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  Speaker 1: Is a production of dallascowboys.com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 1: This is Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette, the official shave
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's do this. Cowboys storyline presented by Gillette.
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  Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, October the 6th. I'm Nick Eatman, and it
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  Speaker 2: is time to talk a little Cowboys football as we
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  Speaker 2: move on quickly here on this short week. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what it's Tuesday for sure in real life. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what day that the Schottenheimer and the coaching
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  Speaker 2: staff say it is as they try to get their
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  Speaker 2: players to understand the new week and And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we do this every year, obviously, usually in November for Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a little early to do this short week. But, man,
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  Speaker 2: what a turnaround it has been just to go to
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  Speaker 2: Rio for, you know, the 10-hour flight there and then
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  Speaker 2: two days there and play a really tough emotional game
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  Speaker 2: and heartbreaking loss 10 hours and 10-and-a-half-hour flight back. and
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  Speaker 2: then just have to grind and, you know, play a
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  Speaker 2: Houston team that was as desperate as you were, if
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  Speaker 2: not worse, and go on the road, short trip, but
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  Speaker 2: go over there and win that emotional game and then
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  Speaker 2: come back in another short week. So Cowboys are obviously
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  Speaker 2: favored to win against Tampa Bay, who's also win less
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  Speaker 2: at this point. But, you know, I still think that
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  Speaker 2: they've got to be as focused as ever to go
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  Speaker 2: and take care of business. You know, one thing, that
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  Speaker 2: I looked at when I was looking at the Bucs,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're 0-4, so that's reality. There are four games,
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  Speaker 2: the total point differential is 20 points. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: every game has been seven points or less. There's been
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  Speaker 2: a couple of three points and a four and a
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  Speaker 2: seven and maybe five or so, but it's 20 total.
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  Speaker 2: So they're not getting blown out. Now, they're obviously having
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  Speaker 2: some issues on offense and losing their starting quarterback will
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  Speaker 2: do that, but So it's a team that's keeping it
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  Speaker 2: close and finding a way to stay in the game.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't gotten over the hump yet, but I still
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  Speaker 2: think it's going to be quite a challenge, especially on
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  Speaker 2: a short week. So who's the most prepared in that game?
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that and more. 888-855-2297. Let's go to
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  Speaker 2: the phone lines. Ronnie in New Jersey is first.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, how you doing? How you doing, Nick?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Ronnie, how you doing? Good to hear from you, man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been trying, man. I've been trying. It's hard
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  Speaker 3: to get through. Listen, if you see my phone calls,
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  Speaker 3: I know the show's doing great, but I'm like, I
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  Speaker 3: try to call. All I can do is listen now
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  Speaker 3: because I can't get in.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about that, but thank you.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's a good thing. It's good for the show,
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  Speaker 3: but it's hard for us. But, Nick, real quick, I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to mention a couple of points where– I just
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  Speaker 3: wish the mentality of this team was more like we
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  Speaker 3: have a few players that have that physicalness that we've
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  Speaker 3: been talking about. And if everybody was to play like
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  Speaker 3: these three guys, which Guyton is– who would have thought?
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  Speaker 3: Guyton is finally one of them, a left tackle. The
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  Speaker 3: guy plays with attitude, how it should be played. He
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  Speaker 3: plays tough. He takes guys out of the bounce. He
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  Speaker 3: knocks them out of the freaking field. I love the
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  Speaker 3: way he's playing right now. Spanford, damn. I mean, I'm sorry, but, man, Spanford,
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  Speaker 3: that guy plays tough. That's a tough, tough football player.
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  Speaker 3: And nobody's mentioning our safety. That just came back. You know,
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  Speaker 3: there's injuries, there's playing hurt, and there's playing injured. And
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  Speaker 3: he's playing injured with a broken forearm. And you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying? Like, that's something to talk about. Talk
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  Speaker 3: about toughness. That's toughness. Because if I have a paper cut,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know if I can do this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: This guy's playing with a broken form. We should talk
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  Speaker 3: more about guys like that. That's leadership and toughness more
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  Speaker 3: than anything. But, yeah, thanks for taking my call, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. He's talking about Malik Hooker. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he did come back. from that injury and I still
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  Speaker 2: think it it sounded like it was you know somewhat
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  Speaker 2: bothersome for him throughout the game uh naturally it would
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  Speaker 2: be now he did finish the game and played the
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  Speaker 2: final snap of it and should have maybe knocked down
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  Speaker 2: that ball at the Hail Mary attempt it kind of
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  Speaker 2: went through his hands could have been it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: closer than it should have been but um Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: as he was saying those three guys, I was writing
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  Speaker 2: them down of who I thought he would pick. The
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  Speaker 2: first one, I didn't get to the, you know, Guyton.
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  Speaker 2: He'd got that. But the other two were– Spanford, I
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  Speaker 2: did mention him, and then I thought he would say
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  Speaker 2: Barham as far as the way he plays and kind
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  Speaker 2: of the style. But, you know, Malik Hooker, you know,
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  Speaker 2: think about his offseason, okay? Here's a guy that is
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  Speaker 2: a veteran and he has a contract that the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: basically said, listen, either you take a reduced salary or
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  Speaker 2: we move on and you go and take a reduced
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  Speaker 2: salary somewhere else. And so he did and he agreed
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  Speaker 2: to it and he got a, you know, they called
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  Speaker 2: it a restructure. It really was a reduced salary. And that's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, then what do they do? They go and
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  Speaker 2: they sign, you know, Jalen Thompson. PJ Locke at the
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  Speaker 2: safety position. OK, so where does that leave him? And
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  Speaker 2: then they go draft Caleb down. So, you know, for
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  Speaker 2: for him to kind of he's still there and he's
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  Speaker 2: still playing and he's done a pretty good job when
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  Speaker 2: he's been out there. So, you know, I give I
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  Speaker 2: give credit to him to being that veteran and he's.
