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- 0:03Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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- 0:13Speaker 3: This is these Cowboys storylines with Nick Eatman.
- 0:21Speaker 2: What's up? It's time for Cowboys storyline. I'm Nick Eatman here.
- 0:25Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, October third, and it's that forty nine Ers week.
- 0:29Speaker 2: It's that game you guys have been talking about for
- 0:32Speaker 2: a long time, rightfully, so I did my best to
- 0:36Speaker 2: kinda try to hit the brakes. But and I think
- 0:40Speaker 2: you know there was some reason for that. I mean,
- 0:42Speaker 2: you didn't want to look too far ahead because you know,
- 0:45Speaker 2: you had games that you had to win. I thought,
- 0:47Speaker 2: I thought for the longest time when I was hearing
- 0:49Speaker 2: people say, what's the next test? Is the forty nine
- 0:51Speaker 2: ers the toughest test. I thought the toughest test was
- 0:54Speaker 2: to get the four no. And they didn't make it.
- 0:56Speaker 2: They didn't make it, they didn't get there. So you
- 0:58Speaker 2: know that that was a little test alone along the way.
- 1:00Speaker 2: And uh, you know, you got tests, you got quizzes,
- 1:03Speaker 2: you got pop quizzes, you got things like that. But
- 1:05Speaker 2: you know what kind of test you're gonna have here
- 1:08Speaker 2: against the forty nine ers. This is the team that's
- 1:10Speaker 2: ended your season. The last two years they look better
- 1:13Speaker 2: than they looked before. Uh, and those those two seasons,
- 1:16Speaker 2: so that this is gonna be an outstanding challenge and
- 1:20Speaker 2: one that that you know, we'll see if the Cowboys
- 1:22Speaker 2: are ready for and then the whole world's gonna watch it.
- 1:24Speaker 2: I would imagine on Monday or Tuesday of next week,
- 1:28Speaker 2: you're gonna get emails or we're gonna get emails and
- 1:31Speaker 2: stories that the Cowboys forty nine Ers was the most
- 1:35Speaker 2: watched game and since whatever time. I mean, this is
- 1:38Speaker 2: just one that I think everybody wants to see, and
- 1:41Speaker 2: it's always a great matchup. Your you know, Cowboys and
- 1:43Speaker 2: forty nine Ers got history, it's got it's got some drama,
- 1:46Speaker 2: it's got some chippiness. Now, you know the forty nine
- 1:49Speaker 2: Ers were they they brought it to the Cowboys last year.
- 1:52Speaker 2: They tried to play the mind games with the kicker
- 1:55Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff. And I don't I
- 1:57Speaker 2: think the I think Cowboys will be ready for it
- 2:00Speaker 2: as well. All right, we got the we got some
- 2:02Speaker 2: callers already on the line. You guys know the drill
- 2:04Speaker 2: now eight eight eight eight five five two to nine seven.
- 2:09Speaker 2: There's storylines when it comes to injuries, things are trending up.
- 2:13Speaker 2: I think for the Cowboys, not a lot of major
- 2:16Speaker 2: injuries at all. Looks like Tyron Smith might have a
- 2:19Speaker 2: chance to play this game. Ric o'dall banged up some
- 2:24Speaker 2: with a hip injury. Maybe he might be able to play,
- 2:28Speaker 2: but I would imagine that he might need a couple
- 2:30Speaker 2: of games. I would say, I would think Malik Davis
- 2:34Speaker 2: could be an option there from the practice squad if
- 2:36Speaker 2: they want to go that route. But for the most part,
- 2:38Speaker 2: I think the Cowboys are looking pretty good from an
- 2:41Speaker 2: injury front. I would think Michael Parsons and Zach Martin
- 2:44Speaker 2: both could be limited and winsday's practice, but they they'll
- 2:47Speaker 2: they'll be ready to roll. All right, callers are ready
- 2:49Speaker 2: to roll. Let's start it off. Devin in Houston, Devin,
- 2:52Speaker 2: you're number one, Let's go.
- 2:54Speaker 4: How's it going next?
- 2:55Speaker 2: Good?
- 2:55Speaker 4: And I just want to say, I appreciate everything to do.
- 2:59Speaker 4: I'm super glad you got your own show. Although I
- 3:01Speaker 4: missed you on the break. I always find myself agreeing
- 3:04Speaker 4: with you on there, but I really love the new
- 3:06Speaker 4: show man.
- 3:06Speaker 2: Appreciate that. Thank you so much.
- 3:10Speaker 4: Just I got one comment and then one question. My
- 3:13Speaker 4: comment is just that I love that you always stick
- 3:15Speaker 4: up for Dak. I'm so tired of all these stickle
- 3:19Speaker 4: Cowboys fans who make us look like we don't have
- 3:22Speaker 4: any football IQ. Anytime Dak makes a mistake, they want
- 3:25Speaker 4: to replace him, but they don't know for who, and
- 3:29Speaker 4: they don't realize how hard it is to find a
- 3:31Speaker 4: franchise quarterback. And you know, I mean, just look at
- 3:35Speaker 4: the amount of first round picks that are bus with quarterbacks,
- 3:38Speaker 4: and you know, all these people who get contracts and
- 3:41Speaker 4: they never play good. But Dak is good. So I
- 3:44Speaker 4: just wanted to say that I appreciate that you kind
- 3:47Speaker 4: of stick up for him and help the fans to
- 3:49Speaker 4: stay calm.
- 3:50Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that, and I have a comment on
- 3:54Speaker 2: that as well, But I know you have another question.
- 3:57Speaker 4: Yeah, my question is not related to this Francisco game.
- 4:01Speaker 4: I hope that's allowed, but I thought it was kind
- 4:03Speaker 4: of a fun question, and I thought you'd be the
- 4:04Speaker 4: perfect person to ask. All Right, if you could make
- 4:08Speaker 4: any Cowboys player on this roster five years younger right now,
- 4:14Speaker 4: and they also lose five years of experience, right but
- 4:17Speaker 4: if you can make any Cowboys player on this roster
- 4:19Speaker 4: five years younger. Right now, who would it be?
- 4:22Speaker 2: Who would you just be?
- 4:25Speaker 4: I'm really struggling between Tyron Smith and Stefan and Gilmore.
- 4:32Speaker 2: That's a good one. Yeah, thanks for the call, Devin.
- 4:35Speaker 2: So you lose five years of experience, but you're also
- 4:38Speaker 2: losing five years of the wear and tear as well.
- 4:42Speaker 2: That's pretty good. If he would ask me last year,
- 4:44Speaker 2: I might say Zeke, just just because of the type
- 4:48Speaker 2: of runner that you would get. That's a good when
- 4:50Speaker 2: Tyron Smith's first guy came to my mind because he
- 4:55Speaker 2: can lose five years of experience. He was really good
- 4:58Speaker 2: five years ago too. He's making all pros the funk
- 5:00Speaker 2: Gilmore with Diggs's injury, that's a That's a pretty good
- 5:04Speaker 2: one too, because when he was playing, he might have
- 5:05Speaker 2: won Defensive Player of the Year five years ago. I'm
- 5:08Speaker 2: not exactly sure. It might have been twenty eighteen, but like,
- 5:10Speaker 2: that's that's a really good one. Great question. Never heard
- 5:15Speaker 2: that one before. I never heard it presented that way,
- 5:17Speaker 2: so I really like it. Let me think about that,
- 5:20Speaker 2: and callers, if you guys call in and you want
- 5:22Speaker 2: to chime in as well. Tyron Smith would be the
- 5:24Speaker 2: leader in the clubhouse for me right now, just the
- 5:27Speaker 2: just a left tackle that that was, you know that
- 5:30Speaker 2: that can play at a very very high level. That
- 5:33Speaker 2: would be that would be one that I can that
- 5:36Speaker 2: I would think of right there. All right, let's go
- 5:38Speaker 2: to and also what he said about Dak. You know,
- 5:43Speaker 2: the thing is is that I don't want to say
- 5:45Speaker 2: I'm always sticking up for Dak. I think there's some
- 5:48Speaker 2: callers that would probably come in and say that that's
- 5:50Speaker 2: not the case. But it's it's like it's like owning
- 5:55Speaker 2: a house. Okay, Like something happens in the rush and
- 6:00Speaker 2: the attics, something happens that that you don't like, you
- 6:02Speaker 2: don't just go sell the house. They're like, oh, well,
- 6:04Speaker 2: we got we gotta move now. I mean, like if
- 6:06Speaker 2: it's that, and that's kind of the way it is
- 6:08Speaker 2: every time something happens like, well, he's not the guy
- 6:10Speaker 2: and he got to move on. Think about what it
- 6:12Speaker 2: takes to to just move move houses and sell it
- 6:15Speaker 2: and do all the kind of things. Because there's there's
- 6:17Speaker 2: one thing that that's wrong, and and that's that's kind
- 6:21Speaker 2: of the way that it is that you can't just
- 6:23Speaker 2: pick up and move all this thing all the time
- 6:25Speaker 2: when you've invested in the quarterback the way that they
- 6:29Speaker 2: have you. You want him to be perfect. He's not.
