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- 0:19Speaker 3: Here's Nick Eatman.
- 0:23Speaker 4: What's up? Welcome to Cowboys storyline presented by Gillette, Wednesday,
- 0:27Speaker 4: May the sixth, and it's time to talk some Cowboys
- 0:31Speaker 4: offseason football. This month is going to be rather slow
- 0:37Speaker 4: for the Cowboys. All NFL teams, I would imagine, but
- 0:41Speaker 4: I know the Cowboys don't have another practice on the
- 0:44Speaker 4: field until June, so that's when they start the OTAs,
- 0:48Speaker 4: have a couple of weeks of that and then a
- 0:49Speaker 4: mini camp and then it'll be kind of shut down
- 0:52Speaker 4: for about a month until training camp in late July.
- 0:56Speaker 4: So we did have a Rooky mini camp. It won't
- 0:59Speaker 4: take long to discuss how those players looked. Just not
- 1:03Speaker 4: a lot of evaluation going on there for for a
- 1:06Speaker 4: rookie mini camp. But it's good to see the guys
- 1:09Speaker 4: more than anything. You're going to kind of talk to them,
- 1:14Speaker 4: get their demeanor a little bit. And and and that's
- 1:16Speaker 4: one thing that that was very evident about this rookie
- 1:19Speaker 4: class was just how business like it was for these
- 1:26Speaker 4: players and Caleb Downs, you know's starting with him, but
- 1:29Speaker 4: then some of the other guys they're just serious about
- 1:33Speaker 4: you know, football here and the first first you know
- 1:37Speaker 4: time here in the building for a lot of them.
- 1:39Speaker 4: We'll see if that kind of changes or they they
- 1:42Speaker 4: open up a little bit, but it was it was
- 1:43Speaker 4: good to see. I mean, it seems like football is
- 1:46Speaker 4: a huge priority for them, like it should be. But
- 1:49Speaker 4: but sometimes, you know, you get the sense of the
- 1:51Speaker 4: guys come in and they they they love what football
- 1:53Speaker 4: brings to them. We've had some players like that in
- 1:56Speaker 4: this In this instance, though, I feel like from the
- 1:59Speaker 4: top down on Kale Downs is going to kind of
- 2:01Speaker 4: lead this this rookie class the right way. But we
- 2:04Speaker 4: can talk about that in a lot more. Eight A
- 2:06Speaker 4: A eighty five two two nine seven. Let's start with
- 2:08Speaker 4: Chris and Saratoga Springs. Chris, what's up?
- 2:11Speaker 2: What's going on?
- 2:12Speaker 5: Nick?
- 2:12Speaker 6: How are you good?
- 2:13Speaker 4: How are you doing?
- 2:14Speaker 7: I'm not too bad. They need to take care of
- 2:16Speaker 7: this number situation with Kale. They need to give that
- 2:19Speaker 7: number two so we can sell some jerseys.
- 2:22Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a little surprised it's taken so long. I mean,
- 2:26Speaker 4: I mean, I would think that would be one that
- 2:27Speaker 4: they would want to sell right away, you know. Yeah, yeah,
- 2:30Speaker 4: I kind of want to strike while the iron's hot,
- 2:32Speaker 4: right and with the excitement is there for this, for
- 2:36Speaker 4: this you know, draft pick, and not that it won't,
- 2:38Speaker 4: you know, be next week or today, tomorrow, whatever it is.
- 2:43Speaker 4: But yeah, I would have I would have gotten this
- 2:45Speaker 4: thing done quickly.
- 2:47Speaker 8: And I agree.
- 2:48Speaker 7: I want to just touch base with the trade. When
- 2:51Speaker 7: we sent Osa to San fran got that third round pick,
- 2:55Speaker 7: I think we turned that into a fan. I love
- 2:57Speaker 7: the third round pick in Barsham from Michigan. I think
- 3:00Speaker 7: he's gonna be a dog in the middle. And then
- 3:03Speaker 7: we got lt Overton, which is probably one but obviously
- 3:06Speaker 7: beside Kale my Man from ohiose but one of my
- 3:08Speaker 7: favorite picks of the draft. I wanted him going in
- 3:11Speaker 7: and I'm glad we got him. I think he he's
- 3:13Speaker 7: very similar and can play a lot of the similar
- 3:15Speaker 7: things that Osa could have done. And I think he's
- 3:18Speaker 7: gonna step right in. So we got a linebacker that's
- 3:20Speaker 7: gonna be good, I think. And then we got lt
- 3:23Speaker 7: Overton for Osa. In reality, we got those two players
- 3:27Speaker 7: for him, in my opinion, and I think that's gonna
- 3:28Speaker 7: gonna work out great for us.
- 3:30Speaker 4: Yeah, those are the two picks that are that are
- 3:32Speaker 4: very intriguing for me as well, especially Overton. But you know,
- 3:37Speaker 4: Barham might be somebody like he doesn't. He looks a
- 3:41Speaker 4: little out of place at first at linebacker because he's
- 3:44Speaker 4: played at some but not a lot. I think once
- 3:47Speaker 4: he gets a little more fluid there, then he's gonna
- 3:51Speaker 4: be like a beast like I mean, I think he
- 3:53Speaker 4: has the potential to be that. Now it's still third
- 3:56Speaker 4: round pick, but like you said, he he's got the
- 3:59Speaker 4: traits for it. He just didn't play it enough. And
- 4:02Speaker 4: that happens a lot.
- 4:03Speaker 6: Now.
- 4:03Speaker 4: I'll talk about that a little bit more after the call.
- 4:06Speaker 4: Have you got anything else?
- 4:08Speaker 7: No, that's it for today, Nick. I appreciate you taking
- 4:10Speaker 7: my colleges.
- 4:11Speaker 4: Have a good one, man. Thanks for starting us off
- 4:13Speaker 4: the right way. You know, it happens a lot in college,
- 4:16Speaker 4: and you see it a lot more of the small schools,
- 4:18Speaker 4: not so much at Michigan here with Barham, but you know,
- 4:23Speaker 4: you see it where a guy can play corner, but
- 4:27Speaker 4: they move him to safety because if you put them
- 4:30Speaker 4: at corner, no one's gonna ever throw there. So you
- 4:31Speaker 4: put them in safety middle of the field. Let him
- 4:33Speaker 4: go roam a little bit. I've seen, you know, middle
- 4:35Speaker 4: linebackers kind of that way. You know, Khalil Mack at
- 4:39Speaker 4: Buffalo University of Buffalo was sort of that way where
- 4:44Speaker 4: he was really more of an edge rusher. But at Buffalo,
- 4:48Speaker 4: the best players lining up over here, then we're gonna
- 4:51Speaker 4: go over here, you know. So you got to put
- 4:53Speaker 4: these guys in the middle of the field. And I
- 4:54Speaker 4: say that about Barham, I think as a guy that
- 4:57Speaker 4: can rush the passer, I think that they put him there.
- 5:01Speaker 4: Same with Overton. They put him at as a as
- 5:03Speaker 4: a rusher because that's that's what you need to get done.
- 5:06Speaker 4: But in the in the NFL, I think probably a
- 5:08Speaker 4: better position for them a little bit more on the inside,
- 5:11Speaker 4: which surprises me when you think about that, when you
- 5:14Speaker 4: still go back to the Micah Parsons pick and how
- 5:17Speaker 4: he played. You know, he played middle linebacker right there
- 5:21Speaker 4: as well. They didn't move him to a pass rusher,
- 5:24Speaker 4: and that probably cost him some spots in the draft
- 5:26Speaker 4: because I think if everyone would have seen just what
- 5:28Speaker 4: a pass rusher he really was, were drafting a lot earlier.
- 5:31Speaker 4: All Right, I'm a in Napa Valley. I'm a what's up?
- 5:35Speaker 2: What's happening?
- 5:36Speaker 9: Nick?
- 5:36Speaker 10: Good morning?
- 5:37Speaker 7: How are you?
- 5:37Speaker 4: I'm good, Good morning to you.
- 5:40Speaker 9: Man.
- 5:40Speaker 10: I'm just super excited to get through. I've been busy
- 5:44Speaker 10: and just been listening, you know, kind of the playbacks.
- 5:48Speaker 10: But the last couple of weeks I try to get
- 5:50Speaker 10: in and yeah, it was it was tough. But man,
- 5:54Speaker 10: I'm super happy to hear that I made the third team.
- 5:58Speaker 10: Thank you for you and create you know all that
- 6:01Speaker 10: you guys do. Happy to be recognized. But it's not
- 6:04Speaker 10: really why I call. I just called just because I
- 6:06Speaker 10: love talking ball and man, I love listening to just
- 6:09Speaker 10: all of the storyliners and all of the knowledge they give.
- 6:12Speaker 10: So man, thanks you guys all.
- 6:14Speaker 8: It's great.
- 6:15Speaker 4: Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thanks for
- 6:17Speaker 4: being a part of it. And like you know, a
- 6:19Speaker 4: lot of these guys like yourself on the West Coast,
- 6:21Speaker 4: it's a lot earlier over there when when we start
- 6:24Speaker 4: this show. So I appreciate you waking up with us
- 6:26Speaker 4: and getting in get into the line.
- 6:30Speaker 10: Oh yeah, man, every chance I get. It's uh, you know,
- 6:33Speaker 10: when I travel, I've tried to call in. I've called
- 6:36Speaker 10: I tried to call in a couple of years ago
- 6:37Speaker 10: when I was in Hawaii and didn't get a chance
- 6:40Speaker 10: to make it through. My family thinks I'm crazy. My girls,
- 6:43Speaker 10: I think that I'm crazy that I you know, I
- 6:45Speaker 10: just you know, spend all this time. I mean, they
- 6:47Speaker 10: know who I am around, you know, when it comes
- 6:49Speaker 10: game time and when the season's coming around and all
- 6:52Speaker 10: of the things, you know, you know, start breaking out
- 6:56Speaker 10: all my gear and you know, just all the things right,
- 6:58Speaker 10: And they think that I'm crazy with with how much
- 7:01Speaker 10: attention and time and effort I put into it. But
- 7:04Speaker 10: you know, now, I just grew up loving it. But
- 7:06Speaker 10: you know what's crazy is that I tell them that
- 7:08Speaker 10: there's people that are way more involved and you know,
- 7:12Speaker 10: do way more than I do. Like I'm just hitting
- 7:15Speaker 10: the cusp, you know, and they're just amazed by it.
- 7:18Speaker 10: So but yeah, very cool stuff. Just as far as
- 7:23Speaker 10: the draft, man, I loved it, man, I really Again,
- 7:26Speaker 10: I've been talking about how I feel like since the
- 7:28Speaker 10: Williams trade, I kind of see Jerry's you know, outlook
- 7:32Speaker 10: on everything shoddy, all of this stuff. I just feel
- 7:37Speaker 10: like it's all coming together and it's a plan.
- 7:39Speaker 9: You know.
- 7:40Speaker 10: There was a lot of talk and maybe they'll go offense,
- 7:43Speaker 10: you know, depending on who you know, how the players
- 7:46Speaker 10: fall and stuff. And you know, I'm I don't think
- 7:48Speaker 10: that they ever were planning to go offense, you know.
- 7:51Speaker 10: I think they liked some players, but they were planning
- 7:53Speaker 10: to go defense.
- 7:53Speaker 7: And it looks like.
- 7:54Speaker 10: That's what they did with only going to offensive players
- 7:58Speaker 10: with the tackle and the receiver, which I'm not mad
- 8:02Speaker 10: at the tackle. We're gonna need a tackle eventually. But yeah,
- 8:06Speaker 10: I'm just so excited and hopeful.
- 8:08Speaker 9: Man.
- 8:09Speaker 10: I'm already gearing up for a training camp and all
- 8:12Speaker 10: the stuff, man, so I can try to make it
- 8:15Speaker 10: out to Seattle. Hopefully I can get a Thanksgiving game
- 8:17Speaker 10: this year. So yeah, a lot of excitement. Feel like
- 8:21Speaker 10: we're on the up and up. Downs is going to
- 8:23Speaker 10: be awesome, all.
- 8:24Speaker 4: Right, all right, man, appreciate I'm thanks for the call.
- 8:27Speaker 4: A lot of good enthusiasm, there, a lot of excitement,
- 8:30Speaker 4: and that's it's kind of what you want to I mean,
- 8:33Speaker 4: it's exactly what you want your fan base to to
- 8:37Speaker 4: to be feeling at this time of year. I mean,
- 8:40Speaker 4: especially after the last year and just how how tough
- 8:43Speaker 4: it was to go through a season like that. Really
- 8:45Speaker 4: two years in a row now of a seven win
- 8:48Speaker 4: you know type season and just not not where that
- 8:53Speaker 4: this team, in this franchise should be. We all know
- 8:56Speaker 4: that everybody knows that from the top down. So to
- 8:59Speaker 4: get you know, the fans on board with with just
- 9:03Speaker 4: about as much that you could really hope for. I mean, yeah,
- 9:06Speaker 4: there's a couple more free agents I think that you know,
- 9:09Speaker 4: people would have wanted to see maybe linebackers pay a
- 9:13Speaker 4: little bit more for for some of those guys that
- 9:15Speaker 4: like went to the Raiders. But you know, for for
- 9:18Speaker 4: the most part, I think it's been a good it's
- 9:21Speaker 4: it's been a good offseason for this team. I mean,
- 9:23Speaker 4: I like the moves that they've made obviously in the draft,
- 9:28Speaker 4: but even before that, you know, they they did what
- 9:30Speaker 4: they're supposed to do, fell some of the needs. Uh
- 9:33Speaker 4: they didn't do it so much with linebacker before the draft,
- 9:37Speaker 4: but then with with the d winners. Barham I think
- 9:40Speaker 4: is going to be a guy to throw in there.
- 9:41Speaker 4: And you know, like I said last week, maybe a
- 9:44Speaker 4: last couple of shows that you know, you still want
- 9:47Speaker 4: your guys to develop, so you don't just want to
- 9:50Speaker 4: say all right, these these guys can't can't play. I
- 9:53Speaker 4: I think that there's some excitement still for Shamar James
- 9:57Speaker 4: over shown hasn't ever really had an offseason where he
- 9:59Speaker 4: hasn't and dealing with an injury. So the fact that
- 10:01Speaker 4: it overshown is going to be a guys starting off
- 10:05Speaker 4: rather healthy. You got those guys there, then, then, like
- 10:08Speaker 4: I said, Bar Hammond and Winners, that's a pretty good start.
- 10:12Speaker 4: There may be a need for more, but I think
- 10:15Speaker 4: as it stands right now, that's probably a pretty good place.
- 10:18Speaker 4: All right. We uh, let's let's gore a break here,
- 10:22Speaker 4: an early break on Cowboys storyline, so we can get
- 10:26Speaker 4: some phone calls coming in eight eight eight A five,
- 10:28Speaker 4: five two two nine seven, Uh is the number. We'll
- 10:31Speaker 4: be right back after.
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- 12:26Speaker 4: right back here on Cowboys storyline. Took an early break here,
- 12:30Speaker 4: but now we can kind of get after it. We
- 12:32Speaker 4: got some callers. Daveyon in Illinois. What's up, Davion?
- 12:36Speaker 6: What to do?
- 12:37Speaker 5: My boy?
- 12:37Speaker 7: What to do?
- 12:38Speaker 9: You do it? What's going on? Yeah?
- 12:41Speaker 14: Man?
- 12:41Speaker 8: Been uh been catching the replays because the tik which
- 12:46Speaker 8: is on the on the show left couple if I
- 12:48Speaker 8: couldn't get any of the work. But happy to get
- 12:51Speaker 8: on and get off of some takes here because there's
- 12:54Speaker 8: been a been like going on since the last time
- 12:57Speaker 8: I said, yeah, what you think?
- 13:00Speaker 2: Uh?
- 13:01Speaker 8: I love the draft class. The draft class looks good.
- 13:06Speaker 8: I think we uh, especially the way that getting the
- 13:09Speaker 8: Eagles for the the two pigs for my for Lawrence
- 13:14Speaker 8: was a bit.
- 13:15Speaker 2: It was was great.
- 13:16Speaker 8: It's just I love getting getting over on the on
- 13:19Speaker 8: the Eagles that just can't stand them.
- 13:21Speaker 4: So uh and yeah, we'll see now. I mean they've
- 13:26Speaker 4: moved up to get Mikay Lemon, who could be, you know,
- 13:30Speaker 4: a beast to handle for years to come, so you
- 13:32Speaker 4: know what I mean, Like it's one of those things
- 13:34Speaker 4: like they got a player too, so uh well, we'll
- 13:38Speaker 4: you know, we'll see how it all shakes out. But
- 13:39Speaker 4: I mean they they got something out of the deal.
- 13:42Speaker 8: Also, well we turned Mica into five players so far,
- 13:46Speaker 8: and uh so I'm like, hey, I appreciate that. That's
- 13:51Speaker 8: so either way how it works out, I think it's
- 13:53Speaker 8: gonna be cool. I think that the sleep of the
- 13:55Speaker 8: draft might be either the cornerback or barr Ham. I
- 14:00Speaker 8: think we gonna I really like the way bar him is.
- 14:04Speaker 8: His demeanor is, uh that's what you want as a
- 14:07Speaker 8: Linebacker's just no nonsense to get at it.
- 14:12Speaker 4: He's kind of on the scary side if you're really
- 14:15Speaker 4: being honest about it, Like if you're just sitting there
- 14:17Speaker 4: looking talking to him, like he's got that vibe, which
- 14:20Speaker 4: is good. That's kind of what you want your little
- 14:22Speaker 4: linebacker to kind of have some bad intentions like that,
- 14:24Speaker 4: Like like that's what it looks like. He might be
- 14:27Speaker 4: the nicest guy ever, but he's he's pretty serious about it,
- 14:31Speaker 4: and he's got that stoic look to him, and he's fierce. Yeah,
- 14:35Speaker 4: he looks like, yeah, he looks like that's what you
- 14:37Speaker 4: want right there.
- 14:39Speaker 8: Right That's the way I would create my Madden linebacker
- 14:42Speaker 8: if I was creating them, not in the linebacker, that
- 14:43Speaker 8: would be the way he got the number fifty five
- 14:46Speaker 8: and it's just straight let's go yeah, no breaks. That's
- 14:50Speaker 8: that's why I like my linebacker to play life. So
- 14:53Speaker 8: I'm glad we got the demeanor in the room and
- 14:56Speaker 8: it'd be a nice bounce to Demo. But Demo is
- 14:58Speaker 8: uh is there? Everybody?
- 15:00Speaker 2: You know?
- 15:00Speaker 8: You know Demo one of my phase. But uh, it
- 15:03Speaker 8: would be good to have him if we both have
- 15:05Speaker 8: him at the same time on them oh man talking
- 15:08Speaker 8: about that, Oh boy, that could be real nasty. But
- 15:12Speaker 8: uh so, really I think Devermore, I think he's gonna
- 15:15Speaker 8: come in and challenge. I don't know. I guess the
- 15:17Speaker 8: Dori Jackson alert yesterday was just all about just either
- 15:21Speaker 8: showing a guy some love or what. I don't know,
- 15:25Speaker 8: But because we seem like we got so many corners.
- 15:27Speaker 8: I don't we want to add another corner to this.
- 15:29Speaker 8: I don't know, but I guess I never was a
- 15:34Speaker 8: fan of Dories, so I don't know if we I
- 15:36Speaker 8: don't know what we were doing that, but it's it's
- 15:39Speaker 8: nice and I won't I want fans to really uh
- 15:46Speaker 8: chill out. I think I think Cal's gonna get his number.
- 15:48Speaker 8: I think they just I think I think right now
- 15:51Speaker 8: to Jones is letting the boys kind of work it out.
- 15:52Speaker 8: And if they don't work it out, I think he's
- 15:54Speaker 8: gonna get his number. I I don't think it's gonna
- 15:55Speaker 8: be a big problem. Just I know it's slow, slow time,
- 15:59Speaker 8: so people got me make up stuff to go. So
- 16:01Speaker 8: it's but I think Kyler gonna get that number because
- 16:04Speaker 8: it's just too much money that'll be made, but not
- 16:07Speaker 8: to have that number. Uh And man, I just I'm
- 16:11Speaker 8: really excited about trying to get him into ben he
- 16:14Speaker 8: Ca'm glad GPS signed to tag uh so we can
- 16:19Speaker 8: get that drum behind us and we kind of move forward.
- 16:21Speaker 8: We'll see him in June and uh yeah, man, just
- 16:25Speaker 8: really looking forward to seeing what's gonna happen the next
- 16:27Speaker 8: I guess the next couple weeks while we were kind
- 16:29Speaker 8: of down to kind of see what's gonna developed. But
- 16:31Speaker 8: I don't think so far, no big time drama so far.
- 16:35Speaker 8: That's that's man, that's a good things freshing. I still
- 16:40Speaker 8: don't understand why people were really tripping on the on
- 16:43Speaker 8: Ferd because I think Trick. I think we need to
- 16:46Speaker 8: calm down on Trig. He's gonna be good, but I
- 16:49Speaker 8: don't think he's going supplant Ferd just that quick. I
- 16:52Speaker 8: mean he's gonna probably take out.
- 16:54Speaker 4: Anybody saying that, is anybody saying that.
- 17:00Speaker 8: Legitimate, Yeah, yeah, yeah, is a FERG. I was like, oh,
- 17:06Speaker 8: they so, But I mean the high training, the high
- 17:08Speaker 8: training that Nick I get it.
- 17:11Speaker 4: I just there was two hundred and thirty seven draft
- 17:13Speaker 4: picks that went by that nobody decided to pick him,
- 17:16Speaker 4: So like I would slow that down just a little bit,
- 17:19Speaker 4: that he's going to come in and unsee the two
- 17:21Speaker 4: time pro bowler. But but I mean that's not where
- 17:24Speaker 4: it needs to be. Like he needs to come in
- 17:26Speaker 4: here and be better than than Brevern span Ford, and
- 17:28Speaker 4: better than Scoon Maker and and and Princeton Fan and
- 17:32Speaker 4: those tight ends that are in there, and better than
- 17:33Speaker 4: the I think it's Rogers, uh, the other free agent
- 17:37Speaker 4: you know, tight end. So you know, if I remember correctly,
- 17:41Speaker 4: the guy that got the most money last year from
- 17:44Speaker 4: any free agent signing. And I don't think I could
- 17:48Speaker 4: even say his name. Was it fair Weather? I can't
- 17:51Speaker 4: remember from all.
- 17:54Speaker 8: Yeah he's in Arizona now, but yeah he's a so
- 17:59Speaker 8: they get him tight but.
- 18:04Speaker 4: But measurables and and and you know, playmaking ability and
- 18:08Speaker 4: all that is outstanding. But you know, he didn't. He
- 18:13Speaker 4: hasn't landed in a spot now. He hasn't played I
- 18:15Speaker 4: think on a team for more than a year. So
- 18:17Speaker 4: I mean there's a reason why that everyone wants to
- 18:20Speaker 4: sign them. And then there's also a reason why they
- 18:22Speaker 4: are okay letting him go. So uh, that's just something
- 18:25Speaker 4: he's got to, you know, grow up, mature like all
- 18:27Speaker 4: these guys do. So all right, thanks for the call, man,
- 18:33Speaker 4: good a lot of good stuff there. Yeah, I haven't
- 18:36Speaker 4: heard that as far. I've heard the excitement about Trigg,
- 18:39Speaker 4: but not not to the point where he's going to
- 18:41Speaker 4: beat out anybody anytime soon. And and that that you know,
- 18:45Speaker 4: but if that's the goal, great, you know, because if
- 18:48Speaker 4: his goal is to do that as long as it's
- 18:49Speaker 4: done the right way, then landing this you know, third spot,
- 18:53Speaker 4: second spot, that's that would be a pretty good, you know,
- 18:56Speaker 4: pretty good situation. We'll see what happens with schoon Maker.
- 19:00Speaker 4: Everybody's kind of you know, he's in a contract year,
- 19:03Speaker 4: everyone's kind of writing him off. But we've seen these
- 19:06Speaker 4: situations before. I'm not really down on him that much.
- 19:10Speaker 4: He hasn't been what you would expect out of a
- 19:12Speaker 4: second round pick, there's no doubt about it. And Ferguson's
- 19:16Speaker 4: a big reason why. I mean, when when you just
- 19:17Speaker 4: look at the games that that schoon Maker has started
- 19:21Speaker 4: in place of Ferguson, you would be okay with these numbers.
- 19:25Speaker 4: They're not outstanding, but you'd be okay with them, uh,
- 19:29Speaker 4: you know, five or six catches. He gets that, you know,
- 19:32Speaker 4: in those games. So it's been okay, but just not
- 19:35Speaker 4: like dynamic or anything like that. Pretty good blocking tight end.
- 19:38Speaker 4: But you know, right now, there's not one hundred percent
- 19:40Speaker 4: sure that that span Ford can't do some of those
- 19:43Speaker 4: same things. All right, let's keep the calls going. Irene
- 19:45Speaker 4: in Falls Church, New York is next. Irene oh False Church,
- 19:49Speaker 4: New York, Virginia.
- 19:52Speaker 15: I like that I like that.
- 19:54Speaker 4: There is a false church. I mean, you know, there's
- 19:57Speaker 4: probably a church near Niagara Falls, so that's exactly yeah.
- 20:01Speaker 4: In fact, I mean, isn't that where Jim and Pam
- 20:03Speaker 4: got married in the office something like that. Anyways, I'm going,
- 20:06Speaker 4: I'm going.
- 20:07Speaker 16: I love it.
- 20:08Speaker 7: I love it, Virginia.
- 20:11Speaker 15: That's all good.
- 20:12Speaker 16: How's it going.
- 20:14Speaker 13: Good?
- 20:14Speaker 15: So I'll comment on the Trig stuff. So I am.
- 20:17Speaker 15: I am kind of excited about him because some people
- 20:19Speaker 15: had him like their third tight end on the board.
- 20:21Speaker 15: I know there's off the field stuff and we've seen
- 20:23Speaker 15: that happen with you know, Rico Suave, where okay, he
- 20:27Speaker 15: had all the athletic traits, but you know, couldn't put
- 20:30Speaker 15: it together. Although for him, I think he was much
- 20:32Speaker 15: more raw in the positions. There's a little bit more hope.
- 20:35Speaker 16: For me on this.
- 20:35Speaker 15: But I'm trying this year not to get so hyped
- 20:39Speaker 15: about you know, wide Receiver six or or you know,
- 20:44Speaker 15: undrapt of free agents. I'm like, I'm excited, but temperate, right,
- 20:50Speaker 15: But I had two things I wanted to call about.
- 20:52Speaker 15: Did anybody talk about the false step with Malachi Lawrence yet?
- 20:58Speaker 4: I think so? I don't think, so.
- 21:01Speaker 15: Okay, so I had to have Dylan sent me videos
- 21:05Speaker 15: to tell me what this actually was. But apparently Malachi
- 21:08Speaker 15: Lawrence basically has like this hitch before he gets off
- 21:11Speaker 15: in his two point stance where he lifts his front foot,
- 21:15Speaker 15: so it's it's delaying him a little bit. But and
- 21:18Speaker 15: I don't want to go into technicality that obviously makes
- 21:21Speaker 15: slows him down. But I love that he brought it
- 21:23Speaker 15: up in his interview that the coaches during Ricky Mini Camp,
- 21:26Speaker 15: that was something they focus on. So they they're like, Okay,
- 21:30Speaker 15: we see all your potential, here's a flaw. Let's let's
- 21:32Speaker 15: start right there. So I love that. I don't feel like,
- 21:35Speaker 15: I know, I'm sure they do this, but I liked
- 21:37Speaker 15: actually hearing that, Okay, they're working on something immediately.
- 21:42Speaker 7: And then for my.
- 21:43Speaker 15: Prediction, I guess for the defense, there's there's a lot
- 21:46Speaker 15: of talk about, oh my gosh, we could be top twelve.
- 21:49Speaker 15: I think brought us said that top ten whatever. I'm
- 21:52Speaker 15: just I think more realistic is something like eighteen, which
- 21:56Speaker 15: would be a dramatic improvement. And that's not any shot
- 21:59Speaker 15: against any of the players we've gotten or Christian Parker.
- 22:02Speaker 15: It's just more how do you launch to top ten
- 22:06Speaker 15: or twelve in year one, right, I think there's potential,
- 22:09Speaker 15: but I'd be happy with eighteen. And then I wanted
- 22:14Speaker 15: to ask you, besides the big one that we don't
- 22:16Speaker 15: want to say out loud, what would be the biggest
- 22:18Speaker 15: risk of a setback for the offense, Because I feel
- 22:21Speaker 15: like we've gotten we have most of the people back,
- 22:24Speaker 15: and I think we're taking for granted that we're still
- 22:26Speaker 15: going to be a top five And I was trying
- 22:29Speaker 15: to think, like, is it defense is adjusting to us?
- 22:32Speaker 7: Is it okay?
- 22:33Speaker 4: Shot?
- 22:33Speaker 15: He has his bag of tricks, he hasn't expanded, Like,
- 22:36Speaker 15: what do you think besides the one that of course
- 22:38Speaker 15: would derail anything? And I'll take that off there.
- 22:41Speaker 16: Right, Thanks?
- 22:41Speaker 4: Thanks airon good A lot of good stuff there, you
- 22:44Speaker 4: know for the last part. I mean, what you have
- 22:48Speaker 4: going for you is just the fact that you've got
- 22:51Speaker 4: multiple weapons that can scare a defense. I mean, you
- 22:54Speaker 4: just can't play straight up with CD, can't really play
- 22:57Speaker 4: straight up with Pickings. And so what happened? Then? You
- 23:00Speaker 4: know who who can who checks? You know, Ferguson is
- 23:05Speaker 4: just linebacker because that that's where he can he can
- 23:08Speaker 4: really you know, go to where U Ryan Flinoy could
- 23:11Speaker 4: be taking it to the next level his game and
- 23:13Speaker 4: then obviously Turpen's got world class speeds, so you put
- 23:16Speaker 4: him out there and then he could be a mismatch it.
- 23:18Speaker 4: Not to mention the running game with Javonte. So I
- 23:21Speaker 4: say all that to say that that that's what is
- 23:24Speaker 4: going for you. There is just all of these weapons,
- 23:28Speaker 4: this pick your poisoned type of offense, and if that's
- 23:32Speaker 4: not there, if it's not as potent with with all
- 23:36Speaker 4: of the things, then obviously that's that's where it gets,
- 23:39Speaker 4: you know, it get it gets challenging. But I still
- 23:41Speaker 4: think this offense, though, is going to be cooking. I
- 23:45Speaker 4: mean we saw look look at the Detroit game, the
- 23:47Speaker 4: one that they lost. But if you just remember go back,
- 23:50Speaker 4: remember CD was having a day. I mean he really was.
- 23:52Speaker 4: He may not remember it, but he was having a day.
- 23:55Speaker 4: Did get the concussion? Not not to make light of that,
- 23:58Speaker 4: that serious thing. I think he was okay that The
- 24:00Speaker 4: Cowboys and like they should, were very very cautious on that.
- 24:06Speaker 4: But if Flinoy steps in the rest of the game.
- 24:09Speaker 4: But Flinoy has has a you know, breakout game as well,
- 24:13Speaker 4: so I think it just goes to show that the
- 24:15Speaker 4: offense can be really, really good. And as long as
- 24:19Speaker 4: they've got all of those weapons, then I think that's
- 24:22Speaker 4: where they can be dangerous to. Your question to me
- 24:25Speaker 4: is when you start losing some of those, you start
- 24:27Speaker 4: dipping into the depth, and then that's where you know,
- 24:30Speaker 4: that's where it's going to be a challenge because their
- 24:33Speaker 4: defense obviously, you know, is not or hasn't been able
- 24:38Speaker 4: to kind of keep up there. Now you said, you know,
- 24:41Speaker 4: eighteen whatever. Right now they're all at zero, you know
- 24:45Speaker 4: what I mean, it's all at the bottom and we'll
- 24:46Speaker 4: see from there what type of team this is. And
- 24:50Speaker 4: you know, maybe if the offense can come down but
- 24:55Speaker 4: control the football, you know, even if they're not the
- 24:58Speaker 4: highest scoring team, but if they can troll the ball
- 25:00Speaker 4: even more, that's what's going to help the defense to
- 25:03Speaker 4: the defense might have better numbers just from the simple
- 25:05Speaker 4: fact that the offense controls it more with a little
- 25:08Speaker 4: bit more time of possession. And then as far as
- 25:10Speaker 4: that hitch goes with with Malachai Lawrence, I like that
- 25:13Speaker 4: he's coming in the door, you know, knowing the things
- 25:15Speaker 4: he's got to work on. That it's a business now,
- 25:17Speaker 4: it's not you know, well, I guess I guess it
- 25:20Speaker 4: is now in college football too. It's it's very much
- 25:22Speaker 4: a business. But you know, you got other things going on.
- 25:24Speaker 4: This is your profession, this is what you do, and
- 25:27Speaker 4: you go in and you fix these things. Colways had
- 25:29Speaker 4: a center twenty years ago that was a pretty good center.
- 25:32Speaker 4: But every single snap he was doing something with his
- 25:35Speaker 4: hand his other hand, and it was and everybody knew
- 25:37Speaker 4: that the snap was about to happen, so they had
- 25:39Speaker 4: to come and fix that. And uh and that could
- 25:42Speaker 4: be you know, problematic because people watch tape two. All right,
- 25:45Speaker 4: Lester and Minnesota is up? Lester. No William in West Virginia.
- 25:51Speaker 4: Sorry William.
- 25:53Speaker 17: Hey Nick, how are we doing, sir?
- 25:54Speaker 4: Good?
- 25:55Speaker 18: Are you doing pretty good? First of all, I want
- 25:58Speaker 18: to give a shout out to our old Rob Phillips.
- 26:00Speaker 18: I was just really glad to see how about his book,
- 26:03Speaker 18: you know, the strollers and steakhouts and I hope by
- 26:06Speaker 18: goes to get the copy yet.
- 26:07Speaker 17: But it's like I said, I.
- 26:09Speaker 18: Miss Rob being on the platform. He's a really great
- 26:11Speaker 18: guy to get still keep.
- 26:12Speaker 6: Up with him and everything.
- 26:13Speaker 17: But Rob wrote a book, you did, he wrote a book.
- 26:16Speaker 4: I'm just kidding, Come on, I know you know that.
- 26:19Speaker 16: I know you know they're sitting up.
- 26:21Speaker 4: In my office right now. I actually went to a
- 26:23Speaker 4: bookstore over the weekend and I asked them for it.
- 26:26Speaker 4: I asked them for the copy and they're like they
- 26:28Speaker 4: looked it up, and they like, we don't have any.
- 26:29Speaker 4: We're going to get some and all this stuff and
- 26:31Speaker 4: they're like, man, you know I could play this in
- 26:33Speaker 4: order for it. Was like, no, I already have a copy.
- 26:35Speaker 4: I just wanted to see if where it was. What,
- 26:37Speaker 4: you know, it's pretty cool. Yeah, it's called Steakouts and
- 26:39Speaker 4: Strollers and it the the the cover can be a
- 26:43Speaker 4: little deceiving because it's it looks like it's kind of
- 26:46Speaker 4: a you know, like it's because it's a you know,
- 26:49Speaker 4: it's a cartoon type picture, but it's not a novel.
- 26:52Speaker 4: And it's you know, it's got some f bombs thrown
- 26:54Speaker 4: in there too. So I was like, okay, Rob, No,
- 26:58Speaker 4: I'm really proud of him, and I mean want a
- 27:00Speaker 4: contest to get that, to to get the book off
- 27:03Speaker 4: the ground. And so now it's finally it's hitting the shelf.
- 27:07Speaker 18: So it's an awesome I mean, he could start he
- 27:09Speaker 18: could start catching you a number of books before.
- 27:10Speaker 17: It's gonna be tough.
- 27:13Speaker 4: It's gonna be well, you know what, the the novel
- 27:17Speaker 4: that you know that that that he wrote actually can
- 27:20Speaker 4: be a series, and I think he's gonna start working
- 27:23Speaker 4: on that. So yes, yes he can. But uh, but
- 27:26Speaker 4: I'll have some news to drop there as well too.
- 27:28Speaker 4: So he did. He did gain one on me. But
- 27:30Speaker 4: I'm about to to add another one to to the
- 27:33Speaker 4: mix here in the next couple of weeks, a couple
- 27:37Speaker 4: of months. I gotta get effort, so talk. No, the
- 27:42Speaker 4: walls aren't talking for now, but if they do, you
- 27:45Speaker 4: know that it'll it'll be a different set of walls
- 27:48Speaker 4: around here. We we might do that, actually, because when
- 27:51Speaker 4: I wrote the first book, if these walls could talk,
- 27:53Speaker 4: I know you're not talking about books, but when I
- 27:56Speaker 4: wrote that first book, it was after I've been here
- 27:58Speaker 4: fifteen years. So right, if I get to thirty, which
- 28:02Speaker 4: is just a couple of years away, maybe the walls
- 28:05Speaker 4: need to talk again for a part two editions, maybe
- 28:07Speaker 4: dak on the cover this time.
- 28:10Speaker 16: I'd be all for that. I'd be all for that.
- 28:12Speaker 6: But my question was was, basically, would you take a
- 28:16Speaker 6: comparison George Kickens and Alvin Harper be fair, because I
- 28:19Speaker 6: think it's probably the most explosive duo they've had since that.
- 28:21Speaker 17: I just want to see what your thought was on that.
- 28:23Speaker 17: But yeah, but like you said, I've got I've got
- 28:25Speaker 17: your first book, and I'll get a second call. I'll
- 28:27Speaker 17: get a copy of the next onehen it comes out.
- 28:28Speaker 8: You know that, say that?
- 28:30Speaker 4: Say that again, Well, what was the what was the
- 28:32Speaker 4: question that you had?
- 28:35Speaker 17: Would you compare when I see George Pickens, I think
- 28:38Speaker 17: Alvin Harper? Would you think that'd be a fair comparison
- 28:40Speaker 17: with a little bit more explosive because I was probably
- 28:42Speaker 17: the most explosive duo they've had since maybe Irvin and
- 28:45Speaker 17: Harper and then Tony Hill and Drew Pearson. Just my thought,
- 28:49Speaker 17: I just want to get your take on that, because
- 28:50Speaker 17: you're a historian of the game like me, and I
- 28:52Speaker 17: just thought, you know, maybe i'd like to get your
- 28:54Speaker 17: take on that.
- 28:56Speaker 4: Well, all right, I appreciate the call. Thanks. Uh well,
- 29:01Speaker 4: let me let me see about so Alvin Harper, I
- 29:04Speaker 4: I can't hear you this our headset went out, so
- 29:06Speaker 4: that you're talking about Alvin Harper. Chris helped me with
- 29:11Speaker 4: detech in the in the in the chat here about
- 29:13Speaker 4: what he is who he's trying to compare it to,
- 29:15Speaker 4: and we're gonna go to break. We're gonna go to
- 29:16Speaker 4: break real quick. We come right back. I'll answer that
- 29:18Speaker 4: question off the air.
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- 30:47Speaker 4: show back on the road here. Sorry for that. Sorry,
- 30:50Speaker 4: William West, Virginia. I actually unplugged the headset here, so
- 30:56Speaker 4: I was trying to listen off this headset. I just
- 30:57Speaker 4: heard Alvin Harper. I don't know who you'd be comparing
- 31:00Speaker 4: Alvin Harper to. Probably wasn't George Picking, So I don't
- 31:04Speaker 4: don't really know. I apologize on that. Let's keep it rolling.
- 31:08Speaker 4: Leicester in Minnesota.
- 31:11Speaker 16: Hey, good morning, Matt.
- 31:13Speaker 4: How are you doing and I'm doing good?
- 31:16Speaker 8: Man?
- 31:16Speaker 5: How you doing out there?
- 31:17Speaker 4: Good? What's up?
- 31:19Speaker 7: Hey?
- 31:20Speaker 16: Man?
- 31:21Speaker 5: I think I looked at a I looked at some
- 31:25Speaker 5: college ratings, and I know it doesn't all the way
- 31:29Speaker 5: transferred to the NFL, but I looked at some college ratings,
- 31:33Speaker 5: and then I looked at our I rated some looked
- 31:36Speaker 5: at some ratings of some players from that we kept
- 31:39Speaker 5: from last year. I think, and I'm speaking on the
- 31:43Speaker 5: defense part the ratings that I'm mentioning, I think that
- 31:47Speaker 5: we could get up to nineteen man, with with what
- 31:49Speaker 5: I'm seeing and what I envisioned that Parker is going
- 31:53Speaker 5: to do. I'm not exactly sure what he's going to do,
- 31:57Speaker 5: but from what he said, and like I said, I'm
- 31:59Speaker 5: a deepsive guys, so I'm saying we can get up
- 32:01Speaker 5: to nineteen.
- 32:02Speaker 9: Man.
- 32:05Speaker 5: I'm real impressed with the things that our first round
- 32:09Speaker 5: picked people have said about him. Uh Saving you know,
- 32:13Speaker 5: was his coach when he was a freshman. And I
- 32:17Speaker 5: saw a little video on the reaction of neighbors from
- 32:22Speaker 5: from the Giants and when we picked uh Caleb, his
- 32:29Speaker 5: reaction it was so funny.
- 32:30Speaker 16: Man.
- 32:31Speaker 5: He got up out of his check because he was
- 32:33Speaker 5: sitting in the chair and he was talking to somebody. Said, Man,
- 32:36Speaker 5: I don't want to how to deal with this guy again.
- 32:39Speaker 5: He said, Man, we should have picked him. I sold
- 32:41Speaker 5: them to pick him. So with that sort of reaction, man,
- 32:44Speaker 5: I'm just like real excited about this guy. Man, Wow,
- 32:49Speaker 5: I just.
- 32:50Speaker 4: I like it. I like that of wide receivers worried
- 32:52Speaker 4: about a safety that the camera. Yeah, now he might.
- 32:56Speaker 4: You know, he needs to be a little careful there,
- 32:58Speaker 4: because they did they did take an offensive tackle that
- 33:01Speaker 4: they're they're trying to show up the line so the
- 33:04Speaker 4: quarterback can have a little bit more room to throw it,
- 33:06Speaker 4: more time to throw it to the receivers like him.
- 33:08Speaker 4: So you know, you shouldn't be that upset. It's not
- 33:11Speaker 4: like they didn't try to help his side of the
- 33:14Speaker 4: ball too.
- 33:15Speaker 5: But I get that's just showing respect though. Yeah, one player.
- 33:20Speaker 5: Not Usually players don't react like that. They'll say, oh,
- 33:23Speaker 5: yeah he's a good player. Sure, you know, we got
- 33:25Speaker 5: to look out for him. But this guy was visibly upset.
- 33:29Speaker 4: Yeah that's funny.
- 33:31Speaker 5: Well, well that's all I got. Man.
- 33:33Speaker 4: Cowboys all right, have a good way. Yeah, it's you know,
- 33:39Speaker 4: and it happens all the time. I mean, you think
- 33:42Speaker 4: about how many times the Cowboys have seen the the
- 33:45Speaker 4: the Giants and the Commanders drafting in the top ten.
- 33:48Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of good players that have
- 33:50Speaker 4: gone through to these teams, and you know, you just
- 33:54Speaker 4: it's just the nature of it. I mean they they
- 33:56Speaker 4: they've earned those top picks and then they're gonna get
- 33:58Speaker 4: good players and so and that happened. I mean, they
- 34:02Speaker 4: got cowboys gotta deal with. I wonder what it was
- 34:05Speaker 4: like for for Terrence Steele or Tyler Geydon. I see
- 34:09Speaker 4: Reese go into the Giants like, I got to deal
- 34:11Speaker 4: with this guy, you know. But that that's just kind
- 34:13Speaker 4: of the nature of it. But there's no doubt Caleb
- 34:17Speaker 4: Downs has got just a lot of respect around the league.
- 34:20Speaker 4: And you know, he's not the biggest guy in the world.
- 34:24Speaker 4: I mean, that's one thing very noticeable here at at camp.
- 34:28Speaker 4: I'm not saying he's you know, he's too short, spud
- 34:32Speaker 4: web running around there, but I'm just saying that he's
- 34:35Speaker 4: you know, when he's been pumped up so much over
- 34:39Speaker 4: the last few you know, weeks, really months, that when
- 34:43Speaker 4: you get him, you're like, oh my god, they get
- 34:45Speaker 4: this guy. And then you know you're expecting he's going
- 34:47Speaker 4: to be six four, two thirty and that's not it.
- 34:49Speaker 4: That's not what he what he plays. But he'll he'll
- 34:53Speaker 4: be just fine. But I think, yeah, just my first
- 34:56Speaker 4: impression was I thought he was a little taller than
- 34:59Speaker 4: this and even when he came in, you know, in
- 35:01Speaker 4: his first visit, he had this hat really high and
- 35:04Speaker 4: all that, so you didn't really see all that. Put
- 35:06Speaker 4: the helmet on, went out there with the other players.
- 35:09Speaker 4: I was a little surprised that that he was not taller,
- 35:13Speaker 4: but not worried that he's not going to be a baller.
- 35:16Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not trying to wrap here, but that's
- 35:18Speaker 4: just the way it went out. Dylan Northwark, Florida, Dylan,
- 35:22Speaker 4: what's up?
- 35:23Speaker 10: That was pretty sick?
- 35:24Speaker 9: Seen have you seen his thighs?
- 35:27Speaker 7: Man?
- 35:28Speaker 4: Is what his.
- 35:29Speaker 19: Thighs his legs are like the size of Sakwon Barkleys.
- 35:32Speaker 4: Okay, I didn't. I didn't get there.
- 35:35Speaker 19: But not checking that out, I.
- 35:37Speaker 4: Didn't get there, But I'm not worried at all because
- 35:40Speaker 4: I know who did. Every team in the league has.
- 35:43Speaker 4: You know, that's what happens with these with these picks.
- 35:45Speaker 4: They they dissect everything. And No, he'll be fine. He's
- 35:50Speaker 4: he's going to be a great, great player. And I'm
- 35:52Speaker 4: I just love the fact that he I know he's
- 35:57Speaker 4: going to come in and study like he's going to
- 35:58Speaker 4: come in and just love to watch film. And that's
- 36:02Speaker 4: what's gonna make you better. And he's gonna find you know,
- 36:05Speaker 4: like y'all talk about the Malaki lawrence and whatever hits
- 36:09Speaker 4: he's got, he's gonna find it in the tight end
- 36:11Speaker 4: with you know, the Cardinals or whoever. You know, maybe
- 36:15Speaker 4: not Trey McBride, but you know, I'm talking about just somebody.
- 36:19Speaker 2: You know.
- 36:19Speaker 4: He's just gonna find something as an advantage and I
- 36:22Speaker 4: think I think that's what we're really going to help
- 36:24Speaker 4: his defense.
- 36:26Speaker 19: Yeah, and what's cool to having a guy like that
- 36:27Speaker 19: who's gonna be hopefully a cornerstone for this team for
- 36:30Speaker 19: the next decade. It's your your leaders on the team
- 36:34Speaker 19: are He's going to be we all think a great player,
- 36:37Speaker 19: but he's also gonna, you know, just he's gonna show
- 36:39Speaker 19: the qualities and what it takes is because you're a
- 36:41Speaker 19: he is kind of an undersized guy, not not like
- 36:44Speaker 19: by a crazy amount, but he's a smaller guy. But
- 36:46Speaker 19: he's going to show these dudes, you can be an
- 36:48Speaker 19: elite player if you do these things right, you study right,
- 36:51Speaker 19: you take your job as a professional seriously, and everything
- 36:54Speaker 19: he does, that's the kind of guy you want, you know,
- 36:57Speaker 19: a guy who leaves on the field and off the field,
- 36:59Speaker 19: So I did have him kind of on all fronts,
- 37:01Speaker 19: but I wanted to talk about what I even was
- 37:04Speaker 19: talking about the offensive risk A couple of things here.
- 37:07Speaker 19: I think your risk is your tackles. I think we
- 37:09Speaker 19: all know the tackle play has not been acceptable over
- 37:11Speaker 19: the past season two seasons.
- 37:14Speaker 10: So if they're.
- 37:14Speaker 19: Gonna take a step back offensively, I think it's because
- 37:17Speaker 19: of the risk that the offensive tackles posed here not
- 37:21Speaker 19: being the best. Guy just has to make it through
- 37:23Speaker 19: a camp healthy and we'll see if he can start
- 37:25Speaker 19: to develop into something. But first things first, just get
- 37:28Speaker 19: through camp healthy. As the defensive rankings, we keep talking
- 37:32Speaker 19: about that, I just want to share in twenty twenty three,
- 37:35Speaker 19: twenty twenty two, twenty twenty one, the Cowboys were ranked fifth, fifth,
- 37:39Speaker 19: and seventh defensively in points allowed, and we all know
- 37:42Speaker 19: the weakness of those teams with the defense, right, I
- 37:44Speaker 19: think at the end of the day, so I don't
- 37:46Speaker 19: think this as important as rankings goes. You just need
- 37:48Speaker 19: a defense too. Like at the offensive struggling, it's not
- 37:51Speaker 19: twenty one nothing by halftime or you know, defense, I
- 37:55Speaker 19: can just get a stop at some point and get
- 37:56Speaker 19: the offense back to go and get you a field range,
- 37:58Speaker 19: Like I don't really care about the ranking. I don't
- 38:00Speaker 19: mean a professional quality defense that can help out every
- 38:03Speaker 19: now and then. Yeah, that's I think a great starting
- 38:06Speaker 19: point for this team. That's honestly.
- 38:08Speaker 4: That's what's crazy is that like all these numbers and
- 38:11Speaker 4: all that, Like, like you said, I'm glad you pointed
- 38:13Speaker 4: that out because you just you just gave some proof
- 38:17Speaker 4: that having high numbers doesn't necessarily mean that you're gonna
- 38:21Speaker 4: be good enough. But it's it just comes down to, like,
- 38:25Speaker 4: can you just get off the field. I mean, how
- 38:27Speaker 4: many times you know when you're playing like justin Herbert
- 38:31Speaker 4: or something, and it's like fourth and four and they're
- 38:33Speaker 4: gonna go for it, and you're like, we're not. We're
- 38:36Speaker 4: not gonna stop them. You just not. You just know
- 38:39Speaker 4: you're not. But if you're on offense and you've got
- 38:41Speaker 4: CD and and and Dak and Pickens and it's fourth
- 38:45Speaker 4: and four, you're like, man, four yards is a lot,
- 38:47Speaker 4: Like that's a god, maybe we should punt, you know.
- 38:49Speaker 4: But on the other side, with this Cowboys defense, you
- 38:52Speaker 4: were like, they're not, they're not stopping them. I Mean
- 38:55Speaker 4: there's been times when I was wondering why last year
- 38:57Speaker 4: the teams didn't just go for two more because I
- 39:00Speaker 4: just didn't think they're top them.
- 39:02Speaker 2: You know.
- 39:02Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, And you know when we look at those teams,
- 39:06Speaker 19: you know, those those defenses were perceived to be you know,
- 39:09Speaker 19: solid defenses, and they weren't bad, but their success was
- 39:12Speaker 19: predicated upon the offense jumping out quickly and putting up
- 39:14Speaker 19: a bunch of punch because they couldn't stop the run,
- 39:17Speaker 19: which has been an issue for a long time. I
- 39:19Speaker 19: think we're we're finally better in that regard. But yeah,
- 39:22Speaker 19: I just need a professional, quality defense man that can
- 39:24Speaker 19: hold their own every now and then and just give
- 39:26Speaker 19: this team a chance where it's not all in the offense.
- 39:28Speaker 19: And that's that's all I care about, dude, that's all
- 39:31Speaker 19: I want.
- 39:31Speaker 2: Man.
- 39:31Speaker 19: I think what we'll have that moving forward.
- 39:33Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Dylan, thanks for the call. I'm glad.
- 39:37Speaker 4: I'm glad you said that, because you know, numbers, numbers can't,
- 39:41Speaker 4: you know, sometimes not tell all the story. And and
- 39:44Speaker 4: the Cowboys have had some good defenses, you know, throughout
- 39:47Speaker 4: the regular season, and then they've lost games in the playoffs,
- 39:50Speaker 4: so particularly the one with the Packers, you know where
- 39:52Speaker 4: it's just they just had no answers there, and so
- 39:56Speaker 4: so it does come down to mismatches at times. But
- 40:00Speaker 4: I still feel like it's a mindset, and I do
- 40:03Speaker 4: think Christian Parker is going to help with that with
- 40:05Speaker 4: the mindset and get it to the point where you know,
- 40:10Speaker 4: this defense won't be as predictable. Now the player is
- 40:13Speaker 4: gonna have to be good enough to be multiple. You
- 40:15Speaker 4: can't just say we're gonna be multiple because Rob Ryan's
- 40:18Speaker 4: defense is Way back in the day, they were multiple.
- 40:21Speaker 4: I mean they they would run two or three defenses,
- 40:25Speaker 4: you know, like in a month. They were like, we're
- 40:28Speaker 4: gonna this game. We're gonna do this with it was
- 40:30Speaker 4: always trying to to to to throw some some different
- 40:34Speaker 4: kind of gadget out there, and the players just weren't
- 40:38Speaker 4: good enough to understand all of that. I mean, it's
- 40:41Speaker 4: it's not easy to do that and keep changing it up.
- 40:44Speaker 4: So there's got to be a give and take there.
- 40:46Speaker 4: You don't want to have the same vanilla defense all
- 40:48Speaker 4: the time that everybody can understand. But at the same time,
- 40:50Speaker 4: it's got to be kind of back and forth. And
- 40:52Speaker 4: so I think that Christian Parker will be able to
- 40:55Speaker 4: do that. But then again, you know he's never called
- 40:57Speaker 4: defense either. I mean, like like it's it's still the
- 41:00Speaker 4: same with Caleb Downs. I mean, the people that were
- 41:05Speaker 4: having high expectations for have never called defense in the league.
- 41:09Speaker 4: They've never played in the league. So we'll see. I mean,
- 41:13Speaker 4: I think that everyone knows that they're going to be good,
- 41:16Speaker 4: but they haven't gotten there yet. And that's that's what's
- 41:19Speaker 4: going to be the fun of it. I think this
- 41:20Speaker 4: season is just watching these guys kind of learn and
- 41:22Speaker 4: grow together. And if the offense continue to do what
- 41:25Speaker 4: they've done on that side of the ball, then then
- 41:27Speaker 4: I think it's going to be a really good turnaround
- 41:30Speaker 4: for this for this team. Eric in Arkansas, Eric, what's.
- 41:33Speaker 2: Up, man? How's it going good? How are you man?
- 41:37Speaker 2: I can't complain. I tell you what. I think. This
- 41:39Speaker 2: is one of the first times in a long time
- 41:41Speaker 2: that we actually was proactive instead of reactive in our
- 41:46Speaker 2: draft picks, even moving up to the number eleven to
- 41:49Speaker 2: get make sure we get down all the things that
- 41:52Speaker 2: are happening now. And the players, if you listen to
- 41:54Speaker 2: the interviews, man, they get it. They're talking about them,
- 41:58Speaker 2: They talking about the playbook, wanting to play book and
- 42:00Speaker 2: learn to play. That's that's a different route that we've taken.
- 42:04Speaker 2: We haven't taken a long time concentrating on defense. Man,
- 42:08Speaker 2: I'm the defense killed us yet last year it was horrible.
- 42:12Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we should have been wearing thirty third.
- 42:16Speaker 2: I know it's going to do teams, but we we
- 42:18Speaker 2: were terrible, man.
- 42:19Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 42:20Speaker 2: And that and to get a guy like Downs, who's
- 42:23Speaker 2: going to, you know, barring any injuries, gonna be your
- 42:25Speaker 2: cornerstone for a while. And we haven't have a leader
- 42:29Speaker 2: on defense on the defensive side, I mean, come on,
- 42:33Speaker 2: in a long time. I mean, we wanted, we wanted
- 42:36Speaker 2: Parsons to be their leader. But Parsons was really that
- 42:38Speaker 2: type of he wasn't a leader like that. These guys, no, no, no,
- 42:42Speaker 2: these guys here you can hear it, and you can
- 42:45Speaker 2: you can feel anybody's been around sports and know that
- 42:47Speaker 2: these guys are gonna be leaders. Yeah, and it's gonna
- 42:49Speaker 2: be the cornerstone.
- 42:51Speaker 4: That's a really good point, Eric, I mean, you're you're
- 42:53Speaker 4: you're right, and uh, you can be a great great
- 42:57Speaker 4: player doesn't mean you're a leader. But and it's hard, though,
- 43:02Speaker 4: to be a leader without being a great player. I mean,
- 43:05Speaker 4: you know, that's that's difficult. I've seen some players around
- 43:08Speaker 4: here that were like really good, had leadership qualities. One
- 43:12Speaker 4: of them is now a coach in the NFL. But
- 43:15Speaker 4: he was here on this team and he just wasn't
- 43:18Speaker 4: He couldn't be a leader because he was third team.
- 43:20Speaker 4: You know, who's gonna look at that, so it happens.
- 43:25Speaker 4: I mean, there's another player that comes to mind that
- 43:27Speaker 4: that was, you know, good solid player, but he wasn't
- 43:30Speaker 4: like a leader leader. And if you if you think
- 43:32Speaker 4: about it, when you ask, you know, who are the
- 43:34Speaker 4: greatest leaders in the history of sports. I mean it's
- 43:39Speaker 4: usually Hall of Fame guys, you know, Hall of famers.
- 43:43Speaker 4: So you've got to be good enough there. And and
- 43:47Speaker 4: you know, Michael Parsons was was was great enough, but
- 43:51Speaker 4: that just wasn't his style. And I'm not gonna sit
- 43:53Speaker 4: here and and you know, kill him for it. I mean,
- 43:56Speaker 4: that's just that wasn't That wasn't his thing. But I
- 43:58Speaker 4: think Caleb Downs that think it is his thing.
- 44:01Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, here's the good thing about it is, you
- 44:04Speaker 2: know he usually when we get a guy like Downs,
- 44:07Speaker 2: he would have to be coming in naturally being the leader.
- 44:10Speaker 2: But you already have like Williams, you have you have
- 44:14Speaker 2: guys that are already done it, you know what I mean.
- 44:17Speaker 2: So Clark, Williams, Clark, those guys are going to be
- 44:20Speaker 2: you know, your cornerstones, your your your leaders. But they
- 44:24Speaker 2: just going to learn from them as well how to
- 44:26Speaker 2: keep their body right and things of that nature.
- 44:28Speaker 4: That's great. That's a great point. And and you know,
- 44:31Speaker 4: and that's and this whole safety room is you know
- 44:35Speaker 4: right now. Yeah, Milie Cooker is still here. I I
- 44:38Speaker 4: think he still will be. But but you know, you
- 44:41Speaker 4: got Jalen Thompson, you got you know, PJ.
- 44:43Speaker 2: Locke.
- 44:44Speaker 4: I mean, there's some they have overhauled that position as
- 44:48Speaker 4: good as any position on this team. So yeah, he's
- 44:51Speaker 4: going to learn from some from some of those guys too.
- 44:53Speaker 4: You know. You know, Malie Cooker first round pick from
- 44:56Speaker 4: Ohio State and he was you know what fifteen fourteen
- 45:01Speaker 4: something like that, you know, just several years ago with
- 45:03Speaker 4: the Colts. But you know, in his career didn't turn
- 45:05Speaker 4: out like like you you would imagine. So it's a
- 45:07Speaker 4: good example too that you know, just because you're picked
- 45:10Speaker 4: here and all the expectations doesn't mean it's gonna work out.
- 45:12Speaker 4: But I still think cale Down's going to come into
- 45:15Speaker 4: this room and learn from some of these vets.
- 45:17Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the defense I think is gonna I mean,
- 45:20Speaker 2: we always said last year we want to be in
- 45:22Speaker 2: the middle of the road, right, So I'm I'm giving
- 45:26Speaker 2: them met and I'm not going to put I don't
- 45:28Speaker 2: want to put a lot of high expectations on them
- 45:30Speaker 2: because it's gonna be a it is gonna be a
- 45:32Speaker 2: learning curve. But man, just to see where we are now,
- 45:34Speaker 2: it's just going to be from the players that we had.
- 45:38Speaker 2: We can probably name I could name half the starters
- 45:41Speaker 2: last year because I'm like, who is this guy? What
- 45:45Speaker 2: is who? I'm like, who it is? But now these
- 45:48Speaker 2: guys man, Like I said, I'm excited about it. My
- 45:51Speaker 2: only concern it's the whole thing, not just defense. As
- 45:55Speaker 2: our backup quarterback, I hope that we can kind of
- 46:01Speaker 2: get that solidified. I like Milton, but he has to
- 46:05Speaker 2: show some changes, some some and he got to show
- 46:09Speaker 2: some improvement this year. Okay, I know we got how
- 46:13Speaker 2: but we we still have to show some improvement on
- 46:16Speaker 2: that back up because anything can happen.
- 46:18Speaker 4: Sure now you're you're right, and that that'll be that's
- 46:21Speaker 4: probably you know what Irene was alluding to in the
- 46:24Speaker 4: last call about you know things that that could derail it,
- 46:28Speaker 4: and that's going to derail just about any team in
- 46:30Speaker 4: the league if something like that happens. But you know,
- 46:34Speaker 4: it's up to dak to to you know, for for
- 46:37Speaker 4: starters to you know, get his body right and you
- 46:39Speaker 4: know and try to you know, and then you can't
- 46:41Speaker 4: avoid the you know, weird stuff. You know that that
- 46:45Speaker 4: happens that you know, fluky things. But you know, I
- 46:49Speaker 4: think the Cowboys trust that that he's definitely doing that.
- 46:52Speaker 4: But behind them, yeah, I mean there's there's been games,
- 46:55Speaker 4: there's been seasons where you know, they've had to go
- 46:57Speaker 4: into the backup spot. I think how you know, how
- 47:00Speaker 4: started games didn't have the most success, But he has
- 47:03Speaker 4: started games. He hasn't had I can promise he hasn't
- 47:06Speaker 4: had this kind of talent around him. And and Milton
- 47:09Speaker 4: will continue to to you know, progress and develop as well.
- 47:13Speaker 4: So I don't I don't think it's a terrible spot
- 47:16Speaker 4: honestly for for the for this team to have guys
- 47:19Speaker 4: that have played in the in the league that they've
- 47:21Speaker 4: started and and they'll be you know, they're relatively young
- 47:25Speaker 4: and push each other. I think I think it's a
- 47:27Speaker 4: pretty good situation to have. Erwin in Colorado is our
- 47:30Speaker 4: next caller.
- 47:33Speaker 6: Good morning, Neck, How are you good?
- 47:34Speaker 4: How are you?
- 47:35Speaker 6: I'm doing good?
- 47:37Speaker 9: Hey?
- 47:37Speaker 4: Those Avalanche still scoring goals over there.
- 47:41Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they are.
- 47:43Speaker 4: Wow.
- 47:44Speaker 6: The snow up here, it's kind of crazy at the
- 47:46Speaker 6: snowing for the last twelve hours.
- 47:48Speaker 4: No, I'm talking about the hockey team.
- 47:50Speaker 6: No, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know what you're
- 47:52Speaker 6: talking about.
- 47:52Speaker 4: Okay, because we're not talking weather, we're talking hockey. You know,
- 47:55Speaker 4: haven't forbid we're talking about weather, but let's talk about hockey. No,
- 47:58Speaker 4: I was just I've been watching it a little bit.
- 48:01Speaker 4: I was I was bummed the Stars didn't make it,
- 48:03Speaker 4: but man, I don't know if they would have done
- 48:04Speaker 4: anything against the Avalanche, so it doesn't really matter. Yeah,
- 48:07Speaker 4: anyway up here on storyline, all right, what you got Irwin?
- 48:13Speaker 6: Yeah, so just a couple of things, Nick, I was
- 48:16Speaker 6: watching that clip. I'm sure most people did. You know,
- 48:19Speaker 6: came down to the last I guess ten seconds before
- 48:21Speaker 6: the Cowboys got that picking with Caleb Downs. It was
- 48:24Speaker 6: kind of crazy. Reminded me years ago when Minnesota did
- 48:27Speaker 6: that and they didn't make their time, and teams were
- 48:30Speaker 6: jumping over them, and he was just kind of kind
- 48:32Speaker 6: of crazy. But the other thing I wanted to touch on,
- 48:35Speaker 6: I don't know how you feel about it or most
- 48:37Speaker 6: storyliners and fans is, man, I'm really worried about this
- 48:41Speaker 6: Christian Parker moving on here the next year or two.
- 48:44Speaker 6: It sounds like he's really gonna Yeah, I'm just kind
- 48:47Speaker 6: of worried that he's going to do some really good
- 48:50Speaker 6: things here. And you know how you know how it
- 48:52Speaker 6: is every year it's almost the same teams. They don't
- 48:55Speaker 6: give their coaches a chance. They fire them after a
- 48:58Speaker 6: year or two, and then they're rehiring coaches. It's basically
- 49:02Speaker 6: the same teams. I just feel like, you know, Christian
- 49:05Speaker 6: Parker is going to come in here, you know, year
- 49:07Speaker 6: or two, and he's gonna do some really good things,
- 49:10Speaker 6: and he's gonna get plucked from us. I don't know
- 49:12Speaker 6: how you would, you know what you think about it?
- 49:16Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you know, I look at it like
- 49:20Speaker 4: that's a great That's a great thing, isn't it.
- 49:22Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, no, it.
- 49:24Speaker 2: Is a great thing.
- 49:25Speaker 6: It's I mean, I'm sure that most coaches want.
- 49:28Speaker 4: It's almost like Stephen Jones saying, Guys, I'm really worried
- 49:31Speaker 4: about this Caleb Downs contract situation in three or four
- 49:34Speaker 4: years because he's going to come in here, he's gonna
- 49:36Speaker 4: be the best in the league, and now we're gonna
- 49:38Speaker 4: have to pay all this money for him. I'm like,
- 49:40Speaker 4: all right, welln't that a good problem to have. I mean,
- 49:43Speaker 4: you deal with when you deal with it. But if
- 49:45Speaker 4: that's the case, he's not gonna do it. I could
- 49:48Speaker 4: tell you ebra Flus didn't get a job like that,
- 49:50Speaker 4: you know what I mean, and either the Zimmer based
- 49:52Speaker 4: off what So my point is is that to do that,
- 49:56Speaker 4: you're going to reap some benefits, and the benefits are
- 49:58Speaker 4: going to be a defense is going to be turning around.
- 50:00Speaker 4: And if he's gonna move on that quick, that means
- 50:02Speaker 4: it made a huge turnaround. I think you just deal
- 50:05Speaker 4: with that. That's the way I take it. I mean,
- 50:08Speaker 4: I I don't. That's just kind of the way life is.
- 50:12Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, you don't, I don't know, you don't.
- 50:15Speaker 6: You don't like it just seems like when we get
- 50:18Speaker 6: a good coach or something like that, you know, seeing
- 50:21Speaker 6: start going our way, like thirty years. Something happens when
- 50:24Speaker 6: we end up boozing them and it's just right back
- 50:27Speaker 6: to ground zero again.
- 50:28Speaker 2: That's that's what's.
- 50:29Speaker 4: Fucking I get it. But I mean I think that's
- 50:31Speaker 4: pretty premature. I mean urban, have you ever called a
- 50:33Speaker 4: defense in the NFL?
- 50:36Speaker 2: Oh?
- 50:37Speaker 4: I haven't. And guess who else? Chrisner Parker. So let's
- 50:41Speaker 4: let him call a defense or two before we you know,
- 50:44Speaker 4: we say, oh my god, he's about to get out
- 50:46Speaker 4: the door. Let's let's just see I know this, there's
- 50:48Speaker 4: a little bit of a sentiment about that going around
- 50:51Speaker 4: to like, let's let's slow down a little bit on
- 50:54Speaker 4: on all of them, I mean, Caleb uh, Christier Parker,
- 50:57Speaker 4: I mean all of these guys, because because the excitement
- 50:59Speaker 4: is is is real. But there's gonna be a learning curve, you.
- 51:03Speaker 6: Know, Yeah, you mad You make a good point there.
- 51:05Speaker 6: You never know what he's gonna bring. It could be
- 51:07Speaker 6: a complete bus and he could be like great things,
- 51:10Speaker 6: So you just never know you're completely through.
- 51:13Speaker 4: I don't think he's gonna be a complete buster. He's
- 51:15Speaker 4: he's he's smart and and he he knows how. He's
- 51:18Speaker 4: a good teacher and I and that's not just I
- 51:21Speaker 4: mean that's important for all of us. If you have kids,
- 51:24Speaker 4: you understand just how important it is for you know
- 51:26Speaker 4: what what a really good teacher can do, not just
- 51:29Speaker 4: to teach you how to do it, but the confidence
- 51:32Speaker 4: along the way. I think he's going to be good.
- 51:34Speaker 4: I think he relates to the player as well. But again,
- 51:38Speaker 4: you know, shot, he said all the right things last
- 51:41Speaker 4: year too, and then you know it got to the
- 51:42Speaker 4: season and I'm not saying he didn't do a good job,
- 51:44Speaker 4: but I mean it was it was tough. I don't
- 51:46Speaker 4: think anyone was expecting him to just win seven games
- 51:50Speaker 4: last year, so there could be a little bit of
- 51:52Speaker 4: a learning curve for him as well.
- 51:55Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks a lot.
- 51:57Speaker 4: Thank you. Watching NFL Network, they're talking about the notable
- 52:01Speaker 4: Cowboys defensive additions, and you know they needed them. I
- 52:06Speaker 4: mean when you look at Catle Downs, Malachi Lawrence, Quentin
- 52:10Speaker 4: Williams came in middle of the year with Shawn Gary,
- 52:12Speaker 4: Kenny Clark from last year, the winners, but you know,
- 52:17Speaker 4: as far as Gary and Winners and Downs and then
- 52:21Speaker 4: another year of Quinin Williams is kind of like a
- 52:24Speaker 4: half of them. He can't. He came in here and
- 52:25Speaker 4: he did some good things. But I think a whole
- 52:28Speaker 4: off season with this system, I think, you know, him
- 52:32Speaker 4: and Kenny Clark together, I think it's like almost like
- 52:35Speaker 4: getting a new player healthy overshown in the offseason. I mean,
- 52:41Speaker 4: that's that's relatively new. Knock On wood On Deron Bland
- 52:47Speaker 4: revel I mean, just think about that. I mean, like,
- 52:50Speaker 4: like this is definitely glass half full. But just think
- 52:53Speaker 4: about if Savone revel Is develops into the type of
- 52:59Speaker 4: corner that people were expecting him to be before his injury,
- 53:03Speaker 4: which was pretty much first round type pick. If he
- 53:06Speaker 4: gets gives you that, that's just you know, that would
- 53:10Speaker 4: be a huge steal, and it would be one that
- 53:13Speaker 4: the Cowboys should get credit for because that's that's kind
- 53:16Speaker 4: of what they've done. They've done that in the past.
- 53:18Speaker 4: They take these, you know, draft picks. There's a risk reward,
- 53:23Speaker 4: and we've seen the risk. Let's see if it's time
- 53:26Speaker 4: for the reward. All right, Jr. And Avondale Arizona Jr.
- 53:31Speaker 7: Hey, what's up?
- 53:31Speaker 9: Nick? How you doing good?
- 53:32Speaker 4: How you doing?
- 53:33Speaker 2: Man?
- 53:34Speaker 9: Hanging in there? Hanging in there? So I we're talking
- 53:40Speaker 9: about the about the defense and the defenses that when
- 53:45Speaker 9: Gwyn had that when he was there, they turned the
- 53:49Speaker 9: ball over and I think we missed that last year.
- 53:52Speaker 9: And I think this defense doesn't have to be a
- 53:56Speaker 9: top fifteen, top ten defense, but they need to get
- 53:59Speaker 9: to turn because that's going to help the offense because
- 54:02Speaker 9: now it's not different going thirty five yards versus going
- 54:06Speaker 9: seventy five eighty yards, if you know what I mean.
- 54:10Speaker 9: I like the players they got. I think they drafted
- 54:14Speaker 9: a certain type of player. These guys are all good tacklers.
- 54:17Speaker 9: They're all the defensive guys all good tacklers, and they're
- 54:20Speaker 9: they're violent. They tack you, they tack you. I think
- 54:24Speaker 9: I was listening to I think it was Mixed Shots
- 54:27Speaker 9: yesterday when and Nate was on, and Nate Newton said, yeah,
- 54:31Speaker 9: he saw the rookies and none of those guys had
- 54:33Speaker 9: beer bellies, and he's talking about what kind of shape
- 54:37Speaker 9: these guys are in. Now he's got a certain player.
- 54:40Speaker 9: They don't miss tackles, they're violent, they're aggressive, and they
- 54:43Speaker 9: love football. And lastly, I got a wide receiver. I
- 54:48Speaker 9: really like Anthony Smith. I think he's going to make
- 54:51Speaker 9: the team. And I think Jonathan Mingos. They are probably
- 54:55Speaker 9: numbered and I want to keep for a receiver. So
- 55:00Speaker 9: that's all I got today, physical therapy now and have
- 55:03Speaker 9: a great Cowboys.
- 55:05Speaker 4: All right, thanks for the for the call, Good luck
- 55:08Speaker 4: with the PT. You know you mentioned the guys coming
- 55:14Speaker 4: in in good shape. I mean that's that's I think
- 55:17Speaker 4: that's the most players now and then that's kind of
- 55:20Speaker 4: the way it goes. It's funny that Nate would say
- 55:24Speaker 4: that about didn't see the beer bellies. I mean, Cowboys
- 55:27Speaker 4: would definitely take one if it meant they could have
- 55:29Speaker 4: a have a you know, pro Bowl guard, six time
- 55:32Speaker 4: Pro bowler that could likely be in the Hall of
- 55:36Speaker 4: Fame and uh and Nate Newton. But you know it,
- 55:42Speaker 4: it's been it's been a good you know, a good
- 55:44Speaker 4: turnaround with with with the with the the additions that
- 55:48Speaker 4: they they've thrown in on defense, I like, you know,
- 55:52Speaker 4: I like, I agree with that about being good tacklers.
- 55:57Speaker 4: What I've said this before, and forgive me if I
- 56:00Speaker 4: said this maybe last week, but I just I like
- 56:02Speaker 4: the fact that you've got multiple type players, these tweeers,
- 56:06Speaker 4: because I really think that is the key. There's two
- 56:08Speaker 4: things that you have to have to be to play
- 56:12Speaker 4: this type of scheme. You can't just be multiple and
- 56:16Speaker 4: just say that's what we're gonna do. You have to
- 56:18Speaker 4: learn everything, so you have to be smart, and I
- 56:20Speaker 4: think they they've added some really smart players, especially on defense,
- 56:25Speaker 4: and then I think that there are also guys that
- 56:26Speaker 4: can play multiple positions. So the fact that we didn't
- 56:30Speaker 4: we didn't even know where Barham was going to play
- 56:33Speaker 4: and we still may not, you know, or but when
- 56:36Speaker 4: he was drafted, you were like what is he? You know,
- 56:38Speaker 4: and we had our social media team putting out a
- 56:40Speaker 4: graphic going, well, what is this guy? Is he a linebacker?
- 56:44Speaker 4: Are we saying d N? Are we saying edge? What
- 56:46Speaker 4: are we saying here? What about Overton? What are we saying?
- 56:48Speaker 4: How about d L? About just D line? I don't know.
- 56:51Speaker 4: I mean, because he's going to play defensive end, but
- 56:54Speaker 4: it's a defensive end in the three four, which is
- 56:57Speaker 4: really more of a defensive tackle. He played edge on Alabama,
- 57:00Speaker 4: but he's going to slide inside and play play tackle,
- 57:03Speaker 4: and so you know, he's a defensive lineman. And you know,
- 57:08Speaker 4: I think Barham is a linebacker and Caleb Downs in safety,
- 57:13Speaker 4: but he's gonna be playing some corner, so he's a dB.
- 57:15Speaker 4: But I think what they are football players I mean,
- 57:17Speaker 4: I think that that's what it is. They drafted football
- 57:20Speaker 4: players and they're going to figure out kind of where
- 57:22Speaker 4: they go. Sebastian Savannah, Georgia, what's up.
- 57:25Speaker 8: Martin Stair?
- 57:25Speaker 4: How do you do good? How are you?
- 57:27Speaker 16: I'm doing just fine.
- 57:28Speaker 14: I'll get right to it because I know how heart
- 57:30Speaker 14: of this to get in here. I feel like personally,
- 57:33Speaker 14: the hype and just the expectations for Kalob right now
- 57:37Speaker 14: are a little bit too high because the rookie saty.
- 57:40Speaker 14: I think I will feel different if he was a
- 57:41Speaker 14: defensive like the number one defensive end coming in, because
- 57:44Speaker 14: then he would have a direct impact on the quarterback
- 57:46Speaker 14: all the time. But what I called to talk about
- 57:48Speaker 14: is some of the veterans. I'm looking at this roster
- 57:50Speaker 14: and if Cowboys looking some of our hey baby, some
- 57:54Speaker 14: of our veterans are going to be on the bubble
- 57:58Speaker 14: this year. So who are some veterans interud run the bubble?
- 58:00Speaker 14: My first two, well, the one that I have most
- 58:02Speaker 14: right now is Cabanti Turpin because with your emergency, Florina
- 58:05Speaker 14: and last year Kamathi Turpin didn't really bring too much
- 58:09Speaker 14: to the team that can't be replaced. And I know
- 58:10Speaker 14: for a fact, they say three point four if they
- 58:12Speaker 14: caught him JUNI first, first, who a vetteran who have
- 58:16Speaker 14: to look out during this training game?
- 58:19Speaker 4: All right, thank you. I don't put Turpin in that
- 58:22Speaker 4: in that group. I you know, Flinoy can come in
- 58:28Speaker 4: and do whatever he's going to do, and I think
- 58:31Speaker 4: that that's not going to really change what Turpin does.
- 58:35Speaker 4: I think Turpin is your fourth receiver. And I think
- 58:39Speaker 4: if two guys knock on Wood got hurt in a
- 58:42Speaker 4: in a in a game or in a you know,
- 58:46Speaker 4: the week leading up to the game, I still think
- 58:49Speaker 4: he's going to be your fourth receiver. I mean, I
- 58:50Speaker 4: think he's just got a role. That is what it is.
- 58:55Speaker 4: And so let's not forget what he doesn't as a
- 58:59Speaker 4: as a return and specialists. How dynamic could Turpin be?
- 59:04Speaker 4: Turpin had fifty five punt return yards last year. He
- 59:08Speaker 4: had eighteen hundred kickoff return yards or whatever it was,
- 59:12Speaker 4: set the Cowboys record for most yards in a season
- 59:16Speaker 4: by any player, just all all purpose yards, but fifty
- 59:19Speaker 4: five punt return yards. I mean, Cowboys couldn't get off
- 59:24Speaker 4: the field. They you know, they couldn't force punts, and
- 59:28Speaker 4: when they did it wasn't enough field for the punter
- 59:32Speaker 4: to actually get it out there where Turpin could could
- 59:35Speaker 4: do something with. So you get a defense that can
- 59:39Speaker 4: get some stops. I mean, let's let's let's kick off
- 59:42Speaker 4: to start the game, you know, defer kickoff. How about
- 59:46Speaker 4: a three and out? How about something like that? Then
- 59:48Speaker 4: the punter standing around his five yard line and he
- 59:51Speaker 4: punts it, there's turping way back there. Good luck. Just
- 59:54Speaker 4: kick it deep, you know, try to get some field
- 59:56Speaker 4: position and let Turpin in the open field. That just
- 59:59Speaker 4: didn't happen enough. I think if the defense can get better,
- 1:00:02Speaker 4: I think Turpen's better. That's not a guy on my
- 1:00:05Speaker 4: list as far as that goes, So I'm not answering
- 1:00:09Speaker 4: your question. I guess a veteran player that needs to
- 1:00:14Speaker 4: kind of watch out well, I mean easy one there
- 1:00:16Speaker 4: would be Schoonmaker, right, I mean, this is going into
- 1:00:19Speaker 4: his fourth year. He's got Brevin span Ford there. You know,
- 1:00:22Speaker 4: Trigg is not every fan base all excited. I mean
- 1:00:26Speaker 4: that that would be one that you know, you got
- 1:00:29Speaker 4: to be careful of that hooker. You know, obviously with
- 1:00:34Speaker 4: the drafts in there that I can't really think of
- 1:00:40Speaker 4: too many others that are you know that that would
- 1:00:43Speaker 4: a veteran player that you'd have to worry about. I mean,
- 1:00:46Speaker 4: there'll be some, and there'll be some, you know, four
- 1:00:50Speaker 4: five six year guys, you know. I mean, I don't
- 1:00:52Speaker 4: know where Kaitlin Carson falls under that this is his
- 1:00:55Speaker 4: third year, hadn't played a whole lot. But I mean
- 1:00:57Speaker 4: there's guys that have been around a little bit that
- 1:00:59Speaker 4: their spot. I'm so starting guaranteed at this point. All right,
- 1:01:02Speaker 4: let's go Chris in San Angelo.
- 1:01:06Speaker 16: Mister Nick, how you doing today, sir?
- 1:01:08Speaker 4: I'm doing good. How are you doing?
- 1:01:10Speaker 16: I'm doing pretty good. I'm on the phone with use
- 1:01:13Speaker 16: of the day starting out really well.
- 1:01:15Speaker 4: Appreciate you, bet you, Betty.
- 1:01:19Speaker 5: As far as.
- 1:01:19Speaker 16: Mine, I was gonna go defense. Dylan and Eric really
- 1:01:22Speaker 16: wiped me out with their thoughts and what I was
- 1:01:25Speaker 16: gonna say. But I will add to what Dylan said
- 1:01:30Speaker 16: about the defense. I mean, I'm thinking, just being more
- 1:01:33Speaker 16: opportunistic with some turnovers and a lot more big stops
- 1:01:38Speaker 16: is gonna go really gonna go quickly into turning this
- 1:01:43Speaker 16: defense around in a big way. So I'll do I'll
- 1:01:48Speaker 16: say that. But what I was gonna say is, uh,
- 1:01:52Speaker 16: you know you said, let's quit, you know, hopping up
- 1:01:55Speaker 16: Parker and down so much. So I guess that's just
- 1:02:01Speaker 16: the off season. I guess that's pretty much just what
- 1:02:03Speaker 16: I'm gonna do. I listened to just listening to coach
- 1:02:08Speaker 16: Parker and watching him. I just get this feeling that
- 1:02:15Speaker 16: this guy, he's not gonna fail as a defensive coordinator.
- 1:02:18Speaker 16: I just I mean, I just feel that. And what
- 1:02:21Speaker 16: I was going to ask you is, you know they're
- 1:02:24Speaker 16: still looking for this red dot or just the you know,
- 1:02:28Speaker 16: the setting up the defense on the field. My first
- 1:02:30Speaker 16: thought was, well, you drafted that guy first with downs.
- 1:02:36Speaker 16: I mean, he apparently he already knows the playbook top
- 1:02:40Speaker 16: to bottom, and he's smart and all that. But do
- 1:02:43Speaker 16: you think maybe that would be putting too much on
- 1:02:48Speaker 16: his shoulders to let him do that. You think it
- 1:02:52Speaker 16: might be a better idea just to let him kind
- 1:02:55Speaker 16: of float around and do his thing. Yeah, I wonder
- 1:03:00Speaker 16: what you talk about that one.
- 1:03:01Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think there's a reason. Thanks Chris
- 1:03:05Speaker 4: for the call. I think there's a reason most linebackers
- 1:03:09Speaker 4: or you know, make the calls mainly because of where
- 1:03:13Speaker 4: they are located on the field. I mean, that's that's
- 1:03:16Speaker 4: a lot of it. Right. I mean, you're you're you're
- 1:03:18Speaker 4: able to go in there and hit the defensive tackle,
- 1:03:23Speaker 4: slide him just a little bit this way, or say
- 1:03:26Speaker 4: something to the edge, or turn around and say something
- 1:03:28Speaker 4: to the safety court, you know, something like that, as
- 1:03:31Speaker 4: opposed to the safety it's making calls and adjustments on
- 1:03:36Speaker 4: the fly watch for this. Well, he can't. He can't
- 1:03:38Speaker 4: tell the defensive tackle that you know. And and let's
- 1:03:41Speaker 4: be honest, we've been if you've been down on the
- 1:03:43Speaker 4: field before. I mean, there's been times where I've stood
- 1:03:46Speaker 4: next to somebody and couldn't say anything. You couldn't even
- 1:03:48Speaker 4: hear what they're saying. Happened sometimes in those open press
- 1:03:51Speaker 4: boxes like that too, So uh, you know, it's hand
- 1:03:55Speaker 4: signals and stuff. But I think for the most part
- 1:03:57Speaker 4: it's kind of proximity. I think he can handle it downs.
- 1:04:00Speaker 4: But I don't know if if the smart thing would
- 1:04:04Speaker 4: probably just to have your middle linebacker do it. And
- 1:04:07Speaker 4: and you know, there'll be some competition to see who's who.
- 1:04:10Speaker 4: You know, who's gonna who's gonna pick it up and
- 1:04:12Speaker 4: and and it's a race. Now, it's not just it's
- 1:04:14Speaker 4: not just let's see what happens to training camp. Let's
- 1:04:16Speaker 4: see what happens. Now, Let's see who learns this defense, uh,
- 1:04:20Speaker 4: the quickest, who understands who has a good grasp of
- 1:04:23Speaker 4: what everyone's position is. And now that's something that can
- 1:04:25Speaker 4: happen right now. Let me let me go back before
- 1:04:28Speaker 4: we end this show. Let me let me say one
- 1:04:29Speaker 4: more thing about the Christian Parker and Caleb Downs and
- 1:04:32Speaker 4: the hype training and all that. I don't want to
- 1:04:35Speaker 4: get it twisted. I'm not saying not to be hyped
- 1:04:38Speaker 4: over him. I'm not saying that not to be excited,
- 1:04:41Speaker 4: but let's just you know, it is what it is.
- 1:04:45Speaker 4: I mean, he's he's still he's still new to this,
- 1:04:48Speaker 4: he hasn't done it before. I mean, if you have kids,
- 1:04:51Speaker 4: like like I do, and a lot of you guys
- 1:04:52Speaker 4: do have kids, treat it. Treat it like that, like
- 1:04:55Speaker 4: like you're excited for what they're doing in their development.
- 1:04:58Speaker 4: You know they're not perfect, you know they're gonna make mistakes,
- 1:05:01Speaker 4: but call it for what it is, and let's not
- 1:05:04Speaker 4: what happens is is this overhype. Then the first game
- 1:05:07Speaker 4: of the season, they give up, you know, three touchdowns
- 1:05:10Speaker 4: in the first quarter, and it's like, oh, this guy,
- 1:05:12Speaker 4: boy genius. Huh, you know, and it's unfair to him.
- 1:05:15Speaker 4: He needs to develop, he needs to to to to
- 1:05:18Speaker 4: learn on the flight, just like everybody saying with Caleb Downs,
- 1:05:21Speaker 4: he's probably gonna give up a big play. That doesn't
- 1:05:23Speaker 4: mean he's not gonna be a Pro Bowl type player,
- 1:05:26Speaker 4: even as a rookie, but it's going to happen. And
- 1:05:29Speaker 4: I think that's what happens. We're all so quick to
- 1:05:31Speaker 4: just judge people, and we're judging these guys before they've
- 1:05:34Speaker 4: done anything. Do I think Caleb Downs is gonna be
- 1:05:37Speaker 4: great safety? I do this year. I think he's gonna
- 1:05:39Speaker 4: be great. I think Christian Parker is gonna be really
- 1:05:41Speaker 4: really good for this defense, and I think he's I
- 1:05:44Speaker 4: think he's gonna be an outstanding coach. I'm not saying
- 1:05:48Speaker 4: he's ready to go take another job. It's kind of
- 1:05:50Speaker 4: funny though we've kind of gotten so far ahead of now.
- 1:05:55Speaker 4: One of the callers was worried about him taking a job. Hey,
- 1:05:58Speaker 4: if that means the Cowboys have done some great things
- 1:06:01Speaker 4: and some of these coaches are up for other jobs,
- 1:06:04Speaker 4: it usually means that the team has had a lot
- 1:06:07Speaker 4: of success, and so that's a trade off. I think
- 1:06:09Speaker 4: you're willing to have all Right, guys, thanks for calling
- 1:06:13Speaker 4: in for the show today. Apologize it was not our
- 1:06:16Speaker 4: best show. I put a lot of that on me.
- 1:06:18Speaker 4: Didn't start out well, had some hiccups there. I'll take
- 1:06:21Speaker 4: responsibility for that. We'll get better. It was an offseason show.
- 1:06:25Speaker 4: We'll get better as we continue to go. So come
- 1:06:28Speaker 4: back with us next Wednesday. We'll do it again next
- 1:06:31Speaker 4: Wednesday on Cowboys storyline for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eaman.
- 1:06:34Speaker 4: We'll see then.
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