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- 0:03Speaker 1: The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
- 0:05Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Cowboys.
- 0:12Speaker 3: This these Cowboys storylines with Nick Eatman.
- 0:20Speaker 2: What's up. It's Cowboys storyline. I'm Nick Eatan. It is Tuesday,
- 0:24Speaker 2: September twenty sixth episode. I'm just kidding. We're not going
- 0:28Speaker 2: down that road. But that's that's Derek's thing on the break.
- 0:32Speaker 2: But this is Cowboys storyline and we are moving on here,
- 0:36Speaker 2: moving past tough loss. You know, it's funny how that happened.
- 0:40Speaker 2: Cowboys beat the Giants in week one, forty to nothing,
- 0:43Speaker 2: and I was like, we can talk about that all day.
- 0:45Speaker 2: I went the next week still talking about it. But
- 0:47Speaker 2: you know, you lose the game in Arizona, You're like, okay,
- 0:49Speaker 2: moving on, let's let's go to the next game. And rightfully,
- 0:53Speaker 2: so that's what they need to do because nobody cares.
- 0:57Speaker 2: The New England Patriots don't care with the cow Boys
- 1:00Speaker 2: are dealing with or what the game that from the
- 1:02Speaker 2: week before. Uh, They're going to come in here trying
- 1:04Speaker 2: to win and they got a Hall of Fame head
- 1:06Speaker 2: coach ready to do that and Bill Belichick, so it
- 1:10Speaker 2: should be a good game. He's not the only person
- 1:12Speaker 2: coming to town. How about Azekiel Elliott. That's going to
- 1:15Speaker 2: be fun to see him. And I think everyone uh still,
- 1:19Speaker 2: you know, roots for him and wants him to do well,
- 1:21Speaker 2: and and and and that's a good thing. It's a
- 1:23Speaker 2: good thing that that Zeke's career has gotten to that
- 1:25Speaker 2: point where you know, he he leaves the Cowboys, but
- 1:28Speaker 2: still there's there's a lot of respect and I think
- 1:30Speaker 2: it's it's mutual from both sides. But that that will
- 1:34Speaker 2: be another storyline for the game. The big thing for
- 1:37Speaker 2: the Cowboys are gonna be if they can just get healthy,
- 1:39Speaker 2: especially at the offensive line. That was a factor obviously
- 1:42Speaker 2: in the game the other day. Anytime you lose three guys,
- 1:44Speaker 2: it's gonna be tough to replace, especially all at once,
- 1:47Speaker 2: and in one of them is is Zach Martin. And
- 1:50Speaker 2: then of course, uh, you know Tyler Biattish and Tyron Smith.
- 1:53Speaker 2: I mean, all of those guys have made the Pro
- 1:55Speaker 2: Bowl in the last couple of years. So that's that's
- 1:59Speaker 2: the big deal for the Cowboys, just seeing if they
- 2:00Speaker 2: can get healthy again and get ready to go and
- 2:02Speaker 2: figure out how to fix some of these red zone problems,
- 2:05Speaker 2: how to stop the running quarterbacks. I don't know if
- 2:07Speaker 2: mac Jones is going to be you know, in any
- 2:10Speaker 2: relay races as far as speed goes, But I mean,
- 2:13Speaker 2: that's that's not been the thing. It's been breakdowns on
- 2:16Speaker 2: defense and letting the pocket collapsing and letting these guys
- 2:20Speaker 2: take off. And he can probably do that just like
- 2:22Speaker 2: any of the other guys have done, so that that's
- 2:24Speaker 2: gonna be another thing the Cowboys have to shore up.
- 2:27Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you guys talk about it. Eight eight,
- 2:29Speaker 2: eight eighty five, five two to nine seven. Let's get
- 2:32Speaker 2: right to the calls here. We've got Darien in Houston.
- 2:36Speaker 2: So Darien and Houston, you're the first up.
- 2:38Speaker 4: Hey, I'm going Nick love the show man.
- 2:40Speaker 2: I'm good man. Thank you so much.
- 2:43Speaker 5: Man.
- 2:43Speaker 4: I think we're gonna be all right. Look, I know
- 2:45Speaker 4: you said we're moving on, but we've seen in the
- 2:47Speaker 4: past that the key to beating this defense is either
- 2:50Speaker 4: like running right at Micah or taking him out and
- 2:53Speaker 4: running away from him. And I feel like our linebackers
- 2:55Speaker 4: got caught out of position a lot this past week,
- 2:58Speaker 4: and part of it is that smaller hybrid safety getting
- 3:00Speaker 4: blocked a lot. So going forward would you want to
- 3:03Speaker 4: see Micah maybe moved around to linebacker. I know they
- 3:06Speaker 4: made him a full time edge, but he's just our
- 3:08Speaker 4: best player. I feel like moving from hornbacker will probably
- 3:11Speaker 4: get him flowing the sideline a sideline and stopping those runs,
- 3:13Speaker 4: maybe filling some gaps.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, hey, that's that's a good call, and
- 3:17Speaker 2: that that's I like. I like where you're where you're
- 3:20Speaker 2: thinking here. I don't know if they're going to do that, Okay,
- 3:22Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not sure that they're going to move
- 3:24Speaker 2: michaelh to to linebacker, because they do one in Russia
- 3:27Speaker 2: in the passer as much as you possibly can. But
- 3:29Speaker 2: what I love about this call, Darien, is the fact that, like,
- 3:33Speaker 2: you know, you're coming up with a solution. You know
- 3:35Speaker 2: that that's an a lot of times people have they
- 3:38Speaker 2: can figure out the problem. I can tell you where
- 3:39Speaker 2: the problem is. Okay, cool, what are we going to
- 3:41Speaker 2: do about it? And so at least at least that
- 3:44Speaker 2: that's an option. Do we want to move him to linebacker? Now?
- 3:47Speaker 2: What happens then? Do you not get as much pass rush?
- 3:50Speaker 2: I think what you have to figure out, and this
- 3:52Speaker 2: is always what coaches have to weigh in, is what
- 3:55Speaker 2: are we losing by not having Micah rush all the
- 3:58Speaker 2: time for us having him play linebacker? And so I
- 4:04Speaker 2: think the drop off between a guy like Micah and
- 4:07Speaker 2: Marquise Bell playing linebacker is a big drop off there.
- 4:13Speaker 2: I mean, it's a big difference as opposed to maybe
- 4:16Speaker 2: rushing Sam Williams more off the edge or Dante Fowler
- 4:20Speaker 2: Doorn's armstrong. So I'm still rushing Micah Parsons a lot.
- 4:25Speaker 2: He's going to rush to the quarterback, but I don't
- 4:27Speaker 2: hate the idea of moving him even back to the
- 4:29Speaker 2: second level a little bit, because what we know is
- 4:32Speaker 2: quarterbacks have to account for number eleven at all times,
- 4:35Speaker 2: and so the more you can throw him around in
- 4:38Speaker 2: different places, I mean, it's one thing to say he's
- 4:41Speaker 2: rushing from over here, okay, running back you've got the chip,
- 4:44Speaker 2: or he's rushing from over here. But if he's back
- 4:46Speaker 2: in the second level and he's got the speed, that's
- 4:49Speaker 2: what's critical. He's got the speed to rush from there
- 4:53Speaker 2: and close quickly. So maybe that's just another wrinkle that
- 4:57Speaker 2: we could see here at some point. All Right, we
- 5:00Speaker 2: got some text questions text line, uh question, got a
- 5:03Speaker 2: few already, So we're gonna go to that. About this
- 5:07Speaker 2: is on the red zone. I don't have a number here, so,
- 5:10Speaker 2: but just about the red zone. Offensive play calling is terrible.
- 5:13Speaker 2: RPO worked as well last year. Make place for Dak
- 5:16Speaker 2: to keep it. Tell him to f and run Ian
- 5:19Speaker 2: from Illinois, Sorry I missed that part at the end here,
- 5:21Speaker 2: Ian from Illinois tell him to run. Yes, I mean
- 5:26Speaker 2: there's there's times he needs to do that, and and
- 5:29Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure it's hard not to think about
- 5:33Speaker 2: with you know, when you're doack. It's hard not to
- 5:36Speaker 2: think about the injury that that happened to him in
- 5:38Speaker 2: the past, and just any injuries as well. You know,
- 5:41Speaker 2: you want to head first. You got to you know,
- 5:42Speaker 2: watch out for concussions and and you know those type
- 5:46Speaker 2: of collisions. So, you know, I think you need to
- 5:48Speaker 2: be smart about it. But there's times where he has
- 5:52Speaker 2: He did have to run this last game. I mean
- 5:53Speaker 2: that there was a couple of plays where I thought
- 5:55Speaker 2: he was just going out there and being a football player.
