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- 0:20Speaker 2: Here's Nick Eatman. What's up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline, presented
- 0:29Speaker 2: by Gillette. It's Tuesday, September 29th. I am Nick Eatman,
- 0:33Speaker 2: and it is... time to talk a little more cowboy
- 0:36Speaker 2: football i think that's what we do around here give
- 0:39Speaker 2: you guys an opportunity to call in and voice your
- 0:43Speaker 2: opinions and rant maybe yesterday wasn't really a rant day
- 0:47Speaker 2: we were going to move on and really no day
- 0:50Speaker 2: should be a rant but um i tried to i
- 0:53Speaker 2: wanted to kind of pick up the pace a little
- 0:55Speaker 2: bit more yesterday and um wasn't sure what my patience
- 0:59Speaker 2: level would be at um it was fine though. You
- 1:02Speaker 2: guys did a good job. You guys know the drill. Um,
- 1:05Speaker 2: it's okay to, to, you know, be upset and disappointed
- 1:08Speaker 2: and frustrated or whatever it is, especially after a game
- 1:11Speaker 2: like that. That was, I'm telling you, that was one
- 1:12Speaker 2: of the worst. I mean, as far as September games go,
- 1:15Speaker 2: that's one of the worst games that I can remember. Um, and,
- 1:19Speaker 2: and I, you know, I might've said this yesterday, forgive me.
- 1:22Speaker 2: I've done a few shows and I don't remember now
- 1:25Speaker 2: with the keeping it Cowboys. I forget some of the
- 1:27Speaker 2: points that I make, but You know, I said it
- 1:30Speaker 2: before the game, like when we were eating lunch, like
- 1:34Speaker 2: at the hotel, I was just like, games like this
- 1:37Speaker 2: are just so important that if it gets down to
- 1:40Speaker 2: the end, there's going to be even more pressure to
- 1:43Speaker 2: make sure you win that game just because, you know,
- 1:46Speaker 2: no one wants to go on a 10-hour flight back
- 1:49Speaker 2: and after a loss like that. You know, it would
- 1:51Speaker 2: have been a completely different thing. It would have been
- 1:54Speaker 2: like a party out there if Cowboys would have figured
- 1:56Speaker 2: out a Way to win that game. All right, 888-855-2297
- 2:03Speaker 2: is the number. Michael from Bowling Green is first. Michael,
- 2:05Speaker 2: what's up?
- 2:06Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, first of all, I saw a picture or
- 2:10Speaker 3: a video of your office yesterday, and I saw a
- 2:13Speaker 3: couple Emmys on the shelf. So I asked Beam how
- 2:16Speaker 3: many he's got, and he said two. How many have
- 2:20Speaker 3: you got?
- 2:20Speaker 2: I've got seven.
- 2:25Speaker 4: Wow.
- 2:26Speaker 5: But.
- 2:28Speaker 2: And it's, you know, those are I'll tell you this.
- 2:31Speaker 2: I've never won an Emmy just for me, just like myself.
- 2:35Speaker 2: I don't know if I've even a couple of times
- 2:36Speaker 2: I've tried to submit something. So it's all team things. And,
- 2:41Speaker 2: you know, some of them are they're all for the
- 2:44Speaker 2: deep blue things. Few of them I was really a
- 2:47Speaker 2: big part of. Some of them kind of just helped
- 2:49Speaker 2: oversee some things. So I have seven trophies, actually six.
- 2:54Speaker 2: I gave one away the other day, but for good reason.
- 2:57Speaker 2: But I've won seven.
- 2:58Speaker 3: You've got to be proud of that. I am proud
- 3:00Speaker 3: of that. I mean, keen thing, I understand.
- 3:04Speaker 2: You had to pause on that thing, you know, to
- 3:06Speaker 2: see that. If you're talking about us not being in
- 3:11Speaker 2: the office the other day.
- 3:13Speaker 3: Yeah, I screenshot it.
- 3:14Speaker 2: I was going to say, it was quick. It was like, boom.
- 3:18Speaker 2: I was like, what does my office even look like?
- 3:20Speaker 2: It was kind of a disaster. But it's all right. Interesting.
- 3:27Speaker 3: I got a quick question about the defense. Now, the
- 3:31Speaker 3: defense to me seemed to be improving, but they still
- 3:35Speaker 3: were near the bottom.
- 3:38Speaker 7: In the categories, 25th, 28th, 30th, 32nd.
- 3:41Speaker 8: I mean.
- 3:47Speaker 7: Do you think the front office is maybe contributing to
- 3:51Speaker 7: some of that? I mean, because we went through defensive coordinators.
- 3:55Speaker 7: It's been several years. I asked Brian in Kansas City, hey.
- 4:00Speaker 7: What do you think of Joey Porter Jr.
- 4:02Speaker 3: And he.
- 4:03Speaker 7: Said he would rather get.
- 4:04Speaker 3: An edge and a linebacker ahead of that.
- 4:07Speaker 7: Should the Cowboys just mortgage the future and just get like,
- 4:10Speaker 7: I don't know, Brooks and Max or something and just
- 4:13Speaker 7: try to turn this thing around? I'll get off the
- 4:16Speaker 7: phone and let somebody else talk.
- 4:18Speaker 3: But that was my question.
- 4:19Speaker 2: All right. Sounds good. Yeah, right now, after three games,
- 4:26Speaker 2: I mean, it's kind of hard to look at the
- 4:29Speaker 2: stats and where they are as far as rankings and
- 4:33Speaker 2: all that. I mean, I think it's... It's kind of
- 4:38Speaker 2: like when you start working out and things like that,
- 4:40Speaker 2: what they tell you is don't worry about the pounds
- 4:44Speaker 2: that you lose or worry about your weight. Just worry
- 4:45Speaker 2: about how your clothes feel. So worry about how it looks,
- 4:49Speaker 2: how it feels.
- 4:51Speaker 4: And.
- 4:52Speaker 2: I think the defense, it's better, but they still give
- 4:55Speaker 2: up yards. They still give up plays. They're still giving
- 4:57Speaker 2: up go-ahead touchdown. I mean, give up go-ahead touchdown in
- 5:01Speaker 2: the final two minutes of the game. I mean, like,
- 5:03Speaker 2: say what you want, but they did. They didn't have
- 5:05Speaker 2: to do that. They could have stopped them, but they
- 5:08Speaker 2: did give up. Now, me personally, I would have let
- 5:11Speaker 2: them score earlier on in the game. It was happening.
- 5:14Speaker 2: It was going to happen. I know that you just
- 5:16Speaker 2: stopped them, but percentages of them stopping them again didn't
- 5:19Speaker 2: seem high. I would have let them score and then
- 5:21Speaker 2: had more time and more time out to go and
- 5:23Speaker 2: do something. But, hey, that's always a dicey thing when
- 5:27Speaker 2: you're talking about that. Also, when you're talking about– I mean,
- 5:31Speaker 2: Jerry's not– he said on the radio today he's not
- 5:33Speaker 2: going to be involved in tampering, so he's not getting
- 5:35Speaker 2: into specific questions. He was asked about the report that
- 5:38Speaker 2: was out there about the cornerback from Pittsburgh. And he
- 5:43Speaker 2: said that they basically are on top of things. So
- 5:46Speaker 2: they're looking at this trade market. They want to see,
- 5:50Speaker 2: you know, what's out there. They don't have a lot
- 5:51Speaker 2: of picks, a lot of capital. There's been some talk,
- 5:55Speaker 2: some rumors. You've seen them. You've probably seen the fact that,
- 5:57Speaker 2: you know, which players the Cowboys might trade. And I've
- 6:03Speaker 2: seen all that mentioned. So there's options for the Cowboys
- 6:08Speaker 2: if they decide that they want to go that route.
- 6:11Speaker 10: All right.
- 6:12Speaker 2: Davion in Illinois is next.
- 6:15Speaker 11: What it do, what it do, my boy, what the
- 6:17Speaker 11: business is.
- 6:18Speaker 9: How you doing, man?
- 6:19Speaker 2: What's going on?
- 6:21Speaker 11: That's good. Well, man, honestly, you know, just like a
- 6:27Speaker 11: lot of us in the nation, we hurting right now.
