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- 0:11Speaker 4: This is these Cowboys storylines with Nick Eatman.
- 0:20Speaker 1: What's up.
- 0:20Speaker 5: It's a happy Friday here, Cowboys storyline. I say happy Friday.
- 0:25Speaker 5: It's not everyone's happy about the news of what's been
- 0:29Speaker 5: going on here the last twenty four hours. There's been
- 0:31Speaker 5: some sadness, but it's still It's Friday, and there's a
- 0:34Speaker 5: game week coming up here. In a couple of days,
- 0:36Speaker 5: Cowboys will take on the Arizona Cardinals in Arizona. So
- 0:40Speaker 5: let's get right to it here, and I mean, let's
- 0:42Speaker 5: don't waste a lot of time. We don't have a
- 0:44Speaker 5: ton of time here. Forty five minutes is usually what
- 0:46Speaker 5: we do on Fridays. And I'm sure there's gonna be
- 0:50Speaker 5: a lot of talk about the cornerback situation and Trayvon Diggs. Obviously,
- 0:54Speaker 5: the Cowboys had really tough, tough news yesterday finding out
- 0:59Speaker 5: that Trayvon e suffered to torn acl in the middle
- 1:02Speaker 5: of practice on Thursday. His season is going to be over.
- 1:06Speaker 5: He's gonna have surgery and he will be gone for
- 1:09Speaker 5: the year. That is a huge loss for the Cowboys,
- 1:13Speaker 5: just because of how great he has been playing, what
- 1:17Speaker 5: a great player he is, how the dynamic he is,
- 1:20Speaker 5: and what the Cowboys can do when he's on the field.
- 1:23Speaker 5: So no reason to sugarcoat it, really. I mean, we'll
- 1:27Speaker 5: see what this means, and I'm sure we're gonna talk
- 1:29Speaker 5: about it, so I don't want to get too far
- 1:31Speaker 5: into this, but I'm not gonna sit here right now
- 1:33Speaker 5: and say that it's not a bad break for the Cowboys,
- 1:37Speaker 5: because if they didn't think he was a difference maker,
- 1:41Speaker 5: you don't give a guy's one hundred million dollars, so
- 1:44Speaker 5: simple as that.
- 1:44Speaker 1: And this is a tough situation for the Cowboys.
- 1:47Speaker 5: We'll see how they respond and they'll get to do
- 1:49Speaker 5: it here in a couple of days. And Arizona other storyline,
- 1:52Speaker 5: Tyler Biattish also suffered a hamstring injury in practice. It
- 1:56Speaker 5: looks like he did get an MRI and all indications
- 2:01Speaker 5: that he's probably gonna be okay for this game, so
- 2:03Speaker 5: we'll be able to play. He's the only center on
- 2:05Speaker 5: the roster. Obviously they got a couple of guys on
- 2:07Speaker 5: the practice squad, but I think he'll be fine to
- 2:10Speaker 5: play in this game. But something to monitor for him
- 2:14Speaker 5: moving forward, and maybe they do get a little bit
- 2:16Speaker 5: more depth there in case he can't play the whole
- 2:20Speaker 5: game or needs a break. So, all right, we're gonna
- 2:23Speaker 5: go to the phone lines. We're gonna get We're good
- 2:25Speaker 5: after it quick. I got a couple of callers that
- 2:28Speaker 5: I don't know if I've seen before, So let's do it.
- 2:30Speaker 5: Carter and Madison, Wisconsin. Carter, what's up, hey, Nick?
- 2:34Speaker 6: How you doing?
- 2:34Speaker 7: Long time listeners? I had to finally get on the show, buddy,
- 2:36Speaker 7: Thanks for having my call.
- 2:37Speaker 1: Awesome.
- 2:39Speaker 7: Yeah, obviously distraught.
- 2:40Speaker 6: By the news yesterday.
- 2:41Speaker 7: Of all Treyvon Diggs, obviously perennial Pro Bowl all through corner. Obviously,
- 2:45Speaker 7: we're not gonna be able to replace his production, especially
- 2:47Speaker 7: with the takeaways, and he's polished his coverage so well
- 2:50Speaker 7: over the last couple of years, and now he's starting
- 2:52Speaker 7: to tackle better. I feel like that's the part if
- 2:54Speaker 7: you saw that in the first two weeks, that we're
- 2:56Speaker 7: really gonna miss. But you know, here's why I don't
- 2:58Speaker 7: think the season is lost. I think we still have
- 3:01Speaker 7: a really good depth group. Obviously, adding Stefan Gilmour was
- 3:04Speaker 7: big for us. I think Theron Bland showed last year
- 3:06Speaker 7: down the stretch and he's capable of playing on the outside.
- 3:09Speaker 7: And having Jordan Lewis back good thing we didn't get
- 3:11Speaker 7: rid of him. You know a lot of people were
- 3:12Speaker 7: talking about cutting him for a little calf skates. Well,
- 3:14Speaker 7: now we need Jordan Lewis in that nickel spot, a
- 3:17Speaker 7: veteran guy who can step right in. And I wouldn't
- 3:20Speaker 7: put it past you know. Maybe if it doesn't go
- 3:22Speaker 7: great with Land on the outside, maybe they'll look and
- 3:23Speaker 7: sniff around the trade deadline, maybe for a veteran corner midseason.
- 3:26Speaker 7: So I think with the pass rush that we have,
- 3:29Speaker 7: I feel like they're gonna be able to tread water. Obviously,
- 3:31Speaker 7: having argued to the best defensive player in football, Micah
- 3:33Speaker 7: Parsons is gonna help. And then getting Donovan Wilson back
- 3:37Speaker 7: that safety group, you see why Lannie and Thomas Marquis
- 3:39Speaker 7: fell a lot of guys. Dan Quinn's gonna put these
- 3:41Speaker 7: guys in position to make plays. And I feel like, yeah, obviously,
- 3:44Speaker 7: like you said to start show, you can't replace Trayvon.
- 3:46Speaker 7: He's an all pro corner. They don't just sit out
- 3:48Speaker 7: there like you know, you can't just find him everywhere,
- 3:50Speaker 7: But like, I feel like the tallways at the offense
- 3:52Speaker 7: keeps it going, that he's getting better every week, score
- 3:54Speaker 7: more points in the red zone. I feel like we
- 3:56Speaker 7: can survive and still make the noise this year. I
- 3:58Speaker 7: really believe that, Carter.
- 3:59Speaker 5: I want to I want to say this, There's not
- 4:01Speaker 5: there couldn't have been anyone more perfect to call this
- 4:04Speaker 5: show first than you, because really, I mean, like, like
- 4:08Speaker 5: and thank you for the call, and I I say that,
- 4:12Speaker 5: and it's good to have you on it. I've never
- 4:14Speaker 5: I don't remember you call him before, but I think
- 4:18Speaker 5: it's it's really important to realize what you're just saying
- 4:22Speaker 5: right there. There are some some pieces on this team.
- 4:25Speaker 5: Deron Bland is a guy that's done everything you've ever
- 4:27Speaker 5: asked him to do, and he's done it ten times
- 4:30Speaker 5: better than that that than you expected. There's no reason
- 4:34Speaker 5: to bury this team. There's no reason to bury the cornerbacks.
- 4:38Speaker 5: But but I'm I'm not going to be a hypocrite
- 4:40Speaker 5: about it and say like that, you know, I'm there's
- 4:43Speaker 5: there's a reason why everyone's kind of got a little,
- 4:45Speaker 5: you know, gut punch right now, because you know how
- 4:48Speaker 5: good he is. You don't know that about some of
- 4:50Speaker 5: the other guys. But but let's say this, if if
- 4:54Speaker 5: you would have told me in training camp, Hey, they're
- 4:57Speaker 5: gonna lose Donovan Wilson for all of camp and the
- 5:00Speaker 5: first two games of the season, and these other guys,
- 5:03Speaker 5: Marquis Bell, Jane Thomas, they're gonna step in and they're
- 5:06Speaker 5: gonna play lights out. They're gonna be as good as
- 5:08Speaker 5: you've ever seen, and the defense is gonna be playing
- 5:10Speaker 5: better than you've ever seen. You'd be like, wow, really,
- 5:14Speaker 5: so you got to give them the benefit of the doubt.
- 5:15Speaker 5: I'm not saying that you'll come in and replace Trayvon,
- 5:18Speaker 5: and Carter is not saying that either, but he's saying
- 5:21Speaker 5: it sounds like you're saying, you know, let's let's give
- 5:23Speaker 5: these guys a chance, and there's some reason to be
- 5:26Speaker 5: optimistic about it.
