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- 0:04Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
- 0:07Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
- 0:11Speaker 2: Cowboys.
- 0:14Speaker 3: This is He's Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:23Speaker 4: What's up everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I'm your host,
- 0:27Speaker 4: Nick Eatman, and it is time to talk Dallas Cowboys football.
- 0:31Speaker 4: I want to hear from you guys. You know how
- 0:32Speaker 4: this show works. This is a show where I turn
- 0:35Speaker 4: to the tables, let you guys call in and voice
- 0:38Speaker 4: your opinion, obviously keeping it respectable, of course, but I
- 0:44Speaker 4: want to hear from you guys. Especially with this week,
- 0:46Speaker 4: Big week, Cowboys coming off of bye and it's forty
- 0:49Speaker 4: nine Ers week. It's time to talk Dallas Cowboys San
- 0:52Speaker 4: Francisco forty nine Ers. And in the last few games
- 0:56Speaker 4: obviously have not gone well for the Cowboys when facing
- 1:00Speaker 4: the forty nine ers, two of them losses in the playoffs.
- 1:03Speaker 4: Of course, last year was it was was a tough
- 1:05Speaker 4: forty two to ten loss in San Francisco. Cowboys going
- 1:08Speaker 4: back to the Bay Area again see if they can
- 1:12Speaker 4: change history here against the forty nine ers, and also
- 1:15Speaker 4: just the course of their season this year with a
- 1:18Speaker 4: big loss. They had a couple of weeks ago against
- 1:21Speaker 4: the Lions. Let's see what the bye week has done
- 1:23Speaker 4: for them. I want to hear from you guys as always.
- 1:25Speaker 4: Eight eight eight eight, five five two two nine seven
- 1:29Speaker 4: is the number to call, and let's get let's get
- 1:32Speaker 4: it right after let's start, let's go to Miami where
- 1:34Speaker 4: Fernando is Fernando and Miami's first up here.
- 1:38Speaker 5: Good morning, Nick, How are you fine? Fine? Long time,
- 1:43Speaker 5: no talk?
- 1:43Speaker 4: All right, look for reading it.
- 1:46Speaker 5: I'm kind of going to go back to old school here.
- 1:48Speaker 5: Did you ever see the stallback stallbacks last game playoff
- 1:54Speaker 5: game against the Rams that they lost? I think Waddle,
- 1:58Speaker 5: that receiver from the Rams, he caught the ball at
- 2:01Speaker 5: the fifty and he took it all the way in
- 2:03Speaker 5: with like a minute ago, and Vince fer Garbo was
- 2:06Speaker 5: the quarterback. I think.
- 2:09Speaker 4: I don't really know, I mean not really.
- 2:13Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, I think it was a seventy
- 2:15Speaker 5: nine that was fall by flash game right. It was
- 2:18Speaker 5: a playoff game against the Rams in Texas Stadium.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Where we go and.
- 2:23Speaker 5: Oh no, no, just something just wondering if you saw that,
- 2:25Speaker 5: I wonder or how you felt after that. But I've
- 2:29Speaker 5: got another question.
- 2:31Speaker 4: Yeah, I probably you know, I probably wanted to play
- 2:34Speaker 4: with some toys or something. I don't know, Like I
- 2:36Speaker 4: was three, so I don't remember that when I mean,
- 2:38Speaker 4: I know there's a lot of talking about his seventy
- 2:41Speaker 4: nine game against the Redskins, but then you know that
- 2:45Speaker 4: was the last win. But yeah, he lost it in
- 2:47Speaker 4: the playoffs. All right, what point are we making here?
- 2:50Speaker 4: It all?
- 2:51Speaker 5: No, no, no, I'm just gonna say that was very
- 2:54Speaker 5: disupporting a playoff game. That was devastating for me. I'm
- 2:56Speaker 5: fifty nine, so that was tough for me. Next question, Okay,
- 3:02Speaker 5: Danny White, this is all this was gonna be old
- 3:04Speaker 5: school too. Danny White that the dude was a very
- 3:07Speaker 5: good partner through him. I mean, he took us to
- 3:10Speaker 5: three NFC championship games. He was beating a great forty
- 3:15Speaker 5: nine year team with Joe Montana, Ronnie Lot and all
- 3:18Speaker 5: those guys with four minutes to go, but Dese kinds
- 3:20Speaker 5: split the team down. I'm thinking, why don't this guy
- 3:23Speaker 5: get more love or maybe even in the Ring of honor?
- 3:26Speaker 4: Yeah? Uh, okay, Well, thanks for the for the the
- 3:31Speaker 4: old school shout outs. Here they see this show. We
- 3:33Speaker 4: do a little bit of everything. Well we'll start, we'll
- 3:35Speaker 4: talk about current stuff. We'll take it back forty years.
- 3:39Speaker 4: Danny White. You know I said this before. I mean,
- 3:44Speaker 4: I grew up in the eighties, so I was Danny
- 3:46Speaker 4: White in my backyard, my front yard, in the living room, whatever.
- 3:50Speaker 4: I was the quarterback. You know, he was the guy.
- 3:54Speaker 4: He was the quarterback. When you look at it now,
- 3:57Speaker 4: I always say that, you know where the Boys wore
- 4:00Speaker 4: a certain level when he took over. They did not
- 4:03Speaker 4: sustain that. They went down. They did go to the
- 4:05Speaker 4: championship games, they didn't go past that. You can say
- 4:08Speaker 4: what you want about the forty nine ers game with
- 4:10Speaker 4: the Cats and the defense they were driving. He fumbled,
- 4:13Speaker 4: I mean he did. He fumbled him and they could
- 4:15Speaker 4: have maybe won that game with the field goal. But
- 4:17Speaker 4: you know, Danny White was a really good player with
- 4:20Speaker 4: some really good stats a few years. I don't know
- 4:24Speaker 4: if he's Ring of Honor type. The Cowboys have always
- 4:28Speaker 4: wanted to keep it pretty exclusive, and I don't I
- 4:30Speaker 4: don't think it goes to that level.
- 4:33Speaker 2: You know.
- 4:34Speaker 4: That's that's all I have to say about that. All right,
- 4:36Speaker 4: let's go to a champ in Nebraska. Champ, do you
- 4:38Speaker 4: got anything about this this week's game?