- 6:29Speaker 11: But last night, though, made me feel a whole lot better. Oh,
- 6:37Speaker 11: my God, it was. That's a marvelous, marvelous night seeing
- 6:41Speaker 11: the Eagles fall apart. It was just, it warmed my heart.
- 6:45Speaker 11: I love seeing the Eagles fall. It's the greatest thing ever. So, yeah, man,
- 6:52Speaker 11: I really enjoyed seeing them lose. It gave us a
- 6:55Speaker 11: little breathing room because we only won one game back now.
- 6:57Speaker 11: So I think a year, I mean, I gave Shadi
- 7:07Speaker 11: grace for a year. But the receipts are coming home
- 7:12Speaker 11: to root now. We got to just culture talk and
- 7:17Speaker 11: all this. I'm going to need some wins. We need to.
- 7:22Speaker 11: That play calling was just not happening Sunday. I just
- 7:28Speaker 11: don't know what happened. I don't know why we get weird.
- 7:31Speaker 11: I mean, I know you said on the show yesterday
- 7:33Speaker 11: about cute, and that's exactly what I was telling everybody.
- 7:35Speaker 12: I just.
- 7:36Speaker 11: I can't understand the cute stuff. Like, why are we
- 7:41Speaker 11: knifing them up? Why are we going to run a
- 7:44Speaker 11: shuffle pass to Fergie for no reason? Like, we just
- 7:49Speaker 11: don't need to do that, especially when you're not on
- 7:51Speaker 11: the goal line. Yeah. It's crazy how we do that. So,
- 7:56Speaker 11: the shine is coming out. I mean, you know, I
- 7:58Speaker 11: remember last year I told you, yeah, I made a hello,
- 8:01Speaker 11: but I can't– I can't take too many more games
- 8:05Speaker 11: like that where we just ain't really doing what we're
- 8:08Speaker 11: supposed to do. We could have hung 40 on them boys.
- 8:12Speaker 11: We could have hung 40. It was there for the taking,
- 8:16Speaker 11: and we didn't take it. I think that's what the
- 8:19Speaker 11: nation is really upset about. It was there for the taking,
- 8:22Speaker 11: and we didn't take it. And I need Shottie to
- 8:25Speaker 11: start cashing some of that good culture stuff in and
- 8:29Speaker 11: some dubs. Because this week, we got Houston coming in.
- 8:34Speaker 11: They 0-3. They're giving us their own. But we ain't
- 8:38Speaker 11: going to be at primetime. We got a 12 o'clock game.
- 8:40Speaker 11: But they're going to still give us all they got.
- 8:43Speaker 4: Yep.
- 8:43Speaker 2: All right, Davion. I appreciate the call. Yeah, I mean, it's–
- 8:49Speaker 2: you make good points. I mean, you're right. I mean,
- 8:51Speaker 2: at some point, you do want to– you have to
- 8:54Speaker 2: see these wins. And it can't be the reason, too. Like,
- 8:58Speaker 2: as far as the play calling goes, I mean, it
- 9:00Speaker 2: can't be the reason that you lose games.
- 9:02Speaker 8: Right.
- 9:04Speaker 2: You know, everybody's going to second-guess. When their team loses,
- 9:08Speaker 2: you can second-guess. But, you know, I think for good
- 9:12Speaker 2: reason here, just because what you wanted them to do,
- 9:17Speaker 2: they were doing well. And what you wanted them to
- 9:21Speaker 2: do in the fourth quarter is the opposite of what
- 9:26Speaker 2: they did in the first. They didn't work. So, I mean,
- 9:29Speaker 2: it's like in the– it's like I told you, you know,
- 9:32Speaker 2: it's like as a parent, I already told you once,
- 9:35Speaker 2: this is what I expect for me to do. This
- 9:37Speaker 2: is what I think you should have done. And you
- 9:38Speaker 2: didn't do it. Man, you know, later, you know, later
- 9:43Speaker 2: in the, in the day, I really hope that you
- 9:45Speaker 2: do it now. I mean, didn't we all learn? So,
- 9:48Speaker 2: you know, Jerry, Jerry said that today about learning, you know,
- 9:51Speaker 2: lessons learned. And then they, they talked about things that
- 9:53Speaker 2: went over some, some, something was a long day, apparently
- 9:57Speaker 2: up here at the star about evaluating game, management situations
- 10:01Speaker 2: and going over stuff. But, yeah, there's a lot of
- 10:06Speaker 2: aspects there, a lot of finger-pointing, really. When you think
- 10:09Speaker 2: of offensive coordinator, should have done these things. Defensive coordinator
- 10:16Speaker 2: definitely should be playing that defense on the last play
- 10:18Speaker 2: of the game. Special teams, now that goes into the
- 10:25Speaker 2: decision to kick it deep, I would think would be
- 10:29Speaker 2: from Shottie. But how do we have a guy just
- 10:34Speaker 2: running free to block a field goal? I mean, what's
- 10:36Speaker 2: going on there? So special teams coordinator, offensive coordinator, defensive
- 10:42Speaker 2: coordinator all had issues at the end of the game,
- 10:46Speaker 2: in the crucial parts of the game. And it all
- 10:49Speaker 2: leads back to the head coach. Of course, two of
- 10:50Speaker 2: them are the same. But you know what I'm saying
- 10:52Speaker 2: is that there's not one aspect of it that didn't
- 10:55Speaker 2: have some big issues there. All right, let's go to
- 10:57Speaker 2: Albert in Tucson.
- 10:59Speaker 10: Albert, what's up?
- 11:00Speaker 5: How you doing? Nick, my man. Good morning, brother.
- 11:02Speaker 2: How are you doing?
- 11:03Speaker 5: I'm doing pretty good, actually. You know what? It's not
- 11:07Speaker 5: a moral victory, but it's because it goes on a record.
- 11:15Speaker 5: You know, at first I felt like I was watching
- 11:20Speaker 5: the Super Bowl again with the Patriots and the Seahawks
- 11:23Speaker 5: with Marshawn Lynch at the two-yard line. And, you know,
- 11:28Speaker 5: you throw the ball, and I'm like, wait, running the
- 11:32Speaker 5: ball got you to there. And they just totally lost
- 11:36Speaker 5: track of themselves, I guess. I'm actually excited, believe it
- 11:40Speaker 5: or not. We still put, what, 31 points on? Offense
- 11:46Speaker 5: is still going. This team, like I said, they're hitters.
- 11:51Speaker 5: They're going to hit. And you kind of touched on
- 11:55Speaker 5: what I kind of wanted to talk about was the play.
- 12:01Speaker 5: What position, because all aspects of the game failed us
- 12:04Speaker 5: at one point in that game Sunday. Which one has
- 12:09Speaker 5: the most significance? You know what I'm saying? Which one
- 12:13Speaker 5: would have made that? I mean, if we would have
- 12:14Speaker 5: ran the ball instead of, you know, Dak being in
- 12:17Speaker 5: a position to throw it, you know, to the, you know,
- 12:21Speaker 5: 11-foot-tall receiver to give it an opportunity to catch it. Or,
- 12:26Speaker 5: you know, it just doesn't make sense when you kind
- 12:29Speaker 5: of scratch your head. Anyway, I'm still excited. And go Cowboys.
- 12:36Speaker 5: All right.
- 12:36Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that.
- 12:40Speaker 5: Which.
- 12:41Speaker 2: They all kind of have their own part there, you know,
- 12:44Speaker 2: and it's hard to, like, just kind of pinpoint one,
- 12:49Speaker 2: you know, because it's like if you take them all away,
- 12:53Speaker 2: you know, I could probably help get a win just
- 12:57Speaker 2: by one of those plays. You know, field goal here or,
- 13:03Speaker 2: you know, the touchdown at the end of the game.
- 13:04Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 13:06Speaker 2: Let's go back to that pass on third down to
- 13:09Speaker 2: Pickens or whoever, as I said yesterday, Will Chamberlain or
- 13:13Speaker 2: Shaq or whoever. But you also got to factor in,
- 13:17Speaker 2: if you're thinking about, first of all, the play before
- 13:22Speaker 2: was a second down and goal from the seven, right? Well,
- 13:26Speaker 2: Dak gets rushed, and he has to jump up into
- 13:29Speaker 2: the pocket and gets two-yard gain. But, I mean, it
- 13:32Speaker 2: was collapsing on him, so it was really quick. He
- 13:36Speaker 2: had a timeout, but he was able to kind of
- 13:38Speaker 2: run and get tackled, and then they called the timeout.
