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- 0:06Speaker 1: Is a production of dallascowboys.com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
- 0:15Speaker 1: This is Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette, the official shave
- 0:21Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
- 0:41Speaker 2: What's up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette. It's Friday,
- 0:45Speaker 2: October the 30th. Cowboys take on the Arizona Cardinals. How
- 0:51Speaker 2: do they beat the Cardinals? That's all everyone's talking about now.
- 0:54Speaker 2: It's like, last few times it was more like, man, Cowboys,
- 0:59Speaker 2: they don't really play that very well against Arizona, you know?
- 1:03Speaker 2: And then weird things happen or, man, Arizona's been beating
- 1:06Speaker 2: them lately. Now it's just a, it's a, Full-blown story is, like,
- 1:10Speaker 2: Cowboys just can't beat the Cardinals. I don't know what's
- 1:13Speaker 2: going on on the other side. In the Arizona world, if,
- 1:17Speaker 2: you know, they feel like, you know, they feel confident
- 1:20Speaker 2: about this game. But I know that Cowboy fans, we're
- 1:24Speaker 2: going to talk to them here because that's what we
- 1:26Speaker 2: do on Cowboy Storyline at 888-855-2297. We'll see what their
- 1:31Speaker 2: confidence is on this. Is it like, all right, enough's enough.
- 1:34Speaker 2: Let's beat this team that's not very good, and they
- 1:37Speaker 2: haven't been good. Um, or, you know, maybe they think
- 1:42Speaker 2: that's going to continue. Who knows? All right, let's do
- 1:44Speaker 2: it though. Let's get to the phone calls. Irene in
- 1:48Speaker 2: Falls Church, Virginia. Irene, what's up?
- 1:50Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, game day preview. So first I want
- 1:55Speaker 3: to praise the coaches a little bit for this week.
- 1:58Speaker 3: So I actually appreciate the little media freeze out that
- 2:01Speaker 3: Shadi did, and I'm sure that it rubbed people the
- 2:04Speaker 3: wrong way. But between that and Fergie taking a half-joking,
- 2:07Speaker 3: half-serious shot at Clarence, I think the team decided that
- 2:10Speaker 3: instead of making the fans who are actually rougher on
- 2:12Speaker 3: the media, including myself, the enemy, they kind of made
- 2:16Speaker 3: you guys the enemies. And if that motivates them, Cool.
- 2:20Speaker 3: And then with the game planning, I was wondering, do
- 2:22Speaker 3: you think Adams and Riley had a bigger voice than Dorsey,
- 2:26Speaker 3: who's more of a pass guy this week? And then
- 2:30Speaker 3: with Parker and Petten, I don't know who it was,
- 2:34Speaker 3: but I saw like Elijah Clark's snap count went up.
- 2:38Speaker 3: He did really well in supporting and tackling. I like
- 2:42Speaker 3: that whoever has the authority, I don't really care, but
- 2:45Speaker 3: whoever saw that and acted on it, I'm appreciating that
- 2:50Speaker 3: part of what the coaches did this week because there
- 2:52Speaker 3: was a lot of adjustments. For the Cowboys, and for
- 2:57Speaker 3: the Cardinals rather, everything favors the Cowboys' offense on their defense.
- 3:02Speaker 3: And I think, I don't see why we're not going
- 3:05Speaker 3: to score a lot of points against them. They're giving
- 3:07Speaker 3: up almost 30 points a game. So, you know, it's
- 3:11Speaker 3: the other side.
- 3:12Speaker 4: We'll see.
- 3:12Speaker 3: They have red zone struggles, but they do time of
- 3:15Speaker 3: possession and chunks. You know, they just drive down the field.
- 3:19Speaker 5: So we'll see.
- 3:19Speaker 3: I'm going to say 31-24 Cowboys and go from there
- 3:25Speaker 3: and get that monkey.
- 3:26Speaker 2: Off the back.
- 3:26Speaker 6: Thank you.
- 3:27Speaker 7: All right.
- 3:28Speaker 2: Good stuff, Irene. 31-24 Cowboys. Yeah, I noticed Elijah Clark
- 3:34Speaker 2: did play more, and I'm a little curious on how
- 3:39Speaker 2: the safety position is going to shake out with P.J.
- 3:42Speaker 2: Locke expected to come back this week. And then, you know,
- 3:46Speaker 2: you got Jalen Thompson here. some point we'll be able
- 3:50Speaker 2: to come back into this as well. You've got Marquise Bell,
- 3:58Speaker 2: Wanya Thomas is a player that they signed or re-signed
- 4:03Speaker 2: and added back. You kind of wonder, well, who's not
- 4:07Speaker 2: going to make it? They do like what they see
- 4:09Speaker 2: out of Clark. He's a good player. Feisty. We saw
- 4:14Speaker 2: it last year as a rookie on special teams, but Uh,
- 4:17Speaker 2: you know, he, I thought he played pretty well at
- 4:20Speaker 2: training camp and, and, you know, was, was always battling competing. So, um,
- 4:25Speaker 2: you know, he's another guy that, that, that they really like, um,
- 4:29Speaker 2: in there as well. So the, uh, yeah, another part
- 4:32Speaker 2: about Adams and Riley, Clayton Adams, Connor Riley, more of
- 4:36Speaker 2: running game style, uh, than, than Dorsey, um, I missed
- 4:42Speaker 2: that part of the question of kind of what she
- 4:45Speaker 2: was asking. But, you know, obviously the focus on running
- 4:52Speaker 2: the football more, I think that's what she was kind
- 4:55Speaker 2: of asking about or talking about. It's just how, you know,
- 4:57Speaker 2: we saw so much running from the Cowboys in this
- 5:00Speaker 2: last game and got to continue to do that. So
- 5:04Speaker 2: I think that should be the plan. I think that they,
- 5:08Speaker 2: you know, they had a lot of conversations about that.
- 5:12Speaker 2: I think Jerry and Steven and Will McClay and everybody
- 5:16Speaker 2: was kind of involved with Shottie and just on analytics
- 5:20Speaker 2: of how do we get this thing kind of turned around?
- 5:22Speaker 2: What is the best thing that we do and what
- 5:25Speaker 2: should we focus on more? And I think it came
- 5:27Speaker 2: to consensus last week that they got to run the football.
- 5:31Speaker 2: And everyone's been saying it, but everyone was right apparently.
- 5:34Speaker 2: So let's see if that continues to hold true. But
- 5:37Speaker 2: I think that is– the recipe for what the Cowboys
- 5:40Speaker 2: are going to be doing moving forward here. Let's go
- 5:43Speaker 2: to Travis in Utah as our next call.
- 5:46Speaker 8: Hi, Nick.
- 5:46Speaker 6: How are you Friday?
- 5:47Speaker 2: Hey, how are you doing?
- 5:49Speaker 9: Doing great. In anticipation of Sunday's game, I wanted to
- 5:52Speaker 9: share one of my favorite plays from the Philly game,
- 5:55Speaker 9: and we were on the topic of running. That play,
- 5:59Speaker 9: one of my favorites was when Dak ran it in
- 6:01Speaker 9: on the two-point conversion. I thought that was just amazing.
- 6:04Speaker 9: Those lanes were wide open, and he basically ran in unabated.
- 6:08Speaker 9: Would you say that was one of your favorite plays?
- 6:11Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 6:11Speaker 9: Do you think we're going to draw more plays like
- 6:13Speaker 9: that going forward?
- 6:16Speaker 2: What I like, number one, I like the plays that work. So,
- 6:20Speaker 2: you know, I think we all do. But I like
- 6:23Speaker 2: in week seven and something different we hadn't seen. It's
- 6:28Speaker 2: probably been in the playbook. I mean, this is not
- 6:30Speaker 2: like a, you know, trick play here. It was just,
- 6:32Speaker 2: you know, quarterback, you know, draw. You're talking about the
- 6:34Speaker 2: Dak two-point conversion, right?
- 6:36Speaker 4: Right.
- 6:37Speaker 2: Yeah. So but but it's just something we hadn't really
- 6:40Speaker 2: seen in a while. And, you know, I didn't really
- 6:44Speaker 2: I thought it was right at the line for me on.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Do you go for two or not? I didn't really.
- 6:52Speaker 2: I think I was leaning more towards not not going
- 6:55Speaker 2: for it. I understand why you go up by seven.
