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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.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Cowboys. This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:21Speaker 3: What is up?
- 0:21Speaker 4: Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It is Friday, October the eleventh.
- 0:26Speaker 4: It's time for some Cowboys Lions talk. It's Friday. Let's
- 0:30Speaker 4: figure this Out's see what you guys are thinking all
- 0:33Speaker 4: week long. I've got a little bit of predictions here,
- 0:35Speaker 4: mostly Cowboys picks, but I'm sure there'll be a few
- 0:40Speaker 4: maybe calling in saying they don't think this is going
- 0:43Speaker 4: to happen this week with the Lions. Boy, the Lions arrested.
- 0:47Speaker 4: Should be a great matchup this week. We'll find out.
- 0:52Speaker 4: We'll find out a lot about this team. See if
- 0:53Speaker 4: they can really stop the run, See if they can
- 0:55Speaker 4: stop a pretty good quarterback, if they can stop another
- 0:59Speaker 4: great rusher and Aiden Hutchinson, and and stop this Lions
- 1:04Speaker 4: team that'll be coming in here looking for looking to
- 1:07Speaker 4: avenge last year's loss, for sure, but they still gotta
- 1:11Speaker 4: they still got to stop the Cowboys on defense as well.
- 1:14Speaker 4: It could be a high scoring game. It should be
- 1:15Speaker 4: a lot of fun. We'll talk about it here. Eight
- 1:17Speaker 4: eight eight eight five five two two nine seven. You
- 1:19Speaker 4: can text the show eight one seven two nine zero
- 1:21Speaker 4: three two nine eight as well. We will definitely get
- 1:24Speaker 4: some of those text line questions if you send them.
- 1:27Speaker 4: All right, let's get let's do this thing. Let's start
- 1:29Speaker 4: us off here, Gary in New Mexico's first off, Gary,
- 1:32Speaker 4: what's up?
- 1:33Speaker 5: Hey, Nick?
- 1:34Speaker 6: Heard you got serenaded the other day on your show.
- 1:38Speaker 3: What's that?
- 1:39Speaker 7: I said?
- 1:39Speaker 6: I heard somebody singing a song to you the other
- 1:41Speaker 6: day on your show.
- 1:42Speaker 3: Oh yeah, this is how we do it, remix love.
- 1:45Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, pretty cool.
- 1:46Speaker 3: It was awesome. Yep, Anthony, my guy.
- 1:49Speaker 6: Hey, Gay, I'm not I'm not gonna sing to you,
- 1:52Speaker 6: but I do have a two part trivia question for
- 1:54Speaker 6: you this morning, all right, all right, and then and
- 1:56Speaker 6: then a quick comment about the game, after which, okay,
- 1:59Speaker 6: all right. Dallas Cowboys and Lions, once upon a time
- 2:03Speaker 6: played in what is still the lowest scoring playoff game
- 2:06Speaker 6: in NFL history. What was the final score to that game?
- 2:12Speaker 3: Five to three, close, five to five nothing?
- 2:16Speaker 6: Five nothing? That's right, Dallas beating five nothing en route
- 2:20Speaker 6: to their first Super Bowl.
- 2:21Speaker 8: My dad I.
- 2:22Speaker 6: Wasn't born yet, but my dad was actually at that
- 2:24Speaker 6: game in the Cotton Bowl, right, and he kept he
- 2:27Speaker 6: kept the program to that game, and he kept a
- 2:30Speaker 6: lot of those programs. So when I was a.
- 2:31Speaker 8: Little kid growing up, I would get in this.
- 2:33Speaker 6: Drawer where he kept all this stuff. I would read
- 2:34Speaker 6: those programs and study those programs, mat with that stuff
- 2:37Speaker 6: just fast.
- 2:38Speaker 4: I loved having I collected programs as well. Now we
- 2:40Speaker 4: don't even do them anymore.
- 2:42Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I don't know.
- 2:43Speaker 6: It's a different time. Okay. Second part of the trivia question. Okay,
- 2:46Speaker 6: that was the Cowboys first postseason shutout they've had. They've
- 2:51Speaker 6: had three postseason shutouts, so that was the first of
- 2:54Speaker 6: three playoff shutouts, which ties them with four other teams
- 2:57Speaker 6: for the NFL record. Can you tell me who the
- 2:59Speaker 6: other playoff shutouts were.
- 3:01Speaker 4: Against playoff shutouts, well, I would say maybe I feel
- 3:07Speaker 4: like the Bears, like in the seventies seventy seven, Like
- 3:14Speaker 4: I feel like there was like a thirty seven to nothing.
- 3:17Speaker 3: The Bears are the Vikings.
- 3:20Speaker 6: You're closed. They beat the Bears thirty seven to seven
- 3:23Speaker 6: on the route to Super Bowl twelve. The other two
- 3:26Speaker 6: yet me tell you in yeah, yeah, I'll go the
- 3:29Speaker 6: other two shutouts the seventy eight NFC championship game against
- 3:32Speaker 6: the Rams, and then the nineteen eighty one divisional playoff
- 3:36Speaker 6: game they shut out Tampa.
- 3:37Speaker 3: Bay thirty eight nothing nothing.
- 3:38Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that was the game right.
- 3:41Speaker 6: Before the catch got it facing. Okay, quick comment on
- 3:45Speaker 6: this and let's get back into today's time here. Okay,
- 3:48Speaker 6: tough game this week. It's going to be a hard one.
- 3:52Speaker 6: Can they win it?
- 3:53Speaker 9: Yes?
- 3:53Speaker 6: Will they win it? Who knows? But I will say,
- 3:56Speaker 6: And we had this discussion a couple of weeks ago,
- 3:58Speaker 6: expectations versus standards. You know, my expectations because I'm a delusional,
- 4:02Speaker 6: lifelong Cowboys man. But if the Cowboys can figure out
- 4:06Speaker 6: a way to pull out this game without sustaining any
- 4:10Speaker 6: more significant injuries than I think we do need to
- 4:13Speaker 6: reevaluate the expectations for this team. Your thoughts, I'll hang
- 4:17Speaker 6: up and listen.
- 4:18Speaker 7: Thank you.
- 4:18Speaker 4: That's good. That's a good thinking here. And and this
- 4:22Speaker 4: happens with every team in every league, you know, where
- 4:26Speaker 4: you kind of like, what are we? What are what?
- 4:28Speaker 4: What can this team do? What are the expectations? And
- 4:33Speaker 4: how you should move forward on things? Which players to play?
- 4:37Speaker 4: Are we going younger guys to try to get them
- 4:40Speaker 4: ready or not? And I think this is one of
- 4:43Speaker 4: those games that will kind of help us figure that out.
- 4:45Speaker 4: Like you said, going into the bye week, and if
- 4:49Speaker 4: they you know, if they win this game, you know,
- 4:52Speaker 4: to get to four and two, you know that that
- 4:55Speaker 4: that would be huge with with the bye week, even
- 4:58Speaker 4: you know, even if you don't, it's it's how the
- 5:01Speaker 4: game is played. But but I still think that you're
- 5:03Speaker 4: gonna look at this at win or lose. I think
- 5:05Speaker 4: you're going to go into the buy we can go.
- 5:07Speaker 4: You know, still a lot of football to be played.
- 5:09Speaker 4: Let's get healthy, let's get these guys back, and you know,
- 5:13Speaker 4: I think the focus is going to be, hey, let's
- 5:16Speaker 4: let's let's go try to win.
- 5:17Speaker 3: Let's go try to get into the playoffs.
- 5:19Speaker 4: Like as for the expectations, I still think that is
- 5:22Speaker 4: the expectation. Uh, go win your division. You know, you
- 5:26Speaker 4: haven't played anyone really in the division yet other than
- 5:28Speaker 4: the Giants. Washington looks like they're going to be, uh,
- 5:32Speaker 4: you know, pretty formidable. I mean they're they're not they're
- 5:35Speaker 4: not losing. They got a game this week against the Ravens.
