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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:11Speaker 4: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:19Speaker 1: What's up? Good morning everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I
- 0:23Speaker 1: am Nick Eatman. It is Wednesday, October the ninth, right
- 0:26Speaker 1: in the middle of the week. Cowboys getting ready to
- 0:28Speaker 1: face the Detroit Lions. And it's gonna be a game,
- 0:32Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. Cowboys are three and two,
- 0:36Speaker 1: they've won two straight, but they have not won at
- 0:37Speaker 1: home yet at and T Stadium, they're zero and two.
- 0:40Speaker 1: If you go back to last year's playoff loss, they
- 0:43Speaker 1: not lost three in a row after having I think
- 0:46Speaker 1: it was but sixteen straight at home, and that that
- 0:48Speaker 1: certainly flipped the other way. To see if the Cowboys
- 0:51Speaker 1: can get their first win, it certainly won't be easy
- 0:53Speaker 1: against the Lions team that not only are they are
- 0:56Speaker 1: they are they a better team than they've been in
- 0:58Speaker 1: years past, and they're they're they're fresh. They're also probably
- 1:03Speaker 1: pissed off about last year's game and I still feel
- 1:06Speaker 1: like Dan Campbell and then they're going to hold a
- 1:08Speaker 1: grudge on that one. So it should be let's see
- 1:10Speaker 1: if the Cowboys can can handle. They got their own
- 1:12Speaker 1: issues going on, but maybe they'll be up for the challenge.
- 1:16Speaker 1: All right, eight eight eight eight five five two two
- 1:18Speaker 1: ninety seven. That is the number to call. I want
- 1:20Speaker 1: to hear from you guys. Let's see if we can
- 1:22Speaker 1: kind of get this thing going early. Right now, let's
- 1:25Speaker 1: go to the phone lines. We got Chuck b Bridge City, Texas.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Start us off, Chuck, what's up mate? Hey Chuck?
- 1:33Speaker 5: He being a UT fan and it's being the Red
- 1:36Speaker 5: River week. I just want to give a shout out
- 1:38Speaker 5: to de marve On. I think you did good. Even
- 1:41Speaker 5: collins Worth on the broadcast talked about them, how quick
- 1:44Speaker 5: he was, and he was one of those young players
- 1:46Speaker 5: that you just see flying around.
- 1:49Speaker 1: What about Giton? Are you going to do a shout
- 1:51Speaker 1: out to Guiton? Uh CD, Yeah, no, they don't get
- 1:57Speaker 1: shout outs this week.
- 1:59Speaker 5: Well I'm I'm I'm on the orange side of that battle.
- 2:02Speaker 1: So I know, I know, yeah, that's that's yeah. And
- 2:05Speaker 1: I would imagine, uh, I would imagine it's going to
- 2:09Speaker 1: be a very orange game there, but who knows. You
- 2:12Speaker 1: never know how how those games go.
- 2:14Speaker 5: All right, Yeah, Hey, I think with these young defensive guys.
- 2:17Speaker 5: I think we've got a shot against the lines, and uh,
- 2:19Speaker 5: we'll get this swiating streak going at home.
- 2:21Speaker 6: And that's all I got.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Nick, all right, all right, thank you, Chuck. You know,
- 2:25Speaker 1: if you're not from the area here and then we
- 2:28Speaker 1: get callers all over the place. But you know, it's
- 2:31Speaker 1: I mean, you have to be under living under a
- 2:34Speaker 1: rock to know, you know, to not hear about you know, Texas,
- 2:37Speaker 1: ou ou Texas, however you want to say it with
- 2:39Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, and but uh, it's it's
- 2:42Speaker 1: one of the best, it's one of the best rivalries,
- 2:45Speaker 1: uh in the country. And just play it right here
- 2:48Speaker 1: at the at the State Fair, you know, going on
- 2:51Speaker 1: and just split right down the middle orange red. Uh,
- 2:55Speaker 1: it's really quite an event, if you know. And I've been,
- 2:58Speaker 1: I've been once. I'd like to go again. But when
- 3:01Speaker 1: I when I went, there was some young young freshman
- 3:03Speaker 1: named Adrian Peterson running the ball. That's how long ago
- 3:05Speaker 1: it's been for me. But still, uh, great, great atmosphere.
- 3:09Speaker 1: And I'm sure we'll hear something in the locker room
- 3:11Speaker 1: this week from overshowing and CD and giton and I'm
- 3:16Speaker 1: probably missing somebody there Texas and Oklahoma. All right, let's
- 3:19Speaker 1: go to Jeremy in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- 3:24Speaker 7: Hey, Nick, what's going on?
- 3:25Speaker 8: Man?
- 3:25Speaker 1: How are you?
- 3:27Speaker 7: I am great? Actually, you know, uh, my daughter actually
- 3:31Speaker 7: goes to OLU, so uh, you know, he's kind of
- 3:35Speaker 7: a boomer boomer sooner now, but you know, I like
- 3:39Speaker 7: him growing up. But it's kind of cool. But yeah,
- 3:41Speaker 7: she's there, and she'll be there.
- 3:43Speaker 1: For the game, so might I might be saying the
- 3:45Speaker 1: same thing next year. I might be saying the same thing.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Who knows. Who knows?
- 3:50Speaker 7: That's pretty cool right now, man, we'll.
- 3:52Speaker 1: Be Yeah, So what do you got?
- 3:53Speaker 7: Well, I'm just kind of still kind of uh well,
- 4:00Speaker 7: first of all, I had a couple of days to
- 4:02Speaker 7: work off the hangover from Sunday night. Man. That's the
- 4:05Speaker 7: one thing I don't think anybody else because I know
- 4:08Speaker 7: you guys probably didn't get into four or five in
- 4:10Speaker 7: the morning. Yeah, I had a bit of I had
- 4:14Speaker 7: a bit of a party at my house. Of course,
- 4:16Speaker 7: it went into the wee hours of the game being
- 4:18Speaker 7: so late, so it's taken me a couple of days
- 4:21Speaker 7: to recover. But what a game, uh, our running game.
- 4:26Speaker 7: I think finally found a little a little spark there,
- 4:30Speaker 7: and I don't necessarily think it's just because it's Rico,
- 4:35Speaker 7: but and then they've talked about it on a few
- 4:37Speaker 7: of the other shows. I know you talked about it too.
- 4:39Speaker 7: Is you got it? That's one thing I've always I've
- 4:45Speaker 7: been watching football since I was a little kid, and
- 4:50Speaker 7: especially you know backs like Zeke. You know, you need
- 4:54Speaker 7: to give them a good ten carries before you know
- 4:58Speaker 7: what I mean, before the rhythm starts kicking in with
- 5:01Speaker 7: the running game. And that's where I think, you know,
- 5:04Speaker 7: we could show a little more courage. Obviously when the
- 5:08Speaker 7: run isn't there, it isn't there. But I just kind
- 5:13Speaker 7: of wanted thoughts on that. And then the other thing
- 5:14Speaker 7: I wanted to talk to you about was you'd mentioned
- 5:18Speaker 7: like a moment before the game where he had with
- 5:21Speaker 7: Snoop the other day, and I'd noticed one the week
- 5:26Speaker 7: before with post Malone where you were standing there and
- 5:31Speaker 7: he was signing an autograph for I think a little kid.
- 5:35Speaker 7: It was a really cool moment. He was wearing his
- 5:38Speaker 7: brand and Aubrey jersey. Yeah yeah, And I thought that
- 5:42Speaker 7: was kind of cool and maybe you can tell us
- 5:44Speaker 7: what was going on there, But I'm going to hang up.
- 5:48Speaker 7: I love you guys, appreciate you having me on and
- 5:52Speaker 7: go Cowboys.
- 5:54Speaker 1: Jeremy sounds like he's still still recovering from the game.
- 5:59Speaker 1: That was awesome, but appreciate you calling in. Yeah, the
- 6:04Speaker 1: running back part, but with the rhythm, I just feel
- 6:07Speaker 1: like it's that's kind of a that's a tough one.
- 6:11Speaker 1: It's a tough call. Yeah, running backs want to get
- 6:14Speaker 1: in a rhythm, but you got to you also have
- 6:16Speaker 1: to start off and you can't you can't be behind
- 6:19Speaker 1: the chains the whole time. I mean, it's so important
- 6:21Speaker 1: to get off to a good start. So you can't
- 6:24Speaker 1: just be running three and out and punting for three
- 6:27Speaker 1: three series in a row and now you're down fourteen
- 6:30Speaker 1: nothing or ten nothing, and and you know, now you're
- 6:33Speaker 1: running games working. But even though you don't need it
- 6:35Speaker 1: so as much. So there's there's a combination there. Yes,
- 6:39Speaker 1: you want to get them in rhythm, but you also
- 6:41Speaker 1: have to kind of move the ball and move the offense.