- 5:27Speaker 1: So appreciate the call. There.
- 5:28Speaker 5: Let's go to David in Pinehurst, Texas. David, what's up, David?
- 5:36Speaker 1: You there? David?
- 5:38Speaker 8: Yeah, sure, Am, what's up? Hey man?
- 5:41Speaker 9: What's going on?
- 5:42Speaker 8: I just wanted a quick take here. Cowboys Nation, step
- 5:45Speaker 8: off the ledge. We're probably in the best position to
- 5:50Speaker 8: lose the player of this caliber with Diggs going down,
- 5:54Speaker 8: if you wanted it to happen, the secondary is where
- 5:56Speaker 8: you wanted to happen. You know, we've got Donovan Wilson
- 6:00Speaker 8: coming back DQ coach, and you know Mike McCarthy is
- 6:04Speaker 8: able to coach up the teams from you know, he's
- 6:07Speaker 8: lost players before you put You put Bland in that
- 6:10Speaker 8: spot over the corner. Maybe you play a little bit
- 6:12Speaker 8: more zon jy Ron Curse is going to step up
- 6:16Speaker 8: on the back end and he'll huddle everybody around and
- 6:19Speaker 8: be the leader back there. Let's not start feeling sorry
- 6:22Speaker 8: for ourselves. You know it could be worse. We could
- 6:24Speaker 8: be the Jets, right, I think, just keep playing ball,
- 6:28Speaker 8: keep playing. The game's injuries are apart. Does this suck, yes,
- 6:33Speaker 8: But as Michael Irvin says, look up, get up, and
- 6:37Speaker 8: don't ever give up Cowboys Nation. Hey, this is a
- 6:41Speaker 8: doomsday type defense. It sucks losing him, but let's rally
- 6:46Speaker 8: around Bland and you know, go back to that twenty
- 6:49Speaker 8: twenty draft. There were seven corners I think taken ahead
- 6:53Speaker 8: of Diggs and guess who one of those corners was.
- 6:56Speaker 8: It was Noah Igbanahi. And that's all I got.
- 6:59Speaker 5: Thanks, You're you're exactly right about that. Ig Banogaty was
- 7:04Speaker 5: the fifth corner he was taken in the first round.
- 7:08Speaker 5: You're you're right, and and and you're another good caller
- 7:11Speaker 5: to have on this. I mean, uh, I like what
- 7:13Speaker 5: I'm hearing from you guys so far. I like that
- 7:16Speaker 5: it's helping me a little bit. Honestly, you know more
- 7:20Speaker 5: more than that. And and it's it's it sucks because
- 7:24Speaker 5: Trayvon Diggs is one of my favorite players on this team.
- 7:26Speaker 1: He really is. I mean, I love watching him play.
- 7:29Speaker 1: I think he is.
- 7:31Speaker 5: I think he's an All Pro player that's underrated. I
- 7:34Speaker 5: really do. I think he's I think he took a
- 7:37Speaker 5: lot of heat last year for just just finding the Okay, well,
- 7:42Speaker 5: he doesn't tackle as much. The greatest cornerback that ever
- 7:45Speaker 5: played football wasn't the greatest tackler. We all know that
- 7:49Speaker 5: Deon Sanders wasn't. That's not what he does. That's not
- 7:52Speaker 5: that you're not built to do that. You can't play
- 7:56Speaker 5: shut down receivers and and expect to be in a
- 8:00Speaker 5: big time hitters. That's that's idiotic to think that way.
- 8:03Speaker 5: The greatest receivers of all time was not the best
- 8:05Speaker 5: blocker of all time. You're not built that way. You're
- 8:07Speaker 5: built to cover the greatest receivers, and so sometimes you tackle,
- 8:11Speaker 5: sometimes you got to make business decisions whatever. But Trayvon,
- 8:15Speaker 5: I think he, I think he took that personally and
- 8:17Speaker 5: I think he you know, we were already kind of
- 8:19Speaker 5: seeing it after two games.
- 8:20Speaker 1: So I hate it for him, I really do.
- 8:22Speaker 5: I got a chance to work with him, We got
- 8:25Speaker 5: a chance to work with his family when we did
- 8:27Speaker 5: the documentary on him twenty four to seven coverage, which
- 8:31Speaker 5: won an Emmy by the way, which we were all
- 8:33Speaker 5: excited about. And of course he was like, where's my trophy,
- 8:35Speaker 5: which you know, naturally he should be asking that. But
- 8:40Speaker 5: so I just hated it for him, and I hate
- 8:41Speaker 5: it for this team. But you guys are you guys
- 8:44Speaker 5: are right? You know you have a chance to to
- 8:47Speaker 5: We have a lot of depth that we're gonna be
- 8:49Speaker 5: looking at here for this these cornerback position and safety
- 8:53Speaker 5: and you'll kind of, you know, bleed into each other
- 8:55Speaker 5: a little bit, so we'll see how they do, all right.
- 8:58Speaker 5: Joe and Stamford Joe Stanford, Texas, what's.
- 9:01Speaker 10: Up, hey morning, brother?
- 9:03Speaker 11: How are you?
- 9:05Speaker 10: You know?
- 9:06Speaker 11: Yeah? I mean it is what it is. So you know,
- 9:11Speaker 11: the thing I wanted to talk about was was I
- 9:13Speaker 11: just wanted to Uh, I'm getting another call here, Sorry,
- 9:18Speaker 11: I just wanted to.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Don't they know? Don't they know that you're you're on
- 9:21Speaker 1: the show?
- 9:21Speaker 10: Like, yeah, what the hell?
- 9:23Speaker 11: I mean they should know that by now.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Right right?
- 9:26Speaker 12: Uh.
- 9:27Speaker 11: I just wanted to say, I think it's important to
- 9:31Speaker 11: really remember tray Vaughan as a person today. You know,
- 9:36Speaker 11: this kid's going to be you know, somewhat isolated for
- 9:39Speaker 11: a while. I know his teammates are going to rally
- 9:41Speaker 11: around him, but these guys, you know, they get hurt
- 9:44Speaker 11: and they fall out of getting to do what, you know,
- 9:46Speaker 11: what they've been doing with the team, and it's important
- 9:50Speaker 11: to remember him as just a person, not a football player.
- 9:54Speaker 11: We're gonna we're gonna be all right, I think.
- 9:57Speaker 13: Uh.
- 9:58Speaker 11: I mean, if you know the big four that we
- 10:02Speaker 11: uh that we have on the team, you know, Dak CD,
- 10:06Speaker 11: Micah and and Trayvon. Unfortunately to say he probably is
- 10:11Speaker 11: the one that we can recover from because of who
- 10:14Speaker 11: we have backing him up in the fact that we
- 10:16Speaker 11: have probably the best pass rush in the league. Yeah, uh,
- 10:20Speaker 11: but uh, sad for the kid today. Man, really big time.
- 10:24Speaker 11: But we're gonna be all right. We're gonna kick Arizona's butt.
- 10:27Speaker 11: We just got to figure out what we got.
- 10:28Speaker 10: To do, all right.
- 10:29Speaker 5: I appreciate that. Thanks, thanks for calling in, Joe. And
- 10:32Speaker 5: uh and you're right, that's a good that's a good perspective.
- 10:35Speaker 5: And and and like I said, you know that that's
- 10:38Speaker 5: I feel for him as well, because you know, I
- 10:40Speaker 5: he's one of my favorite guys.
- 10:43Speaker 1: And you know, he's soft, soft spoken.
- 10:46Speaker 5: You know, you don't hear from him a lot, like
- 10:48Speaker 5: in the locker room or anything like that. But when
- 10:49Speaker 5: he gets on the field, you know, he's always chirping
- 10:52Speaker 5: and him and him and Dak have a good, healthy, uh,
- 10:56Speaker 5: you know, back and forth relationship.
- 10:58Speaker 1: I think, uh and and it was good.
- 11:01Speaker 5: It's good for practice, it's good for competition, so uh
- 11:04Speaker 5: and and then you know, you say all that, and
- 11:08Speaker 5: it's good in practice and all that. It's good until
- 11:11Speaker 5: it's not. And then the guy gets hurt in practice,
- 11:13Speaker 5: and then everyone's asked, what.
- 11:14Speaker 1: Are they doing? What's going on?
- 11:16Speaker 14: What?
- 11:16Speaker 6: You know?
