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  Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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  Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: This these Cowboys storyline with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 3: What's up everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I am Nick Eatman,
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  Speaker 3: and it is the bye week for the Cowboys, and
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  Speaker 3: man do they ever need it? Cowboys hitting at three
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  Speaker 3: and three right now and certainly needing some extra time
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  Speaker 3: to get over some of these wombs that they've suffered here,
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  Speaker 3: both physically with a lot of injuries and then also
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  Speaker 3: with the beatdown that they had against the Detroit Lions,
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  Speaker 3: the one of the worst we've ever seen in Cowboys history,
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  Speaker 3: especially at home. Forty seven to nine just last week
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  Speaker 3: against the Lions. Fortunately counts as one one loss, doesn't
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  Speaker 3: matter if you lose in overtime or losing that one
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  Speaker 3: it's three to three. But obviously the it is concerning
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  Speaker 3: as as everyone has said, humbling, all all those words
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  Speaker 3: that Jerry Jones and Mike McCarthy, Stephen Jones have said,
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  Speaker 3: the players, just on how you're losing these games, because
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  Speaker 3: the Lions probably aren't the best team that they're going
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  Speaker 3: to face this year. They might be, they're pretty good,
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  Speaker 3: but but there's going to be others that they they face,
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  Speaker 3: and so, you know, losing at home the way they have, uh,
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  Speaker 3: in the fashion that they have is something that's got
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  Speaker 3: to get fixed for sure, because you've got to protect
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  Speaker 3: home home field. And they've done a decent job obviously
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  Speaker 3: of winning games on the road, but we know that
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  Speaker 3: the better teams have played here at home and it
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been close. So the Cowboy's got to figure out
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  Speaker 3: a way to do that. Maybe they can get healthy
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  Speaker 3: along the way. All right, eight eight eight eight five
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  Speaker 3: five two two ninety seven is the number to call.
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  Speaker 3: You guys already on the line today, So we'll start
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  Speaker 3: us off in Kansas City. We got Brian and Kansas City.
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  Speaker 2: What's up?
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Nick, How are you starting?
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  Speaker 5: How are you doing well?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I watched last night when I got home
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  Speaker 4: watched I was like, I wonder how bad this one's
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  Speaker 4: going to be. So I watched yesterday's show and you know,
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  Speaker 4: there are some angry people. You know, there were some
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  Speaker 4: angry people, but it's frustrating. You know, it's frustrating to
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  Speaker 4: watch a game like that. So you kind of get.
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  Speaker 2: That, right, yep, yep, I understand.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, so My question is, so, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I always say, you know, everything's won
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  Speaker 4: and lost in the trenches. I've been, you know, as
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  Speaker 4: far back as I can remember. If that's how football played,
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  Speaker 4: run the ball, stop the run, every pee week, coach,
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  Speaker 4: I'd tell you that, right So, I'm not sure. So
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  Speaker 4: with defense, you hope just getting healthy is going to
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  Speaker 4: prove us at least some you know, we we haven't
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  Speaker 4: been a good run defense for a couple of years now,
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  Speaker 4: right so, but it's going to be better than what
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  Speaker 4: we just saw if you have those three starters, right Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you can't take Kendricks and Parsons and Tank
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  Speaker 4: out of the lineup and expect that everything's just going
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  Speaker 4: to flow and be great. Right So, But with the
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  Speaker 4: offensive line, I'm not sure what the heck they can
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  Speaker 4: do this year to show improvements. So the only thing
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  Speaker 4: I heard, and I heard it on one of the shows, was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and this is not one of the shows
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  Speaker 4: saying that they heard the Cowboys say they were going
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  Speaker 4: to do this. This is just something they heard probably
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  Speaker 4: you know, just fans rumoring about is you know, what
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  Speaker 4: if they moved Steel's been struggling, What if they moved.
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  Speaker 4: They tried their first round draft pick guiding out at
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  Speaker 4: right tackle because that's what he played in college. And
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  Speaker 4: so but just if you had any have you heard anything,
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  Speaker 4: what are they going to do with the offensive line?
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  Speaker 4: Are they going to tinker with it? Or when we
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  Speaker 4: get to San Francisco is it going to be the
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  Speaker 4: starting five we had when we started the season. And
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  Speaker 4: then my player for this week is somebody he was
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  Speaker 4: there when you first got there, Billy Davis, wide receiver,
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  Speaker 4: Billy Davis.
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  Speaker 3: Right, all right, all right, Brian, let's let's go to
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  Speaker 3: the old line part. You know, I think that Jerry
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  Speaker 3: Jones said this morning on the on the fan about
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  Speaker 3: Tyler Goyton being the left tackle for this team that
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  Speaker 3: that's obviously not the part on his interview that's getting
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  Speaker 3: replayed a lot this morning is if you didn't hear
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  Speaker 3: it or heard about it, there was it was definitely
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  Speaker 3: an intense to say the least. Uh, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: just just frustrations over over, you know, answering questions that
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  Speaker 3: he I guess doesn't feel you know, are I don't
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  Speaker 3: know about worthy, but but you know, things that are
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  Speaker 3: going to fix the problem. But but either way, he
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  Speaker 3: talked about the left tackle. He said Tyler Goyiton should
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  Speaker 3: be the left tackle. So I don't I don't see
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  Speaker 3: them moving a lot. I mean we I was just
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  Speaker 3: on the Cowboys break just now on our mix Up
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  Speaker 3: show this week, and we talked about that possibility of
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  Speaker 3: maybe moving him to right tackle, maybe Terrence Steele over
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  Speaker 3: the left.
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  Speaker 2: Either way you're gonna have You're gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Have issues at left tackle because Terrence Steele's you know,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's not his natural position either. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: figuring out your your five best linemen. They they they
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  Speaker 3: played TJ. Basset at left guard. That wasn't That didn't
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  Speaker 3: help a lot, you know. But you know, Zach Martin's
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  Speaker 3: not playing his best football either. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: probably the worst we've seen from him. And the standards
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  Speaker 3: are very high. But uh, if you can't lean on
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  Speaker 3: Zach Martin like you've always been able to for a decade,
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  Speaker 3: then it's gonna be problematic. And that's kind of what
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  Speaker 3: we've seen. So we'll see what they come up with here.
