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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
- 0:05Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Cowboys.
- 0:12Speaker 3: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:20Speaker 4: What's up?
- 0:20Speaker 2: Welcome to Cowboys Storyline, Tuesday, December seventeenth.
- 0:24Speaker 4: I'm Nick Eveman.
- 0:24Speaker 2: We have different showtime today, had to shuffle some things around.
- 0:29Speaker 2: But still for the most people that are that are
- 0:32Speaker 2: watching this later on or watching this at night, they we'll.
- 0:35Speaker 4: Know the difference.
- 0:35Speaker 2: So all good. We already got callers on the line.
- 0:38Speaker 2: We're gonna take calls all day long, so and we've
- 0:42Speaker 2: got the shows all day long as well. It doesn't
- 0:44Speaker 2: stop even when we move things around, even when Chris
- 0:47Speaker 2: is not in the office. It looks like Jazz is
- 0:49Speaker 2: back there rolling things today. So all right, let's go
- 0:53Speaker 2: to uh, let's start it off with the calls. Let's
- 0:55Speaker 2: get right after it here Irene and falls Church, Virginia
- 0:57Speaker 2: has been on the line. Irene, what's up guy?
- 1:00Speaker 5: Good morning? Shout out to Jazz for subn today. Couldn't
- 1:04Speaker 5: leave you hanging with the time change. Just in case,
- 1:06Speaker 5: you know, I had to call in. I'll give you
- 1:08Speaker 5: my question to comments and then take your answers off
- 1:10Speaker 5: air to keep the lines clear. Don't think it sounded
- 1:14Speaker 5: like there was an injury up down during Lewis yesterday.
- 1:16Speaker 5: I haven't seen anything come through today, so wondering about that,
- 1:20Speaker 5: especially with Digs out for the season. Buccaneers obviously have
- 1:23Speaker 5: Mike Evans, and then this McMillan kid really shown up
- 1:26Speaker 5: since Godwin went down. I think the other thing is
- 1:30Speaker 5: that this will be a huge game for Kendricks and
- 1:32Speaker 5: Leafile with both running backs. I have Rashadway on my
- 1:36Speaker 5: one of my fantasy teams and he is great as
- 1:39Speaker 5: a receiver on screens and wheel routes, so that's something
- 1:42Speaker 5: to watch. One last thing, shameless plug for the storyliner's community.
- 1:46Speaker 5: Our guy Travis and san Antonio has started a draft show.
- 1:50Speaker 5: Doesn't mean we won't watch your draft show.
- 1:51Speaker 6: We will.
- 1:53Speaker 5: It'll it'll air Monday night. They're going through position groups.
- 1:56Speaker 5: There's a couple other guys who started with them. They
- 1:59Speaker 5: don't call him the show, but they listen. Kyle and
- 2:01Speaker 5: Cason shout out to them. I'm forty five minutes into
- 2:05Speaker 5: a two hour and fifteen minutes podcast. We're discussing the legedness,
- 2:08Speaker 5: so I'm loving it. All right, that's it. Thanks so much.
- 2:11Speaker 4: All right, thank you. I did see that.
- 2:13Speaker 2: I did see the there was a draft another draft
- 2:17Speaker 2: Show Storyliners edition. That's a that'll be interesting. And it
- 2:22Speaker 2: sounds like you guys are already starting it. That's that's
- 2:24Speaker 2: one of the things that for us, we've always kind
- 2:27Speaker 2: of tried to figure out when's the best time to
- 2:30Speaker 2: do that. Personally, I think I think starting it in
- 2:35Speaker 2: January is fine. You know, let's wait till everybody declares
- 2:39Speaker 2: for the draft and and see who's out there and
- 2:41Speaker 2: see what the order is and all that good stuff.
- 2:43Speaker 2: But you know what, in a season like this, people
- 2:46Speaker 2: want to just go ahead and start thinking about, uh,
- 2:49Speaker 2: next year, next year. You know, they're they're oh, and oh,
- 2:52Speaker 2: I haven't won it or lost any games. So I
- 2:55Speaker 2: get that concept as well, but it's just there's to me,
- 2:58Speaker 2: there's just a lot, uh, you know, to figure out,
- 3:01Speaker 2: and and nothing really happens until they you know, and
- 3:04Speaker 2: they start getting pro day's and combine and stuff like that.
- 3:07Speaker 4: That's when it starts to heat up.
- 3:08Speaker 2: So I always kind of, you know, I would wait
- 3:11Speaker 2: a little bit, but you guys, hey, get after it.
- 3:14Speaker 4: Have some fun with that.
- 3:15Speaker 2: As Irene was talking about Tampa, you know, they're obviously
- 3:18Speaker 2: playing better. I think they've won four straight games, so
- 3:21Speaker 2: you know, they they were in there, they were They've
- 3:24Speaker 2: had a tough year as far as like their fans go,
- 3:27Speaker 2: as a roller coaster type. You know, they've had somewhere.
- 3:31Speaker 2: You know, they beat Detroit and they beat Philly. When
- 3:34Speaker 2: they beat Philly in week four. I mean, I don't
- 3:36Speaker 2: think Philly has lost since then. They haven't, but but
- 3:40Speaker 2: it certainly didn't look like one team was gonna win
- 3:43Speaker 2: like ten in a row. One team was gonna kind
- 3:46Speaker 2: of go have an up and down year, just the
- 3:47Speaker 2: way Tampa won that game. But but you know, they
- 3:50Speaker 2: they've had some a rough patch there, Baltimore, Kansas City,
- 3:54Speaker 2: San Francisco, Baltimore.
- 3:55Speaker 4: I mean, those are tough losses.
- 3:56Speaker 2: But since then they've won four straight games and and
- 3:59Speaker 2: they're in place in their division, I believe, so they
- 4:02Speaker 2: have an opportunity to do some things. But you know,
- 4:04Speaker 2: the way Dallas is playing too, it'll it'll be uh,
- 4:07Speaker 2: it should be a good one, you know. I know
- 4:09Speaker 2: there's some talk about flexing this game down at some point,
- 4:12Speaker 2: but you know, it's the Cowboys and Cowboys, and so
- 4:15Speaker 2: you know they're they're playing better. Tampa Bay's obviously playing better,
- 4:18Speaker 2: so I think it's gonna work out fine for NBC.
- 4:21Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Brian in Kansas City.
- 4:26Speaker 7: Good afternoon, sir.
- 4:28Speaker 4: How are you?
- 4:29Speaker 7: I never get to say good afternoon, Nick?
- 4:31Speaker 2: I know, I know it's it's rare. I mean, you
- 4:33Speaker 2: you could. You can always say it. You know, you
- 4:36Speaker 2: can say whatever you want, you know, but you can
- 4:38Speaker 2: say happy, happy Monday, even when it's not so.
- 4:42Speaker 4: But I understand what you're saying.
- 4:44Speaker 8: Proud of that, And like Irene, I'll double down and
- 4:48Speaker 8: jazz handle them out handling business this morning.
- 4:50Speaker 7: We always love to talk to her, and boy, she's
- 4:53Speaker 7: got this thing running smoothly.
- 4:55Speaker 4: Yeah she does.
- 4:56Speaker 7: So I got two things. One is kind of a
- 4:59Speaker 7: big picture your question, and then one is of this
- 5:02Speaker 7: week question. Okay, so just knowing who we're facing this week,
- 5:06Speaker 7: and I want to know. I don't not asking what
- 5:08Speaker 7: you think the Cowboys are going to do. I want
- 5:10Speaker 7: to know what you think. I think if it was me,
- 5:14Speaker 7: I'd put mcclomalo on Evans, just for body style, just
- 5:18Speaker 7: for the body type. I mean, just put the biggest
- 5:21Speaker 7: guy out there, and you know, maybe you know, put
- 5:24Speaker 7: the safety over the top or whatever. But that's what
- 5:27Speaker 7: I think I would do, kind of like interested to
- 5:30Speaker 7: see what your opinion on that is.
- 5:32Speaker 8: And then you know, I called in on the break
- 5:35Speaker 8: this morning and through this they called it a grenade
- 5:38Speaker 8: into the mix when everybody's healthy. And you know, I'm
- 5:43Speaker 8: making the guests that Martin might hang up as tweets,
- 5:47Speaker 8: would you want Hoffman at center and BB.
