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- 0:03Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
- 0:05Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Cowboys.
- 0:12Speaker 3: This these Cowboys storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:28Speaker 4: What's up everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It's Wednesday, October
- 0:31Speaker 4: sixteenth time. Nick Eatman is the final show of the week.
- 0:35Speaker 4: This is the bye week, of course, much needed bye week.
- 0:39Speaker 4: I think, yes, definitely and needed. Of course. They would
- 0:43Speaker 4: be nice to have some football and try to fix
- 0:47Speaker 4: this thing sooner than later, but they need some time obviously.
- 0:50Speaker 4: These Cowboys team need some time to heal up and
- 0:53Speaker 4: fix some of these things, some of these problems that
- 0:56Speaker 4: have been occurring obviously for this team. Eight eight a five,
- 1:01Speaker 4: that's the number two call. A lot to hear from you, guys.
- 1:03Speaker 4: We will have a normal show today, then we'll be
- 1:06Speaker 4: off for a couple of days and restart next Monday
- 1:10Speaker 4: when we get ready for the forty nine ers week.
- 1:12Speaker 4: So I know there's been a lot of mixed mixing
- 1:15Speaker 4: of the shows in the podcast. We tried to get
- 1:18Speaker 4: a guest on today. This didn't work in time, but
- 1:23Speaker 4: I wanted to get Danny McCrae on today. He will
- 1:25Speaker 4: be on Monday. Danny McCray will be on Monday show.
- 1:29Speaker 4: We have a nice little friendly wager again between LSU
- 1:33Speaker 4: and Arkansas. Hopefully I will be wearing normal shirts and
- 1:38Speaker 4: he will be wearing an Arkansas jersey. If not, I'll
- 1:41Speaker 4: be wearing his Danny McCrae LSU jersey. So but either way,
- 1:45Speaker 4: it'd be good to catch up with him. A former
- 1:49Speaker 4: Cowboys player, a finalist of Survivor, all that good stuff.
- 1:53Speaker 4: I could talk to him next Monday, but we'll have
- 1:56Speaker 4: a full show today.
- 1:57Speaker 3: Let's get after it. Let's get started here.
- 1:58Speaker 4: We got Gary in New Mexico. Gary, what's up?
- 2:02Speaker 5: Hey, Nick?
- 2:02Speaker 3: How's going?
- 2:04Speaker 6: Hey? Man? If things don't start getting better quick, Brad
- 2:07Speaker 6: Sham's gonna start sounding like Bob Ucker from Major League.
- 2:14Speaker 3: That would be cool to listen to.
- 2:16Speaker 7: It would be man.
- 2:17Speaker 6: I mean, it's getting bad. So a lot of stuff
- 2:20Speaker 6: to talk about, man, and I don't want to take
- 2:22Speaker 6: up your whole show. But quick trivia question for you.
- 2:25Speaker 6: How many owners have the Dallas Cowboys had?
- 2:28Speaker 3: I don't know, two three they've had three owner.
- 2:31Speaker 6: How many general managers.
- 2:32Speaker 8: Have they had?
- 2:33Speaker 3: I don't know two? Okay two two?
- 2:37Speaker 6: Tex Shram and Jerry Jones are the only two GMS
- 2:39Speaker 6: in their history. Clint Clint Murchison, then bum Bright, and
- 2:43Speaker 6: then Jerry Jones are the owners. Jerry's not the best
- 2:45Speaker 6: owner in team history. Is not the best GM in
- 2:47Speaker 6: team history.
- 2:49Speaker 2: Uh.
- 2:49Speaker 6: And we could talk all day about Jerry, but let's
- 2:51Speaker 6: get back to today's team and let's just look at
- 2:55Speaker 6: as reasonable people. Okay, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
- 2:58Speaker 5: All right.
- 2:58Speaker 6: The good is you're three and three, you're a game
- 3:02Speaker 6: out of first place. You have all of your division
- 3:05Speaker 6: schedule left to play, with the exception of the Giant game,
- 3:07Speaker 6: which you've already won. So you're in a good position.
- 3:12Speaker 6: And it's not that they lost to the Lions, it's
- 3:14Speaker 6: how they lost to the Lions. It's not that it's
- 3:17Speaker 6: not that they lost Baltimore, it's how they lost Baltimore.
- 3:20Speaker 6: And Babe Lathenberg likes to say, the best predictor of
- 3:23Speaker 6: future behavior is past behavior. Right, So I don't know
- 3:27Speaker 6: that they're getting a lot of good players, well good players,
- 3:30Speaker 6: that's that's optional. They're getting some guys back from injury.
- 3:33Speaker 6: We got some guys coming back, But the defense wasn't
- 3:36Speaker 6: that good before they went out, and Dag's not playing
- 3:40Speaker 6: good and here's my biggest problem. All these guys that
- 3:43Speaker 6: have gotten these big contracts the last couple of years,
- 3:45Speaker 6: none of them were playing up to expectation. They're just
- 3:49Speaker 6: not And that's concerning. So I don't know, man, as
- 3:54Speaker 6: a Cowboy fan, standard expectation, we may need to adjust.
- 3:58Speaker 4: Both Well, yeah, you should. I mean he should, he
- 4:02Speaker 4: should adjust the expectations. I mean, I think I've been
- 4:05Speaker 4: saying that for a while now, like like this is
- 4:07Speaker 4: a test that's to be fighting to get in the playoffs.
- 4:10Speaker 4: I don't know if that's the expectations for most fans.
- 4:12Speaker 4: I doubt it, because they're still If they don't make
- 4:15Speaker 4: it to the super Bowl this year, then it will
- 4:17Speaker 4: be a failure to them. But to me, try to
- 4:20Speaker 4: sneak into the playoffs, that's where I think that's going
- 4:23Speaker 4: to be a fight, just just to do that, because
- 4:25Speaker 4: you gotta win now, You're.
- 4:26Speaker 6: Right, You're right, and expectations right now, you know, I
- 4:29Speaker 6: would just be happy if they could hold the team
- 4:31Speaker 6: to under thirty points at home. I mean, that's that's
- 4:35Speaker 6: kind of a reasonal expectation for now. Here's here's my thought,
- 4:38Speaker 6: and then I'll hang up and listen to you. I
- 4:40Speaker 6: think they need to get some consistent quick Quit running
- 4:43Speaker 6: all these different guys in a running back. Go with
- 4:45Speaker 6: Hunter Lifty, go with Rico Dowbdell, go with a set
- 4:49Speaker 6: thing there and then go with it and quit playing
- 4:52Speaker 6: around with stuff. They need to find out who they
- 4:55Speaker 6: are and establish something. I'll hang up and listen, thank Nick.
- 4:58Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I mean I think they've done that. Honestly.
- 5:03Speaker 4: I think that they've kind of said, all right, we're
- 5:05Speaker 4: not we're not doing the the the Deuce Vaughan thing.
- 5:09Speaker 4: I mean, it's two running but they have two running backs.
- 5:12Speaker 4: It's it's uh Rico and Zeke. I mean, that's their
- 5:15Speaker 4: two running backs. Hunter Lipke's not their running back. He's
- 5:18Speaker 4: their fullback. Slash h Bac tied end guy. You know,
- 5:23Speaker 4: I don't I don't think he would be a great
- 5:26Speaker 4: option as a just a straight running back at times.
- 5:29Speaker 4: Yes he could, he could do it, but I mean,
- 5:33Speaker 4: you know, if you don't think Zeke gets the hole
- 5:35Speaker 4: quick enough, I mean that's not what Hunter Lipke does either.
- 5:39Speaker 4: But but I think I still think there's there's a
- 5:41Speaker 4: great role for him, and he's he's been good.
- 5:44Speaker 3: I've said it before.
- 5:45Speaker 4: I mean, I just think If you're not gonna play
- 5:47Speaker 4: Dalvin Cook this week, you're not gonna see then I
- 5:50Speaker 4: would I would go and find another practice squad running back.
- 5:53Speaker 4: I mean, go find someone from another team, a younger guy, whatever,
- 5:57Speaker 4: and and try to poach them and and see if
- 6:00Speaker 4: you can get some juice in here, somebody that can
- 6:03Speaker 4: that can provide a little something. Maybe this would be
- 6:06Speaker 4: the week to do that. So but they're not going
- 6:09Speaker 4: to play Dalvin Cook, then I don't see what's the
- 6:13Speaker 4: point of keep keeping him. Because they need they need
- 6:15Speaker 4: somebody something, They need a boost in the running game.
