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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning. Welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette. It's Friday,
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  Speaker 3: October the 2nd. Final show of the week before the
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  Speaker 3: Cowboys go to Houston. Take on the Houston Texans 0-3.
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  Speaker 3: Houston Texans, desperate Houston Texans. Hate the Cowboys, Houston Texans.
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  Speaker 3: It's all right though. Cowboys are going to match all
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  Speaker 3: that except for maybe the hate, but it doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 3: One and two Cowboys after one of the toughest losses
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  Speaker 3: you can have for a September game. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if I said that on here. I was doing
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  Speaker 3: my little list of terrible losses early in the season,
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  Speaker 3: and this is up there. Washington back in, like, 05
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  Speaker 3: when Santana Moss did all that. That was another one.
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  Speaker 3: There's been a few, some bad ones. That goes up there. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what I should have looked at is how
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  Speaker 3: they come back from those. That's my next thing I'll do.
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  Speaker 3: I'll look at that. See how they bounce back because
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  Speaker 3: that's all that really matters. right now. 888-855-2297. I believe
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  Speaker 3: we have a line open right now, so let's get
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  Speaker 3: this thing corrected and let's have a show where it's
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  Speaker 3: tough to get in. I have a lot to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: Cowboys obviously make a big trade. We talked to Joey
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  Speaker 3: Porter Jr. yesterday. He seems ready to roll, kind of
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  Speaker 3: playfully talking about the back injury. It's weird when you're
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  Speaker 3: on the other side of this. Last year, It was like, oh, Micah,
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  Speaker 3: how could you do that? Faking an injury. And then,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and kind of feel like a hypocrite a
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  Speaker 3: little bit because now Joey Porter almost did the same thing,
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  Speaker 3: just kind of chuckling. Yeah, it feels good. The back
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  Speaker 3: feels good. Like, okay, cool. But I don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if he doesn't play, it probably won't be because of that.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be because of trying to get him, get his
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  Speaker 3: body acclimated to playing football, not just one game, but
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  Speaker 3: then there's two games. So I have a feeling if
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  Speaker 3: I have to guess, and we'll probably talk about it
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  Speaker 3: on here, I'm sure when you guys will, talk about Porter,
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  Speaker 3: but I believe that he'll be on somewhat of a
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  Speaker 3: pitch count for this game, and then maybe see if
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  Speaker 3: we can ramp him up for the Bucs next Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's start off with the phone calls. Davion
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  Speaker 3: in Illinois is first.
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  Speaker 4: What it do, what it do, my boy? What the
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  Speaker 4: business is?
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  Speaker 5: How you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Everything going?
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Man, doing well, doing well. I was going to call yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: but I had so many questions that I needed to
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  Speaker 4: hear from Joey before I called. Because I was nervous
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  Speaker 4: when we made a deal, and I was like, we've
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  Speaker 4: got a back injury, or a supposed back injury anyway.
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  Speaker 4: But I was happy. I'm happy now. I'm very excited.
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  Speaker 4: We got us a corner. Finally got us a shut down,
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  Speaker 4: you know, pseudo shut down corner. We'll see once he
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  Speaker 4: gets really out there and gets going. You said a
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  Speaker 4: pitch count. What do you think? What kind of– maybe
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  Speaker 4: like a third down? All right.
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  Speaker 3: Those things, you know, always start off one way, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll see how the games go. But I just have
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  Speaker 3: a feeling he'll be limited in his role. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think he's running out of the tunnel as a starter
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  Speaker 3: and he follows Nico Collins around or whatever. Maybe Nico
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  Speaker 3: Collins is on a pitch count. You know, he's coming
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  Speaker 3: back from an injury. Maybe it's just, hey, anytime you
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  Speaker 3: see number 12 out there, you run out there. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that would, I don't know if that's a good or
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  Speaker 3: bad thing or not.
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  Speaker 4: I think that would be fine. I mean, the last
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  Speaker 4: time he played, he pretty much shut him down. You
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  Speaker 4: can do that Sunday because I think we win, of course.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead. I think we win, of course. I think
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  Speaker 4: I said on the space, I said 31-20. I think
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  Speaker 4: if we can get after them early, like we should
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  Speaker 4: have against the Ravens. We started out going good against
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  Speaker 4: the Ravens, but we didn't finish it. I think we
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  Speaker 4: get on this team early because they got a better defense.
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  Speaker 4: I think if we can attack with our weapons on
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  Speaker 4: the outside, I think we'll.
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  Speaker 8: Be all right.
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  Speaker 4: All right. It's a good bounce back game for us.
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  Speaker 3: What's your score?
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  Speaker 4: I really want to see. I said 31-20. Another question.
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  Speaker 4: Did they release someone to get them on the roster?
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  Speaker 9: They had a spot.
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  Speaker 4: They had a spot open.
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  Speaker 3: Since they only put they put two guys on ir
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  Speaker 3: and only moved one up so they had a spot
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  Speaker 3: open so porter just he's the 53rd guy i mean
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  Speaker 3: you know what i mean he fills up the roster
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  Speaker 3: not 53rd guy.