- 5:51Speaker 7: At guard or the other way around? And I'll hang
- 5:55Speaker 7: up and take that one off air brother.
- 5:56Speaker 2: Okay, all right, thank you, I'll answer that are first.
- 6:02Speaker 2: You know, let's I think that their body types are similar.
- 6:07Speaker 2: That's why it was a It was a good competition
- 6:10Speaker 2: at center. I would I would imagine, you know, baby
- 6:17Speaker 2: didn't play center in in college and then the knock
- 6:21Speaker 2: on him was that he didn't have long enough arms
- 6:23Speaker 2: to play guards, so that's why they they put him
- 6:25Speaker 2: at center. Yeah, if they're let's see who the who
- 6:30Speaker 2: the Let's see what the coaching staff looks like. Let's
- 6:33Speaker 2: see what the running game looks like. You know, if
- 6:35Speaker 2: is there going to be a new coach? Is there
- 6:36Speaker 2: gonna be a new offensive line coach? I mean, those
- 6:38Speaker 2: those are questions that you know, if you're gonna ask
- 6:42Speaker 2: those for down the road, and then I think that
- 6:44Speaker 2: all the cards have to be on the table. It's
- 6:47Speaker 2: a good question, and it's hard to answer because I
- 6:50Speaker 2: think one person could see it one way, one person
- 6:53Speaker 2: could see another. I think it's got to come down
- 6:56Speaker 2: to comfort. You know who who also can can do this,
- 7:00Speaker 2: and that is Hoffman. Is he better at guard than
- 7:04Speaker 2: he is center? Those are just things that need to
- 7:05Speaker 2: be kind of graded out. But it's a good question
- 7:08Speaker 2: because I think it's it's one that could go either way.
- 7:13Speaker 2: And sometimes when you have, you know, close calls, it
- 7:15Speaker 2: comes down to uh, tiebreakers, and the tiebreaker here could
- 7:19Speaker 2: be shotgun snaps, you know who does who does that better?
- 7:24Speaker 2: Who makes the calls better? Who reads the defense better?
- 7:27Speaker 2: So good, good, good question there, And I don't have
- 7:31Speaker 2: a great answer. I think if they both can play,
- 7:34Speaker 2: they'll line up and and and that really could be
- 7:36Speaker 2: the case because Hoffman is just doing too much when
- 7:39Speaker 2: he's in the game for it to be a coincidence.
- 7:42Speaker 2: You know, the first game that he played Arizona, they lost.
- 7:45Speaker 2: They didn't do well in the red zone. He maybe
- 7:47Speaker 2: blame some of it on him, but they ran it well.
- 7:50Speaker 2: Then he played again against Washington at the end of
- 7:52Speaker 2: the season. Washington wasn't very good, had guys out a
- 7:55Speaker 2: lot of points score this year that he's gotten in
- 7:58Speaker 2: the game. But now he's playing, and he's playing against
- 8:00Speaker 2: pretty good teams, pretty good defenses, and and they keep
- 8:03Speaker 2: doing better and better each week. So I think he's
- 8:05Speaker 2: a big part of it as well. And then your
- 8:08Speaker 2: first part about mccuamu versus Mike Evans, I mean it's
- 8:14Speaker 2: not I mean, it's not always first and goal with
- 8:18Speaker 2: the five, you know, it's not always fades.
- 8:20Speaker 4: So when you see that, you're like, oh, that would
- 8:23Speaker 4: be a good matchup.
- 8:24Speaker 2: But what about at midfield when mccamu's got to turn
- 8:28Speaker 2: those hips, he's got to he's got to, you know,
- 8:29Speaker 2: run with it. It could be a five yard slant,
- 8:31Speaker 2: it could be a stop, it could be it could
- 8:33Speaker 2: be a go. That's why Mike Evans is in a
- 8:36Speaker 2: very very you know, rare company when it comes to
- 8:40Speaker 2: what he's done. I believe he's the only player in
- 8:43Speaker 2: NFL history to start his career with like nine straight
- 8:47Speaker 2: one thousand yard seasons. He may be up to ten
- 8:49Speaker 2: at some point, uh now, and maybe at ten he
- 8:52Speaker 2: he's so good, and he's and he's good on the
- 8:55Speaker 2: entire field. Mccuamu hasn't proven, you know, hasn't had the
- 8:59Speaker 2: opportunity all the time, but hasn't really proven to be
- 9:01Speaker 2: that shutdown corner or that, you know, just every down corner.
- 9:06Speaker 2: So I don't know if I like that. I think
- 9:07Speaker 2: I think your best cover guy's got to be on him.
- 9:10Speaker 2: That your best guy. And even though he doesn't match up,
- 9:12Speaker 2: you know, height wise, it could be drawn bland, but
- 9:16Speaker 2: I would probably go that route. Maybe when you get
- 9:18Speaker 2: to the red zone, you want to try something different.
- 9:20Speaker 4: I'm fine with that. All right, Let's go to Jeff
- 9:22Speaker 4: and Salt Lake City. Hey, Nick, how are you good?
- 9:26Speaker 4: How are you doing?
- 9:27Speaker 6: Hey, I'm doing good. It's been a while since I
- 9:29Speaker 6: talked to you, but just just wanted to let you know.
- 9:32Speaker 6: I listened to every show and have kind of heard
- 9:35Speaker 6: everything over the last little bit, but I just wanted
- 9:37Speaker 6: to give you my thoughts. I hope I'm not backtracking
- 9:39Speaker 6: a little bit, but just over over the last you know,
- 9:44Speaker 6: they talk about us winning three of the last four games,
- 9:47Speaker 6: which is great. I don't ever root for Dallas to lose.
- 9:50Speaker 6: I love the draft, just like everybody else. I'd love
- 9:53Speaker 6: the higher draft pick, but a win is a win
- 9:55Speaker 6: and I'll take it. But in regards to a potential coach,
- 10:00Speaker 6: new coaching staff, or head coaching search following this season,
- 10:03Speaker 6: if it happens or not, I hope the Jones the
- 10:06Speaker 6: Jones Boys just take in the totality of the season.
- 10:11Speaker 6: And I know, like you've said in the past, taken
- 10:13Speaker 6: to the totality of the past five seasons, you can't
- 10:16Speaker 6: discount the three, twelve and five seasons. But I just
- 10:20Speaker 6: don't feel that this coaching staff gives us an advantage.
- 10:24Speaker 6: Earlier in the year, they were a lot of the
- 10:27Speaker 6: players were talking about not focused, practices were terrible and
- 10:31Speaker 6: all that kind of stuff, and that falls on your
- 10:33Speaker 6: coaching staff. That's where I and I know they've been
- 10:36Speaker 6: playing well over the last you know, three to four weeks,
- 10:40Speaker 6: but look who we've played. We played the bottom barrels
- 10:44Speaker 6: of the bottom barrels of the NFL, and those are
- 10:48Speaker 6: the teams that we've beaten. So I'm listening to the
- 10:51Speaker 6: Jones Boys over their interviews over the last couple of
- 10:54Speaker 6: days and listening to what Steven says, it seems like
- 10:57Speaker 6: the excuse for this season if things continue to kind
- 11:02Speaker 6: of digress, is going to be the injuries. I just
- 11:05Speaker 6: want to throw a comparison out to you, like, look
- 11:07Speaker 6: at Detroit is going through the same thing right now,
- 11:10Speaker 6: Like they have a skeleton crew out there on defense,
- 11:12Speaker 6: and they're twelve and two. Although we lost our quarterback.
- 11:16Speaker 6: Our team wasn't playing well even when Dak was playing.
- 11:19Speaker 6: We were three and five when he got hurt. So
- 11:22Speaker 6: I don't want them to use the injuries as an
- 11:25Speaker 6: excuse for a lost season.
- 11:27Speaker 2: One more thing, why that though, But but but here's
- 11:30Speaker 2: the thing. Okay, Detroit, who else? I mean, because Detroit,
- 11:34Speaker 2: Detroit did not lose Gothy. They didn't and and let's
- 11:37Speaker 2: see what happens when they you know, they lost their
- 11:39Speaker 2: running back, they lost Aiden Hudginson. I know that they
- 11:42Speaker 2: have done a good job and they're not Detroit. Detroit
- 11:44Speaker 2: is on a higher level. But but so if it's
- 11:48Speaker 2: not the injuries, I mean, like, is it just coaching?
- 11:51Speaker 2: You think it's it's just coaching.