- 11:16Speaker 5: They running Oklahoma drills in practice, you know, And that's
- 11:19Speaker 5: not that's not the case of my understanding. It was
- 11:21Speaker 5: one on one red zone drill and you know on grass,
- 11:25Speaker 5: imagine that, and it happens. It just it's it sucks
- 11:30Speaker 5: and there's no there's no other way around it. But
- 11:32Speaker 5: but yeah, it happens. And you have to practice, guys
- 11:34Speaker 5: that they practice once a week, really and you have
- 11:38Speaker 5: to practice football, so so you can play football. That's
- 11:41Speaker 5: just the way it is. And so we all can
- 11:43Speaker 5: can get upset about it, but but there's no other
- 11:46Speaker 5: way around it.
- 11:47Speaker 1: There really isn't.
- 11:47Speaker 5: I mean, you got to remember what they they cut
- 11:50Speaker 5: back training camp, they.
- 11:51Speaker 1: Cut back all these rules.
- 11:53Speaker 5: You know, these guys have to do the best that
- 11:54Speaker 5: they can, the coaches to to get these guys ready
- 11:57Speaker 5: to play. We're all we're will be the first one
- 11:59Speaker 5: to say, why aren't they ready to play? That's how
- 12:01Speaker 5: you get them ready to play. So if there's any
- 12:03Speaker 5: talk like that, just remember this is really there's no
- 12:06Speaker 5: other way around it. You can't really avoid it. And
- 12:09Speaker 5: it's just bad luck.
- 12:11Speaker 1: And this is.
- 12:11Speaker 5: One of the reasons why we always say what I've
- 12:14Speaker 5: been saying. You can look ahead down the road, you
- 12:17Speaker 5: can look at the forty nine ers game, you can
- 12:19Speaker 5: look at all these things, you look at the playoffs,
- 12:21Speaker 5: but that's why you can't get too far ahead.
- 12:23Speaker 1: Things like this happen.
- 12:24Speaker 5: We just don't know what this team is going to
- 12:27Speaker 5: look like, and we don't know what it's going to
- 12:30Speaker 5: look like in twenty four hours. So that's that's why
- 12:34Speaker 5: it's important to just kind of stay in the moment.
- 12:36Speaker 5: And this game against Arizona changed a little bit. Now
- 12:39Speaker 5: I'm not saying that they're not going to still win
- 12:42Speaker 5: or win big, but you know, it's how do they
- 12:45Speaker 5: respond from this injury? And so it's things are always changing.
- 12:50Speaker 5: That's that's the nature of sports, all right, Chris and Mississippi.
- 12:53Speaker 1: Chris, what's up?
- 12:55Speaker 15: How are you doing there?
- 12:56Speaker 10: Mate?
- 12:56Speaker 1: I'm good, Chris, how are you?
- 12:58Speaker 15: I'm doing good? That's my life day for the weekend.
- 13:01Speaker 15: So that's always the great I was gonna say, man,
- 13:05Speaker 15: you know two years ago, even last year, I was
- 13:08Speaker 15: freaking out a little bit when Anthony Brown went down.
- 13:11Speaker 15: But now that we have Stefan Gilmour just in another
- 13:14Speaker 15: year on some of these young corners, how much difference
- 13:17Speaker 15: does it make in our attitude? I mean, we would
- 13:20Speaker 15: this would have been a devastating, like absolutely devastating loss.
- 13:23Speaker 15: And I'm not saying it ain't because I've never been
- 13:26Speaker 15: so sad that an Alabama player got hurt. And I
- 13:28Speaker 15: know that sounds bad, but I'm a State fan and
- 13:31Speaker 15: I know you can you can relate to that too.
- 13:34Speaker 15: But I mean, everybody needs to take a deep breath
- 13:38Speaker 15: and take a step back and remember we still have Macuamo,
- 13:41Speaker 15: who played really good last year. Everything I've heard out
- 13:45Speaker 15: of training camp that Nashan Wright looks great, and you
- 13:48Speaker 15: got to Ron Bland, and I mean Jay lou is
- 13:53Speaker 15: a baller. He's been a baller since you got here.
- 13:56Speaker 15: So I really think that, yeah, it's gonna hurt and
- 14:00Speaker 15: you might miss some productions, but guess what, young guys
- 14:03Speaker 15: step up. Now, We're going to see where we're at cornerback,
- 14:06Speaker 15: and if we need to go get one in the draft,
- 14:08Speaker 15: we'll find that out now. Yeah, and that's the blessing
- 14:11Speaker 15: on the other side because we have such a great defense.
- 14:14Speaker 15: You know, two years ago, without that front, we would
- 14:17Speaker 15: have been freaking out. But I do believe, Hey, maybe
- 14:22Speaker 15: this is our you know, backup quarterback moment this year
- 14:26Speaker 15: and we won't have to worry about that.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Yeah, well, thanks for the call.
- 14:32Speaker 5: You know, a little a little different from the fact
- 14:34Speaker 5: that that it's only you know, that was only four
- 14:36Speaker 5: or five games, and uh and Cooper Rush did diditary job.
- 14:40Speaker 5: This is this is for the season. So you're whatever
- 14:42Speaker 5: you're trying to figure out, you're gonna have to to
- 14:44Speaker 5: figure it out and has to be long term plan.
- 14:46Speaker 5: But there are some other options you can do. And
- 14:48Speaker 5: as you said, you can figure some things out. And
- 14:52Speaker 5: na Sean Wright is on injured reserve right now for
- 14:54Speaker 5: four games, first four games, and he can he should.
- 14:59Speaker 1: Be ready to go.
- 15:00Speaker 11: Now.
- 15:01Speaker 5: I don't know if that's the answer. I really don't
- 15:03Speaker 5: don't know. I mean, he's to me, he's just kind
- 15:07Speaker 5: of been a guy. He hasn't really shown, uh the
- 15:09Speaker 5: ability to to to play a lot, you know, at
- 15:12Speaker 5: a high level. But you know he's got that link
- 15:15Speaker 5: and and you know he's he's competitive, he'll get in there.
- 15:18Speaker 5: He's he'll be good for special teams if if they
- 15:20Speaker 5: want to go that route. You know, maybe this is
- 15:24Speaker 5: the chance that Igbanogaty can show that why he was
- 15:27Speaker 5: picked in the first round. You know, like when he
- 15:29Speaker 5: went to Miami didn't really work out. He didn't have
- 15:32Speaker 5: the pass rush there that that he has now, So
- 15:35Speaker 5: you know, maybe he'll get a chance to kind of
- 15:36Speaker 5: show some things, but he's still you know, he's still
- 15:39Speaker 5: a fourth corner with behind Gilmore and and Deron Bland
- 15:43Speaker 5: and of course the Jordan Lewis. So you got some
- 15:46Speaker 5: options for sure. All right, let's go with Erwin in Denver.
- 15:51Speaker 6: Erwin, Hey, Hey, good morning, Nick.
- 15:53Speaker 1: How you doing, good morning? How are you great?
- 15:55Speaker 6: Doing great? So I guess what I wanted to say
- 15:59Speaker 6: was and Quinn, we trust, right, So we have to
- 16:02Speaker 6: trust that dan Quinn is going to put the players
- 16:04Speaker 6: in position to make plays and make up for the
- 16:06Speaker 6: loss of Diggs. But one thing I wanted to run
- 16:08Speaker 6: by you, or the second thing was I was just
- 16:11Speaker 6: listening to Michael Irvin. It was a little little it
- 16:14Speaker 6: was a little strange hearing him say that, now that
- 16:16Speaker 6: this happened to Trayvon Diggs on our defense, that Dak
- 16:20Speaker 6: Prescott was going to have to step up.
- 16:21Speaker 14: And do more.
- 16:22Speaker 6: And I think that, I don't know, it was really
- 16:24Speaker 6: an emotional statement by Michael irvit because I really think
- 16:27Speaker 6: that Dak Prescott is playing really good, and I don't
- 16:31Speaker 6: think McCarthy's going to, you know, have Dak Prescott do
- 16:35Speaker 6: that again, like he was kind of playing last year.
- 16:37Speaker 6: I think our offense is running just what you know,
- 16:41Speaker 6: just find the way it is, and I just think
- 16:43Speaker 6: that that's the wrong approach and wanted to get your
- 16:46Speaker 6: thoughts on that.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Well technical thank you, Irwin.
