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- 0:03Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:06Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Cowboys.
- 0:13Speaker 3: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Good morning everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It is Tuesday,
- 0:26Speaker 1: January the second, twenty twenty four. Happy New Year to everyone.
- 0:31Speaker 1: I hope everyone had a nice, safe, New Year's and
- 0:35Speaker 1: I know it ended well for you on twenty twenty three.
- 0:39Speaker 1: I mean, it couldn't have really been that bad considering
- 0:42Speaker 1: the Cowboys win on Saturday night, never a doubt on
- 0:45Speaker 1: that game, blew out the Lions, kidding, and then of
- 0:49Speaker 1: course the Cardinals do their thing and beat the Eagles
- 0:54Speaker 1: to give the Cowboys a chance. Here we are who
- 0:56Speaker 1: everyone kind of knows where we are. We don't need
- 0:57Speaker 1: to really get around figure out where they where they stand.
- 1:01Speaker 1: The Cowboys are in the driver's seat to be the
- 1:03Speaker 1: number two seed. They got to beat Washington this week,
- 1:06Speaker 1: and if that happens, they will be the NFC East
- 1:09Speaker 1: champions and the number two seed in the playoffs, which
- 1:12Speaker 1: means you get one home game. If you win, you
- 1:14Speaker 1: get another big difference than being the five seed obviously,
- 1:19Speaker 1: and uh hey, that's what and the Cowboys deserve it,
- 1:22Speaker 1: one hundred percent deserve where they are. I can promise
- 1:26Speaker 1: you this and the next forty five fifty minutes you
- 1:29Speaker 1: won't be hearing anything about lucky or fortunate or anything
- 1:33Speaker 1: like that. The cowboys are where they are, uh, and
- 1:36Speaker 1: they won the game because of what they've done, and
- 1:40Speaker 1: they're the gifts were back in Christmas. They didn't get
- 1:43Speaker 1: any gifts. They won the game, and they they're they're here,
- 1:46Speaker 1: they are so uh, it's all good. All right, let's
- 1:48Speaker 1: get let's get started. Eight to eight, eight five, five
- 1:50Speaker 1: to two ninety seven is the number to call. You
- 1:52Speaker 1: can text us at eight one seven two nine zero
- 1:54Speaker 1: three two nine eight. Chris will be working those send
- 1:57Speaker 1: some text messages in. But let's start with the calls
- 1:59Speaker 1: like we always do. You Dylan is in Northport, Florida,
- 2:03Speaker 1: and you're leading us off. What's up?
- 2:05Speaker 4: All right?
- 2:06Speaker 5: Hey?
- 2:06Speaker 1: Happy new Year, man, Happy new Year?
- 2:09Speaker 6: Thank you.
- 2:09Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 2:09Speaker 4: I got a cool book for Christmas. It's called Gift.
- 2:12Speaker 4: These walls to talk something like that about the author,
- 2:14Speaker 4: but I'm gonna give it a shot.
- 2:16Speaker 1: It a chance, you know, don't worry about giving him
- 2:18Speaker 1: a bad review or anything like that. But see see
- 2:21Speaker 1: what you think. And then if you've heard this story,
- 2:23Speaker 1: some of these stories online, Hey, sorry.
- 2:27Speaker 8: All get man.
- 2:28Speaker 5: All good?
- 2:29Speaker 4: So yeah, that's want to talk about Dak and then
- 2:31Speaker 4: I want to talk about the two point conversion sequence
- 2:33Speaker 4: at the end there. First off, Aiden Hudgerson needs to
- 2:37Speaker 4: watch those hip drops on quarterbacks in the pocket. He
- 2:40Speaker 4: almost tore docs ac on that second one, and boy,
- 2:42Speaker 4: that could have been That could have been bad.
- 2:45Speaker 1: But the only thing that's the only thing he needs
- 2:47Speaker 1: to watch. But that's okay.
- 2:50Speaker 4: Yeah, now that tripping too. He needs to watch those
- 2:52Speaker 4: legs getting getting out there. But the rescot is back
- 2:55Speaker 4: on that one.
- 2:55Speaker 3: I guess, I guess it's getting lost.
- 2:58Speaker 4: Year is Dak had just another beautif performance. I don't
- 3:00Speaker 4: see anybody talking about that in the national media. It's
- 3:03Speaker 4: all this penalty stuff and the two point conversion and
- 3:06Speaker 4: all that. But Dak, it's another game winning drive. I
- 3:08Speaker 4: don't know if technically accounts as one, but I think
- 3:11Speaker 4: it does.
- 3:11Speaker 7: Uh.
- 3:12Speaker 4: He had one the week before too in Miami, but
- 3:14Speaker 4: the defense couldn't you know, see the deal. But he's
- 3:16Speaker 4: making unbelievable throws out I'm not sure I've seen him
- 3:19Speaker 4: make before on a consistent basis, like he's doing now
- 3:22Speaker 4: all these third and longs blitzers in his face. He's
- 3:24Speaker 4: just delivering dimes to these guys and Cooks. Dude, if
- 3:28Speaker 4: Cooks kicks his hands on the ball, it's caught. It
- 3:30Speaker 4: doesn't matter if he gets.
- 3:30Speaker 9: Hit by a bulldozer or what.
- 3:33Speaker 3: But it's just crazy.
- 3:34Speaker 1: That that Cooks over the shoulder in the corner type.
- 3:39Speaker 1: And we've seen it, you know, in the end zone
- 3:41Speaker 1: twice now we've seen it also like on the sideline.
- 3:44Speaker 1: He's really really good at that kind of keeping his
- 3:46Speaker 1: defender in front of him and then and on his
- 3:49Speaker 1: hip and then making that nice sideline catch. He's really
- 3:51Speaker 1: good at that.
- 3:53Speaker 4: Yeah, that one on third I think it was third
- 3:54Speaker 4: and long who was a blitzering backspace and yeah, over
- 3:57Speaker 4: the shoulder was beautiful. And then I'll keep it quick
- 3:59Speaker 4: on the two point sequence. I know this will probably
- 4:01Speaker 4: talk about a lot here, but you know, without that
- 4:03Speaker 4: tripping call doesn't happen. So first off, get that right.
- 4:06Speaker 4: So we're going to talk about luck and all that, well,
- 4:08Speaker 4: but the lion's got a little luck there, so you
- 4:10Speaker 4: can just kind of drop that conversation and what's what's
- 4:13Speaker 4: Dan Campbell thinking going for two three times he was
- 4:15Speaker 4: coaching out of anger, like you use your best play
- 4:18Speaker 4: on the first two point tr I didn't get it kicked,
- 4:19Speaker 4: the extra point takes too overtime. Just seemed like he
- 4:21Speaker 4: was coaching out of anger there. That seemed odd to
- 4:23Speaker 4: me to go for that three.
- 4:24Speaker 2: Times in a row.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know, I don't know. The funniest
- 4:29Speaker 1: line of the night for me was from my my
- 4:32Speaker 1: friend who you guys know real well, Rob Phillips, who's
- 4:35Speaker 1: still he'll still send messages and stuff and we talk
- 4:38Speaker 1: about movies all the time, and he said that he
- 4:41Speaker 1: was ten Cup, he was Kevin Coster and Ken Cup
- 4:43Speaker 1: and he was just like, Baul, doesn't matter, It doesn't
- 4:47Speaker 1: matter if I've made it hitting the water five times,
- 4:49Speaker 1: like I'm gonna go for two. I'm going for two,
- 4:51Speaker 1: like all back to the twenty, I'm going for two.
- 4:53Speaker 1: So cool. I mean, he wanted to win. And you
- 4:56Speaker 1: know what, when when you win your division and that's
- 4:59Speaker 1: what you're playing for, you're playing for seating at this point,
- 5:02Speaker 1: maybe you can play that way and maybe that's what
- 5:04Speaker 1: McCarthy was doing. And we're not gonna We're not gonna
- 5:07Speaker 1: dismiss the play calling stuff before that drive too, because
- 5:11Speaker 1: that needs to be addressed. Yeah, but maybe that's what
- 5:15Speaker 1: what you know, you're not you're not playing out of
- 5:17Speaker 1: desperation as much he wanted that one, and and he's
- 5:21Speaker 1: also thinking too, well, I'm gonna do good overtime and
- 5:23Speaker 1: try to stop seedee lamb like. So let's just end
- 5:27Speaker 1: it right there. But that doesn't end it though. Let's
- 5:29Speaker 1: be clear about that. This guy can make a sixty
- 5:32Speaker 1: seven yard field goal, so you got to get it
- 5:34Speaker 1: with one time out. You got to get to midfield
- 5:36Speaker 1: somehow and try a sixty five sixty seven yard field goal.
- 5:40Speaker 1: I don't love the chances, but I i'd take him.
- 5:42Speaker 9: You know.
