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  Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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  Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, good evening, whatever day it is. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know it is Monday, October twenty eighth. It feels like
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  Speaker 4: the evening, but I know it is the morning, Monday morning.
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys lose to the forty nine ers on Sunday Night,
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  Speaker 4: thirty to twenty four on a game that was closer
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  Speaker 4: than that, not as close as that.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of hard to figure that one out.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they obviously lost, that's all that really matters
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  Speaker 4: right now, but the type of game that it was,
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  Speaker 4: it was kind of a strange one with the Cowboys
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  Speaker 4: being in control and then they're not. But once again,
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  Speaker 4: they can't figure figure out a way to start fast
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  Speaker 4: coming out of the locker room, whether it be the
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  Speaker 4: first or third quarter. I know I've been harping on
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  Speaker 4: that stat but I can't change it. And until they
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  Speaker 4: change it, you know, then it's going to be it's
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  Speaker 4: going to continue to be a problem. But the Cowboys
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  Speaker 4: just they opened the third quarter and it was the
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  Speaker 4: worst quarter you could have. And it starts with Brandon
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  Speaker 4: Aubrey with a with a kick to the twenty two
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  Speaker 4: yard line, Like, what's going on with that? Like like
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  Speaker 4: he's got the strongest leg ever, but he tries to
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  Speaker 4: dribble the kick and gets it out of the landing zone.
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  Speaker 4: That puts them at the forty and then the forty
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  Speaker 4: nine ers just proceed to just have the most dominant
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  Speaker 4: quarter you could have, And basically that was the difference
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  Speaker 4: in the game. The Cowboys tried to recover, but never
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  Speaker 4: really could. They lose thirty to twenty four. They dropped
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  Speaker 4: a three and four in the season, and just just
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  Speaker 4: a lot of questions that we've got to get to
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  Speaker 4: about this team.
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  Speaker 5: So I'll let you guys get to him with the.
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  Speaker 4: Phone calls eight eight eight eight five five two two
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  Speaker 4: nine seven the number to call. Let's start it with
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  Speaker 4: Dylan in Northport, Florida. Dylan, Hey, how's it going good?
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  Speaker 4: How are you good?
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  Speaker 6: Just wanted to shout out, sergeants Sue my favorite wrestler.
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  Speaker 7: Dude's hysterical.
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  Speaker 6: I'm in a group chat with him and some other people,
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  Speaker 6: Rob and Irene and Travis and man, they keep me
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  Speaker 6: from jumping off a ledge during these games. Sometimes, I
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  Speaker 6: tell you especially sergeants.
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  Speaker 4: Too good due Sargeant Sue. Oh yeah, I forgot we
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  Speaker 4: had changed his name. I thought I heard Sergeant Slaughter.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, what what's going on here?
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  Speaker 5: I got it? Are you singing today, Dylan or probably not?
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no, I need some Miller lte. Like I
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  Speaker 6: said before before, I do that.
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  Speaker 8: So no songs for me.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe when I come down in to Augstar next year,
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  Speaker 6: maybe I'll give you a little song or something in person.
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  Speaker 9: Who knows.
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  Speaker 6: But when I talk about Dak, I'm sure you get
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  Speaker 6: probably get a lot of conversations about Dak today. Now,
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  Speaker 6: he didn't just fall off of a cliff and become
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  Speaker 6: bad overnight. And I think the final drive of the
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  Speaker 6: night for the Cowboys is kind of a microcosm of
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  Speaker 6: the passing game and Dak for the season. First down
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  Speaker 6: throws a head scratch and the three defenders that bad Dak.
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  Speaker 6: Second down, second.
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  Speaker 10: Down, he has the edge.
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  Speaker 6: He could have taken off the run and.
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  Speaker 7: Picked up some yards.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what you think that's the place.
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  Speaker 6: Was it a panic throw to Ferguson? I mean, what
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  Speaker 6: was baby?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, but it wasn't a run for six
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  Speaker 5: yards like it should have been.
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  Speaker 6: That, Like it gets to the line of scrimmage and panic.
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  Speaker 4: That's probably the play, the biggest play of that series there.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't get anything on second down, and he's got
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  Speaker 4: to do that.
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  Speaker 5: He's got to make it manageable.
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  Speaker 4: That's what the forty nine ers do when it's third
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  Speaker 4: and or second and fifteen because of a penalty, they
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  Speaker 4: get it back to manageable situations again. And I don't
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  Speaker 4: know why that the Cowboys don't do that or Dak
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  Speaker 4: didn't do that, but that was it was terrible.
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  Speaker 6: He's only averaging he averaged about what was it written
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  Speaker 6: down here?
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  Speaker 10: He averaged almost.
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  Speaker 6: Four carries a game last year, and that's keeps you
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  Speaker 6: onclu his quarterbacks needs and stuff. This year's averaging one
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  Speaker 6: and a half carry as a game. Like it's it's bad,
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  Speaker 6: and that's basically just qubek sneak. So he hasn't run
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  Speaker 6: the ball at all this season for whatever reason. But
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  Speaker 6: then you get the next way and it's like brilliant
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  Speaker 6: Dak shows up and it was the perfect ball, like
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  Speaker 6: the absolute most perfect ball you could possibly throw. Chirpin
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  Speaker 6: catches up ball. I think they probably, I think they
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  Speaker 6: get a two chance to win in the game at
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  Speaker 6: that point. And then fourth down obviously, you know you
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  Speaker 6: go to Jalen Brooks with the game on the line.
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  Speaker 6: So that kind of speaks to a Dak's unwillingness to
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  Speaker 6: run the ball for whatever reason. It speaks to the
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  Speaker 6: lack of weapons you have. Churpin's a nice threat, but
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  Speaker 6: he's not a consistent guy when the game was in
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  Speaker 6: the line. He doesn't have the hands. He's shown a
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  Speaker 6: couple of times now you know, he can't corral those
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  Speaker 6: kind of balls in consistently. And so, like I said,
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  Speaker 6: it's kind of a microcosm of this passing game right
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  Speaker 6: in four plays right there, And that was the most
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  Speaker 6: distant disappointing part of the game when defense gives you
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  Speaker 6: a chance to win it and your superstars don't show up.