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  Speaker 2: He's kind of helped with Caleb Downs. He's another Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State first-round pick. He's been there. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: hype there, and it didn't work out for Malik Hooker
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of people thought it would, and injuries
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  Speaker 2: have played a big factor there. So, yeah, I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned him. He played well coming back from that injury,
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  Speaker 2: and then they need him. These safeties are dropping like
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  Speaker 2: flies here. All right, Davion in Illinois is next.
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  Speaker 5: Davion? What it do, what it do, my boy, what
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  Speaker 5: the business is.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, man?
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  Speaker 5: What's going on, man? I know it's Turner Phase Tuesday,
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  Speaker 5: but I didn't get to call it yesterday. So how
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  Speaker 5: about them boys, man? How about our boys? They did that.
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  Speaker 5: Very excited about the win. I'm going to enjoy it
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  Speaker 5: for another day. And, of course, we're going to turn
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  Speaker 5: this page and get ready for the Tampa Bay team
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  Speaker 5: on Thursday. Dak Prescott, man, I just, you know... We
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  Speaker 5: got us one, Nick. We got us one, bro. I
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  Speaker 5: really wish the small segment of the fan base that
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  Speaker 5: just ain't getting behind this guy really get behind him
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  Speaker 5: because we got us one with this guy. That dude
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  Speaker 5: was marvelous. It was ridiculous, man. I mean, we started
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  Speaker 5: out kind of crazy, but he brought it home. He
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  Speaker 5: brought it home, and I was like, man, let's go.
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  Speaker 5: Get behind this guy. Steedy, great game. But, you know,
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  Speaker 5: my plea to Shoddy, can we stop doing the reverses?
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  Speaker 5: Can we stop doing the jet suites with CD, though?
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  Speaker 5: It's pretty proven that we can get the ball in
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  Speaker 5: his hands without having to do all the crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 5: You don't have to do the crazy stuff, man. Just
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  Speaker 5: stop being cute. Just let CD do what he do.
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  Speaker 5: He shows you Sunday that you throw the ball to him,
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  Speaker 5: he will catch it. And he will make it happen.
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  Speaker 5: A couple things, and I'm going to roll. This Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Let's roll, David. Let's go. What do you got? Thursday
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  Speaker 2: is what?
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  Speaker 5: This Thursday, we got to go get a win. Let's
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  Speaker 5: go get a win over T. Smith. T. Smith will
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  Speaker 5: get back. Big Todd will get back. Also... We have
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  Speaker 5: our spaces on Wednesday now, so I've been wanting to
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  Speaker 5: plug it since I've been calling in, but we're forgetting
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  Speaker 5: about it. Also, man, let's go win. Let's enjoy this win,
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  Speaker 5: and let's get after it. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, Davion. I appreciate it. Hey, I
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  Speaker 2: know he's chill as they get and smooth. I get it,
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  Speaker 2: but we got to get this thing. This train is rolling, man. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: Dak played. It was in his bag. He was unbelievable
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  Speaker 2: in that second half. And I agree with you on
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  Speaker 2: the CD running the ball. I went back to my
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  Speaker 2: Twitter as I put in all caps of several times
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  Speaker 2: that he's one of the best receivers in Cowboys history.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a ton of receiving yards and receiving touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like CD should be a receiver. like receiver. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, that was kind of before he went
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  Speaker 2: and had, you know, I think he had about two
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  Speaker 2: catches at that time and got 15 more, but, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I just, it'd be one thing if he goes like
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  Speaker 2: 27 yards every now and again, you're like, Oh, that
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  Speaker 2: was pretty good run there. Um, you know, is it
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  Speaker 2: worth it? You know, um, it's like Turpin, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes people get onto Turpin, but then he goes and
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  Speaker 2: has a 50 yard run back. You're like, ah, that's
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  Speaker 2: why we have, but with CD, I just don't see it.
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  Speaker 2: Like I don't see when, when has it really worked?
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  Speaker 2: And so, i tell you when it hasn't worked like
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  Speaker 2: that game and chicago when he got hurt and missed
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  Speaker 2: to get another game after it so let's just not
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  Speaker 2: do that you know let's just davion he said it
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  Speaker 2: you said it best they figured out ways to give
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  Speaker 2: him the ball without doing that you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: be cute with that if you're going to run a
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  Speaker 2: reverse you're Flannoy is my guy on that. Flannoy or Turpin.
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  Speaker 2: Turpin's already scored a touchdown, but Flannoy, I think he
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  Speaker 2: gets ahead of steam going. I think he could do,
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  Speaker 2: but not CD Pickens. I'm good on that. All right,
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  Speaker 2: Rick in Webster, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 4: Rick.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Nick.
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  Speaker 7: How you doing?
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  Speaker 8: Good.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 7: I'm good. I'm good. Well, as you said, two things,
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  Speaker 7: a couple things. One is very happy with the Cowboys'
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  Speaker 7: win and it was a great game. You know, and
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  Speaker 7: Terry in the top of the Eagles and the commander's
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  Speaker 7: loss as well. But the thing is, we have to
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  Speaker 7: still work on those special teams things and getting those
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  Speaker 7: block vehicles and stuff like that. That's something we're working on. Also,
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  Speaker 7: the decisions at the end of the half, first half.
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  Speaker 7: It was a swing point of six points, and you
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  Speaker 7: shouldn't be going for those things like that when you
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  Speaker 7: just had a blocked field goal on the previous drive.
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  Speaker 7: So she's like, that shouldn't happen. We lost six points there,
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  Speaker 7: and you wouldn't have to worry about the end of
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  Speaker 7: the game. We would already be in the lead. But
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  Speaker 7: keep going with the goal. It's a seedy, great game.
