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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.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 3: What's up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette. I'm
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  Speaker 3: Nick Eatman. It's Wednesday, September 23rd. Cowboys will be leaving
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow on Thursday for Brazil. Can't wait. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what else to say. I mean, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a fun trip, I think. I mean, we'll
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  Speaker 3: see what it's like. It's more of a, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to be able to travel to a different country and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, see that. And any time I've ever gone
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  Speaker 3: out of the country, it's only really because of the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: So got to go to Japan, got to go to Mexico, London, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: and England. But this will be a new experience and
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  Speaker 3: a new experience for the team as well. but more importantly,
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  Speaker 3: can the Cowboys go in and beat Baltimore? Can they
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  Speaker 3: go in and with all the distractions and everything around
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  Speaker 3: the travel and getting there and, you know, time change and,
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  Speaker 3: and the field or whatever, whatever it is going to
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  Speaker 3: be when, when they, they, you know, put the ball down,
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  Speaker 3: are they going to be able to go and beat Baltimore?
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  Speaker 3: That's what you guys care about. That's what, that's the
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  Speaker 3: most important thing about it. And let's see, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because it's one thing to do it. They used to
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  Speaker 3: do it preseason games and go over there and all that, but,
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  Speaker 3: These games count, obviously, and now it's regular season, so
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  Speaker 3: you've got to make sure that you're prepared. I say
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  Speaker 3: it all the time about throughout the week, Monday through Friday,
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  Speaker 3: are they prepared? Are you doing what you need to do?
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  Speaker 3: And this is going to be a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a challenge for everybody, but let's see how the Cowboys
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  Speaker 3: do that. All right, 888-855-2297 is the number to call.
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  Speaker 3: Let's start with Davion in Illinois. Davion, what's up, man?
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  Speaker 4: What it do, what it do, my boy with the
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  Speaker 4: business is. How you doing? Everything going. I'm going good, man.
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  Speaker 4: First time getting in this week, so how about them cowboys?
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  Speaker 4: We got that win. We got off the snide. We
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  Speaker 4: got a division win, of course. That's always important. Excited
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  Speaker 4: for this week, man. Really excited for y'all to get
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  Speaker 4: down to Brazil and have some fun and hopefully win.
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  Speaker 4: hopefully pull out a win i mean we got to
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  Speaker 4: stop the run that's the number one thing uh the
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  Speaker 4: sights of the sounds of the sideline really gave me
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  Speaker 4: a a different look on cp i was like okay
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  Speaker 4: you got a little fire in them i'd probably.
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  Speaker 3: Like to see yeah uh.
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  Speaker 4: A little fire there we ain't seen there he always
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  Speaker 4: so stoic but uh i enjoy watching that i mean
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  Speaker 4: i think i think this game the key to this
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  Speaker 4: game is Keeping Lamar Jackson contained and don't let Derrick
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  Speaker 4: Henry just run wild. These are two major things I
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  Speaker 4: think they need to do. If they can do that,
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  Speaker 4: I think we can pull away a win. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if we have another show this week. I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to go ahead and say 35-24 us, of course. I
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  Speaker 4: think we can make plays on their defense. And as
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  Speaker 4: long as our defense don't go crazy, we're letting them
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  Speaker 4: get crazy then. I think we're going to be all right.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm excited and looking forward to having a dub
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  Speaker 4: in Brazil.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Davion, thanks for the call. And to answer one
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  Speaker 3: of your questions, yes, we are going to have a
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  Speaker 3: show tomorrow. So we don't leave until tomorrow evening. So, yes,
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  Speaker 3: we are going to have shows, I think regular podcasts,
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  Speaker 3: all day tomorrow. And then on Friday we'll have some shows,
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  Speaker 3: a different schedule on that. I still think there's going
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  Speaker 3: to be about four. And then we'll have some things
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  Speaker 3: from Brazil as well. We'll be doing some podcasts. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if you'd call it a podcast, but we'll
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  Speaker 3: have some videos. We'll definitely have some coverage from there.
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  Speaker 3: So stay tuned for all of that. you know, going
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  Speaker 3: back to what you said about, you know, Lamar, it, it,
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  Speaker 3: it definitely starts with him. Um, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the focus though, for me, I mean, it's, I say
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  Speaker 3: it starts with Lamar cause he's a quarterback, but I,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you've, you've got to make sure that Derrick
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  Speaker 3: Henry doesn't just go crazy and, and, and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's had some, some success. He's only played the Cowboys
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  Speaker 3: a couple of times, but he's had some success obviously
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  Speaker 3: when he was with Baltimore a couple of years ago and, um,
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  Speaker 3: Cowboys had a hard time bringing him down like a
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  Speaker 3: lot of teams do. So, The fact that they're giving
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  Speaker 3: up so many rushing yards already to the Cam Scataboos
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  Speaker 3: and Ja'Cory Krosky-Merritt or whatever. I mean, those guys right
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  Speaker 3: there have had some success running it. And the quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: as well. And then here you are, two of the
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  Speaker 3: best in the league at what they do. So it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a challenge. But all right, let's go
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  Speaker 3: to Irene, Falls Church, Virginia. Irene, what's up?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, good morning. I did some film study again.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 9: So prepare for the blitz.
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  Speaker 7: The Ravens blitz a lot. I was like, let me
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  Speaker 7: check this. It's every freaking play. It was 42.7% on
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  Speaker 7: the season.
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  Speaker 9: So that's a lot.
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  Speaker 7: Prepare for blitz pickup, guys. I will say that short
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  Speaker 7: passes seem to work against them, which is interesting because
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  Speaker 7: the Ravens linebackers all grade really well. So I'm just
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  Speaker 7: wondering if that's maybe the Saints' patience.
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  Speaker 9: So we sort of need.
