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- 0:19Speaker 3: Here's Nick Eatman.
- 0:27Speaker 4: Welcome to Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette. Notice I did
- 0:32Speaker 4: not say good morning because it isn't really a good
- 0:36Speaker 4: morning around here at the Star. Boy, what an absolute
- 0:40Speaker 4: tough loss for the Cowboys. 24-16 to the Buccaneers who
- 0:44Speaker 4: get their first win of the season. And there's just
- 0:50Speaker 4: not enough fingers on the hand to go around for
- 0:53Speaker 4: the finger pointing in the blame game on this one.
- 0:57Speaker 4: Offense didn't do its thing like we had expected. Defense
- 1:03Speaker 4: still puts the team in terrible situations for most of
- 1:06Speaker 4: the time, even though it wasn't their worst, but still
- 1:11Speaker 4: not good enough to be on the field for that long.
- 1:13Speaker 4: And then the special teams, you know, had a turnover
- 1:17Speaker 4: in another play. And so you add it all up,
- 1:19Speaker 4: as I wrote in my column, that's not the balance
- 1:21Speaker 4: you're looking for to be, you know, to struggle in offense, defense,
- 1:26Speaker 4: and special teams.
- 1:27Speaker 3: And it just, you know.
- 1:29Speaker 4: From the injury standpoint, losing Joey Porter right before kickoff
- 1:33Speaker 4: to an illness, CD and Dak, they were on the
- 1:38Speaker 4: same page in Houston, and they were not in the same.
- 1:41Speaker 3: Shelf of the library, I think, for this one. It
- 1:45Speaker 3: was tough.
- 1:46Speaker 4: All right, 888-855-2297. Let's talk about it. Let you guys
- 1:51Speaker 4: do what you do. Albert in Tucson, Arizona, what's up?
- 1:55Speaker 5: Nick, my man. Good morning, brother.
- 1:57Speaker 6: How are you?
- 1:59Speaker 3: I'm okay. I'm all right. I'm tired.
- 2:02Speaker 4: But you guys are probably more tired of this.
- 2:08Speaker 3: But go ahead. I'm not going to put words in
- 2:10Speaker 3: your mouth. What do you think?
- 2:13Speaker 5: I don't know if you remember during training camp, I
- 2:16Speaker 5: called and I asked you if the hype was real
- 2:20Speaker 5: with the defense. And there was a little incident that.
- 2:29Speaker 5: Some coaches didn't want them filming the defense, and the
- 2:34Speaker 5: coaches always asked, hey, so what scheme are you running? Oh, well,
- 2:38Speaker 5: you know, with different disguises and different tastes, we're going
- 2:44Speaker 5: to run some things. And he talked a good game, man,
- 2:50Speaker 5: because he had everybody excited. But you know what the
- 2:55Speaker 5: NFL has done? The NFL has told Christian Parker hey
- 3:02Speaker 5: this is what I think about your defense giving them
- 3:05Speaker 5: the hand to the face and showing them you know
- 3:10Speaker 5: a reality check and it's tough it's tough to watch
- 3:17Speaker 5: it's tough to even they're like they look like they're
- 3:21Speaker 5: out of position they can't tackle I've seen so many
- 3:26Speaker 5: missed tackles It was, oh, my God.
- 3:30Speaker 8: All right.
- 3:30Speaker 5: But anyway, I want to get this go with a
- 3:35Speaker 5: who would you rather. And I got two of them.
- 3:40Speaker 5: Would you rather have a young quarterback and going through this,
- 3:46Speaker 5: having this record, you know, feeling him going through it,
- 3:50Speaker 5: him learning, or would you have this? the highest paid QB,
- 3:56Speaker 5: one of the highest paid receivers and this record. And
- 4:01Speaker 5: also who would you rather have? I, cause I think
- 4:05Speaker 5: also would have been a better addition than any clerk.
- 4:10Speaker 5: And that's all I got. And, um, talk to you
- 4:13Speaker 5: next week.
- 4:13Speaker 3: All right.
- 4:14Speaker 4: Thanks for the call. Um, I don't, I just, I'm sorry.
- 4:19Speaker 4: Maybe it's my lack of sleep. I don't see it.
- 4:22Speaker 4: I don't see the question. I really, who would you rather?
- 4:24Speaker 4: I mean, you have Dak Prescott, he's the quarterback, he's,
- 4:27Speaker 4: he's the quarterback. So I don't know what the question
- 4:30Speaker 4: is there. He's, he's your guy. That's not changing. And
- 4:34Speaker 4: you know, we'll, we'll see. I think I'd rather have
- 4:37Speaker 4: that as, you know, as far as the, is the year,
- 4:42Speaker 4: you know, we'll continue to progress and you tried to,
- 4:45Speaker 4: tweak a few things here and, you know, you've got
- 4:47Speaker 4: a quarterback and an offense that's, that's pretty good, you know,
- 4:51Speaker 4: for the most, for the most part, I mean, still
- 4:54Speaker 4: early in the season. I mean, maybe, maybe the offense
- 4:56Speaker 4: isn't as good as we think it is, but, you know,
- 5:00Speaker 4: it has been, you know, historically, you know, from a
- 5:02Speaker 4: record standpoint, I mean, you know, the pace that they're
- 5:05Speaker 4: on and what they've been doing and how many points
- 5:07Speaker 4: they've been scoring. I mean, I think it's pretty safe
- 5:09Speaker 4: to say what you have there. So try to, you know,
- 5:12Speaker 4: tweak some of these other things. All right, let's go
- 5:13Speaker 4: to Sergeant Sue in Fort Worth.
- 5:16Speaker 6: At ease, everybody. How you doing, Nick?
- 5:18Speaker 5: I'm good.
- 5:19Speaker 9: All right, brother. Hey, one thing, man, two players that
- 5:24Speaker 9: a lot of the fans, I said, needed to step
- 5:26Speaker 9: up the most, and two players that I feel like
- 5:28Speaker 9: a lot of the fans started to turn on the
- 5:30Speaker 9: quickest were Deron Bland and Jake Ferguson. And I think
- 5:33Speaker 9: they didn't do anything to really help their case this weekend. Unfortunately,
- 5:37Speaker 9: now everybody's going to go back and talk about their
- 5:39Speaker 9: contracts and all these other things, but if we call
- 5:41Speaker 9: it how it is, those guys had an opportunity to
- 5:44Speaker 9: make big plays in the game to kind of turn
- 5:46Speaker 9: the fan base back on their side. and fortunately it
- 5:49Speaker 9: literally slipped through their hands. This game to me was
- 5:52Speaker 9: one of those of course type of games. It started
- 5:56Speaker 9: with the first defensive drive. Of course we kept extending
- 5:59Speaker 9: their drive with defensive penalties. Of course, you know, later on,
- 6:03Speaker 9: of course, the third and 21 is picked up. Of course,
- 6:05Speaker 9: Deron Bland drops a pick. Of course, Turpin fumbles. It's
- 6:08Speaker 9: just so many things. And it ended with, of course,
- 6:11Speaker 9: that ball bounces off of Ferguson's hand. A face mask
- 6:15Speaker 9: goes straight up in the air. And Macaroni, Zaloni intercepts
- 6:18Speaker 9: the ball. And it was just one of those really
- 6:20Speaker 9: frustrating games. Obviously, you know, I always try to bring
- 6:23Speaker 9: the positivity, but it wasn't a whole lot of positive
- 6:25Speaker 9: last night. And it was just, you know, of course
- 6:27Speaker 9: that's how it happened. But hopefully these 10 days, you know,
- 6:30Speaker 9: we get some injured players back and things don't look
- 6:32Speaker 9: so sloppy. I'm not saying that we're going to go
- 6:35Speaker 9: on a win streak or anything like that. I just
- 6:36Speaker 9: want to get one win. But hopefully things don't look
- 6:38Speaker 9: as sloppy going forward. My question to you is, what's
- 6:41Speaker 9: more worrisome for you so far? Is it that Gotti
- 6:44Speaker 9: hasn't Gottied consistently? Or is it that the defense is
- 6:48Speaker 9: looking worse than it really did yesterday? My answer would be,
- 6:51Speaker 9: I think that I kind of still give the defense
- 6:54Speaker 9: a little bit of a pass. I know it's crazy.
