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  Speaker 1: The follow He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot
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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: What is up?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I am Nick Eatman here and
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  Speaker 2: it is time to talk a little Cowboys football. Give
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity for you guys, the fans, to let us
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  Speaker 2: know what's going on in your world and what do
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  Speaker 2: you think about this football team. We have moved officially
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  Speaker 2: to October now, and it is time to look at
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  Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Cowboys are two and two, right in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the thick of everything where the Cowboy,
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  Speaker 2: where the rest of the league is. There's some four
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  Speaker 2: and o teams, there's some there's some teams. I think
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  Speaker 2: some teams still winless. Uh, but uh, the bulk of
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  Speaker 2: everyone's going to be right here in this two to
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  Speaker 2: two and two, in three, three and one, that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: where the Cowboys are. They got to get to three
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  Speaker 2: and two this week against Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 4: Can they do that on the road?
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  Speaker 2: Has been eight years since they've played at Pittsburgh. Young
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  Speaker 2: Young Dak Young Zeke. Rookies just out there running around
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  Speaker 2: not even knowing what's going on? What was one of
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  Speaker 2: the greatest games that I can remember. It'll be a
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  Speaker 2: top five, top ten game of all time. That was
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  Speaker 2: such a fun game. A lot of storylines in that one.
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  Speaker 2: But man, things have changed obviously, as things do in
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  Speaker 2: eight years. All right, eight eight eight eight five five
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  Speaker 4: We appreciate you guys as well. You can take the
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  Speaker 4: phone calls.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said at eight A eight eight five five
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  Speaker 2: two two nine seven. All right, let's get right to it. Then,
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  Speaker 2: let's see where we got. First on the line is
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  Speaker 2: Chuck d He's in Bridge City, Texas.
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  Speaker 4: Chuck, what's up?
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  Speaker 5: What's up?
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  Speaker 6: Nick?
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  Speaker 5: How you doing hanging in there?
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  Speaker 7: Man?
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  Speaker 4: Good?
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  Speaker 5: Hey?
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  Speaker 6: I want to bring up the tackling. It seems like
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  Speaker 6: our tackling is uh, we're right there. You know, we've
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  Speaker 6: had one for a loss on fourth down. And then
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  Speaker 6: he slipped out my question. I know, with practices and
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  Speaker 6: all that, with the competition committee, I don't know how
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  Speaker 6: many padded practices they get during the week, but I'm
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  Speaker 6: wondering if they could or if they're looking into maybe
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  Speaker 6: practicing their fundamentals a little more. I know they got
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  Speaker 6: so much to practice, but man, we need to get
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  Speaker 6: this tackling down.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's that's a tough one, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because you know that they're trying to keep everybody safe.
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  Speaker 2: The season's longer, and it's going to be even longer,
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  Speaker 2: I mean before you know what I mean, either it's
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  Speaker 2: next year or the year after, we're gonna move to
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  Speaker 2: eighteen games. You know, that's happening eighteen regular season games,
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  Speaker 2: which which would probably mean maybe another bye week. That
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  Speaker 2: could happen either way. To your point, with everything, there's
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  Speaker 2: always two sides, right you know, yes, you they're not
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  Speaker 2: tackling well, they're not playing football as much. The training
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  Speaker 2: camp is lighter than it used to be and not
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  Speaker 2: as not as intense, and then the same goes with practice.
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  Speaker 2: And then a guy like Trayvon Diggs gets hurt and
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  Speaker 2: towards tears his ACL in the middle of a practice
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  Speaker 2: and he's out for the season.
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  Speaker 4: Again.
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  Speaker 2: That could have happened on anything, whether it was padded
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  Speaker 2: or not. It was padded, but the drill was It
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  Speaker 2: was just a routine drill. So my point is is
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  Speaker 2: that as soon as you want to to intensify practice
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  Speaker 2: and really you know, focus in on on getting better
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  Speaker 2: at playing football throughout the week and making a better game,
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  Speaker 2: things like that happen where you get a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of you know, more of an injury. So it's always
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  Speaker 2: a balance. I think that it's within the teams to
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  Speaker 2: come up with the with the best drills that they
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  Speaker 2: can to kind of get them in, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: in that in that same frame of mind, and and
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  Speaker 2: try to do that, but you cannot. The best way
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  Speaker 2: to play football is to play football. I mean that's
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  Speaker 2: you have to practice it, you have to play it.
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  Speaker 2: So your point is valid. I just don't know if
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be any major changes to to to
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 4: Right now.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Doc. He's in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 4: Doc.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, how are you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm good?
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  Speaker 8: All right, Hey, I just want to tell you a
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  Speaker 8: funny story. And and then I wanted to comment on
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  Speaker 8: and on Mike McCarthy because I'm a big fan and
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  Speaker 8: twelve and five for three straight years is incredible, and
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  Speaker 8: I don't understand why not you, But most of the
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  Speaker 8: media and most of the fans want to run the
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  Speaker 8: poor guy out of town. But let me tell you
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  Speaker 8: the funny story. Because my son and I travel to
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  Speaker 8: a lot of the games, and we went to Cleveland
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  Speaker 8: and New York. We're going to be in Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Carolina,
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  Speaker 8: and probably a couple others. But we're a good luck
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  Speaker 8: charm so far. But what happened was on the Cleveland game,
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  Speaker 8: We're sitting there and when Trayvon Diggs made the interception,
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  Speaker 8: my son is wearing his jersey and we're up in
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  Speaker 8: the fourteenth row, so pretty far back. So Diggs comes
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  Speaker 8: running over and heaves the ball up and it's coming
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  Speaker 8: directly to me. You know, I had to move into
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  Speaker 8: the aisle because but the Cleveland guys had left, so
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  Speaker 8: all these hands are flying around, and at the last second,
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  Speaker 8: my son, like play, tries to cut in front of
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  Speaker 8: me because I'm sixty six and he's only twenty five.
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  Speaker 8: He wanted to save the old man, and the darn
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  Speaker 8: ball bounced right off my chest and to some other guy.
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  Speaker 8: And it was so sad, but we had such a
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  Speaker 8: great time. Didn't matter. But it was funny.
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  Speaker 7: It's not funny.
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  Speaker 2: Remember remember that play next week when the pass over
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  Speaker 2: the middle and Ferguson doesn't catch it or drops it
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. And I know you're going to
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  Speaker 2: say I'm sixty six or whatever, but I'm just.