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  Speaker 7: to have that same mentality. Um, without the flowers, they
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  Speaker 7: are not as prolific. So, but I saw them trying
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  Speaker 7: to hit their tight ends, um, and hit the seam
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  Speaker 7: routes a lot, even to receivers. So that middle of
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  Speaker 7: the field needs to be, um, protected, which sucks because
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  Speaker 7: we have so many injuries right now. Um, of course,
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  Speaker 7: Derek Henry, like you said, is going to be a
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  Speaker 7: little bit of a mess. So my role player, I
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  Speaker 7: think is going to be Brevin span Ford for both
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  Speaker 7: let's pick up and some of these short passes that
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  Speaker 7: I think we need to take advantage of there. You know,
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  Speaker 7: they flowers can be injured or going to be out.
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  Speaker 10: Most likely.
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  Speaker 7: I think, I think this is going to be a
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  Speaker 7: closer game than I would have said after the Sunday
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  Speaker 7: night football. I think I still have the Ravens winning. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 7: maybe something like 31, 28.
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  Speaker 9: So that's all for this week of safe travels guys.
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  Speaker 9: Have fun there.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Um, Yeah, I mean, that would
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  Speaker 3: be a high-scoring game. Yeah, Baltimore, they've got their issues
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  Speaker 3: in the secondary, it seems like, so that's how you
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  Speaker 3: combat it. There's different ways to do it. You can
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  Speaker 3: just say, all right, well, if they're not going to
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  Speaker 3: cover that well, let's don't make them cover for very long.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just get after the quarterback, which sounds good, but
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  Speaker 3: a veteran quarterback like Dak, who's seen plenty of blitzes
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  Speaker 3: and has got some receivers that can go and make plays,
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  Speaker 3: that that's a pick-your-poison type thing. Yes, you can get
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  Speaker 3: after him, and you can stop the run by having
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  Speaker 3: a lot of guys close to the line of scrimmage. However,
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  Speaker 3: if CD and Pickens and Flanoy and Turpin, who's got
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  Speaker 3: the speed as well, if these guys... get loose you
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  Speaker 3: know and and there's not a lot of guys back
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  Speaker 3: there it could be you know set up for some
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  Speaker 3: big play so then that's that's the case anytime you
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  Speaker 3: risk that when you go into to blitzing so that'll
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  Speaker 3: be the cat and mouse game that we always see
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  Speaker 3: from there but it's gonna be fun i think um
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  Speaker 3: all right let's go to uh let's go to another
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  Speaker 3: captain man irene's a captain let's go to randy and
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  Speaker 3: text her can i randy what's.
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  Speaker 9: Up what's going on my brother how you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good man how are you I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, I want to talk to you about your uncle.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, dang.
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  Speaker 9: Did you hear that?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 9: God, dang. A bug the size of a baby tariff
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  Speaker 9: axle just hit the windshield. Got two acres of windshield here,
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  Speaker 9: and it hits right in front of my face.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: That critter been eating good. Hey, what's the last thing
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  Speaker 9: that goes through a bug's mind when he hits the windshield?
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  Speaker 9: His butt. yeah all right all right so jerry what
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  Speaker 9: i want to talk about him is if he's going
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  Speaker 9: to make a move i wish he would go ahead
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  Speaker 9: and make a move now get it done and over
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  Speaker 9: with because one get whoever it is that comes in
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  Speaker 9: time to jail and get going because you know when
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  Speaker 9: you wait to the deadline it takes them two or
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  Speaker 9: three games to get even ready to go and by
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  Speaker 9: that time we're at the tail end of the season
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  Speaker 9: and it almost feels like a lost cause so if
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  Speaker 9: If he's going to keep throwing out there the old
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  Speaker 9: man with money, just do it and get it done.
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  Speaker 9: Let's get a move on. And plus, it seems like,
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  Speaker 9: you know the history better than I do, but to
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  Speaker 9: me it feels like every time he waits to do
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  Speaker 9: something with a player, we always wind up losing out.
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  Speaker 9: Either pad contract or somebody snags him up before we
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  Speaker 9: get a chance.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 9: So I was just going to see what you had
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  Speaker 9: to say about that.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it sounds like he keeps alluding to
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  Speaker 3: something here, you know, that they could go make a move.
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  Speaker 3: It's weird because it's early in the year and you
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  Speaker 3: still don't know. Are you going for this? Are you
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  Speaker 3: good enough to go get a player? Or is this
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  Speaker 3: probably not going to help you this year and you
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  Speaker 3: need draft picks next year because you don't have a lot? So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's still early to see, like, what are you?
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  Speaker 3: What is this team? And that's why I like that
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  Speaker 3: the trade deadline was pushed back a few years ago
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  Speaker 3: because it used to be like week five or six.
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  Speaker 3: Now it's pushed back into November where, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: can really get a good sense of kind of what
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  Speaker 3: you need and, you know, if you need to go
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  Speaker 3: forward or stand back.
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  Speaker 9: So the way it's set up, basically, then a trade
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  Speaker 9: deadline for this year is you're setting yourself up for
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  Speaker 9: next year. So if he's wanting to make a push
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  Speaker 9: for this year, wouldn't it be better just to stop
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  Speaker 9: talking about it and do it? Because if he's talking
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  Speaker 9: about this year, then waiting around would hurt that process.
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  Speaker 9: Or is that just I'm not thinking right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, I mean, no, you're thinking how you're thinking.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm saying, though, is that the reason why it's
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  Speaker 3: so early in the year is that what if it
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  Speaker 3: turns out that you're just not that good? And I'm
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  Speaker 3: not talking about the Cowboys. I'm talking about any team.
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  Speaker 3: You realize, okay, you're not good. And we thought we
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  Speaker 3: were better, but we're not. So going to get this
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  Speaker 3: position here, it'll help a little bit, but it's not
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  Speaker 3: going to help overall. And then now you don't have
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  Speaker 3: a draft pick for next year or whatever you ended
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  Speaker 3: up giving up. So that's why I think it's still
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  Speaker 3: in that feeling out phase of everybody. I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: Raiders are 2-0. I don't think the Raiders are as good.
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  Speaker 3: There's some 0-2 teams. There's 2-0 teams. A lot of one-on-ones.
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  Speaker 3: It's early. The Eagles are 2-0. I don't think the
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  Speaker 3: Eagles are good. I really don't.
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  Speaker 9: I don't either. They barely made it through those two games.
