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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
- 0:05Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
- 0:09Speaker 2: Cowboys.
- 0:12Speaker 1: This He's Cowboys storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:22Speaker 2: What's up everyone? Welcome to Cowboys storyline. It is Thursday,
- 0:25Speaker 2: January the fourth, getting ready for the Cowboys taking on
- 0:29Speaker 2: the Commanders in Landover, Maryland, Washington, d C. People always
- 0:35Speaker 2: say where are you going? Are you going to d C?
- 0:37Speaker 2: Like sometimes sometimes we have gone to d C. I
- 0:40Speaker 2: remember I've stayed like where our hotel will stayed, like
- 0:43Speaker 2: right there by the White House, walking around a little
- 0:45Speaker 2: bit there, and we've seen some of the monuments and
- 0:47Speaker 2: all that. But I'm not even sure where we're staying
- 0:50Speaker 2: this year. But you know, it's it's all over the
- 0:52Speaker 2: map from Virginia, Maryland in the middle of d C.
- 0:56Speaker 3: All that.
- 0:56Speaker 2: It's a it's a it's a trip. I'll tell you that.
- 0:59Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a great trip, but it's
- 1:00Speaker 2: always a trip one way or another. All right? Eight
- 1:04Speaker 2: eight eight eight five five two two nine seven. That
- 1:08Speaker 2: is the number to call plenty to talk about. We'll
- 1:10Speaker 2: go through some of the storylines of the week here. Finally, officially,
- 1:17Speaker 2: Lael Collins, Damian Wilson on the team on the practice squad.
- 1:21Speaker 2: At least they have returned. There's a little bit of
- 1:25Speaker 2: a contract situation that took a while for Lyell. I
- 1:30Speaker 2: think he had some deferred money from the Bengals that
- 1:33Speaker 2: that he they were paying him until he signs with
- 1:37Speaker 2: another team, and if he signs with another team, he's
- 1:38Speaker 2: gonna they had to come out with. They had to
- 1:40Speaker 2: settle that a little bit before it was official. That's
- 1:42Speaker 2: why you didn't see that on our site. You saw
- 1:45Speaker 2: it on other other sites. But uh, that's that's kind
- 1:48Speaker 2: of what was the hold up there. Why wasn't at
- 1:50Speaker 2: practice yesterday? But they signed, uh four guys one of
- 1:54Speaker 2: them or Racy McMath it's a real real name, uh,
- 2:01Speaker 2: wide receiver and then should should Edric Thompson or something
- 2:06Speaker 2: like that. Sorry, I just got the list. Uh he's
- 2:08Speaker 2: a running back. They got four guys. Uh, they released
- 2:11Speaker 2: four from the practice squad, one of them being Martavis Bryant.
- 2:14Speaker 2: So if you if you had those you know, thoughts
- 2:17Speaker 2: that maybe he was going to come in and be
- 2:19Speaker 2: elevated and save the day and be a you know,
- 2:21Speaker 2: red zone threat, and now he's been released along with
- 2:26Speaker 2: Tyron Billy Johnson's another He's a speedy wide receiver that
- 2:29Speaker 2: they released, as well a couple other guys, uh Prevlyon
- 2:33Speaker 2: and uh Panky, a couple of players there. Also, the
- 2:37Speaker 2: Pro Bowl came out. Uh we said yesterday I thought
- 2:40Speaker 2: maybe seven eighth. They ended up with seven, seven Pro bowlers.
- 2:47Speaker 2: The six were given. The one that was not not
- 2:50Speaker 2: so sure about was Brian Anger. Uh the punter gets
- 2:53Speaker 2: in for the second time. So any any snubs, I
- 2:59Speaker 2: don't think so. Some of y'all might tank Tyler Smith,
- 3:06Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure that they're on the alternate list.
- 3:09Speaker 2: Jake Ferguson. I just there's no way. There's too many,
- 3:12Speaker 2: too many tight ends with better stats in front of
- 3:14Speaker 2: them in the NFC. But you know it's still seven
- 3:19Speaker 2: is a really good number. And you know, of course
- 3:21Speaker 2: nobody wants them to play in those Pro Bowl games.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Of course that we know what that would mean. But
- 3:26Speaker 2: still it's a great honor. And I think the greatest
- 3:29Speaker 2: stat maybe ever, like ever, in all of the years
- 3:35Speaker 2: of covering the Cowboys, the greatest stat is the fact
- 3:39Speaker 2: that Zach Martin, now nine Pro Bowls, has more Pro
- 3:43Speaker 2: Bowls than he has career holding calls career. We've seen
- 3:48Speaker 2: guys have three holding calls in one drive. This guy,
- 3:52Speaker 2: I think he's got five holding calls in his career,
- 3:56Speaker 2: maybe six and nine nine Pro bowls. That find a
- 4:02Speaker 2: better stat that's more mind blowing than that, Like I
- 4:04Speaker 2: I don't know that's that's going to rank right up there.
- 4:06Speaker 2: All right, let's get let's get going here, Gary, New
- 4:08Speaker 2: Mexico is our first caller.
- 4:11Speaker 4: Hey, Nick, good morning from the snowy mountains of New Mexico.
- 4:15Speaker 5: Nice.
- 4:16Speaker 4: I've been calling in off and on throughout the year,
- 4:18Speaker 4: and with the exception of the San Francisco game when
- 4:21Speaker 4: I was a little upset, little I've tried to maintain
- 4:24Speaker 4: an even keel.
- 4:25Speaker 6: You know.
- 4:26Speaker 4: Let the cake bake. Let's see how it plays out.
- 4:28Speaker 3: Well.
- 4:28Speaker 4: Here we are, yeah, man, and that cake is starting
- 4:33Speaker 4: to smell pretty good right now because we've got it.
- 4:36Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 4:37Speaker 4: I don't know what what flavor? I don't know, man, peppermint.
- 4:40Speaker 4: My daughter makes a great peppermint cake.
- 4:42Speaker 2: Blueberry.
- 4:43Speaker 4: Never tried it blueberry?
- 4:46Speaker 7: Yeah, that'd be good.
- 4:46Speaker 2: I mean, since the Cowboys are blow I don't know, all.
- 4:49Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, as long as it's got a star on top.
- 4:51Speaker 4: Here's the deal. Man, everybody's gripped and complained and fired
- 4:56Speaker 4: the coach and get rid of that Prescott. But if
- 4:59Speaker 4: you would have told us that at the beginning of
- 5:00Speaker 4: the year you're going to be playing for the number
- 5:02Speaker 4: two seed on the last Sunday of the season, would
- 5:05Speaker 4: you have taken that.
- 5:07Speaker 2: Yes?
- 5:07Speaker 4: Absolutely, man, So that's all.
- 5:09Speaker 8: I wanted to say.
- 5:10Speaker 4: And then I got a question for you. But just
- 5:14Speaker 4: relax and enjoy the ride. This team has a chance
- 5:17Speaker 4: to do something very special. And your comment about Zach Martin,
- 5:22Speaker 4: I really want, I really want them to get to
- 5:24Speaker 4: a Super Bowl for some of the guys like that,
- 5:26Speaker 4: because Zack Martin is now up there with guys like
- 5:28Speaker 4: Bob Lilly and Nel Renfro, I mean, all time cowboy
- 5:32Speaker 4: greats as far as Pro Bowl selections, and it would
- 5:35Speaker 4: be a shame if he ends his career and never
- 5:37Speaker 4: gets to plan a Super Bowl for Dallas. So they
- 5:40Speaker 4: need to get there. And my other comment and then
- 5:42Speaker 4: I'll leave it and let you talk about it. But
- 5:46Speaker 4: Dak Prescott in the year that he's having, and I
- 5:50Speaker 4: think we're underestimating how good he's playing. If he is
- 5:53Speaker 4: able to get Dallas to a Super Bowl this year
- 5:56Speaker 4: and I know that's a long shot, but if he's
- 5:58Speaker 4: able to get Dallas to his Super Bowl this year,
- 6:01Speaker 4: then that's gonna rank. It already ranks as one of
- 6:03Speaker 4: the best cowboy quarterback seasons we've ever seen. And he's
- 6:07Speaker 4: doing this without a running game exactly. I mean, he's
- 6:10Speaker 4: doing it without what he's doing without a running game,
- 6:13Speaker 4: and what McCarthy's done with Dak Prescott and turning his
- 6:15Speaker 4: season around. And I think a lot of it has
- 6:17Speaker 4: to do with he's healthy this year, and he wasn't
- 6:19Speaker 4: completely healthy the last couple of years. But let's enjoy
- 6:23Speaker 4: what we've got and let's go out and blow out
- 6:25Speaker 4: the Redskin or blowout Washington and then get.
- 6:28Speaker 3: On a little bit of a run.
- 6:29Speaker 2: All right, like it?
- 6:30Speaker 9: All right?
- 6:30Speaker 4: Thanks Naty?
