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- 0:17Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
- 0:26Speaker 3: Good morning, everyone. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Cowboys Storyline,
- 0:30Speaker 3: brought to you by Gillette's. It is Wednesday, November the 4th.
- 0:36Speaker 3: I'm Nick Eatman, and I'm ready to talk some Cowboys
- 0:38Speaker 3: football with you guys, see what you got. Let's go.
- 0:41Speaker 3: You guys know what's going on. Let's just go to
- 0:43Speaker 3: the phone lines. Let's see how many calls we can
- 0:45Speaker 3: get today. Irene in Falls Church, Virginia. Irene, what's up?
- 0:49Speaker 4: Hey, good morning.
- 0:50Speaker 5: Good morning.
- 0:51Speaker 6: How are you?
- 0:51Speaker 3: I'm good. How are you?
- 0:53Speaker 7: Good, good.
- 0:54Speaker 4: Hey, really quick, J.R., hearing him, he actually sounds better
- 0:57Speaker 4: than he did before the surgery. It's amazing. I talked
- 1:01Speaker 4: to him on Twitter about that, too, but he sounds
- 1:03Speaker 4: like he has great energy, so I'm just really happy
- 1:05Speaker 4: for that.
- 1:06Speaker 7: Awesome.
- 1:07Speaker 8: Love him.
- 1:09Speaker 4: Our team. So Jerry said some things yesterday that rubbed
- 1:14Speaker 4: a lot of the fan base the wrong way. I
- 1:17Speaker 4: think we kind of knew that he doesn't want to
- 1:19Speaker 4: spend money on head coaches or a lot of money.
- 1:24Speaker 4: on head coaches. I know there's an exact number, 13 million,
- 1:27Speaker 4: that kind of got leaked out there. I don't know
- 1:29Speaker 4: about that part being true, but he clearly doesn't think
- 1:32Speaker 4: there's at least a one-to-one result of how much you
- 1:37Speaker 4: pay and results, right? But there is an actual chart
- 1:41Speaker 4: of this, and if you look at the top four, one, two, three, four, five,
- 1:46Speaker 4: it's six people, but some of their salaries are tied.
- 1:49Speaker 4: There are six Super Bowls with those coaches, and Everybody
- 1:53Speaker 4: else has four. And then Kyle Shanahan's in there. He
- 1:57Speaker 4: doesn't have any Super Bowls, but he's been to a
- 2:00Speaker 4: bunch of NFC championships and Super Bowls, and he's being
- 2:04Speaker 4: paid high. So I know it's not a one-to-one, but
- 2:07Speaker 4: I think somehow he needs to get over this because
- 2:11Speaker 4: he's got the money to do it. And he said
- 2:13Speaker 4: he'd write that big check. So my guy Kyle, he's
- 2:18Speaker 4: texted into the show before he can't call in, We've
- 2:21Speaker 4: been talking about head coaching candidates because it just seems
- 2:23Speaker 4: like that's where we're going. A guy to keep an
- 2:26Speaker 4: eye out for is Grant Udinski. I don't know if
- 2:30Speaker 4: that's how you pronounce it.
- 2:31Speaker 6: He's with the Jags now.
- 2:32Speaker 4: He helped Darnold last year with the Seahawks, obviously won
- 2:36Speaker 4: the Super Bowl. He revived his career and looks so different.
- 2:40Speaker 9: He's very, very, very young.
- 2:42Speaker 4: He's only 30 years old, and he would be a
- 2:44Speaker 4: first-time head coach. So I know there's a lot of
- 2:46Speaker 4: hesitance that would go into that.
- 2:47Speaker 7: Okay.
- 2:48Speaker 4: It for, for me, it would look good to have
- 2:51Speaker 4: someone cause you know, Michael called about trading Dak. If
- 2:54Speaker 4: we could get someone who can even tweak Dak and
- 2:58Speaker 4: get them to be the best he can be and,
- 3:01Speaker 4: and get better play calling, this could be something that works. Anyway, I'll, uh,
- 3:05Speaker 4: I'll take that fair unless you have a question back
- 3:07Speaker 4: for me.
- 3:07Speaker 3: No, I'm not going to take that off there. We're
- 3:11Speaker 3: good on that. Um, so sorry. Uh, I'm not talking
- 3:17Speaker 3: about any other potential coaches down the line until that happens.
- 3:23Speaker 3: I think you guys know how that works for me
- 3:26Speaker 3: and how that's not necessarily how anything we can talk
- 3:31Speaker 3: about at this point until they're trying to figure out
- 3:34Speaker 3: how to beat the Colts, how to figure this out.
- 3:37Speaker 3: So looking at coaches, I mean, you're talking about tampering
- 3:42Speaker 3: with other teams' coaches for a position that is not
- 3:44Speaker 3: even vacant. The part about Jerry, though, saying that about
- 3:53Speaker 3: there's no correlation there, I can understand why fans would
- 3:57Speaker 3: be upset by that, just because you know, there, there
- 4:01Speaker 3: is no salary cap and for a coach and, and
- 4:04Speaker 3: everything they do here, everything you see that's associated with
- 4:08Speaker 3: the Cowboys, whether it be stadium or, or whatever is always,
- 4:11Speaker 3: you know, top, top, top notch, you know, high class,
- 4:15Speaker 3: all of that. So to not kind of have that,
- 4:19Speaker 3: that same thing with the, with the, uh, coaching staff, um,
- 4:24Speaker 3: you know, that, that I would be upset by that too,
- 4:26Speaker 3: if I was a fan. Um, The tricky part about
- 4:30Speaker 3: looking at salaries, though, and they're not even made public, really,
- 4:34Speaker 3: but if they are reports on salaries of guys that
- 4:39Speaker 3: are up there and they've all won Super Bowls, but
- 4:43Speaker 3: a lot of that is after the fact, right? I mean,
- 4:46Speaker 3: a lot of that is you win a Super Bowl
- 4:47Speaker 3: and then you get paid for that. I don't know
- 4:50Speaker 3: if it's... they won't walk in the door like that.
- 4:52Speaker 3: And then they don't get extra money, you know, for
- 4:55Speaker 3: winning the Superbowl. So I don't, I don't, I'm not
- 4:58Speaker 3: surprised by look at the top guys. They've all won
- 5:01Speaker 3: a Superbowl. I think they've, I think they're the top
- 5:04Speaker 3: guys because they've won a Superbowl, you know? And so,
- 5:07Speaker 3: but again, I'm not trying to argue the point on that.
- 5:10Speaker 3: I do think that is something that it's hard to understand.
- 5:14Speaker 3: It really is hard to understand why that they wouldn't
- 5:17Speaker 3: necessarily go that same route. All right, Brian in Kansas city.
- 5:22Speaker 7: Morning, Nick.
- 5:23Speaker 3: Hey, how are you doing?
- 5:24Speaker 7: Good, man. Thank you for asking. You know, sticking to
- 5:28Speaker 7: that topic for just one second, I don't really think
- 5:31Speaker 7: it's about the money for Jerry. I think it's about
- 5:34Speaker 7: the ego. I don't think he can have, you know,
- 5:40Speaker 7: the one exception since Jimmy has been Bill Parcells. And
- 5:44Speaker 7: for as long as that's been talked about, it's been, yeah,
- 5:47Speaker 7: he needed that stadium vote to go his way. So
- 5:51Speaker 7: he decided to put his pocketbook in front of his
- 5:53Speaker 7: ego one time. But I just think he doesn't want
- 5:58Speaker 7: to share the glory, something along those lines. Anyway, I
- 6:04Speaker 7: don't think it's about how much he pays them. I
- 6:07Speaker 7: think it's about having that big, like Bill Parcells is
- 6:10Speaker 7: a monstrous ego. You worked with him, you know. He's
- 6:15Speaker 7: a huge ego human. And I just don't think Jerry
- 6:19Speaker 7: wants a lot of those people around. That's what it appears,
- 6:22Speaker 7: having watched him ever since he bought the team. So
- 6:26Speaker 7: that would be my take on that. Talking about this
- 6:29Speaker 7: current coaching staff, the thing that really irks me is
- 6:36Speaker 7: how well other teams coaching and scheme-wise adjust that we don't.