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  Speaker 4: Saying it happens.
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  Speaker 2: And you said it was funny that you dropped it,
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  Speaker 2: And just remember that guys miss missed the ball every
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  Speaker 2: now and again.
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  Speaker 8: Let me tell you this, that ball is really hard
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  Speaker 8: and it's slippery. It's not like the ball you play
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  Speaker 8: in your backyard.
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  Speaker 4: No like it.
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  Speaker 8: Oh my god, it was like a yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 8: I don't fall to guys. You know, that's why they
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  Speaker 8: wear gloves. It's smart. Well, all right, but let me
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  Speaker 8: let me talk about Mike Mike McCarthy because he's twelve
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  Speaker 8: and five for three straight years and everybody wants to
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  Speaker 8: run him out of town if he doesn't go to
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  Speaker 8: the NFC title game. I mean, just making the playoffs
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  Speaker 8: is hard, as you pointed out, it's you know, we
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  Speaker 8: went through before your time, Chanley. Then we had Dave
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  Speaker 8: Campo and Wade Phillips. Bill Parcells was not so not so,
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  Speaker 8: not so tough. I don't like Jason Garrett, and when
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  Speaker 8: he called us not tough, he was not tough. But
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  Speaker 8: you know we had all those years, we barely even
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  Speaker 8: made the playoffs two years in a row with any
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  Speaker 8: kind of a record, let alone twelve and five. So
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  Speaker 8: what I want to advance and to remember, and you
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  Speaker 8: keep pointing this out, getting the playoffs is not easy,
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  Speaker 8: and it's going to be a great year. You know,
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  Speaker 8: I'll be cheering it right along and advancing in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 8: You're a historian, so I just want to point out,
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  Speaker 8: since I'm an old timer, but my first year was
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  Speaker 8: the year of the NFL Title Game when Don Meredith
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  Speaker 8: through the interception last play of the game, I think
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  Speaker 8: like the two yard line against Green Bay.
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  Speaker 9: We lost.
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  Speaker 8: Then the next year was the Ice Bowl. We lose
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  Speaker 8: on a last second quarterbacks. The next two years we
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  Speaker 8: lost to a pretty good Cleveland team, although we were
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  Speaker 8: better than Cleveland, but we lost both times. And then
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  Speaker 8: we had the first Super Bowl, which Sports Illustrated called
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  Speaker 8: the Blunderbowl, and we lose on the last second field
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  Speaker 8: goal before we finally won it. So just because you know,
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  Speaker 8: I've been as disappointed as anybody in the losses in
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  Speaker 8: the playoffs because I'm a fan, I want to win
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  Speaker 8: every game. But you know, just because you lose doesn't
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  Speaker 8: mean you run the guy out of town. I think
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  Speaker 8: it would be a big, big, big mistake and just
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  Speaker 8: one of your thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, Dot. You know, I think we got
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  Speaker 2: to see how this season goes. I'm I'm for I'm
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  Speaker 2: probably one of the last guys that's going to say
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  Speaker 2: change the change the coach because it doesn't make it
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. I mean, I think getting to the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs that, like you said, is way way harder than
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  Speaker 2: people think, and to have and you need some stability.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to have that within your team, within your coaches.
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  Speaker 2: And I think you know this year is going to
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  Speaker 2: be interesting, you know, because if you start a training
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  Speaker 2: camp and you said, hey, this defense is going to
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  Speaker 2: be better, and you're like, well, hold up, Sam Williams,
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  Speaker 2: who you expect to start on the outside, you know,
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  Speaker 2: or at least be one of the top pass rushers.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna be out all year. Toron Bland first four
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  Speaker 2: or five games, probably be out at least five games
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  Speaker 2: for you. Micah Parson is going to miss a couple
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  Speaker 2: of games. D law could miss a month, month and
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  Speaker 2: a half in the middle of the season. Good luck,
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  Speaker 2: good luck, Jim, good luck.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 2: So you have to kind of figure out how all
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  Speaker 2: that works, and we'll see how they do and see
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  Speaker 2: if they can get this thing turned around. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's uh, let's keep this thing going. We got a
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  Speaker 2: text question here from the lines are open by the
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  Speaker 2: way eight eight eight eight five five two two nine
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  Speaker 2: seven here all the time about how it's how hard
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  Speaker 2: it is to get in, which is great, that's a
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  Speaker 2: good problem to have. Uh, but I think right now,
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  Speaker 2: if you want to call him, you should be able
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  Speaker 2: to to get through.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go with a text question. We got Tony from Mansfield, Texas.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It says Jerry talked about no Dalvin Cook again this week.
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  Speaker 2: He said it on the radio Tuesday morning. Uh, one
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  Speaker 2: oh five to three the fam again. It doesn't doesn't
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  Speaker 2: think this is the week for Dalvin Cook to play.
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  Speaker 2: There's got to be something else going on here. He's
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  Speaker 2: not ready to play. He doesn't know the plays. They
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  Speaker 2: don't think he's that good. They don't see something in practice.
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  Speaker 2: There's something here. Okay, this is not a four time
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  Speaker 2: Pro Bowl running back who who can just come in
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  Speaker 2: and and and he's gonna save the day. They see
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  Speaker 2: something that they don't like because you're dead last in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL and rushing. It's been four games, that's enough
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  Speaker 2: of a sample size to know you're not running the ball. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you've won two, you've lost to in Through all of that,
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  Speaker 2: you're not running the ball. So uh, and they're trying
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  Speaker 2: different things. Rico Dadall has started, Ezekiel Elliott has started.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen a little bit of Douce Vaughn here and there.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen Hunter lipke H CD's running the ball. Nothing's
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  Speaker 2: really working here, and so I think your your longest,
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  Speaker 2: you're you've only had three rushes of ten yards or more.
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  Speaker 2: Two of them are by CD.
