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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:04Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys This is Cowboys Storyline
- 0:15Speaker 2: with Nick Eatman.
- 0:35Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That's just that's it.
- 0:39Speaker 3: That's all I can say is that I'm sorry, sorry
- 0:43Speaker 3: that this happens. Cowboys Storyline, Nick Eatmon, Tuesday, January sixteenth,
- 0:48Speaker 3: Season over. You guys know all that, but I just
- 0:53Speaker 3: feel I feel bad for everybody, But I definitely feel
- 0:56Speaker 3: for the fans because the fans, you guys.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Does serve it. You guys deserve better than this.
- 1:03Speaker 3: Not pointing fingers at anybody, because the Lord knows there
- 1:07Speaker 3: aren't enough fingers and toes and elbows to point at
- 1:11Speaker 3: for this one, because it was just it was an
- 1:13Speaker 3: absolute horrific game that you guys saw, and I'm probably
- 1:16Speaker 3: trying to get over, but I just that's, you know,
- 1:20Speaker 3: more than anything. In these last few months of doing
- 1:24Speaker 3: this show, it's kind of reconnected me to the fan
- 1:28Speaker 3: base a little bit more, because you know, when you
- 1:31Speaker 3: when you're doing shows like this and with three or
- 1:33Speaker 3: four other people, you sit in the press box all
- 1:35Speaker 3: the time, and you just kind of kind of more,
- 1:38Speaker 3: you know, disconnected from the fans. But this show has
- 1:40Speaker 3: kind of brought me back into not that I don't
- 1:42Speaker 3: know what it's like to be a fan, but it's
- 1:44Speaker 3: certainly a little bit different when you do the show
- 1:47Speaker 3: every day and to hear from you guys and all
- 1:48Speaker 3: the passion that you have, and to know just how
- 1:51Speaker 3: bad this one hurts. Hurts as much as any game
- 1:54Speaker 3: that I can remember, just because the expectations were so
- 1:58Speaker 3: high and the reality ended up being so low. I
- 2:02Speaker 3: don't know if I can remember a game that that
- 2:05Speaker 3: was that bad. Usually some of the other losses, I mean,
- 2:08Speaker 3: you're throwing into the end zone, you're trying to spike it,
- 2:10Speaker 3: trying to get a last second throw, whatever. But this
- 2:13Speaker 3: one was over in the second quarter and no one.
- 2:17Speaker 3: I don't think anybody saw that one coming. Doesn't matter
- 2:19Speaker 3: what state you live in, you didn't see that one coming,
- 2:22Speaker 3: all right? Eight eight eight, eight five five two two
- 2:25Speaker 3: nine sevens the number to call You can text at
- 2:27Speaker 3: eight one seven two nine zero three two nine eight.
- 2:30Speaker 1: This will be the last.
- 2:31Speaker 3: Show we do in the regular season format, the ten
- 2:36Speaker 3: am shows daily. We will go to weekly starting now,
- 2:42Speaker 3: but our show is going to be moving to the afternoon.
- 2:45Speaker 3: I'm a little a little worried about that because all
- 2:47Speaker 3: these callers that have called in that they're obviously worked
- 2:49Speaker 3: for your schedule at ten am.
- 2:51Speaker 1: We're going to be moving it to one pm.
- 2:53Speaker 3: So maybe there we pick up some callers that usually
- 2:56Speaker 3: can't call in the mornings or whatever. Hopefully we don't
- 2:58Speaker 3: lose that many, and we will be doing it, uh,
- 3:02Speaker 3: definitely once a week, working on twice a week. We'll
- 3:05Speaker 3: see how that goes. All right, let's get it started, though.
- 3:08Speaker 3: Michael Colton, California.
- 3:11Speaker 4: Hey, what's going on? Good morning to the whole Cowboys nation.
- 3:15Speaker 4: It's a man, Nick, You know, I like I told
- 3:19Speaker 4: you all year. Man, I wasn't trying to be negative
- 3:22Speaker 4: or anything, you know, but I call it how I
- 3:24Speaker 4: see it. You know, I'm from California. A lot of
- 3:26Speaker 4: people hate it, but it's the show me state. You
- 3:28Speaker 4: know what I'm saying.
- 3:30Speaker 1: I'm it isn't actually whatever.
- 3:34Speaker 4: Actually it is, bro straight up. You don't know about
- 3:36Speaker 4: because I try to tell you about that.
- 3:38Speaker 3: Well, I mean that's actually Missouri. So I was just
- 3:40Speaker 3: letting you know that that's really not jumps the go
- 3:41Speaker 3: ahead though, go ahead.
- 3:42Speaker 4: Okay, but we try to tell you all year me
- 3:45Speaker 4: Rob from Vegas, another gentleman from Alabama. We try to
- 3:49Speaker 4: tell you and you were in denial. And let me
- 3:51Speaker 4: ask you something, Nick, Do you still think that Dak
- 3:53Speaker 4: Prescott is the man? You still believe all that rhetoric? Yes, yep,
- 3:59Speaker 4: because I don't so you and I think it's proven,
- 4:01Speaker 4: and I think it's proven.
- 4:02Speaker 5: Nick.
- 4:03Speaker 4: Every time we try to tell you, and it's proven,
- 4:06Speaker 4: it's proven.
- 4:08Speaker 1: Hey, just repeating it.
- 4:09Speaker 3: Day, Michael, you called, you called Wednesday January the tenth.
- 4:15Speaker 3: Go back and listen to what you said Wednesday, January
- 4:19Speaker 3: the tenth. If and I don't even know, but if
- 4:22Speaker 3: if you were saying that, good for you. If you weren't,
- 4:26Speaker 3: don't bring it. Don't bring it today because that's not
- 4:29Speaker 3: you call a lot. That's not what you that you
- 4:31Speaker 3: said three days ago. You're hurting because the loss. That's fine,
- 4:34Speaker 3: that's fine, that's fine.
- 4:36Speaker 4: I've been telling you that. I even told you that
- 4:39Speaker 4: and you told me no that Prescott will was the
- 4:42Speaker 4: guy and this and that. But anyways, look, I just
- 4:46Speaker 4: want to say thank you, you know, for your show
- 4:48Speaker 4: all year. It's been great. Shut off to Chris and
- 4:51Speaker 4: shout out to you man.
- 4:52Speaker 3: You guys have a good one, Greg, And Sacramento is
- 4:57Speaker 3: next in the show me State of California.
- 5:03Speaker 5: Great, Hey, how you doing, Nick?
- 5:05Speaker 1: I'm great.
- 5:08Speaker 5: Man.
- 5:09Speaker 6: Another another heartbreaker to watch it were.
- 5:14Speaker 1: It was, you know, I went to a bar, went to.
- 5:16Speaker 6: Watch it at a bar, and they had kind of
- 5:19Speaker 6: no during the game. It was a little sports bar,
- 5:23Speaker 6: and there was there was a good amount of Cowboys fans,
- 5:26Speaker 6: Like there were more Cowboys fans there than than there
- 5:28Speaker 6: were you know, Green Bay fans. And by the time
- 5:33Speaker 6: we scored that first touchdown, like it we didn't even celebrate,
- 5:37Speaker 6: Like there wasn't any celebration.
- 5:38Speaker 1: We were just like, yeah, the game was over.
- 5:41Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it was already over.
- 5:43Speaker 6: And it's like, I don't know, it was. It was
- 5:46Speaker 6: a rough one to watch.
- 5:46Speaker 5: It was.
- 5:47Speaker 6: It was probably one of the first games that I mean,
- 5:49Speaker 6: I am always a DAK defender, like I really am,
- 5:52Speaker 6: but I really did kind of put this one on
- 5:54Speaker 6: on deck and made offensive line too. But uh and
- 5:59Speaker 6: and you know one of the other things too, I
- 6:01Speaker 6: kind of got into a debate with the other Cowboys
- 6:03Speaker 6: fans there and he was like calm for Micha McCarty's head,
- 6:06Speaker 6: and I'm like, no, like, do you know, like he's coming.
- 6:10Speaker 6: I don't understand why that's kind of the sentiment. I
- 6:13Speaker 6: feel like a lot of people like mich McCarthy needs
- 6:15Speaker 6: to go, and and I don't understand why he's He's
- 6:18Speaker 6: done a good job. I mean, three back to back
- 6:21Speaker 6: twelve win seasons, Like does everyone forget the eight and
- 6:23Speaker 6: eight like Jason Garrett there and stuff like that, And
- 6:27Speaker 6: I mean, I don't see why McCarthy would have to go.
- 6:30Speaker 6: I get it Jerry was upset and stuff like that,
- 6:32Speaker 6: but I mean, I really don't put this one on McCarthy.
- 6:35Speaker 6: I mean, he got us to the dance. You know,
- 6:38Speaker 6: that's what he's supposed to do as a coach, get
- 6:39Speaker 6: us to the postseason and then in the in the playoffs,
- 6:42Speaker 6: like players are supposed to execute, you know, teams, teams
- 6:45Speaker 6: are supposed to play better in the playoffs. It's supposed
- 6:48Speaker 6: to be like a more competitive and and more and
- 6:51Speaker 6: more drive.
