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Speaker 2: Here's Nick Eatman.
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Speaker 3: Good morning. Welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette's Wednesday,
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Speaker 3: October 21st. I'm Nick Eatman. Let's talk some Cowboys football.
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Speaker 3: Let's see how they get this thing turned around. That's
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Speaker 3: the biggest thing that they have to do. You can't
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Speaker 3: win four or five in a row if you don't
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Speaker 3: win one. And you don't even have to go on
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Speaker 3: a streak. But you got to start stacking some games
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Speaker 3: together in the right direction. And they've got a two-game
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Speaker 3: losing streak right now. They got to figure out how
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Speaker 3: to turn this one And it starts this week against Philly.
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Speaker 3: They've got their own issues. So it should be an
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Speaker 3: interesting game on Monday night football. All right, 888-855-2297. Chris
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Speaker 3: tells me we've got lines open right now, at least
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Speaker 3: one of them. So if you say, hey, I try
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Speaker 3: a call over and over and over, hey, today might
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Speaker 3: be your chance. All right, let's start it off, though.
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Speaker 3: We do have one to start in Florida. Tom in Florida. Tom,
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Speaker 3: what's up?
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Speaker 4: Nick, how are you doing? Good.
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Speaker 3: How are you?
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Speaker 4: And, Nick, when I say things to complain, please never
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Speaker 4: take things personally. I like you, and I like your show.
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Speaker 4: That's why I listen.
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Speaker 3: Oh, this is going to be a fun call?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 4: You know, when somebody said that, you know, here in town.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 4: I would speak to you with nothing but total respect.
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Speaker 4: Here's my issue. I think it was maybe the second
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Speaker 4: or third game. A gentleman called, and I remember him
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Speaker 4: distinctly because he has the same kind of accent as me.
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Speaker 4: And he asked you the question, what qualified Schottenheimer to
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Speaker 4: be named coach after being in the league for 30
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Speaker 4: years and nobody thought he had it in him? And
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Speaker 4: what was the identity of the team? And you basically
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Speaker 4: just blew him off by saying, you know, how dare you?
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Speaker 4: You can't say that. I definitely didn't say that. Hold on,
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Speaker 4: hold on, hold on. Their own offensive coordinator said that.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I would sure almost fell off my chair.
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Speaker 4: We don't have an identity. Right. I mean, you see
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Speaker 4: the problem and the frustration we have as fans?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I see it. I see the problem and
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Speaker 3: frustration you have as fans, of course. This team hasn't
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Speaker 3: won in a while, and, you know. No, I don't
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Speaker 3: have to answer that. I see it. Yeah, I see it.
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Speaker 4: Right. And here's the thing. I mean.
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Speaker 4: He's just, I mean, even that first game against the Giants,
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Speaker 4: they were not prepared to play. That's coaching. And then
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Speaker 4: you look at, like, back-to-back games where a team just
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Speaker 4: constantly blitzed you. And let's face it, I mean, Dak
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Speaker 4: is at his best. He's been for blitz. And they
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Speaker 4: have no answer. They have no answer. I mean, it's just... And, Mike,
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Speaker 4: you just said it again, so I won't say it,
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Speaker 4: because the last time I talked to you, I was
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Speaker 4: ragging about Jerry, and it wasn't my finest moment.
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Speaker 7: You can say whatever you want.
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Speaker 4: And when I hung up and said, that guy will
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Speaker 4: never call again. Anyway, I do like your show, but
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Speaker 4: this is the thing. And when I hear these people
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Speaker 4: talk about, you know, it's not about this year or
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Speaker 4: last year. It's 30 years of this, man. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Hey, Tom, how long have you been a fan? Listen, buddy,
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Speaker 3: I'm one of those guys.
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Speaker 4: I'm 67 years old.
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Speaker 7: I watched the ice ball, bro. I'm like a little
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Speaker 7: black and white 19-inch screen TV. That's why I used
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Speaker 7: to be proud to be a Cowboy fan.
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Speaker 3: I got it.
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Speaker 4: Now it's almost embarrassing, bro. All right. All right.
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Speaker 3: You don't have to bro me. But the thing, what
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Speaker 3: I was asking is, so you've seen all the good teams.
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Speaker 3: So I think the issue that I have and the
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Speaker 3: offensive coordinator said it like about identity, whatever, what, what
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Speaker 3: do you think like the 93 Cowboys, like what was
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Speaker 3: their identity?
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Speaker 4: I 93, the, the first, the first Superbowl year of
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Speaker 4: the recent Superbowl.
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Speaker 3: Run first or second.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. I, I, I'll tell you one thing, but it was,
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Speaker 7: they were, they were like two and three deep, but
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Speaker 7: number one, their second string team probably could have, Maybe
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Speaker 7: not won the Super Bowl, but made the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: And they were tough. You know what I mean? They
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Speaker 4: were tough. And that's the thing that drives me crazy.
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Speaker 4: I remember one of the first moves Jerry made is
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Speaker 4: that he let Ken Norton go. And at that time,
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Speaker 4: the difference between us and San Francisco, if you go
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Speaker 4: back and look, it was toughness. And that's what they
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Speaker 4: were lacking. So his first move, he lets Courtney or
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Speaker 4: it goes to San Francisco. We should have won four
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Speaker 4: in a row, even with the knucklehead coach that we had,
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Speaker 4: you know, you know, but I mean, again, I, you know,
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Speaker 4: 30 years is 30 years, but yeah, it's just, but
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Speaker 4: their identity was definitely, they were tough. I mean, like
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Speaker 4: you talk to, you have to listen to me, talk to,
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Speaker 4: talk to Nate. Nate, he says it all the time.
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Speaker 4: He says, we used to come out there, look him
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Speaker 4: in the eyes and say, we're running right at you, Bobo.
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Speaker 4: And they would just bury them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You know what I mean? They were, they were, I
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Speaker 4: say that, that 93 to 93 team was, you can
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Speaker 4: never say the greatest, was one of the greatest teams
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Speaker 4: of all time. That was when they had that plan
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Speaker 4: B free agency. And you know what I mean? So
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Speaker 4: you can keep your players together for a couple of years.
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Speaker 4: I'm telling you their second string would have been a
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Speaker 4: playoff team. That's how good they were. Yeah. And, and
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Speaker 4: my sad part, and I make this argument and, I think,
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Speaker 4: you know, you've got a lot of resources in that building,
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Speaker 4: the Nates of the world. Troy comes through, Michael. I'm sorry,
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Speaker 4: but it was Jimmy from the football point of view.
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Speaker 4: It was never Jerry. And that's the thing that just
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Speaker 4: drives me crazy. Yeah, yep. But thanks for taking my call, man.
