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- 0:12Speaker 2: This is He's Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:19Speaker 1: What is up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I'm Nick Eatman. Here.
- 0:23Speaker 1: It is Thursday, September of the nineteenth. I broke the microphone.
- 0:28Speaker 1: All right, let's get this thing going here. We got
- 0:30Speaker 1: a couple more days before the Ravens come to town,
- 0:33Speaker 1: and they're gonna be pissed. But you know what Cowboys
- 0:37Speaker 1: should be as well. That's what should make this game
- 0:40Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I don't like to call it
- 0:42Speaker 1: a must win here in late September or mid September,
- 0:49Speaker 1: but it's it's a better win. You know, you better win,
- 0:53Speaker 1: especially if you want to be the type of team
- 0:55Speaker 1: that you want to be better, you better respond somehow,
- 0:58Speaker 1: some way. I think both teams probably feel that way,
- 1:00Speaker 1: and definitely from the Cowboys standpoint. Uh I just it's
- 1:04Speaker 1: not just losing. It's the way you lost. It's the
- 1:06Speaker 1: way you got man handled and by a team that
- 1:09Speaker 1: you didn't expect. You didn't expect any team to really
- 1:13Speaker 1: come in and do that. And because it hasn't happened,
- 1:15Speaker 1: in three or four years for a team you know
- 1:18Speaker 1: at AT and T Stadium to come and do that. So,
- 1:20Speaker 1: you know, wake up call for sure. Let's see how
- 1:22Speaker 1: the Cowboys respond.
- 1:23Speaker 3: Uh.
- 1:23Speaker 1: The injury report did not look great when you when
- 1:26Speaker 1: you saw it yesterday. That came out a couple of
- 1:30Speaker 1: guys on there, CD Lamb, Trayvon Diggs. I think it's
- 1:34Speaker 1: a foot for digs in an in an ankle for
- 1:37Speaker 1: CD Lamb. My indications that I've heard is that it's
- 1:43Speaker 1: not gonna be It's not that serious for either one
- 1:45Speaker 1: of them. Of course, if you miss practice, you miss practice,
- 1:48Speaker 1: you have to put that on the injury report. But
- 1:49Speaker 1: I don't think those two guys, Uh, it's gonna be
- 1:52Speaker 1: that serious. We'll see what Mike McCarthy says here later
- 1:56Speaker 1: on in a press conference. Uh here on Thursday. But
- 1:59Speaker 1: all right, eight eight, eight, five two nine seven is
- 2:01Speaker 1: the number to call. We already have a couple of colors,
- 2:04Speaker 1: so let's get right to it.
- 2:05Speaker 4: Zach in Atlanta, You're first, Hey, good morning, Nick, How
- 2:08Speaker 4: are you good?
- 2:09Speaker 1: How are you?
- 2:10Speaker 4: I'm good man good. Gonna keep it short this morning
- 2:16Speaker 4: while we have Trey Lance on the roster. Do you
- 2:19Speaker 4: think there's a package ready, anything that can get him
- 2:23Speaker 4: on the field and use him as a weapon, particularly
- 2:26Speaker 4: in the running game.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think the the key there is
- 2:32Speaker 1: thanks for the call, Zach, and they could do that.
- 2:35Speaker 1: They one hundred percent could do that. There's a couple
- 2:40Speaker 1: of things. Number One, from a rule standpoint, he's the
- 2:43Speaker 1: third quarterback. You'd have to make him the backup quarterback,
- 2:47Speaker 1: so he could do he could do all of that
- 2:49Speaker 1: and and it'd be no issues. Now you could you
- 2:52Speaker 1: could have three quarterbacks active if it's if it's that important,
- 2:57Speaker 1: you could have three three quarterbacks active. That just means
- 2:59Speaker 1: somebody else another position. You're gonna go short on something else,
- 3:03Speaker 1: you know, one less tight end, one less receiver, one
- 3:06Speaker 1: less running back, one less defensive tackle, something. So you know,
- 3:10Speaker 1: you could you could do it if you especially if
- 3:13Speaker 1: you move your elevations up. You know, you want to
- 3:16Speaker 1: move a linebacker down, and you can put a couple
- 3:19Speaker 1: of guys up for you know, on the practice court,
- 3:21Speaker 1: you could do all that. That's that's what it would
- 3:23Speaker 1: take to you know. Then there's another part of you
- 3:27Speaker 1: just paid the guy sixty million a year and then
- 3:30Speaker 1: and now in the red zone, you want to take
- 3:32Speaker 1: him off the field or run a different package, or
- 3:34Speaker 1: at least to get the ball out of his hands
- 3:36Speaker 1: one way or another. I get it, you're trying to score,
- 3:39Speaker 1: trying to figure it out, but it would have to
- 3:41Speaker 1: be a really dynamic type play for that for that
- 3:44Speaker 1: to be the case. I just don't see them doing that.
- 3:47Speaker 1: But you know that's just because they don't always think
- 3:51Speaker 1: like that. I think other teams might might try that,
- 3:54Speaker 1: But again, the big thing is it's the three, it's
- 3:56Speaker 1: the it's the third quarterback thing, and and is it
- 3:59Speaker 1: worth it for one or two plays? Is it worth
- 4:01Speaker 1: it to do that and risk your depth at other positions?
- 4:05Speaker 1: So or if another thing, if they just feel like
- 4:09Speaker 1: he's ready to be the backup, they'll take their chances
- 4:11Speaker 1: and saying we'll do it for this game. If he
- 4:13Speaker 1: has to play, he has to play. And then if
- 4:16Speaker 1: something were to happen to Dak knock on wood. But
- 4:18Speaker 1: if something happens, then you know, we'll figure that out
- 4:20Speaker 1: for the next weeks. But you know that they could
- 4:22Speaker 1: do that and make him the back backup if it's
- 4:24Speaker 1: something they want to do. All right, Gary in New Mexico.
- 4:27Speaker 5: Hey, Nick, how's it going, good, Bud, how are you?
- 4:29Speaker 5: I'm good man. Maybe they ought to just move Trey
- 4:32Speaker 5: Lance to tailback. I mean, he's your most explosive back
- 4:35Speaker 5: as far as speed and breakaway stuff goes. Forget the
- 4:38Speaker 5: quarterback day moving to running back.
- 4:41Speaker 1: I know about that seems right now.
- 4:43Speaker 5: I'm just that that was a halfway job. I was
- 4:46Speaker 5: just catching the tail and they did. I did hear
- 4:48Speaker 5: a trivia question. I heard a trivia question on the
- 4:51Speaker 5: radio the other day. I wanted to run by you
- 4:53Speaker 5: because it kind of surprised me. The trivia question was this,
- 4:56Speaker 5: in the Super Bowl era, which head coach as the
- 5:00Speaker 5: most two.
- 5:01Speaker 1: And O starts in the NFL?
- 5:04Speaker 5: Yeah? An NFL history in the Super Bowl era, which
- 5:07Speaker 5: head coach has the most two and oh starts?
- 5:12Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got McCarthy. I don't know, I don't know.
- 5:15Speaker 5: Now, somebody guessed McCarthy. I thought it was going to
- 5:17Speaker 5: be Andy Reider, Bill Belichick, but it was Tom Landry.
- 5:21Speaker 5: Oh really, okay, it was coach Landry. Yeah, he had
- 5:23Speaker 5: twenty three seasons of the head coach in the Super
- 5:26Speaker 5: Bowl era, he had sixteen two and oh start at.
- 5:29Speaker 5: Belichick was third, Shoela was second. So that was my
- 5:32Speaker 5: you know, my classic Cowboys moment. But back to this
- 5:35Speaker 5: year's group. I think they can lose to Baltimore. They
- 5:38Speaker 5: can lose to Baltimore and still be okay, it's an
- 5:41Speaker 5: AFC loss, they'd be one and two. But they have
- 5:44Speaker 5: to play well. They cannot get blown out. They have
- 5:48Speaker 5: got to go out and be competitive. And when I
- 5:50Speaker 5: look at this game, you know, all the all the
- 5:53Speaker 5: experts are saying Dallas is going to lose. I think
- 5:56Speaker 5: Dallas is even an underdog. There's nothing that tells me,
- 5:59Speaker 5: I mean, this is a bad matchup. It's just everything.
- 6:02Speaker 5: So with all that said, I think they're going to
- 6:04Speaker 5: go out and win the game. Yeah, I think they're
- 6:06Speaker 5: gonna surprise us. I think Dak Dak Prescott. I love Dak.
- 6:10Speaker 5: I'm glad they signed him, but he's got to raise
- 6:13Speaker 5: his game. If you're going to be the highest paid
- 6:15Speaker 5: player in the league, you can't miss that throw to
- 6:17Speaker 5: Zeke on the goal line, even if you got pressure
- 6:19Speaker 5: in your face. You gotta raise your game, and I
- 6:22Speaker 5: think he's gonna do it. I think they're going to
- 6:24Speaker 5: surprise us this week and pull out a victory.
- 6:26Speaker 1: I think that's a it's an excellent call.
- 6:29Speaker 6: Gary.
- 6:29Speaker 1: I appreciate that really great stuff. Hate when I miss
- 6:34Speaker 1: trivia questions like that. It's Tom Landry pictures all over
- 6:37Speaker 1: the place. Why didn't I pick that one? Great question?
- 6:42Speaker 1: And a great point too, you know, I think that's
- 6:45Speaker 1: a great way to say it. It's not a must win,
- 6:47Speaker 1: it's a must play. Well, that's a must bounce back game.
- 6:51Speaker 1: You have to bounce back. You have to show some
- 6:54Speaker 1: pride there and come back. And I mean, you got
- 6:57Speaker 1: beat down, and you know, and no one's feeling sorry
- 7:01Speaker 1: for you because the Ravens are coming into town pretty
- 7:03Speaker 1: mad too, so so they're they're gonna be ready to go.
- 7:06Speaker 1: But you know, I just think the Cowboys have to
- 7:09Speaker 1: show that they can be a physical football team because
- 7:11Speaker 1: that's what happens in the playoffs. That's that's the difference.
- 7:14Speaker 1: I Mean, you can say Shanahan's schemes and all that
- 7:17Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and that it's about teams that run
- 7:21Speaker 1: the football and are physical and strike first. You can
- 7:24Speaker 1: do all of those things. The Cowboys have a hard
- 7:27Speaker 1: time matching up with that, especially a team that just
- 7:30Speaker 1: is committed to running the ball, because if you look
- 7:32Speaker 1: at the way the Cowboys have been structured. Their their
- 7:36Speaker 1: speed type of team. Their linebackers are you know, have
- 7:40Speaker 1: time at times that look like safeties. They have a
- 7:42Speaker 1: defensive end one of the best in the games. But
- 7:45Speaker 1: he looks like a linebacker, you know, just from his
- 7:47Speaker 1: body type. So that stuff works when it's your mismatch,
- 7:51Speaker 1: but when it's the other way around, it doesn't. So
- 7:54Speaker 1: it's just the way the way that it goes. But
- 7:56Speaker 1: I agree that they have to come back and play
- 7:58Speaker 1: well in this game. All right, Randy and Texarkana?
- 8:02Speaker 7: What's going on? Brother?
- 8:03Speaker 1: Hey Randy, how are you betting?
- 8:05Speaker 3: I'm all right?
- 8:06Speaker 7: So yesterday you said you like thinking outside of the box.
- 8:09Speaker 7: I'm gonna think outside of the box in this first part.
- 8:11Speaker 7: I know it will never happen.
- 8:12Speaker 1: But Brandy, Randy, Randy, you live outside the box, all right?
- 8:17Speaker 1: All right, all right?
- 8:19Speaker 7: So now this weekend, when you're on the sideline with
- 8:21Speaker 7: the Jones as you can mention it and you can
- 8:23Speaker 7: tell him my sens so. But Michael Irvin doesn't have
- 8:26Speaker 7: a job on Sunday anymore. Give him a title, put
- 8:30Speaker 7: him in a Cowboys shirt, put him on the sideline.
- 8:32Speaker 7: What better hot man do you need? He's got all
- 8:34Speaker 7: your experience. He can be in those guys faces yelling
- 8:38Speaker 7: at him, telling him how to get hype. I mean,
- 8:41Speaker 7: I'm just saying it sounds like a great idea.
- 8:44Speaker 1: All right, what do you think? Hey? I mean, well,
- 8:49Speaker 1: I mean why why not? And and he might, you know,
- 8:53Speaker 1: he might actually run some routes and make some plays
- 8:56Speaker 1: for you, especially.
- 8:56Speaker 7: Around the gold and he can be in CDs and
- 9:00Speaker 7: tell him to quit pout in every five minutes. That's
- 9:02Speaker 7: the one thing that I love CD. But the one
- 9:05Speaker 7: thing that bothers me about him is he shows his
- 9:08Speaker 7: pouting emotions too much on camera and that's not a
- 9:11Speaker 7: good look.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Okay, hold up now, because the person, the last person
- 9:15Speaker 1: that's gonna tell him to keep that at check would
- 9:18Speaker 1: be Michael Irvin. Now, I don't think you could wear
- 9:21Speaker 1: eighty eight for the Cowboys and not have rants on
- 9:23Speaker 1: the sideline. I don't know what Drew Pearson was doing
- 9:25Speaker 1: back in the seventies. I don't know if the cameras
- 9:27Speaker 1: caught him, but I know Michael did, I know Deaz did,
- 9:31Speaker 1: Antonio'bryant did at eighty eight. And of course CD has
- 9:35Speaker 1: CD's not as vocal as some of those guys, but
- 9:38Speaker 1: he does you know? But whatever, go ahead, go ahead.
- 9:42Speaker 7: And I was gonna say, well, maybe that's the difference
- 9:45Speaker 7: them guys were going off and you could tell they're
- 9:47Speaker 7: going off. But he looks more like a kid that
- 9:50Speaker 7: didn't get his weight, Like you know, Mama told you
- 9:52Speaker 7: couldn't have a snack. That's how he kind of looked.
- 9:56Speaker 7: I don't know. It's a bad look, but but I've
- 9:58Speaker 7: got a question for you, and then I'll let you
- 9:59Speaker 7: get there.
- 10:01Speaker 3: All right.
- 10:01Speaker 7: So the Ravens coming up, you can't run on them
- 10:04Speaker 7: because of their defense. And the Ravens run so we
- 10:07Speaker 7: can't hardly stop and run.
- 10:08Speaker 5: So my question to you.
- 10:09Speaker 7: Is, if you had one shot to take sending like
- 10:13Speaker 7: eminem Now, if you had one shot to take here
- 10:17Speaker 7: and you could make a major trade with a major
- 10:19Speaker 7: draft pick, would you select a quality running back And
- 10:23Speaker 7: I'm talking about a quality, not a backup, not just
- 10:26Speaker 7: barely better than what we've already got, but a good
- 10:29Speaker 7: running back. Or would you take a monster defensive lineman?
- 10:33Speaker 7: Which one are you taking? And why? And I'll listen out.
- 10:37Speaker 1: There, all right, it's a good one I would probably take.
- 10:46Speaker 1: I mean, you said monster, so I would take a
- 10:49Speaker 1: monster defensive lineman, I would take a guy because I
- 10:53Speaker 1: feel like a monster defensive lineman or just a game
- 10:57Speaker 1: changer there would would help you in so many ways.
- 11:00Speaker 1: I mean, like, you know, I look at DeMarcus where
- 11:04Speaker 1: his career, but I mean, and he was great and
- 11:08Speaker 1: he was going to be great regardless. But but I
- 11:10Speaker 1: mean I think I think having a guy like Jay
- 11:12Speaker 1: Ratliffe in the middle that helped him, you know, and
- 11:15Speaker 1: then probably vice versa. But but I do think with
- 11:19Speaker 1: Mica and Tank on the outside, I do think the
- 11:23Speaker 1: a defensive lineman like that would help those guys. That
- 11:26Speaker 1: helps your passwords, which helps your corners, and certainly it
- 11:29Speaker 1: helps those linebackers get to where they want to go.
- 11:32Speaker 1: So and we've just seen we've just seen running backs
- 11:36Speaker 1: excel at all different types of players, you know, and
- 11:40Speaker 1: if you're strong and you're quick, you can see the
- 11:41Speaker 1: whole you can help as long as you've got it blocked.
- 11:44Speaker 1: So I you know, they don't have that. I mean,
- 11:47Speaker 1: I don't get me wrong, I take a running back
- 11:50Speaker 1: like that too, but I think they have other issues
- 11:53Speaker 1: besides just the running back. You know, I don't know,
- 11:58Speaker 1: I don't know if the who's the best back in
- 12:01Speaker 1: the game. I don't. I mean Christian McCaffrey, I guess.
- 12:04Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I don't know if the best
- 12:06Speaker 1: running back in football is going to come in here
- 12:08Speaker 1: and have the same kind of success. I think they
- 12:11Speaker 1: have other issues in how they run it all right.
- 12:14Speaker 1: Derek in Springfield, Missouri, Derek.
- 12:17Speaker 7: Hey, Hey, how are you know?
- 12:19Speaker 1: Good Man? How are you?
- 12:21Speaker 2: Oh?
- 12:21Speaker 6: Good?
- 12:22Speaker 7: It's been a while. I actually the last time I
- 12:25Speaker 7: got in was the first night after the first round
- 12:28Speaker 7: of the draft, so wow, you know, actually it may
- 12:32Speaker 7: have been the second or whatever, but yeah, but anyway, man,
- 12:37Speaker 7: I just wanted to call in and kind of voice
- 12:39Speaker 7: some concern in an opinion. So first starters, like, I'm
- 12:44Speaker 7: nervous about this Ravens game. I'm worried they're just going
- 12:48Speaker 7: to run the ball down our throat like the SAME's good.
- 12:51Speaker 7: So not feeling great there. And then I don't know,
- 12:56Speaker 7: I just always get this feeling like I feel like
- 12:59Speaker 7: this team cannot handle success, whether it be short term success,
- 13:03Speaker 7: Like it's like after we beat Cleveland, it's like I
- 13:07Speaker 7: just feel like they get a big head, Like I
- 13:09Speaker 7: feel like they had a big head going into the
- 13:11Speaker 7: Green Bay game, and I mean, you know, nobody really
- 13:14Speaker 7: knows the truth on that, but I just I get that, Like,
- 13:17Speaker 7: I feel like some of these younger guys, they I
- 13:20Speaker 7: feel like they watch ESPN and here the narratives, and
- 13:24Speaker 7: you know, Dak does a good job saying he doesn't
- 13:26Speaker 7: watch it and doesn't listen to it. So you know,
- 13:29Speaker 7: I believe that, you know, I believe I guess what
- 13:31Speaker 7: he says there, but I don't know. And then you know,
- 13:35Speaker 7: I'm kind of pressing the panic button on this D line.
- 13:39Speaker 7: I I really feel like it's kind to use some
- 13:43Speaker 7: of these future picks for next year, whether they be
- 13:45Speaker 7: the comp picks that we've got coming, or you know,
- 13:48Speaker 7: a third rounder or whatever, to get some D line help.
- 13:52Speaker 7: You know, we need somebody younger in that interior. I
- 13:57Speaker 7: feel like last year we waited too long to try
- 14:00Speaker 7: to get our linebacker, which you know we never did.
- 14:03Speaker 7: I mean, we tried to get Leonard to come in,
- 14:05Speaker 7: and you know, he went to Philly, which I don't
- 14:09Speaker 7: think that moved the needle for them either. But I
- 14:11Speaker 7: just don't want to see us wait around like we
- 14:14Speaker 7: did last year at the linebacker position, at the D
- 14:17Speaker 7: line position, I'm personally not worried about the running game.
- 14:22Speaker 7: I feel like when the you know, continuity is very
- 14:25Speaker 7: important on the offensive line, and I feel like they're
- 14:28Speaker 7: going to start gelling. So I'm not really worried about that.
- 14:32Speaker 7: I'm just really worried about the sea line, the interior.
- 14:35Speaker 7: So anyway, I know I said it, get off here.
- 14:38Speaker 7: Thank you very much man.
- 14:39Speaker 1: Thanks Derek. Well, it doesn't sound like the move to
- 14:44Speaker 1: bring in Carlos Watkins has helped those concerns there. For Derek,
- 14:50Speaker 1: I'm joking. I mean, he's a guy that has played,
- 14:55Speaker 1: you know, pretty well and when he was here for
- 14:57Speaker 1: the for the cow heich is on the practice squad
- 14:59Speaker 1: from Washington with Dan Quinn, so you know, he's he's
- 15:04Speaker 1: definitely a DQ guy. But you know, he's a little
- 15:09Speaker 1: younger obviously than what they had and uh, you know,
- 15:12Speaker 1: they put Jordan Phillips.
- 15:13Speaker 8: On I R.
- 15:13Speaker 1: So so you know, now either they they lose a
- 15:17Speaker 1: little in size, of course, but but maybe a little
- 15:20Speaker 1: bit more from an agility standpoint and in younger. But
- 15:23Speaker 1: he's been around, he's he's been to different teams and
- 15:26Speaker 1: uh he's coming off of biceps injury from last year.
- 15:29Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see if Carlos Watkins can help
- 15:32Speaker 1: with that. But yeah, I mean, I think what you're
- 15:34Speaker 1: talking about is making trades for you know, a young guy,
- 15:37Speaker 1: and it's it's hard.
- 15:39Speaker 9: Man.
- 15:39Speaker 1: The defensive tackles, you know, they they they hang on
- 15:42Speaker 1: to him in the league. They they want to develop.
- 15:45Speaker 1: Everybody wants to develop those young defensive tackles, so it's
- 15:48Speaker 1: hard for them to kind of you know, cut ties
- 15:51Speaker 1: and and and move on. There's just not a lot
- 15:54Speaker 1: of guys out there at this point, especially when you
- 15:56Speaker 1: when you think about just how many more players are
- 15:59Speaker 1: on rosters now, seventeen or sixteen practice squad guys for
- 16:03Speaker 1: most teams, you know, and on top of you know,
- 16:06Speaker 1: you have injured reserves and all that, and then a
- 16:08Speaker 1: fifty three man roster there's seventy seventy five players in
- 16:12Speaker 1: each facility. So it's there's just not a lot of
- 16:15Speaker 1: guys out there. I mean, to really help at this
- 16:18Speaker 1: point in the season. All right, all league in Florida. Hi, Nick,
- 16:22Speaker 1: How are you good? How are you doing pretty good?
- 16:25Speaker 7: Buddy?
- 16:26Speaker 3: A couple questions.
- 16:27Speaker 10: First of all, I want to thanks Misster Jones to
- 16:30Speaker 10: Sonny Dak and CD. And second, I think Dak and
- 16:37Speaker 10: Michael and zeke is not our problem, especially talking about trades.
- 16:45Speaker 10: No trades, and then the zeke is good for the
- 16:49Speaker 10: short yartage and protection for Zach for Dak. So having
- 16:53Speaker 10: said that, I believe in my heart Cowboys will wins
- 16:57Speaker 10: is this game because they got caught up embarrassed and
- 17:02Speaker 10: everybody picking baltimorees that's okay, But I don't think Henry
- 17:08Speaker 10: is going to be a factor. I think Lomar Jackson
- 17:13Speaker 10: is going to be more factor than Henry because Henry
- 17:18Speaker 10: is just like a heavy, heavy running back. But one question,
- 17:23Speaker 10: you know, because Lucky Eagles lost and they're gonna go
- 17:27Speaker 10: play Saints Eagles. The drafted all Georgia tackles, they ranked
- 17:35Speaker 10: worse than a Cowboys against rushing defense. So there's just
- 17:41Speaker 10: one game I agree with the collar before a couple
- 17:45Speaker 10: of colors before that. If we lose, we just gotta
- 17:48Speaker 10: play a great game to get the confidence out. Hopefully
- 17:53Speaker 10: we don't have that much injury. A better question for
- 17:56Speaker 10: you on a hanger, do you run to set up
- 17:59Speaker 10: the pass? Well, do you pass to set up the run?
- 18:03Speaker 10: Thank you?
- 18:04Speaker 7: Nick?
- 18:07Speaker 1: All right, that's that's one of those questions that you
- 18:11Speaker 1: know that's a lot of football coaches, they say one thing,
- 18:15Speaker 1: but sometimes they do the other. You know, I think
- 18:18Speaker 1: the old old school approaches run the ball to to
- 18:21Speaker 1: set up the pass. It sets up your your play action. Obviously,
- 18:27Speaker 1: you could pass the ball to set up your run
- 18:28Speaker 1: withdraw plays and stuff like that. You know, I I always,
- 18:34Speaker 1: you know, I try to. I would try to move
- 18:37Speaker 1: the ball to move the ball, you know, and and
- 18:39Speaker 1: and and I know that that's that's not answering the question.
- 18:42Speaker 1: But it's just not not ever one thing. It's never
- 18:46Speaker 1: it's never just this. This is not how it's done.
- 18:49Speaker 1: I mean, you you you do, you know you do.
- 18:53Speaker 1: At times you're gonna you're gonna need to run the
- 18:55Speaker 1: ball and you and you need to be good enough
- 18:57Speaker 1: to take take advantage of what you're seeing. That's what
- 18:59Speaker 1: the great quarterbacks can do. Yeah, you might have the
- 19:03Speaker 1: greatest running back behind you, but you know, I mean
- 19:06Speaker 1: when Troy Aikman had Emmitt Smith and they were having
- 19:10Speaker 1: eight in the box. I mean, I can tell you
- 19:13Speaker 1: in my very first game I ever I've ever went
- 19:15Speaker 1: to as an employee with the Cowboys ninety nine Washington
- 19:18Speaker 1: game in overtime, third and two, they were going to
- 19:21Speaker 1: run the ball. They were going to run the ball
- 19:22Speaker 1: to emittt Smith, but Washington was cheating everyone down, so
- 19:29Speaker 1: Troy checked out of it and threw a deep ball
- 19:31Speaker 1: to rocket Ismalth to win the game. I mean, they
- 19:34Speaker 1: were going to run to set up the pass, but
- 19:36Speaker 1: they had done it all. So I think it's a
- 19:39Speaker 1: great question, and it's great to have a philosophy, but
- 19:42Speaker 1: I think the best philosophy is to say, I'm going
- 19:45Speaker 1: to go move the ball based off of what I
- 19:47Speaker 1: see from your defense on this particular play, and you
- 19:51Speaker 1: need to be good enough to run it when they
- 19:53Speaker 1: think you're going to run, good enough to pass, but
- 19:56Speaker 1: they think you're going to pass, and then you know
- 19:57Speaker 1: good enough to switch it around as well. All right,
- 20:00Speaker 1: let's go. Let's take a break real quick on Cowboys storyline.
- 20:03Speaker 1: Let's do that. We'll get some calls and some more
- 20:06Speaker 1: questions when we come back.
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- 21:30Speaker 1: All right, let's continue with the phone lines here. Irene
- 21:33Speaker 1: falls Shirts Virginiam, Irene Hello, Hello, Hey.
- 21:38Speaker 12: First of all, haven't called in this week yet. I
- 21:40Speaker 12: have to say I'm very proud of Cowboys Nation. I
- 21:42Speaker 12: thought there would have been angrier calls Monday Tuesday. That's
- 21:45Speaker 12: why I was like, let me just let them.
- 21:46Speaker 13: Get get it out.
- 21:48Speaker 12: There was passion, but not nothing crazy, So I guess
- 21:52Speaker 12: it's too early anyhow, So I started watching.
- 21:56Speaker 14: The film on the Ravens.
- 21:58Speaker 9: I watched.
- 21:59Speaker 12: I didn't watch full the second game, but I of
- 22:01Speaker 12: course watched the Thursday night game to open the season.
- 22:05Speaker 12: You know, they've been in two close games, although the
- 22:08Speaker 12: first one didn't start it. Everything just kind of looks
- 22:13Speaker 12: tough with them. It's not I don't know why they're
- 22:16Speaker 12: owing to They just they don't seem to be flowing
- 22:18Speaker 12: well on offense yet. I don't I don't know if
- 22:22Speaker 12: there's weakness in their offensive win because it's kind of
- 22:25Speaker 12: early to tell. It could just be the defensive lines
- 22:27Speaker 12: are up against I guess we're about to see. But
- 22:31Speaker 12: it just looks like it'll be a hard spot game
- 22:35Speaker 12: one way or another. And something I was thinking about
- 22:37Speaker 12: with the Eagles Falcons game. I think another caller said
- 22:40Speaker 12: this a couple of days ago. Why are we never
- 22:42Speaker 12: in a close game? So I think we're in for
- 22:45Speaker 12: I hope we're in for a close game because it
- 22:47Speaker 12: could go the same way. But it would be nice
- 22:51Speaker 12: to be able to play one of these, even if
- 22:53Speaker 12: we don't win, it to be like, okay, we can
- 22:55Speaker 12: be in a battle and you know, see a few
- 22:59Speaker 12: things go way, not like, oh it's done by the
- 23:02Speaker 12: second quarter. You know, one thing I noticed on films,
- 23:07Speaker 12: especially because I actually agree on the playing deuce more
- 23:10Speaker 12: and playing Lipsky Moore at least giving it a shot.
- 23:13Speaker 12: These guys are really tough against wide runs. I keep
- 23:16Speaker 12: seeing you know, negative five yards runs. So it might
- 23:21Speaker 12: need to be something where they try some screen game,
- 23:24Speaker 12: which I know we haven't been great at for I
- 23:25Speaker 12: don't even know a decade, maybe, but that it might
- 23:29Speaker 12: be the time to try that. They seem to It's again,
- 23:33Speaker 12: nothing's going to come easy with them, but there's some
- 23:35Speaker 12: moderate success there that I've noticed. Anyway, I will say
- 23:39Speaker 12: this so far, I'm I went two in my Cowboys
- 23:42Speaker 12: predictions this year, so it might bode well because I
- 23:45Speaker 12: can't I haven't seen anything to give me a win
- 23:48Speaker 12: here for our boys, but maybe that bodes well that
- 23:50Speaker 12: I'll be oh and three in my predictions this year.
- 23:52Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, I like how you think I'm the
- 23:56Speaker 1: same way. You know, you think, oh, it's going to
- 23:58Speaker 1: be this and flip it around and all that. Yeah,
- 24:01Speaker 1: I played mind games with yourself, now, I you know
- 24:06Speaker 1: you talked about close games the Cowboys. I'm looking at
- 24:10Speaker 1: last year. I think it's only five that I see
- 24:13Speaker 1: that are. I mean we're talking like one score games here,
- 24:16Speaker 1: and I only I only count five on the schedule.
- 24:20Speaker 1: And the Cowboys were three and two in those games.
- 24:25Speaker 1: So you know, they beat the Chargers by three and
- 24:28Speaker 1: then lost to the to the Eagles by five in
- 24:31Speaker 1: a game that you know, they had a great chance
- 24:33Speaker 1: to win that one. And then they beat Seattle at
- 24:37Speaker 1: home that was a very close game back and forth,
- 24:39Speaker 1: Miami another game they could have won, and then Detroit
- 24:44Speaker 1: a game that they did win that could have lost.
- 24:47Speaker 1: Obviously it was close. So yeah, I mean five five
- 24:52Speaker 1: games out of seventeen, that's that's not a lot. I mean,
- 24:54Speaker 1: and you credit I mean the Cowboys were good team.
- 24:57Speaker 1: I mean they last year, you know, and Jeury John
- 25:00Speaker 1: if they're going to be good this year, But I
- 25:02Speaker 1: mean they were good last year. Their offense was really good,
- 25:05Speaker 1: one of the best in the league, and their defense
- 25:06Speaker 1: was very good and you know, opportunistic at times. So
- 25:11Speaker 1: that's what you're going to get a lot of blowout.
- 25:13Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens here. But you know, so
- 25:17Speaker 1: far it hasn't been a close games, but I have
- 25:20Speaker 1: a feeling this one might be. All right. Dylan in Northport, Florida.
- 25:25Speaker 7: Say, thank Gods, be going good.
- 25:26Speaker 1: How are you?
- 25:27Speaker 14: I'm good. I just want to give you my prediction
- 25:30Speaker 14: and a bold prediction. But forward you that we talked
- 25:34Speaker 14: about the run game and the offensive line running backs,
- 25:36Speaker 14: and we don't really ever talk about the receivers. And
- 25:39Speaker 14: I was looking at some stats and stuff, and right
- 25:41Speaker 14: now I don't pfs not the end all, be all
- 25:44Speaker 14: or whatever, but they're a good resource and Tolbert right
- 25:46Speaker 14: now has their fifth worst run blocking grade as a receiver.
- 25:50Speaker 14: Cooks has the tenth worst run blocking grade as a receiver.
- 25:52Speaker 14: And we saw Brooks miss a big block on the
- 25:55Speaker 14: end around that could have been a touchdown, could potentially
- 25:57Speaker 14: change the game last week, maybe at least from the
- 26:00Speaker 14: offensive side, and so a part of and Irene said,
- 26:04Speaker 14: you know, the Ravens are pretty good on the outside
- 26:06Speaker 14: runs and stuff, but once you get to that second
- 26:08Speaker 14: level and if you do need to break her on outside,
- 26:11Speaker 14: I mean, you're counting on these guys to block. And
- 26:14Speaker 14: this team runs a lot of end arounds and stuff
- 26:16Speaker 14: like that, so they're going to be successful in that regard.
- 26:19Speaker 14: They've got to have receivers out there that can block.
- 26:21Speaker 14: And I know that Flirinoid is a guy that we
- 26:24Speaker 14: saw in training camp in preseason. He put a couple
- 26:26Speaker 14: of guys on their butts preseason games. So I'd like
- 26:29Speaker 14: to see him out there maybe a little bit more
- 26:30Speaker 14: this week and see what we can do.
- 26:32Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, all right, Dylan, that's that's good observation there.
- 26:36Speaker 1: And I know that you know, uh PFF Pro Football
- 26:40Speaker 1: Focus they do, they do a good job of that
- 26:44Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And you know, I think it's it's
- 26:50Speaker 1: an important part of the position at wide receiver. It's
- 26:52Speaker 1: not just you know, running routs and catching it's the
- 26:55Speaker 1: biggest part. But but you certainly can can help your
- 26:58Speaker 1: your entire team with guys that can block on the
- 27:01Speaker 1: edge and and not get you know, flagged for penalties
- 27:04Speaker 1: and set you back and things like that. And you know,
- 27:07Speaker 1: Tolbert's had some struggles there, and you know he's not
- 27:10Speaker 1: the biggest guy in the world, and neither his cooks.
- 27:12Speaker 1: But you've got to be able to be a willing
- 27:14Speaker 1: blocker that can get in the way, you know, I mean,
- 27:18Speaker 1: you know, you don't need pancakes out there. You need
- 27:21Speaker 1: to be able to wall them off and you know,
- 27:24Speaker 1: seal the edge or whatever you're trying to do and
- 27:27Speaker 1: make sure that you know, a big play can get
- 27:29Speaker 1: even bigger down down the field. So that's that's a
- 27:32Speaker 1: good observation. And it's something that that you know, it's
- 27:35Speaker 1: it's a sneaky part of the game, a sneaky aspect
- 27:39Speaker 1: that that can can slow you down. You know why
- 27:42Speaker 1: you're not you know, you say, well, why don't we
- 27:44Speaker 1: have explosive plays? Well, we have some decent runs, some
- 27:47Speaker 1: decent plays here and there, but it's only ten to fifteen.
- 27:50Speaker 1: We don't get those thirty to forty and a lot
- 27:52Speaker 1: of times it's the receivers blocking that'll make those nice
- 27:56Speaker 1: chunk plays into really big plays. So all right, good
- 27:59Speaker 1: stuff there, Anthony and Miami. I'm sure you have.
- 28:02Speaker 3: Now I need to quick my guy. What's up, baby,
- 28:07Speaker 3: what's up? I got a I came on Monday, and
- 28:09Speaker 3: I tried to do what I do, try to be
- 28:11Speaker 3: one of the more positive guys. Try to defute to
- 28:14Speaker 3: Stephen Aid and his listeners, which is some of them
- 28:18Speaker 3: Macaw because I'm one guy. I agreed with him and
- 28:20Speaker 3: try to defute that cowboys stuff fan stuff because I
- 28:23Speaker 3: know I'm a real one and I'm listening and I'm
- 28:26Speaker 3: listening yesterday. Thank you, Brian, because yeah, I shouted out
- 28:29Speaker 3: you guys. I always shout out people. Man, I'm just
- 28:31Speaker 3: one of those type of dudes. Thank you for the comment. Yeah,
- 28:33Speaker 3: I'm sing every time we win. I'm gonna sing. But anyway,
- 28:36Speaker 3: I heard something yesterday and it kind of let me
- 28:38Speaker 3: and I've been hearing it. I heard it all off season.
- 28:40Speaker 3: It's about Michael. Now. I met you Nick last year
- 28:44Speaker 3: on the show on Hanging with the Boys, my show.
- 28:46Speaker 3: I've been calling them for seven years, loyal, and I
- 28:48Speaker 3: told you I like you, I'm gonna call you and
- 28:50Speaker 3: you even gave me a great compliment about watching the
- 28:52Speaker 3: game with a guy like me and spirit is me
- 28:55Speaker 3: And in that call, I gave Dak Chriscott a pep talk.
- 28:57Speaker 3: Remember that.
- 28:58Speaker 1: I know if you remember, I definitely remember being there
- 29:01Speaker 1: and talking to you. But tell me again.
- 29:04Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay. When I said about the Michael Gallup,
- 29:07Speaker 3: you ain't gotta throw at the Michael Gallup. Do more
- 29:09Speaker 3: things run and all that. I gotta give another guy
- 29:11Speaker 3: a talk, and that's Michael Parsons. You're becoming my second
- 29:15Speaker 3: favorite player. Man, don't listen to this garbage you're hearing
- 29:18Speaker 3: people go with this podcast stuff. And the podcast ain't bad.
- 29:23Speaker 3: When you play in your wreck shop like you did
- 29:25Speaker 3: in Cleveland, when you when you should be the envy,
- 29:28Speaker 3: you know, the divisive player of the year as in
- 29:30Speaker 3: last year, and you're competing against guys like Why and
- 29:32Speaker 3: Garrett and all that, podcasts ain't bad. But when people
- 29:35Speaker 3: scheme against you and stuff like that, Michael Parsons can't
- 29:38Speaker 3: play anymore. I just don't get it. I just people
- 29:41Speaker 3: try to insinuate it, and some of them, I right
- 29:43Speaker 3: say it. Man. If y'all mad and y'all mad at
- 29:46Speaker 3: the Cowboys losing, I'm gonna give you some players to
- 29:48Speaker 3: look at. And I saw the game too. Terence Steele
- 29:52Speaker 3: was straight garbage. All three tackles maybe except for Osa
- 29:56Speaker 3: was garbage. Male He Cooker garbage. Damont Cark was garbage that.
- 30:00Speaker 3: Now nobody played great, but that was garbage. So if
- 30:02Speaker 3: y'all watching y'all film and y'all all twenty twos, I
- 30:04Speaker 3: don't do that. I don't have I don't have faith,
- 30:08Speaker 3: I don't have anything. I'm not in a group. I'm
- 30:10Speaker 3: an independent caller and I can call it like I
- 30:12Speaker 3: see it. The Cowboys have to play better. The coaches
- 30:15Speaker 3: got to get a little bit more innovative. And the
- 30:18Speaker 3: key to winning from all my old football people that
- 30:21Speaker 3: played ball that I know that I am in Miami,
- 30:22Speaker 3: that I talked to, and something on the Cowboys team
- 30:25Speaker 3: that were friends of mine. Until the players, no matter
- 30:29Speaker 3: what schemes and the coaches give them all untwo, those
- 30:31Speaker 3: players come together as a collective and say I'm not
- 30:34Speaker 3: gonna be the man that they beat. I'm not gonna
- 30:38Speaker 3: be the man that causes my team to lose today,
- 30:40Speaker 3: and have that culture, get that mentality in their mindset.
- 30:43Speaker 3: You could do whatever you want to do and add
- 30:45Speaker 3: whoever you want to the team. Until they get that
- 30:47Speaker 3: and get that coach to going for two to three years,
- 30:49Speaker 3: then they got a chance at the super Bowl. Other
- 30:51Speaker 3: than that, let's just sit back and enjoy the ride,
- 30:52Speaker 3: and it's hope they get there. That's all I gotta say. Nick,
- 30:55Speaker 3: I'm sorry I had to let that out, all right.
- 31:01Speaker 1: We have a we have a segment on this week
- 31:03Speaker 1: that we we have to do every week which is
- 31:06Speaker 1: sponsored by YETI, the YETI Hot Take of the Week.
- 31:09Speaker 1: And uh, Anthony, you're flirting with that, of course, because
- 31:13Speaker 1: certainly you seem pretty hot under the collar hot about
- 31:17Speaker 1: a lot of things. I'm not a fan of calling
- 31:20Speaker 1: the players garbage though, or especially for the for their
- 31:25Speaker 1: performance in the game. You know, it wasn't good. I mean,
- 31:30Speaker 1: it wasn't good. But you know, it doesn't have to
- 31:32Speaker 1: be rolled out to the alley and picked up on Tuesdays,
- 31:35Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I mean, it's not like that.
- 31:37Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's what I view for garbage. I mean,
- 31:41Speaker 1: I think I think they have to you know, they
- 31:44Speaker 1: those guys have to play better. I mean, there's no
- 31:45Speaker 1: doubt about it. I think there's a there's a there's
- 31:47Speaker 1: a way to say that. But but I get it,
- 31:49Speaker 1: I hear, you know, I feel the passion. I hear it,
- 31:53Speaker 1: and uh, you know, let's hope to put the Cowboys
- 31:56Speaker 1: as a team can go out and play that that
- 31:58Speaker 1: way as well. And and you know, and the part
- 32:01Speaker 1: about Micah Parsons is as great as he has been,
- 32:04Speaker 1: and he is. I mean, the game got away from
- 32:07Speaker 1: from him literally because they went away from him. But
- 32:10Speaker 1: you know, those players, you know, have to step up,
- 32:13Speaker 1: and you know his play has to make others better,
- 32:16Speaker 1: you know, but he has to play, you know, he
- 32:18Speaker 1: has to set the edge as well. I mean, they
- 32:20Speaker 1: were running at him, you know, they they ran at
- 32:23Speaker 1: him because that's the best way to neutralize him. And
- 32:27Speaker 1: so you know he's going to have to, you know,
- 32:29Speaker 1: figure out how to how to get off those blocks
- 32:31Speaker 1: too and make plays and force it back inside. And
- 32:34Speaker 1: you know that there's there's a big part of that
- 32:36Speaker 1: on defense that it's not just about rushing the passer,
- 32:39Speaker 1: all right, Robin in Vegas is next? Rob, Hey, Nick, Hey, Rob.
- 32:44Speaker 13: You know I heard a couple of fans say that
- 32:47Speaker 13: the Cowboys don't have to win this game, they just
- 32:50Speaker 13: have to look good.
- 32:50Speaker 14: And I'm like, that's ridiculous.
- 32:52Speaker 13: This isn't pee wee football. There's no participation trophy. This
- 32:57Speaker 13: team has to win this game because they have to
- 32:59Speaker 13: show it to beat good teams. They struggle against good
- 33:03Speaker 13: teams with good quarterbacks. Yeah, they're gonna beat the Giants
- 33:07Speaker 13: with Daniel Jones or Washington or Carolina. They eat those
- 33:11Speaker 13: or those teams like Cleveland. But yes, this there's no
- 33:16Speaker 13: participation trophy this team. It's time for the team to
- 33:18Speaker 13: actually do something to get where they gotta go. They're
- 33:22Speaker 13: gonna have to beat the Lions, the the Ravens, teams
- 33:28Speaker 13: like that, because that's who you're gonna face.
- 33:30Speaker 1: Yeah, but you know what rob if they beat If
- 33:32Speaker 1: they beat the Ravens, you know exactly what people are
- 33:34Speaker 1: going to say, they're rowing three.
- 33:39Speaker 13: But but that's that's them. I don't care what the
- 33:41Speaker 13: outside say. As a fan, I I understand how good
- 33:45Speaker 13: the Ravens are. What I what I'm really looking at
- 33:48Speaker 13: is what the Ravens do good. We don't. So if
- 33:53Speaker 13: we somehow adjust and beat them, then I could say, Okay, Zimmer,
- 33:59Speaker 13: Zimmer gets it found something, Zimma made some changes. If
- 34:03Speaker 13: we get trucked again and Lamar Jackson is running outside
- 34:08Speaker 13: again and we just get blown off the field, then no,
- 34:12Speaker 13: it doesn't. Then I say to myself, here we go again.
- 34:14Speaker 13: This team will will beat will beat the bad teams,
- 34:18Speaker 13: but they will not beat the good teams.
- 34:19Speaker 1: Okay, but okay, you just went hot and cold. What
- 34:22Speaker 1: about what about in the middle. That's that's what I
- 34:24Speaker 1: think these callers were talking about. No one's talking about
- 34:27Speaker 1: getting trucked, getting trucked, but.
- 34:29Speaker 13: He wants to be in the middle. What is the middle?
- 34:31Speaker 1: What I'm talking? No, no, no, no, no, what what
- 34:37Speaker 1: they said? And I'm going to defend the callers because
- 34:38Speaker 1: I agreed with that. That part what they said was
- 34:41Speaker 1: is that they've got to play well in this game,
- 34:45Speaker 1: like they have to.
- 34:46Speaker 13: Yes, but they have to win.
- 34:49Speaker 1: Or what or what they're winning two and then seasons can.
- 34:52Speaker 13: Well, it's no, they have to win. They don't get
- 34:55Speaker 13: trust me. These are professional athletes. They're not coming off
- 34:58Speaker 13: the field and by fiving themselves if they lose thirty
- 35:02Speaker 13: five thirty one and say ooh we played good. No
- 35:06Speaker 13: that little kids do that. No, these guys got to
- 35:09Speaker 13: win because they understand too that they haven't beaten good
- 35:14Speaker 13: teams with good quarterbacks in a couple of years. They
- 35:18Speaker 13: understand that the Dallas Cowboys are looking to go to
- 35:23Speaker 13: the playoffs. They're looking to go to the NFC Championship.
- 35:26Speaker 13: They understand to get there, you have to beat.
- 35:29Speaker 14: These teams, and it's.
- 35:32Speaker 13: Now or never. Why why not?
- 35:34Speaker 3: Now?
- 35:34Speaker 13: So what I'm saying, you got them at home, which
- 35:36Speaker 13: is which you got lucky because it could have been worse.
- 35:38Speaker 13: It could have been in Baltimore. So you got them
- 35:41Speaker 13: at home. It's another home game. You already got blown
- 35:44Speaker 13: out the first one, So you want to let one slide.
- 35:46Speaker 13: You know, let's say that you tried to. We had
- 35:47Speaker 13: a great home record last year. They have to take
- 35:50Speaker 13: advantage of being at home. Now, I'm not this isn't
- 35:53Speaker 13: a must win technically, but this is a must win
- 35:56Speaker 13: for them because they just need to beat a good team,
- 36:00Speaker 13: not not play good and lose.
- 36:03Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, Well, I mean that's fine. We
- 36:08Speaker 1: can we can agree to disagree.
- 36:10Speaker 13: And I know what, so you you think if they
- 36:12Speaker 13: played good and lose, that's gonna make them feel good.
- 36:16Speaker 1: I don't care about how they feel. I mean, it
- 36:18Speaker 1: doesn't matter about I don't.
- 36:20Speaker 13: Understand why everybody's saying and you're agreeing with people that
- 36:23Speaker 13: are saying, well, they don't have to win they just
- 36:26Speaker 13: have to play good.
- 36:26Speaker 6: What does that do?
- 36:27Speaker 9: Well?
- 36:27Speaker 1: You just have to win. You just said it yourself
- 36:31Speaker 1: that it's not a must win.
- 36:33Speaker 13: No, No, it's not a must win on paper, but
- 36:35Speaker 13: it's a must win in their brain. And that's more
- 36:38Speaker 13: important than the paper.
- 36:39Speaker 1: Okay, because there will be okay.
- 36:41Speaker 13: More, they're gonna have to play good teams.
- 36:45Speaker 1: All right, all right. I think I think the point
- 36:47Speaker 1: that I'm I'm making, and I don't know about what
- 36:50Speaker 1: everybody is because we've heard two people, there's been nine callers.
- 36:54Speaker 1: What I'm saying is is that if if they lose
- 36:58Speaker 1: a close game, that won't be good. Obviously there'll be
- 37:01Speaker 1: one and two, they'll be in a hole and all that.
- 37:03Speaker 1: But but I think there's probably some things you can
- 37:06Speaker 1: work on. It's a long season. You've got some more
- 37:08Speaker 1: winnable games. You gonna have to figure out some things.
- 37:10Speaker 1: If they get blown out again like they did in
- 37:12Speaker 1: week two, now we have major problems. Major problem.
- 37:16Speaker 13: That's that's a definite.
- 37:17Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying is must win. No, you agreed,
- 37:21Speaker 1: not it must win.
- 37:23Speaker 13: Not saying no, not on paper.
- 37:24Speaker 1: You must play well in this game, you must.
- 37:27Speaker 13: But you have to win you need to win, you
- 37:30Speaker 13: need to beat this. You need to show yourselves. Okay,
- 37:32Speaker 13: that the Green Bay game and the Saints game were
- 37:37Speaker 13: that operations, that that's not the norm. If you lose
- 37:40Speaker 13: again to the Ravens, maybe that is the norm. That
- 37:43Speaker 13: good teams with good quarterbacks are going to beat you,
- 37:46Speaker 13: even at home.
- 37:47Speaker 1: Yeah, and and and maybe. But you just kind of
- 37:49Speaker 1: switched it when you said they need to win. I
- 37:51Speaker 1: get it. It's it's it's like sleep, you don't you
- 37:54Speaker 1: must have sleep, and you need sleep, but you don't
- 37:56Speaker 1: have to have it every single minute. It's so this
- 37:59Speaker 1: is a this is one of those games. And I
- 38:01Speaker 1: think we're saying the same thing. We're saying the exact
- 38:03Speaker 1: same thing. My point is, I think.
- 38:05Speaker 13: We are okay. But I just didn't understand what people say.
- 38:09Speaker 13: They don't have to win. This will be a feel
- 38:12Speaker 13: good game if they play good. Absolutely not.
- 38:14Speaker 1: Never heard that, and I haven't heard that on this
- 38:16Speaker 1: show either. I think nobody said feel good. No one
- 38:20Speaker 1: said feel good. All right, Rob, all right, we're gonna
- 38:22Speaker 1: move on. Thank you for the call. But I'm that's
- 38:25Speaker 1: why we're actually we're gonna take a break. We're gonna
- 38:27Speaker 1: take our second break real quick on Cowboy Story. I'll
- 38:29Speaker 1: be right back to finish it.
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- 40:10Speaker 1: let's continue on here, Tim and Winston Salem, North Carolina.
- 40:15Speaker 16: Tim, how you doing, Nick good? I'm good, I'm good.
- 40:22Speaker 16: Just want to I think we win this game if
- 40:29Speaker 16: we show some physicality, even if we lose on the scoreboard.
- 40:35Speaker 16: What I'd really like to see us do against a
- 40:38Speaker 16: physical team is just be physical with them. Don't just
- 40:43Speaker 16: get punched in the mouth and say, Okay, it's okay,
- 40:47Speaker 16: you just hit me in my mouth. But I think
- 40:50Speaker 16: we win if we show if we match their physicality.
- 40:56Speaker 16: And that's all I got to say.
- 40:58Speaker 1: All Right, all right, sounds good. Uh. They want to
- 41:01Speaker 1: go down that road again about don't have to win
- 41:05Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. I agree, you have to.
- 41:08Speaker 1: You have to to play well, you have to show
- 41:11Speaker 1: that you can be a tough football team. And because
- 41:15Speaker 1: and that's that's the point that I that I was making.
- 41:19Speaker 1: I think the point that the callers were making, and
- 41:21Speaker 1: this is not I just don't get into the moral
- 41:23Speaker 1: victory part of it. It's it's you know, you can
- 41:27Speaker 1: bounce back this year. There's a lot of football left.
- 41:30Speaker 1: You can bounce back if you start off one and two.
- 41:33Speaker 1: I mean, because if you start off one and two,
- 41:35Speaker 1: you play a good, close game and don't beat the Ravens,
- 41:39Speaker 1: you know you can still turn things around. Because I
- 41:42Speaker 1: guarantee you you're gonna think that the Ravens are good
- 41:44Speaker 1: because they're one and two. I mean like you're gonna
- 41:46Speaker 1: say that they still have time. I think the point
- 41:49Speaker 1: that everyone's making is, don't stack that crappy game that
- 41:54Speaker 1: you just showed in Week two against the Saints at home.
- 41:58Speaker 1: Don't put another one out there against the Ravens in
- 42:00Speaker 1: Week three and expect this to go. Well, it's not.
- 42:04Speaker 1: It's not. And I think that's when what everyone that's
- 42:07Speaker 1: when you hit the panic button, because that means you're
- 42:10Speaker 1: really not a good football team if you if you
- 42:12Speaker 1: can't respond in a game like that. So I think
- 42:14Speaker 1: that's what everyone is. It's early to find anything out.
- 42:19Speaker 1: Win close, lose, close, win big. You still don't know
- 42:25Speaker 1: a lot about the team. Get beat bad though in
- 42:28Speaker 1: this game, you know a lot about the team, and
- 42:31Speaker 1: it's not a good thing. And I think that's the point,
- 42:33Speaker 1: at least that's the point I was trying to make,
- 42:35Speaker 1: all right, Troy and Amarillo is next.
- 42:38Speaker 6: Hey, Nick has a going man first time Colverhood, Hey,
- 42:43Speaker 6: real quickly. I was just going to tell you, you know,
- 42:45Speaker 6: I don't defend Rob a whole lot, man, but I
- 42:47Speaker 6: think Rob had a point the last time.
- 42:49Speaker 7: Nick.
- 42:49Speaker 6: The only thing he was basically saying, and I'm saying
- 42:51Speaker 6: it too, is that you have to win some of
- 42:53Speaker 6: these games. And I get it, you know, but the
- 42:55Speaker 6: narrative last year was, you know, we had Green Bay
- 42:57Speaker 6: coming in. You know, we had a you know, rookie
- 43:01Speaker 6: basically a rookie quarterback coming in, you know, and stuff.
- 43:03Speaker 6: We had everything set up. You know, if we would
- 43:05Speaker 6: have won that game and somehow the Niners could lose,
- 43:08Speaker 6: you know, we'd have had a you know, a coast
- 43:09Speaker 6: all the way to the championship game. But and the
- 43:12Speaker 6: this year, you've gotten the narrative as well. You know,
- 43:14Speaker 6: you've got a lot of tough games, but most of
- 43:15Speaker 6: them are in home. You know, I think we're going
- 43:18Speaker 6: to struggle this week coming up. I really do, because
- 43:21Speaker 6: I don't think we can stop the run for one thing,
- 43:23Speaker 6: we can't run the ball very well, you know, per attempt.
- 43:26Speaker 6: But you know, it's just I don't I don't see
- 43:28Speaker 6: him having a whole lot of success this year unless
- 43:30Speaker 6: they get those things fixed. And this has been an
- 43:32Speaker 6: ongoing problem. So but and I love Anthony to death, men,
- 43:35Speaker 6: And don't don't get me wrong, but uh, Micah, you know,
- 43:39Speaker 6: for all he does and everything like that, I love Micah.
- 43:41Speaker 6: But the thing is, though, is that if he doesn't
- 43:43Speaker 6: enjoy it a little bit of success in the first half,
- 43:45Speaker 6: he kind of pouched a little bit, you know, and
- 43:47Speaker 6: then he does kind of a disappearing act in the
- 43:49Speaker 6: second half. And for a guy that's probably wanting a
- 43:51Speaker 6: three hundred million dollar contract, I could see where man,
- 43:53Speaker 6: there'll be a little bit of apprehension.
- 43:55Speaker 16: Man.
- 43:55Speaker 6: So I'm just saying, you know, but I love all
- 43:57Speaker 6: these guys, love the commentary and I and I appreciate it.
- 43:59Speaker 1: Nick, thank you, all right, thank you for the first
- 44:04Speaker 1: time calling Troy. Appreciate that. And you know, the thing
- 44:09Speaker 1: about is about let's say the Mica part. I mean,
- 44:14Speaker 1: I think if the game doesn't go well, you know,
- 44:17Speaker 1: you're saying he doesn't make a lot of plays and
- 44:19Speaker 1: paths in the second it maybe maybe you could say that,
- 44:23Speaker 1: but but it's also like, what does he do best?
- 44:27Speaker 1: He rushes the quarterback and he and he makes plays
- 44:29Speaker 1: and gets sacks and disrupts the passing game. And when
- 44:33Speaker 1: you're in a game like that against the against the
- 44:36Speaker 1: Saints or Buffalo last year, or any of those games
- 44:39Speaker 1: where you know it's kind of out of hand in
- 44:41Speaker 1: the second half and they're running the ball and they're
- 44:43Speaker 1: not going to do anything but run the ball, then
- 44:45Speaker 1: of course you're not going to see a lot of
- 44:46Speaker 1: Micah Parsons. That's not really his game. And so that's
- 44:49Speaker 1: that's part of it. And I would imagine all of
- 44:52Speaker 1: the great pass rushers in the league, they're all kind
- 44:55Speaker 1: of the same way. If Pittsburgh gets down, if Raiders
- 44:58Speaker 1: get down, I bet t J. Watt, Max Crosby, arm
- 45:02Speaker 1: just not as good. When you're just running the ball,
- 45:04Speaker 1: running the ball, you're not seeing that kind of you know,
- 45:06Speaker 1: disruptive play. So now pouting and whatever it is, that's
- 45:11Speaker 1: body language that you know we're trying to to put
- 45:14Speaker 1: on him. But you know, I I just think that
- 45:17Speaker 1: that you know, he needs to run, I mean, he
- 45:19Speaker 1: needs he plays his best when you know the ears
- 45:22Speaker 1: are pinned back and they're going after the whole defense
- 45:24Speaker 1: does but they got to do their part early on,
- 45:28Speaker 1: and the offense has to help on the other side
- 45:30Speaker 1: to get them that lead to be able to play
- 45:33Speaker 1: that way. You know, it's it's it's that's a vacation.
- 45:36Speaker 1: That's what that is. Is you're playing a vacation. But
- 45:39Speaker 1: you can't have a vacation if you don't do the
- 45:41Speaker 1: dirty work to save money and and and do you know,
- 45:45Speaker 1: you know, kind of you know, figure out how to
- 45:47Speaker 1: buckle down and and and and then save up for
- 45:50Speaker 1: that reward. It's the same type of thing. You can't
- 45:52Speaker 1: play that kind of football if you haven't done the
- 45:55Speaker 1: work in the first half. And that's kind of what
- 45:57Speaker 1: it is. All Right, we're gonna be so the calls.
- 46:00Speaker 1: We are free on calls right now. Lines are open.
- 46:04Speaker 1: We got a few more minutes. We could probably sneak
- 46:06Speaker 1: one more in, but I'll just say that and maybe
- 46:08Speaker 1: we'll kind of, you know, tie a bow on this one.
- 46:13Speaker 1: I don't think I do, and no one, I mean
- 46:15Speaker 1: I do enough talking. No one's gonna put any words
- 46:18Speaker 1: in my mouth. Okay, So we're not We're not talking
- 46:20Speaker 1: about that that they don't have to win the game
- 46:23Speaker 1: and it's fine if they lose. No one is saying that.
- 46:26Speaker 1: All I'm saying is is this is to the last caller, obviously,
- 46:30Speaker 1: to the one with Rob and anybody else, anyone that
- 46:32Speaker 1: that's trying to say that they don't have to go
- 46:35Speaker 1: out and win this game. No, you have, that's the goal.
- 46:39Speaker 1: You have to go win the game. All I'm saying
- 46:42Speaker 1: is we're gonna find a lot out about this team.
- 46:44Speaker 1: If they do not respond and they do not play well,
- 46:47Speaker 1: if they don't play well again, then I think that
- 46:49Speaker 1: there's major problems week three, not even at a September,
- 46:53Speaker 1: and you can say this team has major problems. That's what.
- 46:57Speaker 1: That's one thing that I think we're gonna be able
- 46:59Speaker 1: to figure out well, and we hope we don't. We
- 47:01Speaker 1: don't get that way. That's the point. That's the one
- 47:04Speaker 1: thing that you're really going to be able to say
- 47:07Speaker 1: that's who this team is. If they don't go out
- 47:09Speaker 1: and play well any other scenario, then I think the
- 47:12Speaker 1: jury is still out. And that's kind of my point
- 47:14Speaker 1: to all this is that and even if they do
- 47:17Speaker 1: get blown out, doesn't mean you ended up the season.
- 47:19Speaker 1: Doesn't mean we're not having a show, doesn't mean all that.
- 47:21Speaker 1: All I'm saying is is, you know it's going to
- 47:24Speaker 1: be one of those games, one of those seasons if
- 47:27Speaker 1: they don't go out and play well, and now I
- 47:29Speaker 1: think they will. I think they will respond. I think
- 47:31Speaker 1: they're too good of a team to just lay down.
- 47:33Speaker 1: But it'll be really sad if they don't do that.
- 47:35Speaker 1: All right, let's go to uh is it? Jeff and Detroit?
- 47:41Speaker 16: Ay?
- 47:41Speaker 9: Nick has going? This is Jesse from now Futher Detroit
- 47:44Speaker 9: Stecond Area.
- 47:45Speaker 1: Sorry, how you doing man?
- 47:47Speaker 9: I'm doing good man. I'm not gonna hammer or speak
- 47:51Speaker 9: about the defense. I think that has already been talking
- 47:54Speaker 9: enough about, talked enough from the previous callers. But for me,
- 47:59Speaker 9: what I will like to see is more movement in
- 48:04Speaker 9: the offense from Mike McCarthy. I think our offense is stagnant.
- 48:10Speaker 9: I would like to see more motions in the offense.
- 48:14Speaker 9: I think our he has to do a better job
- 48:16Speaker 9: in scheming these players up to get open and not
- 48:19Speaker 9: just take the Garrett approach and beating the man in
- 48:21Speaker 9: front of you. So I'm hoping that he will make
- 48:23Speaker 9: some changes going down the lines, especially the team we
- 48:27Speaker 9: just played in New Orleans. I think with all the
- 48:30Speaker 9: motion and movement that they had allowed their quarterback to
- 48:36Speaker 9: be very effective in the passing game.
- 48:39Speaker 16: So that's all I have to say.
- 48:41Speaker 9: I'm focused and more on the offense and defense. Man
- 48:44Speaker 9: have a great data all right, thank you.
- 48:45Speaker 1: You know, movement, movement on you know, before the snap,
- 48:48Speaker 1: movement during the play, it's it's key. It's it's absolutely critical,
- 48:53Speaker 1: you know. And and it's it's the smart coordinators can
- 48:57Speaker 1: do it and the smart players as well. I mean,
- 48:59Speaker 1: Eli Manning is not one of the most elusive quarterbacks
- 49:03Speaker 1: of all time, but he didn't get sacked a lot,
- 49:05Speaker 1: you know, And that's the thing. Derek Carr not either.
- 49:08Speaker 1: But the way they moved him in the pocket and
- 49:10Speaker 1: strategically moved him away from Micah, I mean, it was
- 49:13Speaker 1: a perfect setup, the perfect plan, and you got to
- 49:17Speaker 1: give them credit for the way that they did that. Now,
- 49:19Speaker 1: if you think Carr was on the move, this quarterback
- 49:21Speaker 1: is going to be on the move in a lot
- 49:23Speaker 1: of different ways as well. And so what a nightmare
- 49:26Speaker 1: he is to try to stop. But you know he
- 49:29Speaker 1: has been stopped. I mean he had now he hasn't
- 49:32Speaker 1: been stopped stopped. I mean, he's getting one hundred and
- 49:33Speaker 1: sixty seven rushing yards. The Cowboys as a team have
- 49:35Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy, so you know, that goes to
- 49:38Speaker 1: show they're not running the ball very well, and he's
- 49:40Speaker 1: running it a lot. But it might be a situation
- 49:42Speaker 1: where teams are saying, let him have his he's gonna
- 49:46Speaker 1: run all wild, and then we get into the red zone,
- 49:48Speaker 1: we'll tighten this thing up, make him make throws and
- 49:53Speaker 1: you know, have to kick field goals and try to
- 49:55Speaker 1: win that way. That could be a strategy as well.
- 49:57Speaker 1: So we'll see what the Cowboys do with him. Lamar
- 50:00Speaker 1: Jackson only the second time they've ever played him. They
- 50:04Speaker 1: played him in twenty twenty in a Wednesday game that
- 50:06Speaker 1: I'm still kind of salty about. The NFL decided to
- 50:10Speaker 1: move the game because they, you know, Lamar Jackson had COVID.
- 50:14Speaker 1: I believe what went down. I mean, anybody else had
- 50:16Speaker 1: COVID and he got to play the game, but he
- 50:18Speaker 1: had it. They had to move it to Wednesday. At
- 50:20Speaker 1: least that's kind of how I remembered it. But and
- 50:22Speaker 1: he was kind of a difference in the game. If
- 50:24Speaker 1: you remember like he is most games. All right, We'll
- 50:26Speaker 1: continue to talk about Cowboys and Ravens on Friday when
- 50:30Speaker 1: we wrap up the week for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman.
- 50:34Speaker 1: We will see you tomorrow on Cowboys storyline, See Them.
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