- 4:41Speaker 1: Hey, Nick first off Man, hearing you talk about Danny White, Wow,
- 4:46Speaker 1: that brings back some memories. I was the same way
- 4:48Speaker 1: on the side of my grandma's house playing football with
- 4:50Speaker 1: my cousins. Yeah, and that was my hero.
- 4:53Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 4:54Speaker 1: For this week, you know, I think we got a
- 4:57Speaker 1: great chance to beat this team. I know, a win
- 5:00Speaker 1: is a win in the NFL. You take it. You
- 5:02Speaker 1: can't control who's hurt on the other team or anything.
- 5:06Speaker 1: I don't know for the players, like if it's like
- 5:09Speaker 1: we didn't beat them at their best, so how that
- 5:12Speaker 1: measuring stick would be up if we get that win.
- 5:15Speaker 1: But one thing I wanted to throw back to you.
- 5:16Speaker 1: I was listening to Micah's podcast about three weeks ago,
- 5:20Speaker 1: and I was just listening to it last week, and
- 5:23Speaker 1: there was a segment on there where it really really
- 5:26Speaker 1: sounded like he's throwing coaching staff under the bus, and
- 5:30Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised that this hasn't turned into a
- 5:33Speaker 1: national media type news deal. He had Darius Slay on
- 5:37Speaker 1: as a as a guest, and he was talking about
- 5:41Speaker 1: how when when are they going to stop blaming the
- 5:44Speaker 1: players and stop start blaming the coaches for the schemes
- 5:48Speaker 1: they put them in and putting them in bad positions.
- 5:50Speaker 1: And he specifically talks about our fans. He says, I
- 5:54Speaker 1: hear where I'm at. He goes in with the fans
- 5:57Speaker 1: I want to be saying, I want to tweet out,
- 6:00Speaker 1: are we going to start blaming the coaches and not
- 6:02Speaker 1: just the players? And he goes on to talk about
- 6:05Speaker 1: how his words and I don't want to paraphrase them exactly,
- 6:10Speaker 1: but basically they put us in a BS spot, but
- 6:14Speaker 1: they won't take credit for, you know, blame for that.
- 6:17Speaker 1: I was just wondering if you'd heard that, if I
- 6:19Speaker 1: totally misunderstood it, or if you hadn't listened to that
- 6:23Speaker 1: at all, or anything like that. But that, I'll hang up.
- 6:26Speaker 2: You guys have a great week. Thank go Cowboys.
- 6:29Speaker 4: Thank you. You know, I didn't really hear that. I
- 6:31Speaker 4: actually was flipping through the channels and I saw that
- 6:35Speaker 4: on TV. It's on like True TV, which I haven't
- 6:40Speaker 4: I haven't turned to since the NCAA basketball tournament, but
- 6:43Speaker 4: it was on and I saw that interview. It took
- 6:45Speaker 4: me about ten minutes to realize it was Darius Slay
- 6:49Speaker 4: who that was because they never said that. But you know,
- 6:53Speaker 4: Mi kid needs to reset that a little bit when
- 6:55Speaker 4: he's to host. But I did not hear that part
- 6:57Speaker 4: about the of the coaches. And I'll say this, it's
- 7:02Speaker 4: surprising me that it surprises me that anything that he
- 7:05Speaker 4: says it hasn't you know that they don't take that
- 7:08Speaker 4: and blow that up. So maybe maybe he did. Maybe
- 7:11Speaker 4: that's what you heard. Maybe he was implying that that
- 7:15Speaker 4: doesn't surprise me. You know, he's he's been you know,
- 7:18Speaker 4: he's pretty frustrated about a lot of stuff. But I
- 7:20Speaker 4: don't know, I had not heard that about him and
- 7:23Speaker 4: the coaches and talking about that. So you know that
- 7:27Speaker 4: first part you said though about will it matter if
- 7:31Speaker 4: the Cowboys win or will they will they feel the
- 7:34Speaker 4: same way because I mean, don't forget what's happening here.
- 7:39Speaker 4: See that's that's the thing, Like I think fans kind
- 7:42Speaker 4: of forget, like like all right, well this is the
- 7:45Speaker 4: situation here, and then you're starting to look out elsewhere
- 7:47Speaker 4: and go all right, well what do the forty nine
- 7:49Speaker 4: ers have? What do they have going on? Oh, this
- 7:51Speaker 4: guy's hurt, this guy's hurt. Well what about what's happening
- 7:55Speaker 4: with this team? I mean they don't have a defensive
- 7:57Speaker 4: end that that that's that's healthy. That that was that
- 8:00Speaker 4: was on the roster even to start training camp. It
- 8:02Speaker 4: seems like, I mean they are, they're banged up. I
- 8:05Speaker 4: don't know if Michah Parsons is going to play. I
- 8:08Speaker 4: don't know if Deron Land is going to play. So
- 8:11Speaker 4: you know, I don't really care what's going on with
- 8:13Speaker 4: the forty nine. I mean, I mean, deal with it.
- 8:15Speaker 4: Nobody cares about what's happening with the Cowboys. Nobody says that. Nobody,
- 8:19Speaker 4: no talk show, none of those things you see say yeah,
- 8:23Speaker 4: but these guys are out. No one says that. They
- 8:26Speaker 4: just say, this was the score, this is embarrassing. What
- 8:29Speaker 4: are you gonna do about it? Jerry blah blah blah,
- 8:32Speaker 4: all that stuff. Because so that's fine. So if this
- 8:35Speaker 4: is the case with forty nine ers, deal with it.
- 8:38Speaker 4: Cowboys are trying to deal with it as well, and
- 8:40Speaker 4: it's going to be a challenge. I whatever the forty
- 8:42Speaker 4: nine ers roll out, it's going to be a tough
- 8:44Speaker 4: game because the way they run the football, the way
- 8:47Speaker 4: their offense is structured, it's going to be a problem.
- 8:50Speaker 4: It doesn't matter who's running the ball, what kind of
- 8:53Speaker 4: struggles that they've had, it'll be it'll be a challenge
- 8:56Speaker 4: Sunday night football. It'll be a tough game. I can
- 8:58Speaker 4: promise you that it doesn't matter who's there, right, Dylan, Northport, Florida,
- 9:01Speaker 4: what's up man?