- 6:31Speaker 2: All right, enjoy that cake. I agree with all that
- 6:36Speaker 2: Zach Martin is becoming. You know, he's in that category
- 6:39Speaker 2: now of when it's all said and done, I mean,
- 6:43Speaker 2: ranking the top ten player, not offensive lineman. Okay, he's
- 6:47Speaker 2: been number two for a long time. Man, I don't
- 6:51Speaker 2: know if he I don't know about being I don't
- 6:53Speaker 2: know if he'll ever be number one. I mean, just
- 6:57Speaker 2: because he doesn't have the strength like Larry Allen and
- 7:01Speaker 2: doesn't have the play that Larry Allen had of course
- 7:04Speaker 2: with the Saints. And Larry had eleven Pro Bowls, I believe,
- 7:09Speaker 2: and he's got nine. I just don't know if he'll
- 7:12Speaker 2: ever be like better than that, But doesn't matter. I
- 7:17Speaker 2: think he's a top ten player in franchise history regardless
- 7:20Speaker 2: of position. That's where it's going to be. I think
- 7:22Speaker 2: for Zach Martin, man, I'm glad they didn't draft Johnny Manziel. Well,
- 7:29Speaker 2: I mean, can you could you imagine? And honestly, it
- 7:32Speaker 2: wasn't just Johnny Manziel. They had like three or four
- 7:34Speaker 2: defensive players that they wanted to take on top of that,
- 7:38Speaker 2: and one of them was Aaron Donald, which is you know,
- 7:42Speaker 2: he's good. And then of course, and then there's some others,
- 7:46Speaker 2: another guy from the Steelers, which I Shazer, Ryan Shazier,
- 7:51Speaker 2: the guy that got injured. He was one of them
- 7:53Speaker 2: that went right in front. And then they said, all right,
- 7:55Speaker 2: it's either going to be Johnny or Zach Martin and
- 7:58Speaker 2: then went of course with us good good pick. And
- 8:02Speaker 2: and as of for Dak, you know, I looked at
- 8:05Speaker 2: this the other day, why not Dak for comeback Player
- 8:08Speaker 2: of the Year winning looking at comeback Player of the
- 8:11Speaker 2: Year and and and see some of the people that
- 8:14Speaker 2: were there. I mean, does it always have to be
- 8:15Speaker 2: just an injury? Can it just be coming back from
- 8:19Speaker 2: not having a good season, not playing well whatever? And
- 8:23Speaker 2: you know, I mean why not. I mean, this has
- 8:25Speaker 2: been an unbelievable comeback year. So I kind of was
- 8:29Speaker 2: looking at it and like, or who who are the
- 8:30Speaker 2: guys up there? You know, thinking I had a case?
- 8:33Speaker 2: And then I was like, well, you know, who's gonna
- 8:35Speaker 2: win it? And I was talking to some people and
- 8:37Speaker 2: I'm like who who, I mean, who's had a better
- 8:39Speaker 2: comeback year? And he's like demor Hamlin. I'm like, okay,
- 8:42Speaker 2: well that's it, all right, he wins for sure, one
- 8:44Speaker 2: hundred percent. All right, let's go Irene in Virginia.
- 8:48Speaker 10: Hey, next morning, everybody.
- 8:50Speaker 2: Are you how's the weather up there? What's the weather
- 8:52Speaker 2: looked like Sunday? Okay, in this case, we'll take it.
- 8:58Speaker 2: We need it now.
- 9:00Speaker 10: I know, I know it's trending very well. So precipitation
- 9:03Speaker 10: is basically completely out the window. All the snow lovers
- 9:06Speaker 10: are crying anyway, and I love snow, but not none
- 9:08Speaker 10: of them. Yeah, so wha. The temperature is trending up,
- 9:12Speaker 10: so instead of forty three as the highest, forty seventh.
- 9:15Speaker 8: That's nice.
- 9:17Speaker 10: The one thing we can't get to go down yet
- 9:19Speaker 10: is the wind. It's not it's like between five and
- 9:22Speaker 10: twelve miles per hour most of the game, but there
- 9:24Speaker 10: are guests that can get up to like twenty five.
- 9:26Speaker 10: So I'm hoping that trends with the rest of them.
- 9:29Speaker 10: And because you know, I want to see a brand
- 9:31Speaker 10: new Cook's over the top or some point that not
- 9:34Speaker 10: have it blow away from sideline or something, you know, Yeah,
- 9:38Speaker 10: and all the other things to think about. This is
- 9:40Speaker 10: actually three quarters of this game will be a next game.
- 9:45Speaker 10: Sunset's going to be at like five or five, so
- 9:48Speaker 10: the first quarter will be in daylight, low daylight, and
- 9:51Speaker 10: then night game. So the I had a question for you.
- 9:58Speaker 10: I wanted to know, not so the best memory and
- 10:01Speaker 10: worst memory of the commanders, but feed it field itself.
- 10:06Speaker 10: What is the best and worst part if there even
- 10:08Speaker 10: is the best part of it, Because I always hear
- 10:10Speaker 10: about you know, these different stadiums, and you know the
- 10:14Speaker 10: concessions or not concessions, but what they feed you and
- 10:16Speaker 10: all that. I'm just interested in hearing that part of it.
- 10:20Speaker 10: And then I kept keep meaning to say, I think
- 10:23Speaker 10: you had a Wyoming call. I'm pretty sure you did.
- 10:26Speaker 2: Really, No, I don't. I haven't. I don't remember that.
- 10:31Speaker 2: I've looked gone through all my sheets and stuff. I don't.
- 10:35Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think so. I really don't think so.
- 10:38Speaker 2: And you know what else, I've been kind of looking
- 10:40Speaker 2: into kind of Oregon.
- 10:43Speaker 10: Oh, I don't think you've had that.
- 10:45Speaker 2: No, No, So you know, they just kind of chill
- 10:48Speaker 2: over there. I tell you this, though, if I could
- 10:49Speaker 2: just pick one state that I've never visited, Oregon, I'm
- 10:53Speaker 2: fascinated by that. It just seems like it would be
- 10:55Speaker 2: awesome place to go. I've never been. I'd like to go.
- 10:59Speaker 2: I'd like to visit for some reason.
- 11:00Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 11:01Speaker 2: I gotta got to figure that out. There been there, okay, Chris.
- 11:04Speaker 10: Cool, I have not been there, but I.
- 11:09Speaker 2: Think touring then the Nike in Nike up there, I did.
- 11:12Speaker 2: That'd be cool. Yeah, in Portland. Portland's here a pretty
- 11:16Speaker 2: cool place. So all right, Ireney got anything else?
- 11:20Speaker 3: No?
- 11:21Speaker 10: The only thing, well, I think their linebacker sucks, So
- 11:23Speaker 10: I'm hoping it's a big, big, ferguson game, but you know,
- 11:26Speaker 10: they might come with corners who knows. And then since
- 11:30Speaker 10: there's a few of us listeners that are actually coming
- 11:33Speaker 10: to the game, I would love to like try and connect.
- 11:36Speaker 10: So I'm going to put my I'll respond to the
- 11:38Speaker 10: DC storyline on Twitter with my handle, and if anyone
- 11:42Speaker 10: wants to meet up and do a little photo out
- 11:44Speaker 10: for the storyline, yea.
- 11:45Speaker 2: Cool, that'd be cool. Yeah, I'm not even sure. I'm
- 11:49Speaker 2: not sure exactly where we're staying. You probably know, I don't.
- 11:52Speaker 2: I don't know, not that I would broadcast it here,
- 11:54Speaker 2: but yeah, I mean, uh, it'll be, it'll be. It'll
- 11:57Speaker 2: be cool if that happens, obviously, let me know. And
- 12:00Speaker 2: that'd be kind of cool to connect with with anybody
- 12:02Speaker 2: that that's going to the game, or at least in
- 12:05Speaker 2: the area. So all right, thanks Iren, have a good one.
- 12:10Speaker 2: Thanks for carling up there. It's nice, little weather report.
- 12:14Speaker 2: We used to we used to laugh at Mickey all
- 12:16Speaker 2: the time, and Mickey, you know, start off the show
- 12:18Speaker 2: with weather report and stuff like that, and it's like
- 12:21Speaker 2: nobody cares, you know, out of that. But I haven't
- 12:27Speaker 2: heard that one, haven't heard that drop. But all right,
- 12:30Speaker 2: Curtis and Oklahoma. It's been a while since I've heard
- 12:33Speaker 2: Curtis and Oklahoma.
- 12:34Speaker 9: How you doing, yes, sir, doing good. I haven't mixed
- 12:37Speaker 9: any shows though, Man, I've been watching on YouTube.
- 12:41Speaker 2: Oh appreciate that, you know. I said that the other day.
- 12:43Speaker 2: I was like, lean more YouTube views YouTube, I said that,
- 12:46Speaker 2: and it was like, and I've got got a little
- 12:49Speaker 2: bit more.
- 12:50Speaker 9: I think it's a little more difficult for your show
- 12:53Speaker 9: because you try to listen to the show when you're
- 12:55Speaker 9: trying to call in.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, for sure. But we're just growing this thing,
- 13:02Speaker 2: having a lot of fun doing it. So and I
- 13:03Speaker 2: remember you were one of the first ones that called
- 13:05Speaker 2: way back. So how you doing.
- 13:07Speaker 9: Yes, They're excellent, man, I'm doing good. I'm just I'm
- 13:10Speaker 9: completely shocked that we're able to get these home playoff games.
- 13:15Speaker 9: Obviously with our record, it just means that think it
- 13:19Speaker 9: means everything to our team and to be able to
- 13:22Speaker 9: possibly avoid the forty nine ers until possibly the NFC
- 13:25Speaker 9: Championship game just shows I'm just so glad that they
- 13:29Speaker 9: are rewarded for their hard work. You know, everybody has
- 13:33Speaker 9: ups and downs, and thankfully right now the Eagles are
- 13:36Speaker 9: down down. So I just wanted to commend our defense.
