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- 0:19Speaker 1: Here's Nick Eatman, what's up? Welcome to Cowboys storyline presented
- 0:27Speaker 1: by Gellette, Monday, December twenty ninth. Hope everyone had a
- 0:32Speaker 1: merry Christmas. And we'll wrap up this twenty twenty five season,
- 0:37Speaker 1: twenty five calendar year. We'll do it all this week.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Should have that could be a full week of shows.
- 0:44Speaker 1: I think we got only three three shows and then
- 0:47Speaker 1: we'll we'll wrap it up for the week. So we've
- 0:50Speaker 1: got to cram a lot of things in here. Here
- 0:53Speaker 1: we're talking about the Washington game, Giants game, and then
- 0:57Speaker 1: everything else in between. At least the Cowboy went up
- 1:00Speaker 1: to Washington and got to win. Looked like it was
- 1:03Speaker 1: going to be a pretty easy win. Then the defense said, well,
- 1:06Speaker 1: you know, watch this, let's do what we do. The offense,
- 1:10Speaker 1: you know, made some plays with a lot of fourth downs,
- 1:14Speaker 1: fourth and fourth down six times. I think that's set.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Definitely said a Cowboys record, and it said an NFL
- 1:21Speaker 1: record back to like nineteen ninety whenever they started tracking that,
- 1:24Speaker 1: but really just showed the trust that the Cowboys have
- 1:28Speaker 1: in their offense, maybe lack of trust that they have
- 1:30Speaker 1: in their defense. Themes continued into Washington and Christmas Day.
- 1:36Speaker 1: But at least if we're there and we woke up
- 1:38Speaker 1: in a hotel room without our families, all that stuff,
- 1:40Speaker 1: at least the Cowboys were out there and took care
- 1:43Speaker 1: of business. All right, different Washington, The state of Washington
- 1:47Speaker 1: is where we got Skyler. He'll start us off today,
- 1:50Speaker 1: Skyler in Washington State. What's up?
- 1:53Speaker 4: Good morning, Mack. I'm pretty good. So I kind of
- 1:59Speaker 4: have more qush evaluating your talent from the draft, Like
- 2:03Speaker 4: how many years would you give somebody like Scoot Maker
- 2:07Speaker 4: who is drafted the second round but hasn't seemed to
- 2:10Speaker 4: live up to that draft pick?
- 2:12Speaker 1: Yeah? I think it varies by the the position, but
- 2:18Speaker 1: also where you draft them, you know what I mean,
- 2:20Speaker 1: because it's like, you know, you want to you want
- 2:22Speaker 1: these guys to develop, But what is this third year
- 2:26Speaker 1: for Schoonmaker? So third year as a second round pick?
- 2:31Speaker 1: I no, he has not lived up to expectations there,
- 2:33Speaker 1: He's not, you know.
- 2:35Speaker 5: Now.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Ferguson is also blossomed and he's better, and I think
- 2:39Speaker 1: span Forward maybe is better as well. But no, I
- 2:42Speaker 1: don't think Schoonmaker has given you what you would what
- 2:45Speaker 1: you would want from a second round pick after three years.
- 2:48Speaker 4: That's kind of what I've been thinking about him, because
- 2:50Speaker 4: every time he gets a shot that catch, the ball
- 2:52Speaker 4: seems to drop it. And yeah, just that maybe Ferguson
- 2:56Speaker 4: kind of hindered his development a little bit too.
- 2:59Speaker 3: Sure.
- 3:00Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I think if they would have thought sorry,
- 3:04Speaker 1: but I think if they would have kind of seen
- 3:07Speaker 1: what Ferguson was about to do, they wouldn't have drafted
- 3:10Speaker 1: him in the second round, you know, but that was.
- 3:12Speaker 4: What we like coming off of Schultz, and then we
- 3:16Speaker 4: had Ferguson and he was kind of showing us some
- 3:18Speaker 4: glunces instans. So maybe Schoonmaker just kind of got washed
- 3:23Speaker 4: out by pretty you know, showing up and playing.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Sure good, Yeah, yeah, I mean Ferguson has has been
- 3:32Speaker 1: good and he's he's taking that next leap, and you know,
- 3:35Speaker 1: it's kind of it's kind of left scoon Maker in
- 3:38Speaker 1: a in a weird spot.
- 3:40Speaker 4: And then you got for he's looking pretty good for
- 3:43Speaker 4: six or was he six or seventh.
- 3:44Speaker 1: Round, undrafted, was undrafted.
- 3:47Speaker 4: He's undrafted. Okay, yeah, really, I mean you kind of
- 3:50Speaker 4: see that with Illinois, Like maybe I felt like Tolbert
- 3:54Speaker 4: was holding back his reps a little bit this year
- 3:56Speaker 4: and he's kind of just came out in the last
- 4:00Speaker 4: seven weeks and really showed that. Okay, maybe people under
- 4:03Speaker 4: estimated this guy.
- 4:04Speaker 3: M h.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 4:06Speaker 4: So it just kind of interesting. I just kind of
- 4:09Speaker 4: wonder what you know based off their draft, you know,
- 4:12Speaker 4: draft position, and how long would you get a second
- 4:15Speaker 4: round versus a third round.
- 4:16Speaker 6: Or fourth round.
- 4:17Speaker 1: No, that's the first.
- 4:18Speaker 4: Round you expect to start, for sure.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it varies. Thanks for the call, Skyler. And
- 4:25Speaker 1: that's and that's one that you know, you don't evaluate
- 4:28Speaker 1: everybody the same. You don't treat people the same, they
- 4:30Speaker 1: don't get paid the same. So it's not there's not
- 4:33Speaker 1: just this blanket coverage that you say, all right, this
- 4:36Speaker 1: is how you evaluate certain players. But your second round picks,
- 4:40Speaker 1: to me, you know, should should be guys that that
- 4:43Speaker 1: that can come in and usually usually they're first they're
- 4:47Speaker 1: they're like guys that you think are could be first rounders,
- 4:49Speaker 1: but they've got something that that kind of held them back.
- 4:54Speaker 1: The Scoonmaker pick was always a little strange to me
- 4:59Speaker 1: because you know, you were hoping for that jump there
- 5:03Speaker 1: and and Ferguson had already shown enough as a rookie
- 5:06Speaker 1: where you you know, you wanted to see something there,
- 5:10Speaker 1: and that pick really hasn't panned out. And it'll be
- 5:13Speaker 1: interesting to see what happens here in this last year
- 5:15Speaker 1: of his contract coming up. Do they just ride it
- 5:18Speaker 1: out or do they move on? Because I know this,
- 5:21Speaker 1: If Lounda Wells is the tight ends coach, I mean
- 5:24Speaker 1: they're gonna find other tight ends that that's he's he
- 5:27Speaker 1: does it. He's done it every year. He's found hindershot,
- 5:31Speaker 1: he found span Forard Princeton Fant has been a guy
- 5:35Speaker 1: that they they brought in and he's stills around in
- 5:37Speaker 1: the practice squad. And I feel like there's another undrafted
- 5:40Speaker 1: tight end that they that they got somewhere in that mix,
- 5:43Speaker 1: like two or three years in a row. Well John
- 5:45Speaker 1: Stevens was one, and he just unfortunately just couldn't stay healthy.
- 5:49Speaker 1: But he was another one that they found. Lunda Wells
- 5:51Speaker 1: will find you a good tight end. So you know,
- 5:55Speaker 1: I don't know if if they have to move on
- 5:57Speaker 1: from Schoonmaker or not. All right, let's go to our
- 5:59Speaker 1: next her. Now, this guy's done something that I haven't
- 6:02Speaker 1: done yet, and that's had had Christmas with my mom
- 6:07Speaker 1: Randy in Texas, Canna, Randy, what's up?
- 6:10Speaker 7: What's going on? Brother?
- 6:11Speaker 8: How you doing?
- 6:12Speaker 1: So? My my mom in Texa, Canna spent with Christmas
- 6:16Speaker 1: day watching the game with you and your family.
- 6:19Speaker 5: Yeah, she did.
- 6:20Speaker 7: It was an awesome time.
- 6:21Speaker 1: Man.
