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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 is Cowboys Storyline presented by Gellette, the official shave
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 3: What is up?
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to Cowboys storyline presented by Gellette.
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  Speaker 3: I am Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 4: Let's talk some Cowboys football, and let's turn the page
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  Speaker 4: from the Cowboys Bears game to the Green Bay Packers.
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  Speaker 4: This is the game everyone's been talking about since the trade,
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  Speaker 4: the trade that happened. They wanted to talk about the
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  Speaker 4: Packers game coming in September twenty eighth. What's gonna happen. Well,
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  Speaker 4: this is a great week to go ahead and jump
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  Speaker 4: right to that because the Packers are next. Yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 4: talk about the Bears game for sure. If you guys
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  Speaker 4: still want to want to do that, I know we
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  Speaker 4: had a show Monday, But if you still want to
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  Speaker 4: talk a little bit about what went wrong and how
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  Speaker 4: to fix this thing, that's fine, go right ahead. That's
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  Speaker 4: the that's your show. It's it's this is what it's
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  Speaker 4: designed to do. But we're also going to talk about
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  Speaker 4: what the Cowboys have to do to slow down the
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  Speaker 4: Packers pass rush. Of course, we know Micah Parson is
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  Speaker 4: going to be chomping at the bit, but they got
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  Speaker 4: other guys there as well. They're gonna be pissed off
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  Speaker 4: too because of they lost their game against the Cleveland Browns.
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  Speaker 4: What does that mean for for Sunday's game? Of course,
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  Speaker 4: probably a bigger issue for the Cowboys right now, and
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  Speaker 4: it's hard to say that it's a bigger issue than
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  Speaker 4: trying to block Mike and those guys up front. But
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  Speaker 4: but the offensive line has has another injury now. Tyler
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  Speaker 4: Booker is out with the high ankle sprain and there's
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  Speaker 4: a chance he could go to IR. It's it's that
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  Speaker 4: kind of injury. Probably four to six weeks ceedee lamb.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, with the injury, he's probably not gonna play.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see if he goes to IR as well. I
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  Speaker 4: still think as of right now he probably will not,
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  Speaker 4: but that could change here in the next few days.
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  Speaker 4: I think the big thing is, you know, by Friday,
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  Speaker 4: you see where he is, because if they think that
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  Speaker 4: he's not going to be back in less than four games,
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  Speaker 4: then you put him on IR and you get another
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  Speaker 4: roster spot. But if you think that maybe he can
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  Speaker 4: come back, then you do it. That's what they did
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  Speaker 4: with dron Bland. And it looks like darn Bland could play.
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  Speaker 4: He's missed two games, look like he might plays trending
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  Speaker 4: in the right direction to play. So we'll talk about
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  Speaker 4: all that and more. Let's get to the phone lines.
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  Speaker 4: Eight aight, eight eight five five two two ninety seven.
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  Speaker 4: Gary in New Mexico is next.
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  Speaker 3: Gary? What's up?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Nick?
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  Speaker 6: I'm not giving up yet. Still fourteen games to go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's good.
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  Speaker 6: Just hang in there eternally. But I did want to
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  Speaker 6: mention this because as longtime Cowboy fans, you know, we
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  Speaker 6: lost D. D Lewis last week, right, and some of
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  Speaker 6: those guys that we grew up watching, you know, they're
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  Speaker 6: starting to you know, they're reaching that stage of life
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  Speaker 6: where this is going to be kind of a common
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  Speaker 6: thread moving forward. But uh so, D d Lewis, you know,
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  Speaker 6: one of my favorite players, one of those unforgotten guys.
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  Speaker 6: Thirteen seasons with the Cowboys, played in nine NFC championship games,
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  Speaker 6: in five Super Bowls, And that's why I'm so spoiled
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  Speaker 6: as a fan because that was just the expectation growing up.
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  Speaker 6: That's expected they're going to get there, but my trivia
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  Speaker 6: question for you, and then I'm just gonna hang up
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  Speaker 6: and listen.
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  Speaker 7: Because I know I got to be short.
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  Speaker 6: DEDE. Lewis's last season was nineteen eighty one. The next year,
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  Speaker 6: the Cowboys gave his number to a rookie linebacker from
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  Speaker 6: an Ivy League school who wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff Rohorr.
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  Speaker 6: Oh Man, you are so good.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you nailed it.
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  Speaker 6: You nailed it. You nailed Jeff Ford. I want to
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  Speaker 6: try to call back later in the week with the
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  Speaker 6: Green Bay trivia question. Man, good job, love your show.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Thanks Gary, appreciate that good stuff about Jeff
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  Speaker 4: Rohorr from Yale. That's right, Lester, and Minnesota is next.
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  Speaker 9: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing, Lester?
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  Speaker 9: I'm doing all right, man. I got two things I
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  Speaker 9: want to say. First of all, I looked at our
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  Speaker 9: defense and our defensive players out there. The defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 9: is working with he's not working with a full deck
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  Speaker 9: as we know, the injuries or whatever. But that don't
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  Speaker 9: mean that. I mean as far as the players that
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  Speaker 9: we have, we need more what I would call playmakers.
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  Speaker 9: And I know we can't fix it this year. I
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  Speaker 9: understand that, but we need to look at that. But
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  Speaker 9: my point, my main point I want to make is
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  Speaker 9: I don't understand why we have CD Lamb running the
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  Speaker 9: ball at all in eighty time and we have a
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  Speaker 9: running game. Now, that's our best player, maybe our second
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  Speaker 9: best player on the whole team. He's a receiver. Let
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  Speaker 9: him do receiver things. I understand, you know, it's prime
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  Speaker 9: time game. We want to see him do different things.
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  Speaker 9: But why is he running the ball? That's a self
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  Speaker 9: inflicted wound. There's no reason because we have a very
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  Speaker 9: pretty good running game is year and that's all I have.