- 11:53Speaker 6: Well, but you say Detroit's on a higher level.
- 11:55Speaker 5: So does that?
- 11:56Speaker 6: Does dude, the Joneses actually believe that? Do they believe
- 11:59Speaker 6: coming in this year that they could compete with Detroit. Well,
- 12:03Speaker 6: say that they're on a higher level.
- 12:04Speaker 2: Well, they're, they're a better team, and that we we
- 12:06Speaker 2: saw that when they came in here and dominated the game.
- 12:09Speaker 2: I mean they are, they are on a higher level
- 12:12Speaker 2: for for this year. No one's comparing the franchises. I
- 12:15Speaker 2: mean Detroit, No, Yeah, Detroit's still gonna looking for their
- 12:19Speaker 2: best win of all time. I mean they're they're they're
- 12:21Speaker 2: seeking it now. So but my point is is, if
- 12:26Speaker 2: is it just is it coaching now? Is I mean,
- 12:29Speaker 2: was it not coaching in twelve and five? But now
- 12:31Speaker 2: it is, like, I don't know, you have to throw
- 12:34Speaker 2: in you have to I mean that's part.
- 12:37Speaker 6: And I agree, I agree. I agree. We had some
- 12:39Speaker 6: like some losses all the way back into training camp,
- 12:42Speaker 6: so I agree with you there.
- 12:44Speaker 9: I just don't want.
- 12:45Speaker 6: Them to come out and then and then just say
- 12:48Speaker 6: it's all injuries. And then when it comes into free
- 12:50Speaker 6: agency this coming off season, listening to what Steven's saying,
- 12:54Speaker 6: he's going back to the cap, things like that, I
- 12:57Speaker 6: don't want him them to come out and say like, well,
- 13:00Speaker 6: look what we're getting back next year, that's gonna make
- 13:02Speaker 6: us better. Meanwhile, we're not adding anything. We have ten
- 13:06Speaker 6: draft picks. We're going to have a lot of potential
- 13:09Speaker 6: free agent losses this offseason with ohs Uh and Goalston
- 13:14Speaker 6: on the defensive line, Jordan Lewis, we're going to be
- 13:16Speaker 6: losing a lot and we're not going to have enough
- 13:18Speaker 6: assets to be able to replenish that in the draft.
- 13:22Speaker 6: So that I just I'm hoping there's going to be
- 13:25Speaker 6: a potential mindset change, and whether that's a new coaching staff,
- 13:28Speaker 6: a new regime that comes in, I just hope that
- 13:31Speaker 6: things change for the better, you know, all right, I
- 13:35Speaker 6: don't know, Nick, I'm venting a little bit. I'll let
- 13:37Speaker 6: you kind of.
- 13:38Speaker 2: Okay, No, I appreciate it, Jeff appreciate the call, and
- 13:42Speaker 2: and you're not wrong in that, and that nobody wants
- 13:45Speaker 2: to hear the excuse part of it. Let's let's throw
- 13:48Speaker 2: this part out there. This is you're going to hear
- 13:51Speaker 2: this side from from the front office because we heard
- 13:55Speaker 2: it in camp when in training camp Jerry said, we
- 13:59Speaker 2: got ten Pro Bowl on this team. We have ten
- 14:01Speaker 2: guys and I think fourteen guys who have been to
- 14:03Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl, but ten guys that were in a
- 14:06Speaker 2: Pro Bowl. Eight of them are position guys. Let's just
- 14:09Speaker 2: I mean Aubrey and Anger. Those guys don't get hurt.
- 14:12Speaker 2: They've been they've been good, they've been fine for sure.
- 14:15Speaker 2: Your eight position guys that you have, those are the
- 14:17Speaker 2: guys that they were counting on. Six of those guys
- 14:20Speaker 2: have been on injured reserve this year and it missed
- 14:25Speaker 2: that four games or more. And I don't mi like
- 14:27Speaker 2: it wasn't on injured reserve, but he's missed four games
- 14:29Speaker 2: or more. He should have been on injured reserve. And
- 14:33Speaker 2: so that's that's significant. That's not just what everyone's dealing with.
- 14:38Speaker 2: That's that's significant. Those are the guys they were leaning
- 14:40Speaker 2: on and and they got hurt, and they got hurt
- 14:43Speaker 2: a lot. Now when you said before that, I mean
- 14:47Speaker 2: that they weren't playing well. Look at the New Orleans game,
- 14:49Speaker 2: great example. We saw the problems right then and there,
- 14:52Speaker 2: and there were a lot of these guys still still there,
- 14:55Speaker 2: still healthy. So I'm not giving them a complete pass
- 14:58Speaker 2: on that. But you have a chance to get better,
- 15:01Speaker 2: turn things around. Yeah, it was one game, two games, whatever,
- 15:04Speaker 2: let's let's get better and play better. And and then
- 15:06Speaker 2: when that was happening, the injuries just never stopped, never stopped.
- 15:09Speaker 2: So I think injuries are part of it. It's not
- 15:11Speaker 2: all of it, though, And so I'm I'm with you
- 15:15Speaker 2: on some and I think I think it is a
- 15:18Speaker 2: legitimate for them to say, you know, kind of what if.
- 15:23Speaker 2: But if you know, I do think that that McCarthy's
- 15:26Speaker 2: done a nice job in the in the five years
- 15:29Speaker 2: that he's been here. Uh, they didn't forget how to coach,
- 15:32Speaker 2: but but they they knew that this year was going
- 15:36Speaker 2: to be tough, that their depth was going to be tested.
- 15:38Speaker 2: They could not they could not afford to have key injuries,
- 15:42Speaker 2: and they had a ton of them. And you know,
- 15:44Speaker 2: I think when you add those together, that's kind of
- 15:47Speaker 2: what you what you end up with. All right, let's
- 15:49Speaker 2: go back to the phone lines here, Travis and san Antonio.
- 15:53Speaker 4: What's up man?
- 15:54Speaker 10: Hey, Nick, how's it going good?
- 15:56Speaker 4: How are you good?
- 15:57Speaker 10: Shout out to Jazz in the back for being I'm
- 16:00Speaker 10: and doing a great job. I don't know, I haven't
- 16:04Speaker 10: been able to listen to the show, but I'm kind
- 16:05Speaker 10: of picking up I guess that's sort of what I've
- 16:07Speaker 10: kind of hitting soul places on the same stuff you
- 16:09Speaker 10: guys have talked about. But I was having a little
- 16:11Speaker 10: Twitter chat with Rick in Massachusetts and then Mike across
- 16:15Speaker 10: the pond about some stuff, and actually it was a
- 16:18Speaker 10: thread that Derek hauld comment on. All positive stuff, Nick,
- 16:21Speaker 10: none of the like normal Twitter stuff where people are
- 16:24Speaker 10: getting crazy, just good conversation. And I guess I look
- 16:28Speaker 10: at Mike McCarthy. My only thing with Mike McCarthy is
- 16:31Speaker 10: it sounds like Jerry's saying that him and Zim are
- 16:34Speaker 10: tied together and they definitely it sounds like they definitely
- 16:37Speaker 10: want Zim back, which means Micha will probably be back.
- 16:41Speaker 10: And my thing is I just I said it after
- 16:44Speaker 10: Dak went down in the Atlanta game, Nick, and I
- 16:46Speaker 10: think it's kind of the thing you were just talking about,
- 16:48Speaker 10: Like I'm I'm judging him, like don't forget, we can't
- 16:52Speaker 10: forget like how the offense looked before Dak went down.
