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- 0:12Speaker 3: This is these Cowboys storylines with Nick Eatman.
- 0:28Speaker 2: What is up and it's time for Cowboys storyline. It
- 0:31Speaker 2: is November Wednesday, November the one. We're moving right along
- 0:36Speaker 2: here in twenty twenty three and in this Cowboys season,
- 0:39Speaker 2: this is week I guess it's week nine. Cowboys have
- 0:42Speaker 2: played seven games and the bye still got ten to go.
- 0:45Speaker 2: A lot can happen. We know that. Just look at
- 0:49Speaker 2: a few teams, even this team. Let me just just
- 0:51Speaker 2: look at what you thought about this team two or
- 0:53Speaker 2: three weeks ago. It changes all the time. I'm not
- 0:56Speaker 2: going to go through the whole roller coaster analogy, but
- 1:00Speaker 2: it's what it is. And as soon as you think
- 1:02Speaker 2: it's one way, it does something else. It flips. And
- 1:05Speaker 2: that's the beauty of it. That's what's that's what we
- 1:07Speaker 2: love about this team in the NFL. And it's always
- 1:12Speaker 2: gonna change. Hope everybody had a safe Halloween and trick
- 1:16Speaker 2: or treating and all that kind of stuff and got
- 1:19Speaker 2: all that checked, all their candy and the pizza. You
- 1:21Speaker 2: gotta check the pizza too. You never know what you're
- 1:23Speaker 2: gonna get there, So, uh, one of those one of
- 1:26Speaker 2: those awesome nights Halloween. Not a huge fan, but you
- 1:30Speaker 2: know what, the family loves it, so you got to
- 1:33Speaker 2: play along. But hey, we're moving on November first, and
- 1:36Speaker 2: it is time to uh, let's get we got callers,
- 1:39Speaker 2: we got texts eight eight eight eight five five two
- 1:41Speaker 2: two nine seven. Let's go right to it here. Let's
- 1:44Speaker 2: get to Gary in New Mexico. Lead us off, Gary. Hey,
- 1:49Speaker 2: I'm doing I'm great. How are you?
- 1:52Speaker 4: I'm good, And I'm probably one of the few people
- 1:55Speaker 4: that is relieved that the Cowboys did not do anything
- 1:58Speaker 4: at the trade deadline?
- 2:00Speaker 5: All right, why Dall is really good.
- 2:03Speaker 4: We're really good at drafting and developing players. We are
- 2:08Speaker 4: horrible at second contracts, and we're not really good when
- 2:13Speaker 4: we pay a lot for somebody else's guide. Does that
- 2:16Speaker 4: make sense?
- 2:17Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense. I can't argue with you. I mean,
- 2:22Speaker 2: I'm sure there are exceptions, but I think for the
- 2:24Speaker 2: most part, I think you know you're you're you're right there.
- 2:29Speaker 4: And you're closer to the situation. I mean, you're in
- 2:31Speaker 4: the building. But and I'm not opposed to making a
- 2:34Speaker 4: trade if it's going to take us over the top.
- 2:36Speaker 4: But I didn't see anybody out there that we could
- 2:40Speaker 4: get that I thought would take us over the top.
- 2:44Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on that?
- 2:45Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't disagree there. I think you
- 2:47Speaker 2: know one thing that I would have liked to have seen,
- 2:50Speaker 2: and it is just a little bit more depth at
- 2:53Speaker 2: running back. I think you need to cover the basis
- 2:57Speaker 2: at the best you can and adding depth. And and
- 3:02Speaker 2: as much as I like Rico o'dowdell, I like him,
- 3:05Speaker 2: but as a as a number two, I'd like to
- 3:08Speaker 2: see him run the ball a little bit more. But
- 3:10Speaker 2: I just you know, I don't I don't want to
- 3:13Speaker 2: see if something were to happen to Pollard and he's
- 3:15Speaker 2: not the biggest guy, and this is his first year
- 3:17Speaker 2: of really taking on this many carries, and so you know,
- 3:20Speaker 2: if anything were to happen, I mean, you could go
- 3:22Speaker 2: into a game with you know, Rico Daddle and Malik
- 3:25Speaker 2: Davis and Hunter Lipke and later in the season. I
- 3:28Speaker 2: would have added a little bit more depth there if possible.
- 3:31Speaker 2: I'm sure there's some guys maybe still out there, but
- 3:34Speaker 2: but not better than kind of what you have. So
- 3:37Speaker 2: that's that's what my thought, but you're not wrong. You're
- 3:40Speaker 2: not wrong in thinking that way, and I don't think
- 3:42Speaker 2: you're the only person also that that's not that that
- 3:46Speaker 2: was okay with this. I got to do an interview
- 3:49Speaker 2: with with Steven Jones. We do it, you know, about
- 3:53Speaker 2: one once a week or so. And it was about
- 3:55Speaker 2: right after three o'clock. It was really close to the
- 3:58Speaker 2: to the deadline, and he was checking his I think
- 4:00Speaker 2: they had a couple of things dangling out there, but
- 4:03Speaker 2: nothing too serious. He was wondering if he would get
- 4:06Speaker 2: a couple of callbacks that they didn't. So, you know,
- 4:09Speaker 2: I think that they were trying, not you know, one
- 4:13Speaker 2: hundred percent. I mean I think they you know, just
- 4:15Speaker 2: throwing some things out there, but it didn't work. And
- 4:18Speaker 2: you know, I think that they are content with the
- 4:20Speaker 2: team and what they have and at really at all
- 4:23Speaker 2: positions or you would have gone and made a move.
- 4:25Speaker 2: But you're right when you look at big picture drafting
- 4:28Speaker 2: better than they are at adding talent and bringing them
- 4:31Speaker 2: in that way. All right, let's go to South Carolina
- 4:34Speaker 2: for the next call. Tim in South Carolina.
- 4:37Speaker 6: You're up, hey, buddy, how you doing?
- 4:40Speaker 5: Man?
- 4:40Speaker 2: Good?
- 4:40Speaker 6: How are you doing good? You know, I got a
- 4:44Speaker 6: couple of comments. Man, I've been online like the last
- 4:47Speaker 6: twenty four hours or twenty hours long, oh or just
- 4:54Speaker 6: tearing down the Cowboys for not trading anybody, trade for
- 4:58Speaker 6: anybody or whatever situation. And it's like they think the
- 5:02Speaker 6: world's in and man, we got a great team. I
- 5:05Speaker 6: mean we really do. You know, there's some there's some
- 5:09Speaker 6: you know, there needs to be some backup, better backups
- 5:11Speaker 6: and stuff like that. But I mean, we got a
- 5:14Speaker 6: great team. And you know, it started out first of
- 5:17Speaker 6: the year, you know, the Cowboys were the team to be.
- 5:20Speaker 6: Then it went to this team and that team and
- 5:23Speaker 6: the Eagles and whoever. And it really shows that we're
- 5:29Speaker 6: to talk of our game. The thing is, man, we
- 5:31Speaker 6: just got to put it all together, you know, and
- 5:34Speaker 6: Sunday is a good starting point, you know. And so
- 5:36Speaker 6: I just I'm just I can't stand. I'll say this
- 5:40Speaker 6: and I'll shut up. I can't stand to hear all
- 5:43Speaker 6: these people online bashing the Cowboys because they didn't trade
- 5:46Speaker 6: for anybody. And the truth is, nobody that everybody talked
- 5:50Speaker 6: about the Cowboys should get got traded, you know. I
- 5:53Speaker 6: mean they didn't even change teams, right, you know, And
- 5:57Speaker 6: like you know, why I go for something that we
- 5:59Speaker 6: don't don't make, you know, a cornerback a you said,
- 6:02Speaker 6: I'm running back, you know, but I mean nothing really happened.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Yeah, and to your point on that, and I'm sure
- 6:10Speaker 2: the guy you're referencing, and I'll say it, I mean,
- 6:13Speaker 2: is is Derrick Henry? You know for Tennessee everybody was
- 6:16Speaker 2: talking about him. Well, what does that tell you about
- 6:20Speaker 2: I mean, I guarantee you the price tag wasn't what
- 6:24Speaker 2: what the Tennessee wanted, and and and vice versa. You know. So,
- 6:29Speaker 2: and and that goes to say with with a lot
- 6:30Speaker 2: of other players that you thought were out there the
- 6:33Speaker 2: Bears had a cornerback and things like that. But you
- 6:36Speaker 2: know they they hear it too, so they're not just
- 6:38Speaker 2: going to let these guys go for nothing exactly. Yeah,
- 6:42Speaker 2: And I.