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Speaker 4: I'm a fan of yours, even though I disagree with
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Speaker 4: you sometimes. But nothing but respect. Nothing but respect.
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Speaker 3: That's okay. I appreciate it. I think, you know, my
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Speaker 3: wife's a fan of me, and she disagrees with me
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Speaker 3: all the time. So, you know, I mean, and I
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Speaker 3: say that because, I mean, if that's the case, I mean,
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Speaker 3: we disagree with everybody at times here and there. And
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Speaker 3: that's what kind of makes sports fun is that we,
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Speaker 3: you know, and some of the things you said, I
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Speaker 3: don't disagree with, so it's not just everything. The reason
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Speaker 3: why I asked you about the 90s Cowboys and all
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Speaker 3: that is just because, you know, that was a great
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Speaker 3: football team. I don't know if I ever love the
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Speaker 3: term identity. You know, what is our identity? What do
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Speaker 3: we do? You know, what can we count on, I guess?
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Speaker 3: And if that's kind of how you define that, you know,
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Speaker 3: I look at it like I don't know if this team–
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Speaker 3: you know, has one right now, because I would think
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Speaker 3: your identity, you know, just like you, just like your name,
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Speaker 3: you know, that's, that's where it comes from. You know,
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Speaker 3: that doesn't change, you know, it's what, it's what I
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Speaker 3: know for sure. And so when it comes to, you know,
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Speaker 3: a football team like this, what, what is your, what
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Speaker 3: is our identity? What, what can we lean on? What
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Speaker 3: can we count on? What can we say, Hey, you know,
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Speaker 3: with anything else, we got this, we're going to go,
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Speaker 3: we're going to run the football. We're going to do
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Speaker 3: these things. And we don't, necessarily see that right now.
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Speaker 3: You definitely don't have anything on defense you can rely on.
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Speaker 3: You just don't. Can you rely on your kicker to
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Speaker 3: go make kicks? Right now, Longland's 50-50. There hasn't been
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Speaker 3: a lot of shorter field goals actually this year. There's
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Speaker 3: just things right now that the reason why this is
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Speaker 3: a 2-4 team and they've got a lot of work,
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Speaker 3: you know, in front of them to do because they just,
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Speaker 3: they aren't doing anything like really well. And that's why
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Speaker 3: I think they have regressed from last year. I think
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Speaker 3: last year's team is better than this year's team for
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Speaker 3: that simple reason. The defense is, was bad last year.
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Speaker 3: It's not very good this year. You know, they, they,
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Speaker 3: they do some things better, but they still give up
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Speaker 3: a lot of points. The difference is, is that they're
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Speaker 3: off the offense right now. It's not, it's not somebody,
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Speaker 3: not an offense you can even lean on. So, That's
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Speaker 3: why I think this is regressed from last year. Can
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Speaker 3: it turn around? Sure, it can, but that's kind of
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Speaker 3: where they are, and it's frustrating because you thought all
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Speaker 3: offseason that it was going to be a lot different,
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Speaker 3: a lot better. It's different. It's just not in the
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Speaker 3: right direction. All right, Irene in Falls Church, Virginia. Irene,
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Speaker 3: what's up?
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Speaker 5: Hey, Irene.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, hey, I'm here. How are we doing?
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Speaker 5: I'm here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 8: Hey, doing well, doing well. All right, so two things.
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Speaker 8: I have a question. I've been seeing it floated around Twitter.
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Speaker 8: Somebody personally asked me about this with Ken Dorsey, our
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Speaker 8: passing game coordinator, right? Asking if he should be doing
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Speaker 8: play cognitive. So for me, I don't see that personally,
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Speaker 8: but I know that that's been going around, so I
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Speaker 8: wanted to see if you had a thought on that.
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Speaker 8: I mean, first of all, he's a passing game coordinator, right?
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Speaker 8: So I don't think that's the thing that needs assistance.
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Speaker 8: I feel like we should... I already said I would
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Speaker 8: like Clayton Adams, because.
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Speaker 4: He's the run guy, to do that.
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Speaker 8: Because we're not really lacking. Although, we don't have creativity
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Speaker 8: in our passes.
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Speaker 9: So maybe that's the thought that goes behind that.
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Speaker 10: But, yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 8: I don't think I would do that. But anyhow, with
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Speaker 8: the Eagles, they're a whole mess right now. I don't
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Speaker 8: see how they can come out with all the injuries
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Speaker 8: they have. and beat us, but I just don't trust
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Speaker 8: this team right now to be able to pull it off.
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Speaker 8: I don't know. What's the biggest... thing we need to
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Speaker 8: work on just to get out of this funk and
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Speaker 8: just get a win and see where the season.
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Speaker 11: Goes from there?
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Speaker 8: Thanks.
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Speaker 3: What's the biggest funk? Wait, Irene, you still there?
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Speaker 7: I'm still here.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm still here.
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Speaker 3: Say that again. What's the what?
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Speaker 8: What's the biggest way... Because I don't think that the
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Speaker 8: Eagles should be able to beat us, okay? Even though
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Speaker 8: they do still have a good defense.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: But they have so many injuries, and now they've got
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Speaker 8: all this drama, and they won't have their starting quarterback.
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Speaker 8: And no matter what we say about how he's not
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Speaker 8: a great quarterback, he does seem to come up in
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Speaker 8: clutch moments a lot of times, right? So that's a
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Speaker 8: huge loss.
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Speaker 4: But.
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Speaker 8: What do we need to do to just step out
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Speaker 8: of our way, like the biggest thing, to step out
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Speaker 8: of our way and see where the season goes from here?
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Speaker 8: At least to get the one win and then.
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Speaker 10: Go from there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think– thanks, Irene. I appreciate the call. I
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Speaker 3: think this team has to figure out a way. And
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Speaker 3: I feel like they tried it last week too with
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Speaker 3: taking the ball to start the game, which, I mean,
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Speaker 3: whether you take the ball or you don't, You have
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Speaker 3: to start out well. I mean, this Cowboy team, especially
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Speaker 3: with the two-game losing streak and also the fact that
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Speaker 3: Philly is, you know, they've lost games now and they've
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Speaker 3: lost their quarterback for the season. So they're definitely, you know,
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Speaker 3: they feel like they're their wounded dog now. And the Cowboys,
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Speaker 3: I haven't even seen, probably favored, but I really haven't
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Speaker 3: seen that. But, you know, whoever strikes first here is
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Speaker 3: going to have, I think, a big advantage. not just
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Speaker 3: a nice advantage. I think this matters because both teams
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Speaker 3: are really struggling, I would think, psyche. So they're going
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Speaker 3: to have to start well, especially the Cowboys' defense. If
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Speaker 3: the Cowboys' defense can start this game in a way
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Speaker 3: where they've got success, where they make another big sack
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Speaker 3: or turnover or anything to kind of show that, hey,
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Speaker 3: We're going to do this a little differently. And the
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Speaker 3: offense can capitalize on that. I think that will really help.
