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  Speaker 1: The following.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 1: What's up. Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It's Monday, October thirteenth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Nick Eatman, and let's talk about the Cowboys Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bad one. It was not a good one.
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  Speaker 1: There's no other way to really say it. Cowboys fall
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  Speaker 1: thirty to twenty seven at the final play of the game.
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  Speaker 1: The defense, unfortunately, the defense kind of does what it does.
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  Speaker 1: And that's that's the bad part of this thing after
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  Speaker 1: six games, is that that really was no different than
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  Speaker 1: what we've seen. Thought maybe it might be better based
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  Speaker 1: off of the opponent. And when I say the opponent,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the quarterback Bryce Young, who was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: statistically the worst quarterback in the league going into the game,
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  Speaker 1: and uh and he allowed him to be comfortable enough
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  Speaker 1: and run the ball with Rico Dawdle, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he told you what he was going to do. They
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  Speaker 1: said they were going to run it, and they did,
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  Speaker 1: and they kept doing it. And it was six yards
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  Speaker 1: and seven yards and eight yards and fourteen yards and
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  Speaker 1: six yards and they just drove down and won the game.
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  Speaker 1: So wasted a great opportunity for the Cowboys offense. Offense
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  Speaker 1: played well, not well enough because they had their issues
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  Speaker 1: at the worst times, and Cowboys fall thirty to twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: They are now two three in one of Coross. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the phone. Calls Dylan, Northport, Florida. What's
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  Speaker 1: up in it?
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  Speaker 4: How's it going?
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  Speaker 5: Bro?
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  Speaker 1: Good? How are you?
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  Speaker 4: Hey? Hey, I'm good.
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  Speaker 6: I'm good.
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  Speaker 4: So first thing, first, shout out to Joe from Lincoln Park.
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  Speaker 4: I was talking from on Twitter. I wanted to shout out,
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  Speaker 4: just like Lincoln Park once said, I've become so numb
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  Speaker 4: to this defense. The defensive Sailors is not shocking really
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  Speaker 4: at this point, it's almost expected, you know, they're imploding.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that it's getting to the point, not
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  Speaker 4: that it's going to make a difference, but I think
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  Speaker 4: a move probably is coming at some point here. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: on this DC, maybe you get some improvement with like
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  Speaker 4: moving White Cotton.
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  Speaker 6: Up as the interim.
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  Speaker 4: But if you're firing coaches mid season, that's not indicative
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  Speaker 4: of success. That's just trying to not lose a locker
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  Speaker 4: room typically, So I don't really expect much much to
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  Speaker 4: change in the defense. And I see a lot of
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  Speaker 4: talk about trades, but I don't this team is more
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  Speaker 4: than one player away. Go trade for a big, big
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  Speaker 4: time d that's gonna cost your first round pick. Plus
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  Speaker 4: you're not going to have a big difference on defense.
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  Speaker 4: This thing's not it's not solvable. There's not a light
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the tunnel for this season unfortunately.
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  Speaker 4: Because is what it is, Bro, I mean, that's all.
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  Speaker 4: It is, what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, not the one I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to to start the show, but that's the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: That's the reality, and you know it is. It is
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  Speaker 1: six games. I'm glad there are eleven more, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's kind of where where we stand, uh, Dylan.
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  Speaker 1: I don't agree with you on all of those points,
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  Speaker 1: but some of them are you know, are are the case,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, but you can fix things. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you can. If your offense wasn't good then then then
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  Speaker 1: this is not gonna not gonna be a good situation.
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  Speaker 1: But you can you because your offense is good and
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be even better here in this week.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, when you get some of these guys back,
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  Speaker 1: then then you can fix it. And I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: it's it's going to be a top ten dev You
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  Speaker 1: don't need a top ten defense. So that's why I
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  Speaker 1: disagree with you that that the defense can get better.
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  Speaker 1: And if the defense gets a little bit better, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, think about that, if the defense
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  Speaker 1: got just one inch better, you know, every game they
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  Speaker 1: they didn't give up this touchdown or this field goal.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this touchdown was actually turned to a field goal,
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  Speaker 1: you could make the case that they beat the Giants
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  Speaker 1: in regulation, they beat the Packers in regulation, they win
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  Speaker 1: this game, you know what I mean. So so that's
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  Speaker 1: why I'm not gonna sit here and say like that
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  Speaker 1: that's not salagable. Well, because because it can be. You
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  Speaker 1: can get better, and if you get better combined with
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  Speaker 1: this offense, then then they can win some games. But
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  Speaker 1: but they got to get a lot better on defense,
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  Speaker 1: and that's just not what we're seeing right now. Chris
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  Speaker 1: and Saratoga Springs.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Nick, how are you good?
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  Speaker 6: Defense? You're right, they got to get better, no doubt
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  Speaker 6: about it. I mean it starts a little bit in
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  Speaker 6: the offseason. You know, I was a big believer in
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  Speaker 6: Drake reen Long getting him in here, and we went
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  Speaker 6: with Sanborne and Marie instead. And I think we're struggling
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  Speaker 6: right now in the middle for sure. I mean, I
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  Speaker 6: know we're gonna get help with Demo comes back. It's
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  Speaker 6: going to be a huge help with him coming back.
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  Speaker 6: But our linebackers aren't playing great. My main concern guessterday
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  Speaker 6: about that game, and you can comment on is fourth
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  Speaker 6: and three and Bland's playing six seven yards off the
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  Speaker 6: ball for that easy completion. Can you please tell me
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  Speaker 6: why we would be playing a defense like that on
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  Speaker 6: fourth and three. It just just doesn't make any sense
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  Speaker 6: to me at all on that call. So if you
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  Speaker 6: can just touch on that part of it, I would
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  Speaker 6: appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thanks, And I can't I mean, thanks for the call,
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  Speaker 1: but I can't because you know, simple maths as if
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  Speaker 1: you're seven yards off the ball and you know only
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  Speaker 1: need it's four, fourth and four, but then you know
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be close to get up there and
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  Speaker 1: make the play. Who cares if he goes twenty, let
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  Speaker 1: him go, Let him go twenty yards. See if your
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  Speaker 1: quarterback can complete it to him twenty yards on the field,
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  Speaker 1: he's averaging five. That's the worst part going into this
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  Speaker 1: game that Bryce Young was averaging five point eight yards
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  Speaker 1: per reception, which was the worst in the league for
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  Speaker 1: starting quarterbacks, and in this game he was eight eight
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  Speaker 1: point five or so, which you know that that's a
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  Speaker 1: that's a respectable number. And so you know, and that's
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  Speaker 1: the thing. Mean, his quarterback rating was seventy nine point
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  Speaker 1: nine and then this game was like one fourteen. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's that's the problem that we're seeing, is
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing this defense make quarterbacks look way better than
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  Speaker 1: they are justin fields even looked way back. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: look what he did last you know, yesterday against against Denver.
