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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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- 0:12Speaker 1: This He's Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:20Speaker 2: What's up everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I'm your host,
- 0:24Speaker 2: Nick Eatman, and it is time to talk Cowboys Football's
- 0:27Speaker 2: we always do. It's that point in the week where
- 0:30Speaker 2: we can, we definitely want to look ahead. I don't
- 0:33Speaker 2: know if that you get to that point in the
- 0:34Speaker 2: week after a loss like the Cowboys just had against
- 0:37Speaker 2: the Saints. I think that that process starts immediately, but
- 0:42Speaker 2: it is that point in the week where you still
- 0:44Speaker 2: look back a little if you want to, and certainly
- 0:47Speaker 2: looking forward, all eyes ahead to a desperate Baltimore Ravens
- 0:52Speaker 2: team that's zero to two coming in here with the
- 0:53Speaker 2: ringing MVP Lamar Jackson, and I just hope the Cowboys
- 0:58Speaker 2: match that level of death, because it seems pretty desperate
- 1:02Speaker 2: when you get beat at home by twenty five points
- 1:06Speaker 2: to a team that you thought you were better than
- 1:08Speaker 2: you but you weren't for sure in that game, and
- 1:11Speaker 2: they were out physical and if they thought that the
- 1:14Speaker 2: Saints brought it from a physicality standpoint, Baltimore is going
- 1:19Speaker 2: to do the same. And you know they have tape.
- 1:21Speaker 2: Everyone watches film. They know, oh they could run the ball. Well,
- 1:25Speaker 2: we can run the ball. We got the biggest running
- 1:27Speaker 2: back in the world and the history of running backs
- 1:29Speaker 2: and Derrick Henry and we got probably the best running
- 1:32Speaker 2: quarterback in the history of football. You can argue that
- 1:34Speaker 2: if you want, But Lamar Jackson it's pretty name good
- 1:38Speaker 2: running the ball. So they're going to be able to
- 1:40Speaker 2: do that. So anyways, we'll talk about all that. We
- 1:43Speaker 2: can talk about the game last week if you want,
- 1:47Speaker 2: the Saints game and the Monday night game that was
- 1:49Speaker 2: pretty interesting with Atlanta coming back to beat the Eagles.
- 1:55Speaker 2: I got some opinions about that. But we can talk
- 1:57Speaker 2: about all of that. We got a different, you know,
- 2:00Speaker 2: two audiences here. We've got Dallas Cowboys dot Com. You guys,
- 2:03Speaker 2: the faithful listeners on Cowboys storyline's been with us here
- 2:06Speaker 2: for the last year and a half. We also got
- 2:08Speaker 2: some from Bali Sports. We welcome them in as well
- 2:10Speaker 2: as we do it. This is a show for the fans.
- 2:12Speaker 2: You guys get a chance to sound off, and I'm
- 2:15Speaker 2: sure after last week's game there's plenty to sound off about,
- 2:19Speaker 2: all right, let's get to the calls. We know the
- 2:21Speaker 2: phone line. The phone line is eight eight eight eight
- 2:23Speaker 2: five five two two nine seven Michael and Colton, California. Michael,
- 2:28Speaker 2: you're up.
- 2:30Speaker 3: What's going on? Shout out to the whole Cowboys nation.
- 2:33Speaker 3: I know this week what didn't go, you know how
- 2:36Speaker 3: we wanted it to go, But it's all good. I'm
- 2:39Speaker 3: gonna go ahead and just encourage my fellow Cowboy fans
- 2:43Speaker 3: and say R E L A X. Look, ain't go
- 2:48Speaker 3: the way we want. Yes, sir, things ain't go the
- 2:50Speaker 3: way we wanted them to go. But we got to
- 2:52Speaker 3: take it together. And you know what, I think at
- 2:54Speaker 3: times I've kind of came off maybe as a negative
- 2:57Speaker 3: ned but I'm gonna go ahead and say that. You know,
- 2:59Speaker 3: we got a lot of youngsters that that are up
- 3:01Speaker 3: and coming. We gotta let them adjust. Not only that,
- 3:04Speaker 3: but but uh, this Mike Zimmer defense. You know, it's
- 3:07Speaker 3: still work in progress, you know, so so I wouldn't
- 3:10Speaker 3: count us out yet, you know. And then also I
- 3:13Speaker 3: I've heard you know, and and Nick, you know, I've
- 3:15Speaker 3: come on, I've I've I've expressed you sometimes I wasn't
- 3:18Speaker 3: happy with Dak Prescott, but I just want to say
- 3:22Speaker 3: that man, all this negativity I hear about him, I
- 3:24Speaker 3: I I I think it's I think it's a bunch
- 3:26Speaker 3: of hogwash. Man Dak Prescott is not the reason to
- 3:29Speaker 3: blame for that game. The interception that he threw, the
- 3:33Speaker 3: receiver slipped and and I don't think it's his fault
- 3:36Speaker 3: at all. So I just want to tell everybody's just
- 3:38Speaker 3: settled down, relax. And also one more thing, if I
- 3:41Speaker 3: could say, Man, I I hey Bob real brad Man.
- 3:45Speaker 3: I love hearing that guy in his take. Man, he's awesome.
- 3:47Speaker 3: He he uh he to me, he sounds like what
- 3:50Speaker 3: a what a?
- 3:51Speaker 4: What a?
- 3:51Speaker 3: What a Texas cowboy should sound like.
- 3:56Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta shout out to you as well,
- 3:59Speaker 2: because I just got package in the mail. Oh yes, sir, Yes,
- 4:03Speaker 2: and we got some T shirts T shirts I wanted
- 4:06Speaker 2: to share with everyone that you sent to me and Chris.
- 4:11Speaker 2: Now we're looking at it here. It says what does
- 4:14Speaker 2: it say inland.
- 4:19Speaker 3: That's your company, Yes, sir, that that's that's that's that's
- 4:23Speaker 3: me right there. The area where I'm from in Colton, California,
- 4:26Speaker 3: we're right next door to Los Angeles County is considered
- 4:29Speaker 3: the Inland Empire, so that that's that's my brand right there,
- 4:33Speaker 3: Illin Empire Bully, And thank you for sharing that. It's
- 4:35Speaker 3: just something token of appreciation. I wanted to bless you
- 4:38Speaker 3: and Chris with because I appreciate the shirt you guys
- 4:41Speaker 3: set me in. It's just even awesomer that we're talking
- 4:44Speaker 3: about it online. That wasn't my intent, but that's even awesome, man.
- 4:47Speaker 2: Thank you very much. And and if you're going to say,
- 4:49Speaker 2: if you're going to make awesomer a word, I'm all
- 4:53Speaker 2: for it. I love it, all right. I think I
- 4:54Speaker 2: just heard awesomer. That is an awesome word. I think
- 4:57Speaker 2: we should use that. I think I don't know if
- 4:59Speaker 2: that is one, but wait, you know what, we should
- 5:01Speaker 2: create it. Michael, appreciate it.
- 5:02Speaker 5: It is now.
- 5:04Speaker 2: Thank you so much for for the the shirts. I
- 5:06Speaker 2: know Chris will appreciate it as well.
- 5:08Speaker 3: And you know, just kind of hey you guys, you
- 5:11Speaker 3: guys enjoy it. Thank you for my shirt.
- 5:13Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
- 5:14Speaker 2: Sounds good. Have a great date, all right, Michael?
- 5:17Speaker 5: All right?
- 5:18Speaker 2: I love gifts, you know, love love love T shirt
- 5:21Speaker 2: and gifts, especially when it says like the name of Colton, California.
- 5:26Speaker 2: I'm like, when I ever, if I ever hear Colton, California,
- 5:29Speaker 2: that's what I'm gonna think. I'm gonna think, all right, Well,
- 5:31Speaker 2: that's that's Michael. There's there's you know. I mean, I
- 5:33Speaker 2: don't know much about Bowling Green, Kentucky, but if, if,
- 5:38Speaker 2: if that's the case, I'll be looking for a guy
- 5:40Speaker 2: named Michael, you know, from Bowling Green, Kentucky, in just
- 5:42Speaker 2: different places like that. I'm trying to think of other
- 5:45Speaker 2: ones on the top of my head. Oh, I mean,
- 5:47Speaker 2: definitely Northport, Florida. I would think of Dylan, even though
- 5:52Speaker 2: Dylan might be thinking of talking cowboys. But whatever, all right,
- 5:55Speaker 2: let's go to Zach in Atlanta. Zach you're next.
