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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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- 0:12Speaker 1: This these Cowboys storylines with Nick Eatman.
- 0:21Speaker 2: What is up? It is? Cowboys storyline Monday after the
- 0:25Speaker 2: Cowboys lose to Arizona. What was that? Don't know? Still
- 0:31Speaker 2: trying to figure that out. Maybe I get some help
- 0:33Speaker 2: from you guys, because I'm sure you are ready to
- 0:37Speaker 2: chime in on the Cowboys twenty eight sixteen loss to Arizona.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Once again, they go to the desert and weird things happened,
- 0:46Speaker 2: because this was a weird one. It was a weird
- 0:48Speaker 2: game all the way around. But the Cowboys just got
- 0:52Speaker 2: out played, simple as that. I mean they I think
- 0:55Speaker 2: everyone kind of thought it was going to go a
- 0:57Speaker 2: certain way and it didn't. And you can say an
- 1:00Speaker 2: fingerpoint to a lot of different things, but at the
- 1:03Speaker 2: end of the day, they couldn't stop the run, they
- 1:05Speaker 2: couldn't convert in the red zone, and field goals will
- 1:09Speaker 2: not win games when you're giving up touchdowns. That's just simple.
- 1:13Speaker 2: That's simple football right there, and that's what happened with
- 1:16Speaker 2: the Cowboys. So I want to hear from you guys.
- 1:18Speaker 2: Eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven,
- 1:21Speaker 2: and I'm sure you're ready. We already got some people
- 1:23Speaker 2: on the line. Let's let's let's play let's play nice
- 1:27Speaker 2: here today. Let's let's remember this. I understand a lot
- 1:30Speaker 2: of people have some things to say, the more that
- 1:32Speaker 2: we can kind of get the point. Let's go, let's
- 1:35Speaker 2: move on to other people. We will try to get
- 1:36Speaker 2: as many calls as we can. I I I understand
- 1:39Speaker 2: there'll be some some ranting going on, and rightfully so,
- 1:42Speaker 2: but let's try not to go too long. Let's try
- 1:44Speaker 2: to get as many people on the line as we can.
- 1:47Speaker 2: So that being said, let's just go right to it.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Joe and Stanford, Joe, what's up man?
- 1:53Speaker 3: Morning? Rather so, Yeah, it's that pretty much. I've got
- 1:57Speaker 3: irrational irrational, So you're right. Is the last two years,
- 2:02Speaker 3: I've watched three games in bars Jackson Bille at the
- 2:05Speaker 3: end of the season, the playoff game against the forty
- 2:08Speaker 3: nine ers, and then yesterday. Needless to say, I won't
- 2:11Speaker 3: be in the bar anymore watching the cap plays.
- 2:13Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm stay at home rational.
- 2:15Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt, because it was my fault. That's my irrational,
- 2:19Speaker 3: my irrational. Dude, You're right, I don't know what happened
- 2:23Speaker 3: with this run defense? What in the world it's like?
- 2:25Speaker 3: Was Trayvon Diggs making thirty tackles the game? What in
- 2:28Speaker 3: the world?
- 2:29Speaker 4: Man?
- 2:29Speaker 5: You know, I don't get it.
- 2:32Speaker 2: I mean, as I wrote in my story, I get it.
- 2:35Speaker 2: They're all, you know, the hip bones connected to the
- 2:37Speaker 2: elbow bone, all that stuff. I get it. But and
- 2:40Speaker 2: and certainly having Trayvon out there helps in other ways,
- 2:44Speaker 2: but the run defen two hundred and twenty two yards, Now,
- 2:48Speaker 2: he's not making all those tackles. He's not, I mean,
- 2:50Speaker 2: and they got a lot of misdirection. And I'll say this,
- 2:56Speaker 2: I looked at it just from the press box view.
- 2:59Speaker 2: From what I saw, That's what was kind of my
- 3:01Speaker 2: initial thought. And then I watched a little bit of
- 3:04Speaker 2: the game last night, and I think we're seeing the
- 3:08Speaker 2: downside of playing linebackers that are converted safeties. Now I'm
- 3:12Speaker 2: not saying it's always going to be bad, but when
- 3:15Speaker 2: you put a Marquis Bell at linebacker, or even jay
- 3:18Speaker 2: Ron Kurs or Donovan Wilson, you know, people watch Tate
- 3:23Speaker 2: and they understand physics, and so go look at the
- 3:27Speaker 2: touchdown by ron Dale Moore. Just go watch that one.
- 3:30Speaker 2: If if you if you could stomach it. It was
- 3:33Speaker 2: perfectly schemed by Arizona to say, you want to put
- 3:37Speaker 2: Marquis Bell at linebacker. Watch this and they put the
- 3:41Speaker 2: guard and they have Marquis Bell and Leyton vander ash
- 3:45Speaker 2: one side at one side. The guard goes to the
- 3:47Speaker 2: second level completely knocked Marquis out of the way. Rondale
- 3:51Speaker 2: Moore touchdown and and he's got Layton chasing him. You
- 3:54Speaker 2: got Layton chasing the running back or receiver type player,
- 3:58Speaker 2: and you got Marquis Bell taking on the guard. Perfectly schemed.
- 4:02Speaker 2: And that's that's what they're gonna do. The circle up
- 4:04Speaker 2: and that when the first time jay Ron Curse on
- 4:06Speaker 2: a touchdown, run same thing as I'm watching NFL Network
- 4:09Speaker 2: and Rondelle Moore scores a touchdown right there. I mean,
- 4:12Speaker 2: so you can put fast little guys and run around
- 4:16Speaker 2: and that'll help in some ways, but if it gets
- 4:18Speaker 2: blocked by a guard, you're gonna lose. And so I
- 4:21Speaker 2: think we're seeing kind of the downside of that. I'm
- 4:24Speaker 2: sure dan Quinn will talk about that later today in
- 4:27Speaker 2: his press conference. All right, let's go to the callers.
- 4:28Speaker 2: Jason from Delaware, what's up?
- 4:30Speaker 6: Jason Nick, how you doing, man? Good to talk to you.
- 4:33Speaker 2: Good to talk to you.
- 4:34Speaker 6: Hey. So so I was just listening to what you're
- 4:37Speaker 6: saying there about the defense, and as bad as they
- 4:39Speaker 6: were and as out coached as they looked, I got
- 4:43Speaker 6: much more faith in dan Quinn Micah and the boys
- 4:46Speaker 6: figuring that side of the ball out. But what's concerning
- 4:49Speaker 6: me right now? Through three games, game number one, we
- 4:51Speaker 6: didn't have to rely much on offense to do anything.
- 4:54Speaker 6: You could say the same for game number two. Well,
- 4:57Speaker 6: this was a game where you know, DAK had over
- 5:00Speaker 6: come a lot of adversity and as well as McCarthy
- 5:02Speaker 6: was just play calling and everything throughout the game to
- 5:05Speaker 6: make something happen, and it just seemed like they just
- 5:07Speaker 6: had no answers for anything that Arizona was doing, as
- 5:11Speaker 6: if it was the first time they'd ever seen, you know,
- 5:13Speaker 6: teams play them like this. So I'm just worried about
- 5:16Speaker 6: McCarthy's played calling, game management. I thought we should have
- 5:19Speaker 6: kicked the field goal when it was twenty one thirteen
- 5:21Speaker 6: to make it twenty one sixteen, because you got a
- 5:23Speaker 6: lot of game left and now a TV would have
- 5:24Speaker 6: put you up. And then Dak's sport, you know, interception
- 5:29Speaker 6: in the end zone there. I mean, if you look,
- 5:30Speaker 6: there's a picture floating around Twitter. He's got the clean pocket.
- 5:34Speaker 6: You know, there's no rush. He had plenty of time.
- 5:36Speaker 6: There's a fourth down left too, so you could live
- 5:38Speaker 6: to play that one more down and he just throws
- 5:41Speaker 6: into triple covers.
- 5:41Speaker 7: Man.
- 5:42Speaker 8: So I'm worried about.
- 5:43Speaker 6: You know, the play calling. McCarthy's game is written Dak's
- 5:46Speaker 6: decision making.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Yep, thanks for the call, Jason. You know, I you're
- 5:51Speaker 2: not wrong as it any of that. The the red
- 5:55Speaker 2: zone issues, you know, the first game, you know, last week,
- 5:57Speaker 2: it was like, all right, well they were really to
- 6:00Speaker 2: score a lot there being vanilla down there. Cool. Not
- 6:03Speaker 2: this time. And I thought the play calling, I thought
- 6:07Speaker 2: they moved the ball pretty well. I mean they had
- 6:09Speaker 2: four hundred and something yards for twenty two. I believe
- 6:12Speaker 2: they moved the ball, you know, but when they got
- 6:14Speaker 2: into the red zone that was the issue. And this
- 6:18Speaker 2: is not a new thing, Like the offensive line just
- 6:24Speaker 2: doesn't have that push. And I say it all the time,
- 6:27Speaker 2: and Derek Eagleton sits next to me in the press
- 6:30Speaker 2: box and he knows every time it's first and goal
- 6:33Speaker 2: at the ten, or first and goal at the nine.