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Speaker 3: I think if the Cowboys get up on the Eagles,
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Speaker 3: then that's how they win this game. And they can
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Speaker 3: kind of keep leaning and leaning and leaning. I think
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Speaker 3: the Cowboys should win this game as I think about it.
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Speaker 3: Because even if the Eagles get up, they're struggling. as
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Speaker 3: with a running game right now. So I wonder who's even,
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Speaker 3: who's even gonna, you know, run the ball. I think
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Speaker 3: it's Damian Pierce maybe, but, um, the Cowboys, you know, they, they,
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Speaker 3: they've got more continuity. They got to kind of just
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Speaker 3: turn this thing around and get it together. Um, it
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Speaker 3: starts now. They got an extra day, just like the
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Speaker 3: Eagles do, but they have extra day this week practice and, and,
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Speaker 3: and really get on the same page. I don't think
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Speaker 3: this is that far away from, from turning around. Um,
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Speaker 3: But it's got to get turned around. But I really
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Speaker 3: just don't think, I think with the players they have here,
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Speaker 3: some of the guys coming back, kind of trying to
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Speaker 3: figure out how this thing works. Offensively, we've seen it,
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Speaker 3: and we've seen it way more in a positive way
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Speaker 3: than we've seen it negatively. So that's why I'm still
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Speaker 3: not ready to just say, let's go Ken Dorsey, call
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Speaker 3: plays or whatever. I mean, tweaks here and there, sure.
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Speaker 3: But if this thing continues to go as a trend,
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Speaker 3: You know, like fix what they're doing to you. You
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Speaker 3: know what I mean? They're blitzing you. Fix that. And
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Speaker 3: if you can't do that, then now it's time to
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Speaker 3: like let's go change things around. But, you know, as
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Speaker 3: an offensive coordinator play caller for Brian Schottenheimer, if you
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Speaker 3: look at last year, which everyone does, everyone likes to
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Speaker 3: look at last year, this year. They definitely do it
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Speaker 3: on defense, you know, on how this defense was bad
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Speaker 3: last year, still bad this year. So if you're going
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Speaker 3: to do that, then you got to call Schottenheimer as
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Speaker 3: an offensive coordinator from last year to this year. And
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Speaker 3: I don't think after two games that you're saying, let's
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Speaker 3: go and scrap this. But you better start making some
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Speaker 3: tweaks because that's what these teams are going off of.
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Speaker 3: They're like, all right, well, the Cowboys can't handle the blitz,
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Speaker 3: so let's keep blitzing them. I think that's working for
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Speaker 3: teams right now. Because not everybody blitzes well. The Cowboys
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Speaker 3: don't blitz well. Some teams don't blitz well. But if
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Speaker 3: that's the recipe, every team's going to do it. It's
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Speaker 3: copycat league and all that stuff. There's going to be
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Speaker 3: some big days. I mean, seriously, that's just the way
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Speaker 3: that it goes. I mean, if you gambled all the
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Speaker 3: time and you were winning, you're going to lose some,
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Speaker 3: and you're going to lose big. And so I really
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Speaker 3: feel that way. So if the strategy is to go
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Speaker 3: out and just blitz the heck out of the Cowboys
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Speaker 3: all the time, they'll get this figured out. They'll get
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Speaker 3: this figured out because they got the receivers there. They
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Speaker 3: got the quarterback to do it. The offensive line will–
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Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like they can start holding up. So–
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Speaker 3: I'm not saying that, oh, they're fine. This team's not
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Speaker 3: fine at all. But it's an up-and-down league. It's the
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Speaker 3: way it is. It's an elevator league. It goes up,
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Speaker 3: goes down. Right now the Cowboys are down. Do I
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Speaker 3: think that they'll turn it around?
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Speaker 5: I do.
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Speaker 3: I do. I mean, to the point of making the playoffs,
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure about that. But I do think that
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Speaker 3: they're going to have some moments in this season where
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Speaker 3: they're going to start stringing some wins together, which is
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Speaker 3: kind of the nature of the league. It's not really
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Speaker 3: being optimism. It's just more like that's just how this
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Speaker 3: league works. All right, Chris in Saratoga Springs.
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Speaker 5: Chris. How you doing, my man?
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Speaker 4: I'm good.
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Speaker 5: What's up?
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Speaker 4: Not too much.
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Speaker 10: I just want to give you my score prediction. I
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Speaker 10: do think Dallas goes into Philly and we get a win.
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Speaker 10: We're going to get back to that 30-point mark, so
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Speaker 10: we're going to be 30 to 20 Cowboys. I guess
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Speaker 10: my only thing to you today is... Chris Beam in
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Speaker 10: the back played a good song yesterday on one of
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Speaker 10: the shows, and I want you to put that in
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Speaker 10: Prescott and Shadi's playlist so we can get this running
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Speaker 10: game going because that got me going, that song.
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Speaker 4: It was fire.
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Speaker 10: It was a great song, and it was about Javante
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Speaker 10: Williams running the ball. He might play it for you
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Speaker 10: at some point, but I want that in the playlist
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Speaker 10: somewhere so the Cowboys will get back to running the
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Speaker 10: ball and being more balanced on the offensive side of
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Speaker 10: the ball.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's without a doubt, that's what it has to be.
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Speaker 3: They've got to be more balanced. They've got to, and
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Speaker 3: I think by doing that, and I said this at
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Speaker 3: the end of the show yesterday, I said they've got
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Speaker 3: to be more balanced, not just within their offense, but
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Speaker 3: it creates more balance with their defense. And I think
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Speaker 3: we've got to stop trying to be this offense that
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Speaker 3: goes and scores 30 points, 35 points a game, because
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Speaker 3: your defense can't handle it. Your defense can't handle when
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Speaker 3: you go and do those kind of things. I don't
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Speaker 3: think that's the way this game should be played for
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Speaker 3: the Cowboys. They need to play it in a way
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Speaker 3: where it's got to be slowed down. And if that
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Speaker 3: goes against what the offensive coordinator slash head coach slash
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Speaker 3: play caller, if that's what he believes, because he said,
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Speaker 3: I'm never going to change. I'm not going to change.
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Speaker 3: And he said that in the press conference the other day.