- 6:43Speaker 6: Mean we're missing we're already missing pigs. What three or
- 6:46Speaker 6: four five and six or four five.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Four five and six, four five and six is not
- 6:51Speaker 2: is not available for next year?
- 6:53Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm out. I don't want to do away with that.
- 6:56Speaker 2: I got it. And Tim, thanks for the call. I
- 6:58Speaker 2: appreciate that. And let me let me piggyback on that
- 7:01Speaker 2: a little bit. Okay, so the fans want the Cowboys
- 7:05Speaker 2: to make a trade at the deadline. Okay, would you
- 7:07Speaker 2: rather bring in a corner and a receiver right now?
- 7:12Speaker 2: Bring them in right now, introduce them to the team. Hey,
- 7:15Speaker 2: here's your quarterback, here's your defensive coordinator, here's the playbook.
- 7:19Speaker 2: Let's figure this out. Hurry up, because we've got the
- 7:21Speaker 2: Eagles coming up. Do you want that or do you
- 7:23Speaker 2: want them to make a trade in March and add
- 7:27Speaker 2: them then and bring them in training camp and let
- 7:30Speaker 2: them figure things out and get to know the team
- 7:33Speaker 2: and become leaders and all that kind of stuff, Because
- 7:35Speaker 2: that's what they did. That was different than they've ever
- 7:38Speaker 2: done before. It was very very unique for them to
- 7:42Speaker 2: go on the startup free agency to make trades. Wow,
- 7:46Speaker 2: they added Cooks, they added Gilmour. What's wrong with this team?
- 7:49Speaker 2: What's going on? Were the you know who's running the show? Here?
- 7:52Speaker 2: This is new. This is what they did. But we
- 7:54Speaker 2: forget all that, I mean because that was yesterday's news.
- 7:57Speaker 2: I mean, that's boring. But that's what they did, and
- 8:00Speaker 2: that's what you would prefer. You would rather have Gilmour
- 8:03Speaker 2: or and not Or and Cooks and bring them in
- 8:07Speaker 2: in March, and here's what they are now, you know,
- 8:10Speaker 2: as opposed to scrambling and trying to get something at
- 8:12Speaker 2: this point and probably overpaying. So you know, you can say,
- 8:18Speaker 2: while the cowboys don't do anything, they didn't do anything
- 8:21Speaker 2: this time, they did some stuff back in March that
- 8:24Speaker 2: that's probably put them in a better situation. So don't
- 8:27Speaker 2: say that they don't make trades. They do. They make
- 8:29Speaker 2: some trades. They go, they step out of you know,
- 8:32Speaker 2: the box a little bit and do things that are
- 8:33Speaker 2: abnormal to them. And they did and you're glad that
- 8:36Speaker 2: they did. So that was their trade. And they lost
- 8:39Speaker 2: a fourth or i'm sorry, a fifth and a sixth
- 8:42Speaker 2: for this reason. So you get to this point, they
- 8:44Speaker 2: don't have the same kind of ammunition. That's what they
- 8:46Speaker 2: would have felt comfortable. Now you're not going to trade
- 8:49Speaker 2: what do you want to trade?
- 8:49Speaker 7: A third?
- 8:50Speaker 2: Do you want to go into next year's They've already
- 8:52Speaker 2: done it. They've done it, they made the moves. Just
- 8:55Speaker 2: don't forget about it that that's what they did, all right.
- 8:59Speaker 2: How about Samuel and Jackson Mississippi. I just saw Samuel Jackson.
- 9:03Speaker 2: But Samuel and Jackson Mississippi first time caller.
- 9:07Speaker 8: Yes, sir, How are you doing it?
- 9:08Speaker 2: Man? Good?
- 9:08Speaker 5: How are you doing pretty good?
- 9:11Speaker 8: I was just calling. I'm not really concerned about the
- 9:13Speaker 8: trade headline. I don't expect to really get anything done
- 9:15Speaker 8: with that, okay, buddy. I'm concerned about all the blowouts
- 9:18Speaker 8: in these games. Either win by a lot or we
- 9:21Speaker 8: lose by a lot. Do you think that's maybe an
- 9:24Speaker 8: adjustment thing by the coaches or not if the initial
- 9:27Speaker 8: game plan doesn't pan out they're having trouble adjusting to it.
- 9:31Speaker 2: Well. I mean, they're only two weeks removed from a
- 9:34Speaker 2: really close one against the Chargers, which was their only
- 9:38Speaker 2: close game, so that they have they do have one
- 9:40Speaker 2: under their belt. You know right now they're they're blowing
- 9:46Speaker 2: teams out at home, and you know, and they're and
- 9:49Speaker 2: they were kind of letting these games get away from
- 9:52Speaker 2: them on the road. I don't know if there's anything
- 9:56Speaker 2: to put your finger on there. I mean, I really don't.
- 9:58Speaker 2: I think that they've plaid one good football team this
- 10:02Speaker 2: year and they've been blown out. That's what I think.
- 10:04Speaker 2: I think for the most part the other game other
- 10:06Speaker 2: teams are pretty good to below average, so it's it's hard.
- 10:12Speaker 2: I think it's still seven games is a lot of games.
- 10:14Speaker 2: It's not a short sample size, but it's also a
- 10:17Speaker 2: little too early to say that this is the type
- 10:20Speaker 2: of team that they have. I don't I don't know.
- 10:22Speaker 2: I'm not concerned about the blowout, especially the ones at home,
- 10:24Speaker 2: and I just think that's how that's how much better
- 10:26Speaker 2: the Cowboys have been than their opponent at home. What
- 10:30Speaker 2: do you what do you think? Tell me why you're
- 10:32Speaker 2: concerned a little bit by it?
- 10:35Speaker 8: It just seems the last couple of years you've had
- 10:37Speaker 8: similar similar situations here. Most of the time, either we
- 10:41Speaker 8: lose by a lot or we win by a lot.
- 10:44Speaker 8: And at first of all, it was the kind of
- 10:46Speaker 8: Kellen Moore method. Kellen Moore would just kind of score
- 10:49Speaker 8: a lot of points and not do good management. I
- 10:51Speaker 8: think Mcarth gets improved on that, but.
- 10:54Speaker 9: I don't know.
- 10:56Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'm I'm I'm just going back and
- 10:59Speaker 2: looking at at last games. I mean, I don't know,
- 11:03Speaker 2: I see some you know, four point game, six point game,
- 11:06Speaker 2: eight point game, thirty seven point game, thirty five point
- 11:10Speaker 2: game seven twenty eighteen two six. I mean, I see
- 11:15Speaker 2: a little bit of everything. I don't know if there if
- 11:17Speaker 2: there's a trend there. I could, you know, we could
- 11:20Speaker 2: take a deeper look into it. But I've seen a
- 11:23Speaker 2: little bit of everything. I've seen some overtime games, seen
- 11:25Speaker 2: some some close games, seen some blowout games, and we've
- 11:27Speaker 2: seen some of that this year too, So I think,
- 11:31Speaker 2: you know, I do not concerned about blowing teams out.
- 11:35Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's a good sign. But of
- 11:38Speaker 2: course you know that they do have the two games.
- 11:40Speaker 2: I don't think they got blown out by the Cardinals,
- 11:42Speaker 2: but they lost by twelve, and you know that that's
- 11:44Speaker 2: a lot in the NFL. But thirty two against the
- 11:47Speaker 2: forty nine ers is is alarming. And still if you
- 11:52Speaker 2: had to rate both of those, I mean I've said
- 11:54Speaker 2: this before. I mean I'm more concerned about the forty
- 11:56Speaker 2: niner game then I then I would be the Arizona game.
- 12:00Speaker 2: And I say that because you know the forty nine
- 12:03Speaker 2: er game, I mean, you were about as full strength
- 12:04Speaker 2: as you could get that you could expect to be,
- 12:07Speaker 2: and that was a playoff type atmosphere, that was, hey,
- 12:10Speaker 2: let's figure that, Hey, this team has knocked us out,
- 12:12Speaker 2: We're coming to get them. And it was it was
- 12:15Speaker 2: not the case. And so you know, Arizona you know,
- 12:19Speaker 2: you guys can say, well, I don't believe in excuses,
- 12:22Speaker 2: but I mean that that offensive line is not what
- 12:25Speaker 2: what the Cowboys will will have for most games. And
- 12:29Speaker 2: so you've kind of lowered yourself to the standard of
- 12:32Speaker 2: what the Cardinals were. And so that's how you get
- 12:34Speaker 2: beat by the Cardinals is you have too many injuries
- 12:37Speaker 2: and you just don't you don't execute. That they overlooked them.
