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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:05Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
- 0:08Speaker 1: Cowboys.
- 0:11Speaker 2: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:20Speaker 3: Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It's Monday, September the sixteenth. I'm
- 0:25Speaker 3: Nick Eatman, and wow, we got some things to talk about.
- 0:30Speaker 3: That happened. That did happen like that? Saints forty four,
- 0:34Speaker 3: Cowboys nineteen. Who expected that one? I know, I write
- 0:39Speaker 3: down the predictions when you guys throw them out there,
- 0:42Speaker 3: and I didn't see anything remotely close to that, one
- 0:46Speaker 3: way or another. Even blowouts for the Cowboys, certainly not
- 0:49Speaker 3: a blowout for the Saints. But that's what happened, and
- 0:52Speaker 3: we're gonna talk about it here. Eight eight eight eight
- 0:54Speaker 3: five five two two nine seven is the number to call.
- 0:58Speaker 3: I'm sure we have a lot of opinion about this,
- 1:01Speaker 3: and the personnel and the coaches and the players and
- 1:05Speaker 3: the schemes and all this stuff of what went wrong,
- 1:08Speaker 3: and the easier, I mean, it'd be easier to just
- 1:10Speaker 3: find what went right. And I guess it's Brandon Aubrey. Okay,
- 1:14Speaker 3: that's it. Now we will move to the other sides.
- 1:16Speaker 3: And it was just bad all the way around. The
- 1:19Speaker 3: defense could not stop anyone. You guys saw it. Six
- 1:21Speaker 3: touchdowns in a row by the Saints. They probably put
- 1:25Speaker 3: their foot off the gas in the second half. The
- 1:27Speaker 3: Cowboys were moving the ball, they just couldn't score touchdowns
- 1:31Speaker 3: and match them. And you know, touchdowns and field goals.
- 1:34Speaker 3: You know, even didn't take a math major to know
- 1:37Speaker 3: that that's not gonna add up. So that's what happened.
- 1:41Speaker 3: And you find yourself with a twenty five point blowout
- 1:43Speaker 3: at home, something that just hasn't happened around here in
- 1:46Speaker 3: a long long time. I just looked it up. It
- 1:48Speaker 3: was twenty twenty. Last time the Cowboys lost this bad
- 1:51Speaker 3: at home, it was to Arizona Kyler Murray in the game.
- 1:55Speaker 3: That was kind of like that that they just couldn't
- 1:57Speaker 3: stop them at all. So all right, let's uh, well,
- 2:00Speaker 3: we'll hear from you guys. The phone lines are already, uh,
- 2:05Speaker 3: the callers already calling in, so let's get after it here.
- 2:07Speaker 3: Alan Merkele, Texas is first, al what's up.
- 2:10Speaker 4: Hey man, what's going on?
- 2:12Speaker 1: Are you?
- 2:13Speaker 5: Hey?
- 2:14Speaker 4: Well, I'm good. The sunshine, you know, the sun rose
- 2:16Speaker 4: here in Merkele.
- 2:17Speaker 6: So it's good.
- 2:18Speaker 4: Uh, I have a quick analogy right quick, and then
- 2:21Speaker 4: I'm gonna ask you a question and I'm gonna get
- 2:23Speaker 4: off because I'm sure there's plenty of people that want event.
- 2:25Speaker 4: But I had an old fiddle player tell me one time,
- 2:30Speaker 4: you know, I'm a musician, and goes you know, once
- 2:32Speaker 4: you step on stage, you become an s O V.
- 2:36Speaker 4: And it's one of those that man that s O
- 2:38Speaker 4: we can surely play that instrument, or man that s
- 2:41Speaker 4: OV cannot play at all. And I think it's similar
- 2:45Speaker 4: to the last week we were going to the super
- 2:48Speaker 4: Bowl and this week we're not going anywhere. Yes, So, uh,
- 2:52Speaker 4: the question I had for you when I wasn't worried
- 2:54Speaker 4: about this game until I heard somebody's analogy and I
- 2:57Speaker 4: can't remember who did it, but they said that it
- 3:01Speaker 4: was a form of what the forty nine ers offense,
- 3:05Speaker 4: what they run or something like that. And once I
- 3:08Speaker 4: heard that, that's when I didn't become worried because it's
- 3:10Speaker 4: the second game of the season. But once I did
- 3:13Speaker 4: hear that, I was like, oh, oh, we may be
- 3:16Speaker 4: having problems. And like you said, man, we ran, we
- 3:19Speaker 4: were like a siff leading water through. I just want
- 3:23Speaker 4: to get through your opinion because I don't think I
- 3:25Speaker 4: was far enough to figure it out. But what is
- 3:27Speaker 4: it about this offense that gives us so much problem?
- 3:30Speaker 4: No matter who the coordinator is, no matter who the
- 3:32Speaker 4: players are. And I'll hang up and listen for your reply.
- 3:37Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Nick.
- 3:39Speaker 3: You know, I think that I appreciate the call. I mean,
- 3:43Speaker 3: what's given this this team problems? If you have some speedbacks,
- 3:49Speaker 3: quick backs that can get to the edge. I mean
- 3:51Speaker 3: that's and it's not necessarily like fast you know, fast
- 3:57Speaker 3: backs that are that run in the four to two range.
- 3:59Speaker 1: It's just you got to be quick off the edge.
- 4:01Speaker 3: But when you look at the backs that have kind
- 4:03Speaker 3: of hurt this team, even Aaron Jones is he's kind
- 4:06Speaker 3: of a quick scat back type, uh cook from uh
- 4:10Speaker 3: from Buffalo, Connor is you know, he's a big, big
- 4:14Speaker 3: guy in Arizona. But but he's also he can move.
- 4:16Speaker 3: I mean he was, he was moving pretty good that day.
- 4:19Speaker 3: And then of course Kamara is a he's kind of
- 4:20Speaker 3: a different beast. But but I think it's McCaffrey throw
- 4:24Speaker 3: throw that guy in there. So those those type of
- 4:27Speaker 3: backs have been the ones with this scheme, uh, you know,
- 4:30Speaker 3: with the play action, the deep ballu threat and then
- 4:33Speaker 3: and then once you get that working, I mean I
- 4:36Speaker 3: thought I thought the Saints did it perfectly for how
- 4:38Speaker 3: they how they scheme the game. They they said, we're
- 4:41Speaker 3: gonna throw crossing routes over the middle, and we're gonna
- 4:43Speaker 3: move the ball that way, and we're gonna kind of
- 4:45Speaker 3: soften them up. We're gonna hit hit Kamara every now
- 4:48Speaker 3: and to get on the edges. And then on the
- 4:49Speaker 3: second drive, we're gonna hit him deep over the top.
- 4:51Speaker 3: And then from there they could basically do what they
- 4:53Speaker 3: wanted to do. So it's a I say this all
- 4:57Speaker 3: the time, but it's about having an off fence that
- 5:00Speaker 3: can just win in multiple ways. And Derek Carr was
- 5:04Speaker 3: throwing it deep, throwing it short, throwing it over the middle,
- 5:07Speaker 3: running Kamara on the inside, running Kamorrow on the outside,
- 5:10Speaker 3: mixing up different backs, having reversus.
- 5:12Speaker 6: Uh.
- 5:13Speaker 3: They they did a really nice job. They were physical,
- 5:15Speaker 3: They were very physical at the line of scrimmage, and
- 5:17Speaker 3: they were smart with how they how they schemed against
- 5:21Speaker 3: Micah Parsons. They really didn't make him a factor in
- 5:24Speaker 3: the game. So you take away the best player and
- 5:27Speaker 3: and you you know, you you run at the edges,
- 5:30Speaker 3: make the cornerbacks tackle.
- 5:31Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what they did. They made them be.
- 5:34Speaker 3: Physical, and the Cowboys weren't as physical in that game.
- 5:37Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Anthony and Miami.