- 7:00Speaker 2: Six doesn't do a lot for you. But late third quarter,
- 7:03Speaker 2: I'm a believer in let's just keep getting points. Just
- 7:07Speaker 2: keep getting points. Keep getting points. You never really know
- 7:11Speaker 2: what you need. I'm not going for two until I
- 7:13Speaker 2: have to. But then there's another element about it, too,
- 7:17Speaker 2: on we have a play that's going to work. And
- 7:20Speaker 2: that's something you just analytics can't tell you. That's something
- 7:23Speaker 2: you just can't as a fan saying, you know what? Oh,
- 7:27Speaker 2: what about you? You shouldn't go for two. If I've
- 7:29Speaker 2: got a play that's going to work, I will. We
- 7:31Speaker 2: see it in college sometimes. It's like, why is it
- 7:33Speaker 2: eight to nothing? Because they scored and they've got a
- 7:36Speaker 2: play they knew was going to work and they got
- 7:38Speaker 2: the point. Eight nothing. So I like that because I
- 7:41Speaker 2: just felt like they had confidence in that it was
- 7:43Speaker 2: going to work. And it did.
- 7:45Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 7:46Speaker 7: Yeah. I, I, I liked it.
- 7:48Speaker 9: It's, it was, it was a good call. I, I
- 7:50Speaker 9: just liked the play. So I'm going to say Dallas
- 7:52Speaker 9: went big over Arizona and thank you for taking my call.
- 7:54Speaker 7: All right.
- 7:55Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Um, and you know, I, it's one of
- 8:00Speaker 2: those things too, where plays like that, you know, open
- 8:05Speaker 2: up other things, trying not to sneeze on air. I
- 8:09Speaker 2: don't know what that even looks like. Um, but, uh,
- 8:12Speaker 2: I think that when you run a play like that,
- 8:16Speaker 2: anything like that that's a little bit different, now it's
- 8:19Speaker 2: on tape. Now it's out there. Chris in the back
- 8:22Speaker 2: is pointing that out about you run it once. They'll
- 8:24Speaker 2: be looking for it. And that's why, in my opinion,
- 8:29Speaker 2: and I say this, and we just answered a question
- 8:31Speaker 2: on the mailbag about trick plays. And I just believe
- 8:37Speaker 2: that I would run a– flea flicker every game. I would,
- 8:42Speaker 2: I really would do that. And I know people kind
- 8:44Speaker 2: of laugh at it and, and anytime there's a flea
- 8:47Speaker 2: flicker in the, in college football or pro football, I
- 8:51Speaker 2: get a tweet about it. Maryland could do it to
- 8:53Speaker 2: Boston College at 11 a.m. on a Saturday, and I'm
- 8:56Speaker 2: going to get a couple of tweets about it. Did
- 8:57Speaker 2: you see the flea flicker? But I like it because
- 9:02Speaker 2: if the safety's back there, every time the running back
- 9:07Speaker 2: gets the ball, if the safety thinks maybe he's going
- 9:10Speaker 2: to flip it back, so I've got to watch that.
- 9:13Speaker 2: If he's thinking that way, then I've won. I've won
- 9:16Speaker 2: because that's what I want him to do. I want
- 9:19Speaker 2: him to think that way. It's not going to happen
- 9:21Speaker 2: all the time. It happens maybe once, maybe once every
- 9:24Speaker 2: other game, whatever. But I want you to think that
- 9:26Speaker 2: that's what I'm going to do. So in this case, Dak,
- 9:28Speaker 2: watch out for Dak. Good, because then when Brevin Spanford
- 9:33Speaker 2: flies right past your linebacker or Ferguson or whatever, you
- 9:37Speaker 2: dump it over the top. So those things kind of
- 9:39Speaker 2: set up other things, and that's kind of why I
- 9:41Speaker 2: like that. All right, kind of off on a tangent here.
- 9:43Speaker 2: Let's go, Sergeant Stu. What's up, man?
- 9:46Speaker 6: At ease, everybody.
- 9:46Speaker 8: How you doing, Nick?
- 9:47Speaker 7: Good.
- 9:47Speaker 2: How are you?
- 9:49Speaker 6: Great, brother. Hey, real quick, really, really quick, before I
- 9:51Speaker 6: even start, I just want to shout out the YouTube chat, man.
- 9:54Speaker 6: There's a lot of people in there. We're building a
- 9:55Speaker 6: cool little community in there, so a lot of people
- 9:57Speaker 6: can't call in. They express that, but... listening, man. They
- 10:00Speaker 6: enjoy it, and we're building a cool community in there.
- 10:02Speaker 6: So I just wanted to quick shout them out. But
- 10:05Speaker 6: regarding this week, Nick, Dak recently, I think it was yesterday,
- 10:08Speaker 6: said that Monday night was an attempt to re-identify who
- 10:12Speaker 6: they want to be offensively. So against Arizona, my question
- 10:16Speaker 6: to you would be, what's more important to you, just
- 10:19Speaker 6: getting the win however it comes or seeing them prove
- 10:22Speaker 6: that the balanced offense that we saw in Philly is
- 10:24Speaker 6: actually what they are now?
- 10:28Speaker 2: Say that one more time.
- 10:29Speaker 6: I apologize.
- 10:30Speaker 2: No, no, no. I was reading something else. Say that
- 10:33Speaker 2: one more time. Which one was more important?
- 10:36Speaker 6: Yeah, what's more important to you, simply just getting the win,
- 10:39Speaker 6: which of course we all want, or getting the win
- 10:42Speaker 6: and seeing them improve, and seeing them prove that the
- 10:45Speaker 6: balanced offense that we saw in Philly is actually who
- 10:47Speaker 6: they are now? I mean, do you feel like they
- 10:50Speaker 6: need to build off of what they showed in Philly,
- 10:52Speaker 6: or if they go out and deck those 40 times
- 10:54Speaker 6: and they win, that's just as good to you?
- 10:58Speaker 2: Yeah, I And opening the show with the fact that
- 11:02Speaker 2: why the hell can't they beat the Cardinals? Yeah, I mean,
- 11:06Speaker 2: getting the win anyway is fine with me. And the
- 11:10Speaker 2: thing about it is, and I don't think anyone would
- 11:12Speaker 2: care about how they run, how they pass, how they
- 11:15Speaker 2: do anything if you are getting wins. So I actually
- 11:20Speaker 2: like the fact that if you can be a type
- 11:22Speaker 2: of football team that can run it and play, 35
- 11:27Speaker 2: times and win a game like that, and you can
- 11:29Speaker 2: throw it 40 times and win a game, there are
- 11:32Speaker 2: going to be times where you're going to have to
- 11:34Speaker 2: play different styles. So when you said, would you rather
- 11:39Speaker 2: them just get the win, I was ready for the
- 11:42Speaker 2: answer to be yes. I mean, regardless of what after
- 11:45Speaker 2: that is. You know what I mean? Now, you want
- 11:49Speaker 2: them to win a certain way. You know what I mean?
- 11:51Speaker 2: I mean, think about it like that. Would you rather
- 11:53Speaker 2: them win and Javante scores four touchdowns, you know, fantasy
- 11:57Speaker 2: football aside, or would you rather Javante get one, Pickens,
- 12:00Speaker 2: Ferguson got one, and CD got one? You know what
- 12:03Speaker 2: I mean? Like, everyone's spreading around, everyone's happy, everyone's good. Yeah,
- 12:06Speaker 2: you would like, if you're going to win, then you
- 12:08Speaker 2: would like certain other things to fall into place there.
- 12:11Speaker 2: I would love for them to win, the same type
- 12:13Speaker 2: of way, run the football, pound it, and then play action,
- 12:18Speaker 2: that's great. That's what I would prefer, but it starts
- 12:21Speaker 2: with the win. That's number one. You check that box first.
- 12:25Speaker 7: A hundred percent.
- 12:26Speaker 6: And for me, I agree. And I think most people
- 12:28Speaker 6: do agree. You just want the win. But for me,
- 12:31Speaker 6: this is almost like a Schottenheimer test. And you've mentioned
- 12:33Speaker 6: it before, you know, that, you know, how can this
- 12:36Speaker 6: team handle success?
- 12:37Speaker 7: Right.