- 6:56Speaker 9: People are going to come at me. But they have
- 6:57Speaker 9: been dealing with injuries at multiple different spots and rotating people.
- 7:00Speaker 9: And they are still working with the new D.C.
- 7:02Speaker 8: So.
- 7:03Speaker 9: That's just how I feel, man. I just want to
- 7:04Speaker 9: see what your take is.
- 7:05Speaker 6: Thank you, brother.
- 7:06Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 7:07Speaker 3: All right.
- 7:09Speaker 4: You know, I don't really care so much about the
- 7:13Speaker 4: gaudy part because that's silly.
- 7:16Speaker 3: You know what I mean? You call yourself that. You're
- 7:18Speaker 3: saying that. The Cowboys are the ones.
- 7:24Speaker 4: That said that. It's kind of self-proclaimed. And so they
- 7:28Speaker 4: don't have to be the greatest offense there is.
- 7:30Speaker 3: I mean, they just be like really, really good, and
- 7:33Speaker 3: they have been.
- 7:35Speaker 4: What's more concerning is just that the defense, all of
- 7:38Speaker 4: these things that you're supposed to put in there for
- 7:41Speaker 4: the defense, and it just.
- 7:43Speaker 3: Hasn't been better.
- 7:45Speaker 6: Now, I.
- 7:47Speaker 4: Mean, you know, I thought sitting next to Derek last
- 7:52Speaker 4: night at the game, he makes a good point, and
- 7:53Speaker 4: I'm sure he'll say this later here on the break,
- 7:56Speaker 4: is that, you know, really this defense isn't any different
- 8:01Speaker 4: than last year as far as even personnel-wise. I mean,
- 8:04Speaker 4: Rashawn Gary, that's it. Rashawn Gary over Clowney. That's the difference.
- 8:11Speaker 4: And D winners over Kenneth Murray. And Caleb Downs. You know,
- 8:20Speaker 4: he's here over whoever was at safety. But all the
- 8:22Speaker 4: other guys that you brought in, you brought in two
- 8:24Speaker 4: corners and you brought in two safeties. And none of
- 8:28Speaker 4: those four guys were on the field last night. So
- 8:30Speaker 4: you're still playing with Reddy Stewart and Marquise Bell and,
- 8:34Speaker 4: you know, Elijah Clark for a little bit and, you know,
- 8:38Speaker 4: Daron Bland.
- 8:39Speaker 3: So, yeah. I don't know.
- 8:43Speaker 4: It's not like giving a pass to anything. I just
- 8:45Speaker 4: thought the defense would be better than this, and it's not.
- 8:48Speaker 4: I mean, it really hasn't been any better than last
- 8:51Speaker 4: year's defense. And so, you know, the offense is going
- 8:54Speaker 4: to have to carry it every time. And then on
- 8:57Speaker 4: the games like this where they're just out of sync,
- 8:58Speaker 4: they're just absolutely out of sync, this is what happens.
- 9:03Speaker 4: You don't have anything to lean on, and that's kind
- 9:05Speaker 4: of what the problem was here. All right, Chris in
- 9:07Speaker 4: Saratoga Springs.
- 9:10Speaker 8: Hey, Nick. What's up, my man?
- 9:11Speaker 5: Hey.
- 9:13Speaker 8: It has a tough loss. I don't know how else
- 9:16Speaker 8: to put it. We need to win games like that.
- 9:19Speaker 8: We need to break the cycle of this win-one-lose-one stuff.
- 9:23Speaker 8: It's getting old. That's a game we should win. We're
- 9:27Speaker 8: a better team than them. We have better players than them.
- 9:31Speaker 8: I like our coaching staff just as much, if not more,
- 9:34Speaker 8: than them. We've got to win that game. There's no excuses.
- 9:38Speaker 8: DAC was off. CD was off. That combo was unbelievable
- 9:42Speaker 8: last week, and then this week it's like they're on
- 9:44Speaker 8: a different zip code. Just penalties at the most inopportune
- 9:49Speaker 8: times hurt us big time. Turnovers, you can't win games
- 9:53Speaker 8: when you have those type of penalties you have those
- 9:55Speaker 8: turnovers we got to be better I guess the only
- 9:59Speaker 8: good thing I guess is our division is terrible if
- 10:02Speaker 8: we can find a way these next two weeks to
- 10:05Speaker 8: win these two games on the road it can completely
- 10:07Speaker 8: change the trajectory of this team The fan base and
- 10:12Speaker 8: everything else. But these next two games.
- 10:14Speaker 6: Are beyond important.
- 10:16Speaker 8: I think the season is the next two weeks, in
- 10:18Speaker 8: my opinion. If we can win these next two, it
- 10:21Speaker 8: could go a long way. We need to get healthy
- 10:24Speaker 8: on defense. Losing Porter right before the game, for me,
- 10:28Speaker 8: that was crippling. He's an unbelievable player, and that changes
- 10:32Speaker 8: a lot of stuff on defense, in my opinion. So
- 10:35Speaker 8: losing him was rough.
- 10:37Speaker 6: So hopefully.
- 10:38Speaker 8: these 10 days or however many days we have coming up,
- 10:41Speaker 8: we can get healthy, we can get right, and we
- 10:43Speaker 8: can change this cycle because it needs to change. And
- 10:47Speaker 8: starting in Green Bay in 10 days.
- 10:50Speaker 2: Yeah. All right.
- 10:51Speaker 3: All right, Chris. Appreciate the call.
- 10:54Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's the silver lining here is that,
- 10:57Speaker 4: you know, you're not probably– you've got to hang in
- 11:01Speaker 4: there and win these games and win some games and
- 11:04Speaker 4: steal some that you probably shouldn't. win or not going
- 11:08Speaker 4: to be favored to win I mean which which you
- 11:10Speaker 4: have already done I mean that's that's the thing you
- 11:14Speaker 4: know I'm sure the Cowboys were favored to beat Washington
- 11:20Speaker 4: and they did I don't think they were I think
- 11:22Speaker 4: they were favored to beat the Giants they did not
- 11:25Speaker 4: and and then the Ravens were favored to win and
- 11:29Speaker 4: they won but you know you look at it I
- 11:31Speaker 4: mean I think if I'm not mistaken on that week one,
- 11:34Speaker 4: I mean, I think three of the five games now
- 11:36Speaker 4: the underdog has won the game. So, you know, the
- 11:39Speaker 4: Cowboys were underdogs against Houston. And, of course, Tampa was
- 11:44Speaker 4: the underdog by like nine points, nine.
- 11:46Speaker 3: And a half.
- 11:47Speaker 4: My point to that is that, you know, you're going
- 11:50Speaker 4: to get some of those. You're going to lose some.
- 11:52Speaker 4: But this was just a– this is troubling because– You know, Tampa's.
- 11:57Speaker 3: Just not very good at all.
- 11:59Speaker 4: I mean, like, they're 0-4, and we said it on
- 12:01Speaker 4: here that, yeah, they're competitive, and they're hanging in there, but, like,
- 12:06Speaker 4: they play terrible, too. This isn't one of those games
- 12:09Speaker 4: where you look at it and go, God, we just,
- 12:12Speaker 4: Cowboys played bad, and Tampa, they couldn't miss, or, you know, whatever.
- 12:15Speaker 3: They were just unbelievable.
- 12:17Speaker 6: No.
- 12:17Speaker 4: Tampa had 14 penalties. Their head coach was trying to
- 12:21Speaker 4: get fired. Like, seriously, I thought, man, if Dallas comes
- 12:24Speaker 4: back and wins this game, Todd Bowles did not kick
- 12:27Speaker 4: that field goal.
- 12:29Speaker 3: He's trying to lose his job. Like, you can't do that.
- 12:32Speaker 3: You cannot.
- 12:33Speaker 4: I don't care if you're getting greedy and you're like,
- 12:35Speaker 4: we're running all over these guys, we're going to score again,
- 12:37Speaker 4: and they can't stop us and all that.
- 12:39Speaker 3: Cool.
- 12:40Speaker 4: Because you kick a field goal, you go up 17,
- 12:43Speaker 4: the game is over. And it was over anyways. But
- 12:47Speaker 4: they opened the door. Now, the Cowboys certainly didn't, you know,
- 12:52Speaker 4: walk in like Kramer from Seinfeld or anything like that.
- 12:54Speaker 3: They kind of inched.