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  Speaker 3: They've they've got extra time in this bye week to
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  Speaker 3: maybe make some changes, and maybe that is something that
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  Speaker 3: that we'll we'll see, all right, let's go to Irene
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  Speaker 3: in Falls Church, Virginia.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, Good morning Chris. All right, the good
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  Speaker 6: news I had a streamper to buy, so my dream
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  Speaker 6: of parents have still However, bad news is I did
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  Speaker 6: not have it looking like a nightmare, which is kind
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  Speaker 6: of what it looks like so far. But actually it's
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  Speaker 6: funny you just touched on it with Zack Martin during
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  Speaker 6: the game. I on our Storyliner's community on x I wrote,
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  Speaker 6: should we talk about Jack Martin? Because to me it's
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  Speaker 6: been noticeable. I mean, the man has had what twenty
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  Speaker 6: five percent of his penalties this year, but of course
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  Speaker 6: that's because he's had like eighth total in his career.
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  Speaker 6: But I am hoping and so and then Rick and
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  Speaker 6: Masthussetts cag me that PFF gave him like a twenty
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  Speaker 6: eight point and it'll not end all be all, But
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  Speaker 6: obviously there's a drop. I am hoping it's a small injury.
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  Speaker 6: But with a back, what are you going to do?
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  Speaker 6: I'm concerned that two weeks isn't going to be enough
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  Speaker 6: for him. And if Dak can't rely on his Hall
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  Speaker 6: of Famer, then he's gonna rush every so so and
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  Speaker 6: he's going to try to play hero ball, and unfortunately
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  Speaker 6: he's not great at doing that for the whole game.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, who really is. But he's scared out there
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  Speaker 6: for sure. I hope the team rests. I hope they rally,
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  Speaker 6: do the gut check thing, turn it around. But otherwise
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  Speaker 6: I feel like the wheels are about to come off.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, I'll say this, I still love them,
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  Speaker 6: I still love our community. None of this will change.
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  Speaker 7: And that's it.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for taking a call, and I hope you guys
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  Speaker 6: rest and relaxed during the buy as well.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I heard that that one part
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  Speaker 3: in there, but Dak is playing scared. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: about that, but but yeah, I mean the wheels are wobbly.
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  Speaker 3: This is the time that you know, this is just
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  Speaker 3: like with any you know. I mean I've ever been
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  Speaker 3: in a NASCAR pit crew, But if the wheels are
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  Speaker 3: or wobbly, you know, when the car comes in for
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  Speaker 3: for a stop, I mean, tighten it up. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what it is. This is a break right now that
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  Speaker 3: that that you can do some certain things like that.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: Looking at the schedule doesn't get easier. You got the
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  Speaker 3: forty nine Ers and then Falcons on the road, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, Falcons look pretty good Philly and Houston at
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  Speaker 3: home at Washington. I mean, it doesn't doesn't get much
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  Speaker 3: easier until you get to Thanksgiving and you play the
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  Speaker 3: Giants and who knows, and that even that game was
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  Speaker 3: close in the Metal ends, it'll probably be close as well.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, the schedule is is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, every game on here is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a game that the Cowboys better be ready for. But
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  Speaker 3: if they are, they can win all of them. I
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  Speaker 3: mean there's not there's not a game on here and
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  Speaker 3: I'm including San Francisco that that the Cowboys can't go
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  Speaker 3: up there and get this thing working. But they have
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  Speaker 3: to get healthy, they have to get their offensive line
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  Speaker 3: and check it and that the continuity on the line
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  Speaker 3: is so important. And so that's where I think they're
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  Speaker 3: going to have to figure out sooner than later, what
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  Speaker 3: what what are we doing here? Who's our guys? And
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  Speaker 3: and I still think it is Tyler Geydon. I think
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  Speaker 3: we saw that he was banged up and they didn't
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  Speaker 3: feel like he was one hundred percent ready to play,
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  Speaker 3: which is why he didn't play at all in the game.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Brad in Los Angeles. It's
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  Speaker 3: up Brad.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, how were you good?
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  Speaker 2: How's it going?
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  Speaker 8: It's going good. I'm a first time caller, brother. I
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  Speaker 8: wanted to say, I originally met you in Waco when
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  Speaker 8: I lived back there and I used to go to
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  Speaker 8: Baylor Pro Day every year, and I had a Cowboys
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  Speaker 8: fan page and you did an interview for me. Nobody
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  Speaker 8: else would and I really appreciated.
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  Speaker 4: It at the time.
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  Speaker 2: But cool, Well, first time caller man, thank you, there
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  Speaker 2: we go.
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  Speaker 8: How you absolutely, I'm good. I wanted to talk. I
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  Speaker 8: know everybody wants to talk about the schedule and talk
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  Speaker 8: about how the seasons you know, up at arms and
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  Speaker 8: how a lot of people are embarrassed. But I feel
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  Speaker 8: like we've as Cowboy fans, we've been embarrassed about, you know,
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  Speaker 8: that situation time and time again. I wanted to talk
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  Speaker 8: a little bit about the Jerry Jones one oh five
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  Speaker 8: three the fan interview this morning. Yeah, and see how
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  Speaker 8: you felt about that being you know, somebody of the
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  Speaker 8: media and his response and just putting somebody's job, or
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  Speaker 8: putting the fear of somebody's job, you know, out there
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  Speaker 8: for basically doing their job and just telling somebody that
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  Speaker 8: you know it's not their job, that he'll get somebody
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  Speaker 8: else to ask these questions when you know us as
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  Speaker 8: fans and everybody excuse me in the media around the
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  Speaker 8: world knows what a GM's job is and he's obviously
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  Speaker 8: not getting that job. And I want to know why
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  Speaker 8: the owner, Jerry Jones constantly wants to make excuses instead
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  Speaker 8: of getting somebody instead of doing that what he literally
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  Speaker 8: will do to somebody in the media, but he won't
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  Speaker 8: do to somebody that works for his organization as a GM,
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  Speaker 8: even though he is a GM.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I'm not sure I'm following what Well, tell me
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  Speaker 3: what you're asking exactly, because I gotta be careful with
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  Speaker 3: what well, what are you asking exactly?