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys, all right, thanks, Lester. Can't I can't really argue
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  Speaker 4: with you there. You know, there were there were times where,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the last couple of years, they tried to
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  Speaker 4: get the ball in his hands and I just don't
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  Speaker 4: feel the need to do that and in that area,
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  Speaker 4: and I've heard the argument back and forth. I've heard
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  Speaker 4: people say, well, receivers catch the ball, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: I mean running backs catch the ball. Why can't receivers.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's not even anywhere close. And so that's funny
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  Speaker 4: that you see that on Twitter and you're like, that's
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  Speaker 4: just people arguing to argue without really watching football and
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  Speaker 4: knowing the game. Uh, the point of the matter is
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  Speaker 4: is you see CD. He's a slender wide receiver. They
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  Speaker 4: all pretty much are, but he's even on the lighter side.
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  Speaker 3: He's great in his own way, but more down the field.
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  Speaker 4: And and also you know, and just with space when
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  Speaker 4: you get it in there with all all the big boys,
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  Speaker 4: that's where you're going to see linebackers and defensive ends
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  Speaker 4: and falling on you awkwardly and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: So I totally agree with you.
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  Speaker 4: I know if Jerry Jones said on Tuesday morning on
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  Speaker 4: the radio show that he didn't have any regrets on that, but.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's almost like a wide receiver or a
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  Speaker 4: star player that returns kicks. You know, you don't want
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  Speaker 4: them to do that because that they have a chance
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  Speaker 4: to get to get hurt. There's the theory on that too.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't see. I don't think you'll see a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people running the football like that.
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  Speaker 3: Again, all right, let's go to our next, our next caller.
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  Speaker 9: What's up, hey, Nick, how's it going?
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  Speaker 10: Brother?
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  Speaker 5: I would get out of.
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  Speaker 10: Here real quick. It's Eco from Springs. So I'm just
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  Speaker 10: gonna say this. We look absolutely atrocious. We look like
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  Speaker 10: when Jesse Holly goes to a seven eleven and there's
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  Speaker 10: no Pump eight and all the trailer parks are shut down,
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  Speaker 10: ib reflues. You need to do something. And you know what,
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  Speaker 10: you already know how I feel about shot in Himriy.
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  Speaker 10: That's what I'm gonna call him, mouse Shottenheimer.
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  Speaker 5: Since you didn't like what.
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  Speaker 10: I said the other day, dude, you need to culture
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  Speaker 10: it up for real, because Cowboys fans are no longer frustrated.
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  Speaker 10: We're just mad.
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  Speaker 3: Cool.
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  Speaker 4: I bet they're frustrated too. Uh, you know that's that's
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  Speaker 4: the thing. I mean, that's cool. Thanks for being quick
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  Speaker 4: on that. And uh, I don't I don't think you
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  Speaker 4: need to speak for all cowboy fans. And that's that's
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  Speaker 4: what I what I always think.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't speak for everybody that's you know, all everyone
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  Speaker 4: that's on the podcast, and and you certainly you can't
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  Speaker 4: get into anyone else's mind, so for and I think
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  Speaker 4: it's been very clear.
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  Speaker 3: Thing.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for the call, Aniko. I think it's very
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  Speaker 4: clear that your way of thinking is different than a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the other people that call the show and
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  Speaker 4: that's fine, not to say it's wrong, just different than others.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what we need. We need, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: mixed of variety of stuff. Yeah, I get it. Frustration mad,
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  Speaker 4: what Yeah, I mean, it's it's certainly there and it
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  Speaker 4: should be. As I said before to you before that,
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  Speaker 4: you know you're calling names to Shottenheimer and all that.
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  Speaker 3: You're not mad at Schoenheimer. You're not mad, You're not.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what you're mad at is the fact that
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  Speaker 4: you feel like this franchise should have won a Super
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  Speaker 4: Bowl in the last thirty years. And I'm not saying
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  Speaker 4: you're wrong. I'm just saying that's what you're frustrated with.
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  Speaker 4: So to take shots at the guys that are here,
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  Speaker 4: the players, the coaches that are trying to get back
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  Speaker 4: to that point, you know, that's that's uncalled for as well.
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  Speaker 4: But that's fine. I understand being mad. That's certainly part
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 4: Back on the Cowboys storyline. I am Nick Eatman, and
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  Speaker 4: we're talking little Cowboys football. The Green Bay Packers come
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  Speaker 4: to town this week. This is one that everyone's been
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  Speaker 4: been waiting for. And I think that uh, watching them
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  Speaker 4: lose to the Browns on Sunday that I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what that makes you feel like It's like, Okay, well
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  Speaker 4: maybe they're not as good as everyone thought they were.
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  Speaker 4: You know, to lose this game, offense didn't didn't do much,
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  Speaker 4: and they they found a way to lose. Actually, what's
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  Speaker 4: something you know we've seen the Cowboys do here as well,
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  Speaker 4: But you know in that in that game, you wonder,
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  Speaker 4: all right, what kind of are they going to be
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  Speaker 4: even more riled up for this one? I think they
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  Speaker 4: might have had a better chance to sneak up on
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  Speaker 4: them had they been three to zero. But either way,
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  Speaker 4: with the emotions of this game and the soap opera
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  Speaker 4: that happened all off season, it's certainly going to be
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  Speaker 4: a wild one. Let's go back to the phone lines. Anthony, Northtown, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 14: Anthony, Yo, what's something nick to speak? I'm good to you,
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  Speaker 14: all right, So let me keep it quick. Two things first, one,
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  Speaker 14: what do you think about who is it?
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  Speaker 10: Uh?