- 12:55Speaker 4: Their way in and they didn't really take advantage of
- 12:58Speaker 4: the door being open. But man, my point is, is
- 13:01Speaker 4: that Tampa didn't, you know, they didn't do anything that's
- 13:03Speaker 4: that special. I mean, really, I mean, Bucky Irving runs
- 13:07Speaker 4: for what's the 70, it was a 72 yard run.
- 13:12Speaker 8: Okay.
- 13:12Speaker 4: That's a 75 yard difference right there. 75 yard difference
- 13:17Speaker 4: because it's, it's a three yard loss the way it's
- 13:20Speaker 4: schemed up and all that. That's why I'm not, you know,
- 13:23Speaker 4: going to just kill Christian Parker on everything here. I
- 13:26Speaker 4: mean that make the play somebody, I mean, you're just
- 13:29Speaker 4: sitting there hanging out.
- 13:30Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden they're like, I don't,
- 13:32Speaker 3: I don't got him. You got him. And he goes
- 13:34Speaker 3: 72 yards.
- 13:34Speaker 4: But, um, it just, my, my point is, is that
- 13:38Speaker 4: it's a tough loss, but the troubling part is that
- 13:42Speaker 4: I don't think Tampa really played their best game. They, they, they,
- 13:47Speaker 4: it was a good game plan for them to hang
- 13:48Speaker 4: on to the ball and do that for 39 minutes.
- 13:51Speaker 4: But this isn't, this isn't a team that's turning things
- 13:54Speaker 4: around and going to the playoffs. I mean, absolutely not.
- 13:57Speaker 4: All right, Eric in North Carolina.
- 14:01Speaker 6: Hey Nick. Hey, uh, uh, tough day.
- 14:03Speaker 10: Uh, um, you know, still trying to be a positive.
- 14:08Speaker 10: We do have a long way to go. Um, on defense. Um,
- 14:13Speaker 10: one thing I've noticed the last two games in particular, uh,
- 14:16Speaker 10: with Duran bland is that, um, he, he loses a
- 14:21Speaker 10: step in transition. Um, so in his backpedal turn and run, uh,
- 14:26Speaker 10: I clearly see him losing a step and then that's
- 14:30Speaker 10: when the receivers, um, are breaking away. And, um, I
- 14:34Speaker 10: don't know if that's because of his, you know, foot
- 14:38Speaker 10: injury or that's just, you know, the stage that he's in. Um, but, um,
- 14:44Speaker 10: That is something that I noticed. And I am happy
- 14:47Speaker 10: with the Porter trade.
- 14:49Speaker 6: You know, it was tough.
- 14:49Speaker 10: He got sick and couldn't play. But I do like
- 14:52Speaker 10: that trade. He looks like a real smooth, fluid corner.
- 14:56Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 14:57Speaker 3: Could have used him. I mean, no doubt.
- 15:00Speaker 4: Could have used him in this game. Because some of
- 15:04Speaker 4: those coverage busts and all that. And I kind of,
- 15:07Speaker 4: one of the videos we did, we kind of disagreed
- 15:09Speaker 4: on it. Like, oh, he's not going to help you
- 15:11Speaker 4: win the game. I don't know if I agree with that, honestly.
- 15:13Speaker 9: I think.
- 15:14Speaker 3: Um, I think having him out there could, could.
- 15:17Speaker 4: Especially when you think about that's how it was practiced,
- 15:19Speaker 4: you know, and they didn't have a lot of practice,
- 15:21Speaker 4: but from the game plan standpoint, when you change it
- 15:24Speaker 4: up like that at the last second, um, you know, that, that,
- 15:27Speaker 4: that can't be good. I'm not saying that's the excuse
- 15:29Speaker 4: and the reason, but you know, they can't be a
- 15:31Speaker 4: good thing to change when he was supposed to be your,
- 15:35Speaker 4: you know, your top corner, you know, throughout for this week.
- 15:38Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden it changes.
- 15:39Speaker 5: Right.
- 15:41Speaker 10: Yeah, and then Glenn's contract was just reworked, right?
- 15:45Speaker 6: So we're stuck with him for years.
- 15:48Speaker 10: I mean, you know, if he doesn't improve, right?
- 15:52Speaker 3: You can get out of it. I mean, you can.
- 15:54Speaker 10: I mean, you know, a big salary cap hit, you
- 15:57Speaker 10: know what I mean?
- 15:58Speaker 3: Honestly, I don't feel good about even looking that up today.
- 16:01Speaker 6: Yeah, I understand.
- 16:05Speaker 4: It's... I mean, the thing that's weird about it, Eric,
- 16:10Speaker 4: is that you're right from the transitions and lost a
- 16:15Speaker 4: step and all that. But if he doesn't hamburger that ball,
- 16:19Speaker 4: you know, which, I mean, I don't understand. I just
- 16:21Speaker 4: saw the replay on it, and I don't know where
- 16:23Speaker 4: his hands were for that interception.
- 16:26Speaker 3: There's nobody I want out there.
- 16:27Speaker 4: I mean, seriously, if you've already made the play, there's
- 16:30Speaker 4: nobody I want more than Deron Bland doing that. And
- 16:33Speaker 4: that's including Joey Porter. That's Revel. That's all of these guys.
- 16:37Speaker 4: Because there's one thing that Bland has shown he can do,
- 16:39Speaker 4: and that's pick off the ball and then take it
- 16:41Speaker 4: to the house.
- 16:42Speaker 3: And that, I mean.
- 16:45Speaker 4: I've been on record of saying I'm not as worried
- 16:49Speaker 4: about Bland as some of the others are. And every
- 16:51Speaker 4: time he gives up a play, I get the side
- 16:53Speaker 4: eye in the press box like, still stuff that way?
- 16:56Speaker 4: I'm getting text messages and all that. So when he
- 16:58Speaker 4: had that play, if he would have picked that off,
- 17:00Speaker 4: I mean, I would have been like the Lion King
- 17:03Speaker 4: up there in the press box.
- 17:04Speaker 3: Like, seriously? But it didn't happen. It just didn't happen.
- 17:08Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.
- 17:08Speaker 10: I got excited for a second. I was like, attaboy, Bland.
- 17:11Speaker 6: And then I was like, oh.
- 17:13Speaker 3: Because we've seen it. We've seen him.
- 17:16Speaker 10: I heard the announcer say that he felt like Bland
- 17:22Speaker 10: took his eye off the ball and was eyeing the
- 17:25Speaker 10: end zone. I disagree with that because I rewatched that
- 17:29Speaker 10: a few times. And I think he just, you know,
- 17:33Speaker 10: it just– He had his eye on it. I think
- 17:36Speaker 10: that's just why he's a corner and not a receiver,
- 17:38Speaker 10: you know what I mean?
- 17:39Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 17:39Speaker 3: All right, well.
- 17:41Speaker 10: All right, Eric. But anyway, I thank you for your time,
- 17:44Speaker 10: and I'll just leave you with I think James maybe
- 17:50Speaker 10: earned a few more snaps over winners going forward. Have
- 17:55Speaker 10: a great day. Thank you.
- 17:56Speaker 4: All right, thanks. I didn't really see that as much.
- 18:01Speaker 4: I mean, I'd have to go back. I don't really
- 18:04Speaker 4: want to, though. I have to go back and watch
- 18:06Speaker 4: the game. I don't want to. So I can't tell
- 18:10Speaker 4: you about that one, about knowing how great or better
- 18:15Speaker 4: Shemar James played than winners. I would think Overshawn's coming
- 18:19Speaker 4: back here at this next game, and we'll see where
- 18:22Speaker 4: they're going to put that.
- 18:24Speaker 3: Let's go to Albert in Philly.
- 18:25Speaker 6: Hey, Nick.
- 18:27Speaker 5: What's going on?
- 18:28Speaker 7: Hey.
- 18:28Speaker 8: Hey.
- 18:29Speaker 11: Hey, what a day, huh?
- 18:31Speaker 3: I'm sure the Philly fans love.
- 18:33Speaker 4: Just like Dallas fans love when Philly loses, I'm sure
- 18:36Speaker 4: that they love when the Cowboys lose.
- 18:38Speaker 5: Yeah, I just try.
- 18:40Speaker 11: I just ignore them. I live in my own little bubble.
