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- 0:11Speaker 3: This is these Cowboys storylines with Nick Eatman.
- 0:18Speaker 1: What is up?
- 0:19Speaker 4: It is a happy Monday. It's victory Monday here for
- 0:22Speaker 4: the Cowboys at the Star. This is Cowboys storyline. I
- 0:26Speaker 4: am Nick Eatman and it is Monday. Following a big
- 0:30Speaker 4: thirty to ten win the Cowboys defeat the New York Jets.
- 0:34Speaker 4: That is the storyline. That's the storyline. You watch the game,
- 0:37Speaker 4: you saw what happened, and we're here now to talk
- 0:40Speaker 4: about it. That's what we do. That's what this show
- 0:43Speaker 4: was designed for. Mondays after the game. I'm not gonna
- 0:45Speaker 4: waste any more time. You saw the game, We're gonna
- 0:47Speaker 4: chat it. So Joe and Stanford. Joe, you're the guy.
- 0:50Speaker 4: We know that you like to be the first caller,
- 0:53Speaker 4: and you are again today. So let's get it kicked off.
- 0:57Speaker 5: Hey, brother, great big Drede looks like our cowboy. You're
- 1:00Speaker 5: gonna be kicking some butt off season. That's the way
- 1:02Speaker 5: I feel about.
- 1:02Speaker 1: It, all right, Yep, that's what it looks like.
- 1:05Speaker 6: You know.
- 1:05Speaker 5: The big things that stand out to me, the larger
- 1:08Speaker 5: things is is like I was saying last week, this
- 1:11Speaker 5: defense is blowing my mind. Man, They're blowing my mind.
- 1:14Speaker 5: It's amazing. Yeah, I just don't I don't see any weakness.
- 1:21Speaker 5: You know, we play man, so sometimes we're going to
- 1:23Speaker 5: get hit with with some big plays like we did
- 1:26Speaker 5: and you know the quarterback running, but godly we take
- 1:30Speaker 5: the ball over great, I take the ball away so great.
- 1:32Speaker 5: It's amazing.
- 1:33Speaker 6: Man.
- 1:34Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the amount of pressure placed on the quarterback
- 1:37Speaker 4: is just insane, and it really starts at the top
- 1:41Speaker 4: and it's just so contagious.
- 1:42Speaker 1: I mean, MICHAEH. Parsons is the guy.
- 1:46Speaker 6: You know.
- 1:46Speaker 1: We every game we have a chance.
- 1:48Speaker 4: You know, when the Cowboys win, we're supposed to collaborate
- 1:51Speaker 4: with social media team on who's the player of the game,
- 1:54Speaker 4: and it's like, it's Micah. It's always Michael. It's gonna
- 1:57Speaker 4: be Micah unless we pick someone else. I don't even
- 2:00Speaker 4: know honestly what they came up with. Then they might
- 2:02Speaker 4: have done ceedee lamb. But it's like, because he's a
- 2:04Speaker 4: CD would have been good too. But it's always Micah,
- 2:07Speaker 4: it really is, and he was yesterday.
- 2:09Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 2:10Speaker 5: Other thing that stood out to me, there's a lot
- 2:11Speaker 5: of things that were great. I'm a little worried about
- 2:13Speaker 5: the old line depth, especially with Zach getting rolled up
- 2:16Speaker 5: by Tony Pollard. And I'm really stood out to me
- 2:20Speaker 5: is our head coaches play calling it. Our offense is
- 2:25Speaker 5: super eclectic and everywhere all at once. I could quibble
- 2:29Speaker 5: a little bit about some of those red zone calls,
- 2:33Speaker 5: maybe all a bit on the on the goal line,
- 2:36Speaker 5: but man, I think he is killing it.
- 2:38Speaker 4: Yeah I do too, Thanks for the call, Joe. I
- 2:40Speaker 4: think Mike McCarthy deserves a lot of credit for the game.
- 2:43Speaker 4: I thought he did an unbelievable job of managing that
- 2:46Speaker 4: football game from the opening kickoff when he decided to
- 2:50Speaker 4: take the football all the way to the end. A
- 2:53Speaker 4: lot of times that people like to just credit the
- 2:55Speaker 4: players after a win, and they blamed the coaches after losses.
- 2:58Speaker 4: I think you really have to make sure and say
- 3:00Speaker 4: that Mike McCarthy managed that football game very well. Got
- 3:05Speaker 4: that penalty after the touchdown, where do you want to
- 3:07Speaker 4: put the ball? Let's move it, you know, let's move
- 3:09Speaker 4: at one yard here. This is our best thing. I mean,
- 3:11Speaker 4: we're kicking off out of the end zone on kick
- 3:13Speaker 4: touchbacks anyway, So what fifteen yards is not going to
- 3:16Speaker 4: do anything for you. Let's you're gonna on side kick
- 3:19Speaker 4: so you know, get a two point conversion. I just
- 3:21Speaker 4: love the way he managed the game. Yeah, the red zone,
- 3:24Speaker 4: the red zone issues, that's going to be a thing,
- 3:27Speaker 4: you know, if you if you know you want to
- 3:29Speaker 4: run the ball, run into that Jets defense like that.
- 3:31Speaker 4: But I thought for the most part, he just said,
- 3:32Speaker 4: all right, we're going to take what they're giving us here,
- 3:35Speaker 4: and what they're giving us is we're gonna make We're
- 3:37Speaker 4: just gonna make field goals because they cannot score. They're
- 3:39Speaker 4: not going to score. They're not going to beat this.
- 3:41Speaker 4: I thought they did a good job there in handling that.
- 3:43Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Anthony in Seattle. Second call
- 3:46Speaker 4: is Anthony in Seattle.
- 3:49Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, so as always man, great show and a
- 3:52Speaker 6: great team win.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Yep in the pines to the.
- 3:55Speaker 6: Past two weeks, it's been the defense that's been showing up. Right.
- 4:00Speaker 6: We got a chance, like you just said earlier, to
- 4:02Speaker 6: see the offense kind of march the ball down the field,
- 4:05Speaker 6: which is traditionally it's like it doesn't really happen. I
- 4:08Speaker 6: haven't seen it happen that way. Often for us, But
- 4:12Speaker 6: I wanted to say, it almost feels as if, you know, yes,
- 4:16Speaker 6: Mike McCarthy is doing a great job.
- 4:18Speaker 8: Of continuing to manage the offense. He's doing a great
- 4:22Speaker 8: job of just continuing to make sure that the turnovers
- 4:25Speaker 8: are limited, but it almost feels like we've yet to
- 4:29Speaker 8: see what this offense can really be like outside of
- 4:34Speaker 8: the red zone. Yeah, there was troubles yesterday, but it
- 4:37Speaker 8: feels like there was so much that's still being left
- 4:40Speaker 8: on the table.
- 4:41Speaker 6: Even after two weeks. And obviously we played yesterday with
- 4:44Speaker 6: our Brandon Cooks. So it's more of a comment. I'm
- 4:47Speaker 6: just wondering to kind of getting your thoughts on it,
- 4:49Speaker 6: and what.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Do you think?
- 4:50Speaker 6: What did you see?
- 4:51Speaker 4: You know, I saw as I'm looking at the stat sheet,
- 4:53Speaker 4: Thanks for Anthony. I'm looking at the stat sheet right
- 4:55Speaker 4: now and I see forty two minutes of time of possession.
- 4:58Speaker 4: You know, that's the that's unheard of really in a
- 5:01Speaker 4: game like this. They controlled the game, controlled the line
- 5:04Speaker 4: of scrimmage. And you know, I say control the line
- 5:08Speaker 4: of scrimmage. They controlled the game now and they got
- 5:10Speaker 4: down in the red zone that they were not you know,
- 5:12Speaker 4: they were not a big, physical team against the Jets.
- 5:15Speaker 4: The Jets are a little bit more physical upfront. Now
- 5:18Speaker 4: the Cowboys are without their strongest player on their football
- 5:20Speaker 4: team and Tyler Smith, and I definitely think Tyler Smith
- 5:23Speaker 4: Brandon Cooks would have helped a lot of that.
- 5:25Speaker 1: But I just I just like the way they.
- 5:27Speaker 4: Mixed guys around. You know, they got Tony Pollard a
- 5:30Speaker 4: lot of carries. We saw Rico daddle in there a lot.
- 5:33Speaker 4: We saw Duce Vaughan get some some touches. I wasn't
- 5:35Speaker 4: even sure he would be active in the games. Get
- 5:37Speaker 4: the ball to schoon Maker, get the bald to Ferguson around,
- 5:40Speaker 4: you know, and then of course Seedy Lamb. And let
- 5:42Speaker 4: me just say this, I was wrong, guys. I apologize.
