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- 0:01Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
- 0:03Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Clubs. This is Cowboys Storyline
- 0:14Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman.
- 0:18Speaker 2: What is up at It's time for Cowboys Storyline. It's Tuesday,
- 0:21Speaker 2: November fourteenth. Cowboys are getting ready for a Carolina team
- 0:27Speaker 2: that they have just one win. But we've already seen
- 0:31Speaker 2: this this year. We've already played this game. So let's
- 0:34Speaker 2: don't let's don't go down that road. I think the
- 0:35Speaker 2: Cowboys know that they need to be focused, not gonna
- 0:38Speaker 2: try to jump too far ahead. You know, obviously this
- 0:43Speaker 2: is a stretch in the schedule though that the Cowboys
- 0:45Speaker 2: should be able to get some wins. But they got
- 0:47Speaker 2: they gotta stack it. I thought they did a nice
- 0:49Speaker 2: job Tuesday, Tuesday Sunday against the Giants and and you know,
- 0:56Speaker 2: taking care of business there, and then we'll see what
- 0:58Speaker 2: happens here this Sunday and Carolina haven't played here a ton,
- 1:03Speaker 2: but I can promise you there's gonna be a ton
- 1:05Speaker 2: of Cowboy fans there. It's always kind of a theory
- 1:09Speaker 2: of mine. I mean, it's not really anything hard hitting.
- 1:12Speaker 2: It's just the fact that when you when you when
- 1:15Speaker 2: you go to places that didn't have football in the seventies,
- 1:18Speaker 2: there's gonna be a ton of Cowboy fans and stealers
- 1:21Speaker 2: because that was the team. You know that those are
- 1:23Speaker 2: the teams that were really dominating back then. So you know,
- 1:26Speaker 2: Charlotte didn't have a team at the time, so you know,
- 1:28Speaker 2: you got to pick a team, and why not them?
- 1:31Speaker 2: And and so you know Carolina, I mean, they they
- 1:34Speaker 2: they do a good job with with their fan base
- 1:36Speaker 2: there and they have for a while. But but obviously
- 1:38Speaker 2: there's gonna be a lot of Cowboy fans there, especially
- 1:41Speaker 2: with the season that that they're having. All right eight eight, eight, eight,
- 1:44Speaker 2: five five two two nine seven eight one seven two
- 1:46Speaker 2: nine zero three two nine eight. Have a couple of
- 1:50Speaker 2: news and notes to hit today. The Cowboys confirmed, uh
- 1:55Speaker 2: or Jerry Jones confirmed at least that that Leyton Vandersh
- 1:57Speaker 2: will not return this season.
- 2:00Speaker 3: Uh.
- 2:00Speaker 2: He has been on ir with the neck injury that
- 2:02Speaker 2: we're hoping to get him back at some point. That
- 2:05Speaker 2: is not going to happen. And I think now the
- 2:09Speaker 2: bigger question is is will he come back at all?
- 2:11Speaker 2: I mean, I think I think you have to wonder that. Uh,
- 2:14Speaker 2: with with now two injuries season ending injuries with his neck.
- 2:19Speaker 2: He's probably going to need surgery again. Uh. This has
- 2:22Speaker 2: been an injury since college and he just never has
- 2:26Speaker 2: been able to fully overcome. And he's played through it
- 2:28Speaker 2: a lot, but this is we're talking about serious stuff
- 2:31Speaker 2: here with his neck, and so I don't know. I
- 2:34Speaker 2: don't know about that past this year, but it does
- 2:37Speaker 2: appear to be that he will be out for the
- 2:38Speaker 2: season this year, and the Cowboys have tried to piece
- 2:42Speaker 2: it together here at linebacker. Marquise Bell has been in
- 2:44Speaker 2: there a lot, obviously with DeMont Clark, Michael Parsons has
- 2:48Speaker 2: played some. Uh, some of these other safeties have moved
- 2:51Speaker 2: in there, Sead Evans, so they've you know, they they've
- 2:55Speaker 2: been able to kind of get together, but obviously that's
- 2:57Speaker 2: a big loss of significant losses. Jerry Jones all right,
- 3:00Speaker 2: let's uh, let's get to the calls though. Let's get
- 3:03Speaker 2: this thing started off. We got a first time caller
- 3:05Speaker 2: from John and Green Bay.
- 3:07Speaker 3: What's up, man, Hey, good good, good morning.
- 3:10Speaker 4: Nick.
- 3:11Speaker 3: Hey, listen. I love this show, man, I love the
- 3:14Speaker 3: fan interaction. I certainly love your knowledge of the game,
- 3:17Speaker 3: which is why have all the all the shows I
- 3:19Speaker 3: could call. I'm calling you answer this question hopefully, and
- 3:23Speaker 3: I have.
- 3:24Speaker 2: A question for you too. Okay, all right.
- 3:26Speaker 5: So.
- 3:28Speaker 3: Why do we never and I mean ever can I've
- 3:31Speaker 3: been watching double the gunners on their punt team to
- 3:35Speaker 3: give Turpin or Von's whoever's back there a little room
- 3:37Speaker 3: in maneuver. I mean that the two gunners coming down
- 3:40Speaker 3: are the quickest ones. They're fast enough to get away
- 3:42Speaker 3: from a linebacker, which are the other people coming down?
- 3:45Speaker 3: But we never ever double the gunners, and they're right
- 3:47Speaker 3: on our guy every on every punt. And I can
- 3:50Speaker 3: never figure that out. Other teams always double the gunners.
- 3:54Speaker 2: I don't know about always. I mean you're you're you're
- 3:56Speaker 2: setting yourself up for a fake if you do that,
- 3:59Speaker 2: because you think about it now, you just put five
- 4:01Speaker 2: guys that aren't that aren't going to stop the ball.
- 4:04Speaker 2: That's five because you got you double at least you
- 4:06Speaker 2: want to double both of them, or just double at
- 4:08Speaker 2: least at least one, I mean one of them, because
- 4:13Speaker 2: I think about it. If you doubled both plus Turpin,
- 4:15Speaker 2: that's five guys. You only have six in there, and
- 4:18Speaker 2: they have a punter. So that's you know, I mean,
- 4:21Speaker 2: you're you're talking about maybe you know, some fakes up
- 4:24Speaker 2: the middle and things like that. But but I mean,
- 4:28Speaker 2: you're not wrong in your theory of that. I mean
- 4:30Speaker 2: that there's some different things that they can do to
- 4:33Speaker 2: disguise that. I mean, I wish more than anything they
- 4:35Speaker 2: would just tell the guys don't hold at all. I mean,
- 4:39Speaker 2: it's an absolute backbreaker, even if Turpin doesn't get loose there.
- 4:43Speaker 2: It's a backbreaker when you catch the ball to twenty
- 4:45Speaker 2: yard line and next thing you know, there's a holding
- 4:47Speaker 2: penalty and now you're back inside the ten. So I
- 4:50Speaker 2: don't know. I mean, I think I think they want
- 4:52Speaker 2: to get the ball in his hands, and they're doing
- 4:53Speaker 2: it on offense. That's kind of what they're doing. But
- 4:57Speaker 2: I mean there's some strategy involved with special teams that
- 4:59Speaker 2: I don't think anyone knows it as well as bones
- 5:01Speaker 2: So John Fossil, So, I think you know that there's
- 5:05Speaker 2: a reason why they don't do it. And a lot
- 5:06Speaker 2: of it is because you you you set yourself up
- 5:09Speaker 2: for you know, some some fakes and things like that.
- 5:13Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I got a questions I got I got.
- 5:17Speaker 2: A question for you. How long have you lived in
- 5:18Speaker 2: Green Bay?
- 5:20Speaker 3: Uh? Well, I was born and raised, and then I
- 5:23Speaker 3: spent thirty years in the Marine Corps and that now
- 5:25Speaker 3: I'm back.
- 5:26Speaker 2: You're back. But well, I was wondering. I was like,
- 5:28Speaker 2: have you ever, like driving around, did you ever see
- 5:31Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy? I mean, but was he there when you
- 5:33Speaker 2: were there?
- 5:35Speaker 3: No? I was here in the in the eighties, okay,
- 5:40Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean every everything up here is Green Bay.
- 5:44Speaker 3: I mean I'm an outlier up here.
- 5:47Speaker 2: I bet, you know, I bet, But it just seems
- 5:49Speaker 2: like it's such a you know, it's such a small place,
- 5:51Speaker 2: and you you know, everybody kind of knows everyone. I
- 5:53Speaker 2: just wonder you're driving around like there's the head coach,
- 5:56Speaker 2: there's you know, that just happens. It's kind of it.
