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- 0:03Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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- 0:12Speaker 3: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman. What is up?
- 0:31Speaker 4: Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It is Tuesday, May twenty first,
- 0:34Speaker 4: I'm Nick Eatman. It is time for storyline. We want
- 0:38Speaker 4: to hear from you. Guys already got the phones ringing.
- 0:41Speaker 4: I'm sure you've got plenty of questions. I want to
- 0:43Speaker 4: hear about this team. We're gonna find out a little
- 0:45Speaker 4: bit more about this football team this week. Not a
- 0:48Speaker 4: ton more. It is still practice. There's not a lot
- 0:50Speaker 4: of paths going on, but the team is out there now.
- 0:54Speaker 4: They're starting their OTAs this week and we get to watch.
- 0:57Speaker 4: The media is available one day a week, and that
- 0:59Speaker 4: day is tomorrow, So we'll also have a press conference
- 1:02Speaker 4: with Mike McCarthy. You'll be live here on the on
- 1:06Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys dot Com and all of the apps and
- 1:09Speaker 4: all of the places to find our stuff. That's at
- 1:12Speaker 4: ten forty five tomorrow morning Central time, and we'll have
- 1:15Speaker 4: locker room and practice and all that afterwards. But we
- 1:17Speaker 4: can talk about that, we can preview what we expect
- 1:20Speaker 4: to see and maybe who will be out there who
- 1:23Speaker 4: won't be out there? And what does that really mean? Again,
- 1:26Speaker 4: it's OTA's there'll be a lot of qualifying of that
- 1:30Speaker 4: because you know, you can't get too you know, ahead
- 1:33Speaker 4: of things. But that's sort of where we are. But
- 1:37Speaker 4: at least at leasty're back on the field. At least
- 1:38Speaker 4: we're we're getting there. We're getting the end of May
- 1:41Speaker 4: and getting into June. And we know what that means.
- 1:43Speaker 4: It means training camps right around the corner, all right,
- 1:46Speaker 4: speaking right around the corner? Text or Kanna, is not
- 1:50Speaker 4: that far? It is far if you're driving, you know,
- 1:52Speaker 4: like for me driving to my my parents' house and
- 1:55Speaker 4: I got kids in the car, then it seems like
- 1:56Speaker 4: an eternity. But it's run not that far, Texa, Kanna, Randy,
- 2:00Speaker 4: what's up?
- 2:01Speaker 2: Well?
- 2:02Speaker 5: I would tell you to step into my office and
- 2:04Speaker 5: have a seat, mister man. But but but you got
- 2:10Speaker 5: a good track record, We're gonna let you slide. I
- 2:12Speaker 5: was on a conference call with all the rest of
- 2:14Speaker 5: the storyline callers and uh, you know, none of us
- 2:17Speaker 5: got the memo about you swamping up the time on
- 2:20Speaker 5: it last week like that, and uh, I kind of
- 2:23Speaker 5: missed out. And so there's a bunch of other people,
- 2:25Speaker 5: but we're gonna let you go with a verbal.
- 2:28Speaker 4: Well, I I I hate that that that missed you guys,
- 2:33Speaker 4: but you and I will like to introduce you to
- 2:38Speaker 4: something too. It's it's changed its name. It started out
- 2:43Speaker 4: as a thing called Twitter, and then it moved to
- 2:46Speaker 4: x And if you could get on it, you would
- 2:48Speaker 4: be able to see it because I run both accounts
- 2:51Speaker 4: and I put it on there one hundred times.
- 2:53Speaker 5: Well, I'm not sorry, I'm not on Tweeter.
- 2:56Speaker 4: If I would to put it on on my Space,
- 2:59Speaker 4: would you have gotten it?
- 3:00Speaker 5: My face on the running man?
- 3:04Speaker 4: Now, I do like that you guys are talking together
- 3:07Speaker 4: like as a group.
- 3:08Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, you didn't know about that, but uh yeah,
- 3:11Speaker 5: we get cad in all.
- 3:13Speaker 4: If you can invite me in the group, then I
- 3:15Speaker 4: could I could put it in there, unless you're talking
- 3:18Speaker 4: crap about me.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Nah, no, it's all good, all right.
- 3:22Speaker 4: What do you got right?
- 3:23Speaker 5: Well, the only football stuff I have is actually something
- 3:26Speaker 5: kind of just off the walls thinking about the other day.
- 3:30Speaker 6: And I don't know.
- 3:32Speaker 5: If if you've heard things or not, but you remember
- 3:35Speaker 5: last year when Jimmy was put in the Ring of Honor,
- 3:38Speaker 5: the whole the whole deal about him becoming part of
- 3:43Speaker 5: the you know, advisory role and all that good kind
- 3:46Speaker 5: of stuff. One the question is do you know if
- 3:50Speaker 5: he's actually been advising? And two, you see how media
- 3:56Speaker 5: has just jumped all over the Joneses about the moves
- 3:59Speaker 5: that they have or mostly have not made this off season,
- 4:03Speaker 5: and every time they talk about it, they want to say,
- 4:06Speaker 5: you know, the bad parts of it and like shine
- 4:10Speaker 5: dark light on it. Could you imagine if somehow, some
- 4:15Speaker 5: way it comes out, hey, Jimmy told them to do
- 4:17Speaker 5: all these moves, and everybody would say, oh, it's brilliant,
- 4:22Speaker 5: it's the most you know what I mean, it would
- 4:25Speaker 5: totally slip the entire narrative about everything. But I'm just
- 4:30Speaker 5: gonna see what you thought about that.
- 4:31Speaker 4: Well, now you're exactly right. I mean, you know, no
- 4:34Speaker 4: one ever seems to talk about, you know, Jimmy's time
- 4:37Speaker 4: in Miami, you know, I mean like like and I'm
- 4:41Speaker 4: not I'm not trying to talk crap. All I'm saying
- 4:43Speaker 4: is is that they had it working here. I mean,
- 4:46Speaker 4: they had a lot of draft picks. He was he
- 4:49Speaker 4: was the right person for the job. Him and Jerry together,
- 4:52Speaker 4: they were working. It was great. It was great. There
- 4:55Speaker 4: wasn't a salary cap until kind of the end of
- 4:57Speaker 4: all that they were able to benefit. It was just perfect.
- 5:01Speaker 4: And and you know, without without Jerry, Jimmy really didn't
- 5:06Speaker 4: have a lot of success. And and you know, you
- 5:08Speaker 4: could say vice versa. So that is what it is.
- 5:12Speaker 4: But I don't know about advisory board. I mean, I
- 5:14Speaker 4: don't know this. I just he's still with Fox, right.
- 5:18Speaker 5: I mean, like, I don't know either. I'm not so what.
- 5:22Speaker 4: Would they say about you actually work for the team
- 5:25Speaker 4: or you're you're advising. I don't know. I mean I
- 5:28Speaker 4: think I think it was it's just hey, we're all,
- 5:33Speaker 4: you know, in good standing now, you know, now he's
- 5:36Speaker 4: his where he belongs. He's in the ring of honor.
- 5:38Speaker 4: The relationship is better than it's probably ever been. And yeah,
- 5:42Speaker 4: I don't know if he's just sitting in zoom calls
- 5:45Speaker 4: on the draft.
- 5:46Speaker 5: I don't know if that's.
- 5:48Speaker 4: I just think it's Hey, I'll call Jimmy. You know,
- 5:51Speaker 4: he's kind of he's kind of rolodex of people that he,
- 5:53Speaker 4: you know, calls and says, I let me, let me,
- 5:55Speaker 4: let me bounce this off this person. I'm talking about Jerry,
- 5:58Speaker 4: and I'm sure Jimmy might be one of those guys.
- 6:00Speaker 4: So yeah, so that's that's probably where it is, and
- 6:02Speaker 4: that's probably keeping it healthy for both sides. I don't
- 6:05Speaker 4: think it's anything too serious, but it's definitely better than
- 6:08Speaker 4: what it's been, and that's it's good to have them
- 6:11Speaker 4: in that place.
- 6:12Speaker 5: Yeah, And I was just you know, mainly, and I
- 6:16Speaker 5: have a feeling that none of that's actually been having it,
- 6:18Speaker 5: But it just made me think about everybody lashes own
- 6:22Speaker 5: on talking bad about the cowboys and the dumb moves
- 6:25Speaker 5: they're making it, and all you would have had to
- 6:27Speaker 5: do is insert well Jimmy said it, and I promise
- 6:30Speaker 5: you it would be a different story.