- 13:41Speaker 2: On third down, now Steele's out of the game. You
- 13:43Speaker 2: got Broderick Jones there, and he's got pressure right there
- 13:47Speaker 2: in his face, and you cannot take a sack. Game's over.
- 13:51Speaker 2: So I understand the urgency to get the ball out
- 13:57Speaker 2: quick because you're not going to get sacked. You can't
- 13:59Speaker 2: throw a pick. You can't do any of these things, right?
- 14:03Speaker 2: But I still feel like it's a play that you
- 14:06Speaker 2: practice enough where you can put it on the pylon,
- 14:11Speaker 2: and I don't think it's going to get picked. You
- 14:13Speaker 2: can put it on the pylon, let pickets go, at
- 14:15Speaker 2: least give them an opportunity to kind of make the play. But, hey,
- 14:19Speaker 2: I mean, it is what it is. And it's not
- 14:23Speaker 2: a moral victory. I do believe in them. We know this.
- 14:25Speaker 2: I've talked about it. I do believe in them. This
- 14:26Speaker 2: was not one. This was not one. Because you had
- 14:29Speaker 2: a chance to win, just like Albert said. You had
- 14:31Speaker 2: a chance to win, or Davion said, actually. Yeah, you
- 14:34Speaker 2: had a chance. It was there for the taking. You
- 14:36Speaker 2: had a chance. I don't think anybody was better than
- 14:40Speaker 2: the other team. I really don't. I don't think the
- 14:42Speaker 2: Ravens were better. I don't think the Cowboys were better.
- 14:45Speaker 2: I think it was a really close game that, surprisingly,
- 14:48Speaker 2: just went down just the final second. Final second of
- 14:50Speaker 2: the game, I think if they played 10 times, I
- 14:52Speaker 2: think it would probably be 5-5, 6-4, something like that.
- 14:56Speaker 2: But it's unfortunate they don't play them 10 times. They
- 14:58Speaker 2: play them once. You got one shot, as Eminem said,
- 15:00Speaker 2: and you didn't do it. All right, Chris in Saratoga Springs.
- 15:04Speaker 14: What's up, Nick? How are you?
- 15:05Speaker 2: I'm good.
- 15:06Speaker 5: How are you?
- 15:07Speaker 14: I'm not too bad. I'm feeling much better after that
- 15:09Speaker 14: game last night, to be honest with you. I was
- 15:11Speaker 14: down in a dump with the Dallas loss, but then
- 15:14Speaker 14: watching Philly play like that got me in a much
- 15:17Speaker 14: better mood. I want to give you your flowers yet again.
- 15:19Speaker 14: You called it. You said the Philly is not a
- 15:21Speaker 14: good team. I watched them last night and couldn't agree more.
- 15:24Speaker 14: They're not a good football team, period. And this division
- 15:26Speaker 14: is right there for this.
- 15:27Speaker 2: Right there. They're right there. I don't think the Giants
- 15:30Speaker 2: are as good as, as I mean, yes, they had
- 15:32Speaker 2: a good game against Dallas and But they're going to
- 15:34Speaker 2: have a different issue now at quarterback. And we'll see.
- 15:36Speaker 2: I mean, they traded for McCarthy. I think that's probably
- 15:39Speaker 2: a good move for them. And their defense will carry them.
- 15:43Speaker 2: So I think the Giants might be the best team
- 15:46Speaker 2: right now. I mean, and they did beat Dallas. So
- 15:49Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not saying that they are better. But,
- 15:52Speaker 2: I mean, I think right now they're probably maybe the
- 15:56Speaker 2: team to beat.
- 15:57Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 15:58Speaker 2: Maybe not. That's a mess. That's a mess. I mean,
- 16:01Speaker 2: Washington's in there, too. I mean, Washington beat Seattle. They
- 16:04Speaker 2: have the best win of the division.
- 16:08Speaker 14: I'm not really worried about Washington. I'm more worried about
- 16:10Speaker 14: the Giants. They did lose Burns. That's going to hurt
- 16:12Speaker 14: them a lot. He's a fantastic player. So it's right
- 16:16Speaker 14: there for the taking. Let's just take care of business.
- 16:18Speaker 14: Like I said yesterday, the next three games, one win
- 16:20Speaker 14: out of those next three opponents all year. They only
- 16:24Speaker 14: have one win. So we've got to take care of business.
- 16:26Speaker 14: I do want to touch base with something with you.
- 16:29Speaker 14: On that block kick, I rewound it, and I knew
- 16:32Speaker 14: it right from the start. That guy jumped off sides
- 16:34Speaker 14: in the far outside there, that corner for the Ravens.
- 16:37Speaker 14: He left early. So I think that messed up. 78
- 16:42Speaker 14: up a little bit.
- 16:43Speaker 2: Because you're not supposed to block the outside, but you're
- 16:45Speaker 2: saying he was.
- 16:47Speaker 14: Man. I'm saying he jumped when he saw him get
- 16:51Speaker 14: out there first, and then he's like, oh, shoot.
- 16:53Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
- 16:53Speaker 14: You know who he's supposed to block, but he did
- 16:55Speaker 14: jump early. That guy was definitely left early.
- 16:57Speaker 12: Now, now.
- 16:58Speaker 14: Doesn't excuse it.
- 16:59Speaker 2: Now, hold on. Now, because DeMarcus Ware made a career
- 17:01Speaker 2: out of this. Did he jump early... and time it,
- 17:05Speaker 2: or did he jump into the neutral zone? You know
- 17:08Speaker 2: what I mean? Because DeMarcus Ware was really good at
- 17:10Speaker 2: jumping and, you know, getting up in his stance, not
- 17:14Speaker 2: necessarily crossing the goal and just timed it perfectly. That's
- 17:19Speaker 2: a difference. I mean, did he go off sides or
- 17:21Speaker 2: was he just, did he just jump in perfectly.
- 17:23Speaker 10: You know?
- 17:24Speaker 2: And then if that's the case, he's probably going to
- 17:28Speaker 2: get around still, even if he does block inside. So,
- 17:32Speaker 2: I don't know. I haven't, I haven't seen a lot
- 17:34Speaker 2: of clips of that one. You, you've seen more than me,
- 17:36Speaker 2: but anyways, it's Hey.
- 17:40Speaker 7: Yep.
- 17:41Speaker 14: All right, Nick, I'll let somebody else get on the line. Again,
- 17:42Speaker 14: I wanted to give you your flowers, you know, your stuff.
- 17:46Speaker 12: That's amazing.
- 17:47Speaker 2: I appreciate it. I mean, it's, it's, um, it's really just,
- 17:52Speaker 2: and I haven't really watched a lot of, of, of
- 17:55Speaker 2: Philly play. I just know, you know, they played at home.
- 17:57Speaker 2: They played Washington, Washington went for two. and had a
- 18:01Speaker 2: chance to tie the game at the end, and they
- 18:04Speaker 2: missed it, and that's how Philly won the game. I
- 18:06Speaker 2: don't think Philly was dominant. They go and play at Tennessee,
- 18:09Speaker 2: and Tennessee could have won that game. Philly came back,
- 18:14Speaker 2: give them credit for that, and then they lose to
- 18:16Speaker 2: the Bears, and the Bears have a backup quarterback, even
- 18:19Speaker 2: though Case Keenum has played for every team in the
- 18:22Speaker 2: league except Dallas, but you know, and that's a product
- 18:26Speaker 2: of Bears offense, I think, doing a good job. But again,
- 18:29Speaker 2: I just, I don't think Philly's going to run away
- 18:31Speaker 2: with anything. I don't think the Giants are. I don't
- 18:32Speaker 2: think Dallas. These division games are really tough. If Washington's
- 18:35Speaker 2: going to go beat Seattle, they can beat anybody. So,
- 18:38Speaker 2: and when you say I'm not really worried about Washington,
- 18:41Speaker 2: that's fine. No one should be worried about anybody. The
- 18:44Speaker 2: point is, is that they all play each other, obviously,
- 18:46Speaker 2: and they're going to play each other twice, and they're
- 18:48Speaker 2: going to beat each other up. And so, these games
- 18:50Speaker 2: are very, very important inside the division. So, this might
- 18:55Speaker 2: be one where, you know, I think you're looking at
- 18:59Speaker 2: the number four seed in the NFC. That's what it
- 19:02Speaker 2: looks like. Because they're going to probably beat each other
- 19:06Speaker 2: up to the point where, you know, 9-8, 10-7 might
- 19:09Speaker 2: win the division. I really think so. We'll see. It's
- 19:12Speaker 2: still early. Keith in Fernandina Beach. I never say that right.