- 5:40Speaker 7: Nat the quick. My god, what's up? How are you
- 5:44Speaker 7: trying to get the early one in? Got the old
- 5:46Speaker 7: lady in the store, So I said, many, let me
- 5:47Speaker 7: sit down in the car because it's trying to call
- 5:49Speaker 7: my guy. You know, we're going a little you know,
- 5:51Speaker 7: you know, we cleared the phone stuff, so you know
- 5:53Speaker 7: we're doing a little bit better. Yeah, things in the house. Yeah,
- 5:57Speaker 7: so check us out. One for you and Chris, one
- 6:00Speaker 7: for the fans. And then my point, you said, I'm
- 6:02Speaker 7: gonna segue into the Michael Parsons. Think that's my point. Okay,
- 6:05Speaker 7: for you and Chris. I love y'all, y'all, my guys
- 6:08Speaker 7: one hundred grand, but you know what, I'm never calling
- 6:10Speaker 7: y'all three times in one show. So to that guy, man,
- 6:13Speaker 7: kudos to you if you're trying to make the team
- 6:15Speaker 7: and all you love him, Nick dam like that. But
- 6:16Speaker 7: I love them, but I ain't call them three times
- 6:18Speaker 7: in one show. Number two to the fans, y'all, know,
- 6:21Speaker 7: these TV pungers and all these people, a lot of
- 6:23Speaker 7: them hate the Cowboys. They love to play games. Even
- 6:25Speaker 7: if the Cowboys win, they're gonna take to minish to win.
- 6:28Speaker 7: Don't listen to them, don't get a headache, don't don't
- 6:31Speaker 7: go to the tower and all run and all that
- 6:32Speaker 7: letting these people give y'all a headache because they're gonna
- 6:35Speaker 7: do it now. It was shame for what the Cowboys
- 6:37Speaker 7: put out there yesterday. So I feel for mister Jones.
- 6:40Speaker 7: I feel for the Cowboys players family and the fans,
- 6:44Speaker 7: not the players because they had to endure that and
- 6:46Speaker 7: a lot of it was scheme and a lot of
- 6:48Speaker 7: it was them. My last point and the one Michael
- 6:51Speaker 7: Parsons is becoming my second favorite president player now you know,
- 6:54Speaker 7: Dak Prescott is my favorite now with Michael. Yeah, he
- 6:58Speaker 7: said he took accountability and he didn't play well. He
- 7:02Speaker 7: didn't play well in the Green Bay game. But when
- 7:05Speaker 7: Michael Parsons's wrecking shop your best player, three time All
- 7:08Speaker 7: Pro in three years, well he's wrecking shopped. Everybody on
- 7:12Speaker 7: the D line eats as he did last week, so
- 7:14Speaker 7: nobody can to not add to the ones who wanted
- 7:16Speaker 7: him traded and hate him or whatever, dis liked you.
- 7:19Speaker 7: But when he's not doing it, can somebody help him?
- 7:22Speaker 7: Can they scheme up ways to get your best player
- 7:26Speaker 7: to get some action and help the team win. That's
- 7:29Speaker 7: all I want to say. Man, Cowboys for life, no
- 7:31Speaker 7: matter when lose a drawpfully we get this thing right,
- 7:33Speaker 7: Love you Nicknam.
- 7:34Speaker 3: All right, man, appreciate thank you for the call. Anthony,
- 7:36Speaker 3: good stuff. You're you're right about that. I mean, Michael's
- 7:40Speaker 3: not not playing. You know, he's not wrecking shop in
- 7:43Speaker 3: the game because he's just getting blocked one on one
- 7:47Speaker 3: and you know he can't. It's just not his day.
- 7:51Speaker 3: It's not the case. And if you go watch the game,
- 7:53Speaker 3: they do a really good job of scheming away from
- 7:56Speaker 3: him and then doing the backside, you know, help with
- 8:00Speaker 3: with the with whether it be a running back or
- 8:02Speaker 3: a tied end or even another lineman. So he was
- 8:04Speaker 3: getting doubled pretty much most of the game, not only doubled,
- 8:07Speaker 3: but then also you know, moved away from him. So
- 8:11Speaker 3: all that being said, with these awesome linebackers that that
- 8:15Speaker 3: we you know, we we were talking about all all week.
- 8:18Speaker 3: And then Tank on the other side and the defensive
- 8:22Speaker 3: tackles in the middle. You'd like to think somebody could
- 8:26Speaker 3: could help with that. And and again I'm not nobody's
- 8:29Speaker 3: getting a pass here unless you're Brandon Aubrey, because he
- 8:31Speaker 3: did everything you were supposed to do. But other than that,
- 8:34Speaker 3: I mean no, I mean, I'm not I'm not saying
- 8:36Speaker 3: Micah played well. I'm just saying I think we know
- 8:41Speaker 3: what happened. You can take him away, but you can't.
- 8:44Speaker 3: You shouldn't be able to take a guy away and
- 8:46Speaker 3: then not give up something else. You know, think about
- 8:49Speaker 3: in any sport basketball, you double team someone, somebody's open,
- 8:53Speaker 3: and so you would think somebody from front of the
- 8:55Speaker 3: Cowboys would be able to make more plays like that.
- 8:58Speaker 3: But I mean they the Saints. Everything the Cowboys tried,
- 9:02Speaker 3: the scenes just had a better answer. And give them credit.
- 9:05Speaker 1: You have to.
- 9:05Speaker 3: You have to give them credit. The team barely practiced
- 9:08Speaker 3: last week. They had to move early, had to leave
- 9:12Speaker 3: move around because of the hurricane there, and they got
- 9:16Speaker 3: here I think earlier than they were supposed to. Either way,
- 9:18Speaker 3: it was kind of a dysfunctional week. You would have
- 9:21Speaker 3: never known because they were so good and everything they
- 9:25Speaker 3: were just I wouldn't even say a step ahead. They
- 9:27Speaker 3: were like three steps ahead. And that's what happens. That's
- 9:30Speaker 3: how why you win by twenty five on the road.
- 9:32Speaker 3: All right, Bruce and Houston.
- 9:34Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, Nick Bruce. Thanks for taking my call.
- 9:37Speaker 8: One game don't make a season. We all know that,
- 9:39Speaker 8: but that was that was disgusting. Obviously, I'm from Houston
- 9:45Speaker 8: and I watched the Texans last night, and I know
- 9:48Speaker 8: this didn't affect the game, but my god, there was
- 9:51Speaker 8: more Saints fans in the stadium. You could hear them
- 9:55Speaker 8: throughout the game, not just in the fourth quarter or
- 9:57Speaker 8: after third quarter or when it was over. But stop
- 10:00Speaker 8: selling the stupid tickets and be a team and support
- 10:04Speaker 8: your team and and out yell the other team. There
- 10:06Speaker 8: might be a few uh yeah people that are rooting
- 10:11Speaker 8: for the other team, the Bears, but they drownded them out.
- 10:15Speaker 8: And that's just one little thing, but it to me,
- 10:20Speaker 8: you know, if McCarthy gets let gone, I think they
- 10:25Speaker 8: should go after a West Coast offense type coach. I mean,
- 10:31Speaker 8: because that that offense seems to just work so good.
- 10:34Speaker 8: Dack through a lot of good throws. It wasn't all
- 10:37Speaker 8: on him, but some of them left. His wide receivers
- 10:39Speaker 8: out to dry and and he's got to put some
- 10:41Speaker 8: zip on the ball. And we need that more from uh,
- 10:45Speaker 8: you know, the six and million dollar man. I realized
- 10:47Speaker 8: he didn't play defense. But and I'm afraid that I
- 10:51Speaker 8: think they're gonna need to trade Micah Parsons because he's
- 10:55Speaker 8: the A linebackers the defensive end, you know me. They
- 10:58Speaker 8: got to the edge so easy, Nick, and he's got
- 11:01Speaker 8: to contain that, and I didn't see that from him.
- 11:03Speaker 9: He's trying to.
- 11:04Speaker 8: Get the status of the sack. But do your position.
- 11:08Speaker 8: But I'll hang up a list hill.
- 11:10Speaker 1: All right, thanks, Bruce.
- 11:13Speaker 3: That right there is the epitome of a call for
- 11:17Speaker 3: this type of day, you know, and Bruce is he's
- 11:20Speaker 3: called several times. I think he was on All Storyline
- 11:22Speaker 3: team last year all that, and you can just hear
- 11:24Speaker 3: the frustration there.
- 11:26Speaker 10: You know.
- 11:26Speaker 3: He's I mean because you because it's like as a fan,
- 11:30Speaker 3: you you want to say the things like you do,
- 11:33Speaker 3: say the things you're supposed to say, Like first thing
- 11:36Speaker 3: out of your mouth, Bruce. One game doesn't make a season,
- 11:40Speaker 3: but like forty five seconds later we're talking about it.
