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- 0:05Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:08Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys These Cowboys Storylines with
- 0:19Speaker 2: Nick Eatman.
- 0:23Speaker 3: Good morning, it's October the tenth. It's time for Cowboys storyline.
- 0:28Speaker 3: I'm Nick Eatman here and let's let's find out what
- 0:31Speaker 3: the storyline is for this football team right now, sitting
- 0:34Speaker 3: at three and two and just can't escape the injury
- 0:37Speaker 3: bug continues to hit this team on defense and special teams.
- 0:42Speaker 1: But there's gonna be some.
- 0:44Speaker 3: Changes, you know, obviously to this game plan as the
- 0:48Speaker 3: Cowboys face the Chargers. Maybe not the big changes that
- 0:52Speaker 3: some people want to see. Cowboys owner and general manager
- 0:55Speaker 3: Jerry Jones spoke this morning on one O five to
- 0:57Speaker 3: three the Fan. He's usually pretty chipper good mood, not
- 1:02Speaker 3: so much in this case.
- 1:03Speaker 1: Uh.
- 1:04Speaker 3: He got on there and was asked, you know, several
- 1:06Speaker 3: questions about possible changes, especially to the offense and play calling,
- 1:11Speaker 3: and you know, he was really emphatic about it. This
- 1:13Speaker 3: is not the time to do such things. In that manner,
- 1:18Speaker 3: he gave tremendous support for Dak and and Mike McCarthy
- 1:24Speaker 3: in the play calling and basically said, yeah, yes, we
- 1:26Speaker 3: need to make some changes. We can't play like we've
- 1:28Speaker 3: played against the forty nine ers. But but you know,
- 1:31Speaker 3: there there will be some changes, but this isn't the
- 1:33Speaker 3: time for the wholesale changes.
- 1:34Speaker 1: So you know, but I want to hear from you guys.
- 1:37Speaker 1: What do you think?
- 1:38Speaker 3: And if you do think there should be some changes,
- 1:40Speaker 3: what are they. It's easy to find the problem, but
- 1:42Speaker 3: finding the solution is always the issue. So give me
- 1:45Speaker 3: a call one eight eight eight five five two two
- 1:48Speaker 3: ninety seven. You can send some text messages at eight
- 1:50Speaker 3: one seven two nine zero three two nine eight. We
- 1:52Speaker 3: got a couple and then we got a couple of
- 1:54Speaker 3: calls on the line. So it's Tuesday. It's that time
- 1:57Speaker 3: where we can turn the page if we want to.
- 1:59Speaker 3: We can go back and look what happened with the
- 2:01Speaker 3: Cowboys and forty nine ers. We can look ahead, we
- 2:03Speaker 3: can look way back down the road if you want
- 2:06Speaker 3: to do that and go down memory lane.
- 2:08Speaker 1: But so whatever you want to do, you.
- 2:10Speaker 3: Guys drive the bus today, all right, Joe and Stanford,
- 2:13Speaker 3: you're the first one.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Joe, what's up hey, morning?
- 2:16Speaker 5: Nick? So you know, the things that were obvious to
- 2:21Speaker 5: me in the game is as much as we were
- 2:24Speaker 5: enjoying you know, how well we thought the offense was going.
- 2:28Speaker 5: It obviously wasn't going that well. But I think mostly
- 2:31Speaker 5: the thing that really stood out to me among you know,
- 2:34Speaker 5: there's a thousand things to slap you in the face,
- 2:36Speaker 5: but is how it seemed to me, how under stress
- 2:42Speaker 5: in a situation when Back actually had to do something
- 2:44Speaker 5: besides you know, check down a bunch of stuff. He
- 2:48Speaker 5: really wasn't prepared to do it. I honestly didn't realize
- 2:52Speaker 5: or didn't know that there was he wasn't even getting
- 2:56Speaker 5: seven step stuff, you know, as far as well it
- 3:01Speaker 5: had been you know, put into the offense and stuff
- 3:03Speaker 5: like that. You know, you know, I don't know if
- 3:07Speaker 5: we had just sort of tailored you know, uh Dak
- 3:11Speaker 5: friendly offense with Kellen and it just had really worked well,
- 3:14Speaker 5: or you know, I don't know what to think about
- 3:17Speaker 5: Dak now, man, I really don't.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 3:20Speaker 3: Well, Joe and Stanford, you've called almost every show and
- 3:26Speaker 3: a lot of times the first one off the bat,
- 3:28Speaker 3: and usually have a lot of you know, like points
- 3:31Speaker 3: where you're like, all right, this is exactly how I'm thinking.
- 3:34Speaker 3: And you can tell you're pretty perplexed on this one
- 3:36Speaker 3: with Dak and that's that's what's happened here for this team.
- 3:40Speaker 3: And you're not the only one. I mean, there's a
- 3:42Speaker 3: lot of text messages and a lot of a lot
- 3:46Speaker 3: of stuff coming in about about Dak, how he's seeing things,
- 3:49Speaker 3: how he's reading the defense. This the whole confusion here
- 3:53Speaker 3: with with you know and maybe you know this is
- 3:56Speaker 3: this is one argument where you could say, you know,
- 3:59Speaker 3: maybe he should be playing in the preseason. Yeah, I mean,
- 4:04Speaker 3: you don't want to risk any injury. I mean, look,
- 4:06Speaker 3: look what this team. Look what's happening to this team.
- 4:08Speaker 3: But they're getting hurt in practice. I mean Treyvon Diggs
- 4:11Speaker 3: out for the season because of practice. Now, obviously Layton
- 4:14Speaker 3: wasn't hurting practice. But but the point is is that,
- 4:18Speaker 3: you know, maybe they need some kind of reps. You
- 4:21Speaker 3: need more things like this, you know, more and more reps.
- 4:26Speaker 3: I don't have a great answer either for you, you know,
- 4:28Speaker 3: on on on what's going on. But he's definitely not
- 4:31Speaker 3: h It doesn't seem like he sees the field with
- 4:35Speaker 3: this offense like he did in the past. And that's
- 4:37Speaker 3: a comfort thing, probably because you know from a he
- 4:41Speaker 3: was with Kellen Moore in this offense, and they were
- 4:43Speaker 3: teammates together too, so I think they they understand each
- 4:47Speaker 3: other really well. And you know, I mean, Dak has
- 4:50Speaker 3: said all the right things that this offense is better
- 4:53Speaker 3: for him, so we'll see it hasn't been the case.
- 4:57Speaker 1: Though.
- 4:57Speaker 3: It has certainly not been the case so far. It
- 5:00Speaker 3: just seems like everything they picked that they check it down,
- 5:02Speaker 3: you know, his guy. I don't think they have checked
- 5:05Speaker 3: down receivers, honestly. I don't think they have a tight
- 5:07Speaker 3: end that's just gonna, you know, say, get off me
- 5:10Speaker 3: and go get ten fifteen yards. They don't have receivers
- 5:12Speaker 3: that really do that either, So you know, that's is
- 5:15Speaker 3: they're gonna have to. It has to be schemed up properly,
- 5:18Speaker 3: and so far it really hasn't. So all right, Gary
- 5:21Speaker 3: in New Mexico, Next caller, Gary.
- 5:24Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, how you doing?
- 5:25Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you?
- 5:27Speaker 6: I'm gonna just real quick. I called in last Friday
- 5:30Speaker 6: and I said that Dallas was buffaloed a better team
- 5:32Speaker 6: and would win convincingly.
- 5:33Speaker 1: I was dead, are you thirty five to ten? Was
- 5:35Speaker 1: that you?
- 5:37Speaker 6: I didn't freak a score.
- 5:38Speaker 4: I didn't quick score.
- 5:39Speaker 3: Somebody had thirty five to ten and it was thirty
- 5:42Speaker 3: five to ten at one point, and I was thinking, hmm,
- 5:44Speaker 3: maybe we just had the backwards. Yeah, we were all
- 5:47Speaker 3: wrong on this one.
- 5:48Speaker 1: Gary.
- 5:49Speaker 5: Yeah, I know what.
- 5:50Speaker 6: I drank a kool aid. But but I'm hearing a
- 5:53Speaker 6: lot of comments on dak in the offense, and I
- 5:55Speaker 6: don't think that's the issue. Yes, they need to do better, Yes, yes,
- 5:59Speaker 6: I understand all of that. But Mike McCarthy has said
- 6:01Speaker 6: over and over again way back since the offseason, this
- 6:04Speaker 6: is a defensive first football team. We play to our defense.
- 6:08Speaker 6: This team is built on defense. He put the defense
- 6:11Speaker 6: out there first to set a tone, to make a statement.