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  Speaker 4: They don't show up on that drive, I mean like
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  Speaker 4: like I mean you saying that they don't show up.
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  Speaker 4: They got him back into the game as well, So
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  Speaker 4: they did get back in it. You know, he give
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  Speaker 4: CD credit for that, and Dak, you know, they they
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  Speaker 4: they fought for that. It was very much like the
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  Speaker 4: Ravens game for me all over again, because it was
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  Speaker 4: like you're getting blown out, but then you come back.
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  Speaker 4: Now you need to stop. And then they're like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: that's enough of that.
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  Speaker 6: So what we've seen it time and time again, it's
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  Speaker 6: like and it's not a defensive playing pre event. They're
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  Speaker 6: playing a.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not prevent but but it's it's different too.
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  Speaker 4: It's you know, but but it's okay. They they still
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  Speaker 4: they still made the plays. But I think the offensive line, though,
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  Speaker 4: is still a major problem. And I am not just
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  Speaker 4: excusing Dak. Dak is not playing well at all. He's
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  Speaker 4: uh and he's pressing, he's not running. He's running for
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  Speaker 4: his life and he's not running. That's kind of a
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  Speaker 4: problem because most quarterbacks running for their life, at least
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  Speaker 4: they could they run and go get yards. He's not
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  Speaker 4: even doing that, so he's running for his life and
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  Speaker 4: then just throwing it away like you said on second down.
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  Speaker 4: But I think you cannot, we cannot forget to talk
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  Speaker 4: about the offensive line. They are not the same. And
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  Speaker 4: it's not just the two rookies, it's all of them.
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  Speaker 4: So that that's just its not a good combination right
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  Speaker 4: now of the O line playing no running game at all,
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  Speaker 4: and Dak is forced to do everything and he and
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  Speaker 4: he's pressing and he's not making the right place.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and a running quarterback is a great equalizer, right.
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  Speaker 6: He saw pretty do it a bunch of times last night.
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  Speaker 6: Whenever then breaks down, he gottaly take it, pick up
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  Speaker 6: five yards, live to die another day.
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  Speaker 10: That's all I got.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate it, all right, thanks, Dylan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean like there was a broken play that
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  Speaker 4: he unbroke, I mean part party. I mean he like
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  Speaker 4: turned to his left or right and tried to hand
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  Speaker 4: it off and there was no one there, and he
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  Speaker 4: was like, oh crap, and he kind of cut up
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  Speaker 4: the middle and got like sixteen yards. You know, he's
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  Speaker 4: not a runner, but but he he rushed for fifty
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  Speaker 4: six yards in the game, and so did the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 4: That's a problem. Okay, this isn't Lamar Jackson, so that's
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  Speaker 4: a that's a multiple problem there is. That party's getting loose,
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  Speaker 4: and he's got just as many rushing yards as you've
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  Speaker 4: got here with with Dalvin Cook, and hey, I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to see it, look like all of you guys did.
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  Speaker 4: Just let me see for myself, and we saw six
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  Speaker 4: carries twelve yards and one catch for ten yards. I'd
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  Speaker 4: like to see it again. You know, I'll try again
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  Speaker 4: and maybe with another game. But but you know that
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  Speaker 4: didn't look like a huge answer either.
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  Speaker 5: But all right, let's let's go to Jared in San Jose. Jared?
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  Speaker 5: Are you there? How you doing? Jared?
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  Speaker 11: All right?
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  Speaker 7: A little upset little being from a forty nine or territory.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I live in San Jose, which is ten minutes
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  Speaker 12: from the Levi.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, So this one was really airtful because you know,
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  Speaker 12: the Niner fans, they had just lost their personal super
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  Speaker 12: Bowl last week to the Chief. They really wanted that one,
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  Speaker 12: and uh, you know, they made the get right with
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  Speaker 12: us right and you know the Cowboys are coming off
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  Speaker 12: to buy that two weeks to figure it out how
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  Speaker 12: to beat their nemesis, and we got the Niners at
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  Speaker 12: the weakest point, you know, dealing with injuries, dealing with
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  Speaker 12: a lot of other stuff. Yeah, we still find the
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  Speaker 12: found a new way to lose to them.
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  Speaker 13: Well, and to me, it's like, if we couldn't beat them, now, no,
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  Speaker 13: I'm not gonna.
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  Speaker 4: Let you well, you know what, you finished that sentence,
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  Speaker 4: because it's your show.
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  Speaker 5: You say what you want. If you're not gonna beat them, now,
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  Speaker 5: what say it.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, So to me, it's like, this isn't a robbery.
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  Speaker 13: You know, they own us all right, and uh.
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  Speaker 1: No Diddy, but they are Daddy.
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  Speaker 14: So I'm gonna hang up and.
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  Speaker 4: Listen now, kry So, all I ever say is is,
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  Speaker 4: let's just just be fair when you're when you're making
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  Speaker 4: assessments of things. Be fair, be fair to to to
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  Speaker 4: both sides. I don't want to hear anything. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: the forty nine ers don't hear anything about their injuries
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  Speaker 4: because they they they're they're fine, they they they have
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  Speaker 4: I don't I wouldn't call that their weakest point at all,
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  Speaker 4: because McCaffrey is special player. But McCaffrey wasn't doing that
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  Speaker 4: in Carolina. Okay, the running game here, you'd get it.