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  Speaker 4: So well i'm just i'm happy that we got us
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  Speaker 4: a guy and uh jerry wasn't playing around with you
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  Speaker 4: see you know you can't trust the old man with
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  Speaker 4: money so um so let's go all right let's Let's
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  Speaker 4: get at it.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds good. Thanks, Davion. Thanks for the call. Let's go
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  Speaker 3: keep it rolling here. Michael in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Michael,
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  Speaker 3: what's up?
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  Speaker 10: I was wondering, does David Mulligetta have some secret back elixir?
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  Speaker 10: Because this is about the third time one of his guys,
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  Speaker 10: just as soon as they got off the plane for
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  Speaker 10: their new destination, their back was good.
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  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's what it is.
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  Speaker 6: It's wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: Think that's what it.
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  Speaker 10: Is it must be i mean i wouldn't cheat and
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  Speaker 10: have fake injuries no.
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  Speaker 3: But uh no no you know like like i say
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  Speaker 3: i think what happens is is your back is hurt
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  Speaker 3: you know and you know and not feeling so good
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  Speaker 3: uh along with your feelings and so then when you
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  Speaker 3: get a new deal or a new situation, it's kind
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  Speaker 3: of a pat on the back. And that's really all
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  Speaker 3: it needs. It's just a pat on the back, and
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  Speaker 3: next thing you know, it feels better.
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  Speaker 6: Well, this new dude we got, Joey Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 10: do you think he's a top five or a top
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  Speaker 10: ten corner in the NFL?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if.
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  Speaker 3: Depends on who you ask. I think if you ask
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  Speaker 3: David Malagueta, he's probably top one. I think you ask
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  Speaker 3: the Steelers, you know, they don't have that. So the
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  Speaker 3: thing about corner is, and I've seen this with when
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  Speaker 3: Deion Sanders was here, he got two interceptions one year
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  Speaker 3: and he was like, All-pro first team. I mean, no
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  Speaker 3: one was throwing at him. They were scared of him. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he didn't always make the play, but he
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  Speaker 3: was definitely affecting the games. And then Larry Brown on
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  Speaker 3: the other side just got nine interceptions and one Super
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  Speaker 3: Bowl MVP. You know, so you can make a difference
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  Speaker 3: without doing it. So it's other stats, other analytics, shutting
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  Speaker 3: down your side of the field, not giving up passes, yards, touchdowns,
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  Speaker 3: all that stuff. I think he's really good. I think
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  Speaker 3: he can get some penalties. He gets handsy. That's the
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  Speaker 3: knock on him. But let's see for ourselves. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know exactly where that ranks and what kind of value
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  Speaker 3: that is, but I think he's up there in the top,
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  Speaker 3: I would say. He's in the top 20 based off
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  Speaker 3: of what you feel like a good corner is.
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  Speaker 10: I think he's in the top 10. I think he's
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  Speaker 10: like 8. But I just hope the Cowboys, I mean,
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  Speaker 10: they're not going to play all-man, but I hope they
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  Speaker 10: play a little bit more for his strength. But he'd
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  Speaker 10: still be all right with zone. And I want to
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  Speaker 10: give my score real quick. We're going to double up
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  Speaker 10: the Texicans. It's going to be 42-21, and that's all
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  Speaker 10: I got. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds good. Thanks, Michael, for the call. I thought you
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  Speaker 3: misspoke when you said that name last. Yesterday or the
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  Speaker 3: day before, but obviously that is not, that is how
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  Speaker 3: you're pronouncing it. I call them the Texans, but that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Doc in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 6: Doc?
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  Speaker 11: How are you, Nick?
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  Speaker 3: Good, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 11: I think, you know, we get all the Steelers, even
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  Speaker 11: though we're Eastern Pennsylvania, we get all the Eagles and
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  Speaker 11: Steelers games. So I've seen Joey Porter play a decent amount.
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  Speaker 11: And I'm a Penn State fan, so I've seen him
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  Speaker 11: his whole career. And I think it's a really, really
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  Speaker 11: good move. It's not Deion Sanders, but it's... Based on
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  Speaker 11: the other caller, he's definitely top ten, maybe top five,
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  Speaker 11: but he'd be the bottom of the five. But that's
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  Speaker 11: all we need, because he's good at man-to-man, and where
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  Speaker 11: I think he'll help us is.
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  Speaker 11: Bland had that great year with all the pick sixes.
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  Speaker 11: Since then, he hasn't been that good because he's the
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  Speaker 11: number one corner, and so he has to cover the
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  Speaker 11: strongest guy. Now he has to cover the second strongest,
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  Speaker 11: and they'll throw to his side more, and I think
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  Speaker 11: he'll start getting more interceptions again. So let's hope. I
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  Speaker 11: think he's better than Durant. If you remember, Sean McVay
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  Speaker 11: at the end of last year said Durant The weak
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  Speaker 11: link of the Rams was their cornerbacks. Durant was one
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  Speaker 11: of those weakest links. So I didn't think that was
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  Speaker 11: a very good move. But this is really good.
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  Speaker 5: I'm hopeful.
