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- 0:13Speaker 3: This is these Cowboys storylines with Nick Eatman.
- 0:20Speaker 1: What is up? It is Cowboys storyline. I am Nick Eatman.
- 0:24Speaker 1: It is Monday, November the sixth, and we're going to
- 0:27Speaker 1: talk about the Cowboys and Eagles. It was it was
- 0:31Speaker 1: a game. It was definitely a game. I'd like to
- 0:35Speaker 1: say it was a great game. I'm sure if you
- 0:37Speaker 1: if you're a fan of neither team, this was good football. Obviously,
- 0:43Speaker 1: if you're an Eagle fan, you like it, but you're
- 0:46Speaker 1: not listening to this show probably, But then the Cowboy fans,
- 0:49Speaker 1: it's a tough one, tough loss. Twenty eight to twenty three.
- 0:52Speaker 1: Had chances, had plenty of chances to win the game.
- 0:55Speaker 1: And honestly, it's it's been what twelve hours or so
- 0:59Speaker 1: since the game was over, and I still don't have
- 1:02Speaker 1: a great grasp of what I'm thinking about this. It
- 1:07Speaker 1: sucks to be that close and lose the game. I
- 1:11Speaker 1: don't think they were better than the Eagles overall, but
- 1:16Speaker 1: they you know, they're right there. But then again, they
- 1:20Speaker 1: were right there in the fourth quarter like four times
- 1:23Speaker 1: and that that wasn't good enough. But I have a
- 1:27Speaker 1: you know, I have a weird feeling about this team
- 1:29Speaker 1: though I I don't know. I think the Cowboys are
- 1:35Speaker 1: They're in good shape. I'll just leave it at that.
- 1:37Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of great answers for it
- 1:38Speaker 1: because I'm kind of gone back and forth. But I
- 1:40Speaker 1: guarantee you guys have some things to say. So we're
- 1:43Speaker 1: gonna make sure we go to the calls quickly here
- 1:45Speaker 1: eight five, five, two, two nine seven. I want to
- 1:49Speaker 1: hear what you're thinking about this one and where what
- 1:51Speaker 1: it means for the Cowboys and for the Eagles. So
- 1:54Speaker 1: let's start us off here. Dylan in Northport, Florida. You've
- 1:57Speaker 1: been kind of the leadoff hitter here for the last
- 2:00Speaker 1: you shows. You're starting off.
- 2:03Speaker 2: Hey, man, I hope you're doing good. I didn't get
- 2:05Speaker 2: much sleep last night. It was a little rough. Yeah, yeah,
- 2:10Speaker 2: and all the tossing and turning. Kind of had an
- 2:12Speaker 2: epiphany about the team. I feel better about them now
- 2:16Speaker 2: than I did going into the game. You know, honestly,
- 2:19Speaker 2: it's weird, right, but honestly not weird.
- 2:22Speaker 1: I said the exact same thing on the radio show
- 2:25Speaker 1: I did thirty minutes ago. I felt better at them
- 2:27Speaker 1: at five and three than I did at five and two.
- 2:30Speaker 2: Well, nothing Philly did really impressed me. I know you
- 2:32Speaker 2: said you thought they were the better team, but I mean,
- 2:34Speaker 2: outside of the one play that Hurts made the throw
- 2:37Speaker 2: against Bland, it was really good coverage. Outside of that,
- 2:40Speaker 2: it was just, you know, kind of meticulous. There wasn't
- 2:42Speaker 2: any big plays. There wasn't anything crazy. You know, there
- 2:45Speaker 2: are some penalties and stuff, and it was a kind
- 2:48Speaker 2: of game where just everything kind of went against the Cowboys.
- 2:50Speaker 2: And typically in those kind of games, Dallas gets blown
- 2:53Speaker 2: out like San Francisco, right like, the Eagles had three fumbles.
- 2:56Speaker 2: It's like physics and gravity or Eagles fans, right like,
- 2:58Speaker 2: they just bounce right back to the those players he had,
- 3:01Speaker 2: you know, officiating you can argue was rough, but the Cowboys,
- 3:06Speaker 2: they still they had clawed their way back in. They fought.
- 3:08Speaker 2: And let me just say this real quick about Jake
- 3:10Speaker 2: Ferguson too. The dude is starting to play like a
- 3:13Speaker 2: real number one tight end. And if you go back
- 3:14Speaker 2: and watch that fourth down play to Tolbert, dude has
- 3:17Speaker 2: the keenest release off the line of scribage I've ever
- 3:19Speaker 2: seen Goud was wide open, probably scores a touchdown so
- 3:21Speaker 2: as a seam union gets the ball there. But yeah, man,
- 3:24Speaker 2: I feel good about this team. You know, it sucks
- 3:26Speaker 2: that we lost, but I feel good going forward and
- 3:28Speaker 2: hopefully this offense keeps cooking.
- 3:29Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, thanks thanks for the call, and
- 3:33Speaker 1: I like the mindset there. I feel the same way.
- 3:36Speaker 1: I feel the same way about the fact that the
- 3:40Speaker 1: disappointing part is is that beating the Eagles now in
- 3:43Speaker 1: the NFC East is going to be a challenge. I mean,
- 3:45Speaker 1: that's it's an uphill battle at this point. They're eight
- 3:48Speaker 1: and one year five and three. But I'm gonna say it.
- 3:52Speaker 1: I'm going to say it again. I firmly believe this
- 3:55Speaker 1: this team's five and three. I'll be surprised if they're
- 3:58Speaker 1: not ten and three. I really think they're gonna win
- 4:01Speaker 1: five in a row. They they the schedule lines up
- 4:05Speaker 1: for them to go and take it here for these
- 4:08Speaker 1: next what four or five games, and that includes Philly,
- 4:11Speaker 1: that includes another game with Philly at home. I believe
- 4:14Speaker 1: that they they will win that game. As I'm looking
- 4:17Speaker 1: at some of the highlights here and in the fourth quarter,
- 4:19Speaker 1: and that that that fumble where they just three guys
- 4:23Speaker 1: run into each other, and I'm like, there's no way
- 4:25Speaker 1: that they'll be that lucky. There's no way that they're
- 4:28Speaker 1: going to have a penalty here, I mean a fumble
- 4:30Speaker 1: here and give you the football. That's just not gonna happen.
- 4:33Speaker 4: There's no way.
- 4:34Speaker 1: And it didn't because they got it back, all right,
- 4:36Speaker 1: Michael and Bowling Green, Kentucky, You're next, Michael? What's up?
- 4:40Speaker 5: Everybody? Rely see what you were just saying? The Eagles
- 4:46Speaker 5: are not worthy win the NFC East. The Cowboys are
- 4:50Speaker 5: the Cowboys. Next four games they're playing, They're playing the
- 4:57Speaker 5: Giants with their fourth string quarterback. They're playing the Panthers,
- 5:02Speaker 5: who I don't even know if they want a game.
- 5:05Speaker 5: They've playing the Commanders, and then they're playing the Eagles
- 5:09Speaker 5: in Big D. So or no, they're playing Seattle. Then
- 5:13Speaker 5: they get the Eagles in Big D. And then the
- 5:15Speaker 5: Eagles have but they got the Chiefs, they got the Bills,
- 5:20Speaker 5: and they've got what's the last game they got aftered
- 5:24Speaker 5: before Dallas. It's another hard one. Yeah, I don't I'm
- 5:29Speaker 5: not worried about anything.
- 5:31Speaker 1: I don't think they'll I'll be surprised if they catch
- 5:33Speaker 1: the Eagles in the NFC.
- 5:34Speaker 5: East, but I mean they the Eagles have three tough games, but.
- 5:40Speaker 1: They're good Cowboys. I mean they're gonna they're gonna win
- 5:44Speaker 1: two of them three.
- 5:46Speaker 5: I don't think they'll beat the Chiefs do. I mean,
- 5:50Speaker 5: the Bills looked decent last night, but uh, it don't matter.