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  Speaker 4: Lamb. That's a problem. That's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: And so if if you've got Dalvin Cook on the
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  Speaker 2: practice squad and they're not playing him, I'm gonna trust
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  Speaker 2: the coaches, the scouts, their their eyes, their ears, they
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  Speaker 2: they understand what's happening better than we do. So there's
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  Speaker 2: just more to it. There's more to it than them
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  Speaker 2: just saying now we like what we're doing here, we
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  Speaker 2: don't need this guy. So again, at some point. I
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  Speaker 2: would like to think he's going to be here but
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  Speaker 2: or he's gonna play, but I guess it's not gonna
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  Speaker 2: be this week. That's at least what Jerry said on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Ronnie in New Jersey. Ronnie good,
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  Speaker 2: how are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: That's too bad? Nick? That was actually a he got
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  Speaker 5: to my point. That was actually the question that I
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  Speaker 5: wanted to ask you. So we're shutting him of being
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  Speaker 5: uh uh his you know, dad was really famous and
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  Speaker 5: the number one thing he was famous for was for
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  Speaker 5: running the ball. So his schemes, yeah, he had great
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  Speaker 5: running backs, but he ran the ball. So is this
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  Speaker 5: more because of McCarthy type of scheme what he wants
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  Speaker 5: to do with with the game plan, or because Seenheimer
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  Speaker 5: is the offensive coordinator right or is it because the
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  Speaker 5: interior of the line. They seem pretty good? I mean
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  Speaker 5: right now they're ranked h Tyler Smith is ranked pretty high.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody's saying that he looks like an All Pro or
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  Speaker 5: center b B, which that's the guy we wanted that
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  Speaker 5: I wanted.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: Starting he's playing. I think he's playing very well and
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  Speaker 5: and sackpoint and looks human every once in a while.
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  Speaker 5: But he's still better than most cards. So if our
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  Speaker 5: interior looks at as good as they do, what's the problem.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's what I wanted to get to you, Like,
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  Speaker 5: you're not giving any Okay, you just said that they
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  Speaker 5: gave every run back an opportunity, but they're not giving
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  Speaker 5: them like twenty twenty five carries. They give them ten
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  Speaker 5: to twelve carries and then the other guy gets ten. No,
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  Speaker 5: give the guy twenty twenty five carries and then that's
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  Speaker 5: a true test to see who's Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let me let me ask you this though. Two yard run,
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  Speaker 2: four yard run, two yard run, punt. You're okay with that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, because you getting the opportunities. I think the
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  Speaker 2: biggest problem is they're not having success. I mean they're
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  Speaker 2: not running the ball well. Zach Martin has got all
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  Speaker 2: the Pro bowls, Tyler Smith looks like he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be there and be a pro bowler forever. The same thing,
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  Speaker 2: and Cooper Biby. All of those guys look good. But
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is, they're not running the ball well. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you could really say they've abandoned the run.
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  Speaker 2: I think they've tried and it's not working out. That's
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  Speaker 2: not they're not getting a lot of success there. I
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  Speaker 2: think about what I just said, only you've only had
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  Speaker 2: one running back. That's how to you do not have
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  Speaker 2: a running back that's had a rush longer than ten yards.
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  Speaker 4: Only Rico went for ten. That is it.
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  Speaker 2: So that shows to me that they're not having a
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  Speaker 2: lot of success doing this.
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  Speaker 5: And that's the guy that's looking the best right now.
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  Speaker 5: I think if you hit give him more opportunities, you
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  Speaker 5: might you might get a better outcome. And if you're
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  Speaker 5: not gonna give him more opportunities, then yeah, bring up Cooks.
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  Speaker 5: See see what he does. Because we need the running
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  Speaker 5: game in order to help our defense, which comes up
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  Speaker 5: the right. I'm with the buy from the Chimes game,
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  Speaker 5: and we need the running game to help out the
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  Speaker 5: entire team. If we get the running game, I think
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  Speaker 5: they'll get get back more freedom or give the defense
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  Speaker 5: or breather, and you know they'll be able to play
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  Speaker 5: a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: I'm totally with you at my point, and your point
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  Speaker 2: is right, like all the you said, if the running
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  Speaker 2: game does this, all of these other factors will work.
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  Speaker 4: I believe that one thous. I just don't think Nick give.
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  Speaker 2: He does he does. He needs a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: every time. That's my new nickname for him is Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: That's my I'm gonna call him Thanksgiving. Just keep adding
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  Speaker 2: stuff on his plate. He can take it. Just keep
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  Speaker 2: keep doing it, keep.
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  Speaker 4: Throwing it to him.
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  Speaker 2: All right, right, thanks, Ronie, appreciate that. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 2: right and everything that that you're saying. I again, I
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  Speaker 2: think if you go back and watch the games and
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  Speaker 2: and maybe that's what I need to do is kind
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  Speaker 2: of watch a little bit. I don't believe there's a
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  Speaker 2: time where they're just saying that they're giving up on
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  Speaker 2: the run. I just you're getting you're seeing a lot
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  Speaker 2: of two yard runs, three yard runs, and that that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily keep you running the football. Running the football,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna throw it. I mean that, I think that
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  Speaker 2: they're a better passing team than they are running team.
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  Speaker 2: So the goal is to move the football. That's the goal.
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  Speaker 2: You got to move it. I just don't believe that
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  Speaker 2: they this team can consistently run the football to to
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  Speaker 2: you know, move the sticks. We're just we're not seeing
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  Speaker 2: that as much. I'll give them credit for this though.
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  Speaker 2: Zeke is not doing a lot, but the one of
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  Speaker 2: the biggest plays in that Giants game last week was
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  Speaker 2: a seven yard run by Zeke in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: They just stopped them on fourth down. They got the
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  Speaker 2: ball back three forty five to go about on the
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  Speaker 2: forty five of the Giants. You need a couple of
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  Speaker 2: first downs to win this game, and or at least
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  Speaker 2: you know, put put it away and again you know,
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  Speaker 2: they know you're running, they know that you're gonna run
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  Speaker 2: the football. And Zeke gets seven on first down. That
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  Speaker 2: was huge. That was a big, big play in the
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  Speaker 2: game because then you get two yards, I believe I
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: think Zeke got two and then Lipke got the first down.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: For that's one first down they got. They ran seven
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: or eight yards and but got the clock down to
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: thirty seconds kick the field goal missed it. I still
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: think McCarthy should have called time out there. I think
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: I think Abby would have nailed that kick. But whatever,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter because they won the game. But I'm
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: just saying, when they really needed to run, they got.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: They got what they needed in the first down, but
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: they they this This running game clearly is not is
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: not working out right now, all right, let's go to
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: a rick in Massachusetts.
• 17:20
  Speaker 11: Rick, Hey, Nick, how you doing good?
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: How are you all right?