- 9:03Speaker 5: Hey? Nick?
- 9:03Speaker 6: You remember the role that Teddy Roosevelt played in saving
- 9:06Speaker 6: football And I'm just kidding. Hey, it was great listening
- 9:08Speaker 6: to on the break last week with Derek. Dude, you're
- 9:10Speaker 6: like the ultimate emplier and it was great to have
- 9:13Speaker 6: kind of empire strikes back there. So I hope you
- 9:15Speaker 6: guys do some more of that stuff.
- 9:17Speaker 4: Yeah, Derek said he loved and hated it at the
- 9:19Speaker 4: same time.
- 9:20Speaker 6: Of course, of course I want to talk about practice, dude.
- 9:25Speaker 6: I called practice, right, I called into I called into
- 9:30Speaker 6: talking a little earlier and talked about the same thing.
- 9:32Speaker 6: I want to get your thoughts on it. And I
- 9:34Speaker 6: don't like talking about like intangible stuff like this, like
- 9:36Speaker 6: effort and whatever, because there's not a definitive answer to
- 9:39Speaker 6: it's all speculation. But we've heard now multiple times that
- 9:43Speaker 6: from the players and the coaches that you know they're
- 9:45Speaker 6: not practicing well and that shows when you get beat
- 9:47Speaker 6: by it seem like the Saints the way they got
- 9:49Speaker 6: beat I don't think the Saints are that much better
- 9:51Speaker 6: than the Cowboys, or better at all than the Cowboys,
- 9:53Speaker 6: but man, they got they got destroyed. And I think
- 9:55Speaker 6: at a large part of they have to do with practice,
- 9:56Speaker 6: and that's what the player said. And now you have
- 9:58Speaker 6: Mike kind of redoing how practices are going to be going.
- 10:01Speaker 6: They're doing more team based stuff instead of individual drills.
- 10:04Speaker 6: So my question is their lack of ability to practice well.
- 10:09Speaker 6: Is that more of a head coaching thing or do
- 10:11Speaker 6: you think that they professional is an issue where players
- 10:14Speaker 6: just aren't interested in showing up Monday through Friday studying film.
- 10:18Speaker 6: They think they can show up on Sunday and just
- 10:20Speaker 6: be good when in reality, I mean the professionals the
- 10:23Speaker 6: job is to practice, blow and show up on Sunday.
- 10:25Speaker 6: So yeah, thoughts on that.
- 10:27Speaker 4: All right, thanks, good question, And sometimes the answer is both,
- 10:30Speaker 4: you know, it really is. I mean, yes, it's on
- 10:33Speaker 4: the players to to you know, first and foremost. I
- 10:38Speaker 4: think it's one of those things that kind of circles back.
- 10:40Speaker 4: You know, the coaches build the culture of how they
- 10:44Speaker 4: want things to be and get the type of players,
- 10:46Speaker 4: type of guys that they get in. And everyone always
- 10:48Speaker 4: made fun of Jason Garrett for the right type of guy.
- 10:51Speaker 4: He's the right type of guy, he would say that.
- 10:53Speaker 4: But there is a certain type of player, type of
- 10:57Speaker 4: person and personality that you want that you need to
- 11:01Speaker 4: to be a professional football player. And so I think
- 11:05Speaker 4: it's it's up to the coaches to to to kind
- 11:08Speaker 4: of you know, get that here and and and instill
- 11:11Speaker 4: that on this team. It's up to the players to
- 11:15Speaker 4: to go up to that standard and to play in
- 11:18Speaker 4: practice at that standard. If it's not happening, then it's
- 11:22Speaker 4: back on the coaches again to to make sure it
- 11:26Speaker 4: does happen or the right players are doing it. So
- 11:31Speaker 4: that's a very good question, and the answer is both.
- 11:34Speaker 4: It's got to be you know, get give and take,
- 11:36Speaker 4: and it's also got to be you know, you got
- 11:38Speaker 4: to have a situation where where the players will will
- 11:41Speaker 4: you know, go to bat for their coach and vice versa.
- 11:43Speaker 4: Sounds like he goes to bat for them. I mean
- 11:45Speaker 4: they say it all the time, and you know he's
- 11:47Speaker 4: definitely a players coach, but you know it's got to
- 11:50Speaker 4: happen in practice as well. So I put it on
- 11:52Speaker 4: the coach, I put it on the assistant coaches. I
- 11:54Speaker 4: put it on the players that that's what a team is.
- 11:57Speaker 4: They they've got to figure out a way to to
- 11:59Speaker 4: mesh this together. And it's not it's not just one,
- 12:02Speaker 4: it's it's both sides and and they've they've got to
- 12:05Speaker 4: figure out and if it's not happening, then then something
- 12:08Speaker 4: has to change. And you know, if the players aren't
- 12:10Speaker 4: practicing the right way, then then then he's got to
- 12:12Speaker 4: do his parts to change them. Robbie and Coco Beach, Florida.
- 12:16Speaker 4: What's up, Nick?
- 12:18Speaker 2: How you been, budd good?
- 12:18Speaker 4: How are you?
- 12:20Speaker 1: I've been working way too much, man, I haven't been
- 12:22Speaker 1: able to call.
- 12:23Speaker 7: But that's all right, all right.
- 12:24Speaker 1: I've been listening to the show because I love you guys. Man,
- 12:27Speaker 1: you guys make it great for the fans.
- 12:28Speaker 4: Appreciate it.
- 12:30Speaker 1: Yeah, man, it's truth.
- 12:33Speaker 5: First.
- 12:34Speaker 1: Danny White, just real quick. I never played with him
- 12:36Speaker 1: or anything with you know, it's playing stand lout football.
- 12:39Speaker 1: We used to watch them all the time and we
- 12:40Speaker 1: had a me and my buddy had to play. We
- 12:42Speaker 1: called White to Renfro.
- 12:44Speaker 5: You know.
