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  Speaker 1: Is a production of Dallas Cowboys.com and the Dallas Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: football club. This is Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette, the
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  Speaker 1: official shave of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning and welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It's Monday, September
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  Speaker 2: the 14th. More importantly, It's the first game, first show
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  Speaker 2: after the first game, and, man, it's certainly not going
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  Speaker 2: to be pretty because that game wasn't what we expected. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys, there's so much anticipation for what we were
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  Speaker 2: going to see in the Meadowlands, and there's no way,
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  Speaker 2: there's just no way we're going to see the same
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  Speaker 2: defense we saw last year, and we didn't. Maybe worse
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  Speaker 2: in some aspects. Couldn't get off the field. Couldn't make
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  Speaker 2: the plays. Ball didn't bounce their way. They made a
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  Speaker 2: couple of turnovers and jarred the ball loose. But one
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  Speaker 2: way or another, the result wasn't any different. They made,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and we're not talking about the all-world players
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  Speaker 2: on the other side of the ball. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: young second-year guys that still need some developing as well.
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  Speaker 2: But you wouldn't know it after that game because the Cowboys–
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  Speaker 2: Last year, we're really good at making young players, quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 2: and running backs look like Pro Bowl level, and that's
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  Speaker 2: exactly what happened Sunday night. Cowboys lose to the Giants 28-20,
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  Speaker 2: Jackson Dart. He was the best quarterback on the field
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  Speaker 2: for that game, and he didn't make any mistakes. Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: never rattled him, never forced him into making a bad decision,
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  Speaker 2: and he led his team to a touchdown drive every
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  Speaker 2: single quarter, kept the Cowboys off the field, and they
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  Speaker 2: win the game, and they were the most physical team
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  Speaker 2: for four quarters. So a lot to talk about here
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  Speaker 2: on Cowboys Storyline. All right, let's start us off here.
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  Speaker 2: Albert in Philly is first. Albert, what's up?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: What's up? What's up?
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  Speaker 5: Rough game last night. I'm going to make a couple
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  Speaker 5: of statements, three statements, and I'll take it off Eric's.
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  Speaker 5: First play of the game, actually, first day of the job,
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  Speaker 5: Jotty took the job. He wants to be a running
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  Speaker 5: football team. Why are you motioning a non-blocking tight end
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  Speaker 5: into the fullback position? And if we're going to be
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  Speaker 5: a strong running team, we have to get under center.
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  Speaker 5: We can't be running out of shotgun formation. That's just...
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  Speaker 5: That's not power football, and that way we only use
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  Speaker 5: Hunter Lipke. Now, also, the first George Pickens drop, the
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  Speaker 5: ref was coming up to call offsides on the defense,
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  Speaker 5: but then they changed the legal shift from a ref
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  Speaker 5: 40 yards back. I really don't understand it. And six
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  Speaker 5: plays for three downs, six downs for Caleb Adams. If
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  Speaker 5: he's not going to be in the slot, why can't
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  Speaker 5: he play in the base?
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  Speaker 3: Be well, Nick.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, Albert. A lot of stuff there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're not really a powerful football team. They're just not
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  Speaker 2: right now, or they weren't last night. Because if you
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  Speaker 2: are a power football team, then you have the confidence
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  Speaker 2: to get a half of a yard. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: still don't know about that spot with George Pickens Catching
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  Speaker 2: the ball for– it looked like a first down to me.
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  Speaker 2: And then, you know, replay assist said his knee was down,
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  Speaker 2: so it's half yard back. It's fourth and one. You know,
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  Speaker 2: power football teams get that. And then when you– or
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  Speaker 2: they at least attempt it. And then when you go
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  Speaker 2: to the second quarter and they call a touchdown with
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  Speaker 2: Javante Williams and come back and say, no, the ball's
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  Speaker 2: on the half yard line. And then you go to
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  Speaker 2: shotgun and throw it. If– there's other officials that would
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  Speaker 2: have called pass interference on, on CD lamb on the,
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  Speaker 2: on a push off there. Cause I've seen, I've seen,
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  Speaker 2: you know, less than that or, you know, get that call.
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  Speaker 2: So makes me wonder if, if, you know, here you
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  Speaker 2: are and you're in your, you know, you, you want
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  Speaker 2: to play smash ball football, but you really, you really don't.
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  Speaker 2: And they did it in that game. So that was
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  Speaker 2: the alarming part to me. And I thought, You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to say I know Albert had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different points here about the running game and
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  Speaker 2: all that power running and putting Ferguson in there. But
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  Speaker 2: to me, I thought the tone of the game was
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  Speaker 2: set right off the bat when you don't go for
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  Speaker 2: it on fourth and inches. You know, that's just it
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  Speaker 2: energized the Giants, energized their crowd. It showed that here
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  Speaker 2: come the Cowboys and their big bad offense come in
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  Speaker 2: and they don't think they can get this yard. and
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  Speaker 2: so they're going to punt it away. I thought that
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  Speaker 2: was a tone-setting play right there and pretty surprising, if
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  Speaker 2: you ask me. All right, Irene in Falls Church, Virginia. Irene,
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  Speaker 2: what's up? Irene was there last night.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, yes. Yeah, we're in New Jersey right now on I-95.