- 5:37Speaker 4: We'll find out a lot about them, you know, if
- 5:40Speaker 4: we haven't already. So still a lot of football to
- 5:43Speaker 4: be played. The expectations is to go win this division
- 5:46Speaker 4: and get into the playoffs. I don't think that's going
- 5:49Speaker 4: to change one way or another, but I do understand
- 5:51Speaker 4: the premise of the question, and I do think this
- 5:53Speaker 4: will be a really good barometer to see what the
- 5:55Speaker 4: Cowboys can do against against a really good team, against
- 5:58Speaker 4: the Lions. All right, let's go to Rod in Eldorado, Kansas.
- 6:02Speaker 4: Has been a while, Rod, what's up man?
- 6:05Speaker 10: Hey, Nick, it's good to hear, good to talk to you.
- 6:08Speaker 10: It has been a while since has been a while
- 6:10Speaker 10: since I've been able to call in. I heard you
- 6:14Speaker 10: say here a few weeks ago that this season, just
- 6:19Speaker 10: based up on what we've seen so far, it's going
- 6:21Speaker 10: to be a kind of a grinded out season and
- 6:24Speaker 10: I and I do believe that every game is going
- 6:25Speaker 10: to be It's not going to be blowout wins like
- 6:29Speaker 10: we had last year. I think every game is going
- 6:31Speaker 10: to be tough and and and I think that may
- 6:33Speaker 10: be true, or is going to be true this Sunday,
- 6:36Speaker 10: win or lose, it's it's going to be close and
- 6:39Speaker 10: a tough, tough, grinded out game. But just just a
- 6:43Speaker 10: couple of thoughts, one of them a comment I I
- 6:47Speaker 10: know that Deuce didn't play last week, and and just
- 6:51Speaker 10: as far as a run game, I was impressed with
- 6:54Speaker 10: what Rico did, especially there in the second half and
- 6:57Speaker 10: in that last drive. I personally I like to see
- 7:00Speaker 10: them that that stay with with Rico and if you
- 7:07Speaker 10: bring duth in. My my only problem with that is
- 7:11Speaker 10: teams know that he's he's he's limited to You've got
- 7:16Speaker 10: to get him out in space where he can operate,
- 7:19Speaker 10: and they haven't been able to do that. Teams know
- 7:21Speaker 10: that that's the only way he's going to be operated.
- 7:23Speaker 10: I've been disappointed that when they have brought him in
- 7:26Speaker 10: that and and he's from case State here where it's
- 7:29Speaker 10: just in my backyard, and and you know, I like him,
- 7:32Speaker 10: but they all they've been doing when they brought him
- 7:35Speaker 10: in is try to send him up through the middle
- 7:37Speaker 10: and so forth, and and he's not effective there. And
- 7:39Speaker 10: but I don't think they can disguise it when they
- 7:42Speaker 10: when they do bring him in. So I I'd rather
- 7:44Speaker 10: than just see uh them stick with Rico, bring uh
- 7:49Speaker 10: bring Zeke in on every third possession, or so bring
- 7:52Speaker 10: him in on goal line situations, and you've got to
- 7:55Speaker 10: even be careful with Zeke because teams now know what
- 8:00Speaker 10: you know if you bring him in, you know he's
- 8:02Speaker 10: great on pass protection, but.
- 8:05Speaker 6: You're kind of.
- 8:06Speaker 10: Limited on what you can do with him. So that's
- 8:08Speaker 10: that's one comment. Then my question for you, because I
- 8:11Speaker 10: haven't heard here lately, what's what's the status with this
- 8:17Speaker 10: John Paul Stevens, Uh, the tight end. I have not
- 8:21Speaker 10: heard his name called. I don't know if he even
- 8:23Speaker 10: got into the game or if he's the active. Yeah,
- 8:26Speaker 10: I know that I know the the other tight end
- 8:29Speaker 10: that they that they brought in. He had a couple
- 8:33Speaker 10: of good catches the other night against Pittsburgh. But I
- 8:35Speaker 10: haven't heard about Stevens here lately. I which wondering if
- 8:37Speaker 10: you could shed a little light on that.
- 8:39Speaker 3: All right, sounds good, Thank you for the call.
- 8:41Speaker 5: Rod.
- 8:42Speaker 4: I'll start with the tight ends. John Stevens is just
- 8:44Speaker 4: he was injured h first couple of games with the hamstring,
- 8:49Speaker 4: and so he was he was destined to make his
- 8:51Speaker 4: NFL debut and and and and make that return from
- 8:55Speaker 4: the a c L injury, and uh, it was one
- 8:57Speaker 4: of the top three tight ends. Then he gets hurt,
- 8:59Speaker 4: come back, and I think he's been healthy the last
- 9:01Speaker 4: couple of games, but they they're going with Brevin span
- 9:05Speaker 4: Ford as the third tied end. He got a couple
- 9:08Speaker 4: of catches in the last game, bigger body, a little
- 9:11Speaker 4: bit more of a blocker, and also showing that he
- 9:15Speaker 4: can catch the ball too. So right now Stevens has
- 9:17Speaker 4: just found himself fourth on the depth chart of tight
- 9:21Speaker 4: ends and where they only are using three. And if
- 9:24Speaker 4: they needed a fourth hunter, Lipke can do that as
- 9:27Speaker 4: well in the games. So it's just not working out
- 9:31Speaker 4: for for Stevens right now to be active. But I
- 9:34Speaker 4: think I think his time will come sooner than later.
- 9:37Speaker 4: You know, these guys get hurt, it's a long season.
- 9:40Speaker 4: They're gonna need John Stevens at some point. I think
- 9:42Speaker 4: he might give him a little bit more juice down
- 9:44Speaker 4: the field. But as it stands right now, that's just
- 9:47Speaker 4: not an option that they're they're looking at. But that
- 9:50Speaker 4: can change quickly, of course. As for the running backs,
- 9:54Speaker 4: you know, Deuce averages two point nine yards of carry,
- 9:58Speaker 4: and he doesn't have a lot of carries at seven,
- 10:00Speaker 4: but you know, nothing longer than a four yard run.
- 10:03Speaker 3: They haven't gotten him going.
- 10:05Speaker 4: In space yet, and you know, it's it's just hard
- 10:08Speaker 4: to take him to the game and find find more
- 10:12Speaker 4: roles for him. I would have liked to see him
- 10:14Speaker 4: on kickoff. I guess that wasn't something they wanted to do. So,
- 10:18Speaker 4: you know, as it stands right now, he's he was
- 10:20Speaker 4: inactive last week. That's probably gonna be the case this week.
- 10:23Speaker 4: But again, like Steven's just somebody that stay ready and
- 10:26Speaker 4: when his time's will you know, if his time comes,
- 10:29Speaker 4: he'll be ready to go. But it's just it's not
- 10:32Speaker 4: happening right now. It's just not one of their top
- 10:34Speaker 4: options to run the ball. All right, let's keep this
- 10:38Speaker 4: thing going. I guess lines are open right now. Eight eight,
- 10:40Speaker 4: eight eight five five two two nine seven. You can
- 10:44Speaker 4: text the show at eight one seven two nine zero
- 10:47Speaker 4: three two nine eight. We can Chris. We got anybody
- 10:52Speaker 4: on the line where you want to take a quick break.
- 10:54Speaker 3: No, we got Brian in Kansas City. Brian and Kansas City.
- 10:57Speaker 3: All right, Brian, let's go.
- 10:58Speaker 5: How are you doing, Good morning, sir. Well, you know
- 11:03Speaker 5: I gave it some long, hard thought after you called
- 11:06Speaker 5: me the Trent dilfer to your doomsday defense, So I
- 11:11Speaker 5: wrote you a couple of burs Okay, all right, this
- 11:16Speaker 5: is this is for the man who's the glue of
- 11:19Speaker 5: all cowboys media. We all need Chris Bean to lean on.
- 11:27Speaker 5: The break might have a problem that he'd understands. We
- 11:32Speaker 5: all need Chris Bean to lean on.
- 11:37Speaker 3: I like it. We all lean on Chris Bean.
- 11:41Speaker 5: This is I'm telling you he does everything.
- 11:45Speaker 4: That guy that that's unbelievable, good, good, good stuff. Anthony,
- 11:51Speaker 4: move over, man, because I mean, I mean, it's one
- 11:53Speaker 4: thing to do that Montel, but I mean Brian coming
- 11:57Speaker 4: through with our producer.
- 12:00Speaker 3: I don't know, though, Beam, what do you think?