- 16:56Speaker 10: I'm not going to absolve you know, the whole season
- 16:59Speaker 10: on offense of well, you know, we had injuries, we
- 17:02Speaker 10: have a pre Dak how to look and we saw
- 17:05Speaker 10: some of the same issues, which I think might have
- 17:07Speaker 10: been what you were just talking about, But we saw
- 17:08Speaker 10: some of the same issues on offense that we saw
- 17:11Speaker 10: in the previous years, so I don't think that can
- 17:13Speaker 10: be ignored, right, But then I wanted to spin it
- 17:16Speaker 10: forward because we talked about, you know, now all of
- 17:20Speaker 10: a sudden we have a backp quarterback end. You see,
- 17:24Speaker 10: we were talking about it like going in a nine
- 17:26Speaker 10: or down, about just maybe trying to commit more on
- 17:28Speaker 10: remember that call, but commit more to the run. Now
- 17:31Speaker 10: you start seeing Nick like Mike has sort of gone
- 17:34Speaker 10: that route because and maybe this is a speculation my part,
- 17:38Speaker 10: but because he has Cooper Russian there, he's starting to
- 17:40Speaker 10: commit to the run a little bit more and make
- 17:42Speaker 10: an emphasis. And we can sit here and say, oh,
- 17:44Speaker 10: it's just brought off and being in for Zach, but
- 17:46Speaker 10: that's not true because I mean, if I told somebody
- 17:49Speaker 10: that we have a Doga starting at left tackle against Carolina,
- 17:52Speaker 10: then he goes to right guard, then you have broadcop
- 17:54Speaker 10: from going to right guard going to center. I mean,
- 17:56Speaker 10: and the weird thing is, Nick, we're just plugging offensive
- 17:59Speaker 10: line in there and still running the ball. Well, So
- 18:02Speaker 10: I do think sometimes it comes back to even though
- 18:06Speaker 10: it sounds, it's not just the simple Nick, but just
- 18:09Speaker 10: making a commitment to run the ball, getting your offensive
- 18:12Speaker 10: line moving forward and all of a sudden, pass protection
- 18:15Speaker 10: becomes a little easier because you wear guys down. So
- 18:18Speaker 10: I want to hit you with this and let you
- 18:19Speaker 10: let you answer it. But you made a comment yesterday
- 18:21Speaker 10: about Greg Olsen being a great commentator, and I agree.
- 18:25Speaker 10: He asked the question Nick that I want to get
- 18:27Speaker 10: your opinion on going into next year because if Mike
- 18:29Speaker 10: McCarthy is here, He asked during the game on the broadcast,
- 18:33Speaker 10: I think this team and Mike McCarthy especially, is going
- 18:35Speaker 10: to have to look at how they're winning games last
- 18:38Speaker 10: year and how they're winning games right now, and does
- 18:42Speaker 10: the way that they're winning games right now running the
- 18:44Speaker 10: ball serve them better to make a deep run the
- 18:46Speaker 10: playoffs versus the way they were doing it before, like
- 18:49Speaker 10: last year. So I just want to see you thought
- 18:51Speaker 10: on that.
- 18:51Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, thanks to the call, Travis. You know,
- 18:54Speaker 2: I agree with that because we found that out. We've
- 18:57Speaker 2: been seeing that here in the last few years. Playoff
- 19:02Speaker 2: football does come down to the running game. And and
- 19:06Speaker 2: I know the NFL has changed control a more wide
- 19:09Speaker 2: open passing league and all that, but you still got
- 19:12Speaker 2: to run the ball. And the Cowboys were were blown
- 19:15Speaker 2: out last year at home by by Green Bay that
- 19:17Speaker 2: committed to doing that, and and they were better at
- 19:20Speaker 2: running it, and they ran it right down the Cowboys
- 19:23Speaker 2: throwing then nothing they could do about it. And the
- 19:24Speaker 2: year before and they lost to the forty nine ers,
- 19:26Speaker 2: same type of thing. It was a running game. It
- 19:28Speaker 2: was a physical type game. And I think that's what
- 19:31Speaker 2: happens in the playoffs, and you have to figure that out.
- 19:34Speaker 2: I think you're right about that, that they're they're doing things.
- 19:37Speaker 2: It's not just you know, it's it's not just because
- 19:42Speaker 2: they're playing bad defenses or they're just.
- 19:44Speaker 4: You know, commitment to run.
- 19:45Speaker 2: It's they have to do that. I mean, Cooper Rush
- 19:49Speaker 2: is limited. He's been solid here and he's and he's
- 19:54Speaker 2: won some games, but we see it like doesn't hit
- 19:59Speaker 2: this the simple throws sometimes, you know, he just doesn't
- 20:02Speaker 2: have the arm talent for it. He doesn't have any
- 20:06Speaker 2: like real wiggle in the pocket of you know, moving
- 20:10Speaker 2: around and and and if they get you know, their
- 20:13Speaker 2: hands on you, he's pretty much sacked or you know,
- 20:16Speaker 2: you're gonna throw it away quick or whatever.
- 20:18Speaker 4: So he's limited in that. They have to focus on
- 20:21Speaker 4: running it.
- 20:22Speaker 2: And now the question is, and I think that's what
- 20:25Speaker 2: either you're alluding to or Greg Olsen's alluding to.
- 20:28Speaker 4: We're all looking at it here.
- 20:29Speaker 2: Is that if you if you need to be that
- 20:31Speaker 2: type of team that relies on the run, then should
- 20:37Speaker 2: you have a sixty million dollar quarterback. I mean, that's
- 20:39Speaker 2: that's kind of what it comes down to. And and
- 20:41Speaker 2: and I think Dak has always needed to help Most
- 20:44Speaker 2: quarterbacks do. Most quarterbacks do need a running game, Patrick Mahomes,
- 20:48Speaker 2: he needs one, you know, some more than others, but
- 20:53Speaker 2: I definitely think they need a running game for sure.
- 20:55Speaker 2: All right, let's go to break here on on Cowboys storyline,
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- 23:03Speaker 2: storyline eight eight eight eight five five two two ninety
- 23:06Speaker 2: seven had a couple of callers already on the line here,
- 23:09Speaker 2: So let's get right back to a Kansas City Joe
- 23:12Speaker 2: in Kansas City?
- 23:14Speaker 4: Funny Nicks? How you doing, Casey, Joe Man? How you?
- 23:17Speaker 13: How are you doing doing great?
- 23:19Speaker 4: This morning?
- 23:19Speaker 13: Nick? How are you doing today?
- 23:21Speaker 4: Great? What's up?
- 23:22Speaker 13: I'm thinking about the running back situation. I know Dalla's
- 23:25Speaker 13: looking pretty decent, but I know that Zeke's on a
- 23:29Speaker 13: one year deal. Cooks is on a one year deal.
- 23:31Speaker 13: That would leave Looky and Duce, Vaughan and Davis. Do
- 23:36Speaker 13: you think we should go high in the draft with
- 23:39Speaker 13: a running back just so that we have a backup
- 23:41Speaker 13: for Donald.
- 23:44Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you may not have Daddell. He's he's
- 23:46Speaker 2: a free agent too. I mean he's I mean, the whole,
- 23:50Speaker 2: the whole running back room is uh is up in
- 23:53Speaker 2: the air right now, and so you know, I think
- 23:57Speaker 2: I think it would it would probably be a good
- 23:59Speaker 2: situation for him to re sign. Let's see what the
- 24:01Speaker 2: money looks like, but you know, he might. He probably
- 24:04Speaker 2: gonna get a thousand yards and I don't know if
- 24:06Speaker 2: that's still the same as it used to be, but
- 24:08Speaker 2: for how things started and how he's playing here down
- 24:11Speaker 2: the stretch, he's going to get some kind of contract
- 24:14Speaker 2: and and I think it would make sense to be
- 24:16Speaker 2: here for him. You know, he knows this system or
- 24:18Speaker 2: whoever whatever the system is. But still he knows the team,
- 24:21Speaker 2: he knows the organization, and he's going to have a
- 24:24Speaker 2: good chance to to you know, be the starter. But yeah,
- 24:27Speaker 2: to answer your question, I would draft of running back.
- 24:31Speaker 2: I didn't have to be in the first round, of course,
- 24:33Speaker 2: but any other round, if if the if the fact
- 24:36Speaker 2: that you like is there, I it justifies for me.
- 24:40Speaker 13: Yeah, me too, especially since we went high on Zeke
- 24:43Speaker 13: and we had a really good running back when we
- 24:44Speaker 13: went with, you know, one of the top picks on them,
- 24:47Speaker 13: so and that would help Dack out when when he
- 24:51Speaker 13: comes back. You know, I think he's going to need
- 24:53Speaker 13: that running I do.
- 24:54Speaker 2: Too, and I could see it back similar Like I'm
- 24:57Speaker 2: not I'm not saying this. I don't get involved tampering here,
- 25:00Speaker 2: but I'm just saying it was a couple of years ago,
- 25:02Speaker 2: second round pick, was it h Chan from Miami?
- 25:05Speaker 4: A speed guy.