- 13:43Speaker 9: I know that starting out the year they were on
- 13:45Speaker 9: an absolute tear and they've been kind of roached a
- 13:48Speaker 9: couple of times. But this last game against Detroit, like,
- 13:52Speaker 9: I have Gibbs on my fantasy team, and he has
- 13:54Speaker 9: just been tearing teams up, and to be able to
- 13:57Speaker 9: hold him the way that they did and only just
- 14:00Speaker 9: hold him. But Dan Campbell talked about it in one
- 14:04Speaker 9: of his postgame conferences, Like to get negative run plays,
- 14:09Speaker 9: you know, Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence a couple of
- 14:11Speaker 9: times were able to stop their run game in the
- 14:13Speaker 9: backfield just really sets up, you know what we like
- 14:17Speaker 9: to do as far as putting him in passing down
- 14:20Speaker 9: so that we can pin our ears back and for
- 14:23Speaker 9: Jordan Lewis and Donovan Wilson to come up with turnovers
- 14:26Speaker 9: really stepped up. In the absence, you know, Doron Bland
- 14:30Speaker 9: hasn't had those amazing pick sixes or really like highlight
- 14:35Speaker 9: pvus or anything like that in the last.
- 14:37Speaker 11: Couple of weeks.
- 14:38Speaker 9: So for other guys, especially somebody like Donno, who you know,
- 14:41Speaker 9: had some really good last year and a couple of
- 14:44Speaker 9: times this year hadn't really heard his name called a
- 14:46Speaker 9: whole lot for him and Jordan Lewis to step up
- 14:48Speaker 9: the way that they have. Man, I'm just super excited
- 14:51Speaker 9: about everything that we haven't ahead of us.
- 14:54Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're exactly right. The addition of Donovan Wilson
- 14:58Speaker 2: being a playmaker is that's what he was last year.
- 15:02Speaker 12: You know.
- 15:02Speaker 2: I actually found some stat last year, like he was
- 15:06Speaker 2: the only safety in the league that had over one
- 15:09Speaker 2: hundred tackles, had a interception, had five sacks, had a
- 15:14Speaker 2: force fumble, a fumble recovery. I mean, there's all these
- 15:16Speaker 2: things just showed that he's around the ball, making plays.
- 15:20Speaker 2: You know, he has to have one hundred tackles, so
- 15:22Speaker 2: only safety that did that, you know, and then they
- 15:24Speaker 2: rewarded him, signed him, and then it just it just
- 15:26Speaker 2: hasn't worked out this year as far as got injury
- 15:29Speaker 2: in training camp and he got banged up again when
- 15:31Speaker 2: he came back. It's never found the flow. But he's
- 15:34Speaker 2: he's in it now. He's making plays and that interception
- 15:37Speaker 2: was amazing as a great, great play. I mean that
- 15:40Speaker 2: interception because just showed just you know, a guy that
- 15:44Speaker 2: understands exactly how to just be an athlete. I mean,
- 15:47Speaker 2: he picked off that pass, diving and then torquing his
- 15:51Speaker 2: body to make sure that it's you know not you know,
- 15:54Speaker 2: the ball doesn't hit the ground, and he keeps that
- 15:56Speaker 2: up and it was just a really really good play
- 15:59Speaker 2: and you know, just allowed the Cowboys to get the ball,
- 16:02Speaker 2: run out the clock and win the game. Well sorry,
- 16:05Speaker 2: it didn't work out like that, but they still won.
- 16:07Speaker 3: All right.
- 16:07Speaker 2: Luke in Maryland ex caller Luke are you there? Hey? Luke?
- 16:17Speaker 6: Hey, how you doing?
- 16:19Speaker 5: Nick?
- 16:19Speaker 2: Good? First time caller? All right, first time?
- 16:26Speaker 6: All right, Okay, I've got a couple of things. I
- 16:29Speaker 6: don't know how much time I have, not now.
- 16:31Speaker 2: The time, but just okay, yeah, you got it, You're good.
- 16:35Speaker 6: I'm gonna give you an option. You pick one you
- 16:38Speaker 6: don't know, playing the Washington team this this this weekend.
- 16:42Speaker 6: Do you want the dynas Nider's story or do you
- 16:45Speaker 6: want how I became a Cowboy fan?
- 16:49Speaker 3: Uh?
- 16:51Speaker 2: I will take the first, first one.
- 16:53Speaker 6: The Dynastider story. So I was working in the restaurant
- 16:57Speaker 6: before NNAs light about the team, and the restaurant is
- 17:01Speaker 6: right across from his business that he owns before he
- 17:03Speaker 6: brought the team, and he usually will come over, you know,
- 17:06Speaker 6: have something to eat, and then go back to work.
- 17:08Speaker 6: And then finally we find out that he just but
- 17:10Speaker 6: the but the team, and we're like, oh my god,
- 17:12Speaker 6: that's great. And he came in a couple of times
- 17:15Speaker 6: after that. I got a couple of tickets to some
- 17:17Speaker 6: faces and games and stuff like that, and.
- 17:20Speaker 3: We'll just die with child.
- 17:21Speaker 6: He never knew where I was. I didn't tell him
- 17:23Speaker 6: I was the Cowboy Fight at that time. We just,
- 17:24Speaker 6: you know, we just talked. And one day he came
- 17:27Speaker 6: in and my boss was there and I'm like, hey, boss,
- 17:31Speaker 6: hey me, Dannie Slider a restaurant's owner, you know, blah
- 17:34Speaker 6: blah blah, and they and my boss Tryan goes, but
- 17:36Speaker 6: why are you talking to Luke. He's a Cowboys fan
- 17:40Speaker 6: and you should see the look on me to Slider
- 17:42Speaker 6: stif like what, He goes, I've been diving you all
- 17:45Speaker 6: these times. You've got tickets from me and you never
- 17:48Speaker 6: tell me these. He goes, well, man, you just you
- 17:51Speaker 6: just lost the friend. Man, that's it. I can't deal
- 17:54Speaker 6: with you no more. And he just walk out of
- 17:56Speaker 6: the restaurant and I'm thinking, really, I could have been
- 17:59Speaker 6: getting tickets a long time and this guy would never
- 18:01Speaker 6: know what so, you know, but that was that was
- 18:06Speaker 6: my encounter with him. I mean, at that point it
- 18:08Speaker 6: was a cool guy. I didn't really get to know
- 18:11Speaker 6: him much, I say, on the team, but you know
- 18:13Speaker 6: it was cool just to just to being at my
- 18:15Speaker 6: dip point, you know. So but yeah, I've always loved
- 18:18Speaker 6: your show, you know when I used to work, you know,
- 18:20Speaker 6: listen to you and and make you go out it
- 18:24Speaker 6: and you know those are good old das. I became
- 18:26Speaker 6: a Friday Night at Fall. It was just right out
- 18:28Speaker 6: of time.
- 18:29Speaker 2: That's way back man, me and Vicky going out of it.
- 18:31Speaker 2: That's I mean, we're talking like twenty something years.
- 18:34Speaker 6: Yes, I was. Yeah, nineteen ninety four was the first
- 18:37Speaker 6: time I ever you know, long going to Cowboys and
- 18:41Speaker 6: just you know. And the funny story is, you know,
- 18:43Speaker 6: I became a Cowboys player because I live in the
- 18:46Speaker 6: Washington area. My uncle was supposed to pick me up
- 18:48Speaker 6: my first day in this country. He never showed up
- 18:51Speaker 6: because it was working the Cowboys and the Restings game.
- 18:54Speaker 6: I finally get a cop to get through his out.
- 18:56Speaker 6: He opened the door. He goes, oh my god, I
- 18:58Speaker 6: can't believe I forgot this. I'm like, yeah, he's supposed
- 19:01Speaker 6: to pick me up. And his wife then, lad, his
- 19:03Speaker 6: wife said, you really want to Piers the up becoming
- 19:06Speaker 6: cowboy fan and he will never let it down. And
- 19:09Speaker 6: I have never preached since then. I've been a Cowboy
- 19:12Speaker 6: fan with ninety four. I got my stories.
- 19:15Speaker 3: Actually, yeah you did, you did? All right?
- 19:17Speaker 2: Well, hey, your first time call. You can do that.
- 19:20Speaker 2: Appreciate the call, Louke, good stuff, you know that. That's
- 19:23Speaker 2: one thing I've I've always been amazed about is where
- 19:27Speaker 2: the fans come from. You know, big states obviously California
- 19:29Speaker 2: and Miami. I mean Miami, I'm jesus, uh, Florida, but
- 19:35Speaker 2: you know, just just in that area Florida, California, Texas
- 19:40Speaker 2: of course, you know, but Virginia, Maryland, that that area
- 19:43Speaker 2: just so many Cowboy fans up there.
- 19:45Speaker 5: Uh.
- 19:46Speaker 2: And I think a lot of it has to do
- 19:47Speaker 2: with just like you know, growing up and you're like
- 19:51Speaker 2: my dad is a huge Redskins fan or my family
- 19:53Speaker 2: and I just hated them, so I picked the Cowboys.