- 12:03Speaker 11: Thanks?
- 12:04Speaker 3: Dad?
- 12:07Speaker 5: Hey, I'm just waiting for the check to show up
- 12:09Speaker 5: in the mail.
- 12:09Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, just keep just keep waiting on that one. Brian. Anyways,
- 12:13Speaker 3: good stuff, man, I like it.
- 12:15Speaker 4: If this is what this show is going to turn
- 12:17Speaker 4: into a whole, I might have to call time out.
- 12:19Speaker 3: But so far, so good. That was.
- 12:22Speaker 4: That was pretty good stuff there, Brian. I like, I
- 12:24Speaker 4: didn't know where you were going with that, but it
- 12:26Speaker 4: wasn't bad. Wasn't bad at all?
- 12:27Speaker 5: All right, Well man, hey, so you know, I just
- 12:30Speaker 5: wanted to get your opinion on one thing, and uh
- 12:32Speaker 5: and then I'll throw out my my player the so
- 12:35Speaker 5: this week, you know, we.
- 12:38Speaker 12: Both teams I think are are solid teams. I think
- 12:42Speaker 12: it's going to come down to, you know, which which
- 12:45Speaker 12: unit has to has to really stand out. So we're
- 12:49Speaker 12: getting our we're getting our DB's back, right, we're gonna
- 12:52Speaker 12: have We're gonna have everybody that we need in the
- 12:55Speaker 12: defensive backfield. Finally, our linebackers have played well when the
- 13:00Speaker 12: defensive line has played well. Our offensive line had you know,
- 13:04Speaker 12: has had some struggles. So what's your opinion in what
- 13:10Speaker 12: unit has to step up for the Cowboys to get
- 13:13Speaker 12: a win. For me, it's the defensive I fought back
- 13:16Speaker 12: and forth between O line and D line. I think
- 13:19Speaker 12: it's going to be the D line because if they
- 13:21Speaker 12: can control the running game and the clock, I think
- 13:24Speaker 12: that keeps Dack off the field, and that's going to
- 13:27Speaker 12: be a problem for us. Sure, and my old timer,
- 13:30Speaker 12: if you've got a story, is Doug Free.
- 13:34Speaker 4: Doug Free? Okay, I have a good one man, All right,
- 13:38Speaker 4: thank you? Look free. Let me go back to your
- 13:41Speaker 4: point though, I agree. I agree it's maybe more so
- 13:46Speaker 4: than just the defensive line, is the front seven with
- 13:50Speaker 4: the linebackers. I don't like seeing Eric kendricks On the
- 13:53Speaker 4: injury report with the shoulder slash calf. You know, you
- 13:56Speaker 4: don't want to see a slash to anything on the
- 13:58Speaker 4: injury report, like two different uh ailments there, shoulder calf
- 14:06Speaker 4: did not practice the first two days of this week
- 14:09Speaker 4: here Wednesday Thursday, and then to make it worse, the
- 14:12Speaker 4: backup Nick Vigil also missing some practice with an injury.
- 14:16Speaker 4: So how they fixed that in the middle of their
- 14:19Speaker 4: of their defensive you know, run stopping packages. We'll see
- 14:25Speaker 4: if Kendricks can can can play this week. He's still
- 14:28Speaker 4: got a lot more you know, got Friday, you got
- 14:30Speaker 4: some practice on Saturday. So he's not he's not completely
- 14:34Speaker 4: you know, shut down yet, but but it's not looking
- 14:37Speaker 4: good as just from the two guys that you have
- 14:39Speaker 4: a middle linebacker and you have to stop the run.
- 14:42Speaker 4: That's what I think the biggest thing for me. A
- 14:45Speaker 4: story about Doug Free I I really don't have much there,
- 14:49Speaker 4: and obviously I was here his whole time. Kind of
- 14:53Speaker 4: a quiet guy, but I've actually hung out with him
- 14:57Speaker 4: a little bit at a NASCAR event. He was uh
- 15:01Speaker 4: in the in the infield of of of a NASCAR
- 15:03Speaker 4: race and hanging out. He was a little bit more
- 15:06Speaker 4: more jolly then, uh than than the other times. But
- 15:10Speaker 4: he kind of he kind of fit that that that
- 15:12Speaker 4: mold of the offensive tackles offensive lineman. Didn't like to talk,
- 15:16Speaker 4: didn't didn't do all that. That was kind of his thing.
- 15:19Speaker 4: He kind of kept to himself. But you know, good
- 15:22Speaker 4: solid player for for a while on the line. And
- 15:25Speaker 4: it was a good draft pick too, I think a
- 15:26Speaker 4: fourth round pick, you know, at a smaller school Northern Illinois,
- 15:30Speaker 4: I believe, you know, somewhat smaller and uh and and
- 15:33Speaker 4: turned into a pretty good player. So that not not
- 15:37Speaker 4: a big story though that I have about him. All right,
- 15:40Speaker 4: let's go to Derek. He's in Springfield, Missouri. This has
- 15:44Speaker 4: been a Midwest show. Here got Kansas, Kansas and Ount Missouri. Derek, Springfield, Missouri.
- 15:49Speaker 13: Hey, how's it going, man?
- 15:50Speaker 3: How are you? Oh?
- 15:52Speaker 8: Pretty good?
- 15:52Speaker 13: Can't complain. Hey, I've got a question and then uh,
- 15:57Speaker 13: a prediction and then a favor. So my question they're
- 16:03Speaker 13: on bland. Do you think that like, I know, he's
- 16:06Speaker 13: like trending to play will how do you think that'll work?
- 16:12Speaker 9: Like?
- 16:12Speaker 13: Do you think he'll start the game or do you
- 16:13Speaker 13: think they'll like work him in you know, second or
- 16:16Speaker 13: third series? And then so I'm that's kind of my question,
- 16:21Speaker 13: like on how you think they'll use him.
- 16:23Speaker 8: Yeah, and then.
- 16:26Speaker 13: My prediction is I think the cardiac Cowboys will strike again.
- 16:31Speaker 13: That's what I call him these days. And I think
- 16:33Speaker 13: we win thirty one to thirty. I think Aubrey calls
- 16:37Speaker 13: game and wins it for us. And then my favorite is,
- 16:42Speaker 13: I know you've got a lot of pull up there.
- 16:44Speaker 8: So I need you to find.
- 16:45Speaker 13: Jerry and Steven and maybe even Will, and I need
- 16:49Speaker 13: you to get Aubrey, Jordan Lewis and Osa all extended
- 16:54Speaker 13: for us, because you know, I mean, those guys are great. Yeah,
- 16:59Speaker 13: you know, make that happen, man, I know you can.
- 17:03Speaker 4: Well yeah, I don't know about that one. And I
- 17:05Speaker 4: don't you know, it's not just those guys. You know,
- 17:07Speaker 4: we have learned, we've learned over the last well forever,
- 17:11Speaker 4: but definitely in the last twelve months that the agents
- 17:15Speaker 4: play a role in this as well, and so you
- 17:18Speaker 4: know they know what's going on. I'm looking at the
- 17:21Speaker 4: contract status here, Aubrey is not is signed through twenty
- 17:26Speaker 4: twenty five, so he's got another year.
- 17:28Speaker 3: Who else did you say, Osa?
- 17:30Speaker 13: Jordan's Jordan Lewis and I know is coming up.
- 17:33Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't.
- 17:34Speaker 4: They both for one, you know what I mean. That's
- 17:38Speaker 4: that's happened several times. It feels like he's on a
- 17:41Speaker 4: lot of one year deals and but but you know,
- 17:44Speaker 4: we're seeing the value for him and and and what
- 17:47Speaker 4: what he brings to the defense. And every defensive coordinator
- 17:50Speaker 4: that comes in here, their first thought is probably like, man,
- 17:54Speaker 4: I don't know about this guy, and then they they
- 17:56Speaker 4: a few practices and then they love him. So he
- 17:59Speaker 4: just he's he's that type of guy. Yeah, I'd be
- 18:02Speaker 4: surprised if he's not here next year. He's the longest
- 18:04Speaker 4: tenure defensive player on the roster right now because Tank
- 18:08Speaker 4: is on IR So he's been here since twenty seventeen.