- 6:32Speaker 2: He's not. And I haven't found one that that is.
- 6:35Speaker 2: But but in Kansas City he's pretty good. But he's
- 6:38Speaker 2: pretty close. But but you don't have that guy. You
- 6:40Speaker 2: don't have him, and and and quit trying to compare
- 6:43Speaker 2: him to that same thing with Romo. Everyone would always say, well,
- 6:46Speaker 2: you know, look at Manning, look at Brady. He's not that. No,
- 6:48Speaker 2: he's not that, and he he will never be that.
- 6:51Speaker 2: And and the scouts and the teams that did not
- 6:53Speaker 2: draft him knew that same type of thing. But I
- 6:57Speaker 2: think Dak is good enough. He's good enough to win
- 6:59Speaker 2: win games for you, and he's the right guy that
- 7:01Speaker 2: you want in the locker room. They get this whole
- 7:03Speaker 2: thing together. He is definitely good enough to win football
- 7:08Speaker 2: games and the games that you want, all right, And
- 7:11Speaker 2: second caller is Nick and Austin Nick, what's up?
- 7:15Speaker 5: Hey, how are you doing with her?
- 7:17Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you good?
- 7:19Speaker 5: Thanks for having me back on. I just got a
- 7:23Speaker 5: couple of days, a couple of things. Number one, off
- 7:26Speaker 5: the top from here to what you just said, Dallas
- 7:29Speaker 5: is not going to move off and back. He's gonna
- 7:31Speaker 5: be there a long time. The fans just need to
- 7:33Speaker 5: get on board with that. But number one with the offense,
- 7:39Speaker 5: I want to ask is I don't know all the
- 7:43Speaker 5: terminology like you do, but don't you think and maybe
- 7:46Speaker 5: they'll do it further than the season. They hadn't really
- 7:48Speaker 5: done any RPOs. I've seen lots of times where Jack
- 7:52Speaker 5: will hand the ball up to the running back and
- 7:54Speaker 5: he like rolls out and if he hadn't just held
- 7:56Speaker 5: over the ball, he had a wide open field.
- 7:59Speaker 2: Yeah, gotch then yeah, yeah, go ahead.
- 8:04Speaker 5: I'm sorry. And then number two decent. I think they're
- 8:15Speaker 5: great as long as we cand like I think just
- 8:19Speaker 5: you know McCaffrey. If we can hold McCaffrey and they're
- 8:22Speaker 5: running game down, and I think we got a real chan.
- 8:27Speaker 2: Yeah, well thanks for the call. Easier said than done
- 8:31Speaker 2: with holding him down. And that's you know, that's that
- 8:34Speaker 2: has been my big you know, all off season, all
- 8:38Speaker 2: I could think about for this team was you know
- 8:40Speaker 2: why they lost, Why they lost to the forty nine ers,
- 8:44Speaker 2: And you've heard it, You've heard me say it is
- 8:47Speaker 2: that they just didn't have the weapons on offense. They
- 8:50Speaker 2: didn't have enough guys to go to. It's like basketball.
- 8:53Speaker 2: You know who your shooter is, but you need three
- 8:56Speaker 2: or four other guys because on any given night you
- 8:58Speaker 2: can't hold every everybody down. They're not all going to
- 9:01Speaker 2: have off nights. And that's the kind of the way
- 9:03Speaker 2: I look at the forty nine ers. I mean, the
- 9:05Speaker 2: Debo's doing his thing, McCaffrey's doing his thing, and if not,
- 9:08Speaker 2: then Ayuk does this, and then you got Kittle and
- 9:10Speaker 2: you got to deal with I mean, then they got
- 9:12Speaker 2: and they they've always they've added other guys too on
- 9:14Speaker 2: the other side. I mean, that's that's the way that
- 9:17Speaker 2: that's the way that they are. And then on top
- 9:19Speaker 2: of that, their defense is nasty on the on the
- 9:21Speaker 2: other side. And I think the Cowboys needed to get
- 9:25Speaker 2: to that point where they have more options too, And
- 9:29Speaker 2: I think that's where you know, signing Tony Pollard again,
- 9:33Speaker 2: getting Brandon Cooks along with CD Gallup can be a weapon,
- 9:38Speaker 2: you know, he can be that they don't they don't
- 9:41Speaker 2: really have that so much from the tight end, but
- 9:43Speaker 2: I think Jake Ferguson is kind of getting evolving into
- 9:45Speaker 2: that as well. But it just comes down to weapons,
- 9:48Speaker 2: and then Dak can be one.
- 9:49Speaker 6: Lu.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Like the caller said on the RPOs, I mean, I
- 9:52Speaker 2: do think that there's there's some yards on the table
- 9:54Speaker 2: that that he's leaving in the red zone there.
- 9:57Speaker 7: Uh.
- 9:57Speaker 2: And I think those run pass options is something that
- 9:59Speaker 2: that he he has to look at and make sure
- 10:01Speaker 2: that they kind of get going with that. All right,
- 10:04Speaker 2: let's roll to the text uh text line, We've got
- 10:07Speaker 2: one from Joe in Montrose, Pennsylvania. He says, I think
- 10:11Speaker 2: Layton and Damon and Clark need to have the game
- 10:13Speaker 2: of their lives this week to beat San Francisco. Does
- 10:17Speaker 2: does Malik Davis get most of Dallas carries if Rico
- 10:19Speaker 2: is out? Uh? I think he does. I think I
- 10:22Speaker 2: think that's I think that's a natural move because not
- 10:25Speaker 2: only that, but but Malik Davis is a really good
- 10:27Speaker 2: special teams player and you need that backup running back
- 10:30Speaker 2: to be that guy. I think they do that before
- 10:33Speaker 2: they would resign Ronald Jones or something like that. I
- 10:35Speaker 2: think Malik Davis would be one that's that you could
- 10:38Speaker 2: you could call up for this game. So and game
- 10:42Speaker 2: of their lives from Layton and uh and Demone. I mean,
- 10:46Speaker 2: it's it's important. There's there's no doubt about it. When
- 10:49Speaker 2: you got the screens. Uh that they like to run
- 10:52Speaker 2: with McCaffrey deebo. What is he? I mean what you know?
- 10:56Speaker 2: Figure out where he is. He can do all kinds
- 10:59Speaker 2: of things. They like to go east west a lot.
- 11:01Speaker 2: And that that means the linebackers are going to have
- 11:03Speaker 2: to be on the move for sure, all right, Tim
- 11:06Speaker 2: and grapevine? Tim? What's up? Man?
- 11:10Speaker 8: Nick?
- 11:11Speaker 9: I got a fever and the only prescription is Jan
- 11:14Speaker 9: Yer Thomas. Can we get Jan Ye Thomas some more
- 11:17Speaker 9: playing time?
- 11:18Speaker 8: My guy?
- 11:19Speaker 2: Okay, my goodness, talent all doesn't work. You want to
- 11:22Speaker 2: you want to go Jane Thomas?
- 11:23Speaker 10: Not?
- 11:23Speaker 9: Oh, I need some more Jan Thomas.
- 11:26Speaker 2: In my opinion, never heard that one before. I've never
- 11:28Speaker 2: I've never heard that. I would just go never. I've
- 11:31Speaker 2: never gone to the drug store before. I've never seen
- 11:33Speaker 2: I've never seen the Je Yer Thomas there is that?
- 11:35Speaker 2: Is that over the counter? Where do you get the
- 11:37Speaker 2: jan You have to be eighteen to get that.
- 11:40Speaker 9: You got to be a t D stadium. You got
- 11:42Speaker 9: to be there midfield picking up that big screen.
- 11:45Speaker 11: Hey.
- 11:47Speaker 9: In my opinion, in the NFL, it's a young man's game,
- 11:50Speaker 9: and when a puppy bite. You got to play him.
- 11:53Speaker 9: I mean, what Donovan, He might be a little rusty.
