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- 0:24Speaker 1: What is up? Welcome to Cowboys storyline, the final storyline
- 0:28Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. It is Tuesday, December thirty first,
- 0:31Speaker 1: Happy New Year to everyone. Hope everyone is safe. Tonight
- 0:35Speaker 1: has us good times, can stay awake. Whatever you gotta
- 0:39Speaker 1: do U should be, should be fun to roll into
- 0:43Speaker 1: the new year always is. Well, let's wrap this up
- 0:46Speaker 1: the right way, have another great show, and let's talk
- 0:49Speaker 1: about Cowboys, Commanders, Cowboys, Eagles. If you want to go back,
- 0:53Speaker 1: I don't think he would have us close the book
- 0:55Speaker 1: on that one. It was closed in the third quarter
- 0:57Speaker 1: for the most part. And anything you want moving forward.
- 1:01Speaker 1: I know this is the time of year. Mike McCarthy
- 1:04Speaker 1: said it yesterday. He said, we're trying to finish the race.
- 1:06Speaker 1: He said, I'll talk about contract stuff, coaching stuff when
- 1:10Speaker 1: it's time to talk about it. He said, I'll stick
- 1:12Speaker 1: to what I've done all year and try to finish
- 1:14Speaker 1: the race. Some of the coordinators had some interesting things
- 1:17Speaker 1: to say. Uh if if you caught those interviews, Mike
- 1:20Speaker 1: Zimmer included there. But it's gonna be this is that time.
- 1:25Speaker 1: I mean, the season will be over here before you
- 1:27Speaker 1: know it. But it just rolls right into all these
- 1:30Speaker 1: new decisions the Cowboys have to make, and so it's
- 1:32Speaker 1: gonna make for without a doubt, it's gonna make for
- 1:35Speaker 1: an interesting offseason, all right. Eight A A eight five
- 1:37Speaker 1: five two two ninety seven is the number to call.
- 1:39Speaker 1: Let's get right to the callers here. Robbie Cocobach, Florida, Robbie, your.
- 1:43Speaker 4: First Happy New Year's nixt night be first.
- 1:46Speaker 1: You too, How are you?
- 1:48Speaker 2: I'm great and happy to hear you and your family
- 1:50Speaker 2: and all the staff there, Christie or especially he's the
- 1:53Speaker 2: artist work command.
- 1:53Speaker 1: There, christ no doubt, thank you.
- 1:57Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, I hope.
- 2:00Speaker 4: I hope we beat the heck out of the redskin
- 2:02Speaker 4: of the Commander.
- 2:03Speaker 5: Excuse me?
- 2:04Speaker 1: Sure?
- 2:05Speaker 6: And what's your favorite New Year's memory?
- 2:07Speaker 5: I'll leave the rest off show to.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Listen, Okay, man, I'm trying to think. I will say this,
- 2:16Speaker 1: and there's been a I'm sure a lot. There's a
- 2:20Speaker 1: lot of things you don't remember obviously from the New
- 2:22Speaker 1: Year's but I'm trying to think from a Cowboys standpoint
- 2:27Speaker 1: when we played games like on New Year's I know
- 2:30Speaker 1: one time we did play on January the first in
- 2:35Speaker 1: New York. I can't remember what year I should know.
- 2:38Speaker 1: This might have been twenty eighteen, but it felt like
- 2:42Speaker 1: it was. It was a little bit before that. And
- 2:46Speaker 1: I remember we didn't have anywhere to go, and we
- 2:49Speaker 1: were in the hospitality room the night before. Nothing was
- 2:51Speaker 1: really open, and we found some pizza place and I
- 2:54Speaker 1: was with the guy that works for ESPN, Todd Archer.
- 2:57Speaker 1: We went to some pizza place in New Jersey and
- 3:00Speaker 1: and if you've ever seen the movie Rounders with Matt
- 3:04Speaker 1: Damon where they kind of goes into like an underground
- 3:06Speaker 1: place to go play poker, that's basically where we where
- 3:10Speaker 1: we ended up. I didn't think I was gonna make
- 3:12Speaker 1: it that night, Like, I mean, we were like some
- 3:14Speaker 1: pizza joint and it was like, oh, it's open, let's
- 3:17Speaker 1: go there. Here's the address. And then he went down
- 3:19Speaker 1: the steps and knocked on the door and it was eleven,
- 3:22Speaker 1: by the way, eleven, Okay, it was a while. Yeah,
- 3:24Speaker 1: that's oh, that was the That was the game they
- 3:26Speaker 1: played for the for the finals, I mean, to win
- 3:29Speaker 1: the NFC East and did not win, but we were
- 3:32Speaker 1: kind of stuck there, like, oh the guys. Todd was like, yeah,
- 3:35Speaker 1: scoo pizza. You know, I've heard of this place and
- 3:38Speaker 1: I swear it was. I was. It was like top
- 3:41Speaker 1: five like terrifying moments because I'm like this, this just
- 3:43Speaker 1: doesn't seem right, Like I hope this pizza better be
- 3:46Speaker 1: damn good, because like somebody's gonna like whack my knees
- 3:49Speaker 1: is to get it. But didn't happen. And I think
- 3:52Speaker 1: the pizza was good. It wasn't as memorable as the
- 3:55Speaker 1: moment there. Maybe I exaggerated a little. Who knows. All right,
- 3:58Speaker 1: thanks for the call, Robbie. Let's go Gary, New Mexico. Gary,
- 4:01Speaker 1: what's up?
- 4:02Speaker 5: Hey? Happy New Year guys, you too.
- 4:05Speaker 1: How are you doing?
- 4:06Speaker 5: I'm doing good man. Hey. The Cowboys actually won an
- 4:09Speaker 5: NFC championship game on New Year's Day in nineteen seventy eight.
- 4:12Speaker 1: So wow, going back, how much things have changed an
- 4:16Speaker 1: NFC championship game on New Year's Day. Now it's like
- 4:20Speaker 1: we're not even through the regular season.
- 4:22Speaker 5: But oh no, it's crazy. It's crazy. So I'm reading
- 4:24Speaker 5: your website here it says take a few trips down
- 4:27Speaker 5: memory Lane as a as an older Cowboy fan, I
- 4:31Speaker 5: have moved to Memory. I live on Memory Lane one
- 4:33Speaker 5: twenty eight. Memory Lane is my addressment. Okay, so I
- 4:37Speaker 5: got I got a trivia I'm going to get you
- 4:39Speaker 5: on this week's trivial question.
- 4:40Speaker 1: No, I'm ready for the challenge.
- 4:42Speaker 5: I've got one. I'm going to get in. I'm want
- 4:43Speaker 5: to give you a fair shot. We're going to go
- 4:45Speaker 5: back to your wheelhouse nineteen eighty three. You're really good
- 4:48Speaker 5: at games. So Washington at Dallas Week fifteen, nineteen eighty three.
- 4:53Speaker 5: This was probably the most hyped game of my childhood,
- 4:57Speaker 5: and by comparison, it's very similar to what we're about
- 4:59Speaker 5: to see with Minnesota and Detroit. It was for all
- 5:02Speaker 5: the marbles, Division Championship, home field, Evans, all that stuff.
- 5:05Speaker 5: So this was the No Danny No Game. Do you
- 5:07Speaker 5: remember the game?
- 5:08Speaker 1: Yes, the No Danny No go.
- 5:10Speaker 5: Okay, here's the trivia question and I'm gonna set it
- 5:12Speaker 5: up for you. It's the third quarter of the game.
- 5:15Speaker 5: It's fourteen to ten Washington Leeds. Cowboys have all the momentum.
- 5:19Speaker 5: Though they're driving the ball, they kind of stalled out.
- 5:22Speaker 5: It's fourth and one at midfield, Landry lines up to
- 5:25Speaker 5: go for it, but all he wants to do is
- 5:27Speaker 5: draw him off sides. Right, Danny White thinks he sees
- 5:30Speaker 5: something in the defense. At the last second, he changes
- 5:33Speaker 5: it to a live play. The play gets stuffed Landry
- 5:36Speaker 5: the sideline catches. The cameras catch Landry yelling no Danny
- 5:40Speaker 5: nor on the sideline. The question is this, who did
- 5:43Speaker 5: Danny White give the ball to on that play?
- 5:45Speaker 1: Man? Oh, I don't think it was Dorset.
- 5:50Speaker 7: I'm gonna says, Oh Man, you got it. Yeah, yes, yeah,
- 5:59Speaker 7: I knew would have got it. No, he would have.
- 6:02Speaker 5: If you remember the player. Man, that play was blown up.
- 6:05Speaker 1: From the beginning, Washington won that game something.
- 6:09Speaker 5: Yeah that that that play, that play, not only that
- 6:13Speaker 5: play changed their whole season. Yeah, that's completely it was.