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  Speaker 11: I don't want to play him too much because you
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  Speaker 11: get that soft tissue hand. or calf injury or any
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  Speaker 11: of those because he's not in perfect football shape. But
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  Speaker 11: I'd start him and just get him in there maybe
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  Speaker 11: on passing downs. Okay. And anyway, with regard to the score...
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  Speaker 11: I've been to three Texan-Cowboy games, and the Cowboys lost
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  Speaker 11: them all and didn't look very good in any of them.
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  Speaker 11: Because the Texans come in like it's their Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 11: If you remember, the Texans' first game ever, when they
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  Speaker 11: had a bunch of scrubs, they beat the Cowboys. To them,
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  Speaker 11: this is everything. To the Cowboys, we have... Lots of rivals.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they need to match it, though. You know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean? That's real. They need to figure out a
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  Speaker 3: way to match it one way or another, match that intensity,
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  Speaker 3: match that desperation. So you're right. I mean, Houston doesn't
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  Speaker 3: know anything about a Super Bowl other than that it's
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  Speaker 3: in their stadium. But the Texans don't know anything about
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  Speaker 3: a Super Bowl. But this is their version of it,
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  Speaker 3: if they could imagine one. And, you know, to be fair,
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  Speaker 3: the Cowboys, these players and all that, you know, nobody
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  Speaker 3: was really alive when they won it, too. But it
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  Speaker 3: needs to be something big for the Cowboys, one and two,
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  Speaker 3: going down to Houston. Figure out whether you want to
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  Speaker 3: call it a playoff game or whatever it is. They
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  Speaker 3: need to do that.
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  Speaker 11: I'm optimistic, though, so I'm going to say Cowboys 27,
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  Speaker 11: Houston 17.
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  Speaker 5: Cool.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks, Doc.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Appreciate the call. You know, a couple of
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  Speaker 3: things you said, kind of, you know, talking about Kobe Durant,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think, you know, Sean McVay, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he can say that he wants to, and the guy
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  Speaker 3: also got three interceptions in the playoffs. So two of
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  Speaker 3: them in a game that they won on the road. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I don't think he was, he was that bad.
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  Speaker 3: They went and got one of the top cornerbacks, I
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  Speaker 3: think from the chiefs and, you know, didn't, didn't have
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  Speaker 3: the money to resign him. And, And Durant is here
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  Speaker 3: in Dallas. And I think if Durant, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: he's banged up right now. But if Durant is in
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  Speaker 3: your top four as your fourth guy, I think that's
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  Speaker 3: a really good spot for him. If he's your outside
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  Speaker 3: corner number two, maybe not. And so, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: this case, I think everybody comes back healthy. Revell comes
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  Speaker 3: back healthy. And Durant comes back healthy along with Bland. And, obviously, Porter,
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  Speaker 3: I think you've got a really good room. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you've got a good room of some mix of some
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  Speaker 3: guys that play this slot. And then you factor in
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  Speaker 3: Caleb Downs into that mix as far as playing the slot.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think you're up there as among some
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  Speaker 3: of the best in the league for that. So, but anyways,
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  Speaker 3: all right, let's go to Brian in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 4: Morning, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: Morning, Brian. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: I'm all right, sir.
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  Speaker 6: How are you?
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  Speaker 9: Great.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, man, I like the hoodie.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, man.
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  Speaker 5: It's comfy.
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  Speaker 9: We need those.
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  Speaker 5: But, you know, we need fancier ones. We need, like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, has to say, like, first team, second team,
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  Speaker 5: third team, captain, admiral. You got to have a special
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  Speaker 5: one for admiral, you know?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're saying no more T-shirts. We
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  Speaker 3: need hoodies?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we need hoodies.
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  Speaker 5: And then they have to say, you know, just like
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  Speaker 5: the military, they got to have the rank right on them.
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  Speaker 5: You know, like, you're second team, you know, you're the admiral,
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  Speaker 5: you're a captain, you know, all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. That might be a situation where, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: guys get the shirt and then do all that stuff
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  Speaker 3: yourself and put it on there. You can put anything
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  Speaker 3: you want on there at that point.
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  Speaker 4: All right. What do you got, Brian?
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  Speaker 5: I got you. I got you. Well, you know, my
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  Speaker 5: question was really is, Yesterday I said I hope that
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  Speaker 5: they kind of ramp him up, and he just hasn't
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  Speaker 5: played football, meaning Joey Porter, of course. He just hasn't
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  Speaker 5: played football in so long, and I still really hope
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  Speaker 5: that's the case. I hope they don't just throw him
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  Speaker 5: out there. Two games in four days if you haven't
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  Speaker 5: played since December, that's an awful tall order. Just being
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  Speaker 5: nervous about an injury popping out of that. But my
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  Speaker 5: real question in the bigger picture is, Do you think
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  Speaker 5: CP would change? Is this the kind of guy that
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  Speaker 5: would CP change his defense a little bit? And would
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  Speaker 5: you even think about doing that midseason when you're still,
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  Speaker 5: you know, kind of getting everybody on board to make
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  Speaker 5: sure that there's already no miscommunications? Would you think about
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  Speaker 5: changing your defense a little bit? because you now have
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  Speaker 5: somebody who walks into the room and he's the best guy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I'll give you my answer and then I'll listen. My
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  Speaker 5: thinking is I think you should. I think you should
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  Speaker 5: try to change your defense to take advantage of what
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  Speaker 5: you got. He is hands down the best cover guy
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  Speaker 5: you got. We've talked a lot about Bland and what
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  Speaker 5: Bland's good at. Bland's a risk taker. and he's going
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  Speaker 5: to make you pay. He's also going to give some up.