- 6:32Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 6:33Speaker 5: And so moral of the story is everybody needs to
- 6:37Speaker 5: quit thinking that everything Dallas is doing as bad. How
- 6:39Speaker 5: about we give it a little bit and you never know,
- 6:42Speaker 5: we might have a bunch of little young stars on
- 6:44Speaker 5: our team that pop up out of nowhere and become
- 6:46Speaker 5: superstars and then we can't afford to keep them no
- 6:48Speaker 5: more want of them.
- 6:49Speaker 4: Do, Yeah, which which is what happens.
- 6:52Speaker 2: You're right, exactly all right.
- 6:54Speaker 4: Thank you so much, good good God, love love hearing
- 6:57Speaker 4: from Randy, especially right off the bat, it's going to
- 6:59Speaker 4: start off a good show. And he makes a good
- 7:01Speaker 4: point too, where like it's easy to see the moves
- 7:04Speaker 4: that you know that you make, and then easy to
- 7:06Speaker 4: see the moves that you don't make. But what what
- 7:09Speaker 4: isn't always easy? Is it like, well, maybe they should
- 7:13Speaker 4: have signed this guy or this guy, and instead, you know,
- 7:16Speaker 4: they're looking at it like, Okay, we think our guy
- 7:19Speaker 4: is has the potential to be better. He's definitely cheaper.
- 7:23Speaker 4: So let's let's let's let Sam Williams play this year.
- 7:28Speaker 4: Let's let's let these guys, you know, whoever it is,
- 7:32Speaker 4: Let's let them play. Let the sinners, you know, the
- 7:35Speaker 4: the young guys, the basses of the world, Hoffman, you know, anybody,
- 7:39Speaker 4: ric O'Donnell, you could throw him in at running back
- 7:42Speaker 4: and that, you know, moves that they didn't make because
- 7:46Speaker 4: they felt like they've got some players that just need
- 7:48Speaker 4: to play. And that's you know, now they did resign Rico.
- 7:52Speaker 4: It's not act like Rico was here, they had to
- 7:54Speaker 4: resign him, but but you know what I'm saying, I mean,
- 7:56Speaker 4: And then so that's that's kind of you know, they
- 7:59Speaker 4: feel like they've got young guys that just haven't been
- 8:01Speaker 4: able to play, haven't been able to develop, and this
- 8:03Speaker 4: is the time to do that. So, you know, if
- 8:06Speaker 4: there is a breakout player, I think that needs to
- 8:08Speaker 4: be remembered and go.
- 8:10Speaker 7: Hey.
- 8:10Speaker 4: You know, they could have they could have addressed this
- 8:12Speaker 4: position that they tried to. They decided to keep it
- 8:14Speaker 4: in house, and by doing so, this is where they
- 8:17Speaker 4: are and they have a cheaper option as well. All right,
- 8:20Speaker 4: let's go. James in West Virginia. James, Hello, Hey, James.
- 8:28Speaker 8: Hey, what's going on?
- 8:29Speaker 7: Man?
- 8:29Speaker 8: I'm a first time caller.
- 8:31Speaker 4: All right, yeah, we go.
- 8:34Speaker 8: How you doing.
- 8:34Speaker 4: I'm good. I'm waiting for him. Here we go, But
- 8:36Speaker 4: it's all right, Chris is.
- 8:40Speaker 2: Here we go.
- 8:41Speaker 4: What's up?
- 8:42Speaker 8: James. Well, I'm a truck driver and I've been out
- 8:46Speaker 8: on the road for two months now. I'm heading home
- 8:48Speaker 8: today to see my beautiful wife and watch my beautiful
- 8:51Speaker 8: daughter graduating high school.
- 8:54Speaker 4: All right, congrats?
- 8:55Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, man, I can't wait to get there. Yeah.
- 8:58Speaker 8: I've listened to you guys all the time.
- 9:00Speaker 9: Man.
- 9:00Speaker 8: I listened to all the Fallas Cowboys. Uh yeah, yeah,
- 9:03Speaker 8: I listen to all you Got, all the all the podcasts.
- 9:05Speaker 8: I also follow a guy named Mike Fisher. I don't
- 9:09Speaker 8: know if you ever heard of him. Go ahead, have
- 9:14Speaker 8: you ever heard of Mike Fisher?
- 9:15Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 9:17Speaker 8: Yeah, I follow him on YouTube and he I tell
- 9:20Speaker 8: you his information is spot on whenever he uh because
- 9:24Speaker 8: he he said that the Zeke thing like five weeks
- 9:27Speaker 8: before it even happened. He predicted that. And he had
- 9:31Speaker 8: a really good show last night that I was watching,
- 9:34Speaker 8: and he was talking about if Dak doesn't get signed,
- 9:38Speaker 8: who would be a suitable replacement for him? And he
- 9:41Speaker 8: mentioned Russell Wilson, And I just wanted to get your
- 9:44Speaker 8: thoughts on that. Well you thought about that.
- 9:50Speaker 4: I don't even where's Russell Wilson right now? What team
- 9:53Speaker 4: is you on?
- 9:54Speaker 8: He's on Pitts. He just got he just got picked
- 9:56Speaker 8: up by Pittsburgh. But it's only a one year contract.
- 9:58Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll call back when he's not on Pittsburgh's team,
- 10:01Speaker 4: and maybe dack'son on this team and then we'll maybe
- 10:03Speaker 4: you talking about that. But I mean we're talking about
- 10:06Speaker 4: guys that are on a different team. He can do
- 10:09Speaker 4: that like that. Yeah, first, as you mentioned, he can
- 10:11Speaker 4: do that, He can say that and and all that,
- 10:13Speaker 4: but that's not really what you know that's pretty far
- 10:16Speaker 4: down the road. Yeah, I'd like to focus on what
- 10:20Speaker 4: we maybe see tomorrow, you know what we'll see.
- 10:22Speaker 8: This exactly, yeah, exactly. But I thought the same thing
- 10:25Speaker 8: when I heard that, because I mean, I've been a
- 10:28Speaker 8: Dallas Cowboy fan for as long as I can possibly remember.
- 10:31Speaker 8: I used to go to the games in the nineties,
- 10:33Speaker 8: and that I got.
- 10:34Speaker 7: To watch him win three Super Bowls and ship.
- 10:40Speaker 8: My thoughts about it was anybody who's a Dallas Cowboy fan.
- 10:48Speaker 8: He does when it's coming comes to contract seasons. He
- 10:51Speaker 8: loves the media and he plays it out. So I I,
- 10:55Speaker 8: in my heart, I believe that he's gonna sign that.
- 10:58Speaker 8: I will absolutely love to see that because I don't
- 11:00Speaker 8: want to see that going anywhere, right, I mean, how
- 11:03Speaker 8: many Daks are in the NFL, honestly, I mean he's elite,
- 11:07Speaker 8: no matter you like to say it or not, if
- 11:09Speaker 8: you agree or not, Yeah, yeah, no, he is.
- 11:13Speaker 4: And and you know, like like again, you don't have
- 11:16Speaker 4: to get too far down the road. I mean, I
- 11:18Speaker 4: don't know what next year is next year, but you
- 11:20Speaker 4: but that type of example because you do have to.
- 11:23Speaker 4: They have to make those decisions. The Cowboys have to
- 11:26Speaker 4: talk about these things and go all right, yeah, if
- 11:28Speaker 4: not Dak, then who and if the player you mentioned
- 11:32Speaker 4: is in the group, then I'd go back and start
- 11:35Speaker 4: trying to resign you know, Dak. I'd be like, let's
- 11:37Speaker 4: let's let's think.
- 11:38Speaker 8: Oh yeah all day long, souse. I mean when he
- 11:41Speaker 8: would if he if they did go all that way, Yeah,
- 11:43Speaker 8: Russell Wilson wanill be thirty seven years old and like
- 11:47Speaker 8: ten years out. I was primed. I mean when did
- 11:49Speaker 8: he win the Pro Bowl or when did he go
- 11:51Speaker 8: to the last Pro Bowl? Like ten years ago?
- 11:53Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's going to be like that's
- 11:56Speaker 4: the thing, and they the Cowboys. It's a tough it's
- 11:59Speaker 4: a tough sit situation. They can either resign him, pay
- 12:03Speaker 4: a lot of money on this salary cap for Dak,
- 12:06Speaker 4: not re sign him. Take your chances with somebody else.
