thing. I mean, I know you're going
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: to be spitting out some numbers here, so some kind
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: of stats. You've already been called out once on the show.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I can't remember.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: I like my math.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Math ain't mathin', right? All right. What do you got, Dylan?
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: The math is mathin' this week. The Giants, they haven't
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: won a home opener week one. Since 2010, they're 0-6,
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: I think it was. They've had six chances, 0-6 in
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: all those. And, you know, the only three wins they
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: have against the Cowboys since Dax played, since 2016, it's
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: three wins, and Dax played six quarters total in those three.
• 32:19
  Speaker 13: Losses for the Cowboys.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: So, like, I mean, the history points to Dallas dominating,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: but obviously there's so much that's different in this matchup.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, everything's changed offensively for the Cowboys. Everything's the
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: same offensively, just about minus Tyler Smith. But, you know,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: I was wondering, we're all feeling pretty good about this game.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: I think we're all predicting Dallas to win by double digit,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: you know, points, multiple.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: Scores, whatever.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: What can Dallas do to lose or what can the
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Giants do to actually win this thing? Like, how could
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: you see a scenario where that might occur? Because I
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: don't want to go into this thing where like nothing
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: can happen because that's a little hubris and. Bad things
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: happen when you've already written this game off, and I
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: don't want to do that. So what are your thoughts
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: on that?
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Well, turnovers. I mean, turnovers always change everything, I mean, quickly.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: And so, you know, it's because that's field position and
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: that's momentum and all that kind of stuff. So, you know,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: if the Cowboys go down there and turn the ball
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: over or, you know, shoot themselves in the foot, you know,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: down in the red zone. I mean, those are some
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: of the things. that, and, and those are the stuff
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: that everyone can kind of figure out. I mean, that, that,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: that's how you, you equalize a game like that is,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: is to, you know, or neutralize it if by turning
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: the ball over, missing, you know, missing opportunities, missing kicks,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: you know, special teams, you know, give up a, you know,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: a leaky punt return for 55 yards. And next thing
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: you know, the defense is starting on their own, you know,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: 20 yard line or something like that. So, it's those things,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: those self-inflicted wounds, you know, get down first and goal
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: at the four, you know, and then the next thing
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: you know, you have a false start because for whatever
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: the reason, now it's first and goal at the nine
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: and Brandon Aubrey's getting ready to kick a field goal.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: So things like that, that I think that have hurt
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: this team and the Cowboys talent wise, I think are better,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: but you know, they've got to go out and do
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: that and don't beat themselves. I mean, if you don't
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: beat them, you know, if they don't beat themselves, I
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: think that they have improved the talent enough to go
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: and win games like this.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Do you think that that scenario is more of the
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Cowboys just screwing up, or do you think the Giants
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: actually have the dogs to compete in that realm and
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: make some plays defensively?
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: I think so. I mean, I think they do. I mean,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be close. The Cowboys are
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: going to have to play a better game, a cleaner game.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: There are teams you go out and you don't play
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: your best game, but still through four quarters, you're going
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: to eventually get where you need to go. But there
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: are some that it's going to be too close. The
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: margin for error is very thin. And I think the
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Giants have probably, probably closed that gap. But I think
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: what I'm looking for is, I want to see about
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: this Cowboys offense, is has it gotten better? You know,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: everyone keeps talking about the defense. Is the defense, you know,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: better and all that?
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: Great.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: But I think the offense can be better. Now, Tyler's
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: injury is a tough one, but I still think you
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: look at, this whole, you know, these three receivers and
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Jake Ferguson and the running game and all of it together.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, I, with, with, with shoddy again, call and play,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I think, I think the offense can be humming even
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: more than it was last year.
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: So, yeah.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: And it's not necessarily numbers, right? It's the efficiency. It's,
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: you know, you don't got to.
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: Go score 40.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: If you really have a better defense, it's about running
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: these games out. You might not score a point in
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: the fourth quarter, but you might already be ahead by
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: three touchdowns. And can you, can you run the clock out?
