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  Speaker 1: The following.
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  Speaker 2: He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and
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  Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: This He's Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It is Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty sixth, December twenty sixth. Cowboys lost the tough one.
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  Speaker 1: You guys know this by now. We'll talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys and Dolphins on Christmas even Miami down to the
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  Speaker 1: final seconds and couldn't get it done. I got opinions
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  Speaker 1: about it. I'm sure you guys do as well. Eight eight, eight, eight,
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  Speaker 1: five five two two nine seven. You can text us
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  Speaker 1: eight one seven two nine zero three two nine eight.
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  Speaker 1: We saw what the Giants did. Giants were able to
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  Speaker 1: uh hang in there with the Eagles, but not enough
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  Speaker 1: to win it. The Eagles get to win now they
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  Speaker 1: have the one game lead. The Cowboys are gonna need
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  Speaker 1: some help if they're gonna win. If they're gonna win
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  Speaker 1: the NFC East, obviously, and they're gonna probably need the
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  Speaker 1: Giants to to to beat them in New York. If
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  Speaker 1: if the if the Giants are gonna play like they
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  Speaker 1: did yesterday, if they play like that all season long,
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  Speaker 1: it could happen. But that's that's kind of that's probably
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys best bet right now. Still looking at the
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  Speaker 1: number five seed, looks like that's probably gonna be the case.
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  Speaker 1: And not sure where the Tampa Bay, Atlanta and New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans baby all still have a shot there. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about we'll break down why the Cowboys are
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  Speaker 1: in this position and and and what happened uh Sunday
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  Speaker 1: against the Dolphins. All right, let's get to the phone line.
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  Speaker 1: So start us off, Big Al in San Antonio. He's
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  Speaker 1: the first caller, big Al, what's up?
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  Speaker 4: A good morning there, holidays.
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  Speaker 1: To you, you too, you too, thank you? How are
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  Speaker 1: you doing?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing okay. I'm still kind of pissed off on Sundays.
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  Speaker 4: So my opinion is they the play calling just change.
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  Speaker 4: After the first the first drive after Lamb School there
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  Speaker 4: for that touchdown, everything just changed.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what's going on with Mike he I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, man, I'm just getting frustrated now and getting
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  Speaker 4: pissed off. I might have to go down and start
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  Speaker 4: coaching myself.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, come on, you get through security, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get in you know, you just wonder I mean everybody
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  Speaker 1: knows Tyreek Hill's getting the ball. I mean everybody, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and he gets nine catches, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: and they've done a good job to shriff scheme and
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  Speaker 1: see the open. But you're right, for some reason it
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  Speaker 1: went away, you know, for what almost two quarters. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, it's mind boggling. I didn't get that one
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  Speaker 1: at all.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't even still I don't. And uh with
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  Speaker 4: the Saturday what they come out to do. I know,
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  Speaker 4: they came back strong, you know, against the rush and
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  Speaker 4: they's see what they got nicked for Detroit. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 4: anyway happen, hoiday to you and I get with you
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  Speaker 4: later on.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks, appreciate that big frustration. Pissed off, he said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I'm I'm, I hear you. It's you know,
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  Speaker 1: the thing about CD is they move him in the
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  Speaker 1: slot for this reason, I mean for the reason of
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  Speaker 1: you really can't take him away when you have a
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  Speaker 1: guy that can that can go in the slot like that,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I mean Dak Dak will throw the
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  Speaker 1: football to who he thinks is open, and he trusts
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  Speaker 1: everybody to make the play, you know, and it's frustrating
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  Speaker 1: I think when you're watching it and you think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's third and goal or whatever, and you you know, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: Hindershot didn't make the play. Well know, Hendershot didn't make
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  Speaker 1: the hasn't made one this year, you know, Hunter Lipke
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  Speaker 1: the fumble, I mean, which I think is still the
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  Speaker 1: biggest play of the game. And it's hard to do
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  Speaker 1: that on the first drive, but I thought it was.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was an absolute killer. And uh and
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  Speaker 1: not just him, but I mean the actual running back,
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  Speaker 1: like your lead running back, that that all you're looking
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  Speaker 1: for is a little bit of a of a crease
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  Speaker 1: to get in and you got a lot of room
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  Speaker 1: to score and you don't score from the one that
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  Speaker 1: that was well, not worse than the fumble because he
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  Speaker 1: got your first down, but I mean that was bad.
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  Speaker 1: That was that was bad. And then that that speaks volumes,
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  Speaker 1: I think for what the team is lacking and running
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  Speaker 1: back at the running back position this year just hasn't worked.
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  Speaker 1: It just hasn't really worked like you wanted it to.
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  Speaker 1: He's been okay, Tony Pollard has been okay, but he
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  Speaker 1: you know, you wanted him to be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: better and it just hasn't really been the case, and
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  Speaker 1: so and they struggled to run the football. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: yesterday or Sunday. All right, let's go to Brian in
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City. Brian is next. Good morning, Nick morning, How
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  Speaker 1: are you doing.
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing good, sir. Well, you know, I got to
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  Speaker 5: watch the Kansas City game and he didn't look any better.
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  Speaker 5: He's got a double whimmy. He doesn't have an offensive
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  Speaker 5: line right now, he's got some injuries. He also doesn't
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  Speaker 5: have a number one receiver. And boy does he look human.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah talking about Patrick Mahomes, of course.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, he does not look like Superman that everybody's
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  Speaker 5: always saying. And you know, I thought Dak had a
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  Speaker 5: great game for probably two thirds of the game. You know,
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  Speaker 5: there was that lull in the middle, but but you
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  Speaker 5: know that the pass to Cooks over over Ramsey, you know,
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  Speaker 5: in the corner of the end zone, there was great.