- 5:58Speaker 3: It's cool you run into them the wall, you'd run
- 6:01Speaker 3: into different packers at Walgreens and places that you wouldn't
- 6:04Speaker 3: even think of.
- 6:05Speaker 2: You know, it's awesome.
- 6:07Speaker 3: Again, I'm wearing Conaboy gear all the time.
- 6:10Speaker 2: So good, good for you, John, all right, appreciate that
- 6:14Speaker 2: good call. Thank you for starting us off here today.
- 6:17Speaker 2: I love I love going to to Lambeau, you know,
- 6:20Speaker 2: because it's just it's it's so unique from other places.
- 6:25Speaker 2: You know, when you're just like you just know you're
- 6:27Speaker 2: in an NFL city. You know, you feel it. You see,
- 6:30Speaker 2: you know, the huge stadium, but this place, I mean,
- 6:32Speaker 2: you could be just driving down. It's like here, here's
- 6:35Speaker 2: here's Bert's Tire place, and here's you know, here's you know,
- 6:39Speaker 2: Winn Dixie or whatever. And then you know, here's here's
- 6:42Speaker 2: the Mini Mart and then here's lambeau Field. I mean,
- 6:44Speaker 2: it's just just all one little neighborhood. It's like perfect.
- 6:47Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Dylan in Northport, Florida. Dylan,
- 6:51Speaker 2: what's up?
- 6:53Speaker 6: Nick?
- 6:53Speaker 5: What's up?
- 6:54Speaker 3: Man?
- 6:54Speaker 7: Are you doing?
- 6:54Speaker 2: Are you all right?
- 6:56Speaker 5: Sorry about rush player? Straightity emergency? Come up all and
- 6:59Speaker 5: hold there? So I had a kind I go quick,
- 7:01Speaker 5: so I on that one. Yeah, it was funny.
- 7:04Speaker 2: It was it was like I gotta go, I gotta
- 7:05Speaker 2: go see you later, Like okay, man appreciate yeah man
- 7:09Speaker 2: in your emergency?
- 7:11Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, no, it was something weird came up, so sorry.
- 7:14Speaker 2: But forgive it.
- 7:15Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks, Do you appreciate it? That late in vannersh
- 7:20Speaker 5: you that really sucks for him. I feel so bad
- 7:22Speaker 5: for that guy. He got he probably I don't presume
- 7:26Speaker 5: to know what he's thinking or feeling or whatever. But man,
- 7:29Speaker 5: I think he's probably got to hang it up because
- 7:31Speaker 5: you don't mess around with that next stuff.
- 7:33Speaker 8: You know.
- 7:33Speaker 5: That's We've got gotten a lot of guys here after
- 7:35Speaker 5: their careers in trouble. And I know some of these guys,
- 7:38Speaker 5: they you know, they got take painkillers every day. They
- 7:39Speaker 5: can hardly move, and he's got to be careful with that,
- 7:42Speaker 5: you know what. I'm saying the same thing with you know,
- 7:44Speaker 5: Tyren Smith kind in the same boat too with his back.
- 7:46Speaker 5: He's got to be careful too with that. He's going
- 7:48Speaker 5: to be hanging it up pretty soon, I would think.
- 7:51Speaker 5: But yeah, linebacker is going to be a big need
- 7:53Speaker 5: for us. I think next year we got over shown.
- 7:56Speaker 5: It's probably gonna take two years to be himself again.
- 7:58Speaker 5: I'm scared with Digs with with that acl as well.
- 8:01Speaker 5: But uh, you know, we're seeing it from Steel right now.
- 8:04Speaker 5: He's not the same we saw with Gallup. He's kind
- 8:07Speaker 5: of returning to for him now. And there's a big
- 8:10Speaker 5: mental part of it, you know, there's a big, a
- 8:12Speaker 5: big physical part of it. So linebacker is going to
- 8:15Speaker 5: be thin here going into next season. So I mean
- 8:18Speaker 5: it's definitely focused on that. I think in the draft.
- 8:21Speaker 2: Well and then go ahead, No, no, Well, I'm just
- 8:25Speaker 2: just going to point out to you about about the Steel.
- 8:27Speaker 2: I mean a still injury. He hasn't been a full
- 8:30Speaker 2: season yet for for Steel. I mean, I mean he
- 8:33Speaker 2: it happened in early December. He's playing through it and
- 8:36Speaker 2: he's he's been able to to go.
- 8:38Speaker 9: You know.
- 8:38Speaker 2: The good thing if there is one about Overshown and Digs,
- 8:41Speaker 2: I mean their injuries happened very early in the season,
- 8:44Speaker 2: so uh and yesterday. They have different positions, they have
- 8:47Speaker 2: to run a little bit more, cut, jump, all the
- 8:49Speaker 2: all those things. But I think from a confidence standpoint,
- 8:51Speaker 2: I mean I think if they can be on that
- 8:53Speaker 2: same you know plan that that Steel was, they're going
- 8:56Speaker 2: to be you know further along you know from training
- 9:00Speaker 2: camp all season things like that.
- 9:01Speaker 7: So yeah, very true.
- 9:03Speaker 5: And over shown as a young guy too. I mean
- 9:05Speaker 5: Diggs is as well, So yeah, they haven't had a
- 9:07Speaker 5: lot of those kind of injuries and a lot of
- 9:09Speaker 5: that wear and tear. So for that place the factor
- 9:11Speaker 5: as well on a quick recovery.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 9:16Speaker 5: I want to talk about Dak real quick. The throw
- 9:19Speaker 5: he had where everybody kind of pooped their pants, where
- 9:21Speaker 5: he got hit real hard. That was one of the
- 9:23Speaker 5: best throws I've ever seen the guy make in his career.
- 9:26Speaker 5: That thing was like on the money and he got destroyed.
- 9:29Speaker 5: And why, I guess I'll leave you with a question,
- 9:33Speaker 5: why is it that quarterback success, especially when they talk
- 9:36Speaker 5: about it in the media and all the fans and
- 9:38Speaker 5: all that, it's the one position that really leans heavily
- 9:42Speaker 5: on playoffs and Super Bowl success. I mean, you can
- 9:47Speaker 5: have the quarterback every single thing, right, but there are
- 9:50Speaker 5: so many guys in the team, from not even just
- 9:52Speaker 5: the players, but coaches, the staffing, for the person that
- 9:55Speaker 5: you know, all all these people that make all these
- 9:57Speaker 5: decisions all season long off season, all these two responsible
- 10:00Speaker 5: to the team's success. But it all seems to fall
- 10:02Speaker 5: on really for the Cowboys two people. It's the quarterback
- 10:06Speaker 5: and it's Jerry. Those are the two people that people
- 10:08Speaker 5: are the two guys that people always point fingers out
- 10:11Speaker 5: when this team fails. And I just want to know,
- 10:13Speaker 5: why is it that you know, you can have ten
- 10:15Speaker 5: guys not do their job, Dak does his job and
- 10:18Speaker 5: people will still point the finger at that. And maybe
- 10:20Speaker 5: it's the same case for other teams as well, But
- 10:21Speaker 5: it feels like it's just magnified to the umpteen's degree
- 10:25Speaker 5: with Dak Prescott. So yeah, I'll hang up with some
- 10:27Speaker 5: response on that.
- 10:27Speaker 2: And next thing, well, I mean, thanks for the call, Dylan,
- 10:32Speaker 2: And the reason why it's magnified is the same reason
- 10:36Speaker 2: why that that I'm going to get, you know, ten
- 10:40Speaker 2: ten twelve calls here this morning from Green Bay, Wisconsin,
- 10:43Speaker 2: in Florida and Virginia and Texas and California, and I mean,
- 10:47Speaker 2: it's this is it. I mean, this is this is
- 10:49Speaker 2: the Cowboys. I mean, I mean, this is what it is.
- 10:51Speaker 2: I mean, the Cowboys. That's the way Jerry wants it.
- 10:55Speaker 2: That's the way it's been. And and you know you're
- 10:58Speaker 2: talking about the Cowboys, good or bad. That's that's it.
- 11:00Speaker 2: I mean, the playing quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys is
- 11:03Speaker 2: not the same as playing quarterback for the Lions. I mean,
- 11:05Speaker 2: it's just it's not. I mean, and go back to
- 11:08Speaker 2: when and I just threw the Lions out there. I mean,
- 11:11Speaker 2: but there's a lot of teams like that. I mean,
- 11:13Speaker 2: Romo was criticized more than any quarterback that I can remember.
