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- 0:19Speaker 1: Here's Nick Eatman, Hello and welcome to Cowboys storyline presented
- 0:44Speaker 1: by Gillette. It's Friday, December the fifth. It doesn't really
- 0:49Speaker 1: matter what day it is. It's the day after Cowboys
- 0:52Speaker 1: take a big loss in Detroit, forty four to thirty.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Crazy game, and I kind of fuck he would that's
- 1:01Speaker 1: it would be a crazy game. You didn't know how
- 1:03Speaker 1: it would turn out. Man, I fell for it. I'll
- 1:07Speaker 1: I fell for it. I thought, oh, I thought the
- 1:10Speaker 1: Lions had injuries. I thought Saint Brown's foot was coming off.
- 1:13Speaker 1: I thought they didn't have any offensive alignment. Okay, I
- 1:17Speaker 1: don't know what that was. That was another trick play
- 1:20Speaker 1: by Dan Campbell and the Lions. They got us on
- 1:22Speaker 1: that one, and its turned out the Cowboys were the
- 1:26Speaker 1: ones that were down one two receivers. We'll talk about that. Obviously.
- 1:32Speaker 1: CD had a great game until he got injured, and
- 1:35Speaker 1: then they needed someone to step up. Ryan Illinois did,
- 1:40Speaker 1: George Pickens did not, and uh, you know that's that's
- 1:43Speaker 1: obviously something that we'll discuss. It's been talked about a
- 1:46Speaker 1: lot so far. With the Cowboys lose forty four to thirty,
- 1:49Speaker 1: what does that do for the playoff chances? Well, I
- 1:51Speaker 1: know it hurts it pretty bad. I mean, they didn't
- 1:53Speaker 1: have any even for error, and they had a lot
- 1:55Speaker 1: of errors. Uh six, six and one. It's got to
- 1:58Speaker 1: keep playing. Four games left happens. But you know, obviously
- 2:01Speaker 1: it's an uphill battle at this point, but you're not eliminated.
- 2:05Speaker 1: And so that they'll keep they'll keep fighting and on
- 2:07Speaker 1: that one. And so I really hope we don't talk
- 2:11Speaker 1: about any event in April, but some of you might
- 2:15Speaker 1: might want to. But I think the next big event
- 2:17Speaker 1: is the one against I guess Minnesota in ten days.
- 2:21Speaker 1: They need ten days. You know, I'm not gonna say that.
- 2:24Speaker 1: You know, I'm not gonna throw out any excuses. There's
- 2:26Speaker 1: no excuses. But this team's played what four games in
- 2:30Speaker 1: eighteen days, and it kind of looked like it. You know,
- 2:33Speaker 1: it's firstly on defense. The defense was the worst that
- 2:36Speaker 1: we've seen them play since since some of the changes.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Uh again, not an excuse, it just they just looked
- 2:43Speaker 1: a little bit like it's hired team and and the
- 2:46Speaker 1: But the Lions have played pretty much the same schedule
- 2:48Speaker 1: than they didn't. They were a lot more energized, So
- 2:50Speaker 1: give them credit for that. All right, eight and eight
- 2:52Speaker 1: A five, five, two two nine seven. Let's talk about it. Chris,
- 2:54Speaker 1: Saratoga Springs, New York is first, Chris, what's.
- 2:58Speaker 3: Not too much? That was a tough game last night.
- 3:01Speaker 3: You don't win many. You don't win many NFL games
- 3:03Speaker 3: when they turned the ball over multiple times and have
- 3:05Speaker 3: so many self inflicted wounds. I think last night we
- 3:09Speaker 3: got to the Pittsburgh George Pickens, not the Cowboys. George Pickens.
- 3:13Speaker 3: Defense didn't play great, offense didn't play great. The tackles,
- 3:17Speaker 3: for me, a lot of lookout blocks. Those are our
- 3:21Speaker 3: offensive tackles need help. They didn't get much help, and
- 3:23Speaker 3: it showed with the pressure they gave up. So we
- 3:26Speaker 3: need to I think this seasons it's a long way
- 3:30Speaker 3: long road to try to make the playoffs. I doubt
- 3:32Speaker 3: we're gonna make it. Mike, we should focus on these
- 3:35Speaker 3: offensive tackles in the draft next year, for sure. One
- 3:39Speaker 3: positive I had is my voice all NOOI another great
- 3:42Speaker 3: game by him, very proud of that kid. He works hard.
- 3:46Speaker 3: I just I wish, you know, George would have stepped
- 3:49Speaker 3: up a little bit more. Other than that, again, we
- 3:53Speaker 3: need to play better. There's there's no if, stands or
- 3:56Speaker 3: butts about it. We got to play better, period. And
- 3:58Speaker 3: that's that's really all I got.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Chris, appreciate it.
- 4:04Speaker 4: You know.
- 4:04Speaker 1: I know, it's a long night for everybody, you know.
- 4:06Speaker 1: I mean now, especially my guy, h Chris in the back.
- 4:10Speaker 1: I mean, man, he's going to do this, what's seven
- 4:12Speaker 1: times today? And got a I know it was four
- 4:16Speaker 1: am we got off the plane last night, and uh
- 4:20Speaker 1: and and but by the time you get home, who knows,
- 4:22Speaker 1: who knows what time it is, and then we're getting
- 4:24Speaker 1: up for you know, taking kids to school and all that.
- 4:27Speaker 1: I say all that because I'm talking about Chris and
- 4:30Speaker 1: Saratoga Springs and our next caller too. It's a long
- 4:32Speaker 1: night for everybody, you know. I mean, it's whether or
- 4:34Speaker 1: not you go to sleep at midnight one whatever it is.
- 4:37Speaker 1: You know, games like that are tough, especially when you
- 4:39Speaker 1: put so much into it, and so you can hear
- 4:42Speaker 1: the frustration and Chris's voice right there, and you just
- 4:46Speaker 1: got to play better, and you wish those guys would
- 4:48Speaker 1: have stepped up. And you know, I said, I'm not
- 4:53Speaker 1: going to get into the next year and then you
- 4:55Speaker 1: don't have to. But we all know there's a big
- 4:58Speaker 1: decision the Cowboys have to make regard George Pickens and
- 5:03Speaker 1: a game like this does it Does it affect you
- 5:06Speaker 1: and not just the way Pickens played? You know, do
- 5:10Speaker 1: you have any other young receivers that are making the
- 5:13Speaker 1: league minimum that look like they, if they give an opportunity,
- 5:16Speaker 1: they can be a really, really big player. You know,
- 5:19Speaker 1: does Illinois change some things there? I don't know, but
- 5:23Speaker 1: you know, I don't like, I'm not giving up on
- 5:26Speaker 1: anybody or anything. Yeah, you Pickens is you've You've got,
- 5:31Speaker 1: You've got some Sometimes he's one way and the other
- 5:33Speaker 1: times he's other. We haven't really seen this a lot,
- 5:37Speaker 1: but that they just needed him to really step up.
- 5:39Speaker 1: They needed him to make some big plays, and it
- 5:43Speaker 1: just was off. You know, he was open at times,
- 5:46Speaker 1: the routes just weren't crisp. The the slant that's just
- 5:50Speaker 1: been killing teams all years wasn't hitting the same, the
- 5:58Speaker 1: deep ball that he kind of almost looks like he
- 6:00Speaker 1: kind of tried to get out of the way, like
- 6:02Speaker 1: like it good to hit him. I'm sorry, I'm watching
- 6:07Speaker 1: this offensive pass interference penalty on Ferguson and I I'm
- 6:12Speaker 1: a little distracted. I'm gonna go to Dylan Northport, Florida.
- 6:15Speaker 1: I bet he has something to say on that. Dylan,
- 6:16Speaker 1: what's up?
- 6:18Speaker 5: Hey?
- 6:18Speaker 1: What's up?
- 6:18Speaker 3: Man?
- 6:18Speaker 6: How you doing m.
- 6:21Speaker 1: Good and taking a drink getting a little energy this morning?
- 6:25Speaker 6: I got you.
- 6:26Speaker 7: Yeah, that wasn't pass interference.
- 6:27Speaker 8: That was a garbage call.
- 6:28Speaker 7: But who else's garbage?
- 6:31Speaker 9: Man?
- 6:31Speaker 3: Was the kick team?
