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Speaker 1: The following.
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Speaker 2: He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and
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Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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Speaker 1: Cowboys.
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Speaker 2: This these Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It is Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: September the eighteenth, Humpday. Here, middle of the week, getting
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Speaker 1: ready to talk more about the Ravens. I think we're
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Speaker 1: done with the Saints, as one of the callers said
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Speaker 1: yesterday so eloquently, that we could flush away that game
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Speaker 1: and move on. But I still think that the lingering
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Speaker 1: problems from that game are going to be stuff that
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Speaker 1: we talk about and see how they carry over or
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Speaker 1: not carry over to this game against the Ravens. Injury wise,
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Speaker 1: Jake Ferguson's the big one to watch there, a tight
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Speaker 1: end for the Cowboys. Did not play last week, did
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Speaker 1: not practice all of the week. I think, let's see
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Speaker 1: what he does today. You know, even if he's limited,
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Speaker 1: that would be better than what we've seen, and that
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Speaker 1: would be maybe ramping it up, trying to get him
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Speaker 1: back and ready to go. And I think that he's needed.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Luke Schoomaker did a nice job, but I
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Speaker 1: think that there's a big difference there and you know,
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Speaker 1: just a dynamic type of tight end, a guy that
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Speaker 1: can get down the field, make some plays and really
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Speaker 1: give you some big play potential. And I think Ferguson
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Speaker 1: does that, so that that's something that to keep an
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Speaker 1: eye on for him this week. And John Stevens as well,
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Speaker 1: another tight end, has not played for the Cowboys yet
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Speaker 1: injuries have limited him. So let's see if both of
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Speaker 1: them can get on the field for this game. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's go to the phone lines here. Eight to eight
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Speaker 1: eight five five two two ninety seven is the number
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Speaker 1: to call. Let's start us off here. We've got Cowboy Jeff.
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Speaker 1: He's in Maryland. What's up man?
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Speaker 3: Good morning, mister Nick.
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Speaker 4: How are you today?
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Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you doing?
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Speaker 3: I am living the dream. I'm here with my daughter, Carly, Hey,
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Speaker 3: Carly and my dog and my dog Toby Romo. So
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Speaker 3: and I made many mistakes as a father, but my
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Speaker 3: daughter is a Cowboys fan, so I.
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Speaker 4: Did something right.
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Speaker 3: Now we thank you for the Here we go. You know,
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Speaker 3: actually I'm a second time call. I called you around
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Speaker 3: Thanksgiving last year. All right, all right, my daughter's first time.
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Speaker 3: But I called so long ago. I got that ding.
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Speaker 3: I didn't get to here we go.
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Speaker 4: So okay, all right, we are we are ready for
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Speaker 4: the to beat the Ravens. And whether they win, whether
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Speaker 4: they lose, whether they tie, we love us some Dallas Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome, that is great. Never seen a tie. I
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Speaker 1: don't really want to start it off, but uh, I
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Speaker 1: never that's one thing I've never seen. Don't ever want
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Speaker 1: to see that. That would be terrible.
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Speaker 4: Anyways, go ahead, Yeah, So so where we're we're fine.
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Speaker 3: I mean, what happened on Sunday was not ideal, but
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Speaker 3: it's behind us, and uh, we are looking forward to
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Speaker 3: I know we haven't don't have a great record against
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Speaker 3: the Ravens and but but we can definitely beat them.
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Speaker 3: So I see that happening on Sunday, And how.
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Speaker 1: Do you see that happening? Jeff? Like like, And I'm
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Speaker 1: not arguing with you, I'm just asking what what what
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Speaker 1: do you see? Is it needs to happen the most
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Speaker 1: for the Cowboys to do that.
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Speaker 5: Well, I see.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna play better offensively, we're gonna we're gonna when
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Speaker 3: we get to the red zone, we're gonna have touchdowns
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Speaker 3: and we're gonna protect the ball. And defensively, we are
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Speaker 3: going to do much better against the runs. And that's
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Speaker 3: what I see happening. I just see a better you know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we got the crap you know, out of
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Speaker 3: this last week and it happens to the best of them.
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Speaker 3: But but we are going to respond the right way.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's what it takes. I think that's the
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Speaker 1: big word of the week is response. I mean, how
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Speaker 1: do they respec from that. We're gonna learn a lot
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Speaker 1: about the team here in week three. You know, we
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Speaker 1: think we know about it. Thanks thanks for the call,
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Speaker 1: Jeff and Carly and Toby Romo. Thank you there for
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Speaker 1: the big support in Maryland. Don't get a lot of
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Speaker 1: calls from Maryland. That's good, good, good stuff there. But
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Speaker 1: I think responses is the big is the big key
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Speaker 1: this week. They have to figure out how to get
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Speaker 1: off the mat and and and what happens from there,
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, can you do you just keep
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Speaker 1: getting hit or do you you know, do you turn
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Speaker 1: this into like every Rocky movie where the first couple
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Speaker 1: of rounds this looks terrible and then all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden you just keep grinding and keep grinding, you know,
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Speaker 1: keep fighting. Get the whole crowd to turn them against
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Speaker 1: the hometown guy and cheer for you and in communism
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Speaker 1: at the same time, and then win the fight at
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Speaker 1: the end. Sorry having a Rocky four moment, but I'm
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Speaker 1: just saying, it's how do you respond? And that's what
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Speaker 1: they have to do. All right, It's go to Jeremy
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Speaker 1: Salt Lake City.
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Speaker 6: Hello?
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Speaker 1: Do you heard me? What's up?
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Speaker 7: Man?
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Speaker 8: He man?
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Speaker 9: Uh?
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Speaker 7: I just wanted to call in and you know, kind
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Speaker 7: of a couple things I want to talk about. First
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Speaker 7: of all, I watched that press conference with Mike Zimmer
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Speaker 7: and it made me feel a little better when he
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Speaker 7: started talking about the Pickle Juice game. I kind of
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Speaker 7: want your thoughts on that and a couple of memories
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Speaker 7: from that if I remember correctly. All I remember about
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Speaker 7: that game was Jeremiah Trotter on side kick? Uh right,
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Speaker 7: am I thinking of the right game?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 7: And didn't Joey Galloway get hurt that game too?
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Speaker 3: I think?
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Speaker 1: Yep?
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Speaker 7: But yeah, so like that made me feel better just
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Speaker 7: watching Zim the way he takes responsibility for it all. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: you know, he didn't put it on the players, and
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Speaker 7: I think he'll get that turned round. After watching the
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Speaker 7: All twenty two. There there were a lot there were
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Speaker 7: there were there were a lot of things in that
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Speaker 7: All twenty two that came out as far as our
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Speaker 7: running game too. I said it on Monday. Rieko made
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Speaker 7: some bad choices. There was a couple of times where
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Speaker 7: he had a he had a cutback plane.
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Speaker 6: That he didn't take.
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Speaker 7: So you know, I mean there's some things that that
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Speaker 7: we can work out and that you know, it's not
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Speaker 7: the season isn't lost, right, Yeah. And the other thing
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Speaker 7: this you think Keith's son. I apologize, but yeah, I
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Speaker 7: was just wanting your thoughts on that Pickle Juice game
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Speaker 7: and yeah, I'll hang up.