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  Speaker 8: I just I know you guys got to be careful
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  Speaker 8: to what you say. But it's just I know you
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  Speaker 8: guys can't ask certain questions because of you know his responses.
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  Speaker 8: But I know me he won't put that fear into
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  Speaker 8: me because he doesn't control what I do. My question is,
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  Speaker 8: so I will ask that question. I just want to
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  Speaker 8: know somebody, as a GM of a football team that
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  Speaker 8: won three Super Bowls in less than a decade, but
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  Speaker 8: hasn't been to an NFC championship in the last three decades.
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  Speaker 8: I just feel like it's a different in a different organization,
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  Speaker 8: somebody that was in that position as a GM. You know,
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  Speaker 8: the way they've handled the last thirty years, the way
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  Speaker 8: they constantly handed the roster situation every year, even with contracts,
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  Speaker 8: free agents, whatever it be. If there was another GM
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  Speaker 8: in that situation, how would Jerry handle that? Would he
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  Speaker 8: get rid of that GM?
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  Speaker 5: Would he back that.
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  Speaker 8: GM like he backed hisself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I just feel like any other franchise, a different GM
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  Speaker 8: in that situation, they would have got the boot a
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  Speaker 8: long time ago. And I know, you know, And it
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  Speaker 8: seems this morning, heat of all things, finally starting to
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  Speaker 8: feel the pressure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, thank you, thanks for the call, Brett.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's a there's a lot. There's a lot
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  Speaker 3: to unpacked there. You can dissect what he actually said
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  Speaker 3: to the guy, you can. I've heard it twice already.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it's only been an hour and a half.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard two different versions of what people think he
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  Speaker 3: was saying.
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  Speaker 9: There.
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  Speaker 3: Is he threatening someone's job or is he threatening or
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  Speaker 3: is he saying I could take this to another show
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  Speaker 3: whatever whatever it is. I mean, that whole thing is
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  Speaker 3: a weird, you know, dynamic too, because you know, the
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  Speaker 3: fan is a is a partner to the Cowboys and
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  Speaker 3: that's why they're the flagship of the station. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: they don't they asked the question, and they weren't even
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  Speaker 3: going crazy on asking while the questions they were just saying,
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  Speaker 3: basically what a lot of fans want to hear is like,
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  Speaker 3: how can they get better?
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  Speaker 2: Can they go?
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  Speaker 3: Can you go make you know, make moves? And he
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  Speaker 3: basically cut them off and said, you know who, who
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  Speaker 3: are you going to get? Where are you going to
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  Speaker 3: get right now at this time of the year. So
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  Speaker 3: you know, knowing that's that's the strategy, Like, he knows
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  Speaker 3: what his strategy is for this season and beyond. He
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  Speaker 3: knows what they're trying to do. He knows he's already
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  Speaker 3: thinking of next year's cap. He knows that he's not
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  Speaker 3: using a lot of next year's draft cap to go
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  Speaker 3: fix this year's team. So you know, I don't he
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  Speaker 3: he are He has the ability to kind of know
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  Speaker 3: what what the strategy is. And so when he can say,
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  Speaker 3: well that's that's silly, that's ridiculous, when sometimes fans are thinking, well,
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  Speaker 3: how do we fix this thing? You know, we're supposed
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  Speaker 3: to watch this week's game and next week's game and
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the schedule, and it's a long season,
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  Speaker 3: so how are we How are we fixing it and
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  Speaker 3: turning it around? And so they don't necessarily want to
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  Speaker 3: hear that it's just with this coach, these these coordinators,
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  Speaker 3: this assistant staff, these players, because what we've seen right
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  Speaker 3: now is that it's not working. So I understand the
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  Speaker 3: argument from the fans, I mean I get it, but
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  Speaker 3: also get to understand too that like they're not going
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  Speaker 3: they're not interested in going and renting a player, uh
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  Speaker 3: and and and having him come in and and maybe
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  Speaker 3: learn the offense or defense or whatever for you know,
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  Speaker 3: take a half a season to do that, just to
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  Speaker 3: see if they can, you know, help this team. And
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  Speaker 3: then what do you have to give up to do that?
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  Speaker 3: So that's where I think the Cowboys are kind of
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  Speaker 3: like not not thinking, they're not really trying to make
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  Speaker 3: trades to get better. There there's a kind of the
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  Speaker 3: waiver wire that they haven't already looked at. I'd be
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  Speaker 3: I'd be shocked, because you know, they've They've done that.
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  Speaker 3: So that's that's all I'm gonna say about the the
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  Speaker 3: stuff with Jerry. I mean, you guys can decipher what
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  Speaker 3: he was saying and what what he means and if
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  Speaker 3: he was out of line or or or what or
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  Speaker 3: or if the media was But I mean, that's that's
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  Speaker 3: it all comes down to the fact that you know,
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  Speaker 3: tensions are high when you get games like you had
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday, uh and and and now what's what's happening here?
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  Speaker 3: And as you move forward with the rest of the schedule.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Mike in Mississippi. We call
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  Speaker 3: him Rookie Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, Hey Nick, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good man, how are you?
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  Speaker 5: And I think Jerry's just frustrated, like all Lois with
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  Speaker 5: their bad loves Sonday. I didn't see that coming. I
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  Speaker 5: thought it'd be a hash going game on both ends. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and we just didn't really protect back well at all.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm more of a half glass full type of guy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: So I just want to say to all the Cowboys
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  Speaker 5: fans out there, Look, we're three and three going into
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  Speaker 5: the bye week, well, one game out of first place.
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  Speaker 5: I could see if the Eagles are Washington had a
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  Speaker 5: three game lead, and then yeah, well we got four
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  Speaker 5: of our starting defensive ends out. We're getting three of
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  Speaker 5: them back. We got our middle linebacker out, We're getting
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  Speaker 5: him back. We got two of our top corner backs out.
