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  Speaker 2: How about this, Cowboys?
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  Speaker 1: This is Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette, the official shave
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome to Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette. I'm Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 5: It is Friday, November the 6th. November the 6th. I'll
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  Speaker 5: start this off by remembering a year ago. Wow, I
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  Speaker 5: can't believe it's been a year. November the 6th, last
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  Speaker 5: year when we learned of the tragic passing of Marshawn Nealon.
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  Speaker 5: The Cowboys are doing a lot of things to honor him,
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  Speaker 5: remember him, make sure his legacy continues forever. And we'll have,
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  Speaker 5: we have a couple of articles about that. That'll be on,
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  Speaker 5: on our website. I know Patrick Walker's done a good
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  Speaker 5: job of, of getting all that information and writing articles.
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  Speaker 5: And then not only that, but talking to a lot
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  Speaker 5: of players yesterday and just kind of getting their, their
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  Speaker 5: thoughts and memories and, and just, you know, just their
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  Speaker 5: support for Marshawn's family and his legacy. So Cowboys, you know,
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  Speaker 5: transition from that. They got a game to play this
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  Speaker 5: week and they, They did a good job of honoring
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  Speaker 5: him last year and continuing to play, and so it's
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  Speaker 5: been a year now they'll do that the same, and
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  Speaker 5: they'll also got a game to go and got a
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  Speaker 5: game to play against the Colts this week, see if
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  Speaker 5: they can get this thing kind of turned around. Three
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  Speaker 5: and five is not where they need to be, obviously,
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  Speaker 5: and at eight games into this, still nine to play,
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  Speaker 5: but I wouldn't say time is running out, but it is,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the games are, Time is running out a
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  Speaker 5: little bit, especially if you're going to lose to the
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  Speaker 5: Bucs at home and the Cardinals at home and things
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  Speaker 5: like that. Then you have to stack wins. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I would say if you're going to play like they're playing, then, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: time is running out. See if they can change things around.
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  Speaker 5: All right, let's go to the phone lines. I'm in Napa.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a what's up?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, good morning, Nick.
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  Speaker 6: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Man, the other day, I had to call back in
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  Speaker 4: and just kind of try to redeem myself. The other day,
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  Speaker 4: you put it up on a tee for me, man,
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  Speaker 4: and I took a full.
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  Speaker 6: Swing butt, man.
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  Speaker 4: It was the best I could have did. You asked
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  Speaker 4: me for two things, and immediately 20 things came to mind. Man,
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  Speaker 4: it's still a bunch of frustration and stuff.
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  Speaker 6: But a couple of things I'd like to see this week.
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to see the defense come up with more.
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  Speaker 2: Of like a.
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  Speaker 7: I've.
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  Speaker 4: Heard some teams call it like a NASCAR formation or
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  Speaker 4: NASCAR blitz package or whatnot, where it's just where they
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  Speaker 4: put out four of their best speed rushers or four
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  Speaker 4: of their best pass rushers. And I'm not saying the
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys aren't trying to do that, but I'd like to,
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  Speaker 4: I guess, see Vaughn Miller be in there, I'd like
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  Speaker 4: to see him, you know, just start rolling out of
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  Speaker 4: bed with a couple of more sacks, like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you said you could do. But he has to play more,
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  Speaker 4: and he definitely has to be rushing the passer when
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  Speaker 4: he is playing. But, you know, just the combination of
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  Speaker 4: him as a rocker, I mean, you know, sucks about what's.
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  Speaker 6: Happening with Lawrence.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Gary, and then just even keeping Williams in there,
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  Speaker 4: but even moving him out and getting the James Houston
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  Speaker 4: or somebody in there, you know, they need all the
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  Speaker 4: pass rush so they can help. And another thing I'd
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  Speaker 4: like to see is, you know, we haven't seen like a–
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  Speaker 4: we really haven't seen like a corner blitz off the edge,
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  Speaker 4: you know, or, you know, from the slot spot. I
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  Speaker 4: think since– man, since Caleb did it week one in–
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  Speaker 4: He almost killed the Giants quarterback. But, yeah, we haven't
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  Speaker 4: seen it really since then, so I'd like to see
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  Speaker 4: a couple of those things. All right, I may.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate it. Thanks for the call. A couple of
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  Speaker 5: good points there. When you're talking about the NASCAR package
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  Speaker 5: or whatever for rushing the passer, you've got to get
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  Speaker 5: there in first and second down. You've got to earn
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  Speaker 5: the right to have a– you know, pin the ears
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  Speaker 5: back type of pass rush and say, we're not worried
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  Speaker 5: about you running the ball because third and six, third
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  Speaker 5: and five, when you're talking about putting defensive ends inside,
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  Speaker 5: like they do sometimes Rashawn Gary's inside, you know, you, you,
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  Speaker 5: you put some of these guys where you just have
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  Speaker 5: all pass rushers. Well, I'd run the ball. If you
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  Speaker 5: were to do that, I'd figure out a way to, to,
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  Speaker 5: to get them to, you know, find, find a crease,
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  Speaker 5: find a lane there and, and run the ball at times. Um,
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  Speaker 5: and so, you know, it, that, that's, that's why to
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  Speaker 5: do that, you've got to, you've got to make some
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  Speaker 5: stops behind the line of scrimmage or a penalty or whatever,
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  Speaker 5: force them back into third and, and, you know, 12,
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  Speaker 5: third and 13. Then I would just say, all right, we're, we're,
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  Speaker 5: we're going full steam ahead here. So that's, that's part
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  Speaker 5: of it too. But, um, you know, I, I, I
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  Speaker 5: haven't ever seen a lot of success with, you know,
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  Speaker 5: there are certain players that can do it. Like DeMarcus
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  Speaker 5: Lawrence could do that. You know, he could slide in
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  Speaker 5: there and still be pretty effective. Tyrone Crawford kind of
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  Speaker 5: played his whole career in and out like that. But,
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  Speaker 5: you know, a lot of times you put defensive ends
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  Speaker 5: inside there, you know, that they're not really going to
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  Speaker 5: be that effective because they're still going up against guards
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  Speaker 5: and not a lot of space there. So I haven't
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  Speaker 5: always loved that, but if you're going to do it,
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  Speaker 5: you've got to do it in situations where you know
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  Speaker 5: that they're not going to run it. All right, Davion
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  Speaker 5: in Illinois, what's up?
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  Speaker 6: What it do, what it do, my boy? What's the
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  Speaker 6: business here?
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  Speaker 5: How you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Man, doing well. Happy for hopefully turning the page this week.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see. First and foremost, RIP to Marshawn Nealon and
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  Speaker 6: the fam. Shouts out to them. Hopefully everything is going
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  Speaker 6: well with us. kid and the, and the girlfriend, um,
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  Speaker 6: definitely wanted to just get my shots out for that. Um,
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  Speaker 6: and of course, you know, listen to the show. I
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  Speaker 6: have a couple of days and, um, you know, stuff
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  Speaker 6: on his social media period. Uh, my thoughts on, um,
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  Speaker 6: certain things. One of the things that really just, just
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  Speaker 6: triggers me, um, just to this talk of a trade deck, um,
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  Speaker 6: As long as Jerry is still walking around doing his thing,
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  Speaker 6: I don't think Dak's going anywhere. Honestly, I think, to
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  Speaker 6: be honest, I think he's probably going to get re-signed
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  Speaker 6: this offseason. But I don't think we're ever going to
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  Speaker 6: try to trade Dak to try to do anything for us,
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  Speaker 6: tanking or anything like that. I don't know why. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I guess I know why people do it, because they
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  Speaker 6: don't really like Dak. But I don't think it's ever
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  Speaker 6: going to happen. I think he's going to retire a
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  Speaker 6: cowboy or something. I wish people just kind of can,
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  Speaker 6: I guess, be that way and understand that. But neither
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  Speaker 6: here nor there. I think the way we beat the Colts, honestly,
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  Speaker 6: it just stopped the run and don't let Danny Jones
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  Speaker 6: turn into Danny Dimes. Really just try to keep it simple,
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  Speaker 6: keep everything in front of you because I don't think
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  Speaker 6: the Colts are playing really well. They're trying to sell
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  Speaker 6: off pieces anyway. I think if we do that, I
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  Speaker 6: think we'll be fine. I had a question for you,
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  Speaker 6: and then I'm going to give you my prediction. All right.
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  Speaker 6: What should be Shottie's main focus of the offense this week,
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  Speaker 6: being balanced or getting aggressive early and just getting on
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  Speaker 6: the team early to try to put them away early?
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  Speaker 6: I think we're going to win the game 31-20. because
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  Speaker 6: we don't win games scoring less than 30 anyway. So
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to pick 30 every week until we show
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  Speaker 6: we can do that.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Davion.
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  Speaker 5: Appreciate the call. 30 is not getting it done either sometimes.
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  Speaker 5: 34 has been the number that the Cowboys can win
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  Speaker 5: when they get over that. They've lost two games when
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  Speaker 5: they've scored 30 and 31 this year. But, yeah, that's a–
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  Speaker 5: It's a shot to the defense. I mean, that's still
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  Speaker 5: what that is. Now, to answer your question, you know,
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  Speaker 5: should you be balanced? Should you be aggressive? I mean,
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  Speaker 5: is it wrong to say that you could strive for
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  Speaker 5: both here? I mean, you can be, you know, aggressively balanced.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think that there's a— that' s kind of what
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  Speaker 5: I was saying yesterday, and I still believe that. That's
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  Speaker 5: why you're here. That's why you spend all these hours
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  Speaker 5: here working, trying to figure out ways where you can
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  Speaker 5: be aggressive in your approach and still— you know, be
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  Speaker 5: balanced at it. I mean, they can run the football and,
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  Speaker 5: you know, be attacking. That's kind of what it was
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  Speaker 5: against Philly. I thought that, you know, they ran the
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  Speaker 5: ball really well, but there were some times where they
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  Speaker 5: threw it down the field and they got CD schemed
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  Speaker 5: open and pickings and they went and made plays. And
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  Speaker 5: so that's what I'd like to see. You know, you
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  Speaker 5: want them, like part of me wants them to say, hey,
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  Speaker 5: get on them early, get a lead. And then see
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  Speaker 5: what happens, because will the Colts continue to run Jonathan Taylor?
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  Speaker 5: Will they change quarterbacks? Is changing quarterbacks a good thing?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, like a backup quarterbacks to this team is
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  Speaker 5: not been good So, you know, Daniel Jones is probably
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  Speaker 5: going to play some. And if it doesn't go well,
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  Speaker 5: I think they're going to switch to the to Richardson.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if that's good or bad. Like at
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  Speaker 5: this point, you know, backups have been kryptonite for the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't know. And I don't think you should
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  Speaker 5: anybody should stop running. I mean, Cardinals were down 14
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  Speaker 5: in the fourth and ran the ball and got back
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  Speaker 5: in the game running the ball. So I don't know
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  Speaker 5: if they're ever really going to. gonna do that it
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  Speaker 5: the cowboys do need to get on them early but
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  Speaker 5: but i i still think the colts will probably stick
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  Speaker 5: to their game plan may not be the same quarterback
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  Speaker 5: doing it though ronnie in uh jersey is next.
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  Speaker 7: Hey nick how you doing good how you doing not
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  Speaker 7: too bad not too bad um i was just wondering
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  Speaker 7: because um We're playing against basically a team that traded
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  Speaker 7: away a bunch of players and all that stuff. So
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  Speaker 7: I've been listening to the guys talk during the week
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  Speaker 7: and the coaches and Christian Parker and everything. And they
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  Speaker 7: were mentioning about, I'm not saying that they're pointing fingers,
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  Speaker 7: but they're being a little bit more honest in the
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  Speaker 7: sense that the players, even the players are admitting some
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  Speaker 7: guys are basically not doing their jobs. when they started
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  Speaker 7: saying we got to pay more attention to detail, we
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  Speaker 7: got to do it during practice, and not expect it
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  Speaker 7: to happen on Sunday, do you put that on the
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  Speaker 7: players or are you putting that on the coaching? Because
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  Speaker 7: if you're seeing that some of these players are not,
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  Speaker 7: or they're making the mistakes during practice, and then they
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  Speaker 7: make those mistakes during the game, who will you point
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  Speaker 7: that finger at? Not point the finger at, but who
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  Speaker 7: are you blaming for that? Thanks for taking my call, Nick,
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  Speaker 7: and I'll listen to your answer on the other line. Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. You know, that's always the age-old question there. Is
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  Speaker 5: it coaching? Is it the players? It's not really a
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  Speaker 5: cop-out to say that it could be both. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: they all have jobs to do. And, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: can say, I do think it starts with coaching, but
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  Speaker 5: I think, you know, coaching, the people that are old
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  Speaker 5: enough to remember back in the day, remember older coaches
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  Speaker 5: that had a different, you know, philosophy and all that,
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  Speaker 5: like all that's out the window now, you know what
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  Speaker 5: I mean? Because you have to figure out how to
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  Speaker 5: coach this new generation of players and to the point where,
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  Speaker 5: you know, they find them for missing meetings or late
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  Speaker 5: to meetings or late to this and late to that.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there, there's, it's been well-documented what, you know,
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  Speaker 5: George Pickens has been fined a lot. Does it matter?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, like, you know, these guys get fined. It's
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  Speaker 5: not just Pickens, it's other players, but, but, you know, penalties,
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  Speaker 5: things like that, like, you know, discipline situations and you
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  Speaker 5: got to figure out what, what, what to do to
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  Speaker 5: discipline these guys because money's not doing it necessarily. When
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  Speaker 5: it comes to, like, mistakes and things like that on
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  Speaker 5: the field, stuff that's happening in practice, I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 5: sure it's pointed out by the coaches and meetings and
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  Speaker 5: all that. And then it's up to the players to also,
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  Speaker 5: you know, fix it themselves. And so that's why I
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  Speaker 5: say it is both. because you can say, well, it's
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  Speaker 5: just coaching. The coaches aren't doing that. If you can't,
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  Speaker 5: if they can't do it, then get other players in,
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  Speaker 5: but you don't want that. You know, what, what, what if,
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  Speaker 5: if you're like, all right, why is Mingo out there starting?
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  Speaker 5: Why is it Mingo and Flannoy here? You know, in
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  Speaker 5: this game, you're like, well, it's because Pickens and CD
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  Speaker 5: made some mistakes in practice. You know, you, you cool
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  Speaker 5: with that? I mean, like, cause that, that, that's what happens.
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  Speaker 5: And so it's just, it's a balance and I'm not,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not trying to dance around it. Cause it's, it's both.
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  Speaker 5: It's a, The coaches have to put the material there
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  Speaker 5: for these players to understand it and grasp it and
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  Speaker 5: take it to the field on Sundays. That's what the
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  Speaker 5: coach's job is. But the players also have to have
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  Speaker 5: the discipline to do it. And that's not happening. It's
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  Speaker 5: a disconnect there. And so I put, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: got 10 fingers. I can point them in multiple directions here.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Let's go to our next caller. Whoever it is.
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  Speaker 5: Next caller. J.R. J.R., what's up, man?
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  Speaker 7: How you doing, Nick?
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 5: How are you?
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  Speaker 7: Getting better. Getting better.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, so I.
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  Speaker 8: Found out this year, which I find hard to believe
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  Speaker 8: since we have a and they haven't had to tell
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  Speaker 8: you how.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, JR. Hopefully you can call back. I didn't get
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  Speaker 5: any of that. Let's go to Travis in Utah.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, Nick.
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  Speaker 9: Happy Friday.
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  Speaker 5: How are you doing, man?
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  Speaker 9: Doing good. Looking forward to hopefully a rebound, a bounce
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  Speaker 9: back on Sunday here.
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  Speaker 5: I've got a.
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  Speaker 9: Question about the last game. I know we're getting ready
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  Speaker 9: for the Colts here, but I think we all saw
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  Speaker 9: our defense I felt they clamped down pretty well on
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  Speaker 9: Jacoby Brissett the first three quarters or so. And then,
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  Speaker 9: you know, Minshew comes in and suddenly our defense doesn't
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  Speaker 9: look anything like it was before. And so is it,
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  Speaker 9: did our defense just over-prepare for one scheme? And so
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  Speaker 9: you throw in a new scheme in the middle of
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  Speaker 9: the game and we don't have an answer and we
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  Speaker 9: can't adjust? Or is it that... you know, some schemes
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  Speaker 9: are cornerbacks just, uh, maybe we're, we're trying to be
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  Speaker 9: too complicated in our coverage. And I know we don't
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  Speaker 9: want to be too simple, but maybe that makes it
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  Speaker 9: too easy for the quarterback. But I can't, I've just
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  Speaker 9: been thinking about it all week. What, what, what changed
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  Speaker 9: so drastically that we just couldn't adjust to that change.
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  Speaker 9: And hopefully the Colts don't, I don't mean, I don't,
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  Speaker 9: I haven't studied their team too much, but hopefully they
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  Speaker 9: don't try, try just to swap in the middle of
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  Speaker 9: the game like that. And, suddenly we don't have an.
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  Speaker 5: Answer yeah i i don't think it was a major
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  Speaker 5: scheme change i really don't i i i don't think
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  Speaker 5: they came in and changed anything up they ran the
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  Speaker 5: ball a couple of times and got a big big
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  Speaker 5: runs um the runs that the cowboys were stopping and
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  Speaker 5: then they they didn't and so um you know and
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  Speaker 5: and cowboys had some injury changes there in the in
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  Speaker 5: the fourth quarter you know to have porter out and
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  Speaker 5: and downs out you know that's that that was significant
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  Speaker 5: but And thanks for the call, Travis. Appreciate that. You know,
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  Speaker 5: that was a significant change there in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the last couple of drives. But, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't see the backup coming in and doing major,
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  Speaker 5: you know, changes. I just think they got them on
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  Speaker 5: a couple of big runs, and, you know.
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  Speaker 2: That.
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  Speaker 5: Allowed them to stay in the course, stay in there,
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  Speaker 5: and they just hung around. That's a true definition of
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  Speaker 5: just hanging around and not getting blown out. to the
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  Speaker 5: point where you don't have to abandon anything. You can
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  Speaker 5: stick to what you're doing. And sometimes, you know, just
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  Speaker 5: a little bit of change is good. And, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and Minshew's the right person for that. I mean, as
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  Speaker 5: soon as he got inserted into the game, I looked
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  Speaker 5: over at Derek and said, I don't know if I
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  Speaker 5: like this. Because I feel like he's a better player
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  Speaker 5: than Brissette. And, you know, now he's starting. Well, they
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  Speaker 5: traded Brissette, so, I mean, everything's kind of changing. But,
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: you know, I just think it was a situation where
• 17:51
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• 17:55
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• 17:59
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• 18:04
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• 18:07
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  Speaker 5: We got William in West Virginia. William, what's up?
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: How we doing, Nick?
• 20:16
  Speaker 12: OG from West Virginia.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: All right. How you doing?
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Doing pretty good.
• 20:20
  Speaker 12: You can tell I raised my daughter, right, because I
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: got her calling in there now.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: So, you know, you can tell I did something right there.
• 20:27
  Speaker 12: My question for you is this. I'm still kind of
• 20:31
  Speaker 12: reeling from that Cardinals game, and I have.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: A question about that.
• 20:35
  Speaker 12: They did the interior of the line, and I really
• 20:37
  Speaker 12: like Booker and Tyler Smith. They did so good against
• 20:41
  Speaker 12: Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis. And then the struggle against
• 20:45
  Speaker 12: the Cardinals like that. I know Stills played at WVU,
• 20:48
  Speaker 12: and he was good.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Don't get me wrong.
• 20:49
  Speaker 12: I always wanted us to get him. But it was
• 20:51
  Speaker 12: such a drop-off. Do you have any idea why they
• 20:54
  Speaker 12: struggled with him off the top.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Of your head? I think they got out-schemed. I mean, honestly,
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: I just don't believe. Strength travels. You're strong, you're strong, right?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: And so.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: They have that. I think that Arizona absolutely. out-schemed them
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: to the point where they were just one step ahead
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: of them almost the entire game.
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: You're already with Clayton Adams probably.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah, probably.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, but shouldn't it go the other way too?
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean? But they just kind of
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: had their number and everything the Cowboys dialed up from that,
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: it just was like Arizona was one step ahead. And
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: that's not an excuse. That's actually a problem. you know,
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: because this team isn't, and Jerry Jones said it on Tuesday.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: He's like, this wasn't a team that you could look
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: at and say, you know, they're going to give us
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: a lot of problems. I think, again, it comes into
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: the overconfidence of, especially, and I've seen this happens when
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: you have big, strong, you know, running attacks where we're
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: just going to overpower you. So it doesn't really matter
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: what you do and what you put in front of us,
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: because we're going to, you know, just move you out
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: of the way. That's what happened against Philly. And, Again,
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: it's an overconfidence that it carries with this team, whether
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: it be offense, defense, whatever it is. They just don't
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: handle it, and they don't figure out how to say,
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: all right, that worked. let's take some of that and
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: let's build off of it. Let's do something a little
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: bit different here, but let, you know, with the same principles,
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: it just doesn't feel like they do that. And, and they,
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: they went almost like they carried the same thing into
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: the Arizona game. Arizona was ready for him. And the
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Cowboys had no answer for the entire four plus quarters
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: of that game.
• 22:41
  Speaker 12: I'm hoping they put out the wind this week. So
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: I can say, but let's keep, let's keep the positivity.
• 22:45
  Speaker 12: Hopefully we can turn it around.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the show.
• 22:48
  Speaker 12: Keep doing what you're doing.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Thanks William. I appreciate it. And you know, I, the
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Cowboys seem, you know, they, they're, they're kind of a
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: bounce back team. You know, they, they, they have lost
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: a couple in a row, but, but it's, you know, they, they'll,
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: they'll bounce back pretty good. I think in a game
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: like this, get their attention, but that's, you know, that,
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: that's kind of always the problem here is, is that
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: they can never stack, you know, wins together. And it's
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: been going on for a while, you know, and it's, is,
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: is it a mindset thing or is it just, you know,
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: just a mediocre mindset? football team that you win and
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: you lose and you win and you lose and you
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: finish eight and eight, eight, nine, whatever it is. And
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: so that's kind of what, what, what we've seen around here. So,
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: you know, we'll see, we'll see how they, how they
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: bounce back at Indianapolis as a team that doesn't, you know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: they don't stop the run that well and they, they
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: weren't stopping it before they traded, you know, DeForest Buckner.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: So we'll see how, how they, how they are against
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: the run. You know, they, they got, they got beat
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: last week pretty bad by the Jaguars who, are doing
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: that to Baltimore too. So, you know, I, is that,
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: is that who Indianapolis is or are they facing a
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Jacksonville team that is really, really good right now? Short
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: week didn't matter. They went in there and took care
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: of business on the road. So that's a team the
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Cowboys get to face later in the season as well.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Kevin in New Jersey.
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: Hey Nick. Good to talk to you.
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: You too.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: I'm doing pretty good. Um, I've been listening all week,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: and I don't know. You know, Cowboy fans are just
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: sort of searching for answers. But your show's great, obviously.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, I told you that before.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Hey, I'm searching for answers, too. Thanks, Kevin, for the compliment.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: But I'm searching. We're all searching for answers, you know?
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just crazy.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's a good place where you can kind
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: of listen and feel like you're a part of a
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: bunch of people feeling terrible. So, you know, but it's great.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: It's a great show.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: But listening all week, I know there's a lot of, like,
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: discussion about, like, who's to blame, you.
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Know, right? And I guess you could say it to everybody.
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: That's fine.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: But I would kind of lean toward the coaching, to
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: be perfectly honest with you. And let me put it
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: in perspective. I live up in central New Jersey, so
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: it's kind of in between the Eagles and the Giants.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: And all of my family are Giant fans. And, you know,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: my extended family, uncles, aunts, whatever. And at the beginning
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: of the season with the first game, the Giants-Cowboys, I
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: congratulated them. obviously for the win but I also said
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: to them you know what you got a good coach
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: you got John Harbaugh and he's a difference maker in
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: my opinion and I think it's easy to see if
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: you look at the Ravens this year versus years past
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: like they're just not the same there's something different and
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I do believe I think the Giants are going to
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: win the division because of Harbaugh and I think you
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: look at our team and you look at the talent
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: across the NFL I just feel like these teams, there's
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: not a huge disparity in the terms of the roster talent.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: And once in a while, you get a player that
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: comes along and makes a huge difference.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: But, you know, for the most.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Part, we've seen players that come into this system and
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: they used to be great. Now they look average or
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: you take somebody like, you know, Deron Bland, who was
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: getting paid all this money and all of a sudden
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: just doesn't seem like he's that special. And I just
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: feel like it's the system that really makes the difference.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: And it's, the in-game decisions and the clock management at
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: the end of the half. And I'm not going to
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: belabor the point. I'm just trying to emphasize to you
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: that I feel like in New York, things are on
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: the up. You know, they've got somebody in place that
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: knows how to make the right decisions at the right
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: circumstances of the game. And I feel like that's a
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: problem for us right now. And I think, unfortunately, it's
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: not going to get fixed anytime soon, but, um, Like
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: I said, I think the Giants are going to win
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: the division, and I'm not trying to be like a
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Debbie Downer. I'm just saying this is the reality of it,
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: and I unfortunately think the Cowboys are going to lose
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: this weekend to the Colts because I just don't think
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: we can stop the run. So that's where I'm going
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: to leave it. Anyway, I love the show. I'm a
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: huge Cowboy fan. I know I sound down, but that's
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: just the way I see things right now.
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: Thanks, Nick. Fair.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: All right, thanks.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: You make good points about who's to blame and all
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: that kind of stuff. You know, when you see players
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: that have played better in other systems, other teams, other cities,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: it's easy to point at the coaching. And I'm not
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: saying you shouldn't. You know, whatever. I mean, do they
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: all just fall off a cliff at the same time?
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: I mean, does Rashawn Gary just completely now is not
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: the same player that he was in Green Bay?
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: You know, I had....
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: A hard time thinking that, you know? And, you know,
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: we've seen, so that's just one example, you know what
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: I mean? We've, but we've seen that last couple of
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: years too. Some, some, you know, they bring in linebackers
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: that had some success and then they just, just not
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: getting it done here. Safeties, you know, we haven't really
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: seen a lot out of Jalen Thompson to, to say,
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: you know, what type of player he is or Kobe Durant,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: PJ Locke. There's been injuries really to all of those guys. But, But, yeah,
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think the coaching staff should get a
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: lot of the blame here. They're not as prepared as
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: they need to be during the week. They're not ready
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: to play in certain games. They haven't had clean endings
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: to games and halves and things like that. So I'm
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: one that tries to give credit to coaching when they
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: deserve it, like when Philadelphia game, when Shottie, I thought,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: called a really good game. But, you know... He came back,
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: you know, to an Arizona game, and I don't think
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: he did. He certainly didn't, you know. I mean, you're
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: going to run 27 plays to end the game, and
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: you get 34 yards. I mean, you'd like to think
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: there's a 40-yard pass to Pickens in there at some point.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: So that's not efficient at all, and that's just not
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: handling the game the right way. There's so many things,
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: as NFL Network is showing us, these Minshew highlights and
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: it's just like, there's so many plays in the game
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: where it just goes like one or two plays just
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: goes the other way. We're talking about a different win,
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: a different game and a win. Dylan in North Port,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: Florida is next. Dylan.
• 29:13
  Speaker 13: Hey, Hey man. Somebody mentioned a little bit ago about
• 29:17
  Speaker 13: the lack of success, you know, running the ball. And
• 29:21
  Speaker 13: I think one of the issues they have, I looked
• 29:23
  Speaker 13: up some numbers and, And they rank 29th in outside
• 29:28
  Speaker 13: run rate, and they're, like, the second, I think, second-ranked
• 29:31
  Speaker 13: team in inside run rate. So, like, you've got 53
• 29:33
  Speaker 13: yards to use, but they're stuck using the seven between
• 29:36
  Speaker 13: the tackles more than almost anybody else.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: In the league.
• 29:39
  Speaker 13: And we can't run screen to receivers can't run screens
• 29:41
  Speaker 13: to running backs like if they're trying to get any
• 29:44
  Speaker 13: sort of short game going it's just runs between the
• 29:46
  Speaker 13: tackles and i think you've got to figure out a
• 29:48
  Speaker 13: way to make these linebackers and these safeties cover you
• 29:52
  Speaker 13: play the whole 53 yards instead of the seven that's
• 29:55
  Speaker 13: a big difference and so i don't know what that
• 29:56
  Speaker 13: means you got to spread these guys out more You
• 29:58
  Speaker 13: need your receivers to block if you're trying to get
• 30:00
  Speaker 13: that going, which they haven't up to this point, and
• 30:03
  Speaker 13: that's one of the problems with pickings, obviously. But I
• 30:07
  Speaker 13: don't know. I'm not a guy that designs plays or
• 30:09
  Speaker 13: anything like that, but I just think that number is
• 30:11
  Speaker 13: way too imbalanced where your running threat is literally inside
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: of tackles, and that's all you've got. You're counting your
• 30:17
  Speaker 13: three big guys in the middle to get the job done.
• 30:19
  Speaker 13: When they don't, it's just game over, I guess. There's
• 30:23
  Speaker 13: nothing else you do.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:25
  Speaker 13: I don't know if this week they get that going,
• 30:27
  Speaker 13: but that's something I'm watching for. And, you know, if
• 30:32
  Speaker 13: the big three can't get going, they've got to figure
• 30:34
  Speaker 13: out another way to get the short game going and
• 30:36
  Speaker 13: get these meticulous drives down the line on field 11
• 30:38
  Speaker 13: and just trying to get these short passes over the
• 30:40
  Speaker 13: middle because, you know, it's just not working. The slams
• 30:42
  Speaker 13: aren't working. The short run game's not working.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: So, I don't know, man. I don't know.
• 30:46
  Speaker 13: That's kind of just the numbers I found. There's a
• 30:48
  Speaker 13: lot of I don't know's going on right now, I think.
• 30:50
  Speaker 13: I don't think the coaches know. I don't think we know.
• 30:52
  Speaker 13: I just think there's a bad blend of player failure
• 30:55
  Speaker 13: and coach failure right now, and it's resulting in, I guess,
• 30:58
  Speaker 13: kind of where we're at.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: And, you know, thanks for the call, Dylan. And we've,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: you know, there's at least, I don't know, five, six
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: analytics coaches on this team. Coaches that are analytics. Analytics members,
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: staff on this team. And that's their job is to,
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: you know, find those kind of things, too. That's kind
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: of what quality control is. you know, was, but it's,
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: it's now kind of turned into more of the analytics,
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: but you're seeing it and you're doing the research on that.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: That that's something that they've, they've got to be seen.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: And that's what opposing teams are seeing too. This team
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: doesn't like to run the outside. They don't really have
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: the players to do it. And Javante is not that
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: kind of runner really. And they don't really try it much.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: And so we're going to make sure that they don't,
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: you know, they don't beat us on the inside here
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: and things like that. Well, you know, that's, That's one
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: that's got to be self-scouted. And that's the thing. People
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: ask this question all the time. They don't watch a
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: lot of football. They're like, why are they running right
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: up the middle? They're running up the middle so they
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: can kind of create other things for it. And that's
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: just the thing that I don't think the Cowboys do
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: a great job at. They don't actually run plays to
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: set up others. Pitch the ball to the outside to Javante.
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: If it's not his thing, that's fine. But at least
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: it's going out there. At least the linebacker's running for it. So, Dylan,
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: I think you make a really good point there, especially
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: when you see a discrepancy. It should never be that way.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: You should never have that. You know, just like the
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: other day with the Packers game where there was, you know,
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: 30-something passes in a row. You should never have that.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: And so you can't create any balance when you're doing
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: that kind of stuff.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: So, anyways.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: I did talk to Tyler Goodson this week. You know,
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: he played three years for the Colts, and so he
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: was pretty excited about the opportunity to go back. He's
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: playing a little bit more. He's a guy that can
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: kind of get the ball to the outside. But, again,
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: it can't just be Javante runs inside, Tyler Goodson goes outside.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: It can't be that way. It wasn't that way when
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: it was Pollard and Zeke. They both do all of
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: the running because you can't just there and just let,
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: you know, basically your defense just tee off on what
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: they expect. All right, let's go to Irene in Falls Church.
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: Hey, good morning.
• 33:12
  Speaker 14: How are you?
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: Good.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: How are you doing?
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: Good, good.
• 33:16
  Speaker 14: Actually, we've talked about Goodson. I like him as a player.
• 33:19
  Speaker 14: I really like him as a player. Not just as
• 33:22
  Speaker 14: a running back, because I do see dynamic things there,
• 33:24
  Speaker 14: but he's really impressive as a returner. I mean, I
• 33:30
  Speaker 14: don't know how long he has on his contract, to
• 33:32
  Speaker 14: be honest, if he's one year, two years, whatever, but
• 33:36
  Speaker 14: I like the idea of keeping him. I'm sure he
• 33:38
  Speaker 14: could upgrade, but He does something. He runs with better vision,
• 33:44
  Speaker 14: I think, than Turpin. He's not as fast, but I
• 33:47
  Speaker 14: like the vision. I think that produces more. It might
• 33:49
  Speaker 14: not get the home run, although he did have the
• 33:52
  Speaker 14: one that got called back.
• 33:53
  Speaker 12: So I don't know.
• 33:54
  Speaker 14: But anyway, so after that game.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, sorry.
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  Speaker 5: It's definitely a difference of seeing a running back back
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: there as opposed to just kind of a track guy
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: in Turpin. If he hits it, he hits it. And
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: it can be dynamic in his own right, but you're right.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: You see a little bit more shiftiness from the running back.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: And he's a running back that can absorb hits. Turpin's not–
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, we saw it. Turpin got hit with his
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: rib injury. He's out for the game, and he's going
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: to be out for, like, three more. And so– Oh, wow. Well,
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, he was out for that game, and he's
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: going to be out, what, this will be his third
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: straight game probably. So that's what I mean.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:34
  Speaker 14: Yeah, that's a good point. So after that game, that loss,
• 34:37
  Speaker 14: I think we kind of shifted to, uh-oh, should we
• 34:40
  Speaker 14: be sellers instead of buyers with the trade deadline, right?
• 34:45
  Speaker 14: I actually think you could kind of do both. It
• 34:48
  Speaker 14: wouldn't be a mega move on either side of that equation,
• 34:53
  Speaker 14: but I think you could possibly sell off some pieces,
• 34:56
  Speaker 14: acquire some capital for next year with the thought of, okay,
• 34:59
  Speaker 14: if this doesn't work out, we have more capital to
• 35:02
  Speaker 14: work with. But at the same time, still looking. Because
• 35:05
  Speaker 14: at the end of the day, it seems like we're–
• 35:08
  Speaker 14: I know it's not as simple as we're one pass
• 35:10
  Speaker 14: rusher away, but I think that would do so much
• 35:14
  Speaker 14: for us. I mean, we're losing these games at the
• 35:16
  Speaker 14: last second, right? We should be able to put people away.
• 35:21
  Speaker 14: If we have a more consistent pass rush, our quarterbacks
• 35:24
  Speaker 14: don't look so sus.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 35:27
  Speaker 14: Or if we found a cornerback that could be alongside
• 35:31
  Speaker 14: Joey Porter, and if Joey Porter goes out, it's not, oh,
• 35:35
  Speaker 14: my gosh, the whole game plan is ruined. So I
• 35:38
  Speaker 14: think I would look still to see is there a
• 35:41
  Speaker 14: player who can be here for a couple of years,
• 35:45
  Speaker 14: and even if it falls apart for this year, you
• 35:47
  Speaker 14: have something to build on next year. Score prediction, my concern,
• 35:51
  Speaker 14: I'm going to pick the Cowboys because I think the
• 35:55
  Speaker 14: only thing they have going is their run game. But
• 35:57
  Speaker 14: that will shorten the possessions. I'm seeing a lower score,
• 36:01
  Speaker 14: maybe like a 27-24, and I just hope we're on
• 36:05
  Speaker 14: the right side of that.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: All right, that's it. Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Irene.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: You know, everyone's kind of got their thoughts on should
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: they trade, should they not, you know, trading for what. And,
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: you know, if they are going to make a trade,
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: it's going to be for something like you just said that,
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: You know, not necessarily just a rental. This is not
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: a team that's showing that you should just be renting
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: players at this point. They're running out of draft capital, though,
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: for sure, for next year. They don't have a first-round pick.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: It's probably going to be tied to the Packers. And
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: then a second-round pick will be their own. I think
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: they have a fourth, not a third. I mean, they
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: don't have a lot. They don't have a lot next year.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: I think they only have four draft picks next year.
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: All right, let's go to our next caller is Antha
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: in Gatesville, Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Antha.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: Good.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: How are you doing?
• 37:01
  Speaker 13: I'm good.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: So Dylan kind of talked about some of the stuff
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: that I wanted to talk to you about, about the
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: running game. I get so frustrated because, I mean, during
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: the Philly game, we ran for, what, 200 and something
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: ridiculous yards and just had our way with them. And
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: then in Arizona, couldn't do anything. And I don't think
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: I've done a little bit of homework. I don't think
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: the defenses are that different. So I just don't understand if.
• 37:24
  Speaker 14: It was.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Play calling or if it's just too predictable. I really
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: don't understand. It's hard to watch. It's hard to watch
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: us just do our bidding one week and then not
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: be able to do anything at all the very next week.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: It's like two different teams sometimes to me.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah. It's a Jekyll and Hyde type situation. I can't
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: stand it. Like, what you're saying is exactly what everybody
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: is thinking, too. And it's just, this is why the
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: frustration of this team has been there for, I say
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: this year, but it's been a lot more than that.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: It's just, you can't put your finger on, you know,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: every week.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: It's just, it's... To me, it comes down to just
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: an average, mediocre team. You're not good enough to sustain
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: it every week. You're not bad enough where you're going
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: to just keep losing, but you're just right there in
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: the middle.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: It just feels.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Like we'll fix one thing, and then there'll be another
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: problem that was fine the week before. This is an
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: extremely frustrating year for me.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I was going to ask you something. Do you listen
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: to the other Dallas Cowboys.com podcasts like Cowboys Shift and
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: all those? Do you listen to them?
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: Not all the time. Not all the time. But, you know,
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: I do. Yeah, I definitely catch a little bit of
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: all of them at times. I think I have a
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: decent pulse of what's being said. But not every show.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: I've got a fun game that I want other listeners
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: to play. Who do you think is most hilarious trying
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: to pronounce player names, Mickey Spagnuolo or Nate Newton?
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: It is so, so, so funny.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good one. I would say they're funny
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: in their own way. Nate's going to give it maybe
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: a half a shot, but he doesn't really care. You
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: know what I mean? It's going to be like.
• 39:29
  Speaker 14: and he's like, he's just like, you know, you know
• 39:31
  Speaker 14: that guy.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: You know, you know what I'm talking about?
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: If you don't like the way I say it, you know,
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: say something, you know? And no, Mickey, I mean, Mickey's
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: funny too. I mean, I, I remember when he asked
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: me who, it was a halftime show for the, for
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: the super bowl that they announced and, Um, he was like,
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: who's Beyonce? And so I was like, yeah. So, uh, yeah,
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: it happened now, you know, I, I, um, I probably
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: would be guilty of some of that too, with some
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: of these, you know, new, new artists and stuff like that, but.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Hey, it's... That's fantastic.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Beyonce's an all-timer. It was good.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: Well, so, thoughts for this coming up game? I don't
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: even know how to... I don't even want to make
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: a pick. I can't even predict it. There's just no telling.
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: To me, I don't even want to make a prediction, so.
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: All right, I'll just leave it blank then. All right, Anthe,
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: thank you for the call. Appreciate it. Frustration. It's like
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: Jerry's analogy that he always says because she said it
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: when she said you know it's just like you fix
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: one thing you got another problem jerry always has this
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: analogy and it's very true to this team right now
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: it's just like holding two hands of jello i mean
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: you're just full of jello i mean you think you've
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: got it covered here but then falls out here and
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: there and whatever i don't know if jerry's ever actually
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: held jello but um he uses the analogy a lot
• 40:59
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  Speaker 5: line here. We got Robbie in Cocoa Beach. Robbie, what's up?
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Hey, buddy, how are you doing?
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Hard to be positive, man. You know I'm kind of
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: a homer, and I love my team, and I'm always
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: looking at the glass half full.
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: But, man, it has been tough.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: But I got one thing of positivity for you. Are
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: you ready for it?
• 42:42
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: We've got to win this week. You know why? Because
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: we can't win two in a row, but we can't
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: lose two in a row either.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: I don't think we've lost two in a row this year,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: have we?
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 42:59
  Speaker 7: Oh crap. All right.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: I'm swamped. I was hoping that.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: Tampa Bay green Bay back to back, but that's okay. Um,
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: do you got anything else?
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Give me something positive, Nick. Give me a good spin.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Make me feel better about my team. That's what I got.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: Um, Daniel Jones is, is one of the worst quarterbacks in,
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: in the league.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Um, Yeah, but he's going to look like a Hall
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: of Famer next week.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: Well, that glass is definitely half empty for you. I
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: don't know what's in it.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: It's not the Kool-Aid that I'd like to be drinking, man.
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: That's okay.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Do we still have a chance to make the playoffs?
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: We do, technically, right? Oh, yeah.
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: You got a chance. I mean, you got nine games
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: to go. I mean, you played eight. You got nine
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: to go. It's a weird league. Cowboys are going to
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: have a couple more upswings here. I think the Giants
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: will have some. the other way. So we'll see what happens.
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: Injuries are going to play a part in it. All right, Robbie,
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: appreciate it. We're going to have to get going because
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: Shadi's got his press conference here in a little bit.
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: We got to get ready and get this thing turned
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: around for that. But yeah, I mean, do you have
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: a shot?
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: I mean, let's, you know, it's still one game at
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: a time and it's a big one. You don't win
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: this game. Then I don't talk to me on Monday
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: about what, what the chances are to do things. But,
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: You still got to take care of games like this.
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: We'll see how they bounce back and what the focus
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: looks like. I think they'll go up there. I have
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: a theory. If you didn't have football in this city
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: in the 70s, then there's a ton of Cowboy fans there.
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: We see it in Carolina. We see it in Arizona.
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: We'll see it in Indy this week, especially if you
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: don't go there every eight years. There'll be a ton
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: of Cowboy fans there, and I think they'll be excited
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: for their team. They'll get them going. There'll be some
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: road fans for the next game with a Cowboys face, but, hey,
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: we'll worry about that one when it's time to. We'll
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: see if the Cowboys can go get a win. Great
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  Speaker 5: week this week. For Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. We'll
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