- 6:17Speaker 4: And you know, he's a guy that's done it in
- 6:19Speaker 4: the past, and they were hoping that that Zeke could
- 6:22Speaker 4: do that and and kind of turned back the clock
- 6:24Speaker 4: a little bit, and that really hasn't happened. And maybe,
- 6:27Speaker 4: you know, maybe it will with Dalvin Cook, or you know,
- 6:29Speaker 4: maybe he's finally ready.
- 6:31Speaker 3: Who knows. All right, let's go to Carolina in South Carolina.
- 6:35Speaker 3: What's up? Carolina's going?
- 6:36Speaker 9: What's going on?
- 6:37Speaker 3: How are you dring? Should I call you Carolina or
- 6:39Speaker 3: call you Mike?
- 6:40Speaker 9: Yeah?
- 6:42Speaker 3: What's up? Man?
- 6:44Speaker 9: Man? It hurts man, I'm hurt right now. I went
- 6:48Speaker 9: out to the bar on Sunday around all these you know,
- 6:52Speaker 9: extra bands, Stealers, Eagles, and I had to sit there
- 6:55Speaker 9: and take it and it was it was not from
- 6:57Speaker 9: the stadio. Oh they still have something to say that
- 7:01Speaker 9: they were win them at the time.
- 7:02Speaker 2: No, no, I tell.
- 7:03Speaker 9: Them, I said, I don't want to hear. No, I
- 7:06Speaker 9: still had to hear it.
- 7:07Speaker 3: Uh uh you don't. You don't hear from the Steelers fans.
- 7:09Speaker 4: Sorry, as bad as this Cowboys team is, they went
- 7:13Speaker 4: in there and beat your ass.
- 7:15Speaker 3: So no, you don't hear from the Steeler fans.
- 7:17Speaker 7: No, I can quite agree.
- 7:19Speaker 3: No, there's an Steelers for sure. For sure.
- 7:22Speaker 9: I told them they were talking. I don't understand that.
- 7:25Speaker 3: And then and then.
- 7:26Speaker 4: I'm sure what they did is then they through like
- 7:29Speaker 4: super Bowl wins or something like that out there. You
- 7:32Speaker 4: know that's usually that's usually what happens. You know, people
- 7:36Speaker 4: people move the target when it comes to that.
- 7:38Speaker 3: But now anyways, yeah, all.
- 7:42Speaker 9: Right, yeah, man, I just want to say, man, I
- 7:47Speaker 9: was feeling like you man, you said I had that feeling.
- 7:49Speaker 9: I knew we wasn't gonna some of this show. We're
- 7:52Speaker 9: not gonna win this game, man, I knew it. But
- 7:55Speaker 9: the way we lost that game, I'm asking you, are
- 7:57Speaker 9: you hitting the panic button?
- 7:58Speaker 3: Man? Be honest, No, I mean where is that and
- 8:01Speaker 3: what do you do?
- 8:02Speaker 4: Like I wouldn't hit the panic but I'm not gonna
- 8:04Speaker 4: what what is that gonna do? Like okay, look, you know,
- 8:10Speaker 4: here comes a running back. I mean like I don't
- 8:11Speaker 4: know what what does that mean? What does that really mean?
- 8:14Speaker 4: Like as far as fans go, now, coaches, owners, you know,
- 8:19Speaker 4: they can they can change things quickly, you know, and
- 8:23Speaker 4: they they can make those moves.
- 8:24Speaker 3: But I mean for.
- 8:25Speaker 4: Us, I mean, it's not no, it's not really a panic.
- 8:28Speaker 4: It's mean it's your three and three team trying to
- 8:31Speaker 4: fight and to get into the playoffs.
- 8:34Speaker 9: And you know, I thought about that Josha Well was
- 8:36Speaker 9: still three and three? What a devastating lost like that.
- 8:39Speaker 3: It's just like, yeah, it's sang.
- 8:41Speaker 9: This is what I'm looking forward to for the next
- 8:43Speaker 9: few games. Like, well, I got tickets to Atlantic games,
- 8:46Speaker 9: so I gotta go watch that in personal.
- 8:48Speaker 4: Get to so you get to Yeah, it'll be that'll
- 8:52Speaker 4: be a good one. All right, Well appreciate it. Hey, hey, Carolina,
- 8:56Speaker 4: the one thing that you can do also is is
- 8:58Speaker 4: to avoid any that that you know, trash straw.
- 9:01Speaker 3: You'll have to go to.
- 9:02Speaker 4: The bar after the game, like you don't have to
- 9:04Speaker 4: do that. He may you don't have to wear your
- 9:06Speaker 4: your jersey.
- 9:06Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.
- 9:07Speaker 7: That's look, you got it.
- 9:09Speaker 9: You gotta be all the way or the man. That's
- 9:11Speaker 9: how you do it. Man, Okay, all right, you can't
- 9:14Speaker 9: have me man, all right, all right.
- 9:16Speaker 3: Thanks appreciate it. I love that you got to be
- 9:18Speaker 3: all the way in. I mean, he's all in, all
- 9:20Speaker 3: into the bar. I love it. All right, I'm sure
- 9:23Speaker 3: he can handle it. Good stuff. Let's go to Kevin
- 9:28Speaker 3: in New Jersey.
- 9:30Speaker 2: Hey, Nick, how are you?
- 9:32Speaker 3: Kevin? How are you?
- 9:34Speaker 2: I'm doing well. I I did it. I finally made it.
- 9:38Speaker 2: I I've called a few times, but this past week
- 9:42Speaker 2: I brought my four sons, my whole family down to
- 9:44Speaker 2: the game.
- 9:45Speaker 9: Uh.
- 9:46Speaker 2: It was something I've been saving up for for for
- 9:50Speaker 2: a really long time. I brought my sons all up
- 9:52Speaker 2: as Cowboys fans. And you know, sometimes your kids don't
- 9:55Speaker 2: wind up being a fan of the team that you like,
- 9:57Speaker 2: but in my case, they all root for the Cowboy.
- 10:00Speaker 2: It was really awesome to be able to bring them down.
- 10:03Speaker 3: But well, I'm sorry that that was the experience.
- 10:07Speaker 2: You know, that was the experience. It's really unfortunate, you know,
- 10:11Speaker 2: it is what it is. What are you going to do?
- 10:13Speaker 7: Right?
- 10:13Speaker 2: I didn't expect it to be the worst loss that
- 10:16Speaker 2: you could imagine, but it probably felt like that. And
- 10:19Speaker 2: I think what made it even worse was like I
- 10:23Speaker 2: spent extra for field level seats because I wanted to
- 10:26Speaker 2: get down to the field after the game and be
- 10:28Speaker 2: able to take a picture with the field in the
- 10:29Speaker 2: background with my whole family, and couldn't do it.
- 10:32Speaker 7: Did you go theboard?
- 10:34Speaker 3: Don't get the scoreboard in there?
- 10:36Speaker 2: No, No, not at all. The line fans swarmed the
- 10:40Speaker 2: field level areas, so we absolutely could not get there.
- 10:43Speaker 2: Right in front of us was a family of line
- 10:45Speaker 2: fans that just had the greatest time. They had so
- 10:48Speaker 2: much fun. Yeah, and we just sat there and it
- 10:51Speaker 2: was pretty miserable. But anyway, I called a week or
- 10:54Speaker 2: two ago because I'm also a Met fan, and you know,
- 10:57Speaker 2: back in May I told you we the fans and
- 11:01Speaker 2: the fan base had just given up on the Mets,
- 11:04Speaker 2: and look where we are now. So you know, I
- 11:07Speaker 2: can't say it's the same because there's something about the Mets.
- 11:12Speaker 2: The ownership Steve Cohen, and they've got this really good
- 11:16Speaker 2: manager right now, Carlos Mendoza. So I'm not sure that
- 11:19Speaker 2: the Cowboys have those pieces in place to make something
- 11:23Speaker 2: special happen towards the end of the season. But at
- 11:26Speaker 2: the same time, I call it because as awful as
- 11:29Speaker 2: the experience was, nick for me to go and to
- 11:32Speaker 2: spend as much money and have my kids sit there
- 11:34Speaker 2: and just be so upset because it was really disappointing,
- 11:38Speaker 2: I'm not going to give up, you know what I mean.