- 16:48Speaker 5: I mean, you know, let's what do you suggested? I mean,
- 16:54Speaker 5: what I'm would ask to Michael would be, you know
- 16:57Speaker 5: what are you are you saying that now the defense
- 16:59Speaker 5: is going to be completely different. They're not going to
- 17:03Speaker 5: be averaging, you know, five points a game allowed now,
- 17:07Speaker 5: they're going to give up seventeen twenty twenty four points
- 17:10Speaker 5: now because Digs is gone. Because if that's the case,
- 17:12Speaker 5: then yeah, your offense is going to have to step
- 17:14Speaker 5: up more and kind of outscore teams. I don't know
- 17:17Speaker 5: if it's going to be that drastic, I really, I
- 17:19Speaker 5: really don't. I think that it's going to be tough.
- 17:23Speaker 5: I think that teams will you know, we'll we'll be
- 17:25Speaker 5: able to move the ball a little bit better. I
- 17:27Speaker 5: mean they'll they'll have a lesser corner on that side
- 17:31Speaker 5: of the ball. This isn't what Gilmore was was brought
- 17:34Speaker 5: in to do, was to be the number one guy.
- 17:37Speaker 5: That's that's not where he was in his career. I'm
- 17:40Speaker 5: not saying he can't do it. Still a really good corner,
- 17:43Speaker 5: but it was a perfect situation to get here and
- 17:45Speaker 5: play opposite of Trayvon Diggs. You don't have to take
- 17:48Speaker 5: the number one all the time. You can, You're not
- 17:50Speaker 5: afraid of them, but you can. You can go kind
- 17:52Speaker 5: of player side and and you know, help the all
- 17:55Speaker 5: the young guys out and really show that you still
- 17:57Speaker 5: got some stuff left in the tank as opposed to just.
- 17:59Speaker 1: Now now are you the guy? Are you the number one?
- 18:03Speaker 1: So we'll see.
- 18:04Speaker 5: But you know, I don't think Dak. I don't think
- 18:06Speaker 5: this affects Dak at all. I think they need to
- 18:08Speaker 5: play the way they need to play. If it gets
- 18:10Speaker 5: to the point where now, all of a sudden, the
- 18:11Speaker 5: defense is not as good anymore, and and and they're
- 18:15Speaker 5: giving up a lot of points, a lot of a
- 18:17Speaker 5: lot of yards, well then yeah, Dak is going to
- 18:21Speaker 5: have to step up. But I don't We'll see if
- 18:23Speaker 5: things change. I don't know if it will in this game.
- 18:26Speaker 1: Right now.
- 18:27Speaker 5: I think the Cowboys against the Cardinals think the Cowboys
- 18:29Speaker 5: got to just stick to the plan, do what they're
- 18:31Speaker 5: going to do. I think if they don't turn the
- 18:33Speaker 5: ball over. I think they'll win. And that's that was
- 18:35Speaker 5: before Diggs's injury, and that would be after as well.
- 18:39Speaker 5: All right, let's go to Kurt in Arkansas. Kurt for
- 18:42Speaker 5: the next caller.
- 18:43Speaker 10: Yeah, tell Diggs. I'm praying for him. Hope he recovers
- 18:48Speaker 10: quick and but and I know he will. But and
- 18:53Speaker 10: the old saying goes, we will survive because Bland has
- 18:58Speaker 10: been training for this and he's he's good. So I
- 19:03Speaker 10: mean he's not Diggs, but he's still he's good.
- 19:08Speaker 1: Yes, so we'll all right, Okay, yeah, and uh I
- 19:14Speaker 1: got veth Beam all right, you got anything else?
- 19:17Speaker 10: I think? Yeah?
- 19:19Speaker 5: For Okay, you know, guys are thanks for the call, Curtin.
- 19:25Speaker 5: I should have thrown this out a little bit earlier.
- 19:27Speaker 5: You guys want to weigh in. One of our Pod
- 19:30Speaker 5: Picks questions of the day is who's going to score
- 19:34Speaker 5: the non offensive touchdown? If there is one who's going
- 19:38Speaker 5: to score touchdown, whether it be offense or defense or
- 19:41Speaker 5: special teams, So who's going to be that guy? In
- 19:45Speaker 5: this game? It was ig Banoghy the first week, Deron
- 19:49Speaker 5: Bland and inches away. Michael Parsons was inches away from
- 19:52Speaker 5: getting a touchdown last week, So maybe he's the guy.
- 19:56Speaker 5: So when you call in you can you can definitely
- 19:59Speaker 5: throw that in. I'll give my answer that and that's
- 20:01Speaker 5: the one we're going to do throughout the day here
- 20:04Speaker 5: on the pod picks. I know talking Cowboys have had
- 20:06Speaker 5: three answers earlier, so we'll see we try to mix
- 20:09Speaker 5: it up on there. All right, let's take a break
- 20:11Speaker 5: here on Cowboys storyline. Let's take a break when we
- 20:14Speaker 5: come back. We got some text line questions and we
- 20:17Speaker 5: got more callers to get here on Friday on Cowboys storyline.
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- 22:25Speaker 1: To Cowboys Storylines.
- 22:30Speaker 5: Last few minutes here of Cowboys storyline this week before
- 22:34Speaker 5: the Cowboys take on the Arizona Cardinals. Going out to
- 22:38Speaker 5: Arizona this week. I've said this before, I'll say it again.
- 22:41Speaker 5: I think when you add up every single thing that
- 22:46Speaker 5: is detailed in a road trip, at least from my standpoint,
- 22:50Speaker 5: everything from just the press box to the food in
- 22:53Speaker 5: the press box, to the elevator to get down to
- 22:56Speaker 5: the field, how the drive to get to the stadium,
- 22:59Speaker 5: the weather, how far the trip is all that, Arizona
- 23:01Speaker 5: is probably the best trip for me. I just like
- 23:04Speaker 5: everything about it. You know, it's usually good weather, usually
- 23:09Speaker 5: not not too bad of a of a flight, So Arizona,
- 23:13Speaker 5: of course, I say that. And then there's always some
- 23:15Speaker 5: weird stuff that happened to the game, and the Cowboys
- 23:17Speaker 5: actually haven't played that well. I looked this up two
- 23:20Speaker 5: and two and nine in the last eleven games, I'm sorry,
- 23:24Speaker 5: two and seven in the last nine games out there.
- 23:27Speaker 5: And of those, of those seven losses, three of them
- 23:30Speaker 5: in overtime. Two of them are one point losses. So
- 23:33Speaker 5: you know, it's been close, but it hasn't necessarily gone
- 23:36Speaker 5: well for the Cowboys. They did win their last game
- 23:38Speaker 5: they played up there twenty seventeen. That was so long ago. Man,
- 23:41Speaker 5: that's been six years is the last time they've played
- 23:43Speaker 5: a regular season game there. All right, let's go to
- 23:45Speaker 5: the callers. Brandon in California, Brandon, what's up?
- 23:49Speaker 10: What's up?
- 23:50Speaker 5: Nick?
- 23:50Speaker 12: Back at it again, day two, calling them nice. Yeah, yeah,
- 23:54Speaker 12: I got through finally.
- 23:55Speaker 1: Got to get up early, got to get up early
- 23:57Speaker 1: out in Cali.
- 23:58Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, I.
- 23:59Speaker 12: Gotta get the had to get the kiddos ready to day.
- 24:01Speaker 12: And because I was like, I'm gonna get on today.
- 24:04Speaker 11: I just wanted to talk about the corners.
- 24:05Speaker 12: I know everybody's worried about Diggs. I mean, hopefully he
- 24:08Speaker 12: gets the speedy recovery, but uh, I was thinking, like
- 24:11Speaker 12: Israel mclamu and uh Dron Bland, I think we're gonna
- 24:16Speaker 12: be okay. You know, everybody's kind of panicking and everything
- 24:19Speaker 12: like that.
- 24:19Speaker 10: Sonka.
- 24:21Speaker 5: Not the callers on this show. You guys that are
- 24:22Speaker 5: calling aren't panicking. I thought it would be a little
- 24:25Speaker 5: bit more. But the guys that have called in, including yourself,
- 24:28Speaker 5: have not really been that that way.
- 24:29Speaker 1: But I get it.
- 24:30Speaker 5: I mean a lot of other people are. But hopefully
- 24:35Speaker 5: listen to this show and you know you'll get a
- 24:37Speaker 5: little better feel about the situation.
- 24:40Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 24:40Speaker 12: And then just you know, kind of a true part
- 24:42Speaker 12: of that was, do you think Anthony Brown? I know
- 24:45Speaker 12: he just signed with the Niners, but you think he
- 24:46Speaker 12: would have came back? You think that would have been
- 24:49Speaker 12: a good deal, or you think we'll be okay with
- 24:51Speaker 12: the people that we have.