- 6:15Speaker 6: And the statement that that defense made was they let
- 6:17Speaker 6: San Francisco march seventy five yards on the opening drive
- 6:20Speaker 6: and put them in a hole. And then when the
- 6:23Speaker 6: offense pawed their way back and made it a fourteen
- 6:25Speaker 6: to seven game, what did our defense do. They went
- 6:28Speaker 6: out there and they let San Francisco go seventy five
- 6:31Speaker 6: yards and score another touchdown when we got a field
- 6:34Speaker 6: goal to start the second half to try to make
- 6:36Speaker 6: it a game, what did the defense do. They went
- 6:38Speaker 6: out there and they let San Francisco go seventy five
- 6:41Speaker 6: yards and score another touchdown. This defense is overrated. They
- 6:44Speaker 6: are a bunch of front runners, and it's frustrating as
- 6:48Speaker 6: a lifelong cowboy fan that as a kid grew up
- 6:51Speaker 6: under Landry and then in college, I've got Jimmy Johnson.
- 6:53Speaker 6: How about them cowboys? And now most of my adult
- 6:56Speaker 6: life has been frustration by a bunch of front running
- 6:59Speaker 6: cowboys that beat up on bad teams and then they
- 7:02Speaker 6: completely fold when they face their real contender. And the
- 7:05Speaker 6: defense needs to shut up and just start playing some
- 7:09Speaker 6: sound football. And they went out there, nick, They went
- 7:11Speaker 6: out their Sunday night trying to be a tough guy.
- 7:14Speaker 6: We're going to show San Francisco how bad we are. Well,
- 7:17Speaker 6: what did that lead to? Stupid penalty, jumping off side,
- 7:21Speaker 6: tawning face mask, not getting off the field on third down.
- 7:25Speaker 6: I mean, right now, this team is a bunch of
- 7:27Speaker 6: front runners. The one of the shows last year had
- 7:31Speaker 6: a contest to give the defense a nickname, and I
- 7:34Speaker 6: called in and my nickname last year for the defense
- 7:37Speaker 6: was jack Squat because that's what they've done. They've done
- 7:40Speaker 6: Jack Squat. They haven't won anything, and until they get
- 7:43Speaker 6: some skins on the wall, they need to shut up.
- 7:46Speaker 6: They need to quit talking about getting revenge and they
- 7:49Speaker 6: just need to go out and play sound football.
- 7:54Speaker 3: All right, That's the kind of call that I you know, again,
- 7:59Speaker 3: this is two weeks in a row that after they've lost,
- 8:01Speaker 3: where the Tuesday calls seem to be worse than the
- 8:03Speaker 3: Monday calls. And I'm not saying that's a bad call.
- 8:06Speaker 3: That's just from a frustration standpoint there. You know, that's harsh.
- 8:13Speaker 3: I mean that that's harsh. They they that's why you
- 8:16Speaker 3: talk to their players after the game. You let them,
- 8:19Speaker 3: you know, you come out and let them kind of
- 8:20Speaker 3: say the things that they need to say. Some of them.
- 8:23Speaker 3: Some of them are good, some of them make sense,
- 8:25Speaker 3: some of them, don't.
- 8:26Speaker 1: You know. I didn't.
- 8:27Speaker 3: I didn't really understand some of the stuff that Michael
- 8:29Speaker 3: was saying. This is a defensive team, that the defense
- 8:33Speaker 3: is better than the offense, and I you know, and
- 8:37Speaker 3: you make some good points. I mean, the defense, the
- 8:40Speaker 3: defense was holding it, holding them in there though, you know,
- 8:43Speaker 3: making it a game. So I think I think you
- 8:45Speaker 3: can make that argument any way you want to. Well,
- 8:47Speaker 3: the offense did this, and you know, and the defense,
- 8:50Speaker 3: what did the defense do?
- 8:52Speaker 7: Well?
- 8:53Speaker 3: You just glossed over the fact that it was fourteen
- 8:55Speaker 3: to nothing. I mean, the offense didn't get a first down,
- 8:58Speaker 3: are you kidding me? Didn't get a first down until
- 9:01Speaker 3: they stole the Eagles play and pushed you know, Dak
- 9:03Speaker 3: for a yard in midway through the second quarter. You
- 9:06Speaker 3: can't sit here and tell me and blame just blame
- 9:08Speaker 3: the defense. You even said, come out of the third quarter,
- 9:10Speaker 3: they got us the field goal. Thinks thanks for the
- 9:12Speaker 3: field goal twenty one to ten. The defense, though, I
- 9:15Speaker 3: mean that that thing got away, and yeah, they scored
- 9:19Speaker 3: forty two points, But you can't sit there and say
- 9:21Speaker 3: that it was you know, the defense was clearly the
- 9:24Speaker 3: issue here. The offense turned the ball over too many times,
- 9:28Speaker 3: especially in the second half, and you know, let's point
- 9:32Speaker 3: the finger at everyone. But to come here and say
- 9:35Speaker 3: the offense is not the problem and it's on the defense,
- 9:37Speaker 3: a bunch of front runners, I think that's ridiculous.
- 9:39Speaker 1: I really do.
- 9:40Speaker 3: I get your frustration, but in no way am I
- 9:43Speaker 3: going to take it there. The defense did not play well.
- 9:45Speaker 3: Are they overrated? Okay, what's the rating? What's their rating?
- 9:49Speaker 3: Tell me what they're rating is and we'll go over
- 9:51Speaker 3: or under it. I don't know no one knows what
- 9:53Speaker 3: their rating is. It's just what they think. It is,
- 9:55Speaker 3: what you think it is. With ESPN thinks who knows.
- 9:59Speaker 3: You know, the they've played well, the defense has played
- 10:02Speaker 3: well at times. They're struggling right now with injuries. So
- 10:05Speaker 3: I can tell you that you can call it an
- 10:06Speaker 3: excuse if you want to. I call it losing an
- 10:09Speaker 3: all pro corner. I call it losing a linebacker now
- 10:11Speaker 3: and Leighton Vanders they don't have any linebackers and now
- 10:14Speaker 3: they lost another one. So that's not gonna help things.
- 10:17Speaker 3: So that's, you know, I get it air out these frustrations.
- 10:21Speaker 3: But to sit there and single out the defense, I
- 10:23Speaker 3: don't know. I think I think they got problems on
- 10:26Speaker 3: all three sides of the ball at this point. All right,
- 10:30Speaker 3: Ali from Florida, I say that, right, Ali?
- 10:33Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 10:34Speaker 1: How you doing?
- 10:34Speaker 8: Man?
- 10:35Speaker 4: Pretty good buddy. Yesterday I was too depressed to call.
- 10:39Speaker 4: But let me give you a couple of comments and
- 10:42Speaker 4: make a suggestion. Okay, First of all, I remember Jimmy
- 10:45Speaker 4: Johnson used to say, if you're gonna wait for your
- 10:49Speaker 4: draft order, you're not gonna do anything good. She used
- 10:52Speaker 4: to go get the players, I e. Dolphin, Detroit Rams,
- 11:05Speaker 4: they get the draft, they go pick up some other
- 11:07Speaker 4: players they might need. Where is our first round draft
- 11:12Speaker 4: pick for this year? When it is our second round
- 11:15Speaker 4: draft pick this year? Basically be playing with the last
- 11:18Speaker 4: year roster. And I'm saying to myself, Okay, if we
- 11:23Speaker 4: are so high on these draft picks, were pick in
- 11:26Speaker 4: at least we lost the third round by accident, you know,
- 11:31Speaker 4: by injury. I can't totally see that we got a
- 11:35Speaker 4: little bit bad luck to go with everything else. I
- 11:38Speaker 4: think personally Mike McCarthy is a good coach. But I
- 11:46Speaker 4: look at Dolphin Hot, their turn around, their team. Dan
- 11:50Speaker 4: Campbell was interviewed with Jerry Jones. Look at how much
- 11:54Speaker 4: they're hustling over there in Detroit. Look at Ego. I remember,
- 11:58Speaker 4: but Chim Kelly was there. The roster was disarrayed, and
- 12:03Speaker 4: now they're turn a round. I see all these people.
- 12:05Speaker 4: They're jumping from Novere in front of the Cowboys and
- 12:10Speaker 4: the building to get some hope. And we are the
- 12:14Speaker 4: only brightest spot. I mean, we have a lot of
- 12:17Speaker 4: great but the kicker. If you were asked me, who's
- 12:20Speaker 4: going to be perfect with this season or kicker, it's
- 12:23Speaker 4: just like light out. Then on top of it. I'm
- 12:28Speaker 4: just looking at the schedule coming up. I believe as
- 12:34Speaker 4: a defense it was a bonehead play with Wilson to
- 12:39Speaker 4: get fifteen yard the faith match right off the bat
- 12:43Speaker 4: that I mean the football is about momentum. I can
- 12:47Speaker 4: see the jumping neutral zone. I mean, I remember when
- 12:52Speaker 4: you are so many penalty behalf is the undisciplined team.