- 25:07Speaker 2: Somebody liked that, A fast, a fast running back that
- 25:11Speaker 2: that that can do some things out of the backfield
- 25:13Speaker 2: a little bit different than the Rico. I think that
- 25:16Speaker 2: would be a nice complimentary back if you need that kind.
- 25:20Speaker 2: But then again, remember free agencies first. Then the draft
- 25:24Speaker 2: you may lose Rico. Then you may need an every
- 25:26Speaker 2: down back as well. So we'll see, we'll see how
- 25:29Speaker 2: how it happens here. But yeah, they need to get
- 25:32Speaker 2: a younger running back at some point here in the draft, right.
- 25:36Speaker 13: And the other thing I had is I think that
- 25:39Speaker 13: Brooks has really good hands on the wide receiver group.
- 25:43Speaker 13: I mean, every time they throw him the ball, he
- 25:45Speaker 13: seems like it's it's like, I don't know, if he's
- 25:47Speaker 13: got some click just sketches it. Yeah, I mean to me,
- 25:51Speaker 13: they should throw him the ball a little more. Yeah,
- 25:53Speaker 13: he seems a little more accurate.
- 25:55Speaker 2: Yeah, Jalen Brooks. You're talking about Jalen Brooks. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 26:00Speaker 2: all right, all right, thanks for the call, case, Joe
- 26:03Speaker 2: appreciate that. You know, Jalen Brooks has been it's it's
- 26:06Speaker 2: kind of been up and down for him. He talked
- 26:08Speaker 2: about it after the game. He said that, you know,
- 26:10Speaker 2: there's been some frustrating moments this year. He's been inactive
- 26:14Speaker 2: a couple of times, just healthy, scratch, inactive. They tried
- 26:19Speaker 2: to get Ryan Flinoy in there. They want to get
- 26:21Speaker 2: Jonathan Mingo. They made a trade for for Mingo. So
- 26:25Speaker 2: but through that, he's still done a nice job. And
- 26:29Speaker 2: when you when you look at the last let's see,
- 26:31Speaker 2: it's been three games since Washington games earlier, that's been
- 26:36Speaker 2: four games. The last four games. He's had a couple
- 26:39Speaker 2: of plays there that were not that Washington game. He
- 26:42Speaker 2: made a catch on the sideline right before the half.
- 26:45Speaker 2: I thought that that changed a lot. They got a
- 26:46Speaker 2: field goal out of that, got some momentum going into
- 26:50Speaker 2: the locker room and and and that was a big catch.
- 26:52Speaker 2: And then of course he had the touchdowns, first touchdown
- 26:55Speaker 2: of his career. So he's he's one that he doesn't have,
- 27:00Speaker 2: you know, great speed, he doesn't have great size.
- 27:05Speaker 4: I think he's got good hands.
- 27:06Speaker 2: I don't know if they're great, but but he's one
- 27:08Speaker 2: of those guys that he's got a lot of traits,
- 27:11Speaker 2: but not one or two that just stands out. But still,
- 27:14Speaker 2: you know, if you kind of package it all together
- 27:16Speaker 2: and you and you run the right route and you
- 27:18Speaker 2: have good crisp routes and you know where you're supposed
- 27:20Speaker 2: to be, he could play multiple positions, then you have
- 27:22Speaker 2: some value. And I think he's doing that. He's a
- 27:24Speaker 2: good young young player. All right, let's go to our
- 27:26Speaker 2: next caller, Ali and Florida. How are you pretty good?
- 27:32Speaker 9: Buddy?
- 27:32Speaker 14: How about you?
- 27:33Speaker 4: Well?
- 27:34Speaker 2: First, I'm doing great, and I'll say this before we
- 27:36Speaker 2: get started here. I want I want to say this
- 27:38Speaker 2: to everyone and especially you though, and I speak for
- 27:42Speaker 2: Chris as well.
- 27:43Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
- 27:44Speaker 2: You've talked before that you are a photographer and wildlife
- 27:49Speaker 2: and you send us a couple of very beautiful photos.
- 27:54Speaker 4: Framed photos.
- 27:55Speaker 2: Uh, the artwork is unbelievable and you've got such a
- 27:59Speaker 2: great talent and and your generosity is very much appreciated,
- 28:03Speaker 2: So thank you so much for doing that.
- 28:06Speaker 9: We love you, thank you for what you do. Yeah,
- 28:09Speaker 9: it's just a little thank you note from all of us.
- 28:13Speaker 9: I love the community. It's you know, besides wildlife, I
- 28:18Speaker 9: do a lot of war photography, and believe it or not,
- 28:21Speaker 9: it's just like online and relaxed. When I listen to
- 28:26Speaker 9: our storyline, which is is great, everybody has a little out.
- 28:31Speaker 9: So having said that, I want to shout out to
- 28:34Speaker 9: you and Chris and all the storyliner including Missus Jazz Harry,
- 28:41Speaker 9: Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year. And I want
- 28:45Speaker 9: to especially thank Rob, Captain Rob and Randy and Dylan
- 28:52Speaker 9: for all the effort and everybody. I don't want to
- 28:54Speaker 9: single out, but I learned every time I listen to them.
- 28:58Speaker 9: So I have a Christmas wish. I wish Lester Dylan
- 29:06Speaker 9: get on board and create some kind of get together
- 29:10Speaker 9: in ARCSNAR for whoever want to participate. I think it's
- 29:14Speaker 9: a great idea. And then I would love to get
- 29:17Speaker 9: you in the room with Rob and the rest of
- 29:21Speaker 9: the group without your cell phone, and don't put you
- 29:27Speaker 9: in the position because I know you're accompaniment and you
- 29:29Speaker 9: cannot only say certain things and you cannot. I just
- 29:33Speaker 9: want to get you an honest opinion when nobody check it.
- 29:38Speaker 9: You know, that would be great. My Christmas movie is
- 29:44Speaker 9: It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on thirty four. And
- 29:49Speaker 9: then the question I have for you is this. I
- 29:53Speaker 9: don't know how much you can elaborate on it. I
- 29:57Speaker 9: say that I hang up out listen now that the
- 30:01Speaker 9: Cowboys in basting back sixty million dollars. I'm a visual guy.
- 30:07Speaker 9: I think that is at his best when they had
- 30:11Speaker 9: a great offensive line in front of him. When his
- 30:15Speaker 9: rush rush rush don't have time, then he lose that edge.
- 30:21Speaker 9: So I think Cowboys they should maybe package something. Maybe
- 30:26Speaker 9: they move off, get a solid left tackle and move
- 30:30Speaker 9: guide them to the right tackle, and then the rest
- 30:34Speaker 9: of the boys are they can mix a match them.
- 30:37Speaker 9: But I think personally I'm speaking, I think we had
- 30:41Speaker 9: a little drop off for the offensive line.
- 30:46Speaker 1: Coach, we had.
- 30:47Speaker 9: A good one before this year. I don't know I'm
- 30:51Speaker 9: right or wrong. This is my I thought maybe we
- 30:54Speaker 9: had a little bit of drop off. But I will
- 30:58Speaker 9: take your opinion off the phone.
- 31:01Speaker 2: Thank you for everything, all right, Thanks Ollie, appreciate that
- 31:06Speaker 2: I got really two really nice, uh photographs. One of
- 31:13Speaker 2: them is just is it's like a family of elephants.
- 31:17Speaker 2: It's just really awesome.
- 31:18Speaker 6: Though.
- 31:18Speaker 2: It's like you know, from Wildlife, and I was telling Chris,
- 31:22Speaker 2: I should just put it like right here, you know,
- 31:24Speaker 2: it would be not only be beautiful, but it's kind
- 31:26Speaker 2: of like the elephants.
- 31:28Speaker 4: In the room, you know.
- 31:29Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, bad joke anyways, Allie, thank
- 31:33Speaker 2: you so much. Appreciate that, and hint to everybody else
- 31:37Speaker 2: that's out there that that has resources to whatever it
- 31:41Speaker 2: is that they do their skills.
- 31:43Speaker 15: You know what.
- 31:44Speaker 2: Chris and I accept gifts all the time. Uh No,
- 31:48Speaker 2: I really appreciate that. Awesome said a lot of things.
- 31:52Speaker 2: I'll say this though, you said Jazz Jazz wants gifts too.
- 31:56Speaker 2: Jazz likes she gets a lot of gifts. But I'll
- 32:00Speaker 2: say this about the you said at training camp. Take
- 32:05Speaker 2: your phone away and then I could just really say
- 32:07Speaker 2: what I believe. I mean, I tone it down.
