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Cowboys StoryLine: Up the Rollercoaster We Go · Cowboys StoryLine

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  Speaker 1: This is Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette, the official shave
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 4: Hello and welcome to Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette.
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  Speaker 3: I am Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 4: It's Wednesday, September 16th. Wanted to be on time today.
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  Speaker 4: Don't want anyone to worry.
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  Speaker 3: Got to make.
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  Speaker 4: Sure we start the show 10 o'clock like we say.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to do. And let's do it today. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Before we get started, I do want to wish my
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  Speaker 4: mom a happy birthday today.
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  Speaker 3: Happy birthday. So not going to reveal how old she is.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that.
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  Speaker 4: But she is probably rooting for a certain basketball team
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  Speaker 4: in Philadelphia today. I don't really know what that means,
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  Speaker 4: but I think for this year she is going to
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  Speaker 4: root for that team. But I would never say how
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  Speaker 4: old she is or anything like that. Certainly not rooting.
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  Speaker 3: For the football team. She should call in today. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: she should call in.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly not rooting for the football team in Philadelphia. Anyways,
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  Speaker 4: all right, let's go. 888-855-2297 is the number. We've got
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  Speaker 4: Irene on the line.
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  Speaker 3: Irene, what's up?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, good morning, and happy birthday to Camille.
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  Speaker 3: What's up?
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  Speaker 5: The real team mom right there.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: She's awesome.
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  Speaker 5: She's awesome.
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  Speaker 6: That's cool.
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  Speaker 5: So I did all 22 study on Washington. I'm moving
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  Speaker 5: on from the Giants. Week two, got Washington, and here's
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  Speaker 5: what I noticed. So on offense, there were a lot
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  Speaker 5: of inaccurate throws by Daniels. He seemed very rushed and overreactive.
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  Speaker 5: Number 67, their center, and number 75, their left.
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  Speaker 7: Guard, So sus.
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  Speaker 5: So we can get to them maybe. So I would
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  Speaker 5: like to see us increase the pressure. I hope we
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  Speaker 5: can do it against this team. On the defensive side, Stiles,
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  Speaker 5: he looks bad in preseason.
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's gone.
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  Speaker 5: He crushed Saquon on a blitz pickup and he did
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  Speaker 5: a run fit tackle for loss on Saquon. He looks really,
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  Speaker 5: really good.
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  Speaker 9: Lou Vu was great, but he's injured.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's going to be out. I know he's
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  Speaker 5: avoiding IR, but He had a lot of tackles in
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  Speaker 5: the sack before, so that should impact a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: And then the cornerbacks look sus.
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  Speaker 8: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 5: I hope our offense, I think they'll do well. And
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  Speaker 5: then it's the defense. They have a strong defense minus
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  Speaker 5: the corner, so we'll see. But, yeah, just thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 6: All right. Bye.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the commander's talk there, I mean, like, I
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  Speaker 4: appreciate that. I mean, I appreciate you looking into that
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  Speaker 4: and seeing that. Right now, as it stands, though, I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, for me, I look at it, especially going
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  Speaker 4: up against this opponent, they got to figure out what's
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  Speaker 4: going on here within their own house right now. And
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  Speaker 4: I love the scouting report. I think that, you know, again,
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  Speaker 4: that's more than what I'm looking at right now. I'm
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  Speaker 4: looking at what, you know, style. I mean, people are
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  Speaker 4: more worried. I'll tell you right now. People are more
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  Speaker 4: worried upstairs about Harry Styles and the concert that just
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  Speaker 4: went out than Sonny Styles.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know if that's a good thing or not.
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  Speaker 4: But to your point about Jaden Daniels being inaccurate at times,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's sort of kind of what his game is.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a better runner than he is a thrower.
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  Speaker 4: You got to keep these guys in the pocket to
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  Speaker 4: throw it. That's basic football 101.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone knows that.
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  Speaker 4: I got asked that on the radio this morning about,
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  Speaker 4: would you rather him run or throw?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Yeah, I'd rather him throw it. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying he can't. I'm not saying that that's not what
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  Speaker 3: he does.
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  Speaker 4: But you get these running quarterbacks out on the move,
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  Speaker 4: then they become even more dangerous. They start to get
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  Speaker 4: into their rhythm. They saw it with Dart. You see
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  Speaker 4: it all the time when Buffalo with Josh Allen. They
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  Speaker 4: are good passers. But if you add that element to
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  Speaker 4: their game, and now one more thing to kind of
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  Speaker 4: keep an eye on, it's even tougher on your defense.
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  Speaker 4: So the rookie linebacker you're talking about, With Sonny Stiles, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's going to have those moments. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he's still going to have them. He's still going to
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  Speaker 4: have moments where he looks kind of lost and things
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  Speaker 4: like that. That's what a good offensive coordinator is supposed
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  Speaker 4: to do. That's what they did to Barham at times.
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  Speaker 4: Barham's going to make some plays. He's also going to
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  Speaker 4: give up some. That's what rookie players do, and Caleb
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  Speaker 4: Downs will probably be in.
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  Speaker 3: The same boat there.
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  Speaker 4: But as far as, you know, what the Cowboys have
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  Speaker 4: to do to stop, you know, Jaden Daniels, and if
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  Speaker 4: they're going to put a spy on him and things
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  Speaker 4: like that. Those are some things that we'll talk about,
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  Speaker 4: but I would imagine everything that Irene said doesn't really
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  Speaker 4: surprise me. I think Sonny Styles is going to have
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  Speaker 4: good flash plays. I think Jaden Daniels is going to
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  Speaker 4: have some erratic throws at times. Their offensive line is
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  Speaker 4: not fixed, so you're going to have to be able
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  Speaker 4: to do some of those things and mix it up
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  Speaker 4: and try to get to him, but Yeah, him out
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  Speaker 4: on the move is scary, and that's something that the
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  Speaker 4: defensive ends are going to have to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: their containment is as strong as ever.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Robbie, Cocoa Beach, Florida is next.