- 6:16Speaker 5: Oh it was horrible. But man, that is next level stuff.
- 6:19Speaker 5: I can't believe you got that one.
- 6:22Speaker 1: There's three running backs to get and I don't think
- 6:24Speaker 1: it's Dorset, who was my favorite player. Maybe new House
- 6:26Speaker 1: got it, but I mean, you know it was it
- 6:29Speaker 1: was I mean, I know the running back, so I
- 6:31Speaker 1: mean that that that's a good one. But but I
- 6:34Speaker 1: mean I had process of elimination there, so Uh.
- 6:37Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, I gave you a chance, all right, So
- 6:39Speaker 5: let's get back to this year's team.
- 6:40Speaker 1: Let's go all right.
- 6:42Speaker 5: And I'm trying. This is my relentless effort to stay
- 6:45Speaker 5: positive with this year's team.
- 6:47Speaker 1: But uh goods.
- 6:48Speaker 5: I'm really impressed with the running game. I mean, as
- 6:51Speaker 5: bad as they look Sunday, they still ran the ball
- 6:54Speaker 5: well and they did that against the top ten run defense.
- 6:57Speaker 5: And I think when we look back on this season,
- 7:00Speaker 5: there's plenty of blame to go around, but I think
- 7:02Speaker 5: one of the unfortunate things is that the offensive line
- 7:06Speaker 5: finally coming together after Dak Prescott got hurt. They've gotten
- 7:11Speaker 5: better over the last several weeks. And I think when
- 7:13Speaker 5: we look back on it, and I've heard McCarthy say
- 7:15Speaker 5: this a couple of times, if Tuma Adoga had not
- 7:18Speaker 5: gotten injured in training camp, he would have been your
- 7:20Speaker 5: starting left tackle. I think that's kind of the miss
- 7:24Speaker 5: stories of this season, because since he's gotten healthy and
- 7:27Speaker 5: came back, they've been a little bit more solid on
- 7:30Speaker 5: that left side. I think Zach Martin was a shell
- 7:32Speaker 5: of himself all year. I think he was probably playing
- 7:34Speaker 5: hurt all year. You remember back at the beginning.
- 7:37Speaker 6: Of the year.
- 7:37Speaker 5: He was not what he used to be. Just unfortunate,
- 7:42Speaker 5: and now that the offensive line has started to come together,
- 7:45Speaker 5: is just kind of a little bit, you know, too little,
- 7:47Speaker 5: too late, a lot of blame to go around, but
- 7:50Speaker 5: I think that's just an unfortunate thing. But I think
- 7:53Speaker 5: that's something they can build on moving forward. With this
- 7:55Speaker 5: young offensive line, I think they run block better than
- 7:58Speaker 5: they pass block, but I think they're showing some physicality.
- 8:01Speaker 5: I think that's something regardless through the coach is. I
- 8:04Speaker 5: think that's something that they can build on moving forward.
- 8:07Speaker 5: But they've got to do that. They have when Dak
- 8:09Speaker 5: comes back next year, whatever they do coaching wise, they
- 8:12Speaker 5: have got to give him a strong running game. That
- 8:14Speaker 5: has got to be that has got to be paramount.
- 8:17Speaker 5: And I love Rico Dwell and I'm not opposed to
- 8:19Speaker 5: him coming back, but they can't just be complacent in
- 8:23Speaker 5: the running back area in the offseason. That they've got
- 8:25Speaker 5: to try to give him a strong running game and
- 8:27Speaker 5: give him all the help they cancel that he can
- 8:29Speaker 5: be successful. But I like your thoughts on that, and
- 8:32Speaker 5: they'll hang up and listen. Thanks for taking the ball,
- 8:34Speaker 5: all right, thank you.
- 8:36Speaker 6: There.
- 8:36Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt. I wouldn't worry about how much
- 8:38Speaker 1: money this guy makes and how much you know where
- 8:41Speaker 1: as far as Dak goes. He needs a running game.
- 8:43Speaker 1: They all do. They all need a running game. I've
- 8:45Speaker 1: seen last year's team with the Chiefs. They run out
- 8:48Speaker 1: the games Pacheco. You know, as great as Mahomes is,
- 8:52Speaker 1: there's times where you've got to run the football. You've
- 8:54Speaker 1: got to run it when they know you're going to
- 8:56Speaker 1: run it. I'm not one that sits back. Really, I've
- 9:00Speaker 1: seen every game, like you guys have watched every game,
- 9:03Speaker 1: just about every play, I think, And I'm not one
- 9:07Speaker 1: that sits here and says, what were they doing with
- 9:10Speaker 1: the running game? Like if they would have just given
- 9:13Speaker 1: the ball to Rico all year long? They did give
- 9:16Speaker 1: the ball to Rico. I mean he was pretty much
- 9:19Speaker 1: the guy most of the season here. They didn't know
- 9:23Speaker 1: what they were doing. At times they would it would
- 9:25Speaker 1: Zeke would play here, but like, let's be honest. I mean,
- 9:29Speaker 1: Rico has had a good, solid year, but it's never
- 9:33Speaker 1: been super flashy or anything like that. He's had his moments.
- 9:37Speaker 1: He's not extremely special. He's a good, solid back and
- 9:44Speaker 1: and I like him. I like him and I think
- 9:46Speaker 1: he needs a little help too. I think there would
- 9:48Speaker 1: be another running back would be great to have. He'd
- 9:50Speaker 1: be a great complimentary back. He could be the starter
- 9:54Speaker 1: with another young guy or vice versas. Doesn't matter. Those
- 9:57Speaker 1: two runners, you need them both. But he had moments too.
- 10:01Speaker 1: You know, he'll fumble here, he won't hit the hole
- 10:03Speaker 1: like you want him to. He doesn't break it to
- 10:05Speaker 1: that next levels. All the time. I'm just saying he's
- 10:08Speaker 1: a good, solid back. The whole running game was kind
- 10:11Speaker 1: of was was just it was a weird season too,
- 10:15Speaker 1: because you say that about Chuma. Gary just mentioned that
- 10:17Speaker 1: about Tuma getting hurt. The plan all along was for
- 10:20Speaker 1: Tyler Gouyton to be the left tackle. That was the plan,
- 10:22Speaker 1: so Tuma could have been one hundred percent healthy. They
- 10:26Speaker 1: were going to find a way to get the get
- 10:28Speaker 1: their first round pick in there, and he proved as
- 10:32Speaker 1: the season went on he wasn't the best option. And
- 10:34Speaker 1: that's unfortunate. That's unfortunate. I said that in the press
- 10:37Speaker 1: box the other day. Fourth quarter, third I think it
- 10:40Speaker 1: was third or fourth quarter. But there's Tuma out there
- 10:42Speaker 1: and they're rotating left tackles and you would have never
- 10:45Speaker 1: you never would have thought by the last game, last
- 10:47Speaker 1: road game of the season, there's Tuma, you know, still
- 10:50Speaker 1: rotating with Tyler Goeyton. That was never supposed to be
- 10:53Speaker 1: the case. So it's credit to Tchuma for you know,
- 10:58Speaker 1: being pretty good and playing well. But also it wasn't
- 11:01Speaker 1: what they thought. They thought Geyton would definitely take over
- 11:04Speaker 1: by week one, be the guy and just get better
- 11:07Speaker 1: and better and better. And that didn't. That didn't happen.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Doesn't mean that he won't turn the corner here, but
- 11:13Speaker 1: that didn't happen like they thought. All right, let's go
- 11:15Speaker 1: to Dylan Northport.
- 11:16Speaker 4: Florida, say, Nick, Yeah, just a touch on that last
- 11:19Speaker 4: call before I get into my stuff. You know, Rico
- 11:22Speaker 4: is he's just like a not really. He's a jack
- 11:25Speaker 4: of all trades but doesn't excel in anything. He's a
- 11:27Speaker 4: good number two. He can carry the team if he
- 11:30Speaker 4: needs to for a few weeks. If RB one goes down,
- 11:32Speaker 4: he can spell RB one. But he's not the guy
- 11:34Speaker 4: that I want leading the charge every Sunday. Yeah, so
- 11:37Speaker 4: I don't want to say him, but if he's cheap enough,
- 11:39Speaker 4: sure why not?
- 11:40Speaker 1: And that that'll be interesting to see what what what
- 11:43Speaker 1: his market is. Uh, there, and yeah they have to
- 11:45Speaker 1: you have to re sign him as well. I'm sure
- 11:48Speaker 1: he'll get the chance to test it. But you know,
- 11:52Speaker 1: the Cowboys are going to have to change their mindset
- 11:54Speaker 1: on the running back position, in my opinion, not just
- 11:58Speaker 1: well we got Rico, we'll sign him and we'll bring
- 12:01Speaker 1: back Zeke and maybe Deuce and we'll make it work. Now, No,
- 12:06Speaker 1: you got to have somebody a little bit special because
- 12:08Speaker 1: the special running back. This was the year of that
- 12:10Speaker 1: the special running back showed how special they are and
- 12:13Speaker 1: how much they could really help.