- 11:41Speaker 2: I'm still a huge fan. I love the team. I
- 11:43Speaker 2: want them to do well. I'm just trying to think
- 11:46Speaker 2: how can it happen? And that was the one thing
- 11:48Speaker 2: I was thinking to myself. The Mets got rid of
- 11:50Speaker 2: their family owned ownership, the will Ponds, and they brought in, well,
- 11:53Speaker 2: they bring in but Steve Cohen bought the team, and
- 11:56Speaker 2: it was it's fresh, it's new. It's a new approach
- 11:59Speaker 2: to how we can build a championship team. And I
- 12:03Speaker 2: would love to see that because it does feel right
- 12:06Speaker 2: now like it's getting a little stale with the approach,
- 12:09Speaker 2: but you know, it is what it is. Like I said, right,
- 12:12Speaker 2: I'm calling because I'm still a fan. I'm not giving up.
- 12:14Speaker 2: I'm real passionate. You know, it's disappointing. I'm upset, But
- 12:19Speaker 2: what am I going to do?
- 12:20Speaker 3: Right?
- 12:20Speaker 2: It is? What is you never know if they're going
- 12:22Speaker 2: to win to lose, you go and you just hope.
- 12:23Speaker 2: And so that's my story.
- 12:26Speaker 3: All you can do.
- 12:26Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, Kevin, that's all. That's all you can really
- 12:29Speaker 4: really do.
- 12:30Speaker 3: I mean, you know.
- 12:31Speaker 4: They're not changing ownership, They're not going to change the GM.
- 12:35Speaker 3: I mean, they do they do.
- 12:37Speaker 4: You know, how they handle the player personnel is not
- 12:42Speaker 4: what people think.
- 12:43Speaker 3: I guess.
- 12:44Speaker 4: I guess if they think that that that Jerry just
- 12:47Speaker 4: goes and picks all the players and makes all the moves.
- 12:49Speaker 4: I mean, I think he's always said it. You know,
- 12:52Speaker 4: they they collaborate and they debate on things, and then
- 12:56Speaker 4: if there's some kind of tie in the room, then
- 13:00Speaker 4: then he'll he'll break the tie. But it doesn't doesn't
- 13:02Speaker 4: mean that if if he's the only one that thinks
- 13:04Speaker 4: that way, that that's what they do. I mean, that
- 13:07Speaker 4: was the case, they would never have Zach Martin here.
- 13:09Speaker 4: They would have drafted Johnny Manziel. I mean, and there's
- 13:12Speaker 4: a lot of other situations like that. So yes, he's
- 13:16Speaker 4: the owner and general manager, but you know he gets
- 13:18Speaker 4: help and and and how things are done. And I'm
- 13:20Speaker 4: sure that you know that there will be changes in
- 13:22Speaker 4: tweaks you know, along the way, but but you know
- 13:25Speaker 4: you're not going to get that that change and ownership
- 13:28Speaker 4: and that fresh start and all that kind of that's
- 13:32Speaker 4: not not gonna happen. They're gonna make some tweaks and
- 13:33Speaker 4: make some changes here and and and as for this
- 13:36Speaker 4: year to try to get this thing turned around. And
- 13:39Speaker 4: and that's what we are where you know, we're here.
- 13:42Speaker 4: Uh you know, he can be mad one day, embarrassed, disgusted, uh,
- 13:47Speaker 4: fed up, and then it shifts, it changes, and he
- 13:52Speaker 4: goes back to who you are. You know, the cop
- 13:54Speaker 4: was your family. That's that's what it is. I mean,
- 13:57Speaker 4: they're they're your family. They're your family member that they
- 14:00Speaker 4: you can get upset with and say I'm done, I'm
- 14:02Speaker 4: not going to let him ever do this again, or
- 14:03Speaker 4: I'm not gonna I'm not going to give this to her.
- 14:06Speaker 4: She hasn't had whatever it is. And then and then
- 14:09Speaker 4: time goes in and then you realize that's your family,
- 14:11Speaker 4: that's who you are, and you're not going to abandon them.
- 14:14Speaker 4: And then next thing, you know, you're like, all right,
- 14:16Speaker 4: what time's the game this week? That's the way it works.
- 14:18Speaker 4: That's the vicious cycle that we're in. And you know,
- 14:21Speaker 4: it's it's you can't really change it, all right, Josh
- 14:24Speaker 4: and Chicago, how you doing good?
- 14:26Speaker 3: How are you doing? Not bad?
- 14:28Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 14:29Speaker 10: I know people are upset about the you know, just
- 14:31Speaker 10: the comments from Jerry and stuff like that, or the
- 14:33Speaker 10: Detroit game. At this point, I'm like, hey, it's time
- 14:35Speaker 10: to move on.
- 14:36Speaker 3: Fan.
- 14:36Speaker 10: How you're gonna fan? I get it, But I'm here
- 14:38Speaker 10: for the roller coaster ride.
- 14:39Speaker 4: Right well, and it was a bad one. It was
- 14:41Speaker 4: a bad turn, you know. Oh yeah, you know, and
- 14:44Speaker 4: now it's just kind of.
- 14:45Speaker 3: Stopped for a little bit, which is really scary.
- 14:47Speaker 7: You know.
- 14:48Speaker 4: That's the that's part of the roller coaster. You don't
- 14:49Speaker 4: want to You're just up there and now it's just stop.
- 14:52Speaker 4: You're like, why why aren't we moving? That's what a
- 14:54Speaker 4: my week is, I think. So, yeah, the roller coaster
- 14:57Speaker 4: is is taking a.
- 14:58Speaker 3: Break, that's right.
- 15:00Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 15:00Speaker 10: Hey, So I just had a question, and I think
- 15:02Speaker 10: this is something that has been kind of going on
- 15:04Speaker 10: for a couple of years. With Mike, you know. With
- 15:07Speaker 10: the run game. One thing I don't understand is why
- 15:09Speaker 10: they don't use more sets with Zeke and Hunter Lipkey
- 15:12Speaker 10: out there together, or Rico and Zeke or you know,
- 15:15Speaker 10: Rico and Hunter out there together. I think they have
- 15:17Speaker 10: a lot of potential to cause some mixed matches for
- 15:19Speaker 10: the other teams defenses, and they don't really do that much.
- 15:22Speaker 10: So I think that that's something they need to add
- 15:24Speaker 10: into the run game. And I'll hang up now, I'll
- 15:27Speaker 10: talk too soon.
- 15:27Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it would have to be Rico. I'm sorry,
- 15:32Speaker 4: it would have to be Lipkey and Zeke in my opinion,
- 15:37Speaker 4: because somebody's got a block. You know, they're both not
- 15:41Speaker 4: getting the ball, and neither one of them might get
- 15:45Speaker 4: not get the ball.
- 15:45Speaker 3: You know.
- 15:46Speaker 4: I mean it might be a situation where it's kind
- 15:48Speaker 4: of a max protection type thing, but you know what,
- 15:52Speaker 4: you want to have options where the personnel that's on
- 15:56Speaker 4: there doesn't completely just dictate what you're going to do.
- 16:00Speaker 4: That's why teams love to have really good versatile tight ends,
- 16:04Speaker 4: because if you have a good one that can block
- 16:07Speaker 4: and catch and make it get open, then you can you.
- 16:10Speaker 3: Can be versatile. You can you can do whatever you want.
- 16:13Speaker 4: And so if you you were you were to have
- 16:14Speaker 4: that and and put both of those guys in the game,
- 16:18Speaker 4: well one of them has got to be able to
- 16:20Speaker 4: to to block. One of them's gotta that can stay
- 16:22Speaker 4: in uh and maybe even go out for a pass.
- 16:25Speaker 4: That's why you typically don't see that as much. But
- 16:29Speaker 4: you know, I think I think for for Lipkey being
- 16:32Speaker 4: a you know, lead full back, uh, you know, if
- 16:34Speaker 4: he can do that and and you know, and Ze
- 16:37Speaker 4: run the ball and you know, then you've got a
- 16:38Speaker 4: little bit more power. So it's not something out of
- 16:42Speaker 4: the ordinary that that we haven't seen it as much.
- 16:44Speaker 4: But it's not something I don't think that they couldn't
- 16:46Speaker 4: do uh, And I think they're both versatile enough to
- 16:48Speaker 4: do it, So it's not that's not really a bad
- 16:50Speaker 4: option either.
- 16:51Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Ali and Florida.
- 16:54Speaker 8: Good morning the Hi.
- 16:55Speaker 3: How are you pretty good?
- 16:57Speaker 7: Buddy?
- 16:57Speaker 8: I'm gonna give a shout to all the storyliner from
- 17:03Speaker 8: the state of Florida. You get a lot of phone
- 17:06Speaker 8: called pat two three days from clear Water in Sarasota, Cocovich, Miami,
- 17:13Speaker 8: North Florida. I live in Tampa. It's been a hard
- 17:17Speaker 8: two weeks and flooded houses and everything, but we managed
- 17:21Speaker 8: to be able to call the storyline.