- 5:58Speaker 2: That's that's what he's got to do. It's just be
- 6:01Speaker 2: an athlete, be a football player, be tough, diving around,
- 6:04Speaker 2: get first downs, move the sticks. That's what you need
- 6:07Speaker 2: out of him, and that's what that's what made him
- 6:10Speaker 2: so good at Mississippi State. That's what made him good
- 6:13Speaker 2: his first few years here, just before he could really
- 6:16Speaker 2: kind of develop his all around game. But I think
- 6:20Speaker 2: that he can't just be a stand in the pocket guy,
- 6:23Speaker 2: and that's that's not what's that's not what's made Dak
- 6:26Speaker 2: who he is. So I think I think he's going
- 6:29Speaker 2: to get back to that. He had to kind of
- 6:31Speaker 2: run this last game because you know, there was a
- 6:33Speaker 2: lot of times where he didn't have a lot of
- 6:35Speaker 2: room a lot of time to throw. All Right, more
- 6:38Speaker 2: text questions here. This is from Mike in Houston. Please
- 6:41Speaker 2: explain what Leyton Vanderish is doing when he moves guys
- 6:45Speaker 2: over on the D line pre playing. I think what
- 6:48Speaker 2: what I think what you're talking about there is just
- 6:52Speaker 2: it's just making sure they're in the right gaps. I mean,
- 6:54Speaker 2: I I don't know exactly what you're referencing, but most
- 6:58Speaker 2: of the times when those linebackers come up and move,
- 6:59Speaker 2: it just making sure he understands what they're trying to do,
- 7:02Speaker 2: what the where the fits are and just wanted to
- 7:05Speaker 2: make sure it also can kind of tell based off
- 7:07Speaker 2: of him, you know, looking at film, looking at what
- 7:09Speaker 2: the other team's doing, what they what their trends are,
- 7:11Speaker 2: what they tend to do on plays like that. If
- 7:14Speaker 2: he might need to move a Hankins, you know a
- 7:16Speaker 2: little bit over here, because he can see it a
- 7:18Speaker 2: little bit better than the defensive guys. That's what I'm
- 7:20Speaker 2: thinking that you're referencing there, just moving some guys around more,
- 7:25Speaker 2: you know, left and right. All right, Phone nine is
- 7:28Speaker 2: open here, give us a call. Eight eight eight eight
- 7:30Speaker 2: five five two two nine seven. Uh. The text line
- 7:34Speaker 2: eight one seven two nine zero three two nine eight
- 7:38Speaker 2: all right, Patrick from Las Vegas On the text line,
- 7:42Speaker 2: was our problem with the run on defensive scheme issue?
- 7:45Speaker 2: Lack of effort execution issue? Also, what kind of plays
- 7:48Speaker 2: would you like to see the offense run of the
- 7:50Speaker 2: resident and be more efficient. Let's go back to the
- 7:53Speaker 2: first part there. I mean, I never want to say effort.
- 7:56Speaker 2: I just I'm just not going to go there. It's
- 7:59Speaker 2: hard to prove you don't really know whose effort is,
- 8:02Speaker 2: you know, it's hard to see that on tape. And
- 8:05Speaker 2: once you go down that route, I mean, that's that's
- 8:07Speaker 2: that's really no turning back. So I'd like to think
- 8:11Speaker 2: give the guys a benefit of the doubt. Effort is there.
- 8:13Speaker 2: I don't think you can play for a dan Quinn defense.
- 8:16Speaker 2: You wouldn't play very long if you if you didn't
- 8:18Speaker 2: put in a lot of effort. There's too many guys.
- 8:20Speaker 2: There are too many guys that you could play here.
- 8:22Speaker 2: So I think I think what it was really was
- 8:26Speaker 2: it was a scheme. I thought Arizona did a really
- 8:28Speaker 2: good job of doing misdirection runs, keeping them off balance,
- 8:32Speaker 2: using the Cowboys strength against them, their speed, their tenacity,
- 8:37Speaker 2: the way they want to get the football, moved them
- 8:39Speaker 2: that way, cut it back. They did a really good
- 8:42Speaker 2: job of kind of getting them to go where they
- 8:43Speaker 2: wanted them to go, and then they ran the ball
- 8:46Speaker 2: the other way. So nice, nice job there. They also,
- 8:48Speaker 2: like we talked about yesterday, and like what what one
- 8:51Speaker 2: of the callers also says is the linebackers. They they
- 8:55Speaker 2: they got hat on a hat. They made sure they
- 8:57Speaker 2: had bigger guys blocking the linebackers and that was certainly efficient.
- 9:02Speaker 2: All Right, We've got Eddie Oh in Thousand Island, North
- 9:07Speaker 2: New York, Thousand Island, New York. Good morning, next Eddie,
- 9:13Speaker 2: how are you doing.
- 9:14Speaker 6: Good morning, longtime reader, listener, first time caller.
- 9:18Speaker 2: Love the show and thank you.
- 9:22Speaker 4: You're bet.
- 9:24Speaker 6: FM after work. So I do want to give us
- 9:27Speaker 6: thanks to Chris Beam and Derek for helping to get
- 9:30Speaker 6: this going. I kind of feel like back in the
- 9:33Speaker 6: day when Seattle had Russell Wilson, it was always letting
- 9:35Speaker 6: Russ cook. I think the message to Derek was, hey, can.
- 9:38Speaker 7: We let Nick cook?
- 9:40Speaker 6: And I kind of feel like the show is doing that.
- 9:42Speaker 2: Yeah, be careful with that. I'm not you know, I'm
- 9:45Speaker 2: not the best of that. I don't want to thing.
- 9:46Speaker 2: I don't want this thing to burn, you know what
- 9:47Speaker 2: I mean. But uh no, I appreciate I appreciate that
- 9:51Speaker 2: I'm having fun with doing it. It's fun.
- 9:54Speaker 6: I can tell it shows and I love your stories.
- 9:56Speaker 6: I love your demeanor. I appreciate the hist because I'm
- 10:00Speaker 6: close to your age.
- 10:01Speaker 1: I'm a little older.
- 10:02Speaker 6: I'm more like Bob Brunig or Mark Stepanowski if you
- 10:06Speaker 6: get my draft. So I'm a little bit older.
- 10:07Speaker 2: Than you, gotcha. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 10:10Speaker 6: So I guess I want to thank you also for
- 10:14Speaker 6: sharing the idea of the Immaculate grid. I think that's
- 10:18Speaker 6: really cool.
- 10:19Speaker 2: Play it every day. Yeah, that's fun. It's fun when
- 10:22Speaker 2: if people don't know what this is, I'll explain in
- 10:24Speaker 2: a second about it's on Pro Football Reference. But what's
- 10:27Speaker 2: fun is when the Cowboys are one of the teams
- 10:29Speaker 2: and then like like that's a challenge, Like I gotta
- 10:32Speaker 2: go with the most obscure player I can think of
- 10:34Speaker 2: from the Cowboys and like another team. Basically, it just
- 10:36Speaker 2: lines up a grid, and it also have two teams,
- 10:39Speaker 2: you know, like Steelers Browns. You got to find a
- 10:41Speaker 2: player that's played for both. And when it's Cowboys and
- 10:44Speaker 2: someone else, and you want to go with the most
- 10:46Speaker 2: obscure so you can get a low score. It's pretty fun.
- 10:48Speaker 2: It's addicting. It's also baseball and basketball, but I'm not
- 10:51Speaker 2: as good in those sports.
- 10:53Speaker 6: But it's a challenge for sure, Like it's tough. Yesterday
- 10:57Speaker 6: I got my first complete grid, which I thought was
- 10:59Speaker 6: kind of cool.
- 11:01Speaker 8: It's tough.
- 11:01Speaker 6: It's tough. So anyway, I did have a question for you,
- 11:04Speaker 6: and then it was answered last week when you were
- 11:07Speaker 6: hitting your five hundred mark and now you're five hundred plus,
- 11:10Speaker 6: I was going to ask you what your favorite game
- 11:12Speaker 6: was that you've ever been president and watched. I'm not
- 11:15Speaker 6: at five hundred. I'm up to twelve games. We like
- 11:18Speaker 6: to travel nearby when we could can, and we've been
- 11:21Speaker 6: to Dallas a couple of times, so I'll just share
- 11:23Speaker 6: a quick little history. My favorite game was only a
- 11:26Speaker 6: couple of years ago, twenty twenty one, the overtime win
- 11:28Speaker 6: in New England. What a roller coaster of a game,
- 11:31Speaker 6: up and down with Diggs given getting a pick six
- 11:34Speaker 6: and giving up a big play and Sad Wilson with
- 11:38Speaker 6: a fourth down catch, total wine tap on the sidelines,
- 11:42Speaker 6: and then CD with a walk off. Just what emotional
- 11:45Speaker 6: roller coaster that was.