- 5:46Speaker 4: I'll admit when I'm wrong, and I was wrong. I
- 5:49Speaker 4: said on this show on Thursday or Friday, maybe Madam Friday,
- 5:52Speaker 4: I said, there's no way Robert Salah is going to
- 5:56Speaker 4: let Sauce Gardeners stay on one side, lock up Michael
- 6:01Speaker 4: Gallup or Tolbert and let Ceedee Lamb go for one
- 6:04Speaker 4: hundred and fifty yards. I said that there's no way
- 6:06Speaker 4: you're gonna do that. You're gonna change and adjust throughout
- 6:08Speaker 4: the game.
- 6:09Speaker 1: I was wrong. I was wrong.
- 6:10Speaker 4: Robert Sala and that defensive for the Jets decided they
- 6:13Speaker 4: did want to do that. They did want to put
- 6:15Speaker 4: sauce Gardner on one side, keep him there, so good
- 6:18Speaker 4: job for him. He had his little little Sauce island
- 6:20Speaker 4: over there, and ced went nuts on the other side.
- 6:24Speaker 4: Good for them. I don't understand that, and it makes
- 6:26Speaker 4: me wonder something. Either either Sauce Gardner's not as good
- 6:31Speaker 4: as we think he is because he can't travel, or
- 6:34Speaker 4: the defensive coaches won't let him travel, or the cornerbacks
- 6:37Speaker 4: are not good enough to the other side to travel on.
- 6:39Speaker 1: The flip side. Whatever it is, it cost them.
- 6:42Speaker 4: It cost them yesterday because Cede absolutely ate them up
- 6:45Speaker 4: with Dak and they just they worked a perfect offensive
- 6:49Speaker 4: game plan. They didn't they weren't scared of them, but
- 6:52Speaker 4: they but they said, we like matchups on the other side.
- 6:55Speaker 4: That's why you have to mix it up a little bit.
- 6:56Speaker 4: I was a little surprised that they did that. All right,
- 6:59Speaker 4: let's go to Bob in Rio Grand Valley.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Bob, what's up, hey man?
- 7:04Speaker 9: Was that not a complete game yesterday?
- 7:06Speaker 4: It was to some I mean I'm hearing a little
- 7:09Speaker 4: bit from others that wasn't complete complete. To me, it
- 7:11Speaker 4: was a pretty pretty complete game on all three phases.
- 7:15Speaker 9: Well, I'll tell you what. Anytime you have forty eight
- 7:17Speaker 9: men to dress out and forty eight men played, yeah,
- 7:22Speaker 9: that is kudos to the coaching staff, every coach or
- 7:27Speaker 9: Mike McCartney's staff. I mean, those guys have come together
- 7:31Speaker 9: and really done a job of forming a team that
- 7:34Speaker 9: just goes out and kicks ass and takes me yep.
- 7:38Speaker 1: And then the.
- 7:38Speaker 4: Good thing is too, is that Tyler Smith, Brandon Cooks,
- 7:42Speaker 4: Donovan Wilson, these guys are getting getting healthy. They're gonna
- 7:46Speaker 4: be coming back here pretty soon. And obviously the injuries happen,
- 7:48Speaker 4: you know you're gonna have to replace the guys here
- 7:50Speaker 4: and there. But to think that they could be better
- 7:53Speaker 4: at running the football when they have Tyler Smith, are
- 7:55Speaker 4: better at moving the ball when you have Brandon Cooks,
- 7:58Speaker 4: I don't know what's gonna happen on Dee when Donald
- 8:00Speaker 4: Wilson gets back. That that's going to be tough to
- 8:02Speaker 4: figure that.
- 8:03Speaker 6: Out, you bet it is.
- 8:05Speaker 9: Hey, listen, great show.
- 8:07Speaker 6: I'll get off here and let you talk to somebody else.
- 8:09Speaker 10: Thank you.
- 8:10Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thanks, thanks Bob.
- 8:12Speaker 4: I mean I love that sharing the ball, you know,
- 8:14Speaker 4: in and out quick, let's go, let's try to get
- 8:16Speaker 4: as many people as we can't. Everybody wants to talk,
- 8:18Speaker 4: and I get it. I'm right there with you, so
- 8:20Speaker 4: we're going to keep moving along. Tim and Grayvine. Tim,
- 8:23Speaker 4: what is up?
- 8:24Speaker 11: Nick?
- 8:24Speaker 12: Good morning, sir, Good morning. I just wanted to give
- 8:26Speaker 12: a shout out first of all to Tyler be oddish Man.
- 8:30Speaker 12: Two weeks in a row. Hustle plays. Yep, gotta love
- 8:33Speaker 12: that from your center. Really sets the tone there. But no,
- 8:36Speaker 12: I know, I called last week and I told you
- 8:39Speaker 12: I thought this week was a chance for McCarthy to
- 8:41Speaker 12: showcase himself as a play caller. But I think what
- 8:44Speaker 12: he did was he really impressed as a game manager.
- 8:48Speaker 12: Like you pointed out, it felt like one of those
- 8:51Speaker 12: Parcels games back in the day. Don't do anything foolish,
- 8:54Speaker 12: take the points, you know, keep your defense fresh, try
- 8:58Speaker 12: to win the turnover battle, and you'll win the game. Yeah,
- 9:00Speaker 12: and that's that's pretty much what it felt like. That said, though,
- 9:04Speaker 12: I was curious, it felt like you didn't really attack
- 9:07Speaker 12: the deep third very much against the Jets, and I'm
- 9:10Speaker 12: wondering why that could be maybe Brandon Cooks or what
- 9:13Speaker 12: are your thoughts, I'll hang up.
- 9:15Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Tim, you're you're right about that. I mean,
- 9:18Speaker 4: one of the things that this offense certainly does is
- 9:20Speaker 4: get the ball out quick. And to get the ball
- 9:22Speaker 4: out quick, your guys aren't going to be down the
- 9:25Speaker 4: field as much. So that that that that kind of happens.
- 9:27Speaker 4: And I think this is playing to the strength of
- 9:29Speaker 4: the quarterback. He can make the throws. I'm not not
- 9:32Speaker 4: sit here to say that that he's not. There's some
- 9:34Speaker 4: throws he makes that are better than others. And I
- 9:37Speaker 4: think with the way they move the ball and also
- 9:39Speaker 4: attacking the attacking the deep third lower throw or whatever,
- 9:43Speaker 4: those those guys, I think that that that part of
- 9:47Speaker 4: the field that is where you see a little bit
- 9:49Speaker 4: more interceptions, especially with that you know, over the middle
- 9:53Speaker 4: last year, that was kind of the area of concern
- 9:56Speaker 4: for him. So I think it was more of a
- 9:58Speaker 4: conservative game plan of we're going to get the all
- 10:00Speaker 4: out quick. We're not gonna we're not gonna force this thing.
- 10:02Speaker 4: We don't have to. That's the best thing. You don't
- 10:04Speaker 4: have to. You're gonna get in games where you you
- 10:07Speaker 4: have to score a little bit more points and you're
- 10:09Speaker 4: gonna have to be maybe playing from behind, and I
- 10:12Speaker 4: think you'll see a different game plan. But as it
- 10:14Speaker 4: as it was yesterday, the way that they played the game,
- 10:17Speaker 4: I think it got to a point where they're not gonna.
- 10:20Speaker 1: Throw a lot of things. You know, they're not.
- 10:21Speaker 4: They're not gonna dip too too deep into the bag
- 10:24Speaker 4: for for some of these calls, and especially in the
- 10:26Speaker 4: third and fourth quarter. We're gonna run the football, We're
- 10:28Speaker 4: gonna play it safe. We're going to kick our field
- 10:30Speaker 4: goals because that is enough to win this game, and
- 10:33Speaker 4: we're gonna move on to Arizona. All right, callers are
- 10:35Speaker 4: flying in here. This is Alpha from Virginia.
- 10:39Speaker 1: Alpha. Hey, hey, Nick, how you doing good man? How
- 10:43Speaker 1: are you?
- 10:44Speaker 13: I'm doing all right.
- 10:46Speaker 14: First of all, I just want to say, Uh, you're
- 10:48Speaker 14: doing a great show. I appreciate always being able to
- 10:51Speaker 14: listen in. I love the interaction with the fans.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Amazing, this is fun. I'm having a good time with it.
- 10:56Speaker 1: Thank you. Thanks for calling.
- 10:58Speaker 6: No worries.
