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Cowboys StoryLine: Eyes on the Prize · Cowboys StoryLine

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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 Cowboys, This is Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: Storyline with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: What is up? And welcome the Cowboys Storyline. I am
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  Speaker 2: Nick Eatman and it is Wednesday, January the tenth. It's
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  Speaker 2: playoff week. It's not much else to say. We know
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  Speaker 2: what's at stake, we know what's what's happening here. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people are worried about what's what the weather's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be this week. It's gonna be a cold front. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's heating up. Forget all that. It's heating up here
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  Speaker 2: because it's playoff time and it's Cowboys and Packers. I
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  Speaker 2: mean eight eight eight eight five five to two night seven.
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  Speaker 2: That's the number to call. You can text at eight
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  Speaker 2: one seven two nine zero three two nine eight. You
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  Speaker 2: guys know the numbers. By now you know the drill.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to spend any more time on it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go. Let's get to the phone line. There's no
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  Speaker 2: sense waiting around. Brian in Kansas City. You're first off.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Morning Brian. How are you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great, man, I'm doing great. It's getting colder
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  Speaker 3: and colder here. Holy cow, I looked at the the
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  Speaker 3: I'm giving you the Mickey Spagnola Weather Reports of Kansas City. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: the game on Saturday, the high is going to be
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  Speaker 3: like five degrees. Yeah, they're gonna have that's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad we're not traveling anywhere like that.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: No Cowboys get to play at home, yes, sir, And
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  Speaker 2: uh that's good. They earned it so close the doors
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  Speaker 2: close the windows, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I got a good trivia question. This is a
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  Speaker 3: difficult trip. This is maybe harder than the Steelers' trivia
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  Speaker 3: question earlier this year. So nineteen eighty right stallback retires,
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  Speaker 3: Danny White takes over. They had a great year. They
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  Speaker 3: made it all the way to the championship game. They
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  Speaker 3: only had one All Pro on that team.
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  Speaker 2: Who was it nineteen eighty.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, Danny White. That's the first year Danny White
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  Speaker 3: starting at quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I mean that was right in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of it. I just can't imagine. I can't. I can't
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  Speaker 2: imagine it not being Randy White.
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  Speaker 3: So it is not Randy White. He was All Pro
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  Speaker 3: in eighty one. This is a guy I had to
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  Speaker 3: look it up. Herbert Scott who was a left guard
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  Speaker 3: and he was an All Pro in eighty and eighty one.
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  Speaker 2: Herb Scott.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yes, sir, hey. And then the one the question
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to have for you this morning is what
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  Speaker 3: you're going to be your your the matchup you want
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  Speaker 3: to see in this game? The favorite thing you're looking
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  Speaker 3: for mine is c D against Chaire Alexander. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: I'll hang up and listen to your answer, but have
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  Speaker 3: a good one.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good one right there.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: That's the one thing. Thanks for call, Brian. That's the
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  Speaker 2: one thing about this team that I keep looking at.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I kind of did a little research on
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  Speaker 2: the Packers, did a story that's on the website.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 2: They're storylines ten ten different things, I mean five for
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  Speaker 2: each team, Cowboys and Packers. And one thing I noticed
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  Speaker 2: is that Green Bay just doesn't have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: great players. They just don't have a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: that have had really good seasons. This isn't one where
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  Speaker 2: you look at and go, man, stop him or block
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  Speaker 2: this guy, or don't let him go crazy. And they
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  Speaker 2: just don't have that guy they're one of the four
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  Speaker 2: teams in the league that don't have a pro bowler.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't mean they can't win the game. Obviously, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying that. I'm just saying that when you look
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  Speaker 2: at it and one of the callers you said it yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and I think they've said it all all, you know
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  Speaker 2: for the last few weeks, that Cowboys got to don't
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  Speaker 2: beat themselves, don't turn the ball over, don't get block
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  Speaker 2: field goals, don't do those kind of things that give
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  Speaker 2: teams short fields and things like that, and just take
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  Speaker 2: care of business because you should win this game. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: J Alexander is a guy that that you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: a he's he's a really good corner. You know, he's
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  Speaker 2: a good captain. You know, he goes in and he
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  Speaker 2: makes plays and and and he's a guy that can
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  Speaker 2: that I think, you know, can cover CD as good
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  Speaker 2: as anybody can. I mean, it's hard to do right now,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's playing so well. But I do think that
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  Speaker 2: that's probably the best matchup. I would say, uh, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's Gary Rashaun. Gary on the outside, he's got
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  Speaker 2: nine and a half sacks. They've got some guys that
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  Speaker 2: that that you know from the middle of the line
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  Speaker 2: that that can make some plays too, So I would
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  Speaker 2: say I would say it's Alexander versus c d Lamb
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  Speaker 2: or you know, uh, you know, blocking those guys off
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  Speaker 2: the edge. You just got to make sure that you
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  Speaker 2: know they don't get free and hit the quarterback and
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  Speaker 2: get the turnover and things like that, So that that's
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  Speaker 2: probably the key. All right, let's go to Curtis in Oklahoma. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: good morning, Curtis.
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  Speaker 6: Doing better than yesterday? All right, one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 6: tries I didn't get in, Yeah, I can tell. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I got a lot, So I'll try to be as
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  Speaker 6: fast as possible. The first thing that I wanted to
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  Speaker 6: do was shout out a couple guys, Damo and Clark
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  Speaker 6: and Marquise Bell, I mean, started all seventeen games. Both
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  Speaker 6: had close to one hundred tackles, and I just think
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  Speaker 6: it's a huge nod to the administration and the team
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  Speaker 6: that we've built.
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  Speaker 7: You know, you could I.
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  Speaker 6: Can remember having household names like Romo and Dez, but
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  Speaker 6: when you look up and down the line and you
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  Speaker 6: remember the days when you lost Shawn Lee or Tyron Smith,
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  Speaker 6: and it was just we just did not have a
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  Speaker 6: way to overcome that, and they've really built this team
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  Speaker 6: to deal with the inevitable injuries that are going to happen.
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  Speaker 6: The second thing is about the game this weekend. I
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  Speaker 6: really want to focus on the defense. I think that
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  Speaker 6: that's going to be where we need to win this game.
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  Speaker 6: And something that I like Jordan Love being a young
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  Speaker 6: quarterback is Michael Parsons. Everybody knows he's an absolute force.
