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Cowboys StoryLine: Who’s to Blame? · Cowboys StoryLine

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  Speaker 1: Is a production of dallascowboys.com and the Dallas Cowboys football club.
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  Speaker 1: This is Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette, the official shave
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: What is up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette.
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  Speaker 2: I just fumbled my Pen cap. It's going to be
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  Speaker 2: one of those kind of days, I guess. It was
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  Speaker 2: one of those kind of days yesterday. It didn't look
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  Speaker 2: like it until the very end. Cowboys lose 33-30 in
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  Speaker 2: overtime to the Cardinals once again. This is getting old.
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  Speaker 2: Those card tricks are just getting old because you've seen them.
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  Speaker 2: Every time they play, something weird happens. This time... It
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  Speaker 2: looked like it was going to be the Cowboys' day,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some tight end that I know you didn't
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  Speaker 2: even know was on the team or even the practice squad.
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  Speaker 2: Scores the first touchdown of the game, and it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be that kind of day. It looks like the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys are getting sacks. They're getting turnovers. Not playing great,
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  Speaker 2: but it looks like they're going to win it. But
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  Speaker 2: you give up 20 points in the fourth quarter, three
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  Speaker 2: in overtime. You lose 33-30 to the Cardinals, and you're 3-5.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: 888-855-2297.
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  Speaker 2: Davion in Illinois is first.
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  Speaker 4: What's up?
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  Speaker 5: What it do, my boy?
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  Speaker 6: What it do?
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  Speaker 7: What the business is.
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  Speaker 5: It's not good business. Sad Monday, man.
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  Speaker 7: Sad Monday. I'm not going to lie to you. I
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  Speaker 7: got questions. I don't think we got any answers to
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  Speaker 7: these things. Why do we do strange play callings still?
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  Speaker 7: I don't understand why we running a quarterback sneak out
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  Speaker 7: of the out of our end zone, but we can't
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  Speaker 7: do it on fourth and.
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  Speaker 2: One.
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  Speaker 7: Why are we running tunnel screens against blitzes? We ain't
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  Speaker 7: run a good tunnel screen forever. Finally got a screen
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  Speaker 7: to work, and then it went back to the well
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  Speaker 7: and wasted it down. I really thought shotting was going
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  Speaker 7: to be a difference maker on the sideline. I really
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  Speaker 7: was hoping for that. I just ain't seeing it, man.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what's the holdup, what's the problem. The
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  Speaker 7: defense was playing well the first half, well, three quarters.
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  Speaker 7: First four quarters, everything broke down.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: And then you talk about funny stuff with the Cardinals, man.
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  Speaker 7: How did we lose our rookie safety and our cornerback?
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  Speaker 7: And it just seemed like the defense just fell apart.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Crazy.
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  Speaker 7: It's just, it's so many, so many just, we, Cowboy
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  Speaker 7: Nation is hurting real bad today, I know. Man, where
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  Speaker 7: do we go from here? I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 7: Where do we go?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll figure it out. I mean, they go to Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 2: That's where they go, and I'm not trying to be
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  Speaker 2: cute about it. I mean, that's really where they go.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they got to, pick up the pieces and, and, and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'll say this about this team. Like they don't,
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  Speaker 2: they don't carry on anything.
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  Speaker 8: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: So they should be able to go to Indianapolis and say,
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  Speaker 2: all right, let's go win, win this game. Because I
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  Speaker 2: can promise you this. I don't carry over any momentum
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  Speaker 2: from the Philadelphia game as far as like, Hey, big win,
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  Speaker 2: let's go, let's build on this. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they don't build off victories. So, Guess we shouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: that worried about them building and letting this game carry
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  Speaker 2: on to the next one. And how do they come?
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  Speaker 2: They'll be fine. And I say that because they definitely
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  Speaker 2: just take it week to week every time. They don't
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  Speaker 2: seem to have what worked in the first game or
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  Speaker 2: the last game and move it on. It's just this
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  Speaker 2: back and forth, back and forth type of team. And
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  Speaker 2: so they should– be somewhat focused and go and win
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  Speaker 2: the game or at least play well, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: a team that seems to be giving up over there
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  Speaker 2: in Indianapolis. But the point is, is that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as I wrote in my article yesterday, like they just have–
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  Speaker 2: they just cannot– handle any kind of success, whether it
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  Speaker 2: be in a game, like throughout the week, or even
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  Speaker 2: inside the game. You know, they're not building off of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, last time they go out, they score, they
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  Speaker 2: go out and score again. It's just back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: and you just can't ever get any consistency, any momentum.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just kind of where they are right now.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Chris in Saratoga Springs.
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  Speaker 6: What's going on, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: It's good, I guess. I mean, I'm fine. I'm fine.
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  Speaker 2: I hate that I have to keep talking about this
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  Speaker 2: same type of thing with no answers.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: So Dak had no answers, and Shottie had no answers. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure as hell not going to have
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  Speaker 2: any answers.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Like, it's hard to put your finger on what's going
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  Speaker 2: on here.
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  Speaker 6: It is. Just another, for me, another devastating loss to
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  Speaker 6: a team that were better then. Different players, different coaches,
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  Speaker 6: same results. At the end of the day, we just
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  Speaker 6: don't know how to be a winning football team right now,
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  Speaker 6: and it's sad to me. I watched it with my
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  Speaker 6: dad and my sons. We've got three generations of Cowboys fans.
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  Speaker 6: My dad, after the game, looked at me with a
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  Speaker 6: straight face, and he said, Who do you blame this
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  Speaker 6: game on?
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  Speaker 8: Is it Shadi?