- 6:43Speaker 1: So you hope that they both can kind of correlate,
- 6:46Speaker 1: you know, at the same time, and kind of get
- 6:47Speaker 1: those get that going. Uh you mentioned pregame. Yeah, I
- 6:51Speaker 1: mean you never know who's going to be down there
- 6:53Speaker 1: home Way. You just you know, it's the last two
- 6:58Speaker 1: road games. You know, we've seen, yeah, we've seen post Malone.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Now he was with the Cowboys, wearing a cowboy jersey.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Snoop was down there, a big Steeler fan, was not
- 7:07Speaker 1: wearing cowboy gear, was definitely wearing a lot of Pittsburgh stuff.
- 7:11Speaker 8: He was.
- 7:11Speaker 1: He was on our sideline for a little bit, or
- 7:13Speaker 1: at least that side of the field to do a
- 7:15Speaker 1: pregame show for NBC, But I didn't really get a
- 7:19Speaker 1: chance to see him. Apparently did walk right past him.
- 7:23Speaker 1: We did when we were walking up upstairs up to
- 7:25Speaker 1: the press box, and I just missed them. And I
- 7:28Speaker 1: was really mad about that for a while. Still still
- 7:30Speaker 1: kind of mad about that because Snoop, I mean, and
- 7:34Speaker 1: then the week before that, or maybe two weeks before that,
- 7:37Speaker 1: I think it was the Ravens game or the Saints game,
- 7:39Speaker 1: one of those two, Mike Tyson's down there. You know,
- 7:42Speaker 1: I'm still still wish I would have got a photo
- 7:45Speaker 1: with him. But now, you know, we're talking about you know,
- 7:47Speaker 1: legendary people now now now post Malone, you know, he's
- 7:51Speaker 1: kind of come on the scene the last few years
- 7:53Speaker 1: of course, but Mike Tyson Snoop Doggo, those would be
- 7:58Speaker 1: ones that I wish I would have got a photo with.
- 7:59Speaker 1: But then again, I don't like to be that guy.
- 8:02Speaker 1: So if it works, it works. That's why I like
- 8:03Speaker 1: to just see if they come onto the podcast. You
- 8:06Speaker 1: come onto the podcast, they were doing an interview with
- 8:09Speaker 1: somebody will take a photo. Then I can get my
- 8:10Speaker 1: photo that way. But I'm not big on just saying hey,
- 8:13Speaker 1: can we get a picture. Maybe I should be better
- 8:15Speaker 1: at that. That happened with Jamie Fox a couple of
- 8:17Speaker 1: years ago. We got Jamie Fox and he was definitely
- 8:21Speaker 1: partying and having a good time that day. All right,
- 8:25Speaker 1: we'll see what our next caller. We got Carolina.
- 8:31Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Carolina from Columbia, South Carolina.
- 8:34Speaker 1: Well, this is definitely a first time caller. Yes, sir,
- 8:39Speaker 1: your name is Carolina.
- 8:42Speaker 2: Yes, that's my nickname.
- 8:43Speaker 1: Okay, I like that.
- 8:44Speaker 2: My name is Mike, but everybody calls it Carolina.
- 8:47Speaker 1: All right, all right, Carolina, we'll go with that. Carolina
- 8:51Speaker 1: from South Carolina. What's up?
- 8:52Speaker 2: Man? Man? I watched the show all the time, man
- 8:56Speaker 2: like all the time. Since I think it's probably like
- 8:59Speaker 2: a year now, I don't probably watch every show, training
- 9:02Speaker 2: camp and everything. So anyways, y'all do a great job. Man.
- 9:07Speaker 2: I just want to out especially Chris Beaman in the back.
- 9:10Speaker 2: He's on every show and I'm watching almost every show. Yeah,
- 9:15Speaker 2: hanging with the boys talking all that.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Yeah. Anyways, nice, it was good to have you on there, Carolina.
- 9:22Speaker 1: That I feel that feels weird to say that, feels
- 9:25Speaker 1: weird to say sorry, I want.
- 9:26Speaker 6: To call you.
- 9:26Speaker 1: I want to call you, Mike. But that's okay, Carolina.
- 9:30Speaker 2: All right. So I just want to start to say, man,
- 9:33Speaker 2: you always give me a boost of energy, man, because
- 9:36Speaker 2: I'm the type of cowboy saying you are. I'm only
- 9:38Speaker 2: twenty nine. I've never watched him winners who bowl. So
- 9:41Speaker 2: there's It's been real sad for me forever and I'm
- 9:45Speaker 2: never switching up. So hopefully our time will come. But
- 9:48Speaker 2: until then, game by game, man, I'm gonna.
- 9:51Speaker 7: Win or we're gonna lose.
- 9:53Speaker 2: I'm gonna put the jersey on anyway.
- 9:55Speaker 1: What what jersey are we rocking? Here?
- 9:57Speaker 9: Man?
- 9:58Speaker 2: I got right now, I got like I just I
- 10:00Speaker 2: switched it and I actually got the Ducevan jersey. We
- 10:03Speaker 2: got that jersey, tray Vvon Diggs Jersey and the Michael
- 10:07Speaker 2: Parkson Jersey.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Okay, all right, yeah that's good group.
- 10:11Speaker 2: Good, Yeah, let's three my group.
- 10:13Speaker 1: I mean only two of them are playing I think
- 10:15Speaker 1: this week.
- 10:15Speaker 2: But uh, that's exactly I really wish man if they
- 10:23Speaker 2: give that that Duke Van guy a lot more touches. Man,
- 10:26Speaker 2: I feel like he could be more exposed about the
- 10:28Speaker 2: back told especially.
- 10:29Speaker 6: In the screen past.
- 10:30Speaker 2: We really don't know the screen that much, but I
- 10:32Speaker 2: feel like we gotten away from that in past years
- 10:35Speaker 2: and he has the potential to get the ball and
- 10:38Speaker 2: go and it's like he can put on a couple
- 10:40Speaker 2: of pounds. Man, Hey, give him a try, you know
- 10:42Speaker 2: what I mean? Give him a try, just like him
- 10:44Speaker 2: the lift.
- 10:44Speaker 6: They need to know.
- 10:45Speaker 2: Put him in more too. But anyway, I really I
- 10:48Speaker 2: really just called to ask a question, So what do
- 10:52Speaker 2: you think about this? DeVante Adams saying, man like, do
- 10:56Speaker 2: you think that that we should be looking towards getting
- 10:59Speaker 2: him special with our receiver?
- 11:00Speaker 8: Receiver group?
- 11:02Speaker 2: You know it's a little shaky, is good and it's okay?
- 11:06Speaker 2: What do you think?
- 11:08Speaker 1: Well? All right, appreciate the call, Carolina. Good to hear
- 11:12Speaker 1: from you. What do I think about that kind of stuff?
- 11:16Speaker 1: I mean, you say, you listen to all the shows
- 11:18Speaker 1: all the time, almost every show, so you've heard us
- 11:21Speaker 1: say this before. We really do not discuss matters from
- 11:25Speaker 1: players on other teams, especially when it comes down to
- 11:29Speaker 1: potential trades and stuff like that. That he's on another
- 11:32Speaker 1: team right now and we don't go down that road.
