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- 0:18Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It's Monday, October twenty seventh.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Cowboys fall to the Denver Broncos on Sunday, forty four
- 0:34Speaker 2: to twenty four. Not a game that I was expecting, obviously.
- 0:39Speaker 2: I really thought the Cowboys would play way better. I
- 0:41Speaker 2: thought the Cowboys would would control the game and win
- 0:45Speaker 2: by two scores. Totally wrong on that one. Denver was
- 0:51Speaker 2: way better than Dallas. The Cowboys could not handle the
- 0:56Speaker 2: I don't know about the altitude. I don't know about that,
- 0:58Speaker 2: but they certainly couldn't handle the mile high crowd in Denver.
- 1:05Speaker 2: Too many penalties before the snap, and they just couldn't
- 1:09Speaker 2: handle the pressure of you know, these winning consecutive games.
- 1:13Speaker 2: That's what you have to do in the NFL, you
- 1:14Speaker 2: got those stack wins together. You got to handle success
- 1:18Speaker 2: as much as anything else. And they definitely did not.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Very very tough loss. Tough loss and disappointing loss just
- 1:26Speaker 2: because you know, you know, the defense has its problems,
- 1:31Speaker 2: and I'm not giving them a pass, but they have
- 1:34Speaker 2: their issues, and at this point, the offense just has
- 1:36Speaker 2: to be perfect, and they weren't at all. In the
- 1:39Speaker 2: offensive line looks like a you know, like a problem.
- 1:46Speaker 2: You know that that's that's kind of formulating when you're
- 1:48Speaker 2: going up against some really good, aggressive defensive fronts. We've
- 1:52Speaker 2: seen them have some success, but when they when they
- 1:55Speaker 2: get beat in the middle, they really can't do hardly anything.
- 1:59Speaker 2: Ferguson's not factor, Javonte Williams is not a factor, and
- 2:03Speaker 2: they can't really open it up to the outside. So
- 2:05Speaker 2: all right, let's let's talk about it. Eight eight eight
- 2:08Speaker 2: five five two to nine seven is the number to
- 2:11Speaker 2: call Chris. Let's get let's start with the phone calls.
- 2:15Speaker 2: I don't I don't have it in front of me.
- 2:16Speaker 2: Just let's get it started. Let's go ierwin.
- 2:19Speaker 3: What's up, hey, Nick, how's it going to you?
- 2:23Speaker 4: Guys?
- 2:24Speaker 2: Morning to you?
- 2:26Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 2:26Speaker 3: What a complete disaster. I mean, it just didn't look
- 2:30Speaker 3: like they were prepared to play.
- 2:32Speaker 6: Then.
- 2:32Speaker 3: You they had to have known they were going and
- 2:34Speaker 3: playing the best defense in the NFL. The offense, I mean,
- 2:37Speaker 3: they made they made so Nicks looked like he was
- 2:41Speaker 3: Tom Brady. I mean, it's just an embarrassment. Really, uh,
- 2:45Speaker 3: and you know, just a couple more things. I'll let
- 2:47Speaker 3: you go, and thanks for taking my call, but you know,
- 2:49Speaker 3: I was really on board. I spoke with you last
- 2:51Speaker 3: week about the Cowboys possibly, you know, everything still on
- 2:55Speaker 3: the table by the trade. At this point, the defense
- 2:57Speaker 3: needs so much, so much that I don't think a
- 3:00Speaker 3: player like Crosby or anybody like that would come in
- 3:03Speaker 3: and really, you know, do anything to help that defense.
- 3:06Speaker 3: I think right now what the Cowboys need to do,
- 3:09Speaker 3: and you know, is just stick with their draft picks
- 3:11Speaker 3: next two years, just go all defense, try to rebuild
- 3:15Speaker 3: that defense, because I'll tell you I will take an
- 3:18Speaker 3: outstanding defense any day over an outstanding offense. And I'm
- 3:23Speaker 3: not taking any shots at our offense. But we can
- 3:27Speaker 3: look back at history, and you know, with the Ravens,
- 3:30Speaker 3: remember when Ray Lewis and that defense was just incredible
- 3:33Speaker 3: and their offense was just okay. I think it was
- 3:36Speaker 3: Trent Dilferd was a quarterback, and basically all they wanted
- 3:39Speaker 3: them to do was don't screw up anything and will
- 3:42Speaker 3: win this game if the offense will scored a touchdown
- 3:46Speaker 3: or ten points, they pretty much were going to win
- 3:48Speaker 3: that game. So I don't know, I don't know what
- 3:50Speaker 3: you think about it that. I mean talking to my son,
- 3:54Speaker 3: we were watching the game, and he was like, honestly,
- 3:57Speaker 3: it looked like the Denver Broncos were a professional team
- 3:59Speaker 3: with they all and the way the Cowboys looked, they
- 4:01Speaker 3: looked like a Division one or Division two college team.
- 4:05Speaker 3: That's how terrible. I loved it. And on top of that,
- 4:08Speaker 3: they have players playing out of position rating playing safety.
- 4:12Speaker 3: You know, it's I don't know, I don't know what
- 4:14Speaker 3: you think about all that.
- 4:15Speaker 2: It's just wow, all right, thanks for the call eran.
- 4:18Speaker 2: I know that you said it last week that it
- 4:21Speaker 2: was emotional for you personally, so then you could tell
- 4:24Speaker 2: that in the call probably, you know, I don't know
- 4:28Speaker 2: if everyone's about ready to jump off the ledge like that.
- 4:30Speaker 2: But yeah, it was a tough one. It was, I mean,
- 4:33Speaker 2: no doubt about it, tough tough loss. I don't agree
- 4:36Speaker 2: with the part about the trade. I mean to say
- 4:39Speaker 2: that an all Pro player can't help this team. Uh
- 4:43Speaker 2: you know, I don't agree with that at all, But
- 4:45Speaker 2: uh yeah, I think I don't even know if they
- 4:47Speaker 2: need that that good of player, but they definitely need
- 4:49Speaker 2: some help. And I think that game was proved proved
- 4:53Speaker 2: to me that you have to go do something. I would.
- 4:56Speaker 2: I would definitely go make a trade today, tomorrow and whatever,
- 5:01Speaker 2: figure out a way to get some help in here.
- 5:04Speaker 2: I would. Yeah, I was. You know, I've been saying
- 5:07Speaker 2: it all along, but I think that that that game
- 5:09Speaker 2: right there approves to me that, yeah, you definitely need
- 5:11Speaker 2: to to go and and add some help to this team.
- 5:15Speaker 2: I know people disagree with that, but you know, we're
- 5:20Speaker 2: gonna be watching these next nine games and I don't
- 5:22Speaker 2: want to watch that anymore. So, uh, that's that's part
- 5:25Speaker 2: of my reason that they're all right. Pete in Connecticut's next,
- 5:28Speaker 2: Good morning, Nick, How are you good? How are you?
- 5:31Speaker 7: Oh?
- 5:32Speaker 5: You know, it is what it is. I just I
- 5:36Speaker 5: just feel like the Cowboys need to blitz or do
- 5:38Speaker 5: something to get that defense going, because it's reminding me,
- 5:41Speaker 5: like every year in and year out, every time we
- 5:44Speaker 5: play a team that shows a little bit of toughness,
- 5:47Speaker 5: we just crumble on defense. It's the same as the
- 5:49Speaker 5: Bears game. And you know, it's just very frustrating to
- 5:52Speaker 5: watch and bo Nick's all that time in the world yesterday,
- 5:55Speaker 5: you know, and I just we got to do something
- 5:58Speaker 5: on defense. I don't know if it's the coordinator or
- 6:00Speaker 5: if it's the players. I hate to think it's players
- 6:03Speaker 5: because they played well in previous seasons, but we just
- 6:06Speaker 5: can't get to the quarterback. And it's frustrating to watch
- 6:09Speaker 5: when you know, bow Knicks had four or five seconds
- 6:12Speaker 5: in the pocket a multiple game, and I just we
- 6:14Speaker 5: got to do something. So that's my only comment.
- 6:17Speaker 2: I agree. I totally agree, Thanks Pete, thanks for the call.