- 11:58Speaker 9: Maybe he's just a little bit so lower than jan Yer,
- 12:01Speaker 9: not as long, but to me, oh, I mean, I
- 12:04Speaker 9: just feel like Janyer's range in linked is such an advantage,
- 12:08Speaker 9: especially in coverage. But anyways, I know Dan Quinn, you know,
- 12:14Speaker 9: he knows what he's doing. I mean, he's a great coach.
- 12:16Speaker 9: I'm a you know, Monday morning quarterback. But I just
- 12:19Speaker 9: kind of think Janie has got something and he's got
- 12:22Speaker 9: to play a little bit.
- 12:23Speaker 8: And then my.
- 12:23Speaker 9: Thoughts on this game is, I mean, the Cowboys obviously
- 12:28Speaker 9: have to stop the run. If they can stop the run,
- 12:31Speaker 9: I think we can harass Rock Party and make some plays.
- 12:35Speaker 9: But it's gonna be a it's gonna be a tough game.
- 12:38Speaker 9: And and at this point, I really don't have a
- 12:42Speaker 9: lot of confidence of Mike McCarthy. I hate to say it,
- 12:45Speaker 9: you know, I don't like to bash the coach, but
- 12:47Speaker 9: his offense is clunky, The red zone offense is clunkier.
- 12:50Speaker 9: They got to figure something out, and this is a
- 12:52Speaker 9: week to do it. But thanks all, hang up.
- 12:55Speaker 2: All right, you know that's it's interesting. I mean you know,
- 13:01Speaker 2: and and and that's a that's a big picture. Uh
- 13:04Speaker 2: take right there. It's not just one week. And and
- 13:06Speaker 2: that's that's a you know, that's what I always tell
- 13:09Speaker 2: people not to do. Don't don't just take one game
- 13:12Speaker 2: and just say, all right, this is this is the
- 13:14Speaker 2: way it is. And it happens a lot from a
- 13:16Speaker 2: negative standpoint. So tim, I I appreciate the fact that,
- 13:20Speaker 2: you know, my McCarthy's coming off a game where he
- 13:23Speaker 2: they had a great coaching week. They dominated uh you know,
- 13:27Speaker 2: they dominated that aspect of the game too, against Bill Belichick.
- 13:31Speaker 2: He's never been beaten like that before. Now people up
- 13:33Speaker 2: in New England are saying, this is the old man
- 13:35Speaker 2: lost it now, you know. And I think everybody was
- 13:38Speaker 2: worried about that game. Everybody thought that that the Patriots
- 13:42Speaker 2: would have, you know, Belichick would have, you know, something
- 13:45Speaker 2: up his cut off sleeves, you know, you'd have something
- 13:48Speaker 2: for him, and they didn't, you know. But now we're
- 13:51Speaker 2: going into the San Francisco game, and and you know,
- 13:53Speaker 2: here's one view that says, I don't really I don't
- 13:55Speaker 2: really you know, have confidence and and and then him
- 13:58Speaker 2: in this game. So we'll see, I mean, it's that
- 14:01Speaker 2: they are going to have to figure out the red zone.
- 14:02Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it. One year Thomas having to
- 14:06Speaker 2: play or getting to play more. I mean, I think
- 14:08Speaker 2: I think that's that would be good if he if
- 14:10Speaker 2: he could do that. But again, you know, Donovan Wilson
- 14:14Speaker 2: has been a really good player for dan Quinn's defense,
- 14:17Speaker 2: you know when he's coming back from his injury, and
- 14:19Speaker 2: I think, you know, he's just he's a playmaker too.
- 14:22Speaker 2: And you said when puppies bite like one year, okay,
- 14:25Speaker 2: but but Donovan's a dog too, So you got to
- 14:27Speaker 2: figure out how to you know, who you want to
- 14:29Speaker 2: play in a game like this, because I can promise
- 14:31Speaker 2: you this, You puppies aren't going to win against the
- 14:33Speaker 2: forty nine ers. And I'm not saying that about jan Ye.
- 14:35Speaker 2: That's your analogy, so I'm going with it. That's not
- 14:38Speaker 2: what's going to win. You need dogs, need lions, wolves,
- 14:42Speaker 2: all that good stuff. All right, Alan in Clearwater, Florida, Alan,
- 14:47Speaker 2: what's up? Hey, Good morning, Nick, Good morning.
- 14:50Speaker 12: So I'd like to chime in on the topic of
- 14:53Speaker 12: Dak and the offense, and I want to echo your
- 14:57Speaker 12: sentiments here on the analogy about House and Here's been
- 15:01Speaker 12: my opinion about Dak and the team for some time,
- 15:04Speaker 12: and I think it's pretty reasonable, and I think it
- 15:07Speaker 12: I defy any of the callers or anybody to really
- 15:10Speaker 12: poke holes in this. Here's the thing. Everybody agrees, all
- 15:14Speaker 12: Cowboy Nation agrees, and even the country that this team
- 15:17Speaker 12: is talented enough to win everything. We have the talent,
- 15:21Speaker 12: and everybody also recognizes that Dak Prescott he's not a
- 15:25Speaker 12: Patrick Mahomes, but he won the example that we always
- 15:29Speaker 12: give as the Tampa playoff game last year, and there
- 15:32Speaker 12: have been other games. Dak Prescott is certainly good enough
- 15:36Speaker 12: to win championships. The league has proven there's not just
- 15:40Speaker 12: one way to.
- 15:40Speaker 4: Win Super Bowls.
- 15:41Speaker 12: If we go back to that Baltimore team that beat
- 15:45Speaker 12: the Giants, I think it was Brad Johnson or some
- 15:48Speaker 12: very mediocre quarterback with good defense at playing you know.
- 15:52Speaker 2: A guilt, right, that's right, That's right, okay, right, Brad
- 15:55Speaker 2: Johnson one one two for the Bucks. So yeah, you're right.
- 15:59Speaker 12: Okay. So here's my perspective on this. The issue is
- 16:03Speaker 12: it's all about coaching, and it is about the coaches
- 16:06Speaker 12: putting their players in the position to win these games.
- 16:10Speaker 12: And that's what I really like so far about Mike
- 16:13Speaker 12: McCarty and what I called into your show with when
- 16:17Speaker 12: Jason Garrett was and I was putting a lot of
- 16:19Speaker 12: the blame on him at the time. The most important
- 16:22Speaker 12: coaching skill, in my opinion, is putting the right players
- 16:27Speaker 12: in the right schemes to use your talent and in
- 16:30Speaker 12: game adjustments. And what I liked about Mike McCarthy last week.
- 16:34Speaker 12: There was a point in the game where all the
- 16:35Speaker 12: short passes from Dak were being stopped, and then he
- 16:39Speaker 12: went to the intermediate passing game.
- 16:41Speaker 9: He adjusted.
- 16:42Speaker 12: It may have been his play all along, but nonetheless
- 16:45Speaker 12: you saw what an in game adjustment can do and
- 16:48Speaker 12: the offense started moving the ball. If Dak Prescott is
- 16:52Speaker 12: what he is, and after eight years, I think we
- 16:54Speaker 12: see what he is. The fact that they brought in
- 16:56Speaker 12: a new quarterbacks coach for him this year and their
- 16:59Speaker 12: design in the system that is back friendly, this is
- 17:03Speaker 12: what must continue to happen. But I would go a
- 17:06Speaker 12: step further. If Dak is still making some of the
- 17:09Speaker 12: bad plays because it's a bad call, it's a bad read,
- 17:13Speaker 12: it's a bad throw, there may be more work that
- 17:16Speaker 12: still needs to be done. And if the coach, the
- 17:19Speaker 12: quarterback coach and McCarthy. If they're doing their job, this
- 17:24Speaker 12: will continue to improve and I think we'll see the
- 17:26Speaker 12: team get better and better. At the bottom line is
- 17:29Speaker 12: this is a quarterback that is certainly talented enough to
- 17:32Speaker 12: win it all if he's in the right position. That's
- 17:35Speaker 12: my point.
- 17:35Speaker 2: All right, all right, thanks for the call, Alan. I
- 17:39Speaker 2: agree with that. I do. I think that he's talented enough.
- 17:43Speaker 2: I mean, I think I think, like you said, there's
- 17:45Speaker 2: a lot of ways to win the Super Bowl. You know,
- 17:49Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy has done it as well, and you know,
- 17:53Speaker 2: and did it with with Aaron Rodgers. But you know,
- 17:58Speaker 2: you can say all you want about well that you
- 18:00Speaker 2: know he had Aaron Rodgers. All right, Well Aaron Rodgers
- 18:03Speaker 2: hasn't won it again. I mean, like you, I don't.