- 5:59Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, Nick. How are you. I'm good, I'm
- 6:03Speaker 6: doing all right. I I don't have a T shirt
- 6:05Speaker 6: for you like Michael had, but I do have an analogy.
- 6:10Speaker 6: You know, game games like Sunday, you get up from
- 6:14Speaker 6: the toilet and you look at it and you just
- 6:16Speaker 6: flush it and walk away. You know what I'm saying.
- 6:20Speaker 6: But performances like that are are hard, hard to flush.
- 6:24Speaker 2: They're stubborn, and uh, you have to wipe the slate
- 6:28Speaker 2: clean first.
- 6:30Speaker 6: I think you got to use the wet wipe, you right, All.
- 6:33Speaker 2: Right, let's let's pivot, let's let's.
- 6:39Speaker 6: So what we're doing is we're washing our hands, You're right,
- 6:43Speaker 6: and then we're going out and we're taking on the
- 6:45Speaker 6: next challenge. You know, I don't know, we just seem
- 6:49Speaker 6: to have these performances over the years, uh where there's
- 6:53Speaker 6: some hiccups and you're just like, okay, the talent should
- 6:57Speaker 6: be there on paper, although I don't know, man, this
- 7:01Speaker 6: this year is like, hey, somebody's got to step up
- 7:04Speaker 6: on offense. I know we were down Ferguson, but I
- 7:07Speaker 6: don't think a Jake Ferguson helps the offense that much more.
- 7:12Speaker 6: And granted I know that loss is on the defense,
- 7:14Speaker 6: but on the defensive side, you know they steamed away
- 7:17Speaker 6: from Micah. Who else is going to make the play?
- 7:19Speaker 6: I know that's kind of been a conversation for us.
- 7:22Speaker 6: The storyliners is you know who else is going to
- 7:25Speaker 6: step up? Do we have those guys on the roster,
- 7:28Speaker 6: these young guys, or are we gonna have to outsource,
- 7:31Speaker 6: you know, before the trade deadline. But thankfully plenty of
- 7:35Speaker 6: games ahead of us, we'll see what happens. But yeah,
- 7:39Speaker 6: moving forward, and uh, you know, we got the Ravens
- 7:43Speaker 6: coming up this week. Doesn't get easier. But I was
- 7:47Speaker 6: I was looking, and I see Andre Girod actually played
- 7:50Speaker 6: one season with the Ravens after he departed Dallas, And
- 7:53Speaker 6: so I think of Andre Gerrod in the situation with
- 7:57Speaker 6: Albert Hainsworth. But any thoughts comments on our old center
- 8:05Speaker 6: and with that, I will flush and hang out.
- 8:07Speaker 7: Take care?
- 8:08Speaker 2: All right? Nice? All right? Well, you know Andre Gerard,
- 8:15Speaker 2: I mean you just mentioned him. Yeah that if you
- 8:16Speaker 2: play that game Immaculate Grid where you have to pick
- 8:20Speaker 2: players that played at two different teams, that would be
- 8:22Speaker 2: a good one for Baltimore. I actually forgot that he
- 8:26Speaker 2: played there as well. But yeah, Gerard is one of
- 8:29Speaker 2: the funniest players that's ever played for the Cowboys, and
- 8:33Speaker 2: just hilarious stories since he got here. I mean, he
- 8:37Speaker 2: was always really funny. And and then you know, a
- 8:40Speaker 2: really good player too, Like sadly, it took a guy
- 8:45Speaker 2: kicking his helmet off and like stomping on his face,
- 8:48Speaker 2: Albert Haynesworth. That got him kind of like, you know what,
- 8:52Speaker 2: he's a really good player also, you know, and then
- 8:55Speaker 2: he made the Pro Bowl that year, and he made
- 8:56Speaker 2: five straight. I'm not saying that that helped him make
- 8:59Speaker 2: the Pro Bowl, but I think it was. It just
- 9:01Speaker 2: was one of those things where, man, this this guy,
- 9:03Speaker 2: he's you know, he's he's really good. He's not just
- 9:06Speaker 2: the guy that got kicked on a stupid move by
- 9:10Speaker 2: by Hainsworth. But but you know, he's a really good player,
- 9:12Speaker 2: and you know, he had a he had a great
- 9:15Speaker 2: career for the Cowboys. One of the best centers, I think,
- 9:17Speaker 2: one of the best centers of all time, uh that's
- 9:20Speaker 2: played for the Cowboys. But you're right, you know it's
- 9:23Speaker 2: time to move forward, uh from from last week's game.
- 9:26Speaker 2: And you know, no one, no one feel sorry for him,
- 9:29Speaker 2: you know, and no one feels sorry for that.
- 9:31Speaker 8: You know.
- 9:31Speaker 2: The Ravens certainly don't, and and they you know, and
- 9:33Speaker 2: the Cowboys don't feel sorry for them. I mean, this
- 9:35Speaker 2: is gonna be one of those games where it's gonna
- 9:37Speaker 2: be a very physical one, and you know, it's a
- 9:40Speaker 2: little worrisome for the Cowboys when you think of injury situations,
- 9:43Speaker 2: you think of Jake Ferguson and his and you know,
- 9:47Speaker 2: his knee injury. He could play in this game. I mean,
- 9:50Speaker 2: it's gonna be probably close, we'll see how he practices.
- 9:53Speaker 2: But let's not forget that how physical this game probably
- 9:57Speaker 2: will be. And then you've got aootball game in four
- 10:01Speaker 2: days on top of that against the Giants. So and
- 10:05Speaker 2: obviously the Giants don't look like a stellar team right now,
- 10:08Speaker 2: but it's a division team, and you know they'll they'll
- 10:11Speaker 2: be desperate in their own way and wanting to beat
- 10:14Speaker 2: the Cowboys. And four days is still four days. And so, uh,
- 10:17Speaker 2: that's what I think this team really needs to look
- 10:20Speaker 2: at is, you know, they they've got they've got a
- 10:23Speaker 2: tough road ahead here with a couple of really really
- 10:26Speaker 2: physical uh a physical game going on. They were out
- 10:29Speaker 2: physical this last game against the Saints, and they've got
- 10:32Speaker 2: to figure a way to pick up the pieces and
- 10:34Speaker 2: play you know, two games here in the next uh,
- 10:37Speaker 2: you know, in the next week, you know, week and
- 10:39Speaker 2: a half for sure. So all right, let's go to
- 10:41Speaker 2: Brian in Kansas City. Brian is next.
- 10:44Speaker 7: Good morning, sir, Hey Brian.
- 10:47Speaker 9: How's it going this morning?
- 10:48Speaker 2: It's good? How are you?
- 10:49Speaker 9: I'm doing good. I got a day off and thought
- 10:51Speaker 9: i'd give you a holler good. So, you know, I
- 10:54Speaker 9: wish I could have called in last week. That would
- 10:56Speaker 9: have been an easier time to call in, but uh,
- 10:59Speaker 9: you know, it is what it is. In the famous
- 11:01Speaker 9: words of Chumbo Wumba, we get knocked down and we
- 11:04Speaker 9: get up again.
- 11:07Speaker 2: True, true.
- 11:08Speaker 10: So well, you know, one of.
- 11:10Speaker 9: The things that we see, if you're a longtime football fan,
- 11:13Speaker 9: that we see sometimes is organizations. And maybe you can
- 11:18Speaker 9: just give your opinion on how you've seen this over
- 11:21Speaker 9: so many years now. Organizations sometimes like there's a there's
- 11:26Speaker 9: a glaring need and it just sits there. And stopping
- 11:29Speaker 9: the run has been kind of a glaring need for
- 11:31Speaker 9: a while. Before that, it was bad safety play and
- 11:36Speaker 9: the team wouldn't invest in safeties, you know, and then
- 11:39Speaker 9: dan Quinn came along and our safety play got better.
- 11:42Speaker 9: But now we got excuse me, we had a bad
- 11:45Speaker 9: run defense right right, and and you know, just wonder what,
- 11:49Speaker 9: you know, like everybody on the outside, everybody knows like, okay,
- 11:53Speaker 9: getting these guys off the scrap heaps that aren't good
- 11:55Speaker 9: enough to play on anybody else's team doesn't seem to
- 11:59Speaker 9: be it, you know, and go back to Poe or
- 12:02Speaker 9: you know, and it's not like they're not trying, you know,
- 12:04Speaker 9: they invested a first round draft pick that just didn't
- 12:07Speaker 9: hasn't panned out so far. So yeah, just but you know,
- 12:11Speaker 9: when you see that, you know kind of what happens.