- 19:17Speaker 2: Fernandina Beach.
- 19:19Speaker 4: Good morning, Nick.
- 19:20Speaker 13: How are you?
- 19:21Speaker 4: Good.
- 19:21Speaker 7: How are you?
- 19:22Speaker 3: Doing great.
- 19:22Speaker 4: It's Fernandina Beach, just for the record. Yeah. So, you know,
- 19:27Speaker 4: my take on this is probably a little different than
- 19:30Speaker 4: some of the other folks. Of course, I watched the game.
- 19:33Speaker 4: Of course, I wanted a W. But I've really been
- 19:35Speaker 4: looking at really the first five games. And my hope
- 19:39Speaker 4: would be is the Cowboys would be 3-2. I always
- 19:42Speaker 4: felt that this game would be.
- 19:43Speaker 15: A tough one.
- 19:44Speaker 4: But what I'm really encouraged about, even with all the
- 19:47Speaker 4: defensive injuries, first of all, we haven't had any big-time
- 19:52Speaker 4: players go down yet, like a Quinton Williams.
- 19:55Speaker 8: Okay.
- 19:55Speaker 10: All right.
- 19:56Speaker 2: I get it.
- 19:57Speaker 4: So great about that.
- 19:58Speaker 7: Right.
- 19:59Speaker 4: Because there's always going to be injuries. But I do
- 20:01Speaker 4: feel like the defense is starting to do some things.
- 20:05Speaker 4: And I love our new middle linebacker. I don't want
- 20:08Speaker 4: him to ever leave the lineup. And I'm feeling really
- 20:12Speaker 4: good about the defense. I think they're going to continue
- 20:14Speaker 4: to grow. And, you know, I think the offense is
- 20:17Speaker 4: going to be what it's going to be. And I
- 20:19Speaker 4: know we're beating up Brian Schottenheimer a little bit, but,
- 20:21Speaker 4: you know, his offense is pretty good. And it's always
- 20:24Speaker 4: easy to, you know, Monday morning quarterback these plays, but...
- 20:29Speaker 4: I think you even said it yesterday. If they work,
- 20:31Speaker 4: we don't really question them when they're cute, but if they're,
- 20:34Speaker 4: if they don't work, then they're not cute. But anyway,
- 20:36Speaker 4: I'm just, I'm feeling pretty good about it.
- 20:38Speaker 2: And I appreciate you saying that Keith. And here's another
- 20:41Speaker 2: thing too. Like, I've said the word cute several times.
- 20:45Speaker 2: Handing the ball off on a reverse to Kavante Turpin
- 20:48Speaker 2: around the edge at the 10-yard line, that's kind of
- 20:51Speaker 2: a cute play too. But he zooms in there for
- 20:54Speaker 2: a touchdown, and it was a good play call. And
- 20:57Speaker 2: I actually did tweet that out. If we're going to
- 20:59Speaker 2: beat this guy up, fine. But he was dealing on
- 21:02Speaker 2: that drive and dealing there in the second half a
- 21:04Speaker 2: little bit too. So he gave himself an F. I
- 21:07Speaker 2: don't agree with that. I don't agree. I don't think
- 21:09Speaker 2: a play caller in the NFL can go– And score
- 21:13Speaker 2: 31 points or whatever it is and get an F
- 21:15Speaker 2: as a play caller. Absolutely not. Especially when your defense
- 21:17Speaker 2: doesn't get a turnover. I mean, they do turnover on downs,
- 21:20Speaker 2: but not really a turnover. No, I don't give them
- 21:23Speaker 2: an F, but I think in some of the game
- 21:25Speaker 2: management situations at the end, certainly could have been better.
- 21:27Speaker 2: We know that.
- 21:29Speaker 10: I agree.
- 21:30Speaker 4: But, yeah, feeling really good about this week as well.
- 21:33Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 21:33Speaker 4: I think we've got a situation where you've got a
- 21:36Speaker 4: wounded Houston team, and certainly they could come out and
- 21:40Speaker 4: play strong. But I just like the way the Cowboys
- 21:42Speaker 4: are trending. And, you know, the schedule doesn't look as
- 21:45Speaker 4: daunting as it once did, you know, if you look ahead.
- 21:48Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 21:48Speaker 2: Yeah. And thanks for the call, Keith. And, you know,
- 21:52Speaker 2: and where I was trying to cut you off is like,
- 21:54Speaker 2: I don't like naming injury and, you know, naming players
- 21:56Speaker 2: of like, oh, this guy has a guy.
- 21:58Speaker 10: No, no, no.
- 21:58Speaker 2: Like everyone knows. Let's don't don't jinx anything. But you
- 22:02Speaker 2: talk about the schedule doesn't look as daunting. I mean,
- 22:04Speaker 2: that's why you always, you know. There's always teams out there.
- 22:09Speaker 2: There's teams out there that don't look as good as
- 22:12Speaker 2: you thought. I don't really know who looks way better
- 22:17Speaker 2: than you thought. I guess somebody who was on the
- 22:20Speaker 2: schedule has got the Raiders. They're probably thinking, really? I
- 22:24Speaker 2: don't even know if the Raiders are good. I know
- 22:25Speaker 2: their record's good, but I don't know if they're good.
- 22:27Speaker 2: I don't know what anyone is right now. That's kind
- 22:29Speaker 2: of a good thing, scary thing. Going back to what
- 22:36Speaker 2: the Cowboys got. Wounded team going up with Houston. There's
- 22:40Speaker 2: two sides to that. They're 0-3 and so are they
- 22:44Speaker 2: going to be hungry for this game?
- 22:45Speaker 12: Of course.
- 22:47Speaker 2: Cowboys better be hungry also. They just gave a game
- 22:50Speaker 2: away there in Rio and a game that they should
- 22:54Speaker 2: have won. They probably shouldn't be 1-2 right now. They are.
- 22:59Speaker 2: Whatever Houston's feeling, they need to be feeling that as
- 23:02Speaker 2: well and You know, it's– sure, you know, Houston was
- 23:07Speaker 2: 0-3 last year and they figured out a way to
- 23:10Speaker 2: turn it around. And I don't know if their defense
- 23:13Speaker 2: is playing at the same level, but– also remember that
- 23:16Speaker 2: they are 0-3. I mean, they're 0-3 for a reason.
- 23:19Speaker 2: I mean, because they haven't been good enough to win.
- 23:20Speaker 2: So it's not like you're talking about a world beater here.
- 23:23Speaker 2: Cowboys shouldn't be overconfident, but they should be confident in
- 23:26Speaker 2: the fact that they could go to Houston where there's
- 23:28Speaker 2: a ton of Cowboy fans there and they're probably going
- 23:31Speaker 2: to be, you know, half full of that, maybe not
- 23:34Speaker 2: half full, but they'll be there and they'll be loud
- 23:36Speaker 2: and proud and ready to see that team win. So,
- 23:39Speaker 2: you know, When you go face Little Brother, you got
- 23:41Speaker 2: to go and knock him down. That's really what it
- 23:44Speaker 2: comes down to. All right, let's go to break here
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- 26:05Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Cowboy Storyline presented by Gillette.
- 26:09Speaker 2: It's time for the Gillette Precision Player of the Week.
- 26:13Speaker 2: A lot of candidates there, but it's got to go
- 26:17Speaker 2: with Ja'Sean Barham. Ja'Sean Barham, I think, was the player
- 26:22Speaker 2: of the game there just for the couple of plays
- 26:24Speaker 2: that he made there down by the goal line and
- 26:26Speaker 2: on third and fourth down stops. You have to hit.