- 12:40Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it that they were not focused
- 12:42Speaker 2: like they needed to in that game. All right, let's go.
- 12:46Speaker 2: I got a text question here from Wilson in Virginia Beach.
- 12:50Speaker 2: Why don't we run sweet pitch? Run plays off? And
- 12:53Speaker 2: in all the years I've been watching, we rarely do it.
- 12:55Speaker 2: Get Pollard on the outside make people miss it is
- 12:58Speaker 2: because our O line is not at enough to run
- 13:01Speaker 2: that play. Question Mark, I think you've got you've got
- 13:06Speaker 2: some athleticism on the line. Now, you definitely have some.
- 13:10Speaker 2: I mean, you know what I think, I think if
- 13:13Speaker 2: you if you go back and look, I mean I
- 13:14Speaker 2: know specifically of a play where chum DOGA is running
- 13:18Speaker 2: out out outside and he made a couple of run
- 13:21Speaker 2: a couple of blocks and it was a toss pitch
- 13:24Speaker 2: to the to the left side right in front of
- 13:25Speaker 2: the Cowboys bench to Pollard. Uhdoga was out there on
- 13:29Speaker 2: the move. I've seen tiring out there on the move.
- 13:32Speaker 2: I think they do it. Did they do it all
- 13:34Speaker 2: the time? No, they they they don't all the time,
- 13:37Speaker 2: but they they do. They do run to the outside,
- 13:40Speaker 2: you know. And and a lot of times our outside
- 13:43Speaker 2: runs are these little sweeps to the to the you know,
- 13:46Speaker 2: like reverse runs to Cooks or CD coming around the edge.
- 13:49Speaker 2: But I've seen Pollard do it and and and I've
- 13:51Speaker 2: seen just pitches to them as well. I think, you know,
- 13:55Speaker 2: to do that, you're off. Your receivers have to be
- 13:57Speaker 2: good at blocking, you know. That's one thing that they've
- 14:01Speaker 2: lost a little bit and in the last couple of
- 14:03Speaker 2: years with some of the guys that were that were
- 14:05Speaker 2: out there a lot, you know, the Noah Browns and
- 14:07Speaker 2: stuff like that. Good good blockers. Obviously they're the receivers.
- 14:11Speaker 2: They need to be getting open and making catches more.
- 14:14Speaker 2: But you know, they have some they don't have the
- 14:17Speaker 2: biggest receivers in the world, but they have something that
- 14:18Speaker 2: can block. But that's another key element to running to
- 14:21Speaker 2: the outside is making sure that you can get things
- 14:23Speaker 2: blocked on the edge. All right, we go to our
- 14:27Speaker 2: fourth caller is Sean in Bakersfield, California. Sean, what's up man?
- 14:33Speaker 10: What's going on?
- 14:34Speaker 5: Nick?
- 14:34Speaker 10: How's it going man?
- 14:35Speaker 2: Good, good morning to you out there.
- 14:39Speaker 10: Thank you very much. It's been a reugh day to
- 14:41Speaker 10: say the league.
- 14:42Speaker 11: Man.
- 14:42Speaker 10: You know, I just I just wanted to ask you
- 14:48Speaker 10: a question. You know, before each season starts, you know,
- 14:52Speaker 10: the goal is to win the Super Bowl, correct, you know,
- 14:57Speaker 10: and everyone talks about out how the Cowboys made their trades.
- 15:02Speaker 10: You talked about earlier. They made their trades earlier in
- 15:04Speaker 10: the season, you know, with Cooks and Gilmore, even Hankins.
- 15:09Speaker 10: You know, last year, you know it was it was great.
- 15:11Speaker 10: But that being said, Nick, you know the two teams
- 15:15Speaker 10: that with those trades, those two teams are still better
- 15:19Speaker 10: than us, and that is Philly and that is the Niners, right,
- 15:23Speaker 10: and those two teams that are considered considered better than us, unquote,
- 15:28Speaker 10: those two teams made moves to make it to the
- 15:32Speaker 10: Super Bowl, and.
- 15:33Speaker 5: We did it.
- 15:34Speaker 10: You know, I just thought that was crushing. I thought
- 15:38Speaker 10: we have a good team, and I don't see anything
- 15:41Speaker 10: wrong with getting better, right, And it's the draft picks
- 15:46Speaker 10: that they'll talk to us about, or it's going to
- 15:49Speaker 10: be the cap right. We don't want to be good
- 15:53Speaker 10: at drafting. We want to win the Super Bowl US fans,
- 15:58Speaker 10: you know, we want to win the Super Bowl. And
- 16:00Speaker 10: like I feel like they dodged it by not going
- 16:04Speaker 10: after somebody on this deadline. You know, there was a
- 16:08Speaker 10: lot of people out there. I'm sure there is that
- 16:11Speaker 10: cornerback out there from the Bears. They wanted a second round,
- 16:14Speaker 10: like go for it. You know. They want to keep
- 16:17Speaker 10: these draft picks and keep going. And they talk about, oh,
- 16:21Speaker 10: we got to feed everybody a part of the pie
- 16:23Speaker 10: in this and that the Cowboy fan, Cowboy nation want
- 16:27Speaker 10: a super Bowl. That's all I got. Man, have a
- 16:31Speaker 10: wonderful day, cowblet.
- 16:32Speaker 2: You you too. This is when I would love to
- 16:37Speaker 2: see another caller on the line empty calls right now,
- 16:40Speaker 2: because I would just move right on to that. I can't.
- 16:41Speaker 2: I can't argue with that one. I mean, I mean
- 16:43Speaker 2: I can, I can. It's just it's no point. I mean,
- 16:46Speaker 2: if that's if that's how you feel, that's how you feel.
- 16:49Speaker 2: I don't think you speak for every Cowboy fan there. Yeah,
- 16:51Speaker 2: every Cowboy fan wants to win the Super Bowl, but
- 16:54Speaker 2: there's different ways to get there, and for for him
- 16:57Speaker 2: to say, I don't we don't want a team that
- 16:59Speaker 2: drafts well, I mean, I mean that's just that just said.
- 17:03Speaker 2: I cue the like record scratch, Like they're like, what, like, yeah, yeah,
- 17:09Speaker 2: you do, you definitely do, and it doesn't you know. Okay,
- 17:15Speaker 2: so the Bears wanted a second round pick for whatever
- 17:18Speaker 2: corner that you didn't even know who he was. You
- 17:20Speaker 2: don't even I mean, okay, okay, they evaluate these guys too.
- 17:25Speaker 2: So so forty nine ers get Chase Young? Does that
- 17:29Speaker 2: make you that? Does that make them a super Bowl contender?
- 17:31Speaker 2: I mean, would that have made the Cowboys a Super
- 17:34Speaker 2: Bowl contender? Just getting him? I mean, I think a
- 17:36Speaker 2: lot of this stuff, a lot of this frustration is
- 17:38Speaker 2: just seeing other teams do some things to fill some
- 17:41Speaker 2: needs or whatever that maybe the Cowboys like, like you
- 17:44Speaker 2: saw Safety go to Philadelphia, saw pass Rusher go to
- 17:48Speaker 2: you know, go to the forty nine ers. Does that
- 17:50Speaker 2: make them better? I don't know. I honestly, I'll be honest,
- 17:54Speaker 2: I haven't seen Chase Young make a play. I mean,
- 17:56Speaker 2: I really have it. He's been hurt a lot I
- 18:00Speaker 2: know what he looks like, I know what he was drafted,
- 18:02Speaker 2: I know all this stuff, you know. But he doesn't
- 18:05Speaker 2: make a ton of plays like that. So maybe he will.
- 18:08Speaker 2: Maybe he will there with the forty nine ers, But
- 18:10Speaker 2: I'll say this, I don't think he's going to a
- 18:12Speaker 2: better group, a better defensive line than he had before.
- 18:17Speaker 2: You know, I looked at that trade and the trades
- 18:21Speaker 2: that happened yesterday, and I think it helped the Cowboys
- 18:25Speaker 2: more than anything. And so I've already been in an
- 18:27Speaker 2: argument this morning on the air about this where people
- 18:30Speaker 2: are looking at forty nine ers, they're looking at the Eagles,
- 18:33Speaker 2: they're looking at trying to get to the playoffs. But
- 18:35Speaker 2: I'll say this, you got two games coming up with Washington,
- 18:38Speaker 2: and you got a guy in a Montes sweat. I
- 18:41Speaker 2: believe you haven't blocked him. And since he's been in
- 18:44Speaker 2: the league, I mean, he's wrecked games for the cow
- 18:47Speaker 2: against the Cowboys. So that's not the worst move in
- 18:49Speaker 2: the world for the Cowboys to see a couple of
- 18:51Speaker 2: those guys in Washington. You got to get through that.