- 12:57Speaker 4: I don't think if you Jetty, Jimmy Johnson or Bill
- 13:00Speaker 4: Parcell was in coaching show up Monday in that locker room,
- 13:05Speaker 4: I mean, everybody has to be accountable, including the ownership,
- 13:10Speaker 4: and that it totally was playing with the handcuff. I mean,
- 13:16Speaker 4: it was so timid and the last thing I would suggest.
- 13:21Speaker 4: I think personally you should have your mom called once
- 13:25Speaker 4: a week and have an opinion. Because we think we
- 13:28Speaker 4: know everything. I believe that a fresh perspective like amber
- 13:33Speaker 4: In breaks you know, it's some nice to see some
- 13:37Speaker 4: other opinion that it breaks the cycle a little bit
- 13:42Speaker 4: something we don't see it. But thank you for your show.
- 13:45Speaker 4: Appreciate Next, thank you.
- 13:50Speaker 3: Let's go to Curtis in Oklahoma. Let's go back to
- 13:53Speaker 3: Curtis and Oklahoma.
- 13:54Speaker 1: You're next. Hello, Curtis, you're up.
- 13:58Speaker 9: Hey, I'll just I want to say things to maybe
- 14:01Speaker 9: help the fans, help myself and add some perspective to
- 14:05Speaker 9: this sport in this situation. One of them, you know,
- 14:09Speaker 9: there's a guy named Sean Strickland who's a UFC champion
- 14:12Speaker 9: right now, and you know, he got knocked out by
- 14:15Speaker 9: a guy, and then that guy beat another guy, and
- 14:18Speaker 9: then he beat the guy that he beat to become champion,
- 14:22Speaker 9: so you know, he was there was memes about him
- 14:25Speaker 9: comparing him to I Carly, which is a teenage TV show,
- 14:29Speaker 9: so you know, it got pretty bad, but he just
- 14:31Speaker 9: hang in there, took advantage of his opportunity, and it
- 14:34Speaker 9: worked out for him. The other one that I'll use
- 14:36Speaker 9: is the New York Giants. I mean, we've beat them
- 14:39Speaker 9: so many times in a row. We always come on
- 14:42Speaker 9: here and celebrate, you know, with a forty to nothing victory,
- 14:45Speaker 9: and we just think that they're absolutely terrible. But in
- 14:48Speaker 9: the last twenty five years, they have more Super Bowl
- 14:51Speaker 9: wins than the Cowboys, the forty nine ers, and the Eagles.
- 14:54Speaker 9: So you know, just calm down, take things for what
- 14:56Speaker 9: they're worth, add some perspective. Enjoy watching Cowboys football. We've
- 15:02Speaker 9: played entertaining ball for the most part over the last
- 15:05Speaker 9: decade or so. And then the other The last thing
- 15:08Speaker 9: that I wanted to talk about was I do think
- 15:10Speaker 9: Dak could have better touch on his throws. It seems
- 15:14Speaker 9: like when he's throwing deeper passes, he really puts a
- 15:16Speaker 9: lot of hang time underneath it, and I think it
- 15:18Speaker 9: allows for the defender to close some space. And then
- 15:21Speaker 9: when he's throwing shorter throws, he's like rifling it in there,
- 15:24Speaker 9: and when it gets deflected or it doesn't get necessarily
- 15:27Speaker 9: caught the way it should, it has just more opportunity
- 15:30Speaker 9: to bounce around. So that's the only thing I would
- 15:32Speaker 9: really say about that, and I'll hang up and let
- 15:34Speaker 9: you get back to the show.
- 15:35Speaker 3: All right, Thanks Curtis. Appreciate the call and the quick
- 15:40Speaker 3: call there for for Curtis. And that's the thing that
- 15:43Speaker 3: the caller before kind of went on and on and on.
- 15:46Speaker 3: I mean that that kind of took up the time
- 15:49Speaker 3: I usually have to answer that. So I feel like
- 15:51Speaker 3: this is on all those days where people are just
- 15:53Speaker 3: gonna vent some of these things don't have any any
- 15:56Speaker 3: you know, comments to it. I mean, I think you
- 15:59Speaker 3: I heard some then nobody wanted to maybe be the Lions.
- 16:01Speaker 3: You want to be the Lions, wan trade, want trade
- 16:04Speaker 3: and be what the Lions are doing, what the Dolphins
- 16:06Speaker 3: are doing.
- 16:07Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about that, and I
- 16:10Speaker 1: don't know.
- 16:10Speaker 3: I mean the guys that they got to be forty
- 16:13Speaker 3: two to ten, they they they tried, they were trying
- 16:16Speaker 3: to come back. Nothing was working. I think snowballed. They
- 16:20Speaker 3: play again tomorrow, you know, they probably don't win. I
- 16:23Speaker 3: don't think they're on the same level as the forty
- 16:25Speaker 3: nine ers. I don't think the points where it's going
- 16:27Speaker 3: to be thirty two. I mean, I mean, obviously, I
- 16:29Speaker 3: don't think anyone thinks it would be like that. Again,
- 16:32Speaker 3: my point to that is a game got away from them.
- 16:35Speaker 3: I don't think it's indicative of exactly where this team is.
- 16:38Speaker 3: And I don't think that the sky is falling. Yeah,
- 16:42Speaker 3: that they've they've got some injuries that they've got to overcome.
- 16:45Speaker 3: But you know, I still think this is a good
- 16:47Speaker 3: football team. We've seen it and and you know to
- 16:50Speaker 3: the point of yeah, they beat up on bad teams,
- 16:52Speaker 3: well good because there's bad teams on the schedule, there's
- 16:55Speaker 3: there's bad teams in the division. There's I mean there's
- 16:57Speaker 3: there's things like that that you have to do. I
- 17:00Speaker 3: will take that. Then a team that's just always going
- 17:03Speaker 3: to play to the level of the competition, because that
- 17:06Speaker 3: was an argument about this team for forever that they
- 17:08Speaker 3: would play down and they could play up. They did
- 17:11Speaker 3: not play up to the level of competition this Sunday night,
- 17:14Speaker 3: no doubt about it. They did not do that. So
- 17:17Speaker 3: you know, we'll see if they can do that against
- 17:18Speaker 3: the Chargers coming up. All right, let's go to Savannah Georgia.
- 17:23Speaker 3: This is Sebastian and Savannah Georgia.
- 17:26Speaker 10: How are we doing, sir? How are we doing so?
- 17:27Speaker 10: You're doing well?
- 17:28Speaker 11: Yeah?
- 17:28Speaker 1: Doing well? How are you?
- 17:30Speaker 10: I'm doing fine? I mean in some ways, yes, this
- 17:33Speaker 10: team is becoming a walking new Ye's resolution, and I
- 17:35Speaker 10: don't know how to fix it. I'm just a spectator.
- 17:38Speaker 10: It just seems like, you know, you have that feeling
- 17:40Speaker 10: like when you have a new.
- 17:40Speaker 12: Your judge ligial I'm going to do this, I'm going
- 17:42Speaker 12: to do this, I'm going to.
- 17:42Speaker 10: Do this, and you don't do it.
- 17:43Speaker 7: You end up doing the same.
- 17:44Speaker 10: Thing and you have to do it again next year.
- 17:46Speaker 4: It's like that.
- 17:47Speaker 10: My question is this, were we not able to secure
- 17:50Speaker 10: because I feel like it's.
- 17:51Speaker 13: A you get what you pay for you type of thing.
- 17:53Speaker 10: Were we not able to secure any better free agencies?
- 17:56Speaker 13: I understand that the cap is real.
- 17:57Speaker 10: But how did the forty nine ers get hard?
- 18:00Speaker 5: Right?
- 18:00Speaker 10: How do all these teams get these great players in
- 18:02Speaker 10: free agency? And we keep barking basement shopping? It seems like, yeah,
- 18:06Speaker 10: you know, I don't know how to fix things, but
- 18:07Speaker 10: I do have that in a question. You have a
- 18:08Speaker 10: great day, all right.
- 18:10Speaker 3: Thank you. You know, forty nine ers is kind of
- 18:14Speaker 3: it's tough to figure out their their cap. I mean,
- 18:17Speaker 3: they obviously have a quarterback that's making eight hundred thousand
- 18:20Speaker 3: dollars as opposed to you know, most teams have backups
- 18:24Speaker 3: that are making you know, four or five million. But
- 18:26Speaker 3: I do know that they had some dead I mean
- 18:29Speaker 3: Trey Lance was on there was on their roster. Uh,
- 18:32Speaker 3: maybe Jimmy g was some dead money there. So I'm
- 18:36Speaker 3: not saying that they have a cheap quarterback room, but
- 18:39Speaker 3: but it helps when your starting quarterback is not making
- 18:43Speaker 3: a whole lot, and then it allows you to kind
- 18:44Speaker 3: of go do some other things. But I again, I
- 18:48Speaker 3: don't know what what the forty nine ers cap situation
- 18:51Speaker 3: is I don't mccaff for you. I mean, is a
- 18:53Speaker 3: guy that's really big for their their team and he
- 18:55Speaker 3: doesn't make a ton of money that that trade made
- 18:57Speaker 3: a lot of sense for them when when they made it.
