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- 0:04Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:07Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
- 0:10Speaker 1: Cowboys. This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman. What is
- 0:23Speaker 1: up everyone? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I am Nick Eatman.
- 0:25Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, January the third. We're just rolling right
- 0:29Speaker 1: along here in twenty twenty four, getting the Cowboys ready
- 0:33Speaker 1: for their regular season finale against the Washington Commanders. And
- 0:39Speaker 1: that'll be Sunday at four twenty five Eastern time, thirty
- 0:43Speaker 1: thirty Central. Should be a good one Cowboys and taking
- 0:47Speaker 1: on Washington. The Giants and Eagles playing at the exact
- 0:49Speaker 1: same time. NFL does that on purpose make sure that
- 0:53Speaker 1: everyone plays their their guys. So the Cowboys obviously, if
- 0:57Speaker 1: they win, they will be the NFC East champions. Of
- 0:59Speaker 1: regard what happens with the Giants game. If the Giants
- 1:03Speaker 1: do beat Philadelphia, then the Cowboys will also win, and
- 1:07Speaker 1: then both teams tie. If that happens, then both the
- 1:10Speaker 1: Cowboys would win that as well based off of tiebreakers.
- 1:13Speaker 1: The only scenario the Cowboys do not win the NFC
- 1:15Speaker 1: East is if they lose to Washington and the Eagles
- 1:18Speaker 1: beat the Giants. So don't even worry about that. Cowboys
- 1:20Speaker 1: got to take care of business against Washington. They have
- 1:22Speaker 1: lost seven in a row. Obviously they're going to try
- 1:25Speaker 1: to bring it here for this last game. It is
- 1:28Speaker 1: a little interesting though scenario with the Commanders have the
- 1:32Speaker 1: number two overall pick. I think if they win, based
- 1:35Speaker 1: off some other things, they could be the fourth pick.
- 1:38Speaker 1: So if they lose, they will be the number two pick.
- 1:42Speaker 1: So there's probably some people in the organization that want that.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Of course, the head coach he's probably not gonna be around,
- 1:49Speaker 1: so he didn't really care about that. So interesting, all right,
- 1:53Speaker 1: So the Cowboys are going to be going up that way,
- 1:56Speaker 1: and I think our first two callers are from that
- 1:58Speaker 1: way in Virginia. We're gonna get to that. Eight eight
- 2:00Speaker 1: eight eight five is the number to call. Let's start
- 2:04Speaker 1: us off with Irene in Virginia.
- 2:08Speaker 3: Hey, Nick, good morning.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Good morning. How are you doing well.
- 2:12Speaker 4: I'm excited for this game?
- 2:13Speaker 1: Are you going?
- 2:14Speaker 4: I am going. I got the tickets. The Eagles lost,
- 2:19Speaker 4: Like getting those tickets.
- 2:21Speaker 1: What's the weather forecast?
- 2:23Speaker 4: So it's much better than when Okay, so I get
- 2:27Speaker 4: the tickets and I look not in the right order,
- 2:29Speaker 4: but anyway, it was calling for ten inches of snow,
- 2:32Speaker 4: and I was like, we don't even we never do
- 2:34Speaker 4: that anyway. No, it's fine. It's going to be cold.
- 2:38Speaker 4: The highest forty four around three o'clock, so it's and
- 2:41Speaker 4: it's gonna there's gonna be a little bit of wind.
- 2:43Speaker 4: That's one thing that's concerning me a bit. But no
- 2:47Speaker 4: precipitation anymore. So that's helpful.
- 2:51Speaker 1: Nice.
- 2:52Speaker 4: Yeah, the wind, we'll see. I have a feeling it's
- 2:54Speaker 4: going to die down too, so we'll see. But it'll
- 2:58Speaker 4: be chilling for sure. That you had me rolling yesterday
- 3:02Speaker 4: with the analogy about the onion rings. I was like,
- 3:06Speaker 4: this is exactly, this is exactly if.
- 3:08Speaker 1: You put your order in and they don't get it wrong.
- 3:10Speaker 1: I mean, that's on you. You you just heard it.
- 3:13Speaker 1: So yeah, yep.
- 3:15Speaker 4: The one person who did absolutely nothing wrong is the cowboys.
- 3:18Speaker 4: That's what I was saying about it, like, don't give
- 3:20Speaker 4: us fluck.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Yeah you know, yeah yeah, And I have a point
- 3:24Speaker 1: to that. After the call, after your call, I'm gonna
- 3:25Speaker 1: kind of I didn't say yesterday that I think maybe
- 3:29Speaker 1: just put an into all this, But what else is
- 3:31Speaker 1: on your mind? What else you got?
- 3:32Speaker 4: So I wanted to give you now this is a
- 3:34Speaker 4: little bit short term trivia, so it actually might be
- 3:37Speaker 4: harder for you. I guess from because my first game
- 3:41Speaker 4: ever there was twenty nineteen, and then of course I
- 3:44Speaker 4: said I'm never going to miss a game, And of
- 3:47Speaker 4: course the next year was COVID, so I we all
- 3:50Speaker 4: missed that game. Come for you.
- 3:52Speaker 1: I was there. I was there.
- 3:53Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 3:54Speaker 4: But the trivia from that twenty nineteen game, can you
- 3:58Speaker 4: name the big play yardage and player on offense twenty nineteen?
- 4:05Speaker 1: See, that's that's my problem is because if you would
- 4:08Speaker 1: have said nineteen eighty three when I was seven, I
- 4:11Speaker 1: could tell you. But twenty nineteen, like that one isn't
- 4:15Speaker 1: isn't ringing a bell? Was that? That wasn't the rain game?
- 4:18Speaker 1: Was it? Where it was rainy? That was seventeen? I
- 4:21Speaker 1: don't know who. What was the score of the game?
- 4:23Speaker 6: Ooh do you know what?
- 4:24Speaker 7: I don't know that.
- 4:25Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.
- 4:27Speaker 4: It was a good score for us. We won it.
- 4:29Speaker 1: We won twenty nineteen. Up there. I mean, I can
- 4:34Speaker 1: remember all that if I just kind of remember the game.
- 4:36Speaker 1: That's what that's my problem. The short term memory is
- 4:38Speaker 1: not good.
- 4:39Speaker 4: Well, it was in September, so it was one of
- 4:41Speaker 4: the few ones lately that we've actually had in the
- 4:44Speaker 4: in good weather.
- 4:45Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this. I'm gonna get this. I'm gonna
- 4:47Speaker 1: get this. Let me just I just need to see
- 4:48Speaker 1: I just need to see the score. I didn't to
- 4:50Speaker 1: see the score of the game. Okay, all right, so
- 4:54Speaker 1: thirty one twenty one, Week two actually okay, okay, I
- 5:00Speaker 1: got it. I got it. I got it. So the Cowboys,
- 5:04Speaker 1: the Cowboys when they get the player you're talking about
- 5:07Speaker 1: is an obscure player. Yep, Devin Smith. Yes, Devin Smith
- 5:13Speaker 1: caught like a fifty yard touchdown over the middle, like
- 5:17Speaker 1: to win, I mean, not to win the game. I
- 5:19Speaker 1: think this game was not as close as the score.
- 5:21Speaker 1: I think they were blowing him out earlier. Yeah, Marii
- 5:24Speaker 1: Cooper had a couple of touchdowns maybe, Sorry, it took
- 5:27Speaker 1: me a little bit to remember that one. But yet
- 5:31Speaker 1: Devin Smith and it was. Yeah. I thought Devin Smith
- 5:35Speaker 1: was going to be a pretty good player, honestly, because
- 5:38Speaker 1: he was got a lot of speed. He was he
- 5:40Speaker 1: had that speed I had always been talking about.
- 5:42Speaker 4: So all right, my only question for you today, I'm
- 5:46Speaker 4: and I take it off this fine. Uh. Jacoby Brissette
- 5:49Speaker 4: he thinks to me, I don't think there's any reports
- 5:51Speaker 4: on if he's playing. I think that matters, but not
- 5:54Speaker 4: the Sam Howildan beat us last year. But yeah, if
- 5:58Speaker 4: you could discuss that would be great, and thank you,
- 6:00Speaker 4: all right.