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  Speaker 5: But Porter's going to be the best cover guy you
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  Speaker 5: got now. And I think we have to try to
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  Speaker 5: take advantage of that. Hey, Nick, it's great to talk
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  Speaker 5: to you. I'm going to listen to what you think
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  Speaker 5: about that off air, man.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Brian. You know, if you weren't, looking to make
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  Speaker 3: an upgrade and make a change in whatever you were
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  Speaker 3: doing in the secondary then why make the trade you
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  Speaker 3: know so i agree with you brian i agree with
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  Speaker 3: and i think that they will make a change in
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  Speaker 3: what they're doing it's not just plugging in this guy
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  Speaker 3: is better than this guy um i think i think
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  Speaker 3: of you always have to do that and you always
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  Speaker 3: have to to fit players around or you actually fit
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  Speaker 3: the scheme around the players more so than the other way.
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  Speaker 3: You can have your principles. You can have things that
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  Speaker 3: you like to do. This guy's, you know, he's a,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you always want to play man if you can.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like, it's the same with pass rush. If
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  Speaker 3: you can get four guys to rush the passer and
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  Speaker 3: not have to blitz, then the other guys can go
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  Speaker 3: and be free. And if you've got guys that play
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  Speaker 3: really good at man coverage, then your safeties can actually
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  Speaker 3: play safety and roam and and be center fielders and
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  Speaker 3: things like that. So I think that there's a reason
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  Speaker 3: they got him. They have a vision for him, and
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  Speaker 3: I would imagine they're going to kind of move some
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  Speaker 3: things around. I'm going to go back to what Doc
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  Speaker 3: in Allentown was talking about, Bland, thinking that Bland can
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  Speaker 3: be better now as the number two corner or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I said this on the radio this morning
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  Speaker 3: on a 105.3 call, that I'm not– I mean, Bland
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  Speaker 3: has Bland– has any of these defensive guys really, really
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  Speaker 3: been good since they lost Micah Parsons, since they lost
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  Speaker 3: a consistent pass rush? And I think that factors in
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things there. So that's still an issue.
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  Speaker 3: And truth be told now, Joey Porter Jr. played at
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  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh with T.J.
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  Speaker 9: Watt.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what he's used to having too. So we
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  Speaker 3: can say all we want to about playing man, playing zone,
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  Speaker 3: and all this stuff. They better get after the freaking quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they better get after him and get him
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  Speaker 3: down to the ground and hit him. Just pressuring him
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  Speaker 3: is fine. These guys are NFL quarterbacks. They can handle pressure.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: They don't like getting hit. They definitely don't like getting sacked.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: So that's where this team really, and you start doing
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: that on a consistent level, and I have a feeling
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: that Deron Bland's going to look better. I have a
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: feeling Revell will look better. I have a feeling that
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Joey Porter Jr. is going to look like the guy
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: that he was playing in Pittsburgh. All right. Let's go
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: to Josh in Chicago.
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: Hey, man.
• 18:04
  Speaker 12: So what you're saying actually kind of leads into my call,
• 18:06
  Speaker 12: but first I still really miss Jordan Lewis. I'm just
• 18:09
  Speaker 12: going to say that. I think he's, you know, Micah
• 18:12
  Speaker 12: did a lot of good things, but I think Jordan
• 18:14
  Speaker 12: Lewis did a lot of really good in the secondary too.
• 18:18
  Speaker 12: The other thing I'll say, though, is CJ Stroud has
• 18:20
  Speaker 12: been sacked ten times. That's like the second or third
• 18:23
  Speaker 12: most after last night's game.
• 18:24
  Speaker 13: In the league.
• 18:25
  Speaker 12: So right now I think that this is a really
• 18:28
  Speaker 12: golden opportunity for this defensive line to start getting in
• 18:31
  Speaker 12: the backfield. And then we have a sack party this week.
• 18:33
  Speaker 12: I'm thinking by ball prediction going easy gets one. Now
• 18:37
  Speaker 12: Kyle Lawrence gets one and Quinn and Williams gets one.
• 18:40
  Speaker 12: So I'm going three sacks this week.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: All right. I like it. You know, in truth, like
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: on the other side, I think Houston's looking at it like,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: you know what, this team's got two sacks in three games.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: This is our chance for offensive line to get right too.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: And maybe keep, you know, Stroud upright. This team doesn't
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: rush the passer very well. So we should be able
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: to be to be fine. I mean, I just think
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: you have to be fair and look at it from
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: both sides and from an optimistic side. And here on
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: the Cowboys storyline. Yeah, let's look at it as a
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: way that I strive to get sacked a lot. Maybe
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: this is the time that they break free, but. I
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: think Houston's looking at it the same way, like, hey,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: we're not facing these other rushers in this game, and
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: we should be able to keep him upright and move
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: the ball and things like that. So I think that's
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: the biggest key of the game is which struggling side
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: actually has the best performance. They can't run the ball
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: very well. Houston, they're averaging like 80-something yards a game,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: but the Cowboys are giving up 175. So David Montgomery's thinking, finally,
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: this is a game I'm going to get it. Get going.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: And maybe Quinnen and Kenny Clark are like, you know what?
