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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette. It's Monday,
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  Speaker 2: October the 19th. I'm Nick Eatman and I am tired
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  Speaker 2: like you guys. Tired for different reasons, but I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: you guys are pretty tired of seeing what you're seeing,
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  Speaker 2: especially last night's game. Had all the rest. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: health is what it is and what it has been.
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  Speaker 2: And it didn't look like a team prepared really at all.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, 17-0 at halftime. And, you know, they fought,
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  Speaker 2: but that's what you're supposed to do, right? And you
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  Speaker 2: expect that. But you expect a lot more than what
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  Speaker 2: you saw 23-13 in a game that didn't even look
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  Speaker 2: that close. I mean, that looks, you know, you just
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  Speaker 2: see that score 23-13. You're like, oh, okay. You know,
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  Speaker 2: kind of a low-scoring game, whatever. It didn't feel like that, honestly.
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  Speaker 2: Same with the week before, 24-16 the Bucs. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the game is what it is. but you just kind
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  Speaker 2: of know that it never really felt like the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: were really in it, especially after some of the plays
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  Speaker 2: in the first half. They couldn't get off the field.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a defensive problem. It's an offensive problem. Special teams,
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  Speaker 2: not much better either. So, you know, they got balance
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  Speaker 2: and not in the good way. All right, 888-855-2297. Let's
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  Speaker 2: just go to the phones. Davion in Illinois. Davion, what's up?
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  Speaker 3: What to do, my boy, what the business is. That's
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  Speaker 3: not good. Yeah, this is about the most angry I've
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  Speaker 3: been in a minute with this team. But, man, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to get through it, as we always do because
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  Speaker 3: we're fans. We're going to get through it. Man, I
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  Speaker 3: just need to understand. I think the thing that's really
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  Speaker 3: been bothering me for a long time with this team
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  Speaker 3: We just don't have a success well at all. How
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  Speaker 3: do you go beat the Houston Texans and turn around
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  Speaker 3: and lose two in a row? That's crazy. How do
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  Speaker 3: you get an interception that we thought was going to
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  Speaker 3: be a touchdown but got called back and then you
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  Speaker 3: turn the ball right back over to them before you
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  Speaker 3: even get a score? You're right. We were not prepared.
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  Speaker 3: How do we understand to run any kind of routes
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  Speaker 3: to get quicker out on the blitzes they keep getting
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  Speaker 3: us with. I mean, we're going to keep getting blitz
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  Speaker 3: until we figure it out, I guess. It's tough, man,
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  Speaker 3: watching us seem like, because I really had shot it.
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  Speaker 3: I really was, but he's losing me, man. He's really
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  Speaker 3: losing me because I don't understand why we can't get
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  Speaker 3: simple things down that can really get the offense really cranking. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: I know I called last week and was talking about
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  Speaker 3: more up-tempo. At this point, I don't want to try
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  Speaker 3: anything because we're regressing in fourth offense. We scored 30
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  Speaker 3: against Houston, 16 and 13. And now we've got the
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  Speaker 3: Eagles coming in. We've got to figure out something. We've
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  Speaker 3: got to figure out something fast because the division is
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  Speaker 3: coming to us. But if we lose the division this year,
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  Speaker 3: heads are going to roll. So, yeah, man, it's real tough.
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  Speaker 3: It's a tough Monday. I had to deal with that
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  Speaker 3: because I had to watch that kind of stuff. But
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  Speaker 3: hopefully we can figure out some things. And if you
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  Speaker 3: beat the Eagles Monday, hey, I'll write in the world,
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  Speaker 3: but we'll see. But I'll call back later this week,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe I'll feel in a better mood.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right. Sounds good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody's going to be the same, kind of
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  Speaker 2: a loss for words. Let's keep it going. Chris in
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  Speaker 2: Saratoga Springs.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Nick. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm all right.
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  Speaker 6: Tired.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: Struggling today. That was rough. Another bad loss for our
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  Speaker 5: Cowboys last night. Honestly, very hard to watch them at
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  Speaker 5: this point. For me, that loss was mostly on the offense.
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  Speaker 5: I think the defense played good enough to keep us
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  Speaker 5: in the game defensively. And at the beginning of the year,
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  Speaker 5: if you told me, you know, what do you want
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  Speaker 5: out of your defense? I would say I wanted to,
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  Speaker 5: you know, be average at best and keep us in
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  Speaker 5: the game for our offense to be able to put
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  Speaker 5: some points on the board and win the game with
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  Speaker 5: our offense. But just for the defense to keep us
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  Speaker 5: in the game, I really think they did that last night.
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  Speaker 5: We had zero balance last night, zero. My 12-year-old son
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  Speaker 5: said to me, he said, Daddy, why aren't we running
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  Speaker 5: the ball?
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  Speaker 3: You know, my answer to him was, I would love.
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  Speaker 5: You to ask Shadi that same question, buddy, because I'm
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  Speaker 5: right with you. inexcusable in the second half to come
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  Speaker 5: out after we scored that touchdown and completely abandon the
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  Speaker 5: running game. I didn't like that at all. You know what?
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  Speaker 5: I'm tired of we do the right things, we're playing
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  Speaker 5: the right way, but we need to execute. You know
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  Speaker 5: how long I've been hearing that out of these Cowboy
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  Speaker 5: players and coaches? We need to execute. At some point,
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  Speaker 5: It's just got to change. I don't know what else
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  Speaker 5: to say. I try to be positive, so I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to give you a positive for the game that I saw.
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  Speaker 5: I think Joey Porter played unbelievable. He is that dude
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  Speaker 5: on defense. So I do think we got ourselves a
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  Speaker 5: good one with Joey Porter. For how long?
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  Speaker 2: I'll ask that back to you. How long do you
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  Speaker 2: have this guy for, do you think?