- 18:06Speaker 2: So it's it was just it was a it was
- 18:08Speaker 2: a good, really good football team that year, and that
- 18:11Speaker 2: was one way to do it. And I think that
- 18:12Speaker 2: he understands how to how to win and and and
- 18:15Speaker 2: yeah we've seen DAK have some success. So yeah, it's
- 18:18Speaker 2: gonna it's gonna come. It's they they need, like I
- 18:21Speaker 2: always say, they got to have something phenomenal. They have
- 18:25Speaker 2: to have a part of their game that's just off
- 18:28Speaker 2: the charts. And if it's the defense, fine, play like it,
- 18:30Speaker 2: but play like it all the time, because you can't
- 18:33Speaker 2: just let Arizona go and do what they did a
- 18:35Speaker 2: couple of games ago. So maybe that was the wake
- 18:37Speaker 2: up call that they needed. All Right, Dmitri and Rio
- 18:39Speaker 2: Grand Valley, Dmitri, how you doing? How are you?
- 18:45Speaker 6: I wanted to chime in on the offense a little
- 18:47Speaker 6: bit too, but more so more so of a schematic thing.
- 18:52Speaker 6: I think I really been appreciating the way Nick, I
- 18:55Speaker 6: mean not Nick, Mike has been taking the wall first,
- 18:59Speaker 6: you like. And the reason I do is because I
- 19:03Speaker 6: think the way that this team is structured, and I
- 19:05Speaker 6: think this week we'll see it. Like I think Dak
- 19:08Speaker 6: Prescott gets a lot of unfair scrutiny, right obviously because
- 19:12Speaker 6: he had the star on his helmet, Like that's the
- 19:14Speaker 6: same guy that's had the number one offense probably what
- 19:17Speaker 6: two or three times out of the last five years.
- 19:20Speaker 6: Like I think everyone he can spin it. And I
- 19:22Speaker 6: think if we needed him, like like we got Kellen Moore,
- 19:25Speaker 6: we scored forty points a game like we did last year,
- 19:28Speaker 6: Like if we played that way, right, I think ultimately though,
- 19:32Speaker 6: when we put we go up three because we moved
- 19:35Speaker 6: were moving the ball on everyone. Yeah, we're struggling in
- 19:38Speaker 6: the red zone, right, but we're moving the ball up
- 19:40Speaker 6: and down the field. That will I'd almost like to
- 19:43Speaker 6: see Block Brock Party have to play from behind, and
- 19:47Speaker 6: I think that is where we have. We're having these
- 19:50Speaker 6: blowout wins because we get up ten seven points and
- 19:55Speaker 6: you're not, and you go three and out and the
- 19:57Speaker 6: cowboy kick a field goal and it's ten d row
- 20:00Speaker 6: and then we hold it because we're winning the time
- 20:03Speaker 6: of possession too. If you can hold that, and then
- 20:06Speaker 6: you know we going to halftime and it's thirteen to
- 20:09Speaker 6: three or something like that. I think quarterback, now we're putting,
- 20:14Speaker 6: we're allowing the best part of our team, which is
- 20:16Speaker 6: our pass rush off front seventh to create havoc and
- 20:20Speaker 6: then that leads to dorn Blank catching picks, that leads
- 20:23Speaker 6: to turnover scripsack and then the game gets stretched out.
- 20:27Speaker 6: Now we're winning win the field position, and I just
- 20:30Speaker 6: I really like the fact that Mike text the ball first,
- 20:32Speaker 6: and I wanted to puck your brain about that. What
- 20:34Speaker 6: do you think about that?
- 20:36Speaker 2: I I like it when he had when the Cowboys
- 20:41Speaker 2: have the ball, and then in the start of the
- 20:43Speaker 2: third quarter, I don't like it because I think Coways
- 20:46Speaker 2: don't have the ball. Personally, I in this this game.
- 20:52Speaker 2: I think all games are different, this particular game, I
- 20:55Speaker 2: would not. I would defer. I would play defense first.
- 20:59Speaker 2: And the reason why is as I think the big
- 21:02Speaker 2: question mark. There's a lot of question marks about this game.
- 21:05Speaker 2: But I want to see how the Cowboys can can
- 21:07Speaker 2: stop the forty nine ers. I want to see if
- 21:09Speaker 2: this defense can stop all those weapons that they've got
- 21:12Speaker 2: over there, and I think that's what I would want
- 21:15Speaker 2: to see first. Also the whole elements of the game.
- 21:19Speaker 2: If you've been to an NFL game and you're sitting
- 21:22Speaker 2: in your stand in the stands, and right when the
- 21:25Speaker 2: kickoff is going on, it is a frenzy. Okay, especially
- 21:28Speaker 2: at night game that they've been all day in the
- 21:31Speaker 2: parking lot. Everybody's waiting to go, waiting to go. That
- 21:33Speaker 2: place is going to be rocking. I would rather the
- 21:36Speaker 2: defense go out there and play than have Dak can't
- 21:39Speaker 2: hear and all that kind of stuff, because I can
- 21:41Speaker 2: promise you this, coming out of the third quarter, when
- 21:44Speaker 2: half the stadium still forgets that it's only a thirteen
- 21:47Speaker 2: minute halftime and they're standing in line and they're trying
- 21:49Speaker 2: to get back to their seats. It's not the same.
- 21:51Speaker 2: It's not the same at all. And that scenario you
- 21:55Speaker 2: just said about being thirteen to three, that sounds great.
- 21:59Speaker 2: I don't have comp evidence that it wouldn't be thirteen
- 22:01Speaker 2: to ten and five minutes if the forty nine ers
- 22:03Speaker 2: got the ball to start the third quarter. That's what
- 22:05Speaker 2: I think. I just always like to have the football
- 22:07Speaker 2: in the third quarter. If I've got a lead, let's
- 22:10Speaker 2: build on it. If I'm down, got to get back
- 22:12Speaker 2: in it. I just like having the ball in the
- 22:14Speaker 2: third quarter. But there's different ways to do it. And
- 22:17Speaker 2: I kind of appreciate the fact that that some weeks
- 22:19Speaker 2: McCarthy changes it up. All right, let's go to Rob
- 22:22Speaker 2: in Vegas for the next call. Rob. What's up, hey, Nick?
- 22:25Speaker 2: How are you good man? How are you?
- 22:27Speaker 13: I'm good. Coming off the New England game, I think
- 22:32Speaker 13: a couple of things really stood out. I think one
- 22:35Speaker 13: with the run Bland playing so good like that, I
- 22:37Speaker 13: think it just takes the sting out of losing digs.
- 22:41Speaker 13: It's not that the other players didn't know how good
- 22:44Speaker 13: Bland is. But when you see the plays he made,
- 22:47Speaker 13: those were Digs type of plays and Helly almost have
- 22:51Speaker 13: four interceptions.
- 22:52Speaker 2: Yeah, he did have some others.
- 22:53Speaker 13: Yeah, I think it just gives more conference when you
- 22:58Speaker 13: see it. Maybe now Dan Quick goes back to calling
- 23:05Speaker 13: a defense more like when he had Digs. I think
- 23:09Speaker 13: that was the best game Dak played this year throwing
- 23:12Speaker 13: the ball. I thought some other games he was kind
- 23:14Speaker 13: of aiming the ball because he was trying to be
- 23:16Speaker 13: too careful. He actually threw some really good passes in
- 23:19Speaker 13: that game with the authority. He really fired it in there,
- 23:23Speaker 13: and I thought he looked good. He looked confident, and
- 23:27Speaker 13: maybe that's because he had his offensive line. And I think, hey,
- 23:32Speaker 13: there's no excuses. You go into San Francisco and you
- 23:35Speaker 13: have to win this game. You're healthy pretty much, knock Wood.
- 23:40Speaker 13: You're coming off a big win. Everybody's talking about coaching.
- 23:44Speaker 13: Coaching is overrated. We just beat the greatest coach in
- 23:48Speaker 13: history thirty eight to three. Bill Belichick did to forget
- 23:52Speaker 13: how to coach. He just doesn't have Tom Brady. I mean,
- 23:55Speaker 13: you name a great coach. He's got great players. Jimmy Johnson,
- 23:59Speaker 13: great coach, WAM, he didn't win anything. The only guy
- 24:03Speaker 13: that did less with more, more with less is maybe
- 24:05Speaker 13: Bill Parcells. He took those giant teams that weren't overly
- 24:08Speaker 13: talented and won super Bowls. But now we're primed to go.