- 18:53Speaker 2: And if that's if that's being short sighted, then so
- 18:57Speaker 2: be it. But But I know this that you know,
- 19:00Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't know. You can't tell me
- 19:03Speaker 2: that the forty nine ers got appreciably better yesterday. I
- 19:05Speaker 2: don't know that. I don't know that for sure. I
- 19:07Speaker 2: think the Cowboys looked at situations. They tried. I know
- 19:11Speaker 2: they did. I know they tried to make moves. It
- 19:13Speaker 2: didn't work. They weren't as aggressive as they needed to.
- 19:15Speaker 2: And like I said before, they have made moves before,
- 19:18Speaker 2: so you know, if it was too early, that's fine.
- 19:22Speaker 2: That reminds me of kids that always want a toy,
- 19:25Speaker 2: always want stuff like that, and then you get it
- 19:27Speaker 2: for them, and then six hours later they're asking it
- 19:30Speaker 2: for something else. That's the way that they think. They
- 19:32Speaker 2: don't remember six weeks ago. You've got two players, they've
- 19:36Speaker 2: made moves, they've they've lost draft picks to do it.
- 19:39Speaker 2: They're they're working them in. That's what they've done. That's
- 19:41Speaker 2: why they say that they like their team. So I
- 19:44Speaker 2: think I think it's it's you know, it's my opinion,
- 19:47Speaker 2: but I think it's shortsighted of fans to look at
- 19:50Speaker 2: other teams and go, they they did it, why don't
- 19:53Speaker 2: we do it? Completely completely different situation. So we'll see.
- 19:58Speaker 2: But That's that's all I got said there. All right,
- 20:00Speaker 2: Ronnie in New Jersey is our next caller. Ronnie? What's up?
- 20:04Speaker 10: Good morning, Nick?
- 20:04Speaker 2: How you doing good? I'm all right.
- 20:07Speaker 7: I mean it was a little I'll be honest with you.
- 20:11Speaker 7: I have some of the last caller.
- 20:15Speaker 2: What did you What did you want? Ronnie? That's why
- 20:19Speaker 2: I should ask what did you want to do?
- 20:22Speaker 7: I wanted that physical running back. I wanted that physical
- 20:25Speaker 7: running back and.
- 20:27Speaker 2: First round pick? First round? First round pick?
- 20:29Speaker 7: You want you want to get give up a first
- 20:31Speaker 7: round pick.
- 20:32Speaker 2: You know you're not giving up a first round pick.
- 20:33Speaker 2: So where did you want to get for him? Second
- 20:35Speaker 2: round pick?
- 20:36Speaker 7: The most a second Because listen, Nick, if anything you
- 20:39Speaker 7: could agree on is that we're not great at picking
- 20:42Speaker 7: at the second round. So if we could get a
- 20:45Speaker 7: running back that we know for sure it's going to
- 20:47Speaker 7: pound that ball in there, it's going to give us
- 20:49Speaker 7: that physicalness that we need, yeah, I would have given
- 20:52Speaker 7: up that second round pick.
- 20:53Speaker 10: It's not like we do much with it.
- 20:55Speaker 5: Every year.
- 20:55Speaker 7: We we we just try to get a player with
- 20:59Speaker 7: up side. It works out sometimes. I mean you could
- 21:02Speaker 7: count under your hands how many players worked out song
- 21:05Speaker 7: lead and maybe one or two more.
- 21:07Speaker 2: But you're but you're assuming that that was the offer.
- 21:11Speaker 2: You're assuming that that that's all that it's going to take.
- 21:13Speaker 2: And I don't think that. I don't think that's the case.
- 21:15Speaker 2: I think it would be more than that. More than that.
- 21:18Speaker 2: You can't tell me that thirty two to thirty one
- 21:20Speaker 2: other teams didn't want that same player. Uh, and it
- 21:23Speaker 2: didn't work out like they they didn't. The price wasn't
- 21:26Speaker 2: what Tennessee wanted. It was just don't dance around it.
- 21:30Speaker 2: Tennessee wanted a lot more than what the Cowboys were,
- 21:33Speaker 2: but any team was offering at that point, So it
- 21:36Speaker 2: just it didn't It didn't work out. I mean that
- 21:39Speaker 2: they weren't looking to go. It wasn't just a second.
- 21:41Speaker 2: It was going to be a second and something else.
- 21:44Speaker 2: And that's where you get into the area that the
- 21:45Speaker 2: Cowboys didn't have. They didn't have that something else, not
- 21:48Speaker 2: not for this year unless you were talking about players.
- 21:50Speaker 2: So I'm with you. I totally agree. I think the
- 21:53Speaker 2: Cowboys are thin at running back. I agree one hundred percent.
- 21:57Speaker 2: But they got themselves.
- 21:58Speaker 5: It was dread.
- 22:00Speaker 7: Can I just ask you, isn't a we had a
- 22:04Speaker 7: back that was supposed to considered like that. Ronald Jones,
- 22:08Speaker 7: it seems he's still available that maybe they could bring
- 22:11Speaker 7: back just to take a look for him, make a
- 22:12Speaker 7: practice squad and see where he's at. They could they
- 22:16Speaker 7: need help.
- 22:17Speaker 2: I I agree, I don't know if they agree, but yeah,
- 22:21Speaker 2: Ronald Jones is a is a guy that they could
- 22:24Speaker 2: they could bring back if they need, if they wanted to.
- 22:28Speaker 2: I don't believe he's with another team. I could be
- 22:31Speaker 2: wrong there. I haven't seen that come across. There's not
- 22:33Speaker 2: a lot of running backs that are open and available.
- 22:36Speaker 2: I think Buffalo did a good job of getting fur Nett,
- 22:39Speaker 2: you know there, and because a lot a lot of
- 22:40Speaker 2: times what happens is the trade deadline goes and then
- 22:43Speaker 2: you're like, all right, I didn't get to make a trade.
- 22:45Speaker 2: Who's out there? And they went and got the best
- 22:48Speaker 2: guy that was out there before that could happen. But yeah,
- 22:52Speaker 2: I just you guys, you understand like it it doesn't
- 22:58Speaker 2: work where. I mean, it's not a store, okay, it's
- 23:02Speaker 2: not like it's not like the guy is sitting there
- 23:05Speaker 2: like available with a price tag on him and you
- 23:07Speaker 2: just have to decide if you want him or not.
- 23:10Speaker 2: I mean, it is a it's a two way street.
- 23:12Speaker 2: So I just I don't understand the frustration with with
- 23:16Speaker 2: the Cowboys for not going to make a move that
- 23:19Speaker 2: you don't even know is available. You don't so that
- 23:23Speaker 2: that just that that's just reckless to me. It's reckless
- 23:26Speaker 2: to say, why didn't we go and do something when
- 23:30Speaker 2: you would be pissed if they gave a first round
- 23:32Speaker 2: pick to a player for a year or two, or
- 23:35Speaker 2: a second and a third next year, or a player
- 23:38Speaker 2: that you like. The the they were looking, they looked,
- 23:43Speaker 2: they looked, all they looked for the last week and
- 23:46Speaker 2: a half, and nothing really piqued their interest. And it's
- 23:50Speaker 2: just weird that fans would just be upset that without
- 23:54Speaker 2: even knowing what it was and what it would have
- 23:56Speaker 2: taken to get a player that his original team doesn't
- 24:00Speaker 2: really want either. So I don't know. I just I
- 24:04Speaker 2: tend to I tend to have a hard time arguing
- 24:07Speaker 2: about things I don't know anything about, and I really
- 24:09Speaker 2: don't know what these trade situations were, but I know
- 24:12Speaker 2: the Cowboys are trying to get better, and if they
- 24:14Speaker 2: didn't make the move, then it obviously didn't seem like
- 24:17Speaker 2: like it was a good move for him. So all right,
- 24:20Speaker 2: Steven and Tyler Texas. Steven, what's up?
- 24:25Speaker 5: Hey? Nick?
- 24:25Speaker 11: How you man?
- 24:27Speaker 7: Oh?
- 24:27Speaker 2: Good?
- 24:28Speaker 5: You?
- 24:29Speaker 2: I'm good. What do you got? Trade deadline? Who did
- 24:33Speaker 2: you want?
- 24:34Speaker 5: No?
- 24:34Speaker 11: You know what everybody wanted, you know something. But let's
- 24:37Speaker 11: be real, man. I've heard you say it many times,
- 24:40Speaker 11: like why trade just to be trading? We have no pikes,
- 24:46Speaker 11: have nothing left.