- 19:57Speaker 2: I mean, I think that that's where a lot of
- 19:58Speaker 2: it comes from. But there there's just so many Cowboys
- 20:01Speaker 2: fans and you're gonna hear them uh, Sunday in the game.
- 20:04Speaker 2: So I said Miami because in the next caller is
- 20:08Speaker 2: Anthony in Miami. I don't think Miami is a state,
- 20:11Speaker 2: but it could be Anthony in Miami.
- 20:15Speaker 3: Yes, Nick, the quick goes up, my friend.
- 20:18Speaker 2: Man, how you doing?
- 20:19Speaker 3: I'm doing?
- 20:20Speaker 2: Look, you know, Jimmy, come on, man, hey, is this Miami, Florida.
- 20:25Speaker 3: Miami Florida the state?
- 20:26Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, just wondering.
- 20:29Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I went down t Y Hillton.
- 20:33Speaker 2: I lived eight years of my life in the town
- 20:36Speaker 2: in Miami, Oklahoma. You know, a little different than Miami, Florida.
- 20:40Speaker 2: They just had to check make sure this is Miami, Florida. Okay, cool,
- 20:43Speaker 2: you crazy?
- 20:44Speaker 3: You got Miami, Ohio.
- 20:46Speaker 2: So that's true. That's true, Big Ben.
- 20:49Speaker 3: I think I'm just gonna hit off what you just said.
- 20:52Speaker 3: I'll talk about jimm in a minute. Miami because of
- 20:55Speaker 3: the nineties and the Miami faction. You know, a lot
- 20:59Speaker 3: of players don't get dropp about the Dolphins that played
- 21:01Speaker 3: for you. But Dallas got a lot of Miami and
- 21:05Speaker 3: you went so Miami players for a lot of them,
- 21:08Speaker 3: Michael and all that, and you win players to help
- 21:11Speaker 3: build that dynasty. So I think you picked up a
- 21:14Speaker 3: lot right there.
- 21:15Speaker 2: So you know, you know, people say that a lot
- 21:18Speaker 2: like a lot of Miami players, but like how many really, like,
- 21:24Speaker 2: you know, it felt like they were bringing a lot
- 21:26Speaker 2: of guys from the you but think about it, like,
- 21:28Speaker 2: how many did Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy got a lot of coaches?
- 21:32Speaker 2: How many did Jimmy really bring from the U. Not
- 21:35Speaker 2: Michael Irvin because he was drafted by Tom Landry. But
- 21:39Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like I think, you know, five and yeah,
- 21:44Speaker 2: And were they drafted or were they kind of just
- 21:47Speaker 2: brought in Mike playing.
- 21:49Speaker 3: Go three miles rest in Peace, Backerphee, Miles On, Darren,
- 21:54Speaker 3: Darren Smith, Maryland.
- 21:57Speaker 2: Wressell Maryland, Yeah, Okaysell Maryland, Yeah, Kevin Williams Okay, Darren
- 22:04Speaker 2: Smith and Kevin Williams in that one draft Russell, Marland, Maryland.
- 22:07Speaker 2: You're right, they brought in like you know, he brought
- 22:09Speaker 2: in some guys too that has been in the league
- 22:11Speaker 2: that he had coach, like Daniel Stubbs, who you know
- 22:15Speaker 2: who has a sandwich named after him here, Uh, Alonzo
- 22:19Speaker 2: HeiG Smith. He kind of thought Alonzo high Smith would
- 22:22Speaker 2: would have a little something left. He had too many injuries.
- 22:26Speaker 2: So yeah, he did. I mean later on Ryan McNeil,
- 22:31Speaker 2: that's that wasn't even there that that.
- 22:33Speaker 3: Time ran that he wasn't that guy, Jim Jimmy.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Jones, You're right, okay, Yeah, a lot of good role players,
- 22:46Speaker 2: role players, good solid players. He gotta have those guys.
- 22:48Speaker 2: I mean, those guys help you win a championship. Russell
- 22:51Speaker 2: Maryland is a great example of that. You know, he
- 22:53Speaker 2: was the number one overall pick, but there was some
- 22:55Speaker 2: there were some politics going on that year. He I mean,
- 22:57Speaker 2: he wasn't the number one over all best player, but
- 23:01Speaker 2: I think you know that was one of that was
- 23:03Speaker 2: back in the day when when you had to sign
- 23:05Speaker 2: guys maybe before the draft, and and they they said, hey,
- 23:09Speaker 2: well we'll sign you. You know, we'll sign you to
- 23:12Speaker 2: a deal if you if you take this contract, and
- 23:15Speaker 2: you know, they they made him the number one pick,
- 23:18Speaker 2: and he was a good player, made a Pro Bowl,
- 23:20Speaker 2: good good player.
- 23:21Speaker 3: Definitely wasn't a great player, I'll admit to that. You know,
- 23:24Speaker 3: we had much better even at you from Sap like
- 23:26Speaker 3: you said, and Cortez and all those guys. So you know,
- 23:31Speaker 3: it worked out, It worked out. You put that team
- 23:33Speaker 3: together and everything blended in, you know, and it leads
- 23:37Speaker 3: me to my point. I'm gonna make this point. I'm
- 23:39Speaker 3: looking at looking over all the counter area, you know,
- 23:42Speaker 3: defensive backs, quarterback and wide receivers. Everything that's good, kicking game,
- 23:48Speaker 3: of course, and putting game. You know, Pro bowlers. Look
- 23:51Speaker 3: at your running game right now. Look at your O line,
- 23:54Speaker 3: your D line, and your linebackers. Your linebackers are kind
- 23:58Speaker 3: of because the Michael can drop back a little. That
- 24:00Speaker 3: and even though Bell is kind of small, if your tackles,
- 24:05Speaker 3: that's why Hanks is so big man, and that's why
- 24:08Speaker 3: free agency. Then I mentioned the name JS, which you
- 24:10Speaker 3: can mention names because you was on that show too.
- 24:12Speaker 3: We're shaying that day when I said, Jeffrey Simmons, I'm
- 24:15Speaker 3: Jeffrey Simmons. That is the best tackle in the league.
- 24:17Speaker 3: That's just me and I wanted a guy like that
- 24:20Speaker 3: because I was I was afraid of these injuries.
- 24:22Speaker 6: Here it goes.
- 24:23Speaker 13: Again, old line.
- 24:25Speaker 3: You probably can't do nothing about that because it's what
- 24:27Speaker 3: it is right now, and you better hope they can
- 24:29Speaker 3: do something. So it contributes to the lack of the
- 24:31Speaker 3: running game. Everybody's blaming saying. One night everybody. Let me
- 24:34Speaker 3: change that. A lot of people saying Tony mayl lost
- 24:37Speaker 3: the step. Are you looking at these games? Anybody looked
- 24:40Speaker 3: at the game?
- 24:41Speaker 6: Man?
- 24:42Speaker 3: They were waiting on him.
- 24:43Speaker 12: It's like try ten.
- 24:45Speaker 3: Guys waiting on him. So until the line gets better, man,
- 24:50Speaker 3: we're gonna be in trouble.
- 24:51Speaker 6: So here it is again. There's a guy I.
- 24:54Speaker 3: Wasn't on the shack. I didn't call about Shack running.
- 24:56Speaker 3: That's the guy that we can use. I don't care
- 24:59Speaker 3: if people say the men this we saw that. I've
- 25:01Speaker 3: watched this guy says he was gonna lose.
- 25:03Speaker 8: Leave.
- 25:03Speaker 3: There's a guy out there. We can use him because
- 25:06Speaker 3: Rico it's kind of hurt. Now, do you want Deuce running?
- 25:11Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, take around on the championship game?
- 25:14Speaker 3: Do you want Deuce a hunter?
- 25:15Speaker 2: Who's the guy are you talking about I'm talking about? Okay, okay, yes,
- 25:21Speaker 2: all right.
- 25:21Speaker 3: So other than that, I'm happy. Let's go back to Jimmy. Look,
- 25:26Speaker 3: my greatest coach, my favorite coach, not the greatest, Tom
- 25:29Speaker 3: was the greatest, my favorite coach because of the UM
- 25:31Speaker 3: and the Dallas connection. I'm so happy it worked out.
- 25:35Speaker 3: I'm so happy to see the love he got and
- 25:38Speaker 3: Nate Man, you look good. You know you're a boy.
- 25:40Speaker 3: You look good doing them interviews. I'm just happy Cowboys
- 25:44Speaker 3: take care of in this Sunday and let's win three games.
- 25:47Speaker 3: Want four games? Well, I said that the championship game
- 25:50Speaker 3: be good enough for me. I would want a Super Bowl.
- 25:52Speaker 3: So get three one at a time, and I'll be happy.
- 25:56Speaker 3: I got nothing negative to state. Look at Dalvin and
- 25:59Speaker 3: we'll see what happens.
- 26:03Speaker 2: All right, thanks to call Anthony Dalvin Cook just for
- 26:07Speaker 2: Dalvin Cook stuff. I mean I was talking a little
- 26:10Speaker 2: bit with some guys about that and what what that
- 26:13Speaker 2: looks like. I mean, I think to claim him, you're
- 26:15Speaker 2: talking like a half a million dollars just to claim him.