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  Speaker 14: Bell and Yanye Thomas Uh either getting some more burn
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  Speaker 14: or basically taking over both Malik and Donald's physicians. And
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  Speaker 14: the last one, uh Carl last And I haven't heard
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  Speaker 14: any talk about him? And I mean maybe I'm tripping,
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  Speaker 14: but was I the only one that really thought that
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  Speaker 14: he was productive last year? I thought he was pretty
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  Speaker 14: productive last year with pressures and in sacks? Well what
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  Speaker 14: about him? Why not go give him a try? Let
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  Speaker 14: me hear your talk, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, thanks, Anthony.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's thirty two teams that have have not gone
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  Speaker 4: that route with him, you know, and and and signed him.
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  Speaker 4: I believe he's still out on the street free agency,
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  Speaker 4: and as he was before when when the Cowboys signed
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  Speaker 4: him out of desperation and Heed not. You know, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he did a nice job. I think that's one of
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  Speaker 4: those situations where and we're seeing it with these guys here,
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  Speaker 4: we're seeing it opposite of Micah because he had a
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  Speaker 4: little bit more production. When Micah came back from injury,
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  Speaker 4: Dante Fowler had more production. These guys had more production.
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  Speaker 4: On the other side, I think you're gonna find the
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  Speaker 4: guys in Green Bay probably have a little bit more
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  Speaker 4: production too. Robert Mathis might might have had an All
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  Speaker 4: Pro career because the other side of Dwight Freeney happens
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  Speaker 4: that way. I don't think in this situation as it
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  Speaker 4: is right now, I don't. I don't think Carl Lawson
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  Speaker 4: gives you a better opportunity than any of the guys
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  Speaker 4: that you have. I think that's what they believe. Sounds
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  Speaker 4: like thirty one other teams believe that too. As for
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  Speaker 4: the safeties changing up, the first thing I want to
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  Speaker 4: see is I want to see them fix the pass rusher.
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  Speaker 4: I've said it, I said it on the show the
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  Speaker 4: other day. I believe that is the number one problem
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  Speaker 4: of this team. They are just not getting to the quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't care who's back there in coverage. You
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  Speaker 4: are not going to get You're going to give up
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  Speaker 4: big plays. You just are going to give up big
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  Speaker 4: plays if you don't have the kind of production and
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  Speaker 4: pass rush up front. So I want to see that first.
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  Speaker 4: If you do that, you fix that, and you still
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  Speaker 4: have play in the secondary that's not up to paron,
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  Speaker 4: then maybe make a change. But I'm I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: think you're gonna I mean, I don't have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of faith in one day Thomas and Marque's bell just
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  Speaker 4: fixing the problem at safety.
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  Speaker 3: I really, I really don't. I don't think that's that's
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  Speaker 3: the issue. And you know.
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  Speaker 4: Safety, the biggest thing for safeties is is you have
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  Speaker 4: to be able to tackle, but you also have to
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  Speaker 4: have awareness as well. My thing right now is fix
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  Speaker 4: the pass rush. That's my number one it would be
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  Speaker 4: my number one goal, and then after that we'll see
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  Speaker 4: what really is the problem. And darn blank coming back
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  Speaker 4: I think is going to help a lot. It's been
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  Speaker 4: a big difference from what you saw in the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 4: game and also what you saw in the last two games.
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  Speaker 4: Mike in Birmingham, England is next.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Nick, ho are you doing? Hi? How are you yeah, good,
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  Speaker 7: thank you. Yeah yeah, listen, just a quick one. And
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  Speaker 7: our offense is good when everyone's fitting available. Our offense
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  Speaker 7: is good, but it's not good enough for our defense
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  Speaker 7: to be this bad. Dak's going to have to put
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  Speaker 7: up thirty to forty points every week for us to
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  Speaker 7: win a game at this right, But you warned us, Nix,
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  Speaker 7: because when we were back months ago debating whether McCarthy
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  Speaker 7: should stay or not, you said, when a new head
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  Speaker 7: coach starts, it's very rarely brilliant from the get go.
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  Speaker 7: So we knew what this season was likely to be.
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  Speaker 7: We knew we had too many holes to fill. Now
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  Speaker 7: people are getting injured. I don't believe we're as bad
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  Speaker 7: as we saw on Sunday night, and just lasting I
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  Speaker 7: heard people and are read on line people calling for
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  Speaker 7: Ilse to go. That's ridiculous. Come on, let's uh, let's
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  Speaker 7: stick with it. Let's give them some time and hopefully
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  Speaker 7: get some pieces back, and let's fix this thing. Only
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  Speaker 7: go bring on the package, all right?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I think that, And that's probably the way the Cowboys
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  Speaker 4: are going to operate here. Let's let's see what happens
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  Speaker 4: when he gets a little bit more pieces there. Not
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  Speaker 4: only did you lose arguably the best defensive player in football,
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  Speaker 4: the highest paid defensive player in football, and there's there's
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  Speaker 4: no doubt about that, which he was going to be
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  Speaker 4: here anyways, you know that was That's not the point.
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  Speaker 4: It's but you lose him and you've gained a run
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  Speaker 4: stopper and Kenny Clark solid, solid, to really good run stopper.
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  Speaker 4: But that's certainly not it's not dynamic and a dynamic
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  Speaker 4: piece of your defense. And then to to lose Deron
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  Speaker 4: Bland for a couple of games over Overshown is another
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  Speaker 4: guy that I think is a dynamic player that can help.
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  Speaker 4: So they're let's let's let them, you know, and not
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  Speaker 4: only they lose something, but he's lost a couple of
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  Speaker 4: others they get. But still scheme wise, there's problems there.
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  Speaker 4: There's issues with how they are communicating. They've got to
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  Speaker 4: figure this out. And I say it all the time.