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  Speaker 4: You get a really good player, really good player in
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  Speaker 4: a scheme like that, he's going to be dynamic. But
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  Speaker 4: but I mean, do you even can even pronounce this
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  Speaker 4: guy's name? Garrindo, I mean, he was he's fine, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: Jordan Mason, whoever they put in there. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 4: their running game. So I I don't think they were
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  Speaker 4: as down as you as you think. I mean, I still,
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  Speaker 4: but don't don't sit here and talk about them being
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  Speaker 4: down and think, oh, and the Cowboys still couldn't win.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, why do you think that is? Do you
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  Speaker 4: think that they really want to rush Carl Lawson off
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  Speaker 4: the edge and Tyrus Wheat? Do you really think that's
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  Speaker 4: what that's what the Cowboys want to do. So if
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  Speaker 4: you're going to talk about anybody's injuries, then then talk
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  Speaker 4: about both sides and and and don't sit here and
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  Speaker 4: say out rivalry he's dead and all that daddy stuff.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's ridiculous. So uh, if that was his first call, fine,
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  Speaker 4: all right, let's go to who we got next to?
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  Speaker 4: Chris Gabe in Knoxville.
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  Speaker 5: Heynick Gabe, what's up?
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  Speaker 8: Oh? You know, just another loss of the Niners, just
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  Speaker 8: another loss of the n Ergy.
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  Speaker 5: What's going on? What do you get?
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  Speaker 8: So? So my biggest point, I'll keep it quick, is it,
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  Speaker 8: why are we still we get the chance to kick
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  Speaker 8: kick off a return and we're still taking the ball
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  Speaker 8: going three and out. We had some momentum. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: we weren't, you know, beating them very badly, but we
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  Speaker 8: were ahead and then you know, the middle ten, middle
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  Speaker 8: fifteen minutes of the game, what happens They score some points,
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  Speaker 8: we can't get more points on the board, goes to halftime,
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  Speaker 8: they come back, get the ball, they go score some
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  Speaker 8: more points. We throw an intersect. Like it's just the
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  Speaker 8: momentum completely changed in the middle of the half. I
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  Speaker 8: just feel like McCarthy, you know, you know your defense
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  Speaker 8: is going to come out trying to have a better
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  Speaker 8: game after that embarrassment with the Lions. Why not just
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  Speaker 8: kick off? I don't understand. I think we're max seven
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  Speaker 8: wins this year, maybe seven and ten, but I think
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  Speaker 8: it might be six and eleven. That's some point. Thanks Nick,
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  Speaker 8: every good night.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't I mean, it's it's hard
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  Speaker 4: to really say what this team is right now. I
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  Speaker 4: just I think that they're gonna I don't know about
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  Speaker 4: six wins seven wins, because you'd like to think they're
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  Speaker 4: gonna get some guys back at some point. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's a it's a tough league. I mean, you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: lose other players too, so you know, can you can
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  Speaker 4: you withstand some of that? I the whole McCarthy taking
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  Speaker 4: the ball, like, I think it has to be pointed out.
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  Speaker 4: That's that I was just saying, like if you want
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  Speaker 4: him to to what do you what do you guys
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  Speaker 4: want you you want him to to defer?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 4: I like that too, Okay, I'm not gonna lie. I
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  Speaker 4: think it's better if they defer. But they're not doing
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  Speaker 4: anything in the third quarter with the ball, so they're
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  Speaker 4: not they're not coming out of the third quarter and
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  Speaker 4: doing anything, whether they get the ball after a score
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  Speaker 4: or the kickoff or whatever. They they have not shown
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  Speaker 4: the ability to start a half and score a touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: They have not done that all year. And they're giving
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  Speaker 4: up points whether you know, to to the on the
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  Speaker 4: first drive of the game every single time. So whether
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  Speaker 4: they defer to start the game or third, it's not working.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean, just just remember that part too. Okay again,
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  Speaker 4: I'm I'm with you. I think I would go in
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  Speaker 4: the third quarter and get the ball there. But I
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  Speaker 4: think as it stands right now, I mean, it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: really matter either way, all right, Rob in Vegas, Hey, Nicky, Rob.
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  Speaker 9: So to me, the two factors are them losing that game.
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  Speaker 9: As I'll start Obviously, the quarterback. What I saw was
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  Speaker 9: a young quarterback in San Francisco who is willing to
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  Speaker 9: do what it takes to win the game. He's he's hungry,
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  Speaker 9: maybe because he's looking to get paid. But he played great.
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  Speaker 9: He threw the ball great, he protected the ball, and
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  Speaker 9: the running killed us. And then you look at Dak
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  Speaker 9: and that Dak looks comfortable life. You know, everybody's saying, well,
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  Speaker 9: what happened to Dak? Well, I think what happened with
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  Speaker 9: dec is he's his life's third. He's richard and rich
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  Speaker 9: he's got a fiance, he's got a daughter. You know,
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  Speaker 9: you're not as reckless when you're comfortable as when you're young,
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  Speaker 9: and you know, it's just natural. And I don't know
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  Speaker 9: you can't change that. I just think, let's say that
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  Speaker 9: you were probably more reckless in your twenties than you
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  Speaker 9: are now. When you have a wife, kids at home,
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  Speaker 9: you go to bed at eleven o'clock, and you know,
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  Speaker 9: sometimes I want my players to be a little reckless.
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  Speaker 9: The best players that ever played, you know, we're kind
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  Speaker 9: of reckless in their personal life. And Dok just looks comfortable,
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  Speaker 9: and that's that's hurting us. Swing it to the coaching
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  Speaker 9: I called in last week. I said this is a
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  Speaker 9: coaching mismatch. McCarthy may be the worst clock management coach.
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  Speaker 9: I've ever seen the first half. With a minute thirty
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  Speaker 9: you're up by four, not setting the world on fire,
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  Speaker 9: but you're winning by four, which we didn't think. And
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  Speaker 9: he burst twenty seconds off the clock. And I'm saying
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  Speaker 9: to myself, first of all, the forty nine is going
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  Speaker 9: to get the ball open that they're the second half,
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  Speaker 9: This could be disaster. Luckily, defend spales them out and
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  Speaker 9: then you get the ball. You use your timeouts. I
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  Speaker 9: was okay with it. Defense gave what probably we were
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  Speaker 9: talking about it. I said, I think they'll do it.