- 18:12Speaker 13: Yeah, he's been. He's been great.
- 18:14Speaker 14: Man.
- 18:14Speaker 13: All right, Well, hey, thanks.
- 18:15Speaker 3: Thanks Derek. All right, appreciate it.
- 18:20Speaker 4: We think that was not his first time caller, but
- 18:23Speaker 4: even so we can we can give him here we go, Yeah,
- 18:27Speaker 4: just cuss because we want to because it's Friday. All right,
- 18:30Speaker 4: let's go Bob in Rio Grand Valley. Not a first
- 18:32Speaker 4: time caller, but not even first time this week? Bob,
- 18:34Speaker 4: what's up?
- 18:35Speaker 10: What going on?
- 18:36Speaker 3: Make are you?
- 18:38Speaker 7: I'm looking forward to Sunday, I think it's going to
- 18:40Speaker 7: be Groundhog today. I got my predictions for you, okay.
- 18:45Speaker 7: I see Aubrey kicking five field goals. I see Dak
- 18:48Speaker 7: finally getting the touchdown by air. I see the Cowboys
- 18:54Speaker 7: sitting on twenty two points and the Lions is a
- 19:00Speaker 7: touchdown and to get to twenty and ground Hog's Day,
- 19:06Speaker 7: they try to go for two again and don't make it,
- 19:09Speaker 7: and we wind up twenty two to twenty. And by
- 19:12Speaker 7: the way, you got any stories about Mary and Barber,
- 19:16Speaker 7: have a great day to love your ship?
- 19:19Speaker 3: Well, thank you. I'll say this.
- 19:23Speaker 4: Yeah, I have stories for Mary and Barber, and I
- 19:27Speaker 4: told some of them in the documentary. You want to
- 19:29Speaker 4: check out a documentary, get get a box of clean
- 19:32Speaker 4: eggs and get the It's.
- 19:34Speaker 3: Called Barber, Do What You Love.
- 19:36Speaker 4: It's our one of our deep blue documentaries of this
- 19:39Speaker 4: past year or this a couple of months ago. It
- 19:43Speaker 4: came out, I guess in August at training camp Barbara.
- 19:47Speaker 3: Do what you Love.
- 19:49Speaker 4: Our crew there did a great job with that, and
- 19:53Speaker 4: I was I was interviewed for it. So I have
- 19:55Speaker 4: some stories that I told they're on there. But so
- 19:58Speaker 4: that's what I would suggest, and we can keep this
- 20:00Speaker 4: thing going. I mean, he was he was an outstanding runner,
- 20:06Speaker 4: a violent runner, and somebody that you know, his teammates
- 20:12Speaker 4: loved him. I mean that's the thing. That's the one
- 20:14Speaker 4: thing I really took from that. His teammates loved him,
- 20:17Speaker 4: and and his family obviously loved him, and they and
- 20:21Speaker 4: he's gone too soon, you know, and so but they
- 20:26Speaker 4: they did a great job in that forty five minute
- 20:28Speaker 4: documentary of really telling his story and from different different
- 20:32Speaker 4: perspectives as well. So if you get a chance to
- 20:35Speaker 4: check that out, it's called Barbara, Do What You Love.
- 20:36Speaker 4: It's in our Deep Blue series. You can find it
- 20:39Speaker 4: on YouTube or on our website and watch. It's really
- 20:42Speaker 4: really fascinating.
- 20:43Speaker 3: All right, let's.
- 20:46Speaker 4: Yeah, it'd be interesting if they go for two, and uh,
- 20:49Speaker 4: they will. They're gonna do something. I mean, Dan Campbell's
- 20:51Speaker 4: gonna do something like that. So just be you know,
- 20:53Speaker 4: be ready for that. They're going to have their guy
- 20:56Speaker 4: come in here and report eligible, and they got to
- 20:59Speaker 4: be they'll be ready for it. I mean that they've
- 21:00Speaker 4: had they've been coming off a bye week. They've got
- 21:03Speaker 4: something in the works.
- 21:03Speaker 3: Now.
- 21:04Speaker 4: Remember this is a team that also threw a touchdown
- 21:06Speaker 4: back to the quarterback last week. I mean, Jared Goff
- 21:10Speaker 4: caught a touchdown. Every pass he threw was caught. He
- 21:14Speaker 4: even caught a touchdown and threw that in the stands.
- 21:16Speaker 4: I bet that was caught. So they like to do
- 21:20Speaker 4: that that those types of plays, and so you can
- 21:23Speaker 4: expect that to happen in this game. The Cowboys have
- 21:26Speaker 4: to be ready for all of it. So and even
- 21:28Speaker 4: when they run their base stuff, they're pretty dang good.
- 21:30Speaker 4: All right, let's take a break here on a Cowboys storyline.
- 21:33Speaker 4: We will come back with more questions and calls to answer.
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- 23:39Speaker 4: go back to the phone lines. Curtis is in Ada, Oklahoma.
- 23:42Speaker 3: Curtis, what's up, Good morning?
- 23:45Speaker 11: How are you excellent? Excellent? I just got two things.
- 23:50Speaker 11: The first one at some point in the year and
- 23:52Speaker 11: we kind of talked about this and you kind of
- 23:54Speaker 11: asked me like, well, who would you rather be the backup?
- 23:57Speaker 11: Cooper Rush or Lance? And I got to thinking about
- 24:02Speaker 11: it and I was like, you know, if Dak Prescott
- 24:04Speaker 11: goes down, I don't really know that it matters a ton.
- 24:09Speaker 11: I mean, obviously it does, but for one game, I
- 24:13Speaker 11: mean maybe, but I just would like to see, especially
- 24:17Speaker 11: after seeing justin Fields last week. They ran like an
- 24:19Speaker 11: RPO to the left, and so everybody went to the
- 24:22Speaker 11: left to stop the quarterback run and the pitch and
- 24:25Speaker 11: then they shuffle pasted it inside and I just thought
- 24:28Speaker 11: that was really slick, and I wish that we could
- 24:30Speaker 11: do something like that unless it's the first play of
- 24:33Speaker 11: the game. I mean, maybe you get fifty plays. If
- 24:35Speaker 11: you are in a bad situation where you now have
- 24:38Speaker 11: to use Trey Lance, maybe you run half of those.
- 24:41Speaker 11: I mean, he can't give you twenty plays with the
- 24:43Speaker 11: money and position that he's got on the roster, so
- 24:47Speaker 11: I would. And then after that game, if you can
- 24:49Speaker 11: go to Cooper Rush if Dak's out for an extended
- 24:52Speaker 11: period of time. So I would like to see that
- 24:54Speaker 11: some point in the season. If it was me, I
- 24:55Speaker 11: would use that to my advantage. Best case scenario, you
- 24:59Speaker 11: have a additional wrinkle, you score a couple of touchdowns
- 25:02Speaker 11: in the red zone, and then I just listed basically
- 25:05Speaker 11: the worst case scenario for this weekend's game. I would
- 25:09Speaker 11: like to see them defer the kickoff. They've been taking
- 25:12Speaker 11: the ball for the offense, and I get it. If
- 25:14Speaker 11: you get up, you know, hopefully you can pin your earback,
- 25:17Speaker 11: you can put some pressure. But we've been starting off slow,
- 25:20Speaker 11: and I think that teams kind of assume that we're
- 25:23Speaker 11: going to take the ball, so maybe you just you know,
- 25:26Speaker 11: put them off their game a little bit. And then
- 25:28Speaker 11: I hate sitting in the second quarter and our defense
- 25:31Speaker 11: is on the field and I'm like, oh man, we
- 25:32Speaker 11: really need to stop. Oh wait, they're going to get
- 25:34Speaker 11: the ball back right again in the second half. So
- 25:37Speaker 11: our offense just hasn't been doing it and I would
- 25:40Speaker 11: like to see them change that.
- 25:41Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with that. I like I still like
- 25:44Speaker 4: starting Thanks for the call, Curtis. I like starting the
- 25:48Speaker 4: second half with the football too.
- 25:49Speaker 3: I mean, just.
- 25:52Speaker 4: You don't know what the game is going to be like.