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  Speaker 5: We're getting them back. Our left tackles out, We're getting
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  Speaker 5: him back. But we got a wide receiver ro Oute,
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  Speaker 5: We're getting him back. So, I mean, the lift goes
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  Speaker 5: on and on. So I just was like, uh.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why I get nervous on the phone calls.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're doing great.
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  Speaker 3: You're doing great, man, I mean like like, and you're right,
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  Speaker 3: the glasses is half full, and uh And that's a
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  Speaker 3: good take on it. Now you could take the flip side,
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  Speaker 3: say what's the right are going to be when they
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  Speaker 3: do get them all back, because they're not all different,
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  Speaker 3: but a lot of them are are a lot of
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  Speaker 3: those are.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: I would say either this week next week.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: You know, most of those guys that you mentioned, I
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: guess half of them will probably play against the forty
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: nine ers, so that that's a good thing.
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: And so yeah, I think Micah and Deron Blaine would
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: be back next week.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Guiding Carson Kendricks. Maybe I'm not not sure on Kendricks
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: that that that one is one to definitely watch. But
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: but I don't know either way on that one. They
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: still haven't haven't said because there's two different injuries. But
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: to your point, I think I think you're making a
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: good point. You know, if you want to be something,
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: to have some silver lining, you want to be optimistic
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: about something, it's it's that so for sure.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, we took a couple of bad losses
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: last year, you know, with the Arizona loss forty nine ers.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I just I just think, look, we got
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: a lot more games to play with one game at
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: the first, let's let's pump the brakes a little bit.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: I don't think the season is over. Like I said,
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: We're getting a lot of guys back. I want to
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: tell you a really cool football story if I had time.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: All right, that's good, huh, go for it, Go for.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: It, make all right. So a few years ago, I
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: was at the Cowboy Wyys with the Saint Louis Rams
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: at the time. You know, Dan Bailey gets up there
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: to kick the ball. I know you remember this, to
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: break the Cowboy record for most kicks made at the time,
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: and I was sitting behind the gold post and actually.
• 17:29
  Speaker 10: Caught the ball and I still got the ball today.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Nice n Yeah.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: So, and I want to ask you a quick question.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Have you always been a Cowboys fan or you just
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: become one when you started working that.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: No, I was when I was three years old. Three
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: years old.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: I couldn't pronounce the names correctly, but I knew a
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: lot of the players on the team and a lot
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: of the quarterbacks in the league. I love the Dallas
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Cowboys more than anything, more than school. I didn't do
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: well in school because I didn't care about school. I
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: cared about the Cowboys winning a game against the Giants
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: and I would tape it on my old VCR and
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I would watch them back and stuff like that, and
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: that's all I really cared about. So yeah, the Dallas Cowboys,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: it's a it's a it's a it's a dream for
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: me to be able to even do this today because
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: of where I came from and and and what my
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: childhood was like being a Dallas Cowboy fan. So yeah,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I've been a Cowboy fan. And I feel I could
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: feel your pain because I was there. I was seven
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: years old. I was crying when every time they would
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: lose a game, you know, because that's what I thought
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: was the most important thing. So yeah, I can feel
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: I can relate to you guys.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, Well, well I'll keep calling back up. I'll
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: try to call in every Tuesday if I can get through.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: I tried to call for years to talk to you,
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: but I couldn't never get in. But I gave up.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: But that's another reason why Cowboys fans shouldn't give up.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Thanks, all right, see you later. All right, that's Mike
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: and Mississippi. I think that's the first time caller. Uh,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: we didn't get as here we go, but we.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Here we go? All right?
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: How about Robbie and Coco Beach, Florida?
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Hey, Nick, how are you doing today?
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Bud?
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: I can't complain too much.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: First to shout out your boy.
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: I hope he's doing well.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: Do you catch his first pass? Yeah?
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: We have to have him played with that like two
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: buys head and hadn't played and he felt like a month.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: So he'll play this week. We'll see what happens. They
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: don't throw him the ball, you know what I mean?
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: They they were doing reverses and stuff like that. He
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: just kind of hands the ball off and gets in
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: the way. But you know, I'm hoping for him some
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: two point conversions or something like that.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: He didn't.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: He didn't get the rock, but you know he didn't.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: He didn't complain about it yet, so he might though.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: He might. Just for him, am I just start telling
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: the quarterback, hey, jump ball, let's go. Seems to work.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: Hey, man, I'm I'm like that last guy. I mean,
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: I'm a guy, a half full kind of guy. I've
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: always been an optimus in life. You just got to
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: root for the next game. And like you say all
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: the time, and I agree with you, wholeheartedly, take each
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: game as an individual game and enjoy it. Enjoy the game.
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: It was hard to enjoy this last one. Yeah, but
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: a lot of the games we can. Man, I like him. Blighters,
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: I mean I hate them, but you'll love them at
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: the same time. If that make sense.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it makes it makes sense. That's why we
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: love and hate football altogether.
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: But yeah, I remember, I remember that Romo game against
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: the Bills a couple of years ago. Through five picks
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: and won the game. And again I was like, what's
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: greatest game ever.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: You know, it's funny, that's seventeen years ago, like seven
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: seven years, seventeen seventeen years, oh my god, right, two
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: thousand and seven. It was twenty twenty five. You're right,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: a couple of years ago. But it's like spent seventeen
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: years since that happened, and it does feel like because
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: we referenced a lot, it does feel like it was wasn't.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: That long ago.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, we've been to Buffalo two other times
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: since then and it hasn't been good and either time.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: But you're you're right, Robbie, thanks for the call. You're
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: always really positive and thanks for that. But you know,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: like glass half full, let's look at the flip side
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: as well too. Yes, they're three and three. The alarming
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: thing is that these three losses at home have not
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: been close, and they been to relatively good teams. I mean,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: the Saints, I don't know what they're going to be.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: They look pretty competitive, you know. They they had they
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: lost their quarterback for a game they were fighting with
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: with the Bucks there. They they've been pretty good.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Obviously.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: The Ravens have turned things around there. They're rolling now
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: and they're they're going to be one of the top
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: teams in the league, and you know that that was
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: what was that game?