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  Speaker 5: I'm locking him down. I'm locking him down. He shuts
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  Speaker 5: down one side. He shuts down his player. I'm locking
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  Speaker 5: him down. I'd sign him over George Pickens. I'm signing
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  Speaker 5: Joey Porter. He'd be my number one priority in this offseason,
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  Speaker 5: making sure we re-sign him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. He was banged up, apparently, ankle injury during practice,
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  Speaker 2: and so he was in and out of the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't play a ton of snaps, but he plays
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  Speaker 2: well when he's there. You're right. I just kind of
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  Speaker 2: wonder what that price tag is going to be but
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  Speaker 2: yeah i mean he he plays he plays well and
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  Speaker 2: when he's there i mean the defense is seemingly better
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  Speaker 2: but um it's night and day when when speed comes
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  Speaker 2: in for him you know you love for him to
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  Speaker 2: be out there all the time and i don't know
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  Speaker 2: if that was just an you know because there's been
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  Speaker 2: two games now and he's been very limited in both
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  Speaker 2: games for different reasons. So I'd like to see if
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  Speaker 2: he's out there, you know, on extended time, just, you know, full,
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  Speaker 2: a full game. I think, you know, that would help everyone,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Right. All right. I agree.
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  Speaker 8: Um, I got it.
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  Speaker 5: I do have a question for you real quick, Nick. Um,
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  Speaker 5: for the blame for offensive struggles, who are you blaming
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  Speaker 5: it more on? Are you blaming it on shoddy or
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  Speaker 5: on Dak more for our offensive struggles?
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  Speaker 2: They're a team. So they both get, they both get this. Um,
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  Speaker 2: And offensive coordinator, you know, preparing the offense. All of it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, all of them. Receivers, you know, break a tackle.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like, it's underneath. You can't take away everything.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Chris, I'll answer this off there. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: the call. Appreciate it. You know, the thing that just
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  Speaker 2: baffles me about this is the fact that, like, it
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  Speaker 2: feels like they blitz every time, you know, or at
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  Speaker 2: least a lot of the time. So you're blitzing a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And you're also taking away the deep ball. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: buying that. I'm not buying that you're actually taking it away.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think that they take enough chances there.
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  Speaker 2: I said this on the radio just now, so if
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  Speaker 2: you listen to both, sorry. But, I mean, if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to call 11 penalties on both teams, then that's
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  Speaker 2: just what they're going to do. And I thought it
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  Speaker 2: was an absolutely horribly officiated game from both teams. if
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys would figure out a way to win that game,
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  Speaker 2: the Packers can say the exact same thing. It's not
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  Speaker 2: an excuse about the loss. The Packers were way better,
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  Speaker 2: more prepared, better. They just have better schemes going on
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  Speaker 2: right now. And their quarterback play was much better. But
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  Speaker 2: it was a terribly officiated game. I mean, just some
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  Speaker 2: head-scratching plays, even on the Packers. I mean, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: That's not a penalty. That's not a personal foul. But
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  Speaker 2: it is what it is. But if you're going to
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  Speaker 2: call that, then I can take my chances with Pickens
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  Speaker 2: down the field more. And just because the safety's over
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  Speaker 2: the top or he's in the area, whatever, you can
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  Speaker 2: get him out of the area by running one of
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  Speaker 2: your slot guys right down the seam. If Flannoy goes
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  Speaker 2: right down the seam, then the safety has to make
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  Speaker 2: a decision. I like my chances with Pickens.
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  Speaker 6: Throw it up.
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  Speaker 2: It's not 50-50 anymore. That's not what the play is anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a 50-50 ball. He can go get it.
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  Speaker 2: And if he doesn't, he's getting P.I. It's probably 75-25
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  Speaker 2: for him to have the ball down there. So I
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  Speaker 2: just think they've got to take more chances. But taking
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  Speaker 2: away everything is ridiculous. Now, Chris, you were talking about
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  Speaker 2: running the ball more in the second half. And this
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  Speaker 2: was just brought to my attention here right before this.
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  Speaker 2: The actual stats, I was kind of looking it up,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm looking at the play-by-play, and there could have
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  Speaker 2: been some penalties that kind of you know, wiped out
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  Speaker 2: the play, so I haven't looked at it deep dive,
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  Speaker 2: but I think after the touchdown by Javante Williams, who
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  Speaker 2: scored to make it 17-7 with 9.19 to go in
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  Speaker 2: the game, in third quarter, third quarter, 9.19 to go,
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  Speaker 2: you're down 10, okay? We've seen some crazy things happen
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  Speaker 2: in the final minute of game, so, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: still got about 24 minutes to go. And at 17-7,
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  Speaker 2: and they just ran it in for a touchdown. And
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  Speaker 2: then they passed it 32 times in a row. 32
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  Speaker 2: times is what I've got. And to finish the game,
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  Speaker 2: 40 out of 41.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: KC Joe in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Nick.
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  Speaker 9: How are you doing today, sir?
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  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 9: I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 9: You're probably a little bit tired, it sounds like, I
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  Speaker 9: would imagine.
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  Speaker 5: I'm tired.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired. But it's okay. I mean, this is it.
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  Speaker 2: This is the, you know, I've been up for a
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  Speaker 2: few hours, too. You know what I mean? Kids got
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  Speaker 2: to go to school. I do, buddy.
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  Speaker 5: I do.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, I'm not blaming this loss on the defense. This
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  Speaker 9: is an offensive loss this time. That defense looked good
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  Speaker 9: last night. Winners getting an interception.
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  Speaker 5: Bland.
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  Speaker 9: I call that an interception. I don't care what they say.
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  Speaker 9: That was an interception. And, you know, Porter, he was
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  Speaker 9: out there. He was up on the receiver. He was
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  Speaker 9: playing them tight. And he knocked that one away so
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  Speaker 9: they didn't get another touchdown in the end zone up there.