- 6:00Speaker 1: I appreciate that dan Quinn said that they're going to
- 6:02Speaker 1: be preparing for two a quarterback this week. They haven't
- 6:05Speaker 1: made an announcement and they probably won't. You know, those
- 6:08Speaker 1: old school coaches like that think that that's that matters,
- 6:10Speaker 1: and maybe it does, so they you know, they'll they'll
- 6:13Speaker 1: be preparing for both. But I mean, let's be honest
- 6:18Speaker 1: that it's not like you're preparing for like Brady or
- 6:22Speaker 1: you know, like Manning. I mean it's it's pre said
- 6:25Speaker 1: or Sam Howe. So you should be able to you
- 6:27Speaker 1: should be able to win the game. Neither one of
- 6:30Speaker 1: them should should really hurt you. That that bad obviously
- 6:33Speaker 1: different type of quarterback, but I think the Cowboys should
- 6:36Speaker 1: be fine. There my point I was going to make
- 6:38Speaker 1: about that sixty eight eligible seventy whatever, Chris Baman. I
- 6:43Speaker 1: looked at this play yesterday after the show and just
- 6:48Speaker 1: just remember this part that number seventy Taylor Deck. I mean,
- 6:52Speaker 1: I'm sorry, was Dan Skipper who used to play for
- 6:54Speaker 1: the Cowboys, or at least was that training camp with
- 6:56Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Seventy was was the one that was reported eligible.
- 7:02Speaker 1: And he lines up at the tackle position and Demon
- 7:06Speaker 1: Clark and Marky's bell are right in his face. They're
- 7:09Speaker 1: all over. I mean, he's not gonna do anything. Now,
- 7:11Speaker 1: he's not trying to do anything, but he's not going
- 7:13Speaker 1: to do anything. And the point to that is he
- 7:15Speaker 1: was the guy that they announced as eligible, So keep
- 7:18Speaker 1: an eye on him. He's not going anywhere. If sixty
- 7:21Speaker 1: eight was the guy they would have announced, don't think
- 7:24Speaker 1: that he's just gonna sneak to the back of the
- 7:25Speaker 1: uin zone and catch a touchdown pass like he did.
- 7:28Speaker 1: So that's that's the thing. I mean that that's what's
- 7:31Speaker 1: getting lost in some of this is that that you
- 7:34Speaker 1: know it was just gonna be a touchdown and the
- 7:35Speaker 1: Cowboys are just going to play it the exact same way.
- 7:37Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way, all right, Shelby and Virginia
- 7:40Speaker 1: is our next caller. Virginia's dominating here. What's up?
- 7:46Speaker 3: Hey, Nick?
- 7:47Speaker 1: Good? Are you?
- 7:49Speaker 6: I'm doing real good? I'm I'm going to the games right.
- 7:52Speaker 6: I also my dad and I called him before the
- 7:55Speaker 6: first man.
- 7:56Speaker 1: Yeah, so I wanted to Yeah, counted it as too.
- 8:01Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. I think we're still the only people to
- 8:02Speaker 6: do that. Yeah, I've got I've got two extra tickets.
- 8:06Speaker 6: So I wanted to know if I've heard a bunch
- 8:08Speaker 6: of people from Virginia, if you wanted to have a giveaway,
- 8:12Speaker 6: otherwise I'll sell them. But if there's a way you
- 8:14Speaker 6: could do it on the show, I thought that'd be fun.
- 8:17Speaker 1: That's that, that would that would be interesting. Chris is
- 8:21Speaker 1: gonna the phones are going to be lighting up here,
- 8:23Speaker 1: So I don't I don't, I don't know how we
- 8:25Speaker 1: how we do that? That that's what you want to do.
- 8:27Speaker 1: You want to throw it out there and if a
- 8:28Speaker 1: caller calls in.
- 8:31Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, hey, if anybody, if anybody wants them,
- 8:33Speaker 6: my twitter is Shelby James BSP. I don't know if
- 8:37Speaker 6: there's a better way to do that, but I'd rather
- 8:39Speaker 6: see them go to a Cowboys fan.
- 8:41Speaker 1: So well, you just by throwing it out there right there,
- 8:44Speaker 1: you probably that's probably going to take care of it
- 8:46Speaker 1: right there. It's just if somebody's going to hit you up.
- 8:49Speaker 1: I hope there are they electronic tickets.
- 8:52Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, I can transform pretty easily.
- 8:54Speaker 1: So okay, well, and I don't want to be that person.
- 8:59Speaker 1: Not never mind, I'm I can ask that person. That's cool.
- 9:01Speaker 1: They're in the stadium, right, Yeah.
- 9:03Speaker 6: They're actually they're in the section right by the away tunnel.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Nothing. Nothing, Nothing irritates me more when you ask someone,
- 9:11Speaker 1: You're like, hey, would you like tickets to the game,
- 9:13Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, cool, what section are they in?
- 9:16Speaker 8: Uh?
- 9:17Speaker 1: They're in the free section, that's the one.
- 9:19Speaker 6: So yeah, yeah, yeah, no, they're they're lower level. But
- 9:24Speaker 6: I also wanted to just say I'm a I'm a
- 9:26Speaker 6: huge fan, and it's I'm ashamed to say I haven't
- 9:29Speaker 6: your books yet, So I just ordered if these walls
- 9:32Speaker 6: could talk, I'm going to bring it to the stadium.
- 9:35Speaker 6: I'm going to be hanging out when the team gets
- 9:37Speaker 6: off the buses. If you wanted to sign it, I
- 9:39Speaker 6: know you're on the clock, so there's literally zero pressure.
- 9:41Speaker 1: I'll sign it. Are you where are you gonna be?
- 9:43Speaker 1: Are you gonna be in the stadium? Are you taking
- 9:45Speaker 1: the stadium? Are you take it to that hotel?
- 9:48Speaker 6: We will be at the stadium where the bus is unload.
- 9:52Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'll be I'll be on the first bus. Okay,
- 9:58Speaker 1: I'll be on I'll be on the first bus. We'll
- 9:59Speaker 1: get there one one thirty. It doesn't seem like a
- 10:03Speaker 1: conversation that we have it on the air, but whatever. Anyways,
- 10:06Speaker 1: that's fun.
- 10:06Speaker 3: Yeah, my dad will be there.
- 10:07Speaker 1: He will definitely sign it for you. I'll sign it. Yeah, yeah,
- 10:10Speaker 1: I'll sign if you go.
- 10:11Speaker 2: To a bar, if you have his book, he'll sign it.
- 10:14Speaker 1: All right, Chris, all right, it happened in Charlotte. It happened.
- 10:19Speaker 1: And what's funny is when they're like, oh, do you
- 10:21Speaker 1: have a sharpie? You know, Chris is like, oh, he's
- 10:24Speaker 1: got his own, got his own sharp like just carry them. Hey, hey,
- 10:28Speaker 1: I did not mind. We got free drinks out of it.
- 10:30Speaker 1: We did. We did awesome.
- 10:32Speaker 6: I wish I could bring a drink or something.
- 10:34Speaker 1: No, that's okay. Game day, you know, on the clock.
- 10:38Speaker 6: That makes sense. Also, I usually don't listen to the
- 10:41Speaker 6: first few episodes after a loss, not because the show
- 10:44Speaker 6: is not great, but just you know, but I had
- 10:47Speaker 6: to go back and listen to because I just kept
- 10:50Speaker 6: hearing about the infamous Wednesday show of last There's a
- 10:55Speaker 6: few sound drops that should be vaulted and kept in
- 10:58Speaker 6: the cow is media down.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Oh Chris, Chris will do that. He's got that. I
- 11:05Speaker 1: didn't think it was that bad until the show was
- 11:08Speaker 1: over and people were like, all right, all right, and
- 11:10Speaker 1: then my mom called, She's like, are you okay? You know, no,
- 11:14Speaker 1: it was fine, you know, we're just we're just chatting.
- 11:17Speaker 1: But yeah, I did go back and watch it. I
- 11:19Speaker 1: was kind of annoying. So no, no, I mean, it's
- 11:23Speaker 1: all good, it's all good. But but yeah, I mean,
- 11:25Speaker 1: that's what happens. Hey, this team doesn't make it to
- 11:28Speaker 1: the super Bowl, which of course I've never seen him
- 11:30Speaker 1: make it to the super Bowl. The show after that,
- 11:32Speaker 1: after that loss, if if they you know, losing the playoffs,
- 11:35Speaker 1: that's going to be interesting. I mean, the whole week
- 11:38Speaker 1: if shows is going to be interesting. But anyway, I
- 11:41Speaker 1: don't know if I'll be able.
- 11:41Speaker 2: To do that first one.
- 11:42Speaker 6: But I'll give you a talking points until I did,
- 11:45Speaker 6: you know, pitch myself on Sunday Tickets and whatnot. Uh,
- 11:48Speaker 6: just favorite regular season you've covered. Obviously the playoffs are
- 11:52Speaker 6: going to make a few of those stainfuls, but just
- 11:54Speaker 6: the best time you had as a writer, covering the
- 11:57Speaker 6: team in the record.
- 11:58Speaker 1: All right, sounds good, thank you, thank you, Shby. I mean,
- 12:03Speaker 1: you know, they've all ended with a loss pretty much.