- 11:17Speaker 2: Here's an undrafted quarterback that you know, it was was
- 11:21Speaker 2: just you know, he became like a star, like overnight.
- 11:25Speaker 2: It was. It was a great story. Yet he was
- 11:27Speaker 2: he was he was put on a pedestal because he
- 11:30Speaker 2: was not at aightman's level. They didn't win like Akeman,
- 11:34Speaker 2: didn't win like Stallback, but yet, I mean, he didn't
- 11:37Speaker 2: get any of the criticism that the guys in his class,
- 11:41Speaker 2: the matt Ryans, the Matthew Staffords, you know, guys like
- 11:44Speaker 2: that first round picks, top top three picks, guys like that,
- 11:48Speaker 2: it's just not the same, and so and and and
- 11:51Speaker 2: you don't want it to be the same. Like like,
- 11:53Speaker 2: I know, I get the frustration, but at the same time,
- 11:55Speaker 2: it's like the Cowboys are the Cowboys. They're gonna be
- 11:59Speaker 2: on Sunday night, foot, they're gonna be on Monday night,
- 12:01Speaker 2: They're gonna be. You're gonna you're gonna hear about him
- 12:03Speaker 2: all the time. You know, You've got those guys on
- 12:05Speaker 2: on the the networks that that are you know, fake
- 12:08Speaker 2: you know, fake broadcasters that that try to be fake
- 12:10Speaker 2: haters on the Cowboys, knowing damn well that the reason
- 12:13Speaker 2: why they're there is because they're here to talk about
- 12:16Speaker 2: the Cowboys. So I'm just saying you can't have it
- 12:19Speaker 2: both ways, and so if that gets unfair criticism, that's
- 12:23Speaker 2: that's part of it. Right now he's not though, he's
- 12:25Speaker 2: not getting that him. He's playing well. Uh and he's
- 12:28Speaker 2: I guess he's being discussed as an MVP candidate. I
- 12:32Speaker 2: think it's early for all of that, but uh, but
- 12:34Speaker 2: he's playing at that high level right now, so I
- 12:36Speaker 2: think that that's a good thing. All right. Tony in Alexandria,
- 12:40Speaker 2: Virginia is next Tony Hey, Nick am I on you
- 12:43Speaker 2: were on What I'm Great Man.
- 12:48Speaker 10: Hey, I got a couple of because one college said
- 12:51Speaker 10: it is starting to get harder to get on your
- 12:54Speaker 10: show now. It's just come so prompular, so you've got
- 12:56Speaker 10: to kind of like almost take notes so you know,
- 12:58Speaker 10: not for forget to talk about, you know, certain things.
- 13:01Speaker 10: So I'll be quick here.
- 13:02Speaker 2: Appreciate favorite player.
- 13:05Speaker 10: Uh kind of one one a Michael Urban and Deon
- 13:08Speaker 10: Sanders hands down for me because whenever you hear him
- 13:12Speaker 10: talk or whatever. And I haven't played football, I didn't
- 13:15Speaker 10: played in high school, didn't played in college. But he
- 13:17Speaker 10: make me want to go put on a helmet and
- 13:19Speaker 10: go out there. And then a favorite wrestler I'd have
- 13:23Speaker 10: to go either good guy or bad guy. Good guy
- 13:26Speaker 10: and I kind of based it off of their walkout music.
- 13:28Speaker 10: My good guy was the ultimate warrior. My bad guy
- 13:31Speaker 10: would be uh, a gentleman by the name of Mark Halloway.
- 13:35Speaker 10: And if you don't know who that is, that's aka
- 13:37Speaker 10: the Undertaker.
- 13:38Speaker 2: Undertaker.
- 13:39Speaker 11: Yeah, it would.
- 13:39Speaker 10: And he's a Cowboys fan by the way.
- 13:41Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we met him. We met him long ago. Yeah, right, And.
- 13:47Speaker 10: It'd be so funny because he would you would hear
- 13:49Speaker 10: his bones on his come out music and the guy
- 13:52Speaker 10: he was facing or whatever, they're looking around, Oh my god,
- 13:54Speaker 10: where is he coming from? Is he coming out the back?
- 13:56Speaker 10: Is he coming from under the ring? Is he coming
- 13:57Speaker 10: from the roof. It would be just so hilarious to
- 14:00Speaker 10: look on their faces when that bong group would come up.
- 14:03Speaker 10: And then a fan called in about the jersey color. Yes,
- 14:07Speaker 10: I am all for that.
- 14:09Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 14:10Speaker 10: I have a couple of helmets in my man cave,
- 14:12Speaker 10: a white one, the traditional silver one, and then I
- 14:15Speaker 10: got a black one too. The black licks cold to me,
- 14:17Speaker 10: but that's just my opinion, you know. If they did
- 14:19Speaker 10: have black south is but and then last for not
- 14:22Speaker 10: least a meet and greet. That is a phenomenal idea.
- 14:26Speaker 10: I would be down for that. You just would have
- 14:28Speaker 10: you guys would have to just give the fans enough
- 14:29Speaker 10: to notice, so we can, you know, as hop counters.
- 14:32Speaker 10: Could you know, book flights and all that.
- 14:34Speaker 2: Arrangement stuff, some kind of fan fest for the coup.
- 14:38Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 14:38Speaker 10: Yeah, and just not want to blazing hot down there,
- 14:40Speaker 10: because that would be a mess, you know, being out
- 14:43Speaker 10: there to blaze and hot July heat or whatever. But yeah,
- 14:48Speaker 10: se uh and.
- 14:50Speaker 4: I'll hang it.
- 14:51Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you got to remember, there's there's this thing
- 14:54Speaker 2: called the Ford Center. We'd book that. That's what would happen.
- 14:58Speaker 2: We're not going to be out there in the blaze,
- 15:01Speaker 2: you know, heat in July. No thanks. So yeah, people think, oh,
- 15:06Speaker 2: you're from Texas, you're used to it. No, f fat, no, No,
- 15:10Speaker 2: get out of the heat as much as you can.
- 15:13Speaker 2: You don't get used to that. You don't get used
- 15:14Speaker 2: to baking in the oven. But yeah, good good stuff,
- 15:18Speaker 2: a lot of good good things. They're Undertaker the Warrior,
- 15:22Speaker 2: Ultimate Warrior Michael Irvin Blue. I mean he's talking about
- 15:28Speaker 2: silver uniform, silver jerseys. I'm not a big fan of that.
- 15:32Speaker 2: I've seen. I've seen those jerseys. I don't ever look
- 15:35Speaker 2: at those jerseys when I see, you know, and the
- 15:36Speaker 2: fans wear them and go they should wear those. I
- 15:38Speaker 2: just I don't know, there's something about that that's not
- 15:40Speaker 2: my favorite. But I don't know. I mean, they they'll
- 15:44Speaker 2: they'll trick it up every now and again, and they've
- 15:46Speaker 2: done it a lot more lately than they haven't in
- 15:48Speaker 2: the past. All right, Uh, let's go to a text
- 15:50Speaker 2: question here from Joe and Florida. Could you describe the
- 15:53Speaker 2: coaching style difference McCarthy brings versus the previous regime, and
- 15:58Speaker 2: could you tell a story about the triplets. I was
- 16:03Speaker 2: looking here back here there's a I thought it was
- 16:05Speaker 2: eight min Irvin and and uh and uh eight man
- 16:09Speaker 2: Irvin and Emmett and looking forgetting EMMITTT. Smith.
- 16:13Speaker 9: No.