- 19:01Speaker 3: But yeah, I barely understand what's going on with the
- 19:04Speaker 3: Cowboys cap now the question you asked about the free agents, Yeah,
- 19:09Speaker 3: they let's see, they got I guess they they got Cooks.
- 19:14Speaker 3: That was the trade. I mean, the you know, the
- 19:15Speaker 3: trade with gil Moore. I mean they you know, they
- 19:17Speaker 3: they've added some guys, but you know, they don't have
- 19:20Speaker 3: a ton of My Cowboys just do not have a
- 19:22Speaker 3: lot of money. They've got a lot of you know,
- 19:24Speaker 3: players making a lot of money. And it's they're not done.
- 19:27Speaker 3: You know, they're gonna pay c d. They're gonna pay Micah.
- 19:30Speaker 3: So I mean that's that's kind of the situation that
- 19:33Speaker 3: they're in. And you know, I think that they have
- 19:36Speaker 3: some good depth on this team. They have good depth
- 19:38Speaker 3: on on defense. Again, I'm gonna just say that I
- 19:42Speaker 3: really believe that this was this is one game. It
- 19:44Speaker 3: was a game that got away from them. And I'm
- 19:47Speaker 3: not changing my tune on what I think about this team.
- 19:50Speaker 3: I think the reality of it is is that they're
- 19:53Speaker 3: they're not one of the elite teams, not right now,
- 19:57Speaker 3: because they're they're they lost to the to the elite
- 20:00Speaker 3: team big time. They've lost the teams that are not
- 20:03Speaker 3: very good in Arizona, so they are somewhere in the
- 20:06Speaker 3: middle of that. It's been five games. That's enough to
- 20:10Speaker 3: come up with a with a pretty good, you know,
- 20:12Speaker 3: reason of what we think this team is, but still
- 20:14Speaker 3: long ways to go. All right, let's go to Bruce
- 20:17Speaker 3: and Houston. The next called Bruce.
- 20:20Speaker 14: Hey, Nick, thanks for taking my call.
- 20:22Speaker 1: Yeah, Bruce, I called.
- 20:24Speaker 14: Earlier in the week. Obviously optimism and that's what you
- 20:27Speaker 14: said about my call, and I still have that, I
- 20:31Speaker 14: hope the next I mean, look at it this way.
- 20:33Speaker 14: We got twelve games to prove we do belong in
- 20:37Speaker 14: the elite. But we got to do that. And my
- 20:41Speaker 14: question to you is if they go and lay an
- 20:44Speaker 14: eggs against the Chargers and then they have a bye
- 20:48Speaker 14: week after that, do you make a quarterback change? And
- 20:54Speaker 14: because it seems like Dak we've had him for eight years.
- 20:57Speaker 14: I know yesterday you said I don't want to hear
- 20:59Speaker 14: about all that, but I think eight years is long enough. Well,
- 21:03Speaker 14: I really like, I'm sorry.
- 21:05Speaker 3: Long long enough, long enough to find out what he is. Okay,
- 21:08Speaker 3: that's fine, yeah, but but what's.
- 21:10Speaker 1: The change what he meant? Are you going Cooper rush
- 21:13Speaker 1: Trey Lance?
- 21:14Speaker 14: Well, I mean you can't do Trey Lance. I think
- 21:17Speaker 14: his job this year is to see if he's even
- 21:19Speaker 14: and I'm sure they watch him in practice to see
- 21:21Speaker 14: if he can read the defenses and play quarterback.
- 21:24Speaker 7: Because they need to.
- 21:26Speaker 14: I was a brilliant move getting him as they can
- 21:28Speaker 14: get a top three quarterback for the fourth pick. You
- 21:31Speaker 14: know you you do it every day during the week
- 21:34Speaker 14: and twice on Sundays, as they say. But because my
- 21:37Speaker 14: question to you is I just don't see if you
- 21:41Speaker 14: I just can't see them re signing him. I don't
- 21:44Speaker 14: know how they can get out of that last year.
- 21:45Speaker 14: I know he has a no trade, but you're gonna
- 21:48Speaker 14: need to find out. Trey Lance needs to be your
- 21:51Speaker 14: back up next year, for sure, don't you think?
- 21:53Speaker 1: And I'll hang up and let Joe thank you.
- 21:56Speaker 3: Thanks Bruce. I do agree with that. I agree that
- 21:58Speaker 3: Trey Lance has to be the backup next year. That's
- 22:01Speaker 3: that's that justifies the pick fourth round pick. You know
- 22:06Speaker 3: because I think, you know, I think the Cowboys were
- 22:09Speaker 3: thinking that that they would probably draft a young quarterback
- 22:12Speaker 3: next year in the mid mid rounds that could be
- 22:15Speaker 3: potentially the backup to Dak. And so that's why they
- 22:18Speaker 3: kind of jumped the gun and said, let's use a
- 22:20Speaker 3: fourth round pick to get Trey Lance and then let's
- 22:22Speaker 3: see how he develops this year, and he could be
- 22:24Speaker 3: the backup next year down the backup to who.
- 22:27Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the plan is Dak. That's the plan.
- 22:31Speaker 3: Like like I said, though I just said before this call,
- 22:34Speaker 3: I mean, there's a long season. It's a long season
- 22:36Speaker 3: to find out if if you know, if the Cowboys
- 22:39Speaker 3: can turn this around, and if they don't turn it around,
- 22:43Speaker 3: and and you know, Dak's the reason for that, then
- 22:46Speaker 3: there's gonna be some changes. There's gonna be changes across
- 22:49Speaker 3: the across the board. I mean, there's no doubt that
- 22:52Speaker 3: there's you can't sit here and say that this team
- 22:54Speaker 3: is talented and then if they don't, if they don't
- 22:57Speaker 3: play well, then something's got to happen. And so I
- 23:00Speaker 3: think we know what those things are. There will be
- 23:03Speaker 3: some some big changes if the Cowboys don't, don't you know,
- 23:06Speaker 3: get out of this ditch that they're in, and you know,
- 23:09Speaker 3: I feel like they can, you know, looking at the schedule, Yeah,
- 23:12Speaker 3: it's it's not easy. But also there are games that
- 23:15Speaker 3: you expect them to win, but that you know, that
- 23:18Speaker 3: Arizona game still still kind of sits with me, like,
- 23:21Speaker 3: if you've got that in your arsenal, that you could
- 23:24Speaker 3: do that, then you can lose to anybody. And right
- 23:26Speaker 3: now we don't know if the Cowboys have beaten anyone
- 23:28Speaker 3: that's any good. I mean that now they've you know,
- 23:31Speaker 3: they've dominated the Giants and the Jets and and of
- 23:35Speaker 3: course the Patriots, but other teams are doing that as
- 23:38Speaker 3: well too, so still we'll find out. This is gonna
- 23:40Speaker 3: be this is probably the biggest game of the year.
- 23:41Speaker 3: I think I think this is the biggest game of
- 23:44Speaker 3: the year against the Chargers. It's early, but with the
- 23:47Speaker 3: bye week sitting here, it's a big game for a
- 23:50Speaker 3: lot of people. And I think that, you know, just
- 23:52Speaker 3: the fact that the offense is struggling and here they
- 23:54Speaker 3: are facing Kellen Moore and questions about should the Cowboys
- 23:59Speaker 3: make changes and all that stuff. I mean, it's just
- 24:00Speaker 3: kind of ironic the way it goes that you're playing
- 24:03Speaker 3: the Chargers Kellen Moore through all this, but I think
- 24:05Speaker 3: that the Cowboys have coming forward to and three and
- 24:07Speaker 3: three heading into the buy seems way different than just
- 24:10Speaker 3: one game. So it's it's a really big win. All right,
- 24:13Speaker 3: Let's take one more question before call before we go
- 24:16Speaker 3: to break. Brian and Louisiana. Brian, you're next, Okay, Hey, Brian, Yeah,
- 24:22Speaker 3: are you doing good?
- 24:23Speaker 1: You there?
- 24:24Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm here.
- 24:25Speaker 1: What do you got?
- 24:26Speaker 5: Okay?
- 24:27Speaker 11: My question was, what's your opinion on the fact that
- 24:32Speaker 11: they've kind of gotten away from letting Dak use his
- 24:35Speaker 11: legs a lot more. You know, I'm not seeing a
- 24:38Speaker 11: lot of the RPO type stuff, and I just see
- 24:41Speaker 11: that he was the type of player that he really
- 24:44Speaker 11: progressed when he had that style of offense instead of
- 24:47Speaker 11: just sitting back in the pocket trying to analyze the defense.