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  Speaker 7: And we had two sacks. That's promising. But as far
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  Speaker 7: as the game for the Bucs from Thursday night, keep
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  Speaker 7: doing what you're doing, and the defense will probably be
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  Speaker 7: more improved. And Tyler Guyton, we got ourselves. That may
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  Speaker 7: be preemptive, but I think we have ourselves a franchise
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  Speaker 7: left tackle there. And my score for Tampa Bay Bucs,
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to say it's 31-20. All right. Go Cowboys.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Rick. Um, I chuckle a little bit there on the,
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  Speaker 2: on the, on the Guyton stuff, you know, because it, it,
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  Speaker 2: it's just funny how this thing kind of goes. It
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  Speaker 2: goes up and down, up and down. And, and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a few weeks ago it was like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: should Tyler Smith move out to left tackle and, and,
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  Speaker 2: or Guyton's a right tackle and let's, you know, move
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  Speaker 2: steel and Broderick Jones will come in and, and, It's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's been now, it's been four games, and
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  Speaker 2: he's played really well. And he's had some guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that he's gone up against that are some of the best.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you're looking at Burns and I think
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  Speaker 2: Hendrickson was there. And, of course, you know, whatever, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they've got some guys in Houston now, one through three,
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  Speaker 2: because Clowney was their third guy, and he's really good.
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  Speaker 2: And we know that.
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  Speaker 4: Problem.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was an absolute problem in every way,
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  Speaker 2: special teams too. But I mean, not really for Guyton.
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  Speaker 2: Now they moved around and Steele's had some issues there.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll be the first to say, back in training camp,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I think Steele's still your best tackle.
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  Speaker 2: He's the most proven. He's definitely the most experienced, but
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  Speaker 2: the most proven. And he's been the most consistent, especially
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  Speaker 2: on the field, to be available. And Guyton has surpassed that.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what they expected. That first-round pick, he should
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  Speaker 2: be at that. And he's done it so far. So
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  Speaker 2: you've got to give some props to him. All right,
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  Speaker 2: Robbie in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Robbie?
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  Speaker 9: Was that Rick that just stole all my thunder about Guyton?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? He deserves more than one call. So
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  Speaker 2: you got it.
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  Speaker 9: He definitely does, man. You know, we were saying– a
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  Speaker 9: month and a half ago that, Oh my God, what
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  Speaker 9: are we going to do? Who's going to, who's it
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  Speaker 9: going to be?
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  Speaker 4: Just all that stuff.
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  Speaker 9: You just said, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Need to repeat it. That was me. I was saying,
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  Speaker 2: I was saying, yep. And he's, we haven't even talked
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  Speaker 2: about it. It's a great thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And what do you, what have you always said?
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  Speaker 9: We all love it when we don't have to talk
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  Speaker 9: about our offensive linemen because they're doing good.
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  Speaker 5: They are.
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  Speaker 4: Yep. And it could get better.
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  Speaker 2: It could get better.
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  Speaker 9: That's why we love Tyron.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Definitely.
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  Speaker 9: I'm impressed with our whole offensive line. And Big Tyler
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  Speaker 9: coming back this week, maybe.
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  Speaker 8: It'll be great.
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  Speaker 9: And Overshown coming back. I hope they put him at Mike.
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  Speaker 4: Or, I mean, Will.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Pardon me.
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  Speaker 9: I think it fits his style better, but we'll see
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  Speaker 9: what happens.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: And just wanted to shout out to Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Whatadew.
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  Speaker 9: Boy, he's right about C.D. being a receiver. Everybody saw
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  Speaker 9: my thunder. So I appreciate all the storyliners, and good
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  Speaker 9: to get on. I've been trying all week or two weeks.
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  Speaker 8: What a great game, man.
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  Speaker 9: I watched that with my kid like I do all
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  Speaker 9: of them, and he was a little depressed at the
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  Speaker 9: end of the first half. I was like, hey, bud,
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  Speaker 9: we still got a whole other half.
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  Speaker 8: Me too.
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  Speaker 9: I know, but we're losing. And he goes, yeah, but
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  Speaker 9: we're losing. I'm like, yeah, but you don't win the
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  Speaker 9: game in the first or second quarter.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, all right.
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  Speaker 9: And he started to get into it. And then when
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  Speaker 9: the second half started, man, we sure turned it around.
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  Speaker 9: And Dak, oh, my God. We got us one.
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  Speaker 4: You're right, David. We got us one.
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  Speaker 9: All right, Nick. I'll let you all go.
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  Speaker 4: Get some more calls in.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for taking it.
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  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. You know, you do want different callers and
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  Speaker 2: different perspectives and different opinions and all that, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what makes this show really good, in my opinion, just
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  Speaker 2: because you guys do call in with some different things.
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  Speaker 2: But every once in a while, you know, on a
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  Speaker 2: day like this when everyone kind of sees it, you know,
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  Speaker 2: everyone's talking about Guyton, okay, because he's the guy that's really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's turned things around and he's playing really well.
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  Speaker 2: And then, you know, Dak, too. I mean, Dak was
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  Speaker 2: on one, you know, and I loved what Terrence Steele
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  Speaker 2: said after the game when they asked him about it
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  Speaker 2: in the huddle, you know, in a moment like that.
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  Speaker 2: And he kind of says, is Dak the same? You know,
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  Speaker 2: they asked, is Dak the same? Does he get more intense, whatever?
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  Speaker 2: And he says, no, he's not really the same. He's
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  Speaker 2: kind of just even more relaxed, more chill, more like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he comes in and says, what other place
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  Speaker 2: do we want to be? And I'm like, this is it.
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  Speaker 2: This is where I want to be. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: about you guys, but let's go. We're about to go
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  Speaker 2: win this game. And just the level of confidence. And
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  Speaker 2: you just don't get that in your first, second, third year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just, it just takes a lot of this
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  Speaker 2: time doing it where, you know, but, but it's to
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  Speaker 2: the point where he's not stoic about it, where he's
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  Speaker 2: just like, whatever, like, we just got to go score.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like he knows he gets it. He's smart.