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  Speaker 5: He bought his butt off, just running and just wawing
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  Speaker 5: for everything he could get. Our offensive line was bad,
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  Speaker 5: so you know, I'm not an offensive line coach. But
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  Speaker 5: on the broadcast, Olsen kept saying Idoga was blocking down
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  Speaker 5: the wrong direction and that was just killing us with
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  Speaker 5: Bradley Chubb coming around that corner. But you know, I
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  Speaker 5: I thought when I looked at this five game stretch,
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  Speaker 5: I thought, maybe we go three and two. And I
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  Speaker 5: still hope for that, But you know, this week, I
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  Speaker 5: think it's gonna be a it's going to be a
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  Speaker 5: tough one. We got the Lions coming in on a
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  Speaker 5: short week, you know, and they're If I had to
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  Speaker 5: pick another team other than San Francisco that I think
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  Speaker 5: is just a tough, physical team in the NFC, they'd
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  Speaker 5: be it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, they are. You're right about that. They play
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  Speaker 1: just like their head coach played the game. Yeah, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and not just that. I mean if you look at
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  Speaker 1: their you look at their coaching staff. I think they've
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  Speaker 1: got ten guys that played, uh in the NFL. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not talking about y'all who's on a practice
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  Speaker 1: squad or whatever like the these are guys that you know,
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  Speaker 1: And so that's the kind of coaching staff that he
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  Speaker 1: has has kind of surrounded himself with. But but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean, you're you're right. Going back to the game,
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  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what what's going on with
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  Speaker 1: with with Adoga. I didn't I didn't. I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: that was ever supposed to be the option at left tackle,
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  Speaker 1: but but he was. And it has been all year.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, this isn't like Tyron was like last
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  Speaker 1: second scratch, not gonna practice, not gonna play Idoga comes
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  Speaker 1: in like he was he would, did not practice all
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  Speaker 1: week with a back injury. So it's it just he
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  Speaker 1: just didn't look prepared. I mean, I mean, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he was kind of, but Bradley Chubb was the best
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  Speaker 1: player on their on their defense and on their defensive line.
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  Speaker 1: We knew that going in. So if you're gonna pick
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  Speaker 1: a player to say, you know, let's not block him,
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  Speaker 1: well let's, you know, give someone free and we'll block here.
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  Speaker 1: And we have to let someone go that's not the guy.
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  Speaker 1: And it was way too many times. I didn't understand it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand it. They don't let Michael Parsons get free,
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  Speaker 1: I mean ever, And so that is just a huge,
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  Speaker 1: huge breakdown. And not only did he let Chubb go
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  Speaker 1: a couple of times, but for nothing else, like he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't really blocking. He could just tell he was blocking
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  Speaker 1: the wrong guy because he wasn't really blocking anyone. And
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  Speaker 1: Tyler didn't need the help. You know, Tyler's got it.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler's got his guy there, so they're gonna I've said
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  Speaker 1: all along, I think Tyler Smith should be playing at
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  Speaker 1: left guard. But at this rate, if you might have
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  Speaker 1: to switch this up because I just don't think that's
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  Speaker 1: the option at left tackle. I never have and so
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  Speaker 1: it's not just a knee jerk. I've never thought that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look like a left tackle, doesn't not necessarily play
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  Speaker 1: in like one either, So I think they got to
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  Speaker 1: make a change there. They got to figure that out.
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  Speaker 1: If that means put basset guard in Tyler Smith, I
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  Speaker 1: hate to do that, and they don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: moving Tyler Smith around during the season, but you know
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  Speaker 1: that that wrecked the game, you know, I think I
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  Speaker 1: think their offensive line struggled, and I think right at
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  Speaker 1: that position, I think it had wrecked the game. How
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  Speaker 1: many more can you do? So you have to make
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  Speaker 1: it a switch if you can Tyler. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: do believe Tyron Smith has a shot to play this
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  Speaker 1: week coming back, so that'll be that'll be something to
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  Speaker 1: watch for sure. All right, let's go with a text
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  Speaker 1: question though Steve Williams. He's in Charlotte, North Carolina after
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  Speaker 1: the game, I can't say I was really worried going
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  Speaker 1: into the Lions game. Am I wrong? You'd be worried
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  Speaker 1: if you want. I mean, I I think if they
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  Speaker 1: don't play well, they'll lose. We we do think that.
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  Speaker 1: We know this team plays a lot better at home,
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  Speaker 1: but but you know, against like they really beat Philadelphian.
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia's reeling and they they whipped Philly pretty good. Seattle, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Seattle gave him everything they wanted, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and Detroit's playing way better than them. So so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it'll it'll be it'll be a tough game,
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  Speaker 1: especially when you look at at matchups. You know, if
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  Speaker 1: you can't block the edge, the Lions have some guys
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  Speaker 1: that can really get in your face. Is you can't
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  Speaker 1: stop the run, you know, the Lions certainly can do
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  Speaker 1: that as well. So it's gonna be a tough game.
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  Speaker 1: But there'll be a lot of a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: happening there, emotions and all that stuff. Should be a
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  Speaker 1: great crowd. I think it'll be a great, you know,
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity for the Cowboys to bounce back. But it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be tough, all right, Sebastian. He's in Savannah, Georgia. Sebastian,
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  Speaker 1: what's up, Good morning, mister man.
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  Speaker 6: I hope everybody had a beautiful holiday. You know, it's
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  Speaker 6: more than just the cowboys. My girls had such a
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  Speaker 6: beautiful time yesterday. So I can't be but in a
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  Speaker 6: good mood. We now know our path. It's clear. We
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  Speaker 6: just got to play our best games and get ready
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  Speaker 6: for the playoffs. There's no winning the division or whatever
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  Speaker 6: the case is. We're in there. We got to handle
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  Speaker 6: business once we get there. Two things that this team
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  Speaker 6: has no choice but to look at at this point
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  Speaker 6: in the draft next year, if the best ability is availability,
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  Speaker 6: you have to look at getting a new tackle. Tyron
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  Speaker 6: is one of the best players in the world when
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  Speaker 6: he he's available, but he's not available. If you're in
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  Speaker 6: business and you're unreliable, I can't do business with you.