- 11:46Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, that was. That was a good one.
- 11:49Speaker 8: That was.
- 11:50Speaker 2: And also for me, I think that was the one
- 11:52Speaker 2: place I had never seen the Cowboys win, because I've
- 11:56Speaker 2: been to some preseason games there and a couple of
- 11:58Speaker 2: regular season games. Had never seen them win there, so
- 12:00Speaker 2: that that was the first time, you know, that I
- 12:02Speaker 2: had actually seen witness that happen.
- 12:05Speaker 6: Yeah, good one, definitely, And I thought it tight in
- 12:08Speaker 6: because we're getting ready for the paper, so I would
- 12:11Speaker 6: post knowing that you're not only a Cowboy fan, but
- 12:13Speaker 6: you know, a sports fan, football fan in general. Here's
- 12:16Speaker 6: a game that a buddy of mine and I play.
- 12:18Speaker 6: I'm not a big jersey guy, so when I go
- 12:20Speaker 6: to these games, I don't wear a jersey. You know,
- 12:23Speaker 6: I'm representing the Cowboys with the colors, but I'm not
- 12:25Speaker 6: wearing a jersey. If I was going to wear a
- 12:27Speaker 6: jersey in Dallas, it would be Tony dorrisat for certain.
- 12:31Speaker 6: But the game we play is suppose you were going
- 12:34Speaker 6: to I know the game's home this week, but suppose
- 12:36Speaker 6: you were going to New England and you had to
- 12:38Speaker 6: rep to represent a New England player. What jersey of
- 12:42Speaker 6: a player would you wear? And I'll give you mine
- 12:44Speaker 6: and I'll hang up, and then later tonight after work,
- 12:47Speaker 6: I'll listen to your response. But if I had to
- 12:50Speaker 6: wear a New England guy, I think I would rep
- 12:52Speaker 6: High Low. That would be my choice. Thanks next for
- 12:54Speaker 6: taking my call.
- 12:56Speaker 2: I appreciate that. For me it would be it would
- 13:01Speaker 2: be Ryan Mallett. I think he played for the Patriots.
- 13:05Speaker 2: Former Arkansas quarterback passed away tragically this year and drowning accident.
- 13:12Speaker 2: I believe for him. And the reason why I say
- 13:15Speaker 2: I believe because there's been a few tragedies for Arkansas players.
- 13:21Speaker 2: Alex Collins, you know, another with Peyton hillis he did
- 13:24Speaker 2: not pass away, but it was a scary deal also,
- 13:27Speaker 2: you know in the water. But Ryan Mallett, he did
- 13:30Speaker 2: play for New England. That would be my first guy
- 13:32Speaker 2: I could think of. Uh there, that's probably not the
- 13:35Speaker 2: spirit of your question. I think you're talking about, you know,
- 13:38Speaker 2: somebody that you really respect in the way that they
- 13:42Speaker 2: you know, they play the game and all that.
- 13:43Speaker 1: You know.
- 13:43Speaker 2: I'm not a big Jersey guy either, but you know,
- 13:48Speaker 2: you have to respect what New England's done. I mean
- 13:50Speaker 2: I have a lot of respect for them as an
- 13:52Speaker 2: organization what they've done. Wasn't ever a Tom Brady fan,
- 13:55Speaker 2: but how could you not respect what he's done? And
- 13:58Speaker 2: Randy Moss, I mean I love watching Randy Moss and
- 14:01Speaker 2: when he went to New England he was he was outstanding. Also.
- 14:04Speaker 2: I like Wes Welker as well. So those are guys
- 14:08Speaker 2: there that I like could call. I appreciate that. All right.
- 14:10Speaker 2: We got Anthony and Roswell, New Mexico's next. Anthony.
- 14:14Speaker 7: Hey, how's it going?
- 14:15Speaker 2: I'm good man? How are you?
- 14:17Speaker 7: I'm all right?
- 14:18Speaker 2: What jersey? What jersey do you have? What's your jersey
- 14:21Speaker 2: of choice?
- 14:22Speaker 7: Well, I haven't bought a new one yet. But the
- 14:25Speaker 7: only one I wear is Dead Bryant's jersey. Nice, nice,
- 14:29Speaker 7: only one that I'll that I'll keep.
- 14:31Speaker 2: You know, there's a ton of days, you know what.
- 14:33Speaker 2: I was walking up to the stadium the other day
- 14:35Speaker 2: for the Jets game, and I just, I just it
- 14:38Speaker 2: just caught my eye. How many Des Bryant's. You see
- 14:41Speaker 2: a lot of eighty eighths and you think it's CD.
- 14:43Speaker 2: Maybe it's Michael, but I mean Des is. I think
- 14:46Speaker 2: the most eighty eight jerseys I think that are still
- 14:48Speaker 2: there at the stadium. So what do you got on
- 14:51Speaker 2: your mind?
- 14:53Speaker 7: Well, I think that the only if you can keep
- 14:55Speaker 7: all the all the fans from jumping off the cliff,
- 14:58Speaker 7: I think, well, what will be Okay, the only thing
- 15:01Speaker 7: we have to change. I wouldn't change anything about Sunday's
- 15:04Speaker 7: game other than just scoring points. Just you're in the
- 15:08Speaker 7: red zone, score points other than a field goal, and
- 15:12Speaker 7: the defense is not supposed to score points. That's not
- 15:16Speaker 7: what they're there for. But I think they got too
- 15:19Speaker 7: comfortable with well, the defense is going to carry the
- 15:23Speaker 7: whole team, which I mean it's not possible for every
- 15:26Speaker 7: game in the season. Just the offense I think needs
- 15:30Speaker 7: to pick up their game, and then my biggest thing
- 15:34Speaker 7: here where we're at is just keeping our uncle James
- 15:39Speaker 7: from jumping off the cliff and we'll be okay. That's
- 15:41Speaker 7: the barometer here.
- 15:43Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I appreciate thanks for the call. You know,
- 15:45Speaker 2: I said it a couple of weeks ago, or was
- 15:47Speaker 2: it last week when there was a lot of talk
- 15:49Speaker 2: about the forty nine ers and how they match up
- 15:52Speaker 2: with the forty nine ers and all that, And I've
- 15:54Speaker 2: and I've had people text me, you know, friends of mine,
- 15:56Speaker 2: like do you think this is the next test? And
- 15:59Speaker 2: I said it said here, I think the test is
- 16:01Speaker 2: to get to four too. That was the test that
- 16:03Speaker 2: didn't happen. But the test is to every week is
- 16:06Speaker 2: to make sure that you are focused, the team is
- 16:09Speaker 2: focused on what can happen, because I think this is
- 16:12Speaker 2: a pretty good wake up call that you can get beat.
- 16:15Speaker 2: You know, just little things can happen here, Like how
- 16:18Speaker 2: do you lose to the Cardinals? Well, number one, your
- 16:22Speaker 2: talent level can get down and equaled with them if
- 16:25Speaker 2: you have some injuries in the in the you know,
- 16:28Speaker 2: in the really bad spots like cornerback and then three
- 16:32Speaker 2: offensive line positions, So that right there starts to you know,
- 16:35Speaker 2: now you're you're getting somewhat evened out a little bit.
- 16:40Speaker 2: Then give the other team some some opportunity for hope,
- 16:43Speaker 2: give them some some things to be excited about. They
- 16:46Speaker 2: didn't get down like the Giants. I mean, maybe the
- 16:49Speaker 2: Giants game could have been the exact same thing, but
- 16:51Speaker 2: their field goal wasn't blocked for a touchdown. They made
- 16:54Speaker 2: the field goal, they got the ball back again, they
- 16:56Speaker 2: scored a few minutes later there was nine to nothing,
- 16:59Speaker 2: and it was fifteen to three. And the more the
- 17:01Speaker 2: game went on, they're looking at each other like we
- 17:03Speaker 2: can win this game, and they could, and they played
- 17:05Speaker 2: that way and played with confidence. So there there were
- 17:08Speaker 2: things to happen. And I think that this should be
- 17:10Speaker 2: a good wake up call for the Cowboys to realize
- 17:13Speaker 2: that moving forward, that the focus has to be there
- 17:15Speaker 2: throughout the week and it has to be there throughout
- 17:18Speaker 2: the game as well. All right, let's go to the
- 17:20Speaker 2: line in uh Vegas, Rob in Las Vegas, aame good?