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  Speaker 2: He knows what the moment is and how, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and the sense of urgency and it's four downs all
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  Speaker 2: the way. And they needed four downs on that first
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  Speaker 2: drive or the first, you know, set of first down. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I just, he's just, you know he's just
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: in his bag right now he just is and it
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: reminds me of where Romo was kind of at the
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: end but then Romo got hurt we didn't really get
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: to see it but Romo was at that point too
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: where he was like I've kind of got this thing
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: figured out and I'm not saying Dak's perfect and he's
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: got it all figured out and he's not gonna you
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: know they're gonna lose games I get that but he's
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: playing at a different level and we're we saw it
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: there and in the drive just so much in command
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: and it's kind of it's fun to watch especially the
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: progression of his career like that and And he's such
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: a leader and everything. You just want so bad for
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: this team to win. Just like you wanted the Cowboys
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: to win for the Wittens and for Romo and all that.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: But it's probably even more so for Dak. All right.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I'm A in Napa.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: I'm A.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Hey, what's up, Nick? How are you?
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: Good.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: What's up, man?
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: Man, I'm not going to try and, you know, I
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: always try to keep things even-keeled and just I'm not
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: going to try to be the Debbie Downer of anything. But, man,
• 17:48
  Speaker 8: you know, the first half last week was pretty disappointing.
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: Just couldn't believe it, you know, the way they were
• 17:54
  Speaker 8: taking it to us. The team just looked flat like
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: they weren't ready to play. And then, man, it seemed
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: like it took us a long time to make the
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: adjustments until like all the way until halftime.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: we were getting beat on the offensive line. I mean,
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: just Dak didn't have any time and I just didn't
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: see why we didn't go to this, like the screens
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: and stuff like we did in the second half sooner
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: to kind of try to slow down that pass rush.
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: I thought that was a big turn in the game, but, um, do,
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: I mean, um, are we, are we all kind of
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: ignoring Ferguson, uh, what's happening with him? I mean, he's,
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: he is making plays out there, um, you know, in
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: the end zone and stuff, he's, you know, got scores.
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: I'm not denying any of his catches or anything like that,
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: but he doesn't, he doesn't look as electric as he was,
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: you know, a couple of years back. And, you know,
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: I'll definitely don't see him hurtling anybody, you know, anymore,
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: anything like that. And, uh, He just gets thrown around
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: on the offensive line, and I felt like the other
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: big adjustment we made was bringing Spanford and Lepke in
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: more and running the ball with them, but then even
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: passing a little bit out of those sets, but running
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: the ball mostly. I just felt like that was the
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: big change in the game is being physical. I feel
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: like we've got to be physical. That's what we want
• 19:16
  Speaker 8: to do, running the ball and stuff. Man, you're right.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: Dak looks great. He'll struggle every now and then over
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: the middle of the field, but he looks great just
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: as far as you see him going through his different
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: reads and progressions, like bouncing his head from one side
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: of the field to the other. We give him a
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: little bit more time. He's going to continue to slice
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: people up. I really like to see Spanford play more, man.
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: I just don't understand. i mean every time he's out
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: there you see how physically is whether he's on special
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: teams hitting somebody you know um making blocks catching the
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: ball and just running forward and not being willing to
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: being taken down by one guy just just all of
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: those things that i you know you've said it before
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: like Whatever it is that we see, the coaches see.
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: So I just don't understand why he doesn't play more.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: You know, I'm not saying he has to play every down.
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: You know, he can take Ferguson out, anything like that.
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: Ferguson's not worth nothing. But Bansford should play more. He
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: should be in there, especially when we're trying to set
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: a physical tone of running the ball. He has to
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: be one of the most physical guys out there that's
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: not an alignment.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah i you know uh just so you can speak
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: a little bit on that and just man let's go
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: boys i think i think we're gonna run it up
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: on him tomorrow man all right big score you know
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: 31 14.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: All right thanks for the call the game is thursday
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: but um but yeah i i i agree with you
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: um i'm about to post a video i just shot
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: about somebody you know just somebody needs needing to kind
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: of step it up a little bit so um maybe
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: a new segment that i'm gonna do weekly and uh
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: you know and it's nothing malicious about it i mean
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: but i mean ferguson does need to step up he's
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: the guy that i chose and so i you know
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: you said i think we're forgetting that no nobody's forgetting
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: that because i i said i was gonna do it
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: tommy yarish was like hey who are you gonna do
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: it on i would do it on uh ferguson i
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: was like yeah that's that's who i picked it too
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: and so you know he's it it it It's not
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: just him. I think the Cowboys need to do. This
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: is a problem sometimes that I've heard people say before.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I know I used to do a show with Brian Broaddus.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: He used to say it all the time. Sometimes coaches
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: can fall in love with their own players. And it
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: happens when you just have so much confidence in your guys.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: You have confidence in Ferguson to make this block, to
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: go and catch this screen. He's not a yak guy.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: When has he ever been that? He's averaging less than
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: seven yards a catch. Right now, he's always been in
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: that six to seven. Last year was five, was the
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: worst among all starting tight ends, 5.8 or something like that.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: He's not ever been a guy that's kind of, you know,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: a guy that can break a lot of tackles. And
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: you're right, he hasn't hurtled anyone in a while. That's
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: not really his game. And the Cowboys are putting him
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: in those spots. They're putting him in the line to
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: go and move people around. Shadi said yesterday that the starting,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: you know, the tight ends, we ask them to do
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: a lot. you know, and it's really tough on them. And,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: you know, well, maybe, maybe it doesn't have to be,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: you know, all the time. So it is hard to
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: just kind of tip your hand and say, well, when
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Ferguson's in the game, this is what they do. Or when,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: when span forwards in the game, they do this. So
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: that's why you want these versatile tight ends to be.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you have to block. Sometimes you have to block
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: an end. Sometimes you go down the field for 30,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: 40 yards. I think having a versatile tight end that
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: can do everything is what makes your team really, really good. And, and,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: you know, when you talk about teams that have been
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: good consistently, like dynasty type teams, look at them in
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: the last few years, who have they been? Well, you know,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: like obviously, you know, the Patriots were really good for
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: so many years with Brady. Well, he had that, you know,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: in that tight end. Mahomes has been really good for
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: a long time. He's had that, you know, San Francisco
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: is always right there. It seems like every year and
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: they've got that. So, consistent tight ends that are really
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: good on your team, I think, are very valuable. And
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I don't know if they have that right now. And,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: you know, you want to take Spanford and make him
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: a starter and all that, that's good too. You're also,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: you know, I don't want it to affect your special
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: teams because he's the only guy that's really making plays.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: He's got nine tackles already in four games. It's pretty amazing.