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Speaker 3: And I think he was talking about just the way
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Speaker 3: he approaches things, approaches life. But you better be changing
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Speaker 3: some tweaking on how you play. And this team needs
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Speaker 3: to play it in a different way. They need to
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Speaker 3: slow down the game. Their defense is not good enough
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Speaker 3: to get back on the field all the time and
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Speaker 3: keep doing this back and forth. And I don't know
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Speaker 3: if the offense is good enough right now to play
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Speaker 3: that way. But Javante Williams... is a bad dude. He
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Speaker 3: can run over some people. Get him kind of in
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Speaker 3: rhythm a little bit. He's that type of back, and
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Speaker 3: I think that they need to play that type of game.
17:34
Speaker 3: I really believe that. All right, let's go to Robbie
17:38
Speaker 3: in Cocoa Beach.
17:39
Speaker 12: Robbie.
17:40
Speaker 4: What's up, Nick?
17:40
Speaker 12: I'm in a better mood today.
17:42
Speaker 4: Okay.
17:43
Speaker 12: I'm back on the positivity train.
17:45
Speaker 3: All right.
17:46
Speaker 12: So my thought is, if we whoop the Eagles' ass,
17:50
Speaker 12: is it a get-right game? Does that fix our ails?
17:53
Speaker 12: Do we start playing better? Can one game make that
17:56
Speaker 12: much of a difference?
17:57
Speaker 4: I'm asking.
17:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely will. Let me ask you this. Does
18:02
Speaker 3: one loss make a difference? I mean, seriously, you just
18:05
Speaker 3: beat Houston. and you're feeling pretty good about some things
18:09
Speaker 3: now maybe, and then you go and you lost one
18:12
Speaker 3: game to Tampa. Did that change? Did one loss change?
18:15
Speaker 3: I think it did. So do I think one win
18:19
Speaker 3: in the division? I think if you win this game
18:22
Speaker 3: against Philly, I don't know what the Giants and Washington have, but,
18:29
Speaker 3: you know, I mean– If they can win this game,
18:34
Speaker 3: they'll be right there kind of in the mix with
18:36
Speaker 3: everybody else. I mean, that tie that Washington and the
18:39
Speaker 3: Giants had kind of messes things up, but it's part
18:43
Speaker 3: of it. Hopefully it helps us again, though, right?
18:46
Speaker 5: Yeah.
18:47
Speaker 12: I mean, it did a couple years ago, and we
18:49
Speaker 12: had that tie last year, right?
18:50
Speaker 4: Right.
18:50
Speaker 12: With Green Bay, yeah.
18:54
Speaker 3: So, you know, it's big. I mean, you've got to
18:57
Speaker 3: get the winner of this game is going to be
19:00
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're going to be in good shape,
19:02
Speaker 3: but they're obviously going to be in better shape just
19:05
Speaker 3: because you defeated another division team. The Giants are 3-1-1.
19:09
Speaker 3: They've got Houston on the road. They've got a bye week.
19:12
Speaker 3: Our division has sucked in such turmoil, hasn't it?
19:18
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
19:18
Speaker 12: The Eagles, God bless them. Let's hope the best for them.
19:21
Speaker 12: for Hurts, but man, I mean, their whole team is
19:24
Speaker 12: just a dumpster fire.
19:26
Speaker 4: Yeah. Even before that.
19:27
Speaker 3: Definitely.
19:28
Speaker 12: The Giants lost their starting quarterback. We don't know how
19:31
Speaker 12: long Cam Scadabous is going to be before he gets
19:33
Speaker 12: hurt again because of the way he plays.
19:36
Speaker 4: Yeah.
19:37
Speaker 12: And the Giants, excuse me, the Commanders are just, you.
19:41
Speaker 10: Never know what you're going to get with them.
19:42
Speaker 12: They're like we were a couple years ago. Sometimes they
19:44
Speaker 12: play good, sometimes they play bad. So, yeah, it's anybody's division, right?
19:50
Speaker 12: So it could still be ours, and we could make
19:53
Speaker 12: the playoffs and win the Super Bowl.
19:56
Speaker 4: Right. Wow.
19:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.
20:00
Speaker 12: But I'm still going to enjoy this season because I
20:02
Speaker 12: do love the roller coaster, even when it doesn't.
20:05
Speaker 13: Go our way all the way.
20:05
Speaker 3: All right.
20:07
Speaker 6: All right.
20:07
Speaker 3: Sounds good, Robbie. I appreciate it. Thanks for the call.
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21:55
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21:57
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22:01
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22:07
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22:11
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22:13
Speaker 3: pit crew i mean he could work nascar in the
22:15
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Speaker 6: Up hey mr nick how you doing bud.
22:32
Speaker 3: I'm good what's up with you.
22:33
Speaker 6: Good hey not much man i'm glad i got that
22:36
Speaker 6: one line Somehow.
22:38
Speaker 3: So, that being said, though, Chris, I'm going to have
22:40
Speaker 3: you just kind of get your points in and out,
22:42
Speaker 3: and then I'll answer it off the air, okay?
22:45
Speaker 4: Will do. Will do.
22:46
Speaker 6: Okay. The first gentleman that called was talking about the
22:52
Speaker 6: team's identity, and I kind of agree with you with
22:57
Speaker 6: I'm not sure what identity really means because I think
23:01
Speaker 6: a good team's identity is winning games.
23:05
Speaker 4: Yeah. And then.
23:07
Speaker 6: The 90s teams, they seemed to lean on Emmitt and
23:11
Speaker 6: the O-line when they were in crisis mode. But Irvin
23:15
Speaker 6: was involved. Novacek was involved. And, you know, the defense
23:21
Speaker 6: was always ranked high. So you ask what was their identity,
23:27
Speaker 6: and then I just say, well, they knew they were
23:29
Speaker 6: better than you, I guess.
23:30
Speaker 4: Right.
23:31
Speaker 6: But that's not pointing at one thing.
23:33
Speaker 3: No.
23:34
Speaker 6: So I guess I would say do you think– this
23:37
Speaker 6: Cowboys team just lacks confidence because maybe that's what it
23:43
Speaker 6: is and whose fault would that be? So, I mean,
23:47
Speaker 6: I don't know. That's kind of rhetorical. But so, you know,
23:50
Speaker 6: win a few games, I think the confidence will, you know,
23:55
Speaker 6: start to sink in. They just got to start making plays.
23:59
Speaker 6: And I say they do. I say they go to
24:01
Speaker 6: Philadelphia and win 27 to 21.
24:03
Speaker 4: All right.
24:06
Speaker 3: Sounds good.
24:06
Speaker 7: All right.
24:06
Speaker 4: Thanks, Chris.