- 12:37Speaker 6: And you can kind of stick with what works. And
- 12:39Speaker 6: for me, of course, if we get the win, however
- 12:41Speaker 6: it may be, we're going to have that euphoria. We're
- 12:44Speaker 6: going to be super high off the win and we're
- 12:46Speaker 6: going to be happy that they had the win. but Monday, Tuesday,
- 12:48Speaker 6: and I'm sorry, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, are we going to
- 12:50Speaker 6: look back? And if Dak did throw 45 times and
- 12:53Speaker 6: he didn't have a high completion percentage, and we did
- 12:56Speaker 6: kind of have the ball bounce our way just to
- 12:58Speaker 6: squeak out a win, then I do think that there's
- 13:00Speaker 6: a little bit more concern. So for me, of course,
- 13:02Speaker 6: just getting the win, of course, Nick, you know, me, Mr. Positivity,
- 13:05Speaker 6: I just want to get the win, but at the
- 13:06Speaker 6: same time, I would love it if we do somewhat build.
- 13:09Speaker 8: Off of it.
- 13:09Speaker 6: And I'm not saying we have to run it every single,
- 13:11Speaker 6: you know, 50, 50 or whatever, but, you know, just
- 13:14Speaker 6: make it look clean, make, Make us know that this
- 13:17Speaker 6: team can handle success and that Schottenheimer is going to
- 13:19Speaker 6: have them ready to play. With that, I'll close out
- 13:21Speaker 6: really quick, brother. I appreciate it. I've got Dallas winning 38-24.
- 13:24Speaker 6: Appreciate it, brother.
- 13:26Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. Dak's been in the league now
- 13:29Speaker 2: 10 years. He's been trained to do what is there.
- 13:35Speaker 2: Take what's there. You're not just going to keep running it.
- 13:39Speaker 2: If you feel like you've got to run the ball,
- 13:40Speaker 2: you've got to run the ball. If teams are taking
- 13:43Speaker 2: it away, then you're going to play action from that.
- 13:47Speaker 2: You're going to throw, um, cause they've got weapons for
- 13:50Speaker 2: that too. I mean, that's just, we've seen that that's
- 13:52Speaker 2: what happens last year. They weren't going to let CD
- 13:55Speaker 2: go crazy. Well, Pickens did this year. They're not really
- 13:59Speaker 2: letting Pickens go crazy and CD is. And so, um, that's,
- 14:03Speaker 2: that's kind of how this thing works. And, and, you know,
- 14:07Speaker 2: this last game, it was, it was there, you know, for,
- 14:10Speaker 2: for the Cowboys to keep running the football. So, What's
- 14:13Speaker 2: there is what, you know, Dak's going to do. You know,
- 14:18Speaker 2: you may not think, oh, Schoonmaker or Ferguson or Spanford
- 14:21Speaker 2: or Flanoy or whatever. If that's the read, I mean,
- 14:25Speaker 2: Dak's going for it. He trusts it. He doesn't just say,
- 14:28Speaker 2: all right, it's third and eight. Where's CD? I mean,
- 14:31Speaker 2: he might start there, but, I mean, he's going to
- 14:34Speaker 2: find the read. So my point is that we can
- 14:36Speaker 2: sit here and say they're going to run the ball,
- 14:38Speaker 2: run the ball. And if that's what's there, then go
- 14:41Speaker 2: for it. If Arizona comes into this saying, we're not
- 14:43Speaker 2: letting Javante Williams do that, well, then it's going to
- 14:46Speaker 2: be a different game plan. So that's why I look
- 14:48Speaker 2: at it like just win the game, do what's there,
- 14:51Speaker 2: be the quarterback of this team, and like I say
- 14:54Speaker 2: it all the time, drive the bus. Bus driver is
- 14:56Speaker 2: not a bad term in my book. It never is.
- 14:58Speaker 2: You know what? Drive the bus. Be safe with the football.
- 15:02Speaker 2: Be safe. That's what you need to do. Be safe.
- 15:05Speaker 2: If you've got to go 20, fine, go 20. It's
- 15:06Speaker 2: a school zone. Be safe. You have to go 50,
- 15:10Speaker 2: go punch it. You know what I mean? But be
- 15:12Speaker 2: safe with it. So whatever it calls for, do it,
- 15:16Speaker 2: but do it the right way. All right, let's keep
- 15:18Speaker 2: it going here. Brandon in Fresno is next.
- 15:21Speaker 6: What's up, Nick?
- 15:22Speaker 8: Long time.
- 15:22Speaker 10: No talk, man.
- 15:23Speaker 11: Been really busy, man, over here.
- 15:25Speaker 2: All right. Well, that's probably a good thing, right?
- 15:28Speaker 10: Oh yeah. No, that's a good thing. Uh, But, no,
- 15:31Speaker 10: I just wanted to talk about the game and then
- 15:34Speaker 10: going forward. Well, it was a good game, but you've
- 15:36Speaker 10: got to beat a team like that, you know, a
- 15:37Speaker 10: beat-up team.
- 15:38Speaker 11: So you better go score like that.
- 15:40Speaker 10: And then, secondly, you've got to go stack these wins
- 15:42Speaker 10: against the Cardinals and the Colts. You're going to have
- 15:44Speaker 10: to go stack these wins. And then your real test
- 15:46Speaker 10: is going to be the 49ers. So I think that's
- 15:48Speaker 10: where it's going to be, the real test, to see
- 15:50Speaker 10: if this team's for.
- 15:50Speaker 11: Real or not.
- 15:53Speaker 10: I'm okay with everything that went down. I mean, defense
- 15:55Speaker 10: looked good. Uh, I think we need to sign Joey
- 15:57Speaker 10: Porter already. Sign him, sign him now. Cause I mean,
- 15:59Speaker 10: that guy's the real deal.
- 16:00Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 16:00Speaker 8: So I really like him.
- 16:02Speaker 10: And then I've never given you the score prediction before.
- 16:05Speaker 10: So I actually want to give you a score prediction.
- 16:07Speaker 10: So I've got Dallas 40 burger and 17, the Cardinals.
- 16:12Speaker 2: All right.
- 16:13Speaker 8: All right.
- 16:14Speaker 2: All right. Brandon, thanks for the call. And I'm going
- 16:17Speaker 2: to respectfully disagree. Um, And I'm not just saying this because,
- 16:25Speaker 2: I mean, I understand everyone kind of looks. You look
- 16:28Speaker 2: at the schedule. You know what's there. We do it
- 16:31Speaker 2: all the time. You know, the Titans trade the way
- 16:34Speaker 2: their guy. You're like, oh, man, that's big. It's good
- 16:36Speaker 2: for the Cowboys. They play the Titans in a few weeks.
- 16:38Speaker 2: Or the Colts are trading guys. Well, that's good. They
- 16:40Speaker 2: play them in a couple weeks. So I'm not one
- 16:42Speaker 2: that says, oh, you don't look ahead. Just, you know,
- 16:45Speaker 2: tunnel vision. But when you say the real test is
- 16:48Speaker 2: the 49ers, I disagree with the part of that. The
- 16:51Speaker 2: real test is the Cardinals. And it's not just because
- 16:55Speaker 2: it's the next one. It's because we haven't seen them
- 16:58Speaker 2: do certain things to beat the Cardinals and the teams
- 17:03Speaker 2: like the Cardinals. We haven't seen that yet. I want
- 17:07Speaker 2: to see them come back from a win and get
- 17:10Speaker 2: another win. And, yeah, everyone's happy about the Eagles. Cool,
- 17:14Speaker 2: they went into Philly and beat them up. And, yeah,
- 17:18Speaker 2: they're down, but you beat them down. I mean, you
- 17:21Speaker 2: bullied them. And good, you beat the Eagles. That's great.
- 17:24Speaker 2: Everyone's good. All right, three and four, big win. Okay, now,
- 17:28Speaker 2: stop talking about that short week and go do it again.
- 17:32Speaker 2: Do it again. It was a great win against Houston,
- 17:36Speaker 2: but you sat there and they were not prepared to
- 17:40Speaker 2: play the Bucs. That's what I want to see. So
- 17:43Speaker 2: the real test is, number one, can you find a
- 17:45Speaker 2: way to beat this damn Cardinal team? And number two,
- 17:49Speaker 2: find a way to win a game like this. You're
- 17:51Speaker 2: a seven-point touchdown favorite. You should win this game at home.