• 17:26
  Speaker 11: So, of course the yet you know, on the practice
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: squad or you're not practice squad, but Dard training camp,
• 17:34
  Speaker 11: we had defensive Ben Mohamed say he suspend one game,
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: does that suspension starts winding on the team where that
• 17:42
  Speaker 11: expension starts at this pre at the beginning of the season.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: He's got to be on the team for that to happen.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: And the Cowboys chose not to do that, And I'm
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: not really sure why, because it's sure would have been nice. Now,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: I think to just say just go through that, let
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: let him, let him be on the team. He would
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: serve a one game suspension and then they could have
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: cut him if they wanted to and then bring him
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: back or whatever. But he if any team brings him in,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: he's still he still has to serve a suspension of
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: one game.
• 18:12
  Speaker 11: So okay. Yeah. The other question is you think that
• 18:17
  Speaker 11: John Stevens or Florno you will get a chance.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Why not?
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: I'm you know, you need a little juice. I don't
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: know what Brevin span Ford's really given you. He's given
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: you about a penalty of game. I mean that that
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: is happening, not saying John Stevens he hasn't played a
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: game before, so you know, he might have some issues
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: there too, because a lot of that's on special teams.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: But I wouldn't be opposed to to Stevens over span
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Ford to be active. I think that would be that
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: would be fine. He gives you a little bit more
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: in the passing game, I think so that that would
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: be good. And then Flinoy, I'm for that, you know.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: And and Flinoy, I'm not sure you need this many
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: running backs active, you know. I mean you may not
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: need deuce active. Lipke can do a little bit more things.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: So anyways, I'd like to see flynnoy if it works out.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he has to take Jalen Brooks' spot,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: but I'm with you. You need a little something, little spark,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: and I think both those guys could do that at
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: their positions.
• 19:20
  Speaker 11: Okay, thanks Havingkay, Thanks man, have a good one.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: All right, let's take our first break here on Cowboys storyline.
• 19:25
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• 21:00
  Speaker 1: To Cowboys story line.
• 21:05
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• 21:36
  Speaker 2: we got let's go back to the phone lines. Leicester
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: in Minnesota.
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: Leicester, what's up, hey, Nick?
• 21:43
  Speaker 13: How you doing out there?
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: Man?
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: I'm good? How are you doing?
• 21:47
  Speaker 13: I'm doing good. I just wanted to say this. This
• 21:52
  Speaker 13: is for everyone listening. This is how you build a team.
• 21:57
  Speaker 13: You got to have a good offensive line and a
• 21:59
  Speaker 13: good defensive line. Then you get to your other players.
• 22:03
  Speaker 13: And I understand right now we have some of the
• 22:06
  Speaker 13: other players, but the biggest thing I see is that
• 22:10
  Speaker 13: we need to build up our defensive line. I don't
• 22:15
  Speaker 13: know why we ignored that so long. I couldn't they
• 22:19
  Speaker 13: we ignored it. I think they we ignored it, but
• 22:21
  Speaker 13: we we didn't put a lot of emphasis in it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: First round pick, first round pick, defensive tackle. First time
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: you took a defensive tackle in the first round in
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: thirty one years. I think they they it just wasn't
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the guy.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: He hasn't.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: He hasn't been great. He hasn't not been great. And
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: they have been great drafting first round picks. They've been
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: awesome at getting first round picks whatever, especially late in there,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: late in the first round, and they took Monzie Smith
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: and so far that hasn't materialized yet. He had a
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: great game. He had a great game. He did have
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: a great game last week.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: That's good. That's the start.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: But I mean, I just don't know if you can
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: say they haven't addressed the position that they've tried. What
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: what would you have done differently? What would you do differently?
• 23:03
  Speaker 13: No, No, I said that they you know, they haven't
• 23:07
  Speaker 13: done it for they kind of didn't pay attention to
• 23:10
  Speaker 13: it to me until Mozzie Smith. I mean, they've done it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 13: They've done the little things here and there.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: But okay, okay, third round picks and stuff like like
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I get I get you, like you know Hankins signing
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Hankins later. Yeah, you're you're right from that from that standpoint,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: and they stepped it up by getting Mozzie Smith. I
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: mean they were because because they were going like third round,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: because Neville Gallimore in the third round, oh saw Chauncey Golston,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. But you're saying, put a little
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: higher inferences, and they did in the first round for Mazzie.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: And you know that hasn't paid off just yet, but
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: it might. It might eventually.
• 23:49
  Speaker 13: And then I just I just like I said, the
• 23:51
  Speaker 13: last time I talked to you about three weeks ago,
• 23:53
  Speaker 13: I was trying to give you a little history about
• 23:56
  Speaker 13: myself and listening the whole time as far as the
• 24:04
  Speaker 13: favorite wrestlers is with Actionsmash Demolition, my favorite cowboy of
• 24:11
  Speaker 13: all time with Tom Landry. And I think that all
• 24:19
  Speaker 13: my family are from Pittsburgh to the Pittsburgh fans, so
• 24:22
  Speaker 13: you know, I don't too much like Pisburg. Now I'm
• 24:25
  Speaker 13: the only cowboy in the family. So I think we
• 24:28
  Speaker 13: will beat the Pittsburgh this week twenty to seventeenth.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: All right, we'll see if you're right.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: If that's one of those nail bider games, I would
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: imagine we're gonna see a lot of that. All right,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: let's go here to Robbie. He's in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
• 24:47
  Speaker 14: What's up, Nick, how's it going, man, Robbie, how are you?
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: I'm good.
• 24:51
  Speaker 14: How's your boy? And the rest of the family.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Jake doing well?
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Football, he's doing He's doing pretty good. He's doing He's
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: doing all right.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: They still he wants he wants the ball thrown at him,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like, let's throwing the rocks.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: You're playing center though, Yeah, well you know those centers
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: get open in flag football.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: This is not just.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Regular football's black I mean get open. Yeah, So you know,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: but it's okay, that's all right. He'll get there, he'll
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: get there.
• 25:15
  Speaker 14: Good for him, man, I know he will. He's got
• 25:17
  Speaker 14: a good father.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: In knows football.
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: Real.
• 25:18
  Speaker 14: Well, well, thank you, hey man, you're welcome.
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: Man.
• 25:22
  Speaker 14: Well, first of all, you know, it's still the same thing.