- 6:32Speaker 7: And this isn't talk to about nearly enough, dude. The
- 6:35Speaker 7: Lions were starting at like the forty fifty yard line
- 6:38Speaker 7: every drive and it was disgusting. It was a guy
- 6:40Speaker 7: looked like scoon Maker returning kicks and he's getting all
- 6:43Speaker 7: the way up there every single kick, and it's like
- 6:46Speaker 7: they need twenty yards in there and field goal range,
- 6:48Speaker 7: over and over and over and then on the flip side.
- 6:51Speaker 7: You know, I don't know what's up with Turpin. I
- 6:53Speaker 7: don't know if it's just not getting blocked up right
- 6:55Speaker 7: or what, but it's you know, he jogs up count
- 6:57Speaker 7: to where the guys are blocking and just kind of
- 6:58Speaker 7: gets tackled, and you know that's that's that's kind of
- 7:01Speaker 7: getting frustrating to watch the defensively corners are getting lit up.
- 7:05Speaker 7: I would have liked to have seen them play more,
- 7:08Speaker 7: you know, press coverage, if they were going to play
- 7:10Speaker 7: so much man just because amen Ra apparently had a
- 7:13Speaker 7: hurt leg, but I couldn't tell. I don't know if
- 7:15Speaker 7: there was some funny business going on with the injury report,
- 7:18Speaker 7: some gamesman the ship or what. But he looked totally fine.
- 7:21Speaker 7: But I mean, supposedly he's got a bad leg. Jamison's
- 7:23Speaker 7: not a physical receiver, So I would have liked to
- 7:25Speaker 7: see them play closer and at least challenge these guys.
- 7:27Speaker 7: You can't play eight yards off and just let them
- 7:29Speaker 7: on crossing routes all night long. You can't cover fifty
- 7:32Speaker 7: three yards of the field man man without playing press.
- 7:35Speaker 7: It's just not possible. And then you know the last thing,
- 7:38Speaker 7: man shot. He's getting a lot of heath kicking field goals.
- 7:41Speaker 7: I would have kicked every single field goal that he kicked.
- 7:43Speaker 7: I was totally fine with it.
- 7:43Speaker 10: I agree with what you said.
- 7:44Speaker 7: I saw your tweet about just before halftime there about
- 7:47Speaker 7: keeping the offense that to try to maybe take some
- 7:49Speaker 7: more time off. But because of those field goals you kicked,
- 7:52Speaker 7: you were in the game, yeah till the very end, right,
- 7:54Speaker 7: So I'm taking the points there. I don't have any
- 7:56Speaker 7: issues with that. But that's all I got, Ran, I
- 7:58Speaker 7: have a good one.
- 7:59Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. I'll address that part too, because I was.
- 8:04Speaker 1: I wouldn't say he did, but I mean that really
- 8:07Speaker 1: was bothersome to me right before the half. And I
- 8:11Speaker 1: think some of the some of the responses didn't really
- 8:14Speaker 1: get what I was saying. And I agree with you, Dylan.
- 8:17Speaker 1: I think I would have kicked every field goal as well.
- 8:20Speaker 1: Had no issues with kicking any of the field goals
- 8:23Speaker 1: when they you know, when they did. The problem I
- 8:25Speaker 1: had was right before the half and it's it's third
- 8:31Speaker 1: down and long and Ferguson makes a play and kind
- 8:37Speaker 1: of gets you know, ten yards or so and gets
- 8:39Speaker 1: it to fourth and four with about fifty five seconds
- 8:42Speaker 1: to go, clock running, and I'm looking at Dan Campbell,
- 8:46Speaker 1: and Dan Campbell is looking across the field, and as
- 8:49Speaker 1: soon as Aubrey comes onto the field, he calls the
- 8:52Speaker 1: time out. That is where I thought the Cowboys made
- 8:54Speaker 1: a huge mistake. I'm not saying that you have to
- 8:58Speaker 1: go for it. But what I would do, You keep
- 9:01Speaker 1: dak on the field, don't change the offense, get up
- 9:03Speaker 1: there like you're gonna call a play, and you could
- 9:05Speaker 1: call it if you want it. If you like the look,
- 9:08Speaker 1: go for it. Probably what's gonna happen. He's not gonna
- 9:11Speaker 1: call a time out because he doesn't want to help
- 9:14Speaker 1: you get a touchdown before the half, so he's waiting
- 9:17Speaker 1: and waiting. You get up there and you wait, and
- 9:19Speaker 1: you bark the signals and all that, and they don't jump.
- 9:22Speaker 1: Then you call your time out with about twenty eight seconds,
- 9:25Speaker 1: you kick the field goal, you kick it off. Maybe
- 9:28Speaker 1: you just boot this one out of the end zone
- 9:30Speaker 1: and you probably don't give up a field goal there.
- 9:32Speaker 1: But that's that's right there. It's just that was my
- 9:35Speaker 1: issue right before the half, just a little clock management
- 9:38Speaker 1: of just just bleeding the clock a little bit, and
- 9:43Speaker 1: that I thought that was a big mistake there. Obviously,
- 9:46Speaker 1: they lost by fourteen, so that's not I mean, it's
- 9:48Speaker 1: not just about a field goal. But you know, if
- 9:52Speaker 1: you would have told me they're gonna throw up an
- 9:54Speaker 1: interception right in the first play of the third quarter
- 9:58Speaker 1: and give up a touchdown, go down eighteen and then
- 10:00Speaker 1: I guess none of that really matters. But you know,
- 10:03Speaker 1: all right, let's let's keep going. Uh, who's next? Kevin
- 10:08Speaker 1: in New Jersey? Kevin?
- 10:10Speaker 6: Hey? Nick?
- 10:11Speaker 1: Hey, how are you doing.
- 10:13Speaker 3: I'm doing okay.
- 10:14Speaker 5: Uh.
- 10:15Speaker 10: I was following up on last week's call where I
- 10:19Speaker 10: was pleading for the Cowboys to show up last night.
- 10:23Speaker 10: So I guess, you know, last year when I came
- 10:25Speaker 10: down to the game with the family and they only
- 10:27Speaker 10: scored nine points, that was frustrating. So I was hoping
- 10:30Speaker 10: for something.
- 10:31Speaker 6: More than that.
- 10:32Speaker 10: In a way, I guess you could say there's an improvement,
- 10:36Speaker 10: but you know, the the glaring issue to me, And
- 10:38Speaker 10: I'm calling because I was curious about your thoughts. I'm
- 10:42Speaker 10: trying to wrap my head around what's going on on
- 10:45Speaker 10: the defense. You know, I'm looking at it from a
- 10:48Speaker 10: fans perspective. I don't know all the details you know,
- 10:52Speaker 10: behind it, but it just seems like a really kind
- 10:56Speaker 10: of boring conservative you know, zones scheme, and you know
- 11:00Speaker 10: it's reflected by maybe the lack of turnovers.
- 11:04Speaker 3: And you know, I.
- 11:05Speaker 10: Called a couple of weeks ago, I was mentioned it
- 11:06Speaker 10: to you about you know how I thought maybe glass
- 11:09Speaker 10: half full was Logan Wilson coming in to kind of
- 11:11Speaker 10: take some of the pressure off of Overshown as he's
- 11:14Speaker 10: coming back from injury. But I'm curious about your thoughts.
- 11:19Speaker 10: What is with the linebacker rotation.
- 11:22Speaker 3: I've always felt.
- 11:22Speaker 10: Like like when you have good players and they're solid,
- 11:26Speaker 10: like keep them out there. But for the Cowboys, it's
- 11:28Speaker 10: like every series they rotate the linebackers, and I feel
- 11:31Speaker 10: like maybe that hurts them. Maybe they're not I mean,
- 11:34Speaker 10: I guess it's resting them to a degree, but it
- 11:36Speaker 10: also feels like they're maybe getting out of the flow
- 11:39Speaker 10: of the game. I mean, I don't want to single
- 11:40Speaker 10: anybody out in particular, but I feel like they're really
- 11:44Speaker 10: struggling in a linebacker position, especially in the middle of
- 11:46Speaker 10: the field. There's all these crossing routes and they're really
- 11:49Speaker 10: taking advantage of us. You know, I know, you know
- 11:52Speaker 10: the lines are a good team, right, so, like you know, offensively,
- 11:54Speaker 10: they have weapons. But can you share your thoughts on
- 11:58Speaker 10: maybe what you think about that linebacker rotation, why they're
- 12:01Speaker 10: doing it, and and maybe how they can possibly fix it, because,
- 12:05Speaker 10: like I said, I just think the defensive scheme is
- 12:07Speaker 10: just hey, just old or tired?
