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- 0:11Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:13Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
- 0:17Speaker 3: Oh Cowboys.
- 0:20Speaker 4: This He's Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:28Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I'm Nick Eatman.
- 0:32Speaker 1: It's Thursday, December twenty eighth. I want to say happy
- 0:35Speaker 1: birthday to the Boss, Derek Eagleson. He's not sixty yet,
- 0:39Speaker 1: but he's not even close to that. But that was
- 0:43Speaker 1: That was Chris's joke. Actually not funny, but don't I
- 0:46Speaker 1: don't want to be muted again like yesterday. No, happy
- 0:49Speaker 1: birthday to Derek. He's the one that runs all this
- 0:52Speaker 1: show and definitely runs these podcasts, and we're we've been
- 0:57Speaker 1: every year. I used to joke with him. I was like,
- 0:59Speaker 1: how many podcasts you want? He's like, I'd like to
- 1:01Speaker 1: have a full day of podcasts. I'm like, okay, well
- 1:03Speaker 1: right now we have two, and then there would be three,
- 1:06Speaker 1: and then four. Then well we have to Chris about eight.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Now it is a full day of podcasts. Chris can
- 1:11Speaker 1: attest to that, and and I'm you know, this is
- 1:15Speaker 1: the new show of the Bunch. I don't know how
- 1:17Speaker 1: many more we can add, because we certainly can't fill
- 1:21Speaker 1: out the day more than this. But Cowboys storyline, I'm
- 1:25Speaker 1: loving it. Even yesterday's show, it was a little crazy.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Went back and watched it just to see, you know,
- 1:30Speaker 1: it was it was kind of it was kind of
- 1:32Speaker 1: a tense moments and every now and again, but you
- 1:35Speaker 1: know what, that's okay. Cowboy fans are passionate. I am
- 1:38Speaker 1: as well. We had a good time. Hopefully we'll have
- 1:41Speaker 1: another good spirited show again today. All right. As for
- 1:46Speaker 1: storylines going in, we're just you know, looking at the injuries,
- 1:50Speaker 1: seeing where the Cowboys are. Jonathan Hankins, I'm not really
- 1:53Speaker 1: sure he's going to be ready to go. Tyron Smith,
- 1:56Speaker 1: I think does have a good chance, and that's that's
- 1:59Speaker 1: good for everyone obviously, especially for this offensive line, Dakh.
- 2:05Speaker 1: But but that's that's gonna be a key, you know.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Obviously the Lions have them have a good defense and
- 2:10Speaker 1: they like to bring a lot of pressure. So, uh,
- 2:13Speaker 1: guys like Aiden Hudginson off the edge. You're gonna need everybody.
- 2:17Speaker 1: And certainly the Cowboys play better when Tyron is out there.
- 2:20Speaker 1: It's always been the case when he's there, all right.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven
- 2:26Speaker 1: is the number to call. We got two people in
- 2:27Speaker 1: the line. Let's started off. Zach in Atlanta. You're first, Zach.
- 2:31Speaker 1: What's up?
- 2:32Speaker 5: Hey?
- 2:33Speaker 1: Good morning, Nick, I'm good.
- 2:35Speaker 6: How are you great? First time calling?
- 2:38Speaker 1: Okay?
- 2:40Speaker 6: Yes, hey, man, I listen every day. It just grateful
- 2:43Speaker 6: for all the work that y'all do online and for
- 2:46Speaker 6: us with the podcast.
- 2:47Speaker 7: Happy Birthday, Derek, Yeah, appreciate that.
- 2:49Speaker 4: And with me.
- 2:50Speaker 6: Yeah, with me listening every day, I got to catch
- 2:52Speaker 6: up on a few of your questions. So Thanksgiving, I'm
- 2:56Speaker 6: throwing it back. My favorite slash worst memory is Ron
- 2:59Speaker 6: Day running crazy and overtime to set up the game
- 3:03Speaker 6: when he field goal for the Broncos. That was pretty miserable.
- 3:07Speaker 6: But I think the next year Romo went crazy.
- 3:10Speaker 1: So yeah, it balances out terrence. He dropped an interception
- 3:17Speaker 1: that might have won that game. I remember that that
- 3:19Speaker 1: when it was right at the end of the game,
- 3:20Speaker 1: he has a chance for a pick six. Oh man,
- 3:24Speaker 1: that was an interesting game because that looked like a scrimmage.
- 3:27Speaker 1: That the way the Cowboys were wearing their throwback blues
- 3:30Speaker 1: and the way that Denver was wearing their you know,
- 3:33Speaker 1: they had their white, it looked like an like a
- 3:35Speaker 1: Navy and White scrimmage. These two teams looked identical out there.
- 3:39Speaker 1: It was really hard to figure out that that. That's
- 3:41Speaker 1: one thing I remember that game too. All right, go ahead, sorry.
- 3:44Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, you're good. Favorite movie Longest Yard, the newer
- 3:49Speaker 6: one came out when I was growing up. Just funny,
- 3:52Speaker 6: classic Sandler, favorite cowboy DeMarcus Ware. And yeah, I'll say
- 4:00Speaker 6: Zeke's rookie year is one of my favorite seasons. I mean,
- 4:04Speaker 6: just the magic of that season. I think we all
- 4:06Speaker 6: have a good time in twenty sixteen, but we're gonna
- 4:10Speaker 6: start on a positive note today. You said some great
- 4:12Speaker 6: things yesterday that we're playing meaningful football in December and
- 4:16Speaker 6: January for the third straight year. When I mean, I'm
- 4:19Speaker 6: thirty years old, I can't say that there's been three
- 4:21Speaker 6: consecutive years in my fandom that this is this is
- 4:25Speaker 6: the case, meaningful football. I'm not ready for the draft yet,
- 4:28Speaker 6: but see where the season goes.
- 4:31Speaker 4: You know, it might be the road.
- 4:34Speaker 6: That's pretty hard, going on the road to try and
- 4:38Speaker 6: do some things we haven't done in a long time.
- 4:40Speaker 6: But that's okay. We're still in this thing. We have
- 4:42Speaker 6: some meaningful football next weekend, and so I'm excited. I
- 4:46Speaker 6: think it's gonna be a good thing. The question I
- 4:49Speaker 6: have for you, so CD seems to be the focus
- 4:54Speaker 6: of our offense, and rightfully so, he's just having a
- 4:57Speaker 6: monster season. But what do you think it's going to
- 5:01Speaker 6: look like to get other players more involved? Because I
- 5:06Speaker 6: was I think back to the the playoff game last
- 5:09Speaker 6: year when Pollard went down, Yeah, and there was no
- 5:12Speaker 6: more juice. I mean it was, it was gone even
- 5:14Speaker 6: if he won that game. You know, we talked about
- 5:15Speaker 6: it in a offense past year. Who needs to step up?
- 5:19Speaker 6: I mean, I love Jake Ferguson, you know, Cooks has
- 5:23Speaker 6: a role, but yeah, who would you say needs to
- 5:28Speaker 6: step up and kind of be that solid number two
- 5:31Speaker 6: the CD?
- 5:32Speaker 1: And with that I'll hang out all right, thank you, Zach.
- 5:34Speaker 1: Appreciate that first time caller. I do believe that that
- 5:39Speaker 1: the difference from this year is is Brandon Cooks and
- 5:43Speaker 1: the combination of of Jake Ferguson. He gives He gives
- 5:48Speaker 1: the offense more juice down the field than Dalton Schultz
- 5:52Speaker 1: did last year. I think Schultz maybe a little bit
- 5:54Speaker 1: be better hands maybe and better around the goal line
- 5:59Speaker 1: in the red zone. I don't think he had nine
- 6:00Speaker 1: touchdowns last year and had a couple in the playoffs
- 6:03Speaker 1: as well. But I think that from from a standpoint
- 6:06Speaker 1: of getting the ball down the field and kind of
- 6:09Speaker 1: being more of a playmaker, I think Ferguson gives the
- 6:12Speaker 1: Cowboys more of that. And I also believe that Cooks
- 6:15Speaker 1: does as well. So you know, Tolbert, Tolbert made a play,
- 6:18Speaker 1: made a play on Jalen Ramsey. You know that that
- 6:22Speaker 1: was big. So in Gallup, you know, Gallup has galloped.
- 6:26Speaker 1: He's not he's not making a ton of plays. He's
- 6:29Speaker 1: out there, he's running the house. He's doing his thing.
- 6:31Speaker 1: He'll make an occasional catch here and there. And uh,
- 6:34Speaker 1: you know, I I've said before. You know, I'm not
- 6:37Speaker 1: giving up on him. He's He's a guy that you
- 6:39Speaker 1: you wouldn't mind, you know, having out there just because
- 6:43Speaker 1: you know. And I also looked at his money too.
