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  Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: This is Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette, the official shave
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Nick Eatman, Good morning, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented
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  Speaker 3: by Jillette. Monday, December fifteenth. I'm Nick Eatman. You guys
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  Speaker 3: are frustrated. Cowboys lose thirty four to twenty six at
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  Speaker 3: home to the Vikings. It's one of the one of
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  Speaker 3: the worst ones of the season. Once again, Cowboys find
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  Speaker 3: a way to make a below average quarterback look really
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  Speaker 3: good and an offense that you know, in a team
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  Speaker 3: that was struggling and they come into at and T
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  Speaker 3: Stadium with the aggressive defense and outplay the Cowboys, out
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  Speaker 3: coached the Cowboys, and you know, out desire the Cowboys
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  Speaker 3: if that's even a thing. But I mean, it was
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  Speaker 3: a it was a game of two teams at the
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  Speaker 3: very bottom of the NFC playoff picture and you know
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  Speaker 3: had to have it. It just absolutely had to win
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  Speaker 3: the game. And it looked like it just looked like Minnesota,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it was more better prepared and went out
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  Speaker 3: and outplayed them, out executed and obviously won the game,
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  Speaker 3: didn't didn't beat themselves with you know, with miss field
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  Speaker 3: goals and and and and you know, bad plays on
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  Speaker 3: special teams and defense and all that. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: as a as I wrote in my article, it was
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  Speaker 3: it was the worst kind of complimentary football because they
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  Speaker 3: all complimented each other, but it was all below average.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: The offense didn't play like we've expected them to play.
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  Speaker 3: The defense does what it does, which is isn't good enough,
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  Speaker 3: not giving them a pass. It's just who's shocked by
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  Speaker 3: at this point. And then and then special teams. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you're asking Brandon Aubrey to make fifty nine yardfield goals
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  Speaker 3: fifty one. That's because he does, because he makes them
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  Speaker 3: until he doesn't, you know. And so you're asking Cavante
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  Speaker 3: Turp and it catch the ball. You know, the ball's
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  Speaker 3: at the twenty five twenty seven yard line, catch it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, so it doesn't roll down to the two
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  Speaker 3: and you waste the possession and give them the ball
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  Speaker 3: at the fifty so they can go and drive and
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  Speaker 3: tie the game. So there's just a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: that that happened, but it was and you know, coaching
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  Speaker 3: wasn't wasn't good enough. I mean Schottenheimer said it. I
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  Speaker 3: mean he got out coached by Brian Flores on the
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  Speaker 3: other side, and it was evident to the two of
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  Speaker 3: twelve on third downs. So Cowboys lose thirty four to
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  Speaker 3: twenty six. There's six seven and one. That might be
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  Speaker 3: cool to the elementary kids and teenagers, but not cool
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  Speaker 3: for Cowboys. You know, fandom here that there's you know,
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  Speaker 3: hoping that maybe they could find a way to get
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  Speaker 3: in here and sneak into the playoffs. It does not
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  Speaker 3: look like that's going to happen. But we'll see. Sergeant
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  Speaker 3: Sue in Fort Worth is first.
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  Speaker 4: What's up that he's everybody?
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  Speaker 5: How you doing, Nick, hey man? You know, no matter
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  Speaker 5: how bad things get, I always try to put a
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  Speaker 5: little positive spin on it, and I feel like I've
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  Speaker 5: kind of created a little character of myself. Everybody knows that.
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  Speaker 5: But I don't know if I could do that today, Nick,
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  Speaker 5: If I'm honest, man, I don't know if I do that.
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  Speaker 3: I was wondering where we were going with.
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  Speaker 5: This, Okay, yeah, yeah, no, you know, I try, man,
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  Speaker 5: I try to be the voice of positivity. I'm in
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  Speaker 5: all these group chats and I remember the beginning of
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  Speaker 5: the season. I was saying, you know what, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I even talked to freaking Darren Woodson man, and I
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  Speaker 5: was like, hey, there's a transition when you go from
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  Speaker 5: I discipline from a man, you know, to his own
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  Speaker 5: defense and don't worry about it. Things will start clicking, YadA. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I can't do it anymore, brother, I just can't. And
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  Speaker 5: and uh, you know, personnel's not matched it out there
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  Speaker 5: on defense. You got you know, Malie Hooker trying to cover,
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  Speaker 5: you know, justin Jefferson in the slot. You have Donovan
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  Speaker 5: Wilson sorry getting routed up, you know what I mean, Man,
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  Speaker 5: the man covers down there. It's just it's just tough, man.
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  Speaker 5: And it's just really tough.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: You have a you know, a great first to me
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  Speaker 5: where you go in there, you fresher the quarterback, you
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  Speaker 5: get an interception, you know. And I told the guys,
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  Speaker 5: I was like, it's like it's like Matt ebra Flus
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  Speaker 5: is on an episode of like Impractical Jokers or something,
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  Speaker 5: and they're telling him like, okay, now stop blitzing, you know,
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  Speaker 5: just to you know, mess with all of us, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't know man, it's just been really tough. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: you mentioned some of the things offensively. You know, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know how that can get the ball to Pickens.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of people are blaming Pickens for disappearing. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know how that can get the ball to him
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  Speaker 5: or anybody.
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  Speaker 6: You know, he didn't have.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of time, you know, So I'm never I
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  Speaker 5: don't think I've ever done this, genuinely. I'm not the
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  Speaker 5: type to like to do this, but I'm gonna do it,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm gonna say, man, it might be time to
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  Speaker 5: for me to finally give in and say, uh, it's
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  Speaker 5: time to cut f loose loose man. So appreciate you
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  Speaker 5: so much to take my call. And you know, regardless, Nick,
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  Speaker 5: I would say this before I go. I'm not going
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  Speaker 5: anywhere though, Brother, I'm not. And I know that you
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  Speaker 5: know that. I hope that you know that. You know
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going anywhere. So I'm gonna be calling in.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna be giving my my thing because I ride
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  Speaker 5: to the wheels fall off.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Thanks for the call. You know, for a
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  Speaker 3: half second, I wasn't sure where you were going with that.
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  Speaker 3: When You're like, it might be time I was like
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  Speaker 3: to what, like what and then you're okay, change coordinators.