- 32:12Speaker 4: I don't.
- 32:13Speaker 2: I have a you know, potty mouth sometimes, but as
- 32:17Speaker 2: far as the things that I believe, I mean, it's
- 32:24Speaker 2: it's rare that I'm sitting here just biting my tongue
- 32:26Speaker 2: and don't say that. I I you know, what I
- 32:28Speaker 2: think about this team.
- 32:29Speaker 4: I try.
- 32:29Speaker 2: I just try to be fair and down the middle.
- 32:32Speaker 2: If it looks good, it's good. If it's bad, it's
- 32:34Speaker 2: it's bad. I mean, and yes, yes, it's a little
- 32:38Speaker 2: different with us.
- 32:38Speaker 4: We know that.
- 32:39Speaker 2: And we're sharing uh, you know, hallway space and and
- 32:43Speaker 2: and buses sometimes and airplanes all the time with people
- 32:47Speaker 2: and and they have different agendas and you have to
- 32:49Speaker 2: be kind of careful about that. But you know, at
- 32:51Speaker 2: the same time, I mean, i'd like to think if
- 32:54Speaker 2: it's if it's bad. I mean, I get the freedom
- 32:58Speaker 2: to say that, and and and I do and so
- 33:02Speaker 2: and I you know, and I have and I have
- 33:04Speaker 2: my opinions about a lot of things about next year.
- 33:07Speaker 2: But what I say is is that next year's next year.
- 33:09Speaker 2: We got to get through this. And I know no
- 33:11Speaker 2: one's talking about you know, well, I don't say no one.
- 33:14Speaker 2: Irene started off the show talking about the bucks. But
- 33:16Speaker 2: for the most part, you know, that's not not breaking
- 33:18Speaker 2: down everything that's happened. And I get that, I totally
- 33:20Speaker 2: get that. But that's why I feel like the offseason
- 33:23Speaker 2: is long enough. We'll talk about coaches, we'll talk about draft.
- 33:26Speaker 2: We'll talk about for all that stuff when it's really
- 33:29Speaker 2: time to do that. Right now, you've got twenty five
- 33:31Speaker 2: free agents, You've got twenty or so coaches that are
- 33:34Speaker 2: coaching for their life, you know, including the head coach down.
- 33:37Speaker 2: You got guys that are coaching and playing for for
- 33:40Speaker 2: for their jobs. So you know, I, if they're doing that,
- 33:45Speaker 2: then that's that's kind of where I think the primary
- 33:48Speaker 2: focus should be. That's kind of why I have the
- 33:50Speaker 2: attitude that I have there. All right, let's go to
- 33:52Speaker 2: Ronnie in New Jersey. Ronnie, what's up man?
- 33:55Speaker 14: What's how are you well? Nick that you said that
- 34:01Speaker 14: somebody did have a good question for you earlier, and
- 34:04Speaker 14: they were saying about Huffman and bbi Uh, I think
- 34:10Speaker 14: the question was put not in the correct way. Maybe
- 34:14Speaker 14: maybe it's who has the higher ceiling and at which position?
- 34:19Speaker 14: According to that then then you know, I think that's
- 34:22Speaker 14: how you would go. Who will be better at center
- 34:25Speaker 14: or who will be better at guard, and who where
- 34:28Speaker 14: their ceiling would be in those positions, That's how I
- 34:31Speaker 14: would play them. Yeah, and and and yeah.
- 34:35Speaker 4: But who determines that, you know, well.
- 34:38Speaker 14: That that's gonna be to whoever the coaches are right next.
- 34:42Speaker 2: Year, right, And that's that's kind of what my point was,
- 34:45Speaker 2: is like, yeah, and I'm all for that at least
- 34:47Speaker 2: if this guy's gonna be great here and this guy
- 34:50Speaker 2: is a chance to be pretty good. You know, it
- 34:52Speaker 2: was always the case. Was Zach Martin always the case?
- 34:54Speaker 2: He could play tackle. I don't think he was going
- 34:57Speaker 2: to be a Hall of Fame tackle. He was gonna
- 34:58Speaker 2: be a Hall of Fame guard. Same with So that's
- 35:01Speaker 2: how you play him. So you're you're right in that,
- 35:03Speaker 2: and I just who's gonna well, I don't know if
- 35:05Speaker 2: the people that make those decisions are actually here right now.
- 35:09Speaker 4: I don't know that. Go on.
- 35:11Speaker 14: You know, I was going to tell you because I
- 35:13Speaker 14: was going to ask you about the defense. Uh, I
- 35:16Speaker 14: see that they're playing much better or the sea playing better.
- 35:21Speaker 14: He's he's actually playing how everybody the expectations were of
- 35:27Speaker 14: him coming into the season, and he's playing that much
- 35:32Speaker 14: better now late into the season. Is that something that
- 35:35Speaker 14: you've seen where you will consider saying, let's say, I
- 35:38Speaker 14: know you don't want to speak about, you know, the
- 35:40Speaker 14: features the future, but in the let's say the draft
- 35:43Speaker 14: came down, free agency comes in, first, which I think
- 35:46Speaker 14: that's changed, that it should be draft first than free agency.
- 35:51Speaker 2: Sometimes I think that way too, and then other times
- 35:54Speaker 2: I'm I'm like, no, no, I like it like this,
- 35:57Speaker 2: So I'm I'm with you on that one.
- 36:00Speaker 5: Right.
- 36:01Speaker 14: So, so our problem has been and for since the nineties,
- 36:08Speaker 14: I would say, or since since Bill Parcells was here,
- 36:11Speaker 14: since Bill Parcells left us, because when he was here,
- 36:13Speaker 14: we had a we had a great run defense. But
- 36:16Speaker 14: since that that era, we haven't had this at least
- 36:21Speaker 14: very good run defense or you know, almost almost. You
- 36:26Speaker 14: can't run against this team, you have to pass, right,
- 36:29Speaker 14: If we had a dominant defensive tackle, and and that's
- 36:33Speaker 14: what I would go for. Like this year, we've been
- 36:35Speaker 14: drafting offensive lineman. Yeah, I'm not saying. Let's say we
- 36:38Speaker 14: had like a Slater Slater that when Parsons came out
- 36:43Speaker 14: and it was between Slater and Parsons. Yeah, well, if
- 36:46Speaker 14: there was a tackle like that, then yeah, grab that guy.
- 36:49Speaker 14: But if there's a defensive lineman, defensive tackle, I think
- 36:53Speaker 14: we got to upgrade our our our run defense and
- 36:56Speaker 14: get some pass rush out of that defensive tackle because
- 36:59Speaker 14: right now, yeah, we're getting it out of O Digitsua.
- 37:02Speaker 14: But you know, I see that when I heard that
- 37:07Speaker 14: our nose tack was cleaning a little bit better. But
- 37:09Speaker 14: we need a lot more, need a lot more out
- 37:11Speaker 14: of that position. Opinion.
- 37:13Speaker 2: All right, Ronnie appreciate that. I agree, Uh, defensive tackles spot,
- 37:18Speaker 2: you know, and they tried. I mean they they drafted
- 37:21Speaker 2: Mazzie first round pick, and they hadn't picked in the
- 37:24Speaker 2: first round a defensive tackle in over thirty years, and
- 37:27Speaker 2: so they kind of thought, hey, taking them here would
- 37:29Speaker 2: be good. And he's been he's been solid this year.
- 37:34Speaker 2: You know, he's still he's still after almost two seasons.
- 37:38Speaker 2: He's probably not where you would want him your first
- 37:41Speaker 2: round pick to be after two seasons. You know, in
- 37:45Speaker 2: the first round pick, you'd like for them to to
- 37:47Speaker 2: maybe be in consideration for a Pro Bowl and you
- 37:50Speaker 2: know that that kind of stuff. That's kind of what
- 37:52Speaker 2: happened with I think Byron Jones about that time for
- 37:58Speaker 2: him and entire Tyler Smith. I'm talking about late late
- 38:02Speaker 2: first rounders like that, but not not Mozzi. And we'll
- 38:05Speaker 2: see about Geiton. This year just hasn't been what we
- 38:08Speaker 2: thought there. But yeah, I'm with you on the defensive
- 38:10Speaker 2: tackle position. It's gonna be hard to replace Osa there.