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  Speaker 3: But it is what it is right now. So that's
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Let's let things kind of play out
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. Um, I wouldn't, I mean, if a
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  Speaker 3: sweetheart deal comes, you know, comes down and there's a,
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  Speaker 3: as a player that is going to be good this year,
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  Speaker 3: next year, and the next few years. And it's like, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: let's do this. Regardless if we are contenders or not,
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  Speaker 3: let's do this. If that happens, then it happens.
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  Speaker 11: But yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, other teams are trying to figure out if
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  Speaker 3: they want to sell, too. I mean, Rob from Vegas
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  Speaker 3: said it yesterday, I think, when he was here. He
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  Speaker 3: was referring to Crosby. He's like, well, they're 2-0 now. Like,
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  Speaker 3: they're not going to be sellers at this point. We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see. But, I mean, so that's kind of why
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  Speaker 3: I think it's still early to be going and doing
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  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a big gamble, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: See you, boy.
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  Speaker 9: All right. Talk to you later.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Randy.
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  Speaker 14: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 3: Randy in Texarkana. All right, let's go to my OG
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  Speaker 3: from West Virginia, William from West Virginia.
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  Speaker 8: Daggone it.
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  Speaker 15: Daggone it, Nick. You stole my line. I was going
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  Speaker 15: to say the OG from West Virginia is back again.
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  Speaker 15: You stole my line.
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  Speaker 3: I stole the line because you say it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's your line. That's your intro, I guess.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 11: I thank you.
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  Speaker 6: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 15: I was going to say... You know, I was going
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  Speaker 15: to tell you, next time that Kyle from Baltimore calls,
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  Speaker 15: you need to pull a Brian Bronson on him and say, look,
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  Speaker 15: we're doing fine. Just get to your question.
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  Speaker 9: You know, I'm glad what you're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: You're right.
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  Speaker 9: But, no, I love Kyle.
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  Speaker 15: He's a great guy.
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  Speaker 12: I'm glad he's doing well.
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  Speaker 15: I would like to make a suggestion. Maybe one day
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  Speaker 15: you get Kyle called. Maybe we'll get Josh Ellis back on.
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  Speaker 15: I always love Josh. He was great on there.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't heard from him in a while.
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  Speaker 15: When he was on the break with you guys, it
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  Speaker 15: was fabulous, but The one football related thing I had
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  Speaker 15: was I heard Steven on the fan yesterday talk about
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  Speaker 15: maybe coming up with a package to get Cavante purpose
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  Speaker 15: and carries or something like that. And Steve, I just
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  Speaker 15: want to know what your thoughts were on that.
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  Speaker 10: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: What do you, what do you, I mean, is that
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  Speaker 3: something you would entertain?
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  Speaker 15: I would entertain Kavante doing it. I really wouldn't want
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  Speaker 15: to see Stevie in the back doing it. I just
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  Speaker 15: want him outrunning Pattern like he did last week. That's
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  Speaker 15: just my opinion.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Kavante's done it, and it surprises me,
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  Speaker 3: but he hits the hole quicker, obviously, than most of
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  Speaker 3: your backs, and so it is different for the timing
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  Speaker 3: of the defense when you get Javante, Javante, and then
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  Speaker 3: something with Kavante. you know, boy, that would be a backfield.
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  Speaker 3: If those were your backs, Gervonta and Cavante, you could,
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  Speaker 3: you know, do some fun marketing things there, but I
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  Speaker 3: think this team needs some kind of juice in the backfield.
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  Speaker 3: I think Clayton Adams, I think they feel it. They're
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  Speaker 3: putting different guys back there, too. I'd be okay with it,
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  Speaker 3: but with anything, if you're going to put a running
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  Speaker 3: back back in the backfield and always throw a screen
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  Speaker 3: or always put him out, then it's not going to
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  Speaker 3: do anything for you. Every once in a while, he's
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  Speaker 3: going to have to run it right up the middle. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Hold your breath, but, you know, to keep everybody honest,
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  Speaker 3: you've got to do that.
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  Speaker 15: I'd like to add one more thing, if I could,
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  Speaker 15: real quick. Do you remember how you always liked to
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  Speaker 15: talk about the Flea Flickers, one of your favorite plays,
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  Speaker 15: you know, and all that? You know what one of
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  Speaker 15: my favorite plays is? They used to run, they'd never
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  Speaker 15: run anymore.
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  Speaker 17: That delayed draw.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Romo would do that, right? Romo would kind of, like,
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  Speaker 3: fake the throw and then, you know.
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  Speaker 15: Yes, I just wish, please bring it back, because I
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  Speaker 15: swear I think it'd still work.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 15: Goodness knows that bootleg that they use with Dax will
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  Speaker 15: get Dax killed one of these days, but that never
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  Speaker 15: seems to work. But that's just my suggestion, man.
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  Speaker 9: I love the show.
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  Speaker 15: You keep doing what you're doing, sir.
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  Speaker 4: All right, William.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that. Thank you so much for the call. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I can, man, how many times do you remember seeing Romo, like,
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  Speaker 3: with that fake, like, quick slant, and then he would
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  Speaker 3: hand it off to, like, Murray or Felix Jones or
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  Speaker 3: whoever was running back there with him Um, yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's, it seems like a lot of teams run,
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  Speaker 3: run screens and things like that. And the Cowboys don't
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  Speaker 3: do that as, as much, but I do, I do
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  Speaker 3: think that the way that Javante runs the ball, I
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  Speaker 3: think that they can, they need a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a different kind of style running back change of pace,
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  Speaker 3: if you will. And I'm not a fan of CD
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  Speaker 3: doing it, but I, I think Turpin might, might be
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  Speaker 3: one of those options and, you know, and, and, From
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  Speaker 3: what I was told, I didn't see it, but sounds
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  Speaker 3: like in the first couple of practices here is Tyler Goodson,
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: the running back that they picked up. He's their third
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: back right now behind DeMar Ricardo, but he's got some speed. Now,
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: apparently something happened. There was a play at practice. Everybody
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: kind of was like, oh, my God, this guy. So
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: he can run. We'll see. And he's about the same.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: He's been in the league three years, I think, with
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: the Colts. And so behind Jonathan Taylor, I mean, I'm
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: getting a lot of snaps there. So, you know, that
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: might be a guy that they, they try to incorporate
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: into the, you know, into this offensive scheme as well.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Chris in Saratoga Springs.