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  Speaker 3: All right, now, that's that's that's understandable, that's fair. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what you were about to say, but now, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we're not going anywhere either. We're gonna be here every
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  Speaker 3: every day ten o'clock Central to ten fifty Monday through Friday,
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  Speaker 3: except for Christmas, even Christmas Day and maybe the day after.
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  Speaker 3: But we'll be here. So we're gonna need these callers
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  Speaker 3: one day, day a five, five to two nights out.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, not tomorrow and no show tomorrow, but we'll
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  Speaker 3: be back the rest of the week, all right. Dylan
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  Speaker 3: in Northport, Florida.
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  Speaker 7: Heay, it may be time to cut Fluice Louise, but
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  Speaker 7: we're not going to be cutting Nick eat many Chris,
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  Speaker 7: thank you, thanks, We got you guys.
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  Speaker 3: We're hanging on. We're hanging on to the end.
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  Speaker 7: So yes, there, we'll go down with y'all. You know
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  Speaker 7: this is this game was a tail of two defensive coordinators,
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  Speaker 7: and we talked all week about how the Cowboys offense
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  Speaker 7: might have some problems. This is one of the best
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  Speaker 7: defense is one of the best defensive coordinators in the NFL.
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  Speaker 7: Their problem was always on offense, and so you know,
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  Speaker 7: you saw a defensive coordinator who did a bunch of
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  Speaker 7: disguising and he wasn't afraid to send the house after Dak,
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  Speaker 7: just down after down for down. And you know that's
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  Speaker 7: against the best quarterback in the league, against the blitz.
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  Speaker 7: So that's a guy who's coaching to I hate to say,
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  Speaker 7: the like to win the game right to He's not
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  Speaker 7: playing scared. Almost feel like when Flu's calls plays, he's
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  Speaker 7: he's scared because you know, the game starts out in
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  Speaker 7: in you know, we get the defense deflected pass off
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  Speaker 7: of the safety blitz, and then he called six more
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  Speaker 7: blitzes the rest of the game, and it's like, you've
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  Speaker 7: got you've got a young, inexperienced quarterback who is a
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  Speaker 7: mistake prone, has horrible mechanics, and you're just gonna let
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  Speaker 7: him sit there all game, not make him uncomfortable. It
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  Speaker 7: was just like the Brice young thing I know.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly said that, Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking of.
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  Speaker 7: Yep, yeah, I mean it's it's been I'm not I
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  Speaker 7: hate the people. I don't hate anybody, but I hate
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  Speaker 7: when people say it's all Jerry's fault. It's all Shottenheimer's
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  Speaker 7: fault's Whoever's fault. Like he just point out one single
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  Speaker 7: source of all the issues and Flus isn't the source
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  Speaker 7: of every single issue defensively, but he hasn't elevated a
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  Speaker 7: single player to be better than what he is, and
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  Speaker 7: in fact, I think he's made players worse. You're seeing
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  Speaker 7: players have the worst year of their career with like
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  Speaker 7: Bland and and Somebody's safeties and some of these other guys.
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  Speaker 7: You know, you're seeing I don't know what's up with Logan,
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  Speaker 7: Wilson and Murray, but Murray once again is running out
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  Speaker 7: of the lanes to go play, you know, by himself
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  Speaker 7: out on the edge. I mean he's just standing in
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  Speaker 7: space to nothing on the goal line instead of going
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  Speaker 7: and filling the hole with their running back. So it's
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  Speaker 7: just frustrating to watch the kind of the same thing
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  Speaker 7: all season. And I know Flus is a base kind
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  Speaker 7: of guy. Go play cover two, three, four, don't blitz,
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  Speaker 7: But like, at a certain point, you got to recognize
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  Speaker 7: something's not working, dog and you got to make a change.
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  Speaker 7: And I think it's going to be time for the
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  Speaker 7: Cowboys and make a change out of the season unfortunately.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and all right, thanks thanks for the call. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Jerry Jones talks after the game and and he talks,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to the media, and then he doesn't walk
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  Speaker 3: off and he keeps talking, and then more people ask questions.
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  Speaker 3: And so if you sat there the whole time and
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  Speaker 3: listened to it all, you'd miss the entire locker room.
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  Speaker 3: So you kind of have to pick your spots. But
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  Speaker 3: there were some some interesting answers when asked about ebra
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  Speaker 3: Flus and you know, and the you know, just just
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  Speaker 3: how much how long he's going to be here, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and and what his future holds and other coaches, and
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  Speaker 3: he didn't he didn't give like a you know, solid
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  Speaker 3: answer of oh, yeah, these guys will be back he
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  Speaker 3: and nor should he. But he was just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: those are good questions. There's something something to that effect
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  Speaker 3: of okay, well everything's on the table and it should be. Dylan,
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  Speaker 3: I think you make really good points as always that
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  Speaker 3: who who who is has really elevated this year, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like like with who's played better on defense? Then you
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  Speaker 3: thought like, oh, this guy's better than I thought. I mean, seriously,
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  Speaker 3: if you really really think about it, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: can't really say that about rookies, even though as Iraku,
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  Speaker 3: I think people thought he would be a little better
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  Speaker 3: than this revel It's still early, you know. But but
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  Speaker 3: but who I mean is Quinnon Williams playing I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is kind of how he plays, right, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Osa's playing like like he plays maybe a little bit
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  Speaker 3: better maybe, but you know, Kenny Clark's probably played better
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  Speaker 3: than this. Dante Fowler certainly has clowney, you know, Clowney's
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  Speaker 3: kind of clowney. You know, he's played this is kind
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  Speaker 3: of what he's done, but not not to the point
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  Speaker 3: where anyone's playing better than they've played. Is certainly not
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  Speaker 3: in the secondary. You know, I know this isn't happening,
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  Speaker 3: but it does feel like that the three positions linebackers,
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  Speaker 3: defensive line, and then secondary all kind of do their
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  Speaker 3: own thing like in meetings, and then when they get
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  Speaker 3: to the game, let's kind of see how it happens.
