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Cowboys StoryLine: The Aftermath · Cowboys StoryLine

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  Speaker 1: This is Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette, the official shave
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Let's do this. Let's talk about this. We
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  Speaker 2: know the drill. This is Cowboy Storyline presented by Gillette.
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  Speaker 2: We know the day, Monday, September 28th. And we know
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  Speaker 2: what happened. Cowboys lose to the Ravens in Rio. I've
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  Speaker 2: been flying all night. I know this is, I think,
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  Speaker 2: the third podcast. Chris Beam's done a great job. People
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  Speaker 2: have been on here and already talking about it. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do this, all right? We're going to...
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  Speaker 2: we're not going to sit and rant all day. Like,
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  Speaker 2: just get your points in. We're going to try to
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  Speaker 2: get as many people as we can. I had a
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  Speaker 2: fine trip. I didn't do anything really crazy. It was just,
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  Speaker 2: it was a trip to go down there and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and not really have fun, but it was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a business trip. We were safe. Everything was good,
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  Speaker 2: so we can get that all out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: The trip was fine. Everything, the experience, cool. We can
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  Speaker 2: talk about the game, and I'll give my thoughts on it,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm going to let you guys kind of, handle
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  Speaker 2: it here. So let's start it off. Irene in Falls Church, Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: Irene.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Let's move on.
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  Speaker 4: Hello?
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  Speaker 2: Are you there? Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, I'm not here.
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  Speaker 2: What's up?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, welcome back. I'm going to start with something positive
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  Speaker 5: and then move on to my concerns. So, you know,
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  Speaker 5: my score prediction was almost spot on, but the way
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  Speaker 5: I envisioned the game actually went better than what I thought.
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was getting more like 31-21, and then
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  Speaker 5: we'll get a late TV that didn't really matter. I
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  Speaker 5: am very impressed with Barham and Downs stopping Henry with force.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if– I don't even care if the
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  Speaker 5: footing impacted that. They were at the right spot, and
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  Speaker 5: they hit him with a lot of power. So those
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  Speaker 5: are really positive things to build on. My concern is
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  Speaker 5: our play calling, and we obviously have talent to put
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  Speaker 5: up a lot of points, but Shadi seems to be
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  Speaker 5: calling plays scared. And I know last year's team and
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  Speaker 5: record don't translate to here, but the decision-making seems to be.
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  Speaker 5: And my big criticism is why are we not running
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  Speaker 5: more at the goal line? Because we could have won
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  Speaker 5: that game easily. Two drives should.
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  Speaker 6: Have done that.
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  Speaker 5: So my overall conclusion is that we actually need this defense,
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  Speaker 5: which is showing improvement and flashes of greatness from our rookies.
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  Speaker 5: to improve to the point where shoddy isn't calling things
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  Speaker 5: so safely. So that's all I'll let you comment.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: All right. I don't know if that's the, if that's
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  Speaker 2: the right, that's not how I would describe it. As
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  Speaker 2: far as calling plays scared. I mean, because throwing the
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  Speaker 2: ball from the two yard line and, and what can
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  Speaker 2: happen there is, is probably worse than just running the
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  Speaker 2: football to, to Javante Williams. Who's, especially on the first drive,
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  Speaker 2: we just ran it right down their throat and to
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  Speaker 2: 7.3 yard average. And then you get to the, to
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  Speaker 2: the one, and then you're like, nah, we'll just throw
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  Speaker 2: it twice. And then same thing happened at the end.
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  Speaker 2: He had a chance to rectify it. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if it's playing scared. I just, I, I think what
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  Speaker 2: it is, if that's your term, that's fine. My term
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  Speaker 2: is cute. I think it, I think they got really
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  Speaker 2: cute down there. Well, let's do this. They think we're
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  Speaker 2: going to do this, but but you know what? We
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  Speaker 2: could do this. And then you get down to the
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  Speaker 2: end of the game and they think we're going to
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  Speaker 2: do this because the last time we did it and
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  Speaker 2: they think that we think that they think we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do that. But now this time we're not just
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  Speaker 2: run the football, just run the ball and don't do
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  Speaker 2: a shovel pass to, to, to Ferguson. You know, like,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what is that? That's a two point play
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  Speaker 2: if that, and not from the 30 yard line or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know if it's cute. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if it's, if it's conservative, I think, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's, Actually, it's not as conservative as it needs
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  Speaker 2: to be, in my opinion. Dylan, Northport, Florida.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, man, appreciate you and Chris being here after the trip.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that you can talk about that last
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  Speaker 7: play call where he told Dak to throw the ball
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  Speaker 7: out of bounds. I think that after a timeout, and
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  Speaker 7: you have all the time in the world to figure
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  Speaker 7: out your play, and you have a one-read quick throw
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  Speaker 7: if it's not open in the first, second and a half,
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  Speaker 7: get rid of it. If the pre-snap look isn't what
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  Speaker 7: you want.
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  Speaker 9: Get rid of it.
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  Speaker 7: I just don't really understand that. But the rest of
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  Speaker 7: the game, that was very conservative play calling. The rest
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  Speaker 7: of the game, like you just said, it was the
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  Speaker 7: opposite of conservative play calling when you got to the
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  Speaker 7: two-yard line, the one-yard line. The most obvious thing to
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  Speaker 7: do is sometimes the best thing to do, just kind
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  Speaker 7: of hand the ball off my dog and just go
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  Speaker 7: score a touchdown. I mean, you left eight points on
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  Speaker 7: the board right there between those two, first and one,
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  Speaker 7: first and two situations. That's just absolutely absurd. But I
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  Speaker 7: just want to give you real quick my Monday morning
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  Speaker 7: hot take, man. I'm at the point where I think that, uh,
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  Speaker 7: Brevin span forward. I know Jake Ferguson is the money guy,
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  Speaker 7: so he's going to get the majority of snaps, but
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  Speaker 7: there's a point where Brevin span forward needs to eat
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  Speaker 7: into some of those 11 personnel snaps because all the
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  Speaker 7: big runs, if you go back and look, there are
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  Speaker 7: a lot of them in all of them, but all
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  Speaker 7: the big, a lot of the big runs came off
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  Speaker 7: of Brevin span forward blocking right off the edge there. And, uh,
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  Speaker 7: I think that just having a player that can– he
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  Speaker 7: showed you what he can do after the catch, right?