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  Speaker 6: It's that simple. And we got to get on the
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  Speaker 6: other side, actually both sides, because you might need to
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  Speaker 6: upgrade your center a little bit as well. We need
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  Speaker 6: guys with rocks in their pockets on both sides. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: because Hankins went down and you can see in the
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  Speaker 6: Buffalo game, they literally just pushed us. Even though they're
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  Speaker 6: getting around the edges a lot of times, you got
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  Speaker 6: to be more so concerned about that goal line. And
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  Speaker 6: in the goal line, we can't stop a nosebleed right now.
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  Speaker 6: So if you could just talk about those couple of things.
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  Speaker 6: I hope you guys have a happy New Year's I
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  Speaker 6: didn't get a chance to call before Christmas, So happy Hanukah,
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  Speaker 6: Happy Kwanza, Merry Christmas to everybody. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Guy, all right, thanks appreciate that sequestion. So they get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of needs. I mean, you know, I mean
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  Speaker 1: we think about it in a tackle center. H Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they need, they need, they need to upgrade that I
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  Speaker 1: think linebacker seriously, I mean, that's that's a huge problem.
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  Speaker 1: The Clark's not ready. It doesn't seem like Damoon Clark.
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  Speaker 1: I just haven't seen him make a lot of plays
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  Speaker 1: this year. I know he leads the team in tackles,
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  Speaker 1: but he's just not making a lot of plays and
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  Speaker 1: he's getting he's getting pushed around a lot more than
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  Speaker 1: I thought he would be, especially looking at him in college. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know he had the neck injury and he's been cleared,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it's been a year and a half,
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  Speaker 1: so you'd like to think that's not not an issue.
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  Speaker 1: But for a big, physical guy like that, he has
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  Speaker 1: a hard time, seems like, getting off the block, especially
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  Speaker 1: when a guard or somebody really physical gets his hands
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  Speaker 1: on him. I mean we've seen it now two games
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  Speaker 1: in a row, just to play that. I'm sure there's
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  Speaker 1: a meme about it. I mean, just getting thrown all
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  Speaker 1: around the place. So that that lineback, you know, then
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  Speaker 1: with Leyton vander esh being out and who knows what
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  Speaker 1: his future looks like. I mean, linebacker's a spot. Running
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  Speaker 1: back is going to be a spot, of course. But
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  Speaker 1: but going to what you said, I mean, yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: line it's not the same with Hankins, it's not. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why they went and got him last year. That's
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  Speaker 1: why they re signed him. But and then, and that's
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  Speaker 1: why they drafted Mazzie Smith hoping that that would, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just just be a guy that could kind of plug,
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  Speaker 1: you know, clog up the middle. But it's not. It's
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  Speaker 1: not happening without without Hankins, and Mazzie was in there
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  Speaker 1: that last play, you know, third and two, third and two,
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  Speaker 1: you got to stop them. You stop them. They kick
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  Speaker 1: a field goal. You got some time to maybe go
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  Speaker 1: down and get it and get a shot. But they can't.
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  Speaker 1: They can't, you know, stop with Jeff Wilson or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: They can't make the play Mozzi and gets walled off. Osa.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so that whole side gets Waldolf Damone goes there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they just they just schemed it perfectly and
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  Speaker 1: there was no shot to stop them. So uh and
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  Speaker 1: that was basically the game. But yeah, they they got
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  Speaker 1: they got issues all the way around. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I I think the Cowboys could have done a better job,
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  Speaker 1: knowing what you just said about Tyron and and Tyrann's
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  Speaker 1: availability and knowing that this is going to happen. I
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  Speaker 1: don't feel like Tuma Adoga had left tackle was I
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  Speaker 1: don't feel like that was the right contingency plan move,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all year long, and but you know, they
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  Speaker 1: drafted Austin Richards, but you know, he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be the guy, you know, to be your your backup
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  Speaker 1: left tackle, but they went for Truma. He had he
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a ton of experience there playing left tackle.
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  Speaker 1: He had been hurt, and that's that's kind of who
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  Speaker 1: they went with. And you know, it cost them. I
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  Speaker 1: thought caught him the other night. All right, let's go,
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  Speaker 1: let's go James pastor James in Midland, Texas.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Nick, has it going today?
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  Speaker 1: Good man? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Doing well? Doing well?
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  Speaker 1: I hope you.
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  Speaker 7: Chris, Jazz and Josh and everybody had a merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: And if I was Tuma Doga, I would hide in
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  Speaker 7: the film room whenever they watched that film because I
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  Speaker 7: mean you could just see it over and over again.