- 18:44Speaker 11: The defense is too easy. It's low-hanging fruit. My problem
- 18:49Speaker 11: with the offense is not about Dak. I've got issues
- 18:52Speaker 11: with him. Day one, Shai took his job. He said
- 18:57Speaker 11: he wanted to be a power-running team. Well, When you
- 19:00Speaker 11: are always in shotgun formation, the last time we ran
- 19:04Speaker 11: from under center was against Baltimore, and we ran pretty well.
- 19:07Speaker 11: Our first drive of the night last night against a
- 19:10Speaker 11: vaunted run defense was a long run. And when I
- 19:15Speaker 11: look at the roster and I see three tight ends,
- 19:18Speaker 11: one of them is only a really good blocker, and
- 19:22Speaker 11: then on the practice squad is another tight end who
- 19:25Speaker 11: doesn't even want to block. Are you really wanting to
- 19:27Speaker 11: be a power running team? Because to me, if you are,
- 19:31Speaker 11: you know, I'm doing the old Joe Gibbs. You know,
- 19:34Speaker 11: I'm putting, you know, all these H-backs on, you know,
- 19:36Speaker 11: stash them on injured reserve, you know, you used to do.
- 19:39Speaker 11: But I don't, I really don't, I really just think
- 19:43Speaker 11: he just, he's not a clone of Mike McCarthy, but he,
- 19:47Speaker 11: Mike McCarthy, McCarthy just ran once in a while to
- 19:52Speaker 11: run the ball, but I really don't think he really
- 19:55Speaker 11: wants to be a power running team. I think that
- 19:56Speaker 11: was just BS.
- 19:59Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 20:00Speaker 3: I mean, that's, that's fair.
- 20:02Speaker 4: It wouldn't be the first coordinator that said that, that
- 20:04Speaker 4: said that, that, you know, we want to run the
- 20:05Speaker 4: ball and want to establish the run and really they
- 20:08Speaker 4: get down there and they, and they don't. Um, You know,
- 20:11Speaker 4: but I think it's one of those things where they,
- 20:15Speaker 4: you know, they look at their matchups and they say,
- 20:19Speaker 4: you know, boy, we got GP on the outside or
- 20:21Speaker 4: we got CD one-on-one. I mean, we're going to have
- 20:23Speaker 4: to do it, you know, and that's what quarterback and
- 20:25Speaker 4: that's the way I think Dak is. It is a mindset.
- 20:29Speaker 4: It's a mindset to say, hey, we are going to
- 20:32Speaker 4: run over teams and we're going to be a power
- 20:34Speaker 4: running team. And they came out and they had a
- 20:37Speaker 4: great drive. and a lot of it was on the run.
- 20:40Speaker 4: It was a very, very good balance drive, and then
- 20:44Speaker 4: Tampa just countered that with the 10-minute drive, kind of,
- 20:49Speaker 4: you know, and there's been talk to take the Dallas
- 20:51Speaker 4: out of rhythm. Maybe it did, but it, you know,
- 20:55Speaker 4: snap out of it, right? I mean, like, get back
- 20:57Speaker 4: in rhythm. I mean, that's, the whole game is that way.
- 21:00Speaker 4: I mean, with TV timeouts and And, you know, we
- 21:04Speaker 4: stop all the time. And so it's it's always like
- 21:08Speaker 4: five o'clock traffic here where you're stopping and going. So
- 21:10Speaker 4: I don't know if that's a great excuse. It was
- 21:12Speaker 4: a 10 minute drive. OK, get back up on the
- 21:14Speaker 4: horse and do it again. And so and then they
- 21:17Speaker 4: felt like they kind of got away from that. You know,
- 21:21Speaker 4: they were they were running the ball well. But, yeah,
- 21:25Speaker 4: I agree with you. You know, they say one thing
- 21:27Speaker 4: and then it kind of sometimes it doesn't it doesn't
- 21:30Speaker 4: happen like that.
- 21:31Speaker 3: And you're right. McCarthy said it and did it.
- 21:33Speaker 4: And Um, you know, I, I think it's when you
- 21:36Speaker 4: have the offensive structure, the way it is, um, they,
- 21:41Speaker 4: they do, they do kind of slip out of that.
- 21:43Speaker 3: And, um, you know, I'd like to see.
- 21:44Speaker 4: Them be a little bit more of a, of a
- 21:47Speaker 4: power running team, but that's just not, this is not
- 21:50Speaker 4: kind of how it's built for some reason. All right,
- 21:52Speaker 4: let's go to break here on Cowboys storyline. We'll be
- 21:54Speaker 4: right back after this.
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- 23:08Speaker 4: All right welcome back to Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette
- 23:13Speaker 4: all right let's go to um let's go back to
- 23:15Speaker 4: our phone lines here and we'll see who we have
- 23:17Speaker 4: here we got Brian in Kansas City Brian what's up hey.
- 23:21Speaker 6: Nick what's going on man how are you Well, I'm
- 23:24Speaker 6: all right. I always say good morning, but you said
- 23:28Speaker 6: we weren't saying good morning today.
- 23:30Speaker 3: I said I wasn't. I just said it wasn't. It
- 23:33Speaker 3: is not.
- 23:34Speaker 6: It is not.
- 23:35Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 23:36Speaker 6: I'm with you. I'm with you. Well, you know, my
- 23:39Speaker 6: thing with– and this is something we've said a thousand
- 23:43Speaker 6: times is– As long as I've watched football, which is
- 23:50Speaker 6: a really long time, it's always won and lost in
- 23:53Speaker 6: the trenches. We're bottom five on offense. We're bottom five
- 23:58Speaker 6: in yards per game rushing the ball. On defense, we're
- 24:03Speaker 6: dead last. Actually, by a lot. If you can't run
- 24:10Speaker 6: the ball and you can't stop the run, you can't
- 24:13Speaker 6: win football games. It really is that simple for... You know,
- 24:18Speaker 6: I'll be 60 years old next year, this upcoming year.
- 24:22Speaker 6: It's been that way for as long as I've watched football.
- 24:25Speaker 6: It really is that simple. The part that was really
- 24:30Speaker 6: difficult for me to understand was we started the game
- 24:35Speaker 6: and Williams was 7 for 32. That's a 4.6 average.
- 24:41Speaker 6: And then we just stopped. I was just dumbfounded. I'm like, why?
- 24:45Speaker 6: It's working perfectly. And you were running exactly what I thought,
- 24:50Speaker 6: I won't say you, what I thought was going to happen.
- 24:54Speaker 6: He cut back behind that left side multiple times on
- 24:58Speaker 6: that first drive. And they were just plowing the field.
- 25:02Speaker 6: And it looked great. And then all of a sudden
- 25:05Speaker 6: we're doing what you call cute again. Like, what is
- 25:09Speaker 6: all the cute stuff? Are you kidding? And, I mean,
- 25:13Speaker 6: I live in a house, so I don't have connecting
- 25:18Speaker 6: walls to anybody. But, I mean, if you could have
- 25:21Speaker 6: been standing outside on the sidewalk, I was screaming, run
- 25:27Speaker 6: the bleeping ball. It's so loud you would have heard
- 25:31Speaker 6: it on the sidewalk.
- 25:32Speaker 8: Okay.
- 25:33Speaker 6: And it just dumbfounds me. So from your point of view,
- 25:38Speaker 6: from these last, these five games and what you saw
- 25:43Speaker 6: last season, how do you divide up between, Hey, this
- 25:47Speaker 6: is on coaching. This is on players. And this is
- 25:51Speaker 6: on front office. How do you, how do you kind of,
- 25:53Speaker 6: because I would say in this game, I thought it
- 25:57Speaker 6: was coaching and players, but who hires the coaches and players?
- 26:01Speaker 6: you know, there's plenty of blame to go around, but
- 26:04Speaker 6: how do you feel about the total inconsistency that we've
- 26:07Speaker 6: seen between last season and this season? And where, where
- 26:11Speaker 6: do you go? When I say blame, who cares about blame?
- 26:14Speaker 6: Where do you go to start to fix it? That
- 26:17Speaker 6: would be my question. Have a good one, Nick.
- 26:19Speaker 3: Well, you, thanks for the call, Brian.
- 26:22Speaker 4: I mean, to me, where you go to start to
- 26:24Speaker 4: fix it is, is you, you go to the.
