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- 0:01Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
- 0:04Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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- 0:11Speaker 1: This these Cowboys storylines with Nick Eatman.
- 0:20Speaker 3: All right, it's time for Cowboys storyline. I'm Nick Eatman,
- 0:23Speaker 3: and let's get it rolling here on this Wednesday, October
- 0:26Speaker 3: the eleventh, here at the Star. Of course, I say
- 0:30Speaker 3: it's Wednesday. You know these weird weeks where they have
- 0:32Speaker 3: a Monday night game. You know they're going to try
- 0:34Speaker 3: to tell you it's not a Wednesday. I don't even
- 0:36Speaker 3: know what today really is. It's kind of the bonus day.
- 0:39Speaker 3: Wednesday is kind of the bonus day for them that
- 0:42Speaker 3: they'll start. Tomorrow will be like a Wednesday, and Thursday
- 0:45Speaker 3: and then so on getting into Monday night, which you know,
- 0:50Speaker 3: in their mind they try to keep it on schedule.
- 0:52Speaker 3: So this is sort of your your extra day. They'll
- 0:55Speaker 3: they'll come in and I know they're going to review
- 0:57Speaker 3: the tape today. Mike McCarthy was really adamant about in
- 1:02Speaker 3: the in the postgame press conference after the game about
- 1:07Speaker 3: his views on burning the tape or watching it, and
- 1:12Speaker 3: he let it be known that now he watches the tape,
- 1:15Speaker 3: he thinks it's it's a bs to to paraphrase that
- 1:20Speaker 3: for people that say, we don't watch the tape, we
- 1:22Speaker 3: just burn it and we move on. He thinks that
- 1:24Speaker 3: there are things they can learn from it, and I
- 1:26Speaker 3: agree with that. I mean, I always think everything's a
- 1:29Speaker 3: learning experience. And you know, when you go back and
- 1:31Speaker 3: look at that game, you know, everyone always says is
- 1:34Speaker 3: never as bad as it as it seems, or is
- 1:36Speaker 3: never as good as it seems, too, And I agree
- 1:39Speaker 3: with that. And you know, I think if they lined
- 1:41Speaker 3: up and played again, you know, tomorrow, I still think
- 1:45Speaker 3: the forty nine ers are are way better than the Cowboys.
- 1:48Speaker 3: That I'm not forty two to ten better. You know,
- 1:50Speaker 3: these games always take on a life of its own.
- 1:52Speaker 3: And I say that, you know, with and I said
- 1:55Speaker 3: it the other day the Giants. I mean, it won't
- 1:57Speaker 3: be that bad when they play again. It could be
- 1:59Speaker 3: a lot closer or so that's just the way things go.
- 2:02Speaker 3: And I think that you can learn from the tape,
- 2:05Speaker 3: look at it and go hey this. You know, these
- 2:08Speaker 3: plays right here could have changed everything. I mean, you know,
- 2:12Speaker 3: I think a penalty on Donovan Wilson over the middle,
- 2:15Speaker 3: on McCaffrey on third down, you know, the helmets and
- 2:18Speaker 3: helmets a bang bang play. I absolutely hate the rule.
- 2:22Speaker 3: I mean, McCaffrey's not going to be in the NBA. Okay,
- 2:25Speaker 3: McCaffrey's five, what.
- 2:26Speaker 4: Nine to ten?
- 2:27Speaker 3: Who's not hitting him in the head. I mean like that,
- 2:29Speaker 3: that's just kind of the way that it goes. That's
- 2:32Speaker 3: what you know, people bump heads in every daycare in America.
- 2:35Speaker 4: I mean that that's what happens.
- 2:36Speaker 3: That's why you were helmets, and so I think that
- 2:38Speaker 3: was a really unfortunate call. Now does it change the
- 2:41Speaker 3: whole game? I mean maybe, I mean, just from the
- 2:43Speaker 3: standpoint of momentum is now swinging, the Cowboys could get
- 2:46Speaker 3: a stop off the field, maybe they can go tie
- 2:48Speaker 3: the game.
- 2:48Speaker 4: Obviously it didn't happen. I'm just saying that.
- 2:52Speaker 3: You know, if you're looking at it and going, wow,
- 2:54Speaker 3: we're this far behind the best team in the league,
- 2:58Speaker 3: I think I think you can look at it and say,
- 3:01Speaker 3: you know, a couple of plays here and there, and
- 3:02Speaker 3: a lot of things are different. But that being said,
- 3:05Speaker 3: the Cowboys are going to have to go and prove it,
- 3:07Speaker 3: you know, this week against the Chargers and a game
- 3:11Speaker 3: that I think is one of the biggest ones of
- 3:13Speaker 3: the season, probably the biggest game, that this could really
- 3:15Speaker 3: be the most telling game of the entire year. All right,
- 3:18Speaker 3: we'll get into the questions here. We got the calls
- 3:21Speaker 3: one eight eight, eight, five, five to to ninety seven.
- 3:23Speaker 3: You can send text messages as well.
- 3:27Speaker 4: You know the number. Hopefully you do. It's not my
- 3:31Speaker 4: paper's not up here.
- 3:32Speaker 3: But anyways, we got somebody that has already been sending
- 3:36Speaker 3: some text messages.
- 3:36Speaker 4: So we've got that. Let's go to the calls though.
- 3:39Speaker 4: Let's start this.
- 3:39Speaker 3: Thing off in San Antonio with Al Al You're first
- 3:43Speaker 3: up here on the storyline.
- 3:45Speaker 5: How you doing, Nick, I'm good.
- 3:47Speaker 4: Man, how are you?
- 3:48Speaker 6: Heymen?
- 3:48Speaker 5: I love your show, Thank you, thank you hey. But
- 3:53Speaker 5: I've been a fan since nineteen sixty five. All right,
- 3:56Speaker 5: And I tell you, bro, I don't know you know
- 3:58Speaker 5: how you see it when you break up with a one.
- 4:01Speaker 5: That's the way I feel when cowboys move. But I
- 4:05Speaker 5: think they're gonna come back. I know everybody's down on deck,
- 4:09Speaker 5: but I think he's gonna bring us through.
- 4:11Speaker 6: We just got this.
- 4:12Speaker 5: We just got to keep the faith and keep you know,
- 4:15Speaker 5: keep pringing.
- 4:16Speaker 3: That's a tough analogy there, because you know the difference
- 4:19Speaker 3: is and it's not always the case. Is that, you know,
- 4:22Speaker 3: if you have a breakup with someone, they don't they
- 4:24Speaker 3: don't just come back every Sunday, you know.
- 4:27Speaker 4: I mean sometimes they do.
- 4:28Speaker 3: I mean sometimes they do and sometimes you know, that's
- 4:31Speaker 3: a whole other story right there. But I'm just saying
- 4:33Speaker 3: the best and the worst thing about being a fan
- 4:37Speaker 3: is that you get to pick up and do it
- 4:38Speaker 3: all over again. I mean, sometimes you don't want to.
- 4:41Speaker 3: Sometimes you're just like, oh man, but but you know,
- 4:44Speaker 3: that's what I love about. It's just the cycle.
- 4:46Speaker 4: It's the it's.
- 4:47Speaker 3: The Monday morning, I'm burning all my Cowboys stuff. Tuesday,
- 4:51Speaker 3: I can't do this anymore, Dak, I just can't. I
- 4:54Speaker 3: can't defend you anymore. Wednesday it's like I don't care. Thursday, well,
- 5:00Speaker 3: what times the game? Friday is you know what, you
- 5:03Speaker 3: know what, we might have a chance. Saturday is like,
- 5:05Speaker 3: you know what, I feel good about this And Sunday
- 5:07Speaker 3: where's my EyeBlack and where's my gear?
- 5:09Speaker 4: And I'm gonna That's the cycle of football. I love
- 5:11Speaker 4: it and hate it all at the same time.
- 5:13Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they're gonna come back. And you know,
- 5:16Speaker 5: Jack could go. I didn't have a good game Monday night.
- 5:19Speaker 5: And and everybody I love them again.
- 5:21Speaker 3: Yeah not everybody, not everybody, but but some people, you
- 5:25Speaker 3: know what I mean.
- 5:26Speaker 5: Yeah, but I enjoy your show. Thank you, and I
- 5:29Speaker 5: talked with you.
- 5:30Speaker 3: Thanks man, appreciate that. All right, good call. We'll stick
- 5:35Speaker 3: sit down in there in the in the Southern Texas area,
- 5:38Speaker 3: Darien in Houston, You're next up.
- 5:40Speaker 4: San Antonio to Houston.