- 26:32Speaker 2: Derrick Henry, head on if you're going to stop him.
- 26:35Speaker 2: And Barham did a great job with that. His precision
- 26:38Speaker 2: was outstanding. So he is the Gillette Precision Player of
- 26:43Speaker 2: the Week. All right, let's go to Dylan, North Port, Florida.
- 26:48Speaker 8: Hey, Nick.
- 26:48Speaker 18: How's it going, man?
- 26:49Speaker 3: Good.
- 26:49Speaker 2: How are you doing?
- 26:51Speaker 18: I'm good. Just on the trading part real quick, you
- 26:54Speaker 18: start doing that here, you're getting into really dangerous territory
- 26:57Speaker 18: because the Cowboys don't have a third-round pick. And you're
- 27:00Speaker 18: not going to give up your first and your second
- 27:01Speaker 18: to bring guys in. You're not picking until day three.
- 27:04Speaker 18: Cowboys are already the biggest cash spender in the NFL.
- 27:08Speaker 18: And they have big contract negotiations coming up again, like always.
- 27:12Speaker 18: And now you're adding more big money guys. You're getting
- 27:14Speaker 18: rid of the ability to offset. That was like the
- 27:16Speaker 18: cheap young talent. And that's just the recipe for disaster
- 27:20Speaker 18: here within the next year or two to me. So
- 27:22Speaker 18: I'm not trading anything. I mean, this is not going
- 27:24Speaker 18: to happen for me. I'm set on that.
- 27:26Speaker 14: So I'm good. Um, but I do want to ask
- 27:29Speaker 14: you a question.
- 27:31Speaker 18: Am I crazy for thinking that the defense was the
- 27:35Speaker 18: best unit on the fuel on Sunday?
- 27:38Speaker 7: Hmm.
- 27:40Speaker 2: Oh, crazy. Um, Why do you say that, though? What's
- 27:45Speaker 2: your facts here? I know you've got stats to support this.
- 27:48Speaker 14: I do.
- 27:48Speaker 5: I do, man.
- 27:49Speaker 18: And I put out a tweet. I don't know if
- 27:50Speaker 18: you saw my tweet or not, but I'm the stats guy.
- 27:52Speaker 5: You know.
- 27:53Speaker 18: And when you look at this whole thing, you really
- 27:56Speaker 18: zoom in on it, right? The defense put up 24
- 27:59Speaker 18: points when the Ravens got the ball off of a
- 28:02Speaker 18: kickoff or a punt or whatever, but there was three turnovers,
- 28:06Speaker 18: and those resulted in 10 points. That was the Dallas 44,
- 28:08Speaker 18: the Baltimore 23, the Baltimore 41. So the 10 points
- 28:12Speaker 18: came off of the two turnovers around midfield, or the
- 28:15Speaker 18: blocked field goal around midfield and the turnover on downs
- 28:17Speaker 18: by midfield. So they gave up 10 points there. So
- 28:20Speaker 18: 24 points, I guess you'd call it naturally, plus 10
- 28:22Speaker 18: points off turnovers. But the offense left like 14 to
- 28:27Speaker 18: 18 points on the field. The two goal line fiascos
- 28:30Speaker 18: where they missed out on eight points there between the two.
- 28:33Speaker 18: You had the fumble. They were in field goal territory
- 28:35Speaker 18: with the Ferguson fumble at the 23. They had a
- 28:38Speaker 18: blocked field goal. So that maximum 18 points, at least
- 28:41Speaker 18: 14 points there, if they just did the things that
- 28:44Speaker 18: made sense and converted the field goals and all that.
- 28:47Speaker 18: And so it was disappointing to me to see that.
- 28:50Speaker 18: I mean, it could have been close to a 50-burger
- 28:51Speaker 18: here between the offensive special teams if they didn't mess
- 28:54Speaker 18: up and have those mistakes. Meanwhile, the defense, I'm trying
- 28:57Speaker 18: to not grade them on a curve, but I feel
- 28:59Speaker 18: like the defense kept them in the game numerous times
- 29:03Speaker 18: between the goal line stands, forcing turnovers on downs in
- 29:06Speaker 18: positive territory. And it just felt like even though they
- 29:12Speaker 18: let up a lot of yards on the ground, let
- 29:14Speaker 18: up the total of 34, it just felt like they
- 29:17Speaker 18: were the better unit at times that kept the team
- 29:22Speaker 18: in the game versus the offense that kept trying to
- 29:24Speaker 18: give the game away basically on turnovers and mistakes. So
- 29:27Speaker 18: I just want to get your thoughts on that, man.
- 29:28Speaker 18: Just let me know if I'm, I'm insane for thinking that.
- 29:31Speaker 2: No, thanks. Thanks Dylan for the call and, and, and
- 29:34Speaker 2: the stats. Um, It's, again, it's kind of like what
- 29:38Speaker 2: I was saying earlier about it it's not just about
- 29:41Speaker 2: the stats and numbers it's just kind of like how
- 29:44Speaker 2: does it look how does it feel and and you
- 29:47Speaker 2: you know what you're watching you know what you see
- 29:49Speaker 2: and you know that you know the defense is making
- 29:51Speaker 2: more plays and And it's so hard not to grade
- 29:54Speaker 2: on a curve for them because of what you've seen
- 29:57Speaker 2: and what they've got and also all the injuries that
- 29:59Speaker 2: they've had. And then again, on the flip side, it's
- 30:04Speaker 2: the same with the offense. We do the same thing.
- 30:06Speaker 2: We grade on a curve with them. We look at
- 30:08Speaker 2: it and go, well, this is the offense. This is Dak,
- 30:10Speaker 2: and this is Pickens, and CD, and Javante, and they
- 30:13Speaker 2: should be doing all that. That's sort of, you know,
- 30:20Speaker 2: how that goes because we judge a lot of things
- 30:22Speaker 2: based off of expectations. And I think you're on to
- 30:28Speaker 2: something there. I think the offense could have scored a
- 30:30Speaker 2: lot more, left a lot on the table there. The defense, though,
- 30:33Speaker 2: I mean, defense still gave up some plays. And you
- 30:37Speaker 2: expect that. I mean, you know, Zay Flowers is a
- 30:40Speaker 2: good player. And I think that, you know, he– the
- 30:43Speaker 2: plan was always for him to play. Um, he was
- 30:46Speaker 2: always going to play, um, and, and he played well and,
- 30:50Speaker 2: you know, obviously Henry and Lamar and they do their thing.
- 30:53Speaker 2: So I, I, I think it was, it was kind
- 30:55Speaker 2: of the same, you know, I mean, very equal. I
- 30:59Speaker 2: think the defense had its moments. They still gave up
- 31:01Speaker 2: some offense had their moments. They still left some out there.
- 31:04Speaker 2: And of course, special teams, the same, I mean, they
- 31:06Speaker 2: made some kicks, did some things that had some nice
- 31:08Speaker 2: plays early in the game from field position, then also
- 31:11Speaker 2: gave some up. So I don't think either phase of
- 31:14Speaker 2: the game did what they needed to do as a
- 31:19Speaker 2: complete game, and that was sort of the result. All right,
- 31:22Speaker 2: let's go to Rob in Vegas.
- 31:25Speaker 5: Hey, Nick. What's up?
- 31:26Speaker 2: How you doing?
- 31:27Speaker 19: Yes, and yes, Dylan is crazy.
- 31:31Speaker 9: What?
- 31:33Speaker 19: The reason why he feels this way is because we
- 31:35Speaker 19: expect the defense, especially against the Ravens, to just be
- 31:39Speaker 19: a disaster. And they weren't. They were just bad. They
- 31:43Speaker 19: gave up 192 yards rushing, 34 points. We saw the
- 31:47Speaker 19: last play. If you were just watching any other game,
- 31:50Speaker 19: you weren't a fan, you'd be like, yeah, that defense
- 31:51Speaker 19: ain't good. We have some players, though, like a Barham,
- 31:57Speaker 19: a Downs, that make plays that we didn't have last year.
- 32:00Speaker 19: But right now, the results, are the same. The overall
- 32:04Speaker 19: meal is the same. It just looks a little better
- 32:08Speaker 19: being made and let's hope they just keep getting better.