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Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good, thank you. Yeah. Usually a game that
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Speaker 1: you put way in the distant memory there because it
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Speaker 1: was it was about as bad as you could ever
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Speaker 1: have and to ever start the season two thousand Dave Campo,
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Speaker 1: first first year head coach, And it's one hundred and
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Speaker 1: nine degrees in at Texas Stadium and felt like one
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty on the field, and the Eagles start
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Speaker 1: off with an on side kick and that's how the season,
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Speaker 1: you know, begins, and then they win. I think it's
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Speaker 1: like forty one fourteen to stay rushes for two hundred
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Speaker 1: something yards and the Eagles were drinking pickle juice on
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Speaker 1: the sideline to help them, you know, and they're sitting
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Speaker 1: right in the sun, but didn't bother them and Akeman
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Speaker 1: with a concussion and Guylla we gets hurt. I mean
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Speaker 1: it was like, now he's a just bad start, but
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Speaker 1: then the whole season it was terrible. Zimmer talked about
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Speaker 1: how he had to, you know, pick it up from there.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's the defensive coordinator. Now this is his
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Speaker 1: fae because we remember that as as Campo. It was
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Speaker 1: the first game for Zimmer as the defensive coordinator, and
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Speaker 1: that year was tough. I mean, gave up a lot
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Speaker 1: of two hundred yard rushers, like three that year. So
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Speaker 1: I think his point was is that if he didn't
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Speaker 1: figure it out at some point, he wouldn't be sitting
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Speaker 1: here where he is now. And you know, I never
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Speaker 1: once ever realized that about Zimmer until actually like ten
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Speaker 1: seconds ago, that that was his first game ever as
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. I mean I always put that on Campo
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Speaker 1: as you know, Campo's first game as a coach, but
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Speaker 1: never never remembered that that it was Zimmer's first game
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Speaker 1: as defensive coordinator. So interesting. But that's what I remember
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Speaker 1: from that game, and that was the start of the
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Speaker 1: two thousand season, and it was the start of three
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Speaker 1: five and eleven years. And so that's why I don't
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Speaker 1: really like bringing that up, like, oh, like this is
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Speaker 1: gonna lead to something else. Let's let's see if the
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Speaker 1: Cowboys can turn it around. They have a much better
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Speaker 1: football team and and and better players than they had
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Speaker 1: in that season. So that's why that's not a very
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Speaker 1: good one to compare it to. But Zimmer did bring
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Speaker 1: it up, and that's why that's why Jeremy mentioned it.
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Speaker 1: All right, Albert in Tucson, Arizona, Albert.
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Speaker 10: Hey, good morning, Nick, how are you. I'm doing pretty good,
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Speaker 10: doing pretty good. God lucky this week two times. But hey,
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Speaker 10: I'm a storyline guy. So you know I got a
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Speaker 10: call into this great show, my first call. We didn't
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Speaker 10: really I didn't really get your opinion on. You know,
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Speaker 10: Brandon Aubrey has been awesome, you know, awesome right, so
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Speaker 10: you know on years past, you know, when when we're
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Speaker 10: down we need something, uh, you know, to give us
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Speaker 10: that little Joe. What do you think about you know,
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Speaker 10: the special teams either, you know, throwing a fake pass
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Speaker 10: from the putter, from Brandon Aubrey, from somebody on special
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Speaker 10: teams to give us that Joe, do you think those
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Speaker 10: guys are capable of doing something like that?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? I do. I mean if you I think, I
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Speaker 1: think anger is you know he can throw it. I
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Speaker 1: mean we we've seen a play before like that, you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean that, I don't know if they're at that
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Speaker 1: point of the season to do that. I mean, there's
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Speaker 1: different there's different theories there. I've seen people throw it
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Speaker 1: out in the preseason just to kind of get it
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Speaker 1: out there and get it on tape. So Nolan John
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Speaker 1: Fossil there, you know, bones is he's doing something like that.
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Speaker 1: He's get he's he's got something in the works. But
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Speaker 1: I'll say this, typically the teams that run the fakes
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Speaker 1: and do all the the you know, the reverses and
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Speaker 1: the throwbacks and and all the trick plays are the
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Speaker 1: teams that aren't very good. And that's because you have
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Speaker 1: to do that kind of stuff to compete. You hope
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Speaker 1: that that's not what this team is, but we'll we'll
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Speaker 1: find out. You know, in twenty twenty, they weren't very good.
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Speaker 1: And they did have to do a lot of fakes
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Speaker 1: and things like that. Last few years you haven't seen
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Speaker 1: it as much, so, you know, but it's all. It's
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Speaker 1: always there. It's always something to put in there and
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Speaker 1: bring out of the bag.
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Speaker 6: If you need to sweat. Sweet yep. All right, hopefully
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Speaker 6: they do.
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Speaker 10: Man, thank you very much, God bless you guys and
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Speaker 10: the great work.
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Speaker 1: All right, thanks Albert. Albert called earlier this week. I
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Speaker 1: remember he was the one same needed a like they
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Speaker 1: need a hype hype guy or something there on the sideline,
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Speaker 1: and and and maybe they do, but you know, and
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Speaker 1: if it's not that a trick play, you know he's
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Speaker 1: looking for something, you know what. At least at least
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Speaker 1: when you call, you're bringing something to the table. I
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Speaker 1: don't always agree, that's fine. I don't always agree with me.
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Speaker 1: We don't have to agree. Just be thinking, Just think
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Speaker 1: outside of the box. You just got your ass kicked
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Speaker 1: by twenty five points at home to the Saints. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's got to do something here. So I actually appreciate
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Speaker 1: calls like that for sure. If you know, you got
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Speaker 1: to figure it out. You One thing you hate is
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Speaker 1: when people say, now that's not going to work, and
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Speaker 1: you're like, all right, well what do you suggest? I
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Speaker 1: don't know, but that's not gonna work, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean? At least a least have a plan, at
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Speaker 1: least have something.
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Speaker 5: I like it.
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Speaker 1: Good job, albert A. Right, let's keep it going here. Dylan, Northport, Florida, Dylan,
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Speaker 1: what's up?
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Speaker 11: Hey's going good?
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Speaker 4: You good?
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Speaker 12: I saw the Empire made an appearance yesterday on storyline
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Speaker 12: Cowboys Breaking fire Man. Sorry, I had to call into
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Speaker 12: to Talking yesterday. I had a work call at eleven
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Speaker 12: so there this time, so I couldn't make this call.
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Speaker 12: But I did get my fixed in yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Man, that's right, that's right, I did. I did a little,
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Speaker 1: a little job there. I was. I was kidding. I
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Speaker 1: was because I heard that there was like three or
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Speaker 1: four callers they take on Tuesdays at Talking, and so
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Speaker 1: Chris was like, yeah, man, Dylan's cheating on you. So
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Speaker 1: it's all good. Yeah, man, Hey, the same same phone
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Speaker 1: number for everybody, same phone number, so you can call
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Speaker 1: all the shows. Just that not everybody picks up like
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Speaker 1: we did there.
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Speaker 12: Yes, sir, it's getting hard to call into your show.