- 12:09Speaker 4: That's that's you know, probably ten years you know, behind
- 12:13Speaker 4: his prime or whatever, or yeah, draft the guy and
- 12:17Speaker 4: just hope for Brock Purty when right, that rarely happens.
- 12:21Speaker 8: You know, or even rarely happened, so you know.
- 12:24Speaker 4: It's it's good.
- 12:26Speaker 8: The last time Jerry Jones let a player walk away
- 12:28Speaker 8: without getting anything for him.
- 12:30Speaker 4: Well, what kind of player are we talking about. I mean,
- 12:33Speaker 4: like like.
- 12:33Speaker 8: Like stature, yeah, stat I don't think they ever had.
- 12:39Speaker 8: So that's another reason why I think they're going to
- 12:40Speaker 8: sign him.
- 12:41Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because if.
- 12:42Speaker 8: They don't sign him by next year, he walks Scott Freeze.
- 12:45Speaker 4: Yeah, and you get a third round pick for comp
- 12:47Speaker 4: pick in the next year.
- 12:48Speaker 8: I meant nothing. What's the third round pick.
- 12:51Speaker 4: If it's not Jason Whitten, you know, I mean, I mean,
- 12:55Speaker 4: but that's that's about it. And late, Yeah, they have
- 12:58Speaker 4: not been hitting their third round pick. But I mean,
- 13:01Speaker 4: as you know, this year though, we everyone's got Cooper
- 13:03Speaker 4: BB already in the in the Pro Bowl, you know
- 13:05Speaker 4: what I mean, Yeah, playing a position ever played. But
- 13:08Speaker 4: there's a lot of excitement over him. But the third
- 13:10Speaker 4: round picks have not been that great in the last
- 13:12Speaker 4: few years. So that that's one where Cowboys have got
- 13:15Speaker 4: to got to have some success.
- 13:16Speaker 8: So all right, yeah, absolutely, all right, James, And am
- 13:20Speaker 8: I am I supposed to tell you my favorite wessler
- 13:22Speaker 8: my favorite cowboy. Yep, all right. My favorite wrestler is
- 13:26Speaker 8: a old Berg and my favorite cowboy is j Noblecheck.
- 13:30Speaker 8: I got to meet him back in nineteen ninety three.
- 13:33Speaker 4: Nice all right, yeah, cool.
- 13:35Speaker 8: It's pretty awesome, all right, sound I can't wait to
- 13:37Speaker 8: get through to you guys again. Man, thank you very much.
- 13:39Speaker 4: Thank you, all right, James, all right, excited about this year,
- 13:45Speaker 4: and then watch the practice tomorrow. And that's just the thing, guys,
- 13:48Speaker 4: I mean, we can't go ahead. Other other media outlets
- 13:53Speaker 4: have the ability to do that, and and you know,
- 13:56Speaker 4: and it's I guess it's fun to do. And and
- 13:58Speaker 4: you know, when you are talking talking about Dak's contract,
- 14:02Speaker 4: you you can say, all right, well if this doesn't happen,
- 14:05Speaker 4: what does it look like? But you know that's why
- 14:08Speaker 4: we don't really talk about it a whole right now.
- 14:10Speaker 4: You know, I'd like to see who's who's out here tomorrow,
- 14:13Speaker 4: how these guys are looking, how these rookies are looking.
- 14:15Speaker 4: That's that's just the way I always think it. And
- 14:17Speaker 4: you guys know this. You've you've watched the shows last year,
- 14:21Speaker 4: Week two, week three, week four, week five, you know,
- 14:24Speaker 4: looking at it, I don't. I don't look ahead, well,
- 14:26Speaker 4: what are they going to be in the playoffs and
- 14:27Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff. I mean, just just enjoy
- 14:29Speaker 4: the ride and then there's a whole season to be
- 14:31Speaker 4: done here and we'll see if they if they get
- 14:34Speaker 4: a deal done with Dak or CD or Mike or
- 14:36Speaker 4: all of them. Uh, before that, and and and until
- 14:39Speaker 4: that happens, you're going to keep talking about it. But
- 14:41Speaker 4: as far as naming specific replacements and stuff like that,
- 14:44Speaker 4: I think that's way way premature. All Right, Arthur in
- 14:48Speaker 4: spring Texas is next.
- 14:51Speaker 7: He may.
- 14:55Speaker 4: Not starting off great. How are we doing, Arthur?
- 14:59Speaker 7: I'm pretty good. I hadn't had a chance to coll
- 15:03Speaker 7: in a while, but I don't really have any questions.
- 15:06Speaker 7: I just have a few comments, right, you know, they
- 15:11Speaker 7: for the most part the bigger product. Cowboys nations been
- 15:14Speaker 7: divided on about Zeke coming back, and I in my mind,
- 15:20Speaker 7: I figure z can't hurt anything any worse than what
- 15:25Speaker 7: we've had been dealing with as far as the run
- 15:28Speaker 7: game and how how we've been able to utilize it.
- 15:32Speaker 7: You know, there's there's the way things we like things
- 15:36Speaker 7: to be, the way things we hope they would be,
- 15:40Speaker 7: and then the truth of the matter of some things
- 15:43Speaker 7: are just all what they are, And like like thirty
- 15:47Speaker 7: one other teams in the league, we're hopeful that between
- 15:52Speaker 7: drafts oficses second year players really kind of coming on
- 15:56Speaker 7: We're hoping that this team is going to be a
- 15:59Speaker 7: lot bet are, especially in the playoffs, than what we
- 16:05Speaker 7: have seen in the past. And again I'm one of
- 16:09Speaker 7: those people. I just I just all I can do
- 16:11Speaker 7: is be concerned about what's right in front of With
- 16:15Speaker 7: the defensive players that we have had over these last
- 16:20Speaker 7: couple of seasons, going against these rookies that are coming in,
- 16:25Speaker 7: all I can do is make them get better. It'll
- 16:28Speaker 7: it'll show their weaknesses through coaching, they can address whatever
- 16:33Speaker 7: those sufficiencies are and then put them out there and
- 16:37Speaker 7: let improvement set. We have sometingency plans. If it doesn't
- 16:42Speaker 7: work out, hopefully, if the contingency plans work equally as
- 16:47Speaker 7: well as what they anticipate with the rookies that we've
- 16:50Speaker 7: got coming in. But you know, I've always tried to
- 16:54Speaker 7: be one of those the scabs blue kind of things
- 16:58Speaker 7: and not worry about the and the storms that you
- 17:01Speaker 7: go through because all of that is just right. That's
- 17:04Speaker 7: that those things happen. You know, I'm hopeful that that
- 17:10Speaker 7: I don't know how much better that can be than
- 17:16Speaker 7: what he's shown himself to be over these last let's
- 17:20Speaker 7: say at least two seasons, for sure. You know, when
- 17:23Speaker 7: you when you practically lead the league and intercess. Now
- 17:26Speaker 7: they kept saying that he led it, But if I'm
- 17:29Speaker 7: not mistaken, Josh Allen has just as many intercestions thrown
- 17:33Speaker 7: that same year as he and he managed he managed
- 17:36Speaker 7: this year, this fast season to dig himself out of
- 17:40Speaker 7: that hope talking about that. So I'm you know, I'm
- 17:43Speaker 7: hopeful about a lot of this, and I just like
- 17:47Speaker 7: I said earlier, all I can do is be concerned
- 17:51Speaker 7: about what's right in front of and the same problems
- 17:54Speaker 7: that we got other teams have as well. So that's
- 17:59Speaker 7: my two cents.
- 18:00Speaker 4: All right, all right, Arthur, I appreciate that. Yeah, I
- 18:03Speaker 4: mean that's that's kind of the opposite of the call before.