- 5:42Speaker 6: Hey, what's going on?
- 5:43Speaker 4: What's up?
- 5:44Speaker 5: Man?
- 5:44Speaker 4: How are you?
- 5:45Speaker 6: Hey? Man?
- 5:46Speaker 7: Doing doing all right?
- 5:47Speaker 6: Today?
- 5:47Speaker 1: Uh?
- 5:48Speaker 7: Man, I'm ready to turn the page this week on
- 5:50Speaker 7: the Cowboys. Yep, for one main reason. It's now Chargers week.
- 5:54Speaker 7: It's not cry about the forty nine Ers week.
- 5:56Speaker 3: And I started off the show talking about a play
- 5:59Speaker 3: that to change the game. No, I get, let's go,
- 6:01Speaker 3: let's turn to the page.
- 6:02Speaker 8: Actually I didn't.
- 6:03Speaker 7: I didn't hear the first the first quarter of the show.
- 6:05Speaker 7: I have to go back and listen.
- 6:06Speaker 4: That's fine.
- 6:07Speaker 7: But it didn't mean to take a shot at you.
- 6:10Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, I mean I agree, it is it
- 6:12Speaker 3: is turned the page. And what I'm trying to say
- 6:14Speaker 3: by turning the page is, you know what, it's not
- 6:17Speaker 3: as bad as you think.
- 6:18Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a terrible game.
- 6:19Speaker 3: It was one loss, you know, but every game you
- 6:22Speaker 3: could do things a little bit better. You can learn
- 6:23Speaker 3: from it. As well as what I'm saying, they're going
- 6:25Speaker 3: to evaluate the tape and learn from it. There's things
- 6:28Speaker 3: you can learn from even though it was a very
- 6:30Speaker 3: one sided finish.
- 6:32Speaker 7: No, I'm I'm hurting from this Sunday and I'd rather
- 6:35Speaker 7: just forget it. And another reason I'm ready to look
- 6:38Speaker 7: ahead is because I'm plying to La Monday morning for
- 6:41Speaker 7: the game, all right, And I know that as close
- 6:43Speaker 7: as it gets to a home game out there anywhere
- 6:45Speaker 7: on the road. But any pro tips about Sofi Stadium
- 6:48Speaker 7: that you have, if you have a first, you know,
- 6:50Speaker 7: away game story from when you went, maybe as a
- 6:52Speaker 7: fan or as a as a reporter, that would be cool.
- 6:55Speaker 7: And then also, just like looking ahead, the Chargers team's
- 6:57Speaker 7: playing pretty well. The Chargers receivers all have receptions that
- 7:01Speaker 7: have have gone for over forty yards. And we know
- 7:04Speaker 7: Herbert has a big arm. Yeah, you know, our defense,
- 7:06Speaker 7: our defense has to be stout.
- 7:09Speaker 9: Uh.
- 7:10Speaker 7: Injury wise, though they lost Mike Williams for a couple
- 7:12Speaker 7: of weeks, he's on I R. I believe he's a
- 7:15Speaker 7: number two receiver and then Austin Eckler, the running back,
- 7:18Speaker 7: missed two weeks ago with an ankle injury. But I
- 7:22Speaker 7: don't know if he saw this.
- 7:22Speaker 6: He said he was.
- 7:23Speaker 7: Ninety nine percent sure he would play this Monday night
- 7:26Speaker 7: against the Cowboys. I don't know how they come up
- 7:27Speaker 7: with these percentages.
- 7:28Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well he was. He was thanks for the call, Darien.
- 7:31Speaker 3: There's a lot of good stuff there. He he, you know,
- 7:34Speaker 3: he he was doubtful. He was questionable going into the
- 7:38Speaker 3: to the week. The last game against the Raiders then
- 7:40Speaker 3: that he was doubtful and then he just did not play.
- 7:43Speaker 3: But that was before the bye week, so that they
- 7:46Speaker 3: that was you know, the Raiders game then had a
- 7:48Speaker 3: bye week, so he was close to playing the Raiders game.
- 7:51Speaker 3: I think the same movie said for uh, Joey Bosa,
- 7:54Speaker 3: is that the bullsa that got this week? Joey Bosa. Yeah,
- 7:57Speaker 3: then he missed the last game. Of course, Khalil on
- 8:00Speaker 3: the other side and only got six sacks in the
- 8:02Speaker 3: game against the Raiders. So now they're gonna get Bosa
- 8:05Speaker 3: and Khalil Mack and then of course, like you said,
- 8:08Speaker 3: Austin Nickler, yeah, you know you're right about they throw
- 8:11Speaker 3: the ball down the field. And here's another part of that.
- 8:14Speaker 3: To get down the field, you have to hold it
- 8:16Speaker 3: for a second. You have to hold the ball. You
- 8:17Speaker 3: have to wait just a little bit and then get
- 8:19Speaker 3: the guys down the field. That's kind of what the
- 8:22Speaker 3: Cowboys want you to do as well. They want you
- 8:24Speaker 3: to be holding it so they can get their pass
- 8:27Speaker 3: rush home. So you can't have it both ways.
- 8:30Speaker 6: You know.
- 8:30Speaker 3: The forty nine ers like to get the ball out quick,
- 8:32Speaker 3: and they had some plays down the field too, intermediate throws.
- 8:36Speaker 3: But to throw it down the field, you do have
- 8:38Speaker 3: to trust your blocking and hold it, and that's where
- 8:41Speaker 3: the Cowboys will try to, you know, capitalize as well.
- 8:46Speaker 3: Former you said you asked about road games, you know
- 8:51Speaker 3: road game stories for me, I mean, really, my first
- 8:53Speaker 3: road game ever in the regular season was the ninety
- 8:57Speaker 3: nine game at Washington. I've talked about that before and
- 8:59Speaker 3: I've basically we'll just say that's my favorite game just
- 9:02Speaker 3: because it was the first one on the road for me.
- 9:05Speaker 3: They were down twenty one in the fourth quarter, came
- 9:08Speaker 3: back won it, and you know, it was that time
- 9:11Speaker 3: where I was I was really young and I was
- 9:13Speaker 3: still it was the end of the nineties, but the
- 9:15Speaker 3: early part of the nineties.
- 9:16Speaker 4: You know, I was in high school. I was a fan.
- 9:19Speaker 3: So to be able to see on the sideline eight
- 9:21Speaker 3: men to Irvin and Emmett Smith's scoring and you rocket
- 9:25Speaker 3: is smile with a touchdown. I mean, it was pretty
- 9:27Speaker 3: cool game right there, and so that's that will always
- 9:31Speaker 3: be my favorite game. You know, I think, you know,
- 9:34Speaker 3: until something better comes along. But we'll we'll see if
- 9:37Speaker 3: that happened.
- 9:38Speaker 10: You wanted your pro tip for Sofi state, Oh tips
- 9:40Speaker 10: for so Fi?
- 9:41Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 9:42Speaker 4: Or you or so Fi memory? Well, I know what
- 9:45Speaker 4: your memory is.
- 9:46Speaker 3: I got a memory of so Far. I mean I
- 9:47Speaker 3: was sitting in a suite by myself and like the
- 9:51Speaker 3: owner's suite in twenty twenty. It was the first game
- 9:54Speaker 3: of the season. I got to travel and U and
- 9:56Speaker 3: I'm sitting there. It was the most eerie thing ever.
- 9:59Speaker 3: I mean, it's a brand new stadium. Sounded like a
- 10:01Speaker 3: Wednesday night JV football game where all you hear is
- 10:04Speaker 3: like the echo from the other sideline. I mean, it
- 10:07Speaker 3: was unbelievable just just being there, just how weird. It
- 10:11Speaker 3: was no fans first game of the season. I dropped
- 10:14Speaker 3: my phone. I look, you get it getting on. I
- 10:17Speaker 3: just hear the guy that the announcers say thirty seven
- 10:19Speaker 3: yard pass the CD lamb, you know, and you're like,
- 10:21Speaker 3: what you know? I mean usually you hear crowd and
- 10:23Speaker 3: all that. That was just a really weird experience there.
- 10:27Speaker 3: And it was the first game for Sofi Stadium, So
- 10:31Speaker 3: that's the one. That's the one I remember from from Sofi.
- 10:34Speaker 3: I've played there a lot, though, I mean, for let's
- 10:37Speaker 3: be the fourth time we've played at so Far. It's
- 10:38Speaker 3: a brand new stadium, still seems brand new. It's very beautiful.