- 6:21Speaker 7: I didn't want them to be over there by themselves,
- 6:24Speaker 7: and so we invited them over and they turned. Rob
- 6:27Speaker 7: came over and we had a good old time.
- 6:29Speaker 1: And it's Rob's birthday, by the way, Happy birthday. Yeah,
- 6:31Speaker 1: Happy birth Rob. Yeah he's up there. You know he's
- 6:36Speaker 1: up there. He's good, he's doing good. I don't know
- 6:38Speaker 1: at this point, you don't keep keep counting that much.
- 6:41Speaker 1: But no, anyways, that was a nice gesture. Uh, and
- 6:45Speaker 1: just so awesome this this Cowboys storyline community and just
- 6:48Speaker 1: kind of what it's done. And to think that, you
- 6:51Speaker 1: know that my mom's having having Christmas Day with with
- 6:56Speaker 1: with one of the captains pretty often.
- 6:58Speaker 7: Yeah, Hey, I thought she'd be carried off by my
- 7:00Speaker 7: crazy family, but she fit right in actually, And I
- 7:03Speaker 7: think you enjoyed it.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Well, I think doesn't everybody have a crazy family.
- 7:08Speaker 3: You know?
- 7:09Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we all kind of do.
- 7:11Speaker 7: So yeah, ye.
- 7:13Speaker 1: Did they sing karaoke? Chris Bey wants to know was
- 7:16Speaker 1: there karaoke?
- 7:17Speaker 7: No, there, there was not any karaoke, but I did
- 7:20Speaker 7: invite him out to do that at a at a
- 7:22Speaker 7: later date to continued.
- 7:25Speaker 1: All right, sounds good, sounds good, and uh.
- 7:27Speaker 7: And check your phone here in a minute. Because I
- 7:29Speaker 7: heard you had too much to eat over the holiday.
- 7:31Speaker 7: I sent you a picture. I got a kick out
- 7:35Speaker 7: of it. Okay, all right, so real quick, I just
- 7:39Speaker 7: want to say, running back that one hit that he
- 7:42Speaker 7: put Williams where he took the guy off his feet.
- 7:46Speaker 7: Oh my, that was awesome. Resign that guy. That's not
- 7:49Speaker 7: why I called.
- 7:50Speaker 3: Forgot go ahead.
- 7:51Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally forgot about that play.
- 7:53Speaker 3: That was.
- 7:55Speaker 7: Oh man, that was not so anyway, I hate to
- 8:00Speaker 7: even talk about this because you know, you don't want
- 8:02Speaker 7: anybody to lose your job. But let's just scenario. If
- 8:06Speaker 7: it happened, why don't we go poach the number one
- 8:10Speaker 7: defense in the league, and which right now is the
- 8:14Speaker 7: Houston Texans I believe, but there's two, two or three
- 8:18Speaker 7: of them that are really really good because if if
- 8:21Speaker 7: you notice what Seattle did, that's exactly what they did.
- 8:23Speaker 7: They went and they got their Their head coach was
- 8:28Speaker 7: the coordinator of the Ravens, and you know, the Ravens
- 8:31Speaker 7: defense has always been great. Well one year in that
- 8:34Speaker 7: guy's got Seattle playing locked out, and I think instead
- 8:38Speaker 7: of us just going out and trying to find a
- 8:40Speaker 7: name or something, we need to find somebody that is proven.
- 8:44Speaker 7: You know, let's let's look at these top defensive teams
- 8:48Speaker 7: and if it can't if we can't get because I
- 8:51Speaker 7: think Houston, I believe the head coach kind of plays
- 8:54Speaker 7: there or calls their defense, so they should have a
- 8:58Speaker 7: defensive coordinator by name that maybe isn't quite in charge
- 9:03Speaker 7: of it. So maybe we can touch him into coming
- 9:06Speaker 7: over to be our defensive coordinator and bring that stylid
- 9:09Speaker 7: defense to us.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Still, that's still a lateral move though, and when you
- 9:14Speaker 1: do the title that way, you know what I mean,
- 9:16Speaker 1: that's still defensive coordinator to coordinator.
- 9:19Speaker 7: And you know it would it matter if he if
- 9:22Speaker 7: he was offered more money or is it or is
- 9:24Speaker 7: that like a rule thing.
- 9:25Speaker 1: It's a rule, It's definitely, it's definitely a rule from
- 9:28Speaker 1: a lateral move so that you know, you have these
- 9:30Speaker 1: guys like for instance, Clayton Adams is the offensive coordinator,
- 9:33Speaker 1: he couldn't go be the offensive coordinator, even if he
- 9:35Speaker 1: was a play caller. I don't think he could do that.
- 9:37Speaker 1: So that's that's kind of why titles matter. And also
- 9:41Speaker 1: you know with Houston, you know, they they they got
- 9:43Speaker 1: Will Anderson with the number two pick, and then they
- 9:46Speaker 1: you know, then they traded and or or then they
- 9:50Speaker 1: picked up I think as a hunter. Uh there, So
- 9:53Speaker 1: they've got a couple of really good pass rushers. So
- 9:56Speaker 1: it's not just coordinator. I mean it's players as well.
- 9:58Speaker 1: And that's that's why thing. I think the Cowboys are
- 10:01Speaker 1: going to have to look at him. And if there
- 10:03Speaker 1: are some defensive you know, playmakers, you know maybe in
- 10:08Speaker 1: the draft, maybe you go get them. You'd have to
- 10:10Speaker 1: use your picks to go up there. But I mean,
- 10:12Speaker 1: if that's what what you know, that's what they feel
- 10:14Speaker 1: like is missing. But uh, and then.
- 10:17Speaker 7: Like last night's game, you know, the Eagles proved that
- 10:20Speaker 7: you don't have to have the best offense as long
- 10:23Speaker 7: as that defense is lives out. And that's what happened
- 10:26Speaker 7: last night. Their their defense shut out the Bills and
- 10:29Speaker 7: they won the game. So I think we could just
- 10:31Speaker 7: do a little tweaking on our offense, just try to
- 10:34Speaker 7: not mess it up by doing too many changes. Uh,
- 10:37Speaker 7: And we've all talked about the obvious things that we
- 10:40Speaker 7: need to do on offense. But yeah, we definitely need
- 10:43Speaker 7: to concentrate on defenses offseason for sure. Special teams. Yeah, yeah,
- 10:48Speaker 7: that wouldn't hurt. But yeah, yeah, So how would your holidays?
- 10:52Speaker 1: It was good? It was good. Yeah, it was good, Ranny, Thanks, thanks,
- 10:57Speaker 1: you know guy, We got back and thanks for the call. Ready.
- 11:00Speaker 1: We got back right after the game Christmas night, and
- 11:05Speaker 1: you know, we didn't for me. We we just moved
- 11:07Speaker 1: everything to the next day. So kids are young enough
- 11:11Speaker 1: that you know, Santa you know, got into some traffic,
- 11:16Speaker 1: I guess, and I didn't didn't get here until the
- 11:18Speaker 1: next day, So we did it. Friday morning was just
- 11:21Speaker 1: like Christmas morning was great. So just a date on
- 11:24Speaker 1: the calendar. All good. Let's go to Derek in Minnesota. Derek,
- 11:27Speaker 1: what's up?
- 11:29Speaker 5: Morton?
- 11:29Speaker 8: Nick?
- 11:29Speaker 7: How are you doing good?
- 11:30Speaker 1: How are you?
- 11:30Speaker 3: Derek?
- 11:31Speaker 5: Oh?
- 11:32Speaker 9: I got to drive a cleared off so much atter
- 11:34Speaker 9: now nice?
- 11:37Speaker 1: Yeah, eighty five degrees here like a few days ago,
- 11:41Speaker 1: so yeah, we don't have that issue.
- 11:43Speaker 7: Must be nice.