- 24:53Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 24:53Speaker 12: And then secondly, well I got like two more things. Secondly,
- 24:57Speaker 12: I'll be at the game. I'm taking my eight year
- 24:59Speaker 12: old son to to go see the game at Arizona, Okay,
- 25:01Speaker 12: so hopefully we maybe see you out there or something
- 25:04Speaker 12: like that.
- 25:05Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 25:05Speaker 12: And then I've been throwing some numbers at you yesterday,
- 25:08Speaker 12: I did Dexter Cokeley. Today when I say ninety eight,
- 25:11Speaker 12: and everybody thinks Tyrone Crawford, but I think Greg alas Man.
- 25:14Speaker 12: So I'll hang up and I'll listen, all right, Thank you?
- 25:17Speaker 5: All right, yeah, Greg Ellis, Yeah, everybody else. One thing
- 25:23Speaker 5: I'll say about Greg Ellis. Everybody else usually gets gets
- 25:28Speaker 5: compared to a guy at their position, and Greg Ellis
- 25:31Speaker 5: gets compared to a Hall of Fame wide receiver.
- 25:34Speaker 1: It's just the way.
- 25:35Speaker 5: It goes, and it sucks, and he's kind of laughed
- 25:38Speaker 5: about it sort of before. You know, obviously everyone remembers
- 25:41Speaker 5: or they should remember the fact that, you know, Cowboys
- 25:44Speaker 5: had a chance to take Randy Moss nineteen ninety eight and.
- 25:46Speaker 1: They just couldn't. They just couldn't do it.
- 25:48Speaker 5: They couldn't couldn't do that with all the off the
- 25:51Speaker 5: field bagage he had, and based off of what the
- 25:54Speaker 5: Cowboys had been going through in the nineties with Michael
- 25:56Speaker 5: Irvin and all that, they just decided not to do that.
- 25:58Speaker 5: They went with a safe pick. And he was a
- 26:00Speaker 5: really good player. Greg Elis was was a good player,
- 26:02Speaker 5: was a comeback Player of the Year in two thousand
- 26:04Speaker 5: and seven, had had I want to say thirteen sacks
- 26:09Speaker 5: that that may not be the number, but he had
- 26:11Speaker 5: a really really good season. Was comeback Player of the Year.
- 26:15Speaker 5: Opposite of the DeMarcus Wearing a great guy, I mean,
- 26:17Speaker 5: great guy doing doing well. I think I think he was.
- 26:21Speaker 5: He was coaching for a while. I haven't really caught
- 26:23Speaker 5: up with him and if he's still doing that, but uh, yeah,
- 26:27Speaker 5: he was a He was a really good, good, solid player.
- 26:29Speaker 5: Just unfortunate that he gets compared to Randy Moss because
- 26:33Speaker 5: the Cowboys decided not to take him. And you know,
- 26:37Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't think Anthony Brown. I mean,
- 26:39Speaker 5: I mean, he's obviously with another team now, but I
- 26:41Speaker 5: think they've already made the move of a veteran guy
- 26:44Speaker 5: and bringing in Igbonoghany. I think that's kind of what
- 26:47Speaker 5: they decided to do before the injury. Uh, they're going
- 26:50Speaker 5: to play the thing out and see. You know, let's
- 26:52Speaker 5: not forget they drafted Eric Scott and they kept him
- 26:55Speaker 5: on the roster. They want to see him eventually at
- 26:59Speaker 5: some point. That you've got Ni Sean Wright coming back.
- 27:01Speaker 5: So this team has invested in cornerbacks. They've they've drafted them.
- 27:05Speaker 5: They drafted Kevin Joseph in the second round. They ended
- 27:08Speaker 5: up trading, but they got a first round type player
- 27:10Speaker 5: in iig Banagay. Let's see if he can play to
- 27:13Speaker 5: that level. But you know, they've they've drafted Nishan right
- 27:16Speaker 5: in the third round. They drafted you know, Eric Scott
- 27:19Speaker 5: in the sixth round.
- 27:21Speaker 1: So well, let's see.
- 27:23Speaker 5: I think they've got resources here that they're going to
- 27:25Speaker 5: tap into first before they go and down the line
- 27:29Speaker 5: and try to get anybody else. All right, David and uh,
- 27:32Speaker 5: I'm sorry Nick and Austin. We're gonna go with Nick
- 27:34Speaker 5: in Austin first.
- 27:37Speaker 1: Hey man, I'm good. How are you? Nick?
- 27:41Speaker 10: Great?
- 27:42Speaker 9: I think what Cowboys fans are thanking is because they're
- 27:45Speaker 9: still remembering the old days, you know, James when they
- 27:51Speaker 9: lose one keep person and the whole thing with Paula Hark.
- 27:56Speaker 9: But you know what they have to remember is is,
- 28:00Speaker 9: you know, since the carkis out here, Dad Quinn, coaching
- 28:04Speaker 9: makes all the difference in the world. And they take
- 28:09Speaker 9: the player and they're like, instead of you playing our scheam,
- 28:13Speaker 9: we're gonna see what you do do well, and we're
- 28:15Speaker 9: gonna put our steam around you. Yeah, and totally that
- 28:20Speaker 9: they have to remember We've had, you know, people go down.
- 28:25Speaker 9: That's football. You know, they have to all the teams,
- 28:28Speaker 9: even the super people wills to win the Super Bowl.
- 28:31Speaker 9: They have good players to go down. I mean, this
- 28:33Speaker 9: happens yep, but you have to be able to overcome it.
- 28:36Speaker 9: But the last thing I want to say that that
- 28:38Speaker 9: thing that the fans need to remember is that if
- 28:42Speaker 9: they think about it, he still with that with apl
- 28:47Speaker 9: I can't remember everything. So but the point I'm getting
- 28:51Speaker 9: at they came back stronger and better. So wherever the
- 28:55Speaker 9: surgeon is, he is a master because they seem to
- 28:59Speaker 9: always come back big the work. But why is really
- 29:06Speaker 9: So that's a great.
- 29:08Speaker 5: Day, all right, Thank you, Nick, have a good day
- 29:10Speaker 5: as well. Uh And and I think that you know,
- 29:14Speaker 5: like I said before, that there has been some good
- 29:16Speaker 5: optim optimism here uh for for this injury and and
- 29:21Speaker 5: and and I agree with you for the most part.
- 29:23Speaker 5: I do agree with you about the coaching staff has
- 29:25Speaker 5: been good. But I mean they like I said before,
- 29:28Speaker 5: I mean, you're not paying You're not paying guys one
- 29:31Speaker 5: hundred million dollars if you don't think that they're difference makers,
- 29:33Speaker 5: and and and if they don't think that, you can
- 29:35Speaker 5: just replace them with someone else. That's kind of what
- 29:38Speaker 5: the running back situation is going through right now. That's
- 29:41Speaker 5: why these guys aren't getting paid like they feel like
- 29:44Speaker 5: they should. It is because teams are saying, if I
- 29:47Speaker 5: lose my running back, I can probably replace them with
- 29:50Speaker 5: a cheaper guy, and and we can be nearly as good,
- 29:54Speaker 5: if not as good. And I don't think that's the
- 29:57Speaker 5: case at corner. So there, I'm expecting to drop, and
- 30:00Speaker 5: I think we all should. That doesn't mean you can't,
- 30:03Speaker 5: you know, figure this thing out in a different way.
- 30:05Speaker 5: Maybe they blitzed more. Maybe they they they you know,
- 30:08Speaker 5: if they needed to do that, they'll figure out. Dan
- 30:10Speaker 5: Quinn's the guy to figure out what they need to do. So,
- 30:15Speaker 5: you know, I think I think it'll be it'll it'll
- 30:19Speaker 5: be okay, but you know, we will wait and see.
- 30:22Speaker 5: We'll wait and see how it happens. All right, let's go.
- 30:25Speaker 5: We got some text messages here. Let's go with don't
- 30:29Speaker 5: have a number here, I just got a nine to
- 30:31Speaker 5: five one is the area code. Wanted to say a
- 30:33Speaker 5: great show to Ron Bland will have the interception for
- 30:36Speaker 5: a touchdown. That's his prediction, also saying thirty five to thirteen.
- 30:40Speaker 5: All right, let's go now to David in Fort Worth.
- 30:43Speaker 1: David, what's up?
- 30:44Speaker 18: How you doing today?
- 30:45Speaker 11: Sir?
- 30:45Speaker 1: I am good? How are you?
- 30:48Speaker 10: Yes, sir?