24:07
Speaker 3: Appreciate the call. You know, like the reason why I
24:11
Speaker 3: think I think the reason why I have a problem
24:13
Speaker 3: with the term, what's your identity? It's and it's really
24:18
Speaker 3: kind of more like, you know, what's the best thing
24:20
Speaker 3: that you do? Which I said that earlier. But like,
24:23
Speaker 3: you know, you look at like when's the last like
24:25
Speaker 3: really good team? I mean, like if you're going to
24:27
Speaker 3: go back to the 90s, that's fine. But but, you know,
24:29
Speaker 3: Cowboys have had good teams, like some really good teams
24:32
Speaker 3: that they didn't. go far in the playoffs. The 07
24:35
Speaker 3: team is probably the best team I've ever covered since
24:38
Speaker 3: I've been here. And, you know, they were in the
24:41
Speaker 3: divisional round and a couple of weird plays and, you know,
24:46
Speaker 3: uncharacteristic plays, really, from losing that game. Patrick Creighton probably
24:52
Speaker 3: has the best hands of any receiver that's been here.
24:55
Speaker 3: You know, he drops a pass. Now, I don't believe
24:57
Speaker 3: he scores. Everyone says, oh, he's going to score. No,
24:59
Speaker 3: but it's going to be about 40 yards, 50 yards
25:01
Speaker 3: and changes some that game. And, and, you know, and
25:04
Speaker 3: then also he, he had a chance to make a
25:07
Speaker 3: play that they, at the end of that game too. But,
25:09
Speaker 3: but I'd look at that team and I look at,
25:12
Speaker 3: you know, a team that, that scored a lot of points,
25:14
Speaker 3: you know, they, they did, but they, you know, they
25:17
Speaker 3: had the, you know, grinded out games. They could do that.
25:20
Speaker 3: They could win some games in different ways. You know,
25:22
Speaker 3: sometimes you lean on your defense. Sometimes you lean on
25:24
Speaker 3: your offense. Sometimes you run the ball, you know, well,
25:27
Speaker 3: so it, to me, I look at a team that
25:31
Speaker 3: is like, Your identity is the fact that you can
25:35
Speaker 3: do multiple things and you can win multiple ways. We're
25:38
Speaker 3: going to have to win with defense today. Today, it
25:42
Speaker 3: just wasn't working on defense, but we ended up scoring
25:44
Speaker 3: 37 points. We won 37-33. Sometimes it's not really working,
25:48
Speaker 3: but our special teams blocked a punt or kicked a
25:50
Speaker 3: couple field goals. So we figured it out. We figured
25:54
Speaker 3: it out. And that's kind of the way I look
25:56
Speaker 3: at a really good team. And that's why this team,
25:58
Speaker 3: if you want to talk about it right now, they
26:00
Speaker 3: don't have that. They don't have that because they don't
26:01
Speaker 3: do anything well. You don't lean on this. Got to
26:04
Speaker 3: lean on this. They don't. That's the problem. You can't
26:07
Speaker 3: lean anywhere because you're going to fall. All right, Lester
26:10
Speaker 3: in Minnesota.
26:12
Speaker 9: Good morning, Nick.
26:13
Speaker 3: How are you doing?
26:15
Speaker 4: All right.
26:15
Speaker 9: How are you doing?
26:16
Speaker 4: Good.
26:16
Speaker 7: What's up?
26:18
Speaker 9: I want to just tell you a funny but true story. Now,
26:22
Speaker 9: I want to take you back to the 90s since
26:23
Speaker 9: we're kind of talking about the 90s a little bit.
26:27
Speaker 9: I'm here in Minnesota with my boys. We're looking at
26:30
Speaker 9: the Vikings game first, and then the next game is
26:32
Speaker 9: the Cowboy game.
26:34
Speaker 4: Okay.
26:36
Speaker 9: I'm sitting there. Now, this is the 90s. There's no
26:38
Speaker 9: access to YouTube or Internet, where Internet was new, and
26:42
Speaker 9: no me as a fan getting any film or whatever, 21.
26:46
Speaker 4: Whatever, 22 or whatever it's called.
26:51
Speaker 9: I told them I can call all the plays. For
26:56
Speaker 9: the next 12 out of 13 plays, I called on
27:00
Speaker 9: the Cowboys offense, and I was dead on right. I
27:04
Speaker 9: say that to say this. If I'm a regular fan,
27:07
Speaker 9: knowing that, without all the access to stuff, and I
27:12
Speaker 9: can do that. I know the coaches on the other
27:14
Speaker 9: side have more film, but like Nate said, we lined up.
27:21
Speaker 4: We told you.
27:21
Speaker 9: What we were going to do.
27:22
Speaker 4: That's what he said.
27:23
Speaker 9: I don't know. But I knew what they were going
27:25
Speaker 9: to do, and.
27:26
Speaker 4: People really couldn't stop it.
27:29
Speaker 9: So the identity of that team to me was, like
27:34
Speaker 9: I said, they controlled the ball. They controlled the clock.
27:38
Speaker 9: The defense wasn't on the field very long. I mean,
27:41
Speaker 9: not as long as the offense, I'll put it like that,
27:43
Speaker 9: on an average. I mean, some games were different than others,
27:46
Speaker 9: but for the most part, They controlled the offense. They
27:49
Speaker 9: controlled it by running the ball, passing the.
27:51
Speaker 4: Ball, whatever they did.
27:52
Speaker 9: Because I could call the plays. And my friends got
27:55
Speaker 9: so mad, they were like, shut up. We don't want
27:59
Speaker 9: to hear no more. But that's all I got, man.
28:02
Speaker 9: Go Cowboys.
28:03
Speaker 5: Let's go.
28:03
Speaker 9: Let's go Cowboys.
28:05
Speaker 3: All right.
28:05
Speaker 4: All right.
28:06
Speaker 3: Lester, appreciate it. Yeah. You know, we do lean back
28:11
Speaker 3: to the 90s because it's fun because that's when they
28:13
Speaker 3: were winning the most and all that. But You know,
28:19
Speaker 3: you're right. I mean, Nate was calling plays and telling
28:22
Speaker 3: them what was going to happen, and you just couldn't
28:24
Speaker 3: stop it. That's more identity. More than that is more
28:28
Speaker 3: just dominance of just like, you know, I mean, I'm
28:32
Speaker 3: sure in the NBA there was times where you're like,
28:34
Speaker 3: all right, you know we're going to feed Shaq here.
28:37
Speaker 3: We're about to throw it down to Shaq, and you
28:40
Speaker 3: got your guy down here, you know, trying to hold
28:43
Speaker 3: his ground, but Shaq's going to get the ball, and
28:45
Speaker 3: he's going to take one drop step, and he's probably.
28:48
Speaker 13: Going to dunk it.
28:49
Speaker 3: So I don't know if you can do anything about it.
28:52
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? That's just kind of the
28:53
Speaker 3: way that it is. I'm sure there's some pitchers that
28:56
Speaker 3: are like, here comes fastball. Like, okay, fastball's coming, but
29:00
Speaker 3: can you catch up to it? So they don't have that.