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  Speaker 6: What's up, Nick? How are you today? Good.
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  Speaker 3: How are you?
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  Speaker 6: I can't complain, man. My Cowboys are playing football again.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody's upset because we lost, and I get that. We
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  Speaker 6: all fan our own way, like you say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And our expectations were so high yesterday. But you can
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  Speaker 6: tell that we're all fans of our team, whether it's
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  Speaker 6: through anger or frustration. Yeah, so it's great to see
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  Speaker 6: that we're all on the same page, even if we're
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  Speaker 6: on different pages. Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 3: That's the same book. It's the same book.
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  Speaker 6: How about that? Same book, different pages.
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  Speaker 4: Same book, different pages, different chapters. Some people open the
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  Speaker 4: book and want to go straight to the end and
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  Speaker 4: just want to care about what the end looks like
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  Speaker 4: instead of reading the book as it goes on, and
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  Speaker 4: that's what we have to do.
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  Speaker 6: And, man, you said that when we first started. You
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  Speaker 6: said it back on the break years ago, probably a
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  Speaker 6: bunch of times. I know you said it when you
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  Speaker 6: first started Storylines two, three years ago? Three years ago.
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  Speaker 6: And you said, we've got to enjoy the journey. And, man,
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  Speaker 6: I take that to heart every season. And I love
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  Speaker 6: watching each game. I love watching the growth we get
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  Speaker 6: from game to game. Sometimes it's not growth. You go backwards. But, man,
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  Speaker 6: I love the team. I love listening to you guys talk.
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  Speaker 6: And I hope we do better this week. I think
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  Speaker 6: we will. I wish I had some cool inspiration like
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  Speaker 6: Irene or Dylan or all the captains. But, man, I'm
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  Speaker 6: more like... Billy Bates, you know, I just barely make
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  Speaker 6: the team every year, and I'm happy.
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  Speaker 10: About that, brother.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you have it, like you said, you have it
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  Speaker 4: in your own way. You're a fan in your own way,
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  Speaker 4: and I think you have provided some inspiration just by
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  Speaker 4: being that, just by saying, hey, we'll get to play
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  Speaker 4: football again this week. But I appreciate the call. If
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  Speaker 4: there's anything else, Robbie, are you good?
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  Speaker 6: No, that's it, man. We'll see you guys soon, man.
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  Speaker 6: Talk soon.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we had a, I think about Robbie, you know,
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  Speaker 4: when he says he's all, you can just tell, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he's always just got this, you know, he's like on
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  Speaker 4: the beach, literally, and it's hard to be upset by that.
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  Speaker 4: We had a coach here, Joe DeCamillis, one of my
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  Speaker 4: favorite coaches ever, one of my favorite people, really, just
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  Speaker 4: had such a great outlook on things. And Um, but he,
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  Speaker 4: he had a place, uh, in Jacksonville. He was with
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  Speaker 4: the Jaguars a couple of times and they'd have a
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  Speaker 4: house there and he, he called it beach TV. He
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  Speaker 4: was like, we just go out there and just, that
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  Speaker 4: was our TV. We would just sit there on the,
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  Speaker 4: on the beach and it just relaxes you. And I
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  Speaker 4: feel like when Robbie calls, like that's, that's kind of what,
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  Speaker 4: what's happening.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: It's just always just, you know, always in a good
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  Speaker 4: mood and good spirits and you need those, those people too,
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  Speaker 4: but that's nothing, you know, nothing against anyone that wants
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  Speaker 4: to to be upset with what they saw on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 4: And now I'm a little bit, you know, a little
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  Speaker 4: bit skeptical of how things are going to be this week.
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  Speaker 4: And there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 4: all of our expectations are different now after we saw
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  Speaker 4: one game. Who's to say that the Giants aren't going
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  Speaker 4: to be really good?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they are. I really don't.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I don't think the Giants are this year's Bears team. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Truth be told, I mean, I don't think
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  Speaker 4: the Bears were as great as they were as their
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  Speaker 4: record shows last year. You know, they had a lot
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  Speaker 4: of fortunate wins. They look better this year, but, again,
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  Speaker 4: it's one game.
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  Speaker 3: So one game.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Let's actually– the lines are open. 888-855-277. Sorry, Dylan. Dylan's
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  Speaker 3: on the line. All right, Dylan, what's up, man?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, how's it going?
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  Speaker 11: Good.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 9: I just want to give a shout-out. Happy birthday to
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  Speaker 9: your mom.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: And I also want to shout-out my dog, Irene. She
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  Speaker 9: was really going through it this week with the game.
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  Speaker 6: But she's not out, man.
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  Speaker 9: I know she's not out. She's out here watching All-22.
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  Speaker 9: She's calling into the show. No one says she's out.
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  Speaker 3: What's that?
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  Speaker 4: I said no one says she's out.
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  Speaker 9: Well, she said that this team's not going anywhere, right,
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  Speaker 9: on Monday? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I take that as the early part of the
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  Speaker 4: roller coaster. It goes up, it goes down, and whatever.
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  Speaker 4: And that's just a week. That's just a one-week roller coaster.
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  Speaker 4: So what people say on Monday and Tuesday, and then
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  Speaker 4: she's over here watching film on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 9: She's in, bro. She's still all the way in. She's fine.