- 6:51Speaker 8: And you know, you're you're in.
- 6:53Speaker 6: You're in it basically for to go to the super Bowl.
- 6:55Speaker 6: At this point, you've got a few weeks to get
- 6:57Speaker 6: it done, and so it's supposed to get you you know,
- 7:00Speaker 6: you're supposed to get up for the games more. And
- 7:02Speaker 6: I feel like the past two years, the Cowboys don't
- 7:05Speaker 6: do that. We don't get up for these games, these
- 7:07Speaker 6: postseason games. We don't step our game up. And I
- 7:10Speaker 6: don't understand. I don't understand why. I don't know if
- 7:13Speaker 6: that's I don't know if that's like a player player mindset,
- 7:16Speaker 6: or how do we how do you think we go
- 7:18Speaker 6: about like changing that is? Is it a culture culture ship?
- 7:24Speaker 3: There's there's just way more, way more questions right now
- 7:28Speaker 3: than you don't have the answers to it. And I
- 7:33Speaker 3: don't know. I wish I could tell you because I don't.
- 7:36Speaker 3: I don't agree with everything there about the I mean
- 7:38Speaker 3: the coach. Yeah, he got him there, he got him
- 7:41Speaker 3: to the dance, but he wrecked the car getting there,
- 7:44Speaker 3: you know, I mean like and or whatever you want
- 7:47Speaker 3: now do you want to say? But like they, he
- 7:50Speaker 3: gets the blame. He gets the blame. I mean, like
- 7:52Speaker 3: his team, he's got better players, they're at home where
- 7:56Speaker 3: they've been dominant all year, and they they weren't. They
- 8:00Speaker 3: were out coached, they were out coached, they were out executed.
- 8:04Speaker 3: So he gets the blame, the coach, the quarterback gets
- 8:07Speaker 3: the blame. He said, he said it himself. He said
- 8:10Speaker 3: that he sucked, That's what he said.
- 8:14Speaker 1: It took him.
- 8:15Speaker 3: It took him two and a half quarters to finally
- 8:18Speaker 3: move the ball. And the Packers weren't even really playing
- 8:21Speaker 3: the same defense at that point, just trying to get
- 8:23Speaker 3: through the game, and because with another game to play
- 8:26Speaker 3: the next week, they couldn't. They couldn't function against that defense,
- 8:30Speaker 3: and they got out coached, they got out they got confused.
- 8:34Speaker 3: So I put it on them. I put it on
- 8:35Speaker 3: the players too. I mean, ceedee, Lamb hasn't played like
- 8:39Speaker 3: that all year. The defense. Let's hold up now, I mean,
- 8:43Speaker 3: when are we gonna When do they get their turn?
- 8:45Speaker 3: Because they couldn't stop anybody. They couldn't. They couldn't run
- 8:49Speaker 3: the ball they I mean they couldn't stop the run.
- 8:52Speaker 1: Sorry that they couldn't.
- 8:53Speaker 3: That they were leaving guys wide open in the secondary.
- 8:56Speaker 3: I mean they they turned this guy into Aaron rod
- 9:00Speaker 3: Everyone was like, oh, well, we don't have Aaron Rodgers.
- 9:01Speaker 3: He was better than Aaron Rodgers has ever been against
- 9:03Speaker 3: the Cowboys Jordan Love. So, you know, I think everybody
- 9:08Speaker 3: gets some and you got a defensive coordinator.
- 9:12Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say it. I mean these are the facts.
- 9:13Speaker 3: The defensive coordinator is interviewing for five different places this week,
- 9:16Speaker 3: five different jobs he's got lined up this week, and
- 9:24Speaker 3: your defense had the absolute worst showing it's ever had
- 9:28Speaker 3: in a game, and he's got five jobs lined up.
- 9:31Speaker 3: All I'm saying is, and he said all the right
- 9:33Speaker 3: things before that, this is he does this preparation in
- 9:35Speaker 3: the offseason and all that. It doesn't you know, he's
- 9:38Speaker 3: not that. You know, he's going to be focused on everything.
- 9:41Speaker 3: But I'm just saying, that was the worst performance we've
- 9:44Speaker 3: ever seen from the Cowboys defense. And you know, so
- 9:49Speaker 3: if there were distractions all across the coaching staff, the
- 9:52Speaker 3: players that it looked like it, it looked like it,
- 9:54Speaker 3: nobody gets an excuse. All I'm saying is is that
- 9:57Speaker 3: everybody gets a little bit of the blame. And it'll
- 9:59Speaker 3: go back to what Michael said before about Dak. What
- 10:02Speaker 3: do I believe in Dak?
- 10:04Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 10:04Speaker 3: I mean I go off what I see and what
- 10:07Speaker 3: I what I saw him all year long was a
- 10:09Speaker 3: guy that that carried the team played. He played poorly
- 10:13Speaker 3: in that game, in that play in this playoff game,
- 10:15Speaker 3: he played poorly. Uh does he play poorly in every game?
- 10:18Speaker 3: Every playoff game. I don't know if that's even fair
- 10:21Speaker 3: to say. You'd have to go back and look, but
- 10:23Speaker 3: the record's not good enough. They aren't good enough.
- 10:25Speaker 1: When they get in the playoffs, they aren't good enough.
- 10:28Speaker 1: But you guys that.
- 10:29Speaker 3: Just want to and then there's gonna be more callers
- 10:31Speaker 3: to find that want to say talk bad about Dak
- 10:34Speaker 3: and what they should do.
- 10:35Speaker 1: That's fine.
- 10:36Speaker 3: Just all I say this is understand the salary cap.
- 10:39Speaker 3: If you have an understanding of the salary cap and
- 10:42Speaker 3: what it is, what and how to function with it
- 10:46Speaker 3: and the other quarterbacks out there and what you have
- 10:47Speaker 3: to do, then have the opinion. But if you're just
- 10:50Speaker 3: gonna be blind about it and say get rid of
- 10:53Speaker 3: this guy, get rid of this guy, and you don't
- 10:54Speaker 3: understand the ramifications, then you're wasting everyone's time. So I'm
- 10:59Speaker 3: just saying, and understand the cap and what it means
- 11:04Speaker 3: and what you got to do and the recourse and
- 11:05Speaker 3: and and what do you have to do after that?
- 11:07Speaker 1: All right?
- 11:07Speaker 8: Robin Vegas, Hey, Nick, Well that was embarrassing, probably the
- 11:14Speaker 8: most embarrassed in probably forty years. But yeah, I would
- 11:18Speaker 8: need my own show to talk about the whole team.
- 11:21Speaker 8: So I'll just narrow it down to the two most
- 11:23Speaker 8: important guys, Dak and Mike McCarthy. The team looked like
- 11:30Speaker 8: Tommy hearnsh if they you know, if they hit you,
- 11:34Speaker 8: they're going to knock you out. But if you hit
- 11:36Speaker 8: the Cowboys in the mouth, they fold like a cheap suit.
- 11:38Speaker 8: And that you would have thought they were playing the
- 11:40Speaker 8: forty nine ers. I mean, they were so intimidated. And
- 11:44Speaker 8: I don't know. And let's talk about Dak. Listen, Dak
- 11:48Speaker 8: is two and five of the playoffs. He's not a
- 11:51Speaker 8: for whatever reason, he doesn't even resemble the regular season.
- 11:56Speaker 8: But that's probably because in the NFL there's like three
- 11:59Speaker 8: groups of teams is bad teams, good teams in playoff caliber,
- 12:03Speaker 8: and the league is mostly bad and good. And he
- 12:06Speaker 8: feasts on the bad teams and we know who they are,
- 12:08Speaker 8: the Giants Washington, and then he does good against the good.
- 12:12Speaker 8: He'll lose a couple, but he's terribly He doesn't win
- 12:15Speaker 8: against playoff caliber. Look at this year, four losses four
- 12:18Speaker 8: playoff teams, and he lost in Arizona, which was maybe
- 12:22Speaker 8: a fluke. I don't know. You're right, he's a sixty
- 12:25Speaker 8: million dollar hit. You can't do it. You're stuck with him.
- 12:32Speaker 8: You're gonna have to redo the contract, unfortunately, and he's
- 12:36Speaker 8: probably looking at fifty five million, which he's not worth
- 12:39Speaker 8: fifty five million. We all know that he's not good enough.
- 12:42Speaker 5: He needs too.
- 12:43Speaker 8: Much help out of that. These quarterbacks making that kind
- 12:46Speaker 8: of money. He's been surrounded with leading rushers. Now, the
- 12:51Speaker 8: one of the best wide receive is tight end Opera.
