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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
- 0:04Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Cowboys.
- 0:11Speaker 3: This is He's Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:22Speaker 4: Good morning and welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I am Nick Eatman.
- 0:26Speaker 4: It is Monday, December, the second welcome back from the
- 0:30Speaker 4: holiday weekend. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone from last week. We'll
- 0:35Speaker 4: turn the page now to December. We can focus on Christmas,
- 0:39Speaker 4: of course, if it hasn't already been the focused and
- 0:43Speaker 4: maybe focus on playoffs. Maybe I don't know Cowboys are
- 0:49Speaker 4: in the hunt. I know that they're in the I
- 0:51Speaker 4: see the screen up on the when they're anytime they're
- 0:54Speaker 4: doing a game. Here's the NFC playoff picture. There's that
- 0:57Speaker 4: Cowboy logo. Finally there, way off on the right. It's
- 1:01Speaker 4: not exactly where you want to be, but better than
- 1:03Speaker 4: being off the page, or is it? You guys can
- 1:06Speaker 4: can talk about that way in on that eight eight
- 1:09Speaker 4: eight eight five five two two ninety seven. But the
- 1:11Speaker 4: Cowboys get another victory too in a row. Now, Cowboys
- 1:15Speaker 4: beat the Giants twenty seven to twenty on Thanksgiving. Defense
- 1:20Speaker 4: played really well in that game. Second game in a
- 1:24Speaker 4: row though, where you know they they're in control, and
- 1:27Speaker 4: then they just kind of prevent defense, just let them
- 1:30Speaker 4: back in and it with the touchdown, maybe a little
- 1:33Speaker 4: closer than it needed to be, but still good. Good
- 1:38Speaker 4: game for the Cowboys. Also, good good job by the
- 1:41Speaker 4: offense of kind of just icing the game there at
- 1:45Speaker 4: the end. They needed a first down. You would think
- 1:49Speaker 4: they would have run it. They threw it. Brandon Cooks,
- 1:51Speaker 4: Welcome back. Brandon Cooks gets a touchdown also with a
- 1:55Speaker 4: big catch there on the sideline to steal the game.
- 1:58Speaker 4: And so you know, you're start starting to get these
- 2:01Speaker 4: veteran players back and the Cowboys are starting to play better.
- 2:04Speaker 4: If you think that's a coincidence, it's not. I'm sorry,
- 2:09Speaker 4: it's not. All right. Let's hear. Let's go to the
- 2:11Speaker 4: phone lines. Let's go champ Nebraska.
- 2:13Speaker 5: What's up, hey, Nick, How are you doing good?
- 2:16Speaker 4: How are you doing?
- 2:17Speaker 6: I'm doing great, man. I'm starting to feel like the
- 2:20Speaker 6: last time I called in, I was kind of getting
- 2:23Speaker 6: on the fans because we had had that conversation about
- 2:25Speaker 6: people paying attention and all that, and then I hadn't
- 2:27Speaker 6: been able to get in for a couple of weeks already,
- 2:30Speaker 6: and I thought, man, he's gonna think he calls in
- 2:33Speaker 6: here and wants to talk about fans and then he
- 2:35Speaker 6: doesn't call back. But hey, he's been busy with work
- 2:38Speaker 6: and stuff.
- 2:39Speaker 4: Hey Champ. And maybe this is just this is my
- 2:41Speaker 4: own assumption, but I feel like the people that call
- 2:43Speaker 4: on a regular basis, whatever that is regular basis, if
- 2:47Speaker 4: they don't call, it means that to me, they're not
- 2:50Speaker 4: getting through. That's the way I look at it. That's
- 2:53Speaker 4: that's great. That's how I always feel like. If they
- 2:55Speaker 4: don't make it, they don't they don't call today, they
- 2:57Speaker 4: couldn't get in.
- 2:58Speaker 6: Not that they That's exactly what it had been, either
- 3:01Speaker 6: that or I'd been busy.
- 3:02Speaker 2: But I've been listening every week.
- 3:03Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
- 3:05Speaker 7: Hey, so the last time I called, I kind of
- 3:08Speaker 7: was dogging on coach McCarthy talking about him. He kept
- 3:11Speaker 7: talking about commenting complimentary football, and I said, he's not
- 3:15Speaker 7: helping himself by not running the ball.
- 3:17Speaker 8: He kind of gets away from it.
- 3:19Speaker 5: But the last couple of weeks.
- 3:21Speaker 6: For the most part, I know he's had a couple
- 3:23Speaker 6: of you know, the second quarter comes to mind. This
- 3:26Speaker 6: last game, he got away from the run game for
- 3:27Speaker 6: a little bit, and then that what you were just
- 3:30Speaker 6: talking about that third down, but hey, it worked out
- 3:32Speaker 6: for us. But I want to give him his flowers
- 3:34Speaker 6: because you know, Rico's they've been using him. They they
- 3:38Speaker 6: haven't been pulling him out and bringing in Zeke, trying
- 3:41Speaker 6: to get Zeke going again. It's been Rico. They're living
- 3:45Speaker 6: and dying with Rico and it's working. And I want
- 3:48Speaker 6: to give him his flowers for that. Yeah, that's pretty awesome.
- 3:53Speaker 6: I think that. I took a picture the other day
- 3:56Speaker 6: when I saw the in the hunt deal too, and
- 3:58Speaker 6: I posted on my social media. Yeah, and you know,
- 4:00Speaker 6: it's still kind of a joke between me and my dad,
- 4:03Speaker 6: you know, because I understand we're way out of it
- 4:05Speaker 6: right now. But so we're in the hunt right there's
- 4:08Speaker 6: a possibility, there's a chance. And lastly, I wanted to
- 4:11Speaker 6: ask you. I heard you talking last week about Stamford
- 4:14Speaker 6: that that's where your wife is from. One of my
- 4:16Speaker 6: high school coaches won the state championship. Their name was
- 4:20Speaker 6: Ronnie Casey. I don't know if you know him or not.
- 4:22Speaker 6: He's a great man, great coach. I just wondered, and
- 4:26Speaker 6: I just want to say that I hope you all
- 4:28Speaker 6: had a happy Thanksgiving. I would try to get in
- 4:30Speaker 6: to wish you guys at last week, but I hope
- 4:32Speaker 6: you guys are full of family and blessings. And I
- 4:35Speaker 6: appreciate y'all. Thank you, good calculator.
- 4:37Speaker 4: Thanks Champ. I appreciate that. Yeah, it was. It was
- 4:42Speaker 4: a good Thanksgiving. I was all all over the place
- 4:44Speaker 4: Stanford on Wednesday, Cowboy game Thursday. Twenty seven consecutive Thanksgiving
- 4:50Speaker 4: Day games for me, starting with Randy Moss and the
- 4:54Speaker 4: Vikings in ninety eight and then twenty seven in a row.
- 5:00Speaker 4: Proud of that. It's awesome. I love I love the game.
- 5:02Speaker 4: I love the game. I love the Thanksgiving Day game.
- 5:06Speaker 4: Kind of honored to be a part of it in
- 5:08Speaker 4: my in our own way. Okay, we're not playing in
- 5:10Speaker 4: the game. I know that. But still, you know, everyone's
- 5:13Speaker 4: got to have a job. Everyone covers it, and you know,
- 5:15Speaker 4: we've got to have people working in the parking lot
- 5:18Speaker 4: of concessions. You know, everybody has to do their part
- 5:22Speaker 4: for a game so the rest of the world can
- 5:24Speaker 4: can sit with their family and and you know, eat
- 5:28Speaker 4: turkey and ham and all that and uh and and
- 5:30Speaker 4: watch the game as a tradition. And so it's like
- 5:34Speaker 4: it's cool to be on the other side of it,
- 5:36Speaker 4: you know. And it's a great excuse too when your family,
- 5:38Speaker 4: you know, you're asking like, well, where's he?
- 5:41Speaker 5: Well?
- 5:42Speaker 4: Is that the game we're watching? So I love it.
- 5:44Speaker 4: I love being there. And and to me, Thanksgiving is
- 5:46Speaker 4: when you're you're with your family, uh, and you're eating
- 5:49Speaker 4: food and you're and you're watching football, you know, So
- 5:53Speaker 4: whether that's Saturday, for me, it was Wednesday and then
- 5:55Speaker 4: a little bit on Saturday too, which was great. All right.