- 17:26Speaker 2: How are you? Rob?
- 17:28Speaker 9: I'm good?
- 17:29Speaker 10: You know.
- 17:29Speaker 9: Unfortunately, when I look at this team, I just look
- 17:32Speaker 9: at the one guy, and you know, I look at
- 17:35Speaker 9: Dak and I just think I think he's regressed. Unfortunately.
- 17:39Speaker 9: You know, he's he's never had on talent, but he
- 17:42Speaker 9: had leg talent, and now he doesn't have that, and
- 17:46Speaker 9: he just looks like a guy that's been beaten down.
- 17:49Speaker 9: I mean, the media, let's say, so holds up the
- 17:52Speaker 9: Dallas Cowboys quarterback to a different standard, and he just
- 17:56Speaker 9: looks just beaten because he, you know, let's face it,
- 18:00Speaker 9: hasn't taken his team where we thought they would be
- 18:03Speaker 9: by now, and the interceptions and now I think they
- 18:08Speaker 9: call plays like he's regressed. They are afraid to let
- 18:12Speaker 9: him throw in the middle of the field. But I
- 18:15Speaker 9: don't know if that's Mike McCarthy or that's just him,
- 18:17Speaker 9: because that's mostly where his interceptions come, and sure enough
- 18:20Speaker 9: in the game the other night, the middle of the field.
- 18:24Speaker 9: So I just think I hope they don't extend him.
- 18:29Speaker 9: I hope they don't panic and pay him fifty something
- 18:33Speaker 9: million dollars because I just don't think he's worth it
- 18:36Speaker 9: and I don't think he could take this team, you know,
- 18:42Speaker 9: to the next level. You got guys now that surpassed
- 18:45Speaker 9: and Jalen Hurts. I never wanted to believe Jalen Hurts
- 18:48Speaker 9: was better. I always thought they're kind of the same guy,
- 18:51Speaker 9: but they're not Jalen Hurts in the last two years
- 18:55Speaker 9: as just pants back and everything running, throwing, And unfortunately,
- 19:01Speaker 9: there's just too many good young quarterbacks now that are
- 19:03Speaker 9: coming out and they're just better. And I think he's
- 19:07Speaker 9: in his seventh year and unfortunately this should be his prime,
- 19:11Speaker 9: this should be his window, and I don't see it.
- 19:14Speaker 9: I see a beaten quarterback mentally and physically.
- 19:19Speaker 2: But you called last week, right, Rob, I mean I
- 19:24Speaker 2: think you called last week, or maybe this is your
- 19:26Speaker 2: first call here. I mean you called last week as well,
- 19:29Speaker 2: but you didn't say that last week. So like you
- 19:31Speaker 2: think you think the Arizona game it just like broke
- 19:33Speaker 2: him down, like he's a different person, different quarterback.
- 19:37Speaker 10: I don't.
- 19:37Speaker 9: I don't think he's been the same person since he
- 19:39Speaker 9: broke his leg, to be honest, Like I said, you know,
- 19:43Speaker 9: when we saw Tony Romo, we know Tony Romo could
- 19:45Speaker 9: throw the ball. Tony Romo was a really good thrower
- 19:50Speaker 9: of the ball. He could move. Yeah, he would make
- 19:53Speaker 9: some bone head plays, but he was a he had
- 19:55Speaker 9: arm talent. Dak never had arm talent. But what we
- 19:59Speaker 9: liked about that is he a big guy and he
- 20:01Speaker 9: could run. He's not even that big anymore. He doesn't
- 20:03Speaker 9: even look physically nearly as big as he was. And
- 20:09Speaker 9: you know, Dak made up with it. You okay, you know,
- 20:12Speaker 9: like like LaVar Jackson, if you're not going to have
- 20:14Speaker 9: the on talent, if but if you have lake talent,
- 20:16Speaker 9: I could take that both teat most guys will and
- 20:19Speaker 9: Jalen Hurts was like that. But now Jalen Hurts has
- 20:22Speaker 9: turned into a passer. So all I'm saying is I
- 20:27Speaker 9: like that every Dallas Cowboy FANSHI like that if he
- 20:29Speaker 9: does good, we do good. But he holds this team back.
- 20:33Speaker 9: And I see these wide receivers like Ceedee Lamb, I
- 20:36Speaker 9: don't think they have the confidence in that. They're not
- 20:38Speaker 9: gonna say it, but I just don't think they have
- 20:42Speaker 9: the confidence in deck like the Euston because like, what
- 20:44Speaker 9: else does he need? We got you a really good defense.
- 20:49Speaker 2: I mean, what do you mean, right?
- 20:50Speaker 9: He needs I understand I'm see I'm not talking about
- 20:55Speaker 9: just Sunday. I'm talking about for the last few years.
- 21:00Speaker 9: He'll have his good games. And it used to be
- 21:04Speaker 9: that he would feast on bad teams, and yes, he
- 21:07Speaker 9: would struggle against the forty nine ers and uh better team.
- 21:12Speaker 9: But he's not even doing that now. He's struggling against
- 21:15Speaker 9: an average team like Arizona, and I get it, they
- 21:17Speaker 9: were missing three starters. So I'm not gonna, you know,
- 21:21Speaker 9: hold him totally a temp. But I just want to know,
- 21:25Speaker 9: do you think he's reglussed, because I don't hidden now.
- 21:27Speaker 4: I don't think he's gotten better.
- 21:29Speaker 2: I think he's a better quarterback. I think he's a
- 21:31Speaker 2: better quarterback than he was before. Thanks for the call.
- 21:34Speaker 2: I think he's a much better quarterback than he was before.
- 21:36Speaker 2: And the reason why is just from from an experienced standpoint,
- 21:40Speaker 2: I think from what he sees out there. Yeah, I
- 21:43Speaker 2: think the offense has changed a little bit for him,
- 21:45Speaker 2: But but I don't I don't believe in that about
- 21:47Speaker 2: not throwing in the middle of the field. He threw
- 21:49Speaker 2: more slants in that game that I've seen him throw.
- 21:51Speaker 2: You know, that's not exactly the middle of the field,
- 21:53Speaker 2: but that I mean, it's still it's still it could
- 21:55Speaker 2: be a pass that gets deflected and intercepted. I do
- 21:58Speaker 2: think he needs to play with this legs more. He
- 22:00Speaker 2: needs to run, he needs to get the feel for
- 22:02Speaker 2: it just a little bit more. That's one thing that
- 22:05Speaker 2: I think he can be better at. But I do
- 22:07Speaker 2: not think he's regressed as a quarterback. I think he's
- 22:10Speaker 2: a and another thing, those those receivers have ultimate confidence
- 22:17Speaker 2: in him. They I don't know how you can look
- 22:19Speaker 2: at that and don't think that way. They do. They
- 22:21Speaker 2: have confidence that he's gonna make the play. You know,
- 22:24Speaker 2: there are three games into this offense. They're figuring this out.
- 22:27Speaker 2: It's not going exactly like they thought. There's been a
- 22:30Speaker 2: few wrinkles every time. Every week there's just been something
- 22:34Speaker 2: that's thrown it off a little bit. And maybe that's
- 22:36Speaker 2: gonna be the case every week. Maybe it's always gonna
- 22:38Speaker 2: be something, whether it's it's the way the game is played,
- 22:42Speaker 2: the way you're defensive. You know you're going up against
- 22:44Speaker 2: a certain defense, but you have a big lead like
- 22:46Speaker 2: the Jets, or you're gonna play in a downpour against
- 22:49Speaker 2: the Giants, or just you're missing guys. I don't know.
- 22:52Speaker 2: Maybe it's always gonna be that way, but they're still
- 22:54Speaker 2: finding their way. And so to put a blanket statement
- 22:58Speaker 2: that he's regressed as a quarterback, they don't have confidence
- 23:02Speaker 2: in them. I'm not going there and that's I mean,
- 23:06Speaker 2: you can and that's fine. I'm not going there. I
- 23:08Speaker 2: don't I don't think that's the case. They lost a
- 23:10Speaker 2: game to a team that they should have they should
- 23:13Speaker 2: have beaten. But you know, the defense did not step up.
