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- 0:19Speaker 1: What is up? It is time for Cowboys storyline. It's
- 0:22Speaker 1: wins the October twenty fifth Cowboys getting ready to play
- 0:26Speaker 1: the La Rams. Almost dropped the Saint Louis reference there.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Can't figure out what these West Coast teams are anymore.
- 0:35Speaker 1: La Rams. It's where they were when I was a kid,
- 0:38Speaker 1: and then they moved around. Now they're back and it's
- 0:41Speaker 1: the Rams against the Cowboys at noon at and T Stadium.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Halftime of the game will be DeMarcus Ware is going
- 0:51Speaker 1: to be inducted into the Ring of Honor, So that's
- 0:54Speaker 1: that'll be that. If you're going to the game, you'll
- 0:56Speaker 1: be able to see that. It seems a little different
- 0:59Speaker 1: when the guy's already been in the Hall of Fame.
- 1:01Speaker 1: I'd like to see that kind of flipped a little bit.
- 1:03Speaker 5: But.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Either way, still cool. What I like about it is
- 1:07Speaker 1: is it usually brings a lot of the uh, the
- 1:10Speaker 1: Ring of Honoror members back all together again, so you
- 1:13Speaker 1: get a chance to kind of see them haven't seen
- 1:15Speaker 1: them in a while. So good good for that and
- 1:18Speaker 1: good for dware to to get into the Ring of honor.
- 1:22Speaker 1: All right, Cowboys, rams, you know, not a lot going
- 1:27Speaker 1: on really this week as far as just getting ready
- 1:30Speaker 1: for that game. I know there's been some talk we'll
- 1:32Speaker 1: talk here with the fans about potential trades. It can't
- 1:36Speaker 1: really go too far into that if if you know,
- 1:38Speaker 1: but if if that is something you think the Cowboys
- 1:40Speaker 1: need to do to kind of get over the hump.
- 1:42Speaker 1: They see other teams doing it, see the Eagles doing it.
- 1:44Speaker 1: So therefore, you know, what do the Cowboys need to
- 1:47Speaker 1: do to get there? And so I'll let you guys,
- 1:50Speaker 1: if you guys have some ideas there, you guys can
- 1:53Speaker 1: can go for it and and and see what you think.
- 1:56Speaker 1: We can kind of discuss it a little bit and
- 1:59Speaker 1: I'll so just kind of what they need to do
- 2:01Speaker 1: to get this win. Five and two would be really
- 2:03Speaker 1: big for the Cowboys going into the game against the Eagles.
- 2:07Speaker 1: Not looking ahead, just know you got to take care
- 2:09Speaker 1: of business here and then you can get another win,
- 2:11Speaker 1: get back to back wins from that forty nine Ers loss,
- 2:14Speaker 1: get to five and two going into that game against Philadelphia,
- 2:17Speaker 1: that will be a huge huge showdown. All right, eight
- 2:21Speaker 1: eight eight eight five five two ninety seven is the
- 2:24Speaker 1: phone line number eight one seven two nine zero three
- 2:27Speaker 1: two nine eight. That is the text line. Let's go
- 2:29Speaker 1: to the calls. Let's start us off. Aaron in Youngstown, Ohio,
- 2:32Speaker 1: Aaron Europe.
- 2:34Speaker 6: What's going on?
- 2:35Speaker 7: NICKD.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Mordan, Good morning to you.
- 2:36Speaker 6: How are you good? How about yourself?
- 2:38Speaker 1: Great?
- 2:39Speaker 6: All right?
- 2:40Speaker 8: Great?
- 2:40Speaker 6: So something I just wanted to touch on with Dak
- 2:43Speaker 6: in the offense now, coming off of the bye week,
- 2:45Speaker 6: having a chance to see what has and hasn't worked
- 2:49Speaker 6: in this New Texas Coast offense. I'm curious of what
- 2:52Speaker 6: your thoughts are of what you need to see change
- 2:55Speaker 6: in this offense. I know for myself, I, especially after
- 2:58Speaker 6: this Chargers game, I want to see Dak back on
- 3:00Speaker 6: the move. I want to see boot legs, naked boot legs,
- 3:03Speaker 6: getting him on the run, because, honestly, I don't think
- 3:06Speaker 6: there's many quarterbacks that are better than him on the run,
- 3:08Speaker 6: throwing on a rope to the sideline, throwing throwing on
- 3:12Speaker 6: a rope down the field, It's very pretty much. That's
- 3:14Speaker 6: the one thing that I think he has a strength
- 3:16Speaker 6: over many quarterbacks, and just where he's how he's able
- 3:19Speaker 6: to just maintain accuracy on the run. So I mean,
- 3:22Speaker 6: I'd love to see him on the run, on the move.
- 3:24Speaker 6: Then also just kind of opening up the rouchery more.
- 3:27Speaker 6: Stop trying to force slant routes to gallop because obviously
- 3:31Speaker 6: he does not. He is not a strengthen this West
- 3:35Speaker 6: Coast type offense of breaking release, breaking breaking away from
- 3:39Speaker 6: press covers. That's just not his game. They just keep
- 3:41Speaker 6: trying to force it to him because they know he
- 3:43Speaker 6: can make plays when he gets the ball, but he
- 3:45Speaker 6: just it just doesn't seem to work for him of
- 3:48Speaker 6: getting off the ball. So I'd like to see that
- 3:49Speaker 6: routrey opened up. Get CD back on the move, get
- 3:52Speaker 6: him back working in the slot move, get him in
- 3:55Speaker 6: motion before the snap, get him mess, get him fixing
- 3:58Speaker 6: his chain coming off of the coming off the off
- 4:01Speaker 6: of the motion, because you know, good things happen whenever
- 4:03Speaker 6: he does that. So that's kind of what I would
- 4:05Speaker 6: like to see. So I'd like to hear your thoughts
- 4:06Speaker 6: on that. And then then also, uh, throughout your throughout
- 4:10Speaker 6: your career covering the Cowboys, what would you say is
- 4:12Speaker 6: you're the two players that you were the most right
- 4:15Speaker 6: and the most wrong on whether it was a free
- 4:17Speaker 6: agent or a draft pick that you either looked at
- 4:19Speaker 6: and just thought this guy is gonna be he is
- 4:21Speaker 6: not gonna fit and he ended up being great, or
- 4:23Speaker 6: a guy that you were just so sure was going
- 4:25Speaker 6: to be very good just didn't work. And I'll hang up.
- 4:28Speaker 1: Thank you all right, thank you for the uh for
- 4:30Speaker 1: the call there. Let me let me kind of try
- 4:32Speaker 1: to think about that as it goes on. Uh, maybe
- 4:36Speaker 1: not right this second, but I'll think about it, maybe
- 4:39Speaker 1: even at the break, and I'll come back with that.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Two players that I really thought were going to be good, uh,
- 4:46Speaker 1: and I was right, and then some that I mean,
- 4:50Speaker 1: I yeah, any of the busts, you know that, I
- 4:53Speaker 1: can tell you right now. I really thought more Clayborne
- 4:56Speaker 1: was gonna be great. I really thought that was a great,
- 4:58Speaker 1: great pick, and I thought I thought, man, he's gonna
- 5:00Speaker 1: take him over the top, and that just didn't didn't
- 5:04Speaker 1: work out. That would be one. But let me think
- 5:06Speaker 1: a little bit of look at that. Thank you, Utah
- 5:08Speaker 1: Jazz Jasmine, she's the best. I think that. Let's go
- 5:17Speaker 1: to the first part. Dak on the move. I mean,
- 5:18Speaker 1: we say it a lot. This is not anything new
- 5:21Speaker 1: that we're not talking about. I mean Dak on the move,
- 5:23Speaker 1: Dak doing his thing, playing the style of football that
- 5:27Speaker 1: that that got him to this point is I think,
- 5:29Speaker 1: what's what's better. You know, when the teams try to
- 5:32Speaker 1: put him in the pocket and and just make him
- 5:36Speaker 1: a passing quarterback. That's not his thing. And that's okay.
- 5:39Speaker 1: I mean, he can do it. It's not like he
- 5:41Speaker 1: can't make the throws, but that just just living and
- 5:44Speaker 1: dying with him standing in the pocket throwing that's not
- 5:47Speaker 1: That's not who he is. And he's never been that guy.
- 5:50Speaker 1: And even though he's been here a long time, that's
- 5:52Speaker 1: not what he was eight years ago at Mississippi State.
- 5:54Speaker 1: That's not what he was. So yes, everything you said,
- 5:56Speaker 1: they need to get him on the move. And plus
- 5:58Speaker 1: when you do that, when you play that way, it
- 6:01Speaker 1: also makes it tougher for the defense because you don't
- 6:04Speaker 1: really know exactly where things are going to be, how
- 6:07Speaker 1: they're gonna finish, how the plays are going to end up.