- 10:42Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's it's got a lot of AT
- 10:44Speaker 3: and T stadium feel, but in a California kind of
- 10:48Speaker 3: a style, which is fitting because it's in La. All Right,
- 10:52Speaker 3: let's go to Let's get a text question from Doug
- 10:55Speaker 3: in Florida. He said, what are your top three concerns
- 10:57Speaker 3: for Monday? His are secondary versus their receivers, offensive line
- 11:02Speaker 3: versus Bosa and Mac, and scoring touchdown in the red zone.
- 11:08Speaker 3: You know what I mean. I don't know if I've
- 11:10Speaker 3: gone that far to rank him. I don't know if
- 11:11Speaker 3: I ever do that, just ranking the concerns, but those
- 11:14Speaker 3: these sound pretty good. I mean, you know the Herbert
- 11:17Speaker 3: and this offense is can Can can definitely hurt you
- 11:20Speaker 3: in different ways down the field. They test you. So
- 11:23Speaker 3: I think that's that's a really good one. The offensive line.
- 11:27Speaker 3: I mean to have Bosa and Mac two pass rushers
- 11:30Speaker 3: on the outside. Now, you know they they've had some
- 11:32Speaker 3: success running the ball as well. That's what they're gonna
- 11:35Speaker 3: need to do is really run the football and get
- 11:37Speaker 3: more balanced. They they did a really nice job last
- 11:41Speaker 3: year against the Charge two years ago, sorry, against the Chargers,
- 11:43Speaker 3: they ran right out Bosa.
- 11:45Speaker 4: That was the game.
- 11:45Speaker 3: Terrence Steel was starting for his first time at the
- 11:48Speaker 3: right tackle, I believe for Loel Collins was suspended, and
- 11:51Speaker 3: what's Terrence Steele going to do? And he had a
- 11:53Speaker 3: great game and he really took it too. You saw
- 11:56Speaker 3: the physicalness for him. So let's see if if they
- 11:59Speaker 3: could maybe get more balanced run the ball, and then
- 12:01Speaker 3: of course that they could do that scoring in the
- 12:03Speaker 3: touchdowns of the red zone would definitely help. All Right,
- 12:05Speaker 3: back to the phones, Let's go Troy and Virginia Beach. Troy,
- 12:09Speaker 3: what's up?
- 12:10Speaker 11: Hey, what's up?
- 12:11Speaker 6: Nick?
- 12:11Speaker 4: Good to talk to you man, You too, man, how
- 12:13Speaker 4: are you doing to be on?
- 12:15Speaker 8: I'm doing great.
- 12:15Speaker 11: I'm doing great.
- 12:17Speaker 5: Hey, I wanted to chime in.
- 12:19Speaker 11: I think Steve said it yesterday just on how you know,
- 12:22Speaker 11: long of a season it really is, you know, to
- 12:26Speaker 11: how the roll cutter I goes up and down. Just
- 12:28Speaker 11: takes one bad ball to change.
- 12:32Speaker 7: The season, you know, get your big dance.
- 12:35Speaker 11: But yeah, I just want to say that to keep
- 12:37Speaker 11: your hope Cowboys fans. And uh also a question, So
- 12:42Speaker 11: Dak hurt his hands Sunday? Do you think that played
- 12:44Speaker 11: into a factor? No one's really talking about that. I
- 12:49Speaker 11: think when I saw it on TV, it was it
- 12:51Speaker 11: looks falling.
- 12:53Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean.
- 12:56Speaker 3: I think so, I mean, I think, I think, I'm
- 12:58Speaker 3: I'm it doesn't help. I mean, I'm sure it doesn't either.
- 13:02Speaker 3: It's not the reason that they lost or whatever. I
- 13:04Speaker 3: think that they were having a lot of problems beforehand.
- 13:08Speaker 3: As he pointed out, he threw a touchdown afterwards, it
- 13:10Speaker 3: was one of his best throws of the night, so
- 13:13Speaker 3: you know, he was still throwing the ball around. It
- 13:16Speaker 3: probably wasn't comfortable for him. It might have been worse,
- 13:19Speaker 3: especially of swelling. It might have been worse the next day.
- 13:21Speaker 3: So it's something to monitor. But I don't I haven't
- 13:25Speaker 3: heard that it's that big of an issue.
- 13:28Speaker 5: Sure, okay, cool.
- 13:29Speaker 11: I just want to throw that in there, and yeah,
- 13:31Speaker 11: keep it the good work, man.
- 13:32Speaker 12: Love the show.
- 13:32Speaker 4: Appreciate it. Thank you.
- 13:33Speaker 3: Troy looks like he's at work or something like that,
- 13:36Speaker 3: and here's some buttons going maybe in his car. Oh,
- 13:40Speaker 3: it says he's a Chris just let me know ups driver.
- 13:44Speaker 3: Listen to see it on the show. So he was,
- 13:45Speaker 3: you know, probably typing in GPS or something like that. Cool,
- 13:49Speaker 3: all right, love it. I love it, man, that's it's
- 13:52Speaker 3: so awesome. And I didn't say this the other day,
- 13:54Speaker 3: but man, one of the one of the coolest moments
- 13:57Speaker 3: we've had here is when the guy from North Carolina
- 14:00Speaker 3: maybe Josh was his name, from North Carolina the teacher
- 14:03Speaker 3: called in the middle of class that was that was
- 14:06Speaker 3: pretty neat, uh there, But yeah, this is It's always
- 14:09Speaker 3: always good to hear from new people as well. All right,
- 14:12Speaker 3: let's go to the next phone line. Call Andrew in
- 14:15Speaker 3: Colorado's Springs. Andrew, what's up?
- 14:19Speaker 13: Hey, good morning neck, How you doing man?
- 14:20Speaker 4: Good morning?
- 14:21Speaker 7: Are you good?
- 14:23Speaker 13: Good things?
- 14:23Speaker 6: Hey?
- 14:24Speaker 13: So you mentioned it a couple calls before this. I
- 14:27Speaker 13: completely agree. We got to get back to the run.
- 14:29Speaker 13: You know, they mentioned it on the show this morning too,
- 14:33Speaker 13: is talking Cowboys, is that we're the ninth rated team
- 14:35Speaker 13: for running, like and then it obviously begs the question
- 14:38Speaker 13: in nine's like why did we get away from it
- 14:39Speaker 13: against San Francisco? Like, yeah, the game got a little
- 14:41Speaker 13: out of hand, you know, and all that, but you know,
- 14:43Speaker 13: we got to do what our strength is, and that's
- 14:46Speaker 13: run the ball. Because we're all healthy upfront with the
- 14:48Speaker 13: offensive line right now too, so and I think in turn,
- 14:51Speaker 13: what's the best thing that Dak does play action? Right,
- 14:53Speaker 13: and that's CD over the top, that's Cooks over the top, whatever.
- 14:56Speaker 4: So you got to run.
- 14:57Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right. You can't do play action if you're
- 14:59Speaker 3: not running it. So yeah, yeah, you're right.
- 15:03Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 15:03Speaker 13: And then just a quick thing, I was at the
- 15:06Speaker 13: Cowboys Chargers game in twenty twenty one. Had so by
- 15:09Speaker 13: that game that Micah basically established himself as as a
- 15:13Speaker 13: pass usher, you know, with that long sack against Herbert
- 15:16Speaker 13: and all that. I'm hoping I'm not going to call it,
- 15:19Speaker 13: but I'm hoping that he kind of reverts back to
- 15:22Speaker 13: what we thought he was an offall linebacker, right, you know,
- 15:25Speaker 13: now that we need him in that regard and still
- 15:28Speaker 13: able to rush a passor in instances. But also your
- 15:31Speaker 13: thoughts on Rashawn Evans. He's in coming in this morning
- 15:34Speaker 13: with the team, so I'll hang up.
- 15:36Speaker 6: Takes tense.
- 15:36Speaker 3: Yeah, don't know much about Thanks for the call. I
- 15:39Speaker 3: don't know much about Rashawn Evans. Again, I'd kind of
- 15:41Speaker 3: heard that just a few minutes before the show started,
- 15:44Speaker 3: so I haven't really kind of looked that up. I
- 15:46Speaker 3: know it's a it's a former first round pick from
- 15:48Speaker 3: what I hear. You guys probably know more than me
- 15:50Speaker 3: about that, I really, I mean I heard it and
- 15:54Speaker 3: just kind of got prepared for the show. You know,
- 15:57Speaker 3: obviously anybody that can come in and help at the position.
- 16:01Speaker 3: I mean, I know that this team loves first round picks,
- 16:04Speaker 3: former first round picks.