- 11:44Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, listen, I'm I'm I'm a little bummed about
- 11:50Speaker 9: this season. But you know, I think I think I
- 11:52Speaker 9: think there's a couple of silver linings. I mean, I
- 11:55Speaker 9: mean Jimmy Johnson, I mean, he didn't win his for
- 11:57Speaker 9: a super Bowl until you know, you know, his fourth year,
- 12:00Speaker 9: so I mean you can't. I mean, I mean his
- 12:03Speaker 9: first year, you know, wasn't all sunshine and rainbows either. Yeah,
- 12:08Speaker 9: And I mean I think we got I mean I
- 12:10Speaker 9: think so long as we Key Pickens and Javonte, I mean,
- 12:14Speaker 9: as so long as you find a way to sign them,
- 12:15Speaker 9: and then we can get a new defensive coordinator that
- 12:19Speaker 9: actually knows what he's doing or something that might maybe
- 12:22Speaker 9: mesh as well. And I think we got a lot
- 12:24Speaker 9: of draft capital for you know that really stocked you
- 12:28Speaker 9: really get some pieces on defense. I think I think
- 12:31Speaker 9: we got some. Yeah, I think I think there's a
- 12:35Speaker 9: lot of positives going in the next year. It just
- 12:37Speaker 9: doesn't take away this thing of of everything this year.
- 12:42Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean you're right, there are some there
- 12:45Speaker 1: are some pretty good pieces in place. But but you know,
- 12:47Speaker 1: defense is gonna have to be a huge priority. And
- 12:51Speaker 1: I'm sure it starts with coordinator and and then from
- 12:54Speaker 1: from there, like making sure that the guys that are
- 12:56Speaker 1: here is gonna fit with whoever that that they're it in.
- 13:01Speaker 1: So that's that's the key to every offseason. And but yeah,
- 13:05Speaker 1: I mean on on offense, You've got some some interesting
- 13:10Speaker 1: uh decisions to make there as well, mainly on the
- 13:12Speaker 1: offensive line. But and then and then obviously resigning those
- 13:16Speaker 1: guys Davante Pickens is the franchise tag in place. You know,
- 13:21Speaker 1: there's there's questions there, but you know, I think Dak
- 13:24Speaker 1: had a really good year to come back, you know,
- 13:28Speaker 1: maybe comeback player of the Year. I think McCaffrey will
- 13:30Speaker 1: be have a say in that. And I don't know,
- 13:33Speaker 1: maybe people get cute and want to give, you know,
- 13:35Speaker 1: give it to Philip Rivers, but I would think, you know,
- 13:40Speaker 1: I mean, Dak's Dak's year has been a good year
- 13:43Speaker 1: for for him. For a guy that missed ten games
- 13:45Speaker 1: and now has a chance to start every game, I
- 13:48Speaker 1: bet he does. I bet he does start the game.
- 13:51Speaker 1: I don't know if he finishes it, but I bet
- 13:53Speaker 1: he does start the game. It's hard to go with
- 13:54Speaker 1: the compete every day mantra if you're not going to
- 13:56Speaker 1: do that, but you don't have to play the whole
- 13:58Speaker 1: game at Milton, you know, especially going to give out
- 14:00Speaker 1: six sacks, you know, and get hit all day long.
- 14:04Speaker 1: You certainly don't want to do that. And the Giants
- 14:06Speaker 1: have the defensive players to to to bring that pressure.
- 14:10Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Kady and Henderson Nevada, Katie,
- 14:13Speaker 1: what's up?
- 14:15Speaker 8: Nick?
- 14:15Speaker 3: Are?
- 14:15Speaker 1: I am? Good?
- 14:17Speaker 10: Good?
- 14:18Speaker 8: So, with it being New Year's Resolution season, I was
- 14:22Speaker 8: curious what you think if the Cowboys could only pick
- 14:25Speaker 8: one New Year's resolution for twenty twenty six, what should
- 14:29Speaker 8: it be? And what do they have to do so
- 14:31Speaker 8: they actually keep their resolution tonight?
- 14:34Speaker 1: And I can I ask you what what would yours be?
- 14:37Speaker 1: Do you have a mind?
- 14:40Speaker 10: I mean, I really think we need to focus on
- 14:43Speaker 10: defens which I know is kind of vague, but I
- 14:45Speaker 10: think we need we need to get some some pass
- 14:48Speaker 10: rash and that that linebacker in. But I honestly think
- 14:50Speaker 10: that comes back to getting not to clote Jason Garrett here,
- 14:53Speaker 10: but get the right guys that's going so's the right
- 14:58Speaker 10: kind of guy. So I think we got to get
- 15:00Speaker 10: the right kind of guys, both on the staff and
- 15:04Speaker 10: on the field, of course, but I think, uh, I
- 15:07Speaker 10: think that needs to be the focus, is getting the
- 15:09Speaker 10: right the right guys to to make the defense work.
- 15:12Speaker 3: All right.
- 15:13Speaker 1: You know, well that's not too vague. I appreciate that, Katie,
- 15:16Speaker 1: and and you know, they they've gone away from that.
- 15:19Speaker 1: You know, that was a nice little you know stick
- 15:22Speaker 1: that that Jason Garrett woul always say we need the
- 15:24Speaker 1: right kind of guy, and I they haven't always done that.
- 15:29Speaker 1: You know, I'm not saying that they've they've taken bad
- 15:31Speaker 1: character players, but you know, in the last four or
- 15:34Speaker 1: five years, they've they've changed that a little bit. And
- 15:37Speaker 1: that I said it the other day. I think they
- 15:39Speaker 1: need to go back to that. They need to at
- 15:41Speaker 1: least get some guys in here that that have a
- 15:45Speaker 1: true love for football. And uh even if that does
- 15:48Speaker 1: mean you're sacrificing a little bit of the measurables and
- 15:52Speaker 1: things like that that everybody fall falls in love with
- 15:55Speaker 1: this time of year. But and that's hard to quantify that. See,
- 16:00Speaker 1: That's that's what makes the draft what it is. If
- 16:02Speaker 1: a guy runs a four to two seven, and he
- 16:04Speaker 1: runs a four two seven, you know, I mean is
- 16:06Speaker 1: what it is. And this guy runs four four to one,
- 16:08Speaker 1: so it's faster. But this guy benches forty six times.
- 16:13Speaker 1: This guy benches thirty six times. Well he's stronger. But
- 16:17Speaker 1: does he love football?
- 16:18Speaker 3: You know?
- 16:19Speaker 1: Does he does?
- 16:20Speaker 4: He?
- 16:20Speaker 1: Is he going to spend hours upon hours on the
- 16:24Speaker 1: in the in the film room to try to get
- 16:25Speaker 1: better and understand his craft, understand his defense, understand what
- 16:29Speaker 1: he's doing and what his opponent's doing, things like that,
- 16:32Speaker 1: And that's always what's tough to figure out. But to
- 16:35Speaker 1: answer the question about the New Year's resolution and in
- 16:38Speaker 1: the world it to me it's a pass rush. Jervant,
- 16:41Speaker 1: Jadavian Clowney should not Jadavion Clowney and James Houston should
- 16:47Speaker 1: not be tied for this for the lead in sacks
- 16:49Speaker 1: like that's that's not that doesn't it's not a good situation.
- 16:54Speaker 1: They they should be tied for third at five and
- 16:57Speaker 1: a half sacks. That that's kind of what you want.
- 16:59Speaker 1: You want to guy up here at twelve thirteen, You
- 17:02Speaker 1: want another guy at eight, and then you want these
- 17:04Speaker 1: other guys around five and a half. That's what you
- 17:05Speaker 1: had with Micah and then you had like Dorin Armstrong
- 17:08Speaker 1: in there maybe or Tank and then after that you
- 17:12Speaker 1: had the Foulers and or who's the last year I
- 17:17Speaker 1: can't even think his name from the from the Bengals
- 17:21Speaker 1: that you know he had five you know, he'd had
- 17:22Speaker 1: about five sacks as well, Lawson, so I'm thinking of
- 17:28Speaker 1: But you know, but for that to be your your lead,
- 17:32Speaker 1: your team lead at five and a half, that that
- 17:36Speaker 1: needs to be changed and they need they need to
- 17:38Speaker 1: fix that for sure. All right, let's go to break
- 17:40Speaker 1: here on Cowboys storyline. We'll be right back after.
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- 19:32Speaker 1: All right, Welcome back to Cowboys storyline presented by Gelllette.