- 11:36Speaker 1: I can say that I don't think that's going to happen,
- 11:40Speaker 1: or they Cowboys might might entertain the trade, but I
- 11:45Speaker 1: wouldn't think based off the last game. I wouldn't think
- 11:49Speaker 1: they'll do that right now. And I'm not saying that
- 11:51Speaker 1: they feel like, oh we're good, we got Tolbert, We're
- 11:54Speaker 1: good Tolbert Turpin. But I think that they trust the
- 11:57Speaker 1: guys that they have. Stephen Jones was asked about this, Okay,
- 12:00Speaker 1: Stephen Jones was asked about this on the radio, and
- 12:03Speaker 1: he said, we have a number one receiver. We paid him,
- 12:06Speaker 1: he's number one. We're not bringing in another number one,
- 12:10Speaker 1: and that's basically what you have to do. So I
- 12:13Speaker 1: just don't see that happening. Do they make a trade
- 12:15Speaker 1: and add somebody else that they think could help them
- 12:17Speaker 1: this year and maybe in future years, perhaps, but it
- 12:21Speaker 1: won't be at that caliber. So that's kind of what
- 12:24Speaker 1: I think about that. I don't really think that's going
- 12:26Speaker 1: to be a thing. And I do think they feel
- 12:28Speaker 1: much better about the receiver position now than they did
- 12:30Speaker 1: just a few days ago. And Tolbert's game helps, Turpin's
- 12:34Speaker 1: game helps. I think that they want to see Ryan
- 12:36Speaker 1: Flinoy and they want to see Jalen Brooks. But you know,
- 12:40Speaker 1: they they paid their quarterback and their receiver. There's really
- 12:44Speaker 1: not another spot to go and do that again. And yes,
- 12:48Speaker 1: the Eagles. The Eagles have done that. The Eagles paid
- 12:50Speaker 1: their quarterback, they have their two receivers, and I don't
- 12:53Speaker 1: think the Cowboys are looking to do that because the
- 12:56Speaker 1: Eagles are gonna have to pay the piper at some
- 12:57Speaker 1: point and that's not going to be pretty when you
- 13:00Speaker 1: when you do that. Much like that, All right, let's
- 13:03Speaker 1: go to Rick and Rio Ranto, New Mexico. Rick.
- 13:08Speaker 10: Hey, hey there, Nick, how you doing good?
- 13:10Speaker 1: How are you doing? First time caller?
- 13:12Speaker 2: Oh?
- 13:13Speaker 10: Yes, sir, Excited to finally get on and talk to
- 13:15Speaker 10: you for a little bit.
- 13:18Speaker 1: There we go. Now it's official. What do you got?
- 13:22Speaker 11: Oh?
- 13:22Speaker 10: Not much, man, Just here and join the bloom gist
- 13:24Speaker 10: and all these balloons up in the air. But I'll
- 13:26Speaker 10: just have a quick question for you. I've been well,
- 13:29Speaker 10: just let you guys know, I've been listening to you
- 13:30Speaker 10: all these podcasts every day. I'm mean, I'm a nerd
- 13:33Speaker 10: that even works out to them. I've been listening to
- 13:36Speaker 10: you from the beginning. And the only question I have
- 13:38Speaker 10: right now is kind of a kind of explain us
- 13:42Speaker 10: by our situation when it when it comes to them returning.
- 13:46Speaker 10: My understanding is we there's only certain spots that can
- 13:50Speaker 10: come back throughout the year. And if you can answer that,
- 13:52Speaker 10: I know we have like what five or six that
- 13:55Speaker 10: are on IR right now.
- 13:56Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you can bring back eight throughout the year.
- 14:01Speaker 1: You just put him on IR. You don't they go
- 14:04Speaker 1: on injured Reserve. Sam Williams, to my understanding, is on
- 14:07Speaker 1: the same injured reserve as Duran Blad. It's just you
- 14:12Speaker 1: can bring them back and you can only bring back eight.
- 14:15Speaker 1: Once you go on IR, you're on I R for
- 14:17Speaker 1: at least four weeks and uh so go ahead.
- 14:21Speaker 10: So when you put them on i R, you don't
- 14:23Speaker 10: have to have that designation to return or is there
- 14:26Speaker 10: the I.
- 14:26Speaker 6: R for the year.
- 14:27Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't think so. From what. I
- 14:30Speaker 1: asked this question the other day and I and I
- 14:32Speaker 1: got the answer of I ar as ir. It's just
- 14:34Speaker 1: that you can bring them back. You can bring back
- 14:38Speaker 1: so many, so you can bring back I think eight
- 14:42Speaker 1: for the season, and so I don't know if they've
- 14:46Speaker 1: if they brought anyone back yet. Dron Blam is expected
- 14:49Speaker 1: to be back this week, and he Steven Jones, has
- 14:54Speaker 1: said that he feels like he has a chance to
- 14:56Speaker 1: play this game. So that's good news for the Cowboys.
- 14:58Speaker 1: But uh yeah, Bland, Bland would be one that they
- 15:01Speaker 1: put on IR that he would be returning. I'm looking
- 15:05Speaker 1: at to my DGA could probably come back here at
- 15:08Speaker 1: some point. Jordan Phillips has a chance as well, DeMarcus
- 15:13Speaker 1: Lawrence later in the year, Brandon Cooks, as well as
- 15:15Speaker 1: those the guys that are on IR at the moment.
- 15:18Speaker 10: All right, well, thank you. I don't want to take
- 15:20Speaker 10: up too much time, so I know you got the callers. Well,
- 15:22Speaker 10: I'm going to the San Francisco game here in a
- 15:24Speaker 10: few weeks and excited for.
- 15:26Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's awesome, have a good time there. Maybe
- 15:28Speaker 1: the Cowboys can turn that around and beat the Niners.
- 15:31Speaker 1: It's been a while since they've done that, but good
- 15:33Speaker 1: to hear from you as well. Have fun out there,
- 15:36Speaker 1: And he said, balloon fast. Is that what I hear? Balloon?
- 15:39Speaker 10: Yeah, the balloon. Yes, this this week for nine days
- 15:43Speaker 10: and here in Albuquerque, your rant area, they're just stills
- 15:46Speaker 10: the balloons throughout the sky. It's a pretty beautiful sight.
- 15:48Speaker 1: I bet that is cool. That's awesome. Be better to
- 15:52Speaker 1: see down there than up there. I'm not. I wouldn't
- 15:54Speaker 1: be a fan of being in there, but I don't.
- 15:56Speaker 1: I don't know even know if people are even in there.
- 15:57Speaker 1: I think it's just it's just balloons.
- 15:59Speaker 8: I would either.
- 16:00Speaker 10: Yeah, they like they like to crash too.
- 16:02Speaker 1: Okay, well all right, well hopefully that doesn't happen. All right,
- 16:05Speaker 1: all right, thank you. All right, that's Rick and Rio Ranto.
- 16:09Speaker 1: Now we're going, I mean this is this is back
- 16:12Speaker 1: to back rios. All right, fine, I bet no one's
- 16:15Speaker 1: ever done this back to back. Fifth caller now is
- 16:18Speaker 1: Bob in Rio Grand Valley.
- 16:20Speaker 8: Bob, Good morning, Nick. How are you doing, buddy?
- 16:23Speaker 1: How are you?
- 16:24Speaker 6: Oh?
- 16:25Speaker 8: I'm better at I haven't got in the last couple
- 16:27Speaker 8: of days that I've had some issues with my lore
- 16:30Speaker 8: back and that been under some medical care and it's
- 16:33Speaker 8: kind of under the weather. But I have listened to
- 16:36Speaker 8: your shows.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Appreciate and first of all, I'm very.
- 16:41Speaker 8: Appreciative of the way the Cowboys that played Sunday at
- 16:47Speaker 8: the night at UH. I watched all of it, including
- 16:51Speaker 8: the rain delay, and one of the things that I've
- 16:54Speaker 8: come away from that game with is is this And
- 16:57Speaker 8: with everybody keeps talking about going out and getting this player,
- 17:00Speaker 8: going out and getting that player, I think we have
- 17:03Speaker 8: enough people on our team right now with enough talent
- 17:07Speaker 8: that we can get through, uh, these injuries and whatever.
- 17:11Speaker 8: And UH, if we win this game of Sunday, great,
- 17:17Speaker 8: If we don't, we're still three and three. That's where
- 17:19Speaker 8: I predicted we would be at this point in the season. Uh.
- 17:23Speaker 8: I think that we've got a real chance with the
- 17:25Speaker 8: talent that we have on our roster to make the
- 17:28Speaker 8: deep run into the playoffs. What do you think?
- 17:30Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're I think they do. I think
- 17:32Speaker 1: they I think we saw. Thanks for the call, Bob,
- 17:35Speaker 1: hope you get to feeling better and thanks for for
- 17:38Speaker 1: chiming in. Though I do think this is good. This
- 17:41Speaker 1: is one of those teams that that has enough talent
- 17:44Speaker 1: to kind of to get by. But I think it's
- 17:47Speaker 1: gonna be one of those seasons where there's gonna be
- 17:51Speaker 1: games like this where you know, Dak jumped on the fumble,
- 17:55Speaker 1: saved the day that they win it on the next play.
- 17:57Speaker 1: There's gonna be a game where that just doesn't happen,
- 17:59Speaker 1: where they they have a chance to win and they
- 18:01Speaker 1: had this one play. I mean, they're coming down to
- 18:04Speaker 1: one play or another. You know, you can say the
- 18:07Speaker 1: Giants were throwing hail Mary to try to win the game.