- 32:12Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 32:13Speaker 19: Well, let's talk about the head coach. You know, you
- 32:18Speaker 19: know how I feel about him. He has no business
- 32:20Speaker 19: being a head coach, but the biggest issue I have
- 32:24Speaker 19: is not only did you make the head coach, then
- 32:27Speaker 19: you compounded it by making him the O.C. It's the
- 32:31Speaker 19: hardest position. It's the hardest coaching position, I think, in
- 32:34Speaker 19: all of sports. You're over so many things. And you
- 32:37Speaker 19: took a guy who'd never done it and say, I'm
- 32:40Speaker 19: going to make you do both. And you have two coaches,
- 32:44Speaker 19: two of the greatest coaches, Andy Reid and Sean Payton,
- 32:47Speaker 19: who stepped away from that. They gave it up. They said,
- 32:50Speaker 19: I'm going to not call plays because I need to
- 32:52Speaker 19: focus on the whole team. And even I hear callers say,
- 32:56Speaker 19: It's like we talk about Shoddy like he's not the
- 32:58Speaker 19: head coach. He's just an OC. No, he's responsible for
- 33:03Speaker 19: Aubrey kicking the ball the way he did through the
- 33:06Speaker 19: end zone. That's the head coach should be making that call.
- 33:10Speaker 19: He's responsible for your DC who, you know, made some better.
- 33:16Speaker 19: You have to be over the whole thing. And then
- 33:20Speaker 19: you compounded it also by bringing in a first-time DC.
- 33:23Speaker 19: So they're all looking at each other like, I've never
- 33:26Speaker 19: done this. You've never done this. And Dak is probably saying,
- 33:30Speaker 19: why are you giving me these guys? This is my
- 33:33Speaker 19: 11th year. We're in win-now mode. I don't have another
- 33:38Speaker 19: 11 years. Give me somebody I can rely on, and
- 33:41Speaker 19: they don't have that. And that's my biggest issue. You
- 33:44Speaker 19: want to go young head coach. You want to go
- 33:46Speaker 19: cheap because, let's face it, Jerry doesn't value head coaching.
- 33:50Speaker 19: He just doesn't. Ever since Jimmy won the second Super Bowl,
- 33:54Speaker 19: it was like, I got my money, and I'm going
- 33:57Speaker 19: to hire guys that have no business being the head
- 34:00Speaker 19: coach of the Dallas Cowboys. You want to hire a
- 34:02Speaker 19: young coach in New Orleans or Vegas? Like they did
- 34:06Speaker 19: because you're getting a young quarterback. You're going to build
- 34:09Speaker 19: from the ground up.
- 34:09Speaker 2: How do you think they get better, Rob? I mean,
- 34:11Speaker 2: how do you think they get better moving forward here
- 34:13Speaker 2: in week four?
- 34:14Speaker 19: I don't have time for my head coach to learn
- 34:18Speaker 19: on the job. That is not fair. That is not
- 34:23Speaker 19: fair to the fans. You want to have a bad team.
- 34:27Speaker 2: How do they beat Houston? But how do they beat Houston?
- 34:29Speaker 2: Because Shadi's not getting fired. So what do they got
- 34:32Speaker 2: to do here this week?
- 34:34Speaker 19: To be honest, I don't think they beat Houston. I
- 34:38Speaker 19: think the odds are they're too banged up. They're still
- 34:43Speaker 19: not over the range. Houston's not going to lose corners.
- 34:45Speaker 19: I just look at it like that.
- 34:47Speaker 10: They don't have to lose corners at all. I don't
- 34:50Speaker 10: think they beat Houston.
- 34:51Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 34:51Speaker 12: All right.
- 34:52Speaker 7: All right, Rob.
- 34:53Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
- 34:54Speaker 19: No, no, no.
- 34:55Speaker 12: Wait.
- 34:55Speaker 16: Wait.
- 34:57Speaker 2: What are we doing here? What are we doing for
- 34:59Speaker 2: this week, though? I mean, we're not going back. We're
- 35:01Speaker 2: not rewinding. We don't have the DeLorean. We're not doing that.
- 35:04Speaker 14: No, no, no.
- 35:05Speaker 19: What do you think about Shoddy as doing both? Do
- 35:08Speaker 19: you think he should have both jobs?
- 35:10Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 35:10Speaker 2: I think— Okay.
- 35:13Speaker 14: Why?
- 35:13Speaker 10: Why, though?
- 35:14Speaker 19: You don't think the head coaching part suffers?
- 35:17Speaker 5: No.
- 35:18Speaker 19: The laminated piece of plastic?
- 35:21Speaker 2: I think it's certainly a challenge. I mean, anytime a
- 35:25Speaker 2: head coach does one side of the ball, especially on offense,
- 35:29Speaker 2: especially as the offensive coordinator. It was always going to
- 35:32Speaker 2: be a challenge for him, especially since he's never been
- 35:35Speaker 2: a head coach before. So they knew this going in.
- 35:38Speaker 2: They knew this going in.
- 35:39Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that.
- 35:40Speaker 2: They did. They knew this. And he sold himself to
- 35:42Speaker 2: do that. He sold himself to do that. I mean,
- 35:45Speaker 2: he's not just going to be the head coach. He's
- 35:47Speaker 2: going to have to be the offensive coordinator and the
- 35:49Speaker 2: head coach.
- 35:50Speaker 10: Why?
- 35:51Speaker 2: Because he wanted the job. He wanted the job.
- 35:53Speaker 15: Wait a minute.
- 35:53Speaker 19: Now he's got the job. He's never going to get
- 35:55Speaker 19: another head coaching job. He's in the job.
- 35:57Speaker 12: Okay.
- 35:58Speaker 19: He's in the job. If you want to stay in
- 36:00Speaker 19: the job, you have to do what's right for the team.
- 36:05Speaker 19: Why don't you, if this keeps going the way it's going,
- 36:07Speaker 19: why wouldn't he give up the play calling?
- 36:09Speaker 2: That's fine. He, and he could, let's go week nine. Let's,
- 36:12Speaker 2: let's see how this, how this goes. Let's see how,
- 36:14Speaker 2: let's see how this goes.
- 36:15Speaker 19: How much, how much longer we got to see how
- 36:17Speaker 19: this goes.
- 36:18Speaker 2: I said week nine. So nine. So what is the.
- 36:22Speaker 19: Record at nine that we say?
- 36:23Speaker 12: I don't know.
- 36:24Speaker 2: I mean, I, I, But here's the thing. If it
- 36:31Speaker 2: does work, if the defense can figure out how to
- 36:35Speaker 2: stop somebody and go to overtime and win the game,
- 36:38Speaker 2: did it work?
- 36:40Speaker 19: We're not putting this on the defense.
- 36:42Speaker 2: I didn't put it on the defense. What I said, Rob,
- 36:44Speaker 2: was if they win the game. They win the game.
- 36:49Speaker 2: Are you asking for– I mean, they got to overtime,
- 36:54Speaker 2: and they win the game.
- 36:55Speaker 19: No, they win on the two-yard line. Like, they run
- 36:59Speaker 19: it in, and they win with six seconds left in
- 37:01Speaker 19: the game.
- 37:01Speaker 2: All right. Um, I, I'm just saying, I don't, I
- 37:07Speaker 2: don't believe that. I mean, they lost the game. They
- 37:10Speaker 2: lost the close game by one second. And if they
- 37:12Speaker 2: could figure out a way to win that game, I
- 37:14Speaker 2: don't think we're talking about, you know, shoddy having to
- 37:16Speaker 2: give up the play calling duty. So after three games, uh,
- 37:20Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't think he should give up the,
- 37:22Speaker 2: I don't think he should give up the play calling duties.
- 37:24Speaker 2: I don't, I just said that he scored 31 points.
- 37:26Speaker 2: He's at, I mean, what's their, what's their team averaging
- 37:29Speaker 2: right now? They're scoring some points. They're doing some things
- 37:31Speaker 2: he's going to have to figure out.
- 37:32Speaker 19: There you go again. You're talking about him as the O.C.
- 37:35Speaker 2: Right, because he is the O.C.