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  Speaker 7: Is it the coaches?
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  Speaker 6: Is it the players?
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  Speaker 7: Is it Dak?
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  Speaker 6: I couldn't answer them. It's everybody. It's not just one player.
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  Speaker 6: It's not just one side of the ball. It's the
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  Speaker 6: whole thing. They just don't know how to be a
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  Speaker 6: winning football team. It's real sad. I didn't like the
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  Speaker 6: way we ended the half at all. I don't like
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  Speaker 6: the way we ended the end of regulation the last
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  Speaker 6: two minutes. I mean, I don't know why you don't
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  Speaker 6: have C.D.
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  Speaker 8: And G.P.
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  Speaker 6: On the field when the crucial moments of the games are.
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  Speaker 6: Those things, that kind of bothered me. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: it's just frustrating as a fan to see, you know,
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  Speaker 6: different coaches, different players, and we have the same results.
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  Speaker 6: I just want it to change at some point. Obviously,
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  Speaker 6: it's been, like, 30 years of this. It's got to change.
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  Speaker 6: It definitely has to. My only question to you today, Nick–
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  Speaker 6: as far as George picking goes, um, which for me,
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  Speaker 6: I would, I would trade them. We don't use them.
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  Speaker 6: He's getting out snapped by Ryan Flanoy. Um, he's underutilized.
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  Speaker 6: He's not in on running guy. It's not in on
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  Speaker 6: running plays for me. I might look to move him
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  Speaker 6: before the trade deadline and see what he's, see what
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  Speaker 6: we can get for some picks. What's your thoughts on,
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  Speaker 6: on something like that?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, thanks Chris. I think everything should be on the
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  Speaker 2: table right now. Um, And, you know, based off how
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  Speaker 2: that game went, I mean, think about it. Like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they score with, what, six seconds to go or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: So if you figure out a way to stop them there,
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  Speaker 2: figure out a way to get off the field and
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  Speaker 2: win the game, you know, you still have the same
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  Speaker 2: situation as far as snaps with Flannoy and Pickens and
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff. And so you still won the game without–
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  Speaker 2: him being a big factor and all that stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: I say all that to say, you know, if they
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  Speaker 2: want to make a move and do something like that, they,
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  Speaker 2: they could. And, and I don't think it's necessarily in
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  Speaker 2: give up mode either. You know, it's, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of going on behind the scenes, some, some distractions there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think he's a huge distraction to
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  Speaker 2: the team, but it is, you know, it's not a
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  Speaker 2: healthy situation. It doesn't feel like I'm trying to get
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  Speaker 2: him involved all the time and, Um, but I, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that they do a good job with it
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  Speaker 2: either though. You know what I mean? I mean, like
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  Speaker 2: I remember Troy Aikman said long time ago about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: what is it like when Michael Irvin's yelling on the
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  Speaker 2: sideline about getting the ball? And he said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the one thing I really did to kind of shut
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  Speaker 2: him up was to throw him the football, you know,
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  Speaker 2: cause you throw him the football, you know, those guys, they,
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  Speaker 2: it's good things happen and they, they shut up. And
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  Speaker 2: so he's probably not wrong. So I'm not saying George is,
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  Speaker 2: is that type of guy where he's being disruptive or anything,
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  Speaker 2: but I think that they don't do a good job
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  Speaker 2: of kind of getting him the football, and he's always
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  Speaker 2: open in terms of throwing it up to him. And
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  Speaker 2: I think he showed last week that he can make
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  Speaker 2: some of these plays. I just don't feel like they're
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  Speaker 2: doing a good enough job there. But, Chris, what he
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  Speaker 2: said just now about the end of the half, end
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  Speaker 2: of the game, it's every week now. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: seems like it's every week. I hate how things go
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the half almost every single game.
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  Speaker 2: And this is another one. I just think that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you can have trust in your players, but you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to put them in situations that aren't favorable for them.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like, yes, yes, you can do this. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I say it every week. Yes, Aubrey can make a 61-yarder.
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  Speaker 2: He can. And at the end of the game, if
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  Speaker 2: Spanford can catch that ball, and there's one second left
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  Speaker 2: to go, and there's probably going to be a 69-
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  Speaker 2: to 70 yard field goal to win the game yeah
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  Speaker 2: i mean you you try it but with one time
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  Speaker 2: out back to the end of the half with 11
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  Speaker 2: seconds to go you just got to fumble um throw
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  Speaker 2: it go down the field a little bit try it
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  Speaker 2: try to make it more because if you think he
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  Speaker 2: can make 61 he can make 64 but why don't
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  Speaker 2: we just see if you can make it 51 and
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  Speaker 2: he'll hit it and, you know, for the back of
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  Speaker 2: the net and it'll, it'll be fine. Um, that kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff, but the end of the, end of the
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  Speaker 2: game to me, I don't know who's, who's doing, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how they have their end of the game management.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's the same guy that they have, but, um,
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  Speaker 2: that isn't working that who this, the end of the
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  Speaker 2: game I thought was critical. Um, And I've said this before.
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  Speaker 2: Let me get another caller in. I'm sure it'll come
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  Speaker 2: up again. I have some points, but I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: get some calls in too. So Brian in Kansas City. Brian,
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  Speaker 2: what's up?
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Nick.
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  Speaker 9: Morning.
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  Speaker 8: How are you? I'm speechless after that. Hey, I need
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  Speaker 8: to ask a question because I was curious about something,
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  Speaker 8: and the site I used didn't clear this up. Usually
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  Speaker 8: it says... when I read the inactives, it'll say why
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  Speaker 8: it like either there'll be an injury designation or it'll
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  Speaker 8: just say coach's decision. Why was rebel down yesterday?