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  Speaker 9: The defense stops them, they get you the ball back
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  Speaker 9: with about three minutes. Okay, you have no timeouts, but
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  Speaker 9: you understand that you have four downs to get ten
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  Speaker 9: yards the rest of the game. You're going to win
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  Speaker 9: this game or lose this game. The playbook is wide open.
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  Speaker 9: You could run it, you could throw it. And they
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  Speaker 9: called it and played it. And I'm going to put
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  Speaker 9: it on the quarterback too, because you don't know if
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  Speaker 9: he's checking out of players. I don't know. They played
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  Speaker 9: it like there was a mid left in the game.
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  Speaker 9: You didn't run the ball, you didn't get the ball
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  Speaker 9: to your best player, and I got to give CD credit.
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  Speaker 9: He played great. You know, we knocked him for being
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  Speaker 9: maybe soft. He wasn't that last night. He played hard.
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  Speaker 9: There was a play where kind of got rolled up
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  Speaker 9: and he was gonna go off, and he waved to them,
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  Speaker 9: I'm not coming off the field. You didn't get the
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  Speaker 9: ball in his hands one time. You're throwing the Jalen
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  Speaker 9: Brooks who may not even should be on the field.
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  Speaker 9: And I'm sorry, Turpin is not the guy you try
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  Speaker 9: to squeeze that ball into. So I just think, yes,
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  Speaker 9: they're going to fix the coaching issues in a few months.
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  Speaker 9: We know that. I just don't think you could fix DA.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know how you turn and make a guy say, hey,
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  Speaker 9: you need to do what it takes. You need to
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  Speaker 9: put your body at risk. This is the National Football League.
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  Speaker 9: This is what you have to do. Especially what you said, Nick,
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: You're run the duress the whole day. If you're going
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: to run, run positive. Two yards is better than nothing.
• 17:01
  Speaker 9: And they fought gigs. I give BIG's credits. You know,
• 17:05
  Speaker 9: he maybe was listening to us. We called them mouse
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: and not tackling. He was coming up on the run.
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: He was he was he was right, Yeah, he was
• 17:15
  Speaker 9: playing physical.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought he played well.
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: The difference was what we said. I didn't expect Party
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: to outplay Deck that much. But Party, like I tell you,
• 17:27
  Speaker 9: he's better than I thought.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: This kid's good.
• 17:30
  Speaker 9: This kid does what it takes, and unfortunately our quarterbacks does.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Not any You're right Rob about that. He did get up,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: thanks for the call. As always, he he did get
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: out played by by Party. And I'm looking at the
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: stats here, but you know, you talk about comfortable. You know,
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: I think if you gave Dack two hundred and twenty
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: three rushing yards, now let's take fifty six out of that,
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: because that's Party actually getting those fifty six yards. But still,
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: if that's what one hundred and sixty five hundred and
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: seventy yards rushing, you know, that's still more than one
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: hundred more than what the Cowboys got. So it perty
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: can play the game differently when he knows it's he can.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: He can run the ball for four, run the ball
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: for five.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: I mean, they.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Averaged six yards a carry. One of them was a
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: thirty nine yard reverse to Pierceall But so I'm not
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: just this is not me excusing Dak. What I'm saying
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: is is that it's two different schemes, like like you
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: talked about, and you know, this is this reminds me.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: This is kind of what Dak had early on in
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: his career when he had Zeke and they were running
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: the ball like that, he was a lot more comfortable,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: if you will. But yeah, that that last drive, I
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: mean he did throw it to CD sort of on
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: the first down, but he almost threw a pick to
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: was it Warner right over the middle like he was
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: throwing to c D, but there was about four other
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: hands in between. There would have never gotten to him.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: So they got lucky there wasn't an interception or I
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: don't know. But but then after that, yeah, the second down,
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: I thought you should have run third down. I just
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: don't like that deep ball to Terpid that as Dylan
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: said early, that's not his game. He's not going to
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: go make that play. That's not the type of receiver
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: that I think he is. And then all fourth down,
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: the throat of Brooks. You're just not going to get
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: that call, you know.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: And so.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: You know, Brandon Cooks has missed on this team right now.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, they they miss a guy like him that
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: can make some plays as well. And they're gonna have to,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: you know, he comes back, they're gonna have to use
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: him in a different way than they had been. But
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: I certainly think he has been missed. Let's go to
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Travis in San Antonio, nicking good man, how are you
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: doing good again?
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: I hate to say this, but sounds like a broken
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: record for me. Is I'm not really angry at like
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: a couple of colors have been angry. I'm just more
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: just kind of disappointed. But it is what it is, right,
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: There's not can't change it. The the the Dak thing
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: as far as Dak goes, like you guys have kind
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: of been talking about it. I just think it's a
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: multitude of things right at the domino effect. The offensive
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: line has not been nearly as good. Terrence Steele had
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: a rough game. I think Geyton played a little bit better.
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: Cooper Bbi may have been the best line. And you
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: had last night Zach Martin. I really thought he was
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: going to bounce back, but he had a rough game.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: And you can sort of see that domino effect of
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: the offensive line. Dak may may not be trusting that
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: offensive line right now, and then the play calling. If
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: I'm being honest, like the play calling really hasn't helped
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: him out. So there were some people that were saying
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: that he looked kind of stiff, and I think it's
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: more just he's been thinking, right, he's he's just like
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: the tackle or anybody else. He's processing so much that
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: he looks very robotic and almost stiff, like he's not
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: moving as well as I thought he would move. And
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: even to your guys' point about him running, it's almost
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: the he's almost thinking so much Nick of like do
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: I go, do I not go?
• 21:12
  Speaker 11: Do I go?