- 12:53Speaker 8: He had it all this year home field and he
- 12:56Speaker 8: still fell apart. But unfortunately, you're stuck with him, so
- 13:01Speaker 8: figure it out. But if you're going to be stuck
- 13:03Speaker 8: with him, then you have to get rid of Mike
- 13:05Speaker 8: McCarthy because, first of all, Mike McCarthy wasn't brought here
- 13:08Speaker 8: they go twelve and five. He was brought here to
- 13:10Speaker 8: win in the playoffs and he has not. Second of all,
- 13:14Speaker 8: that needs things to be more perfect. Well, you can't
- 13:17Speaker 8: have the team leading penalties every year, so there's no
- 13:22Speaker 8: discipline on the field. Off the field, you would think
- 13:27Speaker 8: they got their own radio shows, game show. I mean,
- 13:30Speaker 8: it's just ridiculous. They're not tough in the trenches. He
- 13:33Speaker 8: still hasn't figured out the running game. And this is
- 13:37Speaker 8: why when we talk about Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick fixes
- 13:41Speaker 8: those things. He fixes your penalties. They're always the least
- 13:44Speaker 8: penaltized team. He will make you tougher because he'll probably
- 13:48Speaker 8: make you bigger. He won't be playing safety at linebacker,
- 13:51Speaker 8: He'll find the running game. And just his attitude, I
- 13:56Speaker 8: just think he'll make better pea time management. Mike McCarthy's
- 13:59Speaker 8: horrible at I think Belichicker is better at that. So
- 14:02Speaker 8: I just think it's you have to move on from him.
- 14:05Speaker 8: I'm sure Jerry, you know. And if Jerry doesn't make
- 14:08Speaker 8: a move, Really, what he's saying to the fans is
- 14:11Speaker 8: I rather be relevant for seventeen games than three or
- 14:16Speaker 8: four whatever it takes to get to the super Bowl.
- 14:19Speaker 8: Because this formula doesn't win in the playoffs. It's like
- 14:23Speaker 8: the Dodgers great regular season. That formula does not win
- 14:27Speaker 8: in the playoffs.
- 14:27Speaker 1: For what the Dodgers do this offseason.
- 14:32Speaker 8: They throw money out everything, but they do it every
- 14:33Speaker 8: year and they go nowhere in the playoffs. Yeah, built
- 14:37Speaker 8: for the regular season. Cowboys are built for the regulars
- 14:41Speaker 8: that they don't.
- 14:42Speaker 3: Okay, hold on roight, But my point is, I'll take
- 14:45Speaker 3: off your point. The Dodgers this offseason after if that.
- 14:49Speaker 1: I don't know.
- 14:49Speaker 3: I don't really follow them, but if that's what the
- 14:52Speaker 3: moniker is for them. This offseason they went and got
- 14:56Speaker 3: will they almost spend a billion dollars right on two players?
- 14:58Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, they do it year. Not that not a
- 15:03Speaker 1: billion dollars.
- 15:04Speaker 8: Well no, not because the money now has insane.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Well, but what I'm saying is.
- 15:08Speaker 8: This isn't a buy their way out of it. The
- 15:10Speaker 8: Cowboys have the talent.
- 15:12Speaker 5: You nobody thought.
- 15:13Speaker 8: They were going to lose to a seventh seed who
- 15:15Speaker 8: had a twenty eighth ranked defense that lost to Tommy
- 15:18Speaker 8: Devita when the Giants and we looked at we played
- 15:22Speaker 8: against them like they like they were the forty nine ers.
- 15:24Speaker 8: We were so intimidated and so scared for whatever. And
- 15:29Speaker 8: Dak once you see him on the sideline with that
- 15:31Speaker 8: blank stare, you know it's over. I don't know what happened.
- 15:35Speaker 8: I don't know what happens to him in the in
- 15:37Speaker 8: the playoffs. Like I said, he had a great regular season,
- 15:42Speaker 8: best of his career, he wasn't even half as good.
- 15:46Speaker 8: And we've seen it before. I don't know if you
- 15:48Speaker 8: could fix that mindset. There were guys that we know
- 15:51Speaker 8: who the stars are that excel when the playoffs their legends.
- 15:54Speaker 8: He's not two and five. I think the other two
- 15:57Speaker 8: quarterbacks have that record, of Billy Kilmer and uh Alex Smith.
- 16:03Speaker 8: I mean, listen, but you're stuck with him. You're stuck
- 16:06Speaker 8: with him for another one three four years. So if
- 16:10Speaker 8: you're stuck with him, you need to change the culture
- 16:13Speaker 8: around them. Get a ring game, get tougher, and you
- 16:16Speaker 8: won't have to put so much on him. But and oh,
- 16:19Speaker 8: by the way, and Belichick may be the only guy
- 16:23Speaker 8: to get Michaeh. Parsons to stop being a diva, since
- 16:26Speaker 8: he did coach the greatest defensive player that had lived
- 16:30Speaker 8: and who Michael Parsons has been compared to laughably. So listen, fans,
- 16:36Speaker 8: they should they should want Belichick.
- 16:40Speaker 3: Rob do you call Can you call it one o'clock
- 16:44Speaker 3: in the afternoon, which is eleven year time?
- 16:47Speaker 1: Is that still working your schedule? Good?
- 16:49Speaker 5: Yes?
- 16:49Speaker 1: I can, Nick good. Good. Because of this, I appreciate it.
- 16:53Speaker 8: I appreciated this, and.
- 16:55Speaker 3: I appreciate you too. I appreciate you too. Some of
- 16:57Speaker 3: some of your points that you made, obviously I will
- 17:02Speaker 3: not touch at this point. I think you know what
- 17:05Speaker 3: they are. Why But but change need to be made.
- 17:09Speaker 3: Thanks for the call. And I like what you said
- 17:11Speaker 3: about the Dodgers. And I say this because they're trying things.
- 17:15Speaker 3: They're trying things and then it's not working in the playoffs.
- 17:18Speaker 3: So they're trying to get over the hump and they
- 17:20Speaker 3: made the biggest splash of all time. And is it
- 17:24Speaker 3: otani is how you say it. But but my point
- 17:26Speaker 3: is different leagues, different No, Salard cap I understand all that.
- 17:30Speaker 3: The point is is that they've got to They've got
- 17:33Speaker 3: to do something if they want to keep keep building
- 17:36Speaker 3: this they got to make a huge splash, which I
- 17:38Speaker 3: think is what the Cowboys have to do. They have
- 17:42Speaker 3: to do that. They have to make a splash here
- 17:44Speaker 3: because they they this is the time to go over
- 17:47Speaker 3: the top, whether whether it's a coaching change, whether it's
- 17:51Speaker 3: a player like players that you need to bring in.
- 17:56Speaker 3: They need to do something. Let's go back to the
- 17:58Speaker 3: Dak part with Dak. See this is this is where
- 18:05Speaker 3: it gets tricky because this is where the dominoes start
- 18:07Speaker 3: to effect because Dak is linked right now to McCarthy
- 18:13Speaker 3: in the fact that that's the play caller and that
- 18:15Speaker 3: he got him to play his best season, that he's
- 18:18Speaker 3: ever had. He's going to be the votes have been
- 18:22Speaker 3: turned in, he's going to be in the top three
- 18:25Speaker 3: or four or two for MVP, unless they haven't voted yet,
- 18:29Speaker 3: and maybe that changes. I don't know, But my point
- 18:32Speaker 3: is is he's had his best season and first year
- 18:34Speaker 3: play caller, first year offense here.
- 18:38Speaker 5: Was.
- 18:39Speaker 3: You liked what you saw for the most part in
- 18:41Speaker 3: the season. So if you're keeping Dak, you know, and
- 18:46Speaker 3: and and to keep Dak's fifteen, he's not his contract's
- 18:49Speaker 3: not done, he's got he's got one more year. The
- 18:51Speaker 3: hit is like fifty nine million dollars. So to make
- 18:56Speaker 3: that work and have a team around him, they're going
- 18:59Speaker 3: to have to. They could lower his base and lower
- 19:03Speaker 3: his entire cap hit by extending years. That's how you
- 19:09Speaker 3: work around the cap, or you just play it out.
- 19:12Speaker 3: You just play it out this year and then see
- 19:13Speaker 3: see what happens. And that probably doesn't sit well with anybody,
- 19:18Speaker 3: but that that might be how it happens, because that's
- 19:20Speaker 3: not a great option either just from a financial and
- 19:23Speaker 3: from from just the dynamic the personal dynamics of a
- 19:28Speaker 3: quarterback on his last year and all that stuff. So
- 19:31Speaker 3: but that's that's kind of I think what Rob's were
- 19:33Speaker 3: alluding to with the stuck part, but it's kind of
- 19:37Speaker 3: I think the question is is coaching offense defense coordinator?
- 19:41Speaker 3: All these coordinators probably gonna change if they make if
- 19:44Speaker 3: they make a move on offense, if they make move
- 19:46Speaker 3: the head coach, then you're gonna have a new coordinator,
- 19:48Speaker 3: and then you probably gonna have a new defensive coordinator.
- 19:50Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a lot of changes there. But
- 19:52Speaker 3: that's where the Dak thing kind of comes in. Do
- 19:54Speaker 3: you want to start over with Dak with a new
- 19:57Speaker 3: offense or keep everything status co So a little easy,
- 20:01Speaker 3: a little tougher than you think to some of these questions.
- 20:04Speaker 3: All right, Travis in California.
- 20:08Speaker 9: Hey, Nick, how's it go?
- 20:09Speaker 1: How you doing?
- 20:11Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm doing all right.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Man.