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  Speaker 5: Do you know?
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  Speaker 2: It was a coach's decision. I think, I think if
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  Speaker 2: it's not, if you don't see an injury, uh, designation,
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  Speaker 2: then that's pretty much what it is. Um, but yeah, um,
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  Speaker 2: they wanted to put lock up and, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think it was a special teams, you know, element on
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  Speaker 2: it too. And, um, And to be fair, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Amir's speed is at a point where they think, obviously
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  Speaker 2: they like what he does more than Rebel. And that
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  Speaker 2: could be a special teams element of it too.
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  Speaker 8: That was my question is, was it meritorious or does
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  Speaker 8: he have a bruised big toe and they put him
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  Speaker 8: down for that reason? So I was just curious. So
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  Speaker 8: in looking at specifically the defense, I'm curious and I,
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  Speaker 8: you know, I don't watch tape, but I'd be curious
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  Speaker 8: if the collapse coincides with JPJ and downs coming out
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  Speaker 8: of the game. And because the difference between a mere
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  Speaker 8: speed and JPJ is night and day. I mean, right.
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  Speaker 8: That's why we went and traded for him. So it,
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  Speaker 8: and I, so I'm a little curious in my mind,
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  Speaker 8: Quinn and Williams and, and, and Porter are the two
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  Speaker 8: best defenders we have, right? Whichever one you want to
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  Speaker 8: call one versus two, but those are our two best
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  Speaker 8: guys losing one. And it's hard for me as a
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  Speaker 8: fan that doesn't have, you know, a lot of intricate
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  Speaker 8: understanding of the defense and coaching to say what, what
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  Speaker 8: downs is, but he appears to be a really good communicator.
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  Speaker 8: And I hear he's a really good communicator and, And
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  Speaker 8: he's a starter. Regardless of anything else, he's a starter.
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  Speaker 8: And you lost him, and he's one of the important communicators.
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  Speaker 8: And certainly on the goal line play, you know, he
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  Speaker 8: was the one to get in there and take down
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  Speaker 8: a guy much bigger than him. So I'm just curious
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  Speaker 8: about that. On the overall, I'm just at a loss.
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  Speaker 8: I think the one thing we can take away hope
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  Speaker 8: with is, We have players. We have good, individual, talented players.
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  Speaker 8: Can they turn it around? And Isaiah on the last
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  Speaker 8: show just pointed out that his Giants team that won
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  Speaker 8: the Super Bowl went 3-8 down the stretch and then
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  Speaker 8: all of a sudden caught on fire and beat the
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  Speaker 8: undefeated Patriots. you know? So I do think you have
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  Speaker 8: the players. I don't know what has to happen to
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  Speaker 8: bring them all together. I'll leave you with that, Nick.
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  Speaker 8: Good to talk to you, sir.
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  Speaker 5: All right. You too.
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah wasn't on the team that beat the undefeated Patriots,
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  Speaker 2: but he was on, I think on different teams that
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  Speaker 2: won it four years later. But regardless, I mean, that's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's speaking from experience of a team that,
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  Speaker 2: that got, you know, caught fire late. But they've got to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they've got to figure out how to, how
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  Speaker 2: to get this thing turned around. And, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: say they got good players. I don't know. Like, I'm not,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm not really sure. I mean, I think,
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  Speaker 2: I think they've got players that are making a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money, but I don't know if it's necessarily they,
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  Speaker 2: they've got great players here. You think that they are,
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  Speaker 2: Joey Porter Jr. thing, this is a tough one because
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  Speaker 2: when he's out there, he makes a big difference. I
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  Speaker 2: just don't know the nature of the injury. I'll say this.
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  Speaker 2: Quinton Williams and Joey Porter Jr. are both, I think
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  Speaker 2: you're right, the top two players. One of them has
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  Speaker 2: a contract. One of them doesn't.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Albert in Tucson.
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  Speaker 5: Nick, my man. Good morning, brother. How are you? I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 8: Sheesh.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's not.
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  Speaker 9: Victory Monday, but I'm 100% positive on two things.
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  Speaker 5: It feels like.
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  Speaker 9: I'm going to ask you at the end of this, too,
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  Speaker 9: if you believe in it, but It feels like it's
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  Speaker 9: called a brujería, but it's pretty much a curse on
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  Speaker 9: us Dallas Cowboys because it feels like I'm watching the
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  Speaker 9: Red Sox and the Cubs. What can go wrong will
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  Speaker 9: go wrong. There's even Aaron bleeping Boone in these games.
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  Speaker 9: I've seen it. I've seen it with my own eyes.
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  Speaker 9: And this game... felt just like that yeah two different
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  Speaker 9: sports but the outcomes were the same you know one
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  Speaker 9: team was leading one team was looking like oh man
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  Speaker 9: it looks like they're finally going to get over that
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  Speaker 9: hump and then they said no no just wait just
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  Speaker 9: just wait like you know the curse is real yeah
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  Speaker 9: and yep it happened and uh i want to i
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  Speaker 9: want to get your opinion do you think curses are
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  Speaker 9: real The second thing I got is when your starting
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  Speaker 9: quarterback goes out and says, and I quote, and so
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  Speaker 9: it's never just one person's fault. Even if I go
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  Speaker 9: out there and throw 100 interceptions, it's never truly just
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  Speaker 9: one person's fault. That has to ring negative. No, I mean,
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  Speaker 9: do you really want your star quarterback saying that? Anyway,
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  Speaker 9: that's all I got.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think it is one person's fault in a
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  Speaker 2: game of football of 11 players and coaches? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: do you think– what are you saying there? Are you
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  Speaker 2: saying that it is one person's fault?