- 17:23Speaker 7: That's out of hope.
- 17:25Speaker 8: Second, I don't think anybody loves to win more than
- 17:33Speaker 8: mister Jones. The man spend the money, he puts his
- 17:38Speaker 8: best food forward. Hey here there we make we all
- 17:41Speaker 8: make a little decision here, and maybe we could do
- 17:44Speaker 8: it better. But I'll put the responsibility on coaching the
- 17:50Speaker 8: staff management players. That's their job to get this job
- 17:55Speaker 8: done for five years. You can you can ask Jerry
- 18:01Speaker 8: Jones more than that. We're all gonna look at this
- 18:03Speaker 8: guy like he's the problem. Yeah, okay, But at the
- 18:07Speaker 8: same time, it's very The man is birthday. Who gives
- 18:11Speaker 8: a birthday present to somebody, put the big contract on
- 18:16Speaker 8: your table and you go performed like that. So that's
- 18:20Speaker 8: having said that, you are one hundred percent right, and
- 18:25Speaker 8: Captain robb is one hundred percent right. I listened to
- 18:28Speaker 8: Captain right second time around yesterday. He has a lot
- 18:31Speaker 8: of great points. He said the stuff that we are
- 18:34Speaker 8: thinking about it, but sometimes we are shy to say it.
- 18:37Speaker 8: But you are also so so right because we don't
- 18:40Speaker 8: want to give up the season. We are three and three,
- 18:44Speaker 8: but the writings on the wall, I would judge at
- 18:48Speaker 8: how they're going to perform against the San Francisco for UNITEDS.
- 18:52Speaker 8: So other than that, you have a great show, buddy,
- 18:55Speaker 8: Thank you for what you do and we take it
- 18:58Speaker 8: from there.
- 18:59Speaker 4: Thanks appreciate that. I'll say this and you mentioned it earlier.
- 19:03Speaker 4: Uh yeah, what what you guys are dealing with and
- 19:05Speaker 4: in Florida? Uh man, I can't even imagine, uh be
- 19:09Speaker 4: safe for for all of you. And you know it's
- 19:13Speaker 4: it's one of those things. I'm sure it puts things
- 19:15Speaker 4: in perspective and and a lot of a lot of
- 19:18Speaker 4: you have said that you know, being on you know,
- 19:20Speaker 4: being on the show or listening to podcasts and just
- 19:22Speaker 4: getting something to take your mind off things is very valuable.
- 19:26Speaker 4: I don't know if if if this week is is
- 19:29Speaker 4: actually helping or hurting U and making it worse.
- 19:32Speaker 3: I don't know, uh, because obviously you.
- 19:34Speaker 4: Know you you want you want some some joy out
- 19:38Speaker 4: of your team and it's not really happening. But you know,
- 19:41Speaker 4: like like you said, there there's hope and you know
- 19:44Speaker 4: it's it's about you know the caller that said about
- 19:47Speaker 4: are we hitting the panic button or do you give up?
- 19:49Speaker 4: Hope and there I mean there's you know, like I'm
- 19:54Speaker 4: not giving up, Well, of course not, there's nothing to
- 19:56Speaker 4: give up. I mean, this is who we are, this
- 19:58Speaker 4: is what what what we do. We'll be back for
- 19:59Speaker 4: that for the next game, and uh, you know, we'll
- 20:02Speaker 4: watch the Cowboys and Fort Dannerds. Now you might change
- 20:04Speaker 4: your opinion and your expectations of what you expect. Uh,
- 20:08Speaker 4: and that's natural. I mean that that that happens good
- 20:11Speaker 4: and bad, you know, I'm sure, I'm sure the the
- 20:15Speaker 4: you know, and that that can happen with one single play.
- 20:18Speaker 4: Think about what your expectations were going into the Lions
- 20:22Speaker 4: game based off the fact that Dak hit Jalen Tolbert
- 20:26Speaker 4: on fourth down at the five yard line and they
- 20:29Speaker 4: won the game. If if that ball slips out of
- 20:32Speaker 4: his hands and or gets knocked out of his hands incomplete,
- 20:35Speaker 4: they lose the game. Your thoughts are completely different about
- 20:39Speaker 4: the entire team and the season based off of one play.
- 20:44Speaker 4: And you know, that's they didn't fix the problems. Tolbert
- 20:49Speaker 4: catching that pass didn't fix the problems that they had.
- 20:52Speaker 4: So it's that's just kind of funny how how the
- 20:55Speaker 4: ball bounces and and you know, this team is three
- 20:57Speaker 4: and three, and you know, they they could be two
- 21:00Speaker 4: and four. Maybe you know, even even one and five.
- 21:05Speaker 4: You know, you could make the argument maybe they they
- 21:07Speaker 4: could have been four and two.
- 21:08Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 21:09Speaker 4: That Baltimore game didn't look like a win, but but
- 21:12Speaker 4: they were close. They figured out a way to make
- 21:14Speaker 4: it close. So my point is is that it's still
- 21:17Speaker 4: there's a lot of a lot of football left. You know,
- 21:19Speaker 4: there's no reason to jump off because because you're gonna
- 21:22Speaker 4: just jump back on.
- 21:22Speaker 3: I mean, the ones that are listening now, you're gonna
- 21:26Speaker 3: jump back on.
- 21:27Speaker 4: Because that's that's what we are, That's who we are,
- 21:30Speaker 4: and this is and this show is for you because
- 21:32Speaker 4: you've done it for so long, and this is you're
- 21:34Speaker 4: you're a cowboy fan.
- 21:35Speaker 3: I mean, you know this is right or die? All right? Uh?
- 21:39Speaker 3: Chuck D in Bridge City, Texas. Hey, Nick, how you
- 21:44Speaker 3: doing well?
- 21:45Speaker 11: You just got me pumped up by little speech.
- 21:48Speaker 7: Let's go.
- 21:48Speaker 3: Let's go, Chuck.
- 21:50Speaker 11: I know, I'm a I try to call not be
- 21:54Speaker 11: a downer because it's easy, I know, but yeah, I'm
- 22:00Speaker 11: gonna just point out that last year we beat the
- 22:03Speaker 11: brakes off of the Rams early on, and look they
- 22:06Speaker 11: made it, and they could have easily won the playoff
- 22:09Speaker 11: game against the lines I mean, right there, So things
- 22:12Speaker 11: can change quick. And we got to get healthy, of course,
- 22:17Speaker 11: and maybe it's taken some time to get used to
- 22:19Speaker 11: this new scheme on defense. I understand that. And maybe
- 22:23Speaker 11: Dak and CD and the offense can get going, get
- 22:27Speaker 11: rolling and get on track. You know, all you can
- 22:31Speaker 11: do is hope for that. Either way, I'm still gonna
- 22:33Speaker 11: watch and it hurts, but I know what helps is
- 22:37Speaker 11: very next day is listening to all the podcast I have.
- 22:40Speaker 11: It really does help kind of beat you off the ledge.
- 22:44Speaker 3: I should say, well, thank you.
- 22:47Speaker 11: He can't watch Sports Center because that's not gonna help you.
- 22:51Speaker 3: No, definitely not.
- 22:53Speaker 4: But all right, Chuck, well I appreciate it hanging there,
- 22:58Speaker 4: Thanks for thanks for the call. He's you're a lot
- 23:01Speaker 4: like a lot of fans right now, you know that
- 23:03Speaker 4: just kind of just frustrated and and and you know,
- 23:07Speaker 4: you said you don't want to be a downer, but
- 23:08Speaker 4: it is. I mean, that's that's where this team is
- 23:11Speaker 4: right now. But uh, you know, there's ways to look
- 23:13Speaker 4: at at the glass half full and and uh and
- 23:17Speaker 4: and be optimistic about certain things. And to me, it's
- 23:20Speaker 4: just there's just a lot of football left. And you
- 23:23Speaker 4: mentioned the Rams, the Rams from last year. You know,
- 23:26Speaker 4: it's funny you say that the Cowboys actually are looking
- 23:30Speaker 4: at They looked at the Rams this offseason as as
- 23:34Speaker 4: you know what they did last year and said that
- 23:37Speaker 4: can happen.
- 23:38Speaker 3: You know, you you the Rams.