- 25:54Speaker 4: But if you've got the lead, it's nice to have
- 25:56Speaker 4: the ball and try to extend it. And if you
- 25:59Speaker 4: don't have the lead, then obviously you need need to
- 26:01Speaker 4: get the ball and go score and get back in
- 26:03Speaker 4: this game. Uh, set the tone in the third quarter.
- 26:06Speaker 4: I just think the tone is usually set in the
- 26:08Speaker 4: first quarter. I mean, the crowd will be going crazy,
- 26:13Speaker 4: you know, they'll be towels waving and all that stuff,
- 26:15Speaker 4: and you know, go get a stop on defense, and
- 26:18Speaker 4: especially I don't know right now, you know, the offense,
- 26:22Speaker 4: Like like you said, Curtis, offense hasn't hasn't got the
- 26:24Speaker 4: ball and started off well and taking it eighty or
- 26:28Speaker 4: seventy five eighty yards to the house for a touchdown
- 26:30Speaker 4: that they haven't done that. I mean, I think you'd
- 26:33Speaker 4: be better suited to try to, you know, try to
- 26:35Speaker 4: get a stop on defense and and you know, if not,
- 26:39Speaker 4: your downs three nothing, seven nothing, and you still got
- 26:42Speaker 4: got to get back in the games. Doesn't doesn't mean
- 26:44Speaker 4: like you have to change anything. I just feel like
- 26:46Speaker 4: it's better to have the ball to start the third quarter.
- 26:49Speaker 4: That's what I'd rather have, especially at home, because you know,
- 26:54Speaker 4: I mean, if they're the crowd will be amped up
- 26:57Speaker 4: and ready to go, and you know that that might
- 26:59Speaker 4: give you a better shot on defense. Then it will
- 27:01Speaker 4: be in the third quarter because it's dead coming out
- 27:03Speaker 4: of halftime and you know, you don't don't want them
- 27:06Speaker 4: to just take the ball and drive. So either way
- 27:08Speaker 4: you got to make a stop, doesn't really matter. But
- 27:10Speaker 4: I do think personally, I'd like to take the ball
- 27:12Speaker 4: to start to the second half, and then I'm not
- 27:15Speaker 4: even going to entertain all that Dak Trey Lance stuff.
- 27:18Speaker 4: I mean, that's you know, let's don't even let's don't
- 27:21Speaker 4: even go go down that route. Let's just keep Dak
- 27:24Speaker 4: healthy and ready to play. You know, yes, running quarterbacks
- 27:28Speaker 4: can help, and and Trey Lance would would be valuable
- 27:32Speaker 4: in certain things. But he also starts to throw the
- 27:34Speaker 4: ball some too, and we've seen that that that didn't
- 27:36Speaker 4: always go well either. So I think for what it is,
- 27:39Speaker 4: he's in the role that he needs to be in.
- 27:41Speaker 4: Right now, all right, let's go to a text question here.
- 27:43Speaker 4: This is a let's see what is this here? Hold on,
- 27:48Speaker 4: I'm not going to read that just yet. Rick and
- 27:50Speaker 4: Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Rick, what's up.
- 27:54Speaker 14: Morning? Nick? How you doing?
- 27:56Speaker 3: How are you?
- 27:58Speaker 14: Oh? Pretty good? Pretty good? Enjoying it other beautiful day
- 28:00Speaker 14: over here. Okay, so real quickly. I don't know, I
- 28:05Speaker 14: wasn't able to listen earlier, but I just want to
- 28:07Speaker 14: talk about I think the three keys victory of how
- 28:09Speaker 14: we're going to win this game. All right, First off,
- 28:13Speaker 14: we'll start with number three.
- 28:14Speaker 8: We all know this.
- 28:15Speaker 14: It's it's a big issue, but we got to stop
- 28:17Speaker 14: the run big time. We got to make them one dimensional,
- 28:20Speaker 14: and hopefully our corners can hold up and half second
- 28:23Speaker 14: longer and get some coverage sacks. I think that's huge
- 28:27Speaker 14: if we can do that. The second for me is
- 28:30Speaker 14: a clean game. I know it's been an issue for
- 28:33Speaker 14: years with the amount of penalties we're getting and all that,
- 28:37Speaker 14: but if they can run a clean, clean game and
- 28:40Speaker 14: no untimely penalties, I think that would be key to
- 28:43Speaker 14: a victory as well. And lastly, for me, I think
- 28:47Speaker 14: that watching that game last year in Detroit with Detroit,
- 28:50Speaker 14: I was like, man, like, I'm afraid some of our
- 28:52Speaker 14: players are going to get injured the way they were
- 28:54Speaker 14: attacking those knees and how physical they were. So for us,
- 28:57Speaker 14: I think we need to be a hell of a
- 29:00Speaker 14: lot more physical than Detroit. And I'm talking like mean
- 29:02Speaker 14: in their face, hitting them hard, like creating chaos, controlled
- 29:07Speaker 14: on our side, uncontrolled on their side. And I think
- 29:11Speaker 14: those will be the keys to our victory. And I
- 29:12Speaker 14: just wanted to say what I think my final score
- 29:15Speaker 14: will be? All right, I think the final score. I
- 29:17Speaker 14: think the final score will be twenty seven, twenty twenty seven,
- 29:21Speaker 14: twenty our victory. And let's go Cowboys and just all
- 29:25Speaker 14: get offline and tell me what you think.
- 29:26Speaker 3: All right? Thank you? All right? Rick? Not bad?
- 29:30Speaker 4: I mean that's those are those are I mean, those
- 29:33Speaker 4: are good? Those are good keys to victory. And because
- 29:39Speaker 4: I believe them because they're they're they're pretty generic. That's
- 29:42Speaker 4: what That's what teams tonight on Friday Night football, that's
- 29:46Speaker 4: what they're they're they're saying, Hey, we got to stop
- 29:48Speaker 4: the run, we gotta we gotta not have penalties and mistakes,
- 29:51Speaker 4: and we got to be physical. Maybe not in that order, maybe,
- 29:54Speaker 4: but but those three things. And that's that's and I'm
- 29:58Speaker 4: not I'm not saying that that it's not I mean,
- 30:00Speaker 4: it's it's generic, but sometimes it's football is not that
- 30:05Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's not that hard to figure out.
- 30:07Speaker 3: I mean, it could be pretty simple.
- 30:09Speaker 4: I mean, yes, there's some there's a lot of these
- 30:11Speaker 4: you know, analytics and numbers and stats and all this stuff,
- 30:14Speaker 4: but when you when you really break it down, guys,
- 30:17Speaker 4: we got to figure out how to got to stop
- 30:19Speaker 4: the run, make them one dimensional, and make them pass. Yes,
- 30:22Speaker 4: they have a great passing game. But if we know
- 30:25Speaker 4: that that coming in, that that should help us. So
- 30:28Speaker 4: you know, don't don't get behind the chains, stop having fall,
- 30:31Speaker 4: start stop being first and fifteen first and twenty and holdings. Uh,
- 30:35Speaker 4: you know, play play downhill. You play downhill, you should
- 30:38Speaker 4: be fine. And you've got to be physical, especially with
- 30:40Speaker 4: a team and like that that's gonna come in here
- 30:42Speaker 4: and they're gonna try to punk you.
- 30:43Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. You gotta you gotta match them.
- 30:45Speaker 3: So uh.
- 30:46Speaker 4: I like the I like the call, and I like
- 30:48Speaker 4: I like your points there because it sounds pretty simple
- 30:52Speaker 4: and sometimes it can be. That's that's what this team
- 30:54Speaker 4: needs needs to do. They they've got to get these
- 30:57Speaker 4: three things. They should be in good shape to to
- 30:59Speaker 4: go win this game. It's gonna be physical game. It's
- 31:01Speaker 4: gonna be close. But you know, I think I think
- 31:05Speaker 4: it's a bad matchup for the Cowboys. I think the
- 31:07Speaker 4: Lions are a little bit better. They're they're a lot healthier,
- 31:10Speaker 4: but that doesn't mean that that team always wins. But
- 31:13Speaker 4: I do think the Cowboys have a shot to win it.
- 31:15Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be a close one. Let's go
- 31:17Speaker 4: to champ in Nebraska.
- 31:20Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, how are you doing this morning?
- 31:22Speaker 3: How are you?