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Was that close? Was it an ass kicking?
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I think it was both. Honestly, it was kind of
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: a weird game. The Ravens scored when they needed to score,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: and they move the ball and they needed to to
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: win the game. And then of course this last one
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Detroit was one of the most embarrassing games that the
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Cowboys have ever had, so that it's an alarming trend. Yes,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: they're three and three, but but you look at the schedule.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: A lot of these teams that they're about to play
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: are are going to be teams that they can give
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: them some problems. So they're going to have to fix
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: some things. I mean, and even if at this rate
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: here of eight and eight, eight, nine, nine and eight,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: whatever is probably not going to get them in the playoffs,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: so they're gonna have to turn things around around dramatically
• 22:01
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• 22:03
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  Speaker 3: We've got more calls to take. Let's go right to it.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: The captain of our all storyline team last year, Rob
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: in Vegas. We'll see what Rob's got to say.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Hey, Nick, are you know I'm good? How are you good?
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: You know? I woke up, you know, I throw on
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: the sports and I see something come across about Jerry's things.
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: I said, I'll listen to it on the way to
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: my office. And unfortunately, and I think Age has to
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: do it. You know, Jerry used to be cool. Jerry
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: used to be the maverick. You know, he was hipped,
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: and now he's the old man telling you to get
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: off his lawn. And those guys, they did the right thing.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: They were just asking questions that all of us been asking,
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: you know, and you knew the answer, and the answer
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: was I paid DAK, I paid c D. That's figure
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: it out. We knew he was going to use that
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: excuse and it's did he overpay for debt? Yes? But
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: my thing is as fans, we look at it like
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: but I keep saying it. I know I sound like
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: broke a record. You had a good team last year.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: I know you got killed by Green Bay, but you
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: had a good We saw the deficiencies and you did
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: nothing to fix them, and it was like, so, how
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: did you think you were going to be better this year?
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: And all the fans that are calling in and saying
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: take it week.
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: By week, we do.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: We take it week by week. But there is no
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: fun watching a game where the game's over in the
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: first quarter, and there's been three of them this year.
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: I mean, this team has nothing to lean on. The
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: coaching staff is gone in a couple of months. Everybody
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: knows it. But your head coach really doesn't bring anything
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: at the table. To be a head coach, you either
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: have to be a really good play caller or a disciplinarian,
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: and he's either.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Uh, you gotta how, Rob, how do you fix this season?
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: You don't.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: You don't fix the season.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: You can't because you can't your offensive line this year. Uh,
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: Zach Martin and I put it out there, Bill Parcell said,
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: if you start thinking about retirement, you're already retired. That's
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: what you're seeing in Zach Martin. You can't fix that.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: You can't fix Tyler.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: Guydon this year.
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: Next year he'll be better, but he ain't gonna take
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: a lead BB. Those guys will not be all pro.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: So you can't fix that. You have no running backs.
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: You can't get one. You're not you don't really have
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: a number two wide receiver. You have guys, and we'll
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: see what happens. But you can't fix what's wrong. You
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: can't fix the defensive line.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: You have nobody Okay, but everybody, Rob, But I get
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I get what you're saying here, But but I get
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: what you your opinion is.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: I mean not that's not fact. That's just what your
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: opinion is.
• 27:07
  Speaker 13: But of course.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: Nothing fact, right, But I'll tell you there is no
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: There is one fact. The fact is Jerry Jones does
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: not use free agency correctly. He has never built a
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: team ever since Jimmy Johnson left. Jimmy built those ninet teams,
• 27:23
  Speaker 7: he was the talent evaluator.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Still opinion Jerry Jones, Well.
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: No, it's fact. Because Jimmy left, we have never won
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: a championship. Jerry does not use free agency. Okay, he
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: pays his draft picks with the assumption they will get better. Well,
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: that's not true. They don't always get better. Mazi hasn't
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: gotten better. Guys sometimes just don't get better. That's why
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: you use free agency on a proven commodity. And he
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: doesn't do that, and that's why we are where we
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: are for the last thirty years.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to be better than that. You got
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: to be better than that. You can't mean, you can't
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: say Mozzie Smith. You can't talk about their draft points
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: and say Mozzie Smith and that's it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: He's a buck.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: You can't you can't do that.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: You can't say, fourteen years of drafts and go with
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Mozzie Smith and Taco Chart and say that they're not drafting.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm not saying they don't draft well. But you
• 28:16
  Speaker 7: cannot win a championship without using free agency. It's proven
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: you draft. But when you need certain like a defensive
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: tackle or a a wide receive whatever, you need to
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: fill certain spots with free agency. This this ownership refuses
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: to do it. All the other teams do and they win.
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: We have not, And he says, we just don't pay
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: guys in free agency. That's the biggest difference between the
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: Dallas Cowboys and every other team.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Thanks for the call. Let's go to Ali in Florida.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Thanks Rob for the call. Thank you Ali and Florida's next.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: Hi, Nick, how are you saying?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: Not much?
• 29:02
  Speaker 15: I just want to make a few comments and then
• 29:05
  Speaker 15: hang up and listen. I don't blame mister Jones because
• 29:12
  Speaker 15: he went out of his way to do everything for
• 29:15
  Speaker 15: the Cowboys and he's signed DAK and CD. It's their
• 29:21
  Speaker 15: responsibility to play up to their contract. He only message
• 29:27
  Speaker 15: Jones is only one person, GM only. How do you
• 29:30
  Speaker 15: want to dicend? But there's a lot of coaching and
• 29:32
  Speaker 15: stuff around them, and this last I don't I don't
• 29:37
  Speaker 15: blame the defense because they have a lot of new
• 29:40
  Speaker 15: player off the street, patchwork here, patchwork there, and they
• 29:47
  Speaker 15: blame should go on the offensive sign. I remember Mike
• 29:51
  Speaker 15: McCarthy says, oh yeah, she will be more worried about.
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: CD shows up.
• 29:55
  Speaker 15: He's working hard, he's professional.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: So it was dak.