- 12:44Speaker 1: It was always a little down and out and then
- 12:45Speaker 1: we'd do about four times and then we'd do a
- 12:47Speaker 1: double move. But it was always fun. You know, because
- 12:50Speaker 1: we were so good together. Yeah, I mean Danny White
- 12:52Speaker 1: got he got point about disrespecting me. He never got
- 12:57Speaker 1: the praise he deserved. Question about this week's game, you
- 13:02Speaker 1: think we'll see Delvin Cook? Sure, hope him so something
- 13:05Speaker 1: to Yeah, I have running game in the butt going.
- 13:08Speaker 4: I just more than anything, And not that I that
- 13:11Speaker 4: I think he's going to turn back the clock and
- 13:12Speaker 4: be you know what he was five years ago, eight
- 13:15Speaker 4: years or whatever. I just think why not. I mean what,
- 13:19Speaker 4: let's just see what we got to lose, right, I
- 13:21Speaker 4: mean like nothing, nothing else is working. I mean, like
- 13:24Speaker 4: the other guys aren't working. I mean so yeah, I
- 13:27Speaker 4: mean he's been here long enough, he should know the place.
- 13:30Speaker 4: Let's just see just to shut us up, shut me up,
- 13:33Speaker 4: shout everyone.
- 13:33Speaker 1: Yeah, cut me up to Yeah, why do you bring
- 13:36Speaker 1: him in if you're not going to use him?
- 13:37Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm for it. I mean there's nobody in his
- 13:39Speaker 4: way that you would be like, wow, we can't because
- 13:41Speaker 4: he's playing.
- 13:42Speaker 1: Right, because Zeke's better rights better right, Yeah, nobody. And
- 13:48Speaker 1: I think we need to see an old police liquor
- 13:51Speaker 1: or a double super reverse or something just to spark
- 13:54Speaker 1: that offense, to get us going, I know you love
- 13:56Speaker 1: him too, man, That's why I mentioned it. Yeah, bi brother,
- 13:59Speaker 1: all right, I'll talk to you later.
- 14:00Speaker 4: Have a great week something. I mean, like, let's dig
- 14:04Speaker 4: into the bag of tricks a little bit. And you
- 14:06Speaker 4: know what, I have a lot of friends that are coaches,
- 14:11Speaker 4: and they've said this forever. If you start off a
- 14:15Speaker 4: game and you're playing some team and they run like
- 14:18Speaker 4: this triple reverse receiver, throwback to the quarterback, fake all that,
- 14:23Speaker 4: that pretty much says that we can't win. That's a
- 14:27Speaker 4: lot of times what happens there when you see that
- 14:29Speaker 4: early in the game, we'll start a game on sidekick
- 14:31Speaker 4: or whatever, you're pretty much saying like this is how
- 14:35Speaker 4: we're gonna have to win. There's two different thoughts there,
- 14:38Speaker 4: and you can take it however you want. The players
- 14:39Speaker 4: will say it. The coach tells the players in the
- 14:42Speaker 4: locker room, I believe in you guys. I believe we're
- 14:44Speaker 4: gonna take it right out and blah blah. But a
- 14:46Speaker 4: lot of times what it really says is that we're
- 14:48Speaker 4: not good enough. Straight up, We're gonna have to trick
- 14:52Speaker 4: this thing up to try to win. And you know what,
- 14:55Speaker 4: maybe that's what the Cowboys need to do. I mean
- 14:57Speaker 4: this where we are here and looking at these games.
- 14:59Speaker 4: I know other three and three and all that, but
- 15:01Speaker 4: the three losses have are been very demoralizing and it
- 15:06Speaker 4: looks like it could be a pattern that doesn't go
- 15:09Speaker 4: well for this team. And you look at the three
- 15:12Speaker 4: wins and the players that they've faced and the quarterbacks
- 15:15Speaker 4: that they face that they're not all on the schedule.
- 15:17Speaker 4: So they're gonna have to get better. Jerry Jones said
- 15:20Speaker 4: it on his on his radio show tuesday. He said,
- 15:23Speaker 4: we're not playing good football. He said it, I mean
- 15:25Speaker 4: like like we've got to play better football than that.
- 15:27Speaker 4: So everyone knows it, recognizes it, and yeah, you're there
- 15:30Speaker 4: three and three, But this pattern of eight and eight
- 15:34Speaker 4: or eight nine or whatever that would be, it's not
- 15:36Speaker 4: probably gonna get you in the playoffs. So look at
- 15:38Speaker 4: the NFC. There's just too many good teams. There's too
- 15:40Speaker 4: many good teams in there. The whole NFC North looks
- 15:44Speaker 4: looks pretty good to me, where like somebody, I mean,
- 15:47Speaker 4: they're gonna beat each other up. I get that, but
- 15:49Speaker 4: you know that's that's some a couple of wildcard spots too.
- 15:53Speaker 4: You know, look at look at some of the other divisions.
- 15:55Speaker 4: So it's going to be a challenge. It's gonna be
- 15:57Speaker 4: a challenge even in the NFC East. It's going to
- 15:59Speaker 4: be a challenge to fear that if the Cowboys have
- 16:00Speaker 4: to get better, this is not the path to make
- 16:02Speaker 4: it to the playoffs. It's going to have to be
- 16:04Speaker 4: much better than this. All right, Uh, let's go to
- 16:08Speaker 4: rookie Mike in South Haven, Mississippi.
- 16:11Speaker 8: Hey, nigg how you doing this morning?
- 16:13Speaker 4: I'm good? How are you?
- 16:15Speaker 8: I'm good? Uh, Well, we're gonna start it this week. Uh,
- 16:18Speaker 8: Cowboys twenty four, forty nine ers twenty all right, so
- 16:21Speaker 8: we're going to turn it around this week. I had
- 16:23Speaker 8: a question about all the injuries going on in the NFL.
- 16:26Speaker 8: I've been watching the Cowboys since the early nineties, and
- 16:29Speaker 8: I don't remember this many injuries back then. Do you
- 16:32Speaker 8: think it's the way they train now, how they're with
- 16:35Speaker 8: the CAA brus or whatever. Do you think it's got
- 16:38Speaker 8: something to do that not that many pettive practices.