- 6:43Speaker 7: So when you look at the numbers, just the statistics
- 6:48Speaker 7: on how we ran the ball against the Eagles, how
- 6:51Speaker 7: much we ran it in between the tackles and some outside,
- 6:55Speaker 7: it was reasonably balanced. Against the Cardinals, we just kept
- 7:00Speaker 7: running between the tackles, even though it wasn't working. And
- 7:04Speaker 7: we just kept doing it anyway. And the numbers don't lie.
- 7:08Speaker 7: We just had a great running game. Look what you
- 7:10Speaker 7: did in that game and adjust. And then the same
- 7:13Speaker 7: thing for the second half in the defense. And it's
- 7:16Speaker 7: hard to adjust when one of your star players or
- 7:20Speaker 7: two star players go out. No question. But in all
- 7:23Speaker 7: the games this year, our coaching staffs don't seem to
- 7:27Speaker 7: adjust as well as the other team. And I go
- 7:32Speaker 7: back to what I said in the offseason. What's the
- 7:35Speaker 7: competitive advantage brought by defense? shoddy or the coach just
- 7:39Speaker 7: the coaching staff in general i'm going to leave you
- 7:41Speaker 7: with that nick good to talk to you sir.
- 7:43Speaker 3: Yeah all right thanks thanks for the call um you
- 7:47Speaker 3: know when you're looking at adjustments and you know i
- 7:52Speaker 3: always think about you know second half and third quarter
- 7:57Speaker 3: and and you know just just how the game flows
- 7:59Speaker 3: and you know who if you're losing a lot of games,
- 8:03Speaker 3: you know, in the third quarter and fourth quarter, then,
- 8:06Speaker 3: you know, I, I think that that makes a lot
- 8:07Speaker 3: of sense there too. And I haven't actually seen those numbers.
- 8:11Speaker 3: I mean, of, of just where, where they are, like,
- 8:14Speaker 3: as far as, you know, adjustments made. Um, and sometimes
- 8:18Speaker 3: that's hollow too, you know, Cowboys kind of, they score
- 8:21Speaker 3: some points maybe in some of those games like green
- 8:24Speaker 3: Bay and you're like, well, that doesn't mean that you're
- 8:26Speaker 3: coming back or anything like that, you know? So it's,
- 8:29Speaker 3: it's hard to, to do that. Um, Houston is one
- 8:33Speaker 3: where they made adjustments there in the second half, scored
- 8:37Speaker 3: 28 points in the fourth quarter, and obviously adjusted to
- 8:39Speaker 3: how things were going there. But it's not on a
- 8:43Speaker 3: consistent basis for sure. That run in the ball like that,
- 8:52Speaker 3: I don't know. It just kind of seemed to me
- 8:54Speaker 3: like it was, all right, you want me to run it?
- 8:58Speaker 3: I'll run it.
- 8:59Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 8:59Speaker 3: You want me to run it in Philly? Watch this.
- 9:01Speaker 3: We'll run it. We're going to run it all day long.
- 9:04Speaker 3: And then, you know, then you go to Arizona. You
- 9:07Speaker 3: want me to run it? Yeah, we're going to keep
- 9:09Speaker 3: running it. We're going to keep running the ball. And
- 9:12Speaker 3: it's like, this is what you.
- 9:13Speaker 10: Wanted, right?
- 9:14Speaker 3: You know, that's just what I shot. He didn't say that,
- 9:16Speaker 3: but that's kind of the way I feel like he
- 9:18Speaker 3: was just like, no, no, we're going to run it.
- 9:19Speaker 3: You guys want me to run it. We're going to
- 9:21Speaker 3: just keep, we keep running the ball. And so then
- 9:25Speaker 3: what happens is what happened. So, um, You know, I'd
- 9:29Speaker 3: like to see some play action a little bit more
- 9:31Speaker 3: out of it. I'd like to see, you know, more outside. But,
- 9:35Speaker 3: you know, that's not really what they do with Javante. Now,
- 9:40Speaker 3: Goodson did get in there and run more than he
- 9:43Speaker 3: had had in other games. But it just... It was
- 9:46Speaker 3: like they just kept running into a brick wall, and
- 9:48Speaker 3: they were like, this is– and it never broke. And
- 9:52Speaker 3: that's what I– I was actually charting that to see,
- 9:54Speaker 3: all right, after seven carries for Gervonta, he's only got
- 9:57Speaker 3: 14 yards. So that two yards a carry. Let me
- 10:00Speaker 3: see how this thing continues. You just keep doing that.
- 10:04Speaker 3: Is it going to change as the game went on?
- 10:07Speaker 3: And it never really did, honestly. All right, let's go
- 10:10Speaker 3: to Nate from Albuquerque.
- 10:14Speaker 11: Hey, Nate.
- 10:15Speaker 3: How you doing?
- 10:18Speaker 1: Nate, are you there?
- 10:20Speaker 10: How's it going, Nick?
- 10:21Speaker 4: Good.
- 10:21Speaker 3: What's up, man?
- 10:23Speaker 10: Hey, so my thing is, like, I know a lot
- 10:25Speaker 10: of people are trying to figure out, like, what's going wrong, right,
- 10:28Speaker 10: and where do we point the fingers. To me, it's
- 10:31Speaker 10: the coaching staff, in my eyes, because we talked about, like,
- 10:35Speaker 10: how did the fans kind of buy in and even
- 10:38Speaker 10: the media kind of buy in with this team. And
- 10:40Speaker 10: to me, it's because it's like, if you look at
- 10:42Speaker 10: this team on paper, it's a good team. Like, we
- 10:45Speaker 10: know this offense is good. If you go down the
- 10:46Speaker 10: roster on the defense, you know, people say, oh, these
- 10:50Speaker 10: players can't play or they're overpaid. No, we've seen them play.
- 10:53Speaker 10: We've seen them. There's history that these guys played good before.
- 10:57Speaker 7: So we've seen it.
- 10:58Speaker 10: Like from week to week to week, like game management
- 11:01Speaker 10: and time management has been an issue. With Schottenheimer going
- 11:04Speaker 10: back to the game before last, before halftime, you know,
- 11:07Speaker 10: we had to settle for a field goal before halftime
- 11:09Speaker 10: because he ran out of time and he had two
- 11:12Speaker 10: timeouts and he didn't even use one. And then in
- 11:14Speaker 10: this game, you know, of course, in the second half,
- 11:18Speaker 10: you know, he takes the foot off of the gas
- 11:20Speaker 10: pedal and settles for field goals. And, of course, Rashawn
- 11:24Speaker 10: Gary made a bonehead play. I think you need to
- 11:25Speaker 10: send him for a game. That was uncalled for. That's ridiculous.
- 11:28Speaker 10: But just getting soft and then even, you know, to
- 11:32Speaker 10: the last couple minutes in the last game, you have C.D.
- 11:35Speaker 10: Lamb and George Pickens, two of the best wide receivers
- 11:38Speaker 10: in the NFL, on the sideline. So that just shows
- 11:41Speaker 10: that he's trying to just burn some clock, call a timeout,
- 11:46Speaker 10: and thought that would be good. And sure enough, four
- 11:48Speaker 10: plays and a touchdown, it should have been game over
- 11:51Speaker 10: right there. And then they still gave us a glimmer
- 11:53Speaker 10: of hope, and it didn't pan out. But to me,
- 11:56Speaker 10: it's coaching in my eyes. And we probably shouldn't be
- 12:00Speaker 10: surprised because both of the coaches don't have experience. I
- 12:03Speaker 10: don't know why because Jerry Jones is trying to win now. Like,
- 12:06Speaker 10: we're not trying to wait two, three years. He's trying
- 12:08Speaker 10: to win now with this team, even now. So, like,
- 12:11Speaker 10: if it was me, last time I checked, I don't
- 12:13Speaker 10: think there's a cap on coaches.
- 12:16Speaker 7: I would go out.
- 12:17Speaker 10: I mean, just imagine this team, this offense, and this
- 12:20Speaker 10: personnel with like a John Gruden and a Rex Ryan
- 12:23Speaker 10: on defense. How much experience do those two guys have?
- 12:26Speaker 10: A ton of experience. Mastermind.
- 12:28Speaker 7: You know?
- 12:29Speaker 10: So I think that's my thing as a coach. Rick
- 12:32Speaker 10: wants to talk about solutions. Like, we got Christian Parker help.