- 5:59Speaker 4: To answer your question about Rico, Yeah, I mean, Rico's
- 6:01Speaker 4: had a nice, nice job there. They're doing a nice
- 6:04Speaker 4: job with him. They still though, there was like in
- 6:08Speaker 4: the second quarter, it was like three possessions in a row,
- 6:10Speaker 4: like was eight carries for fifty yards? Is that not
- 6:13Speaker 4: good enough to keep giving him the ball? And then
- 6:16Speaker 4: there was another drive in the fourth quarter, three straight
- 6:19Speaker 4: passes and you're like, what are they doing? Like, why
- 6:23Speaker 4: you're up by fourteen points with the ball and your
- 6:26Speaker 4: running game is working, It makes no sense to try
- 6:30Speaker 4: to throw it deep to Tolbert or Mingo or whatever
- 6:34Speaker 4: they're doing. I'm just like, just just run the football.
- 6:37Speaker 4: Your best receivers out with a shoulder injury. You're running
- 6:40Speaker 4: it well, and you're up fourteen, Let's get out of
- 6:43Speaker 4: here and go home, And so they just can't help themselves.
- 6:47Speaker 4: Sometimes I don't understand that, all right, Robbie Coco Beach, Florida.
- 6:51Speaker 9: What's up, Nick? Happy Thanksgiving to you man, I know
- 6:54Speaker 9: you enjoyed you a twenty seventh yearsecutive.
- 6:57Speaker 4: Twenty seven Thanksgiving Day games in a row.
- 7:01Speaker 9: That is phenomenal.
- 7:02Speaker 4: Love it. I remember every one of them.
- 7:05Speaker 9: I think inside the chef for years and every you know,
- 7:09Speaker 9: for years I'd have to be at the restaurant until
- 7:11Speaker 9: recently I retired and not work for the county because
- 7:14Speaker 9: I got little kids. You know I do that.
- 7:17Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 7:17Speaker 9: That being said, I just started having Thanksgiving at home
- 7:21Speaker 9: and it has been the most amazing thing in the
- 7:23Speaker 9: last nine years to be able to be home with
- 7:27Speaker 9: the family eat Thanksgiving, cook and watch the ball game.
- 7:30Speaker 6: Man, it's the best.
- 7:31Speaker 2: Time in my week, definitely.
- 7:33Speaker 4: I hear you, hey.
- 7:35Speaker 9: Man, our run game is starting to come together a
- 7:37Speaker 9: little bit running but not mention playoffs. I mean, I know,
- 7:41Speaker 9: well you said it too right in the beginning of
- 7:43Speaker 9: the pod, but I see our name on the screen now,
- 7:46Speaker 9: you know, five and seven.
- 7:49Speaker 4: Just keep topping wood, Just keep just keep topping wood,
- 7:53Speaker 4: you know, just keep going in that right direction. I
- 7:56Speaker 4: promise you. I think it's better for the team. It is,
- 7:59Speaker 4: and it's better for for us. It's better for us.
- 8:02Speaker 4: I know that. Why when and yeah, and I'm sorry,
- 8:07Speaker 4: You're you're not gonna you know, you keep doing that.
- 8:10Speaker 4: You're not gonna be picking in the top five top
- 8:12Speaker 4: you know you probably? Yeah, I mean, you're this is
- 8:15Speaker 4: this looks like somewhere between fifteen and twenty. That's what
- 8:19Speaker 4: this is kind of looking like.
- 8:21Speaker 9: Unless into the playoffs and then make oh yeah, you
- 8:25Speaker 9: can eureful run like a couple of other teams have
- 8:27Speaker 9: done throughout the years. And I got to say this
- 8:30Speaker 9: upcoming week against Cincy, I'm glad that Cincy won.
- 8:33Speaker 4: They lost, Actually they lost. They lost to the Steelers. Yeah,
- 8:37Speaker 4: they're four and eight.
- 8:39Speaker 2: Oh.
- 8:39Speaker 10: I talked to her.
- 8:40Speaker 9: I thought they won the game.
- 8:41Speaker 4: They lost to the Steelers. And apparently, and I watched
- 8:44Speaker 4: them a little bit, apparently this is the greatest four
- 8:48Speaker 4: inn eight football team that the NFL has ever seen.
- 8:51Speaker 4: I mean, I just know, I don't know, I don't
- 8:54Speaker 4: get it. The Cowboys are what five point fait underdogs. Yeah,
- 9:00Speaker 4: I mean Burrow and Chase and Higgins they're great, but
- 9:05Speaker 4: somebody on defense is not. So I don't know.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Yeah, we got Tank coming back.
- 9:10Speaker 4: Should should come back? I hear maybe maybe ZD probably
- 9:16Speaker 4: so yeah, yeah good Zach Martin. I would cook cooks
- 9:20Speaker 4: is yeah, I been back like like uh, Brady was calling.
- 9:26Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, he can call him whatever he wants him,
- 9:29Speaker 9: whatever he wants. Yeah, yeah that's true. All right, man, listen,
- 9:32Speaker 9: I think, uh we're gonna have a great week listening
- 9:35Speaker 9: to the show all week, and uh we're gonna whoop
- 9:37Speaker 9: some butt on Monday night.
- 9:38Speaker 4: All right, all right, Rob, appreciate it. All right, good stuff.
- 9:42Speaker 4: Let's go to uh Gary in New Mexico as our
- 9:45Speaker 4: next caller. Gary.
- 9:47Speaker 10: Hey, Nick, hope you had a happy Thanksgiving. It was
- 9:49Speaker 10: great you. Oh yeah, you're absolutely right too. I tried
- 9:54Speaker 10: to call in last week, but you were just so
- 9:56Speaker 10: busy on Wednesday. Man, you had a ton of callers obviously,
- 9:59Speaker 10: so yeah, which was disappointing because I had a great Thanksgiving.
- 10:04Speaker 10: Cowboy trivia question for you?
- 10:06Speaker 4: Is this not applical anymore?
- 10:08Speaker 10: No, I'm gonna go ahead and ask it just because
- 10:12Speaker 10: because you're big. This is right from your era, you know,
- 10:15Speaker 10: when you're watching the Cowboys growing up. So nineteen eighty seven,
- 10:19Speaker 10: Oh yeah, can can you name the wide receiver that
- 10:22Speaker 10: scored three touchdowns and that Thanksgiving loss to the Minnesota Vikings.
- 10:27Speaker 4: Mike Renfro.
- 10:28Speaker 10: Yeah, Mike Renfro, that was my man. Now, second part
- 10:32Speaker 10: of that question, this is why I asked that. Can
- 10:34Speaker 10: you tell me how many players from that nineteen eighty
- 10:37Speaker 10: seven Thanksgiving game we're on Dallas Cowboys super Bowl teams
- 10:42Speaker 10: in the nineteen nineties? Oh, because there was a bunch
- 10:47Speaker 10: of them, and not all of them played for Dallas.
- 10:51Speaker 4: Say that again that they were on the what they
- 10:53Speaker 4: were on the playoff? They were on?
- 10:55Speaker 10: How many? How many players from that eighty seven Thanksgiving
- 10:57Speaker 10: game we're on Cowboys super Bowl teams in the nineties?
- 11:02Speaker 10: On any on any one of the three super Bowl
- 11:04Speaker 10: teams in the nineties.
- 11:05Speaker 4: Oh? Okay, what what's the end of nine? Eight?
- 11:12Speaker 10: Hold on?
- 11:12Speaker 4: Well?
- 11:13Speaker 10: There were nine. There were nine Cowboys that were on
- 11:16Speaker 10: that eighty seven team, including three starters on the offensive line.
- 11:19Speaker 9: Gogan Newton in two and a Yeah, I got new.
- 11:23Speaker 10: Got Kelvin Martin, Jim Jeffcoche, Bill Bates, Mike Sachson the punter,
- 11:30Speaker 10: Robert Williams defensive back number twenty three, and and Danny Noonan,
- 11:34Speaker 10: who technically was traded halfway through the ninety two season,
- 11:37Speaker 10: but he started the first two games of that season,
- 11:39Speaker 10: which were big wins. And then the two vikings were
- 11:42Speaker 10: Isaac Holton Wade Wilson. Remember remember, I mean that was.
- 11:48Speaker 11: I don't know why that eighty seven game, man.
- 11:49Speaker 10: I was a sophomore in high school. The Cowboys were down.
- 11:52Speaker 10: You know, they weren't that good. It was kind of
- 11:54Speaker 10: the last stand, but that was. That game just sticks
- 11:57Speaker 10: in my mind because Mike Renthro got into a big
- 11:59Speaker 10: fight with Joey after one of his touchdowns, and I
- 12:02Speaker 10: just stuck in my mind.
- 12:03Speaker 4: Anyway, I wrote, Jesse Solomon down. I guess he didn't
- 12:05Speaker 4: play on those championship teams.