- 17:54Speaker 2: You seem like the better team. They've already traded away
- 17:57Speaker 2: one of their players in Marvin Harrison. I'm not saying
- 18:00Speaker 2: they're quitting. They're not giving up. But they're probably in
- 18:05Speaker 2: a different mindset. And talent-wise, they don't match up with you.
- 18:09Speaker 2: And you're at home, and Arizona's never been a team
- 18:11Speaker 2: that you're like, whoa, a lot of Cardinal fans down there. No, no, never.
- 18:15Speaker 2: So even in Arizona sometimes. So the point to that
- 18:19Speaker 2: is that everything says you should go win this game.
- 18:22Speaker 2: then go win this game. To me, that's the real
- 18:24Speaker 2: test because it would be some things we just haven't
- 18:28Speaker 2: seen yet. So I know exactly what you're saying. When
- 18:31Speaker 2: you look at the next three or four games, the
- 18:33Speaker 2: toughest matchup on there is certainly the 49ers, maybe the
- 18:36Speaker 2: toughest one for the rest of the season. But I'm
- 18:40Speaker 2: not trying to look past the Cardinals because I want
- 18:43Speaker 2: to see, there's some things that I would like to
- 18:46Speaker 2: see get done in that game as well. All right,
- 18:49Speaker 2: Brian in Kansas City is next.
- 18:51Speaker 7: Good morning, Nick.
- 18:52Speaker 2: Hey, Brian. How are you?
- 18:54Speaker 7: How are you, sir?
- 18:54Speaker 2: Good, good, good.
- 18:56Speaker 7: All right. Hey, you know, I was thinking about what
- 18:59Speaker 7: you said in running that quarterback sprint draw, which he
- 19:04Speaker 7: used to run that all the time when he was
- 19:06Speaker 7: a younger guy, but just putting it on tape. So
- 19:11Speaker 7: the Cowboys run a play that looks like an RPO,
- 19:15Speaker 7: but Dak never.
- 19:16Speaker 8: Keeps the ball.
- 19:19Speaker 7: And I was thinking he should. He should put that
- 19:22Speaker 7: on tape.
- 19:23Speaker 2: You have to. You're right. You can't run the fake
- 19:27Speaker 2: if you don't ever keep it. I've said that several times. No,
- 19:32Speaker 2: and you're right.
- 19:35Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought about that. And I want to say
- 19:39Speaker 7: that somebody else said that earlier in the year, so
- 19:41Speaker 7: I'm not trying to steal somebody else's thunder, but But, yeah,
- 19:46Speaker 7: you gotta keep it at least once. Right. I mean,
- 19:49Speaker 7: you know, do, do that. The other thing about this week,
- 19:52Speaker 7: I think is everybody's talked about if they do win
- 19:56Speaker 7: a couple in a row, do they go out and
- 19:58Speaker 7: try to, you know, make one last deal to get
- 20:02Speaker 7: them over the hump. And I was talking about it with, with, uh, Michael, uh,
- 20:08Speaker 7: I'm trying to think if it was yesterday or the
- 20:10Speaker 7: day before, but whatever it was. And I was looking
- 20:13Speaker 7: at the two most common names that people say, which
- 20:17Speaker 7: is Crosby and Sweat. Both of them, I only looked
- 20:20Speaker 7: at one stat because it's the only one we care about, sacks.
- 20:25Speaker 7: And both of them have started seven games and have
- 20:29Speaker 7: two sacks. So in my mind, I just don't know
- 20:34Speaker 7: who's out there that I'm willing to give up real
- 20:38Speaker 7: capital for, even if we win and I think, okay,
- 20:42Speaker 7: we have a shot. Whether it's trading away GP or
- 20:47Speaker 7: giving up a really high draft pick, I don't know
- 20:50Speaker 7: who's out there that I want to do that for,
- 20:53Speaker 7: just frankly. And for the love of God, I'll close
- 20:57Speaker 7: with this. Please, just beat the Cardinals. That's it for me, Nick.
- 21:03Speaker 7: Take care, man.
- 21:04Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, Brian. Appreciate the call. Yeah, sacks is
- 21:12Speaker 2: the most important stat that you really look at there.
- 21:16Speaker 2: I mean, I'd like to look at pressures too, but,
- 21:21Speaker 2: you know, I see Rashawn Gary with 25 pressures. You know,
- 21:25Speaker 2: I don't notice it that much, you know, I mean,
- 21:29Speaker 2: if I'm being real honest about it. You know, but
- 21:33Speaker 2: I saw, you know, a few years ago, I mean,
- 21:36Speaker 2: Micah had a lot of sacks we had a ton
- 21:38Speaker 2: of pressures I mean like 50 something you know so
- 21:42Speaker 2: uh maybe more than that like 70 one one year
- 21:44Speaker 2: so um and you really just feel that so when
- 21:48Speaker 2: I think of okay adding this guy he's only got
- 21:50Speaker 2: a couple sacks whatever um but you're adding him to
- 21:55Speaker 2: a defensive line where you know Quentin Williams is getting
- 21:59Speaker 2: back there I mean he's he's he's being disruptive um
- 22:04Speaker 2: Kenny Clark, I'm starting to see it a little bit more.
- 22:07Speaker 2: But you kind of know what you have with those
- 22:09Speaker 2: guys there in the middle. I don't think that the
- 22:12Speaker 2: Raiders and the Cardinals and other players, I don't know
- 22:15Speaker 2: if they have that kind of line. So when I
- 22:18Speaker 2: look at, man, if you could get me an edge
- 22:22Speaker 2: rusher that also sets the edge in the run game,
- 22:25Speaker 2: you pair them up with guys in the middle that
- 22:29Speaker 2: can really be disruptive. then I think you've got something there.
- 22:33Speaker 2: So I wouldn't worry about a player's stat line right there.
- 22:38Speaker 2: You're getting him because you know what he can do.
- 22:41Speaker 2: You know what he can do. If he's still showing that,
- 22:43Speaker 2: then you think that he could add to this group. Now,
- 22:47Speaker 2: how much are you willing to pay? That's another part.
- 22:50Speaker 2: And there's this little short-term thing, long-term thing. So there's
- 22:53Speaker 2: a lot to go into this. I do think that
- 22:56Speaker 2: this defense still needs more pass rush, one way or another.
- 23:00Speaker 7: So.
- 23:00Speaker 2: How it's done, I don't know. You don't have a
- 23:03Speaker 2: ton of options there, but I don't think they're ever
- 23:06Speaker 2: going to be a really, really good defense if they
- 23:09Speaker 2: don't get a little bit more rush on the passer.
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- 25:16Speaker 2: slash NFL. All right, so I wanted to bring this in.
- 25:20Speaker 2: Our social media team, they do a great job. They
- 25:22Speaker 2: always got kind of cool things. They did something with
- 25:26Speaker 2: a paper football game with Brandon Aubrey, and they created
- 25:30Speaker 2: this little field goal goal post out of the Gillette Razors.
- 25:36Speaker 2: And if you can see, cowboy colors. All right, it's
- 25:39Speaker 2: a little bit of a silver there. It looks like
- 25:41Speaker 2: white probably, but it's not. It's kind of gray silver
- 25:45Speaker 2: with the blue little cowboy down here. This is what
- 25:49Speaker 2: we're talking about, the Gillette Razors. So anyways, and if
- 25:55Speaker 2: you're surprised by this, Brandon Aubrey is really good at
- 25:59Speaker 2: paper football and knows how to make it and do
- 26:02Speaker 2: all that, flick it in there. But yeah, poor Zach
- 26:07Speaker 2: from our social media department. I think he helped create
- 26:10Speaker 2: this very, very cool thing. But he says he got
- 26:13Speaker 2: beat by Brandon Aubrey. Pretty bad. And I'd like to
- 26:16Speaker 2: think Brandon would be good. I think accuracy is important
- 26:19Speaker 2: for him. But anyways, Gillette, this is it. This is
- 26:22Speaker 2: the little field goal. I thought it was cool. When
- 26:24Speaker 2: I saw it, I was like, oh, what are y'all
- 26:26Speaker 2: doing with that? I was like, we'll save it for tomorrow.