• 25:25
  Speaker 14: I wish our running game was better. I know you've
• 25:26
  Speaker 14: been talking about it all day. I'm sure probably eighty
• 25:29
  Speaker 14: percent of conversation makes me look back now to the
• 25:34
  Speaker 14: free agency and wish we could have got Dereck Henry
• 25:36
  Speaker 14: and watching him play last night, well yeah, yeah, our
• 25:42
  Speaker 14: division still thought up the grass man. Washington is doing
• 25:45
  Speaker 14: a lot better than than I anticipated. I know the
• 25:48
  Speaker 14: pundits were saying how good they were going to do,
• 25:50
  Speaker 14: and I didn't believe him. But man, they're looking good
• 25:52
  Speaker 14: at Daniel's kid. Who So, what do we do to
• 25:58
  Speaker 14: win our division?
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: Washington?
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I mean Washington, Hey, They'll it'll come down.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, like like Robert Griffin did the same thing, right,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I mean he really did.
• 26:12
  Speaker 14: Oh yeah, I remember that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Teams will figure out a little bit how to slow
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: him down. Jaydon Daniels might be like the next superstar.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: He really could be. I mean that's why you draft
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: these guys number two overall. Uh, he's doing everything right
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: and and they've got a coach over there, and Dan
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Quinn that knows how to how to turn things around.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: He did.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: They turned around this defense. He turned around Atlanta, Uh,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: you know, and and he's turned around Washington. So you know,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: they have good defense. They got good defensive tackles there
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: in the middle. They play hard, they are aggressive, they
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: you know, they're running the ball, they're they're playing like
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: old school Washington football. And then they got a quarterback
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: who's who's dynamic too, so they're there. They look really
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: good and you know, and that's uh, they're a lot
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: better than where they were, which is typically what happens
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: when you when you get a new coach, a new
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: system that that that kind of happens. Well, see, they
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: their schedules favorable though for them. I mean, they play
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Cleveland this week, they go to Baltimore, Carolina, Chicago at home,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: at the Giants, Pittsburgh at home, so I mean at
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Philly and then Dallas. I mean they're probably gonna be uh,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: they're gonna probably have a much better I don't know
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: what much better, but they're gonna have a better record
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: than the Cowboys I would think when they play them.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: So you gotta beat them. It's always somebody, always somebody
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: moves up and down. I think Philly is gonna be tough,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: but Cowboy's gotta do their thing. There's no reason why
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: they can they can't win this game this week in Pittsburgh.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it's defensive ends. I mean, it's gonna
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: be a challenge. But I just I'm not haven't been
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: overly impressed with Pittsburgh, but but I think this will
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: be a very tough matchup because of where it is,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: and and and just how much they need this. They're
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: coming off the loss. I think it would have been
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: better if they would have lost, if they would have
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: won last week and and been undefeated, be at four
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: to oh. I think it would have been a better target
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I think on their back than maybe this. But you know,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: either way, it's a you can't can't worry about that.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: It's going to happen. What's going to happen?
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: All right, let's keep it going here. We've got Robin Vegas. Hey, Nick, Hey, Rob,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: how are you?
• 28:12
  Speaker 15: Nobody's talking? I'm doing good?
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: How are you good?
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Good?
• 28:16
  Speaker 15: You know, the one of the callers talking about Mike McCarthy,
• 28:20
  Speaker 15: and you know, twelve and five and that's good, and.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: All here we go.
• 28:25
  Speaker 15: No, no, no, I'm not even it's not really gonna
• 28:27
  Speaker 15: matter who the coaches until they change their business model,
• 28:32
  Speaker 15: and they're not going.
• 28:33
  Speaker 12: To do it.
• 28:34
  Speaker 15: They don't use free agency like other teams. No, they
• 28:40
  Speaker 15: do enough to be good, but they don't do enough
• 28:44
  Speaker 15: to be great. And what bothers me is you've seen it.
• 28:49
  Speaker 15: We've had. We've had two top ten quarterbacks for the
• 28:52
  Speaker 15: last just about twenty years now and have nothing to
• 28:58
  Speaker 15: show for it except his bank account.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Let me let me tell you something real quick. I
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: want to get your opinion on something. Okay, And I've
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: said this before. This is the Cowboys model when it
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: comes to free agency, all right. This is how they
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: believe that when free agency hits, the average players get
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: good money in free agency, and good money good players
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: get great money in free agency, and great players never
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: see free agency. That's the way they operate. So they
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: feel like, if there it's a great player out there,
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: he's not in free.
• 29:31
  Speaker 15: Agency, and so that's that's It hasn't worked though. It's
• 29:35
  Speaker 15: not about getting great players. It's about getting players that
• 29:39
  Speaker 15: are better than what you have. Good players and position,
• 29:42
  Speaker 15: and it could be a good player.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: But that's the point. You have to play great money
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: for that great.
• 29:48
  Speaker 15: Well not well, you have to you have to pay
• 29:50
  Speaker 15: the play. I mean, look, we just paid Dax sixty million.
• 29:53
  Speaker 15: He's worth sixty million a year. But that's just the
• 29:55
  Speaker 15: way it is. Here's the deal you've just been did
• 30:01
  Speaker 15: between DAK and CD What are we talking? Three hundred
• 30:03
  Speaker 15: and fifty million dollars?
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess yeah, give it take.
• 30:06
  Speaker 15: The only way that makes sense is if you win
• 30:09
  Speaker 15: a Super Bowl, if you build on that like this year.
• 30:12
  Speaker 15: What bothered me the most in free agency this year,
• 30:15
  Speaker 15: and I think a lot of fans is we were
• 30:17
  Speaker 15: very good last year. I know we fell apart in
• 30:20
  Speaker 15: Green Bay against Green Bay, but this was the build
• 30:23
  Speaker 15: on it. You got guys in their prime. You know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 15: we looked at the nineties Cowboys and yes they had
• 30:30
  Speaker 15: a great head coach and but they had a great quarterback. Well,
• 30:33
  Speaker 15: I think we got a good enough quarterback to win
• 30:36
  Speaker 15: of Cud Michael Levin, Mike Up. I mean, the difference
• 30:40
  Speaker 15: is the offensive line and the defensive line. We just
• 30:44
  Speaker 15: don't have that now. The offensive line maybe better in
• 30:48
  Speaker 15: a year or two, but right now not so much.