29:04
Speaker 3: They don't have the dominance. But there's not many teams
29:09
Speaker 3: that kind of do that now. It's– To me, the
29:14
Speaker 3: fine line here, and it's always this way with coaching.
29:18
Speaker 3: We kind of said it a little bit yesterday, but
29:20
Speaker 3: just figuring out how to, when you're calling plays, you're like,
29:25
Speaker 3: all right, because you say it all the time. If
29:27
Speaker 3: you run, if you run, run, run, run, run, run,
29:29
Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, was it the Baltimore game?
29:31
Speaker 3: They ran, ran, ran, ran, and got down there, and
29:33
Speaker 3: then they passed three times in a row, and you're like,
29:35
Speaker 3: what is going on? At least, I mean, they couldn't
29:37
Speaker 3: stop the run. Why don't you see before you do?
29:40
Speaker 3: that and quit out thinking yourself? But then on the
29:44
Speaker 3: flip side, when you pass, pass, pass, pass, pass like
29:48
Speaker 3: 32 times in a row, we're like, why didn't you run?
29:51
Speaker 3: So why didn't you balance? So that's always the big
29:54
Speaker 3: thing to me is like, as a coordinator, is like,
29:57
Speaker 3: when do you say, hey, If it ain't broke, don't
30:00
Speaker 3: fix it. And then let's don't get too ahead of
30:03
Speaker 3: ourselves and then just be one-dimensional all the way. And
30:06
Speaker 3: you got to mix it up. That's like the biggest change,
30:08
Speaker 3: I think, for coaches is like, how do you find
30:12
Speaker 3: that balance of doing with what works without getting too
30:16
Speaker 3: greedy at the same time? It's tough. I mean, that's
30:19
Speaker 3: what all coaches have to go through because there's people
30:22
Speaker 3: like us and fans and media and all that stuff
30:24
Speaker 3: that are going to be waiting for you with an
30:26
Speaker 3: answer either way. If it doesn't work out, it's because
30:29
Speaker 3: you did the same play 22 times, 32 times in
30:31
Speaker 3: a row, or you know what? Why'd you go away
30:34
Speaker 3: from it? It was working. Anyways, Dylan, North Port, Florida.
30:38
Speaker 11: Hey, yeah, I think the identity stuff is, I think
30:40
Speaker 11: you need to be amiable a little bit. Like the Eagles,
30:44
Speaker 11: I'm looking at them, their defense, their 25th in blitz percentage,
30:47
Speaker 11: but I think after seeing the last two weeks, like
30:49
Speaker 11: they should probably change that.
30:51
Speaker 4: You're right. You're right. Yeah.
30:53
Speaker 11: So, you know, you can have like your top tough team,
30:56
Speaker 11: like whatever, but I think you've got to be able
30:57
Speaker 11: to adapt and change depending on the opponent. And that's
31:00
Speaker 11: just kind of the way the league is structured. Um,
31:02
Speaker 11: I did have a question for you though. I know
31:03
Speaker 11: I gotta be quick. Um, this is kind of a
31:07
Speaker 11: philosophical question with where the Cowboys are at right now,
31:10
Speaker 11: two and four. And in this scenario, they have to
31:12
Speaker 11: be two and four. They can't, you can't just say,
31:14
Speaker 11: I'd rather win games, but, Do you think it bodes
31:16
Speaker 11: better for the team that the offense is the reason
31:20
Speaker 11: they've lost the last two weeks and the defense has
31:22
Speaker 11: played okay enough to, like, give you a chance and
31:25
Speaker 11: keep you in the game and they're showing some potential?
31:27
Speaker 11: And they're not perfect, but, like, 23 points, 24 points
31:30
Speaker 11: is good enough.
31:32
Speaker 12: Or would you– is it better if it was.
31:34
Speaker 11: Kind of like last year where it's like, okay, well,
31:35
Speaker 11: the offense is dominating, scoring 30 points a game, but,
31:38
Speaker 11: you know, defense has gone up 35. So what do
31:41
Speaker 11: you think bodes better, I guess, is a struggling defense
31:43
Speaker 11: that we kind of expected– Or is it better that
31:46
Speaker 11: right now the offense is struggling and you expect the
31:48
Speaker 11: offense to kind of flip it around and get better
31:50
Speaker 11: and hopefully the defense can continue to grow?
31:52
Speaker 4: Yeah.
31:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dylan, thanks. Thanks for the call. And I have
31:57
Speaker 3: a feeling that you agree with that last part, and
32:00
Speaker 3: that's what I agree with because it's like if I
32:04
Speaker 3: just told you right now, just say, all right, what
32:07
Speaker 3: do you think is more probable when going up to
32:10
Speaker 3: Philly this weekend that Philly scores– Seven points total. They
32:16
Speaker 3: only score seven. Or the Cowboys score 34. One of
32:22
Speaker 3: these is true. Which one? The Cowboys scored 34 in Philly,
32:25
Speaker 3: or the defense held Philly to seven. That's based off
32:29
Speaker 3: all their injuries and all that. I would take 34.
32:33
Speaker 3: I would say probably seven points. We haven't seen that.
32:38
Speaker 3: I'm going to say 34 with Dallas. And so I
32:41
Speaker 3: say that to say, and that's based off of what
32:43
Speaker 3: we've seen here lately. So I answer that question by
32:46
Speaker 3: saying what I think is more probable. And I would
32:49
Speaker 3: rather see the defense kind of start doing some things.
32:52
Speaker 3: It's not perfect, guys. They couldn't get off the field
32:54
Speaker 3: and throw down. I'm not saying, I'm not trying to say, oh,
32:57
Speaker 3: you know, let's grade on the curve here. I'm just
32:58
Speaker 3: saying you're seeing a little bit more than what we've
33:02
Speaker 3: seen before. You know, they knock the ball out. They
33:05
Speaker 3: get their hands on the ball. They can make some
33:06
Speaker 3: tackles for loss. You know, like if you're not a
33:10
Speaker 3: really good running team, then, you know, you're not really
33:13
Speaker 3: running it. Houston is not a good running team. Green
33:15
Speaker 3: Bay is not. But then, you know, do you have
33:17
Speaker 3: to because of the way they throw it? My point is,
33:20
Speaker 3: is what do I think can actually turn around quicker?
33:23
Speaker 3: I think it would be the offense. I mean, I
33:25
Speaker 3: think the offense is closer to getting right back going
33:28
Speaker 3: to what we've seen before. They've got to change a
33:30
Speaker 3: few things here. And the defense just kind of keep
33:32
Speaker 3: doing what you're doing. You know, make– make some changes,
33:35
Speaker 3: make some adjustments, but I think it's, it's, you know,
33:39
Speaker 3: you can be all right there, but what, where do
33:40
Speaker 3: I think the bigger jumps going to be is the
33:43
Speaker 3: offense getting back. And I believe that could still be
33:46
Speaker 3: the case.