- 11:42Speaker 3: If McCarthy gets fired in another coach that comes in
- 11:45Speaker 3: or trading Michael Parsons. Like that's I get it, Like
- 11:48Speaker 3: I under I understand. What what's the thought process of
- 11:52Speaker 3: Like just how you you want to say, all right,
- 11:55Speaker 3: it's early, it's early in the season, but you're already
- 11:58Speaker 3: kind of thinking, what if it's not good, what if
- 12:00Speaker 3: this thing doesn't work?
- 12:01Speaker 1: We got trade Micah, we got to get a new
- 12:03Speaker 1: West Coast offense. I get.
- 12:06Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not hating on the call at all.
- 12:08Speaker 3: I understand that. Like I'm like I'm saying, I kind
- 12:10Speaker 3: of go through that with my own team a little bit.
- 12:12Speaker 3: You want to you want to be irrational in a
- 12:15Speaker 3: in an irrational you know, situation, which is kind of
- 12:19Speaker 3: what this seems to be. So yeah, no, nobody nobody
- 12:24Speaker 3: played well, I mean on on on defense for sure.
- 12:27Speaker 3: Like it's it was just I mean, Micah Parson is
- 12:29Speaker 3: just supposed to play better than that. Uh, he said it.
- 12:31Speaker 3: He took accountability for it too, But like you know,
- 12:34Speaker 3: you you want him, but he needs help. I mean
- 12:36Speaker 3: they always they all need help, they all need help.
- 12:38Speaker 3: But you know the offense that he missed some throws too,
- 12:43Speaker 3: I mean he missed and uh and again him and
- 12:45Speaker 3: CD were off a little bit. I don't know who's
- 12:49Speaker 3: who's to blame there. Uh, you know, one guy was
- 12:52Speaker 3: in training camp. One guy wasn't you know you'd like
- 12:55Speaker 3: you'd like to think, well, Dak should know where where
- 12:57Speaker 3: he's throwing on that ball. And again, the slightest change
- 13:01Speaker 3: here and there can can make that throw. Talk about
- 13:04Speaker 3: the one where CD's you know, going down the scene.
- 13:06Speaker 3: I mean, it looks like it's right there. He throws
- 13:09Speaker 3: it more to the outside and straight on, and either
- 13:13Speaker 3: way it looked like it should have been a touchdown
- 13:15Speaker 3: for sure. Looked like he had Zeke in the flat.
- 13:17Speaker 3: He did have Zeke in the flat. That was probably
- 13:20Speaker 3: going to be a touchdown, if not close to the
- 13:23Speaker 3: first down sticks and instead they get a field and
- 13:25Speaker 3: then that's field goals. Now I get it. You lost
- 13:28Speaker 3: by you know, you lost by twenty five points. So
- 13:31Speaker 3: it's hard to just look at certain plays here and there.
- 13:33Speaker 3: And you guys, if you see on the website, have
- 13:35Speaker 3: done this article for fifteen sixteen years. Don't forget these
- 13:39Speaker 3: five plays, and you know those games like that, it's
- 13:42Speaker 3: it's hard to just find a play like this would
- 13:44Speaker 3: have changed everything. But you know, when you get early
- 13:48Speaker 3: in the game and you get touchdown chances and you
- 13:52Speaker 3: turn them into field goals. I mean that's a you know,
- 13:54Speaker 3: that's eight points right there. You know that you that
- 13:57Speaker 3: you're leaving on the table. You know, I think what
- 14:00Speaker 3: they're down thirty five to sixteen, I mean, if it's
- 14:04Speaker 3: if it's thirty five to twenty four at the half,
- 14:07Speaker 3: I mean with the ball coming out of the second half,
- 14:09Speaker 3: I mean you're obviously thinking a little bit different there,
- 14:12Speaker 3: but you just you just couldn't couldn't keep up, you know,
- 14:16Speaker 3: at all. And that was that was a problem there
- 14:19Speaker 3: all right, Lewis and Langston, Oklahoma, Hey, what's going on?
- 14:22Speaker 1: Hey, Lewis?
- 14:24Speaker 7: Not much. I'm you know, I'm I'm.
- 14:28Speaker 11: Arguing with people in my fantasy league about Dak Prescott
- 14:30Speaker 11: and Jerry Jones, and I'm about to just put everybody
- 14:35Speaker 11: on do not distart because I look at the game
- 14:38Speaker 11: and I'm and I and I'm just blame to go
- 14:40Speaker 11: all around. You know, you can blame Dak if you
- 14:42Speaker 11: want too. He didn't play, he didn't play great, But
- 14:46Speaker 11: to me, it all started with the defense. When a
- 14:48Speaker 11: team can come into your house and score six times
- 14:52Speaker 11: without being stopped, you can't get them off on third down.
- 14:55Speaker 12: To me, paying Dak does nothing to you know, you,
- 14:59Speaker 12: you're basically put and Dak in a hole. Anyways, you're
- 15:01Speaker 12: telling Dak, hey, go play defense. If that's the case,
- 15:04Speaker 12: I don't and I don't understand why people The biggest
- 15:07Speaker 12: thing that like, I'm dealing with people at my job.
- 15:09Speaker 12: The first thing they want to say, so you just
- 15:11Speaker 12: shouldn't have paid Deck And I'm like, but Dak don't
- 15:14Speaker 12: play defense. He can't make a tackle.
- 15:17Speaker 3: Lewis, You've got to you know, you know, you know,
- 15:21Speaker 3: when it's fourth and one and the team's pin back
- 15:23Speaker 3: and then they're really gonna punt it. But they sit
- 15:25Speaker 3: there and they're hard counting, hard counting, hoping, hoping that
- 15:28Speaker 3: you would jump off sides. That's what these people are
- 15:31Speaker 3: doing in your office right there. I'm sorry that that's
- 15:33Speaker 3: exactly that's all they're trying to do. Is the people
- 15:36Speaker 3: that really don't have a football team, those are the
- 15:38Speaker 3: ones you gotta worry about. Those are not even worry about.
- 15:41Speaker 3: But those are the ones that that chirp. The ones
- 15:43Speaker 3: that don't they don't really have a team.
- 15:45Speaker 1: If you have, they have a team.
- 15:47Speaker 3: And maybe you know then they're they're winning, so you
- 15:49Speaker 3: know they're two and zero. Okay, you deal with that.
- 15:53Speaker 3: But if you you deal with that that person in
- 15:55Speaker 3: the office and you're like, who's your team and they're like,
- 15:57Speaker 3: I don't really I don't really like football, then you're
- 16:00Speaker 3: at the front door all.
- 16:01Speaker 1: Day long and lock it.
- 16:02Speaker 3: Okay, because that's the kind of stuff you gotta deal
- 16:05Speaker 3: with with that crap. And I have another point about Dak,
- 16:09Speaker 3: but go ahead. I'll let you finish off here.
- 16:12Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 16:12Speaker 12: No, I'm with you because it's one of those things
- 16:14Speaker 12: where their team is whoever is playing the Cowboys, and
- 16:18Speaker 12: I'm kind of like, okay, whatever, I'm not gonna argue
- 16:20Speaker 12: with you. That's fine.
- 16:21Speaker 4: But if you're going to have an.
- 16:22Speaker 11: Argument, have a valid argument.
- 16:24Speaker 12: And like I said, it's one of those things where
- 16:26Speaker 12: I'm talking to people and I'm kind of looking at
- 16:28Speaker 12: it like I'm not saying I'm not excusing Dak. He
- 16:31Speaker 12: the first interception, you know, the receiver slip, the second
- 16:35Speaker 12: interception back through into double coverage, I'm not excusing him.
- 16:39Speaker 12: But you can't run the ball. They're not even attempting
- 16:41Speaker 12: to run the ball anymore. I don't know what's going on,
- 16:43Speaker 12: Like is it aduce thing? Are you trying to figure
- 16:46Speaker 12: out who's gonna run the ball? Like I'm kind of
- 16:49Speaker 12: mad at McCarthy for doing that, Like once you see
- 16:52Speaker 12: that the scheme isn't working or the players, you're not
- 16:55Speaker 12: making the adjustice. That little past of turpence worked one
- 16:59Speaker 12: time and then you throw out four or five more
- 17:00Speaker 12: times and they sniff it out, So why not? Why
- 17:04Speaker 12: keep doing it? Like you know, it's one of those
- 17:06Speaker 12: things where you can't just blame to go all around.
- 17:09Speaker 12: And I just like you said, you being well, I
- 17:11Speaker 12: work at warehouse, but I'm in the warehouse arguing because
- 17:14Speaker 12: the first thing somebody want to say is this, well
- 17:17Speaker 12: Dak dack this and back then I'm like, so did
- 17:19Speaker 12: you even watch the game or did you watch highlights?