• 30:52
  Speaker 15: But they should have built on the team from last year,
• 30:55
  Speaker 15: because all you needed was a couple of pieces. The
• 30:58
  Speaker 15: problem is by the top they decide to do that.
• 31:03
  Speaker 15: Dak won't be in his prime, CD won't be in
• 31:06
  Speaker 15: his prime, and Mike. I don't know what they're gonna
• 31:10
  Speaker 15: do with Micah. So that's the only thing I don't understand.
• 31:13
  Speaker 15: They just do enough to stay relevant. And I don't
• 31:18
  Speaker 15: know why we got too many star players in positions
• 31:25
  Speaker 15: that everybody wants. Like we always said, if Dak would
• 31:28
  Speaker 15: have hit free agency, everybody, every team that need a
• 31:31
  Speaker 15: quarterback went after him ce d there we got star players,
• 31:35
  Speaker 15: even on the offensive line with Tyler Smith. I know
• 31:39
  Speaker 15: Zach martin't the guy he was, but they should have
• 31:43
  Speaker 15: built on that. But they just don't use free agency.
• 31:45
  Speaker 15: And I know you overpay a little bit, but all
• 31:48
  Speaker 15: they need is a piece like Philadelphia did. As much
• 31:50
  Speaker 15: as I can't stand them, they they've been to two
• 31:54
  Speaker 15: Super Bowls and one one and we haven't seen anything
• 31:57
  Speaker 15: in thirty years. So the business model is bad. And
• 32:01
  Speaker 15: I want to ask you one question, and I know
• 32:03
  Speaker 15: I'm putting you on spot. Do you think Jerry Jones
• 32:09
  Speaker 15: would rather win a Super Bowl?
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 32:11
  Speaker 16: Yes, yes, wait wait, no, no, there there's there is
• 32:16
  Speaker 16: there is a Buttau.
• 32:18
  Speaker 15: But he wouldn't be involved. He would give up everything.
• 32:21
  Speaker 15: He would just sit in the box like most owners would.
• 32:25
  Speaker 15: You think he'd rather do that or just be doing
• 32:28
  Speaker 15: what he's doing right now, but be.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Involved win a Super Bowl because he would be involved,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like you're talking about this year,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: like like this year or next year or whatever, he
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: would still be involved because.
• 32:40
  Speaker 15: No, no, he can't be involved, but he has.
• 32:42
  Speaker 16: Got to give up.
• 32:43
  Speaker 15: Okay, GM got to give up, gim and and just
• 32:46
  Speaker 15: sit in the box like Robert Kraft and all the
• 32:49
  Speaker 15: other great owners. You just enjoy the success of the team.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: He would more.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he would take that. Yeah, thanks for the call.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: He would do that because because a couple of things.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: The one thing that he loves more than owning the
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: team and and and being the GM and all that
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: is his family and and his family would be running it,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: and Steven would be running it, and Steven would get
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: credit then or or you know, and Jerry ultimately would
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: get credit for in his own way too, because you
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: had to remember all this stuff. I mean, he's still
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: the GM. For a lot of these players that are
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: still here, so you can't just say that he had
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: nothing to do with it. I get what you're saying,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: but I'm just saying I think he would take that.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: He would take that because of what the success that
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: that would mean for his family, and also what it
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: would mean because his legacy, because he still would be
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: a guy that built this. So I think that's you know,
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: that's interesting. But he wants to win a super Bowl
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: and he would definitely do that if they thought that
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: was the right way. But all right, let's go to
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Mike in Birmingham, England.
• 34:00
  Speaker 17: It took me forty three goals to get through tonight.
• 34:02
  Speaker 17: You are a very very popular man. I've got to
• 34:04
  Speaker 17: congratulate you on the huge success of this show. Well
• 34:07
  Speaker 17: done to you.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Thank you, and thank you for
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: calling in at night. I know it's later over there.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 34:13
  Speaker 13: Well, it's all right.
• 34:14
  Speaker 17: Actually it's about half past four, so so not too
• 34:18
  Speaker 17: bad time wise. Shout out to Zach in kaisers laut
• 34:23
  Speaker 17: in Germany. You know when he called a couple of
• 34:24
  Speaker 17: weeks ago said he was in Kaiserslauton, And I'm sure
• 34:27
  Speaker 17: most of your listeners were the same as you. Yep,
• 34:29
  Speaker 17: don't know where that is. But so you're one listener
• 34:32
  Speaker 17: who happens to be a fan of what for the FC,
• 34:35
  Speaker 17: That word kaiser flouten reminds us of one of the
• 34:37
  Speaker 17: greatest nights in our history. So thank you Zach for
• 34:40
  Speaker 17: bringing that's that's what sport can do and that was
• 34:43
  Speaker 17: pretty cool. But anyway, you don't want to hear about that.
• 34:46
  Speaker 17: You want to hear about Cowboys. So I just caught
• 34:49
  Speaker 17: the end of your last caller, So I don't know
• 34:51
  Speaker 17: if I'm kind of overlapping a little bit. I've said
• 34:55
  Speaker 17: to you before, Nick, I'm still learning this game, and
• 34:57
  Speaker 17: your callers are great. You know, they study the game
• 35:00
  Speaker 17: aim they know it inside out. And I love to
• 35:01
  Speaker 17: listen more than talk. But one thing I feel that
• 35:04
  Speaker 17: I can kind of talk about because it cuts across
• 35:08
  Speaker 17: sports and you know, all kinds of sports teams. We
• 35:11
  Speaker 17: all feel that we know how our sports team should
• 35:14
  Speaker 17: be run, right, We all feel like we could make
• 35:17
  Speaker 17: a good fist of it. And you took a call
• 35:21
  Speaker 17: last week from someone who this isn't a criticism, it's
• 35:25
  Speaker 17: a valid view, someone who was criticizing the front office
• 35:28
  Speaker 17: for maxing out the credit card and therefore we couldn't
• 35:32
  Speaker 17: make moves in the summer, and then meanwhile this week
• 35:35
  Speaker 17: we've got people talking about how, you know, we've got
• 35:38
  Speaker 17: twenty plus million cap space, let's use it, let's let's
• 35:41
  Speaker 17: let's spend our money, and so on. For your comments
• 35:46
  Speaker 17: yesterday about what sort of season this is on with you,
• 35:49
  Speaker 17: You've got to enjoy the ride.
• 35:50
  Speaker 14: I've said that before.