- 16:05Speaker 4: You know, just kind of hoping.
- 16:06Speaker 3: That maybe you know, whatever whatever that you know they
- 16:10Speaker 3: did to kind of you know, show out on tape
- 16:13Speaker 3: and and and you know, get drafted. Those those attributes,
- 16:16Speaker 3: those skills can can still be you know, dusted off
- 16:20Speaker 3: a little bit and and used.
- 16:21Speaker 4: Here they have.
- 16:22Speaker 3: At one point this year they had thirteen first round
- 16:26Speaker 3: picks on the roster or practice squad. So that's you know,
- 16:30Speaker 3: this could add to the list now. He would be
- 16:33Speaker 3: replacing Leyton Vanderhu was expected.
- 16:35Speaker 4: To go on injury reserve. He's another first round pick,
- 16:38Speaker 4: of course.
- 16:39Speaker 3: Going back to the run, you know it, like we
- 16:43Speaker 3: said before, it I mean like they got beat, they
- 16:46Speaker 3: got they got destroyed in the game. It's not just
- 16:49Speaker 3: about one play, two plays. I wrote an article about
- 16:53Speaker 3: five plays. There was a lot of plays that they needed.
- 16:56Speaker 4: To go right.
- 16:57Speaker 3: But the fumble from Tony Poller, I mean, you know
- 17:01Speaker 3: that wasn't that was a decent run around the around
- 17:04Speaker 3: the left edge. I mean he kind of hit the
- 17:05Speaker 3: hole and I mean I mean you kind of hit
- 17:08Speaker 3: a gear, got to the outside and he got to
- 17:10Speaker 3: the sideline and was you know, had the ball moved
- 17:12Speaker 3: in his left hand. He did it all right, and
- 17:15Speaker 3: then it got knocked out. And not only did it
- 17:16Speaker 3: get knocked out, I mean that ball that that had
- 17:19Speaker 3: eyes on it. I mean, like you there's a cliche,
- 17:22Speaker 3: well the ball just didn't bounce their way. Well it
- 17:25Speaker 3: just didn't. I mean that's that's unbelievable for that thing
- 17:28Speaker 3: to stay and bounce like that. I mean, you you
- 17:30Speaker 3: you do that and you get it punched down on
- 17:32Speaker 3: that sideline, it's gonna go out twenty five times out
- 17:37Speaker 3: of twenty six, but didn't. It didn't right then, and
- 17:41Speaker 3: and that's just kind of indicative of how the game went.
- 17:44Speaker 3: But my point is is that, you know, it was
- 17:46Speaker 3: a it was a decent run around the side and
- 17:48Speaker 3: and and that's you know, something that could kind of
- 17:50Speaker 3: open up their defense a little bit. Unfortunately for the Cowboys,
- 17:53Speaker 3: it not only did it ended up in a fumble,
- 17:55Speaker 3: but one that just stayed miraculously stayed there. Now the
- 17:59Speaker 3: forty ninds down score off of that, they did not
- 18:02Speaker 3: They got the Cowboys that end up getting a fumble
- 18:04Speaker 3: in the next drive but didn't do anything, had to
- 18:07Speaker 3: punt short field and they did a trick play touchdown
- 18:09Speaker 3: or you know, and then from then on it was
- 18:12Speaker 3: it was uphill. All right, let's go to Jeff in
- 18:15Speaker 3: Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
- 18:16Speaker 5: Jess, how you doing, Nick good man?
- 18:19Speaker 6: How are you great?
- 18:21Speaker 5: Great?
- 18:21Speaker 6: I'm glad I could meet you.
- 18:24Speaker 4: Yeah the day out there?
- 18:26Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, man, really good. So all right, so let's
- 18:31Speaker 6: talk about let's talk about where we really are with
- 18:34Speaker 6: these guys. And I'll try not to go too spiritual.
- 18:40Speaker 6: But everybody loves a good comeback story, right, and we
- 18:46Speaker 6: know we know that when each one of the players
- 18:52Speaker 6: can play at their highest level of skill, they can
- 18:56Speaker 6: beat anybody. And the most disappointing thing about this game
- 19:00Speaker 6: last week was they seem to be playing at their
- 19:02Speaker 6: lowest level of skill. So now I'm going to make
- 19:07Speaker 6: this appeal to people that believe that prayer does something.
- 19:13Speaker 6: If you can remember what happened with Camblin at the
- 19:16Speaker 6: beginning of the year, dead on the field and people
- 19:20Speaker 6: prayed everywhere because they didn't know what else to do,
- 19:22Speaker 6: and it was a statement that God says, you know,
- 19:24Speaker 6: I'm involved in a lot more things than you'd think
- 19:27Speaker 6: I am. And a stupid prayer would be prayed that
- 19:31Speaker 6: God helped the Cowboys to always win. That'd be stupid.
- 19:33Speaker 6: But a wise prayer would be God help these guys
- 19:37Speaker 6: to perform at their peak level of efficiency, because every
- 19:42Speaker 6: player wants to do that, and as you know, many
- 19:44Speaker 6: of the players have faith that God can do that.
- 19:48Speaker 6: So we need to help them and specifically exercise these
- 19:51Speaker 6: demons that come out of the forty nine ers effect,
- 19:54Speaker 6: and if they can get past that forty nine or
- 19:57Speaker 6: of mentality, that stuck in their mind that they lost.
- 20:01Speaker 6: They can get pass everybody else some kind of way
- 20:03Speaker 6: or be competitive with some help in prayer. Watch what happens.
- 20:08Speaker 6: You just remember what happened on the field with Damar Hamlin.
- 20:13Speaker 6: That's all I want to say.
- 20:14Speaker 3: Man, all right, all right, all right, Well I appreciate,
- 20:17Speaker 3: thank you so much for the call. And you know,
- 20:20Speaker 3: obviously everyone, you know, everyone has has their their own
- 20:23Speaker 3: perspective there.
- 20:25Speaker 4: I believe in that. I believe in the power of prayer.
- 20:27Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not saying that everyone does, but but
- 20:30Speaker 3: you know, especially in their own way and doing the
- 20:33Speaker 3: wise way, like like Jeff said, because you got to remember,
- 20:37Speaker 3: you know, they there's there's two sides to to to everybody,
- 20:41Speaker 3: two sides to to the field, two sides to to
- 20:43Speaker 3: the to the ball. You know, both teams are out
- 20:46Speaker 3: there playing it. And you know, and I think that's
- 20:48Speaker 3: something that I'm gonna kind of go off on different
- 20:52Speaker 3: tangent here. But you know, I think a lot of
- 20:54Speaker 3: fans that have never played football, especially at the NFL level,
- 20:59Speaker 3: they don't understand the mindset of these these guys that
- 21:03Speaker 3: go out there and when they see Adamar Hamlin situation.
- 21:07Speaker 3: One of the scariest things that's ever happened on the field.
- 21:09Speaker 3: When they see that kind of stuff, it's a reminder
- 21:12Speaker 3: of every single play of how dangerous the sport is
- 21:16Speaker 3: and how things can change in a second. And so
- 21:19Speaker 3: when the game is over, even though the fans are upset,
- 21:22Speaker 3: they're they're throwing their jerseys off and burning them or whatever,
- 21:26Speaker 3: mad about the you know, this team, the players kind
- 21:29Speaker 3: of have a different mindset the game's over. Yeah, they're
- 21:31Speaker 3: upset by the loss or whatever. But you don't always
- 21:34Speaker 3: see it the same way, you know. That's why they do,
- 21:38Speaker 3: you know, the jersey swap, and and they laugh and
- 21:40Speaker 3: joke on the sideline or in the middle of the field,
- 21:43Speaker 3: and it bothers a lot of people. I mean, but
- 21:45Speaker 3: but I just you have to remember the players have
- 21:49Speaker 3: a different mindset when it comes to that.
- 21:52Speaker 4: So all right, let's go to the calls.
- 21:54Speaker 3: Ronnie in New Jersey, Ronnie, Hey, good morning, Mack, good morning.
- 21:58Speaker 6: How are you that's bad?