- 6:21Speaker 2: You know, the pass rush, We've been saying it forever,
- 6:24Speaker 2: I mean, but it uh well forever this season because
- 6:29Speaker 2: the pass rush has been good in previous years. But
- 6:32Speaker 2: these guys there's just nobody. There's nobody on this pass
- 6:36Speaker 2: rush that does anything, you know, at least consistently. You
- 6:42Speaker 2: might see somebody every once in a while get a win,
- 6:45Speaker 2: but it's not even to the point where I mean,
- 6:48Speaker 2: you didn't get a sack yesterday, got a little bit
- 6:50Speaker 2: of pressure, I mean a couple of pressures every now
- 6:54Speaker 2: and again, but I mean not consistently. And and you
- 6:58Speaker 2: know bow Knicks solid player, right, but that made him
- 7:03Speaker 2: look better than that. I mean he tried to tell
- 7:05Speaker 2: you what he was early in the you know, first
- 7:08Speaker 2: drive of the game. You know, I mean they through
- 7:10Speaker 2: an interception to a guy that probably shouldn't even be playing,
- 7:15Speaker 2: I mean traqueasy bridges. I mean he gets the pick
- 7:19Speaker 2: and and you think, all right, you know this is
- 7:22Speaker 2: kind of this is this is where you know the
- 7:24Speaker 2: Cowboys can be today. You know they can, they can
- 7:28Speaker 2: they can win this game. They can beat this guy,
- 7:30Speaker 2: and they didn't take advantage of that. But you know,
- 7:34Speaker 2: all just the entire game, I mean, they can't stop
- 7:37Speaker 2: the run consistently inside outside. It's just five six yards
- 7:42Speaker 2: of pop. It's six yards of pop, is what it is?
- 7:44Speaker 2: Not five, it's six yards of pop every single time.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Giving up big plays. There's about, i don't know, twelve
- 7:51Speaker 2: to thirteen like explosive plays in the game. That's just
- 7:56Speaker 2: that's just double what what normally should be. So yeah,
- 8:01Speaker 2: I feel like just something. Yeah, I agree with you.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Something has to be done. I mean, you have nine
- 8:08Speaker 2: games left in this season, so I'm just not to
- 8:10Speaker 2: the point to say, well, just you know, don't do anything.
- 8:14Speaker 2: Can't do anything. Seasons. I mean, you're not even at
- 8:18Speaker 2: the halfway point of the season. And you have a
- 8:21Speaker 2: good thing going for the most part. In offense, offense
- 8:24Speaker 2: isn't perfect, but you have a good thing going. I
- 8:26Speaker 2: still feel like there's a way to to fix it
- 8:30Speaker 2: and to try to, you know, play complimentary football, as
- 8:33Speaker 2: with Denver did Denver plays complimentary football. The Cowboys don't,
- 8:37Speaker 2: I mean at all. And I mean when it's when
- 8:39Speaker 2: they're great on offense and bad on defense, they have
- 8:43Speaker 2: a chance though, when you know, but when they're average
- 8:45Speaker 2: on offense and bad on defense, I mean, you're gonna
- 8:47Speaker 2: get be by twenty every single time. Josh in New Mexico's.
- 8:50Speaker 8: Next, what's going on going?
- 8:53Speaker 2: Hey, how are you doing good?
- 8:55Speaker 9: Well?
- 8:56Speaker 8: I'm all right, but all the storyliners, you know, I've
- 8:59Speaker 8: listened every day. Can't really call as much, got work
- 9:02Speaker 8: and stuff, but yeah, try to call when I can.
- 9:05Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate it.
- 9:05Speaker 8: I want to say I'm glad that we did not
- 9:08Speaker 8: use any of our first round picks to get Max
- 9:11Speaker 8: Crosby because there's a lot more holes on this defense
- 9:15Speaker 8: then people think. So I'm glad we should I think
- 9:18Speaker 8: we should just hold on to those and see what
- 9:20Speaker 8: we can do in the draft. But I just want
- 9:22Speaker 8: to say, don't give up yet still halfway through the season,
- 9:25Speaker 8: like you said, so it's got a lot of time
- 9:28Speaker 8: to play. Maybe some good additions, not great, something to
- 9:32Speaker 8: fix the defense overall. I just thought the team lost
- 9:35Speaker 8: the game as soon as we didn't score that touchdown
- 9:37Speaker 8: after interception.
- 9:39Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I mean that those two, those two
- 9:43Speaker 2: back to back possessions. Thanks, thanks for the call, Josh,
- 9:46Speaker 2: those two. I mean, when you lose by twenty, I
- 9:48Speaker 2: mean it is it's tough to kind of pinpoint a
- 9:51Speaker 2: few plays. You know, you guys and probably seen it,
- 9:54Speaker 2: have done it for several years that the five plays.
- 9:57Speaker 2: Don't forget these five plays, and when the game gets
- 10:00Speaker 2: out of hand like that, I mean, it kind of
- 10:02Speaker 2: makes all of the plays a little bit insignificant. But
- 10:07Speaker 2: the first drive for the Cowboys offense, there's I mean, again,
- 10:15Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not trying to talk bad about the officials.
- 10:18Speaker 2: Cowboys got blown out in the game. So let's just
- 10:21Speaker 2: let's just call it what it is. I've gone back
- 10:24Speaker 2: to watch that that sequence there, and there's some some
- 10:27Speaker 2: things that I had a problem with. Number One, Ceedee
- 10:31Speaker 2: Lamb catches, the ball goes out of bounds. It's the
- 10:35Speaker 2: closest thing to to to us in the press box.
- 10:38Speaker 2: I mean that that spot is the closest thing we
- 10:40Speaker 2: can see, so we have a really really good view
- 10:42Speaker 2: of that. Just from the view, I'm just like, Wow,
- 10:46Speaker 2: that's that's a big play. Almost scores. That's going to
- 10:48Speaker 2: be first and goal from the one. Nope, they they
- 10:52Speaker 2: put it back like on the four, and I went,
- 10:56Speaker 2: oh that. I thought it was closer to the one
- 10:58Speaker 2: the way he stretched out back and look at it
- 11:00Speaker 2: again again, it should have been probably at least the
- 11:03Speaker 2: two or three. So first and goal at the one.
- 11:05Speaker 2: Javont gets a couple of yards, gets to the one
- 11:09Speaker 2: second goal. False start on the center is what they say. Center.
- 11:13Speaker 2: How's that a false start? That they changed it to
- 11:16Speaker 2: Tyler Smith? Okay, So I go back and watch it
- 11:19Speaker 2: right there, and I'm like, I don't see the false start.
- 11:21Speaker 2: Maybe they meant Guitton and I'm looking, and I mean
- 11:24Speaker 2: I'm looking for like seven or eight times. I still
- 11:27Speaker 2: don't see a false start. I don't know who they
- 11:29Speaker 2: called that on. I don't know, but it was huge
- 11:32Speaker 2: play because then it pushed back to the six. The
- 11:33Speaker 2: Cowboys can't do anything with that, and you know, and
- 11:38Speaker 2: they end up getting a field goal. Then the next
- 11:40Speaker 2: drive they're off the field. They're off the field. On
- 11:43Speaker 2: a third down play, they show a little pass you know,
- 11:45Speaker 2: pass rush with I believe it was clowning around the
- 11:48Speaker 2: edge and he almost gets there. And then and then
- 11:51Speaker 2: Bland knocks the ball away and like, oh wow, okay,
- 11:53Speaker 2: it's a big time. Soot's two stops in a row.
- 11:55Speaker 2: Now they got to pick and then a stop, way
- 11:57Speaker 2: to go, way to go defense. No, James Houston's lined
- 12:00Speaker 2: up off sides, which you know, there's the ball, be
- 12:06Speaker 2: behind it. I mean, I've never rushed to the passer,
- 12:11Speaker 2: but I mean I just feel like, is it that hard?
- 12:14Speaker 2: I mean, there's the ball. Why are you lined up
- 12:16Speaker 2: off sides? It just makes no sense. Then they go
- 12:19Speaker 2: and then and then how they respond from that is
- 12:23Speaker 2: a quick touchdown by Denver. Then they just open the floodgates.
- 12:26Speaker 2: So do those two possessions change anything? Yeah, they actually do.
- 12:31Speaker 2: They do change some things. We're talking about eleven points eleven.