- 12:09Speaker 1: Hey, Kevin, Hey, have you ever heard that phrase when
- 12:12Speaker 1: they say, uh, if you have two quarterbacks, uh, it
- 12:16Speaker 1: means you have none?
- 12:17Speaker 10: You know, something like that.
- 12:19Speaker 1: You know, like when the team says that, like we
- 12:20Speaker 1: got two guys or we got three quarterback it means
- 12:23Speaker 1: you really don't have any. I wonder if that's sort
- 12:26Speaker 1: of the neighborhood of what we're talking about here with linebackers.
- 12:30Speaker 1: You know, you got five? Are any of them good?
- 12:34Speaker 1: You know? And I say that with everybody loves overshown.
- 12:38Speaker 1: You know, is he is he ready to play?
- 12:42Speaker 5: You know?
- 12:42Speaker 1: Is he ready to kind of be that guy he
- 12:44Speaker 1: was last year? And I think he is. I think
- 12:46Speaker 1: he's your best one. But I just it's like, who
- 12:50Speaker 1: do you Who do you put in here? Who do
- 12:51Speaker 1: you say? Because nobody is It's like, you see, I've
- 12:55Speaker 1: seen basketball teams like that where thanks for the call, Kevin.
- 12:58Speaker 1: We're going to keep the lines going. I appreciate your call.
- 13:01Speaker 1: And it was a really good question. It's like when
- 13:03Speaker 1: you when you have some of the basketball teams that
- 13:05Speaker 1: I followed, when there's seven or eight, nine guys, but
- 13:08Speaker 1: you don't know who the best guys are, and so
- 13:11Speaker 1: you're like, what about this combination, what about with this guy?
- 13:14Speaker 1: What if? What if these guys play together. I feel
- 13:17Speaker 1: like that's sort of happening a little bit at linebacker.
- 13:19Speaker 1: I don't think there's a huge difference between Logan Wilson
- 13:24Speaker 1: and Shamar James or Overshown and Leah foul and Kenneth Murray.
- 13:30Speaker 1: You know, every once in a while they all do
- 13:32Speaker 1: something and then they'll also do something. You're like, I
- 13:35Speaker 1: don't know about that play. It does feel like Murray's
- 13:38Speaker 1: the one that's that's out of position a lot. He
- 13:42Speaker 1: leads the team in tackles, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything.
- 13:45Speaker 1: He means he's out there the most, but it's not
- 13:49Speaker 1: a it's not a strong position. It's not there's there's
- 13:52Speaker 1: just no other way around it. So, uh, you know,
- 13:54Speaker 1: maybe Wilson needs some more time here, maybe him An
- 13:57Speaker 1: Overshown together, But that's always a tricky balance of depth
- 14:02Speaker 1: and keeping them fresh and also out of the flow
- 14:06Speaker 1: of the game. I thought that's a that's a great point.
- 14:08Speaker 1: It's it's the way with running backs a lot, you know.
- 14:11Speaker 1: I mean, you want these guys that want this one
- 14:13Speaker 1: two punch, but at the same time is it is
- 14:17Speaker 1: it really taking him out of rhythm? Let me go
- 14:19Speaker 1: back to this really might go back to Dylan's call.
- 14:22Speaker 1: He was talking about the corners and the crossing routes.
- 14:27Speaker 1: The Lions have an unbelievable advantage, and I don't I mean,
- 14:33Speaker 1: I don't know why they haven't had some success here
- 14:37Speaker 1: or more success this year. But Jamiir Gibbs is an
- 14:41Speaker 1: absolute problem because I think, I mean, obviously the most
- 14:46Speaker 1: underrated part of his game is is the way that
- 14:49Speaker 1: he catches the ball out of the backfield, but the
- 14:51Speaker 1: way that they lined him up. And I talked to
- 14:54Speaker 1: a defensive coach before the game and he said that
- 14:58Speaker 1: he was worried about as a receiver because they don't
- 15:03Speaker 1: just line him up and then rotating him back. They
- 15:07Speaker 1: line him up out there and now are you gonna
- 15:10Speaker 1: put a linebacker out there? You're gonna put safety? It
- 15:13Speaker 1: just it just changes the covers. I hate to compare
- 15:16Speaker 1: him to Hall of Famer because you know, he's still
- 15:19Speaker 1: early in his career, but but when the Rams had
- 15:23Speaker 1: Marshall Fulk and they could use him like that, where
- 15:27Speaker 1: sometimes he just would run a route, it just changes
- 15:30Speaker 1: everything of what you're trying to do. He's a he's
- 15:33Speaker 1: a problem. And uh man, he was a good player,
- 15:36Speaker 1: he was. He was great last night. I'm ay And Napa,
- 15:38Speaker 1: California is next.
- 15:41Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Nick.
- 15:42Speaker 5: How are you good?
- 15:43Speaker 1: How are you?
- 15:44Speaker 5: I'm great, man, I'm great, great in life, but not
- 15:49Speaker 5: so good in football. Man. I really think that. Yeah,
- 15:54Speaker 5: you're hitting on a lot of points. Man. You know,
- 15:58Speaker 5: the linebacker play was was not good. It hasn't been good.
- 16:03Speaker 5: Our secondary was bad. I wish we would have took
- 16:06Speaker 5: a page out of what the Lions were doing. And
- 16:09Speaker 5: like you know they I know that they tend to
- 16:11Speaker 5: press press the receivers, you know, and play a lot
- 16:16Speaker 5: of man up. I wish we would have did a
- 16:18Speaker 5: little bit more of that because we didn't have the
- 16:20Speaker 5: room to allow guys just to kind of run freely.
- 16:23Speaker 5: Like it seemed like all of our dbs were in
- 16:26Speaker 5: a chase mode and even our linebackers like the whole night.
- 16:29Speaker 1: And I mean, you know, but let me let me
- 16:31Speaker 1: cut you off by that, and and I'm not disagreeing
- 16:34Speaker 1: with your point, but I'm just just remember this. The Cowboys.
- 16:37Speaker 1: They don't how many sacks did they get on Cowboys one?
- 16:40Speaker 1: Maybe I know, I know one for sure, and the
- 16:44Speaker 1: one guy their best pass rusher. They only got one sack,
- 16:47Speaker 1: and the guy that got the sack is the guy
- 16:49Speaker 1: that the Lions didn't want. So the point that I'm
- 16:52Speaker 1: trying to make is the Lions could play more press
- 16:54Speaker 1: coverage because they've got Aiden Hutchinson. They've got some guys
- 16:57Speaker 1: that can get home quickly. The cow always have James Houston,
- 17:01Speaker 1: who the Lions didn't want. That's their best pass rusher,
- 17:03Speaker 1: especially with Clowney out, you know what I mean. So
- 17:06Speaker 1: so it's tougher to play up there when when you don't,
- 17:08Speaker 1: you don't think you guys can get home, especially on
- 17:10Speaker 1: the outside.
- 17:12Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 17:13Speaker 5: Yeah, But in the same instance, like they were going
- 17:15Speaker 5: to play that no matter what, and they just rolled
- 17:18Speaker 5: the safety over the top of Pickens like all night,
- 17:20Speaker 5: even when CD was in there, that safety still played
- 17:23Speaker 5: over the top and it was like there was you know,
- 17:27Speaker 5: the Cowboys offensively didn't adjust from that, and I just
- 17:30Speaker 5: didn't see why we didn't try to do more of that. Obviously,
- 17:33Speaker 5: Gibbs was a problem man, like when he was in
- 17:35Speaker 5: the backfield when he went out, you know, as a
- 17:38Speaker 5: as a receiver, like we weren't going to get away
- 17:41Speaker 5: from that, you know, and then overall there was just
- 17:43Speaker 5: self inflicted wounds. Like you know, Ferguson didn't have his
- 17:46Speaker 5: best game. You know, obviously they attacked Rebel. You know,
- 17:50Speaker 5: they knew what they wanted to do there. You know,
- 17:53Speaker 5: it was some growing pains. Just I think you hit
- 17:56Speaker 5: right earlier when you said they looked like a tire team,
- 17:59Speaker 5: because that's that's what it looked like. They looked tired.