- 30:48Speaker 18: Yes, Sarah, I'm not as good as I was yesterday.
- 30:50Speaker 11: Before the news obviously, like everybody else is.
- 30:52Speaker 15: Expressed, but fair, yeah, but.
- 30:55Speaker 18: Listening to the callers and then as well as just
- 30:57Speaker 18: kind of sleeping it over like everybody has discussed. You know,
- 31:00Speaker 18: if anybody's going to make it happen, it's gonna be
- 31:02Speaker 18: dq Man, Like he's just an awesome coach.
- 31:04Speaker 14: She's going to figure out something and prayers up for Diggs.
- 31:06Speaker 18: But I don't want to continue to beat that dead horse.
- 31:09Speaker 18: So I just wanted to throw the score prediction in
- 31:10Speaker 18: the crazy Prediction.
- 31:11Speaker 1: If that was cool with you, do it, let's go.
- 31:13Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 31:14Speaker 18: My score prediction thirty three to nine. I think Dallas
- 31:16Speaker 18: is going to really put their foot on play with
- 31:18Speaker 18: a lot of passions for Digs. Crazy prediction and also
- 31:22Speaker 18: the the Pod Picks answer is I think Turpin's going
- 31:25Speaker 18: to take one take a punt back this week. And
- 31:28Speaker 18: my beautiful wife Jessica, I think she says that they're
- 31:31Speaker 18: going to be so wrapped up trying to stop Osa
- 31:34Speaker 18: and Parsons that de lag is going to go crazy
- 31:37Speaker 18: two sacks.
- 31:37Speaker 10: She says.
- 31:38Speaker 18: I don't think that's that crazy, but that's her crazy prediction.
- 31:41Speaker 18: So yeah, I just wanted to get throw that out there,
- 31:42Speaker 18: and I appreciate you pretaking my call.
- 31:44Speaker 5: All right, thank you so much, David. Good stuff, Turpin. Yeah,
- 31:48Speaker 5: I mean it's not called a defensive touchdown. That's not
- 31:51Speaker 5: what the what the pod picks question is. It's not
- 31:54Speaker 5: defensive touchdowns, non offensive touchdown, opening the door for Turpin
- 31:59Speaker 5: to do that on on a punt return or kick
- 32:01Speaker 5: return as well. Thirty three nine. That's that would be
- 32:05Speaker 5: a that'd be a beat down. That would be a good,
- 32:08Speaker 5: good game, you know, if they if they could, if
- 32:09Speaker 5: they could definitely do that. Let's go back to the
- 32:13Speaker 5: UH text questions here. Let's see UH another one on Diggs.
- 32:18Speaker 5: This was from Ryan. He says, do you believe Dan
- 32:21Speaker 5: Quinn can run the same type of defense, aggressive man
- 32:26Speaker 5: coverage defense with the loss of Diggs? Much prayer sent
- 32:29Speaker 5: to Digs? Were your thoughts?
- 32:32Speaker 1: I think I.
- 32:33Speaker 5: Think it's all about a wait and see. I mean,
- 32:36Speaker 5: like before you just say all right, all right, the
- 32:38Speaker 5: whole thing's over. Lets, maybe Deran Bland is ready to
- 32:41Speaker 5: really become a star. I mean, he's really good right now.
- 32:44Speaker 5: Maybe he's ready to do that. Maybe Stefani Gilmore has
- 32:47Speaker 5: more than than we think he has then the Colts
- 32:50Speaker 5: thought he had when they when they traded him. So
- 32:53Speaker 5: I'm not trying to be hypocritical here. I think this
- 32:58Speaker 5: is going to be a tough loss. And there's a
- 33:00Speaker 5: reason why everyone's kind of down about this because they
- 33:02Speaker 5: know that he Trayvon's so good.
- 33:05Speaker 1: But before we make all these.
- 33:07Speaker 5: Huge changes, we have to see and I don't think
- 33:09Speaker 5: it's just one game against the Cardinals or even the Patriots.
- 33:13Speaker 5: The thing that that that this, that made this so
- 33:16Speaker 5: exciting to have Digs and Gilmore to have two corners,
- 33:20Speaker 5: is that when you face a team like Philadelphia who's
- 33:23Speaker 5: got two really really good one thousand yard receivers and
- 33:27Speaker 5: Smith and Brown, and you face a forty nine er
- 33:30Speaker 5: team that has all the weapons, you're gonna have to
- 33:32Speaker 5: match weapons with weapons on defense. That's what you have
- 33:35Speaker 5: to do in any kind of fight. You've got to
- 33:37Speaker 5: whatever they've got, You've got to have that and more.
- 33:39Speaker 5: And that's why it was so important to have Digs there.
- 33:43Speaker 5: That he made Gilmore better, he made the pass rush better,
- 33:46Speaker 5: vice versa. So but before we we do and say
- 33:49Speaker 5: they got to make all these changes, we got to see,
- 33:51Speaker 5: got to see how that how they play and see
- 33:53Speaker 5: how and it starts this week in uh in Arizona.
- 33:57Speaker 5: All right, let's go to Marquis in Virginia. I say that, right,
- 34:03Speaker 5: is it? Marquise?
- 34:04Speaker 11: Yep?
- 34:04Speaker 1: All right, cool, we got it now.
- 34:07Speaker 3: You know, really really sad to hear about Trayvon. I'm
- 34:10Speaker 3: from the same area up here where he's from, and uh,
- 34:14Speaker 3: you know, really prayers up to him. But I really
- 34:16Speaker 3: think Cowboys fans were really in a in a very
- 34:19Speaker 3: interesting position. We have a master master Grand master chess
- 34:23Speaker 3: player at defensive coordinator and Dan Quinn and he uses
- 34:27Speaker 3: pieces in ways that other teams have not used. These guys.
- 34:31Speaker 3: And it's not to say, oh, we don't need Trayvon,
- 34:34Speaker 3: but it is to say, look at what we're doing
- 34:36Speaker 3: without Donalvan Wilson. You know, I expect playing to kick out.
- 34:41Speaker 3: I expect him to use multitude of these safeties that
- 34:44Speaker 3: he has to help a coverage over the top. I mean,
- 34:47Speaker 3: if we really think about it, we've spoken about how
- 34:49Speaker 3: great the d line is, We're spoken about high great secondary.
- 34:53Speaker 3: We haven't spoken about the linebackers at all. And that's
- 34:55Speaker 3: a good thing and a bad thing, right because they
- 34:57Speaker 3: haven't messed up. But they also we don't really seen
- 35:00Speaker 3: dynamic in that position, but they're good enough. We are
- 35:03Speaker 3: okay because of the man who's moving the pieces around
- 35:07Speaker 3: the board. And so, like I said, prayers of the Trayvon,
- 35:11Speaker 3: I really think this defense is a very very special
- 35:16Speaker 3: d and I really think this actually plays more on
- 35:18Speaker 3: the dan Quinn's hands because now offensive coordinator is gonna
- 35:21Speaker 3: lose his mind to say, let's go a Blaine and
- 35:24Speaker 3: Bland had the most interception side right right, So you're
- 35:29Speaker 3: gonna play yourself into a trick bag trying to think
- 35:32Speaker 3: that there's a weakness there, that there isn't a that
- 35:35Speaker 3: there really isn't there. No Bland isn't the player that
- 35:38Speaker 3: Trayvon is. But that doesn't mean that when you have
- 35:40Speaker 3: a player come in that's a little lesser, or that's
- 35:44Speaker 3: on the or that's coming up, that they creates a weakness.
- 35:47Speaker 3: And so I really think we might actually have a
- 35:50Speaker 3: chance to have more turnovers because teams are gonna be
- 35:54Speaker 3: less apprehensive to go toward the Bland and they're gonna
- 35:57Speaker 3: make that mistake more often than not. So man, keep
- 36:01Speaker 3: your head up, Cowboy Nation. We're going going to Arizona
- 36:04Speaker 3: and get this dub and thanks Nick your show all right.
- 36:07Speaker 5: Man, thank you appreciate that good, good stuff. And you know,
- 36:10Speaker 5: I got a text line question that was kind of
- 36:12Speaker 5: along the lines on that Tony in Stratford, Connecticut. He says,
- 36:18Speaker 5: Diggs is a huge loss. But if that loss alone
- 36:21Speaker 5: cripples our defense, we don't have the defense that we thought.