- 23:40Speaker 4: Were looking at it like maybe they were gonna kind
- 23:42Speaker 4: of look towards the future. But but they kept kind
- 23:45Speaker 4: of winning. They they geled, they they got together, and
- 23:47Speaker 4: they they they scrapped their way into the playoffs. And
- 23:50Speaker 4: I think the Cowboys are kind of thinking that that
- 23:52Speaker 4: was what this this year's team could be. So expectations
- 23:56Speaker 4: are are not you know, to me, they're not as
- 23:59Speaker 4: as high because you know, this was twelve and five
- 24:02Speaker 4: team three years in a row. That's not what this
- 24:04Speaker 4: team looks like right now at all. And so but
- 24:08Speaker 4: it doesn't mean that that you're out of anything.
- 24:11Speaker 3: You can.
- 24:11Speaker 4: You can still turn things around. I think there's plenty
- 24:13Speaker 4: of time to do it. All right, Let's take a
- 24:14Speaker 4: break real quick on Cowboys storyline, be right back to
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- 26:13Speaker 4: let's go to Zach in Atlanta has been waiting, Zach.
- 26:17Speaker 3: What's up? Man?
- 26:18Speaker 15: Yeah? What's up?
- 26:19Speaker 14: Nick?
- 26:19Speaker 3: How are you good? How are you?
- 26:21Speaker 15: I'm all right, man. I was listening earlier about the
- 26:25Speaker 15: you know, how the schedule could have flipped. Our record
- 26:28Speaker 15: could have flipped with the Steelers game if we don't
- 26:30Speaker 15: pull that out. And even the Giants game, you know,
- 26:33Speaker 15: they had a maybe twenty seconds and there was one
- 26:36Speaker 15: pass that failed over our secondary and it was dropped
- 26:40Speaker 15: or something like that. I can't remember, but we could
- 26:44Speaker 15: be one and four right now. So that is some
- 26:48Speaker 15: green grass where we stand three and three and there's
- 26:52Speaker 15: a lot of season ahead. But shout out to Carolina
- 26:56Speaker 15: coming down to Atlanta for the game. I'll actually be
- 26:59Speaker 15: in La visiting some family that week, so I will
- 27:02Speaker 15: not be in town. But uh, you know, it's uh,
- 27:08Speaker 15: it's okay. I'm pretty sure I'll catch a game in
- 27:11Speaker 15: Nashville or Carolina or Atlanta soon. But it's kind of
- 27:17Speaker 15: a bummer. I've been out here for five years, born
- 27:19Speaker 15: and raised in Austin for twenty five years, went to
- 27:22Speaker 15: a few games growing up, and so I haven't been
- 27:24Speaker 15: able to check out the Cowboys here yet. So it
- 27:29Speaker 15: is what it is.
- 27:29Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good stadium.
- 27:31Speaker 7: I like.
- 27:32Speaker 4: I like their stadium. I like I like the open
- 27:35Speaker 4: press boxes where you know it's where you can, you know,
- 27:38Speaker 4: really hear the crowd and get into it. Should be
- 27:41Speaker 4: it should be a good one.
- 27:42Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 27:43Speaker 15: I've been to in Atlanta United soccer game and that's
- 27:46Speaker 15: a rowdy time.
- 27:47Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 27:47Speaker 15: Well, great stadium. But you know, if if I don't
- 27:52Speaker 15: think this team is good enough to to make a
- 27:57Speaker 15: real run, but if they're going to be scrappy, like
- 27:58Speaker 15: we're talking about the Rams, they need to have more
- 28:03Speaker 15: one score games or losses. You know, we're going to
- 28:07Speaker 15: lose some more games, but they need to show some
- 28:10Speaker 15: more fight and have have some kind of character building
- 28:14Speaker 15: performances rather than these just tramplings. So hoping, hoping that
- 28:19Speaker 15: we can weather the storm, hang around five hundred for
- 28:24Speaker 15: a while until we maybe build some momentum and sneak
- 28:27Speaker 15: into the loud card. But we've got to We got
- 28:30Speaker 15: our division games ahead of us too. You know, we'll
- 28:32Speaker 15: see about Philly and Washington. We really don't know what
- 28:37Speaker 15: they are and so you know, there's still a lot
- 28:41Speaker 15: of road ahead of us. Trying to stay positive, but
- 28:44Speaker 15: going to enjoy the bye week. All that to say, is.
- 28:47Speaker 3: This your last show for the week.
- 28:49Speaker 15: Awesome, Hey, you you've done us well. I hope you
- 28:53Speaker 15: enjoy time off for us. And yeah, man, we'll catch
- 28:57Speaker 15: up at the top of the week.
- 28:58Speaker 3: Thanks that appreciate that. You know you bring up some
- 29:02Speaker 3: good points too.
- 29:02Speaker 4: Like the division, I don't think anyone's gonna run away
- 29:07Speaker 4: with anything in the past is like the last couple
- 29:11Speaker 4: of years, I guess in Dallas and Philly kind of
- 29:13Speaker 4: gone back and forth and kind of pulling away from
- 29:17Speaker 4: from Washington and the Giants. That that doesn't seem like
- 29:21Speaker 4: that's going to happen this year, and they're gonna, you know,
- 29:24Speaker 4: they have to play each other as well, So I
- 29:27Speaker 4: don't think anybody in this division is gonna run away.
- 29:30Speaker 4: I don't think the Eagles are that great this year.
- 29:32Speaker 3: I don't.
- 29:33Speaker 4: I think they've taken that they seem like they've taken
- 29:36Speaker 4: a step back. They now they've won some games and
- 29:40Speaker 4: they're I guess they are four and two, but I mean,
- 29:44Speaker 4: but they've lost, you know that they've they've had some
- 29:47Speaker 4: some tough losses there as well. But I don't I
- 29:50Speaker 4: don't think they're gonna be head and shoulders above anybody.
- 29:53Speaker 4: And and then of course Washington kind of hard to
- 29:55Speaker 4: figure them out just yet. But so far they look good.
- 29:59Speaker 4: Then the Giants are a lot more competitive as well,
- 30:01Speaker 4: and we've already seen that, so I do. I do
- 30:04Speaker 4: think that, you know, those games will be close, they'll
- 30:07Speaker 4: kind of beat each other up. That's kind of what
- 30:09Speaker 4: you hope for at least, and that's why I think
- 30:13Speaker 4: the Cowboys. And I've said this way back when the
- 30:15Speaker 4: schedule came out. I looked at the schedule and I
- 30:17Speaker 4: was like, if you can have your head just barely
- 30:20Speaker 4: above water when you get, you know, after the forty
- 30:23Speaker 4: nine Ers game, from there, you should be able to
- 30:27Speaker 4: maybe stack some wins together. Now, some of those teams
- 30:30Speaker 4: now look a little tougher, like at Washington looks tougher,
- 30:34Speaker 4: maybe Tampa Bay at home looks tougher. But still all
- 30:37Speaker 4: of these games are winnable games. So I said, have
- 30:40Speaker 4: your head above water. Maybe they won't, maybe they'll be
- 30:44Speaker 4: three and four, who knows the after the forty nine Ers,
- 30:47Speaker 4: But but you know, I think if you can, if
- 30:49Speaker 4: you can somehow, if you get to four and four,
- 30:52Speaker 4: split these next two games. You've got four out of
- 30:55Speaker 4: the next five games at home. And I know that
- 30:58Speaker 4: you're saying, oh, well, that's not good because they haven't
- 31:01Speaker 4: won there. I'm sure this is going to get turned around.
- 31:04Speaker 4: And you know you're playing Philly Houston Giants, Bingals. You
- 31:08Speaker 4: should win these games. I mean, if you're going to
- 31:10Speaker 4: be anything, you should be able to win those. So
- 31:13Speaker 4: I think, you know, coming out of this by I
- 31:16Speaker 4: think they they've got to show a lot more toughness,
- 31:19Speaker 4: a lot more heart, and you know, I think that
- 31:20Speaker 4: they they will.
- 31:21Speaker 3: Fort Niner game is going to be gonna be big
- 31:23Speaker 3: for that. Dylan and Northport, Florida's next.
- 31:27Speaker 16: If the Cowboys are our family, does that make us
- 31:29Speaker 16: like distant cousins or something?
- 31:31Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, what's up? Man? Where's the barbecue?
- 31:35Speaker 2: Uh?
- 31:35Speaker 16: Well, once my flooding goes away in the backyard, show
- 31:38Speaker 16: how that sound?
- 31:40Speaker 3: Well? I said it earlier and I'll say it again now.