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  Speaker 6: So if you can move him across the line and
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  Speaker 6: give that young kid a lot to think about, and
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  Speaker 6: then you know, if they do a decent job on him,
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  Speaker 6: which is difficult, hopefully Osa and DeMarcus Lawrence Fowler those
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  Speaker 6: guys can cascade on through. Yeah, the last thing I
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  Speaker 6: got for you is a random cowboy and I'll see
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  Speaker 6: if you can remember why I'm bringing him up. How
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  Speaker 6: about Alan Hearns?
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  Speaker 2: Alan, good call, Thanks, Thanks, Curtis. I don't know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to think what would be the association with Alan
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  Speaker 2: Hearns this week? I mean, I know the Cowboys had
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  Speaker 2: him and he got hurt, obviously. Yeah, it wasn't my
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  Speaker 2: show that his mom called and that was hanging with
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  Speaker 2: the boys. That was one of the probably one of
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  Speaker 2: the funniest moments in the History of Cowboys podcast right
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  Speaker 2: there with Kurt Daniels was talking to Alan Hearns's mother.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, unfortunate injury. Didn't really play a
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  Speaker 2: whole lot. Was one of those receiver by committee type
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  Speaker 2: guys during that year, and they had to go get
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  Speaker 2: Amari Cooper. Yeah, you're right about the guys. Give the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys credit for, you know, with standing injuries. I mean
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  Speaker 2: they had everybody has them, so there's no excuses. We
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  Speaker 2: get that. But still losing an All Pro corner and
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  Speaker 2: tray Von Diggs and and having Deron Bland in the
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  Speaker 2: in the Pro Bowl and setting records himself, and Steffan
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  Speaker 2: Gilmore playing well, and Jordan Lewis, you know, stepping up
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  Speaker 2: that that was really big. And then you know it
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  Speaker 2: hasn't been as easy to replace Lady vander esch And
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  Speaker 2: and Clark's had some games and Marquis Bell They've had
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  Speaker 2: some moments where wasn't so great, but you know they
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  Speaker 2: kind of that they hung in there and like you said,
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  Speaker 2: made a lot of tackles. So still a position I
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  Speaker 2: think that they have to look at, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 2: for next year, but uh, still, it was really good
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  Speaker 2: the way the Cowboys kind of patched things together on
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  Speaker 2: that side out of the ball. All right. Text line
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  Speaker 2: question here. This is from Victor Kirk in Victoria b C.
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  Speaker 2: He says, in your opinion, what are the what are
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  Speaker 2: Green Bay's biggest weaknesses? Lack of experience of quarterback or
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  Speaker 2: other offensive positions playing on the road. Joe Berry somewhat
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  Speaker 2: suspect defense. You know, I can't say I've watched them
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  Speaker 2: play a whole lot this year, and I don't even
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  Speaker 2: know if Jordan Love is I mean lack of experience fine,
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  Speaker 2: I mean we think that's a problem until until it's not,
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  Speaker 2: you know, until he goes out there and lights it up. So, yes,
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  Speaker 2: he's inexperienced. But it's just like when Dak's first game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that kind of showed early in that game
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  Speaker 2: against Green Bay, you know, inexperienced, and then then and
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  Speaker 2: he got hot, and that really wasn't wasn't the issue.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know about that. I just like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's probably just lack of of of weapons,
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  Speaker 2: just just a bunch of weapons. We saw it last
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  Speaker 2: year in the in the playoffs with the Cowboys when
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  Speaker 2: one guy got hurt, and it just they just didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of offensive weapons to match the forty
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  Speaker 2: nine ers, And so here they are. The Packers is
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  Speaker 2: going to have to match what the Cowboys have. You
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  Speaker 2: want to try to shut down CD, good luck, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: no one's done it. But even if you can somewhat
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  Speaker 2: contain him, you know, Ferguson's proven to be a playmaker,
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Cooks is a playmaker. Tony Pollard is a playmaker.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, you know, the Cowboys just have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of weapons, and I think that that's that's one thing
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  Speaker 2: that that that they'll have over Green Bay. And Green
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  Speaker 2: Bay's also got some banged up receivers right now as well.
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  Speaker 2: So all right, let's go to Justin Is in Lubbock, Texas. Justin,
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing good. What's up?
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  Speaker 8: So yesterday when I was talking to you, when you
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  Speaker 8: answered my question, you ended with you were superstitious, and
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  Speaker 8: I am extremely superstitious. So I was just curious what
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  Speaker 8: some of yours are My two biggest ones and I
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  Speaker 8: got a lot, but my two biggest ones are I
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  Speaker 8: have a Cowboys inflatable helmet that has to be in
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  Speaker 8: no more than five hours before kickoff, and if we
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  Speaker 8: don't do that, I feel like we're doomed and we're
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  Speaker 8: gonna lose. And then secondly, if we have a successful
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  Speaker 8: drive going and it ends in a touchdown, I do
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  Speaker 8: not allow anyone in my family, not even my five
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  Speaker 8: year old son, No one is to move until another
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  Speaker 8: drive doesn't end in a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody can move, Nobody can move.
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  Speaker 8: But man, everybody's assisting.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we're on a little different levels than when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to superstitions all that, because actually I don't really
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  Speaker 2: have something like that. I don't I don't really have.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I am superstitious. I would take that back.
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  Speaker 2: I think what I don't like to get ahead of
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  Speaker 2: myself and say I believe in like you know, your
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  Speaker 2: gens and irony and things like that. If you said
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  Speaker 2: it and all of a sudden it happened, you know,
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  Speaker 2: things like that. I am a believer though, and I
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  Speaker 2: can't do this on the press box. It just doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: But I am a believer. If I'm watching a game
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  Speaker 2: on TV and I'm really nervous if I turn the channel,
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  Speaker 2: like when I and I turn it back, good things
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  Speaker 2: is gonna is gonna happen. And so that's what I do.
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  Speaker 2: I turn it or I'll turn it off and just
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  Speaker 2: walk walk around in the neighborhood if I need to
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  Speaker 2: do that. But it doesn't work in the press box,
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  Speaker 2: I just got to sit there. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I'm if I'm really that superstitious about things like that,
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  Speaker 2: because when I would look at that and I would say, wait,
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  Speaker 2: your your son's gonna get old enough to go, dad,
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  Speaker 2: we had the inflatable up for five hours and I
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  Speaker 2: didn't move and we still lost the buffalo. So what's
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  Speaker 2: the deal. Why can't I go to the bathroom? So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about that one, But hey, do you
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  Speaker 2: do your thing. If it works, it works, I get it.
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  Speaker 2: So I just have a good one. All right, good stuff,
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  Speaker 2: all right, let's go keep it rolling. Here. We got
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  Speaker 2: Johnny's in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, good morning, Nick Nicholas. I really don't have a
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  Speaker 7: question or a story, but what I'm really looking for
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  Speaker 7: from you some there's some reassurement as much as at
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  Speaker 7: least it was one.