- 5:44Speaker 4: Yeah, and Dan did it earlier too, when that you
- 5:46Speaker 4: got the punt, fake punt, and then once for the
- 5:49Speaker 4: you know, the touchdown of the first or whatever it was,
- 5:51Speaker 4: they taking a field goal. That's a big deal. And
- 5:53Speaker 4: then yeah, the Mike McCarthy's second down. So I don't
- 5:54Speaker 4: know if that's Dax McCarthy, but we can't be doing.
- 5:56Speaker 1: That all right at all? All right, thanks for the call.
- 5:59Speaker 1: All right, let's go Ryan Kansas City, Brian, Kansas City,
- 6:04Speaker 1: what's up?
- 6:05Speaker 6: Good morning, mister Eatman. How I'm doing fantastic, fantastic, you know,
- 6:13Speaker 6: going forward, I look at the league as the Niners
- 6:18Speaker 6: and the Ravens are kind of in a slightly different category.
- 6:21Speaker 6: We all know what happened when they played each other,
- 6:24Speaker 6: and everybody else is kind of about the same shot.
- 6:27Speaker 6: And I think the Cowboys are as good as anybody else,
- 6:30Speaker 6: and we all know on any given Sunday, anything can happen. Right,
- 6:33Speaker 6: you go back to nineteen eighty nine. I always use
- 6:36Speaker 6: that year as my example. You know, Cowboys only beat
- 6:39Speaker 6: one team, but they beat a pretty good Ridskins team
- 6:42Speaker 6: that year. Yeah, it was their day, you know. And
- 6:46Speaker 6: on any given day, I still think we're going to
- 6:49Speaker 6: go as far as our offensive line can take us.
- 6:52Speaker 6: But boy, haven't home, having possibly two home games, and
- 6:56Speaker 6: you never know what happens. You could go, you could
- 6:59Speaker 6: be home all the way depending on what happens with
- 7:01Speaker 6: the other.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Game, right, And that's the big deal. That's the big
- 7:05Speaker 1: deal is just you're right. Forty nine ers are on
- 7:07Speaker 1: a different level than the Cowboys, is what it seems.
- 7:10Speaker 1: And you're gonna be if you can win this game,
- 7:13Speaker 1: you'd be on the other side of the bracket and
- 7:15Speaker 1: you know, wouldn't have to face him to the championship game.
- 7:17Speaker 1: And if that happens, now you're dealing with a completely
- 7:20Speaker 1: different thing. We haven't seen in thirty years, a championship game.
- 7:24Speaker 1: So all bets are off at that point about oh,
- 7:27Speaker 1: can they beat the Niners? I mean, because at that
- 7:29Speaker 1: point you would have taken your team to a level
- 7:31Speaker 1: that you haven't been in three decades. And then you know,
- 7:35Speaker 1: now now you're just like, well, let's just go do this,
- 7:37Speaker 1: let's just go win it.
- 7:38Speaker 6: You know, Yes, sir, hey, I got an old timer
- 7:41Speaker 6: for you. He was a free safety for us way
- 7:44Speaker 6: back in the day, Ray Horton. Then I'll hang up
- 7:46Speaker 6: if you got a story on him.
- 7:48Speaker 1: Ray Horton, number twenty I think he played for and
- 7:51Speaker 1: he was a good defensive coordinator too, But yeah, he
- 7:54Speaker 1: was a He was one of those veteran type players
- 7:57Speaker 1: maybe played for the Bengals play, you know, and it
- 8:00Speaker 1: was one of those guys that I think also helped
- 8:03Speaker 1: the Cowboys as far as like young team trying to
- 8:07Speaker 1: learn how to win, and here's the guy that's kind
- 8:09Speaker 1: of been there and done it. My favorite play with
- 8:12Speaker 1: Ray Horton was he intercepted a pass. I think they're
- 8:15Speaker 1: playing the Packers in ninety one, and he intercepts this
- 8:19Speaker 1: pass and he's going down the sideline Larry Brown, who's
- 8:23Speaker 1: a rookie, he's trying to like block and figure it out.
- 8:26Speaker 1: He basically just horse collars his own player, yanks him
- 8:29Speaker 1: out of the way, like out of the way, and
- 8:30Speaker 1: then goes runs it in for a touchdown. But that's
- 8:33Speaker 1: all I remember. Ray Horton. Sorry, all right, let's go
- 8:39Speaker 1: to the next caller, Kent Loscrus to Mexico. Good more
- 8:44Speaker 1: and Nick morning.
- 8:46Speaker 6: Hey, I've got two questions.
- 8:48Speaker 10: Uh.
- 8:49Speaker 3: Number one, when is Mica ever going to get a call?
- 8:53Speaker 1: Two thousand and six.
- 8:57Speaker 3: Yeah, early in the game, he starts to write, Taylor
- 9:00Speaker 3: Decker loops to the inside. Taylor Decker reached out his
- 9:03Speaker 3: right hand. Micah's face is straight up in the air.
- 9:06Speaker 3: He's almost pulling his helmet off, so he's right in
- 9:09Speaker 3: front of the referee and there's no call.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Well, well, here's the thing. The referees didn't know Taylor
- 9:15Speaker 1: Decker even existed in the game, so they didn't even
- 9:18Speaker 1: see Taylor Decker hold. Because they didn't see him the
- 9:21Speaker 1: entire game. That's my point, right.
- 9:23Speaker 3: Apparently apparently the second thing.
- 9:26Speaker 1: Was invisible the entire game, so until he got that touchdown,
- 9:29Speaker 1: that didn't count.
- 9:31Speaker 3: So the second thing I have is what is it
- 9:34Speaker 3: with defensive coordinators? It's not just Dan Quinn. And this
- 9:37Speaker 3: goes all the way back to the land RIrA. I'm
- 9:39Speaker 3: a little older than you, and I can recall the
- 9:41Speaker 3: prevent defense. And my dad used to lose his mind.
- 9:44Speaker 3: What does is prevention?
- 9:45Speaker 1: From mine too? Mine?
- 9:47Speaker 3: He and you know, and I can remember my dad
- 9:49Speaker 3: I was very young. Oh my gosh, you would lose it,
- 9:51Speaker 3: like your defense has been dominating, and then you go
- 9:54Speaker 3: fall back in this prevent and let him watch, you know,
- 9:56Speaker 3: march right down the the field and go score. Quinn
- 10:00Speaker 3: had been bringing pressure, he'd been bringing extra men. They
- 10:02Speaker 3: were stunting, they were putting pressure on golf and he
- 10:05Speaker 3: turned it over twice. As soon as you get pressure
- 10:08Speaker 3: in his face, he'd throw the ball, he'd rush it,
- 10:10Speaker 3: he'd make bad throws. And then on the last drive
- 10:13Speaker 3: of the game, when you really need it, he changed
- 10:15Speaker 3: his approach on the defense. That's why they went right
- 10:17Speaker 3: straight down the field. Why you even give him the opportunity?
- 10:21Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, and I wouldn't have given him
- 10:26Speaker 1: that much time. I mean, that's the problem for me.
- 10:29Speaker 1: But but I agree with you so many times I
- 10:31Speaker 1: think I don't think they give enough pressure on those situations.
- 10:36Speaker 1: Just don't even give them a chance to do that.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Like on the Hail Mary's. I would never let them
- 10:40Speaker 1: do that. I would never let them run around and
- 10:42Speaker 1: throw it there like you're gonna get rid of the
- 10:44Speaker 1: ball quick and then I have to go make the tackle.
- 10:47Speaker 3: So yeah, in Quinn's in Quinn's defense, I mean this
- 10:51Speaker 3: is not just queen. I mean you see defensive yeah
- 10:53Speaker 3: doing it all the time. Who is like you've been
- 10:56Speaker 3: dominating a game. Your defense has been controlling it. Maybe
- 10:59Speaker 3: you just right got two really good stops.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Well usually one thing, I'll let me say this, I
- 11:06Speaker 1: don't believe the prevou defense only prevents you from winning.
- 11:09Speaker 1: It prevents teams from scoring quickly. That's what that's what
- 11:13Speaker 1: it's supposed to prevent, prevent you from scoring quickly, if
- 11:17Speaker 1: you know now. But in that situation, I don't know
- 11:20Speaker 1: if I I don't know if I love it. But
- 11:22Speaker 1: but I mean, that's on my car.
- 11:26Speaker 3: It's not on by more than eight by more than eight.
- 11:30Speaker 3: I'm all for it.