- 36:25Speaker 5: And I think I think that's true, especially with the
- 36:29Speaker 5: term like cripples the defense. The defense definitely falls apart
- 36:34Speaker 5: because of this. Then then you're right, I mean, we
- 36:37Speaker 5: then we overestimated what the defense is. It's gonna hurt
- 36:42Speaker 5: them some because you can't just keep losing players, or
- 36:47Speaker 5: you can't lose a lot. You can't have a lot
- 36:49Speaker 5: of injuries.
- 36:49Speaker 1: That's why.
- 36:50Speaker 5: That's why you've got to be really really talented, really deep,
- 36:55Speaker 5: and really lucky. That's how that's what you have to
- 36:58Speaker 5: do to make to the super Bowl. You have to
- 37:01Speaker 5: be lucky and or you've got to overcome it. I mean,
- 37:05Speaker 5: I think when Mike McCarthy when the Packers won the
- 37:09Speaker 5: super Bowl super Bowl forty five, I think he had
- 37:12Speaker 5: seventeen players or something like that on injured reserve that year.
- 37:17Speaker 5: But I can tell you one guy that wasn't. It
- 37:18Speaker 5: was Aaron Rodgers. He wasn't on injured reserve, and he
- 37:21Speaker 5: was so good and they were able to overcome it.
- 37:23Speaker 5: But they did have a lot of guys and they
- 37:25Speaker 5: just kind of kept bringing players in there. And even
- 37:27Speaker 5: in that game, Charles Woodson, who was a great player
- 37:29Speaker 5: for them that season, got hurt in the game and
- 37:32Speaker 5: they were able to overcome it. So you have to
- 37:35Speaker 5: overcome it. You can't just keep losing a player, especially
- 37:38Speaker 5: great ones like that. But if you're as good as
- 37:41Speaker 5: you think and you've built this team with a lot
- 37:43Speaker 5: of depth, you should be able to overcome it. And
- 37:45Speaker 5: we're going to find out if this team can do that.
- 37:48Speaker 5: All right, We've got JD in ransis pass?
- 37:52Speaker 17: Is that?
- 37:52Speaker 10: What that is?
- 37:54Speaker 1: Pass?
- 37:54Speaker 10: Yes?
- 37:55Speaker 1: Ap? Okay, I don't know where that is? Is that
- 37:57Speaker 1: in Texas? Where is that?
- 37:58Speaker 10: Yes? Sir?
- 37:59Speaker 12: South Texas.
- 38:01Speaker 10: Got it?
- 38:02Speaker 1: Okay? I don't. I don't know if I've been all
- 38:04Speaker 1: the way down there before. But what do you got? JD?
- 38:07Speaker 10: Hey?
- 38:08Speaker 19: Nick, I just want to say a long time, first
- 38:09Speaker 19: time I've been listening to you since I was a
- 38:11Speaker 19: sophomore in high school. Man, now I'm thirty two years old.
- 38:14Speaker 1: Oh wow, Wow, that's that's great, man. I appreciate that.
- 38:17Speaker 5: Hopefully your grades were good, then hopefully we didn't we
- 38:20Speaker 5: didn't mess up anything in your I know mine weren't good.
- 38:23Speaker 10: I know I was.
- 38:24Speaker 5: I was listening to the radio or reading the newspaper
- 38:26Speaker 5: back when I was a sophomore in high school too,
- 38:28Speaker 5: trying to get as much cowboy news as I could
- 38:30Speaker 5: as I could.
- 38:31Speaker 1: So what do you got?
- 38:32Speaker 19: I had a sneak of an article every now and then,
- 38:34Speaker 19: had to see what we are talking about whenever I could.
- 38:37Speaker 19: But I just wanted to give a crazy prediction and
- 38:39Speaker 19: ask you a question. I'm sorry, just a scot prediction,
- 38:42Speaker 19: and that's a good question. I think that before thirty
- 38:45Speaker 19: eight to ten, I think it should be. I mean,
- 38:47Speaker 19: of course, the Cardinals are a professional team, so I'm.
- 38:49Speaker 11: Pretty sure that the boys have their work their work
- 38:51Speaker 11: cut out for them.
- 38:52Speaker 19: But I think they'll be able to handle I think,
- 38:54Speaker 19: like everybody else was saying earlier, and nobody fanic gem, Yes,
- 38:58Speaker 19: the big class is a pretty big loss. What he is,
- 39:00Speaker 19: you know what he got paid, but uh, even Micah
- 39:03Speaker 19: said it. He's his brother's keeper, so you can try
- 39:06Speaker 19: and put it all on him and he'll get it done.
- 39:08Speaker 19: And it starts in THEES. And my question for you
- 39:11Speaker 19: is what's your what's been your favorite season so far?
- 39:15Speaker 1: Favorite season?
- 39:16Speaker 13: Yes, sir, oh man.
- 39:18Speaker 1: That's that's all the time.
- 39:20Speaker 19: You have a good weekend, man, thank you.
- 39:24Speaker 5: My favorite season. I mean, that's I mean, it's funny
- 39:28Speaker 5: because they've all ended, you know, earlier than you wanted
- 39:31Speaker 5: them to. But you know, that's that's kind of that's
- 39:36Speaker 5: kind of tough because there's so many other factors involved.
- 39:40Speaker 5: But I mean I can just kind of take the
- 39:41Speaker 5: easy route and to say my first one in nineteen
- 39:44Speaker 5: ninety nine because everything was new, you know, and uh
- 39:49Speaker 5: and it was it was so every every experience was
- 39:52Speaker 5: was kind of different. And also I say that too
- 39:55Speaker 5: because that was sort of that was the end of
- 40:00Speaker 5: lot of play. Like I can say, yeah, I covered
- 40:03Speaker 5: Michael Irvin and Deon Sanders because they both played in
- 40:06Speaker 5: that ninety nine season. Irvin just a few games before
- 40:08Speaker 5: he got hurt. Eight men played a couple more after that,
- 40:11Speaker 5: Emmitt a few more after that, but you know, ninety
- 40:13Speaker 5: nine was the end of that that ran. Daryl Johnston
- 40:17Speaker 5: played one game in ninety nine, so you know, I
- 40:20Speaker 5: was able to you know, kind of those guys you
- 40:22Speaker 5: gotta remember, you know, when you're ten, eleven, twelve years
- 40:25Speaker 5: old and a die hard cowboy fan and you're and
- 40:28Speaker 5: you're trying to, you know, see this team, you know,
- 40:30Speaker 5: get back to the super Bowl, and you know, in
- 40:33Speaker 5: the early nineties, I mean I was, I was a
- 40:35Speaker 5: young kid collecting cards with you know, for Troy Aikman's
- 40:38Speaker 5: you know football card, Emmitt Smith, all those guys, and
- 40:41Speaker 5: then I here I am covering them Deon Sanders, Are
- 40:43Speaker 5: you kidding me? Deon Sanders one of my favorite players.
- 40:45Speaker 5: I get to, you know, to be in the same
- 40:47Speaker 5: locker room, interview and all that kind of stuff. So
- 40:49Speaker 5: ninety nine was the year where I know, I was
- 40:52Speaker 5: the young guy and there was a lot of like
- 40:54Speaker 5: established Hall of Fame type players there.
- 40:57Speaker 1: Uh and it was cool.
- 40:58Speaker 5: In the first game ever that I was that I
- 41:00Speaker 5: was there a regular season was the Washington game where
- 41:02Speaker 5: they come back twenty one points down in the fourth
- 41:04Speaker 5: quarter to win that game.
- 41:05Speaker 1: That's that's probably my favorite game.
- 41:07Speaker 5: So you know, since then, they're all they're all different
- 41:10Speaker 5: in their own way. But but yet, I mean, it's
- 41:13Speaker 5: hard to be that one just because all the dynamics
- 41:15Speaker 5: of what was happening there. Brian and Kansas City. We're
- 41:17Speaker 5: gonna go to the next callor Brian in Kansas City.
- 41:19Speaker 1: What's up?
- 41:20Speaker 14: Hey, good morning, Mack morning.
- 41:22Speaker 10: Are you ah? Well, yeah, that was news yesterday, wasn't
- 41:26Speaker 10: I know?
- 41:27Speaker 5: But all you gotta do is just listen to the
- 41:29Speaker 5: first what forty minutes of this show, and you should
- 41:32Speaker 5: be in better spirits because I'll tell you.
- 41:33Speaker 1: I'll give you guys credit. You guys are better than me.
- 41:36Speaker 1: You guys have better outlook about this than I did.
- 41:38Speaker 10: I was.
- 41:38Speaker 1: I'm kind of bummed about it too, but I feel
- 41:41Speaker 1: better just with this show.