- 18:06Speaker 4: Just like you know, just worrying about what you have
- 18:08Speaker 4: in front and and you know, you just try to
- 18:11Speaker 4: take it, you know, whether it be month to month, year, year,
- 18:14Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. We can't go too far down
- 18:17Speaker 4: the road, you said, I don't know how much that
- 18:19Speaker 4: can can get better than what we've seen. I mean,
- 18:23Speaker 4: stats wise, probably not. I mean he's led the league
- 18:27Speaker 4: and in touchdowns last year, and he set the Cowboys
- 18:31Speaker 4: record for touchdowns year before and or maybe was it
- 18:35Speaker 4: two years before. I mean, you know, he's played, he's
- 18:38Speaker 4: played great at times. He's just got to win in
- 18:41Speaker 4: the playoffs. I mean, that's that's what it is. I mean,
- 18:44Speaker 4: that's where he can he can just do what he's done,
- 18:47Speaker 4: play that way, win some games and and win them
- 18:50Speaker 4: in the playoffs. That's how he can get better because
- 18:55Speaker 4: because that's what a quarterback is. I mean, you look
- 18:57Speaker 4: at how these guys are defied, and it starts with
- 19:02Speaker 4: playoff success and Super bowls and all that. So you
- 19:06Speaker 4: got to have that, and then you got to have
- 19:08Speaker 4: all the other stats. And if you don't have the
- 19:10Speaker 4: first part, you've got to have a ton of stats
- 19:14Speaker 4: on the on the flip side to be even considered
- 19:16Speaker 4: one of the best. And that's where Dan Marino is involved.
- 19:19Speaker 4: And you know, back in the day, it was it
- 19:21Speaker 4: was you know, Dan Fouts and you know the guys
- 19:24Speaker 4: like that, and you know you have some now you
- 19:27Speaker 4: some of these these current guys that are that are
- 19:29Speaker 4: doing really well, but they have you know, Drew Brees
- 19:32Speaker 4: was that like that for a long time until he
- 19:33Speaker 4: finally won, you know, and so but but he's got
- 19:38Speaker 4: that's where he's got to take the next step. The
- 19:40Speaker 4: next step is just do it what you've done all
- 19:42Speaker 4: year long. Treat these regular season games the same, and
- 19:46Speaker 4: then we get to the playoffs, play the same way.
- 19:48Speaker 4: And if you can do that, then then you will
- 19:50Speaker 4: be taking the next step without being that noticeable. It's
- 19:53Speaker 4: just noticeable when more people are watching. All right, Lewis
- 19:56Speaker 4: and Langston, Oklahoma's next. Hey, I good, Lewis, how are you.
- 20:02Speaker 10: I'm a little my feelings is a little hard to
- 20:04Speaker 10: I'm a I'm an Oklahoma City thunder fan, so watching
- 20:07Speaker 10: the MAVs take the game the other day, I noticed
- 20:09Speaker 10: football talk, but my feelings a little hurt about that.
- 20:13Speaker 10: But outside of that, I'm pretty good.
- 20:15Speaker 2: I can't complain.
- 20:16Speaker 4: I'm not sorry about your feelings right then and there,
- 20:19Speaker 4: I'm I'm sorry. I'm not sorry, And I'm also not
- 20:23Speaker 4: sorry that we don't have to see now. I know
- 20:24Speaker 4: the Mavericks have a different challenge coming up, but I
- 20:27Speaker 4: don't want to see that that Shay Alexander or whatever
- 20:30Speaker 4: his name is, s g A. I don't want to
- 20:31Speaker 4: see him make any more shots like that. Guy's unbelievable.
- 20:34Speaker 4: I'm tired of him. Oh my god, he was so
- 20:36Speaker 4: good and I'm thinking I'll be the feeling the same
- 20:38Speaker 4: way about this, Anthony Edwards. But yeah, I mean it's
- 20:42Speaker 4: it's it's a fun time right here. And I'm not
- 20:45Speaker 4: I'm not comparing. I hate this talk about you know,
- 20:48Speaker 4: the Rangers won it last year. The Stars and the
- 20:50Speaker 4: Mavericks are broke. No, I mean, just look at the
- 20:54Speaker 4: just look at the ratings. Look what people care about.
- 20:56Speaker 4: Don't even go there. Don't even go there. But it's
- 20:59Speaker 4: fun time. I'm here in Dallas for this, for this month, uh,
- 21:02Speaker 4: to be watching these Stars and the Mavericks and the
- 21:04Speaker 4: Rangers if they can turn it around too. So it's
- 21:06Speaker 4: a fun time.
- 21:08Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
- 21:09Speaker 11: I enjoying all the sports, no matter what, No matter
- 21:11Speaker 11: what it is outside of the thunder in the Dallas
- 21:15Speaker 11: mass I can I can rock.
- 21:16Speaker 7: With everything else. Cool.
- 21:18Speaker 11: But I really was just kind of calling to give
- 21:20Speaker 11: you a thank you. My wife said, we're gonna have
- 21:22Speaker 11: to I'm have to do a lot of foot rugs
- 21:25Speaker 11: and stuff like that, but.
- 21:26Speaker 5: I might make it for a couple of games this year.
- 21:28Speaker 4: All right, So yeah, you you told her, did you
- 21:32Speaker 4: give her my speech?
- 21:34Speaker 11: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, she she she she laughed.
- 21:37Speaker 2: Daddy. She laughed.
- 21:37Speaker 11: Addy, she thought it was funny. But she said, yeah,
- 21:39Speaker 11: she said, sounds like you already got your mind made up.
- 21:42Speaker 11: I said, what kind, though, But I know I still.
- 21:44Speaker 5: Got to get to get from you.
- 21:46Speaker 2: Be.
- 21:46Speaker 4: I can do anything right, that's right, talk to the boss,
- 21:50Speaker 4: that's right.
- 21:51Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I got I can't. I can't make too
- 21:53Speaker 11: many moves without her. Outside of that, man, I didn't
- 21:57Speaker 11: have too much going on it too much to talk
- 21:59Speaker 11: about today. I always forget something now. There's always a subject,
- 22:03Speaker 11: and I think the last.
- 22:04Speaker 2: One that y'all talked about.
- 22:05Speaker 11: It might have been a while ago now, but favorite
- 22:08Speaker 11: player back in the day, and it's to me it's
- 22:12Speaker 11: always been in the Smith.
- 22:13Speaker 5: I grew up a big Ini Smith. I know the
- 22:15Speaker 5: triple it this stuff. But when I was in the
- 22:17Speaker 5: Little League, I.
- 22:17Speaker 11: Wore twenty two, I had the little ball cut and
- 22:20Speaker 11: all of that stuff. I tried to do. I tried
- 22:22Speaker 11: to emulate that man as much as I could. I
- 22:24Speaker 11: think for a little while it might have made my
- 22:26Speaker 11: dad jealous just a little big. But outside of that,
- 22:30Speaker 11: I mean, I can't.
- 22:31Speaker 10: I can't.
- 22:32Speaker 11: That's really it, man. Like I said, I just trying
- 22:34Speaker 11: to call in and tell you, I appreciate just giving
- 22:37Speaker 11: me a giving me a chat out and the pitch,
- 22:39Speaker 11: and I'll just hang up and listen to you for
- 22:41Speaker 11: the rest of the day. I'll talk to you later,
- 22:43Speaker 11: all right, all.
- 22:44Speaker 4: Right, Luis, appreciate that. I hope you get to go
- 22:46Speaker 4: to the game. Sounds like you're doing everything you can
- 22:49Speaker 4: to make it there. All right, We're gonna go take
- 22:51Speaker 4: a quick break here on the storyline. We'll be right
- 22:54Speaker 4: back with more calls here on Cowboy storyline. Bear right back.
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- 25:01Speaker 3: It's a Cowboys storyline, all right back here on the storyline,
- 25:08Speaker 3: take a quick break to figure a couple of things out.
- 25:11Speaker 4: We're gonna keep this ball moving though. Here we got Jonathan.
- 25:15Speaker 4: He's on the line in Virginia beach. Jonathan, what's up?
- 25:20Speaker 6: What's up? How are you doing today?
- 25:22Speaker 4: Damn good? How are you?
- 25:24Speaker 6: I'm well? I want to just first take a chance
- 25:27Speaker 6: to just shout up. My little daughter's had a four
- 25:29Speaker 6: year old dayca on Saturday. Nice She's a Cowboys fan
- 25:33Speaker 6: and didn't take I.
- 25:36Speaker 4: Got I got one of those coming up too. I
- 25:38Speaker 4: got a daughter with a four year old birthday coming up,
- 25:40Speaker 4: and she's a pretty a Disney princess fan. I'm not
- 25:43Speaker 4: really into the Cowboys, but we're into all the Disney princesses.
- 25:46Speaker 4: I know that, so I know them all by heart.
- 25:49Speaker 4: So well, congrats to her, Yeah.