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  Speaker 7: You cannot leave a guy Cubb out there on the
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  Speaker 7: outside unblocked. And I mean I really wasn't really upset
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  Speaker 7: about the game because I felt like it was a
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  Speaker 7: better game than it was in Buffalo, and it was
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  Speaker 7: in Miami against a playoff caliber team and they went
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  Speaker 7: down to the end. But you know, if you look
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  Speaker 7: at all the Steel photos that you see when Mike
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  Speaker 7: is getting held, I think maybe he just may need
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  Speaker 7: to just get off the rep's back, you know, start
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  Speaker 7: shaking their hands and being nicer to him, and maybe
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  Speaker 7: they'll give him some of those plays, because it's crazy
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  Speaker 7: that he hadn't had a holding call called against him
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  Speaker 7: since October, right, you know, And I mean you can
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  Speaker 7: just see where they're grabbing him where they have him
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  Speaker 7: around his chin strap and all kind of stuff, and
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  Speaker 7: it just seems like that that he's just, you know,
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  Speaker 7: getting the short end of stick. But I will say
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  Speaker 7: that I felt a lot better after watching what the
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  Speaker 7: Ravens did to the forty nine ers last night. It
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  Speaker 7: made them look like they were vulnerable. It made them
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  Speaker 7: look like they were actually human, a human team, and
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  Speaker 7: that a defense could actually play against that offense, and
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  Speaker 7: an offense could run and work against that defense. And
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  Speaker 7: like everybody's always talking about there's a blueprint against the Cowboys,
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  Speaker 7: I believe that the Ravens showed a blueprint for what
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  Speaker 7: to do against the forty nine ers. So I'll get
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  Speaker 7: off and I hope y'all have a great show and
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  Speaker 7: I'll listen to what you have to say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for the call, James. I appreciate that blueprints
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  Speaker 1: are tricky because just because you can do it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean that they can do it. I mean we're seeing
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  Speaker 1: that with I mean with the Eagles. I mean they
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  Speaker 1: have a blueprint on how how to get a yard
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  Speaker 1: on fourth and one, but not everybody can do that,
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  Speaker 1: and not everyone can play the way the Ravens do,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: especially on defense. They're linebackers. You know, they've got two
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: really good linebackers and uh you know, they they they've
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: got some great players and they are they're just a
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: well old machine right now. They're they're playing, they're the
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: they're the best team in football. I mean, they're gonna
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: I'm sure the power rankings will come out here uh today,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: if they're not already out in Baltimore, will be number one,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I mean emphatically. Of course, they're they're playing the best,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: and they've got you know, they've got the MVP favorite
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: right now. And Lamar Jackson, who I you know, I
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: think is amazing. I mean I do. I know that
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: he gets a lot of flak for being a running
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: back or whatever. I'll take him on my team, you know,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I mean because because he he knows how to make
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: plays and and he's he's just a nightmare to try
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: to stop. So anyways, yeah, that was good to see
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: them do that. But uh yeah, it's it's a it's
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: a it's a mess right now. When you know you
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: look at Micah and Micah you know he's just he's
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: it's frustrated obviously, and you know he can't he can't
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: play that one and it's tough because you can't you know,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: you can't get penalties like that. And I I've heard
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: people say, what is he supposed to do? Not hit
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the quarterback? That's I mean, I'm not blaming him, I'm
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: saying that's what you're not supposed to do. You can't
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: hit the quarterback like that, especially really hard like that.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: It it didn't look like a penalty. I know, the
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: rule says you get two steps, and he kind of
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: didn't even take that. So I get all that. But
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: when you go and complain to the officials one, you know,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: like a play or two before, and you have your
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: hands out and all that, and then you go hit
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the quarterback, they're never gonna call it for you. They're not.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: And so he's gonna have to figure that out and
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I don't. It's been but it is amazing to think
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: that it's been like what, eight nine games and he
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: can't get a hold in fromply, especially the way they
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: call holding in some of these games. That's been a shocker.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: All right, Rob in Vegas? What's up?
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: Hey?
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: What's that man? How are you?
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: I'm good? How are you?
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I'm good? Sorry? Kicking drink of water? What's up with you.
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: Listen, when this team goes on the road against good teams,
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: it's like groundhog Day. We've seen this the last few years.
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: Tyler Smith doesn't play. I mean, I'm Tyrant Smith doesn't play.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: We lose. Uh, we're going to average twenty points. That's
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: our average pretty much on the road, and that's pretty
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: much what we do against good teams. Dak doesn't play.
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: He plays good. He doesn't play great like he does
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: at home. He just plays good. We're going to have
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: dumb penalties at bad times that are going to cost
• 19:42
  Speaker 8: us big plays. Again, we've we had that. We have
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: Uh is it coaching? Well, we got to put a
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: lot of it on coaching, because what are you that's
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: the common denominator. Mike McCarthy, for whatever reason, cannot get
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: this key team to play on the road like they
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: do at home. Not even close, not even half. I've
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: never seen anything like it. And what are you going
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: to do? You hear the rumors that, well maybe Belichick
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: is going to come in, Well, I don't want Belichick
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: to come in because that means this team didn't succeed.
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: But you know one thing, if Belichick came in, they're
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: the lowest pedalized team in the NFL, So we would
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: definitely he would definitely fix that, and I think he
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: would fix that. We wouldn't be soft in the trenches
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: because we are. That offensive line again killed us during
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: the game, and defensively we played better against the run,
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: but when we had to stop the run at the
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: end of the game, when they knew it was coming,
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: they couldn't do it. And the moon clock is awful.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: I know he's there because we really don't have anybody else.
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: The face mask penalty killed this at the end, but
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: he just gets blown off the ball that now he's
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: all over YouTube where you see him getting blocked like
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: twenty five yards down the field. So I don't know.
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: I don't unfortunately, like I said, I see Groundhog Day.
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: You just pencil little men. They're gonna score twenty points
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: on the road. I think they'll beat the Lions that
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: they match up good with them and Jared Goff, they
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: have his number. I know lines are better this year,
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: but I just I just unfortunately, I just see the scenario.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: We'll probably go to Tampa Bay. Hey, I'm not totally
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: confident they could be Tampa Bay in Campa Bay anymore
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: going on the road on grass. I mean, it's all
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: these crazy things and now the team is imploding.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Michaeh.