- 17:22Speaker 12: Because clearly the whole game it wasn't It wasn't Dak,
- 17:25Speaker 12: it was everybody else. So but I'll leave you with that.
- 17:28Speaker 12: You know, I'll listen. I ain't gonna stay on too long,
- 17:31Speaker 12: but yeah, like you said, everybody is frustrated right now,
- 17:33Speaker 12: but it's week two.
- 17:35Speaker 9: We'll move on.
- 17:35Speaker 12: I'm already trying to figure out what I'm gonna do
- 17:37Speaker 12: with the raven, so later.
- 17:39Speaker 3: All right, all right, list, I could just picture that,
- 17:42Speaker 3: I could just picture the warehouse. Those guys down there,
- 17:46Speaker 3: you know, don't have a team, just just want to
- 17:48Speaker 3: just want to talk, you know, And didn't say anything
- 17:51Speaker 3: last week. Just last week, it didn't even didn't even
- 17:54Speaker 3: come up, you know, didn't even know about I wasn't
- 17:56Speaker 3: watching football last week. But this week is funny how
- 17:58Speaker 3: everybody has opinion. That's that's that's the nature of it.
- 18:02Speaker 3: That's the that's the thing. You know that Dak signed
- 18:05Speaker 3: his contract last week actually, but but yeah, the contract
- 18:08Speaker 3: talk has come up a lot more and this week.
- 18:10Speaker 3: It's funny how that how that happens. The thing is
- 18:14Speaker 3: about Dak is he again he didn't play well. We're
- 18:18Speaker 3: not We're not We're not saying I'm not saying he
- 18:21Speaker 3: played well in the game. Uh, but I do think
- 18:25Speaker 3: that it's it's a challenge when number one, your defense
- 18:29Speaker 3: isn't stopping anyone. So it's a touchdown every time. It's
- 18:32Speaker 3: a touchdown every time. Just to stay on pace here,
- 18:37Speaker 3: you have to score a touchdown every time. And not
- 18:39Speaker 3: only that, but now when you get to your side
- 18:42Speaker 3: of the ball, you've got to do it all because
- 18:44Speaker 3: there is no running game. There is no running game.
- 18:46Speaker 3: And I said last week, you guys were concerned, and
- 18:49Speaker 3: I said, it's one game. They ran it when they
- 18:53Speaker 3: needed to against the Browns. Then everything kind of changed, small,
- 18:57Speaker 3: simple size for me. Let's see what happens. Okay, now
- 19:00Speaker 3: we've had two weeks now. They needed to run the
- 19:02Speaker 3: football and they could not, and they were trying everybody
- 19:06Speaker 3: under the sun to try to run the football with
- 19:08Speaker 3: and and it's not working. So Dalvin Cook is I mean,
- 19:13Speaker 3: I would think he's got to be next. I mean,
- 19:15Speaker 3: he's got to be next up here. Well, I mean
- 19:16Speaker 3: why not Why bring him in if he if he's
- 19:18Speaker 3: not ready to go? So I mean, I mean, I
- 19:22Speaker 3: why bring me in if you're not gonna try him?
- 19:23Speaker 3: As weirdly what I'm saying, he wasn't ready. You put
- 19:25Speaker 3: him on the practice squad. But now now we'll see,
- 19:27Speaker 3: uh what happens. But you know, there's just a lot
- 19:31Speaker 3: that's a lot on on a on a quarterback when
- 19:33Speaker 3: you're not giving him any help on defense and no
- 19:35Speaker 3: help on a running game. And so it's like, all right,
- 19:37Speaker 3: you got to score every time they moved it. They
- 19:39Speaker 3: moved it. But we know what happens when you can't
- 19:41Speaker 3: run the ball inside the twenty, you it's gonna be
- 19:44Speaker 3: it's gonna be tougher to score, and especially when when
- 19:47Speaker 3: you're down and teams are like, you can have.
- 19:50Speaker 1: A field goal. We'll give you that. We'll give you, you.
- 19:53Speaker 3: Know, a little bit here and there, but we're not
- 19:54Speaker 3: giving you a lot more than that. So all right,
- 19:57Speaker 3: Robbie and Coco Beach, Florida, what's up?
- 20:02Speaker 10: Well, you know, it's a great day, the sun rose
- 20:04Speaker 10: and there's always next week and they and the Baltimore Ravens,
- 20:08Speaker 10: right right, Yeah, I'm still concerned about our run game.
- 20:12Speaker 10: You just answered every question that was going to ask
- 20:14Speaker 10: in that last call, so I got a whole lot
- 20:16Speaker 10: to say.
- 20:17Speaker 3: That's all right, man, Robbie, who would you who would
- 20:21Speaker 3: you try to put it in the running? I mean,
- 20:23Speaker 3: how would you try to fix it?
- 20:24Speaker 1: At this point? What would you do?
- 20:26Speaker 10: Good lord? We've talked about this a bit. Man, I
- 20:29Speaker 10: don't like you. I don't even know if our our
- 20:32Speaker 10: season running back is on the team yet. I mean,
- 20:34Speaker 10: I don't know if backed up, I mean, if a
- 20:37Speaker 10: Zeke doesn't have it or dos or I don't know,
- 20:41Speaker 10: maybe maybe cooks is the one and we went down
- 20:45Speaker 10: last year.
- 20:46Speaker 1: Yeah, you just got to keep trying and stuff.
- 20:47Speaker 10: I guess, yeah, you got to keep plugging them in
- 20:50Speaker 10: and hope somebody fits and somebody works.
- 20:52Speaker 4: And it goes. Yeah.
- 20:54Speaker 10: I mean our offensive line looks like they're making holes.
- 20:56Speaker 3: It's just yeah, yeah, I don't know, it's the this
- 21:05Speaker 3: is this is that Monday morning after a twenty five
- 21:07Speaker 3: point loss. I mean it's just like, that's tough to
- 21:09Speaker 3: find the answers. You know, I appreciate trying.
- 21:11Speaker 13: You know what.
- 21:13Speaker 10: Talk about that run game, man, maybe if we had
- 21:15Speaker 10: a run game a little bit, we could have given
- 21:16Speaker 10: our defense a little break to catch their breath, get
- 21:18Speaker 10: their chin back up, and yeah, okay, my feet are
- 21:21Speaker 10: under me, let me make a stop here. But our
- 21:23Speaker 10: defense was on the field, man. I mean, it wasn't
- 21:25Speaker 10: a whole lot of time with possession difference in the
- 21:27Speaker 10: beginning because they're so fast, but they got to be gassed.
- 21:31Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean you can make that argument. But
- 21:33Speaker 3: also they were giving up like two play drives. I
- 21:36Speaker 3: mean some of them were just big plays, So it's
- 21:38Speaker 3: not like they were on the field a whole lot either.
- 21:41Speaker 3: It was it was it was just a disaster me.
- 21:44Speaker 10: That's just yeah, I agree. And Camara Alvin Kamara, I thought,
- 21:48Speaker 10: you know, I was like, oh, this guy, he's getting
- 21:50Speaker 10: old now, he's got to be losing a step. He
- 21:52Speaker 10: looked like he gained a step against us, didn't he.
- 21:54Speaker 1: He looked he looked phenomenal, I mean.
- 21:56Speaker 10: And Taysom Hill. Taysom Hill looked like a twenty two
- 22:00Speaker 10: year old. YEAHI eighth quarterback.
- 22:03Speaker 3: Yeah, so you got knocked out of the game. But yeah,
- 22:07Speaker 3: all right, all right, Robbie, all right.
- 22:09Speaker 10: Nick, I have a good one, and you know what
- 22:11Speaker 10: we got next week. We're always We're always.
- 22:13Speaker 3: One step away, man, all right, right, exactly, brother, have
- 22:17Speaker 3: a good one, all right, Robbie and Cocoa Beach, Florida.
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- 24:09Speaker 3: Albert In Tucson, Arizona is next up.
- 24:12Speaker 1: Albert.