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  Speaker 4: They've got to be better during the week, They've got
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  Speaker 4: to be better in meetings, they've got to be better
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  Speaker 4: in practice because it is very very apparent when they
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  Speaker 4: go out in the field that they are struggling. They
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: struggle early in games. There's too many first half points
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: that they're allowing. That shows to me that the preparation
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: isn't as good as it needs to be. It's not
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: like they're just making adjustments. The Eagles went up and
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: down the field. The Giants had a lot of success
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: there in the first half. Didn't score a lot of points,
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: but they have they moved the ball, they you know,
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: they had they had a lot of success. And of
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: course the Bears did as well. Twenty four points most
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: that they've given up first half, So that that that
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: means in the first half, everything that's happening during the
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: week is not working for the Cowboys. So that's that's
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: got to be fixed. All right, let's go, Jake or Jack.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry Jack, New Mexico.
• 17:00
  Speaker 15: Jack, mister Eatman, long time trying to get into your show,
• 17:05
  Speaker 15: followed you forever, lifelong Cowboy fan, and I thought Gary
• 17:09
  Speaker 15: from New Mexico needed some company. All right, So now
• 17:13
  Speaker 15: you have Jack from New Mexico.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: All right, Hey, there we go, here we go, let's go.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
• 17:20
  Speaker 15: All right, Nick, I got a short question this offensive holding.
• 17:28
  Speaker 15: You know, I tried to call a bunch last year.
• 17:30
  Speaker 15: Micah was getting held on every single play. I think
• 17:34
  Speaker 15: it's gotten to the point where the defensive players are
• 17:38
  Speaker 15: so fast and strong they're letting the offensive linemen hold
• 17:42
  Speaker 15: because you can't stop them without that. What i'd like
• 17:46
  Speaker 15: you to do sometime, Nick, and I don't know whether
• 17:48
  Speaker 15: you can do it or not, is get either Woody
• 17:51
  Speaker 15: or Nate one of your guests on the show and
• 17:53
  Speaker 15: just do a real simple explanation of what is holding
• 17:58
  Speaker 15: and what isn't. I'm I mean there was some times
• 18:01
  Speaker 15: last year they almost pulled Micah's jersey off and it
• 18:04
  Speaker 15: didn't get called. Yeah, and I think it's happening with
• 18:07
  Speaker 15: ez A Roku this year also. So I you know,
• 18:11
  Speaker 15: I don't know whether the officiating crew in New York
• 18:15
  Speaker 15: or Nate Newton or somebody that could give us a
• 18:19
  Speaker 15: simple explanation of what is holding and what isn't, because
• 18:24
  Speaker 15: I think they're holding on every single play and they
• 18:27
  Speaker 15: just call it at critical times.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Well they You're right, they are holding every play. I
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: mean they are, and an offensive linemen are kind of
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: taught how to hold at the right spot where it's
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: going to be tough to see.
• 18:39
  Speaker 15: Yeah. Yeah, So I don't know an explanation clarification from
• 18:44
  Speaker 15: somebody that actually does it would be really cool for
• 18:48
  Speaker 15: us listeners. But it's one of the pet peeves I have.
• 18:52
  Speaker 15: As far as this year, I'm die hard fan. I
• 18:55
  Speaker 15: know it's been a little bit ugly, but I'm cowboys
• 18:58
  Speaker 15: to the end. You know, they'll they'll get it together
• 19:02
  Speaker 15: and win a few games.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: All right, Jack, thanks for the call, Thanks for joining
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: the storyline family. It's our first time caller for him.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: A couple of calls from New Mexico already in this show,
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: so the good work out there. I do believe that
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: there's call, there's holding on every play, you know, that's
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: that's part of it. I also believe that the defenders
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: are are really trying to get you know, Academy awards
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: as well.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: I mean that's part of it too. I mean if
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: you hold a little.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Bit, then they got their arms flailing and head back
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: and all that stuff, which slows them down too. So
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: it's almost like they are trying to get a call,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: just like receivers do sometimes with p I. They're trying
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: to get a call more than they're trying to kind
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: of go make the play. When they feel like they
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: can't make the play, then they then they they put
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: their arms up and their head back and probably yell
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: and scream if you could hear that. But that's probably
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: a big part of it as well. And it's always
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: and it always seems like a holding is at the
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: worst time because it's ten yards, I mean, it's to
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: ten yard penalty and wipes out whatever play you just had.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: So usually it comes at the worst moment. All right,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: let's go to break here again on Cowboys storyline to
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  Speaker 4: All right back here on Cowboys storyline, I'm Nick eat Menley,
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to case In, La. What's up, Casey, Nick?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: How's it going great? Here are you?
• 21:48
  Speaker 18: It's been better? I was worried about this game before
• 21:51
  Speaker 18: all the injuries on offense, but the lack of past
• 21:56
  Speaker 18: rush is really starting to worry me. At what point
• 21:59
  Speaker 18: do you think they might just bail on trying to
• 22:02
  Speaker 18: get something good to help that and just move the
• 22:05
  Speaker 18: resources towards next year, or try to bolster that and
• 22:10
  Speaker 18: see if we can make a run. Not feeling great though.
• 22:13
  Speaker 18: All right, I'm trying to be positive.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: All right, Well, I get it, it's not easy to
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: be positive at this point. But they're one and two.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: There's some you know, some good football teams out there
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: that are one and two. You know, I think the
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Chiefs are one and two. I think the Ravens are
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: one and two. And I get they've lost to you know,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: they've looked better and they're one and two than the
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: kay I get that, but they're still in the same
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: spot and then they're gonna have to get this thing
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: turned around. You're asking when do you shift the focus
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: and say, all right, this isn't really going to work
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: this year. It's probably the trade deadline. That's probably about
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: that that time. I believe it's in early November now,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: but that's that's probably when you're say, all right, well,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: you know, can't make it move anyways. And it almost
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: is what it is. But you know, I'm not, you know,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: not giving up on the season. You're just it's it's
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: more about, all right, this is what we have and
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: we've got to make it work. And if there's somebody
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: out there on the market, then then you go for that.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: But for the most part, it's not what's going on
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: with the Mexico. I mean, seriously, Sam and Albuquerque, New
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Mexico is next. Sam, Hey, how are you doing good?