- 10:59Speaker 14: So the reason I was calling in is because I'd
- 11:01Speaker 14: like to be uh, one of the fans that actually
- 11:04Speaker 14: puts Mike McCarthy on a pedestal, because I don't really
- 11:07Speaker 14: think that us as fans that that we do enough
- 11:11Speaker 14: uh in saying how smartly that he's calling these plays
- 11:14Speaker 14: and how smartly that he's he's running the game. Uh,
- 11:17Speaker 14: that there's there's been a lot of a lot of
- 11:20Speaker 14: talk over the last couple of years over penalties, his
- 11:24Speaker 14: clock management. Uh, just just the way the or even
- 11:31Speaker 14: when ever anything goes well, how the it's the credit
- 11:36Speaker 14: is given to his coordinators without consideration being made to
- 11:40Speaker 14: the fact that there's actually that he's actually the people,
- 11:43Speaker 14: he's actually the person that that put the team together
- 11:46Speaker 14: to run the run the Cowboys. So just just want
- 11:51Speaker 14: to really emphasize the fact that I don't think that
- 11:55Speaker 14: we give Mike McCarthy enough credit. I know Jerry Jones
- 11:58Speaker 14: said it, but uh, as the fans as a Cowboys nation,
- 12:03Speaker 14: like we really need to go ahead and recognize.
- 12:05Speaker 4: That, Yeah, I thinks for the call and and you're right,
- 12:09Speaker 4: not a lot of people do that. It's not fun.
- 12:11Speaker 4: It's not fun to do that. It's not fun to
- 12:13Speaker 4: I mean to say that about the coach, because you know,
- 12:16Speaker 4: when the calls aren't there you're you're gonna you're gonna
- 12:19Speaker 4: blame the coach. I mean, that's that's part of it.
- 12:21Speaker 4: That's what that's what everyone does. It's the nature of
- 12:23Speaker 4: watching football. And I think I think it's a credit
- 12:26Speaker 4: to callers like you that that are like can see
- 12:29Speaker 4: a game and see it for what it is, and
- 12:31Speaker 4: see it for not just sixty minutes, but see it
- 12:34Speaker 4: for not just two games, but what he's been building here.
- 12:38Speaker 4: And so for Mike McCarthy to have a game where
- 12:41Speaker 4: they struggle in the red zone a little bit and
- 12:43Speaker 4: they have to kick more field goals than touchdowns, but
- 12:46Speaker 4: to see, hey, still give them his flowers and say,
- 12:49Speaker 4: this guy is doing really really good stuff. That's a
- 12:52Speaker 4: credit to you guys to kind of take it to
- 12:54Speaker 4: the next level because not everybody does that and not
- 12:56Speaker 4: ever does that. And you know what, I'm probably gonna
- 12:58Speaker 4: have more callers that come in here they disagree with that,
- 13:00Speaker 4: and that's okay as well. All right, Marcus from Virginia,
- 13:03Speaker 4: what's up, Marcus?
- 13:05Speaker 11: Hey, what's going on? I end the question about the
- 13:09Speaker 11: running game. We were told that Tony was going to
- 13:13Speaker 11: be turning a load, and we are really seeing a
- 13:16Speaker 11: lot of the backups in two games and seven something
- 13:19Speaker 11: nuts in both games. Do you think he's really healthy?
- 13:23Speaker 11: And do you think this is like, uh, it's gonna
- 13:26Speaker 11: get more carriers, going to be more to Bill Cow
- 13:29Speaker 11: as season goes along, because right now the running game
- 13:32Speaker 11: doesn't see is dynamic. I mean, I'll agree to defense
- 13:36Speaker 11: is played well, but I do believe we played two
- 13:38Speaker 11: really bad teams. I just want to know it doesn't
- 13:41Speaker 11: seem as though this running game is what we all
- 13:44Speaker 11: hoped and expected it to be there for, probably to
- 13:46Speaker 11: take the jump, and we thought he would work.
- 13:48Speaker 10: We got rid of.
- 13:49Speaker 6: Seek so well.
- 13:51Speaker 1: I appreciate the call.
- 13:52Speaker 4: I appreciate the call, but I mean, I'm gonna say this,
- 13:54Speaker 4: I don't I don't know if they've played two bad teams.
- 13:57Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's pretty early. I don't know
- 13:59Speaker 4: if the Jet to a bad football team. They're not
- 14:01Speaker 4: a bad defense. They're not that. I mean, they've only
- 14:04Speaker 4: given up thirty points twice in the last two seasons. Now,
- 14:08Speaker 4: this was one of them. Even when they had six
- 14:10Speaker 4: they lost like six games in a row. Last year,
- 14:12Speaker 4: they were only giving up you know, twenty points fifteen fourteen.
- 14:15Speaker 4: They were just so bad on offense. This is a
- 14:18Speaker 4: really stout defensive front and so and the Cowboys I
- 14:23Speaker 4: thought did an okay job of moving it with the
- 14:26Speaker 4: running game. They mixed it up with the pass, and
- 14:29Speaker 4: you know, I thought it was complimentary football. I mean,
- 14:31Speaker 4: two point nine average per carries not what you won
- 14:34Speaker 4: out of Pollard, and that's not what he's been. But
- 14:37Speaker 4: you know, I thought this was an interesting stat. He
- 14:39Speaker 4: had twenty five carries career high yesterday, caught seven passes,
- 14:42Speaker 4: also a career high. So it's thirty two touches in
- 14:45Speaker 4: the game. That is the most of any Cowboy player
- 14:48Speaker 4: in a game since twenty nineteen when Zeke had thirty
- 14:51Speaker 4: three touches against the Jets. Not sure what the correlation
- 14:56Speaker 4: is there. They lost that game, but Pollard is getting
- 14:58Speaker 4: the ball a lot, and I think, you know, and
- 15:01Speaker 4: it'll be interesting to see Ronald Jones comes back from
- 15:04Speaker 4: suspension this week. They're gonna have to do something with
- 15:06Speaker 4: his roster spot, so that's something to keep an eye on.
- 15:08Speaker 4: But I think what they're doing right now in the games,
- 15:10Speaker 4: the way the games have been, you know, it's not
- 15:12Speaker 4: a dynamic running game. It hasn't been. It's just been
- 15:15Speaker 4: it's been a steady process of running the football right,
- 15:18Speaker 4: callers are flying it. Ryan from Galveston will go to
- 15:21Speaker 4: the line for Ryan Galveston.
- 15:23Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, how you doing.
- 15:24Speaker 1: I'm great you.
- 15:26Speaker 15: I'm doing good. It's always good on him.
- 15:28Speaker 1: Victory Monday, definitely.
- 15:30Speaker 16: Hey.
- 15:31Speaker 15: I just wanted to say two things real quick. One,
- 15:35Speaker 15: I like the fact that Mike McCarthy has been seemingly
- 15:39Speaker 15: looking like he's going to use the RPO a little
- 15:41Speaker 15: bit more. The only thing was I was hoping maybe
- 15:42Speaker 15: there's a couple of times the goal line Dak would
- 15:45Speaker 15: have actually pulled the ball like he had some room
- 15:48Speaker 15: to run.
- 15:49Speaker 17: There.
- 15:49Speaker 15: Sounds like Paulard got stuff in the backfield. I thought maybe,
- 15:54Speaker 15: especially going to the goal line, some of those field
- 15:56Speaker 15: goals could have been turning to the touchdown.
- 15:58Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 15:58Speaker 15: And the other thing was I always like to read
- 16:01Speaker 15: your uh, but don't forget your five.
- 16:04Speaker 1: Yeah I missed one.
- 16:07Speaker 6: No, they're all good.
- 16:08Speaker 15: Well, the number one was obviously the drop pick six.
- 16:10Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 16:11Speaker 15: But the one that I wanted to add I thought
- 16:14Speaker 15: was two weeks in a row, Tyler.
- 16:18Speaker 12: For a fumble recovery, no doubt, go.
- 16:20Speaker 15: Down the field like that that I mean going on him,
- 16:23Speaker 15: because that that could have been huge.
- 16:25Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right about that, Tyler on the fumble. I'm
- 16:29Speaker 4: not sure where that was in the game, second quarter
- 16:31Speaker 4: or something like that. You're right though, it was the
- 16:33Speaker 4: game was definitely still in balance, and.
- 16:36Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a big play.