- 19:35Speaker 1: This is the time we do our Gellette Precision Player
- 19:38Speaker 1: of the Week. And how about Jadevian Clowney. He had
- 19:42Speaker 1: a he had a nice game. Haven't given it a
- 19:45Speaker 1: lot to the defensive players. I thought Clowney had had
- 19:49Speaker 1: a really good game. On his sack and a half,
- 19:50Speaker 1: he had about three tackles for loss. Even the chase
- 19:54Speaker 1: down on Deebo Samuel there, he didn't he didn't get them.
- 19:58Speaker 1: He kind of slowed him down. But just with him
- 20:00Speaker 1: there and that that was big because even though he
- 20:03Speaker 1: knocked the helmet off of Donovan Wilson and all that,
- 20:06Speaker 1: and then they still got him out of bounds, led
- 20:08Speaker 1: to a field goal there instead of a touchdown. But
- 20:10Speaker 1: the chase by Clowning doing it his age was good.
- 20:14Speaker 3: He hit it.
- 20:14Speaker 1: Hit a really nice game. Let's give it to somebody
- 20:16Speaker 1: on the defense from Gillette position player of the week.
- 20:20Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the phone lines. We got
- 20:22Speaker 1: Rob in Vegas. Rob, what's up?
- 20:24Speaker 5: Hey, Hey, Nick? How's everything?
- 20:26Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you?
- 20:27Speaker 5: I'm good? So piggyback, pick a back off what you
- 20:31Speaker 5: were saying. You know, there's a there's a guy that
- 20:34Speaker 5: wears silver and black. That checks all the boxes. He's
- 20:40Speaker 5: only twenty eight years old. His cap hit with the
- 20:44Speaker 5: thirty five one year and drops the twenty eight, and
- 20:49Speaker 5: you have the firepower to go get him. I would
- 20:54Speaker 5: definitely trade a first and I would throw an OSA
- 20:58Speaker 5: so I could get out from under that rrible contract. Uh,
- 21:02Speaker 5: you could resign Kenny Clark cheaper, and now you would
- 21:06Speaker 5: have Quinn Williams Clark and the man in silver and black.
- 21:10Speaker 5: And now I think you have a really good pass
- 21:14Speaker 5: rush defensive line and it helps your quarterbacks. Nothing helps
- 21:18Speaker 5: the quarterbacks better than a pass rush. I don't care
- 21:21Speaker 5: who you draft, who you get. So if if they
- 21:25Speaker 5: want to make this happen, and they want to make
- 21:26Speaker 5: a serious run, you know with Dak who has worked
- 21:32Speaker 5: a couple more years, then that's that's the guy you
- 21:35Speaker 5: gotta go. You gotta go get. You keep throwing in
- 21:38Speaker 5: the these couch potatoes. It ain't gonna it ain't gonna work.
- 21:43Speaker 5: You're gonna have to invest serious money to fix it.
- 21:47Speaker 5: I don't care who the defensive coordinator is. If you
- 21:52Speaker 5: don't have players, no coach looks good. M okay, all right,
- 21:59Speaker 5: I mean, and even if they lose if they have
- 22:02Speaker 5: to lose pickings because of it, I would take that
- 22:05Speaker 5: all day. I've watched Dek have really good offenses without
- 22:10Speaker 5: two great wide receivers. Most quarterbacks don't have two great
- 22:16Speaker 5: wide receivers. Some don't have any. I watched Buffalo, they
- 22:19Speaker 5: have nobody at wide receiver. And but that guy is special.
- 22:23Speaker 5: If we consider Dek a special quarterback, he shouldn't need
- 22:28Speaker 5: those two great wide receivers. Now, don't get me wrong.
- 22:31Speaker 5: They can have them all. They can make it happen.
- 22:33Speaker 5: They can get everybody. They just are unwilling to do it.
- 22:37Speaker 5: But if I if there is a if I have
- 22:38Speaker 5: to choose between one, give me the silver and black guy.
- 22:43Speaker 1: Okay, I heard yeah, And I know, I know everybody
- 22:47Speaker 1: knows I think what you're talking about. And that's the
- 22:50Speaker 1: thing when you and I and I heard this actually
- 22:52Speaker 1: on when you you mentioned it this week, when y'all
- 22:55Speaker 1: do this storyline on spaces, and I heard a few
- 22:57Speaker 1: things Rob that you said about that not trying to
- 23:01Speaker 1: get the guy in in in in Vegas and so,
- 23:04Speaker 1: and I wouldn't I wouldn't know, I wouldn't have an
- 23:07Speaker 1: opinion on that because I've kind of been brainwashed. I
- 23:09Speaker 1: think it's what you is, what you said, right, brainwashed
- 23:13Speaker 1: for me? Yeah so I heard.
- 23:14Speaker 5: That, Yes, well yeah, yeah, so I.
- 23:18Speaker 1: Asked Jerry what he thinks I should think about that.
- 23:21Speaker 1: But but no, I I I don't. I don't hate
- 23:24Speaker 1: the opinion. But then again, it doesn't matter, right Rob.
- 23:27Speaker 5: No, No, it's not that it doesn't matter. But you're
- 23:29Speaker 5: you're hamstrung. You can't say what I could say.
- 23:32Speaker 1: Hamstrung is true. Brainwashed is different different terms.
- 23:36Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, not brainwashed. Let's be honest. You've
- 23:39Speaker 5: never seen them win a championship.
- 23:41Speaker 1: Of course, but but you've been there for a long time, right,
- 23:46Speaker 1: You're you're used to how they do business.
- 23:49Speaker 5: True.
- 23:49Speaker 1: True. But I'll say this, and and and just to
- 23:51Speaker 1: kind of let people know they they on the on
- 23:54Speaker 1: the Twitter spaces and that that they've created and it's great.
- 23:57Speaker 1: It's great community that that they they do. They talk
- 23:59Speaker 1: for hours on stuff and they kind of let it fly.
- 24:02Speaker 1: But no, somebody sent that to me, and I did
- 24:04Speaker 1: hear that to me, Rob, I'll tell you a little
- 24:07Speaker 1: disrespectful to think, after twenty seven years of covering the team,
- 24:10Speaker 1: that can't form my own opinions.
- 24:12Speaker 5: No, No, No, that's not what I that's not what
- 24:13Speaker 5: I meant. I didn't say you can't inform your own opinion. Okay,
- 24:17Speaker 5: you've just been beaten down for twenty seven.
- 24:20Speaker 1: Yet I get it, well, I I you know, I
- 24:23Speaker 1: it's it's fine, it's fine. And I'll say this though,
- 24:26Speaker 1: because would you know, you kind of mentioned a little
- 24:29Speaker 1: bit about the fact that, well, you know, if Jerry
- 24:31Speaker 1: thinks this, then then Knit thinks this. But I promised
- 24:34Speaker 1: you this, Rob, if Jerry, if Jerry was listening to
- 24:37Speaker 1: this show, he wouldn't make you the captain, you know
- 24:39Speaker 1: what I mean, Like like, I love what you bring
- 24:41Speaker 1: to the table and all that, and so you know,
- 24:43Speaker 1: I don't want to change that. It's fine. We're having
- 24:45Speaker 1: fun here. But I thought I thought that was a
- 24:47Speaker 1: little little too much to say, you know, brainwashed, like
- 24:50Speaker 1: I can't come up with my own thoughts here.
- 24:53Speaker 5: No, no, no, you come up with your own thoughts.
- 24:55Speaker 5: You just can't say you're right.
- 24:57Speaker 1: And I can't say I say And I appreciate that
- 25:00Speaker 1: you didn't say that either. When we refer to a
- 25:03Speaker 1: player that is in Vegas and everyone knows who we're
- 25:07Speaker 1: talking about, and I agree with you, Rob, I totally
- 25:09Speaker 1: agree with that. I would be fine. I don't need
- 25:12Speaker 1: another two first round picks. If one of them, if
- 25:15Speaker 1: I can get a player to come in here that
- 25:17Speaker 1: can rush the passer like that, I'm doing it. I'm
- 25:20Speaker 1: the first round picks are not untouchable for me. Especially.
- 25:27Speaker 7: Yeah, they're not.
- 25:28Speaker 5: They're not as good as drafting as everybody wants to believe.
- 25:31Speaker 5: They are. As many hits they've had, They've had a
- 25:34Speaker 5: lot of misses.