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: So maybe you have less yards, less, less total production, but,
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: But you're more efficient. And I think that's a better
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: formula for late into the season as well. So ultimately,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: that's the way that we see things going here, man.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Dylan, I'm going to throw a challenge flag, okay? I'm
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: not saying I'm right, but I'm going to throw a
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: challenge flag on your six-quarters thing with Dak playing. I
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: don't know if that's accurate, but maybe. But you said
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: he's played six quarters?
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: He played two last year, right, in that last week.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: He was out in 2021, the whole game in 2021,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: I think it was.
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: But zero.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: And then he had four in his rookie season that
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: he played them, right, his first game. So that should
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: be six, right?
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Well, they also lost twice to the Giants his rookie year.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: So I don't know if you're factoring that in because
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: they lost twice.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: Did he?
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, you know what? I think he was out. That
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: was the last game of the season, right? So I
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: don't think he played because they had the playoff already secured.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'll have to go check that. I'll
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: go double check for sure because now I'm curious.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Sounds good.
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: Thanks, man.
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: Yep.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Some antics.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Doesn't really matter. I forgot about that game. He's talking
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: about in the games that the giants have won. Um,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: there was a game in 2020. I, he didn't play.
• 36:44
  Speaker 10: You're right.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Andy Dalton played. He played half of a game that
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: they did win against the giants, obviously when he got hurt. But, um, the,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: the narrative is there when Dak plays and finishes the game,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: they usually kick the giants ass. That's usually what, what
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: the narrative is. All right, let's go. Oh, let's go
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: to Robin Vegas. Rob, I still got to take a break,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: but let's go with Rob. Rob, what's up, man? How
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: are you doing?
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: I'm doing good.
• 37:10
  Speaker 10: Football week starts tonight. It's awesome. I'm not saying this
• 37:16
  Speaker 10: is a must-win first game of the season, but you're
• 37:20
  Speaker 10: probably not going to have a bigger quarterback mismatch the
• 37:23
  Speaker 10: whole year. So you've got to take advantage of that.
• 37:26
  Speaker 10: You're healthy. I know Tyler Smith got hurt, but it's
• 37:30
  Speaker 10: probably the healthiest you're going to be. You had a
• 37:35
  Speaker 10: lot of time to scheme for the Giants, and To me,
• 37:39
  Speaker 10: like you said, Dak usually owns the Giants. They just
• 37:42
  Speaker 10: got to go play their game. The offense, I agree,
• 37:47
  Speaker 10: could be better. I don't want to see, as much
• 37:49
  Speaker 10: as I like Aubrey, I don't want to see 60-yard
• 37:51
  Speaker 10: field goals. Let's get the ball in the end zone.
• 37:54
  Speaker 10: And the defense, I just need the defense to be good.
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: They suck last year. If they're just good, we could
• 38:02
  Speaker 10: be such a better team. So, no, we got to
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: go in there. You got to, let's face it, A
• 38:08
  Speaker 10: lot of people are picking the Cowboys to win the division.
• 38:11
  Speaker 10: A lot of people are picking the Cowboys to maybe
• 38:13
  Speaker 10: go to the NFC Championship. You can't lose to the
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: Giants in the first game.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: You just can't.
• 38:19
  Speaker 10: You know how the media will react. I know Cowboy
• 38:22
  Speaker 10: players say, oh, we don't listen. That's a lie. So, no.
• 38:26
  Speaker 10: You've got to go in there and set the tone.
• 38:28
  Speaker 10: You've got a new defensive coordinator. I'm sure he wants
• 38:32
  Speaker 10: to show everybody he's auditioning for a head coaching job. No,
• 38:39
  Speaker 10: we've got to go in and kick their ass. There's
• 38:41
  Speaker 10: just no way around it. Like somebody said, the Giants,
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: we've been beating down on them, and we're not going
• 38:48
  Speaker 10: to stop now.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Yep. I'm with you. I mean, I still, you know,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: new coach and new excitement and all that, that's fine,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: but I think the Cowboys have also changed their, you know,
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: attitude and everything around this team as well. Without you know,
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: changing the coaches. I think, I think the culture has
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: improved even more from the Cowboys standpoint too. So it's
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: almost like two, two new franchises at the same time,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: even though the Cowboys have the same head coach.