- 12:08Speaker 1: I mean except for like the year when you like
- 12:10Speaker 1: win your regular season finale, like twenty nineteen or twenty seventeen,
- 12:15Speaker 1: when you're out of the playoffs and you still win.
- 12:17Speaker 1: I mean that's not even fun either. My first one
- 12:21Speaker 1: is just so memorable to me. Ninety nine is just
- 12:23Speaker 1: so memorable because I didn't know what I was doing.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Debatable if I still do, but I mean just just
- 12:30Speaker 1: going through and traveling, you know, like we're going to
- 12:33Speaker 1: travel to this game with ten people in our staff,
- 12:37Speaker 1: like like our staff has about about ten, and that
- 12:40Speaker 1: ninety nine season, it was just me. I mean it
- 12:42Speaker 1: was just me. I was the only person kind of
- 12:44Speaker 1: doing that, and so I didn't know what I was doing.
- 12:48Speaker 1: And that season was interesting because they won the first
- 12:50Speaker 1: road game and then they lost every other road game
- 12:54Speaker 1: that year. So they were seven and one at home
- 12:57Speaker 1: and one in seven on the road. You talk about
- 13:00Speaker 1: a different you know, like all this team's good road
- 13:03Speaker 1: team are a bad road team and a good home team.
- 13:06Speaker 1: That ninety nine team, I mean that was like two
- 13:08Speaker 1: different teams, a lot of stuff happened, you know, Emmitt,
- 13:12Speaker 1: Troy and Michael all over there, Dion. So that ninety nine,
- 13:16Speaker 1: it's still though the most memorable because got to remember,
- 13:20Speaker 1: ten years before that or nine years, I'm a young
- 13:23Speaker 1: kid and you know, high school and stuff, and I'm
- 13:25Speaker 1: i'm you know, I'm I'm cheering for Troy and Dion
- 13:29Speaker 1: and Michael and Emmett and maybe not Dion then, but
- 13:31Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I love Dion even when
- 13:33Speaker 1: he didn't play for the Cowboys, and and so then
- 13:36Speaker 1: in ninety nine to be in the locker room like wow,
- 13:39Speaker 1: like I'm covering this team, these guys. So that was
- 13:41Speaker 1: always still still the most memorable because of you know,
- 13:46Speaker 1: just kind of a pinch yourself type moment. All right,
- 13:49Speaker 1: Ali in Florida, Good morning, Good morning. Oh do you
- 13:54Speaker 1: have trivia for me?
- 13:56Speaker 5: Not today? Okay, good I'm gotta tell you something. I'm
- 14:00Speaker 5: working on it. If it's for you and a crypt
- 14:05Speaker 5: find it together. If you get it right, I would
- 14:09Speaker 5: send you the most awesome wildlife image that you would
- 14:15Speaker 5: love for both of you. So just to say to it,
- 14:20Speaker 5: I got home from Africa, I mean God made it
- 14:25Speaker 5: to the game. What a frecking game. I don't think.
- 14:28Speaker 5: I don't I like this close game. It's so nerve wreaking,
- 14:32Speaker 5: but the result was great. A couple things I heard
- 14:37Speaker 5: you said yesterday you had a cough. I would suggest,
- 14:42Speaker 5: as Derek, to give you your own personal microphone. And I
- 14:49Speaker 5: don't know you guys have it or use the same microphone,
- 14:52Speaker 5: but everybody breathe into it. But you're not alone. I
- 14:56Speaker 5: have a cough everywhere internationally. Everywhere I go, everybody has
- 15:00Speaker 5: back off and nobody knows what it is. So I
- 15:04Speaker 5: just want to give you that. Then I was looking
- 15:07Speaker 5: at this draft order. I don't know you already recovered
- 15:12Speaker 5: it in the show. Now Washington is number two, four
- 15:16Speaker 5: and twelve, then his pats and carding.
- 15:20Speaker 3: Off the tight off.
- 15:22Speaker 5: Then you got Giants, chargers and tight and at five eleven.
- 15:26Speaker 5: If they win, they're going to drop down to seven
- 15:30Speaker 5: or eight positions. And I know the new owner they
- 15:33Speaker 5: want to start the beginning, new beginning, and all this
- 15:37Speaker 5: quarterback on top of the draft. I would like to
- 15:40Speaker 5: know what goes on behind the scene. But the players,
- 15:45Speaker 5: they just want to revenge because the boat on taboys
- 15:48Speaker 5: beat the hell out of them. It's just like they
- 15:50Speaker 5: are ready to its just like spoil it for us.
- 15:54Speaker 5: And the last take I have is they covered up
- 16:01Speaker 5: the Detroit game. And I think, personally, I'm so insulted
- 16:08Speaker 5: by h Campbell to go to that low class confuse
- 16:16Speaker 5: the Cowboys or referee. It's just like, come on, man,
- 16:20Speaker 5: your team is good enough stopped.
- 16:26Speaker 1: Yeah, well all right, all right, thanks for the thanks
- 16:30Speaker 1: for the call. Good point, Good point. Listen. I Uh,
- 16:35Speaker 1: I covered Dan Campbell when he was here. I I
- 16:38Speaker 1: liked him as as a player, and I've seen him
- 16:42Speaker 1: a couple of times over the years at the Senior
- 16:45Speaker 1: Bowls and combined, you know, when he was coaching, and
- 16:48Speaker 1: I have a lot of respect for him, and I
- 16:50Speaker 1: like the way he does it. Uh he coaches just
- 16:53Speaker 1: like he played, and uh, he wasn't the most talented guy,
- 16:58Speaker 1: most athletic, but that fire and grit that you see
- 17:02Speaker 1: as a coach is what he did as a player
- 17:05Speaker 1: to kind of get him to that point. And he
- 17:08Speaker 1: coaches that way. So I don't think it was low class.
- 17:12Speaker 1: The Cowboys are the better team than the Lions. I
- 17:16Speaker 1: don't care what anyone says. They're better than Detroit, not
- 17:19Speaker 1: by a lot and if they go to Detroit. Hey,
- 17:22Speaker 1: if they had to play in Detroit, it would be
- 17:24Speaker 1: a really tough game. But I think we all if
- 17:28Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb can score a touchdown to go at fourteen
- 17:31Speaker 1: to three, who knows what that score is going to be.
- 17:33Speaker 1: The Cowboys were better than Detroit, and I know it,
- 17:37Speaker 1: you guys know it, and Dan Campbell knew it. Dan
- 17:41Speaker 1: Campbell knows that I'm gonna go score right now because
- 17:44Speaker 1: I'm not going to overtime and trying to stop Ceedee
- 17:47Speaker 1: Lamb again not not doing it. I don't think it's
- 17:51Speaker 1: low class trick plays or trick plays. They tried to
- 17:55Speaker 1: do it. They tried to get cute. Didn't work, But
- 17:57Speaker 1: as I said earlier, it wouldn't have I mean, I
- 17:59Speaker 1: don't it wouldn't have mattered. The Cowboy's still going to
- 18:01Speaker 1: cover that. So now are they going to be all
- 18:04Speaker 1: on side? And who knows? All right, here we go.
- 18:09Speaker 1: We got Bryce in Salt Lake City.
- 18:12Speaker 8: How's it going?
- 18:13Speaker 1: N How you doing? Man?
- 18:14Speaker 8: First time postom caller and the sexton a few times too.
- 18:20Speaker 1: Here we go? All right, Thanks? Bryce?
- 18:23Speaker 9: What do you got so? I?
- 18:26Speaker 8: Uh, looking back at one of the message I sent
- 18:30Speaker 8: to you and brought up to the bye week and
- 18:32Speaker 8: the Eagles bloss about so Brandon Cooks and Tyron Smith
- 18:38Speaker 8: and the the MVP in the second half of the season,
- 18:41Speaker 8: and you brought up back and you were right on point.
- 18:46Speaker 8: He's been playing absolutely out of his mind with CD
- 18:49Speaker 8: and I kind of want to see where you're at
- 18:52Speaker 8: with going into the playoffs, going into Washington. You know
- 18:57Speaker 8: how the defense and offense can help each other a
- 18:59Speaker 8: bit more without the bending break and yeah, and what
- 19:02Speaker 8: you see what Dak Presh got doing and what needs
- 19:06Speaker 8: to happen over the next few weeks.
- 19:09Speaker 1: All right, all right, I will thank you, Thanks Bryce
- 19:11Speaker 1: for the call. Can we get it here? We go
- 19:14Speaker 1: for Bryce Chris. We're busy, but this is a man
- 19:18Speaker 1: in the phones.
- 19:19Speaker 8: No, it went, but it was all screwed up, so
- 19:22Speaker 8: I had to fix it.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Sorry, So he got to he got to awesome interesting
- 19:30Speaker 1: point about about you know, Dak and you know m
- 19:32Speaker 1: v P. I talk you. He's not gonna be the
- 19:34Speaker 1: m v P. I think I think Lamar Jackson's got
- 19:37Speaker 1: that one there. But you know, I think he's in
- 19:40Speaker 1: He's in the running. Uh. Tonight the Pro Bowl comes out.