- 12:35Speaker 2: It's eleven point swing there from you know, being up seven,
- 12:40Speaker 2: you know, seven nothing and and and and then getting
- 12:43Speaker 2: the ball, you know, and then the next thing you know,
- 12:46Speaker 2: that's you're you're down you know, so you're you're down
- 12:48Speaker 2: by four when you should be up by seven with
- 12:50Speaker 2: the ball and and and then that's how the game,
- 12:53Speaker 2: the flow of the game goes. So yeah, I think
- 12:55Speaker 2: that was big. All right, Kyle in Northern Illinois? What's up, Kyle?
- 13:01Speaker 10: How are we doing today?
- 13:02Speaker 7: Nick?
- 13:02Speaker 2: Are you good to hear from you? First call? All right?
- 13:07Speaker 2: What's that name?
- 13:09Speaker 10: Hey? What do you think that this Iberfluce defense is
- 13:13Speaker 10: working the way it should or do we think that
- 13:15Speaker 10: we need to really change some stuff up?
- 13:18Speaker 2: It's not working? The worst defense in the league by far.
- 13:22Speaker 10: I agree. So do you think going do you think
- 13:24Speaker 10: like going like you know, more manned man coverage and
- 13:27Speaker 10: then blitzing a fifth guy to get pressure on the
- 13:30Speaker 10: quarterback and things like that would be a way to go.
- 13:33Speaker 2: Uh, yes for the most part. And I'll and I'll
- 13:38Speaker 2: take I'll finish this point after the after the call.
- 13:42Speaker 2: I think I think it's a start, but but there's
- 13:44Speaker 2: the caveat there. But I'll let you finish if you
- 13:45Speaker 2: have another point or two.
- 13:47Speaker 5: Yeah, that was just my theory.
- 13:49Speaker 10: Is you know, is it seemed like yes, we against
- 13:52Speaker 10: Silly we did all right zone obviously against the Commanders
- 13:55Speaker 10: last week we did all right, but every game since
- 13:57Speaker 10: then it hasn't worked. So we got to figure out
- 14:01Speaker 10: something different. Here is my theory, in my opinion. But
- 14:04Speaker 10: thanks for taking my call. I'll listen to what you
- 14:08Speaker 10: got to say. I figure off the phone, all.
- 14:09Speaker 2: Right, Thanks Kyle. Good to hear from you, and glad
- 14:12Speaker 2: that you've got your first call in here. You're you're right,
- 14:16Speaker 2: I mean, and whatever you try, it's not always going
- 14:20Speaker 2: to work, but you have to kind of keep you know,
- 14:22Speaker 2: trying it. The first sorry, the second touchdown of the
- 14:27Speaker 2: game for Denver, still first quarter, they get a holding penalty,
- 14:32Speaker 2: so it's first in twenty. Back at the twenty five. Okay,
- 14:36Speaker 2: you're in good shape here on defense, you know, have
- 14:39Speaker 2: a good shot to hold them to a field goal.
- 14:42Speaker 2: It's first in twenty. I believe that is the down
- 14:45Speaker 2: and distance. I want to get this one right because
- 14:51Speaker 2: it is first and twenty. At the twenty five holding call,
- 14:54Speaker 2: they blitzed Marquise Bell. Let's air quote on the blitz
- 14:58Speaker 2: there because he didn't do anything. I mean, he here,
- 15:02Speaker 2: he here, he comes off the edge and he's just
- 15:05Speaker 2: picked up by a running back and he you know,
- 15:09Speaker 2: it's a delay blitz at that and then he gets
- 15:11Speaker 2: hit by the running back and he's not doing anything
- 15:14Speaker 2: and therefore, I mean it's a blitz and nothing happened,
- 15:18Speaker 2: and that's even more time for Nicks to stand in
- 15:21Speaker 2: there and find Franklin right over the middle for the
- 15:24Speaker 2: touchdown at the at the end zone. So I'm the
- 15:28Speaker 2: first one that's like, man, we need to see some
- 15:30Speaker 2: more blitzes here. He got a blitz, gott a blitz, Okay,
- 15:33Speaker 2: but you got to get home. Can't just blitz the
- 15:35Speaker 2: blitz And you can't. I don't know about the delay blitzing.
- 15:38Speaker 2: I don't think that does anything.
- 15:39Speaker 6: But.
- 15:41Speaker 2: So that that that was a problem there. So I'm
- 15:44Speaker 2: with you that they need to figure out ways to
- 15:47Speaker 2: dial up pressure. But it's gotta work. You can't just
- 15:51Speaker 2: blitz the blitz because that that's not one hundred effective.
- 15:55Speaker 2: And we saw that. That's just one example. But we
- 15:57Speaker 2: saw that too, so you know, they got to be
- 16:01Speaker 2: even more creative. I don't think the answer is just
- 16:03Speaker 2: blitz more because that that'll lead to touchdowns too. All right,
- 16:07Speaker 2: Rob in Vegas is next?
- 16:10Speaker 4: Hey Nick?
- 16:10Speaker 2: Hey, Rob?
- 16:13Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was awful. I shut the game
- 16:15Speaker 4: off at halftime and turned on the hockey game. Uh,
- 16:20Speaker 4: it's just cool we saw coming.
- 16:22Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, no, I didn't. I didn't you you
- 16:25Speaker 2: might have. I did not see it coming. I thought
- 16:26Speaker 2: the Cowboys were gonna I thought Denver would not be
- 16:30Speaker 2: able to win that back to back games like that.
- 16:32Speaker 2: I thought Dallas would would have.
- 16:34Speaker 4: I think, as a fan, you don't want to see it.
- 16:37Speaker 4: I know I don't want to see it. But we
- 16:39Speaker 4: don't beat good teams. I mean, look at its fishy.
- 16:44Speaker 4: I mean, we've beat the worst teams in the league.
- 16:46Speaker 4: We're a bad team.
- 16:47Speaker 10: You know.
- 16:48Speaker 4: We talk about the Jets and we're right with them.
- 16:52Speaker 4: I mean, I'm hearing call to say we should save
- 16:58Speaker 4: our draft picks and just use him, not go after
- 17:02Speaker 4: Max Crosby because he couldn't help this team.
- 17:05Speaker 11: And I'm like, what are you talking about?
- 17:07Speaker 4: All Pro probably the top five, and you don't trust
- 17:13Speaker 4: that guy to help you. But you trust a guy
- 17:16Speaker 4: in the draft he's never played in the NFL is
- 17:19Speaker 4: going to be the savior. That is the most ridiculous thing. Uh,
- 17:24Speaker 4: especially with the track record of this team drafting defensive linements.
- 17:28Speaker 4: You know, Micah was drafted as a linebacker, So no,
- 17:34Speaker 4: you you make a move. And plus it's not going
- 17:36Speaker 4: to be a rental. It's going to be for three
- 17:39Speaker 4: four years, so that that's ridiculous. If you can do it,
- 17:41Speaker 4: you do it. You may not. You may not win
- 17:44Speaker 4: it this year. You may not you know, feel the
- 17:46Speaker 4: full impact.
- 17:47Speaker 10: But it's a piece you need.
- 17:48Speaker 4: I'd rather have that piece than an unknown piece.
- 17:52Speaker 6: Uh.
- 17:52Speaker 4: The offense I thought was bad. I got the play
- 17:55Speaker 4: calling on the goal line and on short yardage was bad.
- 17:59Speaker 4: You know this coach, he talks a good game and
- 18:03Speaker 4: he keep saying, we want to be physical. If you
- 18:06Speaker 4: don't try to be You got a running back that
- 18:08Speaker 4: is running hard. He runs hot on every play, and
- 18:11Speaker 4: yet you don't give him a chance at the goal line.
- 18:14Speaker 4: There was a third and one when you try to
- 18:16Speaker 4: get cute and swing out a pass that got tipped.
- 18:19Speaker 4: It's like, what are you doing? You know? I just
- 18:22Speaker 4: thought I thought it reminded me of the Chicago game
- 18:26Speaker 4: when we didn't score on the goal line, when we
- 18:29Speaker 4: had the opportunity to get up early. We got a
- 18:33Speaker 4: gift with that reception. We're asking the defense that people
- 18:36Speaker 4: talk about blitzing. If you had great cornerbacks, you could blitz.
