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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:17Speaker 2: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
- 0:25Speaker 1: What's up? Welcome to Cowboys storyline presented by Gillette. I
- 0:29Speaker 1: am Nick Eatman, and the season is officially over. It's
- 0:33Speaker 1: been over for the Cowboys for a few weeks, obviously
- 0:36Speaker 1: from a postseason standpoint or lack thereof, but as far
- 0:42Speaker 1: as the season goes, we are officially done. Cowboys lose
- 0:46Speaker 1: to the Giants thirty four to seventeen. Haven't said that
- 0:49Speaker 1: a lot. I don't think I've ever said that on
- 0:51Speaker 1: this show Cowboys storyline. We've only been doing this show
- 0:55Speaker 1: now for three full seasons, so no, I've never said
- 0:57Speaker 1: Cowboys have lost to the Giants before they did, and they,
- 1:02Speaker 1: you know, once again made the Giants. Some of the
- 1:05Speaker 1: Giant players on offense turned. You know, it's too too bad.
- 1:09Speaker 1: You know, if you play the Cowboys defense, you want
- 1:12Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl voting to still be in play, because
- 1:15Speaker 1: you know, I think there's probably been some guys that
- 1:17Speaker 1: could make the Pro Bowl based off of how they've
- 1:19Speaker 1: played the Cowboys. It's unbelievable. It happened again. You know,
- 1:24Speaker 1: Jackson Dart and some of these guys that you know
- 1:27Speaker 1: just that you really hadn't heard of that just just
- 1:30Speaker 1: kind of weave through this defense. So I thought the
- 1:34Speaker 1: Cowboys might, you know, might finish strong a little bit
- 1:37Speaker 1: and and and get a win to get to eight
- 1:39Speaker 1: eight and one. Did not happen. The Cowboys fall. They're
- 1:42Speaker 1: seven to nine and one. Obviously they've never had that
- 1:45Speaker 1: record before. But seven to nine and one gives them
- 1:49Speaker 1: the twelfth overall pick in the draft. They have one
- 1:51Speaker 1: of two. We'll see what the Packers, how they finish.
- 1:55Speaker 1: It'll be in the twenties or thirties, hope not, but
- 1:59Speaker 1: it'll probably be in the in the low twenties. But
- 2:02Speaker 1: definitely picking twelve for the second year in a row
- 2:05Speaker 1: so and and really a third time in the last
- 2:08Speaker 1: five years. But if they can't get anybody close to who
- 2:11Speaker 1: they've they've drafted in in Parsons and Booker should be
- 2:15Speaker 1: a good player coming here. All right, let's go to
- 2:16Speaker 1: the phone lines. Irene in Falls Church, Virginia. Irene is first,
- 2:20Speaker 1: what's up, Hey, good good morning.
- 2:23Speaker 3: I guess yeah, good afternoon, Sorry it's not morning. All
- 2:26Speaker 3: good anyway, So I'll comment on, of course, the biggest
- 2:30Speaker 3: thing in Cowboy's Nation right now, which is the ten
- 2:32Speaker 3: to twelve days that it will take to evaluate the
- 2:35Speaker 3: defensive coordinator. For me, I am I'm I would have
- 2:38Speaker 3: done like week ten to twelve on that decision. But
- 2:41Speaker 3: I am hopeful that like with the shoddy move, they
- 2:46Speaker 3: are at least looking at fielding calls, putting fielders out there.
- 2:50Speaker 3: For some of these other candidates. I would bring Morrison,
- 2:53Speaker 3: I'd bring Schwartz in. There's there's a few that you know,
- 2:58Speaker 3: we have opportunities here, so don't don't waste that. And
- 3:01Speaker 3: then I had a trade idea. It's about our players,
- 3:06Speaker 3: so don't worry about that. So I think one of
- 3:08Speaker 3: the things we don't do well is trade our players
- 3:11Speaker 3: for value. It's something I think Philly does really well.
- 3:14Speaker 3: Like Carson Wentz, I'm I'm team keep Jeep. But I
- 3:19Speaker 3: wanted to throw scenario out there between the Flinoy and
- 3:23Speaker 3: part of Pickens. So if you had a first and
- 3:27Speaker 3: let's say a fourth for Pickens versus a fourth for Flinoy,
- 3:33Speaker 3: which way would you move and which way do you
- 3:36Speaker 3: think the.
- 3:36Speaker 4: Cowboys would move, Because if you do that with Pickens.
- 3:39Speaker 3: You might end up with three first rounds and be
- 3:41Speaker 3: able to go get somebody else and leverage.
- 3:43Speaker 4: It that way.
- 3:44Speaker 3: For me, I want to keep Jeep, so I think
- 3:48Speaker 3: I would get rid of Flinoy in that situation.
- 3:51Speaker 5: Those are my choices.
- 3:52Speaker 4: All right, Thanks, all.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Right, thanks for the call. You know, I'm not that
- 4:01Speaker 1: you would what you would get for Flinoy if you
- 4:04Speaker 1: wanted to kind of go that route. He there's a
- 4:08Speaker 1: young developing player. I still, you know, I think one
- 4:12Speaker 1: of the reasons you don't see a lot of trades
- 4:14Speaker 1: like that that, you know, not everyone loves the value
- 4:17Speaker 1: that they're getting back. And sometimes when you trade guys,
- 4:21Speaker 1: you're taking a contract hit too. So you can get
- 4:23Speaker 1: out of the contract in certain ways, but sometimes you're
- 4:27Speaker 1: also gonna gonna take kind of a you know, a
- 4:30Speaker 1: contract hit as well. It's kind of like the Packers
- 4:34Speaker 1: did when they traded Kenny Clark. I mean, they took
- 4:36Speaker 1: a pretty big contract hit with him. Pickens, he to
- 4:42Speaker 1: trade him, you're gonna have to put the franchise tag
- 4:45Speaker 1: on him, So you're not just gonna trade him. I
- 4:48Speaker 1: don't think right now, I think you're gonna put the
- 4:50Speaker 1: tag on him, and then after that, then then there
- 4:53Speaker 1: there would be some trade UH talks as well. To
- 4:56Speaker 1: answer the question, would you rather trade him and get
- 4:59Speaker 1: a first and a fourth or rather get a fourth
- 5:02Speaker 1: for Illinoy, I'd rather trade him and trade Pickings to
- 5:07Speaker 1: get a first and fourth. If if that was my
- 5:10Speaker 1: my two options, I'd like to see Pickings back here, though,
- 5:15Speaker 1: to be honest, I mean, I don't really love those
- 5:18Speaker 1: two scenarios, but if I had the choice to try
- 5:21Speaker 1: to get my I'd like to have him him back.
- 5:24Speaker 1: All right, let's go Daveyon in Illinois. What's up?
- 5:27Speaker 6: What's up? But the dude?
- 5:29Speaker 1: What to do? Man?
- 5:30Speaker 6: Afternoon Show?
- 5:31Speaker 1: I see, yeah, yeah, we were gonna do this here
- 5:35Speaker 1: just to kind of finish out the season. But what
- 5:38Speaker 1: are you up to?
- 5:40Speaker 7: Man?
- 5:42Speaker 6: I was talking to you know, we got a group chat,
- 5:45Speaker 6: so I was I was arguing with UH with Rob
- 5:48Speaker 6: last week about this game, and I was trying to
- 5:52Speaker 6: tell him that if it meant something to the players
- 5:55Speaker 6: and the coach, then I don't I don't mind that
- 5:58Speaker 6: going to play. But then we watch the game yesterday
- 6:02Speaker 6: and it wasn't what I thought it was gonna be.
- 6:03Speaker 6: I thought we was actually gonna try to take it serious.
- 6:05Speaker 6: I mean we kind of dack on through the ball
- 6:07Speaker 6: eleven times. You know, we've seen Blue, but uh, what
- 6:12Speaker 6: it could have been with Blue? That was nice, But
- 6:14Speaker 6: I just, honestly, if it was gonna play it like
- 6:16Speaker 6: that the way it looked my eyes, I ran a
- 6:19Speaker 6: dock just set out and just not just rolled into
- 6:21Speaker 6: the redist next year because it seemed like it was
- 6:24Speaker 6: really trying to win. Of course, our defense is terrible,
- 6:26Speaker 6: so they made Jackie dark and h some guy named
- 6:30Speaker 6: was Shusky or whatever his name is look good. So
- 6:33Speaker 6: I'm like, uh, but man, I was just I was
- 6:36Speaker 6: kind of disappointed. I'll be honest, I was disappointed in
- 6:39Speaker 6: the effort that I saw from just basically at the fans.
- 6:42Speaker 6: It's like, man, if you really wanted to hit the Giants, man,
- 6:44Speaker 6: it's not really we'd be deep boiled, like fourteenth straight times.
- 6:48Speaker 6: Probably just can't come on running up in the first
- 6:50Speaker 6: half and then let dack them chill out. But you know, right,
- 6:54Speaker 6: all right, well but yeah, wrapping up the season. Yeah,
- 6:58Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
- 6:59Speaker 1: No, I just said I'm with you all on that.
- 7:01Speaker 1: I understand you know, kind of the frustration. Again, it
- 7:06Speaker 1: all comes down to the agenda and that they're not
- 7:09Speaker 1: really saying. Dak didn't say and Shotty didn't say. I mean,
- 7:13Speaker 1: what's the real reason? Is kind of what I wanted
- 7:15Speaker 1: to know. And the only thing I could come up
- 7:17Speaker 1: with is I think Dak wanted to play seventeen games.
- 7:20Speaker 1: I think that that was important to him. He wanted
- 7:22Speaker 1: to play and start every game. Here's an injury prone
- 7:26Speaker 1: for the last couple of years, he's sort of been
- 7:28Speaker 1: injury prone. For him to come back in year ten
- 7:30Speaker 1: and start every game, I thought that was important for him.
- 7:33Speaker 1: So that and that's the only thing I could think
- 7:35Speaker 1: of of why he would play, Because you're right, if
- 7:39Speaker 1: you're trying to win, then try to win. If you're
- 7:40Speaker 1: trying to get the passing record, then go get the
- 7:42Speaker 1: passing record, you know, whatever it is. But the only
- 7:46Speaker 1: thing I could think of is that he wanted to
- 7:47Speaker 1: start the game. And then that was it. That's all
- 7:50Speaker 1: I can think of.
- 7:50Speaker 8: It.
- 7:50Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good explanation because, like I said, man,
- 7:54Speaker 6: I was I kind of let down the way we
- 7:57Speaker 6: came out and did what we did. I was like, man,
- 8:00Speaker 6: wants to go out like this. But if we can
- 8:02Speaker 6: go out like this and we can go and get
- 8:04Speaker 6: rid of the DC and possibly the Special Team guy
- 8:07Speaker 6: uh man, I'm cool with it because we got to
- 8:10Speaker 6: get some changes. We get to changes now, but we
- 8:12Speaker 6: got plenty of time on all season talk about it.