- 31:42Speaker 4: You guys, You guys are going through a lot, and
- 31:45Speaker 4: I hate that for you, and I hope everyone is
- 31:49Speaker 4: safe and the spirits are as good as they can be.
- 31:53Speaker 16: Yeah, we have a guy Kyle who's in our storyliners
- 31:56Speaker 16: group and comes to our chat. He's up in the
- 31:57Speaker 16: Sarasota area and they got a little more tougher than
- 31:59Speaker 16: we to Stort moved north to the last minute, So
- 32:01Speaker 16: shout out to him. I know he's doing well though,
- 32:03Speaker 16: and he's good to go.
- 32:04Speaker 2: So all good.
- 32:06Speaker 16: So as it pertains to Jerry Jones here, you know,
- 32:09Speaker 16: the mob is out, man. It's pitchforks and everything, and
- 32:12Speaker 16: I understand why, like it's it's reasonable, but I just
- 32:14Speaker 16: wanted to maybe play Devil's advocate on this and take
- 32:17Speaker 16: a step back and just provide a different perspective. You know,
- 32:19Speaker 16: I see this thirty years saying all the time that
- 32:21Speaker 16: they haven't done a handing in thirty years, and people
- 32:23Speaker 16: got a Remember like this league was built with parody
- 32:27Speaker 16: in mind. That's why the salary cap is around. That's
- 32:29Speaker 16: why if division winners get the toughest schedule. I the
- 32:32Speaker 16: league doesn't want the Patriots around for twenty years winning
- 32:35Speaker 16: the division. Everything's boring. Like those three teams in the division,
- 32:37Speaker 16: they have no chance, Right, it's boring. They want they
- 32:40Speaker 16: want viewers from all thirty two teams, and they build
- 32:42Speaker 16: it with parody in mind. So I think it's fair
- 32:44Speaker 16: to attack Jerry for a lack of action and free agency.
- 32:48Speaker 8: Right.
- 32:48Speaker 16: It bothered me that we didn't get a defensive tackle
- 32:50Speaker 16: this offseason a lot because we're counting on basically Mazi
- 32:53Speaker 16: going into August. I think this team would look a
- 32:56Speaker 16: lot different with a competent There were several competent, middle
- 33:00Speaker 16: priced defensive tackles it we didn't go out to that.
- 33:02Speaker 16: So whatever it is, what it is, Okay, they don't
- 33:03Speaker 16: really participate in pregency because they don't want to overspend, right,
- 33:07Speaker 16: But let's not pretend that Jerry also hasn't put together
- 33:09Speaker 16: in the front offense. Willma play and Steven and then
- 33:12Speaker 16: have them put together super Bowl quality teams over the
- 33:14Speaker 16: years too, Like we've had what I was counting to
- 33:17Speaker 16: say about ten nine to ten, so a third of
- 33:19Speaker 16: the time that he's been the GM, roughly in the
- 33:21Speaker 16: last thirty years, we've had super Bowl quality teams. That
- 33:25Speaker 16: doesn't happen a lot. There's a ton of teams that
- 33:26Speaker 16: haven't had that. So I understand why there's so much
- 33:29Speaker 16: hate and people are disgruntled with Jerry. But at the
- 33:31Speaker 16: same time, it is what it is. I think you
- 33:34Speaker 16: said it earlier.
- 33:34Speaker 7: It is what it is.
- 33:35Speaker 16: He's not going anywhere. Nothing's changing in that regard.
- 33:38Speaker 7: The deals are done.
- 33:39Speaker 16: Maybe they can participate in free agency this next go around.
- 33:42Speaker 16: They have the cap space to do it now. Even
- 33:43Speaker 16: though they play, they pay their players that ended up
- 33:45Speaker 16: opening up cap space to do that. Maybe they haven't
- 33:48Speaker 16: shown they want to do that, but maybe it'll change
- 33:50Speaker 16: this offseason. Who knows. But you know, Jerry doesn't get
- 33:53Speaker 16: enough flowers out of for what he does. Positive for
- 33:56Speaker 16: the team, I don't think. I think a lot of
- 33:57Speaker 16: people harp on the negative and there's some positive. They
- 34:00Speaker 16: just want to be fair in that regard.
- 34:01Speaker 4: Well, that's I appreciate you saying that, and Dylan, thanks
- 34:04Speaker 4: for the call. I think I think that was if
- 34:06Speaker 4: you listen to the Jerry stuff yesterday, I'm sure and
- 34:09Speaker 4: it's been everywhere. Uh and if you heard what he's saying,
- 34:12Speaker 4: that's that was the the crux of it that I
- 34:15Speaker 4: took out of it was, you know, don't sit here
- 34:18Speaker 4: and tell me all the things we should have done
- 34:22Speaker 4: and not and not and just gloss over some of
- 34:24Speaker 4: the things that we have done. And that's where it
- 34:26Speaker 4: stems back to. If your argument is you haven't won
- 34:30Speaker 4: the Super Bowl in twenty nine years, then you're just,
- 34:34Speaker 4: in my opinion, you're just wasting your own time. I mean,
- 34:38Speaker 4: then come back when it changes. Because you can't win
- 34:42Speaker 4: a super Bowl in October, you you you can't like,
- 34:46Speaker 4: you can't fix it right now.
- 34:47Speaker 3: All you can do is, you know, you say, day
- 34:48Speaker 3: by day, DA day by day.
- 34:50Speaker 4: But they're getting judged, this team, this franchise, getting judged
- 34:54Speaker 4: by three decades worth of not being able to win
- 34:58Speaker 4: the Super Bowl.
- 34:59Speaker 3: And Dylan, you're you're right.
- 35:01Speaker 4: I mean, I think his job is to give him
- 35:04Speaker 4: an opportunity to go do it, give him an opportunity
- 35:06Speaker 4: to be good enough to go win. And it had
- 35:10Speaker 4: It's not every year, like you said, the league doesn't
- 35:13Speaker 4: allow for that, but you know, there's been a lot
- 35:16Speaker 4: of years where this is a talented enough team to
- 35:19Speaker 4: go do it. And yeah, and I think that that's
- 35:23Speaker 4: where his frustration was. Uh it is because that but
- 35:26Speaker 4: that's life though, that's life. Go go to any restaurant
- 35:30Speaker 4: in the world and look at their comments or you know,
- 35:33Speaker 4: or or you know online if you you know, you
- 35:36Speaker 4: look at the it's not going to be you know
- 35:40Speaker 4: this this server was great and then the atmosphere is awesome.
- 35:44Speaker 4: It's always negative and that's that's the way it is.
- 35:46Speaker 4: So when you look at the draft, people talk, well,
- 35:49Speaker 4: Mazzie Smith, I mean, what's up with Mazzie Smith? Or
- 35:52Speaker 4: or oh every time DJ Watt makes a play that
- 35:55Speaker 4: they could have got you know, they could have got him,
- 35:57Speaker 4: but they got Taco Charlton. No one ever comes back
- 36:00Speaker 4: and says, like Tyler Smith, who was ridicule, I mean
- 36:05Speaker 4: that that pick was ridicule. That might be one of
- 36:07Speaker 4: the best draft picks they've ever had when it's all
- 36:09Speaker 4: said and done, to get this guy that's just playing
- 36:11Speaker 4: guard tackle, guard tackle, you know, and got him from
- 36:14Speaker 4: Tulsa and as a project player and look at him now.
- 36:19Speaker 4: I mean, but no one says that, no one, No
- 36:20Speaker 4: one talks about that of the draft. They talked about
- 36:23Speaker 4: the missus and I think that's where the frustration is is. Yeah,
- 36:26Speaker 4: I mean, he had just suffered a really, really terrible
- 36:29Speaker 4: loss to the Lions. I'm sorry, that's that's the Lions.
- 36:34Speaker 4: And if we're gonna judge a franchise for the last
- 36:37Speaker 4: thirty years, like we judge the Cowboys for thirty years,
- 36:40Speaker 4: because no one thinks the Cowboys have ever been good
- 36:42Speaker 4: because they have won Super Bowl in thirty years, so
- 36:44Speaker 4: they get judged in a thirty year window. If we're
- 36:46Speaker 4: doing that, then yeah, that was embarrassing loss to the
- 36:49Speaker 4: Lions because look at their thirty years.
- 36:52Speaker 3: That's my point.
- 36:53Speaker 4: That's not the way it is, because and I just
- 36:55Speaker 4: had this argument thirty minutes ago and then and I
- 36:58Speaker 4: was told, well, the Lions are good.
- 37:00Speaker 3: That's kind of my point.