- 12:15Speaker 4: So yeah, I joined Travis's space on Twitter last night.
- 12:18Speaker 4: We talked about the running back position for a couple
- 12:20Speaker 4: of minutes, and that was kind of one of the
- 12:21Speaker 4: things you talked about, was like, Dak has never had
- 12:24Speaker 4: a play making running back.
- 12:26Speaker 5: He had Zeke.
- 12:26Speaker 4: Zeke was really good. He was not the guy that
- 12:28Speaker 4: was going to house the eighty yards out. I know
- 12:29Speaker 4: he took one on a screen, you know, one time,
- 12:31Speaker 4: but he's never a speed guy. It would help Dak
- 12:34Speaker 4: tremendously to have a guy in the field that could
- 12:36Speaker 4: score without having to put the ball in the air
- 12:38Speaker 4: from any point on the field, especially at this point
- 12:41Speaker 4: in his career where he seems to be maybe on
- 12:42Speaker 4: the down.
- 12:43Speaker 1: Where would you put Pollard in that group? I mean
- 12:46Speaker 1: he was I mean he had.
- 12:48Speaker 4: I like Pollared a lot, but I just think get
- 12:49Speaker 4: an opportunity.
- 12:50Speaker 1: But he had some moment. I mean he he was
- 12:52Speaker 1: there with Dak, He had his moments. He took it
- 12:54Speaker 1: to the house a few times. I know New Orleans
- 12:56Speaker 1: it was about fifty yards or so, and I mean
- 12:58Speaker 1: he had some.
- 12:59Speaker 4: But but again, I feel like they rode Zeke for
- 13:02Speaker 4: too long and didn't give We heard try two or
- 13:04Speaker 4: three training camps in a row where it's like, Okay,
- 13:06Speaker 4: we're gonna use Pollard more receiver, get him in the
- 13:09Speaker 4: passing game, you know, involved split more cares with Zeke,
- 13:11Speaker 4: and this kind of never happened. It was always a
- 13:13Speaker 4: Zeke show until Zeke was gone. And then you know,
- 13:15Speaker 4: Pollard had his one season and I think he kind
- 13:17Speaker 4: of got a raw deal season. To be honest with you,
- 13:20Speaker 4: I don't think that he had the best offensive line play.
- 13:23Speaker 4: I don't think the play calling was up to snuff
- 13:26Speaker 4: as far as his skills goes. But that kind of
- 13:29Speaker 4: weapened to my next point about Mike McCarthy. You know,
- 13:32Speaker 4: Rob called yesterday. I talked about Mike, and it got
- 13:35Speaker 4: me thinking. So I sat down and I did kind
- 13:36Speaker 4: of pros and cons on Mike McCarthy because I don't
- 13:38Speaker 4: like dog pile.
- 13:39Speaker 2: I like to do my.
- 13:40Speaker 4: Research and try to figure out the other side of
- 13:42Speaker 4: the fence and kind of understandable both positions keeping and
- 13:45Speaker 4: letting go of Mike McCarthy. So I had a hard
- 13:47Speaker 4: time though, making o the pros. You know, all of
- 13:49Speaker 4: the pros on Mike McCarthy were his historical performances, Like
- 13:52Speaker 4: he has a really good career record, so he's doing
- 13:54Speaker 4: something right. Apparently his teams are typically competing for playoff positions,
- 13:58Speaker 4: so he's doing something right. There's quarterback Guru supposedly, and
- 14:01Speaker 4: Dak played his best ball in twenty twenty three. I think,
- 14:04Speaker 4: so maybe there's something to that. But when you look
- 14:06Speaker 4: at like characteristics and traits, like I couldn't think of
- 14:10Speaker 4: anything that Mike does that's like, wow, I want that
- 14:13Speaker 4: guy as my head coach. He's not a great play caller,
- 14:17Speaker 4: he's not a great clock management guys. And here's my
- 14:21Speaker 4: biggest issue was this year the team was the team
- 14:25Speaker 4: has been on discipline. They have a lot of issues
- 14:26Speaker 4: of penalties over his whole tenure here. But this team
- 14:29Speaker 4: was really ill prepared, which was evidenced by the players
- 14:32Speaker 4: and Mike himself for multiple losses talking about how they
- 14:35Speaker 4: didn't practice well during the week and they weren't prepared,
- 14:38Speaker 4: weren't prepared, weren't paying attention to details, and that that's
- 14:41Speaker 4: like the number one thing that a head coach has
- 14:44Speaker 4: to do obviously, is get his team prepared. They're professionals,
- 14:47Speaker 4: the players are. They should be ready anyways. They should
- 14:49Speaker 4: be showing up and getting ready. But if they're not,
- 14:51Speaker 4: you know, a lot of these guys are young kids,
- 14:52Speaker 4: blow to mid twenties, young guys like you got to
- 14:55Speaker 4: get them focused. I don't know how you do it.
- 14:57Speaker 4: I'm not a coach. I don't know the details on that,
- 14:59Speaker 4: but like to me, head coach has to have his
- 15:01Speaker 4: team ready, and they weren't ready in the beginning of
- 15:03Speaker 4: this year multiple weeks. So that's that's the most troubling
- 15:06Speaker 4: thing for me. But if you have any pros I
- 15:07Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy off the top of your head, I'd love
- 15:10Speaker 4: to hear about them.
- 15:10Speaker 1: All right, Well, thanks thanks for the call, Dylan, and
- 15:12Speaker 1: always always appreciate you always thinking, you know, outside the
- 15:16Speaker 1: box and and not just you know, just coming on
- 15:18Speaker 1: here and saying what about this? And that, I mean
- 15:21Speaker 1: just like coming up with it with some with a
- 15:23Speaker 1: with a different topic, different way to look at it.
- 15:26Speaker 1: That that's that's why you created the Twitter spaces, and
- 15:30Speaker 1: that's why you're one of those leaders there on that
- 15:33Speaker 1: and really took this show to another level. So I
- 15:35Speaker 1: appreciate you doing that. Some of the some of the
- 15:38Speaker 1: pros are things that that aren't they don't have stats
- 15:41Speaker 1: on them, you know, and that's what makes it's kind
- 15:43Speaker 1: of like an offensive lineman. It's like judging them. You
- 15:45Speaker 1: got to sort of know what you're looking at. And
- 15:48Speaker 1: and and in this case with McCarthy, and this is
- 15:53Speaker 1: where it gets. This is kind of tricky because the
- 15:56Speaker 1: players love them. Okay, it's evident by two of the
- 15:59Speaker 1: leaders on both sides. You know, players love and players
- 16:01Speaker 1: players want to play for him. That can be a
- 16:06Speaker 1: good thing. Did anyone want to play for Bear Bryant?
- 16:10Speaker 1: I mean, did anyone want to play for Bill Parcells
- 16:13Speaker 1: and and and those guys I mean Belichick maybe at times.
- 16:16Speaker 1: I mean there's a reason why coaches, you know, think
- 16:20Speaker 1: about when you were in high school and junior high
- 16:22Speaker 1: and those coaches that you didn't like, they probably were
- 16:24Speaker 1: good though for you. So just you know, it's like, yeah,
- 16:29Speaker 1: everybody wants the substitute teacher, but they're not. They're not
- 16:34Speaker 1: there for they're there for a reason. But that's my
- 16:36Speaker 1: point is is that just because they're the it's a
- 16:38Speaker 1: player's coach isn't always a good thing because you know,
- 16:43Speaker 1: there's there's been some talk here maybe they don't practice enough.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Maybe they you know, because he's he's easy on them
- 16:49Speaker 1: and when at times get you know, once them off
- 16:52Speaker 1: their feet, wants to take care of them. Things like
- 16:54Speaker 1: that didn't help with injuries. You know, they still were
- 16:57Speaker 1: the most injured team in the NFL. So, uh, the
- 17:01Speaker 1: players coach thing is kind of that's that's a that's
- 17:04Speaker 1: a tough one because you gotta you gotta know, yes,
- 17:08Speaker 1: it's good on one end, but but sometimes you know,
- 17:13Speaker 1: it's a different it's a different age too, it's a
- 17:14Speaker 1: different era. It's a different era to to just say like, well,
- 17:17Speaker 1: you know, I gotta be real hard on him. You
- 17:19Speaker 1: gotta scare them, you gotta you know, they had to
- 17:20Speaker 1: have fear you know Jimmy Johnson was that way. I mean,
- 17:23Speaker 1: there was there was guys that probably didn't like Jimmy
- 17:25Speaker 1: that much, but at the end of the day that
- 17:27Speaker 1: it was like, hey, he was great for us. I
- 17:28Speaker 1: think Akman would would say that, you know, early on,
- 17:30Speaker 1: I think Jimmy was tough on him. So I don't
- 17:33Speaker 1: know if I answered that. I mean, some of some
- 17:34Speaker 1: of the there there are some some pros he understands,
- 17:38Speaker 1: you know, you know, he under understands how to how
- 17:41Speaker 1: to navigate through a season, and and and you know,
- 17:44Speaker 1: get him, you say, get them ready to play. They
- 17:46Speaker 1: were not prepared, like you said several times during the season.