- 16:37Speaker 4: I would have I should have done that one, So
- 16:40Speaker 4: thank you. And I always always missed one. I always
- 16:42Speaker 4: miss some now and you know, I try to keep
- 16:44Speaker 4: up with it as the game goes on, and that
- 16:46Speaker 4: that I take for a call right in. But also, uh, yeah,
- 16:50Speaker 4: I I do. I've probably been doing that for now
- 16:53Speaker 4: since I think it's like two thousand and seven or
- 16:55Speaker 4: two thousand and eight, so it's been a long time
- 16:57Speaker 4: I've been writing this article. It's just it's basically just
- 17:00Speaker 4: the five, five or six plays that that you may
- 17:03Speaker 4: forget sometimes but but they kind of they still have
- 17:06Speaker 4: a big impact in the game. The biggest one, like
- 17:09Speaker 4: you said, was the dropped interception, which not that mean
- 17:12Speaker 4: you guys that are on the show, they were you
- 17:14Speaker 4: guys remember everything, so it's not this isn't probably an
- 17:16Speaker 4: article for for you, but you're right, that was a
- 17:18Speaker 4: big play there. Tyler Bars probably should have been on
- 17:21Speaker 4: my list. And as for the goal line, yeah, I
- 17:23Speaker 4: would have liked to see a little bit different play
- 17:25Speaker 4: calling there. Everybody likes the on Monday morning. You know,
- 17:28Speaker 4: we we we we got our own opinions. I still
- 17:32Speaker 4: think dak can run the ball in from the one.
- 17:34Speaker 4: I mean I think that they can do that. And uh,
- 17:37Speaker 4: I did not like the the the run to Peyton hindershot.
- 17:41Speaker 4: That wasn't a play call that I particularly like. And
- 17:45Speaker 4: the reason why just go look at the if you
- 17:47Speaker 4: look at the All twenty two, or just look at
- 17:49Speaker 4: the game where they had it from high from the
- 17:51Speaker 4: high level, I mean, the hole there is bigger than Kansas.
- 17:55Speaker 4: I mean, like like he he could have if he
- 17:56Speaker 4: consists stop on a dime and cut it up at
- 17:58Speaker 4: a touchdown. But he's a six five, two hundred and
- 18:02Speaker 4: sixty something pound tight in. They don't run like that.
- 18:05Speaker 4: It's not the kind of player that I would like
- 18:07Speaker 4: to see there on the goal line because I think
- 18:09Speaker 4: he really just runs one way. If it's there, it's there.
- 18:12Speaker 4: If it's not, it's not in. And that ball was there,
- 18:15Speaker 4: the hole was wide open to make a cut. He
- 18:18Speaker 4: just didn't. He just didn't have the capability of doing that.
- 18:20Speaker 4: Before I go to the next call. I want to
- 18:22Speaker 4: throw some stuff out you guys on Friday. You guys
- 18:25Speaker 4: were all over the score. I don't know, And I
- 18:29Speaker 4: tried to write some of them down. I don't know
- 18:31Speaker 4: if if I heard thirty to ten, but I wrote
- 18:34Speaker 4: some of these down, thirty to thirteen, thirty one to ten,
- 18:37Speaker 4: twenty eight to ten, twenty four to ten. Guys had
- 18:41Speaker 4: the ten and the thirty. I just I don't know
- 18:43Speaker 4: if I saw thirty to ten. Mine was twenty four
- 18:45Speaker 4: to thirteen. But the credit to you guys. You guys
- 18:49Speaker 4: really a lot of the callers, they were all over
- 18:52Speaker 4: kind of what they thought the game would go. All right,
- 18:54Speaker 4: Palmer in Dallas, you're the next caller, Palmer, Hey, what's up?
- 18:59Speaker 1: Nick Man? It's up with you.
- 19:01Speaker 5: Just doing a little bit of work.
- 19:02Speaker 15: Hey, I've heard most morning.
- 19:04Speaker 10: On Sean and r J Okay yep, and they were
- 19:07Speaker 10: questioning about deferring or taking the ball at the start
- 19:10Speaker 10: of the game. And what I what I like about
- 19:13Speaker 10: McCarthy is I think he took the ball because he
- 19:17Speaker 10: knew who his opponent's quarterback was, and he knew that
- 19:21Speaker 10: if he took the ball and his team took it
- 19:23Speaker 10: down to score. On the opening drive. It immediately puts
- 19:29Speaker 10: his opponent thinking, you know, maybe we just can't line
- 19:33Speaker 10: up and run the ball and run the ball. So
- 19:35Speaker 10: I really like that coaching move. I'd love your opinion.
- 19:37Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'm I am so fifty to fifty
- 19:40Speaker 4: on this because you know, I the way I look
- 19:45Speaker 4: at it is when your when you when you start
- 19:48Speaker 4: a game at home and you're looking at it and
- 19:50Speaker 4: you see the towels are waving and everyone's all, you know,
- 19:52Speaker 4: getting all excited. You know, it's like, this is not
- 19:56Speaker 4: where the way it's going to be in the third quarter.
- 19:58Speaker 4: So if you want to get if you want your
- 19:59Speaker 4: your crowd to really be involved and affect the offense,
- 20:02Speaker 4: then kick off right now, start the game. Everyone's jacked,
- 20:05Speaker 4: let's do it. But in his defense, he, like you said, Palmer,
- 20:11Speaker 4: he wanted the book football to go out there and
- 20:13Speaker 4: set the tone and worked. It works when you score touchdown,
- 20:17Speaker 4: it works, It's smart all that. So you know you
- 20:21Speaker 4: have to give the credit to the coaches when they
- 20:23Speaker 4: when they dial up something and it works. And I
- 20:26Speaker 4: think it did set the tone.
- 20:28Speaker 10: And I'm a true I'm a firm believer in deferring.
- 20:31Speaker 10: I just think in this situation against this opponent, Yeah,
- 20:36Speaker 10: that if they were down seven and nothing on the
- 20:38Speaker 10: road with Wilson as their quarterback, yep, that puts the
- 20:42Speaker 10: Jets in a very bad situation. And then my last thing,
- 20:45Speaker 10: Nick is, you know you like your team to peek
- 20:48Speaker 10: at the end of the year. And I love your
- 20:51Speaker 10: thoughts on is this the baseline where the Cowboys have
- 20:55Speaker 10: a lot of room to grow or is this the best?
- 20:58Speaker 10: And I think the only reason they in a Super
- 21:00Speaker 10: Bowl would be because of their defense. I just I
- 21:03Speaker 10: think Dak is a really good quarterback. I just don't
- 21:07Speaker 10: know that he's a quarterback that can win a Super
- 21:10Speaker 10: Bowl without like a Raven's defense.
- 21:13Speaker 12: And I love your well, you.
- 21:15Speaker 1: Know, it's you. You got to have.
- 21:18Speaker 4: You got to have something elite, like if you're going
- 21:22Speaker 4: to be elite, if you're going to host the hoist
- 21:24Speaker 4: the trophy at the end of the year, you've got
- 21:26Speaker 4: to be elite in something. And I think the Cowboys
- 21:29Speaker 4: defenses is definitely that your offense doesn't necessarily have to
- 21:32Speaker 4: be the best. It's got to be good. It's got
- 21:35Speaker 4: to be able to win me some games. And I
- 21:38Speaker 4: think that that this could be that kind of defense.
- 21:42Speaker 4: I mean think about Seattle with when Dan Quinn was there,
- 21:45Speaker 4: the kind of defense they had there and the quarterback
- 21:48Speaker 4: that they had. And in Seattle, I mean, Russell Wilson
- 21:51Speaker 4: was still young in his career, but I mean he
- 21:54Speaker 4: was he was good.
- 21:55Speaker 1: He was good.
- 21:55Speaker 4: He wasn't the best thing that they did. And so
- 21:58Speaker 4: that I think that that's kind of where it stands
- 22:00Speaker 4: right now for me. I mean I think that that
- 22:02Speaker 4: we'll see how how you know, No, I don't think
- 22:05Speaker 4: this team is peaked. I think they can get way
- 22:07Speaker 4: better on offense. I think they can still get better
- 22:09Speaker 4: on defense. So you know, it's it's two games and
- 22:12Speaker 4: it's two really impressive wins. We don't know yet what
- 22:15Speaker 4: what anybody that we've seen is.
- 22:18Speaker 1: Really going to be.
- 22:18Speaker 4: We don't know what the Giants are yet. We know
- 22:22Speaker 4: they can rally and then they can score some points
- 22:24Speaker 4: at the end of the game. We don't we don't know,
- 22:26Speaker 4: you know, what the what the Jets are yet. We're
- 22:29Speaker 4: still finding out what Dallas can do. As far as
- 22:32Speaker 4: the kickoff, I mean, the deferring. I'm all, I'm all
- 22:36Speaker 4: for you saying, hey, it worked, great job. Just remember
- 22:40Speaker 4: that that's the mindset, and there might be another game
- 22:42Speaker 4: where he says I'm taking the football and we're gonna
- 22:45Speaker 4: go and we're gonna set the tone and they get
- 22:48Speaker 4: three plays and punt and then just from I mean,
- 22:51Speaker 4: it doesn't it's not always gonna work out, but the
- 22:53Speaker 4: mindset is still the mindset. All Right, We're gonna take
- 22:56Speaker 4: a break here real quick on Cowboy storyline.
