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  Speaker 1: Is a production of dallascowboys.com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 1: This is Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette, the official shave
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning and welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Nick Eatman. It is Tuesday, September 22nd, and we
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  Speaker 3: are officially turning the page to week three. It's not
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  Speaker 3: just any game. It's going to be a different one. I,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I pride myself on the fact that I've
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  Speaker 3: seen a lot of things and I haven't seen everything. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl and NFC Championship game, but I've never been
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  Speaker 3: to Brazil, actually. I don't even know how many countries
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  Speaker 3: I've been to, but maybe four. Whatever the Cowboys have
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  Speaker 3: taken me to, that's the countries that I've been to.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm excited to go, and I know it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a unique trip, and I know I've heard
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  Speaker 3: some negative aspects of it in the long flight and
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  Speaker 3: watch for this, and you might have to just be
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  Speaker 3: stuck in a room for three days. Hey, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to see a different country and experience this. Cowboys have
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  Speaker 3: been Ravens. Um, it's going to be a lot of
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  Speaker 3: fun and I'm, I'm looking forward to it. I think
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  Speaker 3: the team is as well. Um, but the matchup is
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  Speaker 3: not going to be easy. It doesn't matter if Baltimore
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  Speaker 3: is coming here, uh, at the star or AT &
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  Speaker 3: T stadium or in Baltimore or in Rio or the moon,
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  Speaker 3: as Jason Garrett would say, parking lot is going to
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  Speaker 3: be tough. It doesn't matter what the field is going
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  Speaker 3: to be like. Um, we'll talk about that as well.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure that the NFL is, is working to make
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  Speaker 3: sure the playing surface is, is, um, up to speed, but, um,
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be a lot of fun, but we're
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  Speaker 3: going to talk about it. And hopefully we've got somebody
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  Speaker 3: that could really provide some insight on the Ravens. We'll
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  Speaker 3: see if we can get that worked out here later
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  Speaker 3: in the show. But let's start us off. Albert in
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  Speaker 3: Tucson is first. What's up, Albert?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, Nick. How are you, my man?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 6: I'm getting ready to go to Rio.
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  Speaker 4: Nice. Really?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go.
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  Speaker 6: So I'll see you at the game, hopefully, at the
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  Speaker 6: 20-yard line.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, that's awesome. You're going to Rio. They're the first
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  Speaker 3: fan that I've even heard of that's going. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I know fans are going, but I just haven't. When
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  Speaker 3: did you get your tickets and flights and all this stuff?
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  Speaker 6: I just got them about a week and a half ago.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't know officially. I had a girlfriend that
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  Speaker 6: she was kind of iffy, and then she finally told me, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So I said, hey, we're going. And she's a big
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  Speaker 6: Cowboys fan, too. So we're going up there.
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  Speaker 3: And you have a storyline shirt, right?
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't get one?
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  Speaker 6: No, I wasn't a captain or anything. I didn't even
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  Speaker 6: get picked this past year.
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  Speaker 4: But it's all good.
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  Speaker 3: I think you should have gotten one.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting. You're a, I think you were on the team.
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  Speaker 3: You should have gotten one, man. We got to get
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  Speaker 3: you one. You got to get you one for, for Brazil.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Definitely for Brazil.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, when do you leave?
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  Speaker 6: Um, I'm actually leaving in about, uh, two hours.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, can't do nothing about that anyways. Now, but, uh, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: have fun with that, but let's, let's talk about the
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  Speaker 3: game or whatever you want to talk about.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely. Definitely.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, I'm excited. What I want to talk about is
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  Speaker 6: the identity that I'm seeing on this defense.
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  Speaker 4: They're hitters.
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  Speaker 6: They're knocking the ball loose. I'm always preaching momentum. I
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  Speaker 6: know this defense is going to get the ball rolling,
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  Speaker 6: and they're going to be something to watch towards the
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  Speaker 6: middle end of the season when they get all the
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  Speaker 6: ducks in a row. The question I got is how
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  Speaker 6: much interest or how much emphasis are they going to
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  Speaker 6: put on Jackson considering he's that mobile quarterback And they
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  Speaker 6: have issues at receivers. So what do you think about
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  Speaker 6: how much defense is going to be.
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  Speaker 4: Totaled to that guy?
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 6: And that's all I got. And go Cowboys. And I'll
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  Speaker 6: see you over there.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for the call. Appreciate it, Albert. Good luck with
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  Speaker 3: the trip and the travel to Rio. That's a great
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  Speaker 3: way to start us off. But I think if you don't–
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you have to have– you know, guys in
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  Speaker 3: the box there. I mean, I think the focus has
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  Speaker 3: to be there. And this is going to be a
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  Speaker 3: big game for your corners because I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: much help you can give them. They're going to have
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  Speaker 3: to stop the run. I mean, it hasn't been good
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  Speaker 3: enough the last two games. I mean, even Washington rushed
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  Speaker 3: for 180 something yards and they were down for most
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  Speaker 3: of the second half too. So in really most of
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  Speaker 3: the game, but The teams have run the ball with
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  Speaker 3: success the first two games, and they're not Derrick Henry
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  Speaker 3: and they're not Lamar Jackson. So I think that it's
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  Speaker 3: a big game for everybody. It's a big game for
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  Speaker 3: the corners because they're going to have to make sure
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  Speaker 3: on the outside, whoever it is, if Zay Flowers comes back,
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  Speaker 3: I would imagine he might. But even Bateman was there,
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  Speaker 3: and he played well last week. So they're not just
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  Speaker 3: going to have a lot of chances to give these
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  Speaker 3: corners some help. and play a lot on the back end.