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: Do you just need to go?
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: Man?
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: Like those decisions. But I think that's part of it
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: for me, is like I don't care, We don't really
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: care what you do, right, but if you're gonna go,
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: you got to go, like get on it. So that's
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: one thing, and then I'll hit the point that you
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: talked about about Turpin. I answered this because there was
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: a bunch of people saying he never should throw that ball,
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: even though I answer like this, he made the throw
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: to Turpin right, but the way I would describe it
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: as it's so turpin drop that you should have caught it, right,
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: Dak made the throw. However, the other way you can answer,
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: it is to your point, Turpin shouldn't ever been in
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: that spot via the coaching staff, like that's not the
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: guy you need to have in that spot. And that
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: kind of goes to the points we've been talking about
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: for a while now about like using the personnel correctly
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: in certain ways. I thought the defense on it, Nick,
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: I know they get up thirty I had him giving
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: up thirty one. I thought the defense played their asses off.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: If I'm being honest, Dinner put it all out there.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: He put six man lines, six man d lines out
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: there and try to stop the run as much as
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: he could. It basically just came down to this is
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: my all in move in the first half. And I
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: think we lost that game because we didn't do enough
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: on offense in that first half. And eventually Shanahan is
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: a good enough coach to go, Okay, I see what
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: you guys are doing. You guys are gonna put all
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: these guys the line, and you're gonna leave Donald Wilson
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: on George Kittle. Okay, watch this.
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: And I don't blame Zimmer because he had no other
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: countermove right is. Once they figured that out, which they
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: were going to figure out at some point. Yeah, I
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: mean that was kind of the game. So yeah, like
• 22:43
  Speaker 7: I said, I don't want to blame Dak so well,
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: I mean he gets completely, he gets yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: He definitely gets some and he took it last night.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: But but at the same time, you know, I mean
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: that's it's not just on Dak, but it is that's
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: where it starts. And you know, that's where that's where
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: it always is going to start, at the quarterback, especially
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: uh and at his position right now, he's he's pressing,
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: and I mean, and that's that's the frustrating thing, is
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: that you know, you you he needs help around him
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: and and and I understand where that's that gets frustrating
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: for fans when he's paid like he's paid, because you
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: see other quarterbacks and other other players in the league
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: and and they they kind of lift the others around him,
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: and he's having a hard time doing that right now
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: with these guys. And you know, and and I've said
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: it again, I mean, I yes, I think Brandon Cooks,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: you know, it would would help him and and we
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: saw that last year and then hopefully they get him back.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: And this defense, I mean, there was just so many
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: times where Perty was standing there and and I'm just
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: like man Micah Parsons, something could really really be useful.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Right here, we're seeing the safeties. They're not the same,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: They're not the same without this pass rush and Donovan Wilson,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Malie Cooker. It's been a rough go for them this season,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: and last night was a good example of that. Let
• 24:11
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• 24:13
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• 24:14
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  Speaker 10: What's going on?
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: How are you.
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: Not great? Probably about this fam as you? Man, this
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: just makes that Green Bay playoff lost hurt even more.
• 26:55
  Speaker 10: I mean I was pretty upset after that game.
• 26:59
  Speaker 14: I know we all were.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: It.
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: It just really puts it into context, like how big
• 27:03
  Speaker 10: of a missed opportunity that was last year? And I
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: hate to bring that up. It's just kind of the
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: first thought that came into my head, you know, man.
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: I just it's crazy that sometimes you feel these coaches
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: they get paid what they get paid, and you're watching
• 27:22
  Speaker 10: the game and you're just like, what is that play call?
• 27:25
  Speaker 10: Like the third and five I think maybe right before
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: halftime going out of shotgun and I think he handed
• 27:33
  Speaker 10: it to fifth. Do you know the plan talking.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: About when he handed it to Cook?
• 27:40
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it was like it was third and five and
• 27:44
  Speaker 10: it was in the first half. Oh no, you're right, right,
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: And I'm just like, what is that play call? Like
• 27:54
  Speaker 10: are we serious with that?
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Like, oh yeah, that looked like a play call where
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: you're going to go for it on fourth down even
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: though you know you wouldn't, but but usually on a
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: third and five and you do a drawl like that.
• 28:08
  Speaker 10: But go get three and then maybe go for it.
• 28:10
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: He is still a fullback, Like he's not right.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a nice player that everyone kind of
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: you know, they like him, and I think he can
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: be a virtual guy, but he's not. He's not going
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: to be a lead runner ever ever. And so yeah,
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: third and five.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know. I didn't I didn't like.
• 28:30
  Speaker 14: I mean, man, like I'm just saying in that situation,
• 28:33
  Speaker 14: like if you want to run the ball there, like
• 28:35
  Speaker 14: put put CD in the backfield in I guess, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 14: do some gimmick play like if you're I mean, I
• 28:41
  Speaker 14: just I don't know, I just feel like they're too predictable,
• 28:44
  Speaker 14: and it's just like, man, there was like there's like
• 28:47
  Speaker 14: eight minutes left in the game, We're down seventeen, and
• 28:49
  Speaker 14: he's like handing it off to Zeke on you know,
• 28:53
  Speaker 14: like we I'm just watching that timetick off the clock
• 28:56
  Speaker 14: and I'm like, why.
• 28:56
  Speaker 10: Are we running the ball?
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Like, give it up, dude, Like.
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: I don't know. It's it's so frustrating, man. And I
• 29:03
  Speaker 10: felt like or Rico was a healthy scratch. I know
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: they said he was sick that. I don't know. I
• 29:10
  Speaker 10: just the politics with this franchise, and like Jerry, I
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: guess he doesn't want to hurt Zeke's feelings. But I mean, dude,
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: the guy's washed. I mean, let's give it up. Twenty
• 29:20
  Speaker 10: sixteen was a long time ago. I mean yeah, well
• 29:24
  Speaker 10: I know, I'm I'm just frustrated.