- 8:14Speaker 6: You know, I'll be chiming in with it. But yeah,
- 8:16Speaker 6: just appreciate you taking my calling right all right, see.
- 8:21Speaker 1: Nick, We appreciate thanks, David. Uh appreciate that. You know again,
- 8:26Speaker 1: we will continue to have shows on Wednesdays Wednesdays throughout
- 8:31Speaker 1: the season. Uh and Wednesday morning. Well, we'll have those shows.
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- 10:28Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phone lines. Here we have
- 10:32Speaker 1: Brian in Kansas City. Brian, what's up?
- 10:35Speaker 12: Good afternoon, sir.
- 10:36Speaker 1: How are you doing well?
- 10:39Speaker 13: Man?
- 10:39Speaker 12: It's it's a melancholy day. Football is over, at least
- 10:45Speaker 12: for us, you know, yeah, it is what it is. Listen,
- 10:50Speaker 12: I've been holding this beer for eighteen weeks. Do you
- 10:52Speaker 12: think BLUs wants it back now? Yeah? So I'm wann
- 10:58Speaker 12: to ask a question Nick. Somebody we asked this question.
- 11:02Speaker 12: I don't remember who it was. And I want to
- 11:03Speaker 12: just give a shout out to Irene. Irene's out there
- 11:06Speaker 12: beating the bushes to get caller. She sent me a
- 11:08Speaker 12: text message saying, hey, we got a weird time today
- 11:12Speaker 12: and nice and you know, because a lot of times
- 11:16Speaker 12: we just don't know you knowing ship like this. I
- 11:20Speaker 12: know you make announcements and stuff. I'm just saying, you know,
- 11:23Speaker 12: people that are in their lives and their day to
- 11:25Speaker 12: day lives.
- 11:26Speaker 1: That's why she's the captain. I mean, she's the best.
- 11:29Speaker 1: I knew she would I did she come through? So
- 11:31Speaker 1: that's all.
- 11:31Speaker 14: Yeah.
- 11:32Speaker 12: Yeah, So the question I want to ask is something
- 11:35Speaker 12: that we've asked before, but now it's it's it's the
- 11:40Speaker 12: time to look at this. If you were saying, who
- 11:45Speaker 12: and what on this defense can I build around? And
- 11:50Speaker 12: I'm talking about players not coaches. Yeah, I'm making the
- 11:53Speaker 12: assumption the coach is gone, but but with players? Who
- 11:58Speaker 12: do we say it is? I'm going to give you
- 12:00Speaker 12: four and two of them are because of performance, two
- 12:03Speaker 12: of them are because we just resigned them, and I
- 12:05Speaker 12: don't think we have a choice. So obviously, I think
- 12:09Speaker 12: we're going to keep Williams. I think we're going to
- 12:12Speaker 12: keep Over shown we just resigned Bland and OsO R.
- 12:16Speaker 12: I don't think you can get out of those contracts
- 12:18Speaker 12: at the snap of a finger, even if you really
- 12:20Speaker 12: wanted to. So I think those are the four that
- 12:24Speaker 12: you're starting with. Maybe just give your opinion. Who the
- 12:29Speaker 12: hell else can we build around? What's what did we
- 12:32Speaker 12: see that we could say, Man, that's something to build on.
- 12:36Speaker 13: All right, I'll listen.
- 12:37Speaker 12: I'll listen to that off air brother.
- 12:38Speaker 1: Thanks Brian. Hey, let's just call it what it is.
- 12:42Speaker 1: I mean, this was the worst defense in the history
- 12:45Speaker 1: of the Cowboys. So like in certain statistics, they I mean,
- 12:49Speaker 1: they're allowing thirty points a game. I don't want to
- 12:51Speaker 1: build around anything. I don't want to build around this
- 12:55Speaker 1: was this was bad. You don't build around this. You've
- 12:58Speaker 1: got pieces in place, like the contract wise Quinn Williams Osa, Overshown, Bland. Yeah,
- 13:05Speaker 1: you mentioned those four as Araku is another one again
- 13:09Speaker 1: younger younger players or signed or you know, Malie Hooker
- 13:15Speaker 1: is also has another year left. I think he's fine
- 13:18Speaker 1: a little, you know, he got banged up some. But
- 13:20Speaker 1: I think Millie Cookers is a good, solid player. You know,
- 13:26Speaker 1: he can come back to There's not There's not many though,
- 13:29Speaker 1: and there shouldn't be, you know. I mean, so I've
- 13:34Speaker 1: had I've heard this question a lot. Is it players,
- 13:36Speaker 1: is it coaches? Is it the personnel or is it
- 13:38Speaker 1: the coaches. It's gonna be both. It's gonna be both.
- 13:42Speaker 1: They're gonna make changes as the coaches, and they're also
- 13:45Speaker 1: gonna gonna you know, change a lot of the personnel
- 13:48Speaker 1: as well. And some of those guys that I mentioned here,
- 13:51Speaker 1: I mean, Overshown, included. I mean, like, you don't have
- 13:54Speaker 1: to overshown doesn't have to be your best player. I mean,
- 13:57Speaker 1: if that's who he is and he is healthy and
- 14:01Speaker 1: all that, great, I'd like to see him, you know,
- 14:03Speaker 1: him out there more in a full offseason and all that.
- 14:06Speaker 1: But I mean he's He's flashed a few plays here
- 14:11Speaker 1: and there, but not to the point where you're alike,
- 14:13Speaker 1: you got to build around him. You know, this is
- 14:15Speaker 1: a contract year for overshom Actually, all right, let's go
- 14:18Speaker 1: to Rob in Vegas. Hey, Nick, how you doing.
- 14:23Speaker 8: I'm good?
- 14:23Speaker 7: How are you?
- 14:24Speaker 1: I'm good? What do you get?
- 14:27Speaker 15: So that is Unfortunately, that's my fear. I could see
- 14:31Speaker 15: Jerry blaming this all on Eva Flush and that's a mistake.
- 14:36Speaker 15: There's no talent on this defense. I don't care who
- 14:38Speaker 15: the coach was this year. Could a better defensive coordinator
- 14:42Speaker 15: made it a little better. Yes, yeah, there's no talent.
- 14:45Speaker 15: Your best players learnt even on the team to begin with.
- 14:49Speaker 15: Your best pass Russia sat on the couch most of
- 14:52Speaker 15: the year, and Quinn Williams the rest. If you could
- 14:58Speaker 15: get out from under most of them would do it.
- 15:01Speaker 15: But I'm just afraid Jerry's gonna blame it on the coach.
- 15:03Speaker 15: He's going to hire a new DC and he's gonna
- 15:06Speaker 15: do what he does in free agency, bottom bottom seed,
- 15:10Speaker 15: and he's gonna say, well, the coach, the coach is
- 15:12Speaker 15: going to fix this. And if he thinks that, we'll
- 15:14Speaker 15: be right back here next year in the same boat,
- 15:19Speaker 15: he's gonna you know, people say, well, why is he
- 15:21Speaker 15: going to take ten twelve days? Simple, he wants to
- 15:24Speaker 15: stay in the headlines.
- 15:25Speaker 13: It's the playoffs.
- 15:26Speaker 15: We're not in the playoffs, but the Cowboys stay in
- 15:29Speaker 15: the headlines because that's they're waiting to see that guy
- 15:32Speaker 15: get fired, you know, So he hold on really quick.
- 15:35Speaker 1: Do you believe ten to twelve days? Is there anybody
- 15:37Speaker 1: believes that believes tend to No?
- 15:39Speaker 4: I I can't.
- 15:40Speaker 15: I can't see this going past Friday, me personally.
- 15:43Speaker 1: And if he does days from what like like for
- 15:46Speaker 1: for the defensive coordinator decision like or or no, No,
- 15:51Speaker 1: they've had ten to twelve days that they've they've been
- 15:54Speaker 1: out of the playoffs for ten to twelve days, like like,
- 15:57Speaker 1: I I think I think that's a standard thing that
- 16:00Speaker 1: coaches saying that shot. He might have said that, but
- 16:02Speaker 1: I don't necessarily believe that And you know, because there's
- 16:06Speaker 1: certain decisions. You're not going to leave people the guy
- 16:08Speaker 1: twisting in the win for that long and and and
- 16:11Speaker 1: nor nor would you want to so.
- 16:13Speaker 15: And I hope I hope Shoty, you know, I hope
- 16:17Speaker 15: Jerry holds him accountable too. You know, shot he's being
- 16:20Speaker 15: led off the hook because they say, well, he's the
- 16:24Speaker 15: first year guy, we didn't expect much. Who I mean,
- 16:27Speaker 15: Chicago had a first year guy, Jack. There's a lot
- 16:29Speaker 15: of first year guys that are in the playoffs. Uh,
- 16:33Speaker 15: and if you didn't expect much, you shouldn't ever hired him.
- 16:35Speaker 1: Well, I think he's also hold on real quick, I'll
- 16:38Speaker 1: just say I think he's also maybe off the hook
- 16:40Speaker 1: a little bit because he's the offensive coordinator of one
- 16:42Speaker 1: of the best offenses in the league.
- 16:44Speaker 15: That that's a little fake too. Come on, let's be honest.
- 16:48Speaker 15: This team has been gone awful in the second half.
- 16:52Speaker 16: Uh.
- 16:52Speaker 15: That's you know, coaches get together in halftime make some adjustments. Uh,
- 16:57Speaker 15: this all coach ain't doing it. I don't know what
- 16:59Speaker 15: he's doing. The offense wasn't as good as everybody thinks
- 17:03Speaker 15: it was.
- 17:04Speaker 13: I mean, if you.
- 17:04Speaker 15: Look at who he really did it against.
- 17:06Speaker 7: They weren't great.
- 17:07Speaker 15: I mean, I just want him. When you're the head coach,
- 17:10Speaker 15: you're supposed to oversee everything. I'm sorry you got to
- 17:13Speaker 15: take some heat. And I hope he does. I just
- 17:16Speaker 15: hope Jerry. You know, we need Jerry to be desperate.
- 17:21Speaker 15: That's the only time he makes moves that are the
- 17:23Speaker 15: best for the team. And hopefully he's desperate enough to
- 17:27Speaker 15: make the right call with DC and go get some
- 17:30Speaker 15: players at free agency. We talked about it. We know
- 17:33Speaker 15: who I would love for to see it, But go
- 17:35Speaker 15: make moves. Spend the money on defense. I know it's
- 17:39Speaker 15: not as flash like it is offense, but that's where
- 17:42Speaker 15: all your help needs to come, most of your health.
- 17:44Speaker 8: Anyway.
- 17:45Speaker 1: Yeah, now I'm in agreement there, and and I'm with
- 17:51Speaker 1: you on the offense not being perfect. I just think,
- 17:55Speaker 1: you know, I think shoddy, he's I don't think he's
- 17:58Speaker 1: getting a pass so much as team didn't make the playoffs.