- 41:42Speaker 14: So yeah, I was watching the media mash when the
- 41:48Speaker 14: news broke yesterday and yeah, it just them lifting off
- 41:52Speaker 14: the guys, and I'm thinking, Okay, so we got Monogay
- 41:55Speaker 14: and Jay Lou and Bland and Gilmore and Eric Scott
- 42:00Speaker 14: and it's not like last year. We're in a much
- 42:04Speaker 14: better position right now to withstand this. We obviously don't have.
- 42:09Speaker 14: You know, somebody made the comparison of what happened in
- 42:12Speaker 14: the season where the smith that blew out his achilles
- 42:17Speaker 14: in the opening day one year. It was the same
- 42:20Speaker 14: year we got.
- 42:21Speaker 1: Dion right right right, Kevin Smith.
- 42:23Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, somebody tried to make that comparison. They said, yeah,
- 42:27Speaker 14: but we had Devon Sanders, who was.
- 42:29Speaker 10: The person that replaced him, right right.
- 42:31Speaker 14: That's not quite the same. We don't have another Trayvon
- 42:34Speaker 14: Diggs on the shelf. But we really do have some
- 42:37Speaker 14: you know, in the offensive line. We've been complaining we
- 42:39Speaker 14: got no depth. We got depth in the defensive backfield.
- 42:42Speaker 5: Yeah, true, I mean they do not to this point.
- 42:45Speaker 5: I mean, if you're going to have an injury, you
- 42:48Speaker 5: don't want it to be number one. You know, you'll
- 42:51Speaker 5: take a three or four or five or something like
- 42:53Speaker 5: that and just say, hey, we got some depth. You
- 42:55Speaker 5: don't want to you don't want to hit number one
- 42:57Speaker 5: because because like you said, you don't. You don't just
- 43:00Speaker 5: there's probably a bigger drop off between one and then
- 43:04Speaker 5: two and three and four than any other spot there.
- 43:07Speaker 1: But like I said, we're going to find out.
- 43:09Speaker 5: I mean, maybe maybe it isn't, but I kind of
- 43:13Speaker 5: tend to think that it's going to be a drop off,
- 43:16Speaker 5: but not not to the point that it'll change a
- 43:17Speaker 5: whole lot.
- 43:18Speaker 14: So but hey, I got a question for you. So
- 43:23Speaker 14: I'm thinking if we're putting our starting five on the
- 43:27Speaker 14: offensive line for the first time. You know, I'm thinking,
- 43:30Speaker 14: this is this is the week Tony Pollard breaks one hundred,
- 43:33Speaker 14: and I'll I didn't I didn't think about an old
- 43:37Speaker 14: time player today before I called in, So I don't
- 43:39Speaker 14: have one for you. But let's go with what do
- 43:41Speaker 14: you think about Pollard breaking one hundred with our starting
- 43:45Speaker 14: o line for the first time? And I think John
- 43:47Speaker 14: Micheouda said six hundred days, Yeah, we had the starting
- 43:52Speaker 14: five out there, and I'll hang up and listen at
- 43:53Speaker 14: it and have a great weekend.
- 43:54Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. Yeah he did that.
- 43:57Speaker 5: That was an interesting stat the way, and he's not wrong.
- 44:00Speaker 5: I mean, they're just kind of the way that he
- 44:02Speaker 5: said it because of the way, because of Tyron Smith
- 44:07Speaker 5: not playing all of last year until December, and then
- 44:10Speaker 5: it's the same time that Terrence Steele went down, so
- 44:12Speaker 5: they you never had your starting five there, and then
- 44:15Speaker 5: you have to go back to the to the forty
- 44:17Speaker 5: nine er game at home in the playoffs. So yeah,
- 44:21Speaker 5: it hasn't been hasn't been the case. I think it
- 44:23Speaker 5: is going to happen this week that they're going to
- 44:24Speaker 5: have their starting five. I could see Pollard having a game,
- 44:28Speaker 5: but I the way that he got all those touches
- 44:31Speaker 5: last week, they've limited him a little bit in practice.
- 44:34Speaker 1: We'll see how the game goes.
- 44:36Speaker 5: But if it's a situation if these scores are holding
- 44:38Speaker 5: up like you guys are saying thirty three, ninth, thirty eight, ten,
- 44:41Speaker 5: thirty five, thirteen, don't I don't think so. I don't
- 44:45Speaker 5: think he'll get as many unless he takes like a
- 44:48Speaker 5: big run early. I could see almost to the point,
- 44:52Speaker 5: like ric o' daddle. I'm kind of flirting with the
- 44:55Speaker 5: idea of putting him on my fantasy team because I'm
- 44:58Speaker 5: just gutted with Barkley and Chubb. I mean, that's my team,
- 45:01Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers, Barkley, Chubb. Patamol changed my team name to
- 45:05Speaker 5: the Carts because they'll bring out the cart because that's
- 45:07Speaker 5: what my team has been. So I'm thinking, like maybe
- 45:10Speaker 5: Rico Daddle because I do think he's going to play
- 45:12Speaker 5: a lot in the in the second half if the
- 45:14Speaker 5: Cowboys have a lead, and I think that they're trying
- 45:16Speaker 5: to get him the ball a little bit more. Anyways,
- 45:18Speaker 5: all right, last one, let's go Vince in Albuquerque. Evince,
- 45:21Speaker 5: what's up?
- 45:22Speaker 13: Oh, no, too much. I just got back from the mountains,
- 45:24Speaker 13: so I missed half of your show.
- 45:25Speaker 8: Okay, got through, got through.
- 45:28Speaker 10: Well.
- 45:28Speaker 13: This team, I think it's a really good, strong team.
- 45:32Speaker 13: They're like a family together. This is just a different
- 45:35Speaker 13: feeling for this defense and offense and the whole team,
- 45:38Speaker 13: with the coaches just gelling and everything. It's a big,
- 45:42Speaker 13: big blow with Digs out. But I think they're going
- 45:45Speaker 13: to rally around these guys and they're going to prove something.
- 45:49Speaker 13: My score is thirteen thirty one, and I think I
- 45:54Speaker 13: think Gallup is going to try to I think they're
- 45:56Speaker 13: going to try to get the ball to Gallop this
- 45:58Speaker 13: time around.
- 45:59Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think I could?
- 46:00Speaker 5: I could definitely see that happenings. Usually the way it works,
- 46:02Speaker 5: you have a guy go off, thank you for the call.
- 46:04Speaker 1: Events.
- 46:04Speaker 5: You have a guy go off like CD has done.
- 46:06Speaker 5: He's an All Pro player. He's showing it here in
- 46:09Speaker 5: the first two games. They're gonna they gotta figure out
- 46:11Speaker 5: how to stop him, and it's gonna leave guys open
- 46:14Speaker 5: like Cooks and also in Gallop. And I think this
- 46:16Speaker 5: is about the time we'll see Gallup make some place.
- 46:19Speaker 1: All right.
- 46:19Speaker 5: I gotta get out of here quickly. My score is
- 46:22Speaker 5: twenty six to fourteen. I think that it'll be it'll
- 46:25Speaker 5: be one sided for the most part, but I think
- 46:28Speaker 5: Arizona's gonna kind of hang around him in there and
- 46:30Speaker 5: make it a little bit more uncomfortable. My guy for
- 46:35Speaker 5: the non offensive touchdown, I'm gonna go with Durrance Armstrong.
- 46:38Speaker 5: Dorn's Armstrong. He's kind of an athletic defensive end. We'll
- 46:41Speaker 5: see if there's a fumble loose or an interception or something.
- 46:43Speaker 5: He's scored I think a touchdown before he's blocked a pawn.
- 46:47Speaker 5: He's very versatile. We'll go with Dorn's Armstrong as my guy.
- 46:50Speaker 1: All right here, In a.
- 46:52Speaker 5: Few minutes, Cowboys Break will be here, so stay tuned
- 46:55Speaker 5: for that, and we'll see what they think about the
- 46:57Speaker 5: tray Von Diggs injury and how the Cowboys react to that.
- 47:01Speaker 5: Thank you so much for the callers, and not just
- 47:03Speaker 5: the amount of callers, but the attitude that y'all have
- 47:07Speaker 5: really I think was big. It was a good boost.
- 47:10Speaker 5: It should be a good boost for Cowboys Nation. Hey,
- 47:13Speaker 5: put this thing in perspective, and not all is lost
- 47:15Speaker 5: for sure, just because the injuries are Trayvon Dicks all
- 47:17Speaker 5: right for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eaven. We will see
- 47:20Speaker 5: you next Monday on Cowboys Storyline.
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