- 26:19Speaker 2: I mean that's you know, that's his contract divided by
- 26:21Speaker 2: eighteen or whatever. So you're basically claiming him for a
- 26:26Speaker 2: day or two of the week. He's not gonna he
- 26:29Speaker 2: wouldn't play this game. And so you know, I think
- 26:33Speaker 2: I think there they will look into it if he
- 26:35Speaker 2: clears waivers or if he did clear clear waivers. But
- 26:39Speaker 2: if he clears waivers, yeah they'll they'll they'll look at
- 26:42Speaker 2: it and see, you know, see what what the status
- 26:45Speaker 2: of their own running back situation with you know, health
- 26:47Speaker 2: and where Rico stands and all that kind of stuff.
- 26:50Speaker 2: You know, he may have some other teams that interested
- 26:53Speaker 2: as well, but I you know, I think that'll be
- 26:56Speaker 2: something that they look at next week. But you know,
- 26:59Speaker 2: again and jumping at the chance, just like they didn't
- 27:01Speaker 2: jump in the chance when he was available in free agency.
- 27:05Speaker 2: All right, Travis and san Antonio is our next call?
- 27:09Speaker 5: Nick?
- 27:09Speaker 2: How's it going good? How are you doing?
- 27:10Speaker 3: Drev?
- 27:11Speaker 11: I'm doing great. I just wanted to call him say
- 27:15Speaker 11: I hope you had a good new year. You too,
- 27:17Speaker 11: thank you and Chris, you guys are awesome. And I
- 27:21Speaker 11: just wanted to say for Jimmy's induction, man, I was.
- 27:25Speaker 11: I was happy that I got to give him adaboy
- 27:27Speaker 11: to Jerry because he kept it short on his end.
- 27:29Speaker 3: Yeah, so I was.
- 27:31Speaker 11: I literally said, ada boyd when he kept his shorthand
- 27:33Speaker 11: over the mic. And I got so and I'm sure
- 27:35Speaker 11: like a lot of fans, I got so sucked into that.
- 27:38Speaker 11: You get like you can tell like why Jimmy Johnson
- 27:41Speaker 11: resonated with players because as soon as he was, he
- 27:43Speaker 11: wasn't even done with how about them? And I was
- 27:45Speaker 11: already on. Yeah, allowed probably for my neighbors here, So
- 27:51Speaker 11: it was that was a super cool moment. And now
- 27:52Speaker 11: you don't believe in curses, but I do believe in
- 27:55Speaker 11: positive vibes, and man, that those positive vibes rolled over
- 27:58Speaker 11: in a Sunday and Arizona took care of the Eagles
- 28:01Speaker 11: and then my wolverinees one.
- 28:04Speaker 3: So it was took.
- 28:05Speaker 11: It was a moment. And after that game, Nick, I
- 28:08Speaker 11: thought about I actually thought about you because I was like,
- 28:09Speaker 11: these are the moments that you know, you talk about
- 28:12Speaker 11: during the season, even for the Cowboys, even though this
- 28:14Speaker 11: is like kind of a full circle moment for me,
- 28:16Speaker 11: it was like you don't have many of those weeks
- 28:18Speaker 11: as a fan, and you just got to sit there
- 28:20Speaker 11: and go, like, man, the Cowboys give a two seed,
- 28:23Speaker 11: my team advanced in the College Ball playout. Like you
- 28:25Speaker 11: got to just appreciate like those weeks like you're saying,
- 28:28Speaker 11: and just go, I may have all those weeks for
- 28:30Speaker 11: a long time.
- 28:31Speaker 2: Yeah, you had three days in a row of that
- 28:33Speaker 2: Saturday and then Sunday with the Eagles losing, and then
- 28:38Speaker 2: of course Monday. Kind of I kind of thought the
- 28:42Speaker 2: Texas Longhorn fans that are here, Derek being one of them.
- 28:45Speaker 2: You kind of thought they would, you know, they would
- 28:47Speaker 2: get that three straight days. It didn't work out, but yeah, yeah,
- 28:50Speaker 2: you're on kind of a roller coaster there. Yeah.
- 28:53Speaker 11: And I just want to say, I know there's been
- 28:56Speaker 11: talk this year specific to the Cowboys. I'm just gonna say, real,
- 29:00Speaker 11: I gotta give flowers to Parsons because I was one
- 29:03Speaker 11: of the ones that criticized him, and if you criticize
- 29:06Speaker 11: somebody for not doing something, they do it. Like he
- 29:08Speaker 11: played the run. It seems like he he his interest
- 29:11Speaker 11: in playing the runs that game was just as high
- 29:13Speaker 11: as in rushing the passer, and I was great to see.
- 29:16Speaker 11: So hopefully that continues. And then the last thing I'm
- 29:19Speaker 11: gonna say, I'll let you go, and I want to
- 29:20Speaker 11: hear your thoughts on it is I know everyone's been
- 29:23Speaker 11: talking about Tyron, Tyro and Tyrant, and you know he's
- 29:26Speaker 11: holding us back, and I'm taking the complete Nick Eave
- 29:30Speaker 11: an opposite approach because I don't see that he's gonna
- 29:32Speaker 11: play this week and there'll be his thirteenth game he's played,
- 29:36Speaker 11: which is the same amount of games he played in
- 29:38Speaker 11: twenty nineteen twenty eighteen. Twenty seventeen twenty sixteen. It's a
- 29:42Speaker 11: bounce back year I think for him. Yeah, because I
- 29:44Speaker 11: know twenty twenty two and twenty twenty were rough, but
- 29:47Speaker 11: he's had three penalties and one sack in seven hundred
- 29:49Speaker 11: and eighty plus plays. So I'm and I don't know
- 29:53Speaker 11: if people that pay attention, but offensive line play isn't
- 29:55Speaker 11: Matt great out there, So I'm willing to even bring
- 29:59Speaker 11: him back and just keep rolling us. And I think
- 30:03Speaker 11: he gives you a chance, Nick to actually groom a
- 30:05Speaker 11: tackle if you find somebody that you like. Because if
- 30:07Speaker 11: we're going to keep Tyler at guard, think about like
- 30:10Speaker 11: I think it's a natural succession because if he gets hurt, right,
- 30:13Speaker 11: like you say, he's probably gonna miss four or five
- 30:15Speaker 11: games a year, Well get somebody ready to play those games,
- 30:18Speaker 11: and then that somebody is the one that can take
- 30:19Speaker 11: over for him.
- 30:20Speaker 3: But if you're gonna give.
- 30:21Speaker 11: Me thirteen games of the way he's played this year,
- 30:23Speaker 11: I'm running with it.
- 30:25Speaker 2: All right, So have a good one you too. Sounds good. Yeah,
- 30:29Speaker 2: Tyron's been He's been really good. I mean, he's he's
- 30:32Speaker 2: another guy you should look at it at comeback Player
- 30:34Speaker 2: of the Year. I mean he's been he's been really good.
- 30:37Speaker 2: To not make the Pro Bowl, I'm pretty sure he
- 30:41Speaker 2: was an alternate, but but yeah, he's he's had he's
- 30:45Speaker 2: been really good. I Mean they've lost five games this year.
- 30:49Speaker 2: Two of them he didn't play, uh, and it was
- 30:52Speaker 2: a problem. I mean, they they they had a problem
- 30:54Speaker 2: in Arizona with Tchiuma Idogo there at that left tackle spot. Uh.
- 30:59Speaker 2: They he didn't play against Miami. They had a huge
- 31:01Speaker 2: problem with jim Aydoga at that left tackle spot, you know.
- 31:06Speaker 2: And some of that's on the Cowboys. I mean, the
- 31:08Speaker 2: fact that they haven't had an adequate you know, left
- 31:12Speaker 2: tackle replacement option for Tyron Smith. That's really on them,
- 31:16Speaker 2: because it's not like the riding wasn't on the wall,
- 31:19Speaker 2: like hey, you know, he's gonna miss some games and
- 31:23Speaker 2: and you know, I just I'll say it for a
- 31:26Speaker 2: hundredth times, I just think Chuma looks more like a guard.
- 31:29Speaker 2: I think he plays better as a guard. And he
- 31:31Speaker 2: wasn't playing well at training camp, Let's be honest about that.
- 31:34Speaker 2: We looked at a training camp. Of course, he was
- 31:36Speaker 2: going up against Micah and those guy those pass rushers
- 31:38Speaker 2: were flying at the ball. And all the time. But
- 31:41Speaker 2: I mean they didn't look that great then, and so
- 31:44Speaker 2: you know, he just it just never seemed like that
- 31:46Speaker 2: was gonna be a great option there at left tackle.
- 31:49Speaker 2: So they you know, they they they probably you know,
- 31:52Speaker 2: whatever happens next year, you know they're gonna have a
- 31:54Speaker 2: different set up there at left tackle. But you know,
- 31:58Speaker 2: it's it's worked out because because for the most part,
- 32:01Speaker 2: Tyront's been healthy. All right, Sal and Lansing, Michigan.
- 32:04Speaker 13: Sal, Hey, what's happening then? Long time, first time.
- 32:09Speaker 2: Yeah, let's put it out there.
- 32:12Speaker 13: Oh yeah, I love that baby.
- 32:14Speaker 2: Anybody anybody around you in your area where you live,
- 32:18Speaker 2: anybody been upset this week with with any calls or
- 32:22Speaker 2: anything going on?
- 32:24Speaker 13: Bro a man, I'm behind enemy Lions every day. Now.