• 16:49
  Speaker 14: Hey, Nick, how's it going?
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: I'm good. How are you?
• 16:52
  Speaker 14: I'm not too bad. My question, I only got really
• 16:56
  Speaker 14: one question. Nobody knows what's going to, if Flowers is
• 16:59
  Speaker 14: going to play or not. We'll know more today because
• 17:02
  Speaker 14: I think it's the first practice of the week for them,
• 17:04
  Speaker 14: so I think we'll know more today. But if he
• 17:07
  Speaker 14: does not play, would you load up the line of
• 17:10
  Speaker 14: scrimmage and do everything you can to stop Lamar and Henry,
• 17:15
  Speaker 14: or would you... you know, play what they've been playing,
• 17:19
  Speaker 14: you know, drop back a little bit and play more.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 17:23
  Speaker 14: You know, I mean, what would you do if Flowers
• 17:25
  Speaker 14: don't play? Because in my opinion, if Flowers plays, it's
• 17:29
  Speaker 14: a different game. Lamar's different if Flowers plays. But if
• 17:33
  Speaker 14: they don't have Flowers, I'm not scared. I'm personally not
• 17:36
  Speaker 14: scared of Andrews in the middle or Bateman really in
• 17:39
  Speaker 14: the outside and the other guys that they have. So
• 17:41
  Speaker 14: what do you think? What would you do?
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I would– Thanks for the call, Chris.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I like what you're thinking here. I say it all
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: the time. You can't do anything just once. You can't
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: do anything all the time. You're going to mix it
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: up on them. And let's don't act like those guys
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: for the Ravens aren't professional receivers that can go make
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: some plays. And so they can. But what makes Flowers
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: so dangerous to me from the games that I've seen
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I feel like he's been on my fantasy team every year,
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: including this year. So I watch him. And, of course,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: when you're watching games, you don't care about when you're
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: watching the Ravens against the Steelers. I'm just like, throw
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: it to him. I don't know how you guys watch
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: if you're playing fantasy, but I don't really care about
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: the whole game so much. I just throw it to
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: my guy. And they do. And they throw it close
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: to the line of scrimmage because he's that type of
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: guy that can go make plays. But he can. He's everything.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: He can go deep. he can, he can catch the
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: short passes. He's got, he plays with them, you know, with,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: with an attitude. I mean, he, he's a, he's got
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: that swag. He's a really good player and he is
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: just another weapon that you have to deal with because
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: you got, well, you want to spy Lamar. Cool. You
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: want to load the box for Henry. Cool. Then this
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: guy goes in and he's got that ability to just,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: you know, quick hitter and go, you know, score deep
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff. So He's just another
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: dynamic playmaker that causes problems. And what I would do
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: is I think they are going to have to load
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: the box. And that's probably with or without Flowers. They're
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: going to have to do that because right now what
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: they're doing and how they're playing up front is not
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: really working. They're not stopping the run. They're averaging over
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: 170 yards over two games against the run. And here's
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: a team that's going to run it probably even more.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: And then who knows what the field conditions are going
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: to be like. It could be one of those grinding games,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: sloppy field, and we're running the ball and stopping the
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: run is going to be the key, which doesn't bode
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: well for the Cowboys because you know, that's not what
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: they do well right now early in the season. So
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: we'll see how it goes from there. But, you know,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: keeping an eye on Flowers, that's one of those injuries
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: on the other team. And they got another tackle too,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Ronnie Stanley, who has been in and out of the
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: lineup with a toe injury. And he's a pro bowl
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: type tackle as well. So that changes things if he's
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: in there or if he's not. All right, let's go
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: to Rick in Webster, Massachusetts.
• 20:17
  Speaker 16: Rick.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Hey, Nick.
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: How you doing? I'm good.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: How are you doing?
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: I'm good, too. A couple things just to get out
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: of the way. Safe travels to you guys tomorrow.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: And I'm going to get my score out of the way.
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: I've decided that I'm going to go with... been debating
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: back and forth, but I'm going to go with Cowboys
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: 24 to 21 Aubrey with the winning field goal.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: All right. I, you know, it, uh, well, I've been
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: listening to people and think I don't do a lot
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: of film study. I just let other people watch their stuff. Uh,
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: but I would, yeah, it seems like Dave, you know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: the defense is laying back. He's the only person they're
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: really depending on. Most of the time is Trey, uh, Trey, uh,
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: Henderson would get pass rush and stuff like that. But
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: if we get to hit them over the middle or
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: deep shots like that, get that passing game and stuff,
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: and then try to do some runs, we might be
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: able to get some traction going there. The most worried
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: way could be that field. But if it's the field
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: that's affected, it affects both Lamar and Derek and us, too. So, hey,
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: it gets low down the game for us. So, yeah, but...
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: All in all, go Cowboys, and I'll talk to you
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: guys later. All right.
• 21:37
  Speaker 18: Thanks, Rick.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Appreciate it. I mean, I don't know what to think
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: about the field. I know a lot of people keep
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: talking about it. We're not there yet. We'll get a
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: chance on Saturday, I think, to go to the stadium,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: and the players are going to kind of walk around
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: a little bit and check out where their lockers are
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: and check out the stadium. the field and maybe figure
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: out what kind of, you know, cleats might work the
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: best and all that kind of good stuff. But, you know,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I don't, I don't know. I don't know what, what,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: what that's going to do. I mean, I just, I
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: feel like it's going to be football. You know what
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: I mean? There's, there's a lot of, there's a lot
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: of fields that aren't, you know, like putting greens out
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: there that, that it's just, it's kind of tough to play. And, uh, And,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: you know, I see injuries happen all over the place on,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: you know, happened at AT & T, happened at SoFi,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: happened at Soldier Field. I mean, it happens. I don't
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: know if it's just that or not, if it's going
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: to slow people down. I've never been one that thinks
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: that it's a fast track, it's good for this team,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: and it's a slow track, it's not good for this team.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: I kind of feel like it's the same for everybody.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: If you're fast, you're fast. If you're slow, you're slow.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: So we'll see. I mean, I'm just not putting a
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: lot of stock into that. Maybe I'm being naive about it,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: but right now I just think, you know, you've got
• 22:50
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• 22:52
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• 22:55
  Speaker 3: they stop the run. you know, with their quarterback and,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: you know, the big running back that they have. All right,
• 23:00
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  Speaker 3: by Gillette. We've had Michael in Bowling Green. He's on
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  Speaker 3: the line. Michael, what's up?