- 19:44Speaker 1: Pro Bowl announcement, and uh be interesting to see how
- 19:47Speaker 1: many cowboys make it. I'm thinking, uh anywhere from like
- 19:53Speaker 1: I mean, it's got to be six. Six is six
- 19:56Speaker 1: would be a Travis d if you don't have six,
- 19:58Speaker 1: so we we those are easy. I mean you know
- 20:01Speaker 1: that that's gonna happen. Seven, I'm thinking seven or eight,
- 20:05Speaker 1: you know, because I mean, without a doubt Ceedee lamb
- 20:08Speaker 1: and and Dak and uh Zach Martin, Micah Deron, Bland, Aubrey,
- 20:14Speaker 1: those six are in. I mean that there'll be some
- 20:17Speaker 1: there'll be some explaining to do that isn't the case.
- 20:20Speaker 1: Then after that, you know, Tyler Smith, I think Tyler
- 20:24Speaker 1: Smith has it, has a shot. Tyron Smith. I think
- 20:28Speaker 1: I think you need to look at Jake Ferguson, but
- 20:30Speaker 1: that's gonna be tough. Ferguson, though maybe Turpin uh hasn't
- 20:36Speaker 1: doesn't really qualify, hadn't had a lot of returns as
- 20:39Speaker 1: a return specialist. Anger, I mean, Brian Ainger's had a
- 20:43Speaker 1: really good year. It's quiet because of what Aubrey's done.
- 20:46Speaker 1: But Anger is a guy that I think you know
- 20:48Speaker 1: has a has a good chance as well. So I'm
- 20:52Speaker 1: thinking somewhere between seven or eight nine maybe would be
- 20:55Speaker 1: a lot, but uh, definitely has to be six tonight
- 20:57Speaker 1: and as Dak, Dak's played great. But I'll say this
- 21:01Speaker 1: about the playoffs to answer your question, if they get
- 21:03Speaker 1: this number two seed, I mean, think about the games
- 21:06Speaker 1: they haven't played well in. You know, they haven't played
- 21:09Speaker 1: well when if it's cold, it's raining now they they
- 21:11Speaker 1: got to play in some cold this game. But if
- 21:14Speaker 1: you can get the number two seed, I mean, your
- 21:16Speaker 1: first two playoff games, if you can, if you get there,
- 21:18Speaker 1: are gonna be home and then then where I mean,
- 21:23Speaker 1: then if you go on the road, it's gonna be
- 21:24Speaker 1: San Francisco, which I mean it's not gonna be not
- 21:27Speaker 1: gonna be that cold. You know, it's not gonna be snowy.
- 21:30Speaker 1: So I mean number two seed is really important to
- 21:34Speaker 1: get out of the cold weather. But ironically, to get there,
- 21:37Speaker 1: you got to beat Washington in the cold weather weather.
- 21:39Speaker 1: All right, Brian in Kansas City.
- 21:43Speaker 10: Good morning, sir, How are you doing. I'm all right,
- 21:46Speaker 10: I'm alright, man. I got a couple of questions regarding
- 21:49Speaker 10: the move yesterday with bringing Lael Collins back.
- 21:53Speaker 1: Not official, not official as of this morning. As of
- 21:56Speaker 1: right now, this show ten twenty two AM Central. I
- 22:00Speaker 1: don't believe the Cowboys have done that, but I think
- 22:03Speaker 1: that they're going to Lyell. Thinks they're going to oh Man.
- 22:06Speaker 2: And I don't know where I saw it. I saw
- 22:08Speaker 2: that they signed him to the practice squad and.
- 22:10Speaker 1: They probably will and that's what they're going to do.
- 22:12Speaker 1: But uh, from when I was told before went on
- 22:16Speaker 1: that he probably won't be on the practice squad when
- 22:19Speaker 1: they go to practice here in about hour and a half,
- 22:22Speaker 1: but it's probably going to happen. So let's answer the question.
- 22:28Speaker 10: Well, my question is, well two parts. One is how
- 22:32Speaker 10: do elevations work once the season is over, Like you know,
- 22:35Speaker 10: you only get three during the year. Does it change
- 22:37Speaker 10: for the playoffs? And then my other question is what
- 22:41Speaker 10: do I want to know your opinion? And then what
- 22:44Speaker 10: do you think the team's going to do? So for me,
- 22:48Speaker 10: it's better than a Doga. He's probably better than a
- 22:51Speaker 10: Doga now, even though he hadn't played all year. I mean,
- 22:54Speaker 10: I know he's going to have to shake the rust off,
- 22:56Speaker 10: but Doga just scares me on the left side. I mean,
- 23:00Speaker 10: just that was just terrifying watching that game.
- 23:02Speaker 1: He's got Junkyard dog that's what Lyle Collins has and
- 23:08Speaker 1: that's what this team needs. And so I don't know,
- 23:14Speaker 1: you know, from the practice squad elevation if you're going
- 23:16Speaker 1: to just be a backup or whatever, but if he
- 23:18Speaker 1: has to play. Apparently the workout went really well, you know,
- 23:22Speaker 1: considering maybe what they thought he would be. You know, weight,
- 23:26Speaker 1: it's been an issue for him and you're not playing
- 23:28Speaker 1: all year long, or and then you know, to be
- 23:31Speaker 1: this point in the season and be ready to have
- 23:32Speaker 1: that kind of workout that was that was impressive. So
- 23:36Speaker 1: I think he will be on the team. I think
- 23:38Speaker 1: he will be on the practice squad and they could
- 23:40Speaker 1: elevate him. But you have another question.
- 23:44Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I just had an old timer for you.
- 23:46Speaker 2: I hadn't asked you about a staff member in a while.
- 23:49Speaker 2: You gave us the Bury Church marshmallow candy story, so
- 23:53Speaker 2: I was wondering if maybe you had a story on
- 23:55Speaker 2: Jesse Holly and I'll hang up. I have a great day, brother.
- 23:57Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I have a documentary on Just Holly that
- 24:00Speaker 1: we did from reality uh watching from Hollywood, I don't know,
- 24:07Speaker 1: from reality to Hollywood. It was the documentary. Yeah, Jesse.
- 24:14Speaker 1: Jesse's story is amazing. I mean it's there's just no
- 24:18Speaker 1: other way to say it. I mean, weirdly when you
- 24:20Speaker 1: when you think of it. Now, to me, the movie Invincible,
- 24:26Speaker 1: okay with Mark Wahlberg and the Eagles, and he's a
- 24:30Speaker 1: special teams guide the moment of the movie, I mean
- 24:33Speaker 1: he makes like a special teams tackle against the Giants.
- 24:36Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the movie. Like, that's that's the point.
- 24:40Speaker 1: So played three years or whatever. Vince Papali was his name.
- 24:44Speaker 1: But Jesse Holly story is just as good, if not better,
- 24:47Speaker 1: you know, I mean, because all that stuff you see
- 24:50Speaker 1: in the movie. Who knows if that's real or not.
- 24:51Speaker 1: I don't know, but I know that Jesse went through
- 24:54Speaker 1: is just it's just phenomenal. You know. It's a reality
- 24:59Speaker 1: TV show that's never been done. It's never been done
- 25:03Speaker 1: to get a spot on a team, you know, Michael
- 25:06Speaker 1: Irvin's reality show. And he wins it and then gets
- 25:09Speaker 1: there and you know, and to me, though not the
- 25:14Speaker 1: forty nine er game, the forty nine er game is
- 25:16Speaker 1: not the one where you know, the seventy seven yard catch,
- 25:19Speaker 1: that's that would be the end of the movie, right,
- 25:21Speaker 1: he does that, But the one that got him on
- 25:24Speaker 1: the map. That was kind of so crazy was the
- 25:27Speaker 1: Minnesota playoff. I'm sorry, preseason Minnesota in like twenty ten,
- 25:33Speaker 1: where it's the last game. He hasn't done a whole
- 25:35Speaker 1: lot in the preseason, probably not going to make the
- 25:38Speaker 1: team or the practice squad, and a punt just bounces.
- 25:41Speaker 1: He's not the returner. It just bounces right to him.
- 25:43Speaker 1: He's like the jammer guy on the side, bounces right
- 25:47Speaker 1: to him, picks it up, he turns, runs seventy five
- 25:51Speaker 1: yards for a touchdown. The Cowboys win the game against Minnesota.