• 29:59
  Speaker 15: I mean, do they gonna give refund to mister Jones?
• 30:03
  Speaker 15: I mean, this is this is horrible for the money
• 30:05
  Speaker 15: they're gonna make. And every time they miss each other,
• 30:10
  Speaker 15: they look at their TV put the faces like they're
• 30:12
  Speaker 15: complaining about something went wrong. But to me, it's a
• 30:16
  Speaker 15: Cowboys season.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
• 30:20
  Speaker 15: Uh, we still love it. But honestly, Godeck, you come
• 30:23
  Speaker 15: from the great family, great mom, great dad. It's nice
• 30:28
  Speaker 15: to understand a little bit of the fan base all
• 30:32
  Speaker 15: really hurt, and you'd be such a gentleman with them,
• 30:36
  Speaker 15: which is really you gotta go out of your way,
• 30:38
  Speaker 15: even though they're ridiculous sometimes be a little bit sympathetic
• 30:43
  Speaker 15: to them, because everybody's hurt, including me, including you, including
• 30:47
  Speaker 15: your own family. You know, we take a pride about
• 30:51
  Speaker 15: the Cowboys.
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: I love what you do.
• 30:53
  Speaker 15: This is what you're sign up for. That's that's that's
• 30:56
  Speaker 15: our role to calm the water.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: You know, love your brother, Thank you.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it, you know. And I get the frustration
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: of of all the fans. I mean I get it,
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: and especially when because I watched games too, you feel
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: like you haven't figured out, you know. And and and
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: there's there's fans that that that call in and say, well,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: why aren't they doing this or this or this and that.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: I mean that's what the previous caller, Rob was like, Well,
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: you got to win and you got to do this
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: in free agency, and I mean they they aren't. They
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: aren't built that way. They build through the draft. They
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: re signed their players and and you know, you do
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: you do get some free agency, not the ones in March,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: not not the ones. I mean you can't sit here
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: and say that they overpaid for DAK and overpaid for
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: CD and then say they should have done free agency.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Because if you do free agency, what do you think
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: that is?
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: When?
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: When does that ever? When does that ever get you
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: get bargain shopping there? And by overpaying, I mean all
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: of those guys are getting overpaid in uh, in free agency.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: That's what free agency is. It's it's it's a kind
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: of desperate moves and and maybe the Cowboys, after you know,
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: thirty years of not winning, you know, going to an
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: NFC championship game, maybe they should change their approach some
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: that way. But it's it's not an overnight change because
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: you're the way that the cap works. They don't they
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: don't have the money. They did not have the money
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: to go and do these moves that that people wanted
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: them to do. There are some that that they I
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: think they made a mistake on you can I mean,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: they probably shouldn't have made that trade with Trey Lance.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: That's that's not doing anything for them. It's sitting on
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: their cap right now. And and they lost a fourth
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: round pick out of it. That was one where you know,
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: they probably they thought that they could develop and and
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: he's probably going to be a free agent at the
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: end of the season, and you know that that's going
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: to be a move that that wasn't the best. And
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: that's one of the things that Jerry said on the
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: radio Tuesday that that you know, like if he goes
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: back and goes all the mistakes that he made, well,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: they that would take five years to to to talk
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: about every single mistake. So you make mistakes, you make
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: good ones, you make bad ones. But I get there's frustration.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: But but you know, it's it's all it's all opinion.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: There's you know, there's there's no you know, there's no
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: right or wrong way to do this, and so getting
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: all worked up about it, it's not going to do anything.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: All right, Let's go to Alan in Clearwater, Florida.
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: Hey, good morning, Nick.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Morning.
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: So about Rob's cole and what.
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: You were just talking about. First, I agree with you,
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: and I disagree with Rob that this is not a
• 33:36
  Speaker 9: free agency issue. If you look around the last ten years,
• 33:40
  Speaker 9: the teams that go very heavy in free agency are
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: really not the ones that are winning Super Bowls. It
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: is the teams that are adding one or two key players.
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: And perhaps the Cowboys have not spent on one or
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: two key players. But I think their system is perfectly
• 33:57
  Speaker 9: suitable because bottom line from me, my individual perspective, is
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: the talent on the team has been good enough to
• 34:06
  Speaker 9: do this. I don't think there's any doubt. You don't
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: go twelve and four in the NFL three years consecutive,
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: and you don't without the talent. We have the talent.
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: We even have the talent. Now, my opinion is it
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: is a failure of coaching. It's and here's my position
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: to me, leadership and coaching is about three basic things.
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: It is about putting your players in the right position,
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: using the talent that you have, wisely creating the right
• 34:37
  Speaker 9: game plan, and discipline. And discipline is about also motivating players.
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: I think it's a nif that in this era, these
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: young men don't need leadership at the very top, and
• 34:50
  Speaker 9: so if the players are not executing the scheme. So
• 34:54
  Speaker 9: here is my evidence for my position why it's all
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: about coaching. Again, we had a team that went into
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: Pittsburgh with the same per snel. A week later, we're
• 35:02
  Speaker 9: missing all our starters, right, and look how we played
• 35:05
  Speaker 9: that game. When certain teams are matched against our coaching staff,
• 35:10
  Speaker 9: we do fine. But when we don't, the schemes are
• 35:15
  Speaker 9: breaking down, the players are not.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Making the plays.
• 35:18
  Speaker 9: In my opinion, this is where great coaching comes into play.
• 35:22
  Speaker 9: This is what the Belichicks did, This is what the
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: Andy Reids do. I was watching this Chiefs play when
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: they were down halftime two weeks ago, and they were
• 35:29
  Speaker 9: interviewing read and he says, yeah, there's a couple of
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: things we're going to clean up. We'll get it right
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: in the second half. Right, the great coaches make the
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: in game adjustments and they change their game plan because
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: the other team's coaching against you, this team when we're
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: getting beat and I think that's what it counts for.
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: The discouragement about the last terrible home losses is when
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: we're getting beat so soundly. And if you go back
• 35:52
  Speaker 9: to last year, we all said when the defense started
• 35:54
  Speaker 9: to collapse, and we said, why did Dan Quinn change
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: the whole scheme for that game to match the Packers?