- 12:13Speaker 9: And I wanted to give a shout out Anthony and
- 12:16Speaker 9: Miami when he's saying the Andy Don Meredith Monday Night closing,
- 12:21Speaker 9: Monday Night Football closing.
- 12:24Speaker 7: I just loved it.
- 12:25Speaker 9: I remember that Terry.
- 12:26Speaker 7: Bradshaw saying that when when Meredith passed away, and.
- 12:30Speaker 9: It was just a shout back to my childhood and
- 12:33Speaker 9: I'll hang up and listen.
- 12:34Speaker 2: Then all right, thank you, Brian. Yeah, I mean, defensive
- 12:38Speaker 2: tackle has been you know the well, stopping the run
- 12:42Speaker 2: is the issue, and defensive tackle is one where you
- 12:46Speaker 2: know it's it's one of those positions and you said
- 12:50Speaker 2: safety very similar. Tied end could be another one where
- 12:53Speaker 2: you don't see them drafted that highly. It's not considered
- 12:58Speaker 2: one of these top tier position to go and get
- 13:02Speaker 2: but yet so you're not supposed to spend a lot
- 13:05Speaker 2: of resources on it, but yet at the same time,
- 13:07Speaker 2: you still try to figure out how to make it better.
- 13:10Speaker 2: And that that's always been kind of that cat and
- 13:12Speaker 2: mouse type situation where you know, the Cowboys had that
- 13:17Speaker 2: issue at safety for a long time and maybe they
- 13:19Speaker 2: have it right now still at tackle. And they went
- 13:21Speaker 2: and they did draft the first round pick and that
- 13:24Speaker 2: hasn't panned out yet. Mazzie Smith hasn't really done much
- 13:29Speaker 2: of anything. And you expect that out of your first
- 13:32Speaker 2: round pick. You expect him to come right in, be
- 13:34Speaker 2: ready to go, especially at a position like the defensive
- 13:36Speaker 2: tackle where they don't invest, you know, first round picks
- 13:40Speaker 2: very often. It's been thirty something years before they did it.
- 13:42Speaker 2: That guy that they picked was number one overall, and
- 13:44Speaker 2: Russell Maryland, he you know, I don't know if you
- 13:46Speaker 2: ever met the expectations of a number one pick. I
- 13:49Speaker 2: don't think he did. But he did make the Pro
- 13:51Speaker 2: Bowl and he was a good, solid player for good teams.
- 13:53Speaker 2: But my point is is that they still need to
- 13:56Speaker 2: figure out how to you know, how to get the
- 13:59Speaker 2: right pieces in there. And you know, I don't think
- 14:02Speaker 2: they were banking on Linval Joseph and you know, Jordan
- 14:06Speaker 2: Phillips to to save the day. They you know, plug
- 14:10Speaker 2: the holes and and and and let's let's see how
- 14:13Speaker 2: they do that still. I mean, it's been it has
- 14:15Speaker 2: been one game where they they really just got out
- 14:18Speaker 2: physical then and mostly on the edge. That's what I
- 14:22Speaker 2: think they've got to figure out the most is how
- 14:24Speaker 2: to how to stop the run from the edges, because
- 14:28Speaker 2: they teams are going to continue to do that, you know,
- 14:30Speaker 2: but they have to be able to do that with
- 14:32Speaker 2: a capable back. You can't just say go get go,
- 14:36Speaker 2: get to the outside. Not everybody can do what Kamara does,
- 14:41Speaker 2: and and he is a he's a special back because
- 14:44Speaker 2: he can play inside and outside and he can take
- 14:47Speaker 2: a pass over the middle and go fifty yards to
- 14:49Speaker 2: the house. Not everyone has that running back. The Cowboys
- 14:51Speaker 2: certainly do not. And so you can't just you can't
- 14:55Speaker 2: just play the same way, you know. They they the
- 14:59Speaker 2: teams in the NBA never just saw somebody go up
- 15:02Speaker 2: against the bulls and go, you know what, let's just
- 15:04Speaker 2: let's just do that. Let's do what Jordan's doing, and
- 15:06Speaker 2: let's let's win because that's what works for them. Doesn't
- 15:09Speaker 2: work like that, obviously, and I think that, you know,
- 15:12Speaker 2: but the Saints were very unique in the way that
- 15:15Speaker 2: they attacked them and you know, they look like a
- 15:17Speaker 2: good football team. But there's a lot of two and
- 15:19Speaker 2: O teams that I saw. Just saw a list of
- 15:20Speaker 2: two and o teams that don't necessarily scare you. There's
- 15:23Speaker 2: some O and two teams that do as well. So
- 15:25Speaker 2: again my point is very early in the schedule, and yes,
- 15:29Speaker 2: Baltimore is one of those teams, those oh and two
- 15:31Speaker 2: teams that that would be scary. All right, let's go
- 15:33Speaker 2: to Steve in New York. Steve, how are you doing?
- 15:36Speaker 6: Hey?
- 15:36Speaker 4: Nick?
- 15:37Speaker 11: Great shows always Thanks. I'm gonna hit you with a
- 15:40Speaker 11: trivia before I go. Whoever the last caller was was
- 15:44Speaker 11: pretty much what I was gonna mention was the defensive interior.
- 15:48Speaker 2: Huh.
- 15:48Speaker 11: You know, he can't expect you know, two games in that.
- 15:52Speaker 11: I don't want to call him cast offs, but you know,
- 15:54Speaker 11: two guys who've been around and you know them coming
- 15:58Speaker 11: in here and the second round guy and Ozzie Smith,
- 16:01Speaker 11: who we really at this point still don't know what
- 16:03Speaker 11: he's going to be to, you know, to plug them
- 16:05Speaker 11: in and expect you know, results. Listen, I did not
- 16:07Speaker 11: want to see what I saw last week. But you know, nonetheless,
- 16:12Speaker 11: it was eerily similar to the Packers game. I know
- 16:16Speaker 11: that's probably been said a hundred times, but you know,
- 16:19Speaker 11: the positive here is it's week two. They have a
- 16:22Speaker 11: lot of time to can it be fixed. I don't know,
- 16:26Speaker 11: but they have time to do it. And I agree
- 16:28Speaker 11: with I think it was I don't know if Mike
- 16:30Speaker 11: has said it. I think it was a scheme thing.
- 16:33Speaker 11: I think, you know, effort they just if you're not
- 16:38Speaker 11: in the right place like that. I've never seen the
- 16:40Speaker 11: screen pass before in my life go that far for
- 16:45Speaker 11: a touchdown. I'm gonna say effortlessly, right, Yeah, I mean
- 16:49Speaker 11: that was crazy.
- 16:51Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was crazy. And and from my
- 16:53Speaker 2: view in the press box, you know, there was there
- 16:57Speaker 2: were some plays in some angles taken that I just
- 17:00Speaker 2: I just still scratch my head. I don't understand what
- 17:04Speaker 2: what they saw or didn't see and so and that
- 17:09Speaker 2: that could have been a fifteen yard play maybe maybe twenty,
- 17:12Speaker 2: and it was.
- 17:13Speaker 11: Fifty two a two weeks. You know, it's just put
- 17:17Speaker 11: it behind us and they I think they can get
- 17:22Speaker 11: this straightened out. Yeah, you got the Garrett Gilbert last
- 17:25Speaker 11: time pretty much. So that impressed me. Yeah remember that
- 17:29Speaker 11: that trivia?
- 17:29Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, with.
- 17:31Speaker 11: I think with Ceedee Lamb only what Cowboy draft pick
- 17:37Speaker 11: had the most one thousand yard receiving seasons.
- 17:43Speaker 2: Is Cowboys draft Oh? Oh okay, see, you know what's
- 17:48Speaker 2: going on, all right, what Cowboy draft pick has the
- 17:51Speaker 2: most one thousand yard seasons?
- 17:53Speaker 7: All right?
- 17:53Speaker 2: Because Michael Irvin was the first one that that come
- 17:56Speaker 2: to my mind. But you're not going to ask that.
- 17:58Speaker 11: No, But.
- 18:01Speaker 2: Yeah, did he did? He did he play with Michael
- 18:06Speaker 2: Irvin for a year?