- 12:35Speaker 12: Okay, good.
- 12:35Speaker 10: Now, Shawty, he's proven to us that he needs help
- 12:39Speaker 10: on either calling the plays or game management. But obviously,
- 12:42Speaker 10: he's shown us.
- 12:43Speaker 11: That he can't handle it, both of those things.
- 12:46Speaker 10: So they need to get him help or, you know,
- 12:49Speaker 10: I don't know, maybe get another coach if you want
- 12:51Speaker 10: to go to the extreme. But this thing's got to
- 12:54Speaker 10: get turned around. I'm not one to sit on my hands.
- 12:55Speaker 10: You know, the division's wide open. Granted, the Giants might
- 13:00Speaker 10: run away with it. But, I mean, we're not using
- 13:03Speaker 10: Pickens in the trade deadlines coming up. So you have that, too.
- 13:06Speaker 10: Maybe we can get an edge rusher because we're not
- 13:08Speaker 10: even using them. And I don't think we'd even sign them,
- 13:11Speaker 10: you know, tying up that much money. So I just
- 13:14Speaker 10: want to get your thoughts on that.
- 13:15Speaker 3: All right. Well, thanks for the call. Let's be clear about,
- 13:19Speaker 3: you know, the Pickens part, about them not even using him.
- 13:26Speaker 3: He ranks, you know, like 14th in the league in
- 13:31Speaker 3: receiving yards. You know, like, he's getting used, okay? I mean, like, C.D.
- 13:37Speaker 3: 's third. This is among all receivers. I was just
- 13:40Speaker 3: looking at this yesterday with Flanoy. And they... You know,
- 13:45Speaker 3: he's got 500 yards receiving, Pickens does. You know, and
- 13:47Speaker 3: then the touchdowns aren't there. And I still think they
- 13:51Speaker 3: need to get the ball to him more. I mean,
- 13:53Speaker 3: I really do. And Jerry Jones said that too, and
- 13:56Speaker 3: it sounds like that's what's probably going to happen. They're
- 13:59Speaker 3: going to try to get the ball to him more.
- 14:00Speaker 3: But I think it's a little too far to say
- 14:02Speaker 3: that they're not really using him. He's out there. They're
- 14:06Speaker 3: playing him. Those three wide receivers are, you know, they've
- 14:10Speaker 3: got more yards than any other trio of receivers in
- 14:13Speaker 3: the NFL right now. So that's what they're doing. You're
- 14:18Speaker 3: not seeing a lot of help with the tight ends.
- 14:20Speaker 3: Running backs aren't catching much. You know, their offense is
- 14:22Speaker 3: getting moved that way. But if Pickens isn't doing the
- 14:25Speaker 3: things like he did last year and, you know, can
- 14:29Speaker 3: you get value for him and all that stuff? Um,
- 14:32Speaker 3: you know, I'm not talking about other coaches too. When
- 14:34Speaker 3: you're talking about coaches, we're not talking about other coaches
- 14:36Speaker 3: that could come in here and do all that. If
- 14:38Speaker 3: they bring in another coach, we'll talk about him. If they,
- 14:41Speaker 3: if they make a move for a coach and have
- 14:43Speaker 3: a vacancy, we'll talk about options, but you know, I
- 14:46Speaker 3: hope that you guys understand how that works. Y'all talk
- 14:49Speaker 3: about it and you do your, your shows and your
- 14:51Speaker 3: spaces and y'all can do all that kind of stuff.
- 14:53Speaker 3: And other, other radio stations can do that. And, speculate
- 14:57Speaker 3: and all that good stuff but you know for us
- 14:59Speaker 3: for me um that's just not something that we can
- 15:02Speaker 3: do and i think it's flat out disrespectful so i
- 15:05Speaker 3: don't i don't want to go down that that route
- 15:08Speaker 3: um if you want to talk about the issues that
- 15:10Speaker 3: they have though yes i mean that i i put
- 15:13Speaker 3: it on on some of the the coach i put
- 15:15Speaker 3: it on you know shoddy i think game management has
- 15:18Speaker 3: been an issue definitely before halftime um it's happening too
- 15:21Speaker 3: much and and i think When you see this stuff,
- 15:25Speaker 3: it happened in the Ravens game at the end. It
- 15:27Speaker 3: happened sometimes before the half where they're throwing the ball
- 15:30Speaker 3: into the end zone, but they're not really trying. They
- 15:34Speaker 3: don't want to throw a pick. They don't want to
- 15:35Speaker 3: do anything to mess up the field goal. Field goal
- 15:39Speaker 3: is in your back pocket, right? Don't mess that up.
- 15:42Speaker 3: At some point, you've got to say, well, we've got
- 15:44Speaker 3: a $ 60 million a year quarterback, the only one in
- 15:48Speaker 3: the NFL history that makes this money, and they put
- 15:52Speaker 3: that kind of trust into him. He's been in the
- 15:54Speaker 3: league now, this is 10 years. At some point, if
- 15:57Speaker 3: he hasn't been able to figure out what kind of
- 16:00Speaker 3: throws he can make to go and get a touchdown
- 16:03Speaker 3: and play it safe, but also try a legitimate chance
- 16:07Speaker 3: to score, then then that would be on him. But
- 16:10Speaker 3: they've made that decision to say, all right, we've got
- 16:13Speaker 3: a veteran quarterback that can go in here, let's put
- 16:15Speaker 3: the ball in his hands and go make a play
- 16:17Speaker 3: and not half-ass it and throw it halfway up the
- 16:21Speaker 3: stands and not really trying to score. If you're going
- 16:23Speaker 3: to do it, do it. And, you know, that's what
- 16:27Speaker 3: would be my solution there is, you know, you've paid
- 16:32Speaker 3: Dak and he's your quarterback, so let him go play.
- 16:36Speaker 3: Let him go play. And, yeah, he's going to throw
- 16:38Speaker 3: an interception here or two. He does that. But I
- 16:40Speaker 3: think his track record suggests that for the most part,
- 16:43Speaker 3: you know, he's going to make the right play and
- 16:46Speaker 3: let him go and be a little bit more aggressive.
- 16:48Speaker 3: But I think this, we don't really want him to
- 16:51Speaker 3: mess up and, you know, really just kind of playing
- 16:53Speaker 3: for a field goal. If you're going to do that,
- 16:54Speaker 3: then you just run the ball to Javante, you know,
- 16:57Speaker 3: and if you're going to play at that, you know,
- 16:59Speaker 3: I'd rather them just run the football that way because
- 17:01Speaker 3: he has a chance to break tackles and make plays
- 17:02Speaker 3: and all that good stuff.
- 17:04Speaker 7: All right.
- 17:05Speaker 3: Let's go to Chris in San Angelo.
- 17:08Speaker 13: Mr.
- 17:08Speaker 11: Nick, good morning, sir. How are you?
- 17:10Speaker 3: I'm good.
- 17:10Speaker 5: How are you?
- 17:12Speaker 11: I'm doing well. Thank you, buddy.
- 17:14Speaker 7: Let's see. Yeah, you know what?
- 17:15Speaker 11: The Pickens thing, that works for my fantasy team, too,
- 17:20Speaker 11: if they give them the ball a little bit, get
- 17:22Speaker 11: the ball to them a little bit more, but that's
- 17:24Speaker 11: another subject. Nick, in that last game, it seems like
- 17:28Speaker 11: everything that Arizona did whenever they were desperate in the
- 17:32Speaker 11: fourth quarter of that game just worked. Timing-wise, yards needed-wise,
- 17:39Speaker 11: the whole work, and then when you're in a catch-up mode,
- 17:43Speaker 11: that kind of thing is just not supposed to keep working.
- 17:46Speaker 11: So I'm wondering, I don't know, it did kind of spitball.
- 17:51Speaker 11: Do you think not being able to lean on any
- 17:56Speaker 11: player as a true green dot would be having any
- 18:00Speaker 11: kind of effect on the defense as far as coverage, breakdowns,
- 18:06Speaker 11: long runs off tackle and all that? Or do you
- 18:09Speaker 11: think it's just mainly defensive play callings or players being
- 18:15Speaker 11: in just how they're lined up. I'm just wondering if
- 18:19Speaker 11: you think that that has any kind of effect on.