- 11:31Speaker 1: Yeah, uh yeah, I mean what you know, what you
- 11:36Speaker 1: want to do is you want to keep the middle
- 11:37Speaker 1: open there so they you know, with no timeouts. But
- 11:41Speaker 1: but you know, why ask the Cowboys defense to do
- 11:44Speaker 1: that when their offense didn't do that? And but anyways,
- 11:48Speaker 1: all right, thanks for thanks for the call. Appreciate that,
- 11:52Speaker 1: you know. I I just I feel like the offense
- 11:56Speaker 1: that's twice now Seattle game and then this game where
- 12:00Speaker 1: you're under two minutes, no timeouts, you've got to knock
- 12:03Speaker 1: the clock down, not in half, but I'm like forty
- 12:07Speaker 1: percent of the clock you can take off the field
- 12:10Speaker 1: just by kneeling it down or just just running the football.
- 12:14Speaker 1: But that I thought that was really really bad. What
- 12:18Speaker 1: happened the other night, the second down throw to Cooks,
- 12:22Speaker 1: you've got to get off the field, and that tripping call.
- 12:26Speaker 1: Said this in the press box to Derek. The tripping
- 12:29Speaker 1: call actually could have helped the Cowboys, even though it
- 12:33Speaker 1: was called against them. It was first down, two oh
- 12:35Speaker 1: five to go, they got a seven yard run wiped out.
- 12:38Speaker 1: Now it's down to two minutes though, now it's back
- 12:40Speaker 1: to first down again, even though it's first in a
- 12:43Speaker 1: mile first and twenty five it's still first down again,
- 12:46Speaker 1: and they only have two timeouts. So that actually helped
- 12:50Speaker 1: them because I thought instead of, you know, instead of
- 12:55Speaker 1: like running the ball twice and then then calling two timeouts,
- 12:58Speaker 1: you had a chance to get it down to one
- 12:59Speaker 1: oh five about a minute. They still threw the ball,
- 13:03Speaker 1: so I don't even know if they would have got
- 13:05Speaker 1: the tripping call the other way. I don't know if
- 13:08Speaker 1: Mike's still not going to throw the ball. I'm not sure.
- 13:10Speaker 1: I know he's confident in his team, but you have
- 13:13Speaker 1: to get I mean, think about them. The Lions went
- 13:18Speaker 1: in three plays down to the like twenty yard line
- 13:22Speaker 1: in three plays. It took them a minute in five seconds,
- 13:25Speaker 1: a minute and ten seconds. But if there was only
- 13:28Speaker 1: a minute on the clock, they would have changed everything
- 13:31Speaker 1: on how they did this. I just think that. And
- 13:34Speaker 1: the irony here is that I thought that he I
- 13:38Speaker 1: thought the Jacksonville game was the one last year that
- 13:42Speaker 1: he was annoyed with Kellen Moore because they ran the ball.
- 13:45Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't run it enough. They had to lead,
- 13:48Speaker 1: they got cute, they threw it around and they didn't
- 13:50Speaker 1: run the ball and kind of drain the clock like
- 13:53Speaker 1: they should have done in that situation. And here we
- 13:56Speaker 1: are in two games where all they have to do
- 13:58Speaker 1: is run the football and cut this thing in half
- 14:00Speaker 1: from a minute forty down to a minute, you know,
- 14:03Speaker 1: a little under, and they're not doing that. And it's
- 14:07Speaker 1: twice they've gotten lucky that it hasn't cost them, and
- 14:10Speaker 1: it almost did this last time. But I say a
- 14:14Speaker 1: thousand times, there's no difference between playing to win and
- 14:18Speaker 1: playing not to lose. If you don't throw the ball
- 14:21Speaker 1: around and you just run it, you're playing not to lose.
- 14:24Speaker 1: And you know what that works too, all right. I
- 14:28Speaker 1: got a couple of text message questions here. One of
- 14:31Speaker 1: them was Kanchie in New Jersey. Does McCarthy have an
- 14:34Speaker 1: in game consultant that assists with in game management? If not,
- 14:37Speaker 1: he needs one, I think I think all those assistants,
- 14:42Speaker 1: some of those guys, some of the like other coordinators,
- 14:44Speaker 1: Quinn Bones, Fossil, But I don't think he has a
- 14:49Speaker 1: guy that he I mean, talks to. And I don't agree.
- 14:54Speaker 1: I don't think he necessarily needs one, because I'm not
- 14:57Speaker 1: saying he doesn't need to help do it, he just
- 14:59Speaker 1: needs to do it make better decisions. But you don't. Actually,
- 15:02Speaker 1: it's not like it's a consultant that you sit around
- 15:04Speaker 1: and you have a meeting. You don't have time for
- 15:06Speaker 1: all that. All right, let's go to the next caller. Uh,
- 15:10Speaker 1: Kelly in Bozeman, Montana.
- 15:13Speaker 9: Hey, how you doing, Nick?
- 15:15Speaker 1: I'm good, How are you doing?
- 15:18Speaker 6: Good?
- 15:18Speaker 9: Fantastic? A win's a win and I will take it.
- 15:21Speaker 9: However I was I was calling. First of all, big fan,
- 15:24Speaker 9: love your show than this. It is the one on
- 15:28Speaker 9: the on the network as far as I'm concerned. Secondly,
- 15:32Speaker 9: that's exactly why I was calling. Is the the play
- 15:36Speaker 9: calling at the end of that game. I've never seen
- 15:38Speaker 9: anything quite like it. Do you know what happened on
- 15:43Speaker 9: that second down? What what was that?
- 15:46Speaker 1: It was a miscommunication. They they Mike even said they
- 15:49Speaker 1: weren't supposed to throw it like that. But it doesn't matter.
- 15:54Speaker 1: I mean, run the ball to Pollard, I mean, I mean,
- 15:58Speaker 1: I don't I don't care. Run the ball to Turpin.
- 16:02Speaker 1: I'd be okay with this, Turpin CD Cook, somebody around
- 16:06Speaker 1: the edge, a little bit of you know, movement, don't
- 16:09Speaker 1: go out of bounds, of course, but something on the
- 16:11Speaker 1: run that maybe you can break something with, but not
- 16:16Speaker 1: not that. I mean, you've got you've got to you've
- 16:20Speaker 1: got to knock forty seconds off the clock.
- 16:23Speaker 9: Well, my kid was I was watching with my son,
- 16:26Speaker 9: and he go he said, I don't understand. I mean,
- 16:29Speaker 9: I told him, I don't understand why they're not running
- 16:32Speaker 9: the ball here.
- 16:32Speaker 5: It's just ridiculous.
- 16:33Speaker 9: And he goes, well, maybe it's because they haven't been
- 16:35Speaker 9: able to run the game all game. And I'm like,
- 16:38Speaker 9: that doesn't matter. I mean, you still got to make
- 16:39Speaker 9: them burn their time out.
- 16:41Speaker 1: He's right, your son is right, that is why they
- 16:44Speaker 1: didn't do it, And you're right that it doesn't matter
- 16:47Speaker 1: at that point. It doesn't matter if you haven't done it.
- 16:50Speaker 1: You're not trying to run the ball for a first down.
- 16:53Speaker 1: You're trying to run the ball to run out the clock.
- 16:56Speaker 1: It's called running out the clock. No one's ever said, well,
- 17:01Speaker 1: we have to pass out the clock. Run out the clock.
- 17:05Speaker 6: Very very true.
- 17:07Speaker 9: I also wanted to give a quick shout out my son,
- 17:11Speaker 9: my middle son. He just recorded with DJ Blackbeard down
- 17:15Speaker 9: there that here we go the dak Prescott Anthem. They've
- 17:18Speaker 9: been playing in the stadium and we got to go
- 17:20Speaker 9: down there. The Cowboys had us down during the Philly
- 17:23Speaker 9: game and he got to perform it before and after
- 17:25Speaker 9: the game and it was just nice. Cowboys treated us
- 17:28Speaker 9: like royalty. It's on iTunes and Spotify. It's called Here
- 17:32Speaker 9: We Go. It's fantastic if you haven't heard it. And
- 17:35Speaker 9: this all the way from Montana. Hip hopheads that Montana.
- 17:38Speaker 1: That's what I was about to say. This thing comes
- 17:40Speaker 1: from Bozeman, Montana. I mean, of course it does. You
- 17:43Speaker 1: know that's where Yeah, that's where I would always imagine
- 17:47Speaker 1: the great the great music. And no, I'm again, I
- 17:49Speaker 1: don't know. I've never been to Montana and really no, no,
- 17:54Speaker 1: I haven't. And I know this is not our first
- 17:56Speaker 1: call for Montana. This is our second. I believe Montana
- 18:00Speaker 1: is not on the list of the non callers. I
- 18:02Speaker 1: think that's only Wyoming. So if you know anyone over
- 18:04Speaker 1: that area, I think there's another Montana unless it was you.
- 18:10Speaker 1: But I know have you called before?
- 18:12Speaker 9: Well you know.
- 18:14Speaker 1: What that means? Well, yeah, of course, of course, yeah,
- 18:21Speaker 1: I mean like, yeah, I hope you don't. We're do
- 18:23Speaker 1: not copyright infringements from from your son. But yeah, awesome,
- 18:27Speaker 1: thanks for the call, Kelly. Good stuff. I'm going to
- 18:30Speaker 1: read this text message question here from Dan's not a question.