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: How are you You guys are just taking over the show,
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: which is great.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: Man. I try to call all the time. I've been
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: trying to call to respond to something that Rob from
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: Vegas said for the last couple of weeks. So it's
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: tough to get in.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: But so my thing is so, I like most people
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: probably halfway agree with Rob, but he was talking about
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: trading picks to and I don't think our team's there.
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: And I think trading those first round picks for these
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: next couple drafts is like the worst mistake we could make,
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: because these next two drafts are.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Going to be really big.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: I think they have a lot of talent coming out
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: of college.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Okay, think that, Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, yeah.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: But the thing that I was talking like more recently
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: is I really don't want to see elim anymore. He
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: drives me nothing. I think that from what I saw
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: from the All twenty two is that on the Fleetlicker,
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: it looked like we were in cover three and everybody
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: is getting on hooker which he played horrible. But also
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: if you see elim he steps up, so like, why
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: are you in cover three and trying to play the
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: run from corner position when they're running in the middle.
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: It made no sense. Yeah, so I think Blank coming
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: back will help us there. I would like to see
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: the younger the younger safety's in there as well, Like
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: everybody else is saying, but corner is killing us. And
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: I'm actually not mad at Stuart. I think he's playing
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: pretty well. And I'm also tired of seeing thirteen coming
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: off the edge. But he's shooting inside every single time,
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: and it's just he's not effective anymore. I'd love to
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: see more Eland, and I mean, like everybody else, Houston
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: is the guy. But trading those draft picks would be
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: horrible for us right now. I actually think flu is okay.
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: I think the guys aren't doing what he's asking to do,
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: and I think he tried to give everybody what they wanted,
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: blitzed a little bit, plays a man, we give up
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: another touchdown. Nothing's working right now, and I think it's
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: the guys on the field, not the coaches as much.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, thanks thanks for the call. Sam.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: A different take Uh, that's and more players then coaches.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: This is one of those where it's probably both. I
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: mean there's a combination of both where they just they're
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: not mixing well. They're not taking to the coaching, and
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: maybe the coaching isn't isn't asking the players to do
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: what they do the best. But they they've got to play.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: Those players have to play better. And you know, a
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: guy like Dante Fowler, I mean, he's a veteran that
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: had a great year last year in Washington obviously with
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Dan Quinn, but you know, they they saw something that
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: that that thought he could still be a playmaker, and
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: so far it just hasn't been. It hasn't hasn't been
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: that that guy. As for trading picks, you know, I've
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: said it all along, you trade a guy.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: The only reason I'm doing it.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Is if I'm getting a player just like Green Bay
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: got and Michael Parsons. And I'm not saying you're gonna
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: get a Micah Parsons. What I'm saying, though, though, is
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: they they think Michaeh. Parsons has a lot of football left.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: So this certainly wasn't a rental player for them. You
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: look at how much they paid him. So it would
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: be a situation like that, do you feel like you
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: can beat the rest of free agency next year and
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: get a guy at twenty four twenty five years old
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: that can still play for the next five or six
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: years and he's gonna help your team right now, he's
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: gonna help your team down the road, and when he
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: needs a new contract, which will probably be next next year,
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: that the Cowboys would go get it. It would be
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: a team that says, we like him, we like him
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: a lot. I don't think he wants to be here,
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: and I don't think we're gonna be able to sign him.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: So let's get something for him better than a comp
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: pick in two years. Let's get something for him now
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: and we don't have to pay the money. And that's
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: that be the only thing that I would say, Yeah,
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: let's do that. But it has to be somebody that's
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: a part of your team that's going to fill some
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: needs this year and in years to come. Phone lines
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: are open here here at Cowboys storyline, which is rare.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Everyone talks all the time about and they can't get
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: in and the lines are open. So to do that,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: let me go with a text question here. Brian from
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Kansas City. From the text line says, if you're making
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: the decision, who are you starting linebackers this week? Keep
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Murray replaced Sanborn with lea foul. That's what he thinks.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: I'm fine with that.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Sanborn didn't hasn't really done much of anything. And I'm
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: fine with, you know, putting Leafel in. I mean, I
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: don't think he sets the world on fire when he's
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: in there either. I don't think anybody has played that
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: that great. You know, I wanted to see a little
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: bit more of sample size, and now we've seen it.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: We've seen three games. We've seen running quarterbacks, we've seen
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: guys that kind of run, we've seen deep ball throwers.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: We've seen a little bit of everything in three games,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: and and so far that hasn't been That hasn't been great.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: But you know, your linebackers are kind of the product
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: of everything else. And I still I still think it's
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: the it's certainly your your pass rush is a problem,
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: and your secondary is a problem. To linebackers are third
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: out of three. But but there's still you know, and
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: they still could be better, right Ronnie and New Jersey's
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: on the line, Ronnie, what's up?
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Ronnie, what's up? Man?
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: All right, let's in that call. Let's see if we
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: can go. Uh, Chris, we got the next caller is
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Brian ready?
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: He's ready?
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm here man.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Hey, how you doing? Was that your text?
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I never hear you say the phone lines are
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: open anymore. It's been, you know, just been a long time.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: I was like, so, I was just gonna text end
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: today because I figured I let other people get in.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: You know, well they're open.
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I hear you.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: So what's your you know, what's your take on the
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: wide receiver question? You know, how do they how do
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: you piece it together? If you're the one making the decision,
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: how do you piece it together with you know, how
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: do you use turping slightly differently than you were using
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: them before? You know, do you ask Pickens to run
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: different routes than he would run if he's the two?