- 25:35Speaker 1: Now, I'll say this, if you're going to move a contract,
- 25:38Speaker 1: I think I think Kenny Clark's contract might be one
- 25:41Speaker 1: that you have to move more than OSA. Uh And
- 25:44Speaker 1: Chris has helped me with a little bit on the
- 25:46Speaker 1: is the dead cap space for OSA?
- 25:48Speaker 5: I think it's five I think it's five million.
- 25:50Speaker 1: It might have to be that might have to be
- 25:52Speaker 1: a June one move. He's I don't think I would
- 25:56Speaker 1: do that with OSA. Kenny Clark maybe.
- 25:59Speaker 7: No.
- 25:59Speaker 5: All I'm saying is, if I have to sweeten the
- 26:01Speaker 5: deal and I could get out, I don't need three
- 26:05Speaker 5: tackles making that kind of money. If I I know
- 26:08Speaker 5: I could.
- 26:09Speaker 3: If I.
- 26:12Speaker 1: Would you do as Aku even though young developing cass pressure, God, God, yes, Yeah, oh,
- 26:18Speaker 1: I mean not just it's not one for one. But
- 26:21Speaker 1: I'm just saying no, like a.
- 26:23Speaker 5: First in him, first in Donovan. Oh yeah, probably have
- 26:28Speaker 5: to do that absolutely. But only reason why I say
- 26:30Speaker 5: OS is there's no way they're keeping Clark at this price.
- 26:34Speaker 5: So if I keep Osa, I let Clark walk. If
- 26:38Speaker 5: I get if I have to throw oser in the
- 26:40Speaker 5: deal to get it done, then I could restruct, you know,
- 26:44Speaker 5: re signed Clark at a much cheaper price. I think
- 26:47Speaker 5: Clark has been a little bit better than OSA. I
- 26:51Speaker 5: don't think OS has lived up to his contract.
- 26:53Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, but at the end, then again, the defensive
- 26:57Speaker 1: coordinator that comes in here has got to be a
- 27:00Speaker 1: new coordinator. I'm not tired of saying if there is one,
- 27:03Speaker 1: I'm sorry, there has to be a new coordinator. When
- 27:05Speaker 1: that happens, I wanted that vision, that person's vision of
- 27:09Speaker 1: this is how we're gonna do this and this and
- 27:11Speaker 1: move this and this is what I need for you know,
- 27:13Speaker 1: so he might have a different vision of God, have
- 27:17Speaker 1: Kitty Clark have to you know what I mean? And
- 27:19Speaker 1: I don't know what that is, but I'd like to
- 27:21Speaker 1: like to hear it, and then that needs.
- 27:22Speaker 5: To serve they gonna want all the players they can get.
- 27:26Speaker 5: But yeah, you know that that just can't happen. But
- 27:30Speaker 5: I don't know. I have to, like you said, I
- 27:32Speaker 5: have to assume they're going to move on from this guy.
- 27:35Speaker 5: I think there's too much heat. But the people talking
- 27:38Speaker 5: about bringing some of these dcs over, you can't, like
- 27:41Speaker 5: you said, unless you're making them assistant coach or even
- 27:46Speaker 5: that it's my head coaching job.
- 27:49Speaker 1: I think they changed that rule too for the assistant
- 27:52Speaker 1: head coach. I don't think that's one. All right, Rob,
- 27:54Speaker 1: We're gonna move on, all right. Thanks, thanks for the call.
- 27:57Speaker 1: Let's go to Paul and Racine. What Wisconsin? Sorry Paul
- 28:01Speaker 1: and Racine, Wisconsin.
- 28:03Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, Nick, good to speak to you. Very Christmas.
- 28:07Speaker 1: And it's been a while.
- 28:10Speaker 3: Yeah, it has been, but I'm always listening and so
- 28:14Speaker 3: and that last caller. It reminded me of the one
- 28:17Speaker 3: time on the previous show you on, the guy casually
- 28:20Speaker 3: said to you.
- 28:21Speaker 1: You're on the payroll, Yeah, and I am.
- 28:25Speaker 3: And you went yeah, but no. It was funny because
- 28:28Speaker 3: you're like, I've been very critical of this organization, and
- 28:33Speaker 3: I think you said something like they give you the
- 28:34Speaker 3: freedom to do that.
- 28:36Speaker 1: And I was going to say that, you know what, Paul,
- 28:38Speaker 1: I wanted to say that too, And I'll have to
- 28:40Speaker 1: give Jerry credit for that. They allow us to do this,
- 28:43Speaker 1: They allow us to have a show like that. They
- 28:45Speaker 1: allow us to a platform to say I don't like
- 28:48Speaker 1: the micro Parson straight, you know, like like And I
- 28:51Speaker 1: said that right off the bat. I didn't like it.
- 28:52Speaker 1: Micae Parsons should have been here. They should have figured
- 28:54Speaker 1: it out. They should have been here. And guess what
- 28:57Speaker 1: he went there? He made a pro Bowl and you
- 28:59Speaker 1: don't have a pass rush. So I've said that I
- 29:02Speaker 1: get the ability to say that. Do I have to
- 29:04Speaker 1: be careful with the words, sure, just like we all do.
- 29:07Speaker 1: But well, I have more freedom to talk about this
- 29:09Speaker 1: team than others do. And I'll give Jerry credit for
- 29:12Speaker 1: that and giving us this platform to do that. But
- 29:15Speaker 1: to think that I don't have, I can't kind of
- 29:17Speaker 1: speak for myself, and I'm get told what the doer
- 29:21Speaker 1: say is is not the truth. But anyways, Paul, let's
- 29:24Speaker 1: move on you. What do you have? What's on your mind?
- 29:27Speaker 5: Well?
- 29:27Speaker 3: I said this on the post game show last week.
- 29:30Speaker 3: I said, you know, I want the pocus now to
- 29:32Speaker 3: shift away. I think we can all agree that iver
- 29:35Speaker 3: Pus is probably not going to be with the organization
- 29:38Speaker 3: next year. And the only thing I would say to
- 29:41Speaker 3: him is, you know, all the talk has done well.
- 29:42Speaker 3: He doesn't have the players. The guy right to Mike,
- 29:45Speaker 3: I agree, but at some point, and I've said this
- 29:48Speaker 3: all season, the rest of the defensive players are not
- 29:52Speaker 3: buying what he's selling. And sometimes as a coach, you
- 29:56Speaker 3: kind of have to solve a system, so they're not
- 29:58Speaker 3: responding to it, So he needs to be gone. I look,
- 30:01Speaker 3: you know, ninety miles to the Southey, and you look
- 30:05Speaker 3: at Nashan Wright, who was a cowboy right all of
- 30:09Speaker 3: a sudden, he goes to Chicago and whatever coaches have
- 30:12Speaker 3: him there, they've turned him into a pretty darn good player.
- 30:17Speaker 3: And I think that's what a good coach does, is
- 30:20Speaker 3: he gets these guys who might be marginally talented to
- 30:24Speaker 3: believe in themselves to become superstars. And that's why I
- 30:28Speaker 3: want to shift the focus away from all the talk
- 30:30Speaker 3: about Ebapus. It's got to be on Schottenheimer. I think,
- 30:34Speaker 3: as I said in the postgame show a couple of
- 30:36Speaker 3: weeks ago, the media in Dallas has to have a
- 30:39Speaker 3: laser focus on him because he has not proven to
- 30:42Speaker 3: me that he's the guy. He might have made some
- 30:46Speaker 3: culture changes, but like I said, I'll see that it
- 30:49Speaker 3: seems like he's the type of guy he's just weren't
- 30:51Speaker 3: happy to be there than to really just like turn
- 30:55Speaker 3: these guys into winners. And I think the focus has
- 30:59Speaker 3: to be on him. So I'll ask you, Nick, what
- 31:02Speaker 3: is one thing that you've seen Schottenheimer do at your
- 31:07Speaker 3: like and one thing that you think like it needs
- 31:11Speaker 3: to get better?
- 31:12Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, thanks for the Thanks for the call, Paul.