- 22:58Speaker 1: When we come back.
- 22:59Speaker 4: We've got a lot more calls and we got some
- 23:01Speaker 4: text messages that we're going to hit here on Cowboys storyline,
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- 25:13Speaker 4: We're back on Cowboys storyline here. The Cowboys defeat the
- 25:17Speaker 4: Jets thirty to ten on Monday. They're too and oh
- 25:19Speaker 4: they've They've scored seventy points in two games, given up ten.
- 25:24Speaker 4: Not bad, not bad start there. The Cowboys definitely have
- 25:28Speaker 4: owned the state of.
- 25:30Speaker 1: New York or New Jersey or both.
- 25:33Speaker 4: I guess at this point, wherever they play, Cowboys are
- 25:35Speaker 4: and they got to play them again, They got to
- 25:37Speaker 4: play the Giants again. But I don't think I'd be
- 25:39Speaker 4: worried about it too much at this point. I'm not
- 25:41Speaker 4: worried about really anybody right now. But that doesn't mean
- 25:45Speaker 4: they shouldn't be. H It's just that they'll they'll, they'll,
- 25:49Speaker 4: they'll tell us all week they're gonna be worried about
- 25:51Speaker 4: Arizona and the way that they played and all that.
- 25:53Speaker 4: But the way the Cowboys are playing right now, it's
- 25:56Speaker 4: definitely exciting to watch all right, Let's go to the
- 25:59Speaker 4: let's go text message real quick. This is from Richard
- 26:02Speaker 4: in League City on Pollard not being as productive in
- 26:05Speaker 4: the running game. Could it be a lack of change
- 26:07Speaker 4: of pace that we had between him and Zeke? Yeah,
- 26:11Speaker 4: I think so. I think they missed Zeke. They missed
- 26:14Speaker 4: that type of runner in around the goal line uh yesterday.
- 26:17Speaker 1: I mean they they did.
- 26:19Speaker 4: There's gonna be some times though, where they you know,
- 26:22Speaker 4: Pollard and and then having a Rico Daddle or Duce
- 26:26Speaker 4: Vaughan come in and and you have a different kind
- 26:28Speaker 4: of uh change of pace. But I thought, you know,
- 26:31Speaker 4: I thought Pollard, I don't think this game is very
- 26:35Speaker 4: indicative to what he can be. I think it was
- 26:38Speaker 4: kind of towards the end the game plan. We're gonna
- 26:40Speaker 4: run it up there, We're gonna get our field goals.
- 26:42Speaker 4: That's just kind of the way it goes. Maybe they
- 26:43Speaker 4: should have subbed out a little bit and there at
- 26:47Speaker 4: the end if that was the plan, you know, let
- 26:49Speaker 4: let Rico get some of those runs. Maybe maybe even
- 26:53Speaker 4: lip Key. But but still, I don't think we've really
- 26:56Speaker 4: seen everything of this Running game can be. And I
- 26:58Speaker 4: think it's way too early to be down on Tony Pollard.
- 27:01Speaker 4: He got thirty two touches yesterday, and he showed that
- 27:04Speaker 4: he could hold up and he could be pretty effective
- 27:07Speaker 4: there at times. All Right, callers, Richard from Conroe, what's up, hey.
- 27:12Speaker 20: Happy victory Monday, Nick, I don't really have a question.
- 27:15Speaker 20: I just saw your tweet or x whatever they're calling
- 27:18Speaker 20: it yesterday. Yeah, and I want to say, congratulations five
- 27:21Speaker 20: hundred games. I think what you said. Yes, that is awesome.
- 27:24Speaker 21: That was a pretty cool picture.
- 27:26Speaker 20: Yeah, so congratulations on this awesome career.
- 27:29Speaker 5: Man.
- 27:29Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. I appreciate that.
- 27:31Speaker 4: And yeah, for those that maybe sawid or didn't see it,
- 27:35Speaker 4: I saw something in the summer of a baseball announcer
- 27:39Speaker 4: that said that they've done a thousand games, which is
- 27:41Speaker 4: like six years or something, you know, but it's like
- 27:45Speaker 4: a thousand games. And so I started thinking, man, what
- 27:49Speaker 4: was mine at?
- 27:49Speaker 1: You know?
- 27:50Speaker 4: And I did twenty four years times twenty, I go,
- 27:52Speaker 4: that's about four eighty.
- 27:54Speaker 6: Now.
- 27:54Speaker 4: We got we got some some different you know, we
- 27:56Speaker 4: got some fifth preseason games. I got some playoff games,
- 27:59Speaker 4: not as many as I like, but some. And so
- 28:01Speaker 4: I just started doing the math, and I'm like, I'm
- 28:03Speaker 4: at four to ninety five going into the season. So
- 28:06Speaker 4: I was like, man, I get three three preseason games,
- 28:09Speaker 4: and then week two, it'll be five hundred when Aaron
- 28:11Speaker 4: Rodgers comes in. Obviously that didn't happen, but uh yeah,
- 28:14Speaker 4: five hundred games. That was That was neat And honestly,
- 28:17Speaker 4: I didn't think people would think that's a big deal. Like,
- 28:20Speaker 4: but I mean, all day yesterday and even some today,
- 28:22Speaker 4: a lot of a lot of people congratulating me on
- 28:25Speaker 4: about that.
- 28:25Speaker 1: And it's a really unique way to say that you're old.
- 28:30Speaker 4: That's really what it is, just to say, man, you've
- 28:32Speaker 4: been you're old, You've been around. But I can I
- 28:35Speaker 4: remember the first game. It was a preseason game against Seattle,
- 28:38Speaker 4: and I think I'm just as excited yesterday about that one.
- 28:42Speaker 4: And to me, that's really what it's all about. All Right,
- 28:45Speaker 4: enough about that Kent and Los Cruises, Kent.
- 28:47Speaker 1: What he got?
- 28:49Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, Nick, how you doing morning good. I'm
- 28:53Speaker 2: just a little frustrated with our red zone offense.
- 28:56Speaker 1: Okay, looks just.
- 28:59Speaker 2: Exactly like what and Garrett used to do, just exactly
- 29:02Speaker 2: like what killing Moore used to do. Left lineup and
- 29:05Speaker 2: information that shows you we're going to run it straight
- 29:07Speaker 2: at your defense and then run it straight at the
- 29:09Speaker 2: defense and then do it again when it fails. It's like,
- 29:13Speaker 2: have you heard of maybe releasing a tight end into
- 29:16Speaker 2: the corner and taking the hand off or well.
- 29:21Speaker 1: Did they do that? Didn't they throw it? Didn't they
- 29:24Speaker 1: throw it to the tight end in the corner? I mean,
- 29:26Speaker 1: I you know, I mean, I mean.
- 29:27Speaker 4: Didn't they they mix it up a little bit. I
- 29:30Speaker 4: mean you got to reverse from the tight end around
- 29:32Speaker 4: the edge. I mean that didn't work either. I'm just
- 29:35Speaker 4: saying I think I think you got to go back
- 29:38Speaker 4: and look. I mean they didn't just run the ball
- 29:40Speaker 4: right up the middle. I mean they tried some other things.
- 29:43Speaker 4: I think if they would have run the ball up
- 29:45Speaker 4: the middle there the first and goal from the one,
- 29:47Speaker 4: if you run the ball four times up the middle,
- 29:49Speaker 4: I think you're going to score. They didn't do that.
- 29:50Speaker 4: They went they kind of got cute down there. So,
- 29:55Speaker 4: I I mean, you're right, it's it is something to
- 30:00Speaker 4: be somewhat frustrated about, you know, a game like that.
- 30:02Speaker 4: It's hard to be frustrated about it with anything. But
- 30:04Speaker 4: I do think that you know, if you if you
- 30:07Speaker 4: keep struggling in the red zone, it's gonna come back
- 30:09Speaker 4: to haunt you.
- 30:10Speaker 1: So, uh, you got to fix it. Yeah, there's no
- 30:13Speaker 1: doubt about it.
- 30:13Speaker 4: And this is a big question mark all all all
- 30:15Speaker 4: off season is what happens when they get down there?
- 30:18Speaker 1: Who is the back? And I don't know if they've
- 30:20Speaker 1: answered that question.
- 30:21Speaker 2: I know I and I'm really happy with everything else.
- 30:23Speaker 2: I mean, the efficiency of DAC. You know, other than
- 30:28Speaker 2: a couple of plays on defense, you know, one mistackle
- 30:31Speaker 2: on a safety on that that long pass play, the
- 30:34Speaker 2: defense was just salor Micah is a sight to behold.