- 18:34Speaker 1: It's basically just throws out Dan from Philly. So here's
- 18:37Speaker 1: my Christmas list that I got. Here's my wish list,
- 18:41Speaker 1: Jimmy in the Ring of Honor. Chris No, okay, cowboys
- 18:46Speaker 1: went over the Lions Eagles loss. If these walls could talk,
- 18:51Speaker 1: Curtsey of his daughter Danielle got that. And now he's
- 18:56Speaker 1: working on tickets for the Commander's game. Go Cowboys. We
- 19:02Speaker 1: can't get takes to the game. He hasn't got him yet.
- 19:04Speaker 1: He hasn't got him yet, but he's working on them.
- 19:06Speaker 1: He's he's looking into it. Get it, damn, go get it,
- 19:09Speaker 1: go get it, damn. That's pretty awesome. Uh, all right,
- 19:14Speaker 1: here we go. Here's like the co host of the show.
- 19:18Speaker 1: All right. I mean seriously, people now are saying to me,
- 19:23Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what Vegas says, and I'm like, Vegas,
- 19:27Speaker 1: Vegas has not even put the line out. No, no, no,
- 19:28Speaker 1: they're not talking about Vegas the actual city or Vegas
- 19:32Speaker 1: the actual sports book. They're talking about Rob from Vegas.
- 19:36Speaker 5: Rob.
- 19:37Speaker 1: People are waiting to hear from you, and they're like, oh,
- 19:39Speaker 1: I'm just gonna listen to Nickels storyline because I want
- 19:42Speaker 1: to he's gonna provide Rob from Vegas. Happy New Year,
- 19:47Speaker 1: you too, man? What's up?
- 19:49Speaker 4: Uh?
- 19:50Speaker 2: Great win? I mean you beat a quality team, and
- 19:53Speaker 2: let's face it, the next day made it even better
- 19:56Speaker 2: when the Eagles lost. Ye everything, Yet we're talking about McCarthy. Listen,
- 20:03Speaker 2: I agree. But there's a couple of things. There was
- 20:05Speaker 2: a play with about two forty one left. There was
- 20:08Speaker 2: third and five. I think we had it about it
- 20:11Speaker 2: the forty five yard line. You have to put your
- 20:14Speaker 2: best play in. They get a first down, and you
- 20:16Speaker 2: cannot leave Terrence Steel one on one with Hutchinson. He
- 20:21Speaker 2: was the guy that was blowing up the He was
- 20:24Speaker 2: the only guy getting pressure pretty much the whole night.
- 20:26Speaker 2: And what do they do? They leave and he beats
- 20:28Speaker 2: Steel immediately in sacks stacked and we had a punt
- 20:33Speaker 2: that that's a huge play. The that's that situational for
- 20:36Speaker 2: You get a first down there, you can almost put
- 20:38Speaker 2: this game away.
- 20:40Speaker 1: Well, hold on, hold on, has he not? I mean
- 20:42Speaker 1: you act like Hudgeson had just been beaten Steel all game?
- 20:46Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's already had two sacks going in and
- 20:49Speaker 2: I'm not saying yeah, he had two because that was
- 20:51Speaker 2: his third set. Okay, my thing is, you don't take
- 20:55Speaker 2: the chance. You got to say, I'm not letting this
- 20:57Speaker 2: guy beat me on this, help him out ship from
- 21:01Speaker 2: something and design to play first down. I totally agree
- 21:06Speaker 2: with Turpin. They didn't give him the ball one time
- 21:08Speaker 2: on offense.
- 21:09Speaker 6: I don't I don't understand.
- 21:11Speaker 2: Some days they like him, some days they don't like him.
- 21:14Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't agree with that. I don't understand that either.
- 21:18Speaker 1: I mean, you're right, he's his speed is always.
- 21:22Speaker 2: Better, that he's proven that he could do it.
- 21:26Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm with you. I'm with you on that.
- 21:28Speaker 1: I don't understand why that that there's the there's always
- 21:32Speaker 1: back and forth because he's always fast. He's always fast,
- 21:35Speaker 1: every game, every game, rain everything, he's you know, grass,
- 21:41Speaker 1: Turpin's going to make you know, so I don't necessarily understand.
- 21:43Speaker 1: And also your speed, you don't even have to have
- 21:46Speaker 1: the football to make a difference. If you're out there
- 21:49Speaker 1: as a decoy, you can still help a fake reverse.
- 21:53Speaker 2: I thought I thought Mary had a terrible game. Listen,
- 21:56Speaker 2: I understand you want to run the ball, but being
- 21:59Speaker 2: able to wanting to and being able to with two
- 22:01Speaker 2: different things. It seemed like the whole night it was
- 22:03Speaker 2: second and eleven.
- 22:04Speaker 6: Seven and twelfth.
- 22:05Speaker 5: No, I agree, this was a DAK game.
- 22:08Speaker 2: This was your best player on the field, and he
- 22:10Speaker 2: played I got really good and ceed lamb, this was
- 22:14Speaker 2: this was DAK. You should have put the ball in Dack,
- 22:16Speaker 2: sayim way more, especially on first down. I thought the
- 22:21Speaker 2: tripping call. What I didn't understand about the tripping call
- 22:24Speaker 2: was the ref saw the call, hold it on the
- 22:28Speaker 2: wrong team. Why didn't they buzz down like we have
- 22:31Speaker 2: seen in the fans where they said, yo, you got
- 22:34Speaker 2: this wrong, because that's the game. Now you're you're we're
- 22:37Speaker 2: probably on the fifteen and I know what you're saying about.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Now it's first of twenty five. You get the equal
- 22:42Speaker 2: But that only works if you could run. If you can't, Yeah,
- 22:46Speaker 2: and too, we don't even try try.
- 22:49Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 22:49Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that. That's what worries me about McCarthy. We've
- 22:53Speaker 2: seen this before. Yeah, and you're right, he said, I'm
- 22:56Speaker 2: gonna do this.
- 22:57Speaker 5: I'm going to be running with you know, we thought when.
- 22:59Speaker 2: He took over. But tell him all, this guy's got it.
- 23:02Speaker 2: He understands situational football, because that's the one knock. I
- 23:05Speaker 2: had on tell him all. He's no different, you know,
- 23:08Speaker 2: at the end of the day, he's past happy too.
- 23:12Speaker 2: There's a difference is Dak Prescott is just a better quarterback.
- 23:15Speaker 2: And I do need Dak to overrule the coach. I'm sorry,
- 23:18Speaker 2: but I need Dak to turn around and say, I
- 23:21Speaker 2: don't care what this play coming. If I don't see
- 23:24Speaker 2: it wide open, run the ball. Even if Dok just
- 23:27Speaker 2: falls forward, you're in field.
- 23:28Speaker 5: Goal right now.
- 23:29Speaker 2: I need Dak to fix the bad pall from McCarty.
- 23:35Speaker 2: And I know it's hard to say, and the heat
- 23:36Speaker 2: is a battle, but listen, I just needed to happen.
- 23:39Speaker 2: I'm just afraid, you know this may bite us now.
- 23:42Speaker 2: Next week is a playoff game. You you know for
- 23:47Speaker 2: sure what needs.
- 23:48Speaker 7: To be done.
- 23:49Speaker 5: You're on the road.
- 23:51Speaker 2: Listen, Washington is gonna I don't know what they're gonna do.
- 23:54Speaker 2: They're either gonna lay down and do nothing, gonna try
- 23:57Speaker 2: to ruin your season.
- 24:00Speaker 5: So you got to now go on the road.
- 24:03Speaker 2: I don't know what the weather's going to be like.
- 24:05Speaker 2: And this is a playoff game because if you beat them,
- 24:08Speaker 2: you see what exactly is in front of you. Everybody
- 24:11Speaker 2: comes to at and T and that is huge. So
- 24:13Speaker 2: I just want to see how the Steve responds.
- 24:15Speaker 5: Yeah, next week.
- 24:16Speaker 2: But listen, I don't care what those everybody talking about,
- 24:19Speaker 2: how the reps. Listen. One of the guys brought up
- 24:22Speaker 2: a good point. I don't really like him, Acho, but
- 24:25Speaker 2: he did say, you guys keep acting like the Cowboys
- 24:29Speaker 2: wouldn't have covered them, right if the ref said number
- 24:32Speaker 2: sixty eight is eligible, they want to covered sixty eight.
- 24:36Speaker 2: So I don't understand why everybody's leading that out.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Of the equation exactly. All right, Rob, thanks for the career,
- 24:43Speaker 1: you too, Man, thanks for the call. As always, I
- 24:46Speaker 1: agree with that part too. I mean, you know, there's
- 24:51Speaker 1: there's there's part of this is I mean, let's just
- 24:54Speaker 1: be honest here. The Lions tried to get cute. Okay,
- 24:58Speaker 1: they got cute, and and they tried to be deceiving,
- 25:02Speaker 1: and they did they confuse the ref. That's what happened.