- 18:10Speaker 1: I mean they were down what five in that game,
- 18:13Speaker 1: so if they had it a little bit more time,
- 18:15Speaker 1: maybe they could have done that. Then that never felt
- 18:18Speaker 1: like it was that close where the Cowboys were gonna
- 18:21Speaker 1: lose it. But it was pretty close obviously if you're
- 18:23Speaker 1: throwing that deep into the end zone. That's my point
- 18:26Speaker 1: is that you know the Cowboys, and the Cowboys maybe
- 18:29Speaker 1: could have made a stop there on third down for
- 18:31Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and stop them and they get all the
- 18:33Speaker 1: momentum they may drive down and tie the game, maybe
- 18:36Speaker 1: win it. So they you know, that's how close that
- 18:39Speaker 1: game was. Saints game was certainly wasn't close at all,
- 18:42Speaker 1: neither was Cleveland. But but I just think that you
- 18:45Speaker 1: got to remember, what comes up will go down. They're
- 18:47Speaker 1: gonna have these close games. They're gonna win some, they'll
- 18:49Speaker 1: lose some. But talent wise, like you said, Bobby, I
- 18:52Speaker 1: think that they have the talent. They can maybe add
- 18:55Speaker 1: another piece here and there if it works out. But
- 18:58Speaker 1: I don't see them going into next year's draft class
- 19:00Speaker 1: too much because they're gonna need that. They're gonna need
- 19:03Speaker 1: as many picks as possible to try to, you know,
- 19:06Speaker 1: try to help them. I mean, they're gonna lose some
- 19:07Speaker 1: guys in free agency again next year, and you know,
- 19:09Speaker 1: they'll have to make some hard decisions, and so I
- 19:12Speaker 1: just don't see them it's going to have to make
- 19:15Speaker 1: be a decision this year, something that just really really
- 19:18Speaker 1: works for this year and for next and so if
- 19:21Speaker 1: that comes along, I could see them doing it, but
- 19:23Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to be really pursuing it
- 19:25Speaker 1: so much. All right, let's go to let's go take
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- 21:43Speaker 1: to Cowboys storyline. Got a couple of callers already on
- 21:46Speaker 1: the line here, so let's go to it. We have Chad,
- 21:49Speaker 1: He's in Dallas. Chad what's up? Man?
- 21:52Speaker 13: Hey?
- 21:52Speaker 11: How are you doing?
- 21:53Speaker 8: Nick?
- 21:53Speaker 1: Good? How are you man?
- 21:55Speaker 11: I'm doing well. So I wanted to bring up obviously
- 21:58Speaker 11: there's a couple of issues the Cowboys this season. Exactly.
- 22:03Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we got first time caller. We gotta
- 22:04Speaker 1: we gotta let die he go all right, all right?
- 22:09Speaker 1: I like it though your focus, you're ready to get
- 22:11Speaker 1: jump in there. Sorry, sorry, we gotta we gotta get
- 22:13Speaker 1: you gotta do that, all right, go ahead, jes.
- 22:15Speaker 11: Obviously a couple of issues, and I feel like one
- 22:18Speaker 11: of them that's staring us all in the face is
- 22:20Speaker 11: Ceedee Lamb's uninvolved in offense so far this year. Obviously,
- 22:23Speaker 11: you broke a single season franchise record for receptions and
- 22:27Speaker 11: targets last year and this year hasn't been near the
- 22:29Speaker 11: same production. And he's been somewhat like I think we've
- 22:33Speaker 11: seen him kind of quit on the offense a little
- 22:35Speaker 11: bit when we're down, like it was in the stats
- 22:37Speaker 11: game and all that. But I think I just want
- 22:40Speaker 11: to ask, how do you think Brian Schenheimer can kind
- 22:43Speaker 11: of reinvolve Seede Lamb And if you think that'll be
- 22:45Speaker 11: something that we see more posts by or if we
- 22:47Speaker 11: might see even coming up in the Lions game. Uh,
- 22:49Speaker 11: but I feel as the Cowboys as the offense, it
- 22:52Speaker 11: has to run through. I mean, we're paying him thirty
- 22:53Speaker 11: four years and he's by in my opinion, the number
- 22:57Speaker 11: one rope runner in the league, top two to receiver
- 23:00Speaker 11: in the league, and we haven't seen the same production
- 23:02Speaker 11: that we were used to seeing from him. So how
- 23:04Speaker 11: do you feel we can get them reinvolved.
- 23:06Speaker 8: In the offense.
- 23:06Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a great question to you have
- 23:08Speaker 1: another winner? Is that it?
- 23:11Speaker 11: No, that's really it?
- 23:12Speaker 1: Okay, Chad. Good to hear from you. Good question and
- 23:14Speaker 1: a topic that is important to the success of this team.
- 23:18Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it that Chad. Chad is right
- 23:21Speaker 1: on the money here about CD, because CD, Yeah, when
- 23:25Speaker 1: you pay the guy that that kind of money, I mean,
- 23:27Speaker 1: he's he's your number one. He's going to be the
- 23:30Speaker 1: focus of the offense. He's the focus of the defense clearly,
- 23:35Speaker 1: and so if it's not him, then who And that's
- 23:38Speaker 1: that's you know, if Tolbert Turpin, these guys can step up.
- 23:42Speaker 1: Jake Ferguson I think also is ready, you know, to
- 23:46Speaker 1: to kind of take on that that bigger role as well.
- 23:48Speaker 1: He's really coming into his own But even through all that,
- 23:52Speaker 1: those guys did well last year. You know, Cooks had
- 23:54Speaker 1: a nice second half of the season. Ferguson had a
- 23:57Speaker 1: great season as well, and CD's still set the records.
- 24:00Speaker 1: So it's not just the other guys. They're going to
- 24:04Speaker 1: have to continue to be on the same page. There's
- 24:06Speaker 1: beally been too many times this year where they haven't been,
- 24:10Speaker 1: and we saw that more two years ago. It felt
- 24:12Speaker 1: like Dak and CD were not on the same page
- 24:14Speaker 1: at times, throwing interceptions there before the half that happened
- 24:18Speaker 1: two years ago. Of course, that happened in Pittsburgh just
- 24:21Speaker 1: the other day as well. The more concerning thing is
- 24:25Speaker 1: the second half. I mean, he has four catches for
- 24:27Speaker 1: twenty five yards in five games of the second half.
- 24:31Speaker 1: That's ten quarters, four catches for twenty five yards. And
- 24:36Speaker 1: his games have been I mean relatively close. I mean
- 24:39Speaker 1: the Saints game wasn't close, but Baltimore, I mean they
- 24:42Speaker 1: rallied back in that game and everybody was catching a
- 24:45Speaker 1: pass except for CD. CD really wasn't a part of
- 24:48Speaker 1: that comeback. He was out there, just wasn't a part
- 24:50Speaker 1: of that. So it's a combination of how teams are
- 24:54Speaker 1: covering him, trying to maybe take him out of the game,
- 24:57Speaker 1: especially in the second half. They scheming things for him early.
- 25:02Speaker 1: You can tell that they kind of force the ball
- 25:04Speaker 1: to him and and he makes catches. He makes plays, uh,
- 25:08Speaker 1: and he's had some touchdowns where he's he's kind of
- 25:10Speaker 1: you know, he's had to make this play on his own.
- 25:12Speaker 1: The two long touchdowns he's had, both of them were
- 25:15Speaker 1: relatively shorter passes that he had to make, uh, make
- 25:19Speaker 1: the move. So it's a combination. I think the Cowboys
- 25:22Speaker 1: have to get better at getting him open. He's got
- 25:25Speaker 1: him and Dak have to get on the same page.
- 25:27Speaker 1: And I think I think as the games go on,
- 25:29Speaker 1: I think you're going to see him continue to heat up.
- 25:32Speaker 1: I mean, he still has at least four catches in
- 25:35Speaker 1: every game, but he does not have a hundred yard
- 25:37Speaker 1: game yet. So they're going to need that for sure
- 25:40Speaker 1: out of him. All right, let's keep it going. We've
- 25:43Speaker 1: got Steven New York is next. Steve.
- 25:47Speaker 7: Hey, what's up?
- 25:48Speaker 1: How are you doing?
- 25:50Speaker 10: Good?
- 25:50Speaker 14: Good? Heading down to uh shoot the game Sunday? Looking
- 25:54Speaker 14: forward to that.
- 25:54Speaker 1: Oh cool, well good? Yeah, sure, A great atmosphere, I
- 25:58Speaker 1: bet I bet it.