- 6:35Speaker 2: It is trouble. It's trouble when you can't just run
- 6:39Speaker 2: the football and push them back, go back. In the
- 6:43Speaker 2: fourth quarter, third and fourth quarter, sorry, they had first
- 6:47Speaker 2: and first down or first and goal from the eleven,
- 6:50Speaker 2: from the ten, from the nine, from the eleven, and
- 6:54Speaker 2: they ran the ball all four times on first down
- 6:56Speaker 2: and they got two yards, three yards, two yards and
- 7:00Speaker 2: minus two yards. So your average, I don't know what
- 7:03Speaker 2: that average is, is two, maybe one, you know, one
- 7:07Speaker 2: and a half something like that. But it doesn't it
- 7:09Speaker 2: doesn't help you. I mean, you want to get like
- 7:12Speaker 2: to the five, you want to get four or five
- 7:14Speaker 2: yards there, because you're still now you're already get behind
- 7:16Speaker 2: the chains. And I think that's the problem. I thought
- 7:19Speaker 2: they did a decent job of moving it throughout, but
- 7:21Speaker 2: in the red zone that's where the problem is. And
- 7:26Speaker 2: you know, you can put an asterisk if you want,
- 7:29Speaker 2: because of the offensive line and and and you know
- 7:31Speaker 2: who was there and who wasn't, But you know it's
- 7:34Speaker 2: still you know, no one cares. You know they should,
- 7:37Speaker 2: but no one cares about about the offensive line and
- 7:40Speaker 2: and and the injuries that you have. But you know,
- 7:43Speaker 2: The good thing is is that that probably won't be
- 7:46Speaker 2: the case moving forward with with the injury situation. All right,
- 7:49Speaker 2: let's go to Travis in San Antonio for the next caller. Travis, Hey,
- 7:54Speaker 2: how are you man?
- 7:56Speaker 9: I'm still pretty good. I mean, I still think the
- 7:58Speaker 9: defense is going to be five coming out of this game.
- 8:01Speaker 9: I think, if I'm being honest, I think I underestimated
- 8:04Speaker 9: not so much missing digs, but missing I think that
- 8:07Speaker 9: I underestimate the team's emotional readiness for this game. I
- 8:12Speaker 9: think that played a factor into it because I saw
- 8:14Speaker 9: cd Len with the number seven I black, and I
- 8:17Speaker 9: just don't know if they were. It's almost like they
- 8:19Speaker 9: didn't put that to bed. And I'm not saying like
- 8:21Speaker 9: forget him whatever, but I think there has to be
- 8:24Speaker 9: a moment of like he's not going to be able
- 8:26Speaker 9: to help us, Like he's not coming back, so like
- 8:29Speaker 9: we have to move on. I don't think that happened
- 8:31Speaker 9: necessarily during the week, which it's understandable. And then I
- 8:36Speaker 9: know we got out coached, but I think part of
- 8:38Speaker 9: that is like we got out coached in the red zone.
- 8:42Speaker 9: I understand there were no rub routes. There was something
- 8:44Speaker 9: easy down there, which I don't think helps, but I
- 8:47Speaker 9: think the coaching staff may have operated from a standpoint
- 8:50Speaker 9: of the first two games. We relied on our defense,
- 8:53Speaker 9: and we kind of played a conservative game plane because
- 8:56Speaker 9: as soon as I saw Tyron was out, I texted
- 8:58Speaker 9: a buddy and said, here comes with a beven more
- 9:00Speaker 9: conservative game plan, because it's just that makes sense. You
- 9:02Speaker 9: just rely on your defense, do the same thing in
- 9:04Speaker 9: the first two weeks, you should be fine. But it
- 9:07Speaker 9: didn't work.
- 9:08Speaker 10: This time.
- 9:08Speaker 9: You got behind, and so I think they may have
- 9:10Speaker 9: to reassess offense and defense going forward. Right, how do
- 9:15Speaker 9: we want to attack this?
- 9:16Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you think, yeah, thanks Travis for the call.
- 9:20Speaker 2: You're right, I mean you can. You can play that
- 9:22Speaker 2: way when you're up, but you know, two touchdowns or whatever,
- 9:26Speaker 2: like they were against the Giants and the Jets, and
- 9:28Speaker 2: and of course they were up by a lot more
- 9:29Speaker 2: against the Giants, but you know, you can play a
- 9:32Speaker 2: different style. You know, does this Is this a great
- 9:36Speaker 2: offense for coming back and coming back in the game?
- 9:40Speaker 2: And you know, I think it is because at no
- 9:43Speaker 2: point do I think that they really had to abandon
- 9:45Speaker 2: what they were trying to do. I mean, they were
- 9:47Speaker 2: down there with five minutes to go down by twelve
- 9:50Speaker 2: and looking like it was going to be first and
- 9:52Speaker 2: goal at the one. I have no answers for that
- 9:57Speaker 2: of why it wasn't. I just there's no there's nothing
- 10:02Speaker 2: about that play that makes me understand why they picked
- 10:05Speaker 2: up the flag. But whatef somebody wants to call about
- 10:09Speaker 2: that and talk about it, we can. I'll get off
- 10:13Speaker 2: that so bucks there. But I just I mean, and
- 10:16Speaker 2: it was just it was the way that the game
- 10:18Speaker 2: was officiated all day. They had to kind of you
- 10:21Speaker 2: have to to factor that in. I mean, you have
- 10:23Speaker 2: to to play that way, you know, when when you're
- 10:25Speaker 2: when you're both sides of the ball. But yeah, I
- 10:28Speaker 2: think I think if you're gonna come back, you know
- 10:30Speaker 2: you're gonna you're gonna play that kind of offense. I
- 10:33Speaker 2: think it's it's not one that's gonna take big shots
- 10:36Speaker 2: down the field. But I still think that they didn't
- 10:38Speaker 2: have to abandon what they were trying to do. But
- 10:40Speaker 2: it's something to look at, you know, moving forward, because
- 10:42Speaker 2: this this team, uh certainly, you know, we we saw
- 10:47Speaker 2: that they they couldn't just rely on the defense. They
- 10:50Speaker 2: didn't rely on the defense yesterday. They needed to in
- 10:52Speaker 2: a game like that and it didn't work out. Let's
- 10:55Speaker 2: go to the text line. We've got one from Roquel
- 10:58Speaker 2: Raquel in a Wall Creek, California. I love that. But
- 11:03Speaker 2: he knows he should have never thrown that ball to
- 11:05Speaker 2: Cooks and know the linebacker didn't make a great play
- 11:07Speaker 2: because he threw it into triple coverage. I have faith
- 11:10Speaker 2: will bounce back next week. Yep, he knows that you
- 11:14Speaker 2: shouldn't throw it into triple coverage. It was he was
- 11:17Speaker 2: forcing it. I'm not sure why, but he did. And
- 11:21Speaker 2: that's that's it. That was a huge play in the game.
- 11:25Speaker 2: All right, fourth caller we've got is David in Pinehurst.
- 11:28Speaker 2: David's up?
- 11:30Speaker 5: What is up?
- 11:30Speaker 10: Nick?
- 11:31Speaker 11: Man?
- 11:32Speaker 12: Hey, let's go with the Bill Parcells quote. I'm not
- 11:35Speaker 12: really in the excuse business. No excuses for this one, man,
- 11:39Speaker 12: I mean freaking pew pew pew. Jonathan Gannon's defense. Did
- 11:43Speaker 12: he unlock some code that Dick Fangio did back in
- 11:46Speaker 12: twenty twenty one? Remember that score was thirty to sixteen.
- 11:49Speaker 12: We were riding high and Vick was like, yeah, it's good,
- 11:52Speaker 12: good out. How to beat the Cowboys? You know, last
- 11:54Speaker 12: week I was early to anoint this defense as doomsday.
- 11:57Speaker 12: But I got to pull that back.
- 11:59Speaker 13: Man.
- 12:00Speaker 3: We have got to.
- 12:01Speaker 12: Find a way to stop the run. But what's scary
- 12:04Speaker 12: is I see this as a scheme thing. What's creeping
- 12:07Speaker 12: up here defensively? You know, Gannon was able to do
- 12:10Speaker 12: something with misdirection and scheme fits, and we can't get
- 12:14Speaker 12: this red zone offense going.
- 12:16Speaker 5: Uh.
- 12:16Speaker 12: Last, but not least, this is probably the worst quote.
- 12:19Speaker 12: The media got what they wanted. Come on, Dak, you
- 12:22Speaker 12: got to be better than that. If we win against
- 12:25Speaker 12: New England and we take it to San Francisco, this
- 12:28Speaker 12: game is in the books. That's all I got.
- 12:31Speaker 2: Thank you, David. I yeah, I was. I don't know.