- 23:16Speaker 2: The defense wasn't who we thought they were. We thought
- 23:18Speaker 2: they were a different team than that they're not, because
- 23:21Speaker 2: go back and look at last year they lost Dak
- 23:23Speaker 2: Cooper rush comes in, wasn't setting the world on fire.
- 23:26Speaker 2: But the defense was the defense carried them. I think
- 23:29Speaker 2: there was a thought that this defense would carry that
- 23:33Speaker 2: offense and that team in that game, and they did not.
- 23:35Speaker 2: They failed them, and then therefore it was a tough
- 23:38Speaker 2: It was a tough mountain for them to climb. All right,
- 23:40Speaker 2: we're gonna go to break here. We'll come right back
- 23:42Speaker 2: on Cowboy storyline. We've got some callers on the line,
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- 26:06Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Cowboys storyline. You know the
- 26:08Speaker 2: funny things can happen on a break. We can make
- 26:10Speaker 2: big changes here, the camera changes, and I'm joined by
- 26:13Speaker 2: a guest here now earlier in the day.
- 26:16Speaker 1: Now.
- 26:16Speaker 2: A local high school here in Carol is South Lake Carroll,
- 26:20Speaker 2: which if you've heard of them, it's because they went
- 26:22Speaker 2: about one hundred state championships, I think, every single year.
- 26:24Speaker 2: But they also have a really strong media program, and
- 26:28Speaker 2: so we were able to talk with some of them
- 26:29Speaker 2: that there was a tour. We went to break and
- 26:31Speaker 2: I was like, Hey, bring someone in to ask a question.
- 26:33Speaker 2: So I introduced yourself into the mic here. I don't
- 26:36Speaker 2: even know who we're talking to here.
- 26:38Speaker 12: Hi, my name's lu Jane Amen and I'm a senior
- 26:41Speaker 12: at Carroll Senior High School.
- 26:42Speaker 2: Nice and you have a question for this show, Football question,
- 26:47Speaker 2: Football question, kind of putting her on the spot here
- 26:50Speaker 2: a little bit. They're in the middle of all of
- 26:51Speaker 2: and all of our friends are taking pictures up here
- 26:53Speaker 2: and all that.
- 26:55Speaker 12: I know, the heat this year has been like rough
- 26:59Speaker 12: even for our our sports teams. So how are y'all
- 27:02Speaker 12: doing with that? Just media wise and sports wise?
- 27:05Speaker 2: Like well, we we we uh, we don't fight it.
- 27:08Speaker 2: We just go we go to California, go to California
- 27:11Speaker 2: for training camp. That's kind of what what happens is now.
- 27:14Speaker 2: It is true, though, you do you do come back
- 27:16Speaker 2: here for about three weeks and have you know, practices,
- 27:20Speaker 2: and it's a it's a thing, you know, you got
- 27:21Speaker 2: to practice sometimes eight o'clock in the morning, practice some
- 27:25Speaker 2: you know indoors. There's a Ford Center that they practice
- 27:28Speaker 2: and so you have to be you know, cognizant of
- 27:30Speaker 2: that and also you're also got to be prepared for
- 27:33Speaker 2: games that you were going to play in the heat.
- 27:35Speaker 2: I think they they thought there might be one, you know,
- 27:37Speaker 2: in New York, but it was raining and it was nine,
- 27:39Speaker 2: so it wasn't a big deal. So that's that's one.
- 27:41Speaker 2: I mean, you guys, you guys know all about that
- 27:43Speaker 2: here and in South like, so all right, you want
- 27:46Speaker 2: to take a phone call, We're gonna say, we're gonna
- 27:48Speaker 2: take a call here, let's take let's take a call. Sorry, yeah, yeah,
- 27:51Speaker 2: we'll do this as your as your whole staff is
- 27:53Speaker 2: over here, I'll watch him, all right. Who we got here,
- 27:55Speaker 2: We've got Nick and Albuquerque.
- 27:59Speaker 13: Exactually, Vince in Albuquerque.
- 28:01Speaker 2: Oh okay, sorry, Vince in Albuquerque apologize. Yeah, Chris, all right,
- 28:06Speaker 2: that man.
- 28:07Speaker 13: Not too much. Another great show. I was going to
- 28:10Speaker 13: ask you, what do you think about the offense of
- 28:13Speaker 13: the Jets, offense of the forty nine ers. How much
- 28:18Speaker 13: similarly are they to each other?
- 28:22Speaker 2: And the Jets? Yeah, well, I mean they're not exactly
- 28:27Speaker 2: the same. I mean, I think the brock Perty's got
- 28:29Speaker 2: this thing rolling for them a little bit.
- 28:32Speaker 1: There.
- 28:32Speaker 2: You're talking about the forty nine ers. I'm talking about
- 28:34Speaker 2: the offense of the defense.
- 28:35Speaker 13: The offense. Yeah, the offense, because you know, the Cowboys stopped.
- 28:38Speaker 13: The offense gets the well offensive teams that are kind
- 28:45Speaker 13: of familiar with or similar to the Jets that the
- 28:48Speaker 13: Cowboy can maybe stop. Because I'm thinking, maybe is this
- 28:52Speaker 13: a kryptonite for our defensive coordinators.
- 28:56Speaker 2: Well, I guess we'll find out. We'll see if it's
- 28:58Speaker 2: more than just one game to how to do that? Uh, Lawan,
- 29:02Speaker 2: do you want to help with that forty hunderds in
- 29:03Speaker 2: the Jets? I mean, I try to. We're about just
- 29:05Speaker 2: the Cowboys. I mean, what about you do? You haven't
- 29:07Speaker 2: any idea about them?
- 29:09Speaker 12: I wish I could say I know a lot about sports,
- 29:11Speaker 12: but I really can't. I'm still learning the ins and
- 29:14Speaker 12: outs of it.
- 29:15Speaker 2: So no, I just I thought I would try, because honestly,
- 29:19Speaker 2: I don't know as much either about them. I will
- 29:21Speaker 2: say this though, I think that the forty nine ers, though,
- 29:23Speaker 2: they just have a lot more weapons. They have a
- 29:26Speaker 2: lot more guys they can go to. They have McCaffrey,
- 29:28Speaker 2: they have Debo, they got versaile weapons that they can
- 29:31Speaker 2: throw around. The Jets really don't have that. They're relying on,
- 29:34Speaker 2: you know, they rely obviously on Garrett Wilson Breese Hall
- 29:37Speaker 2: a little bit, but it really starts with the quarterback
- 29:39Speaker 2: in the way that that Brock Perdy is kind of
- 29:41Speaker 2: running that show. All right, Thanks, thanks for the call
- 29:43Speaker 2: there so, Lawan, I appreciate you you stopping by, all
- 29:47Speaker 2: of your all of your your classmates are here. They're
- 29:49Speaker 2: doing a tour. This is south Lake Carol, Dragon media.
- 29:53Speaker 2: What do you do in the media, what's your what's
- 29:55Speaker 2: your favorite thing to do?
- 29:56Speaker 12: All right, so far, my favorite thing has been shooting
- 29:59Speaker 12: football games. And it's been fun being on the sidelines,
- 30:01Speaker 12: just getting photography, getting video, and honestly like being in
- 30:05Speaker 12: that environment where everyone is just so into the game.
- 30:08Speaker 12: Like there's just so much hype and support from our school,
- 30:12Speaker 12: from our band, from my cheerleaders. It's just it's it's
- 30:15Speaker 12: such a great adviying.
- 30:16Speaker 2: To me to be in well it is, it certainly is.
- 30:18Speaker 2: And and also the expectations. It's very similar to the Cowboys,
- 30:21Speaker 2: except for the fact that they've had a lot more success.
- 30:24Speaker 2: But when they don't win at Southlake Carol, it's a
- 30:26Speaker 2: big deal because you guys are are expecting to win
- 30:29Speaker 2: all the time, and you're doing a great job both
- 30:31Speaker 2: in athletics also in the media. So I appreciate you
- 30:34Speaker 2: stopping by. Thank you so much. Thank you for being here.
- 30:37Speaker 2: Y'all can kind of finish the tour. We can do
- 30:39Speaker 2: the show. So yeah, yeah you can. You can. You
- 30:41Speaker 2: can join the tour. I think we're ready to go.
- 30:44Speaker 2: Thank you so much, appreciate it. All right. That was
- 30:46Speaker 2: Lawan Ahmed from Southlake, Carol. Her whole her whole team
- 30:50Speaker 2: is out there watching her and shooting videos. Are there,
- 30:53Speaker 2: they are, you can see them there, all right, Thank
- 30:55Speaker 2: you so much. Uh got through some curveballs on the
- 30:58Speaker 2: show every once in a while, a little bit how
- 30:59Speaker 2: to see you know what. We got another one coming tomorrow.