- 18:22Speaker 12: It at all.
- 18:22Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think inconsistency in your– I mean,
- 18:27Speaker 3: if you think about the fact that, like, your quarterback
- 18:31Speaker 3: of your defense– is your green dot guy. You've had
- 18:36Speaker 3: three different ones this season in eight games, and one
- 18:39Speaker 3: of them is a rookie for most of that. The
- 18:42Speaker 3: other one is a second-year player. The first one who
- 18:46Speaker 3: played just one game, I mean, he's still– I mean,
- 18:48Speaker 3: they're all relatively new to this defense. I'm not throwing
- 18:51Speaker 3: out excuses. I'm just saying that it's inconsistent. So, yeah,
- 18:55Speaker 3: I'm not– if you're coming up here saying could that
- 18:59Speaker 3: be a problem to this, sure. It definitely could be.
- 19:03Speaker 3: And how do you fix it? Well, you get one
- 19:06Speaker 3: in there that can play. But– You know, I just
- 19:10Speaker 3: think that we see too many times. I mean, it
- 19:13Speaker 3: was going great, and then all of a sudden they
- 19:14Speaker 3: just reverted back to the same stuff that's been messing
- 19:17Speaker 3: up the entire time. I think Arizona kind of looked
- 19:20Speaker 3: at it and said, you know, let's just keep running
- 19:22Speaker 3: the football here. This thing is going to break, and
- 19:25Speaker 3: it did.
- 19:27Speaker 11: Yes, sir. Yeah, I mean, I was just saying desperate
- 19:30Speaker 11: teams shouldn't be able to just operate like that. So,
- 19:34Speaker 11: you know, I just wanted to throw that out there
- 19:36Speaker 11: to you, man.
- 19:36Speaker 10: All right.
- 19:37Speaker 7: All right.
- 19:37Speaker 11: Thank you, buddy.
- 19:38Speaker 12: Thanks.
- 19:38Speaker 3: Appreciate it. All right. Thanks for the call. Let's go
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- 21:48Speaker 3: Springs is our next caller. Chris, what's up, man?
- 21:51Speaker 12: Not too much, Nick. How are you today?
- 21:53Speaker 3: Good, thank you.
- 21:55Speaker 12: Yep, I just want to talk solutions today. My opinion,
- 21:59Speaker 12: we need to get GP the ball early and often
- 22:01Speaker 12: this week. He's a spark plug for that offense. I
- 22:05Speaker 12: don't want to wait until the second quarter to get
- 22:07Speaker 12: him a target. He needs to get targets early and
- 22:09Speaker 12: often to get him going. I think it could spark
- 22:12Speaker 12: our team. Um, also a solution offensive line needs to
- 22:17Speaker 12: play better. Um, while watching the game and after the game,
- 22:20Speaker 12: I didn't like how Javante was dancing around and wasn't
- 22:22Speaker 12: hitting the holes, but after rewatching the tape, the offensive
- 22:26Speaker 12: line struggled, uh, last week. So it wasn't him dancing.
- 22:29Speaker 7: It was, he didn't have the.
- 22:30Speaker 11: Holes to hit.
- 22:32Speaker 12: So they need to play better. We have two of
- 22:34Speaker 12: the best guards in the NFL. Um, and I really
- 22:36Speaker 12: liked BB as well at center. We should be mauling people.
- 22:41Speaker 12: We should be opening up holes for this running game
- 22:43Speaker 12: as well. So that needs to improve. My question to
- 22:47Speaker 12: you is on offense, give me a player that you
- 22:49Speaker 12: think needs to step up the most this week in
- 22:52Speaker 12: order for us to get it going on offense.
- 22:56Speaker 3: Just one?
- 22:57Speaker 12: Just one.
- 23:00Speaker 3: Who would be yours? GP.
- 23:03Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 23:04Speaker 3: Okay. All right. Like it. who needs to step up
- 23:09Speaker 3: the most on offense this week? Well, everybody could, could
- 23:12Speaker 3: kind of do that. I mean, you could make a
- 23:14Speaker 3: case for a lot of, a lot of people, you know,
- 23:18Speaker 3: I think, I think Pickens definitely, you know, it could
- 23:22Speaker 3: step up there. I'm, I'm not going to try to take,
- 23:26Speaker 3: take the easy road here, but you know, Dak, Dak
- 23:31Speaker 3: could play better. And, you know, that's a tough one. Dak,
- 23:37Speaker 3: I like the way Dak's kind of running around in
- 23:39Speaker 3: the pocket a little bit. I don't want him to
- 23:40Speaker 3: have to run and do that much. But I do
- 23:43Speaker 3: like kind of what I'm seeing there. I like the
- 23:46Speaker 3: diving for it on fourth down and kind of understanding
- 23:49Speaker 3: the sticks and doing some of the things that he did.
- 23:52Speaker 3: The touchdown to Flanoy was a good play that he–
- 23:55Speaker 3: but when you say GP, that starts to me with
- 24:00Speaker 3: the coaching staff of kind of trying to get him
- 24:02Speaker 3: the ball, trying to get the ball to him down
- 24:04Speaker 3: the field more. You know how, guys, I feel about
- 24:08Speaker 3: the tight ends. I think the tight ends need to
- 24:12Speaker 3: give more production as well. But, you know, I think
- 24:17Speaker 3: if Dak steps up and plays better, I think a
- 24:19Speaker 3: lot of those guys are going to play better, too.
- 24:21Speaker 3: So that's an easy thing. All of the linemen, you know, Beebe,
- 24:28Speaker 3: you know, I want to see a little bit more
- 24:30Speaker 3: from him, too. Guyton, I thought he's played okay. But
- 24:35Speaker 3: you're right about the guards. I mean, I was disappointed
- 24:39Speaker 3: that they ran the ball so well in Philly and
- 24:43Speaker 3: then just got manhandled there and just didn't. And Arizona
- 24:47Speaker 3: gave you nothing there up front to make you think that, oh,
- 24:51Speaker 3: this is going to be a tough day running the ball.
- 24:54Speaker 3: And they just couldn't. They just couldn't move anyone. They
- 25:00Speaker 3: weren't moving people off the ball. and that's discouraging. As
- 25:05Speaker 3: encouraging as it was to watch them play Philly, it
- 25:08Speaker 3: was just as discouraging to watch them just kind of
- 25:11Speaker 3: regress in six days. I thought that was tough. All right,
- 25:16Speaker 3: let's go to Josh in Chicago.
- 25:18Speaker 11: Hey, man.
- 25:19Speaker 9: It's funny that you kind of bring that up because
- 25:21Speaker 9: it kind of relates back to your article, and I
- 25:23Speaker 9: get the question about who should play better on the offense, so.
- 25:27Speaker 9: But the issue, I don't think, is who can play
- 25:29Speaker 9: better because we've seen spurts of really good play from everybody.
- 25:32Speaker 9: It's playing consistently at a high level, right? Because once
- 25:36Speaker 9: you've seen it on tape once, you should be able
- 25:38Speaker 9: to see it again. And we haven't seen the consistency
- 25:41Speaker 9: at that high level. We've seen great plays made by
- 25:43Speaker 9: Pickens or CD or Dak or Javante or Leinman all
- 25:47Speaker 9: season long, but then there's also a lot of bad play, too.
- 25:51Speaker 9: So play consistently at that high level is more of
- 25:53Speaker 9: what I want to see, right?
- 25:54Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
- 25:57Speaker 9: So I called today because I kind of want to
- 25:59Speaker 9: complain about something, and I was talking to Sergeant Sue
- 26:02Speaker 9: about this a while ago, and I don't talk much
- 26:03Speaker 9: about my personal life or things like that, but I'm
- 26:06Speaker 9: in the military, and one of the things that really
- 26:07Speaker 9: bugs me about our coaching staff is I think there's
- 26:10Speaker 9: a lack of trust in just themselves and the players.
- 26:15Speaker 9: And one of the things I see with that is, like,
- 26:17Speaker 9: Christian Parker stayed on the sideline and being down in
- 26:20Speaker 9: his coordinator's business or his, you know, position coach's business.
- 26:25Speaker 9: I think he needs to be in the booth. He
- 26:26Speaker 9: needs to trust his position players to do their job.