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: You know what's Give me an idea what you think
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: about that? And obviously we'll see on Sunday, you know
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: what what actually happens psychic thing.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they they'll tell you that they don't change anything.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Thanks for the call. That they won't change anything.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: That's what they're going to tell you that that's why
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: you practice, that's why you have the two's come in
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: and you're not going to change necessarily the routes and
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: all that. But I mean, obviously there's going to be adjustments.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: There's adjustments made with with what these receivers do. Pickens
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: is going to do what he does. He might have
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: more coverage than he's used to seeing and so that's
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: you know that that's gonna be something for him. This
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: is a big time for him because you know, we've
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: we've heard one A, one B right, well, and he's
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: he's gonna be a free he's gonna he's a free
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: agent next year and he's obviously gonna get a big contract.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: He's got the same agent as Micah, so that that's
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: gonna be interesting obviously. So this is an opportunity for
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: him to prove that he's gonna get You know, when
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: you get that kind of money, you're gonna you're gonna
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: be asking for starter money. So what happens when you
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: are to the guy, That's what teams want to know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: that's what they're gonna.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Try to pay for.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: It's what the cowboys are gonna you don't want to
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: pay for as well, so this is a big moment
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: for him, you know, And I think part of that
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: frustration of him throwing his helmet down and being all
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: upset was part of that knowing that he's he's got
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: the pressure on him. He's got the pressure. He's got
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: to go out there and make some play. So I
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: asked your question though about you know what else happens here?
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, man, you would you would like to have
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: a little bit more depth. Mingo comes back. He should
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: be back after this this game. I think he's he's
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: on the pup list, so or I'm sorry, he's on
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: I R just four a week. I R to return
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: and so this would be his four games. He should
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: be able to come back after this game, which sounds
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: like CD will miss you know, two to three weeks,
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: maybe more. We'll see and he may go to IR
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: but he may not. But as for this game, you know,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: you're gonna have a lot of turp and you have
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: a lot of Talbert uh Flinoy is gonna.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Get in there, and then we'll see.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: I would imagine Jalen Brooks could could step up in
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: this situation. He's played, he's been on the field before.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Maybe you want to put one of the other young
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: guys holding. But I you know, I believe because of
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: special teams, you're gonna need more special teams up and
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: I think Jalen Brooks should probably be able to help
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: you there. All right, it's been a while here from
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Bruce and Houston.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Bruce.
• 31:54
  Speaker 19: Hey, Nick, Yeah, I was telling Chris it has been
• 31:57
  Speaker 19: a minute. I've been super busy and had a family death,
• 32:00
  Speaker 19: so tough, but thank you Nick. You know, I I
• 32:07
  Speaker 19: agreed with the with the Micah uh with the Micah trade.
• 32:13
  Speaker 19: I mean, because you just can't because of the cap
• 32:16
  Speaker 19: ramifications of it. You just couldn't have that much money
• 32:18
  Speaker 19: on three guys. So I would have liked they've got
• 32:21
  Speaker 19: another starter, but you know we didn't. So it is
• 32:24
  Speaker 19: I wouldn't trade any of those picks. I would I'd
• 32:27
  Speaker 19: maybe move them up, you know, use one of them
• 32:29
  Speaker 19: to move up in the draft. And the way they're
• 32:31
  Speaker 19: playing now at the mo on Dallas is obviously throwing
• 32:35
  Speaker 19: deep And that was kind of my question.
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: Do you think.
• 32:38
  Speaker 20: It's it's it's it's a scheme thing with Eberflus, or
• 32:44
  Speaker 20: can they not play man or are they just not
• 32:46
  Speaker 20: healthy enough? Or do we not have the players for it.
• 32:49
  Speaker 20: And that's kind of my question for you. But you know,
• 32:53
  Speaker 20: I'm a Cowboy fan since Tom Lander Rogers.
• 32:55
  Speaker 19: Staw back day. So I hope they do turn it around.
• 32:59
  Speaker 19: And what's the sad is they finally had a pretty
• 33:03
  Speaker 19: good running game. I mean, Williams is playing really really
• 33:08
  Speaker 19: good and they were balanced. Now they're going to have
• 33:11
  Speaker 19: to try to score thirty because they're going to give
• 33:13
  Speaker 19: up thirty, you know what I mean. But maybe if
• 33:16
  Speaker 19: you can answer that question, I don't know if they
• 33:18
  Speaker 19: just don't have the players for it, you know, because
• 33:21
  Speaker 19: these players were here before. I don't know if Diggs
• 33:23
  Speaker 19: will be staying around next year because of his contract.
• 33:26
  Speaker 19: And you know, anyway, if you can comment on that,
• 33:29
  Speaker 19: good talking to you, a good one.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's still early to find out exactly
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: what the major problem is scheme versus players. As I
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: said a few callers ago, I mean, let's don't roll
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: out both and especially the combination of both. Just think
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: about people that you know, you know, toxic relationships. I'm
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: not saying this is one, but it's like, you know,
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: these two they're just not good together, you know.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: What I mean.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: They're pretty good over here, and they're pretty good at
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: but together they're not good. And that might be a
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: situation we're finding out here that these this scheme versus
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: the players that you have is isn't the best match.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: And so the best coaches are the ones that that
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: figure out the scheme and and and the play calls
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: around the players. So that's that's what I look at,
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: is the coaches have to fix this.
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: And and believe me, when you when you.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Ride the charter like we do every every game, every
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: road game, and you see where we sit and you
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: see all the people in front of you. We got
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: a lot of coaches on this team. And and and
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: I'm sure Chris will agree with that, there's about thirty
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: coaches out here. There's there's there's more coaches. Sometimes when
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: you look at the positions, you look at three linebackers
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: or six linebackers or whatever, and you got a coach
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: assistant coach, and the trainer there, and a video guy
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: there and everything. I mean, you've got a lot of
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: resources here. That's what I'm trying to say. There's a
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: lot of people per player, So figure it out. There's
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: a lot of guys and if they can't figure it out,
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: then maybe they'd have too many coaches. So I'm putting
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: that on them. That's for the draft picks. I mean,
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: it's like I said, if something comes along, great, that's
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: gonna be great for down the road, just like a
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: draft pick is. Then then then go for it. So
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: all right, let's go to Randy's in Wichita, Kansas. Randy,
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: it's up.