- 30:40Speaker 4: That we're running out of thing. We're running out of adjectives,
- 30:44Speaker 4: you know, I mean.
- 30:44Speaker 1: Really we are.
- 30:45Speaker 6: We are.
- 30:47Speaker 2: For one of the guys on ESPN saying I don't
- 30:49Speaker 2: know what his contract is going to be like, but
- 30:51Speaker 2: it's going to be pretty Yeah.
- 30:53Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be pretty unless you're the guy, unless
- 30:56Speaker 4: you're the Cowboys that are Yeah, but thanks for the call, Kent.
- 31:03Speaker 4: You know, Mike is just he makes all of the
- 31:07Speaker 4: plays like the interception. I'm just I just saw here
- 31:10Speaker 4: on we have NFL Network pulled up and the interception
- 31:13Speaker 4: by jay Ron Curse which was which was a you know,
- 31:16Speaker 4: a great play by him looking right into the sun.
- 31:19Speaker 4: Imagine that. But but made the play and I didn't
- 31:23Speaker 4: think it was gonna go to go down. But Mike
- 31:25Speaker 4: is the one that flushed out the quarterback on that play,
- 31:27Speaker 4: and and it's just it's just unbelievable. All right, let's
- 31:30Speaker 4: go question text message real quick here, Joe and Florida.
- 31:34Speaker 4: Can you talk about Lamb's catch when he almost got
- 31:36Speaker 4: up inded, that's a man.
- 31:38Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 31:39Speaker 4: The the weird thing is that the guy that hit
- 31:41Speaker 4: him low, he's the one that they got banged up.
- 31:44Speaker 4: Scary deal. Honestly, you know, you talk about this whole
- 31:47Speaker 4: turf versus grass whatever. I don't think it matters. I
- 31:50Speaker 4: think if you would have I think if you flip
- 31:51Speaker 4: like that in the in the like in the ballpit
- 31:54Speaker 4: like at McDonald's or something like that, I think that
- 31:56Speaker 4: that's gonna hurt. I mean, like like that, that's not
- 31:59Speaker 4: gonna feel good, or or any other establishment that has
- 32:04Speaker 4: the ballpits and things like that. All right, Mike and Houston,
- 32:07Speaker 4: why do you think Duce played so early yesterday? They
- 32:10Speaker 4: want to get him involved. I mean that's that's what
- 32:12Speaker 4: it is. That they feel like he can come in
- 32:15Speaker 4: at times and they got him in really early he
- 32:17Speaker 4: dropped the pass and or he bobbled the pass, and
- 32:19Speaker 4: and you know, he wasn't that effective, and I was
- 32:22Speaker 4: wondering if they were going to go back to him,
- 32:23Speaker 4: and then they did on that on that touchdown drive,
- 32:25Speaker 4: he had two plays and really he had three plays
- 32:27Speaker 4: in a row, but two two big ones eleven and
- 32:29Speaker 4: a thirteen around the edge. There, you know, just just
- 32:32Speaker 4: another wrinkle and just another guy that that can do something.
- 32:35Speaker 4: So I'm excited about, you know, maybe seeing a little
- 32:37Speaker 4: bit more of him. All right, let's go to Brian
- 32:39Speaker 4: in Pennsylvania for our next caller.
- 32:41Speaker 1: Brian, great, and you doing great man.
- 32:46Speaker 21: I'm not going to talk about any players because last
- 32:49Speaker 21: week I talked about Brandon Cooks being the missing piece
- 32:52Speaker 21: and then I got some bad news the next day.
- 32:55Speaker 21: Well we'll go a little different route.
- 32:57Speaker 4: Hey, can't be worse than what I did when I
- 33:00Speaker 4: tweeted out yesterday in the middle of the game, I
- 33:03Speaker 4: was like, oh, what a carryover from last week. The
- 33:05Speaker 4: Giants still haven't scored a point and the Cowboys haven't
- 33:08Speaker 4: given up a point. The next play was a touchdown
- 33:11Speaker 4: to Garrett Wilson. I just tweeted out as that, guys,
- 33:13Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I mean, I just me all on me.
- 33:17Speaker 4: I know better than to do that. So sorry, So
- 33:19Speaker 4: we will talk about.
- 33:20Speaker 21: That sports makes us better men than.
- 33:24Speaker 16: Well.
- 33:25Speaker 21: The question I had, really an observation, was do you
- 33:29Speaker 21: think that the way things are rolling this year, it
- 33:33Speaker 21: just kind of feels a little different, not just like
- 33:36Speaker 21: the fans like not overreacting, We're kind of looking at
- 33:39Speaker 21: ways to poke holes in this team instead of just
- 33:43Speaker 21: jumping on the bandwagon. And do you see that like
- 33:46Speaker 21: different change along with like the consistency of their play.
- 33:50Speaker 21: Do you kind of see like how our expectations are
- 33:54Speaker 21: staying high and how they're the Cowboys are actually meeting
- 33:58Speaker 21: and exceeding them.
- 33:59Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think I think you have
- 34:03Speaker 4: two good points there. The first one you know about riding,
- 34:09Speaker 4: you know, jumping on the bandwagon or picking holes.
- 34:11Speaker 1: You know, as a fan base, you.
- 34:15Speaker 4: Guys deserve to pick holes if you want to, because
- 34:18Speaker 4: you've been let down. I mean, let's just call it
- 34:20Speaker 4: what it is. I mean, you guys have been we
- 34:22Speaker 4: all have. I mean we've been let down. I mean
- 34:25Speaker 4: this team has been pretty good for when I think
- 34:29Speaker 4: about like the last twenty seven years, they've been a
- 34:32Speaker 4: pretty good team at times, they've been average, at times,
- 34:35Speaker 4: they've been really bad. But they've been pretty good most
- 34:40Speaker 4: of the time, but haven't been good enough. There's been
- 34:43Speaker 4: games and seasons where you think that they are going.
- 34:46Speaker 1: To be that good.
- 34:47Speaker 4: So I understand completely the people that are like, man,
- 34:53Speaker 4: this is good, I just don't want to I don't
- 34:55Speaker 4: want to go there because they've been let down and
- 34:57Speaker 4: I and while I understand that, that's to me, that's
- 35:02Speaker 4: just not what being a sports fan is. That's not
- 35:06Speaker 4: the way I do it. I get let down all
- 35:08Speaker 4: the time Saturday night. I get let down all the time.
- 35:11Speaker 4: But you pick yourself up and you get back and
- 35:14Speaker 4: you do it again next week. And that's what That's
- 35:16Speaker 4: the way it is. And on the flip side on
- 35:18Speaker 4: something like this, you just enjoy it. But it's totally
- 35:21Speaker 4: fine to say, hey, you know, we're gonna face better
- 35:24Speaker 4: teams than this, We're gonna face better quarterbacks than this.
- 35:26Speaker 4: We better get that red zone going on, because that's
- 35:28Speaker 4: exactly what the coaches are doing over there. They're not
- 35:30Speaker 4: sitting up there with their feed up going huh, look
- 35:32Speaker 4: at us. I mean, they're figuring out what are we
- 35:35Speaker 4: gonna do in the red zone. You know why did
- 35:37Speaker 4: we give up that long touchdown? You know why is
- 35:39Speaker 4: the quarterbacks running all over the field. They're doing that
- 35:42Speaker 4: right now. So there's no reason why you guys shouldn't
- 35:44Speaker 4: as well keep those expectations up though. But I mean,
- 35:47Speaker 4: you know, you be a fan the way you're gonna
- 35:49Speaker 4: be a fan. You're not gonna No one's gonna change that.
- 35:52Speaker 4: But I just think that you know, you you should
- 35:55Speaker 4: look at this, be excited about. This is something good
- 35:57Speaker 4: to be excited about. All right, Dmitri out of real
- 36:00Speaker 4: Grand Valley.
- 36:02Speaker 1: What's up?
- 36:03Speaker 19: All right?
- 36:04Speaker 7: What's up?
- 36:04Speaker 5: Nick Man?
- 36:05Speaker 7: I got something I just want to poke about for
- 36:08Speaker 7: Cowboys fans and everyone else about that. I think we
- 36:13Speaker 7: want doctor throw for five hundred and be Patrick Mahomes
- 36:16Speaker 7: and score fifty. And I think when you look at
- 36:18Speaker 7: through this team, it's kind of put together.
- 36:21Speaker 11: We don't need it.