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  Speaker 3: It just doesn't seem like those three parts are ever
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  Speaker 3: on the same page. And you know, and Eberflus was
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be the linebacker whisperer, you know, and the
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  Speaker 3: linebackers have been as bad as we've seen around here
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  Speaker 3: in a long time. Sam and Philly? What's up?
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  Speaker 2: Hey?
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  Speaker 6: Nick? How you know?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 8: Man?
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  Speaker 2: But I told you I work a night shift. Man,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm staying up here trying to get a
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  Speaker 2: hold of you here.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: But the can I give you my hypothesis on the
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  Speaker 2: Trayvon Diggs thing? Because it seems like everybody I listened
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  Speaker 2: to over there or down there, I should say, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you're not allowed to talk about it,
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  Speaker 2: or you're not reporting the right thing, or you just
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Can I just give you what I think
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  Speaker 2: is going on?
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  Speaker 3: Sure? I would love.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 2: You can't ever they always say you can never predict
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  Speaker 2: a back injury or head injury. So I think now
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  Speaker 2: since you know they cut his buddy Micah, so they
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  Speaker 2: you know they weren't he he's already kind of disgruntled
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  Speaker 2: as you well, that's what you're gonna call it. I
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  Speaker 2: think he faked the concussion because he put he didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to put. He knows that this is his last
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  Speaker 2: year on the team. Everybody knows that, so he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to put bad tape out of himself and cost
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  Speaker 2: himself money because he wasn't agreeing with the defensive philosophy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he was getting burnt, you know, game after game,
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  Speaker 2: and he just decided to I'm going to sit it
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  Speaker 2: out because I don't like coordinator, I don't like the defense.
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  Speaker 2: I don't agree with it. I'm a man corner and
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to cost myself money. Now they made
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  Speaker 2: the trades, and well this really doesn't make sense because
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  Speaker 2: the defense doesn't look that great, but it was rejuvenated
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  Speaker 2: for a few games there. Now he wants back in
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  Speaker 2: and we all know that once you cross Jerry, you
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  Speaker 2: can't and you can't undo that, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: So I think he's sitting them out on purpose. Now
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  Speaker 2: you're not gonna be able to get back on the
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  Speaker 2: field and prove yourself for your next contract.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, there's there sounds like worse philosophies than that, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Not opposed to make it just makes it makes.
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  Speaker 3: Sense, No, it's not. It's yeah at this point, and
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  Speaker 3: that's what.
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  Speaker 2: Everything that's going on, not giving you any answers, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean. And that's what's going on. I
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  Speaker 2: think they're saying, all right, you want to if you
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  Speaker 2: want to do that. You want to, you know, quit
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  Speaker 2: on us, and we're gonna quit on you.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Sam, I'm not going to argue with you because
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  Speaker 3: I I you know what, why not? They haven't told
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  Speaker 3: us why. So that's what happens when you don't give
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  Speaker 3: the reason to that. And I'm not saying that we
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  Speaker 3: deserve that. Thanks, thanks for the call, and thanks for
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  Speaker 3: the really you know, it's that's well thought out and
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  Speaker 3: it could be it could you know, you hate for
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  Speaker 3: that to be, you know, the case, and and there
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  Speaker 3: could be elements of that that it is true, maybe
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  Speaker 3: not fully one hundred percent, but there could be parts
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  Speaker 3: of that. But without a doubt, there's more going on
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  Speaker 3: here than than we know. And I say it all
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  Speaker 3: the time. I'm like, I'm done talking about it. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not gonna talk about it. Well, and you know, I'd
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  Speaker 3: rather not because we don't we don't have the answers
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  Speaker 3: what I you know. But but there are some things
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  Speaker 3: happening that that normally don't. And that's what's weird, even
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  Speaker 3: even more strange about this thing is well, why is
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  Speaker 3: he practicing so much? Then? Why did he practice all week?
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  Speaker 3: Because if if he's practicing, then someone else isn't and
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  Speaker 3: the guy that did play in the game did not
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  Speaker 3: get as many reps. And guess what it showed. So
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  Speaker 3: what are we doing here? You're gonna play, then play.
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  Speaker 3: You should practice the guys that are gonna play in
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  Speaker 3: the game. So was there a setback? Then just say
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  Speaker 3: there was a setback. He was supposed to play, he practiced,
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  Speaker 3: then there was a setback? Or or or what? And
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  Speaker 3: why is he talking to the media so much? Like
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  Speaker 3: why are they making him available? Like it's funny is
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  Speaker 3: that at times when guys are on injury reserve and
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  Speaker 3: you try to talk to him and they're like, no,
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  Speaker 3: wait till they come back. And then now with Diggs,
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  Speaker 3: I mean he's always talking in front of his locker
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  Speaker 3: for seven minutes. I mean, I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 3: get it. It's a head. All I know is that
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  Speaker 3: there's something else here, something much deeper, and they're not
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  Speaker 3: saying what it is. So it's leaving Sam and Philly
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  Speaker 3: and everyone else open to to speculate what it is.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe that is the case, because at this point
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  Speaker 3: it's all on the table. But I don't know. I
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  Speaker 3: know this though, you know what, I'm not gonna say
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  Speaker 3: Josh Chicago. Josh, isn't it hey man? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 10: Oh?
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  Speaker 11: I'm bummed, you know, a rough one.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: I got not to pile on at the Traylon Diggs thing,
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  Speaker 11: but just kind of what Dylan and UH and Sue
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  Speaker 11: were saying. You know, I just don't get how Murray's
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  Speaker 11: out there in the wrong game and we're being told
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  Speaker 11: Treyvon Diggies doesn't practice. Well, it's like, is Murray practicing?
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  Speaker 11: I just don't get it, you know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 11: I agree with you, I really do. For the most part,
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  Speaker 11: trust the coaches, trust their judgment. But it's like I
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  Speaker 11: watched the Detroit game over and Gibbs's biggest plays are
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  Speaker 11: because he's one on one match up against Murray and
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  Speaker 11: Murray's going the wrong way and then he's getting blocked
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  Speaker 11: out of stuff, and it's like, I just don't understand
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  Speaker 11: how Treyvon Diggs can't be on the field and all pro.