- 18:40Speaker 4: We don't have anything. We don't have great cornerbacks, we
- 18:43Speaker 4: don't have no pass rush whatsoever. So then you try
- 18:46Speaker 4: to manufacture something and Boonick still has too much time.
- 18:51Speaker 4: I don't know how you help the team, but if
- 18:54Speaker 4: you could get an All Pro player, it matters. That's
- 18:58Speaker 4: all this league is about. Has the best player. Yeah,
- 19:01Speaker 4: we just don't have enough of them.
- 19:03Speaker 2: I agree with you there, Rob, Thanks thank you for
- 19:05Speaker 2: the call. You know, no, no disrespect to anyone else's opinions.
- 19:10Speaker 2: And I get it. And there's there's a lot to
- 19:11Speaker 2: this and and and it's not just about acquiring, it's
- 19:14Speaker 2: how much do you have to give up for it?
- 19:18Speaker 2: Sounds like, you know, there's been reports the Cowboys did
- 19:21Speaker 2: call and inquire about about a couple of players, and
- 19:25Speaker 2: whether or not that's true, and it's always, you know,
- 19:27Speaker 2: kind of hard to speculate on those kind of things.
- 19:30Speaker 2: So you don't want to give up the farm for things.
- 19:32Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm one hundred percent looking at at the
- 19:38Speaker 2: Cowboys adding players here. And that's like I said before,
- 19:42Speaker 2: because because I'm looking at this this schedule, I see it.
- 19:46Speaker 2: I mean they're three four and one, there's nine games left,
- 19:49Speaker 2: nine games left in the season. This is this is
- 19:53Speaker 2: exactly where they were. You know, just what seven years ago,
- 19:58Speaker 2: in seven years twenty eighteen when they traded for Amari
- 20:02Speaker 2: Cooper didn't seem that long ago. It was seven years
- 20:05Speaker 2: but there were three and five and out of three
- 20:08Speaker 2: four and one. So I mean, this is kind of
- 20:10Speaker 2: where they are. And you know, that team was different.
- 20:16Speaker 2: That team was worse than this team, I think, because
- 20:19Speaker 2: I don't think that did that team did anything like
- 20:22Speaker 2: really well, this this team does. I mean their offense,
- 20:27Speaker 2: you know, it has some flaws, but I mean it
- 20:31Speaker 2: does do some things well. I know that this is
- 20:35Speaker 2: not like a great stat or anything like that. I'm
- 20:37Speaker 2: not trying to like pump sunshine into this, but I
- 20:40Speaker 2: mean I saw the Cowboys score the other you know,
- 20:43Speaker 2: they scored in the fourth quarter. And it's twenty consecutive
- 20:46Speaker 2: quarters that they've scored in this you know, including overtime
- 20:49Speaker 2: and all that, going back to the first quarter of
- 20:51Speaker 2: the Packers game. Since then, they've scored something in every
- 20:55Speaker 2: quarter and no team in the NFL has done that. Again,
- 21:00Speaker 2: I'm not trying to tell you how things are great.
- 21:01Speaker 2: What I'm saying is is this offense has a little
- 21:03Speaker 2: bit of consistency to it, or they're they're gonna score,
- 21:07Speaker 2: They're gonna do something. It's not enough. Sometimes it's field goals,
- 21:10Speaker 2: and that's not enough to win with this defense. But
- 21:13Speaker 2: twenty consecutive quarters shows that give them chance. They're they're
- 21:18Speaker 2: gonna they're gonna do something, They're gonna score. It's something
- 21:20Speaker 2: to work with, that's all I'm saying. It's something to
- 21:22Speaker 2: work with. And they just need guys on defense. And
- 21:27Speaker 2: I said this on the radio this morning, one five,
- 21:29Speaker 2: three the fan, and I'll say it again. Are they
- 21:31Speaker 2: one player away from?
- 21:33Speaker 11: What?
- 21:34Speaker 2: I mean? People keep asking that, Well, this team is
- 21:36Speaker 2: not just one player away. Even Jerry said it. You know,
- 21:38Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if we're one player away,
- 21:41Speaker 2: but one player away from what a championship. Okay, no,
- 21:46Speaker 2: this isn't Charles Haley type situation. But one player away
- 21:49Speaker 2: from from getting off the field. Yeah, they are. They
- 21:54Speaker 2: are one really good player away from getting off the
- 21:58Speaker 2: field and getting a few stops. And that's to me,
- 22:01Speaker 2: all that you need right now, just right now, with
- 22:04Speaker 2: nine games to go, you got to get off the
- 22:06Speaker 2: field on defense, get off the field. You can give
- 22:09Speaker 2: me four or five stops a game, stop them on
- 22:12Speaker 2: third down or stop them on second down on second
- 22:15Speaker 2: eight instead of them, you know, getting six seven yards,
- 22:19Speaker 2: you make a stop and it's third and eleven, third
- 22:22Speaker 2: and twelve, then you can get off the field. It's
- 22:24Speaker 2: not just third downs, it's first and second downs too.
- 22:27Speaker 2: But I mean, because they only had eight third down
- 22:29Speaker 2: conversions five of eight, I mean most teams are getting twelve, thirteen,
- 22:34Speaker 2: maybe fifteen, you know third downs. This team only got
- 22:37Speaker 2: eight yesterday, So I mean it was a problem all
- 22:39Speaker 2: over the place. But yeah, I think they are one
- 22:41Speaker 2: player away from getting stops. And it's a deep and
- 22:44Speaker 2: if your offense wasn't as good as they are, then
- 22:47Speaker 2: you know, I would say, is that really gonna matter?
- 22:50Speaker 2: But in this case, yeah it does, because not only
- 22:52Speaker 2: do you stop them and get the ball back, but
- 22:55Speaker 2: if you make a stop, especially back in their own end,
- 22:59Speaker 2: then I mean think about where you're getting the football.
- 23:01Speaker 2: So I think this defense is a player away from
- 23:06Speaker 2: being successful enough to really help your offense do what
- 23:11Speaker 2: it needs to do. That's my stance on it. I
- 23:15Speaker 2: know people disagree, and that's fine, and it just depends
- 23:17Speaker 2: on what you have to give up. I think everybody
- 23:19Speaker 2: would love to see a player in here, but just
- 23:21Speaker 2: what do you have to give up for it? And
- 23:23Speaker 2: doesn't make sense? All right, Let's go to break real
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- 25:30Speaker 2: of the Week, brought to you by Gillette. Joe Milton.
- 25:34Speaker 2: Joe Milton comes off the bench. Those four passes, three,
- 25:37Speaker 2: three completions, one for a touchdown. I mean, you know
- 25:42Speaker 2: who else who else could it? Could it be? You know,
- 25:44Speaker 2: who else did their job? And that's something that that
- 25:46Speaker 2: Schottenheimer talked about. Uh he said, you know, he's he
- 25:49Speaker 2: said that he told the team, if anyone did their
- 25:53Speaker 2: job today, raise their hand and step forward. I mean,
- 25:55Speaker 2: who had a great game? So based off that kind
- 25:59Speaker 2: of tough to to pick anyone other than you know, kicker,
- 26:02Speaker 2: the snapper, the punter, I guess, but your backup quarterbacks
- 26:05Speaker 2: out there all day long. And then I'm not, you know,
- 26:08Speaker 2: not saying I was a big fan of pulling back,
- 26:10Speaker 2: but you know, you have to kind of call it
- 26:12Speaker 2: what it is. And and uh, you know, at that
- 26:14Speaker 2: point in the game they put in Joe Milton. He
- 26:16Speaker 2: goes down and throw the nice, nice pass to Jalen
- 26:19Speaker 2: Tolbert and got his feet in for a touchdown. And hey,
- 26:23Speaker 2: I mean at least they they extended that streak of
- 26:27Speaker 2: consecutive consecutive quarters with the score. So, you know what,
- 26:31Speaker 2: not a lot to pick from today. So Gillette's Posision
- 26:34Speaker 2: Player of the Week Joe Milton. All right, let's go
- 26:37Speaker 2: to Keith in the front of the Dana Beach, Florida.
- 26:40Speaker 9: Good morning, Nick, How are you good?
- 26:42Speaker 2: How are you doing?
- 26:43Speaker 5: Doing great?
- 26:44Speaker 9: I tell you you have pretty much said everything that
- 26:46Speaker 9: I wanted to say this morning. You're absolutely right. You
- 26:51Speaker 9: know when when they talk about you know, your one
- 26:52Speaker 9: player away, two players away, we're we we need good
- 26:56Speaker 9: players and I don't care how we get them. But
- 27:00Speaker 9: for the pass rush, I don't think you're going to
- 27:02Speaker 9: pick somebody up off the street. I think you're going
- 27:04Speaker 9: to have to to give some resources to get that.
- 27:08Speaker 9: And there's going to be several teams that are going
- 27:11Speaker 9: to be selling them the next week or so. And
- 27:13Speaker 9: within those teams, there's got to be a pass rusher
- 27:17Speaker 9: that we can possibly get. And that's where it all starts.
- 27:19Speaker 9: I mean, I don't care if you're running a three
- 27:21Speaker 9: four four three Tampa two, even the forty six defense
- 27:25Speaker 9: the Bears ran in the eighties, it doesn't matter. If
- 27:28Speaker 9: you don't have people putting pressure on the quarterback and
- 27:30Speaker 9: speeding everything up, then you're going to get what we're
- 27:33Speaker 9: getting right now. And that's really all I have to say,
- 27:36Speaker 9: thank you, Nick.
- 27:37Speaker 2: Thank you Keith. Appreciate that. You know, there's a double
- 27:41Speaker 2: problem going on here. I mean, they're they just they
- 27:45Speaker 2: don't they can't dial up any pressure. They can't. They
- 27:49Speaker 2: don't have guys that are winning one on one battles.
- 27:53Speaker 2: They're not. They're not doing that. Dante Fowler, this isn't
- 27:57Speaker 2: This isn't the foulor that you know we saw that
- 28:00Speaker 2: year with what and with Washington, or even the year
- 28:04Speaker 2: before that with the Cowboys. I mean, just he's just
- 28:06Speaker 2: not winning. Sam Williams doesn't went off the line, and
- 28:09Speaker 2: James Houston, I mean had had a couple of nice,
- 28:13Speaker 2: nice wins, you know, early on in the season, but
- 28:15Speaker 2: he hasn't really given you much. Marshaw, Neeland Clowney. I
- 28:20Speaker 2: mean they just yesterday they didn't. I mean they did
- 28:23Speaker 2: a little bit in Washington, and they've done some stuff
- 28:26Speaker 2: in some other games, but this particular game, they they
- 28:30Speaker 2: didn't at all. So that's a problem over here. Now
- 28:37Speaker 2: back here is safety. I mean, it just it's almost laughable.
- 28:43Speaker 2: But you know, think about what you had, you know
- 28:47Speaker 2: a month ago, you know, five weeks ago, well, donovd Wilson,
- 28:52Speaker 2: Malie Cooker, a couple of veterans safeties back there. They're
- 28:54Speaker 2: not the best. I mean I know that, but they're
- 28:58Speaker 2: pretty good. I mean they're when they went, they're solid.
- 29:01Speaker 2: At least we're not in the game. I mean I
- 29:05Speaker 2: are for for Hooker and uh he should be getting
- 29:08Speaker 2: back soon with a toe injury. But Donva Wilson was
- 29:10Speaker 2: out one Nay Thomas is your backup. A lot of
- 29:13Speaker 2: people wanted to play instead of Donova Wilson and he's out,
- 29:18Speaker 2: not really sure the nature of his injury right now.
- 29:22Speaker 2: And then, you know, so you play a guy named
- 29:24Speaker 2: Elijah Clark. I'll be honest with you, man, I this
- 29:29Speaker 2: isn't I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of tell a story
- 29:31Speaker 2: on myself here because this just goes to show how
- 29:36Speaker 2: much we've seen of Elijah Clark. I thought he spelled
- 29:38Speaker 2: his name with an E. Honestly, I thought that's how
- 29:40Speaker 2: he spelled Elijah. I was a little surprised to see
- 29:42Speaker 2: it that's spelled that way. It's not and that's not
- 29:45Speaker 2: Actually that's not a good story for for me as
- 29:47Speaker 2: a as a as a journalist. But I'm just saying
- 29:51Speaker 2: I haven't I don't I didn't know much about him.
- 29:53Speaker 2: I know thirty eight from Syracuse. He's over here starting
- 29:56Speaker 2: and then he gets hurting, he's out. So it's like, guys,
- 30:01Speaker 2: did did you know Corey Ballentine was on practice squad?
- 30:04Speaker 2: And then now he's on Now he's about to play,
- 30:06Speaker 2: and then they ended up going with Reddy Stewart, who's
- 30:09Speaker 2: really a corner. He's he's playing safety. So I'm just saying,
- 30:14Speaker 2: you got you got issues here at safety you don't
- 30:16Speaker 2: even know. I mean, you're you're getting guys that probably
- 30:20Speaker 2: are fortunate to even be in the NFL, and they're
- 30:22Speaker 2: having to play for you, and then they're playing on
- 30:25Speaker 2: the back end of a defense that has no pass
- 30:28Speaker 2: rush on the front end. You say all that, and
- 30:32Speaker 2: you're kind of surprised that the Broncos just scored forty four.
- 30:35Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, Josh and Princeton.
- 30:39Speaker 3: Hey, Nick, good morning.
- 30:41Speaker 2: How are you doing.
- 30:41Speaker 15: I'm gonna keep I'm doing good.
- 30:43Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep it short and sweet. I haven't been
- 30:45Speaker 3: listening to the show, so I don't know what I've
- 30:46Speaker 3: been discussed, but uh, Denver is a is a pretty
- 30:51Speaker 3: good team. Uh, and they got talent on both sides
- 30:54Speaker 3: of the ball. They seen them be well coached. Yeah,
- 30:58Speaker 3: when when they got the end of exception on Denver's
- 31:01Speaker 3: first drive and made it to the one and couldn't
- 31:04Speaker 3: score a touchdown, I knew it was gonna be along
- 31:06Speaker 3: afternoon and I was just leave it there.
- 31:08Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, thanks for the call. You know, I don't
- 31:12Speaker 2: I didn't go that far because maybe I'm just kind
- 31:15Speaker 2: of an optimist a little bit, you know. I looked
- 31:19Speaker 2: at it like, there's two ways you can you can
- 31:21Speaker 2: take that. You're like, why not just go for it?
- 31:23Speaker 2: You know, you go for it, go for the touchdown
- 31:25Speaker 2: because this is a possession you didn't even think you had.
- 31:28Speaker 2: Or you can say just get just get points because
- 31:30Speaker 2: this is a this is not a possession that you
- 31:32Speaker 2: thought you even had, So just just get points out
- 31:35Speaker 2: of it. And I think if they would have they
- 31:39Speaker 2: would have run that play on third down and been stopped.
- 31:42Speaker 2: They probably would have gone for it on fourth down.
- 31:45Speaker 2: From the one that goes back to I guess the
- 31:47Speaker 2: previous caller. No, it was Rob. It was Rob that
- 31:52Speaker 2: that said, you know, they got cute there. Second and
- 31:54Speaker 2: one they did. They they got cute. They threw the
- 31:57Speaker 2: ball up and to pickings and you know, with certain
- 32:01Speaker 2: made the play, I just feel like, and this is
- 32:06Speaker 2: what I tweeted this out. You know, I said, I
- 32:10Speaker 2: would have just told Javonte Williams that that team over
- 32:13Speaker 2: there did not want you. They let you go. They
- 32:16Speaker 2: didn't think you were good enough to be on their team,
- 32:18Speaker 2: and they wanted JK. Dobbins instead of you. So take
- 32:24Speaker 2: whatever you want with that. Now here, here you go,
- 32:27Speaker 2: here's the football, Get mad and go run in second one.
- 32:32Speaker 2: They're not stopping him three times in a row there,
- 32:36Speaker 2: They're just not And especially with Tyler Smith and Booker
- 32:39Speaker 2: and those guys, they can move people just enough. Hunter
- 32:41Speaker 2: Lipke can get in there, Joonta run. They're not gonna
- 32:44Speaker 2: stop them every time. There's no way. There's no way.
- 32:47Speaker 2: So and here's another thing. Until the NFL bans this play,
- 32:55Speaker 2: which they will at some point, the touch push is
- 32:57Speaker 2: going away. Okay, I really believe that. But until they
- 33:01Speaker 2: do it, if you're gonna run a quarterback sneak, at
- 33:04Speaker 2: least push him in the back. I mean, at least,
- 33:07Speaker 2: you know, while while cheating is legal, do it push them.
- 33:11Speaker 2: I mean the Cowboys. Cowboys are like jumping to twenty
- 33:14Speaker 2: twenty six already with their quarterback sneak and I mean
- 33:18Speaker 2: they did it in the second quarter where Dak got
- 33:21Speaker 2: no movement at all. Well, it's just like they won't
- 33:23Speaker 2: push him in the back like every other team does.
- 33:26Speaker 2: I don't get that. But you're right. When they didn't
- 33:28Speaker 2: score right there, it was a it was a sign
- 33:31Speaker 2: of what was to come. All right, Big Mo is
- 33:34Speaker 2: in California. Big Mo, Hey, it's up.
- 33:38Speaker 15: Man, It's Big Mo from Cali.
- 33:40Speaker 2: Man, how you doing?
- 33:42Speaker 8: Oh?
- 33:42Speaker 15: I don't know, man, this thing is so disappointing.
- 33:44Speaker 2: Man.
- 33:45Speaker 15: You know, you sit there and you look at that.
- 33:48Speaker 10: Man.
- 33:48Speaker 15: You you know, these guys are running the ball on
- 33:50Speaker 15: you down your throat. These guys are are both playing
- 33:53Speaker 15: these guys right by him. Man, we need some dogs
- 33:56Speaker 15: on this defense.
- 33:57Speaker 6: Man.
- 33:58Speaker 15: You know, at some point, some point, we have to
- 34:01Speaker 15: make a choice to either stop the run or stop
- 34:05Speaker 15: the pass. You got to take some chances, man. Yeah,
- 34:08Speaker 15: he's sitting back here playing this vanilla defense and unpredictable
- 34:13Speaker 15: first down running plays. Man, send in the run blitz right, yeah,
- 34:18Speaker 15: help the front floor out. You know, we got to
- 34:20Speaker 15: take chances. You know, at this point and last point,
- 34:24Speaker 15: I gotta make man, what the ht double l is up?
- 34:27Speaker 15: What Trayvon did? This is he's been so disappointing this year?
- 34:34Speaker 9: Is he trade day?
- 34:35Speaker 10: At this point?
- 34:36Speaker 15: Where do we go?
- 34:37Speaker 2: Yeah? Thanks big Mo, appreciate that. Thank you for the call.
- 34:41Speaker 2: First time caller, by the way. Go and boy, you
- 34:46Speaker 2: can just hear the frustration, right and his first time
- 34:48Speaker 2: he's called in. But you mean you can just hear
- 34:51Speaker 2: it and and it's here. I mean, the frustration is here.
- 34:55Speaker 2: I mean there's just so many question marks. I mean,
- 34:57Speaker 2: what what's what do you do? What do you do
- 34:59Speaker 2: on this defense? How do you? How do you? How
- 35:00Speaker 2: do you fix it? I mean you know who do you?
- 35:03Speaker 2: Who do you blitz with? I mean Marquis Bell I mean,
- 35:05Speaker 2: I mean I'm not trying to pick on him, but
- 35:08Speaker 2: I mean if you're gonna if you're gonna blitz like that,
- 35:10Speaker 2: I mean, you gotta beat the running back man. You
- 35:13Speaker 2: gotta beat him who's just sitting a sitting duck there.
- 35:16Speaker 2: You got to get around him and put a little
- 35:17Speaker 2: pressure on him. I mean, it was just like he
- 35:19Speaker 2: was there for a high school dance. It was just like, hey, hey,
- 35:23Speaker 2: what's going on? Oh you're doing good? All right? Bow
- 35:25Speaker 2: nixt that touchdown and get around him, do something. I
- 35:29Speaker 2: mean like that. I just thought that was that that
- 35:32Speaker 2: was an unfortunate sign too, because you know, especially when
- 35:37Speaker 2: you when you're sitting there and you know, we don't
- 35:40Speaker 2: have the answer, None of us have the answers, but
- 35:42Speaker 2: we like to think that we do, you know, so
- 35:43Speaker 2: we sit there and we're like, they need to blitz more. Right,
- 35:47Speaker 2: blitz said that against you know, after the Carolina game, Hey, Washington,
- 35:51Speaker 2: blitz more. Oh cool, Shamar James. Blitzes gets a sack,
- 35:55Speaker 2: knocks their quarterback out of the game, gets a force fumble.
- 35:58Speaker 2: They ended up winning the game, and they had, you know,
- 36:00Speaker 2: four sacks and a couple of them are on the blitz.
- 36:02Speaker 2: You're like, see blitz. And then the next week Denver
- 36:05Speaker 2: they need to blitz And then you see that play
- 36:07Speaker 2: and you're like, hmm, so blitz doesn't always work. Huh No,
- 36:12Speaker 2: it's frustrating. You know, you want your points to work,
- 36:16Speaker 2: and when they don't, then you're like, now what see
- 36:21Speaker 2: how I'm avoiding the Trayvon Diggs question. I don't know,
- 36:24Speaker 2: I really don't. I I like Trayvon. It's been disappointing
- 36:30Speaker 2: season though, for both sides. Because it's almost like they're
- 36:34Speaker 2: just drawing a line in the sand to be like, see, Trayvon,
- 36:38Speaker 2: this is how we have to do things. You have
- 36:40Speaker 2: to do it like this. If you're not gonna be
- 36:42Speaker 2: on board, then you're not gonna play. And we're not okay,
- 36:45Speaker 2: but this ain't working over here. I mean like, okay,
- 36:51Speaker 2: but are you making a point? Who's who's making the
- 36:54Speaker 2: point here? I mean, he's Trayvon making a point and
- 36:56Speaker 2: it's not working well for him again, But I'm talking
- 36:59Speaker 2: about things that I don't necessarily know about. I don't
- 37:02Speaker 2: know what's going on in his life. I don't know
- 37:04Speaker 2: what's going on personally. I'm not sure how he is physically.
- 37:10Speaker 2: I mean, he was battling a knee injury and he's
- 37:13Speaker 2: and he's come back from that. You know, did he
- 37:16Speaker 2: did he rehabit the right way? I don't know. I
- 37:19Speaker 2: never thought he was going to play that first game.
- 37:21Speaker 2: He played pretty well on a pitch count. I think
- 37:25Speaker 2: when it's when he has to just go cover his guy,
- 37:28Speaker 2: he's not bad. He's actually really good. I'm not forget
- 37:33Speaker 2: not bad. He's really good. He can cover, he can
- 37:36Speaker 2: cover wide receivers. But there's just so much more to it,
- 37:40Speaker 2: and I don't have all the answers to it, and
- 37:42Speaker 2: I don't really know who does. All Right, Jeremy in
- 37:44Speaker 2: Salt Lake City.
- 37:47Speaker 16: Hey, what's going on?
- 37:48Speaker 2: Hey?
- 37:49Speaker 16: You know I called in to get some answers today.
- 37:51Speaker 2: Man, Well, it's it's Monday.
- 37:55Speaker 16: Sounds like you're fresh out, huh.
- 37:57Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean depends on what the question is, you know.
- 38:01Speaker 2: How about I'm eleven.
- 38:03Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
- 38:05Speaker 16: Yeah, no, I hear you, man. I'm just I'm so
- 38:10Speaker 16: just just it was so disappointing, right, These kinds of
- 38:13Speaker 16: losses are yeah, they're just after being up and it's
- 38:19Speaker 16: just like this roller coaster we've been. I'm I'm one
- 38:24Speaker 16: that usually would defend the coordinator, you know, because I
- 38:28Speaker 16: mean it's easy to play Monday morning quarterback for all
- 38:30Speaker 16: of us. But I just don't see him trying anything.
- 38:34Speaker 16: I mean, it's like you said, we blitzed, you know.
- 38:39Speaker 16: I don't want him calling defenses to make the fans happy,
- 38:43Speaker 16: you know what I mean. I want him calling defenses
- 38:46Speaker 16: to stop the other Dann team. And it's just like
- 38:49Speaker 16: watching repeatedly, like watching your kid get beat up, you know,
- 38:54Speaker 16: and not being able to do anything.
- 38:55Speaker 2: About it.
- 38:55Speaker 7: You know.
- 38:56Speaker 16: It's just like at some point somebody's got to have
- 38:59Speaker 16: some pride in what they do, Like you were right
- 39:01Speaker 16: on that blitz, a half assed effort like that, Like
- 39:05Speaker 16: come on, like what are we doing? And seeing CD
- 39:09Speaker 16: on the sideline, you know, just looking up at the
- 39:11Speaker 16: sky and just I could tell what's going through his
- 39:14Speaker 16: head is what's going through the rest of the fans heads,
- 39:17Speaker 16: you know. I mean the offense wasn't you know, where
- 39:20Speaker 16: they where they've been. But I still feel like Dak
- 39:23Speaker 16: was pressing on those picks. Those wouldn't happened if we
- 39:26Speaker 16: wouldn't have been such bad situations defensively, right, you know
- 39:29Speaker 16: what I'm saying. And they're all just trying to do
- 39:32Speaker 16: too much and not having Ferguson with one catch, you know,
- 39:37Speaker 16: didn't even get a lead in the league, and then
- 39:39Speaker 16: doesn't even get a catch. It's like sometimes we just
- 39:43Speaker 16: forget who we are on offense because I think the
- 39:46Speaker 16: defense takes us side of the game. And he's just
- 39:49Speaker 16: sitting there wondering like what am I doing? Like I
- 39:53Speaker 16: just don't see how this gets any better? And well,
- 39:57Speaker 16: you know, I'm always gonna I'm always gonna be po.
- 40:00Speaker 2: But I hope this isn't positive. Now I get it, Jeremy,
- 40:05Speaker 2: thank you for the call. Now you're you're talking about
- 40:06Speaker 2: CD and what CD's thinking, I like to know too.
- 40:10Speaker 2: Like I went back and watched some of that, some
- 40:13Speaker 2: of the highlights if or plays and the interception over
- 40:18Speaker 2: the middle the past that's not the one to Ferguson.
- 40:22Speaker 2: That was a bad throw by Dak. It was a
- 40:24Speaker 2: bad decision. It's just the worst worst play of the month.
- 40:27Speaker 2: He's had a great, great month. He's been pretty perfect,
- 40:31Speaker 2: and that was that was just an unnecessary throw down
- 40:34Speaker 2: the middle to you, I mean, he wasn't he was
- 40:38Speaker 2: covered short and high. I just don't get it. But
- 40:41Speaker 2: the past the CD, when you go back and look
- 40:45Speaker 2: at it, I don't w I don't even know what
- 40:48Speaker 2: CD's doing. I mean, if you just watch him the
- 40:52Speaker 2: entire way, he's just kind of floating across, not even
- 40:56Speaker 2: looking like like it was almost like it was a
- 41:00Speaker 2: scout team Saturday practice where he's just kind of going
- 41:03Speaker 2: through and he thinks this is a run up the
- 41:05Speaker 2: middle or something. He's not even looking for the past.
- 41:07Speaker 2: He's not even running a route that that was just
- 41:11Speaker 2: absolute miscommunication and I don't want to blame anybody because
- 41:14Speaker 2: you don't know what it is. But I would like
- 41:17Speaker 2: to think that if you're running a route, you should
- 41:20Speaker 2: expect maybe the ball is going to come your way.
- 41:22Speaker 2: So that was a weird play for sure. And you know,
- 41:26Speaker 2: and they had they were already down pretty pretty big.
- 41:29Speaker 2: But if they would have scored there, you know, he's
- 41:32Speaker 2: still still going to put more pressure on uh on Denver.
- 41:36Speaker 2: But that that kind of killed everything. All right, it's
- 41:39Speaker 2: going to break real quick. I'll be back to get
- 41:41Speaker 2: at least one more.
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- 43:02Speaker 2: go to the phone on Dylan in Northport, Florida. Dylan,
- 43:06Speaker 2: it's up.
- 43:07Speaker 11: Hey, how's it going good?
- 43:08Speaker 2: You got answers?
- 43:10Speaker 1: Uh?
- 43:10Speaker 11: Nope, I got more questions for you though.
- 43:12Speaker 2: All right?
- 43:14Speaker 11: Yeah, So first off, one outside and my uh halboun
- 43:17Speaker 11: decorations were all deflated this morning, just like the rest
- 43:20Speaker 11: of us out of salt figures. That makes sense. And uh,
- 43:23Speaker 11: I do have a question for you though here, would
- 43:26Speaker 11: you do you think this team is in need of
- 43:28Speaker 11: a defensive rebuild out to this season, like, do they
- 43:30Speaker 11: have any bones? What are the bones of this defense?
- 43:35Speaker 2: Yeah, they're they're broken. I mean they're they're you know,
- 43:39Speaker 2: I mean, I don't, I don't know. You're you're saying, like,
- 43:42Speaker 2: who who's the guy to build around?
- 43:44Speaker 11: Well, they're they're like a pile of goop right now? Right, Yeah,
- 43:46Speaker 11: there's no guy to build around right now. So in
- 43:49Speaker 11: terms of making a trade, I guess it makes sense
- 43:51Speaker 11: if you want to say, we need to start somewhere
- 43:53Speaker 11: with somebody who's really really good improvement. At the same time,
- 43:56Speaker 11: you can go even without the injuries, just looking at
- 43:59Speaker 11: all the healthy player before the season started, you can
- 44:01Speaker 11: go position by position and say, huh, that might not
- 44:04Speaker 11: be great there. And you're right about the diaper, the
- 44:07Speaker 11: diaper disguised. Also with that in mind, I'm almost have
- 44:09Speaker 11: the mindset that I kind of want to see if
- 44:11Speaker 11: there's a market to maybe trade away some players. And
- 44:14Speaker 11: I know you're probably disagree with me there and a
- 44:15Speaker 11: lot of people disagree with me. I'm sure on that,
- 44:17Speaker 11: but they need a lot of players. Well that's that's
- 44:20Speaker 11: the other part of it, right is who is interesting digs?
- 44:23Speaker 11: I think obviously somebody might be able to shop, and
- 44:25Speaker 11: you're not going to have him next year. I'm assuming
- 44:27Speaker 11: he's probably going to be gone. Mazzie made with some
- 44:30Speaker 11: draft bias. You can get a six round pick four
- 44:32Speaker 11: or something like that. Sam Williams, Untap potential, Tolbert, He's
- 44:35Speaker 11: a reliable vet. It's got to be a tough sell.
- 44:38Speaker 11: But it's almost like, do we at least try to
- 44:41Speaker 11: try to sell somebody and just really stack up the
- 44:43Speaker 11: picks for the defensive rebuild next year? Is even possible?
- 44:46Speaker 11: You know, it's a tough position. And you got to
- 44:49Speaker 11: keep in mind Dak's contract too. You're working within a
- 44:51Speaker 11: twenty twenty eight timeframe, so it's like, what is the
- 44:53Speaker 11: right answer here? More questions?
- 44:55Speaker 16: I guess well you're.
- 44:56Speaker 2: Right about that. Dang, thanks for the call. You know
- 45:00Speaker 2: you mentioned a lot of players. I just I wouldn't
- 45:04Speaker 2: you know, I wouldn't trade or wouldn't imagine anybody that
- 45:07Speaker 2: would want these guys, you know, the Tolvert and Sam
- 45:11Speaker 2: Williams and Mazi and the guys that you know, you're
- 45:14Speaker 2: especially on defense, and your defense is is the worst
- 45:17Speaker 2: in the league, and you got guys that aren't even
- 45:18Speaker 2: starting on this defense. So to answer your question on
- 45:22Speaker 2: who who do you have to kind of build around,
- 45:24Speaker 2: I mean, the guys that you have to build around
- 45:26Speaker 2: are the ones that you paid. I mean, and that's
- 45:28Speaker 2: that's what they did. They paid Osa, they paid Deron Bland.
- 45:33Speaker 2: You know, those guys are not going anywhere. I mean,
- 45:35Speaker 2: that's that's You think you got a pretty good playmaking
- 45:39Speaker 2: defensive bat, you know, a corner and you know you
- 45:42Speaker 2: got a defensive tackle there in Osa, but he hasn't.
- 45:47Speaker 2: He hasn't played that well either this year. He hasn't
- 45:50Speaker 2: made a huge impact, so, you know, and then you'd
- 45:53Speaker 2: like to think you have a good young player in
- 45:55Speaker 2: in overshown. But he's got to prove that he can
- 45:57Speaker 2: stay healthy too. So that's gonna be the key there.
- 46:00Speaker 2: I'm speaking of him. Maybe he comes back in a
- 46:03Speaker 2: week or two. Sebastian and said Van and I will
- 46:05Speaker 2: be our next caller. Last caller, Sebastian, what's up.
- 46:08Speaker 7: Good morning, sir.
- 46:09Speaker 16: I hope you're doing well.
- 46:10Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 46:12Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 46:12Speaker 7: I want to start out by first give me some
- 46:15Speaker 7: credit to the front office. They did a lot more
- 46:17Speaker 7: of this offseason than they ever have in any season
- 46:20Speaker 7: that I've seen because I've only been watching about eighteen
- 46:22Speaker 7: years now, right, right, Jerry Jones, you built this team
- 46:26Speaker 7: to be the most valuable franchise in the world. But
- 46:29Speaker 7: at the end of the day, we haven't had a
- 46:31Speaker 7: complete team since the Jimmy Johnson era. So when it
- 46:34Speaker 7: comes to the question of was it Jerry or was
- 46:36Speaker 7: it Jimmy, it's leaning Jimmy.
- 46:37Speaker 2: Right right.
- 46:39Speaker 7: We got nine games left to go on a season.
- 46:41Speaker 7: Right at this point, we know what our defense is.
- 46:44Speaker 7: For the first time ever, the world is saying, you
- 46:47Speaker 7: got an MVP quarterback. You gotta do something with that.
- 46:51Speaker 7: But we can't. You can't fix this massive hole in
- 46:55Speaker 7: one season. So I go to Will McLay and for
- 46:57Speaker 7: the first time, I say, listen, the buck no longer
- 47:00Speaker 7: stops with me.
- 47:01Speaker 2: Will.
- 47:01Speaker 7: We got this much money, we got, this is our core,
- 47:04Speaker 7: we got, this is our defensive coordinator. I'm going to
- 47:07Speaker 7: give you the rest of this season to put together
- 47:09Speaker 7: the best team that you can going forward so we
- 47:11Speaker 7: can try to sneak into the playoffs. And in the offseason,
- 47:14Speaker 7: we're going to tackle this thing from every angle, the UFL,
- 47:18Speaker 7: free agency, and the draft. Straight defense. Can you fix this?
- 47:25Speaker 7: You're the guy we don't need all the chiefs that
- 47:28Speaker 7: we've had over the last several years, whereas this collective
- 47:30Speaker 7: and it just seems like it's not working as a whole.
- 47:34Speaker 7: You know, you've seen and I've seen it. All the
- 47:36Speaker 7: fans know, all the world knows what our team is.
- 47:38Speaker 7: We have a phenomenal offense, but the defense is so
- 47:41Speaker 7: bad it's starting to affect your quarterback and your offensive
- 47:44Speaker 7: coordinator's mindsets when they go into the game. You can
- 47:47Speaker 7: see the desperation in their face when the defense goes
- 47:50Speaker 7: out there. And I feel personally irritated when I see
- 47:52Speaker 7: the defense celebrating and you get an interception but you
- 47:55Speaker 7: are fred yards behind the guy, and then to the
- 47:58Speaker 7: safety and the quarterbacks celebrating, and then his own but
- 48:01Speaker 7: he oversee them by five yards. He was wide open.
- 48:03Speaker 7: And this is every game, every down, you know. So
- 48:08Speaker 7: I don't think we can fix this all in one season.
- 48:10Speaker 11: I give this two seasons.
- 48:12Speaker 7: And I think the thing was with with Brian Schottenheimer.
- 48:15Speaker 7: We had that matrix feeling like when my mouse is
- 48:17Speaker 7: seeing Neil for the first time and he's doing that
- 48:19Speaker 7: jump off the roof and they're like, no one makes
- 48:21Speaker 7: it on the first time. But you go, but what
- 48:22Speaker 7: if this team's identity is false? Hope, right now, I
- 48:25Speaker 7: don't hang up with lessons.
- 48:26Speaker 2: All right, Well yeah, I mean you're talking about two
- 48:32Speaker 2: years to fix it, about two days, three days, get
- 48:38Speaker 2: an extra day, get it fixed. I mean, I mean,
- 48:42Speaker 2: this is not the business that this is as a fans.
- 48:46Speaker 2: Fans reality is is like cause they know where the
- 48:49Speaker 2: fans know where they're going to be next year, they're
- 48:50Speaker 2: going to be rooting for the Cowboys as painfully as
- 48:53Speaker 2: they could be. Sometimes that's what they're going to be.
- 48:55Speaker 2: So it's easy for a fan to say, well, you know,
- 48:56Speaker 2: this isn't the year for it, let's go and let's
- 48:59Speaker 2: don't do anything to mess up our draft and all
- 49:01Speaker 2: this kind of stuff. But that's not the that's not
- 49:03Speaker 2: the reality that that that that the coaches and players
- 49:06Speaker 2: live in, you know what I mean? Now, the front
- 49:08Speaker 2: office can a little bit because they know where they're
- 49:10Speaker 2: going to be, but the goal is to try to
- 49:13Speaker 2: figure out how to beat the Cardinals this week, to
- 49:15Speaker 2: get the four to four and one at the buy.
- 49:16Speaker 2: That's what they gotta do. They gotta they got to
- 49:19Speaker 2: do that. So I I understand the big picture thoughts.
- 49:24Speaker 2: But it's it's trying to figure out how do you
- 49:27Speaker 2: win this week against the Cardinals, the absolute biggest game
- 49:31Speaker 2: of the year, because because it's the next one, and
- 49:33Speaker 2: it's the one to put you right back at five
- 49:36Speaker 2: hundred at the buy four to four and one. That's
- 49:39Speaker 2: where they have to be if they want to do anything,
- 49:42Speaker 2: they got to, you know, then go to Vegas and
- 49:44Speaker 2: then we know the gauntlet that's behind them there. They're
- 49:47Speaker 2: gonna have to steal some wins. They're gonna have to
- 49:48Speaker 2: do that. They're gonna have to figure out how to
- 49:50Speaker 2: win some of these home games, and they're winnable. They're
- 49:52Speaker 2: winnable the Eagles. You can beat the Eagles at home.
- 49:55Speaker 2: You can you can beat the Chargers and the Vikings.
- 49:58Speaker 2: I don't know about the Chiefs right now. Mahomes could
- 50:01Speaker 2: score fifty the way that this defense is playing right now.
- 50:04Speaker 2: So they have to figure out how to get stops.
- 50:06Speaker 2: But one game at a time. It's not about next
- 50:10Speaker 2: year and all that. It's about how do they beat
- 50:12Speaker 2: the Cardinals this week? How do they get off the
- 50:14Speaker 2: field a few more times and get the ball to
- 50:17Speaker 2: the offense. That that that's what it is. I get
- 50:20Speaker 2: big pictures there. But this team, this team is it
- 50:24Speaker 2: would do everyone a disservice, disservice if they're not trying
- 50:28Speaker 2: to go and figure out how to win next Monday night.
- 50:30Speaker 2: That's just my take on it. You guys aren't wrong
- 50:32Speaker 2: with with big picture thoughts, but also remember it's it's
- 50:36Speaker 2: about tunnel vision right here, right now. Figure out how
- 50:40Speaker 2: to win. I mean, you're you're not even at the
- 50:42Speaker 2: halfway point. You've got something really good to work with,
- 50:46Speaker 2: but you've got to figure out how to how to
- 50:48Speaker 2: take this worst defense in the NFL and make them
- 50:53Speaker 2: even close to average. If you can do that, you'll
- 50:56Speaker 2: have something here. But you know, I think that that's
- 50:59Speaker 2: where things stay in right now. But we'll talk about
- 51:01Speaker 2: it all week long. We'll talk about it. We got it.
- 51:03Speaker 2: We got a few more shows before the Cowboys take
- 51:06Speaker 2: on the Cardinals and it starts tomorrow. So for Chris
- 51:09Speaker 2: be I'm Nick Eatman, see tomorrow on storyline.
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