- 25:59Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, I always tell everybody being up in New
- 26:04Speaker 14: York my whole life after going to eighteen sw I
- 26:07Speaker 14: never go to this place up here in Jersey. I
- 26:09Speaker 14: just can't. I just can't.
- 26:10Speaker 1: Yeah, I just get different.
- 26:13Speaker 14: I just wanted to chime in real quick, and I
- 26:15Speaker 14: got a trivia for you because I didn't talk to
- 26:17Speaker 14: you after the game. You know the double standard with
- 26:21Speaker 14: the Cowboys. Let me tell you them.
- 26:23Speaker 10: Thirty one other teams.
- 26:26Speaker 14: On Sunday night, we would have heard how they and
- 26:28Speaker 14: I'm quoting now, you know, found a way to win,
- 26:32Speaker 14: played ugly, you know, but found a way to win.
- 26:36Speaker 14: But the Cowboys, it's always like, you know, they dwell
- 26:39Speaker 14: on the negative. And I don't mean all the fans,
- 26:41Speaker 14: but the media. That's why I don't even pay attention
- 26:44Speaker 14: to any of these shows that are on. I'm not
- 26:45Speaker 14: even gonna say the names of the ones I'm talking about,
- 26:49Speaker 14: but you know who I'm talking about. They always made
- 26:52Speaker 14: you know that was you know, was it a sloppy game, Yeah,
- 26:56Speaker 14: but that was like to me, that was a classic
- 26:58Speaker 14: win against a team that I despised. Only the Giants
- 27:02Speaker 14: I despised more. I grew up, you know, watching the
- 27:06Speaker 14: Super Bowl in the seventies and how how devastating that was.
- 27:09Speaker 14: But that you know, for the fans, just my message
- 27:13Speaker 14: just you don't dwell on the positive that was.
- 27:15Speaker 15: That was a great win, was a great win, you
- 27:17Speaker 15: know it.
- 27:18Speaker 14: I mean, my gosh, I'm hearing too much, too much
- 27:21Speaker 14: negativity as far as you know. Come on, let's get
- 27:26Speaker 14: ready for Detroit. And okay, trivia, you're pretty good with these,
- 27:29Speaker 14: all right, all right? Troy Aikman threw his first career
- 27:37Speaker 14: touchdown pass and his last career touchdown passed the cowboy
- 27:41Speaker 14: first round picks. Who are they?
- 27:44Speaker 1: Well, his first touchdown pass was, I believe, to Michael
- 27:49Speaker 1: Irvin right against Atlanta week two of eighty nine. Certainly
- 27:55Speaker 1: wasn't doing anything against the Saints in the first game.
- 27:57Speaker 1: So then his last touchdown pass was to a first
- 28:00Speaker 1: round pick and it was in So that was the
- 28:05Speaker 1: two thousand season, two thousand, So it wasn't Michael Irvin.
- 28:12Speaker 1: So in two first round pick in two thousand? Was
- 28:16Speaker 1: it David the Floor?
- 28:18Speaker 8: Wow?
- 28:19Speaker 14: Yeah, it's sure what I was gonna say.
- 28:20Speaker 8: It was.
- 28:21Speaker 14: It was David before it was in the ninety seventh draft,
- 28:24Speaker 14: there were two tight ends that everybody was yeaking at
- 28:27Speaker 14: one made the Hall of Fame and right the one.
- 28:30Speaker 1: But but I'll say this, I think Aikman said, like,
- 28:33Speaker 1: there's some parts of Laflour's game that I really liked
- 28:36Speaker 1: more than Gonzales. But it wasn't like like they could
- 28:40Speaker 1: like the TJ. Watt Taco Charlton thing. I mean, no,
- 28:43Speaker 1: Gonzales was gone. Hey, he was taken before la Floor.
- 28:47Speaker 1: But I think Aikman said it, you know, in the media, like,
- 28:50Speaker 1: you know, I like this guy, I like our guy,
- 28:52Speaker 1: you know, like a quarterback should do. But I was
- 28:55Speaker 1: thinking about that two thousand season quickly, and all I
- 28:57Speaker 1: could think of was like Tucker mcgarrity, maybe Chris Brazzle.
- 29:03Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't see any first round picks in there,
- 29:05Speaker 1: James mcnight and then so tight end all right, cool, awesome, Yeah, And.
- 29:11Speaker 14: You know, just real quick on the on the second one,
- 29:15Speaker 14: the Leon left game Thanksgiving ninety three. We all remember it,
- 29:18Speaker 14: but uh, what what cowboy former cowboy draft picks started
- 29:23Speaker 14: for the Dolphins that day? What former quarterback?
- 29:29Speaker 3: Was it?
- 29:29Speaker 1: Steve the Burg?
- 29:30Speaker 14: No, Wow, I got it. I can't.
- 29:32Speaker 8: You're good, Nick, Yeah, you're good.
- 29:34Speaker 14: Steve Steve the Burg nineteen seventy seven actually took two
- 29:37Speaker 14: quarterbacks from that draft. We'll think you'll ever see that
- 29:39Speaker 14: happening again.
- 29:40Speaker 1: Yeah, probably not. Probably not. Well, great show man, thanks
- 29:44Speaker 1: good stuff. Yeah, it's good. Thank you. That was that game.
- 29:50Speaker 1: That that Dolphins game. I was so upset by that.
- 29:53Speaker 1: I was in high school. Uh, and I was so upset.
- 29:56Speaker 1: But there was some really cool moments. Obviously, the Leon
- 30:00Speaker 1: that thing, and we did a documentary on Leon and
- 30:03Speaker 1: telling all about it. It was it was pretty fascinating.
- 30:06Speaker 1: But the Covid Williams punt return where he slides into
- 30:11Speaker 1: the end zone on the ice like just a sixty
- 30:14Speaker 1: five yard punt return, but he just he slides in
- 30:17Speaker 1: like like a kid. That was like one of the
- 30:19Speaker 1: coolest plays ever. It's too bad that most people, i
- 30:22Speaker 1: mean everybody remembers it for the other the other part
- 30:25Speaker 1: at the end with Leon left. But man, that was
- 30:27Speaker 1: that was such an interesting game. I mean, when you
- 30:29Speaker 1: live in Dallas like we do, and we've had some
- 30:33Speaker 1: eighty degree Thanksgivings, uh, if not a little higher than that,
- 30:38Speaker 1: but to have that it was just so weird that
- 30:40Speaker 1: that we had a snowstorm on Thanksgiving. But as tough
- 30:44Speaker 1: as that loss was they didn't lose again that season.
- 30:46Speaker 1: They turned it around and ended up winning their second
- 30:49Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So pretty cool stuff, all right, fun to
- 30:52Speaker 1: go down memory lane a little bit. Thanks Tove for
- 30:54Speaker 1: those questions. Good stuff. Zack in Atlanta's next.
- 30:57Speaker 10: Hey, how are you good?
- 30:59Speaker 1: How are you?
- 31:00Speaker 16: I'm doing well? Man previous collar, you know, asking about
- 31:05Speaker 16: CD's involvemental Yeah, you know, when is he gonna heat up?
- 31:08Speaker 16: I mean, yeah, we're all asking that question. I think
- 31:12Speaker 16: until some more of our offensive U twos, threes and
- 31:17Speaker 16: weapons get going, you know, we'll continue to see defenses
- 31:21Speaker 16: double him and scheme to try to take away CD.
- 31:24Speaker 16: And so you know, great to see Ferguson back in
- 31:27Speaker 16: the lineup and make the plays and you know it's
- 31:30Speaker 16: Olbert Turpin and all those guys, and yeah, I mean
- 31:34Speaker 16: hopefully it's kind of like what we saw last year,
- 31:36Speaker 16: you know, after the San Francisco game, CD, you know exploded,
- 31:42Speaker 16: and uh, it's a symbiotic relationship because then once they're
- 31:47Speaker 16: focusing on the other guys, CD starts going, then they
- 31:49Speaker 16: focus on CD, the other guys get opportunities. So you
- 31:53Speaker 16: know that's the best case scenario. But uh, looking ahead
- 31:57Speaker 16: to the Lions. This had of fun. Old Dan Campbell
- 32:02Speaker 16: played for both the Cowboys and the Lions, and obviously
- 32:06Speaker 16: is now the coach of the Lions, and so just
- 32:09Speaker 16: curious any thoughts or stories from his stint on the
- 32:13Speaker 16: Cowboys roster. And with that, I'll hang up, take.