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  Speaker 9: They were getting to the quarterback. Williams got to the quarterback.
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  Speaker 9: They're putting pressure on him. That defense did everything they
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  Speaker 9: could last night to win, and the offense just didn't
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  Speaker 9: show up to help them. That's my feeling, anyway, on
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  Speaker 9: this game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't disagree at all. You had another question?
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  Speaker 9: And with winters going down, I'm hoping they'll activate Overshawn
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  Speaker 9: this week so we can have the linebackers back to
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  Speaker 9: the way it should be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I would think. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Overshawn with the hamstring injury, I mean, I would think
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  Speaker 2: it's been five weeks now that he's been out.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Joe, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 9: Have a good day.
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  Speaker 2: You too. They couldn't do– they couldn't even get interceptions right.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? They get a pick. Winners
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  Speaker 2: gets up and runs it. I mean, great play. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I was like– I was telling people up
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  Speaker 2: in the press box, like, you know, can he be
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  Speaker 2: on offense? I mean, like he broke more tackles than
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  Speaker 2: the guys running the ball. You know, and– just both,
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  Speaker 2: both of them. I don't, I don't love the rules
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  Speaker 2: on either one of those interceptions, you know, um, you
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  Speaker 2: called it on the field and then replay assist said
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't. And then on the, on the bland one.
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  Speaker 2: And then now, now they come back and New York
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  Speaker 2: comes in and says that, you know, I don't know. I,
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  Speaker 2: I get that you, you want to get the call, right.
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  Speaker 2: But I kind of feel like I can't, I just
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  Speaker 2: kind of feel like everybody bobbles the ball, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. I, I don't know. It just, it just,
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  Speaker 2: it felt like a catch to me. Um, But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when you're in Green Bay sometimes, you know, and you
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  Speaker 2: think you have a catch and you don't, it just
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  Speaker 2: kind of happens like that. Now, the winner's play, here's
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  Speaker 2: the problem I have with that. And it's just the rule,
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  Speaker 2: and I really don't know any way to change it.
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  Speaker 2: But the unfortunate part about it is the guy gets
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  Speaker 2: an interception, and he, like, I guess, you know, runs
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  Speaker 2: into the other player, or the other guy kind of
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  Speaker 2: touches him or whatever, and he's still upright, and he
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  Speaker 2: gets the pick, and he's kind of going down, and he's, like,
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  Speaker 2: touched him. If he drops the ball from when he
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  Speaker 2: hits the ground, and the ball comes out, like, incomplete pass, right?
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  Speaker 2: Incomplete pass because he didn't have possession. It wouldn't be
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  Speaker 2: a fumble, right? It would be incomplete pass. So getting touched–
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  Speaker 2: You know, like a second ago, way up here, getting
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  Speaker 2: kind of touched, you didn't tackle me.
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  Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Like I still haven't got the ball. You haven't said
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  Speaker 2: that I've possessed the ball yet because you got to
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  Speaker 2: make sure it didn't hit the ground. So if I
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  Speaker 2: haven't possessed the ball yet, you know, then how have
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  Speaker 2: you tackled me? And I don't know how you change that.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably a gray area thing. But when it happens
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  Speaker 2: against you, it just kind of sucks because– You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like he's been touched. I was like, yeah, he
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  Speaker 2: was touched, but he didn't catch it yet. And you
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  Speaker 2: know he hadn't caught it yet because you're still looking
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  Speaker 2: to make sure his hands are underneath. That's two seconds
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  Speaker 2: before you even got touched. So that's my theory. I've
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  Speaker 2: seen that happen before. You know, and it's too bad
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  Speaker 2: because they got zero points out of that because they
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  Speaker 2: threw another interception back before they could even, you know,
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  Speaker 2: do anything with it. All right, Sebastian in Savannah, Georgia
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  Speaker 2: is next.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, sir. How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 7: How are you?
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Hey, listen, man, talking
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  Speaker 6: to Irene the Dream during the game takes the sting
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  Speaker 6: off a little bit. We laugh about it, but I
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  Speaker 6: cut that game off at halftime. But really quickly, before
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  Speaker 6: I even get into the football game and how much
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  Speaker 6: of a travesty that was, the Jalen Hurts situation, thoughts
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  Speaker 6: and prayers to that young man, because no matter how
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  Speaker 6: you feel about him as a player, he's a Great guy,
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  Speaker 6: and he does so much for his community. And that's
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  Speaker 6: how my lovely lady lost her mother. She had the
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  Speaker 6: same exact situation, and it actually turned into an aneurysm.
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  Speaker 6: So I'm praying for him that he's good. But outside
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  Speaker 6: of that, when we get to the football side of things,
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  Speaker 6: we're starting to look like the Washington Generals going up
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  Speaker 6: against the Harlem Globetrotters every week. It's like every team
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  Speaker 6: we play is the best team in the world, and
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  Speaker 6: we are the worst team. We keep raising the bar
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  Speaker 6: for how much we can suck each week.
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  Speaker 7: And.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to hear from Dak. I don't want
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  Speaker 6: to hear from Shoddy. I need to be better.
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  Speaker 5: I need to play better.
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  Speaker 6: Dude, Shoddy looks like he's in way over his head
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  Speaker 6: every week now.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want them to say? I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: Chris said the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: What do you.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want you to say anything. Just go do
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  Speaker 6: something different. Don't say anything. Just sit down.
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  Speaker 2: Don't say anything. You know what? I got a problem
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  Speaker 2: with that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And I said I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't going to sit here. And I'm not arguing with you.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm saying is that don't say anything. Don't say anything.
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  Speaker 2: You mean like the other 52 guys or so in there?
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  Speaker 2: I'll say 52. How about 42? Of the other 42 guys.