• 39:18
  Speaker 10: I totally agree. I just think the Cowboys are just
• 39:22
  Speaker 10: much better at the important position. The quarterback is, light
• 39:28
  Speaker 10: years ahead. Jackson Dodd, he may become good, but he's
• 39:33
  Speaker 10: not a top 10 quarterback. Like I said, I haven't
• 39:36
  Speaker 10: really looked at the schedule, but I don't know if
• 39:39
  Speaker 10: there's going to be a bigger quarterback discrepancy between these two.
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: You can't lose to this. The Giants fans are going
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: to be excited. Of course, it's the first week But
• 39:49
  Speaker 10: like you said, there's a lot of, there'll be a
• 39:51
  Speaker 10: lot of Cowboy fans. I would love to see, I
• 39:53
  Speaker 10: think it was a 95 when we went there and
• 39:55
  Speaker 10: we beat them 35, nothing.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:58
  Speaker 10: So that'd be, that'd be awesome. But yeah, let's, let's go.
• 40:01
  Speaker 10: Let's get this.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Let's get it going.
• 40:03
  Speaker 10: All right, Rob.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Appreciate the call. And, and you know what, what I,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I didn't say it like I was trying to say
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: is that whatever the giants have, as far as the
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: improvement that Harbaugh has brought and the mentality that they
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: brought over for this year. Whatever improvements made, I think
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys can also match that. I think they've made
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: the same type of improvements as far as morale, as
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: far as just inside the building, especially from the defensive side.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: There's been a lot of coaching changes, a lot of
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: players added, and also... from the front office. If Jerry
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: would have said that comment about all-in, and they would
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: have done those moves a couple years ago, if they
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: would have done the moves this year that they did then...
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: he still probably would have been ridiculed for it, but
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: it would have made more sense. And so this is
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: closer to an all-in type thing. And if they go
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: ahead and make a big trade that everyone keeps talking about,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: then that would probably seal the deal. But it has
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: been more of that, more aggressive. So I think that's
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: also excited Cowboys fans. I mean, it's really easy. I mean,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Rob's called like three times in a row, and I
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: don't know if he's even mentioned Jerry. That's a statement
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: right there. So anyways, let's go take one more break.
• 41:25
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Cowboys Storyline. This last segment
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  Speaker 2: gear is available at yeti.com. All right, the challenge has
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: been upheld. I went back and looked at it and
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: listened to what you said, Dylan. He was talking about Dak.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: He said the last... I thought he was talking about
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: the three times that Dak has lost against the Giants.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: He's talking about the last three times the Cowboys have
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: lost to the Giants, and Dak's only played six of
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: those quarters. That is correct. He played two last game
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: against the Giants when Milton came in. The one 2020 season,
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: he didn't even play. He was hurt that year on IR.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: And then the one before that, 2016, in the snow,
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: he did play. He played all four quarters. They lost 10-7.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: So the last three times the Cowboys have lost to
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: the Giants dates all the way back to 10 years ago.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Dak has played six of those quarters. That was the
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: stat Dylan said. I think I misunderstood what he said.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: He said it. He was right. You're right on that.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to two more callers real quick.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Lester in Minnesota. Lester, what's up?
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: Morning, Nick.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: Football tonight. Finally, the season is coming.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Let's go. That train is rolling.
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: Hey, I couldn't get in yesterday, so I have a
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: little bit more to say than usual. You don't have
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: a lot of time, so let's roll.
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: The offensive line with the Bass situation, I think Bass
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: can do a good job, but my concern about that
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: is the communication or the stunts that the defense may
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: run and and the blitzes and all that sort of thing.
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: And also I'm a little concerned about, you know, who's
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: our backup. And that's why I was thinking that I
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: thought it was a mistake to get rid of the
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: guy up in Pittsburgh now. Hoffman. Because, yeah, well, I
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: didn't know if we could say his name.
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: I mean, he's a free agent.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't re-sign him. They signed Bass instead, and
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh got him. He's with McCarthy.
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah. So, you know, he could have been our other
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: backup without looking for another one in case something like
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: this happened. As far as what's been said today, my
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: favorite game was the Met Stadium game, the Hail Mary.
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: I went back and looked at it on tape delay.