- 32:15Speaker 1: Care, Yeah, thank you. You know, I don't know if
- 32:19Speaker 1: I have a ton of Dan Campbell stories. I do
- 32:23Speaker 1: know he's I mean, he's a trivia question, you know,
- 32:27Speaker 1: He's the answer to the trivia question on what's the
- 32:30Speaker 1: only tight end I guess to start over Jason Witten
- 32:34Speaker 1: in Witten's sixteen seventeen years here, because he started all
- 32:37Speaker 1: those games and it was Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell was
- 32:40Speaker 1: it started actually a game or two that season before
- 32:44Speaker 1: Witton got in there. So you know, Dan, he was
- 32:48Speaker 1: just he's he's just like he is as a player,
- 32:51Speaker 1: I mean as a coach. I mean, he's a straight shooter.
- 32:53Speaker 1: He tells you just like it is. And you know,
- 32:57Speaker 1: I do remember doing some interviews with him. I think
- 33:00Speaker 1: even after he was done with the Cowboys, he was performing,
- 33:04Speaker 1: he was working out Michael Johnson's performance uh center. And
- 33:09Speaker 1: there was a couple of draft picks that might have
- 33:10Speaker 1: been the year that McFadden and Felix Jones were there,
- 33:14Speaker 1: you know, getting ready for the draft. I wasn't I
- 33:17Speaker 1: wasn't freaking out at all about that about McFadden and
- 33:20Speaker 1: Felix there the both one of them going to and
- 33:23Speaker 1: one of them going to the Cowboys at one point,
- 33:25Speaker 1: and then McFadden later at another time. But I do
- 33:27Speaker 1: remember Dan Campbell being there working out rehabbing an injury
- 33:30Speaker 1: and talking to us for a little bit. And it's
- 33:32Speaker 1: just always been a really, really good guy, don't. I
- 33:34Speaker 1: don't have a ton of stories there, but you know
- 33:37Speaker 1: it's I I pull for him, you know, if you
- 33:40Speaker 1: if you can, I enjoyed you know who he is
- 33:43Speaker 1: as a as a as a person, as a coach.
- 33:45Speaker 1: He's tough. I think he's got his team's playing well.
- 33:49Speaker 1: You know, he's he's he was just like in the
- 33:52Speaker 1: movie with Kevin Costner, what's the movie ten Cup? You
- 33:57Speaker 1: know that's why That's why he was. We was like Baul,
- 34:00Speaker 1: just yeah, I know I've hitting the water five times,
- 34:02Speaker 1: but give it to me again. Just like I'm gonna
- 34:04Speaker 1: keep going for two. I mean, we keep missing. I'm
- 34:05Speaker 1: gonna keep going for two. We're gonna try to win.
- 34:08Speaker 1: I like that. It's a little bit, you know, it
- 34:10Speaker 1: could it could be frustrating if you're a fan, but
- 34:12Speaker 1: I think you know, that's the way he coaches, and
- 34:14Speaker 1: he's hard knows and uh he's he's got his team
- 34:17Speaker 1: playing well, and then he's got his team probably coming
- 34:19Speaker 1: in here pissed off this week. All right, let's go
- 34:21Speaker 1: to Rob in Vegas before we go break, Rob. What's
- 34:24Speaker 1: up man, Nick? How you doing?
- 34:28Speaker 17: I'm good?
- 34:28Speaker 7: How are you good?
- 34:29Speaker 1: Good?
- 34:30Speaker 17: Get ready for hockey to start tonight.
- 34:32Speaker 6: So there's a great time of the year for me.
- 34:34Speaker 1: Hockey. The Golden Golden Knights.
- 34:36Speaker 17: Out there, Golden Knights, Baby, they're awesome. It's a it's
- 34:41Speaker 17: amazing how this town.
- 34:43Speaker 14: I mean it's eight years now.
- 34:45Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hockey, it's it's it's uh, baseball's coming of course,
- 34:49Speaker 1: the Raiders. Wow. It was like it was like there
- 34:52Speaker 1: was nothing to do in Vegas, you know, But now
- 34:55Speaker 1: now now there's things to do. You know, there's football, right.
- 34:58Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 34:58Speaker 17: I never I've been at thirty five years, never expected
- 35:02Speaker 17: professional sports here because of a gambling But once the
- 35:05Speaker 17: goal the Knights came and they were so successful, and
- 35:08Speaker 17: then everybody said well let's go and now the Raiders
- 35:11Speaker 17: and now.
- 35:11Speaker 8: We're getting the A's.
- 35:13Speaker 17: They just blew up the Tropic count and to build
- 35:15Speaker 17: the stadium, which the baseball teams can be right on
- 35:18Speaker 17: a strip, which I'm shocked. But yeah, if Vegas is
- 35:22Speaker 17: turning into a sports.
- 35:23Speaker 1: Time, Cowboys play there next year, I believe. I believe
- 35:25Speaker 1: they will play a regular season game.
- 35:28Speaker 13: Uh they go next year, That'd be awesome because Raiders
- 35:32Speaker 13: Stadium is a is a good, good, good place to
- 35:35Speaker 13: watch a football game. Yeah, you know everybody's talking about
- 35:38Speaker 13: CD and listen.
- 35:39Speaker 5: I like c D.
- 35:40Speaker 17: I think he's a great wide receiver. I wish he
- 35:43Speaker 17: had more Michael Irvin in him because he does check
- 35:47Speaker 17: out of games. And I think the Green Bay playoff
- 35:51Speaker 17: game when they got physical with him, he doesn't like that.
- 35:54Speaker 17: And if you notice the Saints did it, Yeah, he
- 35:59Speaker 17: just does like it, but he needs I wish he
- 36:02Speaker 17: had a little more dog in him. I think to
- 36:07Speaker 17: fix this team, you have to fix the offensive line.
- 36:10Speaker 17: I think, if they're smart, we talked about it, you
- 36:15Speaker 17: leave Smith that left tackle. We've seen Dak struggle year
- 36:20Speaker 17: after year when he doesn't trust his back. I think
- 36:25Speaker 17: if he he buys a little more time. I just
- 36:28Speaker 17: think it makes it more comfortable because we need Dak
- 36:30Speaker 17: to be better or as good as he was last
- 36:34Speaker 17: year because the defense is not and Dak has to
- 36:38Speaker 17: carry this team. If they could make one upgrade, and
- 36:43Speaker 17: I think it's the only upgrade they really need is
- 36:45Speaker 17: defensive line. They need a pass rusher besides Micah Parson
- 36:50Speaker 17: that threatens the quarterback and we just don't have that.
- 36:53Speaker 17: And you see teams just beaten down on Micah. But
- 36:58Speaker 17: I think I think that's it. Ficks that offensive line,
- 37:03Speaker 17: but keep keep Smith that left tackle. Unfortunately, from what
- 37:08Speaker 17: I'm hearing, I don't think they're going to which I
- 37:10Speaker 17: just don't get. And I think this team to take off. Yes,
- 37:15Speaker 17: we talked about scheming this. This team has a hard
- 37:19Speaker 17: time scheming players open. They just don't like to do it.
- 37:25Speaker 17: But I would love to see CB running crossing plays
- 37:29Speaker 17: where he gets the ball on the run, where I
- 37:31Speaker 17: see a lot of these wide receivers do, and because
- 37:34Speaker 17: he's great after the catch. And the Detroit game is
- 37:38Speaker 17: going to be tough, I mean, they do what we're
- 37:40Speaker 17: not good at. We struggle against teams that could run
- 37:43Speaker 17: the ball and then play action pass with.
- 37:45Speaker 13: A good quarterback.
- 37:46Speaker 15: Yeah, so we're gonna have to score.
- 37:48Speaker 17: In the thirties and that's the only way we have
- 37:51Speaker 17: a chance of winning. This offense needs to carry this
- 37:54Speaker 17: team because the defense is going to struggle. I feel
- 37:57Speaker 17: in this game.
- 37:58Speaker 1: I agree, I agree they what thank you a lot
- 38:00Speaker 1: of stuff there. I think CD has dog in him.
- 38:05Speaker 1: I do you compared him. He's not Michael Irvin. He's
- 38:09Speaker 1: not Michael Irvin physically, you know what I mean, as
- 38:11Speaker 1: much as Michael Irvin would would cornerbacks weren't beating up
- 38:14Speaker 1: on Michael Irvin. He was beating up on them. Deon Sanders.
- 38:18Speaker 1: He was great against everyone else, he was not great
- 38:21Speaker 1: against against Michael Iver and Michael ivern I thought won
- 38:25Speaker 1: those battles. And he's the best cornerback of all time.