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  Speaker 11: And then you have a linebacker who is constantly game
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  Speaker 11: after game in the wrong spot and your defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 11: specialty is linebackers. Yeah, yeah, I mean I called him
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  Speaker 11: the off season. I said, I'm excited about iber Flus
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  Speaker 11: because maybe he'll get better play out of our linebackers.
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  Speaker 11: And I was wrong.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Oh we all are that, I mean, yeah, yeah, I
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: mean he wanted Murray and Sanborn. He wanted these veteran
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: linebackers in here and then over shown. We'll be back
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: at some point and we'll see, we'll see what happens
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: if he can, you know, take Leaf out to the
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: next level. I mean, lea foul second year guy, he
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: was supposed to take that leap this year and and
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: so yeah, I mean, ID is in the same boat there.
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: But I and you just can't defend what's going on
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: with Murray. I mean it's just no, not at all
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: here and you're going there.
• 16:09
  Speaker 11: I mean, I mean I'd rather see I'd rather see
• 16:12
  Speaker 11: Lea fou get the reps doing the wrong thing but
• 16:14
  Speaker 11: getting the game experience and starting. Yeah, yeah, Schamar James, somebody,
• 16:18
  Speaker 11: I mean even Clark before he was gone. But to
• 16:21
  Speaker 11: see a veteran who's had the chances and the opportunities
• 16:24
  Speaker 11: continue to make the mistakes, it just questions my whole thing.
• 16:27
  Speaker 11: And I don't like calling for somebody's job, you know
• 16:29
  Speaker 11: it is it's you know, it's the GM's choice on that.
• 16:32
  Speaker 11: But what I will say is, you know that fourth
• 16:35
  Speaker 11: and three, you've been blitzing all like the blitzers have
• 16:38
  Speaker 11: been working game and it's fourth and three and you
• 16:42
  Speaker 11: send a three man rush and they get a twenty
• 16:44
  Speaker 11: yard pass, Like that was a game to me, that
• 16:48
  Speaker 11: that moment in the third quarter, that was the game
• 16:50
  Speaker 11: that was, Hey, we're not going to be able to
• 16:52
  Speaker 11: do anything here.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was one of the five plays that I
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: did pick out because you know, it's fourth down and
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: I think you're up at that point, and you know,
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: if you can get the ball, you get to stop there,
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: get the ball and then you know, if anything, get
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: another field goal.
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: But but yeah, that was that was a huge And
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: you're right, he just felt so comfortable and it's like,
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: you know, there's times where he wasn't comfortable and it showed,
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: and then times when he's standing back there. I mean,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: it's just I know, you can't blitz every play, but
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: he could blitz more than what six times seven times,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: especially when when you saw some really good plays out
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: of it, when when it was happening early on.
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: You know, I got just two more things for you
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: real quick. One CDs are number one. Man, just he's
• 17:42
  Speaker 11: just Yeah, he wears AD eight for a reason. Man,
• 17:45
  Speaker 11: the legacy. He's the guy. That's how I feel about him.
• 17:47
  Speaker 11: I hope we resigned Pickens, but I don't want to
• 17:49
  Speaker 11: break the bank on him. That's just how I feel
• 17:51
  Speaker 11: about him. And then the other thing is, man, we
• 17:54
  Speaker 11: haven't heard from our guy Jeremy and DC for a while.
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: So you know, are you staying out of trouble?
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: You hurt anybody?
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're doing well.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Man, I appreciate it. Yeah, I think he called not
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: too long ago. So yeah, I'm staying out of trouble,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: I think. So just don't ask me about Treyvon Diggs
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: anymore because that's probably going to get me in trouble
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: because well maybe not, because I don't know. I mean,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: we really don't. We don't know anything. It's just weird.
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• 20:27
  Speaker 3: here all right talking Cowboys and Vikings. Thirty four to
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: twenty six lost. Cowboys dropped six to seven and one,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: three games to go, and they're not officially out of anything,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: but certainly doesn't look good. I'm gonna take a Christmas
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: miracle here, especially with the Eagles. To win the division,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: they're gonna have to lose all three and Cowboys have
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: to win all three. So don't see any of those
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: scenarios happening with based off the schedule and how things
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: are playing and the level of consistency that it takes
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: for the Cowboys for them to win three straight games.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Don't see that happening. Definitely don't see the Eagles losing three,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: especially after what they did against the Raiders. Yeah it
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: was the Raiders, but they've got Washington twice in the bills,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: so we'll see. Can't worry about all that. Just gotta
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: go play it out, all right. Next is Rob in Vegas.
• 21:23
  Speaker 15: Hey, Nick, hi, Rob.
• 21:26
  Speaker 16: You know, we could jump on Flue all we want,
• 21:28
  Speaker 16: but I can't put all the blame on him or
• 21:31
  Speaker 16: the defense for this game. They did what they do.
• 21:34
  Speaker 16: They gave up. You know, you got kids. When my
• 21:39
  Speaker 16: kids were in school, my daughter was great in school,
• 21:42
  Speaker 16: she loved it. My son was like, I'm just going
• 21:45
  Speaker 16: because I have to. So when the report card came
• 21:48
  Speaker 16: and he did what he normally does and gets sees,
• 21:51
  Speaker 16: I'm like, all right, well, my daughter would get straight a's,
• 21:56
  Speaker 16: so if she came home with something other than that,
• 21:58
  Speaker 16: I'd be like, what the hell happened?
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 22:01
  Speaker 16: That's how I look, Yeah, that's that's how I look
• 22:03
  Speaker 16: at Dallas. The offense. You knew going in your defense
• 22:07
  Speaker 16: is bad, and you know what they did exactly what
• 22:09
  Speaker 16: they did. They held them to. They give up about
• 22:11
  Speaker 16: thirty and late in the fourth quarter. That's where they
• 22:14
  Speaker 16: were the offense is the one that struggled. Third down
• 22:17
  Speaker 16: was horrendous, red zone was bad.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: That's a great analogy, by the way, it really is
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: because and I've kind of used one similar to that.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: It's very it's very good because it's like, are you
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: blaming your daughter? You're not, I mean, because you're just
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: you're just holding on to a higher standard.