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  Speaker 9: As much to give.
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  Speaker 7: I have season tickets a lambell. They were left to
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  Speaker 7: me by my grandparents, who coincidentally was given these season
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  Speaker 7: tickets were given to her by Bart Starr when they
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  Speaker 7: shared a hospital room in his rookie year when he
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  Speaker 7: got hurt up in Green Bay. So anyway, I've been
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  Speaker 7: at every game. The only game I miss is when
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  Speaker 7: Dak came in twenty sixteen. I was at workout in
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  Speaker 7: San Diego and I couldn't make that game, and of
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  Speaker 7: course that's the game we won. But going all the
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  Speaker 7: way back into the nineties, I've been to all those
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  Speaker 7: games and every time we've lost. In fact, my brother
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  Speaker 7: in law offered to fly me down to Dallas this
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  Speaker 7: weekend and pay for my ticket if I go with,
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  Speaker 7: and I refused. So I know it's Greened. I know
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  Speaker 7: we have a better talent level, and the Boogeyman, which
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  Speaker 7: is Aaron Rodgers, has gone. But whatever could go wrong
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  Speaker 7: seemed to go wrong with that damn team.
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  Speaker 2: So that's well, I'm confused, are you do? You go
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  Speaker 2: to every Green Bay game, like every game, just every Cowboys.
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  Speaker 7: Every Cowboy game. Yet Okay, it's right where they do
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  Speaker 7: the Lambeau lead too, so it's all around those rabid
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  Speaker 7: damn Packer fans.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, hey, I mean it, You're right, I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's Green Bay has has had the Cowboys number. Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Rodgers has had their their number, you know. But remember
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  Speaker 2: this though, it's not like they never beat Aaron Rodgers too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they they've beaten him. They they in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: they beat him, two thousand and eight, they beat him there.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't had a lot of success at home against
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  Speaker 2: the Packers. H And that was Matt Flynn as the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback for one of those games. So how about how
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  Speaker 2: about this? Who who's been beating the cow I mean,
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  Speaker 2: has it been the Packers? Has been Mike McCarthy. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: he's the boogeyman, you know, I mean maybe, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Matt, like I said, Matt Flynn was when
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  Speaker 2: McCarthy was coaching. So maybe maybe the reassurance there is
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  Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy's on this side this time. I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I mean he is the one the flag the desk called.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you can go back to all these games. The
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  Speaker 2: uniforms will look the same, but the talent is not.
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  Speaker 2: The Cowboys have a better roster. They're a better football
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  Speaker 2: team than the Packers. They've they've shown it all year long,
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  Speaker 2: and they're way better than their opponent when they play
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  Speaker 2: at home. So that's where it's going to be. It'll
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  Speaker 2: be cold on the outside, it'll be freaking hot electric inside.
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  Speaker 2: The Cowboys will be a better football team. You don't
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  Speaker 2: go and mess it up and make the turnover, you know,
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  Speaker 2: create great turnovers for you know, the packers and short
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  Speaker 2: fields and all that. They'll win the game.
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  Speaker 7: So you're a good man.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: All right, John, first caller, first time caller. I believe
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  Speaker 2: for John right, he didn't care about all that, and
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  Speaker 2: he didn't care about first time call. He didn't care
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  Speaker 2: about anything. He just said, man, walk me off the
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  Speaker 2: ledge here because he's not not feeling good about it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I hear you, all right? William in West Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: My man, William?
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  Speaker 4: What's up, hey, Nick?
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  Speaker 10: How we doing, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Good? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 10: Hanging in there doing all right? I can't classify for
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  Speaker 10: the first time call to here we go. Well, maybe
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  Speaker 10: you can find this a sound bite for me one
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  Speaker 10: day if I can get back in more regularly.
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  Speaker 2: We got one for you, man, We got one for you.
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  Speaker 2: When you're done. We gotta we gotta, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: good callers getting get the Jimmy one, So go for it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you got it.
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  Speaker 10: That's what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You the man warming up, Chris hit it come time.
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  Speaker 10: I'll tell you this before I get into my thing
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  Speaker 10: for the game. There. I was watching the Detroit game
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  Speaker 10: and my daughter was watching it with me, and she
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  Speaker 10: told me, she goes, you know, she told her sister.
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  Speaker 10: She says, I'm seeing a grown man cry right now.
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  Speaker 10: When I was watching that thing with Jimmy being put
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  Speaker 10: in the Ring of Honor, yeah, and I said, you
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  Speaker 10: dag on right, I'm crying. I said, I was thrilled
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  Speaker 10: to see it be part of this. It was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it really was. It was an awesome moment.
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  Speaker 10: And only think the disappointment I had from that is
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  Speaker 10: when I tried to get on the pro Shop and
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  Speaker 10: order where the Ring of Honor. Sure, they were already gone.
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  Speaker 10: I'm going to keep stalking the pro shop to try
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  Speaker 10: to get one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well they'll restock, I'm sure because if it's if
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  Speaker 2: it's sold out, they'll they'll keep making it, They'll keep printing,
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: But my take to the game is I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 10: a good feeling about and I think the biggest things
• 16:24
  Speaker 10: I really enjoyed this year. The two guys that have
• 16:26
  Speaker 10: set the tone for me has been Tyron Smith playing
• 16:28
  Speaker 10: as many games as he has and and Tank Lawrence.
• 16:31
  Speaker 10: I think those guys have set the tone for me.