- 18:01Speaker 1: But he's the first year coaches, not you know, he's
- 18:03Speaker 1: not gonna lose his job, so you know, I think
- 18:06Speaker 1: I think that's part of it. But but does he
- 18:08Speaker 1: need to be better? Yeah, he does, he does. And
- 18:11Speaker 1: then there there were some you know, that there was
- 18:13Speaker 1: some coaching you know, time time, uh, you know, management
- 18:17Speaker 1: situations that you know. I think he will will get better.
- 18:21Speaker 1: I would hope so. And I think he's he's got
- 18:25Speaker 1: to get a defensive coach. I've said this for he's
- 18:26Speaker 1: got to get a defensive coach that he trusts one.
- 18:29Speaker 1: And whether or not he says that you can't trust
- 18:33Speaker 1: the defense this year. It doesn't matter if you if
- 18:35Speaker 1: you love the guy or not, doesn't matter if you're
- 18:36Speaker 1: related to him. You you there's no way you could
- 18:38Speaker 1: trust this defense. So he's got to get a coordinator
- 18:42Speaker 1: in here that that he trusts, that that that they
- 18:45Speaker 1: you know, when he turns his back the offense, you
- 18:47Speaker 1: know that the defense is going to go and make
- 18:49Speaker 1: the right plays. And and they they just obviously didn't.
- 18:52Speaker 15: So well, he's got to do the hiring.
- 18:55Speaker 1: I agree.
- 18:56Speaker 8: Let him.
- 18:56Speaker 15: Let him pick the DC, yeah.
- 18:58Speaker 1: Because the D because the the DC is going to
- 19:02Speaker 1: affect him. You know, it affects his record. Defensive coordinators
- 19:06Speaker 1: don't have records. You know of what your record is.
- 19:09Speaker 1: Your head coach record is for sure.
- 19:11Speaker 15: Shot, he's making about four million dollars, which is trump change.
- 19:15Speaker 15: You know, a guy in Chicago's making thirteen, so I
- 19:20Speaker 15: don't think shot he's got more than next year. If
- 19:22Speaker 15: this happens again next year, I could see him gone.
- 19:25Speaker 1: And that's part of the problem, Rob, because think about it.
- 19:28Speaker 1: If that's what the head coach is making, what do
- 19:30Speaker 1: you think the defensive coordinator is making.
- 19:32Speaker 15: I know, listen, we talk about it. Unfortunately, he don't
- 19:35Speaker 15: want to pay, you.
- 19:36Speaker 1: Don't want to play, And that's always been a shock
- 19:38Speaker 1: to me because there's no cap there, so I and
- 19:41Speaker 1: I can't understand that one. I just don't. But all right, Rob,
- 19:46Speaker 1: well thanks thanks for the call. Good stuff, and you know,
- 19:50Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll hear from you all all off season,
- 19:52Speaker 1: So thanks for that. And you know, I mean he's
- 19:56Speaker 1: he's right in that. The offense, you know, I give
- 20:01Speaker 1: them a little bit of a pass just because they
- 20:04Speaker 1: have they have just had to do everything. They've had
- 20:08Speaker 1: to dominate every single time, and sometimes they do and
- 20:13Speaker 1: then sometimes you know, like like you know that they
- 20:15Speaker 1: have lolls in the second half and all that, but
- 20:16Speaker 1: the defense doesn't give the defense credit for their consistency.
- 20:20Speaker 1: It's just consistent. We're gonna give up plays in every
- 20:23Speaker 1: quarter and we're you know, they're they're not gonna you know,
- 20:27Speaker 1: they're not gonna change. They're they're just gonna continue to
- 20:31Speaker 1: give up plays. And that's kind of what happened. All right,
- 20:34Speaker 1: let's go to break here on Cowboys story on me
- 20:36Speaker 1: right back after this.
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- 21:56Speaker 1: We taped our TV portion of the show weeks so
- 22:00Speaker 1: now we have a little bit of time to kind
- 22:02Speaker 1: of talk when we want to. It is Monday, January
- 22:05Speaker 1: the fifth, and I can say that for sure now.
- 22:07Speaker 1: We just so it's just you guys know, and I
- 22:09Speaker 1: understand that everybody has a good under good knowledge of
- 22:13Speaker 1: when the shows are. We do change the schedule now
- 22:15Speaker 1: and again that's something I think we can get better
- 22:17Speaker 1: out and and we should. We we can work on that.
- 22:20Speaker 1: And it starts really with also the communication and stuff
- 22:24Speaker 1: like that. Well, we'll work on getting it an idea
- 22:27Speaker 1: where you can go to the website and get the
- 22:30Speaker 1: updated schedules of the shows. Wednesdays for our show is
- 22:35Speaker 1: going to be nine to thirty am Central Time. We'll
- 22:38Speaker 1: go for about an hour and a half, so we
- 22:41Speaker 1: only do one show. We did not win that battle.
- 22:43Speaker 1: We are going to go a little bit longer and
- 22:46Speaker 1: just like we did last year. So we do have
- 22:48Speaker 1: a couple of shows right now as we take the
- 22:50Speaker 1: TV shows today, and then we'll do one maybe next
- 22:53Speaker 1: next week as well, but so we'll but Wednesday, nine
- 22:57Speaker 1: thirty Central time is going to be our time, all right, Jr.
- 23:00Speaker 1: In Avondale, Arizona, Jr. What's up?
- 23:02Speaker 13: How you doing that? Happy New Year?
- 23:04Speaker 10: Good?
- 23:04Speaker 1: How are you doing doing great?
- 23:06Speaker 2: Hey?
- 23:06Speaker 13: Just setting the record straight. It was it was seventeen
- 23:09Speaker 13: days straight.
- 23:10Speaker 8: I called in.
- 23:11Speaker 1: So what did I say? Did I say? Thirteen fourteen? So, yeah,
- 23:15Speaker 1: you had seventeen shows in a row.
- 23:18Speaker 13: Seventeen shows in a row. It ended when the day
- 23:20Speaker 13: Woody was there, I couldn't get through. But then I
- 23:23Speaker 13: got through the following two days. I was starting to
- 23:26Speaker 13: make twenty days in a row, but I actually got
- 23:28Speaker 13: nineteen out of the twenty.
- 23:30Speaker 1: So it's like three full, three full weeks and then yeah.
- 23:34Speaker 13: It's amazing, it's amazing. I don't know, just the luck.
- 23:38Speaker 13: My luck was there, I guess so through all the time. Anyway,
- 23:43Speaker 13: not a lot of stuff I was going to talk
- 23:44Speaker 13: about has been talked about. But you know, when Shotty
- 23:46Speaker 13: got the job. It wasn't the biggest fan of him,
- 23:49Speaker 13: but you know, listening to him, I liked what he
- 23:50Speaker 13: had to say and kind of his vision of what
- 23:53Speaker 13: he wanted to do with the team. But then yesterday
- 23:55Speaker 13: he was talking about that they were going to get
- 23:57Speaker 13: to the bottom of what was wrong and they're going
- 24:00Speaker 13: to work their butts off and to figure it out.
- 24:03Speaker 13: And I just caught me off, card. I mean, you
- 24:06Speaker 13: gave up five hundred and eleven points, the most points
- 24:09Speaker 13: ever ever for Dallas Cowboys defense, and he gave up
- 24:14Speaker 13: seventy one points in two games to the Giants.
- 24:17Speaker 1: What's the problem? What's the problem with this? With the statement,
- 24:20Speaker 1: I don't understand.
- 24:21Speaker 13: I don't understand why he would even say something. He
- 24:24Speaker 13: should know the problem.
- 24:25Speaker 1: The problem is, what's the problem?
- 24:28Speaker 13: Defense is terrible?
- 24:30Speaker 1: That that that's not your answer, though, You don't just
- 24:33Speaker 1: tell Jerry the defense is terrible.
- 24:35Speaker 13: Well, this is when he's talking to the media, Well
- 24:38Speaker 13: you have defense.
- 24:41Speaker 1: What do you want him to say? I mean, may
- 24:42Speaker 1: I'm confused. I'm confused of what what you're you're saying.
- 24:45Speaker 1: I mean, he's that we're going to get to the
- 24:47Speaker 1: bottom of it. Yeah, yeah, I mean, like it's just
- 24:52Speaker 1: like saying I'm sick. Okay, you're sick. You know you're sick,
- 24:55Speaker 1: but you go to the doctor so you can find
- 24:57Speaker 1: out exactly why and what you're doing and how to
- 24:59Speaker 1: get better at it.
- 25:01Speaker 13: Well, he has said that he expected to compete for
- 25:04Speaker 13: the super Bowl and be in the playoffs and he
- 25:07Speaker 13: was going to get to the bottom and figure out
- 25:09Speaker 13: why they weren't. And that doesn't seem like I mean,
- 25:11Speaker 13: you should know he knows what's wrong.
- 25:13Speaker 6: It's the defense.
- 25:15Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I think we're saying the same
- 25:18Speaker 1: thing everybody. I mean, everybody knows it's the defense. But
- 25:23Speaker 1: it's just okay. At this point, there's twenty seven coaches
- 25:28Speaker 1: on the staff, half of them are on defense. You've
- 25:31Speaker 1: got these players under contract. You know which ones are
- 25:35Speaker 1: you going to keep? Which ones do you want to
- 25:37Speaker 1: build around? Which other coordinators should you get in here?
- 25:40Speaker 1: Do you need another position coach? Do we need different
- 25:44Speaker 1: voices at certain coaches? Here? There's a lot of questions here,
- 25:48Speaker 1: are we practicing the right way? Should we go ones
- 25:51Speaker 1: versus one? Should we keep? You know, now go the
- 25:54Speaker 1: ones versus two? Is whatever? A lot of different things
- 25:57Speaker 1: to try to figure out how we get Yeah, the defense.
- 26:00Speaker 1: Defense was terrible, got it, But how do you fix it?
- 26:02Speaker 1: And with what You can't just blow the whole thing
- 26:05Speaker 1: up because you got contracts?
- 26:07Speaker 7: I got it.
- 26:07Speaker 13: But Nick, when when Zimmer was there last year the
- 26:10Speaker 13: defense was bad? But as a year when on defense
- 26:12Speaker 13: got better, they made improvements, they made changes.
- 26:15Speaker 1: And what happened?
- 26:16Speaker 13: But the defense yesterday as it was back in September?
- 26:22Speaker 1: Are you telling me that last year the defense was
- 26:25Speaker 1: was okay, it was not very good in the middle
- 26:27Speaker 1: of the season, and at the end of the year
- 26:28Speaker 1: it got better.
- 26:29Speaker 13: They did get better. I looked it up before I
- 26:32Speaker 13: opened my mouth in it.