• 35:51
  Speaker 17: You know, whatever's happening, we've got football, let's enjoy it.
• 35:54
  Speaker 17: And you know, it doesn't feel like this is our
• 35:58
  Speaker 17: year in terms of doing something amaze, but who knows,
• 36:02
  Speaker 17: it's sport. Anything can happen, and let's see. But right
• 36:07
  Speaker 17: at the moment, and I want to know where you
• 36:10
  Speaker 17: think about this. Right at the moment, I would be
• 36:12
  Speaker 17: keeping my money in my pocket. And let's say, if
• 36:15
  Speaker 17: we win the next three games, then maybe this season
• 36:18
  Speaker 17: takes a different complexion and maybe we go for it
• 36:21
  Speaker 17: a bit. But I'm thinking with our young players and
• 36:25
  Speaker 17: you know, Back and CD signed and they'll be a
• 36:28
  Speaker 17: smaller percentage of the cap in a couple of years.
• 36:31
  Speaker 17: I'm not giving up this season, but there could be
• 36:33
  Speaker 17: a window opening in a year or two times. Let's
• 36:36
  Speaker 17: hang on to our money and see what happens. It's
• 36:38
  Speaker 17: wondering what you think about that.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, thank you. Always is something that
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: the all sports teams. I mean, it happens in baseball
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: a lot, not so much maybe the NBA, but it
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: happens definitely an NFL and baseball where you're like, where
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: are you in the middle of the season. Are you
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: going for it or are you gonna kind of stay back?
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: And then that doesn't mean that you're trying to lose games.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: It just means that you're not trying to, you know,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: dip into the future for to try to fix this
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: team right right now, you're trying to develop these young
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: players and see how how it goes.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I thought the Rams were an interesting team last year
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: because I think they were just trying to develop players
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: last year and uh and then they snuck around and
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: got into the playoffs, you know, and so that's kind
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: of what the Rams were the team. I kept hearing
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: that that the Cowboys were kind of hoping that it
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: would go like that this year, that they're gonna have
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: to stay the course, stay the course, develop play some
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: young guys. So I don't think there will be If
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: you're asking if I think there'll be a trade or
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: anything like that. I don't I don't think it'll be
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: a significant one, Jerry Jones said on the air Tuesday morning.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: He said that, you know, usually, it rarely, it rarely
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: pans out. It's wishful thinking to think you're gonna get
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: somebody in a trade that's going to come in and
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: help you right now, because there's a reason why they
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: were trading for him and all that kind of stuff,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: And it's usually because of money. And obviously I don't
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: think the Cowboys are willing to take on a big
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: contract for that. Remember, everything they've got under the salary
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: cap they are trying to move to next year. Next
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: year is going to be a problem. If you thought
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: free agency was bad this year, it's gonna be real
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: bad next year as far as who they're going to
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: lose and who they're not going to sign and all that.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: They're going to try to save as much money as
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: they can. So all these reports you hear about salary
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: cap and what they have under the cap, it's all
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: really pushing pushing for next year. All right, let's take
• 38:38
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• 38:41
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to Cowboys storyline. Get time for a few
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  Speaker 2: more calls here on this show. We got, uh going
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: back to the the Northeast and a lot of Northeast
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: calls today. Going to New York Chris and Saratoga Springs,
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: New York. Chris, what's up?
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: Have you seen? Have you seen Bill Parcells?
• 40:09
  Speaker 12: Uh?
• 40:09
  Speaker 16: Yeah, my dad sees him a lot, actually, and.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: That's where he is up there a lot. Yeah.
• 40:14
  Speaker 16: He said it's the happiest place on earth. And saratogas bro.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: No doubt about it. He loves being up there watching
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: those horses and all that. All right, Chris, what do
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: you got?
• 40:22
  Speaker 16: I know you probably already talked a little bit about it,
• 40:24
  Speaker 16: but I'm having an issue with Brandon Cooks. To be honest,
• 40:28
  Speaker 16: I have not talked about.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: It, have not talked about it, But go for it.
• 40:33
  Speaker 9: I just don't. I mean, I watch I mean a
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: Cowboys fan my entire life. I dissect every game. I'm
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: watching him, especially during the games, and he's getting zero
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: separation from the cornerbacks. So when are we gonna like
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: to look at this and say, hey, maybe we should
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: give somebody else a chance like Ryan's Lornery that's sitting there,
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: even Turpin, Jalen Brooks that are in Jalen Tolbert. I mean,
• 40:58
  Speaker 9: there's so many other options. What are they going to
• 41:00
  Speaker 9: look at it and say, hey, this guy's not working
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: out and maybe stood him on the bench.
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he needs to step up, there's no doubt about it.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: But what they are missing, they're missing that. And I'll
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: tell you I was super surprised because I thought that
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: he was going to have a big season, especially with
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: him being the number one guy at training camp with
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: CD out and the rapport that Dak had created with him.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: I thought, Man, we're gonna have a really, really big season.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Let me just tell you one thing really quick about
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: about this from going into last year with Brandon Cooks. Okay,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: we're four games in this. After four weeks last year,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Brandon Cooks in first game, two catches twenty two yards.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Second game he was hurt. Third game, two catches seventeen yards,
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: and then he had four catches twenty seven yards. Fifth
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: game he had one catch for seven yards. So after
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: five weeks of the sea and we got nine catches
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: for less than one hundred yards. It looks like about
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: sixty yards. Nine catches for sixty yards five games into
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: the season. Okay, he ends up catching eight touchdowns. He
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: had one hundred and seventy three yard game against the Giants.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: It was his only one hundred yard game, but he did.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: He did have you know, he caught two, three, four, five,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: you know passes. He got better and better as the
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: year went on. He got that it seemed like he
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: was catching a touchdown in the corner of the end
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: zone every single week. So I'll say this, and I'm
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: not sure why there's another slow start. I don't know
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: if that's a career thing for him. I don't think
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: it is. But last year he had a slow start,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: he came on kind of strong at the end. Him
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: and CD together they were like gangbusters at the end.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: So let's see if he can do that again, because
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: we've seen it happen before. That's that's all. That's half
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: glass half full there for Brandon Cooks. But there's no
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: doubt about it that number two receiver has to step up.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: Michael Bowling, Green, Kentucky.
• 42:55
  Speaker 16: What's going on?
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: How you doing?