- 17:49Speaker 1: I think he got him, he got you know, he
- 17:52Speaker 1: kept it going, I kept him playing hard and all
- 17:55Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Some of that's on the players
- 17:57Speaker 1: as well. So, uh, you know, if more than anything,
- 18:02Speaker 1: if he comes back, it's because he's had good teams,
- 18:06Speaker 1: He's had good he's he's had a good program here
- 18:09Speaker 1: for five years. For three of those years in a row,
- 18:12Speaker 1: when Dak was healthy, for the most part, they were
- 18:15Speaker 1: right there and and and they were they were in
- 18:18Speaker 1: position to to go, you know further in the playoffs.
- 18:20Speaker 1: They lost in the playoffs. But that's what you want,
- 18:22Speaker 1: at least want them to get there when Dak isn't there.
- 18:26Speaker 1: You know, they've they've they've struggled. So were they gonna
- 18:29Speaker 1: Were they gonna get there? Just because Dak state? Who knows?
- 18:32Speaker 1: Who knows? But I mean he's the starter for a reason,
- 18:35Speaker 1: and you know, I would like to think they could
- 18:37Speaker 1: have won some of those games, but who knows. All right,
- 18:40Speaker 1: let's go to Rick in Webster, Massachusetts.
- 18:45Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, how you doing? Happy New Year and your family?
- 18:48Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate it. Happy New Year to you.
- 18:52Speaker 8: Yeah, a couple of things, you know, what's uh Dylan said?
- 18:56Speaker 8: You know, Rico is not a number one running back.
- 18:59Speaker 8: He's good, complimentary running back, but I would like to
- 19:04Speaker 8: see him come back. The other key positions I would
- 19:07Speaker 8: like to see a players I would like to see
- 19:09Speaker 8: come back if possible or definitely Jordan Lewis, Oh's up?
- 19:14Speaker 8: We can you know keep them Chauncey and uh, you
- 19:18Speaker 8: know the you know, possibly Kendricks if was like that.
- 19:23Speaker 8: But you're saying, is some of the key positions we
- 19:28Speaker 8: should get, you know, like a running back like middle
- 19:30Speaker 8: rounds and the wide receiver you know, probably you know,
- 19:35Speaker 8: a linebacker and a cornerback to just to show up
- 19:39Speaker 8: the depth there and hopefully that Kaylen Carson and Ware
- 19:44Speaker 8: and Butler and all them come back and help with
- 19:47Speaker 8: the depth at the cornerback position. But all and I
- 19:52Speaker 8: like to have a good New year end. Let's go,
- 19:56Speaker 8: let's beat those commanders this weekend and go from there.
- 20:00Speaker 1: All right, appreciate it, Thank you Rick for the call.
- 20:02Speaker 1: You know, as you kind of went through the cornerback
- 20:05Speaker 1: position there, it got me thinking, you know, that's that's
- 20:10Speaker 1: a position, that's an area. I don't know where they're
- 20:12Speaker 1: going to pick. I honestly haven't even looked to see
- 20:15Speaker 1: where the draft order would be as it stands right now.
- 20:18Speaker 1: And I'm sure we'll we'll hear that and get that story.
- 20:21Speaker 1: If they win, it could be here. If they lose,
- 20:23Speaker 1: it could be here. I'm guessing somewhere in the middle fifteen,
- 20:29Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen, something like that. I really haven't seen it.
- 20:32Speaker 1: But cornerback is a position there where you know you're
- 20:37Speaker 1: looking at probably you know, I third or fourth corner
- 20:40Speaker 1: depends on traditionally. I don't even know what this year
- 20:43Speaker 1: looks like there on the draft, but you know that's
- 20:45Speaker 1: that's a spot where you could you could take a corner,
- 20:48Speaker 1: you know, and you got Land. That's that's he's going
- 20:52Speaker 1: to need a contract here after this season. Diggs. I
- 20:57Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen with him. He's his
- 21:00Speaker 1: injury is one that's going to probably go into the
- 21:02Speaker 1: season next year, and you know, and it's going to
- 21:05Speaker 1: be up to him to get himself ready to go
- 21:08Speaker 1: and also to be back. You know, it's not just
- 21:11Speaker 1: the training staff and athletic training trainers getting them back going.
- 21:15Speaker 1: I mean, a part of it's going to be on
- 21:17Speaker 1: him too. He doesn't always stay here in the offseason,
- 21:19Speaker 1: so you know, he's got to be committed to get
- 21:22Speaker 1: back early as well. And so the corner could be
- 21:25Speaker 1: a spot where I could see the Cowboys drafting in
- 21:29Speaker 1: the first round, maybe second, because you just never can't
- 21:33Speaker 1: have enough corners. This year was certainly, you know, it
- 21:37Speaker 1: was certainly one they'll see. Chris is saying the Cowboys
- 21:39Speaker 1: are at thirteen right now. The best they can get
- 21:41Speaker 1: is eleven. What's the worst? You know what the worst? Chris,
- 21:43Speaker 1: jump in here.
- 21:44Speaker 9: I'm looking at it right now. A second.
- 21:46Speaker 1: So they can get to eleven if they if they
- 21:47Speaker 1: lose thirteen right now, So all right, that's better than
- 21:52Speaker 1: I thought. Probably in the fifteen range or so. Needed
- 21:57Speaker 1: San Francisco to win last night, that would have been better.
- 22:00Speaker 1: I think. I think it is. You know, it goes
- 22:05Speaker 1: head to head, but it also goes strength of schedule.
- 22:09Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it just goes head to head,
- 22:10Speaker 1: if two teams are tied and whoever won the game
- 22:13Speaker 1: gets the worst draft pick, that or it might just
- 22:15Speaker 1: be strength of schedule. I say, yes, I should know that,
- 22:17Speaker 1: but usually it's all you're you're talking about the twenties
- 22:20Speaker 1: and twenty five.
- 22:20Speaker 9: Seventeen is the worst. I'm sorry, seventeen is the worst.
- 22:23Speaker 9: So the best you can get as eleven. You can't
- 22:25Speaker 9: get to ten. You get worse as seventeen. So there
- 22:28Speaker 9: you go. There's your window. All right, So fourteen fifteen,
- 22:33Speaker 9: who knows? I mean that that's a bit. I mean,
- 22:35Speaker 9: that's a difference, There's no doubt about it feels like
- 22:37Speaker 9: it's a different player. Seventeen and eleven in the first
- 22:39Speaker 9: round seam. It feels like a different player. To get
- 22:43Speaker 9: to eleven, you want to know the scenario gets to eleven, Okay,
- 22:45Speaker 9: if you lose the game. San Francisco has to win
- 22:50Speaker 9: and Indianapolis has to win, and then then you get that.
- 22:54Speaker 1: So there you go San Francisco.
- 22:57Speaker 9: San Francisco play the Arizona Z don't know, Okay, that
- 23:00Speaker 9: could happen.
- 23:01Speaker 1: Indianapolis plays Jacksonville.
- 23:02Speaker 9: There you go, So there you go.
- 23:04Speaker 1: I don't know who the quarterback is there, I mean Dobbs,
- 23:08Speaker 1: I guess. So, yeah, they needed that win. I mean,
- 23:09Speaker 1: the forty nine ers of winning that game would have
- 23:11Speaker 1: been good. There. Then again, hey, it's all good. Whatever
- 23:15Speaker 1: it is is what it is. Just go and go
- 23:17Speaker 1: get it. Go get a good player, you know. I mean,
- 23:20Speaker 1: if they're a fourteenth, you can always get good value
- 23:24Speaker 1: depending on the position that you get. And I'm telling you,
- 23:27Speaker 1: if you get a guard, I'd be all for it.