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: We're going to stop the run again against a team
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: that doesn't run. So whatever. breaks through there I think
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: is going to be the big key there. All right,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: let's go back to the phone lines, Casey, Joe, and Casey.
• 20:00
  Speaker 14: Casey, Joe.
• 20:01
  Speaker 13: Joe.
• 20:02
  Speaker 15: Good morning, Nick. How are you doing today?
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: How are you doing?
• 20:05
  Speaker 15: I'm doing fantastic.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: Fantastic.
• 20:07
  Speaker 15: Hey, I'm pretty excited about Barham. I'm telling you, he's
• 20:09
  Speaker 15: looking good. I hope they leave him where he's at.
• 20:14
  Speaker 15: And then Sprink when Overshawn comes back, you know, have
• 20:17
  Speaker 15: him rotate with Winters or James, one.
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: Of those two.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:22
  Speaker 15: And Downs, you just can't say enough about him. I'm
• 20:25
  Speaker 15: telling you, our defense is definitely coming together. And then
• 20:29
  Speaker 15: with Porter coming in, I see our defense getting better
• 20:32
  Speaker 15: day by day.
• 20:33
  Speaker 9: I agree.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I agree. You know, I just thought of this, Joe.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I think the Eagles losing to the Bears might have
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: actually been the cherry on the top to go make
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: a trade. I really do. I believe that Jerry looked
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: at this and go, we're right there. Yeah, tough loss,
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: but we just can't fall behind here, and we can
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: be players in this division. We can go win this thing.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: So I really think it was the combination of playing
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: well in Rio and even though they came up short
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: and realizing that there's no one else in this division
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: that really you should be afraid of. So let's, let's
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: go and enhance this team and get better. That's what
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: I believe.
• 21:11
  Speaker 15: And I believe so too. So, well, that's all I
• 21:15
  Speaker 15: got for today.
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: Can sir, you have a great weekend. All right.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Thanks.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Appreciate it. You do like, like how things are kind of,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: you know, matching up a little bit on, on the,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: you know, the defensive side, just with the, with the
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: playmakers and how it just keeps throwing them out there,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: keep throwing them out there and, kind of eliminating your
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: weak links. And I agree with the Barham's going to
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: keep getting better. Overshawn comes back. It's probably better for
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: him to come back in maybe somewhat of a limited role.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Does that help him get the contract he wants? No,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: probably not, but you can't worry about that. He's got
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: to stay healthy and stay on the field. He's a
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: natural tweener. He's not built like your linebackers typically are.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: He's not really a safety guy. He's not a defensive.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, he's just he's just a guy
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: out there that that is just he's kind of an
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: athletic freak. But he's he's he's a tweener. And those
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: guys might be really good in the nickel defense. So
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: that might be his role. I know he wants to be,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: you know, a premier linebacker, but he hasn't shown the
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: ability to be consistent enough to do that. Let's go
• 22:22
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• 22:25
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• 24:49
  Speaker 3: let's go to Saratoga Springs where Chris is. Chris, what's up?
• 24:55
  Speaker 17: What's going on, Nick?
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: How are you doing?
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: Not too bad. I do like that hoodie you got
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: on today, too. I know somebody just said it, but
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: that's fire, dude.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's about, you know, I'm pretty basic when
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: it comes to stuff like, well, I say that.
• 25:09
  Speaker 10: I'm actually.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Actually, I've been getting kind of some crap for the
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: flowered shirts. I mean, so I'm not, I just, I'm
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: whatever I'm today. It's basic. It's comfy. It's comfy.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: So this game, this, this game on Sunday, it's huge.
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: Make no mistake about it. You know, Houston normally beats us.
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: We normally will lose this game. It's time for us to,
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: to change that. And this is a season changing type
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: of win. If we can get in there and win
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: this game, it's, it's, It's huge for me. I really
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: think this is going to go a long way if
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: we can figure out a way to move the ball
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: on their defense and win. It's paramount that we get
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: sacked on this QB. Stroud is not great under pressure.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: It's paramount that we get him on the ground and
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: we get actual sacks. I think having Porter Jr. and
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: Bland out there locking down those receivers will make CJ
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: maybe hold the ball a little bit longer so we
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: can get to the quarterback and get him on the ground.
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: Cause that's, we need it. Last night you look at,
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: I thought Sam Williams would get a sack and I'm like, man, we,
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: and we need to get some sacks. You know what
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: I mean?
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: So that, that's my key of the game. We got,
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: we got to get, we got to get CJ on
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: the ground. Not just pressure. We need to get them
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: on the ground and we need to get some sacks.