• 35:21
  Speaker 21: Hey, Nick, thanks for taking my call, first time caller.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: There we go, There we go.
• 35:28
  Speaker 21: Piggyback on what you were just saying about being on
• 35:30
  Speaker 21: the plane and you are able to see things obviously
• 35:33
  Speaker 21: we can't. I'm trying to buy in to this culture.
• 35:36
  Speaker 21: I'm trying. I've been a fan for thirty plus years, okay,
• 35:40
  Speaker 21: and it's always the same thing, no matter who the
• 35:42
  Speaker 21: coach is, no matter who the players are, we always
• 35:45
  Speaker 21: run into the same problems. So trying to buy into
• 35:49
  Speaker 21: Shoddy and what he's doing, Jerry making comments after the
• 35:53
  Speaker 21: trade about doing things different, trying to buy into that.
• 35:58
  Speaker 21: So I don't really have a take necessarily. I just
• 36:02
  Speaker 21: want to see your what your take is on being
• 36:05
  Speaker 21: able to ride this out and believing that the Cowboys
• 36:09
  Speaker 21: can actually finally get to where we've been wanting to
• 36:13
  Speaker 21: get for thirty years.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, I'll hang up and listen. All right,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: thanks Randy.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: I mean like, like I view it differently as far
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: as it looks the same. On that like, nothing looks
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: the same like to me, And I know that if
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: you want to be if fan not you just if
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: fans want to be some simplistic and say it's always
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: the same because someone in the last thirty years has
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: held that trophy up and it's not the Cowboys, so
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: therefore it's the same.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: See.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: I don't look at it that way at all. No
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: game's the same, No injury is the same, no years
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: the same, nothing is the same. So I that's my
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: take right there. If you feel like the operation is
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: always the same, like the same type of stuff, same streategy,
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: same plan all the time, I'll say this, this is
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: something this year is something you've never You've not seen before.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: You haven't seen the Cowboys since nineteen eighty nine. You
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: have not seen them say this is our best player,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: but it's better for us if he's on this other
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: team over here and we get draft picks for the future,
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: like we haven't seen that. Everyone has said, oh, well,
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: you know Jerry'll signed them. Jerry doesn't lose great players.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: And you know what, just so tell you you guys
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: are clear about this. This is something the agents have
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: been doing. Okay, this is an agent. You don't think
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: agent's talk. Hey, talk all the time. Hey we got
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: I got a big one coming up here with the Cowboys.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: We're trying to get my guy signed.
• 37:44
  Speaker 19: Wow.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Well, let me just tell you right now. Push because
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Jerry's not gonna let him go. Jerry will never let
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: him go. So don't settle for this. Keep pushing, push, push, push, push,
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: because Jerry's not gonna let a great player leave the building.
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: Wins.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Whin's the last time he's done it? Herschel.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well it happened because that's exactly what was happening.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: They had a deal, they had a deal in place.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: It was going to be the most he was going
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: to be the highest paid on quarterback in NFL history.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: That it was his turn. You know, Miles Garrett got
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: the deal. Then he was going to get the deal,
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: and that's what it was. But they went for way, way,
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: way higher than that. And that's where Jerry drew the line.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: So you want to say things are different there's a
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: difference right there. That's a difference for him saying, you
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: know what, as great as his football player is, and
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: he's never gonna be playing better than he's going to
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: play Sunday night, you just be ready for that one.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: So but as great as that is, it wasn't worth
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: sacrificing what he was he wanted to sacrifice, and all
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: this crap about micaelh Is.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: You know, he was a team guy and he missed it.
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: No, he's not.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Michael's a me guy. It was always about Michael ever
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: since he was at Penn State. And he said, no,
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna I'm gonna opt out of this last
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: year of COVID year.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna wait for the draft.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Which is fine. He's not the only player that did it,
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: But what does that tell you about him?
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: And I said it over and over. I've seen him pissed,
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: you know, after a win because he did get a sack.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: I've seen him pretty pretty okay and upbeat after a
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: loss because he got two and a half. He's different,
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: and so they didn't want to pay him forty seven million.
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Forty one was was kind of draw on the line.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: But I mean more than that. They didn't want to
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: do it. So if you want, you want your difference,
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: there was your difference. Cowboys said. Now we're gonna draw
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: the line here.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: This is this.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: You know, we're gonna let him go, and we're gonna
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: We're gonna think about the future more than think about
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: what this decision is right now? All right, big mail,
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: big meil in in Dallas, Georgia. Yes, how you doing, man,
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: first time caller, for sure, I know Dallas, Georgia.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: I haven't said before.
• 39:39
  Speaker 22: You know something, my coworker think I bought a house,
• 39:41
  Speaker 22: did just because I'm a fan of the Cowboys?
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Hold on, hold on?
• 39:44
  Speaker 23: Did you no?
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: So what what came for your your Dallas Cowboy fandom
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: or living in Dallas, Georgia?
• 39:55
  Speaker 22: Oh no, no, I'm actually I'm out of New Jersey,
• 39:59
  Speaker 22: but I down here since two thousand and seven.
• 40:02
  Speaker 23: So but yeah, I've been a fan since the seventies.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Man, all right, cool? What you got, man? What you
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: got for me?
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Hey?