- 6:10Speaker 1: So it creates a little bit more deception I think
- 6:13Speaker 1: for the defense to have CD on the move, have that,
- 6:17Speaker 1: you know, with the read options, things like that that
- 6:21Speaker 1: are just disguising what they're trying to do. But it'd
- 6:24Speaker 1: be one thing if this is your bread and butter
- 6:26Speaker 1: and you said this is Aikman to Irvin, stop it.
- 6:29Speaker 1: We're gonna run a slant. We're gonna run out. You
- 6:32Speaker 1: can't stop it. I mean, you're gonna run Emmett right
- 6:34Speaker 1: over right behind Moose and Nate Newton can't stop it.
- 6:37Speaker 1: It's not the way it is, and that's not the
- 6:39Speaker 1: way a lot of teams are. You know, you can't
- 6:41Speaker 1: just roll out and say this is how we're gonna
- 6:43Speaker 1: play the game. So all right, good stuff. I'll answer
- 6:45Speaker 1: that second part here in a little bit. Let's go
- 6:48Speaker 1: to the Eli and Corpus Chrissy is our next caller. Eli.
- 6:50Speaker 8: What's up, Hi, Bud, how are you doing?
- 6:53Speaker 6: Good morning, Chill.
- 6:53Speaker 8: We have one nation. I really love the show. I
- 6:57Speaker 8: love to hear the perspective of the fan to see
- 6:59Speaker 8: what thinking we constantly hear y'alls like. If I listen
- 7:02Speaker 8: to all the shows, listen to everybody's perspective, and it's
- 7:05Speaker 8: pretty much along the same lines. But to hear it
- 7:07Speaker 8: from the fans, the concern of the offensive line, I
- 7:10Speaker 8: think our problem is two different things. Our offensive run
- 7:14Speaker 8: block if if you go back and look at every
- 7:17Speaker 8: single game, like if they know we're running because we
- 7:21Speaker 8: make it obvious, they stop us at the line every time.
- 7:23Speaker 8: It's never two or three yards. And I wanted to
- 7:26Speaker 8: see if you can rank the offensive lineman run blocking
- 7:28Speaker 8: so far this year. And I think the second problem
- 7:32Speaker 8: is in this West Coast offense. I think we're supposed
- 7:34Speaker 8: to do like three step drops and stuff like the
- 7:37Speaker 8: get them off the line, and I think the receiver
- 7:40Speaker 8: is not winning on the line. And the problem with
- 7:42Speaker 8: that is is when the opposing defense is off on coverage,
- 7:47Speaker 8: you should throw the ball to the receiver and let
- 7:50Speaker 8: it get three or four yards. But they don't. They
- 7:52Speaker 8: run the slant when they're on off coverage, and it
- 7:56Speaker 8: allows them to play zone into those little holes. And
- 7:59Speaker 8: it frustrates to see us keep running the same plays
- 8:01Speaker 8: over and over, like we're gonna run our offense no
- 8:04Speaker 8: matter what, Like if it doesn't work, we're.
- 8:06Speaker 7: Gonna run it. It doesn't matter.
- 8:09Speaker 8: And I always just want you to talk on those
- 8:10Speaker 8: two things. But I appreciate you. I love this new
- 8:13Speaker 8: show that you got by yourself. It's hard to do
- 8:14Speaker 8: a show by yourself, but you're killing it.
- 8:16Speaker 1: Brother, thank you. I appreciate that. I will correct you, though,
- 8:19Speaker 1: I really will. I don't. I don't do it by myself.
- 8:23Speaker 1: That's that's what the beauty of it is is when
- 8:25Speaker 1: when you guys call, and I love the fact. I mean,
- 8:28Speaker 1: when you guys say it's hard to get in, it's
- 8:30Speaker 1: hard to get in, hard to get on the phone lines.
- 8:32Speaker 1: That's good. That's good for us, it's good for the show.
- 8:35Speaker 1: And so you know, if I was sitting here doing
- 8:37Speaker 1: it by myself, I mean, that happened one day. Chris
- 8:40Speaker 1: will tell you. You know, it happened. One day we had
- 8:42Speaker 1: a show. We didn't have any callers, and and I
- 8:45Speaker 1: was like, all right, well this ain't gonna work like this.
- 8:47Speaker 1: And so the next day we had about eight and
- 8:50Speaker 1: now now we get about ten, ten to twelve, maybe
- 8:52Speaker 1: sometimes a little bit more, and it's great. So yeah,
- 8:55Speaker 1: I'm up here by myself, but when you guys call,
- 8:57Speaker 1: and it makes it a lot easier. The run blocker,
- 9:00Speaker 1: I mean, ranking the run blocking you know that that's
- 9:04Speaker 1: tough because Terrence Steele has not been what what we've
- 9:09Speaker 1: expected out of him, and he's got a pretty good excuse.
- 9:11Speaker 1: So I mean, he's coming he's coming off of a
- 9:14Speaker 1: c L injury. Uh and he he will. I think
- 9:16Speaker 1: he will get back to normal. But him and Zach
- 9:19Speaker 1: Martin on that right side before the injury, well that
- 9:21Speaker 1: that was really really strong, and so I think they'll
- 9:24Speaker 1: get back to that. I don't think Tyler biattish is
- 9:28Speaker 1: That's not his strength. I don't think Uh is you know,
- 9:32Speaker 1: just moving people off the ball. And Tyler Smith I
- 9:36Speaker 1: think is pretty good there. But they all can be better.
- 9:40Speaker 1: They could be better with the run blocking. It's not
- 9:42Speaker 1: just about power. It's also about understanding the assignment, working
- 9:48Speaker 1: together at the cohesiveness there. When they get that down,
- 9:50Speaker 1: I think the run blocking will be better there. And
- 9:54Speaker 1: and I agree with you about sometimes you know, you
- 9:56Speaker 1: have to adjust a little bit to the to the
- 9:58Speaker 1: play that that's called. But there's a balance there. You know,
- 10:02Speaker 1: you don't want the quarterback always freelancing and doing things,
- 10:06Speaker 1: you know, just just based off of changing the plays,
- 10:09Speaker 1: so sometimes you want him to run the play that's called.
- 10:13Speaker 1: I think that one thing that's hurting this team is that.
- 10:16Speaker 1: I do think the receivers need to be a little
- 10:19Speaker 1: bit better with run after catch, get the ball in
- 10:22Speaker 1: their hands and go make plays. That doesn't seem to
- 10:25Speaker 1: be something that they do a ton, but that is
- 10:28Speaker 1: something that they need to kind of work on. All right,
- 10:30Speaker 1: Let's go to text question here from Doug in Florida.
- 10:35Speaker 1: He says, I enjoyed the show yesterday, listen to the
- 10:37Speaker 1: trade discussions. Was totally swayed to your thinking of not
- 10:40Speaker 1: making a trade for a big name. What should be
- 10:43Speaker 1: our main concern for Sunday defending Cup and Pooka or
- 10:46Speaker 1: Donald rushing? Aaron Donald rushing, I mean, that's always that's
- 10:52Speaker 1: always tough, you know, Aaron Donald could could you know
- 10:54Speaker 1: a guy like that conrect the game? Having two wide
- 10:58Speaker 1: receivers like that, that that could be dangerous though for
- 11:03Speaker 1: the for the any team that's trying to to cover them.
- 11:06Speaker 1: You know, Puka and Nakua and uh and Cooper Cup
- 11:10Speaker 1: just just outstanding route winners that they make a lot
- 11:13Speaker 1: of catches and and they just they do a lot
- 11:17Speaker 1: of work, you know, for for that making the secondary
- 11:20Speaker 1: do a lot of work. So I think it's both,
- 11:23Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I don't know, play one or
- 11:26Speaker 1: the other. I mean the offense defense they kind of
- 11:28Speaker 1: play in the hand in hand those those receivers, though,
- 11:31Speaker 1: can can move the chains. And you know, they don't
- 11:33Speaker 1: have a lot of big names at running back. They're
- 11:35Speaker 1: still figuring out what they want to do with their
- 11:37Speaker 1: running backs. I think four or five guys have have
- 11:39Speaker 1: gotten the ball, you know, on on a consistent basis,
- 11:42Speaker 1: so that they you know, they still trying to figure
- 11:44Speaker 1: out their running game. But it certainly helps when you
- 11:46Speaker 1: have a possession type receivers the way they do. They
- 11:49Speaker 1: can move the chains. So I think they're both they're
- 11:52Speaker 1: both really good and and and go back to the
- 11:54Speaker 1: to the trade. They I'm not saying not make a trade.