- 23:31Speaker 1: You know, Zach Martin was drafted fourteenth and in twenty fourteen,
- 23:36Speaker 1: and I'd be all all for that, you know. I mean,
- 23:41Speaker 1: not a center, you don't know if you need a center,
- 23:42Speaker 1: but getting a guard, getting getting a corner, I think
- 23:45Speaker 1: I think you get great value there. Obviously you get
- 23:48Speaker 1: good value at running back. If that's if that was
- 23:51Speaker 1: one worthy of that to draft that high. I don't know.
- 23:55Speaker 1: I'd rather go for the guard myself than they're back.
- 23:58Speaker 1: But anyways, all right, let's go to k How about
- 24:00Speaker 1: we do that before do anything else? Go to break
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- 25:39Speaker 12: Huh, Brian, Yeah, I'm here man, all right, Oh now
- 26:07Speaker 12: I can hear you.
- 26:07Speaker 1: Nick, all right, come on, let's go absolutely well.
- 26:11Speaker 6: Good morning. First of all, good morning to you, sir.
- 26:13Speaker 6: And you know, I the thought I had and listening
- 26:16Speaker 6: to the couple of callers about Rico is I'd like
- 26:21Speaker 6: to see him because the offensive line got better as
- 26:25Speaker 6: the season went on, but without Dak, I'd like to
- 26:29Speaker 6: see him play with the full force of everything. You know,
- 26:33Speaker 6: I'd like to see him all together and see if
- 26:36Speaker 6: he's maybe better than we think he is. I know
- 26:39Speaker 6: he's had a you know, a good you know five
- 26:43Speaker 6: games throt not a good five game stretch because the
- 26:45Speaker 6: win against Tampa wasn't wasn't was not exactly stellar. Yeah,
- 26:51Speaker 6: but but the other games were pretty good. And I
- 26:54Speaker 6: would like to see him starting quarterback, starting offensive line,
- 26:58Speaker 6: whoever that's going to be year, and just see maybe
- 27:02Speaker 6: he's a little better than we fought because he's playing
- 27:04Speaker 6: with them, he's playing under some really adverse conditions, and
- 27:08Speaker 6: he got better as the season went on. So I
- 27:12Speaker 6: know he doesn't have the breakaway speed like somebody mentioned,
- 27:15Speaker 6: you know, he's not the guy that's going to take it,
- 27:17Speaker 6: you know, take it to the house from eighty yards.
- 27:19Speaker 6: But that's just my thought, Henrico. So you know, I
- 27:22Speaker 6: was listening to Isaiah Standback on he does NFL dot
- 27:27Speaker 6: Com once a week, and they were talking about the Vikings,
- 27:31Speaker 6: and they had a very interesting point, and I wanted
- 27:33Speaker 6: to see if you had seen this at any point
- 27:35Speaker 6: in your history with the Cowboys. Five of their players,
- 27:40Speaker 6: key players are cast off guys from other teams and
- 27:45Speaker 6: their top players for the Vikings this year Darnold, Aaron Jones,
- 27:50Speaker 6: Stefan Gilmour, Andrew Van Ginkle, which is their leading sack
- 27:54Speaker 6: guy at twelve and a half, and Jonathan Grenard Greenard anyway,
- 28:00Speaker 6: but their top players on what might be the top
- 28:04Speaker 6: team in the NFC. Had you, I mean, that's a
- 28:08Speaker 6: will of a turnaround.
- 28:10Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. If you told me who's the best
- 28:12Speaker 1: player on the Vikings team, I mean, I don't think
- 28:14Speaker 1: you said them. So like when I when I think
- 28:17Speaker 1: of like their star players, I don't think of them.
- 28:21Speaker 1: I mean I think of Justin Jefferson, who I'm sure was,
- 28:23Speaker 1: oh I know was drafted by them, So I mean, yeah,
- 28:27Speaker 1: it's it's definitely key. I mean, what are the Eagles doing?
- 28:30Speaker 1: I mean the Eagles, I mean when I think of them,
- 28:33Speaker 1: I think of, you know, two main guys, aj Brown
- 28:36Speaker 1: and Barkley, and they came from different teams. Slay is
- 28:39Speaker 1: pretty good, you know. I'm saying they've got some key
- 28:43Speaker 1: players too coming from other teams. But yeah, but your
- 28:48Speaker 1: point is it's not the way for the Cowboys. That's
- 28:51Speaker 1: not what the Cowboys have done by far.
- 28:54Speaker 6: So no, just you know in your mind, what has
- 28:57Speaker 6: been the year if if you've seen one, you know, obviously,
- 29:00Speaker 6: you know back in the day they got Haley, you know,
- 29:03Speaker 6: they got Dion one year. You know, they got some
- 29:06Speaker 6: pretty big players that made a huge difference, right and
- 29:09Speaker 6: maybe turned them around. In your time, there has there
- 29:12Speaker 6: been anybody like that? And I'll hang up and take
- 29:15Speaker 6: that one man. Yeah, Happy New Year, you too, thank you.
- 29:18Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, obviously you're talking about two of the best,
- 29:21Speaker 1: you know back in the nineties, and with trading for
- 29:24Speaker 1: Haley and then getting don you know, and the Don
- 29:27Speaker 1: one was taking him away from the forty nine ers
- 29:30Speaker 1: and putting him on your team. Uh so it made
- 29:33Speaker 1: him better for sure. And you know, that was probably
- 29:38Speaker 1: the biggest one of all time because Larry Brown was
- 29:40Speaker 1: a solid player and he had a phenomenal season and
- 29:44Speaker 1: I think we all know why because I mean, he
- 29:47Speaker 1: had a little bit more safety help than he ever
- 29:49Speaker 1: did before. Because de Han's on the other side, you know,
- 29:54Speaker 1: we haven't seen free agents like that. The best one
- 29:58Speaker 1: that I can think of since I've been here that
- 30:00Speaker 1: just came in and was phenomenal was Leroy Glover. That
- 30:06Speaker 1: that to me is the best free agent signing that.
- 30:08Speaker 1: Since I've been here four years, four Pro Bowls, he
- 30:12Speaker 1: was really really good on some teams that weren't that good,
- 30:17Speaker 1: but but he was, you know, he was really a
- 30:20Speaker 1: great player. Brandon Carr thought was a pretty good free
- 30:23Speaker 1: agent acquisition. Again, like, we're not talking about a lot.
- 30:26Speaker 1: This doesn't happen a lot. So uh no, No, there
- 30:29Speaker 1: hasn't been a ton of free agent help guys that
- 30:32Speaker 1: just come in and and and make a difference. That's
- 30:35Speaker 1: by design. That's not what the Cowboys do. Should they
- 30:38Speaker 1: change it? If they could, you know, if if, I
- 30:42Speaker 1: mean if if they can, and I think this year
- 30:45Speaker 1: you'll see more of that because I think they will
- 30:48Speaker 1: sign some some have to sign free agents because they
- 30:50Speaker 1: there's twenty five of them on their team. So even
- 30:53Speaker 1: if they signed their own whatever, I think they're gonna
- 30:55Speaker 1: sign more outside than their guys on their own team.
- 31:01Speaker 1: That's just what I think. So I think it'll look
- 31:03Speaker 1: like they're a little bit more active in free agency,
- 31:06Speaker 1: when in reality, I think it'll be more of a
- 31:08Speaker 1: shift of the roster, if that makes sense. All right,
- 31:12Speaker 1: let's go to a Zach in Chicago.
- 31:15Speaker 13: Oh hey, Nick, it's Josh.
- 31:17Speaker 1: Oh I'm oh sorry, Josh in Chicago. That's how you know,
- 31:20Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Oh good, what's that, Bud?
- 31:23Speaker 6: Not too much?
- 31:23Speaker 13: So hey, you know, I real quick on the Eagles game,
- 31:26Speaker 13: I predicted a win from the Cowboys, you know, and
- 31:29Speaker 13: some of the bold predictions I've made this year I
- 31:31Speaker 13: could have been more wrong about. So I'll just make it,
- 31:34Speaker 13: you know, last day of twenty twenty four, I'll make
- 31:36Speaker 13: a twenty twenty five bold prediction. I'll make two of them.
- 31:39Speaker 13: The first one Overshown won't play until twenty twenty six,
- 31:42Speaker 13: and the second one the Cowboys won't go.
- 31:43Speaker 2: To the super Bowl.
- 31:44Speaker 13: So if I'm wrong about those, you know, the storyliners,
- 31:47Speaker 13: they can pin it on Twitter x and you know
- 31:50Speaker 13: they can they can call me out if I'm wrong
- 31:51Speaker 13: about those, Okay, okay, So yeah, So I just wanted
- 31:56Speaker 13: to mention really quick about some of the younger guys.
- 31:59Speaker 13: I feel like taking a step forward.
- 32:01Speaker 1: You know.