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Speaker 12: I had one hundred and something thousand Monday, I couldn't
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Speaker 12: get through, but I'm gonta keep trying, keep trying. I'm
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Speaker 12: trying to call into a couple of times a week
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Speaker 12: because I talk a lot and I want to make
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Speaker 12: sure every they get a chance to talk. So if
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Speaker 12: I could just to pick announcement for our spaces on Twitter,
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Speaker 12: We're gonna do one every Thursday at nine o'clock Eastern,
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Speaker 12: So I have that in our Twitter spaces, So anybody
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Speaker 12: that wants to join up and talk with all of
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Speaker 12: us talk football, talk about the show, you can join
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Speaker 12: up there in our Twitter spaces page Cowboys storyliners all right?
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Speaker 1: And then Thursday Thursday at nine.
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Speaker 12: Since Thursday, nine Eastern.
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Speaker 1: And how long do you go every week?
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Speaker 12: Typically go usually a couple of hours. I kind of
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Speaker 12: planned it so we can watch the football game and
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Speaker 12: watch al Michael software every Thursday and act like it's
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Speaker 12: the worst night of his life, and then you know,
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Speaker 12: we can have some fun talk football and all that
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Speaker 12: while we watch the game together.
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Speaker 1: Is that the narrative for him? Like, like, honest, yeah,
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Speaker 1: well he deserves better.
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Speaker 12: Because he's a great announcer. I just don't think that
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Speaker 12: these games are very interesting on Thursday for him thanks
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Speaker 12: for the most part.
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Speaker 1: Typically aren't. I don't know what it is. I think
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Speaker 1: it's because everybody has to get a game, and so
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Speaker 1: it's just I don't know. It always just feels like
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Speaker 1: the Titans are playing or the Jaguars. That's that's the
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Speaker 1: ones I always. I know, it's not that's not always
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Speaker 1: the case, and there's been some good ones. And the
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Speaker 1: Cowboy we're going to be there next Thursday night. It'll
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Speaker 1: be it'll be that game, and that probably won't be
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Speaker 1: a good game either Cowboys and Giants. Who knows, who knows?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 12: Last year Cowboys, it was probably the best game they
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Speaker 12: had since they started doing these Thursday night games that
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Speaker 12: I can remember. Anyway, that was a great one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I mean the first first Thursday night game
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Speaker 1: of the season was about as good as it gets.
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Speaker 1: The ra's true Ravens and she's all right, what do
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Speaker 1: you got doing?
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Speaker 13: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Okay, real quick.
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Speaker 12: But the run game. I think it's gonna be better this week.
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Speaker 12: First off, it's not a Shanahan Tree, so that's great
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Speaker 12: news for us. And second, these guys play more hat
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Speaker 12: on hat football. They're not doing you know, pulling guards
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Speaker 12: and tackles. They're not, uh, you know, getting these reach
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Speaker 12: blocks and trying to get these second level blocks and
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Speaker 12: stuff as much as far as the design goes. So
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Speaker 12: I think our dts will have a better chances we
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Speaker 12: take to get hat on hat and just hold the
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Speaker 12: ground to the linebackers slow. They don't really do a
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Speaker 12: lot of outside run plays, so that's good news for us.
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Speaker 12: And then I heard yesterday talking about Deuce and the
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Speaker 12: running backs, and it's an interesting stat on juice I
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Speaker 12: saw online yesterday. He's got fifteen percent of the touches
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Speaker 12: out of the backfield, so that's catches and runs.
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Speaker 4: He has six of.
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Speaker 12: Them totals, right, But he has more combined force miss
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Speaker 12: tackles than Zeke and Dwell combined and they have twenty
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Speaker 12: touches apiece. So there's something there. I think you just
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Speaker 12: have to give him a larger dose. I think they
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Speaker 12: had a plan for that against the Saints. They just
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Speaker 12: warn a negative script, got out of rhythm and couldn't
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Speaker 12: call the plays like they wanted to. So before I
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Speaker 12: make any moves for Dalvin Cook, first off, I'm giving
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Speaker 12: him more touches to see what he can really do.
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Speaker 12: And I'm giving him plays not just up the middle.
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Speaker 12: I know you got to do that, but I'm also
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Speaker 12: going to use into his strength. I'm going to get
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Speaker 12: him out as backfield on some splinger out and screens.
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Speaker 12: You don't have to be a pass pro running back.
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Speaker 12: If they're blitzing, you can get out on a route.
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Speaker 12: So I want to see more designs like that. Let's
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Speaker 12: see what you can really do before revention.
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Speaker 1: For Cook, all right, all right, doing well? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I agree with that of him
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Speaker 1: kind of being the guy that needs a lot more carries.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was sort of forced. However, I don't
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Speaker 1: have to agree. I think that, uh, you might be
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Speaker 1: onto something, and from the stuff that I hear, I
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Speaker 1: think duce Von will get a little bit more carries.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know if you get the start. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure about how they're going to do all of that,
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Speaker 1: but I think that what we saw was is just
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be more of that. So we'll see. We'll
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Speaker 1: see how how that goes. Guys. Phone lines are open
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Speaker 1: right now eight at eight eight, five, five, two two
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Speaker 1: nine seven. Actually one line is open because we have
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Speaker 1: another caller in. But I'll finish that point for uh
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Speaker 1: from Dylan that you know, I think that the reason
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Speaker 1: why and this kind of goes back to the show.
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Speaker 1: I mean a call from yesterday about running back by committee,
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Speaker 1: and I think you kind of back into running back
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Speaker 1: by committee, a receiver by committee or anything by committee.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's not really what you want to do,
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Speaker 1: but that's the way it turns out. And it seems
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Speaker 1: like the running back position is one where there's it's
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Speaker 1: split within the organization. It's not like there's one guy
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Speaker 1: that everybody thinks is the best one. And and that's
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Speaker 1: that's kind of a problem when you have a lot
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Speaker 1: of coaches, a lot of scouts, you know, and you've
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Speaker 1: got you know, owner GM, and you've got Steven will McClay,
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Speaker 1: got all these you know people head coach of course,
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Speaker 1: and and you've got different opinions, and so you know,
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Speaker 1: when it doesn't work, then now the other people coming like,
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Speaker 1: well what about this guy? What about this guy? So
17:20
Speaker 1: you know, we might see everybody get a get a
17:22
Speaker 1: turn at this and and and who knows, but I
17:25
Speaker 1: know this that that whoever it is better bring, better
17:28
Speaker 1: be physical and ready to break those tackles because Rokwan
17:32
Speaker 1: Smith and the Ravens are going to mean business for
17:34
Speaker 1: sure on Sunday at three twenty five. There's no doubt.
17:37
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Ronnie in New Jersey. Good morning, Rick,
17:42
Speaker 1: what's up Ronnie?
17:43
Speaker 5: Not much? Not much, Nick, I've been trying to get
17:46
Speaker 5: on since since the last time I got on it.
17:49
Speaker 5: You've become the hardest person to get through.
17:52
Speaker 14: Man.
17:52
Speaker 5: It's it's it's unbelievable. I tried calling so many times.
17:56
Speaker 5: It's amazing, Nick.
17:58
Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
17:59
Speaker 5: You have a go. You had h Yeah, you were
18:01
Speaker 5: popular before, but you're way more popular now. Thank you. Nick.
18:08
Speaker 5: The other day you had this guy he called right.
18:10
Speaker 5: He was talking about how abouts we brought a hype man,
18:15
Speaker 5: you know, to get the players. I'm like, hype man,
18:18
Speaker 5: that's what the players are for, that's what the other players.
18:20
Speaker 5: But that's what the coaches are for.