- 37:37Speaker 19: You're not talking about special teams sucking. You're not talking
- 37:41Speaker 19: about the defense not playing. You're talking about him like
- 37:45Speaker 19: he doesn't have any other responsibility than just calling plays,
- 37:49Speaker 19: and that's bull. And that is the problem. He is
- 37:53Speaker 19: not the OC. Stop calling him just the OC. He
- 37:57Speaker 19: is the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
- 38:00Speaker 10: Yeah, all right.
- 38:01Speaker 2: Well, I get to say what I want, so I
- 38:03Speaker 2: can call him the OC because he is the OC
- 38:06Speaker 2: and he's the head coach. He does both. He was
- 38:08Speaker 2: the OC of the best offense in the league last year,
- 38:10Speaker 2: and now they're trying to figure out how to get
- 38:12Speaker 2: this better. Is he gone?
- 38:14Speaker 8: Gone.
- 38:14Speaker 12: Okay.
- 38:18Speaker 2: You know, I mean, like, I've always said this about coaching. Like,
- 38:22Speaker 2: I just don't think that– and it's– they have an
- 38:26Speaker 2: unfair job because you lose, it's on coaching. You know,
- 38:31Speaker 2: for the most part, it's always on coaching. You win,
- 38:34Speaker 2: it's the players, you know, usually are the ones that
- 38:37Speaker 2: get more of the credit. So that's just– that's the
- 38:39Speaker 2: nature of it. That's what they signed up for. They
- 38:42Speaker 2: get that. But to me, when things are so close,
- 38:46Speaker 2: they come down to one play, one decision, one thing here–
- 38:50Speaker 2: And I don't think it's the difference in whether you
- 38:52Speaker 2: can do it or you can't do it. You know
- 38:54Speaker 2: what I'm saying? Just one play, and they win the game,
- 38:58Speaker 2: and then we're not talking about anything like this, about, oh,
- 39:01Speaker 2: he can't do this, he's not built for this.
- 39:02Speaker 5: No.
- 39:03Speaker 2: So it comes down, if it's that close, then I think... Now,
- 39:06Speaker 2: if it continues to be that close and you don't win...
- 39:10Speaker 2: you know, one score game. I mean, that happens a lot.
- 39:13Speaker 2: I mean, I dealt with that with my college team.
- 39:16Speaker 2: I dealt with that with like Arkansas. They had a
- 39:18Speaker 2: coach that was like two and ten on games decided
- 39:22Speaker 2: by a touchdown or less. That's enough sample size to say,
- 39:26Speaker 2: you know what? These close games, they're not built for it.
- 39:29Speaker 2: So early on in the season like that, Could have
- 39:33Speaker 2: gone either way. We could be sitting at 2-1, and
- 39:36Speaker 2: the conversation would have been completely different. I understand they
- 39:39Speaker 2: didn't do it, and he's one of the big reasons why,
- 39:44Speaker 2: because I do think that they could have run the
- 39:46Speaker 2: ball down there. Does that mean that they get in?
- 39:48Speaker 2: I don't know. Derrick Henry didn't get in, so it
- 39:50Speaker 2: doesn't mean that they get in. I think you give
- 39:53Speaker 2: yourself a chance to do that, and they obviously didn't. But, yeah,
- 39:58Speaker 2: it's not easy. I get what he's arguing about, you know,
- 40:01Speaker 2: but I look at it like, cool, now what? Now
- 40:05Speaker 2: what are we doing now? Let's move forward. We're not
- 40:07Speaker 2: going backwards on things like that, and you're not changing
- 40:09Speaker 2: things up here in week four. All right, we're going
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- 41:28Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Storyline. This segment brought to
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- 41:35Speaker 2: All right, let's go. Let's try to get some callers
- 41:37Speaker 2: in here. JR in Avondale, Arizona. What's up?
- 41:41Speaker 9: Morning, Nick.
- 41:42Speaker 2: How you doing?
- 41:44Speaker 19: I'm doing good.
- 41:44Speaker 8: I'm doing good. Probably a good time for a break
- 41:46Speaker 8: right then, but I hate to sound like a hater,
- 41:50Speaker 8: but I really enjoyed watching the Eagles lose almost as
- 41:53Speaker 8: much as watching the Cowboys win.
- 41:57Speaker 2: That is a hater. That's okay. They've deserved it.
- 42:01Speaker 11: They've deserved it.
- 42:02Speaker 2: They get all the hate. They welcome it.
- 42:04Speaker 10: They're good.
- 42:05Speaker 8: All right. Yeah, they overrated. But anyway, that's one of
- 42:09Speaker 8: those folks. So I'm looking at the team right now
- 42:14Speaker 8: and who's out, who's coming back. And in a month
- 42:18Speaker 8: from now, this is going to be a completely different
- 42:20Speaker 8: looking team than it's going to look this Sunday. So
- 42:23Speaker 8: what I'm talking about is how the Cowboys win. They
- 42:28Speaker 8: need to win the next two or four games because
- 42:29Speaker 8: I believe if they're three and four and everybody's back,
- 42:33Speaker 8: they can still make a run and get into the playoffs.
- 42:36Speaker 8: So Castro is important this weekend, I think. You've got
- 42:40Speaker 8: to put pressure on him. I think I see Von
- 42:43Speaker 8: Miller is starting to come around. I think he's kind
- 42:45Speaker 8: of getting his legs under him now. I look for
- 42:46Speaker 8: him to have a big game. So I'll get off
- 42:49Speaker 8: and let other people get on. But what do you think,
- 42:52Speaker 8: what do the Cowboys have to do to split the
- 42:55Speaker 8: next four games? Because I know Mayfield's going to be out,
- 42:57Speaker 8: so they have a good chance against Tampa Bay. So
- 42:59Speaker 8: what do you think they need to do to at
- 43:02Speaker 8: least win two of the next four? And that's all
- 43:04Speaker 8: I got. Thanks, Nick. Have a good day.
- 43:06Speaker 14: Go Cowboys.
- 43:06Speaker 2: Thank you. You know what? I'm going to be a
- 43:08Speaker 2: little more, I'm going to be greedier than that. I mean,
- 43:11Speaker 2: because they didn't, you know, they're not on the right
- 43:14Speaker 2: side of the first three, right? I mean, they're one
- 43:17Speaker 2: and two. And I don't, you know, there's a few
- 43:21Speaker 2: plays here. I mean, Dak's interception before the Giants game. And,
- 43:26Speaker 2: you know, take your pick of a couple plays from
- 43:29Speaker 2: that one. But Easley could be two and one. That's
- 43:32Speaker 2: just kind of the way it goes. So now you're
- 43:34Speaker 2: talking about four. I don't think they're in a two
- 43:37Speaker 2: and two situation here. I mean, I think you can
- 43:39Speaker 2: go win three out of four. I think that they're
- 43:40Speaker 2: all winnable. They're probably all losable. Usually when that happens,
- 43:43Speaker 2: you're right there in the middle. But I think the
- 43:45Speaker 2: Cowboys can find a way to get above that. I
- 43:49Speaker 2: think they'll be a little bit more balanced when Tyler
- 43:52Speaker 2: Smith comes back on offense, which is to be after
- 43:55Speaker 2: this game. So I don't want to get too far ahead.
- 43:57Speaker 2: But I think that they are winnable games. We'll see
- 44:00Speaker 2: what happens with the secondary, though. They're going to have
- 44:02Speaker 2: to figure out ways to kind of patch that up.
- 44:05Speaker 2: And they won't play as many of the running quarterbacks.
- 44:08Speaker 2: I mean, some of these guys are still elusive. But,
- 44:10Speaker 2: you know, from a running quarterback standpoint, you know, they
- 44:14Speaker 2: faced some good ones so far. So we'll see if
- 44:16Speaker 2: they can kind of be a little bit more balanced
- 44:18Speaker 2: there also. All right, Chris in North Carolina is next.
- 44:22Speaker 3: Chris.
- 44:24Speaker 10: How you doing, Nick?
- 44:25Speaker 12: Good.
- 44:25Speaker 2: How are you? Is this first time call?
- 44:27Speaker 10: Yeah, first time.
- 44:28Speaker 5: Nice.
- 44:29Speaker 10: Here we go.
- 44:31Speaker 2: Good to hear from you. What do you got?