- 31:02Speaker 2: I'm not going to like this curveball. I can just
- 31:04Speaker 2: tell you that right now. I'm gonna have to change
- 31:06Speaker 2: clothes tomorrow in the middle of the show. I'll explain
- 31:10Speaker 2: that later. So sorry about the call of Vincent Albuquerque.
- 31:15Speaker 2: A lot of stuff happening there, But just explaining the
- 31:18Speaker 2: forty nine ers and the Jets, I mean, I just
- 31:19Speaker 2: think the difference that really it kind of goes with
- 31:21Speaker 2: the way that they run their offense in their quarterback
- 31:24Speaker 2: all right. Byron and Raleigh North Carolina still on the line? Byron?
- 31:29Speaker 1: You there?
- 31:29Speaker 2: Byron? Maybe not? All right? Let's go to some text
- 31:35Speaker 2: message questions here. This one is from a four H
- 31:40Speaker 2: five number. What do you think of the Cowboys body
- 31:43Speaker 2: language on Sunday? I really didn't like what I saw
- 31:45Speaker 2: from leaders like Micah CD. Seemed like they were now
- 31:48Speaker 2: only surprised by the game, but didn't see much rallying
- 31:51Speaker 2: and hyping each other. I think there's something to be
- 31:57Speaker 2: said for that, I really do. I don't say they
- 32:00Speaker 2: were it didn't seem the same and and and I
- 32:05Speaker 2: think it started obviously with with the Trayvon injury earlier
- 32:08Speaker 2: in the week, and then when you go and you
- 32:09Speaker 2: see some of the injuries that you have, you know,
- 32:12Speaker 2: but but that's a little surprising to me because what
- 32:14Speaker 2: I said earlier, when they've had injuries before, when Dak
- 32:18Speaker 2: was out, they lost some guys, they did rally, So
- 32:21Speaker 2: I just think, all all in all, they weren't they
- 32:24Speaker 2: weren't ready to play this game. They weren't as focused
- 32:26Speaker 2: as they needed to be. And you know, I think
- 32:28Speaker 2: they'll they'll they'll fix that, and I think everyone will.
- 32:31Speaker 2: I think I think the coaches will fix that. I
- 32:33Speaker 2: think the players will fix that, I guess, you know,
- 32:35Speaker 2: and the fans aren't the ones that are, you know, preparing,
- 32:38Speaker 2: But the fans will will have a different focus as well.
- 32:40Speaker 2: I mean, I think, no longer do you look at
- 32:42Speaker 2: forty nine ers. Do you look down the road at
- 32:44Speaker 2: the Eagles and stuff like that. You can't, you can't
- 32:46Speaker 2: do that. You have to look at what's happening now,
- 32:48Speaker 2: because this team has shown that they will get beat
- 32:50Speaker 2: by a team that they're not ready to play. So
- 32:52Speaker 2: I think the focus all the way around will be
- 32:55Speaker 2: on the Patriots this week. All right, Irwin and Irwin
- 32:58Speaker 2: in Denver? Irwin? What's up?
- 33:01Speaker 8: Hey?
- 33:01Speaker 10: What's going on?
- 33:02Speaker 14: Nick?
- 33:02Speaker 1: How you doing?
- 33:02Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm good. Thank you.
- 33:05Speaker 4: Hey.
- 33:05Speaker 1: So I got a couple of things for you. Little disappointed.
- 33:09Speaker 1: I just want your thoughts on it. On what's going
- 33:12Speaker 1: on with Brandon Cooks. How come we're not, you know,
- 33:15Speaker 1: really getting the ball to Brandon Cooks on some deep plays?
- 33:19Speaker 1: And I thought he was brought in to take you know,
- 33:21Speaker 1: that stuff over the top and it it might be
- 33:25Speaker 1: an issue. Why didn't we If that's the case, and
- 33:31Speaker 1: McCarthy's running the kind of system that he's doing now,
- 33:33Speaker 1: the Texas Coast. It looks like a short game. Did
- 33:36Speaker 1: we actually get the wrong receiver in free agency? If
- 33:39Speaker 1: that's the case, and Number two just wanted to go
- 33:42Speaker 1: back to that one Color was talking about Dak Man.
- 33:45Speaker 1: If we could get Dak every game like he played
- 33:49Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay last year in that playoff game. I mean,
- 33:52Speaker 1: he was like on his game, it was perfect. He
- 33:55Speaker 1: was just it looked like he was in the zone.
- 33:57Speaker 1: And if we could just get to play like I
- 34:00Speaker 1: think we can go a long.
- 34:01Speaker 3: Long way.
- 34:02Speaker 1: Yeah, And I'll just hear what you have to say
- 34:04Speaker 1: about that.
- 34:05Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I appreciate the call. You know, Dak,
- 34:08Speaker 2: You're right though. I mean, that's that's what The thing
- 34:10Speaker 2: that's kind of weird is that, like when Dak played
- 34:13Speaker 2: against the Bucks a few you know, there was a
- 34:16Speaker 2: few games ago. Now, I mean it was the playoff game,
- 34:20Speaker 2: but it wasn't just a good game. It was one
- 34:22Speaker 2: of the best games that any quarterback has ever had
- 34:24Speaker 2: in the history of the NFL playoffs. I mean it
- 34:27Speaker 2: was in that type of performance.
- 34:29Speaker 7: Uh.
- 34:30Speaker 2: But then he comes back the next week they don't
- 34:32Speaker 2: play as well against San Francisco. It's a different type
- 34:35Speaker 2: of game. Obviously a different defense, and he you know,
- 34:38Speaker 2: he throws some interceptions trying to force it at times.
- 34:41Speaker 2: They didn't have enough playmakers and they lost. And that's
- 34:45Speaker 2: the game that's kind of gets carried over into the
- 34:46Speaker 2: offseason and it really doesn't get brought up again until
- 34:50Speaker 2: he has another interception. I don't think Dak lost the
- 34:53Speaker 2: game last week. I mean, I don't think. I don't
- 34:55Speaker 2: think that was necessarily the reason. Going back to Cooks though,
- 34:59Speaker 2: I think think Cooks is a perfect person for this,
- 35:01Speaker 2: for this offense. So because Cooks is a possession receiver
- 35:04Speaker 2: with speed, so that that type of stuff. You know,
- 35:07Speaker 2: he's played two games. He's played one game really where
- 35:12Speaker 2: where that they could really throw the football around. When
- 35:14Speaker 2: that's last week, wasn't they weren't that effective? Nobody really was.
- 35:19Speaker 2: Gallup kind of had, you know, had some nice plays,
- 35:21Speaker 2: he had a couple of Cooks had some some places.
- 35:23Speaker 2: It's really been one game that you can kind of
- 35:25Speaker 2: evaluate what where Cooks is in all this. So again
- 35:28Speaker 2: a little too early to go there, All right, David
- 35:30Speaker 2: and fort Worth is next? David? What's up? Davidy there?
- 35:39Speaker 4: Oh yes, I can what's up? Okay? Sorry about that?
- 35:43Speaker 4: I didn't. I didn't hear you up's initially.
- 35:47Speaker 15: Yeah, I just wanted to call it. I couldn't call
- 35:48Speaker 15: it force yesterday, and I'm finding out that I got
- 35:51Speaker 15: to change my name, man, because you've got a lot
- 35:52Speaker 15: of Davids that called it now. So yeah, I just
- 35:55Speaker 15: wanted to touch on. You're literally talking about it on
- 35:57Speaker 15: the screen right now, so I don't want to repeat
- 35:59Speaker 15: pretty m but I want to start off by saying,
- 36:01Speaker 15: Romo is my favorite Dallas Cowboys quarterback of all time. Again,
- 36:05Speaker 15: I'm thirty two. I didn't live through all the glory
- 36:07Speaker 15: years and stuff. But I think we got to put
- 36:09Speaker 15: this this Dak in Romo comparison to rest already. Man,
- 36:12Speaker 15: Like a lot of people call in and talk about,
- 36:14Speaker 15: oh if Romo had this team or Tromo had that team,
- 36:17Speaker 15: and Romo doesn't. Romo's living a great life now he's
- 36:20Speaker 15: moved on. I think we need to move on as well.
- 36:23Speaker 15: Dak's our guy. A lot of people like to like.
- 36:25Speaker 15: I can imagine these same callers that are like she
- 36:29Speaker 15: like last season, See, Dak's not Dak's not our guy.