- 32:27Speaker 13: We threw a big watch party for the game, and
- 32:30Speaker 13: half of us were Cowboy fans and half were Lion fans.
- 32:33Speaker 13: And as soon as that clock got zero zero, they
- 32:35Speaker 13: got up and just stormed out the house. Sorry, it
- 32:39Speaker 13: was a good one.
- 32:40Speaker 2: But did they report eligible did they report that they
- 32:43Speaker 2: were leaving or did they just leave? No, you can't
- 32:48Speaker 2: do that. You have to report. You have to say, hey,
- 32:50Speaker 2: we are leaving, you know, you know, you can't just
- 32:52Speaker 2: leave like that. You have to actually report to the
- 32:55Speaker 2: to the head official of the house.
- 32:58Speaker 13: I know, right right, So you may not remember me,
- 33:01Speaker 13: but I got my pitch, I got my picture taken
- 33:03Speaker 13: with you, and I had a conversation with you on
- 33:05Speaker 13: the fence line of Oxnard. Not this last year, but
- 33:07Speaker 13: two years ago maybe, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well with
- 33:13Speaker 13: your memory you probably give you a few minutes, you'll
- 33:15Speaker 13: probably remember it.
- 33:16Speaker 7: But yeah, yeah, we.
- 33:18Speaker 13: Love your Me and my boys and my daughter. We're
- 33:21Speaker 13: huge fans man, and glad to see you doing so well.
- 33:25Speaker 13: We listened to you all the time with a Break
- 33:27Speaker 13: with David Hellman and Eric Derek Eagleton.
- 33:30Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, so.
- 33:32Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, I'm just calling thinking that we should kick
- 33:36Speaker 13: the tires on Cooks and bring him in. I mean,
- 33:37Speaker 13: the running game is, you know, it's getting a little,
- 33:40Speaker 13: uh faltering a little bit, and I think that he, uh,
- 33:43Speaker 13: he could possibly do something for us if we get
- 33:45Speaker 13: him in and they like him.
- 33:46Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, I again, I've said this before.
- 33:50Speaker 2: I think it's something to look at, but you know,
- 33:54Speaker 2: maybe not for this week. But I don't think they're
- 33:57Speaker 2: gonna jump at the chance. But you know, I why not.
- 34:00Speaker 2: Why not give it a try. See how he hell
- 34:03Speaker 2: he is compared to Rico Dawdle, you know, or even
- 34:06Speaker 2: Tony Pollard at that at that point. But but the
- 34:10Speaker 2: good thing about it is it's not like he's got
- 34:12Speaker 2: a lot of carries this year, you know, I mean,
- 34:14Speaker 2: Tony Pollard, it feels like week eighteen for him, I'm sure,
- 34:19Speaker 2: but it shouldn't feel that way for Dalvin Cook. He
- 34:21Speaker 2: hasn't had as much wear and tear on his body
- 34:23Speaker 2: this year, so you know, he might he might have
- 34:26Speaker 2: a little bit left in the tank. Uh to help you,
- 34:29Speaker 2: you know, just come in and spell him every now
- 34:31Speaker 2: and again.
- 34:32Speaker 13: I think so, yeah, I think so. Hey, if you
- 34:34Speaker 13: can do me the honors of just let me give
- 34:37Speaker 13: a shout out to my son Ian, my daughter Avery
- 34:40Speaker 13: and my son HadAM huge fans, bros.
- 34:44Speaker 2: Awesome, good shout out to them. Thank you so much
- 34:47Speaker 2: for calling salad. Be careful there and uh behind enemy
- 34:52Speaker 2: lions if you will there, Hey, you gotta be careful.
- 34:57Speaker 2: Thank you. Go Cowboys for sure, especially there Lansing, Michigan.
- 35:01Speaker 2: But you know, I mean it's setting right up for
- 35:04Speaker 2: if the Cowboys win. I mean it's setting up for
- 35:06Speaker 2: a rematch, just like Dan Campbell said, you know, like
- 35:10Speaker 2: right after the game, good game. We'll see you in
- 35:12Speaker 2: three weeks, probably just as long asince year. You know,
- 35:16Speaker 2: I wouldn't worry about that at all. I mean playing
- 35:19Speaker 2: them again, I really, I really don't like that's that's
- 35:21Speaker 2: one thing that I don't think the Cowboys got lucky.
- 35:25Speaker 2: I think the Lions got lucky that it was close
- 35:27Speaker 2: game with twenty three seconds to go. That's what I think.
- 35:30Speaker 2: There's no way it should have been there. There's no
- 35:32Speaker 2: way they should have been down there with the ball.
- 35:35Speaker 2: I don't even think it would gonna have been that close,
- 35:37Speaker 2: you know, I mean fourteen to three. I mean if
- 35:40Speaker 2: it was fourteen to three and you know, Cowboys maybe
- 35:43Speaker 2: get get another stop there and they're gonna get the
- 35:46Speaker 2: ball in the third quarter, then the Lions have to
- 35:48Speaker 2: play the game a little differently, throwing it throwing it around. Now.
- 35:51Speaker 2: I take my chances with the Cowboys playing them, beating
- 35:54Speaker 2: them again, That's what I think. But we'll see Bob
- 35:58Speaker 2: and Rio grand Valley's next morning.
- 36:00Speaker 5: Nick.
- 36:01Speaker 6: How you doing about?
- 36:01Speaker 2: I'm good.
- 36:02Speaker 5: What's up enjoying your program this morning? Uh, there's been
- 36:07Speaker 5: a lot of talk on the on the various podcast
- 36:09Speaker 5: shows about maybe this well, for one thing, that's being
- 36:13Speaker 5: a trap game at Washington doesn't really have a lot
- 36:17Speaker 5: to play for other than pride.
- 36:19Speaker 3: Uh.
- 36:20Speaker 5: And then that comes to the thing that really saddens
- 36:25Speaker 5: me about the season that the that Washington has had,
- 36:28Speaker 5: and that's Ron Rivera. I have a lot of respect
- 36:31Speaker 5: for him as a coach and I hate I have
- 36:34Speaker 5: to see him go out this way and also being
- 36:37Speaker 5: maybe put in a position of having being asked or
- 36:40Speaker 5: ordered by ownership to tank this game because they want
- 36:44Speaker 5: to get that number two draft choice. What's your feening
- 36:47Speaker 5: on that.
- 36:50Speaker 2: Feeling? Sorry, what's my feeling on on him like wanting
- 36:55Speaker 2: to win the game and all that, and yeah, oh well,
- 36:58Speaker 2: I'm I think I'm game every single time. I'm sorry,
- 37:02Speaker 2: I played to win every time. I don't do that.
- 37:07Speaker 5: Well, I feel like Rivera is a is a I mean,
- 37:11Speaker 5: he's he's one of he's one of these ultimate coaches
- 37:14Speaker 5: that the guy's that mister cool on the sidelines that
- 37:19Speaker 5: he never openly shows any emotion, but he's the wheels
- 37:26Speaker 5: were always turning. Yeah, and uh, but now this new ownership,
- 37:31Speaker 5: the possibility of getting they're in line for that number
- 37:34Speaker 5: two draft choice that they they lose.
- 37:37Speaker 2: Yeah, that that Yeah, I'll talk about that in a second.
- 37:40Speaker 2: I'll let you you have another point.
- 37:42Speaker 5: No, sir, enjoy it. Have a great day, all.
- 37:44Speaker 2: Right here, here's here's my thing to that. And I understand.
- 37:48Speaker 2: And there's people out there that that say, no, you
- 37:51Speaker 2: got to get that number two pick. You know, can't.
- 37:53Speaker 2: You can't get the number five pick. You got to
- 37:55Speaker 2: get the number two pick. I mean, just go back
- 37:57Speaker 2: and look at you know the year. I mean, look
- 37:59Speaker 2: look at Houston last year. You know Houston. Lovey Smith
- 38:02Speaker 2: said no, I'm playing to win and fire me and
- 38:05Speaker 2: they did, and you know, and he didn't. They didn't
- 38:07Speaker 2: get the number one pick. Are they gonna take Bryce
- 38:08Speaker 2: Young or are they gonna take c J. Strout? For being sure?
- 38:11Speaker 2: Do they think Lovey Smith? Now, you just never know
- 38:14Speaker 2: what's gonna happen. But let me just paint the picture
- 38:17Speaker 2: of one scenario here, because everyone listening probably has been
- 38:21Speaker 2: to a game and you and they're gonna go this
- 38:24Speaker 2: week or whatever. And you know how expensive it is
- 38:26Speaker 2: to go to a football game. I don't care where
- 38:28Speaker 2: it is, just to go to the game, even if
- 38:30Speaker 2: you get free tickets, which that should be, you know,
- 38:33Speaker 2: and you should be thankful for that. It's not cheap
- 38:35Speaker 2: to park to pay all that stuff. Can you imagine
- 38:39Speaker 2: a little boy waking up Christmas morning a week ago,
- 38:43Speaker 2: two weeks ago, you know, and said that you know,
- 38:46Speaker 2: lives in in in Virginia and says, you get two
- 38:50Speaker 2: tickets to the Commander's Cowboys game, big Washington fan. Two tickets,
- 38:55Speaker 2: Dad and I are going to go to the game.