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: Parsons listened, Micah, this is today's NFL. You gotta shut
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: your mouth. This isn't the nineties the eighties where you
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: could actually play real defense. You know what this league
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: is about. So be quiet. You're not going to get
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: the calls, especially if you criticize the rest. And I
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: just don't know. I unfortunately, I just have no confidence
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: when this team leaves at and T Stadium.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, thanks for the call. There's a
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: lot to unpack there. And honestly, like they don't they
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: don't need us to be confident, you know, they really don't.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: They don't need you to be confident. They don't need
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: to be us to because they really don't. They they
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: need to be confident. They need to figure out how
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: to how to go win. And you know, I've just
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I've seen it. I've seen it happen where you just
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: don't you know, what we think is not is not
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: exactly what happens. So yeah, I mean you you can
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: go and look look like that. I mean, the caller
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: just talked about Kansas city. You know that they're not fans,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: they're not confident and because of based of what you see,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and you can only go off of what you see.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: But you know, like I said, they don't. We don't
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: have to have confidence in them and and they they
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: have to figure out how to do it. And you're
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: right about Micah. You know that's the tricky part there
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: is that I know me, I I ask you know.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I applaud the players for standing in front of the
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: mics after the game and talking, because they don't all
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: do it. They don't. And the guys that are supposed
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to be the leaders and the captains, they do it
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: when they feel like it wins you know, good games.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: They don't do it all the time. They're not consistent.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: So if you're going to be a superstar, you're gonna
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you're gonna be the face of the franchise. You got
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: to do that. And uh so I applaud him for
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: doing it. But he's not helping himself by being honest.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: And you want that's another thing. You want people to
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: be honest. You want them to say something, you know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: don't just give the company line, you know, actually say
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: what you're thinking. That's what the media always wants, but
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: it's not helping him. It's not. There's no way that
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: that that's that's helping him. So that's that's a that's
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: something he's gonna have to figure out. It's the same
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: way with that position. How do you be super aggressive
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: to get around the edge as fast as you can
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and be flying at the quarterback, but then when he
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: throws it, you can't hit him. I mean, it's it's
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: it's tough, you know, breaks, And that's the thing. NFL
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: doesn't care about breaks. They this isn't you know midas Okay,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: they don't. They don't give a crap about you stopping
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: what's supposed to do. He was right there. Don't hit him.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: They don't care how fast you're going, you can't hit him.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: So common sense never really comes into play when you're
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: talking about a quarterback, his legs, his knees, his knees,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: his head, anything. When the guy dives down like that
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: at the last second and you you're about to hit
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: him in the chest and he dives down and you
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: hit him, they don't care. They don't. And so that's
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: that's that's why it's really really tough on these defensive
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: players because they're moving so fast, and then you know
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: all all all you're seeing is what the end result is.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: It's not fair and that's what happens though. All Right,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Mike in New York is our next caller.
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: What's up?
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Nick? Love the show Man? Cowboys fans for a long
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: long time, listen all the time. I think, I think
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: my biggest concerns with the Cowboys is I think I
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: like Gallup as a receiver, but I feel like since
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: he's come back from that injury, he just he hasn't
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: been the same. He just like I get it himself,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: but he's just he hasn't been the same. And then
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: another thing is I feel like Mike McCarthy, me and
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: my cousin are dingy howd Cowboy fans and we text
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: all the time, and he lives down in Pennsylvanian stuff,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: And I honestly think I think Mike McCarthy has to
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: take he has to get Dallas to the like NFC
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: championship game to.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Save his job.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I think he's on the hot seat.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, well, yeah, that's the second caller
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: in a row about that, and I'll just leave it
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: at that. I don't know I don't. I don't make
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: that decision. There's only one person that does. And so
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: you know, it'll we'll we'll see how how how this
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: thing ends up, you know, this this year. I mean,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: because like I said, I might I use the analogy
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: all the time, but it's it's the perfect one because
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: it is the roller coaster. This is what this team is,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: what the franchise is. It's smooth here, this is nice,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: bumpy does twist, turns, stops. I think the rides over
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: now it goes backwards. I mean, it's it's the thing
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: that makes this so exciting is also the thing that
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: makes you want to throw up sometimes because it's just
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: it never you can't get it, you can't get ahead
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: of it. You can't figure this out. So whatever McCarthy, whatever,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Jerry decides when he wants to, you know, decide. If
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you know, he's he's credit he's credited him a lot,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: He's given a lot of praise on what he's done
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: this year. And you know, I think he does look
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: at it like, you know, being consistent consistent matters. Now
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: what consistently out of the playoffs in the division round
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: or do you look at it like consistently given this
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: team a chance to go and you know, and compete
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: me three straight years in the playoffs. Well that might
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: be your expectations, and that's expectations, but the reality of
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: it is it's hard to do. And uh and so
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: you know, you can't just be switching coaches all the time.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: And we'll see, we'll see what happens. I mean again,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter till the end, and then that's
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: when we'll get a good determination of where we are
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and what goes on. One of the last callers, I
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: think it was Rob I guess that said it is
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: what it is. You're not going to make the playoffs.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, not sorry, you're not going to win the division.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: But I mean, this is what I think will happen.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I think that the Cowboys will beat Detroit. I think
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: they'll they'll figure out a way to stop this and
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and win at home, and it'll be a tough game,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: but I think that they'll win. And then I think
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Philly will beat the Cardinals at home. So what will
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: happen is is they'll they'll they'll put them at the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: same time. I think on Sunday, the last game of
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the season, Dallas will go to Washington. The Giants will
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: get Philly at home, and they'll play exactly the same time.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: And I mean if the if the Giants played like
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: that at home and trying to win, I mean they
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: could they could win that game. And if they win
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: that game and you beat the Washington, then you win
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the you win the East. So then you move from
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the five to the probably the two will probably we'll
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: see what, Yeah, I mean I would think so if
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: you beat if you beat Detroit, you have to beat
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Detroit to get there, and so Detroit is a game ahead,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: but you'd have to tie her or so probably the too.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: So so it's not it's not likely, I don't think.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, leaning on the Giants to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: do anything isn't really likely. But that's that's kind of weird,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: it is, But you know, not get too far ahead.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: You got to be gott to be Detroit. All right.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Allen is in Long Island, New York. Allan, what's up, hey.
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: Nick Mary, Christmas to you and your family and everyone there.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: You too, do a great job. Appreciate that.
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: I just have three points. If anyone told you that.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: If you would have used if you would take them
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: three points the other night that Cowboys win, So I
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: know I know what's happening.
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: Just one thing I've noticed. You remind me of the
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: wet the White House Press secretary, because man, when the
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: Cowboys lose, I know probably so many people call you
• 29:47
  Speaker 9: keep taking questions and what a great job you do.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: But not the current. You know, you know you know
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: what I mean. You get the Bible saying. But the
• 29:53
  Speaker 9: three points I want to make. Number one, how did
• 29:56
  Speaker 9: Tony Pollard not score that touchdown?
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 29:59
  Speaker 9: That's n one. That's number two, Michael Parsons, Please, I
• 30:04
  Speaker 9: beg you, Micah, just play football, stay off the social media.