- 25:06Speaker 1: But even if I mean, it's like, what are they thinking.
- 25:11Speaker 1: I've said this before a couple of times, or to
- 25:13Speaker 1: people like if you're going through the drive through line
- 25:16Speaker 1: and you order a number two with fries and they say,
- 25:19Speaker 1: all right, number four with onion rings. That's not what
- 25:22Speaker 1: I said. Are you just gonna assume that, well maybe
- 25:25Speaker 1: they maybe maybe they're they're in on this, maybe they
- 25:27Speaker 1: know too cool. No, no, they got it wrong. You
- 25:31Speaker 1: need to fix it because this is what they said,
- 25:34Speaker 1: and they said seventies reported eligible and the Cowboys are like,
- 25:38Speaker 1: watch for seventy. If they reported sixty eight eligible, I
- 25:42Speaker 1: would imagine they're gonna play it differently. That's what they've
- 25:45Speaker 1: said all week. That's what dan Quinn said. That's what
- 25:48Speaker 1: the players in the locker room said that they they've
- 25:50Speaker 1: worked on this. So the Lions got it. I mean,
- 25:54Speaker 1: they should have said right then it was they didn't
- 25:56Speaker 1: report it. That's when you go to the official maybe
- 25:59Speaker 1: they they give you a new twenty five and say no, no, no,
- 26:02Speaker 1: I'm sorry, got the wrong name. And then everyone's alerting
- 26:05Speaker 1: to it and now they're gonna have to do it differently.
- 26:08Speaker 1: But but don't hack like just because that was the
- 26:12Speaker 1: play that the Cowboys weren't gonna cover that. So that's
- 26:15Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. It's on the Lions. The Lions got cute
- 26:18Speaker 1: and they got too cute. But hey, I still think
- 26:23Speaker 1: the Cowboys were gonna get at least a field goal
- 26:25Speaker 1: opportunity out of it, and like like we've said before,
- 26:28Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because they got fortunate with
- 26:33Speaker 1: that call. They were unfortunate with the stupid tripping call
- 26:36Speaker 1: when nobody even got tripped. I mean, the leg went
- 26:39Speaker 1: out there, and you just picked the wrong guy. That's ridiculous.
- 26:42Speaker 1: And then also, you know, as I've said before too,
- 26:45Speaker 1: everything that's happened to the Cowboys favorably happened to them unfavorably.
- 26:52Speaker 1: They got a good call for them, Well they had
- 26:54Speaker 1: a bad call a minute before the Eagles somehow lost
- 26:58Speaker 1: to the Cardinals. Well, the Cardinals the Cowboys too. The
- 27:01Speaker 1: Cowboys would even be in the situation if they wouldn't
- 27:03Speaker 1: gone to Arizona and and flubbed it up there. So hey,
- 27:09Speaker 1: I say it a thousand times. What comes up, it
- 27:12Speaker 1: goes down, It all comes around. All right, Let's go
- 27:15Speaker 1: to Albert and Tucson.
- 27:17Speaker 7: Good morning, good morning, Happy new.
- 27:19Speaker 1: Year, Happy new year. Thank you those Cardinals over there.
- 27:22Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right, And that's that's kind of the approach
- 27:27Speaker 7: I want to take, is you know two things. You know,
- 27:32Speaker 7: you can think about so many things that gone wrong,
- 27:35Speaker 7: But I mean, let's think about all the things that
- 27:38Speaker 7: gone right, you know, the calls, you know, some play
- 27:42Speaker 7: the play calling suspect a little bit at the end there,
- 27:45Speaker 7: but I mean turnovers. You know, we've done pretty good.
- 27:50Speaker 7: Question on that is how how battle tested or how
- 27:55Speaker 7: how much do you think that helps the Cowboys moving
- 27:59Speaker 7: forward the playoffs?
- 28:01Speaker 1: You mean you mean wins like that, like tough wins. Yeah, well,
- 28:06Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean because you kind of you
- 28:10Speaker 1: go off your your behavior. So is McCarthy thinking, you
- 28:14Speaker 1: know what, I'm just going to keep passing it and
- 28:16Speaker 1: not run the clock out because we haven't lost with
- 28:20Speaker 1: me doing that, So I don't know. It's kind of scary.
- 28:23Speaker 7: Because I'll be honest with you. After that game, I
- 28:28Speaker 7: told my mom, either I lost five years of my
- 28:30Speaker 7: life because of the emotion or I gained two years
- 28:34Speaker 7: of my life because of the emotion of the emotional
- 28:38Speaker 7: roller coaster, like how you call it.
- 28:40Speaker 1: The answer is probably zero, you know, like like I
- 28:45Speaker 1: just said, when it comes up comes down, I mean
- 28:47Speaker 1: all even everything evens is evens out.
- 28:49Speaker 2: You know.
- 28:50Speaker 7: So got you last thing I was very high on, Uh, Brandon,
- 28:55Speaker 7: I'll be from the from the I don't know if
- 28:58Speaker 7: you remember, but I call this from the first uh,
- 29:01Speaker 7: the first episodes that we had. You know, the team
- 29:06Speaker 7: had a lot of confidence in him. You know, they
- 29:09Speaker 7: saw some stuff that we didn't. Is it too early
- 29:13Speaker 7: to start talking contract extension? I mean you're going to
- 29:18Speaker 7: get this guy signed up, right, don't you think? And
- 29:20Speaker 7: how how how much of a well, how hard is
- 29:26Speaker 7: it going to be to get him signed with everybody else?
- 29:29Speaker 7: I'll leave it at that, all right.
- 29:31Speaker 1: Thanks, thanks for the call. We'll find that out on
- 29:34Speaker 1: his contract. I know this Turpin when they signed him,
- 29:36Speaker 1: he signed a three year deal, so right out of
- 29:39Speaker 1: the USFL, I guarantee it's not a one year deal.
- 29:44Speaker 1: It's at least a two, maybe a three. I mean
- 29:47Speaker 1: Brandon Aubrey's he was playing soccer and he was like
- 29:51Speaker 1: he was like in software management or something like that.
- 29:55Speaker 1: I mean it was like doing code. So he's going
- 29:58Speaker 1: to take whatever contract in front of them. They don't
- 30:02Speaker 1: have to work on that just yet. But I'll say
- 30:05Speaker 1: this offensive Rookie of the Year, I mean, they don't
- 30:11Speaker 1: have a special team's Rookie of the Year. They should.
- 30:14Speaker 1: I mean, how many kickers and punters and kick returners
- 30:16Speaker 1: are out there every year? I mean they should have
- 30:19Speaker 1: a special Teams award for rookies because I think I
- 30:24Speaker 1: think there's always five to ten. But I mean, this
- 30:28Speaker 1: guy's been unbelievable. He's going to be All Pro because
- 30:32Speaker 1: think about it, he hasn't missed a field goal, he's
- 30:35Speaker 1: hit some game winners, and he's also set the NFL
- 30:39Speaker 1: record for touchbacks, the record NFL record in a season touchbacks.
- 30:44Speaker 1: All right, Allan, Clearwater, Florida. Morning, Good morning, how you
- 30:48Speaker 1: doing good?
- 30:49Speaker 10: Good?
- 30:50Speaker 5: Good?
- 30:51Speaker 10: So two points today. The first about the clock management.
- 30:57Speaker 10: I think Vegas pointed this out. It really began with
- 31:01Speaker 10: the drive before four forty nine left on the clock.
- 31:05Speaker 10: We have the ball and I'm thinking to myself, you
- 31:07Speaker 10: know this is the time. Figure out a way, take
- 31:09Speaker 10: two three minutes off the clock, get a good drive.
- 31:12Speaker 10: Two times Dak had the opportunity.
- 31:14Speaker 4: On that drive.
- 31:15Speaker 10: I think it's about game awareness.
- 31:17Speaker 8: Again.
- 31:17Speaker 10: One stands out where he's in the middle, they rush him,
- 31:21Speaker 10: he breaks free, he throws the ball incomplete. Where he
- 31:25Speaker 10: could have just ran up the middle. He wouldn't have
- 31:27Speaker 10: gotten a lot, he would have kept the clock going.