- 24:50Speaker 11: That's not really his strength to me. His biggest strength
- 24:52Speaker 11: was using his legs. And I understand the fact that
- 24:55Speaker 11: you know, he got hurt and that's a risk, but
- 24:59Speaker 11: I mean, even if you have that style of offense
- 25:01Speaker 11: or that package, you know, I think it would also
- 25:04Speaker 11: trans transform into something that even Trey Lansky to get
- 25:09Speaker 11: into any event that he did get hurt. So that
- 25:11Speaker 11: was just my question.
- 25:13Speaker 3: You know, thanks for the call, Brian. I'll be honest,
- 25:17Speaker 3: I can Dak still, you know, move the way that
- 25:21Speaker 3: you we want him to move. I mean, like, that's
- 25:23Speaker 3: that's a question I have. There is a couple of
- 25:25Speaker 3: times last week or against New England, and then of
- 25:30Speaker 3: course in this game against the forty nine ers where
- 25:32Speaker 3: I kind of thought, Okay, well, Dak, you know, just
- 25:34Speaker 3: get out of that, and he doesn't. And and I
- 25:37Speaker 3: don't know if he's moving with the same quickness as before,
- 25:40Speaker 3: but like, like, yes, you want him to kind of
- 25:43Speaker 3: use his legs a little bit, but I don't know
- 25:45Speaker 3: if he's comfortable doing it. And I don't know if
- 25:47Speaker 3: it's just because of the injury. I don't know if
- 25:50Speaker 3: it's that. As much as it is, I don't feel
- 25:53Speaker 3: like he he he feels like he's got the same
- 25:57Speaker 3: kind of quickness and escapability or or whatever it is.
- 26:01Speaker 3: It's just that he doesn't seem to be moving like
- 26:04Speaker 3: he has in the past.
- 26:05Speaker 1: And I get it.
- 26:06Speaker 3: I mean, everyone everyone gets older, and and you know
- 26:09Speaker 3: that that sort of happens as time goes on. But uh,
- 26:14Speaker 3: you know this whole notion of like he needs to
- 26:16Speaker 3: run more. I don't know if he's as comfortable doing
- 26:19Speaker 3: it and and for for whatever the reason is. But
- 26:22Speaker 3: but I mean i'd like to see it too, because
- 26:24Speaker 3: I think it is another weapon that you could that's
- 26:27Speaker 3: what happens. That's sometimes the only thing that's there is
- 26:30Speaker 3: the you know, the quarterback that everybody else is covered,
- 26:33Speaker 3: it's the lane is there to run. So I think
- 26:36Speaker 3: that there's opportunities for him to do that. But you know,
- 26:39Speaker 3: I don't if you're expecting Mississippi State DAC, I mean,
- 26:42Speaker 3: that's that's not that's not even the thing anymore. I mean,
- 26:46Speaker 3: he's he's eight years removed, he's played a lot of football.
- 26:49Speaker 3: He's had a lot of injuries, or not a lot,
- 26:51Speaker 3: but he's had some, uh and significant injuries. So I
- 26:54Speaker 3: just think that he's not the same runner. Doesn't mean
- 26:57Speaker 3: he can't run, but I just don't think he's the
- 26:58Speaker 3: same runners as he been in the past. All right,
- 27:01Speaker 3: let's go to break here, Cowboys storyline.
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- 27:03Speaker 3: We do have some text messages that I want to
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- 29:20Speaker 3: questions here on Cowboys storyline eight eight eight eight five
- 29:23Speaker 3: five two two ninety seven. Uh, do have some questions here?
- 29:27Speaker 3: How about Chris and Arkansas? On the text line, and
- 29:29Speaker 3: he says, with Tony Romo, I never felt like we
- 29:32Speaker 3: didn't have a chance to come back and win any game.
- 29:34Speaker 3: I don't have the same feeling with Dak Yep Romo
- 29:39Speaker 3: was that was Romo was good at that. I mean
- 29:42Speaker 3: he was he was good. And see Romo's thing was
- 29:45Speaker 3: Romo is probably better at the two minute offense than
- 29:47Speaker 3: almost any quarterback.
- 29:48Speaker 1: That I can remember. Uh, he was really good at that.
- 29:51Speaker 3: And so sometimes playing fast with tempo that is, you
- 29:54Speaker 3: have to do that to come back in the games.
- 29:56Speaker 3: So that was kind of a specialty I thought of Tony.
- 29:58Speaker 3: I mean, at the fourth quarter rate, it's one of
- 30:00Speaker 3: the best in NFL history. And even though he's kind
- 30:04Speaker 3: of known for a guy that you know, oh, he
- 30:06Speaker 3: didn't get it done.
- 30:07Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter.
- 30:08Speaker 3: Eight ironically, he actually was a really really good fourth
- 30:11Speaker 3: quarter quarterback. So yeah, I mean to that that comparison, sure,
- 30:15Speaker 3: Romo is better at that with Dak. I mean, you know,
- 30:17Speaker 3: they've had some games where they've come back. I mean,
- 30:19Speaker 3: it's don't act like it's never happened. But this team
- 30:23Speaker 3: just isn't built that way. And it's not just about
- 30:26Speaker 3: the offense too, it's the defense as well. The defense
- 30:30Speaker 3: is this team is not as good against the run
- 30:33Speaker 3: as they are against the pass. And so what happens
- 30:35Speaker 3: when you're down, you're facing the run, you're not facing
- 30:39Speaker 3: you're not going into the past. It's very important for
- 30:41Speaker 3: this team on both sides of the ball to get
- 30:44Speaker 3: off to a fast start.
- 30:45Speaker 1: All right.
- 30:46Speaker 3: Another question this is Dan and Philly. It's one thing
- 30:49Speaker 3: to lose. The game Sunday night was a disgrace. The
- 30:51Speaker 3: most pathetic game I've seen since the Cowboys play, since
- 30:56Speaker 3: watching nineteen seventy two.
- 30:58Speaker 1: It's up there.
- 30:59Speaker 3: I mean, it's up I don't know about the most
- 31:01Speaker 3: pathetic game. But the good thing about it is that
- 31:04Speaker 3: it's Week five. I mean, you could have lost twenty
- 31:07Speaker 3: eight to twenty seven, you know, and at the last
- 31:09Speaker 3: play of the game, and it counts the same. I mean,
- 31:13Speaker 3: I know you guys know that, but I'm just saying
- 31:15Speaker 3: this is different than I think playoff losses or games
- 31:19Speaker 3: late in the season that affect playoffs. This is one
- 31:22Speaker 3: where you thought, all right, this is a heavyweight fight,
- 31:25Speaker 3: this is the bat. You know, this is a match
- 31:27Speaker 3: up between the Cowboys and the forty nine ers, and
- 31:29Speaker 3: it comes out that that's not the case, that they
- 31:33Speaker 3: are not. The Cowboys are not in that heavyweight class
- 31:35Speaker 3: right now.
- 31:36Speaker 1: They aren't.
- 31:37Speaker 3: Could they get there, Sure they could get there, but
- 31:39Speaker 3: they're not right now. And I don't know who else
- 31:41Speaker 3: is in there with the forty nine ers. Maybe the
- 31:43Speaker 3: Eagles will see I'm sure that they'll play at some point.
- 31:47Speaker 3: You know, they have the same record. There's only two
- 31:48Speaker 3: teams in the league with the same record. So I
- 31:51Speaker 3: definitely think the forty nine ers are in a class
- 31:53Speaker 3: by themselves. But it doesn't matter that you shouldn't lose
- 31:56Speaker 3: to anyone forty two to ten. I mean, that just
- 31:59Speaker 3: shouldn't happen. And so that's that that did happen, And
- 32:02Speaker 3: now we've got to figure out how good the Cowboys
- 32:05Speaker 3: really are. And I think the Chargers are going to
- 32:06Speaker 3: give him a great, great test, all right, Kent, Kent
- 32:10Speaker 3: in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
- 32:11Speaker 1: Kent, what's up, hey, Nick?
- 32:13Speaker 18: How are you doing?
- 32:14Speaker 1: I'm good man, how are you well?
- 32:16Speaker 18: You know, disappointed, disheartened, lifelong Cowboys fan. I earliest memories
- 32:23Speaker 18: I have are sitting with my dad watching Rogers.
- 32:25Speaker 5: Saw that.
- 32:27Speaker 18: You know, vividly remember Jackie Smith dropping the touchdown pass
- 32:31Speaker 18: and film. But maybe you can help me out here.
- 32:34Speaker 18: I'm trying to look back on Dak. I've been a
- 32:36Speaker 18: Dak apologist for too long.
- 32:38Speaker 5: Now.