- 26:28Speaker 2: I'm going to bring it on the show because I'm
- 26:30Speaker 2: always reading the same read unless I can bring something
- 26:32Speaker 2: to it. All right.
- 26:33Speaker 14: Sorry.
- 26:33Speaker 2: Blair from Newport News has been holding. Blair, what's up?
- 26:36Speaker 4: Hey, Nick. This reminds me of an interesting educational opportunity.
- 26:42Speaker 4: I used to love playing paper football. And we used
- 26:47Speaker 4: to play at the lunchroom table. I don't remember how
- 26:50Speaker 4: big they were, but I wonder what mathematically paper football
- 26:56Speaker 4: field goal was to scale. I mean, I would imagine
- 26:59Speaker 4: Brandon Aubrey would be like kicking paper football's like boardroom-sized
- 27:05Speaker 4: tables as opposed to lunchroom size with his skill set.
- 27:08Speaker 4: But that's pretty cool. I'm going to have to get
- 27:11Speaker 4: me one of those.
- 27:12Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean, like, I think you just got
- 27:15Speaker 2: to get three and then some super glue, and I
- 27:19Speaker 2: don't know.
- 27:19Speaker 7: It's pretty cool, though.
- 27:21Speaker 2: I like that. They were walking by with it. I
- 27:23Speaker 2: was like, what is that? It was like Gillette razors.
- 27:25Speaker 2: I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, bring it over here
- 27:28Speaker 2: with the show sponsored by Gillette.
- 27:30Speaker 4: I'm absolutely down with that, but I've got to ask
- 27:33Speaker 4: you a question. This Arizona game, you know me, I
- 27:38Speaker 4: have a small degree of anxiety about all these games.
- 27:43Speaker 4: We used to call it a trap game, and of
- 27:47Speaker 4: course now it's a must-win game, but why do you
- 27:50Speaker 4: think we've had so much trouble over the years with Arizona.
- 27:55Speaker 4: We've made their quarterbacks look like Hall of Famers. We've
- 27:58Speaker 4: been surprised and brutalized by them at times. And here
- 28:02Speaker 4: we are again in the same spot. I'd feel a
- 28:05Speaker 4: lot better if we were playing the 49ers this week.
- 28:08Speaker 4: I could have a reasonable expectation of outcome. But here,
- 28:13Speaker 4: I just don't know what to think. I'll give you
- 28:17Speaker 4: my score and then let you go. But to answer
- 28:19Speaker 4: the question, I'm going to say, and this is purely
- 28:23Speaker 4: wishful thinking and, you know, hopefully not wishful thinking. Hopefully
- 28:29Speaker 4: it's a prescient, but a 31 to 10. And I
- 28:33Speaker 4: want Dak to be a bus driver, but I want
- 28:35Speaker 4: him to be like a Sandra Bullock and speed driving
- 28:38Speaker 4: that bus. I want it to ratchet up.
- 28:40Speaker 2: All right. I like that.
- 28:42Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 28:43Speaker 2: Okay.
- 28:44Speaker 6: All right, Blair.
- 28:45Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. I like that at all
- 28:49Speaker 2: because that's what, that's kind of my point is every,
- 28:52Speaker 2: every now and again, You got to stay on the gas.
- 28:56Speaker 2: Can't go under 50. I don't know why I like
- 29:00Speaker 2: that movie so much with Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock. That
- 29:04Speaker 2: was a good one. Dennis Hopper, obviously. But, yeah, that's
- 29:09Speaker 2: kind of my point is that, you know, what kind
- 29:12Speaker 2: of bus are we talking about here? You know what
- 29:13Speaker 2: I mean? Are we talking about school bus? Are we
- 29:15Speaker 2: talking about one of the big Greyhound or the one
- 29:19Speaker 2: from Speed where you had to jump the ramp there?
- 29:22Speaker 2: It wasn't even finished. Um, why they haven't beat, I mean,
- 29:29Speaker 2: I'm so tired of answering because I don't really know.
- 29:32Speaker 2: But if you have to, pinpoint it, number one is
- 29:37Speaker 2: the Cowboys just haven't been that much better than the Cardinals. Now,
- 29:42Speaker 2: the Cardinals aren't... I mean, all these games, pretty much,
- 29:46Speaker 2: I think Dallas has been favored, but there's also reasons
- 29:48Speaker 2: for that, too.
- 29:49Speaker 8: I mean.
- 29:51Speaker 2: I think the odds makers are saying, all right, Dallas
- 29:54Speaker 2: should win and this is where the money goes and
- 29:55Speaker 2: all this stuff because everyone kind of thinks and assumes that.
- 30:00Speaker 2: The bottom line is in the last 20 years or so,
- 30:03Speaker 2: Dallas hasn't been that much better than the Cardinals as
- 30:06Speaker 2: just a franchise. I believe Arizona has actually been to
- 30:10Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, but for the most part, it's been
- 30:12Speaker 2: like right there. Dallas has probably had more wins overall,
- 30:17Speaker 2: more playoff appearances and all that, but not appreciably better.
- 30:21Speaker 2: And then when you factor in of, I think the
- 30:24Speaker 2: Cowboys feel like, you know, maybe as players, fans, whatever,
- 30:27Speaker 2: that this is a team we should beat. And I
- 30:29Speaker 2: think the Cardinals kind of look at it like, hey,
- 30:31Speaker 2: this is a team. This is kind of the standard.
- 30:33Speaker 2: This is America's team. And they got all these fans
- 30:36Speaker 2: and all this stuff here in our own city. And
- 30:38Speaker 2: we're going to, you know, and they're just probably more
- 30:41Speaker 2: ready to play. And then you factor in the fact
- 30:43Speaker 2: that Talent-wise, it's been about the same for the most part.
- 30:47Speaker 2: Maybe a little bit more Dallas, but not to the
- 30:49Speaker 2: point where you should overlook anyone. And it's probably a
- 30:54Speaker 2: little bit of just not luck, but it's just more
- 30:59Speaker 2: about just kind of one of those weird things that happen.
- 31:02Speaker 2: I'm sure if you keep flipping a coin, every once
- 31:05Speaker 2: in a while, you flip it 10 times. Every once
- 31:07Speaker 2: in a while, you might get Heads eight times in
- 31:10Speaker 2: a row. I mean, usually it's not going to be
- 31:12Speaker 2: that way, but that's just kind of the way it is.
- 31:14Speaker 2: And Arizona's just kind of won these games. And so
- 31:17Speaker 2: we'll see if the Cowboys can flip it around. If
- 31:19Speaker 2: they don't win this one, then you just add it
- 31:21Speaker 2: to the list of, you know, maybe there's something more underlining.
- 31:25Speaker 2: I just don't know what that answer is because I
- 31:28Speaker 2: know Arizona's not, you know, a better team, a better franchise.
- 31:31Speaker 2: Last year was another example of that. Just crazy stuff.
- 31:35Speaker 2: Always seems to happen. All right. I'm A in Napa's next.
- 31:38Speaker 7: I'm A. Hey, what's up, Nick?
- 31:41Speaker 2: How are you doing? I'm good. What's up with you?
- 31:44Speaker 11: Man, just trying to make my way into work and
- 31:47Speaker 11: thinking Cowboys and thinking Cardinals, thinking about the good old
- 31:50Speaker 11: days of when I used to go to the games
- 31:53Speaker 11: in the 90s and enjoy Arizona Stadium or whatever it was.
- 32:01Speaker 11: the arizona state stadium sun devil yeah it was yeah
- 32:05Speaker 11: it was good times then because you could always count
- 32:07Speaker 11: on the cowboys win uh i think out of the
- 32:09Speaker 11: eight years in a row i went from uh 91
- 32:12Speaker 11: to 98 or 99 uh i think they only lost
- 32:17Speaker 11: like once so it was great um but anyways yeah
- 32:21Speaker 11: it's been a long time since then i think you
- 32:24Speaker 11: know it's exactly what you said just Funny things happen,
- 32:27Speaker 11: you know what I mean? And the Cowboys' defense hasn't
- 32:30Speaker 11: been good, you know, for the last few years when
- 32:32Speaker 11: they played them. And, you know, it always comes down
- 32:35Speaker 11: to when you play a team. And, unfortunately, the Cowboys,
- 32:38Speaker 11: whether they're overlooking them or whatever. But, anyways, this week, man,
- 32:44Speaker 11: you know, obviously, if they don't win this week, last
- 32:47Speaker 11: week's win doesn't mean very much other than just bragging
- 32:50Speaker 11: rights to Eagles fans.