• 29:27
  Speaker 14: I'm just scrambling.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: You're good, I mean, but okay.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: You know, get I get it too. That's your That's
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: a cow That's the epitome of a Cowboys fan right there.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: He is don't even know what to say and just
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: kind of like mad and kind of grasping and stuff.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: I do not believe in any of this conspiracy stuff
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: about ric o'donald here's and here's why about because he
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: was he was uh sick after you know, at some
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: point he got sick yesterday and they and he was
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: inactive in the game.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: They they didn't need they didn't need him to be inactive.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Okay, they didn't need that that spot. It's not like, oh,
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: they were afraid to tell Zeke he was inactive. They
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: didn't have to do that because Dalvin Cook was was
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: from the practice squad, so he was elevated and they
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: only elevated one guy. So they were fine with all
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: of their other other needs. And so because Rico Daddle
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: did not play, they activated Douce Vaughan, who I don't
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: even know if he played. If he did, I didn't
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: see him. But but but my point is is that
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: they could have done that. They could have done Rico Zeke.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: They didn't have to do all that, you know, so
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: they didn't need to do that. So I don't I'm
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: not buying that it's weird. I mean, you don't see
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: that happen a lot, but but I'm not buying that
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: that's the case. All right, Sergeant Sue in Fort Worth,
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: what's up?
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, everybody.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: How you doing, Nick, I'm good. You don't get a
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: first time caller. You just changed your name.
• 31:04
  Speaker 13: I'll just say first time caller as SERGEANTU. But it's okay,
• 31:07
  Speaker 13: it's okay, I understand that. But yeah, this is a
• 31:11
  Speaker 13: little bit on orthodox. But I actually wanted to ask
• 31:14
  Speaker 13: a question on behalf of a storyliner who isn't able
• 31:17
  Speaker 13: to call. His name is Sly from Montreal, and he
• 31:21
  Speaker 13: basically wanted to know is it time to bench Donovan Wilson.
• 31:24
  Speaker 13: I know you touched on it a little bit earlier,
• 31:26
  Speaker 13: but the sake you play in general, to me seems
• 31:28
  Speaker 13: like we got we got two guys that can pretty much,
• 31:32
  Speaker 13: you know, trade in and out, so or four guys basically,
• 31:35
  Speaker 13: but two guys that are on the bench that I'd
• 31:36
  Speaker 13: like to see a little bit more of. And of
• 31:38
  Speaker 13: all the notes that I took during the game. I'm
• 31:40
  Speaker 13: not sure if you do this, Nick, but I take
• 31:41
  Speaker 13: a lot of notes during the game and I get emotional.
• 31:44
  Speaker 13: So usually after the emotion settle, I go back and
• 31:46
  Speaker 13: I delete a lot of them. And the only note
• 31:49
  Speaker 13: that I have left is does DONO need to be GONEO?
• 31:54
  Speaker 13: And that's my question, brother, I hope you have a
• 31:56
  Speaker 13: good day.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: You he's not playing well, he's not, and neither is Hooker. Again,
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: I think what we're seeing is is they were probably
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: like it's the same with Dak. They didn't just change football,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: you know, they just changed how they how they play football.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Sometimes you see the guys and the people around him
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: and then they're like, all right, well they're not getting
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: that same kind of help. It's it's different when you're
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: the guy. You're you're the main guy, and you're not
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: getting a lot of a lot of help like you
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: were in the past. I mean, I think we're seeing
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Micah Parsons made a lot of people better, and so
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: it'd be nice to have him back, you know that
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: they they could have if he misses one more game.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, they could have put him on on I R.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: And I don't know if he'll be back for the
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Atlanta game. I haven't seen him out doing the cord
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: chords work like you like you would expect maybe like
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: a one week before you come back. So I don't
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: know they certainly need him, but but yeah, I mean
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: they they put they did not put him on I
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: R thinking that it would be less than four games
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: and so this would be four games with a bye
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: weekend there uh as well. But but but to answer
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: your question about Donovan Wilson and the guys you know
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: want Juan Ye, Thomas, Marquise Bell. You know, they they
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: got some penalties. They they make some mistakes as well,
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: like when they get opportunities on special teams. But they
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: they would probably give you a little bit more athleticism,
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: So I'd be I think i'd be fine with that.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: At this point. You gotta you gotta do something, all right, Irwin.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: And Denver, Good morning, Nick.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: How are you good? How are you doing?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: I'm doing good, doing good man. I feel for you.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: On one hand, Nick, I know about on Mondays the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: way things just haven't been going, you know, really good
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, and you have a great job. On
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the other hand, you know, you get the calls, like
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you know, every Monday calls, like for myself and other
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: other callers. That's kind of discouraging and stuff.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: But well, I signed up for it, you know, Irwin,
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: Thanks for saying that. But I signed up for this.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: And I always say it's this y'all show too, And
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: I don't expect y'all to come in and be happy
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: about it, you know. I mean I get the frustration,
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: and I try to handle it the best way, and
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: I think you guys are doing a great job as well,
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: and it's a kind of a give and take a
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: little bit. I thank you for saying that. And I
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: know it's it's toughest of the morning like this when
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: you know I'm working on two hours maybe of sleep
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: and Chris beams back there with less than that, you know, right,
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: because you.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: Still got to take the kids to school. Like that
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: doesn't change.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: So I mean, you know, more than seven o'clock came quick,
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: especially when it was five thirty when I went to bed.
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: But I appreciate you saying that, and I know that's
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: not your point, so go ahead with your question. But
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: thanks for saying that. But again, this is part of it.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: As Jason Garrett would say, it comes with the dinner,
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: and that's what happens with it. It comes with the dinner.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Whatever.