- 24:13Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, Nick, morning to you and a producer
- 24:17Speaker 6: extraordinaire over there. Two things, Two things Brandon Aubert spend
- 24:28Speaker 6: blessing in disguise. Right, when do you think we could say, well,
- 24:37Speaker 6: you know, we need this little gadget play or something
- 24:41Speaker 6: that could be just that little thing to turn the tie,
- 24:46Speaker 6: that turn the momentum. And special teams, you know, a
- 24:49Speaker 6: fake field goal or or you know, to go for
- 24:52Speaker 6: that extra four yards or the fake pond. You know,
- 24:57Speaker 6: because we haven't really seen much of that, when do
- 25:01Speaker 6: you think we're going to be seeing more of that
- 25:05Speaker 6: this season? And two, I don't know, I mean I
- 25:11Speaker 6: think I hate to say it, but these Cowboys need
- 25:15Speaker 6: a hype man. You know when when when that team's
- 25:19Speaker 6: the other team scores a touchdown, it's like their face
- 25:23Speaker 6: you can see the expressions in their faces and you
- 25:28Speaker 6: know they get blasted on TV and you know they're
- 25:32Speaker 6: looking with that empty stare. Do you think like a
- 25:35Speaker 6: hype man or a high person would be beneficial for
- 25:37Speaker 6: our team, you know, to kind of say hey, hey,
- 25:40Speaker 6: come on, you know, it's not how it's not how
- 25:42Speaker 6: you start, it's how you finish, you know, the game
- 25:45Speaker 6: sixty minutes. You know, we gotta we got to keep
- 25:48Speaker 6: our mind focused, you know through your reads, do you know,
- 25:51Speaker 6: Dak you know, stay focused every progression. Make sure you
- 25:55Speaker 6: go through one, two, three and four defense. You know,
- 25:59Speaker 6: stay in your gaps, stay in your lanes. You know,
- 26:02Speaker 6: don't be out of position. Even the coaches you know say, hey,
- 26:05Speaker 6: you know, change it up. Do you think a position
- 26:08Speaker 6: like that would be beneficial to to to? I don't know,
- 26:13Speaker 6: to change it up a little bit, because it's kind
- 26:15Speaker 6: of that's like what we always see, you know that
- 26:18Speaker 6: the team comes and scores and all of a sudden,
- 26:21Speaker 6: you know, they put DA's blank stare on the TV
- 26:25Speaker 6: or or it's not so much just that, but you know,
- 26:28Speaker 6: any player. Yeah, but anyway, hope you all are good,
- 26:34Speaker 6: DoD bless you guys, Stay safe and go Cowboys?
- 26:37Speaker 1: All right?
- 26:37Speaker 3: Albert? You know, all I can think of is when
- 26:44Speaker 3: you're saying that, is that I don't know where the
- 26:47Speaker 3: Cowboys rank in the league in assistant coaches, but they've
- 26:51Speaker 3: got to be up there, Okay. I mean I feel
- 26:53Speaker 3: like there's like twenty five to thirty assistant coaches.
- 26:57Speaker 1: One of those.
- 26:57Speaker 3: Guys you should be able to do that, and it
- 26:59Speaker 3: feel like.
- 26:59Speaker 1: That they do.
- 27:01Speaker 3: And you know, I don't like to always throw contracts
- 27:05Speaker 3: and money out there, but you know, it's a profession.
- 27:08Speaker 1: And this is in college. It's not high school where you.
- 27:11Speaker 3: Know, there's some guy on the sidelines with some you know,
- 27:15Speaker 3: medium T shirt and a fake mustache and all that.
- 27:18Speaker 3: And they don't need to have a chain and a belt.
- 27:21Speaker 3: And when they get a turnover, I mean you get
- 27:25Speaker 3: that every other or every Tuesday when they get paid.
- 27:27Speaker 3: I mean, they that is their incentive to go out
- 27:30Speaker 3: there and do everything they're supposed to and be hyped
- 27:33Speaker 3: up and be ready and be prepared and all this
- 27:35Speaker 3: kind of stuff. I just think if Dak throws an
- 27:40Speaker 3: interception and he's sitting there and then who's gonna come
- 27:44Speaker 3: over and say, hey, you know, it's okay, pick it up.
- 27:48Speaker 3: I mean, I just disagree with that because I don't
- 27:51Speaker 3: they have enough guys like that. They have players, I mean,
- 27:54Speaker 3: think about it, every practice squad player is sitting there
- 27:57Speaker 3: eating sunflower seeds. I mean, they have those guys, but
- 28:01Speaker 3: at the end of the day, you've got to be
- 28:03Speaker 3: the one to go and make the play. So you know,
- 28:06Speaker 3: if you can't get hyped by by what's in front
- 28:09Speaker 3: of you and winning the game. I mean, I don't
- 28:11Speaker 3: know if if if some some practice squad running back
- 28:14Speaker 3: or a quality control coach or whoever else is going
- 28:17Speaker 3: to be able to do it. I mean that's my
- 28:19Speaker 3: take on that. All right, Bob and Rio grand Valley.
- 28:24Speaker 5: Good morning, Nick. Hey Bob, I'll tell you what, Like
- 28:29Speaker 5: the rest of the listeners, I didn't see this coming
- 28:32Speaker 5: at sure caught me unaware. Yeah, a couple of observations.
- 28:38Speaker 5: If I may at two yards to carry, isn't gonna
- 28:42Speaker 5: cut it, Dudes, isn't gonna cut it. We need doubt,
- 28:45Speaker 5: We need Dalvin cooking there and if he, if he
- 28:48Speaker 5: doesn't get the job done, I don't know what we're
- 28:51Speaker 5: gonna do about the running game. But let me tell
- 28:54Speaker 5: you what. At the defense. Our defense didn't get gassed yesterday.
- 29:00Speaker 5: A hell they want to deal long enough to get gassed.
- 29:03Speaker 5: The Saints were scoring it will they came in and
- 29:07Speaker 5: took us like granted, Richmond, I don't know what the
- 29:11Speaker 5: answer is, but I'll tell you one thing. We sure
- 29:14Speaker 5: need to regroup. McCartney in the in the gang need
- 29:17Speaker 5: to huddle up and make some decisions and go a
- 29:20Speaker 5: different direction because yesterday is definitely not gonna cut it.
- 29:24Speaker 1: Agreed, I agreed.
- 29:25Speaker 3: And I think they know that. Thank you for the call.
- 29:27Speaker 3: I think, I mean, I think they know everyone would
- 29:29Speaker 3: know this is not going to cut it. You can't
- 29:32Speaker 3: obviously can't lose to a Saints team at home. And
- 29:36Speaker 3: who knows how good the Saints are. I mean, maybe
- 29:38Speaker 3: they are good. I mean, but it doesn't matter. I mean,
- 29:42Speaker 3: it doesn't matter who it is. If if you're the
- 29:44Speaker 3: type of team that you think you're going to be,
- 29:46Speaker 3: you shouldn't be losing to anybody, you know, by by
- 29:49Speaker 3: twenty five points or whatever. So it's it's a it's
- 29:54Speaker 3: a wake up call for sure. And now we'll see
- 29:57Speaker 3: we'll see what they're made of. We'll see how they
- 29:59Speaker 3: how they were spawned, and we'll see how you know,
- 30:03Speaker 3: when Baltimore comes in. I mean, they're gonna be desperate too.
- 30:06Speaker 3: I mean, they're oh and two and they probably feel
- 30:10Speaker 3: like they should be too, and oh.
- 30:11Speaker 1: But they're not. So it's they're they're gonna be ready
- 30:16Speaker 1: to go in.
- 30:16Speaker 3: And you know, if you thinks stopping and I'm watching
- 30:18Speaker 3: the highlights of Alvin Kamara. You know, stopping him in
- 30:21Speaker 3: the open field is going to be tough. I mean,
- 30:23Speaker 3: how about Lamar Jackson, who also can throw it, and
- 30:27Speaker 3: so you know, just he the the dynamic of trying
- 30:30Speaker 3: to stop him is going to be tough. So they're
- 30:33Speaker 3: gonna have to figure out something there with their linebackers.
- 30:36Speaker 3: I was disappointed by the way that they played. I
- 30:39Speaker 3: thought they were very you know, man handled.
- 30:44Speaker 7: Was there.
- 30:44Speaker 3: It was was what I kept seeing. I mean that
- 30:46Speaker 3: I think that they got they got handled in every way.
- 30:50Speaker 3: And you know, Kendricks didn't look the same over shown
- 30:53Speaker 3: wasn't out there A whole lot and a lot of
- 30:55Speaker 3: questions about that. Why why wasn't he uh there as much?