- 26:34Speaker 1: But what did anything happen? Maybe did anything happen in
- 26:38Speaker 1: the middle of the season that all of a sudden,
- 26:40Speaker 1: did any particular player maybe get hurt and miss five
- 26:43Speaker 1: straight weeks? But then he comes back and actually played
- 26:47Speaker 1: and led the entire defense, led the team in sacks.
- 26:50Speaker 1: I mean, like you like it, I mean and so
- 26:55Speaker 1: and so you know, and and someone said that to
- 26:57Speaker 1: me on Twitter or they like I didn't like your
- 26:59Speaker 1: mail bag answer because you said Michael would have helped
- 27:01Speaker 1: him get in the playoffs. He didn't help him last
- 27:02Speaker 1: year I'm like, Micah missed four games and they went
- 27:05Speaker 1: one and three, Like I think he would have and
- 27:08Speaker 1: I think he would have helped this team to the
- 27:10Speaker 1: point to make the playoffs. I'm not sure, but I may. Yeah,
- 27:14Speaker 1: but but I get it, like I you're, you're right.
- 27:19Speaker 1: And that's why these coaches get get crucified when they
- 27:23Speaker 1: come up here and they talk and they say some
- 27:24Speaker 1: stuff that everyone's like, well, of course, I mean, give
- 27:28Speaker 1: us something better than that. We all see that. But
- 27:30Speaker 1: really he's probably hamstrung and what he can say about
- 27:33Speaker 1: what specifically do we need to do. Do we need
- 27:36Speaker 1: to focus more on analytics, Do we need to focus
- 27:38Speaker 1: less on analytics? Do we need to switch these things
- 27:41Speaker 1: up a lot of different things. I think that that
- 27:45Speaker 1: have to be. You know, this is the time of
- 27:47Speaker 1: year to start doing that.
- 27:49Speaker 13: So I agree with you. Yeah, I agree.
- 27:51Speaker 8: I don't.
- 27:53Speaker 13: I hopefully they bring somebody in. I know when I
- 27:56Speaker 13: know when Nolan was here, it was bad, and then
- 27:58Speaker 13: Dan Quinn came in and they got that are pretty quick.
- 28:01Speaker 13: They bring in someone that can work with the players
- 28:03Speaker 13: they got because they can't change out everybody.
- 28:06Speaker 1: You're you're you're so right, and I thanks, Thanks, for
- 28:09Speaker 1: the calling then Jr. You are another You're an example
- 28:12Speaker 1: of I mean when you think about the callers that
- 28:15Speaker 1: we've had on this show already, and we're about to
- 28:17Speaker 1: have the sixth one Irene dave On, Brian Rob Jr.
- 28:22Speaker 1: And I'm about to get to Sergeant Sue just a second.
- 28:25Speaker 1: You can't sneak anything past you guys like this is,
- 28:28Speaker 1: this is these These are the I think pretty much
- 28:30Speaker 1: all storyline team right here. So you guys are the
- 28:34Speaker 1: ones that are like, tell me, it's the defense. Ray
- 28:38Speaker 1: Charles knew it was the defense. It's not that. But
- 28:41Speaker 1: and so I can see that your frustration of like, man,
- 28:43Speaker 1: tell me more than that, because I could tell you,
- 28:45Speaker 1: I know this is the problem. So I just just
- 28:49Speaker 1: kind of bear with them a little bit. I mean,
- 28:51Speaker 1: that's the stuff that they're going to say, but they
- 28:54Speaker 1: know this has got to be a deep dive, deep
- 28:56Speaker 1: dive into this. All right. Let's go to Sergeant Sue
- 28:59Speaker 1: fort Worth.
- 29:00Speaker 4: And he's everybody, how you doing, Nick, I'm good, bro,
- 29:05Speaker 4: I like to Ray Charles and with these that was great.
- 29:07Speaker 4: One I wanted to.
- 29:11Speaker 1: Anymore.
- 29:12Speaker 8: I don't I don't really know.
- 29:14Speaker 4: I don't want to say anything on air. I'm not
- 29:16Speaker 4: one hundred pess sure, but no, man, I wanted to
- 29:19Speaker 4: call and I do this all the time and take
- 29:21Speaker 4: notes and I decide what I want to say before
- 29:23Speaker 4: I call in, and then I hear some callers and
- 29:25Speaker 4: those notes change completely. So I'm kind of talking about
- 29:28Speaker 4: some things that other people I've talked about. I will
- 29:30Speaker 4: say that according to like another, can I say, can
- 29:35Speaker 4: I say, who if I read a tweet from a
- 29:37Speaker 4: certain person? Am I allowed to pay on air?
- 29:39Speaker 8: Or I don't know?
- 29:40Speaker 1: For it? Go for it, my bad brother.
- 29:42Speaker 4: I saw John John Matoda and I saw him quote
- 29:44Speaker 4: some of the things that Jerry had said before after
- 29:47Speaker 4: the game, and he certainly did not blame this all
- 29:50Speaker 4: on flue. He actually said that he cannot blame it
- 29:52Speaker 4: all on flue. He said that it's it's taken years
- 29:55Speaker 4: to get pretty much from what I read, it sound
- 29:57Speaker 4: like he said, it's taken years to get this bad.
- 29:59Speaker 4: And I I think that that's somewhat depending on how
- 30:02Speaker 4: you read it, And y'all know how I am. I
- 30:04Speaker 4: read things with the more positive scope, and I think
- 30:07Speaker 4: that that was him somewhat taking accountabilities, you know, I mean,
- 30:10Speaker 4: he was saying that you know, when we had DQ,
- 30:12Speaker 4: he was great too, but we still didn't get the
- 30:13Speaker 4: job done. I think that that's Jerry and co. Like
- 30:16Speaker 4: I always say, I don't blame everything on Jerry, and
- 30:18Speaker 4: I also don't give him all the credit. I think
- 30:19Speaker 4: that was his way of saying, like, hey, we have
- 30:21Speaker 4: to look at what we've been doing. I mean, so
- 30:23Speaker 4: I don't think that Jerry will blame everything on Flue.
- 30:26Speaker 4: He hasn't yet. And I do think that as far
- 30:29Speaker 4: as him, like I've said this a lot, you know,
- 30:31Speaker 4: in the beginning of the season on his radio station,
- 30:35Speaker 4: he said, you know that there's he has a natural
- 30:38Speaker 4: urgency because of his age. And I think that if
- 30:40Speaker 4: if this was Jerry of the past, that I could
- 30:42Speaker 4: have maybe written that off of as his like him
- 30:45Speaker 4: just saying things and you know, it is what it is.
- 30:47Speaker 4: It's about action. But I think he also showed that
- 30:50Speaker 4: natural urgency this season, Like I've said before, I mean,
- 30:52Speaker 4: and all the all the free agency he's gotten, the
- 30:54Speaker 4: trays that he's made, I mean, I think he has
- 30:56Speaker 4: shown that natural urgency and I do think that he
- 30:59Speaker 4: is taking his agent and consideration. Uh now when it
- 31:02Speaker 4: comes to the d C regardless of your relationship, regardless
- 31:05Speaker 4: of your friendship or anything like that, and regardless of
- 31:08Speaker 4: whether he didn't have players. I think at the end
- 31:11Speaker 4: of the day, as a leader, which the DC is
- 31:13Speaker 4: a leader, you can't be like, oh no, I tried,
- 31:15Speaker 4: but my guys didn't.
- 31:16Speaker 8: Do the job.
- 31:17Speaker 4: Now, as a leader, you got to take the responsibility.
- 31:19Speaker 4: And I think that unfortunately, you know, I think that
- 31:21Speaker 4: it's time to move on. The numbers that he and
- 31:24Speaker 4: his squad put up is unacceptable, you know. I mean,
- 31:27Speaker 4: it's just that, it's just how it is unacceptable and
- 31:29Speaker 4: you can't really twist my arm, my positive one. We
- 31:34Speaker 4: can't really twist my arm to believe that he deserves
- 31:36Speaker 4: a second chance. And hopefully Jerry in the front office
- 31:39Speaker 4: agrees with that. The thing that I'll say with with
- 31:42Speaker 4: Shoddy is I've phrased him a lot this this this
- 31:48Speaker 4: season about self evaluation and the things that he says.
- 31:51Speaker 4: And you know how he says that he seems to
- 31:53Speaker 4: be a great leader.
- 31:54Speaker 18: Of man, that of men.
- 31:55Speaker 4: That's the type of leader that I like. Uh But
- 31:57Speaker 4: at the end of the day, you know, he has
- 32:00Speaker 4: a grand opportunity now to really put all the things
- 32:04Speaker 4: that he's been talking about into fruition. You know, this
- 32:06Speaker 4: is going to be, you know, his first off season
- 32:08Speaker 4: after you know, a season, you know, I mean, being
- 32:10Speaker 4: a head coach.
- 32:11Speaker 7: All these things that he's.
- 32:12Speaker 4: Saying, Oh, you know, we're gonna I'm gonna work my
- 32:14Speaker 4: ass off to figure out exactly what I need to do.
- 32:15Speaker 4: And trust me, I won't sleep and blah blah blah.
- 32:17Speaker 4: That's all fine and dandy. But now now it's time,
- 32:20Speaker 4: you know what I mean. So, I think we're gonna
- 32:21Speaker 4: see a lot about the type of man and the
- 32:23Speaker 4: type of coach that Shoty is next season. And I
- 32:25Speaker 4: want to throw one little silly thing out there, Nick,
- 32:27Speaker 4: So I don't want to be too winded, but one
- 32:29Speaker 4: little silly thing. As I was watching clown Clowney and
- 32:32Speaker 4: just him going off and going crazy and just thinking like, man,
- 32:35Speaker 4: he was a late sign, like we were seeing, well,
- 32:38Speaker 4: you know, what can he bring to the table, Like
- 32:40Speaker 4: is he going to be bring a spark? Like what
- 32:42Speaker 4: does he have less than tank type of thing? And
- 32:44Speaker 4: then to come in and like lead the lead the
- 32:46Speaker 4: team in sacks and do what he did. It's weird
- 32:49Speaker 4: and you might look at me crazy and it's okay,
- 32:51Speaker 4: but it kind of gave me like the George Selvie vibes.
- 32:54Speaker 4: Like I know, Clowny is not George Selvie. Clowney is
- 32:56Speaker 4: way more you know, established, but it kind of gave
- 32:59Speaker 4: me that.
- 33:00Speaker 19: I think it was.
- 33:00Speaker 8: Twenty thirteen or something.
- 33:01Speaker 4: I honestly don't remember twenty twelve where we signed George
- 33:04Speaker 4: Selby and was just like, oh, yeah, let's se with
- 33:06Speaker 4: this guy. And then he kind of came in and
- 33:07Speaker 4: because of a depleted defensive line, he came in and
- 33:10Speaker 4: actually kind of like quote unquotch shined and I was
- 33:13Speaker 4: just like, I don't know, it was just weird to me.