- 44:32Speaker 10: I kind of wanted to call and support Dillon. I
- 44:37Speaker 10: think the defense was great. I mean, Derrick Henry and
- 44:42Speaker 10: Lamar Jackson are... I mean, Lamar is just the best
- 44:46Speaker 10: that's ever been as scrambling quarterback.
- 44:48Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 44:49Speaker 10: And I I just think that the defense plays a
- 44:53Speaker 10: great game against them.
- 44:54Speaker 12: I really do.
- 44:55Speaker 10: I think the forced down stops, the three and outs,
- 45:00Speaker 10: they're growing. They're getting better. I mean, I expect them
- 45:06Speaker 10: to win the next three games. I expect them to go.
- 45:11Speaker 8: I mean, I.
- 45:14Speaker 10: Really believe we're on to something here, and I believe
- 45:16Speaker 10: we've got us a great defensive coordinator, and I believe
- 45:18Speaker 10: we've got us a great linebacker.
- 45:21Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, those are all to be seen.
- 45:25Speaker 2: I mean, like, you know, I think we're seeing Christian
- 45:28Speaker 2: Parker learn on the run, and same with Barham. He's
- 45:30Speaker 2: going to have some moments where, you know, like the
- 45:32Speaker 2: thing with him is that he's going to get there fast.
- 45:35Speaker 2: Is it the right spot? I don't know. He's going
- 45:38Speaker 2: to miss sometimes, but when he hits... Everyone feels it.
- 45:41Speaker 2: And so there's good and bad with that. You know
- 45:44Speaker 2: what I mean? It's like a young baseball pitcher. When
- 45:47Speaker 2: he's on, he's unhittable. But he might hit a couple batters.
- 45:51Speaker 2: You know what I mean? He might be a little erratic.
- 45:53Speaker 2: That's just the way it goes.
- 45:55Speaker 9: Right.
- 45:55Speaker 10: Well, that's all I had. I do like the way
- 45:58Speaker 10: they played with physicality.
- 46:00Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 46:00Speaker 2: You can see that. That's a difference.
- 46:02Speaker 4: Yes.
- 46:02Speaker 10: Yeah, I do like that. But that's all I got.
- 46:04Speaker 10: I appreciate you letting me on today.
- 46:07Speaker 2: Good to hear from you. Thanks for the first-time call
- 46:09Speaker 2: there from Chris in North Carolina. And, you know, you
- 46:11Speaker 2: mentioned Barham, and the thing about it is, and I'm
- 46:15Speaker 2: certainly not trying to compare him to a Hall of Famer, Ravens,
- 46:19Speaker 2: Ray Lewis, or anything like that. But he plays a position.
- 46:24Speaker 2: I'm just going to say, when you play a position
- 46:27Speaker 2: where you're in the middle of everything, right? You're the
- 46:29Speaker 2: middle linebacker. And you can set the tone. And I
- 46:33Speaker 2: think Patrick Willis would do that for the 49ers back
- 46:36Speaker 2: in the day. Maybe even, now I'm forgetting his name,
- 46:42Speaker 2: Fred Warner from San Francisco, kind of the same thing.
- 46:45Speaker 2: That is a position where you kind of, you do
- 46:49Speaker 2: set the tone of everything. So you go out there
- 46:50Speaker 2: and you make a hit like that early in the
- 46:52Speaker 2: game or late in the game or whatever. your defense
- 46:54Speaker 2: can kind of feed off of that. So I think
- 46:57Speaker 2: that's where the value really comes in. That's how exciting
- 47:00Speaker 2: it is to have Barham there because it's a position
- 47:03Speaker 2: where others can also maybe rise to the level. All right,
- 47:06Speaker 2: we're going to have one more caller here. Jeremy in
- 47:08Speaker 2: Salt Lake.
- 47:11Speaker 19: Hey, what's up?
- 47:12Speaker 2: How are you doing?
- 47:14Speaker 10: I'm good.
- 47:14Speaker 12: I'm good. I'm better now that I listen to the show.
- 47:17Speaker 12: So I started calling it the first show. I was
- 47:20Speaker 12: in a bum-ass mood, and now I'm in a little
- 47:22Speaker 12: bit better mood.
- 47:23Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 47:25Speaker 12: Yeah, I think the defense is growing. It's still early.
- 47:30Speaker 12: If you're ever going to lose a game, it's always
- 47:32Speaker 12: good to lose not in the conference, right? And then,
- 47:36Speaker 12: you know, we've got to get the ship turned around.
- 47:40Speaker 12: But I think every time I watch the defense play,
- 47:43Speaker 12: even throughout the game, throughout the Redskins game, throughout this game,
- 47:47Speaker 12: I saw them growing and I saw them getting better.
- 47:49Speaker 12: I know I had to be quick, but if you
- 47:52Speaker 12: can just kind of– Yeah. It's not all over yet.
- 47:55Speaker 12: It's not all doom and gloom yet.
- 47:57Speaker 2: Not at all.
- 47:58Speaker 12: And one thing that did break my heart as I
- 48:01Speaker 12: saw that Davion on social media lost a bet and
- 48:04Speaker 12: had to wear a Saints shirt, that broke my heart.
- 48:06Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
- 48:07Speaker 14: Other than that.
- 48:11Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
- 48:11Speaker 12: It's not all doom and gloom. We've still got a
- 48:13Speaker 12: lot of football left, buddy.
- 48:14Speaker 2: All right.
- 48:15Speaker 12: Go Cowboys.
- 48:15Speaker 2: Thank you, Jeremy. Appreciate the call. And, you know, I
- 48:18Speaker 2: think it is– We're turning the calendar here to October,
- 48:22Speaker 2: but there's still three games in, 14 more to go,
- 48:25Speaker 2: a lot of football. You've been in these games. You've
- 48:27Speaker 2: had chances to win. In all three of them, though,
- 48:30Speaker 2: there were moments where you had to go make a play,
- 48:33Speaker 2: and twice they didn't make enough of them. So they're
- 48:38Speaker 2: on the wrong side of the three right now, one
- 48:40Speaker 2: and two, but they're certainly not out of anything and
- 48:43Speaker 2: certainly not to the point where you're going to start
- 48:46Speaker 2: making wholesale changes here and there. So that's why I–
- 48:50Speaker 2: you know, that's why I cut off Rob the way
- 48:53Speaker 2: I did on some of those questions of like, you know,
- 48:57Speaker 2: it is what it is right now. Like, you're not
- 48:58Speaker 2: making these big changes. So how do you focus in
- 49:01Speaker 2: on this? Because it's a long journey. It's, you know,
- 49:03Speaker 2: like we said, 17 games. You're going to have to
- 49:05Speaker 2: figure out how do you beat Houston? What needs to
- 49:08Speaker 2: happen to kind of turn around right now? Not the
- 49:10Speaker 2: big overall, you know, change, things like that. And Jerry
- 49:14Speaker 2: got asked that. He got asked that on the radio
- 49:15Speaker 2: today about, you know, when would you consider doing that?
- 49:18Speaker 2: And he said in his experience, usually the coach himself
- 49:21Speaker 2: will come in and say all right well you know
- 49:23Speaker 2: maybe we need to change some of that stuff and
- 49:25Speaker 2: if they get to that they might they might at
- 49:27Speaker 2: some point but I don't think at this point right
- 49:29Speaker 2: now when they're just a couple plays away from having
- 49:31Speaker 2: a different record let's see if this thing continues let's
- 49:34Speaker 2: see if it goes the way it is and if
- 49:35Speaker 2: the pattern is is negative and you feel like there's
- 49:38Speaker 2: a change needed I at any position, at any spot,
- 49:41Speaker 2: then that's what you do. I don't know if you
- 49:43Speaker 2: do it this early on. I think there's a lot
- 49:46Speaker 2: of football left to go. All right, not any more
- 49:48Speaker 2: left to go of this show. We're going to pack
- 49:51Speaker 2: it up. Cowboys break will be coming up here in
- 49:53Speaker 2: just a second. But we'll do this thing, turn around,
- 49:56Speaker 2: and do it again tomorrow. So for Chris Beam, I'm
- 49:58Speaker 2: Nick Eatman. We'll see you tomorrow on Cowboys Storyline. See you.
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