- 22:01Speaker 8: Nick? Going back to this game, who do you hang
- 22:06Speaker 8: the blame on more the players or the coaching staff,
- 22:11Speaker 8: Because honestly, I think the players they seemed like they
- 22:14Speaker 8: were ready for this game. But when it came to
- 22:19Speaker 8: the coaching, we got our coach. I mean the game
- 22:24Speaker 8: plan this guy had from the forty nine ers, it
- 22:27Speaker 8: was a great game plan. And all we talked about
- 22:30Speaker 8: was about the great coaching we had, and we didn't
- 22:33Speaker 8: see no in game adjustments, and that's what we thought
- 22:36Speaker 8: we were going to get when we had McCarthy calling
- 22:39Speaker 8: the offense now and according and going to McCarthy. Wasn't
- 22:43Speaker 8: it always said that if you're going to be calling
- 22:46Speaker 8: the plays, you got to be installing the plays. But
- 22:49Speaker 8: he has an offensive coordinator installing the plays and then
- 22:53Speaker 8: he's calling the game. Wasn't that the recent Jason Garrett
- 22:58Speaker 8: had issues?
- 23:01Speaker 6: All right?
- 23:03Speaker 3: You know, everybody does it differently. I mean McCarthy is
- 23:07Speaker 3: he does have Brian Schottenheimer as the offensive coordinator. There's
- 23:12Speaker 3: some people that think that's kind of more.
- 23:14Speaker 4: Of a of a title.
- 23:16Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, the play caller is the one
- 23:19Speaker 3: that obviously, you know, Mike's calling the place. But but
- 23:22Speaker 3: they do work hand in hand from my understanding about
- 23:25Speaker 3: you know, installing the plays and just kind of organizing
- 23:29Speaker 3: what the game plan is going to be. I know, Mike,
- 23:31Speaker 3: it's not like he just comes in on Sunday and said,
- 23:33Speaker 3: all right, what are we what are we working with here?
- 23:35Speaker 3: We're gonna do this? Okay?
- 23:36Speaker 4: Cool?
- 23:37Speaker 3: I I mean I don't think that's the case. I'd
- 23:39Speaker 3: like to think he's a lot more hands on than that.
- 23:43Speaker 3: But who you know, putting the blame on the coach
- 23:45Speaker 3: and the players, I mean, it's it's both. It is both,
- 23:49Speaker 3: and that's not a cop out answer. Nobody did well.
- 23:52Speaker 3: I mean, the players got to go out and execute,
- 23:54Speaker 3: and they did it.
- 23:55Speaker 4: They did it.
- 23:56Speaker 3: They couldn't block, they could you know, they couldn't block
- 23:58Speaker 3: these guys up front. They were getting you know, knocked
- 24:01Speaker 3: off the ball. I mean, you can't tell me that
- 24:03Speaker 3: that every single one was just them not being prepared.
- 24:07Speaker 3: They they got they got outplayed as well. And you know,
- 24:11Speaker 3: Mike Michaeh. Parsons went out and said, you know, he's
- 24:15Speaker 3: he's been pretty vocal about about his you know, where
- 24:19Speaker 3: he stands on things, and and kind of said he
- 24:22Speaker 3: gave a lot of credit to Kyle Shanahan for having
- 24:25Speaker 3: them them prepared. And you know, if you could look
- 24:27Speaker 3: at it and think maybe that was a shot or whatever,
- 24:30Speaker 3: but you know, I look at it and say if
- 24:31Speaker 3: McCarthy would have said, hey, we got out played. I
- 24:34Speaker 3: don't know if that's a shot at the players. I
- 24:36Speaker 3: think they got out coached. I think they got out played.
- 24:38Speaker 3: I think they got out hit. I think they got
- 24:40Speaker 3: out out physical. I think, you know, the mindset was
- 24:45Speaker 3: was better for the forty nine ers. I mean they
- 24:47Speaker 3: they were they were jacked up for the game too,
- 24:49Speaker 3: but they played that they used it to help them.
- 24:53Speaker 3: So any any way you slice it, I mean, if
- 24:55Speaker 3: you want to blame anything, you'd be right in this one.
- 25:00Speaker 3: That's just that's kind of the way it went down.
- 25:02Speaker 3: All right, all right, let's go to the next caller.
- 25:05Speaker 3: We got Steve in New Jersey. Steve, what's up?
- 25:08Speaker 5: Hey, Nick?
- 25:08Speaker 14: Weve you're on the break man.
- 25:10Speaker 4: Thank you, not anymore, not there anymore.
- 25:14Speaker 14: But yeah, I know we did a great job.
- 25:16Speaker 6: Nick.
- 25:16Speaker 14: I'm going to bring some negativity to the show and
- 25:19Speaker 14: reality in my sense, I've been a Cowboy fan forever.
- 25:22Speaker 14: I'm fifty five. When I listening to the shows, Nick,
- 25:25Speaker 14: and I hear Jesse, Brian, you know, Barry, all these
- 25:31Speaker 14: guys saying that Dak has problems, you know, reading coverages.
- 25:35Speaker 14: That's troublesome for me, you know, as when Dak's going
- 25:40Speaker 14: into his it's his eighth year already. If this was
- 25:42Speaker 14: you know, if this was justin Fields, I wouldn't mind.
- 25:46Speaker 14: He's only been in the league two or three years.
- 25:48Speaker 14: Dak's been this is eight years for now, and he's
- 25:51Speaker 14: always doing the same thing. You know, they from brand
- 25:54Speaker 14: new offense around him. Everything is always Dak friendly, and
- 25:58Speaker 14: Dak always seems to just no put him in and
- 26:01Speaker 14: make bad throws. I don't know, Nick, I don't think
- 26:03Speaker 14: it's and we're only fooling ourselves if we think he's
- 26:08Speaker 14: going to get better, and it's going to kill us,
- 26:10Speaker 14: you know, when this guy's making sixty sixty five million
- 26:13Speaker 14: a year because he's not that good, Nick to make
- 26:15Speaker 14: other people better like Jerry thinks he is.
- 26:19Speaker 3: Okay, I mean that's thanks for the call. I mean
- 26:23Speaker 3: I'm not you're obviously you know your opinion is right.
- 26:27Speaker 3: I said that yesterday. I said that, I'll say that
- 26:29Speaker 3: every day. Your opinion is right, you know. I think
- 26:32Speaker 3: I think there's something to be said for the fact.
- 26:34Speaker 3: I mean there's his play can can be worrisome. I
- 26:37Speaker 3: mean that's the let's just call it what it is.
- 26:40Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's and he stands up there and
- 26:43Speaker 3: says the same thing, I got to be better. Well,
- 26:45Speaker 3: then then then let's be better. I mean, that's that's
- 26:48Speaker 3: what it is. I mean, and I get it. I
- 26:51Speaker 3: get the frustration. I get it because you do look
- 26:54Speaker 3: at the game and see the throws that the other
- 26:57Speaker 3: guy's making and you think that's not something of the
- 27:00Speaker 3: Cowboys are doing. They don't have that. They don't have
- 27:02Speaker 3: that guy party made a lot of throws nineteen yards,
- 27:06Speaker 3: twenty two yards over the middle and over the over
- 27:09Speaker 3: the linebacker. But under the safety. It's not an easy throw.
- 27:12Speaker 3: It's not an easy, easy, you know, play to make.
- 27:16Speaker 3: You have to trust a lot of things. Have to
- 27:18Speaker 3: trust your arm, you have to trust that the blockings there,
- 27:20Speaker 3: you have to trust the receivers making the right route,
- 27:22Speaker 3: and you've got to be on the same page. And
- 27:25Speaker 3: so that's where I think the forty nine ers had
- 27:27Speaker 3: a big advantage on just being on the same page
- 27:30Speaker 3: with their guys in their offense. Obviously this is not
- 27:33Speaker 3: a new system for them, but but yeah, I mean,
- 27:36Speaker 3: Dak has has got to be has got to be
- 27:39Speaker 3: better than this, and if he's not going to be,
- 27:41Speaker 3: then that's something the Cowboys have to figure out. I mean,
- 27:43Speaker 3: after eight years, you know it, you say it is
- 27:46Speaker 3: what it is. It's never going to be better. You
- 27:50Speaker 3: could go. I've heard plenty of quarterbacks say that that
- 27:55Speaker 3: that's not the case. They will they will say that
- 27:58Speaker 3: things changed in their career to get them better. I
- 28:02Speaker 3: mean Romo says it. I mean Romo was nine years
- 28:05Speaker 3: into the league and said he kind of figured things
- 28:08Speaker 3: out from a throwing motion and things like that. And
- 28:11Speaker 3: that's why, you know, his injury was really tough on
- 28:14Speaker 3: him because you know, he kind of felt like he
- 28:16Speaker 3: was he was kind of getting into the into the
- 28:19Speaker 3: mode where he understood things way way differently.
- 28:24Speaker 4: I know, Breeze Brady, those guys.