- 12:07Speaker 10: Now they cut him. I guess. I guess Jimmy Cutting
- 12:10Speaker 10: were traded him before the ninety two season, but he
- 12:12Speaker 10: played for US in ninety Anyway, go ahead on to Cincinnati. Okay,
- 12:18Speaker 10: this team is starting to come together and look good.
- 12:21Speaker 10: I like what I'm seeing. You remember back in nineteen
- 12:25Speaker 10: ninety when Michael Irvin was coming off of his knee
- 12:28Speaker 10: injury and then about the tenth game of the season,
- 12:30Speaker 10: they went out to play the Rams and he had
- 12:32Speaker 10: a big two touchdown game and kind of that reminds
- 12:35Speaker 10: me of Overshown. You know, Overshown is the second year
- 12:39Speaker 10: guys coming off an injury and kind of hitting miss.
- 12:42Speaker 10: But man, the last two or three weeks, that dude
- 12:44Speaker 10: is really starting to come on and make some plays.
- 12:47Speaker 10: Very encouraging, you know what we're seeing from him. So
- 12:52Speaker 10: here's my thoughts on this season. If they beat Cincinnati,
- 12:55Speaker 10: and I'm gonna be honest with you, I kind of
- 12:57Speaker 10: peaked at the standings last night on ESPN try to
- 13:00Speaker 10: figure out playoff things. But if they beat Cincinnati, then
- 13:04Speaker 10: I'm going to start scoreboard watching. Yeah, but let's see
- 13:07Speaker 10: what they do against Cincinnati. But to the fans, man,
- 13:09Speaker 10: don't think about the draft until after the season's over.
- 13:13Speaker 10: Enjoy the wins. You know, my family's happy. I told
- 13:16Speaker 10: them if the Cowboys won, they could decorate for Christmas
- 13:18Speaker 10: or the Cowboys one on Thursday, so we get to
- 13:20Speaker 10: put up the Christmas tree. This year we.
- 13:24Speaker 4: Didn't win, what was it going to be like? Never
- 13:27Speaker 4: or next week?
- 13:28Speaker 11: Or until you know, the wife probably would have overruled
- 13:32Speaker 11: me in you know, I like to joke around, man.
- 13:37Speaker 11: I mean, I just grew up a Cowboys then, and
- 13:38Speaker 11: the Cowboys. When the Cowboys went on Thanksgiving, the next
- 13:42Speaker 11: ten days.
- 13:42Speaker 10: Are always good. That's so let's see what happens. Enjoy
- 13:46Speaker 10: the show man. Thanks for taking my call.
- 13:48Speaker 4: Good stuff in this case eleven days because they play
- 13:51Speaker 4: that Monday night game. You know your point on overshown,
- 13:55Speaker 4: I get it. I'll say this though. You know, when
- 13:59Speaker 4: you come back from an injury is kind of like,
- 14:02Speaker 4: you know, is he back all that kind of stuff. Sorry,
- 14:08Speaker 4: this is the first time I've actually seen that Cooper
- 14:10Speaker 4: to Josh Allen play for the touchdown. Wow, just old
- 14:14Speaker 4: old school hitch and pitch in the snow. That's pretty
- 14:16Speaker 4: pretty awesome. Sorry, over shown first game of the season though,
- 14:20Speaker 4: first game of the season, when he outran Micah to
- 14:23Speaker 4: get to Deshaun Watson on that fourth down sack. That's
- 14:26Speaker 4: when we're like, oh, wow, like this guy's this guy's
- 14:29Speaker 4: got something because we you know, we've never seen him play.
- 14:31Speaker 4: He hadn't played yet, and so yeah, he's had his
- 14:34Speaker 4: moments here and there that that touchdown against the Giants.
- 14:40Speaker 4: I mean that's one of that's one of your best
- 14:44Speaker 4: plays of the season by far. I mean, like that
- 14:46Speaker 4: was just an outstanding play, just the It's got everything
- 14:52Speaker 4: that you want from a dynamic player. When you when
- 14:55Speaker 4: you think about that play, you want burst to get
- 15:00Speaker 4: to the back you know, accelerate to get back into
- 15:03Speaker 4: the backfield. You want power to just smash the running
- 15:07Speaker 4: back off his spot and and and show you know that.
- 15:11Speaker 4: So you've got some acceleration, You've got power. Now you
- 15:15Speaker 4: got length the passes out here, your anticipation, the length,
- 15:19Speaker 4: tip it up in the air. Now you got to
- 15:22Speaker 4: go the awareness to go find it, catch it and
- 15:25Speaker 4: then take it to the house. Everything that you want
- 15:28Speaker 4: out of a player like that, especially a defensive player.
- 15:31Speaker 4: He kind of showed it in that play. It was
- 15:33Speaker 4: a really phenomenal play and they needed that. They needed
- 15:37Speaker 4: a boost to score a touchdown and kind of get
- 15:40Speaker 4: that get the ball rolling there. So overshown, outstanding play.
- 15:43Speaker 4: Let's go to the next caller is Ronnie in New Jersey.
- 15:48Speaker 8: They make good morning.
- 15:50Speaker 4: How are you.
- 15:51Speaker 8: That's pretty good? Pretty good? Actually, thank you. I hope
- 15:55Speaker 8: you guys are doing doing great. You guys are doing great.
- 15:58Speaker 10: Nick.
- 15:59Speaker 8: I'm glad you put it out in the beginning of
- 16:01Speaker 8: the show about the running game, because it seems like
- 16:06Speaker 8: when these young guys are in there, they they're starting
- 16:10Speaker 8: to yell gel with with the younger guys. I forget
- 16:15Speaker 8: his name, Hoffman. Yeah, he's got that mentality, that that
- 16:22Speaker 8: that that feistiness that I wish everybody on the defensive
- 16:27Speaker 8: line and offensive line had, especially our nose tackle if
- 16:30Speaker 8: And I know he's played well a couple of the
- 16:33Speaker 8: last couple of games. But I'm glad you also mentioned
- 16:37Speaker 8: McCarthy because if the running game is working, that was
- 16:41Speaker 8: when I was watching the game that That's what I
- 16:43Speaker 8: was saying too. I was saying the same thing you
- 16:45Speaker 8: just mentioned, Why aren't you running the ball? And he's
- 16:49Speaker 8: talking about, Yeah, we're gonna run the ball. We're gonna
- 16:51Speaker 8: run the ball. Man, the running games finding is working.
- 16:54Speaker 8: You guys are running the ball down there throws. This
- 16:57Speaker 8: guy is killing it, uh battle, and all of a
- 17:02Speaker 8: sudden he stops running the ball. Like That's why I'm
- 17:05Speaker 8: kind of not a McCarthy fan, because he shoots himself
- 17:10Speaker 8: in the foot like this would have been a better team.
- 17:13Speaker 8: He gave them an opening to come back and to
- 17:16Speaker 8: lose the game, basically throw the game away. So I'm
- 17:20Speaker 8: not one hundred percent sold on McCarthy just because of that.
- 17:24Speaker 8: He goes away from what's working, and when he finds it,
- 17:27Speaker 8: he goes away from it for whatever reason. Another thing
- 17:31Speaker 8: over shown he's a beast. I mean Overshown and Parsons together,
- 17:36Speaker 8: and we get these cornerbacks back together, I think this team,
- 17:41Speaker 8: the defense at least, will be a lot better. Hopefully
- 17:45Speaker 8: we just do the same thing with the offense in
- 17:46Speaker 8: this offseason. Find another playmaker aside from cdee Lamb and
- 17:51Speaker 8: running back, an offensive lineman and a wide receiver asking
- 17:57Speaker 8: for much another defensive tackle. You know what, if we
- 18:04Speaker 8: get a defensive defensive lineman, a playmaker as a defensive tackle,
- 18:09Speaker 8: this this defense would be really nice. But aside from that, Nick,
- 18:13Speaker 8: thanks for taking my call. I hope you guys enjoyed
- 18:16Speaker 8: your holidays and I'll be I'll look forward to listening.
- 18:19Speaker 4: To you all right, Thank you, Thank you, Ronnie. Appreciate
- 18:22Speaker 4: that I agree with you about the play calling there,
- 18:29Speaker 4: you know, with with McCarthy at the end of the
- 18:31Speaker 4: game or in the fourth quarter, it just I get
- 18:36Speaker 4: it when you can't run, but but they could, you know,
- 18:39Speaker 4: they they were running well that that didn't make sense.