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  Speaker 2: Those guys?
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  Speaker 6: What I mean, don't say anything particularly about that particular statement.
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  Speaker 6: Every week, it's becoming on me. Yeah, at this point,
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  Speaker 6: it's becoming on me. I get that you have to talk.
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  Speaker 7: I understand.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody has to talk.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, they don't. And they don't talk. And that's
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  Speaker 2: kind of my problem is that I get it. Dak
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have the answers. Neither does Shottie. At least not
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  Speaker 2: right then. Let's see. Let's see. But, like, I always
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  Speaker 2: will respect the guys that say, you know what? Where's
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: the podium? Yeah, let's do this. As opposed to the
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: other 40 that have sunglasses on, hat on, hoodie on,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: where's the bus? And they're out. And they don't have
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: the answers either. So I'm not going to ever knock
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: a guy for what they're saying when they're trying to
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: come up with answers when 90% of the locker room
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: doesn't do it and they hide behind the fact that
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: they don't have to.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: But I'm not knocking him for speaking. I'm knocking him
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: for repeating the same thing over and over again. The
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: issue is if you don't know what you're doing and
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: you go get help for Christian Parker and you need
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: actual help, fine. If there's been a mistake made and
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: they caught up to you in your playbook, fine. But
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: I'm watching every week. There's zero creativity with our playbook.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: Micah Parsons is on the sideline screaming out what your
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: move is, and he's right.
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: It's a pass to the.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: Left, and he's right. Your wide receivers are falling down.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: That's one thing. George Pickens and C.D., Jeez Louise, man. Like,
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: can we ever get out of green Bay with any
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: sort of happiness? I've got no problem with any of that,
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: but we're starting to look goofy, hilariously comically bad. And
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: there's no excuse for it.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: You have to find a way to do better. You know,
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: I'm not super duper mad. I, at this point, I'm
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: just watching football because I enjoy watching football, but they're
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: giving me nothing to go on. And at this point,
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: a lot of fans are becoming numb to it, sir.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: We really are.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: But outside of that, you know, get some rest. You know,
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: I know it's about to be a long day for everybody.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: It goes off about we're all okay, though. As long
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: as we're all okay.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: You guys have a great day. All right.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Sebastian. You know, you mentioned about Jalen Hurts. Seeing reports,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I guess he's out for the season or at least
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: out three months. I've heard different things, but he's probably
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: not coming back to play this year. Yeah, that's unbelievable.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: you know, news. And that's, it's really scary. It's sad. Uh,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: there's nothing, it's not Eagle quarterback at that point. He's
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: a young man named Jalen, you know, and anyone, you
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: hope that he's, he's okay. Um, and, uh, it's not
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: something to be, to be messed with. Um, and he's
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: a phenomenal player. I mean, like, I don't know him
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: about a person and all that stuff. I know that,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: you know, he's, he seems kind of quiet guy or whatever, but, um, man,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: he's a tough player to play against. And, It changes
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: their whole team. But, yeah, that's some scary news there.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Sergeant Sue in Fort Worth. At ease, everybody.
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: Nick, I know you're not doing well.
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: Looking good, though, man.
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: Brown might be your color.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: Quick question. What do you– we talk about this. Yes, sir.
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: We talk about this with other coaches and other quarterbacks.
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: I really haven't heard anybody bring it up yet about Shottie,
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: but what do you think about– Is it possible that
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: the league has a season of tape with him and
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: how he caused this offense with these players, and they're
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: using that this season? They have a full season now.
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: They know what he likes to do, and that's why
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: they're not as successful. Do you think there's anything? any
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: truth to that possibly?
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I think so. I mean, I think that's a really
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: good point because your whole offense was basically the same
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: as last year. And so you came back, and it's
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: almost like it didn't evolve like you want them to,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: and defenses have kind of caught up.
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: So my point in asking that question, Nick, is not
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: to argue with you on something that you said earlier,
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: but when asked who you felt had more responsibility, you
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: said that it was a shared responsibility, obviously OCHC and quarterback.
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: And I agree to an extent, but at the same time,
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: I think that's where you see what people like to
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: say coaching malpractice or the lack of the ability to
• 20:31
  Speaker 10: adjust from shoddy. It's like, of course, other coaches around
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: the league are going to adjust to what he's done.
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: They have a full season of tape on him. But
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: at the same time, it's like now it's his opportunity
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: to be like, okay, this is what I was doing.
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: Now let me adjust. Let me grow from last season.
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: And I just don't feel like we've seen that. And
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: I feel like that's leading to such a decline. You
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: know what I'm saying? And I think that's what's really
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: frustrating is because I do think that this offense still
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: has all the firepower. Maybe Dak isn't playing as great
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: as he, you know, was last season.
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: You know what I mean?
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: But offensively, it's been just detrimental. And I do think that.
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: I'm starting to be even more worried about the offense
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: than I am about the defense, which is crazy when
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: we all sat all offseason saying, we just need a
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: couple more stops here and there. The defense is getting that.
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: They're creating turnovers. They're getting sacks. They're not playing, you know,
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: they're great.
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: You know, they're not a.
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: World beater by any means, but they are what we
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: asked for them to be last season, and the offense
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: just isn't that. So I just wanted to share that thought, brother.
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: Thanks so much.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks. Appreciate that, Sergeant Sue. Yeah, I do agree
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: with that. And that's kind of what my column was
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: about last night is that, you know, all this feeling
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: everyone talked about just feels different. It just feels different
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: this year. And sadly, it is different because this team
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: right now is worse. It's not as good of a
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: football team as it was a year ago. And can
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: that change?
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: But the reason why I say that is, what are
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you good at? Last year, you say, okay, what's the
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: team look like? Well, the offense is really good, but
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: it has to be really good because the defense... Sorry, guys.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I was calling me from New York. The defense is
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: just not good, but the offense is making up for it. Well,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: now what? Defense still isn't good. It's still not a
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: good defense, but... The offense is just average at best.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: In the last two weeks, it's been below average. So,
• 22:33
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• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Let's go back to the phone line. Keith in front
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: of Dena Beach, Florida.
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: Keith, Good morning, Nick. How are you?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I'm good. What's up?
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: Well, I guess I'm going to sound like everybody else,
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: but I guess the biggest problem I have besides the
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: loss is that Todd Bowles from Tampa Bay pretty much
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: put this blueprint out 10 days ago or 11 days
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: ago of how you can attack the Cowboys. And I
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: felt like the offensive coaches had that tape. And they
• 24:46
  Speaker 7: should have known that that's exactly what Green Bay was
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: going to do, or at least something similar. Green Bay
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: has had a lot of injuries on their defense. They
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: lost a couple of top guys last week. Micah Parsons
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: isn't even playing yet. And it just doesn't seem like that,
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: and again, I'm not a coach, but it just seems
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: like to me that the Cowboys were totally unprepared. And
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: not only unprepared, there was not even any adjustments that
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: were done for it. And you had 10 days. I mean,
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: we were thinking this was like a bye week or something.
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: And you had all this time to prepare for it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: So at this point, I just, you know, I'm a fan.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: I'm always going to be a fan. But, man, I
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: just feel like we're getting outcoached every single week. And
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: I kind of put this loss on Shottie. I really
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: do because he's the offensive coordinator. I don't care if
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: it's on his title, but that's who he is. He's
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: a pet coach. It's his offense. And I don't know
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: really what he's doing at this time.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Well, I can't sit here and disagree with you.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: All right, Keith.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the call. When I was asked earlier about,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: you know, who do you blame more here?
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: And....
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Did I see Mike McCarthy in the tent?
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: He hurt himself. You hurt himself?
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Sorry.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Standing around. He hurt his leg, I guess, and he
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: had to go to the tent. Okay. Anyways, sorry, guys.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: When I ask the question about offense, Shottie or Dak,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: it's both. And here's an example of that, of one play.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: This is an example of.
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: Both.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: It's like when you have kids. It's like, I'm mad
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: at both of you. You for doing it, you for tattling,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you for whatever. It's like that. Dak gets absolutely blasted
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: on a second down play in the second quarter there.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: He's down for a second. It looks like, is this
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: going to be an injury? Are you down that long?
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: He gets up. And he's clearly, you know, he's got
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: the breath knocked out of him. And it's now third
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: and eight. And I, Derek Eagleton will tell you, I'm
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: sitting up there going, I'm calling the timeout. I'm calling
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: the timeout right here because you can't run it. If
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: that was first down, you're like, all right. This is
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: going to be a run here, you know, because the
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: guy has to get his breath back. But it's third
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: and eight, and you're already down, what, 10 to nothing.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: And you're like, you've got to get the ball. You know,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: you've got to score here for sure. You've got to
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: get some points. And so this is a big pivotal play.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: I'd call timeout. You're probably not going to get the
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: ball back anyway. So, you know, like this is it.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Just take care of this one. And Shottie had said
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: that he was like, yeah, I thought about it, but
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Dak said I'm good. Well, he's always good. You know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's always going to be good. But anyways,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I thought they should have called timeout.
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: He didn't.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: So that being said, I put that part on Shottie.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Then you run the play. So if you're good, then
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: be good, and don't throw a terrible pass over the
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: middle that looks like you're a second-year quarterback. So that's
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: why I'm like, same play, should have called timeout, shouldn't
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: have made a bad throw. It's just one example, but
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: I think it's not just one guy. I mean, it's both.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: So that's an example that I'm saying I put it
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: on both. All right, Carolyn in California.
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: Carolyn.
• 28:34
  Speaker 13: Hi, good morning.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: Fine.
• 28:38
  Speaker 13: I just have a few comments about, like, the one
• 28:42
  Speaker 13: that just left. He said, like, Dak was getting lit up.
• 28:45
  Speaker 13: I don't understand why they brought in Imari DiMarcato, which
• 28:50
  Speaker 13: is a good protector for the quarterback. He's good on
• 28:52
  Speaker 13: third downs, but they're not playing him.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: You cut him and you bring him back.
• 28:56
  Speaker 13: You know, use the players to their ability. So I'm confused.
• 29:00
  Speaker 13: You know, like, I understand they want to play the
• 29:02
  Speaker 13: player's that they're paying well, but if the job's not
• 29:06
  Speaker 13: getting done, whether it's on offense or defense, why are
• 29:08
  Speaker 13: you playing them? Try something new.
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Well, they did try something new, if you think about it.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: They tried Tyler Goodson. You know, they feel like he's
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: a better running back and, like, just a better playmaker.
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: But his stats are higher than his, so how could
• 29:25
  Speaker 13: they be? I don't understand.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, look at the stats.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think, well, I mean, to be fair,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, if DeMarcato wasn't with the Cowboys, would he
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: be in the NFL?
• 29:40
  Speaker 13: I couldn't tell you that. There's a lot of players
• 29:42
  Speaker 13: that are good players and they didn't get picked up
• 29:45
  Speaker 13: on other teams that are better players than him.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: So that's why I called.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just saying, I mean, DeMarcato is not a
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: player like– I don't feel like this is an issue
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: about backup running back. But, you know, if you think
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: he could do a better job picking up the blitz,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think Javante does a pretty good job
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: with that, picking up the blitz. But, I mean, at
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: this point, I'm not saying you're wrong. I don't think
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: this offense is better with DiMarcato than Tyler Goodson. I
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: think Tyler Goodson's probably– a better player for them. And
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: that's how they see it at least. But I see
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: from a speed element, from a guy that can kind
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: of do a little bit more, I like what I
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: see out of him.
• 30:29
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I didn't say he was a better player. I'm
• 30:32
  Speaker 13: just saying if things are not working, what is the
• 30:35
  Speaker 13: problem with trying something new, something different? That's what I'm saying.
• 30:39
  Speaker 13: Because I think they just always feel that a player
• 30:43
  Speaker 13: that's more well-known plays better than the other player. But
• 30:45
  Speaker 13: if you're not even giving the other player a chance
• 30:47
  Speaker 13: to get out on the field– in a real situation,
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: you don't know what they can do. Practice is different
• 30:52
  Speaker 13: from the field, from the actual game.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: DeMarcato did play a few games, right? I mean, we're
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: talking about the guy. I mean, he did play a
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: little bit. I think in their mind, and I'm not
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: trying to argue with you. I'm just saying, I think
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: in their mind, they're like, this is trying something new.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: We had DeMarcato. Now we're putting Tyler Goodson, Ferguson starting.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Now we're putting Brevin Sport. What's next?
• 31:11
  Speaker 10: I don't know.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Camden Brown, Formingo. I mean, as far as tweaking and
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: things like that going, maybe some offensive line tweaks.
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: Um, Yeah, but I feel that he's at least good
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: with protecting the quarterback. That's what's getting lit up.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 31:27
  Speaker 13: Even if you just use him for that, because he
• 31:29
  Speaker 13: does well with that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: But I don't know.
• 31:33
  Speaker 13: I don't play football. I've been watching it for years,
• 31:35
  Speaker 13: but I just feel, and in the comment where the
• 31:38
  Speaker 13: other guy said you've got so many players, I think
• 31:43
  Speaker 13: you said, you know, why don't the other players say something?
• 31:45
  Speaker 13: Why would they say something if they're not even being
• 31:47
  Speaker 13: given a chance to get on the field? If you
• 31:50
  Speaker 13: say something, then they're probably going to say you're a problem.
• 31:52
  Speaker 13: You know, you're a problem on the team. You're mouthing
• 31:54
  Speaker 13: this and that. So they're more than likely to damn
• 31:57
  Speaker 13: if they do and they damn if they don't. So,
• 32:00
  Speaker 13: you know, why would they say something and they're not
• 32:02
  Speaker 13: even getting a chance?
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Carolyn. I'm not going to agree with that.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to agree because I'm talking about, you know,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: there's 40-something guys out there playing, and we're talking about
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: guys that are making, you know, a lot of money.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: And so when two people go to the podium, a
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: head coach and a quarterback, and then 10, I don't
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: even know, 10, I'm going to say six or seven
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: people talking after a game, that leaves a lot of
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: other players out there that probably could have done that,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: you know? And so that's all I'm saying is, like,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I don't like to criticize what Dak is saying or
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: the answers. He says the same thing every week. You know,
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: that's the problem I have. You have guys with Cs
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: on their chest, captains. I didn't see them talking.
• 32:46
  Speaker 13: But aren't they chosen to go talk? Or do they
• 32:49
  Speaker 13: have the, like I said, I don't know. Aren't they
• 32:52
  Speaker 13: chosen to go talk?
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 32:53
  Speaker 13: They don't have, you know, nothing about it that way
• 32:57
  Speaker 13: to me.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Well, there's... No, I mean, like, they have opportunities to talk. Like,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: you know, you should make yourself available, especially if you're
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: a captain. But now we're going down the line of, like,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: now I'm going to start finger-pointing the process of it,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: which I've hated for years, because you do have a podium.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: You have a room for it. And to have a
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: coach and a quarterback only, I kind of– especially when
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: you're talking about a locker room that's like Green Bay, which– Hey,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: historic place, historic stadium, all of that. There's probably 200
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: high school stadiums in Texas that probably have a better
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: setup than that. So that being said, I think more
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: people should talk, but that's just me. We're getting into
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: semantics of that. I think the point that I'm trying
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: to make is that as a player, as a leader,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm pretty sure that during training camp, Schottenheimer
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: comes up and tells you that there's like a leadership
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: council and things like that. And I know McCarthy used
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: to have something like that. But there's like a group
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: of leaders, 10 of them, 12 of them, 13. And,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: you know, they have five or six captains. I don't
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: know why those guys aren't really talking either. But because
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: no one has the answers. You know, they don't have
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: the answers. I'm not saying you should have the answers.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, you know, it's always been a thing
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: for me. I'm talking back into the days of 2000.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: seven and eight when the same guys would talk and
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: the other guys would be in the locker room playing
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: dominoes and and almost messing up interviews to be playful
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: and fun but didn't want to get and talk you
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: know didn't want to talk and in front of the
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: media so i always have a kind of an issue
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: uh with that part but all right let's go to
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: nate in albuquerque.
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: Hey uh hey nick that was a a rough rough
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: game last night um especially watching the defense it's hard
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: to watch especially with the third downs. You know, they
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: just kept converting third down over third down, and finally
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: you would see, I think, when Williams had a stop.
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: And I was like, okay, great, we can get him
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: off the field. And it's like third and 12, and
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: they just dump it down. They get 14 yards, you know,
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: and over and over. What was more frustrating than that
• 35:15
  Speaker 8: was the offense because they gave us opportunities, and we
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: depend on this offense to win us games. And, you know,
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: the offense just couldn't get anything going. And I know
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: people criticize Dak. He had a bad game. But also
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: that pressure, you know, I think he's the best quarterback
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: against pressure. Like maybe it's regular pressure, but he's running
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: for his life back there. We've got to be able,
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: the coach has got to figure out how to beat that, right?
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: You've got to get the ball out quick, whether it's
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: dumping it down to your running back, your tight end,
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: or running at them. They're running at you. You run
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: at them. That's what they did to us with Parsons.
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: But they've got to figure it out because it's a
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: copycat league. Like, Tampa Bay did it. Green Bay did it.
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: They're going to continue to do it until we can,
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: you know, fix it. So you need to get it fixed.
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: And I like to look at the silver lining, even
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: though it's bad, right, two losses, prime time. But, I mean,
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: look at, we've seen flashes from the defense, right? They
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: did some things there, right? They came out with energy.
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: They got some sacks.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: They got a turnover.
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: They gave us opportunities, which is good. We got overshown
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: Durant coming back. So that's great. And then also the
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: biggest thing, Philly lost, Giants lost. So the door is
• 36:24
  Speaker 8: wide open still in this division. So they've got to
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: get the train back on the track. I mean, it's
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: broken right now. They've got to get the train back
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: on the track.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: They need to figure it out.
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: And I think the next five games you've got, I
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: think you've got 49ers. But other than that, I think
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: the other teams are below 500. So, you know, there's
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: still a lot of football. They need to figure it out.
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: And I think they just need to figure out how
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: to beat that pressure because, like I said, it's a
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: copycat league. They're going to continue to do it. so
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: I don't know I just want to get your thoughts
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: on that but yeah it was pretty bad.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah I know I appreciate the call definitely was bad
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: and you know looking at schedule and all that kind
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: of stuff I mean you know the question was asked
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: to Dak about you know I think five of the
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: next six games I think they all have losing records
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: maybe or something something like that and does that even
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: matter and Dak was like no no we got to
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: fix our own house right now so I mean because
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: You know, when you're losing to a Tampa Bay team
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: at home on a short week like that, you know,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: they were winless at the time. And so, you know,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: you're losing to teams that really aren't that great either,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: then everybody can come beat you. I mean, and that's
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: kind of the nature of it. And I haven't– I'm
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: not going to change my stance from last week when
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: I said I'm pretty confident that every team on the
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Cowboys schedule can beat Dallas. I mean, we've seen it. So–
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: There's no gimmies. Arizona, I mean, they just beat. They
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: went on the road and beat the Rams. So you
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: think they're worried about coming here where they, you know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: that's a couple weeks away. But, I mean, they've had
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: a lot of success here. You know, you're playing the Colts,
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: you know, on the road. I mean, like every game
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: is going to be tough. I know that. And like
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: I said last week, I don't know if the Cowboys
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: are good enough to beat every team. But it's a
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: weird league, and I don't think anyone's that great. I
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: think San Francisco looks really good. Other than that, who
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: else is really good? But they've got to fix this
• 38:23
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• 40:00
  Speaker 2: love when people call and everyone's got their own opinions
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: and come up with something. Come up with a theory.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: What do you think they should do? Whether or not
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: anyone agrees, but At least it's something. You know what
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: I mean? We had a caller not too long ago
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: who just called about the third running back that's not playing, DiMarcato,
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: that maybe they should play him.
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: Maybe.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't dismiss anything at this point. There's
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: some other changes, I think. We're already seeing changes. That's
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: one thing about this team is they're not just like,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: it'll get better, it'll get better. They're making moves, making
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: changes that they make almost every week. Um, which then
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: you start to, to start looking at it like, all right,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: is it at some point you got to have built
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: some continuity here and quit tweaking it all the time
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: and just let it kind of, you know, develop. But
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: then at the other time you're like, I, you know,
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: you have to make changes. So there's always kind of
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: a gray area there. All right, let's go to Josh
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: in Chicago.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Hey man, sorry about the trip.
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: Um, So before break, really quick, I like to keep
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: it light sometimes. You asked who looks good right now.
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: You asked the same thing last year, and I was like, man,
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: the Colts are looking really good. And I'm pretty sure
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: I cursed them after that because they looked terrible the
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: rest of the season. So I'm just going to say, man,
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: the 49ers.
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: They look great.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: They look real good, man. They're looking great right now.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: I want to play them. We'll see how that goes.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know about cursing them. They look really good.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: That game's not going to be fun just because not
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: only whatever the outcome is, but just the crowd.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: The talk after. That's the same talk I deal with
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: after Packers lost, too. Talking about player personnel and stuff,
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: my thoughts are kind of scattered. I'm kind of frustrated.
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: There's a lot of bad.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: I stayed up late.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: It sucked. I don't know who needs to get benched
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: to get James Houston on the field, but Houston needs
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: to be on the field at this point. I'm sick
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: of seeing certain players on the defensive line take reps
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: off when Houston's got a motor and he's going to
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: go and he has something to prove. I want to
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: see him on the field more. Quite frankly, I think
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: there's some bad play calling by Schottenheimer, right? When you're
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: going to go forward on 4th and 2, you need
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: to be running the ball on 3rd and 2. It
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: looked like I'd have to go back and watch the touchdown.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: I couldn't tell if they were in 13 personnel or 22,
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: but they had Brev out there motioning almost like a
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: fullback and blocking for Javante, and it worked. You're at
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: third and two. You know the game's on the line.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: It's seven to 20. You still have a shot, and
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: you throw the ball, and then it's fourth and two,
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: and you throw the ball. I mean, we have the personnel.
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: This is what I'm saying. I don't get why Lipke's
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: on this team if you're not going to use him
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: as a fullback. And honestly, I don't know if I'd
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: always use him as a fullback. I might have T.J.
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: Bass report in and use T.J. Bass as my fullback
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: to blow people up for Devontae. And they'll show down situations.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: I don't know why we don't do stuff like that.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: I'm totally with you. I said the exact same thing
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: today on the radio about somebody like that, T.J.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Bass.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Honestly, who I would seriously try is L.T.
• 43:25
  Speaker 12: Overton.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: He's active. He's playing. He's got some, I think, some twitch.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: That's the biggest thing about that kind of stuff. If
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: you're going to put him at fullback, they've got to
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: get off the line. I mean, they have to. McGovern,
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: was it McGovern? He's with the Bills now. He was
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: the guy that did it. I mean, and I think
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Bass could do it, but I'm totally with you. But,
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: you know, because when that happens, teams run. And they're like,
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: you know what, we're running. Stop it. That's the kind
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: of stuff that I think if you get so good
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: at what you're doing and you're not worried about, well,
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: they think this, but we're thinking this, but they think
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: we're going to run, but we're not. Don't get into
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: all that. You're right. I think it happens way too much. But,
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: I got to go back and look at this. If
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: they really ran the ball 32 times in a row,
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: that's absolutely mind-blowing. And I think they did. I mean,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: I don't see another run. It's unbelievable.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: And the other thing, too, when they're sending two, I mean,
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: why are you passing when they're blitzing two people?
• 44:25
  Speaker 11: I get it.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: You want an open guy in the field. You think
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: you can take a shot. But you have no time.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: And I don't get why you don't bring in Lipke
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: or Bass or somebody or Overton or anybody to sit
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: back with Javante. You know they're sending two, and you're
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: not doing anything to protect or give time. And then
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: you're not running the ball in those situations to the
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: outside or something. It's so frustrating to watch. And I'll say,
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: I'm not defending Schottenheimer here. I think there's a lot
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: of things, like I already said, if you're going to
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: play for fourth down, you need to run the ball
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: on third and fourth. But also, go back and look.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: Terrence Steele was responsible for so many bad run plays
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: in that game that I'm at the point where I'd
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: rather see one of the younger guys in and take
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: the lumps and build and get them reps than keep
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: watching Steele let somebody beat him or completely miss a block.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know what to do with him.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. Let's go one more caller here
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: before we finish it up. Irene in Falls Church, Virginia.
• 45:30
  Speaker 13: Hey, morning.
• 45:32
  Speaker 14: Hey, I'm getting flashbacks to Kurt Daniels talking to Mrs.
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: Hearns today.
• 45:37
  Speaker 14: But anyway, so two things on this. One, the first
• 45:42
  Speaker 14: and second down defense was a lot better this last game.
• 45:46
  Speaker 14: But third down, we have to keep the aggression up
• 45:50
  Speaker 14: because I don't understand how we let third and 13,
• 45:53
  Speaker 14: third and 20, whatever. It's been a problem all year.
• 45:56
  Speaker 14: I need that fixed. Second, you know, I'm laughing because
• 46:00
  Speaker 14: Michael in bowling was like, what's the worst thing that
• 46:02
  Speaker 14: could happen? Maybe Clayton Adams and CP would get to
• 46:05
  Speaker 14: the NFC Championship and they get poached. Now it's like
• 46:09
  Speaker 14: we can't do anything. So I do want to ask, though,
• 46:12
  Speaker 14: do you think this is Schottenheimer's play calling or is
• 46:15
  Speaker 14: Clayton not, you know, designing runs? Does he need to
• 46:18
  Speaker 14: take over play calling? That's sort of my question. I
• 46:20
  Speaker 14: know you've got to get out, but.
• 46:22
  Speaker 13: I will ask.
• 46:23
  Speaker 14: I would like to see Clayton get a try.
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: I'll put that out there.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: Okay. I think at this point that's probably– thank you
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: for the call. That's probably the next move. I mean,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: that of changes and things like that is, you know,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: switching up the play calling. You know, you keep tweaking this.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, you made some changes on defense and, you know,
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: you brought another guy in and, you know, I don't
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: know if there really anything happened. I mean, certainly wasn't
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: the third down defense. I mean, that, that was ridiculous.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Couldn't get off the field at all. Um, but, uh,
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: as far as play calling goes, you know, I, it's,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: it's weird. You do have an offensive coordinator in, in,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: in name, uh, in Clayton Adams. And I'm sure he
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: kind of helps with the, the, the game plan and
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. Um, you know, I think Ken Dorsey's
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: name has been mentioned some, uh, as far as somebody
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: that's done it, uh, before too. So, You got some options,
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: I think, if that's the route that's gone. I mean,
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: it's two games that's been really bad. You know, when
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: you go back and look at Shottie as the offensive
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: coordinator from when this started to now, I don't know
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: if you pull the trigger on just that. You know,
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's got to be a lot.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: it's gotta be more than this. You know what I mean?
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: As far as just making a big, a big change here, but,
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: but we'll see. I mean, I'm, I think, like I
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: said earlier, Cowboys are, are willing to, to make some
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: changes here. I think they feel like they have, I mean,
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: actually Steven Jones said before the game and we interviewed
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: him on the field and I asked him, you know,
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: do you feel like you've got a really good team?
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: That's why you're making these. He's like, we, we really
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: love our team. We just got to kind of, you know,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: get the right things moving at the right time. And so,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: I still think that they're going to do what they
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: can to try to make changes. And if that means
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: changing the, the play calling around or, or at least
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: the process of, of how, you know, the, the game
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: plan is installed and maybe Dak needs to be a
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: part of it a little bit more too. Hey, I'm, I'm,
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: I'm down for, for all that. All right, guys. Appreciate
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: the calls today. You guys did a good job and
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: I know there's frustration and I'm with you and you
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: should be, you should be frustrated about what you're seeing.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: You just never thought we'd be sitting here at two
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: and four. And not only that, but the team just doesn't,
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: Doesn't look good in any way. I mean, there's nothing
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: really that looks good right now other than the fact
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: that the schedule ahead of you is just, you know,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: you can be competitive. You can be competitive with this.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: No one's going to run away from you. But, man,
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: it would be nice to reach out and grab it
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: every now and again and take control of this. All right, guys,
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: we'll be back tomorrow. We'll do it again on Tuesday.
• 49:02
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  Speaker 12: How about this, Cowboys? Yeah!