• 22:37
  Speaker 16: Right, You're exactly you're disappointed.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like Robert's missing field goals. I mean, like I remember,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I remember Billy kind of setting the Cowboys record for
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: a fifty six stard field goal. Like I remember when
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: he did it, and it was the Cowboys record. And
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: now when Aubrey missus a fifty nine You're like, what's
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: what's wrong?
• 22:55
  Speaker 15: Okay?
• 22:56
  Speaker 16: Totally? And I mean and Chris Collins word says a
• 23:00
  Speaker 16: good lesson, and I agree with him. He goes shot.
• 23:02
  Speaker 16: He plays for these long fielders sometimes too much, and
• 23:05
  Speaker 16: he does. I mean, we're spoiled. When he missed the
• 23:09
  Speaker 16: fifty nine yard We're like, what the hell? Yeah, you know,
• 23:12
  Speaker 16: but that's how I looked at it. Now I look
• 23:15
  Speaker 16: at Fluse and I say, well, I can't let him.
• 23:18
  Speaker 16: We're shot. He shot, he's his boss. But is he
• 23:21
  Speaker 16: is he his boss because he didn't make the higher
• 23:24
  Speaker 16: So that's the problem I have with when you have
• 23:28
  Speaker 16: Jerry involved, and I know we go back and forth,
• 23:30
  Speaker 16: but we want to maximize Dak. Everybody's talking about doing
• 23:34
  Speaker 16: that because let's say you got two more years or whatever. Well,
• 23:39
  Speaker 16: you brought in an apprentice as a head coach, which
• 23:42
  Speaker 16: probably wasn't the best move when you could have got
• 23:45
  Speaker 16: proven guys like a Vrabel or look at what Sean
• 23:48
  Speaker 16: Payton is doing in Denver. You had opportunities to get
• 23:50
  Speaker 16: guys like that. With the Pickens thing, I'm sorry, I can't.
• 23:56
  Speaker 16: Pickens is a luxury this team can't affords. He's like,
• 24:02
  Speaker 16: you know, you just want to buy a sports car
• 24:04
  Speaker 16: because you want to have some fun. You can't. You
• 24:06
  Speaker 16: can't do it. You have to take the money you're
• 24:08
  Speaker 16: going to allocate to him, which is let's just say
• 24:11
  Speaker 16: thirty million. You need to put that into the defense
• 24:15
  Speaker 16: and get a tackle. I don't care which one you
• 24:17
  Speaker 16: want to get. You want to move guy in the
• 24:18
  Speaker 16: right tackle or keep them out left tip. You got
• 24:21
  Speaker 16: to get a tackle, but you got to get playmakers
• 24:25
  Speaker 16: on defense, especially I could rush the quarterback as much
• 24:29
  Speaker 16: as I like pickings, I just can't afford him.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 24:33
  Speaker 16: It doesn't move the needle. And the perfect example is
• 24:36
  Speaker 16: this year you have two wide receivers that aret top
• 24:39
  Speaker 16: of the league. You finally got a running back and
• 24:43
  Speaker 16: you got six wins, and you got a quarterback playing
• 24:46
  Speaker 16: top top five, And what does it give you? Six wins?
• 24:50
  Speaker 16: And how many wins do they have last year without
• 24:53
  Speaker 16: that seven? So the way the team is constructed is bad.
• 25:01
  Speaker 16: And I don't know if Jerry wants to fix it,
• 25:04
  Speaker 16: because he does like the flash, and unfortunately you're gonna
• 25:06
  Speaker 16: have to get rid of some of the flash and go,
• 25:10
  Speaker 16: you know, build the trenches, do the ugly stuff. But
• 25:13
  Speaker 16: until they do that, they're not win him.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: All right, Rob, good call?
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: Uh?
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: You know the picking situation is is uh is up?
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: It's up for grabs at this point. I mean, it
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: really is. I mean because I think, you know, two
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: or three weeks ago it was no brainer. But now, yeah,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I mean there's there's some definitely some some questions there
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: on on you know, to allocate that those funds and
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: and can you afford to do that? And and you know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: bringing them back? What is it? What does it bring
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: you what does it get you?
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: So?
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think if your offensive line is
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: patched up, I mean I'd rather, I'd rather. I think
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I'd rather have a left tackle that I can count on,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: you know, or you know, young offensive line. And the
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: offensive line is going to continue to get better. And
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: I think the interior of it is good.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: I think Booker and BB and those guys are gonna
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: be gonna be good. I mean with Tyler Smith too.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: I mean I think the three of them there. But
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: but still got to figure out the tackle situation. Uh.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: I like, I like that what you said about it's
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: just a luxury that they probably can't afford. But you know,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: he's gotta he's got to do his part too. I mean,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: it's not just you know, it's it's it's not I mean,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I know, you can't just run down the field, and
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: you know at times you've got to You've got to,
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: you know, come back to the ball and and and
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: I still think the Cowboys should have tried more to
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: get him. Get him the ball like deep and even
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: if it if it's covered or it looks like it's covered,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: take a shot, take a shot to go up there.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: And and and and make a play because you know
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: what's going to happen. He's probably gonna catch it thirty
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: forty percent of the time. The other thirty percent of
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: the time is going to be a past interference. So
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's I think it's better than fifty
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: to fifty. I think getting the ball to where you
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: throw it is probably a seventy thirty and for me,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: and it's a big chunk play. I'd like to see
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: that happen a little bit more. All right, Albert in Tucson,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Arizona's next Albert Nick? My man, how you doing?
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: The real answer?
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Really? Really? How you doing?
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: Man? I got my Cowboys blues on no no logos,
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: but I got them, and I'm feeling exactly that way.
