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- 0:16Speaker 1: Eatman and welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I'm Nick Eatman here Tuesday,
- 0:24Speaker 1: January the ninth. Playoffs. That's it. That's all you gotta say.
- 0:29Speaker 1: It's playoffs, that's it. This is what we've been waiting for.
- 0:32Speaker 1: What happens in the playoffs? Yeah, good season, good season,
- 0:35Speaker 1: Cowboys twelve and five. Okay, but what do they do
- 0:37Speaker 1: in the playoffs? Well, here we are, here, we are. Now,
- 0:39Speaker 1: it's time to get after it, if you will. Cowboys
- 0:44Speaker 1: taking on the Green Bay Packers Ice Bowl doesn't matter.
- 0:49Speaker 1: None of those nineties games matter. Des catch doesn't matter,
- 0:54Speaker 1: the Aaron Rodgers throw on the sideline doesn't matter. None
- 0:56Speaker 1: of that matters. It's cool to talk about. We'll probably
- 0:59Speaker 1: have some stuff on the website and all that historical stuff.
- 1:02Speaker 1: But you know, I thought what Mike McCarthy said yesterday
- 1:06Speaker 1: was was very telling. And you know, this is what
- 1:11Speaker 1: this is what I like about Mike, I really do.
- 1:14Speaker 1: He's just a real dude. He's just a real person,
- 1:17Speaker 1: and when he makes mistakes, he admits it. I like that.
- 1:20Speaker 1: I like that, he said, I regret what I did
- 1:22Speaker 1: last year. Last year they went up to Green Bay
- 1:24Speaker 1: in the middle of the season and lost that game.
- 1:26Speaker 1: And but he, you know, I think he said something
- 1:29Speaker 1: in front of the team. He was honest. He was honest.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Then this, this matters to me. I'm not gonna lie
- 1:35Speaker 1: and say that it doesn't. I'm human human. It matters.
- 1:38Speaker 1: I want to go up there and beat Green Bays.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Spent my whole you know, coaching head coach career here,
- 1:43Speaker 1: my family lived here, that kids grew up here. I
- 1:46Speaker 1: want to win this game. And it was close. They
- 1:48Speaker 1: should have won. They didn't. They lost at the end
- 1:51Speaker 1: and it was tough. But he said, I regret that.
- 1:55Speaker 1: I shouldn't have put that on the players. It doesn't
- 1:57Speaker 1: matter about the player. This is a player's game. They
- 2:00Speaker 1: don't need that. They need to go win the game.
- 2:02Speaker 1: So this, you know, this week, he's like, none of
- 2:05Speaker 1: that matters. Who cares who they're playing, Let's just go
- 2:07Speaker 1: win the game. Uh. You know, he said he regretted
- 2:10Speaker 1: that decision, and he's putting focus on that because none
- 2:13Speaker 1: of that helps them win. So it's cool to talk
- 2:16Speaker 1: about and all that, and there's people that have already
- 2:18Speaker 1: seen it on Twitter. Seen it. Man, I'm worried about
- 2:20Speaker 1: the Packers, what they've done. Okay, that guy isn't here,
- 2:24Speaker 1: and that guy is the reason why the Cowboys have
- 2:26Speaker 1: lost so many games. But he he's not here, he's
- 2:30Speaker 1: in New York, and even if he was, who knows
- 2:33Speaker 1: what would happen. It's a different team, different year. So
- 2:35Speaker 1: I'm gonna get that out there. It's all right. Eight
- 2:38Speaker 1: eight eight, eight five five two two ninety seven is
- 2:40Speaker 1: the number two call. The text line is eight one
- 2:42Speaker 1: seven two nine zero three two nine eights. You can
- 2:45Speaker 1: do both. We got calls antexts already ready to go,
- 2:49Speaker 1: So let's get started. Josh is in San Francisco. What's up, Josh?
- 2:53Speaker 1: We'll see in a few weeks.
- 2:54Speaker 5: I'm kidding, Maybe, I hope.
- 2:56Speaker 6: So maybe it's you know, it's the scary thing is like,
- 3:00Speaker 6: expect to win these next two playoff games. Scary to
- 3:04Speaker 6: get to that game, but I don't expect to win
- 3:07Speaker 6: that championship game, or I wouldn't expect to win the
- 3:09Speaker 6: Super Bowl. I don't know if that makes sense.
- 3:11Speaker 1: But well, what it's saying is that you think the
- 3:14Speaker 1: Cowboys are like the fourth or fifth best team or
- 3:17Speaker 1: third or fourth best team in the league, which is
- 3:19Speaker 1: where the power rankings have the Cowboys, if that matters
- 3:22Speaker 1: at all. But they're about that. So which if you're
- 3:25Speaker 1: the third or fourth best team, then you probably should
- 3:27Speaker 1: go to the NFC championship game and not expected to win.
- 3:30Speaker 1: I mean, that's the way. That's the way it is.
- 3:32Speaker 1: That's why they have rankings. Doesn't mean they always hold true,
- 3:35Speaker 1: but that's where they are.
- 3:39Speaker 6: One thing I wanted to say last time I called in,
- 3:40Speaker 6: I called in during the San Francisco week or after
- 3:43Speaker 6: the game, and I've talked about the physicalness of the
- 3:48Speaker 6: team and how they had to bring it because I was,
- 3:51Speaker 6: you know, seeing the way San Francisco their style to play.
- 3:54Speaker 6: But now I'm kind of changing my tone here. I
- 3:56Speaker 6: just feel like you are who you are. Now we're
- 3:59Speaker 6: in the playoffs, and I don't feel like we should
- 4:03Speaker 6: try to match that physicalness. You need to bring some
- 4:06Speaker 6: physicalness to that game, but don't don't outwit yourself, I
- 4:12Speaker 6: guess is what I'm trying to say. At you know,
- 4:14Speaker 6: and when they if we get to that game, you know,
- 4:19Speaker 6: which I hope we do. Because it would be a
- 4:20Speaker 6: great game to watch, and I feel like we could
- 4:24Speaker 6: get him. We usually have. We're usually better the second
- 4:26Speaker 6: time around with whether it's the adjustments or the coaching
- 4:31Speaker 6: and testament to the coaching and all that. But anyhow,
- 4:36Speaker 6: one thing that I wanted to ask, I actually got
- 4:38Speaker 6: two different questions. But you do your opening year on McCarthy,
- 4:43Speaker 6: and I was thinking last week. Last week McCarthy said
- 4:47Speaker 6: he found out about Zach Martin what right before the game? Yep,
- 4:54Speaker 6: So I'm thinking maybe that was a good thing, because
- 4:56Speaker 6: sometimes I feel like McCarthy he gets in his own
- 4:59Speaker 6: way sometimes or he just tries to do too much
- 5:04Speaker 6: or out thinking himself or something like that, and it
- 5:08Speaker 6: shows in the flow of the game sometimes of his
- 5:10Speaker 6: play calling and offensively. And I just felt like, well,
- 5:13Speaker 6: maybe that was a good thing that he didn't have
- 5:15Speaker 6: time to do anything because we just went out there
- 5:18Speaker 6: with what we had planned to begin with. I mean,
- 5:20Speaker 6: that's how it looked. I could be wrong. But where
- 5:26Speaker 6: else you got one thing I just want to throw
- 5:31Speaker 6: out there, and don't just throw it away here, just
- 5:34Speaker 6: think about it. Is because on defensively, the defensive side,
- 5:37Speaker 6: I feel like we need to really show up the
- 5:40Speaker 6: running game. I think we've done a better job of it,
- 5:42Speaker 6: but we haven't really played those teams yet. And what
- 5:49Speaker 6: I wanted to get at was, what do you think
- 5:51Speaker 6: about doing moving maybe Sam Williams and putting him in
- 5:55Speaker 6: some kind of package where he is an off the
- 5:58Speaker 6: ball linebacker and just kind of playing around.
- 6:01Speaker 7: With the package.
- 6:02Speaker 1: You like that.
- 6:03Speaker 6: I feel like he has a speed. I think he's
- 6:05Speaker 6: kind of a missile out there. You go sideline, the sideline,
- 6:08Speaker 6: and his physicalness there that we could use in certain situations.
- 6:13Speaker 6: So anyhow, thank thank you.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Josh. All Right, the Zach Martin thing, I mean, that
- 6:21Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to me. Honestly, he was sick. They
- 6:24Speaker 1: figured it out. I mean, you play the backup. I mean,
- 6:27Speaker 1: that's that's all. I mean. I don't understand what if
- 6:30Speaker 1: you think that McCarthy's going to make, what kind of
- 6:34Speaker 1: changes is he going to make? I mean, you play
- 6:37Speaker 1: the guys that are available, and so you played TJ.
- 6:40Speaker 1: Bass you and then okay, he's playing for Tyler and
- 6:43Speaker 1: then oh Zach's out, Well, now you play Hoffman. He's
- 6:46Speaker 1: playing for him. Said whether or not they have twenty
- 6:50Speaker 1: four hours forty eight hours a whole week. That's kind
- 6:53Speaker 1: of what what you would do. Lyle Collins wasn't ready
- 6:56Speaker 1: to play just got here. He wasn't ready to play
- 6:58Speaker 1: in the system and all that, so they took him
- 7:00Speaker 1: on the trip, but he wasn't wasn't ready for that.