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: Number three, how about Amari Cooper?
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 30:13
  Speaker 9: Back to back thousand yard seasons with who the hell
• 30:17
  Speaker 9: is the quarterback?
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 30:19
  Speaker 9: You know? That's all I wanted to say. If you
• 30:21
  Speaker 9: want to chime in on those three points. So that's
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: a great job, Nick Merk, Christmas to you and Chris.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, good stuff. I'll start with Pollard
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: and I've said it earlier, but I just I don't know.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you don't score. You have to
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: score there and the play if you can't score there,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: then why are they calling it? You know what that
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: is the play, I mean, it is an option for
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: him to get You got to make You don't even
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: have to make a guy miss okay, because you're right there.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: You just have to carry him into the end zone.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: And you can't get thrown around like like a helicopter,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: like at the one inch line. I mean, dive, put
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: it across the line. Whatever you have to do, have
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: to score. I thought Cooks could have scored too. Honestly,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I thought Cooks could have maybe done a little bit
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: more on that end to round too with Ramsey there,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: thought there was a cutback to be had. But I'm
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: not I'm not taking it away from Hunter Lipkey for
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: fumbling the ball, Okay, I'm like, that's that's elementary type play.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I mean with dak to to to lip Key, that's ridiculous.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's crazy that that. You you know,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: one guy had the ball and couldn't get in and
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the next guy got in without the ball. If you
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: could just combine those guys together, obviously they score. And
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: when when that game Parsons, We've said it, you know,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's gotta he's got to play through this.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: He's just got to figure out a way to play
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: through it. I mean, I don't know anything else other
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: than to say, I mean, they put the I mean,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: he's tweeting out the shots. And you know the thing
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: is that you always hear, well, they could call holding
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: on every play, but they don't. They don't. And you
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: would think a guy with that many pressures and commands
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: that much attention that he would get a call, but
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: he's not. And so I don't like to say, well,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the officials are plotting against I mean that that stuff
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: seems it seems pretty far fetched. It just seems that way.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: But what else can you say. I mean, I don't
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: know what else you can say on this. This is
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: one of the best pass rushers in the league. He's
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the most vocal person that seems like and critical at
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the officials, and he doesn't get any calls, And so
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what else you can
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: really say about it. So I'm just gonna leave it
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: at that. And then the third one, Mark Cooper. Good
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: for him, I mean good, good for Mark Cooper. He's
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: always been a really good player, always been a good player.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: But it don't sit here and think that you're going
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to get what you get out of Mari and you're
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: gonna get out of CD. I mean, they they they
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: they pretty much played the same position. And for they,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys felt like for CD to thrive and really
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: for Dak to thrive for being honest, that that he
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: needed to go and the money they could use elsewhere,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: and they thought they had a playmaker and CD, and
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: they said, you know what, we we we've got this guy.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: He can be this guy here and we go use
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: our money elsewhere. And they weren't wrong with that. They
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: weren't because look what CD has done. He doesn't blow
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: up to be one of the you know, have two
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: great seasons like this probably with the Maari Cooper and
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, just have CD
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: and Amari and you know, get rid of Gallup and
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: then loke look what you have, and yeah, that would
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: be great, but I you know, they they wanted to
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: use that money elsewhere. And I mean, but good for
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Mari because he's absolutely balling. He's playing great, and he's
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: playing it with inconsistencies at the quarterback position. All right.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Jeremy in New York State was staying in New York here, Jeremy,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: what's up.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Hey, first time Carl, Thanks love for taking my call.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Nick.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I just I just so disappointed after that loss. It
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: just seems that we can't just win the big wines
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: when we really needed to count the most, Like the
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Eagles won, they had a chance for the division. To
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: be honest with you, I don't think they're going to
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: beat Detroit and I just don't see how they're going
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: to get out be able to beat a team like
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: San Francisco at all. It just seems to me the
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: defense can dominate the lesser teams, and when it comes
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: to the teams that have like good off funds of
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: linemen and good defenses, they can't do anything. And they're
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: just not built for coming from behind. And I just
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: never understood why they didn't build a team to be
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: able to keep up, come from behind, to make wins.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: When they need to stop, they can't get it. When
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: they need a score, they can't get it. It's just
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: very frustrating.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Well they did, I mean, it's hard to say they're
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: not built to come from behind when they did. You know,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: they did, down sixteen to seven going into the fourth quarter,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I believe, and they can't.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: How many games have they done that too?
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I don't know four. I
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: don't have the answer. I'm just saying they are They're
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: definitely built more to come from behind than they are
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: to hold a lead. I mean they can't run. They
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: can't run. I mean, so I think what you're saying
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: is like, mentally they don't do it. They did. I mean,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, if they had won the game, they
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: would have stolen it from the Dolphins. I don't think
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: they were better than Miami. And then if they go
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: and they get that touchdown and take the lead and
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: then somehow something fluky happens, miss the field goal, they
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: fumble whatever, I think the Cowboys steal that win. I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: don't think it makes them a better road team or whatever.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, they just kind of are what they are.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: And do you see them coming out of the first round.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, because I I think that I don't necessarily think,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do the math on this, I don't
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: think there is this night and day difference in how
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: they play at home in the road. I don't think
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: that's the difference on how they play. I think the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: difference is is who they play on the road and
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: at home. And if you just and I'm gonna, I'm
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: gonna do this. I mean you guys could do it too,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I mean for tomorrow show. But I'm just gonna it's
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: something that you wanted to look at. Just they a
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: this is the winning percentage of the teams they're playing.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: And this is not an excuse, it's just to look forward.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: I think when they are playing teams that they can beat,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: I think that they they will win. But I don't
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: think they're better than than than the Dolphins. They weren't
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: in that game. Definitely not better then you know, then
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Philly that that day, or of course the forty nine ers.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I just don't think that they're better Buffalo Buffalo. They weren't.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Definitely weren't better either. Buffalo knew how to play a
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: game like that, they knew how to adjust. The Cowboys
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: just didn't.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: And that you think they can get out of the
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: second round?