- 38:13Speaker 2: If he does leave in free agency, it's gonna be
- 38:16Speaker 2: hard to resign him. I can guarantee that, but we'll
- 38:19Speaker 2: see if that's one of their top priorities to do that.
- 38:22Speaker 2: All right, let me go to another break here, last
- 38:24Speaker 2: one here on Cowboys storyline. Will be right back for
- 38:26Speaker 2: a couple more calls.
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- 39:48Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the phone lines again. Zach
- 39:51Speaker 2: in Atlanta. It's been waiting, Zach.
- 39:53Speaker 4: What's up?
- 39:55Speaker 6: Nick?
- 39:55Speaker 17: How are you? Man?
- 39:56Speaker 4: I'm good?
- 39:57Speaker 14: Are you?
- 39:58Speaker 17: You just can't get away from some of them. You know,
- 40:00Speaker 17: you move the time. I know, and we'm glad.
- 40:03Speaker 2: I wasn't trying to get away from I was really
- 40:06Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys, this crew more more than ever.
- 40:09Speaker 2: I don't like to change the times around. This will
- 40:13Speaker 2: be the only time we do we change it up
- 40:14Speaker 2: this week, but Friday show will be canceled. They're only
- 40:18Speaker 2: we're only doing half of our shows We only did
- 40:20Speaker 2: half the shows last Thursday, and we were one of them.
- 40:24Speaker 2: But on Friday or they're making up for it, we
- 40:26Speaker 2: won't do shows on Friday. But I hate, I hate
- 40:29Speaker 2: having to switch up the times. I appreciate mix Shots
- 40:31Speaker 2: for doing a swap, and I appreciate you guys for
- 40:34Speaker 2: being a part of it.
- 40:35Speaker 4: What's up?
- 40:36Speaker 17: Zech sure thing? Well? Hey, twas the game before Christmas,
- 40:41Speaker 17: and all through the star came calls from storyliners near
- 40:45Speaker 17: and far. It's hosted by Nick, produced by Beamon Jazz,
- 40:50Speaker 17: and led by the Captain in Vegas and come classing
- 40:54Speaker 17: opinions on what will take us to greatness? And that's
- 40:58Speaker 17: all I got because the fly left and right, you
- 41:01Speaker 17: know what I mean. I started writing that on the break,
- 41:03Speaker 17: Yeah you know, yeah I mean, and then you came
- 41:05Speaker 17: knocking on the door.
- 41:06Speaker 4: I love it. I love it. That's good.
- 41:08Speaker 17: Yeah, when you I'll try to that out.
- 41:10Speaker 2: No, that's when you added Jazz in there, which I
- 41:14Speaker 2: appreciate and I know she does as well.
- 41:17Speaker 4: Jazz Jazz.
- 41:18Speaker 17: I know Josh is behind there sometimes yeah maybe today,
- 41:21Speaker 17: But when.
- 41:21Speaker 2: You added her, that made me know that this was
- 41:24Speaker 2: you know, this wasn't something we've been working on since
- 41:26Speaker 2: the fifth grade. I mean, you know, we've been new.
- 41:29Speaker 2: This is pretty new, so I like it.
- 41:30Speaker 4: I like it.
- 41:31Speaker 7: It was slow and run, not fifth grade.
- 41:33Speaker 17: I right out a sixth grade level, so let's get
- 41:35Speaker 17: that clear.
- 41:36Speaker 2: Well, when you said jazz and then you said rob,
- 41:38Speaker 2: I thought you might be rhyming another word with that.
- 41:41Speaker 4: I was like, whoa, whoa, what are we doing here?
- 41:43Speaker 2: But it's good ppg on here.
- 41:48Speaker 17: Yeah, man, that's all I got. I try to keep
- 41:50Speaker 17: it light whenever I call in.
- 41:52Speaker 4: I knew it too.
- 41:53Speaker 2: When you called, I had this feeling it was going
- 41:55Speaker 2: to be something kind of sarcastic and fun, a little snarky.
- 41:59Speaker 4: Love it. Yeah, that's how.
- 42:03Speaker 17: Yeah, that's what you gotta do.
- 42:06Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 42:07Speaker 17: I mean, hey, we're finding the run game fourteen games
- 42:10Speaker 17: too late. That's fun, isn't it. Shout out to Rico.
- 42:15Speaker 17: He's doing his thing. I think we should pair. I
- 42:18Speaker 17: heard this somewhere else, but it makes sense. He has
- 42:22Speaker 17: like a Diet Marrion Barber feel. Maybe this was on
- 42:26Speaker 17: the show or somewhere else, but he just Yeah, he's
- 42:29Speaker 17: got a fun play about him, and I think he's
- 42:32Speaker 17: coming into his own the more opportunities he gets, so yeah,
- 42:36Speaker 17: pair another running back with him in the draft, and
- 42:39Speaker 17: you know, we'll have fun next year with a running
- 42:41Speaker 17: game if we actually commit to running the ball. Whoever
- 42:44Speaker 17: is at the helm calling those plays, please run the ball.
- 42:47Speaker 11: It works.
- 42:49Speaker 17: But yeah, looking ahead to the Buccaneers. This guy played
- 42:53Speaker 17: for both teams. He's kind of in the public spotlight,
- 42:56Speaker 17: so I feel like we know his personality ish but
- 42:59Speaker 17: Keish s Johnson he uh, you know you covered him
- 43:02Speaker 17: in his time here. Also thinking about Martine Grammatica, mm hmmm.
- 43:07Speaker 17: Uh so he was a little spitfire man. I liked
- 43:10Speaker 17: watching him. Yeah, obviously he you know, he's in a
- 43:13Speaker 17: highlight that most of us would like to forget with
- 43:15Speaker 17: the Seattle game. Oh you know, he didn't have anything
- 43:19Speaker 17: to do with that, but uh.
- 43:21Speaker 4: Welleah, he was. He was looking for a moment, he
- 43:23Speaker 4: kind of did, you know.
- 43:26Speaker 2: Yeah, but I'll tell you this, and I've learned the
- 43:28Speaker 2: hard way, don't say anything to him about it. I didn't,
- 43:32Speaker 2: I didn't learn, but I Yeah, somebody asked me about
- 43:35Speaker 2: Josh Ellis the other day and it's kind of weird,
- 43:37Speaker 2: and so yeah, Josh Ellis and and Josh Ellis did
- 43:41Speaker 2: make a comment to to Martine Grammatica about throwing a
- 43:45Speaker 2: block or not throwing one, and uh, I didn't. I
- 43:47Speaker 2: didn't turn out well at training camp. That was kind
- 43:50Speaker 2: of a that was a tense moment. But yeah, this
- 43:54Speaker 2: one of the uh Cowboys Bucks players. Don't forget Alvin
- 43:58Speaker 2: Harper played a.
- 43:59Speaker 17: Little bit and Alvin Harper, Yeah that's your guy.
- 44:01Speaker 2: Joey Galloway, you know Joey Joey Gallo, Dalway and Keisha
- 44:05Speaker 2: traded for each other. So yeah, all right, all right man,
- 44:10Speaker 2: thanks Zach for the Yeah, I think appreciate it. Let's
- 44:13Speaker 2: go to Robbie and Coco beats. Robbie, what's up hey, Nick?
- 44:17Speaker 15: Well that that was a lot of lag there for
- 44:20Speaker 15: a second. Yeah, how are you today, Buddy? Good good,
- 44:22Speaker 15: Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Holidays, Mery Christmas to a
- 44:26Speaker 15: jazz and beamer even though he's probably not there, but.
- 44:29Speaker 4: Good market ken, go ahead, Robbie.
- 44:34Speaker 10: All right.
- 44:35Speaker 15: First, I want to give a shout out to Israel mcconmwell.
- 44:37Speaker 4: I think I said his name right.
- 44:39Speaker 15: Yeah, that guy has been like Byron Jones was we
- 44:43Speaker 15: were talking about him earlier. Safety cornerback, safety cornerback, Nicol
- 44:49Speaker 15: I think you could see his uh, his understanding of
- 44:53Speaker 15: the defense finally coming together this year, and I'd like
- 44:55Speaker 15: to see it. And maybe he just needed a couple
- 44:59Speaker 15: of years because he came from a smaller school.
- 45:00Speaker 14: I don't know.
- 45:01Speaker 15: I'm really impressed with him, and he deserves his flowers. Demasi.