• 16:34
  Speaker 10: And I think I, for one, have never took Tank
• 16:37
  Speaker 10: Lawrence for granted. I think he's a consummate pro and
• 16:39
  Speaker 10: what he does and setting the tone on the on
• 16:42
  Speaker 10: the defensive side of the ball. Really, it's just I
• 16:44
  Speaker 10: love seeing him out there and he's rapidly moving up
• 16:48
  Speaker 10: my list of one of my all time favorite players
• 16:50
  Speaker 10: of the teams. I just want to get your take
• 16:51
  Speaker 10: on that. Yeah, good luck to us this week, and
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: how about them campus, Let's go with go, Let's.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Go all right too to Jimmy calls, there you go, William,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: that's my guy, man, that's a that's all he goes,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: all the way back from the old school man. He
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: used to call all the time. It was just me
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: and Derek on doing the shows and he would call,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: all right, Tank Lawrence. Yeah, he's you got to have
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: those guys, you know. And it's kind of weird how
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: things have gone in his career. You know, he's had
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: what fourteen sacks season, maybe more than that, I mean,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: but he's had somewhere. You know, he was a franchise
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: tag player, taught two years in a row, and he
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: was making a lot of money. He still is, I
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: mean all making a lot of money, but you know,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: he was kind of the guy. And then you know,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: now with Micah here and he's getting a little bit older,
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: he's he's sort of the the dirty work guy, and
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: he's still he makes the plays. I mean, he's made
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: some really great plays behind the line of scrimmage, tackles
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: for loss the last couple of years that have helped
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: his team win games. So yeah, he's he's a he's
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: he's been. He's turned into kind of that lunch pail guy,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: and I think a lot of people can can appreciate that.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: You know, he used to be the one front and
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: center of the hot boys and all that stuff and
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: taking a little bit of a backseat to Micah. But
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I think from a leadership standpoint, he's still, you know,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: a very big vocal leader for this team. And you
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: know he's he's done it. He didn't make the Pro
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Bowl this year. Maybe he gets in, maybe he doesn't,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: you know, as an alternate. I love the fact that
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: people appreciate him, not just the fans, but players teams
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: around the league. I mean, you know, he was voted
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: into the Pro Bowl last year and he only had
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: a few sacks, three or four sacks there. So that
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: just goes to show what people think about him, that
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: there's more than just stats, and he is definitely one
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: of those kind of guys. So all right, phone lines
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: are open right now, eight eight eight eight five five
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: to two nine seven. There's no one hundred and thirty
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: seven straight calls all that. I think you can get in.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: If you want to get in, hit it. We are here.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: We got There was a text question earlier that from
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Kirk and Victoria BC. He says his random player was
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Chris Schultz. Chris Schultz was spout as random as it gets.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: The only Chris Schultz I could think of is a player.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: I looked at, hold on, hold on Chris because I
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: used to have I think he played in nineteen eighty six,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: at least he was on the eighty six team. I'm
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: guessing number sixty six, Chris Schultz, sixty six. Let's go,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: let's go, And here's why. In nineteen eighty six. I
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: had the poster, the team poster on my walls ten
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: years old. It was like a from McDonald's or something
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: like that, and it was the whole team, and I
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: looked at that every single day. I knew every player
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: on the team. I think Nate Newton was on there,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: and he wasn't even sixty one. He was like sixty seven.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: He was like. I knew every single player on that team.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I knew got Manny Hendricks, Cornell Galdi, just guys that
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: you're probably forgotten if you even if you even remember
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: them at all. But yeah, So Chris Charltz eighty six,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: I mean nineteen eighty six, I think the word number
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: sixty six. I don't know if you played that much.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I didn't want you to think I was
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: I glossed over that. Uh, but yeah, I don't know much.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: That's that's all I know. A tackle out of Arizona.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: All right, you got me on that one. Let's go with.
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Kyle's in East Brunswick, New Jersey. He's got a text
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: line question. Green Bay is the fifth worst run defense
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: in the league. Do you see more early down runs
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: for the Cowboys in order to get into more manageable
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: down in distance situations. Uh, you know that they kind
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: of invited the way that they play on defense from
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: what it's what it seems like. Uh, they they play
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: a lot of his own. They're not trying to get
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: you know, beat deep, you know, down the field, so
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: sort of when that happens, Yeah, they're gonna they're gonna
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: give up some some running place. So yeah, I think
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys are gonna do that. I mean they they
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: always do that. Cowboys will run the football whether or
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: not they haven't a lot of success or not. So
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I don't think that changes. I think they're gonna try
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: to run it to open up some of the passing game.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: And I think I think the Cowboys stick to the
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: same game plan and you know, if Pollard is breaking
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: some of these runs, you know, I think that was
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: big last week against Washington if you look back seven, eight,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: nine on first down sometimes eleven. I mean, they were
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: really moving the ball running it there. And so I
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: think if they can do that, it doesn't really matter
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: who you play if you can run the ball on
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: first down or just keep it going, especially with we
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: know what they can do passing wise. If they run
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the football well, it's gonna be tough for green Bay,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: it really is. But that that's gonna be a key,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: and I'm sure the cowboys are gonna are going to
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: try to establish that. All right, phone lines are not
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: open anymore. We've got callers. We've got Jesse. He's in Monroe, Washington. Jesse, good,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: First off? Color there we go and have scary share.
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: Everybody's worried about green baybas trick shop where the boys.
• 22:08
  Speaker 11: We're gonna go in and stopping the runs and doing
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: well against the run. Michael Hartson's playing to run. It's
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: a maze to watch. We're gonna go in and we're
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: gonna be bag that, he says. I think there's gonna
• 22:20
  Speaker 11: be a game. All right, you go take your business,
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: get thirty five thirteen, take care of business, and then
• 22:29
  Speaker 11: we're gonna go onto the next round.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: No problems, all right, No problems, all right? Problems here
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: we go, all right, Jesse, first time call them, didn't
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: really have a point, just want to say we're gonna
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: kick their ass, all right. Everybody listening to Jesse. Uh,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: I'm I'm kind of agreeing with you on there, I
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: really am. I'm trying to. I'm trying to say, you know,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: don't get to to you know, to arrogant on this situation.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: And Packers are in the playoffs for a reason. But
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I really think that the Cowboys I just don't think
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: it's a good matchup for them. I really don't. I
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: think the Cowboys should should should take their business. But
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: if they don't, it's on them. But I think that
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: they I think they are. I think they're gonna be focused.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: I think they'na go out, they're gonna execute, and if
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: they do that, they think they're gonna win. All right,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: let's go to Coach Joe's in San Antonio.
• 23:27
  Speaker 12: Good morning, How you doing, good man?
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 23:30
  Speaker 12: I'm good, first time calling, by the way. Here we go,
• 23:35
  Speaker 12: here we go down here in San Antonio, Cowboy country.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:38
  Speaker 12: Been a Cowboy fan since the late sixties. My dad
• 23:41
  Speaker 12: was a big fan, and I lost him when I
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: was eight years old, and the biggest memory of him
• 23:46
  Speaker 12: is sitting down watching the Cowboys with him, and so
• 23:50
  Speaker 12: that's why I'm still a fan. Yeah, that's a connection,
• 23:53
  Speaker 12: you know, as a connection between him and I.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And that's great, man, That is so awesome.
• 24:00
  Speaker 12: Remember all the great Roger Stauback. Tony Dor said Eignan
• 24:05
  Speaker 12: Irvin Emage Smith teams and everything in between. Have not
• 24:09
  Speaker 12: been just excited a long time for a Cowboys team,
• 24:13
  Speaker 12: looking forward to uh going a long way this year and.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Listen to your show, love your articles.