• 40:09
  Speaker 23: Man, if we can't have these historically bad games, do
• 40:13
  Speaker 23: you think they will eventually start to rest like Dak
• 40:17
  Speaker 23: and other players like that at caliber? Do you think
• 40:21
  Speaker 23: that'll ever happen.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: But resting them like what we saw like at the
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: end of the game exactly. Yeah, man, I mean it's
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: a long season and you gotta be smart about it.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: And you get in the game and you're trying to
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: do what come back and score a little bit, and
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: you know, they got backups in the game that are
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: trying to prove themselves, so they're still going to try
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: to get there and hit the quarterback and all that
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: kind of stuff.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: So I mean, yeah, it happens.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, I know Dak wasn't happy to be out
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: of the game, but I think he understood it. So
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: it's got to be the right situation. But I mean,
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: you got got anything else, because I have another point
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: on that. You have anything else?
• 41:00
  Speaker 23: No, not pretty much it, man. I appreciate getting through.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: Man, all right, big Mountain, love it all right, Dallas,
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: Georgia right there.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: The thing about it is is that you know it's
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: thirty one to fourteen, and the Cowboys were down at
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: the two.
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know why they didn't run the football.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: They threw a couple passes that got an interception, now
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: you know, and then they then Milton comes in and
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: he drives down, and I mean, just think about think
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: about if they just would have kicked a field goal,
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: which I actually did say in the press box, just
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: kicking a field goal and make a two score game,
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: which nobody's nobody's hearing that, which is fine, I get
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: it too, But say you do that thirty one seventeen
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: the conservative offense the Bears had. On the next drive,
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: we're exactly going to be the same. You're gonna get
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: the ball, you drive again. They were there to score
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: with two minutes to go, thirty one twenty four, two
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: minutes to go. I mean, I think they still had
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: at least one time out maybe, So I'm just saying,
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: you know, you could have gone on side kick.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: So it's funny. It's very rare that you're really really
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: out of a game, you know.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, it just doesn't happen much, all right, Rick
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: and Webster, Massachusetts is our last caller, Rick, what's up?
• 42:01
  Speaker 21: Hey?
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: Nick?
• 42:02
  Speaker 24: Call you Dom good?
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: How are you all right?
• 42:06
  Speaker 21: You know?
• 42:07
  Speaker 24: Probably don't I know that probably Fiberflus is the head
• 42:13
  Speaker 24: coach or the coach of the defense. When shoddy like
• 42:17
  Speaker 24: being the head coach, say hey, I want you to
• 42:19
  Speaker 24: throw in some you know, blitz to throw out the game,
• 42:22
  Speaker 24: you know, the just get do that and see.
• 42:24
  Speaker 14: How things go.
• 42:25
  Speaker 24: Or switch it up. Maybe play half zone half man
• 42:29
  Speaker 24: part of the game and see how that goes. Because
• 42:31
  Speaker 24: you would get blown up by a zone. Why don't
• 42:33
  Speaker 24: we try see if man works.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you're right, You're right about that. And
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: it always mix it up, you know, thanks for the call,
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: rig even if things were going super great. Okay, let's
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: let's say you're pitching a shutout. You know, yeah, you
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: always say, you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: it and don't get too crazy. But you always should
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: mix things up. I mean, if if you keep doing
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: the same thing, that's why this offense versus defense, these coordinators,
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: it's always a chess match. It's you know, it's just
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: like baseball, you know what I mean. Sometimes you throw
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: a fastball, sometimes you throw a curve. I mean, if
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: it's just fastball all the time, you're gonna give up
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: home runs. It's when are you doing it? When are
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: you picking your spots? He thinks this, so I'm gonna
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: do this, But I think he thinks that. I think
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: that he thinks this, but I think this. That's what
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: it is, and that's what they've got to figure it out.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: So and a shot. He is the head coach.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he can come in and say, hey, how about
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: some more blitzes here, coach, you know, and he might say, well, wy,
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: don't you worry about your team? And then he said, well,
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: I'm the head coach. Once you runner blitz you know
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: it saysn't remember the Titans, you know, with the oast
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: and boone to worry about your No, I'm the head coach,
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: so you may make the call. Now, I'm not saying
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: he goes in there and grabs the offensive players and
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: say you blitz all night, you know, maybe or or
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: at least some of it. All right, let's go to
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  Speaker 4: All right back here on Cowboys storyline. You know we
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: do more than just phone calls. We take text line
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: questions as well, and we've got one from Mike in Boston.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: He said after watching Sunday's game, I hope they don't
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: trade any first round picks to bring in a pass rusher.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: I think we keep the two first round picks. Go defense.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: Defense in next year's draft and literally we signed George Pickens,
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: our offense will be fine. Literally devote the draft to defense.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: We'll see about that with Pickens about signing him. And
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: this is a good opportunity for him, uh with with
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: CD being out for at least one game, maybe a
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: couple more, you know, he has a chance to show
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: what he can do as the number one receiver. So
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: this is this, you know, this will determine whether or
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: not the Cowboys want to sign him or other teams
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: want to sign him. So it's a big audition moment
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: for him and ask for you know, trading next year's
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: picks again one more time. It's if there is an
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: opportunity to get ahead of free agency, get a young
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: player that's gonna be here for a few years, I'm
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: totally fine with that.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: I'd be fine with trading.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: I'd like to trade Green Bays pick more than the Cowboys,
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: but that's that's kind of.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: The way way way it is.
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: But by doing that, I think that you certainly have
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: an opportunity to to get a player in here that
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: that will be more than just this year. So if
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: that makes sense, then I'd be fine with that. And
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: then knowing that you would have to have to sign them.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: But right now they're one and two, and there's a
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: lot of good football teams that are one and two.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: But they've they've got to look better. It's not it's
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: not just about how the record is, it's how are
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: you playing? How demoralizing our things? Right now? Make sure
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: and turn the corner here and I'll tell you a
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: big win against Green Bay would go a long way.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: You'd feel great about your two and two football team
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: if they can beat the Packers. All right, great show, guys,
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: appreciate all the calls. A lot of fun. We'll talk
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: about it next week as well. See what happens after
• 46:53
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• 46:55
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