- 31:14Speaker 1: I'll start with the second part. Things that you know
- 31:17Speaker 1: that could be better is the end of the half
- 31:24Speaker 1: time management play calling a little bit there. There's been
- 31:29Speaker 1: times where that kind of looked like first year head coach,
- 31:32Speaker 1: you know, and that that that was That's one thing
- 31:37Speaker 1: that I that I think that, you know, it's got
- 31:39Speaker 1: to be a little better. And also to kind of
- 31:41Speaker 1: piggyback on that, I would say just and we understand
- 31:46Speaker 1: why because of the defense was was so bad this year,
- 31:50Speaker 1: but but just just kind of having to play the
- 31:55Speaker 1: play calling with the offense and to basically try to
- 32:00Speaker 1: tech the team and protect the game based off the
- 32:03Speaker 1: fact that the defense can't score. And and you know,
- 32:07Speaker 1: they kicked a lot of field goals this year. I
- 32:10Speaker 1: don't know if they kicked enough, to be honest with you.
- 32:12Speaker 1: I mean, there were times where you just had to
- 32:14Speaker 1: go for it all the time. And when they go
- 32:16Speaker 1: for it, it's great. They did it six times. You
- 32:19Speaker 1: don't make it, then you're like, why don't you kick
- 32:20Speaker 1: the field goals? So I get it. It's just having
- 32:23Speaker 1: to understand the team and and and the defense, and
- 32:25Speaker 1: and he had a hard time doing that because the defense.
- 32:28Speaker 1: I think he wanted to. He's the type of guys.
- 32:30Speaker 1: He's a he's a good guy. He likes those players,
- 32:34Speaker 1: he likes those coaches. He wants to believe in them.
- 32:36Speaker 1: He trusts them. But you couldn't. You really couldn't trust him.
- 32:42Speaker 1: And and you know that that being said, I I like,
- 32:44Speaker 1: I like I like some of the behind the scenes
- 32:48Speaker 1: things that that he's done. From a culture standpoint, I
- 32:53Speaker 1: think that he's gotten. His offenses is really good. His
- 32:56Speaker 1: offense is play calling there, uh, for the most part,
- 32:59Speaker 1: was good. Now you know into half and all that.
- 33:01Speaker 1: You know, some red zone things, but I there was
- 33:05Speaker 1: there was a lot of plays we hadn't seen before.
- 33:07Speaker 1: You know, you really couldn't say it was a vanilla
- 33:10Speaker 1: type offense at all. And I thought, you know, what
- 33:14Speaker 1: he did with the offense was really good. I think
- 33:17Speaker 1: he needs a defensive coordinator that he really knows and
- 33:21Speaker 1: he understands everything that that that Chody wants and vice versa.
- 33:26Speaker 1: And when he turns his back to really focus on
- 33:29Speaker 1: the offense and talk to Dak on what happened on
- 33:31Speaker 1: that last series, he knows that his defensive coordinator is
- 33:34Speaker 1: doing what he would want. Two blitz is in a row,
- 33:38Speaker 1: no blitz at all, you know, put everyone back. Whatever
- 33:42Speaker 1: it is. He he needs to have that, and I
- 33:45Speaker 1: don't know if he had it this year. Let's go
- 33:47Speaker 1: to Sebastian and Savannah, Georgia. Good morning, I'm good. How
- 33:52Speaker 1: are you.
- 33:53Speaker 14: I'm doing well. I'll just done a little living room
- 33:56Speaker 14: seaming this morning. And I wanted to hop one real
- 33:59Speaker 14: quick brilliant points about Brian Schottenheimer. By the way, as
- 34:02Speaker 14: a first year coach. When I look at the other
- 34:04Speaker 14: first year coaches around the league, like Kellen Moore, so
- 34:06Speaker 14: on and so forth, Brian Schottenheimer is one of the
- 34:09Speaker 14: top marks. Kellen Calverley get the four wins. Brian got
- 34:12Speaker 14: the seven wins so far, but we're not gonna compare
- 34:13Speaker 14: out with the Orange.
- 34:14Speaker 1: Well, but be fair, let's let's go look at the Bears.
- 34:17Speaker 1: Let's look at the Patriots, right, I mean right, right, right.
- 34:20Speaker 14: But I was thinking he's one of the top he's
- 34:21Speaker 14: one of the top five brand new first time head
- 34:25Speaker 14: coaches this year. Now, as far as the George George
- 34:28Speaker 14: Pickens thing, and uh, we're in the offseason officially because
- 34:32Speaker 14: we're not we're not going to the playoffs. Right, it's
- 34:34Speaker 14: not a case of whether you can or can't sign George.
- 34:37Speaker 14: You shouldn't if your offense was the number one offense
- 34:41Speaker 14: and your defense was dead last. You should not have
- 34:44Speaker 14: the top quarterback, the top wide receiver, and another top
- 34:47Speaker 14: receiver on the same team. Just sit there and ask
- 34:51Speaker 14: Cincinnati's quarterback if he'd rather have Tee Higgins or if
- 34:54Speaker 14: he'd rather have an offensive lineman. I think we should
- 34:57Speaker 14: take the same approach that Jerry allegedly took with Michael Parsons,
- 35:00Speaker 14: where you said, you get three players for the price
- 35:01Speaker 14: of one, and instead of paying GP thirty five thirty
- 35:05Speaker 14: six million dollars, thirty million dollars whatever, the case is
- 35:07Speaker 14: you pay three defenders because we desperately need help at
- 35:10Speaker 14: three levels of defense. You know that eight to twelve
- 35:13Speaker 14: million dollars that he would have got per you know, quarter,
- 35:16Speaker 14: and I would give that to someone else because realistically,
- 35:19Speaker 14: we have to retool that defense no matter what defensive
- 35:22Speaker 14: coordinator we get in here. If he decides to bring
- 35:24Speaker 14: that guy back or if he decides to go with
- 35:26Speaker 14: someone else, it won't matter if there are no tools
- 35:28Speaker 14: in the shed for them to work with and we
- 35:30Speaker 14: roll out the same team next year. But I'll hang
- 35:32Speaker 14: up and listen, you guys, have a happy New year
- 35:33Speaker 14: and have a great day.
- 35:34Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, that's that's going to be the biggest
- 35:36Speaker 1: dilemma of the offseason. Thanks for the call, Sebastian. That
- 35:39Speaker 1: that's going to be the big question, right, And there's
- 35:41Speaker 1: always one, right, there's always a question that you that
- 35:46Speaker 1: you you know, have to to figure out, and that
- 35:48Speaker 1: that's what they're there. Their big dilemma is going to
- 35:51Speaker 1: be do they do they try to sign him and
- 35:56Speaker 1: or do they say, hey, let's build defense through the
- 35:59Speaker 1: draft and try to get better that way and hope
- 36:03Speaker 1: that you have a coordinator. I thought, I thought, what
- 36:05Speaker 1: Paul said, I kind of glossed over it to answer
- 36:07Speaker 1: the question, but you know, just it's just a good
- 36:12Speaker 1: way of saying it. They just didn't respond to him.
- 36:14Speaker 1: They just didn't some players. You know, is it the players?
- 36:21Speaker 1: Is it? Is it the scheme? Is it the coach?
- 36:23Speaker 1: Is it the message that he was sending? Is this
- 36:25Speaker 1: an old message? Yeah, he was a good coordinator a
- 36:28Speaker 1: few years ago. The game changes, though, The game changes
- 36:31Speaker 1: so much. Look at look at the offenses now? How
- 36:33Speaker 1: many how many like hook and laterals did we see yesterday?
- 36:37Speaker 1: I saw two. I mean, I think it's it's a
- 36:40Speaker 1: brilliant play. I've thought about that play for years. I
- 36:43Speaker 1: loved that play, and I think it works now, especially
- 36:46Speaker 1: with how quick and how everybody swarms on defense. It
- 36:51Speaker 1: that that's a perfect play. I saw it twice in
- 36:54Speaker 1: yesterday's games, and you know, once once it worked really
- 36:57Speaker 1: well with Buffalo and then with chid Go it got
- 37:01Speaker 1: down to the end, and I don't know about you,
- 37:03Speaker 1: I think that was a great football game. You know,
- 37:04Speaker 1: when you don't have a dog in the fight and
- 37:06Speaker 1: you just kind of watch him and I don't care
- 37:08Speaker 1: about defense. I mean care about defense, but I'm just
- 37:12Speaker 1: saying that was a good football game of guys going
- 37:15Speaker 1: back and forth, back and forth, and you know, it's
- 37:18Speaker 1: definitely fun to watch. But but to answer the question
- 37:23Speaker 1: about the pickings and the defense, I just don't think
- 37:28Speaker 1: Jerry will do it. I think Jerry let go of
- 37:30Speaker 1: a great player, and I don't think with Micah, and
- 37:36Speaker 1: I don't think he'll do it here. And you know,
- 37:40Speaker 1: there's something to be said for making the move, you know,
- 37:44Speaker 1: making the trade and stealing him, you know, a third
- 37:47Speaker 1: round pick for a pro bowler. You know, that's basically
- 37:50Speaker 1: what happened. Let's see what the market looks like for
- 37:53Speaker 1: for for him and and and I think it'll What
- 37:56Speaker 1: I think they'll do is I think they'll franchise them.