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: Going by what he's saying, he says even if I
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  Speaker 9: throw 100 interceptions, don't blame me. You can't just blame.
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  Speaker 8: Me, right?
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  Speaker 5: Right. Well, he does.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. Right.
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  Speaker 9: So, but sometimes in a lot of games, especially this year,
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  Speaker 9: it's kind of like it was, and I get it,
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  Speaker 9: you know, picks, you know, were hit up in the
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  Speaker 9: air and some of them, you know, the receiver fell,
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  Speaker 9: but also some of his, you know, he didn't dive
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  Speaker 9: too or he didn't know exactly when to start the slide,
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  Speaker 9: so he was putting his team on a fourth and
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  Speaker 9: one or a fourth and two. You know, he put himself...
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  Speaker 9: He's put us in bad positions. And I tend to
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  Speaker 9: disagree because it's like, you know, if somebody's... You know,
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  Speaker 9: if the bleeding is coming from somewhere, how do you
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  Speaker 9: stop it? You know what I mean? I mean, someone...
• 18:19
  Speaker 9: Not really. This is my opinion. Someone needs to get fired, traded, cut,
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: or released. And I don't know where because there's too
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: many holes, but it needs to come from somewhere. So anyway,
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: that's all I got. Go Cowboys.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: And talk to you later.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Okay. Keith in Fernandina Beach is next.
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: Good morning, Nick.
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: Morning.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Doing okay.
• 18:45
  Speaker 11: Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to watch a lot
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: of the game, but I was able to go onto
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: your website this morning, and I read your article about
• 18:53
  Speaker 11: the team not being able to handle success.
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: You know, you're in that building. Do you get a
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: sense from the interaction that you guys have with the players, like,
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: during a week that we're coming off a victory, do
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: you have a feeling that, like, things are different or
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: that the players are acting different? Or could you share
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: a little bit of that for us?
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it definitely is a different vibe when you
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: come off a win. I mean, that's just the nature
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: of it. So the mood's always better. And that's just being–
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: And that's fine. I mean, that your mood is that way.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: But it's still like what there seems to be something
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: missing within like the meetings or the practice or whatever
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: of just getting locked in. So what we see is
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: kind of just interaction of walking around or whatever. And obviously,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: you're going to be in a better mood after you
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: go and beat Philadelphia by 17 and all that stuff.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: But when it comes down to being serious or whatever,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: it just feels like, because you just keep seeing this win-loss, win-loss,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: that they're not handling the... the success of a win
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: and being locked in and focused and going and doing
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: it again and again and again. And they're not doing
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: it within the game either. So that's just what that's,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not a psychiatrist here. I'm just saying
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: that's what it seems like is that they're good enough
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: to kind of get themselves in position to win a
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: game or to have the lead, but they're not necessarily
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: finishing the job.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: No, I agree.
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: And then, and then, I mean, where do you put
• 20:29
  Speaker 11: that on?
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: I mean, obviously the players, yes, but then, you know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: the coaches, I.
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: Mean, isn't that their job to get these guys fired up?
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: And it is.
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: And I heard that CD lamb had a comment about that.
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: The Cardinals always come in with just a little extra,
• 20:46
  Speaker 11: you know, motivation or whatever.
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: It's like, this is the NFL.
• 20:49
  Speaker 11: You shouldn't need motivation. It should be able to, you
• 20:52
  Speaker 11: want to go out there and, win every game, right?
• 20:55
  Speaker 11: You shouldn't take anybody for granted because it's the NFL.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if I even believe that, that
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: they have extra motivation. They didn't play with that. I
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: don't think they have extra motivation. But I was asked
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: just earlier about do I think curses are real and
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: all that. No, I don't, actually. Not when it comes
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: to this. I really don't. I think that the Red
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Sox didn't win for 80 years because they weren't good enough.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: And the Cubs or whatever. I think the Cowboys don't
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: win these games because they're just not good enough. They're not.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, we think that here's an organization that's won,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: you know, five Super Bowls and they're America's team and
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: all that. And here's one that just, you know, their
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: next really big win will be the first big win
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: in their franchise history. But when we think that, oh,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: they're way better than them, but they're not. They just
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: haven't been. So I don't believe in that. Curses, I
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: just don't think that they're good enough. They're not good
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: enough to handle that type of situation, and whether or
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: not they overlook them, they do. But we're talking about
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: 20 years of, like, different coaches from both sides, different quarterbacks,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: different everything. I don't know if it's a curse. I
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: just think it's like, well, you haven't been good enough.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: It's probably, you know, it's just a quirky stat, really.
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: Right, and you're right.
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: Every team is a new team. Every year is a
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: new team.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: So I'd say this. Next time they play the Cardinals,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: they're going to be wearing Navy. I promise you that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I believe in the Cards, but
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I think other people do. They won't be wearing those
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: uniforms again. They've got to mix it up somehow. But
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: who knows? But it was there. It was there to win.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Keith.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you. We'll go to break here. We'll be right
• 22:41
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• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Hey, how you doing?
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Happy Monday, buddy.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 24:40
  Speaker 14: Doing good. Let me tell you about the weekend a
• 24:44
  Speaker 14: little bit. It was quite nice, actually. Saturday was Halloween,
• 24:47
  Speaker 14: as everyone knows. My daughter's dressed up as Nezuko from
• 24:49
  Speaker 14: Demon Slayer and Bitsy. They were super cute. They go
• 24:51
  Speaker 14: out and have a treat. My daughter has a sleepover.