- 12:37Speaker 2: But the no excuses, I mean I don't I don't
- 12:39Speaker 2: know what excuses there are. I mean, I don't know
- 12:40Speaker 2: what what what that's in reference here? I was going
- 12:42Speaker 2: to ask him that what what the excuses? I mean,
- 12:46Speaker 2: who's who's throwing out excuses? I don't know. Uh, you know.
- 12:49Speaker 2: Then again, I mean a lot of times a lot
- 12:51Speaker 2: of callers come in and then they hear what they
- 12:53Speaker 2: see on you know, social media and stuff like that,
- 12:56Speaker 2: so you know, like that's the narrative, and I don't
- 12:59Speaker 2: know I mean, I don't know what the excuses are.
- 13:01Speaker 2: I mean, they had a lot of a lot of penalties.
- 13:04Speaker 2: Uh and most of them we were legit, you know,
- 13:08Speaker 2: there was some you know, the way the game was
- 13:10Speaker 2: called was just it was didn't favor the Cowboys. The
- 13:12Speaker 2: way that they play, the way that their style is,
- 13:16Speaker 2: the offensive line. That's a thing. I mean, that's not
- 13:19Speaker 2: an excuse that that's a thing that that is, that's
- 13:22Speaker 2: a problem. You can't play with two guys that have
- 13:25Speaker 2: never you know, started a game before, and then you know,
- 13:27Speaker 2: Cheumny Dogo on the left the left side, which we
- 13:30Speaker 2: can get to here in a second, but that's that's
- 13:32Speaker 2: a that's a legitimate difference in what you're trying to do.
- 13:36Speaker 2: So we can just stop that right now. About anybody
- 13:39Speaker 2: that thinks that that's that's all, you know, there's no excuses,
- 13:42Speaker 2: that's a that's a problem, okay, you that you have
- 13:46Speaker 2: to factor that in. They get down in the red zone,
- 13:48Speaker 2: they didn't move the ball. And if you don't think
- 13:51Speaker 2: it's a problem, then you know what, maybe those guys
- 13:53Speaker 2: don't need to be on the team, you know, I mean,
- 13:56Speaker 2: maybe we just won't put Zach Martin back in or
- 13:59Speaker 2: or or Tyler Biadish. I mean, I mean, listen, remember
- 14:03Speaker 2: what you're saying. I mean, like, there's a reason why
- 14:06Speaker 2: these guys get paid the way they do, and it's
- 14:09Speaker 2: hard to have backups. I tweeted this out. They lost
- 14:12Speaker 2: nineteen Pro Bowlers from Week two to week three. Nineteen
- 14:17Speaker 2: combined Pro Bowls in one week. I mean, that's that
- 14:22Speaker 2: is not an excuse. That's just the reality of football
- 14:25Speaker 2: is when you have quality players that are making a
- 14:28Speaker 2: lot of money, the backups is a huge drop off.
- 14:31Speaker 2: And it is a big drop off when you lose
- 14:32Speaker 2: three OFFENSI lineman in one week. Okay, should they have
- 14:35Speaker 2: lost the game because of that? I still think they
- 14:36Speaker 2: could have won the game, and I think that they
- 14:38Speaker 2: should have won the game. The defense didn't rally like
- 14:41Speaker 2: we wanted them to. But let's not sit here and
- 14:43Speaker 2: say that it's not a factor, or it's not whatever
- 14:46Speaker 2: you can call it, excuse whatever. It's a factor. But
- 14:48Speaker 2: they didn't overcome it. And that's what you have to
- 14:50Speaker 2: do in this NFL. Overcome it that that quote. Listen
- 14:54Speaker 2: to the entire press conference. If you can listen to
- 14:55Speaker 2: the entire press conference, listen to the question don't just
- 14:58Speaker 2: listen to the answer they get put out on Twitter.
- 15:01Speaker 2: Listen to the question. The question was you guys were
- 15:04Speaker 2: on top of the world. What happened? And Dad said,
- 15:07Speaker 2: y'all put us on top of the world. We didn't
- 15:10Speaker 2: do that. We know where we are, and you know
- 15:12Speaker 2: whatever he said about the media wants this, just listen
- 15:16Speaker 2: to the whole thing. I mean, don't. I wouldn't just
- 15:19Speaker 2: take one quote and say you got to be better
- 15:20Speaker 2: than that. The question could have been better as well.
- 15:23Speaker 2: All right, a couple of let's go to the phone
- 15:26Speaker 2: call here Steven on New York. Steve, what's up my
- 15:30Speaker 2: quick lance?
- 15:31Speaker 13: I know everyone you know getting on DAC with the
- 15:34Speaker 13: throw and the red zone, with the lineman out, I
- 15:37Speaker 13: get it. But bottom line, the Cowboys got run over. Okay,
- 15:42Speaker 13: James Connor, Joshua Dobbs, and Rondel Moore ran us sober
- 15:46Speaker 13: period and listen, you can make excuses this guy's out,
- 15:50Speaker 13: but the Cowboys ran for one hundred and what eighty
- 15:53Speaker 13: yards plus and he only got sacked twice. This wasn't
- 15:56Speaker 13: a chance green game, right, I mean it wasn't.
- 15:59Speaker 2: You know.
- 16:00Speaker 12: I thought the.
- 16:00Speaker 13: Offensive line, all things considered, they weren't terrible.
- 16:04Speaker 14: They really weren't.
- 16:05Speaker 2: They weren't terrible. They just didn't They didn't weren't as
- 16:07Speaker 2: good as you needed to be in the red zone.
- 16:09Speaker 2: But you're right, they they kind of they hung in there.
- 16:13Speaker 13: They did, and it just real quick. I wanted your
- 16:15Speaker 13: opinion a call we hit on it earlier. What was
- 16:18Speaker 13: your take on going forward on board that. I thought
- 16:20Speaker 13: that was a horrible decision.
- 16:21Speaker 2: Didn't like it? You didn't like it, Thanks Steve for
- 16:23Speaker 2: the call I got. I didn't like it, and I
- 16:27Speaker 2: Derek and I were kind of talking about it. You
- 16:29Speaker 2: know again, I'm referencing that and the press part. We
- 16:31Speaker 2: didn't like it, like when they're under center, like I
- 16:33Speaker 2: like this, I like this, and then after the incomplete pass.
- 16:37Speaker 2: It was funny how a lot of people are like
- 16:39Speaker 2: that was terrible. You know, I'm throwing out analytics and
- 16:42Speaker 2: all that, but no, I didn't like it because the
- 16:45Speaker 2: momentum of the game was continued. I mean, just keep scoring,
- 16:48Speaker 2: just keep scoring, and you know, think about how different
- 16:51Speaker 2: it is if it's you got three more points, if
- 16:54Speaker 2: it's twenty eight to nineteen and you're driving there late,
- 16:58Speaker 2: you don't have to be as aggressive trying to throw
- 17:00Speaker 2: into triple coverage. You just kicked the field goal, make
- 17:02Speaker 2: it twenty eight, twenty two, and then you kick off.
- 17:04Speaker 2: So the three points would have been really important, I think.
- 17:08Speaker 2: And you know, if you would have stopped them back
- 17:11Speaker 2: there and then they punted, that's one thing. But you didn't.
- 17:13Speaker 2: You didn't. They got a deep ball from their own
- 17:16Speaker 2: end zone and through through it out, so you know, yeah,
- 17:19Speaker 2: in hindsight there it didn't look good. But I didn't
- 17:22Speaker 2: like it at the time either. I thought you just
- 17:23Speaker 2: kind of keep keep going, keep getting field goals there
- 17:26Speaker 2: because they weren't proving that they could score there in
- 17:29Speaker 2: the red zone.
- 17:29Speaker 10: All right.
- 17:30Speaker 2: Then go to another text question text message, why put
- 17:34Speaker 2: Idoga at left tackle? This is Steven Vermont. Why put
- 17:38Speaker 2: Adoga at left tackle? He was so much better at
- 17:40Speaker 2: gar I can't understand why you put him in that position.
- 17:42Speaker 2: I'm not excusing the way you play. He was put
- 17:45Speaker 2: in that position by the coaches, he says. Notre Dame
- 17:47Speaker 2: loses them last play with an awful sports weekend. Yeah,
- 17:50Speaker 2: I'm with you on that one awful sports weekend for sure.
- 17:54Speaker 2: The only thing I could think of of why he
- 17:56Speaker 2: was at left tackle? Is just because Tyler Smith had
- 17:59Speaker 2: been I mean, coming on, you could say, okay, Awesome
- 18:03Speaker 2: Richards or him. I think that they just felt like
- 18:05Speaker 2: he was better than Awesome Bridge Richards. Why not Tyler
- 18:09Speaker 2: Smith out there? Tyler Smith coming off a hamstring injury.
- 18:12Speaker 2: I no one had told me this. I just feel
- 18:14Speaker 2: like if he's coming off a hamstring injury, it's a
- 18:17Speaker 2: little tougher to play left tackle then it would be
- 18:20Speaker 2: left guard as far as the mobility that you need there.
