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- 0:03Speaker 1: The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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- 0:12Speaker 3: This He's Cowboys storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:23Speaker 4: What is up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. Merry Christmas Eve, everyone.
- 0:29Speaker 4: I didn't say Merry Christmas Adam yesterday, as my man
- 0:33Speaker 4: Michael from Bolden Green pointed out, But it's Christmas Eve
- 0:38Speaker 4: and we're here with you. Look beautiful music. Thank you
- 0:42Speaker 4: Chris for throwing that out there. We can have this
- 0:44Speaker 4: on the entire show if you want to, and I'll
- 0:47Speaker 4: just talk like this the entire time. Uh, just kidding,
- 0:52Speaker 4: but yeah, we're gonna do this for next forty five minutes.
- 0:55Speaker 4: We'll see who's committed to the Cowboys storyline and who's
- 0:59Speaker 4: got stuff to say here as we get ready for Christmas.
- 1:02Speaker 4: Obviously there will not be a show tomorrow. That's our
- 1:05Speaker 4: only day of the week that we will not have shows.
- 1:07Speaker 4: We'll pick it back up Thursday and Friday. And that
- 1:10Speaker 4: that makes me think that of all the days Christmas
- 1:13Speaker 4: can be on Wednesday, I'm finding out Wednesdays seems like
- 1:17Speaker 4: the worst because I mean, usually any other day you
- 1:21Speaker 4: can kind of piggyback it with you have this day
- 1:24Speaker 4: off and then this day, but you put it right
- 1:26Speaker 4: on a Wednesday. It's just like, all right, you get
- 1:28Speaker 4: Wednesday off. Everybody else, you know, get back to work.
- 1:32Speaker 4: But it's okay though, that's all right, and we'll be
- 1:34Speaker 4: back on Thursday for sure. But we're here today. Let's
- 1:37Speaker 4: get this thing going. Eight eight A A five five
- 1:40Speaker 4: to two nine seven is the number to call. We
- 1:42Speaker 4: got Gary in New Mexico. He's been holding He starts
- 1:45Speaker 4: us off.
- 1:45Speaker 5: Gary, what's up, man, Hey, Merry Christmas?
- 1:48Speaker 6: Nick?
- 1:48Speaker 4: You too? You too? How you doing?
- 1:50Speaker 5: You're right, good man? Those midweek holidays kind of throw
- 1:54Speaker 5: everything off, don't they.
- 1:55Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, and then of course next week, same thing.
- 1:58Speaker 7: Yeah, that's true, that's true.
- 2:00Speaker 5: But hey, good for y'all for being there, grinding it out,
- 2:03Speaker 5: for showing up on Christmas Eve and take all of
- 2:05Speaker 5: our calls.
- 2:05Speaker 8: Man.
- 2:06Speaker 5: We appreciate all y'all do for us fans. Thanks so
- 2:08Speaker 5: that we have a voice, because my wife could not
- 2:11Speaker 5: care less about this stuff. So we got Philadelphia coming up.
- 2:16Speaker 5: So I was trying to find a good trivia question
- 2:17Speaker 5: for you. Kind of ties into the Eagle game, So
- 2:20Speaker 5: I think I've got one. So it's next that we're
- 2:23Speaker 5: in the next to last game of the season playing
- 2:25Speaker 5: the Eagles. So in nineteen eighty one, the Cowboys and
- 2:29Speaker 5: the Eagles played in the next to last game of
- 2:31Speaker 5: the season for the NFC Eastern Division title. It was
- 2:35Speaker 5: in that game that Tony dor said became the Cowboys
- 2:39Speaker 5: all time leading rusher. Who did he surpass to get
- 2:43Speaker 5: that title?
- 2:44Speaker 4: Oh? Man, I would think because he's in the Ring
- 2:49Speaker 4: of Honor, I would think it'd be Don Perkins.
- 2:51Speaker 7: But you got it right, got it?
- 2:55Speaker 9: Giving you?
- 2:56Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead?
- 2:57Speaker 5: I was given you too many easy questions with these
- 3:00Speaker 5: nineteen eighties games that you could just remember. So I
- 3:03Speaker 5: had to go back in time to before when I
- 3:05Speaker 5: was born, you know, back then in my dad's era,
- 3:07Speaker 5: in Don Perkinson. Yeah, you pulled it up, man? Did
- 3:10Speaker 5: good jump?
- 3:11Speaker 4: Was that at home game? The Cowboys home game?
- 3:15Speaker 10: Yeah?
- 3:15Speaker 5: It was a home game week fifteen eighty one.
- 3:17Speaker 4: What I thought you were gonna throw out there was
- 3:20Speaker 4: do you know what happened in that game? Do you
- 3:22Speaker 4: know what record was broken in that game?
- 3:25Speaker 11: In that nineteen game one eighty one.
- 3:28Speaker 4: Home game, Everson Walls broke mel Renfro's record for interceptions
- 3:34Speaker 4: in a season with eleven. It was a deep rocket
- 3:38Speaker 4: off and you know, we did that documentary. It was
- 3:40Speaker 4: one of my favorite documentary that we've done on thirty
- 3:42Speaker 4: on the Deep Blue is that is the twenty four
- 3:47Speaker 4: to seven coverage with Walls and Trayvon Diggs and when
- 3:50Speaker 4: Trayvon Diggs broke or tied Walls's record, Walls was also
- 3:55Speaker 4: there in the stadium, just like mel renfro was the
- 3:58Speaker 4: day that that that Walls picked it off, that pass
- 4:01Speaker 4: picked off Ron Jaworski there down the sideline. So it's
- 4:04Speaker 4: kind of.
- 4:06Speaker 5: I was the four fourth grade in nineteen eighty one,
- 4:09Speaker 5: so that's you know, I'm getting into being emotionally invested
- 4:11Speaker 5: into that stuff by that time. And I just I
- 4:14Speaker 5: love that eighty one team with Michael Downs and Everson
- 4:17Speaker 5: Walls and those free agency came in. That was that
- 4:19Speaker 5: was a good time. Tray Von Diggs man is a
- 4:22Speaker 5: is a is kind of a heartbreaking story. I'm starting
- 4:24Speaker 5: to kind of think he may be done for us,
- 4:27Speaker 5: but I don't know. But I've got a question for
- 4:29Speaker 5: you about the wide receiver room and then then I'll
- 4:32Speaker 5: hang up and listen. But but real quickly, just let
- 4:34Speaker 5: me continue to praise Cee Dee Lamb. Like I did
- 4:37Speaker 5: last week. You know, we talk about his tough that is,
- 4:40Speaker 5: if you've never had a shoulder injury, that's a painful
- 4:43Speaker 5: injury that he's dealing with. And every time, you know,
- 4:46Speaker 5: kind of similar to what emmittt had, you know back
- 4:48Speaker 5: in the day, every time you get hit, it drives
- 4:51Speaker 5: it into becauseious, excruciating paint. But the fact that number one,
- 4:54Speaker 5: that he's playing through it, Number two that he's putting
- 4:57Speaker 5: up the numbers that he's putting up while playing through it,
- 5:00Speaker 5: and number three, and this is what's overlooked. He's doing
- 5:03Speaker 5: that without a very good supporting cast. He's doing all
- 5:07Speaker 5: of this injured, with a backup quarterback and hardly no
- 5:10Speaker 5: running game. And it's just I just have so much
- 5:13Speaker 5: respect for him as a player now watching what he's
- 5:15Speaker 5: done this year, I think he may be one of
- 5:17Speaker 5: the guys where that big contract was worth it. He's
- 5:19Speaker 5: earning every bit of it.
- 5:20Speaker 4: Serious.
- 5:21Speaker 5: But what I want to ask you, and I'll hang
- 5:23Speaker 5: up and listen outside of C D. Lamb, how do
- 5:26Speaker 5: you grade this wide receiver room? Because I kind of
- 5:30Speaker 5: look at it as disappointing. I expected a lot more
- 5:33Speaker 5: from Jalen Tolbert, And I don't know how much of
- 5:35Speaker 5: that has to do with the players underachieving and how
- 5:38Speaker 5: much of it has to do with just the offensive
- 5:41Speaker 5: line being influx in the backup quarterback. Just what are
- 5:44Speaker 5: your thoughts on the wide receiver room outside of C. D. Lamb?