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: But I don't know if I'm so much p o
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: I don't know if I can say it on air,
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: but sure pissed off at our defense. When you know
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: we win out say the football gods give us the opportunity.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: The Eagles lose two games, we win the division. But
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: now it's like what to play for? Should Milton be
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: the starting QB the next three games? Should we just
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: tank it and see what we get with our two picks.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: It's just right now, it hurts really the most, I
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: think out of all the losses that we have, because
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: there was so much writing on this game and you
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: lose to a less than mediocre team, you know, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: it's I think it's time that we really really show
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: you guys how pissed off we are. But anyway, it
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: was a good season. Thank you for everything. And I
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: think the producer extrad and there in the back and
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: Ride or die Go Cowboys, right.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Well, uh yeah, I mean I get it. I'm not gonna,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: like we say it all the time. I'm not gonna
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: tell anybody how to fan and what to do if
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: this is it for for y'all, you know, as far
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: as you know, investing the time and all that, I
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: get it. I mean, I don't under I don't agree necessarily.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: You know, that's just kind of what I am. You know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: I like football. I like watching games, and whether you're
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: in it or out, you know, I'm gonna watch the team.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: But this is our job too, so this is what
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: we do. But you know, I mean, as far as
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: you know, Monday goes and Monday after a loss like that, sure,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, you there's a lot of people saying that.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of people that are like, all right, well,
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: then so much for the season. We'll see, we'll see
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: what happens next year, you know. And that's probably the
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: case until about Thursday or Friday, and then you're let's
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: see what happens. I'm I'm gonna watch it, just see,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: you know. And that's what that's what this team does,
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: that's what the sports does. Really, so I get it.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna hold anybody for what they say today.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: And I mean, there's nothing wrong with what Albert said.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: I mean it's like, hey, right or die. But he's
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: pissed off, he's frustrated. He should be. It's you know,
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: but saying that, like you lost to a mediocre team, well,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: the Cowboys are. That's what the Cowboys are. You know that.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: At halftime, I knew this game was going to be
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: really close. This is gonna come down to it. I
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: don't really know who's better, you know, it's even and
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: we'll see what happens. Who makes plays in the second half,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: and the Cowboys didn't make enough for them or really
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: any at all. All right, let's go to Josh and Princeton, Texas.
• 30:37
  Speaker 9: Hey, Nick, how you doing. I'm doing good. So so
• 30:41
  Speaker 9: yesterday I was pretty upset. It was my birthday and
• 30:45
  Speaker 9: I was just up there upstairs soaking. But then something
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: dawned on me and I just thought about it, and
• 30:51
  Speaker 9: I was just like, I mean, this is who the
• 30:54
  Speaker 9: Cowboys have been all season, and if you think about it,
• 30:58
  Speaker 9: like if they just so happened to make it to
• 31:00
  Speaker 9: the playoffs, I mean, do we actually expect them to
• 31:03
  Speaker 9: make noise or do anything? So, I mean the record,
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: I feel like they're here right where they belong. As
• 31:11
  Speaker 9: far as the record and how everything has played out,
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: I mean, you lost every phase of the game. You
• 31:16
  Speaker 9: got out coached by Flores and Kevin O'Connell and then
• 31:20
  Speaker 9: special teams. I'm not going to harp on Brandon Aubrey,
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: he was due to miss so but then the one
• 31:27
  Speaker 9: return you got from Turfman got negated by Timody, so
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: you really didn't win any phase of the game. So
• 31:35
  Speaker 9: I'm not upset. I mean I got over it, and
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: I mean I'm just gonna be here for the ride
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: and she can build momentum for next season.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what you you know, I agree with that.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: You know, I.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Think this team does need to continue to try to
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: get better and grow and all those things. And you know,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: I'm not playing the backup quarterback. No, I mean unless
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: unless you have to or need to. But no, I
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: mean I'm playing. I'm playing Dak all the way through it.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: And that's what he said. I mean, that's what he
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: said last night. Let's see if the Cowboys think the
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: same way. But you know, though, all right, Josh, you
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: got anything else or we'll keep it moving. You good?
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, I'm good.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: All right, good to hear from you, And thanks for calling.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: You know, they they're not I mean, the best way
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: for them to win the division, I mean, to get
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs is to win the division. They gotta
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: win three the last three games, and then Philly has
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: to lose them all. So and and the Cowboys play
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Sunday at noon, and Philly plays Saturday against Washington. So
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: you know, the division could be out of your hands
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: before you even play again. I don't think technically they
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: will be eliminated from the playoffs, but you know, it's
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: it's it's probably a miracle at this point. So and
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: like I said, winning the division is the best way,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: So that actually could be off the table, and then
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: after that it would just be all these crazy wild
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: card scenarios that you know probably could also be eliminated
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: by the time you know that game is over Sunday,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: so you know the playoffs, I mean, not the cue
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: of the Jim Mora, you know, press conference, but it's
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: that's kind of what it looks like and feels like
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: at this point, because you know you're not beating the
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: average teams. You know, you're you're you beat the Eagles,
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: you know you're down twenty one, nothing came back and
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: won that game. Kansas City's not good. I mean they're
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: they're not a good team, and so you beat them,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: but they're they're showing what they are. They're not They're
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: not good this year, and so that's kind of it's
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: all these teams, you know, Cowboys, Vikings, close games and
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: you know they could maybe win if they lined up
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: and did it again. But I think you're seeing, you know,
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: right now, this is the type of your time of
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: the year. The cream rises to the top, and you
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: know the Cowboys wouldn't go beat Seattle or the Rams
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: or you know, we saw what they did to Detroit
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: and all that. You know, those teams are are better
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: and so they face the you know, the the Bears,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: and early week three, the Bears are probably way better
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: than they are now, and that wasn't close then. So
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: I just think, you know, getting to the playoffs would
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: probably just you know, it wouldn't wouldn't be great. But
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: but you want to you know, that's the goal, that's
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: the goal to see. But I think we all know
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: what I'm trying to say. I think we all know that,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: you know, the Cowboys just aren't good enough. They're not
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: good enough this year. So you can try to get
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: on the run and get there, but I don't think
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: they're good enough. Let's go to Brian in Kansas City. Brian,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: what's up.
• 34:38
  Speaker 10: Man, Good morning, sir.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: How are you man? It's been a little bit.
• 34:42
  Speaker 10: Yeah, the way, I got some life challenges and it
• 34:47
  Speaker 10: hasn't been hasn't been in the cards for me to
• 34:49
  Speaker 10: be able to work this in. But I just got
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: off the treadmill, looked and saw what time it was
• 34:54
  Speaker 10: with the TV on, and say, hey, got a chance,
• 34:57
  Speaker 10: got a chance.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: So I'm good to hear from you, man. I mean,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: you're you're one of the staples of this show, and
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: I obviously got to take care of what's going on there.