• 24:53
  Speaker 14: They stay up all night. I stay up all night, too.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: Supervising.
• 24:56
  Speaker 14: You know how we do.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: Game starts.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Game's going good.
• 25:00
  Speaker 14: It's going great, actually. You know, I'm texting Irene, and
• 25:04
  Speaker 14: I'm talking trash. We're having a good time. And then,
• 25:08
  Speaker 14: you know, she goes, hop on YouTube. So I go
• 25:11
  Speaker 14: over there to your guy, Nix, and dylan which is
• 25:14
  Speaker 14: not a bad place to watch you know the football
• 25:16
  Speaker 14: game either so i'm in the chat and in the
• 25:18
  Speaker 14: chat i said something i go we have exercise the
• 25:20
  Speaker 14: demons or so i thought right what about third quarter
• 25:25
  Speaker 14: i started getting a little sleepy start dozing sir nicholas
• 25:28
  Speaker 14: the beatman and fall asleep give him like 14 points
• 25:33
  Speaker 14: what could go wrong and i wake up and it's
• 25:36
  Speaker 14: 30 30 and we're in overtime So we're about to lose.
• 25:40
  Speaker 14: And I had to do that thing where you wake
• 25:41
  Speaker 14: up and you wipe your eyes twice because the jacket
• 25:43
  Speaker 14: in the corner looks like a demon now. And I'm like, what?
• 25:49
  Speaker 14: I was flabbergasted. I had no idea how Gardner Minshew
• 25:53
  Speaker 14: Magic did it again, what the heck happened, how we
• 25:56
  Speaker 14: totally collapsed. And at this point, I just have negative
• 26:01
  Speaker 14: five faith in the coaching staff and the players. Nothing
• 26:05
  Speaker 14: that happened yesterday made sense. And I have to go
• 26:07
  Speaker 14: back and watch the game because I need to see
• 26:09
  Speaker 14: for myself what actually went wrong. But outside of that, Mr. Even,
• 26:13
  Speaker 14: it was a great weekend.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 26:15
  Speaker 14: The clock fell back, and the Cowboys fell back into
• 26:18
  Speaker 14: their similar patterns of being inconsistent. I'm going to hang
• 26:20
  Speaker 14: up and listen.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: You have a great day.
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: Well, all right.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's others that can fault the team.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Sebastian, you really don't have a leg to stand on,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I guess, because this team fell asleep in the middle
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: of the game. So did you. So you guys are
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: kind of on the same page there. But, yeah, that's
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: what happened. I can't imagine that. I can't imagine falling
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: asleep in the middle of a game. Like, seriously, that
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: seems weird to me. But, you know, it's not your
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: job to be a Cowboy fan, really. You just got
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: to choose to. The Cowboys actually did fall asleep at
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: the wheel in the third and fourth quarter.
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: And.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say a couple of points here I
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: was talking about earlier. I think that one of the
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: biggest issues for me was talking about game management. And
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: if I see this, I just don't know why they
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: don't see it the same way. But to me, Rashawn
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Gary's penalty actually was the worst play of the game.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: That was the worst play of the game for me.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: That 15-yard penalty right there. When it's about to be
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: 4th and 10, I'm not saying they're not going to
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: get it on 4th and 10, but to me, when
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: they're driving there and they've got the one timeout, I'm
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: over here thinking this, and I just don't know why
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: they don't either. The two-minute warning is basically the finish line.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: If you can get them to score, they're going to
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: score probably regardless. They're going to get a field goal
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: or a touchdown. But as long as they don't score
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: before the two-minute warning, you're going to win the game.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: you're going to win the game. Just do whatever you
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: have to do. Put six guys in the end zone, whatever.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Keep everything in front. If they want to run a draw, fine.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Go up and tackle them. Do whatever you've got to
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: do to make sure the two-minute warning hits and you're
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: up by 10. If you do that, the game is over.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: They're going to kick a field goal or they'll try
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: to score a touchdown, but don't let them score there.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Keep everything in front. If you get to the two-minute warning,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: they have one timeout. That's it. If they do get
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: the ball back, it's going to be 25 seconds or whatever,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: and you're going to win the game. But they can't
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: go down. Then Rashawn Gary's penalty puts it on the 14.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: They play regular defense, and somehow they just forget about McBride.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: He goes and scores a touchdown, 2-12. Cowboys run two plays.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Two plays. The onside kick and then two other plays
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: before the two-minute warning.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: That was.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: That was the game. And the fact that they don't
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: think that way, the fact that they don't say, whatever
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: we do, do not let them score. If we can
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: just get to the two-minute warning, that's another timeout that
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: they won't have. The game will be over. So whoever's
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: running the game management for them is not good enough.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: And if that's shoddy, that's not good enough. If it's
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: someone else that they've got doing it, not good enough.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And it's the end of the half, too. All right,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Anthony in North Carolina, thanks.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: Hey, Nick, how you doing? I'm good.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: How are you, Anthony?
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: I'm doing good, man. Hey, Nick, I watched the game
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: last night, man. I've been watching this team all year long,
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: and I've been a Dallas Cowboys fan for probably 30-plus years,
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: ever since I was a youngster, right? And I think
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: what I'm seeing, the coaching is terrible. I'm just going
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: to have to be honest with you. The head coaching
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: is terrible. The defensive coordinator is terrible. I feel like Jerry,
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: he's going to have to tear this team down and
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: start over, man. I'm sorry. He's going to have to
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: tear it down. This team is not going nowhere this year.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: I hate to put it out there to a Cowboy
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Nation like that, but they're not going anywhere. They're going
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: to have to tear it down and start over, man.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: It's just not working. I just don't see it working, Nick.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. Like I said, I hate to be this way,
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: but that's just what I'm seeing, man. They're just not good.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: They're not good at all, man. They're not good at all.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: You can hear the pain in your voice. Like, you
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: hear the pain.