- 7:03Speaker 1: So I don't know what other options there were. And
- 7:05Speaker 1: I don't know if I agree with that. Honestly, I
- 7:07Speaker 1: think McCarthy, I think they do a good job with
- 7:09Speaker 1: the next man up mentality. So and then that's for
- 7:12Speaker 1: Sam Williams. We've been asked that before here, and uh,
- 7:16Speaker 1: you know, I think if you're doing that, I think
- 7:18Speaker 1: that's an offseason move. I don't think it's a move
- 7:20Speaker 1: right now. I think that, Uh you know, Sam. Sam
- 7:23Speaker 1: Williams is a They figured out different ways for him.
- 7:28Speaker 1: They put him on some on special teams, but at
- 7:32Speaker 1: his point in his career and from a development standpoint,
- 7:35Speaker 1: there's a lot more to it. To play linebacker, you
- 7:39Speaker 1: need to be aware of a lot of positions other
- 7:44Speaker 1: than just kind of staying on the edge, rushing the
- 7:46Speaker 1: pastor and all that. I don't think he's ready for that.
- 7:50Speaker 1: And so he could physically, he could probably do it.
- 7:52Speaker 1: I just don't think this is the time to move
- 7:55Speaker 1: him there and to make that kind of move and
- 7:57Speaker 1: then it's something to do in the offseason, and he's
- 7:59Speaker 1: probably not gonna want that. I don't. I mean, that's
- 8:03Speaker 1: not really his call. But you know we've seen that
- 8:06Speaker 1: before with players. You know where is he a linebacker?
- 8:09Speaker 1: Is he a rusher? And sometimes when that happens, it's
- 8:11Speaker 1: not good. And the guy that can think of is
- 8:13Speaker 1: Kyle Wilbur who's a player like that, where you know
- 8:16Speaker 1: what is he? And sometimes position flex is a good thing.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Sometimes it can be a bad thing because you never
- 8:22Speaker 1: really know how to you know, put yourself in in
- 8:26Speaker 1: the offseason and conditioning wise and your weight and all
- 8:29Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So I don't, I don't think
- 8:31Speaker 1: it's a great idea right now. Keep Sam Williams doing
- 8:34Speaker 1: what he's doing. Uh, you know, he can, he can,
- 8:37Speaker 1: is an athletic player. He can play. But you know
- 8:39Speaker 1: he's got to work on penalties. Penalty. I mean, he
- 8:41Speaker 1: has way too many penalties for a guy that doesn't
- 8:43Speaker 1: play a whole lot. So there's a lot more to
- 8:46Speaker 1: it there than that. All right, let's go to Irene
- 8:48Speaker 1: in Virginia.
- 8:49Speaker 6: Next caller, Hey nixt morning.
- 8:52Speaker 8: Hi.
- 8:52Speaker 1: How are you doing?
- 8:53Speaker 9: They do well well, Okay, I'm gonna start with my
- 8:55Speaker 9: questions first, so that the one thing that can are
- 8:59Speaker 9: Things that concern me with Green Bay are quarterback that
- 9:03Speaker 9: can run a little bit, and then the wide receivers
- 9:06Speaker 9: have a ton of them. They have that speed. Strigen
- 9:08Speaker 9: and Daniels especially worries me help me win my fantasy championship.
- 9:13Speaker 9: But anyway, uh, Green Bay doesn't seem to score those
- 9:17Speaker 9: It's a little confusing what they have. All these weapons
- 9:20Speaker 9: and they seem to move the ball, but they don't score.
- 9:22Speaker 9: So I haven't watched them enough to understand why that is.
- 9:24Speaker 9: But I mean that goes well for us, because I
- 9:27Speaker 9: think we'll be able to score pretty well on them.
- 9:33Speaker 9: Question for you, was that a travel home game? Because
- 9:35Speaker 9: can we even call that a road game? What was
- 9:38Speaker 9: the split in there?
- 9:39Speaker 6: It was last you were there, right, I was there, and.
- 9:42Speaker 9: I those false starts with two in a row after
- 9:45Speaker 9: the first one, I yelled to the people next me.
- 9:47Speaker 9: I was like, that was a we cause it? Yeah,
- 9:50Speaker 9: and then it has it again. Yeah, that's crazy their
- 9:54Speaker 9: own in their own place, you know.
- 9:55Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's more.
- 9:57Speaker 9: Than even usual. We always do well but that was
- 10:00Speaker 9: a lot.
- 10:01Speaker 1: Yeah, it did seem It's always a lot, but it
- 10:05Speaker 1: did seem like it was more in the sixty forty
- 10:07Speaker 1: seventy thirty, you know, especially by the end of the game.
- 10:10Speaker 1: But it did. It did seem like it was a
- 10:12Speaker 1: lot more Cowboy fans, which what you You even said
- 10:15Speaker 1: yourself right when you call last week that you weren't
- 10:18Speaker 1: really going to go, but then when the game mattered,
- 10:21Speaker 1: it's like, Wow, let's let's get there. So I think
- 10:23Speaker 1: a lot of fans probably did that, and Washington fans
- 10:26Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
- 10:27Speaker 9: So yeah, I was watching for all the time it
- 10:30Speaker 9: was going to come, and then also the weather, but
- 10:32Speaker 9: then I did it anyway, so the weathers are out
- 10:35Speaker 9: great though. I have to tell I know you both
- 10:38Speaker 9: saw it on Twitter, but I have to say it
- 10:40Speaker 9: was crazy to me. I'm sitting there. So I actually went.
- 10:45Speaker 9: I got a single ticket because I was kalegated with
- 10:48Speaker 9: my club, the Northern Virginia Dallas Cowboys that they got
- 10:51Speaker 9: their tickets early and I needed to just not be
- 10:55Speaker 9: in that section. They didn't have anymore. They were really expensive.
- 10:58Speaker 9: So anyway, I went to you know, had a single ticket,
- 11:02Speaker 9: so I'm surrounded by people. You know, we're having a
- 11:04Speaker 9: good time and at the end of the game, somebody
- 11:08Speaker 9: points you out, like that's Nick Eatman and I'm like
- 11:11Speaker 9: what and he's like, he's a writer for the team.
- 11:15Speaker 9: Like no, you know, I call him show and he's
- 11:17Speaker 9: like Jason and Delaware shout out man. Nice the storyline family.
- 11:23Speaker 9: That was awesome. It's not we didn't intend to sit
- 11:25Speaker 9: next to each other.
- 11:27Speaker 2: It just kind of worked out.
- 11:28Speaker 1: We're growing out. I love it.
- 11:31Speaker 9: It's awesome, man, But that's it. But yeah, the question
- 11:33Speaker 9: on the on the wide receiver and running quarterback, thank
- 11:36Speaker 9: you got it.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Thanks, good call. Irene appreciate that. And uh yeah, we
- 11:40Speaker 1: were able to see some people uh from there and
- 11:44Speaker 1: and and there was a couple of times, you know,
- 11:46Speaker 1: during during the pregame where you know, there there were
- 11:49Speaker 1: people that were like, you know, hey, you calling the show,
- 11:51Speaker 1: storyline all that stuff. So that's really cool, and I
- 11:54Speaker 1: you know, we would love that that this thing is
- 11:56Speaker 1: kind of growing and you guys are coming home family.
- 12:00Speaker 1: I love it. Jordan love He certainly can run the ball,
- 12:04Speaker 1: and that's you're right about that's a that's a good
- 12:08Speaker 1: point that you know, running quarterbacks, you know, they always
- 12:12Speaker 1: they're always a problem. They're a problem for everybody really
- 12:14Speaker 1: because you try to get everybody, you know, covered up
- 12:17Speaker 1: and tight ends, receivers going deep and all that stuff,
- 12:20Speaker 1: and it's third and nine. You've got it all done.
- 12:22Speaker 1: And then he can break free and get fifteen yards
- 12:25Speaker 1: and slide and get out of bounds and move the sticks.
- 12:27Speaker 1: And that's that's what makes him who he is. I mean,
- 12:30Speaker 1: that's that's why these guys are drafted where they are
- 12:33Speaker 1: because yes, they can throw it, yes they're they're smart,
- 12:37Speaker 1: and they also can run the ball and and their
- 12:39Speaker 1: mobile in the pocket. So he's going to be a problem.
- 12:41Speaker 1: Now you said they don't score a lot of touchdowns.
- 12:43Speaker 1: I mean he threw like thirty right, thirty thirty one.
- 12:47Speaker 1: I mean he's like in the top four or five.
- 12:50Speaker 1: Jordan loved it and this year, so they he's passed
- 12:53Speaker 1: some touchdowns around. You know, at this point you can
- 12:57Speaker 1: look at it and say, man, nine and eight, how
- 12:59Speaker 1: good are they? But you know, you can also look
- 13:02Speaker 1: at and say, okay, that's three games different than the Cowboys,
- 13:04Speaker 1: and you look at their division and look at the
- 13:08Speaker 1: Cowboys division. I mean Cowboys had four games against the
- 13:10Speaker 1: Giants and Commanders and two obviously against the Eagles, and
- 13:15Speaker 1: you know, and they they're they're playing two against the Lions,
- 13:18Speaker 1: two against the the the Vikings, two against the Bears.