- 37:02Speaker 4: That's my point though, But no one judges the Cowboys
- 37:05Speaker 4: based off a year to year to year, judging them
- 37:07Speaker 4: off three decades. And I think that's that's where it
- 37:10Speaker 4: gets goods frustrating. That's at least my opinion. All Right,
- 37:13Speaker 4: let's go to Jeremy Salt Lake City.
- 37:16Speaker 7: Hey, Nick, what's going on?
- 37:18Speaker 2: Man?
- 37:18Speaker 3: What's up? How are you so?
- 37:21Speaker 7: I was I'm good. I was just listening, just on
- 37:24Speaker 7: the tail end of what you just said, Like, do
- 37:25Speaker 7: people realize that we have the biggest winning percentage in
- 37:29Speaker 7: the last since in the Super Bowl area era?
- 37:32Speaker 3: I don't think. I don't. They do not care it.
- 37:35Speaker 3: But they do not care. That's the problem. They do
- 37:37Speaker 3: not care.
- 37:37Speaker 7: What the thing is is, you are supposed to win games,
- 37:41Speaker 7: and we have won more games than any other other
- 37:43Speaker 7: NFL team in the Super Bowl era. That is not
- 37:47Speaker 7: roster issues. Okay, you know the last thirty years have
- 37:51Speaker 7: not been roster issues. We've had chances in two thousand
- 37:55Speaker 7: and seven, twenty fourteen, twenty sixteen, In the last three years,
- 37:59Speaker 7: we've had good enough teams to win it all. Now,
- 38:02Speaker 7: for whatever reason, we haven't. And you can call it
- 38:04Speaker 7: snake bit and call it bad luck, whatever, but that's
- 38:08Speaker 7: not the whole reason. I called you just made a
- 38:10Speaker 7: great point. I had to comment.
- 38:12Speaker 3: All.
- 38:12Speaker 7: My thing is, do you remember twenty ten?
- 38:14Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 38:16Speaker 7: Yeah, the Packers game? Right? Ye, Mike Jenkins, what did
- 38:20Speaker 7: we say? Do you remember the term football treason being
- 38:24Speaker 7: brought up?
- 38:26Speaker 3: Remember that football?
- 38:27Speaker 7: Well, he whiffed on a couple of tackles, made business
- 38:30Speaker 7: decisions whatever, And everybody's like, Mike Jenkins committed football trees.
- 38:35Speaker 7: And I'm pretty sure we got rid of him the
- 38:37Speaker 7: next year, didn't we? He wasn't long after that. Yeah,
- 38:41Speaker 7: but he was a decent corner. But I've seen and
- 38:45Speaker 7: people have been complaining about did any want to name
- 38:48Speaker 7: names and everything, I'm gonna say it, Trayvon Diggs committed
- 38:51Speaker 7: football trees and and it's not a good luck. And
- 38:55Speaker 7: you know what really breaks my heart is the guy
- 38:58Speaker 7: that called in earlier to save up for years so
- 39:01Speaker 7: we could go see a football game. You know, it
- 39:04Speaker 7: goes back to the pool Joe DiMaggio thing. You know,
- 39:08Speaker 7: it might be this kid's only chance to ever see
- 39:10Speaker 7: me play. Every pro player should have that attitude. And
- 39:14Speaker 7: when they don't, and when they whiff on tackles like that,
- 39:18Speaker 7: and and and don't you know, show any fight that
- 39:23Speaker 7: is where I think the fan base feels betrayed, right,
- 39:26Speaker 7: and so I'll call out Traymon Diggs man. He's got
- 39:30Speaker 7: he's got, he's got to tackle better, and he's got
- 39:33Speaker 7: to cover guys over the formation better. Whenever you take
- 39:36Speaker 7: him over the formation, it always seems like he's a
- 39:39Speaker 7: yard or two behind. And so, you know, I'm sick.
- 39:45Speaker 7: He just he got paid. But I mean, I'm not
- 39:48Speaker 7: blaming it on all on him, but it's just kind
- 39:51Speaker 7: of one of those things, right, yeah, And it just
- 39:55Speaker 7: irritates me. And then I got one more thing before
- 39:58Speaker 7: I go on soci social media, all across the board,
- 40:03Speaker 7: all Cowboys fans. The name is Irvin. Irvin, there's no.
- 40:08Speaker 4: G All right, thanks appreciate it. Let's go to break
- 40:12Speaker 4: here on Cowboys storyline. We'll be right back after this.
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- 41:38Speaker 4: we had to take our last break there before Jeremy
- 41:41Speaker 4: went on a few rants there. I I know Trayvon
- 41:45Speaker 4: Diggs is getting a lot of hate here. You know,
- 41:48Speaker 4: he's a he's a really good cover corner. That's what
- 41:51Speaker 4: he needs to do, That's what he needs to be now.
- 41:53Speaker 4: Now you need to go up there and tackle. But
- 41:55Speaker 4: you know, I've heard that for years too, for years
- 41:58Speaker 4: about Dion Sanders. You know, business decisions and all those
- 42:02Speaker 4: kind of things. You know, cover your guy, cover your
- 42:05Speaker 4: cover your guy. And and and I know that he
- 42:07Speaker 4: got beat on a on a touchdown. I think he
- 42:09Speaker 4: was expecting some help there. He's been really good this year.
- 42:11Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sorry what he's he's there to do.
- 42:15Speaker 4: He's been really good. Now they're they're attacking him, they're
- 42:18Speaker 4: attacking the edges on on the corners and and it's
- 42:22Speaker 4: that's that's something that's got to get cleaned up. Al
- 42:24Speaker 4: Harris was asked about that yesterday about Trayvon Diggs, and
- 42:27Speaker 4: he said, it's eleven guys. They got to tackle the ball,
- 42:29Speaker 4: they got to get to gotta you know, stop the run.
- 42:33Speaker 3: And he's not.
- 42:34Speaker 4: Putting all the blame on him, but you know, I
- 42:37Speaker 4: know it's really easy to do that. And that's what
- 42:39Speaker 4: happens when you get paid. These guys that they get paid.
- 42:42Speaker 4: Every single thing is ridiculed. Everything Diggs now, uh, you
- 42:46Speaker 4: know CD every every time. I mean everyone's reading lips
- 42:49Speaker 4: now when you know, when it comes to him and
- 42:52Speaker 4: what he does on the sideline, Dak everything that's that's
- 42:56Speaker 4: that's been, that's been the case for forever. You know,
- 43:00Speaker 4: Brandon Carr, he signed a big deal. No one cares
- 43:03Speaker 4: about anything that Brandon Carr does other than you know,
- 43:06Speaker 4: don't give up big plays and he needs more interceptions.
- 43:09Speaker 4: And I mean all these guys. Marion Barber was a
- 43:12Speaker 4: fan favorite and rest in peace, Marion Barber, but fan favorite.
- 43:16Speaker 4: But as soon as he got the contract and things
- 43:18Speaker 4: weren't the same. Uh, he got the ridicule as well.
- 43:22Speaker 4: Terrence Newman, all all these guys. So it happens, It happens,
- 43:27Speaker 4: and and and Diggs is getting it now. But you know,
- 43:30Speaker 4: I really just want to see Digs and Bland, healthy
- 43:33Speaker 4: Duran Bland and a healthy Trayvon Diggs out there on
- 43:36Speaker 4: the corners. I think that that that will change a
- 43:38Speaker 4: lot of the defense, and especially if you've got some
- 43:40Speaker 4: of these pass rushers, uh, like Michael Parson's coming back.
- 43:43Speaker 4: I think that the defense can look appreciably different.
- 43:47Speaker 3: Just like that. All right, let's go to Brian and
- 43:49Speaker 3: Kansas City.
- 43:51Speaker 7: Good morning, sir, how are you.
- 43:53Speaker 5: I'm doing good man, I give you the Mickey Spagnola
- 43:56Speaker 5: Weather Report.
- 43:57Speaker 7: It is Missouri.
- 43:59Speaker 3: What's up, Brian? You got what do you got on?
- 44:01Speaker 3: Less Cowboy teams?
- 44:03Speaker 7: Well?
- 44:04Speaker 5: The you know, I was thinking, you know, in kind
- 44:08Speaker 5: of adding on to what you were just saying, the
- 44:12Speaker 5: Frankly got booed in Texas Stadium at the you know,
- 44:15Speaker 5: at the end of his career. I mean, you know,
- 44:17Speaker 5: fans can be temperament you know, we could be temperamental
- 44:21Speaker 5: and passionate and angry and you know all those things.