• 25:34
  Speaker 13: Well, I've just got a question about Milton. I mean,
• 25:39
  Speaker 13: he's on the private squad. How does this work? All right,
• 25:43
  Speaker 13: say the Giants decide, hey, Jackson Dart's probably going to
• 25:47
  Speaker 13: be out for the year. Let's try another young guy
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: instead of what we got. Can they just say, hey,
• 25:53
  Speaker 13: we want Milton, or is there anything Dallas can do?
• 25:56
  Speaker 13: How does that work?
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Dallas can put him on their roster. I mean, yeah,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: they can say, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, don't do that.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: We'll sign you to our roster here. But, you know...
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: I don't, I don't think the Cowboys, I mean, it's
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: also about the opportunity for the, for the player. So,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: you know, if that happens where another team says, Hey,
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: we want to sign him and he'll be our backup and,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: you know, he'll be, he'll be a chance for us
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: to maybe develop him into a starter. I mean, I
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: think that, you know, the Cowboys would say, I mean,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: I don't, I just don't think they would put them
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: on their, on their roster because they would do that
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: now if they, if they had the spot for it.
• 26:39
  Speaker 10: So.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I think if the Giants or another team wants to
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: take any practice squad player, you say, yeah, okay. I mean,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: you can't really match it unless you decide to clear
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: off a spot from your roster. But then again, why
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: didn't you do that already? So it happens. It happens
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: both ways. But I think if another team is looking
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: to get Joe Milton, I think they'll probably get him
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: if they wanted to. But that's the rules. Now, also
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: within the rules is they have to keep him on
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: their team for three weeks. So if you poach another
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: player from practice squad, you've got to put them on
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: your team for at least three games. I think it's
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: either three weeks or three games.
• 27:18
  Speaker 13: All right. Yeah, I didn't know if the Giants could
• 27:21
  Speaker 13: just be like, hey, he's a practice squad.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: We want him.
• 27:24
  Speaker 13: And Dallas had nothing, could do nothing. Or if they
• 27:27
  Speaker 13: said that, they had a chance. So they weigh the factors.
• 27:31
  Speaker 13: They're like, are we happy with our backups? you know,
• 27:34
  Speaker 13: do we want to keep Milton or are we going
• 27:36
  Speaker 13: to give him? Okay. That's what I was wondering. I
• 27:38
  Speaker 13: had no idea.
• 27:39
  Speaker 14: I appreciate it.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, for sure. All right, Michael.
• 27:43
  Speaker 19: Thank you.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: All right. Have a good one. Good to hear from you. Um,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: let's go Blair, Newport news, Virginia.
• 27:49
  Speaker 10: Hey Nick. Um, uh, just catching up. Good to hear.
• 27:53
  Speaker 10: My boy, uh, made it on the show yesterday. Pretty impressive.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 27:58
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: Well, Love it. I know he has less opportunity now.
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: But regardless, really happy about the Washington win earlier this week.
• 28:08
  Speaker 10: And earlier in the year, I predicted this game with
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: the Ravens to be a loss. And I'm trying to
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: figure out whether it's just my overall fandom that's pushing
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: me toward maybe a surprise victory. Maybe not a surprise
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: to most people, but for me, a surprise win over
• 28:28
  Speaker 10: the Ravens. But I looked at their international record, and
• 28:33
  Speaker 10: it looks like the Cowboys don't have a very good
• 28:35
  Speaker 10: record overseas.
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: I think it's 2-7-1.
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: So I wonder, do you think this really comes down
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: to whether the game is who's distracted more during an
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: international trip during the season?
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to interrupt. cut you off on that one
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: or at least disagree but i mean i they're they're
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: one and oh that the cowboys are one and oh
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: they're not two seven and one i don't know you're
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: you're talking about preseason games in monterey and and london
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: right i mean are you talking about preseason games.
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: Uh well uh um i'm sorry nick and and i
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: i didn't do my due diligence uh sorry dylan uh
• 29:19
  Speaker 10: you're you're better with the stats But according to AI,
• 29:21
  Speaker 10: their overall record overseas is 2-7-1. I'm sorry, in games
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: played outside the United States is 2-7-1.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Right. And those are preseason games. And a lot of
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: those games, nine of those ten, I think that's the number.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: We're talking about going to... Wembley Stadium, you know, for
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: the first preseason game or. to Mexico City a couple
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: of times and Tokyo a couple of times. Toronto, those
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: are preseason games. I mean, and so I don't put
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: a stock in that. I mean, Aikman didn't play in
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: one of those games and played half, you know. So
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: we don't put stock in that now. They've gone one
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: time and they played Jacksonville in London and won. So
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: that's the way I look at it. And that was
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: 12 years ago. I don't think anybody is even, I mean,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: me and Chris, but that's about it, right?
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: Well, you guys can suit up if you have to.
• 30:18
  Speaker 10: Maybe get in there.
• 30:19
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, I had a good trip. I mean, I
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: got engaged. So, I mean, I won. So, no, but
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: I hear what you're saying. Okay, you're asking about the
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: distractions and all that. They're there. They're real, and you've
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: got to figure out how to overcome that. I mean, it's...
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: What you're asking about, you're putting a record to it,
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: and I wouldn't do that. But are the distractions real? Yeah,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: they are. Do you sleep on a plane? Do you not?