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  Speaker 12: She's cool.
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  Speaker 9: We've been chatting up. She's cool. I did really enjoy
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  Speaker 9: the show yesterday, though. It's fun when you start breaking
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  Speaker 9: out kind of Nick the employer when you know the
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  Speaker 9: the fans are calling in and there's some disagreements it's
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  Speaker 9: really enjoyable and you know one of the things that
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  Speaker 9: uh you guys were talking about a lot yesterday was
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  Speaker 9: the pre-season stuff and starting guys and all that and
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  Speaker 9: you know i'm like the data guy i'm the information
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  Speaker 9: guy so i went and did some some research on
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  Speaker 9: it and it's like super inconclusive. The results are very muddy.
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  Speaker 9: Like there's not really a clear answer if it's a
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  Speaker 9: benefit or not because teams that, excuse me, teams that
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  Speaker 9: play their starters in preseason.
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  Speaker 6: Mixed results.
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  Speaker 9: Some start off really hot, some don't. And same for
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  Speaker 9: the teams that don't play their starters in preseason. I
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  Speaker 9: tell you what, I would never play my trench guys.
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  Speaker 10: That's for sure.
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  Speaker 9: Just because legs get tangled up, weird stuff happens. And
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  Speaker 9: if I'm counting on my starters at the all, yeah,
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  Speaker 9: I'm not. I'm not touching that, and because of that,
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  Speaker 9: I'm not putting my quarterback in.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 9: The only really unit I'm looking at maybe playing starters
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  Speaker 9: would be maybe the secondary for communication stuff and covering
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  Speaker 9: receivers and all that, but then you start playing, well,
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  Speaker 9: you're mixing a match, and who else is playing, and
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  Speaker 9: is that going to cause an increased risk of injury?
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  Speaker 9: It's just really tough to figure out, and I think
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  Speaker 9: it's very inconclusive, so... I don't think there's a right
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  Speaker 9: answer in that realm, even though everybody's so passionate about it,
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  Speaker 9: you know?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And it's so, it's still so early as far as
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  Speaker 4: when these games are. And then when you play, um,
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  Speaker 4: that I still, I still feel like you could have rust.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I still feel like you could play a
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  Speaker 4: quarter in every one of those preseason games. And you're
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  Speaker 4: still talking about two weeks before the, the, the first
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  Speaker 4: game of the season.
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  Speaker 3: So, um, Yeah, you're right. It's tough.
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  Speaker 4: And you have a great point there. If you're not
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  Speaker 4: playing your offensive line, then it's hard to evaluate anything else.
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  Speaker 4: And you're certainly not going to put Dak out there
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  Speaker 4: if you're not putting your starting offensive line. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's a domino effect like that. But, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: just risk reward. Now, when you're looking at some of
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  Speaker 4: that stuff, did you happen to notice, I mean, Are
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  Speaker 4: there some injuries throughout preseason?
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  Speaker 3: Did that happen?
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  Speaker 4: Did some teams... Have you heard that? I mean, did
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  Speaker 4: some teams that played some of the guys lose anybody
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  Speaker 4: early in the year?
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  Speaker 9: Not that I know, but, you know, I mean, it
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  Speaker 9: does happen. You saw it happen here, obviously. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 9: it does happen. You're playing live football. And the practice
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  Speaker 9: is a little more controlled, right? That's why I think
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  Speaker 9: the joint practices are so important. But you waste the
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  Speaker 9: one this year with the Saints. But I would rather
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  Speaker 9: do that than play.
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  Speaker 10: In the preseason.
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  Speaker 4: And you can't protect... Like... I know people are like,
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  Speaker 4: you can't play scared and injuries happen. Yeah, Malik Davis
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  Speaker 4: had an injury out here with a hip injury that
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  Speaker 4: there was no contact at all. And, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: going to be really tough. His journey back is just
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  Speaker 4: going to be a challenge. I mean, I'm just going
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  Speaker 4: to say it right there. And it's so unfortunate. And
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  Speaker 4: it happened at practice on a Friday, and he didn't
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  Speaker 4: have any contact with any other player. So you can't protect,
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  Speaker 4: even when you say, oh, we're not going to play games.
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  Speaker 3: I get it. They happen.
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  Speaker 4: Some of the worst injuries, you know, torn Achilles injuries happen.
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  Speaker 4: They don't even touch anybody. So it happens, and it's
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  Speaker 4: just all about practice. risk-reward, and do you want to
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  Speaker 4: do it here? But I just don't know if we've
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  Speaker 4: seen that the Cowboys played poorly. I mean, Dak, one
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  Speaker 4: of those losses was when he came back from the injury.
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  Speaker 4: It was at 20-21 against Tampa Bay. He goes out
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  Speaker 4: and throws for 400 yards, and they lose on the
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  Speaker 4: last second field goal, and that was a really good
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  Speaker 4: football team, and that's the game I always look at
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  Speaker 4: for moral victory.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, well, that was a moral victory right there.
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  Speaker 4: And anytime anyone wants to argue with me about it,
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  Speaker 4: I throw out that 2021 season over against Tom Brady
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  Speaker 4: and the Bucs, and they lost by two and then
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  Speaker 4: went on a five-game winning streak after that. I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I believe in moral victories and.
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  Speaker 3: Things like that.
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  Speaker 4: So my point is that they didn't play in the
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  Speaker 4: preseason either, and he hadn't played in like 10 months
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  Speaker 4: and came out and played well. So it is hard
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  Speaker 4: to figure out, put your finger on, if these things
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  Speaker 4: matter or not for preseason.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's just a philosophical thing. I understand
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  Speaker 9: playing rookies and all the developmental guys, all that, that's fine.