- 31:23Speaker 8: I'm wonderful? Hey, real quick, I was gonna try to
- 31:26Speaker 8: serenade you. I wasn't gonna try and try to get
- 31:29Speaker 8: my wife because she is definitely the singer in our family.
- 31:32Speaker 8: But I don't think she'll do it. She's embarrassed. Also,
- 31:36Speaker 8: it's my son's fourteenth birthdays. I'd like to send him
- 31:38Speaker 8: a shut out happy birthday, Malachi today.
- 31:41Speaker 3: Awesome, that's great and.
- 31:42Speaker 8: Okay for football. So I wanted to clarify yesterday. I
- 31:45Speaker 8: don't know if I got my point across when I
- 31:47Speaker 8: was talking about McCarthy. I hope you don't take it
- 31:50Speaker 8: that I don't respect or don't like him as a coach.
- 31:52Speaker 8: You know you got your great coach where you can
- 31:54Speaker 8: have a twelve and five season three years in a row.
- 31:57Speaker 8: I just his game management and his play calling I
- 32:00Speaker 8: feel has not been what it was last year. And
- 32:03Speaker 8: I think maybe that I don't know why it's changed
- 32:06Speaker 8: different team, or maybe I don't know, but that's what
- 32:09Speaker 8: we're dealing with there. I have a point to make
- 32:12Speaker 8: or a question ask. We were talking on the Storyliners
- 32:15Speaker 8: last night about the best five offensive linemen, and I
- 32:19Speaker 8: really felt like the five that ended the game were
- 32:22Speaker 8: probably the best five in those positions. With Tyler Smith
- 32:26Speaker 8: out at left tackle, but I've always wondered whose decision
- 32:30Speaker 8: it was to not have him play left tackle, if
- 32:33Speaker 8: it's him or the organization. And if it's the organization,
- 32:39Speaker 8: is it because they don't want to pay him left
- 32:41Speaker 8: tackle money because he's going to earn that out there.
- 32:45Speaker 8: And also if you have time, I know people kind
- 32:48Speaker 8: of ask for stories, but do you remember any specific story.
- 32:52Speaker 8: I know it was a horrible time, but something you'd
- 32:55Speaker 8: be willing to share that stood out when we had
- 32:57Speaker 8: that accident that killed the team back in the early
- 33:01Speaker 8: twenty tens, in the d u I accident, I know
- 33:03Speaker 8: Jason Garrett did a great job holding the team together
- 33:06Speaker 8: and the team banded it. Just for something, you remember,
- 33:09Speaker 8: I'd appreciate something positive.
- 33:11Speaker 7: Out of that.
- 33:12Speaker 8: All Right, have a good weekend, go Cowboys and be
- 33:14Speaker 8: blessed brothers.
- 33:15Speaker 3: All Right, Wow, that's that's tough.
- 33:18Speaker 4: That's a tough one to say, you know, something positive
- 33:22Speaker 4: that that came out of that. I won't spend a
- 33:27Speaker 4: lot of time on that. Du Josh Brent still works
- 33:30Speaker 4: for the for the Cowboys here and so you know
- 33:33Speaker 4: he works in the in the scouting department, and so
- 33:37Speaker 4: he's he's been able to to, you know, have a
- 33:39Speaker 4: have a career on that side of the building.
- 33:41Speaker 3: Uh.
- 33:42Speaker 4: For for sure, that was a very that was a
- 33:45Speaker 4: tough moment there for the team obviously, and obviously for
- 33:48Speaker 4: Jerry Brown and his family of course, but uh, you know,
- 33:52Speaker 4: Jason Garrett, I thought, did it, like you said, did
- 33:54Speaker 4: a great job of kind of getting that team together.
- 33:57Speaker 4: That was one road trip in Cincinnati one Like I
- 34:00Speaker 4: actually was not on that trip. I made it to
- 34:02Speaker 4: the game, but I did not go on that trip,
- 34:04Speaker 4: so I don't have the memories of that. But I
- 34:08Speaker 4: know postgame locker room, uh with with Garrett, you know,
- 34:12Speaker 4: that was one of the people have said that was
- 34:13Speaker 4: one of his finest moments there and how how they
- 34:16Speaker 4: got that team uh together and won that game. But
- 34:19Speaker 4: obviously it was a tragic situation and they've tried to
- 34:22Speaker 4: make the most of it with Josh Brent and his family,
- 34:24Speaker 4: and Josh, like I said, has a has a job
- 34:26Speaker 4: here with the Cowboys. It has for a while as
- 34:29Speaker 4: far it's a tough transition back into football. But as
- 34:33Speaker 4: a offensive line the Tyler Smith does not come down
- 34:37Speaker 4: to the money in the contract.
- 34:39Speaker 3: I feel like they feel like Tyler.
- 34:41Speaker 4: Smith can be an all Pro guard and and he
- 34:45Speaker 4: could be a good tackle and maybe maybe maybe a
- 34:47Speaker 4: Pro Bowl type type guard tackle. But it's the same
- 34:51Speaker 4: with Zach Martin. I mean, Zach Martin can play tackle.
- 34:53Speaker 4: Larry Allen could have played tackle and did play tackle
- 34:55Speaker 4: better guard. Uh strength, interior, interior strength, inside, being able to,
- 35:02Speaker 4: I mean, he's very smart, being able to help the center,
- 35:04Speaker 4: help the tackle, being able to to to see those things.
- 35:07Speaker 3: You're not really on an island.
- 35:09Speaker 4: He's a very very intelligent player and also one of
- 35:13Speaker 4: the strongest players on the team and and the league.
- 35:16Speaker 4: They feel like his more natural position is at guard.
- 35:19Speaker 4: If he has to play tackle then and he will,
- 35:21Speaker 4: but I think that they all feel like he's he's
- 35:25Speaker 4: going to be. He could be a very dominant guard
- 35:28Speaker 4: for for many years, and so that I think that's
- 35:31Speaker 4: that's where the thought process it is for him. All right,
- 35:34Speaker 4: let's go to Rob in Vegas. Hey, Nick, Rob, what's up?
- 35:40Speaker 3: How you doing good?
- 35:43Speaker 17: I think this go ahead.
- 35:45Speaker 3: No, No, let's let's go. Let's get it going.
- 35:47Speaker 17: This game is on the offense. I mean right now
- 35:51Speaker 17: we're averaging twenty three points a touchdown, less than last
- 35:55Speaker 17: year the Lions average twenty six, and on defense gives
- 35:59Speaker 17: up to six game. So you've got to know going
- 36:02Speaker 17: in you probably you need thirty. You need there has
- 36:04Speaker 17: to be a three, and so I think the offense
- 36:09Speaker 17: Mike McCarthy already has to say to himself, my defense
- 36:13Speaker 17: is probably going to give up thirty at least, even
- 36:16Speaker 17: if they just play average like they've been doing.
- 36:19Speaker 7: Both teams.
- 36:19Speaker 17: You're right there. So this is this is on the offense.
- 36:22Speaker 17: This is on Dak and Cbe Turpin whoever. They need
- 36:26Speaker 17: some big plays and they just they got to play better.
- 36:30Speaker 17: They got to play more like they did last year.
- 36:34Speaker 9: It's going to be a.
- 36:34Speaker 17: Struggle because we struggle against this is kind of like
- 36:37Speaker 17: a forty nine er style offense, a lot of motion.
- 36:42Speaker 17: You have to affect Golf.
- 36:44Speaker 6: The only good thing.
- 36:45Speaker 17: Is he's not very mobile, so this is a game. Unfortunately,
- 36:49Speaker 17: I think we're going to miss Micah out of all
- 36:51Speaker 17: the other games, you know, out of the last game,
- 36:53Speaker 17: because he's the only guy that could really hunt the
- 36:57Speaker 17: quarterback and you could see Golf gets rattled and I
- 37:01Speaker 17: don't know if we have anybody that can rattle him.
- 37:04Speaker 17: But hey, it's it's time to step up. It's time
- 37:07Speaker 17: to prove it. It's a it's a statement game. You know,
- 37:12Speaker 17: this is your third home game, you got blown out
- 37:15Speaker 17: the other two. It's time to make a state. We
- 37:18Speaker 17: got the buy coming.
- 37:20Speaker 10: So who knows.