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Because it's not fun to say that. It's not fun
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: to say that. I mean, because the Cowboys, you know,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: if you're calling this show, the Cowboys, I mean, it's
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: like family, right?
• 30:45
  Speaker 9: You know what I mean?
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: It's like when you figure out that a family member
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: or whatever is just not good enough or not a
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: good person or whatever it is, you hate to say it,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: but it's just the reality of it. And when you
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: say that about this team isn't good, I mean, I
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: get it. Tearing it down is harder than it seems
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: because if you tear it down, teams that are doing that.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: They're not tanking necessarily, but they're building for the future.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: The problem is the Cowboys don't control their own future.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: They don't. They're not going to get their draft pick.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: They could be as terrible and keep losing games, and
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: they are not going to get their draft pick. They're
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: going to get a second-round pick. It'll be a high second,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: but they won't get a first-round pick that's going to
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: be high because the Packers... Now they're turning the corners.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: You're going to get the Packers pick. So it kind
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: of sucks to do that because, you know, even if
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: you do tear it down and lose games or whatever,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: you're going to get a high second-round pick for it
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: so that you're not going to get a first round.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: That's what sucks.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: About it, but. Yeah, I understand. I understand that, but
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: I still feel like it's just, like you say, it's
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: very hurtful to see this team going through what they're
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: going through every week. And here in South Carolina, we
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: see the Cowboys come on every week. It's just hurt
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: to see them go through what they're going through, man.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Alright, Anthony, thanks for the call. And I know there's
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: a lot of fans out there that feel the same way.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: And I feel for you guys.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: I really do.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: It sucks. I was watching. I get home and You know,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: what's funny is I called a friend of mine because
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: my son wanted chicken, wanted some chicken. So I literally
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: brought home the chicken dinner. I didn't get the winner,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: but we did do the chicken dinner, which was even worse.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: And then watching those two bad teams play, you know,
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: on the TV, I'm just like, I don't want to
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: watch football. I don't want to watch this. I'm just
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: tired of it right then. So it sucks. And Anthony,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: I'm sure there's a lot. Fans feel the same way.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: All right, Michael in Bowling Green. Michael, what's up?
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Nick.
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: What?
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: All right, man. I'm a 46-year veteran fan of this team. Nick,
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: I'm calling you. I need you to give me some hope.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: If this coaching staff stays intact this year, do we
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: have any hope?
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Hope for what?
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: What are you hoping for, Michael? I mean, I'm not
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: trying to be funny. I'm just saying, what are you
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: hoping for? Win the division playoffs? Something, yeah.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Do you see any? Do you see us winning the NFC?
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: As bad as the NFC, can we get past? Do
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: you think we can get past this and put things together?
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Let me ask you this. Let me ask you this.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: I'm going to just ask you. Who's in a better
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: spot right now record-wise, Giants or Cowboys, record-wise?
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Well, the Giants are one.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Who's got better players, Giants or Cowboys?
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Cowboys.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Who's got better coaches?
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Giants.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: And they're in the lead. So, I don't. I don't actually,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I don't have hope about that. I really don't. Look
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: at who the Giants are playing. The Giants beat some
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: of these teams that the Cowboys, like, oh, well, they
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: already beat the Cardinals, they beat the Titans, all that. So, oh,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Cowboys are going to get to play some of them.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: But I think the Giants have an easier schedule, too.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: I have a hard time right now. I can't sit
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: there and give you that hope and say, you know what,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: they're going to turn this around. Can they? Yeah, I mean...
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: It's such a crazy league that the Falcons are going
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: to go beat the Niners and then go and can't
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: score a point in the rain and all this kind
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: of stuff. So every week you're going to have weird stuff.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: They're going to go beat somebody and just shock the
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: crap out of everybody. They're going to do it. The
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Cowboys will do it. They got enough people on this
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: team to go and do that. They're going to win one.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: We're going to be here on a Monday that we
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: are absolutely shocked that they won this game. About as
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: shocked as you were that they lost this one, especially
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: in how they lost it. But I don't think as the,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: you know, looking at three and five, three and five,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I just don't have a lot of hope right now
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: that the Cowboys are going to have the consistency. They
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: just don't, they haven't shown it. And at this point,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: you're going to need a lot of consistency. So I
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: don't want to hear that 2018 stuff about, you know,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: they traded for Amari Cooper and all that. Okay, well,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: who are they bringing in the door that's going to
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: do that? I don't think that they will do that.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: And I think they've already done it. They've already brought
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: that guy in. And he's in and out of the
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: lineup in Joey Port. He's good player, really good player,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: but you can't count on him right now. He's just
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: not there a lot. And I don't think he's going
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: to be out there and playing on an ankle. That's
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: not a hundred percent putting bad tape out there. I
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: don't think he's going to do that. He didn't, he
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: hasn't done that. So, um, you know, that's a, that's
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: a tough situation because you need them. You need him
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: to be out there and really help them. But, uh,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: without him and downs, I think that really helped Arizona.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: I just don't see the consistency. Um, for this team.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: Look who they're losing to. I mean, the Cardinals were
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: bad going in and they lost all their like star
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: players and they still go and find, you know, lightning
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: in a bottle at the end.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Do you think Dak could call his own plays and
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: do better?