- 5:47Speaker 4: All right, thanks Gary, Merry Christmas to you, Thank you
- 5:51Speaker 4: for the call. I'm going to say Merry Christmas to
- 5:53Speaker 4: everybody every time, every time that I say thanks for
- 5:56Speaker 4: the call. Today, I'm just going to say, it's a
- 5:57Speaker 4: Merry Christmas. It's a blanket coverage forever one there, let's
- 6:00Speaker 4: give it, let's keep it rolling. That's a tough one.
- 6:03Speaker 4: Jalen Tolbert. As soon as you start thinking, well, you know,
- 6:06Speaker 4: he's he hasn't had that grade of a season, then
- 6:09Speaker 4: he'll make a couple of plays here and there. And
- 6:11Speaker 4: I don't know if that's what a number two receiver
- 6:13Speaker 4: is supposed to do. It seems like you're supposed to
- 6:15Speaker 4: do have a little bit more production, consistent production. He's
- 6:20Speaker 4: had moments. I mean, he's tied for the touchdown lead
- 6:24Speaker 4: with six with CD, so he's he's scored touchdowns to
- 6:28Speaker 4: scored the other night had a nice play the other
- 6:30Speaker 4: night to get a first down when they look like,
- 6:34Speaker 4: you know, they were going to have to punt, and
- 6:35Speaker 4: they actually went and scored a touchdown on that drive.
- 6:38Speaker 4: So he's had some moments here and there, not as
- 6:40Speaker 4: much as you would think. He's second in yards on
- 6:45Speaker 4: the team and third and catches behind Ferguson, who's been
- 6:49Speaker 4: out some too. I think you know you expected more
- 6:52Speaker 4: from him. Brandon Cooks has been out, so it's it
- 6:56Speaker 4: just there. They're just it had It's been okay, it's
- 6:59Speaker 4: been okay receiver, but obviously you know you'd like something
- 7:03Speaker 4: more there for that. You're number two guy. All right,
- 7:06Speaker 4: let's go to Irene in Falls Church, Virginia.
- 7:09Speaker 12: Good morning. Okay, I'm going to be a little playful today,
- 7:12Speaker 12: so this will see odd because if you have a
- 7:15Speaker 12: favorite movie, you shouldn't have forgotten it. But since you
- 7:18Speaker 12: have an official poll, I have to change my answer
- 7:20Speaker 12: to A Christmas Carol and the original version, although like
- 7:24Speaker 12: the Diehard debate, could you say that A Christmas Carol
- 7:27Speaker 12: is a Halloween movie with.
- 7:28Speaker 9: All the ghosts?
- 7:28Speaker 4: I don't know anyway, I saw I saw Diehard last
- 7:33Speaker 4: night again. It were like the first first ten to
- 7:35Speaker 4: fifteen minutes of it, and I'm on the fence of like,
- 7:38Speaker 4: this isn't a Christmas movie, but because Bruce Willis said so, right,
- 7:42Speaker 4: But he does have a line that he asks his driver,
- 7:45Speaker 4: do you have any Christmas music? I mean, he asked
- 7:48Speaker 4: him that. So I was like, man, like, I don't know,
- 7:52Speaker 4: I don't I don't care. If it's a good movie,
- 7:54Speaker 4: doesn't matter. Okay, go ahead, there you go.
- 7:56Speaker 13: All right.
- 7:56Speaker 12: Well, since it's almost Christmas, I was looking at past
- 8:01Speaker 12: Christmas Cowboys games. I did notice that all of them
- 8:06Speaker 12: have been lost since you started covering the team.
- 8:08Speaker 9: So that's a little sass.
- 8:09Speaker 12: But anyway, outside of the sadness of those results, do
- 8:13Speaker 12: you have any special Christmas game memories?
- 8:15Speaker 5: Atlanta?
- 8:16Speaker 12: You have Thanksgiving ones? So maybe you have some press
- 8:18Speaker 12: box I don't know, maybe Neil's difts just moments and
- 8:22Speaker 12: that's it. Christmas, Chris jout gosh, all the storyliners, thank you.
- 8:26Speaker 4: So much, you know. So I'm trying to think all
- 8:32Speaker 4: the ones. Yep. I thought there was three that I
- 8:35Speaker 4: could think of, and those are the three that are there.
- 8:39Speaker 4: Waking up on Christmas morning in two thousand, in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 8:44Speaker 4: You know, it's it's it's one thing when it's a
- 8:47Speaker 4: Christmas game, but when it's Christmas on the road at night,
- 8:50Speaker 4: like you're you're just you know, you're there the night
- 8:53Speaker 4: before it's Christmas Eve, you go to bed and you're
- 8:56Speaker 4: you know, I'm in Nashville. I'm young. I'm twenty four
- 8:59Speaker 4: years old, So you know, that was just kind of
- 9:01Speaker 4: weird because I was still, you know, kind of removed
- 9:05Speaker 4: from home and just like, wow, this is but it
- 9:07Speaker 4: was like the greatest hotel I've ever stayed at in Nashville,
- 9:10Speaker 4: and so I guess it was like the opry Lamb.
- 9:13Speaker 4: So that was like a city in itself. That was
- 9:15Speaker 4: kind of cool to be there for that, and uh
- 9:18Speaker 4: and I do remember uh. And then there was some
- 9:21Speaker 4: there were some funny things that happened in that game.
- 9:23Speaker 4: On the sideline before the game, Chris and I had
- 9:26Speaker 4: some fun with it. We played a joke on our
- 9:28Speaker 4: on our colleague there in a pregame show. We didn't.
- 9:32Speaker 4: She didn't. She thought we were started and we didn't.
- 9:34Speaker 4: And it's kind of a funny story, but not really
- 9:37Speaker 4: one for on air. And then the Arizona game in
- 9:41Speaker 4: twenty ten. I mean that was just like it was
- 9:44Speaker 4: like this season, like this where it was like, Okay,
- 9:46Speaker 4: well you're not gonna win, but you know you're not
- 9:48Speaker 4: going to go to the playoffs. But Steven McGee, you know,
- 9:50Speaker 4: I thought it was going to lead him to a victory.
- 9:53Speaker 4: And then I think David Beeler missed an extra point
- 9:56Speaker 4: and ended up losing the game. Uh. Tough, tough loss there.
- 9:59Speaker 4: But it was one of the where it's just it
- 10:01Speaker 4: was a night game. But but you know, you just
- 10:03Speaker 4: want to you're playing for pride at that point. But yeah,
- 10:06Speaker 4: I mean we haven't had too many Christmas Day games.
- 10:10Speaker 4: That's that's what you look for now. And you have
- 10:12Speaker 4: a family, You're like, all right, Christmas, are you at
- 10:14Speaker 4: home at least? And if so, if not, then you know,
- 10:17Speaker 4: hopefully it's not too bad. And that's the one thing
- 10:19Speaker 4: about a Wednesday, though, you know, I will say that
- 10:21Speaker 4: you know there's at least you're you know, you're here
- 10:24Speaker 4: for for it could be worse. It could be worse
- 10:26Speaker 4: so because you could have a Saturday, Christmas or Sunday
- 10:29Speaker 4: and that's really bad there. So all right, let's go
- 10:31Speaker 4: to Sebastian and Savannah Georgia.
- 10:34Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, and happy holidays everyone. How are
- 10:37Speaker 1: you doing, mister Emons?
- 10:38Speaker 4: Yeah, man, how are you?
- 10:39Speaker 1: I think I'm doing just fine, just fine. And I
- 10:43Speaker 1: absolutely enjoyed that game. That was a lot of fun.