- 31:30Speaker 10: It's that kind of game awareness that is problematic that
- 31:33Speaker 10: we see off and on it's not just McCarthy. And
- 31:36Speaker 10: also he pointed out they just said, you know, DK
- 31:38Speaker 10: should He has to make better decisions too when the
- 31:40Speaker 10: ball's in his hands. So that clock management issue is huge,
- 31:46Speaker 10: the issue about not running the ball. What I've been
- 31:49Speaker 10: excited about this entire season when I heard McCarthy was
- 31:53Speaker 10: going to put in the West Coast offense. In my
- 31:56Speaker 10: mind the two hallmarks of the West Coast office. I
- 32:00Speaker 10: remember the forty nine ers bringing the system into the NFL,
- 32:05Speaker 10: and I remember how difficult it was to defend because
- 32:09Speaker 10: the primary issue was do not let your quarterback get
- 32:16Speaker 10: sacked and use your running backs. Change the nature of
- 32:21Speaker 10: the running game. The running game does not have to
- 32:24Speaker 10: be hand off run into the line. He changed the
- 32:28Speaker 10: entire outlook by swing passes to the backs out of
- 32:32Speaker 10: the backfield. Roger Craig made a living on this. Rickey
- 32:36Speaker 10: Waters did it. The two things I've been waiting for
- 32:39Speaker 10: them to do is use that get them on the edge,
- 32:43Speaker 10: because again blocking up the middle has been a real challenge.
- 32:47Speaker 10: It would solve a couple of the problems. Use those
- 32:50Speaker 10: swing passes. The wheel routes the screen all day long.
- 32:55Speaker 10: And the second thing is about the quick drop. When
- 32:58Speaker 10: Dak holds the vault or four seconds, it's great, But
- 33:02Speaker 10: the West Coast offense is predicated on if your guy
- 33:05Speaker 10: is not there, you have a dump off every play.
- 33:09Speaker 10: When we watch Dax struggle when the offensive line struggles,
- 33:12Speaker 10: it's the same issue. He holds the ball for too long.
- 33:15Speaker 10: If he can get out of the pocket, great, but
- 33:17Speaker 10: when he can't. So it's kind of mind boggling to
- 33:21Speaker 10: me that as I've been watching them all season, I
- 33:24Speaker 10: wish they would use these two fundamentals, and I think
- 33:27Speaker 10: we could be so much more successful and random cowboy
- 33:31Speaker 10: for you because.
- 33:32Speaker 1: Kavika Pittman, Kvika Pittman, all right, all right, think that's
- 33:37Speaker 1: that's a blast in the pass right there at Calvika Pittman.
- 33:40Speaker 1: You know, I don't have any stories really covering him
- 33:44Speaker 1: because he was right before I got here, like in
- 33:46Speaker 1: the mid mid nineties, just one of those picks where
- 33:51Speaker 1: you know they were they were hoping to you know,
- 33:53Speaker 1: strike goal. They weren't picking high in the first round,
- 33:55Speaker 1: or he actually might have been a second round pick,
- 33:58Speaker 1: but uh, I think that was the year that they
- 34:00Speaker 1: really wanted Tony Brackens from Tech from Texas and it
- 34:04Speaker 1: ended up being they didn't get them and they ended
- 34:07Speaker 1: up getting Kobe e compittment. It's kind of like, you
- 34:08Speaker 1: know that that's always a story, you know, like they
- 34:11Speaker 1: really wanted Tony Gonzalez, but they got David Lafleur. Hmm,
- 34:15Speaker 1: I mean doesn't Yeah, that didn't exactly work out that way,
- 34:20Speaker 1: all right, But I hear what you're saying, Allen.
- 34:22Speaker 7: I mean.
- 34:24Speaker 1: The running back situation, it hasn't. I mean to think
- 34:27Speaker 1: what this offense is done without, you know, really running
- 34:31Speaker 1: the ball well and without getting a lot of production
- 34:34Speaker 1: from from Pollard. I mean, this just hasn't been a
- 34:39Speaker 1: season where we thought, you know, I thought I thought
- 34:41Speaker 1: more from from Pollard. I really did. It just didn't
- 34:44Speaker 1: hasn't worked out. But I'll say this, on the touchdown
- 34:47Speaker 1: drive to go take the lead, and you know, they
- 34:51Speaker 1: ran the ball well on that drive, I mean they
- 34:53Speaker 1: they did. If you go back and remember there were
- 34:55Speaker 1: some nice runs right up the middle by Pollard that
- 34:57Speaker 1: kind of got them going and they ended up scorn
- 35:01Speaker 1: the touchdown they needed. All right, Chris in Pennsylvania is
- 35:04Speaker 1: our next color? How you doing?
- 35:10Speaker 5: Hey, It's victory Tuesday.
- 35:11Speaker 9: We're all happy.
- 35:12Speaker 5: Yeah, Listen, I gotta make this real quick. I'm actually
- 35:15Speaker 5: at the house with right now.
- 35:16Speaker 3: My girlfriend just had surgery, so I.
- 35:17Speaker 1: Have to go pick her up. Okay, but what one
- 35:20Speaker 1: quick thing for you?
- 35:21Speaker 3: Why in the name of God at the end of
- 35:23Speaker 3: the game today to go pre event?
- 35:26Speaker 9: That was so stupid.
- 35:27Speaker 3: They were attacking all.
- 35:28Speaker 6: Day and eighty great at the end of the day
- 35:30Speaker 6: and they.
- 35:30Speaker 2: Said, you know what, they don't get behind us, so
- 35:32Speaker 2: much hid and guess what happened?
- 35:34Speaker 5: They got behind him.
- 35:37Speaker 1: I didn't get behind them, they got I mean.
- 35:39Speaker 5: All right, they kept the beat up constantly, right.
- 35:42Speaker 1: And you're right they did. They They gave him way
- 35:45Speaker 1: too much time to play that that style. I mean you,
- 35:49Speaker 1: I don't think you can play a pre event like
- 35:51Speaker 1: that with one forty, but I would have. I would
- 35:57Speaker 1: have rushed a little bit more. I think I think
- 35:59Speaker 1: you could rush more and still keep guys back. It
- 36:03Speaker 1: leaves the middle open, but it also gets the ball
- 36:06Speaker 1: out quick. I mean, if you if they has to
- 36:09Speaker 1: get the ball out quick, so I would have rushed.
- 36:12Speaker 1: I would have rushed five or you know, four and
- 36:15Speaker 1: sent another guy. I really thought Michael was finally going
- 36:18Speaker 1: to get the holding call on that on that that
- 36:21Speaker 1: first down of that drive, it looked like he was
- 36:24Speaker 1: the guy his hand up in there. I mean, I thought,
- 36:26Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, he's finally gonna get this call.
- 36:28Speaker 1: But you know, you get a sack or any any
- 36:30Speaker 1: play like that, games pretty much over. But yeah, I
- 36:34Speaker 1: mean we can we can blame them the prevent and
- 36:37Speaker 1: all that stuff, But guys, you don't give him a
- 36:40Speaker 1: minute forty You just don't. And you know, and you
- 36:42Speaker 1: guys know this. You don't you give them one oh
- 36:45Speaker 1: five maybe a minute, whatever it is. You give him
- 36:48Speaker 1: that because you get a pass over the middle. You
- 36:52Speaker 1: start it with a minute, and you get a pass
- 36:53Speaker 1: over the middle for fifteen yards and he's tackled and
- 36:56Speaker 1: you get up to the line, and you know that's
- 36:59Speaker 1: twenty seconds, twenty five seconds. You do it again. I mean,
- 37:02Speaker 1: they're getting close to hail Mary here. That's what they're
- 37:05Speaker 1: going to have to do. So I hope, you know,
- 37:10Speaker 1: I hope that they look at that and he and
- 37:11Speaker 1: Mike sees that, and that's that that they have to change.
- 37:15Speaker 1: That they have to And Jerry Jones said it on
- 37:17Speaker 1: his radio show this morning. So I would like to
- 37:20Speaker 1: see a lot more time off the clock. So when
- 37:23Speaker 1: the boss says it, you know, you definitely listen there.
- 37:26Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Eric in Colleen, Texas.
- 37:30Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, how you doing good?
- 37:31Speaker 1: How are you awesome?
- 37:33Speaker 8: Happy New Year guys?
- 37:34Speaker 1: You too.
- 37:35Speaker 8: I got a few things. So first off, I was
- 37:38Speaker 8: watching some of the post game and I know everyone
- 37:40Speaker 8: uh grabbed about Garrett's how we doing guys. I got
- 37:44Speaker 8: to give him Accarthy props for Happy New Year. And
- 37:46Speaker 8: Clarence right off the bat.
- 37:49Speaker 1: Yeah, when he came out with some Yeah, he was
- 37:52Speaker 1: talking with the running game and he said, oh, happy
- 37:54Speaker 1: New Year, like like he's not supposed to ask a
- 37:57Speaker 1: question like that, I mean.
- 37:58Speaker 7: But not right after that, And I guess, I mean
- 38:01Speaker 7: I kind of see.
- 38:03Speaker 1: Both sides to that, you know, I mean, that's that's
- 38:06Speaker 1: sort of that's sort of what the media does and
- 38:08Speaker 1: they ask questions like that. But I don't know, in
- 38:11Speaker 1: a game like that where so much emotion going on,
- 38:15Speaker 1: and you know, that's not what the coach isn't worried
- 38:18Speaker 1: about that. He's like, Wow, we just we just survived this.