- 26:26Speaker 3: Film room here and you, and you.
- 26:29Speaker 4: And you've got, you know, 12 football games to fix
- 26:32Speaker 4: this thing.
- 26:33Speaker 3: I mean, like, that's where it is.
- 26:34Speaker 4: I mean, I don't, I don't go further than that
- 26:37Speaker 4: and say, well, you know, who, I don't, I don't
- 26:40Speaker 4: have a lot of blame right now for the, you know,
- 26:43Speaker 4: front office and how it was constructed and all that.
- 26:46Speaker 4: I mean, you know, these were the guys, everyone's excited
- 26:49Speaker 4: about this team and what they think and the players
- 26:52Speaker 4: that were, you know, that were placed here. And so,
- 26:54Speaker 4: They go out there, and they didn't execute. I'm looking
- 26:57Speaker 4: at the stats, and I see what you see about
- 26:59Speaker 4: the running game. And then, you know, but, you know,
- 27:04Speaker 4: early second quarter, you know, it is. They're running the
- 27:07Speaker 4: ball well. They're doing, you know, a good job. And,
- 27:11Speaker 4: you know, I see a nine-yard pass to Javante Williams,
- 27:13Speaker 4: and then a three-yard run for a first down to
- 27:16Speaker 4: the Tampa 47. And then it was a pass, a pass,
- 27:19Speaker 4: a pass, and then they.
- 27:19Speaker 3: Had to punt. You know, so, like.
- 27:23Speaker 4: And I'm not saying you have to run every time
- 27:25Speaker 4: on first down because you do have to mix it
- 27:26Speaker 4: up and do all these things. But I think that
- 27:30Speaker 4: it is a get-back-to-work situation and figure this out and
- 27:35Speaker 4: use the rest because it's needed. I mean, it's a
- 27:39Speaker 4: much-needed rest for this team. I'm not one that likes
- 27:45Speaker 4: to throw– I mean, I don't believe in, you know,
- 27:48Speaker 4: like let's talk about excuses or anything like that. But,
- 27:51Speaker 4: you know, I definitely think this team looked tired. They
- 27:56Speaker 4: played tired. And only time will tell if that really matters.
- 28:01Speaker 4: Like I think if the Cowboys turn things around and
- 28:03Speaker 4: have a good, you know, have a better season than
- 28:06Speaker 4: this and Tampa kind of does what they do and
- 28:09Speaker 4: they're not going to be.
- 28:10Speaker 3: That great of a team, then you can look back
- 28:12Speaker 3: and go, you know what?
- 28:15Speaker 4: That was pretty daunting of a, of a, of an
- 28:17Speaker 4: ask for, you know, from a travel standpoint. But if
- 28:21Speaker 4: it is, if it just goes like this, where they're
- 28:23Speaker 4: just win, lose, win, lose, and they're, they're hovering around 500.
- 28:26Speaker 4: And then, then I don't think we'll look back as, as,
- 28:30Speaker 4: as this was anything. I do want to, want to,
- 28:33Speaker 4: point out that it's been and i don't know i've
- 28:36Speaker 4: been on the air i don't know exactly when it
- 28:38Speaker 4: happened but uh you know i'm seeing the reports and
- 28:42Speaker 4: seeing on nfl network on the passing of mike didka
- 28:46Speaker 4: uh an absolute icon um for the game as a
- 28:49Speaker 4: player as a coach obviously and uh just you know
- 28:53Speaker 4: a figure you know um so i had a time
- 28:56Speaker 4: here with the cowboys as a player and a coach
- 29:00Speaker 4: most notably, you know, as the coach of the 85 Bears.
- 29:03Speaker 4: If you want to be good on defense, they call
- 29:05Speaker 4: you the 85 Bears. And, you know, he and Buddy
- 29:10Speaker 4: Ryan were the coaches there for that defense. But anyways,
- 29:15Speaker 4: condolences to Mike Ditka, the family there. And I'm sure
- 29:18Speaker 4: we'll have a write-up on our website about him as
- 29:22Speaker 4: a former player and a former coach. All right, let's
- 29:25Speaker 4: go to Dylan in Northport, Florida.
- 29:29Speaker 15: Hey, Nick. Rest in peace. Mike Ditka, man, absolute legend.
- 29:32Speaker 15: Just goes to show you, life's bigger than football, brother. And,
- 29:37Speaker 15: you know, just got to keep that in mind. You know,
- 29:39Speaker 15: we're all pissed off, but, you know, there's more to
- 29:42Speaker 15: this thing than Sundays and Thursdays.
- 29:44Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 29:48Speaker 15: I just wanted to ask you, what side of the
- 29:52Speaker 15: ball were you more disappointed in last night? Because I'm
- 29:54Speaker 15: having a tough time with that one.
- 29:57Speaker 3: I spent, Dylan, I spent two hours.
- 30:00Speaker 4: Couldn't really figure out what i wanted to write i
- 30:02Speaker 4: mean and usually it gets me a lot better than
- 30:04Speaker 4: that and i i i don't know because i'm i'm
- 30:07Speaker 4: like i don't i don't like just saying well the
- 30:10Speaker 4: defense is what it is like no get better on
- 30:12Speaker 4: the defense so it is the defense too but then
- 30:15Speaker 4: you know then it's it's everything it was just it
- 30:18Speaker 4: was just the what's the the spider-man.
- 30:21Speaker 15: Meme where yeah the plane.
- 30:24Speaker 3: That's what it was right i mean everybody everybody gets
- 30:27Speaker 3: some of.
- 30:28Speaker 15: This Yeah, it's funny you say that. I don't know
- 30:32Speaker 15: if you saw, I have a little side thing going
- 30:34Speaker 15: on as well. I spent about 45 minutes last night dead-brained.
- 30:40Speaker 15: I couldn't think about what to write either. I mean,
- 30:42Speaker 15: I'm at a complete loss. I think I'm more upset
- 30:45Speaker 15: with the offense because the defense did hold at the
- 30:47Speaker 15: end of the day to 24 points. And if you
- 30:50Speaker 15: tell me any week of the season that the defense
- 30:52Speaker 15: held the offense to 24 points, then I think you
- 30:56Speaker 15: win the game, right?
- 30:57Speaker 2: Right.
- 30:58Speaker 15: And the offense scored 10. right up front and then
- 31:01Speaker 15: they didn't they didn't touch the end zone didn't kick
- 31:03Speaker 15: a field goal again until five minutes left in the
- 31:05Speaker 15: fourth quarter so i think it's more so on the
- 31:09Speaker 15: offense and the defense and that's not giving any credit
- 31:11Speaker 15: to the defense at all because they weren't good either
- 31:14Speaker 15: but yet you know obviously 12 missed tackles over there
- 31:16Speaker 15: i think there is something to the the travel stuff
- 31:19Speaker 15: we talked about it in the offseason when the schedule
- 31:22Speaker 15: came out it's going to be a brutal stretch and
- 31:24Speaker 15: But now that it actually happened and we're here, nobody
- 31:26Speaker 15: wants to hear it.
- 31:27Speaker 4: But realistically– That's a great point, though, and that's what
- 31:31Speaker 4: I thought, too. Like, when the schedule comes out and
- 31:34Speaker 4: we get asked about, ooh, what stands out, and you
- 31:37Speaker 4: point right there, you're like, that looks bad. Like, that
- 31:40Speaker 4: right there, you're going to go here, then you're going
- 31:42Speaker 4: to come here to Houston, then you're going to do
- 31:43Speaker 4: a short week.
- 31:44Speaker 3: Ooh, I don't know if I like that.
- 31:45Speaker 4: But that's what you do when you're assessing the schedule
- 31:48Speaker 4: in May.
- 31:50Speaker 3: And then it happens and it.
- 31:51Speaker 4: Plays out and you're like, why do they look so
- 31:54Speaker 4: bad against Tampa Bay?
- 31:55Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 31:56Speaker 3: But that's why. You know what I mean?
- 31:59Speaker 4: And I stole this line from someone, and it holds true.
- 32:04Speaker 4: It's not the excuse. It's just the reason. You know
- 32:07Speaker 4: what I mean? It's just the reason. And we'll see.
- 32:10Speaker 4: That's what I just said. We'll see if it is
- 32:12Speaker 4: the reason. Because if they play like this all year long.