- 32:39Speaker 18: Can you help me? Remember the last time that Dak
- 32:42Speaker 18: played his best game and really stepped up when paying
- 32:47Speaker 18: playing against elite competition, against one of the best teams
- 32:50Speaker 18: in the league, rather than folding like a like a
- 32:53Speaker 18: lawn chair.
- 32:55Speaker 3: Are you going to are you counting? Are you counting
- 32:58Speaker 3: to the Buccaneers and them playoffs? Is that is that one?
- 33:02Speaker 7: No?
- 33:03Speaker 18: Because they were they were a clearly the better team there.
- 33:05Speaker 18: I mean when the last time they got up against
- 33:07Speaker 18: the teams who was giving them every jacous everything they
- 33:09Speaker 18: can handle it more? Where Dak had his best game?
- 33:12Speaker 1: Okay, I don't That's why I just can't.
- 33:14Speaker 18: Remember where he was the one when they were really
- 33:16Speaker 18: against the ropes and he stood up and carried that
- 33:18Speaker 18: team to victory.
- 33:20Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
- 33:22Speaker 3: I mean, and I'm sure that you've looked I mean
- 33:25Speaker 3: you've looked it up and you're and you're not you're
- 33:27Speaker 3: not seeing it. But but you know, I mean, that's
- 33:30Speaker 3: the thing I asked that about the playoffs. I mean, like,
- 33:33Speaker 3: if that, if we're not counting that, then then I
- 33:35Speaker 3: don't know. I mean that that is one where he
- 33:38Speaker 3: was absolutely, you know, at his best, and that was
- 33:42Speaker 3: an outstanding game. And so I mean, I'm sorry if
- 33:45Speaker 3: that doesn't count. I mean, they they do. They not
- 33:48Speaker 3: have Tom Brady?
- 33:49Speaker 1: Still?
- 33:49Speaker 3: Was it not on the road. They haven't beaten Tom Brady.
- 33:51Speaker 3: They have everyone on the road in thirty years. They're
- 33:53Speaker 3: coming off that crappy game against Washington and you know,
- 33:55Speaker 3: he comes out and plays a remarkable game. I can't
- 33:58Speaker 3: sit here and tell you some other games, but just
- 34:00Speaker 3: tell me the games that that they faced like this.
- 34:02Speaker 3: I don't remember a game like this where they was like,
- 34:05Speaker 3: all right, this is this is the battle these two
- 34:08Speaker 3: teams right here. I mean, was Philly not one last year?
- 34:13Speaker 3: Was that was that not a game at home where
- 34:15Speaker 3: they they played They're coming off of loss in Jacksonville
- 34:18Speaker 3: where he throw throws interceptions, and I believe they came
- 34:20Speaker 3: back and yeah, they played Jacksonville and they come back
- 34:24Speaker 3: and they play Philly the next week, you know, and
- 34:28Speaker 3: it feels like he helped win that game. I mean,
- 34:30Speaker 3: it was a it was a back and forth game.
- 34:32Speaker 3: But again, it's hard to answer that question because there
- 34:37Speaker 3: haven't been many games like this, These these you know,
- 34:41Speaker 3: playoff type games in the middle of the season. So yeah,
- 34:45Speaker 3: this is this is a this is a tough one.
- 34:47Speaker 3: But I think, you know, I think it's shortsighted to
- 34:50Speaker 3: say that the DAK hasn't had games like that. You know,
- 34:53Speaker 3: there's there's a lot of phrases that I've I've heard
- 34:56Speaker 3: over the years, and especially with the Cowboys, that you know,
- 34:59Speaker 3: according to or media, it's never a big game unless
- 35:03Speaker 3: they lost. You know, if they won the game, it's
- 35:05Speaker 3: not considered a big game. It's big games if they
- 35:08Speaker 3: if they lost. I think we're kind of dealing with
- 35:10Speaker 3: that a little bit too here.
- 35:11Speaker 1: All right, Steve in New York.
- 35:13Speaker 19: You're on the line, just as the last call, It
- 35:17Speaker 19: just was saying, you know that Tampa Bay team was
- 35:21Speaker 19: also the same team that week won beat US, where
- 35:24Speaker 19: everyone was pretty much ending the season for US. So
- 35:27Speaker 19: they were a good team. You can't you know, when
- 35:29Speaker 19: we lost Week one, everybody was panicking. You know, seasons
- 35:32Speaker 19: overlooked with the Tampa Bay by to.
- 35:33Speaker 1: US, and so yeah, yeah, I agree.
- 35:36Speaker 19: I just want to say that, you know, we got
- 35:38Speaker 19: blown out by the best team in football. With three
- 35:42Speaker 19: and two, you would think we're three and fourteen. That's
- 35:45Speaker 19: why I have to stay off Twitter because it's just
- 35:48Speaker 19: the Dak talk changing quarterbacks. You know, it's it reminds
- 35:53Speaker 19: me of the years of we need a GM, we
- 35:55Speaker 19: need a GM. It's not changing this year. Okay, this
- 35:58Speaker 19: is what the here and now is. That's the quarterback. Okay,
- 36:02Speaker 19: unless you want to blow the whole thing up, which
- 36:03Speaker 19: we're not going to do. You're not gonna put Cooper
- 36:06Speaker 19: Rush in. You're not gonna put Trey Lanson.
- 36:08Speaker 10: You know, this is the this.
- 36:09Speaker 19: Is the quarterback. There's a lot of football left and
- 36:12Speaker 19: I just you know, I've been talking people off the
- 36:14Speaker 19: ledge for about day and a half.
- 36:15Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll keep calling this show. Then that's what
- 36:19Speaker 3: we need.
- 36:19Speaker 1: Steve we need and listen.
- 36:22Speaker 19: Nick, I live in New York. I could tell you
- 36:24Speaker 19: because somebody else had mentioned it. The two thousand and
- 36:27Speaker 19: seven Giants. I live here. I hear the media, the fans.
- 36:31Speaker 19: They were ready to do two things. Fire Tom cofflicause
- 36:34Speaker 19: he couldn't coach, and Eli Manning will never win. That's
- 36:37Speaker 19: all you heard up here. So you know what happened.
- 36:39Speaker 19: About two months later, they won the Super Bowl. I'm
- 36:42Speaker 19: not saying we're not.
- 36:42Speaker 5: Going to win this.
- 36:43Speaker 19: We're gonna win the super Bowl. But you understand what
- 36:45Speaker 19: I'm saying. There's a lot of football left.
- 36:48Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely understand what you're saying. And you're right.
- 36:51Speaker 3: I mean, and you make a good point about the
- 36:53Speaker 3: Tampa Bay game back in Week one, because you know,
- 36:56Speaker 3: the sky was falling that day.
- 36:58Speaker 1: I mean they lost.
- 37:00Speaker 3: Yeah, season was over, and Dak got hurt, and then
- 37:02Speaker 3: they had two or three other injuries, and you just
- 37:04Speaker 3: looked into the locker room see guys limping on crutches.
- 37:06Speaker 3: It's like, all right, you know, and they go for
- 37:08Speaker 3: and then go four and one. It happens all the time,
- 37:10Speaker 3: it really does. It happens all of the time. But
- 37:13Speaker 3: this game, right here. This is a really, really big game,
- 37:17Speaker 3: especially with the bye week sitting here. They have to
- 37:20Speaker 3: they have to to turn this thing around. They have
- 37:23Speaker 3: to have a good taste in their mouth going into
- 37:25Speaker 3: the bye week. And you know they have to beat
- 37:27Speaker 3: Kellen Moore. And for personal reasons, we gotta beat the Chargers.
- 37:31Speaker 3: And I say that, I say we because I'm talking
- 37:34Speaker 3: about my team, not not so much the Cowboys, about
- 37:36Speaker 3: my team upstairs. We gotta beat the Chargers' if that's
- 37:40Speaker 3: an inside joke or whatever, but I'll just say this though,
- 37:44Speaker 3: Dallas has to be the Chargers.
- 37:46Speaker 1: So this is a big game.
- 37:47Speaker 3: This is a big game here, and at least it's
- 37:49Speaker 3: at home up there in that place they call Sofi,
- 37:52Speaker 3: which will sound like a home crowd for the Cowboys,
- 37:55Speaker 3: which they need. They need everything that they can get.
- 37:57Speaker 3: All right, Albert and Tucson, Arizona. We'll go to Albert
- 38:00Speaker 3: for the next call.
- 38:02Speaker 1: Good morning, Nick, morning, how are you?
- 38:05Speaker 6: Oh?
- 38:06Speaker 20: Well, I remember last week you told me, hey, if
- 38:09Speaker 20: that prediction is true, what your predicting?
- 38:13Speaker 1: You said, thirty five to ten? Right?
- 38:16Speaker 3: Man, you were almost there, you were almost there. That
- 38:18Speaker 3: late touchdown.