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  Speaker 7: That one big grab he had in the final drive,
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  Speaker 7: bullying people out of the way. And he's just a
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  Speaker 7: badass blocker, decapitating guys on kickoff returns. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 7: got to get more time on the field, I think,
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  Speaker 7: after this game, and hopefully that's what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. No, I saw that actually on Twitter that you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned that. So thanks for the call. And Spanford is–
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's earning– all of what he's getting. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he jumped into the two spot, and now he's playing
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  Speaker 2: even more than that. And he plays with an attitude.
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  Speaker 2: And now if he's going to make plays like that
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  Speaker 2: in the open field, which he provided my first GOMB
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  Speaker 2: of the season when I tweeted that, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: that's what he did. I mean, basically it was just
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  Speaker 2: get off me, boy, or whatever you want to term that. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but he, you know, he's, he's starting to be like
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  Speaker 2: a playmaker as well and not just a run blocker. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, I agree. I agree that he gets more,
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  Speaker 2: more snaps and I, and I understand the part about
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  Speaker 2: that can being conservative on that play to tell, to
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  Speaker 2: say overcoached, whatever. Um, I put some of that on
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  Speaker 2: Dak though, too. I mean, I'm sorry, but they, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Then why go to training camp? Why go to training camp?
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  Speaker 2: Why practice and do all these things? Because that's a
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  Speaker 2: play I talked to Josh Rodriguez about just a second ago.
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  Speaker 2: That's a play we've seen a thousand times at training camp.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're going to do all that and spend
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  Speaker 2: all the time to go out there and run your
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  Speaker 2: offense and run the process like that, then when the
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  Speaker 2: game's on the line, do that. Because the thing about
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  Speaker 2: that play, and I said it before, that on first down,
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  Speaker 2: you do a lob to the end zone, which should
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  Speaker 2: have been a run to Javante, but whatever. You do
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  Speaker 2: a lob to the end zone in the back corner
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  Speaker 2: to Pickens. Okay. Cool. Then on second down, they were
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  Speaker 2: going to pass. It wasn't like they were going to run.
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  Speaker 2: Schoonmaker was in the game because Ferguson was hurt, and
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  Speaker 2: he gets the penalty. And then third down, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: I guess second down, again, they ran it. Dak had
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  Speaker 2: to run it and got sacked, and they called timeout,
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  Speaker 2: or he got tackled. Then on third down, I think
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  Speaker 2: the play's there for Pickett's because he just set it
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  Speaker 2: up in the corner. That cornerback is not going to
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  Speaker 2: let Pickett's get to the back corner. Okay, cool. So
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to cover the back corner, guess what's open?
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  Speaker 2: The front corner. And I don't know. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why Dak decided to throw the ball to Wilt Chamberlain,
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  Speaker 2: but it just wasn't there. And it's one of many
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  Speaker 2: plays we could kind of dissect here. Chris in Saratoga
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  Speaker 2: Springs is next.
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  Speaker 6: No sleep till Brooklyn or Frisco, I should say for
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  Speaker 6: you guys.
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  Speaker 2: I got a little bit. I got a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and maybe a violation for American Airlines just because I
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  Speaker 2: basically laid down right by the door in the exit row.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure there were people that weren't real happy
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  Speaker 2: with that because that's probably some kind of violation. But anyways,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't for very long. I got up quick. But
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  Speaker 2: I slept a little bit.
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  Speaker 10: That's good.
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  Speaker 6: Very disappointing. I don't know. That's a tough loss. I
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  Speaker 6: don't think I've been that upset for a loss in
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  Speaker 6: a long time. Maybe the last time I can remember
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  Speaker 6: being that upset was Thanksgiving in the snow with Leon
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  Speaker 6: Lett blocking the kick and knowing that we just won
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  Speaker 6: the game, but then not winning the game. I think
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  Speaker 6: I was pretty upset for that one, too. So this
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  Speaker 6: one was hard for me. Just a couple plays throughout
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  Speaker 6: the game here and there, and it seems like it's
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  Speaker 6: the same– For the last 30 years, we just, when
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  Speaker 6: it matters the most, we just make inexcusable plays or
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  Speaker 6: calls or false starts. We just got to clean it up.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, Shadi said it. He wants to hold everybody accountable.
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  Speaker 6: What does he say to the players? He says, you
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  Speaker 6: make the mistake once, just learn from it and don't
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  Speaker 6: make it again. Well, he made a bunch of mistakes
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  Speaker 6: calling plays, I thought, yesterday, especially down the goal line,
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  Speaker 6: the first drive. And then.
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  Speaker 6: You know, there's a couple of plays that, you know,
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  Speaker 6: the shovel path, like you just said to Ferguson, um,
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  Speaker 6: that's a goal line play only. I don't know. That
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  Speaker 6: was terrible. Um, we got to play better. We, he's
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  Speaker 6: got to call better. Um, we got to limit the mistakes. Um,
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  Speaker 6: Dak said in his press conference on that last place,
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  Speaker 6: should it, he should have just held the ball just
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  Speaker 6: a little bit longer, um, on his back foot. He
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  Speaker 6: said to just to get it to George, he was open.
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  Speaker 6: He was there. Um, just frustrating. Um, Irene said it
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  Speaker 6: as far as the positives. Barham, we got her. You know,
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  Speaker 6: Rummel said that quick thing when he got that contract
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  Speaker 6: and he said, I think Bill Parcell. said, we got
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  Speaker 6: ourselves a quarterback. Well, we got ourselves a linebacker. So
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  Speaker 6: that's a positive. Caleb Downs as well, positive. The next
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  Speaker 6: three games are all winnable. So let's move on to
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  Speaker 6: the next game.