• 23:40
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• 25:05
  Speaker 2: has been holding. Brandon, what's up, man?
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: What's up, Nick?
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: What's going on, man?
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
• 25:10
  Speaker 13: Long time no talk.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Been busy, man.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, no.
• 25:15
  Speaker 13: Uh, just, uh, Kind of going back off of what
• 25:18
  Speaker 13: you said about the tight ends and stuff like that, man.
• 25:20
  Speaker 13: Spanford is a grown man, man. He is just the
• 25:23
  Speaker 13: way he's playing. But what I was going to say
• 25:26
  Speaker 13: was kind of going back to the week one where
• 25:27
  Speaker 13: we talked about it, about that fourth and one play,
• 25:30
  Speaker 13: how it would have made a difference. Well, they kind
• 25:32
  Speaker 13: of did the same thing with CD on that third
• 25:33
  Speaker 13: and one play. And it's like, obviously it kind of
• 25:36
  Speaker 13: answered my question. Like they just can't get the one yard,
• 25:38
  Speaker 13: but I just don't get why we stopped running the
• 25:40
  Speaker 13: ball with Javante. Like he's playing good. We're he's, literally
• 25:45
  Speaker 13: running up the field, and then.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: We just stop.
• 25:46
  Speaker 13: Like, we stall ourselves. So I don't really get that.
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: And then my second thing, real quick, is Aubrey. I
• 25:54
  Speaker 13: noticed this since training camp, since preseason, like, his kicks, like,
• 25:58
  Speaker 13: he's just kind of, like, real nonchalant back there, and
• 25:59
  Speaker 13: he's not, he, like, just kicks it. And then, so,
• 26:03
  Speaker 13: going back to last week's game and then this game, like,
• 26:07
  Speaker 13: he's getting barely in the kicking zone and stuff like that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 13: So I think, I don't know, I think Aubrey's kind
• 26:11
  Speaker 13: of got to Step it up a little bit, too.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. All right, Brandon.
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: I mean, I.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Appreciate the call and said it yesterday about Aubrey. Like,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: you know, the the kickoffs part is is is interesting because.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: You know, you get what they're trying to do, and
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: it's been good and bad. I mean, there's been times
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: when he gets that knuckleball perfect and it's bouncing around
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: and it's tough to catch. I mean, think about when
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: you just get a regular kickoff, you just kind of
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: run into it, boom, and you're ready to roll. And
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: when the ball's on the ground and you got to
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: catch it real quick and then pick it up and
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: then you're not moving forward. And so that's what's helped
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys get down there. And they lead the league
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: in covering kickoffs. They're the best right now as far
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: as going down there and doing that. Now, the flip
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: side is, is sometimes that little knuckleball goes out of bounds.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: And you'd like to do it a little bit more
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: in the center of the field. And so and then
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the field goals, I mean, he missed a 65 yarder.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, I Okay. I mean, I wonder if that
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: was the best decision, or I don't wonder. I don't
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: think it was. I didn't like it at the time.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I didn't like it now. And then, you know, the
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: field goal blocks are– they're not really on– a lot
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: of times you can say the kickers are trying to
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: line drive it. He's had enough of those 60-yarders. He
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: kicks it like he kicks it. I think there's been
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: some issues on what's happening with the blocks, and teams are–
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Teams have figured out how to do this. And so
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: if the Cowboys don't change it, then they're going to
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: be in some trouble here because teams are going to
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: continue to do what they did to try to– they're basically–
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: faking a play and then moving back. The blockers, and
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: it's happened to two guys, they kind of chase for it,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: leaving a hole. They've got to do a lot better
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: job of being disciplined and staying back and just set
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the edge there and block as opposed to trying to attack.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: You don't do that on the kickoff or field goal,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: and it's happened twice. Almost happened a third time on
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: the extra point. All right, Rob in Vegas is next. Hey, Rob.
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: Hey, Nick.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Hey, what's up?
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: You know, speaking of Aubrey, I heard something this morning.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: In the last eight games, he's the lowest ranked kicker
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: in the league.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: In which category? What's the category?
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: Of misses. And it's, you know, we, yeah, I can't
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: believe it. I was like, because we just assume he's Mr.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Automatic.
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: But, you know, he missed a few last year, and
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: obviously this year hasn't been great.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: I agree with you.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: You know, 65, maybe with three seconds left, you give
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: that a shot.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: And then you got to remember who the other kicker is.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: He's one of the best in the league.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: So if your guy can.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Hit a 65, that guy can hit a 65.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: And he can, and he, and he, he's really good.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, he, he, I, he always hitting 55 yarders.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I think he's one of the, I don't know what
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: he makes. I mean, is he up there? I don't
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: even know this, like Butker or, And then Aubrey makes more,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: but I would imagine he's got to be in there,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: that group, too. But that's not why you called.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: He will be.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: That's not why you called.
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: No.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: What do you got?
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: It's just crazy how it's deja vu all over again
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: from last year. I mean, you look at the teams,
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: the defense, and... yes, the defense looks better, but it's statistically,
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: it's almost the same. Actually, they have more sacks and
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: more turnovers last year at this time.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no picks.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: And it's 30 points.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Let's face it.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: The magic number is 30. If this offense does not
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: get to 30, we don't win. And that's unsustainable. I
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: know Dak is playing great, but it's just the weather's
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: going to change. It's just a bad recipe. You watched
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: that game last night. I mean, we look at Atlanta,
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: but I wouldn't want to play Atlanta without running game.
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: No, no.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: And another thing with Bland, you know, it just goes
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: to show, you know, he owes Mike a really nice
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: Christmas present because he made him a very wealthy man.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: He did.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: I did.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: I mean, Bland isn't awful. It's not like guys are
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: blowing by him. He's right there. You know, he's almost Anthony.