- 10:45Speaker 1: And for a lot of people who are sitting here
- 10:48Speaker 1: and they wanted the boys to tank and stuff like that,
- 10:50Speaker 1: you played for the love of the game and for
- 10:52Speaker 1: the enjoyment and for your fans. So if I was
- 10:54Speaker 1: going to a game, I wouldn't want my team trying
- 10:57Speaker 1: to tank. I want you to try to take it
- 10:58Speaker 1: from the Buccaneers. Now, you put the Buccaneers in a
- 11:00Speaker 1: bad situation where like Atlanta's right behind them and can
- 11:03Speaker 1: pass them. That's who you're supposed to be. If you're
- 11:05Speaker 1: not going to make it, try to spoil it for
- 11:06Speaker 1: somebody else. And I love how the guy has played
- 11:09Speaker 1: on this past Sunday, But I want to take it
- 11:12Speaker 1: away from football for just a second because there's something
- 11:14Speaker 1: that I never did when I caught in. My favorite
- 11:16Speaker 1: Christmas movie is How the Grin Still Christmas with Jim Carrey,
- 11:19Speaker 1: because it's absolutely hilarious and my favorite wrestlers. I was
- 11:23Speaker 1: actually a bigger fan of Macho Man Randy Savage than
- 11:26Speaker 1: Hawk Hogan. But my absolute favorite wrestler is Sting And
- 11:30Speaker 1: my second favorite wrestler is a guy who's lesser known
- 11:33Speaker 1: named Scott Levi aka the Raven. He had a cool quote.
- 11:36Speaker 1: He'd be like, what about me?
- 11:37Speaker 6: What about Raven?
- 11:38Speaker 4: Quote?
- 11:39Speaker 1: The Raven nevermore? I used to love that guy, right,
- 11:42Speaker 1: but that's it, man. You guys have a great day,
- 11:44Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Happy New Years if I can't call you
- 11:45Speaker 1: before then, And to Cowboys Nation like heck Ma Harrison says,
- 11:49Speaker 1: I hope your team wins.
- 11:53Speaker 4: I got an autograph one time from a coach. It
- 11:56Speaker 4: was an old basketball coach at Texas A and m
- 12:00Speaker 4: he was was Shelby Metcalf and he signed my my
- 12:03Speaker 4: program at a basketball game and he said happy scoreboards,
- 12:06Speaker 4: which you know, it doesn't matter who you are, you
- 12:08Speaker 4: know who you're for, just you know, good luck to
- 12:10Speaker 4: you on that. So I always remember that Sting and
- 12:14Speaker 4: and Macho Man those those yeah, I mean, that's right
- 12:17Speaker 4: there in my wheelhouse. My My favorite story is when
- 12:20Speaker 4: Sting showed up with us uh to do. He did
- 12:24Speaker 4: some videos with us. He's he's like watching tape with
- 12:27Speaker 4: Brian brought us there and all make up and a
- 12:30Speaker 4: bat and everything. Just watching tape with that was pretty funny.
- 12:35Speaker 4: And then also, you know, and he called and he
- 12:37Speaker 4: he called Shannon Gross. I mean we were sharing an
- 12:41Speaker 4: office and he had he'sad listening to this voicemail. He's like, hey, Shanon,
- 12:44Speaker 4: Steve Borden Sting just calling you back or whatever. So
- 12:49Speaker 4: I was like, save that message forever. It's awesome. He's
- 12:52Speaker 4: a really cool guy. All right, Well, I got my
- 12:55Speaker 4: little poll here on the Christmas movies. It's a wonderful life.
- 12:59Speaker 4: It's got the lead right now. But Grinch is coming
- 13:02Speaker 4: in strong there with Darren Woodson, remember he said that
- 13:05Speaker 4: as well. All right, let's go to Robbie Cocoa Beach, Florida.
- 13:08Speaker 7: Hey, Nick, my son would like to say something to you,
- 13:10Speaker 7: if that's all right, sure, what's up man?
- 13:13Speaker 6: Merry Christmas, mister min and Merry Christmas, your son, Jake
- 13:18Speaker 6: the Snake and all your family.
- 13:21Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Hey, what's your name?
- 13:24Speaker 10: R J R J?
- 13:26Speaker 7: What is?
- 13:28Speaker 5: Of course?
- 13:29Speaker 4: I have no choice, buddy, you have no choice. Thank you.
- 13:33Speaker 4: Merry Christmas to you. Hope you get everything you want
- 13:36Speaker 4: for Christmas. That's awesome, all right?
- 13:41Speaker 7: Well, ay, man, God, I watched that. We watched that
- 13:44Speaker 7: Bucks game. We whooped them, man, I mean that score
- 13:47Speaker 7: was not as close as it was.
- 13:51Speaker 13: In the background.
- 13:52Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
- 13:55Speaker 7: I really, really, again really was impressed with Mick Vigel
- 13:57Speaker 7: and the whole defense and all those guys in the
- 13:59Speaker 7: second there, and Ryan Backers that aren't playing a whole lot.
- 14:02Speaker 7: Jimon Scarf looking all right, everybody looking good. Yeah. My
- 14:07Speaker 7: favorite Christmas movie is the Muppets Christmas Carol. Okay, showing
- 14:13Speaker 7: off my aid because you remember that when you were
- 14:15Speaker 7: a kid.
- 14:16Speaker 4: I'm sure too, think so, Yeah, yeah, I think so.
- 14:19Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 14:19Speaker 7: Any of the Christmas Carols I like them for some reason.
- 14:22Speaker 7: But R Jay's is the Grinch. Hey, Merry Christmas? Do
- 14:25Speaker 7: you Merry Christmas? All the storyliners out there, I could
- 14:27Speaker 7: name them all, but I'll just say, mery Christmas. God
- 14:29Speaker 7: bless you all, and and we'll talk to you in
- 14:32Speaker 7: a couple of days. Man, I'll be enjoyed Christmas.
- 14:33Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Appreciate that Robbie and his son
- 14:37Speaker 4: R Jay calling in. That's pretty awesome. I hope he
- 14:41Speaker 4: has everything that he wants for Christmas. All right, Let's
- 14:44Speaker 4: keep this thing going Brian in Kansas City's next. Brian.
- 14:46Speaker 4: What's up, Bud, Good.
- 14:49Speaker 11: Morning, mister Eatman.
- 14:50Speaker 4: Brian.
- 14:52Speaker 11: I'm doing good man, I'm doing good well. I had
- 14:56Speaker 11: the I heard. I think it was Irene that asked about,
- 15:00Speaker 11: you know, favorite Christmas memories, and mine, I think is
- 15:04Speaker 11: ninety five. I was at my grandparents' house. And you
- 15:10Speaker 11: know that's a long time ago there, long since past now,
- 15:13Speaker 11: but watching them break the record, Oh.
- 15:17Speaker 15: Yeah, yep, at Arizona ninety five, you're right, yeah, Christmas
- 15:21Speaker 15: Day ninety five, he breaks the he breaks the touchdown
- 15:24Speaker 15: record against Arizona, and that was you know, I was there,
- 15:28Speaker 15: My whole family was there, and you know.
- 15:30Speaker 11: Probably the happiest memory of Cowboys related memory that I
- 15:34Speaker 11: could think of.
- 15:35Speaker 9: Man.
- 15:36Speaker 11: And uh, well, you know, for playing against Philly, I've
- 15:41Speaker 11: got some hope, I think in this game, because you know,
- 15:44Speaker 11: I don't know if Herts is going to play. You know,
- 15:47Speaker 11: it's always a toss up with that with the concussion protocol.
- 15:51Speaker 11: But I'll tell you what, without him, they looked completely beatable.
- 15:57Speaker 11: You know, Sae Kwon Bartley. Barkley had a hundred whatever
- 16:01Speaker 11: it was a little over one hundred yards in the
- 16:03Speaker 11: first quarter and when teams were able to play them differently,
- 16:07Speaker 11: it was a totally different game. And they called their
- 16:09Speaker 11: game differently because they didn't have the push push I
- 16:14Speaker 11: automatically get the one yard no matter what on fourth
- 16:19Speaker 11: and one. Yeah, So you know, just anything anything you
- 16:24Speaker 11: have on that, Ellen, and I'll go with I'm going
- 16:27Speaker 11: with the Grench on my my Christmas movie, man, and
- 16:31Speaker 11: anything you got gone on the game coming up this week.
- 16:34Speaker 11: And you know, always always beat the Eagles. I don't
- 16:37Speaker 11: care about draft picks.
- 16:39Speaker 4: Nice, all right, I have a good one, man, all right,
- 16:41Speaker 4: you too, Thank you for calling in, Brian. You know,
- 16:45Speaker 4: I'll say this about about backup quarterbacks and and you
- 16:49Speaker 4: know when they when they come into the game, it's
- 16:52Speaker 4: not always it's not always perfect for them, you know,
- 16:55Speaker 4: because you got to remember from a practice standpoint that
- 16:57Speaker 4: just don't get the reps. It. And I don't know
- 17:01Speaker 4: who's playing this week. I really don't don't know that.