- 36:23Speaker 7: You're right, we don't need it. And I think ultimately,
- 36:25Speaker 7: like when you look at even when we want super
- 36:27Speaker 7: bowls in the nineties, or you look at some of
- 36:29Speaker 7: these super Bowls from like Jeff lack of even Russell
- 36:32Speaker 7: Wilkson in Super Bowl, like if he can throw for
- 36:34Speaker 7: one hundred and eighty or two forty every week and
- 36:37Speaker 7: not turn the ball over. We're gonna win a bunch
- 36:40Speaker 7: of football games. And I mean it's kind of the
- 36:42Speaker 7: same thing the forty nine ers do. Like brock party
- 36:45Speaker 7: is in the world beat it. He just doesn't turn
- 36:47Speaker 7: the ball over. His play to the defense. And I think,
- 36:49Speaker 7: like we kind of need to understand that a little bit.
- 36:53Speaker 7: And I think we can win the Super Bowl if.
- 36:56Speaker 15: We play play that way.
- 36:57Speaker 7: And I love what Michael Carthy's doing doing the whole
- 36:59Speaker 7: team right beyond it.
- 37:00Speaker 4: You know, you know, Dimitri, the difference and you are
- 37:04Speaker 4: totally right about that. The difference is is that is
- 37:08Speaker 4: that people like to associate what a player should do
- 37:12Speaker 4: based off his contract and the contract of it. And
- 37:15Speaker 4: Dak's not making he was when he signed the deal.
- 37:18Speaker 4: He's like the second best contract or second highest contract
- 37:21Speaker 4: for a quarterback. I think he's like fourteen or fifteen now.
- 37:24Speaker 4: I mean, that's just kind of the way.
- 37:26Speaker 1: That it is.
- 37:27Speaker 4: But you know, brock Perdy is the last pick of
- 37:29Speaker 4: the draft, mister irrelevant, and he's and he's very relevant
- 37:33Speaker 4: now for the forty nine ers. But but I think
- 37:35Speaker 4: it's easy to do that, and people like to justify
- 37:39Speaker 4: with money, and they think, well, Dak's making this much,
- 37:41Speaker 4: and not only what he's making now, but probably what
- 37:43Speaker 4: he's going to have to be making. Is that you
- 37:44Speaker 4: want more than that, and you need a little bit
- 37:47Speaker 4: more than that. So there's a fine line. There's a
- 37:50Speaker 4: fine line there of saying, hey, I need this guy
- 37:52Speaker 4: to go out and win and win football games for
- 37:55Speaker 4: me and all that. But I think the way they're
- 37:57Speaker 4: playing right now, I think the way the defense is
- 38:00Speaker 4: is just be smart with the football. There will be
- 38:03Speaker 4: times when when Dak has to do it. It's what
- 38:06Speaker 4: I say all the time about the bus driver. You
- 38:08Speaker 4: can be a bus driver. You can be a bus
- 38:10Speaker 4: driver to take the kids to school and do all
- 38:12Speaker 4: the stops and you know, be smart and all that.
- 38:15Speaker 4: The bus driver also takes kids four hours away on
- 38:18Speaker 4: Friday night for a football game and sometimes you got
- 38:21Speaker 4: to get you gotta go seventy miles an hour. So
- 38:22Speaker 4: that there, you be a bus driver and there's different
- 38:25Speaker 4: ways to do it, but just be a smart one.
- 38:27Speaker 4: And I think that's what Dak has done for two games.
- 38:30Speaker 4: All right, So we uh, let's go to the text line.
- 38:33Speaker 4: Don't have a call right the second lines or open
- 38:35Speaker 4: eight eight eight eight five five to two nine seven.
- 38:37Speaker 4: Got a few more minutes here on the show. Let's
- 38:40Speaker 4: go to a text message here. H don't have a name,
- 38:44Speaker 4: but the good question, do you think that four of
- 38:46Speaker 4: our dbs can make the Pro Bowl? Five dbs have
- 38:50Speaker 4: picks in the first two weeks. Now, I don't think
- 38:52Speaker 4: four DB's are gonna make the Pro Bowl. I don't
- 38:54Speaker 4: think that's gonna happen. That would just be the whole
- 38:56Speaker 4: starting time team.
- 38:58Speaker 1: And as it.
- 38:58Speaker 4: Stands, the way you guys are talking, and I don't
- 39:00Speaker 4: think anybody wants to play in the Pro Bowl. Just
- 39:03Speaker 4: saying but no, I mean, I don't know if if
- 39:07Speaker 4: Gilmore is is you know, he didn't have his best
- 39:10Speaker 4: game yesterday obviously, but Diggs is just you know, Digs
- 39:15Speaker 4: is out of his mind. I mean Digs and not
- 39:17Speaker 4: in this order, Micah and Diggs. The combination of the
- 39:21Speaker 4: of these two guys with all the other talent around him.
- 39:25Speaker 4: I mean, that's what makes this thing so so special,
- 39:28Speaker 4: is that is that you have a corner. You have
- 39:31Speaker 4: two corners, really because Gilmore is really good too, and
- 39:34Speaker 4: then Bland. But you've got you've got a cornerback group
- 39:37Speaker 4: that can cover and they don't have to cover for
- 39:39Speaker 4: very long. That those guys are gonna lean on on
- 39:42Speaker 4: each other. This reminds me a little bit of what
- 39:44Speaker 4: that dan Quinn was doing in Seattle, just with you know,
- 39:47Speaker 4: they had a great secondary, but they they they had
- 39:51Speaker 4: waves of pass rushers. It was just off the charts,
- 39:54Speaker 4: and so that's what made them uh so good there.
- 39:57Speaker 4: So uh all right, let's let's look around a little.
- 40:00Speaker 4: But I'm I'm gonna go through some some stats that
- 40:03Speaker 4: I thought I thought were interesting, or a couple of
- 40:05Speaker 4: plays in the game. You know, the Marcus Lawrence. The
- 40:09Speaker 4: Marcus Lawrence to me, you know that he set the
- 40:11Speaker 4: tone right off the bat with with the first tackle
- 40:14Speaker 4: of the game for the Cowboys defense. After the Cowboys
- 40:17Speaker 4: had gone down, they scored, They take a seven to
- 40:20Speaker 4: nothing lead, crowds all into it, and then Jets are like,
- 40:23Speaker 4: all right, you know they're only down by seven. You
- 40:25Speaker 4: don't have to change the game plan or anything. It's
- 40:26Speaker 4: early in the game. They're gonna run the football. They
- 40:28Speaker 4: ran the ball to Breese Hall has stopped for a
- 40:30Speaker 4: four yard loss by Tank, and I thought that really
- 40:33Speaker 4: did set the tone for both sides of the ball.
- 40:35Speaker 4: And then after the game, you know, Breese was like
- 40:38Speaker 4: only got four touches and he was you know, he
- 40:40Speaker 4: was upset, you know by that, and and just thought
- 40:45Speaker 4: he could have been more of a difference maker. But
- 40:47Speaker 4: but you know, they couldn't run the ball. They couldn't.
- 40:50Speaker 4: I mean, Bresce Hall had four carries nine yards, Dalvin
- 40:52Speaker 4: Cook four carries seven yards, sixteen yards between them, and
- 40:57Speaker 4: I think that you know that that's that just shows
- 40:59Speaker 4: just how dominant the Cowboys were when they committed to
- 41:02Speaker 4: running the football, and that set you know, the Jets
- 41:04Speaker 4: back and then they had to they had to go
- 41:06Speaker 4: throw the ball. We we know that that that's not
- 41:08Speaker 4: a good, uh recipe for success right now against this defense?
- 41:11Speaker 4: All right, phone line is open again. A fabian in Lewisville.
- 41:15Speaker 4: Who's fell Texas Fabian?
- 41:16Speaker 1: What's up?
- 41:18Speaker 13: Thakod Morton clearly loving the show over there, Thank you.
- 41:22Speaker 13: I just had a quick two part question for you.
- 41:25Speaker 13: So far, you know, the defense has seven for turnovers,
- 41:28Speaker 13: ten sex, ten points allowed. Do you think that this
- 41:31Speaker 13: defense is the best defense in the NFL? And is
- 41:36Speaker 13: this defense officially the new edition of the Dallas students.
- 41:39Speaker 13: They defense, Uh, thank you for taking my call listening answer.
- 41:43Speaker 1: I you know, I haven't.
- 41:45Speaker 4: I was really little when that defense was was good,
- 41:48Speaker 4: uh in the doomsday, So I don't. I can't go
- 41:52Speaker 4: there as far as just how great they were and
- 41:55Speaker 4: watching them on you know, game in and game out.
- 41:59Speaker 1: I thought the.