- 16:41Speaker 4: That I think. I think there could be a lot
- 16:45Speaker 4: of reasons for that. You're you're you're probably onto something
- 16:47Speaker 4: there by the way they practice and just it's hard
- 16:51Speaker 4: to play football. With you know, without playing football, I mean,
- 16:55Speaker 4: it's hard to get ready to play. And and yeah,
- 16:58Speaker 4: you see these injuries hap and earlier. Also these players
- 17:01Speaker 4: are just bigger and stronger and faster and they're just
- 17:04Speaker 4: moving and the collisions are so violent. You know, you
- 17:07Speaker 4: could make that that argument as well, but you're right.
- 17:10Speaker 4: This year seems like the injuries are are a lot higher.
- 17:13Speaker 4: And if you play fantasy football, which most people do,
- 17:16Speaker 4: you feel it there. You see it. You see guys
- 17:19Speaker 4: that you're drafted and you're taking and it don't even
- 17:21Speaker 4: play Christian McCaffrey. You know that that happens. But yeah, yeah,
- 17:26Speaker 4: so it you know, it is. It is what it is.
- 17:28Speaker 4: But like, I do feel like injuries are up, and
- 17:30Speaker 4: i'd be I'd just be speculating if I said here's why.
- 17:34Speaker 4: I I don't know that, but yeah, it does feel
- 17:36Speaker 4: like the significant players are out. Everyone's dealing with it.
- 17:40Speaker 4: Cowboys are dealing with it. I mean, everyone is dealing
- 17:42Speaker 4: with it.
- 17:44Speaker 8: Okay, Yeah, I just say, I'm not go I'm with
- 17:47Speaker 8: you on that.
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- 20:00Speaker 4: All right, welcome back here to the show on Cowboys Storyline.
- 20:03Speaker 4: I am Nick Eatman. We are answering more phone calls
- 20:06Speaker 4: here as we get ready for the Cowboys forty nine ers.
- 20:08Speaker 4: This week. A lot of injuries on both sides of
- 20:10Speaker 4: the ball. We've talked about it doesn't matter from the
- 20:13Speaker 4: Cowboys standpoint, who are they going to face. Some key
- 20:16Speaker 4: players from the forty nine ers likely out. We know
- 20:18Speaker 4: Brandon Ayuk out, Christian McCaffery seems like he will be out.
- 20:22Speaker 4: He hasn't played this year. Deebo Samuel up in the air.
- 20:26Speaker 4: There's talk there Trent Williams, their left tackle. He was
- 20:31Speaker 4: kicked out of the last game, possibly facing a suspension.
- 20:35Speaker 4: We'll see about that. That's unlikely to me. I've been
- 20:39Speaker 4: seeing reports on that this week, but again not buying
- 20:43Speaker 4: that one. You know, that would be a huge loss
- 20:47Speaker 4: to them because not only not only does he is
- 20:50Speaker 4: he a great left tackle, but I think he's kind
- 20:53Speaker 4: of the tone setter for them for what they do.
- 20:57Speaker 4: I'll never forget the playoff game to you years ago
- 21:00Speaker 4: when when uh maher was out there trying warming up.
- 21:04Speaker 4: He had just had that bad game in Tampa Bay
- 21:06Speaker 4: where he missed all those extra points, and they come
- 21:10Speaker 4: out he's out there warming up. It's just the kickers, okay,
- 21:12Speaker 4: there's just there's usually just six guys on the field, kicker, holder, snapper,
- 21:16Speaker 4: for both teams. That's pretty much the the you know,
- 21:19Speaker 4: how much how many guys are on the field at
- 21:21Speaker 4: that that point in the game, about an hour and
- 21:23Speaker 4: a half before the game, Well, Trent Williams is out
- 21:25Speaker 4: there with Deebo Samuel too out there and trying to talk,
- 21:29Speaker 4: you know, to the to the holder of the kicker,
- 21:31Speaker 4: getting in the way of the snapping. And I never
- 21:35Speaker 4: forget that. I just was. I just wish they would
- 21:37Speaker 4: have just snapped the ball, you know, just fire it
- 21:40Speaker 4: back there, you know, and that might have been a
- 21:41Speaker 4: huge fight. But they they tried to get in their
- 21:44Speaker 4: head and all that. That's Trent Williams, you know, doing
- 21:46Speaker 4: what he does. It's no you know, no mistake of
- 21:49Speaker 4: he's the tone setter. And that's what happens why I
- 21:51Speaker 4: got kicked out of the game. But uh, he's he's
- 21:53Speaker 4: a great tackle, great player and he kind of leads
- 21:56Speaker 4: their offense. So it would be a shamer he doesn't play,
- 21:59Speaker 4: but he will, all right, Chuck the in Bridge City,
- 22:02Speaker 4: Texas is next on the line. Chuck, what's up?
- 22:06Speaker 5: Hey? Nick?
- 22:07Speaker 7: Are you great?
- 22:09Speaker 4: What's up?
- 22:10Speaker 3: Man?
- 22:10Speaker 12: Forty nine ers week? You know you got to get
- 22:13Speaker 12: punk one of my favorite Games is the ninety two Championship.
- 22:16Speaker 12: I used to have the VHS of it, and I'd
- 22:18Speaker 12: watched that all the time. I love it and anyways, Yeah,
- 22:23Speaker 12: in order to bring this up, I really didn't watch
- 22:26Speaker 12: the forty nine ers Kansas City because I don't like
- 22:29Speaker 12: it a team. But I did watch the highlights and
- 22:33Speaker 12: I saw that Holmes kept keeping plays alive with scrambling
- 22:37Speaker 12: and they even called it a He's a drive extender.
- 22:41Speaker 4: Yeah, and.
- 22:43Speaker 12: With that, I feel like since his injury, it doesn't
- 22:47Speaker 12: really do that anymore. I feel like there's times where
- 22:49Speaker 12: there's you know, he could pick up the first down,
- 22:51Speaker 12: but instead he'll throw it incomplete or Yeah. I just
- 22:57Speaker 12: wish he would bring that back. And I don't know
- 22:59Speaker 12: what's holding from bringing that back, but I'd love to
- 23:01Speaker 12: see that come back.
- 23:02Speaker 4: And that's all I got next to you know, I agree, Chuck.
- 23:07Speaker 4: We we have a mailbag question on our website on
- 23:10Speaker 4: Tuesday morning, and it was the same thing you know.
- 23:12Speaker 4: It was. It was about are they missing something there?