18:21
Speaker 6: You don't.
18:22
Speaker 5: You don't need a hype man. If you need to
18:24
Speaker 5: get hyped because they're having a bad day because the
18:29
Speaker 5: other team is just running the ball, you can't you
18:31
Speaker 5: can't stop them. I mean you need a hype man
18:34
Speaker 5: for that. Come on, man, No, you don't need a
18:36
Speaker 5: hype man. You need tougher players. And I'm going to say,
18:40
Speaker 5: I know you're going to say every one of them
18:42
Speaker 5: is tough. I know they're all tough. But when you
18:45
Speaker 5: see the law out hustling the defensive backs, the linebackers,
18:52
Speaker 5: all these guys to get to the running back while
18:54
Speaker 5: the guy scoring the touchdown, but he's still outrunning these
18:58
Speaker 5: guys and he's way slower than them. Yeah, you need
19:01
Speaker 5: guys that have that mentality you have got. You need
19:04
Speaker 5: guys that are tough. You need guys that guy that
19:07
Speaker 5: want it not you know, you need the other guys
19:09
Speaker 5: to push them to want and like certain players that
19:12
Speaker 5: we might have, I don't want to call them out,
19:14
Speaker 5: but you need that type of player like we have.
19:18
Speaker 5: We're gonna go every year. This is how I'm seeing it.
19:21
Speaker 5: Every year. We go through the same thing every year.
19:24
Speaker 5: We're like, hey, you know what I called you last week.
19:26
Speaker 5: I got through last week and I said, you know what, Nick,
19:29
Speaker 5: I want to see how they play when they play
19:30
Speaker 5: against the Saints. And just like I expected, when a
19:36
Speaker 5: team that's tough and punches them in the mouth, what
19:39
Speaker 5: do they do? They back down? And it's upsetting because
19:43
Speaker 5: you think that the coach is gonna change with the
19:45
Speaker 5: new defensive coordinator and everything, and it's still the same.
19:49
Speaker 5: It's that that's the hardest part. I'll be honest with you.
19:52
Speaker 5: But hopefully maybe I don't know, somebody gets through to them,
19:57
Speaker 5: but I don't see it happening. But that Thanks for
20:01
Speaker 5: taking my call, Nick, I appreciate you. I've been watching
20:04
Speaker 5: Houston the lud S break, right.
20:09
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, we just dropped. We dropped the spring Yeah.
20:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I appreciate you, Chris, everybody there,
20:17
Speaker 5: and thanks for taking me.
20:19
Speaker 1: All right, all right, let's keep let's keep it rolling.
20:23
Speaker 1: Let's go to Rex in Frisco. Rex.
20:27
Speaker 3: Hey, Nick, how's it going.
20:29
Speaker 5: First of all, I love all the things that Duskyways.
20:32
Speaker 9: Dot com riders do, but I especially appreciate your perspective
20:35
Speaker 9: and how you take objectivity and data to support all
20:39
Speaker 9: your views, which bring me to the question I have.
20:43
Speaker 9: Do we have a halftime adjustment problem with the offense?
20:49
Speaker 9: Dak Prescott has a QBR in the first half of
20:52
Speaker 9: two games ninety eight point seven and a QBR in
20:55
Speaker 9: the second half of fifty three point four. We've accounted
20:58
Speaker 9: for six total points in the second half offensively and
21:02
Speaker 9: when we needed to convert third downs to seed lamb,
21:06
Speaker 9: they've missed on plants. Just wanted to get your thoughts,
21:09
Speaker 9: what's going on with the second half? One game we needed,
21:12
Speaker 9: we didn't need it. One game we did, and we
21:14
Speaker 9: couldn't do anything in either half.
21:16
Speaker 1: You know, hold on, Rex, are you just your first
21:21
Speaker 1: time to call?
21:22
Speaker 5: Yes?
21:22
Speaker 8: Sir?
21:23
Speaker 1: All right, well you know what that means. We go,
21:26
Speaker 1: here we go and thank you. You probably could have
21:28
Speaker 1: just thrown a rock at this place, I mean Frisco
21:31
Speaker 1: right down the street. Thank you. You know what you
21:33
Speaker 1: might be, you might be onto something. And again two
21:36
Speaker 1: games in is still to me I'd like to carry
21:38
Speaker 1: over from last year, it's still it's still early in
21:41
Speaker 1: the year. If you look at last year scoring by quarters,
21:44
Speaker 1: the Cowboys absolutely dominated every quarter, first, second, and fourth.
21:50
Speaker 1: The only quarter that they didn't outscore teams or is
21:53
Speaker 1: the third quarter. So you know, you're looking at this year,
21:58
Speaker 1: I'm looking at last year and it seems like, for
22:03
Speaker 1: whatever the reason, you're not adjusting or you're not making
22:05
Speaker 1: or they're they're making more adjustments or whatever it is.
22:08
Speaker 1: And that's just from the scoring standpoint. So I'm not
22:12
Speaker 1: gonna I'm not gonna squash that one just yet because
22:16
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's kind of what we saw from
22:18
Speaker 1: last year too, So there may be something to this
22:21
Speaker 1: about them needing to, you know, obviously, you know, needing
22:26
Speaker 1: to to make some adjustments. Now, I'll say this too,
22:30
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, they weren't winning any coin tosses
22:33
Speaker 1: last year, and they were they were starting with the
22:35
Speaker 1: football a lot, which means they weren't starting the third quarter,
22:39
Speaker 1: and so that that might be one of the reasons
22:41
Speaker 1: why they're not getting as many points. But either way though,
22:43
Speaker 1: you can still stop them on defense. So I do
22:46
Speaker 1: think you might you might be on something with the
22:48
Speaker 1: adjustments there.
22:50
Speaker 9: I think, do you put that on Mike McCarthy, Do
22:53
Speaker 9: you put it on Shotenheimer? Do you put it on that?
22:55
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you have to. You have to
22:58
Speaker 1: put that on the head coach. I mean that that's
23:00
Speaker 1: where that goes. Just like just like the fact that
23:03
Speaker 1: they were outscoring people one forty four to sixty seven
23:06
Speaker 1: in the first quarter, I'll put that, I'll I'll yeah,
23:09
Speaker 1: you know that was the fourth quarter, but one twenty
23:11
Speaker 1: nine to fifty six in the first quarter last year,
23:13
Speaker 1: I'll put that on the head coach too, good job.
23:15
Speaker 1: I mean, got the team ready to go. So you
23:17
Speaker 1: can't just be on the head coach when it's bad.
23:19
Speaker 1: It's when when it's good too. But but I think, yeah,
23:22
Speaker 1: it goes on the coaches. It goes on on how
23:24
Speaker 1: they're they're they're preparing and sometimes sometimes ego you know,
23:30
Speaker 1: comes into play here too, where they're like, we just
23:32
Speaker 1: do what we do. They have to stop us. We're
23:34
Speaker 1: gonna do what we do well that that works until
23:38
Speaker 1: they stop you and then and then what you know.
23:40
Speaker 1: So but but anyways, good good stuff there. Rex appreciate
23:44
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Speaker 1: back to the phone lines here Lewis and Langston, Oklahoma,
25:30
Speaker 1: You're back.
25:30
Speaker 14: What's going on, how you doing. No, I'm good, man.