33:46
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33:46
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Speaker 3: on Yeti.com. All right, let's go back to the phone
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Speaker 3: lines here. Josh in Chicago is next. Josh, what's up?
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Speaker 5: Hey, man.
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Speaker 13: So I was listening earlier, and the stuff about identity
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Speaker 13: and culture, I think, are kind of buzzwords in our
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Speaker 13: sports lexicon these days.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: But one thing that I kind of look at in
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Speaker 13: teams is, are they playing with trust and confidence? And
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Speaker 13: right now, when I look at the Cowboys, I don't
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Speaker 13: see a lot of confidence in what they're doing throughout everything, right?
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Speaker 13: The players, the coaches, and I think it's reflective on
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Speaker 13: the field. And I was born in the 90s, so
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Speaker 13: I kind of remember the championship years.
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Speaker 4: But I always think.
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Speaker 13: Back to the D3 Mighty Ducks coach, Orion's quote, which
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Speaker 13: I love the quote. It's easy to be confident when
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Speaker 13: you have control of the, he says puck, but when
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Speaker 13: you have control of the ball. It's very, very difficult
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Speaker 13: to keep that confidence when you've got to take whatever
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Speaker 13: strange bounces life throws your way. And listening to Shadi's
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Speaker 13: speech the other day, when he's talking about, like, we
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Speaker 13: didn't expect that to be, or, like, we're playing behind
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Speaker 13: and that's not what we expect. You've got to have
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Speaker 13: the confidence, and there's a difference between confidence and arrogance.
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Speaker 13: And right now I think passing the ball a bunch
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Speaker 13: in a row is arrogance. You have to have the
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Speaker 13: confidence in your players and your line and everybody else
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Speaker 13: to be able to run the ball to do what
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Speaker 13: you want to do to impose your will. And that's where,
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Speaker 13: you know, when you start playing with some confidence and
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Speaker 13: trust in each other, you start seeing teams do, you know,
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Speaker 13: the greatest things imaginable and win championships.
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Speaker 4: So that's me.
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Speaker 13: I don't care so much about identity and culture. I
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Speaker 13: care about trust and confidence, man. I'll get the line open.
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Speaker 4: Talk to you soon. All right.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Trust and confidence. I like that. you know, those,
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Speaker 3: those little cheesy sports movies, which, which I love all
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Speaker 3: of them. You know what I mean? Like that's, that's
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Speaker 3: kind of what, that's what I, I am. I like
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Speaker 3: all those, those movies, those movies that you can probably also,
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Speaker 3: you know, you think they're good sports movies, but you
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Speaker 3: can also get them like on, you know, Disney plus like, yeah, I'm, I'm,
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Speaker 3: I'm a sucker for all those. Um, every now and again,
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Speaker 3: you know, you, you get some, a good line like that.
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Speaker 3: And which is, which is true. I mean, like, like that's,
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Speaker 3: that's kind of the way it is. I mean, um,
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Speaker 3: It reminds me of the line that Bill Parcells had
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Speaker 3: said all the time and had a sign in the
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Speaker 3: locker room. I'm pointing to the locker room like it
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Speaker 3: was this locker room. It wasn't. It was at Valley Ranch,
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Speaker 3: which is no longer a thing. But he, outside the
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Speaker 3: locker room, you know, trust, you know, basically talking about knowledge.
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Speaker 3: Knowledge is confidence. Knowledge is confidence, and then confidence lets
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Speaker 3: you play fast. And that's, you know, when I think
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Speaker 3: of a linebacker, I think of safety, I think of
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Speaker 3: what If you know what you're supposed to do and
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Speaker 3: you know where you're supposed to go and you have
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Speaker 3: the knowledge of what they're doing and all that, then
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Speaker 3: that allows you to play fast. It's the great... They
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Speaker 3: used to say that about Dick Butkus. It would take
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Speaker 3: three days to run the 40. He wasn't the guy
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Speaker 3: that would just run 40. But if he's the linebacker
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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden the ball's from here to there,
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Speaker 3: nobody's faster. That, to me, is knowledge and confidence and
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Speaker 3: awareness and all those kind of things. And you're right, buzzwords,
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Speaker 3: we say them all, all the time. They don't have
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Speaker 3: any chemistry. They don't have any leadership. They don't have this.
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Speaker 3: They don't have identity. They're just not playing well. They're
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Speaker 3: just not playing well, and they're not being prepared. I'm
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Speaker 3: not putting it on the players solely. I'm not putting
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Speaker 3: it on the coaches solely. But they all get some
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Speaker 3: of this, all of it. They are not as prepared.
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Speaker 3: How in the hell do you have that game against Tampa?
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Speaker 3: at home and play that game and then have 10
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Speaker 3: days to come back and go play Green Bay and
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Speaker 3: look worse.
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Speaker 7: Worse.
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Speaker 3: I mean, with the world watching, you go out there
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Speaker 3: and do that. That is on the coaches. I'm sorry.
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Speaker 3: It just is. And I like those guys, the guys
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Speaker 3: that I know. I mean, I like Shottie. And it's
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Speaker 3: not about that. It's not about liking these people and
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Speaker 3: all that. It's not about personal. Just like the caller today.
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Speaker 3: He said, hey, I like the show. I like you,
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Speaker 3: which I appreciate. But I disagree with you. Totally fine.
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Speaker 3: Totally fine. And and same with the coaches shoddy I
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Speaker 3: said it yesterday this isn't the offense that you want
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Speaker 3: to have the gaudy offense that no one stopped first
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Speaker 3: of all that's not true it's not it's not the
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Speaker 3: way it is second of all it's hurting your defense
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Speaker 3: so change adapt run the ball run the ball again
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Speaker 3: and then run the ball again I mean, I'm not
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Speaker 3: saying you've got to sit there and just be a
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Speaker 3: running team, but you certainly have to be more balanced
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Speaker 3: because when you're not balanced there, then this whole thing
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Speaker 3: is off balance.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 3: Ronnie in Jersey.
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Speaker 5: Oh, my God, Nick. It's like, are you like everything
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Speaker 5: you were saying?
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Speaker 3: Did I take the words out?
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Speaker 5: You took every single word out of my mouth.
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Speaker 3: But you know what, though? But you know what? You
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Speaker 3: seem like a cool dude, and you're going to say
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Speaker 3: it in the same way you're going to say it
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Speaker 3: even cooler. So try. Go for it.
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Speaker 5: No, no. That's my frustration. Like, everything you said about
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Speaker 5: the Tampa Bay game, 10 days.
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Speaker 3: 10 days.