- 23:15Speaker 4: And and they are in my opinion. There it's an
- 23:18Speaker 4: element and it's it's it's like the homes. Okay, he
- 23:21Speaker 4: doesn't go out there to run the ball, but he'll
- 23:24Speaker 4: take it. If it's there, he can do it, and
- 23:26Speaker 4: he extends it and sometimes if you're not going to
- 23:29Speaker 4: push him out of balance, he'll keep it going down
- 23:31Speaker 4: the sidelines. And I think that that's it's just an
- 23:35Speaker 4: element that that every offense needs. You know, if you're
- 23:38Speaker 4: going to do an r P O you you know,
- 23:42Speaker 4: or or also those zone reads, you've got to keep
- 23:45Speaker 4: it sometimes or your defensive end will never honor that
- 23:48Speaker 4: and they'll just pinch down and and and and provide,
- 23:52Speaker 4: you know, another defensive run stopper there, and then that
- 23:54Speaker 4: that only hurts your running game even more. You've got
- 23:57Speaker 4: to show the ability to run it at times. And
- 24:00Speaker 4: and yes, I think I think he needs to do that.
- 24:03Speaker 4: I found a stat and when Dak runs the ball
- 24:08Speaker 4: twenty five yards in a game, and that's not a lot,
- 24:11Speaker 4: that's just but twenty twenty five yards. It's happened twenty
- 24:15Speaker 4: times in his career, and they're fifteen and five when
- 24:19Speaker 4: that happens. And in the twenty seven games where he
- 24:23Speaker 4: has had a rushing touchdown, they're twenty two and five.
- 24:26Speaker 4: So you know, we're we're not talking about game changing plays,
- 24:32Speaker 4: but just a few runs here and there, especially scoring
- 24:35Speaker 4: just a threat down there. It leads to wins. And
- 24:38Speaker 4: so that's just an element I think needs needs to
- 24:41Speaker 4: get back for sure. And if it's holding him back
- 24:44Speaker 4: mentally and all that, you know, it's been four years.
- 24:46Speaker 4: I mean he's run some It's not like he doesn't
- 24:48Speaker 4: ever run, but but you know, it just it's it's
- 24:50Speaker 4: a part of the game that I think really needs
- 24:52Speaker 4: to happen. We saw that Chargers game was it last
- 24:55Speaker 4: year where he faked everyone out and ran it in
- 24:58Speaker 4: for a touchdown, kept it, ran it. He can do it.
- 25:00Speaker 4: He needs to do it a little more. I think
- 25:02Speaker 4: it opens up the offense a lot there. All right,
- 25:05Speaker 4: Bob in Rio Grand Valley is next.
- 25:08Speaker 2: Hey, Nick, how you doing. Oh, I'm doing fine.
- 25:12Speaker 1: Let's listen to you.
- 25:13Speaker 2: A great program as usual, very informative.
- 25:16Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
- 25:17Speaker 2: Enjoying it very much. Thank you all right, appreciate that.
- 25:21Speaker 2: You know. Uh, I'm I'm of the opinion that McCartney
- 25:27Speaker 2: is McCarthy is just too damn predictable in his play
- 25:31Speaker 2: calling it h And I'm also well, well, I am
- 25:39Speaker 2: in agreement with you and the fact that we need
- 25:41Speaker 2: to get Dall and Cook on the field. I mean,
- 25:43Speaker 2: what the ankab we got him for, right, and we
- 25:47Speaker 2: need to play Yeah, uh, did you notice did you
- 25:50Speaker 2: watch the game last night?
- 25:52Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 25:53Speaker 2: Yes, Well did you notice what happened in the first half?
- 25:57Speaker 2: The Raven's got away from the running game all of
- 26:00Speaker 2: a sudden, he didn't see King Henry and guess what happened?
- 26:03Speaker 2: They only scored ten points the second half. In the
- 26:07Speaker 2: second half they activated that dude, and guess what they
- 26:10Speaker 2: was just it was like night and day and it
- 26:15Speaker 2: opened up plays for Lamar as well. And I can't
- 26:25Speaker 2: understand why there was a similarity with in a play
- 26:31Speaker 2: calling between those guys and the Cowboys. They were very
- 26:37Speaker 2: predictable and running off left tackle and the thing like that.
- 26:40Speaker 2: There was a committee meeting waiting for him on occasions
- 26:43Speaker 2: and to shut them down. But pretty much they when
- 26:46Speaker 2: they got that running game going, they rolled up the
- 26:49Speaker 2: points and that made the difference in the game.
- 26:53Speaker 4: What do you think, Well, I mean, we're not comparing
- 26:57Speaker 4: what the Ravens are doing what the Cowboys are doing, right,
- 26:59Speaker 4: I mean they have different personnel. I mean they don't
- 27:02Speaker 4: have a Derrick Henry and that's been well documented. Jerry
- 27:05Speaker 4: even pointed that out in his radio interview, and they
- 27:07Speaker 4: don't have Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson extends plays. We just
- 27:10Speaker 4: talked about Dak running twenty five yards in a game.
- 27:14Speaker 4: I mean, Lamar Jackson probably had a twenty five yard
- 27:16Speaker 4: run last night, you know, And and he runs that way.
- 27:20Speaker 4: So he's one of the most electrifying runners in the
- 27:24Speaker 4: history of the game for the quarterback position. And so
- 27:29Speaker 4: it's just it's hard to say, look what they're doing,
- 27:32Speaker 4: Cowboys do that. I mean, they don't have that. They
- 27:35Speaker 4: don't have a running back that pushes the pile, leans
- 27:38Speaker 4: that way. I mean, Derrick Henry's just he's just a freak.
- 27:42Speaker 4: I mean, you can't be that big and strong and fast.
- 27:48Speaker 4: That's that's what makes him so unique in what he
- 27:51Speaker 4: what he does. And don't get down to that. I
- 27:53Speaker 4: think what you're saying is is that lean on the run.
- 27:55Speaker 4: Lean on the run. That's fine if you can do it.
- 27:58Speaker 4: I mean it always it always bothers me when people say,
- 28:03Speaker 4: well they got away from the run. Did they get
- 28:05Speaker 4: away from the run or did they just not run it? Well,
- 28:08Speaker 4: I mean first down run, Okay, so now it's second
- 28:12Speaker 4: nine because you got one yard, second down, run two yards.