- 18:02Speaker 5: They weren't mentally sharp. It was a lot of self
- 18:04Speaker 5: inflicted wounds, and it was like it wasn't like they
- 18:07Speaker 5: were out of the game. They were in the game
- 18:09Speaker 5: the whole time. Just they can continue to kick themselves
- 18:14Speaker 5: when they were, you know, geting some momentum. So man,
- 18:17Speaker 5: I'm not upset about it. I mean I'm upset about it,
- 18:19Speaker 5: but in the long term, I'm still just like, let's play.
- 18:22Speaker 5: It's it's gonna be fun no matter what happens. Went
- 18:26Speaker 5: out and don't make the playoffs. It's cool, like you know,
- 18:28Speaker 5: like just want to see what happens again. I see
- 18:33Speaker 5: what the future is. And you know, they got to
- 18:35Speaker 5: figure some things out with Pickings and for sure, Soornstein
- 18:38Speaker 5: got to go the coach for special teams. He was
- 18:41Speaker 5: the coach, the defensive coordinator out here with the Niners
- 18:44Speaker 5: last year, and I watched him up close. He's he's
- 18:48Speaker 5: not good. He doesn't coach up any of his players.
- 18:51Speaker 5: Like the one kick right before half Aubrey barely made
- 18:56Speaker 5: that because he and it was like the most easiest kick,
- 18:58Speaker 5: and he like goes up there like you know, he's
- 19:02Speaker 5: like he's just just gonna make it automatically. And I
- 19:04Speaker 5: just don't think Sorenson's getting the best out of the guys.
- 19:08Speaker 6: You know.
- 19:09Speaker 5: Turpin seems like he's regressing. He's scared to return the
- 19:12Speaker 5: ball or something where he's always wanting to call fair
- 19:15Speaker 5: fair catch. Then real life realizes he has rooms. So
- 19:19Speaker 5: all right, I get rid of him. But yeah, I mean,
- 19:21Speaker 5: let's go Cowboys.
- 19:22Speaker 1: Hey, all right, I appreciate it. All right, Let's let's
- 19:24Speaker 1: try to keep it moving. A lot of stuff there. Yeah, Ferguson,
- 19:29Speaker 1: I'm watching I keep watching this this play on you know,
- 19:32Speaker 1: NFL Network shows it, and it sounds like that Brian
- 19:38Speaker 1: branch On, that play suffered in a torn achilles on
- 19:41Speaker 1: that play, that safety, but that let's go to that
- 19:46Speaker 1: that play right there that that fourth down or third
- 19:49Speaker 1: down call. The thing that gets me about that is
- 19:54Speaker 1: that two officials through the flag. Okay, one from the
- 19:58Speaker 1: other side, one from this side. You can't tell me
- 20:01Speaker 1: that both of them, well I know that, we know
- 20:04Speaker 1: both of them didn't say offensive pass interference or they
- 20:07Speaker 1: would have talked about it for two seconds. Instead, they
- 20:10Speaker 1: talked about it for about a minute. So to me,
- 20:14Speaker 1: and as weird as this sounds, why not just say
- 20:19Speaker 1: offensive interference and we have defensive interference? Those files OFFSET
- 20:23Speaker 1: will replay the down because at that point it just
- 20:26Speaker 1: comes down to seniority. Who's the loudest in the room,
- 20:30Speaker 1: who can, you know, dominate the conversation, because what one
- 20:33Speaker 1: guy saw it as defensive interference one guy and then
- 20:36Speaker 1: the rest of the world. And then another guy saw
- 20:40Speaker 1: it as offensive interference and that guy's conversation one. I mean,
- 20:44Speaker 1: that's it's ridiculous. I mean, he if you go back
- 20:49Speaker 1: and watch the play, the linebacker racked Ferguson. That's what happened.
- 20:53Speaker 1: He got beat and he racked him and then he's
- 20:56Speaker 1: trying to swim through that and they call that that
- 20:59Speaker 1: it's absly. That's the worst call. That I've seen all
- 21:03Speaker 1: season long for when the Cowboys games, that is the
- 21:06Speaker 1: worst call. The second one is probably probably went against
- 21:11Speaker 1: the other team. Maybe it might have been one of
- 21:13Speaker 1: the Chiefs offensive interference.
- 21:14Speaker 9: You know.
- 21:15Speaker 1: Maybe I just don't like that play when Worthy got
- 21:17Speaker 1: called for it against the Cowboys. I didn't like it
- 21:19Speaker 1: when Pickens got called for it in the last night either.
- 21:22Speaker 1: I thought that was that was a bad call. I
- 21:28Speaker 1: may talked about special teams with Sorensen. It's it's not good.
- 21:33Speaker 1: I mean it's weird because if you if your kicker
- 21:37Speaker 1: sets NFL records, it's the first one to ever make,
- 21:40Speaker 1: you know, three kicks of fifty five yards or more.
- 21:43Speaker 1: He just casually hits a sixty three yarder and and
- 21:45Speaker 1: then you know, makes five field goals and Sam Williams
- 21:48Speaker 1: blocks the field goal and you have a bad special
- 21:51Speaker 1: teams night. I mean, that's hard to do if you're
- 21:53Speaker 1: going to do this over here. But that's what happened.
- 21:55Speaker 1: That outweighed all the good stuff that you saw over here.
- 21:58Speaker 1: They can't they couldn't star up this guy. And I mean, sorry,
- 22:04Speaker 1: he doesn't pass the eye test for a kick returner,
- 22:07Speaker 1: but he certainly, you know, he was awesome and just
- 22:10Speaker 1: to the point where man Aubrey just kick it out,
- 22:12Speaker 1: then kick it out of the in zone and go
- 22:13Speaker 1: to the thirty five if that's what it's going to be,
- 22:16Speaker 1: you know. So anyways, I just got to break here
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- 24:15Speaker 1: I'm Nick Eatman. We're talking about the Cowboys forty four
- 24:18Speaker 1: thirty loss to the Lions. Let's go to Sergeant su
- 24:21Speaker 1: who's been holding Sergeant Sue? What's up? Man from Fort Worth?
- 24:24Speaker 6: A lease?
- 24:24Speaker 15: Everybody how you doing, Nick, How are you? I'm good, brother.
- 24:28Speaker 15: You know, I don't want to overreact to this game
- 24:30Speaker 15: as far as what I think that this team is,
- 24:33Speaker 15: but it's really hard not to face the realities, which
- 24:36Speaker 15: may be that we might not make the playoffs.
- 24:38Speaker 10: Now.
- 24:39Speaker 15: I do think that championship teams are allowed to have
- 24:42Speaker 15: a bad game, that they're allowed to come out flat.
- 24:45Speaker 15: But unfortunately, you know, because of the way the season started,
- 24:48Speaker 15: we didn't we don't have that luxury, you know, to
- 24:50Speaker 15: have a bad game. We didn't have that luxury to
- 24:53Speaker 15: have like a little bit of a hiccup. And you know,
- 24:56Speaker 15: I just think that that was just seemed to like
- 24:58Speaker 15: really really like to prove how.
- 25:00Speaker 9: Regilient we are.
- 25:01Speaker 15: And I think that we don't have to do that.
- 25:03Speaker 15: Like I wish we could have just come out and
- 25:05Speaker 15: not have to face the uh, the self inflicted wounds
- 25:08Speaker 15: and stuff.
- 25:09Speaker 16: You know.
- 25:09Speaker 15: It's just it's just a little bit unfortunate. But regardless,
- 25:12Speaker 15: I'm gonna try to keep it positive as I always
- 25:13Speaker 15: do it. I mean, I'm still excited about how this
- 25:16Speaker 15: team responds. I do think that they have the ability
- 25:18Speaker 15: to win out. I never have been and never will
- 25:20Speaker 15: be the type of fan, which is not wrong, but
- 25:23Speaker 15: I'm personally I'm not the type of fan that wants
- 25:26Speaker 15: to lose out for a pick or anything like that. Like,
- 25:28Speaker 15: I want to see how they respond. I want to
- 25:30Speaker 15: see how they continue to build, you know, getting people
- 25:33Speaker 15: back from injuries. Biggs is gonna come back. Let's see
- 25:35Speaker 15: see what happens next.
- 25:36Speaker 6: Man.
- 25:36Speaker 15: So I'm not hanging hanging my hat up, you know
- 25:38Speaker 15: what I mean. I'm not ready to say that the
- 25:40Speaker 15: season is lost or you know.