- 32:51Speaker 7: So... They really got.
- 32:53Speaker 11: To string together some wins if we're going to have
- 32:56Speaker 11: any type of promising season. So looking for them to
- 32:59Speaker 11: do that this week. Obviously, we've been talking about it
- 33:02Speaker 11: all week. The keys to the game are just, you know,
- 33:06Speaker 11: Shottie and Dak. Shottie has to, you know, run the ball,
- 33:10Speaker 11: trust in his team. you know, and, and, and Dak
- 33:14Speaker 11: has to be, you know, the bus driver, you know, he,
- 33:16Speaker 11: he didn't, he didn't play great last week. You know, he,
- 33:20Speaker 11: he made some throws, but his receivers made some catches too.
- 33:24Speaker 11: And he, he has to be sharper, you know, 15
- 33:27Speaker 11: of 29 or something like that. He was not great,
- 33:31Speaker 11: but I mean, he, we've seen him play good. And
- 33:33Speaker 11: when he had to, he made plays and, We need
- 33:36Speaker 11: him to start doing that, but to be even more efficient.
- 33:39Speaker 11: And Shottie has to help him with that by running
- 33:41Speaker 11: the ball. You know, it's the key. It's the key
- 33:45Speaker 11: to the whole season, I think, here on out. Every
- 33:48Speaker 11: team we have to play like that. When we have
- 33:51Speaker 11: a chance to, you know, go for it on fourth
- 33:53Speaker 11: and short and we're in the middle of the field,
- 33:55Speaker 11: If it's not our time, we've got to go for it.
- 33:57Speaker 11: You know what I mean? He just has to trust
- 33:59Speaker 11: in the offense, and the defense is going to give
- 34:02Speaker 11: him what he gives us week in and week out.
- 34:05Speaker 11: And hopefully that's just a couple stops, maybe a turnover
- 34:08Speaker 11: here and there, and then just crucial when we need him.
- 34:11Speaker 7: A quick question I have is, do you think that.
- 34:15Speaker 11: Jerron Bland maybe slides to the inside? and plays the
- 34:20Speaker 11: slot corner only, and we go with Durant and Porter
- 34:25Speaker 11: on the outside, like, just full-time. And I know we
- 34:29Speaker 11: play a lot of, you know, three corners anyways, but
- 34:31Speaker 11: just thinking that, just think those are our two best corners,
- 34:35Speaker 11: to be honest with you. And then my quick prediction
- 34:38Speaker 11: for the game is I think it's something like a 31-20.
- 34:41Speaker 11: I think it'll be close at first, something like this
- 34:43Speaker 11: last week. The Cardinals will score some points, but I
- 34:47Speaker 11: think Dallas will kind of just show their way and
- 34:49Speaker 11: show their muscle over the course of the game.
- 34:52Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for the call, Imei. You packed a lot
- 34:56Speaker 2: in there, so I'm not even going to touch on
- 34:59Speaker 2: some of that. So 31-20, is the score bland today?
- 35:05Speaker 2: I still think Bland is more, I think I'd rather
- 35:08Speaker 2: have Durant on the inside as the slot corner than Bland,
- 35:11Speaker 2: but that's just what I've seen. We still haven't seen
- 35:15Speaker 2: Durant a ton in that. The only thing I'll say
- 35:19Speaker 2: is I just, I couldn't, I don't think I could
- 35:22Speaker 2: disagree more about the Dak didn't play that well last week.
- 35:25Speaker 2: I don't, I'm not buying that. I think he did
- 35:27Speaker 2: play well. I'm, Yeah, great catch by Pickens. There's some
- 35:33Speaker 2: great catches, but when I look at it, you know,
- 35:37Speaker 2: quarterback rating is a rating for a reason. I mean,
- 35:40Speaker 2: they put that out for a reason. And, I mean,
- 35:42Speaker 2: for him, you know, he's four games in a row
- 35:46Speaker 2: of under 100, and he comes out at Philly 118.1,
- 35:48Speaker 2: no interceptions. You know, he was fantastic. It was 15
- 35:55Speaker 2: of 27, so 55% is probably what you're looking at
- 35:58Speaker 2: in the yards, 212. Okay, well, they ran for 200,
- 36:01Speaker 2: I mean, like on the other side. So that's where
- 36:04Speaker 2: the yards kind of went from. But three touchdowns, they
- 36:06Speaker 2: were efficient. They were efficient in the red zone, made
- 36:08Speaker 2: good decisions with the ball. And he also ran the
- 36:10Speaker 2: ball pretty well, too. Not a ton, but when he
- 36:13Speaker 2: needed to, there was a one play in the, I
- 36:15Speaker 2: think it was the second quarter, when he ran, kind
- 36:18Speaker 2: of scrambled out, dove forward, got the first down, and
- 36:20Speaker 2: they ended up scoring there. Obviously, we've talked about the
- 36:23Speaker 2: two-point play. So I just think overall, I mean, Dak
- 36:26Speaker 2: was really good in the game. This is one where,
- 36:29Speaker 2: you know, I've seen 400, 500-yard passing games out of
- 36:32Speaker 2: Dak with a loss. Was that a good game? You know,
- 36:34Speaker 2: like stat-wise, yeah. If you have them on your fantasy team, yeah, cool.
- 36:37Speaker 2: But in a game like this, touchdowns were there, no interceptions,
- 36:41Speaker 2: rating was high, got a big win on the road.
- 36:44Speaker 2: I don't know, from a quarterback standpoint, I think that
- 36:46Speaker 2: was pretty good. All right, Michael in Bowling Green is next.
- 36:49Speaker 14: I like the way Dak played, and I hope he
- 36:52Speaker 14: has about the same amount of passes against Arizona.
- 36:55Speaker 7: Yep.
- 36:56Speaker 14: I enjoyed it. I like that little run, that two-point
- 36:59Speaker 14: perversion he made, too. But I wanted to ask Tony Pollard,
- 37:05Speaker 14: if we could get him for a six-round pick, I
- 37:08Speaker 14: think he would go nicely with Williams. Do you think
- 37:12Speaker 14: they should do that if they can?
- 37:16Speaker 7: Oh, I.
- 37:18Speaker 2: Somebody like Tony Pollard, a running back like that, I think, yeah,
- 37:23Speaker 2: I may or may not have had that conversation about
- 37:25Speaker 2: that just yesterday, about a running back like Tony Pollard.
- 37:29Speaker 2: Like Tony Pollard. Like Tony Pollard, somebody like him with
- 37:34Speaker 2: that kind of skill set that's maybe played with the
- 37:37Speaker 2: team before. somebody like him, you know, uh, not saying him,
- 37:41Speaker 2: but someone like, uh, yeah, especially, especially somebody like him,
- 37:47Speaker 2: that if you can put them on your team and
- 37:50Speaker 2: take them off the team, you're about to play in
- 37:52Speaker 2: a few weeks and weaken that team and maybe help your,
- 37:55Speaker 2: you know, get another win.
- 37:56Speaker 7: Uh, yeah.
- 37:57Speaker 2: So somebody like that. Um, I wouldn't hate a move
- 38:01Speaker 2: like that because, um, I think that's kind of– and
- 38:05Speaker 2: Goodson is doing a good job, but that kind of
- 38:08Speaker 2: thunder lightning situation would be good. I wouldn't be opposed
- 38:12Speaker 2: to that, honestly. So I think you're onto something.
- 38:16Speaker 14: There's a team not far, about an hour from where
- 38:19Speaker 14: I'm sitting. I think they're trying to get rid of
- 38:21Speaker 14: some stuff, so maybe. The other thing I had real quick,
- 38:24Speaker 14: and I'll let you go, was– I was talking about Crosby,
- 38:30Speaker 14: but he's only had two sacks. in seven games, so
- 38:35Speaker 14: I'm not sure he's going to get, you know, if
- 38:38Speaker 14: he's traded. I don't think they'll get two number ones
- 38:42Speaker 14: for him, not the way he's playing. Yeah, okay.