25:35
Speaker 14: I just like I told, I told Chris, I had
25:38
Speaker 14: to handle some business. My wife called me friends and
25:41
Speaker 14: put the school, the kids school on lockdown. So I
25:43
Speaker 14: had to make a whole bunch of phone calls and
25:45
Speaker 14: figure out if everybody was Okay.
25:47
Speaker 1: Yep, no, I've been there here'. That's not that's not
25:51
Speaker 1: a good That's not a good phrase to hear when
25:53
Speaker 1: you have kids, of course, even if you don't, even
25:56
Speaker 1: if you don't, but I mean, certainly if you do,
25:57
Speaker 1: that's not good.
25:58
Speaker 14: All right, No, man, I was calling man. I kind
26:02
Speaker 14: of pieced out the Ravens game, and first off, I
26:06
Speaker 14: don't think they're using Derrick Henry right. So I'm praying
26:09
Speaker 14: they continue not using Derrick Henry right this week and
26:12
Speaker 14: so we don't have to worry about trying to deal
26:14
Speaker 14: with two hundred and fifty pounds of grown men. But
26:18
Speaker 14: my biggest concern, and I think I've called and talked
26:21
Speaker 14: about this all summer, is like the big boys up front.
26:24
Speaker 14: And I'm not a big PFF, great guy like that,
26:29
Speaker 14: but I mean, if you wanted to take anything in consideration,
26:32
Speaker 14: they had three all three of our d lineman or
26:35
Speaker 14: a big big boys Mazi and the other Justin Phillips
26:39
Speaker 14: and lin Vald Joseph as like three of the worst
26:42
Speaker 14: lineman in the game the other day. And I know
26:45
Speaker 14: it may be a different scheme, but Jesus, like, where
26:49
Speaker 14: where do we go? Because like I said, I'm more
26:51
Speaker 14: worried about the big boys up front because then it
26:53
Speaker 14: helps protect the linebackers.
26:54
Speaker 5: In the back.
26:55
Speaker 9: So if they pushing them out.
26:57
Speaker 14: The way, our linebackers are gonna be no good. So
27:00
Speaker 14: all this talk about getting the linebackers ain't helping if
27:03
Speaker 14: they can't even get off blocks because the big big
27:06
Speaker 14: boys up front ain't doing no good.
27:08
Speaker 1: Right.
27:09
Speaker 14: And my next thing was, where's all these packages where
27:13
Speaker 14: Micah is supposed to play linebacker and not d in
27:16
Speaker 14: Because I see him on the line and I don't
27:18
Speaker 14: know if he's supposed to be just walking off the
27:20
Speaker 14: line or on the line or but I see him
27:23
Speaker 14: playing more DN than he does linebacker. Would that help?
27:26
Speaker 14: But at the same time, like I said, it's more
27:28
Speaker 14: of like, would it even help if the D lineman
27:31
Speaker 14: is still sitting in his laft, It wouldn't make no difference.
27:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I agree with you on that. I think
27:36
Speaker 1: thanks to the call Lewis, I do believe that Micah,
27:40
Speaker 1: this is time to throw some of those things out
27:43
Speaker 1: there that we haven't seen before and try to confuse
27:47
Speaker 1: the quarterback. You know, give him a look that they
27:49
Speaker 1: haven't seen. Give Lamar Jackson look that that he hasn't seen.
27:53
Speaker 1: Micah's got to be a player that you have to recognize,
27:55
Speaker 1: and so if he's sitting at a different spot in
27:57
Speaker 1: the field. But to do that, though, you have to
28:00
Speaker 1: be willing to not rush them at times, you know.
28:04
Speaker 1: I mean, he can't just be rushing from the linebacker spot.
28:07
Speaker 1: There's gonna be time where he has to play linebacker,
28:09
Speaker 1: which is fine. I'm not saying he can't do that,
28:12
Speaker 1: but he's got to shed those blocks too. You know,
28:14
Speaker 1: those guards that get to that next level and you
28:17
Speaker 1: said how they're using Henry and you hope it's you
28:20
Speaker 1: know that they continue to do it. Well, you know,
28:24
Speaker 1: just think about what oh and two looks like there.
28:27
Speaker 1: I mean, one in one sounds pretty bad here. I mean,
28:29
Speaker 1: the guy is falling at one and one. If you're
28:32
Speaker 1: oh and two in Baltimore, you know, there's a lot
28:35
Speaker 1: of questions about who's doing this and why aren't they
28:38
Speaker 1: doing this? And so typically that's when things turn to,
28:42
Speaker 1: you know, start to shift back to to what people are,
28:46
Speaker 1: you know, talking about or I'm not saying that the
28:48
Speaker 1: coaches given to media and fans and all that, but
28:52
Speaker 1: you know, if everyone's kind of saying it, usually that's
28:55
Speaker 1: when they're like, all right, let's kind of go back
28:57
Speaker 1: to what we know and what what we do. And
28:59
Speaker 1: you know, I think he's a downhill runner, Derrick Henry,
29:02
Speaker 1: and we're going to see a lot of that. I mean,
29:04
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you look at the tape from the Cowboys
29:06
Speaker 1: Saints game if you're Baltimore and go, well, let's just
29:09
Speaker 1: let's just run over them. We can do that too.
29:12
Speaker 1: I Mean, we we don't have a Kamar, but we've
29:14
Speaker 1: got Henry and we've got Lamar Jackson, who's the most
29:17
Speaker 1: dynamic quarterback in the game when it comes to running.
29:19
Speaker 1: So we can do that. And so they're probably going
29:24
Speaker 1: to do that. It's going to be very important for
29:26
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to establish that early that they can stop
29:29
Speaker 1: the run. All right, Let's go to Rick in Massachusetts.
29:33
Speaker 13: Hey, Nick, how you doing?
29:35
Speaker 1: Ay good?
29:35
Speaker 11: How are you all right?
29:37
Speaker 13: I have a couple of things. One is, maybe what
29:41
Speaker 13: do you think about switching it up a little bit
29:44
Speaker 13: and maybe bringing Ryan FLORINOI in to see if we
29:47
Speaker 13: can get some of the deep threat type thing, you know,
29:51
Speaker 13: and whether it's sitting Jyla Brooks something like that. Also,
29:57
Speaker 13: I've heard, you know, hopefully they will you know, get
30:00
Speaker 13: over shown, you know, into the base package or who's
30:04
Speaker 13: gonna work both so you can just have them on
30:06
Speaker 13: the field. Those are the two things I was thinking about.
30:10
Speaker 12: And get your.
30:11
Speaker 13: Opinion, all right, like beauh uh, pustly optimistic for this weekend,
30:20
Speaker 13: but we'll see.
30:21
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, I mean I think you have to
30:25
Speaker 1: be optimistic, stay optimistic, you know. I mean sure the
30:29
Speaker 1: raven I mean we I've said it and everyone's saying it.
30:31
Speaker 1: You know, they're going to be desperate, They're hungry. They're
30:34
Speaker 1: also in too, I mean like they're oh in too.