- 18:42Speaker 4: They kind of get away from it. And I get
- 18:45Speaker 4: it that you can't do it every single time. You're
- 18:47Speaker 4: trying to mix things up, keep them off balanced. I
- 18:50Speaker 4: get that, okay, but there's you know, when you're running
- 18:54Speaker 4: back is Ad in the second quarter, it eight carries
- 18:57Speaker 4: for fifty yards. Okay, here averaging more six yards of carry,
- 19:01Speaker 4: So that's working. So I don't understand a series or
- 19:05Speaker 4: two or three in a row where you don't give
- 19:08Speaker 4: him the ball once unless he was hurt, which he wasn't.
- 19:11Speaker 4: So yeah, that I didn't understand that. But you mentioned Ronnie,
- 19:15Speaker 4: I mentioned Brod Kaufman, and you know, Hoffman's interesting because
- 19:21Speaker 4: for some reason a training camp they you know, and
- 19:24Speaker 4: this is not some reason. The reason was that they
- 19:26Speaker 4: drafted Cooper Bebe. I mean that was it. I mean,
- 19:28Speaker 4: he was usual rookie, he's your third round pick, and
- 19:30Speaker 4: he's and they thought he was good enough to handle it,
- 19:34Speaker 4: and he has and he's handled the job. But Hoffman
- 19:38Speaker 4: when he gets in the game, and you could still
- 19:40Speaker 4: say it's a small sample size because it's been four starts,
- 19:44Speaker 4: but they have success. They have success. He started he
- 19:49Speaker 4: started four games now at guard and center, one game
- 19:55Speaker 4: I think at center, and then three games at guard
- 19:57Speaker 4: and and it was last year against the Cardinals Week three,
- 20:01Speaker 4: that terrible loss where they gave up two hundred yards
- 20:03Speaker 4: rushing to twenty two and lost to the Cardinals. Josh
- 20:06Speaker 4: Dobbs and all that, but he started that game and
- 20:10Speaker 4: they had one hundred and eighty five rushing yards in
- 20:13Speaker 4: the game, four hundred yards total, and Pollard had one
- 20:17Speaker 4: hundred and twenty two yards rushing. Now, they lost the game,
- 20:20Speaker 4: and they had some struggles a little bit in the
- 20:22Speaker 4: red zone, but they did move the ball and moved well.
- 20:25Speaker 4: In the last game of the season, he started against Washington.
- 20:28Speaker 4: I think they again over four hundred yards. They've put
- 20:31Speaker 4: up thirty eight points. And then he started these last
- 20:34Speaker 4: two games here against Washington and then the Giants where
- 20:39Speaker 4: they've run the ball better. Rico had a nice game
- 20:42Speaker 4: two weeks ago against Washington and then last game we
- 20:44Speaker 4: had one hundred and twelve yards. Just saying, I mean,
- 20:48Speaker 4: he gets the job done or they're getting the job
- 20:52Speaker 4: done when he's in there. How about that? And that's
- 20:56Speaker 4: all you can do. And I love talking to him.
- 20:58Speaker 4: He's just got a great reactive on things. And yeah,
- 21:01Speaker 4: he's he's looking to fight. I mean, that's that's what
- 21:05Speaker 4: I told him the other day about my analogy that
- 21:07Speaker 4: he needs to be wearing that that black T shirt
- 21:09Speaker 4: that says staff on the back, you know, as a
- 21:11Speaker 4: bouncer in the club. He liked that. He said him
- 21:14Speaker 4: in Bass that you know, now, of course you have
- 21:16Speaker 4: a job to do, but if you can mix in,
- 21:19Speaker 4: you know, making the calls, making the blocks, and then
- 21:22Speaker 4: mix it in a couple of punches here and there,
- 21:24Speaker 4: That's that's kind of what he's looking to do. It's awesome.
- 21:26Speaker 4: Let's good to Josh and Chicago.
- 21:29Speaker 11: Hey, Nick, how are you doing good?
- 21:31Speaker 4: How are you not bad?
- 21:32Speaker 12: I hope you had a good weekend.
- 21:33Speaker 4: Great.
- 21:35Speaker 12: So hearing that talk about Hoffin, I just want to say,
- 21:38Speaker 12: really quick, until Zach is one hundred percent, I think
- 21:40Speaker 12: you just keep riding Hoffman. And I think the other
- 21:42Speaker 12: thing is you have three running backs with Rico, Zeke
- 21:46Speaker 12: and Cook that at this point in the season when
- 21:48Speaker 12: other teams are starting to have those nagging injuries, they
- 21:50Speaker 12: don't want to run against guys like you know, they
- 21:52Speaker 12: don't want to fight against guys like that, So keep
- 21:55Speaker 12: handing the ball off. I agree with the play call.
- 21:57Speaker 12: He needs to be better later in the game and
- 21:59Speaker 12: just tice these games.
- 22:00Speaker 4: The running backs, yep. The point no go ahead, go ahead.
- 22:05Speaker 12: The point I called in to make is it's just
- 22:07Speaker 12: talking about Mike. I mean, he makes this whole team better.
- 22:10Speaker 12: Donovan Wilson just playing so much better now, and I
- 22:12Speaker 12: think it's just that's what you see when you have
- 22:14Speaker 12: such a playmaker and dynamic person on the team that
- 22:17Speaker 12: other teams have to devote resources to. And I just
- 22:20Speaker 12: love to seeing Mike back. I mean, pay the man
- 22:22Speaker 12: as quick as you can.
- 22:23Speaker 5: My take on that.
- 22:24Speaker 12: So oh hang up and listen.
- 22:26Speaker 4: Thanks Josh. You know, not a lot of people think you.
- 22:30Speaker 4: Not a lot of people have that opinion, and I
- 22:33Speaker 4: I do, actually I share that with you. And and again,
- 22:39Speaker 4: if you're trying to turn this thing around and you
- 22:43Speaker 4: need a piece that you can trade that you can
- 22:46Speaker 4: get a lot of value for, and then yeah, you
- 22:50Speaker 4: could you could think about doing that, but I just
- 22:54Speaker 4: don't know if you're going to get the value that
- 22:57Speaker 4: that you want there. Because two first round picks sounds good, right,
- 23:01Speaker 4: It sounds like a lot, but one of them. It
- 23:05Speaker 4: depends on how high it is in the draft. I
- 23:07Speaker 4: don't think you're going to get a top ten pick
- 23:09Speaker 4: out of that. Uh so it's going to be lower
- 23:12Speaker 4: than that. And then whoever he goes to, it's going
- 23:15Speaker 4: to help them. He's going to help them, and then
- 23:18Speaker 4: they're that next round and next year's pick, it's probably
- 23:21Speaker 4: not going to be that that great. So you know,
- 23:25Speaker 4: you've one of those picks you've got to You've got
- 23:28Speaker 4: to get another defensive end. So he's and he has
- 23:31Speaker 4: to be that good. I mean, good luck with that,
- 23:33Speaker 4: because you're not picking in the top ten. You got
- 23:36Speaker 4: very lucky that Micah Parsons was there for you at
- 23:39Speaker 4: twelve and he could do that and and and if
- 23:42Speaker 4: if all he was and and that pick got criticized.
- 23:45Speaker 4: The pick got criticized because he's a linebacker. He's off
- 23:47Speaker 4: the ball linebacker and how good are how how dynamic
- 23:51Speaker 4: are those players? But nobody realized what kind of pass
- 23:54Speaker 4: rush he had. I don't really study the draft that much,
- 23:58Speaker 4: but I'll tell you this, and I can pat myself
- 24:01Speaker 4: on the back on that one. You can go back
- 24:04Speaker 4: to the early days of that draft, and before I
- 24:07Speaker 4: was like, I've taken Michael Parsons because and I said this,
- 24:12Speaker 4: nobody's blocking him. And I know it's Purdue in Indiana
- 24:15Speaker 4: and Wisconsin or whatever, but they're not blocking him. So
- 24:18Speaker 4: in Memphis in the bowl game, Cotton Bowlly was outstanding.
- 24:22Speaker 4: So now I don't know if anyone thought he could
- 24:24Speaker 4: really rush off the edge, and so that was huge.
- 24:26Speaker 4: But but my point is is that they got lucky.
- 24:29Speaker 4: They got lucky to get a guy like that where
- 24:32Speaker 4: they got him. It's rare, so good luck trying to
- 24:35Speaker 4: replace him. And he makes everybody better this team, this
- 24:38Speaker 4: defense is playing better because he's playing again, and he's
- 24:41Speaker 4: playing great since he came back. Let's go to break
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- 26:43Speaker 4: let's go to the phone lines again. We got Randy
- 26:46Speaker 4: and San Antonio. Randy, what's up?
- 26:49Speaker 1: Hey, Good morning, Nick?
- 26:50Speaker 4: How are you.
- 26:51Speaker 1: I'm doing great, always always better when the Cowboys win, yep,
- 26:56Speaker 1: and even better when it's a divisional win.
- 26:59Speaker 10: Yep.
- 27:00Speaker 1: If you told me they were going to be six
- 27:01Speaker 1: and eleven, I would say, let's make the six against
- 27:03Speaker 1: the division.
- 27:05Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 27:06Speaker 5: Fair, But I.
- 27:07Speaker 4: Would have put the Houston in there somehow.
- 27:09Speaker 1: But I think my next one is San Francisco after
- 27:13Speaker 1: the division, but Houston's on that list too. I'm still
- 27:16Speaker 1: bitter about Houston's first game. Yeah, And I you know,
- 27:22Speaker 1: sometimes with these teams, right, I'm bitter with the Packers
- 27:25Speaker 1: for a game. I wasn't even alive for sometimes, so
- 27:30Speaker 1: that happened.
- 27:30Speaker 4: Right, little brother sometimes wins.
- 27:33Speaker 1: So the game was great. I liked Rico running the ball.
- 27:38Speaker 1: I think still there's there's room for maybe a speedback.
- 27:44Speaker 1: But I didn't want to talk. I wasn't going to
- 27:46Speaker 1: talk about the draft thing. But let's let's say these
- 27:49Speaker 1: people that want to trade Micah and you get two
- 27:51Speaker 1: first round picks and a fourth round pick for him,
- 27:55Speaker 1: three picks for one guy, two of them in the
- 27:56Speaker 1: first round. And you go out and you pick Todd Blackledge,
- 27:59Speaker 1: a Ki Smith and Charles Tapper. Yeah, you know, and
- 28:05Speaker 1: you know, even in the first round, I think, what,
- 28:07Speaker 1: it's still about a fifty percent chance. Yeah, so you know,
- 28:11Speaker 1: you can do all the research you want, it still
- 28:13Speaker 1: doesn't always work out. But I wanted to go with that.
- 28:17Speaker 1: But also the thing about the show, it's called storyline,
- 28:20Speaker 1: so gets her take a couple of Bingles storylines, and
- 28:23Speaker 1: two of mine. One is I think it was Zeke's
- 28:26Speaker 1: rookie year. You know, he had done a lot of
- 28:29Speaker 1: different things already, and we said, hey, we want to
- 28:31Speaker 1: see him break a long run. He had a sixty
- 28:33Speaker 1: yard run. And the other one I don't remember exactly
- 28:37Speaker 1: what year it was. I was all excited. The Cowboys
- 28:39Speaker 1: were favored. I turn on the game, bloomeris Austin goes
- 28:43Speaker 1: into a melt huddle, and I think they end up
- 28:46Speaker 1: losing fifty to twenty four or something like that. A
- 28:49Speaker 1: couple of your single storylines that are your favorite. Was
- 28:52Speaker 1: it eighty five?
- 28:53Speaker 4: That was eighty five? Yeah? Yeah, that eighty five season
- 28:56Speaker 4: was so weird because they had some bad losses like
- 28:59Speaker 4: that one and then the Bears eight forty four nothing,
- 29:02Speaker 4: but then they also won the division, so and they
- 29:04Speaker 4: were ten and six, I believe. So it was just
- 29:06Speaker 4: a weird year because he had some terrible losses, including
- 29:09Speaker 4: Cincinnati in December fifty you're right, fifty twenty four.
- 29:13Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know I expected them win. I turn on.
- 29:16Speaker 1: I was so excited. I think I was in the
- 29:19Speaker 1: I don't know. I was still in the Witchita Falls
- 29:21Speaker 1: area at the time. So high school, junior high.
- 29:23Speaker 4: So nice, good stuff. All right, Well, I have some
- 29:28Speaker 4: Bengal memories for sure. I mean, you do it long enough,
- 29:31Speaker 4: you face everybody. So all right, thanks thanks for the call, Randy,
- 29:36Speaker 4: appreciate that. In two thousand, the two thousand season. It
- 29:42Speaker 4: was a pretty bad season. That's the first time I've
- 29:46Speaker 4: ever heard Troy Aikman get booed. And I'm not talking
- 29:49Speaker 4: about because there's three three now it's in an interception.
- 29:52Speaker 4: I'm talking about coming out of the tunnel getting booed,
- 29:56Speaker 4: and that's because he was struggling and they wanted to
- 29:58Speaker 4: see Randall Cunningham play, or maybe even Anthony Wright. And
- 30:03Speaker 4: they won the game. They won that game, but I
- 30:05Speaker 4: remember thinking like, wow, this is this is this is bad.
- 30:09Speaker 4: And they won the game. And one of the plays
- 30:12Speaker 4: I remember in that game was a run for a
- 30:14Speaker 4: touchdown by kicker Tim Seeter. They ran the ball right
- 30:17Speaker 4: up the middle on a fake. It was a pretty
- 30:19Speaker 4: cool play. But when I think of the Bengals, sadly,
- 30:25Speaker 4: I think of the game that the Cowboys went up
- 30:28Speaker 4: to Cincinnati in twenty twelve, the day after they lost
- 30:34Speaker 4: a practice squad player, Jerry Brown, who tragically died in
- 30:38Speaker 4: a car wreck. Josh Bryant's teammate was driving in the car.
- 30:43Speaker 4: It's really really bad situation. And just remember how the
- 30:49Speaker 4: team rallied around him. And again, that's football, Okay. Jerry
- 30:55Speaker 4: Brown and his family obviously never never have him back,
- 30:59Speaker 4: and so I'm not trying to say it, you know,
- 31:01Speaker 4: like it's equal, like wow, what a great moment. But
- 31:04Speaker 4: because of that that it was a really terrible situation.
- 31:09Speaker 4: I do remember the Cowboys played the game. They had
- 31:11Speaker 4: his jersey draped over the bench, and it was tough.
- 31:15Speaker 4: It was an emotional game. Jason Garrett, I thought, did
- 31:18Speaker 4: a phenomenal job to get that team ready to play
- 31:20Speaker 4: that game, and it was a back and forth and
- 31:22Speaker 4: they had to come back and win it on the
- 31:24Speaker 4: last second field goal that Dan Bailey made and that's
- 31:28Speaker 4: the game. I remember Cincinnati then going up to Cincinnati
- 31:31Speaker 4: and winning that game twenty to nineteen. So that's that's
- 31:36Speaker 4: probably the best of Cincinnati memory that I can think of.
- 31:41Speaker 4: And then recently that they played him in twenty two,
- 31:44Speaker 4: I believe Michael's second year, and he was he was
- 31:48Speaker 4: unbelievable Michael. I remember that game was a week two
- 31:51Speaker 4: game against Joe Burrow and them, and he was phenomenal.
- 31:56Speaker 4: And that's when I really it was the second year,
- 31:59Speaker 4: but I was like, this guy can wreck games. So
- 32:02Speaker 4: every time all this talking about trading them, got to
- 32:05Speaker 4: give me a guy that can wreck some games. And
- 32:07Speaker 4: hang now, he's doing it. I mean, he's he's he's
- 32:09Speaker 4: doing that's he's playing like he's supposed to play. H
- 32:12Speaker 4: Let's go to Lester in Minnesota.
- 32:16Speaker 5: Hey, Nick, good morning man.
- 32:18Speaker 4: Hey, that defensive line in the offensive line both had
- 32:22Speaker 4: a good game at the same time the same time.
- 32:27Speaker 5: Yeah, my boy Hoffman in there and the others. I
- 32:30Speaker 5: know Austin is hurt, but yeah, hey, I got I
- 32:34Speaker 5: got a little bone to pick with the NFL. Al right, now,
- 32:37Speaker 5: hear me out, hear me out.
- 32:39Speaker 4: Good luck, good luck this because you know the NFL's
- 32:43Speaker 4: you know, it's own thing. We go ahead, let's go
- 32:45Speaker 4: for it.
- 32:46Speaker 5: So we got all these goats running around. We got
- 32:49Speaker 5: Brady the gods and Patrick mahonone the goat?
- 32:52Speaker 6: Is it?
- 32:52Speaker 5: Uh? Jay Rice the goat, Randy Moss goat, goat, goat, goat?
- 32:56Speaker 5: But what about what about our goat that they never mentioned?
- 33:00Speaker 5: And I'm talking about Emmitt Smith. He's the greatest running
- 33:04Speaker 5: back of all time. He got all the yards when
- 33:07Speaker 5: I was when I was growing up in the eighties
- 33:09Speaker 5: and stuff like that, you couldn't have a game. And
- 33:12Speaker 5: I know the game is a little different now. Before
- 33:14Speaker 5: I say what I'm gonna say, but you couldn't have
- 33:16Speaker 5: a game. They wouldn't talk about Jim Brown and Walter
- 33:19Speaker 5: Payton all the time. Well, he can break the record,
- 33:22Speaker 5: he broke the record, blah blah blah every week. But
- 33:25Speaker 5: yet now we hear nothing about our Dallas cowboy. Goat
- 33:29Speaker 5: Emmitt Smith.
- 33:31Speaker 4: Well, I'll say this, you've never taken a tour at
- 33:34Speaker 4: the Star here in Frisco because they they honor EMMITTT. Smith.
- 33:41Speaker 4: For sure, he doesn't get lest I know you're talking
- 33:45Speaker 4: about national I get it because he wasn't the most
- 33:49Speaker 4: dynamic and because here's the thing. The reason why he
- 33:54Speaker 4: doesn't get all of the love and praise is because
- 33:56Speaker 4: the offensive line does. The offensive line gets in and everyone.
- 34:00Speaker 4: That's the narrative that everyone has is that you know,
- 34:03Speaker 4: you put Barry Sanders behind that line. Yeah, that would
- 34:07Speaker 4: have been that would have been fun to see. But
- 34:10Speaker 4: but I'll say this, think about those games in the nineties.
- 34:15Speaker 4: Emit it gets hurt against the Falcons in ninety three.
- 34:18Speaker 4: Doesn't play a whole lot in that snow game in
- 34:20Speaker 4: ninety three, But when he was out in the first
- 34:23Speaker 4: two games of the season, they didn't they didn't win
- 34:26Speaker 4: without Emmitt Smith. I know, they won without Troy, they
- 34:29Speaker 4: won without Irving, they did not win without EMMITTT. Smith.
- 34:33Speaker 4: So as great as that offensive line, and Nathan will
- 34:35Speaker 4: be in here, and Nate might be listening. Nate, I
- 34:36Speaker 4: love you. You guys were awesome, but EMMITTT. Smith was
- 34:41Speaker 4: made that team even better. And I think you're right.
- 34:45Speaker 4: I don't think he gets enough credit. But you know what,
- 34:47Speaker 4: he's got the rushing record that nobody will break, and
- 34:50Speaker 4: so I think he's fine with that.
- 34:53Speaker 5: And no one ever talks about it. Man. And that's
- 34:56Speaker 5: that's all I got to say. Step four until we
- 34:59Speaker 5: get a good to great I'm sorry, good to the
- 35:02Speaker 5: very good offense of a defensive line. At the same time,
- 35:05Speaker 5: this is what we have Cowboys.
- 35:07Speaker 4: Fans go cowboy all right, Lester appreciate it. Yeah, Emmit,
- 35:12Speaker 4: you know, Walter Payton, Jim Brown, Barry Sanders, everybody kind
- 35:18Speaker 4: of looks at them differently and and and maybe so,
- 35:21Speaker 4: I mean, you know, but in it, I'm I'm kind
- 35:25Speaker 4: of you know, partial to that. Watching him play, I mean,
- 35:30Speaker 4: he was he was great. Now, Now, Barry Sanders was
- 35:33Speaker 4: a different type of runner and we all know that,
- 35:36Speaker 4: and he probably would have been you know, and he
- 35:39Speaker 4: if he wanted that record, he would have gotten it.
- 35:41Speaker 4: You know, I remember when he when Emmitt broke the
- 35:45Speaker 4: record in two thousand and two against the Seahawks. The
- 35:48Speaker 4: very next week they played the Lions, and that might
- 35:52Speaker 4: have been one of the worst football games ever, Like
- 35:54Speaker 4: it was like nine to seven. It was terrible. But
- 35:57Speaker 4: Emmett got booed every single time he got the ball
- 36:00Speaker 4: because those Lions fans thought that we should have been
- 36:02Speaker 4: Barry's record. And guess what it would have been. If
- 36:05Speaker 4: Barry Sanders wanted the record. He didn't. He wanted to retire,
- 36:08Speaker 4: he was done, he was fed up, and he needed
- 36:10Speaker 4: to get out. And Smith wanted that record. He wanted
- 36:13Speaker 4: Walter Payton's record. It meant more to him. So therefore
- 36:16Speaker 4: he deserves it because he played long enough to get it.
- 36:20Speaker 4: And these guys today, I mean, it's it's hard to
- 36:22Speaker 4: do because even though they're gonna move it up to
- 36:24Speaker 4: seventeen game schedule and now it could be eighteen game schedule,
- 36:27Speaker 4: I still don't see if people get breaking that record,
- 36:30Speaker 4: it's gonna it's gonna I mean, it's gonna be tough
- 36:33Speaker 4: to do. Let's go to Chuck d in Bridge City, Texas.
- 36:37Speaker 8: Poix.
- 36:38Speaker 4: Hey, Chuck, what's up man?
- 36:41Speaker 15: Been a few weeks. I hadn't college you since it's
- 36:43Speaker 15: winning streak, super Bowl run we've been having.
- 36:46Speaker 4: Okay, all right, well see you later. And I'm skinny.
- 36:52Speaker 15: Well, we're all a little delusional if you're.
- 36:53Speaker 2: A Cowboys fan.
- 36:54Speaker 8: But that's okay.
- 36:55Speaker 4: You just play, you know, you just play the game,
- 36:57Speaker 4: see what happens. I don't think anyone's thinking that team's
- 37:00Speaker 4: gonna make the playoffs. Gonna be tough to do. You're
- 37:02Speaker 4: gonna have to win out. You're gonna have to win
- 37:04Speaker 4: out and hope that Washington or somebody falters. But hey,
- 37:08Speaker 4: it's possible to go on a run.
- 37:11Speaker 8: It is.
- 37:11Speaker 4: They got to beat the Bengals, though they got they
- 37:13Speaker 4: gotta beat this towerhouse.
- 37:17Speaker 15: I think I've called you a while now, and we
- 37:19Speaker 15: were and you both said, it's enjoy the ride, Enjoy
- 37:23Speaker 15: the winds. The winds make it so much better. It
- 37:25Speaker 15: just makes your day better.
- 37:26Speaker 8: You're weak.
- 37:28Speaker 15: But what I'm calling about is offensive line seems to
- 37:31Speaker 15: be doing better with the backups, which you know doesn't
- 37:36Speaker 15: seem like that'd be the case, but it is. And
- 37:39Speaker 15: do you think the coaches won't be too hard headed
- 37:43Speaker 15: to go back to you know, guiding and yeah, and
- 37:48Speaker 15: even Martin because they think they deserve it. But honestly,
- 37:53Speaker 15: you can just see they're doing better, and I just
- 37:56Speaker 15: hope they continue to get better and leave.
- 37:59Speaker 1: It the way it is.
- 38:00Speaker 8: That's my opinion.
- 38:01Speaker 4: Well, I I hear you on that on the first part.
- 38:05Speaker 4: I mean, and Guyton, that's just a tough situation. I
- 38:08Speaker 4: don't I don't know what's going on with him. He's
- 38:11Speaker 4: just he can't stay healthy right now, so that that's
- 38:14Speaker 4: the key. But Zach Martin, Zach Martin's healthy. I think
- 38:19Speaker 4: Zach Martin comes back and plays. I think Zach Martin
- 38:22Speaker 4: still a better player than than than anybody else that
- 38:25Speaker 4: you've got. I think the bar is different. I said
- 38:28Speaker 4: this the other day. I obviously think that you know,
- 38:30Speaker 4: your expectations are different out of him, but I still
- 38:34Speaker 4: think he's a better player and and and if not,
- 38:38Speaker 4: then then you know, we'll we'll find that out. But
- 38:40Speaker 4: I think I think he comes back. He's he's been
- 38:42Speaker 4: fighting injuries too. If he gets himself back ready to play,
- 38:46Speaker 4: if you know, I think he will play this next game.
- 38:49Speaker 2: Uh.
- 38:50Speaker 4: I think he still gives you a better option than
- 38:53Speaker 4: than than Hoffman in my opinion. All Right, all right,
- 38:58Speaker 4: all right, Joe, I appreciate the call. And you know,
- 39:01Speaker 4: I could be biased on that because Zach Martin's one
- 39:04Speaker 4: of my favorite players to ever play for the Cowboys.
- 39:07Speaker 4: I just I just love what what he's been about.
- 39:11Speaker 4: He's he's just you know, he's about business and he's
- 39:14Speaker 4: just he's just He's never been that flashy of a guy.
- 39:18Speaker 4: He's pretty funny though. I mean, he's got a good
- 39:20Speaker 4: personality to him. You know, let's not forget when Zach
- 39:23Speaker 4: Martin first got here. I wish we could find the
- 39:25Speaker 4: video to this. I'm sure we could. Zach Martin. That
- 39:28Speaker 4: was the year they were trying out Chris might even
- 39:30Speaker 4: know the story. They were trying out the glasses with
- 39:33Speaker 4: the camera on it, and and Zach walked into Valley
- 39:37Speaker 4: Ranch with these glasses with a camera just to kind
- 39:41Speaker 4: of capture the moment, and of all of all players
- 39:45Speaker 4: to do it, you know, you just wouldn't expect it
- 39:48Speaker 4: to be to be Zach, but uh, you know he
- 39:52Speaker 4: he was. No way he's doing that now. No, No,
- 39:56Speaker 4: he would be like, what what is this that?
- 39:57Speaker 3: You know?
- 39:58Speaker 4: Like, I'm good? No, Yeah, he was just the young
- 40:00Speaker 4: kid whatever. But uh, and that's the thing. Nobody wanted
- 40:03Speaker 4: that pick, you know, as far as like fans go,
- 40:05Speaker 4: because all these defensive guys that were there, and and
- 40:08Speaker 4: and as long as it wasn't Johnny Menzel, of course,
- 40:11Speaker 4: But but you know, he's been he's been outstanding, and
- 40:14Speaker 4: so I still think that he's a better option than Brockoff.
- 40:19Speaker 4: And I still believe that if I'm wrong, then that
- 40:21Speaker 4: I'm wrong, and I don't think it'll be something that
- 40:23Speaker 4: we have to deal with for too much longer.
- 40:25Speaker 2: Here.
- 40:25Speaker 4: This is the end of the season. I think this
- 40:27Speaker 4: is it for Zach Martin. I really do. I think
- 40:28Speaker 4: he's going to retire after this year. But you know,
- 40:32Speaker 4: so that being said, I'm kind of like, let's let's
- 40:36Speaker 4: let's let him kind of carry this thing out here
- 40:39Speaker 4: as long as he wants to go. And and if
- 40:41Speaker 4: that's not the right approach, then I apologize. And maybe
- 40:45Speaker 4: maybe it isn't because I don't think it's night and
- 40:47Speaker 4: day different. So it was night and day, then I
- 40:49Speaker 4: think everyone would see it, even Zach would probably see it.
- 40:52Speaker 4: But I don't think it is. And and that being said,
- 40:56Speaker 4: you know, I'm sure brock Hoffman, TJ. Bassel's guys are
- 40:58Speaker 4: gonna play, and they're going to play at some point
- 41:00Speaker 4: here in the rest of this season. Let's go to
- 41:02Speaker 4: break here real quick. One more Breakoren on Cowboys storyline,
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- 42:25Speaker 4: on the phone lines here. Let's go to Oklahoma City.
- 42:28Speaker 4: We got Gavin, Oklahoma City. What's up, man?
- 42:31Speaker 2: What's up? How you doing man?
- 42:33Speaker 4: How was your Thanksgiving weekend?
- 42:35Speaker 10: Oh?
- 42:35Speaker 2: My Thanksgiving weekend was awesome. I got to be in
- 42:40Speaker 2: the building on Thursday and watch the game, and me
- 42:43Speaker 2: and my dad went and after the game we were like,
- 42:47Speaker 2: you know, that's probably the best home game this year.
- 42:49Speaker 2: We could have went too, obviously.
- 42:50Speaker 4: Yeah the one they won. Yeah, yeah, I love it.
- 42:55Speaker 4: So it was.
- 42:56Speaker 2: It was great. And I hadn't want too many Margarita's
- 42:59Speaker 2: and we had and then you know, I just have
- 43:04Speaker 2: a couple of takeaways from the game. I'm sure you've
- 43:07Speaker 2: been over some of this, but go for it. I
- 43:10Speaker 2: love CD. She got to catch the ball man. You
- 43:13Speaker 2: got to back up quarterback in the game that needs
- 43:17Speaker 2: all the help he can get and c these a
- 43:20Speaker 2: little bank does and I'm not that concerned with it.
- 43:22Speaker 2: I know he'll get it right, but you got to
- 43:24Speaker 2: cass the ball man. That could have been a big
- 43:26Speaker 2: deal on that fourth down or a third down when
- 43:28Speaker 2: he dropped the ball and you got to punch the ball.
- 43:32Speaker 2: And then another takeaway I had was, well, I was
- 43:38Speaker 2: thinking the whole game, like where was this at the
- 43:41Speaker 2: whole you know, everybody was thinking this, where was this
- 43:44Speaker 2: running game? An O line play at when we needed
- 43:48Speaker 2: to steal a few few of these games earlier in
- 43:50Speaker 2: the season, because obviously we all hanging on hoping that,
- 43:54Speaker 2: you know, we can win out but it's not very realistic.
- 43:58Speaker 2: You know, if we could have sold a couple of
- 44:00Speaker 2: games there and that would have had a decent running
- 44:03Speaker 2: game early in the season, I think we'd be in
- 44:05Speaker 2: a good spot to make the playoffs, you know what
- 44:07Speaker 2: I mean?
- 44:08Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean a game or two here for sure,
- 44:12Speaker 4: I mean there were they five and seven. Yeah, I mean,
- 44:17Speaker 4: you would love to be you know, the seven and five.
- 44:21Speaker 4: I mean yeah, I mean, you would be in a
- 44:22Speaker 4: much better spot if you get two wins. But I
- 44:25Speaker 4: don't know who you know there there haven't been many
- 44:29Speaker 4: games where you're like, they should have won that one.
- 44:33Speaker 4: I mean, do you think of one. I mean the
- 44:35Speaker 4: two close ones that they've played close were Atlanta, I
- 44:40Speaker 4: mean Atlanta, Baltimore. There's three Atlanta, Baltimore, or San Francisco.
- 44:43Speaker 4: But were they were they really that close? You know, Atlanta?
- 44:46Speaker 4: Maybe Atlanta, I think you had a chance to win
- 44:48Speaker 4: that game.
- 44:48Speaker 2: I think I think we should have won that Atlanta game.
- 44:51Speaker 2: But that's my biased opinion obviously.
- 44:54Speaker 4: I mean that that was for the taking. But I
- 44:58Speaker 4: mean San Francisco, you you know, kind of run out
- 45:01Speaker 4: of time. But but San Francisco I thought when they needed,
- 45:04Speaker 4: when they needed to make plays on offense and defense,
- 45:06Speaker 4: they did. And same as Baltimore, you know, Baltimore, they
- 45:09Speaker 4: dominated the game. So really the Cowboys, you know, you say,
- 45:12Speaker 4: where was that running game? Well it wasn't. It just
- 45:15Speaker 4: wasn't against the Giants. I mean, the Giants haven't lost
- 45:17Speaker 4: seven in a row for nothing. I mean, like you know,
- 45:19Speaker 4: they're they're they're bad and and so and they they
- 45:23Speaker 4: they gave up. You know, do you realize that there
- 45:26Speaker 4: was a Cowboys best rushing day for Rico Double But
- 45:29Speaker 4: it was the best that the Giants had stopped the
- 45:32Speaker 4: run in the last six games. They they were giving
- 45:34Speaker 4: up at least one hundred and forty and they only
- 45:36Speaker 4: it was only like one five or something like that.
- 45:39Speaker 4: So that that was one of their best games and
- 45:41Speaker 4: it was one of the Cowboys best games too. That
- 45:43Speaker 4: just goes to show how bad both sides have been.
- 45:45Speaker 2: And see that right there is because I didn't have
- 45:49Speaker 2: that perspective. I'm justerpective. I'm just saying that, Giant, I
- 45:52Speaker 2: appreciate you.
- 45:53Speaker 4: Well, well thanks, Yevin, I appreciate it. That's what so
- 45:56Speaker 4: I'm here to do. I'm just saying it. They get
- 45:59Speaker 4: that that the the Giants are a bad rushing defense team.
- 46:04Speaker 4: And so you know, if you knew the Cowboys can't
- 46:06Speaker 4: run the ball against them, they can't run against anybody.
- 46:09Speaker 4: So they did run it well, but but not you know,
- 46:12Speaker 4: wouldn't like the greatest game ever, but it still is
- 46:15Speaker 4: the best game Rico Dadles ever had, which is which
- 46:17Speaker 4: is good. So they got to build off that's got
- 46:19Speaker 4: to build.
- 46:20Speaker 2: And that last thing I'm gonna leave you with, Sorry
- 46:23Speaker 2: about that. My last thing I'm gonna leave you with
- 46:25Speaker 2: is Mike Zimmer's defense starting to look really really good.
- 46:29Speaker 2: I don't think he's getting enough credit with well maybe
- 46:33Speaker 2: he is, there is some people talking about it. But
- 46:35Speaker 2: you know, I think if he has all his reinforcements,
- 46:39Speaker 2: maybe this season looks a lot different and he's starting
- 46:41Speaker 2: to get those back, and I just I guess my
- 46:45Speaker 2: question for you is how realistic do you think that
- 46:47Speaker 2: maybe Zimma could get back in the building, maybe along
- 46:49Speaker 2: with McCarthy, maybe not with McCarthy. That's what I round with.
- 46:53Speaker 8: All right, appreciate it.
- 46:54Speaker 4: Thanks for the call that one. You know, I've said
- 46:58Speaker 4: this for It'll start at the top and has to
- 47:00Speaker 4: and then from there is then then you look at
- 47:03Speaker 4: all right, who's who's the coach? If if there is
- 47:06Speaker 4: a coaching change, If there is a coaching change, then
- 47:09Speaker 4: you're asking about Zimmer. Then it has to it has
- 47:11Speaker 4: to see you know, is it a defensive coach? Is
- 47:14Speaker 4: it offensive coach? As he is at a young offensive
- 47:16Speaker 4: coach that needs a veteran defensive coach like that. So
- 47:21Speaker 4: there's just you know, I I think if you're gonna
- 47:24Speaker 4: keep Micah Parsons, I think you've got to have three
- 47:26Speaker 4: four element I really do. I think you've got to
- 47:28Speaker 4: be able to play some three four He's got to
- 47:29Speaker 4: be able to stand up, keep keep his hand in
- 47:31Speaker 4: the ground for that that long he's gonna he's gonna
- 47:34Speaker 4: wear down. We saw a little bit this year with
- 47:36Speaker 4: an injury. It's his first injury he's had. But still,
- 47:39Speaker 4: you know that's how it starts. But I still think
- 47:42Speaker 4: he needs to be upright and rush the quarterback as
- 47:46Speaker 4: much as he can. So and then you're asking about
- 47:48Speaker 4: how you know they stay in the building. You know
- 47:51Speaker 4: they're just gonna have to go on a huge run here.
- 47:53Speaker 4: I mean, and and they've got two. They're gonna have
- 47:56Speaker 4: to beat Cincinnati, and that's that's gonna just be. You
- 47:59Speaker 4: have to score some points. You have to you have
- 48:01Speaker 4: to stop them. They're gonna score points that they play,
- 48:04Speaker 4: you know, loosen free, and yeah, I got nothing to
- 48:07Speaker 4: play for now. They're just gonna go out there and
- 48:08Speaker 4: play for stats and so so Cincinnati is. You know,
- 48:11Speaker 4: it's gonna be it's gonna be a challenge. I still
- 48:14Speaker 4: think they can win. I still, I mean, I think
- 48:16Speaker 4: they can win at home against Cincinnati. They're four and eight.
- 48:19Speaker 4: I mean, they're giving it up. They're they're they're losing
- 48:22Speaker 4: the close games. They're they for whatever the reason. So
- 48:26Speaker 4: their offensive line isn't that great, and so they're gonna
- 48:28Speaker 4: they're gonna face a challenge there. So if the Cowboys
- 48:30Speaker 4: can win that game, they get to six and seven,
- 48:33Speaker 4: and then you got Carolina in Tampa. And and I'm
- 48:35Speaker 4: not I'm not just saying, hey, the lows are easy games,
- 48:39Speaker 4: but but they are games that you can win. Of course,
- 48:43Speaker 4: So again it sounds crazy, but I mean, just go
- 48:47Speaker 4: one out of time. If you beat Cincinnati, then you
- 48:49Speaker 4: got to go beat Carolina. If you beat them, you
- 48:50Speaker 4: got to beat the Bucks. And if you are, then
- 48:52Speaker 4: you're eight and seven and you're playing the Eagles. Let
- 48:56Speaker 4: me see it. I want to see that. All right,
- 48:58Speaker 4: Let's go to last caller here? Uh who got Chris?
- 49:01Speaker 4: Our last call on? Got Bill in Deerfield, Deerfield. That's right, Bill,
- 49:07Speaker 4: And dear Deerfield, Kansas. What's up man?
- 49:10Speaker 8: Oh?
- 49:10Speaker 17: Not a whole lot?
- 49:10Speaker 2: How are you doing today?
- 49:12Speaker 4: What is going on in Deerfield?
- 49:15Speaker 17: Nothing right at the moment.
- 49:17Speaker 4: All right, Well, got that stop light, it's it's going,
- 49:20Speaker 4: it's flashing.
- 49:21Speaker 17: I'm sure, yeah, just one.
- 49:23Speaker 2: All right, we're good.
- 49:24Speaker 4: That's good. Where do you got Bill?
- 49:27Speaker 17: I've seen Dak up in the in the booth with
- 49:30Speaker 17: the headset on. Is he actually helping call the play?
- 49:35Speaker 17: This might be the dumbest question you've ever gotten.
- 49:37Speaker 4: No, it's not, it's not. I don't think he is.
- 49:39Speaker 4: I mean, I don't. I don't think he's he's not
- 49:41Speaker 4: helping call the plays. I think he's listening to the
- 49:43Speaker 4: play call and and just so he can he can
- 49:46Speaker 4: kind of stay, you know, in tune with what's going on.
- 49:48Speaker 4: But no, I don't think he's he's not helping with that.
- 49:52Speaker 4: Then then not to my knowledge, not to my knowledge,
- 49:54Speaker 4: And I'm not even sure he could do that. Then again,
- 49:58Speaker 4: I don't. I don't know that the rules of that.
- 50:00Speaker 4: That's probably one of those you just don't ask you
- 50:02Speaker 4: just like cool. He might be listening to the radio,
- 50:04Speaker 4: maybe listening to Brad Cham call the games. I don't
- 50:06Speaker 4: really know.
- 50:08Speaker 17: But all right that I wasn't sure because I keep
- 50:13Speaker 17: seeing him up there, they keep showing him, Yeah, with
- 50:15Speaker 17: the head said on. I didn't know if he was
- 50:17Speaker 17: helping out making suggestions. I didn't know what he was doing,
- 50:20Speaker 17: just just listening.
- 50:21Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's just listening. I think I think
- 50:25Speaker 4: that's a that's a good question. Though it's not a
- 50:26Speaker 4: bad question. It's it's a good one. It might it
- 50:30Speaker 4: might not be one that they want the answer.
- 50:32Speaker 2: To go on.
- 50:34Speaker 4: Uh, but he is, you know, he's he's you know,
- 50:38Speaker 4: he's injured, and he and he's and he's on crutches,
- 50:41Speaker 4: you know, and so he's he had surgery and all that.
- 50:43Speaker 4: So he's he's got kind of a little walking crutches there.
- 50:47Speaker 4: So he can't that's really why he's not down there,
- 50:49Speaker 4: because because remember he was he was on the sideline.
- 50:51Speaker 4: I don't remember what game that was. He got he
- 50:53Speaker 4: gets basically run over. Uh, And so it's like he
- 50:56Speaker 4: can't be down there. And so so that that part
- 50:58Speaker 4: of it is that he's up there. It's just a
- 51:00Speaker 4: get him out of the way. Cool all right, all right, Bill,
- 51:04Speaker 4: got anything else?
- 51:06Speaker 17: Yes, sir, I got one trivia question for you. Okay,
- 51:13Speaker 17: who is the only defensive player to my knowledge who
- 51:17Speaker 17: tackled Earl Campbell in an open field one on one?
- 51:24Speaker 4: Well, I'm sure it's a cowboy. Uh, I don't know.
- 51:28Speaker 4: I don't I don't remember that loved Bob ruonings hollywoodder
- 51:35Speaker 4: That makes sense. You gotta you gotta, you gotta be
- 51:37Speaker 4: strong enough. You also gotta be fast enough cool. What
- 51:42Speaker 4: what year was that?
- 51:43Speaker 17: I do not remember?
- 51:45Speaker 4: All right, Well, it's good good play. I don't remember.
- 51:50Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, not many
- 51:52Speaker 4: people tackle him one on one, so that that's an
- 51:56Speaker 4: impressive if if that did happen for sure. All right,
- 51:59Speaker 4: good stuff. I appreciate you guys calling in. Got ten
- 52:02Speaker 4: good calls today. We'll see if we can do it
- 52:04Speaker 4: again tomorrow. We'll be here, all right. So for Chris Beam,
- 52:08Speaker 4: I'm Nick Eatvan see tomorrow. Cowboy storyline.
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