- 24:47Speaker 10: I mean, so yeah, I get it.
- 24:49Speaker 11: All the Cowboys Nation wanted, you know, somebody. I wanted somebody.
- 24:54Speaker 11: But in reality, you know, we hear this player acquisition
- 24:59Speaker 11: is three sixty.
- 25:00Speaker 5: Uh.
- 25:00Speaker 11: I think you know, Cowboy Nations just kind of upset
- 25:03Speaker 11: like when they hear that and then nobody comes in.
- 25:06Speaker 11: You know, I trade deadline, but we did make two trades.
- 25:09Speaker 6: We got two really good people.
- 25:11Speaker 5: You know.
- 25:12Speaker 11: It's off seasons, so and I'm I'm under impresson like you.
- 25:16Speaker 11: They came in there in March or whatever the case
- 25:18Speaker 11: may be, and look where they're at. Now you get
- 25:21Speaker 11: somebody in here, you know, Now, if it really is
- 25:26Speaker 11: supposed to contribute right away, maybe if you don't get
- 25:28Speaker 11: to us stud like you know, Chris Jones or somebody
- 25:31Speaker 11: like that. So I think Cowboys makes it. Just let's
- 25:34Speaker 11: to chill out, see how this goes, and let's let
- 25:38Speaker 11: it play out. Man, we got Philly on Sunday. Let's
- 25:40Speaker 11: go walk into the house, take their heart.
- 25:42Speaker 9: Come back to the house.
- 25:43Speaker 2: That's there. You go. I like that. And you know,
- 25:46Speaker 2: if if, if that happens, Steve, thanks for the call.
- 25:50Speaker 2: If that happens, that's going to change a lot of
- 25:52Speaker 2: opinions about you know, where the Cowboys are right now.
- 25:55Speaker 2: I mean, I know the frustration part is is that
- 25:58Speaker 2: and I think I think that's San Francisco's losses are
- 26:01Speaker 2: probably making it worse for the Cowboys and their fans
- 26:05Speaker 2: just because it's like that team still was way better
- 26:10Speaker 2: than you when it really counted. And now now they've struggled.
- 26:13Speaker 2: Are they struggling because of injury? Are they struggling because
- 26:16Speaker 2: teams will figured them out? Are they are they they're
- 26:19Speaker 2: just going through that that you know, Humble Patch. I
- 26:22Speaker 2: guess that that happens, and it does. It happens to
- 26:26Speaker 2: all the teams. You know in the roller coaster. Uh,
- 26:29Speaker 2: there's dips, there's there's twists, there's flips, there's all that
- 26:32Speaker 2: kind of stuff. But you know, the sad part is
- 26:36Speaker 2: for the for I'm sure for a lot of Cowboy
- 26:37Speaker 2: fans is that, Man, if they're not any good, then
- 26:40Speaker 2: how how good are we?
- 26:41Speaker 5: You know?
- 26:42Speaker 2: And that's the question you always have to ask yourself.
- 26:44Speaker 2: And but it's just weird with the NFL. I mean,
- 26:47Speaker 2: it's just you know, Cowboys, Cowboys were way better than
- 26:50Speaker 2: the Jets, and and that was clear. You know, they
- 26:54Speaker 2: beat them pretty good, and the Jets beat the Eagles.
- 26:57Speaker 2: And I don't think any of that's gonna matter for Sunday.
- 26:59Speaker 2: You know, I think of how they how they match up.
- 27:02Speaker 2: So it is a lot about matchups, and I think that,
- 27:05Speaker 2: you know, I think the Cowboys will match up with
- 27:07Speaker 2: a lot of teams. But you know, they've they've you know,
- 27:10Speaker 2: they've been in a situation, you know, this this year
- 27:12Speaker 2: where they they've had you know, they've had some blowout
- 27:14Speaker 2: they've had some some tough games, and uh, but I think,
- 27:17Speaker 2: you know, I think this game against the Eagles, I
- 27:19Speaker 2: think it'll be a lot different. I don't think it'll
- 27:21Speaker 2: I'll be really surprised if it's a blowout. That's not
- 27:24Speaker 2: just the way these two teams have played. Most of
- 27:26Speaker 2: these games, they've been pretty close, and they were close
- 27:29Speaker 2: last year when both teams. Uh, neither game had had
- 27:32Speaker 2: both starting quarterbacks there. All right, let's go to uh
- 27:38Speaker 2: one more, let's go to another call here before we
- 27:40Speaker 2: go to break. All right, Joe and Maine, let's.
- 27:43Speaker 9: Up to so all this craziness out there, but we've
- 27:49Speaker 9: got to get these guys. I don't get it. I
- 27:51Speaker 9: don't understand it. Our needs that we needed just were
- 27:55Speaker 9: out there.
- 27:56Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think the needs are? What would
- 27:59Speaker 2: be in your mind, like the main needs of the team.
- 28:02Speaker 9: I mean, like you know, sure, you know you want
- 28:04Speaker 9: to deep up the offensive line. I think that's a
- 28:07Speaker 9: huge spot. Who do you put in there that's better
- 28:09Speaker 9: than what we already have?
- 28:11Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to get It's hard to add receiver,
- 28:13Speaker 2: I mean, sorry, offensive lineman from any team. They just
- 28:16Speaker 2: nobody feels like they have a surplus of offensive linemen,
- 28:20Speaker 2: and so who do you Yeah, it's hard to trade
- 28:22Speaker 2: for someone unless you just got a starter that's not
- 28:25Speaker 2: going to get re signed off a team that's not
- 28:27Speaker 2: really very good. That's that's that's your best look at it.
- 28:30Speaker 9: I say, who's out there that's better than Tuma? And
- 28:34Speaker 9: I just and then the question mark remains, like you know,
- 28:37Speaker 9: you're not going to give up somebody to get something
- 28:39Speaker 9: that's not as good as what you already have, and
- 28:41Speaker 9: running back, and I will get running back. I said, sure,
- 28:43Speaker 9: you know, they're not sure, but who else is out
- 28:46Speaker 9: there that was better than what we have?
- 28:48Speaker 2: Right?
- 28:49Speaker 9: You know? And you're gonna give up first round on
- 28:51Speaker 9: a running back? I mean, you wouldn't use it in draft?
- 28:53Speaker 9: Why would you use it? Now?
- 28:55Speaker 2: That's true. That's a good point. Yeah.
- 28:58Speaker 9: I'm sitting there and I'm looking at it and saying, like,
- 29:00Speaker 9: you know, we picked up Rashid Evans middle lineback. We
- 29:03Speaker 9: needed a middle linebacker. We didn't trade for him, we
- 29:05Speaker 9: just signed him.
- 29:06Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and he.
- 29:08Speaker 9: Played in the game. You know, if he's getting point
- 29:10Speaker 9: in time, you know, and this is a valuable piece
- 29:13Speaker 9: that we'll be able to actually use.
- 29:15Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe, don't don't be bringing rationale into the situation here,
- 29:19Speaker 2: all right, I mean don't don't don't don't bring points
- 29:22Speaker 2: in facts, you know what I mean. I mean, no,
- 29:25Speaker 2: I mean I appreciate it. I mean you're right, And
- 29:28Speaker 2: again I thanks. You have another question. I don't want to.
- 29:32Speaker 2: I don't want to you have another question. I don't
- 29:34Speaker 2: want to kick off the line just yet anything else.
- 29:36Speaker 9: No, it wasn't so much of a question. It was
- 29:39Speaker 9: just more point of what I've been a Cowboys fans
- 29:41Speaker 9: in nineteen seventy seven, and I've gone through all the
- 29:44Speaker 9: ups and downs and all the love and they hate
- 29:46Speaker 9: and all that in between. And I look at what
- 29:48Speaker 9: we've got, and I said, you know, look at Brandon Cooks.
- 29:51Speaker 9: We might as well have just picked him up on
- 29:53Speaker 9: a trade.
- 29:54Speaker 10: We haven't used them.
- 29:55Speaker 9: Yeah, he's a brand new piece of the puzzle that
- 29:58Speaker 9: we started using, you know. And I go and I go,
- 30:01Speaker 9: and I just look at it, and I say, we
- 30:02Speaker 9: just need to use what we got sat get the
- 30:05Speaker 9: most out of it. And we're showing that we can
- 30:07Speaker 9: be that complete team.
- 30:09Speaker 2: Yep, yep. A great call. Thank you Joe for the call.