- 25:53Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 25:54Speaker 6: I wanted to talk about Well, first, I wanted to
- 25:56Speaker 6: talk about a movie. I'm sure you've seen it on
- 26:00Speaker 6: any given Sunday. It's a football movie. It's great. You
- 26:02Speaker 6: should check that out. I wouldn't pay Okay, cool, cool, cool,
- 26:07Speaker 6: that's a great speech at the end. Anyway, I wanted
- 26:11Speaker 6: to talk about the schedule a little bit as well.
- 26:14Speaker 6: I think it's we have an opportunity this season that
- 26:18Speaker 6: we didn't last year. Last year, we ran in the
- 26:20Speaker 6: teams early in the year that were supposed to be good,
- 26:23Speaker 6: they had some injuries. We were playing lights out, and
- 26:27Speaker 6: it kind of gave us a false sense of security
- 26:29Speaker 6: for our football team, I believe, especially as a fans,
- 26:32Speaker 6: and then the defense kind of let us down at
- 26:34Speaker 6: the end, especially in the playoffs. But this year we're
- 26:37Speaker 6: playing playoff caliber teams.
- 26:38Speaker 7: Early, so we'll.
- 26:39Speaker 6: Give such an opportunity not to not only to see that,
- 26:42Speaker 6: but also to make adjustments, like the defenses are running
- 26:46Speaker 6: really successfully against us, and we could maybe make a
- 26:49Speaker 6: change or a trade. Lastly, I wanted to talk about
- 26:54Speaker 6: the differences in the secondary. I felt like we plaid
- 26:57Speaker 6: a lot of Man, I'm not exactly sure what Zimmers
- 27:01Speaker 6: scheme as well, Like that's something that kind of were
- 27:05Speaker 6: too predictable last year. People knew being man, it seemed
- 27:08Speaker 6: like every man opportunity who would get caught in it
- 27:10Speaker 6: and they would have like a little slant. So I
- 27:13Speaker 6: was wondering what you thought about the defensive secondary, how
- 27:16Speaker 6: they're going to approach this season coming forward.
- 27:19Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, thanks for the call, Jonathan, appreciate that.
- 27:24Speaker 4: And you know, you mentioned that about the schedule, and
- 27:27Speaker 4: it was kind of funny because you were like last year,
- 27:29Speaker 4: you know, we thought it was going to be some
- 27:31Speaker 4: really good teams early and it wasn't. This year, it is,
- 27:34Speaker 4: I mean, we think, I mean you think so we
- 27:38Speaker 4: thought that like the Chargers game Monday on October sixteenth,
- 27:42Speaker 4: like back last season, was going to be a really
- 27:45Speaker 4: really tough game, and I mean it was a tough game.
- 27:47Speaker 4: But as it turns out, I mean they they weren't.
- 27:49Speaker 4: It wasn't. It turned out it didn't turn to be
- 27:51Speaker 4: a great win, just like beating I can't even think
- 27:56Speaker 4: of his name, Wilson from Zach Wilson from the Jets.
- 27:59Speaker 4: I mean, we thought that was going to be you know,
- 28:01Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers in week two, you know, with the Jets,
- 28:03Speaker 4: and so you just never know. You never know what
- 28:06Speaker 4: anything's gonna be. So who knew the Cardinals game was
- 28:10Speaker 4: going to be one that that that's that stopped them
- 28:12Speaker 4: from from having a lot of success early. So you know,
- 28:17Speaker 4: you just got to go play it. I mean, it
- 28:18Speaker 4: doesn't it. That's the thing, like that's kind of on
- 28:21Speaker 4: the fans and on the media. That's what happens. They
- 28:24Speaker 4: jumped the gun and go, oh, this team is this
- 28:26Speaker 4: and this because they're four and one or whatever, you know,
- 28:29Speaker 4: three and three and all, we've got a lot of
- 28:30Speaker 4: football left to go. That is one of the reasons
- 28:33Speaker 4: why and I can't I don't mean to keep harping
- 28:35Speaker 4: on it, but that's one of the reasons why you
- 28:38Speaker 4: won't see me get too far down the road. It
- 28:40Speaker 4: doesn't matter. You don't know you don't know who's going
- 28:43Speaker 4: to be playing in the game, who's not going to
- 28:44Speaker 4: be playing, who's going to drop off? I mean, Philip,
- 28:47Speaker 4: who's who saw Philadelphia dropping off the way they did.
- 28:50Speaker 4: I mean they were like ten and one and then
- 28:52Speaker 4: the bottom one went out and they were they were
- 28:54Speaker 4: barely making the playoffs. So I'm again, it just just
- 29:00Speaker 4: kind of stayed the course and enjoy the ride. And
- 29:02Speaker 4: I can't say it enough. And you know, the schedule
- 29:04Speaker 4: is what it is, and it starts with the Giants,
- 29:08Speaker 4: of course, like it always seems to. I mean, I'm sorry,
- 29:10Speaker 4: not the Giants. I'm looking at last year schedule. I
- 29:13Speaker 4: don't have the schedule in front of me. I forget who,
- 29:15Speaker 4: I forget who. It starts with Cleveland, starts with Cleveland.
- 29:18Speaker 4: That's gonna be you know, we think that's gonna be
- 29:19Speaker 4: a tough matchup. I mean, we know Miles Garrett is
- 29:21Speaker 4: good if he's playing in the game, and it doesn't
- 29:23Speaker 4: matter who they've got it left tackle, it's going to
- 29:25Speaker 4: be it's gonna be a challenge. So uh, that'll be
- 29:29Speaker 4: fun to watch. All right, Let's let's keep it going
- 29:33Speaker 4: here Tony in Atlanta, Tony, what's up.
- 29:36Speaker 2: Hey, hey, Nick, good afternoon to you. How you doing?
- 29:38Speaker 4: But I'm good?
- 29:39Speaker 2: How are you good? I'm good, man. I got no
- 29:42Speaker 2: complaints at all. Man, I listen most every day. I
- 29:44Speaker 2: rarely get a chance to call them. Matter of fact,
- 29:46Speaker 2: it's my fifth time call them. No music, there's no music.
- 29:53Speaker 4: Finally passing around. Yeah, beams passing around like Halloween candy.
- 29:58Speaker 2: You know what you get some, you get some, everybody
- 30:01Speaker 2: gets you. So I just I want to I want
- 30:04Speaker 2: to comment on the whole dack to extend or not
- 30:09Speaker 2: to extend peace, and then I want to throw a
- 30:12Speaker 2: wrestler in for you at the end. So as far
- 30:16Speaker 2: as I've come a long way from the end of
- 30:18Speaker 2: the season, the Green Bay game, when I was in
- 30:22Speaker 2: a place of absolutely do not extend him. I mean,
- 30:25Speaker 2: what are we crazy? I mean, you know, but the
- 30:28Speaker 2: womb was fresh, right, I mean it was a fresh,
- 30:30Speaker 2: fresh wound, and it was painful loss, and it was
- 30:33Speaker 2: like we've been we've been down this road too many times,
- 30:35Speaker 2: and so forget about it. So but I've gotten far
- 30:38Speaker 2: enough away from it now, you know, several weeks months
- 30:41Speaker 2: later to where it's like, you know, I'm open to
- 30:44Speaker 2: certainly giving him an extension, But it doesn't have to
- 30:48Speaker 2: be now. I mean, it could be at the end
- 30:50Speaker 2: of the year. I mean, if you do have a
- 30:53Speaker 2: desire to give him an extension at the end of
- 30:55Speaker 2: this season, then that means there was a certain level
- 30:59Speaker 2: of success that we hadn't obtained up to this point.
- 31:01Speaker 2: I wouldn't think they would want to give them an
- 31:03Speaker 2: extension if we bowed out in the wildcard round or
- 31:06Speaker 2: even in the divisional round. I just wouldn't see that.
- 31:09Speaker 2: But one thing I will say, though, again on the
- 31:12Speaker 2: other end of do not extend, is this one thing
- 31:16Speaker 2: that there's a narrative out there that we regularly hear
- 31:19Speaker 2: people reference, which is, we don't want to go through
- 31:22Speaker 2: quarterback purgatory again. The five and eleven seasons, the Campo seasons,
- 31:26Speaker 2: the quarterback you know, that whole roulet of quarterbacks that
- 31:29Speaker 2: we had. And I'll say this, if they don't extend
- 31:34Speaker 2: that that doesn't necessarily mean we're going through quarterback pergatory.