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: He's right there, but he just isn't the same guy.
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: He has to cover for a little longer. I don't
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: think he changes direction like he used to. I think
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: he's better in the slot, but I think, you know,
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: Jerry and them, they look at it the same way
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: they probably look at Ferguson. Like, no, these guys are
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: going to play because I'm paying them. And I wish
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: the head coach would turn around and say, not ask him,
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: tell him, Porter's here, you know, Durant's going to be
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: here and you're going to be here. I mean, what
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: are they going to say? But, listen, Thursday's a big game.
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: You've got to take care of business at home. I
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: think they will.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: You get a little.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: Break and then you play Green Bay, but Yeah, it's
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: going to be a season very similar to last year.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: You just hope the defense somehow can improve by four, five,
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: six points, something.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: Really, that's all it's about.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, Rob. I mean, thanks for the call.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: You're right. I mean, it just looks different, I guess,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: for defense. But you're right. When you look at it,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you really analyze it, it's not. And
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: it's actually statistically... It's a little worse. They're the only
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: team in the league without a pick. So they're on
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: the interception. You know, they got two sacks in the game.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: One real sack, you know, Quinn and Williams. I mean,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that it wasn't a sack with Gary,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: but when you push a guy out of bounds behind
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage, you know, then that counts as
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: a sack. And, hey, you'll take what you can get here.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: But as far as, you know, the pressure back there,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Getting him to the ground just doesn't happen a lot.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: You look at the quarterbacks they've faced so far, Jackson, Dart,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: and then Jaden Daniels for a half, Mariota for the
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: other half. You look at these quarterbacks, the first three
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: they faced aren't even playing right now. And then Lamar Jackson, C.J. Stroud.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: So my first thought was to say, you know, the
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: quarterback's about to get tougher than that, but probably not,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: you know, from Dart. Jaden Daniels to Lamar and C.J.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Stroud to now Jalen Daniels, who's a rookie. Jordan Love,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts. I guess Brissette's still the quarterback. Arizona, I'm
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: not really sure. And then Indianapolis, Daniel Jones. And then
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: after that, San Francisco, Purdy. I almost said Garoppolo. So,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: you know, it is what it is. I mean, they
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: face some decent offenses there. some really good players in there,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: and we'll see how it goes from there. But I
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: still think they have a chance to kind of get
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: this thing going. I think the defense is going to
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: have to be opportunistic and get more sacks and definitely
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: get some turnovers. All right, Michael in Bowling Green is next.
• 33:34
  Speaker 14: How you doing, Nick?
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Hey, good, Michael. What's up?
• 33:38
  Speaker 14: I got a short week, but you get to stay
• 33:40
  Speaker 14: at home.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: That's true. That's true.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Weekend's going to be fun.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: What's up?
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, I bet.
• 33:46
  Speaker 14: Well, I want to do a couple predictions, and then
• 33:49
  Speaker 14: I've got a question. I'll hang up after the question
• 33:53
  Speaker 14: so some other people can get through. But I'm going
• 33:56
  Speaker 14: to go Thursday night. Dallas is going to score at
• 34:00
  Speaker 14: least 40, and I think Tampa is going to be
• 34:05
  Speaker 14: in the teens. And I'm also going to say at
• 34:10
  Speaker 14: the end of November 1st, we're going to be 6-2.
• 34:12
  Speaker 14: We're going to go on a little win streak here.
• 34:17
  Speaker 14: Looking at the schedule, that feels really possible. So I'm
• 34:24
  Speaker 14: going to say 6-2 after our November 1st game. And
• 34:28
  Speaker 14: then my question is, when are the Dallas Cowboys going
• 34:32
  Speaker 14: to sign the guy who's named after a Mack truck?
• 34:37
  Speaker 14: And I think you probably know who I'm talking about,
• 34:41
  Speaker 14: but it's the end. but, uh, I appreciate it. And, uh,
• 34:44
  Speaker 14: when somebody else get on, thank you.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Should I know, should I know who we're talking about here?
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, like, uh, he's talking about Khalil Mack.
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Maybe, maybe that's what he's talking about, but, um, you know,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: the pass rush, you know, when you, when you see
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Von Miller hasn't after four games, hasn't really made a
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: huge impact. I think it was better this last game. Um,
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: You see what Clowney's done, and you're like, well, maybe
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: that could have been what the Cowboys did, and if
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: they wanted to go back, I think Clowney wanted that
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: full circle moment there, like he's getting. But one way
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: or another, the pass rush is just not there, and
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: they've got to figure it out, scheme it up, blitz.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: But just so far, after four games, You know, you're
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: talking about guys, a rookie in Malachi Lawrence hasn't done
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: a lot. Von Miller is, you know, going to be
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame, but not based off of
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: what we've seen here. And, you know, hey, he hasn't
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: done it yet. And then Ezeraku and, you know, Gary
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: finally had some nice moments, but it just hasn't been consistent.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: And until that happens, you're going to have some issues
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: in the secondary. It doesn't matter who it is, even
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: Joey Porter. you know, that's why they brought him in, but,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: but he's going to, you know, he's going to have some,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: some issues. I said it yesterday, you know, he's used
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: to the Pittsburgh and, you know, TJ Watt and, and,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: and those guys getting there. And so Cowboys are going
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: to have to do to figure that out. All right,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: let's go to Irene at Falls Church.
• 36:23
  Speaker 10: Hey, good morning.
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: Good morning.
• 36:25
  Speaker 10: So, uh, I met up with Zach in Atlanta on, oh,
• 36:29
  Speaker 10: I mean, uh, Josh in Chicago to watch the game.
• 36:33
  Speaker 10: It was awesome. Actually, he's a great dude, but, uh, Anyway,
• 36:37
  Speaker 10: so I now can give you an opinion on Joey
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: Porter Jr. He's awesome, first of all. And they didn't
• 36:46
  Speaker 10: target him, right? But I also watched some of the
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: plays where he was trailing Nico Collins directly.
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: He did great on that.