- 6:46Speaker 1: For for for next year. I think there's a lot
- 6:47Speaker 1: of people that think that he'll be gone. I think
- 6:50Speaker 1: I think he'll probably be back for at least one
- 6:53Speaker 1: more year. But but the point is is that I
- 6:56Speaker 1: think Cooks and Ferguson give you a little bit more
- 6:59Speaker 1: than just double team and taking c D away. But
- 7:03Speaker 1: the Cowboys are doing things differently too since that forty
- 7:06Speaker 1: nine er game this year, and they really weren't doing
- 7:08Speaker 1: it last year, where you know, it's it's hard to
- 7:11Speaker 1: take c. D away. I know he didn't do a
- 7:13Speaker 1: lot in that game in the middle of the quarters,
- 7:15Speaker 1: but they weren't really taking him away, you know, And
- 7:20Speaker 1: CD kind of alluded to that the other day. So
- 7:22Speaker 1: I think I think it's harder to to just pinpoint
- 7:26Speaker 1: on on one player on this offense. And I think
- 7:28Speaker 1: if there were an injury, knock on Wood, I think
- 7:30Speaker 1: they have a chance to still move the ball and
- 7:33Speaker 1: make place with the way that they're designing it. All right,
- 7:36Speaker 1: Marquis is in Virginia. Our next caller, Hey, what's up?
- 7:40Speaker 1: Make are you?
- 7:42Speaker 8: I'm good man?
- 7:43Speaker 1: How are you great?
- 7:45Speaker 9: Hey man, it's good.
- 7:46Speaker 8: I don't know who came up with the dive it
- 7:47Speaker 8: for this show. Whoever did was a genius, because I'm
- 7:51Speaker 8: pretty sure you're gonna be in the top two of
- 7:52Speaker 8: shows if you're not already. LOWND fans to call him
- 7:56Speaker 8: on a daily basis and talk about the Cowboys things
- 7:59Speaker 8: that they do around their friends and family on the
- 8:02Speaker 8: daily basis anyway, that is a genius idea.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Well, but it's kind of been in the works for
- 8:07Speaker 1: a little bit. Like I said, I think a couple
- 8:09Speaker 1: of weeks ago. My dad was one of the first
- 8:11Speaker 1: people to bring it to my attention maybe three years ago, said,
- 8:15Speaker 1: nobody's doing a show like this for for y'all. Y'all
- 8:17Speaker 1: need to do this, and uh, it took a little
- 8:19Speaker 1: bit to kind of get there, but yeah, we talked
- 8:21Speaker 1: it through and uh, you know, Derek and I discussed
- 8:24Speaker 1: it and so I've kind of collaborated on it. But yeah,
- 8:27Speaker 1: I mean, uh and I and I and I'm glad
- 8:29Speaker 1: you said that, because that's what it is is for
- 8:30Speaker 1: for the fans to to be able to have a voice,
- 8:33Speaker 1: their opinion, to call in and uh, sometimes like yesterday,
- 8:36Speaker 1: can get a little heated back and forth, but like,
- 8:38Speaker 1: like I keep saying, like my opinion is not not
- 8:42Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not the judge and jury on this,
- 8:44Speaker 1: Like you guys have an opinion and it's and and
- 8:47Speaker 1: you guys know the game, very very knowledgeable fan base
- 8:50Speaker 1: and the callers have been I've been very impressed by that,
- 8:53Speaker 1: but by just what you guys just you know, because
- 8:56Speaker 1: I'm in overseas or I'm in Seattle or Virginia or whatever.
- 9:01Speaker 1: And you guys know just as much as people that
- 9:03Speaker 1: we see covering the team every day.
- 9:06Speaker 8: Right, Hey, well after the car do it? Do it here?
- 9:09Speaker 1: You go for your dad, Will, I will will get
- 9:12Speaker 1: one for Pops.
- 9:13Speaker 8: Like the last callers said, twelve and five or having
- 9:17Speaker 8: three yet win the season, we have a potential to
- 9:20Speaker 8: go twelve and five to three years in a row.
- 9:21Speaker 8: This is how you build a champion. I think Cowboys
- 9:24Speaker 8: fans should really find some piece in that. I know
- 9:26Speaker 8: it's been thirty years, but there hasn't been thirty years
- 9:29Speaker 8: of the same team. It's move wis every year, new coaches.
- 9:32Speaker 8: It's too bad that we wasted too much time on
- 9:34Speaker 8: the last coach. But right now we have great coaching
- 9:38Speaker 8: and we have great personnel. We just have to let
- 9:41Speaker 8: it marinate and turn into a championship team as it
- 9:46Speaker 8: seems like it's about to do. Cowboy Nation. Also, I
- 9:50Speaker 8: called in I think a week or two ago, spoke
- 9:52Speaker 8: about moving Michael potterins off the ball, and like you said,
- 9:56Speaker 8: you really never know what's the running down, what's the
- 9:58Speaker 8: passing down. But I think he was much more productive
- 10:00Speaker 8: in the game being off of the ball in what
- 10:04Speaker 8: they thought was obvious or what they thought might have
- 10:07Speaker 8: been because having the stat lines with no tackles or
- 10:10Speaker 8: one tackle for a guy that's that dynamic, it's just
- 10:15Speaker 8: not it's not good for even his confidence. We listen
- 10:17Speaker 8: to his podcasts and you you just think about who
- 10:20Speaker 8: he is as a person. He really needs to be
- 10:23Speaker 8: involved like a Seedee Lamb on offense, like he needs
- 10:26Speaker 8: the ball in his hands, Mike and needs action. He
- 10:28Speaker 8: needs to get to the ball to feel like he's
- 10:32Speaker 8: a part of the team. And I and I also
- 10:35Speaker 8: wanted to say that I really think we're gonna win
- 10:38Speaker 8: this week. I think we're a better team. I'll give
- 10:41Speaker 8: credence to their to their O line, but I just
- 10:44Speaker 8: think we're a better team. We're at home, Yes, Jimmy
- 10:48Speaker 8: is coming in those ceremonies, like big they said, doesn't
- 10:51Speaker 8: always work out for us, closing Texas Stadium and so
- 10:53Speaker 8: on and so forth. But I just think we're a
- 10:55Speaker 8: better team. And I really don't think that we're as
- 10:58Speaker 8: down and out as losing two games in a row
- 11:01Speaker 8: may seem, like, you know, with a fan. So I
- 11:04Speaker 8: really look forward to us going out there not only winning,
- 11:07Speaker 8: but probably dominating and making you know, regardless of Detroit's record,
- 11:11Speaker 8: making people question whether or not they're a legit playoff contender.
- 11:16Speaker 8: And you know, last thing, I know, we ain't at
- 11:20Speaker 8: that point yet, but offensive tackle, linebacker, lining back. Those
- 11:24Speaker 8: are my three first rounds for the draft, man, so
- 11:27Speaker 8: that we can keep building on the championship.
- 11:29Speaker 1: All thank you. All right, that's a lot going on
- 11:33Speaker 1: in that call. Thank you, Marquise. Let's just keep it moving.
- 11:39Speaker 1: I agree with with a lot of that. I mean, again,
- 11:42Speaker 1: not not ready to talk draft just yet. And I'm
- 11:44Speaker 1: not sure what a win, what a Cowboys win would
- 11:47Speaker 1: do for Detroit. I mean, Detroit's kind of hard to
- 11:49Speaker 1: figure out because I think for them that they're all
- 11:53Speaker 1: you know, a lot of fans just still kind of
- 11:55Speaker 1: see the Lions and it's hard to kind of take
- 11:58Speaker 1: them seriously. Now, their record is serious, and they're a
- 12:01Speaker 1: good team, and they're probably you know, beating a lot
- 12:03Speaker 1: of teams that maybe had that attitude. But I think,
- 12:07Speaker 1: I think for sure that that the Lions are are
- 12:10Speaker 1: a team that can come in here and win this game.
- 12:13Speaker 1: They proved it last year at the end of the season,
- 12:15Speaker 1: and I think that kind of carried him on to
- 12:18Speaker 1: this year. So it should be a fun game Saturday
- 12:20Speaker 1: night for sure. All right, Bobby and Dallas is our
- 12:23Speaker 1: next call?
- 12:26Speaker 4: Hey Nick, first time caller.
- 12:28Speaker 1: Here, right, Hey, Bobby, how are we doing.
- 12:32Speaker 4: Let's see favorite all time cowboy. I think I gotta
- 12:35Speaker 4: say Dead Bryant. That's just prime, my prime, yeers, I
- 12:38Speaker 4: would say random cowboy would be the same period. I
- 12:42Speaker 4: would say Lance Dunbar.
- 12:43Speaker 5: He was the one.
- 12:45Speaker 4: I feel like he was always on the cusps there
- 12:47Speaker 4: of kind of like breaking free. I think Jerry really
- 12:50Speaker 4: liked him. We always scheme for him, and I think
- 12:52Speaker 4: he just couldn't stay healthy.
- 12:54Speaker 1: Yeah, there's little there's I mean, there's a little guy,
- 12:56Speaker 1: and it's hard. It's hard to have a long career
- 13:00Speaker 1: with that kind of body type, you know. But but
- 13:03Speaker 1: yeah he was. He was dynamic, you know, and when
- 13:05Speaker 1: he when he could get the ball. But you you're right,
- 13:07Speaker 1: it didn't stay healthy that awesome.
- 13:09Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe maybe that'll be just fun, but but we'll see.
- 13:13Speaker 4: My I think my main my main point here, my
- 13:15Speaker 4: main kind of question that I like your thought on.