• 24:21
  Speaker 12: But I just wanted to say, you know, best luck
• 24:24
  Speaker 12: to the Cowboys. Let's let's take care of business and
• 24:27
  Speaker 12: one game at a time, use all our weapons.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd like.
• 24:31
  Speaker 12: To see uh Hoollard in the in the passing game
• 24:35
  Speaker 12: screen game a little bit more, maybe some some counters
• 24:38
  Speaker 12: and draws things like that get him in the open space.
• 24:42
  Speaker 12: Uh CD, keep doing his thing. Dak has been playing
• 24:44
  Speaker 12: out of his mind the last you know, since a
• 24:46
  Speaker 12: Frisco game. Everyone knows. But just keep that up. I'm
• 24:49
  Speaker 12: very confident and uh, you know, love your show and
• 24:53
  Speaker 12: best of luck to the Cowboys this year.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Awesome, Thank you, Joe. Appreciate that. Another example I say about,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: you know, being a Cowboy fan chooses you. I love
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: those stories because I can relate, because that's that's kind
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: of what I remember. You know, I remember same thing.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, I remember sitting there watching games with my dad.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: So he was a Cowboy fan, so was I. Simple
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: as that. And uh, you know, and look at us now,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: and yeah, I mean I don't I don't feel I
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: don't feel guilty about being excited about it. I know
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I understand that fans are kind of hesitant. But this
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: is why. This is why you do it. You know,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: this is this is why you you you go through
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: all those years. That's why you watch the draft, this
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: is why you look at free agency. That's why you
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: click on articles that say like NFL rumors and you know,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: just because you get all excited about what this team
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: is going to be and all that, and then you
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: finally have a season where they they've played well and
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: they've they've done a lot of great things. And I
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: have a lot of exciting players too. You know, how
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: many guys are leading the NFL in some categories. We're
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: going to do an article on that here later today.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a lot of guys that are that
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: are the best of the best this year and here
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: they are here, they are cowboys have a chance to
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: do something. So if you know, you can walk around,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: you can be hesitanting if you want, you know, but
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: let's do it. Let's let's you know, let's this is
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: this is what it's all about. So again, I don't
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: ever tell people how to be a fan because everyone
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: kind of does it their own way. But you know what,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: it's the way I am. If I get led down,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: I get let down. But I'm going to be excited
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: about it, you know, because this team, this team right here,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: they they haven't lost twenty eight straight years of not
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: going to the championship game or the Super Bowl. Not
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: this team. This team's twelve and five, you know. So
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of times we're putting that on
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: the team because of what, you know, the history of it.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: But this team has has has done everything that they're
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: supposed to do that they're a twelve and five football team.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: They're right here, ready to go, and you know, one
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: of the best teams in the in the NFL. So
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: knocking down the door for a chance to go to
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the super Bowl. All right, I got a lot of
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: stuff here. The text messages, I'll try to read. One
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: of these is from Mike and Boston. Do you think
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Gilmore will be able to play to the point where
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: he can bump receivers of the line is going to
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: be fifty percent or do you think a fifty percent
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: chance that Gilmore is better than one hundred percent the
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Shawn Wright? Got it? Sorry? Do you think of fifty percent?
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Gilmore is better than one hundred percent and the Shawn Wright.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's been fifty percent. I don't think
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: he'll be at fifty I don't think a week before
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: the game he can say I'm definitely playing and he'll
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: be at fifty percent. I it'll be better than that.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I No, I do not think of fifty percent. Gilmore
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: is better than one hundred percent and the sewn Wright.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: But I think he'll be higher than that, and I
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: think he plays. That's really what I think. Another text
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: question here, Uh don't have a name. We don't read them.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: If we don't have names. Let's see champ I'm sorry,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Champion three? Oh wait, got it. I know I'm getting
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: ahead of here. But if we win the Ultimate Prize,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: do you guys get rings as part of the organization? Also,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: what's your favorite book that you've written? And why? I
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: don't know about the rings. There's a lot of things
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: we just don't know. Like I've been here a long time,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: but we talked a little bit yesterday about Super Bowl plans.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: If that happens. I mean, not not really plans, but
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: just trying to organize, trying to figure out what we do,
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: how do we function? And there's just a lot of
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: things nobody really knows. The last time the Cowboys have gone,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: they probably had three hundred to four hundred less employees
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: than they do now. I mean, it was just a
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: different time, different era, you know. I mean nobody's you know,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: nobody's had a cell phone when the Cowboys went to
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. I mean that's simple as that. Do
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: you think about how things are different across the board?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: They're different? I don't know about that. I don't know.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: If we get rings, maybe I would imagine, but I
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: don't know. Favorite book and why man, probably the Probably
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: it's like picking your children. I mean, yeah, I mean,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: because you don't well and in this case, in this
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: case though, I don't know if I get any of
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: them without the first one. So the book I wrote
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: on our Brawls, that one, probably that one was that
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: was really that, you know, because once you do that,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: you're an author and you can't ever take that away.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: And I was able to do that, and uh that
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: that book, Yeah, that book means a lot to me.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: But also you know the one Friday Friday Saturday sunny
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: in Texas too. That one was that was an idea
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: that I just stood on the table for and I
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: shopped it around and finally got a publisher, HarperCollins as
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: the publisher to to you know, buy in. And that one,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: that one was a it was a you know, interesting
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: idea of just bad luck with the game, with the
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: times and the season the Cowboys had and some of
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: the other schools have. But I thought that one was
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: was one that I really liked. But yeah, I and
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I like all of them honestly, So thank you, thank
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: you for saying that out there. All right, let's go
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: to Allen. He's in Long Island, New York.
• 30:09
  Speaker 13: Nick, Good morning. But John, I just want to say
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: to all the Cowboy fans in the world, let's take
• 30:17
  Speaker 13: this one game at a time. There's guys and I
• 30:20
  Speaker 13: and there's guys out there talking about the championship game,
• 30:22
  Speaker 13: and I get it, like, you haven't been there in
• 30:24
  Speaker 13: the thirty years you've been on in the organization. You
• 30:27
  Speaker 13: haven't been once. Let's not even talk about that. Let's
• 30:30
  Speaker 13: not talk about the divisional rounds. Let's just focus on
• 30:32
  Speaker 13: the Packers, one game at a time. Let's not get
• 30:34
  Speaker 13: ahead of ourselves. They are a legit team and we
• 30:38
  Speaker 13: are a good team as well, and should we beat
• 30:40
  Speaker 13: them on paper? Yeah, but the game's not played on paper, Okay,
• 30:43
  Speaker 13: games played on Sunday. So let's just focus on the Packers.