- 33:14Speaker 8: So I know whether that's.
- 33:15Speaker 4: Something that you noticed or not. But anyways, man, hey,
- 33:17Speaker 4: it was a great season. I appreciate you guys. Man,
- 33:20Speaker 4: I'm not gonna stop. It's gonna be a little harder,
- 33:21Speaker 4: you know, with one time a week, but I'm gonna
- 33:23Speaker 4: try my best.
- 33:23Speaker 8: Man. I appreciate you, all.
- 33:24Speaker 1: Right, Thanks, appreciate the call. I never really thought of
- 33:29Speaker 1: it that way. The George Selvy apart, and I know
- 33:34Speaker 1: what you're what you're saying though, just a guy that
- 33:36Speaker 1: kind of came in and also because because the guys
- 33:39Speaker 1: around him, weren't that great that you could lead the
- 33:42Speaker 1: team in sacks with that? I think Selvy led it
- 33:44Speaker 1: with six and a half and eight and it was
- 33:46Speaker 1: eight finished with eight and a half sacks three in
- 33:50Speaker 1: the final game of the season for Clowney. And if
- 33:53Speaker 1: they you know, that's NFC Defensive Player of the Week
- 33:57Speaker 1: type stuff, he won't win that. I'm sure there's someone
- 33:59Speaker 1: else that played the significant game can go out there
- 34:03Speaker 1: and probably win that, but there was. It was very impressive.
- 34:06Speaker 1: In fact, no player in Cowboys history has ever had
- 34:09Speaker 1: that stat line before three sacks, a force, fumble and
- 34:14Speaker 1: a fumble recovery in a game since since they started
- 34:17Speaker 1: keeping stats in eighty two. I find that kind of
- 34:19Speaker 1: hard to believe, but that's that's what the Cowboys PR
- 34:22Speaker 1: was sitting out. All right, let's go to Lester in Minnesota.
- 34:27Speaker 14: Good afternoon, next. How you doing, hey man, I'm a
- 34:33Speaker 14: little bit sad that the football season is over, even
- 34:36Speaker 14: though we all knew it was gonna be over after yesterday,
- 34:39Speaker 14: it's still sad about it. Yeah, hey man, Now we
- 34:43Speaker 14: can focus on the next stage, which is the off season.
- 34:50Speaker 14: As I was saying a week or two ago, I
- 34:52Speaker 14: think we just need to what I would do. I
- 34:55Speaker 14: would try to find a veteran middle linebacker that can
- 34:59Speaker 14: cover or read and read the defense and tackle the offense,
- 35:05Speaker 14: read the offense and tackle. Seven nine and one is
- 35:09Speaker 14: not really where I thought we would be. I thought
- 35:11Speaker 14: we would be ten wins, But it is what it is.
- 35:18Speaker 14: I don't I don't advocate for anybody losing their job,
- 35:21Speaker 14: but you know, hey, if if you go to work
- 35:27Speaker 14: and your boss give an assignment and you you mess
- 35:31Speaker 14: it up several times, and well, you know, I don't
- 35:36Speaker 14: know if you really belong in that particular job. So
- 35:40Speaker 14: we'll we'll just leave that there. And and and I
- 35:47Speaker 14: watched the game yesterday. I thought the first half was
- 35:50Speaker 14: pretty decent, but then the second half it just it
- 35:54Speaker 14: was just more the same man.
- 35:55Speaker 18: So I don't know.
- 35:57Speaker 14: I mean, you can't burn it down and rebuild it.
- 36:01Speaker 14: But I like one of the topics that you were
- 36:03Speaker 14: talking about earlier, who you build around, And I like
- 36:06Speaker 14: those four players that you could build around on the defense.
- 36:09Speaker 14: And then, like I said, what I would do, I
- 36:12Speaker 14: would add a middle lineback, a veteran, not not a kid,
- 36:16Speaker 14: a veteran. Go find one wherever you need to find
- 36:19Speaker 14: them at that's all I have. Man, what do you think?
- 36:23Speaker 1: Well, you know, I appreciate that, you know, and thanks
- 36:28Speaker 1: for the call, Lester. You're you're right, you said the linebacker.
- 36:32Speaker 1: You know, it hasn't really been talked a lot about.
- 36:35Speaker 1: You guys might talk about this and when y'all do
- 36:37Speaker 1: your your spaces on you know, storyline spaces on Twitter.
- 36:42Speaker 1: But you know, to see Eric Kendricks running around for
- 36:48Speaker 1: the for the forty nine ers, and they signed him
- 36:51Speaker 1: after I believe it was after their their guy got
- 36:55Speaker 1: got hurt. I'm trying to think. His name escapes me.
- 36:59Speaker 1: Fred Warner, sorry, one of the best players in the league.
- 37:02Speaker 1: I think you know, you could have signed him, could
- 37:07Speaker 1: have could have got him at some point this year.
- 37:10Speaker 1: May mean probably money wasn't what what you know, they
- 37:13Speaker 1: probably want. He wanted more money than what they were
- 37:15Speaker 1: trying to pay and all that. But I mean to
- 37:17Speaker 1: think about where you were at linebacker this year, and
- 37:20Speaker 1: and and and needed guys that know how to play
- 37:24Speaker 1: the position, know how to cover, know how to hit,
- 37:26Speaker 1: know how to read that the team, the offense could
- 37:31Speaker 1: have could have used the guy like that. So to
- 37:33Speaker 1: kind of see him in that other role right there,
- 37:36Speaker 1: you know and and and they're over here struggling at
- 37:38Speaker 1: linebacker all year long. It just you know, it is
- 37:42Speaker 1: what it is. I mean, but you know this is
- 37:46Speaker 1: Kenneth Murray is a free agent. I don't think we
- 37:48Speaker 1: have to wait till March the eleventh, uh to to
- 37:52Speaker 1: determine if he's going to be back or not. I don't.
- 37:55Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna gonna happen. All right, let's go,
- 37:58Speaker 1: uh Chris and San Angelo.
- 38:01Speaker 19: Mister Neck. Good afternoon to you, sir.
- 38:04Speaker 1: What's up.
- 38:04Speaker 19: I've never said good afternoon. I just wanted to do that.
- 38:07Speaker 1: Well, it's definitely afternoon.
- 38:10Speaker 19: Definitely definitely. Hey, sir, I had a question and in
- 38:14Speaker 19: a comment I wanted to add going forward, like do
- 38:18Speaker 19: you think in the off season do you think there
- 38:21Speaker 19: should be more or less of an emphasis of the
- 38:27Speaker 19: thoughts of the coaching staff on personnel decisions, as in
- 38:32Speaker 19: like coach schottenheimber and the offensive coordinator and then depending
- 38:37Speaker 19: on the direction the defense goes said coordinator, because it
- 38:41Speaker 19: kind of seems like on defense mainly there's always talk
- 38:44Speaker 19: of players not fitting a certain scheme or not in
- 38:48Speaker 19: the right scheme. So I wanted to get your thoughts
- 38:52Speaker 19: on that, and then I also wanted to add one
- 38:55Speaker 19: of the same congratulations to you on your twenty five years,
- 39:00Speaker 19: your longevity and all your accomplishments.
- 39:04Speaker 8: Thank you.
- 39:04Speaker 19: So, I mean, I remember when you were a bit
- 39:06Speaker 19: under the weather. I thought, you know, hey, Nit can't
- 39:09Speaker 19: miss because there's no suitable backups for you.
- 39:13Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if I agree with that that
- 39:15Speaker 1: we have some we have I have a talented group
- 39:17Speaker 1: around me, but uh, it's more than I don't want
- 39:20Speaker 1: to miss, you know, I don't. I don't want to
- 39:22Speaker 1: miss my I think I think it comes down what
- 39:24Speaker 1: they call it fomo. I don't. I don't. I don't
- 39:26Speaker 1: want that. I don't even know what that's like. The
- 39:29Speaker 1: last game and what you're what Chris is alluding to
- 39:33Speaker 1: is I put out a tweet out there that you know,
- 39:36Speaker 1: it's twenty five consecutive seasons of not missing the game,
- 39:39Speaker 1: so it's five hundred and fourteen total games in a row.
- 39:42Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I'm proud of that. I mean,
- 39:44Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. I'm proud of that. I don't
- 39:46Speaker 1: mean to be self serving. I know not everybody can
- 39:48Speaker 1: do that. People have had different situations, whether they got sick,
- 39:51Speaker 1: their family got sick, something happened, the funeral, wedding, whatever
- 39:55Speaker 1: it is that they have to miss, and so, uh,
- 39:58Speaker 1: it hasn't happened to me. But but I'm just there's
- 40:01Speaker 1: no other place I'd rather be than than at the game. Preseason, uh,
- 40:05Speaker 1: you know, playoffs, regular season, regular season that don't count.
- 40:09Speaker 1: I'm in. I'm in for it. If they got the
- 40:11Speaker 1: scoreboard on, I want to be there. And so that's
- 40:13Speaker 1: just that's just the way that is. And when that changes,
- 40:15Speaker 1: maybe I need to think about doing something else.
- 40:18Speaker 19: Well, not anytime soon.
- 40:20Speaker 1: I'm good.
- 40:22Speaker 19: Yeah, I want to. I just wanted to throw that
- 40:25Speaker 19: out there.
- 40:25Speaker 1: For thank you.
- 40:26Speaker 19: You are the best.
- 40:27Speaker 1: Well, thank you, thanks Chris. I appreciate that. Yeah. Yeah,
- 40:34Speaker 1: it's been uh it's been a fun run and and
- 40:37Speaker 1: and and I know, you know there's been everyone now
- 40:40Speaker 1: and again there are a few comments in there, but
- 40:42Speaker 1: well you haven't seen the super Bowl in there, and
- 40:44Speaker 1: I understand that. I believe me. I know what I've
- 40:47Speaker 1: seen and what I haven't seen. H And this is
- 40:50Speaker 1: this was the year that we were gonna see some
- 40:53Speaker 1: some new things, and we did saw a tie. I
- 40:56Speaker 1: was kind of hoping for Nancy Championship game, but you know,
- 41:00Speaker 1: got a tie instead whatever. All good, but but yeah,
- 41:05Speaker 1: thanks for for bringing that up. And and you know,
- 41:07Speaker 1: just to clarify him, it's actually twenty seven seasons, but
- 41:10Speaker 1: the twenty five is just the twenty five straight years
- 41:13Speaker 1: in a row since since I have you know, I've
- 41:15Speaker 1: missed the game. The last game that I missed Troy
- 41:18Speaker 1: Aikman was the was the quarterback and I believe it's
- 41:21Speaker 1: either Tampa or Baltimore. Those are the two games I
- 41:23Speaker 1: missed that season in two thousand. Okay, I can ever
- 41:27Speaker 1: remember which one came first. I think it was Tampa. Yeah,
- 41:31Speaker 1: the last game was was Tampa the December third, two thousand.