- 17:04Speaker 4: And I don't know if they're gonna let the Cowboys know, uh,
- 17:08Speaker 4: it'll it'll come out, of course. But if if he
- 17:11Speaker 4: is out, I mean I would imagine that Kenny Pickett's
- 17:14Speaker 4: going to get a lot of reps this week, and
- 17:17Speaker 4: so you know, it might look different for the game
- 17:20Speaker 4: plan and things like that with with you know, them
- 17:22Speaker 4: knowing all week long who's going to play and if not,
- 17:26Speaker 4: But you know, and he started games and he's capable
- 17:29Speaker 4: of winning, and and they'll they'll they'll figure it out,
- 17:31Speaker 4: just like the Cowboys have kind of figured it out
- 17:33Speaker 4: and took a little bit with Cooper Rush, and you know,
- 17:36Speaker 4: and you know, he's what I saw the statue, he's
- 17:39Speaker 4: nine and four as a starter. But but oh and
- 17:42Speaker 4: two against the Eagles, so he's not he's not defeated Philadelphia.
- 17:45Speaker 4: And of course with the first lost the he started
- 17:49Speaker 4: this year, first game he started, they lost to Philly.
- 17:52Speaker 4: So we'll see if he can turn that around. But yeah,
- 17:55Speaker 4: it'll be interesting to see. I don't I don't know
- 17:56Speaker 4: just yet what what's what's happening there? Uh, unless they
- 18:00Speaker 4: just come out and say he's ruled out. But I
- 18:03Speaker 4: know for the Cowboys, it feels like that concussions are
- 18:08Speaker 4: going two weeks now. It used to just be, you know,
- 18:11Speaker 4: in one game if it was a short week, but
- 18:14Speaker 4: but the two times it's happened I said this yesterday,
- 18:17Speaker 4: it's been on a Monday night game, short week, so
- 18:20Speaker 4: then I'm not you know, then obviously you're around or
- 18:23Speaker 4: or one way or another was a short week and
- 18:25Speaker 4: then so you knew that they weren't going to come
- 18:27Speaker 4: back and play. But I don't know, don't know if
- 18:29Speaker 4: HER's is going to play, obviously that changes things for them.
- 18:31Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Rick in Webster, Massachusetts.
- 18:37Speaker 6: Hey do you too?
- 18:43Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 18:44Speaker 6: I just said that something go down my throat, but
- 18:49Speaker 6: leud say it was. My favorite Christmas movie is probably
- 18:53Speaker 6: Home Alone, Christmas Vacation and Die Hard.
- 18:57Speaker 4: Okay, but.
- 19:00Speaker 6: My memories are just going to my aunt Townsend Christmas.
- 19:06Speaker 6: Every year. We just have a food room. You just
- 19:08Speaker 6: go walk in, Hey, how you doing. Okay, the food's
- 19:11Speaker 6: in the food room, okay, and you go grab your
- 19:14Speaker 6: dish and go sit down.
- 19:15Speaker 14: Much TV nice.
- 19:17Speaker 4: Yeah that's the way it's supposed to be. I mean,
- 19:20Speaker 4: I'm here, I'm here for the food, right, So yeah,
- 19:24Speaker 4: well that's cool. What do you What do you think
- 19:26Speaker 4: about this week's game?
- 19:28Speaker 6: Wellpo game. I loved it. It was just like smash
- 19:34Speaker 6: Mount football.
- 19:36Speaker 4: Yep.
- 19:37Speaker 6: They came out and just took it to Tampa Bay said, okay,
- 19:41Speaker 6: you want to win, come.
- 19:42Speaker 4: Get us that's what it was. I'm watching some of
- 19:46Speaker 4: the highlights now and it's just it was, you know,
- 19:49Speaker 4: they just took it from him. I mean they literally
- 19:51Speaker 4: just took the ball away, took the game away. That's
- 19:55Speaker 4: that's what you kind of want. I've been waiting on
- 19:57Speaker 4: drawing planing to make a play. He made a big one.
- 20:00Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, Jordan Lewis with the great game in
- 20:03Speaker 6: that interception and CD lamp perserving through so sept in
- 20:08Speaker 6: the fourth quarter where you know, I just understand he's hurt.
- 20:11Speaker 4: So yeah, for sure, but all in all good, all right,
- 20:18Speaker 4: all right, Merry Christmas? Do you all right? Let's let's
- 20:23Speaker 4: go to Ronnie in New Jersey. Ronnie, what's up man?
- 20:28Speaker 6: Nick?
- 20:29Speaker 14: Merry Christmas?
- 20:30Speaker 4: Nick you how are you.
- 20:31Speaker 14: Not too bad? And that's too bad? It's pretty pretty
- 20:34Speaker 14: good after that that that that that game, Chris, I mean, Nick,
- 20:38Speaker 14: I was gonna say something about, uh, these last couple
- 20:43Speaker 14: of games that that we've had, I've seen a little
- 20:48Speaker 14: bit of a difference and the way that they've been
- 20:52Speaker 14: calling the plays. We've been more a little bit of
- 20:55Speaker 14: a running team, and we wanted that all year, right, so,
- 21:00Speaker 14: so thanks to the offensive line clicking a little bit more,
- 21:04Speaker 14: a little bit better. You've been better at that, but
- 21:08Speaker 14: with the wings that we had and not just sounds
- 21:11Speaker 14: too much like The Grinch. Oh, by the way, a
- 21:13Speaker 14: Christmas Story. I can't believe not so many people have
- 21:15Speaker 14: been mentioning a Christmas Story because I've got to be
- 21:18Speaker 14: one of the best movies out there.
- 21:20Speaker 4: Christmas Story, Yeah, I know, every day, I mean every
- 21:24Speaker 4: year it's going to be on. I mean that one
- 21:27Speaker 4: for sure, you know, is always on.
- 21:29Speaker 14: That is such a fun movie. So that sounds too
- 21:33Speaker 14: much like The Grinch. But this coaching staff, the offense,
- 21:39Speaker 14: the way they've been calling the plays, it seems like
- 21:42Speaker 14: to be an improvement. But like we spoke about last week,
- 21:47Speaker 14: there wasn't much there before, and the way they called
- 21:51Speaker 14: the plays and the way they there was like no brendom.
- 21:54Speaker 14: There was like you know, how they set up.
- 21:56Speaker 11: A play to.
- 21:58Speaker 14: Get another play after that. Well I saw that this week,
- 22:02Speaker 14: which I was like so annoyed and happy to see
- 22:05Speaker 14: at the same time, because that uh number nine Terpin,
- 22:11Speaker 14: that surfing play where he ran and he got like
- 22:13Speaker 14: ten yards and then right I think it was right
- 22:15Speaker 14: after that they did a little play action and and
- 22:20Speaker 14: finally through the through the ball deep. It was like, wow,
- 22:24Speaker 14: like they they they're you know with the times, you know,
- 22:29Speaker 14: so at times it seems like we're there. So I'm
- 22:31Speaker 14: kind of conflicted with the way they've called the place. Yeah,
- 22:35Speaker 14: we played some bad teams, but they played better. Uh,
- 22:39Speaker 14: with how this might be with the coaching staff, what
- 22:44Speaker 14: you know, what are they going to do? Because I like,
- 22:45Speaker 14: I like, I don't know about you. I like our
- 22:48Speaker 14: head coach McCarthy. I just like if the offense, if
- 22:52Speaker 14: they had some type of better rhythm, better play calling,
- 22:57Speaker 14: you know, maybe a different offensive coordinator, that might help.
- 23:01Speaker 7: Uh.
- 23:01Speaker 14: But with that lest I hope we beat the Eagles
- 23:05Speaker 14: because that's my number one hate the team now, whether
- 23:08Speaker 14: they're good, they could be good, they could suck. I
- 23:10Speaker 14: really don't care. I hate them the most. So let's
- 23:14Speaker 14: be the Eagles and Merry Christmas and happy Holidays. Chris,
- 23:18Speaker 14: I mean Chris.