- 30:58Speaker 3: So you know, it's one of those things where it's
- 31:02Speaker 3: it's one game, but it was a bad one, and
- 31:04Speaker 3: it was a very bad one. And now we'll see
- 31:05Speaker 3: how they you know, if this is really what they
- 31:08Speaker 3: are or Jerry Jones and Mike McCarthy and Dak everyone
- 31:12Speaker 3: said like, this is not who we are. So but
- 31:15Speaker 3: you know that's the thing. You give fifteen more chances
- 31:16Speaker 3: to kind of prove one way or another. All right,
- 31:20Speaker 3: let's go to rob in Vegas.
- 31:23Speaker 13: Hey, Nick, Hey, Rob, Listen, it was a disaster. But
- 31:29Speaker 13: what really bothered me is that I thought I was
- 31:31Speaker 13: watching the Packers playoffs game. It looked exactly like that.
- 31:34Speaker 13: A team came in we didn't you know, Cowboys were
- 31:38Speaker 13: favored home and the game started off. They got punched
- 31:42Speaker 13: in the mouth, but they never recovered. And listen, it's
- 31:47Speaker 13: only we two. But there are some tendencies that were see.
- 31:52Speaker 13: This defense is built for third down. It's not built
- 31:55Speaker 13: for first and second. The teams that are able to
- 31:57Speaker 13: get us and third and shot but usually have their
- 32:02Speaker 13: way with this defense. Micah, as great as he is,
- 32:06Speaker 13: he's not good against the run when they run at him,
- 32:09Speaker 13: you know. And he's even smaller this year. I think
- 32:11Speaker 13: they said by about ten pounds. So if you saw
- 32:14Speaker 13: the game, that's what they did. They ran right at
- 32:16Speaker 13: him offensively. I don't think Dak trusts the O line yet.
- 32:24Speaker 13: I don't think Mike McCarthy trusts the O line yet.
- 32:26Speaker 13: I don't think they were very good. I thought Guyton
- 32:28Speaker 13: struggled and Steele struggled. And we've seen in the past
- 32:33Speaker 13: that if Dak doesn't trust his left tackles, he doesn't
- 32:37Speaker 13: play good. Now, I didn't think he played bad. He
- 32:42Speaker 13: was put in a bad spot. We have no playmakers
- 32:46Speaker 13: on offense or that didn't see Lamb. They need to
- 32:48Speaker 13: find another wide receiver. I can make a play, break
- 32:51Speaker 13: a tackle. Maybe try to fly Noise Brooks. I've seen
- 32:56Speaker 13: enough of him.
- 32:57Speaker 5: Huh.
- 32:59Speaker 13: Try try to other kid. Running games. You can't jete
- 33:03Speaker 13: the running game are okay, we've been down by so
- 33:05Speaker 13: much now. I do believe this week you send you
- 33:09Speaker 13: bring up Cooks and you bench Duice on due one
- 33:12Speaker 13: gives you nothing. As much as we like the kid,
- 33:15Speaker 13: he's just too much of a liability and pass protection.
- 33:19Speaker 13: So when he's in the game, they pretty much know
- 33:21Speaker 13: it's going to be a run.
- 33:23Speaker 15: Yeah.
- 33:24Speaker 13: Yeah, you can't jump ship yet. But the only thing
- 33:28Speaker 13: that bothers me is this defense. They're going to see
- 33:31Speaker 13: it in seven days six days now, the same thing
- 33:36Speaker 13: the Ravens are going to punch them in the mouth,
- 33:38Speaker 13: that the Eagles are going to punch him in the mouth.
- 33:40Speaker 13: The Lions are going to punch That's what teams are
- 33:42Speaker 13: going to do because they know the Cowboys are built
- 33:46Speaker 13: not only physically, but I think it's more so mentally.
- 33:49Speaker 13: They want to play third down. Michael Parsits wants every
- 33:52Speaker 13: down to be third and seven. He doesn't want to
- 33:55Speaker 13: get block by a guided out weighs and by almost
- 33:58Speaker 13: one hundred pounds. And that's what you saw. And yes,
- 34:01Speaker 13: I don't understand the over showed thing. The monk clock
- 34:05Speaker 13: to me is not good. He wasn't good last year.
- 34:08Speaker 13: He gets blown up overshow did not play great when
- 34:12Speaker 13: I've seen him. But I would definitely ride over shown
- 34:16Speaker 13: over the monk clock.
- 34:17Speaker 7: I don't know.
- 34:17Speaker 13: Maybe Zimma will say why he was benched. Also, Zeke
- 34:22Speaker 13: was benched in the beginning. I don't know. Maybe there's
- 34:25Speaker 13: something going on there, but that's the only thing that Bob.
- 34:29Speaker 13: This offense has not looked good for two weeks. You know,
- 34:32Speaker 13: they just they just look okay, Ceedee, Lamb and Dak.
- 34:35Speaker 13: I thought I predicted they were going to go off
- 34:38Speaker 13: and they did, but they didn't. Uh, they're not on
- 34:41Speaker 13: the same page. But honestly, I think it's that's clock
- 34:44Speaker 13: is that this offense is not comfortable.
- 34:47Speaker 1: You see.
- 34:47Speaker 13: Everything is like a struggle right now just to get
- 34:50Speaker 13: first downs. The play calling is.
- 34:53Speaker 4: Kind of odd.
- 34:55Speaker 13: They're not pushing the ball down the field. They're trying
- 34:58Speaker 13: to reverse after reverse that trying is some of the
- 35:02Speaker 13: guys that they're trying to feed the ball too. I'm like,
- 35:05Speaker 13: why you know, but we can't panic it?
- 35:08Speaker 5: What panic?
- 35:10Speaker 8: Yeah?
- 35:11Speaker 1: Right, well all right, Rob, thank you. Yeah.
- 35:15Speaker 3: If you listen to your call and you're and then
- 35:18Speaker 3: you ask people not to panic, I mean, I mean
- 35:20Speaker 3: the people that trust trust the things you say or
- 35:23Speaker 3: are probably going to panic because you you did did
- 35:26Speaker 3: throw a lot of stuff out there that didn't sound good.
- 35:28Speaker 1: I hear you, though I didn't. I don't disagree with
- 35:31Speaker 1: most of that at all.
- 35:32Speaker 3: I do think though it's it's not too early to
- 35:36Speaker 3: say that the running game is a problem because it
- 35:40Speaker 3: they Yes, you lost by twenty five points, but but
- 35:44Speaker 3: you can still run the football when you need to
- 35:47Speaker 3: to get down there and score. Just because you're down
- 35:49Speaker 3: by twenty one or eighteen or whatever and you're down
- 35:52Speaker 3: inside the red zone, that doesn't mean you can't run it.
- 35:55Speaker 1: I mean, that's a lot of time left, so score.
- 35:58Speaker 1: That's what you got to do.
- 36:00Speaker 3: You got to score touchdowns. But you're right, I think
- 36:05Speaker 3: it's time to see Dalvin Cook.
- 36:07Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm yeah.
- 36:08Speaker 3: You got Derrick Henry coming to town with with Lamar
- 36:10Speaker 3: Jackson there, and they're gonna they're certainly gonna gonna run
- 36:14Speaker 3: the ball. I mean the difference though, is is you
- 36:17Speaker 3: think I mean Carr. Carr was phenomenal, phenomenal throwing the
- 36:21Speaker 3: football down the field. I mean he was, he was,
- 36:23Speaker 3: he was perfect and in a lot of his passes,
- 36:26Speaker 3: and so uh, some of those teams you mentioned they
- 36:28Speaker 3: don't have quarterbacks like that that they have different type
- 36:31Speaker 3: of quarterback that that'll scare you in different ways. But yeah,
- 36:35Speaker 3: it's gonna it's gonna be a challenge all.
- 36:37Speaker 1: The way through.
- 36:37Speaker 10: Though.
- 36:37Speaker 3: You're right though, that's the recipe. He's try to run
- 36:40Speaker 3: the ball, and there's no secret. I mean, that's what
- 36:42Speaker 3: they tried last year. Tried to do the exact same
- 36:44Speaker 3: thing last year. Just didn't work all the time. But
- 36:47Speaker 3: when when teams do get to run the ball, they
- 36:50Speaker 3: get the lead, they get comfortable, they're running it, and
- 36:52Speaker 3: they're playing downhill. That's the recipe that we're seeing to
- 36:57Speaker 3: beat the Cowboys, all right, Jeremy and Salt Lake City?
- 37:01Speaker 15: Hey, Nick, what a difference do we makes?
- 37:04Speaker 5: Huh?
- 37:04Speaker 15: Yeah? Yeah, Well, you know a lot of things Rob
- 37:09Speaker 15: said rapped before me. I'm right right, kind of in
- 37:13Speaker 15: lockstep with As far as the running game, I think,
- 37:18Speaker 15: you know everybody's well he said something about Deuce. The
- 37:22Speaker 15: guy that really just has been more disappointing than anybody
- 37:25Speaker 15: is is Rico.
- 37:26Speaker 5: Man, he was.
- 37:28Speaker 15: Supposed to be just, you know, the guy that has
- 37:32Speaker 15: all the juice and and uh and you know he's
- 37:36Speaker 15: shown it kind of in the past. But you know,
- 37:38Speaker 15: Zeke has given us pretty much what we all expected.
- 37:42Speaker 15: He had actually a couple of nice runs. Deuce had
- 37:45Speaker 15: a nice run or two. But it just seems like
- 37:48Speaker 15: Rico is the guy that's really not really given anything
- 37:52Speaker 15: extra as far as I'm concerned. And then, you know,
- 37:55Speaker 15: the biggest thing I thought, and obviously we got ran on,
- 38:00Speaker 15: but this pass rush is nothing like it was last year,
- 38:04Speaker 15: and that really scares me. I think the loss of
- 38:08Speaker 15: Sam Williams is really starting to to be felt. There
- 38:14Speaker 15: were times when Derek Carr had all day to throw
- 38:18Speaker 15: yesterday and then and you know, the past three years,
- 38:22Speaker 15: we've never We're not that defense. We're not that defense
- 38:25Speaker 15: where the quarterback can sit back and pick us apart. Obviously,
- 38:30Speaker 15: just like Rob said, it looked a lot like that
- 38:32Speaker 15: Green Bay game, and it scares me. I mean, I
- 38:35Speaker 15: know we always kind of have a turd in the
- 38:38Speaker 15: middle of the in the in the very beginning of
- 38:40Speaker 15: the season, you know, we had that one game that
- 38:43Speaker 15: we always looked back on in like the Arizona game
- 38:45Speaker 15: last year, and but this one really really made me nervous.
- 38:51Speaker 15: How it looked a lot like that Green Bay game,
- 38:54Speaker 15: because you know, it's just it's just being inconsistent. But
- 38:58Speaker 15: I think that passed rush are the key because that's
- 39:02Speaker 15: what really set us apart in previous years. And and man,
- 39:05Speaker 15: it's it's looking a little anemic now. But you know,
- 39:09Speaker 15: like I said, every every week to New Week, I'm
- 39:13Speaker 15: not going to give up now. You know, it's not
- 39:15Speaker 15: all doom and gloom, but but I think we need
- 39:19Speaker 15: a shot in the arm. Obviously a little bit in
- 39:20Speaker 15: the running game made with Cook, but that pass rush
- 39:23Speaker 15: I think is something that we all need to kind
- 39:25Speaker 15: of look at and and and evaluate. But I'll get off.
- 39:29Speaker 15: But thanks a lot for all you do, guys.
- 39:32Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Jeremy, appreciate that. You know, I'm
- 39:35Speaker 1: I'm with you.
- 39:36Speaker 3: I was expecting more at a Rico and then they've
- 39:39Speaker 3: gett you know, they'd give him some opportunities there Zeke
- 39:43Speaker 3: is kind of what it is, you know, but you
- 39:46Speaker 3: thought there'd be a little bit more juice with Rico
- 39:49Speaker 3: or or Deuce or or somebody, and it.
- 39:51Speaker 1: Just it just hasn't. It hasn't happened.
- 39:53Speaker 3: So they're gonna it's back to the drawing board there
- 39:55Speaker 3: and maybe that that's Dalvin Cook as for pass rush,
- 40:00Speaker 3: you're right, I mean, you know Sam Williams that was
- 40:03Speaker 3: supposed to be the guy. You know that they let
- 40:05Speaker 3: Dorence Armstrong go and and and uh Dante Fowler left
- 40:09Speaker 3: and and it was supposed to be you know, really
- 40:12Speaker 3: relying heavily on on Sam Williams to kind of step
- 40:16Speaker 3: up and and and in that year three and do it.
- 40:19Speaker 3: Unfortunately he had the injury. And now that they've tried
- 40:21Speaker 3: to piece that together, and uh that they've tried to
- 40:24Speaker 3: find some defensive ends so far that you know that
- 40:26Speaker 3: they didn't really find one that that they it's not
- 40:29Speaker 3: even on the roster all the guys that they brought
- 40:31Speaker 3: in at camp. So they're still they're still struggling there
- 40:34Speaker 3: and and uh there it hasn't you know, hasn't hasn't
- 40:38Speaker 3: been the same. It's only been two games, but still Uh,
- 40:40Speaker 3: you know, the pass rush was there for sure in
- 40:42Speaker 3: the first game.
- 40:43Speaker 1: It just wasn't here.
- 40:44Speaker 3: And and I think the difference is is that it's
- 40:46Speaker 3: the run defense. When you not stop in the run,
- 40:49Speaker 3: then you don't have to throw the ball. I mean
- 40:51Speaker 3: they don't have to throw it. So uh, that's that
- 40:54Speaker 3: was the problem. When they do, they've got it schemed really,
- 40:56Speaker 3: really perfect in this game. So all right, we're gonna
- 40:58Speaker 3: take a break here, last one on Cowboys storyline. Will
- 41:00Speaker 3: be right back to answer a couple.
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- 42:27Speaker 3: All right, let's keep this thing going. We've got Tim
- 42:29Speaker 3: and Grapevine calling Tim.
- 42:31Speaker 1: What's up, mister Nick?
- 42:33Speaker 17: It's been a while?
- 42:34Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 42:35Speaker 10: Wow.
- 42:37Speaker 17: I had to clean my eyeballs out with soap and
- 42:39Speaker 17: water after that performance. That was about as bad as
- 42:43Speaker 17: I've seen on defense in a long, long, long, long time.
- 42:47Speaker 17: But I don't want to talk about the defense. I
- 42:48Speaker 17: know that's an issue, you know what, They'll find some
- 42:52Speaker 17: sort of a band aid. But the offense was equally
- 42:56Speaker 17: as bad.
- 42:57Speaker 1: I know they towour some points, but I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- 43:01Speaker 17: Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. The EPA on offense
- 43:07Speaker 17: was terrible. Points for Drive obviously spoke for itself, and
- 43:11Speaker 17: at this juncture, I mean, that's McCarthy's, that's his baby,
- 43:16Speaker 17: if you will, this is his second season and control
- 43:19Speaker 17: of the offense, and they just I know there might
- 43:22Speaker 17: be a talent issue, but there's no creativity, there's no movement.
- 43:27Speaker 17: They don't stress the defense. All you have is CD
- 43:30Speaker 17: lambs athleticism and talent. You don't even really move him
- 43:33Speaker 17: to get him in mismatches.
- 43:35Speaker 7: And so at this.
- 43:36Speaker 17: Point, maybe I'm too negative or pessimistic. This feels like
- 43:41Speaker 17: a lame duck season.
- 43:43Speaker 5: Tell me I'm wrong.
- 43:45Speaker 3: Well, okay, all right, Jim, I mean it's I'm not
- 43:50Speaker 3: going to ever say that. I mean it's week two
- 43:52Speaker 3: and and you've played every I mean, the first game
- 43:56Speaker 3: there was a lot of what's not to like? Second game,
- 44:00Speaker 3: what's the like? So I mean, if it's just not
- 44:04Speaker 3: gonna I mean I say it all the time. I
- 44:06Speaker 3: use the roller coaster analogy, and this is exactly what
- 44:09Speaker 3: it is. This is this the highs and the lows
- 44:11Speaker 3: and and they're they're one and one. They're one one.
- 44:14Speaker 3: I mean, that's this is kind of where they are
- 44:16Speaker 3: right now. Let's see what happens in the next few
- 44:19Speaker 3: weeks to see. But I think I think the issue
- 44:22Speaker 3: I keep I can't truss enough. It's the running game.
- 44:24Speaker 3: It's the running game on both sides of the ball.
- 44:26Speaker 3: That's that's the thing. If you can figure out how
- 44:29Speaker 3: to run the football, they've got to do that. They've
- 44:31Speaker 3: got to figure out ways to run this football. If
- 44:34Speaker 3: they need to trade for somebody that's that's there back
- 44:38Speaker 3: up running back and get into the next year's draft,
- 44:41Speaker 3: clasp do that. Then somebody that's got some juice that
- 44:45Speaker 3: can help this running game that that's what they need.
- 44:47Speaker 3: And so that's that's what I would be looking for. Uh,
- 44:50Speaker 3: if I'm the cow, maybe it's an Dalvin cook But
- 44:53Speaker 3: if you do that, imagine like miraculously, I think Brandon
- 44:58Speaker 3: Cookes is better, and Jake Ferguson is better, and all
- 45:01Speaker 3: of the guys around are Jalen Tolbert are better. If
- 45:04Speaker 3: you've got somebody that can just run the ball, all right,
- 45:06Speaker 3: let's go to Seth in sugar Land, Texas.
- 45:10Speaker 9: It's a dark day. But we still live. We live
- 45:13Speaker 9: to fight another day.
- 45:14Speaker 1: Nick, That's right.
- 45:17Speaker 9: So one of the things that I, uh, you know,
- 45:19Speaker 9: I've I've heard Rob, I've heard everybody. You know, I
- 45:22Speaker 9: totally get what everybody is saying. I think it's really
- 45:25Speaker 9: interesting that the defensive line for me is the real
- 45:30Speaker 9: is the real challenge, Like in going back and watching
- 45:33Speaker 9: you know a lot of the running plays that the
- 45:35Speaker 9: Saints ran, like their ability to zone block and then
- 45:39Speaker 9: combo off of one another and just really grinding the
- 45:43Speaker 9: defensive line into the grounding entire game. And even when
- 45:46Speaker 9: Zimmer brought you know, the run blitz is from the secondary.
- 45:50Speaker 9: Taysom Hill as a fullback was absolutely you know, opening
- 45:55Speaker 9: up massive lanes because our safety simply don't have the
- 45:59Speaker 9: beef to come down into the box and blow up
- 46:02Speaker 9: a fullback like it was a It was a perfectly
- 46:05Speaker 9: planned strategy from that Shanahan style offense, which says, Okay,
- 46:11Speaker 9: bring a guy into the box, I'll play old school
- 46:13Speaker 9: with a fullback and I'm not gonna and when we're
- 46:16Speaker 9: still going to run the ball. And Alvin Kamara looked
- 46:18Speaker 9: twenty years younger than what he is, and to me,
- 46:23Speaker 9: our defensive line becomes hesitant when they get when the
- 46:28Speaker 9: when they get down by ten points or more, it's
- 46:32Speaker 9: almost like everyone freezes. It feels like everyone loses their
- 46:37Speaker 9: instincts to play fast, which is why the Saints look
- 46:40Speaker 9: so fast on offense. I mean, obviously they have speed
- 46:42Speaker 9: on offense, but even Micah sometimes he hesitates when when
- 46:47Speaker 9: they run right at him and he can't he can't
- 46:50Speaker 9: seal the edge. He's not big enough and he's and actually,
- 46:53Speaker 9: this is actually a bigger issue is the guys are
- 46:56Speaker 9: always talking about we need to get bigger up front,
- 46:59Speaker 9: we need to get bigger in the defensive line. I
- 47:01Speaker 9: don't want to get bigger on the defensive line. I
- 47:03Speaker 9: want to get stronger on the defensive line. And I
- 47:07Speaker 9: think that's our one of our big challenges is the
- 47:09Speaker 9: defensive line doesn't look strong, uh, and they're getting They
- 47:13Speaker 9: got turned easily by what is probably looking to be
- 47:17Speaker 9: one of the top ten offensive lines in the NFL
- 47:20Speaker 9: from the first two weeks.
- 47:21Speaker 3: Yep, they got man handled up front. I mean front seven,
- 47:25Speaker 3: moved moved around, moved from side to side, turned, I
- 47:29Speaker 3: mean everything that that that they wanted to do they did.
- 47:33Speaker 3: I mean it was a it was a perfect game
- 47:35Speaker 3: by the Saints, and they look really good right now.
- 47:37Speaker 1: I mean they do.
- 47:38Speaker 3: Their quarterback is playing within himself. Their running back is
- 47:42Speaker 3: as dynamic as he's ever been. They've got speed on
- 47:44Speaker 3: the receivers. They got a playmaker in.
- 47:48Speaker 9: What I and I was like, this is awesome thing
- 47:51Speaker 9: people keep saying. This reminded me of the Green Bay game.
- 47:54Speaker 9: This reminded me of the Green Bay game. And one
- 47:56Speaker 9: of the reasons it does is because Dallas for the
- 47:59Speaker 9: last two weeks has run primarily zone and that's because
- 48:04Speaker 9: probably they're trying to protect the rookie cornerback, right. And
- 48:08Speaker 9: last year when Dallas was very successful, they were running
- 48:11Speaker 9: man to man, right. And I think when they did
- 48:14Speaker 9: Deron Bland back, you know, and he gets you know,
- 48:17Speaker 9: his playing legs back underneath him. I'm pretty sure Zimmer
- 48:21Speaker 9: will go back to the strength of playing man to man,
- 48:23Speaker 9: which then frees up those safeties to help more in
- 48:25Speaker 9: the running game.
- 48:26Speaker 3: Yep, because they're not I don't think that's their strength
- 48:29Speaker 3: to play zone back there. And then you saw it
- 48:31Speaker 3: in that in that deep touchdown. But like you know,
- 48:34Speaker 3: Malie Cooker, you know he's done that. Thanks for the call.
- 48:37Speaker 3: Seth appreciate that. Uh, and he has to be our
- 48:39Speaker 3: last call today. But but yeah, you know, and I
- 48:42Speaker 3: think donm and Wilson. I mean, he's a he's just
- 48:45Speaker 3: a few pounds away from being a linebacker. I mean
- 48:48Speaker 3: that's really a style that he plays, the mentality that
- 48:51Speaker 3: he is now, he's a he's a playmaker. Though he
- 48:54Speaker 3: gets interceptions, he makes plays. But I think he's better
- 48:56Speaker 3: closer to the line of scrimmage than he is back
- 48:58Speaker 3: deep and hooker. I think can play it. But I'd
- 49:02Speaker 3: like to see a little bit more one safety high.
- 49:04Speaker 3: But you're right, You're right. I think they are protecting
- 49:07Speaker 3: the corners a little bit, and not only him, but
- 49:09Speaker 3: probably protect protecting you know, Trayvon Diggs coming back from
- 49:12Speaker 3: injury as well. But but teams are going right at
- 49:14Speaker 3: him running the ball and trying to make him be physical.
- 49:17Speaker 3: So if you if you look at what they're doing,
- 49:19Speaker 3: who's the best players, who's their top top guys on defense? Well,
- 49:22Speaker 3: you got Digs at corner, you got Micah Parsons, and
- 49:24Speaker 3: teams are running right at them and they're not doing
- 49:27Speaker 3: the things that you know that that make them great
- 49:29Speaker 3: of letting them brush the passer and letting them go
- 49:32Speaker 3: and get interceptions and things like that. It's doing things
- 49:34Speaker 3: that they're not as comfortable doing. And you can do
- 49:37Speaker 3: that when when you're when you got the lead, you're
- 49:39Speaker 3: you're you're you're dictating what they want to do on offense.
- 49:43Speaker 3: And that's the Saints did that to perfection. So that's
- 49:47Speaker 3: that's the way I saw it. And uh, you know,
- 49:49Speaker 3: I I agreed with a lot of the callers today.
- 49:52Speaker 3: I thought you guys did a really nice job of
- 49:55Speaker 3: keeping the frustrations and check and and and uh and
- 49:58Speaker 3: you know, I I get it. I I hear it,
- 50:00Speaker 3: and and they should be frustrated because it is early.
- 50:03Speaker 3: But but that's not a good sign getting beat by
- 50:07Speaker 3: twenty five points at home to a team that, you know,
- 50:10Speaker 3: you who knows how good they are, but but you know,
- 50:13Speaker 3: traditionally haven't been good. Derek Carr has not been a
- 50:17Speaker 3: stellar quarterback in his career and so to go and
- 50:20Speaker 3: get carved up like that is uh, it's it's concerning.
- 50:23Speaker 3: We'll see how they respond and we'll talk about it
- 50:26Speaker 3: all week long here on a Cowboys storyline. So for
- 50:28Speaker 3: Chris Beam, I'm Nick even We'll see you tomorrow on
- 50:31Speaker 3: Cowboys Storyline.
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