- 25:41Speaker 9: Tuck my tail.
- 25:42Speaker 15: I'm ready to see how this team bounces back, man.
- 25:44Speaker 15: And I'm excited and hopefully the things fall the way
- 25:47Speaker 15: that they need to and we can still make a push.
- 25:49Speaker 15: But if not, like I do, I do believe in momentum,
- 25:51Speaker 15: and I do believe in confidence, and I think that
- 25:52Speaker 15: Dallas has the ability to build both of those going forward. Man,
- 25:55Speaker 15: I appreciate you to take my call.
- 25:56Speaker 1: I appreciate that, Serge. It's a good, good call. And
- 26:01Speaker 1: you know, and and we kind of we kind of
- 26:03Speaker 1: knew that this was gonna happen, right, I mean, I
- 26:05Speaker 1: don't think anyone I didn't think they were going to
- 26:07Speaker 1: just run the table. Uh, that's just not the way
- 26:09Speaker 1: the NFL works. Uh, and they're not They're not good
- 26:13Speaker 1: enough to do that. I mean, you know, let's they've
- 26:16Speaker 1: they've won some games, they once a games. Got some
- 26:19Speaker 1: students coming through here and I guess they're on field
- 26:23Speaker 1: trip or whatever. So this guy right here, we need
- 26:26Speaker 1: to sign him up. He needs to play and we
- 26:28Speaker 1: need him on the on the defensive line.
- 26:32Speaker 4: No.
- 26:32Speaker 1: We I didn't think that they would run the table.
- 26:37Speaker 1: I really didn't. But you know, let's not let's not
- 26:41Speaker 1: forget that. You know, Jake Ferguson fumbled on the final
- 26:45Speaker 1: drive against the Eagles that went out of bounced the
- 26:47Speaker 1: cowb would go kick a field goal, you know, I
- 26:49Speaker 1: mean Pickings fumbled the ball and Turpin recovered it and
- 26:53Speaker 1: the Chiefs, you know, they kicked a field goal and
- 26:55Speaker 1: they were up by ten. The Chiefs didn't have enough
- 26:58Speaker 1: time to come back. You know, last night Ferguson fumbled,
- 27:02Speaker 1: they recovered it, they go score touchdown. Pickens fumbled, Tyler
- 27:07Speaker 1: Smith picks it up and I thought Tyler Smith's going
- 27:09Speaker 1: to score a touchdown. But you know they've been playing
- 27:13Speaker 1: this way and the ball bounces it one way, bounces
- 27:16Speaker 1: the other, and it did not bounce their way. And
- 27:18Speaker 1: so my point is is when you play that way,
- 27:21Speaker 1: you're not gonna win seventh straight. You're just not so.
- 27:25Speaker 1: But I woke up, you know, I don't know hour
- 27:30Speaker 1: after I went to sleep, but I haven't had a
- 27:32Speaker 1: different opinion about it. Was it was a little frustrated
- 27:35Speaker 1: with the team and this, you know, just knowing what
- 27:37Speaker 1: the loss meant and all that. But I had to
- 27:39Speaker 1: kind of stop and say, you know, twenty seven to nine,
- 27:43Speaker 1: it's twenty seven to nine, and then next thing you know,
- 27:46Speaker 1: it's thirty to twenty seven. And as I wrote in
- 27:47Speaker 1: my column if you've read that, I thought the game
- 27:52Speaker 1: was just an example of this whole season. I mean,
- 27:57Speaker 1: that game was pretty much how you would discribe this
- 28:00Speaker 1: season same way. Started out, it's okay, and then then
- 28:06Speaker 1: it's bad, and then he's this is looking terrible. Is
- 28:09Speaker 1: not looking good at all? Oh man, you know they're
- 28:11Speaker 1: gonna get blown out, they're gonna have a bad draft
- 28:13Speaker 1: pick and all that, and then they suck you back
- 28:16Speaker 1: in and I'm like, well, hold on, now watch this.
- 28:19Speaker 1: Boom boom boom boom. Wait wait wait, is there a
- 28:22Speaker 1: chance their chance they're gonna come back and win? Is
- 28:24Speaker 1: there a chance they're going to go make the playoffs.
- 28:26Speaker 1: No they're not, you know. And the only thing about
- 28:30Speaker 1: that game that's not going to be the way you
- 28:33Speaker 1: described twenty twenty five is the way Pickens played. Because
- 28:36Speaker 1: Pickens is gonna have a better season that he's a
- 28:38Speaker 1: he's a Pro Bowl player. He's gonna have better season
- 28:39Speaker 1: than that then than what he played in that game.
- 28:43Speaker 1: But all right, let's move on here. We got uh
- 28:46Speaker 1: Rob in Vegas. Hey, Nick, Hey, what's up.
- 28:52Speaker 8: Tough night? Yeah, it sucked. Unfortunately, We've seen this before
- 28:59Speaker 8: in these type of games, playoff atmosphere games. We always
- 29:03Speaker 8: we lose the turnover battle and a penalty battle, and
- 29:06Speaker 8: it kills us. And that's what killed us last night.
- 29:10Speaker 8: I you know, as bad as the kick return coverage
- 29:14Speaker 8: was and all that, it was the turnovers and the
- 29:16Speaker 8: penalties that that penalty that Ferguson had hands to the
- 29:20Speaker 8: face where we would had first in goal because Pickings
- 29:24Speaker 8: got the pass at the farance that was nullified, and
- 29:27Speaker 8: and then Pickings doing some dumb stuff. You just can't
- 29:35Speaker 8: overcome it. We're not we're a good team. We're we're
- 29:39Speaker 8: not a great team. I what sucks is we're wasting
- 29:45Speaker 8: another really good year from our quarterback, just like we
- 29:48Speaker 8: did with Romo. It's it's we've had these.
- 29:51Speaker 5: You know.
- 29:53Speaker 8: It's going to come to an end eventually, and it
- 29:56Speaker 8: just sucks that we're wasting it. You know what else
- 29:58Speaker 8: do we need? Got two number one wide receivers. You
- 30:02Speaker 8: had a running game. Unfortunately we improved the defense. Okay,
- 30:06Speaker 8: we bought guys in to stop to run. Our past
- 30:09Speaker 8: defense is bad. We have nobody that could pressure the
- 30:11Speaker 8: quarterback consistently. I don't care what they pay Land. He's
- 30:15Speaker 8: not an outside corner. You made the mistake of paying
- 30:18Speaker 8: him as an outside corner. But he's not. He's not good.
- 30:21Speaker 8: He's an average outside guy, but he's a really good
- 30:25Speaker 8: slot guy and that's where he needs to play. Over shown.
- 30:30Speaker 8: You know, he's not the same player. Hopefully he gets there,
- 30:33Speaker 8: but right now he's not. And I agree with that
- 30:35Speaker 8: of the call up rotating linebackers is like what you said,
- 30:38Speaker 8: If you're rotating guys, it's because you don't have one.
- 30:41Speaker 8: And to talk about pickings being in almost sixty I
- 30:48Speaker 8: grew up in the era of there was no free agency,
- 30:51Speaker 8: so these players had nowhere to go, So you know,
- 30:55Speaker 8: you could maybe you know, controlled more or whatever whatever,
- 31:02Speaker 8: And I always felt I really didn't care what they
- 31:04Speaker 8: did off the field. You know, some of the greats,
- 31:07Speaker 8: we all know who they are, weren't the greatest off
- 31:10Speaker 8: the field, but Comes Sundaday were the best. And that's
- 31:13Speaker 8: how I believe. But I kind of changed my stance
- 31:16Speaker 8: on that because of the amount of money and the
- 31:20Speaker 8: salary cap. So if we're going to look at Pickens,
- 31:24Speaker 8: you have to really say to yourself, are you going
- 31:27Speaker 8: to pay him thirty five million dollars a year? And
- 31:32Speaker 8: now you have to worry about him like this because
- 31:37Speaker 8: Lamb you don't have to worry. We got lucky with him.
- 31:41Speaker 5: You know.