- 13:22Speaker 1: A little different different and I'm not sure exactly who
- 13:26Speaker 1: they matched up with on on the AFC. I feel
- 13:30Speaker 1: like maybe it was the Ravens Division, but but you know,
- 13:34Speaker 1: I have it here. But either way, I mean three games,
- 13:37Speaker 1: it's it seems like a lot. But at the same time,
- 13:39Speaker 1: you know their schedule, you know, I know they they
- 13:42Speaker 1: actually played they played the the the Chiefs, so they
- 13:46Speaker 1: were in that that division, so you know, and that's
- 13:49Speaker 1: that's about the same, I guess as the Cowboys. But
- 13:51Speaker 1: either way, they're here. They're a playoff team. They're gonna
- 13:54Speaker 1: be bringing it. They got speed, they got receivers. Cowboys. Yeah,
- 13:57Speaker 1: I think Gilmour's injury, which looks like he's gonna be
- 13:59Speaker 1: able to play, but that was kind of scary. And
- 14:02Speaker 1: I remember thinking on the in the you know, out
- 14:04Speaker 1: in the press box, like you don't want to be
- 14:06Speaker 1: matched up with the Rams, you don't want to be
- 14:08Speaker 1: matched up with Seattle. Now Green Bay they have obviously
- 14:12Speaker 1: have NFL receivers as well, but I was thinking, you know,
- 14:15Speaker 1: that was gonna be a problem if he was hurt.
- 14:16Speaker 1: But looks like he is going to be able to play.
- 14:18Speaker 1: All right, Justin and Lobveck's next cal good. How are
- 14:23Speaker 1: you doing great?
- 14:24Speaker 7: Man?
- 14:25Speaker 5: Uh?
- 14:26Speaker 3: One question I had was with Tyler Smith's injury. I mean,
- 14:31Speaker 3: I know it's different, uh NFL players are different animals, but.
- 14:36Speaker 8: Me having that injury before it, it's pretty painful. With
- 14:40Speaker 8: Green Bay allowing I think I saw that they're allowing
- 14:43Speaker 8: one hundred and twenty yards on the on the ground
- 14:46Speaker 8: right now? Would you would you let Tyler's sit one
- 14:49Speaker 8: more week and put in TV back after what we've
- 14:52Speaker 8: seen from him?
- 14:56Speaker 1: Is Tyler Smith ready? I mean that's the question. If
- 14:59Speaker 1: he's right, then he plays. If he's not ready, he
- 15:02Speaker 1: doesn't play, because yeah, I mean I don't There is
- 15:06Speaker 1: no let's let's hold him. If he's ready to go,
- 15:10Speaker 1: he's got to play him. Yeah, and this is it? Well,
- 15:13Speaker 1: what's one more week? I mean it could be one
- 15:14Speaker 1: more it could be one more month. I mean, I
- 15:16Speaker 1: mean what it could be. This could be it. I
- 15:18Speaker 1: mean it just it's not a it's not a mind
- 15:21Speaker 1: game type thing. It's are you ready to play? Are
- 15:24Speaker 1: you better than TJ Bass right now? You know? I
- 15:27Speaker 1: mean he's always he's going to be better if he's
- 15:30Speaker 1: out there but in healthy. But if he's not, if
- 15:33Speaker 1: he's not better than TJ. Bass, then I mean, you
- 15:35Speaker 1: just play the guy that gives you a best chance
- 15:37Speaker 1: to win. I mean, it really isn't that complicated. So
- 15:40Speaker 1: I mean, here, I know exactly what you're saying. You're like, hey,
- 15:43Speaker 1: you can rest them one more week, but what does
- 15:45Speaker 1: this week look like right here against the Packers? So
- 15:48Speaker 1: and I think he's going to be the best option
- 15:50Speaker 1: at guard. I really, Tyler, I think he is. But man,
- 15:54Speaker 1: it was sure was good to see Bass and Hoffman
- 15:57Speaker 1: there because next year we're gonna be talking in training
- 16:00Speaker 1: camp about depth and no lion and all that, or
- 16:02Speaker 1: not even training camp, how about in the offseason when
- 16:05Speaker 1: things start to change and all that. I know it's
- 16:07Speaker 1: gonna happen when we do a Tyler tyron? Do you
- 16:11Speaker 1: move Tyler to left tackle? Can Bass play in? Is
- 16:13Speaker 1: that your best five? All those kind of things, Because
- 16:16Speaker 1: you were able to see TJ. Bass and Hoffman when
- 16:19Speaker 1: they've got opportunities to play, and they both have done
- 16:21Speaker 1: a good job. So I think that's that's encouraging. But
- 16:23Speaker 1: as far as the best guy, I'm playing the best guy,
- 16:26Speaker 1: and I think it's going to be Tyler, Yes, sir, And.
- 16:29Speaker 3: Then lay last question. I know you've been with the
- 16:32Speaker 3: Cowboys for quite a while. What's your confidence level level
- 16:35Speaker 3: for you to finally see an NFC championship game this year?
- 16:40Speaker 1: All right, justin thanks for the call. It's a good question,
- 16:45Speaker 1: it really is, because it's conflicting. I mean, when you
- 16:49Speaker 1: when you've never seen something, you don't expect to see it.
- 16:54Speaker 1: I've never seen it. I think this is the best
- 16:59Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about the best opportunity
- 17:01Speaker 1: to get there, because when you're in the number one
- 17:04Speaker 1: seed and you've got one home game to go to
- 17:06Speaker 1: get to the championship game, you think that's the best option.
- 17:08Speaker 1: This is two home games to get there. But I
- 17:14Speaker 1: just I think I'll say this though, none of those
- 17:18Speaker 1: other years, I believe, none of those other seasons that
- 17:21Speaker 1: the Cowboys were, you know, the number one seed or
- 17:24Speaker 1: in the division or divisional round, they were never undefeated
- 17:28Speaker 1: at home like they are this year, and they they
- 17:31Speaker 1: play they played different at home, and this team is
- 17:35Speaker 1: better you know this this team is is really really
- 17:38Speaker 1: good right now. I mean they're they are they they
- 17:40Speaker 1: can score some points. They think about why they're so
- 17:44Speaker 1: good at home as they passed the ball around well,
- 17:47Speaker 1: I mean the chemistry between Dak and CD as outstanding.
- 17:52Speaker 1: They got a kicker that can make kicks from fifty,
- 17:55Speaker 1: you know, fifty sixty yards and he's pretty you know,
- 17:59Speaker 1: they kick it off in the end zone. I mean,
- 18:01Speaker 1: like like you never play in short fields or anything
- 18:04Speaker 1: like that, Like you know, the weird quirky things that
- 18:06Speaker 1: that can hurt a team, Like it sort of looked
- 18:08Speaker 1: like it was gonna happen in Washington. So my point
- 18:10Speaker 1: is is that I don't I don't have a ton
- 18:13Speaker 1: of confidence just because I've never actually been there. So
- 18:18Speaker 1: so when I think about being in there, like it's
- 18:20Speaker 1: never happened. But when you just put me in the
- 18:23Speaker 1: moment of like Cowboys versus Packers at home, I think
- 18:27Speaker 1: they're gonna win the game. And then they get to
- 18:30Speaker 1: the next round, I think they'll win that game. So
- 18:34Speaker 1: I'm not trying to talk out of both sides of
- 18:36Speaker 1: my mouth. What I'm saying is is in the moment,
- 18:38Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys will win. So maybe I am
- 18:40Speaker 1: thinking that they're gonna get there. But to just say
- 18:43Speaker 1: it blindly, like are you gonna get there? It's hard
- 18:46Speaker 1: for me to say. And I'm a little superstitious too,
- 18:48Speaker 1: So let's shut up. Don't ask me that question. Don't
- 18:52Speaker 1: ask me that question because I don't know. I don't
- 18:53Speaker 1: have a good answer to it. It's it's it's tough,
- 18:57Speaker 1: and I and you guys are the same way. You
- 18:59Speaker 1: guys are feeling it too. You don't want to get
- 19:00Speaker 1: your hopes up because you've been burned before. But this
- 19:04Speaker 1: team is getting your hopes up. So that's that's the
- 19:08Speaker 1: balance there, all right. Question from Ian the mailman from
- 19:12Speaker 1: Illinois says, are you still concerned about red zone efficiency?
- 19:17Speaker 1: Had to sell for multiple field goals against the depleted
- 19:20Speaker 1: commander's team. He says he listened to all the delivering
- 19:24Speaker 1: in the central Illinois snow storm. Be careful, Ian, I
- 19:32Speaker 1: don't know if I see it that way. They had
- 19:35Speaker 1: one red zone chance and they played it a little safe,
- 19:41Speaker 1: and then it kicked it and they got blocked. They
- 19:44Speaker 1: played that one safe after the fumble and it got
- 19:48Speaker 1: blocked and returned and all that, and then I don't know.
- 19:53Speaker 1: It was one field goal attempt and they missed another one.
- 19:56Speaker 1: I guess was that. I guess that was red zone.