- 37:59Speaker 1: And then if they do, you decide to trade him,
- 38:02Speaker 1: you'll get a little bit more value than you would
- 38:04Speaker 1: if you just let him go and get a comp
- 38:06Speaker 1: pick and all that. I think they're going to try
- 38:08Speaker 1: to do that and put the tag on him. All right,
- 38:11Speaker 1: let's go to Max in Dallas. Max, Here, here we go.
- 38:18Speaker 3: Up.
- 38:19Speaker 1: I like it. Just come in there with your own Yeah,
- 38:23Speaker 1: I love it.
- 38:24Speaker 15: Hey, long time listener, first time caller. Uh, I'm just
- 38:28Speaker 15: curious you know, I know that the Cowboys. That feels
- 38:31Speaker 15: like we have a plan to optimize the last years
- 38:35Speaker 15: of Dak here, which I think we should. You know,
- 38:37Speaker 15: I believe in Dak and I like to think that
- 38:40Speaker 15: he can take us there if we have the right
- 38:42Speaker 15: team around him. So I'm curious how does that affect
- 38:45Speaker 15: our team building and decisions we make over the short term,
- 38:49Speaker 15: you know, and how long? I guess do you think
- 38:51Speaker 15: that window is that we have left with Dak, Because
- 38:55Speaker 15: I don't want to get too far in the future,
- 38:57Speaker 15: but it seems like teams in the NF are really
- 39:01Speaker 15: taking advantage of rookie quarterback contracts and you can do
- 39:05Speaker 15: a lot with that, and I feel like when we
- 39:07Speaker 15: switched to Dak, we couldn't do that because of the
- 39:09Speaker 15: Romo situation. So I just really hope that, you know,
- 39:14Speaker 15: I want us to optimize our chance with Dak, but
- 39:17Speaker 15: I also want us to be really careful so that
- 39:20Speaker 15: we're in a great position for wherever we decide to
- 39:23Speaker 15: go next. And I'll hang up and list them.
- 39:26Speaker 1: Thanks the yeah thinks that's a that's a good question.
- 39:29Speaker 1: There are a good comment, you know, and I think
- 39:34Speaker 1: there are teams I don't think the Cowboys are one
- 39:37Speaker 1: of them, Jerry, I don't think. I don't think he's
- 39:40Speaker 1: on them. But there are teams that would be in
- 39:43Speaker 1: this same spot of a lot of you know, eight
- 39:47Speaker 1: and eight, ten and seven, twelve and five, you know what,
- 39:51Speaker 1: that whole area not not great, definitely not terrible, but
- 39:54Speaker 1: not at that, you know, not where you need to be.
- 39:57Speaker 1: And they have a quarterback in his now eleven the year,
- 40:01Speaker 1: and they have two first round picks and one of
- 40:03Speaker 1: them will be in the twenties. There are teams that
- 40:05Speaker 1: would consider a quarterback there, even with Dak, even with
- 40:10Speaker 1: Dak still coming back, consider a quarterback. Let them develop
- 40:13Speaker 1: and then we'll see what happens. It's always that's always
- 40:18Speaker 1: tough to do because as the veteran quarterback here, like
- 40:22Speaker 1: why don't you give me some help once you give
- 40:24Speaker 1: me a you know, two defensive guys, or once you
- 40:27Speaker 1: give me a left tackle or you know, another lineman
- 40:29Speaker 1: and and you know, and and and help me get
- 40:32Speaker 1: better as opposed to drafting someone that have to look
- 40:35Speaker 1: over my shoulder. I don't think that'll happen, but I
- 40:38Speaker 1: think it's it would be a it would be a move,
- 40:42Speaker 1: you know, to consider uh, maybe if they had a
- 40:44Speaker 1: second round pick. They don't. But but you're not wrong, Max,
- 40:48Speaker 1: and thinking that it's time at least you have to
- 40:51Speaker 1: start looking down the road a little bit. This team
- 40:54Speaker 1: has gotten fortunate with their quarterbacks the last two times,
- 40:58Speaker 1: undrafted in the fourth round, you know. And and to
- 41:01Speaker 1: think that they've gotten a decade or more out of
- 41:04Speaker 1: both of them. It's going to break one more time
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- 42:20Speaker 1: Let's go to Dylan, Northport, Florida. Dylan, what's up in it?
- 42:25Speaker 18: Do you have any of your own thoughts today? Or
- 42:26Speaker 18: Jerry tell you everything to say?
- 42:27Speaker 1: Let me let me. He's gonna email me and then
- 42:30Speaker 1: I'll let you know. But it'll be something like, Hey,
- 42:33Speaker 1: how's it going? How is your Christmas?
- 42:35Speaker 7: Dylan?
- 42:35Speaker 1: It'll be something like.
- 42:36Speaker 18: That, Dude, that was funny. I'm just good.
- 42:39Speaker 3: I was.
- 42:40Speaker 5: I have me rolling on the.
- 42:41Speaker 18: Floor and Rob great recovery by Rob on that one.
- 42:46Speaker 18: But yeah, I mean, we we try and keep a
- 42:48Speaker 18: civil in there to an extent, but we do let
- 42:50Speaker 18: it rip. But it's all recorded, so you know, we
- 42:52Speaker 18: gotta be a little careful by what we're doing in there,
- 42:54Speaker 18: for sure.
- 42:54Speaker 1: I mean, it's fine, you know what I mean, Like like,
- 42:58Speaker 1: I love the fact that y'all do it and you have,
- 43:00Speaker 1: you know, a show. But but to to say that,
- 43:03Speaker 1: and again this was me and Rob talking back and forth,
- 43:06Speaker 1: it's fine to say that. It's it's it is one
- 43:10Speaker 1: thing to say, Yeah, I can't say a lot, I
- 43:12Speaker 1: you know, I can't mention certain players or whatever. But
- 43:15Speaker 1: I feel like I have enough free reign to say,
- 43:17Speaker 1: you know, my my opinion on stuff, and I feel
- 43:20Speaker 1: like I do that. But you know, it's it's all good.
- 43:23Speaker 1: It's all yeah.
- 43:24Speaker 18: You know, you know, we all respect you and Stephan,
- 43:26Speaker 18: Rob respect you and all that. Rob says things sometimes
- 43:30Speaker 18: he's got you know, he talks fast and talks a lot,
- 43:32Speaker 18: so sometimes he says things that he might not really
- 43:34Speaker 18: mean in that way.
- 43:35Speaker 1: But I said this, that's why the captains are who
- 43:38Speaker 1: they are, you know what I mean, because they're all
- 43:40Speaker 1: you guys are all a little different, uh, you and
- 43:42Speaker 1: Irene and and like, let's not Irene kind of started
- 43:46Speaker 1: that whole conversation. It was about Jordan Lewis. Let's not,
- 43:50Speaker 1: let's not you know, you know immediately, you know, leave
- 43:54Speaker 1: her out of the out of the out of the mixture.
- 43:56Speaker 1: But but the the captains are the captain. They all
- 44:00Speaker 1: provide something that very unique and very important to shows
- 44:05Speaker 1: like this. And so with you and and and of
- 44:08Speaker 1: course Rob, Irene, Randy you know, those those my four
- 44:13Speaker 1: captains for all storyline last year, and you all provide
- 44:15Speaker 1: something different to the table. So U and I wouldn't.
- 44:18Speaker 1: I wouldn't change that and don't want to.