- 30:12Speaker 2: And think about that. Used Brandon Cooks as an example,
- 30:15Speaker 2: and not every position is the same, but just looking
- 30:18Speaker 2: at that for a wide receiver, Brandon Cooks had a
- 30:22Speaker 2: great training camp, but then for some reason it didn't
- 30:26Speaker 2: mesh the same during the regular season. Well, you bring
- 30:31Speaker 2: a player in now, it takes a little bit. I
- 30:34Speaker 2: mean it always does. I remember they got Roy Williams
- 30:37Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight. First round pick. They got
- 30:39Speaker 2: him at the trade deadline, I believe, and he didn't
- 30:42Speaker 2: really contribute at all that year. I mean, you could
- 30:46Speaker 2: argue how much he contributed after that. I mean, he
- 30:48Speaker 2: was a pretty good player, but they didn't get you know,
- 30:52Speaker 2: the return on investment there, and some of those moves
- 30:56Speaker 2: you know of blockbuster type trades, they have hurt the
- 31:00Speaker 2: you know, they have to stay in your mind a
- 31:03Speaker 2: little bit, like, all right, is it really worth it
- 31:05Speaker 2: to go and try to get over the top with
- 31:07Speaker 2: a player that you know, maybe you know, maybe you're
- 31:10Speaker 2: gonna give up too much and maybe it's going to backfire,
- 31:12Speaker 2: because you know, when they've done that, when they've made
- 31:15Speaker 2: moves like that for Joey Gallaway and Roy Williams, and
- 31:20Speaker 2: I'm missing another one as well that they brought in.
- 31:23Speaker 2: I mean, for the most part, it doesn't really work
- 31:27Speaker 2: out from a long term situation. So all right, let's
- 31:31Speaker 2: take a break, take a break here on Cowboy storyline.
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- 33:43Speaker 2: Right, welcome back to Cowboys storyline and getting little getting
- 33:48Speaker 2: little heated. I guess with some of these calls, and
- 33:51Speaker 2: you know, let me say this, like I've said this
- 33:54Speaker 2: before and I'll say it every every show. I mean,
- 33:57Speaker 2: like nobody's opinion is wrong, like not anybody. Now, I
- 34:02Speaker 2: don't always agree with it, and I don't agree with
- 34:05Speaker 2: being frustrated at things that you just don't know everything.
- 34:09Speaker 2: You don't know the whole story. You don't and so
- 34:12Speaker 2: that's what's tough, and that's why I don't get too
- 34:14Speaker 2: worked up about it. I just don't understand. I don't
- 34:18Speaker 2: understand some mentality on that, but I do understand the
- 34:22Speaker 2: frustration of just wanting to win this thing. I mean,
- 34:25Speaker 2: you've been doing it for a long time, and you know,
- 34:29Speaker 2: I thought about it last night and this morning, and
- 34:33Speaker 2: everybody's a fan of something and our team, you know,
- 34:37Speaker 2: obviously everyone on here is big Cowboy fans and whatever,
- 34:39Speaker 2: but then something else. I mean, I'm looking at the
- 34:41Speaker 2: I got California, Texas, New Mexico, South Carolina, Mississippi, Maine,
- 34:45Speaker 2: New Jersey. Those are the states that have called this today.
- 34:48Speaker 2: They got fans of all over the places cup one
- 34:51Speaker 2: from Texas, and I don't even know for sure if
- 34:53Speaker 2: they're a Texas Rangers fan, But I am. I am.
- 34:57Speaker 2: I was thirteen years old when we moved to Dallas,
- 34:59Speaker 2: and I went to my first Rangers game and they
- 35:02Speaker 2: weren't very good, and but they were, you know, they
- 35:04Speaker 2: were just kind of fun to watch. And I've seen
- 35:06Speaker 2: three different ballparks now, you know, and and and here
- 35:09Speaker 2: they are one win away from winning the World Series,
- 35:13Speaker 2: and uh that that's gonna be an emotional thing when
- 35:16Speaker 2: that if if that happens, not gonna say win, I'll
- 35:19Speaker 2: say if that happens, it could be tonight, and and
- 35:22Speaker 2: that'll be really cool because it because what it does,
- 35:24Speaker 2: it brings you back as a fan when you were
- 35:26Speaker 2: a kid, your childhood. You remember the hot for some
- 35:30Speaker 2: hot games been out there and and uh, you know
- 35:33Speaker 2: the low points and and and almost winning the World
- 35:36Speaker 2: Series twelve years ago, and and but you do it
- 35:41Speaker 2: all for a moment that could happen tonight for me,
- 35:45Speaker 2: and uh and I and I say that knowing not
- 35:47Speaker 2: not that many people probably listen to architexas Rangers fans,
- 35:50Speaker 2: but it's it's my team, and I understand the Cowboys
- 35:53Speaker 2: or your team, and I get it. I get the frustration.
- 35:56Speaker 2: So I don't want that to be lost.
- 35:58Speaker 11: Uh.
- 35:58Speaker 2: I just think you you've got to understand all sides
- 36:00Speaker 2: of it. And when we're talking about trades that might
- 36:02Speaker 2: have happened might not happen, it's hard to do that.
- 36:05Speaker 2: So all right, let's go to the phone line in
- 36:08Speaker 2: Los Angeles. This is ChIL Loose. I say this, correct,
- 36:11Speaker 2: ChIL Loose, right.
- 36:15Speaker 9: Tagging you remember how cold before?
- 36:17Speaker 5: Anyway? Yeah? Yeah, no, I go Rangers, man, they look good.
- 36:22Speaker 2: Man, thet's go.
- 36:23Speaker 5: I couldn't believe they let them, you know, come back
- 36:25Speaker 5: a little bit.
- 36:26Speaker 2: That's okay, they're playing. They're playing pictures that don't even
- 36:30Speaker 2: need to be on the roster.
- 36:31Speaker 5: I mean so exactly.
- 36:32Speaker 2: I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about making sure
- 36:34Speaker 2: they get it done tonight.
- 36:35Speaker 5: Okay, I think they will. Man, they look too too
- 36:39Speaker 5: tough man. Anyway, Yeah, I think I agree about the
- 36:42Speaker 5: the pick thing. Man. We don't have that many to
- 36:44Speaker 5: screw around with next year. We are a team that
- 36:47Speaker 5: picks and builds from that. So, you know, I really
- 36:49Speaker 5: think that you know, they were smart, you know, don't. Look,
- 36:52Speaker 5: we got a lot of players on the team on
- 36:55Speaker 5: the ross are already that we could take advantage of.
- 36:58Speaker 5: I mean that kid Lipkey, you can put him more
- 37:01Speaker 5: in the rotation. Who would really really be tough, you know,
- 37:04Speaker 5: he could he could get in there and you know,
- 37:06Speaker 5: especially in that short yardage in the red zone and
- 37:09Speaker 5: do some things. Plus he's a blocker. You know, you
- 37:11Speaker 5: can switch him out in the rotation with you know,
- 37:14Speaker 5: with Dowdell and and TP. But I also wanted to
- 37:19Speaker 5: mention something about on that brotherly shove thing. Man, what
- 37:22Speaker 5: I don't understand is why aren't the defenses stacking linebackers
- 37:28Speaker 5: behind guys like say Hankins and and Gallamore and O
- 37:32Speaker 5: Diggity Zua and you know, put Parsons back there, Clark
- 37:36Speaker 5: and shove our guys in there and come up behind
- 37:39Speaker 5: them to kind of counter that. Maybe you could talk
- 37:42Speaker 5: a little bit on that and let us know.
- 37:45Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, thanks for the call. I there's as
- 37:50Speaker 2: soon as that starts happening, and I bet it already
- 37:52Speaker 2: is because now you're seeing I mean, then the Eagles
- 37:55Speaker 2: score a touchdown basically just by running the ball off
- 37:59Speaker 2: the edge. So you know, there's a copycat league, and
- 38:03Speaker 2: then it's always stayed one one play ahead of them.
- 38:07Speaker 2: I would think the linebackers are pushing, are they? Are
- 38:10Speaker 2: they not? I guess I haven't seen. I haven't done
- 38:13Speaker 2: a whole tutoral on the toush push plays, which I
- 38:17Speaker 2: still feel like we need a better name. But yeah,
- 38:21Speaker 2: I mean it's it's just goes goes down to weightlifting,
- 38:25Speaker 2: you know, and just and and and you know it's
- 38:27Speaker 2: it's just like a tug of war type thing that's
- 38:30Speaker 2: happening there. And I thought it's called rugby. I mean,
- 38:35Speaker 2: isn't that what that just seems like what it is
- 38:37Speaker 2: to be. I'm not a fan of the play. I
- 38:40Speaker 2: said it the other day. I just I don't understand
- 38:42Speaker 2: why the NFL allows it, honestly. And it's not just
- 38:45Speaker 2: that play, it's college football too. I just don't understand
- 38:49Speaker 2: why five yard run and the guy hasn't come down yet,
- 38:52Speaker 2: and then then four offensive linemen just shove them six
- 38:54Speaker 2: yards for a touchdown. I don't know. But I've seen
- 38:58Speaker 2: my team in college to win a football game in
- 39:01Speaker 2: overtime because of that play, so I wasn't upset about
- 39:04Speaker 2: it then. But yeah, Lifkey. I don't know if he's
- 39:09Speaker 2: not the answer maybe right now for short yarded situations.