- 31:42Speaker 8: And now with Flownoy playing really good, and don't get
- 31:48Speaker 8: me wrong, he's probably playing really good because Pickens and
- 31:51Speaker 8: Lamb are on the field. Pickets is there. So I've
- 31:53Speaker 8: seen that story before where the third guy moves up
- 31:57Speaker 8: to the second spot and oh, how come he's not
- 32:02Speaker 8: as good? So I don't want to get rid of Pickens,
- 32:05Speaker 8: don't get me wrong, but I'm sure you got to
- 32:08Speaker 8: be leary of the money just because of the salary cap,
- 32:11Speaker 8: just because of how much it eats up. I don't
- 32:13Speaker 8: care how much he makes.
- 32:15Speaker 3: It's this.
- 32:16Speaker 8: It's so much like I don't begrudge these guys getting paid,
- 32:18Speaker 8: but they get paid. But it has to hit because
- 32:22Speaker 8: if it doesn't hit, you're screwed. So that's my only concerned.
- 32:28Speaker 8: Let's see what he's got four games. He's got four
- 32:30Speaker 8: games to really turn. Listen, he had to beg it.
- 32:34Speaker 8: I think he hurt his shoulder on the first play.
- 32:36Speaker 8: If you saw the way he fell, he had his
- 32:39Speaker 8: shoulder like tinned back, and he knew Pickens. It's on
- 32:43Speaker 8: the like the first play of the game or the
- 32:45Speaker 8: first pass that they threw to him. He fell weird,
- 32:50Speaker 8: and if you watch the replay, his arm instead of
- 32:52Speaker 8: putting his hand out was tucked behind him. His shoulder
- 32:56Speaker 8: took the full brunt and you could see him shaking
- 32:58Speaker 8: it out. So you know, I don't know, I don't want.
- 33:02Speaker 8: It just sucked. It sucks that it's you know obviously, all.
- 33:06Speaker 1: Right, Rob, I appreciate it. Thanks for the call. You're right,
- 33:09Speaker 1: and let's talk about Pickings little more. It is a
- 33:14Speaker 1: very challenging decision that they've got to make, and I
- 33:17Speaker 1: think what's going to happen because when I ask people
- 33:19Speaker 1: about it that are kind of in the know. They
- 33:22Speaker 1: just kind of shrug, like, franchise them. I mean, it's
- 33:26Speaker 1: not not that hard. Just franchise them. I mean, that's
- 33:28Speaker 1: that's the that's the response. So I think that is
- 33:32Speaker 1: that's the answer there for them is And honestly, it
- 33:37Speaker 1: might be the best answer because because the here, here's
- 33:44Speaker 1: what do we know? Is he a great player? Yes?
- 33:47Speaker 1: Is he? Is he worthy of that kind of money
- 33:51Speaker 1: the way he's playing this year? Yes? And does he
- 33:55Speaker 1: help this offense?
- 33:56Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 33:56Speaker 1: He does. Are you scared to give him that kind
- 34:00Speaker 1: of money and that kind of commitment?
- 34:02Speaker 17: Yes?
- 34:03Speaker 1: So that's what the franchise tag does.
- 34:06Speaker 3: It.
- 34:06Speaker 1: It's a lot of money. It's not thirty five, it'll
- 34:09Speaker 1: probably twenty seven, twenty eight, but it's one year and
- 34:12Speaker 1: then we'll see how he does on it. See Holly performs,
- 34:16Speaker 1: holl he acts. I mean, he's missing meetings, he's being
- 34:19Speaker 1: late to things, he's missing a bus, he's getting fined
- 34:21Speaker 1: all over the place. And that's only a salary of
- 34:24Speaker 1: about one point five million or one three I don't
- 34:26Speaker 1: know what a salary is, but it's not that much.
- 34:28Speaker 1: But that's who you're getting right now. So give him
- 34:32Speaker 1: that much money and see see what happens. If it's
- 34:34Speaker 1: a train wreck all year long, then you know, you
- 34:38Speaker 1: have to figure out if it's worth it. Just like
- 34:40Speaker 1: Rob was saying on the calls, there's a lot of
- 34:43Speaker 1: great players that were it was worth it. You know,
- 34:46Speaker 1: he drives you crazy, but it was worth it. And
- 34:49Speaker 1: another thing about the pick and CD thing, Let's not
- 34:51Speaker 1: forget two weeks ago we were sitting here and going
- 34:53Speaker 1: wrong with CD. You can't catch the ball, maybe you
- 34:56Speaker 1: trade CD. I mean that's the way it goes. You
- 34:59Speaker 1: knew the defenses weren't going to continue to play pickings
- 35:01Speaker 1: this way, and they haven't. They've changed. And what happened. Oh,
- 35:05Speaker 1: CD's gone off the last two weeks and he's went
- 35:07Speaker 1: over one hundred yards. I mean, CD was was looking
- 35:10Speaker 1: at a two hundred yard game. He had one hundred
- 35:12Speaker 1: and what twenty yards and he got hurt in the
- 35:15Speaker 1: second quarter like he he went for two twenty seven
- 35:18Speaker 1: on the Lions like two years ago, and he was
- 35:20Speaker 1: probably looking at that again, all of those flinoy yards
- 35:23Speaker 1: probably would have gone to CD, or most of them.
- 35:25Speaker 1: I mean he really he was having a monster game.
- 35:28Speaker 1: So then what would have happened the next week is
- 35:29Speaker 1: say CD doesn't get hurt. What happened to the next week?
- 35:31Speaker 1: Oh well, out of the vikings, Well, Miking's gonna shift
- 35:33Speaker 1: it over and they're gonna cover CD again. I guess
- 35:35Speaker 1: what Pickens goes. I mean, that's the problem that they have.
- 35:38Speaker 1: Some weeks, it's gonna be this. Some week, it's gonna
- 35:40Speaker 1: be that. This one certainly wasn't Pickens night. But you know,
- 35:44Speaker 1: start start cheating back over to CD and see what happens.
- 35:48Speaker 1: That's the beauty of what you have. And you know,
- 35:51Speaker 1: it just it just wasn't his night. But you know,
- 35:54Speaker 1: I think I think we've seen that he's going to
- 35:56Speaker 1: be that kind of player. All Right, Anthony and Miami,
- 35:59Speaker 1: what's up?
- 36:00Speaker 9: I didn't need to quick what's up?
- 36:01Speaker 1: My guy?
- 36:03Speaker 9: Hey, I'm pretty good man. I just wanted to call
- 36:05Speaker 9: in and say this much. I'm a jetic callers and
- 36:13Speaker 9: I am. I was with a badge of honor. So
- 36:16Speaker 9: I agree with Starge to sue, I don't agree that
- 36:18Speaker 9: we're not going to make it because I did protect
- 36:20Speaker 9: ten sixtion one and I'm not changing. So apparently I
- 36:22Speaker 9: may not have had them winning this game. When you
- 36:25Speaker 9: give thirty twenty seven. I understand people are mad, but
- 36:27Speaker 9: it was thirty twenty seven, So that mean you didn't
- 36:29Speaker 9: lay down. So I'm hearing people garbage. I'm hearing people this.
- 36:33Speaker 3: I'm hearing people that.
- 36:34Speaker 9: No, it was thirty twenty seven, so that's not a
- 36:37Speaker 9: lack of effort, you know what I'm saying. It might
- 36:38Speaker 9: not be the result we didn't want. So I'm going
- 36:40Speaker 9: with that now. On the CD thing, he just had
- 36:43Speaker 9: eighteen hundred yards a couple of years ago without GP.
- 36:46Speaker 9: If I got to allocate anything over twenty eight million
- 36:49Speaker 9: me personally, and he probably do to him. No, I'm
- 36:52Speaker 9: fixing other things. I'm fixing my I gotta get some
- 36:54Speaker 9: tackle and I got to work on my defense that
- 36:56Speaker 9: back seven back there.
- 36:58Speaker 5: So that's just me.
- 36:59Speaker 9: But anyway, I say positive, man six one.
- 37:01Speaker 1: If they want it, all right, all right, appreciate the call.
- 37:06Speaker 9: Uh.
- 37:06Speaker 1: You know, they've they've been you know, the underdog, you know,
- 37:12Speaker 1: with three straight games. I mean and those first two
- 37:15Speaker 1: were close, close, but the Cowboys figure out a way
- 37:18Speaker 1: to win at home, and uh, you know, now you're
- 37:20Speaker 1: going back to home two straight games, uh, Minnesota and
- 37:24Speaker 1: then the Chargers, So you're probably gonna be favored in
- 37:27Speaker 1: these four games. You know, one these stats that I
- 37:29Speaker 1: was I was looking at. It's just one of the
- 37:30Speaker 1: things I wrote in my column. You know, you're like, oh,
- 37:33Speaker 1: Cowboys lost forty four to thirty. So time possession, you
- 37:36Speaker 1: know they didn't have no, No, they won that they
- 37:38Speaker 1: want they actually had that by like three minutes. Okay,
- 37:41Speaker 1: first downs, no Cowboys had that too. What about third downs?