- 36:31Speaker 1: He's bad.
- 36:32Speaker 9: Yah dah the yah.
- 36:33Speaker 15: And then the Buccaneers game comes and they're like, maybe
- 36:35Speaker 15: I was wrong, maybe he is our guy. And then
- 36:37Speaker 15: the forty nine Ers game comes and they're like, see.
- 36:39Speaker 1: I knew it. I was right.
- 36:40Speaker 15: And it's just I don't feel like people are just
- 36:43Speaker 15: giving him the great that they wanted people to give Romo,
- 36:46Speaker 15: like he's gonna make mistakes. He's a fourth round pick
- 36:49Speaker 15: for you know, a reason. I think he's good enough
- 36:52Speaker 15: to do the job. Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't.
- 36:55Speaker 4: Another thing that I.
- 36:56Speaker 15: Wanted to touch on was we had to call it
- 36:59Speaker 15: earlier though talking about Brandon Cooks, but last week we
- 37:03Speaker 15: had callers Earlier last week we had callers that were
- 37:05Speaker 15: talking about Michael Gallup and that he's not involved enough,
- 37:07Speaker 15: and it's just the game's gonna dictation. It's going to
- 37:09Speaker 15: get the ball. Sometimes it's gonna happen, sometimes it's not.
- 37:12Speaker 15: I think we just got a slower role. It's very
- 37:14Speaker 15: frustrating loss, obviously, but the slower roll a little bit.
- 37:17Speaker 15: Take it one game at a time, let the offense
- 37:19Speaker 15: figure out what the offense is going to be, let
- 37:21Speaker 15: that get into a rhythm, and then we'll go from there.
- 37:23Speaker 15: So a little bit of a I guess.
- 37:25Speaker 2: But that's okay. Thanks, David. I mean, and that's that's
- 37:29Speaker 2: the show to do. That is to kind of rant
- 37:31Speaker 2: a little bit after that. This is These are kind
- 37:33Speaker 2: of the callers that I thought we would have yesterday
- 37:36Speaker 2: a little bit and and and that's okay. I mean,
- 37:39Speaker 2: like this this is it's a it's frustrating. And Dak.
- 37:43Speaker 2: See here here's the thing that that I that kind
- 37:46Speaker 2: of bothers me about. Sometimes it's not just fans. It's
- 37:50Speaker 2: not just fans. Media does it too. It's like every game,
- 37:53Speaker 2: every play, it's like it's the final it's the final conclusion.
- 37:57Speaker 2: It's like, all right, make your statement on you know,
- 38:01Speaker 2: it's like your closing remarks on this guy. You know,
- 38:04Speaker 2: bad game or at least or a bad play, and
- 38:07Speaker 2: it's all like he's not the guy, don't pay him
- 38:11Speaker 2: or whatever, don't give him the contract, or he's not
- 38:13Speaker 2: very good, or he should be cut, you know, just
- 38:15Speaker 2: different players based off of one or two games. And
- 38:18Speaker 2: and I think if that, if you have a small
- 38:19Speaker 2: sample size on a guy, it makes more sense. But
- 38:22Speaker 2: when you're when you're sitting here and Dak has played
- 38:25Speaker 2: now you know, you know, seven seven years in eight
- 38:28Speaker 2: season now or whatever. But it's like, you know, he's
- 38:32Speaker 2: built up some some equity here I think to to
- 38:35Speaker 2: withstand you know, some an interception here here there, especially
- 38:40Speaker 2: when he does he makes some some great plays as well.
- 38:44Speaker 2: Dak versus Romo, it's the same guy right now. I
- 38:48Speaker 2: mean it's the same. Like Romo does things better than Dak.
- 38:52Speaker 2: Dak does things better than Romo, but the result has
- 38:55Speaker 2: been the same. The the playoff success or lack of
- 38:58Speaker 2: success is about the same. Yes, I think, I think,
- 39:01Speaker 2: you know, Romo played the game differently, but but for
- 39:04Speaker 2: the most part, these two guys, their careers have been
- 39:08Speaker 2: about this the same. One guy started as a as
- 39:11Speaker 2: a rookie and played another guy waited, you know, had
- 39:13Speaker 2: to wait four years or so to get his opportunity.
- 39:16Speaker 2: But but still, you know, kind of took the league
- 39:19Speaker 2: bike store. And when when they both were were doing
- 39:21Speaker 2: what they did, I mean they I don't I don't
- 39:25Speaker 2: sit there and and and and kind of go one
- 39:27Speaker 2: versus the other because they they both their careers have
- 39:30Speaker 2: been about the same. And they're both you know, I
- 39:34Speaker 2: think they're both really good quarterbacks. I think they're both
- 39:38Speaker 2: underrated because of of the of the the grief that
- 39:41Speaker 2: they they get every single negative play. I think that
- 39:45Speaker 2: it's it's just it's the nature of the business. But
- 39:48Speaker 2: it's also the nature of the business when you haven't
- 39:51Speaker 2: won and and you know, in every single play, they
- 39:54Speaker 2: get kind of judged by it, all right. One of
- 39:56Speaker 2: the going back to the text line question about that,
- 40:00Speaker 2: Mike from Boston and the caller Rob from Vegas also
- 40:03Speaker 2: talked about Dak's money. What do you think the Cowboys
- 40:07Speaker 2: take Do you think the Cowboys will take a long
- 40:09Speaker 2: hard look at Dak consider not giving him a huge contract?
- 40:12Speaker 2: I mean, what are they going to keep giving this
- 40:15Speaker 2: guy money for a mediocrity? I mean, seriously, he's not
- 40:18Speaker 2: somebody who can raise the team when the defense is
- 40:20Speaker 2: playing bad. He had tons of talent and hasn't done anything. Hmmm.
- 40:28Speaker 2: Uh I don't agree with that, and uh, that's you don't.
- 40:32Speaker 2: I don't. I don't expect that to be a call,
- 40:34Speaker 2: you know, somebody to call in and say that. I think, Uh,
- 40:39Speaker 2: you know, I don't. I don't think they've had tons
- 40:42Speaker 2: of mediocrity. I really, I really don't. I mean, that's
- 40:45Speaker 2: not him, that's not his stats, that's not.
- 40:46Speaker 5: What he is.
- 40:48Speaker 2: Uh, he has been He's been a really good quarterback
- 40:51Speaker 2: and he's been a good leader for this team. And
- 40:54Speaker 2: you know, if you don't think that that matters, then
- 40:57Speaker 2: you haven't played football or you haven't you haven't you know,
- 40:59Speaker 2: you haven't been in a locker room, you haven't played
- 41:00Speaker 2: any sport. Then really, I mean, if you don't think
- 41:02Speaker 2: that there's a there's a level to all of this stuff,
- 41:05Speaker 2: I don't agree with with people that think that they've
- 41:07Speaker 2: lost confidence in him. I think they have confidence in
- 41:10Speaker 2: Dak to go to go make plays. He's done it.
- 41:13Speaker 2: This team hasn't hasn't had the success that you wanted,
- 41:16Speaker 2: But if you go and look at what they've done
- 41:18Speaker 2: while he's been the quarterback, I don't I don't. I
- 41:20Speaker 2: don't think this is a mediocre team, and I don't
- 41:23Speaker 2: think it's a mediocre quarterback. Now, they have tough decisions
- 41:27Speaker 2: to make just because they're they're kind of getting up
- 41:29Speaker 2: against it with the cap, But I think they'll work
- 41:32Speaker 2: it out and I think that he'll be the quarterback
- 41:34Speaker 2: for this team for the next few years. I do
- 41:36Speaker 2: think they're going to make something happen there. That's just
- 41:38Speaker 2: what I believe. I think that's the way Jerry operates.
- 41:41Speaker 2: I think that's what he wants. He wants UH to
- 41:43Speaker 2: to win with Dak, and I think he feels like
- 41:47Speaker 2: he's trying to give him the pieces around him there
- 41:49Speaker 2: where he can do that. All Right, We got a
- 41:51Speaker 2: couple more callers on the line here. Johnny in Ridgeville,
- 41:54Speaker 2: South Carolina. Johnny, what's up, hey? Nick?
- 42:00Speaker 3: Up?
- 42:01Speaker 11: Hey?