• 35:09
  Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, you're you're correct.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Listen, Nick, I've been a Cowboy fan for a very
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: very long time, and when I was younger, I used
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to get upset when the Cowboys would lose. And you know,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I don't say I'm not like that. For I still
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: want them to win, of course I watch them every week,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: but just watching them over the years, they're just a
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: bad team. And I think, I mean we have they
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: have I say we they have really good players, but
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: for the most part, they're just a bad team this
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: year and they have been for you know, for a
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: little while now. It's just reflected for the last twenty
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: seven years. I know there's been some some years in
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: between there where they had a chance for whatever reasons,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: it didn't work out. But I don't know what it is.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: Are you sing I'm gonna this is where, this is
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: where I'm gonna get cranky here and and challenges. But
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: so the bad a bad football team for the last
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: twenty seven years been what why twenty seven? What's what's
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: been the difference in twenty seven? Why not forty? I
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: mean you're not rounding to thirty for a reason, So
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: why twenty seven? Because they have won the Super Bowl?
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: I just don't think, how is that a bad team?
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: Are you a bad team because you have won Super Bowl?
• 36:21
  Speaker 14: No?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: No, you're right about that, because they were they they
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: had some good teams in between there were they were
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: they were really close to getting in there. You're right,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: You're right. You know, maybe I misspoke a little bit.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: And the thing about it is is I don't know
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: you were one hundred percent correct. Earlier in the show.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: I was listening to you.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Something is wrong.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: With our offensive line. I don't know if it's just
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: we got young players, we got like still, oh my god,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: still he has regressed. He's going to get Dak Prescott killed.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: And is it a coment of some of the young
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: players are coaching? What's wrong with our offensive line?
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Coach?
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: What's what is he not doing what needs to be done?
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Because we can't run the ball. If you can't run
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the ball or stop the run. And we all know this.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: The Cowboys has been great over the years with running
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: backs and being able to run the run the ball.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: We just haven't been able to do that. And it's
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: a you know, it's a disaster for us every week.
• 37:15
  Speaker 10: You know.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: It's just yeah, like I said, I don't or it's
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: just a little bit frustrating. But I'll always be a
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Cowboy fan, and I'll always but one more thing to
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: let you go. You know, my kids, they go raised
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: them to be Cowboy fans. They are die hard and
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: it's kind to the point for them. We used to
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: get together, big family, get together, this big spread, watch
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the game exciting. We don't do that anymore because they're
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: just so discouraged on what's been happening lately that you know, hopefully,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: hopefully next year, you know, the next couple of years,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: we can start doing that again, because I sure miss that.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, playing the Cowboys, you playing the Cowboys of the
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: of the kids don't want to watch the game.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: Hey, I get it, I get it.
• 38:01
  Speaker 13: Yeah, Yeah, they want to watch the games.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: It's just that they hate watching them lose all the time.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: I get it.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: All right, Well, I you know, thanks for the call,
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: and you know, I just it's not my job to
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: try to I'm not trying to change anyone's opinion or whatever,
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: because everyone's opinion is you know, it is what it is.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: I say that all the time. You've heard me say that.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: But I just think it's very short sighted to just say, like,
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: I'm not one that's like this is a bad team,
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: a bad franchise, whatever, because they haven't won the Super Bowl.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's our that's that should not be the expectation.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: It's the expectation to be a good enough team to
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: compete for it. But as far as like to win
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl and not win the Super Bowl, you know,
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: nobody when they're counting stops at twenty eight, twenty nine,
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: No one does that.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: You just round to thirty.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: But rounding to thirty doesn't doesn't fit the narrative, you know,
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: and I understand that.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: I have to think our last break here on Cowboys storyline.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: When we come right back, I'll answer a couple We'll
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: get a couple more calls here.
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  Speaker 4: let's get going here. A few more calls here, maybe
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: a couple of calls before we finished the show. Gavin
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: in Oklahoma City is next, Gavin?
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: What's up?
• 40:43
  Speaker 11: Hey, Mack have been a tough show man?
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, all right, be all right, but yeah,
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, like you know, you guys have have opinion.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: You frustrated. That was a frustrating game to watch. I
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: mean it's it's like the Ravens. Like I said, I mean,
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: was it was it a a good game?
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: Was it close?
• 41:02
  Speaker 14: Was it not?
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: I mean like it was seemed like a blowout at
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: one point, but then it was close and they had
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: a chance to win, and then you don't, I don't know,
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: it probably should have been a thirteen point game.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the one right.
• 41:16
  Speaker 11: I'm disappointed as anybody man. Obviously, you know, anybody coming
• 41:21
  Speaker 11: to show probably bleeds blues. This is getting deep into
• 41:25
  Speaker 11: the Cowboys. Send them right here.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:27
  Speaker 11: I drive all the way to Texas to watch the
• 41:30
  Speaker 11: night games with my family and take off work the
• 41:32
  Speaker 11: next day and everything. The Cowboys is a big deal
• 41:35
  Speaker 11: for me. But I only have one question for you.
• 41:43
  Speaker 11: I'm gonna stick to the offense because I felt like
• 41:45
  Speaker 11: defenses have so many injuries. Not excusing their player and
• 41:48
  Speaker 11: nothing like that, but I felt like the offense had
• 41:51
  Speaker 11: plenty of opportunities to get going and they just didn't.
• 41:54
  Speaker 11: Do you think that?
• 41:55
  Speaker 14: Uh?
• 41:57
  Speaker 11: Me personally watching the game, I just think the play
• 42:00
  Speaker 11: calling has been bad, and I've been a big critic
• 42:03
  Speaker 11: of the play calling, but it's kind of hard for
• 42:05
  Speaker 11: the play caller to make the plays better with our
• 42:10
  Speaker 11: tackle play. The tackle play has been terrible, to say
• 42:13
  Speaker 11: the least. And I know we have a rookie in there.