- 45:07Speaker 15: You know what I'm gonna say. Last year was kind
- 45:09Speaker 15: of a wash for him. Love dan Quinn loved everything
- 45:12Speaker 15: he did on defense, but it was kind of well
- 45:15Speaker 15: known that he wanted faster defensive tackles, smaller, faster yep.
- 45:21Speaker 15: And having Mazie in there now, finally getting under Zim's coaching,
- 45:27Speaker 15: maybe I see good things from next year. Put on
- 45:29Speaker 15: another five or eight pounds and maybe we'll seek at
- 45:31Speaker 15: him up there. And ta Rico. Man, he has really
- 45:37Speaker 15: turned it on this year, and I thought he would
- 45:40Speaker 15: have been a I think I think you and I
- 45:42Speaker 15: talked about it before, he'd be a solid number two back.
- 45:45Speaker 15: But I think he's really taking a step man. I'm
- 45:47Speaker 15: really impressed. Other than that, I'll let you talk about
- 45:50Speaker 15: any of those things you want to.
- 45:51Speaker 14: And Mary Christmas, thank you.
- 45:55Speaker 4: Again.
- 45:55Speaker 2: You know, when when you're talking about players, players weight,
- 46:00Speaker 2: what their role is going to be in certain schemes.
- 46:03Speaker 2: You know that that does come down to what the
- 46:07Speaker 2: staff looks like and what they're asking for certain players.
- 46:12Speaker 2: You know, Mazzie's weight's kind of gone up and down,
- 46:14Speaker 2: and you know, not always in a good way. So
- 46:18Speaker 2: you know, it's been a little bit of a of
- 46:20Speaker 2: a storyline h there. So I think he's playing at
- 46:24Speaker 2: a at a at a good weight right now. He's
- 46:27Speaker 2: still strong enough, you know. You see, I thought he
- 46:30Speaker 2: had a really big play in the game the other
- 46:32Speaker 2: day on second down because and now they're running back
- 46:39Speaker 2: escapes me Hubbard. He looked like he was going for
- 46:41Speaker 2: a first down. He had a lot of momentum hitting
- 46:44Speaker 2: that line, and all of a sudden, he just hits
- 46:45Speaker 2: a wall called Mazzi, who throws him around. Uh down
- 46:51Speaker 2: immediately Now it's third down, third and three, third and
- 46:54Speaker 2: four looked like it was going to be a first down,
- 46:56Speaker 2: but he made this stop and then on third down
- 46:58Speaker 2: they had to throw it. That was the tip interception
- 47:01Speaker 2: up in the air. So really good play by Mazzy.
- 47:04Speaker 2: It made one of my uh don't forget these five
- 47:06Speaker 2: plays because it was one that easily forgotten. But but
- 47:09Speaker 2: it set up a third and third down situation and
- 47:11Speaker 2: the Cowboys ended up getting a turnover. So I thought
- 47:13Speaker 2: that was a really big play there. And as for Rico,
- 47:16Speaker 2: looking back here, I think Rico is gonna if he
- 47:20Speaker 2: if he can get there, I think he's gonna be
- 47:21Speaker 2: the first player in Cowboys history, first undrafted player four
- 47:25Speaker 2: thousand yard rushing season. I'm looking through the stats. I
- 47:28Speaker 2: don't I don't see that another another one doing that,
- 47:31Speaker 2: So that that's impressive. If he can get there, he
- 47:33Speaker 2: needs one hundred and twenty yards in the next three games.
- 47:36Speaker 2: He should be able to the you know, based off
- 47:38Speaker 2: of what we've seen. I mean, that's he should. He
- 47:41Speaker 2: should probably get eleven hundred at this rate. All right,
- 47:44Speaker 2: let's go to a last caller. We aready to get
- 47:46Speaker 2: one more in Jeremy from d C. Jeremy, what's up?
- 47:51Speaker 4: Good? How are you?
- 47:52Speaker 1: I'm doing all right?
- 47:53Speaker 6: Man?
- 47:53Speaker 1: You didn't hurt nobody today?
- 47:54Speaker 4: Eight No, No, day isn't over yet. But yeah, no,
- 47:57Speaker 4: I haven't.
- 47:58Speaker 2: And I appreciate that I probably hurt the people's feelings
- 48:01Speaker 2: because yeah, I might have done that hurts the people's
- 48:03Speaker 2: feelings because I, I, you know, basically missed a meeting.
- 48:07Speaker 1: Hey, it comes with the job.
- 48:09Speaker 4: Yeah, it happens. What's up man?
- 48:11Speaker 14: All right?
- 48:12Speaker 9: So quick question is.
- 48:15Speaker 1: That if we can't resigned Chauncey Ghosten, that you think
- 48:18Speaker 1: we should go after call Lawson because he's been showing
- 48:21Speaker 1: up right seriously these last couple of weeks. And then
- 48:26Speaker 1: I wanted to throw and I wanted to throw two
- 48:28Speaker 1: numbers that you since I missed last time. My first
- 48:30Speaker 1: number is Emm Smith twenty two.
- 48:32Speaker 9: Okay, you know who that is?
- 48:33Speaker 4: Yeah, Victor.
- 48:35Speaker 1: I believe that win number was fifty nine, correct, yep,
- 48:40Speaker 1: and number fifty nine. Then I'm gonna leave you with that,
- 48:43Speaker 1: Nick and.
- 48:43Speaker 4: Not something you to my buddy, all right, have a
- 48:45Speaker 4: good one twenty two.
- 48:48Speaker 2: If it's not Bob Hayes' not Emmitt Smith, I mean
- 48:50Speaker 2: there's not There's not a lot there.
- 48:52Speaker 6: Uh.
- 48:52Speaker 2: There was a defensive back named Victor Scott that I remember.
- 48:55Speaker 2: He had a interception for a touchdown in the game
- 49:00Speaker 2: against Washington. They had five interceptions I believe on Joe
- 49:03Speaker 2: Thaisman and it was his birthday. They sang a happy birthday.
- 49:06Speaker 2: Victor Scott had a pick six in there, and he
- 49:08Speaker 2: wore twenty two and then fifty nine. I don't know
- 49:14Speaker 2: why Derek Brownlow is the first name that just popped
- 49:16Speaker 2: up for me. He was Derek Brownlow fifty nine. He
- 49:20Speaker 2: didn't even wear yeah he did, he wore that number.
- 49:23Speaker 2: But Anthony Hitchins would be another one there, really good,
- 49:28Speaker 2: good player.
- 49:29Speaker 14: You know.
- 49:29Speaker 2: Anthony Hitchins reminds me of sort of what we were
- 49:32Speaker 2: talking about before about let's see who the coaching staff is,
- 49:37Speaker 2: because Anthony Agens is one of my favorite examples of
- 49:39Speaker 2: I remember a lot of people complaining they could have
- 49:41Speaker 2: got him in the sixth round, seventh round, why they
- 49:44Speaker 2: jumped and got him in the fourth round. Well, you know,
- 49:46Speaker 2: Rod Marinelli had a vision for that type of player
- 49:49Speaker 2: that he wanted in his in his defense, and he
- 49:51Speaker 2: had a vision that he could come in and play
- 49:52Speaker 2: right away.
- 49:53Speaker 4: Well he did.
- 49:53Speaker 2: He had I think he had one hundred tackles as
- 49:55Speaker 2: a rookie. So sometimes you really do have to rely
- 49:59Speaker 2: on the coaches. And that's that's a situation that I think,
- 50:03Speaker 2: you know, let's see what happens with coaches and scouts.
- 50:06Speaker 2: Let's see that that that type of players that they'll
- 50:09Speaker 2: be looking to get. So all right, guys, it was
- 50:12Speaker 2: it was fun. A lot of good calls today. Appreciate
- 50:15Speaker 2: you guys adapting to the change. The time change will
- 50:19Speaker 2: be back to a regular time tomorrow ten am Central
- 50:23Speaker 2: Time for storyline for both Wednesday.
- 50:26Speaker 4: And Thursday for the rest of the week.
- 50:28Speaker 2: All right, So for Chris Beams, still working, not here,
- 50:30Speaker 2: but still working and doing a great job for Jazz
- 50:33Speaker 2: in the Back. I'm nick even to see tomorrow on
- 50:35Speaker 2: Cowboy Storyline.
- 50:36Speaker 14: See you.
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