- 24:14Speaker 13: There's no reason why we can't get in there. Just
- 24:17Speaker 13: tackle well, don't give up big plays and make Purty
- 24:22Speaker 13: beat you. It pretty beats you, and so be it.
- 24:25Speaker 13: Just don't let McCaffrey beat you. And I agree with
- 24:28Speaker 13: a couple other calls. When you watch the game on
- 24:30Speaker 13: your pos with Dak, you have to keep the ball.
- 24:33Speaker 13: Sometimes you have to keep the ball because the defense
- 24:37Speaker 13: is going to be just He's not going to run.
- 24:39Speaker 13: I think this is the game. DK usually will pick
- 24:42Speaker 13: a couple of games during the season, big games where
- 24:45Speaker 13: he plays, like twenty sixteen DAK. I think this will
- 24:49Speaker 13: be one of them. And I think the Cowboys.
- 24:51Speaker 2: Would all right all right calling it early. I don't
- 24:54Speaker 2: agree with coaches that coach is overrated. I understand what
- 24:58Speaker 2: your point is, though, players you know matter, I mean,
- 25:01Speaker 2: but but I i've seen some like you said. Parcels
- 25:04Speaker 2: is a great example, not just those giant teams. About
- 25:07Speaker 2: the two thousand and three team with Quincy Carter and
- 25:09Speaker 2: Troy Hambrick as your as your quarterback and running back.
- 25:11Speaker 2: That team went ten and six. You know, he turned
- 25:14Speaker 2: that around in one year. I think I think the
- 25:18Speaker 2: more than anything about the players coaches. I think what
- 25:20Speaker 2: the coaches provide is the culture is changing the culture
- 25:27Speaker 2: for the football team in a positive way or you
- 25:30Speaker 2: want it to be positive. I think that's where where
- 25:32Speaker 2: coaching really matters. And so you know that and that
- 25:35Speaker 2: that stuff happens way before even training camp. You know
- 25:38Speaker 2: that you're building that, you know, and and then and
- 25:40Speaker 2: so he continuity helps as well. You know, you want
- 25:43Speaker 2: to make sure that that the coaches and the assistants
- 25:45Speaker 2: are also intact, so the scouting department knows what they're
- 25:49Speaker 2: what they're drafting for and what kind of team that
- 25:51Speaker 2: they're going to have. So coaching definitely matters, and it matters,
- 25:56Speaker 2: you know, and I thought, you know, go back to
- 25:58Speaker 2: Jason Garrett. I mean, the biggest knock on him was
- 26:00Speaker 2: game management stuff. But you know, Jason knew how to
- 26:04Speaker 2: build a culture. I mean, this guy had the same
- 26:06Speaker 2: message now for about eight nine years, and he it
- 26:10Speaker 2: was working I mean it worked. They had good football teams.
- 26:13Speaker 2: They'd have great football teams all the time. They had
- 26:15Speaker 2: good football teams, So I think it matters. I think
- 26:19Speaker 2: McCarthy's done a good job of the culture as well.
- 26:21Speaker 2: We're gonna go to break, we come back. We have
- 26:23Speaker 2: a caller on the line. We'll get some more calls,
- 26:25Speaker 2: We'll get some texts here on Cowboys storyline. Be right back.
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- 28:31Speaker 1: To Cowboys Storylines.
- 28:35Speaker 2: Welcome back to Cowboys storyline. Here. We've got a few
- 28:38Speaker 2: more minutes to go. I got some callers on the lines.
- 28:42Speaker 2: We're gonna go right to it. We got Jim in Pasadena.
- 28:44Speaker 2: What's up, Jim, Jim, what's up? You're on? Let's get
- 28:52Speaker 2: how you doing?
- 28:52Speaker 8: Good morning, Good morning, I'm okay, how are you good?
- 28:55Speaker 10: Hey, I'm I'm just wondering.
- 28:57Speaker 13: Where the optimism is coming from.
- 28:59Speaker 10: About Dallas stopping the run.
- 29:01Speaker 2: They didn't.
- 29:02Speaker 8: They didn't stop the run.
- 29:03Speaker 10: In the first half.
- 29:04Speaker 13: If you look at it, and what stopped.
- 29:06Speaker 9: Him was New England's offensive line jumping off sides.
- 29:10Speaker 10: Or drop passes.
- 29:12Speaker 8: Take a look at it and tell me what you think.
- 29:14Speaker 8: That's all I got to say.
- 29:15Speaker 2: Thanks, Okay, I can do that right now. I don't.
- 29:19Speaker 2: I don't know. I not to be like simplistic about it,
- 29:24Speaker 2: but they won thirty eight to three. They won thirty
- 29:27Speaker 2: to three. They they did, they stopped them. I mean,
- 29:30Speaker 2: they stopped the Patriots. The Patriots got one drive. It's
- 29:34Speaker 2: the first drive out of the shoot. Usually that's gonna
- 29:37Speaker 2: be a team's best drive. They're gonna move the ball,
- 29:38Speaker 2: they're gonna find someplace that they think is gonna work.
- 29:41Speaker 2: And they did. They got a big, big pass and
- 29:44Speaker 2: they got down there. They couldn't run. They couldn't run
- 29:47Speaker 2: down there. They had to throw it in. They couldn't
- 29:49Speaker 2: throw in the red zone defense, and they kicked the
- 29:51Speaker 2: field gold and that was it. That was it. They
- 29:53Speaker 2: didn't do anything else the rest of the game. So
- 29:56Speaker 2: I don't have to go back and watch that game.
- 29:59Speaker 2: And well maybe they did. I mean that at all
- 30:02Speaker 2: factors in, at all factors in, they if they could
- 30:05Speaker 2: really run the football, they would have and they couldn't.
- 30:09Speaker 2: They're not gonna put that game on Matt Jones. They
- 30:11Speaker 2: know that going in the goal is to run. That's
- 30:14Speaker 2: why they signed Zeke, That's why they added them with Stevenson.
- 30:17Speaker 2: They wanted to have that kind of one to two punch.
- 30:20Speaker 2: It didn't work. I don't think that. I mean, yeah,
- 30:22Speaker 2: they might have hurt themselves with penalties and all that stuff,
- 30:25Speaker 2: but they played sixty minutes of football and they didn't
- 30:28Speaker 2: They didn't run the football. So I thought the Cowboys
- 30:32Speaker 2: did stop the run, but does that matter? It's a
- 30:35Speaker 2: different This is a different animal. This is a different
- 30:37Speaker 2: animal coming up against against the forty nine ers. They've
- 30:40Speaker 2: stopped the run in certain games. They had the Giants
- 30:43Speaker 2: that couldn't do anything. The Jets couldn't do anything. The
- 30:45Speaker 2: Cardinals did. Cardinals had a really good game plan and
- 30:48Speaker 2: they took it to them. The goal for the Patriots
- 30:51Speaker 2: was to run the football. They did not. They scored
- 30:53Speaker 2: three points. So I think the Cowboys did stop the run.
- 30:56Speaker 2: Does that mean they're gonna stop it against the forty
- 30:57Speaker 2: nine ers? Not exactly? Different? Like I said, different animal,
- 31:00Speaker 2: different beasts. All right, Chris and miss Mississippi.
- 31:03Speaker 8: What's up, Chris, Man, I'm gonna tell you what I
- 31:07Speaker 8: did you Did you have anything to do with them
- 31:09Speaker 8: playing that song?
- 31:10Speaker 14: Just then?
- 31:12Speaker 2: Playing what song?
- 31:15Speaker 8: Chris thinks I didn't hear it.
- 31:17Speaker 2: Did he just play a song for me?
- 31:19Speaker 11: Yeah?
- 31:19Speaker 8: He played Stampede that man. I want to say this.
- 31:24Speaker 10: I think that Cowboy fans need to calm down and
- 31:27Speaker 10: stop living in the past and enjoy the future because
- 31:33Speaker 10: this is a different team and from what I saw
- 31:36Speaker 10: from the Eagles last Sunday, Dude, if we played defense
- 31:41Speaker 10: the way we played against you know, the three of
- 31:45Speaker 10: the four games we played all year, we are going
- 31:48Speaker 10: to curb staff them. And I'm just going on and
- 31:51Speaker 10: predicting it, and I was come.