• 42:16
  Speaker 11: I know we got steal in the big contract. But
• 42:18
  Speaker 11: do you think there's any possible way that the Cowboys
• 42:21
  Speaker 11: could shake up the tackle room, move some parts around, anything,
• 42:24
  Speaker 11: Because when I see us go against a good defensive end,
• 42:30
  Speaker 11: and the league is full of them, almost every team
• 42:32
  Speaker 11: has a good pass rusher, Like, let's pick on steel,
• 42:36
  Speaker 11: and if we can't pick on Steel, let's pick on guiding.
• 42:38
  Speaker 11: And it's just, man, it's a mess. But that's all
• 42:42
  Speaker 11: I got for you. Man, appreciate the call.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: All right, thanks for the call.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: You know there there was times where you know, Steele,
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: he gave up some plays to Bosta. They're just like
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: too easy, like the sack yet, I mean it was
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: just absolutely too easy. And you know, and it's your easiest, say,
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: will put a tight.
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: End on him.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: But I mean then then you do that a few
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: times and it's like, well, why isn't Ferguson playing well
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: this year? Well, because because he's having a chip, you know,
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: he's having to make these plays. So you can't do everything,
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: and so you know, there's times where they they have
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: to go out and and block, and I thought he
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: got better as the game went on, but yeah, you know,
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: you do see those. And that's the thing about right tackle,
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: Like you can see you can have a really good
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: game and you make three bad plays. Everyone remembers those,
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: you know, and and so and he's happened. That's happening
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: with Steele, like it does happen a little bit now.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: I thought, I think he played better as the game
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: went on, but again, like it's those those those times
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: where he's missing blocks and and Dack's running for his life,
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: and that's just happened too too often, you know. And
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: don't forget Steel was another guy that they paid that,
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: you know. And and these the guys that they've paid
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: and given extensions to haven't played well afterwards. If you
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: go back the last two or three seasons, it's just
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: the facts, you know. I mean, Trayvon hasn't played better,
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: and he did get hurt, so that's not his fault,
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: but I mean he hasn't played better after he got
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: a deal. Donovan, Wilson and Steele and Hooker, all those
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: guys got contracts. Dak now this year hasn't played better,
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: CD about the same, you know, but it hasn't been
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: like leaps and bounds better. So all right, let's go.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: We got a couple of calls real quick. We've got
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: to get to Bob and Rio, Grand Valley.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Born and Nick.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: How are you doing?
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Like all every one of the other bands is called in.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: One thing. A byte spot that I saw last night
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: was the absence of flags. It seems like the coaching
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: staff's spent quite a bit of that two weeks getting
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: the guys. Uh, we didn't have a big fall starts,
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: we didn't have the off sides, we didn't have the holdings.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: That was a bright spot. But I tell you what,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Steele has definitely regressed, no doubt about it, and Dak
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: has two And where Dak has regressed is in his
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: decision making. I mean, what in the world was he
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: thinking on those two passes? And there was almost a
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: third or you do it into players. Wasn't a blue
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: jersey anywhere around?
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Man, can you please tell me what's going on? Thanks
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: for taking my ball. Having a good day.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: Uh, you know it's I said it earlier in the show.
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: I think he's pressing. I think the offensive line is
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: struggling to keep him, you know, upright, and he is
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: running for his life, but he's not running. And I
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: said that that a couple of times already. He's just
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: not he's not taking advantage of what you would do there.
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: I don't know why he doesn't want to run the ball,
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: but he needs to because that's that's the play that's
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: open there when you're getting all that all that protection,
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: all right, So that that's our That was our last caller.
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: I thought we had one more, but so that that's
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: you know, I don't know about regress. I don't think
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: it in your ninth year, you you just you know,
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: tenth year, you don't regress to that point. But I think,
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: you know, it's very clear that that you still he
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: still needs some help here. And you know, I think
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: they they were short sighted with the running game this year.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: I think it's fair to say that they didn't think
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: that they needed to address it better than they than
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: they did. And it's it's not just running backs, you know,
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: it's not just the back and think it's just the
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: overall scheme there. But they're not they're not running the
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: ball well and and that doesn't help Dak at all.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: And then you know the receivers that they went for
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: Cooks and and and Tolbert and Allen Brooks and along
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: with CD and they just they haven't been able to
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: really gel and find that other playmaker just yet on
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: a consistent basis. So, you know, there's a lot of things.
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of things, but I always go back
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: to if you don't run the ball. If you can't
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: run the ball, you're not going to be a very
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: good team. And you don't have to run it all
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: the time because it is kind of more of a
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: passing league, but you need to run it when when
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: everyone knows you're going to run the football, you gotta
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: you gotta go run it. And and and they they
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: can't do that at all. They're the worst rushing team
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: in the league right now. So you know, I don't
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: know if if the Cowboys are going to try to
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: make a move to do something about that. But I
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: don't know if it's just the running back again, it's
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: it's the scheme up front, it's blocking and and those
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: guys aren't aren't moving anyone off the ball, So that's
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: that's a problem.
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: You guys were were good today or I appreciate it.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: We had ten calls and and and you can hear
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: the frustration and and I'm and I'm proud of that
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: because that that's what this show is, you know, it's
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: it's it's it's based off of motion. Sometimes it's great,
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: sometimes it's not. I appreciate the guys that that called in.
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: I know we had some text messages on the text line.
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: We couldn't get to all those that were they were
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: a little long and wordy.
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: We'll get to.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: Those, uh short note those up a little bit. We'd
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: like to get the calls on this on the show,
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: UH more than anything. But but they appreciate all the
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: all the support. I know there's people calling in that
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: didn't get in.
• 48:25
  Speaker 14: UH.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: But anyways, thanks thanks for the uh for the support
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: for the show today. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll do
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: this tomorrow and we'll we'll talk it through and get
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: the get you guys ready to start shifting the focus
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: over to the Falcons.
• 48:39
  Speaker 8: UH.
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: Next week, another road game, this time in Atlanta. All
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: right for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. We will see
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: you tomorrow on Cowboys storyline.
• 48:47
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