- 16:13Speaker 2: The reason why I paused there. We got different trip
- 16:15Speaker 2: lets to talk about here soon. But those three, you
- 16:21Speaker 2: know I I covered nineteen nineteen ninety nine was my
- 16:25Speaker 2: last year here, and they were all they were all
- 16:28Speaker 2: still there. So that was kind of cool, you know,
- 16:31Speaker 2: because earlier in the decade, you know, I was in
- 16:33Speaker 2: I was in junior high in high school, you know,
- 16:35Speaker 2: when they all started getting here and so being a
- 16:37Speaker 2: big fan of watching them win and all that and
- 16:39Speaker 2: then be at the end of the decade to be
- 16:41Speaker 2: able to cover them was was kind of surreal. And
- 16:45Speaker 2: Dion was in there too so that that season, and
- 16:48Speaker 2: Darryl Johnston for like a game or two, and uh
- 16:51Speaker 2: so it was it was a lot. It was that,
- 16:52Speaker 2: you know, changing of the guard. Really, I don't have
- 16:55Speaker 2: a ton of stories on them, you know, Emtt maybe
- 17:00Speaker 2: bit more because I because I've I covered him for
- 17:02Speaker 2: three or four seasons. But you know, it was just
- 17:05Speaker 2: like like for me, it was almost like just being
- 17:07Speaker 2: you know, it was just being a fan, like what
- 17:09Speaker 2: am I doing here? At least? This is so weird,
- 17:11Speaker 2: you know when you think about it, and next thing,
- 17:13Speaker 2: you know, and I and I kind of wonder that
- 17:15Speaker 2: a little bit when I see like NBA players that
- 17:19Speaker 2: are you know, they get in the league and they're
- 17:20Speaker 2: eighteen years old, nineteen years old, and I'm like they
- 17:23Speaker 2: they only know Lebron playing in the NBA like he's
- 17:27Speaker 2: twenty years I mean, then the next thing you know,
- 17:29Speaker 2: you're guarding him. Like that's just kind of weird. I
- 17:31Speaker 2: wonder how people like that take it not to say
- 17:34Speaker 2: I was guarding those guys, but just covering them, you know,
- 17:37Speaker 2: trying to be professional. And then but just ten years ago,
- 17:39Speaker 2: I was trying to get their autograph, you know or
- 17:41Speaker 2: stuff like that. So that was cool. And you know,
- 17:45Speaker 2: and I and I definitely every time you see those guys,
- 17:47Speaker 2: you know, they are royalty around here. So uh, and
- 17:50Speaker 2: it's not just them, it's it's the guys that were
- 17:53Speaker 2: that were here, that played that would you know, helped
- 17:55Speaker 2: them win championships things like that. As for the different
- 17:58Speaker 2: coaching style, I mean Jason and and and Jason Garrett,
- 18:05Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy, I mean, they that's a whole show right there.
- 18:09Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry, I can't just just just think, oh, what,
- 18:12Speaker 2: what are the big differences there? I mean, it's probably
- 18:15Speaker 2: not as many as you would say, I would think
- 18:18Speaker 2: from a fans perspective. I think coaches that that coached
- 18:21Speaker 2: for for both, and scouts that that have been here
- 18:25Speaker 2: obviously for both, I mean, they know the differences and
- 18:28Speaker 2: and what they like to do and and and things
- 18:30Speaker 2: like that. But I mean to sit here and talk
- 18:32Speaker 2: about the coaching style difference, I don't I don't have
- 18:38Speaker 2: I don't have a whole lot for you on that one.
- 18:40Speaker 2: I really don't. I'd have to think about that one
- 18:42Speaker 2: a little bit. I mean, I'm sure that there are
- 18:43Speaker 2: some I'm just not. I'm just not there. You hit
- 18:46Speaker 2: me with some good ones on the text line there,
- 18:48Speaker 2: and that's one I got to think about a little bit. Uh.
- 18:51Speaker 2: We got a caller from North Carolina. Let's go to Otis,
- 18:53Speaker 2: North Carolina. Hey, I'm good man, how are you.
- 18:59Speaker 4: I'm doing well. Got two things for you. First one,
- 19:03Speaker 4: I was kind of I'm not I'm not sure. I'm
- 19:05Speaker 4: kind of upset yesterday because listening to a lot of
- 19:08Speaker 4: listen to the fan and listen to a lot of
- 19:09Speaker 4: people calling in talking about how how they were not
- 19:12Speaker 4: impressed necessarily with this win, and they're kind of really
- 19:17Speaker 4: really just dunking on Dak saying that he wasn't you know,
- 19:19Speaker 4: he's still not good?
- 19:20Speaker 2: A good question, like who's saying this?
- 19:24Speaker 4: There were a lot of callers, there were a lot
- 19:25Speaker 4: of callers calling in.
- 19:26Speaker 2: Yesterday on the radio station.
- 19:30Speaker 4: Yeah, just saying how they were impressed with the wind.
- 19:32Speaker 4: You know, you know, wake me up when we play
- 19:34Speaker 4: a play a better team, so and so forth. I mean,
- 19:37Speaker 4: you beat the teams that you're supposed to beat. I mean, yeah,
- 19:40Speaker 4: to me, you do what you're supposed to do when
- 19:41Speaker 4: you get out there. But a lot of people talking
- 19:45Speaker 4: about Dak and so and so forth. Pretty I got
- 19:47Speaker 4: people even saying that they don't like that just because
- 19:49Speaker 4: he made the money he made, because they called him
- 19:52Speaker 4: selfish forgetting the contract that he got so he could
- 19:54Speaker 4: spread the wealth around like like Tom Brady or somebody,
- 19:57Speaker 4: you're not you're.
- 19:58Speaker 2: Not listening to and out with fans like these are
- 20:02Speaker 2: just these are seriously because it's not a fan. Anybody
- 20:05Speaker 2: that says, wake me up when they play, you're not
- 20:07Speaker 2: a fan. You're not a fan. You're you're just a casual.
- 20:09Speaker 2: You just want to sit there and you want to
- 20:10Speaker 2: be able to say, ah, I told you whatever. Because
- 20:12Speaker 2: that's not a fan that there's a schedule. And also
- 20:15Speaker 2: anyone that thinks Dak is making a whole lot of
- 20:17Speaker 2: money from from NFILD quarterback standpoints, he's right in the middle.
- 20:22Speaker 2: He's right in the middle. So no one they just
- 20:25Speaker 2: remember Dak getting the contract. They don't remember the thirteen
- 20:28Speaker 2: others that have you know, been leaked frogging him on
- 20:31Speaker 2: that list at this point. So these people are are
- 20:34Speaker 2: are not are They're misinformed? That's that's what it is.
- 20:37Speaker 2: That's that's all it is.
- 20:39Speaker 4: Okay, I agree, and I appreciate that.
- 20:41Speaker 3: What do you got one is?
- 20:45Speaker 2: Is he is he playing well? Is he is he
- 20:47Speaker 2: meeting up to the standards of these these so called fans?
- 20:49Speaker 2: Is he playing? Okay?
- 20:50Speaker 4: Absolutely, okay, absolutely he is. And I know there's there's
- 20:54Speaker 4: been a little bit controversy about what he said after
- 20:57Speaker 4: the game. I think he was misquoted. If I'm not
- 21:00Speaker 4: take it. I think the clip he's wrapping the clip
- 21:04Speaker 4: he said, I'm one of those ones, you know, I'm
- 21:06Speaker 4: a top receiver in this game. It was it was
- 21:09Speaker 4: part of that saying I'm the top receiver in this game.
- 21:12Speaker 4: So I don't know if you caught that or not,
- 21:14Speaker 4: but a lot of the clothes I've seen he said
- 21:16Speaker 4: he is the guys, I don't think you said that.
- 21:19Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's definitely been discussed here in the office.
- 21:22Speaker 2: We uh, we were a part of that as well.
- 21:25Speaker 2: I mean we, I mean we we have the story
- 21:28Speaker 2: up and and it says and and you know, we
- 21:30Speaker 2: had to listen to it yesterday, and that's exactly what
- 21:33Speaker 2: he says, I'm one of them ones, I'm a top
- 21:36Speaker 2: receiver in the league. And yeah, and that's that's that's
- 21:41Speaker 2: what that's what I heard as well. It's really close
- 21:44Speaker 2: to I'm the I'm a top receiver. But but I
- 21:49Speaker 2: really believe I think because of he says I'm one
- 21:51Speaker 2: of them ones. Uh, you know, I'm I'm a top
- 21:53Speaker 2: receiver in this league. I think I think that's what
- 21:56Speaker 2: he meant. And you know, but but you know what,
- 21:58Speaker 2: like when I heard it and read it, you know,
- 22:01Speaker 2: I'm I'm the top receiver. I didn't really blink. I
- 22:05Speaker 2: was like, Okay, I'm kind of surprised if he said that.
- 22:08Speaker 2: But he's not wrong. I mean, I mean, right now,
- 22:11Speaker 2: he's I don't think he is. I don't think he's
- 22:13Speaker 2: wrong in saying that. But but he's definitely one of
- 22:16Speaker 2: the top receivers in the league.
- 22:18Speaker 4: I just read the confidence he has right now and
- 22:20Speaker 4: he's playing well, and it was good to see.
- 22:22Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very good to see. He is he is
- 22:24Speaker 2: he is.
- 22:25Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 22:26Speaker 2: I appreciate that. All right, No, this is good stuff.