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, certain players are supposed to be. Some people
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: get on a plane and just pass out. Some people
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: will never sleep on a plane. It doesn't matter how
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: comfortable they make it for them. So how do you
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: get your body right? How do you do that? I mean,
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: it sounded like it was a big difference between the
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Rams and the 49ers, how they traveled to their Australia game.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: So you're right about all of that. I don't think
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: we've seen a sample size from a record standpoint, but
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I think the Cowboys, if they're not prepared right, then, yeah,
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: that will be a problem.
• 31:22
  Speaker 10: You always talk about how games are won midweek. I
• 31:29
  Speaker 10: know both teams are in the same position in terms
• 31:33
  Speaker 10: of time, but what can coaches really do to make
• 31:37
  Speaker 10: up for that gap in time? for that preparation. I'll
• 31:40
  Speaker 10: take it off air because I want you to get
• 31:41
  Speaker 10: your requisite.
• 31:42
  Speaker 13: Number of callers.
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: Be safe on your travel and we'll, we'll talk to
• 31:45
  Speaker 10: you soon.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: Go Cowboys.
• 31:46
  Speaker 18: All right.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Blake. Appreciate the call and, and, and good insight. Good, good,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: good questions. You know, I actually was looking at to
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: see how many games that they had, they had played.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: And I thought it was seven or eight. Maybe I
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: didn't realize. And I, this is right before the show
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: was actually, I counted up to 10. So So that's
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: why I was kind of ready for that answer, because
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: I knew that all those games were preseason except for
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: the one. But the question about how do you prepare?
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Shadi had said this is a
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: short week for them as far as the preparation goes.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: That's why they really didn't have a day off. You know,
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: they've been here every day. And so they're going to,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: you know, Wednesday and then Thursday's practice is kind of
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: like a Friday for them. So and then so it
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: It's not a short week, but it is because they
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: don't expect to do a lot on Friday. That's the
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: key because Thursday night, you're not doing as much as
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: you normally would Thursday because you're traveling that night and
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: then you're going to be in a plane overnight. And
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: then you get there Friday and it's going to be
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: a light practice, a light walkthrough. So I think Today,
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Wednesday's practice is probably the best practice that they're really
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: going to have. But like you said, both teams have
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: the same situation. All right, let's go to Armando in
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: Mexico City. Armando.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: Hi, Nick.
• 33:14
  Speaker 16: How are you?
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: Good.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: How are you doing?
• 33:17
  Speaker 16: Fine, fine. Finally able to get in.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: After a while. Well, I'm glad you made it in.
• 33:23
  Speaker 16: So are you ready to go to Brazil?
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: I'm ready, yeah. I'm ready. I think I am. I mean,
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: I've gotten all the travel things that I need for
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: the trip and all that. Now, the focus now is like,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: what are you going to watch? Am I going to
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: watch a show? What am I going to watch on
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: my computer or phone or whatever? What am I going
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: to watch on the trip? And so that's where we are.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: We download these things. It's real now. Yeah.
• 33:52
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 33:58
  Speaker 16: So I don't think that the playing field is going
• 34:00
  Speaker 16: to be a problem. I think they have played in
• 34:03
  Speaker 16: worse stadiums. I mean, worse fields anyway. I've been to
• 34:08
  Speaker 16: that stadium once. It's a huge stadium. It's really nice.
• 34:12
  Speaker 16: You'll see all the people going crazy there. It's really nice.
• 34:16
  Speaker 16: But I think they're going to win this game. I
• 34:19
  Speaker 16: just hope they can contain Lamar because otherwise it's going
• 34:22
  Speaker 16: to be crazy. But other than that, I think they
• 34:24
  Speaker 16: are superior on every other facet.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: So we'll see.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 34:29
  Speaker 16: I hope they're preparing well for that. Do you know
• 34:31
  Speaker 16: if they're going to call up from the practice squad
• 34:33
  Speaker 16: one or two defensive backs?
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: I think they probably would. No, I would say just one.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Reddy Stewart seems to make the most sense there. And
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: then you still have issues at linebackers, so I would
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: think you have to call up or elevate one of
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: your linebackers too.
• 34:52
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: You know, they might change a little bit on who's active.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: You know, and they do have a couple of corners.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: They have Reddy Stewart and they have Darion Kendrick. So
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: one of those guys could be, you know, but I
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: still think they're going to have to move up a
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: linebacker too.
• 35:11
  Speaker 16: And I think Kaelin Kirshen is going to be active
• 35:14
  Speaker 16: for this game.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: He could be. Yeah, he definitely could be. He hasn't been.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: He could be. That would be interesting because he– If
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: I remember, it was Baltimore where he did not play
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: well in that game a couple of years ago. He
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: gave up a couple of big plays. We'll see. If
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: he's ready to go, they've kept him on the team.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: I didn't know if he would make this team at
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: training camp.
• 35:40
  Speaker 13: He's there.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: He hasn't played the first two games, but with injuries
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: to Durant and P.J. Locke, they're going to need to
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: get some help here and some depth.
• 35:51
  Speaker 16: You know, it's his time to shine. We'll see.
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: Well, have a great trip, Nick.
• 35:56
  Speaker 16: See you next time.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Okay. See you, Armando.
• 35:58
  Speaker 12: Bye.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: It's Armando in Mexico City. That's one of those places
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: the Cowboys have played some of those preseason international games.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Dylan in Northport, Florida, before we go
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: to break. Dylan.
• 36:08
  Speaker 14: Hey. How you doing, man?
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Good, man. How are you?
• 36:12
  Speaker 15: I'm good.
• 36:12
  Speaker 18: I just want to give you my biggest key to
• 36:14
  Speaker 18: the game and then give you my score prediction before
• 36:16
  Speaker 18: you guys head off there to Rio. So, just looking
• 36:20
  Speaker 18: at the numbers here, as I'm known to do, and
• 36:23
  Speaker 18: Cowboys are last in the league in third-down conversion on defense,
• 36:28
  Speaker 18: about 70%. It would have been worse if Daniels hadn't
• 36:30
  Speaker 18: gone out because they were trucking along. I think they
• 36:32
  Speaker 18: were 6-9 by the.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Time he went out.