- 39:13Speaker 2: But I'll say this they I haven't seen him get stopped,
- 39:17Speaker 2: so maybe he is. I mean, everything he's tried, he's
- 39:19Speaker 2: been pretty good at. So maybe they got to try
- 39:21Speaker 2: it because he keeps getting a little bit better and better.
- 39:24Speaker 2: All Right, Irwin and Denver, next caller, Good morning, Neck.
- 39:29Speaker 8: How you doing.
- 39:29Speaker 2: I'm good. How are you?
- 39:31Speaker 7: Ah?
- 39:33Speaker 14: What a little frustrated?
- 39:34Speaker 9: Yeah, just a little frustrated.
- 39:35Speaker 14: I spoke with you last week. We talked a little
- 39:38Speaker 14: bit about there, Henry, and I just want to ask
- 39:42Speaker 14: you a question. What's the identity of the Cowboys? Are
- 39:48Speaker 14: we running team like McCarthy said we were gonna be?
- 39:51Speaker 14: Are we a passing team? Because McCarthy was talking about.
- 39:55Speaker 10: We're gonna pound.
- 39:56Speaker 14: The ball, We're gonna run the lock out and play
- 39:59Speaker 14: with our deep and then they came off with the
- 40:01Speaker 14: buy and we're just singing the ball, and I just
- 40:06Speaker 14: I really don't understand. I think McCarthy wants to run
- 40:09Speaker 14: the ball, but I don't think he has faith in
- 40:12Speaker 14: the type of running back that we have to do that.
- 40:15Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's just yeah.
- 40:19Speaker 2: I don't know, or when I don't, I don't. I
- 40:21Speaker 2: don't think. I don't know. If he ever came out
- 40:24Speaker 2: and said I'm going to run the ball, pound the
- 40:26Speaker 2: ball that I think. I think we're going to run
- 40:29Speaker 2: the ball more. I think there was a real you know,
- 40:32Speaker 2: there was a one game, for sure against Jacksonville where
- 40:35Speaker 2: he was frustrated by the fact that they didn't run
- 40:37Speaker 2: out the clock like they should have and they got
- 40:39Speaker 2: too cute throwing the ball around and stuff like that.
- 40:42Speaker 2: But if you go back and look at what he's
- 40:43Speaker 2: done in Green Bay, obviously different quarterback and all this,
- 40:46Speaker 2: but you know, he likes to throw the football. I
- 40:49Speaker 2: think I think it was a little bit of a
- 40:50Speaker 2: misnomer to say we were going to run it like that,
- 40:53Speaker 2: because that personnel doesn't suggest this, Like he doesn't have
- 40:57Speaker 2: the personnel that that would suggest that we're going to
- 40:59Speaker 2: be a ground and pound running type of team. So
- 41:03Speaker 2: I think the identity is to move the ball team.
- 41:05Speaker 2: If that's vague, then that's what it is. I think
- 41:07Speaker 2: they are a move the football type of team. When
- 41:10Speaker 2: they get in situations where they need to run the
- 41:12Speaker 2: clock out, they'll try to do that. But we haven't
- 41:15Speaker 2: seen it yet because there has not been a game
- 41:16Speaker 2: where they've had the ball with the lead, close game
- 41:19Speaker 2: trying to run it out. It'll happen, but it hasn't
- 41:22Speaker 2: happened yet.
- 41:23Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 41:24Speaker 14: Also, yesterday there were a couple of callers talking about
- 41:28Speaker 14: their favorite games. You know, I've been a Cowboys for instance,
- 41:31Speaker 14: like nineteen sixty eight, so I'm kind of showing my
- 41:33Speaker 14: age a little bit, all right, but really yeah, so
- 41:37Speaker 14: really one of my favorite comeback games was when Roger
- 41:41Speaker 14: Staubach got injured, you got a heck concussion. Clent Longley
- 41:44Speaker 14: came in through that long path to Drew Pearson to
- 41:47Speaker 14: beat the Redpkins up things in day.
- 41:49Speaker 9: That was a great comeback.
- 41:51Speaker 2: Yeah, that was cool. I mean I wasn't alive, but
- 41:54Speaker 2: I've seen it so many times and yeah, that was
- 41:58Speaker 2: neat and it you know, it sounds like you know
- 42:01Speaker 2: what was cool about that?
- 42:03Speaker 10: You know?
- 42:03Speaker 2: And the reason why I know a little bit more
- 42:05Speaker 2: about it, and some fans probably do too, is that
- 42:08Speaker 2: that was nineteen seventy four Thanksgiving Day, and things that
- 42:12Speaker 2: happened on Thanksgiving just seemed to kind of escalate even
- 42:14Speaker 2: more what twenty years later, because Clint Longley was the backup,
- 42:21Speaker 2: never gonna play. No one knew much about him, and
- 42:23Speaker 2: you know, back then, I'm sure there wasn't a lot
- 42:25Speaker 2: of There wasn't as much coverage at all, so you
- 42:27Speaker 2: don't really know hardly a lot of the players. So
- 42:29Speaker 2: that was a surprise. Short week. Here here comes you know,
- 42:33Speaker 2: you know, starbacks hurt their coaches kind of you know,
- 42:37Speaker 2: on the sideline and getting excited about it. And then
- 42:39Speaker 2: Clint Longley wins the game. Twenty years later in nineteen
- 42:43Speaker 2: ninety four, Troy Aikman's hurt, Rodney Pete is hurt. They
- 42:47Speaker 2: got to play guy that no one really knows about
- 42:49Speaker 2: named Jason Garrett and they're down to Brett Favre and
- 42:52Speaker 2: the Packers. They're down pretty big here in the halftime,
- 42:55Speaker 2: and they come out in the second half and it's
- 42:57Speaker 2: just bombs away to Harper and Irvin and they score
- 43:01Speaker 2: I think they scored thirty six points in the second
- 43:03Speaker 2: half and go win that game on Thanksgiving. And you know,
- 43:06Speaker 2: anytime you can have your name is the game the
- 43:12Speaker 2: Clint Longley game, or the Jason Garrett game, or the
- 43:15Speaker 2: Emmett Smith game. You know which I think is the
- 43:18Speaker 2: one with the shoulder and the Giants. The Marcus Ware
- 43:20Speaker 2: has a game. You know, you know that might be
- 43:23Speaker 2: a theme here in a later show, like what's your
- 43:26Speaker 2: favorite like name game like that player that game. Miles
- 43:29Speaker 2: Austin has a game, of course. So anyways, good stuff,
- 43:33Speaker 2: all right, Curtis at Oklahoma? What's up?
- 43:39Speaker 15: Hello, Ed Curtis, You're on, yes, man. I'm just I'm
- 43:43Speaker 15: kind of glad the Cowboys didn't make a big trade.
- 43:47Speaker 15: You know, I was on the Rams social media page
- 43:50Speaker 15: and the fans were not on there saying, oh, well,
- 43:53Speaker 15: I'm so glad we won that Super Bowl years ago.
- 43:56Speaker 15: You know, they were pretty pissed about the performance, calling
- 43:58Speaker 15: for the head coach. You know that everybody says is innovative.
- 44:03Speaker 15: I've seen some good things from the run game this
- 44:06Speaker 15: last game. I know a lot of people talked about
- 44:08Speaker 15: trying to get a running back, but I counted at
- 44:11Speaker 15: least four to five eight to twelve yard runs, some
- 44:14Speaker 15: of those including Pollard Dak and you know this Ceedee
- 44:18Speaker 15: Lamb and the Brandon Cook jet sweep. So I like that,
- 44:21Speaker 15: and I'm just really happy about this opportunity that we
- 44:24Speaker 15: have to even the lost column with the Eagles. I
- 44:27Speaker 15: think it's a big point for us in the regular season.
- 44:30Speaker 15: We've been fortunate that San Francisco took all three of
- 44:33Speaker 15: those l's and I'm super excited about this weekend.