- 28:16Speaker 4: So it's third and seven, you throw it incomplete. Okay,
- 28:19Speaker 4: so you try the next drive and you do that,
- 28:21Speaker 4: and now that's not working. So now let's let's try
- 28:23Speaker 4: to pass and move the ball. On one side. You say, well,
- 28:26Speaker 4: you're so predictable you're running on first down. But then
- 28:29Speaker 4: if you throw it, you're like, well you're not. You know,
- 28:31Speaker 4: you're getting away from the run. The goal is to
- 28:34Speaker 4: move the football. It doesn't matter getting away from the run.
- 28:38Speaker 4: Move the ball with the playmakers that you have. And
- 28:41Speaker 4: I don't think they have the playmakers on the running
- 28:44Speaker 4: game and the offensive line combination to move the ball.
- 28:47Speaker 4: That's why put someone else in. And you're not going
- 28:52Speaker 4: to change your offensive line. Really, I don't think. I
- 28:55Speaker 4: think they've got their best guys there. I don't know
- 28:57Speaker 4: if they have their best running back out there yet.
- 28:59Speaker 4: But I'm I'm for it, you know. And this is
- 29:02Speaker 4: like we said, Dalvin Cooks got anything left in the tank,
- 29:04Speaker 4: It's time to see it. I think Randy and Texastana's
- 29:07Speaker 4: next man.
- 29:09Speaker 13: They need to bring a dog out there to practice
- 29:11Speaker 13: and let them the dogs chase the running back and
- 29:14Speaker 13: that'll pick him out of run. Okay, what do you
- 29:17Speaker 13: think about that? Yeah, yeah, I just came off the
- 29:20Speaker 13: back end of what you were just talking about. So
- 29:23Speaker 13: what I was calling in for was I don't know
- 29:26Speaker 13: how many listeners you have coming out of California. I
- 29:29Speaker 13: know there's a few of them they called in, but
- 29:30Speaker 13: I hope we have a lot that's listening to the show.
- 29:33Speaker 13: I want them to take over that stadium out there,
- 29:36Speaker 13: like the lines fans did at our stadium last week
- 29:39Speaker 13: or the week before last. Our fans, I'm needing to
- 29:44Speaker 13: coaching jokers up a little bit. I don't know what's
- 29:46Speaker 13: going on, but there's you know, when we're on offense,
- 29:51Speaker 13: we're supposed to be quiet, and when we're on defense,
- 29:54Speaker 13: we're supposed to be loud. For whatever reason, this goes
- 29:57Speaker 13: back to take the stadium. For whatever reason, our fans
- 29:59Speaker 13: do opposite. We get loud when our offense is on
- 30:03Speaker 13: the field. I don't understand it, Like what is going
- 30:06Speaker 13: on with these people? Why are they not getting this?
- 30:08Speaker 13: But yeah, I need our stadium fans to really pull
- 30:12Speaker 13: it together, get their act together, because, believe it or not,
- 30:15Speaker 13: that has those players if they got if they got
- 30:18Speaker 13: the field, I mean, the stands on their side. It help.
- 30:23Speaker 13: It pumps them up.
- 30:25Speaker 4: Well, they're three and zero on the road and oh
- 30:27Speaker 4: and three at home, so I know that I'm saying
- 30:29Speaker 4: at home. I don't know.
- 30:31Speaker 13: Fans are just I don't know what's going on with them,
- 30:34Speaker 13: but they've always been like that.
- 30:35Speaker 5: It's crazy.
- 30:37Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
- 30:39Speaker 13: I sit next to Have you noticed that? I mean,
- 30:41Speaker 13: I can't be the only one that's noticed it.
- 30:43Speaker 4: No, you're not the only one. I sit next to
- 30:45Speaker 4: Derek Elton. He drives them crazy when that happens. I
- 30:48Speaker 4: just don't think it's that big a deal. And I
- 30:49Speaker 4: don't think it matters that much. I really don't. I don't.
- 30:52Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think it matters. Does it affect
- 30:54Speaker 4: the defense when you're pumping up your your your crowd
- 30:57Speaker 4: on third and seven? Does it affect your defense? They
- 30:58Speaker 4: have to communicate as well. I mean, so I don't know.
- 31:02Speaker 4: I don't think it matters that much. And again, I
- 31:05Speaker 4: don't think there was a lot. There wasn't like an
- 31:07Speaker 4: ab normally a large number of Lions fans at the game.
- 31:11Speaker 4: There wasn't Before the game. You look around, you can
- 31:14Speaker 4: tell like to see in our sex, so you can
- 31:16Speaker 4: kind of see the Lions fans. There wasn't like a ton,
- 31:19Speaker 4: it was. It was a good amount. It's probably twenty
- 31:21Speaker 4: percent by eighty twenty. But when it's forty seven to
- 31:24Speaker 4: nine and you hear twenty thousand people and you don't
- 31:27Speaker 4: hear anything else, yeah, that's loud. That sounds loud, you know. So,
- 31:31Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, I'm not putting this on the fans.
- 31:34Speaker 4: I noticed the fans show. I'm not gonna put this
- 31:36Speaker 4: on the fans. Fans are fine.
- 31:37Speaker 13: I know we're notting Yeah, but give them.
- 31:39Speaker 4: Something, give them something to be loud about and cheer about,
- 31:42Speaker 4: and then that's fine. I mean, so we haven't seen
- 31:44Speaker 4: I heard a lot of that going on. So, yeah,
- 31:48Speaker 4: you were there, Randy, you were there. I bet you
- 31:50Speaker 4: at the game you saw a lot. I mean, did
- 31:51Speaker 4: you think there was a ton of Lions fans?
- 31:53Speaker 5: I did.
- 31:53Speaker 13: I was about to disagree with you. Well, from where
- 31:56Speaker 13: all was sudden, dude, I saw nothing butt line everywhere.