- 31:54Speaker 8: I was mainly calling to tell you, thank you for
- 31:58Speaker 8: not playing that.
- 31:59Speaker 10: Old antique Joe that Bill and Mickey does. And then
- 32:06Speaker 10: Chris goes employs it after I tell him I hate
- 32:08Speaker 10: that song.
- 32:09Speaker 8: I told him to make a new one.
- 32:11Speaker 2: So I think he played it in the break. I
- 32:13Speaker 2: think he played it in the break. I played in
- 32:16Speaker 2: the breaks because he's never heard that's song you're talking about.
- 32:18Speaker 2: So he played it. And I said, Okay, cool, don't
- 32:20Speaker 2: ever play that. Thank you? Yeah. So yeah, but that's cool.
- 32:24Speaker 2: It must be It must be nice, you know. If
- 32:27Speaker 2: that's what we're worried about, man, man Cowboges are going
- 32:30Speaker 2: to be in good shape. They're not worried about the Eagles.
- 32:32Speaker 2: I looked at that at that Philly Washington game and
- 32:34Speaker 2: I think, Wow, that's that's four tough games. That's why
- 32:37Speaker 2: I look at it. That's four tough football games you
- 32:39Speaker 2: gotta play. And you know that going in Washington Division game,
- 32:44Speaker 2: they they they played the Eagles better than a lot
- 32:46Speaker 2: of teams play the Eagles, and so give give them
- 32:49Speaker 2: credit there. They look pretty good, you know, and the Eagles.
- 32:52Speaker 2: I don't know about anybody getting curb stumped, but yeah,
- 32:56Speaker 2: I mean those those games are going to be tough.
- 32:58Speaker 2: But yeah, that that song. I didn't know what you
- 33:00Speaker 2: talking about. Chris said it. He played it. I was like, oh, okay, yeah,
- 33:04Speaker 2: don't play that. We don't need to play it again.
- 33:05Speaker 2: But no, what you heard you were holding. That's why
- 33:07Speaker 2: you heard that in the break? All right? We got
- 33:10Speaker 2: some text questions here who was better for their system,
- 33:13Speaker 2: dak or party going into Week five? This was from
- 33:18Speaker 2: Mike and Humboldt, Texas. I believe if that wasn't his question,
- 33:23Speaker 2: then then he did ask do you think that the
- 33:27Speaker 2: do you think Brian Daviles showed his quarterback last night
- 33:31Speaker 2: tossing the tablet? He showed up his quarterback. I'm sorry,
- 33:34Speaker 2: showed up his quarterback by tossing the tablet. Now care
- 33:38Speaker 2: and if you get mad, you get mad. I mean,
- 33:41Speaker 2: this isn't baseball where he had those unwritten rules. I mean, well,
- 33:44Speaker 2: why wouldn't you be upset in your quarterback? Those a
- 33:46Speaker 2: pick six like that? I mean, I don't believe in
- 33:49Speaker 2: all that showing up the quarterback. I mean, this is football.
- 33:51Speaker 2: It's an emotional game. It's emotional for the players, for
- 33:54Speaker 2: the fans, for the coaches. So you get mad and
- 33:57Speaker 2: you throw your tap. I mean, what are you mad about?
- 33:59Speaker 2: You mad at him at the play call, You're mad
- 34:00Speaker 2: at the offensive coordinator, You mad that you know that
- 34:03Speaker 2: they signed him. I mean, what are you mad about?
- 34:04Speaker 2: I mean, I don't you don't know that, but yeah,
- 34:07Speaker 2: if you don't have if you don't, I mean this guy,
- 34:10Speaker 2: I'm it's not giants, you know, storyline here, But I'm
- 34:13Speaker 2: just saying, you know that this guy comes in. Just
- 34:16Speaker 2: like I said about coaching, try to build the you know,
- 34:19Speaker 2: the culture. Try to try to say, hey, what we're
- 34:21Speaker 2: going to be a tough minded football team. And it
- 34:23Speaker 2: starts with your head coach. And so if your head
- 34:25Speaker 2: coach it's there, doesn't show a motion, then you know,
- 34:29Speaker 2: what do you got?
- 34:30Speaker 16: So?
- 34:31Speaker 2: Well? You could say Tom Landry. I mean, but everybody's different,
- 34:33Speaker 2: But I'm just saying, no, I don't fault a guy
- 34:35Speaker 2: for doing that. All right, let's go to oh and
- 34:39Speaker 2: also about to question Dak and Party for the system.
- 34:43Speaker 2: I mean Party, I mean, yeah, pretty pretty fits their
- 34:48Speaker 2: system better than than any quarterback, probably fits any system.
- 34:52Speaker 2: Party would be number one against anybody, because I mean
- 34:55Speaker 2: that that that is you can you can make the
- 34:58Speaker 2: case for against Patrick Mahomes when you're talking about a
- 35:02Speaker 2: player that fits the system. This is this is not normal.
- 35:05Speaker 2: It's not normal for a guy to be a rookie,
- 35:08Speaker 2: the last pick of the draft at Iowa State and
- 35:12Speaker 2: to come in and and and lead your team to
- 35:14Speaker 2: the championship game and you might have been your injury
- 35:16Speaker 2: might have been the reason you didn't go to the
- 35:17Speaker 2: super Bowl. That's unheard of. That's that's just not normal.
- 35:21Speaker 2: And it is a system. He comes in, he's perfect
- 35:23Speaker 2: for that system. So yeah, that's that's a really I
- 35:27Speaker 2: would say party, and I don't think that's that's a fault,
- 35:30Speaker 2: but anybody, because what he's doing is just not normal
- 35:34Speaker 2: for the NFL. All right, Bruce and Houston's our next caller. Bruce,
- 35:37Speaker 2: what's up many Nick? What's happening?
- 35:39Speaker 15: Buddy?
- 35:39Speaker 17: Thanks for taking my call. I was really impressed with
- 35:42Speaker 17: the game last week.
- 35:44Speaker 12: I because I was excited to see what Dallas.
- 35:47Speaker 17: Would do in response to that Arizona game. And obviously
- 35:50Speaker 17: we staw what he did response, So this is going
- 35:53Speaker 17: to be a great test. Uh, San Francisco's had our number,
- 35:57Speaker 17: and you know, I'm looking forward to see how well
- 36:00Speaker 17: they play. I was listening to the interviews of all
- 36:03Speaker 17: the offensive and defensive coordinators. I mean, and I'm really
- 36:08Speaker 17: proud of the way they're so intelligent. I'm not saying
- 36:11Speaker 17: the others weren't, but just when you listen to them,
- 36:14Speaker 17: the intricacies of the way they talk and the respect
- 36:17Speaker 17: they have for the players and vice versa, and you
- 36:19Speaker 17: guys ask some great questions in those interviews. I'm hoping
- 36:24Speaker 17: they play well. I hope they win because I think
- 36:26Speaker 17: having home field advantage will make it a big difference.
- 36:30Speaker 17: I doubt those Curbs of Philadelphia. They're a pretty good
- 36:33Speaker 17: team and they had the divisional game. But I like
- 36:36Speaker 17: the fact that they're taking them one at a time.
- 36:39Speaker 17: I hope nobody runs their mouth, you know that first
- 36:42Speaker 17: two weeks, you know, Michael was saying.
- 36:44Speaker 4: We're going to the super Bowl.
- 36:45Speaker 9: I just wish they.
- 36:46Speaker 17: Wouldn't do that. But you know, I understand young players today.
- 36:49Speaker 17: But I'm really excited about this game and hope they
- 36:52Speaker 17: played and if we lose, we lose, you know, then
- 36:54Speaker 17: we still got the work to do. But I think
- 36:56Speaker 17: that litmus test of New England. Yeah, they were hurting,
- 37:01Speaker 17: but it was a good task. Bill Belichick's a great coach,
- 37:04Speaker 17: but man, when they play like that as a team,
- 37:07Speaker 17: And I'm not so concerned with the red zone. I
- 37:09Speaker 17: know we've been talking about it all week, but I
- 37:12Speaker 17: mean it's it's execution that what I see. The players
- 37:16Speaker 17: are great, and the receivers have been opened. They just
- 37:18Speaker 17: had some drop balls and running each other doesn't help.
- 37:22Speaker 17: But wonderful show.