- 41:34Speaker 1: I missed that game. I can't come back. And I
- 41:37Speaker 1: watched the Washington game. The Cowboys beat Washington that day.
- 41:42Speaker 1: It was Troy Aikman's last game actually as a as
- 41:44Speaker 1: a Cowboy. So that was the start to streak. It's
- 41:47Speaker 1: been five hundred and fourteen games since Troy Aikman played,
- 41:52Speaker 1: because that was the start of my streak. All right.
- 41:56Speaker 1: We had Dylan Northport, Florida's next Dylan.
- 41:59Speaker 20: And how's it going, man?
- 42:01Speaker 1: How you doing?
- 42:02Speaker 20: I'm good, you know, I'm not sure I've done anything
- 42:05Speaker 20: consecutively five hundred and fourteen times in a row in
- 42:07Speaker 20: my life. So that's that's awesome. Dude, congrats and uh.
- 42:11Speaker 8: That's awesome.
- 42:12Speaker 1: I appreciate it, Thank you so much.
- 42:15Speaker 20: Of course, you know we've talked before and this kind
- 42:18Speaker 20: of was referencing I guess Rob's call a little bit.
- 42:21Speaker 20: He's been giving Shoty a lot of grief in our
- 42:22Speaker 20: group chat, and you know, I shot He's not blameless.
- 42:26Speaker 20: But you know, we talked before about the symbiotic relationship
- 42:29Speaker 20: between the phases of the game before, like a great
- 42:32Speaker 20: offense makes a defense with good crash rusher is really good,
- 42:35Speaker 20: kind of like the Dan Quinn era, until you get
- 42:37Speaker 20: to the playoffs and you're playing against good defenses, and
- 42:39Speaker 20: then that formula changes. You know, you get a great defense,
- 42:43Speaker 20: you pay with a corrushing attack, and that's that's a
- 42:45Speaker 20: nice formula. Like there's pairings that you should be shooting
- 42:47Speaker 20: for when you're building the team. This season we found
- 42:50Speaker 20: out a great offense paid with the historically bad defenses.
- 42:53Speaker 20: Not a winning formula. But you know, I said before
- 42:56Speaker 20: the season, and Rob kind of yelled at me for this,
- 42:58Speaker 20: but I said, that the defense is looking to me
- 43:01Speaker 20: like it probably needs to be rebuilt a little bit
- 43:03Speaker 20: because there was holes in question marks all over the
- 43:06Speaker 20: D line, corner saved linebackers, basically everywhere except for edge.
- 43:10Speaker 20: And that was before Micah and then Michael Leaves and
- 43:12Speaker 20: now you just got it everywhere as a whole. And
- 43:14Speaker 20: I kind of like what they're they're doing now in this.
- 43:16Speaker 20: I mean, I think it's easy to say that they
- 43:18Speaker 20: are rebuilding the defense now at this point, or at
- 43:20Speaker 20: least they need to be. And I like the they're
- 43:22Speaker 20: finally building it, at least a defensive line from the
- 43:25Speaker 20: inside out, because they've always been outside in and you know,
- 43:28Speaker 20: I'm kind of tired of watching those get our buck
- 43:30Speaker 20: kicked in the run game in the playoffs and late
- 43:32Speaker 20: season and all that. So now they're building it from
- 43:34Speaker 20: the inside out. And now we can get you know,
- 43:37Speaker 20: a linebacker in the draft, like a Sunny Styles or
- 43:39Speaker 20: one of those guys. I think they're cooking with something here.
- 43:43Speaker 20: You know, they're gonna have some guys healthy next season,
- 43:45Speaker 20: like Revel coming back without a brace. That's gonna be nice.
- 43:50Speaker 20: So I'm looking forward to to kind of what they
- 43:52Speaker 20: do that they can go a lot of different directions
- 43:53Speaker 20: with this rebuild on defense. A lot of it's gonna
- 43:55Speaker 20: depend on what they do at DC. But they got
- 43:57Speaker 20: to get and move on that. I know, we're not
- 43:59Speaker 20: going to wait ten twelve days.
- 44:00Speaker 14: Like they said. That would be ridiculous.
- 44:03Speaker 20: So hopefully they're going to move on that and get
- 44:05Speaker 20: that focused and then we can kind of just go
- 44:06Speaker 20: from there. But my open that continue this inside out
- 44:08Speaker 20: kind of style of the of the rebuild for sure.
- 44:10Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, I'm I'm with you there.
- 44:14Speaker 1: It starts the defensive tackles on the inside, and you know,
- 44:18Speaker 1: I want the linebackers to kind of correlate with the
- 44:23Speaker 1: new coordinator, you know. But but you got to be
- 44:26Speaker 1: careful when you do that, because Eberflus was like real
- 44:29Speaker 1: quick to get Sandborn and Murray in here, you know,
- 44:33Speaker 1: and that didn't work out. Obviously they the defense wasn't
- 44:38Speaker 1: good and they weren't good, and so you know, they
- 44:41Speaker 1: probably it probably goes hand in hand. I want I
- 44:44Speaker 1: want the I mean, you definitely want your coordinator to
- 44:46Speaker 1: to figure out whose linebackers are, but you want them
- 44:48Speaker 1: both to be good. So you have to be kind
- 44:50Speaker 1: of careful when you when you do that.
- 44:52Speaker 20: Yeah, and if you've got a good player staring at
- 44:54Speaker 20: you in the face, whether it's free agency that you
- 44:56Speaker 20: want or the draft or whatever, don't worry about scheme fits.
- 44:58Speaker 20: That's how you an Abataco char altonate seat of TJ WAT,
- 45:01Speaker 20: you know what I mean, Like, let's not worry about that,
- 45:03Speaker 20: because these dcs are in and out, whether they get promoted,
- 45:06Speaker 20: that had something to consider. Brian brought us, brought that
- 45:08Speaker 20: up to And you're looking at certain guys that might
- 45:10Speaker 20: like a head coaching job next year the year after
- 45:12Speaker 20: if they have a good defense here in Dallas, that's
- 45:14Speaker 20: a consideration because then you're just kind of in the
- 45:15Speaker 20: same position without a DC. But these guys all come
- 45:18Speaker 20: and go. But the players of the guys that are here,
- 45:20Speaker 20: so goal get you some nasty players and any DC
- 45:23Speaker 20: you bring in with this fault can can make a
- 45:25Speaker 20: work whatever that scheme is. So yeah, so I got.
- 45:28Speaker 1: Man, no doubt about it. I mean, Dan Quinn got
- 45:32Speaker 1: got better on defense when when Micah was there, you know,
- 45:36Speaker 1: and then he hasn't been as good without a guy
- 45:39Speaker 1: like that. So it's funny how that works, you know.
- 45:42Speaker 1: And and Dan and give Dan Credit. I mean like
- 45:45Speaker 1: they they you know, they brought him in and the
- 45:48Speaker 1: defense was really good, but they also brought in Micah
- 45:50Speaker 1: Parsons and hey, they just they lucked into that. I mean,
- 45:54Speaker 1: they drafted Micah at twelve. That's where they wanted to
- 45:59Speaker 1: take a line They didn't want to take a linebacker
- 46:03Speaker 1: at earlier than that, but at twelve they were okay
- 46:07Speaker 1: with going from ten to twelve, trading back and taking
- 46:09Speaker 1: a linebacker. It wasn't until week two of the season
- 46:13Speaker 1: when I think DeMarcus got hurt maybe and Randy Gregory
- 46:20Speaker 1: was not Randy Gregory. I'm trying to think what all happened.
- 46:24Speaker 1: Somebody got suspended and somebody got hurt, and next thing,
- 46:27Speaker 1: you know, they needed a defensive end and so they
- 46:30Speaker 1: just played Micah there and then that changed everything and
- 46:35Speaker 1: that game is what kind of turned it around. But
- 46:37Speaker 1: I don't think everyone was on board with Micah Parsons
- 46:41Speaker 1: is a full time pass rusher. Once that happened, then
- 46:44Speaker 1: we saw a change there, all right. Zach in Atlanta, Hey,
- 46:49Speaker 1: what's up?
- 46:49Speaker 16: Nick?
- 46:49Speaker 5: And Frisco?
- 46:50Speaker 1: How are you doing.
- 46:53Speaker 19: Doing all right?
- 46:53Speaker 7: Man?
- 46:54Speaker 5: I think what you were just talking about Randy Gregory
- 46:57Speaker 5: did he have COVID or was that Zach Martin, because
- 46:59Speaker 5: I feel like we've lost that first game.
- 47:02Speaker 1: Martin missed the Tampa Bay game. I remember that one
- 47:05Speaker 1: he missed, but there was there was an injury. Uh,
- 47:11Speaker 1: and there's a couple of things happening in that first
- 47:14Speaker 1: game there that happened. I guess it was that that year, though,
- 47:18Speaker 1: You're right it was that year against Tampa because mikel
- 47:21Speaker 1: didn't play great in that game against Tampa and Brady
- 47:23Speaker 1: and all that they almost won, but he didn't. He
- 47:25Speaker 1: didn't have a great game. But but yeah, it was
- 47:29Speaker 1: just that they needed some some they needed some changes
- 47:32Speaker 1: there and on the pass rusher ended up it probably
- 47:36Speaker 1: was Gregory. I think it was Gregory.
- 47:38Speaker 5: Yeah, I know Tank was injured and Gregory was suspended,
- 47:42Speaker 5: like you said our COVID. Yeah, regardless, that's in the past.
- 47:45Speaker 5: We're talking about the present presently. You are out of
- 47:49Speaker 5: twenty five years streak of not missing a game. To
- 47:51Speaker 5: echo Chris and many of us, congratulations, thank you again,
- 47:56Speaker 5: you and being y'all do a great job. The whole team. Uh,
- 47:59Speaker 5: were grateful for y'all. I'm gonna say something, I don't
- 48:02Speaker 5: know how it's gonna land, But I had this thought.
- 48:05Speaker 5: I feel like the Cowboys are now the Jets. They're
- 48:11Speaker 5: riding the high of Broadway Joe Namath to this day
- 48:17Speaker 5: and for us. The documentary comes out right before the
- 48:20Speaker 5: Week one of this season. I'm catching up on stuff
- 48:23Speaker 5: I didn't live through. I was born during the dynasty,
- 48:26Speaker 5: didn't live through it. But you know, we're still sniffing
- 48:28Speaker 5: the fumes of you know, the triplets and all that.
- 48:31Speaker 5: You know, my generation, my generation, and it's just kind
- 48:34Speaker 5: of like, you know, am I am I gonna be
- 48:36Speaker 5: sitting here, you know, another thirty years with not even
- 48:40Speaker 5: a championship, but an NFC championship. You know, we're both
- 48:43Speaker 5: waiting for the same thing. Man, I want I want
- 48:46Speaker 5: you to see it and cover it. I want to
- 48:48Speaker 5: see it for myself. A little discouraged, but you know
- 48:53Speaker 5: that's part of being a fan. I'm not going anywhere,
- 48:56Speaker 5: but it's just just the way this season went. But
- 49:00Speaker 5: all that to see, Man, that's all I got. I'll
- 49:03Speaker 5: tune in when I can this draft season and we'll
- 49:09Speaker 5: we'll do what we can.