- 26:29Speaker 9: Schottenheimer needs to trust Clayton Adams. He needs to trust
- 26:32Speaker 9: other people with what he's doing, too. I just don't
- 26:35Speaker 9: see a lot of trust in these people, and that kind.
- 26:37Speaker 6: Of bugs me.
- 26:38Speaker 9: And I don't know how to fix that. I don't
- 26:41Speaker 9: know if you have any ideas of how to.
- 26:42Speaker 12: Fix that, but I just.
- 26:44Speaker 9: I don't know. I don't see a lot of it.
- 26:46Speaker 9: I think that's why there's some mismanagement at the end
- 26:47Speaker 9: of halves and at the end of games. And I just.
- 26:51Speaker 2: I don't know, man.
- 26:52Speaker 7: I'm at a loss.
- 26:52Speaker 9: I'm so upset.
- 26:53Speaker 3: Yeah, Josh, I can't really answer that because I don't
- 26:57Speaker 3: know if I agree, honestly. Okay. Because I actually– now,
- 27:01Speaker 3: those two examples that you said, I can be on
- 27:06Speaker 3: board with that. But when I think about lack of trust,
- 27:09Speaker 3: I think sometimes– I think he trusts his team too
- 27:12Speaker 3: much at times. I think he trusts his players to
- 27:14Speaker 3: go out and make plays too many times. Aubrey is
- 27:19Speaker 3: another one. I think he trusts that Aubrey's going to
- 27:21Speaker 3: make every single field goal that he's ever kicked because
- 27:24Speaker 3: he has before, and I think that it hurts the
- 27:26Speaker 3: football team because he does put too much trust. He
- 27:30Speaker 3: thinks that in the final two minutes, Elijah Clark and
- 27:34Speaker 3: these guys in the back end are just going to
- 27:35Speaker 3: go make the play. When I think, you know, just
- 27:39Speaker 3: because they have at some point doesn't mean that's the
- 27:42Speaker 3: smart play.
- 27:43Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't disagree with that about Aubrey, right? Because
- 27:46Speaker 9: I think we play scared, too, right? Like, you're playing
- 27:48Speaker 9: to get to the 50 at times or get to, like,
- 27:50Speaker 9: you know, the 48. And it's like, hey, he hasn't
- 27:53Speaker 9: even been that consistent over 60 yards this season. I
- 27:56Speaker 9: know he has in the past.
- 27:57Speaker 3: It's such a weird statement to make. You know what
- 28:00Speaker 3: I mean?
- 28:01Speaker 13: Yeah, I know.
- 28:02Speaker 3: My whole life growing up, I just knew Tom Dempsey
- 28:05Speaker 3: was the one– that made a 63-yard field goal, and
- 28:09Speaker 3: he did it in the 60s, and it was the
- 28:11Speaker 3: only field goal until Jason Elam did it in the
- 28:14Speaker 3: thin air of Denver. And now it's like, what is
- 28:17Speaker 3: your stat for 60? You know what I mean? It's crazy,
- 28:20Speaker 3: and I'm just saying, but the game hasn't changed that much.
- 28:23Speaker 3: It's still a long, long field goal, and I just
- 28:26Speaker 3: think that he puts too much trust in it. But
- 28:28Speaker 3: then on the flip side, what did I just say
- 28:29Speaker 3: about Dak? Put the ball in his hands and let
- 28:32Speaker 3: him go make a play. So because I see examples
- 28:36Speaker 3: of both, it makes me think that it's not either one.
- 28:40Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Like I just like, well,
- 28:42Speaker 3: there's times where he puts too much trust. There's times
- 28:44Speaker 3: where he's not enough. And I sound like a hypocrite
- 28:47Speaker 3: right there by saying both of those in one sentence.
- 28:50Speaker 3: So maybe it's not a trust thing. It's just understanding
- 28:55Speaker 3: your team, understanding your players, and understanding what they can do.
- 28:57Speaker 9: Understanding their capabilities.
- 28:59Speaker 7: Yeah, the capabilities. Yeah.
- 29:01Speaker 3: I have different kids. I have more than one kid.
- 29:02Speaker 3: I have to treat them differently. Those 53 players, you
- 29:05Speaker 3: have to treat them differently. They get paid differently, so
- 29:08Speaker 3: it's okay to treat them differently. And I just think
- 29:11Speaker 3: it's him figuring that out.
- 29:13Speaker 9: Well, to that point, Nick, real quick, I've been complaining
- 29:16Speaker 9: that I don't think we run enough 22 personnel. And
- 29:18Speaker 9: then this game against Arizona, we started running it, and
- 29:20Speaker 9: Ferguson's out. And then when you're actually running 22 personnel,
- 29:23Speaker 9: you pull CD and GP out. And it's like, why
- 29:27Speaker 9: do you have– I like the 22 personnel at times.
- 29:30Speaker 9: I watch the Bears do it all the time. And
- 29:33Speaker 9: it's kind of frustrating to see them. They have better
- 29:35Speaker 9: tight ends, I think.
- 29:36Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 29:36Speaker 12: I was just about to say.
- 29:39Speaker 9: I know. I mean, they still ran 22 against Seattle.
- 29:42Speaker 9: And that's where it's like, you know, if you're going
- 29:45Speaker 9: to run 22 or 12 or 13 or whatever.
- 29:49Speaker 9: You can't pull Pickens off the field or CD. You
- 29:51Speaker 9: want to look for them as the threat against no
- 29:55Speaker 9: safety single high over.
- 29:57Speaker 3: Mingo.
- 29:58Speaker 9: And no offense to him, man, but he's not the same.
- 30:02Speaker 9: It's frustrating, man. Yeah, I hope something changes this week.
- 30:07Speaker 9: I hope we get some consistency going forward. Thanks for
- 30:09Speaker 9: taking my call today, man.
- 30:10Speaker 13: Of course.
- 30:10Speaker 3: All right, guys. Appreciate that. Let's go to Sebastian in Savannah.
- 30:16Speaker 6: What's going on, buddy? How you doing?
- 30:17Speaker 3: I'm good.
- 30:18Speaker 13: How are you?
- 30:19Speaker 12: Doing well.
- 30:19Speaker 6: Just out for a walk. I was giving a little
- 30:23Speaker 6: thought to what's going to go for the next game.
- 30:25Speaker 6: I got my score is going to be 25-23. I
- 30:26Speaker 6: think we're going to be up two. They're going to
- 30:29Speaker 6: go for two and fall behind us. But it's going
- 30:31Speaker 6: to be a bigger struggle than it needs to be.
- 30:34Speaker 6: And I was looking back at all the previous games,
- 30:35Speaker 6: and I looked at a text message that I sent
- 30:37Speaker 6: Miss Irene, and I was like, is George even playing
- 30:39Speaker 6: this game? I think that was the Green Bay game
- 30:41Speaker 6: on my birthday, right? And I looked at George Pickens,
- 30:44Speaker 6: and I'm like, he did everything right during the offseason.
- 30:46Speaker 6: He didn't show up for the minicamps and stuff like that.
- 30:48Speaker 6: He showed up for training camp. He did what he
- 30:49Speaker 6: said he was going to do. You're supposed to reward
- 30:51Speaker 6: that with better play. But right now, it feels like
- 30:54Speaker 6: there's an issue that Brian has with him. And he's
- 30:57Speaker 6: like that kid with the football who's like, if you
- 30:59Speaker 6: guys don't play by my rules, I'm just going to
- 31:00Speaker 6: take my ball and go home right now. So it's
- 31:02Speaker 6: leading to a lot of non-complementary football for both sides
- 31:06Speaker 6: of the ball. You know, you get a turnover on
- 31:09Speaker 6: downs or a turnover by the defense. We immediately go
- 31:11Speaker 6: out and we get the ball right back. You get
- 31:14Speaker 6: a big play on offense. The defense goes down and goes, hey,
- 31:17Speaker 6: hold my beer. We're going to let them score immediately.
- 31:19Speaker 6: So there's just zero complimentary football going on for this team.
- 31:23Speaker 6: And the stuff with Jerry about the coaches is that
- 31:25Speaker 6: that's not news. He's been saying that. I feel like
- 31:27Speaker 6: the Barry Switzer Super Bowl that he won ruined the
- 31:30Speaker 6: whole thing because in his mind he was.