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  Speaker 3: I think that the focus has to be closer to
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  Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage. You're going to have to keep
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  Speaker 3: eyes on Lamar Jackson at all times, and you're going
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  Speaker 3: to have to do what you can to hit Derrick Henry.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's a load, and the last time they played,
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  Speaker 3: he's still running for yards. So we'll see how that goes,
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  Speaker 3: but I think for sure that's going to be the focus.
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  Speaker 3: It always has to be there. Let's go to Chris
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  Speaker 3: in Saratoga Springs as our next caller.
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  Speaker 4: Chris.
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  Speaker 6: How you doing, Nick?
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  Speaker 3: What's up, man?
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  Speaker 4: Not too much.
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  Speaker 7: Just want to comment on a comment that Jerry made
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  Speaker 7: this morning about helping the running game with Terp and CD.
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  Speaker 7: I'm all about helping the running game with those jet
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  Speaker 7: sweeps with Terp, but I do not want to use
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  Speaker 7: CD on.
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  Speaker 4: Those jet sweeps.
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  Speaker 7: I'd rather have Terp and Flo all day run those
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  Speaker 7: jet sweeps. CD means too much to this team and
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  Speaker 7: its offense to get them hurt again on those jet sweeps.
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  Speaker 7: So I didn't agree with that comment at all. I
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  Speaker 7: don't want no part of CD running those jet sweeps.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think, I don't either. And it's not a,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it hasn't been a play where it's like, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's like chirping as a kick returner. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it's not so great. sometimes it's a touchdown and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it's really good. Um, and you kind of live with it,
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  Speaker 3: but what success are we seeing at a CD running
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  Speaker 3: the ball that makes us think like, Hey, well, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when he hits it, he hits it. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: really not like, I don't, I don't remember him having
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  Speaker 3: a really big play from that. So he's not built
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  Speaker 3: for it. He's not a running back and he's too
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  Speaker 3: tall and, you know, lanky. I just don't, I just
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  Speaker 3: don't know. I'm with you. I'm not, I'm not, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not for that. I'm not for that play at all. Um,
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  Speaker 3: I like Flannoy doing it. I think Flannoy's got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of power for his size, and when he gets
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  Speaker 3: it going like that, I think he would be my
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  Speaker 3: first option on that play. I saw Turpin, and he
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  Speaker 3: ran like 55 yards, and it was like second nine.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, really? I thought maybe he got a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more on the corner, but he didn't.
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  Speaker 7: My second comment is, what's your thoughts on them pulling
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  Speaker 7: up Reddy Stewart today or this week. I'd really like
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  Speaker 7: to see him on the active roster this week. What
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  Speaker 7: are your thoughts on maybe pulling him up there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's, you know, it depends on what
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  Speaker 3: they've got, you know, injury-wise and if they're going to be.
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  Speaker 3: It sounds like they will be, you know, without some
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  Speaker 3: of these guys here in the secondary. I think Reddy Stewart,
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  Speaker 3: you know, would be good. for lack of a better word,
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  Speaker 3: would be ready for it, honestly. I mean, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: It was easy, but he is. I mean, he played
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  Speaker 3: last year, and what he provides is, you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: a guy that can play in the slot. He's a
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  Speaker 3: corner in. He can play some safety. So I think
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  Speaker 3: they were real happy to get him back on the
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  Speaker 3: practice squad for moments like this, and I think he
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  Speaker 3: would be one that you would definitely want to have
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  Speaker 3: out there.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, my prediction for the game, we haven't had great
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  Speaker 7: success against the Ravens. I think we're 1-6, and I
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  Speaker 7: think the last game we won was Dak's rookie year.
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  Speaker 4: Against the Ravens.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 7: I think we're going to get our second win this week,
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  Speaker 7: and I think the score is going to be Dallas 31,
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  Speaker 7: Ravens 28. Thanks for you and Chris for.
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  Speaker 4: All you guys do. Appreciate it. Let everybody else get in.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Chris.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it. 31-28, that'd be a fun game. if it's
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  Speaker 3: like that. And obviously for fans in Brazil, what I
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  Speaker 3: do remember about the game 12 years ago in London
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  Speaker 3: is just that, and I'm sure it's changed since then
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  Speaker 3: because the NFL has been to London a lot over
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  Speaker 3: the last decade or so. But it was just fun
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  Speaker 3: to kind of see the the crowd there that just
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  Speaker 3: cheering for football you know you would see different jerseys
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  Speaker 3: and we'd be walking this long walk to the to
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  Speaker 3: the stadium and be like all right who's the next
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  Speaker 3: one that can find a Cardinals jersey you know or
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  Speaker 3: Bucks jersey because every people just put on jerseys and
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  Speaker 3: and it's not just you know like the Cowboys versus
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  Speaker 3: the team you know that's the majority of it but
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  Speaker 3: I think it's just when you go to a country
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  Speaker 3: this will be the first time you know the Cowboys
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  Speaker 3: have been there and I think only a handful of
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  Speaker 3: games have been played there, maybe even one played there
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  Speaker 3: in Brazil. So they're still kind of learning the game
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  Speaker 3: as well. All right, let's go to break. I guess
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  Speaker 3: What are we doing here? Yeah, take a break. All right,
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So we're talking a little bit about Cowboys and Ravens
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  Speaker 3: and trying to get some callers on the line here.
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  Speaker 3: I know the phone's ringing, working on a few things here.
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  Speaker 3: Going back to just going in general, just thinking about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this matchup and what the Cowboys need to do,
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of protect their own house. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: to me it starts with the running game on offense.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, um, they're just not getting enough push up
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  Speaker 3: front and, and that's, you know, are they missing Tyler Smith?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, of course they miss Tyler Smith. He's a,
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  Speaker 3: you know, three time pro bowler and he's, he's only
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  Speaker 3: played four years. And so you know, he's, he's one
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  Speaker 3: of the strongest players on the team. I know Quentin
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  Speaker 3: Williams talked about his strength is just off the charts. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: and Quentin's a pretty strong guy himself, but, but just the, what,
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  Speaker 3: what they're not getting there. Uh, TJ Bass is, is
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  Speaker 3: doing a good job. He's serviceable, but he's not, he's
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  Speaker 3: not Tyler Smith. And so I think that's, that's where the,
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  Speaker 3: the issues are at start. Uh, I don't think Cooper
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  Speaker 3: Beebe has, has played his best football, um, in the
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  Speaker 3: last couple of games as well. And I've, I would
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  Speaker 3: imagine he, he leans on, uh, you know, Tyler Smith there, uh,
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  Speaker 3: to the other side, Tyler Booker, I think has been fine.
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  Speaker 3: I think steel has been, you know, solid at, at times,
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  Speaker 3: you know, past game is still some, some issues there.
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  Speaker 3: Speed rushers give him problems. It's like, like most, most players, but, um,
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  Speaker 3: I think, and then Tyler Guyton, you know, from a
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  Speaker 3: grading standpoint, has graded out well these first two games.
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  Speaker 3: So knock on wood as far as him doing a
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  Speaker 3: good job and actually developing here into his third year.
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  Speaker 3: The offensive line, though, is, I mean, that's where it starts.
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  Speaker 3: But I also think I'd like to see a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more, you know, guys in the backfield, fullbacks. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I said it yesterday. I mean, I'd like to see
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  Speaker 3: some specialty packages there where these guys can kind of
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  Speaker 3: run the ball. But, you know, But I just feel
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  Speaker 3: like from the running game standpoint, it does start with
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  Speaker 3: the offensive line, and they're just not getting the push
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  Speaker 3: that you need. That's where it's got to start. Shottie
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  Speaker 3: said yesterday in his press conference that, you know, there's
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  Speaker 3: just some small tweaks here and there. He still feels
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  Speaker 3: confident about it, but he was really confident about the
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  Speaker 3: way they could throw the ball, and the plan was
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  Speaker 3: really to throw it and not run it as much.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Michael in Bowling Green as our next caller. Michael,
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  Speaker 3: what's up?
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  Speaker 14: Hey, I just want to know, so you think, The
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  Speaker 14: Cowboys season is like a freight elevator. Smells funny sometimes,
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  Speaker 14: up and down.
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  Speaker 3: Say that again?
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  Speaker 14: I think you said that you think the Cowboys season
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  Speaker 14: is like a freight elevator.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: It smells funny and is up and down sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: I love those videos y'all are doing, man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were walking out. Uh, of the, um, press
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  Speaker 3: box or the locker room. And we were walking around and, and, uh,
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  Speaker 3: there were some issues with that, with, uh, there's always
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  Speaker 3: issues at the L with the elevator, just trying to
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  Speaker 3: get on. And so we, yeah, the freight elevator is
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  Speaker 3: what we had to go up there and yeah, that's
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  Speaker 3: what the season is. And sometimes it's up and it's
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  Speaker 3: down and. Sometimes it doesn't smell great, and sometimes you're
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  Speaker 3: not really sure when the next opportunity is going to
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  Speaker 3: open up. But when it does, you better jump off.
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  Speaker 3: And if it's shaky, you better get out of it. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I think you can make some parallels
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  Speaker 3: between a season and a freight elevator.
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  Speaker 14: Well, I just want to know, my call was, the field.
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  Speaker 14: I mean, do you think we're looking at candlestick part
• 16:35
  Speaker 14: 90s kind of field?
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: Well, yeah.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: I don't, I really don't know. I, what I've heard
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: is that the people that are complaining about it are
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: the soccer players, the, you know, and, and so you, they,
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: they want to run on a, you know, putting green.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: So I don't, I don't know if it's, it depends
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: on who you talk to.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: I think, I think that there's something that they're working on,
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: but I don't believe that it's, it's the worst situation ever.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: You know, I think that, It'll be fine. They've played
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: football games on worse conditions probably. But, you know, it's
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: something to monitor. But I think that some of the
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: negative comments that have come from that stadium and that
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: field has been from soccer players and playing soccer games.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: And that's what some of the issues are. I'm not
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: saying it's going to be perfect, but I don't think
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: that there's this huge concern about And I don't think
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: it's a narrative that the Cowboys or Ravens are that
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: worried about right now.
• 17:34
  Speaker 14: All right, man. That's all I got. Hey, thanks for
• 17:37
  Speaker 14: taking my call.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: See you, Michael. All right.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Chuck D., Bridge City, Texas. Chuck.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Hey, Nick. Hey, man. How you doing? Hey, buddy. Good.
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry I haven't talked to.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: You in a while.
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: It's hard to get on, and it's busy at work.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I hear you.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: I hear you.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Thanks for calling. Yeah, it's been a little bit. So
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: what you got?
• 18:03
  Speaker 8: Just overall excitement for the team, the year, my first call.
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: Caleb Downs is awesome.
• 18:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: And my take is I feel like we need a
• 18:14
  Speaker 8: change of pace back somewhere down the line.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: We're going to need a speedier back.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: And hope we keep improving as the year goes on
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: because it's going to take some time on that defense.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: I'm with you on the change of pace back. I
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: think that that is, you know, that is something they're
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: kind of missing a little bit. And Javante's good, and
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: he's powerful, and he does, you know, what he's supposed
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: to do. You know, he's supposed to be that power back.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: But I don't know if DiMarcato does it. You know,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: he's played a little bit. I mean, didn't see much
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: of a difference there. But, you know, it's not the–
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: it's not– the Zeke Tony Pollard situation, you know, that,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: that I think really helped this offense. And I, I,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: I can, I'm with you on that. I think, I
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: think that, uh, I'd like to see that kind of
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: running back there. And, you know, they thought they had
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: that maybe in Jaden blue, but that didn't really, um,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: work out. And as for Caleb downs, you're right. He's, he's,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: he's everything. you know, he's as advertised, I think, and
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: he's only going to get better, and that's his focus,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: is to get better, and he's not the type of
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: guy right now that what it looks like to, you know,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: that loves the things that go with being a high-profile
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboy player, and there's nothing wrong with that, but,
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: you know, it can be distracting. He seems like his
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: focus is to just get better at his position and
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: understand every position and where he is and all that,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: so We'll see if it goes that way. All right,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: let's go to Robbie in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Robbie.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: What's up, Nick?
• 19:49
  Speaker 15: How you doing today?
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 19:50
  Speaker 15: How are you?
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: I am wonderful, man. We won the game.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: And I know a lot of people are.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: Saying, well, our defense needs work and our offense needs
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: work and our running game needs work.
• 20:01
  Speaker 15: But, man, what a great game.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: We won.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: We're 1-1.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: We're not 0-2. Okay.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: You're right.
• 20:07
  Speaker 15: And my son was amazing.
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: My son called out three players in the game.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: If I can, I'll tell them to you. Jake Ferguson's
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: first touchdown, RJ goes, Boogie!
• 20:19
  Speaker 15: He called out the player's name.
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: He's 11.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: I don't know if he knows all these guys' names.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: Caleb Downs makes that nice hit on the sideline that
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: draws the ball.
• 20:26
  Speaker 15: Loose, and he goes, Daddy, I told you Caleb Downs
• 20:29
  Speaker 15: was wearing 13.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Look at him.
• 20:30
  Speaker 15: He's the man.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: I'm like, poor boy.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: And then when Barham knocks the ball loose, he goes,
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: there's my boy Barham.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: How do you know all the players?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: How old is he?
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: 11.
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: Nice.
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: He reminds me of a young Nick Eatman.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what? When I was that age, I
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: was 11 years old. Yeah. I was definitely in it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: The Cowboys weren't that good of a team, but that
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: was my squad for sure. We were pretty good in
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: the 80s.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: It was like, it was like 86, 87, 88, you know,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: as they were kind of starting to the down, downward,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: but it doesn't matter. All right. You got anything else?
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: No, that's it, man.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: I love.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: It.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Well, have fun watching the games with your son.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: That's a, that's a, that's an awesome experience. I remember
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: that with my dad and, and you know, I've, it was,
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: it was every Sunday or Monday or whatever it was,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: you know, that, that was, that was a thing. And so,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: you know, I haven't, I haven't ever had that experience, really,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: with my kids, and I'm grateful for that, of getting
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: to go to the games and being there and all that. But, yeah,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I don't even know what that's like. But I watch
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: enough football at home, and he's not really interested in
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: all that. But he does what he does, watching the Cowboys,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: getting into it. So that's good. All right, let's go
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: to Doc in Allentown. Is that right, Doc?
• 21:58
  Speaker 15: Yes, Nick, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: How you doing?
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: Good. Good.
• 22:03
  Speaker 15: I'll be down at the game on Sunday. I leave Thursday,
• 22:09
  Speaker 15: and it's a 26-hour trip to get to Rio because
• 22:14
  Speaker 15: it's very hard to get anywhere close to Rio.
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:18
  Speaker 15: But a couple of things I'd point with regard to
• 22:22
  Speaker 15: the turf down there. I've never been to this stadium,
• 22:25
  Speaker 15: but we played on veteran stadium turf. And that was
• 22:28
  Speaker 15: a parking lot which was uneven and just a disaster.
• 22:33
  Speaker 15: So it can't be as bad as that. But two
• 22:37
  Speaker 15: rookies that I'd like, or essentially rookies that I'd like
• 22:40
  Speaker 15: to point out. First, I think Rebel might be our
• 22:43
  Speaker 15: best cornerback. He's a year and a half out from
• 22:45
  Speaker 15: his injury. He played well the other day. And he
• 22:50
  Speaker 15: was supposed to be a projected first-round pick. We got
• 22:52
  Speaker 15: him in the third. But he didn't look so good
• 22:56
  Speaker 15: last year, but I'm confident he'll come on. The other
• 23:01
  Speaker 15: rookie that I want to point out, Malachi Lawrence, I
• 23:05
  Speaker 15: didn't see anything in the camp or preseason that made
• 23:11
  Speaker 15: me hopeful.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: In the first two.
• 23:13
  Speaker 15: Games, I didn't notice him doing too much, but he's
• 23:17
  Speaker 15: leading rookie edge rushers in pressures, which I thought was surprising.
• 23:23
  Speaker 15: I didn't notice that, but I just read that stat
• 23:26
  Speaker 15: this week.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: So that was encouraging.
• 23:30
  Speaker 15: And the last point I'd like to make is with
• 23:33
  Speaker 15: regard to the third blocking tight end, I don't think
• 23:36
  Speaker 15: Schoonmaker can block anybody. So I like that when they
• 23:41
  Speaker 15: bring in the reserve offensive tackle, Sheldon, gives him some experience.
• 23:48
  Speaker 15: And then when Smith comes back, you put T.J.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Bass in that role. Because T.J.
• 23:55
  Speaker 15: Bass, I think, is doing a good job, not just
• 23:57
  Speaker 15: a serviceable job. He's doing better than Beavis, in my opinion.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:03
  Speaker 15: But I just wondered what your thoughts were on Sheldon
• 24:06
  Speaker 15: doing that job and what you think.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Of Revel and Lawrence. Yeah.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate that. Thanks for the call. And good
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: luck with the trip down to Brazil. You know, lots
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: to unpack there. I think Revel's playing well. And you said,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: you know, You're confident in the way that he's played.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: I think confidence is the key with Revel coming back
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: from the injury. I don't think he's thinking about the
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: injury as much. I think it was kind of a
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: nagging thing. He had to kind of get over mentally.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: I think he's just playing football now and he's going
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: to continue to develop and get better and He's playing
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: with some swag and some confidence. I almost had a
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: pick there. I think he had a fumble recovery in
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: the first game. So he's around the ball. He's making plays.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: You're not seeing him getting beat much. And so I
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: think he's only going to get better You know, Shelton
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: first game, he played that. I don't think he did
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: that well in that in that tackle eligible role. He
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: did it, you know, again, Sunday. And, you know, you're right.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: He's getting some experience out there. It it makes me wonder.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: It's the first time I've actually thought of it. And
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of I'm surprised that I did. Didn't think
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: of this earlier. Maybe you guys have talked about it.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: That maybe when Tyler Smith comes back, they might look
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: at a situation of Bass at center. If they feel
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: like that's their fifth best lineman or getting your five
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: best out there, it might be a situation.
• 25:43
  Speaker 15: I don't know.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: We'll see. All right, let's go to Rob in Vegas.
• 25:47
  Speaker 15: Hey, Nick.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Hey, Rob.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: How's everything?
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Good. How are you doing?
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: I'm good.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Good win.
• 25:54
  Speaker 16: I mean, we pretty much predicted the win. I think
• 25:58
  Speaker 16: the game would have been closer. I still think we
• 26:00
  Speaker 16: would have won if Daniels didn't get hurt. But, hey, listen,
• 26:05
  Speaker 16: looking across the NFC, the NFC is weaker. Three starting
• 26:09
  Speaker 16: quarterbacks went out in the same weekend. I think Dak
• 26:14
  Speaker 16: is the best quarterback, not only in the NFC East.
• 26:16
  Speaker 16: I think he's playing the best in the whole NFC.
• 26:20
  Speaker 16: And it's a shame because... It kind of reminds me
• 26:25
  Speaker 16: of Romo, you know, when Romo finally, the light bulb
• 26:30
  Speaker 16: went on.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:32
  Speaker 16: And Dak looks like that. And the defense, you know,
• 26:36
  Speaker 16: is just too far lagging behind your best players or rookies,
• 26:39
  Speaker 16: and it shouldn't be like that. So, I mean, I
• 26:45
  Speaker 16: don't know if they.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: Could fix it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 16: We talked about in the offseason about getting a pass rush. Well,
• 26:49
  Speaker 16: I don't think that option is there anymore. That team
• 26:52
  Speaker 16: in Vegas is 2-0. So they're going to just have
• 26:56
  Speaker 16: to ride with what they got and hope that almost
• 27:02
  Speaker 16: Donovan and guys could get the quarterback on the ground.
• 27:08
  Speaker 16: Running game, I want them to use the pass to
• 27:11
  Speaker 16: open up the running game. I don't want them to
• 27:14
  Speaker 16: beat their head against the wall. Throw the ball. That's
• 27:18
  Speaker 16: what you do best. You've got two of the best
• 27:19
  Speaker 16: wide receivers. You know, you've got tight ends, and you
• 27:22
  Speaker 16: trust your quarterback, and then hope that somehow you get
• 27:26
  Speaker 16: a lead, and then maybe you can lean on the
• 27:28
  Speaker 16: run a little bit. But I don't want them to
• 27:30
  Speaker 16: bang their head against the wall.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you on that. I mean, you want
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: to be balanced, but you also want to make sure
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: you're not wasting plays here.
• 27:41
  Speaker 16: Yeah, exactly. You have to go into the game thinking
• 27:46
  Speaker 16: you've got to score 30 right now. You know, that's
• 27:49
  Speaker 16: my feeling on the offense. And it sucks, but it's just,
• 27:53
  Speaker 16: that's just the way it is. Until Quentin Williams picks
• 27:58
  Speaker 16: it up, I don't know what's wrong with him. I
• 27:59
  Speaker 16: hope it's some kind of slight injury because it would
• 28:02
  Speaker 16: suck if it's just, his play is just falling off
• 28:05
  Speaker 16: there if you just paid him. Hopefully it's something he
• 28:09
  Speaker 16: could get back because he don't look the same. And
• 28:14
  Speaker 16: let's see what happens. Brazil is going to be fun. Now,
• 28:17
  Speaker 16: how's that game going to work on TV?
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: I think it's on CBS. 3 o'clock? I mean, I
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: think it's on, like, the regular time of CBS. Like,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: it would be, you know, 1.30, I think, your time?
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: 3.30 Central?
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
• 28:33
  Speaker 16: So, all right.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: That's good. Yeah, it's not one of those games that's
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: early in the morning or anything like that. I think
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: it's just on the regular schedule of time. Now, in Brazil,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: it's like 5.30, so it's a little bit different, almost
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: a night game there. But, no, it'll be like a
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: regular afternoon game for the U.S.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Viewers. Cool.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 29:00
  Speaker 16: Well, you guys enjoy yourselves.
• 29:02
  Speaker 15: All right, Rob.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to have a good time. It'll be fun.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Thanks for the call. You mentioned Quinnen Williams and what's
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: going on with him. I don't know if anything's really
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: going on. I just think it's... When you get a contract,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, the spotlight's on even more, you know?
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: And so what's this guy doing? I mean, why is
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: he not dominating? Why are they running the ball? Why
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: is Skadaboo getting yards? Why is Ja'Cory Kroski married or
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: whatever getting yards? And, you know, so you do expect that,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: and you expect him and Kenny Clark to be playing
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: better inside. I know Jerry Jones was asked this morning
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: on the radio show if there's an injury to Quinnen,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: and he said no. And, you know, that's good, I guess. But,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: you know, it's like when you're driving and you're like,
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: you know, You see all this traffic and you're like,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: what's going on here? Is there a wreck? You know,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: you don't want there to be a wreck, but you
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: want it to be something because if it's just traffic,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: then it's like, well, that sucks. You know, you at
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: least want some reasoning here that's going to improve. You know,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: so you do want– man, I was hoping it would
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: be something. Something's bothering him and he'll be fine and whatever.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: But I– I think he's playing well, and I just
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: don't think he's dominating like you would expect. So they've
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: got to get better there, and especially up front. All right,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: let's go to Shelby in Virginia.
• 30:36
  Speaker 17: Hey, good morning, Nick.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: How are you doing? I'm good.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 30:39
  Speaker 17: I'm doing great. It has been, I think it's been
• 30:41
  Speaker 17: a full year. I've just had a new work schedule,
• 30:44
  Speaker 17: but I'm happy to be able to finally call in.
• 30:46
  Speaker 17: I just got a couple calls. quick things for you've
• 30:48
  Speaker 17: been real jealous of of that day i feel like
• 30:51
  Speaker 17: he just had a real hot streak there uh... so
• 30:55
  Speaker 17: i wanted to talk a little bit i've mark from
• 30:58
  Speaker 17: philly uh... who went to the commander's game the years
• 31:02
  Speaker 17: ago when we did the night uh... to give away
• 31:04
  Speaker 17: it we still text all the time so like through
• 31:07
  Speaker 17: through your show like you'll just text me in the
• 31:10
  Speaker 17: middle of the game and it's like stop man this
• 31:12
  Speaker 17: is silly i will go back and forth and he'd
• 31:14
  Speaker 17: go into the indie game And my dad and I
• 31:17
  Speaker 17: are looking at tickets as well. And so we might
• 31:19
  Speaker 17: end up going to a second game with them just
• 31:21
  Speaker 17: a couple.
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: Of years later.
• 31:22
  Speaker 17: So just a cool shout out to the storyline.
• 31:26
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:29
  Speaker 17: And yeah.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah.
• 31:30
  Speaker 17: And my main thought is, so I feel like we
• 31:33
  Speaker 17: don't really have like division games. Everybody's like, ah, well
• 31:37
  Speaker 17: it's going to be close no matter what. And then
• 31:39
  Speaker 17: an international game, it's like, well, you're not getting a
• 31:42
  Speaker 17: real look at them. So it feels like, are we
• 31:44
  Speaker 17: really just getting our first test out of baseline of
• 31:47
  Speaker 17: who we are as a team when we go to Houston?
• 31:51
  Speaker 17: So that's my main question, and then I wanted to
• 31:53
  Speaker 17: leave you with trivia and a score prediction. When was
• 31:56
  Speaker 17: the last time the Cowboys started a season 6-0? That's
• 32:00
  Speaker 17: my question. And then score prediction, Cowboys 20, Ravens 17.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: 20-17 is your score. When was the last time they
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: went 6-0?
• 32:09
  Speaker 17: Yeah, they started a season 6-0.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Man, uh, was it?
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: Was it like 1983?
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know.
• 32:21
  Speaker 17: That is unbelievable, Nick.
• 32:23
  Speaker 15: Is that right?
• 32:25
  Speaker 17: That is dead on.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Well, that's my year.
• 32:27
  Speaker 17: I really thought I had, yeah, I thought I had you.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: 83 is my year, but, you know, that's when I
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: was seven, and I remember that season where they got hot.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Some of the 90s championship teams, I know there were
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: some early losses, but, yeah. But you know what's funny
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: about that? I think if you go look at that,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: I think they trailed in every single game. And they
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: went 6-0. But they were down at some point in
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: all those games. All right.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Shelby, have a good one. All right.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Chris Beam pulled it off. Oh, my God. Hey, first
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: of all, I want to apologize. Actually, I'm going to
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: have Kyle apologize.
• 33:07
  Speaker 11: To everyone that I've had a hang up on today
• 33:10
  Speaker 11: because Kyle was trying to call in.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Well, so much for the intro.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 33:14
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: We got Kyle in Baltimore.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: Kyle.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: You know, long time listener, first time caller to this show, Nick,
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: to say the least, I have a new respect for
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: for the amount of storyliners that call in because you
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: guys rigged the system to have me call in and
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: it still took me like 75 tries.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. I thought Chris could just call out. I
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: thought it would be like, hang up real quick, call out.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: It was not working.
• 33:48
  Speaker 15: All right.
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: Well, it was apparently the line was so busy because
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: you're just such a popular guy, Nick, that, that there
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: were so many people calling in. He couldn't even get
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: a call out to try and get a guest on,
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: but no, I appreciate you guys having me. Hope you
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: guys are doing well down in the, uh.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: We're doing good. Okay. Let's, let's set the scene here.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: First of all, you're a first time caller. So that,
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: that means here we go. All right. Um, And if
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: you guys, this is Kyle Yeomans. He was obviously with
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: us for what? Seven, eight, eight years or so starting
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: his career. And now he's the voice of the Baltimore Ravens.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: And so he is actually like some of these other
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: callers here. He's actually going as well. We'll be at
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: the game. So Kyle, just, just what, how, how excited
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: are you to, to be at this trip and, and,
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: you know, be calling a game against the Cowboys, I guess.
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, man, it's special. I think it's one of those
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: things that you never really think about until you're actually
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: in the moment, but you see players do it all
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: the time where they go from one team to another team,
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: and then they're asked about facing their former team or
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: seeing their former team on the other sideline. Now I
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: kind of get a good feeling of it because there's
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: nothing but love for you guys and everything that you've
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: done for me and my career and for my family.
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: But at the same time, like football is football. And
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: now I'm on the other side and I get to
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: kind of have some fun with the trash talk and
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: a little smack talk back and forth. And both of
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: these teams are good, in my opinion.
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: I really do.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: I think both the Ravens and the Cowboys have a
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: chance to be contenders, not only within their division, but
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: within their conference. And because of that, I think these
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: are extremely high stakes teams. And then you just add
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: the element and the extra layer on top of it
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: as it being an international game in Rio. I mean,
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: to call a game in the Maracana is going to
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: be special. It's going to be a wild environment. I mean,
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: you've been to international games before, Nick. This will be
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: my first one. And it's something that you can't replicate
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: anywhere else because these are football fans that are either–
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: traveling and taking time out of their busy schedule and
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: their paycheck to go and travel to go see a
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: team or their locals that just love, eat, sleep, breathe
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: football so much so that they finally have an opportunity
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: to go to a game. So it really is. It's
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: a special week. It's got a lot of emotion around
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: it for me specifically, but one team is going to
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: leave one and two with even the expectations that they
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: had going into the year. And, you know, you know,
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: they don't want to do that whenever it's said and done.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's going to be a long, long flight to
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: be back. You definitely want to be the winner. You know,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: it's funny you say that because you grew up in Texas.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: You grew up a Cowboy fan. And if Dak hits
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: CD Lamb for a 45-yard pass, you've always cheered for that.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: You've always been excited about that. And now it's going
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: to be weird for you, I would imagine, to be like, well,
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: that's not good for me, you know, like anymore.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it is.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: It is different because, like you said, I grew up
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: in Waco. And, of course, spending the time that I
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: did with them, I'd like– I will always have a
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: crazy respect for Dak. And I ran a half marathon
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: for CD lamb whenever he was drafted. So I, I,
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: I have love for those guys, but somebody even put
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: it on Twitter yesterday. I think it was G from Jersey,
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: put it on Twitter. He was like, I think there's
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: going to be a little extra. from a George Pickens
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: touchdown call or a big, big play to George Pickens.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: And I was like, don't count on it. Like I
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: I'm on the Raven side of things now. And it's
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: going to be a little different.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: You got three kids. I mean, who do you, who
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: pays the bills that matters, you know? So, but so
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: how let's talk about the Ravens and, and I, and
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: I have to ask, have the saints even gotten into
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: the end zone yet? Because I still don't think they
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: scored on.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: On that. Okay.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: We're talking about their game-winning touchdown that they allowed for
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: the Saints. I don't think the quarterback ever crossed the
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: goal line, but I don't want to stir up anything there.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: But how disappointing was that game, knowing how close it
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: was and he lost at home to the Saints?
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was the first bit of adversity for the
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: Jesse Minter era. It was the first time that this
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: new coaching staff has seen something go wrong because they
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: were so dominant in the preseason. They outscored their opponents
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: 78-13 in the preseason. They dominated Indianapolis in week one.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: They won that game 41-23, and it was pretty much
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: out of hand by halftime. So they had an 11-point
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: lead midway through the third quarter of this game at home.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: They probably thought, okay. we'll get a stop, we'll go down,
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: score again, and this will be the end of the game,
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: and we'll go ahead and just start this thing 2-0
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: and get on the flight to Rio. Well, not quite.
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, this.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: Is a New Orleans team that we saw this past
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: week that I think has some under-the-radar talent. They're a
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: good football team. You guys saw them in Oxnard. I
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: know they came out for the joint practice. They've got
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: talent on both sides of the ball, and they've already
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: shown through two weeks that they can erase a big lead.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: They did it against Detroit.
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: Who's a good team.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: They did it against Baltimore, who I believe is a
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: good team. So it was disappointing because it was at home.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: They brought in Jesse Minter this offseason to try and
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: change some of the mistakes of the past when it
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: came to blowing fourth quarter leads. And this just felt
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: like another addition to the already Ravens narrative, which was
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: the four quarter lead is not safe. So it's something
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: that they're going to work on throughout the week. I
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: know Jesse Minter addressed it yesterday, said that they weren't
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: happy with it, obviously. And they're going to have to
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: try and keep that in touch. Cause I know Dallas
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: is especially Dak Prescott. He has a history of leading
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: fourth quarter comebacks himself. So got to find a way
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: to close out games. And that's going to be their
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: number one task this week.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: I asked this question for the Cowboys in their, their
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: secondary and also maybe for my own fantasy team. What's
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: up with Zay flowers. What do you think the chances are?
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Is he going to be able to play this week
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: or are they working on that?
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're working on it. There's not a ton of,
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: injury news around him. He had been dealing with a
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: hamstring going into week one and re-aggravated it midway through
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: the second quarter when he already had five catches and
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: 150 yards. I mean, he was incredible in that first half,
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: but it never really came out. There hasn't been a
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: ton of of details, I guess, around the injury strain,
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: like a grade one strain, grade two strain. I think
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: the belief is that he could come back this week.
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: That's just from my end and my gut feeling, but
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: that's not official reporting by any stretch. I still think
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: we'll learn more as the week goes on, as you
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: guys will, about some of your injuries whenever they go
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: to practice and the injury report comes out. But I
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: don't think... they would balk at putting him on the
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: field just because he is such a difference maker for
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: this offense, even in a game like this.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I'll just have one more question because I know you,
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is supposed to be kind of a
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: quick interview, but it's taken a while to get you,
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: get you going. I don't want to hijack your whole
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: morning here. But, but just overall, just, just from the,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: from the Ravens standpoint as Lamar and, and, and obviously
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Derek Henry, you were there, or I don't know if
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: you were there, but you definitely remember the Cowboy Raven
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: game from a couple of years ago where they couldn't
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: stop them. You think that that that's gotta be the, the,
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: the Ravens focus knowing that Cowboys have struggled against the run.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, we're going to see a lot of Derrick Henry,
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: I would imagine, in this game.
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that was kind of the narrative in the
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: fourth quarter and second half of the New Orleans game
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: is they didn't give the ball enough to Derrick Henry.
• 41:44
  Speaker 13: He was.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: good in, in week one, he was really good in
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: the first half and week two.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: So I don't think he's going to be mad.
• 41:51
  Speaker 14: He's going to be upset.
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: Derek Henry. Oh no.
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: I think so. I think he might be. Sorry to,
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: sorry to say, but yeah, I was there for that game.
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: I mean, it was 28, 25 and then he ran
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: everywhere all over Dallas in that game. And I mean,
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: Dallas has done a lot to revamp that interior of
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: the defensive line, and obviously through two weeks, Christian Parker
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: still has some things to sort through in stopping the run.
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: So I'm almost certain you'll see Derrick Henry quite a bit,
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: and I would be shocked if they go away from
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: him the way that they did in the second half
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: against New Orleans.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: Kyle, we look forward to seeing you. I know you're
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: going to get to go down and maybe have more
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: fun than we are maybe in Rio. But be safe
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: going down there. We'll see you there. And I hope
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: you know how proud we all are of you and
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: what you're doing out there. And, you know, hope you
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: have a great call. Hope you're a little disappointed at
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: the end.
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: But I hope you have a great time.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: Appreciate it, Nick. You know how much I love you
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: guys and can't thank you enough for everything you've done
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: for me and for all the fans out there that
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: have supported me through the years and still support me.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: I see the love on social all the time. So
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: safe travels down there. Good luck, except on the football field.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: And I'll talk to you soon.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Thank you. This is Kyle Yeomans, the voice of the
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Baltimore Ravens. We're so proud of him. And this is
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: his first year there. And And I'll say this, Nicole
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Hutchinson's done a really good job, and Tommy Yarsh, replacing
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: some of the things that Kyle's done. But they both
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: have said, wow, they didn't realize how much Kyle did.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: He's one of the hardest-working people that we've ever seen here,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: and he's going there, not to mention doing all the
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: work and then going home and just having not one,
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: not two, but three little ones there with the triplets
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: that he's doing. They're all there in Baltimore. So look
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: forward to seeing him. We're going to take one more
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: quick break here on Cowboys Storyline. We'll be right back
• 43:49
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to Cowboy Storyline. This last segment brought to
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• 45:13
  Speaker 15: All right.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: It was great to hear from Kyle Yeomans. It's kind
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: of a tough situation for us to get him on
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: the line. It's hard to try to call out. They
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: made it work. In doing so, Chris had to hang
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: up on a couple of people several times. One of them,
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: I think, was Brian in Kansas City. But Brian's back. Brian,
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: what's up, man?
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: Good morning. Good morning, sir.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: Doing great. You know, I don't think we should let
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Kyle from Baltimore call anymore. He's the enemy. You know,
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: I don't feel good about it.
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: Just saying, you know.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: The funny thing is, is me being the one to
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: follow him is I actually called in on talking this morning,
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: and I was talking all kinds of trash about Kyle Yeoman.
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: So it just, it just turned out to be funny
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: that I'm, I mean.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: He got you back. He got you back. And he,
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: he didn't even know. He didn't even know he was
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: doing it. So I know, I know.
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: So, you know, you guys just touched on this and
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: this is my big concern for this week. You know,
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: I don't know if there's anything wrong with Quinton Williams.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: This morning was the first time I heard that there
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: might be a small injury concern. I don't know where
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: that came from. I hadn't heard it prior to today, but,
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: But our run defense, even against the other team's running backs,
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: forgetting about their mobile quarterbacks, our run defense against the
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: other running backs hasn't been good. They got somebody who's first, probably,
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: in my opinion, first ballot Hall of Fame. I mean,
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: he's number 10. He's still an active player, and I
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: think he's number 10 on the all-time list already. So
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: if the standard is, Can you tell the story of
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: the NFL without this person?
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: No, you can't.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: My concern is, and he's the big physical kind of guy,
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: you just see that as being the problem and then
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: throw on top of that, oh, by the way, this
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: is the best, the pinnacle of mobile quarterbacks in the
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: NFL right now. This is a time, this is a
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: gut check. That's this game in the running, in the
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: trenches for the defense. This is a gut check. This
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: is where you're measured. How do you stand up? And
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: like Kyle said, somebody's coming out of this one and two.
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: And that's a tough one. Hey, I'm going to give
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: my score prediction. I still think the Cowboys can do
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: it just because I think they're going to be able
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: to outscore the Ravens, which is what I think we're
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: going to be doing for a little while this year.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: I'm going to go, I think it's going to be
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: a shootout unless the field is really a mess. I'm
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: going to go 34-31, Cowboys. All right, have a good one, Nick. Thanks, Brian.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: I had three scores today, and all of them are
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: three-point games for the Cowboys. Every one of them, Chris, Shelby.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: and Brian and Kansas City all picked the Cowboys to
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: win by three. So I didn't ask Kyle for a pick.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: I bet he wouldn't have picked that. But anyways, all right,
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: good stuff. And, yeah, we'll keep an eye on things
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: as far as what the field looks like and what
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: the injuries are to both teams and see if we
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: can get some clarity on maybe what's going on with
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: Quentin Williams and maybe how they can get him back.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: going and playing a little bit better. But, guys, appreciate
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: the show. It was a different show today, mainly because
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: our focus was trying to get Kyle through, and it
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: was more of a challenge than we thought. But we
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: still got 10 callers, and one of them, of course,
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: Kyle from Baltimore, first-time caller, gave us a little insight
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: on what was going on with the Ravens. All right,
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: we'll be back to do this again tomorrow. So for
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Chris Beam, what a great show for Chris. Guys, you
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: don't understand what the last 45 minutes or so was
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: like for him. So thank you so much, Chris, for
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: what you did, and we will see you tomorrow on
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: Cowboy Storyline.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: This has been a production of DallasCowboys.com and the Dallas
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Cowboys Football Club.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: How about this, Cowboys? Yeah!