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: Other than that, I'll let somebody else get in, but
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: have a good weekend and let's go Cowboys.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 26:30
  Speaker 13: Yep.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I totally agree about the pressure in the sacks and, and,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: and getting after them and, and, you know, and, I
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: believe that pass rush is a little more important than
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: the coverage. I don't think that you sit there and
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: you cover all day long and eventually you get the sack.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: It's usually the other way around. But I do think that,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: and I think Shadi alluded to this yesterday in his
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: impromptu press conference, which I thought was good that they
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: brought him over. It wasn't a day he normally talks
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: on Thursday, but they wanted him to address the, you know,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: the trade. And he talked about how coverage can, can
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: just disrupt timing a little bit when, when a receiver
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: quarterback wants to get the ball out quick. And, you know,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: you got a guy right there and then now he
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: kind of holds it for a second. And then that's
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: really all you need. You know, I mean, we kind
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: of joke about it as a rock who being so close,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: he's right there. Almost Anthony Spencer really is what it
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: was like it was. And eventually Spencer figured it out.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: It was really good. And of course he had the
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: wear on the other side. So, Those two were a
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: great tandem. But, you know, just another half second there.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, it just feels like Ezeraku's super close. He's
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: getting there. So we'll want to kind of see how
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: that goes. And once Porter gets really into the mix,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's going to be this game,
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: but once he kind of gets back to himself, then
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: it'll be fun to see kind of what that combination
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: looks like. All right, Lester in Minnesota is next.
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: Morning, Nick.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Hey, Lester.
• 28:06
  Speaker 9: Hey, man.
• 28:07
  Speaker 17: My most disappointing loss that we're talking about, I'm going
• 28:13
  Speaker 17: to go way back to 89. I mean, I don't
• 28:17
  Speaker 17: even know why we did this, but we played the
• 28:19
  Speaker 17: Packers twice that year.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 17: We lost. The first loss was not the one I'm
• 28:26
  Speaker 17: going to say was my most disappointing, but on October
• 28:29
  Speaker 17: the 8th, yeah, October the 8th, We lost 31-13. But
• 28:36
  Speaker 17: the most difficult one for me was December 24th. We
• 28:40
  Speaker 17: lost 20-10. And the reason why I was so bad
• 28:44
  Speaker 17: is because, like I said, I grew up in Chicago,
• 28:47
  Speaker 17: and Chicago fans hate Green Bay, and they hated the
• 28:50
  Speaker 17: Cowboys because we were winning before that. And so they
• 28:54
  Speaker 17: just said, well, you can't beat Green Bay, you guys.
• 28:57
  Speaker 17: It just sucks. So that was really bad for me.
• 29:01
  Speaker 17: But anyway, getting back to the game this weekend, I've
• 29:07
  Speaker 17: been studying. I'm kind of a studier of football. So
• 29:10
  Speaker 17: I've been studying the Texans' offensive line for the last
• 29:15
  Speaker 17: 15 years. And of those 15 years, they've had one
• 29:18
  Speaker 17: decent offensive line. You know, we all talk about all
• 29:22
  Speaker 17: the other things about the Texans, but no one ever
• 29:25
  Speaker 17: really talks about the offensive line, and it's bad.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: This year as well.
• 29:29
  Speaker 17: So we should be able to get after them. My
• 29:32
  Speaker 17: score for the game, 21-10, and I think if we
• 29:36
  Speaker 17: do play Porter, I think we should, but if we do...
• 29:40
  Speaker 17: I believe he should be on a pitch.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Count yeah I agree and that's all I.
• 29:45
  Speaker 17: Have let's go let's go let's go Cowboys.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: All right sounds good all right thanks Lester yeah I
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: remember some losses in 1989 that was a different year
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: but but yeah, those, those early losses, some of the
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: other ones, what a Houston game was, was one of
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: them there in 2002. That was about as bad as
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: it gets. Obviously this one within Rio is going to
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: be thrown in there. Uh, the one, the opening game
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: against the 49ers back in like 2014, when AT &
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: T stadium kind of got invaded there. Um, that didn't,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: it was one of those things that looked worse then
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: because it was like, this is going to be a
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: tough year. Romo's back. It's not right. And, and this
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: team you threw a lot of picks and it just
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: it was like this is gonna be a tough season
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: and uh i figured out a way to go 12
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: and 4 that year and uh that was you know
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: it was a really good season so sometimes it's not
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: always indicative of what what the year is going to
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: be uh you just look at it like you know
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: of course how about 2000 pickle juice game with the
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: eagles that was a bad year and that was a
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: bad start and all that probably the hottest i've ever
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: been at a game um All right, let's go to
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Cowboy Nico in Colorado Springs.
• 31:01
  Speaker 9: Hey, what up, Cowboy Nation?
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: How you doing, guys?
• 31:03
  Speaker 9: I just got a couple things, Nick. One of them
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: I would love to hear if you could explain to
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: some of the younger fans how the Oilers became the
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: Texans when I get off, if you could do that.
• 31:16
  Speaker 9: I think that would be great knowledge for some of
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: our younger fans. And just a little brush-up for our
• 31:22
  Speaker 9: older fans, obviously, like me and Nick. you know, Irene
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: and Brian and all them.
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: Anyways, I digress.
• 31:27
  Speaker 9: So 2002 sucked. I was a junior in high school.