- 31:31Speaker 13: Like, I was right.
- 31:33Speaker 6: Anybody can coach these teams to a Super Bowl. And
- 31:35Speaker 6: for 30 years we just haven't had that. Like, there's
- 31:38Speaker 6: no consensus of clear direction for this franchise right now,
- 31:44Speaker 6: and it sucks because I feel like we have the
- 31:45Speaker 6: talent to do something, but no one knows what to
- 31:48Speaker 6: do with it. And we can't have a head coach
- 31:50Speaker 6: who's feeling stubborn right now who's like, I'm going to
- 31:52Speaker 6: run for the sake of running because y'all kept telling
- 31:53Speaker 6: me to run it, so now I'm going to run
- 31:54Speaker 6: it 39 times, and it's not working. All we want
- 31:57Speaker 6: is complimentary football, balanced football put on the football field,
- 32:00Speaker 6: and we should win at least three of the next
- 32:03Speaker 6: four games. But who knows? That said, I'm going to
- 32:06Speaker 6: hang up the list.
- 32:07Speaker 7: You have a great day, guys.
- 32:08Speaker 3: I agree. I mean, I definitely agree that it's got
- 32:13Speaker 3: to be complementary football, and the best teams are going
- 32:16Speaker 3: to win it in different ways. You know what I mean?
- 32:19Speaker 3: You're going to win 38, 34 sometimes, you know, but
- 32:24Speaker 3: you've got to be able to win a 17-14 game too,
- 32:27Speaker 3: and that's not what this team is right now. In fact,
- 32:31Speaker 3: 30 points is not getting the job done. I mean,
- 32:35Speaker 3: that's the weird part is there's 34. The Cowboys score
- 32:38Speaker 3: 34 points or more, they're 3-0. Anything under 34 points,
- 32:42Speaker 3: they're 0-5. And we're talking about a couple of 30-point games,
- 32:46Speaker 3: one in Rio and one this last game. So that
- 32:51Speaker 3: tells you where the problem is. Obviously, the problem is defense. Defense.
- 32:56Speaker 3: We know that. Nothing's changed. But you've got to be able,
- 33:00Speaker 3: your offense has to be able to also play complementary
- 33:03Speaker 3: ball and play in two different ways. And, you know,
- 33:06Speaker 3: if they're taking this away, then give you this. That's
- 33:09Speaker 3: what Gotti is. That's what it is. And this team
- 33:12Speaker 3: is not. We know that. But that's what the greatest
- 33:15Speaker 3: offenses are, is you want to take away CD? Fine.
- 33:19Speaker 3: We got Pickens. Take Pickens away. CD's going to do this.
- 33:22Speaker 3: Take them both away? Well, we're just running the ball
- 33:24Speaker 3: on you. And we're going to throw it here underneath.
- 33:27Speaker 3: We got this tight end, this third receiver. We got
- 33:31Speaker 3: Turpin when he's healthy. We got all kinds of different
- 33:34Speaker 3: things that you just can't take this thing away. And
- 33:39Speaker 3: they don't have that. They really don't. That's not what
- 33:43Speaker 3: this offense has been. So when it's going good, it's
- 33:45Speaker 3: going good. And when it's not, the adjustment, and that
- 33:48Speaker 3: was one of the callers that called earlier about the adjustments.
- 33:52Speaker 3: That's just what hasn't been there.
- 33:54Speaker 7: All right.
- 33:55Speaker 3: Next caller would be Steve in New York. Hey, Steve.
- 34:01Speaker 7: What's up, Nick?
- 34:01Speaker 3: How are you doing?
- 34:03Speaker 11: All right.
- 34:04Speaker 5: Just wanted to do my event. I'm probably repeating what
- 34:06Speaker 5: other people have said, but before I even say that,
- 34:10Speaker 5: you know, I've been a, this is my 50th year now,
- 34:13Speaker 5: Cowboy fan. And I will, like many people said, put
- 34:17Speaker 5: this in the, maybe the top five of just brutal losses.
- 34:23Speaker 5: But at the same time, I wasn't surprised. I know
- 34:26Speaker 5: that's kind of a contradiction, but at the end, didn't
- 34:29Speaker 5: you get the feeling, because I have like two questions
- 34:31Speaker 5: for you. After Flanoy recovered the onside kick, didn't you
- 34:37Speaker 5: get the same kind of feeling with the TI in
- 34:41Speaker 5: Rio in the Ravens game where, okay, now we have
- 34:45Speaker 5: this now. We kind of went into win mode, right?
- 34:50Speaker 5: And from that moment on, everything that you did, was
- 34:55Speaker 5: essentially wrong. And it just blows my mind. The Rashawn
- 35:03Speaker 5: Gary penalty, I mean, I know it's been talked about, unacceptable.
- 35:07Speaker 5: That was the moment where I said, okay. But let
- 35:10Speaker 5: me ask you a question. The second down after the
- 35:13Speaker 5: onside kick, okay, that formation, I mean, What is it?
- 35:18Speaker 5: It's a shame. Mitchell, who's the guy who scored the touchdown?
- 35:21Speaker 5: Because right now I'm just so like, I'm getting flashbacks
- 35:25Speaker 5: on the fumble.
- 35:26Speaker 3: Oh, Mitchell, James Mitchell.
- 35:29Speaker 2: Right.
- 35:29Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 35:30Speaker 5: He was, he was going out as a target on
- 35:34Speaker 5: that play. And I'm just like, what, what was that?
- 35:38Speaker 5: I don't understand that. Like the, the mindset there, the coach. And,
- 35:44Speaker 5: you know, I just think at that point, and that's
- 35:46Speaker 5: when I had, I just said, like, I don't know
- 35:48Speaker 5: if you said, that's when I said to my friends
- 35:50Speaker 5: at 3130, I wasn't counting on the miss extra point,
- 35:54Speaker 5: but my gosh, and this is the one I wanted
- 35:57Speaker 5: to ask you to opening possession for us.
- 36:01Speaker 13: Okay.
- 36:01Speaker 5: You want to go for it on fourth down. I'm
- 36:03Speaker 5: behind that.
- 36:05Speaker 7: Why don't, They sneak there.
- 36:07Speaker 3: I can't tell you that. They don't stop them.
- 36:11Speaker 5: No, I mean, my God. I tweeted out, I don't
- 36:14Speaker 5: do this that much. 31 other teams are not handing off.
- 36:20Speaker 5: They're running back. Just push them forward. I mean, my God.
- 36:26Speaker 7: Is that a decision?
- 36:28Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. No, you're right. And the thing about it
- 36:31Speaker 3: is that a lot of times or half the time,
- 36:34Speaker 3: the quarterback doesn't make it right off the first surge.
- 36:39Speaker 3: But either he's getting pushed or he's got enough strength
- 36:42Speaker 3: that he can actually keep moving. And Dak has that.
- 36:45Speaker 3: And I think whoever behind him, Lipke, whatever, they could
- 36:48Speaker 3: do that. With one surge and then a second surge,
- 36:51Speaker 3: I don't think they're getting stopped, especially if Booker or
- 36:54Speaker 3: Tyler Smith is involved there. And they are. So I'm
- 36:59Speaker 3: with you on that. I don't understand it. I don't
- 37:01Speaker 3: understand that at all.
- 37:04Speaker 5: And I hope they get rid of it because I
- 37:05Speaker 5: don't even like the whole push-push thing. But until they do,
- 37:08Speaker 5: the officials usually give you a few seconds, but then
- 37:10Speaker 5: it gets like rugby, and then you could push the pile. So,
- 37:13Speaker 5: I mean, my God, I just never understood the go
- 37:17Speaker 5: back three yards to try to get less than a foot,
- 37:20Speaker 5: whatever the heck it was. And finally, I don't put
- 37:24Speaker 5: too much– of what I see on social media. But
- 37:29Speaker 5: did I read this correctly that the Cowboys had 34
- 37:34Speaker 5: total yards of offense on their final 27 plays from scrimmage?
- 37:38Speaker 3: That's what it sounds like.
- 37:40Speaker 5: And the Cardinals had 267 in that same time frame.