- 38:46Speaker 2: Michael, that's two shows in a row where it's very
- 38:50Speaker 2: obvious that you don't listen to the show before you
- 38:53Speaker 2: call in because all the questions you ask are always...
- 38:57Speaker 2: The topics have already been addressed. It's two shows in
- 39:00Speaker 2: a row that that happened. Yes, Crosby's two sacks have
- 39:03Speaker 2: been mentioned a little bit. I also kind of dismissed
- 39:06Speaker 2: it where, like, yeah, that's great. But putting a player
- 39:10Speaker 2: like him with that kind of potential in this defensive
- 39:14Speaker 2: line room with Quinnen and Kenny Clark and those guys,
- 39:17Speaker 2: I think he could definitely make a difference. I'm dialing.
- 39:22Speaker 14: I'm dialing. I keep listening while I'm dialing, I get it.
- 39:29Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. Appreciate that. We're going to go
- 39:30Speaker 2: to break real quick and be right back here on
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- 40:57Speaker 2: phone lines. We have a first-time caller, Trevor in North Carolina.
- 41:04Speaker 2: What's up, Trevor?
- 41:04Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
- 41:06Speaker 8: Hey, how you doing?
- 41:07Speaker 2: I'm good.
- 41:08Speaker 7: Um....
- 41:10Speaker 8: I just want to say I was happy to see
- 41:14Speaker 8: Shadi play Colin a lot better against the Eagles, and
- 41:19Speaker 8: I know Dak has a little bit to do with that.
- 41:22Speaker 8: But I like what you said about matchups. I think
- 41:28Speaker 8: you were trying to say matchups. You know, when you
- 41:31Speaker 8: look at study the fam and see who you got
- 41:33Speaker 8: to play, and Dak has to make the decision based
- 41:37Speaker 8: on whether they plan to the double safety in the
- 41:44Speaker 8: back and make good decisions as to whether or not
- 41:47Speaker 8: it's going to be a run game or whether it's
- 41:49Speaker 8: going to be a passing game. But I just hope
- 41:52Speaker 8: that they can continue to be able to do that.
- 41:57Speaker 8: Two of the greatest offensive coordinators that the Cowboys ever
- 42:02Speaker 8: had was Ernie Zampezi and Noah Turner. And basically doing that, era,
- 42:10Speaker 8: especially North Turner, you know, we had the running game,
- 42:13Speaker 8: and sometimes we would win with Emmitt, and sometimes we
- 42:17Speaker 8: would win with Ivan Harper and Irvin. But they knew
- 42:21Speaker 8: how to make matchups, and based on who they were
- 42:24Speaker 8: playing and what was going on in that game, dictated
- 42:28Speaker 8: how the play calling went. And I guess Troy Eggman
- 42:31Speaker 8: knew what to play, what to call, and so forth.
- 42:34Speaker 8: But I want to throw a question at you, and
- 42:36Speaker 8: I'll be gone At the beginning of the season, I
- 42:41Speaker 8: felt like the Cowboys were not going to re-sign Pickens.
- 42:45Speaker 8: They knew that they didn't want to re-sign. I think
- 42:47Speaker 8: they really had intentions of maybe considering re-signing him based
- 42:52Speaker 8: on how the season went. But I think there was
- 42:56Speaker 8: a little look behind their mind as to how Flanoy
- 43:00Speaker 8: was going to do, too. Because Flanoy looked like he
- 43:03Speaker 8: could be a two.
- 43:04Speaker 7: And....
- 43:07Speaker 8: I know they got Camden Brown that could possibly be
- 43:10Speaker 8: a three, but I felt like Flanoy, if he continued
- 43:14Speaker 8: to increase and do better, and then based on what
- 43:17Speaker 8: they were going to be able to get out of Pickens,
- 43:21Speaker 8: and if Pickens could kind of float them, because I
- 43:25Speaker 8: believe they really had some concerns about Pickens as to
- 43:29Speaker 8: route running and his will to kind of flow with
- 43:33Speaker 8: what they want to do, and if things didn't go
- 43:36Speaker 8: well and things didn't go right, and if Flaneau continues
- 43:39Speaker 8: to improve, I would love to see how Flaneau could
- 43:44Speaker 8: play as the two. So my question would be, do
- 43:47Speaker 8: you think it would be a bad thing if they
- 43:49Speaker 8: could trade Pickens and get Crosby or get some help
- 43:59Speaker 8: and go with Flaneau and maybe Camden as the three?
- 44:03Speaker 8: And I'm gone.
- 44:03Speaker 2: All right. Um, this isn't something that I think I
- 44:09Speaker 2: would do this year. I think if I, if I'm,
- 44:11Speaker 2: if I'm trying to get, you know, if I'm, if
- 44:15Speaker 2: I'm going for it here and I feel like you're a,
- 44:17Speaker 2: you're a team that's buying, then, then I'm trying to
- 44:20Speaker 2: add to my team this year. I want to add
- 44:23Speaker 2: to it so we can go win. I don't want
- 44:25Speaker 2: to like add to it over here, but now I've
- 44:28Speaker 2: created a problem over here. I don't, I think Flanoy
- 44:32Speaker 2: is a good player. I like him in the, in
- 44:35Speaker 2: this three spot. Um, if you don't guard him, he'll
- 44:39Speaker 2: make some plays. He's not Pickens. And, and he's not, uh,
- 44:45Speaker 2: you know, he's not somebody that's gonna, that's gonna do anything.
- 44:48Speaker 2: You know, I don't think he scares you on the outside. Um,
- 44:51Speaker 2: like Pickens. I mean, Pickens is scaring teams to the
- 44:55Speaker 2: point where they're okay with CD doing what he's doing.
- 44:58Speaker 2: How long that's gonna last?
- 44:59Speaker 14: I don't know.
- 45:00Speaker 2: I mean, but, but CD's having one hell of a
- 45:03Speaker 2: year doing that. Uh, I don't think it's going to
- 45:05Speaker 2: be the same thing with, with, without one of those
- 45:07Speaker 2: guys in there. So, um, if I'm, if you've decided
- 45:12Speaker 2: that this year is probably not going to, to work out,
- 45:16Speaker 2: you know, um, but the, see, you gotta remember this.
- 45:19Speaker 2: Cowboys are in a weird spot now because, uh, Some
- 45:23Speaker 2: teams that are like, all right, we're just going to
- 45:24Speaker 2: move on. We're going for draft picks. They're also going
- 45:27Speaker 2: for their own draft pick. You can call it tanking
- 45:29Speaker 2: if you want to, but they're going for their own
- 45:32Speaker 2: draft pick. You know what? We're going to move on.
- 45:34Speaker 2: We're going to get rid of some of these contracts.
- 45:36Speaker 2: We're going to try to get some more picks for
- 45:37Speaker 2: next year. If we win, okay, but if we don't, cool,
- 45:41Speaker 2: draft pick. Well, the Cowboys are in a weird spot
- 45:43Speaker 2: because they could lose a lot of games and they
- 45:47Speaker 2: don't get the draft pick. Because the Jets are going
- 45:49Speaker 2: to get the draft pick. Look at what's happening in
- 45:51Speaker 2: Green Bay. They're winning. They got a running back back.
- 45:54Speaker 2: Micah's about to come back. Green Bay is going to
- 45:57Speaker 2: probably be the Cowboys pick. That's just the nature of it.
- 46:00Speaker 2: So it doesn't make a lot of sense for the Cowboys, really,
- 46:03Speaker 2: to try to not do the same thing and keep winning,
- 46:06Speaker 2: especially with the division the way it is. So I
- 46:09Speaker 2: say all that to say I'm not trading pickets. All right,
- 46:12Speaker 2: Zach in Germany.
- 46:15Speaker 7: What's up?
- 46:15Speaker 5: How are you, sir?
- 46:16Speaker 2: How you doing?
- 46:17Speaker 7: Good, brother, good.
- 46:19Speaker 5: Just want to hit three points real quick. I'll try
- 46:20Speaker 5: to be quick with them. The first one from the
- 46:23Speaker 5: Philly game, still disappointed in defense. I was listening earlier
- 46:26Speaker 5: in the week. Some fans were– I think they're just
- 46:29Speaker 5: happy we got a win, which I get. You know,
- 46:31Speaker 5: he gave up 121 on the ground. We're averaging throughout
- 46:34Speaker 5: the year 145 on the ground. That's way too high.