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean, okay, who were playing? Where what
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: happened in the first game? Did Dak play great? Did
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: he not? Did they get turnovers? His hankins back?
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just saying, this is why it's hard
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: to play this game about who are they playing? Who
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: is in the second round? You know, I mean you
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: could be the five seed, go to Tampa, beat Tampa, Namascus.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Do you think they could get out of the second round.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: I guess you're right. Depends on who's playing. I think
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: they can beat Tampa. I think they can Pete whoever
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: is coming out of the South. I don't know who
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: is going to be in the second round. If they
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: had to play Philadelphia again, you'll take that Philly. I
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: don't know what they would do.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: You would take that when you over any anything else.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think you would take at Philly over
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: four on the road, or even Detroit on the road.
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: You know, Detroit.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I think they can beat Detroit. Detroit. I think they
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: can make golf. I think if they can get the pressure,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: they can get to golf. It's just they got to
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: get the line back to going together. And next year
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: they really got to repass that line. Tyro Smith needs
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: to go. He's a Hall of Famer, but he's always injured.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: He does does you no good on the bench. Zach
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Martin is getting up there and a they need to
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: really put together that line, and they also need a
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: bruiser as a running back.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, well it's hey, Chris Beam just pointed out here,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: can Philly win the first game? I mean, you know,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: the NFC kind of is getting hit in the mouth
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: a little bit here and and it's it's wide open,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: that's the thing. It's wide open.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: But I don't think anyone's beating San Francisco though.
• 38:49
  Speaker 9: Well, I mean they got on both sides of the ball.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Watch football last night. I mean, I mean, I understand
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: that not everyone's Baltimore, but I mean that I've all
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: also seen a team like Denver come in and beat
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys and it kind of shake things up a
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: little bit, and then they're really not the same. We'll see.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Everyone's been waiting for Rock Party to have a four
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: interception type game and lose like that, and it happened.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: They'll bounce back. But thanks for the call, Jeremy, good stuff.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I can hear the frustration there. What's the team going
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: to do? And I go back to last year because
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: last year they couldn't have entered the playoffs in any
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: worse shape than losing that they did in Washington. Wasn't
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: just a loss to Sam Howe in Washington. It was
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: just the way they played. It was just terrible. It
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: was like this, this is bad. Hopefully they'll turn it
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: on from the playoffs. And they did. They did everyone
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: but Maher turned it on in Tampa and it was
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: an amazing game. And then they went to San Francisco
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: and you felt different about it. And they played, they
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: were playing, and they had a shot there, and then
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: of course Pollard gets hurt, and I think that changed everything.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: They still had their chances, they just didn't win. They weren't.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: They weren't good enough to win that game. So I
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: think you just got they have to figure out a
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: way to get some momentum for them their confidence, not yours,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: not mine, not anyone else's. And I can't harp on
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: that enough. So I get it. I mean, and I
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: go back to and I know y'all don't care, but
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, if you would have thought we're here
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: in Dallas, of how the Texas Rangers enter the playoffs,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: You're like, oh God, they're not going to hardly win anything.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: They're not very good and they're definitely not good on
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the road. And they never lost a game at all,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: and they will swin and swept the whole road and
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: won the World Series. Doesn't matter what we think, matters
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: what they think in that locker room or clubhouse or whatever.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Figure out a way to turn it on. And that's
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: what Mike McCarthy's job is, to figure out how to
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: do it. They don't have to be a great road
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: team in the regular season, but when whoever they're facing
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: right there, are they good enough to win? Where? I
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: think yes, when you look at this game, it's not
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: a moral victory or anything like that. They had a
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: chance to win, they didn't win. But are they good
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: enough to go on the road whoever they have to play,
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: face whatever challenge they have to face and win And
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: I think they can. I think they can do it
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: based off of what we've seen, how good we think
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: that they are. Can they can they win? Can they
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: be in the final five to ten minutes of the game.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Then it's up to them to go make the play
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: and maybe maybe they will, maybe they won't. All right,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Jose in Minnesota is our next caller?
• 41:32
  Speaker 10: Yes, Hello, are you there?
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I'm here? How are you kay?
• 41:36
  Speaker 10: Oh? I'm doing just fine, man. I hope you had
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: a good Christmas.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I did first time caller.
• 41:41
  Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean I've been the Dallas
• 41:44
  Speaker 10: Cowboys fan since I lived in mcallin Teche and I
• 41:47
  Speaker 10: live in the cold tundra.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: We don't have many calls from Minnesota. I had to
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: go back and look on this state to make sure
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: we have some Minnesota. I think we had one, but
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: this is this like our second one for sure, so
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: it's not a state that's represented a lot.
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we have a lot of fans here. I mean
• 42:03
  Speaker 10: a lot of Spanish people who lived out in South
• 42:08
  Speaker 10: Texas move up up here. But yeah, but yeah, I
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: just you know, and you might have already pointed this
• 42:18
  Speaker 10: out while I was on hold, but you know, uh
• 42:23
  Speaker 10: what happened with the left tackle. There was a couple
• 42:26
  Speaker 10: of plays where the guy just flew by there another
• 42:30
  Speaker 10: point as well as you know, and again you probably
• 42:34
  Speaker 10: touched it. But you know, if we make it to
• 42:38
  Speaker 10: the playoffs, how are we going to get there if
• 42:41
  Speaker 10: we don't play you know, lights out? Because the way
• 42:44
  Speaker 10: that we played against Philly was like that absolutely amazing,
• 42:49
  Speaker 10: And you know, we do we do get a little emotional,
• 42:52
  Speaker 10: especially on you know Twitter. You know, I see everyone
• 42:56
  Speaker 10: you and everybody else on the you know, the writing
• 42:59
  Speaker 10: staff that people just go crazy and you know, we're
• 43:02
  Speaker 10: is tired of losing, you know, and a lot of
• 43:04
  Speaker 10: people say, you know, I'm tired of hearing your complaints. Like, yo, man,
• 43:07
  Speaker 10: I'm tired of losing. You know, life finally won a
• 43:09
  Speaker 10: super Bowl, you know, with the nineteen ninety five seasons.