- 32:14Speaker 3: Then this is how they play.
- 32:16Speaker 15: Yeah, when the schedule came out, I pointed to that,
- 32:19Speaker 15: and I was kind of pissed off about it. I'm like, well,
- 32:20Speaker 15: the NFL really did you absolutely no favor scheduling a
- 32:22Speaker 15: Thursday night football game there. I don't know the reasoning
- 32:25Speaker 15: for it. I think it was completely illogical, but it
- 32:27Speaker 15: is what it is. So, I mean, you've got to
- 32:28Speaker 15: come out and play, and they didn't do it. Everybody
- 32:30Speaker 15: was sloppy. Everybody was tired. None of it looked right.
- 32:33Speaker 15: One last thing, the Blitz, I called it out before
- 32:36Speaker 15: the game. I said the only viable path for the
- 32:38Speaker 15: Buccaneers to win on defense is to blitz the hell
- 32:40Speaker 15: out of Dak Prescott and hope he gets there.
- 32:42Speaker 8: It's a double-edged sword.
- 32:43Speaker 3: It's dangerous.
- 32:43Speaker 15: He's good against the Blitz. But I wonder with the
- 32:46Speaker 15: short week, maybe give me your thoughts on this off air.
- 32:49Speaker 15: Short week, did Dak Prescott, Coach Shoddy, the offense, not
- 32:53Speaker 15: have time to maybe prepare for some of these looks
- 32:56Speaker 15: they were going to get, even though it was obvious
- 32:57Speaker 15: Tampa Bay was going to do it? Maybe give me
- 32:59Speaker 15: your thoughts on that, and.
- 33:00Speaker 3: I'll let you know. Yeah, I mean, thanks for the call, Dylan,
- 33:03Speaker 3: as always.
- 33:04Speaker 4: And, you know, they didn't have the same week for
- 33:12Speaker 4: prep time as you've had in the past. And also
- 33:16Speaker 4: dealing with trying to just kind of get them off
- 33:20Speaker 4: their feet a little bit. But Tampa didn't either from
- 33:23Speaker 4: that standpoint. I mean, Tampa was at home and traveled
- 33:29Speaker 4: to the game. So they didn't really have that prep
- 33:32Speaker 4: time either. So I don't know if it's necessarily... I
- 33:35Speaker 4: don't like to throw that part out there from a
- 33:37Speaker 4: preparation standpoint because... From that, they were all kind of
- 33:43Speaker 4: on an equal playing field there from a rest standpoint
- 33:49Speaker 4: and where they've been and how many games they've played
- 33:53Speaker 4: and all the travel and the lack of, I guess
- 33:56Speaker 4: you could say prep time from the last couple of weeks,
- 33:58Speaker 4: but still. You know, I think Tampa just came in
- 34:02Speaker 4: and just, you know, they had a better plan and
- 34:04Speaker 4: better scheme and they out executed and, you know, they,
- 34:07Speaker 4: they put their quarterback in a better situation and, you know,
- 34:10Speaker 4: truth be told, I mean, you know, he, he looked
- 34:12Speaker 4: more comfortable in his second career start. He looked more
- 34:16Speaker 4: comfortable than Dak. I mean, that's, that's the way it was.
- 34:19Speaker 4: I mean, the blitz got it, got after him early
- 34:21Speaker 4: and then he didn't get any help really from anybody
- 34:23Speaker 4: other than, than Pickens. So, Once again, it's volleyball season
- 34:28Speaker 4: around here. I mean, that's what it looked like. How
- 34:30Speaker 4: many times these passes get set and volleyed up in
- 34:33Speaker 4: the air? That was the case a couple years ago.
- 34:37Speaker 4: I mean, it's sad. Dak gets a couple of interceptions
- 34:40Speaker 4: on his mark here, but these balls are just getting
- 34:45Speaker 4: batted up.
- 34:46Speaker 3: In the air. All right, let's go to Rob in Vegas.
- 34:50Speaker 6: Hey, Nick.
- 34:50Speaker 3: Hey, Rob.
- 34:53Speaker 16: So my question for you is, Why do you think
- 34:56Speaker 16: Jerry doesn't value coaching?
- 34:58Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 35:02Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 35:02Speaker 3: I mean, I think he does, but I, you know,
- 35:04Speaker 3: but I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, but I mean.
- 35:09Speaker 16: Why do you think he does when there's no proof
- 35:11Speaker 16: in that?
- 35:13Speaker 2: I mean.
- 35:14Speaker 16: He, we, we talked about it. There's no salary cap
- 35:16Speaker 16: in coaching. I mean, he's got a, a quarter billion
- 35:19Speaker 16: dollar yacht. He's money's not an object. So why does
- 35:23Speaker 16: he go so, so cheap?
- 35:25Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 35:26Speaker 8: I know.
- 35:26Speaker 16: I mean, yeah, it's ridiculous that an organization like this, he,
- 35:34Speaker 16: he shops at the dollar store for coaching and he's
- 35:36Speaker 16: done it for years and it's, It's got to be
- 35:41Speaker 16: an ego thing. He doesn't like the pushback. That's the
- 35:45Speaker 16: only thing I can think of. Jimmy left such a
- 35:49Speaker 16: bad taste in his mouth, even though he made him.
- 35:51Speaker 6: What he is. He just refuses.
- 35:54Speaker 16: I mean, Schottenheimer, let's face it, you watch the game
- 35:58Speaker 16: and he looks like a deer in headlights. There are
- 36:00Speaker 16: just times where you just can see he's overwhelmed. And
- 36:06Speaker 16: Christian Parkin looks like a hurt player That's on the
- 36:10Speaker 16: sideline with his designer sunglasses and his diamond earrings. He
- 36:15Speaker 16: looks like a hurt player like that just hangs out
- 36:18Speaker 16: on the sideline. And I just don't get that those
- 36:21Speaker 16: are the two guys over this team with the amount
- 36:26Speaker 16: of money that's invested in your quarterback and your receivers.
- 36:30Speaker 16: And it's just, it's ridiculous. And, you know, football, the
- 36:35Speaker 16: coaching matters. Baseball, not so much. Hockey a little more.
- 36:40Speaker 16: But football, coaching matters. It's not a coincidence that we've
- 36:45Speaker 16: been so bad with Dak, with Romo, with bad coaching.
- 36:51Speaker 16: Mike McCarthy was actually a good coach. 12 and 5,
- 36:54Speaker 16: three years in a row, seems like light years away.
- 36:57Speaker 16: But I just wanted to see why do you think
- 37:00Speaker 16: he just doesn't value it?
- 37:02Speaker 7: Why?
- 37:04Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. But we didn't talk
- 37:06Speaker 3: about it last week either, so I don't know. Like,
- 37:09Speaker 3: you know, that's.
- 37:10Speaker 4: Just not going to be my style to sit here
- 37:13Speaker 4: and go, you know, we're talking about coaches after a loss.
- 37:16Speaker 3: We're not talking about coaches after a win.
- 37:17Speaker 2: But wait a minute.
- 37:19Speaker 16: Why do you always do that?
- 37:21Speaker 3: Last week, he got bailed out.
- 37:24Speaker 2: Yes, we do.
- 37:26Speaker 16: You stick up for the coaching staff.
- 37:29Speaker 3: And you always.
- 37:30Speaker 16: Say, no, no, no, you always say, well, we don't
- 37:33Speaker 16: talk about it when it's a win. Yes, we did.
- 37:35Speaker 16: He got bailed out last week. They didn't win because
- 37:39Speaker 16: of him. They won despite of him.
- 37:43Speaker 4: But they lost this one because of him? See, that's
- 37:46Speaker 4: the kind of crap that I hate. I hate that
- 37:48Speaker 4: with coaches.
- 37:49Speaker 16: Wait a minute, wait a minute. You just said. No,
- 37:51Speaker 16: you just said.
- 37:52Speaker 2: The team looked tired.
- 37:53Speaker 16: The team looked undisciplined.
- 37:55Speaker 2: The team didn't look this. That's on the coach.
- 37:57Speaker 3: That's on the coach.
- 37:58Speaker 2: A head coach. A head coach would have saw that.
- 38:01Speaker 4: I'm saying what they looked, but that doesn't say what
- 38:05Speaker 4: it is.
- 38:05Speaker 3: And that's what you're saying, too.