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  Speaker 1: But he didn't you know, he didn't play great against
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys, but he put up some numbers there late.
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams playing way better than he has all season
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  Speaker 1: when he was with the Cowboys. Russell Wilson didn't even
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  Speaker 1: a starter. He turns back the clock on Une scores
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven points. I mean, so it's it's bad. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. And and and to lose
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  Speaker 1: to that team, you know, in the fashion that they did. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's it shows that that they have to figure out
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  Speaker 1: what what those what those changes are going to be. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: whether there be scheme changes, whether whether they're personnel changes,
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  Speaker 1: coaching change, whatever they are, you need to do and
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  Speaker 1: you need to do a couple of them. You need
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  Speaker 1: to do a lot of them. And you don't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time. You got you gotta get this going.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Washington's come to town. Washington's you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: they're not as good as they were last year, who knows,
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  Speaker 1: but they're still pretty good and they still got you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels is healthy and dan Quinn wants to come
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  Speaker 1: here and win. So there's no doubt about it. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna it's not gonna be easy. All right, let's go
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  Speaker 1: j R. Evandale Arizona j R.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning. Next how you're doing all right? Good? So
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  Speaker 8: I can start with some happy news. Uh, Saturday was
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  Speaker 8: my daughter's birthday, my youngest daughter, and she got engaged
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  Speaker 8: on the same day. So what happened about that? Got
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  Speaker 8: a new son in law coming in the family. Saturday,
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  Speaker 8: it was a great day, and then there was Sunday.
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  Speaker 8: I just think. I mean, when you sit there and
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  Speaker 8: talking about the defense, you know it's what everyone's going
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  Speaker 8: to be talking about. I just don't think you can.
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  Speaker 8: I think that me looking at the scheme, I understand
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  Speaker 8: what the scheme is. I see what you're trying to do.
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  Speaker 8: I just don't think you have the players to play
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  Speaker 8: what he wants to play, if that makes any sense.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, Diggs has always been a man's a man
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  Speaker 8: corner and Alabama when they switched him to corner, save
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  Speaker 8: them plays man to man and that's where Duran Bland
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  Speaker 8: is the best. I don't think those guys can do that.
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  Speaker 8: Donovan Wilson is a box safety. You can't ask Donovan
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  Speaker 8: Wilson to cover and make decisions. He wants to think.
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  Speaker 8: He wants to jump that crosser, he wants to go
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  Speaker 8: make an interception, he wants to go hit somebody, and
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  Speaker 8: guys are running by him. But you can't just change
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  Speaker 8: all these people. So eber Flues has to adjust what
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  Speaker 8: he's doing. And that's my opinion. But I want to
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  Speaker 8: know when does Schottenheimer I go down there and tell
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  Speaker 8: him stop the run, do whatever you got to do
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  Speaker 8: to stop the run. I didn't see them load the boss.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't see him run, buts and they just kept
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  Speaker 8: doing the same thing over and over. So I think
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  Speaker 8: Eba Flues has to very quickly just rinse and clean
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  Speaker 8: out what he's got doing and try to run a
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  Speaker 8: different kind of defense. And now as the offense goes.
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  Speaker 8: I love brock Hoffmin and TJ. Bass, but I think
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  Speaker 8: you saw yesterday going against Brown and Ashawn Robinson. That's
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  Speaker 8: why they're backups. I thought they got man handled. I
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  Speaker 8: thought they got bullied, and a running game just got
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  Speaker 8: stuffed right right at the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks for that, Thanks for the call, J.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Let's let's keep it, keep it going.
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  Speaker 1: You're right about the offensive line. Those guys did get
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  Speaker 1: man handled. I think we saw why Carolina didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to let go of Derek Brown. It's a pretty good player.
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  Speaker 1: And if that's rumors are true and reports are true
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  Speaker 1: that you know, Brown was the guy the Cowboys were
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  Speaker 1: looking at if there was going to be a trade
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  Speaker 1: to Carolina for Micah. Derek Brown was the one and
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  Speaker 1: the Carolina didn't want to do that. So and we
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  Speaker 1: kind of see, we kind of see why. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean they they missed Booker. I mean, Booker gives
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  Speaker 1: them strength. Even though he's a rookie, he still gives
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  Speaker 1: them this interior strength that I certainly could have been
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  Speaker 1: used yesterday. And you know, I was kind of on
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  Speaker 1: the fence with with Hoffman and bb Still I still
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  Speaker 1: am a little bit that they coaches know that they
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  Speaker 1: know who's a better player, and so they they That's
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  Speaker 1: why Bbe has won the job now two years in
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  Speaker 1: a row. So uh, he obviously is I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't see I don't see that a lot. But as
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  Speaker 1: far as the big difference there, but man, yesterday was
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  Speaker 1: was a challenge. They just couldn't They just couldn't run
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  Speaker 1: it at all. And that's for the defense and even
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  Speaker 1: Flus and what you said, I agree that you know.
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  Speaker 1: To me, I've always been told the best coaches are
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  Speaker 1: the ones that fit the their scheme around the players.
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  Speaker 1: They don't necessarily fit the player into the scheme. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the big difference here. You're trying to fit the
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  Speaker 1: player of Digs and Bland and Wilson into your scheme
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  Speaker 1: and it can't work that way. It's not working that way.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have to fix a scheme and create one
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  Speaker 1: that goes around these guys. And that's and you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you know some of the analytics that I saw
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  Speaker 1: that they blitzed five times yesterday. Five. I mean I'm blitzing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blitzing three or four times on a series with
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  Speaker 1: this defensive line and and these corners and and and
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  Speaker 1: safety is the way that they're playing. I'm blitzing all
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  Speaker 1: the time. I mean, what do you do to a
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  Speaker 1: short quarterback? How about make them shorter? You can make
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  Speaker 1: them shorter if when you collapse the pocket on him,
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  Speaker 1: he becomes short. I mean everybody does. He can't see
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  Speaker 1: over the line, especially when it's getting closer and closer
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  Speaker 1: that way. So I would have blitzed way more than that.
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  Speaker 1: And when you saw him get a little rattled, the
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  Speaker 1: ball went everywhere. It went in completed, when in the
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  Speaker 1: stands it went, I mean, he got rid of the football.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't make him do that enough. I thought that
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  Speaker 1: was a very very bad way of attacking that offense.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you this, if any quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: running back are both trying to get to two hundred yards,
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  Speaker 1: that's not a good offense. And your defense should be
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  Speaker 1: able to capitalize with that. If Rico's trying to get
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  Speaker 1: two hundred rushing yards and Bryce Jones also trying to
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  Speaker 1: get two hundred passing yards, maybe should take the running
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  Speaker 1: part away and see if this guy can beat you,
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  Speaker 1: because they shouldn't be equal like that, all right, Josh
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  Speaker 1: and Princeton?
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  Speaker 9: Hey, what's going on?
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  Speaker 4: Nick?
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 10: I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 9: Haven't been able to call the last few weeks, traveling
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  Speaker 9: and work stuff. But in spite of what happened yesterday,
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  Speaker 9: I've been wanting to call him and say and give
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  Speaker 9: back his props and his flock hours for being prepared
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  Speaker 9: this season and the way he's looked. I've been a
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  Speaker 9: critic of that.
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  Speaker 10: You know, when he hasn't looked so good. So I
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  Speaker 10: want to do, you know, be fair and give him
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  Speaker 10: credit when credit is due. I know mostly everybody is
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  Speaker 10: gonna talk about the defense today and how bad they look.
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  Speaker 10: I won't spend too much time on it. But if
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  Speaker 10: the offense.
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  Speaker 9: Has to be perfect in score every.
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  Speaker 10: Time they get the ball, I just don't see how
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  Speaker 10: we can win many games.
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  Speaker 7: And that's all I got, all right, and they won't.
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  Speaker 1: They won't then win many games if you have to
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  Speaker 1: do that every time, like your offense is not going
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  Speaker 1: to be perfect. I say that, you know, I did
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  Speaker 1: go to the Arkansas and Notre Dame game and their
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  Speaker 1: offense was perfect in the first half. That was scored
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  Speaker 1: every time, and so it's very similar. I'm dealing with
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  Speaker 1: the same type of teams on Saturday and Sunday. Then
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  Speaker 1: it's not it's not fun when because you do feel
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  Speaker 1: that way, you feel like your offense has to be
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  Speaker 1: perfect and so uh, and they weren't. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: biggest drive of the game, Cowboy's biggest drive of the
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  Speaker 1: game that that defense finally gets a stop down there
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  Speaker 1: forces a punt, you in great field position, and Manda,
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  Speaker 1: this does this team miss Turpin? I mean, seriously, Turpin's
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  Speaker 1: an All Pro. He's been an All Pro and he
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  Speaker 1: is an All Pro. He's All Pro return man for
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  Speaker 1: the last three games now with him being out or
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  Speaker 1: has it been two games? Uh, but two games feels
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  Speaker 1: like three. But there's so many opportunities to get these
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  Speaker 1: returns and and and nothing's happening, and you know, like
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  Speaker 1: you just you just know that he can make a big,
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  Speaker 1: big difference and so hopefully he'll be back this week.
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  Speaker 1: But But my point is the offense gets the ball
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  Speaker 1: and and I really believe that Schottenheimer when he got
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  Speaker 1: the football, I guess it was with eight minutes to go,
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  Speaker 1: maybe nine, when they got the ball back. I think
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  Speaker 1: that he thought that, you know, maybe maybe would run
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  Speaker 1: a little clock here, and they didn't, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they got the ball eight eighteen to go, and they're like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we're at the worth. They're at their own
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  Speaker 1: forty six yard line, you know, with eight eighteen to go,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean, you need and you got the wind,
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  Speaker 1: so you're looking you're looking for a field goal. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're looking for a touchdown here obviously, but you're you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to bleed some clock. And I think that's what
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  Speaker 1: went into a short pass to Javante for minus five
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  Speaker 1: short pass the Javante for minus seven US twelve yards
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  Speaker 1: right off the bat, with this magnificent field position the
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  Speaker 1: forty six yard line with eight eighteen to go, you
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  Speaker 1: turned it into a third and twenty two at your
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  Speaker 1: own thirty four and you have four yard pass the
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  Speaker 1: lipke and you punted to the Carolina fourteen yard line.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's the game, you know, it's the game. And
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  Speaker 1: also the times you're down there in the red zone
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  Speaker 1: twice down inside the red zone after a big play
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  Speaker 1: by Pickings gets you down there and you mess around
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  Speaker 1: and you kick field goals, and so those field goals
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  Speaker 1: ended up, you know, losing you to the game, those
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  Speaker 1: field goals and then that that drive. So you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I hate to say the offense lost the game, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, in the situation that is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the way it is, they have to score more, and
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  Speaker 1: they have to score almost every single time. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Michael and Utah's next.
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  Speaker 11: Hey Nick, how are you doing to day? Hey Michael
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  Speaker 11: oh Man, this is uh, this is frustrating. I feel
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  Speaker 11: like it's definitely a personal problem, but I think it's
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  Speaker 11: also a coaching problem coming from the standpoint of I mean,
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  Speaker 11: we're hearing the same thing out of shot and Hammer
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  Speaker 11: almost every single week, saying, oh, well, we need to
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  Speaker 11: do better and we'll fix that, and I feel like
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  Speaker 11: we're just running into the same problems. You think something
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  Speaker 11: like this is fixable with our defense as bad as
• 16:55
  Speaker 11: it is, and then our offense not doing what it
• 16:57
  Speaker 11: needs to do versus a team like the Panthers, Like
• 17:00
  Speaker 11: I feel like we should have won by twenty points.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well I don't know about twenty points. I mean,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: I you know, I thought it was gonna be a
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: tougher game, but I did think that that the Cowboys
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: could have won, And then watching it, I thought that
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: they should have won. I mean, I just that's that's
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: what that's so bad about this is that you know,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: when the games are are like close like that, usually
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: the better quarterback is gonna win you the game, you know.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: And that's and that's the thing, and and that did
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: not happen in this case at all, And so that
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: that's that's another frustrating aspect of it.
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: All right, Well, I'll just lead off with this. Are
• 17:40
  Speaker 11: we gonna make any trades? Or are we gonna run
• 17:42
  Speaker 11: with this team? And do you think it is fixable
• 17:44
  Speaker 11: with what we have on the roster getting everybody back
• 17:46
  Speaker 11: with injuries? And yeah, where do we go from here?
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: All right? All right? Thank you, thank you for the call.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: I say it several times already, I've said about the trade.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think if there's a trade that were
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: works beyond this year, then then go ahead and do it.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't make you know, I'm not trading for somebody
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: with that's going to be a free agent at the
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: end of the year. And if you do that, if
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: you know, if you if you make that kind of move,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: then you're not talking about a first round pick. I
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: mean you're talking about a you know, fourth round, fifth
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: or something like that, you know, for a guy that's
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: just just renting at this point and the season's already
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: you know, six games into it. So uh, you know,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: if if you were to get a guy like that,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: then then you know, you're then you're you're trying to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: maybe put a band aid on it and see if
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: there's a situation of somebody that that can help you.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: And and that's why, you know, I'm not trying to
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: to to say, oh glass half half full here, let's
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: let's just throw out the facts. Okay, this is this
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: is what you have. You have an offense that can
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: put up a lot of points. Okay, they can put
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: up a lot of points, especially if they were getting
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: some help on defense, getting short fields and and maybe
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a turnover or two every now and again, a sack
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: force fumble like when that happens, you know, then they
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: can they can take advantage of it. They did get
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: an interception and the Coupboys went and scored, So give
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: them credit for that part. But but that's it. But
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, this defense is going to
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: struggle the offense though, the thing about the offense is
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: is that they are capable of scoring points. And so
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: when you ask questions of can they fix this thing,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't need them to start, you know,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: going from averaging thirty points allowed to ten, You don't.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I don't need that. I mean, we really don't. You
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: need a couple stops. You need to get off the field.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Turn that touchdown into a field goal, turn that field
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: goal into a punt. I mean things like that, and
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: and and that is a scheme fix here and there.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Imagine imagine what taking ten points off the board for
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a game would be. I'll just do it seven points
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: off the board, you know. And and that's that's where
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: that's where you are. This team, this offense can go
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: score with anyone, but you got to you gotta give
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: them some stops and give them some opportunities. You know
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: that that Chicago game, well the reason why that they
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: didn't get I mean, Cowboys were down there several times
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: through a couple of interceptions there late. They also had
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: a ten minute drive. The Bears had ten minute drive.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Cowboys just couldn't get off the field. You know, one time,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: two times, three times, get off the field. That could
• 20:19
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• 22:33
  Speaker 1: We've got Travis. He's in San Antonio. Travis, what's up?
• 22:37
  Speaker 15: Good morning, Nick.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
• 22:39
  Speaker 16: That?
• 22:39
  Speaker 15: Could be better?
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Are we all good? Yeah?
• 22:43
  Speaker 15: But I just wanted to say a couple of things
• 22:44
  Speaker 15: real quick, Like you said you've already been talking about.
• 22:47
  Speaker 15: I think this is an all hands on deck situation
• 22:50
  Speaker 15: for the defense. Like we're way past like having hurt
• 22:52
  Speaker 15: feelings here at this point. I don't know if Dylan,
• 22:54
  Speaker 15: you know, Dylan was talking about promoting white cotton. I
• 22:56
  Speaker 15: don't know, promote white cotton, sorens and get with the guys,
• 22:59
  Speaker 15: Say do you guys want to play? If it's a
• 23:01
  Speaker 15: man a man press, you know, people will say they're
• 23:03
  Speaker 15: going to get beat anyways, Like I'm cool. Then they're
• 23:05
  Speaker 15: just going to get beat faster and we get the
• 23:07
  Speaker 15: ball back to our offense. That's what they were doing
• 23:08
  Speaker 15: at the end of the game when they were trying
• 23:09
  Speaker 15: to let them score. So you just got to think
• 23:12
  Speaker 15: you got it all hands on deck. I think Nick,
• 23:15
  Speaker 15: there's a buyingbacker in the Bayou that played for a
• 23:17
  Speaker 15: quarterback that or for a coach that we used to
• 23:19
  Speaker 15: have that you know would probably be a Day three pick,
• 23:22
  Speaker 15: that he would be a rental Nick, but he would
• 23:24
  Speaker 15: certainly help because he'd be a dude in the middle
• 23:26
  Speaker 15: of this defense. And then, lastly to the two plays
• 23:29
  Speaker 15: you were just referring to. I was disappointed in those
• 23:32
  Speaker 15: two lateral screenplays or sideways plays just because of what
• 23:36
  Speaker 15: Shotty Hid said about it's about players over plays. And
• 23:39
  Speaker 15: my only issue with it, Nick was Pickens had been
• 23:43
  Speaker 15: Pickens and Ferguson had been chewing them up all day
• 23:45
  Speaker 15: and I just my thought, processing those two possessions of
• 23:49
  Speaker 15: those two plays, I'm going to Pickens three times in
• 23:51
  Speaker 15: a row if I have to right and make them
• 23:53
  Speaker 15: stop it. I don't think they could. So that was
• 23:55
  Speaker 15: my disappointment there.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: Just just want to see what you thought, all right, Bro,
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: thank you.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I I totally agree with that that part there. Again,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: about that drive, I kind of feel like he was
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: trying to slow play it. But yeah, at that point
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: in the game, I think he got to go with
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: with what's working, and what was working was was Pickens.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, they couldn't they couldn't cover them, and it
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: was everything that's been the most oppressive part about Pickens
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: is that he's he's run so many different types of routes. Slants,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: slant for a touchdown, about that, I mean, just just
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: slant for a first down, but just beat all the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: angles from the other defenders and go and score touchdown.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Thirty four yards thirty four yards slant for a touchdown.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: That's like Jerry Rice. That's what I think of is
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I think if Jerry Rice catching a slant and then
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: just taking it right up the middle for a touchdown.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: So that type of play, and then like the comeback route,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: where then he's just gonna spin and go and spin
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and hurdle and jump and do all kinds of things.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, he just has so many different types of routes. Yeah,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I mean I think that they could have done that
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and that, and that drive and and and and then
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: you know, and obviously in hindsight they should have. But
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: nothing to Javonte was working. I mean nothing, even the
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: little dump off passes. I mean he was getting hit
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and and tackled there, and I mean he just there
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: was no yards after the catch with him. It was
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: a complete opposite of what we had seen before against
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: the Jets. Had really all season. I mean all season,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: we hadn't seen that type of running from him, and
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: it's pretty unfortunate when you look at the Miles Sanders injury.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Now Miles is out for the season. They put him
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: on season ending I r because he's gonna he's gonna
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: need I think a knee surgery. So Jayden Blue hasn't
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: really shown anything yet, so you kind of wanted to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: have a little bit of help for him. And Miles
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Sanders had been that guy, had been the best one,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and a lot of people wanted to see Blue. You've
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: seen him twice. Now you can't be in pres just yet. No,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: he's a rookie. He's going to get better, but I
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: mean he needs to play and needs to kind of
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: get in the mix. We know he's got some speed
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: to him, so we'll see, well, we'll see what he
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: does there, and you know, if they've got any other options,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: but for now, you know, it's it's Gravante's show, and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and and yesterday they just couldn't really lean on him.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: That was that was unfortunate. All right. Gabe is in Knoxville, Tennessee. Gabe,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: what's up?
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: Hey?
• 26:26
  Speaker 17: Not much rough Monday, And I'm sure feeling disappointed like
• 26:31
  Speaker 17: everybody is.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but.
• 26:36
  Speaker 17: You know, I think there's obviously good things to take
• 26:40
  Speaker 17: from this team, even on the defensive side. We've got
• 26:47
  Speaker 17: good players. It's just disappointing how it feels disappointing how
• 26:52
  Speaker 17: they're being used. I guess, yeah, we got guys. I
• 26:58
  Speaker 17: was listening to one of five point three that this
• 27:00
  Speaker 17: morning and they were kind of saying, how Donovan Wilson,
• 27:04
  Speaker 17: which is bad, just overall bad. I thought, yeah, he
• 27:07
  Speaker 17: had some he had some good he had some good plays.
• 27:11
  Speaker 17: I thought, you know, it was when he was close
• 27:13
  Speaker 17: to a line of scrimmage. It was when he was
• 27:15
  Speaker 17: working in the flat, or when he was covering lower
• 27:21
  Speaker 17: as soon as they made him cover you know, the
• 27:26
  Speaker 17: middle third of the field or do that sort of
• 27:30
  Speaker 17: cover defense, that's.
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: When he.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's an interesting player. He's because he'll he'll make
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: some some really good plays for both teams. And so
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: that's that's the problem with with him. I I still
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: don't know if if every if there's a coordinator out
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: there that knows exactly how to play him the best way,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: because you know, he's one of those it's like one
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: of those basketball players that's just a mismatch every time.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: On this end, he's a mismatch because he can do
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: that in this and score. But down here he's maybe tougher,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, He's that type of guy.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Where do you play If you played him at linebacker,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: they'd run at him all the time and he probably
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: couldn't hold up all the time. You put him in
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the deep part of it, he's just going to give
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: up plays, you know. I mean, I hate to make
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: this comparis. It's a lot like Roy Williams actually back
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: in the day at safety. You know what, Where do
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: you play him the right spot? Because he can make plays,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: just not always consistently right.
• 28:29
  Speaker 17: So it feels like it comes down to, I like,
• 28:34
  Speaker 17: I don't know, manage your players, better put them in
• 28:37
  Speaker 17: the situations that.
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: They're going to do best. Yeah, you know, And it doesn't.
• 28:40
  Speaker 17: Feel like he's done that. It doesn't feel like he's
• 28:42
  Speaker 17: making the adjustments he needs to.
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: It makes you know, I miss I.
• 28:47
  Speaker 17: Miss Wade Phillips. When's the when's the last time we
• 28:51
  Speaker 17: had a defensive coordinator? I feel like where.
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: We were just Dan Quinn, Yeah, Dan Glinn, right, I
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: mean he was the guy.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: That you were like, oh my god, he's gonna leave
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: and take a coaching job, like he didn't take it,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: so you know it's it's.
• 29:08
  Speaker 17: But even Dan Klint had issues too though. Yeah it
• 29:12
  Speaker 17: started off great when the pass rush is working well,
• 29:15
  Speaker 17: he has Michael Parsons. But then if the pass rush
• 29:19
  Speaker 17: wasn't getting home well then And I know a lot
• 29:21
  Speaker 17: of it has to do with the players too. Sometimes
• 29:23
  Speaker 17: they're just not executing well, they're not doing their job.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: But I'm just gonna I'm not gonna try to argue
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: with you, but I'm just saying, let's just point this
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: point out too. Wade Phillips, Right, did he have a guy?
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, did he have a pass rusher because I
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: kind of thought he did in demarkets where I mean,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I feel like Dan Quinn kind of had a pass
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: rusher in Michael Parsons. And that's the thing, right, And
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: this guy does not have a pass rusher. He does
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: not have anybody that can rush the past consistently. And
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I am not saying, hey, it's okay, eber flu, No,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: it's not. It hasn't been good. It hasn't been good enough.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: We know that everybody likes Matt everyone that's known to
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: me while here the first time. Everyone likes this guy
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and I'm included, and that's what makes this thing tough.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: But if we're gonna be fair and just compare other ones,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: just know the biggest issue is that do not have
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: a pass rusher, and they don't. They don't generate pass rush,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: they don't blitz, they don't do anything to make the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: quarterback uncomfortable. And these two, these guys are too good
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Hunter Renfro. Those guys are just too good to find
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: an open spot and say, boom, there it is. I mean,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: it's just you. It's too long. These guys have way
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: too long. Absolutely, all right, all right, all right, thank you, Gabe,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. Let's go to Bryce. He's in Burlston, Texas. Bryce, Hey, Nick,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: how are you good?
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: How are you good?
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: So?
• 30:42
  Speaker 18: I have actually a couple questions for you. So my
• 30:45
  Speaker 18: first question of force is on the defense. Obviously, it's
• 30:48
  Speaker 18: very frustrating watching what we're seeing this season. Do you
• 30:52
  Speaker 18: think Jerry should use one of those number one draft
• 30:56
  Speaker 18: picks to go get a pass rusher? Just because I
• 30:59
  Speaker 18: think right now, well we don't have an identity and
• 31:03
  Speaker 18: with playing man's zone, going back and forth. These players
• 31:07
  Speaker 18: are just not clicking. They don't have the IQ to
• 31:09
  Speaker 18: play zone in my opinion. And you know, Trayvon Diggs,
• 31:14
  Speaker 18: he's wanting to play man more often, but in order
• 31:17
  Speaker 18: to play man consistently, you have to have a legitimate
• 31:20
  Speaker 18: pass rusher, right. And then my second question is with Pickens,
• 31:25
  Speaker 18: don't doing so good because in the past we didn't
• 31:29
  Speaker 18: have a second wide receiver that would step out when
• 31:31
  Speaker 18: CD or number one would go out. Would you resign
• 31:35
  Speaker 18: him like right now before obviously the market hits.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Well, we talked about this a little bit last week
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: and that question has come up a little bit. And
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: you know, don't forget Pickens's agent is in the same
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: group as Mike's agent with athletes first, and so you're
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: not gonna sneak anything by anyone. Now you're gonna have
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: to pay for market. And you're gonna have to pay
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: for what he's doing. I mean, because the agent's gonna
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: project out his season. So he hasn't he's had a
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: touchdown now what five weeks in a row or four
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: weeks in a row or something. He's got six touchdowns
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: through six games, So they're gonna probably put that as
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: a seventeen touchdown season. So you know what, what kind
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: of contract is that. I don't I don't think you're
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: gonna get a steal that go for it. I'd like
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: to resign them, be great, but I think you're gonna
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: have to definitely pay for it, and as it stands
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: right now, you're paying for top dollar. I mean I
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: even thought about that on the way home. I thought,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I wonder if they might consider franchising him, you know,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: just just to see that that could be the case,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: because he has been he's been better than he's.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Ever play at dow Yep.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Well, it's the best quarterback he's he's probably had consistently
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: too and and correct. Yeah, so it's a great situation.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I bet he would love to be here. But you know,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: he's he's playing like he's on a contract year and
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: he's he's been great because the best situation for him
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: has happened. Not only has he got to play some
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: on the opposite side of CD, but he's also got
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to be the number one guy. And by the number one,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: he looks every bit the part of a number one receiver.
• 33:12
  Speaker 18: Awesome, sounds great, Bright, Well, thank.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: You appreciate it. And the first thanks for your call.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Your first question, you know, we we have talked about
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: it several times, you know, and without really throwing out names,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, do you go get a pass rusher? Do
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: you trade one of your picks to go get a guy?
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's got to be the perfect situation, like
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: like honestly, like Green like Green Bay, that's what they had.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: You know, you need a younger pass rusher who's still
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: going to be around for a while, and they already
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: know that it's not gonna work out where at their
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: at their team, their initial team, it's just not gonna work,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: So let's move on and maybe get something for them.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, how many scenarios like that are there? I mean,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: obviously there was one with the Cowboys and they had
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: to pay top dollar for it, so you're obviously not
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: gonna get that kind of guy. But is there another
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: guy that that are you already know is not going
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: to re sign with his team and and that they
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: can trade him and it's not going to be a
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: huge hit on their on their cap. I mean, there's
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: probably some guys out there, but man, it's got to
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: be somebody that can make a difference. If not, then
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: don't don't do it. Go get your younger draft pick
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: and whatever position and do that. I mean, this got
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: to be a proven player, and most teams like to
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: hang on to those, you know, but we're watching it
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: that it's happened here, so we know it can't happen
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Rich in California. Rich.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Hey, Nick, how's going good are you?
• 34:36
  Speaker 19: But you know how I'm feeling today.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: I'm still feeling blue.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, well, and I.
• 34:40
  Speaker 19: Say that because to the point you made on our
• 34:43
  Speaker 19: running back situation. Yes, Sanders went out, but we need
• 34:47
  Speaker 19: to get Blue going north and south, not east and west.
• 34:51
  Speaker 19: And you can see the success that paulard a dad.
• 34:54
  Speaker 19: He hasn't done too bad out there. You see what
• 34:58
  Speaker 19: Dwell has done not too bad. So again, we can't
• 35:01
  Speaker 19: give up on a guy on two games. And again
• 35:04
  Speaker 19: we need to start going north to south the same
• 35:05
  Speaker 19: way we're doing with pickings, same way we were doing
• 35:08
  Speaker 19: with persons. We can get Blu that way we'll be
• 35:11
  Speaker 19: all right.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'd like to see him a little bit more.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: I mean I think we all would, because you know
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: he's got speed. I mean, you know, if he gets
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: into the open field, you know he can he can
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: be dangerous. I mean, you know, this guy played like
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: four snaps in the preseason, did not get to play
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: a lot. He was hurt and then he just wasn't
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: ready to play. And so he's practiced some and it
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: sounds like he's practicing well, but it's not game situation now.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: He did have a nice kickoff return going north, like
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: you said, and against the Jets, that was a good return. Again,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I'd like to see him back there with Turpin, but
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: that means he's gonna probably have to block some and
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: and and if Turpin and if they kick it to Blue,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: then Turpet's gonna have to block some. I don't know
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: if you really want that either, but I do think
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: that he just needs to keep playing and he just
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: needs to break one, you know, like just kind of
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: you and I don't mean eighty yards, I just mean
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: ten yards, fifteen twenty yards A run like that kind
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: of give him the confidence that he needs that. All
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: backs need that, all players need that at all positions.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: So he's going to get that opportunity. I mean, that's
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: just there's no doubt about it. He's going to definitely
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: get in there. All right, let's go to Brian in
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Kansas City.
• 36:31
  Speaker 20: Morning, sir, how are you, oh Man tough? First thing
• 36:36
  Speaker 20: I said to Chris Man that sucked.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:40
  Speaker 20: Well, so here's where I'm missed at with the defense.
• 36:43
  Speaker 20: If you look at our defensive backfield, our starters, and
• 36:47
  Speaker 20: I know Hooker is not in right now, but just
• 36:49
  Speaker 20: to bear with me one second. Yeah, if you take
• 36:52
  Speaker 20: those four guys, they're all on their second Cowboys contracts.
• 36:58
  Speaker 20: Other coaches and their schemes have gotten the best out
• 37:02
  Speaker 20: of them to the point that they've all been re
• 37:05
  Speaker 20: signed by the Cowboys. This scheme doesn't fit those guys
• 37:11
  Speaker 20: at all. And I know, like I said, I know
• 37:13
  Speaker 20: Hooker's not there right now, but it's very obvious that
• 37:17
  Speaker 20: that's it's not a talent issue in the backfield. Now
• 37:21
  Speaker 20: in the front seven, I think it's wholeheartedly a talent issue.
• 37:27
  Speaker 20: Our line. We don't even have one one good linebacker
• 37:30
  Speaker 20: right now, you know, not based on their play so far.
• 37:35
  Speaker 20: And Demo's one guy. I mean, you know, he's probably
• 37:38
  Speaker 20: going to be better than anybody we got, but he's
• 37:42
  Speaker 20: only one guy. You know, we don't have anybody else
• 37:45
  Speaker 20: to pair him up with. Ye he does come back.
• 37:48
  Speaker 20: And then in the front line, I don't know for sure.
• 37:50
  Speaker 20: I don't know a lot about why. That's not why
• 37:53
  Speaker 20: they're not generating any pressure at all except for the
• 37:58
  Speaker 20: Jets game. And I wanted to just throw this out there,
• 38:01
  Speaker 20: get your opinion with pickings. I think he's playing himself
• 38:06
  Speaker 20: out of Dallas. He's too good. He's already too good
• 38:09
  Speaker 20: for us to pay. He's going to get top dollar.
• 38:12
  Speaker 20: Do you think we'll get a third round comp? I
• 38:14
  Speaker 20: know it's possible to get a third round comp. I
• 38:16
  Speaker 20: don't know how that works if he plays like this
• 38:20
  Speaker 20: and he's not going to have the same stats because
• 38:22
  Speaker 20: CD's coming back, but based on how he's playing, he's
• 38:25
  Speaker 20: going to get a top tier contract. Do you think
• 38:28
  Speaker 20: we'll get a third round.
• 38:29
  Speaker 17: Pick coming back out of that?
• 38:30
  Speaker 20: And maybe it's a break even rental? And I'll hang
• 38:33
  Speaker 20: up and listen to that one man.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of stuff there, Brian. You know when
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: you go in to your defensive back stuff. You know.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: The question that I have is, and I think I
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: asked this last week and just kind of said it
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: out loud, but are we sure that Hooker and Bland
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: and Diggs and Donovan Wilson are we sure that this
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: isn't who they've always been. They just got covered up
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: by by Micah Parsons.
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: That's that's where the Micah Parsons. That's why I'm recreating
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: the diaper, you know, or two point oh diaper two
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: point oh? Maybe it is Micah. He covered up a
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: lot of stuff. Are we sure that these guys weren't
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: weren't that way? I mean, I'd like to think that
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: they they're they're great on their own, But what my
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: point is, without a consistent pass rush, and he gave
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you a consistent pass rush, without that, would we have
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: ever seen the play that we saw from them. So
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I think what I'm saying is is maybe maybe it
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: is needed to go get a pass rusher. Maybe that
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: that's what you have to do to save yourself. And
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: it's got maybe a couple of guys. And I don't
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: know if anyone's ever going to play their way out
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: of Dallas or out of out of any kind of
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: you know, any situation, any team. If you keep playing
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: the way like you play, I don't know why you
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: would ever. I mean, we've already seen it one since
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys traded away an outstanding player. Now that now
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: that they miss him dearly. I don't know if you're
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: playing like this, figure it out. I know you signed CD,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: but we figured figure it out because because that's that's
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: where you are. You have an offense that that can
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: put up a lot of points. So uh, maybe maybe
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: it is something worth worth keeping. I just don't know
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: if I believe that he's playing so good that you
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: can't keep him. He's playing that good, figure it out,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: because I don't know if the Cowboys are in the
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: business of letting these franchise type players go again. Let's
• 40:33
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• 40:34
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• 42:03
  Speaker 1: a couple more calls. And it's been a tough, tough
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: monday here on Cowboys storyline has to be expected. What
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: happens when you lose a game like that? That just
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: didn't feel like that was one the Cowboys should have lost,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: but they did, and they did because they got out
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: played out, hit out, our physical all that still didn't
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: feel like they were going to lose the game. So
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: that's what's kind of crazy about it, all right, Robbie
• 42:26
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• 42:28
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  Speaker 7: Nice, all right, Yeah, that's yeah, man, I love it.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: So you know, we always talk about how crappy things
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: get when we lose, and it does. It sucks, man,
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: But you know what, it was still a damn good game, man.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: I mean except for our defense, but but that offense,
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: they played their hearts out. I mean, I like what
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: you said. And RJ said the same damn thing in
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: the fourth quarter. He was like, Dad, why didn't they
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: throw it to the pickens? And I agree with what
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: you said. You know, they're doing one to the side,
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: one to the side, and the little thing to lip key.
• 43:06
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: But but it was still a great game, most of
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: it really. You got interception and I know I'm a homer, man,
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: but I enjoy the ride. I like to watch the game,
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: and it was fun with my kid, and maybe that's
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: why I'm na join it more. But yeah, boy, I
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: sure like to see us win at the end, you
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: know what I.
• 43:24
  Speaker 8: Mean, Nick, It would have made it.
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: Quite a bit better. But maybe there's still hope at
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: the end of the thing. I wish I was like
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: Dylan or you are, you know smart like to me, guys,
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: I just don't even know what we can do to
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: get better with the coaching. Is that the players I'm
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: talking defense obviously, yeah, who knows man, pass rush, safety, middle, linebacker,
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: all of them. All right, you tell me what you
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: think we can fix it, and I listen, All.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate it. I mean, I wish I had
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the answers to but I mean, for me, it just
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: feels like the quarterbacks are way too comfortable and and
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: and I'm okay giving up what you have to give
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: up to blitz. Like I'm okay with that. I mean
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: because I think I think my guys can get there,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: you know, and go back to the No. No, I'm sorry.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I think that they can cover, is what I'm trying
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: to say. You can blitz, but I think that they'll
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: cover long enough. You don't have to cover forever when
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: you're when you're blitzing, you know, we go back to
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: that Philly game. In week one, the defense looked they
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: couldn't stop anyone early. Then then they kind of figured
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: it out. And if you remember, Diggs was blitzing off
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: the edge, Bland blitzed. I mean, they just showed different
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: things to Jalen Hurts that we hadn't seen, and they
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: got a field goal in the second half. Now the
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: offense couldn't score because they didn't have they didn't you know,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: there was adjustments made by Philly as well, and they
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: fumbled inside the ten. But but my point was is
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: in that game, we saw all different things that didn't
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: make Jalen hurt so comfortable, and I just I'm not
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: seeing that. I'm not seeing that here at all from
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: the what they're doing with Carolina. Let's get this last
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: caller in Michael in Ohi, California.
• 45:13
  Speaker 22: Hey, how's it going?
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Hey, how are you?
• 45:16
  Speaker 22: I'm living a dream dream?
• 45:20
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 45:21
  Speaker 22: I called in last week and I feel like I
• 45:23
  Speaker 22: shot myself in the foot by mentioning shot. He's coaching
• 45:26
  Speaker 22: up the injuries and whatnot, and then you know, here
• 45:30
  Speaker 22: we go and have kind of a dud. But I
• 45:34
  Speaker 22: wanted to try to be very kind of positive question
• 45:40
  Speaker 22: and positive here.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: I don't know why.
• 45:43
  Speaker 22: I assume you have the Lanner Thomas doc about him
• 45:47
  Speaker 22: and his brother. Basically, I know it was about the
• 45:48
  Speaker 22: whole game, but I just wanted to give a shout
• 45:50
  Speaker 22: out because that was pretty awesome and I know it's
• 45:52
  Speaker 22: a good piece of film. When my wife is excited
• 45:55
  Speaker 22: to watch something football related, that was pretty cool. Yeah.
• 45:59
  Speaker 22: And then I want to throw out there because we're
• 46:01
  Speaker 22: talking a lot about the coaches, how much do you
• 46:03
  Speaker 22: think our DBS are missing Al Harris right now? Because
• 46:09
  Speaker 22: nothing against the guy that we have right now, but
• 46:11
  Speaker 22: I feel like there's just been a shift. Obviously the
• 46:14
  Speaker 22: changing coordinators, you're gonna have a shift, but even just
• 46:16
  Speaker 22: with the way that the guys are playing in their positions.
• 46:22
  Speaker 22: And then I guess to end on a positive note,
• 46:24
  Speaker 22: I do feel like if there's anything to take away
• 46:27
  Speaker 22: from what's been a really huge roller coaster right it's
• 46:30
  Speaker 22: that we got a lot of young guys and you're
• 46:32
  Speaker 22: going to have a bit of a roller coaster as
• 46:34
  Speaker 22: they're learning. Like when you look at the linebacker corps,
• 46:37
  Speaker 22: the most senior guy I think is what Kenneth Murray,
• 46:40
  Speaker 22: and he's in his fourth year and he's in a
• 46:43
  Speaker 22: new system now, so there's a lot of learning, and
• 46:47
  Speaker 22: I guess that they should be able to handle simple
• 46:49
  Speaker 22: schemes and whatnot, but.
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 46:52
  Speaker 22: I guess each week I'm trying to care, not care,
• 46:55
  Speaker 22: but react less to the outcome and look more for,
• 46:58
  Speaker 22: you know, what can hopefully be a growth opportunity for
• 47:00
  Speaker 22: each of the guys, and hopefully by the end of
• 47:03
  Speaker 22: the season we have an identity considering that's going to
• 47:05
  Speaker 22: be the biggest concern right now, and then you know,
• 47:08
  Speaker 22: see what they can do and not to write the
• 47:10
  Speaker 22: whole year off, but then seo, we can do a
• 47:11
  Speaker 22: year two and I'll hang up and see what.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: You think you're ta Nicole, Thank you, Michael. I mean
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: you're right. I mean there is a lot of games left.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: And that's kind of goes back to the very first
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: caller of the show, Dylan, you know, and you can
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: definitely tell the frustration there on his voice. A lot
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: of a lot of you guys about, you know, how
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: do you fix this? They've seen six games, like it's
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: not getting fixed and it's not going to get fixed
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: or whatever. Which my point is that you know, I've
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: seen I've seen teams that can kind of turn things
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: around as far as is turned turn around, you know,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: a couple of things on on on just one side
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: of the ball, and that's that's what That's why I
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: have some hope that it's not lost because the offense
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: is so good. The offense is good, and they are
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: scoring enough points to win games. I mean, even twenty
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: seven points is enough to win a game. They should
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: have scored more, but it's still enough to win a game.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: You just need this defense to chip in a lot
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: more than they've done. And that's just getting off the
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: field a couple more times. Give me a couple more
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: stops a game, and that I think could give the
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: offense even more field position to go and do what
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: they're gonna do. So that's why I still have some
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: hope here because I do think you've got something great
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: going on offense, and it's been just as bad on
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: the other side on the defense. So if that part
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: can get fixed and cleaned up just a little bit,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: then I still think there's hope that you're gonna be
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: in every game. That's one thing. We know you're gonna
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: be in every one of these things. So as the
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: running back said, buckle up and not just in this game,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: but for the entire season, because that's the kind of season.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be all right, tough Monday, but you guys
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: did a great job. Appreciate that. I'll do it again
• 49:00
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