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: And what I loved about the Cowboys, how I became
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: a Cowboy fan when I was a little kid in
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: the 70s, is that they were the only team to
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: do shifts and motions, and they were the only team
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: to do shotgun. I know now that's just a common thing,
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: but back then that was very different. And so that
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: was my favorite game. And also the Super Bowl, our
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: first Super Bowl, we scored 50-something points or something. All right.
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: And so I got more to say, but I'll get
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: off now. I'll call you back tomorrow.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Sounds good. Yeah, call back tomorrow. We'll be doing this
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: all week. Thanks for the call. The question really was
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: your favorite season opener, not just game in general. Now,
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: for me, the season opener against Washington probably is my
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: favorite game of all time, but I'm looking to have
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: a new one. I guarantee if this team makes it
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: to the NFC Championship game or the Super Bowl, I'll
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: probably have a new favorite first game. Just still waiting
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: for that to happen. All right, let's go. Last caller,
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Jeremy in Salt Lake. Jeremy, what's up, man?
• 46:19
  Speaker 13: Hey, what's going on, Nick?
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 46:22
  Speaker 13: I'm good. I'm good. Had a good Labor Day weekend.
• 46:24
  Speaker 8: Good.
• 46:25
  Speaker 13: And I'm ready for some football. Huck'em, chuck'em football, baby.
• 46:30
  Speaker 13: So check this out. My favorite, well, not my favorite,
• 46:34
  Speaker 13: but I think one that gets forgot about is 2015
• 46:37
  Speaker 13: because of the way the season turned out. But if
• 46:40
  Speaker 13: you remember that game, Oh, I remember the game.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: It's the only game in the history that I've been
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: working here where I actually nailed the score.
• 46:48
  Speaker 8: Oh, really?
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Nailed it. Like, from the day before, wrote it, you know,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: what I think is going to win, you know, the score.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: You're talking about the Giants, right? Absolutely, yeah. And I
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: always pick kind of a weird score, and I just picked,
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I think it was 27-26. And that's the only time
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: that I actually have hit the score exactly on the money,
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: and it was kind of a weird one, too.
• 47:10
  Speaker 8: So, yeah.
• 47:12
  Speaker 13: No, that was just a great opening to the season.
• 47:15
  Speaker 13: Hit Witten for the touchdown. Next week, they go to
• 47:17
  Speaker 13: Philly and win, but they lose Romo with the broken collarbone,
• 47:20
  Speaker 13: and then the rest of the season was garbage, right?
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 47:24
  Speaker 13: So I think that one gets overlooked. But, no, I'm
• 47:27
  Speaker 13: looking forward to this year, obviously. It's been a long offseason,
• 47:31
  Speaker 13: and like a lot of us that are on the
• 47:33
  Speaker 13: spaces and stuff have been talking all offseason. It's been long.
• 47:37
  Speaker 13: There's been a lot of, you know– opinions out there
• 47:42
  Speaker 13: right and everybody's saying the same thing i'm just so
• 47:45
  Speaker 13: excited now that we actually have real meaningful football to
• 47:48
  Speaker 13: talk about and man i'm ready for the ride so
• 47:52
  Speaker 13: go cowboys i love the show and uh i know
• 47:55
  Speaker 13: i know you're short on time so i'll get off
• 47:57
  Speaker 13: here but uh go cowboys all right love y'all take care.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Thank you jeremy thanks for the call and yeah we
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: uh we did have to kind of run through that
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: here uh quickly We did get 11 callers, though. That's
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: pretty good. It's usually an average of about 10. So
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: you guys did a nice job of kind of getting in,
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: getting out today. And especially with all the excitement everyone has,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: everyone's kind of got the same theme is just ready,
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: ready to see something. You know, I mean, it's finally here.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: All this talk, you know, how are they going to be?
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: What are they going to do differently? That's the big thing.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: It feels different. Well, finally, it can look different. Now,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: you don't want it to feel that different because, like
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: we talked about, that domination over the Giants, you don't
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: want that to be one of the big changes. But
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: you want some things to stay the same, and you
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: want to see some changes. That's like with anything, right? So,
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: all right, good show. We'll do it again tomorrow. We've
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: got two more shows this week. So, for Chris Beam,
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: I'm Nick Eatman. We'll see you next time on Cowboy Storyline.
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