- 22:28Speaker 2: Let's keep moving here. Michael Bowling, Green, Kentucky.
- 22:36Speaker 11: Tell you, hey, what you said this morning makes sense.
- 22:40Speaker 11: I'm from a small town in North Carolina and the
- 22:43Speaker 11: Cowboy's wrong basically every week, So I'm actually from the
- 22:48Speaker 11: same town Greg Ellis is from. He went to my
- 22:52Speaker 11: high school a couple of years after I graduated. But
- 22:56Speaker 11: what I wanted to ask was Greg Olsen was Olson
- 23:00Speaker 11: was talking about during the during the game Sunday. If
- 23:05Speaker 11: Dak he's playing like this, he's going to be in
- 23:07Speaker 11: the MVP conversation at the end of the season. I
- 23:10Speaker 11: know there's a lot left, but he continues at this pace.
- 23:14Speaker 11: I mean, do you think that's the possibility. I remember
- 23:17Speaker 11: when Romo should have won the m v P but
- 23:22Speaker 11: Aaron Rodgers got it, and uh so I'm just not
- 23:26Speaker 11: sure about you.
- 23:26Speaker 2: Know, yeah, you know, you say, at this pace, what
- 23:30Speaker 2: what you're talking about? Stats?
- 23:32Speaker 11: Or well, the way the way he's gone with the
- 23:36Speaker 11: minimal interception of of the I mean, you know, three
- 23:41Speaker 11: and four hundred yard games and and not making the mistakes.
- 23:45Speaker 11: Do yeah, do you see him being in the conversation.
- 23:49Speaker 2: Or I see him being in the conversation. They have
- 23:52Speaker 2: to beat the Eagles. They have to he has to
- 23:54Speaker 2: change that, and he has to, you know, probably win
- 23:58Speaker 2: one of those games there in Buffalo Miami, which I
- 24:00Speaker 2: mean seriously watching that game, you know, last night, and
- 24:03Speaker 2: who's afraid of that? Who's fraid of Buffalo? They're five
- 24:05Speaker 2: and five? I mean they are. They aren't as good
- 24:07Speaker 2: as everyone kind of thought that they were. And you know,
- 24:10Speaker 2: I'm not saying that won't be a tough game, but
- 24:12Speaker 2: but they you know, they have every game on this
- 24:15Speaker 2: schedules is winnable, every single one. That's how good they are.
- 24:19Speaker 2: I think they'll be favored to win probably all but
- 24:22Speaker 2: maybe one or two of these games. So they have
- 24:25Speaker 2: to go and win those games. They the narrative can't
- 24:27Speaker 2: be the Cowboys are just beating up on these teams
- 24:29Speaker 2: that don't have winning records. They have to beat Seattle,
- 24:33Speaker 2: they have to beat the Eagles, you know. And I'm
- 24:35Speaker 2: not jumping ahead. I mean, obviously got to win these
- 24:37Speaker 2: other games. You can't have another stinker like you did
- 24:39Speaker 2: against them. You know, the Cardinals can't have that. So
- 24:42Speaker 2: so yeah, I mean, if on this pace stat wise, sure,
- 24:46Speaker 2: but he's all he's got to jump it up a
- 24:48Speaker 2: little bit, win some of these games, you know, against
- 24:51Speaker 2: some big competition. But you do that, and you put
- 24:54Speaker 2: this team. You know, if I think if they go
- 24:56Speaker 2: win the NFC East, which is not going to be
- 24:58Speaker 2: easy at this point, but if they can do that
- 25:00Speaker 2: and get into that conversation, then you sure. I think
- 25:03Speaker 2: Dak is one of those guys.
- 25:05Speaker 11: Yeah, I think they can win the East. And hey,
- 25:08Speaker 11: you had three first time callers yesterday in the show
- 25:11Speaker 11: and started off as one.
- 25:12Speaker 2: That's four in a row. That's in a row, Dylan,
- 25:15Speaker 2: Dylan from Northport. He broke the streak, but which is fine.
- 25:19Speaker 2: But yeah, we had we definitely had four in a row.
- 25:22Speaker 2: I'm not sure one of these other ones weren't first time.
- 25:24Speaker 2: They didn't say it, but they might have been.
- 25:26Speaker 11: But uh, it's definitely getting harder to get on, which
- 25:29Speaker 11: is awesome because it's awesome this show to go anywhere.
- 25:32Speaker 2: We're good, this show, we're good. We're in the only
- 25:35Speaker 2: thing that changed. We might we might in the off season.
- 25:37Speaker 2: We might go a little longer at some points, you know,
- 25:41Speaker 2: give you guys, everybody get a chance to get going.
- 25:43Speaker 2: But yeah, this has been great. And then Michael, you're
- 25:45Speaker 2: one of them that calls all the time. I appreciate
- 25:47Speaker 2: you getting.
- 25:47Speaker 11: In and I hope LV not not for football, but
- 25:52Speaker 11: I hope LV gets healthy, so you know, for his health, yeah,
- 25:57Speaker 11: he can play football fine, but you know, his health
- 26:00Speaker 11: is more important, definitely.
- 26:02Speaker 2: And that's that's a that's a tough deal of these
- 26:04Speaker 2: players that that are you know, that are young. I mean,
- 26:07Speaker 2: like you know, they're they're still they're still young. I mean,
- 26:10Speaker 2: he's twenty twenty seven, maybe twenty eight years old, so
- 26:14Speaker 2: that's you know, he's still got, he's still got Hopefully
- 26:18Speaker 2: he's not done playing football. I mean, let's just let's
- 26:20Speaker 2: just say that. But he's got to make some the
- 26:22Speaker 2: decisions here. And you know, I mean just look at
- 26:25Speaker 2: the riding on the wall. He's had neck injury in college.
- 26:28Speaker 2: Me miss seven games I think his junior year because
- 26:30Speaker 2: of a pinched nerve in his neck. Sophomore junior years
- 26:34Speaker 2: the year before he got drafted. So uh and then
- 26:37Speaker 2: and then he gets you know, then he gets here
- 26:39Speaker 2: and he has a great rookie year and he makes
- 26:40Speaker 2: a second team All Pro, makes the Pro Bowl, and
- 26:43Speaker 2: we're thinking, oh, this is you know, the next Urlacker,
- 26:46Speaker 2: then the next Lee Roy Jordan, you know, these great linebackers,
- 26:51Speaker 2: and then the neck injuries continue to resurface, so you know, hopefully,
- 26:57Speaker 2: hopefully he'll make the right decisions for him and his
- 26:59Speaker 2: family and all that, and we would wish him the best.
- 27:02Speaker 2: And you know, I'd love to see him play again.
- 27:04Speaker 2: I hope, I hope that we haven't seen his last game.
- 27:06Speaker 2: I really hope that. But then again, that's the decision
- 27:09Speaker 2: he's got to make, all right, Big Al in San
- 27:11Speaker 2: Antonio is next. Big Al. So my boy, Hey, perfect
- 27:22Speaker 2: perfect timing. I'm glad you were the one to be
- 27:26Speaker 2: on that call for that. That's awesome job there.
- 27:30Speaker 9: I'm gonna I hope it that is last. But you know,
- 27:33Speaker 9: I keep him in that prayers and I hope he
- 27:35Speaker 9: uh doing George's last. But Van is my he's my boy.
- 27:40Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he was. He's a he was a really
- 27:44Speaker 2: good player and he and he is a good player.
- 27:46Speaker 2: He is a good player. He's not he's still.
- 27:49Speaker 9: And you know, three weeks ago, I said the Cowboys
- 27:52Speaker 9: is going to be okay. Yeah, yeah, I just hate
- 27:56Speaker 9: to see him, man. You know, in the day is
- 27:57Speaker 9: my birthday.
- 27:58Speaker 2: Happy birthday, man, thank you.
- 28:01Speaker 9: And a good present from me sixty eight years in
- 28:04Speaker 9: this world. And I'm gonna tell you and I always
- 28:07Speaker 9: been a Cowboys fan. If We're gonna do it. I
- 28:11Speaker 9: just feel it, Nick, I feel it.
- 28:13Speaker 2: Bro, what is it.
- 28:17Speaker 9: We're gonna We're gonna do it. We're gonna make it
- 28:19Speaker 9: to the championship game.
- 28:20Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, that's good.
- 28:21Speaker 9: We're gonna make it to the championship game. We're gonna
- 28:23Speaker 9: whoop the hell out of Philly.