- 37:23Speaker 2: Nick, great, Thank you, Thanks Bruce. Loved the optimism. I mean,
- 37:27Speaker 2: this is just just good, just good vibes there, good
- 37:29Speaker 2: vibes from that call all the way around. Uh you know,
- 37:33Speaker 2: I'm sitting here and just listening to that, and and
- 37:36Speaker 2: you know, I wish I was like that a little
- 37:38Speaker 2: bit more like with my team, you know, when when
- 37:41Speaker 2: things are bad, I kind of I'm I'm a little
- 37:42Speaker 2: bit more doom of gloom, you know, But I some
- 37:46Speaker 2: fans are, I mean in some different ways, but I
- 37:48Speaker 2: mean a lot of a lot of good stuff there.
- 37:50Speaker 2: I agree. I mean the red zone, you know, I
- 37:53Speaker 2: think it's it's we've seen enough now to know that
- 37:56Speaker 2: that this is this isn't it's it's a problem. I
- 38:00Speaker 2: think that they they have to They're going to try
- 38:02Speaker 2: to find different ways. One thing that I just looked
- 38:04Speaker 2: at in the game, Uh Sunday went back and just
- 38:08Speaker 2: kind of looked at those plays, and it seems to
- 38:12Speaker 2: me that maybe they could they can spread out a
- 38:15Speaker 2: lot more. I thought in training camp they were going
- 38:18Speaker 2: to use more of the of the width of the field,
- 38:21Speaker 2: and I saw two different times where everything was kind
- 38:25Speaker 2: of bunched up together, and I just think that just
- 38:28Speaker 2: helps your defense even more. If you try to run,
- 38:30Speaker 2: they're all right there. If you try to pass, it
- 38:33Speaker 2: just takes too long for them to get where they
- 38:35Speaker 2: want to be. I think spreading them out just allows
- 38:38Speaker 2: you more opportunity to do different things. And you know,
- 38:42Speaker 2: we'll see, we'll see if they if that That's one
- 38:44Speaker 2: thing I'm definitely not a coach, but that I'm always
- 38:47Speaker 2: about spreading them out because I just think that it
- 38:50Speaker 2: may it's tougher. You know, you're not going deep, so
- 38:52Speaker 2: might as well use as much field as you can,
- 38:54Speaker 2: and and and so if you can't go along, why
- 38:58Speaker 2: not go side to side a little bit more? I
- 39:00Speaker 2: just think some of the alignments could be spread out.
- 39:03Speaker 2: That's that's just one take there. All right, let's go
- 39:06Speaker 2: to some text questions here. I think the lines are
- 39:09Speaker 2: open for a couple more minutes here. You want to
- 39:11Speaker 2: jump in, but we have a text question here from
- 39:14Speaker 2: a nine to four a zero number. He said, could
- 39:17Speaker 2: we possibly see more fullback involvement in goal line situations? Now,
- 39:21Speaker 2: Hunter Lipke did score a touchdown, and so he you know,
- 39:26Speaker 2: he ran the ball, but that really wasn't from the
- 39:27Speaker 2: fullback spot, if that, if I remember correctly, that was
- 39:31Speaker 2: just from he was the one back there. I think
- 39:34Speaker 2: I think having him out there, I could see him,
- 39:37Speaker 2: you know, as a lead blocker. I could see him.
- 39:39Speaker 2: You know, there's times where he might get the football.
- 39:42Speaker 2: So they'll they're going to use him. I mean, like
- 39:45Speaker 2: I said with him, the analogy that I said, was
- 39:49Speaker 2: it last week or two weeks ago. He's like the
- 39:50Speaker 2: guy in the weight room. You know, he's just he's
- 39:53Speaker 2: starting out. You know, you don't know what you can do.
- 39:55Speaker 2: You give him a little bit. Now you're starting to
- 39:57Speaker 2: throw some more. Now you're putting the forty fives on there.
- 40:00Speaker 2: Now you see the more everything that they've given Hunter lipkey.
- 40:03Speaker 2: He's throwing it up. I mean, he's doing it. He's
- 40:06Speaker 2: doing everything that you want him to do. You see
- 40:09Speaker 2: him catch the ball, you see him run the ball
- 40:11Speaker 2: for a touchdown, you see him as a lead blocker,
- 40:13Speaker 2: seeing him on special teams. I mean, what a great
- 40:16Speaker 2: find he's been so far. The light bulb just it
- 40:19Speaker 2: took a little bit of camp. It took some of
- 40:21Speaker 2: the preseason games. I'll be honest that last preseason game,
- 40:25Speaker 2: I didn't think I didn't have him on the team.
- 40:27Speaker 2: I don't think the Copleys had him on the team.
- 40:29Speaker 2: I think they had him on a spot where let's
- 40:31Speaker 2: keep developing him. Let's put him probably on the practice squad.
- 40:35Speaker 2: But he goes out and he has a really good game,
- 40:37Speaker 2: and he shows you a lot of skills that he
- 40:39Speaker 2: can do, and he was comfortable. So then it's like,
- 40:42Speaker 2: all right, let's keep him now. And now it's just
- 40:45Speaker 2: it's just one thing after the other to the point
- 40:47Speaker 2: where you think, maybe, you know he might be able
- 40:50Speaker 2: to be a difference maker. You know, he might be
- 40:53Speaker 2: somebody that can solve some of your red zone issues.
- 40:56Speaker 2: But I think it has to be him doing a
- 40:59Speaker 2: lot of different things. Just the threat of him. Is
- 41:01Speaker 2: he the blocker? Does he run the ball? Can he
- 41:04Speaker 2: catch it out of the backfield? I don't want to
- 41:06Speaker 2: call him you know number forty eight there moose. I'm
- 41:10Speaker 2: not saying that, but I've just mean that's what he
- 41:13Speaker 2: became in his career, somebody that could do a lot
- 41:16Speaker 2: of different things. All right, text message questions and this
- 41:19Speaker 2: is this is the second guy that's asked Stanley from
- 41:22Speaker 2: North Carolina. I apologize for not having this is the
- 41:25Speaker 2: second guy that's asked about Trey Lance being someone that
- 41:29Speaker 2: could help with insight this week. I think it's overrated.
- 41:35Speaker 2: You know, Will Greer was supposed to help with all
- 41:36Speaker 2: these hand signals. That was supposed to be a big deal.
- 41:38Speaker 2: Will Greer with the Patriots helping with hand signals. I
- 41:42Speaker 2: think he got fired from that job. I'm sure if
- 41:44Speaker 2: that was his job, I don't think I don't. I
- 41:47Speaker 2: just don't think that matters. I really don't. I don't
- 41:49Speaker 2: think that they that Trey Lance can can help that
- 41:53Speaker 2: much with the defense on what they try to do.
- 41:57Speaker 2: It could be a couple things here and there, but
- 42:00Speaker 2: you got to remember how good Kyle Shanahan is with
- 42:03Speaker 2: the forty nine er. They're good, they do a really
- 42:05Speaker 2: good job. They're very well coached. They're they're gonna mix
- 42:09Speaker 2: it up more than than Trey Lance sitting over there
- 42:12Speaker 2: saying watch for this, watch for that. If it happens,
- 42:17Speaker 2: so be it. But I just I don't think it's
- 42:19Speaker 2: something that that goes on a whole lot in the NFL.
- 42:23Speaker 2: We got another text question here Dave and David and
- 42:26Speaker 2: San Antonio. Jalen Tolbert really stepping up more as the
- 42:30Speaker 2: season goes on. What do you think that his ceiling is?
- 42:32Speaker 2: Could he be a difference maker? I think his ceiling
- 42:35Speaker 2: is is. I mean it can be a lot higher
- 42:38Speaker 2: than this. I mean he has a chance to really
- 42:41Speaker 2: be I mean his ceiling is to probably be the
- 42:43Speaker 2: second or third receiver on this team. Maybe next year
- 42:47Speaker 2: probably I could see him being the third receiver, just
- 42:51Speaker 2: to see how it all shakes out. But I mean,
- 42:53Speaker 2: he he was really good. He's playing with confidence. He
- 42:56Speaker 2: showed his speed, you know, and also spe teams. If anything,
- 43:01Speaker 2: if anything, he's got a spot to be a fourth receiver.
- 43:05Speaker 2: I mean a fourth receiver, because a fourth receiver does
- 43:07Speaker 2: exactly what he did in that game, catch a few passes,
- 43:10Speaker 2: get in there on the outside, make some plays. Also,
- 43:13Speaker 2: you're a special team's gunner. He went down there and
- 43:16Speaker 2: made a that was a difference maker. That play was huge,
- 43:20Speaker 2: the way he fought through stuff, went down there, made
- 43:24Speaker 2: the tackle. You know, the easiest thing to do for
- 43:27Speaker 2: a receiver of those gunners is to run down the
- 43:30Speaker 2: field fast. One of the hardest things to do is
- 43:33Speaker 2: to not only do it while you're getting blocked, but
- 43:36Speaker 2: have enough control to slow down and make the tackle.