- 23:20Speaker 4: All right, that's fine, that's fine. I've been called worse
- 23:23Speaker 4: now I'm kidding. All right, Well, Ronnie, I appreciate that,
- 23:25Speaker 4: thanks for the for the call, and I agree with
- 23:28Speaker 4: with just about all that play calling wise. You know,
- 23:32Speaker 4: it's there's been there's been some questionable moments, and that's
- 23:36Speaker 4: what we do. I mean, everybody, you know, everybody questions
- 23:39Speaker 4: the plays that don't work, you know, so that that
- 23:42Speaker 4: happens a lot. Sometimes you question the plays that do work,
- 23:46Speaker 4: you know. But but you know, for the most part,
- 23:49Speaker 4: I mean that's that's kind of what what this is.
- 23:51Speaker 4: And then there's been some times where it hasn't worked.
- 23:53Speaker 4: I will say, you know, you have to factor in
- 23:58Speaker 4: of just the different play that they're having to deal
- 24:01Speaker 4: with and the injuries, and you know, it's it's been
- 24:05Speaker 4: in and out of the lineup is you know, all
- 24:07Speaker 4: these receivers and you know some of the backs were
- 24:10Speaker 4: changing earlier in the year, and the offensive line keeps
- 24:13Speaker 4: keeps rotating, so you know, you kind of have to
- 24:17Speaker 4: play the cards that have been dealt and and that's
- 24:19Speaker 4: that's one thing. So I think you have to remember
- 24:22Speaker 4: you have to factor that in when you're evaluating McCarthy
- 24:25Speaker 4: and the play calling. But I mean, we've seen some
- 24:28Speaker 4: some head scratching moments this year, but I think for
- 24:32Speaker 4: the most part, you know, it's been it's been okay.
- 24:35Speaker 4: You know, he's I think I think I I factor
- 24:38Speaker 4: that in a lot of what we've seen and the
- 24:41Speaker 4: players he's had to play with, and all the changes
- 24:44Speaker 4: he's had to make. All right, let's go to break
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- 26:49Speaker 4: Let's get rolling to first time caller. We got Josh
- 26:52Speaker 4: and Corpus Christi Texas. Josh, what is up? Man?
- 26:56Speaker 9: Hey?
- 26:57Speaker 13: How you doing?
- 26:57Speaker 2: Sir?
- 26:57Speaker 5: Happy holidays?
- 26:59Speaker 2: You too, pot call are a long time listener. Here
- 27:02Speaker 2: we go I travel about sixty to seven thousand miles
- 27:07Speaker 2: a year, so I'm always listening to the podcast.
- 27:10Speaker 4: Wow, yeah, how are we traveling? We were driving? We
- 27:13Speaker 4: flying both?
- 27:14Speaker 12: Oh, we're always driving.
- 27:15Speaker 2: I'm driving, all right, man, I.
- 27:18Speaker 11: Travel a lot for work, So put listen to the podcast.
- 27:21Speaker 4: All right, you got the miles on those cars on
- 27:24Speaker 4: the cars vehicles?
- 27:25Speaker 9: All right?
- 27:25Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Well what are you thinking? Man?
- 27:29Speaker 2: So I had a question for you, well, a couple
- 27:30Speaker 2: of questions. Who do you think what position of need
- 27:37Speaker 2: and free agencies should we do this off season? And
- 27:41Speaker 2: what's your position they think you think they're going to
- 27:43Speaker 2: take in the draft this off season? Okay, and I'll
- 27:47Speaker 2: hang up and listen.
- 27:47Speaker 4: All right, cool, all right, Josh, appreciate it, you know,
- 27:53Speaker 4: I you know, I always say, well, there's other dominoes
- 27:56Speaker 4: that have to fall first, and some of it is
- 28:01Speaker 4: is their own free agents. You know, they got like
- 28:03Speaker 4: twenty five of these guys. So let's just say OSA
- 28:07Speaker 4: for if they don't resign OSA, then I think defensive
- 28:10Speaker 4: tackle is a really big, you know, need for you
- 28:13Speaker 4: because it's not it's not great right now, and you've
- 28:17Speaker 4: you've got to you've got to upgrade there. So one
- 28:19Speaker 4: way or another. You've got to get defensive tackle or
- 28:22Speaker 4: two or three or whatever. So that's why I say that,
- 28:27Speaker 4: you know, if if he doesn't come back, I think though,
- 28:33Speaker 4: I still think this team needs some some help at
- 28:35Speaker 4: running back and and I and they have to resign
- 28:38Speaker 4: Rico Daddle if they want to, if they want to
- 28:40Speaker 4: resign him, but they don't have a running back under
- 28:43Speaker 4: under contract for next year. One that's one that's played.
- 28:47Speaker 4: So I think I think that that's a big need
- 28:50Speaker 4: is running back. And and yes, fix the offensive line.
- 28:54Speaker 4: That helps, But I still think even if Rico were
- 28:58Speaker 4: to come back, I'm I need a Tony Pollard type guy.
- 29:03Speaker 4: I need that type of you know, quick running back,
- 29:07Speaker 4: home run hitter because he could pair up with with
- 29:10Speaker 4: you know, with another back. So that's that running back
- 29:13Speaker 4: what I think it needs to be addressed for sure.
- 29:17Speaker 4: Now I don't know if that's a first round pick.
- 29:18Speaker 4: Probably isn't, but you know maybe, I mean, if if
- 29:23Speaker 4: you're depends on where you're where, you're picking there, and
- 29:25Speaker 4: you're probably going to be and looks like teens to
- 29:28Speaker 4: late teens, these last two games will will affect that them,
- 29:31Speaker 4: of course, but you know, I just think you have
- 29:34Speaker 4: so many needs that I I always look for value
- 29:38Speaker 4: and and in the first round, and I know Jerry
- 29:41Speaker 4: does too. That's why the second round pick, he's always
- 29:43Speaker 4: taking some guy that's you know, got some kind of concerns,
- 29:46Speaker 4: whether it be injury, character, both, whatever. But in the
- 29:51Speaker 4: first round, you know, if if you take a guard,
- 29:53Speaker 4: if you take a running back, if you take a
- 29:57Speaker 4: tight end. I don't think they'll do that, but I'm
- 29:59Speaker 4: just saying, those are some of the positions that you
- 30:01Speaker 4: can get some value in, uh that they typically don't draft.
- 30:04Speaker 4: That high defensive tackle, you could could throw that in
- 30:07Speaker 4: there as well. So all right, good stuff. Let's go
- 30:08Speaker 4: to Randy in California's next Randy Mary Christmas.
- 30:13Speaker 8: How are you, Nick?
- 30:14Speaker 4: I'm good man.
- 30:16Speaker 10: Oh, I feeling better. That was an amazing game. I
- 30:19Speaker 10: love the physicality that the defense showed. And I just
- 30:21Speaker 10: want to stay here and say that I think Mike
- 30:23Speaker 10: Zimmer pretty much saved McCarthy's job for this year. I mean,
- 30:27Speaker 10: the way the defense is playing and keeping them in
- 30:28Speaker 10: games even when the offense is struggling at times. Uh,
- 30:32Speaker 10: it's outstanding.
- 30:35Speaker 4: Saved his then.
- 30:36Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, Mike, yeah, yeah, Mike versa so yeah,
- 30:39Speaker 10: it's a mic effect. So I was gonna say, you know,
- 30:43Speaker 10: with a couple of I'm not going to get the
- 30:45Speaker 10: salary cap stuff. It's all. It's a lot of stuff.
- 30:47Speaker 10: But I was just in here safe. I would really
- 30:50Speaker 10: like Jordan Lewis back. I think Jordan Lewis Is is
- 30:53Speaker 10: probably one of the most important guys that have back
- 30:55Speaker 10: out of that defense I would take.
- 30:56Speaker 11: I will probably have.
- 30:57Speaker 10: Him over Osa, uh, just because, like I mean, I've
- 30:59Speaker 10: looked like nineteen the defensive tackles in this draft, and
- 31:02Speaker 10: there's there's some quality guys there and like almost you know,
- 31:05Speaker 10: in the first like four rounds, you can get someone
- 31:07Speaker 10: that can probably be similar to the same production. So
- 31:10Speaker 10: to me, Jordan Lewis is I seem I think he's
- 31:12Speaker 10: like probably like the leader of that secondary, which I
- 31:14Speaker 10: would really like to have him back.
- 31:15Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 31:17Speaker 10: Other than that, Uh, you guys have a good Christmas
- 31:19Speaker 10: and a good New Year. If I'll talk to you
- 31:21Speaker 10: and uh stay lest all right.