- 38:27Speaker 1: So that's a tough comparison. I don't think CD is
- 38:30Speaker 1: built that way. So people are going to beat up
- 38:32Speaker 1: on him, yet that's the way to do it because
- 38:34Speaker 1: he's not as physical they're going to have. The Cowboys
- 38:36Speaker 1: got to do better and putting him in motion, stacking
- 38:39Speaker 1: him up off the line a little bit, giving him
- 38:41Speaker 1: more of a free release. They got to be better
- 38:43Speaker 1: at that at the for your left tackle comment, I
- 38:48Speaker 1: just feel like they think this guy, this is our guy.
- 38:51Speaker 1: We dropped him in the first round. He's got to
- 38:52Speaker 1: get better. Right now, He's got to figure out where
- 38:54Speaker 1: to put his hands. He's getting too many holding calls,
- 38:57Speaker 1: he's thinking too much. He's got to get better. They're
- 39:00Speaker 1: not gonna to bench him right now for this team,
- 39:04Speaker 1: for this season, not not not right now. I don't
- 39:07Speaker 1: think TJ. Bass gives them that much more. Uh, at
- 39:10Speaker 1: left guard, left guard with Tyler Smith at left tackle,
- 39:14Speaker 1: I still feel like they're gonna They're gonna roll with
- 39:17Speaker 1: with Tyler Geyton. They don't want to lose him mentally.
- 39:20Speaker 1: And let's just see if he gets better. These guys
- 39:22Speaker 1: will get better. They all they all get better at time.
- 39:25Speaker 1: Tyler Smith struggled a little bit early on too, but
- 39:28Speaker 1: especially with penalties. I think he'll be fine. But but yeah,
- 39:32Speaker 1: you've you've gotta, he's gotta, he's got to get there,
- 39:35Speaker 1: and and I think benching him would probably be a
- 39:37Speaker 1: little bit more of a setback than they want to
- 39:38Speaker 1: deal with at the moment. So uh, let's let's see
- 39:43Speaker 1: what's monitor that. But I still think he's gonna be
- 39:45Speaker 1: your left tackle this week. If he's healthy coming back
- 39:48Speaker 1: from knee injury, it's gonna go to break real quick.
- 39:50Speaker 1: We could come back. We got a couple more callers
- 39:52Speaker 1: on the line. We've gotta get to.
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- 41:20Speaker 1: Got a few more callers on the line. We're going
- 41:22Speaker 1: to try to get to here. Let's go to another
- 41:25Speaker 1: first time caller. We got Marty. He's in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Marty,
- 41:29Speaker 1: what's up?
- 41:32Speaker 12: Nah?
- 41:32Speaker 15: Great, thanks to taking my call. Appreciate love your show up.
- 41:36Speaker 1: Marty. A question about I got a question for the
- 41:39Speaker 1: I got a question for you. How these balloons? Can
- 41:42Speaker 1: you see the balloons?
- 41:43Speaker 6: Oh?
- 41:43Speaker 15: Yeah, Actually they were flying over my house, probably about
- 41:48Speaker 15: three hundred of them. So it was a beautiful site.
- 41:50Speaker 15: Perfect weather too, So it's been it's always kind of
- 41:52Speaker 15: a hit and miss with the weather.
- 41:54Speaker 1: But I want to see these balloons that Rick from
- 41:56Speaker 1: Rio Rancho called in earlier and he was telling us
- 41:59Speaker 1: about it, So I gotta check this out. All right, Marty,
- 42:01Speaker 1: what do you got on first time call? I appreciate
- 42:04Speaker 1: you joining the show. What do you get?
- 42:06Speaker 15: One time fan? Yep, one time fan nineteen seventy four.
- 42:10Speaker 15: Don't want to age myself here, but a lot of
- 42:13Speaker 15: ups and downs as a cowboy fan. But that goes
- 42:15Speaker 15: for any team. But I had a question observation. I
- 42:17Speaker 15: think Dak's strength to me watching them over these last
- 42:20Speaker 15: years is his ability to throw the ball downfield. I
- 42:25Speaker 15: really kind of you know, I hate when they get
- 42:27Speaker 15: really cute and get real lateral with him. I just
- 42:31Speaker 15: think that's when the offense goes south. And I noticed
- 42:35Speaker 15: McCarthy has he gets into that where you know, they
- 42:39Speaker 15: start sort of handing the ball off to CD or
- 42:43Speaker 15: you know, Turpin and when they get in the red zone,
- 42:46Speaker 15: in my opinion, they need to do what they did
- 42:48Speaker 15: the other night and they went to tovert is they
- 42:51Speaker 15: got to get that ball vertically into the end zone.
- 42:53Speaker 15: I think that's Deck's strength is throwing the football, and
- 42:56Speaker 15: I don't think it's him doing the mahomes out and
- 43:00Speaker 15: that's just not who he is. In fact, I think
- 43:02Speaker 15: he's pretty sloppy throwing the ball under maybe ten yards.
- 43:07Speaker 15: I think his strength is to wing it. And I
- 43:09Speaker 15: always say this, you either have a shortstop arm or
- 43:12Speaker 15: you have an outfielder arm, and I think Pack has
- 43:14Speaker 15: more of an outfielder arm. Mahomes to me, has that
- 43:17Speaker 15: shortstop arm, and you got to use the strengths. And
- 43:21Speaker 15: I just think with a play call in sometimes they
- 43:23Speaker 15: just don't figure that out. And I think, you know,
- 43:26Speaker 15: with his success is getting the ball down the field
- 43:29Speaker 15: is get vertical, and there's a reason why he's been
- 43:33Speaker 15: up there and throwing yards, but when they get too lateral,
- 43:37Speaker 15: regardless of whether the running game's going or not. That's
- 43:41Speaker 15: just my observation. I just want to get your thought,
- 43:43Speaker 15: you know.
- 43:43Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, Marty. Good to hear from you.
- 43:46Speaker 1: Call back. That's a good point. The I've always kind
- 43:52Speaker 1: of thought the opposite though about the deep ball stuff.
- 43:55Speaker 1: I don't think the deep ball is his best throw.
- 43:59Speaker 1: And I'm talking more about the the fifty or forty
- 44:04Speaker 1: yard you know, just dropping it in there deep and
- 44:08Speaker 1: just throwing it perfect. I mean, he's thrown him but
- 44:11Speaker 1: but I don't think he's that's his best throw. I
- 44:15Speaker 1: have been impressed with some of his throws this year,
- 44:17Speaker 1: those intermediate outs, like the throw he did to CD
- 44:22Speaker 1: in the I guess it was the first this was
- 44:25Speaker 1: the first quarter, first quarter, it was the second drive.
- 44:28Speaker 1: It was like third and thirteen, and he threw one
- 44:31Speaker 1: to CD. That's the one where he got his toes
- 44:33Speaker 1: right on the right there in front of the Cowboys bench.
- 44:35Speaker 1: But that was a heck of a throw. He can
- 44:37Speaker 1: he can throw it on a rope. We've seen that
- 44:39Speaker 1: a little bit more this year. It's those soft touch
- 44:43Speaker 1: passes dropping it in. That's just not really his thing
- 44:47Speaker 1: as much. But like you and I've said it, I
- 44:50Speaker 1: thought Cooper Rush throws the ball deep better than Dak.
- 44:53Speaker 1: But that's that's not a knock on him. Jason Garrett
- 44:56Speaker 1: through the deep ball better than Troy in my opinion,
- 44:59Speaker 1: I'm talking about just forty yards down the field, soft touch,
- 45:03Speaker 1: it's right there. That doesn't mean you're a better quarterback,
- 45:06Speaker 1: doesn't mean you make better throws all over the place.
- 45:08Speaker 1: That's just that's just my observation there. You know, I
- 45:12Speaker 1: think like that he's got Tolbert streaking down the field,
- 45:17Speaker 1: and it was a forty yard pass. Now lays it
- 45:19Speaker 1: out there a little bit more. Tolbert catches it on
- 45:22Speaker 1: the run. You may have an eighty eighty yard touchdown,
- 45:25Speaker 1: eighty five, whatever wherever that was. But at the same time,
- 45:28Speaker 1: you overthrow them and then you got nothing, So you
- 45:30Speaker 1: want to make sure he catches it. That's always kind
- 45:32Speaker 1: of the fine line with those deep balls right there.
- 45:34Speaker 1: Number one is for him to catch it. He's out there,
- 45:36Speaker 1: he's open. Get it to him so he can make
- 45:38Speaker 1: the play, even if he has to slow down, go
- 45:40Speaker 1: do that. So I hear what you're saying. I think
- 45:44Speaker 1: it's got to be a mix.