- 32:01Speaker 13: Mazzie Smith, I think is looking at a little bit
- 32:03Speaker 13: better in the past few weeks and few games. And
- 32:06Speaker 13: I think Collins, now Malie Collins, who is you know,
- 32:10Speaker 13: signed by Kansas City, is having like a really good year.
- 32:14Speaker 13: And I think Hankins was talking in the offseason about
- 32:16Speaker 13: how it took him a few years to figure out
- 32:18Speaker 13: really how the defensive tackle position really worked in the NFL.
- 32:21Speaker 13: So hopefully Mazzie turns that corner and keeps developing. But
- 32:24Speaker 13: I also want to bring up Smith, right, Like, Tyler
- 32:27Speaker 13: Smith really kind of struggled his first year and then
- 32:30Speaker 13: he really kind of figured it out his second year,
- 32:31Speaker 13: And I'm hoping that's kind of the same thing that
- 32:33Speaker 13: happens with Guidon in the future as well. I mean,
- 32:35Speaker 13: the guy's inn athletic freak. He's got a lot of traits,
- 32:37Speaker 13: but he didn't play a lot of college ball, so
- 32:39Speaker 13: maybe he can figure it out too. That's kind of
- 32:42Speaker 13: all I have, you know, looking forward to the future.
- 32:44Speaker 13: But have a happy New Year everyone, see all later.
- 32:47Speaker 1: Thanks man, appreciate the call, Josh. You know you say
- 32:52Speaker 1: that about I tried to have that argument too, Like,
- 32:55Speaker 1: you know, Tiremon Smith wasn't that great his first year.
- 32:59Speaker 1: He played right tackle, he started every game. He was
- 33:02Speaker 1: he was pretty good. He just wasn't like, oh, he's
- 33:05Speaker 1: going to the Hall of Fame, you know. It wasn't
- 33:07Speaker 1: like that. He wasn't a pro bowler and all that.
- 33:09Speaker 1: But he he they moved him back to the left side,
- 33:12Speaker 1: and then of course the rest is history with him.
- 33:16Speaker 1: That's not what we've seen, you know, from from Tyler Guyton,
- 33:19Speaker 1: like we haven't we haven't seen that having seen a
- 33:22Speaker 1: lot of the flashes the moments there, he's it's it's
- 33:27Speaker 1: it's like it was with Mazie, you know, he's he's
- 33:29Speaker 1: got to he's got to get better. And it starts
- 33:32Speaker 1: in the weight room for him, and and maybe in
- 33:34Speaker 1: the film room. And he's got to understand, you know
- 33:38Speaker 1: a lot of things. I mean, it's not just about
- 33:40Speaker 1: hasn't played because when you haven't played a lot of football,
- 33:44Speaker 1: I mean, that's there's there's two parts of that. You
- 33:46Speaker 1: you know, you got to learn how to play, but
- 33:49Speaker 1: also you got to learn learning the game, learning the huddle,
- 33:52Speaker 1: learning the calls, learning the the schemes, stuff like that.
- 33:55Speaker 1: It's not just about pass rush moves from the you know,
- 33:59Speaker 1: defense and and and figuring out where to put your hands.
- 34:02Speaker 1: It's there's a lot of stuff about playing football. And
- 34:04Speaker 1: so he's he's got to grow up. And they knew that,
- 34:08Speaker 1: they knew that he had some you know, learning to
- 34:10Speaker 1: do on and off the field, and so if he
- 34:14Speaker 1: if he wants it, you know, if he wants it
- 34:16Speaker 1: bad enough. And that's not just Tyler Guyton, that's any
- 34:19Speaker 1: player in the league, any young guy, if they want
- 34:22Speaker 1: to succeed and they want to do all the little things,
- 34:26Speaker 1: then then he can get there because he's got you know,
- 34:29Speaker 1: he's he's got the frame, he's got all of that.
- 34:32Speaker 1: He's an athlete, he's got some strength to him. He's
- 34:36Speaker 1: got some dog to him as well. He's just got
- 34:39Speaker 1: to he's got to want to put the work together
- 34:42Speaker 1: and put the work in in the off season and
- 34:43Speaker 1: all that to try to go and and and be
- 34:46Speaker 1: be that guy. I think he can. We'll see, we'll
- 34:49Speaker 1: see if he turns the corner the because they need it.
- 34:51Speaker 1: I mean, you can't whiff on first round picks, and
- 34:54Speaker 1: this team can't. They don't. They don't have free agents.
- 34:56Speaker 1: They don't you know, they don't sign free agents. So
- 34:59Speaker 1: you better not miss on first round picks. That's what's
- 35:01Speaker 1: made this team, you know, it's what's made it kind
- 35:04Speaker 1: of work here. And then why they've had a good
- 35:06Speaker 1: competitive rosters because they have drafted well, not just in
- 35:09Speaker 1: the first round, but they're hitting on some of these players,
- 35:12Speaker 1: but they're definitely they were hitting on the first round,
- 35:14Speaker 1: and then last two years you can say that they
- 35:18Speaker 1: have not They've not hit for first round. I mean,
- 35:21Speaker 1: Mazzi was solid this year, but only because of our expectations.
- 35:26Speaker 1: And that's the thing. If Tyler Guidon is better next year,
- 35:30Speaker 1: just solid, that's still not going to be good enough
- 35:32Speaker 1: for what you drafted in the first round. So all right,
- 35:35Speaker 1: let's go. Our next caller is David in Pinehurst, Texas.
- 35:43Speaker 5: Nick Man, thanks for having me on the show. I
- 35:45Speaker 5: just have to tell you something, huge loyal Cowboys fan
- 35:49Speaker 5: of was bored in seventy five from the newer nineties
- 35:53Speaker 5: nineties fan. But man, hell is not red, it is green.
- 35:57Speaker 5: I went to two games this season in Dallas versus
- 36:01Speaker 5: the Texans, and yeah, I was in Philly last Sunday
- 36:04Speaker 5: State at the Bellevue Hotel. Wore a Cowboys jersey in
- 36:09Speaker 5: the subway to Philly, Section three, Section one oh four,
- 36:14Speaker 5: Row three, seats one through four. And let me tell
- 36:18Speaker 5: you something, that fan base is the most loyal, crazy
- 36:22Speaker 5: fan base I've ever been around.
- 36:23Speaker 10: You.
- 36:24Speaker 5: That atmosphere was like Kyle Field except for every whoop
- 36:27Speaker 5: you got an fu Cowboys. The only thing that saved
- 36:31Speaker 5: me from not getting my butt kicked was I had
- 36:35Speaker 5: forty seven on the front and I had Trump on
- 36:37Speaker 5: the back. Philly was a swing state. They loved that
- 36:39Speaker 5: guy there. The last thing I want to say is
- 36:42Speaker 5: this franchise needs a structural seismic change. I don't have
- 36:48Speaker 5: all the answers and what that is, but we've got
- 36:51Speaker 5: to look to the division champion. They've won seven in
- 36:54Speaker 5: the last twenty we won seven. They've been to two
- 36:57Speaker 5: Super Bowls or two Conference cheamschampionships, you know, and they
- 37:02Speaker 5: have one bowl to represent. Howie has got to be
- 37:05Speaker 5: probably the best gem in the NFC because Lorie lets
- 37:08Speaker 5: him do his thing. They got away from the Carson
- 37:11Speaker 5: Wentz contract. We have got to do something seismic. Going
- 37:16Speaker 5: back to Mike, I think Mike is a great motivator
- 37:18Speaker 5: of men. I think he's a good man. He's got
- 37:21Speaker 5: a chip on his ring, you know. But let's call
- 37:24Speaker 5: a spade a spade. The team turned around when they
- 37:28Speaker 5: hired DQ as the DC. What happened this season? No DQ,
- 37:32Speaker 5: the team goes in the toilet. I know we had
- 37:34Speaker 5: significant injuries. I don't know what the answer is, other than.
- 37:38Speaker 5: We need a cultural shift, and it's got to start
- 37:41Speaker 5: with mister Jones doing something drastic. I'll still support him.
- 37:46Speaker 5: I love him till I die, and I'm gonna be
- 37:49Speaker 5: at the next tough home game somewhere, maybe a Legion
- 37:53Speaker 5: if it's there. But please let me go to an
- 37:56Speaker 5: away game where we win and we show up better
- 37:59Speaker 5: than the way that we did in Philly. Please, mister
- 38:01Speaker 5: Jones do something for the loyal fan base. That's really
- 38:04Speaker 5: all I got.
- 38:05Speaker 1: Did you hold on? I still can't get past this.
- 38:08Speaker 1: He wore a forty seven Cowboys jersey forty seven with
- 38:11Speaker 1: Trump on the back.
- 38:12Speaker 5: You damn right, I did, And it was the only
- 38:14Speaker 5: thing that saved me for me getting my butt kicked.