• 42:58
  Speaker 19: I was just telling christ complete positivity for the Cowboys season.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: Why not?
• 43:04
  Speaker 19: Hey, par sales said that you want to be the
• 43:08
  Speaker 19: end of September, five hundred.
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: Of bed were five hundred.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: So I said, I don't remember him saying that, but
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: I mean it sounds.
• 43:16
  Speaker 19: I read that quote the other day.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: He said that I never heard that one, but that,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, the only thing that I always heard him
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: say was just talk to me and Thanksgiving, that's where
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: you need to be and all that.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: I think I think at this point, looking at the
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Cowboys schedule, I think, you know, most people thought they
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: would probably be three and one, you know, maybe lose
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: to to Baltimore or Cleveland, but probably split one of
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: those two games and then be three and one. But
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: the New Orleans game sitting there, and it's a bad loss.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: It wasn't like it was a good one. It was
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: a bad loss. They don't look to be that great.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: They look average to the Saints, so that's kind of scary.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: But again, it's a matchup League and the Cowboys. But
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: here's the thing. The next three opponents. The one thing
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: you can always describe with those teams Detroit, Pittsburgh, Detroit,
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: San Francisco, what's the one thing they all have in common.
• 44:08
  Speaker 19: We're gonna beat all three of us.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: Okay, I like, Michael, there you go to your show,
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: your show, go ahead.
• 44:13
  Speaker 19: Also the shout out to Kaijri Sladen. We called it
• 44:17
  Speaker 19: K Town. I used to live right down the street
• 44:19
  Speaker 19: from there for about two years when I was stationed
• 44:22
  Speaker 19: at Ramstein and I got a question real quick. You
• 44:25
  Speaker 19: have the international calls and stuff I've once heard. Maybe
• 44:30
  Speaker 19: you can tell me this is true or not. Do
• 44:32
  Speaker 19: the Cowboys have season ticket holders in all fifty states
• 44:37
  Speaker 19: in a few countries? Is that true? Or was it
• 44:39
  Speaker 19: just something I heard.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: I don't know that.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: I don't know that they have a season ticket holder
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: in Montana.
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: Or Rhode Island or Vermont. Well, I don't know.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I could probably figure that out.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: It's a good question for you, Michael. You call enough
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: next time you call, see if I'll have an answer
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: for that. I would imagine it's it's closed. That seems
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: like something that that seems like something that you you know,
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, you probably have they have these these caller,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, these season ticket holders probably have ties to
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: these other states. Maybe they don't live there, but maybe
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: they're from there or whatever. I don't know that answer,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: but that seems like that would be possible. You're talking
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: about sixty thousand season ticket holders. That's very possible that
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: there's one in every sting. All right, let's go to
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Ali in Florida, be our last caller today.
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: Good morning, there are you pretty good?
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: Not too bad?
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: Cleaning up the house after it's a stupid storm.
• 45:42
  Speaker 9: I'll make it quick.
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: What do you think about I don't know, you can't
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: comment on it or not. I think we are fighting
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: for the playoffs, but we have a lot of a
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: couple of good pieces. But if I have to make
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: a change, what do you think if Cowboys go after Belichick?
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: Because I have a get in a little bit noise
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: that Eagle is going after that. I think I really
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: don't like to see Belichick. We go to Eagle. But
• 46:14
  Speaker 7: is that I was thinking, if you get a Belichick,
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: then we get maybe Danian Woodson as a defensive coordinator.
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: He can get groom on the Belichick. Then we bring
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: the Romo as an offensive coordinator. That's all I have.
• 46:29
  Speaker 7: Let me know what you think?
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: Thank you?
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: Awesome? Yeah, maybe maybe that I love it.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: I love it, just anything else anything else that I mean,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Parcels could come back he could be like a you know,
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: he could be some kind of consultant ape man. Got
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: to get him involved in there as well him it.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: He might just bring him back to run the ball.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, he could probably be a running back for you.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Who else you know, need a We need a a
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: like a some kind of coach, you know, like in
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: your face, uh, you know, rally coach, like a Randy
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: White or something like that. Uh hmm, two tall Jones.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: We got to get him back.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: Ali.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: You're you're dreaming. You're dreaming over there. Hey, he said,
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: he said that the storm. He's cleaning up the house.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Hope everything's good there. I know a lot of a
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: lot of stuff, a lot of bad stuff with the
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: floods and hurricanes and things like that in that southeast
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: region Florida and all that. So hope everyone is safe there.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: But yeah, you're you're kind of you're kind of uh,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: you're you're out there. This is like that's a dreamland talk.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: But again, you're right. The first thing you said was
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: I can't talk about like the next coach, the next quarterback,
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: the next running back. I mean, it's it's that's why
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: we do what we do. We have to stay in
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: the moment. If we didn't stay in the moment, we
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to have this show. Like you guys
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: can talk like that, like seriously, you guys can say
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: that and that's what's on your mind and you're thinking
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: like that. You know I can't do that. The focus
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: for me is these next few shows before we go
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: to Pittsburgh. What does this team need to do to
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: get better to win the next game in Pittsburgh And
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: if that happens, or if it doesn't happen, what went wrong?
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: What has to change for them to turn things around
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: and get better and beat the Lions, Because the Lions
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: are gonna come in here pissed. Yeah, they're gonna be
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: thinking about this next game, but you know they're still
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: worried about last week's game or last year's game and
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: all that kind of stuff. So Dan Campbell will have
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: something for that. My question when Michael cut me off,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: he's got his own answer.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: That's fine.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: My answer to what those three got those three teams
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: have in common. Pittsburgh, Detroit, San Francisco. They're tough. It's nails,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: tough as nails. They're tough, tough football team. Cowboys have
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: to show the toughness to even stay on that level,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: because that's one thing we found out. If you're a
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: tough team, Cowboys have problems with those kind of teams
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: because they run the football and they keep running it,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: and it's tough for they get the lead and tough
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: for the Cowboys to get back. We're gonna their toughness
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: is going to be tested, not just their depth on
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: the defensive line and the path rusher and all that
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: in the running game. It's not just the depth. The
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: toughness of this team is about to be tested and
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: more than we've ever seen. And it starts this Sunday
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh. All right, Well, this has been a good show.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Appreciate all the callers for Chris Beam, our producer.
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: I'm Nick Eatman. We will see you tomorrow on Cowboys
• 49:28
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