- 28:26Speaker 2: I mean, I'd like to see it. I mean, it was,
- 28:29Speaker 2: it was there, it was there, it was there to win.
- 28:31Speaker 2: Take I don't think anyone's gonna be afraid of them.
- 28:33Speaker 2: You got to play them again. I mean they're good.
- 28:35Speaker 2: I mean there's no doubt. I mean they're They're a
- 28:37Speaker 2: really good team. But I think but the Cowboys are
- 28:40Speaker 2: good too. Like that's the thing. Like this is a
- 28:42Speaker 2: good team. This is a good football team. You can
- 28:45Speaker 2: throw Arizona the Arizona game out there all you want to,
- 28:48Speaker 2: but we all know this that when they are blocking
- 28:51Speaker 2: like they blocked it here in this last game. This
- 28:54Speaker 2: this offensive line is starting to come together. The offensive
- 28:56Speaker 2: line that was that was a that was a preseason
- 28:59Speaker 2: game offensive line. You know, Tyron Smith is turning the
- 29:03Speaker 2: corner now, Tyron Smith is he's turning the clock. Is
- 29:06Speaker 2: he what he's doing? I mean, he's playing really, really well,
- 29:10Speaker 2: and he wasn't in that game. Zach Martin went in
- 29:12Speaker 2: that game. I mean, Tyler, be honest. I mean that's
- 29:14Speaker 2: that's like eighteen Pro Bowls right there on the offensive line,
- 29:16Speaker 2: not in the game. So it's significant, and that's how
- 29:20Speaker 2: you neutralize yourself to another team when when that happens.
- 29:23Speaker 2: But I think this team is a really good team
- 29:25Speaker 2: as well, So.
- 29:27Speaker 9: I don't have no questions. But I got one more
- 29:29Speaker 9: tame before I get up off for here. One more
- 29:33Speaker 9: then out.
- 29:36Speaker 2: There you go. There you go, Thank you appreciate the call.
- 29:40Speaker 2: The funny story about that is I talked to the
- 29:44Speaker 2: guy that was running the merchandise. He was the director
- 29:48Speaker 2: of Cowboys Merchandise at the time, and I said to
- 29:51Speaker 2: him that, you know, you might think about a T
- 29:54Speaker 2: shirt here about with Layton vanorash with hol you know.
- 29:59Speaker 2: And I was like, what a about if you put
- 30:00Speaker 2: howel about them Cowboys and with a picture of him,
- 30:04Speaker 2: and he kind of did. He was like yeah, he
- 30:06Speaker 2: was like, well, we're we're working on that. Yeah, okay cool.
- 30:08Speaker 2: I was like, okay, I figured y'all were you know, cool?
- 30:11Speaker 2: And then like the next day, his assistant came over
- 30:14Speaker 2: and said, hey, hey, Nick, we're gonna do your idea.
- 30:17Speaker 2: I'm like, oh you are. I mean the other guy
- 30:19Speaker 2: just kind of dismissed it, but he apparently told the
- 30:21Speaker 2: staff like, we're doing this, and in two or three
- 30:23Speaker 2: weeks the T shirts were out there in the pro shop.
- 30:26Speaker 2: I was pretty proud of that. So, uh and no,
- 30:28Speaker 2: I didn't get anything for that other than a nice
- 30:31Speaker 2: little luck, good job. So it's cool, you know, got
- 30:34Speaker 2: some for the kids. How about them cowboys. I thought
- 30:37Speaker 2: he was gonna be a really big star. I really
- 30:40Speaker 2: I thought that vander USh was gonna have a great career.
- 30:42Speaker 2: It's just it's sad that the injuries took its toll
- 30:45Speaker 2: like that. All right, let's go to uh Rob in Vegas.
- 30:50Speaker 2: What's up? How are you?
- 30:53Speaker 9: I'm good?
- 30:54Speaker 2: How are you great?
- 30:56Speaker 3: Great?
- 30:58Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 31:00Speaker 12: I like Jimmy Fly Snooker and uh and Tony Atlas.
- 31:04Speaker 2: When I was younger, Tony Atlas was just like a
- 31:07Speaker 2: I mean he was, I mean he was like, yeah
- 31:10Speaker 2: he was, but yeah, I think what he in competitions
- 31:13Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
- 31:14Speaker 3: Yeah, Miss.
- 31:17Speaker 2: Universe, probably not Miss USA, but yeah, but yeah he was.
- 31:20Speaker 2: He was a big time but yeah, super fly snooker man,
- 31:24Speaker 2: I mean off the top rope. Yeah, yeah, good time.
- 31:28Speaker 2: Of course, most of these guys have a story that's
- 31:31Speaker 2: not you know, when you when you really look them up,
- 31:33Speaker 2: most of their stories aren't aren't great, and his is
- 31:36Speaker 2: not for sure when you look at you know, off
- 31:40Speaker 2: the off the field, out of the ring, I guess
- 31:43Speaker 2: you would say. So. Anyways, though out of the ring,
- 31:45Speaker 2: what do you got Rob?
- 31:47Speaker 12: You know, we talked about criticism of Dak, and I'm
- 31:50Speaker 12: all for criticism.
- 31:51Speaker 3: I mean, we do it.
- 31:53Speaker 12: But my problem is who's doing the you know, criticizing.
- 31:56Speaker 12: When I see Dan Olasky criticized Dak, I'm like, that's
- 32:01Speaker 12: like Stevie Wonder give him driving lessons. I'm like, Dan was,
- 32:06Speaker 12: Dan was in a good quarterback. Dan was the guy
- 32:09Speaker 12: that stepped out of bounds in the end zone, right,
- 32:11Speaker 12: And so it'd be different if it was Peyton Manning
- 32:15Speaker 12: or you know, Troy Aikman, Tom Brady And I just think,
- 32:19Speaker 12: like you said, this shows ESPN and stuff that all
- 32:24Speaker 12: they the Toubbleys didn't exist.
- 32:26Speaker 3: They may not exist.
- 32:27Speaker 2: Yeah, I hear you on that, but I also want
- 32:31Speaker 2: to be I NFL players, they know their stuff. They've
- 32:36Speaker 2: played in the game. And I hate to say that
- 32:40Speaker 2: if you're not Troy Aikman or Tony Romo, that you
- 32:42Speaker 2: can't do that. Because we have guys on our panels
- 32:45Speaker 2: here that played. Some of them played, some of them
- 32:48Speaker 2: were six time Pro Bowlers, some of them played a
- 32:51Speaker 2: couple of years, two or three years, bounced around, didn't
- 32:54Speaker 2: do a whole you know, didn't start a lot, I mean,
- 32:56Speaker 2: but but I still think that their knowledge of the
- 32:58Speaker 2: game is off the chart. So I I hate to say.
- 33:02Speaker 2: I don't want to say that about Orlsky because he
- 33:05Speaker 2: wasn't a great NFL quarterback, that he doesn't understand the game,
- 33:09Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I mean, think about it.
- 33:11Speaker 2: And this is absolutely no disrespect at all. I'm just
- 33:14Speaker 2: the Cowboy and the Cowboys Radio Babel Offenberg is an
- 33:17Speaker 2: outstanding analyst. He has been there for a long long time.
- 33:21Speaker 2: He does a great job with Brad Sham. He he played,
- 33:24Speaker 2: He played in the NFL for you know, five or
- 33:26Speaker 2: six years, started a few games, one game, right, So
- 33:30Speaker 2: so that that's my point. I don't like to just say, well,
- 33:32Speaker 2: you don't know your stuff. I mean, I think Isaiah
- 33:35Speaker 2: Standback is as good as as they as we have here,
- 33:38Speaker 2: and and Isaiah didn't didn't play a ton, so I yeah,
- 33:43Speaker 2: the criticism on Dak is just it sells, you know,
- 33:46Speaker 2: that's that type of thing.
- 33:48Speaker 12: So yeah, I want to ask you something. You know,
- 33:50Speaker 12: you talk about favorite players and stuff. What's your favorite teams?
- 33:54Speaker 5: Like?
- 33:55Speaker 12: The two teams that always come to mind that I
- 33:58Speaker 12: enjoyed watching the whole year was the Cowboys first Super
- 34:01Speaker 12: Bowl with Jimmy. Yeah, because we saw what they how
- 34:05Speaker 12: bad they were and how.
- 34:06Speaker 2: They yeah their way up.
- 34:08Speaker 12: And Jack's rookie year with fun when it was just
- 34:12Speaker 12: a fun yet game was one of my favorite games
- 34:15Speaker 12: of all time.