- 31:23Speaker 4: Thank you, Merry Christmas Eve, Randy. Yeah, Jordan Lewis is
- 31:27Speaker 4: probably number one on the list. I've heard that a
- 31:32Speaker 4: few times. I don't disagree. Number one on the list
- 31:35Speaker 4: of guys to to to re sign just because.
- 31:39Speaker 10: You can.
- 31:40Speaker 4: Probably it'll it would be affordable. But but he brings
- 31:43Speaker 4: more to the table. And and I bet he gets
- 31:47Speaker 4: that too. I mean, like, yeah, he could go and
- 31:49Speaker 4: sign with someone else and sign with Seattle. And is
- 31:54Speaker 4: he going to be viewed the same? Is he going
- 31:56Speaker 4: to have the same type of impact that he does.
- 32:01Speaker 4: It's hard to say. But he's a leader of this team,
- 32:03Speaker 4: uh or one of the leaders. He is a leader.
- 32:06Speaker 4: He's not afraid to to say, you know what what
- 32:09Speaker 4: he thinks. I'm pretty sure if it hasn't happened already,
- 32:13Speaker 4: the the well, I'll won't give that away. The media
- 32:19Speaker 4: gives out awards for for you know, the their their
- 32:24Speaker 4: guys that they cover. Good Guy Award and I think
- 32:27Speaker 4: his name was on the list of it. I'm not
- 32:29Speaker 4: sure if that they've announced that yet or he maybe
- 32:31Speaker 4: they made a change. But he's just a guy that
- 32:33Speaker 4: stands up in the locker room and he's not afraid
- 32:35Speaker 4: to say good days and bad days, say say what
- 32:38Speaker 4: he thinks. And you know, I remember his his message
- 32:41Speaker 4: after one of the losses. It might have been this
- 32:44Speaker 4: might have been the Baltimore loss or the or the
- 32:48Speaker 4: the New Orleans one. Just about the details and details.
- 32:51Speaker 4: He kept saying details, details, Just how you know that
- 32:54Speaker 4: this team, uh needs to focus and and and practice better.
- 32:58Speaker 4: And so you know, Jordan Lewis is just it's been
- 33:00Speaker 4: a great player, great leader. But that interception is one
- 33:04Speaker 4: of the one of the best interceptions I've seen in
- 33:06Speaker 4: a long long time. It's not forget he's getting hit
- 33:08Speaker 4: in the face, going running down the field, strive for stride,
- 33:11Speaker 4: gets hit in the face, then goes and looks for
- 33:13Speaker 4: the ball and then takes it away. Pretty awesome play.
- 33:15Speaker 4: All right, it's good Josh in Chicago.
- 33:17Speaker 9: Hey, Nick, Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas to you.
- 33:19Speaker 4: What's up man?
- 33:21Speaker 9: Uh?
- 33:21Speaker 18: Just Jordan Lewis Man, he looked like Udini out there.
- 33:23Speaker 9: Yeah, it was in saying.
- 33:24Speaker 18: I mean, I thought for sure there was a touchdown,
- 33:27Speaker 18: and then all of a sudden he's got the ball.
- 33:30Speaker 18: Just too Deani out there.
- 33:31Speaker 10: Yep.
- 33:32Speaker 18: So I was born in nineteen ninety. I got to
- 33:34Speaker 18: say Home Alone, that's the best Christmas movie. Okay, but
- 33:38Speaker 18: I got to argue Chris's point here, Diehard is a
- 33:40Speaker 18: Christmas movie. Why, I'll give you three main points.
- 33:44Speaker 4: Okay.
- 33:45Speaker 18: He goes to an office Christmas party. That's the whole
- 33:47Speaker 18: reason he's there. His wife and his name is Solly,
- 33:50Speaker 18: clearly a reference to Christmas. And they have Christmas songs
- 33:54Speaker 18: on the soundtrack on.
- 33:56Speaker 4: The soundtrack of Diehard.
- 33:58Speaker 18: There's three Christmas songs on the soundtrack die Hard.
- 34:01Speaker 4: All Right, I mean, I mean, you got me, all right,
- 34:04Speaker 4: I mean you thank you? Just there we go, there
- 34:07Speaker 4: we go.
- 34:08Speaker 18: I've been trying to go calling for the past week
- 34:10Speaker 18: to say that.
- 34:10Speaker 4: So all right, I mean I was on the fence here.
- 34:13Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, I I mean, Bruce Is the
- 34:16Speaker 4: one said it, you know, I mean, I mean, he's
- 34:18Speaker 4: the main actor of the whole movie.
- 34:20Speaker 18: So I was like, all right, but you know, that's
- 34:23Speaker 18: a fair point. He said it's a Bruce Willis movie,
- 34:24Speaker 18: which I guess is also true.
- 34:26Speaker 4: All right, well, that's yeah, he's got a different agenda
- 34:29Speaker 4: bus saying that. I guess, uh, that true. That's fair.
- 34:33Speaker 4: But when I heard that last night, him saying you
- 34:36Speaker 4: got any Christmas songs? I was like, all right, well,
- 34:38Speaker 4: you know, it's not helping my point here, but I
- 34:40Speaker 4: like those. I like those. Holly that m might be
- 34:42Speaker 4: a stretch, but the other two I'm going for it.
- 34:45Speaker 9: Like it.
- 34:46Speaker 18: Hey, and I just you know, I hope we beat
- 34:48Speaker 18: the Eagles this week. Play some spoiler play grinch. I
- 34:51Speaker 18: love it so Otherwise, Merry Christmas, you guys, thanks for
- 34:53Speaker 18: being here today, Thanks for doing this. I appreciate you guys.
- 34:55Speaker 5: Have a great Christmas.
- 34:56Speaker 4: All right, you too, Thank you so much. Josh and
- 35:00Speaker 4: I go, all right, let's go to break here one
- 35:02Speaker 4: more time on Cowboys storyline, and we will be right
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- 36:42Speaker 4: Alan Merkle, Texas.
- 36:44Speaker 9: Hey, what's going on? Nick?
- 36:46Speaker 4: How are you doing?
- 36:48Speaker 9: I'm doing great.
- 36:49Speaker 8: I'm doing great.
- 36:50Speaker 9: I think the Cowboys season is going up and down,
- 36:54Speaker 9: but I see the good in it. I think that's
- 36:57Speaker 9: all we can do at this point. Yeah, I don't
- 37:00Speaker 9: think there's any ganger of you know, being in the
- 37:03Speaker 9: super Bowl meantime seeing I hope I'm wrong, I really do.
- 37:07Speaker 4: Well, Yeah, I mean I don't I don't know if
- 37:12Speaker 4: it's if you in the NFL. I don't know if
- 37:14Speaker 4: you have to be close. I mean, it seems like
- 37:18Speaker 4: the way it's designed, everybody's close. You know, you kind
- 37:20Speaker 4: of just get on a roll. And I was looking
- 37:22Speaker 4: at the schedule for next year, and you know, and
- 37:25Speaker 4: the schedule's not out obviously, but in the opponents, but
- 37:27Speaker 4: the opponents look pretty much set. I can talk about
- 37:30Speaker 4: that when this calls over. But you know, you kind
- 37:35Speaker 4: of can tell who they're gonna play next year, but
- 37:39Speaker 4: it's hard to tell.
- 37:40Speaker 9: Yeah, the main thing I wanted to call in and
- 37:42Speaker 9: say is Merry Christmas to you and Chris and everybody
- 37:45Speaker 9: behind the scenes. I love the show and the only
- 37:48Speaker 9: thing I really would like is one day, give my
- 37:51Speaker 9: T shirt.
- 37:52Speaker 4: You don't have your T shirt? All right, Chris? Do
- 37:55Speaker 4: we have we have your address?
- 37:58Speaker 14: I hope.
- 37:58Speaker 9: So I've said it several times, all right.
- 38:00Speaker 4: Well we'll get it. We'll get it for you. We'll
- 38:02Speaker 4: get it for you. Watch you if I if I never.
- 38:05Speaker 9: Getting your law is going to me. So that's a
- 38:07Speaker 9: good thing. But anyway, like I said, love your show. Uh,
- 38:11Speaker 9: you're a great nick and so is Chris forgetting us
- 38:13Speaker 9: on and best show on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. Like
- 38:17Speaker 9: I said, Christmas, Happy.