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  Speaker 9: But it's just such a gray area. Just real quick,
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  Speaker 9: one of my keys to this game against Washington, man,
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  Speaker 9: we saw a bunch against the Giants, these edges. They
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  Speaker 9: can't be crashing down on play fakes all game. Dart
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  Speaker 9: killed him with that. The outside run, absolutely. And Daniel
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  Speaker 9: will kill you with that, too. So I want to
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  Speaker 9: see these edges stay home more often. I want to
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  Speaker 9: see Caleb Downs play down closer to the line more
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  Speaker 9: often as well. I don't really want to see him
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  Speaker 9: playing the deep safety. He was way more instrumental to
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  Speaker 9: the defense's success when they had success when he played down.
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  Speaker 9: So let's see more of that as well.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, thanks for the call, Dylan. Always good stuff.
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  Speaker 4: You're so right about that with Ezeraku. I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: didn't call him out. I'm saying I saw Ezeraku at
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  Speaker 4: times doing exactly what you said, just eyes into the
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  Speaker 4: backfield only and just got beat on the edge where
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  Speaker 4: he has enough ability to make up for that from
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  Speaker 4: a speed standpoint. To just kind of hold his own,
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  Speaker 4: and if the quarterback's got it, go get him, and
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  Speaker 4: he's definitely not going to get to the outside. That
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  Speaker 4: play always shocks me when I see a bootleg like that,
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  Speaker 4: or even around the goal line, or anything where the
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: quarterback keeps it and rolls out. Because I just don't
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: see the edge actually making the tackle in the backfield
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: that often. And so you're really not making that play
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: that much. You definitely aren't giving up. If you bite
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: on it, are you even making the play? Because I
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: know you're giving one up if you had your eyes
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: inside and not staying with the quarterback on the edge.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: I would prefer if the guys just basically wait and
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: play that containment there. And if the running back's got it,
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: he's got it, you're probably not making that play anyways
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: unless he cuts it back. And if so, you have
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: time for it. And so anyways, good points on that.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: As far as Caleb Downs goes, man, you draft a
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: player like that, He needs to be everywhere, you know,
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: and I think that's what will make him so dynamic
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: and those safeties of you don't know where he's going
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: to be.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: He might be.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: Better closer to the line of scrimmage, but I don't,
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: I don't always want him there.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: I hope he's the player.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: And it won't be right now, but eventually he becomes
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: the type of player where, you know, Jalen hurts comes
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: to the line of scrimmage and just has to find him,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: just has to look for him. Um, That would be
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: the ultimate, and there's only a few. I'm sure Rapala
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: Malo was that way, Ed Reed, and maybe Hamilton's that
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: way now. Some of the really, really good safeties where
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: they're all over the place. That's where I think you
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: would want him. I want Downs deep sometimes.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Sometimes.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: Sometimes I want him right over the center, just showing
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: that he can be a little bit everywhere. But first
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: game goes, I thought he played well.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Pretty well. All right, let's go to IMA in Napa, California.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: IMA.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, Nick.
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: How are you?
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: Good.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: How's it going?
• 17:11
  Speaker 10: Um, I'm good, man. Thanks for asking. Um, Man, I'm
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: glad that we're off the talk of firing the coach and.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: All that stuff.
• 17:18
  Speaker 10: Again, it's week one. What I wanted to talk about
• 17:22
  Speaker 10: is moving on from last week, but still eyes on
• 17:27
  Speaker 10: what happened last week and the adjustments we need to make.
• 17:30
  Speaker 10: I hope that we have to play all of our
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: young players. We have to play our rookies and stuff
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: like that. I hope that Parker puts them more in
• 17:41
  Speaker 10: a position to attack the line of scrimmage, attack the
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: ball carriers, you know, whether that's blitzes or just them
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: coming forward. I think, again, you know, when they play
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: in space, it's a lot for them, especially, you know,
• 17:55
  Speaker 10: game one, game two. So, you know, playing zones is
• 18:00
  Speaker 10: a lot about playing in space and knowing where your
• 18:02
  Speaker 10: other guy is going to be and stuff. And I
• 18:04
  Speaker 10: just think that early on they kind of showed that
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: they're still not ready for that. So I hope he
• 18:09
  Speaker 10: puts them in position to attack. And just moving forward
• 18:13
  Speaker 10: and going towards the line of scrimmage instead of their
• 18:16
  Speaker 10: first step being back. Offensively, man, I think we're getting
• 18:22
  Speaker 10: back to where your old, not your old, but the
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: old flea flicker. And what I mean by that is
• 18:32
  Speaker 10: Dak has to keep one of those read options or
• 18:36
  Speaker 10: run options. Yeah, Dak needs to keep one of those,
• 18:41
  Speaker 10: just to keep that end honest. Like, you know, our
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: ends bit down every time that the Giants ran that,
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: and I feel like the commanders are going to be
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: doing the same. They'll be running that same run option,
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: you know, where the quarterback just draws the end in,
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: you know, where he's either going to give it to
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: them or pull it.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: You know, when Dak runs it, they know he's never
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: going to pull it. Like, he hasn't pulled it since
• 19:10
  Speaker 10: he got hurt, you know, four or five years ago. And,
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: you know, I think that that's a big deal. They don't,
• 19:16
  Speaker 10: you know, that end just always crashes down and never
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: has to worry about Dak keeping it. And then on
• 19:22
  Speaker 10: the other side, it's like we got to be more disciplined,
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: you know, when Daniels does it. But then also it's
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: like when they know that Dak's going to keep it
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: is on those naked boots. It's like whenever the whole
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: line and everybody's going one way and they're just going
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: to drag the receiver across and the tight end to
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: the flat, it's like that end knows Dak's going to
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: keep it because that's one of our favorite plays. But
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: it's like they never play Dak to keep it on that.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Run option.
• 19:51
  Speaker 10: So just what you think about the defense attacking versus
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: playing more zone and then also what do you think
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: about that run option? Let's go Cowboys.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Alright, I'm going to do the Dak part. Yes, I
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: totally believe in that You know, there's a thousand– everybody's got,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: you know, 50 people on their coaching staff now.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: A lot of it are analytics.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: So they're seeing all of these things. So they know
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: when the fullback moves here what they're doing. And so
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: you've got to– that's what quality control does and that's
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: what the analytics coaches are doing.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: You have to do that.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Like you can't just play this running back here and
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: he only gets the ball in the flat and you, you,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: you have those tendencies and you've got to be able to,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: to kind of overcome your own tendencies. Same thing with Dak.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: If you're going to fake the handoff, you've got to
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: keep it. Like quarterbacks have to do that. They have
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: to keep it. They have to run.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: And, and, you know, and.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: When they're running, like, That's one of the things that
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I would say that Dak didn't do so great at
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: the other day, and he's done this before.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: I understand the slide. I hate it. But I understand
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: why they do it.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: But if it's third and ten and you're running up
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: the middle and you've got to dive for it. I mean,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: it's a five-yard difference. It's a five-yard difference of diving.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: And I'm sure that turf at MetLife Stadium is just
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: a step above concrete.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Really.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: And so it's not fun. It's not fun to play on.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Everybody hates it. But in a play like that, you've
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: got to dive for it and get a first down.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: As soon as you start your slide, the play's over.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: And he got up, and he knew immediately that he
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: made a mistake. But still, Dak has to run, and
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: if he's going to run, he's got to be smart
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: about it. And for your other question about being aggressive,
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: taking it to him, yeah, I mean, at times. But again,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: it's never just one thing. It's never just let's play
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: this way. Just like with Caleb Downs before, I want
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: to play him closer to the line of scrimmage. But
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: it's everything because the more you do everything, the harder
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: you are to scout. So there's going to be times when, yeah,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I love seeing the blitz off the edge. I love
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: seeing them do that. There's times when you want to
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: play back. Whatever you do, make sure that your quarterback's
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: not two steps ahead of you. And I felt like
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: in the game the other night that the Giants were.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: They were a step ahead of the Cowboys every single time.
• 22:19
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  Speaker 1: To Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette, the official shave of
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  Speaker 3: And on Yeti.com. All right. Cowboy Nico has been waiting.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Cowboy Nico, what's up?
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: Hey, what up, Nick? What up, Cowboy Nation? I'm sorry.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: It sucks to lose like the way we lost. That's
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: because we were unprepared. We looked like We look like
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: my son's fourth-grade football team, and my son is 17
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: now and playing in high school. So that will tell
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: you how bad I think we look. But that does
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: not tarnish a lot of things for me. There were
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: some good things. Let's be honest. We've got a young team.
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: I'm not trying to say that because Shottie said that.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: Everybody knows how I feel about Shottie. I am not
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: the biggest fan of Shottie. And, Rob, I 100% back you.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: And I don't generally back Rob much, but I back you, Rob.
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: There's something lacking. But we're not done yet. No, Nick,
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: the fun thing is I'm going to get off the
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: phone with you before I do. I want to wish
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: your mother a happy birthday. Nick, as you know, I
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: lost my mom just in July. She was 58. So
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: to hear that your mother is still 21 and kicking
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: ass is the greatest thing ever. Hug your mom. Love
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: your mom. And the last thing I got for you
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: guys is, Nick, do you remember when you guys used
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: to do Cowboy Weekly magazine? Do you guys remember that?
• 25:34
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: Okay, so the columns, once a week there was a column,
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: and fans would write in, and they would get published.
• 25:45
  Speaker 7: I would write in, like, how Irene and Dylan and
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: everybody else does this. Back in the day, we couldn't
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: watch the All-22. You know, we didn't have that access.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: That's just recent. So we used to have to watch
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: the videos back on VHS and watch the game and
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: try to break it down like that. And I was
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: one of those guys that used to write in weekly, weekly, weekly.
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: It could never, ever get story printed, ever. And I
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: have magazines dated back to my grandpa. So when you
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: guys cut it off like 15, 20, 15 years ago,
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: I think it was, when it's gone, I never got in.
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: So the call to get in to talk about the
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: Dallas Cowboys is the coolest thing ever. So I wanted
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: to say thank you to that. Also, Cowboy Nation, don't
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: lose faith. Remember... Please ask for help. Hug your mothers.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: Let's get rowdy and beat the Washington Redskins. I said
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: what I said, not those idiots that they call it
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: with the C it is the Redskins. Let's get hyped.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Um, that, yeah, that is cool that you, um, I mean,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: I remember the Cowboys weekly. That's one of the first
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: things I ever read. Um, and it would, it would,
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: you know, come and we were living in Oklahoma. It
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: would come like on Thursday and you know, you got
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: to look at the pictures of the game and, Sometimes
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I'd have a little scrapbook. I'd cut it up before
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: my dad even got to read it. But, yeah, you know,
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: that's kind of sad. You know, that's how things are.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: You know, it's just you don't see a lot of
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: written publications like that anymore. And, you know, Dallas Cowboy Weekly,
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: I have kind of a weird relationship. It's not the
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: right word, but, like, connection to because as a kid
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: I mean I grew up on that as well and
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: I read it and it was a cool magazine and
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: then when I.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Got here.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: You know they were still there and it kind of
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: faded away and one of the reasons why was dallascowboys.com
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: and the fact that the website had three or four
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: articles a day on you don't have to wait till
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Thursday it was Monday Tuesday and one of the the
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: big reasons.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: For that was me.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: So like, it was kind of weird, like, and it
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: would have been anybody, you know, that that's, that's, that's
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: the time. That's what, it's the sign of the time.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: It was, it was the website, but, um, you know,
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: I grew up on the Dallas Cowboys weekly as well.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: And I was a part of the website that ultimately,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: you know, along with other factors, ultimately kind of, it, it,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: it killed it and it killed a lot of publications, um,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: The thing that's weird to me is going to a
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: game and not seeing a game program. The game program
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: was always what you grew up on, and I would
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: collect those. That's kind of sad that that's not the case.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: One person that Cowboy Nico always mentions, but he didn't
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: this time, but Sergeant Sue for president.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: No, not Sergeant Sue for president. That's Irene for president.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: But he does. He loves Sergeant Sue. So what's up, dude?
• 28:43
  Speaker 15: Hey, Nick, I'm going to say this one time, a
• 28:46
  Speaker 15: little bit differently this time, but I still mean it.
• 28:49
  Speaker 15: And maybe I'm a little bit late on this because
• 28:50
  Speaker 15: I couldn't get in.
• 28:51
  Speaker 12: The last two days, but at ease, everybody. At ease, everybody.
• 28:56
  Speaker 15: You know, what makes this fan base so, you know,
• 28:58
  Speaker 15: frustrating is that we're so damn emotional.
• 29:01
  Speaker 12: You know what I mean?
• 29:02
  Speaker 15: But I feel like that's also what makes us so great.
• 29:04
  Speaker 15: You know, we care so much about this team, and
• 29:06
  Speaker 15: it's unlike anything else in sports. I don't care about
• 29:08
  Speaker 15: any other team. Like, the Dallas Cowboys fan base is just,
• 29:11
  Speaker 15: Next level. And great things come from that. But also
• 29:14
  Speaker 15: frustrating things come from that. And I haven't got to
• 29:16
  Speaker 15: talk about it, but with this previous game, the areas
• 29:20
  Speaker 15: that I personally was most confident in going into this
• 29:22
  Speaker 15: game are the areas that I feel like just didn't
• 29:24
  Speaker 15: show up. And that's the interior defensive line. They kind
• 29:27
  Speaker 15: of got their cheeks.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: Clapped all night.
• 29:29
  Speaker 15: And the offense wasn't really gaudy. It was more like,
• 29:32
  Speaker 15: gaudy be kidding me. You know what I'm saying? But
• 29:35
  Speaker 15: what gives me optimism is I don't expect that to
• 29:37
  Speaker 15: be the norm. I expect that to be the anomaly.
• 29:40
  Speaker 15: I expect this defensive line to be what we thought
• 29:42
  Speaker 15: it was going to be all offseason. I expect that
• 29:44
  Speaker 15: this offense is going to be the same. I mean,
• 29:46
  Speaker 15: whether they came out flat because of coaching or it
• 29:49
  Speaker 15: was a lack of preseason or whatever people want to say,
• 29:51
  Speaker 15: I don't care. But I do think Dallas is the
• 29:53
  Speaker 15: better team. I do think Dallas is one of the
• 29:56
  Speaker 15: better teams in the league. And now that loss may
• 29:58
  Speaker 15: come back to haunt us later on, but I don't
• 30:00
  Speaker 15: think that's an indication of what this team is. And when,
• 30:03
  Speaker 15: not if, Nick, when they show that they're much better
• 30:06
  Speaker 15: than what was on the field last week, y'all know
• 30:08
  Speaker 15: where I usually leave the key. Grab it from under
• 30:10
  Speaker 15: the mat and come on back in because it's a
• 30:11
  Speaker 15: long season and we're here for it. So I'm ready
• 30:14
  Speaker 15: to see what they bring against Washington. The offense is
• 30:16
  Speaker 15: ready to bounce back. I don't think Dak is proud.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: Of his performance.
• 30:19
  Speaker 15: I don't think the wide receivers are proud of their performances.
• 30:21
  Speaker 15: And I don't think the secondary is ready to deal
• 30:23
  Speaker 15: with our firepower. So if next week looks like last week,
• 30:26
  Speaker 15: then maybe I'll worry a little bit. But until then,
• 30:29
  Speaker 15: I'm just riding the wave, brother. Thank you, Nick.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Chris.
• 30:31
  Speaker 15: I'll see you guys soon.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: All right, Sergeant Sue, good stuff. You know, and you're right.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: I don't think it is going to look the same.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: And I think, honestly, I think you lined up that
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: game and played again, and it could have been totally different.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: There are some times, like last year, you look at
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: some of the games the Cowboys played last year– Denver
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: being one of them, you know, that like you play
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: that game 10 times, it's probably going to be the
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: same result. I don't know if the, if that's necessarily
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: the same, um, last week. And again, the Cowboys didn't
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: play well on either side of the trenches. So that's alarming.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: And that's why I would imagine if they did play
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: 10 times, the Giants are probably going to win maybe
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: more than half because of that. But the game had
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: some weird plays in it. And when you think about
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: you know, just keep knocking the ball out because you're
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: going to get the football.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: And they did.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: But in this case, the ball bounced right to the
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Giants several times. They were able to kind of capitalize
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: on that. Meanwhile, Dak throws the ball away and some
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: safety that you probably never heard of just makes this
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: diving interception with his knee in bounds. You know, one
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: knee equals two feet. And he makes this interception to
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: changed the entire game. That changed everything. That was, in
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: my mind, that was a 17-point play, just because, and
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: I've never even heard of that before, but Cowboys have
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: a chance to go get a field goal.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: They don't.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: They end up giving up a touchdown. There's 10, and then,
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: you know, who knows what would have happened to start
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: the third quarter, but I think if the Giants are
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: down three instead of up seven, maybe they come out
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: in a little different mindset. Maybe they don't score, and
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: then the whole game changes, so So my point is
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: that there were some moments in that game that could
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: have changed the outcome completely, but the Cowboys have still
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: got to be better on that defensive line, better on
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: that offensive line, and that's how games are won and lost,
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: and that was one of the big reasons why they
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: didn't win that one.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Rick in Webster, Mass.
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, how you doing?
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Good, how are you?
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: I'm good, I'm good. Happy birthday to your mother. And
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: as far as exciting it's talked about last week, I
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: thought the shout-outs go to people who did play well.
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: Caleb Downs, Abonia, and Tyler Guyton. I mean, Tieran Steele
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: played well. The offensive line wasn't that bad. And, you know,
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: you had some cornerbacks and stuff like that. You know,
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: there were issues there. But communications and, you know.
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: Being tough, whatever, like that. But we're on, as Phil
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: Pelichuk would say, we're on to Washington. So let's just
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: deal with Washington and see how that goes. And you've
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: got to give the coaches, especially CP, three, four, five
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: weeks or so just to see how defense improves. If
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: it doesn't improve after half the season, yeah, then we've
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: got a problem. But until then, Let's just see what
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: he does and how he can fix things up and
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: go from there. I agree with you the other day.
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: I think I should have gone. They should have went
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: with it. Fourth down was like inches. You just fall
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: forward and get a first down. So, yeah, that's what
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: I have been. Go Cowboys and have a good day
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: and talk to you later.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: All right. Yeah, Rick, thanks for the call.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: And, you know, I wonder, everyone knew when, when, Tyler
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Smith goes down to an injury that, you know, he's
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: one of your best players, and he's one of the
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: best players at his position in the NFL. So there's
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: not another guy that's going to come right in and
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: do what he does.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, let's be honest. If T.J.
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: Bass was just as good or even close, then– Tyler
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Smith's probably playing tackle for this team. If that's how
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: good of a guard T.J. Bass is, then I would
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: imagine they would have figured out a way to get
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: their five best linemen out there, and Tyler Smith could
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: have been part of that as a tackle. I say
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: all that to say that I just didn't expect that
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: the game plan would change. If you have Tyler Booker
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: and Tyler Smith at guards with Beebe at center, I
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: would imagine that they would try to go for it
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: on 4th and 1st All the time, just about no
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: matter where.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: You are on the field.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: So that's what I'm a little bit concerned about right
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: now is because what type of team are you? Are
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: you a physical team? Are you going to go for
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: these down at the goal line? Are you going to
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: be throwing it? The Cowboys are very fortunate that it
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: wasn't third and goal from the 11 after that pass
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: to CD for a touchdown because that easily could have
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: been called for P.I. Everyone saw it. Everyone saw that
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: he pushed off. So I'm a little surprised because I
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: feel like we're seeing that call more these days. So
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: imagine being where you think you scored, and now you're
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: back to the one-inch line, and now it's third and
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: goal at the 11. That's a field goal waiting to
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: happen right there. So anyways, you've got to be able
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: to line up and run it. Josh in Chicago is next.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Josh, what's up?
• 36:03
  Speaker 12: Not much, man. You want to talk preseason play or 7-10-1?
• 36:10
  Speaker 12: That's me being a little sarcastic.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: Hey, everyone has their own opinion. Oh, yeah. I thought
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: we had moved on to the season, so I didn't
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: know we were going back into last year.
• 36:21
  Speaker 12: Into last year.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: But if you're talking about identities and things like that,
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, At this point, we're still trying to figure
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: out what they are.
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: I just said it. I mean, are they going to
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: run the ball.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: On fourth and inches? I mean, what is it? Don't
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: go around and say Gotti and all this. The greatest
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: offense there is until it's fourth and inches. Then we're not.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Then we're going to punt. So the vibes of the
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: offseason and preseason and all that didn't match that game
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: right there. Let's see if it does this week.
• 36:54
  Speaker 12: All right, what do you got for us, Josh? You know,
• 36:56
  Speaker 12: I'll talk about that a little bit, too, because that's
• 36:58
  Speaker 12: kind of what I called it. And part of that
• 36:59
  Speaker 12: is we heard we're going to be disciplined, right? And
• 37:02
  Speaker 12: I'll talk a little bit about Mingo played in the preseason.
• 37:04
  Speaker 12: He had a bad penalty. Who did?
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: Mingo.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, Mingo.
• 37:09
  Speaker 12: Yeah, the old block, right? And he played special teams
• 37:13
  Speaker 12: in the preseason and still had a bad penalty. So,
• 37:16
  Speaker 12: you know, you can look at that and say, what's
• 37:17
  Speaker 12: up with the discipline on this team, too? And I
• 37:19
  Speaker 12: think those are legitimate criticisms to ask. What's going on
• 37:22
  Speaker 12: with the discipline? Because the first quarter, the first half
• 37:24
  Speaker 12: was bad. The second half cleaned up a little bit,
• 37:27
  Speaker 12: but I agree with you with the push-off. When you
• 37:29
  Speaker 12: talk about George Pickett not playing in the preseason, the
• 37:31
  Speaker 12: guy's been playing in the NFL for four years. He
• 37:34
  Speaker 12: knows that DB's going to be on his back. Catch
• 37:36
  Speaker 12: the ball. He's been in the backyard with Dak. He's
• 37:39
  Speaker 12: been playing catch with him. He knows that ball's coming. Dak,
• 37:42
  Speaker 12: put it on target.
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: Catch the ball.
• 37:45
  Speaker 12: Preseason or not, he's paid a lot of money. He's
• 37:48
  Speaker 12: a professional. He needs to catch the ball. I don't
• 37:50
  Speaker 12: think that has to deal with him not playing in
• 37:51
  Speaker 12: the preseason. They've been playing catch all together for months.
• 37:55
  Speaker 12: You know, catch the ball. The other thing I wanted
• 37:58
  Speaker 12: to talk about, though, one of my criticisms of Shottie
• 38:00
  Speaker 12: this past game, and, you know, it's one game, but
• 38:03
  Speaker 12: I didn't like the clock management in the second half,
• 38:05
  Speaker 12: especially before the two-minute warning. You know, when they get
• 38:10
  Speaker 12: the ball back, when the Giants get the ball back
• 38:12
  Speaker 12: in that last possession, you have a third and three,
• 38:16
  Speaker 12: and you don't burn a timeout to get your defense
• 38:20
  Speaker 12: that you want on the field to try to stop
• 38:22
  Speaker 12: them at that third and three. You give that up,
• 38:26
  Speaker 12: they get a first down, and then you call the
• 38:28
  Speaker 12: timeout before the two-minute warning. I don't like that because
• 38:32
  Speaker 12: if you're going to make your stand.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: This is end of the game, right?
• 38:37
  Speaker 12: End of the game, yep. Because I think if you're
• 38:39
  Speaker 12: going to make your stand, get the defense that you want,
• 38:43
  Speaker 12: all the guys out there that you want on third
• 38:45
  Speaker 12: and three, and really make your stand there. Because you're
• 38:47
  Speaker 12: kind of using the timeout. You burned a timeout earlier
• 38:50
  Speaker 12: for not having 11 men on the field earlier. So
• 38:54
  Speaker 12: you're using the two-minute warning as another timeout, and I
• 38:57
  Speaker 12: understand that. But you have them at third and three.
• 38:59
  Speaker 12: They've been running the ball on you all game. They've
• 39:01
  Speaker 12: been converting all game. If you really want to make
• 39:04
  Speaker 12: your stand, I think you call the timeout at third
• 39:06
  Speaker 12: and three. Make sure you have the alignment you want
• 39:09
  Speaker 12: with the guys you want and go after it there.
• 39:11
  Speaker 12: That's just my opinion. I don't like the waiting and
• 39:14
  Speaker 12: saving the timeout for after when it's first down again.
• 39:17
  Speaker 12: That's just me.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Was the clock moving?
• 39:19
  Speaker 12: I mean, the clock wasn't moving yet. They had, like,
• 39:21
  Speaker 12: a 13-yard run on second and 16, and then the
• 39:25
  Speaker 12: clock's moving, and it goes from 301 to 216. You're
• 39:29
  Speaker 12: not doing anything.
• 39:29
  Speaker 14: Okay.
• 39:30
  Speaker 12: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're wasting, and then you're not
• 39:32
  Speaker 12: even getting the alignment you want either. So that's my
• 39:35
  Speaker 12: problem there.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: No, I'm totally with you there.
• 39:39
  Speaker 12: Thanks, Nick. I'll take off too.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: All right, thanks.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's second and 16, and you get 13 yards.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, that changes everything because you're right. Now I
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: remember the play. They made a great tackle for loss
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: of six yards. I thought, wow, this is an opportunity
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: here because you're forcing maybe a long field goal and then.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Never even got off the field.
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• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, Nick. To me, anyway, it's a given. Dallas is
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: going to beat Washington. Okay. Several reasons. Dak and his
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: receiving crew are going to get their mess together this week.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Williams is going to rush for over 100 yards. Dallas
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: is going to win the time of possession. Also... And
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: then I've got a question after this one. Also, Overshawn
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: is not going to play if Barham is. Do you believe,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: I kind of do, think that Overshawn is not a
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: good fit for this offense? He's undersized. I mean, he's just,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: me personally, I believe they need to trade Overshawn. I
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: know a lot of people wouldn't like that. And not
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: get Wagner. Wagner's too slow. He's He's not going to
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: pick up the pace. But trade for a legit guy.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Spend some capital. What do you think of that? This year?
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Like right now? For a linebacker?
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, if there's somebody out there, if there's someone
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: out there that makes sense, but it would have to
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: make sense, again, it makes sense multiple times, It depends
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: on what you're giving up with the money and all
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. But, you know, these moves have
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: to make sense more than just one, you know, more
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: than just, you know, this year.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: But I don't know.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: Like, I think that I want to see what they've
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: got at the linebacker position.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: I want to see.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: You know, what they can do to develop these young players.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: I'm not just giving up just on the one game.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: I think that they've got something with the physicality of
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: some of these linebackers, but they're still going to have
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: to figure out, you know, because if your eyes are
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: here and the ball's out there, it changes everything.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: And it could look like you're out of position.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: Very correctable stuff, but, you know, it's hard to teach
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: speed and teach physicalness and all that kind of stuff.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: So I'm not– Worried too much about the linebacker position
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: just yet because I think it's a big part of
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: the teaching aspect of what Christian Parker is trying to
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: do with his defense.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: Good show, guys. Appreciate the calls. We'll do it again tomorrow.
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