• 30:46
  Speaker 13: Let's focus on Jordan Love and Aaron Jones, who's been
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: known to run against us. So let's just keep it simple.
• 30:53
  Speaker 13: One week at a time. Let's enjoy the rides, not
• 30:56
  Speaker 13: talk about the draft. And also, you know, I love
• 31:00
  Speaker 13: the higher you guys made. Nick Harris, the US brings.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Love him.
• 31:04
  Speaker 13: No, Cy Walker is a real one. I love No Seed.
• 31:09
  Speaker 13: But like Nick Harris, is that keep saying on talking cowboys?
• 31:12
  Speaker 13: Oh yeah, you know, I can I see it. You know,
• 31:15
  Speaker 13: you know I don't see I don't see why we
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: wouldn't win the next two games. Like, don't even say
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: that next please don't say that. Just let's just focus
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: on the Packers, please. I beg you, and that's all
• 31:23
  Speaker 13: I want to say. Great job, was always with you
• 31:25
  Speaker 13: and Chris, and talk to you next time.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I hear what you're saying. I mean, you're
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: you're you're you're right, you're right. And again this goes
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: down to what everybody's kind of a fan in their
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: in their own way. I mean, it's hard not to
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: be excited because just when you say, that's what being
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: the number two seed is, being the number two seed
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: is getting a home game at least at least two
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: of them if you can win. And so you know
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: that's that's kind of where it is. I mean, the
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Cowboys are destined to be, you know, like where they
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: haven't been in twenty eight years. In the championship game.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: They've got to win two more home games they're eight. No,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not. I don't know if it's getting ahead of yourself.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, you can't win one without the other. You
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: can't win three games, four games if you don't win one.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: We get everybody understands that. And so I think I
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: didn't listen to what Nick said, but I you know,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I know him well, and I agree. I think he's
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: been he's been great addition to our team. And I
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: think that what he's saying is is, I mean, they
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: should win this game, and if they win, they should
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: win the next one. That's what's in front of him.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: That's how big this stage is. For them right now.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: That's where they are, is that they are in a
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: position where they are the favorites to be in the
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: championship game. The only thing that's going to stop him
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: is themselves. And you know that's that's just where it is.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I don't think, you know, we're not the ones getting
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: ready for the game. The team's getting ready for the plays.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Go out in the locker room today and start talking about,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: you know, winning two or three games in a row,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: then you know you can chastise them. But you know,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I just think we're trying to trying to figure out
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: how big this stage is. And that's how big the
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: stage is the Cowboys have something really special in front
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: of them, all right. Mike and Houston. Hey, Nick, Mike, hey.
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: Man, good Man, Hey, love your show. I actually had
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: a chance to meet you in Houston. That was stalking
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: cowboys at a hotel there and got a chance to
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: meet you and you're very nice and very cordial. Appreciate that.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Mike.
• 33:40
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you got a real quick question. So you know,
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: I was a Romo guy, and you know see that
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: now Dak is doing a lot more at the line
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: of scrimmage. You know, a lot of changing plays, putting
• 33:54
  Speaker 9: guys in positions and stuff, and I didn't see a
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: lot of that last year. So is that, you know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: part of the skelling more moving away and having Mike
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: giving him more authority to do that. And I'll hang
• 34:11
  Speaker 9: up and listen. Random player Orlando McLain.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: That's funny you said that. I just mentioned him. Thanks
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Mike for the call, and it feels like a first
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: time caller. I don't know, what do you think, Chris, No, Mike, anyways,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: he can get it here? Why not if not a
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: good call? It's funny you said that about Orlando. Orlando McClain.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: We were just talking about him. I mentioned him yesterday
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: because every time our team of writers, our group would
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: get together for something, whether it just be a lunch,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: a birthday lunch, or just you know, having to go
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: cover something all as a group, there would be some
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: kind of story that would break. And we were talking
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: about the time we covered the World Cup. Watch party
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: was at at and T Stadium, had a suite on
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: field level. We were watching it on the Jumbo trying
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: to two thousand and fourteen or something like that. I
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: can't remember exactly, but but a World Cup year and
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: US was playing and it was late. You know, everyone
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: was really excited about it. They probably went as far
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: as they've been in a while. Course, story broke while
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: we were there just trying to watch it, and Cowboys
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: of signed Rolando McLain and so we were there in
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: a suite all hellman, me, Rob Phillips, all trying to
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: figure that out. But yeah, Ronald McClain was a guy
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: that from the press box view, it doesn't matter how
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: high you were when he made the tackle, you knew
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: it was h his tackle because there was no like
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: a run after, you know, contact when he made the hit.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: He was tall and lanky man, he could hit, and
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: he was the guy that hit Jason Witten and broke
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: his spleen or whatever you know in that game in
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: a preseason game back in twenty twelve with the Raiders,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: hit him so hard that that's where he suffered. That injury.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Didn't keep him out of a regular season game, but
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: definitely a big hit. All right, let's go, Robin Vegas.
• 36:14
  Speaker 14: Nick, Here we go, Here we go. This is why
• 36:18
  Speaker 14: you lift all those weights.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: That's right, that's right.
• 36:22
  Speaker 14: I mean, listen, I know the fans of We're not
• 36:25
  Speaker 14: I'm nervous, but not now. I'm excited. I mean, yeah,
• 36:29
  Speaker 14: this is what they're built for. This is what if
• 36:31
  Speaker 14: I told you you were going to pencil this in
• 36:33
  Speaker 14: before the season and seed home field.
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: Let's go.
• 36:37
  Speaker 14: We take it. Right now. We are where we're supposed
• 36:40
  Speaker 14: to be. We're the better team. The only thing that
• 36:43
  Speaker 14: makes you nervous is we see the future. Like you said,
• 36:49
  Speaker 14: they should beat this team. If we bring ra game,
• 36:52
  Speaker 14: we're going to blow this team off the fields, and
• 36:55
  Speaker 14: we should beat the next team. So of course you
• 36:58
  Speaker 14: look forward, and I agree with the other call up.
• 37:02
  Speaker 14: Don't you know you got to take this game one
• 37:04
  Speaker 14: by one? Green Bay. He's not, you know, a slouch,
• 37:07
  Speaker 14: but I said we should be more. I haven't been
• 37:11
  Speaker 14: this excited about a team since the mageties. You know,
• 37:14
  Speaker 14: all the other teams, the Romo teams and even the Deck. Lookie,
• 37:18
  Speaker 14: they had flaws on defense. This team doesn't have a
• 37:22
  Speaker 14: lot of flaws, right. I mean, you're rolling with the
• 37:26
  Speaker 14: You got the most important position right now as quarterback.