- 38:17Speaker 5: I had little twelve year old kids telling me off,
- 38:19Speaker 5: flipped me the bird eyed for my other friends, my
- 38:22Speaker 5: other buddy wore a Parsons eleven jersey. That was the
- 38:25Speaker 5: only reason, you know, because he's a he's a Pennsylvania guy,
- 38:29Speaker 5: you know, so they loved him. And but and I
- 38:32Speaker 5: think is where we were sitting, you know it. We
- 38:35Speaker 5: weren't in the cheap seats, So I mean, and that's
- 38:36Speaker 5: another thing, you know, I'm paying my harder money to
- 38:39Speaker 5: support this team. But I will tell you every fan
- 38:43Speaker 5: Cowboys fan, do it one time in your life. It
- 38:46Speaker 5: is somewhat of just going into like I said, uh,
- 38:51Speaker 5: your rivals hell, and it sucks even worse when you
- 38:54Speaker 5: get your butt kick like we did. But I hope
- 38:57Speaker 5: I know that I felt everything that mister Jones felt
- 39:00Speaker 5: knits him when he was there, because I saw, you know,
- 39:03Speaker 5: the tweets and the videos and whatnot. Hey, I felt
- 39:06Speaker 5: the same thing there. But like I said, the only
- 39:08Speaker 5: thing that saved me was the forty seven Trump Jersey.
- 39:12Speaker 1: Okay. I don't know if that would save you in
- 39:14Speaker 1: every city, but maybe maybe it did there. All right,
- 39:18Speaker 1: all right, thanks David. That's interesting. I didn't see that,
- 39:23Speaker 1: but I think we'll all agree whatever it is. I
- 39:25Speaker 1: think that we're looking to make the Cowboys great again,
- 39:28Speaker 1: so that's probably if that's if that would work, then
- 39:31Speaker 1: that's fine. All right. Let's go to Randy in California. Randy, Yeah,
- 39:39Speaker 1: go ahead, what's up? Randy?
- 39:41Speaker 8: Oh?
- 39:41Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't. I didn't hear anything like you just
- 39:43Speaker 2: I can hear you talking, and then Rand are you
- 39:46Speaker 2: ready to go?
- 39:47Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 39:47Speaker 2: I'm ready to go. Hey, we'll talk about that, the
- 39:50Speaker 2: Eagles game and everything. You hear me, Yeah, so the
- 39:53Speaker 2: Eagles game and the Cowboys game which they lost.
- 39:56Speaker 8: Which was expected.
- 39:57Speaker 2: But there's something that's provious Jerry to do better. I
- 40:00Speaker 2: was listening to him to the fan and he has
- 40:02Speaker 2: a great way of answering questions without actually answering the question,
- 40:06Speaker 2: which I find astonishing.
- 40:09Speaker 14: They need to stop having these.
- 40:10Speaker 2: Deals where they wait till the last minute to sign
- 40:13Speaker 2: someone because they already knew what was going to cost
- 40:16Speaker 2: for DAK. If they already knew what was going to
- 40:17Speaker 2: cost for CD Lamb, then you get like, you get
- 40:20Speaker 2: to look at some of these players if they're gonna
- 40:22Speaker 2: be cornerstone players or not, and if they don't want.
- 40:24Speaker 1: To fight on, I'm going to stop you.
- 40:25Speaker 7: Randy.
- 40:25Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to stop you. That is absolutely wrong, Okay,
- 40:28Speaker 1: that that is wrong. And when people say that, they
- 40:31Speaker 1: act like the DAK number was sixty two, like two
- 40:35Speaker 1: years ago, a month ago, all that to the time
- 40:38Speaker 1: it was sixty and the Cowboys finally they were trying
- 40:41Speaker 1: to get there and they finally said, ah, I find
- 40:43Speaker 1: it sixty. That wasn't the deal. DAK was asking for
- 40:46Speaker 1: sixty five. CD was asking for thirty seven. So it
- 40:51Speaker 1: wasn't like they they if they would have done the
- 40:53Speaker 1: deal two months ago or six months ago, they would
- 40:57Speaker 1: have been they they would have paid way more. So,
- 41:00Speaker 1: like you, people don't know what these two players were
- 41:03Speaker 1: asking for. That's why it took as long as it did.
- 41:05Speaker 1: It was actually a negotiation. People just think, uh, cowboys said, fine, fine,
- 41:10Speaker 1: whatever you want, here's a blank tech nag do it.
- 41:12Speaker 1: That wasn't the case like they. They fought on this
- 41:15Speaker 1: to this point. So people don't ever realize that the
- 41:18Speaker 1: player is actually holding it hostage too, because they are
- 41:22Speaker 1: asking for the moon and the cat and that's that's
- 41:25Speaker 1: what it is. So anyways, I had to throw that
- 41:27Speaker 1: out there because I don't think people realize that.
- 41:30Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and that's the player's progative to do
- 41:32Speaker 2: that to make his most money the Again, it's sure, yeah,
- 41:34Speaker 2: I'm totally poor that So like for instance, like Trevor
- 41:37Speaker 2: Lawrence got like it was fifty five. So I'm as
- 41:42Speaker 2: because you're paying some you're paying a player for what
- 41:43Speaker 2: they have done and what you expect them to do.
- 41:46Speaker 2: And what have Dak has done has been far greater
- 41:48Speaker 2: in significance than Trevor Lawrence. So you already knew it
- 41:51Speaker 2: was going to be over fifty five, right, So.
- 41:53Speaker 5: I get your point.
- 41:54Speaker 2: He said, yes for sixty five, and we're thinking about
- 41:56Speaker 2: sixty and narrow it down.
- 41:57Speaker 6: That's fine.
- 41:58Speaker 2: But if you're going to like someone like Precious, if
- 42:01Speaker 2: Overshown wasn't hurt, and when's the quickest you can you
- 42:03Speaker 2: can sign in, you should do it. If you really
- 42:06Speaker 2: think he's that special foot player, get on it because
- 42:08Speaker 2: you can spread the cap hit over hit even though
- 42:11Speaker 2: it's fifteen years.
- 42:12Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. If you know, if you
- 42:15Speaker 1: know right away that you want the player, and yeah,
- 42:17Speaker 1: then then started early. I think the same way when
- 42:22Speaker 1: in that term. But you know, agents are pretty good too.
- 42:25Speaker 1: Now the agents are like whoa, you know, if you
- 42:28Speaker 1: if you want to if you want to pay it early,
- 42:29Speaker 1: then this is what it's going to because then was
- 42:31Speaker 1: what happens is the agent projects everyone's projecting. Well, the
- 42:35Speaker 1: agent thinks that Overshown is going to be Ray Lewis,
- 42:39Speaker 1: So you know that's what an agent does. They think
- 42:41Speaker 1: of their player that way. So they that's when they're like, oh,
- 42:44Speaker 1: you want to sign them early? You know two years ahead? Well,
- 42:47Speaker 1: this is what he's going to do this year and
- 42:49Speaker 1: next year and he'll be this so might as well
- 42:51Speaker 1: pay for it, you know. That's why they try to
- 42:54Speaker 1: do that with Deron Bland. But I mean, Darron Bland
- 42:57Speaker 1: has you know, the pick sixes and all that, and
- 42:58Speaker 1: it's like you know, now, now we'll we'll wait, we'll
- 43:02Speaker 1: wait and see how this goes.
- 43:04Speaker 2: No, I guarantee. I that's that's totally fine by the
- 43:06Speaker 2: same standpoint. And you know, they're putting their put they're
- 43:09Speaker 2: putting their their client at risk if or if it's
- 43:12Speaker 2: significant injury, then they can if they can't play no
- 43:14Speaker 2: more that and there are things that hurt that kind
- 43:16Speaker 2: of hurts them.
- 43:17Speaker 1: Free agency, that's the game, and that's always yeah, yeah,
- 43:22Speaker 1: go ahead.
- 43:23Speaker 2: I would say the big and the biggest team to
- 43:24Speaker 2: the biggest incentive to get these players to sign an
- 43:26Speaker 2: early contractor is making a fully guarantee because that's what
- 43:28Speaker 2: it really matters, because then that you can either have
- 43:30Speaker 2: you know, injury, you know, injury clause and all other
- 43:33Speaker 2: kind of stuff. But like giving the guaranteed money the
- 43:35Speaker 2: biggest game and if you're gonna sign them early. Guard
- 43:37Speaker 2: he signed with the last highest finebacker got in that market,
- 43:41Speaker 2: you can go five million above that, and then you
- 43:43Speaker 2: added on it to the other two years, and then
- 43:45Speaker 2: then and then I was gonna say, you know, uh,
- 43:47Speaker 2: is Mica going into his is his fifth year option
- 43:50Speaker 2: or is this his gay year?