- 11:57Speaker 1: I'm I'm not saying hang up the phone. Not mean
- 12:00Speaker 1: I'm listening to to whatever. But I would do it
- 12:04Speaker 1: if it makes sense. I'm not just going to react
- 12:06Speaker 1: to other teams making moves and go, well, what are
- 12:09Speaker 1: we going to do? We have to we have to counter.
- 12:11Speaker 1: This isn't chess, you know, I mean you you have
- 12:13Speaker 1: to play your game and and and see what what's there?
- 12:18Speaker 1: And it has to work for right now, it needs
- 12:20Speaker 1: to work for down the road, uh as well. So
- 12:23Speaker 1: I think I think that's what the Cowboys are doing.
- 12:25Speaker 1: But I guarantee you that they're listening and they're they're
- 12:27Speaker 1: looking to see what's out there and figure out ways
- 12:29Speaker 1: to get better. All right, Curtis and Oklahoma is our
- 12:31Speaker 1: next caller, Curtis, what's up?
- 12:33Speaker 9: Hey, good morning, Good morning to you.
- 12:35Speaker 8: Thank you.
- 12:36Speaker 10: I just got a couple of questions. Two of them.
- 12:38Speaker 10: My first one is I heard some trade talk about
- 12:42Speaker 10: running back on the shows and looking at what we
- 12:45Speaker 10: do the first couple series. We're not doing the the
- 12:49Speaker 10: jet sweeps or any kind of misdirection. So I was wondering,
- 12:52Speaker 10: if you, quote unquote, maybe think about starting Rico Daddle
- 12:56Speaker 10: and you know, run him up the middle, get everybody
- 12:59Speaker 10: sucked in and gas out the defense a little bit,
- 13:02Speaker 10: and then, you know, after the first couple of series,
- 13:04Speaker 10: bring Tony Pollard in and kind of keep him that
- 13:07Speaker 10: change of pace and let him finish out the game.
- 13:10Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, he's not that type of runner like
- 13:15Speaker 1: like Zeke. You know, he's not he's not the power back.
- 13:18Speaker 1: But I hear what you're saying. And the former running
- 13:20Speaker 1: backs coach Skip Pete, he said it. He stood on
- 13:23Speaker 1: the on the table for that idea of about that's
- 13:26Speaker 1: how you have to do it, That's how you have
- 13:27Speaker 1: to run Tony Pollard you have to have another guy
- 13:30Speaker 1: first and then and kind of change up what you know,
- 13:34Speaker 1: the speed and kind of get the the defense thinking
- 13:38Speaker 1: one way and then boom, he Tony becomes a lot
- 13:41Speaker 1: faster when he comes in in that second or third
- 13:43Speaker 1: series like that. So there's something to what you're saying.
- 13:46Speaker 1: I don't know if Rico is the hammer that you're
- 13:49Speaker 1: looking for there, but he is. He does run the
- 13:52Speaker 1: ball well. I mean, I'm not opposed to this idea.
- 13:55Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if it would happen because
- 13:58Speaker 1: you know, politics are involved here. For franchise running back
- 14:01Speaker 1: franchise tag ten million a year. You know, he's supposed
- 14:04Speaker 1: to be the guy, and a lot of times teams
- 14:06Speaker 1: don't want to admit that that's not the case. But
- 14:08Speaker 1: they'll do it. I mean, this team has done it.
- 14:10Speaker 1: Remember a few years ago when they were gonna go
- 14:12Speaker 1: receiver by committee, that's what they were gonna do until
- 14:15Speaker 1: the bye week week week six or seven, and they
- 14:17Speaker 1: traded for Mark Cooper. I mean, you know, sometimes if
- 14:20Speaker 1: it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you have to
- 14:22Speaker 1: have to do that. I'm okay with this. I mean,
- 14:26Speaker 1: even if you don't start Rico dattle play him more,
- 14:30Speaker 1: play him a little bit more in the game and
- 14:32Speaker 1: earlier in the game to kind of get that change
- 14:34Speaker 1: of pace. I would be fine with that. I like
- 14:37Speaker 1: the way he runs. He runs, he runs hard, He's
- 14:39Speaker 1: not easy to bring down, and I think that's what
- 14:42Speaker 1: this team needs. And I think Tony Pollard, I think
- 14:45Speaker 1: he would he could help. He could somebody else could
- 14:49Speaker 1: could kind of help him as far as taking a
- 14:52Speaker 1: little bit off off his load a little bit, because
- 14:55Speaker 1: he's getting not only a lot of carries, he's getting
- 14:58Speaker 1: a lot of hits, you know in Blitz pick up,
- 15:00Speaker 1: and that's a lot of wear and tear on his body.
- 15:03Speaker 1: That that, you know, I think I think it affects him.
- 15:06Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think he's getting caught from behind
- 15:09Speaker 1: like he did in that last game. Now, the guy
- 15:11Speaker 1: had had an angle on him and he had to
- 15:12Speaker 1: kind of start with a when he did a spin
- 15:15Speaker 1: in the Chargers game. Great play, uh, but but we've
- 15:18Speaker 1: seen him take it to the house and not get
- 15:19Speaker 1: stopped or get tackled from behind, So that that was
- 15:22Speaker 1: certainly a play where you feel like later in the game,
- 15:25Speaker 1: you know, he's he's kind of been a wear and
- 15:27Speaker 1: tear has affected him, all right, eight eight eight eight
- 15:30Speaker 1: five five two two nine seven. That is the phone line.
- 15:32Speaker 1: I think we have some open lines, so jump in
- 15:36Speaker 1: and give us a call and join the show. We
- 15:39Speaker 1: have a text question here from Mike in Boston. So
- 15:43Speaker 1: don't you think we need to get Turpin and Tolbert
- 15:45Speaker 1: in the games receivers more? Gallup is playing below average
- 15:48Speaker 1: for a while. Now I love him as a person.
- 15:50Speaker 1: He is not the same now he the same as
- 15:57Speaker 1: his rookie year maybe or his first couple of years
- 15:59Speaker 1: before the injury. Maybe maybe he's not the same. You know,
- 16:03Speaker 1: he's he's still been effective this year, you know. I
- 16:06Speaker 1: mean as soon as you start writing him off, which
- 16:08Speaker 1: they did after the week one and two, you know
- 16:10Speaker 1: he was he was all right, this guy, this guy
- 16:12Speaker 1: sucks and then he goes to Arizona, has a nice game.
- 16:14Speaker 1: I think he had a game the next week two,
- 16:16Speaker 1: Uh was New England. I mean he played ahead a
- 16:19Speaker 1: couple of games in a row. That's kind of what
- 16:20Speaker 1: he is. That's what that's what's gonna happen here with him.
- 16:23Speaker 1: So I firmly believe that Gallup will be fine if
- 16:27Speaker 1: if the fans can deal with the money he's making.
- 16:31Speaker 1: I mean, because that's that's the thing, the role that
- 16:34Speaker 1: he has as a third receiver. Most third receivers are
- 16:37Speaker 1: going to be that this way. I mean, especially when
- 16:39Speaker 1: you have an All Pro there and another established vet
- 16:42Speaker 1: in Cooks. They're trying to get them the ball. There's
- 16:45Speaker 1: gonna be games where they have two catches one catch
- 16:48Speaker 1: for five yards. There's gonna be game, you know, games
- 16:50Speaker 1: where they have six for for eighty He's got to
- 16:53Speaker 1: be ready for it. And I think I think he's underrated.
- 16:57Speaker 1: I really do. I think Michael Gallup is underrated for
- 17:00Speaker 1: what he provides that in that locker room. The type
- 17:04Speaker 1: of receiver that he is. His mentality is never gonna
- 17:07Speaker 1: be a guy that's gonna go and get you know,
- 17:09Speaker 1: one hundred catches and twelve thirteen hundred yards, ten touchdowns.
- 17:13Speaker 1: That's not really his mindset.
- 17:16Speaker 5: You.
- 17:16Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna be that way. But he's
- 17:18Speaker 1: gonna be a good, solid teammate, ready to go, ready
- 17:21Speaker 1: to make a big play. So I don't know. I
- 17:24Speaker 1: mean Turping and Tolbert, yeah, they can play. I mean
- 17:26Speaker 1: I'm fine with Turpin getting some action and Tolbert as well.
- 17:30Speaker 1: But I'm just not writing off Gallup yet. I'm not
- 17:32Speaker 1: because as soon as you do, he's gonna make some
- 17:34Speaker 1: great play for you. And that's that's what he is.
- 17:37Speaker 1: That's what a third receiver is supposed to do. All right,
- 17:40Speaker 1: Sean and Bakersfield, California, you're next.
- 17:44Speaker 5: What's going on, man? How's it going?
- 17:46Speaker 1: That's good? How are you? Good morning?
- 17:49Speaker 5: Good morning? I'm doing great, man. I just wanted to
- 17:52Speaker 5: hear your thoughts on you know, Michael Parson's comments. I
- 17:57Speaker 5: thought he made a lot of valid points. The Philadelphia
- 18:01Speaker 5: Eagles were in the Super Bowl last year, and they
- 18:04Speaker 5: just seem to always find the way to add to
- 18:07Speaker 5: their team, to have a better team, to keep stacking
- 18:10Speaker 5: their team up. And I thought, honestly, what it was
- 18:13Speaker 5: a shot, I thought to the front office, because I
- 18:17Speaker 5: really do think we need to make a move. I
- 18:20Speaker 5: think for the owners at least to show that, you know,
- 18:23Speaker 5: they really do want to win.
- 18:25Speaker 8: You know.
- 18:26Speaker 5: That's all I got, man, I just wanted to hear
- 18:28Speaker 5: your point. Have a good day, man, got blast go Cowboys.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Thank you. I'll be honest, I don't make that podcast
- 18:39Speaker 1: a part of my routine to to listen to. I
- 18:43Speaker 1: haven't heard everything that he said. I've been kind of
- 18:46Speaker 1: hearing some things that I think he said the Eagles
- 18:47Speaker 1: are number one, the number one team in the league.
- 18:50Speaker 1: I didn't hear a lot of what he's saying. You know,
- 18:56Speaker 1: players with their own podcast. You know, he's out there
- 19:00Speaker 1: just venting and saying stuff. Let's see what he says
- 19:04Speaker 1: maybe today in the locker room, you know, when he's
- 19:06Speaker 1: getting asked questions from the media. And I'm not saying
- 19:09Speaker 1: that his points are invalid. I'm not saying that. I mean,
- 19:10Speaker 1: that's that's his podcast, that's what he's doing. It's getting
- 19:13Speaker 1: a lot of traction. I just I don't listen to
- 19:15Speaker 1: it all the time. I've heard little clips here and there.
- 19:20Speaker 1: And you know, if he's if he's taking a shot
- 19:23Speaker 1: at his own team, I mean that that'll that'll you know,
- 19:26Speaker 1: if he's taking a shot at you know, indirectly at
- 19:29Speaker 1: the old coaches. He did it last week too. I
- 19:31Speaker 1: mean he did it after the after the forty nine
- 19:33Speaker 1: er game. He took a shot at his own coaches. Uh,
- 19:35Speaker 1: he's done that. So Uh, that's a that's a growing
- 19:39Speaker 1: thing that that's probably gonna gonna you know, I think
- 19:42Speaker 1: it's boiling water at this point, and I think it'll
- 19:44Speaker 1: it'll it'll surface here at some point, hopefully it gets
- 19:47Speaker 1: cool down. But but this, yeah, that his his comments
- 19:51Speaker 1: are are kind of you know, they're gaining traction here,
- 19:54Speaker 1: and I don't know if that's certainly a good thing
- 19:57Speaker 1: for him to say that the Eagles are the best
- 19:58Speaker 1: team in the league. Okay, I mean they got the
- 20:00Speaker 1: best record, right, I mean they they are the only
- 20:02Speaker 1: one lost team I believe are the Chiefs. The Chiefs.
- 20:05Speaker 1: I think the Chiefs are the best team in the league.
- 20:06Speaker 1: But but that everyone's got an opinion there. You know
- 20:09Speaker 1: that the Eagles lost to the Jets and they played
- 20:12Speaker 1: poorly to lose that game, And the Chiefs lost to
- 20:15Speaker 1: the Lions, and they had two of their all Pro
- 20:17Speaker 1: players out of that game. I'd like to see them
- 20:19Speaker 1: play it again. So I think the Chiefs are the
- 20:20Speaker 1: best team. It doesn't matter, though, that's the thing. Who
- 20:22Speaker 1: cares about rankings. This isn't college football. I mean, it
- 20:24Speaker 1: doesn't matter. There's a system of playoffs. Everybody will be
- 20:27Speaker 1: able to figure it out, you know, And that's that's
- 20:30Speaker 1: the thing. I mean, look at baseball, the World Series,
- 20:33Speaker 1: I mean the two best teams playing in the World Series.
- 20:35Speaker 1: Probably not, but they're they're there, so it doesn't They're
- 20:38Speaker 1: playing the best right now, and so that that's all
- 20:41Speaker 1: that really matters. So rankings and all that stuff doesn't
- 20:43Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But you know, Micah MICA's comments, and you know,
- 20:47Speaker 1: they're they're starting to get to the point where, you know,
- 20:49Speaker 1: I think people are starting to take notice and and
- 20:52Speaker 1: they're you know, hopefully it doesn't get two out of
- 20:54Speaker 1: out of hand. But I see him just doing his thing.
- 20:57Speaker 1: He's speaking his mind, but I like to I'd like
- 21:00Speaker 1: to see him do a little bit more talking with
- 21:02Speaker 1: the media as well and answer some of the questions
- 21:05Speaker 1: that the media is asking and not just him up
- 21:07Speaker 1: there just kind of ranting a little bit. All right,
- 21:11Speaker 1: Kurt in Arkansas, You're next?
- 21:14Speaker 7: How are you doing good?
- 21:15Speaker 1: How are you?
- 21:16Speaker 7: I'm great. I think Sam Williams, Sam Williams needs to
- 21:20Speaker 7: grow up and quit all the silly crap. And I
- 21:25Speaker 7: heard from U Fish this morning that Jerry was on
- 21:30Speaker 7: the phone with Denver and Tennessee for trade talks, and
- 21:38Speaker 7: he's talking about corner and a linebacker. But I think
- 21:42Speaker 7: what we need more is a good run stuff and
- 21:45Speaker 7: defensive teckle because Mazie is not cutting it.
- 21:50Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not. He certainly hasn't performed to the level
- 21:54Speaker 1: that you would want your first round pick. I don't know.
- 21:58Speaker 1: I don't know about the other stuff. I'm not sure
- 22:02Speaker 1: what they're doing there, and if I did, probably wouldn't
- 22:05Speaker 1: be able to talk about it. So, uh, you know, I,
- 22:07Speaker 1: like I said before, thanks for the call, Kurt I,
- 22:10Speaker 1: and I was a little confused on the Philly If
- 22:14Speaker 1: you're talking about Micah or Sam Williams, I think they
- 22:16Speaker 1: both have have have said some comments or said some
- 22:19Speaker 1: things lately about wanting to play more or whatever. I
- 22:22Speaker 1: don't know. I mean Sam Williams obviously wants to wants
- 22:25Speaker 1: to you know, wants to play a little bit more.
- 22:27Speaker 1: He's the second round pick that that thought he would
- 22:30Speaker 1: be a little bit more of a factor that then
- 22:32Speaker 1: he's been. But that's you know, he's behind some some
- 22:34Speaker 1: good players and he's got to kind of work himself
- 22:36Speaker 1: in there. If he's talking about Sam Williams, if he's
- 22:38Speaker 1: talking about Micah, I think I just addressed that. But
- 22:42Speaker 1: you know, and as for the trades, yeah, I'd be
- 22:44Speaker 1: surprised if the Cowboys aren't looking at anything. I mean
- 22:46Speaker 1: that they they you have to be. I mean you're
- 22:48Speaker 1: you're you're there. You're a top team, you're one of
- 22:51Speaker 1: the top ten teams in the league. So you're you're
- 22:53Speaker 1: there to make some moves and you you're you're in
- 22:57Speaker 1: position to go, you know, compete for Super Bowl. So
- 23:01Speaker 1: what do you need do you need to go and
- 23:03Speaker 1: strengthen the team. They'd be silly and to not be
- 23:05Speaker 1: listening to things or looking at things. That doesn't mean
- 23:09Speaker 1: you have to go do it, but you should always
- 23:11Speaker 1: be trying. And I think that they're certainly doing that
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- 25:29Speaker 1: All right back here on Cowboys Storyline got about twenty
- 25:33Speaker 1: more minutes or so before we uh in the show,
- 25:36Speaker 1: So we've got a chance to get some calls and
- 25:39Speaker 1: some some texts eight eight eight eight five five two
- 25:41Speaker 1: two nine seven, I think you can. If you're listening,
- 25:45Speaker 1: you're like, oh, I can never get in. I think
- 25:46Speaker 1: you can get in today. I think we can. We
- 25:49Speaker 1: can fit you in or definitely with us some text
- 25:53Speaker 1: questions as well. Earlier I was asked about a couple
- 25:57Speaker 1: of players. It was from Eli and Corpus CHRISTI yeah,
- 26:02Speaker 1: he asked about, what are two players that I was
- 26:06Speaker 1: really right about and two players that I was not
- 26:10Speaker 1: right about? And I said about Mo Claiborne. That was
- 26:13Speaker 1: one I thought he was going to be. I thought
- 26:14Speaker 1: that was a great, great trade. I thought he was
- 26:18Speaker 1: going to be great. And another one I'm looking through
- 26:22Speaker 1: some of the draft, you know, picks, and I thought
- 26:27Speaker 1: antonio'bryant was going to be just outstanding. And he he
- 26:32Speaker 1: was in his own way, you know, he was really good.
- 26:34Speaker 1: I remember the two thousand and two draft just getting him.
- 26:36Speaker 1: He was like a playmaker sometimes you know, he had
- 26:40Speaker 1: some some other issues a little bit off the field,
- 26:42Speaker 1: but I mean he was, you know, he was a
- 26:45Speaker 1: phenomenal athlete and talent, and so I thought that was
- 26:49Speaker 1: going to be and he wore eighty eight. You know,
- 26:51Speaker 1: I thought he was going to be like the next star.
- 26:55Speaker 1: Didn't really work out for him, and another guy, I mean,
- 26:58Speaker 1: because Arkansas got me, I thought you Alix Stones was
- 27:00Speaker 1: going to be a phenomenal too. Didn't really work for him.
- 27:05Speaker 1: I got the injuries and and you know, he just
- 27:09Speaker 1: just didn't you know, football wasn't always number one I
- 27:11Speaker 1: think for him, so uh and that's too bad. But
- 27:14Speaker 1: a couple of guys I'll say this, and not just
- 27:16Speaker 1: because he's on he's on our one of our shows
- 27:18Speaker 1: or a lot of our shows. But when they signed
- 27:21Speaker 1: Barry Church in free agency, I was like, he's making
- 27:24Speaker 1: the team. Four year starter at Toledo, four year All
- 27:28Speaker 1: All Conference, first team. I was like, he's he's gonna
- 27:31Speaker 1: be he's gonna be a good player. This will be
- 27:33Speaker 1: a good player for the Cowboy. He's making the team
- 27:35Speaker 1: and he may even start. And he did. He played
- 27:37Speaker 1: like what eight eight years in the league and started
- 27:39Speaker 1: a lot. I just remember immediately seeing that that on
- 27:43Speaker 1: his name on that list and going, yeah, that's a
- 27:46Speaker 1: guy that's gonna be pretty good. And then here's another
- 27:48Speaker 1: one that's not not necessarily not a cowboy. But I
- 27:52Speaker 1: remember being I forgot what year this was, but it
- 27:56Speaker 1: was second or third round, and I was just on
- 27:58Speaker 1: the tail. I was like, they have to go get
- 28:00Speaker 1: Devin Hester. Devin Hester would be a difference maker. I
- 28:04Speaker 1: promise you, Devin Hester is gonna be a great player.
- 28:07Speaker 1: And I said I would take him in the second
- 28:09Speaker 1: or third round. I think he was a third round pick,
- 28:12Speaker 1: and of course he was. I think he's a Hall
- 28:14Speaker 1: of Famer or he will be, you know, just just
- 28:17Speaker 1: a dynamic return specialist. Unbelievable. But I remember that was
- 28:21Speaker 1: one that I was like, gotta go get him. Didn't happen.
- 28:24Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to a text question here from
- 28:27Speaker 1: CW in Hollywood. He says, it seems like we're just
- 28:30Speaker 1: looking in the cupboard to find a solution from the bench,
- 28:33Speaker 1: rather than seeing what's available from other teams.
- 28:36Speaker 12: I e.
- 28:37Speaker 1: Dabble and Pollard or Pollard in another you know, star
- 28:42Speaker 1: running back or gallup in Turpin or another star receiver.
- 28:46Speaker 1: What are your thoughts, Well, I mean you're also missing
- 28:51Speaker 1: another part too. It's the player that you're not drafting
- 28:54Speaker 1: next year, or the two players that you're not drafting
- 28:57Speaker 1: next year. I mean, it's it's not just you can't
- 29:01Speaker 1: just look at it just take take some running back
- 29:03Speaker 1: that's that's a Pro Bowl running back and say would
- 29:05Speaker 1: you rather have him or Rico doubt? Well, yeah, I
- 29:08Speaker 1: mean of course you would. But what are you giving
- 29:10Speaker 1: up to get them? What do you have to spend
- 29:12Speaker 1: you know next year? What are you paying him? I mean,
- 29:16Speaker 1: there's a lot more factors involved than just I'd rather
- 29:19Speaker 1: have him versus him. It's I know, you guys are
- 29:23Speaker 1: smarter than that, But sometimes I feel like I feel
- 29:26Speaker 1: like the Madden Game mentality of just making trades with
- 29:29Speaker 1: no recourse, just just you know, it's like, let's just
- 29:32Speaker 1: do it. You know, there there is more to it
- 29:35Speaker 1: than that. And I get a lot of fans just
- 29:37Speaker 1: want to go all in because this is the game
- 29:40Speaker 1: right now, this is the team. Doesn't matter about next year.
- 29:43Speaker 1: We'll figure out next year next year, and you know
- 29:46Speaker 1: that that's okay. I mean, that's okay to have that mentality,
- 29:48Speaker 1: But that's not necessarily what the Cowboys do. There's more
- 29:51Speaker 1: to it than just going and making moves. I think
- 29:53Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are going to be aggressive. I would
- 29:56Speaker 1: be surprised if they do not make a move. I
- 29:58Speaker 1: think they will, but we'll see, we'll see what what
- 30:02Speaker 1: happens all right? Next caller is Jay in Virginia. Jay,
- 30:07Speaker 1: what's up?
- 30:09Speaker 14: Hey, how you doing Chris? I'm sorry, Chris.
- 30:12Speaker 1: Yeah, well Chris, Chris. Chris answers the phone. He's probably
- 30:16Speaker 1: doing pretty good and uh, no problem, no problem. What's
- 30:20Speaker 1: up man?
- 30:21Speaker 14: I just got a quick question. Do you think the
- 30:24Speaker 14: past getting not getting return on invested? For Roy Williams
- 30:29Speaker 14: and Joy Galloway outside of Amaro Cooby, we haven't really
- 30:34Speaker 14: went out of no big names and also Brandon we
- 30:37Speaker 14: didn't really get to return them invested with debt create
- 30:39Speaker 14: the sign and neither want to hear. Uh, great show,
- 30:43Speaker 14: keep keep up to the work. Thanks man for taking
- 30:45Speaker 14: a call.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Thank you Jay. I think you have a point there.
- 30:48Speaker 1: You know, you're you're you went back a few years.
- 30:50Speaker 1: But that's okay. I mean that that is something that
- 30:53Speaker 1: I'm sure has played a factor in of all right,
- 30:56Speaker 1: when we have been aggressive, when we've gone to make
- 30:59Speaker 1: these moves, has it worked? And and and mok Claiborne
- 31:03Speaker 1: is another one. You know I mentioned him earlier about
- 31:06Speaker 1: making a trade and and and going up to to
- 31:08Speaker 1: get him. And you know that they go up and
- 31:11Speaker 1: down in the drafts all the time. But as far
- 31:13Speaker 1: as like a big jump and and like you said,
- 31:17Speaker 1: going to get Joey Galloway, I mean that was not
- 31:19Speaker 1: a good idea. I mean that was that was just
- 31:21Speaker 1: it didn't It didn't work out to two number ones
- 31:24Speaker 1: for for Joey and then he gets hurt. I mean
- 31:26Speaker 1: that that's that's unfortunate too. But because I remember I
- 31:30Speaker 1: remember them saying, it's only one number one because we're
- 31:33Speaker 1: getting one. That's that was their their mentality. It's not
- 31:37Speaker 1: two number ones because we are getting a number one
- 31:40Speaker 1: receiver in Joey Galloway. Well then when he gets hurt
- 31:43Speaker 1: and turns a cl in week one, well then it
- 31:45Speaker 1: obviously his two number ones And so that that was tough.
- 31:49Speaker 1: But but yeah, they didn't get the return on investment there.
- 31:53Speaker 1: You know the Roy Williams wide receiver Roy Williams uh
- 31:57Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight, you know that that really
- 32:00Speaker 1: work out And then go look at two thousand and nine,
- 32:02Speaker 1: that was a absolute atrocious draft, not having a first
- 32:07Speaker 1: or a second round pick, and that that didn't work
- 32:10Speaker 1: out that So yeah, I think I think looking at
- 32:12Speaker 1: the times that they have made splash moves, did it work?
- 32:16Speaker 1: And Amari Cooper. You know, I don't. I don't think
- 32:19Speaker 1: you can say that that really worked because they when
- 32:23Speaker 1: they draft, when they traded for him, all they kept
- 32:27Speaker 1: saying was he's twenty four years old. He's twenty four,
- 32:30Speaker 1: so we're not just getting him for this year. We're
- 32:31Speaker 1: getting him from down the road. And he only played
- 32:34Speaker 1: what three years, you know, So that's that's not what
- 32:38Speaker 1: they were looking for when they made that that trade.
- 32:40Speaker 1: Because you think about it, when you give up a
- 32:42Speaker 1: first round pick, you don't want them to play three years.
- 32:44Speaker 1: That's called taco Charlton. I mean that you don't want
- 32:47Speaker 1: you want them. You draft them in the first round
- 32:50Speaker 1: so that they're going to play a lot of years.
- 32:52Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Irwin and Denver. Irwin. What's up?
- 32:57Speaker 9: Hey, Good morning neck.
- 32:58Speaker 1: How you doing wanting to you?
- 32:59Speaker 4: I'm good, Hey, Yes, I got a.
- 33:01Speaker 9: Couple of things for you. I'm just kind of thinking
- 33:05Speaker 9: and I won't mention any names because I know you
- 33:07Speaker 9: can't you can. I think, well, Dereck Henry I think
- 33:11Speaker 9: would be a great addition for our team. He's a big, big,
- 33:14Speaker 9: bruising back. But I think we could use them the
- 33:16Speaker 9: red zone and the other thing I want to say
- 33:19Speaker 9: to you and maybe you can comment on and hopefully
- 33:21Speaker 9: you will. It just seems as much as I despise
- 33:25Speaker 9: the Eagles, I think they're doing a really good job
- 33:28Speaker 9: as far as free agency goes and rafting. Do you
- 33:32Speaker 9: think that they've got the cap and everything figured out
- 33:35Speaker 9: better than Jerry Jones and Steven Jones because it just
- 33:38Speaker 9: seems like.
- 33:38Speaker 8: They've reload every year.
- 33:40Speaker 9: They've really built a strong team, I think. And I'll
- 33:43Speaker 9: let you let go here what.
- 33:45Speaker 7: You got to say about that?
- 33:46Speaker 1: Thanks, all right, thank you for the call.
- 33:49Speaker 7: You know, I.
- 33:51Speaker 1: Think I do think a big, strong running back would
- 33:53Speaker 1: would be great for this team, you know, proving back
- 33:56Speaker 1: that could help take the load off of Tony Pollard.
- 33:58Speaker 1: I think anybody like that that's that's proven that that
- 34:03Speaker 1: still has some some left in the tank. Yeah, I mean,
- 34:06Speaker 1: I sure that that would be a good, good pick
- 34:09Speaker 1: up if that could happen, you know, and and there
- 34:13Speaker 1: are there are options out there, you know, if they
- 34:15Speaker 1: if the Cowboys wanted to go there, it's just you know,
- 34:17Speaker 1: you got to remember, high profile players like that are
- 34:20Speaker 1: not going to be cheap, and so they're going to
- 34:23Speaker 1: have to you know, they'll have to to be better,
- 34:25Speaker 1: they're going to have to give a compensation better than
- 34:28Speaker 1: what that team is going to get, you know, next
- 34:30Speaker 1: year or two if they you know, if they get
- 34:33Speaker 1: you know, a cop pick for them. So it has
- 34:36Speaker 1: to be better than that. So, you know, I think
- 34:39Speaker 1: if the Cowboys are are looking, you know, they've already
- 34:41Speaker 1: traded next year's fourth for Trey Lance. So I know
- 34:44Speaker 1: that that's that's factoring in on anything that they do. Uh,
- 34:48Speaker 1: you don't want to go into the draft next year
- 34:49Speaker 1: not have not have you know, some firepower to go
- 34:52Speaker 1: do some things. But you know that being said, let
- 34:55Speaker 1: me let me let me also go back to another
- 34:57Speaker 1: point too. You know, we're talking about the draft picks
- 35:00Speaker 1: that haven't really panned out this year. This is not
- 35:05Speaker 1: an excuse, it's just reality. This is a twelve and
- 35:08Speaker 1: five team two years in a row, two years in
- 35:10Speaker 1: a row. This is a really good football team by
- 35:13Speaker 1: NFL standards. So you're picking towards the bottom and you're
- 35:17Speaker 1: adding players to the team to try to be better
- 35:20Speaker 1: than the guys you have. They can't get on the
- 35:21Speaker 1: field because you have a good roster. So it's not
- 35:24Speaker 1: easy for draft picks to kind of just come in
- 35:27Speaker 1: you expect one or two out of a class to
- 35:31Speaker 1: do this, and they haven't. That's the unfortunate part. But
- 35:34Speaker 1: you know, it's not easy for these guys to just
- 35:36Speaker 1: be better than a three or four year veteran that's
- 35:39Speaker 1: been here and knows the system and things like that.
- 35:42Speaker 1: So that is kind of the challenge that we're seeing
- 35:45Speaker 1: for these young players. So my point is maybe at
- 35:49Speaker 1: some point, maybe at some point, you know, you're okay
- 35:53Speaker 1: with with all right, I'll part ways on a couple
- 35:56Speaker 1: of draft picks here and there to get some veteran
- 35:58Speaker 1: players that I know will be better than what we have.
- 36:02Speaker 1: You know, what you have they build through the draft.
- 36:04Speaker 1: But every now and again, I think it would be
- 36:06Speaker 1: okay if you did not have ten draft picks, if
- 36:08Speaker 1: you had six six draft picks, you know, and maybe
- 36:12Speaker 1: you didn't have a third, or you don't have a
- 36:14Speaker 1: fourth or something, that you can figure some things out
- 36:16Speaker 1: because you do have some depth, you do have some
- 36:18Speaker 1: young players, and if you can kind of splice in
- 36:21Speaker 1: another veteran, maybe that that would be the approach. I mean,
- 36:23Speaker 1: everybody loves picks, but if you could turn him into
- 36:26Speaker 1: some veteran players like they had did with Gilmour and cooked.
- 36:31Speaker 1: I think that's a good that's a good option as
- 36:33Speaker 1: well as for the Eagles. I mean, they they are
- 36:37Speaker 1: doing a great job. You know, there's no doubt about it.
- 36:39Speaker 1: They're doing a great job. They they they've been fortunate too,
- 36:42Speaker 1: Like they were fortunate to have Carson Wentz and and
- 36:47Speaker 1: and then trade him for for more first round picks.
- 36:51Speaker 1: You know, I mean the fact that other teams still
- 36:53Speaker 1: looked at him and said, all right, I know he
- 36:55Speaker 1: was not good here, but I think he'll be good here.
- 36:57Speaker 1: I'll give you a first round pick for him. Like
- 36:58Speaker 1: that's that's amazing that they were able to do that.
- 37:01Speaker 1: And and and they've they've they've landed some some good picks.
- 37:05Speaker 1: They're able to draft, they're they're able to be aggressive
- 37:08Speaker 1: getting players you know that are falling for whatever the reason.
- 37:11Speaker 1: They they go for that. So they they've helped, they've
- 37:14Speaker 1: helped their own cause you know, they they they took
- 37:17Speaker 1: us a flyer on Jalen Hurts to see if he
- 37:20Speaker 1: could be a good player for this team. And he's
- 37:23Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback, so that's that's huge. Now they had
- 37:27Speaker 1: to pay him this year, and you know, the money
- 37:28Speaker 1: will catch up to all teams. You know, it happens.
- 37:32Speaker 1: The Rams were doing the same thing. They won the
- 37:34Speaker 1: Super Bowl and and now it's caught up to them.
- 37:37Speaker 1: But but it happens. And you know, the Cowboys haven't
- 37:41Speaker 1: taken that approach, and I'm sure fans are like, why not,
- 37:43Speaker 1: why not take it every once in a while, take
- 37:45Speaker 1: that approach because it can work. And and it has
- 37:48Speaker 1: sort of worked for Philly because they made it to
- 37:50Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. They didn't win, but they made it there.
- 37:52Speaker 1: They're a top team right now. Uh so that I
- 37:54Speaker 1: think they're they're doing they're doing fine, you know, And
- 37:57Speaker 1: but we'll see, we'll see where the Cowboys stand with them.
- 38:02Speaker 1: Last year, they were right there with the with the Eagles,
- 38:04Speaker 1: you know, I think they were. They were neck and
- 38:07Speaker 1: Necktilly was a little better and and they and but
- 38:09Speaker 1: you know when they played, they was they both won.
- 38:12Speaker 1: They both beat backup quarterbacks, you know, at home. So
- 38:16Speaker 1: it was hard to get a good gauge of where
- 38:18Speaker 1: they are. But I think we'll get we'll get a
- 38:19Speaker 1: good feel for it in two weeks. All right, Rob
- 38:23Speaker 1: in Vegas is our next caller, Rob, what's up?
- 38:28Speaker 7: Don?
- 38:28Speaker 12: Don?
- 38:28Speaker 1: And San Antonio skipped done. I apologize, Don. What's up?
- 38:33Speaker 4: Good Good morning, Nick. How are you got a couple
- 38:35Speaker 4: of things this morning? First, watching the games this last week,
- 38:40Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins just made me think about Dak. You see
- 38:45Speaker 4: both of those guys in some games just dominate their
- 38:49Speaker 4: on their game. They're in the zone.
- 38:52Speaker 8: What does it?
- 38:54Speaker 4: What is there anything the team can do or the
- 38:56Speaker 4: coaches can do to flip that switch to make those
- 38:58Speaker 4: guys much more consistent. And another thing that I noticed,
- 39:02Speaker 4: I was watching Talking Cowboys this morning and they actually
- 39:05Speaker 4: took a few calls, which kind of surprised me because
- 39:08Speaker 4: they do a lot of talking. But the question was,
- 39:11Speaker 4: you know what previous generation player could help the Cowboys
- 39:15Speaker 4: most today? And I was just amazed. Nobody said, Larry Allen.
- 39:21Speaker 4: I mean, we've got issues on the offensive line. Plug
- 39:25Speaker 4: and play that guy and then that's going to make
- 39:27Speaker 4: your whole line stronger. That's it for today, all right,
- 39:31Speaker 4: thank you.
- 39:31Speaker 1: Yeah. I talked to them on my way in. They
- 39:33Speaker 1: were walking out, and they talked about that, and I
- 39:36Speaker 1: said I would change the question to it can't be
- 39:40Speaker 1: a Hall of famer, you know, because Okay, Larry Allen
- 39:44Speaker 1: deon Sanders. Sure, how about it. How about a guy
- 39:47Speaker 1: makes me a little bit more sense, a guy that
- 39:49Speaker 1: wasn't Hall of Famer that you could still you could
- 39:52Speaker 1: sell up because any any Hall of Famer would be
- 39:54Speaker 1: probably better than what you have, you know, because there's
- 39:57Speaker 1: not many Hall of Famers on this team right now,
- 40:00Speaker 1: you know, Like I mean, there's some, but you know,
- 40:03Speaker 1: and then there's some that are projecting to be so
- 40:05Speaker 1: that that's always a fun question, but I think you've
- 40:07Speaker 1: got to be realistic about it a little bit. But
- 40:09Speaker 1: uh yeah, I mean offensive line help sure, that would
- 40:12Speaker 1: be would be great. So all right, So if it's
- 40:15Speaker 1: not Larry Allen, if it's not a Hall of Fame,
- 40:16Speaker 1: or how about Nate Newton, but not even in the
- 40:18Speaker 1: Ring of honor, should be but not in the ring Wanter,
- 40:22Speaker 1: all right, Apparently somebody did say Larry on one person
- 40:26Speaker 1: I think did when they were when they were talking
- 40:28Speaker 1: about that, I mean later on in the show, Larry
- 40:30Speaker 1: Allen's name did get mentioned. So it'll just make clear
- 40:33Speaker 1: on that one it didn't get mentioned at all. I'm
- 40:37Speaker 1: think I missed this first part of the question. But
- 40:41Speaker 1: let's uh, we'll move on to Robin in Vegas. Now, Rob, Hey, Nick, Hey,
- 40:46Speaker 1: how are you doing.
- 40:47Speaker 12: I'm good?
- 40:48Speaker 7: You know.
- 40:49Speaker 12: I look at the Cowboys and for Jerry, one of
- 40:52Speaker 12: the worst things that happened, even though it was a
- 40:55Speaker 12: great thing, was he had early success, I mean and
- 40:59Speaker 12: got to his money back. You know, we all know
- 41:02Speaker 12: the story. Invested one hundred and forty million all he
- 41:04Speaker 12: got and overnight got that back, wins back to back
- 41:07Speaker 12: Super Bowl's. Money's pouring in and he takes off. And
- 41:15Speaker 12: I think Jerry, now at eighty, looks at it like
- 41:20Speaker 12: does he want to win? Of course he wants to win,
- 41:23Speaker 12: But I think Jeff is important is being relevant, and
- 41:27Speaker 12: I don't think and I think even Jerry criticized the
- 41:30Speaker 12: Rams a couple of years ago when they went all
- 41:32Speaker 12: in that one year, but they won a super Bowl,
- 41:36Speaker 12: and I get the impression from Jerry Jerry's not willing
- 41:39Speaker 12: to go for it totally because he's afraid if we
- 41:44Speaker 12: don't win the super Bowl, we may go eight to
- 41:48Speaker 12: nine the next year or seven. And you know, but
- 41:51Speaker 12: as a fan, Jerry, if you win a Super Bowl
- 41:55Speaker 12: and you don't do anything for another ten years, we'll
- 41:58Speaker 12: take that. It's been almost I mean, you relevancy to
- 42:04Speaker 12: me is meaning the goal is not to get to
- 42:08Speaker 12: the playoffs. The goal is to win the super Bowl.
- 42:11Speaker 12: If you don't win the Super Bowl, I'm not saying
- 42:13Speaker 12: the season was a failure, but it's it's it's nothing
- 42:16Speaker 12: like they talk about the Eagles. Jayalen Hurts got to
- 42:19Speaker 12: the Super Bowl, he lost, Jim Kelly got the four
- 42:23Speaker 12: Super Bowls in a row, lost all four. Nobody cares
- 42:27Speaker 12: and you know, you look at it heights, Wow, that
- 42:29Speaker 12: was that was incredible. But at the end of the day,
- 42:32Speaker 12: you lost.
- 42:33Speaker 1: Let me ask you, so, do you think the Rams
- 42:35Speaker 1: made the right call then? Because they won the Super Bowl? Okay?
- 42:39Speaker 1: But but I mean and and that's the thing I mean,
- 42:42Speaker 1: But the Eagles didn't because they didn't win the Super.
- 42:44Speaker 12: Bowl, right, Well you mean last year?
- 42:47Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just saying, look at the Rams. I mean
- 42:49Speaker 1: the Rams. Rams got a gift in the NFC Championship
- 42:53Speaker 1: to win that game, and then it was a very
- 42:55Speaker 1: close game. They easily could have lost to the Bengals
- 42:58Speaker 1: on some questionable calls there. Does that make their moves
- 43:01Speaker 1: any different? I mean, like, well, yes, I think I
- 43:04Speaker 1: think what you're trying to do is just get close.
- 43:07Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta be good enough to get there,
- 43:09Speaker 1: and then when you're there, let's see what happens. And
- 43:11Speaker 1: I think that's the mindset with the cow but I don't.
- 43:14Speaker 8: I don't, I don't.
- 43:14Speaker 12: I don't believe that in football because the problem is injury.
- 43:18Speaker 12: You can't get closed. There's no such thing as what
- 43:20Speaker 12: you did one year doesn't necessarily mean you're going to
- 43:24Speaker 12: do it the next year. I'm a I'm a big
- 43:25Speaker 12: Golden Knights fan. And the Golden Knights win the Stanley Cup,
- 43:29Speaker 12: and the owner of the Golden Knights is awesome because
- 43:32Speaker 12: he understands Vegas. There's a lot going on and if
- 43:35Speaker 12: I don't bring back a really great team and we
- 43:38Speaker 12: don't have another good year, they don't care. They won't come.
- 43:41Speaker 12: So what do you do? He resigns the whole team
- 43:43Speaker 12: except one guy that's seven and zero, and the place
- 43:46Speaker 12: is rocking. He's willing to do what it takes. And
- 43:50Speaker 12: I'm not saying Jerry doesn't want to win. Like I said,
- 43:53Speaker 12: you have to, you have to go for it. This
- 43:56Speaker 12: is because Dok Prescott, we see your your what injury
- 44:00Speaker 12: of him breaking is like you know the Eagles, you
- 44:05Speaker 12: know are doing the same thing again this year. They
- 44:07Speaker 12: just made the move. They picked up the safety from Tennessee.
- 44:12Speaker 12: I mean the Eagles, and I don't know how they
- 44:14Speaker 12: make moves when they're paying their quarterback fifty something million dollars.
- 44:17Speaker 1: Well hold on, hell up to go for it? Hold up, Rob?
- 44:19Speaker 1: Are you fine? You're you said you're a Golden Knights
- 44:22Speaker 1: hockey fan? Are you Do you like the fact that
- 44:24Speaker 1: your owner went and signed a lot of players to
- 44:27Speaker 1: be better this year? Did you like that or did
- 44:29Speaker 1: you not like that? I like that, but I thought
- 44:33Speaker 1: you just said. I thought you said if you win
- 44:34Speaker 1: a championship, If you win a championship, I'm we're good
- 44:37Speaker 1: for ten years. So I mean, which one is it?
- 44:39Speaker 1: Is it being relevant every year or is it just
- 44:41Speaker 1: going to win a championship.
- 44:43Speaker 12: No, it's it's win a championship. The Golden Knights won.
- 44:47Speaker 1: A chimp, right, but then now this year they're going
- 44:49Speaker 1: all in to win another win, right exactly.
- 44:52Speaker 12: But if they, let's say they didn't, let's say that
- 44:54Speaker 12: the Golden Knights missed the playoffs this year, the fans
- 44:57Speaker 12: would be like, Okay, we just won a championship. The
- 45:00Speaker 12: Cowboys fans haven't seen the championship in almost thirty years,
- 45:04Speaker 12: so we're like, what are we doing? Okay, Jerry talks
- 45:06Speaker 12: like getting to the playoffs is a big deal. You're
- 45:09Speaker 12: the Dallas Cowboys. The playoffs should be a given. You
- 45:12Speaker 12: should be in the playoffs every year.
- 45:15Speaker 4: You should be.
- 45:16Speaker 12: You should be unless there's major injury. This team, the
- 45:20Speaker 12: way it's constructed, the playoffs is just the beginning. I mean,
- 45:24Speaker 12: you don't hear people talk about the Cowboys of well,
- 45:26Speaker 12: maybe they'll make the playoffs. No, what do you always hear?
- 45:29Speaker 4: Oh, they got to.
- 45:30Speaker 12: Get past the first round. But Jerry seems like he's
- 45:33Speaker 12: comfortable with that, and no, put all the chips in,
- 45:36Speaker 12: go make the moves and worry about the consequences next year.
- 45:41Speaker 12: The salary cap is meaningless. It's fake money. Every year
- 45:44Speaker 12: we've been hearing for twenty oh you know if we
- 45:46Speaker 12: pay him today. It's funny how teams always.
- 45:49Speaker 7: Make it work.
- 45:50Speaker 1: No, salary CAP's real. I mean, salary cap is real, real.
- 45:55Speaker 12: But it's amazing how.
- 45:56Speaker 1: Teams right that year round it. Yeah, but not the
- 46:01Speaker 1: same teams. It's not the same teams. I mean you
- 46:03Speaker 1: go up and you go down. It's not the same teams.
- 46:06Speaker 1: It's really not well, well.
- 46:08Speaker 12: Let me let me ask you something. You're a big Cowboys.
- 46:10Speaker 1: Fan, Sorry, Frank at our next college go ahead, go ahead?
- 46:13Speaker 12: Would your take if he said that's it and he's
- 46:17Speaker 12: just spending money and we win a super Bowl this year,
- 46:20Speaker 12: but we don't make the playoffs the following year, and
- 46:24Speaker 12: then we would make the play we go out the
- 46:26Speaker 12: first a kind of like we've been doing for the
- 46:28Speaker 12: next five years. Would you take that?
- 46:31Speaker 1: Would I take it?
- 46:32Speaker 7: Yes?
- 46:34Speaker 8: A fan?
- 46:35Speaker 1: As a fan, yeah, I did. I did take what
- 46:37Speaker 1: I think I did take it. But that's I mean,
- 46:40Speaker 1: I get it. But you act like they're not trying you.
- 46:43Speaker 1: You act like Jerry didn't fine. You act like Jerry's
- 46:45Speaker 1: just fine with doing this. Yeah.
- 46:47Speaker 12: No, I didn't say he's not trying. I don't think
- 46:49Speaker 12: he's trying enough. Jerry's going to the edge. Yeah, but
- 46:52Speaker 12: he's not going full in because he's afraid of what's
- 46:55Speaker 12: going to happen the next two years. And Jerry, you're
- 46:59Speaker 12: eight years old. Let's do it now. Number one and
- 47:02Speaker 12: number two fans will take it. Start doing what the
- 47:06Speaker 12: fans would do. We'll take it. If you took a
- 47:08Speaker 12: poll that said we go all in and we win it.
- 47:11Speaker 8: Now we may not win it.
- 47:12Speaker 12: For another Okay, we have a wonerf almost thirty.
- 47:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I think all right, thanks for the call. I
- 47:20Speaker 1: think that if you go back and you look, I
- 47:22Speaker 1: think I think they're they're I don't know if you
- 47:25Speaker 1: want to call all in. They're trying. They are trying
- 47:28Speaker 1: to do that. They did go back and look at
- 47:30Speaker 1: last year. Last year they made a lot of moves
- 47:33Speaker 1: to try to get over the hump and get there.
- 47:36Speaker 1: I mean, when they don't work, then it's like it's
- 47:40Speaker 1: like a bad move. But they are They're not sitting
- 47:44Speaker 1: on their hands like they just go look at the
- 47:47Speaker 1: moves that they're making. They're trying to do this. They
- 47:49Speaker 1: are not just sitting back anyways. Uh, Frank and Irving,
- 47:55Speaker 1: can we get one more call in? Frank, Frank are
- 48:00Speaker 1: you there?
- 48:01Speaker 15: Yes, thanks forgeting my call. Yeah, it'll be quick.
- 48:06Speaker 12: All right.
- 48:07Speaker 15: What do you think about up like zek and bringing
- 48:19Speaker 15: him back.
- 48:23Speaker 1: Well, he's with unless something happened in the last thirty minutes.
- 48:26Speaker 1: I think he's with another team. So I'll say this,
- 48:32Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying. And and do you have
- 48:35Speaker 1: another question? No, Okay, thanks for the call sorry, we're
- 48:39Speaker 1: running Uh we're running past time here. I know what
- 48:42Speaker 1: you're saying. Another big running back, a guy that's been here,
- 48:45Speaker 1: that knows the team, knows the system. That would be great.
- 48:47Speaker 1: He's not available right now unless something has changed. But
- 48:52Speaker 1: but I think what you know, the premise is right.
- 48:55Speaker 1: I could see another big running back here to kind
- 48:58Speaker 1: of carry the load a little bit. Four Pollard, get
- 49:01Speaker 1: some of these short yarded situations. Don't put it all
- 49:03Speaker 1: on deck to try to get on third and one,
- 49:05Speaker 1: fourth and one pushes and stuff like that. A bigger
- 49:08Speaker 1: back that can help with the with the pass blocking
- 49:10Speaker 1: and understand that. Yeah, if something's available, I think the
- 49:14Speaker 1: Cowboys could probably go and do that. But also, you know,
- 49:19Speaker 1: going back to the last one, like like we could
- 49:21Speaker 1: argue all day long. Sure, yes, the fans would would
- 49:24Speaker 1: would love to have a Super Bowl and then they'll
- 49:28Speaker 1: be fine after that. I mean I was a Mavericks fan.
- 49:30Speaker 1: They won it in twenty eleven and for about five
- 49:32Speaker 1: or six years. You're fine with that, but you know,
- 49:35Speaker 1: you do get antsy and you want them to kind
- 49:36Speaker 1: of build on it a little bit. The problem is
- 49:39Speaker 1: is you know, yes, stay and want you want to
- 49:41Speaker 1: stay relevant. It's not about dollars and all the time.
- 49:43Speaker 1: It's about having a chance to be successful and building
- 49:47Speaker 1: something that you can sit there and this team it
- 49:49Speaker 1: could be good for a long time. That's what they're
- 49:51Speaker 1: trying to do. There's teams that have gone all in
- 49:55Speaker 1: and it doesn't work. It doesn't work you make big,
- 49:57Speaker 1: splashy moves. There's teams that are doing it. Now only
- 50:00Speaker 1: one of them is gonna work, and it may not
- 50:02Speaker 1: even be them. So there's different ways to skin it.
- 50:06Speaker 1: I think I think the Cowboys have been aggressive. Is
- 50:09Speaker 1: it as aggressive you know as you want? No, because
- 50:12Speaker 1: it hasn't worked. It hasn't worked like you want. But
- 50:14Speaker 1: they have been aggressive. We'll see what they do. They
- 50:16Speaker 1: still got another week or so before you know, the
- 50:19Speaker 1: trade deadline. Maybe they decide to make a move. But
- 50:22Speaker 1: I guarantee if they don't win the Super Bowl that
- 50:25Speaker 1: it's gonna it's not gonna be remembered like it is
- 50:27Speaker 1: for the teams that are, you know, making these moves
- 50:29Speaker 1: to get there. Sorry, we went long today, good calls.
- 50:32Speaker 1: Appreciate that. For Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eaman. We'll see
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