• 36:36
  Speaker 18: It could be even worse than that. But I don't
• 36:38
  Speaker 18: even think the third down conversion rate is the biggest problem.
• 36:41
  Speaker 18: It's what they're doing on second down is the big problem.
• 36:43
  Speaker 18: Because when you look at the numbers, I remember the
• 36:46
  Speaker 18: Giants game, their downs were very short. It was third
• 36:48
  Speaker 18: and short a lot. I don't have the exact numbers,
• 36:50
  Speaker 18: but for Washington, the commanders were 5 of 6 when
• 36:54
  Speaker 18: it was third and 1 to 3. They were 2
• 36:57
  Speaker 18: of 4 when it got to that 4 to 6
• 36:59
  Speaker 18: yard range. And then when they got third and long,
• 37:01
  Speaker 18: so 7 yards plus, they were just 1 of 4, 25%.
• 37:06
  Speaker 18: So when you look at the numbers, it's like, okay, yeah,
• 37:08
  Speaker 18: third down looks bad, but like just get these guys
• 37:11
  Speaker 18: out of these third and short situations. And I think
• 37:13
  Speaker 18: you'll see a huge improvement, but gosh, it's going to
• 37:17
  Speaker 18: be hard to do this week with what they've got
• 37:18
  Speaker 18: on the ground over there between Mar and Eric Henry.
• 37:20
  Speaker 18: But that's my biggest key man is get forced into
• 37:23
  Speaker 18: some third and third and seven plus. And I think
• 37:25
  Speaker 18: you'll be in better shape defensively than maybe you've looked
• 37:28
  Speaker 18: here through the first two games. Um, Score prediction, my
• 37:33
  Speaker 18: head tells me that the Ravens are going to win,
• 37:35
  Speaker 18: but screw the head. I'm going to go with my heart,
• 37:37
  Speaker 18: and I'm going to say the Cowboys win 23-20. All right.
• 37:39
  Speaker 18: And sneak out of there and head to the Texans
• 37:42
  Speaker 18: and get a win there next week as well. So
• 37:44
  Speaker 18: let's go, Cowboys, and have a good trip, man.
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Dylan. Appreciate it. I remember right before the game
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: in New York a couple weeks ago, on the sideline
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: for the pregame show, we interviewed Stephen Jones, and I
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: asked him about the keys to to this game and
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: um you know that one right there and he said
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: he thought you know the first down was was going
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: to be huge for both sides of the ball you
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: know how how do they stop the giants on first
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: down and what you're saying there with these stats uh
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: and and and that proved to be a big big
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: part of the game the giants actually averaged over five
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: yards i think on first down in that in that
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: game because i wouldn't look at it i was like
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: oh that's that was his key And he wasn't wrong.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: And then on the flip side, the Cowboys didn't do
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: well on their first down. So they found themselves in
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: more third and long situations. So when you say that
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: about keeping the Ravens out of third and short, you
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: want to make it third and seven, third and eight
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: or greater. that obviously stems all the way back to
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: first down. First down, what were they doing? Are they
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: stopping them? Are they getting off the– I mean, not
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: off the field, but are they making a play here
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: in the run game? Because if not, if you give
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: up four or five yards on first down, then that
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: just changes the whole series there. So your stat on
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: third down is correct, and to me it all begins
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: with kind of what Stephen had said right off the bat.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: It was first down. Can't get to third down without
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: first down it. The Cowboys are going to have to
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: do a better job there for sure. All right, let's
• 39:15
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• 40:44
  Speaker 3: more callers here. Let's go to Steve in Helotus, Texas.
• 40:48
  Speaker 12: Oh, Nick, good morning.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: How you doing? So you've called before, right?
• 40:53
  Speaker 12: I'm a second-time caller. I want to say that I
• 40:57
  Speaker 12: love your show, and I want to tell people, if
• 40:58
  Speaker 12: you've never heard of Helotus, Texas, first of all, there's
• 41:02
  Speaker 12: no flat ground within miles. We're in the hill country
• 41:06
  Speaker 12: just northwest of San Antonio. Everybody knows where that is.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:12
  Speaker 17: But I just love your knowledge.
• 41:14
  Speaker 12: Of the Cowboys and your politeness to all of your callers.
• 41:19
  Speaker 12: You're very courteous. I respect that. And of all the
• 41:23
  Speaker 12: shows that I tune into, yours is my favorite.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate that. I appreciate that. And, you know,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: and you're the first person to ever say that I
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: was kind and courteous, I think. So, you know, I
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: hope my mom is watching this one.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: No, you know what?
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that. I appreciate that. One thing that I
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: told myself when we started this show, one thing that
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: you've heard me say, is that your opinion, yours, Steve, Chris, Rick, Michael, Blair, Armando,
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: they're all undefeated. Your opinion is undefeated. And so what
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: you think is true. And so for me, I have
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: my opinion too. Sometimes they clash. But I have to
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: remind myself that sometimes when I hear something, I'm like,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: I don't agree with that. But you know what? hey
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: different perspective different things and i think if i keep
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: that it helps it helps understand because this is what
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: this show is about you guys and what your opinions
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: are and give you a chance to vent or cheer
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: or say what whatever you need to say so anyways.
• 42:22
  Speaker 12: And i'm with you like 99.5 percent of the time
• 42:26
  Speaker 12: as far as opinion goes but my question for you
• 42:29
  Speaker 12: was I do believe that we've got a defense that's
• 42:34
  Speaker 12: a work in progress, both from a coaching and a
• 42:37
  Speaker 12: player's perspective, and that they will get better. But who
• 42:41
  Speaker 12: do you think that we could add that would improve
• 42:44
  Speaker 12: this defense? I'm thinking linebacker, but who do you think?
• 42:48
  Speaker 12: And then my final prediction for the score. I think
• 42:51
  Speaker 12: we're going to have a great day with field goals.
• 42:54
  Speaker 12: He's going to kick four. That's 12 points, two touchdowns.