- 28:26Speaker 3: You know, they they've found things in their career to
- 28:30Speaker 3: kind of help them and extend things. So I don't
- 28:33Speaker 3: believe that it's a situation where you're eight years in
- 28:36Speaker 3: and you're just not going to get better. I don't
- 28:38Speaker 3: believe that. But but they also you want to see
- 28:41Speaker 3: it though. You want to see these guys getting better.
- 28:44Speaker 3: So the Cowboys are in a tough situation. I mean,
- 28:46Speaker 3: they're going to be here. I think next next season,
- 28:49Speaker 3: next offseason. Have to figure out this is the guy
- 28:52Speaker 3: that they love. He's a you know, leader, and and
- 28:56Speaker 3: are they can they get enough guys around him to
- 28:59Speaker 3: help him? And as it stands right now, it's it's
- 29:02Speaker 3: it's just you know, it didn't work the other night.
- 29:05Speaker 3: It's a three and two football team. But you know,
- 29:08Speaker 3: I'm not gonna sit here and say, let's let's make
- 29:11Speaker 3: decisions sort of the off season, because the narrative's gonna
- 29:15Speaker 3: change in about five days. It'll change next or you
- 29:18Speaker 3: know whatever, next Tuesday, we'll probably be talking about something different.
- 29:23Speaker 3: So that's why I just to just to sit here
- 29:26Speaker 3: and say, well, that was you know, this is what
- 29:28Speaker 3: the season is. I just don't I just don't think
- 29:30Speaker 3: that's accurate, because it's not. It's going to change. All right,
- 29:33Speaker 3: We're gonna take a break. Let's take a break here,
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- 31:39Speaker 9: Back to Cowboys storylines.
- 31:44Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to the storyline. We've got more
- 31:48Speaker 3: questions here. Questions from the text line got a couple
- 31:50Speaker 3: of calls on the line too, we'll get to Let's
- 31:52Speaker 3: start with the text Paul from Vancouver. He says, with
- 31:56Speaker 3: the injury to CJ. Goodwin dot nashawn Wright being active
- 32:02Speaker 3: and could that lead to more Durron Bland in the slot,
- 32:07Speaker 3: I think the wrong Bland and Jordan Lewis will both.
- 32:10Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if that injury good one
- 32:13Speaker 3: doesn't really play corner. I mean it doesn't doesn't affect that.
- 32:17Speaker 3: Now if you're saying the Shawn Wright being active, he's
- 32:19Speaker 3: going to be off of the injury reserve, I believe
- 32:22Speaker 3: he could do that now. He it's been this is
- 32:25Speaker 3: what week six, So yeah, I mean he's he's eligible
- 32:29Speaker 3: to do that. That would be you know, he'd probably
- 32:32Speaker 3: be a special teams guy. He'll play, he could play
- 32:35Speaker 3: some on defense. They're going to have igbanogaeny Uh is
- 32:39Speaker 3: also going to get you know a lot of reps
- 32:41Speaker 3: at corner. So I think the Shawn Wright maybe could
- 32:44Speaker 3: could have a spot on the roster and and help
- 32:47Speaker 3: with special teams and then Gorociers be another guy. I mean,
- 32:50Speaker 3: that would give a more cornerback death depth because they
- 32:52Speaker 3: don't play good one at corner, so it'd have more
- 32:55Speaker 3: game day depth at the position, which is which is
- 32:58Speaker 3: good too, but it's gonna be tough replace CJ. Goodwin,
- 33:01Speaker 3: you know, and on special teams for the things that
- 33:04Speaker 3: he does, so that you know that won't be easy there.
- 33:07Speaker 4: All right.
- 33:08Speaker 3: Another text question, This is just from no name but
- 33:11Speaker 3: the six nine area code. So do you think the
- 33:14Speaker 3: pass routes need to be deeper? I think the three
- 33:16Speaker 3: yard routes are killing this offense. I wish they would
- 33:18Speaker 3: work the middle of the field eight to fifteen yard range.
- 33:22Speaker 3: I think that's kind of what the last caller was
- 33:24Speaker 3: sort of talking about, or I did. I mentioned it
- 33:27Speaker 3: just about his frustrations with Dak. Those are the type
- 33:30Speaker 3: of throws. You know, you need to be reading the
- 33:32Speaker 3: defense much better when you're making those kind of throws.
- 33:37Speaker 3: But I think that's that's what is hurting this team
- 33:39Speaker 3: right now, is the fact that they don't have the receivers.
- 33:44Speaker 3: They don't have the Dolphins receivers where these guys are
- 33:47Speaker 3: just running track, you know, like like they don't have
- 33:50Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. They got speed, but I don't
- 33:53Speaker 3: know if they have this elusive playmakers that can take
- 33:57Speaker 3: two to three yard screens or the bub and all
- 34:00Speaker 3: that and then make go make guys, you know, miss
- 34:03Speaker 3: in the open field. They don't really have that type
- 34:05Speaker 3: of player. So the ball definitely needs to go down
- 34:09Speaker 3: the field a little bit more. And they're just not balanced.
- 34:12Speaker 3: They're not balanced. When you don't run the football, it's
- 34:14Speaker 3: gonna be tough to throw it as well. So they
- 34:17Speaker 3: have to figure out some balance here.
- 34:19Speaker 6: Uh.
- 34:19Speaker 3: I think, you know, I think Daddle, Rico Daddel needs
- 34:22Speaker 3: that needs to have a little bit more, uh, in
- 34:25Speaker 3: the in the running game. I just think they have
- 34:27Speaker 3: to lessen the load for Pollard. Let's try it differently
- 34:30Speaker 3: because Pollard has never been this guy, and I think
- 34:33Speaker 3: that he needs a little He just needs to to have,
- 34:37Speaker 3: you know, running spurts a little bit more than what
- 34:39Speaker 3: we're seeing. So you know, at this point, you just
- 34:41Speaker 3: got to try different things. You know, when you ask
- 34:44Speaker 3: someone to do something they haven't done before and then
- 34:47Speaker 3: it's not working out that great, I think it's not
- 34:49Speaker 3: too too early to say, let's let's alter the plan
- 34:53Speaker 3: just a little bit. I think Rico Daddle could get
- 34:55Speaker 3: a few more carries and then you know, every time
- 34:57Speaker 3: he's run the ball, he seems to run it with efficiency?
- 35:01Speaker 6: All right?
- 35:02Speaker 3: On the phone lines, John and Akron. John, you're up,
- 35:05Speaker 3: Good morning, Nick.
- 35:06Speaker 5: How are you morning?
- 35:07Speaker 4: How are you doing?
- 35:08Speaker 12: I'm doing great. I'll have My question is do the
- 35:12Speaker 12: coaches watch other teams? Coaches, we have a probably getting
- 35:17Speaker 12: the guys open. The guy like the guys from the rams.
- 35:21Speaker 12: The guy knew rookie, he hadn't cut five yards of
- 35:24Speaker 12: the passes cup come back, just came back off. Ir
- 35:27Speaker 12: he caught, doesn't pass over hundred yards? Do they ever
- 35:30Speaker 12: watch see how these guys get open? Do they ever
- 35:33Speaker 12: like kind of copy of these guys or anything? We
- 35:35Speaker 12: see these the same thing over and over. Everybody else
- 35:37Speaker 12: can get open, all kind of innovative plays. None of
- 35:40Speaker 12: our guys that we do the same thing. How these
- 35:42Speaker 12: guys get open? Yeah, can watch them?
- 35:47Speaker 3: I'm sure, yes, I mean yeah, everybody watches the league.
- 35:50Speaker 3: They have scouts. There are scouts that watch every team.
- 35:53Speaker 3: They have scouts that are appointed to every team. So yeah,
- 35:56Speaker 3: I mean they're definitely watching other teams and giving them reports. Now,
- 35:59Speaker 3: how how much they're they're using it? You know that
- 36:03Speaker 3: that can that goes. I don't have the answer for that,
- 36:08Speaker 3: but it is a copycat league. I mean, we saw
- 36:10Speaker 3: it the other day. I mean the I mean Cowboys
- 36:12Speaker 3: are you know, they do take It seems to take
- 36:15Speaker 3: longer than other teams to start copying stuff. I mean,
- 36:18Speaker 3: I know there was a point where everybody in the
- 36:20Speaker 3: league is running rub routes and and and things like that, picks,
- 36:24Speaker 3: and the Cowboys finally, you know, finally decided to do
- 36:27Speaker 3: that a little bit. They haven't done it that much lately,
- 36:30Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean, you know, it also comes down
- 36:32Speaker 3: to the players too. I mean, you you they drafted
- 36:36Speaker 3: that offense like like the Rams.