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: But but anytime you can get in, man, we'd love
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: to hear from you. Glad that you've called.
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: Thanks Nick, I really appreciate that and appreciate Chris. So,
• 35:16
  Speaker 10: you know, in watching this game last night, and you know,
• 35:20
  Speaker 10: I was thinking of you know, unit cohesion and the
• 35:24
  Speaker 10: spree de corps are really hard things. They're kind of intangibles, right,
• 35:29
  Speaker 10: It's it's difficult to figure out what makes that happen.
• 35:34
  Speaker 10: You know, what what made the Cowboys gel in the
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: in the seventies and in the nineties, and what was
• 35:40
  Speaker 10: the magic sauce? Right at this point, I think, you know,
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: we we were in that stage of the game of
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: the season where we've got to figure out what we
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: have as we're moving forward. So I agree with not tanking,
• 35:57
  Speaker 10: which I don't want to go out there and just
• 35:59
  Speaker 10: put all the backup in and and just say, hey,
• 36:02
  Speaker 10: we don't want Dak to get hurt, so we're not
• 36:04
  Speaker 10: going to play him. But what I do want to
• 36:07
  Speaker 10: see is what do we have. There's a few key
• 36:09
  Speaker 10: positions and everybody's talked about them all morning, you know, linebacker,
• 36:15
  Speaker 10: defensive back, offensive tackle. We need to know what we have, right,
• 36:20
  Speaker 10: We've got to figure it out for going forward. So
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: I'd like to see one or two key changes and
• 36:29
  Speaker 10: just pick them whatever it is. Hey, you know what,
• 36:32
  Speaker 10: we don't know if Logan Wilson is better than Murray.
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: Just put him out there and let's find out in
• 36:36
  Speaker 10: the next three games. We don't know if Nate Thomas
• 36:39
  Speaker 10: or Dynegy or whomever might be better than what we
• 36:43
  Speaker 10: have now. But pick one of them and just put
• 36:47
  Speaker 10: them out there and let's see what we have, not
• 36:50
  Speaker 10: guess going into the draft and into the offseason. That's
• 36:54
  Speaker 10: just my thought. Of course, it's possible, but you know,
• 36:59
  Speaker 10: I think we all look at it. I don't. I
• 37:00
  Speaker 10: didn't look to see what the odds dipped to after
• 37:03
  Speaker 10: the after the game, but I'm sure that it's a
• 37:06
  Speaker 10: very slight possibility. Now, Yeah, let's figure out what we
• 37:11
  Speaker 10: have and let's build the team and see what we
• 37:13
  Speaker 10: have going forward. Man, Hey, it's really good to talk
• 37:16
  Speaker 10: to you today.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Brian, and callback when when when you can.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: That's the case for everybody, you know, and we totally
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: understand that that. You know, it's not easy, it's not
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: easily doing the show that you know, being a part
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: of the show, you know, because it's not like you
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: just pick up the phone call and get in. It's
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: you know, you got a call back and call back
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: and if you really want, you know, and it's hard
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: to listen while you're doing that. And I get it.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: And and this show is made up of you guys,
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: and and Brian is one of them, and so it
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: takes people that are committed to it. And I'm totally
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: appreciative of that. And we don't have to share the
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: same thoughts and opinions all the time, you know, but
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: I think everyone shares the same path you know about
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: about this team and the organization and the frustration and
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: when they don't win and the excitement when they do
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: and and all that. And that's kind of kind of
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: what what bonds everyone together, even though they have different
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: outlooks on it. So anyways, what Brian said is is
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: I really agree with you know. I mean, there's a
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: there's a there's an in between here. You know, you
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: don't have to tank the season. You still play the
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: best guys for the most part. But if if it
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: is close and you do have a guy that's younger
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: and and you haven't hasn't played a lot. I mean,
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: why not, why not, you know, get them out there
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: and see. So, yeah, there's some there's some positions where
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: you know, and they are kind of doing that a
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: defensive back. I mean, Revel's playing, Carson's playing. I don't
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: know if you guys have have have realized this, but
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Trayvon Diggs is not playing. I don't know if you
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: if that's ever come up at all, but you know,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: he isn't playing, so so they're kind of doing that
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: a little bit already. Anyways, let's go to break one
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• 40:22
  Speaker 3: This is the time where we bring out the Precision
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Player of the Week, presented by Gillette. Chris, got you
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: got anyone there? I mean, I think we talked about
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Javonte Williams. Hey showed a lot of heart there. He
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: did mean hurt his shoulder, got a concussion protocol too,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot going on there. Didn't have his helmet,
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, like like for a while, like all right,
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: you know, and he was he did not look like
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: he was gonna go to play, and then the lipke
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: gets hurt on the last play of special teams. Uh
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: right for the half well, and Javonte comes back in
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: and I mean almost got one hundred. It's like Billingsley
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: from One Friday Night Lights, just kind of in there
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: with no shoulder, just runs over people do this. He
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: played well, so he'll be our he'll be our Gillette
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• 41:28
  Speaker 3: What's up, hey, Nick?
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: How you buddy?
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: I'm good? How are you?
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: I'm good?
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: You remember me?
• 41:35
  Speaker 16: Last week was the first That was the first time.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so now I'm a second
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: time caller.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: It's all because I.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: Always watch read your articles and always on the website
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: and listen to your shows. But I was always on
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: first shift, so I was never able to call in.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: So that's why all of a sudden, I'm calling in
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: all the time.
• 41:52
  Speaker 15: You're like my second best friend. Now, all right, but anyway, yeah,
• 41:58
  Speaker 15: but anyway, I agree with so much that everybody was
• 42:01
  Speaker 15: saying throughout your show this morning, and and I read
• 42:04
  Speaker 15: your article as always, and I was glad that you
• 42:07
  Speaker 15: put in there about the field goals because I hit
• 42:09
  Speaker 15: hard on that last week with the Lions game, where
• 42:13
  Speaker 15: we you know, like I said, I'm old school, I'm
• 42:16
  Speaker 15: always for take the points.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: But my whole point is like, we're not converted on
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: third downs, right. It's like once we get past past
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: the fifty yard line, all of a sudden, we get
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: a little conservative and we're not taking the shots. You know.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: It's like we had two of.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: The great receivers in the NFL, a great tight end,
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: and it's like, why are we not at least taking
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: shots at times? I mean we do once in a while,
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: but not enough in my opinion. But it's like again,
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: in the Lions game, we attempted five field goals. Last
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: night's game, we attempted six field goals. That's eleven field goals,
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: and we only had four touchdowns. I mean, not just
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: ain't going to cut it, man, We got it. We
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: got to score more touchdowns. So I was glad that
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: you pointed that out also in your articles.