- 45:45Speaker 14: Though.
- 45:46Speaker 1: The best quarterbacks can do it all, and he's got
- 45:48Speaker 1: to be able to do it all. But trust him
- 45:50Speaker 1: a little bit, trust his arm. Yeah, I think they
- 45:52Speaker 1: could do that and go down the field. They're going
- 45:55Speaker 1: to have to go down the field more so to
- 45:57Speaker 1: your point, I think we're gonna see it. We're going
- 46:00Speaker 1: to see him do that more. We saw it in
- 46:02Speaker 1: that game, Turpin Tolbert. You'll see something from CD. I
- 46:06Speaker 1: think the defenders are just sitting on these early routes
- 46:09Speaker 1: and in these quick, quick, quick outs, the stops the
- 46:13Speaker 1: comeback curls. They're sitting on it. You have to kind
- 46:16Speaker 1: of start throwing the ball deep and I think we'll
- 46:17Speaker 1: see that. All right, good call Marty. Let's go to
- 46:19Speaker 1: Gavin in Oklahoma City.
- 46:21Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, I kind of told you a feel of yesterday.
- 46:25Speaker 6: I said I wouldn't call it again this week, but
- 46:27Speaker 6: here I am. I guess I'm just a real storyliner.
- 46:29Speaker 1: Now, there you go, There you go.
- 46:31Speaker 6: But that's a testing it to you know the work
- 46:37Speaker 6: y'all do. And I know I'm being on a dead
- 46:39Speaker 6: who was here, But thanks for y'all's work on Monday
- 46:41Speaker 6: coming back from them own true.
- 46:44Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys seeing that out.
- 46:46Speaker 6: Chris as well for keeping all the shows going. I
- 46:49Speaker 6: listen to talking cowboys every day in this show on
- 46:52Speaker 6: my forty five minute drives towards. I appreciate y'all.
- 46:55Speaker 1: Oh cool, Well, we appreciate, we appreciate being a part
- 46:58Speaker 1: of your morning. Thank you.
- 47:00Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, sir. I wanted to say first that I
- 47:03Speaker 6: really liked your your answer to my thought yesterday about
- 47:09Speaker 6: the team rallying behind Michael when it comes back. You
- 47:11Speaker 6: kind of summed it up in a way that made
- 47:13Speaker 6: more sense than kind of made my thought better, if
- 47:16Speaker 6: that makes sense. I wasn't trying to say, you know
- 47:19Speaker 6: that by any means, we don't need Michael or de
- 47:22Speaker 6: laua come back. We need them back. Asa. Yeah, I'm
- 47:25Speaker 6: not one of them people. But I just think maybe
- 47:28Speaker 6: they could bring some extra juice on top of the
- 47:30Speaker 6: defense getting their stuff together first. I think that's exactly
- 47:33Speaker 6: what I was trying to say that.
- 47:34Speaker 1: Yeah, well and go ahead, go ahead, And I'm sorry,
- 47:38Speaker 1: I understood what you meant. I understood that, and I
- 47:41Speaker 1: I just think it's it's it's one of those teams
- 47:43Speaker 1: that they have, you know, It's like it's like with anything,
- 47:45Speaker 1: you have to lean on each other and uh, and
- 47:49Speaker 1: you know at times that Micah's not there. You know,
- 47:51Speaker 1: these guys have to step up. But there's times where
- 47:53Speaker 1: Micah is the one that's carrying this this team and
- 47:56Speaker 1: carrying this defense to a win. And that's gonna happen
- 47:59Speaker 1: this year too, So you got to have a little
- 48:01Speaker 1: bit of both, you know.
- 48:03Speaker 6: Yes, sir. And the real reason I called today is
- 48:07Speaker 6: I am a younger fan. I would say I started
- 48:11Speaker 6: really being old enough to pay attention around the Tom
- 48:14Speaker 6: Dez was drafted whatever year, you put that on, so
- 48:17Speaker 6: you can imagine that Trayvon, if not the best, one
- 48:23Speaker 6: of the best cornerbacks I've ever seen play for the Cowboys,
- 48:26Speaker 6: and I think he's being overlooked right now. And I
- 48:29Speaker 6: just wanted to say what a fantastic job I think
- 48:31Speaker 6: he has done coming back from that injury and being
- 48:34Speaker 6: very serviceable, if not better than serviceable. Against Baltimore. He
- 48:39Speaker 6: took accountability for a game. I wouldn't necessarily say it's
- 48:42Speaker 6: all him. He could have made that play and made
- 48:43Speaker 6: it interesting, but it's kind of hard to say. You know,
- 48:47Speaker 6: we lost that game because Trayvon let Derrick Henry run
- 48:50Speaker 6: for two hundred yards. That's just son, you know what
- 48:53Speaker 6: I'm saying. But I think he stepped up big against
- 48:57Speaker 6: New York, even though Malik had a good game. I
- 48:59Speaker 6: think at the end of the game he made some
- 49:01Speaker 6: really good plays on the boundary, and I think he
- 49:05Speaker 6: was barely targeted in the Pittsburgh game, and I think
- 49:08Speaker 6: he did a great job in coverage. And I just
- 49:12Speaker 6: wanted to hear your thoughts on trey Vo's performance coming
- 49:15Speaker 6: back from thanks to take a all.
- 49:16Speaker 1: Right, Thanks Kevin, Yeah, you know, I when you first
- 49:19Speaker 1: said it and you said he's over you know, he's overlooked,
- 49:22Speaker 1: and I was like, well, is he really? But once
- 49:24Speaker 1: you once you kept finishing your point, I think you're right.
- 49:28Speaker 1: He has been and his performance coming back from injury
- 49:33Speaker 1: has been overlooked. I mean because you know he had
- 49:36Speaker 1: a torn acl and and yeah, you come back and
- 49:39Speaker 1: you're ready to go. But everybody knows that first year
- 49:42Speaker 1: is going to be a challenge, especially for a position
- 49:45Speaker 1: that stops, starts, cuts, runs the way a cornerback has
- 49:49Speaker 1: to do. And for him to come and play all
- 49:51Speaker 1: the games that he's played. Not only that, but dron
- 49:54Speaker 1: Bland not there on the other side. They've started three
- 49:56Speaker 1: cornerbacks on the other side of of the field, and
- 50:01Speaker 1: one of them is a rookie, Kayln Carson. He started
- 50:04Speaker 1: three games. And then then you've got Andrew Booth who
- 50:07Speaker 1: started played half a game. And now you've got uh,
- 50:10Speaker 1: you know, a Rewaria has started and played well. But
- 50:16Speaker 1: and it's not like they are getting picked on to
- 50:18Speaker 1: the point where of course they don't throw at Trayvon,
- 50:20Speaker 1: they just throw it at these guys. Those guys have
- 50:22Speaker 1: held their own too. So overall, the cornerbacks have done
- 50:24Speaker 1: a good job but Trayvon has kind of had to
- 50:27Speaker 1: take on the best player he's traveled at times, and
- 50:30Speaker 1: he's done a really, really good job, and so I
- 50:32Speaker 1: give him a lot of credit for what he's done
- 50:34Speaker 1: and coming back and playing the way he is. But
- 50:37Speaker 1: he might have some help this week in Deron Blam.
- 50:39Speaker 1: Deron Bland is supposed to to come back and play.
- 50:42Speaker 1: He may not play the entire game, so it'll be
- 50:44Speaker 1: interesting to see what they do there. But more than anything,
- 50:47Speaker 1: he's another playmaker on defense. He's got he gets the
- 50:49Speaker 1: ball in his hands, he gets interception. We've seen that
- 50:52Speaker 1: sometimes he gets takes it all the way to the house.
- 50:53Speaker 1: We've seen that a few times. Hopefully they can have
- 50:56Speaker 1: that element back. They're gonna need it against the Lions
- 50:58Speaker 1: and and a really good off that they've got there. Guys,
- 51:02Speaker 1: great calls today. I think we had four first time callers.
- 51:05Speaker 1: We had two that are sitting there in Albuquerque area
- 51:09Speaker 1: watching the balloons. Got to check that out. But still great,
- 51:12Speaker 1: great stuff. Good to hear from you guys today, and
- 51:14Speaker 1: I can't wait to do it again tomorrow. So for
- 51:16Speaker 1: Chris being, I'm Nick Keepman. We will see you tomorrow
- 51:18Speaker 1: on Cowboys storyline.
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