- 31:37Speaker 2: I remember it. It was horrible. But the thing is that
- 31:41Speaker 2: I don't foresee a scenario like that happen again. Because
- 31:44Speaker 2: Stephen Jones, Jerry Jones, I don't see them scouring Triple
- 31:48Speaker 2: A baseball trying to find quarterbacks again. I mean that's
- 31:52Speaker 2: the type. You know, they were being kind of cute
- 31:53Speaker 2: back then, and they were trying to, you know, in
- 31:56Speaker 2: the post eightmen area, you know, trying to.
- 31:58Speaker 5: Find a dominant rough trying to hit home run, I
- 32:00Speaker 5: mean literally literally trying to.
- 32:02Speaker 2: Hit home runs exactly and to see and and they
- 32:06Speaker 2: they they've come a long way. And I'll I and
- 32:09Speaker 2: I and I referenced Steven more so than Jerry, because
- 32:12Speaker 2: you know, he's he's the guy over personnel, and they've
- 32:16Speaker 2: come along, He's come a long way. They've come a
- 32:18Speaker 2: long way since then, and they've had and they had
- 32:21Speaker 2: parcels and parcels like you be. I've heard so many
- 32:24Speaker 2: people reference it. I'm sure Steven Jones references. We all
- 32:27Speaker 2: learned a whole out from Bill Parcells and what you
- 32:30Speaker 2: learn from parcels and just your experience over the course
- 32:33Speaker 2: of the last two decades. You will not go through
- 32:36Speaker 2: quarterback purgatory like that again. You may not hit and
- 32:40Speaker 2: be as fortunate as you did with Romo and Dak
- 32:43Speaker 2: and they didn't cost you much eventually end up having
- 32:46Speaker 2: to pay him a lot, but you didn't have to
- 32:47Speaker 2: invest a lot on the front end, but I just
- 32:49Speaker 2: don't see purgatory again. So I have no fear of
- 32:52Speaker 2: that if we don't extend DAK, right, So just want
- 32:57Speaker 2: to get your thoughts on that. And then this wrestler.
- 32:58Speaker 2: The wrestler I want to throw out. Now, it's not
- 33:00Speaker 2: my favorite guy or anything like that, but I want
- 33:02Speaker 2: to see if you remember Pistol pis you remember him?
- 33:05Speaker 2: What was his first name, Pistol Pezz Wattley? Not really, no,
- 33:10Speaker 2: you remember you remember Jimmy Value. You remember Jimmy Value,
- 33:13Speaker 2: but you with your man.
- 33:14Speaker 4: Yeah, kind of vaguely.
- 33:16Speaker 2: I'm sorry, okay, okay, So so you so you world class?
- 33:21Speaker 7: Ye yeah?
- 33:23Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. See over here. You know, I was kind
- 33:25Speaker 2: of admit Atlantic Wrestling, Georgia Wrestling and stuff like that.
- 33:29Speaker 2: So we had a different bunch man. Yeah, yeah, that
- 33:32Speaker 2: that was a guy.
- 33:32Speaker 7: Man, he was.
- 33:33Speaker 2: He was pretty comical. He had one of the more
- 33:35Speaker 2: famous or not so famous. He'll turns ever and if
- 33:39Speaker 2: you ever get a chance, google Pez Wattley and Jimmy
- 33:42Speaker 2: Valiant and just thank me later.
- 33:45Speaker 4: All right, all right, cool, all right, man, appreciate you brother.
- 33:48Speaker 4: All Right, the part about the offensive line, I mean
- 33:52Speaker 4: I'm sorry about the you know, not going through quarterback
- 33:55Speaker 4: hell and all that kind of stuff. Again, well, the
- 33:58Speaker 4: difference I think with what they were doing back then
- 34:01Speaker 4: and trying to get you know, the Chad Hutchinson's and
- 34:04Speaker 4: the Quincy Carters and all the you know, trying to
- 34:07Speaker 4: get Drew Henson. These guys were like, you know, they
- 34:12Speaker 4: needed a lot of help, and they were trying to
- 34:14Speaker 4: give them help in an older running back, you know,
- 34:18Speaker 4: and Emtt Smith and and also receivers, you know, with
- 34:22Speaker 4: Galloway and Rocket and guys like that, and you know,
- 34:26Speaker 4: they they didn't They still weren't drafted offensive lineman. They
- 34:29Speaker 4: didn't draft the offensive lineman in the first round till
- 34:31Speaker 4: twenty eleven. That was the first time in thirty years
- 34:33Speaker 4: that they had done that, so that that wasn't their philosophy.
- 34:36Speaker 4: So I think if they went and got a younger
- 34:39Speaker 4: quarterback whenever that is, whenever it's time to get a
- 34:41Speaker 4: new quarterback, or even if it's an older quarterback that
- 34:46Speaker 4: you know, is cheaper, I think they're going to surround
- 34:49Speaker 4: it more with better offensive lineman. The way the team
- 34:52Speaker 4: has been built than what we've seen in the past,
- 34:54Speaker 4: we're trying to just give them great receivers. That's why
- 34:58Speaker 4: it was interesting. What the Bears did, you know when
- 34:59Speaker 4: they have to Caleb Williams and then they went and
- 35:02Speaker 4: gave him the receiver there the number ninth pick o'doonsay.
- 35:04Speaker 4: I think that's how he said in Washington, which he
- 35:06Speaker 4: looks like a great player and and that could be
- 35:09Speaker 4: a great tandem for years to come. And it really
- 35:12Speaker 4: might be. If I'm drafted a quarterback and I have
- 35:15Speaker 4: another high pick, I'd like to see an offensive lineman
- 35:17Speaker 4: a tackle something, especially in a draft like this, but
- 35:20Speaker 4: there was a lot of tackles. Again, not trying to
- 35:22Speaker 4: get in another person's team, but what I'm saying is
- 35:25Speaker 4: is I think when you have these great you know,
- 35:26Speaker 4: when you have quarterback around it, you do need to
- 35:28Speaker 4: build more from the inside. I do want to talk
- 35:30Speaker 4: about the last caller before Tony Jonathan Virginia Beach. I
- 35:34Speaker 4: did not mention that his question, I didn't try to
- 35:37Speaker 4: even answer, and he talked about the defensive scheme. Will
- 35:40Speaker 4: they see more Manda Man? We saw that last year.
- 35:43Speaker 4: A lot of that comes down to just the personnel
- 35:45Speaker 4: that they have. Stefanie Gilmore was a pretty good Manda
- 35:48Speaker 4: man cover corner, you know that that's what he can do.
- 35:51Speaker 4: And I think if if he feels if Zimmer feels
- 35:53Speaker 4: comfortable with the way Diggs is covering in the way
- 35:56Speaker 4: that you know doron Bland, if they they can go,
- 35:58Speaker 4: you know and play more Manda Man, than that's that's
- 36:00Speaker 4: what he'll do. But it all starts with what you corner,
- 36:02Speaker 4: what your cornerbacks can do. And I'm you know, with
- 36:05Speaker 4: Jordan Lewis in there, and I think if he's comfortable
- 36:07Speaker 4: with that, then yeah, you would definitely see that. Then
- 36:10Speaker 4: it gives your safeties and a lot more freedom to
- 36:12Speaker 4: move up and down. But it starts with your corners
- 36:14Speaker 4: and what your corners are able to do and how
- 36:15Speaker 4: they are able to match it up. All right, let's
- 36:18Speaker 4: go to the next We don't have another caller. We're
- 36:22Speaker 4: we're out of callers right now, so the phone line
- 36:24Speaker 4: is open here for a little bit. Eight eight eight
- 36:26Speaker 4: eight five five two two nine seven. Had a text
- 36:28Speaker 4: question here. This is from Kyle in East Brunswick, New Jersey.
- 36:32Speaker 4: Why are the Cowboys playing Russian Roulette at the number
- 36:35Speaker 4: two receiver? Spot Cooks is at best at the number
- 36:38Speaker 4: three at this point in his career. Well, I don't
- 36:43Speaker 4: I don't know if I agree with that. Actually, you know,
- 36:46Speaker 4: with with his at this point in his career. I
- 36:48Speaker 4: mean I still I mean I look at him and
- 36:51Speaker 4: what he's what he's done. You know, you can you
- 36:55Speaker 4: can see you can say, well, numbers have dropped down.