- 13:18Speaker 4: I feel like in the past years we were able
- 13:20Speaker 4: to kind of succumb coming fighting back throughout some of
- 13:26Speaker 4: our games when we when we were down early. And
- 13:29Speaker 4: I feel like the key difference this season it's the
- 13:32Speaker 4: it's the early miscues, right. I think if you think
- 13:34Speaker 4: of three of our four three of our key losses,
- 13:38Speaker 4: right with Sanfran, I think we had that kind of
- 13:40Speaker 4: like that crazy fumble that didn't go our way that
- 13:43Speaker 4: we couldn't recover with bills, you know, I think it
- 13:47Speaker 4: was the early penalties and then obviously this past week
- 13:50Speaker 4: with the fumble of the goal line. I feel like,
- 13:52Speaker 4: you know, those early miscues are really what kills this team.
- 13:55Speaker 4: I feel like we can fight back if it's more
- 13:57Speaker 4: about you know, competing with their offense or defense. But
- 14:00Speaker 4: you know, I wonder from a coaching perspective, right, I
- 14:03Speaker 4: know McCarthy tends to be a little bit more laid
- 14:06Speaker 4: back throughout the course of the week, and you know
- 14:08Speaker 4: that's you know, I think with with that's like Tyrann.
- 14:10Speaker 9: And stuff that works.
- 14:11Speaker 5: But you know, how do we fix that?
- 14:14Speaker 4: You know, aside from you know, coaching these guys not
- 14:16Speaker 4: to make the penalties, not to fumble the ball, you know,
- 14:19Speaker 4: And I feel like maybe McCarthy's lacks more lax approach,
- 14:25Speaker 4: you know, might serve the team. Uh you might might
- 14:28Speaker 4: be the certain cause of some disservice to the team here.
- 14:30Speaker 4: So it's just kind of one here thoughts on that.
- 14:32Speaker 1: All right. You know, I think, you know, why they
- 14:35Speaker 1: play seventeen games is to have a big sample size
- 14:39Speaker 1: of what, you know, what this team really is. And
- 14:42Speaker 1: and so you're right on the losses. You go back
- 14:47Speaker 1: and look at you know, Arizona game as well. I mean,
- 14:51Speaker 1: I don't know if about mis cues early, but but
- 14:54Speaker 1: kind of defensive breakdowns, letting them, letting Dobbs go you know,
- 14:59Speaker 1: around the edge for a lot, big game and things
- 15:02Speaker 1: like that. So but but the games that they've won,
- 15:05Speaker 1: you know, I mean I think the Cowboys are or
- 15:08Speaker 1: you know, have I don't have it in front of me.
- 15:10Speaker 1: I know that they they've outscored their opponents up by
- 15:13Speaker 1: a lot in the first quarter and definitely in the
- 15:16Speaker 1: first half. So uh, you know, for the most part,
- 15:19Speaker 1: I think this team has come out ready to play
- 15:21Speaker 1: and played well and kind of jumped on teams early.
- 15:24Speaker 1: When that doesn't happen, Yeah, that that that can be
- 15:27Speaker 1: that can be a problem, and that's that's that's a
- 15:30Speaker 1: lot of games. You know, when in this league, you know,
- 15:31Speaker 1: you get your build a lead, you get momentum, and
- 15:34Speaker 1: you kind of play that way. And so yeah, the
- 15:37Speaker 1: Cowboys when in the games that they've lost, they they've
- 15:39Speaker 1: they've you know, hadn't gotten off to to the great
- 15:42Speaker 1: start and had to kind of claw their way back.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Sometimes they can, but but a lot of times they
- 15:47Speaker 1: they don't.
- 15:48Speaker 9: You know.
- 15:48Speaker 1: I mean, you look at like that Chargers game, you know,
- 15:52Speaker 1: which which I think that game kind of fooled us
- 15:54Speaker 1: a little bit. We thought this team was a little
- 15:55Speaker 1: different because we thought the Chargers were different. But you
- 15:58Speaker 1: go back and watch that game. You know, the Chargers
- 16:02Speaker 1: took the ball, went right down the field and scored
- 16:04Speaker 1: like quickly, and I think the Cowboys went three and out.
- 16:06Speaker 1: Then the Chargers scored and you're thinking, oh, man, Kellen's
- 16:10Speaker 1: in his bag is gonna be all day long. And
- 16:11Speaker 1: then the Cowboys were able to kind of withstand that
- 16:14Speaker 1: early punch and Dak scored and all that. So I'm
- 16:19Speaker 1: just saying, I think I think you're right, You're you're
- 16:21Speaker 1: you're looking for a trend in the losses, and that
- 16:24Speaker 1: is one. But I don't know if it's one where
- 16:26Speaker 1: you would say this is what they are because I
- 16:29Speaker 1: think the offense, the offense has been good or this
- 16:32Speaker 1: team has been good in the first half and even
- 16:34Speaker 1: in the first quarter. So that's the key. You know,
- 16:36Speaker 1: they can they can do that more and more often
- 16:39Speaker 1: than not. And I think it happens a lot at home.
- 16:41Speaker 1: Then certainly you know that that would that would help
- 16:44Speaker 1: them get some momentum that they need to carry on.
- 16:46Speaker 1: All right, Brian in Kansas City is our next call? Brian,
- 16:51Speaker 1: Good morning, next good morning, how are you.
- 16:53Speaker 2: I'm all right, sir. I was listening to the one
- 16:56Speaker 2: of the previous callers and asking, like, who's our number two?
- 16:59Speaker 2: You know, who's got to be the big number two
- 17:00Speaker 2: behind CD because he's such a clear number one, and
- 17:04Speaker 2: you know, in watching it seems to me like it's
- 17:07Speaker 2: ferg It's Ferguson is the guy like and he's the
- 17:10Speaker 2: one with the attitude, like he's.
- 17:11Speaker 10: Getting up and yeah, yeah, he's in people's faces, you know,
- 17:16Speaker 10: Stik looting the first down and you know, nobody's nobody's
- 17:20Speaker 10: going to have more attitude than him on the field.
- 17:22Speaker 10: So I think that's what has to continue to keep
- 17:25Speaker 10: some of the pressure off of CD so he can
- 17:27Speaker 10: get open. And like you said, they're lining them up everywhere,
- 17:30Speaker 10: which helps us a lot.
- 17:32Speaker 2: In getting him open, even though everybody knows he's going
- 17:35Speaker 2: to get the ball right. So, hey, I wanted to
- 17:37Speaker 2: just say, this is the time of year you're like,
- 17:39Speaker 2: you know, maybe we all reflect a little bit and
- 17:41Speaker 2: look back. I want to just say thank you for
- 17:43Speaker 2: the show.
- 17:45Speaker 8: You know a lot of excuse.
- 17:46Speaker 2: Me, A lot of times at the end of the
- 17:48Speaker 2: day when I look back and say what do I
- 17:50Speaker 2: have to be grateful for? I look back and I say,
- 17:52Speaker 2: you know, I got to talk to my friends Chris
- 17:54Speaker 2: Beam and Nick Eatman, and here are my fellow fans.
- 17:57Speaker 2: So thank you again and have a great day.
- 17:59Speaker 1: Brother, Thank you, Brian, appreciate that good stuff. Yeah, I think, uh,
- 18:06Speaker 1: you know, you're right now the perspective of this show
- 18:10Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we we we have a good
- 18:12Speaker 1: time with it. Like I've said, it's always been it's
- 18:13Speaker 1: always been fun. And uh you know, we we we
- 18:16Speaker 1: celebrate the uh the first time callers all the time.
- 18:19Speaker 1: But but really this show, the backbone of the show
- 18:21Speaker 1: is the ones that they call a lot and and
- 18:24Speaker 1: and you know, provide good perspective, and and you guys
- 18:26Speaker 1: kind of tend to know each other a little bit,
- 18:28Speaker 1: you kind of know, you know, maybe you follow each
- 18:30Speaker 1: other on social media, but also you know, when you call,
- 18:32Speaker 1: you kind of know kind of what to expect, and
- 18:35Speaker 1: and uh that that that's been a really fun part
- 18:38Speaker 1: for me. So so I don't want to I don't
- 18:40Speaker 1: want to put put you guys and think that we're
- 18:42Speaker 1: not We're not. We don't care about the ones that
- 18:44Speaker 1: call the time, because those are the ones that really
- 18:46Speaker 1: make the show. And and guys like Brian as well
- 18:48Speaker 1: Ronnie in New Jersey, the same thing. Ronnie is up next.
- 18:51Speaker 11: Good morning, Nick, how you been good?
- 18:53Speaker 1: How are you doing?
- 18:53Speaker 4: Man?
- 18:55Speaker 12: That's too bad. That's too bad, nick.
- 18:57Speaker 4: Uh.
- 18:57Speaker 12: I wanted to ask you. I heard about how Jerry
- 19:01Speaker 12: Jones and Stevens and Stephen Jones they send in the
- 19:05Speaker 12: I guess to the you know, to a committee about
- 19:09Speaker 12: all the holding calls that haven't been called Michael Parsons.
- 19:14Speaker 12: Is there anything that can come from that, because from
- 19:18Speaker 12: what I heard, thirty eight quarters, yeah, without Michael Carterson's
- 19:22Speaker 12: getting a holding call, thirty eight quarters without hitting a
- 19:26Speaker 12: holding call, And and how how is that even possible
- 19:30Speaker 12: when the guy with a white hat is right in
- 19:33Speaker 12: front of him, like he sees the hole. He's right
- 19:37Speaker 12: in front of the quarterback. He's looking at him the
- 19:40Speaker 12: hold like they're so obvious. Is there any repercussions that
- 19:45Speaker 12: these guys or was just just like whatever, Like no,
- 19:49Speaker 12: they just they missed it.
- 19:51Speaker 1: They missed this. Yeah, that's it. I mean, they missed it.
- 19:54Speaker 11: I mean, thirty eight quarters.
- 19:56Speaker 1: I don't have an answer for you. I really don't.
- 19:59Speaker 1: I mean, I he's I don't know where he ranks
- 20:03Speaker 1: in the league in pressures, but he's got over eighty.
- 20:06Speaker 1: That's that's probably one of the you know, it's probably
- 20:09Speaker 1: leading the NFL if it's not, And that's a little
- 20:12Speaker 1: tricky because teams that you know, can teams can figure
- 20:15Speaker 1: out they decide on their own what a pressure is.
- 20:18Speaker 1: So I don't know if it's an official stat but
- 20:21Speaker 1: but you know, I mean, yeah, he's been he's all
- 20:23Speaker 1: over the he's all over the quarterback, and he never
- 20:26Speaker 1: gets a holding call. So yeah, I cannot give you
- 20:29Speaker 1: an answer on that.
- 20:30Speaker 12: But what I'm saying is it's like for us, it's
- 20:33Speaker 12: upsetting as a fan to see it. I mean, when
- 20:36Speaker 12: I watch the game from TV. I see them and
- 20:39Speaker 12: they're obvious, and the ref is right there and.
- 20:42Speaker 11: They look at them.
- 20:43Speaker 12: I see their eyes focus on him, and they don't
- 20:46Speaker 12: throw the flag. I mean that's where, you know where
- 20:49Speaker 12: I start thinking, like, listen, we have old types of fans.
- 20:53Speaker 12: There are some fans that have conspiracy theories and all
- 20:56Speaker 12: this stuff.
- 20:56Speaker 11: That's where I'm like, man, like, it's got to be
- 20:58Speaker 11: something against the Cowboys, because it's more like against us
- 21:02Speaker 11: that I see that they missed calls like that, and
- 21:05Speaker 11: against a player that's dis great, is always attacking and
- 21:09Speaker 11: he's always been held faith mask. I mean, they're they're
- 21:13Speaker 11: guys are putting their hands on.
- 21:15Speaker 12: His face mask and they don't call this, and but
- 21:17Speaker 12: yet it was one.
- 21:18Speaker 11: Of the Cowboys. We were to do that to one
- 21:20Speaker 11: of their players, like they'll throw the flag. That's where
- 21:23Speaker 11: it's upsetting. And like this game, this last game, man,
- 21:26Speaker 11: they held them so much and I can't believe they
- 21:29Speaker 11: int throw one flag. And these were game changing plays
- 21:32Speaker 11: where this guy Tour was getting off the ball by
- 21:36Speaker 11: like a split second and the guy's being held. Come on, man, wow,
- 21:40Speaker 11: that's why, Like it's just upsetting as a fan.
- 21:43Speaker 1: Oh, it's upsetting for Mica too, and uh, you know,
- 21:46Speaker 1: maybe maybe he's I have to think that him him
- 21:52Speaker 1: talking as much as he has is not helping things.
- 21:55Speaker 1: It just doesn't. Should that be the case, No, but
- 22:00Speaker 1: it is it is. I mean, he did it again yesterday,
- 22:03Speaker 1: so he's still he's still talking about it, and then
- 22:07Speaker 1: that's that's just kind of I don't I mean, but
- 22:11Speaker 1: it hasn't helped. It hasn't helped. I mean, it seems
- 22:13Speaker 1: like the extra awareness for the officials. I mean, it's
- 22:17Speaker 1: nothing's nothing's really happened with this, so maybe it will.
- 22:20Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Irwin in Denver? Is that
- 22:26Speaker 1: our next call Erwin?
- 22:28Speaker 7: Hey?
- 22:29Speaker 13: Nick, what's going on?
- 22:30Speaker 1: How are you doing? Doing great?
- 22:32Speaker 3: Hey?
- 22:32Speaker 5: Uh?
- 22:33Speaker 13: Well, I've been kind of listening to some of these
- 22:35Speaker 13: callers talking about Micah Parsons not getting the calls and everything,
- 22:39Speaker 13: and I mean, it's clearly obvious what's going on there.
- 22:43Speaker 13: I think the biggest thing that can help Michael Parsons
- 22:46Speaker 13: is these other guys, these other defensive linemens stepping up
- 22:50Speaker 13: and doing their job and kind of helping out because
- 22:51Speaker 13: it really sicks. Yep, Like the last few games that
- 22:54Speaker 13: we really haven't seen that pass rush, you know, from
- 22:58Speaker 13: what we really saw at the beginning of the season. I mean, really,
- 23:02Speaker 13: if you think about these other guys, they need to
- 23:03Speaker 13: start doing a better job of holding up their side
- 23:06Speaker 13: of the bargain, you know, and helping my com parsons
- 23:09Speaker 13: out a little bit.
- 23:10Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally agree with that. And uh, you know,
- 23:14Speaker 1: someone called yesterday and said DeMarcus Lawrence is the best
- 23:17Speaker 1: defensive lineman and on the team and all that, and
- 23:19Speaker 1: we can stop the rug, but somebody's got to step
- 23:23Speaker 1: up with I mean, because he's getting double team. Mike
- 23:25Speaker 1: is getting double team. Mike is getting a lot of
- 23:26Speaker 1: attention obviously, and you're not seeing it across the line
- 23:31Speaker 1: of somebody else needs to be taking advantage of this.
- 23:35Speaker 1: Five and a half sacks for Dorian's Armstrong is still
- 23:37Speaker 1: kind of a quiet five and a half sacks, Dee
- 23:40Speaker 1: Law's got four, Fowler Sam Williams, I mean, where are
- 23:45Speaker 1: these guys. These guys need to be stepping up as well,
- 23:47Speaker 1: And so I agree with you. I think that that's
- 23:50Speaker 1: something that's getting lost in all this.
- 23:53Speaker 13: Yeah, that's I agree with Thanks a lot for taking
- 23:56Speaker 13: my call.
- 23:57Speaker 1: Nick, All right, have a good one. Thank You're all right,
- 24:02Speaker 1: let's keep it rolling here. We got Ali. Ali's on
- 24:05Speaker 1: the line. I think he's traveling. He's in Africa. Neg
- 24:10Speaker 1: what's up?
- 24:12Speaker 14: Happy, happy holiday? Wishing your best health for you and family.
- 24:18Speaker 14: I'm in the currently in Mossaya Modern National Park in Kenya, Kenya. Yeah,
- 24:26Speaker 14: so I'm a wildlife photographer.
- 24:29Speaker 1: Wow.
- 24:30Speaker 14: The Cowboy Nation food nuds. It's like round like seven
- 24:35Speaker 14: thirty here is today. It was a pride of lions.
- 24:40Speaker 14: They got up late in the afternoons. They were gonna
- 24:43Speaker 14: go hunting and they come across a bunch of buffaloes,
- 24:48Speaker 14: and all the buffaloes they got together and chase all
- 24:51Speaker 14: the lawyon out so they couldn't get to eat. I
- 24:55Speaker 14: know Cowboys gonna win this this Saturday.
- 24:57Speaker 1: All right, because they chased the lions.
- 25:01Speaker 14: Yeah, a buffalo together. The lion doesn't go near on,
- 25:05Speaker 14: you know, individually yet. But if the team they play, Wait.
- 25:09Speaker 1: There was it a pack of lions or just one lion?
- 25:13Speaker 1: Because if there's one lion, Mica is the lion. But
- 25:15Speaker 1: if it's a team of lions, that's a good thing, right, Oh,
- 25:19Speaker 1: it's a pride.
- 25:19Speaker 14: Usually they have a bunch of decoys and they have
- 25:23Speaker 14: one or two big hunter. They're mostly females. Okay, oh
- 25:27Speaker 14: they it was a year accounted at fourteen fourteen or
- 25:30Speaker 14: fifteen lions. Yeah, of a young one, but they usually succeed.
- 25:36Speaker 14: But the buffalo is want no part of it. Okay,
- 25:39Speaker 14: I think that was So I've got a couple of
- 25:43Speaker 14: pointer for you, and I've got to see you.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Okay.
- 25:46Speaker 14: I think I haven't watched the two casting games. I've
- 25:49Speaker 14: been not out of the country. I think Pollard is
- 25:52Speaker 14: going to have a great game. The guy's being insulted.
- 25:56Speaker 14: I saw a little highlight. He's going to get in
- 25:58Speaker 14: the end zone. And I think if the Cowboys keep
- 26:01Speaker 14: running the ball, they're going to give a less position
- 26:04Speaker 14: to Detroit, and time of position.
- 26:07Speaker 5: Is very key.
- 26:09Speaker 14: Second, I think if I think personally McCarthy deserved the
- 26:15Speaker 14: second year or second chance because Dack never played this
- 26:20Speaker 14: good on any coaches, So we've got great coaches. But
- 26:27Speaker 14: at the same time, I think it's too early. If
- 26:30Speaker 14: they getter of this gare of that we all be lucky.
- 26:33Speaker 14: Usually it's like the previous caller. We gotta build with
- 26:37Speaker 14: what we have and enjoy the ride. And here's my trivia.
- 26:43Speaker 14: Cowboys is the only team that went to playoff or
- 26:49Speaker 14: even nineteen or twenty years, except it's two playoffs. One
- 26:57Speaker 14: was nineteen seventy four. And what was the second at
- 27:06Speaker 14: the same time? Which team they beat them in the
- 27:11Speaker 14: last minute of the game to kick the Cowboys out
- 27:16Speaker 14: of the playoffs.
- 27:17Speaker 1: In seventy four, No, seventy four.
- 27:21Speaker 14: It was one year within the twenty years that missed
- 27:24Speaker 14: two playoffs. Yeah, one was seventy four, and one eat.
- 27:31Speaker 1: Four now eighty four?
- 27:34Speaker 14: Yeah, perfect? And which team beat them in the last
- 27:40Speaker 14: minute of the game.
- 27:44Speaker 1: Oh, man, I don't know what. I don't know if
- 27:49Speaker 1: it's I don't think it's Washington, Philly, Philly Dolphin. Oh Dolphins. Yeah.
- 27:56Speaker 14: Yeah. That was my first game I went to my
- 28:01Speaker 14: that's right.
- 28:01Speaker 1: That was yeah, ninth, yeah, twenty eight to twenty one
- 28:05Speaker 1: on Monday Night football. Yep, yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot.
- 28:09Speaker 1: I forgot. That was the last game of the season,
- 28:11Speaker 1: knocked the Motley playoffs.
- 28:13Speaker 14: That was a weird game, Yeah, Cooper, It's just like
- 28:18Speaker 14: I was so sick as the dog driving home. He
- 28:22Speaker 14: was so's so so when you go to this event,
- 28:26Speaker 14: it's just break your heart when they lose, you know. Yeah,
- 28:29Speaker 14: but Anyways, a good call. Appreciate it and we talked soon.
- 28:36Speaker 1: All right, have a good one. Thank you for the call. League.
- 28:39Speaker 1: Save travels there in Africa. Watch out for those lions.
- 28:43Speaker 3: That's what the.
- 28:43Speaker 1: Cowboys are trying to do here. Bob is in Rio
- 28:46Speaker 1: Grand Valley, probably not probably a little different than Africa.
- 28:52Speaker 9: Yeah, Nick, most definitely. I look out my window here
- 28:56Speaker 9: and I see the Big Green Jays are playing in
- 28:58Speaker 9: the around the theater that I don't see any lions
- 29:02Speaker 9: or hyenas or buffalo.
- 29:05Speaker 1: So I love about the show. It's all it's all
- 29:08Speaker 1: over the place, all over the map. Literally.
- 29:11Speaker 9: What a couple of things. First of all, I want
- 29:13Speaker 9: to tell you a compliment that I want to compliment
- 29:16Speaker 9: you for your patience somebody's phone calls that you were
- 29:21Speaker 9: getting yesterday. I'll tell you what, I don't know how
- 29:25Speaker 9: you do it. The steam would have been rolling out
- 29:27Speaker 9: my ears. But here here's the second thing, and this
- 29:32Speaker 9: is what I'm looking at for the remainder of the season,
- 29:35Speaker 9: and I'm very optimistic. First of all, there's a difference
- 29:40Speaker 9: between US and San Francisco. San Francisco is scooping up
- 29:44Speaker 9: every player that they can. They're trying to buy a championship.
- 29:47Speaker 9: The Cowboys, they're trying to build a team to win
- 29:50Speaker 9: a championship. And we knew at the start of the
- 29:53Speaker 9: season that we didn't have a lot of depth in
- 29:56Speaker 9: some areas, that we had a lot of youth, not
- 29:59Speaker 9: a lot of experience, and we were going to be
- 30:01Speaker 9: dependent upon, uh, staying healthy. And I think a lot
- 30:05Speaker 9: of the game planning and calling and whatever has been
- 30:12Speaker 9: in the area of trying to keep us healthy. And
- 30:15Speaker 9: I think pretty much McCarthy's done a good job of
- 30:18Speaker 9: doing that. We we uh uh, this is this is
- 30:22Speaker 9: a big game. I mean it is that I took
- 30:27Speaker 9: a lot of Yes, I took a lot of solace
- 30:38Speaker 9: in the in the last game against Miami. We very
- 30:41Speaker 9: well had a good chance of putting it together there
- 30:44Speaker 9: and winning that ball game that we just had to
- 30:47Speaker 9: score it a little bit too soon.
- 30:48Speaker 11: That's all.
- 30:50Speaker 9: Against the Lions, h I think there's a I think
- 30:54Speaker 9: we match up very well against them. I think there's
- 30:57Speaker 9: a good chance that we're going to beat them, and
- 30:59Speaker 9: beat them resoundly. Uh. And so we're going to have
- 31:03Speaker 9: to go on the road for the playoffs. We know
- 31:06Speaker 9: that already. Well, here's the situation.
- 31:08Speaker 11: Is it.
- 31:11Speaker 9: Football is a game of inches, and it's also a
- 31:15Speaker 9: game of which way the ball bounces. All we need
- 31:19Speaker 9: in the playoffs is to get that break against a
- 31:22Speaker 9: good team on the road and all of a sudden flash,
- 31:27Speaker 9: the team catches fire and they could go all the way.
- 31:32Speaker 9: We don't know. That's the reason why we're fans. That's
- 31:35Speaker 9: the reason why we follow the Cowboys. And I tell
- 31:38Speaker 9: you what, winner lose, I'm gonna follow your show because
- 31:42Speaker 9: I think it's a damn good one.
- 31:43Speaker 1: Have a great David, appreciate it. Thank you. Yep. It's uh,
- 31:48Speaker 1: you know, it's one of those things where you know,
- 31:52Speaker 1: it's how the ball, like how the ball bounces. What's
- 31:55Speaker 1: what you were just saying, You know, you do look
- 31:58Speaker 1: at some of these losses and it was just weird
- 32:02Speaker 1: plays happened, you know. And twice this year in games
- 32:07Speaker 1: that they've lost, they've been inside the one yard line,
- 32:12Speaker 1: in the one inch line, it seems like, and didn't score,
- 32:15Speaker 1: you know, schoonmakers touchdown they got called back against Philly
- 32:19Speaker 1: when he just didn't get in. And then of course
- 32:21Speaker 1: Pollard as well. And then you look at those games
- 32:23Speaker 1: and how one possession, you know, losses and how they
- 32:27Speaker 1: come back to haunt you, you know, and you know,
- 32:30Speaker 1: if you go back and think last year's game against Detroit,
- 32:35Speaker 1: you know, we focus on the wins, I mean, I'm sorry,
- 32:38Speaker 1: on the losses and the plays that didn't happen in
- 32:40Speaker 1: the loss and sometimes you kind of forget plays like
- 32:43Speaker 1: that happened in your wins too. And if you remember
- 32:46Speaker 1: that Detroit game last year, middle of the year, it
- 32:48Speaker 1: was the first game Dak came back from the thumb
- 32:49Speaker 1: injury and Micah Parsons made a play where he chased
- 32:53Speaker 1: down a tight end right at the one yard line,
- 32:55Speaker 1: and then the next play they forced the fumble at
- 32:58Speaker 1: the one. I think it was Tank that came in
- 33:00Speaker 1: there and they forced to fumble, and that changed the
- 33:02Speaker 1: whole course of that game, and the Cowboys were kind
- 33:05Speaker 1: of reeling a little bit there. So so just remember
- 33:08Speaker 1: that it kind of it should balance out. Doesn't always
- 33:12Speaker 1: balance out, but a lot of times when you think, man,
- 33:15Speaker 1: these ball doesn't bounce their way, sometimes it does. You know,
- 33:18Speaker 1: there's some games, I'm sure we can go back and
- 33:20Speaker 1: there's games that they've won this year that that you know,
- 33:23Speaker 1: a player two here and there are penalty early in
- 33:25Speaker 1: the game kind of changed the course of it. So
- 33:29Speaker 1: obviously the Cowboys wasn't too straight. They'd like to, you know,
- 33:32Speaker 1: change that course this week. All right, Omar is in
- 33:35Speaker 1: Mexico City. What's up? Good, how are you doing?
- 33:41Speaker 14: I'll do it.
- 33:41Speaker 15: Thank your first time color. All right, let me start
- 33:46Speaker 15: with some flowers. Making the jobs you're doing with the show.
- 33:49Speaker 15: It's so good to hear from other time around the world,
- 33:52Speaker 15: around the country and make it from its cold. Yeah,
- 33:56Speaker 15: so congruct it's pretty good. You're making a cultural society
- 33:59Speaker 15: and it's really nice. And second sec story, I got
- 34:02Speaker 15: to meet you and Brian brothers in London actually back
- 34:05Speaker 15: in twenty fourteen. Oh okay, that was yeah, yeah, I
- 34:08Speaker 15: was living in London at the time. I've been a
- 34:10Speaker 15: bit funky in my jury life and I was there
- 34:13Speaker 15: studying the year and I got to the walk through
- 34:16Speaker 15: they did at the stadium.
- 34:17Speaker 8: And the game.
- 34:18Speaker 16: And actually also a shout out to the UK fans.
- 34:21Speaker 16: I mean, they're doing an amazing job, and yeah, it
- 34:24Speaker 16: was a lot of fun. So also if you have
- 34:27Speaker 16: any cool stories from that trip. And second, I mean
- 34:32Speaker 16: it's really nice from Jerry that he gave a shout
- 34:34Speaker 16: out to Mexico. Fain that if the.
- 34:36Speaker 15: Cowboys get to play elsewhere, it would be in Mexico
- 34:40Speaker 15: City for sure. Won't be next year, but maybe in
- 34:42Speaker 15: two years. And it's crazy the fandom here in Mexico.
- 34:46Speaker 15: They love the Cowboys. You see here all over the place.
- 34:49Speaker 15: So I'm sure it's going to be a nice hole
- 34:52Speaker 15: field for the Cowboys.
- 34:53Speaker 1: Yeah, we have it again.
- 34:55Speaker 15: Thank you, Yeah, thank.
- 34:56Speaker 1: You, Omar. I appreciate. We haven't played in Mexico City
- 35:00Speaker 1: in uh twenty something year, twenty two years, I think
- 35:03Speaker 1: it was two thousand and one. Cowboys played a preseason
- 35:07Speaker 1: game there. I got the first time I went to Mexico,
- 35:09Speaker 1: the only time I've been to Mexico I think, and uh,
- 35:12Speaker 1: yeah I played it played the Raiders there. That was
- 35:15Speaker 1: that was interesting, just this that that stadium, and it
- 35:20Speaker 1: was we played five preseason games. Yeah, I think we
- 35:23Speaker 1: played the Raiders twice in the preseason that year, one
- 35:26Speaker 1: of them in Oakland, yeah and then just and then
- 35:30Speaker 1: down there and uh in Mexico. But yeah, it was
- 35:33Speaker 1: back to back years where we went international in Tokyo
- 35:36Speaker 1: in two thousand in Mexico, uh in two thousand and
- 35:39Speaker 1: one and and yeah, you know we've Uh, there's a
- 35:43Speaker 1: lot of talk. There's a lot of talk about maybe
- 35:45Speaker 1: going to London again, or maybe in Brazil's you know
- 35:47Speaker 1: there and in Mexico City. That would be wild though.
- 35:51Speaker 1: To play a regular season game in Mexico. The fans,
- 35:54Speaker 1: oh man, the fans would it would go crazy. Uh
- 35:57Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see what happens. We'll see if
- 35:59Speaker 1: the Cowboys or have a chance to do that. And
- 36:02Speaker 1: and i'd be also, you know, we need to travel
- 36:05Speaker 1: again overseas for sure. All right, Arthur in Spring, Texas.
- 36:10Speaker 5: Good morning, Good how you doing. I'm doing well. Hope
- 36:15Speaker 5: you and your family have had a great holiday, and
- 36:20Speaker 5: all right, continue and hope that you have a prosperous
- 36:24Speaker 5: new year. Yeah, I'm getting ready, so throw a big curve,
- 36:30Speaker 5: all right. There was a conversation going on on the
- 36:32Speaker 5: break the other day about Mazie and the amount of
- 36:35Speaker 5: weight that he's lost. Obviously, he's not heavy enough to
- 36:42Speaker 5: be able to play on the interior of the defensive line.
- 36:46Speaker 5: And it seems like to me that, okay, you already
- 36:50Speaker 5: he's already coming down on this weight. I was thinking,
- 36:55Speaker 5: what about letting him continue this this down with decline
- 36:59Speaker 5: on his weight, Maybe let him try to settle in
- 37:03Speaker 5: at about somewhere between two fifty and two sixty sixty
- 37:06Speaker 5: five and put him in a linebacker spot and his
- 37:11Speaker 5: his containment area would be from tackle to tackle. I mean,
- 37:16Speaker 5: because it's obvious that that he's having issues with coming
- 37:20Speaker 5: off of the ball on time. So put him in
- 37:22Speaker 5: a position where he doesn't have to be concerned with
- 37:28Speaker 5: with whether or not quickness matters that you just put
- 37:33Speaker 5: him in a spot where all he's doing is running
- 37:35Speaker 5: from tackle to tackle and making sure that nobody leaks through,
- 37:38Speaker 5: and he will have enough strength to keep big, big guardsmen,
- 37:44Speaker 5: big tackles off of So right, like I said, it's
- 37:49Speaker 5: a moon shot.
- 37:50Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not. That's a curve. It's a curveball. Like
- 37:53Speaker 1: you said, I'm gonna like like I would do with
- 37:57Speaker 1: a real curveball. I'm going to swing and miss on
- 37:59Speaker 1: this when I'm gonna miss that, I don't see that
- 38:05Speaker 1: because you know, he's okay, he's a young player, and
- 38:09Speaker 1: and these these defensive linemen, defensive tackles, they they got
- 38:13Speaker 1: to figure this out. And it's not it's not easy
- 38:16Speaker 1: to do. I don't think you do a dramatic drop
- 38:19Speaker 1: to to linebacker. And also linebacker is different position too.
- 38:24Speaker 1: It's there's an awareness factor here and you and you've
- 38:29Speaker 1: got to study. You've got it, You've got it. It's
- 38:31Speaker 1: a different position, especially for a guy that has already
- 38:35Speaker 1: said he didn't like football. Now, whether whether or not
- 38:38Speaker 1: that was tongue in cheek, I don't know. I didn't
- 38:41Speaker 1: like the comment when I heard it said I like
- 38:43Speaker 1: to hit people. I don't like I don't like to
- 38:45Speaker 1: play football. I I don't like football. It's like to
- 38:47Speaker 1: hit people. Maybe it was joking. I don't know, but
- 38:51Speaker 1: that didn't really sit well with me, because you know,
- 38:54Speaker 1: it's it takes a commitment seven days a week to
- 38:58Speaker 1: be a good football player and to be a linebacker,
- 39:01Speaker 1: to be the defensive tackles completely different. He's there, he's there,
- 39:05Speaker 1: he just he's just gotta they're just figuring out there.
- 39:09Speaker 1: With every defensive lineman, it's do you need a little
- 39:12Speaker 1: less weight here? That may do you need more weights? What?
- 39:16Speaker 3: You know?
- 39:16Speaker 1: What do you need to be effective? And I don't
- 39:20Speaker 1: know if the strength and the weight is really the
- 39:22Speaker 1: issue as much as it is getting off the ball,
- 39:26Speaker 1: recognizing things and playing linebacker. To me, just doesn't seem
- 39:30Speaker 1: like that would be that that is very far fetched.
- 39:34Speaker 9: I don't.
- 39:34Speaker 1: I don't think he's anywhere close to that. I think
- 39:37Speaker 1: I think that they're still figuring out where they're going
- 39:39Speaker 1: to play him at tackle, and also that he that
- 39:43Speaker 1: he wouldn't have the kind of speed and agility that
- 39:45Speaker 1: you want at that at that position. I mean you
- 39:48Speaker 1: you you need guys to be able to chase sideline
- 39:51Speaker 1: to sideline to be a different position. For sure, he's
- 39:54Speaker 1: going to be a defensive tackle. They're going to have to,
- 39:56Speaker 1: you know, get him at the right spot, right weight
- 39:58Speaker 1: and all that so he could play it. All right,
- 40:01Speaker 1: Anthony and Miami is next?
- 40:04Speaker 11: Hey, what's going on with good Man?
- 40:07Speaker 5: How you doing?
- 40:09Speaker 11: I'm doing great man? Two days off man, after working
- 40:11Speaker 11: all these twelves I told you them, tired man, and
- 40:13Speaker 11: then going out of town last week, even though it
- 40:15Speaker 11: was a great trip, you know, I just wanted the
- 40:17Speaker 11: back to back to say something. Listening to the calls,
- 40:21Speaker 11: listen to the show live today. I'm enjoying the calls.
- 40:26Speaker 11: I enjoyed the calls on my shows, which are Storyline
- 40:29Speaker 11: and Hanging with the Boys seven years Strong, Hanging the
- 40:31Speaker 11: Boys from day one, and watching you on there was
- 40:34Speaker 11: like the Iceland the Cakes, cause I always said you
- 40:36Speaker 11: were one of my favorite and then for me to
- 40:38Speaker 11: have an impact with you the first time. You know
- 40:40Speaker 11: what I'm saying on there? Yea, the I just want
- 40:44Speaker 11: to throw this out there at the Cowboys Nation. Even
- 40:46Speaker 11: when I spark plugged this thing with you, I talked
- 40:49Speaker 11: about me and my love for the Cowboys and what
- 40:51Speaker 11: I affected. Y'all got to remember Cowboys fans, you know
- 40:54Speaker 11: what I'm saying. The ones who always optimistic, but I'm
- 40:57Speaker 11: gonna put you to the side from it. But the
- 40:59Speaker 11: ones who are kind of down and we'd never seen anything.
- 41:02Speaker 11: We're young. You guys are old and you've seen Super Bowls.
- 41:05Speaker 11: You see the Cowboys damn there every week on TV.
- 41:08Speaker 11: If you've ever been in that stadium, you know it's electric.
- 41:12Speaker 11: You know the love for us. If that doesn't do
- 41:14Speaker 11: it for you and we're still winning, I don't know
- 41:17Speaker 11: what is The teams that just won Super Bowls haven't
- 41:20Speaker 11: wont The Chiefs supposed to be the next dynasty, but
- 41:23Speaker 11: they're not really a true dynasty because they got two
- 41:25Speaker 11: and they're kind of falling off unless they come bounced back.
- 41:27Speaker 11: But they haven't won in and over what fifty years?
- 41:29Speaker 11: The team you just played over fifty years since you
- 41:32Speaker 11: beat them in seventy one, then they went seventy two
- 41:34Speaker 11: to seventy three. The Eagles, your rivals, never really won
- 41:37Speaker 11: nothing in the forty nine ers. They haven't won one
- 41:40Speaker 11: since you. You won one, you know, ninety five and
- 41:44Speaker 11: ninety four. What I'm trying to say is the Cowboys have.
- 41:47Speaker 17: A chance, man to do something great.
- 41:48Speaker 11: There's still a chance to win the super Bowl. The
- 41:51Speaker 11: forty nine Ers are not unbeatable. We got to stop
- 41:53Speaker 11: saying if we get there, we're done. We are done,
- 41:56Speaker 11: we are out. Let's not even play because they're gonna
- 41:58Speaker 11: beat us out. They've been having one, So stop thinking
- 42:01Speaker 11: the world beaters. You know what I'm saying now, the media,
- 42:04Speaker 11: look at our shows. Look at the shows I said,
- 42:07Speaker 11: I listened to all the shows. I am so impressed
- 42:10Speaker 11: by Nikki Ya. I'm so impressed by Kyle. I'm sawing
- 42:13Speaker 11: you to know. I love my show, my guys, Jed, Nate, Kirk, Shannon,
- 42:18Speaker 11: and Broad. I love Brodis, mister Brodi and one more
- 42:22Speaker 11: person I love, and y'all need to watch her and
- 42:24Speaker 11: listen to her and I love our Bodice is taking
- 42:26Speaker 11: under her wing. That's young miss Aisha. We get information.
- 42:30Speaker 11: We're ready for cowboys games. That's what y'all. Listen to
- 42:33Speaker 11: the hate on the national shows, Listen to our shows.
- 42:36Speaker 11: Build up our need again. That's all I want to say. Man,
- 42:39Speaker 11: let's say this right, man me Jordy's wrong. Thank y'all
- 42:42Speaker 11: for doing what y'all do for us, being love you,
- 42:44Speaker 11: being all.
- 42:45Speaker 1: Right, thank you, Anthony, good good call. You're right. A
- 42:49Speaker 1: lot a lot of different voices on our shows all
- 42:52Speaker 1: day long. And I and I said that earlier about
- 42:55Speaker 1: you know, the creator of all this, Derek. It's his
- 42:57Speaker 1: birthday today. I want to know some people don't hear
- 43:01Speaker 1: the first of the show, so I want to make
- 43:02Speaker 1: sure and put sorry, put that out there. But uh yeah,
- 43:08Speaker 1: I I appreciate that. And you're right, we got we
- 43:10Speaker 1: got a lot of a lot of different voices and uh,
- 43:13Speaker 1: top to bottom, you know, on each day. Uh And
- 43:16Speaker 1: and you're right, I used to doing a really good
- 43:18Speaker 1: job there. She uh she's in the locker room every
- 43:20Speaker 1: time it's open, and and she she hustles, she goes
- 43:23Speaker 1: and talks to anyone that's there at their locker she
- 43:26Speaker 1: there's no way her and j Justin barr As. Nobody
- 43:28Speaker 1: talks to more people in the locker room than those two.
- 43:30Speaker 1: So they really do, and they and they take it
- 43:33Speaker 1: to the show and provide a good insight there with
- 43:36Speaker 1: Nicole Hutchinson and Christy Scale. So, yeah, that that show,
- 43:39Speaker 1: that show's doing really well. Girls talk, boys talking. It's
- 43:42Speaker 1: the it's the anchor of the shows all day long.
- 43:44Speaker 1: It's the last one of the day. But they certainly
- 43:46Speaker 1: do a good job. All right, let's go with Tony
- 43:48Speaker 1: in Atlanta.
- 43:49Speaker 7: Tony, Hey, hey, what's going on?
- 43:52Speaker 1: But hey man, how you doing great?
- 43:55Speaker 7: How about yourself?
- 43:55Speaker 1: Great?
- 43:57Speaker 8: Good?
- 43:58Speaker 7: So I want to give a tribute since you, since
- 44:00Speaker 7: it's Dereck's birthday, I want to give him a tribute
- 44:03Speaker 7: olde to him. Then I'm gonna give an old to
- 44:06Speaker 7: another dot Com contributed Josh Taylor. So the older Derek
- 44:10Speaker 7: is doing. I know how much he's terribly missed Derek's
- 44:14Speaker 7: daily uh Season fifteen, episode thirty one of the Break.
- 44:21Speaker 7: I know how much you terribly miss it.
- 44:24Speaker 3: Uh.
- 44:24Speaker 7: So in the tribute to Derek, I'm just gonna every
- 44:26Speaker 7: time I call it, I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you
- 44:28Speaker 7: how many times.
- 44:29Speaker 1: I've called this call number three for me?
- 44:32Speaker 7: All right, all right, so I don't get a signal
- 44:35Speaker 7: or anything like that from call number three, but he's
- 44:37Speaker 7: calling number My tribute to Deck, yes, all right, So
- 44:41Speaker 7: my tribute to j J j T is, you know,
- 44:44Speaker 7: he has a thing that he regularly uses, which is
- 44:47Speaker 7: sports ex fluid. Right, So, three weeks ago, maybe two
- 44:52Speaker 7: weeks ago, you know, the whole app not a lot
- 44:54Speaker 7: of recessions. That was a report about you know, I'm
- 44:57Speaker 7: gonna cart the extensions, right, I meaning three well riding
- 45:01Speaker 7: I and everything is just lovely. Now we've lost two
- 45:04Speaker 7: games in a row with ten and five, and I'm
- 45:07Speaker 7: listening to the fan this morning and another contributors, Bobby
- 45:11Speaker 7: and Choppy are talking about a list, you know, a
- 45:14Speaker 7: potential coaching casualties at the end of the year, and
- 45:18Speaker 7: while he was not near the top of the list,
- 45:20Speaker 7: the party's game was going. It's somewhat lower than you know,
- 45:23Speaker 7: some of the expectives like Washington. So I say that,
- 45:27Speaker 7: and it got me to thinking, like, you know, as
- 45:29Speaker 7: crazy as it sounds, you know, you know, I mean,
- 45:32Speaker 7: you choice's going to be a tough out even though
- 45:35Speaker 7: it's a home game, We're tough at home. They're going
- 45:38Speaker 7: to be a tough out this Saturday. And then we know,
- 45:41Speaker 7: you know in Washington, crazy things happen up there, right,
- 45:44Speaker 7: So there's a crazy chance that we can lose four
- 45:48Speaker 7: games in a row to end the regular season, and
- 45:52Speaker 7: then you know, we're going on the road in the tournament,
- 45:56Speaker 7: could be at Tampa Bay, could be at New Orleans,
- 45:59Speaker 7: wherever it is, and you know, there's no gimming that
- 46:02Speaker 7: was gonna win that game. And then there's the possibility
- 46:05Speaker 7: as crazy as the sad and I'm optimistic, I'm not.
- 46:08Speaker 1: You know, passing sounds like you got street, but you.
- 46:13Speaker 7: Know, just what they were talking about there's morning just
- 46:16Speaker 7: got me to thinking about, you know, just that possibility.
- 46:19Speaker 7: It's not such at all, and you know, losing five
- 46:24Speaker 7: games in a row of gap men and thinking like, Okay,
- 46:26Speaker 7: I like the program that McCarthy has built, right, I mean,
- 46:30Speaker 7: I think it's a solid program over the course of
- 46:32Speaker 7: the last even if you include the COVID year that
- 46:35Speaker 7: was bad, but the program and what he's built, I
- 46:37Speaker 7: feel like it's been good. And I feel like even
- 46:40Speaker 7: if something like that were to happen, I feel like
- 46:43Speaker 7: you just let the program build, right, you know, But
- 46:47Speaker 7: I just wonder if Jerry Stephen and you know, just
- 46:50Speaker 7: you know, I mean think they make the decisions, really
- 46:53Speaker 7: Jerry for the most part, but in the steven they
- 46:55Speaker 7: make the decisions. And what they've just be taken over
- 46:59Speaker 7: by a five been losing streak on the heels of
- 47:02Speaker 7: feeling so good about things, what they just just pull
- 47:06Speaker 7: a trigger, you know, just in my in my overreacting,
- 47:10Speaker 7: you know, and maybe even over correcting cheap and Garrett,
- 47:13Speaker 7: you know, for all of those years, which to me,
- 47:16Speaker 7: I never felt like Garre would too long. But that's
- 47:18Speaker 7: a whole other conversation.
- 47:20Speaker 11: But I get you.
- 47:21Speaker 1: All right, Well, thanks for the call, Tony. You know,
- 47:25Speaker 1: that's that's kind of you know, that would that would
- 47:28Speaker 1: be a bad thing obviously, to lose five straight games
- 47:31Speaker 1: and to end the season of when you're ten and three.
- 47:34Speaker 1: Uh so, yeah, that that would be bad and that
- 47:36Speaker 1: would change, that would change the narrative. I have changed perspective,
- 47:41Speaker 1: So I can't tell you what what that would look like.
- 47:44Speaker 1: It wouldn't be good. I mean, whatever list that you're
- 47:46Speaker 1: talking about, he would be on it, and he would
- 47:48Speaker 1: be on it higher because we we we know that
- 47:50Speaker 1: that that's that was been that's been an issue, is
- 47:53Speaker 1: that you know that they need to take another step,
- 47:55Speaker 1: and they certainly wouldn't do that. How it ends is
- 47:59Speaker 1: obviously going to be. That's the case for every team,
- 48:02Speaker 1: every team, and that's trying to make decisions in the offseason,
- 48:05Speaker 1: whether it be changing their coach or their quarterback or
- 48:08Speaker 1: just other key personnel moves. It's all about how it
- 48:11Speaker 1: ends and what you have to go go into the
- 48:14Speaker 1: next season and what do you have to sell to
- 48:16Speaker 1: your fan base and your sponsors and all that stuff.
- 48:19Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's it's big. But you know, as
- 48:22Speaker 1: it stands right now, this team is is you know,
- 48:25Speaker 1: I don't know, they're not riding high, they've lost too
- 48:27Speaker 1: in a row, but they're in good position and I
- 48:29Speaker 1: think they're one of the best teams in the NFL.
- 48:31Speaker 1: That's what it looks like right now. So but yeah,
- 48:34Speaker 1: you lose, you lose this game, and if you lost
- 48:36Speaker 1: to Washington and he hasn't got to remember, if you
- 48:39Speaker 1: lose this game and Philly wins, then you can't win
- 48:42Speaker 1: the division. You can't go anywhere worse than five. So really,
- 48:44Speaker 1: the Washington game wouldn't matter. You're going to play Cooper
- 48:46Speaker 1: Rush maybe Trey Lance, and that's probably what's gonna what's
- 48:50Speaker 1: gonna happen. Uh, And just get yourself ready for the
- 48:52Speaker 1: for the playoff game. So uh. But you know, let's
- 48:56Speaker 1: end all that and wee win this week and then
- 48:57Speaker 1: we don't have to worry about it, all right, Brian
- 48:59Speaker 1: and New York's an Alla. Brian, Hey, Nick, how you
- 49:03Speaker 1: doing good? What's up?
- 49:05Speaker 11: Listen?
- 49:06Speaker 3: I've been a Fancins nineteen eighty one. I've been listening
- 49:09Speaker 3: to you since you've been on the air. I just
- 49:11Speaker 3: wanted to tell you a quick story favorite players. Emma
- 49:15Speaker 3: Smith's favorite football movie is Remember the Titans.
- 49:19Speaker 11: I flew down.
- 49:19Speaker 3: In two thousand and one the first game after nine
- 49:23Speaker 3: to eleven against the Chargers, and I pulled into the
- 49:27Speaker 3: parking lot a couple of days before the game. We
- 49:30Speaker 3: got a chance to meet Preston Pearson.
- 49:32Speaker 17: Where his Super Bowl ring for a minute or two.
- 49:34Speaker 17: Real nice guy had on my Randy White jersey as
- 49:37Speaker 17: a matter of fact, walking around some of the players
- 49:42Speaker 17: with collective money for the Salvation Army for nine to eleven,
- 49:45Speaker 17: and I got a chance to take a photograph with
- 49:48Speaker 17: the offensive line, Solomon Page and few of the other guys.
- 49:52Speaker 17: I walked into the pro shop and somebody had ordered
- 49:55Speaker 17: a custom Larry Island jersey blue.
- 49:57Speaker 3: One never picked it up. They gave it to me
- 50:01Speaker 3: for half price.
- 50:02Speaker 1: Nice.
- 50:03Speaker 3: And as I'm walking out of the pro shop, here
- 50:05Speaker 3: comes to Larry Allen. Walked up to him, to him
- 50:08Speaker 3: I was from New York. His mouth dropped, signed my jersey,
- 50:12Speaker 3: took pictures with me, stood there, talk to me for
- 50:15Speaker 3: about five minutes.
- 50:15Speaker 1: Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Five minute conversation with
- 50:19Speaker 1: Larry Allen.
- 50:20Speaker 14: Five minutes.
- 50:21Speaker 1: I don't know, man, you you were looking good. So
- 50:23Speaker 1: that five minutes with Larry, I'm still covering him eight years.
- 50:27Speaker 1: I talked him from two sorry.
- 50:29Speaker 3: Five minute conversations. One of the nicest guys you ever
- 50:34Speaker 3: want to meet. Oh yeah, yeah, And I just wanted
- 50:36Speaker 3: to say one other thing something I disagree with you
- 50:38Speaker 3: said earlier. I think Miket needs to complain, because this
- 50:42Speaker 3: doesn't change if he doesn't complain. Him staying quiet about
- 50:46Speaker 3: not getting holding calls won't change it. He has to
- 50:49Speaker 3: complain about it. That's the only way it's ever going
- 50:51Speaker 3: to change.
- 50:52Speaker 1: Well, maybe there's a better way to do it. Then
- 50:53Speaker 1: maybe there's a better way to say it, and don't
- 50:55Speaker 1: call him out as much as he's done.
- 50:58Speaker 3: But I agree with but he needs needs, it needs.
- 51:01Speaker 3: This thing has to continue because it's ridiculous. Thirty eighth
- 51:04Speaker 3: straight quarters is ridiculous.
- 51:05Speaker 1: Well just keep just keep going to the quarterback, you know,
- 51:08Speaker 1: and just keep doing his thing. And and you know,
- 51:11Speaker 1: he said he's not gonna flop. He doesn't flop, he
- 51:13Speaker 1: doesn't put his hands up, not gonna do that because
- 51:15Speaker 1: that to him gives up on the play. And you know,
- 51:19Speaker 1: he feels like he's going to keep going. And I
- 51:21Speaker 1: appreciate that.
- 51:22Speaker 8: But uh, yeah, first time called to it.
- 51:26Speaker 3: So let me get my hair.
- 51:26Speaker 1: We go all right, all right, Brian, appreciate that, Thanks
- 51:31Speaker 1: for the call. Uh talked about that Charger game. That
- 51:35Speaker 1: was That halftime of that game was a Ring of
- 51:39Speaker 1: Honor ceremony for bullet Bob Hayes, which many people thought
- 51:43Speaker 1: took a long time for him to get into the
- 51:46Speaker 1: Ring of honor. Speaking of Jimmy Johnson going into the
- 51:50Speaker 1: Ring of Honor Saturday Night spent a long time as well.
- 51:54Speaker 1: Jimmy and Jerry will get together and I'll have a
- 51:57Speaker 1: press conference I think before the game. That should be
- 51:59Speaker 1: interesting to hear some stories and kind of hear how
- 52:01Speaker 1: all this finally came together. Many of you guys think
- 52:04Speaker 1: there's a curse that'll be lifted. We'll see. I don't
- 52:07Speaker 1: believe in that, but I do think it'll be You know,
- 52:10Speaker 1: he's definitely deserving to be in the Ring of Honor,
- 52:12Speaker 1: and so that's where he's going to be. And also,
- 52:16Speaker 1: speaking of a long time Darren Woodson who's been on
- 52:19Speaker 1: the show a few times, congratulations to him. He's a
- 52:22Speaker 1: finalist once again for the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- 52:26Speaker 1: fifteen finalists, Modern Era finalists, and they'll be pared down
- 52:30Speaker 1: to ten and then maybe he's a part of the five.
- 52:33Speaker 1: If you look at the list, there's a chance there's
- 52:36Speaker 1: a chance for Darren to get in this year. And
- 52:39Speaker 1: he's right there on the doorstep and we're all going
- 52:41Speaker 1: to be pulling for him for Woody to get to
- 52:43Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. All right, that's it for Cowboys
- 52:46Speaker 1: storyline today. We'll be back tomorrow to talk one more
- 52:48Speaker 1: time about Cowboys and Lions and get you ready for
- 52:50Speaker 1: that game. For Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. We'll see
- 52:52Speaker 1: tomorrow on storyline.
- 52:53Speaker 13: This has been a production of dallascowboys dot Com and
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