• 42:58
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'm fine most of the time with kicking
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: field goals. If that's the smart play. But right, but
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: you know, I think what they feel like is is
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: field goal range is probably not necessarily the right call.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: You know, you shouldn't be taking sacks right forty yard
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: line and now you've now you've made it a fifty
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: nine yard or so a little too comfortable there. And
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: you know, as someone pointed out, Aubrey was bound the
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: miss and he did.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, absolutely, And you know, and as far as
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: this coaching stuff goes, I mean yeah, I mean, Ebra
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: f Flus was good when he was with the Colts
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: and stuff. I mean, I do I know, I do know. Man,
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: we are a mess on defense, absolutely, and I don't
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: know if he's all to blame. I mean, I haven't
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: heard anybody really say anything about Shottenheimer. He's on known
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: as well. I mean, he's been in a coaching offensive
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: assistant or offensive coordinator for like thirty years in the NFL,
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: and he was never a head coach before. Is there
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: a reason why, you know, I mean, that's a long
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: time to be in the NFL and never having a
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: whole head coaching job before. I believe he was considered
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: like two other times in the past but didn't get
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: the positions and that makes me wonder too, I mean,
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: is there something there? And you know he didn't have
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: the opportunity before and uh, you know, just the thought
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: I was throwing out there, what do you think of that?
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll talk about being you know, like the opportunities
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: that he's gotten.
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's far as Shottenheimer more so shot Aheim because
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: I know, like Eberflus was was successful as a defensive
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: coordinator before. But Shottenheimer, like I said, he's been he's
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: been a coach for a long time in the NFL
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: and never never was got a head coach job and
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: only was considered twice in thirty years. And he said,
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: there's so what's your thoughts on that? Do you think
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: maybe he isn't he's part of the problem that.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, no, no, sorry, I I understand your point.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not agreeing with with that party. But
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: all right, think, thanks Stan, thanks for the call. I
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: think I think Schottenheimer is going to be okay, you know,
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: as as and I know that that's not necessarily the
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: goal and it'd be better than that, you know, as
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: a first year coach. And you know again, uh, wise
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: man told me a long time ago. Sometimes things are
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: not it's not an excuse, it's a reason. Okay, So
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to make excuses for this team. But
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: when you put your best player and move him over
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: here off the team and what you've got in return,
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: for the most part is is not we haven't even
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: seen yet, then it is hard to evaluate. I mean,
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: it's hard to evaluate what what they what he is,
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: you know, because this team needed Mike Caparsons. There's no
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: doubt that they needed hearts with the offense the way
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: it is, they needed a guy that they could come
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: in there and and make plays on defense and get
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: off the field and give some pressure and maybe some turnovers.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: And they didn't have it, and so they they you know,
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: so it's really tough to evaluate everything that's happened this
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: year because of that. But I think Schottenheimer, you know,
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: what you also want is as a leader of men,
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: and I think he does that. But but they've they've
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: got to figure out, you know, this coaching staff and
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: the defensive side of the ball, like you said, stand
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: it is a mess, and and they're just not on
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: the same page. And and the players that are out there,
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: you know, just nobody's had a great year on defense,
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: so I don't know they they got a lot of
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: problems to to to fix there. And then that goes
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: back to the offense. Can you afford to to pay
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: George Pickens the kind of money to be your second
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: receiver knowing that your defense is you know, needs so
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: much help and your offensive line still needs some help too.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: All right, last caller will be Sebastian. We're we try
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: to get it in real quick.
• 47:10
  Speaker 8: Good morning, sir. I have no desire to talk about
• 47:12
  Speaker 8: this game on the touch on something else really quickly.
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: I want to thank you and Chris for showing up
• 47:17
  Speaker 8: every single week and put it in the work and
• 47:19
  Speaker 8: delivering a phenomenal show. And I think all the callers
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: are called in. This is the best year for storyline
• 47:25
  Speaker 8: so far. We grieved as the community together, I mean,
• 47:28
  Speaker 8: your friends out of this place. I talked to Irene,
• 47:31
  Speaker 8: I talked to Dylan, I talked to Sargis sou Like
• 47:33
  Speaker 8: all the time on Twitter. I am so impressed with
• 47:36
  Speaker 8: community that came from this show. So no matter what
• 47:39
  Speaker 8: happens with the season, it is whatever. Clearly I'm not
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: miss Cleo nice, but I want to say listen man,
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: Merry Christmas to everybody. Happy holidays. You have to have
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: a great weekend and we'll talk about this some other time,
• 47:50
  Speaker 8: but life goes on. You know, you know, you have
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: great day.
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: Thanks Sebastian, appreciate that. Thanks for kind of being quick.
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: You talked about this, this family you know, storyline, and
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: this is community and that's what it is. And so uh,
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: you guys will have to take a break though for
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: tomorrow because we'll be back on Wednesday. We're not doing
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: a show tomorrow. Our team will be actually in the
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: community as well. We'll be going and doing our annual
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: event at the Salvation Army, so which is a lot
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: of fun and puts a lot of things in perspective
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: of what's important and what isn't and all that. Not
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: that football is not important. This is what we do,
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: this is our job, but sometimes there's bigger things going
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: on and get a chance to kind of see that. So, uh, guys,
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: thanks for the for the great call today. Ano there's frustration,
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: there should be, and we'll see how how the Cowboys
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: can can keep fighting down the stretch. And you guys
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: as well, keep fighting down the stretch and we'll do
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: this thing together. It's been it's been a good show.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: We'll see you on Wednesday. So for Chris Beam, I'm
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: Nick Eatman. See next time on Cowboys Storyline.
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