- 37:46Speaker 5: I mean, you just think about that. I'm not a
- 37:48Speaker 5: stat person. The Cowboys gained 34 yards on their final
- 37:52Speaker 5: 27 plays from scrimmage. That's just mind-blowing to me.
- 37:57Speaker 7: That's mind-blowing.
- 37:58Speaker 5: Mick, thanks for the time and letting me be that man.
- 37:59Speaker 7: All right.
- 38:00Speaker 3: Appreciate it. Yeah, I've said it on here several times
- 38:05Speaker 3: already this week, the two-minute warning and that whole thing. Again, though,
- 38:12Speaker 3: you've got to be ahead of that. That's the thing.
- 38:15Speaker 3: You can't just catch the ball and Flannoy gets the
- 38:19Speaker 3: two-minute warning, gets the onside kick, and then you're like.
- 38:22Speaker 5: All right.
- 38:23Speaker 3: All right, what do we got here? 2-0-7, they got
- 38:26Speaker 3: a timeout. No, if that's the case, then you've already lost.
- 38:34Speaker 3: Back when it's 2-30, 2-40, and the Cardinals have the ball,
- 38:37Speaker 3: they're down by 10. That's where you got to be
- 38:39Speaker 3: thinking this. Do not let them score before the two-minute warning.
- 38:42Speaker 7: Do not.
- 38:43Speaker 3: Just figure it out. Keep everything in front. I don't
- 38:46Speaker 3: care if you play a pre-event defense that looks like
- 38:48Speaker 3: it's a Hail Mary. Whatever it is, do not let
- 38:50Speaker 3: them score before the two-minute warning, and you're going to
- 38:53Speaker 3: win this game. Then they're going to kick the onside kick,
- 38:56Speaker 3: and you're going to get it, and the game is
- 38:57Speaker 3: going to be over at this point. Just whatever you do,
- 38:59Speaker 3: play for that two minutes like it's the damn finish line,
- 39:01Speaker 3: and they don't do that. So then I do put
- 39:04Speaker 3: it on game management because I've never called a game before,
- 39:06Speaker 3: and I'm telling you that that's the way to do it.
- 39:10Speaker 3: And you need some, whoever's doing this, and that's the
- 39:15Speaker 3: thing about Shoddy is that, and I said this before too,
- 39:19Speaker 3: Shoddy's experience was why he's here because he's been around forever.
- 39:22Speaker 3: He's been around. He sat at the kitchen table with
- 39:24Speaker 3: his dad and all this. It's in his family. So
- 39:28Speaker 3: game management and all this stuff, it should be somewhat
- 39:31Speaker 3: second nature, and that doesn't mean you get it right
- 39:34Speaker 3: every time. It doesn't. But you've got to put yourself
- 39:37Speaker 3: in position to do that, and it's just happening a
- 39:40Speaker 3: lot before the half. It happens before the end of
- 39:42Speaker 3: the game. Same type of stuff. All right, let's go
- 39:44Speaker 3: to Dylan, North Port, Florida.
- 39:45Speaker 5: Dylan.
- 39:45Speaker 7: Dylan.
- 39:47Speaker 8: Hey, yeah, that was going to be the point of
- 39:48Speaker 8: my call, too, is like as bad as everything looks sometimes,
- 39:52Speaker 8: like you still have a chance to win in the
- 39:54Speaker 8: waning moments of these games. And the person that you
- 39:59Speaker 8: would expect to be able to handle that pressure and
- 40:01Speaker 8: to do the thing that makes the most sense to do,
- 40:04Speaker 8: he's just not doing those things. And I mean, that
- 40:08Speaker 8: is an equalizer, right? Like as bad as everything looks,
- 40:10Speaker 8: you can still win the game if you just do
- 40:11Speaker 8: the thing you're supposed to do as a coach. And
- 40:13Speaker 8: that's just calling the right player or doing the right thing,
- 40:15Speaker 8: making the right call. in that situation and he's just
- 40:18Speaker 8: not doing it. So, you know, somebody asked earlier, what's
- 40:22Speaker 8: one person that you want to see something better from
- 40:24Speaker 8: this week?
- 40:24Speaker 7: And I think, you know, we.
- 40:25Speaker 8: Can talk offense defense, but there's some, the head coach,
- 40:27Speaker 8: I think it's to a point where the situational stuff
- 40:30Speaker 8: matters again, let's just do the common sense thing and
- 40:33Speaker 8: the right thing and not like really overthink it and
- 40:36Speaker 8: kill ourselves that way. So I'm looking at the coach
- 40:38Speaker 8: this week, uh, this week for that, as far as
- 40:40Speaker 8: the actual matchup goes, um, should be able to run
- 40:44Speaker 8: the ball this week. Should have been able to run
- 40:45Speaker 8: it last week. And boy, they ran it. They just
- 40:47Speaker 8: didn't run it well. But, I mean, the Colts are
- 40:50Speaker 8: even worse than the Cardinals in rush defense. So, I'm
- 40:53Speaker 8: hoping that, you know, the interior guys don't get bullied
- 40:56Speaker 8: this week.
- 40:57Speaker 7: Yeah, go ahead.
- 40:57Speaker 3: And, Dylan, I just want to throw this point out there.
- 40:59Speaker 3: You probably already looked at this, is that whatever they are,
- 41:03Speaker 3: you're looking at it for the whole season, right? But,
- 41:05Speaker 3: I mean, DeForest Buckner is a pretty good player, right?
- 41:09Speaker 3: Enough for them to trade. So they traded him. So
- 41:13Speaker 3: your seven, eight games, whatever, they played eight games, you know,
- 41:17Speaker 3: it hasn't been good. But it's even worse now because
- 41:19Speaker 3: of one of their better players not in.
- 41:21Speaker 9: There, right?
- 41:23Speaker 7: That's very true.
- 41:24Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm looking at it on Sumer Sports now.
- 41:26Speaker 7: It's only been one game.
- 41:29Speaker 3: I don't remember how many times. Have they played two
- 41:31Speaker 3: games since that trade with Buckner?
- 41:33Speaker 7: It might have just been one. It might have been one.
- 41:37Speaker 7: I'm not sure.
- 41:38Speaker 8: I'm not 100% sure.
- 41:38Speaker 3: Either way, they haven't been good, and they probably should
- 41:42Speaker 3: be worse now. So you're right. You're right to your point.
- 41:46Speaker 8: Their holistic defense is worse, too. Past defense got worse.
- 41:49Speaker 8: You have a past rusher in there. This is just
- 41:51Speaker 8: a terrible team, but the Cowboys aren't good either right now.
- 41:54Speaker 8: A get-right week for who and who wants to get
- 41:57Speaker 8: right and can anybody get right?
- 41:58Speaker 7: I don't know.
- 41:59Speaker 8: That's what I'm looking at this Sunday is that rushing matchup,
- 42:03Speaker 8: see if our interior trio can get back on track.
- 42:05Speaker 3: Sounds good. Who wants to get right? I like that.
- 42:09Speaker 3: Thanks for the call and The records are similar, 2-6
- 42:14Speaker 3: and 3-5, but as far as what they're trying to do, yeah,
- 42:20Speaker 3: the Cowboys, the players haven't been sent a message like
- 42:24Speaker 3: the Colts have of like, all right, we're trying to
- 42:27Speaker 3: do this and this and get rid of some players
- 42:30Speaker 3: and maybe more. We'll see if the right deal comes around.
- 42:32Speaker 3: The Cowboys aren't doing that. So from a message standpoint,
- 42:35Speaker 3: but still, are they going to do the necessary things
- 42:37Speaker 3: to get right? I got to take another break. We
- 42:39Speaker 3: got one more caller after this. Take a quick break
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- 43:57Speaker 3: All right, welcome back to Cowboys Storyline. This last segment
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- 44:06Speaker 3: me go to the line. I'm A in Napa is next.
- 44:09Speaker 3: I'm A. What's up?
- 44:11Speaker 13: What's up, Nick?
- 44:12Speaker 7: How are you doing?
- 44:12Speaker 3: I'm good. How are you?
- 44:15Speaker 7: I'm great.
- 44:15Speaker 13: Thanks for asking. Man, I'm going to try and be
- 44:20Speaker 13: as clear as possible. I mean, there's so much to
- 44:22Speaker 13: unpack here. We could go on and on about the
- 44:26Speaker 13: layers of this. Give me your two best points.