- 38:20Speaker 7: No, but.
- 38:23Speaker 20: Too bad for Vegas.
- 38:25Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right.
- 38:29Speaker 3: Yeah, I think if you just said I'm sorry, I
- 38:31Speaker 3: got it, I got it mixed up, I think they
- 38:33Speaker 3: would go for that better than saying that you were
- 38:35Speaker 3: what what sixty sixty seventy points off?
- 38:40Speaker 1: We all were?
- 38:41Speaker 20: Man, you know Albert Dumas is not the guy.
- 38:46Speaker 3: Yeah, that's okay. You know, the games can get like that.
- 38:50Speaker 3: I mean games, you know, even the games that the
- 38:53Speaker 3: Cowboys have won like that. You think if you played
- 38:56Speaker 3: it again, it's not going to be that way. It's
- 38:58Speaker 3: not going to be forty to nothing when they played
- 38:59Speaker 3: the Giants again. And we know that, and so yeah,
- 39:02Speaker 3: I think you have to use that in a game
- 39:05Speaker 3: against the forty nine ers and go all right, let
- 39:06Speaker 3: me look at the game.
- 39:07Speaker 1: It's twenty one to ten.
- 39:09Speaker 3: You know, if you can get a stop coming off
- 39:11Speaker 3: the field or you know, getting to stop there, then
- 39:13Speaker 3: you have a shot. But you know, and then it
- 39:16Speaker 3: didn't happen, and then you're forcing and you're forcing the
- 39:18Speaker 3: next thing. You know, here it is it's forty two
- 39:20Speaker 3: to ten. But but I don't think it's it's as.
- 39:23Speaker 1: Bad as that. I don't think the gap is that big.
- 39:26Speaker 3: But that the same goes for the Cowboys against the
- 39:28Speaker 3: Patriots Cowboys against the Giants too. Sometimes games take on
- 39:31Speaker 3: a life for themselves. And uh, you know when you
- 39:34Speaker 3: were picking thirty five to ten, that was probably thinking
- 39:37Speaker 3: the same way. That's how how these games can can
- 39:39Speaker 3: kind of get a get away from them. So all right,
- 39:42Speaker 3: let's go. Uh Patrick in Las Vegas for the next call.
- 39:46Speaker 21: Patrick, Hey, Nick, thanks for having my call. Yeah, yeah, So,
- 39:51Speaker 21: I mean, obviously I've been listening to the show, starting
- 39:53Speaker 21: to feel bad for you a little bit because people
- 39:55Speaker 21: are just calling in and hating on Dak a lot.
- 39:59Speaker 3: Hey hold on, no, hold on, before you say that,
- 40:01Speaker 3: let me say this. I'll say this. This is exactly
- 40:04Speaker 3: what I've asked for the fans to do. If you
- 40:08Speaker 3: go back and I know I've said it, I get
- 40:09Speaker 3: kind of made fun of. I say it all the time.
- 40:11Speaker 3: Is this is y'all show, and it is so if
- 40:15Speaker 3: Gary in New Mexico or Ali in Florida, or whoever
- 40:19Speaker 3: calls in and goes off, this is what I've asked for.
- 40:23Speaker 3: This is what I said, Hey, do this. It's not
- 40:25Speaker 3: always going to be forty do nothing and you come
- 40:27Speaker 3: back the next day. I've been prepared for this, and
- 40:30Speaker 3: you guys are not wrong. I don't always agree. I
- 40:33Speaker 3: think I agree with some of the other callers. That's
- 40:35Speaker 3: a long season. But you know what, your opinion is
- 40:38Speaker 3: never wrong. So I actually applaud the calls. I appreciate it.
- 40:42Speaker 3: We kind of will work through it. We'll get through it.
- 40:44Speaker 3: And you know what, don't feel sorry for me, because
- 40:46Speaker 3: this is what I've asked for. So this is this
- 40:48Speaker 3: is fine. Sorry, Patrick, go ahead, No.
- 40:50Speaker 4: No, you're good.
- 40:51Speaker 21: You're good. So I appreciate what you do. Yeah, no,
- 40:54Speaker 21: just really quick then.
- 40:56Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 40:56Speaker 21: So obviously, you know, Dak didn't have his best game.
- 40:58Speaker 21: The whole team didn't have their best game. But I
- 41:01Speaker 21: feel like more the problem was early on in the
- 41:03Speaker 21: game the play calling was just very conservative, and you know,
- 41:09Speaker 21: so to say that Dak was the biggest problem, I mean,
- 41:12Speaker 21: sure he didn't make great decisions down the stretch of
- 41:14Speaker 21: the game, but I think it was a mixture of everything.
- 41:16Speaker 21: I think they let their emotions going into the week
- 41:19Speaker 21: of the game make them feel like they were ready,
- 41:21Speaker 21: but I don't think they'd prepared as well as the
- 41:23Speaker 21: forty nine ers said. I think they didn't play with
- 41:26Speaker 21: their heads. They played with their hearts, and it showed
- 41:28Speaker 21: and I agree, there's a lot of football left. Hopefully
- 41:31Speaker 21: they can fix it up albe at the next game
- 41:34Speaker 21: in LA So hopefully they can fix it by that time.
- 41:37Speaker 3: Thank you, awesome. We ill hope you have a good
- 41:39Speaker 3: time at that one. Hope it's a better game. And
- 41:42Speaker 3: I agree with that. I think there's something we said that. Now, again,
- 41:44Speaker 3: this is one of those things you never you can
- 41:46Speaker 3: never prove did they play with their heads or not
- 41:48Speaker 3: their hearts? Those are things that a lot of fans
- 41:51Speaker 3: say about, you know, somebody doesn't have hard or they
- 41:53Speaker 3: don't have leadership, or they don't whatever, things that they're
- 41:57Speaker 3: easy to say. You'll never prove it, so you know,
- 42:00Speaker 3: that's fine. There's something to be said for that though,
- 42:04Speaker 3: like you know, did were they a little too jacked
- 42:09Speaker 3: up a little bit but maybe not as prepared thinking
- 42:12Speaker 3: that they were ready, thinking that just the disappointment and
- 42:16Speaker 3: the angst that they felt from the last game is
- 42:19Speaker 3: going to help them carry over the fact didn't happen
- 42:21Speaker 3: that way. And here's another example to that that I
- 42:24Speaker 3: remember off the top of my head, when when the
- 42:26Speaker 3: Cowboys came back to Green Bay in twenty fifteen, there
- 42:30Speaker 3: was the year after the des catch game in Green Bay.
- 42:34Speaker 3: A lot of talk about how Dez was going to
- 42:36Speaker 3: play in that game, and you kind of thought it
- 42:39Speaker 3: was gonna go one of two ways and ten catches,
- 42:43Speaker 3: two hundred yards, two touchdowns, a diving catch that they call,
- 42:47Speaker 3: you know all that or not good in a couple
- 42:51Speaker 3: of drops, trying to force everything, and that's that's sort
- 42:54Speaker 3: of the way it went. The Cowboys weren't a good
- 42:56Speaker 3: team in twenty fifteen, and they got steamrolled for other reasons.
- 43:00Speaker 3: But he did not play a great game, and he
- 43:01Speaker 3: kind of thought it was along those same lines there
- 43:05Speaker 3: or do have another call? So I was about to
- 43:06Speaker 3: end of have another call, though this will be our
- 43:08Speaker 3: last one. I believe maybe we'll see here Sean in Bakersfield, California,
- 43:13Speaker 3: or Sean, what's up?
- 43:14Speaker 13: What's going on? Nick I called twice last league man.
- 43:19Speaker 13: Obviously disappointed. I've seen all.
- 43:26Speaker 7: He rushed a lot of decisions, there was a lot
- 43:28Speaker 7: of plays to be made on the field. But the
- 43:31Speaker 7: thing that ticked me off the most about anything then
- 43:34Speaker 7: was after getting humiliated on national TV, he had our
- 43:38Speaker 7: star defensive player taking pictures with up the opposite team, and.
- 43:44Speaker 13: He has a Kobe mentality bro, Kobe won't be doing that.
- 43:48Speaker 13: You know, you're supposed to be a demon on the defense.
- 43:53Speaker 13: A person like me that played the game. I don't
- 43:56Speaker 13: agree with that at all. Man, That's all I gotta say.
- 43:58Speaker 3: Man, Cowboys, all right, I'm just not guys.
- 44:06Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
- 44:06Speaker 3: I just I don't like it, Okay, I don't like
- 44:11Speaker 3: I don't understand the jersey swap.
- 44:14Speaker 1: I don't.