- 41:59Speaker 4: Cowboys have had some good defenses, you know, in the
- 42:03Speaker 4: last thirty years or so, I mean, and underrated defenses,
- 42:06Speaker 4: but they, you know, very rarely were they the best,
- 42:09Speaker 4: you know, the best that they what the Cowboys did.
- 42:12Speaker 4: I don't really know if I've seen a time where
- 42:16Speaker 4: the best thing that they the team does is on defense.
- 42:19Speaker 4: Those were good defenses in the nineties, you know, but
- 42:22Speaker 4: they could play off of what the Triplets we're doing.
- 42:24Speaker 4: I think Romo's you know, really good season and O
- 42:27Speaker 4: seven that defense was good to the wear and those
- 42:29Speaker 4: guys were strong. So fourteen twenty fourteen, you know, but
- 42:33Speaker 4: but not to this level where you know, where you're
- 42:36Speaker 4: just telling your quarterback and don't mess it up. You know,
- 42:39Speaker 4: you don't even have to kick it. You don't have
- 42:41Speaker 4: to kick a field goal here, just punt and we'll
- 42:43Speaker 4: play it again. You know, I didn't even like the
- 42:45Speaker 4: field goal. I didn't like the fifty five yard field goal.
- 42:47Speaker 1: He made it.
- 42:47Speaker 4: Congratulations, I'm not doing that twenty one to ten if
- 42:51Speaker 4: I miss it and they put the ball at the
- 42:52Speaker 4: forty five yard line and now I'm not doing that now.
- 42:55Speaker 4: Credit to McCarthy again. Everything he did yesterday seemed to
- 42:58Speaker 4: kind of work like that, except for that tight end verse.
- 43:00Speaker 4: But for the most part, you know, ticket it. I
- 43:03Speaker 4: wouldn't have done that. I'm punting it. I got a
- 43:05Speaker 4: punter that can pin him down at the eight yard
- 43:07Speaker 4: line and I let him go play defense again. But
- 43:09Speaker 4: but he made it, and that that that helps his confidence.
- 43:12Speaker 4: It helps the team's confidence in him as well. So
- 43:15Speaker 4: all right, Mike and Delaware, what's up?
- 43:17Speaker 1: Mike?
- 43:18Speaker 16: Hey, Nick, I want to say thank you for taking
- 43:20Speaker 16: a call up and listening to y'all shows about since
- 43:23Speaker 16: like twenty sixteen. All right, I really enjoyed it. But
- 43:27Speaker 16: I don't want to say. I know it's only there's
- 43:29Speaker 16: only week two, but when are we gonna start talking
- 43:32Speaker 16: about Jerry being GM of the Year.
- 43:35Speaker 4: When when they when they win, you know, when they
- 43:38Speaker 4: get past the next level. I mean that's yeah, that's
- 43:41Speaker 4: what it'll be I mean right now, we're not we're
- 43:43Speaker 4: not there right now, but he has assembled a pretty
- 43:45Speaker 4: pretty awesome, uh you know, group of players on this roster.
- 43:49Speaker 16: And that's what it is. What I'm really trying to say.
- 43:51Speaker 16: It's a joke, but what he by letting the office
- 43:54Speaker 16: a coordinator go, the move he made in additions and
- 43:56Speaker 16: resigning players in the all season, uh, letting go of
- 44:00Speaker 16: the kicker, and we're sticking with the kickers right now.
- 44:03Speaker 16: It doesn't seem like he's done anything wrong as far
- 44:06Speaker 16: as being in the GM booth. And also I know
- 44:08Speaker 16: that he's backed by Will McClay who's very intelligent. But
- 44:12Speaker 16: I just do love the team that we've put together.
- 44:14Speaker 16: Even for the last couple of years.
- 44:15Speaker 6: Yeah, we've always been in.
- 44:16Speaker 16: Contention, but just this team right here is finally like
- 44:19Speaker 16: it's clicking. And like you said earlier, we're not at
- 44:21Speaker 16: full strength. No NFL, NFL team probably much ever is,
- 44:26Speaker 16: but the team we have right now, and everybody started
- 44:30Speaker 16: starting this thinking about the small stump I saw some
- 44:32Speaker 16: time I was talking about Tonty Pollard wasn't a uh
- 44:35Speaker 16: bell cow. He had thirty two touches. It's not all
- 44:38Speaker 16: to be pretty and that's I think the team we
- 44:40Speaker 16: built it real. We're done being pretty and we want
- 44:42Speaker 16: to run this defense and run our offense and be methodical,
- 44:46Speaker 16: right and really just beat up on people.
- 44:48Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what that's what they're doing.
- 44:50Speaker 7: Same.
- 44:50Speaker 4: Thanks for the call, Mike. I'm going to listen again.
- 44:54Speaker 4: One more caller, real quick. Peter in Connecticut. Peter, what's up?
- 45:00Speaker 4: It's not what's up? That's how we're going to end
- 45:03Speaker 4: the show right there. Okay, I guess we're done. That's it.
- 45:07Speaker 4: The guy just wanted to hang up on me here
- 45:09Speaker 4: on the on the last second of the show.
- 45:12Speaker 1: Are are you there? We got a caller?
- 45:14Speaker 5: Hello, what's up?
- 45:15Speaker 1: What's up? Peter?
- 45:16Speaker 8: This is Peter from Connecticut.
- 45:17Speaker 6: Let's Cowboys?
- 45:18Speaker 4: Thought you hung up on me? Oh no, you're gonna
- 45:21Speaker 4: wrap up the show? So what make it a good one?
- 45:24Speaker 5: Okay? So I was just wondering, what how do you
- 45:27Speaker 5: think that Cowboys offense will stack up with the forty
- 45:30Speaker 5: nine ers defense because they're playing pretty tough this year
- 45:32Speaker 5: as well. Thank you very much.
- 45:34Speaker 1: Okay, thank you.
- 45:37Speaker 4: If if my man was in track, he would be
- 45:40Speaker 4: in the pole vault because he just pull vaulted about
- 45:44Speaker 4: two games there or really just one game, uh no,
- 45:47Speaker 4: two games Arizona and New England to get to the
- 45:50Speaker 4: forty nine ers.
- 45:51Speaker 1: And and it's.
- 45:52Speaker 4: Fine that you want to you want to do that,
- 45:54Speaker 4: but you can't. You can't, you can't skip over like that.
- 45:59Speaker 4: And then if the players come out and struggle against
- 46:02Speaker 4: Arizona and you're.
- 46:03Speaker 1: Like, what's wrong with this team? You know why? Why?
- 46:05Speaker 4: Why are they not focused? Well, you guys aren't focused either.
- 46:08Speaker 4: I mean, you guys are focused on on other stuff.
- 46:09Speaker 4: And and and yes, that's gonna be exciting to see.
- 46:12Speaker 4: It looks like that we're gonna have a really good
- 46:14Speaker 4: matchup in week five. But I don't want to go
- 46:17Speaker 4: there yet because I know that if we went there,
- 46:20Speaker 4: you guys would be mad if the players weren't focused
- 46:23Speaker 4: and doing what they need to be doing and all that.
- 46:25Speaker 4: So let I mean, that could be a great game,
- 46:28Speaker 4: and it will probably be a great game, but let's
- 46:31Speaker 4: let's hope that they're they're four and oh when they
- 46:33Speaker 4: get there, and to do that, they got to take
- 46:35Speaker 4: care of the Cardinals, got to take care of the Patriots.
- 46:37Speaker 4: Not trying to to to sidestep the question, but I
- 46:40Speaker 4: think that we gotta we gotta just stay on course here,
- 46:43Speaker 4: and on course is two good wins.
- 46:45Speaker 1: Let's get let's let's.
- 46:47Speaker 4: Go to Arizona and see if they can kind of
- 46:49Speaker 4: fix some of those issues that they had. We don't
- 46:51Speaker 4: talked about it all week, but but making no mistake,
- 46:54Speaker 4: going up against the forty nine ers, that's gonna be fun.
- 46:57Speaker 4: That's gonna be that's the game that's circled. But we're
- 46:59Speaker 4: just not there yet, so I think when we get
- 47:01Speaker 4: a little bit closer, it'd be more appropriate to talk
- 47:04Speaker 4: about that one. All right, great show, You guys were awesome.
- 47:07Speaker 4: Whould we get fifteen callers? That's almost short of our
- 47:10Speaker 4: record are of sixteen, but fifteen on a victory Monday
- 47:13Speaker 4: is outstanding.
- 47:13Speaker 1: You guys were great.
- 47:14Speaker 4: Chris Beam in the back punching the buttons for me,
- 47:16Speaker 4: appreciate that. I'm Nick Eatman. We'll see tomorrow. On Cowboys Storyline.
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