• 37:30
  Speaker 14: He's the best in the NFC. We've never had that
• 37:34
  Speaker 14: going into the playoffs. I mean, we are just rocking
• 37:38
  Speaker 14: and rolling. So I just want the fans to be excited,
• 37:41
  Speaker 14: and I think Dak you saw it when he wouldn't
• 37:43
  Speaker 14: put the hat on. I know it sounds dumb, but
• 37:47
  Speaker 14: Dak's been there. Dak's a veteran. Now in the playoffs,
• 37:50
  Speaker 14: this will be his what is his sixth the seventh.
• 37:54
  Speaker 14: I believe you're right, he's a veteran. He understands and
• 37:59
  Speaker 14: you and I just think this team is ready. I
• 38:01
  Speaker 14: think this team, yeah, maybe they caught a break with
• 38:04
  Speaker 14: Philly collapsing, but they had to win, you know, their games,
• 38:09
  Speaker 14: and I think the Cowboys are, like, they're just ready.
• 38:12
  Speaker 14: Like I said the other day, twelve and five is great,
• 38:14
  Speaker 14: three years in a row, but if you don't build
• 38:17
  Speaker 14: on that, it's just twelve and five red this season
• 38:20
  Speaker 14: and you lose a playoffs. I think this team understands that.
• 38:24
  Speaker 14: I think they're ready to rock and roll.
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: And I think.
• 38:27
  Speaker 14: I think they're going to just beat down Green Bay.
• 38:30
  Speaker 14: I just do, and I'm just excited. I'm I'm I
• 38:33
  Speaker 14: think they just had to do that thing.
• 38:36
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 38:38
  Speaker 14: Sure, I would love Mike McCarty to get on the
• 38:40
  Speaker 14: phone like Jimmy and guarantee you win.
• 38:42
  Speaker 13: I love stuff like that.
• 38:43
  Speaker 14: But now this this team is ready to roll. I
• 38:47
  Speaker 14: I don't think it's nervous. In the past, it was
• 38:50
  Speaker 14: nervous that we thought we were going to lose. Now
• 38:53
  Speaker 14: I think it's nervous excitement because we expect to win.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Right, And that's that's why go ahead, run.
• 39:01
  Speaker 14: And that's why being a fan, being a fan, you know,
• 39:03
  Speaker 14: I olvery know he's left. My friend is like a
• 39:05
  Speaker 14: Chicago band. I said, that's easy if you guys get
• 39:08
  Speaker 14: three four wins. Yeah, you're happy as a Cowboy fan,
• 39:13
  Speaker 14: as a as a Patriots fan, I'm sure with Tom
• 39:15
  Speaker 14: Brady it's it's super Bowl well bust, you know, So
• 39:21
  Speaker 14: it's it's it's tough.
• 39:23
  Speaker 9: You know, when you're.
• 39:24
  Speaker 14: Rooting for good teams. Could you just expect more? You know?
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: When we would lose.
• 39:27
  Speaker 14: I remember when Romo got hurt years ago, like in
• 39:30
  Speaker 14: a fourth game, and then they brought the back, you
• 39:32
  Speaker 14: would what. I watched those games with my feet kicked up,
• 39:34
  Speaker 14: you know, like, okay.
• 39:35
  Speaker 9: Let's see what happens.
• 39:36
  Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, where Now I sit three feet away from
• 39:40
  Speaker 14: a seventy five inch TV, and I'm just rocket from
• 39:44
  Speaker 14: crazy because yeah, it's it's it's just it's just different.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: But that's fun.
• 39:48
  Speaker 14: You wouldn't have it any other way. The alternative is
• 39:52
  Speaker 14: you're playing golf, right, you're not even watching? So no,
• 39:56
  Speaker 14: I'm I'm excited. I can't wait and uh you we
• 40:00
  Speaker 14: go all right?
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: All right, Rob, appreciate that. Rob in Vegas. Uh, let's
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: keep it going here. We got Bob. He's in Rio
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Grand Valley. Bob, what's up?
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: How are you doing this? More than Nick?
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: I'm good man. How are you doing good?
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: Great show? Thank you? But you know, uh, there's a
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: couple of games at our opponents that we have to
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: play occasionally at that means a lot to us cowboy
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: fans down here in the valley, and winning it is
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: very important. I think you guys don't realize that. I
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: didn't realize before I moved to the valley. The number
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: of Winter Texans that we have down here and farther
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: they call them snowbirds. Yeah, here they call winter Texans.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: And boyd, the number of people that we have from Wisconsin,
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: Michigan and Minnesota every winter, and they're so important to
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: ark ony and we're welcome and we're glad to have them.