- 44:14Speaker 3: I've never really understood it. But you know, and and
- 44:20Speaker 3: just but everyone does that, you know what I mean,
- 44:23Speaker 3: like like they they do that, and and no one
- 44:25Speaker 3: has a problem after a win, Like no one has
- 44:28Speaker 3: a problem with them walking off with with another jersey,
- 44:32Speaker 3: you know when when they win it gets the Giants
- 44:34Speaker 3: or the Jets or whatever.
- 44:36Speaker 1: You know.
- 44:36Speaker 3: But but that seem just got their ass kicked, you know,
- 44:40Speaker 3: and those players are doing it. It's a different mentality.
- 44:44Speaker 3: I'm not even gonna even try to get in there.
- 44:46Speaker 3: I just think that, you know, let's let's be mad
- 44:48Speaker 3: about it all the time, not just you know, after
- 44:50Speaker 3: they lose. But I'm not gonna sit here and say
- 44:53Speaker 3: that I that I I totally get it, because I don't.
- 44:55Speaker 3: I don't understand that. I mean, if you want if
- 44:58Speaker 3: you want Christian McCaffrey's jersey, you can get it.
- 45:01Speaker 1: I mean, there's ways to do that.
- 45:02Speaker 3: And I don't know, but again, let's let's don't let's
- 45:07Speaker 3: don't kick him for that. You know, there's other things
- 45:10Speaker 3: that happen in the game. I mean, he just he
- 45:12Speaker 3: didn't play well. But you know, if he did everything
- 45:15Speaker 3: he was supposed to do, that's what the issue is.
- 45:18Speaker 3: It's not about the jersey, Let's be honest. It's about
- 45:21Speaker 3: the zero sacks, the zero pressures or a handful of pressures,
- 45:25Speaker 3: and the fact that he's talking about being on the
- 45:27Speaker 3: best in the game and he really didn't make a difference.
- 45:30Speaker 3: So that's the issue. It's not about grabbing a red
- 45:33Speaker 3: jersey on the way out. It's the fact that he
- 45:36Speaker 3: just didn't play as well as you want him to play,
- 45:38Speaker 3: and that I totally understand. All Right, one more caller, Eric,
- 45:41Speaker 3: North Carolina, you'll be our last caller today.
- 45:44Speaker 1: What's up, Eric?
- 45:45Speaker 5: What's up?
- 45:45Speaker 16: Nick?
- 45:45Speaker 12: What's going on?
- 45:46Speaker 16: My man?
- 45:47Speaker 1: All right?
- 45:48Speaker 12: Yes, I'm feeling much better, that's all. It takes quick
- 45:50Speaker 12: seconds to uplift Cowboy Nation right now. Thank you for
- 45:54Speaker 12: the platform and allowed me to do that. Sure, let
- 45:57Speaker 12: me just quickly say they're talking about this team like
- 46:00Speaker 12: like like the other callers said, we're three and fifteen
- 46:02Speaker 12: or something. We're still above five hundred. We have twelve
- 46:05Speaker 12: more games to go. Okay, I feel like every man
- 46:08Speaker 12: in this locker room is gonna have some soul searching
- 46:10Speaker 12: to do, and they're gonna do it. Okay, the kids,
- 46:13Speaker 12: if the boys, the boy's gonna stay together. They're gonna
- 46:15Speaker 12: stay with each other. We're gonna fight through this turbulent time.
- 46:19Speaker 12: We got some good games coming up that we can win.
- 46:21Speaker 12: Let's just hold off on the throat scratch everything, throw
- 46:25Speaker 12: it all out the window type things. Let's just hold off, guys.
- 46:28Speaker 12: Help is coming. We're gonna get better. We're gonna figure
- 46:31Speaker 12: this thing out, and we're gonna be a better football team.
- 46:33Speaker 12: And maybe Mike can have something you might tell a
- 46:35Speaker 12: little truth where he said this is a little blessing,
- 46:37Speaker 12: because some blessings come in the sky, and you know,
- 46:40Speaker 12: right there, don't like a blessing. They're like a beating.
- 46:42Speaker 12: But you never know, this might be the thing that
- 46:44Speaker 12: joke this team, make them take with their job more seriously,
- 46:48Speaker 12: you know, play for each other more and really let
- 46:50Speaker 12: the you know, the offense, really figure out what works
- 46:53Speaker 12: best for everybody to utilize these God's skill sets.
- 46:55Speaker 1: Man.
- 46:55Speaker 12: So let's stay hopeful, guys. Let's not jump ship. Let's
- 46:58Speaker 12: not throw back in the trash. If not, though these
- 47:00Speaker 12: team aways just get me up twelve more games, that's
- 47:03Speaker 12: essentially entire season. So let's just hold off, guys. Help
- 47:07Speaker 12: is coming. We're gonna get better Cowboyds for like, Nick,
- 47:10Speaker 12: I love you, keep fired.
- 47:12Speaker 1: Appreciate it, man.
- 47:14Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how that's the call call you want to
- 47:17Speaker 3: end on. I don't know what that was, but that's
- 47:19Speaker 3: a call you want to end on for sure. Now
- 47:22Speaker 3: I don't know. He kept me said it twice. Help
- 47:25Speaker 3: is coming, and I'm like.
- 47:28Speaker 1: Where. I mean, like, I don't know what that is.
- 47:31Speaker 3: I think they they're going to have to figure it
- 47:33Speaker 3: out right here, the guys that they've got. Maybe there's
- 47:36Speaker 3: gonna be maybe they'll they'll make a trade or something
- 47:39Speaker 3: like that, but I don't I don't anticipate that kind
- 47:42Speaker 3: of move. I think that, you know, as Jerry said
- 47:45Speaker 3: on the radio this morning, they've got the guys in
- 47:47Speaker 3: the locker room, they've got the coaches in his mind
- 47:49Speaker 3: to go and turn this thing around. As I said,
- 47:52Speaker 3: I think that the Chargers game is going to be
- 47:55Speaker 3: the biggest game of the season for them. I think
- 47:58Speaker 3: I think we'll find out more from that game than
- 48:00Speaker 3: any other game that they've played. We'll find out what
- 48:03Speaker 3: this team's made of, how they do. They have an
- 48:05Speaker 3: extra day to prepare, We'll see what happens when they
- 48:08Speaker 3: go up there. It's going to be a very very
- 48:11Speaker 3: good atmosphere. It'll be loud for both teams. It'll be
- 48:15Speaker 3: a college type atmosphere. There a lot of emotion on
- 48:18Speaker 3: both sides. They're going to want to win it. For Kellen,
- 48:20Speaker 3: this team's going to want to win it.
- 48:21Speaker 21: You know.
- 48:22Speaker 3: I would hope for their offense and McCarthy and Schottenheimer
- 48:25Speaker 3: and all them. I would hope that there's going to
- 48:28Speaker 3: be a lot of pride in that game. And the
- 48:30Speaker 3: Cowboys need that because they lost some of them. They
- 48:33Speaker 3: left some of it out there in San Francisco. They
- 48:36Speaker 3: need to get it back. And as Eric said, if
- 48:38Speaker 3: he could come and help talk to the team, I mean,
- 48:41Speaker 3: I think you might be a good motivational speaker, but
- 48:44Speaker 3: they need that kind of stuff. And again I say
- 48:46Speaker 3: this before I said it to all the other calls.
- 48:48Speaker 3: I appreciate at thirteen calls today, I appreciate every one
- 48:51Speaker 3: of them, every one of them. Some of them easier
- 48:54Speaker 3: to answer than others, but I appreciate that because it's
- 48:57Speaker 3: a call and to share your feeling. You're you're you know,
- 49:01Speaker 3: you're upset, you're disappointed. I get all that. I get that.
- 49:03Speaker 3: You know, I'm a fan of of my team as well.
- 49:06Speaker 3: I understand that. I understand the frustration. But you know what,
- 49:09Speaker 3: I'll say it. I'll here it is week what, week
- 49:11Speaker 3: six of the season. I say it almost every year.
- 49:14Speaker 3: I'll say it again right here. You don't choose to
- 49:16Speaker 3: be a Cowboys fan. Okay, it chooses you, it is,
- 49:20Speaker 3: it chooses you. This is who we are. So you're
- 49:22Speaker 3: not gonna you're not gonna, you know, abandon ship and
- 49:25Speaker 3: you're not gonna say I forget this team and all that.
- 49:26Speaker 3: You're gonna be back. You're back here next week, hopefully
- 49:29Speaker 3: back tomorrow.
- 49:30Speaker 1: Storyline.
- 49:31Speaker 3: This is what we do and this is what we've
- 49:33Speaker 3: been used to. But I think this team will bounce
- 49:35Speaker 3: back and let's see, let's see how it happens. But
- 49:37Speaker 3: it has to happen. I think this next game all right,
- 49:40Speaker 3: appreciate everybody. Thanks for Chris being running the board in
- 49:42Speaker 3: the back. I'm Nick Eatman. We'll see tomorrow on Cowboys storyline.
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