• 36:56
  Speaker 10: And here's one thing I noticed. I don't know if
• 36:58
  Speaker 10: anyone talked about it because I listened to this show today.
• 37:00
  Speaker 10: But CP has been doing this zone coverage with the
• 37:05
  Speaker 10: drop back late. seven yards right not for joey porter
• 37:09
  Speaker 10: jr he gets to be right up on the man
• 37:11
  Speaker 10: so that was cool to see that maybe he can
• 37:15
  Speaker 10: kind of flex to the skill level that's around um
• 37:19
  Speaker 10: and i'm hoping we get some more of that going
• 37:21
  Speaker 10: on um anyway i he also he caused one of
• 37:26
  Speaker 10: the sacks right for that was the gary sack yeah
• 37:29
  Speaker 10: because of the pressure uh that he heard the coverage
• 37:31
  Speaker 10: that was cool yeah And then one thing I like
• 37:35
  Speaker 10: is an adjustment of shotty. Last week I mentioned that
• 37:39
  Speaker 10: Dak doesn't do as well when you rush four and
• 37:43
  Speaker 10: can get home and then drop back seven just because
• 37:46
  Speaker 10: they're tight windows, right? I mean, that's pretty normal.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:49
  Speaker 10: So, first half, it looked like it was going that way,
• 37:52
  Speaker 10: but something changed in there, and then they just started
• 37:54
  Speaker 10: to pick him apart. So, whatever that adjustment was, I
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: don't know. I love to see that. I am still
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: giving him the side eye for that 65-yard field goal attempt,
• 38:04
  Speaker 10: and the situational awareness with Malik Hooker. I heard James
• 38:07
  Speaker 10: in New Jersey yesterday mention that. So, there's still some
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: things that hurt us, but.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: We'll see.
• 38:13
  Speaker 10: I don't know if you can answer this question. It's
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: kind of a silly question. What happened in the locker
• 38:19
  Speaker 10: room on the way to the locker room with Gary
• 38:21
  Speaker 10: and some random guy, and who is that guy?
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: It was funny. I'll take that off air.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: All right. Didn't see that. Don't know what you're referring to,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: so sorry about that.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: But.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: we had our own random stuff going on with the
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: locker room. You know, everything we do now, I have
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: a microphone and we, we can't, we can't walk five
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: steps without doing some kind of, you know, video and stuff,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: which is, which is great. Keep it a Cowboys. It's
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: what we're doing. But so I don't, I don't know.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know what that, what that is. Um, You
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: asked about how things got better and what happened. Shottie
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: was asked about that, and he said that we just
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: blocked it up better. And not just on the outside.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: It was more the interior offensive line. That's where a
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: lot of the pressure was really coming from. So they
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: did some adjustments there in how they kind of pinched
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: inside a little bit, and that sort of changed everything.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: A lot of times you talk about these outside rushers, but–
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Where the quarterbacks really have the problem is when the
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: rush is right there because that's where the pocket collapsed.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: That's where it's tougher to see down there. They have
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: good peripheral. They can kind of figure out some of
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: those edge rushers, but when that pocket is collapsed right
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: up the middle, that's where the problems are, and that's
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: what was happening a lot in the first half. They
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: did a good job of changing that. Let's go to
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Brian in Kansas City before our last break. Brian, what's up?
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: Morning, Nick.
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: Hey.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: You know, I was thinking how different every year is.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: When you look at the schedule prior to the year starting,
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: you're like, wow, this is going to be tough. Look
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: at this and.
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: Look at that.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: So now, knowing what we've seen in the first month, Bucs, Packers,
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: and Eagles don't sound so daunting.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: You know, this sounds like, ah, well, you know, the
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: Packers aren't very good right now. The Eagles are... I mean,
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: they just look awful.
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: And the Bucs are going.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: To be without their quarterback. I mean, obviously, any team
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: is better when they have their starting quarterback. But, you know,
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: they weren't good with, you know, they weren't looking like
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: world beaters before that. Just how weird it is. You know,
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: I generally don't try to predict, like, through a season.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: And that's kind of why. You just... You just don't know.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: A team that's great one year is suddenly not. And
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: just like we said in the offseason, who had Seattle
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: and New England for the Super Bowl last year when
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: that year began? So I'm really glad that we're getting
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: Smith back, that we came out of a game finally,
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: When I finally went back and looked at the injury
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: report after the game, I was like, hey, there's nothing here.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: Nobody was added to the injury list, and we're getting
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Smith back. So I think these next three games are
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: going to be important because they're winnable games, and we're
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: going to start to get some people back. We'll get
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Durant back, and we'll get Overshawn back. Maybe not this week,
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: but they're all trending towards they should be coming back soon.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: So just the dichotomy of what happens year to year, man,
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: always gets me. I'm going to give my prediction. I
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: think we're going to do pretty well against the Bucs,
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: so I'm going to say it's going to be something
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: like 31-17. Okay, 31-17.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: All right, sounds good.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Brian.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: You know, you're right about the schedule doesn't look as
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: good daunting whatever i mean there's nine teams right now
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: in the nfl with the winning record uh you know
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: four and over three and one so 12 of those
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: teams or 12 teams have a two and two record
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: cowboys are obviously in that group now you say that
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: you just just to be fair play devil's advocate whatever
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: just when you look at that and go out tampa
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: green bay you know philly arizona indianapolis you know these
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: you know like who scares you type thing that's all
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: fair and you're right and from a positive standpoint cowboys
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: can look at that and go man you know i
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: think they'll be in good shape however Those five teams
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: look at the Cowboys at 2-2 and go, we can
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: beat them. You know, they're not that great. We can
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: beat them. They're defensive. Can't stop anyone. So just to
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: be fair, they're probably looking at the Cowboys the same
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: way the Cowboys are looking at them. We'll go to
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: break one more time. We'll be right back after this. Hey, hey,
• 42:57
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• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Chris just sent me the video that Irene was talking
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: about with Rashawn Gary. I guess that's a friend slash
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: coach of his, so that's somebody he knows. He wasn't
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: upset or anything like that. He was just more intense.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: He played his best game. He played his best game
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: of the season, got his first sack, and just kind
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: of was pretty emotional about it and intense, but it
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: was actually more of a positive thing. All right, let's
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: go to Dylan in Northport, Florida. He will be our
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: last call today. Dylan, what's up?