- 34:16Speaker 2: It was a fun team, it sure was. Yeah, those
- 34:19Speaker 2: are some good ones, you said, the ninety one team,
- 34:24Speaker 2: I guess ninety two seasons. Yeah, ninety two season was Yeah,
- 34:28Speaker 2: that was That was fun too, because it's been so
- 34:30Speaker 2: long since you've been a fan. Good good good stuff.
- 34:32Speaker 11: Rob.
- 34:33Speaker 2: Appreciate that. I like, I like the Rob that Rob
- 34:35Speaker 2: from Vegas. When they're winning, you know what I mean,
- 34:37Speaker 2: You're you're like, you got nothing to say, you know,
- 34:39Speaker 2: you got nothing bad to say. Let's just go be
- 34:41Speaker 2: you know, go down memory lane. I love it. My
- 34:44Speaker 2: favorite team. My favorite team, though it is like and I, oh,
- 34:49Speaker 2: I got a bunch, I got a bunch of because
- 34:51Speaker 2: of different parts of your life. I mean the nineteen
- 34:54Speaker 2: eighty three team, I was seven years old, but I
- 34:56Speaker 2: can remember that's when I really really started watching the team.
- 35:01Speaker 2: And also it's when my family got a VCR. We
- 35:03Speaker 2: would record the games, and some of those games I
- 35:07Speaker 2: had for a long time. I mean, the nineteen eighty
- 35:10Speaker 2: three game against the Saints is absolutely one of my
- 35:12Speaker 2: favorites of all time. It's just a noon game, but
- 35:14Speaker 2: it's just weird plays that happened. I love that game.
- 35:17Speaker 2: But like ninety one, I like that team. When we
- 35:20Speaker 2: did a documentary on that called ninety one, I just
- 35:23Speaker 2: I love that one because that was when they really
- 35:25Speaker 2: started to turn the corner and like, hey, this is
- 35:28Speaker 2: going to be a good team again. That was kind
- 35:29Speaker 2: of fun. And then asked for recently, Yeah, that sixteen
- 35:32Speaker 2: team was fun. I like them. I like the twenty
- 35:36Speaker 2: eighteen team. I like that that team, you know, and
- 35:39Speaker 2: because it didn't look like it was going anywhere, and
- 35:42Speaker 2: then we were in Washington. We're flying back from Washington.
- 35:45Speaker 2: Next thing you know, they make a trade for a
- 35:46Speaker 2: Marii Cooper and then you know that just kind of
- 35:49Speaker 2: changed the whole thing. And then Leighton vander esh it
- 35:51Speaker 2: was his year, rookie year where he started coming on
- 35:53Speaker 2: and it was doing all the halling and Jalen Smith
- 35:55Speaker 2: was playing well and that was a fun team. They
- 35:58Speaker 2: won a playoff game there against Seattle, so that was
- 36:03Speaker 2: I really enjoyed that season as well. All right, let's go,
- 36:07Speaker 2: oh man, we didn't even take a break. I'm sorry, Beam,
- 36:10Speaker 2: what are we doing here? We didn't take a brad,
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- 38:16Speaker 1: It's the Cowboys storyline.
- 38:20Speaker 2: All right, back here for a few more minutes. We're
- 38:22Speaker 2: gonna go right back to the phone lines. Wet Steve
- 38:25Speaker 2: in Washington's the Washington State.
- 38:28Speaker 8: It's up conspiracy theory. Steve from Washington State.
- 38:33Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I remember this now. What's up? What he
- 38:38Speaker 2: got for us.
- 38:38Speaker 8: Today is just it's making it harder and harder to
- 38:42Speaker 8: get in on the phone calls. I think it's a
- 38:44Speaker 8: conspiracy to keep me off the air. I think that's
- 38:47Speaker 8: what the conspiracy is right now.
- 38:49Speaker 2: I think I think we need to get another phone line.
- 38:51Speaker 2: I think that might need to be. What we need
- 38:54Speaker 2: to do is make Chris being work even harder back there.
- 38:57Speaker 8: That's right, that's right. What do you got to the
- 39:00Speaker 8: because the uh I got a quick question for you,
- 39:04Speaker 8: uh Bryant that we just signed a yes, or the
- 39:11Speaker 8: rookies or the free agents this year? Who do you
- 39:14Speaker 8: think is going to make the bigger impact this year?
- 39:18Speaker 2: You're talking about the draft picks, like, yeah.
- 39:20Speaker 8: The draft picks, draft picks.
- 39:23Speaker 2: Oh well, I would I would lean towards them because
- 39:26Speaker 2: of the draft picks, because they actually play, and they
- 39:31Speaker 2: were playing the last few years. I thought Mossie Smith
- 39:36Speaker 2: was encouraging what he's done. And Schoonmaker is going to
- 39:39Speaker 2: be out there. Like Schoonmaker is a big guy that
- 39:42Speaker 2: blocks and they like to go with twelve and thirteen personnel.
- 39:45Speaker 2: He's going to be out there. He can't keep dropping passes.
- 39:51Speaker 2: You know that obviously you don't. You don't want a
- 39:53Speaker 2: guy that that your quarterback doesn't trust. I'm not saying
- 39:56Speaker 2: he's at that at that point, but he needs Schoonmaker
- 39:59Speaker 2: needs to make a big catch, you know, a big,
- 40:01Speaker 2: a big play. And he did. He made a nice
- 40:03Speaker 2: catch and he was short of the goal line. That
- 40:06Speaker 2: you know that that could have been big for him,
- 40:08Speaker 2: and he just hasn't. It hasn't clicked yet for him,
- 40:12Speaker 2: But I think it will. And then you know, as
- 40:15Speaker 2: for as for the other guys in the class, I mean,
- 40:17Speaker 2: it's just I'm not I'm not giving him excuses. Just
- 40:21Speaker 2: remember this is this is a football team that was
- 40:24Speaker 2: twelve and five two years in a row. So and
- 40:27Speaker 2: they have a ton of draft picks. Two years ago
- 40:30Speaker 2: had like ten picks. So there's a lot of guys
- 40:33Speaker 2: that that there's just not it's just hard to make
- 40:35Speaker 2: this roster. It's hard to it's hard to get some
- 40:38Speaker 2: playing time. Uh. This has been a good football team.
- 40:40Speaker 2: It's a rather deep team, and so you know, it's
- 40:43Speaker 2: not easy for rookies to to jump in here and
- 40:46Speaker 2: make a big splash on this team. I think they
- 40:50Speaker 2: thought Mazzi would do that a little bit more. Maybe
- 40:52Speaker 2: he's you know, picking it up a little bit, all right. Uh.
- 40:55Speaker 2: As for Martavis Bryant, I mean, he's you know, he's
- 40:58Speaker 2: just got to just keep doing his thing on the
- 41:00Speaker 2: practice squad's been here a week or two. I'm not
- 41:02Speaker 2: saying he won't get elevated. I he very well could,
- 41:06Speaker 2: uh for for a game or two. It's just depending
- 41:09Speaker 2: on you know, do they think that you know, there'll
- 41:12Speaker 2: be an injury knock on wood, They'll they'll be there'll
- 41:14Speaker 2: be a need for for a big receiver like that,
- 41:17Speaker 2: and and I'm sure he'll he'll get in at some
- 41:20Speaker 2: point if he's ready. All right, Mike and Ohio is
- 41:22Speaker 2: our next caller.
- 41:22Speaker 6: Mike, Hey, Nicky, long time, long time podcast listener, first time.
- 41:29Speaker 2: First time. All right, appreciate that.
- 41:32Speaker 6: I really like your show.
- 41:34Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 41:35Speaker 6: My wrestler Haul Cogan. Oh yeah, and uh, I have
- 41:39Speaker 6: two two cowboys from when I was a youngster. I
- 41:43Speaker 6: really liked watching Bill Bates and Darryl Johnston. Yeah, and
- 41:48Speaker 6: so my question for you maybe if you got about
- 41:52Speaker 6: a little bit, you know, the use of fullbacks. You know,
- 41:58Speaker 6: we we kind of have that ability, just don't see
- 42:01Speaker 6: it that much. You know, I really liked, uh, you know,
- 42:04Speaker 6: Darryl and Emmett uh that kind of team effort there.
- 42:08Speaker 6: So you know, we talked about that a little bit,
- 42:12Speaker 6: and you know, why aren't we seeing it that much
- 42:15Speaker 6: in the NFL anymore? I realized things changed a little bit,
- 42:19Speaker 6: you know, over time, but I really missed miss uh
- 42:22Speaker 6: watching that kind of physicality.