- 44:25Speaker 5: So and it kind of just sometimes you just lash
- 44:28Speaker 5: out at uh, at whatever there is. So my curiosity is,
- 44:34Speaker 5: you know, going forward, whether it's this year or maybe
- 44:37Speaker 5: it's it's a you know, the even until the draft process,
- 44:41Speaker 5: what do you think, based on the personnel we have
- 44:44Speaker 5: now going forward, what's our biggest point of need? And
- 44:50Speaker 5: mine is is the one tech. I you know, Mazie
- 44:53Speaker 5: maybe a depth piece. I don't think he's going to
- 44:56Speaker 5: be a starting one tech in this league.
- 44:58Speaker 3: It just doesn't.
- 44:58Speaker 5: He just doesn't seem to quite habit. That's mine. And
- 45:03Speaker 5: then I thought, instead of throwing out a player this time,
- 45:05Speaker 5: I'd throw out hey. Kind of a trivia question, but
- 45:08Speaker 5: just an opinion. What was your favorite all time celebration?
- 45:13Speaker 5: There have been so many good ones over the years,
- 45:15Speaker 5: the Dirty Bird, the Ikey Shuffle. Mine was Butch Johnson's
- 45:18Speaker 5: California Quake.
- 45:20Speaker 3: That's the first thing that came to mind.
- 45:22Speaker 5: All right, man, have a good one.
- 45:24Speaker 4: All right, but Johnson California. Quite yeah, I think that one.
- 45:26Speaker 4: That one was pretty good. Some of the t o's
- 45:28Speaker 4: were really good too that some had some good celebrations,
- 45:32Speaker 4: you know, just they were always spot on. My favorite,
- 45:35Speaker 4: I'll say this for too, is the longest celebration in
- 45:40Speaker 4: the history of football celebrations was seven days back in
- 45:43Speaker 4: two thousand and eighty. Scored a touchdown against the Browns.
- 45:47Speaker 4: He gets down like Usain Bolt because they had just
- 45:49Speaker 4: had the Olympics and now he thought he could be
- 45:51Speaker 4: a sprinter like that too, And he gets down and
- 45:53Speaker 4: takes off from in Cleveland, just takes off right at
- 45:57Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage after his touchdown.
- 45:59Speaker 3: And a week later against.
- 46:01Speaker 4: The Eagles, he scores a long touchdown from Romo and
- 46:04Speaker 4: he runs and he like you know, finishes the race
- 46:07Speaker 4: with the lean there at the tape. So it was
- 46:09Speaker 4: a seven day celebration and that's one of my favorites
- 46:12Speaker 4: of all time.
- 46:12Speaker 3: Sorry, we got to get moving here. I agree with you.
- 46:14Speaker 4: Defensive line or offensive line. If you're big and you're
- 46:17Speaker 4: strong and you can push people, sign them up. That's
- 46:20Speaker 4: who I'm for for next year. But you know, so
- 46:22Speaker 4: got football to be played. Let's go Rob in Vegas.
- 46:25Speaker 4: Then finish it off.
- 46:26Speaker 3: Rob. Hey, what's up?
- 46:27Speaker 2: Man?
- 46:27Speaker 4: Kind of pressed against time today, but but what do
- 46:30Speaker 4: you got?
- 46:31Speaker 7: Man?
- 46:32Speaker 18: I got to disagree with my guy Dylan. These were
- 46:34Speaker 18: on super Bowl quality teams. We thought they were. But
- 46:38Speaker 18: if you can't get pass the.
- 46:39Speaker 6: First round, you're not.
- 46:41Speaker 18: And until you got to a championship, which we didn't,
- 46:44Speaker 18: you're not super Bowl quality. I don't believe.
- 46:47Speaker 1: Uh.
- 46:48Speaker 18: The only good thing about the heat on Jerry finally
- 46:52Speaker 18: is he's made his two best moves of Sin Sony
- 46:56Speaker 18: the Cowboys when the heat was on. He's hired Jimmy
- 46:59Speaker 18: because he said one hundred and forty million dollars, and
- 47:02Speaker 18: he hired Bill Parcells when he needed a new stadium
- 47:05Speaker 18: other than that all these other coaches were retreads, were
- 47:08Speaker 18: happy to be there guys. So now maybe with the
- 47:11Speaker 18: pressure on him, he's going to make a really good
- 47:14Speaker 18: head coach decision and maybe he will change his practices.
- 47:18Speaker 18: I don't see him obviously stepping down, but if he
- 47:23Speaker 18: doesn't evaluate himself in the way they're doing things after
- 47:26Speaker 18: what's happening, then he never will. So as a fan,
- 47:30Speaker 18: we're going to be there every week. You know that
- 47:31Speaker 18: I'm calling in. You're my guy. But it doesn't look good,
- 47:36Speaker 18: but we're still going to ride and die with the team.
- 47:38Speaker 18: That's just what we do.
- 47:40Speaker 4: Yeah, and you're not just yelling, right Rob, No.
- 47:45Speaker 18: Don't like I tell my kids when you know, I'm
- 47:48Speaker 18: not yelling at you, I'm just yelling.
- 47:51Speaker 3: I love it.
- 47:51Speaker 4: That's one of the best lines I've ever heard. I
- 47:53Speaker 4: love that, Rob. I appreciate the call. And Rob's my
- 47:56Speaker 4: guy too. Everyone knows that. I've seen that on Twitter.
- 47:59Speaker 4: Oh my God, got into it with with yes. I mean,
- 48:02Speaker 4: of course, that's that's what happens, Rob. Rob's the captain.
- 48:04Speaker 4: He can do that and everybody refers to him. There's
- 48:07Speaker 4: a lot of people that that do that, and he's
- 48:09Speaker 4: not the only one. Now last year, I think you
- 48:11Speaker 4: were this year. There's others that people kind of reference
- 48:15Speaker 4: each other and and the storyline community that that they
- 48:17Speaker 4: they do on on Twitter, it's outstanding and and it
- 48:21Speaker 4: really is. It really is good because they they bring
- 48:24Speaker 4: good points to it to each other and then they
- 48:26Speaker 4: bring them to the show and so and maybe vice versa.
- 48:28Speaker 4: So it's been it's been good. I I kind of agree.
- 48:32Speaker 4: I agree with what Dylan was saying about the quality.
- 48:36Speaker 4: You know, are you good enough to to to be
- 48:39Speaker 4: in in in you know, in the equation these these things,
- 48:43Speaker 4: I mean, Patrick Creighton catches it or he doesn't. The
- 48:46Speaker 4: ball slips through Romo's hand or it doesn't. I mean,
- 48:48Speaker 4: it's it's one thing the ref comes running in and
- 48:50Speaker 4: the Packer game, not that they were gonna probably win
- 48:53Speaker 4: that game, but you at least want to throw to
- 48:55Speaker 4: the end zone. I'm just saying, weird stuff has happened
- 48:58Speaker 4: that it's just one play here or there. There's there's
- 49:02Speaker 4: ten teams, maybe not ten, there's six teams every year
- 49:05Speaker 4: that could get there and does the ball bounce their way?
- 49:10Speaker 4: So Jerry's job is to make them one of those teams.
- 49:13Speaker 4: And I think he's done that. So it's easy to say, now,
- 49:15Speaker 4: well they didn't win, so you weren't good enough. Cool,
- 49:18Speaker 4: you can say that and you won't be wrong. But
- 49:21Speaker 4: I don't think it's wrong to say there's been a
- 49:23Speaker 4: handful of teams in these last roun not not every year,
- 49:27Speaker 4: there's been a handful of teams that the Cowboys, Cowboys
- 49:29Speaker 4: I think were.
- 49:30Speaker 3: Good enough to get there.
- 49:31Speaker 4: And and the players, the coaches whatever, you know, failed
- 49:36Speaker 4: them at times, you know, and just didn't win the game.
- 49:39Speaker 4: Just didn't win when when they were supposed to, and
- 49:41Speaker 4: or when when they could have not necessarily supposed to,
- 49:44Speaker 4: but you know, and and for whatever the reason. But
- 49:47Speaker 4: right now the Cowboys are going to have their hands
- 49:49Speaker 4: full just to get just to get in the playoffs,
- 49:51Speaker 4: just to get in there.
- 49:52Speaker 3: That's kind of where they are right now.
- 49:54Speaker 4: All right, It's been a good week, a short week,
- 49:56Speaker 4: but we need a little rest up for the buye
- 49:58Speaker 4: as well. This is our last show for the Cowboys storyline.
- 50:02Speaker 4: It's not my last show. I'll be sitting right over
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