- 38:19Speaker 4: New Year, Thank you out. Stay on the line, Stay
- 38:21Speaker 4: on the line, don't hang out. Let's let Chris get
- 38:23Speaker 4: all the information. We'll get this out to you. Okay,
- 38:25Speaker 4: make sure we have it right now. All right, all right,
- 38:27Speaker 4: thank you so much. All right, Oh man, we got
- 38:33Speaker 4: those Cowboys storyline shirts. We gotta, we gotta. We're gonna
- 38:36Speaker 4: have some new ones this year. So for the all
- 38:39Speaker 4: storyline team. Trying to think when I want to announce
- 38:42Speaker 4: that after the season let it roll. I guess when
- 38:45Speaker 4: when we stopped going to to uh a daily, which
- 38:49Speaker 4: that'll be sooner than later. Then I'll start taleling everything
- 38:53Speaker 4: up and look and see who's who's made the team
- 38:57Speaker 4: and uh and then what I'm gonna do exactly this year.
- 39:00Speaker 4: But man, I gotta gotta get all the shirts out
- 39:02Speaker 4: to the last year's winners before we start talking about
- 39:05Speaker 4: the next one, for sure. So all right, you know,
- 39:10Speaker 4: I know a lot of people were talking about the
- 39:13Speaker 4: Eagles and and you know, just beating them and and
- 39:16Speaker 4: doesn't matter what and and you know that's that's good
- 39:21Speaker 4: because that's how they feel too. You know they feel
- 39:24Speaker 4: the same way about about the Cowboys. Uh and and
- 39:27Speaker 4: it's you know that there's been times when when that's
- 39:30Speaker 4: happened to you know, where the Cowboys or the team
- 39:33Speaker 4: playing for something. But you know, now, if Philly makes
- 39:36Speaker 4: that catch, if Vante Smith makes that catch over the middle,
- 39:40Speaker 4: they win the game, and you know, they win the division.
- 39:44Speaker 4: Now they'd still be playing for first for the number
- 39:48Speaker 4: one seed in the in the NFC, which is which
- 39:51Speaker 4: is big because you're only you know, only one team
- 39:53Speaker 4: gets the buy. But so they'll be they'll be playing
- 39:56Speaker 4: for something. And and and you know, I think I
- 39:59Speaker 4: think Washington, Washington plays the Giants, so they you know,
- 40:04Speaker 4: Philly's got to win. I mean, they're gonna be bringing
- 40:06Speaker 4: it with everything that they that they have. Here we
- 40:09Speaker 4: still got about ten minutes ago. Phone lines are open
- 40:11Speaker 4: eight eight eight eight five five two two ninety seven.
- 40:13Speaker 4: If you want to call and be the last caller
- 40:15Speaker 4: here before Chris, I got something for you. I got
- 40:18Speaker 4: someone for you real quick. So I haven't typed it
- 40:20Speaker 4: in yet. So Chris and San Angelo? All right, Chris
- 40:23Speaker 4: and San Angelo.
- 40:24Speaker 8: What's up man, mister Nick? How you doing, sir good?
- 40:27Speaker 4: How are you doing?
- 40:28Speaker 8: I'm doing wonderful. And uh I did here yesterday and
- 40:31Speaker 8: I tried to get into there was another caller from
- 40:34Speaker 8: San Angelo and I actually don't even know who he is.
- 40:38Speaker 9: So there you go, Oh, really bigger.
- 40:39Speaker 8: It's a bigger town than you think.
- 40:41Speaker 9: I guess.
- 40:42Speaker 8: But what I was gonna do is I'm gonna point
- 40:45Speaker 8: out the Uh there's one thing. I don't think his
- 40:48Speaker 8: name was mentioned in that last game, but Donovan Wilson
- 40:53Speaker 8: seemed to bring it.
- 40:54Speaker 4: Oh man, I'm lying around.
- 40:56Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm I'm lining up at widers. Ever now after
- 41:00Speaker 8: watching that against I'm wanting to know where number six
- 41:04Speaker 8: is now. Yeah, so we've been missing that for a while.
- 41:07Speaker 8: That was good to see again. And Christmas movie, let's
- 41:11Speaker 8: go with Christmas Vacation. Okay, with a little bit of
- 41:15Speaker 8: shout out. You do need to watch It's a Wonderful
- 41:18Speaker 8: Life if you if you still haven't seen it, you
- 41:21Speaker 8: have to see it one time you're loft. It is
- 41:23Speaker 8: a really good movie.
- 41:24Speaker 4: All right, probably okay, buddy, I should all right, thank.
- 41:27Speaker 8: You all the storyline up, my friends and the storyliner
- 41:33Speaker 8: they know who they know who they are.
- 41:35Speaker 4: Yeah for sure, take care buddy, all right. Thanks, And
- 41:38Speaker 4: I love that. It's one of my favorite things that's
- 41:41Speaker 4: happened on this show is just what the show has
- 41:46Speaker 4: done and kind of brought people together. And you know,
- 41:49Speaker 4: they you guys do the the Twitter spaces in the community,
- 41:56Speaker 4: the storyliners there, you guys are going to be able
- 41:58Speaker 4: to you know, you guys have met people you you
- 42:00Speaker 4: never knew across across the world really, and that's that's
- 42:03Speaker 4: really awesome that this show has been able to do
- 42:05Speaker 4: that bring everybody together. I love it because it just
- 42:10Speaker 4: reconnects me with the fan base and and you know,
- 42:12Speaker 4: I've got a chance to to kind of you know,
- 42:15Speaker 4: get that perspective again.
- 42:17Speaker 15: Uh.
- 42:17Speaker 4: Sometimes it gets lost when you're inside the building and
- 42:20Speaker 4: you're in the media and all that stuff. But when
- 42:21Speaker 4: you you know, the interactions that I get with the fans,
- 42:24Speaker 4: it's really pretty awesome, Uh, to be able to do that.
- 42:27Speaker 4: So tieling up some of the Christmas movies here, It's
- 42:32Speaker 4: a Wonderful Life and the Grinch got the lead, but
- 42:37Speaker 4: Christmas Vacation and Elf and die Hard all all making
- 42:41Speaker 4: strong push their Home Alone as well. For me, I've
- 42:45Speaker 4: had four Christmas because I love Vince Vaughan. Anything Vince
- 42:48Speaker 4: Vaughan does, it's hilarious. But you know, Elf and Home Alone,
- 42:54Speaker 4: I'm I'm I'm fine with those. Never was a big
- 42:57Speaker 4: fan of Christmas Story. I don't really know why. Just
- 43:01Speaker 4: didn't really like that. You know, She'll shoot your eye out,
- 43:03Speaker 4: you know. I don't know. I just don't like that
- 43:05Speaker 4: movie that much. But but Chris, Home Alone and and Elf,
- 43:10Speaker 4: those will probably be on I'm sure at the house.
- 43:13Speaker 4: All right, Le's go to Leicester and Minnesota. Lester, what's up?
- 43:17Speaker 13: Hey, Nick? Good morning to you.
- 43:19Speaker 4: How are you doing?
- 43:21Speaker 13: Cowboy Nations? Merry Christmas everybody?
- 43:26Speaker 4: What do you want for Christmas?
- 43:27Speaker 8: Man?
- 43:28Speaker 4: What do you want?
- 43:29Speaker 13: What I want for Christmas? Yeah, well it would have
- 43:32Speaker 13: to be next Christmas. I want a Cowboys Super Bowl appearance.
- 43:37Speaker 4: Okay, Well I figured you would be asking for an
- 43:41Speaker 4: offense and defensive line played well at the same time.
- 43:46Speaker 13: Well, yeah, that's that's that's what I want for next
- 43:50Speaker 13: next season. So next season, let me get that offensive
- 43:53Speaker 13: and defensive line at the same time, and then we
- 43:57Speaker 13: can get that Super Bowl right on then there, because again,
- 44:02Speaker 13: if you can't protect your quarterback, he's gonna be on
- 44:05Speaker 13: his back. And if you can't stop to run, they're
- 44:07Speaker 13: gonna run all over you. On defense. Yep, I want
- 44:10Speaker 13: those two things, my friend. My favorite Christmas movie and
- 44:13Speaker 13: I've said it before, it's a wonderful life. All right,
- 44:18Speaker 13: and go Cowboys.