- 42:25Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Yeah, those two guys, they did not
- 42:30Speaker 2: care about their their own health and injury situation. I mean,
- 42:35Speaker 2: they they would uh lay it out there, you know,
- 42:39Speaker 2: Bill Bates, Darryl Johnston. Of course, you know, just just
- 42:44Speaker 2: theyre fan favorites for that because because people can can
- 42:47Speaker 2: relate to that. You know, you don't have to play
- 42:49Speaker 2: in the NFL or even college. I mean a lot
- 42:52Speaker 2: of the guys played high school football and and and
- 42:54Speaker 2: they know that the guys that that you know, laid
- 42:57Speaker 2: it on the line and that and that weren't afraid
- 42:59Speaker 2: and uh weren't afraid to mix it up. Those two
- 43:01Speaker 2: guys kind of fit that that category. So they're always
- 43:04Speaker 2: going to be big fan favorites there. And and you know,
- 43:06Speaker 2: I mean the game, the game evolves a lot over
- 43:09Speaker 2: the years, but it kind of goes in cycles, you know.
- 43:12Speaker 2: I mean, as soon as you start saying, all right,
- 43:15Speaker 2: there's no fullback, we're not doing that, then then teams start,
- 43:18Speaker 2: you know, they'll they'll be there'll be a few full
- 43:20Speaker 2: but there are some fullbacks still still playing because you know,
- 43:23Speaker 2: when you play, when you have a defense designed to
- 43:26Speaker 2: stop twenty five of the or twenty seven different teams,
- 43:30Speaker 2: that's where you know, he's like, well, if we have
- 43:32Speaker 2: the personnel to run the ball on them, we'll do that.
- 43:35Speaker 2: And so therefore, ever, every now and again, you see
- 43:37Speaker 2: it in college too, teams that can kind of do
- 43:39Speaker 2: a pro style run the ball type of offense can
- 43:43Speaker 2: can can really hurt these defenses that are kind of
- 43:45Speaker 2: designed to play against all this fast paced stuff. So
- 43:49Speaker 2: it goes in cycles. I don't I don't think the
- 43:50Speaker 2: fullback is ever going to completely go away. You got
- 43:54Speaker 2: to be able to do it though, you like, you've
- 43:56Speaker 2: got to be able to block. You also have to
- 43:59Speaker 2: you know, catch the ball out of the backfield, you know,
- 44:01Speaker 2: run the ball. So it's you know, it's not a
- 44:05Speaker 2: lost star just yet. I mean, you don't see it
- 44:07Speaker 2: a lot, but you still there's still some out there.
- 44:10Speaker 2: All right, We got one more caller, Brian in Kansas City. Brian,
- 44:15Speaker 2: what's up, hey, Nick? How you doing?
- 44:19Speaker 7: I'm doing good, sir.
- 44:20Speaker 3: Hey.
- 44:20Speaker 7: You know I was thinking last night. You know, people
- 44:22Speaker 7: always want to do these ranking boards, you know who's
- 44:24Speaker 7: the best. And I'm not a big one on that.
- 44:27Speaker 7: Just tell me who we gets to the super Bowl.
- 44:29Speaker 7: But I was thinking, what are Dak's signature wins? You know,
- 44:34Speaker 7: whether he's a top ten quarterback or not or whatever,
- 44:36Speaker 7: But I thought his signature wins. And you you mentioned
- 44:40Speaker 7: one of the games or one of the seasons earlier
- 44:43Speaker 7: in the in the podcast, the sixteen win against the
- 44:47Speaker 7: sixteen against the Steelers, the playoff win against Seattle Right,
- 44:53Speaker 7: and the playoff win against the Bucks. I mean to me,
- 44:55Speaker 7: those are his signature you know, can't you can't believe
- 44:59Speaker 7: the performing he put out there.
- 45:01Speaker 2: And I have another one. I have another one for you.
- 45:03Speaker 2: A game that we wondered at why he was even playing.
- 45:06Speaker 2: It was twenty eighteen against the Giants, last game of
- 45:10Speaker 2: the season, didn't really matter, Zeke did not play, and
- 45:14Speaker 2: he actually he went out there and I think he
- 45:17Speaker 2: needed that. He hadn't been playing that well, and they
- 45:19Speaker 2: went and won that game, I believe was thirty six
- 45:21Speaker 2: thirty five. He had probably his best throw that I
- 45:24Speaker 2: could remember, rolling to his left on fourth down. Maybe
- 45:27Speaker 2: could have run it through a thirty something yard touchdown
- 45:30Speaker 2: past the Beasley in the back of the end zone.
- 45:32Speaker 2: Great catch by Beasley. They go for to win the game.
- 45:35Speaker 2: And then and then the next week I think that's
- 45:37Speaker 2: when they go and they beat Seattle. But I think
- 45:39Speaker 2: that game against the Giants went it was like, why
- 45:41Speaker 2: why is he even out here? It's because he needed
- 45:43Speaker 2: a game like that and he did it. So I
- 45:46Speaker 2: always I put that one in there as well.
- 45:48Speaker 7: Yeah, now that you say that, I do remember thinking
- 45:51Speaker 7: the same thing.
- 45:52Speaker 3: But they're holding.
- 45:53Speaker 2: Zeke out right, why not that? Yeah? Yeah.
- 45:57Speaker 7: The other thing I had for you today, I've heard
- 45:59Speaker 7: so much any of the guys talk about how they
- 46:01Speaker 7: got their job with the Cowboys. I've never heard you
- 46:03Speaker 7: tell us how you got your job with the Cowboys.
- 46:05Speaker 7: I'd love to hear it. Man. All right, hang up
- 46:07Speaker 7: and you have a great day.
- 46:08Speaker 2: All right. I can try to do it quickly here.
- 46:11Speaker 2: Thank you for the call. Brian in Kansas City. Ten
- 46:13Speaker 2: way tie, tenth call, ten way tie on the states.
- 46:16Speaker 2: I always track the states there at Missouri, Washington, Ohio,
- 46:19Speaker 2: and Nevada, Kentucky, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Wisconsin. Ten
- 46:23Speaker 2: different callers from ten states love it that's America's team
- 46:28Speaker 2: for me. I mean, if you ever look up, you know,
- 46:32Speaker 2: if you just googled right place, right time, that's me.
- 46:36Speaker 2: I was a senior and Wi and Wichaw falls at
- 46:40Speaker 2: Midwestern State University. That's where the Cowboys decided for some
- 46:43Speaker 2: reason have training camp there. Because it was only one
- 46:45Speaker 2: hundred and twelve in the summer, they decided to have
- 46:47Speaker 2: training camp there close to home, so we moved from
- 46:50Speaker 2: Austin there. I was a senior. I was working for
- 46:53Speaker 2: the local paper there. The Cowboys called this thing called
- 46:56Speaker 2: the internet's kind of happening. Now, maybe we need our own.
- 47:00Speaker 2: We'll get some interns for nineteen ninety eight. So they called,
- 47:03Speaker 2: like my advisor at school. They're like, I got the
- 47:05Speaker 2: guy for you. I did some things in ninety eight
- 47:08Speaker 2: as an intern. They said, hey, we'll be back next year.
- 47:11Speaker 2: Graduate and we'll be back and maybe we'll have a
- 47:13Speaker 2: job for you. And that's what happened. I graduated ninety nine.
- 47:18Speaker 2: So this is the short version of the story, but
- 47:20Speaker 2: it ended up obviously. I took the job in the
- 47:23Speaker 2: summer of ninety nine, right in the middle of training camp.
- 47:26Speaker 2: Went from a media badge to a staff badge. And
- 47:30Speaker 2: I was told, hey, this could really help you here
- 47:32Speaker 2: for a couple of years. This could open some doors.
- 47:34Speaker 2: And so it's been twenty five it's been twenty five years,
- 47:37Speaker 2: but it's been it's been a blast. And so I
- 47:40Speaker 2: was lucky because I was a student at the college
- 47:43Speaker 2: that the Cowboys went for training camp, and that's how
- 47:46Speaker 2: I got my job. So and in that time, that
- 47:50Speaker 2: same year, nineteen ninety nine, there's another young punk running
- 47:53Speaker 2: around there with a camera named Chris Beam. And then
- 47:55Speaker 2: here he is producing all the podcasts. Now all right,
- 47:58Speaker 2: So for that guy, Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. We
- 48:01Speaker 2: will see you tomorrow on Cowboy Storyline.
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