- 18:09Speaker 11: Yes, I mean, yeah, yeah, he did.
- 18:12Speaker 2: My My thought would be Jimmy Smith, you got it
- 18:17Speaker 2: the second round pick ninety two, and and it just
- 18:20Speaker 2: you know, he got hurt, he didn't play. I don't.
- 18:23Speaker 2: I don't know what the issue was. And he was
- 18:24Speaker 2: out of football for a year or two. I think
- 18:26Speaker 2: he tried to go with Philly and then he got
- 18:28Speaker 2: picked up by the Jaguars and the Expansion Draft and
- 18:30Speaker 2: then yep. And is he a Hall of Famer?
- 18:34Speaker 11: No, he's not. He's like the only one up there
- 18:36Speaker 11: he has I don't think he is. No, he has
- 18:38Speaker 11: nine one thousand yard what did Michael eight? You know,
- 18:42Speaker 11: I don't. Maybe Irvan had six? Yeah, seven tops. But
- 18:45Speaker 11: you know what's funny is that he never even caught
- 18:47Speaker 11: a pass for the Cowboys.
- 18:49Speaker 2: You're right, he never did.
- 18:50Speaker 11: He never, he never caught a pass. And I think
- 18:52Speaker 11: it was his his appendix or something happened where.
- 18:55Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, it was and he was out of
- 18:57Speaker 2: football too, so like it wasn't It wasn't one of
- 18:59Speaker 2: those things. I don't think where the Cowboys gave up
- 19:01Speaker 2: on him. It was just no, no, no, it just yeah,
- 19:03Speaker 2: it was a bad situation. But it was a good
- 19:05Speaker 2: draft pick obviously because he was he was a great player,
- 19:08Speaker 2: and you wonder, you know, with him and Harper, you know,
- 19:13Speaker 2: they actually did it perfectly because Harper left in ninety
- 19:16Speaker 2: four or at the end of ninety four, so they
- 19:19Speaker 2: had it, they had it drafted just perfectly where he was,
- 19:22Speaker 2: you know, would come in and about that third year
- 19:24Speaker 2: be ready to go. But yeah, that's a good draft pick, right.
- 19:28Speaker 2: I mean, that's a good trivia question because as soon
- 19:30Speaker 2: as you said that, I was like, all right, it's
- 19:33Speaker 2: gotta be something else here. All right, good stuff. You
- 19:35Speaker 2: know what, We're gonna take a first break here on
- 19:37Speaker 2: Cowboys Storyline. I always loved the trivia questions and your
- 19:41Speaker 2: opinions as well. Let's take more phone calls when we
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- 21:18Speaker 2: time to get back to the line again. We've got Sebastian.
- 21:22Speaker 2: He's in Savannah, Georgia. Sebastian. What's up man?
- 21:25Speaker 5: Good morning, sir. How are you doing today?
- 21:26Speaker 2: Good? How are you doing?
- 21:28Speaker 14: I'm doing just fine.
- 21:29Speaker 5: Can't complain.
- 21:30Speaker 14: You'll notice all the time that I kind of don't
- 21:32Speaker 14: call the first after a game. I want to keep
- 21:33Speaker 14: all that armchair general manager, angry energy inside so I
- 21:37Speaker 14: feel fine. I love to watch the fourth lay of
- 21:39Speaker 14: games before I call. And what I noticed was nobody has.
- 21:43Speaker 7: To figure it out.
- 21:44Speaker 14: In Week two, Team Switch.
- 21:45Speaker 5: Push lost last night. I loved it.
- 21:48Speaker 14: And my question is this, because we keep seeing this
- 21:51Speaker 14: come up. Is Mike McCarthy utilizing the weapons that we
- 21:55Speaker 14: have on offense properly. I'm seeing Deuce run to darkness.
- 21:58Speaker 14: I'm saying Zee catch pitch passes and screens, and I'm
- 22:01Speaker 14: thinking Zeke doesn't have the speed anymore. Why are we
- 22:04Speaker 14: forcing him to do things that he's not going to
- 22:07Speaker 14: be good at.
- 22:08Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll hang up all right, you know, I
- 22:11Speaker 2: I appreciate that call. And I and I I'll say this,
- 22:15Speaker 2: and I've said this before. I I get what you're saying,
- 22:19Speaker 2: like it makes sense.
- 22:20Speaker 11: You know.
- 22:20Speaker 2: Why is why are you running Duce Vaughan right up
- 22:22Speaker 2: the middle? And why are you throwing passes to to Zeke?
- 22:26Speaker 2: That's not what they do. You would think it would
- 22:29Speaker 2: be flipped. But if you don't, if you don't if
- 22:33Speaker 2: the other one, if you don't do everything, then they'll
- 22:37Speaker 2: they'll be on The Saints kind of snuffed everything out anyways.
- 22:41Speaker 2: But I think that if if Duce got in the
- 22:43Speaker 2: game any and he always had always had runs to
- 22:47Speaker 2: the outside or you know, then you know, and and
- 22:50Speaker 2: the thing is is they know it's gonna it's gonna
- 22:52Speaker 2: be a run because they know he's not gonna pass protect.
- 22:56Speaker 6: Uh.
- 22:56Speaker 2: So that's that's something the Cowboys have to do as well.
- 22:58Speaker 2: But if you just if you just say, had some
- 23:00Speaker 2: kind of trick play with him, or at least something
- 23:03Speaker 2: out in the flat or a pitch or whatever, and
- 23:05Speaker 2: every time Zeke was in it was going to be
- 23:07Speaker 2: a run. Then they would be on to that. So
- 23:09Speaker 2: I think running backs have to do it all not
- 23:12Speaker 2: all the time, but at least keep them honest, if
- 23:15Speaker 2: you will. But I mean nothing that they that was
- 23:19Speaker 2: working in that game was working. I mean the Saints
- 23:23Speaker 2: just they were three steps ahead of them, and they
- 23:27Speaker 2: looked bigger, stronger, and faster and better and and and
- 23:30Speaker 2: they blew them out. And that's the thing, you know.
- 23:32Speaker 2: The Cowboys were trying to keep up offensively, but only
- 23:35Speaker 2: with field goals. And so it just as since you're
- 23:39Speaker 2: from Savannah, Georgia and my guy Patrick Walker is from Savannah, Georgia,
- 23:43Speaker 2: I'll steal his line. When when you're getting three and
- 23:45Speaker 2: they're getting seven, the math ain't mathing, is what Patrick
- 23:49Speaker 2: would say. And I love that one. All right, Let's
- 23:51Speaker 2: go to Paul. He's in upstate, New York. Paul, Hey,
- 23:55Speaker 2: how you doing to Nick? I'm good man, first time calling.
- 23:59Speaker 4: Yes, I am also a veteran. I really appreciate everything
- 24:03Speaker 4: you guys do for veterans to show you support.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Sure.
- 24:08Speaker 4: My question is, of all the rookies that played this weekend,
- 24:12Speaker 4: which one do you think had the largest and the
- 24:15Speaker 4: smallest impact or the most positive and negative impact.
- 24:17Speaker 2: On the game on the last game.
- 24:21Speaker 15: Yeah, on this last game.
- 24:22Speaker 4: I tried to call in Friday. I was going to
- 24:24Speaker 4: ask which one you thought would have the biggest impact?
- 24:26Speaker 4: So now I want to know which one you think
- 24:27Speaker 4: did or did had the the worst and the best
- 24:31Speaker 4: impact on the game. So like who had the worst game?
- 24:34Speaker 4: Who had the best?
- 24:35Speaker 2: Well, you know, Paul, I say this all the time
- 24:37Speaker 2: when when someone calls in with a specific question, that
- 24:40Speaker 2: means they have a specific answer as well. So I'm
- 24:42Speaker 2: gonna throw back to you. I'm gonna throw back to
- 24:44Speaker 2: you tennis style and I'll love it back up to you.
- 24:47Speaker 2: What is your answer to that?
- 24:50Speaker 4: So I thought Cooper BB still played really well. I
- 24:53Speaker 4: thought he probably played the best, especially between him and
- 24:57Speaker 4: and got beat a few times, Right, But Cooper BB
- 25:01Speaker 4: held up really well in the middle. We just couldn't
- 25:03Speaker 4: get any push from the rest of the line. On
- 25:07Speaker 4: the defense. I thought Leo struggled in his role, just
- 25:12Speaker 4: in the role that he was assigned to, especially when
- 25:16Speaker 4: you consider oversown performance last week.
- 25:18Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, those are those are good. I mean, I
- 25:23Speaker 2: I think I think BB Boebe and Guidon's kind of
- 25:27Speaker 2: struggled a little bit. But if you have to give
- 25:30Speaker 2: up the best of the rookies, probably probably Bebe And
- 25:34Speaker 2: then you know, Carson wasn't great, Leah foul, Guidon Neeland
- 25:42Speaker 2: was just kind of like, Okay, you know, Flinoyd did nothing.
- 25:47Speaker 2: He was inactive. It's not fair, but he may not
- 25:51Speaker 2: be inactive next week, you know. I mean, I mean,
- 25:53Speaker 2: I think that's something keep an eye on. It's not
- 25:57Speaker 2: illegal to fall down in the middle of a route,
- 25:59Speaker 2: so I mean Aalen Brooks, it happened. But but I
- 26:02Speaker 2: also think that Flinoy might give you a little bit more. Anyways,
- 26:05Speaker 2: if he can show that he's he can, you know,
- 26:08Speaker 2: pick up the slack on special teams. It maybe he's
- 26:11Speaker 2: a he's a guy that could that that would come
- 26:14Speaker 2: in here and be active for a game. But to
- 26:16Speaker 2: answer your question, I think I think you have it
- 26:19Speaker 2: right with Bebe. I would I would say Carson and Leah,
- 26:23Speaker 2: fall and Geiten all all had their moments of struggle
- 26:26Speaker 2: in the game as well. So all right, let's go
- 26:28Speaker 2: to uh Chuck d in Bridge City, Texas.
- 26:33Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, Hey, Chuck, Hey, this situation with the running
- 26:37Speaker 8: backs reminds me of the year we let the Marco
- 26:40Speaker 8: Maury go and we thought Joseph Randall would be the answer.
- 26:45Speaker 2: Well, and I hope so I hope that's the answer.
- 26:49Speaker 2: I mean, I really hope that that is what happens.
- 26:51Speaker 2: Because if you remember a guy that came in rush
- 26:55Speaker 2: for eleven hundred yards, So if they're if there's eleven
- 26:59Speaker 2: hundred yard Russier or somewhere, you know, waiting in the wings,
- 27:02Speaker 2: that maybe it's a Dalvin Cook. I'm all for that. Now,
- 27:04Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not all for the four different quarterbacks
- 27:08Speaker 2: that played that year. I'd like to just keep it
- 27:10Speaker 2: at one. But but just just for your point, I
- 27:14Speaker 2: think you're right they thought one way. This reminds me
- 27:18Speaker 2: a little bit more of the twenty eighteen season where
- 27:20Speaker 2: they thought they could go receiver by committee and that
- 27:24Speaker 2: didn't work. They ended up trading for Amari Cooper. I'm
- 27:26Speaker 2: not saying that what happened, but you know so.
- 27:29Speaker 8: Far, Yeah, that's what I was. That's what I was
- 27:30Speaker 8: gonna bring up. Did you see them? Could you see them?
- 27:34Speaker 8: For McCarthy's you know, giving him a good chance, don't
- 27:38Speaker 8: fit in the first second and get one of these
- 27:40Speaker 8: running backs that for a team. Let's just say the Panthers.
- 27:44Speaker 8: You know they are not going to do good and
- 27:46Speaker 8: they decide.
- 27:46Speaker 7: They're gonna let go somebody.
- 27:47Speaker 8: Could you see us doing something like.
- 27:49Speaker 2: That without this is me not knowing anything, but I
- 27:56Speaker 2: would say yes, I could see that. I could see
- 28:00Speaker 2: the first things First, I think you need to look
- 28:03Speaker 2: at all your options you have here, and Dalvin Cook
- 28:07Speaker 2: would make sense. I mean, if he's ready, if he's
- 28:10Speaker 2: ready to go now now, McCarthy said on Monday, he
- 28:14Speaker 2: said that that it's really more terminology is what he
- 28:18Speaker 2: needs to kind of pick up. And and on one hand,
- 28:22Speaker 2: you know running backs, that's why you see rookies come
- 28:24Speaker 2: in the league and do well because they kind of
- 28:26Speaker 2: know what they're need to do. Get the ball, see
- 28:28Speaker 2: the whole run. But you know, if you don't if
- 28:30Speaker 2: you don't know the blitz pick up and things like that,
- 28:33Speaker 2: your quarterback could also be you know, getting up looking
- 28:37Speaker 2: at his ear hole, you know, I mean that kind
- 28:39Speaker 2: of stuff, and you don't want that. And we've seen
- 28:40Speaker 2: a running back. I've seen a running back here that
- 28:42Speaker 2: missed his assignment and ended the Cowboys season. Back in
- 28:45Speaker 2: twenty ten when Romo got hurt, so it could happen,
- 28:48Speaker 2: and it's a big part of it. And that's why
- 28:50Speaker 2: Zeke has some more value than people think. But I
- 28:54Speaker 2: could see I could see them, you know, trying to
- 28:58Speaker 2: find some answers all year long running back. You know,
- 29:01Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into names of other teams
- 29:02Speaker 2: that would be tampering, but but you guys can do that.
- 29:05Speaker 2: You can look on the riding on the wall and
- 29:07Speaker 2: then you did. You picked a team that has a
- 29:09Speaker 2: couple of running backs there and drafted a guy that
- 29:12Speaker 2: should be coming back, so you know, and they might
- 29:16Speaker 2: be open to doing something like that. But but that's
- 29:18Speaker 2: that's what you got to look at before the trade deadline.
- 29:21Speaker 2: But I think before that you got to, you know,
- 29:23Speaker 2: let's let a few more games play out. See what
- 29:25Speaker 2: happens here. See if you can get into some games
- 29:28Speaker 2: where the Cowboys can have the lead and run the
- 29:31Speaker 2: ball a little bit better than they did in Cleveland
- 29:33Speaker 2: and a lot better than they did against the Saints,
- 29:34Speaker 2: and we'll see what kind of problem we really have.
- 29:36Speaker 2: But but you got you know, last week, I was like,
- 29:39Speaker 2: I'm not sure. This week, I you guys are onto something,
- 29:42Speaker 2: because it really we haven't seen anything in two games.
- 29:44Speaker 2: They ranked twenty fifth in the league right now, averaging
- 29:47Speaker 2: eighty five yards a game. You know that that's obviously
- 29:49Speaker 2: not going to get it cut. That's not going to
- 29:51Speaker 2: cut it. Let's go to Josh in Chicago.
- 29:54Speaker 16: Hey, how's it going good? How are you not bad?
- 29:57Speaker 2: Hey?
- 29:57Speaker 16: So I having a little trouble with the feet today
- 29:59Speaker 16: might on my end, so I'm repetitive. I'm sorry, but
- 30:03Speaker 16: talking running back trade stuff, I know you can't comment.
- 30:05Speaker 16: You know, I know Carolina's got a guy who's sitting
- 30:08Speaker 16: out there waiting to come back from injury that we
- 30:10Speaker 16: tried to get in the draft but couldn't get to.
- 30:12Speaker 16: So he might be an option in my eyes.
- 30:15Speaker 2: But what I listen, I'll say this, I don't think
- 30:18Speaker 2: that would be the option for Carolina. Again, I think
- 30:22Speaker 2: it would be the other two guys that they've got
- 30:25Speaker 2: that are you know that ones bounced around again. I'm
- 30:29Speaker 2: not getting into all that, but I don't think they
- 30:30Speaker 2: would trade their draft pick. I think they would trade
- 30:33Speaker 2: some progress stoppers.
- 30:35Speaker 16: If you will, you're probably right. And what I think, though,
- 30:39Speaker 16: is when you look at some of the teams and
- 30:41Speaker 16: really what New Orleans did with Taysom Hill. I really
- 30:44Speaker 16: think that some of the answer might be Hunter Lifkey
- 30:46Speaker 16: and getting him more involved in the passing game and
- 30:49Speaker 16: running game, because you know, he's an X factor, he's
- 30:52Speaker 16: a weapon, he's fast, he's big, you know. I think
- 30:55Speaker 16: they just got to get him involved more and that
- 30:56Speaker 16: would help the run game and the passing game more.
- 30:59Speaker 16: Just I want to hear your thoughts. Sorry, I got there,
- 31:01Speaker 16: all right.
- 31:02Speaker 2: Thank you. You know before there's other options here, you know,
- 31:06Speaker 2: you you first things first is you you get it
- 31:09Speaker 2: blocked up front. I mean, you make sure the guys
- 31:11Speaker 2: up front are doing what they need to do, and
- 31:12Speaker 2: I think they'll continue to get better. Remember there's two
- 31:15Speaker 2: rookies up there.
- 31:16Speaker 7: Uh.
- 31:16Speaker 2: And then and then you figure out the next next
- 31:18Speaker 2: thing is who are our best runners here? Who who
- 31:21Speaker 2: can see the hole, who's hitting the hole the best,
- 31:23Speaker 2: who's got the most juice, all of those things? Who
- 31:25Speaker 2: are our best options here on this team to run
- 31:27Speaker 2: the football? Then I think a third part before you
- 31:31Speaker 2: start looking on the outside, is can we do more
- 31:35Speaker 2: in the running game? Is annoyed. As annoying as it
- 31:38Speaker 2: is to hear in the stadium, I don't care if
- 31:42Speaker 2: every single play if the referee says so and so
- 31:46Speaker 2: has reported eligible, I don't care as long as the reports,
- 31:49Speaker 2: you know, because if he doesn't report, then you could
- 31:51Speaker 2: throw a touchdown pass and you can lose a game
- 31:54Speaker 2: like that. But you got to report. That's part of it.
- 31:56Speaker 2: My point to that is, give me some more big
- 31:59Speaker 2: guys in here. Is there a swing tackle? Could Austoin
- 32:02Speaker 2: Richards as a swing tax? Could could he help? Could
- 32:05Speaker 2: could a defensive lineman. Could Amasi Smith? Somebody like that?
- 32:10Speaker 2: Be a lead full back type guy. I've seen Jay
- 32:13Speaker 2: Rytliffe do that for the for the Cowboys before. He
- 32:16Speaker 2: was kind of in every every down player. Somebody with
- 32:19Speaker 2: some size, somebody that can help as as a tackle
- 32:23Speaker 2: eligible to you know, unbalanced line that can just provide
- 32:26Speaker 2: a little bit more push. There's other ways to do this,
- 32:29Speaker 2: and and and I think we're not there yet on
- 32:32Speaker 2: some of these. You know, I don't know if it's
- 32:34Speaker 2: desperate yet, but there's other things to do before you
- 32:37Speaker 2: go and trade for someone else. So maybe the Cowboys
- 32:40Speaker 2: can do some of those things. All right, We're gonna
- 32:42Speaker 2: take another break here on Cowboys storyline, and we'll be
- 32:45Speaker 2: right back in just a moment.
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- 34:27Speaker 2: time here. Gavin in Oklahoma City has been waiting on
- 34:29Speaker 2: the line. Gavin, what's up man?
- 34:31Speaker 7: What's ups it going there?
- 34:33Speaker 2: How are you?
- 34:35Speaker 7: I've been better man, It's gonna be a long week
- 34:37Speaker 7: for me. I'm from Louisiana and I talked my talk
- 34:40Speaker 7: to my buddies back home, so I got to face the.
- 34:44Speaker 2: Well, you've been talking talking a bunch of trash.
- 34:47Speaker 7: Before they got death. I definitely was like, more so
- 34:51Speaker 7: than what's out of my personality? Yeah, because they started
- 34:56Speaker 7: it to be honest with you. But anyway, anyway, my
- 35:02Speaker 7: problem with the game, looking back at the film, I
- 35:05Speaker 7: didn't want to call yesterday because it would have been
- 35:07Speaker 7: out of emotion. I'm sure you get plenty of those
- 35:09Speaker 7: calls in the next few days, but I saw a
- 35:12Speaker 7: lot of lack of effort on defense. I feel like,
- 35:14Speaker 7: I feel like when our team gets hitting the mouth,
- 35:16Speaker 7: they don't respond. And I mean hopefully, since this is
- 35:21Speaker 7: week two, they have time for zimmer to to try
- 35:25Speaker 7: to coach them up. But you can't really coach effort. Yeah,
- 35:29Speaker 7: my biggest concern going forward is when CD gets schemed
- 35:33Speaker 7: to be shut down, which you can never totally scheme
- 35:36Speaker 7: him to be shut down. But you know, when they
- 35:38Speaker 7: focus on CD and they focus on Michael, who else
- 35:41Speaker 7: is going to step up? I saw on the Kamara
- 35:44Speaker 7: screen where he scored a touchdown, the only player running
- 35:47Speaker 7: full speed, in my opinion, was d Law. I feel
- 35:50Speaker 7: like if we could just get a bunch of d
- 35:51Speaker 7: Laws on the field, that would be great. Yeah, Like,
- 35:54Speaker 7: where's the effort at you know, there's the where's the
- 35:57Speaker 7: pride in your home? You know, it's easier said than done.
- 36:02Speaker 7: I know they have been getting ran on and this
- 36:05Speaker 7: and that, but this is what they get paid for.
- 36:07Speaker 7: This is you know, it's just disappointed. Man, We're all disappointed.
- 36:12Speaker 7: But I'm still hopeful going forward. I'm going to the
- 36:15Speaker 7: game next week, so I'm hoping not for a repeat
- 36:18Speaker 7: performance because Baltimore is known to be pretty physical. Just
- 36:21Speaker 7: because they're only two doesn't mean, you know, everybody knows
- 36:24Speaker 7: this game is serious. They're going to come in desperate,
- 36:26Speaker 7: and I just hope, you know, we don't have a
- 36:29Speaker 7: repeat of this. Surely not. Yeah, yeah, But anyway, I'll
- 36:33Speaker 7: get off of here. And I guess my question was
- 36:36Speaker 7: really about the CD and like one every day scheme
- 36:40Speaker 7: for them. Yeah, you know, who's going to step up?
- 36:42Speaker 7: And what do you think about that? But I appreciate
- 36:45Speaker 7: it all right.
- 36:46Speaker 2: Well, on offense, you know, that's why you have to
- 36:49Speaker 2: run the football. You know, you've got to be able
- 36:51Speaker 2: to be balanced, got to be able to win other ways.
- 36:53Speaker 2: And you know, I thought Brandon Cooks was ready to
- 36:56Speaker 2: kind of take that that role. And you know, I'm
- 36:59Speaker 2: not saying that he can't. I mean, he's done it.
- 37:02Speaker 2: The thing about Brandon, he's had four one thousand yard
- 37:05Speaker 2: seasons with four different teams. So he didn't do that
- 37:07Speaker 2: last year, but he did catch eight touchdowns and so
- 37:10Speaker 2: he was a factor and he can he will be
- 37:12Speaker 2: a factor for this team. As well. I think Jake Ferguson.
- 37:16Speaker 2: We saw the value there. A Scoomaker did an okay job,
- 37:19Speaker 2: six catches on six targets, one of them a nice
- 37:21Speaker 2: one handed catch, you know, But it's not the same
- 37:24Speaker 2: with him, you know. It's just he doesn't have the athleticism,
- 37:27Speaker 2: the explosion, and so he's he's a good compliment when
- 37:32Speaker 2: you're doing the two tight end set, but I think
- 37:35Speaker 2: that he's not. I don't consider him like a weapon
- 37:39Speaker 2: out there. And and and that's something that they certainly need.
- 37:41Speaker 2: So those guys have to step up it on defense,
- 37:44Speaker 2: you know. They they need they need rushers, they need
- 37:48Speaker 2: playmakers there. Sam Williams injury really hurts them. I think
- 37:51Speaker 2: it hurts them more than we thought it would. And
- 37:53Speaker 2: so they haven't really replaced that guy because he's got
- 37:57Speaker 2: some explosive ability to go and rush rush the quarterback,
- 38:01Speaker 2: and so they haven't found that yet. And and they
- 38:04Speaker 2: you know, overshown maybe maybe there's a there's be a
- 38:08Speaker 2: role for him more than what we've seen. I know
- 38:10Speaker 2: a lot of the fans are upset with with the
- 38:12Speaker 2: scheme that didn't have him on the field as much,
- 38:14Speaker 2: and so I would imagine You're going to see a
- 38:16Speaker 2: lot of him, uh in this next game as well.
- 38:19Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Vinnie in New Jersey.
- 38:24Speaker 10: Hello, and Nick?
- 38:24Speaker 7: How you good man? Are you?
- 38:26Speaker 2: First time caller?
- 38:28Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 38:28Speaker 11: First time calling?
- 38:29Speaker 8: Hey.
- 38:29Speaker 10: Look, I've been following them since nineteen sixty five, and
- 38:33Speaker 10: it's it's a pleasure talking to you because I I've
- 38:36Speaker 10: seen you on your shows and I hear you on WFA,
- 38:39Speaker 10: and I really respect the comments and the instact that
- 38:43Speaker 10: you have.
- 38:43Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 38:45Speaker 15: Uh.
- 38:45Speaker 10: Did Jimmy Jonmost listen to this?
- 38:49Speaker 2: I hope not. No, kid, I don't know. No, I
- 38:54Speaker 2: would doubt it. I would doubt it.
- 38:57Speaker 10: The question I have, I mean I have a lot
- 39:00Speaker 10: of I mean, how lucky enough I've seen seven Super
- 39:02Speaker 10: Bowls and five wins or whatever. Okay, so I've been
- 39:06Speaker 10: lucky enough. But for the last thirty to thirty years,
- 39:09Speaker 10: I'm getting really pissed off now because I saw how
- 39:12Speaker 10: things were run. I get it, the football has evolved
- 39:16Speaker 10: over the years, But why is it we're always behind
- 39:19Speaker 10: the eight ball? I mean, I understand, you know, and
- 39:23Speaker 10: I know everybody says Jerry Jones shouldn't be the GM.
- 39:26Speaker 5: I get it.
- 39:26Speaker 10: Thirty years you'd be he would have been by it
- 39:28Speaker 10: ten times for another team. But why, I mean, you
- 39:34Speaker 10: have a running back by committee. Now everybody keeps talking
- 39:36Speaker 10: about the defense, but if you're running the ball because
- 39:40Speaker 10: the tea face off the field, number one, number two,
- 39:44Speaker 10: running the ball by committee, it's not gonna help you.
- 39:48Speaker 10: I mean, we we saw how will when when we
- 39:50Speaker 10: had receivers by a committee. Don't they learn from that?
- 39:55Speaker 10: I mean remember when we used it when we got
- 39:57Speaker 10: to Mari Cooper. Yeah, we had day It was so
- 40:01Speaker 10: hell bent on and I know it was a different coach,
- 40:05Speaker 10: but the general manager had to sign off on him
- 40:07Speaker 10: to a degree. You saw how that worked and it
- 40:12Speaker 10: and it really hurts you then because then they had
- 40:15Speaker 10: to get Then they got rid of Amari Cooper. But
- 40:18Speaker 10: for the first six or seven games, you had no
- 40:20Speaker 10: offensive output that and it's the same thing that's gonna
- 40:24Speaker 10: happen here. I know you had Ferguson out, but jesus,
- 40:28Speaker 10: if you don't run the ball. You got Ziku I
- 40:31Speaker 10: you know, admire and everything, but he's passed his prime.
- 40:34Speaker 10: You got Dalvin Cook, who, to be honest with you,
- 40:39Speaker 10: I don't I don't think Jones knows how well Cooked
- 40:46Speaker 10: would play, and I think Jones is the one that
- 40:48Speaker 10: probably UH pushed to get Dalvin Cook. But you have
- 40:54Speaker 10: to go get somebody. Now, you got Kareem Hunt that's
- 40:56Speaker 10: got more tread on the tires than Cook or l
- 41:00Speaker 10: You gotta go by one or two backs periods. You
- 41:03Speaker 10: go by running backs by committee. You don't hold on
- 41:07Speaker 10: to the ball. You don't hold on to the ball,
- 41:09Speaker 10: and the defense gets beat, gets beat like a drum
- 41:13Speaker 10: because they're playing Shanahan's offense. And that's another issue. You
- 41:17Speaker 10: would think after the last three four years, they came
- 41:21Speaker 10: up with a plan with that, since that was their
- 41:23Speaker 10: main competitor to get to the Super Bowl, and they
- 41:26Speaker 10: still haven't done it.
- 41:28Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well thanks for the call of Annie.
- 41:31Speaker 2: You know, I'll say this about running back by committee,
- 41:34Speaker 2: receiver by committee, quarterback by committee, that's a nice term
- 41:38Speaker 2: when in the reality of it is, there's not somebody
- 41:43Speaker 2: that we absolutely trust to be the lead guy. That's
- 41:46Speaker 2: what it is. That's what the team, that's that's how
- 41:48Speaker 2: it kind of evolves. It's not that they wake up
- 41:51Speaker 2: in the middle of the spring and say, you know what,
- 41:54Speaker 2: forget having like a really stud workhorse back, Let's get
- 41:57Speaker 2: a bunch of other backs and let's just do a committee.
- 42:01Speaker 2: You've all heard the term, you know, or we have
- 42:03Speaker 2: two quarterbacks, we have three quarterbacks. If you have two quarterbacks,
- 42:06Speaker 2: you have zero. Okay, Now, running back it's a little
- 42:09Speaker 2: different because you do have some you want more runners
- 42:13Speaker 2: in there. But everybody wants that stud running back. Everybody
- 42:17Speaker 2: wants to have a difference maker, and you don't have it.
- 42:20Speaker 2: Then the nice way to say it is is we
- 42:22Speaker 2: have a committee. Because what you don't realize is is
- 42:26Speaker 2: there's there's a you know, there's five or six seven
- 42:30Speaker 2: scouts that that are involved in the process here, and
- 42:34Speaker 2: then there's coaches and offensive coordinator and the head coach
- 42:37Speaker 2: and then the GM and all that, and they probably
- 42:41Speaker 2: have a different opinion. If you went to let's say ten,
- 42:44Speaker 2: ten to eleven people in that group and say who's
- 42:46Speaker 2: what running back gives us the best chance, you're probably
- 42:49Speaker 2: gonna get three, maybe four answers, uh, different answers. That's
- 42:53Speaker 2: where the committee is. That's why it's they're they're not
- 42:56Speaker 2: really set on who who's going to be the best
- 42:58Speaker 2: option here. It's not like they went into this going
- 43:02Speaker 2: this is what we want to do. Now could they
- 43:04Speaker 2: have gone and paid more money than than Philly did
- 43:08Speaker 2: for for Barkley or for Baltimore did for Henry. Yes,
- 43:12Speaker 2: they could have done that. They could have done that,
- 43:14Speaker 2: and you know, I mean they it would have been
- 43:17Speaker 2: tough with their cap situation or whatever, but you know
- 43:20Speaker 2: they you could have gone into this. You could have
- 43:23Speaker 2: drafted higher. You could have drafted a running back at all,
- 43:25Speaker 2: you know, and drafted high. See, you could have done
- 43:28Speaker 2: different options here. But I just don't think team. I
- 43:32Speaker 2: think teams get backed into the committee more than they
- 43:36Speaker 2: say that's what we want to do. All right, let's
- 43:38Speaker 2: go one more here, Let's go Michael and Bowling Green, Kentucky.
- 43:44Speaker 15: I'm still optimistic. I believe where you got four more
- 43:48Speaker 15: losses in this and that's it. So five losses. I
- 43:53Speaker 15: believe we're not you know, we're good. Hey, the Eagles
- 43:57Speaker 15: in the forty nine ers say both loss too, So
- 44:01Speaker 15: it's still all good. I mean, there's a long way
- 44:04Speaker 15: to go, it's all I got.
- 44:05Speaker 2: All right, Michael, appreciate that you're right about the long
- 44:08Speaker 2: way to go. I mean, I think we've learned our lesson,
- 44:11Speaker 2: or we should have learned the lesson on saying well,
- 44:13Speaker 2: we've got five losses left. I mean, was did anyone
- 44:17Speaker 2: have the Saints as a loss? And if they did,
- 44:20Speaker 2: did they have a minus twenty five? I mean, it's
- 44:24Speaker 2: just early to know who's what, who's good? I mean,
- 44:29Speaker 2: who's a really good team and who isn't. I mean,
- 44:33Speaker 2: the Giants look like they're going to struggle, and you know,
- 44:38Speaker 2: Washington is Washington. I haven't I don't know if they
- 44:42Speaker 2: you know, turned the corner. Get they're playing a rookie quarterback.
- 44:45Speaker 2: You don't play them till later in the year, So
- 44:47Speaker 2: rookie quarterback might be a lot better by then. But
- 44:50Speaker 2: it's just it's hard to know who is what I mean,
- 44:53Speaker 2: Look at San Francisco, you know you got them in
- 44:56Speaker 2: a few weeks. Deebo's hurt, McCaffrey hurt. You just know
- 45:03Speaker 2: they're both coming back before the Cowboys game. I mean,
- 45:05Speaker 2: they just will. I mean, that's just that's a given.
- 45:08Speaker 2: You know that. But you know they're they're banged up
- 45:11Speaker 2: right now. The Eagles, you know, they're they you know,
- 45:16Speaker 2: they they decided not to try to win the game
- 45:18Speaker 2: the other day, you know, and and just uh and
- 45:20Speaker 2: got cute which offensive coordinator that we've seen before, Uh
- 45:25Speaker 2: do that, And I don't know whose call that was
- 45:26Speaker 2: at the end of the game to throw the ball
- 45:28Speaker 2: when it's third and three and uh and throw it
- 45:31Speaker 2: in the flat to to to Barkley and they they
- 45:34Speaker 2: had had success on that and they scored. But you know,
- 45:38Speaker 2: it's We've seen it twice with the Cowboys last season,
- 45:42Speaker 2: two games Seattle and Detroit, very similar situations where a
- 45:46Speaker 2: first down will win the game, and and and a
- 45:50Speaker 2: touchdown or whatever wins it and the game's over. Or
- 45:53Speaker 2: you can try to run it when there's no timeouts
- 45:56Speaker 2: for the other team and you can basically just wipe
- 45:58Speaker 2: the clock, cut it in half, take forty seconds off
- 46:02Speaker 2: the clock, and put them in a really bad situation.
- 46:05Speaker 2: We saw McCarthy twice throw the ball and throw incomplete
- 46:08Speaker 2: and really almost lost the game because of it. And
- 46:11Speaker 2: last night or you know, Monday night, the Philly did
- 46:13Speaker 2: the same thing. Philly lost the game by trying to
- 46:17Speaker 2: get cute. When I'm running Barkley, he probably gets the
- 46:20Speaker 2: first down. If he doesn't, they're getting close enough to
- 46:23Speaker 2: push it in on fourth down. And if you don't
- 46:25Speaker 2: make it there, you give them fifty five seconds back
- 46:28Speaker 2: on their own ten yard line to try to go
- 46:30Speaker 2: get a field goal with no timeouts. That's way better
- 46:33Speaker 2: than the thirty five yard line with a minute forty
- 46:37Speaker 2: It's just a it's a mismanagement of the clock, and
- 46:41Speaker 2: it's kind of an arrogance, you know that he willt's go,
- 46:45Speaker 2: let's go win this game. I say it thousand times.
- 46:47Speaker 2: I'll argue with anyone that wants to argue with me
- 46:50Speaker 2: about the difference between playing to win and playing not
- 46:54Speaker 2: to lose. And they were trying to play to win
- 46:57Speaker 2: and win this game right then and there. And if
- 47:00Speaker 2: you play it smart, play the percentages and play not
- 47:03Speaker 2: to lose, you don't lose. Because playing to win and
- 47:06Speaker 2: playing not to lose ends up the exact same way
- 47:09Speaker 2: to me. And it's just it doesn't matter what the
- 47:12Speaker 2: level of aggressiveness is. But that's okay, we got we
- 47:14Speaker 2: got one more caller. That's just my little rant right there.
- 47:17Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Randy in Texas, Kanada's brother.
- 47:21Speaker 5: I don't want to have a little ram myself. I
- 47:24Speaker 5: did not get to listen today, so I don't know.
- 47:26Speaker 5: I hope I'm not going to cover the same exact thing.
- 47:28Speaker 5: But one week two Dallas Cowboy MVP and goes to
- 47:32Speaker 5: Kirk Cousins two. I disagree with vond being set down
- 47:40Speaker 5: or cut or release for other running backs because it's
- 47:44Speaker 5: I don't think it's on him. I think it is
- 47:47Speaker 5: the way they're scheming him.
- 47:48Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 47:49Speaker 5: I promise you, if you put that guy on a
- 47:51Speaker 5: forty nine er or the Miami or somebody with that
- 47:54Speaker 5: type of a creative play calling, they will get him
- 47:58Speaker 5: into open space. You cannot run and that little guy
- 48:01Speaker 5: up the middle with people that are the south of
- 48:04Speaker 5: dump trucks. You know it just it won't work. And
- 48:07Speaker 5: my third thing to talk about and I'll hurd up
- 48:10Speaker 5: can get off in what frustrates me about Dallas and
- 48:14Speaker 5: it goes back to last year. But what happened this
- 48:17Speaker 5: weekend was we don't just lose with a battle like
- 48:22Speaker 5: where it's a one or two point loss and they're like, okay,
- 48:25Speaker 5: chalk it up to your guys, just better in mind.
- 48:28Speaker 5: We fought. We go the next week, we get smoked
- 48:31Speaker 5: and we get what it was like. We teach people
- 48:36Speaker 5: how to beat us, like we are giving you the
- 48:39Speaker 5: game plan on exactly how to beat us, and then
- 48:42Speaker 5: it's going to take us the next five or six
- 48:44Speaker 5: weeks of everybody copycatting and doing the same thing that
- 48:48Speaker 5: they did to us for us to get out of
- 48:50Speaker 5: that rut. That's what they're doing to it. That's what
- 48:53Speaker 5: happened last year with the Cardinals game when they ran
- 48:55Speaker 5: all over us and then you know it took us.
- 48:59Speaker 5: Of course, we got back on a winning streak. But
- 49:02Speaker 5: like we give them the blueprint on how to beat us.
- 49:04Speaker 5: It's not just a hard fought law, it's a blueprint
- 49:08Speaker 5: on this is what we're terrible at. Now get after it.
- 49:12Speaker 5: And That's where I'm at with it.
- 49:14Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hear your point, Randy, And thanks thanks
- 49:16Speaker 2: for the call.
- 49:17Speaker 9: Uh.
- 49:18Speaker 2: Like I said before, though, I mean, what if what
- 49:21Speaker 2: you know the blueprint, the blueprint to beat Baltimore? I mean,
- 49:25Speaker 2: did Kansas City give you that? I mean, you know, like, hey,
- 49:29Speaker 2: you know, let mahomes go and beat you that way?
- 49:33Speaker 2: Or run the ball? I mean, what if the blueprint,
- 49:36Speaker 2: what if the Cowboys are playing someone in the blueprint
- 49:38Speaker 2: is run the ball. Just run the ball all the time,
- 49:41Speaker 2: just run it at them all the time. Well, the
- 49:43Speaker 2: Cowboys are like, well, that's not what we do the best,
- 49:47Speaker 2: that's not what we're great, at that's not what's going
- 49:49Speaker 2: to help us. So you can say that we're telling
- 49:52Speaker 2: teams how to do that. And last year, Okay, Arizona
- 49:55Speaker 2: did it. Yeah, congratulations, Arizona got you know the two
- 49:58Speaker 2: hundred and twenty two yards, that's the blueprint. Do that,
- 50:01Speaker 2: that's the blueprint. Well they only lost four more games,
- 50:04Speaker 2: So I mean, what, how do you how do you say,
- 50:07Speaker 2: well that that's exactly how to do it. This is again,
- 50:10Speaker 2: it's not this is not Montel Jordan, this isn't this
- 50:12Speaker 2: is how we do it. You can't play that way.
- 50:15Speaker 2: It sounds good, but not everybody can play the same style.
- 50:18Speaker 2: Because if the Cowboys could just play that way, they
- 50:20Speaker 2: would never lose. Just run the ball, but they they're
- 50:22Speaker 2: not built that way. So yes, yes, hit the edges.
- 50:26Speaker 2: If you have a guy like Kamara and have a
- 50:28Speaker 2: deep balls and then you know out physical everyone, that's
- 50:31Speaker 2: the blueprint to do it. But I'm not saying everyone
- 50:33Speaker 2: can do it that same way. All right, guys, appreciate that.
- 50:36Speaker 2: It's been a fun, fun time talking to you guys.
- 50:40Speaker 2: This week, we're gonna keep eyes forward to Baltimore as
- 50:43Speaker 2: the Cowboys get ready for the Ravens. For Chris Beam.
- 50:46Speaker 2: I'm Nick Eatman. We will see you next time on
- 50:48Speaker 2: Cowboys storyline.
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