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: But they they bring their football oi at least with them,
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: and the worst ones that you want to lose to
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: is bye God the damn Packers. So at go Cowboys
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: this weekend. The Green Bay has put together a pretty
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: good little team up there. They're solid, they're not a
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: great team. They don't have a lot of superstars, but
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: they're blue collar. They're chiff at you and chiff at
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: you and cheff at you and keep coming and keep
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: coming and keep coming. So I'm looking to forward the
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: sixty minutes of hard played football. I think the Cowboys
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: are going to come out on top of about thirty
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: eight to twenty or twenty four, and in doing so,
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: they're gonna give me bragging rights for the rest of
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: the winner. You guys have a great week. Oh, by
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: the way, my favorite cowboy Mary and Barbara, all Right,
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: he was blue collar buddy. He'd get you three, he'd
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: get you four. When he went down, he was still
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: trimming and he was still fighting. And that kind of
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: reminds me of the defense that uh, we've got right
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: now with the Cowboys and also with our offense. Uh,
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: you guys have a great week, great show, and thank
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: you for taking my call.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Thanks Bob. Appreciate that boy that he could use a
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: runner like Marion Barber right now, you know, playoff type,
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: you know games, you know, big time when it gets
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: into this part of the season. Every yard counts, every
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: everything matters, and so yeah, you can you can use
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: a runner like that he was. He was definitely special
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: for sure. Well, hope you get those bragging rights. And uh,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: it's one thing's for sure. There's gonna be a lot
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: of Packer fans at the game. I mean, they they're
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: everywhere they travel, they stand out. Obviously, their color just
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: pops out, especially when you're doing a white out in
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: the stands. So there'll be there'll be some Packer fans
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: there for sure. But you know, at the end of
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: the day, I mean, I don't know how many times
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: you can say it. I mean I wish I can't
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: wait for this game to get here, because it just
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: feels like there's no other way to say it. I Mean,
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys they just gotta they got to do with
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: what they do, You're right, I mean, the Green Bays
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: here for a reason. They're they're going to be gritty, pesky,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. They're not going to be afraid. You know.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: They they've gone into Arrowhead Stadium and they've won this year,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: you know, and they they've won games on the road. Now,
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: pretty bad officiating call there that probably helped them win.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: But whatever, we've been there, we've seen all that both sides.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: So uh hey, there's nothing else to say about that.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Let's just let's go, let's get let's get this thing.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Let's get this thing done. All right, Danny, he's in
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: San Lorenzo, California.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Nick, enjoy your show. And uh I think
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: I think we got this run. But first of all,
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: I want to say about green Bay. I was dead
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: the last time we lost that game against Green Bay.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: The ghost of Avon Rogers is dead. He's dead. And
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: I just want to say that the way I've been
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: looking at things and seeing how things is lining up.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Remember when we were supposed to play New Orleans when
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: we had Jalen Smith and h Van Nation and the
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: guy from Chicago missed that field goal We're supposed to
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: went to New Orleans. Yeah, and uh so we ended
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: up LA. I felt like we could have beat New
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: Orleans that and that that first playoff game, then that
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: next game when we ended up going against the forty
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: nine ers. Forty nine Ers wasn't supposed to be in
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: that seventh seed and some kind of way we lined
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: up and they came in and beat us. I was
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: at that game, but this game here, it finally landed right.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: They could say it was a bad call, but we
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: didn't have bad calls on each other's side. But we
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: got just the first time and lined up right for us.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: We got green Bay. Were supposed to be Green Bay,
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: and we got Green Bay. So I feel good about
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: this one because I think we need to say something
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: to mister Aaron Jones about the way he went into
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: that end zone on us. Yeah, jaeln Tober then grown up,
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: So I just want to say that there. Like I said,
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: this is this Stoy's supposed to be. And I really
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: feel good about this because and like you said, this
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: team here, this team got the talent to go all
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: the way, and I think that's what we're looking at
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: right now. So everything is lining up for us right now.
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: I'm from our little town outside of Waco, Texas. I
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: grew up. I stay out here right up on all
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: these forty nine of fans. I came to Califuni in
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: nineteen seventy seven, and that Cowboy star still flies highut here.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Nice, nice, Danny, I got something for you. Okay, first
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: time calling. Thank you, Chris.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: I love it, love your show. That was good day,
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: Go cowboy.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: There you go, Danny living it up out there in California,
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: all those forty nine er fans. Uh, good luck to
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: see you on that one. All right, let's keep it
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: going here, Michael Colton, California, another California. What's up?
• 46:14
  Speaker 15: Yes, yes, sir, what's going on? Shout out to the
• 46:17
  Speaker 15: whole cowboys nation. Good morning to everybody. And how about
• 46:20
  Speaker 15: them cowboys?
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: Right? What Chris is just on the buttons today. Man,
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: he's been he's buttons over there.
• 46:28
  Speaker 15: Hey, Chris does a great job. Man.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Shut off to Chris too.
• 46:31
  Speaker 15: Hey, but hey, Nick, thank you for taking my call.
• 46:34
  Speaker 15: But man, I'm so excited and I'm so nervous and
• 46:38
  Speaker 15: I'm so anxious.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: The word excite, nervous, it's anxious.
• 46:45
  Speaker 15: There you go, there you go, Okay, I'm I'm a
• 46:48
  Speaker 15: little worried about Eddon Jones. Man, that guy has always
• 46:51
  Speaker 15: been a problem. It's the put up or shut up time.
• 46:57
  Speaker 15: You know, there's been on the shares. And I'll be
• 47:00
  Speaker 15: the first chabul I've always said, I hope I'm wrong
• 47:03
  Speaker 15: because I'll be the first one to say that I
• 47:05
  Speaker 15: was done for say what I say. You know, yeah,
• 47:07
  Speaker 15: but man, I just feel that the balls in our
• 47:11
  Speaker 15: core and and all the stars are aligned and it
• 47:14
  Speaker 15: is time to handle business man. And I'm just really
• 47:16
  Speaker 15: excited for this game this week, and I hope Marquis
• 47:20
  Speaker 15: Bell and Damon Clark they could step up and contain
• 47:23
  Speaker 15: Aaron Jones. And I'm gonna go ahead and hang up.
• 47:25
  Speaker 15: Thank you for taking my call, and you have a
• 47:27
  Speaker 15: great day.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Michael, appreciate that. Yeah, Aaron Jones has been, uh
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: he's been hot lately here. He's got he's got more
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: rushing yards in the last three games than he did
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: all all season before that. So I think he's got
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: three hundred and forty something yards of the last three games,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: very consistent one hundred yard games. So they figured something
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: out there with with him. And you know, they they've
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: won three in a row, guys, but they they beat
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Carolina about three. They beat the Vikings on the road,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: and then I think they beat the Bears. So their
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: schedule kind of uh favor them a little bit down
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: the stretch, but you know, give them, give them credit
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: for what they've done. They're a young football team. Green
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: Bay is a young team. I think that the youngest
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: team in the league. Like I said, they don't have
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of star power right now. They've got some
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: young players that probably will be you know, throughout the years,
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: but as you know, as they get a little bit
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: more experienced. But they're here now, and you know, like
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: like I said, they're not going to be afraid of
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: the of the moment and they're not gonna be afraid
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: of the Cowboys. But the you know, the Cowboys are
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: gonna have to just bring it. I've said it five times,
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: set a ten. You know, I think the better teams
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: got to show up. You got to execute, you got
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: to you got to be able to rise to the occasion.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: And this is it. This is the playoffs. It's it's
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: on a different level height No in in regular season
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: is great at home, but you know, you got to
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: be ten to zero, maybe eleven. You know, who knows
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: if they get three games. Nothing's guaranteed right now, but
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: like some of the other callers said, can't win three
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: games if you don't win one. So it starts this
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: week with Green Bay. Uh good stuff though, good stuff.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: Thirteen calls today. You guys are great. I got to
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: hear from a lot of a lot of you know,
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: old friends there that have called over the years. Got
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: some first time callers as well, great mix, good stuff.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Got Cowboys break coming up here, got shows all day
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: long like normal, so stick with us on that. But
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: we'll see you tomorrow For Chris Beam, I'm Nick Keepan.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: We'll see on Cowboys storyline. See you.
• 49:23
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• 49:26
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