30:36
Speaker 1: I mean you are what you are? I mean they
30:39
Speaker 1: they didn't they didn't beat the Raiders at home. I
30:42
Speaker 1: mean they we thought that. You know, I've watched the
30:45
Speaker 1: Raiders in preseason. I saw their starters play into the
30:48
Speaker 1: third quarter. I thought this might be one of the
30:50
Speaker 1: worst teams in football. I mean that's that's what it
30:52
Speaker 1: looks like. Now it's preseason's preseason. But you know, man,
30:56
Speaker 1: I mean I wasn't impressed with you know, their quarter
30:59
Speaker 1: their starting quarterbacks. I just like, this is gonna be
31:01
Speaker 1: a tough year for them. But uh, and it still
31:03
Speaker 1: might be. But but the point is is that the
31:06
Speaker 1: Ravens are owing too. Because they're owing too, they haven't
31:08
Speaker 1: been good enough to win their first two games. That
31:11
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that they're not a good team. And it
31:12
Speaker 1: doesn't mean they can't come in here and and and
31:14
Speaker 1: and run over the Cowboys. But the Cowboys are gonna
31:17
Speaker 1: have to figure this out. I like, I like some
31:19
Speaker 1: of the things you said. I mean, that's that's an
31:22
Speaker 1: easy change to me, Ryan Flinoy. For for Jalen Brooks,
31:26
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I mean, Brooks is playing a
31:29
Speaker 1: lot though. I mean it's he gets out there. Uh
31:31
Speaker 1: they use four receivers a lot. He's he gets some.
31:34
Speaker 1: He caught a pass obviously in the first game against
31:37
Speaker 1: the against Cleveland on a big drive and then of
31:39
Speaker 1: course he was the guy that Dak was throwing to
31:41
Speaker 1: and he fell down. You know, I'm I've never been
31:46
Speaker 1: a huge fan of of of Brooks. Not not that
31:50
Speaker 1: it's uh that I have an opinion one way or another.
31:53
Speaker 1: I just you know, I just kind of think, all right,
31:56
Speaker 1: not bad, not not great. And and he's probably bringing
32:01
Speaker 1: something to special teams because he does play a lot
32:03
Speaker 1: on special teams. So if Flinoy can pick up that
32:07
Speaker 1: slack on special teams, yeah, he might give you a
32:09
Speaker 1: little bit more in the passing game. I wouldn't be
32:11
Speaker 1: opposed to that at all. All right, let's go to
32:14
Speaker 1: Tim and Woodston, Salem, North Carolina.
32:17
Speaker 6: Tim, Hey, Nick, how you doing.
32:19
Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you in?
32:21
Speaker 6: I am good. It's getting harder and harder to get
32:23
Speaker 6: through to you, which is a good thing.
32:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it. That's it. That's a good thing. I
32:28
Speaker 1: wish we could have a longer show. I mean that's
32:30
Speaker 1: what I do. I mean, we're so we're stacked here,
32:33
Speaker 1: you know, got shows all day long, but I mean
32:36
Speaker 1: every once in a while, would be nice to have
32:37
Speaker 1: a longer shows to get everybody a chance to call.
32:40
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, I genuinely miss you guys when you're not
32:45
Speaker 6: you know, doing the off season or whatever. So it's
32:48
Speaker 6: good to get in. Just want to make a few points.
32:55
Speaker 6: I have been coaching football forever, and it's one thing
33:00
Speaker 6: that I teach my kids, and that word is compete.
33:06
Speaker 6: And the effort that I saw Sunday, it was like
33:11
Speaker 6: one caller brought up earlier when they saw Tank running
33:15
Speaker 6: down field behind a running back twenty yards down the field.
33:20
Speaker 6: Love that, Love that. But you know, to me, it
33:26
Speaker 6: just seems like we're, yeah, a step off, we give
33:33
Speaker 6: up on just a little too easy. And I hate
33:35
Speaker 6: to say this about you know, professional football players because
33:40
Speaker 6: I've never been to that level, but I just want
33:44
Speaker 6: to see a little a little more dole out of
33:46
Speaker 6: these guys. You know.
33:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree, I mean, and you want to
33:52
Speaker 1: see that again. It's it's always tough. I'm I'm always
33:55
Speaker 1: hesitant to to talk about you know, and things like
33:59
Speaker 1: that that that you really can't prove. And I know
34:01
Speaker 1: you're kind of doing the same thing, but but yeah,
34:04
Speaker 1: you see a little bit of that, you know that
34:07
Speaker 1: that you you want them to fight back. I mean,
34:10
Speaker 1: they get down early. This hasn't been a team that
34:13
Speaker 1: that really gets down early and comes back and you know,
34:17
Speaker 1: I'm talking like two three scores and that's you know,
34:21
Speaker 1: it's tough to do in this league. But we just
34:23
Speaker 1: don't see it happening a lot.
34:25
Speaker 6: And football is. It's the reason why I love this
34:29
Speaker 6: game so much. If it mirrors life so much. In life,
34:33
Speaker 6: you're gonna get put on your butt. What are you
34:36
Speaker 6: gonna do? Are you gonna lay down? Or are you
34:38
Speaker 6: gonna get up and fight back? And I just want
34:42
Speaker 6: to see a little more fight out out of our guys. Yeah,
34:46
Speaker 6: you know, and you know that's that's basically all I
34:50
Speaker 6: have to say.
34:51
Speaker 1: All right, looking for more fight. I don't I don't
34:54
Speaker 1: disagree at all. Let's take a break here and let's
34:58
Speaker 1: take our last one and be right back on story
35:00
Speaker 1: line to get the rest of the calls Cowboys fans.
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Speaker 1: go to the phone line with Rob in Vegas. Rob,
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Speaker 1: what's up?
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Speaker 6: Okay? Nick?
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Speaker 5: Hey?
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Speaker 1: Rob? How are we doing?
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Speaker 5: You know, I'm good.
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Speaker 18: You know everybody's talking about you know what we want?
36:41
Speaker 18: You know, this team isn't it? What we want this
36:44
Speaker 18: team to be is not what they are? This team
36:47
Speaker 18: is fast boy basketball. This team is not punch in
36:53
Speaker 18: the mouth on either side of the football. And the
36:57
Speaker 18: best thing this team could do is they have to
37:00
Speaker 18: pass the ball. The passing game is going to carry
37:03
Speaker 18: this team. They need to get a double digit lead
37:07
Speaker 18: for this defense to be good. This defense, and I
37:12
Speaker 18: say double digit because even if they're only up three
37:14
Speaker 18: or seven, if teams want to run the ball, we're
37:18
Speaker 18: not built to stop the run. So we've seen it
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Speaker 18: last year. If we get a double digit lead and
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Speaker 18: we could just rush the passer to pressure on it,
37:28
Speaker 18: that's when you'll get interceptions and sacks, obviously, and I
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Speaker 18: think it's predicated on deck. But he needs some playmakers
37:37
Speaker 18: on our fense. And I'm not talking about fast guys
37:40
Speaker 18: like Cooks is fast. We need a quick guy. We
37:43
Speaker 18: need a guy that you could throw a quick pass
37:46
Speaker 18: to and he could make people miss. We always keep
37:49
Speaker 18: thinking it's going to be turping. It's not. He's been
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Speaker 18: on this team now for a few years. For whatever reason,
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Speaker 18: they don't get him involved in the passing game. Either
37:58
Speaker 18: he doesn't know the offense still or or or they
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Speaker 18: don't They just don't trust them, and defenses they we
38:07
Speaker 18: only have one trick pony, everybody's gonna double cover ceed Lamb.