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: But then when you see it's not working, how come
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: we're still getting the same results in the second half.
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: And so, in my position, the three things the Cowboys
• 36:09
  Speaker 9: are failing at the discipline issues. If the team, if
• 36:13
  Speaker 9: the team is not playing hard enough during the game, Well, yeah,
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: of course that's the players, but that's where coaches. That's
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: what we're paying coaches to do. You pointed out it's
• 36:23
  Speaker 9: very troubling to hear during the week that they're not practicing. Well, again,
• 36:28
  Speaker 9: that is on the coaches to address with the players.
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: It comes from the top. And if you don't mean
• 36:34
  Speaker 9: make in game adjustments and you don't call the right
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: plays defensively and offensively. You have the talent. It's about coaches,
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: I think. I think it's about the coaches failing in
• 36:46
  Speaker 9: these big games against their getting out coached.
• 36:50
  Speaker 12: What do you think?
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Allen? Uh, yeah, I'll put it.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: I'll put it on the coaching. I mean there's yes,
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: there's there's if they're not practicing, well, they're not ready
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: to play, they're not coming out. I said that stat
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: on the last show I just did. I said the
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: stat they're getting out scored sixty one to fifteen on
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: the first drives of the first half, and the second
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: half opening drives are getting out scored sixty one to fifteen.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: So they're not doing anything. Cowboys aren't scoring any touchdowns.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: They haven't scored a touchdown to start the game or
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: the second half. That's that they're not adjusting to whatever's
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: happening and doing anything with the break that they had.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: So it makes you kind of worry about the bye week.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Are you going to use the bye week because you
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: don't start a game with you don't start the third
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: quarter well, And then on the flip side. Your defense
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: is giving up scores. They've allowed the teams to score
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: every single time to start third quarter. I'm sorry to
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: start the game and most of the time to start
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: the third quarter. So that's not good at all. And
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: that's and that put that on the coaches. I put
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: that on somewhat the players. It's not just the coaches,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: but it's the coaches dropped to get them prepared to
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: play the game. And if dak is for three times
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: now this year said they're not practicing well enough, that's
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: on the coaches that they've got to figure that out
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: as well. All right, let's take a break here on
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  Speaker 3: The next callers here back here on Cowboys storyline. We've
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: got Gavin. He's in Oklahoma City. Gavin, what's up?
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Good? How are you?
• 39:51
  Speaker 17: I'm all right? I like what you was saying yesterday
• 39:56
  Speaker 17: when you were talking about it, you can to give
• 40:00
  Speaker 17: the defense a pass, but what's the excuse for the offense?
• 40:03
  Speaker 17: Because to me, if the offense goes out like everybody
• 40:07
  Speaker 17: thinks they're going to do, it does well against the
• 40:09
  Speaker 17: questionable Detroit defense, then when you don't play complimentary balls,
• 40:15
  Speaker 17: Michael McCarthy likes to say, things just roll downhill. And
• 40:19
  Speaker 17: what the injuries we had on defense, we can't just
• 40:21
  Speaker 17: leave them there on the field all the time. It
• 40:23
  Speaker 17: just it just made the game unbearable. Obviously, I have
• 40:30
  Speaker 17: one question for you. I think as a team that
• 40:35
  Speaker 17: starts as a coaching issue, everybody might not agree with that.
• 40:41
  Speaker 17: But my question to you is, what do you think
• 40:44
  Speaker 17: about possibly Mike McCarthy giving up the play calling duties.
• 40:48
  Speaker 17: I just don't see the creativity. I don't think they're
• 40:51
  Speaker 17: getting CD in the slot enough. I don't think I
• 40:54
  Speaker 17: don't think guys on both sides of the bar are
• 40:56
  Speaker 17: being put in positions to execute, because it's starts with
• 41:00
  Speaker 17: the positioning of the players, and that's all I got.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: I think it's got to be something like that. I mean,
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: it needs to be some kind of change. And I'm
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: not saying that they've got better play callers there. I
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: mean because I I I wouldn't know that. I wouldn't
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: know if Schottenheimer or Scott Tolzene or you know who's
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: the quarterbacks coach. I'm not I'm not saying that hey
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: do that. They'll they'll be better than what you have.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: But you you've got to fix You've got to, you know,
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: figure that out. Like like I said, I mean that
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: they're not they're not scoring to start the I mean,
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: everybody does that other than the Cowboys, you know, I
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: mean teams even Cleveland.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: They didn't.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: They didn't look very good, you know, the whole game,
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: but that first drive they had some things. Some thing's
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: going the same with the Giants. The Giants moved the
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: ball pretty well. You know, you see, you see your
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: best stuff. And why don't you seeing that with the Cowboys?
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: Why don't the Cowboys doing that in their first drive?
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: And so and they continue to take the ball. That's
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: the thing. I mean, if you're not gonna or a touchdown,
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: then then why why take the ball and punt and
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: put them in position here or or just go get
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: a field goal? I mean, if anything, I think I
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: think they they've got to be that. They've got to
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: start just uh deferring. I mean, if they're winning these tosses,
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: I mean there's there's and they've won a lot of them.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: That's the thing. I mean, you'll probably start losing some
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: of these coin tosses. But they need to they need
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: to start the ball in the third quarter, I mean
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: to me. But you know, whatever it is, they they
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: they're they're that's not their biggest issue. It's not that
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: this week runs way deeper than that. But play calling, Yeah,
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: I mean I think if if there's if there's some
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: tweaks to be made, those are some of the things
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: that's usually where it starts. It starts with play calling duties,
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: you know, moving a guy from the box to the
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: field or something like that. And then it's usually a
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: coordinator change and then head coaching change. I mean that's
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: kind of the way it works when and if you're
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: making in you know, in season moves like that.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: So this is the time to do it. I know
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: tensions are high. I get it.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: I mean I hear it from you guys. I know
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: I have the same thing. You hear it over and over,
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: you know, and and I and I get it. I mean,
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: that's that's that's part of the show. That's what that's
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: what I signed up for. So you guys that have
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: called and said thanks for doing that. Cool but and
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: I appreciate you saying that, But that's that's what I've
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: signed up for. I've signed up for for Robin Vegas
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: to bring it and and and all you guys. And
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: that's that's and and you guys do that's what makes
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: this show what it is. And we don't always agree,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: we don't have to agree, and that's that's certainly fine.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: But but you know, that's it's it's a good, healthy show,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: I think. And this is in an unhealthy time for
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: this team right now. This is this is bad. I mean,
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: there's teams in the league and again I'm not saying
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: this like be grateful, Okay. What I'm saying is there
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: are a lot of teams in the league that are
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: three and three and happy to be three and three,
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: happy to be two and four right in the middle
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: of things. And the sky is falling on the Cowboys
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: at three and three because of how they're playing. And
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: I'm saying rightfully, so I'm not I'm not telling you
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: guys be grateful for what you have. You can be
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: worried because this is this is worrisome, you know. I mean,
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: this isn't up and down this roller coaster ride like
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: I always talk about. Is this is a jerky one.