- 44:35Speaker 2: All Right, all right, Curs, thanks for the call and
- 44:39Speaker 2: good stuff in there. Here's a caller that's, you know,
- 44:43Speaker 2: encouraged by the running game. You know it's it's we
- 44:47Speaker 2: just haven't we haven't seen it yet. As far as
- 44:51Speaker 2: a game like I mentioned, a game where you know
- 44:53Speaker 2: everyone knows you're running it, and how do you move
- 44:56Speaker 2: the ball? You know what happens? What happens when you're
- 44:58Speaker 2: up by three at your own twenty yard line, three
- 45:02Speaker 2: minutes thirty seconds to go, the other team has two
- 45:04Speaker 2: timeouts and the two minute warning, and you've got to
- 45:07Speaker 2: get a first down or two to win this game.
- 45:10Speaker 2: If not, you know you're you're gonna punt it. And
- 45:12Speaker 2: they they're pretty decent, you know, range to go get
- 45:15Speaker 2: a field goal. So what happens there? Do you have
- 45:17Speaker 2: the trust and dak to throw it?
- 45:19Speaker 5: Uh?
- 45:19Speaker 2: And I don't mean just trust in da trust in
- 45:22Speaker 2: any quarterback. I mean that's what a court coach always do.
- 45:24Speaker 2: You do you trust the situation. And we're not talking
- 45:27Speaker 2: about interceptions we're talking about incomplete. They got to get
- 45:30Speaker 2: the the clock, you know, churning and moving and and
- 45:34Speaker 2: and you know there's gonna be it's gonna be tough
- 45:36Speaker 2: to run the ball there. They're gonna have, you know,
- 45:38Speaker 2: stack the box. So what do you do on the outside.
- 45:42Speaker 2: You know, that's where that's where I think, you know,
- 45:44Speaker 2: that's where I think having guys like Turpin and obviously
- 45:48Speaker 2: you know CD and Cooks, get them the ball, make
- 45:52Speaker 2: those those reverse runs, make them a part of the
- 45:55Speaker 2: offense to the point where it's not risky to put
- 45:58Speaker 2: the ball in Turpin's hand on a sweet a sweep
- 46:01Speaker 2: like that that could be five yards. You know, stay
- 46:04Speaker 2: in bounds, but do that. That's how you run the ball,
- 46:07Speaker 2: That's how you keep the clock going. And you get
- 46:09Speaker 2: yards as well. If you just try to go Pollard
- 46:11Speaker 2: up the middle behind Lipkey is probably gonna be one
- 46:13Speaker 2: or two yards. And so I think what they need
- 46:16Speaker 2: to do is I think they need to continue to
- 46:18Speaker 2: run plays like that to the point where it's just
- 46:20Speaker 2: a staple in the offense. I remember against the forty
- 46:22Speaker 2: nine ers five or six years years ago, Mina and
- 46:26Speaker 2: Dak tricky year, it was it was a close game
- 46:28Speaker 2: against the Niners, and I remember it was third and
- 46:31Speaker 2: two late that situation, I just said, and they threw
- 46:35Speaker 2: a quick pass to Beasley, just a quick little bubble
- 46:39Speaker 2: screen type path. He got the first down, and I
- 46:41Speaker 2: remember thinking, wow, you know that's a way to pass
- 46:44Speaker 2: out the clock. But they did, and it was just
- 46:46Speaker 2: a play that they were comfortable then because they've practiced
- 46:49Speaker 2: it so many times, and I think that's the key
- 46:51Speaker 2: in doing things like that. One more caller before we go,
- 46:54Speaker 2: David in Fort Worth? Is that right, David?
- 46:57Speaker 5: Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
- 46:58Speaker 2: How you doing good? How are you doing good?
- 47:00Speaker 9: Good?
- 47:00Speaker 10: It's been a little bit, been a little bit.
- 47:01Speaker 9: Yeah, Tethy and everything.
- 47:03Speaker 2: Oh, congratulations on that. That's awesome. You told me you
- 47:07Speaker 2: were going to take a little bit of break. I
- 47:08Speaker 2: didn't understand why, but I get it and get.
- 47:10Speaker 7: I'm kidding.
- 47:13Speaker 16: Well real quick because I know I know the shows.
- 47:14Speaker 16: So if I don't want to take up too much,
- 47:16Speaker 16: I want to Yeah, I just want to say, man,
- 47:18Speaker 16: I'm really looking forward to this game. A lot of
- 47:20Speaker 16: people don't seem like they really want to talk about
- 47:22Speaker 16: this game. They want to talk about what didn't happen,
- 47:24Speaker 16: rather than what's about to happen. Uh, we have a big,
- 47:26Speaker 16: big matchup coming up. To me, it's going to be
- 47:28Speaker 16: the best running team that we faced. So they got
- 47:31Speaker 16: mobile quarterback, they got you know, dynamic running back, namic
- 47:34Speaker 16: wide receivers. I'm really looking forward to it. And uh,
- 47:37Speaker 16: like I said, I know, we don't have a lot
- 47:38Speaker 16: of time, so I'm kind of just rambling. All right,
- 47:41Speaker 16: to everybody who's complaining about the trade deadline, this is
- 47:44Speaker 16: my biggest advice, take a step back and evaluate this roster.
- 47:48Speaker 16: If you really, in your heart don't feel like we
- 47:49Speaker 16: could win the super Bowl with this roster, oh they Okay,
- 47:52Speaker 16: then you can go ahead and complain, and then you
- 47:54Speaker 16: go ahead and start studying for the draft, because because
- 47:57Speaker 16: that's that's basically what people are to me, that's basically
- 47:59Speaker 16: what people are saying. They're upset that we didn't go
- 48:01Speaker 16: grid get somebody. They don't have faith and the people
- 48:03Speaker 16: that we have here, all right, then go ahead and
- 48:05Speaker 16: start evaluating the drafts in I have faith in this team,
- 48:07Speaker 16: I have faith in this front office. I have a
- 48:09Speaker 16: feeling that you know, we can we can go a
- 48:11Speaker 16: long way. And obviously we're gonna find out a lot
- 48:13Speaker 16: this Sunday. But you know, if not, you know, come back,
- 48:16Speaker 16: come back on our side. You know we're willing to
- 48:19Speaker 16: take you back on our side. Would you come back,
- 48:20Speaker 16: get on the train again, let's ride. You know what
- 48:22Speaker 16: I'm saying, because I'm ready for this Cowboys team to
- 48:24Speaker 16: do something.
- 48:24Speaker 7: Crazy this year.
- 48:25Speaker 16: So all right, that's all I got. Man, I appreciate
- 48:27Speaker 16: you taking my call. I'm gonna try to start call
- 48:28Speaker 16: them more often. And yeah, I have a great day.
- 48:30Speaker 2: All right, thank you, Thank you, David. Appreciate the call.
- 48:33Speaker 2: It was. It was appreciate that he knew the show
- 48:35Speaker 2: was almost over trying to get in there. I get
- 48:38Speaker 2: it now, you know. And he, you know, just thinking
- 48:42Speaker 2: about the big picture. And that's kind of what the
- 48:45Speaker 2: Cowboys are as well. Some people are are tired of that.
- 48:47Speaker 2: They're they're tired of this big picture. They want to
- 48:49Speaker 2: win right now, and uh, you know, I think that's
- 48:52Speaker 2: a good debate though, if do they feel like the
- 48:54Speaker 2: roster is good enough to win it? And uh, you know,
- 48:57Speaker 2: it's tough. It's tough to sell a lot of people
- 49:00Speaker 2: on that when you have a tough loss like the
- 49:02Speaker 2: forty nine ers one when it was supposed to be. Hey,
- 49:04Speaker 2: this is us versus you big on big, and the
- 49:07Speaker 2: Cowboys did not show up in that game. And they've
- 49:09Speaker 2: also lost to the Cardinals when they had, you know,
- 49:12Speaker 2: more of a depleted roster at one position, but that
- 49:16Speaker 2: didn't hurt. I mean, the defense didn't do their part
- 49:19Speaker 2: in that game either, So you know, I think I
- 49:22Speaker 2: think there's some areas where you feel like the Cowboys
- 49:24Speaker 2: could get better, but at what cost? And that's the
- 49:26Speaker 2: one that you just don't know what was the cost
- 49:28Speaker 2: to make that trade so or to make those trades.
- 49:31Speaker 2: They didn't do it. They feel like they're good enough
- 49:33Speaker 2: to win right here. We're gonna find out in a
- 49:34Speaker 2: few days because they got the toughest test yet against
- 49:37Speaker 2: the Eagles. All Right, we'll talk about that game and
- 49:40Speaker 2: more tomorrow for Chris Beem. I am Nick Eatman. We
- 49:43Speaker 2: will see tomorrow on Cowboys storyline.
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