- 43:41Speaker 2: I mean, you can fly by there all the time,
- 43:42Speaker 2: usually not the first guy that guy whiffs. But to
- 43:45Speaker 2: get down there that fast and then show enough control
- 43:49Speaker 2: to break down and then make the tackle, that was
- 43:51Speaker 2: a really, really impressive play. All right, Anthony and Roswell,
- 43:55Speaker 2: New Mexico. You're the next caller, probably.
- 43:56Speaker 11: The last caller, Well I called in to talk about.
- 44:00Speaker 11: You know, you just spoke on it. Where they bunch
- 44:03Speaker 11: in instead of spreading out your offense and spread out
- 44:06Speaker 11: that that defense. Yeah, but it seems that they do that,
- 44:10Speaker 11: but you just just mentioned it.
- 44:11Speaker 9: But wouldn't it.
- 44:13Speaker 11: Be to where you go in You know, your tight
- 44:17Speaker 11: ends a heavier line and then.
- 44:18Speaker 9: You audible out go wide.
- 44:21Speaker 11: Really have the wrong defense out there and then run it.
- 44:24Speaker 11: I mean, it seems it's better if you don't have
- 44:26Speaker 11: twenty people blocking the goal line and run right up there.
- 44:32Speaker 11: But then my next point or question would be, do
- 44:34Speaker 11: you with this last game, do you think they're really
- 44:37Speaker 11: forcing these wide receiver screens where it seems to go
- 44:40Speaker 11: every third play as a wide receiver screen, like they're
- 44:44Speaker 11: overdoing it. I don't know if you think that, or
- 44:48Speaker 11: well maybe I don't know.
- 44:49Speaker 2: I mean, the thing about it is is you would
- 44:51Speaker 2: hope everything is a setup, you know what I mean.
- 44:54Speaker 2: You hope that that you can use those receiver screens
- 44:57Speaker 2: to kind of keep everything kind of close and then
- 44:59Speaker 2: go over the time. So you know, you you call plays,
- 45:02Speaker 2: so you could run other plays off of that and
- 45:05Speaker 2: variations and so, I you know, I think there's a
- 45:08Speaker 2: plan in place, and it's not always in the same game.
- 45:11Speaker 2: You know, everyone's watching that. Everyone sees I watch for
- 45:13Speaker 2: the bubble screens. They like to do that, okay, yeah,
- 45:15Speaker 2: and they might and they might fake that, throw it deep,
- 45:18Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. So I you know, I still
- 45:21Speaker 2: your four games into the season. I think there's a
- 45:23Speaker 2: lot of plays we haven't seen a lot of wrinkles,
- 45:25Speaker 2: and I you know, I like that. I like throwing
- 45:27Speaker 2: those short passes. If your players can go make the play.
- 45:30Speaker 2: To me, that's a run. Now, that's what a run is.
- 45:33Speaker 2: I mean, you throw it to the outside, you get
- 45:34Speaker 2: you know, gallup. Can you make the guy miss? Can
- 45:36Speaker 2: you not? But it's by the time that he makes
- 45:38Speaker 2: a move and good, it's six seven yards maybe even
- 45:40Speaker 2: more than that. So that that to me, that's a
- 45:42Speaker 2: really good, healthy first down play. It's safe, safe throw. Also,
- 45:46Speaker 2: get your receivers out there, and like I said, it
- 45:48Speaker 2: could set up things for down the road. Before the show,
- 45:51Speaker 2: I tweeted this out. I said, let's you know, call
- 45:54Speaker 2: it call in the show and I said, who's the
- 45:57Speaker 2: most underrated Cowboy player ever? So that when I tweeted
- 46:02Speaker 2: that out, I didn't really put it on the show.
- 46:03Speaker 2: But I have had some some guys that have that
- 46:05Speaker 2: are thrown in Darren Woodson, which you know, he's not
- 46:10Speaker 2: really underrated to me, but but the fact that he's
- 46:12Speaker 2: not in the Hall of Fame, then yeah, I guess
- 46:13Speaker 2: he has. Bill Bates. I see a couple of questions
- 46:16Speaker 2: on here, Bill Bates, Bill Bates, Danny White. So yeah,
- 46:21Speaker 2: under underrated guys. I mean Bill, Bill Bates, you know
- 46:24Speaker 2: they they were rated. I mean, you know, Bill Bates
- 46:27Speaker 2: was one of the best special teams players of all time.
- 46:30Speaker 2: Darren Woodson, Danny White, you know he obviously doesn't get
- 46:33Speaker 2: a lot of the credit either. All right, last caller,
- 46:36Speaker 2: here we go, Ralph in rale Att, this is the
- 46:39Speaker 2: last color. Hey, what's going on? Nick Man?
- 46:43Speaker 7: Thanks for taking my call.
- 46:44Speaker 6: Man.
- 46:45Speaker 13: I really enjoy your show Man. I listened to it
- 46:47Speaker 13: when I go to work.
- 46:48Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Appreciate that. Uh.
- 46:50Speaker 7: The most underrated player for me, uh is going back
- 46:53Speaker 7: for me the nineties, Johnick.
- 46:58Speaker 9: When he he replaced Mark it.
- 47:01Speaker 7: Was like it was a zoo transition. He played guard
- 47:04Speaker 7: and center, so I thought he was pretty underrated. And
- 47:08Speaker 7: and also, uh, I think we need to see more
- 47:13Speaker 7: of a Hunter Lifty. I think uh he uh.
- 47:16Speaker 9: I don't know about the injury.
- 47:17Speaker 15: I didn't.
- 47:18Speaker 7: I don't know if anything's Rico dall, if he's hurt
- 47:21Speaker 7: more what, But I don't. I don't if they think
- 47:24Speaker 7: they need to get some other running back or something.
- 47:26Speaker 7: But I think they they should just let see more
- 47:28Speaker 7: of him because I think he uh he he runs
- 47:31Speaker 7: runs the ball. With some toughness and and he's he's
- 47:35Speaker 7: that goal line guy that I think Cowboys could use
- 47:38Speaker 7: more of. But that's that's all I got.
- 47:40Speaker 2: But thank you. They want to turn him loose, let
- 47:43Speaker 2: lift eat? Why not? I know another Nick that would
- 47:49Speaker 2: definitely love that, Nick Nick Harris. I mean he if
- 47:51Speaker 2: he hasn't started Hunter liftkey fanclub dot com yet, he's
- 47:55Speaker 2: he's working on it. But but he's he's been on
- 47:58Speaker 2: that since the day that they got him in free agency.
- 48:01Speaker 2: And and he's he's been really he's just like I said,
- 48:05Speaker 2: he's getting better and better. And he could be a
- 48:06Speaker 2: guy that that could be a difference maker down there.
- 48:10Speaker 2: But he's got to be able to do more than
- 48:11Speaker 2: one thing. That's what a fullback does. That you got
- 48:14Speaker 2: to be able to to when he's in the game,
- 48:17Speaker 2: what is he going to do? You don't know exactly that,
- 48:19Speaker 2: And that to me is a valuable player if he
- 48:22Speaker 2: if he can do three things, catch it, run it,
- 48:24Speaker 2: block it, you know what's he there to do? So
- 48:27Speaker 2: and so far he's shown that John Geese a great
- 48:29Speaker 2: underrated player. You're right about that. Not many people you
- 48:33Speaker 2: remember him. He's not the guy that gets mentioned in
- 48:35Speaker 2: those offensive lines. But you know, he certainly was a
- 48:39Speaker 2: quality player, and you got to have those glue guys
- 48:42Speaker 2: like that that can do different things. They don't worry
- 48:44Speaker 2: about the credit. They just go up there and get
- 48:46Speaker 2: the job done. He was really good, really good. All right,
- 48:50Speaker 2: all right, that's it. That's it. I see another yeah,
- 48:53Speaker 2: Uh Dave in San Antonio. He says Jay Novichik for
- 48:57Speaker 2: most underrated. All right, Uh for that's it. That's it.
- 49:01Speaker 2: All the time we have, Uh, Chris Beem, I'm Nick Eatman.
- 49:04Speaker 2: We will see you tomorrow. On Cowboys storyline, it's been
- 49:07Speaker 2: a good one.
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