- 38:07Speaker 4: You're worried about what Christian Parker's wearing in his ears,
- 38:10Speaker 4: and you're not worried about anything else. So that stereotype
- 38:13Speaker 4: right there, I don't even like that.
- 38:15Speaker 16: What do you mean a stereotype?
- 38:16Speaker 8: Who cares what he looks like?
- 38:17Speaker 3: Who cares what he looks like?
- 38:19Speaker 8: It matters.
- 38:19Speaker 16: I don't want my head coach wearing his hat backwards.
- 38:22Speaker 8: Out, out, out, out, out.
- 38:24Speaker 4: Absolutely not. I'm not going with stereotypes on that. It
- 38:28Speaker 4: doesn't matter what a guy looks like, what he's wearing,
- 38:30Speaker 4: all that. What matters is the defense isn't stopping anyone.
- 38:33Speaker 4: Let's talk about that. The defense isn't stopping anyone. It
- 38:36Speaker 4: hasn't been changed. They haven't done anything different than what
- 38:40Speaker 4: they did last year. Now, they tried with different players.
- 38:43Speaker 4: They've added some corners and some safeties and they weren't
- 38:46Speaker 4: on the field. They weren't ready to play. So that
- 38:49Speaker 4: is that is the problem right now. The problem is,
- 38:51Speaker 4: is the defense is not performing well. Put that on coaching.
- 38:54Speaker 16: Sure.
- 38:55Speaker 4: Preparation, all of that stuff. That's what the issue is
- 38:58Speaker 4: right now. It doesn't to me. That's low-hanging fruit to
- 39:02Speaker 4: sit there and talk about what demeanor and what somebody's
- 39:06Speaker 4: deer in headlights and all that. Eli Manning's going to
- 39:08Speaker 4: go into the Hall of Fame, and his look is
- 39:10Speaker 4: not one that you would say, oh, I want that guy.
- 39:13Speaker 4: So I'm not even going to sit here and entertain
- 39:15Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. The coaching hasn't been good enough, okay?
- 39:19Speaker 4: It hasn't been. But I don't like to sit here
- 39:21Speaker 4: and talk about it when, you know, if they win,
- 39:25Speaker 4: it's because of the players, and if they lose, it's
- 39:27Speaker 4: because of the coaching.
- 39:29Speaker 3: I don't agree with that. I think it's both.
- 39:31Speaker 4: I don't I think this is an average team below
- 39:34Speaker 4: average is the record. I think it's average team right now.
- 39:37Speaker 4: They've got to fix a lot of things. But I
- 39:41Speaker 4: don't like to sit and just play big picture every.
- 39:44Speaker 3: Single time on a game.
- 39:46Speaker 4: They've got to figure out how to get a little
- 39:48Speaker 4: bit more rest and get ready to play for this
- 39:52Speaker 4: two-road game stretch coming up here with the Packers and
- 39:56Speaker 4: the Eagles. All right, let's take another break here on
- 39:57Speaker 4: Cowboy Storyline. We'll be right back after this.
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- 41:27Speaker 4: slash NFL. All right, let's go to Fernando in Miami.
- 41:31Speaker 3: Fernando.
- 41:33Speaker 2: Good morning, Nick.
- 41:35Speaker 3: What's up?
- 41:37Speaker 2: What's up? Okay. I'm calling because I think we got
- 41:41Speaker 2: tricked into picking downs so early in the first round,
- 41:46Speaker 2: and I'm going to tell you why. College, I saw
- 41:49Speaker 2: Sean Taylor play for UM, saw him play for Washington,
- 41:52Speaker 2: Ronnie Lott, USC, and then for the 49ers. Scott Case
- 41:58Speaker 2: in that Super Bowl against Pittsburgh. He was from Atlanta.
- 42:01Speaker 2: He was knocking the crap out of those Steeler receivers.
- 42:06Speaker 2: I mean, these guys stood out in college at Reed
- 42:09Speaker 2: from UM. Then he went to the Ravens. He'd get picks.
- 42:12Speaker 2: And Roy Williams. And I'm thinking, this dude, it's a
- 42:16Speaker 2: high pick in the first round. To me, he doesn't
- 42:19Speaker 2: play even close. to those safeties. And he's basically a
- 42:24Speaker 2: nickel corner in the first round. That's one of my complaints.
- 42:30Speaker 2: Not that he's bad, but first round, not high. And second,
- 42:35Speaker 2: Quentin Williams, I saw him a couple of times playing
- 42:40Speaker 2: with the Jets, and I wasn't too impressed. He wasn't
- 42:43Speaker 2: like a Charles Haley guy that, I mean, it's a
- 42:46Speaker 2: different position, but that would bring it and bring it.
- 42:49Speaker 2: I mean, he disappeared.
- 42:51Speaker 6: The Jets weren't good.
- 42:52Speaker 2: It was kind of like what you're seeing now. He's
- 42:55Speaker 2: playing little spurts. So when they got him, I was thinking, damn,
- 42:59Speaker 2: you know, he didn't really, he wasn't Randy white. I mean, Joe,
- 43:03Speaker 2: Joe green, how we long when he played. Yeah. He
- 43:06Speaker 2: went to the pro bowl, but I never saw that
- 43:10Speaker 2: out of him, Warren Sapp or nothing. So we're kind
- 43:13Speaker 2: of getting what I've seen with, with these guys with
- 43:18Speaker 2: other teams. Yeah.
- 43:21Speaker 4: I think you can make that argument with Quinn and
- 43:24Speaker 4: Williams that he's, you know, they paid a lot for
- 43:27Speaker 4: him and they gave him a big contract. And, you know,
- 43:31Speaker 4: you expect that type of production. And it's a position
- 43:36Speaker 4: that's not– It's hard to be consistent there all the time.
- 43:42Speaker 4: Sometimes it is going to be one where you don't
- 43:44Speaker 4: hear from him a little bit.
- 43:46Speaker 3: I thought.
- 43:48Speaker 4: He's played a lot better here these last few games.
- 43:50Speaker 4: Not really that down on him, but he's in the
- 43:55Speaker 4: middle there. Him and Kenny Clark are in the middle,
- 43:57Speaker 4: and they're giving up a ton of running. Some of
- 44:00Speaker 4: it's got to be on his watch. I don't feel
- 44:02Speaker 4: the same way about the Caleb Downs, though. You just
- 44:05Speaker 4: named three or four Hall of Fame-type safeties, and I
- 44:09Speaker 4: think he'll get there. He's not playing the position that
- 44:11Speaker 4: they drafted him to play right now, but with all
- 44:15Speaker 4: the injuries, I think he'll get there. I think he's
- 44:17Speaker 4: going to be a really, really good player. I really
- 44:19Speaker 4: believe that.
- 44:19Speaker 2: Nick, one quick question.
- 44:24Speaker 6: This is quick.
- 44:24Speaker 2: Joe Rose, he's got a radio show down here in Miami.
- 44:27Speaker 2: He caught Dan Marino's first touchdown pass. He says one
- 44:30Speaker 2: day he told on the phone, he said, I went
- 44:33Speaker 2: with my family. I'm going to go to say to
- 44:36Speaker 2: the mall. And he said there were a bunch of
- 44:38Speaker 2: fans waiting for him at the mall and he could
- 44:40Speaker 2: not shake them. So I'm wondering, have you ever been
- 44:44Speaker 2: somewhere where you have not been able to shake people?
- 44:48Speaker 2: Like they're like, Oh, Nick, Nick, like groupies.
- 44:51Speaker 6: Has that ever happened to you?
- 44:53Speaker 3: No, no, not even in my own house. No, no,
- 44:56Speaker 3: that doesn't.
- 44:58Speaker 2: Really, I'm surprised that.
- 45:01Speaker 3: You're surprised, honestly.
- 45:03Speaker 8: So, all right.
- 45:05Speaker 6: Thanks for the call.
- 45:07Speaker 4: Um, maybe I misunderstood the question. I don't know what
- 45:10Speaker 4: he was asking there. Um, All right, let's go to
- 45:12Speaker 4: Allen in Phoenix, Arizona.
- 45:14Speaker 3: Allen, what's up?
- 45:18Speaker 2: Allen?
- 45:21Speaker 7: Hello?
- 45:22Speaker 3: You there, Allen?
- 45:23Speaker 2: What's up?