- 43:52Speaker 5: Uh?
- 43:52Speaker 1: He No, he's going into the fifty year option.
- 43:54Speaker 2: So okay, So yeah, so I have this, Well, I
- 43:59Speaker 2: think they're probably can. I think I would be disappointed
- 44:02Speaker 2: if they really drag this out and not get it
- 44:03Speaker 2: done and might have misses out on training cap I'll
- 44:05Speaker 2: be very disappointed. But when we were talking about Deron Blane,
- 44:09Speaker 2: if this team doesn't feel like, okay, don Brent's gonna
- 44:12Speaker 2: cost too much money, we're paying a corner already, then
- 44:15Speaker 2: you have to start look at the options. Okay, we'll
- 44:17Speaker 2: trade them.
- 44:17Speaker 6: Then other teams.
- 44:19Speaker 2: If the other teams know they're not going to sign someone,
- 44:20Speaker 2: they trade them, you're gonna get a higher draft pick
- 44:23Speaker 2: instead of just Ai. And then the last one, right
- 44:28Speaker 2: manage all having a fart, but I had a brave part.
- 44:31Speaker 2: But yeah, oh the last one was like Howie Roseman,
- 44:35Speaker 2: the way he's doing stuffing, He's adding him a lot
- 44:37Speaker 2: of stuff on the pro rated bonuses and non pro
- 44:40Speaker 2: rated bonuses, which eventually costs them in the end because
- 44:43Speaker 2: in twenty twenty nine, they're like, they have like two
- 44:45Speaker 2: hundred million dollars in dead money and he's in that
- 44:48Speaker 2: window now, he doesn't worry because if he doesn't do
- 44:50Speaker 2: anything in the time of his contract, he's getting fired.
- 44:53Speaker 1: Are they gonna win? That's the thing? This is, this
- 44:55Speaker 1: is exactly what the Cowboys were three years ago, and
- 44:57Speaker 1: they they they've got to win. This is their window
- 44:59Speaker 1: to when they they're there. They're they're having the same
- 45:02Speaker 1: type of season they're there. They got to win. Uh,
- 45:04Speaker 1: you know, if they don't, then yeah, you'll be blamed
- 45:06Speaker 1: for it. But you know, he's going for it, you know.
- 45:08Speaker 1: And people don't like to realize that what the Cowboys
- 45:11Speaker 1: did the same thing. Cowboys went for it in their
- 45:14Speaker 1: own way and and it's it didn't work in their window.
- 45:17Speaker 1: Now they're kind of look like they're getting out of it.
- 45:18Speaker 1: All right, It's go to Robin Vegas. Hey, Nick, Hey,
- 45:22Speaker 1: rob got to be quick man. I still got a
- 45:23Speaker 1: break to do. So what's up.
- 45:25Speaker 14: Did you watch that game last night?
- 45:27Speaker 1: I did.
- 45:28Speaker 14: Those are the two best play callers in the league,
- 45:32Speaker 14: and that of those offenses a light years ahead of
- 45:37Speaker 14: the Cowboys do. And there's a guy available, uh that
- 45:42Speaker 14: Ben Johnson.
- 45:44Speaker 5: I mean, if he could do that.
- 45:45Speaker 14: With Jared Goff, who I always thought I think he's
- 45:48Speaker 14: a little better than Dak, but hell, he could do
- 45:50Speaker 14: with him. He could do it here. Uh we were
- 45:54Speaker 14: talking about coaching game Campbell to me is the type
- 45:57Speaker 14: of coach you need, and especially with today's because of
- 46:01Speaker 14: the money and because of the outside influence, you need
- 46:05Speaker 14: a guy like that. He is so much like Bill
- 46:07Speaker 14: Parcells where he just gives you the look and these
- 46:13Speaker 14: players know that's the kind of guy you need, a
- 46:17Speaker 14: walk around coach surrounded by really good assistant coaches. And
- 46:23Speaker 14: the only reason if Jerry stays with Mike, it's just
- 46:27Speaker 14: like the same reason why people stay in a bad relationship.
- 46:30Speaker 14: It's just because he's comfortable. That's all it is. There
- 46:33Speaker 14: is no other reason than to bring him back other
- 46:37Speaker 14: than Jerry just says, you know, I'm just comfortable. He's
- 46:40Speaker 14: a nice guy.
- 46:41Speaker 5: I like him.
- 46:41Speaker 14: We get a longer and a maighty two whatever I am.
- 46:44Speaker 14: And that's it because he doesn't bring anything else today
- 46:47Speaker 14: that his ceiling is. He shows you what his ceiling is,
- 46:52Speaker 14: and to me, that would be such a wrong move.
- 46:57Speaker 14: I agree with the last caller. Yes, of course there
- 47:01Speaker 14: has to be a shake up at the front office,
- 47:02Speaker 14: but that won't happen. So let's go to the next
- 47:04Speaker 14: trickle down, which would be the head coach. And that's
- 47:07Speaker 14: why this team needs such a strong coach, like at
- 47:13Speaker 14: Jimmy Johnson. You know, you know, Jerry used to do
- 47:16Speaker 14: the same thing with Jimmy. Bring people into the locker room,
- 47:18Speaker 14: kiss them off, and Jimmy would just look, give him
- 47:21Speaker 14: a look, but then go about his business like come on,
- 47:22Speaker 14: get at you. That's what they need. And unfortunately, I
- 47:26Speaker 14: just don't know if Jerry wants at his age and
- 47:30Speaker 14: his billions of dollars, I just don't think he has
- 47:34Speaker 14: the will to win a championship like he used to.
- 47:37Speaker 1: You know, yeah, I can't. I can't. I just would disagree,
- 47:42Speaker 1: but I don't know, it's not worth arguing about, you know,
- 47:44Speaker 1: what someone else is feeling and all that. I think
- 47:47Speaker 1: the desire to win as much as it's ever been,
- 47:50Speaker 1: probably even more because it's been so hard to get back.
- 47:53Speaker 14: But yeah, but it's like this, It's like I want
- 47:55Speaker 14: to hit the lottery, but I don't play it.
- 47:57Speaker 1: Yeah, you know.
- 47:59Speaker 14: It's it's like Jerry, I want to win a championship,
- 48:01Speaker 14: but I don't do what you need to win a championship.
- 48:04Speaker 14: He knows what needs to be done.
- 48:05Speaker 13: He ain't stupid.
- 48:06Speaker 14: He looks at these teams, it says, wow, free agencies
- 48:09Speaker 14: really help these teams, especially Philly. And he doesn't do
- 48:13Speaker 14: anything like those teams. So if you don't do that,
- 48:15Speaker 14: you will never win a championship. Yeah, you cannot draft.
- 48:19Speaker 14: All right, good enough.
- 48:21Speaker 1: All right, all right, Rob, appreciate you. Yeah, a new
- 48:24Speaker 1: year to you two. You got you'd be safe. Let's
- 48:26Speaker 1: go to break real quick and we'll be right back
- 48:27Speaker 1: after this.
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- 49:35Speaker 1: What's up, We're back here to close this thing out
- 49:38Speaker 1: and not only close out the show, but close out
- 49:40Speaker 1: the season. In the year of twenty twenty four, I
- 49:43Speaker 1: got the crew here, I got my son, Jacob, got
- 49:45Speaker 1: Chris is kids right here. Look at Logan and Presley.
- 49:48Speaker 1: What's up? Everyone? Say hey, hey, hey, real quick, Christmas came.
- 49:53Speaker 1: What was your What was your best gift? Mine was
- 49:56Speaker 1: of your head VR headset about what about you? Guys?
- 49:59Speaker 1: Say loud by iPad got iPad I. Oh, okay, awesome,
- 50:05Speaker 1: all right. So and you guys, do you even know
- 50:07Speaker 1: what a new Year's resolution is? You did? What is it?
- 50:11Speaker 1: And what are you gonna do?
- 50:12Speaker 4: It's like a thing you want to do, like for
- 50:15Speaker 4: the New year, and I do not have one yet.
- 50:17Speaker 1: You don't have one. You're just perfect as this. No,
- 50:21Speaker 1: you don't need to get better. I mean, okay, what
- 50:24Speaker 1: if the Cowboys said that, like, we're good, we don't
- 50:26Speaker 1: need a resolution. We're good. All right, guys, we're gonna
- 50:29Speaker 1: wrap this thing up. We got to get out of here.
- 50:30Speaker 1: Why don't you say, everyone, Happy New Year, New Year?
- 50:33Speaker 1: All right, Happy New Year's Eve. That's right, all right,
- 50:37Speaker 1: So for Chris, be his kids, for Jacob, my whole family,
- 50:41Speaker 1: all that. Happy New Year to everyone. We will see
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