- 37:45Speaker 1: Obviously a third No. Cowboys actually had a better percentage
- 37:48Speaker 1: than the Lions. Total yards, yep, Cowboys. Penalties. Actually, the
- 37:53Speaker 1: Lions had one more penalty than the Cowboys if you
- 37:55Speaker 1: believe that. Dallas did have more yards, but Lions did
- 37:58Speaker 1: have more penalties. Turnovers three nothing just hits you in
- 38:04Speaker 1: the face, like Ferguson got called for on that pass
- 38:07Speaker 1: to Pickens, and that was the theme of the night.
- 38:10Speaker 1: Just hands to the face. And you know, you guys
- 38:12Speaker 1: know me. You've heard you know that's my least favorite penalty.
- 38:16Speaker 1: It's the one that bothers me the most in all
- 38:19Speaker 1: of football. His hands to the face. I absolutely hate it.
- 38:24Speaker 1: Not because of the way they call it, it's just
- 38:27Speaker 1: it's just the moving target. You know, if Ferguson gets
- 38:30Speaker 1: his hand in there on defensive end, Aiden Hutchinson, just
- 38:34Speaker 1: a little bit that in the gates of fifty yard
- 38:36Speaker 1: penalty here David Montgomery can have the ball and just
- 38:41Speaker 1: slow Marquise Bell right in the throat and the face.
- 38:43Speaker 1: That's fine, no problem there, Heaven forbid Nate Thomas gets
- 38:47Speaker 1: his hand up in someone's face and then or Picktt, Now, Pickens,
- 38:51Speaker 1: that was a little I think Pickt's trying to get
- 38:53Speaker 1: his hand out of there, but it just it's as funny.
- 38:56Speaker 1: Hands to the face is only a problem unless unless
- 39:00Speaker 1: you run in the football. And then if you're running
- 39:01Speaker 1: the football, then just go ahead and and not knock
- 39:04Speaker 1: out the dB with your with your hand, all right?
- 39:06Speaker 1: Rick in Webster, Massachusetts.
- 39:09Speaker 16: Hey, Nick, how you do?
- 39:10Speaker 1: Good? Are you?
- 39:12Speaker 16: I'm good?
- 39:12Speaker 3: And I'm good.
- 39:14Speaker 16: I agree with you, know, with Sargeant Sewer earlier, the uh.
- 39:19Speaker 16: You know, let the season play out, see how things go,
- 39:22Speaker 16: and we and go from there. But I don't know
- 39:25Speaker 16: if you had a title, but I would think. But
- 39:26Speaker 16: last night I heard this thing.
- 39:28Speaker 3: I got him.
- 39:29Speaker 16: Maybe this could be a good tile Dallas Cowboys and
- 39:32Speaker 16: the uh. Only Dallas Holby's can beat better than beating
- 39:37Speaker 16: the Dallas Cowboys. You know, i'd say it is dead.
- 39:41Speaker 16: I'm sorry, we're the only we're the only team that
- 39:43Speaker 16: can beat us better than NBLS can.
- 39:46Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yeah, yeah, I mean that's that's what happened.
- 39:51Speaker 1: Say thanks for the call. And you know, I don't know,
- 39:55Speaker 1: I don't know if you would say that they did that,
- 39:58Speaker 1: you know, last night. But you know, Dak has two interceptions.
- 40:04Speaker 1: That's the stat line you'll see. You'll see Dak. You know,
- 40:07Speaker 1: Dak has two interceptions in the game. But you know,
- 40:10Speaker 1: seventy nine point seven quarterback rating through for you know,
- 40:13Speaker 1: three seventy six was running for his life those two interceptions.
- 40:17Speaker 1: I swear, I mean, what are we playing volleyball again?
- 40:19Speaker 6: Is that?
- 40:20Speaker 1: What is that what we're doing? I mean, seriously, and
- 40:22Speaker 1: and and I'm not Dak had some misthrows. I'm not
- 40:25Speaker 1: saying he played a perfect game. He didn't. There was
- 40:27Speaker 1: a couple of passes where you know, he missed. See
- 40:30Speaker 1: he's streaking down the field, he throws it, you know,
- 40:33Speaker 1: out of bounds and the cheerleaders. He had some he
- 40:37Speaker 1: had some bad throws. He was he was under I mean,
- 40:39Speaker 1: both tackles did not play well. So Uh, that's never
- 40:43Speaker 1: going to go well when when neither tackles actually blocking well.
- 40:47Speaker 1: But the interceptions, I mean, both of them are just
- 40:50Speaker 1: just go ahead and you mean, what are you the
- 40:51Speaker 1: cetter and you just lob it up and the other
- 40:53Speaker 1: guy spikes it in. That's pretty much what we were
- 40:55Speaker 1: playing again last night. So that's another thing that he
- 40:59Speaker 1: had to do with. Again, I'm not giving Daka pass.
- 41:02Speaker 1: That wasn't Dak's best game, but just like Miami Anthony
- 41:06Speaker 1: and Miami said, it's twenty seven to nine, and that's saying,
- 41:08Speaker 1: you know, it's thirty to twenty seven without CD and
- 41:12Speaker 1: they're they're fighting and Flinoise, you know, fighting and they're
- 41:15Speaker 1: they're they're trying to get back in it, and they
- 41:17Speaker 1: didn't get back in it. But it just wasn't enough.
- 41:20Speaker 1: All right, let's go to break one more time on
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- 42:36Speaker 1: All right back here on Cowboys starting, I get a
- 42:39Speaker 1: chance for a couple more called Sebastian in Savannah, Georgia's next.
- 42:44Speaker 18: What's going on?
- 42:44Speaker 10: Boy?
- 42:44Speaker 1: How you doing good?
- 42:45Speaker 6: How are you?
- 42:46Speaker 18: I'm doing real good? You know it's very appropriate that
- 42:48Speaker 18: it's a rainy day here in Georgia, because it's a
- 42:50Speaker 18: Raineydyan Cowboys nation too. But you know what, Nick, I
- 42:53Speaker 18: don't feel too bad, and I'll tell you why. It's
- 42:57Speaker 18: a tough ass, big physical game against Philadelphia, we win,
- 43:01Speaker 18: big physical game against Kansas City we win. Going to
- 43:04Speaker 18: Detroit where you know it's going to be scrappy, you
- 43:05Speaker 18: know it's going to be physical. And this was the
- 43:07Speaker 18: game that I said we would lose because they had
- 43:10Speaker 18: too much speed.
- 43:11Speaker 3: It's our Achilles Hills.
- 43:12Speaker 18: That's been our Achilles Hill off season long right. Your
- 43:15Speaker 18: coaches didn't have the worst game plan. You have a
- 43:18Speaker 18: rookie corner out there. He's getting toasted. This game was
- 43:21Speaker 18: lost in one up front. On both sides of the ball,
- 43:23Speaker 18: there's no seven eleven anymore. You don't have Trayvon Diggs
- 43:26Speaker 18: out there, you don't have Micah Parsons. You can't get
- 43:28Speaker 18: to a quarterback in one point two seconds anymore, and
- 43:31Speaker 18: you leave him in the pocket. They're going to score
- 43:33Speaker 18: on defense on our side.
- 43:34Speaker 3: Of the ball.
- 43:35Speaker 18: What can you do, Nick, When you have two Chaz Greens,
- 43:37Speaker 18: you know you're forcing I feel like that may have
- 43:40Speaker 18: to start running a lot more because during that game,
- 43:42Speaker 18: I kept saying, get the ball out, get the ball out,
- 43:44Speaker 18: get the ball out.
- 43:44Speaker 3: He had no time. I mean poor.
- 43:47Speaker 18: I think his name is Nate Thompson. He didn't even
- 43:49Speaker 18: know where to look, like he was seeing ghosts.
- 43:52Speaker 3: He was literally.