• 43:12
  Speaker 10: So yeah, that's really all I got.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, appreciate that. And that's just a
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: different mindset, you know what. I mean that to me,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: that's not considered losing. But you know, not making the
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Super BOWLD to me is not losing. But everyone feels differently,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: you know, the whole if you're not first, your last.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: So I don't, I don't you're talking to the wrong
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: person on that. I've been doing this for twenty five
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: seasons and I haven't seen a Super Bowl or an
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: NFC championship game. So I maybe I'm not the right
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: person for that kind of sympathy because if I had
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: that mentality, I couldn't do this job. You know, I
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: couldn't have done it for twenty five years. So I'm
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: not saying my perspective, right, I'm just saying that's my perspective.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: I've I started here, saw an eight and eight season
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: and then three five and eleven seasons and building here.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: We are trying to build this, this, this website and
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: build you know, the fans, and and and getting them
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: to to come back, you know daily, and what are
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: we providing them so they can do that? You know,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: it's not easy to do. And so my point is
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: is I look at things differently. I don't look at
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: it just in the playoffs and how they do in
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. I take these games, I look I find
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: some things to to to make them interesting, knowing that,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: you know, let's see how this all happens when we
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: get to the playoffs, and you know, if they don't,
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: they don't win, they don't go to the super Bowl.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I don't consider losing. I just consider it.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: I'm obviously disappointing and just keeps adding and growing to
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: the the drought, if you will. But you know, I
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: look for the silver lines. Maybe that's just that's just
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: what I have to do to kind of do this
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: thing every day. But I'm not telling you how to
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: how to be a fan. I mean, what works for
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: you'all was what works? Jose you said, you, yeah, We
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: did talk about Tuma obviously on left tackle, and he
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: just I mean he needed help. I mean I thought
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: they were two guys short on Chubb to block. I
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: thought he would need two guys to block, and they
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: at times thought zero and that that cost them. George
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: and Miami last caller of the day.
• 45:27
  Speaker 11: George Kello, Nick first time caller.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: How are you doing? Thank you? All right.
• 45:35
  Speaker 11: My opinion is, and I've been watching this for quite
• 45:40
  Speaker 11: a long time. I know it's easier said than done,
• 45:42
  Speaker 11: but this team needs to build in the trenches, whether
• 45:45
  Speaker 11: it's offensive line, defensive line, and you win championships in
• 45:50
  Speaker 11: the trenches. I remember Jimmy Johnson I was saying that
• 45:53
  Speaker 11: that's my biggest beef with this team. It seems like
• 45:56
  Speaker 11: when the game is on, especially the defensive, we just
• 46:01
  Speaker 11: cannot seem to release stuff these people. And that's my
• 46:05
  Speaker 11: biggest beef for the last few years.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't disagree. I mean, that's you're right, inside
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: out is how it works. And you know they're not
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: They're not strong enough to make these plays when they
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: need to go score and punch it in from the one.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Not only are they not running it in, but then
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: later in the game. They're not even trying to run in.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I mean kind of get the sense that when they
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: had a ten yard sacke it's like, well, this will
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: help them score, and they did. They can't just they
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: can't just push their way in and they're getting pushed back.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: It's not a good combination.
• 46:41
  Speaker 11: I hardly agree with that. That's where it needs to
• 46:45
  Speaker 11: start in my opinion. That's that's where championships are won.
• 46:48
  Speaker 11: And it's frustrating. I agree, tyrun's got to go and
• 46:52
  Speaker 11: you better get a better anchor, some really big hobs
• 46:59
  Speaker 11: in the middle of that flying.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's a good start. Thanks for the call,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: but let's also Kevin another point.
• 47:08
  Speaker 9: No, sorry, Kevin, one more point, No, no, no, that's it,
• 47:11
  Speaker 9: thank you.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Sir, thank you. You know real quick though, when you
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: look at this team, you know it starts. It starts within,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: as you know, the trenches and all that. If you
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: look at that, they don't they're not not doing that.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, they they drafted Mazzi Smith in their mind,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: drafting a defensive tackle twenty sixth overall, like this is
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: gonna show up there defensive line immediately. Hasn't been the case.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: They drafted Tyler Smith the year before that to shore
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: up guard position immediately and then eventually left tackle. You know,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: they drafted Micah Parsons. They didn't really think that he
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: was a pass rusher just yet. You know, that was
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: kind of from a linebacker standpoint, Ceedee Land the year
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: before or that, and then Tristan Hill defensive tackle in
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: the second round. It didn't work out either. So it's
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: not like they're not using resources to that. They got
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: to be better at it. And this team's drafted well,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: but obviously they got to be better at that. I mean,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: so I think that they know the issue, you know,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: continuing to draft on the offensive line, and this year
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: they made a rare splash a defensive tackle and so
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: far hasn't hasn't worked. It hasn't worked. He hasn't been
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: the difference maker that they obviously thought he would be.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: But you're not wrong, and you're and there's a lot
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: of callers that thought that. The offensive line, defensive line
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: right there in the center. That's been the problem. They're
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: getting pushed around on defense and they're not doing enough
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: pushing on offense, and that's just a bad combination, especially
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: when you're about to face some teams in the playoffs.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: So the teams that are there are the teams that
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: are probably pretty good at doing that. Detroit is one
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: of them. Were obviously talked about them a little bit
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: more in the week. All right, thanks for everyone for
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: for calling today. Appreciate you guys coming back and sharing
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: your your thoughts and your frustrations. I get it. Tough loss,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: but you know what, Cowboys still have some football ahead
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: of them. We'll see what they do with the opportunity.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: All right. For Chris By, I'm Nick Eatman. We will
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: see you tomorrow on Cowboys Storyline. See you.
• 49:19
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• 49:22
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