- 44:28Speaker 3: Give me your two best ones.
- 44:31Speaker 13: Two best points. We talked about it before.
- 44:33Speaker 7: It's like.
- 44:34Speaker 13: Is it the coaching or is.
- 44:35Speaker 7: It the quarterback?
- 44:37Speaker 13: There's a little bit to go to both, but at
- 44:39Speaker 13: the end of the day, it's coaching. It's a team game,
- 44:43Speaker 13: and all of the players have something to do with it,
- 44:45Speaker 13: but it's coaching first, and then the quarterback handles the
- 44:50Speaker 13: ball so much. Some of the blame has to go
- 44:54Speaker 13: to him as well. In the coaching, I think it
- 44:58Speaker 13: all starts with how the construction of the team was.
- 45:01Speaker 13: We were all looking for Shadi's offense to develop and
- 45:06Speaker 13: see a whole other different layer. It's like, oh man,
- 45:09Speaker 13: this is going to be so great year two and
- 45:11Speaker 13: all of this stuff. We just need the defense to
- 45:14Speaker 13: do just a little bit and our offense is going
- 45:16Speaker 13: to be so explosive. The offense hasn't haven't developed. It
- 45:21Speaker 13: hasn't changed anyways. We don't run any screens. We don't
- 45:25Speaker 13: do enough to protect Dak. We went into the season with...
- 45:32Speaker 13: way too many receivers and not enough tight ends. If
- 45:35Speaker 13: you see how the league is, the league has went
- 45:37Speaker 13: back to a running game. The defenses are playing two
- 45:44Speaker 13: high safeties, three deep safeties, and not letting teams get
- 45:47Speaker 13: over the top of them. We have to be able
- 45:52Speaker 13: to run the ball. We have to be able to
- 45:56Speaker 13: come up with plays and ways to Just take the
- 45:59Speaker 13: ball down the field. We're not going to get it
- 46:01Speaker 13: in huge chunks. Yes, there's this big talk about all
- 46:04Speaker 13: of our explosives and stuff like that. Well, if we
- 46:07Speaker 13: can't do the basics, we're never going to get explosives.
- 46:09Speaker 13: Teams aren't just going to give us chances to make explosives.
- 46:14Speaker 13: We can't do the little things. We are tight ends.
- 46:19Speaker 13: How would we only go into the season with three
- 46:21Speaker 13: tight ends? I don't understand when we need to run
- 46:24Speaker 13: the ball. Yeah. Malik Davis, man, Nick, I'm so frustrated.
- 46:30Speaker 13: There's so many things. I can't get it all out
- 46:32Speaker 13: of my mouth. I feel like I'm just rambling, but
- 46:35Speaker 13: at the top of the list, it is coaching. Shawty
- 46:39Speaker 13: doesn't have a good enough feel for the team. He
- 46:41Speaker 13: hasn't made in-week adjustments. He hasn't made in-game adjustments.
- 46:50Speaker 7: Okay.
- 46:51Speaker 13: Nick, you can hear it in my voice. I'll continue
- 46:53Speaker 13: to listen. I'll talk to you later. All right.
- 46:56Speaker 3: Thanks for the call. I mean, you're not wrong. Coaching
- 47:00Speaker 3: is getting a lot of this, and rightfully so. The
- 47:03Speaker 3: offense has been, when you look at what this offense is,
- 47:08Speaker 3: I mean, the main story to this team is this
- 47:11Speaker 3: is 3-5. They're right there. They're a little bit under 500.
- 47:14Speaker 3: I mean, it could be either way, but they're just
- 47:16Speaker 3: middle of the pack like they were last year. Their
- 47:18Speaker 3: offense has been good enough to win games, but their
- 47:22Speaker 3: defense has not gotten better. The offense, to me, hasn't
- 47:25Speaker 3: really regressed. In fact, some of the issues that you
- 47:29Speaker 3: would look at that offense and go, they need to
- 47:31Speaker 3: be better at these two things. You know, one of
- 47:34Speaker 3: them was red zone. The other one's third down. They
- 47:36Speaker 3: actually are better in both of those areas this year.
- 47:39Speaker 3: They are better. So the offense is, to me, and
- 47:42Speaker 3: there's some other little small areas that they're not as good,
- 47:44Speaker 3: but the offense is about the same. The defense just
- 47:47Speaker 3: hasn't been... good at all and and you know the
- 47:51Speaker 3: schedule's laid out for you the schedule has actually laid
- 47:54Speaker 3: out for you pretty good when you think about the
- 47:56Speaker 3: backup quarterbacks that have played then not playing hurts not
- 48:00Speaker 3: playing baker mayfield not playing i don't know cardinals just
- 48:04Speaker 3: just playing the cardinals in general not playing kyler murray
- 48:07Speaker 3: i guess you could say and they haven't taken advantage
- 48:09Speaker 3: of it so it's the schedule is actually going to
- 48:11Speaker 3: get worse um than than it's been so far let
- 48:14Speaker 3: me get ronnie in new jersey last caller ronnie.
- 48:18Speaker 2: Hey, Nick. Yeah. Everything you're saying. Everything you're saying. That's
- 48:22Speaker 2: where I'm, like, so disappointed. Like, you can't put blame.
- 48:26Speaker 2: Everybody's saying you got to put blame on the Joneses.
- 48:28Speaker 2: I don't think so, man. That offensive line, I thought,
- 48:33Speaker 2: was going to be dominant. At least in the running game,
- 48:36Speaker 2: they're not. They're inconsistent, like everything else. The defensive line,
- 48:41Speaker 2: I thought we were going to be able to stop
- 48:42Speaker 2: the run. They can't. They're making average freaking running backs
- 48:46Speaker 2: that came out of– that weren't even drafted looking like
- 48:49Speaker 2: they're superstars, like pro bowlers. I'm putting the blame on
- 48:55Speaker 2: our head coach. Listen, you picked out this guy to
- 48:59Speaker 2: be your defensive coordinator. I think that was a good pick.
- 49:01Speaker 2: It's going to take time. But at the same time,
- 49:04Speaker 2: you can't make bad calls. You can't be bad managing
- 49:08Speaker 2: the clock. You're putting the whole team, the entire team
- 49:11Speaker 2: in a bad position. And there's no, you know how
- 49:14Speaker 2: back in the day they started to film and now
- 49:16Speaker 2: they do with the iPads? just to um hey this
- 49:20Speaker 2: is what's happening this is how we change it this
- 49:22Speaker 2: is what we should do this is what we should
- 49:24Speaker 2: attack who who's doing that like because there's no um
- 49:28Speaker 2: when you come out of the halftime or whatever there's
- 49:30Speaker 2: no like hey you know now let's do this this
- 49:34Speaker 2: wasn't working let's let's try this uh who do you
- 49:36Speaker 2: put that on you put that on the head coach
- 49:38Speaker 2: right nick.
- 49:39Speaker 3: Right I do. You have to put it on the
- 49:41Speaker 3: head coach. All right, Ronnie, thanks for the call. Very
- 49:46Speaker 3: good theme throughout this whole show, and you guys are
- 49:49Speaker 3: frustrated with this team, and it starts at the top,
- 49:51Speaker 3: starts at the coach, and I'm not going to disagree
- 49:53Speaker 3: with you there because whether there's too much trust on
- 49:57Speaker 3: the players, not enough trust, not enough good decisions there,
- 50:00Speaker 3: especially at the end of the half, end of the game,
- 50:02Speaker 3: all of that is true. And so here's the thing.
- 50:05Speaker 3: When the coach says it starts with me, then it
- 50:08Speaker 3: starts with him. He says it every week. It starts
- 50:11Speaker 3: with me. Well, then this is where it starts. And
- 50:13Speaker 3: that's when you guys are not off base by doing that.
- 50:16Speaker 3: So if he says he vows to get better, hey,
- 50:19Speaker 3: what a great week to start when the Cowboys go
- 50:21Speaker 3: to Indy this week. All right, guys. We'll be back
- 50:24Speaker 3: to do it again tomorrow on Cowboy Storyline. So for
- 50:27Speaker 3: Chris Beam, I'm Nick Even. See you tomorrow on Storyline.
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- 50:41Speaker 14: Thank you.