- 18:23Speaker 2: So I feel like that's where they wanted to put
- 18:25Speaker 2: him back there. But if you're going to play a
- 18:29Speaker 2: doge at tackle, in my opinion, he's got to be
- 18:31Speaker 2: at right you know, he's got to be on the
- 18:32Speaker 2: right side. He's got to be at right tackle, not
- 18:34Speaker 2: left tackle. And that's not good for Terrence Steel. But
- 18:36Speaker 2: he's got to be on the right side where Dak
- 18:38Speaker 2: can see that. You've got to see that. I mean,
- 18:40Speaker 2: Rumlin used to say it all the time. I'm about
- 18:42Speaker 2: to his right tackle, don't hold I can I'll get
- 18:46Speaker 2: you know, I can make this guy miss. But Dak's
- 18:49Speaker 2: got to be able to see that. I don't think
- 18:50Speaker 2: he's he's the left tackle. I think he's a guard.
- 18:53Speaker 2: I think they got to figure that out. But you know,
- 18:56Speaker 2: he he he fought through it. I mean he had
- 18:58Speaker 2: some he had some some plays that weren't so great,
- 19:00Speaker 2: but you know, he kept he kept battling. There. Let's
- 19:03Speaker 2: go to the called David in Pennsylvania. Hey are you
- 19:07Speaker 2: good man?
- 19:08Speaker 4: How are you frustrated? I think, like most Cowboy fans right.
- 19:11Speaker 2: Now, yeah, I feel you. Man, what's the most frustrating part?
- 19:17Speaker 4: I'd say, honestly, it was not playing complimentary football. Now
- 19:22Speaker 4: we lose three offensive linemen going to this game. We
- 19:24Speaker 4: knew he had no Tyrant's not gonna play, and the
- 19:28Speaker 4: defense just comes out completely flat from the start. I mean,
- 19:32Speaker 4: I'm not gonna put blame on Michah Micah's Micah, but
- 19:35Speaker 4: watching him still, it seemed that nobody wanted to contain
- 19:38Speaker 4: the outside. You know, you see Dante Faller just coming
- 19:41Speaker 4: up off the edge. Nobody was trying to.
- 19:43Speaker 7: Hold it in.
- 19:44Speaker 4: Micah was just kind of flying around, just looked like
- 19:46Speaker 4: a wild child in a sense. But and there wasn't
- 19:51Speaker 4: anything that our defense could do in that first half
- 19:53Speaker 4: to stop him for some reason. But you look at
- 19:55Speaker 4: the opposit side of the ball, I mean, I'm sorry,
- 19:59Speaker 4: but see, you've got to go for that ball in
- 20:01Speaker 4: the end zone. You can't try to play for the
- 20:04Speaker 4: penalty there. Like des Brian would have gone up and
- 20:06Speaker 4: caught that ball, he would have gone through that person.
- 20:09Speaker 4: He's not dead, but he's got to have a little
- 20:12Speaker 4: fire like on.
- 20:13Speaker 2: I think I agree, Yeah, David, I appreciate a good
- 20:17Speaker 2: call too, because yeah, these you know, Micah Parsons is Micah,
- 20:23Speaker 2: But there is there's a flip side to everything. The
- 20:25Speaker 2: guy quoted parcels earlier. Here's another par Sales quote. There's
- 20:28Speaker 2: two sides to that pancake, and there's always good. That's
- 20:31Speaker 2: the way it is when you want to be an
- 20:33Speaker 2: aggressive defense that you want to just live off sacks.
- 20:36Speaker 2: Let's get to the quarterback rush rush rush, Well, they
- 20:40Speaker 2: can play against that as well. And that's you know,
- 20:42Speaker 2: that first first play of the game or the first run.
- 20:45Speaker 2: I was at Dobbs on the outside. I mean, it's
- 20:48Speaker 2: it's Micah's mentality to go get the go get the
- 20:50Speaker 2: quarterback all the time, or go get the ball, and
- 20:53Speaker 2: sometimes you can you can use their aggressiveness against them,
- 20:57Speaker 2: and I think that that happens at times. And then
- 20:59Speaker 2: there's I'm not saying that you can fault them for that,
- 21:02Speaker 2: but but you have to also be at the same time,
- 21:06Speaker 2: you have to be contained. It's controlled chaos. You can't
- 21:09Speaker 2: just fly to the football all the time because that's
- 21:12Speaker 2: going to, you know, get you exposed. And I think
- 21:14Speaker 2: that's what happened. Arizona did a nice job of playing
- 21:16Speaker 2: against that. Right now. You got to give their coaching
- 21:18Speaker 2: staff and their players credit for the way that they said,
- 21:21Speaker 2: all right, two games on film, we've seen the way
- 21:23Speaker 2: Dallas wants to play. The best way for us to
- 21:26Speaker 2: combat that is to play it like this, and it
- 21:28Speaker 2: did work. It worked for them. Let's go to another
- 21:31Speaker 2: text message, John from New York. It seemed to me
- 21:34Speaker 2: the whole entire scheme of the offense is designed for
- 21:36Speaker 2: Deck not to lose the game and avoid interceptions. Hard
- 21:40Speaker 2: to win unless defense is lights out your thoughts defense,
- 21:45Speaker 2: I mean, the defense doesn't have to be lights out
- 21:48Speaker 2: that they weren't close to that. I mean that the
- 21:50Speaker 2: every light was on in that game. I mean, like, so,
- 21:54Speaker 2: I don't know if the defense has to be lights out,
- 21:56Speaker 2: it's just it's the defense has to be has to
- 21:58Speaker 2: be better than that. You know, the offense, you're trying
- 22:04Speaker 2: not to turn the ball over. I mean, that's that's
- 22:06Speaker 2: that's a key thing. You don't want to turn the
- 22:08Speaker 2: football over. You want to play at smart kickfield goals
- 22:10Speaker 2: and all that. But but I think the defense could
- 22:12Speaker 2: have played better than twenty eight points. I mean, they're
- 22:14Speaker 2: averaging five points a game going into that and they
- 22:17Speaker 2: give that up in the first quarter. So you know,
- 22:21Speaker 2: it wasn't complimentary football. Like one of the callers said earlier,
- 22:25Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Johnny on the phone line.
- 22:27Speaker 2: Johnny in Ridgeville, South Carolina. Hey there, how are you doing, Hey, Johnny,
- 22:33Speaker 2: are you big?
- 22:36Speaker 11: It's a hard knock wife being all fan and a
- 22:39Speaker 11: Cowboy fanous.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a tough one. It was a tough one.
- 22:42Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 22:42Speaker 11: Yeah, Well, I'll tell you what. I called you a
- 22:45Speaker 11: couple of weeks ago, and I told you I was
- 22:47Speaker 11: afraid the Cowboys was going to start smelling themselves just
- 22:50Speaker 11: a little too much. And I think they walked in
- 22:52Speaker 11: there yesterday thinking how good they smell, and it showed
- 22:56Speaker 11: on the field because it wasn't a matter of cawns.
- 23:00Speaker 11: It was a mentality that they didn't have. It was
- 23:03Speaker 11: a mentality that I can just do this, and the
- 23:06Speaker 11: fits were terrible. I mean, I know, you know, when
- 23:09Speaker 11: I'm coaching my high school kids, I can get them
- 23:11Speaker 11: on the sideline and I can read them the riot act.
- 23:14Speaker 11: He's are grown men, right, And you know at what
- 23:18Speaker 11: point did the coaches say, I can't get him back? Well,
- 23:23Speaker 11: he never did. He never got him back. When you
- 23:26Speaker 11: got him in third and long and they throw a
- 23:30Speaker 11: fake against your best corner when you really need to stop,
- 23:35Speaker 11: you know, things aren't going well that day. I don't
- 23:39Speaker 11: think that means Dallas. Dallas is a bad team. And
- 23:43Speaker 11: everybody who thinks this is gonna complain about Dak. You
- 23:47Speaker 11: know what, tell the wide receivers to get open. That
- 23:50Speaker 11: that makeshift offensive line gave him time. A lot of
- 23:53Speaker 11: times he couldn't find anybody open.
- 23:55Speaker 2: Yeah, there's truth to that.
- 23:59Speaker 15: Get open.
- 24:00Speaker 11: You know they ran the ball efficiently, but guys don't
- 24:03Speaker 11: get open defense, you know, they they've played like a
- 24:11Speaker 11: team that you know, I get it, you lost your
- 24:13Speaker 11: best your best corner, I get that, but you get
- 24:16Speaker 11: you know, this is a profession. You got to you know,
- 24:20Speaker 11: cowboy up and go do your job.
- 24:22Speaker 10: And they didn't do it.
- 24:23Speaker 11: And they got what they they got what they deserve.