- 36:38Speaker 4: You know, they they acquire route runners.
- 36:42Speaker 3: That's that has to happen in there in their system,
- 36:45Speaker 3: you know, and that's what Cooper Cup does so well.
- 36:47Speaker 3: I think the player you're talking about is a Kua.
- 36:51Speaker 3: You know, he's he's been he's been outstanding as a rookie.
- 36:54Speaker 3: But it does you know, they they don't have really
- 36:57Speaker 3: good crisp route runners that help with that. But I mean, yes,
- 37:01Speaker 3: they've gotta they've got to figure this out. And that's
- 37:03Speaker 3: what the that's what the next two three weeks are
- 37:06Speaker 3: this game, and then of course you get to buy.
- 37:09Speaker 3: They have to figure out ways to get these guys open.
- 37:11Speaker 3: That's just that's playing and simple, and I don't care
- 37:14Speaker 3: if it's stealing other teams plays or whatever. They have
- 37:18Speaker 3: to figure this out. Brian Schottenheimer and Mike McCarthy together,
- 37:22Speaker 3: they've been coaching in this league for you know, almost
- 37:24Speaker 3: fifty years combined. They've been in a lot of different systems.
- 37:28Speaker 3: Bright Schotenheimer's been on like twelve teams. It seems like
- 37:32Speaker 3: he's been in a lot of offenses. He's got to
- 37:34Speaker 3: be able to help figure this out. And McCarthy as well.
- 37:37Speaker 3: So that's that's got to happen. All right, Rob in
- 37:40Speaker 3: Vegas is next.
- 37:41Speaker 4: Rob? What's up?
- 37:43Speaker 8: Nick?
- 37:43Speaker 4: How you doing?
- 37:44Speaker 16: You know, the league talks about parity, but party doesn't
- 37:47Speaker 16: really exist in the NFL because at the end of
- 37:50Speaker 16: the day, if you don't have a top ten quarterback,
- 37:53Speaker 16: you can't win a Super Bowl. You look at the
- 37:56Speaker 16: last twenty years, who was winning Mahomes obviously Braid and
- 38:00Speaker 16: unfortunately Dak is in top ten anymore. I think I
- 38:04Speaker 16: got him like at thirteenth. I mean, he's been passed.
- 38:08Speaker 16: He's not the best quarterback in our division, Hurts is
- 38:12Speaker 16: so we lost that advantage, and I think they thought, well,
- 38:16Speaker 16: this defense is going to be so good that our
- 38:19Speaker 16: offense doesn't have to be as good. That's almost impossible
- 38:23Speaker 16: in today's NFL with the way the rules is set up.
- 38:27Speaker 16: If you're not scored, if your offense without getting turnovers,
- 38:31Speaker 16: let's not count turnovers, let's not count part returns. If
- 38:35Speaker 16: your offense cannot score at least twenty three points by itself,
- 38:41Speaker 16: it's hard to win in this league because the teams
- 38:44Speaker 16: with good quarterbacks are going to put up twenty eight
- 38:47Speaker 16: to thirty. And I think Monday is going to be
- 38:49Speaker 16: a tough game because I think Herbert is just way
- 38:52Speaker 16: better than Dak Prescott. I think the quarterback gap used
- 38:57Speaker 16: to be tight with us. We used to always have
- 38:59Speaker 16: Dak was the best quarterback before hers He was the
- 39:01Speaker 16: best quarterback in the NFC East. So we can lean
- 39:05Speaker 16: on that. We can't lean on it anymore. So we're
- 39:07Speaker 16: not getting any help from him, and he's regressed. I
- 39:12Speaker 16: hate that we put it all on him, but let's
- 39:14Speaker 16: be honest. The most position, it's the most important position
- 39:17Speaker 16: on the team. And they decided to make him a
- 39:22Speaker 16: drop back quarterback. They took away what he was best at,
- 39:27Speaker 16: and that was using his legs combined with the arm,
- 39:30Speaker 16: and I don't know why they did that. I don't
- 39:31Speaker 16: know if it's because once they wrote that big check,
- 39:34Speaker 16: they said, well, we don't want this guy to get hurt.
- 39:36Speaker 16: But they need to go back to that. You need
- 39:39Speaker 16: to call plays that doesn't give him the option because
- 39:43Speaker 16: we see it he was doing and I think you
- 39:46Speaker 16: may even talk about he was faking the ball like
- 39:48Speaker 16: he was going to do an ro. He never held
- 39:50Speaker 16: it once sort of forty nine, like this guy's not
- 39:53Speaker 16: going to run, and he does it all the time
- 39:56Speaker 16: where he faked the RPO, but he never actually keeps it.
- 40:01Speaker 14: So I think to.
- 40:04Speaker 16: Take that option out and say, no, no, no, here's
- 40:07Speaker 16: the play call. It's a run, it's a quarterback draw,
- 40:10Speaker 16: it's whatever to get him going because he's just not
- 40:15Speaker 16: good as as strictly a passer, and especially in this
- 40:19Speaker 16: offense they're making him now trying to be read defenses.
- 40:24Speaker 16: Never his strength. He doesn't have a great arm, he's
- 40:27Speaker 16: not very accurate. Can he get better, like you were saying, sure,
- 40:31Speaker 16: but here's the problem. They don't have time for him
- 40:33Speaker 16: to get better. You're in your prime right now with
- 40:37Speaker 16: Micah c D. You got you're young, but you're old
- 40:41Speaker 16: in certain positions. This is the time. Last year was
- 40:44Speaker 16: the time. This year is the time. By the time
- 40:46Speaker 16: he figures it out. Unfortunately, like Romo, by the time
- 40:49Speaker 16: Romo figured it out, his body said I'm done. So
- 40:53Speaker 16: you got to strike now. And I just think this
- 40:57Speaker 16: is probably or should be the last year with Dax
- 41:01Speaker 16: because you see what brock Purty does at eight hundred
- 41:03Speaker 16: thousand dollars. We've seen what I forgot. Something I was
- 41:06Speaker 16: reading yesterday. The only quarterback that won with a match
- 41:12Speaker 16: contract a super Bowl was Mahomes in the last like
- 41:15Speaker 16: fifteen years. Everybody else was on a rookie deal. So
- 41:19Speaker 16: you gotta get I mean, I get to the super Bowl.
- 41:21Speaker 6: You got it right.
- 41:22Speaker 3: He just made your own point, you know, and like, like,
- 41:25Speaker 3: I agree with you, but you just said, you know what,
- 41:27Speaker 3: when you said earlier about nobody's making top ten, you
- 41:31Speaker 3: know none of these you know, teams are making to
- 41:34Speaker 3: the super Bowl unless they have a top ten quarterback.
- 41:36Speaker 3: But I think it goes the other way. I think
- 41:38Speaker 3: you go to the Super Bowl, you become a top
- 41:40Speaker 3: ten quarterback. I think I think you get viewed in
- 41:43Speaker 3: that in that regard because your team is in the
- 41:46Speaker 3: Super Bowl and whether or not you're the reason for
- 41:48Speaker 3: it or not. The only you know, probably exemption from
- 41:53Speaker 3: that would be Garoppolo a few years ago when he
- 41:55Speaker 3: got in. But I mean, I mean, I think you know,
- 41:57Speaker 3: the Eagles are really good. It hurts is a reason
- 41:59Speaker 3: for it hurts us now all of a sudden up
- 42:01Speaker 3: there because they've gone to the Super Bowl, and so
- 42:05Speaker 3: you get viewed that way. I mean, this team can
- 42:08Speaker 3: ride the defense if they can figure this out and
- 42:10Speaker 3: get hot, win some games. You know, if they beat
- 42:13Speaker 3: the forty nine ers last year in the playoffs and
- 42:16Speaker 3: they get to the championship game, and who knows if
- 42:18Speaker 3: they I mean, and then Dak's a top five quarterback
- 42:20Speaker 3: just like that, and he hasn't changed anything. But I
- 42:23Speaker 3: just think it's a perception deal. So no, he hasn't
- 42:26Speaker 3: gotten there, so he gets moved down. Players that you know, Burrow,
- 42:31Speaker 3: they got there. So he's now top five, right or wrong.
- 42:35Speaker 3: But that's that's kind of the way it is. So
- 42:37Speaker 3: let's don't act like they get rated and then they
- 42:40Speaker 3: go perform. They go perform, and then they get raided.
- 42:44Speaker 3: You you asked Nick Harris, who used to work at
- 42:48Speaker 3: rivals and recruiting, and I guarantee you, I guarantee you.