- 36:58Speaker 4: He was a thousand yard ever six times, and then
- 37:03Speaker 4: last year six ninety nine and in the previous year
- 37:05Speaker 4: six fifty seven. Last year he had six hundred and
- 37:08Speaker 4: fifty seven yards, fifty four catches, eight touchdowns. Yeah, that's
- 37:13Speaker 4: that seems like a number two. And let's not forget
- 37:16Speaker 4: like what if what if you gave him twenty more
- 37:20Speaker 4: catches to seventy four and let's give him two thousand
- 37:24Speaker 4: more yards at that would be almost you know, that
- 37:29Speaker 4: almost would be eight fifty seven, you know, So if
- 37:33Speaker 4: you gave him more of that, he would definitely be there.
- 37:35Speaker 4: But the reason why I say that is your number
- 37:38Speaker 4: one is it was like a one and a half.
- 37:41Speaker 4: I mean, like he he was unbelievable. Seedee Lamb had
- 37:45Speaker 4: more catches, more yards, more touchdowns. I mean he's setting
- 37:49Speaker 4: records here. So yeah, your number two is not gonna
- 37:52Speaker 4: have a ton. But I mean he had eight touchdowns.
- 37:54Speaker 4: That's the second most of his career. That's the most
- 37:56Speaker 4: he's had in seven years. So to me that that
- 38:01Speaker 4: looks like a number two as far as I'm concerned.
- 38:06Speaker 4: I was I was asked Chris for some Alvin Harper numbers.
- 38:10Speaker 4: I'm gonna try to pull up Harper's year by year.
- 38:12Speaker 4: But but the thing is is that I'm trying. I'm
- 38:14Speaker 4: trying to put it on there for you. Yeah. Yeah,
- 38:16Speaker 4: And he gave Chris gave me the totals, which is great.
- 38:18Speaker 4: One twenty four, you know, divided by like four seasons.
- 38:22Speaker 4: That's the you know, that's I don't know, that's probably
- 38:25Speaker 4: that's in the range of about forty I mean thirty catches.
- 38:29Speaker 4: That's about thirty catches the year. Now, now he had
- 38:32Speaker 4: a lot more yards, you know, he was maybe in
- 38:34Speaker 4: the range of I don't know, six hundred yards.
- 38:37Speaker 15: You know, Harper's best season with the Cowboys was in
- 38:40Speaker 15: nineteen ninety four, obvious, so he got the deal afterwards. Yeah,
- 38:42Speaker 15: it was eight eight hundred and twenty one yards. He
- 38:45Speaker 15: had thirty three receptions that year.
- 38:47Speaker 4: Yeah, so and he was a clear number two. So
- 38:51Speaker 4: thirty three catches, eight hundred yards, and that's a big
- 38:53Speaker 4: play receiver. Eight tds E tds. I mean, I mean
- 38:55Speaker 4: he was one of those touchdowns was I think a
- 38:58Speaker 4: ninety five yard ornety two or something like that against
- 39:01Speaker 4: the forty nine ers. I mean he did in the
- 39:02Speaker 4: playoffs too, So he was big. He was a big
- 39:04Speaker 4: play guy. I'm just using him as an example as
- 39:07Speaker 4: a number two. You know, he was. He was a
- 39:10Speaker 4: good compliment to irvi It and I think Cooks is
- 39:12Speaker 4: a great compliment to to Ceedee Lamb. And then also
- 39:17Speaker 4: he doesn't he's not worried about any people taking his job.
- 39:20Speaker 4: I mean, who who's he? I mean, he's worked harder
- 39:23Speaker 4: with Jalen Tolbert than anyone. So you know that that's
- 39:27Speaker 4: that's exactly what you want your veteran to be. You
- 39:29Speaker 4: don't hear any He doesn't make waves, he doesn't complain,
- 39:32Speaker 4: doesn't you know? He had He struggled early in the season.
- 39:34Speaker 4: He wasn't getting a lot of a lot of yards
- 39:36Speaker 4: and all that. But as CD started to get his numbers,
- 39:39Speaker 4: his grew up, you know as well, and him and
- 39:42Speaker 4: Dak had that fade to the corner. I mean, how
- 39:44Speaker 4: many touchdowns did we see there? Three or four of that.
- 39:47Speaker 4: I mean, so they they they had a good connection.
- 39:49Speaker 4: I disagree, I think, I mean, yeah, it's a one
- 39:51Speaker 4: year he's on one year deal, so they're gonna have
- 39:53Speaker 4: to figure out that receiver position. But I think Cooks
- 39:56Speaker 4: has still got plenty in the tank, and he showed
- 39:59Speaker 4: to be a really good compliment for the for the
- 40:02Speaker 4: you know, last year. So all right, we're gonna go
- 40:05Speaker 4: a little bit more here. Uh got a text question here, Daniel,
- 40:08Speaker 4: he's from Oregon. What which TV do you think will
- 40:12Speaker 4: leave the team in interceptions this year? And why it's
- 40:18Speaker 4: a good one. When you've got Digs that had eleven
- 40:20Speaker 4: a couple of years ago, and he had Bland with nine.
- 40:24Speaker 4: Both of them have led the NFL on the last
- 40:27Speaker 4: couple of seasons. We would be none of them, uh,
- 40:31Speaker 4: you know, but but no, they they're both. You know,
- 40:36Speaker 4: it'll probably I would say Bland. I would say Bland
- 40:40Speaker 4: again because I think Digs is gonna be I mean,
- 40:44Speaker 4: I caught a glimpse of him last week and I
- 40:47Speaker 4: think what what he what they do is he's been
- 40:50Speaker 4: doing little workouts on the side and then he maybe
- 40:53Speaker 4: runs one or two drills that you really cornerback drills,
- 40:56Speaker 4: and I mean I just saw the back pedal, cut,
- 40:59Speaker 4: the burst all that. I'm thinking, Okay, this is mid May,
- 41:02Speaker 4: and uh, he looks he looks good to go. I
- 41:05Speaker 4: think he'll be fine. I think he'll he'll be back
- 41:07Speaker 4: to normal. And I think that being said, I think
- 41:11Speaker 4: he'll see bland probably get more. I think Blande will
- 41:14Speaker 4: give up more yards because I think they'll throw at
- 41:15Speaker 4: him a little bit more. He gives up some and
- 41:18Speaker 4: I think he'll get some interceptions too. So I would
- 41:20Speaker 4: go if I had to pick there, I would say
- 41:23Speaker 4: bland would probably be my guy, my guy there. So
- 41:28Speaker 4: all right, we have open open phone lines right now.
- 41:33Speaker 4: We're dealing with a little bit of technical issues so
- 41:35Speaker 4: that we're not surprised by that. We got some we
- 41:38Speaker 4: had some some text questions. Uh, you know, as far
- 41:41Speaker 4: as OTAs starting tomorrow. Here's a couple of things. You know,
- 41:44Speaker 4: when you're just looking at things to watch me personally,
- 41:47Speaker 4: I'll be out there and and and something. You know,
- 41:50Speaker 4: the first thing, not that it truly matters, but the
- 41:53Speaker 4: first thing that that's gonna get watched is is who's there,
- 41:57Speaker 4: you know, and who's not there?
- 41:58Speaker 9: Uh.
- 41:59Speaker 4: Dak has been in some of these practices before. So
- 42:03Speaker 4: we've seen Dak do some stuff Micah and CD, Mike
- 42:07Speaker 4: and c D, you haven't seen them as much. Again,
- 42:09Speaker 4: ota is voluntary, So if they're you know, looking for
- 42:12Speaker 4: for contract situations, this is this is normal. Uh, seen
- 42:16Speaker 4: Zach Martin do that, See Dalton Schultz do this. So
- 42:19Speaker 4: but when it's time for you know, mini camps and
- 42:21Speaker 4: all that. By listening to to what Mike McCarthy has
- 42:24Speaker 4: said and Stephen Jones have said, I don't think there's
- 42:26Speaker 4: any real concern with with who's here and who's not
- 42:29Speaker 4: here at this time. But that'll be the first thing
- 42:32Speaker 4: I think that that you that you watch, you'd like
- 42:35Speaker 4: to see something from Mazzie Smith. I mean he's he's
- 42:38Speaker 4: gonna be he's still rehabbing a shoulder injury. Uh, probably
- 42:42Speaker 4: won't see him in them when they get into the
- 42:45Speaker 4: team stuff. So if it's not him, and then who
- 42:48Speaker 4: who's inside a defensive tackle? Who's playing? Where do they
- 42:51Speaker 4: have some of the young guys. It's a great spot
- 42:53Speaker 4: for a seventh round you know, a pick. And Justin Rodgers,
- 42:57Speaker 4: I mean he's got an opportunity to do a lot
- 42:59Speaker 4: and play early on, especially with Bozzie banged up and
- 43:03Speaker 4: then losing Gallimore and and Hankins. You know it'll they'll
- 43:07Speaker 4: have They have Golston of course, and they have Osa
- 43:10Speaker 4: in the middle. But you know, a guy a true
- 43:13Speaker 4: one technique nose tackle. Uh, it's a good opportunity for
- 43:16Speaker 4: for a guy like Justin Rodgers. All right, let's go
- 43:19Speaker 4: to Dylan. He's in Northport, Florida. Dylan, Hey, Nic, he'll
- 43:23Speaker 4: be gone good. How are you doing good.