- 24:26Speaker 11: Do they learn from it? Probably so. But this is
- 24:28Speaker 11: what Dan Quinn coached this week, and this is what
- 24:31Speaker 11: Mike McCarthy coached this week.
- 24:33Speaker 8: You are what's y'all?
- 24:35Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, thanks for the call, Johnny, you
- 24:39Speaker 2: are what you are. It's a lot of parcelssm's going
- 24:43Speaker 2: out this for this game.
- 24:46Speaker 13: Man.
- 24:46Speaker 2: Where to start from that? Yeah, I mean the defense,
- 24:49Speaker 2: I mean they're on Bland replacing on Diggs. You know,
- 24:54Speaker 2: he didn't have his best game for sure, and that's
- 24:57Speaker 2: that's gonna be a challenge moving forward because that that's
- 25:00Speaker 2: the thing. The defense is more concerning to me than
- 25:04Speaker 2: the offense because Diggs isn't coming back. This is it.
- 25:09Speaker 2: This is what you've got. You've got to figure out
- 25:11Speaker 2: how to play like this. And they're going to be
- 25:13Speaker 2: better than Josh Dobbs and James Connor and ron Dale Moore.
- 25:18Speaker 2: It's going to be better than that. I mean, it
- 25:20Speaker 2: just will. And so you've got to figure out how
- 25:22Speaker 2: to combat that on offense. Yeah, it you know, get
- 25:26Speaker 2: open and and be better in the red zone. You know, again,
- 25:31Speaker 2: at least you have something, at least you can say, well,
- 25:34Speaker 2: they're gonna they're they're gonna be they're gonna have better
- 25:36Speaker 2: offensive linemen than that. They're gonna be able to run
- 25:39Speaker 2: the ball better, hopefully down in the red zone. But
- 25:43Speaker 2: but they've got to fix some things too, and I
- 25:45Speaker 2: think you put some on the receivers too. They need
- 25:47Speaker 2: to be more aggressive to go get the football text
- 25:50Speaker 2: message from the two one OHO number. The interference non
- 25:53Speaker 2: call on Gallup wasn't that The same play was called
- 25:56Speaker 2: on Anthony Brown against the Raiders a year or two ago.
- 26:00Speaker 2: I don't remember that. It's the same call that's called
- 26:03Speaker 2: on every cornerback that doesn't turn his head and puts
- 26:06Speaker 2: his face or his helmet right in a guy's chest
- 26:10Speaker 2: before the ball, and it wasn't a non call. It
- 26:13Speaker 2: was a call. That's the thing that's frustrating to me
- 26:16Speaker 2: about it because you're playing it one way all game.
- 26:20Speaker 2: They're calling it. There's thirteen flags in the game. They
- 26:23Speaker 2: call one on Land. They called it offensive interference on
- 26:27Speaker 2: CD which was a huge play in the game. So
- 26:30Speaker 2: they're calling it this way all game long, and they
- 26:33Speaker 2: called it there. That's the issue that I have is
- 26:36Speaker 2: the guy with the best eyes right there through the
- 26:40Speaker 2: flag and then they get together, maybe they talk to
- 26:44Speaker 2: New York, not sure, and they go out and they
- 26:47Speaker 2: just say it it was a PI, it's throw down,
- 26:50Speaker 2: Like you got to explain that. I'm sorry, you have
- 26:52Speaker 2: to get on there and explain what the thing was.
- 26:54Speaker 2: That was a terrible non call. And you know, again
- 27:00Speaker 2: not throwing out the excuses. It's just be consistent. Just
- 27:03Speaker 2: be consistent in how you're calling the game and and
- 27:06Speaker 2: let the guy. And also if you're not, if you
- 27:07Speaker 2: don't need seven officials, then then don't don't use them.
- 27:10Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, if you're not gonna say, hey,
- 27:12Speaker 2: you see the play, you're trained for this, throw it.
- 27:15Speaker 2: And I just didn't understand why that one got picked
- 27:18Speaker 2: up when they've called it that tight all game long. Uh,
- 27:22Speaker 2: So that that one was a little bit, I mean,
- 27:24Speaker 2: that was a lot. I mean, I just that was
- 27:27Speaker 2: shocking to me. I didn't understand that one. So they
- 27:30Speaker 2: should be frustrated with that. All right, let's go, jim,
- 27:34Speaker 2: Jimmy and l Passo. Are you next, Jimmy and al Passo?
- 27:38Speaker 2: What's up?
- 27:38Speaker 16: Jimmy, Hey, Nick, good morning, how you doing.
- 27:41Speaker 2: I'm good you good?
- 27:43Speaker 15: Good?
- 27:43Speaker 16: Love your show man' been following you for the longest time.
- 27:45Speaker 2: Thanks man, I appreciate that.
- 27:47Speaker 16: Yeah, I know everybody's saying that, you know that the
- 27:51Speaker 16: Cowboys are you know, they had a bad they had
- 27:54Speaker 16: a bad game. I get that, but they're still positive
- 27:56Speaker 16: that came out of that. Number one was a scal us.
- 28:01Speaker 16: He had a he had a real.
- 28:02Speaker 8: Good, solid game.
- 28:03Speaker 16: I hope he continues the same RICO very very good
- 28:08Speaker 16: game as well. And if if Turpin would have h
- 28:12Speaker 16: would have run that without a penalty, we would have
- 28:14Speaker 16: probably been in a better situation. But uh, I think
- 28:18Speaker 16: the next thing, burn the tape and on with the next.
- 28:21Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I don't you know what. Thanks for the call.
- 28:26Speaker 2: I appreciate that. And I hear that a lot burned
- 28:28Speaker 2: the tape. I don't want to burn it just yet.
- 28:30Speaker 2: I want I want them to see what the Cardinals
- 28:33Speaker 2: did to them. I mean, because they have to fix that.
- 28:35Speaker 2: The Cardinals out schemed them in a lot of ways,
- 28:39Speaker 2: especially with that defense, the way the way the Cardinals
- 28:41Speaker 2: ran the ball at them, and and so they're going
- 28:43Speaker 2: to have to figure out other teams are going to
- 28:45Speaker 2: do that. We we see it all times. Copycat league. Uh,
- 28:48Speaker 2: somebody made the call about Denver a couple of years
- 28:50Speaker 2: ago how they came in and and and did some
- 28:52Speaker 2: things on defense to to really slow down the Cowboys offense,
- 28:56Speaker 2: and it kind of changed throughout the year. So, uh yeah,
- 28:58Speaker 2: that was that was Gallup had a nice game, and
- 29:03Speaker 2: it's kind of what we said last week is that
- 29:05Speaker 2: it goes like that they're going to play CD differently.
- 29:07Speaker 2: Gallup's gonna get a chance to step up, and he did.
- 29:10Speaker 2: So that's good. Rico Daddles showing that that he is
- 29:12Speaker 2: a really good number two running back. He does a
- 29:15Speaker 2: nice job, catch the ball out of the backfield, scored
- 29:17Speaker 2: that touchdown. He runs hard, So you know, I think
- 29:21Speaker 2: I don't know if if they're really missing a whole
- 29:24Speaker 2: lot there, you know, with not having that power back
- 29:27Speaker 2: yet Hunter Luke got the carry, went nine yards, and
- 29:30Speaker 2: they're giving him more and more. Turpin play was big.
- 29:33Speaker 2: It was not included in my five plays article mainly
- 29:38Speaker 2: because they got down there ninety seconds later. I think,
- 29:42Speaker 2: I mean, they were down there, it looked like a
- 29:44Speaker 2: big play and then they went all the way back.
- 29:46Speaker 2: But in a matter of three or four plays, they
- 29:48Speaker 2: were back there even further and had a chance to
- 29:51Speaker 2: go score. So it as much as it looked like
- 29:54Speaker 2: it was a sixty five yard penalty, but they they
- 29:57Speaker 2: were right back in position to do that just few
- 30:00Speaker 2: seconds later without a lot of time taking off, so
- 30:02Speaker 2: didn't affect them as much. Sure it sure seemed like
- 30:05Speaker 2: it did, but they were able to score. Anyways, Let's
- 30:08Speaker 2: go to the phone lines against Sebastian and Savannah Georgia. Sebastian,
- 30:13Speaker 2: good morning.
- 30:14Speaker 5: Good morning, mister Ema. I put a shout out.
- 30:16Speaker 14: To Whale Jazzy and Spem making it work in the
- 30:18Speaker 14: back every single day.
- 30:19Speaker 8: These guys work hard.
- 30:21Speaker 2: Definitely do thanks for saying that.