- 38:21Speaker 1: We won and you know, we do what we did
- 38:24Speaker 1: what we were supposed to do. We win every home game.
- 38:26Speaker 1: That's what you're supposed to do is win every home game,
- 38:28Speaker 1: and and they they did. I mean, obviously want to
- 38:31Speaker 1: win every game, but you take care of home and
- 38:33Speaker 1: that home crowd you know that at and C Stadium
- 38:36Speaker 1: crowd as loud as they were. The fact that the
- 38:39Speaker 1: referee couldn't couldn't maybe hear who was who was doing what.
- 38:43Speaker 1: Maybe the crowd had had a factor.
- 38:45Speaker 8: In that, you know, So I'll never hear him say that.
- 38:49Speaker 8: But another thing, you know, another running game. I heard
- 38:52Speaker 8: the guy last week talking about, Oh, Duk say, Duk
- 38:55Speaker 8: looks confused. He doesn't look confused this week. Dak Dak
- 38:59Speaker 8: did at all on his own CD, doing everything on
- 39:02Speaker 8: his own It looked good.
- 39:05Speaker 1: He might have looked confused when it was second and
- 39:07Speaker 1: five and they're running out the clock and he says,
- 39:09Speaker 1: throw the ball deep the cooks. He might have been
- 39:11Speaker 1: like what like like we all were, you know, but
- 39:14Speaker 1: that might have been his only confused face. All right,
- 39:17Speaker 1: I'll drop that, all right.
- 39:19Speaker 8: Last thing going into the end of the running game
- 39:21Speaker 8: is a concern for me, especially with the injury to Tyler.
- 39:24Speaker 8: I haven't gotten here any updates this morning because I
- 39:27Speaker 8: just got up to be honest, So it got me thinking,
- 39:31Speaker 8: you guys always say where did this he's got an
- 39:33Speaker 8: ass come from? And I remember it was from Ron
- 39:36Speaker 8: Leary when he first got here, and it got me
- 39:39Speaker 8: thinking about left guard. Are we okay with TJ Bass
- 39:42Speaker 8: for one more week with the division on the line,
- 39:44Speaker 8: to rest Tyler for the postseason, or do we need
- 39:47Speaker 8: to push Tyler to play this week? And I'll hang
- 39:49Speaker 8: up and listen.
- 39:50Speaker 1: Well, I don't think. I mean, let me just say
- 39:54Speaker 1: this because I don't want any athletic trainers. What'd you say, Chris,
- 39:58Speaker 1: what would you throw out there? He's got an ask? Okay,
- 40:03Speaker 1: I think it was Ron Leary. Also that I said
- 40:05Speaker 1: that about people think it was DeMarco Murray. Mean, I
- 40:09Speaker 1: don't just wouldn't have said that anyways, I don't want
- 40:14Speaker 1: any of the trainers getting after me. You don't push
- 40:16Speaker 1: a player to play, So that's not going to happen.
- 40:19Speaker 1: If he's healthy to play, he'll play. And if it's
- 40:23Speaker 1: you know, if it's borderline, you know then that that's
- 40:27Speaker 1: a decision you know that they'll make. But you certainly
- 40:29Speaker 1: don't push the guy out there if he's not ready
- 40:31Speaker 1: to play. Plantar Fasciatis from what I've understood. Is it's
- 40:36Speaker 1: about pain tolerance, you know, it's about how much can
- 40:39Speaker 1: you handle me? Because it doesn't feel good on your
- 40:42Speaker 1: on your feet. It's like walking on needles pretty much
- 40:45Speaker 1: on your feet. So that's something he's going to have
- 40:47Speaker 1: to deal with, he said after the game, and he said,
- 40:50Speaker 1: I'll be you know, I'll be all right. I think
- 40:52Speaker 1: I could be all right. But he wasn't at one
- 40:54Speaker 1: hundred percent for that for that moment to go back
- 40:57Speaker 1: out there. Uh, we'll see what the cow always do.
- 41:00Speaker 1: Looks like they were kind of working on some stuff.
- 41:03Speaker 1: I'll say this. They are bringing in and I don't
- 41:06Speaker 1: know if this is for guard or tackle or both
- 41:09Speaker 1: of just depth. They are bringing in Lyel Collins for
- 41:13Speaker 1: a visit. Uh it looks like that's today. Uh, former
- 41:17Speaker 1: Cowboy linemen. He's played tackles, played guard. They're bringing him
- 41:21Speaker 1: in as a visit just to just to see, just
- 41:23Speaker 1: to see, and probably a workout as well. I think that.
- 41:25Speaker 1: I think there is a workout, so that is happening.
- 41:28Speaker 1: H Does that mean? Is that he for backup tackle?
- 41:31Speaker 1: Is he for some guard depth? Not really sure where
- 41:35Speaker 1: where all that means. I think they're just gonna look
- 41:37Speaker 1: and see what what does this guy have? He was
- 41:40Speaker 1: he was somebody that was uh, you know, well liked
- 41:43Speaker 1: in the locker room and and got you know, got
- 41:46Speaker 1: along with everyone, and and and when when he was healthy,
- 41:49Speaker 1: he was a good player, and and when he had
- 41:52Speaker 1: his you know, weight down and all that stuff. So
- 41:54Speaker 1: I think they're they're they're just checking to see what,
- 41:57Speaker 1: you know, just checking the tires a little bit on
- 41:59Speaker 1: that one. So we'll see what what that does. All right,
- 42:02Speaker 1: Jeff be in North Carolina's next caller, what's going on?
- 42:07Speaker 1: Ck are you doing?
- 42:08Speaker 6: Man?
- 42:09Speaker 11: I'm good?
- 42:10Speaker 1: I bet you said, I'm good. Good, good.
- 42:13Speaker 4: Man.
- 42:14Speaker 11: I tell you I'm with you on on the two
- 42:16Speaker 11: fore conversions. I think the lines were just they were
- 42:20Speaker 11: they were trying to be too cute. They were trying
- 42:23Speaker 11: to deceive the Cowboys what they're doing and and what.
- 42:26Speaker 11: And I noticed that from the start when I after
- 42:29Speaker 11: the game, you know, every everybody was just losing their minds.
- 42:32Speaker 11: Scot dam Paild and Ryan Clark, they were just losing
- 42:35Speaker 11: their minds over it. And say this referee, what I
- 42:38Speaker 11: mean you can you can see the disguise reporting you
- 42:42Speaker 11: got three you got three guys over there at him
- 42:45Speaker 11: and uh, they were trying to disguise I guess what
- 42:48Speaker 11: they wanted to do. But but my question to you is,
- 42:51Speaker 11: because I know you're at the game, I know, I
- 42:54Speaker 11: know the referee goes to the defense and tells them
- 42:57Speaker 11: who's reporting, But but don'ty also don't he also ambounced
- 43:01Speaker 11: it over.
- 43:01Speaker 1: The yes and they announced seventies.
- 43:05Speaker 11: Yeah, so so so if I'm uh the coach and
- 43:10Speaker 11: or golf, I say, when I hear that, I said.
- 43:13Speaker 1: No, no, this is that's not who we reported exactly.
- 43:16Speaker 11: So I don't know what what the beef was over,
- 43:18Speaker 11: I know, but everybody was just all tore up over it.
- 43:22Speaker 11: And Adam Shefter was owner es says, well, Brad Allen's
- 43:26Speaker 11: cruise has been demoted for the playoffs, you know, and
- 43:29Speaker 11: all this stuff. But it's just funny that, you know,
- 43:35Speaker 11: Micha Parson's that and had a holding call against them,
- 43:37Speaker 11: and in four and eight games seems like forever and then,
- 43:41Speaker 11: and everybody says the Cowboys need to shut up about
- 43:43Speaker 11: the referees. And then when a cone, when something happens
- 43:46Speaker 11: that actually benefits them, all they're all tore up over.
- 43:50Speaker 1: I mean, I've never seen Adam Schefter so fired up
- 43:53Speaker 1: in the studio segment. You know, I mean he's he's
- 43:56Speaker 1: kind of always, you know, too cool for school type,
- 43:59Speaker 1: you know, and and yeah, and he was he was upset.
- 44:02Speaker 1: Now Rex Ryan, is he okay? Is everyone checked on him?
- 44:06Speaker 1: I mean, I mean I thought he was gonna lose it.
- 44:08Speaker 1: I mean Phil Simms, phil Simms, Yeah, yeah, it's so funny.