- 42:01Speaker 5: I tell you what I I listened to some of
- 42:03Speaker 5: your colors with all amazement. Sometimes anybody who watched that
- 42:07Speaker 5: game and came back with the problem is Dak. I
- 42:11Speaker 5: don't know what you were watching. That didn't hold, that
- 42:14Speaker 5: didn't jump off side. I mean, you know, guys got
- 42:18Speaker 5: to get open and they were not getting open. And
- 42:23Speaker 5: I started to mention it yesterday. But on the one
- 42:27Speaker 5: the throwdown in the in the end zone to CD,
- 42:29Speaker 5: I know, ceed thinks he's gonna get that call. He's
- 42:32Speaker 5: got to at least try to catch that ball. Yeah,
- 42:35Speaker 5: And it didn't look like a lot of efforts there.
- 42:38Speaker 5: I don't usually dug him out for anything, but that just.
- 42:41Speaker 2: That didn't that didn't look right. That looked yeah, I
- 42:45Speaker 2: agree with you there.
- 42:47Speaker 5: And then the other thing, the guys that think that
- 42:49Speaker 5: that that that they tell you what tell me who
- 42:52Speaker 5: you're going to replace Dak with and how much you're
- 42:55Speaker 5: gonna pay, because there's teams around this league that will
- 42:59Speaker 5: take Prescott in a second. Yeah, I agree that he
- 43:04Speaker 5: is that good. Yeah, does that mean he wins that
- 43:07Speaker 5: he's gonna make every throat now?
- 43:10Speaker 2: But I think, well, I you know, and I appreciate
- 43:14Speaker 2: the call, and and you know, it's it's a risky business.
- 43:17Speaker 2: I think what I think, what what teams are seeing
- 43:20Speaker 2: are fans. I think what fans are seeing is who
- 43:23Speaker 2: are your two biggest challenges in the NFC forty nine
- 43:26Speaker 2: Ers Eagles, that's what that's what you think. You can
- 43:29Speaker 2: throw the Cardinals in there if you want, because they
- 43:30Speaker 2: just beat them. But I mean, I think we we
- 43:32Speaker 2: think that those are the two top teams. And they
- 43:35Speaker 2: got a quarterback in the seventh round. They also got
- 43:37Speaker 2: a quarterback in the second round whoevery one thought was
- 43:39Speaker 2: more of a runner. And now look at them, Look
- 43:41Speaker 2: what he's doing now, And so I think they that's
- 43:43Speaker 2: that's the notion. You could just do that, but go
- 43:46Speaker 2: back and look, go look at all the other quarterbacks
- 43:48Speaker 2: drafted by other teams that aren't doing as much. So
- 43:51Speaker 2: if you think you want to just do that and say,
- 43:53Speaker 2: all right, let's just just give me a third round
- 43:55Speaker 2: quarterback and some guy that can do this and for
- 43:57Speaker 2: on the cheap. Good luck with that, because there's a
- 43:59Speaker 2: lot of guys in the link that don't have that
- 44:01Speaker 2: kind of success. Those two have struck gold with that
- 44:04Speaker 2: and it's and it's helping them. Let's try to get
- 44:05Speaker 2: one more call real quick before we take up, before
- 44:07Speaker 2: we finish the show. Alan and Long Island, New York.
- 44:10Speaker 2: Alan off here, I.
- 44:13Speaker 14: Get Nick, good morning. I'd just like to give a
- 44:15Speaker 14: shout out to you and the rest of the company
- 44:18Speaker 14: brought us, Patrick nose Walker. You guys do first class
- 44:22Speaker 14: work and it's honestly a pleasure to listen to you
- 44:25Speaker 14: and the rest of the daw Cowboys dot Com. I'd
- 44:28Speaker 14: just like to piggyback on the DAK Talk. I specifically
- 44:31Speaker 14: remember last year when you were on the Cowboys Break
- 44:34Speaker 14: when Cooper Rush was running the show for a couple
- 44:36Speaker 14: of games. You got a little pushback from Eagleton, who
- 44:41Speaker 14: was also excellent, that you were like, you were okay
- 44:44Speaker 14: with letting Cooper Rush manage the game. You know, he
- 44:47Speaker 14: didn't make hardly made any mistakes. He let the defense,
- 44:50Speaker 14: you know, control of the clock or no, let the
- 44:52Speaker 14: office control of the clock. And you were like, listen
- 44:54Speaker 14: to it. You know, I know Dak coming back, but
- 44:56Speaker 14: maybe we should, you know, keep it going with Cooper Rush.
- 44:59Speaker 14: I know you got a lot to push back for that.
- 45:01Speaker 14: But my question is, at what point does the Cowboys
- 45:04Speaker 14: organization just say enough is enough? With Dak? Like he's
- 45:07Speaker 14: a great leader, he speaks excellent. Everything he says, he
- 45:10Speaker 14: says everything right. He represents the Cowboys organization in a
- 45:14Speaker 14: great way. But at what point does mister Jones and
- 45:18Speaker 14: the rest of the family just say enough is enough.
- 45:20Speaker 14: We have to move on. We cannot waste any more
- 45:22Speaker 14: money on the side.
- 45:24Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. Let me clarify on that. On
- 45:27Speaker 2: the on the Cooper Rush, you can go back and
- 45:29Speaker 2: look at every single one of them if you want,
- 45:31Speaker 2: and I'll tell you exactly what I said. I never
- 45:34Speaker 2: never said that Cooper Rush is a better quarterback than
- 45:37Speaker 2: than than Dak or or to the point where he's
- 45:40Speaker 2: a better option. What I said was is that if
- 45:43Speaker 2: this guy has won five games in a row, I'm
- 45:47Speaker 2: not taking an undefeated quarterback and putting him on the bench.
- 45:50Speaker 2: I'm not doing that right now, especially when a guy
- 45:52Speaker 2: who's rushing back from a thumb injury. I'm not doing that.
- 45:55Speaker 2: So if you if Cooper Rush goes and wins this
- 45:57Speaker 2: game against you know, the Bengals, and then he wins
- 46:00Speaker 2: against the Giants, and then he wins against I think Washington,
- 46:04Speaker 2: and then he goes to the Rams and they win,
- 46:06Speaker 2: and I was like, if you go to Philadelphia and
- 46:07Speaker 2: you win this game, I'm playing him. I'm gonna I'm
- 46:11Speaker 2: gonna play him right now until until he loses a game.
- 46:14Speaker 2: That's what happened with Dak. That's what That's what that's
- 46:17Speaker 2: what we saw with him. They was about to come
- 46:18Speaker 2: back for Romo, but he kept winning. He kept winning.
- 46:21Speaker 2: Everyone knew Romo was a better quarterback than Dak at
- 46:23Speaker 2: that point in his career. Everyone knew that, but the
- 46:26Speaker 2: guy kept winning. So, you know, same type of thing.
- 46:29Speaker 2: And that's all that I said there. I do think
- 46:32Speaker 2: Cooper Rush has a has a beautiful deep ball throw.
- 46:35Speaker 2: I mean that's that he doesn't have a lot of throws.
- 46:36Speaker 2: He just got that one. So that you know, that's
- 46:39Speaker 2: one thing that I have said to answer the second part,
- 46:42Speaker 2: and the really the question that you're asking it's when
- 46:45Speaker 2: they take a huge step back, and it's because and
- 46:48Speaker 2: they feel like he's the guy that's that's the reason
- 46:51Speaker 2: why they're they're taking a step back. You know, the
- 46:54Speaker 2: team's won twelve games two years in a row, they
- 46:56Speaker 2: made it to the playoffs, they're competing, they're they're they're
- 46:58Speaker 2: in the in the dance to try to try to
- 47:01Speaker 2: win it. I think when they realize that they're not
- 47:03Speaker 2: one of those elite teams in the NFC, and and
- 47:06Speaker 2: the reason is because they just need better quarterback play.
- 47:09Speaker 2: When they come to that realization, that's when they'll probably
- 47:11Speaker 2: make a change. I just don't think that they're there yet.
- 47:14Speaker 2: I don't think they see it that way. And let's
- 47:16Speaker 2: get all the pieces back here. Let's get this offense
- 47:19Speaker 2: rolling like like they expect it to be, and let's
- 47:22Speaker 2: see what happens. It's been three games. I mean, you
- 47:24Speaker 2: know when it was, when it was two games, it
- 47:27Speaker 2: was it was you know, are they going to get
- 47:29Speaker 2: the buy in the playoffs? Now it's been three games,
- 47:31Speaker 2: and now it's just changed the quarterback. Let's just let
- 47:33Speaker 2: this thing roll out and we'll see what what happens.
- 47:36Speaker 2: All right, we'll do this tomorrow. It was a fun
- 47:38Speaker 2: show for Chris Beam. I'm nick even. We'll see tomorrow
- 47:41Speaker 2: on Cowboys storyline.
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