- 44:20Speaker 4: Thanks all.
- 44:21Speaker 13: I gott merry Christmas at all.
- 44:23Speaker 4: All right, Thanks Lester. I appreciate that I wanted to
- 44:27Speaker 4: go back on the last caller. Chris and San Angelo
- 44:30Speaker 4: asked about or talked about Donovan Wilson, and you know,
- 44:35Speaker 4: I think what should be said is he's done a
- 44:39Speaker 4: really nice job of playing just as aggressive as you
- 44:44Speaker 4: can be. It is a hard position in the NFL
- 44:47Speaker 4: to play safety because every single time you hit someone
- 44:52Speaker 4: over the middle, we're all expecting a flag.
- 44:55Speaker 7: You know.
- 44:55Speaker 4: It's just something that that the BAFs do. It's like
- 44:58Speaker 4: you just can't hit hard. And so to be able
- 45:01Speaker 4: to to play aggressive, fly around and hit the way
- 45:05Speaker 4: he did and do it all legally, that's that was
- 45:10Speaker 4: That's a huge thing for him and and he's he's
- 45:13Speaker 4: had to grow into that and play you know, he
- 45:16Speaker 4: plays kind of reckless at times, and that's what I
- 45:19Speaker 4: was hoping Sam Williams would be able to do this year,
- 45:22Speaker 4: is kind of take it to that next level because
- 45:23Speaker 4: we see those guys, we see Donald Wilson, Randy Gregory
- 45:26Speaker 4: was that way Sam Williams, where you know, they get
- 45:29Speaker 4: a lot of penalties because they just play so aggressive.
- 45:31Speaker 4: But you got to figure out a way to kind
- 45:33Speaker 4: of bottle that up. Play is as aggressive as you
- 45:36Speaker 4: can play and kind of be that enforcer without getting penalties.
- 45:40Speaker 4: And I thought that was the key part to him
- 45:42Speaker 4: the other night is setting the tone and making big hits.
- 45:46Speaker 4: Sometimes he jarted the ball loose, sometimes he didn't. But
- 45:49Speaker 4: either way, even if the guy catches it for a
- 45:50Speaker 4: first down, he doesn't forget the hit that he just took.
- 45:54Speaker 4: So either thought, that's the thing that I see out
- 45:58Speaker 4: of Dondvan Wilson that that's impressed to me is that
- 46:00Speaker 4: he's learned how to play with that same aggressive nature
- 46:04Speaker 4: but do it in a way where you know he's
- 46:07Speaker 4: not getting penalties. All right, Let's go to our next caller,
- 46:10Speaker 4: Eric in North Carolina.
- 46:12Speaker 20: Hey, Nick, I just wanted to call and say how
- 46:17Speaker 20: pleased I've been with with the way the Cowboys have
- 46:21Speaker 20: been playing, because I was complaining earlier in the year
- 46:24Speaker 20: about them not play with any passion, and they sure
- 46:27Speaker 20: have been playing with passion and grit the last few games.
- 46:31Speaker 20: And I have to say they surprised me. And they
- 46:36Speaker 20: must really truly listen to McCarthy and the coaching staff
- 46:41Speaker 20: after all, because they seem to want to play well
- 46:43Speaker 20: for him, and you know, and of course you know
- 46:46Speaker 20: they want to don't want to put bad tape out,
- 46:48Speaker 20: but like he didn't move the team like I was
- 46:50Speaker 20: afraid he was going to do it. So I'm really encouraged.
- 46:55Speaker 20: And uh you you'all were just talking about Donvin Wilson
- 46:59Speaker 20: and how well he's been playing, and he has especially
- 47:03Speaker 20: compared to early in the season, and I wanted to
- 47:05Speaker 20: say the same thing about Terrence Steele. He's been playing
- 47:09Speaker 20: well the last few games as far as I can tell,
- 47:12Speaker 20: and early in the season he was just getting beat
- 47:15Speaker 20: around the edge. I wonder if he and Wilson we're
- 47:18Speaker 20: maybe injured, you know, and we weren't aware of it.
- 47:23Speaker 20: And the last thing I'll say is, and I'll let
- 47:26Speaker 20: you talk about all these anything you like, of course,
- 47:29Speaker 20: but since it's you know, Christmas time, the season of giving.
- 47:34Speaker 20: I wanted to say that if the draft was tomorrow,
- 47:38Speaker 20: with my top three picks, I would take corner, defensive tackle,
- 47:43Speaker 20: three technique, and running back. And hope you and Chris
- 47:48Speaker 20: and everybody have a terrific and great Mary Christmas, and
- 47:52Speaker 20: we'll see y'all later.
- 47:53Speaker 4: Thank you appreciate that. You know, I don't hate any
- 47:56Speaker 4: of those. I think though, you know, it would probably
- 48:01Speaker 4: be a smart move. I'm I'm probably fine with the
- 48:06Speaker 4: guard in the first round. I would be absolutely fine
- 48:11Speaker 4: with whatever that is. What if you're picking in the teams,
- 48:13Speaker 4: it's not going to be the sexiest pick, but neither
- 48:16Speaker 4: was Zach Martin. But but until it was, you know,
- 48:20Speaker 4: so you know, if you get a guy like that,
- 48:23Speaker 4: some some really really surefire blocker that's going to come
- 48:26Speaker 4: in here and be a staple for ten years, I'd
- 48:30Speaker 4: be absolutely okay with that because I do think that
- 48:33Speaker 4: helps your running game, that will help Dak, that'll help everybody,
- 48:38Speaker 4: and so I would be fine with that. If if
- 48:42Speaker 4: but I'm fine if that. If it's a defensive tackle,
- 48:44Speaker 4: it's fine. If it's a corner, you know you need
- 48:47Speaker 4: that too, for sure. Got decisions to make Deron Blands
- 48:51Speaker 4: contracts coming up, and you know, we got to see
- 48:54Speaker 4: what they're gonna do with Diggs. I know he's coming
- 48:56Speaker 4: off injury, so that's gonna be that's you know, it's
- 48:58Speaker 4: just all gonna be a challenge, all right. Uh, that
- 49:01Speaker 4: is it for the calls. Fourteen calls today. Outstanding guys
- 49:06Speaker 4: did a great job of getting in, getting out, saying
- 49:09Speaker 4: Mary Christmas, doing all that that stuff, talking about movies,
- 49:12Speaker 4: talking about the game, talking about draft, talking about everything.
- 49:15Speaker 4: I loved it. Loved this show today and I and
- 49:18Speaker 4: all year long it's been it's been outstanding. I can't
- 49:22Speaker 4: I can't tell you enough just just how how fun
- 49:25Speaker 4: this this show is for me, Uh to be able
- 49:28Speaker 4: to do this, I said it a few minutes ago,
- 49:30Speaker 4: but but it really is. It's it's my favorite part
- 49:32Speaker 4: of the day and and I love doing that. So
- 49:35Speaker 4: and you guys are just so knowledgeable. I mean that
- 49:39Speaker 4: that that's one thing, and I guess I knew that,
- 49:41Speaker 4: but just just uh, just being challenged, whether it be
- 49:44Speaker 4: trivia questions or just just just in points in general. Uh,
- 49:48Speaker 4: you guys are so knowledgeable. It's fun to be able
- 49:50Speaker 4: to share this hour with you uh, every day, and
- 49:53Speaker 4: so I'm gonna miss that part when the season's over here.
- 49:55Speaker 4: But we still got a couple more weeks to do that,
- 49:57Speaker 4: and so we won't have a show tomorrow obviously. Merry
- 50:00Speaker 4: Christmas to everyone out there, and hope everyone stays safe
- 50:03Speaker 4: with the weather and all that music means it's time
- 50:06Speaker 4: to wrap this thing up, but we got to keep
- 50:09Speaker 4: it going. Cowboys Break, we'll be here just in a
- 50:12Speaker 4: few minutes and we'll have shows going here all day long.
- 50:15Speaker 4: So for Chrispy, I'm Nick Eatman. Merry Christmas to everyone.
- 50:19Speaker 4: We will see you on Thursday on Cowboys Storyline.
- 50:26Speaker 15: This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and
- 50:29Speaker 15: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.