- 44:16Speaker 1: Phil Simms did the same thing. He was like, he
- 44:18Speaker 1: was just Philter your turn to you know, you announced
- 44:20Speaker 1: the NFC playoffs. He's like forty nine ers one Cowboys
- 44:24Speaker 1: because of that error of Saturday or two. It's like, dude,
- 44:28Speaker 1: you've lost the Giants logo on your hat like thirty
- 44:30Speaker 1: years ago. Get over it. Same with Rex Ryan, he's
- 44:35Speaker 1: just his father's son. Same like they can never give
- 44:38Speaker 1: the Cowboys any credit. But I thought it was funny.
- 44:43Speaker 11: Yeah, and I agree with you. Really really all the
- 44:48Speaker 11: post coaches really mistakes at the end of that game.
- 44:52Speaker 11: I mean, you know, Mike should have should have ran
- 44:55Speaker 11: the ball and run more time off and then and
- 44:58Speaker 11: then when Campbell when they didn't get to get that
- 45:01Speaker 11: the three point, he should have kissed it, kicked it.
- 45:03Speaker 11: I mean, take a chance in overtime I mean, I understand.
- 45:06Speaker 11: I mean, he's that's just the way he is. He's aggressive,
- 45:08Speaker 11: but he's but but still, I mean, you know, you
- 45:13Speaker 11: tried it three times, and I kept thinking of y'all,
- 45:15Speaker 11: y'all just keep trying it, because I knew once sooner
- 45:17Speaker 11: or later God wasn't gonna make three good throws in
- 45:19Speaker 11: a row.
- 45:20Speaker 7: Right.
- 45:20Speaker 11: It was just it was it was the long average
- 45:23Speaker 11: is gonna you know, he's they're gonna miss this and
- 45:26Speaker 11: and you know, but you know, you know, I asked
- 45:29Speaker 11: somebody asked the church yesterday morning about it, and uh
- 45:32Speaker 11: about all of it, and I said, well, that's like
- 45:34Speaker 11: he is, I said. I said, I'm not exactly sure
- 45:38Speaker 11: what happened there. I think a lot of people made
- 45:40Speaker 11: mistakes there, I said, but I go it was Jimmy night.
- 45:44Speaker 11: And I remember after the Hurst and Walker trade, everybody
- 45:47Speaker 11: was saying, well we do do Minnesota and all that,
- 45:49Speaker 11: and Jimmy said, well, you can say what you want.
- 45:52Speaker 11: All I'll tell you is we're happy with And that's
- 45:54Speaker 11: what I told that about Church yesterday. I said, I
- 45:56Speaker 11: don't know exactly what happened, but I'm happy.
- 45:58Speaker 1: With the game exactly. Nobody cares when you lose it,
- 46:04Speaker 1: no one cares. Thanks Jeff, thanks for the call. And
- 46:08Speaker 1: you know he brought up Jimmy Johnson. I just want
- 46:11Speaker 1: to kind of mention that part too. It was really
- 46:12Speaker 1: a special night, obviously, with Jimmy going in, and I
- 46:16Speaker 1: thought Jerry and Jimmy on the field, I thought that.
- 46:20Speaker 1: I thought the their speeches were amazing, uh, just perfect,
- 46:26Speaker 1: and so I'm glad, you know it didn't get ruined anything.
- 46:29Speaker 1: That's what I wrote in my column. I've seen this
- 46:31Speaker 1: thing before. I saw Michael Emmett Troy go on in
- 46:36Speaker 1: two thousand and five and they all went in together,
- 46:39Speaker 1: Ring of honor Cowboys playing the Washington blowing them out
- 46:43Speaker 1: thirteen to nothing. You know, like, no, no chance. When's
- 46:46Speaker 1: thet when's the last time the Cowboys had a shutout?
- 46:49Speaker 1: But Santana Moas Santana Moss touchdown spoiled that one, lost
- 46:55Speaker 1: by one, and I thought, well, about to happen here
- 46:58Speaker 1: in Detroit, but it didn't. All Right, when we're caller
- 47:00Speaker 1: Isaiah in Jacksonville, Florida, Isaiah, how you doing that?
- 47:05Speaker 5: Happy New Year to you. I always said you got
- 47:07Speaker 5: the number one show. Go ahead, mark it down. All
- 47:09Speaker 5: the people that say you got the number one show.
- 47:11Speaker 7: Now.
- 47:13Speaker 1: Give it Chris. There you go number. I don't think
- 47:16Speaker 1: the ratings, the ratings don't suggest that just yet to
- 47:20Speaker 1: do it, Nick, But we're working on it. We're working
- 47:23Speaker 1: on it. Tell your friends, Tell your friends. I am
- 47:28Speaker 1: I tell about Yeah, y'all need to get on YouTube.
- 47:31Speaker 1: That's the thing, y'all watch it on YouTube. I need
- 47:34Speaker 1: I need some YouTube views. You gotta get that. Okay,
- 47:37Speaker 1: you gotta get that going YouTube.
- 47:39Speaker 5: All right. I'm okay. I would do that because you're
- 47:43Speaker 5: the number one show.
- 47:44Speaker 1: All right, Thanks Isaiah. What do you got man? What's
- 47:45Speaker 1: on your mind?
- 47:46Speaker 6: Nick?
- 47:47Speaker 1: Nick?
- 47:48Speaker 5: You know when you were saying talking about the coach
- 47:52Speaker 5: when when the North turn asked jim me john this
- 47:56Speaker 5: back when it was in the championship game, and he asked,
- 48:00Speaker 5: he has, Jimmy Johnson, what you want to do? Jimmy
- 48:03Speaker 5: Johns said, I want to score a touchdown?
- 48:05Speaker 1: He hit what's name Harper?
- 48:07Speaker 5: Harper coming come across the million? That is that? Is
- 48:11Speaker 5: that the process that Mike mccartt the head when he
- 48:14Speaker 5: ran when he threw the paths on stepping down.
- 48:16Speaker 1: No, no, because that was four minutes to go, four
- 48:21Speaker 1: minutes this is a minute forty. No, no, I'm sorry,
- 48:24Speaker 1: Jimmy's not doing that with a minute forty, minute forty.
- 48:27Speaker 5: That's what I'm That's what I'm thinking. If Mike mccartty
- 48:32Speaker 5: is telling the see he's I guess he's the offensive coordinator. Yeah,
- 48:36Speaker 5: so he telling the coach what do you want me
- 48:38Speaker 5: to do? He shouldn't said running the ball, not tot
- 48:41Speaker 5: the ball.
- 48:41Speaker 1: I know, I know, and and and the mentality is
- 48:44Speaker 1: probably the same. But the differences are minute forty and
- 48:48Speaker 1: four minutes and Emmett Smith and Tony Pollard. I think
- 48:53Speaker 1: I think three runs by EMMITTT Smith with that offensive
- 48:56Speaker 1: line can can get your first down. But you know
- 49:00Speaker 1: that play to Harper and all the stories behind it
- 49:02Speaker 1: and Irven switching in the huddle and all that. I mean,
- 49:06Speaker 1: I'll say this, and I'll say it to whoever's listening. That,
- 49:09Speaker 1: to me is the greatest play in the Cowboy's history.
- 49:12Speaker 1: That play right there is the greatest play because of
- 49:15Speaker 1: what it meant and also the mindset of we're gonna score.
- 49:21Speaker 1: The crowd's going nuts for minutes, and I get that,
- 49:23Speaker 1: But guys, with a minute forty and no timeouts, different story.
- 49:28Speaker 1: You've got to cut this game in half.
- 49:30Speaker 5: I know, I know, run the ball. I've almost been
- 49:34Speaker 5: on YouTube paying up my TV when he told it, boss.
- 49:38Speaker 7: What.
- 49:39Speaker 1: I didn't understand?
- 49:40Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, So that's all I want to say.
- 49:44Speaker 1: All right, isam year to year, you.
- 49:46Speaker 5: Still got the number one show.
- 49:48Speaker 1: All Right, I love it. Appreciate that. Great great show, guys.
- 49:52Speaker 1: Sorry for the coffin that's been going on for about
- 49:55Speaker 1: a year now. So anyways, great show, and you guys
- 50:00Speaker 1: call us tomorrow. Let's let's get after it. We'll talk
- 50:02Speaker 1: about Washington. This game. It's a big deal and Washington's
- 50:05Speaker 1: gonna bring it. We know that. Brian from Kansas City
- 50:07Speaker 1: started off and said, remember the Cowboys went one and fifteen,
- 50:10Speaker 1: but they beat Washington, and they remember that Washington would
- 50:14Speaker 1: love more than anything to do this. And and remember
- 50:17Speaker 1: last year's game. Remember the Cardinals. Just this week Cardinals
- 50:20Speaker 1: went and beat the Eagles. I mean, that's why you're here.
- 50:23Speaker 1: Teams are still playing that they have things to play for.
- 50:26Speaker 1: Washington's gonna bring it, so the Cowboys are gonna have
- 50:28Speaker 1: to match it. All right, great show. Appreciate that. Chris
- 50:30Speaker 1: for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Evan. We'll see tomorrow Cowboys storyline.
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