- 44:20Speaker 5: Change that, no doubt.
- 44:21Speaker 18: I mean, we all, we all appreciate you on Kris Noll.
- 44:23Speaker 4: And as far as what Rob.
- 44:24Speaker 18: Was saying just now on the call with the trades
- 44:26Speaker 18: and and all that, you know, I'm down for something similar.
- 44:30Speaker 18: I'd hate to you know, Ohio State has some really
- 44:33Speaker 18: good players coming out defensively, and those are guys that
- 44:36Speaker 18: I kind of want to key on. And so I'd
- 44:37Speaker 18: hate to get into a spot where you can have
- 44:40Speaker 18: a young guy for five years who was really, really,
- 44:42Speaker 18: really good, but shoot at a trade of my pickaway,
- 44:45Speaker 18: and you know, you're kind of mortgage in the future
- 44:47Speaker 18: if you trade that away. I'm not I'm not against it,
- 44:49Speaker 18: but at some point, you know, the next couple of
- 44:52Speaker 18: drafts are really kind of jacked up as far as
- 44:53Speaker 18: your picks go in the middle rounds. So you know,
- 44:56Speaker 18: the more higher end expensive talent you get, you're not
- 44:59Speaker 18: going to have those younger guy to offset those big contracts.
- 45:01Speaker 18: And then when it all hits, it's gonna hurt really bad.
- 45:04Speaker 18: But if you get a championship out of it, okay,
- 45:07Speaker 18: that's fine, but you know it's not guaranteed. But if
- 45:09Speaker 18: you want to go all in and risk at all,
- 45:11Speaker 18: it's fine. Something different. So I'm down for that too.
- 45:13Speaker 18: And I like what Rob was saying there.
- 45:14Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'd like it. But you're you're right. I
- 45:17Speaker 1: mean it comes with a risk. I mean there are
- 45:20Speaker 1: teams that have done it that haven't won. There's teams
- 45:23Speaker 1: that have done it. Eagles did it, Philly. I mean,
- 45:25Speaker 1: the Rams did it and they won. There's other teams
- 45:28Speaker 1: that have kind of tried to do it and you
- 45:29Speaker 1: don't win, you know, and then it kind of screws you.
- 45:33Speaker 18: And it's not just like you have a bad cat
- 45:34Speaker 18: situation for one year, because that one year of bad
- 45:37Speaker 18: cat situation means you lose players that you would have
- 45:39Speaker 18: had for the next three or four five years, three
- 45:41Speaker 18: or four years potentially, So it's a it's a risk.
- 45:45Speaker 18: But at this point, you know, I've never seen the
- 45:47Speaker 18: super Bowl, so I'm down to do whatever. The hell, man,
- 45:50Speaker 18: just do something fun. Yeah, So still I got the
- 45:53Speaker 18: brother appreciate I cacitulator.
- 45:54Speaker 1: All right, Jones, have a good one. Let's go quickly
- 45:57Speaker 1: Josh and Chicago. Josh, what's up, man? Josh? You there?
- 46:03Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm here, Sorry about that.
- 46:04Speaker 1: No, all good? How are you doing good?
- 46:06Speaker 6: How are you good?
- 46:08Speaker 8: So?
- 46:08Speaker 6: Actually two things. I am a I'm a little bit
- 46:11Speaker 6: upset because when you look at how the NFL everything
- 46:13Speaker 6: shook out, if we had taken care of business, there's
- 46:15Speaker 6: a chance that this is a playoff team. It's kind
- 46:17Speaker 6: of upsetting, you know, but it is what it is, right,
- 46:20Speaker 6: We got to take care of our own business first. Yeah,
- 46:23Speaker 6: and who knows, the butterfly flaps its wings and maybe
- 46:25Speaker 6: Green Bay plays better, Mike doesn't get hurt.
- 46:26Speaker 3: Who knows?
- 46:27Speaker 1: Right, right, Yeah, there's two or three games you can
- 46:31Speaker 1: kind of go back on and say, oh man, you
- 46:33Speaker 1: know that that could have been different. But yeah, if
- 46:36Speaker 1: you do that, you got to make sure that you
- 46:39Speaker 1: throw in your two or three games.
- 46:40Speaker 6: That it looked like that we were going to lose.
- 46:42Speaker 6: I mean the Giants in the Giants game.
- 46:45Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Eagles Eagles at home as well, Chiefs
- 46:48Speaker 1: had you had a good chance to lose that one too,
- 46:50Speaker 1: So it usually evens itself out. The Cardinals game.
- 46:54Speaker 6: I just can't explain you just given the Panthers, the
- 46:57Speaker 6: Cardinals and the Panthers you just look back on, You're
- 46:59Speaker 6: just like, oh my god, or even the Packers, right,
- 47:01Speaker 6: like the Packers, it's like we taught like that's the
- 47:03Speaker 6: one that you look back on. But the reason I
- 47:06Speaker 6: call them I just want to bring up and I
- 47:07Speaker 6: know it's a little early, you know it's not March yet,
- 47:09Speaker 6: but free agency wise, I know we really all want
- 47:12Speaker 6: to keep Jeep and uh and I really want to
- 47:15Speaker 6: keep Javonte too. But when you look at the free
- 47:18Speaker 6: agents out there, there's a lot of running backs, wide receivers,
- 47:21Speaker 6: safeties and cornerbacks. There's really like one playmaking defensive end
- 47:25Speaker 6: who's going to be available and he might a franchise, right,
- 47:28Speaker 6: So when when you look at the money, it's got
- 47:30Speaker 6: to be right if we're keeping Javonte or Pickings, it
- 47:33Speaker 6: just has to be right because there's other people. There's
- 47:36Speaker 6: other places that we're gonna have to spend big on,
- 47:38Speaker 6: like the end, and there's not a big market like
- 47:40Speaker 6: there are for receiver, running back or quarterback. Even so
- 47:43Speaker 6: that's the only point I want to make Kevin great.
- 47:45Speaker 1: Day, all right, appreciate it, Thank you, Josh, you know,
- 47:47Speaker 1: and to Rob's point from earlier in the show about
- 47:52Speaker 1: you know this, this offense can be good without two
- 47:55Speaker 1: star wide receivers, you know, but I would think you
- 48:00Speaker 1: you know, that would be a position you would draft
- 48:02Speaker 1: if you don't have. But again, I think they're gonna
- 48:05Speaker 1: franchise George, and if they don't, if they entertain a trade,
- 48:10Speaker 1: then with a first round pick or two first rounds
- 48:13Speaker 1: or maybe a first in a second, you know, you
- 48:15Speaker 1: can negotiate that that trade, then then you would draft
- 48:19Speaker 1: a wide receiver, you know, probably in that in that
- 48:22Speaker 1: mix there too, So a lot of options, a lot
- 48:24Speaker 1: of options there. They're gonna have some tough decisions to make,
- 48:27Speaker 1: no doubt about it, because it's not just a slam
- 48:30Speaker 1: dunk to re sign you know, a running especially when
- 48:33Speaker 1: you think about every year there's been you know, Pollard
- 48:35Speaker 1: had a thousand yards and now you Rico Dawn had
- 48:38Speaker 1: a thousand yards, and now Davante has had maybe eleven
- 48:40Speaker 1: hundred almost twelve hundred yards, a lot of touchdowns, you know,
- 48:43Speaker 1: So you know, maybe maybe it's not needed to keep
- 48:46Speaker 1: keep them the same running back in there. But you know,
- 48:50Speaker 1: I know Dak loves having Javonte in there, not just
- 48:54Speaker 1: as a runner but also blitz pick up. And it's
- 48:56Speaker 1: just the toughness there. So it's got to make sense.
- 48:59Speaker 1: Like you said, Josh had a really good point there.
- 49:02Speaker 1: It's got to make sense. But a lot of decisions
- 49:05Speaker 1: to make, all right. We'll see what the decisions the
- 49:07Speaker 1: Cowboys make this week. We didn't really talk much about
- 49:09Speaker 1: the Giants game. That's fine. We'll have a couple more
- 49:10Speaker 1: shows to do that this week. Good stuff for everybody,
- 49:13Speaker 1: all right. For Chris be I'm Nick Eatman. See you
- 49:15Speaker 1: next time on Cowboys Storyline.
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