- 19:58Speaker 1: I don't remember exactly how that one was. And then
- 20:02Speaker 1: of course it makes a fifty yarder. But they actually
- 20:04Speaker 1: were pretty good in the red zone when you think
- 20:05Speaker 1: about throwing the ball in, they ran it in with
- 20:07Speaker 1: Pollard threw one into Tolbert, threw one into Cooks, do
- 20:10Speaker 1: one into CD, through two into CD. Actually pretty strong
- 20:15Speaker 1: in the red zone, honestly so now, but you know,
- 20:18Speaker 1: red zone is always always going to be an issue.
- 20:20Speaker 1: I think they've done a lot better this year. Brian
- 20:23Speaker 1: in Kansas City's in our next color. Brian, Yes, sir,
- 20:30Speaker 1: how you doing?
- 20:31Speaker 4: I'm doing good. How are you good?
- 20:33Speaker 1: That's for all? H What do you got?
- 20:35Speaker 4: Well, we got a I worked as a substitute teacher.
- 20:38Speaker 4: We got a snow day up here, so I guess
- 20:40Speaker 4: I'm in the same snowstorm.
- 20:41Speaker 1: Your Texter was, yeah, and I don't know if that's
- 20:46Speaker 1: the storm that's coming, but there is going to be
- 20:48Speaker 1: something coming here.
- 20:49Speaker 4: Uh rud of that? Welly glad we're playing the dome.
- 20:52Speaker 4: Then get a freak snowstorm. We don't want that messing
- 20:55Speaker 4: up the game, right, No, no, huh. So you know
- 20:59Speaker 4: I would say, thinking about this, uh, this past week,
- 21:03Speaker 4: I did think that they played a great game. You know.
- 21:06Speaker 4: I had a little bit of special teams PTSD no questions,
- 21:10Speaker 4: you know, with the with the bad blocking and then
- 21:14Speaker 4: the doink, and I was really glad they let him
- 21:18Speaker 4: kick that one last time, you know, just yeah, please
- 21:21Speaker 4: give me something to hold on.
- 21:22Speaker 1: To, you know. And he did that on purpose. Yeah,
- 21:26Speaker 1: McCarthy was like he wanted it too, He wanted to
- 21:29Speaker 1: see it as well. So that was he actually purposely
- 21:31Speaker 1: wanted to kick that so he could have they all
- 21:34Speaker 1: could have a better feeling about it. So so worked out.
- 21:37Speaker 4: Yeah, no question. Hey, so I got one question for
- 21:40Speaker 4: you and an old timer. My question is is do
- 21:45Speaker 4: you know that you worked there, do you know what
- 21:48Speaker 4: the plan is assuming he's ready for Lyle Collins? What
- 21:53Speaker 4: position is he expected to be the backup to? And
- 21:57Speaker 4: then my old timer is, because you guys were talking,
- 22:00Speaker 4: you and Irene were talking about people that were and
- 22:02Speaker 4: you brought up people that were tweeners before, uh, Tyrone
- 22:06Speaker 4: Crawford because sometimes he was a three some back he
- 22:08Speaker 4: was a five. He was kind of that tweener guy
- 22:11Speaker 4: all his career and I'll hang up and listen. Hey
- 22:13Speaker 4: have a great.
- 22:14Speaker 1: Day, man, all right, thank you for for for the call.
- 22:17Speaker 1: And uh yeah, Tyrone Crawford was the next guy I
- 22:21Speaker 1: was thinking of there. I was kind of trying to
- 22:23Speaker 1: move along, but yeah, Tyrone Crawford's the same boat. Shout
- 22:27Speaker 1: out to Tyrone Crawford. I just saw on social media
- 22:29Speaker 1: he has a new baby girl. That makes four little
- 22:35Speaker 1: girls for him in the house. So good luck with that.
- 22:40Speaker 1: Tyrone Crawford. I saw him not too long ago. He's
- 22:44Speaker 1: he's doing good. He was a He was a good player.
- 22:47Speaker 1: I mean he really was. He because he was a guy.
- 22:49Speaker 1: He was. It was one of those I mean, I
- 22:51Speaker 1: wouldn't say the same levels as Tank, but one of
- 22:54Speaker 1: those where you don't always appreciate kind of what those
- 22:56Speaker 1: guys do, and you know, it's hard to get stats
- 23:00Speaker 1: when when you're playing in there, and he was in
- 23:02Speaker 1: those where they were in three four and four three
- 23:04Speaker 1: and all that. But no, he was. He was a good,
- 23:07Speaker 1: hard nosed player, a good guy too. All right. What
- 23:12Speaker 1: was the question there, oh, Lyell? I think you know
- 23:17Speaker 1: every time you like, I've asked the question I've asked
- 23:19Speaker 1: a couple of times, and it's just kind of like
- 23:21Speaker 1: is it guard or is it tackle? And it's like, yeah,
- 23:26Speaker 1: so he's he's here to be a backup lineman and
- 23:30Speaker 1: maybe learn both spots and in this in this system
- 23:33Speaker 1: and kind of be you know, he could be a
- 23:36Speaker 1: game day elevation guy. He's still in the practice squad.
- 23:38Speaker 1: I mean, could be a situation where they just elevate
- 23:40Speaker 1: him every time. You know, he could be all you know,
- 23:45Speaker 1: if they have three games, I mean, just elevate them
- 23:48Speaker 1: and make them a game day backup guy that you know,
- 23:51Speaker 1: if something happens in the game, he's probably good enough
- 23:54Speaker 1: to play a little bit of both. I mean, kind
- 23:56Speaker 1: of like Jason Peters was last year, who played a
- 23:59Speaker 1: little bit everything. So I don't know if it's a
- 24:03Speaker 1: definitive answer. I think it's get a guy in here
- 24:06Speaker 1: that knows the team, knows a lot of the players,
- 24:09Speaker 1: knows the way they do things, and uh, he seems
- 24:13Speaker 1: a little different. He's a little bit different this time around.
- 24:17Speaker 1: He's not he's you know, he's more mature like all is.
- 24:21Speaker 1: And uh, he's been around a little bit, and I'm
- 24:24Speaker 1: not I'm not sure if humble is the right word.
- 24:26Speaker 1: I just it's just different and a little bit more
- 24:29Speaker 1: business like. I kind of walked past him on the
- 24:32Speaker 1: plane yesterday Monday, Sunday night, sorry, two days ago. A
- 24:37Speaker 1: lot of players having a good time, you know, they're
- 24:39Speaker 1: just getting on the on the plane, got the hats
- 24:42Speaker 1: and everything, and a little bit more stoic, you know.
- 24:45Speaker 1: And of course he's not going to be carrying on
- 24:48Speaker 1: and stuff, you know what I mean, because these guys
- 24:49Speaker 1: won the championship. He just kind of got here, so
- 24:52Speaker 1: he just kind of handled it the right way. But
- 24:53Speaker 1: even when I talk to him, it just seemed like
- 24:56Speaker 1: he's he's kind of taking a different approach, more business like,
- 24:59Speaker 1: and he's had a really good workout. And think he's
- 25:02Speaker 1: doing a good job, you know, early in the practices.
- 25:04Speaker 1: So I think I think it's a good thing to happen.
- 25:06Speaker 1: We'll see what it means for the future. All Right,
- 25:08Speaker 1: dowk in Allentown, Pennsylvania, our next caller.
- 25:12Speaker 7: Hey, Nick Nay, I just want to give you an accolades.
- 25:15Speaker 7: It was one hundred and twenty four redals before I
- 25:19Speaker 7: could get through. You're a pully popular program.
- 25:21Speaker 1: Well, good job, good job for a consistency and uh,
- 25:26Speaker 1: you know, being uh persistent.
- 25:28Speaker 7: Yeah, no, no, you're a great show. I watch, I
- 25:31Speaker 7: watch and or listen to you every day. Just wanted
- 25:35Speaker 7: to give you that accolade there.
- 25:37Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 25:38Speaker 7: But I know you're a historian, so I wanted to
- 25:40Speaker 7: give you some background. My first Cowboy game that I
- 25:44Speaker 7: remember just a little boy was the Green Bay Packers
- 25:48Speaker 7: against the Dallas Cowboys for the NFL championship. It was
- 25:53Speaker 7: the year of the first Super Bowl and they didn't
- 25:55Speaker 7: even call it the Super Bowl because it was whoever
- 25:58Speaker 7: won the NFL that's champion. Yeah, but so and it
- 26:02Speaker 7: was Don Meredith through that interception on fourth down broke
- 26:06Speaker 7: my heart and we had first and goal. I remember, yeah,
- 26:12Speaker 7: the interception. That The next year was the ice right year.
- 26:16Speaker 1: Yeah, people forget that first one, and.
- 26:18Speaker 7: Then there were two Cleveland. We lost to Cleveland in
- 26:21Speaker 7: the first round. But the story I want to tell
- 26:23Speaker 7: you is it's my recurring nightmare coming from my childhood
- 26:27Speaker 7: who was in Super Bowl five. It was a Sports
- 26:30Speaker 7: Illustrated called it the Blunderbowl. It was Dallas cow was
- 26:34Speaker 7: against the then Baltimore Colts, who had just gone over
- 26:38Speaker 7: from the NFL because the NFL sent Cleveland, Baltimore, and
- 26:42Speaker 7: Pittsburgh over to the AFL. Those were old NFL teams,
- 26:48Speaker 7: and I remember at the end of the game, Craig Morton,
- 26:52Speaker 7: rolling to his right, throws it across the middle high pass,
- 26:57Speaker 7: but off Dan Reeves hands, Mike Curtis intercepts it, and
- 27:02Speaker 7: the worst kicker in the league, a guy named Jim O'Brien,
- 27:05Speaker 7: kicks a field goal to beat us. Broke my heart.
- 27:09Speaker 7: Uh and but and I still have. I had that
- 27:12Speaker 7: nightmare again last night. That's one reason I thought.
- 27:14Speaker 5: They call in wow.
- 27:16Speaker 7: But on another note, you know, obscure Cowboys. Here's one
- 27:22Speaker 7: for you who was a Hall of Famer for what
- 27:24Speaker 7: he did with the San Diego Chargers, not for the Cowboys,
- 27:28Speaker 7: but Lance Alworth had a couple of good years with us.
- 27:31Speaker 7: I remember Stolky smooth and with Roger Stabach and him
- 27:36Speaker 7: was was it was a great memory.
- 27:38Speaker 1: Yeah. Arkansas, Arkansas razorback. Yeah, Yeah, that's right.
- 27:44Speaker 7: Here's my question for you. Everybody seems to be looking
- 27:47Speaker 7: past the Green Bay Packers, and you know, I take
- 27:51Speaker 7: these one at a time. I'm not looking to San
- 27:53Speaker 7: Francisco or where we play the second round. You got
- 27:56Speaker 7: to win the first round, and you know that's the
- 28:00Speaker 7: Is are a good team, and so I don't think
- 28:02Speaker 7: you can look past them. I think McCarthy's done a
- 28:04Speaker 7: great job. Uh, and so just your thoughts on, yeah,
- 28:10Speaker 7: got this game? Seriously, sure get.
- 28:13Speaker 1: Another game, that's right. I don't think the Cowboys will
- 28:15Speaker 1: be looking past them, Thanks for the call, Doc, I
- 28:17Speaker 1: don't think they will. I mean, yeah, I mean it's
- 28:19Speaker 1: easy to kind of ask the question where you know
- 28:21Speaker 1: where they are here? And I got asked about championship
- 28:24Speaker 1: game in forty nine ers and I kind of started
- 28:26Speaker 1: it when I said that I'll see in a few weeks.
- 28:28Speaker 1: I mean, I was joking. I guess, No, I don't
- 28:31Speaker 1: know one's really looking past this one. You'd be you'd
- 28:35Speaker 1: be ridiculous to do that, you know. I think I
- 28:38Speaker 1: think that you know this is this is it. I mean,
- 28:41Speaker 1: this is what you play for. And the and the
- 28:43Speaker 1: Packers are playing well right now. You know, they're they're
- 28:47Speaker 1: they're they're here you know for for a reason. They
- 28:50Speaker 1: they've gotten themselves in position that they're going to come
- 28:52Speaker 1: in with a lot of confidence. They're gonna have a
- 28:54Speaker 1: lot of fans in the stands. So you know expect that.
- 28:59Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what's going to happen here. But uh,
- 29:02Speaker 1: you know, I don't think the guys will be overlooking
- 29:04Speaker 1: this one at all. All right, let's go to Tony.
- 29:09Speaker 1: He's in Alexandria, Virginia.
- 29:11Speaker 5: Nick am I on you are on?
- 29:13Speaker 1: What's up? Tony?
- 29:14Speaker 10: Hey?
- 29:14Speaker 2: How you doing, sir?
- 29:15Speaker 1: Good? What's up?
- 29:16Speaker 6: Man?
- 29:16Speaker 2: It's Tuesday and Opera.
- 29:18Speaker 1: You know, I'm with you. Man. I kind of like
- 29:21Speaker 1: wish this was a Saturday game. I know, it's just.
- 29:24Speaker 2: Because God, because it's this is it. I mean, there's
- 29:27Speaker 2: no tomorrow. There is no you know, if we, if we,
- 29:32Speaker 2: if we, you know, uh so happened to lose the game,
- 29:34Speaker 2: there's no next week or whatever, basically to the off season.
- 29:37Speaker 2: So my thing is, I'm just hoping and praying, hoping
- 29:42Speaker 2: and praying something. Because when when Zach I wasn't paying
- 29:45Speaker 2: attention or watching the game, uh live the first part
- 29:49Speaker 2: of the game, I had to catch up with it
- 29:50Speaker 2: and uh I was kind of kind of following along
- 29:53Speaker 2: with my phone. And when I found out Zach, I
- 29:55Speaker 2: was like, you got to be kidding me. What Zach
- 29:57Speaker 2: Martin is out?
- 29:58Speaker 11: How?
- 29:58Speaker 5: Why?
- 29:58Speaker 11: What you know?
- 29:59Speaker 2: And so well, anyway, you're just hoping, you know, nothing
- 30:02Speaker 2: fluky happens, you know, during the course of the week.
- 30:05Speaker 2: You know, remember a couple of years ago when DeMarcus
- 30:08Speaker 2: Lawrence broke a flit in practice, and and then this
- 30:11Speaker 2: year with what's name with Tyrone Diggs going down with
- 30:15Speaker 2: the killer. So you're hoping we'd just make it through
- 30:17Speaker 2: you know, practice if it's okay. But I really don't
- 30:20Speaker 2: have any any any questions because you kind of answered
- 30:22Speaker 2: them during the first part of this today's show, and
- 30:26Speaker 2: and like I said, it's just a matter of you know,
- 30:29Speaker 2: trying to make it through the week and getting to
- 30:30Speaker 2: the game and calming the nerves until the game actually starts.
- 30:34Speaker 1: So yeah, well I'm with you there. I mean, I
- 30:37Speaker 1: I I'm you know, I said that, like, man, who's
- 30:40Speaker 1: the game was on Saturday? And then I'm like, oh, sorry,
- 30:43Speaker 1: you know, I feel bad for saying that with like
- 30:44Speaker 1: Gilmour and you know, Tyler Smith, like now, let's give
- 30:48Speaker 1: them a full full week to recover, you know what
- 30:51Speaker 1: I mean, they needed, We'll be fine. We'll be fine
- 30:54Speaker 1: here this week. It's uh, it's just it's it's one
- 30:58Speaker 1: of those things that you know, we've We've been talking
- 31:01Speaker 1: about it for a long time. I mean they've been
- 31:03Speaker 1: in the playoffs now for what four weeks now, and
- 31:06Speaker 1: really for about half the season, you knew they were
- 31:10Speaker 1: going to be a playoff team. So it's kind of
- 31:12Speaker 1: like everything that happened, Now, where's the seating they matter
- 31:15Speaker 1: for the seeding and all that stuff. And the Cowboys
- 31:17Speaker 1: really never overlooked anyone or anything, so give them credit
- 31:21Speaker 1: for that. But you know, it's easy for the fans
- 31:23Speaker 1: to try to pull vault themselves into the playoffs, like
- 31:26Speaker 1: let's go, let's go. So now we're here, you know now,
- 31:28Speaker 1: and now we're here, and really, like the last caller said,
- 31:30Speaker 1: there's no reason to move past it, uh right?
- 31:34Speaker 2: Once one and also one season has taught you anything
- 31:37Speaker 2: about this season how things can change so much, because
- 31:40Speaker 2: i mean, several weeks ago, everybody's like, wow, we're gonna
- 31:42Speaker 2: be locked in the fifty, we're gonna be locked in
- 31:44Speaker 2: the fifteen, and all of a sudden, it just boom,
- 31:46Speaker 2: it changed, and all of a sudden Philly loses, loses
- 31:49Speaker 2: several games, and then we're in the second seat. It's like, wow,
- 31:52Speaker 2: how all that changed? And just a flip. So you know,
- 31:54Speaker 2: when we go into the playoffs, you know, anything can happen.
- 31:57Speaker 2: What if Rock Purty comes out and has a bad game,
- 31:59Speaker 2: it could happen and they get bounced out, and then
- 32:01Speaker 2: we're the we're the first seed because you know we're
- 32:03Speaker 2: in the number two slots, so you know, anything can happen.
- 32:06Speaker 2: Let's cross our fingers and and pray that we we
- 32:11Speaker 2: make it through and go Cowboys.
- 32:13Speaker 1: All right, good stuff there, Thanks Tony. It seems like
- 32:17Speaker 1: he's got the opinion attitude mindset of a lot of
- 32:22Speaker 1: fans right now. Just just uh, you know, it's it's
- 32:26Speaker 1: not it's not nervous. Some people might be. I think
- 32:30Speaker 1: it's just anxious. I think that's the war. You're just
- 32:33Speaker 1: everyone's just kind of anxious about the game because we've
- 32:38Speaker 1: been here before, we've seen it. But uh, you know,
- 32:40Speaker 1: I say it all the time. Enjoy the ride, Like
- 32:43Speaker 1: this whole season's a roller coaster. Enjoy the ride. This
- 32:47Speaker 1: seems like the part and the ride you know where
- 32:51Speaker 1: it gets where you're kind of starting to creep up up,
- 32:53Speaker 1: but you know there's a big you know, there's like
- 32:56Speaker 1: this big loop coming and it's that slow like you know,
- 33:00Speaker 1: kind of the rackety sound like, you know, getting up
- 33:03Speaker 1: there and it's slow and you know it's about to happen.
- 33:06Speaker 1: You don't know when this is that part where you're
- 33:09Speaker 1: kind of creeping up there and you're like, you know,
- 33:11Speaker 1: you're kind of like, all right, this has been fun,
- 33:13Speaker 1: you know, but like what's next? And this is where
- 33:16Speaker 1: we are right here in the roller coaster ride where
- 33:19Speaker 1: you know it's about to hit. It just taken forever
- 33:22Speaker 1: to get there. That's my analogy for the day. All right,
- 33:26Speaker 1: seventh color Tom Collins in South Padre Island. Your name
- 33:31Speaker 1: is Tom Collins and you're in South Padre.
- 33:35Speaker 11: Yes, I just want to call and comment. I've been
- 33:42Speaker 11: a Cowboy fan since nineteen sixty one when my dad
- 33:46Speaker 11: brought our first TV home. Okay, I love the Cowboys
- 33:52Speaker 11: like any other Cowboy fan. I've seen the ups and downs.
- 33:55Speaker 11: But the parallel I'm seeing this year to the nineteen
- 34:00Speaker 11: ninety three Cowboys Super Bowl team was that we played
- 34:05Speaker 11: Green Bay in the playoffs first and then went on
- 34:09Speaker 11: to be Buffalo. And I'm just hoping to praying that
- 34:13Speaker 11: we'll see the same thing again this time around. The
- 34:18Speaker 11: correlation of how this comes about is just amazing. We
- 34:23Speaker 11: had a less than stellar, great but not outstanding game
- 34:29Speaker 11: last year when we got knocked out once again by
- 34:33Speaker 11: San Francisco. And I remember us going to San Francisco
- 34:37Speaker 11: and playing there when we were not expected to win,
- 34:41Speaker 11: but then Akeman hit Harper on a long pass.
- 34:45Speaker 5: And here we go, here we go.
- 34:46Speaker 11: So I'm hoping to see the same thing again.
- 34:51Speaker 5: But I appreciate your show.
- 34:53Speaker 3: I watch it all the time.
- 34:55Speaker 7: And how do you think if we play at San.
- 34:59Speaker 4: France Cisco this will play out?
- 35:02Speaker 11: Oh? Thank you very much.
- 35:03Speaker 5: I appreciate your taking my call.
- 35:06Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. Tom. Uh. Yeah, first time caller,
- 35:12Speaker 1: definitely for Tom Collins, definitely, first time caller from South Padre. Respectfully,
- 35:20Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say, let's don't do that, let's don't
- 35:23Speaker 1: go there with with with San Francisco. Uh, We'll have
- 35:27Speaker 1: five shows leading up to that. If if, if that happened,
- 35:31Speaker 1: if the Cowboys get there, and let's be honest, if
- 35:33Speaker 1: they get there, they've got to win too. You know
- 35:35Speaker 1: that they've got it. They've got to get So let's
- 35:37Speaker 1: let's don't let's don't go there. And I'm not trying
- 35:40Speaker 1: to sidestep that. It's just that this you know, like
- 35:43Speaker 1: a lot of the colors there. I mean, this is
- 35:45Speaker 1: the focus. The Cowboys got to beat the Packers. They've
- 35:47Speaker 1: got to do that. I think that they they will.
- 35:49Speaker 1: I think that they should. I think they're a better
- 35:51Speaker 1: football team. But they were a better football team than
- 35:54Speaker 1: the Cardinals back in Week three. They they they're a
- 35:57Speaker 1: better team. I still I still think they're a better
- 36:01Speaker 1: team than Buffalo. I mean I do. I know they
- 36:04Speaker 1: played terrible in that game. We've seen it. So let's
- 36:09Speaker 1: let's let's focus on on on what it is here.
- 36:12Speaker 1: And you know, I think if that matchup happens, that'll
- 36:16Speaker 1: be that'll be crazy.
- 36:17Speaker 4: Now.
- 36:17Speaker 1: One thing, you know that that you said though you're
- 36:19Speaker 1: kind of seeing it seeing it lying together. Maybe you
- 36:22Speaker 1: know Buffalo, San Francisco, Green Bay and all that. I
- 36:26Speaker 1: believe that was the road in ninety three. That's thirty
- 36:29Speaker 1: years ago. I mean, I think it was San Francis.
- 36:32Speaker 1: I mean it was Green Bay in the visional San Francisco,
- 36:36Speaker 1: you know, and then and then and then in Buffalo.
- 36:38Speaker 1: But maybe maybe that that happens again. But you know,
- 36:41Speaker 1: it starts with with Green Bay. You gotta do that.
- 36:43Speaker 1: You gotta beat them, you gotta you gotta show that
- 36:45Speaker 1: you're you know, you're here because because you were dominated
- 36:49Speaker 1: at home. You know, they they they took care business
- 36:52Speaker 1: at home. Give them credit for that eight straight wins
- 36:54Speaker 1: at home. That that put eight right there. And then
- 36:57Speaker 1: they've gone and there what four and five on the road.
- 36:59Speaker 1: It's been a tough road for them, but you know
- 37:02Speaker 1: that they beat the teams they were supposed to beat
- 37:04Speaker 1: pretty much on the road. And you know, I saw
- 37:07Speaker 1: the other day where the top top eight teams in
- 37:12Speaker 1: the league right now, like odds to win the Super Bowl,
- 37:15Speaker 1: top eight Cowboys of course are in there. So the
- 37:17Speaker 1: other seven teams. You know, the Cowboys played six games
- 37:21Speaker 1: against those those seven teams, two against Philly. But with
- 37:25Speaker 1: some of the other teams, I mean they played six,
- 37:26Speaker 1: They did not play Baltimore, did not play Kansas City
- 37:29Speaker 1: two and four and versus those six and of course
- 37:33Speaker 1: the home and road two home, four on the road,
- 37:35Speaker 1: so they had some tough road games. Of course that
- 37:38Speaker 1: they played some good teams. Some of them they played well,
- 37:40Speaker 1: some of them they didn't. But you know, they took
- 37:42Speaker 1: their good home team. Actually they were a phenomenal home team.
- 37:46Speaker 1: So you hope that that carries on into the playoffs.
- 37:48Speaker 1: All right. Next caller is Dorn in Vancouver, Washington. Good morning,
- 37:56Speaker 1: there a good How are you, Dorn?
- 37:59Speaker 10: Well, I'm only two miles from Oregon, so I can
- 38:01Speaker 10: be your first Oregon caller.
- 38:02Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you got to cross over crossover on the call.
- 38:06Speaker 10: Yeah, I should have ran over the bridge. Hey, I've
- 38:09Speaker 10: got a been listening since six. This is my first
- 38:12Speaker 10: time caller to this show. There we go, Thank you,
- 38:15Speaker 10: thank you. I do have a trivia update or correction,
- 38:19Speaker 10: and then a question.
- 38:20Speaker 1: Oh man, so trivia.
- 38:22Speaker 10: A couple well, a couple of people have called and
- 38:25Speaker 10: said that they think your comment of he's got an
- 38:27Speaker 10: ass has replied there is about Ronald Leary, and I
- 38:31Speaker 10: actually and I think you may have said that about him,
- 38:34Speaker 10: But I do think the first time you brought that
- 38:35Speaker 10: up was when they signed three hundred and forty pound
- 38:38Speaker 10: Montrey Holland.
- 38:41Speaker 1: I don't know about because he's got an ass. I
- 38:43Speaker 1: don't know about that.
- 38:45Speaker 10: Somebody research to go back and find for that.
- 38:47Speaker 1: Somebody said it was xavier A Filo.
- 38:51Speaker 10: I hadn't heard that one, and I thought it was Montre.
- 38:55Speaker 1: Montre's got Montrey's got other references, but not that one.
- 39:00Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think that.
- 39:02Speaker 10: Maybe I'm wrong on that.
- 39:03Speaker 1: Yeah, and I got the funny. I have a funny
- 39:05Speaker 1: Montre Holland story. I think that I need to tell
- 39:08Speaker 1: when this call is done Montre Holland. Yeah, I'll tell
- 39:10Speaker 1: us excellent. Okay.
- 39:12Speaker 10: So then my question is, so I've been hearing a
- 39:14Speaker 10: lot of talk about the non holding calls on Micah
- 39:17Speaker 10: ten eleven games in a row. Now, is there a
- 39:20Speaker 10: place to fine stats to see has that happened to
- 39:23Speaker 10: the other top ten pass rushers? Have any of them
- 39:26Speaker 10: gone through ten eleven games? Is not having calls? I
- 39:28Speaker 10: mean to say, Mike is not getting them one thing,
- 39:30Speaker 10: But if nobody's getting him, then that doesn't really mean anything.
- 39:33Speaker 1: Maybe check out those other players podcasts and see if
- 39:35Speaker 1: they're talking about it and complain about it.
- 39:38Speaker 10: A point, I don't know.
- 39:41Speaker 1: I really don't know's it's amazing though he had got
- 39:44Speaker 1: a holding call. I mean, come on, leads the league.
- 39:47Speaker 10: We all see it.
- 39:48Speaker 1: Well, it leads the league in pressures. I mean, he's
- 39:50Speaker 1: getting there. It's not like he's not getting you know,
- 39:52Speaker 1: he's getting there. He got fourteen sacks, He's got like
- 39:54Speaker 1: one hundred something pressures you you know, you would think it,
- 39:58Speaker 1: but you know, go. You know this last game, they didn't.
- 40:02Speaker 1: They didn't call a lot of anything. Really, they didn't
- 40:04Speaker 1: call holding that much on either team. So I kind
- 40:07Speaker 1: of like the way that game was officiated. It really
- 40:09Speaker 1: wasn't wasn't that bad at all.
- 40:12Speaker 10: All right, thanks Dick, go Cowboys?
- 40:13Speaker 1: All right, thank you. Dorn reminds me of the movie
- 40:19Speaker 1: Major League from the first one, of course, the only
- 40:24Speaker 1: really good win in that series. Uh yeah, shut up, Dorn,
- 40:28Speaker 1: but not not you talking about the movie. Good call,
- 40:31Speaker 1: and yeah, we I really don't think we have an
- 40:33Speaker 1: Oregon call. I think Oregon's last organ is the one
- 40:36Speaker 1: we need now. Uh so, maybe Dorn's gonna make a
- 40:39Speaker 1: little drive and go to the go to the gas
- 40:42Speaker 1: station there and make a call from Morgan. I guess
- 40:45Speaker 1: that that still counts. All right, good stuff there?
- 40:51Speaker 8: What was the truth?
- 40:52Speaker 1: All right?
- 40:53Speaker 8: Uh?
- 40:53Speaker 1: Here we okay, let's go to Pastor James. He's in Midland, Texas.
- 40:57Speaker 5: Pastor James, Hey, Nick had the going today, brother doing well,
- 41:02Speaker 5: doing well, hopeball and everybody is well, you know, I'm
- 41:06Speaker 5: not one that really believes in curses. And it's been
- 41:09Speaker 5: a couple of weeks since you and I talked. But
- 41:13Speaker 5: I do believe in divine intervention because you know how
- 41:16Speaker 5: back in the day they said that Texas Stadium had
- 41:19Speaker 5: the hole in the top so that God could look
- 41:22Speaker 5: down and watch his son coach football. And you know,
- 41:27Speaker 5: so throughout all that situation and stuff, I believe that
- 41:31Speaker 5: now that Jimmy Johnson has been put into that ring
- 41:34Speaker 5: of honor, I believe that it was divine intervention that
- 41:37Speaker 5: everything work has worked out the way that it has.
- 41:41Speaker 5: Because I've been telling guys at my job that are
- 41:43Speaker 5: Cowboy fans. I said, man, I really believe that the
- 41:47Speaker 5: Cardinals can beat the Eagles, and with the way the
- 41:51Speaker 5: Giants played them in Philadelphia, I really believe that when
- 41:55Speaker 5: they go to Medlife Stadium that the Giants can put
- 41:59Speaker 5: it on the Eagles and lo and behold. Everything came
- 42:02Speaker 5: out exactly the way that I thought it would. Plus,
- 42:07Speaker 5: I really don't look at it as a bad thing
- 42:10Speaker 5: that our offensive line had a few you know, mix
- 42:16Speaker 5: and cuts in it this weekend, because it helped Bass
- 42:20Speaker 5: and Haffman be able to get some playing time at
- 42:24Speaker 5: an opportunity where you know, the Washington wasn't using really
- 42:28Speaker 5: all of their main players. Not true, they did have
- 42:31Speaker 5: one of those big dogs up there, but I really
- 42:34Speaker 5: feel like Hoffman and Bass came a long way, and
- 42:38Speaker 5: I really like that that dog that Haffman has in him.
- 42:42Speaker 5: I mean, I believe it'll help our offensive line to
- 42:46Speaker 5: even be stronger, just in case something else may pop up,
- 42:49Speaker 5: which we're hoping they won't, but you know, just in
- 42:52Speaker 5: case they have some You know, they got some good
- 42:55Speaker 5: playing time throughout this whole game. And I really feel
- 42:58Speaker 5: good about this Green game because it's time for the
- 43:02Speaker 5: Cowboys to be able to get one back on Green Bay.
- 43:06Speaker 5: And I believe that this is gonna be the time
- 43:08Speaker 5: and the opportunity, and hopefully I'll get the call back
- 43:11Speaker 5: before the week is over and give a prediction on
- 43:13Speaker 5: the score.
- 43:13Speaker 1: Brother.
- 43:14Speaker 5: So y'all have a good rest of the show, and
- 43:16Speaker 5: I'll hang up and we'll talk to you later.
- 43:19Speaker 1: Brother, I like it. Thanks for the call of James
- 43:22Speaker 1: Pastor James Midland, Texas. It's stuff. Yeah this time, I
- 43:28Speaker 1: had said earlier on the last caller we had from Dorin,
- 43:32Speaker 1: I talked about he thinks that comment that I made
- 43:35Speaker 1: that's it was about Montre Holler. I don't think that's
- 43:38Speaker 1: the case. Honestly, I don't think it was about Montrey.
- 43:41Speaker 1: But I wasn't gonna tell us a story about Montrey.
- 43:45Speaker 1: I don't remember what I had done, the feature on
- 43:49Speaker 1: him or something like that where I had had to
- 43:51Speaker 1: contact him. And but but then about two years later,
- 43:56Speaker 1: I'm at Disney on Ice, got my daughter, she's about
- 43:59Speaker 1: six years old. Where at the Disney on Ice, which
- 44:02Speaker 1: is a skate you know, figure skating thing, Disney theme
- 44:05Speaker 1: all that, and I've spent like two hundred dollars with
- 44:08Speaker 1: all kinds of you know, little cups and all kinds
- 44:12Speaker 1: of stuff, you know, And I took a photo of
- 44:15Speaker 1: my daughter, sent it to my mom all that. She
- 44:17Speaker 1: didn't respond, Like for the whole day I thought she would,
- 44:20Speaker 1: you know, I would love that. Turns out I actually
- 44:24Speaker 1: sent that picture to Montrey Holland. I didn't. I didn't
- 44:26Speaker 1: do that right, and you know, you know, user error
- 44:30Speaker 1: obviously messed up. Mom sent to Montre Holland. So he
- 44:34Speaker 1: never responded about that. But I can't imagine him just
- 44:37Speaker 1: kind of he was kind of a cool guy, just chill,
- 44:39Speaker 1: you know, probably just looked at us like what the hell.
- 44:42Speaker 1: So anyways, so funny story to me. First, when I
- 44:46Speaker 1: figured out, I don't know if that was funny. All right,
- 44:48Speaker 1: let's go. Oh that's what I love about this show.
- 44:52Speaker 1: You call out a state and they did, and they
- 44:55Speaker 1: bring it all right, So sorry, Dorn, you don't have
- 44:59Speaker 1: to go across the tracks anymore. To Oregon. We got
- 45:02Speaker 1: you Morrow, Yes, sir from Org. That's what I'm talking about,
- 45:06Speaker 1: Morow from Oregon. Hey, first time, first time.
- 45:12Speaker 12: We're good calling a long time listener. I just kind
- 45:15Speaker 12: of was listening this morning. I keep I'm here at work.
- 45:17Speaker 5: Kept going back and forward.
- 45:18Speaker 12: I heard, hey, we need someone. Oh man, I just
- 45:20Speaker 12: called in. I know people keep calling in and it
- 45:23Speaker 12: takes a little bit to get in. Hey, man, second call,
- 45:25Speaker 12: I got in, So I appreciate it.
- 45:26Speaker 1: Guys call there you go. That's kind of how you
- 45:28Speaker 1: have to do. You have to listen soon as I said,
- 45:30Speaker 1: all right, man, have a good day.
- 45:33Speaker 4: Think exactly exactly.
- 45:35Speaker 12: No, I just wanted to say, hey, appreciate the show.
- 45:38Speaker 12: I've been listening to you quite a while. I love
- 45:40Speaker 12: listening to you guys. And Dave Hellman back in the
- 45:43Speaker 12: day and brought it.
- 45:43Speaker 1: It's funny to.
- 45:44Speaker 12: Say back in the day now, but yeah, uh and uh,
- 45:47Speaker 12: just real quick, Uh, I guess not necessarily my favorite player,
- 45:51Speaker 12: but one that I'll call out is just Roy Williams
- 45:53Speaker 12: watching him the safety though, watching him basically just lay
- 45:57Speaker 12: people out and yeah, the lesson that he played with
- 46:00Speaker 12: stuff like that. Uh, just real quick, I fell I
- 46:04Speaker 12: fell in love with Cowboys during the Buffalo Bill's Super
- 46:08Speaker 12: Bowl h Thurman Thomas goal line stand.
- 46:10Speaker 1: Oh, that's one of my favorite plays of all time. Ye,
- 46:13Speaker 1: Ken Norton, I.
- 46:14Speaker 12: Was a little bit younger. Ken Norton was a little
- 46:16Speaker 12: bit younger, saw that play and that's when like my
- 46:18Speaker 12: eyes opened up, like what you could do that?
- 46:20Speaker 6: You could do that?
- 46:21Speaker 3: That?
- 46:21Speaker 12: Yeah, that was the play.
- 46:23Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's one of my favorite plays of all
- 46:27Speaker 1: time really because it was one of those moments in
- 46:29Speaker 1: the game where it's like we're better than you, we're better.
- 46:33Speaker 1: You're here, good job for getting to the one, but
- 46:36Speaker 1: you're just not strong enough. And if you look at
- 46:39Speaker 1: that photo, there's a there's a folk. His hand is
- 46:42Speaker 1: actually up. It's it's Kenneth Davis as the running back.
- 46:45Speaker 1: It's like inside the face, basking right right there, touching
- 46:49Speaker 1: his face, and it's just you know, with his dad
- 46:52Speaker 1: was being a boxer Ken Norton, and I remember the
- 46:55Speaker 1: call from Dick Enberg. He said, Ken Norton with the
- 46:58Speaker 1: ko it was that was that was a awesome That
- 47:00Speaker 1: was an awesome. Yeah, that was a great.
- 47:04Speaker 12: The cherry on top for that one was my aunt.
- 47:07Speaker 12: She kind of like, you know, the devil's advocate type personality,
- 47:10Speaker 12: so she always went against whatever we were.
- 47:12Speaker 5: Kind of going for.
- 47:13Speaker 12: So she was going real heavy for Buffalo at the time,
- 47:15Speaker 12: and my dad came out and dropped off a little
- 47:18Speaker 12: bucket in front of her and said, here you go
- 47:20Speaker 12: for your tears. And to me at that age, I
- 47:22Speaker 12: I just thought it was the funniest thing. So you
- 47:24Speaker 12: compound those things together, and that's where I fell in
- 47:26Speaker 12: love with the sport and let alone the cowboys. So
- 47:29Speaker 12: originally I'm from Texas. We moved up here quite a
- 47:32Speaker 12: while ago.
- 47:32Speaker 1: All right, well my blood is from there. Yeah, y'all,
- 47:36Speaker 1: y'all said, you know what, screw this Texas summer, We're
- 47:40Speaker 1: going to Oregon. Yeah.
- 47:41Speaker 12: Hey, we moved up here in ninety two. So I
- 47:44Speaker 12: got spoiled with those you know, with those years, and
- 47:46Speaker 12: then I've been humbled ever since. There you go, I'm
- 47:48Speaker 12: excited for what's coming. I would call myself one of
- 47:51Speaker 12: those more mellow, you know, humbled trumble fans, but I'm
- 47:55Speaker 12: excited to see what happens.
- 47:57Speaker 1: All right, Well, I did just mention one more.
- 48:00Speaker 12: We all get together every Cowboy game. We go to
- 48:02Speaker 12: my mom's house. That's what we do up here in Oregon.
- 48:05Speaker 12: Everybody knows us as the as the Cowboys fans up here.
- 48:07Speaker 1: So do it. Man, y'all have a great, great time
- 48:10Speaker 1: this weekend. Hopefully there's a few more weekends of y'all
- 48:13Speaker 1: getting together watching the games. So we're awesome for it.
- 48:17Speaker 12: Appreciate your time. Thank you guys so much.
- 48:19Speaker 1: All right, Moro from Oregon. I think that's I think
- 48:24Speaker 1: that's it. I think it's fifty states right there. We'll
- 48:27Speaker 1: do a little more research, but boom awesome. All right,
- 48:30Speaker 1: one more caller, Darien and Houston, last one.
- 48:34Speaker 10: It's time.
- 48:35Speaker 1: It's time.
- 48:37Speaker 5: Time to do it, man, it's time.
- 48:38Speaker 1: I love it.
- 48:39Speaker 13: It's been a minute, it's been a minute. You did
- 48:42Speaker 13: the guy. I just want to congratulate you on a
- 48:44Speaker 13: successful season with your show. Your show has been really
- 48:48Speaker 13: cool this year. I just have all in and stuff.
- 48:51Speaker 1: I appreciate that I love it. I love it. It's
- 48:53Speaker 1: been a lot of fun. And I give a lot
- 48:54Speaker 1: of credit to Chris in the back. I know I
- 48:57Speaker 1: say that a lot, but he does a lot of
- 48:59Speaker 1: these shows. But I can work ten times is hard
- 49:01Speaker 1: on this just because of all the calls and the
- 49:03Speaker 1: text messages and stuff like that. So I give him
- 49:05Speaker 1: a lot of credit. And We've had a lot of
- 49:07Speaker 1: fun doing it together. So yeah, I appreciate you.
- 49:10Speaker 4: Guys getting us in there.
- 49:12Speaker 13: It's funny. My wife would make fun of me every
- 49:15Speaker 13: morning I wasn't working. I would try to call in
- 49:17Speaker 13: and she just she didn't get it, she didn't understand it.
- 49:19Speaker 13: But this is just this is the the ultimate celebratory
- 49:23Speaker 13: tradition slash coping mechanism. I think we have as as
- 49:27Speaker 13: Cowboys fans. So that kind of got me thinking a
- 49:31Speaker 13: quick question about you and then just some comments about
- 49:34Speaker 13: the game. I love you just like a steel trap
- 49:37Speaker 13: of knowledge and football trivia. But I'm wondering does that
- 49:40Speaker 13: ever get you in trouble at home with your wife's like, oh,
- 49:43Speaker 13: you could remember this, this is this about the nineties,
- 49:47Speaker 13: but you can't remember what I asked you to get
- 49:48Speaker 13: from the store last week.
- 49:50Speaker 1: Yes it does, and and thanks for bringing it up.
- 49:54Speaker 1: So yeah, it'll probably get me in trouble again with her.
- 49:56Speaker 1: Yeah now, I mean she knows that, you know, there's
- 50:01Speaker 1: a lot of Cowboys history and knowledge. But yeah, yeah,
- 50:04Speaker 1: it does happen. I mean, I just short term memories
- 50:07Speaker 1: not as good for sure.
- 50:10Speaker 13: Keep fighting the good fight.
- 50:11Speaker 2: Uh.
- 50:12Speaker 13: And I just I just wanted to say, dude, I
- 50:14Speaker 13: think I saw some encouraging things from the running game
- 50:16Speaker 13: this week.
- 50:17Speaker 1: Yep.
- 50:18Speaker 13: Throughout the season, I've seen a lot of like Tony
- 50:20Speaker 13: Poller like doing like scuttle back behind his lead blockers
- 50:24Speaker 13: and then like falling into a hole for two or
- 50:26Speaker 13: three yards. But this week I really saw him following
- 50:28Speaker 13: his black and his blocks and then boom foot planted
- 50:32Speaker 13: up the field. So he looked pretty decent, and then
- 50:34Speaker 13: Rico looked quick. I'm glad he had some time to
- 50:36Speaker 13: rest up from whatever, you know, injuries he had going on.
- 50:41Speaker 13: But it's time, dude, it's time. It's time to stand
- 50:42Speaker 13: on business this week and really really let him know
- 50:45Speaker 13: who we are. You know, I'm kind of with Irene
- 50:48Speaker 13: who called in earlier about, you know, being a little
- 50:50Speaker 13: worried about Jordan. Love you know, he's quick, he can run.
- 50:52Speaker 13: He's throwing thirty two touchdowns this season, you know, like
- 50:55Speaker 13: they're clicking. But I mean this is his first playoff game.
- 50:58Speaker 13: Make it look like it.
- 50:59Speaker 5: Yeah, you're you're, you're the vet.
- 51:01Speaker 13: Show up and and and show him, show him, uh,
- 51:03Speaker 13: show them what you got and then uh, just real quick.
- 51:06Speaker 4: Uh.
- 51:06Speaker 13: Favorite football movies, as I haven't called in a while
- 51:09Speaker 13: is The Little Giant, and then another one called Facing
- 51:11Speaker 13: the Giants. It's kind of a low budget film. Never
- 51:15Speaker 13: seen it. It's really cool. The worst football movies are
- 51:19Speaker 13: The Silver Linings Playbook and Invincible for obvious reasons, and
- 51:24Speaker 13: then Favorite Cowboy of all time Jason Whitten and random
- 51:27Speaker 13: Cowboys player Sam Hurd. Okay, anyways, let's do this.
- 51:31Speaker 1: Let's do it all right, man. Appreciate that.
- 51:34Speaker 13: Yeah for sure.
- 51:35Speaker 1: I don't know how random Sam heard is uh as
- 51:38Speaker 1: a player, but uh uh anyways, good good stuff, good stuff.
- 51:42Speaker 1: I love how he's like. I love how he says
- 51:45Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. I don't like Invincible because it's the
- 51:47Speaker 1: Eagles movie, but he's all about little giants, you know who. Also,
- 51:51Speaker 1: they have to beat the Cowboys to win, but a
- 51:52Speaker 1: little different. Cute Kids movie for sure. All right, good stuff.
- 51:57Speaker 1: Thank you Darien for the call, and thank you for
- 51:59Speaker 1: actually my headline for the for the I always have
- 52:01Speaker 1: to write the headline out for that's it. That's gonna
- 52:03Speaker 1: be the headline. It's time, it's time. I know it's Tuesday,
- 52:07Speaker 1: so if it's really not time, but it is, so
- 52:10Speaker 1: I'm gonna go for it. It's time. Great stuff, great
- 52:13Speaker 1: calls has always got to get out here. Cowboys break
- 52:15Speaker 1: is coming in here in a few minutes, so stay
- 52:18Speaker 1: on the stream for that so you can check them out.
- 52:21Speaker 1: So for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eaman. We will see
- 52:23Speaker 1: you tomorrow. Cowboys storyline, It's Time.
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