- 49:10Speaker 1: Have a go one man, all right, thanks appreciate it.
- 49:12Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Randy and texta Cana Randy,
- 49:15Speaker 1: what's up?
- 49:18Speaker 6: Hello?
- 49:19Speaker 1: How you doing?
- 49:21Speaker 18: I'm all right, happy off season to you. Ah, you too,
- 49:26Speaker 18: get it going. Hey. So I wanted to bring up
- 49:29Speaker 18: something that I brought up a couple of weeks ago,
- 49:32Speaker 18: and we didn't really touch on it too much, but
- 49:35Speaker 18: I heard Nate and Jesse bring it up something very
- 49:38Speaker 18: similar anyway, and so I was kind of wanting to
- 49:41Speaker 18: retouch on it. And it's changing the way they do things,
- 49:45Speaker 18: the rut that they're in, you know, for instance, the
- 49:48Speaker 18: always picking an injured person in the second round one.
- 49:50Speaker 18: They don't need to do that anymore. But what I
- 49:52Speaker 18: brought up was all the budget one year contracts they
- 49:57Speaker 18: keep doing. They really they really need to get away
- 50:01Speaker 18: from that. I get why he tries to get players
- 50:04Speaker 18: on the cheap, but that's precisely what you get cheap players.
- 50:08Speaker 18: I hate to say it that way. Obviously they're better
- 50:10Speaker 18: than me because they made it, but you know what
- 50:13Speaker 18: I mean, Yeah, I just think that they need to
- 50:18Speaker 18: They just really need to do things completely different. I
- 50:20Speaker 18: know he says that every year that we're going to
- 50:22Speaker 18: try something new and all that, but they really don't.
- 50:24Speaker 18: They keep falling back into the same ruts and always
- 50:28Speaker 18: trying to do that. They need to focus on getting
- 50:31Speaker 18: good picks in the draft for the you know, the
- 50:33Speaker 18: four and five year contracts like you refer to, and
- 50:37Speaker 18: if they're going to go after free agents instead of
- 50:39Speaker 18: getting five or six on the cheap, just get one
- 50:42Speaker 18: or two that are going to make an impact and
- 50:43Speaker 18: hold on to them and build around those guys. And
- 50:47Speaker 18: I don't I mean, I don't know the statistics on
- 50:50Speaker 18: how many other teams do that. I don't know if
- 50:52Speaker 18: that's very common for people to do the one year contracts,
- 50:55Speaker 18: but it just feels like we do it more than anybody,
- 50:59Speaker 18: not just because we're so close to it that that's
- 51:02Speaker 18: all we focus on. But do you know, so do
- 51:05Speaker 18: other teams do it that way too?
- 51:07Speaker 1: Or what players are you talking about, like the one
- 51:10Speaker 1: year guys like you talk.
- 51:11Speaker 18: About Clown, Well, you can't use him because he did
- 51:15Speaker 18: all right, so don't don't do that. Well Well, but
- 51:18Speaker 18: I'm just saying, like a lot of the cornerbacks that
- 51:22Speaker 18: we have, they're bringing in from other teams and they
- 51:25Speaker 18: might be a you know, first or second rounder for
- 51:28Speaker 18: somebody else. Will they release them and we bring them
- 51:30Speaker 18: in and say, well, this guy had a first round grade. Well,
- 51:32Speaker 18: that first team cut them for a reason. I mean,
- 51:35Speaker 18: just because you have, you know, a high grade on him,
- 51:38Speaker 18: doesn't mean they're always going to pan out.
- 51:40Speaker 13: You know.
- 51:40Speaker 18: And yeah, Marcus Russell was the number one overall pick
- 51:43Speaker 18: back when he was drafted, and he was considered a flop.
- 51:46Speaker 18: So that you really can't go by that table that
- 51:50Speaker 18: you set, you know what I mean, Like, let's let's
- 51:52Speaker 18: go for what is proven, right, and I do get
- 51:56Speaker 18: I know where you're probably gonna say next as well
- 51:58Speaker 18: to get those players you're gonna open pay for, you know,
- 52:01Speaker 18: I know the Steve the Stevens saying, I get that,
- 52:06Speaker 18: but right, the other way has it worked. So let's
- 52:10Speaker 18: let's just try it one time. And hey, if it
- 52:12Speaker 18: boughts us in the button, I mean, it can't be
- 52:13Speaker 18: any worse than what we're already doing, you know, right, Well,
- 52:17Speaker 18: I don't know that's what I was thinking.
- 52:19Speaker 1: No, I mean, I'm with you. I mean a lot
- 52:20Speaker 1: of the guys that you're talking about, though, they you know,
- 52:24Speaker 1: some of these guys that they traded for, traded for
- 52:26Speaker 1: and and they had one year left and that's kind
- 52:29Speaker 1: of why it works. That's why they they they make
- 52:31Speaker 1: these trades. You know, I'm I see six players, and
- 52:35Speaker 1: I know there's more, but I just wrote down six
- 52:38Speaker 1: guys that the Cowboys traded for this year. And of
- 52:44Speaker 1: those six that I have written down, four of them
- 52:47Speaker 1: are first round picks by their other team, and one
- 52:52Speaker 1: of them is a I believe a second round pick,
- 52:54Speaker 1: and then one is like a sixth round pick. And
- 52:56Speaker 1: so the best one of them all was I believe pickings,
- 53:01Speaker 1: you know, and his second round pick. But you know,
- 53:06Speaker 1: Kitty Clark, Quinny Williams, Kenneth Murray, Kyrie Elam all first
- 53:10Speaker 1: round picks, you know. So so to your point, you're
- 53:14Speaker 1: making that point that just because you were a first
- 53:17Speaker 1: round pick by someone doesn't mean you've ever played that way,
- 53:19Speaker 1: and your team got rid of you for a reason
- 53:21Speaker 1: and all that. So Javonte Williams is another example. Though
- 53:25Speaker 1: one year they signed him for a one year deal,
- 53:27Speaker 1: he's now a free agent. I mean, for what he
- 53:31Speaker 1: signed for, he probably didn't want to sign a one
- 53:34Speaker 1: year deal, but the Cowboys didn't want to pay a
- 53:37Speaker 1: lot for him. So they're like, hey, why don't you
- 53:39Speaker 1: just go and bet on yourself and if it works out,
- 53:42Speaker 1: then we'll be here again. And it did work out,
- 53:43Speaker 1: so now here he is back at the table again.
- 53:46Speaker 13: You know what I mean.
- 53:47Speaker 18: I mean, I get that that one worked out, but
- 53:50Speaker 18: he was also a injured player. Let's go after the injured.
- 53:53Speaker 18: Let's go after the you see what I'm saying. I mean,
- 53:56Speaker 18: it's hands twenty twenty top of thing with that argument. Yeah,
- 54:01Speaker 18: the running back was great and all that, but we
- 54:04Speaker 18: didn't know that ahead of time. And so they go
- 54:06Speaker 18: and get the player that has an injury history. That's
- 54:09Speaker 18: why we're able to get him for one year.
- 54:11Speaker 1: Randy, maybe I'm missing your point. Tell me again, what
- 54:14Speaker 1: is the point. You watch the Cowboys, you do what I.
- 54:18Speaker 18: Wish they would quit going after the gamble of let's
- 54:22Speaker 18: get this guy on a one year Let's and you know,
- 54:25Speaker 18: because he has an injury history, or he gets in
- 54:28Speaker 18: trouble off the field, maybe we can fix them. Let's
- 54:31Speaker 18: stop going after that. Let's go after somebody that's been
- 54:35Speaker 18: in the league for four or five years once to
- 54:37Speaker 18: change the scenery, and he's proven to be a very
- 54:41Speaker 18: good player, and go ahead and lock him down for
- 54:44Speaker 18: four or five years. And if you do that for
- 54:47Speaker 18: a few seasons in a row before you know it,
- 54:50Speaker 18: you've got at least a handful of very good players
- 54:53Speaker 18: instead of all these one year rentals that are hopefully
- 54:58Speaker 18: maybe good. And I get it works out with like
- 55:01Speaker 18: a Clowney and running back Williams, but I feel to me,
- 55:07Speaker 18: it feels like they miss on more than they hit
- 55:09Speaker 18: on when they do it that way.
- 55:12Speaker 1: Yeah, I just think. I just think you're you're having
- 55:15Speaker 1: an opportunity to have a better deal by signing him
- 55:18Speaker 1: to a one year deal that you can get out of.
- 55:21Speaker 1: And I mean think about it that. I'm looking at
- 55:24Speaker 1: some of the guys that they did sign this year.
- 55:26Speaker 1: Dante Fowler, they signed him for a year.
- 55:28Speaker 18: I mean, would we well, I know, but why would
- 55:30Speaker 18: you want to get out of it? If you know
- 55:32Speaker 18: he's a really good player?
- 55:33Speaker 1: But would you want what would I what if I
- 55:36Speaker 1: told you they signed Dante Fowler to a four year deal?
- 55:39Speaker 1: I mean, would you be okay with that?
- 55:41Speaker 6: No?
- 55:42Speaker 18: I wouldn't because we know coming in that he's a
- 55:46Speaker 18: lower tiered player. That's what I'm getting at. I hate
- 55:49Speaker 18: calling players about, you know, lower to I hate doing that.
- 55:52Speaker 18: That's why I'm kind of skipping over that part of it.
- 55:54Speaker 18: And that might be why you're not getting what I'm
- 55:57Speaker 18: trying to say. But you know who the top here
- 56:00Speaker 18: guys are. You know who the middle tier, You know
- 56:02Speaker 18: who the bottom tier are. We play around with the
- 56:04Speaker 18: middle way too much and lower on occasions. So every
- 56:09Speaker 18: once in a while they just need to take it.
- 56:11Speaker 18: Like uh, our Williams from the Jet, we knew he
- 56:15Speaker 18: was a top tier when we brought him in and
- 56:17Speaker 18: a trade. Everybody went nuts. We were all super excited
- 56:21Speaker 18: because we knew exactly what we got with him. We
- 56:24Speaker 18: need to just keep doing that. And if it's just
- 56:26Speaker 18: one player a year, so be it. At least over time,
- 56:30Speaker 18: if you've signed them for a handful of years, eventually
- 56:33Speaker 18: them guys are going to start stacking up. Look at
- 56:35Speaker 18: the Jaguars. They've been terrible for four or five years.