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  Speaker 12: Let's beat Houston.
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  Speaker 6: Then we got, I think, Tampa Bay after that. um,
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  Speaker 6: all winnable games, the next three. So it's hard as
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  Speaker 6: it is. We got to move on, um, learn from
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  Speaker 6: our mistakes and take care of the next three games.
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  Speaker 6: And that's all I got. Let somebody else get on Nick.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for all you guys do and hard work that
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  Speaker 6: you guys do. And no, no sleep. And you're on
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  Speaker 6: here doing podcast. So, um, much props to you, both
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  Speaker 6: you and Chris.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. I appreciate you recognizing that. And, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and, and, and the thing about it is, is, um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you guys are, you guys are really good. And, and,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure most of the calls are going to, are
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  Speaker 2: going to be fine. Um, but you know, the shows
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  Speaker 2: like this aren't easy, you know, it's, it's fun when
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  Speaker 2: they win, it would have been a great, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to sit here and talk about it. But, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 2: part of this show is to do it when, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when loser tie, we've done them all. So, um, I
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  Speaker 2: agree with that. We've, I think we've found a linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: I asked Tommy, like y'all are set on the press box.
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  Speaker 2: I turned to him outside and say, is he a linebacker?
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  Speaker 2: Like he he's played line, but he's making the adjustment,
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  Speaker 2: but you think he's a linebacker? I mean, Like, that play,
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  Speaker 2: if the Cowboys would have won, we'd have a different
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  Speaker 2: set of don't forget these five plays. And I would
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  Speaker 2: have put the fact that the fourth down stop at
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  Speaker 2: the goal line, not just the stop. Everyone's going to
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  Speaker 2: remember that. It was the fact that he shot through
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  Speaker 2: the gap and stopped him for four yards of a loss.
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  Speaker 2: Then the Cowboys go 96 because that can— you know,
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  Speaker 2: be a couple yards into the end zone and throw
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  Speaker 2: it deep. I mean, if you're back at your one,
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  Speaker 2: you're probably going to punt from the five. That's probably
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  Speaker 2: what's going to happen. But if you're at the four,
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  Speaker 2: it changes things a little bit. So not just the stop,
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  Speaker 2: but the way the crash through like that. Um, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Derek Henry's a hall of famer. There's no doubt. And
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  Speaker 2: he's not maybe what he was still pretty, pretty damn good. But, um, But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you have to– he plays like bully ball.
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  Speaker 2: You have to match him with that. And they were
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  Speaker 2: able to do that. They have a guy that can
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  Speaker 2: do that. He's still figuring it out. He's there, though.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I ran something on the– we do a
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  Speaker 2: weekly photo gallery article type thing on Just Eight, and
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  Speaker 2: it was like your top eight Cowboys and Ravens players
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  Speaker 2: graded from PFF. And the third best for the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: was Barham. He might even be hired now. and I
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  Speaker 2: wrestled with the highest one for the Ravens because the
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  Speaker 2: Ravens one actually doesn't qualify because he hadn't had enough snaps,
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  Speaker 2: but I put him on there anyways because he's number one.
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  Speaker 2: It was Zay Flowers at 93. Well, Zay Flowers was
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  Speaker 2: the difference maker in the game big time. All right,
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  Speaker 2: Michael in Bowling Green.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I'll be quick. It was a crazy game in
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  Speaker 13: a crazy country, and we were playing a Super Bowl contender,
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  Speaker 13: so I thought they did I thought they were more improved,
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  Speaker 13: I believe, and I think they're going to continue to
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  Speaker 13: get better. I would say after week five, I expect
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  Speaker 13: us to be three and two. But I went to
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  Speaker 13: the bathroom when Aubrey kicked the tie, and I was like,
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  Speaker 13: I told Nick it was going to go into overtime,
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  Speaker 13: and I come back out, and the game is over.
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  Speaker 13: I'm like, I wasn't there that long. But did you
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  Speaker 13: think about what I said when they almost went in overtime?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I remember telling somebody, like, I hate this call.
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  Speaker 2: And it was about to go overtime. And I was like, yeah. Because,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, somebody else, I think, also called in.
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  Speaker 14: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah. I mean, two of y'all were talking about ties.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, no, we're not. Or overtime. I was like, no,
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  Speaker 2: we're not doing that.
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  Speaker 14: No.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: But, yeah, it was there. And it shouldn't have been.
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  Speaker 13: That was Mike in England who said that.
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  Speaker 11: But, yeah, that's all I wanted.
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  Speaker 9: I just wanted to be really quick.
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  Speaker 13: I'm encouraged. I'm looking forward to the season. It's going
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  Speaker 13: to be good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: We'll talk to you later.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Michael. It sucks. It sucks the way they
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  Speaker 2: lost that game. It really did. It sucks because it
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  Speaker 2: was there. It was there. But, you know, it's three
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  Speaker 2: games out of 17. And– We're starting to get a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more of a sample size of what this
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  Speaker 2: team is. And, you know, what is the league? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: who's good? San Francisco? They look pretty good, right? I
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  Speaker 2: guess they haven't really played anybody, I don't think, yet. Well, no,
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  Speaker 2: that's not true. They played the Rams and they won
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  Speaker 2: that game. But are the Rams good? You know, Seattle's
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  Speaker 2: losing to Washington. I mean, like, it's still early. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what the Cowboys are. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: anyone is. But it sucks because... No one wants to
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  Speaker 2: hear this, right? But I'm going to say it because
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  Speaker 2: it's true. I mean, they played their ass off. They did.
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  Speaker 2: They did. And if you want to sit here and go, well,
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  Speaker 2: they lost. All true. But if we're throwing out facts,
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  Speaker 2: we'll throw out facts because I'll say it. Shoddy didn't
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  Speaker 2: call a great game. He had a chance to rectify
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  Speaker 2: a problem in the first drive, rectify it in the
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  Speaker 2: last drive, and he didn't do it. I don't agree
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  Speaker 2: with the kick at midfield on the NFL logo that
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  Speaker 2: just got painted 24 hours earlier and it's probably the
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  Speaker 2: most muddied part in the whole place to kick a
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  Speaker 2: 60-yard field goal from the logo. I don't agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't agree with the shovel pass. I don't agree
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of the things. I definitely don't agree
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  Speaker 2: with kicking the ball deep at the end of the
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  Speaker 2: game through the end zone like that. Pooch it up
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  Speaker 2: there high to the two-yard line and go tackle him.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: I bet there hasn't been a kickoff return for a
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: touchdown this year, and certainly the Cowboys haven't given up one.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: There's a much better chance to do that than to
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: stop them than to, say, put it at the 35,
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: and if the Ravens get one play, they have a
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: chance to kick a long field goal. Everybody's kicking 58-,
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: 59-yard field goals now, it seems like, or they can.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: So you basically handed them with one timeout, handed them,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: 15 yards away from, you know, field goal range. So
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: my say all that is that I'm not hiding from it.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not going to sit here and say that, oh,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: good effort, good game, because there's problems with the team.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: There's problems with the way they call the game because
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: that game was winnable and they didn't do it. But,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: you know, they played their ass off. It was a
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: tough football game. They got hurt. They got beat up.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: And they, you know, they had to fight through it.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, some of these guys on the secondary weren't
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: even on the team. You know, I've heard this statement before,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: and I think it applies. It's not excuses sometimes. It's
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: just the reason. It's just the reason for some of
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: these things that happened. But that defense, I thought, fought.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: They're very, very shorthanded, and they battled. The offense battled.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: It sucks because they had a chance to win, and
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: they should have, and they didn't. All right, let's go
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: to Josh in Chicago.
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: Hey, Nick and Frisco.
• 17:20
  Speaker 12: That's my boy, Zach, who doesn't get to call in much.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't confuse me anymore here.
• 17:27
  Speaker 15: Hey, so I used to have a gunnery sergeant who
• 17:29
  Speaker 15: would say to people, sometimes the reason is you're stupid
• 17:31
  Speaker 15: and make bad decisions. I'm not saying that about you.
• 17:35
  Speaker 15: I'm just saying, in general, your points in your five
• 17:39
  Speaker 15: plays about the running game at the goal line, I
• 17:42
  Speaker 15: think sometimes that's the reason why, right? And when you're
• 17:44
  Speaker 15: first in goal with the game on the line, you've
• 17:46
  Speaker 15: got to run the ball and It really upsets me
• 17:49
  Speaker 15: because I agree with everything you're saying. They played tough, man,
• 17:52
  Speaker 15: and it's frustrating. There are some bright spots.
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: Don't get me wrong.
• 17:55
  Speaker 15: Barham, Downs, Guyton, Reddy Stewart. There are some bright spots
• 17:58
  Speaker 15: out there, but it's so frustrating. And I think back
• 18:02
  Speaker 15: to the Tony Romo-Payton Manning game years ago where Payton
• 18:09
  Speaker 15: just has that bootleg goal, that bootleg score. And I
• 18:14
  Speaker 15: don't understand why we don't do that with Dak. You
• 18:17
  Speaker 15: can watch other teams crashing in on the A-gaps, and
• 18:20
  Speaker 15: we still even pounded in there. And to not use
• 18:23
  Speaker 15: Dak's legs in goal-line scenarios, too, I don't understand that either.
• 18:30
  Speaker 15: I'm frustrated, man. It's upsetting. I think that this team
• 18:33
  Speaker 15: can contend with anyone. To your point about the league,
• 18:37
  Speaker 15: the league doesn't look as wide open or as.
• 18:41
  Speaker 15: There's some great teams out there right now. It looks
• 18:43
  Speaker 15: like everyone's beatable. This team, I think, can contend with people,
• 18:47
  Speaker 15: but they've got to clean up their own house first
• 18:50
  Speaker 15: before they can contend with people. They've got to clean
• 18:51
  Speaker 15: up play calling and clock management, and they've got to
• 18:53
  Speaker 15: clean up some execution as well.
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: Talk to you later this week, man.
• 18:56
  Speaker 15: Have a good day.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Don't disagree with anything, really. Let's go one more before
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: we go to break. Mike in Apopka, Florida. What's up, Mike?
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: It's been a little bit.
• 19:07
  Speaker 12: Hey, Nick.
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: How's it going, man?
• 19:08
  Speaker 12: Great to talk to you again.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: You too.
• 19:11
  Speaker 12: A couple of quick points, if you'll enlighten me. I
• 19:14
  Speaker 12: feel like the coaches took the ball out of the
• 19:18
  Speaker 12: hands of two of the highest-paid players at their positions
• 19:21
  Speaker 12: that they have. They coached Dak not to throw that
• 19:25
  Speaker 12: in the end zone to try to win the game,
• 19:27
  Speaker 12: and then they didn't let Aubrey kick the ball short
• 19:31
  Speaker 12: or try to pooch it down there and make a play.
• 19:34
  Speaker 12: So I blame, really, this one on the feet of
• 19:38
  Speaker 12: the coaches a lot. I felt like the players... You know,
• 19:41
  Speaker 12: they make some dumb plays here and there, obviously penalties
• 19:44
  Speaker 12: and things that happens, but I feel like the coaches
• 19:46
  Speaker 12: didn't help them or set them up to win. and
• 19:50
  Speaker 12: once again i feel like the coaches got outcoached a
• 19:53
  Speaker 12: little bit and then um my second point is i
• 19:56
  Speaker 12: don't know if you if you have any insight but
• 19:59
  Speaker 12: who in the world is going to play cornerback in
• 20:01
  Speaker 12: safety this week against the texans yeah.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: All right all right mike appreciate it appreciate the call
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: um Mike in Popco, Florida, he's been one of the
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: OGs from way back in the day, so don't hear
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: from him a lot, but obviously I know he listens,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: so thanks for the call. You know, the part about
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Dak and Aubrey and taking the ball out of their
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: hands or feet or whatever, I'll give it to you
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: with the Dak part. Dak Pickens, I've already said that.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I think that that's a play that they've practiced enough,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: and I think it's a, I think it's a safe play.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I don't think the guy's going to be jumping in
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: and going 100 yards to the house. I just don't
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: think that's happening. I think I think it was set
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: up to throw that pass like, you know, basically you're
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: throwing it out of bounds or he makes the catch
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: for the touchdown. So I don't think he gave that
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: really a shot there. I haven't gone back to watch it.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I know Patrick Walker talked about it in the. on
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: talking Cowboys, and I haven't seen this, but he said
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: go back and watch it because Terrence Steele was hurt
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: for that play, and Broderick Jones came in on third down,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: and Broderick Jones, I think, got walked back. It was
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: his first play of the game. He got walked back
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: into Dak's lap, so he really didn't have a lot
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: of vision there on that. As for Aubrey, you know,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Aubrey's kicked it out of bounds twice now in the game,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: and so... I mean, he had a couple of nice kickoffs,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: you know, and that's the thing about the kickoff. There's
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: so many different variables there. He had a couple of
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: perfect ones that bounced at the 2 or 1 and
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: rolled in. That's exactly the way you want to do
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: it because then they get it at the 20. He
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: had another one that was, you know, it was rolling
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: and rolling. It looked perfect. It looked like it was
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: going to roll in, and it goes out of bounds,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: and so now it's at the 40. I mean, just
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: a couple of inches is a 20-yard difference.
• 21:56
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: So at the end of the game, I'm sure he's
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: just thinking, you know what? I don't want you kicking
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: out of bounds again. I'm just going to have you.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: But it's only a five yard difference, 35 to the 40.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I think you've got to do your one step kickoff
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: where you basically don't have a running start. Just one
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: step and you kick it high. It's going to go
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: to about the five yard line. And then you go
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: down there, and Spanford's going to go make the play.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, like, he's going to go do that. You
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: know what? This goes back to what Dylan said earlier
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: about he thinks that Spanford needs to be a starting
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: tight end. Maybe he does, but I don't know if
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: they want to take him off special teams right now.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: He's a headhunter right now, leading the team, I believe,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: in those tackles. So I agree with that. The Aubrey
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: situation was different. I think they just didn't want to
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: risk Any more kicks out of bounds, they said, all right,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: just kick it. And they also didn't want to risk
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: giving up a long touchdown. But, you know, it didn't.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're going to play that kind of coverage,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: you know, they played like they didn't expect the Ravens
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: to do that. So, yeah, I think, you know, the
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: play calling and the coaching, I mean, you have to
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: factor that in. I mean, you have to say that
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: that was a factor in this game. All right, we're
• 23:16
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• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Sebastian in Savannah, Georgia is on the line. Sebastian, what's up?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Good morning.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: How are you doing?
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm tired. Tired. A little frustrated. A little,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, had a chance to be an awesome trip.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: And it was just good. Had a chance to be awesome.
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: Listen, we all wish it would have went a little differently.
• 26:06
  Speaker 10: And as you said, this could have been an awesome morning,
• 26:09
  Speaker 10: and we could be talking about the goal line stand
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: and things like that. That's what this team has been
• 26:14
  Speaker 10: for a while now, though. Coulda, shoulda, woulda. So I'm
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: not going to harp too much on the end-of-the-game stuff
• 26:20
  Speaker 10: because that's going to get beat to death all week
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: long by everybody. But we had a few things to fix,
• 26:25
  Speaker 10: and some of the most important things are actually not
• 26:27
  Speaker 10: on office defense. We have to figure out special teams.
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: Brandon's not having the best year. The special teams isn't
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: having the best year. And then as far as the
• 26:37
  Speaker 10: head coaching situation goes, I feel like Brian lacks experience.
• 26:42
  Speaker 10: And you can't have a defensive coordinator and a head
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: coach who both lack experience at the same time. And
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: it's showing up in spades. He lacks an awareness of
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: tempo and how the game flow and game sense goes.
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: And that's the biggest struggle for him right now. As
• 26:56
  Speaker 10: far as his offensive play cause, it's like sometimes he
• 26:59
  Speaker 10: gets a little cute sometimes. You know, we're doing shuffle
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: passes and we're at the two-yard line. Because the game,
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: let's be honest, that was a bad call on the
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: pass interference. They gifted us a free two-yard line. You've
• 27:11
  Speaker 10: got to punch it in. And that has to become
• 27:13
  Speaker 10: his mentality. And after the game, he says a lot
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: of the same thing. I've got to be better. I've
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: got to do this. But we've heard that conversation too
• 27:20
  Speaker 10: many times now. And I think Cowboys fans are just
• 27:22
  Speaker 10: getting too salty and too tired of it. But outside
• 27:25
  Speaker 10: of that, you know, you guys all saw the game.
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: I'm going to hang up and listen. You have a
• 27:28
  Speaker 10: great day. A better day, I should say.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: All right, Sebastian. Appreciate the call. I agree. I said
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: that earlier. Too cute. And, you know, you've got to–
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: especially when, you know, you've got to see if they
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: can stop you. And, you know, nothing's a given, okay?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, nobody was thinking, oh, I bet Barham stops–
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: henry here you know at the one inch line they'll
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: stop i mean who's thinking that right so nothing's a
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: given just because you're handing the ball to giovante too
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: doesn't mean he's going to get in but uh better
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: chance better chance than throwing a you know a 50
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: 50 ball in the back corner or the end zone
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: and then another one which is what a 10 90
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: i mean i mean there was no no shot that
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: that was the third down was going in so anyways
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: um All right, let's go to J.R. in Avondale, Arizona.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Morning, Nick.
• 28:26
  Speaker 12: Hey.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for putting the show on. I know you
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: guys are running on empty, but I won't talk about
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: a lot of the stuff that's already been talked about.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Go on the positive. Farham, downs play. I just want
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: to talk a little bit about Quinnen Williams and just
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: the effort he put out. I was impressed. He's chasing
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: running backs. He's chasing Lamar Jackson down the field. He
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: never quit. His energy, how hard he was playing, shows
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: the kind of player that he is. Special teams, and
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: we haven't talked about, I don't think anybody talked about,
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Steele on the blocked field goal. He blocks the wrong guy.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got to block inside.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: He blocks the wide guy. He lets the guy come
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: inside him, and that's basic stuff.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Taking the ball out of bounds, we need to look
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: at our special teams because when Bones was there, that
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: was a big part of our success, I think. Not our,
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: but the Cowboys' success. These are special teams. I think
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: they look pretty rough. And the last thing I got
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: is hopefully we get some of these players back. But
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: on the last play, when Flowers caught the pass, to
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: set up the field goal, got Reddy Stewart out there,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Carson out there, and Clark out there. And I don't
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: know why Clark was back at the 30-yard line watching
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Flowers catch it. I would have thought, I mean, they
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: lined up seven yards off the ball and playing like
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: it mattered. If they catch the ball seven yards downfield,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: who cares? I think they should have had a picket
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: fence at midfield and knocked the ball down, whatever. So,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: you just got to knock the ball down.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: And don't be in such a hurry to touch the guy. Like,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: why do you have to touch him? Like, it's one thing.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I get it. He's going to give himself up. That's fine.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: But you don't just immediately blow the play dead because
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: he's in the NFL because he's, you know. I mean,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: that would take a second or at least. To say,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: you can't just go and touch him. And so I
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: would have just let him, you know, run around if
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: you want to. You know what I mean?
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: That's exactly what I was going to say.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: The next thing I was going to say is why
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: not just stand there over him?
• 30:42
  Speaker 12: Stand over him.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Say, great catch, dude. Great catch. You're playing well. I
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: didn't know you were even going to play today. Oh,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: by the way, you're down. And the game– Yeah, I just– Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Just like– It should have been like the Hail Mary
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: in the end zone. You know, if you get them down,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: they can't play the pass at the 50, and then
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: they kick a 67-yard field goal, okay, they got that.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: But no one catches the ball pass. Even if you've
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: got to interfere with them, because they're going to get
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: one more play, but it isn't going to matter. But
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: you can't let him, you can't let Flowers run right
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: down the middle of the field, juke it out, and
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: then run in the middle of the field, catch an
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: open pass. Anyway, I'm looking at the positive. Hopefully we
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: get some of these folks back. And have a great day, Nick,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: and go Cowboys.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. Appreciate it. We'll see about injuries.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Tyler Smith will be back next week for one more game.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: But then the big issue is the defensive backs right now.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Still trying to figure out what's going on with Revel.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: He looks like a knee injury. I mean, it is
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: a knee injury, but I've heard some reports on hyperextension. But, again,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know all of that. I know he was
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: on the plane not wearing a brace or crutches, which
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: is a good sign. but we're probably going to get
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: an MRI just to see. And then, of course, Jalen Thompson, yeah, hamstring,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: left the game, did not return. Steele only missed one play,
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: but it was the end, so don't know if it's
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: more than that. Bullard, there's some guys. All right, Mike
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: in Birmingham, England. What's up?
• 32:19
  Speaker 18: Greetings from England, Nick. Thank you for your dedication to
• 32:23
  Speaker 18: your craft. I know you love your job, but today
• 32:26
  Speaker 18: was probably not the day when you've been the most
• 32:28
  Speaker 18: enthusiastic on the way into work. So thank you for
• 32:31
  Speaker 18: being there for us to... Have a moment with you.
• 32:36
  Speaker 18: Thoughts with the Cowboys Twitter admin who got up this
• 32:40
  Speaker 18: morning and had to post a happy birthday Luke Schoonmaker message.
• 32:44
  Speaker 18: I recommend that Luke probably doesn't look in the comments,
• 32:47
  Speaker 18: but happy birthday to him nonetheless. Nick, that was, I
• 32:54
  Speaker 18: can't believe we did that last night. That was a
• 32:57
  Speaker 18: devastating end. And like there's probably four or five people
• 33:02
  Speaker 18: mistakes leading up to it any one of which we
• 33:05
  Speaker 18: either come away with a win or we um uh
• 33:08
  Speaker 18: we're going to overtime um i'm going to sulk until
• 33:11
  Speaker 18: probably about thursday about this but uh there are positives
• 33:17
  Speaker 18: to be taken perhaps today isn't the day that people
• 33:19
  Speaker 18: want to hear that but this defense is getting better
• 33:23
  Speaker 18: this defense made a goal line stand against eric henry
• 33:26
  Speaker 18: This defense got lots of, you know, three and outs
• 33:31
  Speaker 18: last night and made lots of plays. And yes, there
• 33:34
  Speaker 18: were times when they looked a little bit lost as well.
• 33:36
  Speaker 18: But it is getting there. I'm old enough to remember
• 33:39
  Speaker 18: when we lost to New York and everyone thought that
• 33:42
  Speaker 18: Christian Parker was suddenly a terrible hire. But he's finding
• 33:45
  Speaker 18: his way. Those players are finding his way. Jason Barham
• 33:48
  Speaker 18: is a beast. And I'm confident that this is going
• 33:52
  Speaker 18: to get good. Thank you very much again. All the best.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you. Appreciate that. Everybody needs a little positive.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: You're not wrong with those. I think you're right about
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: the linebackers, or linebacker for sure, Barham. But the thing
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: is is that the pass rush, and it's hard to
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: talk about pass rush in a game with Lamar. I mean,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: he's so slippery. I mean, no one's shocked that you
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: didn't get any sacks there. They get pressure, so that's
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: a good thing. But they haven't been getting these quarterbacks
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: to the ground. Now, the three or four that they've faced,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: because Mariota and Jaden Daniels, they're both very good as
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: far as elusiveness. And then Lamar's the goat of that. C.J.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Stroud is not. And then I'm looking at this press
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: conference right now with Baker Mayfield having a dislocated right thumb.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know their backup, and I don't know. need
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: to talk about it right now, but I mean, obviously
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: here in, you know, what, 10 days? We're going to
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: play the Bucs, too, so they're going to have a
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: backup quarterback, so I feel real sorry for them, you know,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: to have to deal with injuries like that. I mean,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: it happens, though. I mean, seriously, it happens around the league.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: All right, Brian in Kansas City.
• 35:13
  Speaker 9: Good morning, Nick. Thanks for being there today, man.
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  Speaker 16: Sure.
• 35:17
  Speaker 9: Hey, you know, man, I tell you, like everybody else,
• 35:22
  Speaker 9: I'm planning for overtime. Now, I didn't get up. I
• 35:25
  Speaker 9: didn't leave the room. But I'm planning for overtime. And
• 35:29
  Speaker 9: I just, you know, it was unfathomable what happened.
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 35:35
  Speaker 9: You know, I just couldn't, you couldn't write that stuff.
• 35:38
  Speaker 9: But I did want to give a couple of positives.
• 35:42
  Speaker 9: And the couple of positives, people have already talked about it.
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: But on defense, Quinnen Williams and Barham, and downs. I mean,
• 35:53
  Speaker 9: there was some that, first of all, we've been banging
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: on Quentin Williams for two weeks, Quentin Williams, you know,
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: I think, I don't know if it was Mike or
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: the caller before him, but somebody just mentioned, maybe it
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: was Jr.
• 36:06
  Speaker 12: That said he's.
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: Running down Lamar Jackson at the sideline and actually got
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: just enough of them so that the next guy got them.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 36:18
  Speaker 9: You know, so, but those three guys played well. And
• 36:23
  Speaker 9: people have to understand, I think, and this is hard
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: for fans. It depends on how much you play, you know,
• 36:29
  Speaker 9: if you played a lot of sports, especially organized sports.
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: But I thought Barry Church really explained it well last night.
• 36:36
  Speaker 9: Third string guys don't get reps with any real practice reps.
• 36:44
  Speaker 16: Mm-hmm.
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: In their job, obviously on special teams they do, but
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: they don't get reps. So those guys being out there
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: and being called up from the practice squad and Elijah
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: Clark being up, they're doing the best they can. Yeah.
• 37:05
  Speaker 9: They don't know. And the way Barry laid it out
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: was very clear to me because I thought about my
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: very first time playing organized sports was basketball. And as
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: an eighth grader, I didn't get hardly any practice time
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: with the real players. And I could kind of identify
• 37:29
  Speaker 9: with that. So those guys, you know, it's just hard
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: to understand. You know, in the offseason, I asked you
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: this question, and it kind of got batted around a
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: little bit, and I still don't know the answer.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: And I still.
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: Don't know what's the competitive advantage Brian Schottenheimer brings to
• 37:48
  Speaker 9: this team. Because it just looked so many times, it
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: looked disorganized. It looked like, why is there still 12 seconds?
• 38:00
  Speaker 9: Why are we taking a timeout at 14 seconds? why,
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: you know, it just, there were just too many questions
• 38:06
  Speaker 9: about that, that I'm still really dumbfounded about. And I
• 38:11
  Speaker 9: think that maybe it's just exactly what, what people have
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: been saying. He's still new to this. He's just not,
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: he's not a season 10 year coach. And this is
• 38:22
  Speaker 9: still a little bit new to him. I'm going to
• 38:24
  Speaker 9: hang up and listen to everybody else. Nick, thanks for
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: being there today, brother.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Thanks for the call. Um, Let's go
• 38:31
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• 40:01
  Speaker 2: go to Carlos in Katy, Texas. Carlos, what's up?
• 40:05
  Speaker 16: Hey, two times in the last two weeks.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 40:09
  Speaker 16: Man, I can certainly see and hear some of the frustration.
• 40:15
  Speaker 16: Got to be a hard one.
• 40:17
  Speaker 17: This was a tough weekend.
• 40:18
  Speaker 16: Between the Aggies and the Cowboys, the football season is
• 40:21
  Speaker 16: definitely a test of character, but I think we'll persevere.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: I hope one of your teams wins next weekend.
• 40:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah, right.
• 40:34
  Speaker 16: At the end of the day, it's enjoyable, but it's
• 40:38
  Speaker 16: also kind of hard to watch at times. Next week
• 40:42
  Speaker 16: is going to be an interesting one. I live here
• 40:45
  Speaker 16: in the Houston Metroplex area. And Houston, they actually have
• 40:51
  Speaker 16: a problem. And I think it's going to be an
• 40:54
  Speaker 16: interesting game, to say the least. I really don't have
• 40:57
  Speaker 16: a prediction for it. But I kind of wanted to
• 41:01
  Speaker 16: maybe lighten the discussion a little bit and throw out
• 41:04
  Speaker 16: a trivia question to you, if that would be okay.
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: All right. What do you got?
• 41:08
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 41:09
  Speaker 16: So what famous actor played against Roger Staubach in the.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Offseason of What do you mean in the offseason?
• 41:20
  Speaker 16: Yeah, so when he was playing with the Pensacola Navy Goshawks,
• 41:26
  Speaker 16: I'll give you a hint. The player, the actor, played
• 41:30
  Speaker 16: for the Youngstown State Penguins.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: You got it. I'm not in a– I don't know
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: this answer, so it doesn't mean I can sit here
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: and try to figure it out. I don't know it.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: So what do you got? Who is it?
• 41:42
  Speaker 9: Ed O'Neill.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 41:44
  Speaker 16: Married with children.
• 41:45
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 41:46
  Speaker 16: Played against them, and in that game– Ed O'Neill got
• 41:50
  Speaker 16: a 15-yard penalty for hitting Staubach.
• 41:52
  Speaker 10: Out of bounds. Nice.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: So, hey, have a good, better week.
• 41:57
  Speaker 16: You know, I mean, it's going to be a hard,
• 42:01
  Speaker 16: long season, but I think there's some good things coming.
• 42:04
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: All right, Carlos. Appreciate the call. And then let's go,
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: we got Tom in Mississippi.
• 42:11
  Speaker 13: Tom.
• 42:13
  Speaker 11: Yeah, a heartbreak in Rio.
• 42:16
  Speaker 16: Yep.
• 42:16
  Speaker 11: If My memory serves me. We get the deck. Here
• 42:21
  Speaker 11: we go again. Same things come up with McCarthy. And
• 42:25
  Speaker 11: I almost want to say they had a clock management,
• 42:28
  Speaker 11: game management problem. They brought somebody in. You know, the defense,
• 42:35
  Speaker 11: it is what it is. They played their hearts out. But,
• 42:40
  Speaker 11: you know, the players were given what they were given.
• 42:44
  Speaker 11: You just can't. Put it on the players every week.
• 42:50
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: No, I hear you. There's a lot of blame to
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: be passed around.
• 42:57
  Speaker 9: You got any questions?
• 42:59
  Speaker 11: Game management, you know, creeps up from McCarthy, creeps up,
• 43:03
  Speaker 11: you know, lifelong Cowboy fan.
• 43:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 43:07
  Speaker 11: And these problems just keep happening.
• 43:09
  Speaker 12: Yeah. Well, hold on.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: I want to say this about game management because when
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: you lose a game, And that's somewhat close. It feels
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: like it happens a lot. You can say, oh, you
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: should have done this and that. I don't think anyone
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: has ever said when you win a close game, like, wow,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: great game management. You know, like, good job, game management.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Are the Ravens doing that? Maybe they should.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe they're saying that about their coach. Good game management there.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't ever seem. It's when you lose. It's
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: when you lose is when we talk about coaching. I
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: guarantee that Baltimore's not talking about coaching over there. They're
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: talking about the players that made the plays and stuff
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 43:49
  Speaker 11: And they talk about the repping of the, you know,
• 43:52
  Speaker 11: seven seconds or last end of the game.
• 43:54
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 43:55
  Speaker 11: You know, repping the end of the game.
• 43:57
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 43:58
  Speaker 11: Rep it all preseason. You know, rep it training camp.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 44:03
  Speaker 11: You know, they're talking about, you know, repping their end
• 44:06
  Speaker 11: of the game. You know, so it's out there being
• 44:10
  Speaker 11: talked about. It just... You know, and we talk about, okay,
• 44:14
  Speaker 11: if they win, they rep this. Just like that one
• 44:17
  Speaker 11: play to Pickens, they repped it all, you know, preseason,
• 44:21
  Speaker 11: training camp.
• 44:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: They did.
• 44:24
  Speaker 11: It didn't work out.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: It just didn't. No, it didn't work out. I'm sure
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: the pocket was cleaner and, you know, it's hard to simulate.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: You can do it. You can do it in Oxnard,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: you know, nice sunny field and you get there to
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Rio and, you know, on the pitch. And, you know,
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: it's a different atmosphere. And, you know, they were there.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's how I'm going to wrap this thing up.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, they were there. They had a shot. That's
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: what makes it, you know. And the same thing that
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: you're encouraged about is that they played well enough to win,
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: and they'll probably be in a situation to win. The
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: same things you're encouraged about is the same thing you're
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: disappointed about because you were there to win the game,
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: and you were. You did have the chance, and you
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: didn't do it. And you know you might look back
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: at a game like this and go, wow, They let
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: that one slip away.
• 45:10
  Speaker 11: Yeah, because Philly's climbing up there. You can't ignore them.
• 45:16
  Speaker 11: They get good old Chicago. You're going to look at 3-0.
• 45:19
  Speaker 16: We'll see.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 45:23
  Speaker 11: This is where the games happen.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Philly's not good. Philly's not good. So I don't know
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: if they– I mean, I wouldn't give them a W
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: for anybody right now because I don't think they're a
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: very good team. I mean, I don't think that they're
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: blowing anyone out. I think they've got their own problems too.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: And give them credit for winning these games because they did.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: They find a way to go to the road and
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: beat the Titans. So can they go and beat the Bears,
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: whoever their quarterback is tonight? Yeah, I mean, maybe. But
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying– I don't think Philly's going to run
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: away with anything. I don't know if anyone in the
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: NFC is going to run away with it. So that's
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: the good news.
• 45:57
  Speaker 11: That's the silver lining.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Unless you want to be negative and go, wow, well,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: you had a chance to be 2-1. You had a
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: chance to be one of those teams, and you didn't.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: All right, Tom. Appreciate the call. Thanks for the discussion
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: to everybody. Not bad at all. I was, you know,
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: didn't know what to expect. And I knew you guys
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: were going to be, you know, are upset about it
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: and frustrated and and you know we're all there we
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: all feel the pain uh but hey it is it
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: is what it is and it's early in the year
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: and we still got a lot of football left to
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: play and you gotta you know usually it's one of
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: those things with what comes up usually comes down so
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: they're gonna have a game they're gonna go steal the
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: game at some point but I understand Houston's 0-3 and
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: everyone's like, oh man, they did this last year and
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: they turned it around and they'll be fine. Houston, they
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: hate Dallas so much down there that that'll be one
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: that they'll be fired up and think they can get
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: off to the right start again and face the Cowboys.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: The Cowboys will be pissed off too. It'll be a
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: fun atmosphere down there in Houston, a lot of Cowboy
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: fans there. um are there and so that'll it'll be
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: a it'll be a fun game but both teams desperate
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: to to get that i'm i know they're oh and
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: three but i mean what's much of a difference of
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: one and two cowboy team that just you know lost
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: the game that they should have won so i think
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have some an intense desperate game and we'll
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: see if the cowboys uh have the secondary for it
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: you know to to see who who's gonna play in
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: that game a lot of injuries so all right we'll
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: do it again tomorrow we'll talk about it then talk
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: about the injuries maybe have a little bit more conclusion
• 47:33
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• 47:35
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