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: I went to high school in El Paso, Texas. That's
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: where I'm originally from. And I made a bet with
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: this dude who was a hardcore, his dad grew up
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: a hardcore Oilers fan. And when they got the Texans back,
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: everybody was like, we got room for two teams in Texas.
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: I still say we don't have room for two teams
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: in Texas. There's only one team in Texas, and that
• 31:53
  Speaker 9: is the Dallas Cowboys. So to me, a lot of
• 31:57
  Speaker 9: people say, well, this is not a big game for
• 31:59
  Speaker 9: the Cowboys. To me, this is a big game because
• 32:02
  Speaker 9: I made a bet. And I had to wear Texan
• 32:04
  Speaker 9: gear to school for a whole week, and it was
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: not cool, not fun. But the last thing I want
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: to say before you tell us a little bit of
• 32:15
  Speaker 9: the history is, Von Miller, hey, brother, I need you
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: to start waking up. September is over, okay?
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: We woke up Green Day.
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: Now we need to wake your butt up. Fall off
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: that bed and get some damn sacks because we're not
• 32:27
  Speaker 9: paying you for your chicken advertisement, okay? You already gave
• 32:30
  Speaker 9: some of that to Lemke. I need you to start
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: doing your job. I need the defense to start doing
• 32:34
  Speaker 9: their job because I take this game very seriously. There
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: is only one team in Texas. It is the Dallas Cowboys.
• 32:41
  Speaker 9: And if you all ain't with that, hug your moms,
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: love your moms, and remember, let's keep rowing.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: All right. All right, Nico. I always feel like he's
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: doing a wrestling promo when he calls. It's great. I
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: don't even think it's scripted either, though. I think he's
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: just going off the cuff. All right, good stuff. Yeah,
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: it's a big game because you've got to have it.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter if you're playing in Houston or in
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Nashville or in El Paso or wherever it is. This
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: is a big game for where things are early in
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: the season. You know, I don't think it's... I don't
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: think it's one of those where it matters sponsorship-wise, dollars.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: I don't think there's some company out there going, man,
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: where should I give my sponsorship money to? Dallas or
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: Houston here? I don't think there's fans that are sitting
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: there going, which team should I root for? But it's
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: just big because they got to have it and they
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: need it. And I know it's bigger for Houston fans
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  Speaker 3: than Dallas. As for the history, I, you know, I
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: was in, I think I was in college when that happened,
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  Speaker 3: when they were in Houston. Again, I'm the wrong person
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  Speaker 3: for that, honestly. Derek Eagleton, though, he grew up there,
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: and he knows more of the history. You know, I'm...
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Like most places, it comes down to we need a
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: new stadium. The city doesn't want to pay for it.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: They don't want the taxpayer. They don't have the support.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: The owner can't get the support and the funding and
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: all this kind of stuff. And so they're kind of
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: at a fork in the road when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: their franchise. And guess what? This other place over here
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: is starving for football, starving for attention, starving to throw
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: their dollars somewhere. And you know what? We're going to
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: go and do it. And that happens a lot. That's
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: usually how some of these things go. And if I
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: had to put money on it, that's what I think
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: happened there. Now, they got to Nashville and played at
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Vanderbilt Stadium the first year. So they didn't have a
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: stadium ready to roll. But they eventually got one. The
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Titans did. And then Houston ended up. new leadership maybe
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: figured it out. Oh, we hate not having football. And
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: they got another team. But again, I don't know all
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: of the details, but it always comes down to money,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: comes down to stadiums, stuff like that. All right. Our
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: next two callers are from Texas. Maybe they know. Robert
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  Speaker 3: in Livingston, Texas. First time caller.
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  Speaker 6: Robert.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What's up?
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  Speaker 10: Nothing.
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  Speaker 6: I want to talk about this past weekend. This past weekend,
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: they didn't play worth crap. And I've been a Dallas
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  Speaker 6: Cowboys fan all my life. I'm supposed to be 57
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: years old. Baking through thin, I was. But I was
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: disappointed in the defense. This defensive coordinator was supposed to
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: have been helping them. I ain't seen nothing they've done yet.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Off for defense.
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  Speaker 3: So what are we excited about, Robert? Are you excited
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  Speaker 3: about anything?
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: I was hoping they would beat 3-0 this year.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, me too, but yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Look at it. We're 2-1 or 1-2.
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  Speaker 10: 1-2.
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  Speaker 6: And we're going to Houston. The Texas is playing better
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: than the Cowboys is right now.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Don't think so.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Just wait. I'm getting to it. They've been in
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: their games. Cowboys hasn't been hardly in theirs.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Really? I don't know. They lost by one second, so
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: that felt like they were in it. It looked like
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: they had a chance to win and then went to overtime,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: and then the Giants game was a one-possession game. Everybody
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: sees it differently, but what do you think needs to
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: happen this week for the Cowboys to win?
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  Speaker 6: I think their defense needs to show up, and offense
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: definitely needs to show up better. They should have blew
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: out Baltimore. As many times they had it in the
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: red zone, the offense should have scored every time. They
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: were so high and mighty this year. All I've seen
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: on Facebook, Cowboys is going to win. Cowboys is going
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: to win the Super Bowl this year.