- 43:52Speaker 18: Blocking nothing and there was just a guy in dac
- 43:55Speaker 18: lap the second he looked up. It was unfortunate, but
- 43:57Speaker 18: we lost both sides of the ball on the offense
- 43:59Speaker 18: of the defensive line, and they looked tired. Your best
- 44:03Speaker 18: defensive tackle was on the.
- 44:04Speaker 10: Floor of half the game.
- 44:06Speaker 9: It's a it's a tough ass.
- 44:08Speaker 18: Three very physical games back to back to back. But
- 44:10Speaker 18: like I said, we lose this one, we don't lose
- 44:12Speaker 18: any of the other four going forward, and we'll.
- 44:14Speaker 3: See what happens at the end of this. You have
- 44:17Speaker 3: a great day.
- 44:17Speaker 1: All right, You're exactly right about that last part. You'll
- 44:20Speaker 1: see what happens. I don't think the Chaz Green references
- 44:24Speaker 1: is fair. I mean I really don't, not not not
- 44:26Speaker 1: calling Terrence Steel that he didn't have He didn't have
- 44:30Speaker 1: a great game. I mean he certainly didn't have his
- 44:32Speaker 1: his his best game, you know he had. He had
- 44:36Speaker 1: a couple of moments where. I mean, he he had
- 44:37Speaker 1: a couple of nice, really nice blocks, but I mean,
- 44:40Speaker 1: you know, we don't nobody remembers those. Uh, it's it's
- 44:43Speaker 1: the other ones. And and yeah, Doak was Doak was
- 44:45Speaker 1: running for his life, and you know they they didn't
- 44:48Speaker 1: keep the tight ends that in that much to to
- 44:51Speaker 1: help with that. And you know, it's it's it's tough,
- 44:53Speaker 1: you know, having Turpin out there. It's got to be
- 44:57Speaker 1: worth it, you know, because when you have Turpin out there,
- 44:59Speaker 1: he's got to make plays because if he doesn't, he's
- 45:02Speaker 1: taking off a blocker off the field. So you know,
- 45:05Speaker 1: sometimes you want him, sometimes you don't. Davante, you know,
- 45:09Speaker 1: you want to maybe have him chip a little bit.
- 45:12Speaker 1: It just then they tried, they tried different things, and
- 45:16Speaker 1: you know it's not like they didn't move the ball.
- 45:17Speaker 1: They did. They just you know, they they they got
- 45:22Speaker 1: it wasn't even red zone. It was just late in
- 45:24Speaker 1: the it was like thirty yard line or sothern that
- 45:26Speaker 1: penalty and that moved him back and that's why he
- 45:29Speaker 1: was kicking these ninety yard field goals. All right, Anthony
- 45:31Speaker 1: and Columbia South Carolina our last call, Anthony.
- 45:35Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, how you doing how are you doing. I'm
- 45:37Speaker 6: doing good today, sir, Just quick man. Couldn't it be
- 45:42Speaker 6: that reason Dallas played the way they played last night
- 45:45Speaker 6: and the way they played every year around this time,
- 45:48Speaker 6: just because of the four games in the sixteen seventeen days.
- 45:53Speaker 6: I think those guys are tired. Man. Yeah, And my
- 45:56Speaker 6: question is to you would be why do Dallas do
- 46:01Speaker 6: this every year to accept the schedule like this, to
- 46:05Speaker 6: play the four games in the sixteen or seventeen days?
- 46:08Speaker 6: Why don't they pass it around the other teams? Is
- 46:11Speaker 6: it because the lionlight the Dallas like to be in
- 46:15Speaker 6: the limelight that why do we do that?
- 46:17Speaker 1: Well, it's you know, the Cowboys don't do it. I
- 46:20Speaker 1: mean they they don't. They don't make that that that schedule,
- 46:25Speaker 1: but but they, you know, they do, like I think
- 46:28Speaker 1: I think that is a problem though, is is you
- 46:31Speaker 1: have a short week and then and then you come
- 46:34Speaker 1: back and then you don't give them a break. That
- 46:37Speaker 1: that is the biggest issue to me. It is not
- 46:40Speaker 1: giving them a break, because it's like with anything, if
- 46:42Speaker 1: you're gonna take money here, at least you're gonna save
- 46:45Speaker 1: money here. But in this case, is that you get
- 46:47Speaker 1: that four days and then and then you got to
- 46:49Speaker 1: play again, and then you play in seven days. That
- 46:52Speaker 1: in some of the Lions, I mean so of the
- 46:54Speaker 1: Lion now they didn't travel. But you know, and and
- 46:57Speaker 1: I'm sorry we had we had to cut you off
- 46:59Speaker 1: because this we're gonna to wrap up the show. But
- 47:01Speaker 1: you make a good point, but it's not one. I
- 47:05Speaker 1: don't think this is the case, you know, because they
- 47:07Speaker 1: would do this with thirty two teams. I don't think it's. Well, Jerry,
- 47:11Speaker 1: here you go, this is what we've got. What do
- 47:13Speaker 1: you think. No, now I don't like this. Take this off,
- 47:17Speaker 1: move us to here. No, it doesn't happen that way,
- 47:20Speaker 1: you know. And so it's not an accepting the schedule
- 47:23Speaker 1: type thing. Now obviously you can, you know, raise your
- 47:26Speaker 1: concerns and things like that. And I'm sure that that
- 47:28Speaker 1: that happened. You know, the Lions played three home games
- 47:31Speaker 1: in a row, three home games in a row. They
- 47:33Speaker 1: one of them against the Giants. They barely won that game,
- 47:36Speaker 1: then Green Bay on Thanksgiving. That you know that that
- 47:40Speaker 1: was a little surprising to have that right there, But
- 47:46Speaker 1: you know, it's player safety is a is a huge deal.
- 47:50Speaker 1: Until until we're talking about playing on four days rest
- 47:53Speaker 1: and things like that. That was my first thought when
- 47:57Speaker 1: I saw CD hit the ground. As soon as he
- 47:58Speaker 1: hit the ground, I was like, well, you know what,
- 48:00Speaker 1: he's probably not coming back from this. And then I thought, well,
- 48:03Speaker 1: they do have ten days. You know, maybe he can
- 48:05Speaker 1: be back. Maybe he could be back in ten days.
- 48:08Speaker 1: We'll see how he is. But but that that is
- 48:11Speaker 1: a that is a problem. The Thanksgiving Day game, that's
- 48:14Speaker 1: one thing, but then to to give them to not
- 48:18Speaker 1: give him ten days after that, then they got to
- 48:21Speaker 1: keep going. It messes up the entire schedule. Sure that
- 48:23Speaker 1: they get ten days after it, but I mean didn't
- 48:27Speaker 1: do any favors with giving them. You know, the three
- 48:29Speaker 1: of the top teams in the NFL from last year,
- 48:31Speaker 1: so we knew it. Like that's the thing when the
- 48:34Speaker 1: schedule goes out, go back to May when it came out.
- 48:37Speaker 1: What's the first thing I know? I said it. Other
- 48:40Speaker 1: people said it right there. Wow, those three games in
- 48:43Speaker 1: a row. That that's just like a flashing light right there,
- 48:46Speaker 1: those three games. And guess what they were They Cowboys
- 48:49Speaker 1: won two of them, they lost the third one. You know,
- 48:52Speaker 1: to think that this team was going to go three,
- 48:53Speaker 1: five and one and then cut, you know, and then
- 48:55Speaker 1: come back from all the stuff that happened and beat
- 48:58Speaker 1: the Raiders. Then sweep that that's probably unrealistic. It didn't happen.
- 49:02Speaker 1: They gave it a go. It didn't happen, does it.
- 49:04Speaker 3: See?
- 49:04Speaker 1: Is the season over? Nope, We'll keep We'll keep it going.
- 49:07Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Four games left. You guys, you know,
- 49:10Speaker 1: did a good job of reiterating that, and we'll see
- 49:13Speaker 1: see what happens. I don't leave me now. I need
- 49:16Speaker 1: you for the for this final month. Hopefully the Cowboys
- 49:18Speaker 1: can stay in it. I know you guys will as well.
- 49:21Speaker 1: Have a great weekend. I keep telling myself it's not Monday,
- 49:23Speaker 1: it's a Friday. Keep telling myself that y'all have a
- 49:26Speaker 1: great weekend. We'll do it again on Monday. For Chris Beam,
- 49:30Speaker 1: I'm Nick Eatman. We'll see that on Cowboys Storyline.
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