- 46:37Speaker 5: Where I'm disappointed in it, obviously we played better, but
- 46:41Speaker 5: that was a game we should have.
- 46:42Speaker 7: Won, right?
- 46:43Speaker 5: They're missing their two top receivers, missing their quarterback, offensive
- 46:46Speaker 5: line shot. And that's where I'm concerned is, like, we
- 46:48Speaker 5: knew the game plan coming in of what Philly was
- 46:51Speaker 5: intending to do. which is run the ball. They've got
- 46:53Speaker 5: to take one back. And that's what they did. They
- 46:55Speaker 5: did it to the best of their ability. But what
- 46:57Speaker 5: bothers me is when I look at the defensive coaching staff,
- 47:00Speaker 5: you have to have known that that's the game plan.
- 47:02Speaker 5: They're going to do short passes and try to run
- 47:04Speaker 5: the ball, blitz more, stack the box, take away the run,
- 47:07Speaker 5: make McGee beat you. No, he didn't. And obviously that's
- 47:11Speaker 5: the point. But we need to just continue to improve there.
- 47:14Speaker 5: Moving to this week, Cardinals, don't sleep on them. We
- 47:19Speaker 5: haven't beat them since 2017. The last four matches we played,
- 47:22Speaker 5: we lost. And it's not like they were good teams.
- 47:25Speaker 5: 2023 and 2025 were games we were supposed to win.
- 47:28Speaker 5: Fell asleep at the wheel. So take care of business
- 47:31Speaker 5: this week. That's important. And the last point I have
- 47:34Speaker 5: is really going just to the trades that you were
- 47:35Speaker 5: talking about. I'm sure it was brought up this week.
- 47:38Speaker 5: I haven't heard it yet. But the Quentin Nelson trade,
- 47:41Speaker 5: when you look at the comparison, obviously we did the
- 47:43Speaker 5: trade with Broderick. Different position, I get it. But, you know,
- 47:47Speaker 5: third and sixth, third and fifth. I'm not concerned with that.
- 47:50Speaker 5: But where I was going to go with this was,
- 47:52Speaker 5: do you think where we're making trades, which is good,
- 47:55Speaker 5: have they been good trades in your opinion? And I'll
- 47:57Speaker 5: look at the Porter one in particular. I think he's
- 47:59Speaker 5: a great player. I'm more concerned we haven't signed him.
- 48:03Speaker 5: You know, because what you were just talking about with
- 48:06Speaker 5: picks and how we don't have them, if we trade
- 48:08Speaker 5: and we don't sign those guys long-term, then now you're
- 48:11Speaker 5: in trouble both ways.
- 48:12Speaker 7: Right.
- 48:13Speaker 5: Just want to get your opinion on that. I'll hang up, listen,
- 48:15Speaker 5: and I appreciate everything you guys do as always.
- 48:17Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, Zach. In Germany. So I know you
- 48:22Speaker 2: get to listen when you can. I don't think you've
- 48:24Speaker 2: been able to listen to a lot of the shows
- 48:27Speaker 2: this week, which is fine because I get it. Nobody's
- 48:31Speaker 2: sleeping on the Cardinals. We're done with that. All right.
- 48:35Speaker 2: We're done. Nobody's sleeping. Not on this show. Everybody is
- 48:39Speaker 2: fully aware of the fact that that team has had
- 48:44Speaker 2: the Cowboys number for a long time. So I don't
- 48:49Speaker 2: think the players are sleeping on it. If they don't
- 48:51Speaker 2: win this game, it's because they're not good enough. I mean,
- 48:55Speaker 2: they're not good enough, and they're not good enough to
- 48:57Speaker 2: be disciplined enough to be prepared the right way or whatever.
- 49:00Speaker 2: Because there's no way that anyone is overlooking the Cardinals
- 49:04Speaker 2: and the recent record that they have. The part about the...
- 49:09Speaker 2: I'm going to mention one thing, too. The Eagles weren't good.
- 49:12Speaker 2: You've got to beat those teams. True. 100% true. You
- 49:15Speaker 2: say that when you win in overtime. and you say
- 49:18Speaker 2: that when you win by one or whatever you win
- 49:20Speaker 2: by 17 on the road then then that's not what
- 49:23Speaker 2: you're supposed to do what you're supposed to do is
- 49:25Speaker 2: go win the game and the team that's like that
- 49:27Speaker 2: yeah you go you go win the game and then
- 49:29Speaker 2: you put them down you win by 17 that's exactly
- 49:31Speaker 2: what you're supposed to do to that kind of team
- 49:33Speaker 2: So let's not get it twisted on the Cowboys didn't
- 49:36Speaker 2: play well. They wanted to keep running the ball because
- 49:39Speaker 2: they didn't trust their quarterback. Cool. Keep running it. Running it.
- 49:42Speaker 2: Especially when the Cowboys were up like that and you
- 49:44Speaker 2: want to keep running Pierce, go for it. Good luck
- 49:47Speaker 2: with that. Now you're down 10. You want to keep
- 49:49Speaker 2: running it? Go for it. So, I mean, some of
- 49:52Speaker 2: those stats can be misleading. One more thing, too, about
- 49:55Speaker 2: the trades. When you're looking at trades, you can't just
- 49:59Speaker 2: look at the compensation. You just can't. You can't go, God,
- 50:02Speaker 2: third for that? Why not a sixth? You know what?
- 50:05Speaker 2: The Cowboys did that. You can't always do that. You
- 50:08Speaker 2: have to look at the money. The money is everything.
- 50:11Speaker 2: And if you don't believe me, just look at the
- 50:12Speaker 2: Detroit trade, the Stafford-Goff trade, and all that kind of stuff.
- 50:17Speaker 2: It was all about money. It has nothing to do
- 50:20Speaker 2: with just the picks that you got and all that.
- 50:22Speaker 2: Seattle traded a couple of picks or whatever for Quentin
- 50:26Speaker 2: Nelson's free agent. They're renting him. And you could say
- 50:32Speaker 2: the same about Porter right now. So if the intention
- 50:35Speaker 2: is to sign him, great. But the Cowboys, I think
- 50:38Speaker 2: for what they gave, their intention is to keep Porter.
- 50:41Speaker 2: And he's done nothing in the last few games to
- 50:43Speaker 2: make you think that that's not the case. Let's not forget,
- 50:46Speaker 2: he didn't play against Tampa. And I think the way
- 50:49Speaker 2: he's played, If he was out there against Tampa, I
- 50:51Speaker 2: think he would have made a big difference in that game.
- 50:53Speaker 2: So he has made an instant impact, and I don't
- 50:56Speaker 2: know why you wouldn't want to sign a player like that.
- 50:59Speaker 2: But when you're evaluating trades, you can't just look at compensation.
- 51:03Speaker 2: You have to look at the money that a team
- 51:04Speaker 2: is giving up and how much it's hitting their own cap.
- 51:08Speaker 2: how much contract you're absorbing the other way. So that
- 51:11Speaker 2: factors a lot into the trade. Sorry, went a little longer.
- 51:14Speaker 2: We got to go. You guys did great, 10 callers.
- 51:16Speaker 2: Great show, great week, short week for us. So next
- 51:19Speaker 2: week will be the first time in forever that I
- 51:22Speaker 2: can remember it's actually going to be a normal week.
- 51:24Speaker 2: Just a normal Sunday to Sunday game. All our shows
- 51:27Speaker 2: should be all right, unless I'm forgetting something. But I
- 51:30Speaker 2: think everything should be good. We're going to talk about
- 51:32Speaker 2: it Monday. Hopefully we're talking about a Cowboys win. My prediction,
- 51:36Speaker 2: I think the Cowboys will win the game. I think
- 51:38Speaker 2: it'll be a tight win. I'll put it on gut
- 51:40Speaker 2: feeling later, but I think they're going to score some points.
- 51:42Speaker 2: But I do think it's going to be one of
- 51:43Speaker 2: those nail bite type games. But I think the Cowboys
- 51:45Speaker 2: finally get a win against Arizona. For Chris Beam, I'm
- 51:48Speaker 2: Nick Eatman. See you on Monday at Cowboys Storyline.
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