• 44:48
  Speaker 7: Hey, man.
• 44:50
  Speaker 15: I'll talk about a quick thing, and then I'll give
• 44:51
  Speaker 15: you my score prediction for this week.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: I see a.
• 44:55
  Speaker 15: Lot of people talking about the Cowboys' offense not playing
• 44:58
  Speaker 15: well enough in the first half against the Texans, and
• 45:00
  Speaker 15: they didn't. But the Texans also came out with a
• 45:03
  Speaker 15: pretty good plan to start the game, and they've got
• 45:06
  Speaker 15: a decent defense. Their secondaries haven't been that good, but
• 45:08
  Speaker 15: they've got one of the best pass rushers in the NFL,
• 45:10
  Speaker 15: and they had a good plan. It was a death-by-a-thousand-cut situation,
• 45:14
  Speaker 15: and instead of letting Pickens kill them quickly, and they
• 45:16
  Speaker 15: wanted to force Dallas to have these 10 to 12
• 45:19
  Speaker 15: play drives and just hope they make mistakes or get
• 45:21
  Speaker 15: a sack and it derails the drive. And it worked
• 45:23
  Speaker 15: for a while, but then Dallas figured it out. Dak
• 45:26
  Speaker 15: and CD got hot. And I mean, if you're going
• 45:28
  Speaker 15: to criticize them for only scoring six in the first half,
• 45:30
  Speaker 15: which is completely fair, I think you've also got to
• 45:32
  Speaker 15: give them a ton of credit for scoring touchdowns on four,
• 45:35
  Speaker 15: four out of five drives. I think it was in
• 45:37
  Speaker 15: the second half.
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 45:38
  Speaker 15: So like it's, it's, it's both points are fair, but
• 45:41
  Speaker 15: it's a holistic, you know, view that I take on it.
• 45:43
  Speaker 15: And I thought that the offense at the end of
• 45:44
  Speaker 15: the day was still elite. They still put up over
• 45:46
  Speaker 15: 30 again. and they're clearly one of the best units
• 45:49
  Speaker 15: in the NFL. So I've got no worries about the offense.
• 45:51
  Speaker 15: They've got Tyler Smith coming back, and it's going to
• 45:54
  Speaker 15: be just fine on that side of the ball. And
• 45:56
  Speaker 15: the other cool part of that, too, looking at the defense,
• 45:58
  Speaker 15: is last year in that situation, offense starts off slow.
• 46:02
  Speaker 15: It's 27-6 going into halftime instead of 6-16.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 46:06
  Speaker 15: So the defense is starting to figure stuff out, too, man.
• 46:09
  Speaker 15: I know the point totals still aren't pretty, and some
• 46:11
  Speaker 15: of the stats aren't where you want them to be,
• 46:13
  Speaker 15: but they're at least giving you a shot, which is
• 46:15
  Speaker 15: a step in the right direction. So, you know, hopefully
• 46:18
  Speaker 15: against a bad Bucs team this week with a rookie
• 46:21
  Speaker 15: quarterback starting in the second game. First off, let's get
• 46:23
  Speaker 15: that first interception of the season. There's no reason why
• 46:26
  Speaker 15: they can't force some mistakes and get that done.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 46:28
  Speaker 15: But the second off, man, let's get some pressure, some sex. Like,
• 46:31
  Speaker 15: let's just figure some stuff out. Let's use this as
• 46:33
  Speaker 15: a get right week. And I know they probably look
• 46:35
  Speaker 15: at us, do the same thing, think the same thing,
• 46:36
  Speaker 15: but let's get right. And I'm not going to pick
• 46:39
  Speaker 15: a blowout because I just don't trust the Cowboys to
• 46:42
  Speaker 15: win like that just yet. But I will say they
• 46:44
  Speaker 15: went comfortably 34-24. All right.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Sounds good. That would be a good one. Yeah, I
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: think Tampa's going to come in here and they're going to–
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: you know, you look at Todd Bowles' coach teams. I mean,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: they're always right there. You know, this is different for
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: them because they're always like 8-9, 9-8, 10-6. You know,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: they made some playoffs and got close last year to
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: making the playoffs. But the 0-4– But their games are close.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, like, they are playing close. If you keep
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: playing close games, you're going to win some of them. So,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: you know, I think this could be a dangerous team.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: But I think from a firepower standpoint, Cowboys offensively, if
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: they keep doing what they do, I just don't know
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: if Tampa can keep up. You're right about the Cowboys' defense.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, they gave up, you know, really should have
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: been 13 points in the first half, you know. And
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys just handed them three by missing that field
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: goal and really should have never even attempted that. or
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: should have made their own field goal and kicked it off,
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: and who knows if Houston even goes for it at
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: that point. So the defense, they're tough to put their
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: finger on because once that game kind of got back
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: and forth, now it's a different life there, and now
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Houston is starting to play an up-tempo and it's more
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: of a fast-break type of game. But I thought the
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: adjustments Dallas made in the first quarter, second quarter type thing,
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: you could see that they were doing well. So stat-wise,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: the turnovers aren't there, the sacks not really there, and
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: the points are definitely there. But they're still doing some things.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: They're still making some plays, and they're showing enough signs
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: of hope. And I think that that's what you want
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: right now because you know the offense is going to
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: be able to do its thing, and the special teams
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: got to get cleaned up. If they can do that,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Defense keeps making that progress. I think they should be
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: all right. The schedule does line up for winnable games.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that they could lose all these games,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: but they could win them too. That's the nature of
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: the NFL, and that's why we play it. All right,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: we'll be back on Wednesday to really preview the game.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: It'll be our final show before the game. So for
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. See you next time on
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Cowboy Storyline. See you.
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