- 42:52Speaker 3: When you talk to a player and that's maybe a
- 42:54Speaker 3: three star and he's got Nick Saban on the phone,
- 42:56Speaker 3: he who wants them, he probably becomes a four star
- 42:59Speaker 3: or five star pretty quick. That's sort of the way
- 43:01Speaker 3: that that it goes. So I get what you're saying,
- 43:03Speaker 3: though kind of went off on the tangent on that.
- 43:06Speaker 3: But but yeah, I mean, Dak's got to be a
- 43:08Speaker 3: football player again, that's what has to happen. I say
- 43:11Speaker 3: it a thousand times, but he's got to. They got
- 43:14Speaker 3: to make him a football player. And if that means
- 43:17Speaker 3: he needs to run more than he needs to run,
- 43:19Speaker 3: because he's got to be that guy. He's got to
- 43:22Speaker 3: go out there and be a player that runs the ball,
- 43:25Speaker 3: not afraid, not afraid to die for it, and go
- 43:28Speaker 3: make plays, just let it loose. That's that's the only
- 43:32Speaker 3: thing he can do. That's the way. That's what got
- 43:33Speaker 3: him here in college, that's what got him, you know,
- 43:36Speaker 3: to to having success.
- 43:37Speaker 4: He's got to be that guy.
- 43:39Speaker 3: And if they're going to have him stand back there,
- 43:40Speaker 3: or if he's going to stand himself back there and
- 43:42Speaker 3: try to throw passes. They'll be limited in what they do,
- 43:46Speaker 3: what they throw, because that's not him. That that's never
- 43:49Speaker 3: been him. He's He's a guy that has to get
- 43:52Speaker 3: on the move. He has to be diving for first downs, sliding,
- 43:56Speaker 3: whatever it takes. Can't worry about anything that's happened in
- 43:59Speaker 3: the pass. He's got to go play football. Once he does,
- 44:02Speaker 3: that gets the rhythm going. I think he becomes a
- 44:04Speaker 3: better passer. I think he passes the ball in the run.
- 44:07Speaker 3: I think his confidence is a lot better. I think
- 44:09Speaker 3: the receivers have more confidence in him. But it's got
- 44:12Speaker 3: to start with the mindset of you got to go
- 44:15Speaker 3: let it hang in, you gotta go win, you gotta
- 44:17Speaker 3: go play. He's got to be that guy again and
- 44:19Speaker 3: then and if that happens, then I think this team
- 44:21Speaker 3: will rally around him a lot more. But but right now,
- 44:24Speaker 3: he can't just stand in the pocket and make throws
- 44:27Speaker 3: because that's like everyone is saying, that's not his strength.
- 44:30Speaker 3: All right, ed, and Louisiana is next.
- 44:33Speaker 9: How you doing?
- 44:34Speaker 4: Hey good? How are you?
- 44:35Speaker 9: I'm doing good. It's got a big game coming up.
- 44:38Speaker 9: If we can get to four and two, then we're
- 44:39Speaker 9: probably about where most people thought we would be at
- 44:42Speaker 9: THEBAI probably got a shout at the division. You know,
- 44:45Speaker 9: you still got positive stuff to look forward to. Three
- 44:49Speaker 9: and three. We're probably in a dull fight in the
- 44:52Speaker 9: season to get in as a wild Cord. And but
- 44:55Speaker 9: I think they're gonna bounce back. I think they're gonna
- 44:57Speaker 9: be ready to go.
- 44:57Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, what do you think, what do
- 45:01Speaker 3: you think has to happen. What's the one thing that
- 45:03Speaker 3: has to happen for this team.
- 45:04Speaker 4: To get there?
- 45:06Speaker 9: Just stay focused and discipline, stay together, and just just
- 45:09Speaker 9: play to their ability. I mean, they got the talent,
- 45:12Speaker 9: they just got to get out there and just do it.
- 45:15Speaker 9: And you can't listen to the outside noise. You just
- 45:18Speaker 9: got to focus on the task at hand. And this
- 45:21Speaker 9: week you got to prepare for everything because Kellen is
- 45:23Speaker 9: gonna be he gonna be dialed up. He got to play.
- 45:26Speaker 9: He's probably in the summer, he's been rowing up and
- 45:29Speaker 9: he's probably gonna have the first play of the game.
- 45:31Speaker 9: You can write it down, your favorite play the fleet
- 45:34Speaker 9: flicks that you're gonna call it.
- 45:36Speaker 3: If that happens. If that happens, they will lose. I'm
- 45:40Speaker 3: gonna tell you right now, if.
- 45:41Speaker 4: They if the think for the call is appreciate that.
- 45:44Speaker 3: If if the if the Chargers come out and do
- 45:47Speaker 3: that kind of stuff, I think I think that they'll
- 45:50Speaker 3: lose the game. I think they're gonna lose. Anyways, they've
- 45:53Speaker 3: had they've had a couple of weeks, so I mean,
- 45:55Speaker 3: I'm sure this this worked perfectly for for Kellen. You
- 45:58Speaker 3: know that they they're getting guys back. They got two weeks,
- 46:02Speaker 3: uh to to to look at the Cowboys and look
- 46:04Speaker 3: at you know, what the forty nine ers did, and
- 46:06Speaker 3: and and and try to you know, try to dial
- 46:10Speaker 3: up some some plays against them. But you know, I
- 46:13Speaker 3: think this is this is the biggest game of the year.
- 46:16Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sorry, there's no other wed to slice that.
- 46:19Speaker 3: This is the biggest game of the year for what
- 46:22Speaker 3: we think the Cowboys can be. It's not must win,
- 46:26Speaker 3: it doesn't it's not do or die. If they don't
- 46:28Speaker 3: win the game, they'll be three and three going into
- 46:30Speaker 3: the buy and then they'll try to, you know, figure
- 46:32Speaker 3: things out themselves and and try to you know, scratch
- 46:35Speaker 3: and claw and.
- 46:35Speaker 4: Get back up there.
- 46:36Speaker 3: But but I think for being the type of team
- 46:39Speaker 3: that you want to be, you'd be four and two,
- 46:41Speaker 3: four and two and three and three just seems very
- 46:44Speaker 3: very different, especially with the two weeks to think about it.
- 46:46Speaker 3: So I think this is one of the biggest games
- 46:49Speaker 3: in the regular season the Cowboys have had in a
- 46:51Speaker 3: long time, Bigger than the one last week in my opinion,
- 46:53Speaker 3: because of where you are and what you have to do. Now,
- 46:56Speaker 3: everyone's looking at each other kind of sideways, like like
- 46:59Speaker 3: like the last caller just said, you got to stay together.
- 47:02Speaker 3: Easier said than done, Easier said than done. When you
- 47:04Speaker 3: have certain things in the locker room being said, you
- 47:08Speaker 3: can just kind of tell of the of the tone
- 47:10Speaker 3: I did my thing.
- 47:11Speaker 4: I did you know.
- 47:12Speaker 3: There's if that's being said in the locker room, I mean,
- 47:15Speaker 3: if that's being said in front of the cameras, you
- 47:18Speaker 3: know that that stuff's going on in the locker room
- 47:20Speaker 3: as well. This is where Mike McCarthy has done well.
- 47:22Speaker 3: He's done well with rallying after a loss, and that's
- 47:27Speaker 3: that's you can't say that he's not good at it
- 47:30Speaker 3: because they're ten and one and their last eleven losses
- 47:33Speaker 3: of the next week and they come out and they
- 47:35Speaker 3: play really good football that that needs to be eleven
- 47:39Speaker 3: in one they had. This is the biggest one that
- 47:42Speaker 3: they've got to bounce back. If not, this could be
- 47:44Speaker 3: a long season. If they don't bounce back this week
- 47:46Speaker 3: against the Chargers, then now we're gonna start looking at
- 47:50Speaker 3: it going what's what's the problem. And now you've got
- 47:52Speaker 3: two losses in a row. You know, now you know
- 47:54Speaker 3: the offense that the coordinator that you let go now
- 47:57Speaker 3: just beat you. So it's a lot of pressure on
- 47:59Speaker 3: this game. There's pressure on both sides of the ball.
- 48:03Speaker 3: But that's why they play it though. It's gonna be
- 48:05Speaker 3: a lot of fun, all right, appreciate it. Thanks for
- 48:08Speaker 3: all the calls. We got what we've got ten calls
- 48:10Speaker 3: here on a Wednesday. Thanks for Chris Beam running the board.
- 48:14Speaker 3: I'm Nick Eatman. We will see you tomorrow on Cowboys Storyline.
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