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  Speaker 6: But first of all, I thank you guys for meeting
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  Speaker 6: with us. I didn't put it on my bucket list
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  Speaker 6: that I'd be fist-pumping people through an NFL net. That
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  Speaker 6: was cool, and we got to meet with Kristen Saratoga today. But, wow,
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  Speaker 6: that game was not at all what I expected. I
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  Speaker 6: almost got the teams, but that was a shock. The
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  Speaker 6: crowd was into it, the whole 9-11 thing. I don't
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  Speaker 6: know where Cowboys Nation besides the Storyliners were. There were
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  Speaker 6: not that many Cowboys fans there, and I'm not used
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  Speaker 6: to that living and going to Washington games. It's very,
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  Speaker 6: very different. I'm not going to lie. I don't know
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  Speaker 6: what the heck that defense is, and I don't really
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  Speaker 6: have hope for this season. So the cool thing is
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  Speaker 6: I'm just going to enjoy the ride because now I
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  Speaker 6: do not have even playoff expectations after that. But I
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  Speaker 6: don't want to be a total W downer. There's two
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  Speaker 6: things that may be common on this that would have
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  Speaker 6: changed the game significantly. So let's say Pickens gets one
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  Speaker 6: of those picks. two or three drops passes, and let's
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  Speaker 6: say one more of the turnover-worthy plays that we have
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  Speaker 6: five of actually bounces our way, that could have changed
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  Speaker 6: the complexion game. If you could comment on that, and
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  Speaker 6: I'll take it off air. And thank you so much
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  Speaker 6: again for the experience. It's been a great game.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks.
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  Speaker 8: Bye.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, Irene. And, you know, that's just...
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  Speaker 2: That's the typical Monday morning call and the frustration there
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  Speaker 2: because in the same sentence of saying, I don't feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's going to be a lost season now. I
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  Speaker 2: don't feel like we're going to make the playoffs. And
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  Speaker 2: then pinpoint three or four different plays that change the
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  Speaker 2: course of the game. You lost by eight points to
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  Speaker 2: a team that you just didn't know what to expect from.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Hall of Fame type coach, but you don't
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  Speaker 2: know how quickly it's going to take to turn things around.
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  Speaker 2: playing with the energy, playing with the, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: 9-11 crowd and all of that stuff. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the ball just didn't bounce the Cowboys way. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not sitting here saying that, you know, everything's fine, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be fine. I'm not saying that. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: saying if you knock the ball out of the opponent's
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  Speaker 2: hand four times– The fact that you only get one
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  Speaker 2: of them, it's just not always going to work that way.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to get the ball. They were knocking them out.
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  Speaker 2: Caleb knocked it out. And it goes right to a
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  Speaker 2: lineman who turns and goes eight yards with it. Are
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  Speaker 2: you serious? Imagine what we're talking about today if that
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  Speaker 2: ball bounces the other way. The Cowboys pick it up.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe their lineman's running. And then we're talking about Caleb
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  Speaker 2: Downs making a play. So all I'm saying is it's
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  Speaker 2: one football game. Let's not get into it. what the
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  Speaker 2: expectations are and things like that. Games like that can
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  Speaker 2: change quickly. I just don't expect George Pickens to drop
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  Speaker 2: passes like that. I don't expect Dak to make the
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  Speaker 2: decision he made. He didn't make the wrong decision. He
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  Speaker 2: threw it away. He didn't throw it hard enough. He
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  Speaker 2: just didn't get enough on it. I mean, that guy
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  Speaker 2: for the Giants is not making that play. It was
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  Speaker 2: just a perfect play for the Giants and a bad
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  Speaker 2: play for Dak. But we've got problems here. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: dismissing that. There's problems, but they're 0-1. That's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: If these problems continue all year long like we saw
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  Speaker 2: last year, then that's going to be a really awful trend.
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  Speaker 2: But let's see if it happens before we go too
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  Speaker 2: far down the road there. All right, let's go Chris
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  Speaker 2: in Saratoga Springs, also with Irene last night. So, Chris,
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  Speaker 2: what's up?
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  Speaker 9: I just want to thank you and Bean for coming
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  Speaker 9: down and finding us and saying hello. That was the
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  Speaker 9: highlight of my night last night.
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  Speaker 4: That's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry for that. I'm sorry that that was the
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  Speaker 2: highlight of the night.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: As far as the game goes, very disappointing, obviously. It's
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  Speaker 9: week one, so I'm not too worried about it. If
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  Speaker 9: we're doing this multiple weeks, then I'm going to get worried.
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  Speaker 9: I want to start off with what I thought was
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  Speaker 9: good in the game. Let's go there. I thought Tyler
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  Speaker 9: Dryden played great on the left side. I think he
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  Speaker 9: only gave up maybe two pressures. I thought he played
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  Speaker 9: really well. Caleb Downs I thought played well, too. He
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  Speaker 9: played a lot more safety than I thought he was
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  Speaker 9: going to last night. The negatives, I guess, is that
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  Speaker 9: you just talked about it with the back interception. I
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  Speaker 9: don't know necessarily I'm upset with that as much as
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  Speaker 9: the play calling because me sitting in the stands when
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  Speaker 9: we got that ball, I'm just like run the clock out.
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  Speaker 9: Let's get to the half 7-7 and then reset, make
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  Speaker 9: some halftime adjustments. And then they called a timeout when
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  Speaker 9: I thought they should have just let the clock run.
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  Speaker 9: And then we threw that interception. It really cost us
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  Speaker 9: because it's a huge difference going down 14-7 into the
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  Speaker 9: half and being tied to 7-7. Other than that, do
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  Speaker 9: you have any updates on D-Mo as far as injuries go?
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  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks for the call, Chris. I'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: that as far as the injuries go. Not really any
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  Speaker 2: more than what we heard last night. You know, you guys–
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  Speaker 2: I don't really know the schedule and how it goes, but,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we're getting in at 5 a.m., and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for me, it's taking kids to school and all that.
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  Speaker 2: I know Beam's already here and done a show or two, but,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm coming in hot. I got the keys here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm barely, you know, making it. So, no, there's no
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  Speaker 2: updates as far as I'm concerned. As far as what
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  Speaker 2: I've heard, going off of just what Shadi said last night,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you look at Overshawn, you know, he,
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  Speaker 2: he did something to his hamstring and it was non-contact really.
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  Speaker 2: And so he, he's, you know, limping around there. Let's
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  Speaker 2: see how, how bad it is. And then it's a
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  Speaker 2: fractured forearm for, for Millie Cooker. What does that mean
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  Speaker 2: as far, you know, sometimes guys play with things like that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it'll be, he'll be playing next week, but, um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Overshawn's the one I think to, to watch there, uh,
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  Speaker 2: for sure. Cause he didn't play most of the fourth quarter, um, after,
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  Speaker 2: after that, that, uh, hamstring injury, um, And I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he played particularly great. I don't know how the
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  Speaker 2: grades go. And I haven't talked to coaches on that.
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  Speaker 2: I just know that he didn't have his best game,
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe, and had a costly penalty knocking the
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  Speaker 2: guy out of bounds. But, you know, going back to
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  Speaker 2: before the half, you, Chris, said it best here. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: no doubt that was the turning point in the game.
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  Speaker 2: The whole sequence there. of that drive. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys get a turnover, and so they finally do get
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  Speaker 2: the ball on the turnover, and Revell gets it, and
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  Speaker 2: they're back there a little bit. And then they start
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  Speaker 2: to drive, and you're thinking, if they can go get
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  Speaker 2: a field goal or a touchdown, take the lead, go
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  Speaker 2: into halftime. And Dak can't throw a better pass. He
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  Speaker 2: can't throw a better pass down the right sideline to Pickens,
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  Speaker 2: and he drops it. Just dropped it. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: just not what you expect. And then The timeout, I
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  Speaker 2: was totally with you on that. I did not understand.
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  Speaker 2: And at the time, I mean, not after the interception.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sitting there right there in the press box.
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  Speaker 4: Going, whoa, whoa.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you calling a timeout right then? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: let's have a little rhythm. Let's have a little tempo.
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  Speaker 2: Get up to the line. Get up to the line.
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  Speaker 2: Do something. but you're putting a lot of pressure on
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  Speaker 2: this third and five because you call a timeout right away,
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  Speaker 2: like boom. Well, that means you're going to go down
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  Speaker 2: and try to score a touchdown if you're calling a
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  Speaker 2: timeout there. If you're trying to go get a field goal, then,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just whatever you do, don't give the ball
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  Speaker 2: back to them. And even if that, even I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: expecting Dak to throw interception, but even by doing that,
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  Speaker 2: you're still going to punt it away and you're giving
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  Speaker 2: time for the Giants to go score and get a
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  Speaker 2: field goal or whatever. So I didn't like the clock
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  Speaker 2: management before the half there. And then, of course, the
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  Speaker 2: interception by Dak. I mean, that changed everything. Now the
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  Speaker 2: Giants get it at the 42. They go score, get
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  Speaker 2: the ball to start the third score. I mean, so
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  Speaker 2: after all of that, the next time the Cowboys really
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  Speaker 2: got the football to go score, they were down 21-7.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what a huge turn of events when really
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  Speaker 2: the mindset is to go down there and have a
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  Speaker 2: 10-7 lead. So you think you might be up three,
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  Speaker 2: and really the next time you get the ball, you're
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  Speaker 2: down 14. That whole sequence was really a 17-point swing
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  Speaker 2: to me. All right, Albert in Tucson is next.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, my man.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, Albert?
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  Speaker 11: Ooh. Okay.
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  Speaker 8: You guys are on a few hours of sleep, and
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  Speaker 8: so am I.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 8: But at the same time, look, I want to tell everybody,
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  Speaker 8: Cowboys Nation, everybody, relax, man.
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  Speaker 4: We still put up 21.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it could have been 21. We still put up
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  Speaker 8: 20 points on that defense. If we didn't really beat
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  Speaker 8: ourselves with drops, costly penalties and turnovers, you know, we're
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  Speaker 8: talking about a different outcome in this game, right? I
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  Speaker 8: think that we did beat ourselves, costly penalties at the
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  Speaker 8: wrong time. And it's just, you know, something that not
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  Speaker 8: starting your starters in preseason, you don't build that momentum.
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  Speaker 8: So you're going to start from game one of the season.
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  Speaker 8: And I just still have a positive outlook. The one
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  Speaker 8: question I do have, though, I mean, you didn't see
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  Speaker 8: a lot of press in the game. which didn't make sense.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you had likely never heard of that guy.
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  Speaker 8: It was A for A, I believe. No one ever
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  Speaker 8: tried to break his route. No one ever tried to
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  Speaker 8: press him, change his route, nothing. The question I have, though,
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  Speaker 8: from what you saw and after this game, whose seat
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  Speaker 8: just got hotter, Christian Parker's for shoddies. That's all I got.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you guys for everything. Thank you for that. Uh,
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  Speaker 8: even though you guys are in a couple hours of sleep,
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  Speaker 8: keep on grinding.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: And that's what makes storyliners, storyliners.
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  Speaker 10: Uh, take care.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, Albert.
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  Speaker 2: Um, well, if, you know, if you'd never heard of
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah likely, I mean, that's, um, you know, that's, that
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  Speaker 2: means just don't play fantasy football or, you know, watch,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Ravens play. He's, he's, he's a good player. He's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's a solid player for them. And he's had a
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  Speaker 2: couple of moments, you know, last year, I believe where
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  Speaker 2: he almost, they almost won the game on a, on
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  Speaker 2: a touchdown catch that was called back. But he, he
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  Speaker 2: had some moments that I know for sure for them. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, one of those players that Harbaugh definitely wanted
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  Speaker 2: to bring over from Baltimore to, to the giants and
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  Speaker 2: like a core type player. He was, he was phenomenal
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  Speaker 2: in this game. And Ricard was the fullback. He also
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  Speaker 2: recovered one of those key fumbles. Um, I'm looking at
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  Speaker 2: the penalties. You mentioned penalties at Cowboys for nine of
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  Speaker 2: 90 and a giant's 10 of one 14. So the
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  Speaker 2: giants had a lot of penalties to, um, hot seat.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't believe in that. And that's, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's not a thing. I just, in
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  Speaker 2: this particular case, I don't, I don't think the, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think anything's warm, you know, um, when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to hot seats, it's one game of the season. And, um,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Christian Parker's going to have time to develop
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  Speaker 2: his guys. So, you know, I mean, again, I don't
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  Speaker 2: mean to turn your guys' statements around on you because
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  Speaker 2: I did it with Irene and I'll do it again
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  Speaker 2: with Albert. But if you think preseason's a factor, if
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  Speaker 2: you think the fact that they didn't play their guys
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  Speaker 2: in preseason and you think that's a strategy the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: need to change, I'm not saying you're wrong. But let's
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  Speaker 2: not talk about hot seats. I mean, if you think
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  Speaker 2: it's because they're not in rhythm yet because they haven't
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  Speaker 2: been on the field and they need to, then let's
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  Speaker 2: call that and say that's what it is. And maybe
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  Speaker 2: we'll figure out next year, maybe next year they should
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: change that approach. But if you think that they're not
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: in right rhythm because they haven't played on the field together,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: then let's not talk about who's on the hot seat
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: or not. Let's just say they got to get there.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: They have 16 more games to do that. So let's
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: don't go crazy here, guys. Blair in Newport News, Virginia.
• 18:10
  Speaker 12: Hey, Nick.
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: Normally on a day after a cowboy loss and for
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: like the next three days, I go on media blackout
• 18:20
  Speaker 10: where I just, I can't look at anything. I can't
• 18:22
  Speaker 10: listen to anything.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: Devastated.
• 18:26
  Speaker 10: But I felt like I had to call in today
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: because of all the discussion about getting punched in the
• 18:31
  Speaker 10: face and hopefully seeing some changes and everything like that.
• 18:34
  Speaker 10: And Obviously, I don't want to go over all the
• 18:37
  Speaker 10: stuff that people have mentioned, but I have a question
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: for you because I'm not an X's and O's guy.
• 18:43
  Speaker 10: I just don't have that knowledge base. But what was
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: so strange to me is how, you know, after the interception,
• 18:50
  Speaker 10: I get that was unexpected and maybe some poor decisions.
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: The Giants go down and basically three plays with passes
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: to guys that were wide open, and it looked just
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: like last season. but then as depressing as that was,
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: you come back after the half and it's immediately apparent
• 19:12
  Speaker 10: that you really don't have an answer for this defense,
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: both running and passing. And so my, my question from
• 19:21
  Speaker 10: an X and O standpoint is how does, how does
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: this defense look so similar to last year? When you
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: have changed scheme, you've changed a lot of the personnel
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: and you've changed the coach. Cause I, I gotta be honest. If,
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: If I anticipated or thought it was going to be
• 19:38
  Speaker 10: a bad outcome, I didn't see it being because we
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: looked just like last year. I would have thought it
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: was something else, like they won the turnover battle or they,
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: you know, won... just couldn't get the run game going
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: or something. It, it didn't, I didn't think it would
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: look like this. And so if you could speak to
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: that and, and just know that, uh, you know, I
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: wish I could not be a fan after bleak moments,
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: but as you always say, you know, like this chooses you,
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: I have to go forward and, whether I think it's
• 20:10
  Speaker 10: going to be rosy or whether it's just one bad
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: week or whether we're Super Bowl bound. I don't have
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: a choice, so I'm just trying to process all this
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: as we go through. Thanks for the help, and hang
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: in there to you and Chris, and get some sleep
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: after the show if you can. We appreciate all that
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: you do. Thanks so much.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Blair. I feel for you guys today. I mean,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: you guys are really going through it. And... It was
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: a huge letdown. There's no doubt. I can't another say
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: it in any other way. I'm not going to sit
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: here today and tell you not to feel that way
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: or that you shouldn't. I just want to reiterate it's
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: a long season. That's all. I wrote this in my article.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I said it. I don't know. We do so many shows.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: We do so many things now with all these videos.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's one that I did on
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: my own Twitter account or the Keeping It Cowboys account.
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Or this morning on the FANT. But some of my
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: favorite seasons that I've ever covered this team, 2014, that
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: was a great year. You know, Des still caught it. 2016,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Dak and Zeke. 2003, you know, with Bill Parcells' first year.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: 2021 and 2022 with Mike, you know, those two years.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Every one of those seasons started out 0-1-1. And I
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: know you guys know this. I'm not trying to sit
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: there and harp on this. I'm just saying I've seen
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: some really good seasons, some fun seasons, where it started
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: out with a loss. And so if I might have
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: had some of my years mixed up there, but I
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: know it's true on some of those. So I'm not
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: going to go into all of that about, wow, what
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: does this really mean? You lost by eight points. You know,
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: you lost by a touchdown. I don't really know what
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Javante was doing on that play, but then you still
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: expect Aubrey to make it. I mean, if it's an
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: extra point of 48 yards, you expect him to make it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: So that wasn't... But Aubrey had another kick, you know,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: kicking into the end zone. It wasn't Aubrey's best game.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I know that. The question that Blair asked is, why
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: does it look the same?
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Why is it the main... The main takeaway here is
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: that it looks the same. And it's really not that
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: hard to figure out because it all stems from one thing, pressure.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: If you don't get any pressure on these guys, it
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: is going to look the same. Jackson Dart is going
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: to look really good. And I'm not saying he's not
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: going to be, but he looked really good last night.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: But Bryce Young from Carolina and some of these other
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: guys that they just made have all-world games because you
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: don't get any pressure on them. And so until that changes,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: then it is what it is. We saw a little
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: bit of, you know, you saw blitz every now and again.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: You know, Caleb Downs off the edge. But when it's
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: just front four, just four, I mean, Giants got pressure
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: with their guys. And you expected their front four to
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: be better. Didn't get a ton of pressure. The Cowboys,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I thought, blocked it pretty well. But for the most part,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, the Cowboys just, didn't get to the quarterback.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: And so new coordinator, new guys, new players on the
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: back end, draft Caleb Downs, get these secondary guys, get
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: a new linebacker, who's the green dot, get another guy
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: on the defensive tackle, get Rashawn Gary, all these other things.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: If you're not getting to the quarterback, it's going to
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: look the same. And it felt the same. I got
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: to take a break. Sorry. I know we have a
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: couple of callers on the line. I'm going to take
• 23:55
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• 23:59
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• 25:52
  Speaker 2: let's go to Dylan in Northport, Florida. Dylan, what's up?
• 25:56
  Speaker 15: Hey, man. I'm just going to rapid-fire real quick a
• 25:58
  Speaker 15: few things. I'm going to jump off and get some
• 26:00
  Speaker 15: other callers in. First off, thank you guys for the quick.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: Turnaround on Monday.
• 26:04
  Speaker 15: I know it's a long flight for you guys, so
• 26:05
  Speaker 15: thanks for being our Monday morning therapist.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Appreciate that.
• 26:08
  Speaker 15: You're keeping the Cowboys stuff, dude. You said last week
• 26:11
  Speaker 15: when I talked to you, you're trying to do the
• 26:12
  Speaker 15: content creation kind of stuff, that angle, and you guys
• 26:15
  Speaker 15: are nailing that, absolutely nailing that. I think that's becoming
• 26:17
  Speaker 15: some of my favorite Cowboys content, so please.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Keep doing those.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. Regarding the game, two shout-outs.
• 26:25
  Speaker 15: Tyler Guyton went up against a guy that got 16.5
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: sacks last year, and he gave up two pressures all game.
• 26:30
  Speaker 15: So a phenomenal start to the season for Tyler Guyton.
• 26:33
  Speaker 15: Caleb Downs, everything that we were promised he did. He
• 26:37
  Speaker 15: had two receptions against him for seven yards. He had
• 26:40
  Speaker 15: the blitz off the edge, off the spot blitz there,
• 26:42
  Speaker 15: forced a fumble. Unfortunately, the fumble went right into the
• 26:45
  Speaker 15: arms of an offensive lineman. But I think the storyline
• 26:48
  Speaker 15: of the game, is just that you had a chance
• 26:51
  Speaker 15: at five turnovers, and when you're getting kind of beat
• 26:53
  Speaker 15: up on the ground and having a tough time stopping
• 26:56
  Speaker 15: these guys, the great equalizer is trying to be turnovers.
• 26:59
  Speaker 15: You had a shot at five of them, and you
• 27:00
  Speaker 15: came up with one of them. So I think that's
• 27:02
  Speaker 15: the biggest storyline of the game for me, and hopefully
• 27:04
  Speaker 15: they keep putting balls on the ground, and eventually it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 15: going to even out, and they'll start coming away with
• 27:08
  Speaker 15: some of those. So we'll see what they can do
• 27:10
  Speaker 15: this next week. But, yeah, that's all I got, man.
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, Dylan. Yeah, you said, you know, Caleb Downs,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: made a play in the ball went to alignment alignment
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: with with some wheels just took off and got like
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: eight yards um you know that that was big that
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: was i thought that was going to be a turning
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: point too because they didn't get that ball but then
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: they'd got a fumble like a couple plays later uh
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: with another guy you know with um it was quinn
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and williams that knocked that ball out and uh revel
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: got it and that you know i changed the whole
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: i changed the whole trajectory of the half but um Yeah,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Tyler Guyton, he did play well. I'm looking at the
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: stats for the Giants. Burns, two tackles, and Thibodeau with two.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Didn't get a ton of pressures. But they did generate
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: some pass rush, and they did a nice job. I mean,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I think the Giants.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Their best defense was their offense. Their offense did a
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: masterful job of just keeping the ball away. It was
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: an absolute perfect game plan for them. The coin toss
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: was big because they got the ball to start the
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: third quarter. When you think about how you want things
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: to go, You're like, I would love, I mean, because
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: you got the crowd, you got all the 9-11 ceremonial
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: things before the game. So the crowd's in it. They're
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: fired up. There are, you know, it doesn't matter. It's
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: week one, Giants, everyone's excited. So the perfect scenario for
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: John Harbaugh and his team is to win the toss, defer,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: get that crowd going on defense, and stop the Cowboys.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Not only did that happen, but then the Cowboys kind
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: of showed, you know, told you, like, we don't think
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: we can get this. We don't think we can get
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: this half a yard, so we're going to punt it
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: to you guys. You guys won. You guys won this
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: battle right here in the trenches. We don't feel like
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: we can do it, so our best thing we do
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: is offense. We don't think we can get a half yard,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: so we're going to punt it to you guys. They
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: go and score. They get one touchdown in the first,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: one in the second, one in the third, one in
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: the fourth, and they did it in a methodical way
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: that just kept the Cowboys off. So it was an
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: absolute perfect a storm for the Giants and the way
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: they wanted to call the game. so and it worked
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: all right I'm a in Napa California I'm.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: A hey what's up Nick good morning how are you
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: good Man, I'm glad you brought up the coin toss.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I thought that that was huge just because how much
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: they controlled the ball or how well they controlled the ball.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: I thought that that was huge by them winning the
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: coin toss just because it was such a big deal
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: for them to get the ball in the second half. Obviously,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: they did what they were supposed to do by driving
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: all the way down the field on us and scoring.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that was, that was huge. Um, I think the,
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: the other things, man, it's just, um, you know, everyone
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: has to maybe cooler heels a little bit as game one. Um, the, the,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: the rookies played like rookies, you know, on defense, uh, Malachi,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: anytime there was any traffic in front of them, it's
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: like his eyes were just like spinning. Like he, you know, any,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: anybody that came into his space, it was like that
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: automatically took away his eyes. And then it was like,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: he just forgot his assignment. Um, And then same with
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: Barham as well. Like, you know, he's like on a destroying,
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: destructive mission all the time. But it's like when he's
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: in space, it was like he didn't know where to
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: go unless he was attacking the ball. But I feel
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: like all of those things are, you know, kind of
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: fixable with time. And, you know, obviously it's like not
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: a lot of time. They have to get it going
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: right away. But one other thing I wanted to bring
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: up and see what you thought about it was– Did
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: you feel like Parker, like, stopped blitzing? Like, some, like,
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: you know, basically... you know, it was like he didn't
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: blitz in the beginning and they scored and then he
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: started blitzing. And then it was like, once, once we
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: had the, once we backed through the interception and it
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: was like, we didn't want to give a big play.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: And so we try to keep everything in front of us. Instead,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: it was just like chunk plays to move the ball down.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: And they ended up scoring. I felt like if you
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: would have stayed more aggressive and just continue to blitz,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: maybe we get out of that and hold them at
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: three points. Um, you know, maybe that changes the game, but,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: And the other thing is, is like, they never, he,
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: it never seemed like he adjusted, like on the broadcast,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: it was like clear, like anytime the fullback went in motion,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: you know, it was like the ball's going wherever the, the,
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: the fullback is going, wherever Ricard was going is like the,
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: that's where the, you know, the ball was being handed
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: off and scataboo or whoever else was going to follow
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: him dark, you know, and it's just like, there was
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: no adjustment to that. And I don't know.
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: Um, It's a long season.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: My head's up.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: I feel like the sun came.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Up this morning.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: We'll still be there, man. Nick, let me know what
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: you think.
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: Looking forward to the.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Rest of the season. All right.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the call. Anytime the defensive coordinator versus offensive coordinator,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: cat and mouse type thing, You know, it's it's kind
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: of that's how it works. I mean, and, you know,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: you dial up the blitz at the right time, you
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: can get burned by that, too. And and so I
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: thought the Giants did a good job of calling things
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: at the right time. I thought, you know, I write
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: an article about the five plays. Don't forget these five.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I thought the one. It was second and 10 on
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: the first drive of the game. Jackson Dart goes around
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: the edge and gets 22 yards and then Overshawn hits
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: him out of bounds. And so now it's 37 yards,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: you know, and it just totally flipped the field down there.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: But I thought... That was big, and then that led
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: to a touchdown. I also thought that that play, just
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: having it out there with success, that's why you do that.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Nobody wants to make a living, maybe Baltimore, but nobody
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: really wants to make a living out of running their
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: quarterback all the time. If you can do it, fine,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: be smart about it. But you throw that out in
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the first drive of the game the way they did,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: now that's another thing that you're looking for all the time.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: That's going to open things up for Scadaboo. And it did,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: it keeps their, you know, keeps their eyes peeled on,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: on dart all the time. And then I don't know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I really don't know what happened there on the, at
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: the end of the game with, with the little, you know,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: pass in the flat to the running back over and
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: over and over again. Like it, I tweeted this. It
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: reminded me of just when you, when you're playing in
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: a game and you're playing Madden or college football and
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: you You find that play that just works. You're like,
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I've got to keep running this play because the computer's
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: not going to stop it, so I've just got to
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: keep making the play. That's what it felt like, just
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: throwing out the Singletary again. All right, let's go Brian
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: in Kansas City.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: Good morning, sir. Hi. Man, I'm so glad, so grateful
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: that you guys are here on a really tough day.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Probably the second thought I had after the game was
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: over is, Wow, I've got to listen to people complain
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: all day after getting home. Did you get home at 4?
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: That was the schedule, right?
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Land at 4. Land at 4. Got home around... By
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: the time you get your bags and get off the tarmac,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: all that stuff is about 5 for me.
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: But....
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: You guys have a right, though. You guys have a
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: right to be upset by this. You've been fighting through
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: this thing all offseason, and the hope is there, and
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: you get excited about it. To lose is one thing,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: but to lose the same way that you lost last year,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: you shouldn't be upset. This is a show for it,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: so I knew. When we signed up for it, I
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: knew there was going to be days like this, right?
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: And that's what Mama said. And this is one of
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: those days. And guess what? My mom actually texted me
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: this morning. You know, she didn't sing that song, but
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: she basically texted me saying, hey, good luck today. So,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: you know, moms are undefeated, right?
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Man, as soon as you said that, that's exactly
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: what I thought of. Yep, Mama said there would be
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: days like this.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: And guess what?
• 35:49
  Speaker 12: It's today.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: Man, well, I'll keep my comments short. I do want
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: to second what Dylan said about the shorts. I really
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: love how you guys are doing that. It is so
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: different from any of the other content you've ever done before.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: I absolutely loved it. You're watching, you know, listening to
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: you and Tommy have your first thoughts as you're walking
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: out was just fantastic.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: That was pretty cool, wasn't it? I mean, I'm not
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: going to lie. I mean, it wasn't a fun conversation.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: But I thought that was a pretty neat thing that
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: we're trying. If you guys don't know what we're talking about,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: we're talking about Keeping It Cowboys. It's the channel. It's
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: on YouTube channel. TikTok channel, Instagram as well. And, you know,
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of content creators out there. You guys
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: see them. And they're doing a really good job from
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: their living room, from wherever they are. And that's basically like, hey,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: we can do the same thing from in the building,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: from at the game. And so that's kind of what
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: we're getting an opportunity to do. So shout out to
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Derek for, you know, really... you know, having that idea.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: And then, you know, Amber and her team is helping
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: running that, but it's, it's been, it's been fun.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: It's so different from what you're, you know, all your
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: other type of work and really appreciate it. So glad,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: glad you guys are doing that to get to the game.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: You know, I, I hate to say it, but remember,
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: remember what I said, I wanted to see what happens.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: And I wanted to see the adjustment, and we just
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: didn't do it. And you just, in the course with
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: I May Before Me, you just mentioned it. You know,
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: they throw that same pass at least four times in
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: a row. But throughout the game, they ran that play
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: a ton. And we never adjust. It was just like
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: watching the Jason Garrett administration watch Chaz Green give up
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: a sack and then run the same play again. Right.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: It was just awful. Like, okay, he's going to run
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: out to the left flat. Do we think we might
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: want to put somebody out there? And that was really
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: disturbing to me that we didn't adapt at all. So
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: for the fight in the trenches, it looked like we
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: just got manhandled. I don't know that that's necessarily scheme related.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: But to not have anybody near the ball, you know,
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: after they just ran that play three times.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: To me, that was probably the most disturbing thing is, okay,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: come on now, you've got to adapt. I understand that
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: you have a scheme, but you've got to adapt to say, okay,
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: we can't play it that way. And that was probably
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: the most disturbing part for me. I did not try
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: to watch the All-22 or look at the stats after
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: the game, so I'm glad to hear that there was
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: a little bit of positive news with Guyton maybe not
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: being a question mark now. We can go into next
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: week at least thinking, hey, there's some positive news there.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: And the other thing that was disturbing for me is
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: that in a game where weather was not a factor,
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: I didn't think Butter Aubrey looked good. It looked to
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: me like he could have missed one of the regular
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: extra points, and then he missed a 48th. with no
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: weather factor at all. I'm going to hang up, man.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: Let other people get in. Thanks for taking the call, Nick.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Thanks for making the time this morning. All right.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it. Thanks, Brian. We're just going to keep– actually,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: we'll take our final break here on Cowboys Storyline. We'll
• 39:38
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  Speaker 2: on Yeti.com. Let's go to Michael in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
• 41:08
  Speaker 12: Hey, man, what's up?
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: Hi.
• 41:10
  Speaker 12: Hey, had some really cool stuff happen yesterday at the game.
• 41:14
  Speaker 12: Got a video from some of the storyliners about an
• 41:17
  Speaker 12: hour before the game. That was cool. They found you,
• 41:20
  Speaker 12: and I saw some pictures of you with them. That
• 41:25
  Speaker 12: was pretty cool. That hit that Downs put on Dart,
• 41:29
  Speaker 12: that was pretty cool. I just got a question, and
• 41:33
  Speaker 12: then I'll take it offline so everybody else can get
• 41:35
  Speaker 12: through it. When it was 14 inches, were you thinking
• 41:40
  Speaker 12: let's punt our defense, get the ball back, or were
• 41:43
  Speaker 12: you thinking go for it like I was? All right.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, Michael. I appreciate it. I'll answer
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: that for sure. Like you were thinking it, you got
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: to go for it. And I have an opinion about that,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: and I'm really not trying to call anybody out. But
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: when you see how things are here at training camp,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: at the star, the way that this team conducts themselves,
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: the way the head coach kind of the swag that
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: he's got and that the defensive guy and then this
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: coaching staff has and your quarterback and the confidence that
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: they have, you know, They walk around a little bit,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: and this isn't a bad thing. I mean, I like
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: what I see for them, and I like all of
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: these guys, but there's an aura about them that's like, hey,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: we're going up to New York. We're going to go
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: up there, and we're going to get this game. We're
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: going to get this win. And a minute and a
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: half into the game, when you get fourth and inches,
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: and you're like, we're not going that. We're not going
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: to go for that. I mean, that makes no sense
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: to me. That doesn't match. what we see around here
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: that can you imagine a month ago sitting in oxnard
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: and going you know what's gonna happen they're gonna go
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: up to new york first game they're gonna get that
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: ball they're gonna throw it to pickets you're gonna get
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: a first down wait a second it's not gonna be
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: a first down they're gonna move it back a little
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: bit doesn't matter the fourth and one they're gonna get
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: there they're gonna line up and they're gonna they're they're
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: gonna punt it yeah they just don't feel like they
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: can get that half yard they're gonna punt it we'll
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: see what happens we'll put it on the defense What? Like,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: it just doesn't match up to me. And I'm not
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: trying to call people out. I'm just saying that's not
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: the same energy that we see around this football team,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: this offense, to go up there and take it. And
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: they punted it. And I thought that set the tone
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: for everything. I think the Giants, that energized the crowd.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Last caller. Sorry, Brandon in Fresno.
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: So, Nick, yeah, I'm with you, man. I think that's
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: what started the game off. Like, that's what kind of
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: went downhill after that. Like, half a yard, I thought
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: we should have went for it, honestly.
• 43:53
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: I thought that would have changed the whole game. It
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: would have changed. For me, it would have changed it.
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: Maybe we'd go three and out on the next drive
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: or whatever, but... I honestly think we should have changed
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: the momentum.
• 44:03
  Speaker 9: We would have been going and moving the ball.
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: I mean, it looked good and throwing it to pick
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: it right there. So I question that. And I think
• 44:10
  Speaker 7: it would have been a different game with all those turnovers. Honestly,
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: I really do. Like you said, that lineman's running so fast.
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: He gets eight yards. I don't know. The ball just
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: didn't bounce our way. I'm still optimistic about it. I just,
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: you know, defense got it.
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: I don't know, pick it up a little bit.
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: My question was on that pass with likely the touchdown
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: where he tiptoes in there, is that on Winters or
• 44:33
  Speaker 7: is that on Bland?
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got me on that one because I don't really,
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: I can't recall that one and I didn't see it.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, Brandon. Both, you know, I mean,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: on both of them, I really can't, I'm not going
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: to sit here and speculate because I don't know. You know,
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: they've They executed it right on the Giants and went
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: and made a play. Let me go back to what
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: I was saying, too, and kind of what Brandon was
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: mentioning about that, you know, about going for it on
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: fourth and inches. I mean, think about it from... The Giants'
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: game plan, it worked perfectly for what they wanted to do.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: They wanted to get their offense out there, keep it
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: away from the Cowboys' offense, and just move the ball,
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: move the ball, keep Dak on the sidelines, go there
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: and go win the game and score, get the opportunity,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: don't kick field goals, score touchdowns. and win the game.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Why don't the Cowboys have that mentality? I mean, yeah,
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: you think your defense is good, but so far it
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: hasn't been any different. But why isn't that the mentality
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: for the Cowboys offense? You get the ball to start
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: the game. You go down, you throw the ball to
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Pickens on third down. It looks like he makes it,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: but he didn't. You got Javante, you signed him. Yeah,
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: I know Bass is in there for Tyler Smith, but
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: go get a yard. You got a quarterback that you
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: can probably go get a half yard. I mean, I
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: don't know if that ever gets stopped. So to me,
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: why isn't that the Cowboys mentality to go and say,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: let's keep the ball away from their offense. Let's keep
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: our defense off the field and let's go down. Let's
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: be the team to go and get a touchdown to
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: start the game. And then we'll get the ball back
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: and we'll go do it again. And so I think
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: here's another part of it that always kind of confuses me.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: They kick any extra point. Any extra point you get
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: and all of a sudden there's a penalty running into
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: the kicker, offsides, leveraging, whatever on the defense. Well, do
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: you want to take the point off the board? Move
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: the ball a half yard up from the two-yard line
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: to the one? They go over there and go for it.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: I see it happen all the time. So the extra
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: point of two yards, they don't want to go for two.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: But if the ball gets moved to the one, you
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: know what? Let's go and get that. That's a mentality
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: all the time. So why on fourth and inches in
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: the first drive of the game– Why aren't you having
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: that same drive? So to me, that's where I thought
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: the game changed. I know I've not been harping on
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: it for a while, but I.
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: It did.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: It did change right then the mindset. It kind of
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: showed the Giants and their fans that the Cowboys' best
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: thing they do is offense, and they don't even think
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: they can get a half yard on us. So they're
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: going to pump this away and kind of went downhill
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: from there. All right, guys, thanks for the callers. We
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: got 10 in. I know you guys are frustrated. You
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: should be. It is one loss, but it was a
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: big one. It was a big loss because the way
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: they lost– It's hard to be, you know, to have
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: that same excitement. But there's 16 more of these. Like
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: I said, some of the best wins and best seasons
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: that I've been a part of started 0-1. And sometimes
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: some of the worst ones started 1-0. So it's one game.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: I think it was Dylan that said it last week.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: Week one can be a liar. Let's hope so for
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys' sake. You guys, appreciate the calls. We'll be
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: back tomorrow. So for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. See
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: you then on Cowboys Storyline.
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