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  Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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  Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: This is these Cowboys storylines with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: What is up is this time for Cowboys storyline? It's Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: September twenty eighth. I'm Nick Eatman here and then let's
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  Speaker 2: roll here for another let's say forty forty five minutes.
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  Speaker 2: We do have Mike McCarthy's press conference today. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have to go just a tad shorter than normal, but
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  Speaker 2: that's okay. We can still get a lot of calls
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  Speaker 2: in a lot of questions. Make sure and call us
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  Speaker 2: eight eight eight eight five five two two ninety seven.
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  Speaker 2: You can text at eight one seven two nine zero
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  Speaker 2: three two nine eight. Let's talk some Cowboys football, Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: and Patriots this Sunday, three twenty five at AT and
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  Speaker 2: T Stadium. It's been a long time since the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: have defeated the Patriots at home. I think Bill Parcells
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  Speaker 2: was the coach for the Patriots last time that happened
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety six. Now, obviously they don't play every year
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  Speaker 2: or sometimes every eight years. Really, when when when you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about the Patriots coming to Dallas, but still, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, it's been tough to beat
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  Speaker 2: those guys. The Cowboys did win the last time that
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  Speaker 2: they played them in New England, but let's see if
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  Speaker 2: they can get the win. And of course Ezekiel Elliott
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  Speaker 2: coming back into town. He talked some this week this
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  Speaker 2: week at Yesterday had a story on the website from
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Walker about his emotional return. Also have a story
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  Speaker 2: about Tony Pollard and you know, saying, you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: leading the NFL right now in carries, so he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of showing that, hey, you know, I'm built for this
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  Speaker 2: as well. I can handle the heavy workload. But let's
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  Speaker 2: you know, let's see how the season progresses. It's one
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  Speaker 2: thing to do it for three weeks. We'll see how
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  Speaker 2: you continue to do it. So it should be fun.
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  Speaker 2: Was he come back in town? Bill Belichick? The Patriots
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  Speaker 2: trying to get to two and two. Cowboys certainly don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be a two and two. They want to
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  Speaker 2: turn this around and get a win. Injuries are going
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  Speaker 2: to be a big key this week. Zach Martin I
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  Speaker 2: think has a shot to play. Tyler Biadis. It might
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  Speaker 2: be a little Tougher there at center for him Tyron Smith.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see. It wouldn't surprise me if he does not
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  Speaker 2: play this game, So there may be some moving parts
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  Speaker 2: on the offensive line. Let's go to the phone lines.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just start this thing off here. Darien in Houston,
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  Speaker 2: first caller, Darien, what's up?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, what's going on?
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  Speaker 5: Then? Go on? Man?
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: Good Man? Good man?
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  Speaker 4: Just chilling here at the house. Appreciate you taking my
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  Speaker 4: call in the last a couple of days. And man,
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  Speaker 4: it's been awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you calling. I mean, especially being the first
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  Speaker 2: one out of the box.
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  Speaker 6: Out of the gate just here, he would, Man, I
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  Speaker 6: just want to brag.
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  Speaker 5: On you guys.
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  Speaker 4: I ran into Derek outside of AT and T before
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  Speaker 4: the Panthers game back in twenty one and called for
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  Speaker 4: him from a distance. He had to kind of like
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  Speaker 4: double take to make sure it was him. I was
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  Speaker 4: calling for were and for a picture with him. He
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  Speaker 4: looked all taken back that I even asked for a photo. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we love the work, y'all do. Also, I'm
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  Speaker 4: flying to the Monday night game against the Chargers that
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  Speaker 4: so far, it will be my first road game, so
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  Speaker 4: maybe I'll run into you guys there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well let's just put some let's put some air
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  Speaker 2: quotes around road game, all right, for for that because
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  Speaker 2: it won't trust me, it won't be it won't feel
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  Speaker 2: or sound like one.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Neither did Sunday against Arizona, and that didn't really seem
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  Speaker 2: to matter. But yeah, the Chargers though, Chargers at home,
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  Speaker 2: Uh you know they're they're the third third best team
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  Speaker 2: in their own city.
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  Speaker 4: US. Well, the Niners showed out more than they than
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  Speaker 4: the Rams fans. Then they lived in half times away.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, well the Dinners have done that to lots
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  Speaker 2: of teams and lots of places. What do you got?
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  Speaker 2: What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Man, dude, Pats has two big, strong backs. I think
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  Speaker 4: they'll try to, you know, really run on us to
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  Speaker 4: start the game. How can we better stop it this week?
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  Speaker 4: And have you heard anything on Mozzie Smith? It's his
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  Speaker 4: like development not going as planned. I know it takes
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  Speaker 4: a minute for DT's developed. I just wanted to know
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  Speaker 4: what you've seen regarding his playtime and maybe some of
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  Speaker 4: the stuff that practiced.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 4: He's really strong and he was a good player in Michigan.
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  Speaker 4: Hopefully he rounds out by the end of the season,
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  Speaker 4: and he should because he's got an ass. I'll hang
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  Speaker 4: up and listening.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. I'm never going to live that one down. Still
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  Speaker 2: don't know exactly which player I was even referring to there,
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  Speaker 2: Mazzie Smith, I mean twelve twelve snaps. I think this
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  Speaker 2: last game, and I think you know that you're expecting
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more from that from your first round pick.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a rotational position, and understand that. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's still developing, he's still trying to to kind of
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  Speaker 2: figure out where where he fits into this defense. And also,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just playing in the in the NFL. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he's strong, but you know there's there's more to it
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  Speaker 2: obviously than that, and so you know, but but they
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  Speaker 2: need him, They need that type of player to kind
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  Speaker 2: of shore up the middle. If you can stop that
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  Speaker 2: in the middle, then it's then you're forcing teams to
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  Speaker 2: go to the outside. That's where the Cowboys speed will
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  Speaker 2: kick into play. That's where they're they're fast linebackers. They
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  Speaker 2: can chase the ball. But if you are just running
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  Speaker 2: right up the middle and you really don't have an
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  Speaker 2: answer for that, then you know, that's that's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a problem. I think the Cowboys have to figure out
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  Speaker 2: their their fits, figure out where where you know, their
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  Speaker 2: defensive tackles are lined up with. The linebackers as well,
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  Speaker 2: also have to keep containment there. I mean, Micah Parsons,
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  Speaker 2: those guys have to do a little bit better job on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, making sure that they don't the quarterback doesn't
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  Speaker 2: sneak out, the running backs don't sneak out on the outside.
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  Speaker 2: So so that that's going to be the key right there,
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  Speaker 2: is making sure that that that the Cowboys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just just stop the run. I mean, that's that is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a problem. And you're right, the Patriots
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  Speaker 2: are going to try to run the ball. Ask for
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  Speaker 2: Derek not taking a picture, Uh yeah, I haven't seen that.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen Derek really do that. A whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of fans will stop, you know, every now and again
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  Speaker 2: you take take a photo. But uh yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's not above it. I just I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if if I've seen that. If you told him
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  Speaker 2: you were from Houston, he probably would because that's obviously
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  Speaker 2: where he is from as well. All right, let's go
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  Speaker 2: to a text message from Doug. He's from Fargo, North Dakota,
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  Speaker 2: now living in Florida. Much big change there. Patriots have
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  Speaker 2: me nervous after watching their games at the season start.
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  Speaker 2: I counted this as a win, thinking New England was
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  Speaker 2: not very good this year. Tied ends running backs are
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  Speaker 2: much better than I expected. Two weeks. Two week areas
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  Speaker 2: for our team. Your thoughts on being able to defend
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  Speaker 2: those two positions, and any good Marion Barber stories. Let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about the running back I mean running backs and
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  Speaker 2: tight ends. I mean that that's kind of that's why
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  Speaker 2: Belichick's always kind of had it. You know, he rotates
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  Speaker 2: those those running backs. He's always had different guys, but
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  Speaker 2: they're always pretty big, strong guys. You know that he's
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  Speaker 2: he's you know, he can get it done there. And
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  Speaker 2: tight ends. Of course when he when he had Gronk,
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  Speaker 2: he had had those guys. I believe Hunter Henry now
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  Speaker 2: is a tied end for him, so you know he
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  Speaker 2: They try to have safe throws for their quarterback. They
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  Speaker 2: try to let the other guys do the work. Mike
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  Speaker 2: Jones is not going to go up and down the field.
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  Speaker 2: I saw a stat the other day that when when
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  Speaker 2: he throws thirty five or more passes, they're one and nine,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, they don't want to get into a
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  Speaker 2: you know, throwing contest with with Mac Jones. And most
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks kind of are the same way. I mean, when
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  Speaker 2: you happen to throw a lot that that probably means
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  Speaker 2: that you're behind and you're not going to win. But
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  Speaker 2: that is, you know, that is something that Cowboys have
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  Speaker 2: to watch out for because New England does play like
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  Speaker 2: to play sort of an inside out type of scheme,
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  Speaker 2: which is going to put the Cowboys, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: harm's way if they don't stop the run and make
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  Speaker 2: sure that that the gaps are filled and contained also
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  Speaker 2: on the outside. Marion Barber stories, let me think about
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  Speaker 2: that one a little bit. I mean, they're you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously a lot come to but I'll never forget in
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and eight, it was he had just made
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  Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl in two thousand and seven and he
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  Speaker 2: was really starting to be the Barbarian and all that.
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  Speaker 2: And I think I could have the guy's name wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I think the linebacker's name was like Terrius George or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. He beat Marian Barbara on a one
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  Speaker 2: on one drill and practice at Auxnarm beat him on
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  Speaker 2: a drill. You know how that happens. Everybody starts yelling
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  Speaker 2: and all that, Oh you beat the barbarian and all that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Marion didn't like that, so that like about a few
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  Speaker 2: plays later, he made sure and evened it out and
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  Speaker 2: made sure that the guy went up against them again,
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  Speaker 2: and he didn't beat him on this drill. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: he got carried off by the trainers on that Marion
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  Speaker 2: got underneath him, put his head underneath him and blocked
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  Speaker 2: him and basically knocked him out. And so he didn't
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  Speaker 2: win that drill or probably any more drills the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the day. And so that was one of those
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  Speaker 2: mentalities of Mary and is like, Okay, you got me,
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  Speaker 2: but you won't again. And that you know, he played
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  Speaker 2: that way, you know, just just just an outstanding player
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  Speaker 2: to watch, fun player to watch. Obviously other other factors
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  Speaker 2: involved with his life and and you know, obviously a
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  Speaker 2: tragic end too to his life. And you know, but
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  Speaker 2: but as a player and a player that you admired,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he was certainly a fan favorite by the
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  Speaker 2: way that that he he played the game for sure.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the next caller. Lucky Wilson
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  Speaker 2: in Indiana.
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  Speaker 5: How you doing, I'm doing good, man. I just wanted
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  Speaker 5: to make Stavent First. I'm still mad at Patrick Cratons
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  Speaker 5: was dropping that ball in the playoffs against the Giants.
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  Speaker 5: But I wanted to ask you about the Patriots dbs
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  Speaker 5: and and do you think we'll see any any downfield
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  Speaker 5: throws this game?
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you, though, do you think how far
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  Speaker 2: do you think Patrick Creighton is running on that play?
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  Speaker 2: I always there's always a debate there.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I just wanted him to catch the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Would have been a first down first.
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  Speaker 5: I just wanted the first down because after after that
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  Speaker 5: we punted the ball they got, they got the excellent
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  Speaker 5: field position, and we lost the game. So I just
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  Speaker 5: wanted to I didn't want you didn't have to score
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  Speaker 5: a touchdown. I just wanted to catch the ball, you
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  Speaker 5: know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well he wouldn't have. He wouldn't have scored a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right, he would have thought it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we're only talking about a game sixteen years ago. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I understand, Hey, it happens, it happens. There's there's some
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  Speaker 2: plays that I'm still kind of upset about that happened
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  Speaker 2: like in the nineties and eighties. Uh, it certainly happens.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get over it one day, but maybe maybe Patriots Steven,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for the for the call, Lucky. I appreciate that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I actually I love that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I do. I just love the fact that that fans
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  Speaker 2: that's what fans are, you know what I mean, Like
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  Speaker 2: like you still kind of think about certain plays, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, Giants won the Super Bowl that year, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Cowboys probably, I mean, they were a
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  Speaker 2: better team than the Giants, but they weren't that day.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they they weren't able to get them blocked
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  Speaker 2: that day. But but you know, if Creighton catches that
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  Speaker 2: ball down probably closer to midfield, and then you know
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  Speaker 2: that that could have changed the whole game. But as
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  Speaker 2: for his question, I think the Cowboys, I think they
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  Speaker 2: need to they need to throw the ball down the
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  Speaker 2: field a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 2: They have to make sure that they get it blocked
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  Speaker 2: up front. You can't just stand in the pocket and
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  Speaker 2: throw it deep. But I think they need to figure
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  Speaker 2: out some ways to take some shots down the field early.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we talked about yesterday on Yesterday show with
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  Speaker 2: Danny McCrae. Sometimes taking some shots sends a message whether
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  Speaker 2: or not you complete it or not, but it also
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  Speaker 2: can move some of the safeties back a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I think that would help a little bit. Dak likes
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  Speaker 2: to throw it underneath. He likes guys like Cooks crossing
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  Speaker 2: the field tight ends as well. You throw the ball
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  Speaker 2: deep a little bit to gallop CD push them back some.
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  Speaker 2: It should kind of soften up that middle a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the phone line again. Albert
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  Speaker 2: in Tucson, Arizona. Albert, what's up.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Nick, first time calling the show, but
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  Speaker 3: I've been a avid read your listeners since you guys
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  Speaker 3: started like in thirty two thousands, and thank you for
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  Speaker 3: doing what you're doing.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, do you think.
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  Speaker 3: And watching these past couple of games, this, I guess
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  Speaker 3: they call it the big nickel right, their defense, their
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  Speaker 3: their shell defense. Do you think and the NFL has
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  Speaker 3: kind of already figured it out how to beat it,
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  Speaker 3: because if you look at like the the Cardinal games,
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  Speaker 3: you know, those big plays, those big runs where I
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  Speaker 3: think there were more than beating the the defense than
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  Speaker 3: error except for that one big past or where he
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  Speaker 3: caught you know, sixty or seventy some yards wide open. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but do you think the NFL is caught up to
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  Speaker 3: this scheme? And two, I think you got yesterday Rob
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  Speaker 3: called and and uh he talked about that and you
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  Speaker 3: felt a certain way you could tell it in your
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  Speaker 3: tone of voice. But let's be honest. When does the
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  Speaker 3: clock start for like, you know, Tyron Smith, you know
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  Speaker 3: we have his replacement on our team.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you think that is?
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  Speaker 3: Uh Tyler Smith? Yeah? I mean he's played great music.
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  Speaker 3: He had to knock on him as far as the penalties,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean, let's be honest, what he's done is
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  Speaker 3: above and beyond uh that? And you know this this
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  Speaker 3: our front office had the chance to, you know, get
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  Speaker 3: us the replacement in the guard.
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  Speaker 6: And uh.
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  Speaker 3: Second, I mean I hate it now and I know
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  Speaker 3: it's only one loss, but how about that? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: when does that box start on debt? I think he's
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  Speaker 3: hit his peak. I think he's hit his ceiling and
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna give us that's it. I mean with that interception,
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  Speaker 3: is Dak the last three years, not that the first part,
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  Speaker 3: but definitely Dak the last three years? And I think
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  Speaker 3: I speak for a lot of Cowboys Nation. But anyway,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for what you're doing. Appreciate it. Go Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that. And I think I speak
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of Cowboys Nation that that says that
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  Speaker 2: he's not that he hasn't hit hit the peak that
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  Speaker 2: he can. He could be better than that. He is
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  Speaker 2: good enough to go there now. And you're right, there
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of people that feel your way, and
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  Speaker 2: they feel this this way this week. They maybe didn't
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  Speaker 2: feel it as much last week. That's what happens in sports.
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  Speaker 2: This this is, this is the best roller coaster you
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  Speaker 2: could ever go on. Six Flags has nothing on being
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  Speaker 2: a cowb to go up down, loops around backwards. You
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  Speaker 2: think it's over, now it starts again. That's what this is.
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  Speaker 2: That's what this is. And I get it. You want
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  Speaker 2: to be frustrated with Dak. Fine, he shouldn't have made
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  Speaker 2: that throw. That throw is what's bothering a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't lose that game this week. I don't believe
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  Speaker 2: that they needed to play better. But but I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I've heard all the stuff, and you know, it's funny
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  Speaker 2: how the thing that kind of bothers me a little
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  Speaker 2: bit is the defense is getting somewhat of a pass
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  Speaker 2: and I hear this that you know Trayvon was out, Well,
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  Speaker 2: Traylon's not coming back. He's not coming back, so not
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  Speaker 2: this year, not this year. So they're going to have
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  Speaker 2: to figure that out. So what you saw in that
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  Speaker 2: game is, I mean, what's going to be different coming forward.
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  Speaker 2: I like to think the offensive line is going to
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  Speaker 2: look a lot different for the for Dak and the
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  Speaker 2: offense the next few weeks. So I'm not I'm not
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  Speaker 2: talking about excuses, but it just does seem like they
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  Speaker 2: get in the defense got a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: pass because they had to deal with with Trayvon being out.
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  Speaker 2: You know that happened on Thursday and Thursdays when domino
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  Speaker 2: effects started on the offensive line. Hey, if you want
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  Speaker 2: to think that about Dak, fine. The difference is is
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  Speaker 2: that the Cowboys don't really feel this way and it's
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  Speaker 2: not as easy as you think to just say we're
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: going to move move on from that. It's a very
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: it's a tough decision because the way the league is
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: set up, the way timing is, is that they have
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: to make some of these decisions. Do you want to
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: just pull the plug on this, and and and and
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: just say we're moving on. I don't think they want
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: to do that. I think they're trying to build around dak.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: That's what they they've tried to do, and and they're
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: you know, I think they are committed to him until
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: something drastically different happens. And I don't think we've seen
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: that yet. As for Tyler Smith, Tyron Smith, the clock's
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: been ticking on that. If that's the analogy you want
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: to use, Uh, Tyler Smith, you know, here's my thing
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: on that. I want to see where his best position is.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: I've seen it at tackle. I want to see what
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: it is. Is it guard? Because if his best position
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: is guard, I'm playing him at guard. That's the way
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: that I would view it. I don't think everyone feels
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: it feels that way. They want to make sure that
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: left tackle spot is is uh solidified. But if he
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: is an if he's a good left tackle in a
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: great left guard, I'm playing him at guard. And I
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: think we could. You can debate. You can find a
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: lot of people that will debate that argument. But Uh,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Larry Allen could play tackle, he did play tackle. He
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: was a better guard. Zach Martin is a better guard.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: He can play tackle, but I I want to play
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: the guy at the position where I think he's great.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: When I see this team get to the red zone
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: and they get stopped the nine yard line, I want
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: to see Tyler Smith out there inside of edgard Now
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: he was last week. I think he'll be better as
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: you keep He keeps getting better, you know, with with
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: the injury. But I think that from a from a
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: strength standpoint, I like having some some beef on the
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: inside as well. Keep that middle. You can see that
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: that can make some some moves on when guys are
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: coming from the outside. We saw it last week from
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: from the inside a little bit tougher. UH to do that.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: So all right, let me get back to the UH.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: To the calls, Chris. If we have a caller on
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: the line, you can just throw him out there. We
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: have another call.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: Hello, Hey, how you doing, Nick?
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: How's it going great?
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: Hired from medicine?
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you. My computer locked up on me
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: so I couldn't I couldn't tell what it was. How
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: you doing, man, I'm.
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: Doing great, man.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: I love the show. Hey, I'm coming out from New
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: Jersey to the game this weekend. All right, So my
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: question is I am a fan of Zeke's, but how
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: how much do you think the home crowd is gonna
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: cheer for Zeke? And uh, you know, should they every
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: run or are they gonna you know, do the Zeke
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: chan and and.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: They chair one time, they cheer one time he gets
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: a fourteen yard run and starts doing the I'm ready
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to eat thing. Then that now you know, they'll start
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: blaming Jerry for letting him go and all that kind
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: of stuff. They'll do that. But but no, I don't
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: think he'll be cheering. Is he more than just you know, hey,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: miss you, hope you're doing well. Don't kill us today.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what That's what I was thinking. So all right,
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: thank you love the show, And hey, what's your favorite
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: barbecue place in the area?
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: There?
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Oh man, oh, you know, there's like a twenty six
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: way tie for that. Thank you for the call. You know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I gotta be careful, you know, I'm not sure if
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: we even have a barbecue sponsor. I think we do maybe,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: so I gotta be careful with that.
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: Figured yeah, yeah, but.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, there's my favorite spots are the ones
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: where you know, it's like the place is about to
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: fall down, you know what I mean. And it's you know,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: it's uh the smoke coming from the outside, and you
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: know you got you got the guy. It's like it's
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: like Pete's barbecue. You know, Pete's in the back slicing
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: up and his wife is the one servant. Those are
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: the ones that I'd like. Those those those joints that
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: have been around for like seventy years. Love the right,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: right right, and you can find that. All right, have
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: a good one, have a good trip down here, let's
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: go to Here's a text message from Casey Blackburn, Spartanburg,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: South Carolina. I'm going way back to the early two thousands.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Did you host the Jason Witten Show on Dallas Cowboys
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: dot Com? I think you did. I did not. I
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: don't remember that show. Honestly, I don't remember if if
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: there was the show on Dallas Cobbys dot com with
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: the Jason Witten Show, I would have liked to be
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: the one host. I wish I did.
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: I don't.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: I don't recall us having that show. It would have
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: been that would have been cool if we did, and
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: he might have done some some shows. He might have
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: done something. You know, a night radio show or whatever,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: but just like a like a weekly regular show. When
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: we were on the ticket, are you are you live? Okay?
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: So when we were on the ticket, Jason Witten had
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: the show that would probably take the audio and put
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: on Dallas copy.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't, thank you. I didn't.
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: Same thing we do now with Zach Martin.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: All right, Chris, that's Chris being there. I didn't. Yeah,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I definitely did not do that show on the radio.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: But it would be cool if we could do something
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: like that. Now. What we did was Tuesday night at
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: the Ranch. That's when we first started me myself, Mickey,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: and then at some point I guess it was nineteen
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: years ago, about two thousand and four, So that's when
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Derek and I started doing the break just by ourselves,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: and that thing has evolved and now we're what nine
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: podcasts later. All right, let's go to Alan Merkle, Texas.
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  Speaker 9: Al what's up, hey, Nick? How you doing?
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you?
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: I wish I was better. I've had flu type A
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: for the second time in not good.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Sorry about that.
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: I was You're fine. Hey, I have a question about
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: our defense and you might have already answered it with
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: a caller few before me. But do you really believe
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: that people have found the way to scheme to the
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: defense that dan Quinn has or is it more of
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: a problem with our discipline and our players not staying
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: in their gaps and doing what they're supposed to or
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: a combination. I've just been listening to dallascowboys dot com
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: and other people that truly know about football and care
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: about football, well, people like w w W CESPN. But
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: that's my question, is is it a b or combination?
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, thanks for the call. I hope you
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: feel better there. I think that you know there's gonna
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: be we're gonna find this out a little bit. I mean,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: it's one game. It was a weird game that that happened.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Thanks for a call out, But but I do think
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: that that that over the time here of the next
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: couple of games, we're gonna find out if teams have
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: really figured out the Cowboys. I don't think that they
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: that they have yet, and they still have to figure
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: out how to block Micah Parsons consistently, and so when that,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: if that happens on a week to week basis, then
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I think you you can say that, but but right
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: now I'm gonna go with you know it was it
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: was one game they're figuring out how to play without
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Trayvon Diggs and uh, you know they and that didn't
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: that didn't lead to two hundred and twentywo rushing yards.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: But I still think that they're still trying to figure
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: out some things on what they need to do on
• 23:03
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to Cowboys storyline here the second half of
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  Speaker 2: the show. So I had some good callers so far
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: already talking a little bit about Dak and this offensive
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: line and the defense. Can the defense short up? And
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: you know, I mean those are good questions. And I
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: think that that's why they play seventeen games just so
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: you can kind of so you can get a better
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: sample size of what this looks like. You know, we've
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: seen some games in the past we're just like, what
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: was that? You know, it was just kind of fluky.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe it starts a trend, maybe it doesn't. So one
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: thing that I that you can see about this team is,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: you know, they've they've been a pretty good football team
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: for the last you know, two and a half seasons now,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: so you know, and and they bounce back from from losses,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: uh pretty well. So we'll see if they can do that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: If the focus is here this week, I'm thinking that
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: will be. You've got one of the greatest, if not
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: the greatest coach of all time coming into town. So
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: if the if the Cardinals can scheme things up to
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: beat you like they did, you know New England can
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: as well. So got to be ready for it. All right,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: let's go to the phone line. We got William in
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: West Virginia and William, what's up? Man?
• 26:40
  Speaker 15: Hey, good to hear from you. I love the show.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: It's great.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, man, one of my favorite, one
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: of my favorite cowboy fans of all time. Man, how
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: you doing.
• 26:48
  Speaker 15: I appreciate that means a lot.
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: You're one.
• 26:50
  Speaker 15: I've come a long way from Tuesday Night Chances to rank.
• 26:53
  Speaker 15: I love it great. Just go get better, sir, Thank you.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
• 26:57
  Speaker 15: My question, but my favorite classic player of all time
• 27:00
  Speaker 15: is Harvey Martin. My question again, my question, Senator, I
• 27:05
  Speaker 15: don't if you remember a long time ago, you had
• 27:08
  Speaker 15: a question on the show if anybody remembered who got
• 27:10
  Speaker 15: five sacks in one game? And I remember it was
• 27:13
  Speaker 15: Jim Jeffcot against the Redskins, because I remember Joe Fisman, saying,
• 27:18
  Speaker 15: I thought Harvey Martin retired. I didn't know who that
• 27:20
  Speaker 15: guy was over there, but he knew Jeff Coat was
• 27:22
  Speaker 15: after that.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely.
• 27:24
  Speaker 15: And my second question is about Damon Clark. Do you
• 27:27
  Speaker 15: think that he's Have you seen him make a nice
• 27:29
  Speaker 15: progression from year one where he was kind of struggling
• 27:32
  Speaker 15: with come back from injury. Have you seen him Mark,
• 27:34
  Speaker 15: He seems like he's moving better. To me, I would
• 27:36
  Speaker 15: just wonder what your tape was on him.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: All right, I appreciate that, my Damon Clark, and thanks
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: for call William Damone Clark. I think we're still, you know,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: still trying to get him to that to that level
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: of what he was in college. And that's that's for
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: a lot of young players. I mean, that's that's typically
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: the way it works. He still hasn't played a full
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: season in the NFL. He came in halfway through last year,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: didn't think he was even going going to play, so
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: that was kind of the cherry on top. I still
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: think he's he's, you know, recognizing things is still kind
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: of a challenge for him because once you see it,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: you'll be able to play faster. He's still I think
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: in that in that process. He had eight eight tackles
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: in the game the other day. I'll be honest, I
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: didn't remember a lot of them. I do think there
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: were some times he had trouble getting off blocks. So
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: he's still to me in in a progress. But I
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: think he's got all the tools. He's a big, strong,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: fast guy. He's going to be a good player. I
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: think he you know, he stays stays next to uh
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Leyton vander USh, He's going to be a really really
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: good player. All right. As for Harvey Martin yet, you
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: know Harvey Martin, Uh he was. He was great. You know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: I didn't really get I followed him a little bit,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: you know, when I was really young. He was kind
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: of at the end of his career. Heard a lot
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: of great stories. And you talk to people that have
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: been around for a long time, and they think, well,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: which player deserves to be in the Ring of Honor
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: the most? That isn't I mean, Harvey Martin's name gets
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: up there a lot. There's he just he was the
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: all time leader in sacks until DeMarcus Ware came in,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean he would he would be a
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: guy I think you need to throw in there Uh,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: and at least into the consideration, I mean ever since
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Walls would be one for me.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I know Cornell Green gets mentioned some Charlie Waters you
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: just from from that era.
• 29:29
  Speaker 15: Uh.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: And then when you start, you know, getting into some
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: of the you know, some of the guys here in
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: the last few years. Uh. You know that that's happening
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: as well, DeMarcus Ware. I mean obviously that that is
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: going to happen this year a Seattle game, I believe.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: But but yeah, I mean I'm witting Tony Romo. I
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: can imagine that happened. But Harvey Martin certainly is a
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: guy that they could throw in the mix there. All right,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: James in Midland, Texas? James, what's up man? James?
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: You there?
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: All right? Let's move to another another guy. Let's go
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: to uh, go to David and for Worth.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: Yeaes, sir, hear David.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: What's up man?
• 30:10
  Speaker 16: I'm doing well, sir.
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: How are you today?
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: I'm good, They're good.
• 30:13
  Speaker 13: Hey.
• 30:14
  Speaker 16: I just wanted to touch on the defense. I remember
• 30:17
  Speaker 16: calling after the New York Giants came and I said,
• 30:19
  Speaker 16: you know, don't get too high on the defense because
• 30:21
  Speaker 16: you low on the offense. And I just want to
• 30:22
  Speaker 16: maybe remind people the same thing about this time, like,
• 30:24
  Speaker 16: don't get too low on the defense. I mean, you know,
• 30:28
  Speaker 16: defenses have bad games.
• 30:29
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 30:29
  Speaker 16: Let's hope that they don't try to I hope that
• 30:31
  Speaker 16: they don't try to overcorrect, because we really don't know
• 30:34
  Speaker 16: who this defense is yet, you know. I mean, I
• 30:35
  Speaker 16: feel like they're going to go back watch the film,
• 30:38
  Speaker 16: read their keys, and then come back and be that
• 30:40
  Speaker 16: defense that we believe that they.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: Could be, and I hope that they are.
• 30:43
  Speaker 16: I also wanted to touch on I'm looking forward to
• 30:45
  Speaker 16: this Christian Gonzales versus Cedee Lamb matchup. Christian Zalaz is
• 30:49
  Speaker 16: a local kid. I think I heard Brian Bodis talking
• 30:51
  Speaker 16: about him. He's a pretty good, pretty good corner man,
• 30:54
  Speaker 16: the young guy. I want to see how he matches
• 30:56
  Speaker 16: up against Cede Lamb. Hopefully Lamb eats his lunch, if.
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: I thought may.
• 31:01
  Speaker 16: I wanted to talk about tying a lot of people
• 31:03
  Speaker 16: have been talking about tying in your in your show
• 31:05
  Speaker 16: the last couple of weeks, you know, and I just
• 31:08
  Speaker 16: I just from what I'm seeing from my uneducated eye,
• 31:11
  Speaker 16: when he's out there, he's still the goat man.
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: He's still really, really good.
• 31:16
  Speaker 16: His problem has always been staying healthy. But when you've
• 31:19
  Speaker 16: got something that good, he don't just throw it away,
• 31:21
  Speaker 16: you right, it until the wheels fall off, until he
• 31:23
  Speaker 16: can't go no more, you know. And I don't think
• 31:25
  Speaker 16: that that's that time just yet. I think he still
• 31:28
  Speaker 16: got a lot. And then my last thing, really quick,
• 31:30
  Speaker 16: My favorite Marying Barber thing is what a lot of
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  Speaker 16: people probably remember is the greatest two yard run of
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  Speaker 16: all time. I think it was in two thousand and
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  Speaker 16: seven against the Patriots when he broke like I think
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  Speaker 16: I may be wrong, but I think it was like
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  Speaker 16: six hundred and forty seven tackles, yeah, and he got
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  Speaker 16: to two yards.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So it's wanting to be real quick.
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  Speaker 14: Man.
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  Speaker 16: I appreciate you taking my call, and I hope you
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  Speaker 16: have a great day.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Thank you, David, appreciate that. A lot of
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: stuff there. Yeah, the Marion Barber two yard run. We
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  Speaker 2: mentioned that, and we did documentary this past month on
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: the two thousand and five draft classes is called Class
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: of two thousand and five. We got to sit down
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Burnett, de Marcus Ware Marcus Spears also interviewed Chris
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  Speaker 2: Canty and they talked about Marion Barber as well. It
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  Speaker 2: was a really nice tribute, I thought to Marion, and
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  Speaker 2: they did mention they thought the greatest two yard run
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  Speaker 2: of all time in that New England game, which with
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  Speaker 2: us playing New England, maybe we should show that, maybe
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  Speaker 2: we should a good opportunity to throw that back out there.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Christian Gonzales rookie from He's from the Colony, Texas, which
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: is a place very close to where I live in
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: the colony. But he's gone up against Tyreek Hill, A J. Brown,
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  Speaker 2: DeVante Smith, Garrett Wilson. I mean, he's he's you know,
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  Speaker 2: for the first three games, he's a player that is
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  Speaker 2: catching people's eyes like, oh, this could be defensive Rookie
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  Speaker 2: of the Year. He's played really well and he's those
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: are the guys that he's already had to face. So
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  Speaker 2: he's he's answered the challenge right off the bat, and
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: so that that's exciting for him, and I know Patriot
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  Speaker 2: fans are excited about the way he is, so uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's gonna be a good matchup too. And like you
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  Speaker 2: said about the defense that they're, you know, we're still
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out what they are now because what
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: they were week one and two was, you know, an
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  Speaker 2: aggressive defense with with arguably the best one of the
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: best pass rushers in the NFL, and then a lot
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: of good pass rushers behind him. Uh, solid linebackers, and
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  Speaker 2: then one of the best cover corners in the NFL
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  Speaker 2: in a big group of safeties as well.
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  Speaker 8: Well.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Now one of those is gone and Trayvon Diggs, So
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: now you've got good corners.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Stefan Gilmore has been really great in his career. I
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  Speaker 2: think he's he's he's really good right now. Deron Blanz
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  Speaker 2: getting to that stage as well. So they they have
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: to figure out how to play like this. That first
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  Speaker 2: game against the Arizona was not, hopefully for them, not
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  Speaker 2: indictive of how things are going to be. All right,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Kent and Las Cruses, New Mexico.
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  Speaker 15: Kent, what's up, hey, Morty?
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  Speaker 17: Nick?
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  Speaker 11: I called in a couple of weeks ago. We guys
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: were talking about our expectations for the season, and I said,
• 34:12
  Speaker 11: I felt like anything short of a Super Bowl is
• 34:14
  Speaker 11: going to be a bust. And then they gave us
• 34:17
  Speaker 11: the lack of discipline in Arizona and got my expectations
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  Speaker 11: back in order.
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  Speaker 15: I guess my biggest.
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  Speaker 11: Concern this week is what are they doing for the
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  Speaker 11: offensive line? And how limited are we going to be
• 34:29
  Speaker 11: on our play calling?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I that's a good question. I mean, I
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: I think I think the uh, the offensive line, I
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: think it has to be a little bit limited, you
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. I think you you do need
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: to to to you know, scale it back in some ways.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: You got to make sure that the offensive line is
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: capable of being comfortable out there. I mean, that's what
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: what they need to do, is is is when they
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: when they make the calls, don't don't overextend what these
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: guys can or cannot do. And so I think it'll
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: be a little bit different, even if the same guys
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: are out this week. I think it'll be different just
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: from the simple standpoint of these guys are getting more practice, reps.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: They weren't just thrown into it. It was a mess
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: just being on the field thirty or an hour before
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: the game, trying to figure out who's playing, who's not playing,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: is tiring out there? Is he going to go? And
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: I think that it was kind of a whirlwind and
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: the twenty four hours leading up to the game on
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: what's going to happen with the offensive line? They moved
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the ball pretty well, but they did have some breakdowns.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: So I do think that it'll be better for them
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: if it's a situation where they're practicing a little bit more.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the calls again. Here we've
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: got Camille in Texakana, Texas. Camille, how are you?
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  Speaker 17: I'm doing great? How are you doing?
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: I'm doing good. You sound a lot like somebody I know. Man, Yeah,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: you do? You sound like my mother? Actually, oh, this
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: is one of those moments right here. This is my
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: mother right here. I don't call her that. I call her.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: I call her mom. So, Mom, what did I do
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: something wrong? But what happened? I mean, I I took
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: out the track. I've done everything I'm supposed to do.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: What what what happened?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 17: I just want to let you know I love.
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  Speaker 7: Your show, thank you.
• 36:14
  Speaker 17: And I've been following you for years and and years
• 36:17
  Speaker 17: and years and years.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Same I've been following you as well. Thank you.
• 36:23
  Speaker 17: And I love your books and your articles. I read
• 36:26
  Speaker 17: them all. But I do have a question for you.
• 36:28
  Speaker 17: Okay you might have already answered this already, but who
• 36:33
  Speaker 17: who did not play last week that we were missing?
• 36:37
  Speaker 17: That is healthy enough to come back this week. Who
• 36:40
  Speaker 17: are we going to see in the lineup?
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  Speaker 7: All right?
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Is there anything else? I don't want to I wouldn't
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: ever want to just cut you off and say thanks
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: for the call. So is is any anything.
• 36:49
  Speaker 17: Else I missed seeing you? And the family's doing great?
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: All right? Thank you? Thank you. That is my mother
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Camille from texter Canna, Texas. That's a good question. I mean,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I think I think Zach Martin has the best chance
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: of the guys that that that did not play last week,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Tyler Biattish. I still think it's a little bit of way,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: but he will find out today. Today's kind of a
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: big day. It's his Thursday. It was a big day
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: last week for for wrong reasons.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Let's let's maybe they kind of lessen the intensity a
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: little bit in practice. That's when Beatis got hurt last week,
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: and of course that's when Trayvon Diggs got hurt. But
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: I think Zach Martin probably has the best chance. But
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I will I will feel better about answering that once
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: we see practice uh later today. So I don't know
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: about you guys, but I mean my number one fan
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: has always been my mom, I mean always, and so
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: that doesn't change. I remember. I remember when I first
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: started working for the Cowboys. I was writing articles and
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: she would print them out and put them in a folder.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: And that was like two or three a day, and
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: she's like, here are the articles. And I'm like, you know,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know what, you know if the ink cartridges
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: are going to hold up here, because I'm gonna be
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: doing this for a while. You want to keep printing
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: out like that's that's great, but like it's you know,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: it's gonna you know. And then we started losing games
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: and she printed out, you know, Cowboys fall to the Eagles,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: and so she's like, I think I'm changing that. All right,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: let's go let's go back, Let's try this again. James
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  Speaker 2: in Midland, James, Hey.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, how you doing Nick, great show, brother.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Thank you appreciate it. Thanks for calling back.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Yeah, I lost the next one while ago.
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: But I wanted to say, I've been Cowboys paying since
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: I could walk, since back in the seventies and the
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: last championships, ninety ninety two season, the ninety three season,
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: and the ninety five season. I had kids those years,
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: but don't any expect me to have any more. So
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: that we can win super Bowls. But the thing I
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: want to say is that I'm beyond I'm past the
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: Cardinals game because that was just an anomaly in the
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: in the season, and I feel like it was something
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: that the team really needed because I believe that everybody
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: had started drinking the kool aid and thinking that, you
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: know that the team just had to get on the
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: field and just show up and they could beat anybody.
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: But they had to realize that the Cardinals have professional
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: players on that team to get paid as well, and
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: they couldn't just show up and win. But I think
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: the kicking the form that will wake them up and
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: let them really you have to be prepared. So that's
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: all I wanted to say. I hope you have a
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: good show and go Cowboys.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Thank you, James. Yeah, if that wasn't a wake up call,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: then you're just you're gonna stay asleep forever. I mean
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: that that that has got to be something that that
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: that game just to realize that you're right, I mean,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Arizona can beat you, and not only beat you, but
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: but they all played you. They are they all coached them,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: they all played them, They they schemed them. You know,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: that's That's what it was. And so you can't just
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: roll the ball out and say, well, we're gonna win
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: because we've got you know, Micah Parsons and you've got
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Dak in this. You know, Ceede Lamb. You can't do that,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: and that that was a good indication of that. So
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: I'd like to see how they respond. Like I said earlier,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: they have typically responded. Well, we haven't seen two losses
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: in a row really since I think twenty twenty so
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: the season. So I expect McCarthy to have them ready
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: this week. All right, last caller here, ge in New Jersey? Gee,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: what's up? Man?
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: What's up?
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: Nick?
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: Listen?
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  Speaker 14: Man?
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: Putting Arizona game behind this, I do think the boys
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: that come out rolling this week, it's gonna be a
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: good game because I do think New England has a way.
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: I mean, they have to go at coaching with Belichick,
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: and you know, defensively, they'll be ready. We know that
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: for sure. But I do have a point, Nick, I
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: want to get this. You know, I spoke to you
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: guys a few weeks ago and I said, speed on offense.
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: This might be the best team speed that we have
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: offensively in a long time. But I do think we're
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: lacking speed on defense right, Like if we watch the game,
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: you can notice that Gilmour and Layton Vandersch are slow
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: on the field. I want to know what you think
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: about that, And I also want to know what you
• 41:16
  Speaker 8: think about you know, upfront, I'm tired of musical chairs
• 41:21
  Speaker 8: on the offensive line.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: Would you consider if you were in a position sliding
• 41:26
  Speaker 8: Tyler back over to tackle, putting a doga at guard
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: and making Tyron, who's always hurt, uh the swing tackle
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: going forward so that we can preserve his health. Thank you, guys.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: The thing about about Tyron, as you know, I think
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: they're going to try if he's healthy to play. I
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: think he's going to try to you know, they're going
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: to try to make him a starter because I still
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: think that he's he's a he's a really good player
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: when he when he's out there. I don't know all
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: of the details regarding his injury right now, but I
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: do think that that that there's some talk about everything's
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: on the table. I think I think Tyler is. I
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: think he's probably a really good guard. I mean, but
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: I think he can play tackle as well. And I
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: think the difference between him at tackle and guard is
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: not as great as the difference of Chu Manydoga at
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: guard and tackle. I think he's more of a guard.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure TJ. Bass isn't a better guard either.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: So it comes down to your five best linemen. It
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: always has. I know that's cliche, but it's true. It
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: does come down to the five best linemen that can
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: work together the best. And so I think, you know,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: if they can get Tyron healthy, then I you know,
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: I think Tyron and Tyler Smith on the left side
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: is your best combination. But if he's not, then I
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: think I think they probably will move Tyler Smith eventually
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: back to left tackle and then figure out one of
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: the guards at TUMA or by TJ. Bass. As for
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: team speed, yet speed is it matters on all sides
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: of the ball, and you know, I think we're seen
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: a little bit of that on the defensive side. But
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: it's also about awareness figuring that out. The moone. Clark
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: could probably run, you know, just as fast as any
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: of these guys out there, but sometimes when you're just
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: when it comes to awareness, you've got to figure that out.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Layton van Dersh is the same thing. I mean, I
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: think Layton's fast enough to to make plays. If you're
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: looking at the Rondale More touchdown, that was perfectly schemed
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: away from him. And he's not going to chase that
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: that running back. He's not gonna not gonna chase a
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: lot of those speedy running backs. But they you know,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Arizona did a nice job on that play. Let's just see,
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Let's see how it goes if if they're really lacking speed.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: They've played. They've moved around very fast the first two games.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: The third one kind of flat footed a little bit.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: We'll see if that's a trend. Obviously, we hope that
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: it is not. All right, let's go, uh, let's finish
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: the show because we do have a Mike McCarthy press
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: conference will be going now. Also, Cowboys break here in
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: a few minutes. They will go at eleven o'clock. So
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: we will see you guys tomorrow Friday. We'll talk and
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: make some predictions here on the Cowboys and the Patriots
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: for Chris beam My, Nick Eatman. We'll see tomorrow on
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Cowboys storyline.
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