- 37:22Speaker 17: I don't feel great about it, but they do good
- 37:25Speaker 17: against the Lions the game. The games are usually tight,
- 37:29Speaker 17: but they usually pull it out against the Lions, and
- 37:32Speaker 17: I just hope they do it Sunday.
- 37:33Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Rob, I agree with you, and thanks
- 37:36Speaker 4: for the call. And you know, I do think that
- 37:38Speaker 4: you're right about the offense. I mean, like this is
- 37:41Speaker 4: one where the offense is going to have to to
- 37:44Speaker 4: step it up. I just don't see that this defense
- 37:46Speaker 4: stopping the Lions a lot, you know, and they just
- 37:49Speaker 4: look they're very efficient. They can they can do it
- 37:53Speaker 4: in so many ways. I mean, they've they've got they've
- 37:56Speaker 4: got a top ten maybe top five or se in
- 38:00Speaker 4: Saint Brown.
- 38:01Speaker 3: Uh.
- 38:01Speaker 4: And then Jamison will William's really really good, really dynamic,
- 38:07Speaker 4: really you know, emerging young tight end Sam Laporta that
- 38:11Speaker 4: me made the Pro Bowl last year, to two great
- 38:14Speaker 4: running backs, an offensive line that's mean and nasty in
- 38:16Speaker 4: the quarterback that that's very efficient throwing the ball and
- 38:20Speaker 4: showed that in his last game.
- 38:21Speaker 3: That's just on offense.
- 38:22Speaker 4: So I just have a hard time thinking that you
- 38:25Speaker 4: know that that they're not going to go score some points,
- 38:27Speaker 4: but two weeks off like that it's it's I don't
- 38:31Speaker 4: know how. I don't know how the Cowboys, you know,
- 38:33Speaker 4: can can stay in it, keep it close. I think
- 38:36Speaker 4: they will. They'll figure it out. They'll figure out a
- 38:38Speaker 4: way to keep it that that way. But uh, this
- 38:40Speaker 4: is this really is like you said, it's gonna be
- 38:42Speaker 4: a tough matchup.
- 38:43Speaker 3: I don't see it.
- 38:44Speaker 4: I don't see the Cowboys being able to to get
- 38:47Speaker 4: this one. I'm gonna have to put this in my
- 38:49Speaker 4: gut feeling article. I really I don't see it. I
- 38:53Speaker 4: wish I did, but but Deck just looks stacked against
- 38:57Speaker 4: them in this game. But man, I hope they proved
- 39:00Speaker 4: me wrong for sure. All right, let's take a break
- 39:02Speaker 4: here on Cowboys storyline, our last one, and we'll come
- 39:04Speaker 4: back and take a couple more calls.
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- 40:31Speaker 4: let's go to Chris. He's in Saratoga Springs, New York. Chris, Hello, Mick,
- 40:38Speaker 4: how's it going good here?
- 40:39Speaker 3: Are you not too bad?
- 40:41Speaker 9: I want to go back to our last game. I
- 40:43Speaker 9: have a question for you. What you thought about McCarthy
- 40:47Speaker 9: colling a timeout when Hunter Limpsey got down close to
- 40:49Speaker 9: the goal line and not letting Pittsburgh, you know, use
- 40:53Speaker 9: one of their time out. What what was What was
- 40:57Speaker 9: your thought for us on that? Why do you think
- 40:58Speaker 9: he called time out there a little early?
- 41:02Speaker 4: For me, I would have I would have let a
- 41:05Speaker 4: few more seconds go off the clock. But you know,
- 41:12Speaker 4: maybe he thought they were gonna need four downs to score,
- 41:15Speaker 4: you know, I mean like when you get down there
- 41:18Speaker 4: like that, you think, oh, you're going to score, and
- 41:22Speaker 4: you know you don't need to, you know, worry about that.
- 41:25Speaker 4: But I I would have called it. I would have
- 41:28Speaker 4: let a few more seconds roll off the clock to
- 41:30Speaker 4: about thirty and then and then called it. But you know,
- 41:34Speaker 4: I I thought I thought it was early.
- 41:37Speaker 9: Yeah, I definitely thought it was early. But they wanted
- 41:40Speaker 9: if they were going to use it, ye at least
- 41:42Speaker 9: a couple of seconds, let you know, let But he
- 41:44Speaker 9: called it immediately. I'm like, I just I almost lost
- 41:46Speaker 9: it on my TV. SI didn't understand. As far as
- 41:50Speaker 9: the game this weekend, I don't have the same feeling
- 41:53Speaker 9: you do. I just think everybody thinks that Detroit's going
- 41:56Speaker 9: to beat us. We've lost three in a row at home.
- 42:00Speaker 9: No expectations is on the Cowboys to win, win this
- 42:04Speaker 9: game and last week. We want a game right at
- 42:07Speaker 9: the end where we normally lose it and we wont it.
- 42:10Speaker 9: I just I just have my gut feeling is they're
- 42:12Speaker 9: underestimating us, and we're gonna protect our home and we're
- 42:16Speaker 9: going to win this this game this weekend.
- 42:18Speaker 4: Right, I love it, I mean, and and that you know,
- 42:22Speaker 4: I think you could be right. I mean, I just
- 42:26Speaker 4: I just have a hard time seeing it with with
- 42:28Speaker 4: just how great their offense looks. But you know, they
- 42:32Speaker 4: have lost. I mean, it's not like they can't. You know,
- 42:36Speaker 4: they can't lose, and and they're not you know, they're
- 42:40Speaker 4: they're definitely beatable. So this isn't This isn't a situation
- 42:44Speaker 4: where you know, the Cowboys are.
- 42:46Speaker 3: Like two touchdown underdogs.
- 42:47Speaker 4: I mean, I think the line is like three, So yeah,
- 42:51Speaker 4: it's going to be a close game. And maybe I
- 42:54Speaker 4: am overestimating the Lions, which I mean I've never done
- 42:59Speaker 4: in my life. You know, I've never overestimated the Lions. Before,
- 43:03Speaker 4: so uh, maybe maybe I should I should fall into
- 43:06Speaker 4: line with with what you guys are thinking there, Christ
- 43:09Speaker 4: you could be you could be right, And I have
- 43:10Speaker 4: feelings to our next car feeling Lewis and Langston, Oklahoma probably.
- 43:13Speaker 3: Feels the same way. What do you think, Lewis Cowboys?
- 43:18Speaker 19: Oh yeah, I'm a ride with the Cowboys.
- 43:20Speaker 3: Yeah, I figured you would. What do you think about
- 43:22Speaker 3: this game? Though?
- 43:24Speaker 8: You know what?
- 43:26Speaker 19: Unfortunately it scares me. But at the same time Beck
- 43:29Speaker 19: has played really well against the Lions, so I got
- 43:33Speaker 19: a little hope that we can make this happen. You know,
- 43:38Speaker 19: it's hard to be one percent where you don't have
- 43:42Speaker 19: the law and you don't have uh, partitions or whatever.
- 43:45Speaker 19: But I'm trying to hold the faith and say, hey,
- 43:47Speaker 19: we got this. But they have so much firepower on
- 43:52Speaker 19: the office BG well watching a film or whatever. They
- 43:55Speaker 19: do look acceptable to like passing game that. So hopefully
- 44:01Speaker 19: this maybe we get the CD that we've been looking for,
- 44:04Speaker 19: like not the first half CD, the second half CD
- 44:07Speaker 19: where he can get get over one hundred yards and
- 44:11Speaker 19: and I'm looking forward to seeing what Tobrah does, see
- 44:13Speaker 19: if he can make it two games in the row,
- 44:15Speaker 19: so we can not have to worry about it if
- 44:17Speaker 19: we need to get somebody else or be talking about
- 44:20Speaker 19: trading and all that kind of crap. I don't want
- 44:22Speaker 19: to hear all that no more.
- 44:24Speaker 4: Well, but how about how about take the last year
- 44:29Speaker 4: CD against the Lions when he went for like two
- 44:31Speaker 4: twenty seven.
- 44:32Speaker 3: We'll take that one.