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I don't want to get into that.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. No, I don't think that's
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: his game to do that. I think, I think he,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: you know, I think, He can at times two-minute offense
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. I think he's done a good job.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: But I don't think he's at a point where he's
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: calling their own plays. But, you know, what I would
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: do is I think maybe your play caller needs to
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: be the play caller only.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: Only.
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: Something.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: You know, something.
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Michael.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: Appreciate it. Thank you.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Let's go to J.R. in Avondale. J.R., what's up?
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: What's going on, Nick?
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: How are you doing today?
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Out of the hospital, got that surgery behind me, so
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: I'm happy about that.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: We're all happy for that, too. That's the best news
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: of the show so far.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: If you had told me, and I watched the game
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: in the hospital yesterday, so if you had ever told
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: me I was going to have open-heart surgery and then
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: watch the Cowboys throw a game they did from the
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: thoracic cardiac ward in the hospital and survive it, I
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: would have told you you're crazy. But I watched it happen,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: and I survived it, and I got to come home.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: So I'm happy about that.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, there's so many jokes there, but we're not
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: joking about that kind of stuff. The fact that you
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: had to go through that and then watch the game
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: and all that, man, I'm so glad that you're able
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: to do that, and I'm glad that you're doing well. But,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: you know, football's football. It's a game, you know, at
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: this point. So I'm glad that you were able to
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: be healthy. It sounds like you're healthy. And glad you're
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: calling the show.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been– I was going to try to call.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: I got out of– they had me out walking on Thursday.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: I was going to try to call, but they wouldn't
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: let me.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: So, anyway.
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: Good.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: So I got the call today. And it is what
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: it is, I guess. What I don't understand is why–
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: You know, they're benching Rebel, Sutton, Durant, Bland, Plank. And
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but whatever he was or whatever they thought
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: he was, he's not that guy anymore. Yeah, Elton looked
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: like Larry Fitzgerald out there. Couldn't cover him. And then
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: I always look forward to reading his plays. And what
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: he put in there was 30 seconds to go, he
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: misses a tackle on Algier out in the flat and
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: lets him run downfield farther and get out of bounds
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: and stop the clock. And they threw their pass with
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: 10 seconds to go in the game. So that's probably
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: 10 seconds they could have got right there, and the
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: game may have been over. But, no, he missed the tackle.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: So I don't know what happened to that guy, but
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: he could not cover Wilson at all. And then they
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: let him run on the– I was watching the game
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: again this morning, and you've got Kobe Durant screaming at
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Elijah Clark on the touchdown pass. Clark's not even looking
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: at him. Then you end up with Clark's speed and
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Durant covering two guys and Wilson runs right by Clark
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: into the middle of the end zone. I'm pretty sure
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Durant was trying to communicate to Clark that, hey, this
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: is your guy, but nobody covered him. But anyway, you
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: know what?
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: I'm one of those.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: I've been a fan my entire life, so I still
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: have hope that they're going to turn it around, and
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: whatever that's worth, I... I'm just glad I got to
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: see my Cowboys play again. And I'll be watching them
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: again this weekend. That's all I got, Nick. Go Cowboys.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Appreciate all the well wishes for everybody. And let's go.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: All right, JR.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Appreciate that. Glad you're doing better and glad you're out
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: of surgery. And hopefully, you know, this team, that game
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: was tough to watch. So, yeah. glad you're able to
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: you got some good points there I mean um you
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: know as far as Daron Bland I guess uh so
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: much was happening there at the end of the game
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: I didn't I didn't really I realized that was him
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: that that you know didn't uh make the tackle or
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: whatever I I didn't come away from the game though
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: and be like oh Daron Bland that's the problem I
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: mean I didn't think that um and I'm be honest
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: I'm I'd have a lot more confidence in Bland out
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: there than Revel. And I think, obviously, the coaches do
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: as well. It's not about Bland, okay? Revel can't beat
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: out Amir Speed right now. I mean, that's what's happening there. So,
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: all right, let's go to a break here on Cowboys Storyline.
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• 42:31
  Speaker 8: Hey, man, just tuning in.
• 42:32
  Speaker 15: So sorry if these two questions got asked already, but
• 42:35
  Speaker 15: I just wanted your opinion on two specific play calls
• 42:38
  Speaker 15: on this game. There was about two minutes left there
• 42:41
  Speaker 15: at the end of the game, and they took CD
• 42:44
  Speaker 15: and GP off the field, and they ran a play
• 42:47
  Speaker 15: action in a pretty obvious passing situation with the two
• 42:50
  Speaker 15: tight ends and Flannoy. So they left the $ 50 million
• 42:54
  Speaker 15: worth of receivers off the field in a crucial situation there.
• 42:56
  Speaker 15: It was kind of surprising to me. And then before that,
• 42:59
  Speaker 15: on 3rd and 11th, they threw the ball. And they
• 43:02
  Speaker 15: allowed Arizona to keep a timeout, which equates to about
• 43:05
  Speaker 15: 40 seconds. And so if they just ran the ball,
• 43:08
  Speaker 15: forced the timeout, then, you know, Arizona gets the ball
• 43:10
  Speaker 15: back with 30 seconds at the end of the game
• 43:12
  Speaker 15: instead of over a minute. So just kind of want
• 43:13
  Speaker 15: to get your thoughts on that, man, and let me
• 43:15
  Speaker 15: know what you think.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Hold on, Dylan, on that one. Third and 11, you're
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: talking about their last drive in regulation when they kicked
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: a field goal?
• 43:24
  Speaker 15: They're second to last drive.