- 20:12Speaker 9: Hey, I'll do a couple of quick points. You know,
- 20:17Speaker 9: my dad and I would do a Cowboy game every year.
- 20:19Speaker 9: We're trying to go to every stadium we're at. I
- 20:23Speaker 9: want to say twelve or fourteen. You and I actually
- 20:26Speaker 9: met in Atlanta, I think it was twenty seventeen. We're
- 20:30Speaker 9: at an Irish pub and oh god, he said, hey,
- 20:34Speaker 9: some guys just moved out of the bar and I
- 20:37Speaker 9: come back to the bathroom and it's you, David Hellman
- 20:39Speaker 9: and Rob Phillips, and that's pretty excited to see.
- 20:42Speaker 1: We got Rob at a bar. Wow, I'm just getting
- 20:45Speaker 1: dropped from no awesome.
- 20:47Speaker 9: But you guys were great. It was I felt starstruck
- 20:51Speaker 9: for a moment seeing you guys. But hey, I love
- 20:54Speaker 9: your Guys podcast.
- 20:55Speaker 1: So thank you. Thanks.
- 20:57Speaker 3: Hey, I don't and I don't know if I remember that,
- 21:00Speaker 3: but you know, it could be because we were at
- 21:02Speaker 3: the bar, right, it could be.
- 21:06Speaker 9: But hey, I mean, I don't have too much to
- 21:09Speaker 9: say about the game. I think obviously there's a lot
- 21:13Speaker 9: of frustration going on, and it's understandable. I tried calling
- 21:17Speaker 9: in last week and I was going to keep more
- 21:20Speaker 9: crazy to look at McCarthy and look at Dak and
- 21:23Speaker 9: talk about replacing him. But I mean, I think after
- 21:26Speaker 9: that game, I think, really everything is on the table. Yeah,
- 21:29Speaker 9: And the offensive scheme was phenomenal at points this year,
- 21:36Speaker 9: and at points it was just gone awful. I mean,
- 21:39Speaker 9: I saw someone make a point about this, and I
- 21:41Speaker 9: think it's true that when McCarthy gets nervous or gets scared,
- 21:46Speaker 9: he starts coaching scared and the scheme changes. So we
- 21:50Speaker 9: go from a offense that is airing the ball out.
- 21:55Speaker 9: Dak has really high yards per average in attempts to
- 22:00Speaker 9: i mean the middle of the game last week, you know,
- 22:06Speaker 9: Dak had like a six yard per attempt. And so
- 22:10Speaker 9: it goes from this, we're going to air the ball out,
- 22:12Speaker 9: We're gonna go over the middle, We're really trying to
- 22:16Speaker 9: push the ball down the field, to all of a sudden,
- 22:18Speaker 9: we're throwing the ball three yards past the line of scrimmage.
- 22:21Speaker 9: And I think that comes down to coaching, and it
- 22:23Speaker 9: comes down to our scheme. And I think that would
- 22:27Speaker 9: be my biggest thing for why we should potentially look at,
- 22:32Speaker 9: you know, moving past McCarthy, is we just we can't
- 22:36Speaker 9: revert back to what we've already seen doesn't work well.
- 22:39Speaker 9: I mean, it looked like the offense from the beginning
- 22:42Speaker 9: of the season to me, where they're just not really
- 22:45Speaker 9: trying to push the ball and they're not really trying
- 22:47Speaker 9: to be aggressive. And you know, it's easier to move
- 22:52Speaker 9: on from the coordinator than it is the quarterback. So
- 22:55Speaker 9: I think, for at least for now, we need to
- 22:58Speaker 9: ride with Dak. But I heard I heard he said
- 23:01Speaker 9: about you know, McCarthy getting back to have his best
- 23:03Speaker 9: season of the year, and that's absolutely right, But we
- 23:07Speaker 9: can't revert back to what we felt at the beginning
- 23:09Speaker 9: of the season. I mean, we've already seen that as
- 23:11Speaker 9: it worked.
- 23:11Speaker 3: So yeah, you're right, I mean, I agree with that.
- 23:16Speaker 3: I'm just I'm talking about I'm kind of I'm trying
- 23:18Speaker 3: to say both sides of this and why. You know,
- 23:21Speaker 3: it's a it's a difficult decision because you know this,
- 23:25Speaker 3: the McCarthy one is not easy. I mean, it's not easy.
- 23:29Speaker 3: It's kind of what I think one of the last
- 23:30Speaker 3: callers said about, you know, do you want to be relevant?
- 23:34Speaker 3: And relevant is not even the right word, because they've been.
- 23:37Speaker 3: They've been really good.
- 23:38Speaker 1: They've been better than relevant that they've been. They've been
- 23:41Speaker 1: up there.
- 23:41Speaker 3: You want your you give yourself a chance, but Jason
- 23:44Speaker 3: Garrett's teams didn't always give you the chance to do that.
- 23:47Speaker 1: So you know, on one hand.
- 23:49Speaker 3: That's good, but you're right, and the callers are right
- 23:51Speaker 3: about why they brought him in to be to take
- 23:53Speaker 3: it to another level that he hasn't taken them.
- 23:55Speaker 1: So it's tricky.
- 23:58Speaker 3: This is definitely a tricky situation because you know, there's
- 24:01Speaker 3: a lot of teams that would kill to be in
- 24:03Speaker 3: the position. But the problem is is that here with
- 24:06Speaker 3: the Cowboys and the standard, it's just not that's not
- 24:09Speaker 3: good enough, It's not so And I understand that too.
- 24:13Speaker 3: That's why I think that Jerry has a lot of
- 24:15Speaker 3: tough decisions to make.
- 24:17Speaker 9: Yeah, and I'll let you go of this, but I
- 24:21Speaker 9: think we can let dan Quinn go off and get
- 24:24Speaker 9: a head coaching job. I mean, I don't know how
- 24:27Speaker 9: you would hire him after that performance and looking at
- 24:31Speaker 9: the last three years of the playoff performances from dan Quinn,
- 24:35Speaker 9: I mean, it hasn't looked phenomenal, especially against Shanahan style offenses,
- 24:39Speaker 9: with what the league is going to Yeah, I'll let
- 24:42Speaker 9: you go.
- 24:43Speaker 3: All right, Thanks Travis, thank you, good call. Appreciate that.
- 24:49Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Brian in Kansas City.
- 24:53Speaker 2: Good morning, mister Eaveman, Good morning, Brian. Well, I appreciate
- 24:56Speaker 2: you opening the show with an apology.
- 25:00Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel bad for you. I feel bad for
- 25:03Speaker 3: the fans I do. You guys deserve way better than this,
- 25:06Speaker 3: and especially especially the ones that I know on this show.
- 25:10Speaker 3: You know, the committed fans like that that just pour
- 25:13Speaker 3: so much time and energy and you know it's part
- 25:16Speaker 3: of it. When you enjoy the ride, sometimes it doesn't
- 25:19Speaker 3: end well and that's the thing, that's the part of it.
- 25:21Speaker 3: And if you want to be hesitant and go, oh, well,
- 25:24Speaker 3: what's how's it going to be?
- 25:25Speaker 1: What are they going to lose?
- 25:26Speaker 3: Well, that's fine too, because then you're not going to
- 25:28Speaker 3: get let down on games like this. But if you
- 25:30Speaker 3: if you go all in, like a true diehard fan
- 25:33Speaker 3: just says this is our year, this is our year,
- 25:34Speaker 3: and then it's not.
- 25:36Speaker 1: You get hit in the face with a two by.
- 25:37Speaker 3: Four and it stings for a few days, so I
- 25:40Speaker 3: would imagine it's still stinging.
- 25:42Speaker 2: Yeah, no question. Man, it feels like you slammed your
- 25:46Speaker 2: hand in a car door. You just had it all
- 25:50Speaker 2: planned out, you know, you're looking at it and saying, wow,
- 25:52Speaker 2: you know we're favored here. We'll probably be favored next
- 25:55Speaker 2: week no matter who it is. And yeah, you know
- 25:58Speaker 2: we won't be favored if the Niners they could, you know,
- 26:00Speaker 2: do their business and probably wouldn't have that had been
- 26:02Speaker 2: favored in that game. But yeah, you know, I have
- 26:06Speaker 2: to give Isaiah some credit. I talk to and sometimes
- 26:11Speaker 2: listen to their show, and he parted this out last week,
- 26:17Speaker 2: and then he mentioned it again this morning because I
- 26:19Speaker 2: couldn't figure out why the defense looked so different. Looked
- 26:22Speaker 2: like they were playing a totally different defense. And he
- 26:26Speaker 2: said last week before the game, he said, with that injury,
- 26:31Speaker 2: Gilmore can't jam people the line of scrimmage. They're going
- 26:34Speaker 2: to have to change the defense. And I wondered, you know,
- 26:39Speaker 2: at twenty eight minutes into the game, it's twenty seven
- 26:42Speaker 2: to nothing, maybe.
- 26:43Speaker 10: You try to make Sean Wright, you know.
- 26:46Speaker 2: And go back to your defense because that one ain't working. Yeah,
- 26:51Speaker 2: And you know, they him and Machoda and Nick were
- 26:56Speaker 2: talking about this. They don't play a lot of that defense.
- 27:00Speaker 2: They got confused with passing people off and who's supposed
- 27:04Speaker 2: to be where, And you know, you just hate to
- 27:07Speaker 2: see Quinn, you know, assuming that he gets one of
- 27:09Speaker 2: these jobs and decides to take it, you hate to
- 27:11Speaker 2: see that be his swan song is just being his
- 27:14Speaker 2: defense being dismantled because you know, I don't know, I mean,
- 27:19Speaker 2: it's easy to play Monday Morning or Today's Tuesday, Tuesday
- 27:22Speaker 2: Morning quarterback. Yeah, they they should have put Nashan right
- 27:25Speaker 2: out there. You know, I'm not an NFL coach. What
- 27:28Speaker 2: the hell do I know? But I would have tried
- 27:29Speaker 2: something else.
- 27:31Speaker 3: Well, that would have been my last resort, honestly, and
- 27:34Speaker 3: he is the last resort.
- 27:35Speaker 1: I mean, he's just I don't know.
- 27:37Speaker 3: I don't know if that's the right answer either, but yeah,
- 27:41Speaker 3: you know, as funny is the irony of this is.
- 27:44Speaker 3: And I'm going to say this, never in my life
- 27:46Speaker 3: am I ever ever going to be cheering for any
- 27:50Speaker 3: other teams to happen any other playoff matchups. I'm never
- 27:54Speaker 3: doing that again, because as soon as you think that
- 27:57Speaker 3: this is the best matchup for you, it isn't. So
- 28:01Speaker 3: you know, I just thought, with Gilmore's injury, I was like, man,
- 28:05Speaker 3: I think I'd rather play Jordan Love and the Packers
- 28:07Speaker 3: with receivers that I really don't know who they are other,
- 28:11Speaker 3: you know, as opposed to playing Stafford and like Cooper
- 28:16Speaker 3: Cup and Poka and Nakua. You know, That's what I
- 28:18Speaker 3: was thinking, is this would be a better matchup if
- 28:20Speaker 3: Gilmore is banged up or whatever. So it doesn't matter.
- 28:25Speaker 3: It didn't matter. It didn't matter these guys, I mean,
- 28:29Speaker 3: who are these receivers? And yet that they had like
- 28:31Speaker 3: career days, so you're, yeah, it was and that's what
- 28:35Speaker 3: they had to do. That's fine, but but you know
- 28:39Speaker 3: say that, I mean, it's not it's not an excuse
- 28:42Speaker 3: to say, well, we did have to change the defense
- 28:44Speaker 3: up a little bit, and you know it cost us.
- 28:47Speaker 3: We changed it up because of because of the injury.
- 28:49Speaker 3: But no one says that because a lot of people
- 28:50Speaker 3: like to say, well, if you're out there, you're playing,
- 28:52Speaker 3: you're playing. But but in this case, it didn't seem
- 28:54Speaker 3: like he was because he was out there, but he
- 28:56Speaker 3: wasn't playing in a normal way. And you know, but
- 28:59Speaker 3: then they didn't have many other options really.
- 29:03Speaker 2: And the defense just looked totally different. And I mean,
- 29:08Speaker 2: Dak looked terrible the first you know, the first half.
- 29:12Speaker 2: Tack just looked first twenty eight minutes. They got a
- 29:14Speaker 2: little something going there in the last two minutes, but
- 29:17Speaker 2: you know, he just looked bewildered by the by what
- 29:20Speaker 2: he was seeing. And he said it at the podium,
- 29:22Speaker 2: you know, he said, you know, they were showing one
- 29:24Speaker 2: thing pre snap changing a post snap, and it seems
- 29:27Speaker 2: like every time he has a bad game. That's kind
- 29:30Speaker 2: of a narrative. Hey, I really want to thank you
- 29:32Speaker 2: for the show this year. This has been a godsend
- 29:35Speaker 2: having being able to be a part of this. Don't
- 29:39Speaker 2: know I can call it at one o'clock in the afternoons,
- 29:41Speaker 2: but I'll do my best to find a way to
- 29:44Speaker 2: participate a time or two. And I had a question
- 29:47Speaker 2: if you're allowed to answer, I know you're one of
- 29:49Speaker 2: the big bosses there. Do you know who's on the
- 29:52Speaker 2: Draft Show this year? What day it might be? And
- 29:54Speaker 2: I'll hang up, Hey, thank you so much for the
- 29:57Speaker 2: show this year, Brian, Thank.
- 29:58Speaker 1: You, Brian.
- 29:59Speaker 3: And we're going to we're gonna figure some things out.
- 30:01Speaker 3: We're still kind of toying with the schedule a little
- 30:03Speaker 3: bit because remember this is a news show, and so
- 30:06Speaker 3: there's not a lot of From going off of last
- 30:09Speaker 3: year's schedule, there wasn't a lot of time slots typically
- 30:13Speaker 3: in the ten eleven o'clock. That's why we're trying the afternoon.
- 30:17Speaker 3: And but but with what we might do and see
- 30:20Speaker 3: if I can get Chris to to help me on this.
- 30:23Speaker 3: But every every once in a while we might do
- 30:26Speaker 3: a Friday show maybe. So I'll say this about the
- 30:34Speaker 3: Draft Show, I think I think it sounds like Derek
- 30:38Speaker 3: will be making an announcement here soon on the lineup
- 30:42Speaker 3: this year. But but I'll just say this, they're going
- 30:46Speaker 3: to be starting sooner than later. So I'll say that
- 30:50Speaker 3: be be ready for a draft show pretty soon because
- 30:53Speaker 3: they don't waste a lot of time when it comes
- 30:55Speaker 3: to that, they get going. And so the off seasons here,
- 30:58Speaker 3: so you'll be seeing a draft show pretty soon, and
- 31:03Speaker 3: you'll see an announcement here soon. Follow Derek Eagleton for that.
- 31:06Speaker 3: He will, he will make that announcement if he doesn't
- 31:08Speaker 3: make it on the show here on the break. Coming
- 31:10Speaker 3: up after this, all right, let's go to get a
- 31:13Speaker 3: text question from Steve and New York. How do fans
- 31:15Speaker 3: go from talking about Dak in the m VP conversation
- 31:18Speaker 3: to letting him go? Well, I mean, I think again
- 31:24Speaker 3: performances like that. I mean it's always been that way.
- 31:27Speaker 3: What have you done for me yesterday? I mean, that's
- 31:30Speaker 3: that's what That's what it is, and that's that's what
- 31:33Speaker 3: makes shows like this and that's why we have seven
- 31:35Speaker 3: eight podcasts or whatever. That's why we have this many
- 31:38Speaker 3: because there's everyone's got an opinions and and you and
- 31:41Speaker 3: you have to change them all the time. I I
- 31:45Speaker 3: typically don't do that. I don't I'm not ever going
- 31:49Speaker 3: to be a you know, just this knee jerk reaction
- 31:53Speaker 3: to things. You know, I now, I understand that that
- 31:58Speaker 3: was a terrible performance, and and your and your thoughts
- 32:01Speaker 3: on DAK are going to change. They're going to change
- 32:04Speaker 3: week by week. That's what happens. This is a big
- 32:07Speaker 3: picture world. Every every I hear it in the press box,
- 32:10Speaker 3: every every game, I hear it on the radio if
- 32:13Speaker 3: I choose to listen to that is that it's always
- 32:16Speaker 3: an opinion. Like if you see Tony Pollard gets stopped
- 32:20Speaker 3: for a two yard loss, it's.
- 32:22Speaker 1: This guy's not very good.
- 32:24Speaker 3: I mean, it's always. It happens all the time. It
- 32:26Speaker 3: happens all the time. So I try not to do it,
- 32:28Speaker 3: try to take the big scope of things. But but yeah,
- 32:31Speaker 3: you're going this is the last game of the season,
- 32:33Speaker 3: and it's the last game because of the way that
- 32:36Speaker 3: this team played, particularly the quarterback. So yeah, I can.
- 32:41Speaker 3: It's just it's a frustrating thing. I understand. But to
- 32:44Speaker 3: answer the question, this is the nature of fandom or
- 32:49Speaker 3: even the way the media operates, it's always it always
- 32:53Speaker 3: that way. Should they be letting him go? I don't
- 32:56Speaker 3: think so. Should he be in the MVP talk, I
- 32:59Speaker 3: don't think so somewhere in the middle of that. That's
- 33:02Speaker 3: a pretty big middle, all right. I don't even know
- 33:04Speaker 3: who's next, Travis, Travis san Antonio. Yeah, what's up, Travis,
- 33:10Speaker 3: what's going on? I just wanted to got a lot
- 33:13Speaker 3: of time on my hands, so yeah, same here.
- 33:16Speaker 11: I'll still be calling at one o'clock. And I told
- 33:19Speaker 11: Chris when I was waiting, like I said, I appreciate
- 33:22Speaker 11: everything you guys have done this year, having the show
- 33:24Speaker 11: and everything. Thank you, it's been great. So you know,
- 33:28Speaker 11: giving you get, I'll give you guys the flowers since
- 33:29Speaker 11: there's not much flowers to give anybody.
- 33:31Speaker 1: Out they're dying over here. It could because the winner,
- 33:35Speaker 1: or it just could be other things.
- 33:37Speaker 11: Yeah, but yeah, I heard, I heard the other caller like,
- 33:41Speaker 11: as far as the game goes, it was really I
- 33:45Speaker 11: guess the most disheartening part for me was, like, you know,
- 33:48Speaker 11: we saw a certain type of style play on offense
- 33:50Speaker 11: and defense all year, well my offense besides like the
- 33:53Speaker 11: first couple of weeks or whatever, but and it just
- 33:56Speaker 11: seemed like both coordinators went against what was their tendencies
- 34:01Speaker 11: and I'd rather like it. I don't know about other fans,
- 34:03Speaker 11: but I'd rather just like, if we're going to lose,
- 34:05Speaker 11: let's lose the way we're like the way we've been playing.
- 34:07Speaker 11: Because I get that maybe Gilmour was injured, but I
- 34:10Speaker 11: don't totally buy that about like, oh, well he was injured,
- 34:13Speaker 11: so we have to change the whole defense playing. I
- 34:15Speaker 11: don't understand why they played that much zone when they
- 34:18Speaker 11: had when universally throughout the year everyone said this is
- 34:21Speaker 11: when this team plays more man than almost anybody. I
- 34:24Speaker 11: don't know if they're number one, but they were like
- 34:25Speaker 11: top three all year playing man and then all of
- 34:28Speaker 11: a sudden you change it up. That doesn't sound like
- 34:30Speaker 11: it's a very good idea. I mean, you know, for
- 34:32Speaker 11: guys getting game reps, like is getting passing stuff off
- 34:35Speaker 11: and whatnot, and on offense, on offense, the first couple
- 34:39Speaker 11: of possessions I was really looking at because I was like, run, run, run, run,
- 34:44Speaker 11: and they were playing one of the teams that was
- 34:46Speaker 11: the last in the league in pass defense on first down.
- 34:49Speaker 11: So I don't know if there's a situation where both
- 34:52Speaker 11: coordinators decided to go, let's go against our tendencies, but
- 34:56Speaker 11: that's sure how.
- 34:57Speaker 1: It looked it did look that way.
- 34:59Speaker 11: I mean, if you've got a fastball, even if they're
- 35:02Speaker 11: hitting it, well, let's go bring the heat like that.
- 35:05Speaker 11: What's that we're going to go with. Don't all of
- 35:07Speaker 11: them start throwing curb But if you can't throw a
- 35:08Speaker 11: curveball and hit the plate, let's not throw curveballs. Let's
- 35:11Speaker 11: just play with what we got. So and as far
- 35:14Speaker 11: as that goes, I'm I'm not going to be like, oh,
- 35:17Speaker 11: we got to cut him or whatever. Like overall, I
- 35:20Speaker 11: think he is good. However, the question I really want
- 35:23Speaker 11: to ask you is, because I just heard you earlier,
- 35:27Speaker 11: I know he's been good overall and good regular season
- 35:31Speaker 11: and he had a lot of you know, a lot
- 35:33Speaker 11: of the leverage as far as negotiating and whatnot, and
- 35:36Speaker 11: he still does because of the way the contract, his
- 35:37Speaker 11: previous contract was set up. But is there do you
- 35:40Speaker 11: think there's any chance that the team brings up maybe
- 35:45Speaker 11: Dax says, I don't want to like extend because the
- 35:47Speaker 11: team goes, look, we know this is what you've done
- 35:51Speaker 11: over the years up to the regular season, but we
- 35:54Speaker 11: do have to look at two and five and like,
- 35:56Speaker 11: we can't discount the playoff success or lack of success us.
- 36:00Speaker 11: Is that something that they can bring up and just
- 36:02Speaker 11: go like, what is his agent? Do you think can go
- 36:04Speaker 11: or would you bring up let me ask you like that,
- 36:06Speaker 11: would you bring it up and go? Look, I know
- 36:08Speaker 11: you want to come in here and just say I'm
- 36:11Speaker 11: the best. I want the top you know, top contract.
- 36:14Speaker 11: I just don't know how feasible that is when you like,
- 36:16Speaker 11: you can't discount that. So I'm as curious that you think.
- 36:18Speaker 3: I think that's a good question. And I think when
- 36:20Speaker 3: you're when you're negotiating things, I think, thanks for the call, Travis.
- 36:26Speaker 3: I think everything's on the table when you're when you're negotiating,
- 36:30Speaker 3: you know, And so I think that has to be
- 36:32Speaker 3: part of it. You know, what are we paying for?
- 36:35Speaker 3: And and and you know, how do.
- 36:37Speaker 1: You stack up with?
- 36:38Speaker 3: You know, because because because I tell you this, if
- 36:41Speaker 3: the agent, you know, if part of the negotiation is
- 36:43Speaker 3: throwing out stats, then let's throw them all out there.
- 36:46Speaker 1: Let's throw them.
- 36:47Speaker 3: Let's throw out the stats on the things that matter,
- 36:51Speaker 3: you know, not just completion percentage here or first down
- 36:55Speaker 3: rate or quarterback pass the ratings or all the four
- 36:58Speaker 3: hundred yard games. It's just I mean, throw them all
- 37:01Speaker 3: out there in starting with the ones of playoff success,
- 37:05Speaker 3: and and you know, when the game and the season's
- 37:08Speaker 3: really on the line, how do you perform? So I agree,
- 37:12Speaker 3: I mean I think I think you have to do that.
- 37:14Speaker 3: I mean, I think if you are negotiating and I
- 37:16Speaker 3: don't know how how all that's going to work, I
- 37:18Speaker 3: really don't. I think the dilemma that the Cowboys are
- 37:22Speaker 3: in is they probably don't want to extend Dak. They
- 37:27Speaker 3: want to go one more season. But this one more
- 37:30Speaker 3: season is the fifty nine million you know, And I've
- 37:34Speaker 3: said this a lot. Okay, I said this a ton.
- 37:37Speaker 3: He when he signed the deal and it was, what
- 37:40Speaker 3: was it, forty million a year? I think it was
- 37:41Speaker 3: four for one sixty. It was like, you know, easy math,
- 37:44Speaker 3: It was like forty a year. And yet his cap
- 37:47Speaker 3: hit the first year was about five million, and then
- 37:52Speaker 3: the second year was about twelve million, and then maybe
- 37:55Speaker 3: twenty million or so. And so you're like, wait a second,
- 37:58Speaker 3: if if if it's forty million a year and you
- 38:01Speaker 3: haven't gotten close to hitting for it in a year,
- 38:04Speaker 3: at some point, it's not going to be. And here
- 38:07Speaker 3: we are, this is where the sixty is. You know,
- 38:10Speaker 3: so that's that's kind of where where the Cowboys are.
- 38:13Speaker 3: They push it back, push it back, push it back
- 38:15Speaker 3: until you have to make a decision.
- 38:17Speaker 1: And so here they are with that.
- 38:18Speaker 3: And so it's hard to build a team around a
- 38:20Speaker 3: sixty million, you know dollar quarterback when when he needs help,
- 38:25Speaker 3: So then then what do you do? So I think
- 38:29Speaker 3: I think what's going to happen is is that they
- 38:30Speaker 3: have to decide are we going to are we committed
- 38:33Speaker 3: to him? If so, then let's extend him a little bit,
- 38:35Speaker 3: let's extend the years if he'll even want to do that.
- 38:37Speaker 3: So it's still a tricky situation.
- 38:39Speaker 11: All of that.
- 38:39Speaker 3: I know I've said that a couple of times, because
- 38:41Speaker 3: it is. It just is, it's not. This is very
- 38:43Speaker 3: not not black and white. It's very gray this week,
- 38:46Speaker 3: this is going to be for a while here, all right,
- 38:48Speaker 3: Mark and Florida, Hey, Nick, how.
- 38:51Speaker 1: You doing, Buddy good? How are you?
- 38:55Speaker 5: I'm good? Nick? Listen the sun came up the next day,
- 38:59Speaker 5: they say, right, so listen, I've been watching Cowboys for
- 39:03Speaker 5: over fifty years. Okay, and I don't want to laugh
- 39:06Speaker 5: at cowboy fans. You want to walk away from Dak Prescott.
- 39:10Speaker 5: Where are you going, Nick where you go question? So
- 39:13Speaker 5: once you make that decision to go away from Dak,
- 39:17Speaker 5: you're blowing it up, is what you're doing. You're blowing
- 39:20Speaker 5: it up. And there's no way they should blow this up.
- 39:22Speaker 5: I could name, maybe if the top of my head,
- 39:24Speaker 5: two numbers to you, at least a half a dozen
- 39:27Speaker 5: quarterbacks who have won the Super Bowl that was probably
- 39:30Speaker 5: out of football within the next three years. Okay, to
- 39:33Speaker 5: come to mind, Trent Dilfer and the giant backup quarterback,
- 39:39Speaker 5: backup quarterback won the Super Bowl. So to walk away
- 39:42Speaker 5: from Dak Prescott is absolutely mindless. Okay. There's maybe twenty
- 39:47Speaker 5: four teams in this league that would trade places for
- 39:50Speaker 5: us right now at the quarterback position. Okay, so how
- 39:56Speaker 5: Dak is going to help us? Just what you were
- 39:58Speaker 5: talking about his contract. Let's have a couple of Brady
- 40:01Speaker 5: contracts where he gives up takes less money so the
- 40:06Speaker 5: Cowboys can put money into other positions. He wants to
- 40:09Speaker 5: be the team player. He's made all this money to
- 40:11Speaker 5: this point. Well, then you know what, give this cup
- 40:15Speaker 5: as bad as you feel how you played, give this
- 40:18Speaker 5: club a quarterback friendly deal, and let's move on the
- 40:23Speaker 5: second thing. Coach. To me, the coach is the franchise.
- 40:28Speaker 5: I don't know if I'm saying the right words. But
- 40:30Speaker 5: when you look at guys but toughness, okay, that's not
- 40:35Speaker 5: Mike McCarty, okay, And to me, you are a reflection
- 40:39Speaker 5: of your coach. Okay, we can name guys. They're not
- 40:44Speaker 5: all time, all time Mike Tomlin. Say what you want
- 40:47Speaker 5: about the Steelers, okay, but when you're in a game
- 40:50Speaker 5: with them, you're sore. After the team we'll lose, okay.
- 40:55Speaker 5: So to me, Mike McCarty has got to go and
- 41:00Speaker 5: changing the coach. You're not blowing it up. You're not
- 41:02Speaker 5: blowing it up. I don't believe. I don't believe you're
- 41:07Speaker 5: blowing it up. You get rid of the coach, you
- 41:09Speaker 5: know why, because you still got the same players. You
- 41:11Speaker 5: still got basically the same players. Give it take if
- 41:14Speaker 5: you we're gonna leave. To me, you gotta get a
- 41:17Speaker 5: running game next. They sugarcoat this all year. Okay, you
- 41:23Speaker 5: gotta get a running game. And oh we're doing okay,
- 41:27Speaker 5: we're aravaging four point four. Watch the games. You don't
- 41:31Speaker 5: have a running game. They miscalculated on Tony pollat Uh
- 41:35Speaker 5: being being the go to guy back there, the horse
- 41:39Speaker 5: or however you want to say it. Okay, to me,
- 41:42Speaker 5: you get a defensive minded let's go kick their butt today,
- 41:47Speaker 5: win or lose. They're gonna know they were in the game. Okay,
- 41:50Speaker 5: and you hire a good offensive coordinator and they'll be fine.
- 41:55Speaker 5: They'll be fine. What I want to ask those people
- 41:58Speaker 5: they want to walk away from Dak Prescott, Tell me
- 42:01Speaker 5: where you're going, Tell me where you go. What's your answer?
- 42:04Speaker 5: It's easy to say, get rid of Dak Prescott. Okay,
- 42:07Speaker 5: who's our quarterback?
- 42:08Speaker 8: Then?
- 42:08Speaker 5: So I don't believe that, Nikki. He's good enough to
- 42:12Speaker 5: win a Super Bowl with. Unfortunately, he can't take the
- 42:17Speaker 5: fifty two other guys on his back and take them along.
- 42:20Speaker 5: So he needs help like the Matt hasselbacks did, like
- 42:25Speaker 5: the Trent Dolphis did, and he don't become the focal
- 42:28Speaker 5: point of the offense. It gets moved around. And to me,
- 42:31Speaker 5: that starts with a running game. When a quarterback has
- 42:34Speaker 5: a running game, the whole approach changes. So that's my feeling.
- 42:40Speaker 5: I think you need this was you know, when you
- 42:42Speaker 5: hire a coach. To me, Nick, okay, let's say you're
- 42:45Speaker 5: building from ground up. There's a plan. There's a four
- 42:47Speaker 5: year old, a four year plan, a five year plan,
- 42:50Speaker 5: whatever it is. Mike McCarthy's plan now has run its course.
- 42:55Speaker 5: And his last attempt was to take over the play calling,
- 42:59Speaker 5: and that's what we got this year, and it wasn't
- 43:01Speaker 5: good enough. So to me, there's not another year to
- 43:05Speaker 5: Mike McCarty's plan. What's his plan down going forward? He
- 43:09Speaker 5: made his change, he took the play calling. So to me,
- 43:12Speaker 5: you got to walk away from McCarty. Stare or not
- 43:15Speaker 5: is another whole argument. But to me, you got to
- 43:18Speaker 5: get a defensive minded coach, a tough coach, a discipline coach.
- 43:23Speaker 5: And that's another thing. I'm not in the locker room,
- 43:25Speaker 5: but I didn't feel like there was a whole hell
- 43:27Speaker 5: of a lot of discipline on this team. I could
- 43:29Speaker 5: be totally wrong. So that's my two takes. You keep Prescott,
- 43:33Speaker 5: you get a defensive minded coach, You keep who you
- 43:36Speaker 5: can keep as far as free agents, and you stay
- 43:39Speaker 5: with Dak Prescott and get him a damn running game.
- 43:43Speaker 3: All right, Mark, thank you for the call, Nurse. You know,
- 43:49Speaker 3: I appreciate at least having answers on, you know, trying
- 43:52Speaker 3: to make it because that's what happens is gotta get
- 43:54Speaker 3: rid of the coach, got get rid of the coach,
- 43:55Speaker 3: got get rid of the player. I got rid of
- 43:56Speaker 3: the quarterback. But I mean, who who do you want
- 43:59Speaker 3: to bring in? And and and how much does that cost?
- 44:03Speaker 3: And and how much does it cost to get rid
- 44:04Speaker 3: of people? All that kind of things. I mean, I
- 44:06Speaker 3: think the problem though, you know, with with Mark's question
- 44:10Speaker 3: of who do you want to have a quarterback? I
- 44:12Speaker 3: think the problem is is if you look at the
- 44:15Speaker 3: final eight teams right now, the quarterbacks that are left
- 44:18Speaker 3: are Jared Goff, Baker Mayfield, Brock Purdy, Jordan Love, Patrick Mahomes,
- 44:22Speaker 3: Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, c J. Stroud. Some of those
- 44:25Speaker 3: are considered the top best in the league. Mahomes maybe
- 44:29Speaker 3: he's going to one day be one of the best
- 44:31Speaker 3: of all time if he's not there already, you know,
- 44:35Speaker 3: But then you look at the other guy, and the
- 44:37Speaker 3: point is there's other ways to do it.
- 44:38Speaker 1: I mean, there's ways to do it.
- 44:40Speaker 3: There's ways that these teams are winning and what and
- 44:43Speaker 3: it's not necessarily with high priced quarterbacks. So it's it's
- 44:49Speaker 3: not it's not easy formula to do it.
- 44:51Speaker 1: You know, and I don't know.
- 44:53Speaker 3: I don't know if if looking at this year, if
- 44:55Speaker 3: if another quarterback, you know, cheaper quarterback, do they go
- 44:59Speaker 3: and win? And you know, in spite of mine, I
- 45:03Speaker 3: don't know. All right, Raza in Virginia's next?
- 45:07Speaker 7: Hey, Nick, how are you haven't been really listening?
- 45:10Speaker 2: Just listen to the last caller.
- 45:12Speaker 7: I have agree with him a little bit, but you know, overall,
- 45:16Speaker 7: another good season, like the past couple of years. It
- 45:18Speaker 7: was nice. I actually got to meet you in the
- 45:20Speaker 7: Washington game. We took a selfie moment.
- 45:23Speaker 1: Yeah cool?
- 45:24Speaker 7: Is that that was fun?
- 45:25Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 45:26Speaker 7: You know, great show. Love that we get to hear
- 45:28Speaker 7: the people's opinion, the venting and everything. With me, I
- 45:33Speaker 7: don't know where to go. I just I just hope
- 45:35Speaker 7: we don't. I guess we have to bring back McCarthy.
- 45:39Speaker 7: I mean, right now, I think is a good time
- 45:40Speaker 7: to let him go. There's two people that can change
- 45:42Speaker 7: the culture that are available, and I believe Belichick and Harbor.
- 45:47Speaker 7: But let's see, I don't mind keeping McCarthy again. But
- 45:50Speaker 7: my main thing is I think Dak I just hope
- 45:54Speaker 7: we don't extend him unless it's he gets maybe like
- 45:57Speaker 7: a forty million dollar extension or thirty five. I don't
- 46:00Speaker 7: think he's worth the fifty or sixty. We can't live
- 46:03Speaker 7: with that. He's two and five in the playoffs. He
- 46:05Speaker 7: just in big moments. Even this year, all the big
- 46:07Speaker 7: moment games, he didn't show up.
- 46:11Speaker 3: Just just know this, No extension in the history of
- 46:14Speaker 3: extensions and contracts in any sport, in any business, has
- 46:18Speaker 3: ever been done.
- 46:18Speaker 1: If both parties don't sign it. Yeah, just remember that.
- 46:22Speaker 3: So I think we give back this, We give back
- 46:24Speaker 3: that he doesn't have to sign it. So you know
- 46:28Speaker 3: what I'm saying, it's got to work for them, and
- 46:30Speaker 3: that's that's that's what I think some people kind of forget.
- 46:32Speaker 3: He's not going to come in be like, oh I sucked,
- 46:35Speaker 3: I sucked, we lost. Whatever you want, I'll take it now.
- 46:38Speaker 3: It doesn't work that way, and you know he doesn't.
- 46:40Speaker 3: But I'm not trying to say you don't know that.
- 46:42Speaker 3: I'm just saying, just remember he's got to agree to
- 46:44Speaker 3: that too, and his agent have to agree to that too.
- 46:47Speaker 7: Yeah, then if that go, if he wants that big
- 46:49Speaker 7: money or obviously which he does deserve. You know, he's
- 46:52Speaker 7: an all Pro quarterback and the regular season he's very good.
- 46:55Speaker 7: He beats on teams, average teams below teams. Sometimes he
- 46:58Speaker 7: do he'll beat the good team. Then if we can
- 47:02Speaker 7: just eat the cap, eat the cap. Jerry Jones made
- 47:04Speaker 7: the move for trade Lands for a reason. He's the
- 47:07Speaker 7: first round talent that's barely played football. If you remember,
- 47:10Speaker 7: he missed his calls here, barely played in Txcisco got injured.
- 47:14Speaker 7: I mean, if he has talent to be a first
- 47:16Speaker 7: round or by barely playing football, I Meancarthy's a QB gu.
- 47:21Speaker 7: I believe he's been working with him. Maybe if they
- 47:23Speaker 7: see something, I'll go that way.
- 47:25Speaker 2: And then I.
- 47:26Speaker 7: Really just you know, I don't know where to put
- 47:28Speaker 7: the blame, what to do. I think it's this is
- 47:30Speaker 7: the last point. I'll have have one question for you.
- 47:35Speaker 7: I think it's on Jerry, even though I believe Jerry
- 47:38Speaker 7: does a good job. I mean, he said publicly he
- 47:41Speaker 7: made that deal with God in ninety three that just
- 47:45Speaker 7: give me one more. I won't ask for another one.
- 47:47Speaker 7: And you know, God said, yeah, you told everyone, what
- 47:50Speaker 7: are prayer I'm not going to look like a Trump
- 47:54Speaker 7: society three. We haven't had another one. So God's keeping
- 47:57Speaker 7: his end of the bargain and the deals, the deal,
- 48:00Speaker 7: So I think that's it. And then just one question. Listen,
- 48:05Speaker 7: if you could say what would be your off season move?
- 48:07Speaker 7: What you would like to do? And then did the
- 48:09Speaker 7: press box and Washington get any better with the new owners?
- 48:12Speaker 2: Yes?
- 48:13Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a little better. Okay, it was better.
- 48:17Speaker 3: What would I do? We have one more minute left
- 48:20Speaker 3: on the show. I don't have time. Thanks for the
- 48:21Speaker 3: cal I don't have time for. What would I do?
- 48:25Speaker 3: Joe in Long Island? Sorry, Rosa? I'm sorry Joe and
- 48:27Speaker 3: Long Island?
- 48:28Speaker 1: What's up?
- 48:28Speaker 5: Man? Hey?
- 48:30Speaker 6: What's up?
- 48:31Speaker 10: Nick? How you doing?
- 48:31Speaker 1: I'm all right? What's up? Sorry? We're running out of
- 48:34Speaker 1: time here? What do you got?
- 48:37Speaker 5: Not too much?
- 48:37Speaker 2: Man?
- 48:37Speaker 10: I just I just wanted to call man number one,
- 48:40Speaker 10: just say thanks for all you guys do. Man, I
- 48:41Speaker 10: love this show.
- 48:42Speaker 8: You guys are great.
- 48:43Speaker 10: Uh that that.
- 48:45Speaker 2: Showing we had on Saturday?
- 48:46Speaker 10: Man, I just it's so disappointing.
- 48:50Speaker 7: It really is.
- 48:51Speaker 10: You know, if they're all the whole season and all
- 48:53Speaker 10: the hype that you know, I just I just don't understand.
- 48:57Speaker 10: I don't understand the scheme that we had. Understand what happened. Yes,
- 49:01Speaker 10: we're down by so many points and we run the ball.
- 49:05Speaker 10: There's no sense of urgency we need to score. I mean,
- 49:08Speaker 10: I know it's over by that point anyway, but still like,
- 49:10Speaker 10: well go home if we if we lose, so let's
- 49:13Speaker 10: just try everything we can.
- 49:15Speaker 5: We run the ball.
- 49:16Speaker 9: And it's just they.
- 49:18Speaker 3: Lost the game in many ways. But when they didn't
- 49:20Speaker 3: score coming out of the second half, when they didn't
- 49:23Speaker 3: score to make it a thirteen point game, they didn't
- 49:26Speaker 3: score a touchdown and just kept it at seventeen, that
- 49:28Speaker 3: was I think that was it right there.
- 49:30Speaker 1: I mean, or the pick.
- 49:31Speaker 3: Six by Dak coming out of the two minute warning.
- 49:33Speaker 3: I mean that was pretty bad too. But but yeah,
- 49:35Speaker 3: I mean yeah, I have no answers for you either.
- 49:39Speaker 3: They just they went away from the game plan and
- 49:40Speaker 3: it showed so and just the last.
- 49:43Speaker 10: Thing I'm gonna say, Man, look, I just send Dak
- 49:47Speaker 10: up and down all the time, and I don't think
- 49:49Speaker 10: we should get rid of him.
- 49:50Speaker 9: I don't.
- 49:51Speaker 10: I mean that would just I.
- 49:53Speaker 5: Think he's a good quarterback, man.
- 49:55Speaker 10: He just I don't know what he's got to get.
- 49:57Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 49:58Speaker 10: I think it's a mindset. I'm not sure sure, but
- 50:01Speaker 10: something's gotta something's gotta happen, man, because It's just it sucks.
- 50:05Speaker 10: But you know what, I'm still gonna be here tomorrow
- 50:08Speaker 10: for the Cowboys, right right, So no matter what I mean,
- 50:11Speaker 10: it's just, you know, like you said, you put so
- 50:13Speaker 10: much time into this, and I know it's like our
- 50:16Speaker 10: choice to be fans like this, but it's like, holy shit,
- 50:19Speaker 10: excuse my language. Holy you know what I'm saying.
- 50:22Speaker 2: Man, It sucks, dude.
- 50:23Speaker 9: It just sucks to go out like that.
- 50:25Speaker 10: But I hope you have a good a good day
- 50:27Speaker 10: and we'll be here next year.
- 50:30Speaker 1: All right, thanks?
- 50:32Speaker 3: How ironic because really we've had calls the entire time since,
- 50:37Speaker 3: since the start of the preseason to now, and we've
- 50:42Speaker 3: had what ten eleven calls, fifteen sometimes every single day.
- 50:46Speaker 3: In the last show of this regular season, and the
- 50:49Speaker 3: last caller and the last minute of the show drops,
- 50:53Speaker 3: it drops a cuss word. It might be the first
- 50:54Speaker 3: one we've had since this whole time, so fitting, I guess. Anyway,
- 51:00Speaker 3: the question earlier about the draft show it'll start tomorrow,
- 51:04Speaker 3: Kyle Yeoman's, Nick Harris, Bobby Belt, Zach Walchuk, Aisha Morrison,
- 51:08Speaker 3: Brian Broadus, We're all they're where they're gonna fit. But uh,
- 51:13Speaker 3: I think that's the team. They won't all be on it,
- 51:17Speaker 3: probably at once, but that'll be the team. Will be
- 51:19Speaker 3: a lot of schedules in offseason, we'll have some chairs
- 51:21Speaker 3: kind of floating in and out, but that's gonna be
- 51:23Speaker 3: the core of the group on it. So that that's
- 51:26Speaker 3: the team. For the Draft show, which starts tomorrow, uh,
- 51:29Speaker 3: stay tuned to Twitter, we will throw out what our
- 51:35Speaker 3: schedule is going to be moving forward, looking like a
- 51:38Speaker 3: one o'clock timeslot, probably twice a week during the offseason,
- 51:42Speaker 3: so still give you guys a chance to do some things.
- 51:45Speaker 3: And if we do decide to do it an occasional
- 51:47Speaker 3: Friday show, we'll go back to the ten o'clock spot
- 51:49Speaker 3: to make sure the callers I can call it ten,
- 51:51Speaker 3: we'll call then all right for everyone, thank you so much.
- 51:55Speaker 3: All season long, it's been outstanding. We're not really going anywhere,
- 51:58Speaker 3: just not gonna We're just gonna pull back a little bit.
- 52:00Speaker 1: It's been great for Chris Beam. I'm Nick Eatman.
- 52:03Speaker 3: Sorry again that this is the last one, but it
- 52:06Speaker 3: is until the next time.
- 52:07Speaker 1: On Cowboys Storyline.
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