- 44:33Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now now I know they got
- 44:36Speaker 19: to the rookie the rookie corner. I kind of thought
- 44:39Speaker 19: Dallas was gonna draft him for a little while because
- 44:41Speaker 19: they the way he was falling down in the draft,
- 44:43Speaker 19: I was I was praying that they didn't. But he's
- 44:46Speaker 19: really nice. He plays press coverage real well, and they've
- 44:50Speaker 19: been playing a lot of press this year. They don't
- 44:52Speaker 19: play as much zone as they did last year. So
- 44:55Speaker 19: maybe that bodes well for the CD because he's he's
- 44:58Speaker 19: great during the press coverage. But at the same time,
- 45:02Speaker 19: like I said, it's it's hard to it's hard to
- 45:05Speaker 19: pin it down and say, yeah, we got this game,
- 45:07Speaker 19: especially the way their offense is moving the ball up
- 45:09Speaker 19: and down the field. So I'm looking at a like
- 45:12Speaker 19: thirty one twenty seven kind of games, and like I said,
- 45:16Speaker 19: I'm still going with Cowboys. I'm gonna call every time
- 45:19Speaker 19: I call. I'm not gonna I could be as scared
- 45:21Speaker 19: as I want, but I ain't never gonna say they're
- 45:23Speaker 19: gonna lose the game.
- 45:24Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I understand that.
- 45:26Speaker 4: I get that, and that's that's a diehard fan right
- 45:29Speaker 4: there all the way, Lewis, I appreciate the call. Let's
- 45:33Speaker 4: let's keep it rolling here to David and fort Worth.
- 45:36Speaker 8: David, Yes, sir, How you doing, brother good Man?
- 45:39Speaker 3: How are you good?
- 45:40Speaker 11: Good?
- 45:40Speaker 6: Good?
- 45:40Speaker 8: Hey?
- 45:41Speaker 20: I want to touch real quick on everybody. I feel
- 45:45Speaker 20: like people kind of need to chill out a little
- 45:47Speaker 20: bit on the Mike McCarthy criticisms, which is game management
- 45:51Speaker 20: and stuff like that. I think he's done a really
- 45:53Speaker 20: really good job overall, missing a lot of players, and
- 45:56Speaker 20: every side they h you know, positive season. So I
- 45:59Speaker 20: just want to say that everybody come to chill. Mike Tomlin,
- 46:02Speaker 20: Dan Campbell, the guy who were playing this week, he
- 46:04Speaker 20: has questionable things. Robert Sala already got fired. I mean,
- 46:07Speaker 20: we could be doing a lot worse at the head
- 46:08Speaker 20: coach position. I just wanted to put some positivity real quick.
- 46:12Speaker 3: Uh.
- 46:12Speaker 20: My son, the one who I had last season when
- 46:14Speaker 20: I stopped calling, he is turning one this Sunday. So
- 46:17Speaker 20: for this, for this Sunday, I think Turpin's gonna have
- 46:20Speaker 20: a big game. I think the Dallas Cowboys are gonna
- 46:22Speaker 20: win in overtime. Thirty four, thirty one. I want everybody
- 46:26Speaker 20: to have a great weekend.
- 46:27Speaker 4: Yet, sir, it's gonna be Tolbert. It's gonna be Tolbert
- 46:33Speaker 4: number one on for for a one year old birthday party,
- 46:36Speaker 4: and Tolbert's gonna have the big game. I know you
- 46:38Speaker 4: say Turfing, but it's gonna be It's gonna be gonna
- 46:40Speaker 4: be number one.
- 46:41Speaker 20: Me, tot you know what, you might be right because
- 46:44Speaker 20: I accidentally said that yesterday, So maybe that was just
- 46:46Speaker 20: my gut telling me they's actually gonna be number one.
- 46:49Speaker 20: You're probably right many way. Yeah, I think they're gonna
- 46:52Speaker 20: have a great day. Hey, I'm not gonna sing, Chris.
- 46:54Speaker 20: I'm gad that you got a song today. Man, it
- 46:56Speaker 20: was beautiful. You guys have a wonderful, wonderful weekends.
- 46:59Speaker 3: Awesome, man, he said, And they did. That? Was that
- 47:01Speaker 3: was good? Was that?
- 47:02Speaker 4: And that'll be our last call for the day. Thank David,
- 47:04Speaker 4: Thanks thanks for the call. Uh, guys, great week as always.
- 47:11Speaker 4: Let me say this though, real quick. You mentioned the
- 47:13Speaker 4: I got a couple of mesuer You mentioned the part
- 47:15Speaker 4: about McCarthy. You know, when you get to that situation
- 47:19Speaker 4: of all right, you're in you're under a minute. Are
- 47:22Speaker 4: are they gonna let you score? You know, like is
- 47:26Speaker 4: that what what Pittsburgh's gonna do? Are they gonna try
- 47:28Speaker 4: to stop you? So I I don't I didn't love
- 47:32Speaker 4: the time out right then, but I kind of understand, like,
- 47:36Speaker 4: all right, let's let's let's talk this thing through. Here
- 47:39Speaker 4: we are and everything's changed now Lipke gets down there
- 47:41Speaker 4: inside the five, So let's let's talk this like, what
- 47:44Speaker 4: what are we trying to do?
- 47:45Speaker 3: What are we trying? We trying to score? Are they
- 47:47Speaker 3: gonna let us score? You know?
- 47:50Speaker 4: I I still wanted a little bit less time off
- 47:53Speaker 4: the clock, because you score on first down, you give
- 47:56Speaker 4: them I think two timeouts and in forty second so
- 48:00Speaker 4: to go down to kick a field goal to tie.
- 48:02Speaker 4: So I would have tried to drain a little bit
- 48:05Speaker 4: a time off the clock there, but you know, I
- 48:08Speaker 4: don't fault them that much, for there's a lot happening there.
- 48:11Speaker 4: And if you want to just say all right, everybody
- 48:13Speaker 4: calm down, this is what we're doing.
- 48:16Speaker 3: I'm okay with that. Again, I would have probably just.
- 48:20Speaker 4: Waited fifteen twenty seconds, just waited a little bit and
- 48:24Speaker 4: then call it and see if Pittsburgh calls it first,
- 48:28Speaker 4: because I still think if you would have cut it
- 48:30Speaker 4: down to thirty five seconds, thirty seconds, you could still
- 48:33Speaker 4: run four plays. I mean, you can run four plays
- 48:36Speaker 4: because you have timeouts. You can run it. You can
- 48:38Speaker 4: do everything you need to do. But hey, they left
- 48:43Speaker 4: them with twenty seconds. You know, it's two weeks in
- 48:45Speaker 4: a row now that they've left the team with about
- 48:48Speaker 4: twenty seconds to go to do something and they couldn't.
- 48:52Speaker 4: So you know, I can't fault them too much for
- 48:54Speaker 4: their game management when they've had these two close games
- 48:58Speaker 4: and I think they've managed it pretty well. So a
- 49:01Speaker 4: couple of things I would change here and there, but
- 49:03Speaker 4: you know, I think that that's always going to be
- 49:05Speaker 4: the case. All Right, great week. You guys got good,
- 49:08Speaker 4: good callers today, twelve calls, a lot of picks, a
- 49:12Speaker 4: lot of predictions. We'll see, especially the ones that picked
- 49:15Speaker 4: the Cowboys. Most of y'all did.
- 49:18Speaker 3: Let's hope that you guys are right, because I.
- 49:20Speaker 4: Again, like I said, I don't have that strong feeling
- 49:23Speaker 4: that they're gonna be able to pull this one out.
- 49:24Speaker 4: I just think the matchup, just the injuries are just
- 49:26Speaker 4: too much on defense to go up against this Lion's offense.
- 49:30Speaker 4: But I'd love to be wrong on this one, and
- 49:32Speaker 4: I hope you guys are right. All right, So we'll
- 49:34Speaker 4: be back next week. It'll be a bye week, be
- 49:37Speaker 4: a little different for us, and next week we've got
- 49:39Speaker 4: just three shows. Might do something a little bit different
- 49:42Speaker 4: on Wednesday on the storyline, but we will be back
- 49:46Speaker 4: on Monday to talk about this game. So for Chris Beam,
- 49:48Speaker 4: I'm Nick even. We'll see you Monday on Cowboys Storyline.
- 49:51Speaker 9: See it.
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