- 56:38Speaker 18: They've been drafting high in the draft. Now all of
- 56:40Speaker 18: a sudden, all those guys are piling up on their
- 56:43Speaker 18: team and they're killing it. We just yeah, you know,
- 56:47Speaker 18: four years, Jack, I.
- 56:50Speaker 1: Was gonna say four or five years, all right, good players? Yeah,
- 56:58Speaker 1: I got you. All right, Hey, you know I hear you,
- 57:02Speaker 1: And and and the thing about it is thanks thanks
- 57:04Speaker 1: for the call or any and the thing about it
- 57:05Speaker 1: is is that you know, the cowboys will well, their
- 57:09Speaker 1: argument there is that those front line players that you're
- 57:12Speaker 1: talking about are the ones that we drafted that that
- 57:14Speaker 1: that they're paying so that that's where the money of
- 57:17Speaker 1: that is going for. And but nobody wants to hear
- 57:20Speaker 1: that because it's like that that's boring. We already drafted him.
- 57:23Speaker 1: I mean, re signing him isn't fun, But that's what
- 57:25Speaker 1: it is. You know that that's that's that's what you do.
- 57:28Speaker 1: I mean, you're that's when your parents always say, can
- 57:31Speaker 1: we go out to eat? Like we have food at home?
- 57:33Speaker 1: Like that's not fun. You know, you don't like food
- 57:34Speaker 1: at home. You want to go out to eat. But
- 57:36Speaker 1: but the food that you have at home is the
- 57:39Speaker 1: ones that you know, the the Dacks and CDs and
- 57:42Speaker 1: and Tyler Smith and and Doron Bland. Whether or not
- 57:46Speaker 1: you know that that's working out or not, but those
- 57:48Speaker 1: are the ones that they're paying big, big money to.
- 57:50Speaker 1: So when you do get the free agency, you don't
- 57:52Speaker 1: have a lot of room to do all of that.
- 57:54Speaker 1: All right, Uh, that might have been the first time
- 57:56Speaker 1: in a long time that I remember all four of
- 57:58Speaker 1: our captains have called in and One show Irene, Rob Dylan, Randy.
- 58:03Speaker 1: All right, I thought that was the last call. We
- 58:06Speaker 1: do have a couple more. Now let's go. Let's go
- 58:09Speaker 1: Doctor Sunshine and fort Worth. What's up?
- 58:12Speaker 7: Good afternoon, Nick.
- 58:14Speaker 1: Are you doing I'm doing good.
- 58:16Speaker 7: I just wanted to put my two cents more fan.
- 58:19Speaker 7: How proud of of you of your twenty five years
- 58:22Speaker 7: and I want you even throw a trivia question, ask
- 58:25Speaker 7: you are you ready?
- 58:26Speaker 1: I'm ready?
- 58:28Speaker 7: Can you even tell me how many stadiums you've been
- 58:32Speaker 7: in in those twenty five years? And I know you
- 58:35Speaker 7: went to England and probably Saint Louis, but the large
- 58:39Speaker 7: teams change stadiums. Do you even know?
- 58:42Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know. I would say I would
- 58:46Speaker 1: say thirty two teams. I would say probably twenty of those.
- 58:52Speaker 1: Maybe we've been to more than one. So I'm guessing.
- 58:56Speaker 1: If I just had to guess, I haven't thought of this,
- 58:57Speaker 1: I would say probably total, I would say fifty eight.
- 59:02Speaker 7: I don't know, okay, just just because.
- 59:05Speaker 1: You know, we went to Tokyo and Mexico City and and
- 59:08Speaker 1: like you said, and the Raiders have had like nine
- 59:11Speaker 1: so are the rams, you know, But I feel like
- 59:15Speaker 1: most of the places we've been to have more than one.
- 59:17Speaker 1: And I the only team that I've been to three
- 59:20Speaker 1: stadiums for is Rams because it was I it was
- 59:24Speaker 1: you know, in Saint Louis and then and then obviously
- 59:27Speaker 1: now so fine, and then we also went to the
- 59:29Speaker 1: Coliseum for them. So yeah, but I don't know, fifty
- 59:35Speaker 1: to fifty five. It's good. It's a good one for
- 59:37Speaker 1: me to look up.
- 59:38Speaker 7: Okay, Well, and I also wanted to say that, you know,
- 59:43Speaker 7: I think your storylinebackers would enjoy hearing what you had
- 59:47Speaker 7: to go through in COVID and everything to meet to
- 59:51Speaker 7: make all those games.
- 59:52Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean that was that I didn't think
- 59:56Speaker 1: the streak was going to continue during COVID. I mean
- 59:58Speaker 1: it was just all that hook was being in a
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: meeting next to somebody who coughed and then they have
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: COVID in that y're out for ten days so or
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: being on a plane. I mean, Dez Bryant almost got
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: COVID for me because he was in Baltimore and he
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: was hugging one of her photographers. He was a big fan,
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: and next thing, you know, that guy sitting next to
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: me on the plane. So I'm like, well, he has COVID,
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: and he was with him, Now I have COVID, now
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: we're done. But it didn't. It didn't happen like that,
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: So I got I got lucky.
- 1:00:24Speaker 7: Well, I'm proud of you, and I know, I know
- 1:00:26Speaker 7: everybody appreciates what you bring to the Cowboys and it
- 1:00:31Speaker 7: means a lot, and I just want.
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: To say thanks, thanks, Dad, appreciate it. Have a good one.
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: All right, let's uh, let's keep it going here. Let's
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: go Ronnie in New Jersey.
- 1:00:43Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, good afternoons.
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: How you doing man, I'm doing.
- 1:00:46Speaker 8: Great, man, I was you know what. I went into
- 1:00:49Speaker 8: the app and I was like, oh, wow.
- 1:00:51Speaker 13: Nick is on. Yeah.
- 1:00:54Speaker 8: I was like at this time, I looked at yeah, yeah, no,
- 1:00:58Speaker 8: this is actually cool. It's pretty good at home from
- 1:01:00Speaker 8: work and I'm like, hey, I get to call it Nick,
- 1:01:02Speaker 8: so let me give it a try. Yeah, Nick, I was.
- 1:01:08Speaker 8: I'm actually glad the season's over. To be honest with you,
- 1:01:13Speaker 8: where we were going. I can't wait to see what
- 1:01:16Speaker 8: happens with a defensive coordinator. Some of the guys that
- 1:01:19Speaker 8: were only they were right, we need a linebacker, we
- 1:01:21Speaker 8: need a you know, everybody says you have a quarterback,
- 1:01:24Speaker 8: you need a quarterback on defense. We need a quarterback
- 1:01:26Speaker 8: on defense. So yeah, if they start with that. I
- 1:01:31Speaker 8: saw Jerry Jones was saying that he's going to see
- 1:01:33Speaker 8: what he's gonna do with the defense. He's gonna start
- 1:01:35Speaker 8: up with the defense, and I hope he does. Twenty
- 1:01:38Speaker 8: five years, Nick, twenty five years, congratulations, Man, that's a
- 1:01:41Speaker 8: long time, and that's a lot of not seeing an
- 1:01:45Speaker 8: NFC championship, So I will frustrate it. I feel bad
- 1:01:49Speaker 8: for you because you're you're right there and you get
- 1:01:52Speaker 8: to see all the three the small amounts of good
- 1:01:56Speaker 8: with all the bad, So congrats and and mentally taking
- 1:02:01Speaker 8: all that in. But yeah, I just wanted to give
- 1:02:04Speaker 8: a call and I'm glad that you're here in the
- 1:02:06Speaker 8: afternoon and go Cowboys and get to see you and
- 1:02:09Speaker 8: everybody there.
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
- 1:02:11Speaker 8: Thanks, thanks, thanks for taking the call.
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: Nick, all right, thank you. Yeah, then that'll be our
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: last caller for for the day. But yeah, you know,
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys saying that I know this, like
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: I'm built a little differently than when than others when
- 1:02:29Speaker 1: it comes to games like that. I just I love stats,
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: you know, I love I love finding like fun stats
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: and so I can I can find that things like that,
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: I can get interested in any game based off of that.
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, like this is this is how like
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: weird I am. People don't even think like this, and
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: I get it. It's just different. But this is what
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: helps me get through you know, not get through it.
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: I mean, I love I love doing it. But like
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: you know, Jayden Blue goes for like seventy yards in
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: the first quarter and a half, you know what I mean.
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: So I'm I'm over here talking to our pr staff, like,
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: have we ever had three one hundred yard rushers in
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: a season? Three different guys? Because Malik did it with
- 1:03:10Speaker 1: Davante of course, so now would be three. I mean
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: it's hard to do. Emmitt never got off the field,
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: or set never got off the field. So like, you know,
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: does this ever happen three times? And so we found
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: it was it happened once nineteen seventy eight, And I'm like, okay,
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: you know great, and Robert Newhouse is one of them,
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: Like cool, Well, you know, Jane Blue has to get
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: to one hundred yards and he didn't. But that's the
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: kind of stuff that I'm thinking of in the middle
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: of the game, and and I get it. Some of
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: you guys that have called are like already, like I'm done,
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: I'm not watching this, or Jerry's got to fix this
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: or this has got to be fixed and all that,
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: and that's cool. I just know these off seasons are long.
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: Nothing's gonna happen for a while. I'm talking about the game.
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: I'm still this is a football game. And you know,
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: as I said before, if they're turning the lights on,
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: I'm in. So I'm in for that. And it's been
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: fun and I hope we can keep doing it. And
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: what I was going to say earlier I couldn't get
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: my word in to Zach, but I was trying to
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: tell them of why Beam does it and why I've
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: done it because we love it. We just love it.
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: We just want to be a part of it. I mean,
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: how many people that have other jobs that just spend
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: their money, their last dollar to go to the Cowboys
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: Chargers game in December and take their family and do
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: all that, And it's just very expensive they have to
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: do that to go one time a year or once
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: every two years or whatever. And man, we get to
- 1:04:24Speaker 1: do it every day, like every game. We get to
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: do it, and I'm telling you that that that doesn't
- 1:04:30Speaker 1: I don't lose sight of that. I promise you I don't.
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: And and you know, I understand how people just die
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: so they could go to these games, and so I'm
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: not going to sit here and be bored and go
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: I have to go to this game and all that.
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: Somebody said that in the press box yesterday. Somebody walked
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: by and they're like, oh, man, boy, you got to
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: keep the streak alive for this. I'm like, yeah, And
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: I reminded this person I've seen worse. I've seen worse games,
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: and you know, I just I love it. And and yeah,
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: I'm kind of glad to see over a little bit
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: so we can kind of, you know, take a breath,
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: but before too long, I'll be chomping at the bit
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: like you guys. All right again, we do our shows
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: every Wednesday. We'll do it here again on Wednesday at
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: nine thirty am. That's by the time. We'll do the
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: show nine thirty am every Wednesday, all right for Chris
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: Beamam Nick Eatman. See then on Cowboys storyline.
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