• 42:58
  Speaker 12: That's 26. And the Ravens are going to get three
• 43:03
  Speaker 12: touchdowns but only one field goal. We win 24-26. All right.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: That would be awesome. And I would imagine one of
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: those field goals would be late in the game and
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: be fun. Thanks for the call, Steve. Steve in Helotus, Texas.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: Love that. Yeah, the question he asked was which player–
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: or which position or whatever, you know, how to improve
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: the defense. And I still, you know, I just haven't
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: seen the pass rush. I mean, I know there's guys there,
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: you know, and Ezeraku's getting some pressure, and Malachi Lawrence
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: is starting to show some things, and Sean Gary has
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: some pressures, but they're just not really getting there. and
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: causing that much of a problem. So that would be
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: my thing is until, you know, you traded away one
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: of the best pass rushers in the NFL and got
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: draft picks for it, and you've changed the dynamic of
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: your defense and added some beef up the middle there,
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: but you still don't have a consistent pass rush yet,
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: and that's one thing I think they need the most.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Chris in San Angelo.
• 44:22
  Speaker 10: Mr.
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: Nick, hope you're doing well today.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: I'm good. How are you?
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: I'm doing great. Thank you.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: Have you ever heard of Helotus, Texas?
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: Never.
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: And I've been through quite a few of those, you know,
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: blink and you miss some towns in Texas.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: I looked it up.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: And it said it wasn't just a suburb. It says
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: on Google, it says it's a scenic suburb located on
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: the edge of San Antonio.
• 44:47
  Speaker 14: So anyway, scenic.
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: All right. Well, I haven't seen it all in Texas,
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: I guess. Kind of a big state.
• 44:53
  Speaker 14: Me either.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: Me either. All right, Chris, what are you seeing from
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: the Cowboys?
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: What's that?
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: I just said, what are you seeing from the Cowboys?
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: What's your question?
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: What's your thought? Well, okay, first off, let me just say,
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: with Kyle Yeoman's call in yesterday, I think that can
• 45:11
  Speaker 6: put an end to the conspiracy theorist that said that
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: there's some sort of secret bat phone if it caught
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: if it if it took him 75.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: Times there's there's no there's yeah and then it wasn't
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: just that it was the fact that chris tried to
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: dial out there was always a caller there because then
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: all the all the calls that are flooding in so
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: and i i don't know if we're going to be
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: making i don't know if we're going to have any
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: more guest appearances anymore so right there you.
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: Go well that that can throw that theory out.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: Of the water so there's that there's no bat phone
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: right now right.
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: On right on hey um Last week, just to pat
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: myself on the back a little bit, I did say
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: that my two players, I said that Barham would get
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: a hit that causes a fumble. He got it. And
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: I did say that Jake, oh my gosh, the tight end.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Ferguson. Yeah, Ferguson. You know what, Chris?
• 46:08
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: Chris, on Friday, this is why I have receipts here.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: I write it down. It says, Chris, San Angelo, Ferg
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: slash Barham. There you go.
• 46:20
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: So, yeah, I didn't pick the number of touchdowns for Jake, but, yeah,
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: he definitely rebounded.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Hey, I'll give it to you, man. That's a good
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: call right there. That's why I write these down sometimes. So, yeah,
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: you're so right.
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: It's good to be right once in a while.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: What's your prediction? Who are your guys this week?
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: Okay, this week, Quinnen is going to cause pressure that
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: gets a pass deflected into the arms of Caleb Downs,
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: and he's going to take it back for a touchdown
• 46:56
  Speaker 6: off a little deflected pass. And on offense, Pickens is
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: going to cook. He's going to be a monster offensively.
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: to the tune of about 110 yards and two touchdowns,
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: and the Cowboys will pull this one out 30 to 27.
• 47:11
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: Because I think they have to score 30 points now.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: All right. I love it.
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: There you go, buddy.
• 47:18
  Speaker 13: Thanks, Chris.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: We've got to keep rolling here. Thank you for the
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: call and the prediction. One more caller. We're going to
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: sneak in here. Eric in North Carolina.
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: Eric.
• 47:27
  Speaker 9: Hey, Nick.
• 47:28
  Speaker 16: Good afternoon.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: How are you doing? Good.
• 47:31
  Speaker 17: I'm doing great. I know a big reason our running
• 47:35
  Speaker 17: game is not so great is because Tyler Smith being out.
• 47:39
  Speaker 17: But I noticed that it seems like Javante Williams is
• 47:43
  Speaker 17: leaner and slimmer this year. And I wonder if you
• 47:48
  Speaker 17: agree and if you feel like that might be, you know,
• 47:52
  Speaker 17: contributing to the lower yards per carry average.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: I don't really see that. I don't think that's the issue.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, he doesn't look that much different. And the
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: way he ran in that first game, I mean, he
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: was running hard. And, you know, I thought he was
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: the best thing they had on offense. So I don't
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: know if it's that. He's getting hit in the backfield
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: just about every play. I promise you this, if the
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: Cowboys can hit Derrick Henry in the backfield every play,
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: that's going to be good for the Cowboys. It doesn't
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: really matter. It does matter how big you are, but
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying I don't think that's the issue with Javante.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: I really don't. I don't think Javante is really the issue.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: I think he's doing the best he can. I think
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: that they're not getting any push up front.
• 48:40
  Speaker 17: Yeah, it's... I wish the running game was more like
• 48:47
  Speaker 17: last year. Last year was like really impressive, but I'm
• 48:50
  Speaker 17: sure we'll bounce back and get our groove going.
• 48:53
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 48:54
  Speaker 16: All right.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: Well, anyway, you got anything else?
• 48:58
  Speaker 17: I appreciate you.
• 48:59
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 49:00
  Speaker 14: No, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 11: All right, Eric.
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  Speaker 3: Good to hear from you. It's been a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for the call. We got a lot of callers today.
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  Speaker 3: 13 calls. You guys did a great job. We'll do
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  Speaker 3: this thing tomorrow. It'll be our last show of the week,
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  Speaker 3: but we'll We'll definitely be in doing shows before we
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: take off for Brazil later in the evening, but we'll
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: have shows tomorrow. So for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 3: See you tomorrow. Cowboy Storyline.
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  Speaker 2: How about this, Cowboys?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah!