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- 0:01Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:08Speaker 1: Cowboys.
- 0:11Speaker 2: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eapman.
- 0:20Speaker 1: It is time for Cowboys storyline. It feels like forever
- 0:23Speaker 1: since we've been on the air, Maybe because it was
- 0:26Speaker 1: forever it was last Wednesday. Here we are Monday, November
- 0:29Speaker 1: twenty seventh, talking about a lot to talk about here
- 0:32Speaker 1: Cowboys and Washington. On Thursday, the Cowboys get to eight
- 0:36Speaker 1: and three, still two games back from the Eagles that
- 0:40Speaker 1: keep winning. We can talk about where the Cowboys are
- 0:43Speaker 1: in the race here the NFC East, in the NFC
- 0:48Speaker 1: playoff picture. You know, Bill Parcells taught us a long
- 0:51Speaker 1: time ago, about twenty years ago, nothing matters until you
- 0:55Speaker 1: get to Thanksgiving. Well, here we are, we're past Thanksgiving,
- 0:58Speaker 1: and even though they have another game on the schedule,
- 1:00Speaker 1: is still I think we've had enough of a sample
- 1:03Speaker 1: size to know kind of who the teams are, who's
- 1:06Speaker 1: the best teams, who's playing well, nobody's playing better really
- 1:10Speaker 1: than the Cowboys at this moment. But but they, you know,
- 1:13Speaker 1: they're about to face a gauntlet of a schedule to
- 1:16Speaker 1: really kind of show us where they are. And you
- 1:19Speaker 1: know they're going to play some really good football teams
- 1:22Speaker 1: here to finish up the regular season, so we're excited
- 1:26Speaker 1: for that. Cowboys are expected to meet with linebacker Shaq
- 1:32Speaker 1: Leonard this week. I know, I don't from what I
- 1:35Speaker 1: just found out there, they're expected to meet with him.
- 1:38Speaker 1: They're still working on the details on the actual day
- 1:41Speaker 1: in time. It's been reported that it will be this week.
- 1:44Speaker 1: I've seen reports Tuesday, even Wednesday, but they're working on
- 1:47Speaker 1: trying to get him in here, maybe for physical I
- 1:51Speaker 1: don't know about a workout, but maybe just to kind
- 1:53Speaker 1: of see where he is physically, and also you know
- 1:57Speaker 1: what he's thinking long term. So I'm sure the Cowboys
- 2:01Speaker 1: are not the only team trying to get Shack Leonard,
- 2:03Speaker 1: but it would be a big, big win for them
- 2:05Speaker 1: if they could get him in especially considering the linebacker position,
- 2:09Speaker 1: the injuries to Leyton vander ash just kind of where
- 2:12Speaker 1: they are that it's going to be a need in
- 2:14Speaker 1: the offseason, so if you can get a jumpstart to that,
- 2:17Speaker 1: even if it might cost him a little bit or
- 2:19Speaker 1: will cost them to get them, but should be a
- 2:22Speaker 1: good addition if that happened. So they're going to meet
- 2:24Speaker 1: with him this week. All right, eight eight eight eight
- 2:26Speaker 1: five five two two ninety seven. That is the number
- 2:28Speaker 1: to call. You can text at eight one seven two
- 2:30Speaker 1: nine zero three two nine eight. Let's go right to
- 2:34Speaker 1: the phone lines. How you guys have been waiting for
- 2:36Speaker 1: a while, so let's go to Dylan in Northport, Florida.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Dylan is first up. What's up?
- 2:41Speaker 3: Aight?
- 2:41Speaker 4: Ak you doing?
- 2:42Speaker 5: Man?
- 2:42Speaker 4: Had a good Thanksgiving?
- 2:43Speaker 1: I did? Thank you? How are you?
- 2:46Speaker 4: I'm good? Thanks there, It's just I'm waiting for this
- 2:49Speaker 4: Stilly or other shooter. Drop does it comment or what
- 2:52Speaker 4: well for Philly?
- 2:54Speaker 1: For Philly, I mean pick up, you know, go in
- 2:58Speaker 1: there and take their shoes off them yourself. I mean
- 3:01Speaker 1: that's what they have to do. Just go beat them.
- 3:02Speaker 1: I mean, no one else is going to do it.
- 3:04Speaker 1: I mean, this is a good team. This is the
- 3:06Speaker 1: best team in the NFL. So they're they're acting like it.
- 3:10Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're they You can we can sit
- 3:13Speaker 1: here and say they're lucky if they want, but I
- 3:15Speaker 1: mean you're ten and one, so I mean you don't
- 3:18Speaker 1: know what else to say. They're they're good, but you're
- 3:20Speaker 1: gonna have to do it yourself.
- 3:21Speaker 4: Going there and be that has been so good at home,
- 3:24Speaker 4: so it's just frustrating to watch. You know, you're trying
- 3:26Speaker 4: to get this home fuel in the playoffs and it's
- 3:28Speaker 4: truly it's not gonna happen at this point now, So
- 3:30Speaker 4: it's just tough to watch. But uh, this is a
- 3:33Speaker 4: weird analogy, so so stick with. Have you seen the
- 3:35Speaker 4: movie Avatar?
- 3:37Speaker 1: No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I kill.
- 3:41Speaker 4: All right, Well, basically there's this, uh, these these alien creatures, right,
- 3:45Speaker 4: these dudes they ride the horses and these flying creatures
- 3:49Speaker 4: and they have to sync with those creatures with like
- 3:51Speaker 4: this this biology thing.
- 3:53Speaker 5: Right.
- 3:53Speaker 4: Anyways, where I'm going is that's a perfect kind of
- 3:57Speaker 4: analogy for how the season's gone for the Cowboys. First,
- 4:00Speaker 4: after the season, you know, before the buye, they're kind
- 4:02Speaker 4: of fighting, trying to figure out who they are on offense.
- 4:05Speaker 4: You know, they're not really throwing the ball that well,
- 4:07Speaker 4: they're not running the ball well. And now after the
- 4:09Speaker 4: bye week, they've they've sinked up. They made that connection, right,
- 4:12Speaker 4: and now it's like Mike McCarthy and this offense, they're
- 4:15Speaker 4: they're clicking on all cylinders. They're starting to run the
- 4:18Speaker 4: ball well, they're getting more of these outside run plays,
- 4:20Speaker 4: and you see him copying kind of some of the
- 4:22Speaker 4: other teams in the league with these these straight toss
- 4:24Speaker 4: backs and creative running plays. You're getting, you know, guys
- 4:28Speaker 4: like turping involved more and more each week. I'm just
- 4:30Speaker 4: really gonna see they haven't get up a stack in
- 4:32Speaker 4: like three weeks. Shout out to the Oline and Tony Pollard.
- 4:36Speaker 4: He's run blocking very pass blocking very well. And then
- 4:40Speaker 4: the other thing you got here is Dak Prescott. I
- 4:42Speaker 4: mean he works rinks first and like all passing category
- 4:45Speaker 4: since the bye week passing yards, touchdowns, no interceptions, passer rating,
- 4:49Speaker 4: so he's killing it. But yeah, I mean, I'm excited
- 4:52Speaker 4: to see this, this gaunt what they got coming up.
- 4:54Speaker 6: You're really gonna mean a.
- 4:55Speaker 4: Lot to see where we're at and hopefully we take
- 4:57Speaker 4: that five seed and and do some damage in the playoffs.
- 5:00Speaker 1: So all right, thank you. I haven't seen that movie.
- 5:04Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of people have though, and and
- 5:07Speaker 1: understand that analogy. You kind of lost me with the
- 5:10Speaker 1: biology part. I was kind of out so sorry that
- 5:13Speaker 1: that's just not that's not really my type of movie. Uh,
- 5:16Speaker 1: but I know I know a lot of people do
- 5:18Speaker 1: like it. And I'm always good for a good analogy.
- 5:20Speaker 1: I mean, so that I bet you that was a
- 5:22Speaker 1: good one. I'm sorry I missed it there, but but yeah,
- 5:26Speaker 1: I mean it's they are. They are syncing up right now.
- 5:29Speaker 1: They are they do. They seem to be playing their
- 5:33Speaker 1: their best football and you know, you can't worry about
- 5:36Speaker 1: what the schedule has been. I mean, it is what
- 5:39Speaker 1: it is. All you can do is beat them and
- 5:41Speaker 1: beat them. You know, beat these teams pretty soundly. They've
- 5:44Speaker 1: done that. They're gonna get you know, Seattle coming in here.
- 5:47Speaker 1: They're there. I think Seattle is is is okay, you know,
- 5:51Speaker 1: they're they're pretty good. They're what six and five? So, uh,
- 5:54Speaker 1: they have a winning record. Now you hope that after
- 5:56Speaker 1: you know, Friday comes, they won't have a winning record,
- 6:00Speaker 1: but but I'm sure that they'll. They'll come in here
- 6:02Speaker 1: ready to go. Seattle's got a very tough schedule coming
- 6:05Speaker 1: up too. They got the they got the Cowboys, they
- 6:07Speaker 1: got the Eagles and forty nine ers again. So yeah,
- 6:10Speaker 1: they I think we're kind of seeing who they are
- 6:13Speaker 1: a little bit. I think they're they're, you know, maybe
- 6:15Speaker 1: above average team, just like the record suggests. All right,
- 6:18Speaker 1: let's go to Anthony and Miami, Florida. What's up?
- 6:21Speaker 5: And how you doing? On a man? I'm doing great, man?
- 6:26Speaker 5: How are you?
- 6:26Speaker 7: Man?
- 6:26Speaker 5: Holiday?
- 6:27Speaker 1: It was great? It was great. Ready to be back though,
- 6:30Speaker 1: Ready to get going here and you guys have what
- 6:34Speaker 1: do you have to do?
- 6:34Speaker 5: Okay, I'm just watching movies. I'm gonna talk a little Cowboys,
- 6:38Speaker 5: but I'm watching some westerns, man, Safe, You're familiar. Tombstone,
- 6:42Speaker 5: some of my best Western Tombstone, the Loretta Land story,
- 6:48Speaker 5: I love that. I love that movie. And Legends Go
- 6:50Speaker 5: to Fall. Okay, so I'm catching up on some things.
- 6:53Speaker 1: I was always a fan of Young Guns. That was
- 6:55Speaker 1: the one I liked. Young guys.
- 6:57Speaker 5: Yeah one and two?
- 6:58Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's more one than two. But
- 7:02Speaker 1: that's usually it's usually the way it goes, you know,
- 7:05Speaker 1: except for Rocky, but for the most part. Yeah, what
- 7:08Speaker 1: do you got, Anthony?
- 7:10Speaker 5: What I got?
- 7:11Speaker 4: Man?
- 7:12Speaker 5: Look? I was just sitting with some friends, you know,
- 7:14Speaker 5: and we're making some analogies, and of course the Philadelphia
- 7:18Speaker 5: thing came up about you know, people you know, routing
- 7:22Speaker 5: whatever for losses, and I'm not a fan of that.
- 7:24Speaker 5: I don't you know, you beat people head to head.
- 7:26Speaker 5: I don't and then when you meet up, you know,
- 7:29Speaker 5: it's what it is. I don't care who they play
- 7:31Speaker 5: and what they do until the Cowboys player, you know.
- 7:34Speaker 5: But I will say this one thing about what I
- 7:39Speaker 5: saw was like twenty twenty. I'm making a comparison like
- 7:44Speaker 5: when Jimmy came and then when our coach, now mccathrick
- 7:47Speaker 5: came twenty crazy year, we didn't do anything. We were
- 7:51Speaker 5: laughing stock on defense, remember that. And this man in
- 7:55Speaker 5: the last couple of years seemed to you know, people
- 7:58Speaker 5: were doubting him. He got of the one person they thought,
- 8:01Speaker 5: a may let's get this guy out of here because
- 8:02Speaker 5: you're making our players man on defense and all that,
- 8:04Speaker 5: which was Nolan or whatever. And I got a real
- 8:08Speaker 5: guy in here. And then comparing that to Jimmy's kind
- 8:11Speaker 5: of this kind of you know, the first eighty nine
- 8:13Speaker 5: terrible and those two years right there before the championship season.
- 8:18Speaker 5: We're kind of facing that again with these two years
- 8:20Speaker 5: now twenty one to twenty two, right heartbreaking offices against
- 8:24Speaker 5: the forty nine ers and whatnot. Man, we're right on
- 8:27Speaker 5: the doorsteps when I see the Cowboys got to do it.
- 8:30Speaker 5: Two things and I've set it on shows. Whatever, mindset
- 8:34Speaker 5: and discipline. Get your mindset right, man, and you have
- 8:38Speaker 5: to be disciplined. You know what bothers me about the
- 8:40Speaker 5: Cowboys that I see that some possibility of happening there.
- 8:43Speaker 5: I see a guy like Sam Willis. I don't want
- 8:45Speaker 5: to call him a Kevin Joseph second round and what
- 8:47Speaker 5: was the other second round, Gregory, I don't want to
- 8:49Speaker 5: call him that, but he has when he has attention.
- 8:52Speaker 5: I don't see some off the field stuff, but I
- 8:54Speaker 5: see the knucklehead stuff, and every game he seems to
- 8:57Speaker 5: get some stuff. I don't want games to come down
- 8:59Speaker 5: to a guy like Sam Willis, and I'm just gonna
- 9:02Speaker 5: point him out making ball head mistakes. Yeah, we did
- 9:06Speaker 5: the thing against Philly with all sides, you know, jumping,
- 9:08Speaker 5: false starts, false starts, this and that, mis reads. But
- 9:11Speaker 5: you don't want the games to come down to that.
- 9:13Speaker 5: So get your mindset right and get the discipline you're
- 9:17Speaker 5: gonna need to get on this run.
- 9:18Speaker 3: Man.
- 9:19Speaker 5: Then when you meet up against a forty nine maybe
- 9:22Speaker 5: who beat the breaks off of us, let's just call
- 9:24Speaker 5: it what it was. Or the Eagles, who everybody says
- 9:27Speaker 5: getting by, getting sneaking by and getting No, it's not luck. No,
- 9:31Speaker 5: it's not love. All right, do what you gotta do
- 9:35Speaker 5: and beat these teams. Man. When you get the opportunity
- 9:38Speaker 5: to stay disciplined, cowboys, and you'll have the opportunity show
- 9:42Speaker 5: what you've got, man and make this run for the
- 9:44Speaker 5: super Bowl. And that's what I got.
- 9:46Speaker 1: All right, all right, sounds good. Appreciate the call. Yeah,
- 9:49Speaker 1: I don't agree with the I mean I don't. I
- 9:51Speaker 1: don't think that the Eagles are you know, it's just luck.
- 9:55Speaker 1: I think that they're really good. I mean they're making
- 9:58Speaker 1: their own ma their own luck a little bit. But yeah,
- 10:02Speaker 1: I mean they're They've got some fortunate plays that have
- 10:04Speaker 1: happened for them. And and you know, the penalty situation
- 10:08Speaker 1: for them seems it's unique. You know, they they don't
- 10:12Speaker 1: have a lot of penalties. But even though you kind
- 10:14Speaker 1: of see them, you know, you see some horse collars,
- 10:16Speaker 1: you see I see fall start every snap, honestly, But
- 10:19Speaker 1: but they don't call that on them. But they are,
- 10:23Speaker 1: they're great. They they've got the MVP of the league
- 10:25Speaker 1: right now, if I think, if if that was the vote,
- 10:28Speaker 1: even though it's not the case, they actually play the
- 10:30Speaker 1: whole season this isn't the Heisman. But I think Hurts
- 10:33Speaker 1: is playing better than anybody right now. So he's he's
- 10:37Speaker 1: he's playing great. But you're right about the Cowboys in
- 10:39Speaker 1: the mindset and the discipline, and you know, we don't
- 10:41Speaker 1: want to call Sam Williams out, but but he he
- 10:44Speaker 1: has a lot of penalties. I mean, for he doesn't
- 10:46Speaker 1: play a whole lot to be ranked second on the
- 10:49Speaker 1: team or tied for second in penalties. I mean, that's
- 10:53Speaker 1: that's that's the issue. I mean, he comes in here now,
- 10:56Speaker 1: he's had four sacks. He makes some difference at times,
- 11:00Speaker 1: but he also has some penalties that have got to
- 11:02Speaker 1: be cleaned up for sure. All right, let's go to Joe.
- 11:07Speaker 1: He's in Washington, the state of Washington. What's up, hey man,
- 11:12Speaker 1: Good morning, man morning. So what side were you on
- 11:14Speaker 1: Saturday or last week? Were you on the purple side
- 11:18Speaker 1: or the white side of the was it called the
- 11:20Speaker 1: Apple cup or do you care at all?
- 11:23Speaker 8: I don't care.
- 11:23Speaker 1: I don't care at all. Okay, let's move on. Then,
- 11:26Speaker 1: let's move on.
- 11:27Speaker 8: Tell this this week it's gonna be a big game
- 11:30Speaker 8: for us. Man. I'll just slow that wind so I'll
- 11:34Speaker 8: enjoy the rest of my week this week, and we win,
- 11:37Speaker 8: and I just want to talk about that defense. Can
- 11:39Speaker 8: we just imagine what it'd be if we still had
- 11:42Speaker 8: Digs out there? Yeah, I mean we have Stefan or
- 11:47Speaker 8: I want to say maybe this year. I don't see
- 11:50Speaker 8: him coming back again, but I guess everything happens for
- 11:54Speaker 8: a reason, right, We see what we got in Bland.
- 11:56Speaker 8: Now he comes back next year, and and we got our.
- 11:59Speaker 1: Corners should be Yeah, you should You should be good
- 12:02Speaker 1: at corner. Uh, you're you're good right now at corner
- 12:06Speaker 1: even without Digs. I mean they're they're playing great. But
- 12:08Speaker 1: but yeah, I think that the cornerback position. I think
- 12:12Speaker 1: you know, you'll still get Draft one. I don't know
- 12:14Speaker 1: what Jordan Lewis's future will be. He he may not
- 12:16Speaker 1: be back next year, but I'm sure you're gonna get
- 12:18Speaker 1: more cornerback help. But you know, Stefan Gilmore may want
- 12:21Speaker 1: to stay. I mean, you may have a chance to
- 12:24Speaker 1: bring them back. But yeah, you should be in good
- 12:26Speaker 1: shape at corner.
- 12:28Speaker 8: And now I'll tell you what this this week, Geno's
- 12:31Speaker 8: gonna I see him throwing a good chew up in
- 12:34Speaker 8: the air for us again, and we'll see who comes down.
- 12:36Speaker 8: With them.
- 12:37Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's the thing I appreciate. Thanks for the call, Joe,
- 12:40Speaker 1: and uh probably probably surrounded by a lot of Seahawks
- 12:43Speaker 1: fans up there, so obviously a big game for him.
- 12:47Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, no one's really staying away from
- 12:51Speaker 1: Doran Bland. I mean they're still throwing at him and
- 12:53Speaker 1: having some success throwing it to him until until you don't.
- 12:57Speaker 1: I mean, that's it's like playing with fire, you know.
- 12:59Speaker 1: It's it's it seems like he's gonna get one. He'll
- 13:02Speaker 1: give up some plays, but he's gonna he's gonna get
- 13:05Speaker 1: one and then also take it to the house. And
- 13:08Speaker 1: it's I mean, obviously it's it's nothing we've ever seen before.
- 13:12Speaker 1: No one has. I mean, five interceptions for touchdowns in
- 13:15Speaker 1: one season is ridiculous. And you know the stat that
- 13:20Speaker 1: I that I think is even bigger than that. I mean,
- 13:22Speaker 1: because obviously it's an NFL record. No one's done it
- 13:25Speaker 1: five and one season. But this guy just got here
- 13:28Speaker 1: and he is the Cowboys all time leader in interception
- 13:31Speaker 1: returns for touchdowns. I mean, nobody in the history of
- 13:33Speaker 1: the Cowboys guys that have done it, that played twelve
- 13:36Speaker 1: fifteen seasons. Mel Renfrow and Dennis Thurman and Dexter Cochley
- 13:41Speaker 1: both had four. I mean the greatest cornerback. I mean,
- 13:44Speaker 1: Everson Wall's never got one. You know, Dion had a
- 13:47Speaker 1: couple here, hit nine overall, but two here. I mean,
- 13:51Speaker 1: it's just amazing that that on the all time leader
- 13:54Speaker 1: of interception returns for touchdowns, it's Theron Blant. That's that's crazy. Anyway,
- 14:00Speaker 1: all right, keep going here. Let's go to James. He's
- 14:02Speaker 1: in Midland, Texas, Pastor James.
- 14:05Speaker 9: Hey, Nick, has it going Todayud, how are you doing?
- 14:09Speaker 9: Doing well? I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and
- 14:13Speaker 9: I enjoyed the game. I'm really happy with what I'm
- 14:19Speaker 9: seeing from Terrence Steele and the improvement from out of Marsie.
- 14:25Speaker 9: I mean, that defensive line is really playing well. But
- 14:29Speaker 9: one thing I wanted to bring up is, you know,
- 14:32Speaker 9: there's been a lot of discussion about Kellen Moore and
- 14:36Speaker 9: changing from the OC and all that, but you could
- 14:39Speaker 9: tell from the game last night that there is a
- 14:43Speaker 9: difference because if you noticed how he had the hurry
- 14:49Speaker 9: up offense going real fast and it was a quick
- 14:51Speaker 9: three and out, then the defense had to come back
- 14:54Speaker 9: out there. I'm just glad that, you know, in this
- 14:57Speaker 9: season when the Cowboys are not having to deal with that,
- 15:01Speaker 9: and I just think that everybody is hitting on all
- 15:04Speaker 9: cylinders right now. Of course there's still a little problem
- 15:07Speaker 9: with penalties and all, but I think, you know, that
- 15:11Speaker 9: still improved, and we just need to just keep going
- 15:15Speaker 9: and you know, moving forward with the momentum that we
- 15:18Speaker 9: have right now, because I mean, the Eagles are looking
- 15:22Speaker 9: like they're the cream of the crop and just finding
- 15:25Speaker 9: ways to win. But what we need to do is
- 15:28Speaker 9: just handle our business and not you know, I'm glad
- 15:30Speaker 9: we haven't been playing with our food. We've been beating
- 15:33Speaker 9: these teams the way they need to be beat and
- 15:36Speaker 9: I just hope that things can continue moving forward that way.
- 15:40Speaker 9: And I want to get your idea on what you
- 15:42Speaker 9: think about the OC situation.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Okay, thanks for the call of James. Yeah, I mean,
- 15:48Speaker 1: I you know, I think I think the Chargers are
- 15:51Speaker 1: obviously struggling over there, so you know, yeah, you know,
- 15:55Speaker 1: Kellen Moore's doing some he was doing some some good things.
- 15:59Speaker 1: But I think that you know, overall, you know, they
- 16:02Speaker 1: they're not missing him. I mean that that's what we're
- 16:05Speaker 1: saying here. I mean, they they seem to be clicking
- 16:07Speaker 1: a lot better here, and it took a little bit
- 16:10Speaker 1: of time, just like it might take some time there.
- 16:13Speaker 1: I mean, just you know, let's let's let's be honest
- 16:15Speaker 1: about it here, if we're gonna say, well, it took
- 16:18Speaker 1: a little bit for McCarthy and them. Now they're rolling. Now,
- 16:20Speaker 1: they're doing some good things in the red zone. They
- 16:22Speaker 1: kind of have things clicking. They're getting everyone involved. It
- 16:25Speaker 1: might take some time for the Chargers to do that too.
- 16:27Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, I don't, I don't. We
- 16:29Speaker 1: don't cover them. We've seen them once. We know they
- 16:31Speaker 1: have some weapons over there. But but you know, they
- 16:36Speaker 1: they don't seem to be you know, it's not it's
- 16:39Speaker 1: not clicking for them at the moment. So but that's
- 16:43Speaker 1: that's me say it. I mean, that's their problem. I mean,
- 16:46Speaker 1: that's not That's not what's going on here. What's happening
- 16:48Speaker 1: here is that McCarthy's figuring out ways to get kind
- 16:51Speaker 1: of get everyone involved. We're starting to see a lot
- 16:54Speaker 1: more out of Ferguson, We're starting to see some out
- 16:56Speaker 1: of Brandon Cook's, uh, you know, Gallup keeps kind of
- 16:59Speaker 1: doing his thing. Turpin is the guy that we're really
- 17:02Speaker 1: seeing a lot more from him. And I think that's
- 17:04Speaker 1: that's perfect because that's what that's that's a guy that
- 17:08Speaker 1: I mean, I was saying that all last year. I mean,
- 17:10Speaker 1: and maybe he wasn't ready Turpin wasn't ready to kind
- 17:13Speaker 1: of take that next level. But he seems like he
- 17:16Speaker 1: is a he's a difference maker. I know he is
- 17:18Speaker 1: on offense for sure, and and you know you're getting
- 17:20Speaker 1: your tight ends going, you getting now you're getting another back.
- 17:22Speaker 1: They're getting Rico Dallle involved, and I think it's lighting
- 17:25Speaker 1: the fire a little bit under Pollard. I thought, I thought,
- 17:28Speaker 1: I think he's running the ball better. But really, more
- 17:30Speaker 1: than anything, I mean, Dak is Dakan, He's Dak's playing
- 17:34Speaker 1: out of his mind. But this offensive line is just
- 17:36Speaker 1: on another level. And that's that's the best part. You
- 17:39Speaker 1: know what ironic is they gave up a sack that
- 17:42Speaker 1: lost the game really against the Eagles. They gave up
- 17:44Speaker 1: that sack from the eleven yard line all the way
- 17:46Speaker 1: back to the twenty late in the game that probably
- 17:49Speaker 1: lost in the game. They haven't given up a sack
- 17:51Speaker 1: since now, I know, they haven't faced the Eagles. Eagles
- 17:53Speaker 1: or a team like that. But but in three games
- 17:57Speaker 1: the Giants and uh and obviously you know Washington Carolina
- 18:03Speaker 1: to not give up a sack in those three games
- 18:05Speaker 1: pretty impressive. So that's a that's a good thing. What's
- 18:08Speaker 1: happening there? All right, let's go to we have a
- 18:11Speaker 1: text message question here from A three two three numbers
- 18:13Speaker 1: is do you believe Gilmour can have some influence in
- 18:15Speaker 1: Shack Leonard coming to the Cowboys? That would just be
- 18:19Speaker 1: a guest. I don't know. I mean, I think what
- 18:22Speaker 1: Gilmore played like one year maybe two U with the Colts,
- 18:27Speaker 1: So maybe, I mean, you just you can say that.
- 18:30Speaker 1: But that doesn't always mean everyone's friends and they hang out.
- 18:32Speaker 1: You know, maybe maybe they don't like each other. I
- 18:34Speaker 1: have no idea. I have no idea about that. I mean,
- 18:37Speaker 1: if they have a good connection, then sure. But I
- 18:40Speaker 1: think at the end of the day, these players know everybody.
- 18:43Speaker 1: You have a player that you've played with either in
- 18:46Speaker 1: college or your your rookie year, or maybe even high
- 18:49Speaker 1: school or you went to a camp. They know everybody.
- 18:51Speaker 1: You know, you just look after at the end of
- 18:53Speaker 1: the game to see all these connections these guys have.
- 18:56Speaker 1: That doesn't mean you're going to necessarily sign there. It
- 18:59Speaker 1: has to be the right situation, so maybe it helps,
- 19:02Speaker 1: you know. I know, like Cooks and Gilmore, you know,
- 19:04Speaker 1: they both got traded here. They had a good relationship
- 19:07Speaker 1: of really good friendship. So if it's something like that,
- 19:09Speaker 1: then sure, if there is a friendship there. I don't
- 19:12Speaker 1: know about it. I just know that they were teammates
- 19:14Speaker 1: for a little bit. All right, let's go to Tim.
- 19:17Speaker 1: He's in Grapevine, Texas. What's up, Tim?
- 19:20Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, longtime caller, first time listener.
- 19:23Speaker 10: No, I'm just kidding.
- 19:24Speaker 1: No, No, it was like first time this week, the
- 19:26Speaker 1: first time this week you've called. It's fine. I was like,
- 19:28Speaker 1: don't don't confuse me here on a Monday.
- 19:30Speaker 10: Now, come on, it's been a while to talk.
- 19:33Speaker 1: You just want the dan, don't you. That's what you want.
- 19:35Speaker 1: You just want. We give it to you. We give
- 19:37Speaker 1: it to you. There you go, you got it, There
- 19:40Speaker 1: we go.
- 19:41Speaker 6: Hey, I'll take what I can get these days, all right. No,
- 19:44Speaker 6: you know, the last Cowboys player to win Defensive Player
- 19:48Speaker 6: of the Year was forty six years ago, Harvey Martin.
- 19:51Speaker 6: And he's the only one that ever won it. And
- 19:54Speaker 6: if somebody would have told you back in training camp. Hey,
- 19:57Speaker 6: by the way, the Cowboys are gonna have a player
- 19:59Speaker 6: this year that wins if it's Player of the Year,
- 20:00Speaker 6: who are you thinking? You're thinking eleven? Everybody's thinking that.
- 20:05Speaker 1: So I still I still think that. Honestly, I'm telling
- 20:08Speaker 1: you that, I still think that. I still believe that.
- 20:11Speaker 1: But but he's not going to happen. But I I mean,
- 20:13Speaker 1: do I think he's the He is the best player
- 20:16Speaker 1: on this team, offense or defense. He is the best
- 20:18Speaker 1: player on the team Micah Parsons, hands down the best,
- 20:23Speaker 1: and most people do but he should.
- 20:25Speaker 6: He shouldn't be penalized for being so versatile. But we
- 20:29Speaker 6: have to move him around so much, linebacker whatnot. He
- 20:31Speaker 6: shouldn't be penalized for that, but he will because people
- 20:34Speaker 6: value statistics so much.
- 20:36Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's just the way it is.
- 20:38Speaker 6: But with Miles Garrett his his shoulder injury, if Doron
- 20:42Speaker 6: Blant continues his level play, even if he doesn't return
- 20:46Speaker 6: any more touchdown or picks for touchdowns, I mean, I
- 20:49Speaker 6: think he's got to be the favorite. And I think
- 20:51Speaker 6: it's an amazing It's one of the best stories I've
- 20:54Speaker 6: ever seen football. I mean it you think about the
- 20:57Speaker 6: kid Sacramento State to Fresno State fit around. I mean
- 21:02Speaker 6: Dan Quinn and the gang and Will McClay whoever else.
- 21:05Speaker 6: You know, the old scouts. They deserve credit. May may
- 21:07Speaker 6: saw something the kid he comes in second here playing
- 21:10Speaker 6: like this. I've never seen anything like it.
- 21:12Speaker 10: I think it's amazing.
- 21:12Speaker 6: Yeah, in the locker room post game, man, I had
- 21:16Speaker 6: tears of mind watching that.
- 21:19Speaker 1: He's the guy that you have to root for. I mean,
- 21:21Speaker 1: just listen to the interviews. Nothing's changed. He's kind of
- 21:25Speaker 1: embarrassed by this. You know, it's not really his style
- 21:29Speaker 1: to play the position that he plays. Think about who
- 21:31Speaker 1: you have to play against to be to have the
- 21:34Speaker 1: mindset you have to have to be great at cornerback
- 21:37Speaker 1: in the NFL. But then to be the type of
- 21:39Speaker 1: person that he is off the field, it's it's you
- 21:43Speaker 1: just don't see it, you know, like you usually don't
- 21:45Speaker 1: have those two personalities together. And uh, it's it's it's refreshing,
- 21:51Speaker 1: it really is, but it really is.
- 21:53Speaker 6: And then one thing I wanted to point out right quick.
- 21:55Speaker 6: So everybody's you know, pupping arms and thinking about the
- 21:58Speaker 6: division and home field. I get it, But if you
- 22:03Speaker 6: look at the playoff picture. If it started tomorrow the playoffs,
- 22:06Speaker 6: we would play at Atlanta, which anybody would take that,
- 22:10Speaker 6: and then we would in all likelihood play in Philadelphia,
- 22:13Speaker 6: who I think we match up with this year quite well. So,
- 22:17Speaker 6: I mean it's not deep of the world if we
- 22:18Speaker 6: don't get I don't bil advantage or win the division.
- 22:21Speaker 6: I just care about help in staying hot, and I'll
- 22:25Speaker 6: hang up, thank you.
- 22:26Speaker 1: Yep. It's the same as last year. You know, the
- 22:28Speaker 1: South isn't very good, and so if you're the fifth seed,
- 22:31Speaker 1: you're gonna go play. They played the Tampa and they
- 22:33Speaker 1: rolled through them, and and don't forget. I mean, all
- 22:38Speaker 1: you need is the seven or the sixth to beat
- 22:41Speaker 1: the two or the three, which happened the Giants beat Minnesota.
- 22:44Speaker 1: So it happens where you don't have to necessarily go
- 22:47Speaker 1: to the number one seed right off the bat. But
- 22:52Speaker 1: my point is is that if that's the best team,
- 22:55Speaker 1: if that's who you have to go, then then just
- 22:56Speaker 1: go beat them. Just go up there and beat them.
- 22:58Speaker 1: You were right there on the doorstep to beat them.
- 23:01Speaker 1: You know, a lot of things kind of went their way.
- 23:03Speaker 1: I mean, I tell you this, if the Eagles fumble
- 23:05Speaker 1: three times against the Cowboys again. They're not gonna get
- 23:07Speaker 1: them all. I don't think maybe, but I just I
- 23:11Speaker 1: just think, you know, you have to this is this
- 23:14Speaker 1: is the situation. It is what it is. Gotta go
- 23:16Speaker 1: win now, going back to what deron Bland, Uh, you know,
- 23:20Speaker 1: I've sort of changed my tune a little bit just
- 23:22Speaker 1: by thinking of what the award is because think of
- 23:27Speaker 1: it like this. See, I think I'm getting lost in that. Well,
- 23:31Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Year, which is that's the defensive position,
- 23:34Speaker 1: that's the MVP. Are you the best defensive player? No,
- 23:37Speaker 1: probably not not the best on his own team. But
- 23:41Speaker 1: think about from MVP on and Offensive Player of the Year.
- 23:44Speaker 1: Think about what happens there. MVP is usually the quarterback
- 23:47Speaker 1: that's leading the team. The best is the Brady or
- 23:50Speaker 1: Mahomes or whatever. The Offensive Player of the Year could
- 23:52Speaker 1: be a receiver, it could be somebody that's got stats
- 23:55Speaker 1: that you just can't ignore. You just can't ignore this
- 23:59Speaker 1: type of production him. You know, I know Marshall Falk
- 24:02Speaker 1: used to get it, but then they gave the MVP
- 24:04Speaker 1: to Warner. That's going way back. But sometimes Player of
- 24:08Speaker 1: the Year is it's just the guy that's just doing
- 24:11Speaker 1: stuff that you just can't ignore. And that's what's happening
- 24:15Speaker 1: here with the Ron Blant. I mean, he's he's he's
- 24:18Speaker 1: giving up some plays, but he keeps getting tested and
- 24:22Speaker 1: he and he has and if he has five interceptions
- 24:25Speaker 1: for touchdowns, seven picks, if he can get a couple
- 24:28Speaker 1: more interceptions, maybe maybe if you get into ten interceptions.
- 24:33Speaker 1: I know Diggs did last he did a couple of
- 24:37Speaker 1: years ago eleven interceptions. I don't remember him even being
- 24:40Speaker 1: in the discussion for that because I think Parsons was
- 24:43Speaker 1: so sometimes you kind of you know, they kind of
- 24:46Speaker 1: mixed each other up a little bit. Uh, let's go
- 24:48Speaker 1: to one more phone call, Chris, let's put the guy
- 24:53Speaker 1: on the line. My computer frozen. Who we got.
- 24:58Speaker 11: He Jason?
- 25:00Speaker 1: Jason? All right, first time caller from Philly.
- 25:03Speaker 11: Yeah, what's up?
- 25:05Speaker 5: What's up?
- 25:06Speaker 11: Man? It's you know, it's crazy. It's kind of surreal
- 25:08Speaker 11: to talk to you right now because I've been watching
- 25:10Speaker 11: you for years.
- 25:11Speaker 9: Man.
- 25:11Speaker 1: Appreciate it, Man, appreciate it.
- 25:12Speaker 11: Yeah, no, absolutely, man, And you know, you know, I'm
- 25:15Speaker 11: proud of you. Man, I'm really you know, congratulations on
- 25:17Speaker 11: your new show. It's nice to just hear you talk
- 25:20Speaker 11: because a lot of times when you're on the other shows.
- 25:23Speaker 11: Not to knock any of the guys, because I love
- 25:25Speaker 11: all you guys, but you know, it's nice to just
- 25:27Speaker 11: hear you talk because sometimes you get cut off or
- 25:29Speaker 11: your point wouldn't be taken properly. And it's good to
- 25:32Speaker 11: see you flow in your own environment.
- 25:34Speaker 1: Man, so awesome, Thank you.
- 25:36Speaker 3: I do.
- 25:36Speaker 1: I like to talk and I like to be a
- 25:39Speaker 1: team player as well. Yeah, and now I sit in
- 25:42Speaker 1: the room and you know, if these other three, you know,
- 25:44Speaker 1: Mike's want to talk, they can, but they never do.
- 25:46Speaker 1: So it's just me. So it's all right.
- 25:48Speaker 12: Now.
- 25:48Speaker 1: I enjoy it. I do miss it a little bit.
- 25:51Speaker 1: I mean I do miss kind of the interaction and stuff,
- 25:52Speaker 1: but I get it with you guys, and you guys
- 25:54Speaker 1: are very, very knowledgeable, and you know what's going on,
- 25:57Speaker 1: and you have great points and great you know and
- 25:59Speaker 1: now and perspectives that sometimes I don't even think about it.
- 26:02Speaker 1: We get kind of caught up sometimes inside the building
- 26:05Speaker 1: and so to get a fresh, you know, take on
- 26:08Speaker 1: some things from the outside is refreshing as well, which
- 26:12Speaker 1: is you know what you have to be to be
- 26:13Speaker 1: a cowboy fan in Philly.
- 26:16Speaker 11: Yeah, oh, jeez, oh my god, Nick, you have you know,
- 26:20Speaker 11: you know, I was gonna say, you have no idea,
- 26:21Speaker 11: but you probably do. From the outside, you can imagine.
- 26:24Speaker 11: It's definitely I mean, you know, it's kind of like
- 26:27Speaker 11: working in the trenches man, you know, like you know,
- 26:29Speaker 11: like an enemy territory. And you know, I know, it's
- 26:31Speaker 11: just football. You know, there's a lot more serious things
- 26:33Speaker 11: happening in the world. But yeah, being a Cowboys fan
- 26:36Speaker 11: for my entire life, I'm forty two years old, and
- 26:39Speaker 11: you know, the last time I saw the Cowboys with
- 26:41Speaker 11: the Super Bowl was you know, obviously in the nineties
- 26:44Speaker 11: with Emmitt Smith and stuff like that, and I was
- 26:45Speaker 11: probably thirteen, fourteen years old, and you know, just just
- 26:50Speaker 11: you know, being here now, I mean, you know, regardless
- 26:52Speaker 11: of whether I'm one of those like even killed calm
- 26:56Speaker 11: calm Cowboys fans, I still get like over ran and
- 26:59Speaker 11: you know, people still will kind of treat me like
- 27:01Speaker 11: an outsider. But you know, I just wanted to say
- 27:04Speaker 11: a couple of things, man. You know, first of all,
- 27:06Speaker 11: when when when Diggs went down, I I'm probably echoing
- 27:11Speaker 11: a lot of thoughts here, but I actually wasn't too
- 27:14Speaker 11: concerned because I saw the up and coming star in
- 27:17Speaker 11: dron Land, and I'm really really proud and glad that
- 27:22Speaker 11: we have him on our team. And I think he's
- 27:24Speaker 11: only going to get better. And I'm really excited to
- 27:26Speaker 11: see what this defense is going to look like with
- 27:28Speaker 11: Diggs back and all that stuff going forward. I think
- 27:34Speaker 11: I feel something different about this year, Nick. And I'm
- 27:37Speaker 11: not one of those cowboys fans that that you know,
- 27:39Speaker 11: sit back and say We're going to go to the
- 27:40Speaker 11: super Bowl every year. I'm way too rational for that,
- 27:43Speaker 11: you know. Like I I look at the rest of
- 27:45Speaker 11: the league, and I look at what we're doing right now.
- 27:48Speaker 11: I like what McCarthy's doing. I like what the team
- 27:51Speaker 11: is doing. You know, I definitely love my defensive coordinator.
- 27:56Speaker 11: To me, him and McCarthy are like interchangeable in my mind.
- 28:00Speaker 11: But the main thing is, you know, like I would
- 28:02Speaker 11: just love to see us get over the hump just
- 28:04Speaker 11: one time, just one time, just at least get to
- 28:07Speaker 11: the dance man, because you know, I just feel like
- 28:09Speaker 11: we've had a lot of great talent over the years,
- 28:12Speaker 11: and I hated to see Whitten and Romo not get
- 28:15Speaker 11: you know, and I want back to get it. I
- 28:16Speaker 11: want a lot of these guys to get it. I
- 28:18Speaker 11: want the fan base to get it. And you know what,
- 28:20Speaker 11: I don't even care man, waiting another ten years I have,
- 28:23Speaker 11: you know, it makes it makes no difference after that.
- 28:25Speaker 11: But I just want us to see our team get
- 28:28Speaker 11: their just deserves. And you know, I feel like we're
- 28:32Speaker 11: on our way. And I agree with you. We have
- 28:35Speaker 11: to beat Philly, man. We have to beat them when
- 28:38Speaker 11: it matters, right, not just not just beat them, we
- 28:41Speaker 11: have to beat them when it matters. If we have
- 28:42Speaker 11: to see them three times this year, that's obviously a
- 28:45Speaker 11: good thing, I believe exactly beat them the third time.
- 28:49Speaker 7: Man.
- 28:50Speaker 11: You know, I really don't care about the first seeds,
- 28:53Speaker 11: you know, like you know, I care about us getting
- 28:55Speaker 11: to a meaningful game.
- 28:57Speaker 1: There you go, all right, appreciate it. Thank you you
- 29:00Speaker 1: think for the call on Jason, And yeah, not easy
- 29:04Speaker 1: being a Cowboy fan over there in Philly, but he
- 29:06Speaker 1: got a good perspective, So appreciate the call. Callback for sure.
- 29:10Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna go to break right here on
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- 31:25Speaker 1: All right, we've got a few more minutes here on
- 31:28Speaker 1: Cowboys storyline, maybe fifteen or so. Let's go right to it.
- 31:32Speaker 1: We've got another text message here from Calvin. He's in Sacramento, California.
- 31:38Speaker 1: He said, how big is blands record setting picks? Six?
- 31:41Speaker 7: Are?
- 31:41Speaker 1: The offense? Is the offensive line problems fixed? Um? You know?
- 31:46Speaker 1: I mean they haven't faced the most dominant pass rushers,
- 31:50Speaker 1: but they haven't given up a sack at three straight games.
- 31:54Speaker 1: Some of that is the offensive line. Some of it's
- 31:56Speaker 1: just Dack playing really well and the offense in of
- 32:00Speaker 1: knowing where everyone is going to be. It's not like
- 32:02Speaker 1: he hasn't been pressured in three games. You know, he
- 32:05Speaker 1: has to move in the pocket, he's trusting everyone. He's finding,
- 32:09Speaker 1: you know, a schoonmaker or Ferguson or Rico Daddle in
- 32:12Speaker 1: the flat. I mean, it's everything. The offensive line is
- 32:15Speaker 1: playing really well. But from a pass blocking standpoint, I mean,
- 32:20Speaker 1: I don't think the running game is just mauling people,
- 32:22Speaker 1: but they're but they're doing a pretty good job. They're
- 32:25Speaker 1: running the ball into the end zone at times, so
- 32:27Speaker 1: doing doing doing a nice job for sure. All right,
- 32:30Speaker 1: let's go to the callers. Uh Steve, he's in Washington State.
- 32:33Speaker 1: Another one from Washington. What's up man?
- 32:36Speaker 7: Conspiracy?
- 32:38Speaker 1: All right, what do you got? You got something?
- 32:41Speaker 7: I got sixteen type caller today? Uh, finally got through.
- 32:49Speaker 7: There you go you Uh, you just got a couple
- 32:52Speaker 7: of comments. One is, uh, the defense on Philly, both
- 33:01Speaker 7: offense and defense for Philly. I hate Philly, but they
- 33:04Speaker 7: have been getting so frigging lucky. I can't believe it.
- 33:08Speaker 7: That and skill, but major luck as well as referee
- 33:13Speaker 7: calls coming their way. Uh, what have they've won like
- 33:17Speaker 7: three or four games now in overtime this year?
- 33:20Speaker 1: They've been down. I think they've been down at halftime
- 33:22Speaker 1: four straight weeks? Is that right? I mean.
- 33:26Speaker 7: Game that's horrible. And the other comment was the way
- 33:30Speaker 7: Josh Allen's playing. I can see Ron Bland probably getting
- 33:34Speaker 7: a couple of pick sixes on him coming up.
- 33:37Speaker 1: Yeah he's yeah, he played well, but I mean he
- 33:40Speaker 1: throws picks, but he also does he's pretty good too, so.
- 33:44Speaker 7: He probably leading the league in picks, right, I think.
- 33:46Speaker 1: So yeah, he's up there, him and him in the
- 33:49Speaker 1: quarterback for Carolina.
- 33:51Speaker 7: Yeah, like eight straight games in a row with a pick. Yeah,
- 33:55Speaker 7: But anyway, I'll hang up and I got to hang
- 33:59Speaker 7: up the floor. Jerry Jones Trace.
- 34:01Speaker 1: Call, okay, all right, Yeah, we don't want that happening,
- 34:05Speaker 1: or do we? You know the thing the interesting A J. Brown,
- 34:10Speaker 1: you know, had two plays yesterday where you know, one
- 34:14Speaker 1: of them one of them was I mean both of
- 34:17Speaker 1: them were knocked out. Two dropped passes by A. J. Brown.
- 34:22Speaker 1: Did I say, Antonio AJ Brown? Two passes that he
- 34:28Speaker 1: dropped won the game for the Eagles. Their best receiver
- 34:32Speaker 1: dropped two passes, and I think that helped them win
- 34:35Speaker 1: the game because that pass right before the field goal
- 34:39Speaker 1: he they got knocked out of his hand. It was
- 34:41Speaker 1: going to be a two yard game and probably take
- 34:44Speaker 1: a few more seconds off the clock, and then they
- 34:47Speaker 1: have to rush onto the field. It's a left hash kick,
- 34:50Speaker 1: you know. I think that, you know, having a little
- 34:53Speaker 1: bit of time probably helped them. Who knows what rushing
- 34:55Speaker 1: on in the field to kick a fifty seven yard
- 34:58Speaker 1: field goal would have done. Think I think that would
- 35:00Speaker 1: have been better for the Bills if he would have
- 35:03Speaker 1: caught that pass and then brought him down. And then
- 35:06Speaker 1: of course at the end overtime, you know, I mean,
- 35:09Speaker 1: it was close. I can't believe they didn't review it
- 35:11Speaker 1: a little bit more. Looks like he looked like he
- 35:13Speaker 1: caught it to me, had it tucked. But whatever that was,
- 35:17Speaker 1: that was a very fortunate drop. So I think two
- 35:19Speaker 1: drop passes by their best receiver. You know, how weird
- 35:22Speaker 1: is that to say, But that's pretty much the case.
- 35:24Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Bruce. He's in Houston.
- 35:26Speaker 15: What's up, hey, Nick, Thanks for taking my call.
- 35:29Speaker 1: How are you doing.
- 35:31Speaker 15: I'm doing good? Good, you know, I'm proud of our
- 35:35Speaker 15: of our teams. They, in my opinion, they've done what
- 35:37Speaker 15: they ought to have done. I think against the blesser teams,
- 35:40Speaker 15: so to speak. Even though you know, you know how
- 35:42Speaker 15: Washington plays is Mike out. They can be oh and
- 35:45Speaker 15: fifteen and play like world beaters and always growing up
- 35:48Speaker 15: it seemed like everybody you know, when they played Dallas,
- 35:51Speaker 15: that was their super Bowl, you.
- 35:53Speaker 1: Know, right.
- 35:55Speaker 11: But but.
- 35:58Speaker 15: If if Dallas can, I mean, these next five games
- 36:02Speaker 15: is going to be crucial, of course, right, I mean,
- 36:04Speaker 15: I don't expect them to go undefeated.
- 36:06Speaker 6: Would could they?
- 36:07Speaker 15: Yes, I hope they would, you know, But I'm realistic too.
- 36:10Speaker 15: That Buffalo game in Miami away are gonna be tough.
- 36:13Speaker 15: I like our chances at home, and it begins this
- 36:16Speaker 15: Thursday with Seattle. But these next five teams are all
- 36:19Speaker 15: playoff teams. I mean, we're gonna find out even more
- 36:21Speaker 15: about our football team, and at the very least it's
- 36:25Speaker 15: gonna prepare them for the playoffs. Because it looks like
- 36:28Speaker 15: Philly's gonna win the division, so we're gonna be at
- 36:31Speaker 15: best what this seed.
- 36:33Speaker 6: So if that's the case.
- 36:35Speaker 15: Well then you know, then we're gonna be playing like
- 36:39Speaker 15: we did last year, like against Tampa Bay, probably the
- 36:41Speaker 15: winner of South Division, which be I guess the Saints
- 36:45Speaker 15: right now, I'm not sure, but one of those teams
- 36:47Speaker 15: which we should win, which means we'll be going to
- 36:50Speaker 15: either San Francisco or Philadelphia the second round, and we're
- 36:53Speaker 15: gonna have to beat them anyway in their play for
- 36:56Speaker 15: this team to be recognized, you know, I want this
- 37:00Speaker 15: seem to at least get to the championship game. I'd
- 37:02Speaker 15: feel that would be a success compared to last year
- 37:05Speaker 15: in the other years, But and I think are running
- 37:09Speaker 15: backs both of them. Pollard and Dow both have been
- 37:12Speaker 15: playing really, really good these last two games. I hope
- 37:14Speaker 15: to see it against better defenses, but they're running harder.
- 37:18Speaker 15: The offensive line, as you alluded to, already seem to
- 37:20Speaker 15: be playing better. They're healthy and cohesive, and of course
- 37:24Speaker 15: Dak is MVP. But let's let's see him do it
- 37:27Speaker 15: against you know, I want him to shut up Steven A.
- 37:29Speaker 15: Smith so bad and where they have no choice but
- 37:33Speaker 15: to give them our due. But thanks for taking my
- 37:35Speaker 15: car and have a good week, Rick, all right, thank you.
- 37:38Speaker 1: I don't know if you can shut him up. I don't.
- 37:39Speaker 1: I think that's part of the deal. It's part of
- 37:41Speaker 1: the contract that he signed. Never shut up. Just keep
- 37:44Speaker 1: talking and you know, you keep If he keeps talking,
- 37:48Speaker 1: people will keep listening. And that's okay. I mean, that's
- 37:50Speaker 1: you know, I respect what he does, knowing what the
- 37:55Speaker 1: what his role is that I've said it before. He's
- 37:58Speaker 1: a he's he's the rock of you know those talk shows.
- 38:04Speaker 1: You know what I mean. I don't know about the rock.
- 38:05Speaker 1: He's probably a little bit more of the heel actually,
- 38:09Speaker 1: whoever that is would be. But anyways, all right, good
- 38:13Speaker 1: stuff as always, Bruce, let's move on to Nathan. He's
- 38:17Speaker 1: in Washington State. What's going on here? I mean, what's
- 38:20Speaker 1: up with the state of Washington. I mean it's already
- 38:22Speaker 1: it's eight forty in the morning over there? Is it
- 38:25Speaker 1: Seahawks week? Is that what's going on?
- 38:28Speaker 5: Well?
- 38:28Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll we're up at seven to watch the early
- 38:30Speaker 10: Talking Cowboys show. We can watch everything all the way
- 38:33Speaker 10: through the day, early in the morning, it's night.
- 38:35Speaker 1: Are you are you first time caller?
- 38:37Speaker 10: That's the first time caller, first time getting through?
- 38:40Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well that counts there. There you go.
- 38:43Speaker 1: Thanks for hey, all right, being persistent. Appreciate that. All right?
- 38:46Speaker 1: What do you got on your mind? Nathan?
- 38:49Speaker 10: Well, I just wanted to comment on something and I've
- 38:51Speaker 10: noticed just over the last couple of years being in Washington,
- 38:54Speaker 10: I don't ever get to go to the Cowboys games
- 38:56Speaker 10: at home, and since they built that beautiful state, it
- 39:01Speaker 10: hasn't really been a home crowd. I've noticed a lot
- 39:05Speaker 10: of traveling teams will take over that stadium even though
- 39:10Speaker 10: the Cowboys are hosted. Yeah, the last couple of years,
- 39:13Speaker 10: that has completely slipped on its head, and it's exciting
- 39:16Speaker 10: to see our home crowd actually standing up for their house.
- 39:21Speaker 1: Yep, it's it's been a it's been a change for sure.
- 39:25Speaker 1: Now now you also got to remember too, like every
- 39:29Speaker 1: every team, I mean, there are some teams that are
- 39:31Speaker 1: going to come in here and have a lot of fans.
- 39:34Speaker 1: I mean, that's just the way it is. There's just
- 39:35Speaker 1: too many tickets and too many ways to buy the
- 39:38Speaker 1: tickets not to do that. Yeah, I mean, it's a
- 39:40Speaker 1: great place to go to a game because two things
- 39:43Speaker 1: you know is that you can get into the airport easily,
- 39:46Speaker 1: and it's not going to be a bad weather game,
- 39:48Speaker 1: not at all. So go here. It's going to be
- 39:50Speaker 1: a nice, fun atmosphere. And you see posing teams with
- 39:53Speaker 1: a lot of fan base, especially if they don't play
- 39:55Speaker 1: here often, they will fill it up I mean, or
- 39:58Speaker 1: not fill it out, but they're you know, you're gonna
- 40:00Speaker 1: have Pittsburgh comes in here. You'll see the towels, Kansas City,
- 40:04Speaker 1: San Francisco. It happens. It happens, but it's not happening
- 40:07Speaker 1: as much as Attle.
- 40:08Speaker 10: What now, even this week with Seattle, I'm sure they're
- 40:11Speaker 10: going to have a nice fan base there in Dallas,
- 40:13Speaker 10: but the local, the home crowd seems to be overwhelming
- 40:18Speaker 10: them more lately than they have in the past. Yeah,
- 40:20Speaker 10: and that's what I've been so proud of to see
- 40:22Speaker 10: finding our home stand is becoming a real home crowd.
- 40:26Speaker 1: Yep, it's been good, you know. And so if Seattle
- 40:30Speaker 1: wants to stand out, those fans are gonna have to
- 40:31Speaker 1: wear that that those highlighters because you don't have. From
- 40:35Speaker 1: from what I've heard, Seattle is wearing their throwback uniforms
- 40:39Speaker 1: from like the eighties and early nineties, which I think
- 40:42Speaker 1: is school. So that'll be kind of cool to see them.
- 40:45Speaker 1: I'm always a.
- 40:46Speaker 10: Fan of that, agreed. I like those old school yeahs.
- 40:49Speaker 1: Yeah, they're good.
- 40:50Speaker 10: So and I don't think they stand a chance in
- 40:53Speaker 10: this game. By the way, if you just look at
- 40:55Speaker 10: everything across the board, Yeah, they've got talent, but this
- 40:58Speaker 10: they're running into a buzzsaw.
- 40:59Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
- 41:00Speaker 10: Telling my family last week when we're watching Seattle getting
- 41:03Speaker 10: blown out by San Francisco on Thanksgiving night, you think
- 41:06Speaker 10: this is bad, Wait till next week when they go
- 41:08Speaker 10: to Dallas.
- 41:10Speaker 9: That was an all game.
- 41:11Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which I would imagine forty nine Ers fans
- 41:14Speaker 1: were up there in Seattle as well. But uh yeah,
- 41:18Speaker 1: it'll it'll be it'll be a tough challenge. I mean,
- 41:19Speaker 1: they have some receivers that you have to be you know,
- 41:22Speaker 1: ready for. But you know that's that's that's kind of
- 41:26Speaker 1: what the Cowboys are getting ready for it, you know
- 41:28Speaker 1: in Philadelphia and then you know maybe San Francisco again,
- 41:31Speaker 1: these having two or three really good receivers and I
- 41:34Speaker 1: think Seattle brings that.
- 41:35Speaker 10: So oh yeah, it's going to be exciting and a
- 41:38Speaker 10: good game.
- 41:38Speaker 1: Good stuff. All right, well, anything else.
- 41:42Speaker 10: I appreciate it. No, thank you for having merion, and
- 41:45Speaker 10: I'll be continue to watch.
- 41:46Speaker 1: All right, have a good one. All right, we got
- 41:49Speaker 1: a few more minutes here. I think we have an
- 41:51Speaker 1: open phone line or two eight eight eight a five
- 41:53Speaker 1: five two two nine seven if you want to jump
- 41:56Speaker 1: on that quickly. But a lot of good stuff here today,
- 42:00Speaker 1: and uh, you know we the Cowboys and and and Seahawks.
- 42:05Speaker 1: I mean that that is the game that that's the
- 42:08Speaker 1: one to focus on obviously right now it's it's the
- 42:11Speaker 1: next game. You know. I threw this out, I guess
- 42:14Speaker 1: on the radio last week. I mean, the Cowboys have
- 42:16Speaker 1: not beaten the team with a winning record, not this
- 42:19Speaker 1: year right now, Seattle six and five, So does that count.
- 42:23Speaker 1: If you beat Seattle, they have a winning record, and
- 42:26Speaker 1: then you beat them and then they don't so anymore.
- 42:29Speaker 1: That's that's what the plan is to be. I mean,
- 42:32Speaker 1: I guess you could make the case. I mean, they
- 42:34Speaker 1: beat the Jets when they were one to zero and
- 42:35Speaker 1: they had a winning record, and then you you ended
- 42:38Speaker 1: that for them and then they haven't recovered since then.
- 42:40Speaker 1: But the Cowboys haven't beaten anybody with a winning record,
- 42:43Speaker 1: and you know that that stuff doesn't really matter right now.
- 42:47Speaker 1: It's not college football. You know, you don't have to
- 42:49Speaker 1: like impress any like the Polers or anybody else. Committee.
- 42:54Speaker 1: You don't have to do that. You just have to
- 42:55Speaker 1: go win your game. But I think everyone's all, you know,
- 42:58Speaker 1: already thinking what does any this mean for the playoffs?
- 43:02Speaker 1: Are they a good team? And you know, you can't
- 43:05Speaker 1: really prove that until you go until you get to
- 43:08Speaker 1: those to that point in the season, so that's kind
- 43:11Speaker 1: of where they are. But this is this will be
- 43:12Speaker 1: a great test for the Cowboys. And you know, I
- 43:16Speaker 1: said it right after they lost to the Eagles. You know,
- 43:20Speaker 1: they were five and three and I said that they
- 43:22Speaker 1: will be ten and three. They will be ten and three.
- 43:25Speaker 1: And here they are. They're eight and three. And then
- 43:27Speaker 1: now that the two toughest game it gets, It gets
- 43:29Speaker 1: a little tougher every time I thought the Giants, I
- 43:32Speaker 1: mean think about every game has been a little bit
- 43:34Speaker 1: tougher as far as what the matchup is. You know,
- 43:37Speaker 1: the first one right out of the bat, got the
- 43:39Speaker 1: Giants at home, you've already crushed them. Go beat them.
- 43:42Speaker 1: Then the next one is on the road where you
- 43:44Speaker 1: struggled a little bit. Don't let another Arizona thing happen.
- 43:46Speaker 1: Go beat Carolina. Boom. Now you got a short week,
- 43:48Speaker 1: you got Washington coming in Washington. Can you know, play
- 43:51Speaker 1: it tough. We've seen it before. You got to go
- 43:53Speaker 1: win that game. Now Seattle's a little bit better. Obviously,
- 43:55Speaker 1: Philly is the best in the league. So to get
- 43:58Speaker 1: to ten and three, it's getting a little bit tougher
- 44:01Speaker 1: and tougher, even though it doesn't show that on the
- 44:03Speaker 1: on the scores because the Cowboys are just rolling through.
- 44:05Speaker 1: But I would imagine these next two will be tough.
- 44:08Speaker 1: Let's go to a text question here, how good of
- 44:10Speaker 1: our chances of signing Shaq Lindard? Is the extra rest
- 44:13Speaker 1: for Tyron Smith paying dividends something something. If it's that,
- 44:18Speaker 1: I mean, probably he's playing well. He's playing really well,
- 44:22Speaker 1: and not everybody can do that. Not everyone can just
- 44:25Speaker 1: not practice. But I think when you played as long
- 44:27Speaker 1: as he has, you know he understands what they're trying
- 44:29Speaker 1: to do, understands the concepts. He's a left tackle. I mean,
- 44:32Speaker 1: for the most part, he's getting their best pass rusher
- 44:35Speaker 1: and I think the extra time. But but you know,
- 44:38Speaker 1: get let's give him some credit. Short week, short week,
- 44:41Speaker 1: went out there, did his job, did a really nice job,
- 44:44Speaker 1: and he's played. He's played very well this year. So
- 44:48Speaker 1: you know, I don't know who's going to be the
- 44:50Speaker 1: comeback player of the year. It's always an injury and
- 44:52Speaker 1: all that. But I mean from the Cowboys, what he's
- 44:54Speaker 1: been able to do. I know he played some last year,
- 44:56Speaker 1: but what he's been able to do has been amazing
- 44:59Speaker 1: this year. Okay, two callers, we got to get to
- 45:01Speaker 1: here in the next few minutes, so we're gonna speed
- 45:03Speaker 1: through them here, Leon and Florida. Leon is up. What's up?
- 45:07Speaker 3: Hey? How you doing?
- 45:09Speaker 1: Good man? How are you doing?
- 45:11Speaker 3: I'm doing great. I just want to say I'm making
- 45:15Speaker 3: an observation, but I want to hear what you have
- 45:18Speaker 3: to say about it. I feel like this team is
- 45:20Speaker 3: not like as the team's in times pass are taking
- 45:24Speaker 3: to the uh supposed to be ball games with granty
- 45:28Speaker 3: and that there's like a different like they're respending every
- 45:31Speaker 3: team that they're playing at They're not playing at their level,
- 45:34Speaker 3: but they're playing above them. What do you think?
- 45:38Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think you're right. I mean they
- 45:42Speaker 1: you got to give them credit for that. They are
- 45:44Speaker 1: not necessarily playing to that level. And if you want
- 45:48Speaker 1: and you're playing way above it, they're they're they're they're
- 45:51Speaker 1: basically kicking these teams' asses, is what is what's happening?
- 45:54Speaker 1: And you know, you go back to the first game,
- 45:57Speaker 1: you know, the Cardinals game, But what was the level?
- 46:01Speaker 1: You know? I mean their offensive line was not the same.
- 46:05Speaker 1: This is not the offensive line. I mean, can you
- 46:07Speaker 1: even name the guys they were playing on offensive line?
- 46:10Speaker 1: I mean it was Bass and Hoffman and and Idoga.
- 46:13Speaker 1: I mean those That's not what we're seeing right now.
- 46:16Speaker 1: And it was I think it was the first game
- 46:18Speaker 1: Tyler Smith had played all season and Steele was still coming.
- 46:21Speaker 1: None of those five guys, all five positions, are better
- 46:24Speaker 1: than it was that Cardinal game. But my point is
- 46:27Speaker 1: is that when you keep suffering injuries to one position,
- 46:30Speaker 1: you are going to neutralize yourself and you're going to
- 46:33Speaker 1: get down to that level. So that's pretty much where
- 46:34Speaker 1: they were, and I think you got to give them
- 46:37Speaker 1: credit though. They they are they're taking the challenge, and
- 46:39Speaker 1: they're they're you know, they're taking team's best shots here
- 46:43Speaker 1: and and they're they're winning. But like we said all show,
- 46:46Speaker 1: it's about to get a lot tougher and it starts Thursday.
- 46:48Speaker 1: All right, let's go to one more caller here, Diego
- 46:50Speaker 1: in the Bronx. What's up, man? How are you doing?
- 46:55Speaker 11: Hey?
- 46:55Speaker 5: Doing good man.
- 46:57Speaker 16: I've been listening to you guys for a while. And
- 46:59Speaker 16: big time Cowboys fan there you go, A long time
- 47:02Speaker 16: Cowboys fans is what two thousand and six?
- 47:05Speaker 1: Okay?
- 47:05Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm a guy who's I just like to enjoy
- 47:10Speaker 16: the ride and I just up and down just fine
- 47:13Speaker 16: with me. But I'm just real focused on just getting
- 47:17Speaker 16: into the playoffs. Yeah, getting past the first in the
- 47:20Speaker 16: second round, because I'm pretty sure that it's going to
- 47:23Speaker 16: happen this year, quite confident that it's going to happen.
- 47:27Speaker 16: But so I'm just enjoying the ride, and I just
- 47:29Speaker 16: wanted to call and say, all right, he's doing a
- 47:31Speaker 16: great job and.
- 47:34Speaker 1: Keep up to go with all right, man, appreciate it,
- 47:35Speaker 1: thank you for calling. I love it. Uh, enjoying the ride,
- 47:42Speaker 1: but we're also looking to see what's down down the road,
- 47:44Speaker 1: and and there's nothing wrong with that, you know. I
- 47:46Speaker 1: always kind of joke with that a little bit about
- 47:48Speaker 1: you know, the people that say, hey, just take it
- 47:51Speaker 1: one game at time, and then but they're looking at him.
- 47:53Speaker 1: But that that's okay. I mean, that's that's kind of
- 47:56Speaker 1: what it is. You can enjoy the ride, but also
- 47:58Speaker 1: of figuring out where the destiny and where you want
- 48:01Speaker 1: to go, enjoying it as you can't speed up the process.
- 48:05Speaker 1: But at the same time, every game that happens just
- 48:08Speaker 1: kind of gets little everyone a little bit more excited
- 48:11Speaker 1: about where this team could be. And I'm right there
- 48:14Speaker 1: with it. I think what I know is this, the
- 48:17Speaker 1: Cowboys are going to be in the playoffs, and they're
- 48:20Speaker 1: going to be in the fourth quarter, probably on the
- 48:22Speaker 1: road of a really in a really, really tough game.
- 48:26Speaker 1: It's going to be a tough game. It's probably gonna
- 48:28Speaker 1: be Philly or San Francisco. There'll be about six seven
- 48:30Speaker 1: minutes to go, and it's right there to go make
- 48:32Speaker 1: the play. That's what I think is gonna happen. And
- 48:35Speaker 1: do they make it or do they do they not?
- 48:37Speaker 1: That's that's what it'll come down to. I think this
- 48:39Speaker 1: team is good enough to win. I think they're good
- 48:41Speaker 1: enough to be any of those teams. But they have
- 48:43Speaker 1: to do it. You have to do it. You can't.
- 48:45Speaker 1: This is no you know, you know this all paper stuff.
- 48:48Speaker 1: This is a paper I mean, this is what's the
- 48:50Speaker 1: way they are on paper. That's out the window when
- 48:52Speaker 1: he gets to the playoffs. You have to go do it.
- 48:54Speaker 1: I think they're good enough to go do it, but
- 48:57Speaker 1: you have I mean, you have to prove it. You
- 48:58Speaker 1: have to prove that they can go do that, prove
- 49:00Speaker 1: to us that they can't. All right, we'll be back
- 49:02Speaker 1: tomorrow on Cowboys Storyline. This has been a good one
- 49:05Speaker 1: so for Chris Beam. I'm Nick Eatan. We'll see tomorrow
- 49:07Speaker 1: on Cowboys Storyline.
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