- 38:57Speaker 2: He's ten years old and he gets to go to
- 38:59Speaker 2: his first game in a week or two when the
- 39:02Speaker 2: Cowboys come to town, you know, and you go there
- 39:05Speaker 2: and your team has laid laid it down. They're not playing,
- 39:08Speaker 2: they're not gonna play their best guys. They didn't prepare
- 39:11Speaker 2: during the week, they didn't give it all. They get
- 39:13Speaker 2: blown out. That's that's a bunch of crap. I'm sorry.
- 39:17Speaker 2: I mean, and and I really believe that. And yeah,
- 39:20Speaker 2: you're thinking for the future and all that kind of stuff.
- 39:23Speaker 2: But I'm herm. Edwards was exactly right. You play to win.
- 39:27Speaker 2: You play to win the game. You deal with all
- 39:28Speaker 2: that other stuff later. If you have the fourth, fifth,
- 39:30Speaker 2: fifth pick, okay, that's what that's what you you deserve.
- 39:34Speaker 2: That's why I think maybe the NFL should change some
- 39:36Speaker 2: of this policy. Maybe the NBA's got it right, you know,
- 39:39Speaker 2: I mean, or figure something, figure something out where you know,
- 39:43Speaker 2: you're not taking games. There's just there's just too much
- 39:46Speaker 2: money on the line when when you're thinking of you know,
- 39:49Speaker 2: you know how how expensive it is the go to games?
- 39:52Speaker 2: You know what what what the the broadcast rights and
- 39:55Speaker 2: on all the TV contracts, how much they pay for
- 39:58Speaker 2: a team to go out and not give it. They're
- 40:00Speaker 2: all that makes no sense. If you get the fourth pick,
- 40:02Speaker 2: you get the fourth pick, draft someone, you know, get
- 40:05Speaker 2: a good player. But I just think it's it's it's ridiculous,
- 40:08Speaker 2: and so uh yeah, I think that Ron Rivera or
- 40:12Speaker 2: any coach in that situation should go out to win.
- 40:14Speaker 2: If you don't like it, then fire me, you know,
- 40:17Speaker 2: that's what I'd say. Fire Fire me right now. See
- 40:19Speaker 2: what that looks like for you, Fire me and and
- 40:22Speaker 2: say why because you're not you're not, you know, doing
- 40:24Speaker 2: what we asked you to do just to lose. So
- 40:26Speaker 2: see what that looks like for your fan base. Now
- 40:28Speaker 2: you win the game, So all right, Tim and Grapevine.
- 40:31Speaker 8: Next call Nick, Hey, good morning, I'm gonna I'm doing good.
- 40:36Speaker 8: It's been a while. It's good to talk to you.
- 40:38Speaker 8: I'm gonna pump a little bit of kool aid here.
- 40:40Speaker 2: What color?
- 40:41Speaker 12: So hey?
- 40:41Speaker 8: The last of blue and silver?
- 40:44Speaker 3: So hey? Hey, so check this out.
- 40:46Speaker 8: Look, last two postseasons, we run into a buzz, all
- 40:50Speaker 8: the Niners, right, and we get knocked out in the
- 40:52Speaker 8: divisional and everybody's chirping. All the critics, they're all in bolden.
- 40:56Speaker 8: We all don't like it, you know, it's part of
- 40:58Speaker 8: it comes with the territory. We're not We're not complain
- 41:00Speaker 8: about it. It is what it is, right, But now
- 41:02Speaker 8: we have a chance to change the narrative this Sunday.
- 41:06Speaker 8: This game is massive. If they must win game, we
- 41:09Speaker 8: get that two seed, the path is set for an
- 41:13Speaker 8: NFC championship in Santa Clair. I mean, it's it's it's
- 41:16Speaker 8: it's it's aligning perfectly now. Now the one game I'm
- 41:20Speaker 8: watching closely, Rams and Niners. Here's why they're both resting
- 41:25Speaker 8: their quarterbacks other players. But if the Rams can win
- 41:28Speaker 8: that game where the Packers lose, then the Rams would
- 41:31Speaker 8: keep that number six seed and they're going to play Detroit,
- 41:33Speaker 8: who I think they match up with really well and
- 41:35Speaker 8: could win. And I think the Rams also low key
- 41:40Speaker 8: are a are a poison pill for San Francisco.
- 41:43Speaker 3: As crazy as that.
- 41:44Speaker 8: Sounds, I think they're a really good matchup for San Francisco,
- 41:46Speaker 8: at least offensively.
- 41:48Speaker 2: Well, so yeah they're yeah.
- 41:51Speaker 8: Yeah, So the Cowboys Cowboys Nation out there this Sunday.
- 41:56Speaker 8: The job's not done. I mean, if you're going to
- 41:57Speaker 8: be at the game, be loud, be crazy. I mean,
- 42:00Speaker 8: this is this is it is.
- 42:02Speaker 2: Somebody said said track game. I mean if it's a
- 42:05Speaker 2: trap game, then the players, the coaches that think that way,
- 42:10Speaker 2: they don't deserve to be playing this game. This is
- 42:12Speaker 2: absolutely I mean McCarthy said it. Playoffs have started. This
- 42:15Speaker 2: is it. This is this is a playoff game. No,
- 42:17Speaker 2: it's not. It's you know, it's not single elimination, but
- 42:21Speaker 2: if it changes the course, because you think about it,
- 42:25Speaker 2: it's like double elimination, you know, because if you lose,
- 42:28Speaker 2: you go to the loser's bracket, you go to over
- 42:30Speaker 2: here and you go on the road, or you stay
- 42:31Speaker 2: over here and you have two home games. This is
- 42:34Speaker 2: absolutely a huge, huge game. And you're right, Tim, All right, man,
- 42:41Speaker 2: have a good one. Yeah, it's It's just it's massive. Now,
- 42:45Speaker 2: you know. The one thing that I'm looking at them,
- 42:47Speaker 2: This would be so ironic if Detroit it says it
- 42:53Speaker 2: the three Cowboys can can win and stay at two,
- 42:56Speaker 2: and if the Rams somehow stay on that sixth spot.
- 42:59Speaker 2: I mean, think about that game Rams Detroit six versus three.
- 43:05Speaker 2: Think about the quarterbacks, Matthew Stafford going back to Detroit,
- 43:10Speaker 2: number one overall pick from Detroit for years, all time
- 43:14Speaker 2: leading passer and Lion's history and all that playing with
- 43:16Speaker 2: the Rams. One Super Bowl with the Rams goes back
- 43:19Speaker 2: plays in the playoff game against Detroit, Jared Goff number
- 43:22Speaker 2: one pick from the Rams. I mean when they made
- 43:25Speaker 2: that trade, I don't think anyone thought, oh, in a
- 43:27Speaker 2: few years, they're gonna match up in the playoffs. I
- 43:30Speaker 2: mean that, I mean for Lions versus Rams. You know
- 43:34Speaker 2: that that's a pretty good storyline right there. If that happens,
- 43:38Speaker 2: which would mean if that happens, that means probably Green
- 43:40Speaker 2: Bays the seven, and there's some other teams. I guess
- 43:42Speaker 2: that could be the seven maybe, or it may just
- 43:45Speaker 2: be Packers and Rams the only the only option, So
- 43:47Speaker 2: it'd probably be the Packers come in here and then
- 43:49Speaker 2: of course you want some story lines. I mean, how
- 43:51Speaker 2: about that Packers and Cowboys? Of course? Again, all right,
- 43:54Speaker 2: Rob in Vegas? What's up, hey?
- 43:58Speaker 12: Rob?
- 43:59Speaker 6: You know I actually may have to be the voice
- 44:01Speaker 6: of reasons for one.
- 44:02Speaker 2: Yeah, let's let's do that. Bring that.
- 44:05Speaker 7: I'm listening to fans and penciling us in NFC Championship.
- 44:09Speaker 6: I just want to beat Washington.
- 44:12Speaker 7: To me, that's where the playoffs start. And honestly, I
- 44:16Speaker 7: hope they tank, and I hope they played a water boy.
- 44:18Speaker 7: I don't I don't care. I mean, we we got
- 44:22Speaker 7: to take that game and then see what happens, because,
- 44:26Speaker 7: let's face it, we did in this posision before. Remember
- 44:29Speaker 7: the Giants, Green, Bay, uh Zeke and Dax. LOOKI here
- 44:36Speaker 7: now in the playoffs, anything can happen, but we have
- 44:40Speaker 7: to win Sunday. It's laid out first. We're talking about
- 44:45Speaker 7: running the running the ball. We cannot run the ball conventionally.
- 44:50Speaker 7: That's got to stop. I don't care who's in the backfield.
- 44:52Speaker 7: It's just we just don't do it. I think we
- 44:55Speaker 7: would be better if we do more speed sweeps with
- 44:58Speaker 7: a cb uh terpin. I think we need to incorporate
- 45:02Speaker 7: that more. We're not going to just smash it up
- 45:05Speaker 7: in the middle. We haven't done that for a couple
- 45:07Speaker 7: of years, and starting starting now. Got to jump on
- 45:12Speaker 7: just got to jump on Washington early and make them
- 45:15Speaker 7: thinking about vacation plans that it's going to be good.
- 45:19Speaker 2: Uh.
- 45:19Speaker 7: And even if it is cold, listen, it's going to
- 45:22Speaker 7: feel a lot colder to them knowing that this is
- 45:25Speaker 7: their last game. They got nothing to play for. I
- 45:29Speaker 7: want to ask a question, so hypothetical. Let's say you
- 45:35Speaker 7: could upgrade one position on the Cowboys for the playoffs,
- 45:39Speaker 7: just one. What position would you upgrade?