- 5:56Speaker 1: It doesn't it doesn't really matter. I mean, all the
- 5:57Speaker 1: Cowboys can do is is playing. Here's the deal though,
- 6:01Speaker 1: this is this. I think I think the Eagles will
- 6:03Speaker 1: either two and a half games ahead, There'll be two
- 6:05Speaker 1: games ahead on Sunday. Dallas will beat the Giants. But
- 6:09Speaker 1: I think that you know, when I look at this, like, okay,
- 6:13Speaker 1: so the Eagles win the division that they they might,
- 6:16Speaker 1: if that's the best team in football, then I'll take
- 6:19Speaker 1: my chances with the Cowboys going up there in January,
- 6:22Speaker 1: because that was playoff atmosphere. It's not going to get
- 6:24Speaker 1: any different than that. That's what it was. You go
- 6:27Speaker 1: up there, you play. I mean, if that's where you are,
- 6:29Speaker 1: that's the measuring stick. I think the Cowboys can go
- 6:32Speaker 1: and and and and beat them again. So or beat them,
- 6:34Speaker 1: I'm sorry, not beat.
- 6:35Speaker 5: The Cowboys trying to catch the Eagles.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Okay, and they might and they might. What I'm saying
- 6:41Speaker 1: is is I don't know if it matters, like it
- 6:45Speaker 1: might matter, it might not. I that That's that's pretty
- 6:48Speaker 1: uphill battle right at this point. That's why that game
- 6:51Speaker 1: was so tough. But I'm not I'm not ware ready.
- 6:53Speaker 1: Stranger things have happened. We appreciate the call, Michael, thank
- 6:56Speaker 1: you so much, but I mean, stranger things can happen.
- 6:59Speaker 1: You're right, the Cowboys schedule is going to be this
- 7:03Speaker 1: is pretty favorable right now, and it's not the same
- 7:05Speaker 1: for the Eagles. And the Eagles are beat up too.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Now that they get to buy week, of course, another
- 7:09Speaker 1: another break for them. They get to buy week. But
- 7:12Speaker 1: I mean the Cowboys were very you know that they
- 7:14Speaker 1: stood in there from a physical standpoint with them, you
- 7:18Speaker 1: know they had they had chances to win. That's just
- 7:20Speaker 1: that's just that's what you want. You want to give
- 7:22Speaker 1: your chance, You give your team a chance to win,
- 7:25Speaker 1: and and they did, but it was they came up
- 7:28Speaker 1: just a little short. All right, Arthur and Spring Texas
- 7:30Speaker 1: your next Good morning, Nick morning, how are you.
- 7:35Speaker 4: I'm doing well? You know I've been a Cowboys fan
- 7:38Speaker 4: since the early sixties. So you know, these roller coaster
- 7:42Speaker 4: rides nothing new to me. That's that's just a couple
- 7:47Speaker 4: of thinking. Wandre to me. The game what what? The
- 7:53Speaker 4: game that happened last night proved to me that we're
- 7:55Speaker 4: still content. Uh we were from a run game perspective.
- 8:02Speaker 4: I don't know how Mike Michaelcrothy is going to figure
- 8:05Speaker 4: it out. But Tony is is a twenty twenty yard
- 8:11Speaker 4: to twenty yard man. He's good between the twenties. We
- 8:15Speaker 4: we are going to have to invest at some point
- 8:17Speaker 4: in time a power runner who can command respect in
- 8:23Speaker 4: the red zone. That's one aspect. The other the other
- 8:27Speaker 4: thing is is that Terence from the From what I
- 8:32Speaker 4: watched the game, Terrence Steel was just getting run paid.
- 8:36Speaker 4: He was getting blown through the Oudigen was getting getting
- 8:39Speaker 4: manhandled as well. So I don't know how how well
- 8:45Speaker 4: or how deep people think we can make it or
- 8:48Speaker 4: at the playoffs if we still haven't fixed this particular problem.
- 8:54Speaker 1: So yeah, you know the thing about Terren Steele, I mean,
- 8:58Speaker 1: obviously still this is this is his first year back
- 9:01Speaker 1: from that ACL injury. I'm not as worried about him
- 9:06Speaker 1: long term. I don't. I think mentally he's very strong too,
- 9:10Speaker 1: and he'll be fine. But you know, I I think
- 9:15Speaker 1: you're I agree with you and Tony Pollard. I think
- 9:18Speaker 1: that they need a little bit different running game there
- 9:23Speaker 1: around the goal line. And you know, I feel like
- 9:27Speaker 1: they did that on a couple of plays with with
- 9:29Speaker 1: Rico Daddle in there, taking Pollard out, putting Rico in,
- 9:33Speaker 1: uh inside the ten. I'm not sure if that's that's
- 9:36Speaker 1: every time that they get in there, but just because
- 9:39Speaker 1: Pollard had run it a couple of times and then
- 9:41Speaker 1: that they switched up the personnel, so they're not afraid
- 9:44Speaker 1: to go with Rico Daddle. But that's not really the
- 9:46Speaker 1: back you're looking at anyways. I mean that that's not
- 9:49Speaker 1: that's not what you have in mind. I mean, you know,
- 9:51Speaker 1: he's he's a good running back, you know, but he's
- 9:53Speaker 1: not he's not doesn't bring a ton more power than
- 9:57Speaker 1: than than Pollard and doesn't have the same quickness. So
- 10:00Speaker 1: but you're you're right though, the in between the twenties,
- 10:04Speaker 1: they're just not running the football in there, and not
- 10:07Speaker 1: even in the twenties too. There's a lot of fourth
- 10:09Speaker 1: and ones they got, they got some fourth down plays.
- 10:11Speaker 1: They threw something to Fergus him in the shotgun. I mean,
- 10:14Speaker 1: like they they are not just just trying to pound
- 10:18Speaker 1: the ball in there, not with a running back, maybe
- 10:20Speaker 1: with Dak and that didn't really work out well either.
- 10:23Speaker 1: I mean they got the first down call. I'm not
- 10:25Speaker 1: sure he crossed the line, but they gave it to him.
- 10:29Speaker 1: And anyways, that that was a that was big. That
- 10:33Speaker 1: was certainly a big for them to not be able
- 10:36Speaker 1: to run the ball all the time. They still, you know,
- 10:39Speaker 1: went right went up and down the field passing the ball.
- 10:42Speaker 1: But I think we all know when it gets, especially
- 10:45Speaker 1: colder weather games, you're gonna have to be able to
- 10:47Speaker 1: run the football a little bit more.
- 10:49Speaker 3: So.
- 10:49Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Tim and Grapevine. Tim, you're next, Tim,
- 10:59Speaker 1: right right? All right? I don't hear Tim there from today.
- 11:06Speaker 6: Hey, you know, surprisingly I'm optimistic. You know, I I
- 11:12Speaker 6: called last week and I said I thought the key
- 11:14Speaker 6: of the game would be stop the run, game, slow
- 11:17Speaker 6: down or contain AJ Brown. And the Cowboys did that.
- 11:20Speaker 6: I mean, the Cowboys were the better team yesterday. I
- 11:23Speaker 6: think most people who are objective would would agree with
- 11:27Speaker 6: that we were the better team. We didn't make enough plays,
- 11:30Speaker 6: The ball didn't bounce our way literally did bounce our
- 11:33Speaker 6: way three times. I mean, how's that happened? So, I mean,
- 11:36Speaker 6: I really think we were the better team, which gives
- 11:38Speaker 6: me optimism for this season that we can possibly get hot.
- 11:42Speaker 6: But it looks like we're going to have to probably
- 11:44Speaker 6: go through both San Francisco and the Eagles. I said,
- 11:48Speaker 6: just one of them in the playoffs, which that that's
- 11:50Speaker 6: what makes it tough in the end.
- 11:51Speaker 7: But that's that's that's so far out.
- 11:52Speaker 6: I don't want to think about that. What I what
- 11:55Speaker 6: I want to what I want to quickly talk about
- 11:57Speaker 6: and then maybe get your thoughts. You've been in the
- 11:59Speaker 6: business for so long now, so McCarthy has improved as
- 12:03Speaker 6: a play caller. I mean, the team, the offense is
- 12:06Speaker 6: day and night compared to a month ago.
- 12:08Speaker 7: It looks good.
- 12:09Speaker 6: We're moving the ball. Red zone is still kind of
- 12:12Speaker 6: an issue, but we lost that game last night because
- 12:16Speaker 6: we weren't disciplined. We'll kick the ball off out of balance,
- 12:19Speaker 6: they start to forty. We get an unsportunate Mike on
- 12:21Speaker 6: the kickoff with the shot Owens I believe hands the face,
- 12:24Speaker 6: ripping off a helmet. They take the ball to forty
- 12:27Speaker 6: right pre snat penalties neutral zone. I mean we I
- 12:32Speaker 6: think on three of the Eagles touchdown drives, we had
- 12:35Speaker 6: a penalty to extend the drive. You can't win in
- 12:39Speaker 6: the NFL like that against good teams. You're not going
- 12:41Speaker 6: to do it. So, I mean, what is it?
- 12:43Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, hold on, Tim, Before you asked
- 12:46Speaker 1: that question, I'm gonna I'm gonna fall back at you
- 12:48Speaker 1: because from the first thing you said, because I don't
- 12:50Speaker 1: agree with So, why are the Cowboys a better team?
- 12:53Speaker 1: I mean because the Eagles didn't do all that. I mean,
- 12:57Speaker 1: the Eagle's not not making stupid plays like that. I mean,
- 13:00Speaker 1: that's part of it that you add it all together.
- 13:03Speaker 1: That's why I don't think the Cowboys were the better team.
- 13:05Speaker 1: I think they were close. I think they had a
- 13:07Speaker 1: chance to win. I think they could have stolen it
- 13:09Speaker 1: at the end. But I don't think they were the
- 13:10Speaker 1: better team because better teams don't do those penalties that
- 13:12Speaker 1: you're talking about. So I think you kind of that's
- 13:15Speaker 1: my opinion.
- 13:17Speaker 7: No, no, I agree.
- 13:17Speaker 6: So here's why I think they're the better team. It's
- 13:20Speaker 6: not just the eyeball test, and I agree the Eagles
- 13:23Speaker 6: were the cleaner team, the more discipline team, that's why
- 13:27Speaker 6: they won. But the data shows that the Cowboys had
- 13:31Speaker 6: seven drives in which they got in scoring position compared
- 13:34Speaker 6: to the Eagles four. Right, yeah, that's the issue right there.
- 13:39Speaker 6: I think we moved the ball down the field, we
- 13:41Speaker 6: got key stops when we needed to, but at the
- 13:44Speaker 6: end of the day, we shot ourselves in the foot,
- 13:47Speaker 6: whether it's giving up the sacks, the holding on screwmaker,
- 13:52Speaker 6: I mean, you name it. It just seems like we
- 13:54Speaker 6: kept playing against ourselves and the Eagles, and so I
- 13:58Speaker 6: was just wondering, like in your experience as being close
- 14:00Speaker 6: to the team for so long, I mean, what is
- 14:03Speaker 6: it that makes you know one team discipline like the Parcels,
- 14:07Speaker 6: you know, two thousand and four team or whatever, versus
- 14:10Speaker 6: this team? I mean, how do you fix discipline issues
- 14:13Speaker 6: and penalties?
- 14:14Speaker 1: I know it's that's that's something that you know, coaches
- 14:18Speaker 1: for years have been trying to figure out. Thanks thanks
- 14:21Speaker 1: ten for the call. And I'll say this to you.
- 14:25Speaker 4: Know.
- 14:26Speaker 1: I said that like, well, you don't see the Eagles
- 14:28Speaker 1: doing that. I looked it up. The Eagles actually had
- 14:31Speaker 1: ten ten penalties also ten ten for eighty three were
- 14:34Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Eagles were ten for ninety eight, those ten
- 14:37Speaker 1: for eighty three, and that, you know, I don't I
- 14:41Speaker 1: wonder when you're when you're doing penalty yards, do they
- 14:46Speaker 1: give you a fifteen yard penalty? I don't know if
- 14:48Speaker 1: they do that. I don't know if they put in
- 14:49Speaker 1: a fifteen yard penalty on an out of bounds kickoff,
- 14:53Speaker 1: which gives you fair I mean they put the ball
- 14:55Speaker 1: to forty, that's fifteen yards more, but I don't know
- 14:58Speaker 1: if they counted as a fifteen yard penalty. It's big.
- 15:00Speaker 1: It's very significant coaching penalties. I mean that that's one
- 15:05Speaker 1: where you have theories for years and years upon how
- 15:11Speaker 1: do you do that? And it used to be, you know,
- 15:13Speaker 1: fear would be a part of it. That's that's you know,
- 15:17Speaker 1: the part of Cels had that kind of you know
- 15:19Speaker 1: that it was that was that type of coach. You know,
- 15:21Speaker 1: you you you cut these players, make Jimmie Johnson some way,
- 15:25Speaker 1: you make them accountable. It's not always the way anymore.
- 15:29Speaker 1: You know, with contract situations the way they are, you
- 15:32Speaker 1: don't you don't really have that same type of fear
- 15:34Speaker 1: for just you know, cutting players. You know, you cut
- 15:36Speaker 1: the players that that were probably gonna get cut anyways.
- 15:39Speaker 1: But this team, the I mean McCarthy has been saying
- 15:45Speaker 1: it over and over, pre snat penalties, pre snat penalties,
- 15:48Speaker 1: and here they are, you know, and and it's the
- 15:51Speaker 1: it's the same same issue. And he's the play caller,
- 15:54Speaker 1: he's the head coach. So you know, when you think
- 15:57Speaker 1: about it, you're cutting down what three to four or
- 16:00Speaker 1: five seconds of communication there. I mean, the offensive coordinator
- 16:04Speaker 1: doesn't need to ask the head coach about are we
- 16:07Speaker 1: going foard on fourth down?
- 16:08Speaker 7: Here?
- 16:08Speaker 1: This is this is gonna be a three down territory,
- 16:10Speaker 1: four down territory because it's the same guy. So that
- 16:14Speaker 1: that should help with some of the operation of that.
- 16:16Speaker 1: And so I think you're seeing the play calling has
- 16:19Speaker 1: been better for the most part, you know, and and
- 16:22Speaker 1: and and they're they're doing some nice job, but they
- 16:24Speaker 1: are they still have some some miscommunication issues for sure.
- 16:28Speaker 1: All Right, Alan Merkele, Texas is next out.
- 16:31Speaker 8: Hey.
- 16:31Speaker 9: I was calling let you know that I made that
- 16:33Speaker 9: prediction on Friday, and obviously I was wrong, but.
- 16:39Speaker 1: Most people were. Nobody nobody called in here and said
- 16:43Speaker 1: the Eagles were gonna win. I mean, nobody did that.
- 16:46Speaker 9: So well, they better not a couple of points, right, quick.
- 16:52Speaker 9: You know you just made the comment about the penalties
- 16:55Speaker 9: and the yards were equal. Well, if you'll go back
- 16:58Speaker 9: and look, they weren't equal until that. I ask the
- 17:00Speaker 9: pass interference, they covered about thirty yards filty for the Eagles.
- 17:04Speaker 9: Sure there was a big disparity, and I mean, you know,
- 17:08Speaker 9: complaining about philty sounds like tire grade to a man.
- 17:10Speaker 9: Let's face it. I mean, it's comical when you got
- 17:13Speaker 9: the right tackle jumping about a millisecond before the snap
- 17:17Speaker 9: on every damn play, and then you get called for
- 17:20Speaker 9: the same thing on the guard down there at the
- 17:22Speaker 9: goal line, and then you get holding on that running
- 17:25Speaker 9: plade and then you see the somebody put it on
- 17:28Speaker 9: h on X that the Philadelphia player made the same
- 17:33Speaker 9: play just the next series, right, and then that that
- 17:35Speaker 9: bogus pass interference. Uh, that's all right though.
- 17:39Speaker 4: Uh.
- 17:40Speaker 9: The NFL is a strange lady, And I do disagree
- 17:44Speaker 9: with you on one point, and that's very rare for
- 17:46Speaker 9: me to disagree with you. But I don't know what's
- 17:49Speaker 9: gonna happen with the Eagles, because I know when the
- 17:51Speaker 9: forty nine ers strength is, everybody thought, well they're going
- 17:54Speaker 9: to go on and they're gonna be down it. Then
- 17:55Speaker 9: they've lost three straight and I think the only reason
- 17:58Speaker 9: they didn't lose Force Ray it was Gonnay this week.
- 18:02Speaker 9: So I mean, it's gonna be interesting. I did say
- 18:04Speaker 9: that the Cowboys would expose the Eagles, and I still
- 18:06Speaker 9: do believe that they sort of did show some things
- 18:09Speaker 9: that other teams can do, because you know, this team,
- 18:13Speaker 9: this league is the copycat league.
- 18:14Speaker 1: Yeah, one of those things that they exposed to from
- 18:22Speaker 1: like their secondary.
- 18:23Speaker 4: Yeah, passing.
- 18:24Speaker 9: I mean Seedee Lamb had an awesome day. He probably
- 18:27Speaker 9: would have won the game. Uh if you know, if
- 18:31Speaker 9: Dak would have you know, I don't know how they
- 18:32Speaker 9: call the players. I don't know if it was a
- 18:34Speaker 9: miss Reid. I don't know if that play was supposed
- 18:36Speaker 9: to go to uh Tobert there at the end. I mean,
- 18:39Speaker 9: I'm not sworn enough and I don't want to be
- 18:41Speaker 9: sworn enough to understand that. But I mean I believe
- 18:44Speaker 9: that the passing game was exposed a little bit from
- 18:46Speaker 9: Philadelphia and just uh yeah, the one thing that was
- 18:51Speaker 9: exposed with the knee, they they had covered it up.
- 18:55Speaker 9: But when what's his name the Marcus hit it, I mean,
- 18:59Speaker 9: he's turning more than what they say so and he's
- 19:01Speaker 9: not gonna be able to run as much as they can.
- 19:03Speaker 9: So I mean they're gonna be able to put more pressure,
- 19:06Speaker 9: I believe, on the quarterback and then not let him
- 19:09Speaker 9: have escaped. So it's gonna be interesting. It's uh, it's
- 19:12Speaker 9: gonna be I think, uh, December is gonna be really interesting.
- 19:17Speaker 9: And I think that's where the men are gonna be
- 19:19Speaker 9: some bravelan boyds. But thank you for taking my call.
- 19:21Speaker 9: I love this show, and uh, let's just see where
- 19:24Speaker 9: it goes.
- 19:24Speaker 1: All right, I appreciate that. Yeah, I mean it's definitely
- 19:28Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. And you know, I do think Jalen
- 19:31Speaker 1: Hurts has a little bit of you know, I think
- 19:33Speaker 1: he's got some theatrical stuff going on there in the
- 19:38Speaker 1: limping and oh my god, is he gonna come out?
- 19:41Speaker 1: And he hasn't come out of the tunnel yet. Is
- 19:43Speaker 1: he going to play? And then he comes out. I
- 19:45Speaker 1: mean they all do it, their whole team. The Eagles
- 19:49Speaker 1: lead the league in guys on the ground and everyone's
- 19:54Speaker 1: yelling and cart Cart get over here, and you know,
- 19:57Speaker 1: and then like is he okay? And you know, we
- 20:00Speaker 1: talk to the family and then you know, and then
- 20:02Speaker 1: he's down there for a few minutes, okay, and then
- 20:04Speaker 1: then he sprints off and then he's back on the
- 20:06Speaker 1: field and I was like, okay, okay, and they just
- 20:09Speaker 1: play like the Rocky themed music and they get heat,
- 20:12Speaker 1: rise up, and then he's all good. I mean, this
- 20:15Speaker 1: is Eagle fans to a t. I think it was
- 20:18Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox on the ground down for a little little bit,
- 20:22Speaker 1: barely moving their they're fans, you know, everyone's got different
- 20:27Speaker 1: ways typically of when guys are injured. They just decide,
- 20:32Speaker 1: Fletcher Cock down, that's a good time to just just
- 20:34Speaker 1: go with the old. Dallas sucks, you know, Dallas sucks.
- 20:38Speaker 1: And while they're guy's down, he pops up like he's
- 20:41Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan and just gets up and then it runs
- 20:43Speaker 1: off the field and all that. So they got quite
- 20:46Speaker 1: a show over there. But they're eight and one, so
- 20:47Speaker 1: they can do that. Sebastian and Savannah Georgia, Sebastian, you're next.
- 20:53Speaker 10: Man that.
- 20:59Speaker 1: I'd like to go. I want to go back. I
- 21:01Speaker 1: want to go back, and just every call like how
- 21:04Speaker 1: everyone is starting the call. You know, one guy was
- 21:06Speaker 1: just like everybody relax and then you're just like.
- 21:11Speaker 10: It was a gut punch. We had twenty seven seconds.
- 21:15Speaker 10: They jumped off sides. We're on the sixth and I'm
- 21:18Speaker 10: screaming running. I don't care if you do a bootlet
- 21:23Speaker 10: and just sneak Jake Ferguson out of the backfield, whether
- 21:27Speaker 10: you're faking the run, I don't care if you pitch
- 21:29Speaker 10: it to Tony Park. Six yards is all we needed. Yeah,
- 21:33Speaker 10: we got gifted the game, and I gotta come at
- 21:38Speaker 10: my guy big Mac on this freaky mic. As Jesse
- 21:40Speaker 10: Holly cosin the late game, management is what keeps costing
- 21:45Speaker 10: us these PlayStations and PlayStation games, these playoff games, and
- 21:49Speaker 10: these close games. It's so weird, it's like it falls
- 21:53Speaker 10: apart at the end. He has to learn how to
- 21:55Speaker 10: real his team and especially when we're driving with the ball.
- 21:58Speaker 10: Dak had a phenomenal game. That was one of the
- 22:01Speaker 10: best games I've ever seen DAK play outside of the
- 22:04Speaker 10: playoff game where we dueled Aaron Rodgers. That was one
- 22:08Speaker 10: of Dak's best performances and it was wasted on. You
- 22:11Speaker 10: could tell that the team was kind of like shaky
- 22:13Speaker 10: right there at the end. Take I don't care if
- 22:15Speaker 10: you take all twenty seven seconds, all the time off
- 22:17Speaker 10: the clock. Get the right get to the right play,
- 22:20Speaker 10: and just get it in the end zones. And then
- 22:23Speaker 10: right when we get to the most important moments of
- 22:26Speaker 10: the game, we go away from CD. Like and throughout
- 22:29Speaker 10: the twenty of the twenty, CD was killing the game.
- 22:31Speaker 10: We were giving it to him and just dishing and diving,
- 22:34Speaker 10: and then every time we got to like a big moment,
- 22:36Speaker 10: it's like, oh, let's do something funny or cute and
- 22:38Speaker 10: go to jaylent Tober.
- 22:39Speaker 1: What was the second what was the coverage?
- 22:42Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, no, I'm not.
- 22:44Speaker 10: I'm not talking about with the one where he was
- 22:45Speaker 10: rolled a double covered that I don't know someone's talking about.
- 22:47Speaker 10: There were several times where it was just a big play, yeah,
- 22:50Speaker 10: and you could see CD kind of running and he'd
- 22:52Speaker 10: get open for a brief moment at least give him
- 22:54Speaker 10: a chance, and then you would go to like Michael
- 22:56Speaker 10: Gallup and he drops it or like jaylen Tober, and
- 22:58Speaker 10: then you can't pull it in even if to go
- 23:00Speaker 10: to let's say Ferguson. On those plays, you know, with
- 23:02Speaker 10: the respect to Ferguson, he's been killing the game. I
- 23:05Speaker 10: think one of the two of them are your star guys.
- 23:07Speaker 10: You have to go to a star in that situation,
- 23:10Speaker 10: or if you're going to do that and you're not
- 23:11Speaker 10: going to go to a star, go to the grizzly
- 23:13Speaker 10: vet like Brandon Cooks. We're going to these young, unproven
- 23:16Speaker 10: guys like Schoonmaker and Toburt and it costs you down.
- 23:20Speaker 10: You know, Michael Galla is struggling, and I know you
- 23:22Speaker 10: want to get him going, and I know he's a
- 23:23Speaker 10: fifty to fifty ball catcher and the penalty was beautiful.
- 23:26Speaker 10: There was a beautiful penalty. But he's not performing right now.
- 23:29Speaker 10: So Mike Pasle, you got it.
- 23:31Speaker 1: But well, you know, I have a question about that.
- 23:34Speaker 1: And since you've kind of brought that up, why why
- 23:37Speaker 1: is Brandon Cooks getting a pass here? I mean, Brandon Cooks.
- 23:41Speaker 1: You just called him the grizzled vet who got himself
- 23:44Speaker 1: for one catch for seven yards, and he's this year,
- 23:47Speaker 1: he's got himself. He's sitting at one hundred and sixty
- 23:50Speaker 1: five yards receiving on seventeen catches. I mean, Gallup's numbers
- 23:53Speaker 1: are way better than that. Now he does, Cooks has
- 23:56Speaker 1: two touchdowns. But I just wonder Gallup gets all the
- 23:58Speaker 1: hate cool, not really, but Cooks, what why Why are
- 24:04Speaker 1: we not doing this about Cooks here? It's been eight
- 24:06Speaker 1: games and he was the training camp MVP, so it's
- 24:09Speaker 1: not like he's I mean, he had he had the
- 24:11Speaker 1: offense figured out. So why I'll think any problems with Cooks.
- 24:17Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll say this, there are problems with Cooks. But
- 24:19Speaker 10: I don't necessarily know if it's Cooks or if it's scheme,
- 24:22Speaker 10: because it doesn't seem like they go to him that often.
- 24:25Speaker 10: It doesn't seem like he's being open. You scheme guys
- 24:28Speaker 10: like Jalen Tobart open or guys like you know, the Ferguson.
- 24:31Speaker 10: He's getting schemed into the actual play calling, and Cook's
- 24:35Speaker 10: just kind of out there running routes on air and
- 24:37Speaker 10: I don't really see it go to him that often.
- 24:40Speaker 10: I don't know if it's a scheme thing. I don't
- 24:41Speaker 10: know if it's a Cooks thing, you know, but fine
- 24:44Speaker 10: between him and I'm not disrespeking Michael gall but I
- 24:46Speaker 10: love him thirteen, but he's not performing this year.
- 24:50Speaker 1: I agree. I agree with that. I totally agree with
- 24:53Speaker 1: the with the Gallup stuff. He's not I don't know
- 24:55Speaker 1: why he doesn't make that catch over the middle, why
- 24:57Speaker 1: he's not really ready for it. He should be. It's
- 24:59Speaker 1: third three. You know, given credit for running to the sticks.
- 25:02Speaker 1: I mean that that didn't always happen yesterday, but you
- 25:06Speaker 1: know part of it too, and and and Sebastian, thanks
- 25:10Speaker 1: for the call. We got all other callers coming in.
- 25:11Speaker 1: I appreciate that good stuff. As always does a great
- 25:14Speaker 1: job with these calls. You know, since this forty nine
- 25:18Speaker 1: Ers game, Ceedee Lamb has had his has got thirty
- 25:23Speaker 1: seven targets in three games, and he's caught I was
- 25:27Speaker 1: trying to do my math here, thirty He's got thirty passes,
- 25:34Speaker 1: you know, of the thirty six I'm sorry, thirty thirty seven.
- 25:40Speaker 1: He's got thirty passes, thirty seven targets, thirty seven targets
- 25:44Speaker 1: in those three games. So you know where where's the
- 25:48Speaker 1: ball going to be distributed for other other players. I mean,
- 25:52Speaker 1: he's a number one receiver and he's getting number one targets,
- 25:56Speaker 1: and he's got and he's definitely putting out number one production.
- 26:00Speaker 1: You realize that we're still not at the halfway point
- 26:03Speaker 1: of the season. There, you know, eight games nine to go,
- 26:07Speaker 1: and if he stays healthy, Ceede Lamb, if you just
- 26:11Speaker 1: just want to double up. You know, I just proved
- 26:13Speaker 1: that not good in math, but I can probably double
- 26:16Speaker 1: things up here. I mean, if he if he doubles
- 26:18Speaker 1: his production, he's going to be sitting at one hundred
- 26:21Speaker 1: and four catches for sixteen hundred and forty eight yards.
- 26:25Speaker 1: I think that would be a Cowboys record. Michael Irvin
- 26:27Speaker 1: has the record at fifteen hundred and only six touchdowns.
- 26:31Speaker 1: He's only got three. I bet I bet he picks
- 26:33Speaker 1: that up a little bit. But I mean, that's that's
- 26:37Speaker 1: that's hard to top. I think the Cowboys are going
- 26:39Speaker 1: to wish that they had already got that deal done
- 26:41Speaker 1: with him, because now he's just going to be you know,
- 26:44Speaker 1: now he's stuck in another year in there is going
- 26:47Speaker 1: to be even harder to sign. So but anyways, I
- 26:52Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff there, A lot of a
- 26:54Speaker 1: lot of stuff. The Cowboys had had chances there around
- 26:58Speaker 1: the goal line. It's tough for you know, it's it's
- 27:01Speaker 1: tougher to get the ball to your star player. But
- 27:05Speaker 1: you know, I I thought there at the end when
- 27:07Speaker 1: it was the ball was on the six yard line,
- 27:09Speaker 1: you know, I'm I'm like four cracks at it to
- 27:12Speaker 1: the end zone. You can get a couple of these
- 27:14Speaker 1: throws to CD. You know, it felt like they were
- 27:17Speaker 1: going to do it, but we saw in the two
- 27:20Speaker 1: point conversion, we saw the two yard line. They they
- 27:22Speaker 1: you know, they were just inches away and didn't get in.
- 27:25Speaker 1: All right, let's go to one more call before we
- 27:27Speaker 1: go to break. Travis and san Antonio. Travis, what's up?
- 27:30Speaker 7: Okay, Dick, how's it going good? How are you being
- 27:33Speaker 7: pretty good? I'm taking the positive approach today because I
- 27:38Speaker 7: know I watched the post game coverage at one, five, three,
- 27:41Speaker 7: and there were a lot There's there's the there's always extremes, right,
- 27:45Speaker 7: there's the deck is the top three quarterback like all
- 27:48Speaker 7: the time. Then there's the p's of bottom three quarterback.
- 27:51Speaker 7: And I've always said he's like seven to twelve for me,
- 27:54Speaker 7: and I'm a Romo guy. But this is not the
- 27:56Speaker 7: day to blame Dak, which some people have been doing,
- 27:59Speaker 7: which I think nuts. This is like the if you remember,
- 28:03Speaker 7: this is like the the Dallas Denver game to me
- 28:07Speaker 7: with Peyton and Romo where Romo pretty much outplay if
- 28:11Speaker 7: you watch the game, outplayed him all the way to
- 28:13Speaker 7: the end. Then he threw that one pick throw it
- 28:15Speaker 7: to Gavin and everyone was like, oh my god, Romo
- 28:18Speaker 7: lost the game, Like we would not have been in
- 28:19Speaker 7: that game without him. So it's kind of the same
- 28:23Speaker 7: for me. This game, Jack played exceptional, proud of everyone
- 28:27Speaker 7: how they played. The ball just didn't bounce our way.
- 28:29Speaker 7: Like if you just told me they'd have three fumbles
- 28:30Speaker 7: and we didn't get a single one. I don't know
- 28:32Speaker 7: what the odds are that I'm at, but it's not
- 28:34Speaker 7: good to have three fumbles that don't go our way.
- 28:37Speaker 7: I called you before about the calls. It's it's I mean,
- 28:41Speaker 7: they were bad both ways again, but it's just the
- 28:43Speaker 7: like we talked about before. Just call it the same way, man,
- 28:47Speaker 7: I don't know why it's like so hard to just
- 28:48Speaker 7: call it the same way all the way through the game. Yeah, yeah,
- 28:52Speaker 7: that much frustrating.
- 28:54Speaker 1: I agree, I didn't. The worst one for me was
- 28:57Speaker 1: the past interference call on Gilmore. I mean that, I
- 29:00Speaker 1: mean if if if uncatchable is a thing, yep, And
- 29:04Speaker 1: Chris Beam and I actually talked about this just the
- 29:07Speaker 1: other day about that.
- 29:09Speaker 7: I mean, they don't call it anymore for some reason.
- 29:11Speaker 7: One was uncatchable.
- 29:12Speaker 1: Why Yeah, I mean, I mean A J. Brown's not
- 29:15Speaker 1: I mean, but he's not you know, I mean you're
- 29:18Speaker 1: from Santon. He's not well, you know Wimby. I mean,
- 29:22Speaker 1: he's not gonna go get it. He's got that's tall.
- 29:24Speaker 1: And and that ball was I mean that ball was
- 29:28Speaker 1: up there. I mean it was about to go into
- 29:29Speaker 1: the stands. So yeah, I don't know. I didn't agree
- 29:33Speaker 1: with that called. And you know those sideline officials making
- 29:37Speaker 1: calls in front of the that team sideline. I mean
- 29:40Speaker 1: there was another play on Gallup where they actually threw
- 29:43Speaker 1: the flag and it looked like it was going to
- 29:45Speaker 1: be a penalty and they just decided to pick it
- 29:47Speaker 1: up no explanation.
- 29:49Speaker 7: That's the one I was gonna say. That's the one
- 29:51Speaker 7: that got me because when you watch the replay, if
- 29:53Speaker 7: you actually have replay that I watched, he when he
- 29:55Speaker 7: actually you're having a low smacks on the face mask.
- 29:57Speaker 4: Yeah, he smacks on the face mask.
- 29:59Speaker 7: And if you actually watch Bradbury, he puts his hands up,
- 30:03Speaker 7: you know, like am I guilty?
- 30:05Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 30:05Speaker 7: Right, real quick, and then he puts them down like
- 30:07Speaker 7: he like, you know that's what you don't make that
- 30:11Speaker 7: that's the international sign for I know, I just messed.
- 30:14Speaker 1: Up, but don't call me well, and just I guess
- 30:16Speaker 1: because of the play went the other way was completely
- 30:19Speaker 1: out of out of the Yeah, so they just decided
- 30:22Speaker 1: to pick that up.
- 30:24Speaker 7: So last couple, last thing real quick. I know everyone's
- 30:28Speaker 7: criticizing Mike for that calling that that first play where
- 30:32Speaker 7: they scored their touchdown where Jalen's knee was down supposedly,
- 30:36Speaker 7: I guess. Patrick Walker said they didn't run the replay
- 30:39Speaker 7: in the in the stadium, so they didn't have a
- 30:40Speaker 7: replay of it. So I wanted to throw that out
- 30:43Speaker 7: there for a buddy, But that's.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Not But that's not the thing though. It's not about
- 30:47Speaker 1: the replay. It's McCarthy's not it's not his job to
- 30:51Speaker 1: do that. It's the it's the people upstairs. Yeah. Now,
- 30:55Speaker 1: the one angle where it was like it was like
- 30:58Speaker 1: from the field level, like like cameras like sitting on
- 31:01Speaker 1: the ground that play right there, they didn't. They didn't
- 31:04Speaker 1: run that until the Eagles, you know, snapped the ball.
- 31:07Speaker 7: But but we got the next four or five at home.
- 31:11Speaker 7: The next four or five at home, we have Carolina,
- 31:12Speaker 7: so I think we can go on a run, like
- 31:14Speaker 7: Mike I said. And then the last little funny thing,
- 31:16Speaker 7: I wanted to throw at you to see what you thought,
- 31:18Speaker 7: because I don't know if you caught it yesterday, but
- 31:20Speaker 7: a good Balalle the backup running back for Houston when
- 31:24Speaker 7: their kicker went out, he was doing the kicking duties,
- 31:26Speaker 7: and I called the buddy and just said, like, you know,
- 31:29Speaker 7: we cross trained tackles and guards. I don't understand how hard,
- 31:32Speaker 7: Like why is it so hard to cross train a
- 31:34Speaker 7: punter to do kicking and vice versa. And I'll let
- 31:37Speaker 7: you go, but I just want to throw that up.
- 31:38Speaker 1: Sure, thanks for the call. I mean, I'm sure of
- 31:41Speaker 1: the fifty three players on this roster, I mean that
- 31:44Speaker 1: that are playing, I mean, I'm sure somebody can do it,
- 31:47Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure you know these guys are great athletes.
- 31:49Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know about cross training them, but
- 31:51Speaker 1: I guarantee they have a plan on this. I mean,
- 31:54Speaker 1: there's there's somebody that can kick and punt if they
- 31:57Speaker 1: need to, you know, or or somebody that can hold
- 32:02Speaker 1: for Brian Anger to kick if something were to happen there.
- 32:06Speaker 1: Let's go to break though, Let's go back. We got
- 32:08Speaker 1: callers on the line. We gotta get the break here.
- 32:10Speaker 1: We're gonna go to break it was good stuff. Thanks
- 32:12Speaker 1: for the call, Travis. We'll be right back here.
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- 34:22Speaker 1: All right back here on Cowboys storyline. Just got back
- 34:25Speaker 1: from Pennsylvania from Philadelphia game, and we'll go to the
- 34:29Speaker 1: phone lines in Pennsylvania. We got Brian in Pennsylvania. What's up, hey, Nick?
- 34:34Speaker 15: How you doing?
- 34:35Speaker 1: I'm good? How are you doing?
- 34:37Speaker 16: Uh?
- 34:38Speaker 8: Not as bad as I thought i'd be, because I
- 34:41Speaker 8: thought we were going to get destroyed. Yeah, just because
- 34:45Speaker 8: when we play good competition, you know, we keep up
- 34:47Speaker 8: with them for about two quarters and then we fall off.
- 34:50Speaker 8: The one problem I do have, though, with the offense
- 34:54Speaker 8: is not only I mean, we already talked about the
- 34:56Speaker 8: wide receivers underperforming, but it almost seems like the tied
- 35:00Speaker 8: end group is holding this thing hostage as far as
- 35:04Speaker 8: like we'll bring extra bodies in for runs and it
- 35:07Speaker 8: gets leaky. Pollard hasn't been able to cut loose. I'd
- 35:11Speaker 8: hate to say it, but I'm missing Dalton Schultz. Right now.
- 35:17Speaker 8: I liked him there, you know what I mean?
- 35:19Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he would have been a better pass catcher there.
- 35:25Speaker 8: Yeah. My biggest question though, is knowing that we're having
- 35:29Speaker 8: problems with these short line runs or shortyard runs and
- 35:33Speaker 8: everything and having trouble getting bodies on bodies and hats
- 35:36Speaker 8: on hats and pushing the line, why haven't we seen
- 35:39Speaker 8: any more of like Hunter Lipkey in that situation, Or
- 35:44Speaker 8: if instead of taking an extra tight end off the
- 35:46Speaker 8: field that isn't blocking very well, let him slip out
- 35:49Speaker 8: into the flatter do all those wonderful things that McCarthy
- 35:52Speaker 8: did with a fullback back in the day. You know,
- 35:55Speaker 8: it's almost like they have all this talent that is
- 35:58Speaker 8: unproven that showed to do really well, and they're like, well,
- 36:02Speaker 8: we're not going to risk it with these guys. We're
- 36:03Speaker 8: going to go with this talent that has proven to
- 36:06Speaker 8: do well half the time. But we're more comfortable in
- 36:10Speaker 8: I guess the scheme that we're trying to put out.
- 36:12Speaker 8: And I was wondering your idea is about that, Like,
- 36:15Speaker 8: are we having just trouble adjusting because it almost seems
- 36:18Speaker 8: like they make a game plan before the game and
- 36:21Speaker 8: they just they just want to adjust. They're like, well,
- 36:23Speaker 8: we're just going to keep doing this and eventually it's
- 36:25Speaker 8: going to work. Yeah, So I'll just I'll let you go,
- 36:27Speaker 8: And I want to know your thoughts on that, because
- 36:29Speaker 8: we have so much talent and we're just kind of
- 36:32Speaker 8: not utilizing it right now.
- 36:34Speaker 1: Right Yeah, I mean it's kind of hard to argue that.
- 36:37Speaker 1: You said, you know, you just hope that it'll eventually
- 36:39Speaker 1: will work. And I mean did it I mean, did
- 36:43Speaker 1: that happen? I mean the third quarter they got out
- 36:46Speaker 1: scored fourteen to nothing. You know, I just keep looking
- 36:50Speaker 1: at the box score here. The fourth quarter, I mean
- 36:53Speaker 1: they they basically were I mean having to pay rent
- 36:56Speaker 1: down there in the Eagles territory. I mean four times
- 36:59Speaker 1: in fourth quarter and you get six points. You know,
- 37:04Speaker 1: in hindsight, which has never needed glasses, I mean hindsight.
- 37:10Speaker 1: You know, you kickfield goal, you know, kickfield goal when
- 37:13Speaker 1: it was twenty eight seventeen, you know, and heck, you
- 37:17Speaker 1: could have kicked it fourth and eight on the pass
- 37:19Speaker 1: to Jalen Tolbert with two something to go, you know,
- 37:22Speaker 1: I mean you the way it worked out, yeah, I mean,
- 37:26Speaker 1: you would have liked to have gone down there and
- 37:28Speaker 1: then had chances to kick field goals. But at the
- 37:30Speaker 1: same time, what about that defense that the Cowboys gave
- 37:33Speaker 1: you in the third quarter led you to believe that
- 37:36Speaker 1: you could make stops. So I don't fault them for
- 37:40Speaker 1: those decisions. It's just the way it kind of worked out.
- 37:43Speaker 1: But you know, I'm not a fan really of the
- 37:47Speaker 1: of the thirteen personnel, the one receiver or the one sorry,
- 37:51Speaker 1: the one back, and the three tight ends. I not
- 37:55Speaker 1: not with this group.
- 37:56Speaker 5: You know.
- 37:56Speaker 1: What I always said was and they sort of did
- 38:00Speaker 1: it is bring bring the big boys in there, you know,
- 38:03Speaker 1: as tackle eligible. But you got to report, you got
- 38:06Speaker 1: to check in, and Chu Maydoga did not do that.
- 38:09Speaker 1: He did not check in with the official. Dak turned
- 38:13Speaker 1: and tried to do it for him. But I mean,
- 38:16Speaker 1: I was in the press box. I'm I said it
- 38:18Speaker 1: to Derek. I said, I don't think he checked in
- 38:19Speaker 1: because that they make the announcement, and he didn't make
- 38:22Speaker 1: that announcement. Seventy one is reported eligible. He did not
- 38:24Speaker 1: do that, Dak. This is the thing is pretty amazing
- 38:27Speaker 1: when you think about all the stuff. I mean, just
- 38:29Speaker 1: think about what the play calls are, everything. He's doing
- 38:32Speaker 1: everything he's reading in front of him. He turns to
- 38:34Speaker 1: the official twice and said it did this motion of
- 38:38Speaker 1: seventy one checked in. You know, he's trying to check
- 38:40Speaker 1: in for him. I mean, this is not you know,
- 38:43Speaker 1: it's like the airport. I mean, you have to check
- 38:45Speaker 1: in yourself. You can't just have someone else do it
- 38:47Speaker 1: for you unless you're a kid. And he's definitely not.
- 38:50Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to uh, let's go to Reggie
- 38:53Speaker 1: in Hamburg, Germany. Reggie, what's up?
- 38:57Speaker 16: Hey, Hey, Nick coming back at you.
- 39:00Speaker 6: Then I've got.
- 39:03Speaker 16: Yeah, yeah, man, yeah, you know, I'm loving it living
- 39:07Speaker 16: a life. Listen, I just got to say, this is
- 39:12Speaker 16: a fantastic ball game.
- 39:14Speaker 6: All in all.
- 39:15Speaker 16: There are a lot of things I can complain about.
- 39:17Speaker 16: I'll come and hit you with a couple of points.
- 39:20Speaker 16: You know, at the end of the game where where
- 39:23Speaker 16: where We've got them on the roofs, you know, Sarah,
- 39:26Speaker 16: and he's got no timeouts, We've got the two starting
- 39:30Speaker 16: cornerbacks are injured off the field, you know, and and
- 39:34Speaker 16: we are playing like you know, we got all the
- 39:36Speaker 16: time in the world. You know, there's no urgency. You know,
- 39:40Speaker 16: we allow them to get their starting cornerbacks back in
- 39:43Speaker 16: the ball game because we're just lack of basically coming
- 39:47Speaker 16: to the line of scrimmage. That should have been done better.
- 39:49Speaker 16: You know that the announcement that you just talked about
- 39:52Speaker 16: should have been done. You know, Tyler Smith, you know
- 39:58Speaker 16: motion call that. I'm really surprised at him. I was
- 40:02Speaker 16: really impressed with tub with Tyron. Tyron was so I
- 40:05Speaker 16: was so happy to see him play ball. He kept
- 40:07Speaker 16: but that blindside from that three all day long. He
- 40:12Speaker 16: was fantastic. Steele, I don't know, he didn't she didn't
- 40:17Speaker 16: even get out of his stance. They blew by him
- 40:19Speaker 16: before he got out of his stands and and that
- 40:23Speaker 16: that's surprising. You know, I don't know what to do
- 40:25Speaker 16: with that. How do you only give Brandon Cooks two targets?
- 40:30Speaker 16: We talked about this the other day. That's that was
- 40:34Speaker 16: my point. You know, we gotta get Hooks activated. It's ridiculous.
- 40:38Speaker 16: You can't give him two targets football game. Yeah, and
- 40:43Speaker 16: that's that's that's when we lost the game.
- 40:46Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, I mean I can, I can kind
- 40:49Speaker 1: of Thanks for the call. I I appreciate that. And
- 40:54Speaker 1: you know there's a game being played over there in Germany.
- 40:57Speaker 1: This uh, this weekend, and Reggie didn't seem to care.
- 41:02Speaker 1: I mean, he was in Hamburg, Germany. He's caring about
- 41:04Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Eagles. Appreciate the call there. You know
- 41:09Speaker 1: the weird part about Okay, two targets for Cooks, one
- 41:14Speaker 1: catch seven yards. Let's say he had seven targets, you know,
- 41:17Speaker 1: seven targets and he caught you know, four or five
- 41:21Speaker 1: passes out of that. You'd be fine with that. And
- 41:23Speaker 1: then if Ceedee Lamb only had nine targets, you know,
- 41:27Speaker 1: I mean like maybe that kind of balance is what
- 41:30Speaker 1: you're looking for. But at least Ceedee Lamb's getting sixteen
- 41:34Speaker 1: targets and eleven catches. I mean, at least that's happening.
- 41:37Speaker 1: If that wasn't happening and these targets were going to
- 41:40Speaker 1: other people, then I'd be like, maybe I would wonder
- 41:43Speaker 1: that as well. But you're a veteran corner, I mean
- 41:47Speaker 1: wide receiver. You've been in this league, You've been in
- 41:49Speaker 1: a lot of different systems. You know, some of it's
- 41:53Speaker 1: on you. I mean, Cooks is just I like Brandon Cooks.
- 41:57Speaker 1: I mean I like him a lot. I just feel
- 41:58Speaker 1: like I don't understand why he's getting the pass here.
- 42:02Speaker 1: I mean he needs to get open. One catch for
- 42:05Speaker 1: seven yards. I mean there's opportunities to make the plays
- 42:08Speaker 1: that You're right. They could scheme some things open for
- 42:11Speaker 1: him and I think he'd be fine. Maybe they need
- 42:13Speaker 1: to do that create a little bit more balance. But
- 42:16Speaker 1: like I said, at least at least my number one
- 42:18Speaker 1: receivers getting sixteen targets and he's catching eleven of him
- 42:21Speaker 1: for almost two hundred yards. Another career high. I think
- 42:25Speaker 1: haven't looked this up, but I think three players had
- 42:28Speaker 1: career highs in receiving yards yesterday. I mean no Lamb
- 42:30Speaker 1: did at one ninety one, ninety one for Ferguson that
- 42:34Speaker 1: seems like a career high, and forty nine for Tolbert.
- 42:37Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I don't remember him doing more than that.
- 42:40Speaker 1: So pretty big day in first career touchdown for Polyden.
- 42:44Speaker 1: And since we're talking to records, let's just say it.
- 42:46Speaker 1: I mean Brandon Aubrey amazing, I mean amazing to start
- 42:51Speaker 1: your career with an NFL record nineteen consecutive field goals,
- 42:56Speaker 1: that is unreal. I'll be honest. He missed the first
- 43:00Speaker 1: extra point of the season. I didn't think he would
- 43:02Speaker 1: make it past week two or three, but he hasn't
- 43:06Speaker 1: missed anything since every extra point tried yesterday, but you know,
- 43:11Speaker 1: he still got the jink off the off the crossbar.
- 43:14Speaker 1: But he's made everything, every field goal, every kick did
- 43:20Speaker 1: kick the ball out of bounds. That was tough. That
- 43:22Speaker 1: that led to a touchdown started at the forty yard line.
- 43:26Speaker 1: But still Brandon Aubrey, congratulations, NFL record, pretty pretty amazing.
- 43:29Speaker 1: And it' sounds like he's just getting a lot of
- 43:31Speaker 1: chip shots either. He'd started off with twenty eight thirty yarders,
- 43:34Speaker 1: he's been hitt nailing these fifty yarders as well. So
- 43:37Speaker 1: a good job for Brandon Aubrey. All right, Pete in Connecticut, Pete,
- 43:41Speaker 1: what's up?
- 43:42Speaker 15: Hey? How are you?
- 43:43Speaker 1: Nick good Man? How are you doing good?
- 43:46Speaker 15: I just want to say, I really think Dak played
- 43:49Speaker 15: a heck of a game in the situation he's been.
- 43:52Speaker 1: I think hello, agreed, yes, yeah.
- 43:55Speaker 15: And I think a lot of our fans are forgetting
- 43:58Speaker 15: how exactly how hostile Philadelphia is go and playing. And
- 44:04Speaker 15: I think that our defense played pretty well, but we
- 44:07Speaker 15: got to get to the quarterback a little more. I
- 44:09Speaker 15: feel like our team just has a hard time beating
- 44:13Speaker 15: these upper echelon teams. You know, we always seem to
- 44:16Speaker 15: beat up on the weaker teams. But when it comes
- 44:19Speaker 15: to San Francisco, Philadelphia and even Green Bay back in
- 44:23Speaker 15: the day, we just it just always seems like we
- 44:25Speaker 15: lose in the weirdest ways. And I think Dak's gonna
- 44:29Speaker 15: come back stronger than ever. And I think we're gonna
- 44:31Speaker 15: beat the Eagles on our home turf. Thank you so
- 44:35Speaker 15: much for doing you.
- 44:37Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you can. You can say that they
- 44:40Speaker 1: don't seem to, you know, win these games, and you
- 44:42Speaker 1: can also just make the case that maybe they're not
- 44:44Speaker 1: as good. I mean, maybe that's just the level that
- 44:46Speaker 1: they're at right now, is that they're a little bit
- 44:49Speaker 1: behind I thought. I think the Eagles, I think they're
- 44:54Speaker 1: a little bit of a better team. I say all that,
- 44:57Speaker 1: but then I also believe that they're gonna come back
- 45:00Speaker 1: here and in in uh at AT and T Stadium.
- 45:03Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys will win that game. And and
- 45:05Speaker 1: like I said, if you go when you play them,
- 45:08Speaker 1: you know in the playoffs, let's go. I mean, Cowboys
- 45:12Speaker 1: aren't going to be afraid of them, so, you know,
- 45:15Speaker 1: or playing up in Philly, I think I think that
- 45:17Speaker 1: that's one thing that that was that was kind of
- 45:20Speaker 1: proved there. So I think I think it was you know,
- 45:23Speaker 1: it was a tough loss because you had a chance
- 45:25Speaker 1: to win. When you get down on the six yard line,
- 45:27Speaker 1: you should win. You should be able to score, and
- 45:30Speaker 1: you should be able to win. But I know this, I,
- 45:34Speaker 1: like I said before, I think the Cowboys are I
- 45:36Speaker 1: feel better about them. I think they're a better team
- 45:38Speaker 1: than than they than I thought they were twenty four
- 45:42Speaker 1: hours ago. I mean, I I really do. I think
- 45:44Speaker 1: that they're a better football team than I thought. So
- 45:47Speaker 1: that's good. And then when you look at the schedule
- 45:48Speaker 1: coming up, they're five and three right now. They have
- 45:51Speaker 1: a chance of stack some wins together here, but it
- 45:53Speaker 1: starts this week against the Giants for sure. All right,
- 45:55Speaker 1: last caller, Ronnie in Jersey, Ronnie, what's up?
- 45:58Speaker 17: Hey, Good morning morning. That's too bad, Thanks Nick. I
- 46:03Speaker 17: actually agreed, this was a good game. I know it
- 46:07Speaker 17: sucks we lost or whatever, but the way we played,
- 46:12Speaker 17: I had us losing this game. You know. I called
- 46:15Speaker 17: you on Friday and I was like, I'm nervous, and
- 46:17Speaker 17: you said, no, you're ancient, and I'm like, you know what, Yeah,
- 46:20Speaker 17: I'm anxious about this game and the way I saw
- 46:25Speaker 17: the these guys goal into a hostile stadium, and to me,
- 46:30Speaker 17: I thought it was going to be forty nine Ers
- 46:32Speaker 17: week all over again, and I was pleasantly surprised we
- 46:35Speaker 17: played well.
- 46:36Speaker 16: Uh.
- 46:37Speaker 17: The only thing I wanted to say was what's going
- 46:39Speaker 17: on with Steele. This is not the first game like
- 46:44Speaker 17: Steel has been playing that old season. I know he's
- 46:48Speaker 17: coming back from an injury, but it isn't here a
- 46:52Speaker 17: point in time where in the season where this guy
- 46:54Speaker 17: just keeps on giving up sacks and people are just
- 46:56Speaker 17: blowing by him and you gotta like, at least hey
- 46:59Speaker 17: rest him. Maybe you have to rest him and put
- 47:01Speaker 17: somebody else in there.
- 47:02Speaker 1: No, I don't. I don't believe that. No, No, I
- 47:05Speaker 1: don't think. I don't. I don't think we're at that
- 47:06Speaker 1: level either. I think you have to play through this injury. Uh.
- 47:09Speaker 1: And that's what you have to play through, the rehab
- 47:12Speaker 1: part of the injury. He's healthy enough to play, he's
- 47:14Speaker 1: got to be able to get you know, get his
- 47:16Speaker 1: quickness back and that you know, with the timing and
- 47:20Speaker 1: everything that that just takes some time to do that.
- 47:22Speaker 1: I think he'll be fine. I really believe that.
- 47:27Speaker 17: Well, I just wanted to say that this was a
- 47:29Speaker 17: good game. I think we're gonna I agree with you,
- 47:32Speaker 17: moving forward, they're gonna look a lot better. We got
- 47:34Speaker 17: to beat these games. We got to beat these teams
- 47:36Speaker 17: that are coming up and see what happens from here
- 47:38Speaker 17: to the end of the season. But I'm not I'm
- 47:40Speaker 17: not jumping up bread No. Thanks for taking my time
- 47:44Speaker 17: against the time.
- 47:44Speaker 1: So yeah, thanks Ronnie. Appreciate that. Thanks Ronnie for calling
- 47:48Speaker 1: good good uh good group of callers today, Levin calls
- 47:51Speaker 1: you guys have you know, had some concerns and disappointment
- 47:54Speaker 1: with the loss, but for the most part, you know,
- 47:56Speaker 1: I think they see the big picture. The big picture
- 47:58Speaker 1: is is that you know, the Ego are one of
- 48:01Speaker 1: the best teams in the league, if not the best.
- 48:03Speaker 1: They have the best record, and the Cowboys are right there.
- 48:06Speaker 1: And when you get down to it in the playoffs,
- 48:09Speaker 1: that's what you want to be is you want to
- 48:10Speaker 1: be a chance to go win and if that is
- 48:12Speaker 1: the toughest team you have to face in that environment,
- 48:16Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys will have confidence going into that,
- 48:18Speaker 1: probably more confidence than the forty nine ers. And again
- 48:22Speaker 1: they'll get to play the Eagles again, so we'll see,
- 48:25Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. But first things first, they got
- 48:27Speaker 1: to take on the Giants this week. Looks like the
- 48:29Speaker 1: Giants lost their quarterback out for the season and Daniel Jones,
- 48:33Speaker 1: but they've been playing with some other guys as well,
- 48:34Speaker 1: so in the divisional matchup. But the Cowboys got to
- 48:36Speaker 1: figure out a way to bounce back and do that.
- 48:39Speaker 1: All right, great, great show, appreciate you guys. Coming up next,
- 48:44Speaker 1: we've got the Break, The Break, you guys know the show.
- 48:48Speaker 1: They'll be on here. They'll be talking in the next
- 48:51Speaker 1: ten minutes or so, so stay with us. They will
- 48:53Speaker 1: be getting in here, getting hooked up, getting ready to go.
- 48:56Speaker 1: And then after that, all day long, the same stuff,
- 48:58Speaker 1: same line up, mixed shots with the boys, players, lounge
- 49:01Speaker 1: girls talk, boys talk. We'll do that all day long,
- 49:04Speaker 1: all right. For Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. We will
- 49:06Speaker 1: see you tomorrow. Cowboy storyline.
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