• 37:33
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, Cowboy fans saying that? Not the Cowboys, but
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: you're talking about just the fans that you're around, that
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: you follow on Facebook?
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: Fans I follow on Facebook? Everything who's a Cowboy fan.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Well, let's see if they can turn it around this week.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: You know, we'll see... So you've been a Cowboy fan.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: How close is Livingston to Dallas or Houston? Is it
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: closer to Dallas or Houston? I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: It's an hour away from Dallas, an hour away from Houston,
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  Speaker 6: and I think two and a half hours away from Dallas.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, got it. All right. So you're kind of in
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: the middle there. Well, I'm sure you're surrounded by fans
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: of both. Hopefully the Cowboy fans around you will be
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: more excited for this game.
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  Speaker 13: Thanks.
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: My brother-in-law, he's older than me. He's been a Cowboys
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: fan his entire life, and he won't even turn the
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: TV on to watch them no more when they're on TV.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Well, that's unfortunate. We'll see if we can get them
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: back and get you back and getting excited again about
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: the Cowboys. Thanks for the call, Robert. Appreciate the call.
• 38:50
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• 40:28
  Speaker 3: We do have time for one more caller, Derek in Houston. Derek,
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: what's up?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, what's up, Nick? Long time.
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  Speaker 17: I haven't been able to call in a minute.
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: But I was encouraged to call because I heard somebody
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: say they grew up in El Paso, where I also
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: grew up.
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  Speaker 4: Shout out after Seagulls.
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  Speaker 20: But I just wanted to say, I think the Cowboys,
• 40:50
  Speaker 20: living in Houston, man, it.
• 40:52
  Speaker 17: Would be my honor for the Cowboys to just get
• 40:54
  Speaker 17: this win, man.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: I bet.
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: It's tough out here, man.
• 41:00
  Speaker 17: They ride hard for the Texans out here.
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  Speaker 11: But I'm optimistic.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: I think we can get it done.
• 41:06
  Speaker 17: I got the Cowboys 24, Texans 17.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: Let's go, Cowboys. Thanks for letting me call.
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: Of course.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Derek. Yeah, I mean, I would imagine that would
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: be tough being a Cowboy fan down in Houston. And,
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: you know, fans are different because they're on a different level. Level.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: And I hate to say that. I mean, Cowboys haven't
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: won Super Bowl in so many years. I get that.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: I understand that Houston hasn't won Super Bowl in ever. So, yeah. And,
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: you know, they had division titles up there. And I
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: guarantee we're going to go to the stadium and Derek
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Eagleton is going to look up and go, oh, cool.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: AFC division. South champions this year, this year. That's what
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: they celebrate. That's what their banners are. That's what they have.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: Guys like Andre Johnson are in their ring of honor.
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: Great player. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying they
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: don't have the history and all that. What they have
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: is they have hatred towards beating Dallas, and it would
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: be their Super Bowl type of game for them because
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: they need a win big time, and you know the
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Cowboys are going to get their best shot. They've got
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: to go down to Houston and make it their Super Bowl.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Go down there and say, you know what, we just
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: made a trade. This season is not lost at all.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: you know, basically let one slip away down in Rio.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Let's turn this thing a corner and get back to
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: two and two and start turning the page from September
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: into October and really start ramping this thing up. I
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: think they do it. I think the Cowboys do win.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: It's going to be close. I think that they'll win
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: this game. So I'm predicting a 30 to 24 win
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: for the Cowboys, but it's not going to be easy
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: because I do think Houston is going to bring everything
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: they've got. Hopefully the Cowboys bring that, you know, what
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: they've got actually up. Audible, quick call. Let's go quick.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Mark in Davis, California. Mark, what's up?
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: Hey, Mark.
• 42:48
  Speaker 20: I'll make, I mean, Nick, I'll make it quick. Um,
• 42:51
  Speaker 20: so yeah, I'm excited about the Joey Porter trade. Um,
• 42:54
  Speaker 20: you know, good boundary corner.
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: He's physical.
• 42:57
  Speaker 17: He's got lane.
• 42:58
  Speaker 20: Um, so yeah, so I'm excited, stoked about that. Um,
• 43:01
  Speaker 20: it's gotta get better in the red zone. Um, but
• 43:03
  Speaker 20: you know, getting the self inflicting, self inflicting penalties that
• 43:07
  Speaker 20: are driving us nuts and, uh, Yeah, so my score
• 43:10
  Speaker 20: is 27-20 Cowboys. I think we bounce back, and we've
• 43:13
  Speaker 20: got to get these next two games.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: All right, thanks, Mark. Appreciate that. So everything I just said,
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: just kind of move it to now. We don't have
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: a lot of time for all that, but we've got
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: to get one more call in. You guys were great
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: this week. I know it's tough being a Cowboy fan,
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: tough loss. You guys, you know, I think the trade
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: certainly helped, maybe kind of re-energizes everyone, gets them going
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: back for this game this week, and we'll talk about
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: it on Monday, and hopefully– Talking about a Cowboys win. So,
• 43:40
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  Speaker 9: How about this, Cowboys?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah!