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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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- 0:11Speaker 1: This He's Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:20Speaker 3: What is up? Good morning? It is Cowboys Storyline. It's
- 0:23Speaker 3: time for this. It's Tuesday, December the fifth. I'm Nick
- 0:27Speaker 3: Eatman and let's get going here. We got a lot
- 0:30Speaker 3: of news to talk about. I'll let you guys handle
- 0:33Speaker 3: most of it. I know the Shack Leonard non signing
- 0:38Speaker 3: is something that people will probably want to discuss. Not
- 0:42Speaker 3: really a surprise, I think once the Eagles were involved.
- 0:45Speaker 3: I think I think it was pretty clear talking to
- 0:49Speaker 3: some people here in the building that he was probably
- 0:53Speaker 3: going to go to Philly all along. I think you
- 0:55Speaker 3: can make the case if did the Cowboys, did the
- 1:00Speaker 3: under kind of play the Cowboys a little bit by
- 1:02Speaker 3: putting them involved, or did he play the Eagles by
- 1:04Speaker 3: going to the Cowboys, you know, trying to up the
- 1:08Speaker 3: end he a little bit knowing that he was probably
- 1:09Speaker 3: going to sign there. I don't know, but but you know,
- 1:13Speaker 3: as Jerry Jones said this morning on one oh five
- 1:15Speaker 3: to three, the fan that that you know, he wishes
- 1:17Speaker 3: him well, hopes to beat him this week obviously, and
- 1:20Speaker 3: uh and that you know, had a good visit and
- 1:23Speaker 3: they wanted him, I mean, but uh, but also that
- 1:26Speaker 3: money really was never discussed, so they never got that far.
- 1:29Speaker 3: And I think in talking to people about his injuries
- 1:32Speaker 3: that you know, they all could see it that that
- 1:34Speaker 3: it was going to be a challenge for him to
- 1:36Speaker 3: to to be that player that he's been. He's probably
- 1:39Speaker 3: those days were over, and Philly knows that. Uh, it's
- 1:42Speaker 3: just about you know, what they needed and they needed
- 1:45Speaker 3: a little bit more help and linebacker, I guess than
- 1:47Speaker 3: the Cowboys did. So they've got him, they've signed him.
- 1:49Speaker 3: I don't think anyone's too disappointed about it. We'll see
- 1:52Speaker 3: if you guys disagree with that. So we'll get to
- 1:54Speaker 3: the calls here to remember to call in eight eight
- 1:56Speaker 3: eight eight five to two ninety seven. You can text
- 1:59Speaker 3: at eight one se him two nine zero three two
- 2:02Speaker 3: nine eight. Just doing a normal forty five minute show today,
- 2:07Speaker 3: maybe fifty minutes yesterday. We were able to go for
- 2:09Speaker 3: about an hour and a half. It was pretty awesome,
- 2:11Speaker 3: but Talking Cowboys was back on today, so we don't
- 2:15Speaker 3: have that time slide. But it was great to get
- 2:17Speaker 3: you guys to call. We had nineteen callers. That's a record,
- 2:19Speaker 3: some first time callers. We had some from three different countries.
- 2:23Speaker 3: It was really cool. So all right, let's get to
- 2:26Speaker 3: it here. Gary in New Mexico starts us off.
- 2:31Speaker 4: Hey, Nick, congratulations on a successful show. It's hard to
- 2:35Speaker 4: get in.
- 2:35Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate that we put Chrystal work.
- 2:40Speaker 4: Yeah, as a Cowboy fan, I am not overly concerned
- 2:43Speaker 4: about not getting a linebacker that was just released by
- 2:46Speaker 4: another team.
- 2:47Speaker 2: At the end of the season.
- 2:48Speaker 4: It's not that big of a deal. You know, We've
- 2:50Speaker 4: we've done really good the last four weeks without him.
- 2:53Speaker 4: We'll continue to do good without him. More power to
- 2:55Speaker 4: the Eagles for signing him.
- 2:57Speaker 3: Right, great.
- 2:58Speaker 4: What I want to I want to make a comment
- 3:01Speaker 4: on this morning is, you know, I'm listening to my
- 3:03Speaker 4: buddies over on the fan and you know, listening to
- 3:06Speaker 4: different commentators, and it's really starting to irk me that
- 3:11Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy is not getting the respect that I think
- 3:14Speaker 4: he deserves. I mean, this guy has come in here
- 3:18Speaker 4: and people paint a picture that Mike McCarthy is just
- 3:21Speaker 4: some buffoon bumbling around the star. Mike McCarthy is a
- 3:26Speaker 4: damn good head coach. And we are fortunate to have him.
- 3:29Speaker 4: They have gotten better every year he's been here. And
- 3:33Speaker 4: just look at Dak presk everybody, Oh, we're gonna miss Kelvin.
- 3:36Speaker 4: What we don't miss Kellen Moore? In one bit. We're
- 3:39Speaker 4: better now than we were last year. Offensively, Dak is
- 3:42Speaker 4: the second rated passer in the league. He leads the
- 3:45Speaker 4: league in touchdowns. I think part of it has to
- 3:47Speaker 4: do with the fact that he's healthy. I think a
- 3:48Speaker 4: lot of people forget you know, when you hurt your
- 3:51Speaker 4: thumb like he did last year, that's just not something
- 3:53Speaker 4: you come right back from. That may have played into it,
- 3:55Speaker 4: but McCarthy has done exactly what he said he was
- 3:58Speaker 4: going to do with this offense. And I'm going to
- 4:02Speaker 4: make a bold statement here, and you may disagree with me.
- 4:04Speaker 3: But they already have. But I love it.
- 4:06Speaker 4: I think think Mike McCarthy. I think Mike McCarthy is
- 4:10Speaker 4: the best head coach that we've had since Jimmy Johnson.
- 4:14Speaker 4: And I don't mean that I think Mike McCarthy is
- 4:16Speaker 4: a better coach historically than Bill Parcells, although if you
- 4:20Speaker 4: look at him, they're comparable. But I think Mike McCarthy
- 4:23Speaker 4: is a better version than the Parcels we had when
- 4:26Speaker 4: he was here as a head coach. Does that make sense?
- 4:29Speaker 4: And they're good man, three straight winning seasons, We're probably
- 4:33Speaker 4: going to win twelve games for the third year in
- 4:35Speaker 4: a row. He's got him on the right track.
- 4:37Speaker 2: We need to.
- 4:39Speaker 4: I've given up armchair quarterbacking. I'm just gonna trust the coaches.
- 4:43Speaker 4: I think they know what they're doing. And I remember
- 4:46Speaker 4: Wade Phillips, I remember Dave Campbell, I remember all of
- 4:50Speaker 4: that stuff. I am happy with where we're at and
- 4:53Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to how this season plays out.
- 4:56Speaker 3: All right, all right, good stuff. I appreciate the call.
- 4:59Speaker 3: Gary kind of set in the tone here on this show.
- 5:01Speaker 3: And I bet you there's a lot of people that
- 5:03Speaker 3: do agree with that. You know, they they want to
- 5:07Speaker 3: they want to see results, of course. But but you're right.
- 5:11Speaker 3: I mean, when you're comparing them, you're comparing them to
- 5:14Speaker 3: two coaches that that haven't you know, they didn't win either,
- 5:16Speaker 3: you know, Barry Switzer did. But but but I know
- 5:21Speaker 3: what you're saying. It's hard to compare the Parcels stuff,
- 5:25Speaker 3: just because I feel like the the organization was just
- 5:30Speaker 3: in a different place when Bill got here. I mean
- 5:32Speaker 3: they they really were down. I mean they they had
- 5:35Speaker 3: to get things turned around. And I feel like McCarthy's
- 5:39Speaker 3: kind of comparable more to to Wade Phillips of you know,
- 5:42Speaker 3: taking over a team that was maybe in a better
- 5:46Speaker 3: shot to win. Obviously, they didn't win in Mike's first
- 5:48Speaker 3: year here twenty twenty, such a weird, strange season. Dak
- 5:53Speaker 3: gets hurt and it just kind of went from there.
- 5:55Speaker 3: They had to change coordinators. It wasn't a great start
- 5:58Speaker 3: obviously to to McCarthy's time here. But but since got
- 6:02Speaker 3: a little bit of normalcy back. You're right, he's been
- 6:05Speaker 3: He's been really good. He doesn't get mentioned for Coach
- 6:08Speaker 3: of the Year and things like that, but but he's
- 6:10Speaker 3: he's done a great job. And and you know, that's
- 6:13Speaker 3: one thing I've learned. I've got a lot of good
- 6:14Speaker 3: friends that are coaches, some high school, some college. I
- 6:19Speaker 3: even can say I've had some friends here on these staffs.
- 6:22Speaker 3: And that's one thing I've learned is that coaches do
- 6:25Speaker 3: not get the praise when they win as much as
- 6:29Speaker 3: they get the blame when they lose. It's just that's
- 6:32Speaker 3: just the way that it is. But good call appreciate
- 6:35Speaker 3: you saying that, all right, let's go to Irene in Virginia.
- 6:39Speaker 3: Is next, Irene? How you doing?
- 6:41Speaker 2: Hey?
- 6:41Speaker 5: Next?
- 6:42Speaker 6: How you're doing good?
- 6:44Speaker 7: Good?
- 6:45Speaker 5: Two quick questions and then a random player because I
- 6:47Speaker 5: realize I never did that.
- 6:50Speaker 8: Hendershat.
- 6:50Speaker 5: I know that McCarthy didn't answer if he was gonna
- 6:53Speaker 5: be activated. Was just wondering if he has to make
- 6:56Speaker 5: the active roster or if you can be signed to
- 6:59Speaker 5: the act squad and they can use those elevations on
- 7:03Speaker 5: him and then the.
- 7:05Speaker 3: Other one you you would just have to cut him.
- 7:08Speaker 3: I mean, he has to go back to the roster first,
- 7:11Speaker 3: and then cut him and try to get him back
- 7:13Speaker 3: to the practice squad, so that that's I mean, they
- 7:15Speaker 3: have to put him on the roster. You can't just
- 7:19Speaker 3: put him on the practice squad. He would have to
- 7:21Speaker 3: be released. My understanding is released clear waivers, which you know,
- 7:26Speaker 3: a young tied end with his size and some and
- 7:28Speaker 3: some ability I would imagine would be claimed. So I don't,
- 7:31Speaker 3: I don't know if they would do that. I don't know.
- 7:34Speaker 3: I don't. I know they're not in a huge hurry
- 7:35Speaker 3: to get him back, but they they've got to make
- 7:37Speaker 3: a decision here pretty soon. I would imagine either he
- 7:41Speaker 3: stays on IR or they bring him back to the roster.
- 7:44Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I wasn't sure if you could skip that step,
- 7:47Speaker 5: but I probably.
- 7:48Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's not.
- 7:50Speaker 5: This is And I'm going to go on the record
- 7:52Speaker 5: and say I don't think we can be at San
- 7:54Speaker 5: Francisco if we used to play them again. So this
- 7:57Speaker 5: is a little bit ahead of myself, but it's for
- 7:59Speaker 5: Champ we win the Super Bowl. I was wondering what
- 8:02Speaker 5: the rule is on people who've been on the active roster.
- 8:07Speaker 5: In my head, it's three weeks, and I just think
- 8:09Speaker 5: about Trayvon Diggs and the fact that he got injured
- 8:11Speaker 5: after two weeks. So I was just wondering if that
- 8:14Speaker 5: does happen to any other team, does the person who
- 8:18Speaker 5: only gets two weeks on the team not get a
- 8:21Speaker 5: Super Bowl victory?
- 8:23Speaker 3: I guess super Bowl ring?
- 8:24Speaker 2: All right?
- 8:25Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know if it's a ring because I
- 8:26Speaker 5: feel like the team can give out extra rings if
- 8:29Speaker 5: they want to, right, yeah, but like officially on their stats.
- 8:35Speaker 3: Are you are you saying what I'm sorry, maybe I'm
- 8:38Speaker 3: not understanding. Are you saying if the Cowboys won the
- 8:40Speaker 3: Super Bowl? Are you asking does is Trayvon Diggs considered
- 8:43Speaker 3: a Super Bowl champion? Is that what you're asking?
- 8:46Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, by NFL standards.
- 8:50Speaker 3: Well that's a good question. Now let's let's get to
- 8:53Speaker 3: your random player. That was a random question. Let's get
- 8:56Speaker 3: to your random player.
- 8:57Speaker 5: I didn't thinking about that.
- 8:58Speaker 3: That's a good one. That's one.
- 9:00Speaker 5: My random player is John Phillips because I actually went
- 9:03Speaker 5: to school with some means the year below me, So
- 9:05Speaker 5: I had stories about.
- 9:07Speaker 3: Well, here's here's what I know. Yeah, yeah, a couple
- 9:10Speaker 3: of things about John Phillips, about a sixth round pick
- 9:12Speaker 3: from Virginia, maybe maybe seventh. Uh, the best player in
- 9:18Speaker 3: the two thousand and nine draft. He ended up having
- 9:20Speaker 3: the best career of anybody. And if that, if you're thinking, wow,
- 9:24Speaker 3: that's the best one, that must not have been a
- 9:25Speaker 3: great class. A correct, not a great class. Uh, he
- 9:29Speaker 3: was the best one. He's also the answer to a
- 9:32Speaker 3: trivia question. Do you know this Irene?
- 9:35Speaker 9: Oh?
- 9:36Speaker 5: I don't think I do as it an on side
- 9:38Speaker 5: kick return, I mean a.
- 9:40Speaker 3: No, that would be a good guess.
- 9:42Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 9:43Speaker 3: Now now now I'm getting now, I'm getting nervous that
- 9:46Speaker 3: maybe I'm wrong on this, but I believe I think
- 9:48Speaker 3: John Phillips is the first player to score a touchdown
- 9:54Speaker 3: in the playoffs at AT and T Stadium in any
- 9:58Speaker 3: playoff game. I think he scored the first touchdown. They
- 10:00Speaker 3: beat the Eagles that year. I think he got the
- 10:02Speaker 3: first one. Might have to do this fact checking on that,
- 10:04Speaker 3: but I know John Phillips is the answer to some question.
- 10:06Speaker 3: I think that's it. He scored the first playoff touchdown
- 10:10Speaker 3: at AT and T Stadium for the Cowboys. Not like
- 10:13Speaker 3: Alabama or somebody like that who's played. I'm talking about
- 10:15Speaker 3: the NFL. So all right, good stuff, good good questions.
- 10:19Speaker 3: Thanks for the call, Irene. And going back to the
- 10:22Speaker 3: question about like, does the NFL call you a Super
- 10:25Speaker 3: Bowl trip, Yes, I mean you yes, if you're on
- 10:27Speaker 3: the team, you played, you started what two games? Yeah,
- 10:32Speaker 3: you're you're I mean you're super Bowl champion. The difference is, though,
- 10:35Speaker 3: is that mostly no one really says that, No one
- 10:38Speaker 3: has records like that, except for quarterbacks. You know, they
- 10:42Speaker 3: don't really say that, you know, he's won two titles
- 10:46Speaker 3: or whatever. But if let's just say that Trayvon Diggs,
- 10:50Speaker 3: Let's say they won the Super Bowl and Trayvon Diggs,
- 10:53Speaker 3: they won it two years later, now I'm getting crazy here.
- 10:56Speaker 3: In his career he had you know, fifty interceptions in
- 11:00Speaker 3: eight Pro Bowls and two Super Bowl titles. Yeah, he
- 11:03Speaker 3: would be on there. He would be definitely considered for that.
- 11:06Speaker 3: I know, like Bill Bates, you know, considers himself a
- 11:09Speaker 3: three time champion. He missed one of the years. He
- 11:11Speaker 3: was out all season. So yeah, yeah, you're you're you're
- 11:13Speaker 3: a part of it, I think. So that's that's the case.
- 11:16Speaker 3: All right, let's go with Curtis in Oklahoma as our
- 11:22Speaker 3: next caller.
- 11:23Speaker 6: Curtis, Yes, sir, good morning.
- 11:26Speaker 3: How are you doing.
- 11:27Speaker 6: I'm excellent, man. I'm stubbing at our junior high today,
- 11:30Speaker 6: stubbing for science.
- 11:32Speaker 3: Subbing at a junior high. Yes, that makes me want
- 11:38Speaker 3: to just sweat right now. I mean just just being
- 11:40Speaker 3: the substitute teacher at a junior high. Is this a
- 11:43Speaker 3: good school? Good kids?
- 11:44Speaker 6: Oh yeah, they're a great group of kids.
- 11:46Speaker 3: Awesome all right, Science.
- 11:49Speaker 6: Yes, they're not not in Miama.
- 11:50Speaker 3: Though not Miami. Yeah that's where I'm from.
- 11:52Speaker 2: Miama.
- 11:53Speaker 3: Well, I tell you what, Yes, Science, I could sit here.
- 11:57Speaker 3: I could just sit here and talk football all day long.
- 12:00Speaker 3: I could talk old players, John Phillips, whatever, throw out
- 12:02Speaker 3: some trivia questions. Cool, but like teaching science to seventh
- 12:06Speaker 3: and eighth graders. Wow, yeah, I applaud you. I applaud you.
- 12:10Speaker 6: Man, all right, it's about like garden DK Metcalf.
- 12:14Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, about the same, about the same as that,
- 12:18Speaker 3: like almost impossible.
- 12:19Speaker 6: So yes, I'll just man, I just wanted to call
- 12:22Speaker 6: in and say how excited I am to get this opportunity.
- 12:27Speaker 6: The Eagles coming off a tough stretch and a physical
- 12:29Speaker 6: game against the forty nine ers and we get him
- 12:31Speaker 6: at home with the chance to tie the division. I mean,
- 12:34Speaker 6: I just think back to a couple of years ago,
- 12:36Speaker 6: where nine wins at this point you'd probably had it
- 12:39Speaker 6: wrapped up. But that's not our division these days. And
- 12:42Speaker 6: we've done everything. I mean, yeah, we had the one
- 12:44Speaker 6: loss against Arizona, but then to lose against San Francisco
- 12:47Speaker 6: and the forty nine ers, I'm sorry, San Francisco and
- 12:50Speaker 6: the Eagles, two of the more premium teams in the NFL.
- 12:54Speaker 6: I think we're right up there. When you look at
- 12:55Speaker 6: the standings, there's a huge drop off from five to
- 12:58Speaker 6: six man, and we'll get somebody from the South, you know,
- 13:01Speaker 6: if we don't win the division, so I'm just super
- 13:03Speaker 6: excited for all that, and I hope that they, you know,
- 13:06Speaker 6: carve a omni and seize this moment.
- 13:08Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly right, Uh sees sees everything is what is
- 13:12Speaker 3: what that that's saying, and that's what they're trying to do.
- 13:16Speaker 3: To go back on the first caller that Gary that
- 13:18Speaker 3: called about about McCarthy, you know, and he said that
- 13:21Speaker 3: you got to give McCarthy credit, and I agree, Uh,
- 13:23Speaker 3: you know, you do need to give them credit for
- 13:25Speaker 3: what they've done and how they they've gotten to this point.
- 13:29Speaker 3: And is it going to be good enough to beat
- 13:31Speaker 3: the Eagles?
- 13:32Speaker 10: Uh?
- 13:32Speaker 3: In the division? Is gonna be good enough to to
- 13:34Speaker 3: beat the forty nine ers? I mean, you know, nothing's
- 13:37Speaker 3: changed really as far as the last year to this
- 13:40Speaker 3: year on who's the three best teams. I mean, it
- 13:43Speaker 3: was San Francisco, phillyon Dallas all last year and it's
- 13:46Speaker 3: San Francisco, Philly Dallas this year. Detroit is is making
- 13:50Speaker 3: the case like, hey, you know what about us? And
- 13:53Speaker 3: rightfully so, I mean, they're they're really good. You know,
- 13:56Speaker 3: I saw a stat I was just looking at the standings,
- 13:59Speaker 3: not really stat. It's just the fact that I think
- 14:02Speaker 3: there's five teams in the league that are nine have
- 14:05Speaker 3: nine wins or more than nine and three or better.
- 14:08Speaker 3: The Cowboys are one of them, and then obviously the
- 14:11Speaker 3: forty nine ers are as well. And then the other
- 14:13Speaker 3: teams are Philly, Miami, and Detroit. Have you seen the
- 14:20Speaker 3: schedule lately, Philly, Miami, Detroit with Buffalo squeezed in there
- 14:26Speaker 3: as well. So we're gonna find out. I know you
- 14:29Speaker 3: guys know this, but I'm about this. I'm just saying,
- 14:31Speaker 3: we're gonna really really find out what this team has.
- 14:35Speaker 3: I think the Cowboys are really good. We know that
- 14:38Speaker 3: they are head and shoulders above bad teams and average teams.
- 14:43Speaker 3: Where do they, you know, rank against the really good ones?
- 14:46Speaker 3: And they're about to find them, you know, because they're
- 14:48Speaker 3: all sitting right here on the schedule. All right, let's
- 14:51Speaker 3: go to Dylan in Northport, Florida. Dylan's what's the secret?
- 14:56Speaker 3: I mean, the fans want to know, like, how do
- 14:57Speaker 3: you this is the third time that you've gotten in
- 15:00Speaker 3: this week and this is on the second show. What's
- 15:01Speaker 3: going on?
- 15:03Speaker 8: Just keep slamming that button, dude, until you get through.
- 15:06Speaker 3: That should be a drop right there. Just keep slamming
- 15:11Speaker 3: that button. Until you get through. I hope we're talking
- 15:14Speaker 3: about the same stuff. All right, Dylan, what's up?
- 15:16Speaker 2: Yeah? Man, uh yeah.
- 15:19Speaker 8: I need to retract a statement I made yesterday. I
- 15:22Speaker 8: said the Cowboys. So the Cowboys, I said, they're they're
- 15:25Speaker 8: looking good to win the division. I didn't realize that
- 15:28Speaker 8: the Eagles play the Cardinals down the road and that's
- 15:32Speaker 8: going to be the tiebreaker that that costs Dallas, assuming
- 15:36Speaker 8: Dallas beats Philly and then both teams went out at
- 15:38Speaker 8: that point. So I take that back. Cowboys probably won't
- 15:42Speaker 8: win the division unless Seattle steps up and does something
- 15:44Speaker 8: about it.
- 15:44Speaker 3: To Philadelphia, yeah's going to have to You're going to
- 15:48Speaker 3: have to fight it. You know, you're going to have
- 15:50Speaker 3: to beat them. And then even at that, even if
- 15:53Speaker 3: the Cowboys lose another game, that's going to be it's
- 16:00Speaker 3: going to be close. Because if the Cowboys lose another game,
- 16:03Speaker 3: and let's say that they take a one game lead,
- 16:06Speaker 3: because because they you know, they Eagles lose the Seattle,
- 16:08Speaker 3: but then the Cowboys maybe were to lose any of
- 16:11Speaker 3: those teams that they lose to, the Eagles have already
- 16:13Speaker 3: defeated ye. So you know, let's let's just say that
- 16:17Speaker 3: you know, the Cowboys have wins over the Jets and Seattle,
- 16:22Speaker 3: which would beat Philly, but then that they've lost to
- 16:25Speaker 3: the Cardinals and what Miami or Buffalo. Then then then
- 16:30Speaker 3: it goes back. I think it's going to go back
- 16:32Speaker 3: to NFC record. So I don't know.
- 16:35Speaker 8: Ye's like the fourth tier. It just gets crazier and crazier.
- 16:38Speaker 8: It's like exception, Yeah, going right.
- 16:41Speaker 3: I mean, your best bet is that somehow, some way,
- 16:46Speaker 3: like Saquon bark Clean, you know, just cold weather game, bad,
- 16:51Speaker 3: hard to throw, you know, he goes up there and
- 16:54Speaker 3: they win. Who I don't even believe that. I don't
- 16:57Speaker 3: even believe that. I can't even finish the sentence.
- 16:59Speaker 8: Okay, the the Italian Stallion to step up man and
- 17:03Speaker 8: have the game of his life. Although I think, isn't
- 17:04Speaker 8: their other quarterback coming back?
- 17:06Speaker 2: Don't?
- 17:06Speaker 8: I don't even know.
- 17:07Speaker 2: I thought.
- 17:07Speaker 3: I thought, yeah. But the Cardinals with Kyler Murray, I mean,
- 17:13Speaker 3: they seem like they're playing a little bit better. Hey, hey,
- 17:17Speaker 3: we're getting crazy, we're getting crazy.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Let's go.
- 17:19Speaker 3: Let's is a strange lady? Is strange lady?
- 17:24Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 17:24Speaker 8: And then Shack Leonard, dude, Yet Twitter is like blowing
- 17:28Speaker 8: up with with fans that are upset about Shack Leonard.
- 17:31Speaker 3: Though upset about what, upset about Jerry not signing them,
- 17:34Speaker 3: Upset about Shaq, upset.
- 17:36Speaker 8: Up with Jerry, Upset with Shacks for playing us. They think,
- 17:39Speaker 8: you know, he played the Cowboys. But I'm not even
- 17:41Speaker 8: that impressed with Shack Leonard. I watched film on him,
- 17:43Speaker 8: two hours of film Houston and Cleveland. But the guy
- 17:45Speaker 8: plays like Jalen Smith. His his injuries have cost him
- 17:49Speaker 8: any sort of lateral agility he can't cover, which I
- 17:52Speaker 8: don't think Dallas would have used in the car. But
- 17:53Speaker 8: Philadelphia is bringing him in to be like a key
- 17:56Speaker 8: piece in that middle because of injuries and whatnot, and
- 17:59Speaker 8: that he's more rotational player in Dallas. I think Dallas
- 18:02Speaker 8: is all right out linebacker. They're missing a big guy
- 18:04Speaker 8: that can, you know, stuff the run. But Shack's not
- 18:07Speaker 8: really that guy. He's like a Jalen Smith unfortunately at
- 18:10Speaker 8: this point. So I think it's a bigger name than
- 18:12Speaker 8: it is anything else. I don't think you need to
- 18:14Speaker 8: be upset.
- 18:15Speaker 3: You're definitely right about that. I mean, I think I
- 18:17Speaker 3: think it's the name, and it's not just his name,
- 18:20Speaker 3: but also the name. I mean I mean winter shack's
- 18:24Speaker 3: ever been bad, you know what I mean, You get
- 18:26Speaker 3: a Shack on your team, that's good. I think all
- 18:29Speaker 3: of it was, you know, it was just it was, Hey,
- 18:31Speaker 3: we need to need some linebacker help, need to get
- 18:33Speaker 3: this guy in here and make sure the Eagles don't
- 18:36Speaker 3: get them all that stuff. And the Eagles are probably
- 18:38Speaker 3: doing the same thing. You know, Like I said to
- 18:40Speaker 3: start the show, maybe he played the Cowboys, Maybe he
- 18:43Speaker 3: played the Eagles. You know, like honestly, just going to
- 18:47Speaker 3: the Cowboys knowing that there was never really a serious thing.
- 18:50Speaker 3: I think that they looked at it. But you know,
- 18:53Speaker 3: I talked to some people about it. Now, this guy's
- 18:55Speaker 3: got some serious injuries issues. Think about think about as
- 18:59Speaker 3: a player. It's a little bit older, you know, in
- 19:01Speaker 3: his career. What what are the three like different types
- 19:07Speaker 3: of injuries that seem to kind of be the biggest
- 19:10Speaker 3: problems for players. Knees being back two times two surgeries there,
- 19:18Speaker 3: and also head he's got like three or four concussions
- 19:21Speaker 3: as well, So he's got concussion history. He's got back issues,
- 19:25Speaker 3: he's got knee problems. Now again I'm not saying the
- 19:29Speaker 3: Cowboys didn't want him. I think it would have been
- 19:30Speaker 3: good to have him here. Not saying that, I'm just saying,
- 19:33Speaker 3: let's don't go crazy here. The Cowboys didn't. They looked
- 19:36Speaker 3: at it and they said, yeah, well, it'd be a
- 19:37Speaker 3: nice to have. This would be a nice to have.
- 19:39Speaker 3: Oh you want to go to the Eagles? Good luck
- 19:41Speaker 3: except for Sunday. You know. That's that's what it really
- 19:44Speaker 3: comes down to.
- 19:45Speaker 2: All Right.
- 19:46Speaker 3: Travis in San Antonio is next, Travis? What's up? What's up?
- 19:53Speaker 2: Travis? Hey, what's going on?
- 19:55Speaker 3: How are you doing?
- 19:56Speaker 11: I'm doing good?
- 19:57Speaker 3: Are you good?
- 19:58Speaker 2: Good?
- 19:59Speaker 3: It's on your mind?
- 20:00Speaker 11: Just a couple of things. I don't know if you saw.
- 20:03Speaker 11: And I don't watch Like I said, I don't watch
- 20:05Speaker 11: this kind of national media, but I just have to
- 20:06Speaker 11: see on Twitter x whatever you call it that Aaron
- 20:10Speaker 11: Rodgers kind of put out that, not setting aside my
- 20:13Speaker 11: personal feelings with him, but uh, it was cool to
- 20:15Speaker 11: see him kind of shout out dak uh Okay, Yeah,
- 20:20Speaker 11: he's you know, playing QB and the way he the
- 20:23Speaker 11: way he explained when he said playing QB, not just
- 20:26Speaker 11: throwing passes, because that's what I think a lot of
- 20:27Speaker 11: people see, is he just throw a quarterback explain well,
- 20:30Speaker 11: if he's just throwing passes but actually using here we
- 20:33Speaker 11: go and how it's used, dumb bulls off of it,
- 20:36Speaker 11: and you know, it's like a way to end communication,
- 20:39Speaker 11: tell the offensive line. Okay, let's go. So I think
- 20:42Speaker 11: it was cool, and I do think it probably with
- 20:44Speaker 11: the people that vote on it, it probably has helped
- 20:46Speaker 11: maybe a little bit on his MVP. Odd don't make
- 20:49Speaker 11: it hurts it. So that's one thing. And then I
- 20:52Speaker 11: know we talked about favorite Thanksgiving games now because of
- 20:56Speaker 11: Duran blap play. That's probably for a lot people probably do.
- 20:59Speaker 11: That's good, my my favorite for a while, just because
- 21:03Speaker 11: I think a lot of people have the same reaction
- 21:05Speaker 11: when he picked it off, as you know, people have
- 21:07Speaker 11: already explained it to you, like there's a lot of
- 21:09Speaker 11: people that I was with that didn't know what was
- 21:11Speaker 11: going on, Like why why was I so excited about
- 21:13Speaker 11: it right right to blowout?
- 21:15Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
- 21:19Speaker 10: And then this.
- 21:20Speaker 11: Week is we're starting to getting at that time of
- 21:23Speaker 11: the year where you know, little things, little things are
- 21:26Speaker 11: big things, is the way I always describe it. And
- 21:28Speaker 11: I know Mike McCarthy always talks about he doesn't mind
- 21:32Speaker 11: the penalty is necessarily post snap as long as they're
- 21:34Speaker 11: not too many of them. It's the ones pre snap.
- 21:37Speaker 11: And I do think if we're keeping it fair, I
- 21:40Speaker 11: do think maybe I don't know if DQ's addressed it
- 21:43Speaker 11: or not, but I do think maybe this week it
- 21:46Speaker 11: really has to be hampered on about not being like
- 21:49Speaker 11: lining up off sides.
- 21:51Speaker 2: That's the one thing.
- 21:52Speaker 11: It's just like I can't It's the easiest detail to
- 21:55Speaker 11: like look to your left or your right and go
- 21:57Speaker 11: am I own side and get with the officials say
- 21:59Speaker 11: what's the line? But those are the things this week
- 22:01Speaker 11: that I think, you know, it pops up at the
- 22:03Speaker 11: worst times in the game. So hopefully they play a
- 22:05Speaker 11: clean game as far as that goes. And I do
- 22:08Speaker 11: think we beat the Eagles and just have a great week.
- 22:10Speaker 3: All right, Thank you, Travis. Yeah, those offside penalties are
- 22:14Speaker 3: just a killer. You know, you understand, you know, getting
- 22:19Speaker 3: like the hard count you know, every now and again.
- 22:23Speaker 3: But man, I mean, you got you gotta stay on side,
- 22:26Speaker 3: I mean for sure, you know, and and and that's
- 22:29Speaker 3: that's a key. I mean, we talked about this yesterday.
- 22:32Speaker 3: Just the fact that you know, they already can get
- 22:34Speaker 3: a couple of yards anytime they want it. So you know,
- 22:37Speaker 3: don't don't give them five extra ones and make it
- 22:39Speaker 3: first and five on them or something like that. So
- 22:42Speaker 3: going back to what you said about Aaron Rodgers, Yeah,
- 22:44Speaker 3: I mean, Aaron, Aaron Rodgers is on that. I guess
- 22:47Speaker 3: it's that Pat McAfee show a lot and uh and
- 22:49Speaker 3: he gave Dak a lot of props and and uh
- 22:51Speaker 3: and and you know, and Travis detailed it out, I
- 22:54Speaker 3: mean exactly what he said. But I mean, yeah, it's
- 22:58Speaker 3: like it's almost like he's helped raise the bar, like, oh,
- 23:00Speaker 3: if Aaron Rodgers said it, Aaron Rodgers knows how to
- 23:04Speaker 3: play a quarterback, and he says that that Dak is
- 23:06Speaker 3: playing well, then he must be. It's sad that that
- 23:10Speaker 3: it takes that. But but yeah, but then again, there's
- 23:13Speaker 3: not many people in the world that know how to
- 23:16Speaker 3: play quarterback in the NFL at a high level, and
- 23:19Speaker 3: so they are their own little fraternity. And then when
- 23:23Speaker 3: they when they you know, when he understands what cadences
- 23:25Speaker 3: we were over here just saying, oh, here we go,
- 23:27Speaker 3: you know, thinking that's what that's what he's saying, you know,
- 23:30Speaker 3: just just you know, omaha, omaha, Red seven. I mean,
- 23:34Speaker 3: you're just working out stuff like that. Yeah, exactly, there
- 23:38Speaker 3: we go. But but yeah, I mean, and it was
- 23:41Speaker 3: nice to see that Aaron Rodgers said that, and it
- 23:43Speaker 3: probably changed some opinions about people that don't like Aaron Rodgers.
- 23:47Speaker 3: They're like, Okay, why does he have to be there?
- 23:49Speaker 2: You know?
- 23:49Speaker 3: But but it was it was a good thing to see,
- 23:52Speaker 3: and I'm glad that Dak got got those props for them.
- 23:55Speaker 3: All right, let's go to a next callers Josh in Chicago.
- 24:00Speaker 12: Pay Mick, how you doing today?
- 24:01Speaker 13: How are you doing doing well? I?
- 24:04Speaker 12: Uh, first thing I want to say is I bought
- 24:06Speaker 12: your book finally, and I love it. I think it's
- 24:08Speaker 12: an awesome read.
- 24:10Speaker 3: Thanks.
- 24:10Speaker 12: I was born in yes, sir, and I was born
- 24:12Speaker 12: in the nineties or in nineteen ninety, so I grew
- 24:15Speaker 12: up a Cowboys fan, but you know, didn't really have
- 24:17Speaker 12: the inside scoop until I started listening to the podcast
- 24:19Speaker 12: and to kind of go back and read through some
- 24:21Speaker 12: of that history.
- 24:22Speaker 3: It's just been great, awesome. If these walls could talk,
- 24:25Speaker 3: I think that's the one that you're talking about. If
- 24:27Speaker 3: it is, yeah, well I appreciate that. And uh, you know,
- 24:30Speaker 3: I wrote that book almost it's almost ten years ago
- 24:33Speaker 3: and I still I still get a little little check
- 24:36Speaker 3: every now and again, not much, but a little little
- 24:38Speaker 3: royalty check. People still buy it. And you know, I'm
- 24:41Speaker 3: actually going to bring some books. We're gonna have a
- 24:43Speaker 3: book review one day on the show. I'm going to
- 24:46Speaker 3: bring in some of my favorite books, some of my
- 24:47Speaker 3: friends that have written some books. Of course I've got
- 24:51Speaker 3: four you know that could put on there as well.
- 24:54Speaker 3: So one day I'm gonna I'm gonna bring some books
- 24:56Speaker 3: in here, show them to the camera, maybe maybe some
- 24:58Speaker 3: Christmas ideas if you want, and you know, and kind
- 25:01Speaker 3: of also give a shout out to some of my
- 25:03Speaker 3: friends that have written some some are here recently, have
- 25:06Speaker 3: some books that are out there. So thank you for
- 25:08Speaker 3: saying that. Sorry, what's on your mind, Josh?
- 25:10Speaker 12: Yeah, So the thing I just got to say is,
- 25:12Speaker 12: I think the key to this week is going to
- 25:13Speaker 12: be getting Brandon Coachs involved. Obviously, the first time they played,
- 25:16Speaker 12: he didn't do much, and over the past couple of
- 25:18Speaker 12: weeks they've been using him more. So hopefully we see
- 25:21Speaker 12: more Brandon Coachs and I think that that's going to
- 25:22Speaker 12: be really the key to beating the Eagles this time.
- 25:24Speaker 14: Around.
- 25:25Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, I think that's a that's a different, different
- 25:28Speaker 3: level than than we've seen before against the Eagles. You're
- 25:32Speaker 3: right about that. He's starting to play a lot better.
- 25:35Speaker 10: You know.
- 25:35Speaker 3: Ferguson seems to play really well against the Eagles too.
- 25:39Speaker 3: That's that's kind of his coming out party last year
- 25:41Speaker 3: was against Philly, and he had a nice game in
- 25:44Speaker 3: this one as well. And Tolbert made some plays in
- 25:46Speaker 3: this game against Philly. But but you're right, spreading them around,
- 25:50Speaker 3: giving more options. You know, Cooks was wide open for
- 25:53Speaker 3: that pass they threw the schoon maker that got tackled
- 25:56Speaker 3: on the one inch line. You know, Cooks a nice
- 25:59Speaker 3: play at the goal line. I don't know if Dak
- 26:01Speaker 3: had enough time to get him the ball, but but
- 26:03Speaker 3: you know, so they've they've gotten Cooks open. They just
- 26:07Speaker 3: got to get them the ball.
- 26:08Speaker 12: I agree, Thanks call, Thank.
- 26:10Speaker 3: You appreciate it. Josh. All right, good stuff there. Let's
- 26:14Speaker 3: go to coach Tyrone in Washington, d C. Coach Tyrone.
- 26:19Speaker 2: Yeah, what's going on? How you doing?
- 26:22Speaker 3: I'm doing good? I have a feeling nobody are you
- 26:26Speaker 3: a coach right now?
- 26:28Speaker 2: Yes? I am sure?
- 26:29Speaker 3: Does anybody give you any crap? The kids the kids.
- 26:35Speaker 2: They talk back, Oh, man, hey, look I'm in south.
- 26:40Speaker 3: About what what? What grade are you? What grade are
- 26:43Speaker 3: you teaching them?
- 26:44Speaker 2: I teach middletool, So I'm a healthy teacher six sixty eight.
- 26:49Speaker 3: That's the coach. That's the second coach or a substitute
- 26:53Speaker 3: teacher for middle school. Man, I couldn't do it. I
- 26:55Speaker 3: couldn't do it at all. I applaud you.
- 26:59Speaker 2: I've been doing a thing, is man, so and and
- 27:02Speaker 2: only middle school? So I mean I'm ingrained into it.
- 27:05Speaker 2: So it's what it is.
- 27:07Speaker 3: I don't mean that as a joke. I applaud what
- 27:11Speaker 3: you guys do. Uh seriously. I mean there's there's some
- 27:14Speaker 3: people that are just not cut out for it. And
- 27:16Speaker 3: where would we be if we didn't have the coaches
- 27:18Speaker 3: and the teachers? Uh and so I mean that sincerely.
- 27:21Speaker 3: I applaud with what you do. What I'm doing is easy.
- 27:24Speaker 3: This is easy stuff like that. But maybe it gives
- 27:26Speaker 3: you a little bit of a break from that we
- 27:27Speaker 3: can talk football for a second.
- 27:29Speaker 2: Absolutely, I appreciate it. Next, thank you, man, career quit it.
- 27:32Speaker 2: I really really appreciate it.
- 27:34Speaker 3: No problem.
- 27:34Speaker 2: What do you got a couple of a couple of
- 27:35Speaker 2: things real quick man. So the running game, why did
- 27:40Speaker 2: he give Tony pollack? You Elliott run and we go
- 27:44Speaker 2: down Tony. I'm trying to figure that out, like we
- 27:48Speaker 2: don't get to the edge with politic, which where we
- 27:51Speaker 2: will be more successful getting outside and allowing the offensive
- 27:56Speaker 2: line to move as well, pulling and whatnot, because we're
- 27:59Speaker 2: athletic offensive line, not a physical, going in front of
- 28:03Speaker 2: your face offensive line. So I don't understand that, and
- 28:07Speaker 2: I think that would help the the running game become
- 28:12Speaker 2: tremendously better because Rico dalla to get in the game
- 28:17Speaker 2: and then we're going to pitch out. We're doing we're
- 28:20Speaker 2: doing the talk sweeps, we're doing all the day and
- 28:23Speaker 2: those are what Tony, uh what Tony excelled it last year.
- 28:30Speaker 3: So you're not wrong there, You're not wrong. And I
- 28:33Speaker 3: don't know if I have a great answer. I hope
- 28:38Speaker 3: it's not just politics. I hope it's not a well,
- 28:41Speaker 3: this is the guy that's our franchise tag player and
- 28:43Speaker 3: Pro Bowl ten million a year. We've got jerseys in
- 28:46Speaker 3: the pro shop. He starts and this is the guy
- 28:49Speaker 3: comes in. He's the backup. Because you're right, from the
- 28:52Speaker 3: role standpoint, it seems like it would be better if
- 28:55Speaker 3: Rico was probably the starter, and then the change of
- 28:59Speaker 3: pay pay back would be Pollard, and you change the
- 29:02Speaker 3: pace a lot sooner than you would in other cases.
- 29:05Speaker 3: But I don't have a great answer for it.
- 29:09Speaker 2: It's not it's just the fact of what runs you're given.
- 29:13Speaker 3: I get it, I know what you're saying. But but
- 29:15Speaker 3: but usually those type of runs are the ones that
- 29:17Speaker 3: set things up. You know, you you set things up,
- 29:20Speaker 3: you set up your your play action, you set up
- 29:22Speaker 3: I mean, you know, they they can run the ball
- 29:24Speaker 3: up the middle. You know, fairly decent. It's not great,
- 29:29Speaker 3: but it's not terrible. You've seen some some runs up
- 29:32Speaker 3: the middle. But but I I hear what you're saying.
- 29:34Speaker 3: I'm just taking it to the next level of this
- 29:36Speaker 3: is kind of the types of runs you see early
- 29:39Speaker 3: in the game. I I don't have a great answer
- 29:42Speaker 3: for you there. It seems a little backwards to me.
- 29:45Speaker 3: I think Tony Pollard is a solid, solid number two
- 29:49Speaker 3: back they just.
- 29:53Speaker 2: Tony get better. He does run better in the second
- 29:57Speaker 2: half as opposed to the perfect. So I guess those
- 30:01Speaker 2: run I guess those runs all are building up to something. However,
- 30:07Speaker 2: just just get him to the age man. Let's let
- 30:10Speaker 2: the man do.
- 30:10Speaker 10: What he does.
- 30:12Speaker 3: What else you got?
- 30:13Speaker 2: And then my last thing is you had you had
- 30:15Speaker 2: a question in the beginning of your show about if
- 30:19Speaker 2: there was a play that you could take back and
- 30:23Speaker 2: and if if it could have propelled us to somewhere different.
- 30:27Speaker 2: So the play that I had and the one that
- 30:30Speaker 2: sticks in my mind the most, Patrick Creates two thousand
- 30:35Speaker 2: and seven. Yeah, this slant that he dropped against the judge. Yeah,
- 30:45Speaker 2: I don't know what the score. I mean, I don't
- 30:47Speaker 2: know what the time was in the game.
- 30:50Speaker 3: However, it's about it was about.
- 30:53Speaker 2: If he catches that nobody catches him.
- 30:55Speaker 3: It's about three or four minutes to go in the
- 30:57Speaker 3: third quarter, and I think the cow were winning at
- 31:01Speaker 3: the time by like three or four and and it
- 31:05Speaker 3: was you know, it was about the ten man about
- 31:07Speaker 3: the twenty yard line and he was going to be
- 31:09Speaker 3: third down. He caught, he would have catched it, you know,
- 31:12Speaker 3: Patrick Creighton, he wasn't the speedster. I don't think he scores.
- 31:17Speaker 3: I think he gets about forty to fifty yards, flips
- 31:19Speaker 3: the field, changes things that the Cowboys probably go down
- 31:22Speaker 3: and score. But yeah, that was That's a killer and
- 31:25Speaker 3: that that made the list.
- 31:27Speaker 2: And it was the killer because he was so sure.
- 31:30Speaker 3: And that's that is what that is what sucks about
- 31:35Speaker 3: about certain players like that they remembered for a play
- 31:40Speaker 3: that goes against what they really were. Think about the
- 31:43Speaker 3: Seattle game with Romo dropping the snap, you know, like
- 31:48Speaker 3: Romo was actually great in the fourth quarter. Hey he
- 31:50Speaker 3: had one of the highest rated quarterback ratings ever in
- 31:54Speaker 3: fourth quarters, but he's known for a guy that I
- 31:57Speaker 3: couldn't get it done and maybe some fourth quarter interceptions
- 31:59Speaker 3: and things like that, but you know, he was clutched.
- 32:02Speaker 13: Same with Creighton three.
- 32:06Speaker 2: Zone.
- 32:07Speaker 3: That was a bad place that. Yeah, that was a
- 32:09Speaker 3: bad yeah, bad sequence there. Yeah, a lot of plays
- 32:14Speaker 3: like that.
- 32:15Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 32:15Speaker 3: I can tell you're not over it either, So that's okay,
- 32:19Speaker 3: that's okay. I still think Dion should have been called
- 32:21Speaker 3: for past interference against Michael Erian in nineteen ninety five.
- 32:24Speaker 3: I mean it happens like them, we all think that
- 32:26Speaker 3: four sorry ninety four. Yeah, all right, good stuff, appreciate that,
- 32:32Speaker 3: thank you. Yeah that that topic came up a while
- 32:35Speaker 3: ago about just just what what's the one play you
- 32:38Speaker 3: wish you had back in what Creighton's name got mentioned?
- 32:40Speaker 3: A lot of Dion's name, Dwight Clark. Catch that kind
- 32:44Speaker 3: of stuff. All right, we need to take a break
- 32:46Speaker 3: real quick on Cowboys Storyline'll be right back. We got
- 32:48Speaker 3: more calls to take here, be right back.
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- 34:52Speaker 1: Back to Cowboys storyline.
- 34:58Speaker 3: All right, got a few more minutes here, we're going
- 35:00Speaker 3: to take some go back to the phone lines. Here.
- 35:02Speaker 3: We've got Bobby. He's in Rochester, New York. Bobby, what's up?
- 35:07Speaker 10: Good morning, Nick, Good morning.
- 35:08Speaker 3: How are you?
- 35:09Speaker 10: I'm fine?
- 35:10Speaker 2: How are you?
- 35:10Speaker 3: I'm good?
- 35:11Speaker 10: So thanks for this is my first time calling in
- 35:13Speaker 10: so thanks for taking my call. So I got a
- 35:16Speaker 10: couple of points.
- 35:17Speaker 3: One sorry, sorry, okay, Chris, I gotta wait now Chris
- 35:22Speaker 3: was laid on the button there. Sorry, Okay, it's okay. So,
- 35:25Speaker 3: first time calling. Thanks Bobby. What do you got?
- 35:27Speaker 14: So?
- 35:27Speaker 10: I had a couple of points here I want to
- 35:29Speaker 10: make and I guess I want to start with the
- 35:31Speaker 10: idea that I'm a Turner Cowboy fan, and I think
- 35:33Speaker 10: we have a chance of beating the Eagles, But I
- 35:36Speaker 10: just don't think the Cowboys on the same level as
- 35:39Speaker 10: the forty nine ers. I think the fire nine ers
- 35:41Speaker 10: have shown over the past three meetings that they at
- 35:44Speaker 10: a slightly level, at a level slightly ahead of the Cowboys.
- 35:48Speaker 10: I think Census go at the players and the scheme,
- 35:51Speaker 10: especially offensively, to counteract the Cowboys defensive coordinator and their scheme.
- 35:59Speaker 10: I think the the foury nine ers just have tough
- 36:03Speaker 10: players on offense. You Samuels, mccaffort, the Kittles pretty and
- 36:08Speaker 10: I just think the Cowboys need another d line player
- 36:11Speaker 10: that can compliment Parsons. It just seems like if he
- 36:13Speaker 10: doesn't get there, there's gonna be a completion or are
- 36:18Speaker 10: they gonna, you know, get a first down. I think
- 36:21Speaker 10: the Cowboys still have two major weaknesses pendless and they
- 36:26Speaker 10: can't stop the run. Those are not new issues. Those
- 36:30Speaker 10: have been issues for several years and they haven't been
- 36:33Speaker 10: able to correct them. I'm not sure they can correct them.
- 36:37Speaker 10: I think those things are seemed to be a part
- 36:39Speaker 10: of the Cowboys DNA. Okay, well, my one last point.
- 36:44Speaker 10: When the season began, I think I thought that the
- 36:48Speaker 10: Cowboys defense was dynamic and that the offense was average.
- 36:54Speaker 10: Now that the season is coming toward the end, I
- 36:56Speaker 10: think it's just a big voice. I think the offense
- 36:59Speaker 10: is playing better, but the defense is struggling. They can't
- 37:04Speaker 10: get off the field on third down. It could be
- 37:05Speaker 10: third and thirteen and they give up a first down.
- 37:09Speaker 10: They are going to beat the forty nine ers letting
- 37:12Speaker 10: that happen. So I guess I'm very concerned about how
- 37:16Speaker 10: far we can go in the playoffs this year. I
- 37:18Speaker 10: think we have a chance of beating the Eagles, but
- 37:21Speaker 10: they're going to play better than they did the last time. Right,
- 37:24Speaker 10: So those of my comments, and I'll listen to what
- 37:28Speaker 10: you have to say to me.
- 37:29Speaker 3: Thanks, Bobby, I appreciate that. You know, I mean one
- 37:33Speaker 3: thing I would say. I mean, I mean, we all
- 37:35Speaker 3: thought that the defense was going to be very, very dynamic,
- 37:39Speaker 3: especially after the first game or two, and then you
- 37:42Speaker 3: know what happened. I mean, I'm sorry. I don't live
- 37:46Speaker 3: in a world where you know it's not an excuse.
- 37:49Speaker 3: I just live in facts. In reality, you can't lose
- 37:52Speaker 3: an all pro cornerback and expect there to be no change.
- 37:55Speaker 3: They got not lucky because dron Bland has been really good.
- 37:58Speaker 3: But I mean, I don't think we expected Drawn Bland
- 38:01Speaker 3: to play at this level, but he was still gonna
- 38:03Speaker 3: play a lot. I mean, you they they lost Trayvon
- 38:07Speaker 3: Diggs and that has hurt them like that. They still
- 38:11Speaker 3: need that, They still need him. Even though Gilmore has
- 38:13Speaker 3: been pretty good, Bland's been really good. You still need
- 38:16Speaker 3: Look at you just named off six weapons for the
- 38:19Speaker 3: forty nine ers. I mean, how do you cover them all?
- 38:21Speaker 3: That's that's the problem that they have, and so that's
- 38:25Speaker 3: been a big issue that they're still kind of fighting
- 38:27Speaker 3: through that. But yeah, penalties, penalties that they you know,
- 38:31Speaker 3: just self inflicted penalties. Really that's that's a problem. And
- 38:36Speaker 3: you know we knew going into this. I mean the
- 38:39Speaker 3: forty nine Ers and the Eagles and the Cowboys were
- 38:41Speaker 3: the three best teams. I think the Cowboys were, you know,
- 38:44Speaker 3: third in that list based off of last year. They
- 38:47Speaker 3: had to figure out to be better, and both these
- 38:49Speaker 3: other two teams are still right up there. I don't
- 38:51Speaker 3: know if we've seen so far that the Cowboys are better.
- 38:54Speaker 3: They haven't shown that they're better than those two teams
- 38:56Speaker 3: because they haven't beaten them. In fact, they haven't beaten
- 38:58Speaker 3: anybody that was really really good.
- 39:00Speaker 10: Good.
- 39:00Speaker 3: But like we said before, they're about to find out.
- 39:02Speaker 3: We're going to figure that out here in the next
- 39:05Speaker 3: few weeks of the season. All right, Ali in Florida
- 39:08Speaker 3: is next? Ali?
- 39:10Speaker 7: Good morning, next? Pretty good, sir. I would love the
- 39:16Speaker 7: book idea. I have your books, and I was hoping
- 39:21Speaker 7: maybe if you could write the book about behind the
- 39:25Speaker 7: scene on NFL drafted the Cowboys. You know, I love
- 39:30Speaker 7: the draft. Draft is so fascinating, just as good as
- 39:33Speaker 7: the Super Bowl, you know. But a couple of things.
- 39:37Speaker 7: I think this is my personal opinion. I think Shaq
- 39:42Speaker 7: played the Cowboys. They already he already knew which team
- 39:47Speaker 7: he's gonna go to. But it's okay, no big deal.
- 39:52Speaker 7: But I have a player for you, I tell you,
- 39:55Speaker 7: a god of information. Let's see if we get this one.
- 40:00Speaker 3: Billy Kennon, junior, Texas A and M first round pick
- 40:07Speaker 3: in eighty four, eighty four, I'm a seven. Yeah, and
- 40:13Speaker 3: he hurt his neck, I believe, and never really played,
- 40:18Speaker 3: never never really played. I think his dad was a big,
- 40:20Speaker 3: big time player at A and M. But yeah, just
- 40:22Speaker 3: just one of those eighties players that just kind of,
- 40:25Speaker 3: you know, got got caught up with an injury and
- 40:28Speaker 3: never really get a chance to make it. That's all
- 40:30Speaker 3: I really remember. I don't think he played a whole lot.
- 40:35Speaker 7: I think he got injured on the Sunday night game
- 40:39Speaker 7: versus Saint He doled in the goal line. Oh and
- 40:46Speaker 7: I think it's a running back and I hate those
- 40:49Speaker 7: going over the top. Oh yeah, those Cowboys, they dive
- 40:54Speaker 7: us so high on him and he never played again.
- 40:59Speaker 3: You know, well, that Saints game in eighty four Sunday
- 41:03Speaker 3: Night game, that's one of the greatest comebacks I think
- 41:05Speaker 3: in Cowboy history.
- 41:06Speaker 13: Right, yeah, that was my next question.
- 41:09Speaker 3: Oh okay, sorry, sorry, So do you remember?
- 41:13Speaker 7: I'm sure you too. Yes, the last play of the game,
- 41:20Speaker 7: we were I believe they were done, like twenty one
- 41:23Speaker 7: point on the eight minutes left in the fourth quarter.
- 41:28Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 41:29Speaker 7: And then the last play a game it wasn't score
- 41:37Speaker 7: by offense, actually it was like defense. Who was that player?
- 41:42Speaker 3: Well, well, it was the game with they were down seven.
- 41:45Speaker 3: I think I don't remember the quarterback. I don't know
- 41:47Speaker 3: it was Stabler. I don't know if it was him
- 41:50Speaker 3: with the Saints, but he he was sacked in the
- 41:52Speaker 3: end zone by I think Randy White. And then Jim Jeffcoat,
- 41:56Speaker 3: Jeff Coat got him for a touchdown to and he
- 42:00Speaker 3: got you know, Jeff crab had four touchdowns career. Tied
- 42:03Speaker 3: the game. And then they go to overtime and they win,
- 42:05Speaker 3: and I think they won thirty to twenty seven. But
- 42:07Speaker 3: I'll tell you earlier in that fourth quarter, they blocked
- 42:10Speaker 3: a punt by a running back. This is this is
- 42:12Speaker 3: old school as it gets. Chuck McSwain blocked a punt
- 42:17Speaker 3: to get them back in that game, and the and
- 42:19Speaker 3: the Cowboys. The Cowboys ended up winning against the Saints
- 42:23Speaker 3: thirty to twenty seven. But I did not realize that
- 42:25Speaker 3: was the game that Billy Cannon Junior got hurt because
- 42:28Speaker 3: he only played one year. So you're you're probably right
- 42:30Speaker 3: about that.
- 42:31Speaker 7: Yeah, because I remember the Cowboys they were so high
- 42:36Speaker 7: on him and they were talking about his dad. You
- 42:40Speaker 7: know those days we always lack of linebackers. Yeah, and
- 42:44Speaker 7: they tried to replace and and they just like they
- 42:49Speaker 7: just missed the linebackers.
- 42:51Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 42:51Speaker 7: Always you know. But but thank you, sir for the show.
- 42:55Speaker 7: I listened to it if I'm not calling, you know,
- 42:57Speaker 7: always listen every single night.
- 43:00Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, thank you.
- 43:02Speaker 13: Life is signed.
- 43:03Speaker 7: You know, it's just like the way we unhappy when
- 43:06Speaker 7: then when we get Saden in.
- 43:08Speaker 3: The news, you know, right, all right, thank you, I
- 43:13Speaker 3: swear I think I think, Olie, we could we could
- 43:16Speaker 3: sit and just talk cowboys for a while. He knows
- 43:18Speaker 3: this stuff. He goes back along ways to a lot
- 43:21Speaker 3: of detail. He's always throwing some good trivia questions at
- 43:25Speaker 3: me as well. Every time he calls. I'm like, oh man,
- 43:27Speaker 3: this is the one he's gonna get me. Uh but
- 43:29Speaker 3: but didn't on that one. That's good. That was that
- 43:32Speaker 3: was a good question though, Billy Cannon. It's hard to
- 43:36Speaker 3: I mean, that's a throwback right there.
- 43:38Speaker 10: All right.
- 43:39Speaker 3: We got Tony in Atlanta as our next caller. Tony,
- 43:45Speaker 3: all right, yeah, man, I'm good.
- 43:47Speaker 13: How about yourself, I'm good. Many good to visit with
- 43:50Speaker 13: you as always, So I just want to chat with you,
- 43:54Speaker 13: you know, over the course of the year, I mean,
- 43:57Speaker 13: going back to the beginning of the year. One of
- 43:59Speaker 13: the last college to mention one of them. But there
- 44:01Speaker 13: have been, you know a lot of narratives that have
- 44:03Speaker 13: kind of come up and you know, talked about on
- 44:08Speaker 13: you know, y'all's airways and you know, most local airways
- 44:11Speaker 13: as well, that have you know, at times kind of
- 44:14Speaker 13: fizzled out. I mean like generational defense. First couple of weeks, man,
- 44:20Speaker 13: it was like, oh, eighty five beggars, you know, Ravens,
- 44:23Speaker 13: you know, and stuff like that, and then the Cardinals
- 44:25Speaker 13: happened and forty nine has happened, Like okay, we can.
- 44:28Speaker 2: Put that to bed.
- 44:29Speaker 13: Then you know, of course, now this won't haven't been
- 44:31Speaker 13: squashed as much, but like Micael's Defensive Player of the
- 44:34Speaker 13: Year and things like that, you know, it's not squashed.
- 44:37Speaker 13: I mean, he's always going to be in the running,
- 44:38Speaker 13: but of course he gets triple team and double team
- 44:40Speaker 13: doesn't get enough sacks and things like that. Then we
- 44:43Speaker 13: had Bland, this defensive Player of the Year. That was
- 44:46Speaker 13: a big talking point for a couple of weeks, and
- 44:49Speaker 13: you know, I wouldn't say it squashed a man these
- 44:51Speaker 13: last couple of weeks, you know, unless he you know,
- 44:54Speaker 13: has about another two or three more pick sixes, that
- 44:57Speaker 13: one might be put to bed. And now the latest
- 45:00Speaker 13: was dak is MVP, and you know, I'm not disputing
- 45:05Speaker 13: that he should be in the running, but it's just
- 45:08Speaker 13: is being talked about.
- 45:09Speaker 2: So much, just like those other narratives that we.
- 45:12Speaker 13: Had that it's just like, oh gosh, I mean, I
- 45:16Speaker 13: don't want to. I just hate to see it come
- 45:18Speaker 13: crashing down, just like those others you know kind of have,
- 45:22Speaker 13: you know. But it's I mean, I don't see anything
- 45:24Speaker 13: that's trending in that direction. But of course, this gauntlet
- 45:28Speaker 13: that we have over the next three weeks, you know,
- 45:30Speaker 13: could kind of put a hitch in that. So I
- 45:33Speaker 13: don't want to kind of get your thought.
- 45:35Speaker 3: What are you saying, though, Tony? What are you saying?
- 45:37Speaker 3: Are you saying that we talk too much?
- 45:39Speaker 10: Like?
- 45:40Speaker 3: No, I mean I say that because it's like I'm
- 45:44Speaker 3: looking to hear at this cheat or paper that I have.
- 45:46Speaker 3: This is the next podcast I see talking Cowboys storyline,
- 45:50Speaker 3: the break, mix shots, hanging with the Boys, players, lounge media,
- 45:53Speaker 3: mash Girls Talk, Boys Talk. We do this every day.
- 45:56Speaker 3: We talked for forty five minutes to an hour every
- 45:58Speaker 3: single day. So those are the narratives, you know, And
- 46:01Speaker 3: I know you're not just talking about us, You're talking
- 46:03Speaker 3: about all the national stuff. But like that, I'm looking
- 46:05Speaker 3: at a show, you know, Good Morning Football, steven A. Smith,
- 46:08Speaker 3: They got their shows, Like that's all we do. We
- 46:11Speaker 3: talk about stuff, and you know what you're right. One
- 46:13Speaker 3: minute it's this and then it changes to that, and
- 46:17Speaker 3: you're you're right. I mean, it's funny if you go
- 46:19Speaker 3: back and people like, what are they saying now keeping receipts?
- 46:22Speaker 3: If you kept receipts on all that and throw it
- 46:24Speaker 3: out there. Yeah, people look stupid all the time, but
- 46:26Speaker 3: they just move on to something else.
- 46:30Speaker 13: And put a record. Man, I love this plate of content.
- 46:33Speaker 2: Man, thank you.
- 46:34Speaker 11: I love it.
- 46:35Speaker 13: I love it. I've loved it for gosh, as long
- 46:38Speaker 13: as you've been there and Derek have been there even
- 46:40Speaker 13: longer than that. I mean, nicky, you know I've been
- 46:43Speaker 13: you know, I kind of I've been raised on you guys. Man,
- 46:45Speaker 13: I know you feel old about me saying that. You
- 46:48Speaker 13: know I've been kind of raised on you guys. But
- 46:50Speaker 13: that being said, one other quick little thing, kind of
- 46:53Speaker 13: a memorable, low key old game that just happened to
- 46:57Speaker 13: be a loss. That's just memorable for me. That ninety
- 47:00Speaker 13: two season, the first super Bowl you know, of the
- 47:02Speaker 13: three and four years, ninety two at Washington towards the
- 47:08Speaker 13: end of the year. Course we ended up losing that game,
- 47:11Speaker 13: but at the last game we lost that season, and
- 47:13Speaker 13: that game is memorable to me. Because I'm watching it.
- 47:17Speaker 13: You know, Washington won the Super Bowl the year before.
- 47:20Speaker 13: You know, we're kicking it butt like in the first half,
- 47:22Speaker 13: but then the second half they just kind of shipped away,
- 47:25Speaker 13: shipped away. We had turnovers here and there. Michael Irvin fumble.
- 47:30Speaker 13: I don't know if you remember Troy in the end
- 47:33Speaker 13: zone the end zone, Yeah, and the ball falling out
- 47:36Speaker 13: and it picked it up trying to throw it out of.
- 47:38Speaker 2: The end zone.
- 47:38Speaker 3: That was the craziest play.
- 47:40Speaker 13: Yeah, craziest play ever.
- 47:41Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 47:42Speaker 13: The story that I've heard is on the plane ride home,
- 47:46Speaker 13: Jimmy like didn't feed them or serving food or anything
- 47:49Speaker 13: like that.
- 47:50Speaker 2: Yeah, they were I.
- 47:52Speaker 3: Thought Nate Newton. I really thought Nate Newton was going
- 47:56Speaker 3: to join us here in these last ten minutes. And
- 47:58Speaker 3: I wish he was here for this because he was
- 48:01Speaker 3: on the he was obviously on the plane.
- 48:04Speaker 2: Uh.
- 48:04Speaker 3: There was something about a backup lineman, Frank Cornish that
- 48:07Speaker 3: got just cussed out by Jimmy that that really rubbed
- 48:10Speaker 3: ak been wrong because you know, he's a really good
- 48:13Speaker 3: guy and and and you know they were mad about that,
- 48:16Speaker 3: just the way that Jimmy kind of treated him on
- 48:18Speaker 3: that game. And but you know, like you said, they
- 48:22Speaker 3: didn't lose another one. And I'm not sure what the
- 48:24Speaker 3: today's rules. I don't know what that that play you're
- 48:28Speaker 3: talking about with Aikman, I mean kind of looked like
- 48:30Speaker 3: his hand was going forward and the ball, yeahmet threw
- 48:34Speaker 3: it back. I mean it was it was crazy. There
- 48:36Speaker 3: was a half There was a half back pass in
- 48:39Speaker 3: that game. Washington scored on a half back pass in
- 48:42Speaker 3: that game, Uh too, Ernest Byner to Terry Orr, I
- 48:46Speaker 3: believe so. Yeah, that that was a tough loss. But
- 48:49Speaker 3: like you said, they didn't lose again. And and and
- 48:51Speaker 3: that's those teams found a way to take a loss
- 48:54Speaker 3: like that and turn it and let's be let's be
- 48:57Speaker 3: fair about it. And and Nate and I will will
- 49:00Speaker 3: argue again, we were gonna argue all day about moral
- 49:02Speaker 3: victories and stuff like that. When the Philly game, you know,
- 49:05Speaker 3: the one, there were some positives to take from that game.
- 49:09Speaker 3: And and is this the reason why they won four
- 49:12Speaker 3: in a row? I don't know. Is it or maybe
- 49:14Speaker 3: that they've just played bad teams, but they have they
- 49:18Speaker 3: have found a way to this team also figures out
- 49:20Speaker 3: a way to take the good if there is some
- 49:22Speaker 3: from a loss and build on it, build on it
- 49:25Speaker 3: in practice, get better, get your mind right, and go
- 49:27Speaker 3: win win some games.
- 49:28Speaker 13: That's right, that's right.
- 49:29Speaker 2: And they've done it.
- 49:30Speaker 3: They've done it.
- 49:31Speaker 13: They in that game. I don't know if you remember
- 49:33Speaker 13: when Nate was in with you a few weeks ago,
- 49:35Speaker 13: I asked him about jumping together. Oh yeah, okay in
- 49:38Speaker 13: that game and that yeah, they fought like like yeah
- 49:41Speaker 13: that game. But hey, thanks Nick, I appreciate you all.
- 49:44Speaker 3: Good call Man, good call Tony in Atlanta. All right,
- 49:47Speaker 3: that is gonna do it today. We got to double digits,
- 49:50Speaker 3: we got to ten, a lot of a lot of
- 49:52Speaker 3: good stuff. Good question. You guys are on it today.
- 49:55Speaker 10: Uh.
- 49:55Speaker 3: I talked a little about Shaq Leonard, not too worried
- 49:58Speaker 3: about that. We'll see him u this week and we'll
- 50:01Speaker 3: talk about the Cowboys and Eagles here coming up here
- 50:04Speaker 3: on the next few days. So for Chris Beam, I'm
- 50:06Speaker 3: Nick Eatman. We will see you tomorrow on Cowboys Storyline.
- 50:09Speaker 10: See you.
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