- 25:54Speaker 1: He makes the practice squad. Just the irony of what
- 25:58Speaker 1: happens when the ball all bounces your way. That ball
- 26:01Speaker 1: hadn't been bouncing Jesse Holly's way his whole life, and
- 26:04Speaker 1: it bounces right to him. What do you do with
- 26:06Speaker 1: an opportunity? You take it to the house and you score.
- 26:11Speaker 1: And that right there, that's what opened everything up for
- 26:14Speaker 1: Jesse Holly to me, if you haven't seen the documentary,
- 26:18Speaker 1: it's great. And here's another thing about it is that
- 26:22Speaker 1: Jesse was a producer for us on that he made
- 26:26Speaker 1: that thing happen. He drove us around New Jersey and
- 26:29Speaker 1: these places, and he set up all the interviews, all
- 26:34Speaker 1: it was. It was phenomenal, and I'm so disappointed that
- 26:37Speaker 1: we didn't win an Emmy for him. It was nominated,
- 26:41Speaker 1: but it didn't win, and I'm so disappointed because he
- 26:44Speaker 1: would have won it and he deserved. His stories is amazing.
- 26:47Speaker 1: So I don't know if that was the story he
- 26:48Speaker 1: wanted me to tell, but that's what That's the only
- 26:51Speaker 1: thing I could think of when you ask about Jesse Holly,
- 26:53Speaker 1: all right, Bruce and Houston.
- 26:57Speaker 11: Hey, Nick, thanks for taking my call out. That's pretty
- 27:00Speaker 11: cool story. That's what I like about you. You've got
- 27:02Speaker 11: all these little back stories that we don't get to know,
- 27:06Speaker 11: you know, unless we know the man personally. That's pretty cool.
- 27:10Speaker 11: You kind of stole my You kind of stole my
- 27:13Speaker 11: my thunder a little bit. It's setting up nice for Dallas,
- 27:19Speaker 11: like you said, h weatherwise, the first two rounds, if
- 27:23Speaker 11: they get through them, they just gotta I would hope
- 27:25Speaker 11: Dallas takes it out of Washington, you know, takes their
- 27:29Speaker 11: heart out.
- 27:29Speaker 5: Right off the bat.
- 27:30Speaker 11: If they If they do, you know, then all the better.
- 27:35Speaker 11: My question to you, because they've got it set up,
- 27:38Speaker 11: they should they should be able to at least get
- 27:40Speaker 11: to the championship game. I mean, I know the teams
- 27:43Speaker 11: are gonna play are tough, Don't get me wrong. They
- 27:45Speaker 11: wants to play the Rams or even Seattle at this juncture.
- 27:49Speaker 11: But at home, I'll take my chances for the Packers.
- 27:53Speaker 11: I'll take my chances with all of them. The team
- 27:55Speaker 11: that we can't get over is San Francisco and until
- 27:58Speaker 11: we do that, So my question to you is, I
- 28:00Speaker 11: don't not Debbie Downer today. If McCarthy doesn't get them
- 28:05Speaker 11: to at least that, I just don't know how you
- 28:08Speaker 11: can go on with him, especially with his clock management
- 28:11Speaker 11: that he's done since he's been here. Really, I wanted
- 28:14Speaker 11: you to talk about that. I love the Collins pick
- 28:17Speaker 11: up because I think we need a depth, and you
- 28:20Speaker 11: said it.
- 28:21Speaker 3: He's a dog.
- 28:22Speaker 11: In fact, he could probably play left guard if he
- 28:25Speaker 11: had to, because I believe he is more of a
- 28:27Speaker 11: guard than tackle.
- 28:27Speaker 1: Correct. Yeah, and probably right now would just just you know,
- 28:31Speaker 1: just hadn't played a lot. I would think God would
- 28:33Speaker 1: be better for him.
- 28:34Speaker 11: I think so too. And they're covering their bets in case,
- 28:38Speaker 11: you know, Smith can't go or the other Smith gets hurt.
- 28:41Speaker 11: So smart played by Dallas Cook. You know I was
- 28:45Speaker 11: listening to guys this morning. There you know, half of
- 28:47Speaker 11: them or four it and half of them or not.
- 28:49Speaker 11: But I believe Dallas had a chance to get him
- 28:51Speaker 11: in the free agency and they didn't take a chance then,
- 28:54Speaker 11: So that kind of tells us a little bit how they.
- 28:56Speaker 12: Feel a little at the draft next year.
- 28:59Speaker 11: There's four guy that they've got to pick up at
- 29:02Speaker 11: least in the third round. First and second they've got
- 29:04Speaker 11: to sw linebacker and tackle, I believe. But I'll hang
- 29:07Speaker 11: up and listen.
- 29:08Speaker 1: Good show, Thank you appreciate that. Bruce. You know, remember
- 29:13Speaker 1: like the price for you know, I mean he signed
- 29:16Speaker 1: a one year, seven million dollar contract Dalvin Cook did
- 29:19Speaker 1: for with the Jets, so that might have been you
- 29:23Speaker 1: know the reason too. I mean the Cowboys they may
- 29:26Speaker 1: have called. They've been like, hey, what are we looking
- 29:28Speaker 1: at here? And he said, yeah, this is this is
- 29:30Speaker 1: what we're gonna get with the Jets or whatever, and
- 29:32Speaker 1: so that kind of soured them on it. So as
- 29:34Speaker 1: of right now, I mean it would be a little
- 29:36Speaker 1: bit different than that. I mean, you could you could
- 29:40Speaker 1: still give the guy a seven million dollar contract right now.
- 29:42Speaker 1: I mean you're only going to get one eighteenth of it,
- 29:45Speaker 1: So I mean or you know, some into the playoffs.
- 29:47Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I I think that it's a
- 29:52Speaker 1: little early. It's it's a lot ely for the draft.
- 29:55Speaker 1: I mean, so but yeah, you know, you see these
- 29:57Speaker 1: positions that that are going to be in need, and
- 30:01Speaker 1: running back's got to be one of them, of course.
- 30:04Speaker 1: But you know, I mean when you're you're gonna be
- 30:07Speaker 1: the end of the first round, and you got to
- 30:10Speaker 1: get a good a good football player. And you know,
- 30:13Speaker 1: they they picked for need this year with Mozzi Smith,
- 30:17Speaker 1: and so far it hasn't it hasn't worked out, and
- 30:22Speaker 1: so you're gonna have you know, you have to get
- 30:24Speaker 1: a good football player. And so we can we can
- 30:27Speaker 1: think that they have all these needs, but you know
- 30:29Speaker 1: you're supposed to kind of take care of some things
- 30:31Speaker 1: with free agency, put some band aid on some positions. Uh,
- 30:36Speaker 1: and then and then get to the draft and not
- 30:37Speaker 1: have to be you know, pigeonholed into saying, we got
- 30:41Speaker 1: to get this spot. You know, you gotta get the
- 30:43Speaker 1: running back, gotta get a linebacker. Be nice. But I mean,
- 30:48Speaker 1: you know, what about cornerback? What if you don't resign
- 30:52Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmore, you know, and what if you know, you
- 30:56Speaker 1: got Digs coming back from an injury. You got bland
- 30:58Speaker 1: of cornerbacks right there, and whatever pick you're going to pick,
- 31:02Speaker 1: you know that could be big too. So all right,
- 31:04Speaker 1: Dylan Northport, Florida.
- 31:07Speaker 13: Hey, Moretin Nick morning.
- 31:10Speaker 12: Hey.
- 31:10Speaker 13: Regarding the last caller, Mike McCarthy, I don't think he
- 31:13Speaker 13: goes anywhere regardless of what happens three twelve and five.
- 31:16Speaker 13: Assuming we went next week three twelve and five seasons,
- 31:19Speaker 13: you're going to get a regurgitated head coach, you know,
- 31:21Speaker 13: else from elsewhere that's failing, and that's why he's out
- 31:24Speaker 13: in the street, and that's having his best season in
- 31:27Speaker 13: his career. And I don't think that's a coincidence at
- 31:29Speaker 13: all whatsoever. Mike's known for his quarterback development and here
- 31:32Speaker 13: he's senior quarterback being developed. So I don't think Mike
- 31:35Speaker 13: goes anywhere regardless of what happens.
- 31:37Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't either, honestly. I mean, I just you
- 31:42Speaker 1: want to build. You're trying to build a foundation here
- 31:45Speaker 1: and he's done that. He has done that. Now, yes,
- 31:48Speaker 1: you want to get over over the hump, but I mean,
- 31:53Speaker 1: who are you going to I mean, who are you
- 31:56Speaker 1: going to bring in that says, all right, what this
- 31:58Speaker 1: guy has built and everything, and then you know, put
- 32:01Speaker 1: him in there. I mean this is his first year
- 32:03Speaker 1: calling the place here with Dak. Dak's had his best
- 32:05Speaker 1: year probably. I mean, Dak has his best year of
- 32:09Speaker 1: his career. I mean, come on, twenty sixteen. It was
- 32:13Speaker 1: it was it was not it was hand theball to
- 32:15Speaker 1: Zeke and take care of things, and he did a
- 32:17Speaker 1: really good job. But he's not taking over like like
- 32:20Speaker 1: he's done here. So I that doesn't make any sense
- 32:24Speaker 1: to me to to just get him for for who.
- 32:28Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of teams out there that
- 32:30Speaker 1: are they're just right there. They're trying to to get
- 32:33Speaker 1: to that next level. And I used the Mike Holngroom
- 32:37Speaker 1: reference last week, but I mean the Packers for four
- 32:40Speaker 1: years were building something. They just weren't better than Dallas
- 32:43Speaker 1: in San Francisco, and right now the Cowboys just haven't
- 32:47Speaker 1: been better than San Francisco. San Francisco has been better.
- 32:50Speaker 1: But I mean that's that doesn't mean you have to
- 32:54Speaker 1: lose your coach for it. That's the way I think.
- 32:56Speaker 1: Let's see how it all plays out them.
- 32:58Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, we're kind of getting Ahad
- 33:00Speaker 13: of ourselves there. But yeah, I like Michael. I think
- 33:02Speaker 13: he's done a good job here regarding this run defense.
- 33:07Speaker 13: Last week was really weird against the Lions. It was
- 33:09Speaker 13: like they ever had a ten to fifteen year old run.
- 33:10Speaker 13: There was like a two yard loss. There was like
- 33:12Speaker 13: no in between it all whatsoever. Micah had a really
- 33:15Speaker 13: good game against the ground, which was nice to seek it.
- 33:17Speaker 13: That's been a criticism on him. De Las obviously balling out.
- 33:21Speaker 13: So these guys play well and I'm excited when Hankins
- 33:23Speaker 13: comes back.
- 33:24Speaker 12: Hopefully they can.
- 33:25Speaker 13: Keep playing that way and some of those larger runs
- 33:28Speaker 13: comes down, so it kind of evens that that divide
- 33:30Speaker 13: a little bit.
- 33:32Speaker 2: So here your.
- 33:33Speaker 13: Thoughts on that. And then random cowboy just an honor
- 33:35Speaker 13: up the game against Washington here, it's not a name
- 33:38Speaker 13: the Cowboys fans will like to hear, but we'll go
- 33:40Speaker 13: ahead and go with Alex Barron and that that mess
- 33:44Speaker 13: at the end of that one game. Yep, I'll hang
- 33:47Speaker 13: up and listen to thanks, thank.
- 33:48Speaker 1: You Alex Baron tackle that they that they had from
- 33:55Speaker 1: he was drafted by the Rams. And then I think
- 33:59Speaker 1: this is two thousand and ten opener he's referring to
- 34:01Speaker 1: at Washington where the Cowboys were driving for the win
- 34:06Speaker 1: and through a touchdown I think to Roy Williams was
- 34:09Speaker 1: called back for a holding on Baron, which was his
- 34:11Speaker 1: third of the day. Ironically enough, I was told not
- 34:15Speaker 1: too long after that game that he grated out better
- 34:18Speaker 1: than any player on that line that day. That just
- 34:22Speaker 1: kind of goes to show, you know, just how you
- 34:25Speaker 1: know penalties matter and you know when you're watching that's
- 34:28Speaker 1: what you see. But Alex Barrion actually played a really
- 34:31Speaker 1: good game. He had three holding calls, but the other
- 34:34Speaker 1: sixty five seventy snaps or whatever graded out really well.
- 34:39Speaker 1: Despite that, nothing that matters that they lost the game,
- 34:42Speaker 1: and in that game, they lost Bright before the half
- 34:46Speaker 1: with a fumble but t Shard choice that was kind
- 34:48Speaker 1: of crazy. But but your point about Hankins is right.
- 34:54Speaker 1: Jonathan Hankins I think is going to be a big
- 34:57Speaker 1: difference maker. He always has been. I mean that's why
- 34:59Speaker 1: they traded for him. Last year. He fixed the run,
- 35:03Speaker 1: and then he got hurt and then they had run issues.
- 35:05Speaker 1: Then he came back to the playoffs and they were
- 35:07Speaker 1: better there. Same this year they've been good. They're just
- 35:10Speaker 1: better when he's in there. So Hankins should be able
- 35:13Speaker 1: to play this week against Washington. Washington's got they got
- 35:17Speaker 1: some physical runners. I think Brian Robinson's back, He's he's
- 35:20Speaker 1: a load to handle. So yeah, I think Hankins should
- 35:23Speaker 1: be playing this week, and I think that there's a
- 35:25Speaker 1: big difference maker when he's in there. All Right, Kent
- 35:28Speaker 1: in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
- 35:31Speaker 12: Good morning, Nick. Hey, I've got a quick question here, right.
- 35:37Speaker 12: I've been watching the other podcast, and everybody is really
- 35:40Speaker 12: skeptical or just outright opposed to bringing Dalvin Cook in
- 35:43Speaker 12: for a look. And I was certainly not a fan
- 35:47Speaker 12: of signing him in the offseason when it was going
- 35:48Speaker 12: to cost several million dollars. But why on earth wouldn't
- 35:51Speaker 12: you at least kick the tires on a former All
- 35:54Speaker 12: Pro seeing the struggles that we continue to have on.
- 35:57Speaker 1: Running well, I mean you got to see if is
- 36:04Speaker 1: he a better option for you? Is he better option
- 36:07Speaker 1: than Rico Daddle running the ball? And I know you
- 36:11Speaker 1: you think, oh, all pro, I mean former All Pro?
- 36:14Speaker 1: But is I mean, is he is he better? I
- 36:17Speaker 1: mean you know, I mean I I don't know that.
- 36:20Speaker 1: And and also that that throws a wrench in things
- 36:23Speaker 1: A little bit. You bring in a guy like that.
- 36:26Speaker 1: I know you don't think special teams matters, but it
- 36:29Speaker 1: matters if you're giving up a punt block or something
- 36:31Speaker 1: like that. And the reason I say that is, you
- 36:33Speaker 1: know right now they're backup running back. Rico Dalad or
- 36:35Speaker 1: whoever it is, plays on special teams. So you bring
- 36:38Speaker 1: in a cook. Now he doesn't do that, and now
- 36:41Speaker 1: you know, you just shuffle some things around. Is it
- 36:43Speaker 1: worth it? That's that's all they have to figure out.
- 36:45Speaker 1: I mean, because because I think we think about names
- 36:48Speaker 1: a lot, and I I do what we all do.
- 36:50Speaker 1: We like, see the name, You're like, oh man, that
- 36:52Speaker 1: would be great. But thirty other thirty one other teams
- 36:56Speaker 1: are seeing this the same name, and then I mean
- 36:58Speaker 1: are they interested? I just don't know if he has
- 37:00Speaker 1: it anymore. And that's that's what they got to figure out.
- 37:04Speaker 12: But you yeah, a joint thirty one other teams isn't
- 37:09Speaker 12: an issue at this point, right because we're just talking
- 37:10Speaker 12: about playoff teams. And then who has a playoff team
- 37:14Speaker 12: whose offense is predicated on a run first, playofption or
- 37:19Speaker 12: play action pass type offense.
- 37:22Speaker 1: And well, I say the thirty one team.
- 37:24Speaker 12: Put your number down to five or six.
- 37:26Speaker 1: Okay, I say, I say the thirty one teams from
- 37:28Speaker 1: from last year in free agency, I mean when he
- 37:30Speaker 1: was out there too. So you're you're right, I mean,
- 37:34Speaker 1: you're not worried about that that many teams right now?
- 37:36Speaker 1: It's about you know, who who could you know, who
- 37:39Speaker 1: could he help? And he probably could. I'm not against it,
- 37:43Speaker 1: I'm really not. I'm not. I'm just giving you why.
- 37:46Speaker 1: Maybe they wouldn't. I mean, I think they'd be they'd
- 37:49Speaker 1: be they'd be stupid not to kick the tires on
- 37:53Speaker 1: and and research it and look into it. I think
- 37:56Speaker 1: that you have to do that. If they don't do it,
- 37:59Speaker 1: they don't do it. I mean this team has shown
- 38:00Speaker 1: though they Yeah, I think Jerry and gets you know,
- 38:04Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think he gets some criticism
- 38:06Speaker 1: on the fact of the stuff they haven't done.
- 38:09Speaker 3: You know.
- 38:09Speaker 1: You see, well, look with the forty nine ers made
- 38:11Speaker 1: a trade and they got Chase Young or you know,
- 38:13Speaker 1: they you know, these teams are making all these moves
- 38:16Speaker 1: and Shacklinard they didn't get him done. But if you
- 38:19Speaker 1: go back and look the last couple of years, the
- 38:20Speaker 1: Cowboys have made moves like this. They they they brought
- 38:24Speaker 1: in guys like this, Anthony Barr from Minnesota, Jason Peters,
- 38:30Speaker 1: Xavier Rhoades, high profile guys that are out there, and
- 38:34Speaker 1: maybe they could help. So it could happen. I mean,
- 38:38Speaker 1: it could happen, and it wouldn't be the worst thing
- 38:41Speaker 1: if they did that.
- 38:44Speaker 12: Right, all right, I just would like to see him.
- 38:45Speaker 12: If they could just boost our running game a little bit,
- 38:47Speaker 12: just look into it. I wouldn't just fly sign the guy.
- 38:51Speaker 1: Look into it at it.
- 38:51Speaker 12: I don't know that battle is up, and then you're
- 38:55Speaker 12: out of elevations from leaks. I like both those guys,
- 38:59Speaker 12: but we don't know how that is. And then with
- 39:01Speaker 12: Malik being out of elevations, then you'd have to give
- 39:03Speaker 12: up a spot on the fifty three to move them up.
- 39:05Speaker 1: I did not answer this question from earlier. From what
- 39:09Speaker 1: I was told, the elevation's reset in the playoffs, So
- 39:15Speaker 1: Malie Davis, Malik Jefferson, guys like that could could uh
- 39:20Speaker 1: you know, fall back into play here. So but but yeah,
- 39:24Speaker 1: all right, thanks camp, good call. All right, Let's go
- 39:29Speaker 1: to Brian in Louisiana. Brian, Hey, yeah, man, how you
- 39:37Speaker 1: doing all right?
- 39:38Speaker 12: Pretty good?
- 39:39Speaker 7: How you doing?
- 39:39Speaker 1: I'm good what's up.
- 39:41Speaker 12: I just got a quick question.
- 39:42Speaker 7: Now, I know people are still talking about this two
- 39:45Speaker 7: points conversions stuff, and my question was is that what
- 39:50Speaker 7: is kind of like, I guess the timing of from
- 39:53Speaker 7: when the rest tell the defense that seventies eligible has
- 39:58Speaker 7: then announced it on the TA that said the details away.
- 40:00Speaker 7: At what point how much time would Detroit have to say, okay,
- 40:04Speaker 7: well they called the wrong number, ten eight, do anything.
- 40:07Speaker 1: Yeah, what I think would have happened there is Golf
- 40:12Speaker 1: goes over to the official and says, we didn't say seventy,
- 40:15Speaker 1: We said sixty eight. We didn't say seventy is sixty
- 40:18Speaker 1: eight is eligible? Oh okay, okay, got correction, sixty eight
- 40:24Speaker 1: is eligible. Probably at that point reset the game clock,
- 40:30Speaker 1: the play clock. That's what I think they made a mistake.
- 40:33Speaker 1: And now now but now you're alerting everyone, and now
- 40:38Speaker 1: you know, you're shopping the clock, and the fact that
- 40:40Speaker 1: GoF had to be like whoa, whoa, whoa, that's not true.
- 40:44Speaker 1: You know that that's where that's where Detroit didn't want that,
- 40:48Speaker 1: So you know, that kind of screwed up the whole plan.
- 40:51Speaker 1: So it just didn't work.
- 40:54Speaker 7: So in other words, they basically just kind of rolled
- 40:56Speaker 7: the dice and said, Okay, well, yeah, we're not gonna
- 40:58Speaker 7: spall it. We're just gonna run with it. Maybe they
- 41:01Speaker 7: should probably audible out of it, knowing that they were
- 41:04Speaker 7: going to get that Kennedy because members six game was
- 41:07Speaker 7: no longer eligible, because the plate worked, because Dallas.
- 41:10Speaker 1: Wasn't worse, wasn't worried about it. Yeah. I mean that's
- 41:13Speaker 1: the thing. If you were told Steph Curry can't shoot
- 41:16Speaker 1: the ball, he's not allowed to shoot in the corner, well,
- 41:20Speaker 1: you're not going to guard him, and then all of
- 41:22Speaker 1: a sudden he gets the ball and he shoots the three,
- 41:24Speaker 1: and you're like, wait a second, Oh no, that wasn't true.
- 41:26Speaker 1: It was Clay that can't shoot. Oh crap, I mean exactly.
- 41:29Speaker 1: That's just this is silly.
- 41:32Speaker 7: But all right, bro, I appreciate the time.
- 41:35Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 41:37Speaker 1: All right. I want to say something else about the
- 41:41Speaker 1: reporting eligible and stuff like that. This this just kind
- 41:46Speaker 1: of goes to show just how like these quarterbacks, how
- 41:51Speaker 1: phenomenal they are. So Back in the Philly game on
- 41:54Speaker 1: the road, I don't know if you remember too many
- 41:56Speaker 1: Doga came onto the field for a play, and I
- 41:59Speaker 1: remember sitting in the press box. It was happened right
- 42:02Speaker 1: in front of us. He comes in under the play.
- 42:05Speaker 1: He's not starting, he's a backup, and I remember looking
- 42:09Speaker 1: over at Derek and I was like, he hasn't reported it.
- 42:11Speaker 1: They haven't announced this, Like what's he doing? And they
- 42:15Speaker 1: were about to snap it and Dak is under center
- 42:18Speaker 1: and he turns to the official under center and he
- 42:21Speaker 1: looked at the official and he's like, he's making the
- 42:23Speaker 1: you know, eligible sign, reporting sign, and nothing happened. So
- 42:28Speaker 1: he just snaps the ball and they run it and
- 42:29Speaker 1: then a flag comes because he didn't report eligible. And
- 42:33Speaker 1: I even asked Dak two weeks later, I was like,
- 42:35Speaker 1: how did you know that Schumann didn't you know? And
- 42:37Speaker 1: he goes, you just he just got a feel for
- 42:40Speaker 1: you know, you just hear the announcement and I just
- 42:42Speaker 1: didn't remember hearing it. And I'm thinking, when you think
- 42:45Speaker 1: about what a play call is, it's like seventy three
- 42:47Speaker 1: words in a road. You know, to make the call,
- 42:49Speaker 1: then the adjustment, you're looking at the safety and the
- 42:52Speaker 1: linebacker identifying the mic. You know, you're getting this guy
- 42:55Speaker 1: in motion. You're looking at the clock and it's going down.
- 42:57Speaker 1: And then also to think wait, Tchuma didn't report. I
- 43:01Speaker 1: mean that that blows my mind that these quarterbacks can
- 43:05Speaker 1: do that and GoF, you know, and maybe in his head,
- 43:07Speaker 1: you know, they were saying, GoF, hey, you know, make
- 43:09Speaker 1: sure Cca goes over there. But it's just so much.
- 43:12Speaker 1: I just have a lot of respect for that with
- 43:14Speaker 1: those guys did and it reminds me of that play
- 43:16Speaker 1: that that Dak tried to make there with you know,
- 43:19Speaker 1: he's got thirty seven things in a road to think about,
- 43:22Speaker 1: and that was thirty eight. But that was that was
- 43:24Speaker 1: a bad penalty too, all right, Joe in New Jersey?
- 43:28Speaker 1: Next call hey, Nick a happy New year.
- 43:31Speaker 3: How are you?
- 43:31Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you doing?
- 43:33Speaker 3: Good? Good? Good? A couple of different topics here. First
- 43:38Speaker 3: one is more of a comment. I feel as if
- 43:41Speaker 3: we ever would have picked up Derrick Henry when we
- 43:43Speaker 3: could have, this team is a completely different team than
- 43:46Speaker 3: we are right now. Number two, I feel like this
- 43:52Speaker 3: team has struggled without having a vocal leader on offense
- 43:56Speaker 3: and defense for like the past eight years. It feels
- 44:01Speaker 3: like we struggle with that vocal leader of Ascotta whenever
- 44:05Speaker 3: we're behind. Where we struggle when we're behind going to
- 44:08Speaker 3: rally the troops to get them, get them juiced up
- 44:12Speaker 3: to do what they need to do. It feels like
- 44:13Speaker 3: it's something.
- 44:14Speaker 1: That what would you call that? What would you call that?
- 44:17Speaker 1: Is he not a vocal leader? But may maybe I'll
- 44:21Speaker 1: stick to defense, Okay.
- 44:23Speaker 3: I'll think. I don't think Parsons is art that guy?
- 44:27Speaker 3: I see? Maybe maybe Tank is that guy. Sometimes I
- 44:31Speaker 3: just feel like, just as a franchise, we haven't drafted
- 44:35Speaker 3: those folks, and I feel like that that's an area
- 44:39Speaker 3: that we've been struggling with. Uh yeah for a bit.
- 44:43Speaker 3: I mean you're closer to the team obviously, who I mean,
- 44:46Speaker 3: who could who could you think? On defense? That might
- 44:50Speaker 3: be the guy?
- 44:50Speaker 1: And I just it's tough.
- 44:53Speaker 3: I think it's a gap.
- 44:54Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough. Leadership is not easy. Let me ask you.
- 44:58Speaker 1: Are you still there? Joe?
- 45:00Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Yeah.
- 45:00Speaker 1: Who's the best leader in the Cowboys I've ever had?
- 45:05Speaker 3: Always say an offense or defense? Either, I'm gonna say offense,
- 45:11Speaker 3: Troy Aikman defense. I'm forty one, right, so I'll give
- 45:18Speaker 3: you the I'm talking one players I've seen on you know,
- 45:21Speaker 3: on TV on Sundays, maybe Woodson. I struggle with, like
- 45:28Speaker 3: finding the Ray Lewis types, right I have. I haven't
- 45:32Speaker 3: seen those types in my lifetime as a Cowboys.
- 45:35Speaker 1: Would you call it to shard choice a good leader?
- 45:41Speaker 1: So no, you wouldn't. I didn't see it enough, right, right,
- 45:44Speaker 1: you know what? No, No, But Joe, the reason why
- 45:46Speaker 1: I'm asking you that is, this is why this is
- 45:49Speaker 1: a very difficult thing to to figure out. It's not
- 45:52Speaker 1: a stat. Okay, you don't have a leadership stat. It's
- 45:56Speaker 1: you named Troy Aikman gold jacket. You name Darren Woodson
- 46:01Speaker 1: going to have a gold jacket maybe this year, Ray Lewis,
- 46:04Speaker 1: Michael Irvin is one. These are great players who were
- 46:09Speaker 1: vocal and loud, and the cameras caught him and doing
- 46:11Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So you put that together. But
- 46:14Speaker 1: I'm not gonna name his name. But the Cowboys had
- 46:16Speaker 1: a player about twelve years ago that tried to be
- 46:20Speaker 1: a leader. He was the leader of their team on
- 46:25Speaker 1: you know, that side of the ball. He was an
- 46:27Speaker 1: okay player and he was the leader. He was a
- 46:31Speaker 1: good leader, but he was okay. He was missing plays
- 46:34Speaker 1: left and right too. So what you know, it's hard
- 46:38Speaker 1: to do that if you're not just a badass. And
- 46:41Speaker 1: that's the problem with leadership is that, you know, you
- 46:45Speaker 1: could say Tank is the leader, and he is. He
- 46:47Speaker 1: gets in front of the team and all that stuff,
- 46:48Speaker 1: but it's not easy when you don't make all the plays.
- 46:52Speaker 1: You know, Micah could be the leader because he's you know,
- 46:56Speaker 1: he makes that many plays. So that's why leadership, to
- 47:00Speaker 1: me is kind of tricky to de find because you're
- 47:03Speaker 1: really talking about an awesome player that is also keeps
- 47:07Speaker 1: you know, keeps these guys accountable.
- 47:10Speaker 3: Yeah, and if of course I don't get I don't
- 47:12Speaker 3: see all the sidelines footage, right, but you know, when
- 47:14Speaker 3: we're down, we struggle, right Like we're struggling to get
- 47:17Speaker 3: back when we're down. You know, I don't know if
- 47:19Speaker 3: if it helps to have that leader that's going to
- 47:21Speaker 3: kind of remind folks of our mission and whatnot. I
- 47:24Speaker 3: see that pre game, I see that, but yeah, I
- 47:27Speaker 3: mean that's just you know, I appreciate the time, Nick,
- 47:30Speaker 3: but as a fan, you know, I just wish I
- 47:34Speaker 3: see that out there and what your thoughts on the Hey,
- 47:37Speaker 3: if you would have had a Derrick Henry back would
- 47:41Speaker 3: make this team a little different with the struggling.
- 47:44Speaker 1: Yeah, it would have made the team better. But for sure,
- 47:50Speaker 1: thanks for the call. It would have made the team better.
- 47:52Speaker 1: But remember no team in the league traded for him,
- 47:56Speaker 1: you know, And as much as they were sort of
- 47:59Speaker 1: talking about it or whatever, nobody nobody pulled the trigger
- 48:03Speaker 1: and made that trade. What were they asking for? Maybe
- 48:06Speaker 1: it was just too much? So yes, that would have
- 48:09Speaker 1: helped the team. I mean, he would have been better
- 48:12Speaker 1: than the backup running backs that you had, probably going
- 48:15Speaker 1: to cost you a first round pick, and I was
- 48:18Speaker 1: actually told that was The Cowboys never really discussed it though.
- 48:22Speaker 1: It never got that serious, and I think it's because
- 48:23Speaker 1: of the asking price from Tennessee. All right, real quick,
- 48:28Speaker 1: Eric in North Carolina, what's.
- 48:31Speaker 9: Up, Nick, what's up man? How's it going?
- 48:33Speaker 1: Happy New Year, bro, Happy new year to you. How
- 48:35Speaker 1: are you good?
- 48:36Speaker 5: Good man?
- 48:37Speaker 9: I'm doing very well. Blessed you and blessed you all right,
- 48:40Speaker 9: But I'll be real quick, so I appreciate it. I
- 48:44Speaker 9: want your opinion, man. I feel like if the Eaglet
- 48:46Speaker 9: would have won the other day that we would be
- 48:49Speaker 9: having this whole uproll about how the Cowboys going the day.
- 48:52Speaker 9: Just just my opinion. I feel like if they lost,
- 48:55Speaker 9: they're making an issue out of it more than what
- 48:57Speaker 9: it is, and I just want your opinion.
- 49:00Speaker 1: Can you repeat that for me? Making an issue out
- 49:02Speaker 1: of what.
- 49:04Speaker 9: You know, the whole controversion about how the Cowboys beat
- 49:06Speaker 9: Detroit or on Saturday. I feel if the Eagles would
- 49:10Speaker 9: have won that game, that it would have been just
- 49:13Speaker 9: it wouldn't even have been a foot note.
- 49:15Speaker 3: To the weekend.
- 49:15Speaker 9: In my opinion, I just feel like I said, they're
- 49:18Speaker 9: stressing it more than what they should based off the
- 49:21Speaker 9: fact that we jumped the first place in the division.
- 49:23Speaker 9: That's just how I see it.
- 49:24Speaker 1: Man, I don't know, I don't I don't, you know,
- 49:27Speaker 1: I don't know if I agree with that, because Rex
- 49:29Speaker 1: Ryan was was about to blow a gasket, you know,
- 49:32Speaker 1: in the pregame shows on Sunday before Philly did all that,
- 49:36Speaker 1: you know, I mean those those pregame shows on Sunday
- 49:40Speaker 1: for the games. I mean it was a huge topic.
- 49:42Speaker 1: I mean it was, you know, and and think about it.
- 49:45Speaker 1: I mean, Detroit, Detroit's a lovable team if you don't,
- 49:48Speaker 1: you know, unless you're in Minnesota or Green Bay, Chicago, whatever, everybody.
- 49:53Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Dan Campbell, it was on Hard Knocks.
- 49:56Speaker 1: You know, that's root for the Lions. You know, he's
- 49:58Speaker 1: going for it. Aggressive play to win, right, Well, you
- 50:02Speaker 1: play to win when you don't, when you don't think
- 50:05Speaker 1: you're a better team, you know, you do that kind
- 50:07Speaker 1: of stuff. Go watch a football team, college, high school,
- 50:10Speaker 1: pro first play the games like a double reverse pass
- 50:15Speaker 1: throwback to the receiver to the quarterback. They're probably gonna lose. Yep,
- 50:20Speaker 1: they're probably gonna lose, and they know it. So and
- 50:25Speaker 1: I like Dan Campbell. I like Dan Campbell. But I
- 50:28Speaker 1: would have I would have kicked the extra point after
- 50:30Speaker 1: that and back to the seven, I would have kicked
- 50:32Speaker 1: the extra point.
- 50:33Speaker 9: Thanks. I want the game, man. I'm boring to Baltimore,
- 50:37Speaker 9: top of the game, my way back to North Carolina.
- 50:39Speaker 1: So the boys awesome, awesome. Well, if you're down there
- 50:42Speaker 1: by the field, say hello, we'll be down there. So
- 50:44Speaker 1: you got it, you got it, all right, see you
- 50:47Speaker 1: guys later. This has been Cowboys storyline. Appreciate Chris being
- 50:51Speaker 1: for all the hard work. You don't even know the
- 50:53Speaker 1: hard work he's done today. I appreciate that, Chris. All right,
- 50:56Speaker 1: I'm Nick Evan. We'll see you tomorrow. Cowboys storyline talking
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