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Speaker 5: And that was the plan you came up with as
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Speaker 5: a coach and the team. the way they're playing, it
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Speaker 5: just makes no sense. It's like you get more times
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Speaker 5: off and you play worse. That's frustrating. But I was watching, Nick,
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Speaker 5: I don't know if you, you know, study the film
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Speaker 5: every once in a while, but I was watching Brian
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Speaker 5: Broaddus and Bosh.
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Speaker 4: On their show.
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Speaker 5: And you know how they do their little film breakdown.
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Speaker 5: Why are you passing the ball so much? If you
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Speaker 5: see the concept of the routes, It's basically.
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Speaker 4: If we're in the.
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Speaker 5: Backyard and I say, hey, Nick, go along and I'm
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Speaker 5: just going to throw you the ball. But it's like
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Speaker 5: five guys around you. I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Figure it out.
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Speaker 5: Get open.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Throughout that game, that's what was happening. And I'm like,
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Speaker 5: so the run game was working at the beginning of
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Speaker 5: the game throughout the game. You ran the ball once
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Speaker 5: in the second half and then told everybody, all the receivers, hey,
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Speaker 5: go deep. And I don't know, if that throws you
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Speaker 5: the ball, if that gets a chance to throw you
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Speaker 5: the ball, if you get open, you know, that's coaching.
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Speaker 5: That's coaching. You're the one that's calling those plays. You're
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Speaker 5: the one that's not calling the run game. You're not
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Speaker 5: helping your defense. You're not running the ball. That's coaching.
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Speaker 5: And I like Shottie for what he was doing last year.
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Speaker 5: But this year to last year, I wouldn't put Kent
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Speaker 5: Dorsey as my offensive coordinator. If he's the guy that
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Speaker 5: controls what the routes are being run as for the
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Speaker 5: wide receivers... and he's a passing game coordinator, then I'm sorry,
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Speaker 5: but it'll be worse with him. So, yeah, like, I'm just,
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Speaker 5: you know, frustrated. Everything you said was on point, Nick,
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Speaker 5: so I'm just glad you said it before I did,
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Speaker 5: because I was so upset. But, yeah, thanks for taking
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Speaker 5: my call, Nick. I'll continue listening to you offline.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
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Speaker 4: Thanks, Ronnie.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the Though calling a game, though, is
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Speaker 3: a is a feel type thing. It's just like what
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Speaker 3: I was just saying. You know, you're like running, running, running.
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Speaker 3: They're not stopping it. You know, and then all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden, like, let's you know, let's play action from that. Or,
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Speaker 3: you know, when do you kind of. Decide to change.
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Speaker 3: When do you say enough is enough? I mean, that's
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Speaker 3: just a feel thing, and you've got to do it.
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Speaker 3: And Shadi's done it for a long time, and I'm
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Speaker 3: not saying he's not good at it. But the thing
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Speaker 3: about it is when Ken Dorsey, whoever it is, maybe
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Speaker 3: Clayton Adams, whoever, if you did switch to that, if
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Speaker 3: you were thinking... how you want to call the plays,
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Speaker 3: you're probably not worried about who's playing at corner. And
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Speaker 3: Jim Maurer's not coming over to you and saying, so-and-so
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Speaker 3: has an ankle injury. He's in the tent. We'll see. Like,
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Speaker 3: you're just calling the game. And so as an offense,
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Speaker 3: as the head coach who's also calling the game and
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Speaker 3: also trying to figure all that kind of stuff out,
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Speaker 3: you know, I don't know if you need, like, Would
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Speaker 3: you need another guy like they have to say, all right,
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Speaker 3: I'm the game management guy? Which I think is kind
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Speaker 3: of silly anyways because to me, if you're going to
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Speaker 3: have a game management guy, it's got to be somebody
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Speaker 3: that's managed the game before, played the game before. And
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Speaker 3: so that's another issue all in itself. But I just so–
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Speaker 3: I don't think you can say, well, if this is
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Speaker 3: the guy that's structuring the offense, I don't want him
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Speaker 3: calling the plays. Calling the plays is kind of a
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Speaker 3: different thing. It's like a pitcher, you know, like it's like.
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Speaker 3: You can keep throwing the fastball because they're not hitting it,
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Speaker 3: but when do you change it up, literally? When do
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Speaker 3: you throw the slider? When do you do this? I
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Speaker 3: act like I've pitched. I haven't, but I'm just saying
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Speaker 3: it's all a guessing game. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: It's just a guessing game because the guy's just sitting
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Speaker 3: on fastball, and all of a sudden, you throw 87 miles,
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Speaker 3: and he's whiffing on that. You know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: If he was sitting on that, then the ball's out
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Speaker 3: of the park. So it's just like they think this,
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Speaker 3: I think this, and... And, you know, you've got to
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Speaker 3: have some experience doing it. So if that's where they
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Speaker 3: go to change it up, I'm fine. But you can't
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Speaker 3: have that much time off like they had and just
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Speaker 3: come out and play as poorly as that. So I'm
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Speaker 3: putting a lot of this on the coaches. But, you know,
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Speaker 3: fourth and two. Fourth and two, they rolled Dak left.
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Speaker 3: That means the whole field goes shorter. cd runs a
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Speaker 3: route that's not going to be in the route hall
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Speaker 3: of fame i can promise you that it's just kind
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Speaker 3: of a curly route and next thing you know the
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Speaker 3: ball's got to get dropped over the the defender but
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Speaker 3: not too far don't throw it out of bounds like
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Speaker 3: it's rio up there you gotta drop it in drop
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Speaker 3: it over and you only have just a little bit
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Speaker 3: you you made everybody you know taller now because you
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Speaker 3: went short like that and the guy knocks it away
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Speaker 3: and then that's fourth down so You know, I thought
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Speaker 3: that was one of those. You've got all these other weapons.
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Speaker 3: You should utilize that and let them play off of
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Speaker 3: each other. But, I mean, Flannoy could have been open.
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Speaker 3: Pickens could have been open. But when you start rolling
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Speaker 3: one way and just start looking at CD, that's it.
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Speaker 3: That's the whole play. That's it. It's not even 50-50
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Speaker 3: at that point, and it wasn't. Little things like that
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Speaker 3: I think that they can do better. All right, guys.
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Speaker 3: Good show. Sorry for the– we had some phone line issues.
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Speaker 3: We still got nine calls out of it. So credit
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Speaker 3: to you guys for calling, kind of going in and out.
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Speaker 3: Hopefully we'll get that thing fixed tomorrow so we can
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Speaker 3: have a little bit more people calling in. But I
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Speaker 3: do appreciate the calls that we did get.
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Speaker 7: All right.
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Speaker 3: We'll do it again tomorrow. For Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman.
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