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is one where you don't feel good
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: at all, and even even the fun times, you don't
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: feel good. Even the winds have been have been, there's
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: been no fingernails left, you know, for the Pittsburgh and
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Giants game.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: And so I get it.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Let's go to another caller here, probably our last one,
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Leon and Sarasota, Florida.
• 44:31
  Speaker 11: Hey, how you doing?
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: What's up? Man?
• 44:34
  Speaker 11: I just have only two things. I don't feel like
• 44:38
  Speaker 11: it's a coaching issue. The coaches can only do so much.
• 44:41
  Speaker 11: They can only teach them so much. They can only
• 44:43
  Speaker 11: go through drills so much, and go through walk throughs
• 44:46
  Speaker 11: and play so much. I feel like it's up to
• 44:48
  Speaker 11: the players to execute what the what the coaches are
• 44:52
  Speaker 11: giving them to do. Also, I just wanted to know
• 44:56
  Speaker 11: what what what's what's the hold up with and what
• 44:59
  Speaker 11: is the deal with holding Dalvin Cook back? When we
• 45:04
  Speaker 11: see that nothing's really happening with the run game with
• 45:06
  Speaker 11: everybody else so why not give him a chance?
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you, thank you. You know, I wish I
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: knew the Dalvin Cook situation. I don't know it, and
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: I don't understand why. I think if he doesn't play
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: this week against the forty nine ers, then I would
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: let him go.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: I mean I would, I would not keep him. I mean,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: You're not developing him, so why why why waste the
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: practice squad spot for somebody? I mean, you're not going
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: to continue to develop him just to stash him for
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: if you in case you need him, because you need
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: him now. I mean, I don't know what they think
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: they don't need they need him now. The running game
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: is the worst in the league, and it's putting them
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: behind the chains. They can't keep up because they can't
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: be balanced. And then once they start to throw the ball,
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: then everyone knows they're throwing it and everyone knows who
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: they're throwing it too. So like that's that's the problem.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: You've got to be able to offset that. It's first
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: down from the from the twelve yard line, you've got
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: to be able to get a four or five yards,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: not minus one, like like what happened with Zeke and
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: so dat old Zeke, it's it's it was okay against Pittsburgh,
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: you know, I mean everyone said, oh, well they found it.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Eighty seven yards rushing, eighty seven yards rushing, and we're
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: like Rico. Rico's the guy, you know, I mean it's
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: Emmitt had eighty seven in the first half. Sometimes I
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: know he's on Emmitt Smith, but I'm just saying, like, like,
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: let's let's not because it's been so bad, we kind
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: of think, well, now it's better. Eighty seven yards rushing
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: for a game is not. Is not better. It's not
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: it's not the standard. So they've got to figure this out.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: And if Dalvin Cook he says he's ready, he's been there,
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: he's he's done it in the league before. He should
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: be fresh man. If he's not playing against the forty
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: nine ers, I I don't understand. I will never understand
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: that then unless he if he can, because if you
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: can't get himself ready to go, then that's my point.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: What what what is he still doing here?
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: Like?
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: What are they?
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: You know, he's a veteran, he's played in this league
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: long enough, he's been in Pro Bowls. He should be
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: ready to go. And I think he will be and
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: they need him. So you add those things together, and
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: it doesn't really make sense at all why he's not
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: He's not playing, So this is the time to do it.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Though I remember them saying short week is not the week,
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: you know, the Giants week where short week, don't put
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: Dalvin Cook out there. Well, this is the longest week
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: you'll have of the season. This is two full weeks. Uh,
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: he should be ready to go. And and and lord
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: knows the Cowboys need some kind of jolt. Uh maybe
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: you know, combination of having him out there, having some
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: of the defenders back. You know, you're talking about two
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: guys that were sitting there on the Defensive Player of
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: the Year award for the NFL Honors. Two guys they
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: didn't win it. Miles Garrett won it, but the other
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: two Deron Bland, Micah Parsons. They were both there. They're
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: both finalists. That both should be coming back. That that
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: that should help this defense. And in more ways than one,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: Eric Kendricks, if he can come back, you can get
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: guy on every level of your defense back. That certainly
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: will help. And obviously the Cowboys need all of that.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: So all right, we got one more show this week.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: We'll do a show on Wednesday, might have a special guest.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: Still working on that, just to kind of see what
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: will happen here. I know there's a mix ups on
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: all the other shows. I've been on the break today,
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: I'll be on the Break also on on Wednesday, so
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: we'll be able to kind of have some fun a
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: little bit and mix some different lineups up, but the
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: storyline for the most part on Wednesday will stay the same.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: All Right, Guys, appreciate the calls. Hanging there.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: Like I said yesterday, hanging there. It's gonna get better here.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: At some point. Give this team up. You know they'll
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: they'll get a break they need one, and maybe they
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: can come back and try to figure out the answers
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: to turn this thing around.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: For Chris Beam, I'm Nick Keatman. We will see you
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: next time on Cowboys Storyline.
• 48:52
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• 48:55
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