- 30:23Speaker 14: I really enjoy the fact that we have a lot
- 30:24Speaker 14: of level headed callers today. You know, at the end
- 30:27Speaker 14: of the day, I think this is one of those
- 30:28Speaker 14: situations where a team is better than their records, and
- 30:32Speaker 14: I think they surprised us. I don't know if they
- 30:34Speaker 14: you want to say, you know from verbial cheese that
- 30:36Speaker 14: they like to throw out or filling themselves in the
- 30:38Speaker 14: first two wins, but they came out flat and I
- 30:42Speaker 14: haven't seen that since a lot of times, like when
- 30:45Speaker 14: we faced the Niners that first time around, we were
- 30:47Speaker 14: kind of flat. I was surprised by the fact that
- 30:49Speaker 14: coaching couldn't help out in this game at no level
- 30:52Speaker 14: special teams, defense and offense coordinator. It seemed like they
- 30:56Speaker 14: had no answer.
- 30:57Speaker 2: Yeah, like they didn't you.
- 30:58Speaker 14: Know, as a professionals to them to watch this hate
- 31:01Speaker 14: and haven't answered for jock jobs. But you saw this
- 31:03Speaker 14: in the first two weeks watching it. Has an amazing defense.
- 31:06Speaker 14: They blaze watched his defense for three quarters and then
- 31:09Speaker 14: blew it. Sometimes you get hit in.
- 31:11Speaker 5: The mouth and you can't come back from it.
- 31:12Speaker 10: Yep.
- 31:13Speaker 14: Well, then I want to see more from CD. I
- 31:17Speaker 14: don't like how he got so emotional. You see him
- 31:19Speaker 14: on the bench with his head hanging low. That's what
- 31:21Speaker 14: takes you out of that top five for me. Yeah,
- 31:23Speaker 14: if you have you have to realize that some days
- 31:26Speaker 14: just aren't going to be your day. Pump up everybody
- 31:28Speaker 14: else on that sideline, help your quarterback out. I saw
- 31:30Speaker 14: very little separation. I saw very little effort, it seemed
- 31:33Speaker 14: like at times. And then all I want to see
- 31:35Speaker 14: for the red zone, clean it up, Clean it up
- 31:38Speaker 14: a little bit. It's very jumbled down there. Run the ball,
- 31:41Speaker 14: loosen it up. You don't have to have everybody flying
- 31:43Speaker 14: into the end zone. Because you saw it so many times,
- 31:45Speaker 14: four or five people in the end zone, no one
- 31:47Speaker 14: to go to. Yeah, all right, you got to have
- 31:50Speaker 14: a great.
- 31:50Speaker 2: DA Yeah, thank you, thank you. A lot of stuff there.
- 31:52Speaker 7: You know.
- 31:53Speaker 2: One thing that was a little disappointing is and I
- 31:55Speaker 2: saw this a lot of training camp and I was
- 31:57Speaker 2: really excited about it, and I haven't seen it as much,
- 32:00Speaker 2: is how much they spread out the defenses and they don't.
- 32:04Speaker 2: They don't seem to do that as much. Again, sometimes
- 32:09Speaker 2: I feel like there's an ego that gets put out
- 32:11Speaker 2: when the coaches they want to go big, like let's
- 32:14Speaker 2: go jumbo, let's go three tight ends, two tight ends, whatever,
- 32:18Speaker 2: big on big, and you're not big enough to do it.
- 32:23Speaker 2: That's one thing that just always drives me crazy when
- 32:26Speaker 2: teams want to play big boy football and they don't
- 32:29Speaker 2: have the biggest boys to do it. So when you
- 32:31Speaker 2: get out physical at the line of scrimmage, like why
- 32:34Speaker 2: are you surprised? I mean, like, like, so, don't go
- 32:37Speaker 2: that way. There's a there's a play that they did
- 32:40Speaker 2: an option pitch to CD. They have three receivers on
- 32:44Speaker 2: the right side CD. One of them cooks in gallop.
- 32:48Speaker 2: They're not going to win any like awards for blocking.
- 32:51Speaker 2: I think cooks that have a nice block. On the
- 32:52Speaker 2: touchdown from Dad'll the guy slipped and then he kind
- 32:55Speaker 2: of buried him into the ground. But on this played
- 32:58Speaker 2: down by the goal line, they did pitch out to
- 33:00Speaker 2: to CD, and it's so you put three receivers over there.
- 33:04Speaker 2: The Cardinals have four defenders, so CD has the ball.
- 33:08Speaker 2: So now it's four defenders on two guys, and you're
- 33:11Speaker 2: and you're he's supposed to make all these guys miss
- 33:14Speaker 2: you on a short field and what do you expect
- 33:17Speaker 2: to happen? I mean, like that doesn't make any any
- 33:19Speaker 2: sense to me, So I mean spread spread it out
- 33:23Speaker 2: a little bit more. Your tight ends don't have to
- 33:25Speaker 2: be guys that are just gonna maul people because that's
- 33:27Speaker 2: not really their game. So that that was a little
- 33:30Speaker 2: bit disappointing to me. It's just that they're so jumbled
- 33:33Speaker 2: in there.
- 33:35Speaker 10: All right.
- 33:35Speaker 2: William in Nebraska is next on the phone line.
- 33:39Speaker 17: Hey, Nick, how are you doing?
- 33:40Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you I'm doing?
- 33:43Speaker 17: Okay, man, I'm up here in Nebraska. I'm sure with
- 33:46Speaker 17: a couple of other uh, you know, all five or
- 33:49Speaker 17: six of us disappointed Cowboys fan.
- 33:51Speaker 8: But it's more than that, I wanted to touch on.
- 33:55Speaker 17: A couple of things. First was like running back usage.
- 33:58Speaker 17: I talked about a little bit in the red zone.
- 34:01Speaker 17: But one of the things I think that we miss
- 34:04Speaker 17: without Zeke around is we don't have that running back
- 34:07Speaker 17: that's going to go and get five yards on you know,
- 34:10Speaker 17: first and ten or first in goal, and so I
- 34:13Speaker 17: don't understand why they're not using lift key or dabble there.
- 34:18Speaker 17: Daddle had a great game, it felt like, and was
- 34:21Speaker 17: making some guys miss and breaking tackles, but then you
- 34:24Speaker 17: see Pollard in there and things go backwards while he
- 34:27Speaker 17: tries to kind of find the hole. And then the
- 34:30Speaker 17: other thing was just defensively. I think Mike is an
- 34:35Speaker 17: outstanding player, but he kind of seemed off yesterday. I mean,
- 34:39Speaker 17: he got that sack I think in the third, but
- 34:41Speaker 17: and he touched on already really early in the game.
- 34:44Speaker 17: He comes off the corner and had a free, you know,
- 34:46Speaker 17: free shot at Dobbs before he takes off, or like
- 34:49Speaker 17: fifty yards and he just let Dobbs go right.
- 34:51Speaker 5: Next to him.
- 34:52Speaker 17: So I'm not sure if if he just didn't come
- 34:55Speaker 17: ready to play or if that was an assignment thing
- 34:58Speaker 17: that was miss there. What have you. But I don't
- 35:00Speaker 17: know that you you know, we need him to be
- 35:02Speaker 17: a game breaking, you know breaker. You know that that
- 35:05Speaker 17: level of superstar on the defense, and when you're just
- 35:09Speaker 17: letting qbs run right by you. You know, it's kind
- 35:12Speaker 17: of hard to do that.
- 35:13Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, well thanks for the call. I mean
- 35:17Speaker 2: it's tough to criticize your your best player, I mean
- 35:21Speaker 2: because he he is. I mean, Micah is your best player.
- 35:24Speaker 2: But you know, we saw it in times last year.
- 35:27Speaker 2: We're seeing it. We saw it yesterday as well. I mean,
- 35:29Speaker 2: teams are going to scheme against him and figure out
- 35:32Speaker 2: what he's trying to do and use it against him.
- 35:36Speaker 2: And that's kind of what it is. I mean, he
- 35:38Speaker 2: is focused on getting the ball in the backfield and
- 35:41Speaker 2: there's going to be times when you can kind of
- 35:44Speaker 2: sneak a guy around him. So that's he's going to
- 35:46Speaker 2: have to do that. Play better with his eyes a
- 35:48Speaker 2: little bit.
- 35:49Speaker 3: Uh.
- 35:49Speaker 2: He's not perfect, and he wasn't perfect yesterday. Uh, but
- 35:53Speaker 2: he is his rushes. I mean, they they also schemed
- 35:56Speaker 2: against him. I mean, he he had a lot of
- 35:58Speaker 2: double teams that he was fighting through and still does
- 36:03Speaker 2: a nice job of doing it. I mean, like he
- 36:05Speaker 2: gets there, like he was closed yesterday. That's not good
- 36:08Speaker 2: enough all the time. But he was there. I thought
- 36:11Speaker 2: he played a pretty good game, did get the sack
- 36:14Speaker 2: and all that. But again, you know, teams aren't just
- 36:17Speaker 2: gonna let you just oh, well, he's he's great. We
- 36:19Speaker 2: can't do anything about it because he's Mica. Like they're
- 36:21Speaker 2: gonna say, well, let's let's do this, you know, let's
- 36:24Speaker 2: see if we can kind of offset it that way,
- 36:26Speaker 2: and they did. All right. Phone line again, Al from Merkle, Texas. Al,
- 36:31Speaker 2: what's up, hey man, what's going on much? How are you? Oh?
- 36:35Speaker 8: I'm good. I played on starting my call today with
- 36:38Speaker 8: the well the sun was shining, but actually it's not
- 36:41Speaker 8: shining him Aria.
- 36:42Speaker 2: Okay, sun didn't come up.
- 36:44Speaker 8: Huh yeah. I just want to make two points. I
- 36:51Speaker 8: think we have the best and the worst fans in
- 36:54Speaker 8: the world, because when we were winning a call that
- 36:57Speaker 8: I could get in right away, I thought, call before
- 37:00Speaker 8: you're still started, and I will finally be able to
- 37:03Speaker 8: get in thirty minutes from now. So we just have
- 37:05Speaker 8: a bunch of complainers, which that's okay. We lost, we
- 37:08Speaker 8: got our butts kicked. Yeah, it's one game.
- 37:11Speaker 10: And like uh.
- 37:14Speaker 8: Dak said, the media is the one that puts them
- 37:17Speaker 8: on top and then puts them on the bottom.
- 37:19Speaker 2: That's that's what the media does. I mean that that's
- 37:21Speaker 2: what you do. You build them up to break them down.
- 37:23Speaker 2: I mean, that's what That's the way this thing works.
- 37:26Speaker 2: Power of the press, I mean it works.
- 37:27Speaker 8: I want to They want to build you up so
- 37:29Speaker 8: they can tear you down.
- 37:31Speaker 2: That's it's okay.
- 37:33Speaker 8: Yeah, but we'll be all right, we'll be okay, we'll
- 37:36Speaker 8: figure it out and we'll be there.
- 37:37Speaker 10: We'll be there.
- 37:38Speaker 8: It's all good. Yeah, but it's training right now. But
- 37:41Speaker 8: the sun's going to shine.
- 37:42Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Well, I appreciate it. I'm going to
- 37:44Speaker 2: disagree with you a little bit though. I mean, I'll
- 37:48Speaker 2: say this, I mean, mondays after the game it's been
- 37:50Speaker 2: like this where there's been a lot of calls. It
- 37:52Speaker 2: was like this after forty to nothing and the Giants
- 37:54Speaker 2: it was like this last Monday, it's like this. So
- 37:56Speaker 2: and also if you go back and just listen to
- 37:58Speaker 2: the calls, you guys haven't been that way. You guys have.
- 38:02Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, everyone's frustrated and they should be, but
- 38:04Speaker 2: it's not to the point where it's it's that negative.
- 38:07Speaker 2: I mean, we're they're they're you know, they should be
- 38:10Speaker 2: disappointed after a game like that, But I have been
- 38:13Speaker 2: proud of the way that the calls have gone here
- 38:15Speaker 2: so far. Craig and l Paso, you're next.
- 38:20Speaker 15: Hi, Nick joined the show very much with your history.
- 38:23Speaker 15: I was getting the impression of I remember DeMarcus where
- 38:26Speaker 15: when they first went against RG three and he would
- 38:29Speaker 15: take that inside fake bite and they would just run
- 38:32Speaker 15: around him. I mean they teamed him run out of
- 38:34Speaker 15: the play, didn't have to block him. Do you think
- 38:36Speaker 15: our defensive guys are so intent on sacks, quarterback pressures
- 38:40Speaker 15: and hits that they just charge up field and then boom,
- 38:44Speaker 15: guys are going the other way. The quarterback doesn't even
- 38:45Speaker 15: have the ball.
- 38:46Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 38:46Speaker 2: You probably can't see me, but I'm nodding my head. Yes,
- 38:49Speaker 2: that is a thing. Yes, that is a huge thing.
- 38:53Speaker 2: That's what's happening. You've got to play different than that.
- 38:56Speaker 2: You can't worry about leading the NFL in sacks. Sacks
- 38:59Speaker 2: will if you if you just play play your sound defense.
- 39:03Speaker 2: But they're never going to pass the ball if they
- 39:06Speaker 2: just keep having to run. For two hundred and twenty
- 39:07Speaker 2: two yards. So, so, yeah, you have to stop the
- 39:10Speaker 2: run first. That's what is being said on Sunday mornings
- 39:13Speaker 2: before the games. That's what's being said on Saturday, before
- 39:16Speaker 2: college games Friday night, and then the JV games on
- 39:19Speaker 2: Wednesday and Thursday night. That's being said, stop the run.
- 39:24Speaker 2: Craig still there, No, that's what happens.
- 39:26Speaker 15: That's what happening. Uh to uh our guys just charging
- 39:30Speaker 15: up field. It seems like that's what's happening.
- 39:32Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree that that's what that's that's what happened
- 39:35Speaker 2: in that game. They got to fix that. It's run
- 39:38Speaker 2: first and then go get the quarterback, and so they
- 39:40Speaker 2: have to They're a little bit backwards there. They got
- 39:42Speaker 2: to get back to. That's just that's just getting back
- 39:44Speaker 2: to the basics. Well, thanks taking Thanks Greg, appreciate it.
- 39:48Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Brian in Kansas City. Brian,
- 39:50Speaker 2: what's up?
- 39:52Speaker 7: Heynck, Good morning morning.
- 39:54Speaker 3: Hey.
- 39:55Speaker 7: You know something that surprised me yesterday? Well, a lot
- 39:58Speaker 7: of things described me yesterday. One of the things that
- 40:01Speaker 7: surprised me was when when they realized Tyrone wasn't gonna go.
- 40:06Speaker 7: I was kind of surprised that they didn't kick Tyler
- 40:10Speaker 7: Smith outside and put a Doga in bass inside. Did
- 40:14Speaker 7: you think what did you think when you saw that
- 40:16Speaker 7: that decision.
- 40:17Speaker 2: I thought, and I've said this a little bit earlier
- 40:19Speaker 2: in the show, I just think that it had something
- 40:21Speaker 2: to do with Tyler Smith coming back from a hamstring injury.
- 40:25Speaker 2: Probably easier for him to play more on the inside.
- 40:28Speaker 2: That's where he's practiced, and and let's let's you know,
- 40:31Speaker 2: instead of putting him out there and really exposing him
- 40:34Speaker 2: to having to to, you know, kick out a lot more.
- 40:36Speaker 2: And that might not be great for a guy coming
- 40:39Speaker 2: off of a hamstring injury. That's my only my only
- 40:42Speaker 2: take there. I think he Doga is better at guard
- 40:46Speaker 2: than he is a tackle, and I think Tyler Smith
- 40:48Speaker 2: can play pretty much either one the same. So I
- 40:52Speaker 2: was a little surprised. My only thought was just had
- 40:54Speaker 2: to be something with the injury.
- 40:56Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it could be. Well, so Mike, question is,
- 41:00Speaker 7: is you know the red zone obviously is a little
- 41:04Speaker 7: bit of a problem. Well, you go ahead.
- 41:08Speaker 2: More than a little. I mean it's where we're at
- 41:10Speaker 2: a stage where it's a lot it's a big problem
- 41:12Speaker 2: right now.
- 41:13Speaker 7: Yeah, no question. So you know, maybe just in your
- 41:17Speaker 7: opinion break down where you think the problem lies and
- 41:21Speaker 7: how much of it and this is just my opinion,
- 41:24Speaker 7: how much of it is. Maybe McCarthy is going to
- 41:27Speaker 7: take a few, you know, a little bit of time
- 41:30Speaker 7: to get back in the flow of being a down
- 41:35Speaker 7: in and out play caller. And I'll hang up and
- 41:37Speaker 7: have a great one man.
- 41:38Speaker 2: Thanks Brian. I think I think we say this all
- 41:41Speaker 2: the time, and Brian brought us it. Says this, I
- 41:44Speaker 2: pointing because he's probably right out here ready to do
- 41:46Speaker 2: the Cowboys break here in a second. He says it
- 41:49Speaker 2: all the time, and I agree with him that coaches
- 41:52Speaker 2: have to know their football team. You have to know
- 41:54Speaker 2: what you have. It's one thing to learn about another team,
- 41:56Speaker 2: but you got to know your own team. And I
- 41:58Speaker 2: still think we'll figure bring that out. You know, there's
- 42:02Speaker 2: preseason games are really irrelevant when when it comes to
- 42:04Speaker 2: these guys. So it's three games in, you still haven't
- 42:08Speaker 2: figured out, you still haven't got consistency on the offensive
- 42:10Speaker 2: line and trying to figure out what they can do,
- 42:12Speaker 2: what they can call. I think he wants to run
- 42:15Speaker 2: the ball, run the ball, try to run it in
- 42:16Speaker 2: in the red zone. That's not working right now. Next week,
- 42:20Speaker 2: if the guys come back in the air at full strength.
- 42:22Speaker 2: Maybe that will work. Maybe you can kind of go
- 42:25Speaker 2: play it that way. You know, I understand running it
- 42:27Speaker 2: on first down, because if you can get four to
- 42:31Speaker 2: five yards, it probably means you're gonna be on four
- 42:34Speaker 2: down territory. So I understand doing that. It's big on
- 42:38Speaker 2: first down. But it didn't work. It didn't work. So
- 42:40Speaker 2: they're gonna have to figure out ways to pass the
- 42:42Speaker 2: ball in the red zone and still be safe. Still,
- 42:45Speaker 2: you know, still make sure that Dak is thrown it
- 42:47Speaker 2: to the right team, you know, I mean, obviously there
- 42:50Speaker 2: was an interception there. I mean, I don't I mean,
- 42:53Speaker 2: it was not a great look, of course, but I'm
- 42:55Speaker 2: not faulting him for that. I mean, it's late in
- 42:58Speaker 2: the game. You're trying to you got to make a play.
- 43:00Speaker 2: You know, you're not getting the past interference calls, you're
- 43:02Speaker 2: not getting that, your receivers really aren't getting open. You
- 43:05Speaker 2: have to go make a play, and so he was
- 43:07Speaker 2: trying to do that. Fred in Virginia, Fred might be
- 43:11Speaker 2: the last caller here. Fred, what's up?
- 43:14Speaker 10: Oh, I'm one of the lottery. Hey. So one of
- 43:18Speaker 10: the things that I appreciate about the coaching staff. Is
- 43:21Speaker 10: they see the big picture, Like, I don't mind that
- 43:24Speaker 10: they messed out that they set out three linemen. To me,
- 43:29Speaker 10: this is like, if it mattered, they would have played.
- 43:32Speaker 10: But it's week three. It kind of matters. Of course,
- 43:36Speaker 10: you only get seventeen. But I like the fact that
- 43:39Speaker 10: when we go into the playoffs, but McCarthy, we generally
- 43:43Speaker 10: go in healthy and this is part of that. You know,
- 43:47Speaker 10: there was sacrifice for the president in order to game
- 43:50Speaker 10: for the future, and that's kind of what I saw yesterday.
- 43:53Speaker 10: It hoped because Arizona was playing with injured DEPHYSI linemen
- 43:58Speaker 10: that they had enough. They probably did have enough, but
- 44:03Speaker 10: it just didn't execute the way. And the other thing is,
- 44:06Speaker 10: let's be real, this is like week three of the
- 44:09Speaker 10: preseason for the starters because nobody played in the preseason,
- 44:13Speaker 10: so they're still trying to figure out what they got.
- 44:16Speaker 10: Even though they're playing with games that count that first
- 44:18Speaker 10: quarter of the season, they're not, you know, they're still
- 44:21Speaker 10: trying to figure it out. So yeah, I don't have
- 44:23Speaker 10: any qualm. I mean that, of course it sucks they lost.
- 44:25Speaker 10: I don't even have any qualls the approach. It sucks
- 44:28Speaker 10: with the result but it's all part of the formula,
- 44:32Speaker 10: which so far has been I mean, twelve wins and
- 44:35Speaker 10: two seasons has been successful. So I'm riding with mccarfield
- 44:39Speaker 10: and hopefully we'll get it straight.
- 44:41Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate the call. And and that's a you know,
- 44:43Speaker 2: that's an optimistic look. It certainly is just just remember
- 44:48Speaker 2: this though you can't you can't play it like that
- 44:51Speaker 2: all the time. You want to give one and you
- 44:53Speaker 2: want to say, well, we probably could have played, but
- 44:56Speaker 2: you know, we think we can be the Arizona. I
- 44:57Speaker 2: think I think everyone kind of understands now that you
- 45:00Speaker 2: you can get beat. I mean, if you're gonna get
- 45:01Speaker 2: beat by the Cardinals, Josh Jobs and those guys are
- 45:04Speaker 2: gonna get beat on the road, then you can pretty
- 45:07Speaker 2: much get beat by anyone. So know that going in
- 45:10Speaker 2: And so I, yeah, you're right if these guys aren't
- 45:13Speaker 2: healthy to play Center Mountains and you know, next men up,
- 45:16Speaker 2: not man, it's next men up. See if you can
- 45:18Speaker 2: go with win the game and they couldn't. So I
- 45:22Speaker 2: think that you know, you can have that mentality every
- 45:24Speaker 2: once in a while. You can't have it a lot
- 45:26Speaker 2: because you're gonna lose games. I mean simple as that.
- 45:28Speaker 2: Let's go. Last phone call here is Maurice and Tacoma, Washington.
- 45:32Speaker 9: Hey, what's up, hey buddy?
- 45:33Speaker 2: What's up?
- 45:34Speaker 5: Hey?
- 45:35Speaker 10: Man?
- 45:35Speaker 5: There's a few things. My first one that is, I
- 45:37Speaker 5: think that people need to pay more attention to the
- 45:39Speaker 5: kierries heel of our defense and the way quarterbacks are
- 45:43Speaker 5: getting plenty of yards on us. It's something that's hurt
- 45:45Speaker 5: us pretty bad and might have set the toll for
- 45:47Speaker 5: the game. And this second, people had a lot to
- 45:50Speaker 5: say about our office a line and how that should
- 45:53Speaker 5: have still been able to be successful. But you think
- 45:56Speaker 5: about it, if the trust wasn't there and that clock
- 45:59Speaker 5: was really ticking on deck, especially in that result. And
- 46:02Speaker 5: then last Varn, you know, if we're not gonna play Varn,
- 46:05Speaker 5: we're gonna suit him up, then why don't we go
- 46:08Speaker 5: get us a bruiser like Fournette and use him as
- 46:10Speaker 5: some of those redsols shortyardist players because we're just wasting
- 46:14Speaker 5: a jersey at that point.
- 46:15Speaker 2: Appreciate it, Nick, all right, appreciate it. Uh, You're right,
- 46:18Speaker 2: quarterback runs is a problem. I mean it's three games now, uh,
- 46:22Speaker 2: and three guys that you know that that are that
- 46:24Speaker 2: are mobile. But these aren't considered the three, you know,
- 46:27Speaker 2: three or four top runners in the league. So yeah,
- 46:31Speaker 2: that's a that's a problem, I mean, and it goes
- 46:33Speaker 2: back to the aggressive style the Cowboys play there, all right,
- 46:39Speaker 2: another thing offensive line? Trust Yeah, I think I think
- 46:42Speaker 2: the the sure I mean what, you're not gonna trust
- 46:45Speaker 2: him the same? Uh? And they didn't give you reason
- 46:48Speaker 2: to really. You know, they they played well from like
- 46:52Speaker 2: twenty to twenty, but you know, inside inside the twenty
- 46:56Speaker 2: it was it was tough, and I think Dak felt
- 46:58Speaker 2: that as produced it said. He played, I don't remember
- 47:01Speaker 2: him playing. He might have played on special teams. I
- 47:03Speaker 2: didn't really see him out there. Yeah, I mean that
- 47:06Speaker 2: that won't continue to happen. They won't continue to have
- 47:09Speaker 2: him if he's not going to be a factor there.
- 47:11Speaker 2: I mean, I don't. I never saw a play where
- 47:13Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, man, do should have been out there?
- 47:15Speaker 2: So right now it's kind of hard to find a
- 47:17Speaker 2: role for him. I think Rico is doing a really
- 47:20Speaker 2: good job. Hunter Lipke's doing a nice job as well.
- 47:23Speaker 2: It's hard to get a fourth running back in there,
- 47:25Speaker 2: so I think it's gonna it's gonna be tough. I
- 47:28Speaker 2: think to get him some snaps. But you know, they
- 47:31Speaker 2: they figured out some ways to do it in the past.
- 47:33Speaker 2: Maybe they will in this game as well or in
- 47:37Speaker 2: the next few games coming up. Great job, fifteen calls,
- 47:41Speaker 2: that's a lot. You guys were really good. You know,
- 47:44Speaker 2: it's tough. It's a tough monday. I understand that. But uh,
- 47:46Speaker 2: you know, I think I think the vision of moving
- 47:48Speaker 2: forward here, it's gonna be fun. Like like we've said
- 47:51Speaker 2: last week, let's let's not look at the teams down
- 47:54Speaker 2: the road. Let's look at why, you know, right in
- 47:56Speaker 2: front of this team, because anybody can beat him, and
- 48:00Speaker 2: I think we found that out. And so it's gonna
- 48:02Speaker 2: be it's gonna be a fun season. It's gonna be
- 48:03Speaker 2: a long season though, uh, and it'll be It'll be
- 48:06Speaker 2: great to keep talking about it. We'll be back tomorrow
- 48:09Speaker 2: on Cowboys Storyline. Make sure and stay with us right
- 48:11Speaker 2: here because here in a few minutes Cowboys break. We'll
- 48:13Speaker 2: be coming up. They'll break this whole thing down as well.
- 48:16Speaker 2: For Chris Beam in the back, I'm Nick Eatan. We
- 48:18Speaker 2: will see you tomorrow on Cowboys Storyline.
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