- 43:26Speaker 16: I didn't know if you guys wrong, but I saw
- 43:27Speaker 16: your tweet, so I thought i'd call in and see
- 43:29Speaker 16: what was up.
- 43:30Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, with some with some issues keeping the stream going,
- 43:34Speaker 4: it'll be in the show. You'll be able to watch it. Uh.
- 43:38Speaker 4: And but yeah, we just said we told the callers
- 43:40Speaker 4: keep keep rolling here for a few more minutes so
- 43:42Speaker 4: we can keep it going.
- 43:44Speaker 2: So thank you.
- 43:46Speaker 16: Well, I'm glad I got in. Thanks for having me here.
- 43:49Speaker 16: I keep seeing comparisons now that Golf got paid. I
- 43:52Speaker 16: keep seeing comparisons between the two Dak and Golf.
- 43:55Speaker 4: Uh huh.
- 43:56Speaker 8: And I feel.
- 43:57Speaker 16: Like there's not really a comparison if you look at you.
- 43:59Speaker 16: Only thing that people can really say is Golf's had
- 44:01Speaker 16: the playoff success. But if you look at what he's
- 44:03Speaker 16: done in the playoffs every time his team has had
- 44:05Speaker 16: a run. He needed to be like basically twenty sixteen Dac,
- 44:08Speaker 16: where he's just hand the ball off and then go
- 44:10Speaker 16: out and make a play every now and then. We
- 44:11Speaker 16: need to do it, and I think that's like what
- 44:13Speaker 16: most teams should strive for. But man, I would love
- 44:17Speaker 16: to see if this team, it's not constructed this way
- 44:20Speaker 16: right now, but maybe in a year or two, if
- 44:22Speaker 16: everything goes right, if we could become that twenty sixteen
- 44:26Speaker 16: team again with a really good offensive line, a decent
- 44:29Speaker 16: enough running back. Don't even need twenty sixteen Zeke, but
- 44:32Speaker 16: it's just a decent enough running back, and just let
- 44:34Speaker 16: Dak go out and make a play every now and
- 44:35Speaker 16: then and not have to throw the ball forty five
- 44:37Speaker 16: times and still be able to put up thirty plus
- 44:39Speaker 16: points a game. I think that would be phenomenal. And
- 44:42Speaker 16: Dak today in that twenty sixteen offense, and I would
- 44:45Speaker 16: kill to see that. But with the salary cap, I
- 44:48Speaker 16: know that will be tough, and Dak's payment coming, so
- 44:51Speaker 16: I guess we'll see.
- 44:52Speaker 4: You still want to pay a receiver thirty seven million
- 44:55Speaker 4: dollars and that now. I mean, you know, it's it's
- 44:59Speaker 4: something that they got to figure out if if that's
- 45:01Speaker 4: the type of offense that they have, you know, I mean,
- 45:04Speaker 4: you still would need a number one. I mean, you
- 45:05Speaker 4: still need a guy like that.
- 45:08Speaker 16: So, I well, I don't know what what does this contract?
- 45:11Speaker 16: I can't remember. I mean, I know he got paid.
- 45:12Speaker 16: I just I don't know what his cat it was
- 45:14Speaker 16: back then. But you had a true number one, you know,
- 45:16Speaker 16: in that offense kind of towards the end of his career.
- 45:19Speaker 16: But obviously, see he's going to be a bit more
- 45:21Speaker 16: expensive than probably does was.
- 45:23Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going to be more expensive. And you know
- 45:25Speaker 4: he's he's younger too in when he got this big deal.
- 45:29Speaker 4: So but yeah, and the game's still changed even even
- 45:34Speaker 4: that's what eight nine years ago. The game has changed
- 45:37Speaker 4: a lot, especially the way they distribute the ball around.
- 45:40Speaker 4: So you know, I I I think I think what
- 45:44Speaker 4: you're trying to say is and at least what I'm
- 45:46Speaker 4: hearing is is just don't put as much on Dak's plate.
- 45:50Speaker 4: And and and I think in the playoffs, you have
- 45:53Speaker 4: to be able to win that way. Goff had some
- 45:55Speaker 4: good years. I mean he had some good games in
- 45:58Speaker 4: those playoff years, but he also they one playoff games
- 46:00Speaker 4: because they were able to run the ball. We all
- 46:02Speaker 4: know this by now. You have to run the football
- 46:04Speaker 4: in the playoffs, so you got to be able to
- 46:07Speaker 4: do it. You can't just say the same way we've
- 46:10Speaker 4: played here. It's not the same. It's not the same
- 46:12Speaker 4: in basketball, hockey. I don't know if it would be
- 46:16Speaker 4: a baseball probably not. It can't be the same in
- 46:18Speaker 4: baseball either because of the rotations different sports. Sports are
- 46:22Speaker 4: different when you get into the playoffs. It's just built
- 46:24Speaker 4: that way, and you got to be able to win
- 46:26Speaker 4: in both both ways.
- 46:27Speaker 16: And I guess the counter argument to what I'm saying
- 46:29Speaker 16: would be, well, if you're taking more it off of
- 46:31Speaker 16: Dak's plate, then you probably shouldn't be paying him as
- 46:33Speaker 16: much as you're about to pay him. So it kind
- 46:37Speaker 16: of goes both ways on that one. But I just
- 46:40Speaker 16: don't get really the comparisons between the two. I think
- 46:42Speaker 16: the Deck's a much better quarterback than Off at the
- 46:44Speaker 16: end of the day, I guess is what I was
- 46:45Speaker 16: getting at originally.
- 46:46Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And the thing is, and I said this
- 46:48Speaker 4: on to another caller too, like we're done with the
- 46:52Speaker 4: stats part with Dak, I mean, like what he does,
- 46:54Speaker 4: what he leads, the team, does this and that, good
- 46:57Speaker 4: or bad interceptions, touchdowns, whatever it is, it's got to
- 47:01Speaker 4: lead to wins. So if he gets this monster deal
- 47:04Speaker 4: and they run the ball way better than they have
- 47:06Speaker 4: in the past, and he's handing the ball off a
- 47:08Speaker 4: lot more, his stats are down, but his wins are up.
- 47:11Speaker 4: Everyone's gonna be happy about that. And they're gonna be like,
- 47:13Speaker 4: you know what, that was a smart move. Less is more.
- 47:16Speaker 4: Look at what Zack's being able to do now, and
- 47:18Speaker 4: it's good. All gonna be worth it. So, you know,
- 47:21Speaker 4: I think if he makes fifty five sixty million, his
- 47:24Speaker 4: stats are lower, but he goes farther in the playoffs,
- 47:27Speaker 4: I think everyone will think that's a good idea.
- 47:30Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, I agree.
- 47:32Speaker 4: All right, Dylan, appreciate that good stuff. All right. I
- 47:36Speaker 4: think we're gonna just wrap it right there. We we
- 47:39Speaker 4: got fifty minutes, got seven callers, Like I said, dealing
- 47:43Speaker 4: with a little bit of technical stuff, but you really
- 47:45Speaker 4: won't know the difference when you watch it here because
- 47:49Speaker 4: we were able to kind of push this thing through.
- 47:50Speaker 4: I appreciate Chris Bean for knocking it out like that.
- 47:53Speaker 4: We'll have another show, hopefully a little bit smoother, but
- 47:57Speaker 4: everything was fine here. We'll have another show Thursday. We'll
- 48:00Speaker 4: be able to talk about what we saw on Wednesday
- 48:03Speaker 4: at the Ota, So looking forward to that. All right,
- 48:06Speaker 4: So for Chris be I'm Nick Eatman. We will see
- 48:08Speaker 4: Thursday on Cowboys Storyline.
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