- 45:43Speaker 2: Uh? Upgrade one? What would you pick? Middle linebacker?
- 45:49Speaker 7: Yes, I could if I could grab a guy like
- 45:52Speaker 7: a Fred Warner, let's say, from the thirty nine ers.
- 45:55Speaker 2: Oh, somebody like that, we're just going to grab Pro bowlers.
- 45:57Speaker 2: If we're grabbing Pro bowlers, I might take aar I'm.
- 46:00Speaker 7: I'm just saying if you could upgrade one position. If
- 46:03Speaker 7: I said to you right now in the playoffs, you
- 46:06Speaker 7: get to pick one guy from another team and you
- 46:10Speaker 7: could put them on your team, you could upgrade that position.
- 46:13Speaker 7: To me, it's middle linebacker. Because the moon Clark is awful.
- 46:18Speaker 7: He just gives you nothing. You know, I talked about
- 46:20Speaker 7: Donovan Wilson being in the witness protection.
- 46:23Speaker 2: Well he's out, he's out.
- 46:24Speaker 7: Now, he's out. Now he's playing like he did last year.
- 46:28Speaker 7: But but the moon clock, I just thought, every time
- 46:31Speaker 7: I see the he's seven.
- 46:32Speaker 5: You other bos to do.
- 46:33Speaker 2: I think I think Damon Clark is a better player
- 46:38Speaker 2: when Hankins is out there. I mean, I think I
- 46:40Speaker 2: think that that is just that's all linebackers. They're better
- 46:44Speaker 2: when you have a better defensive tackle up front. And
- 46:47Speaker 2: so that's kind of what I'm you know, hanging my
- 46:50Speaker 2: hat on. But if I could just pick any player
- 46:52Speaker 2: any position, I'm taking a pass rusher. I'm taking the
- 46:55Speaker 2: Pittsburgh pass rusher. I'm taking somebody. Now, if I got
- 46:58Speaker 2: two guys, it doesn't matter who's playing linebacker, I could
- 47:01Speaker 2: be playing free safety. Like the quarterback's not gonna throw it.
- 47:04Speaker 2: I mean like so, I mean, if they decide to
- 47:06Speaker 2: run it cool, like like I'll put everyone up there.
- 47:11Speaker 2: I mean, like you can't keep running.
- 47:14Speaker 7: Look at who we're gonna I look at the future,
- 47:16Speaker 7: and okay, let's say we'd be washing. Uh if Green
- 47:21Speaker 7: Bay comes in they got a big back, young quarterback.
- 47:24Speaker 7: I assume they're gonna want to play a little smash mouth,
- 47:28Speaker 7: Uh Detroit, Yeah, same thing obviously forty nine or same thing,
- 47:35Speaker 7: so and even and even the Rams now are running back.
- 47:38Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that would be a different game if
- 47:40Speaker 2: you play the Rams with Williams.
- 47:42Speaker 7: Yeah, somebody a middle linebackers that actually make some plays
- 47:48Speaker 7: would be the way I go.
- 47:49Speaker 2: Okay, all right, Rob, appreciate it. Thanks for the call.
- 47:53Speaker 2: Let's get one more caller in James and New Jersey. James,
- 48:00Speaker 2: how you doing?
- 48:01Speaker 12: How doing that?
- 48:02Speaker 2: I'm good?
- 48:03Speaker 12: Wonders the wonderful calling to talk about the office of
- 48:07Speaker 12: line and went him back. And of course number mister
- 48:10Speaker 12: Parsons be honist. Is he about the same size as
- 48:16Speaker 12: uh the center in Philadelphia? Because I'm thinking, because it's
- 48:20Speaker 12: amazing how much different they play in everybody's talking about
- 48:23Speaker 12: he's much small, be I think he's about the same size.
- 48:26Speaker 2: Mark Stepnoski was smaller than all of them. You know,
- 48:30Speaker 2: it's it's technique. I mean, it's not it's not just size,
- 48:33Speaker 2: it's it's a it's a technique. I mean Frederick, I mean,
- 48:36Speaker 2: I don't I don't know if Frederick was that much
- 48:38Speaker 2: different than than than be Odish, But it's it's about
- 48:42Speaker 2: it's about leverage and you know and all that. It's
- 48:44Speaker 2: not like it's not like they don't see that when
- 48:47Speaker 2: they drafted him, you know, Frederick, Wisconsin center drafted first round,
- 48:51Speaker 2: the Hodish, Wisconsin center drafted fourth round. I mean, you know,
- 48:55Speaker 2: like they can see who's got the techniques and all
- 48:58Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. But but else he's on a
- 49:00Speaker 2: different level. I mean, Kelsey's he's amazing. He really is.
- 49:04Speaker 12: Okay, okay, I'm just wondering. Yeah, but you know, in
- 49:07Speaker 12: the running game, obviously it helps with the running games.
- 49:10Speaker 12: He can take this thing up. But I see that
- 49:13Speaker 12: partson on that Parson his vision is not that great.
- 49:18Speaker 12: I don't think as far as running best concern, it
- 49:19Speaker 12: could be better, you know. But my main reason for
- 49:22Speaker 12: calling was Parsons. I think that there's not a center
- 49:27Speaker 12: in the league that could stop him. He's on top
- 49:30Speaker 12: of his nose and he just bothering quickly. There's not
- 49:34Speaker 12: a center that could stop him, you know what I mean.
- 49:36Speaker 12: And yeah, seriously, I think honestly they should do he
- 49:40Speaker 12: should spend fifty percent of his time in the right
- 49:43Speaker 12: or that spinal time at the center because the center's
- 49:45Speaker 12: got to worry about him, The quarterbacks got to worry
- 49:47Speaker 12: about him, and the running backs got to worry about him,
- 49:49Speaker 12: you know what I mean. Whereas you put them in
- 49:51Speaker 12: that line, they're obviously not going to give him that call,
- 49:54Speaker 12: that holding call, even though people do it like seventy
- 49:57Speaker 12: times a game.
- 49:58Speaker 3: So you got to move.
- 50:00Speaker 12: Don't let them sit and get held.
- 50:01Speaker 6: All day long.
- 50:02Speaker 12: You know, I think you should put more time fifty
- 50:04Speaker 12: percent in the middle of twenty five percent on either side,
- 50:07Speaker 12: depending on you know, where he thinks he's not going
- 50:09Speaker 12: to get held, you know the call, you know what
- 50:11Speaker 12: I mean? Yep.
- 50:14Speaker 2: Well, the thing about that is it's a lot easier
- 50:17Speaker 2: for a guard to help you help the center chip
- 50:20Speaker 2: a little bit here, so it's not one on one.
- 50:26Speaker 12: Well at that time that he's uh, you know, the
- 50:30Speaker 12: tackles are going to have to you know, do some work,
- 50:33Speaker 12: you know what I mean. Somebody, somebody's being singled up
- 50:36Speaker 12: in the middle when you got three guys on top
- 50:38Speaker 12: of him in the middle, So you shouldn't get used
- 50:41Speaker 12: for everybody else on the line to do their work,
- 50:42Speaker 12: you know.
- 50:43Speaker 2: I think the key with Mica is just to move
- 50:45Speaker 2: them everywhere. I mean, You're right, there is some one
- 50:47Speaker 2: on ones, but just move them around where they just
- 50:51Speaker 2: don't know where he's going to be. And that's that's
- 50:54Speaker 2: where I think the biggest thing is. So there's times
- 50:56Speaker 2: there'll be one on one with the center. But I
- 50:58Speaker 2: think if he was just there all the time, I
- 51:00Speaker 2: think teams could figure that out. They could run at
- 51:02Speaker 2: him more, double team him. A garden of center on
- 51:05Speaker 2: Micah Parsons is not what you want at all, you know,
- 51:08Speaker 2: if you're trying to run, So you just have to
- 51:11Speaker 2: you know, it's a cat and mouse game and you
- 51:12Speaker 2: have to just pick your spots.
- 51:14Speaker 12: The lasting, the leading more of a spot where you're
- 51:16Speaker 12: not getting held a long and they're not gonna call
- 51:19Speaker 12: it and just leave it there. Yeah, you know what
- 51:20Speaker 12: I mean, that's the lasting. But I agree totally.
- 51:23Speaker 2: Yeah. All right, thanks for the call, James, appreciate that,
- 51:27Speaker 2: all right, you too. All right, good show. Thank you
- 51:33Speaker 2: to Chris Beam for running the board and doing all
- 51:35Speaker 2: what he does back there, and thanks for all the
- 51:38Speaker 2: callers as well. Got eleven calls today all over the place,
- 51:41Speaker 2: Texas with most states, but we were all over the
- 51:44Speaker 2: map today. Good good stuff. All right, we'll be back
- 51:47Speaker 2: tomorrow we'll talk it. We'll maybe make some predictions here
- 51:51Speaker 2: on Cowboys commanders and see what it takes for them
- 51:54Speaker 2: to get this win and get the number two seed
- 51:55Speaker 2: in the NFC East title. All Right, for Chris, I'm
- 51:58Speaker 2: Nick Keatman. We'll see you tomorrow. Cowboy storyline.
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