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Speaker 18: I mean even last week we got lucky where two
38:14
Speaker 18: guys collided and they go sixty yards. This offense right now,
38:19
Speaker 18: it's it's stuck in like second year. It's not Everything
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Speaker 18: looks hard, and I think they have to get away
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Speaker 18: from the running. We don't have a running back. We're
38:29
Speaker 18: not a running team. The only time this team should
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Speaker 18: lean on the run is after they have the lead.
38:36
Speaker 18: But they need to throw the ball.
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Speaker 6: Just throw the ball all.
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Speaker 18: Over the yard and and and get especially against the
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Speaker 18: Ravens that they're not a good passing team. You get
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Speaker 18: a lead on them double digit and let's say that
38:50
Speaker 18: you want Lamar Jackson to throw the ball right. So
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Speaker 18: I just think we all want the defense to be
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Speaker 18: more like Sam Francisco, you know linebackers Smith. We we
39:03
Speaker 18: don't have it as great as Mike is. That's not him.
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Speaker 18: He doesn't want to play to run. They're they're in
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Speaker 18: a tough spot because they've yet to be at a
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Speaker 18: defensive end that they could really trust out there to say, okay,
39:16
Speaker 18: now we can really move back because yes, if you
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Speaker 18: put Mike at linebacker, which we could try it, but
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Speaker 18: there is nobody that rushes.
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Speaker 6: To pass them.
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Speaker 18: We don't have anybody, so you have to kind of
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Speaker 18: put them on the end of Yes, you're gonna move them,
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Speaker 18: maybe blitz, but they if there is a running play,
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Speaker 18: they'll run away. This week is going to be is
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Speaker 18: gonna be hard because of the read option with Labar
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Speaker 18: and you know Mike doesn't play that really well, so
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Speaker 18: that's gonna be interesting how they're gonna how they're gonna
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Speaker 18: do that. But it's all about It's all about the offense.
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Speaker 5: Forget the defense.
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Speaker 18: The defense is an average defense until they.
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Speaker 11: Get a lead.
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Speaker 18: If they if you're on passing downs, this defense is
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Speaker 18: top five. But if the games are close, or they
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Speaker 18: to be low scoring games where the team is still
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Speaker 18: not going to bend in the run, then no, we're
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Speaker 18: gonna we're gonna struggle. So it's all on deck and
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Speaker 18: Mike McCarthy needs to do better. The offense is to vanilla.
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Speaker 6: You need to.
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Speaker 18: You just can't run end the rounds with certain personnel.
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Speaker 18: That team's like, oh here comes you know, we say
40:18
Speaker 18: it as fans, you see it all. It doesn't end
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Speaker 18: around the turf, and it doesn't end around the CD
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Speaker 18: you could do it once in a while, but they got.
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Speaker 6: To push the ball.
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Speaker 18: I don't want to see a run into the line
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Speaker 18: on first down. We get two yards. This year so far,
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Speaker 18: every third down has been like third and seven or more,
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Speaker 18: all right, And yeah, I just think I think it's
40:37
Speaker 18: all on it's all on deck, and it's it's it's
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Speaker 18: all on the passing.
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Speaker 1: Game, all right, you know what I mean. You make
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Speaker 1: you make good points. Yeah I could. I could argue
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Speaker 1: with you about the offense being to vanilla and say
40:52
Speaker 1: that maybe they're not vanilla enough because everything you're saying
40:59
Speaker 1: about not having the lead and having to pass on it.
41:03
Speaker 1: If they could just line up and run the football,
41:06
Speaker 1: Like if you could just say we're giving We're gonna
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Speaker 1: hand the ball off to whoever it is. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: get it blocked up front, we're gonna knock you back.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get four or five six yards, maybe fifteen.
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Speaker 1: It's not it's not it's just pretty basic. It's not
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Speaker 1: much to it. That's pretty vanilla football. But you know
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Speaker 1: what that works. And so that's why I would I
41:28
Speaker 1: would disagree if they could be a little bit more
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Speaker 1: vanilla and not have to start up with you know,
41:34
Speaker 1: cherry jubilee or whatever whatever other flavor that you're you know,
41:38
Speaker 1: just I mean, yes, it's nice to have that kind
41:40
Speaker 1: of stuff, But can I just get the neapolitan? I mean,
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Speaker 1: can we just get the basic stuff and and do
41:47
Speaker 1: well with that? You know, I mean every every ice
41:50
Speaker 1: cream shop in the world, I guarantee the number one
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Speaker 1: seller is vanilla. And there's a reason for that. So
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Speaker 1: it's basic. Just like every football team, number one thing
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Speaker 1: that you know they want to do is run the ball.
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Speaker 1: Not everybody can. Saints can, not everybody else can. Let's see,
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Speaker 1: let's see if the Cowboys can do that. Because if
42:09
Speaker 1: they can do that and everything that you said and
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Speaker 1: Rob said a lot of things there, but if you
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Speaker 1: could just run the ball, how many other things does
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Speaker 1: that affect your passing game? All of a sudden, Cooks
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Speaker 1: is wide open, Ferguson's gonna be open. CD not gonna
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Speaker 1: be doubled as much. Oh, the Cowboys might have a lead,
42:27
Speaker 1: and then they have a lead, then they don't have
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Speaker 1: to worry about, you know, playing third and two all
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Speaker 1: the time. They could play a lot more third to nine,
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Speaker 1: third and ten because they're gonna have a lead, and
42:35
Speaker 1: teams are gonna have to throw which plays right into
42:37
Speaker 1: their hand. So to me, of all the dominoes that
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Speaker 1: are lined up, the first one run the football and
42:44
Speaker 1: be able to run it. By doing that, everything else
42:47
Speaker 1: can start working from there. All right, it's my rant
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Speaker 1: right there of the day, speaking of and we gotta
42:54
Speaker 1: get a we gotta get a Yettie hot take. That
42:56
Speaker 1: felt like a hot take. I gotta get one at
42:59
Speaker 1: some point this week. And I figured at a game
43:01
Speaker 1: a week like this, we should have a lot, a
43:04
Speaker 1: lot of chances to do that. All right, let's go
43:06
Speaker 1: to Greg and Sacramento.
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Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, I agree one hundred percent with your rant there,
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Speaker 8: by the way, But I mean, Mike, think, I mean
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Speaker 8: the thing that the arranging question that I've had since
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Speaker 8: Monday is who is this team?
43:22
Speaker 10: Like?
43:22
Speaker 8: Who are the coplas? I don't We're going into Week
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Speaker 8: three here against the Ravens and I don't even know how,
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Speaker 8: Like how do I be? Am? I? Am I going
43:31
Speaker 8: to be excited like how it was after the first
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Speaker 8: game against the Browns? Or do I need to expect
43:36
Speaker 8: another Saints game where the team I don't even bebt,
43:39
Speaker 8: I don't even recognize it. Is out there playing like
43:41
Speaker 8: as a fan, like, I have no idea how to
43:43
Speaker 8: how to feel about this game. I just I don't
43:47
Speaker 8: know who. I don't know who this team is, like
43:48
Speaker 8: they look like two completely different teams between game one
43:52
Speaker 8: and Game two. I just don't know.