- 45:24Speaker 3: Can you hear me?
- 45:25Speaker 6: Yep. How's it going?
- 45:27Speaker 3: It's going good. First-time caller. Let's do this.
- 45:32Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
- 45:34Speaker 7: I mean, I ain't got really too much to say.
- 45:36Speaker 7: I mean, I was screaming at my TV like crazy.
- 45:39Speaker 7: I feel bad for my downstairs neighbor. Um, I just
- 45:42Speaker 7: had a question about, uh, Josh Butler. I mean, our
- 45:45Speaker 7: secondary is pretty, you know, cornerback room is pretty beat
- 45:48Speaker 7: up and, you know, bland isn't really playing up to
- 45:51Speaker 7: his contract right now. And, you know, I was kind
- 45:53Speaker 7: of just wondering, would they even entertain the idea of
- 45:57Speaker 7: bringing him back? I mean, I really liked him as
- 45:58Speaker 7: a player. He did pretty good before he, I heard,
- 46:00Speaker 7: you know, I.
- 46:04Speaker 4: Mean, no one else is really on that boat either
- 46:07Speaker 4: right now. I don't believe he's on anyone's team or
- 46:10Speaker 4: practice squad.
- 46:12Speaker 3: I don't see.
- 46:14Speaker 4: What everyone sees on that. I mean, he played some.
- 46:19Speaker 4: One game he had like 12 tackles, but that's because
- 46:21Speaker 4: they threw at him a lot. I just don't think
- 46:26Speaker 4: he's better than any of the guys that they have.
- 46:29Speaker 3: I really don't.
- 46:29Speaker 2: I mean.
- 46:31Speaker 3: I could be wrong.
- 46:32Speaker 4: But this is getting into last year's team, last year's
- 46:35Speaker 4: defenses the last couple of years. That was part of
- 46:37Speaker 4: the problem. I think Reddy Stewart does a decent job,
- 46:41Speaker 4: but the goal was to replace all of those guys,
- 46:45Speaker 4: and here they are, and they're having to play with
- 46:48Speaker 4: the Marquise Bells and Elijah Clarks and Reddy Stewart and
- 46:51Speaker 4: Kalen Carson and all that when you're like that. That
- 46:54Speaker 4: was not the plan to do that. Yes, injuries has
- 46:58Speaker 4: hurt this team, but I... I don't know if Josh
- 47:01Speaker 4: Butler's the answer there. I don't think anyone else thinks
- 47:04Speaker 4: that way right now either. So I think they've got
- 47:08Speaker 4: bigger problems than that.
- 47:11Speaker 8: Right.
- 47:12Speaker 7: I mean, that's all really I have to say.
- 47:17Speaker 3: Well, thanks for calling.
- 47:18Speaker 4: I appreciate it. This is your first call. Make sure
- 47:20Speaker 4: you call us back. Glad to have you part of
- 47:24Speaker 4: the storyline family.
- 47:25Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 47:26Speaker 2: All right.
- 47:27Speaker 3: All right, Alan.
- 47:27Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 47:28Speaker 3: Have a good one.
- 47:29Speaker 8: You too.
- 47:29Speaker 3: Have a good one. All right, guys. I know it sucks. Like, really.
- 47:35Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not trying to be combative. I'm not
- 47:37Speaker 4: trying to stick up for the team or whatever. I mean,
- 47:42Speaker 4: days like this. this show isn't fun and it's not
- 47:45Speaker 4: fun to do it. It's not fun. It's not fun
- 47:48Speaker 4: for you guys, you know, and I appreciate the call and, and,
- 47:51Speaker 4: and all of them, Rob too, like, like the frustration
- 47:54Speaker 4: is there. And, and I, and I get it. I,
- 47:58Speaker 4: you know, I, I think we, we need to be
- 47:59Speaker 4: careful on, on what are we really mad about?
- 48:02Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
- 48:03Speaker 4: And, and not, not maybe throwing out things that, that
- 48:07Speaker 4: don't really pertain to the problem. The problem is, is
- 48:10Speaker 4: that this team isn't good enough to, to, to win
- 48:14Speaker 4: these games and, and whatever it is. I mean, I
- 48:17Speaker 4: don't like to throw out excuses. If we'll find out if,
- 48:21Speaker 4: if it was, they just weren't prepared or weren't, you're
- 48:24Speaker 4: tired or, or whatever. Fact of the matter is you
- 48:28Speaker 4: got to go out and play the game and they didn't,
- 48:30Speaker 4: they didn't play well.
- 48:31Speaker 3: And, and it wasn't just the offense. It wasn't the defense.
- 48:34Speaker 3: It wasn't just the special teams. It was everybody. And it,
- 48:38Speaker 3: the crowd wasn't even that great either.
- 48:41Speaker 4: I'm not, I'm not, I'm just saying, man, It was
- 48:43Speaker 4: an off night from start to finish, and let's just
- 48:48Speaker 4: bottle that one up and throw it in the trash
- 48:49Speaker 4: and see if you can get better from that. That
- 48:53Speaker 4: was one that you're going to look back and go, man,
- 48:55Speaker 4: how did that happen? But now you've made it a
- 48:59Speaker 4: little tougher on yourself. You've got to go to Green Bay.
- 49:01Speaker 4: You've got to go to Philly. You've got to win
- 49:02Speaker 4: these games. You've got to start stacking some wins together,
- 49:05Speaker 4: and that's not what this team has done in the
- 49:08Speaker 4: last several years. Well, I guess when McCarthy was here,
- 49:12Speaker 4: they were good at that. But since then, they haven't
- 49:14Speaker 4: found a way to stack wins. And that is a
- 49:17Speaker 4: consistent thing. That's consistency. That's figuring out how to come
- 49:21Speaker 4: in here on a Monday after a win, put it together,
- 49:25Speaker 4: and keep grinding and quit calling yourself names about what
- 49:30Speaker 4: we are, the offense, and all that.
- 49:32Speaker 3: It's not gaudy.
- 49:34Speaker 8: It's not.
- 49:34Speaker 4: That's not what it is. This isn't the greatest offense
- 49:37Speaker 4: there is. The greatest offense, they go out and they
- 49:41Speaker 4: score more points and they– you know they they figure
- 49:45Speaker 4: out the blitz and and all these things um and
- 49:48Speaker 4: they played a little bit more complimentary football so you
- 49:51Speaker 4: know part of the 40 minute time of possession is
- 49:53Speaker 4: on the defense but it's also on the offense too
- 49:56Speaker 4: for not extending some of these drives and and being
- 49:59Speaker 4: flat and they kind of came out uh flat first
- 50:02Speaker 4: first drive the game it looks great since then just
- 50:04Speaker 4: the bottom dropped and they They couldn't recover, and it
- 50:07Speaker 4: was a little bit of everybody. So, guys, for the
- 50:10Speaker 4: callers that called, you know, I appreciate it. I can
- 50:13Speaker 4: hear the frustration. on on all of them you know
- 50:16Speaker 4: even the guys that usually call in and with with
- 50:19Speaker 4: you know really great positivity it's not there it's hard
- 50:23Speaker 4: to do it this morning it is this is this
- 50:25Speaker 4: is one where worse than than I think it's worse
- 50:29Speaker 4: than than the Baltimore game you know worse than than
- 50:31Speaker 4: even the Giants game even though you thought you had
- 50:34Speaker 4: a chance to win the way they played and who
- 50:36Speaker 4: they played and how they went about their business uh
- 50:40Speaker 4: it's worrisome for the entire season so They're going to have.
- 50:43Speaker 3: To figure it out.
- 50:44Speaker 4: But I'm not in the business of saying big wholesale
- 50:47Speaker 4: changes right now.
- 50:48Speaker 3: I don't think that's happening.
- 50:49Speaker 4: They got to go in there, go back into the lab,
- 50:52Speaker 4: and figure it out how to turn this thing around.
- 50:54Speaker 3: All right, guys.
- 50:54Speaker 4: Appreciate the show. We'll be here on Monday to talk
- 51:00Speaker 4: it up and see what the Cowboys can do as
- 51:02Speaker 4: they got a couple of big road games ahead of them.
- 51:04Speaker 4: So for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. Have a good
- 51:07Speaker 4: weekend if you can. We'll see you next time on
- 51:09Speaker 4: Cowboy Storyline.
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