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: Okay. Yeah.
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 43:28
  Speaker 15: I mean, it was pretty low conversion rate there.
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 43:30
  Speaker 15: So the goal should be just like the week before
• 43:32
  Speaker 15: it kicked a field goal and forced the timeout or
• 43:34
  Speaker 15: two o'clock and they do an incomplete pass.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Especially when Arizona has already called two.
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: Uh, they would have called a third. Yeah.
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: They've called two in a row and you, you know,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: you ran it and he threw a short run to
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: span 40 at the 17 yard line. Um, Yeah, 100%
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: that knocks out their last time out. I'm trying to
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: see when they actually called their last time out. It
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: was when, yeah, that two-minute warning part.
• 44:00
  Speaker 15: Yeah, 2-0-2, I think.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: I'm with you there. Third and 11 from the 17. Yeah,
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: I'm running the football. And that's what they did two
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: weeks ago with Philadelphia when it was like same situation.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: You're up by seven. And you need a field goal here. And,
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: you know, they ran Lipke, which I had no problem with.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: And a lot of people did.
• 44:23
  Speaker 15: Except we talked about it.
• 44:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 44:25
  Speaker 15: You and I talked about it. We had no issues.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: No issues with that.
• 44:27
  Speaker 15: It was smart.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Same type of thing. You know, run the ball, get
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: it in the middle of the field. I mean, he's
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: going to make this field goal. That's great. But either
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: they call their third time out or it runs down to,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: you know, 320, something like that. And you're up by 10.
• 44:44
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it equates to, it was 40 seconds, right? So
• 44:47
  Speaker 15: it would have been, when I got the ball back
• 44:48
  Speaker 15: at the very last time in that half, it would
• 44:50
  Speaker 15: have been 30 seconds roughly with the ball instead of
• 44:52
  Speaker 15: a minute and nine seconds is what that equated to.
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: That's a big difference.
• 44:56
  Speaker 15: That's Hail Mary territory now instead of driving on the
• 44:58
  Speaker 15: field territory.
• 44:59
  Speaker 8: Huge difference.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: And this is something that I don't know if people
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: think about enough either, but like Yes, the Cardinals went
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: down and did their thing, and they scored before the
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: two-minute warning. But it's different play calls when you don't
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: have any timeouts. So they had one timeout as they
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: were doing that. But if they didn't have any timeouts,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: you are running different plays because you don't have that
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: in your back pocket. And you definitely can't take a sack,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: so you're getting the ball out even quicker. And so
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: I think it's even more to your advantage to just
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: get their timeouts away from them. And that's why I
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: just thought the two-minute warning was so huge. Do whatever
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: you've got to do to make sure they do not
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: score before that two-minute warning, and the game would be over.
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's game management. It really is. It is. And,
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: you know, that's why I'm like, if your head coach
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: is calling all the plays and stuff like that on
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: offense and trying to figure that out, I don't know
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: if you're thinking that way. You're probably not.
• 46:03
  Speaker 15: At some point someone's just got to like, who's going
• 46:06
  Speaker 15: to take the bull by the horn and just do
• 46:07
  Speaker 15: the thing that needs to be done. Whatever that thing is,
• 46:09
  Speaker 15: I don't have whatever it is. You would hope that
• 46:11
  Speaker 15: it's your head coach. He's the leader of the whole team.
• 46:13
  Speaker 15: You would hope it's him, but he's, you know, he's
• 46:15
  Speaker 15: cost you a couple of times this season. I would
• 46:16
  Speaker 15: give him props last week. He deserved it, but he's
• 46:18
  Speaker 15: cost you a couple of times now with some silly
• 46:20
  Speaker 15: play calling decisions and tactical decisions that just backfired on him.
• 46:23
  Speaker 15: And it's getting a little bit, a little bit tiring.
• 46:25
  Speaker 15: I'm sure you've had a lot of crazy calls today
• 46:27
  Speaker 15: around that. So I'm starting to feel bad as well.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Well, you guys have been really good, you know, today and, and, uh,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: And I hear the frustration. I know it's there. It
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: should be there. It should be to this team. You know,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, especially you lose to the Cardinals like that
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: again and a game that, you know, the Cardinals just
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: had no business winning. They had no business winning the game.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: They went into this game, you know, they'd already traded
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: away one of their best players. I mean, and then,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: you know, they're playing Jacoby Brissett just as their starter.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: You know, I mean, he's a backup and he's their starter.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: And then they pull him, and then two running backs
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: are hurt, and then a third one comes in and
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: looks like Barry Sanders. And it's just like, you know,
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: the receivers are in and out, and you've got all
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: these guys running into the goalposts and playing with broken ribs,
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: and they're just going down the field on you. And
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: I know the Cowboys had injuries too there at the end.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: I definitely think Porter and Downs, rather than be on
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: the field than not, but, you know, Got to keep
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: an eye on Caleb Downs now in the concussion protocol,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: see if he's going to play this game. This is
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: one that we've talked about a lot, a matchup with
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: his brother still on the team right now with the Colts,
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: and so I wanted to see that matchup. But I
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: want to see if he's going to be able to
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: be there on the field. Something's got to happen here.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: They're going to have to make some kind of changes,
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: I would imagine. They're not just going to go status
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: quo this week. I would think there will be something,
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: whether it be a big thing, small thing, behind the scenes,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: whatever it is. A loss like that makes you think
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: you're going to have to do something different going into
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: this next one. All right, that's it for this show.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: We'll be back and do it again tomorrow. For Chris Beam,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: I'm Nick Eatman. See you tomorrow on Cowboy Storyline.
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