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Speaker 1: I think they call that the NFL. I think I
43:58
Speaker 1: think that's what I mean say, I think that's what
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Speaker 1: they call it. And I'm looking right now because I
44:02
Speaker 1: had no clue. I was just looking. I don't even
44:05
Speaker 1: know what the line then for this game is and
44:08
Speaker 1: it's it's Baltimore one and a half. Well a little
44:13
Speaker 1: surprising there, but I don't know. I mean, but and
44:16
Speaker 1: what go ahead?
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Speaker 8: Okay, I was just gonna say what one other thing
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Speaker 8: too that I just wanted to mention and then I'll
44:22
Speaker 8: let somebody else call. But you know, I was listening
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Speaker 8: to Micah's podcast, and I know, you know, I'm not
44:27
Speaker 8: I'm not He's going to do it. He's gonna do whatever.
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Speaker 8: But there was just something that he said that it
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Speaker 8: did not sit well with me. He was saying that
44:33
Speaker 8: he attributed the loss to a lack of effort from
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Speaker 8: the whole team, and I'm thinking to myself, it's week two?
44:41
Speaker 8: How is there a lack of effort in week two,
44:44
Speaker 8: like the second game of the season. I understand, you know,
44:47
Speaker 8: when you get down further in the season, like how
44:48
Speaker 8: you said before, you know, people are hurt, right, and
44:51
Speaker 8: I'm maybe not necessarily injured, but people out there playing
44:53
Speaker 8: hurt And I could see how that would affect effort,
44:56
Speaker 8: right if you're hurting. But I mean, this is the
44:59
Speaker 8: second game of the seas and like nobody's out there
45:01
Speaker 8: playing hurts. So what is there how is there a
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Speaker 8: lack of of uh, you know, like what Mike I
45:07
Speaker 8: said that didn't make sense to men. Maybe you can
45:10
Speaker 8: help me understand that.
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Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Greg. We got it.
45:13
Speaker 6: We got it.
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Speaker 1: We had a call. I mean, we had a mail
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Speaker 1: back question this morning on our on the website about that,
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Speaker 1: and I answered it like I have in the past.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's one of those things that's very tough
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Speaker 1: to to to to prove, you know, effort. Are you
45:29
Speaker 1: running hard? Are you are you trying hard? All that
45:31
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, And so it's just one of those
45:34
Speaker 1: categories that people like to throw out there because it
45:37
Speaker 1: sounds like a good sports take. You know, I just
45:39
Speaker 1: need more effort. Need more of this, need more of that.
45:41
Speaker 1: But I'll say this though, and you know you can,
45:45
Speaker 1: you can throw the irony on this if you want.
45:48
Speaker 1: But a lot of times the effort and it comes
45:52
Speaker 1: with the preparation and that that is not a Sunday thing.
45:55
Speaker 1: Effort is not about Sunday. It's about middle of the week.
45:58
Speaker 1: It's about did you watch an tape? Did you practice
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Speaker 1: as hard as you needed to? Did you are you
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Speaker 1: studying your your your your playbook is in your iPad
46:07
Speaker 1: as much as as you should. You have a good
46:10
Speaker 1: understanding of what they're trying to do and what they
46:12
Speaker 1: might do to you, all of those things, you know,
46:17
Speaker 1: And that's where effort and preparation and those things that
46:22
Speaker 1: are happening during the week. Again, I say that, and
46:27
Speaker 1: and and then there is some ironic with based off
46:30
Speaker 1: of who said what and when and all that kind
46:31
Speaker 1: of stuff. And I'll and I'll just reiterate. Players get
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Speaker 1: days off, Okay, they all get a day off and
46:37
Speaker 1: they get to do whatever they want to do. So
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Speaker 1: I never thought it was okay for people to to
46:43
Speaker 1: criticize your quarterback for playing golf competitively on days off
46:48
Speaker 1: or whatever they want to do. And if they want
46:49
Speaker 1: to do a podcast, they want to do, that's fine,
46:51
Speaker 1: it is what it is all. My point though, is
46:55
Speaker 1: is sometimes you get beat. You get beat often in
46:58
Speaker 1: the middle of the week, and so I don't like
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Speaker 1: this question effort on Sunday, but I think sometimes you
47:04
Speaker 1: can question, you know, are they prepared during the week.
47:07
Speaker 1: You just got to be by a team that was
47:09
Speaker 1: practicing less than the normal that they were moving around
47:12
Speaker 1: because of the hurricane down in Louisiana, so they had
47:15
Speaker 1: to go to Dallas early. It was a show for
47:18
Speaker 1: them and they were able to come in here and
47:20
Speaker 1: did not look like that they struggled at all. I got
47:21
Speaker 1: to take one more call before we go. Bob in
47:23
Speaker 1: Rio Grand Valley, Bob, what's up?
47:26
Speaker 5: And Nick?
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Speaker 11: I've been listening to the callers that are calling end.
47:33
Speaker 6: I agree.
47:36
Speaker 11: With the caller that was talking about deferring. We need
47:40
Speaker 11: to take the damn football and try to get a
47:43
Speaker 11: score to move get the other team play from behind. Secondly,
47:49
Speaker 11: we need to do something with this running game, and
47:51
Speaker 11: we've got the tools on the team to do it.
47:55
Speaker 11: We need to take on a lifty Dalvin Cook and
48:00
Speaker 11: Zeke in that rotation and give those guys the ball
48:04
Speaker 11: and let them run with it. If you're going to
48:06
Speaker 11: use a two back situation, then you can use Lifty
48:10
Speaker 11: as a blocker, the lead blocker.
48:12
Speaker 6: But run the ball.
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Speaker 11: Run the ball, and every once in a while you've
48:16
Speaker 11: got to take and throw the ball down the damn
48:19
Speaker 11: bill to somebody like Flinory to open the field up.
48:23
Speaker 11: This playing Willie Hayes football ain't gonna get it. That's
48:26
Speaker 11: what I've got to say today, and I'm sticking with it,
48:29
Speaker 11: all right.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, bomh. Well, you know, I mean they're a
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Speaker 1: throwing team. They're not just going to run it all
48:36
Speaker 1: the time. You have to run it some and I
48:39
Speaker 1: you know, I wish that they were just a balanced team.
48:42
Speaker 1: Just whatever, see what it is, see what the defense
48:45
Speaker 1: has given. You take it from there, exploit them that way.
48:48
Speaker 1: You want to bring the safeties in, we'll throw it
48:50
Speaker 1: over the top. That's what I thought the Saints did.
48:52
Speaker 1: I mean, they did a great job of that. They
48:54
Speaker 1: won in five different ways. Uh you know, Kamara out
48:58
Speaker 1: of the back camor up the middle, to the side,
49:00
Speaker 1: the backfield, deep balls middle. They did it that way.
49:03
Speaker 1: And that's what I think a really good balanced team
49:06
Speaker 1: can do when you can play football that way. So
49:11
Speaker 1: all right, I mean, we'll see, we'll be able to
49:14
Speaker 1: talk about this a little bit more tomorrow. Who should
49:16
Speaker 1: be the running backs? What should they do? How much
49:19
Speaker 1: should they run? How much should they blitz? How much
49:21
Speaker 1: should they do everything. We'll talk a little bit more
49:23
Speaker 1: about that and kind of maybe get a deeper dive
49:27
Speaker 1: in what the Cowboys should do against the Ravens on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: We'll do that tomorrow, all right. For all the callers,
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Speaker 1: great calls today, appreciate that. For Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman.
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