- 32:00Speaker 4: Honestly, And I saw you before the game, and I
- 32:02Speaker 4: know where you were sitting, and that's where the post,
- 32:06Speaker 4: that's where the majority of the opposing fans sit in
- 32:09Speaker 4: that area right there. So you were in the section
- 32:12Speaker 4: where you're going to see a lot you look around
- 32:14Speaker 4: the stadium, though that's not typically the case that they
- 32:17Speaker 4: weren't all over the place, but yeah, where you were,
- 32:19Speaker 4: I sure it sounded that way. And then of course
- 32:21Speaker 4: that you know, they only had forty seven points to
- 32:23Speaker 4: cheer about, so yeah, you heard it.
- 32:25Speaker 13: All, hey, But I enjoyed myself. No, we went into
- 32:28Speaker 13: it with an open mind and we were there to
- 32:31Speaker 13: enjoy the experience. So that's what.
- 32:33Speaker 14: Well.
- 32:33Speaker 13: I loved my day, and I appreciate meeting y'all. And
- 32:36Speaker 13: I thought that was really cool, and the sign did too.
- 32:38Speaker 13: And we're going to keep this thing going. Man, got
- 32:41Speaker 13: to stay a fan, keep it rolling.
- 32:43Speaker 4: Ye go out, good day, all right, Nnie. All right,
- 32:45Speaker 4: let's go to Lester in Minnesota. Lester, what's up? Man?
- 32:49Speaker 5: Hey? Man?
- 32:50Speaker 13: How you doing last?
- 32:52Speaker 7: I called in yesterday and I'm the one that always
- 32:54Speaker 7: said we need a good offensive a defensive line. And
- 32:58Speaker 7: I think one of you guys yesterday something about the
- 33:01Speaker 7: twenty seventeen teams didn't have really a good defensive line.
- 33:06Speaker 7: What that was a different coaching staff, a different philosophy.
- 33:10Speaker 7: We didn't really need a good defensive line there. Because
- 33:14Speaker 7: I believe it was Garret whoever was the coach that
- 33:16Speaker 7: he used the offense as a weapon. He ran the
- 33:19Speaker 7: ball and ran the clock out. So therefore, sure this
- 33:23Speaker 7: regime don't do that, So you need this regime. In
- 33:26Speaker 7: my opinion, they used the offensive score, which was supposed
- 33:30Speaker 7: to use offensive score, but that's not what I mean.
- 33:31Speaker 7: They don't use it as a weapon. So but anyway,
- 33:37Speaker 7: I think that we could beat San Francisco this week.
- 33:40Speaker 7: I think the score would be twenty one to sixteen
- 33:45Speaker 7: if our defense shows up. I don't know who's going
- 33:48Speaker 7: to who's injured, and who's going to start if we
- 33:52Speaker 7: don't have Parsons and the rest of the guys, and
- 33:56Speaker 7: I don't know, it's gonna be a long day, man.
- 34:02Speaker 4: Okay, okay, all right, well thanks for the call. I
- 34:07Speaker 4: don't know he's a long day. There's gonna be Cowboys win.
- 34:10Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know. I don't know if it
- 34:12Speaker 4: could be both. It could be could be both. It's
- 34:15Speaker 4: gonna be one of those. It's gonna be a close game.
- 34:17Speaker 4: I think I think the Cowboys will will play well
- 34:20Speaker 4: coming off the buy of You know, Mike McCarthy's done
- 34:22Speaker 4: a good job in his career. You know here three
- 34:26Speaker 4: and one coming off the buy and and and and
- 34:29Speaker 4: done a good job, you know when he was with
- 34:30Speaker 4: the with the packers as well. So you know, you
- 34:33Speaker 4: take the things that aren't working, and there's a lot
- 34:35Speaker 4: of them. There's a big list, you know, and and
- 34:38Speaker 4: you've got to you've got to figure out how to
- 34:41Speaker 4: how to change it, how to fix it, how to
- 34:43Speaker 4: make some tweaks, how to not be so predictable. I mean,
- 34:45Speaker 4: we hear that a lot, hear that from other teams.
- 34:48Speaker 4: Defensive backs love to say that. Troy Aikman had a
- 34:51Speaker 4: lot of things to say about the way that they're
- 34:53Speaker 4: running routes and things like that. This is the time
- 34:55Speaker 4: where you can fix some of it. You don't have
- 34:57Speaker 4: a month. It's not another training camp. It's it's a
- 35:00Speaker 4: couple of extra days. And he gave most of the
- 35:01Speaker 4: guys that the time off. But some of those bumps
- 35:05Speaker 4: and bruises should be healed. Said, you should be rejuvenated.
- 35:07Speaker 4: I know Mike McCarthy look to be rejuvenated when he
- 35:10Speaker 4: had his press conference. So it should be a situation
- 35:13Speaker 4: where it should be a situation where the cowboys are,
- 35:18Speaker 4: you know, fresh and ready to go. And Lord knows
- 35:21Speaker 4: that they need to turn this thing around, and you
- 35:23Speaker 4: got the forty nine ers staring him in the face.
- 35:24Speaker 4: What perfect time to do that. Let's take another break
- 35:27Speaker 4: here on Cowboys storyline. We'll be back to answer a
- 35:29Speaker 4: few more calls.
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- 36:58Speaker 4: eat Man and we got a few more minus it's
- 37:00Speaker 4: to go. We're gonna go to San Antonio for our
- 37:02Speaker 4: next call, Travis and San Antonio is next.
- 37:05Speaker 14: Travis, Hey, happy to a to you. Chris and Nick.
- 37:07Speaker 14: How you guys doing good?
- 37:08Speaker 4: Good? What's up?
- 37:11Speaker 14: Just find a call. I've got bigger picture stuff, but
- 37:14Speaker 14: I'm going to keep it focused on this game coming up.
- 37:18Speaker 14: Just like one particular thing, I know, Mike McCarthy get
- 37:21Speaker 14: sent out that kind of that ten question like deal
- 37:25Speaker 14: to the guys during the bye week for them to
- 37:27Speaker 14: kind of assess and you look at themselves and whatnot.
- 37:29Speaker 14: And I will one of the guys I am looking
- 37:32Speaker 14: at right or wrong or you know, fair unfair as
- 37:34Speaker 14: far as criticism goes. I am looking specifically this week,
- 37:37Speaker 14: I'm gonna be watching digs because I mentioned it to
- 37:41Speaker 14: a couple other people, is like, I don't know who.
- 37:44Speaker 14: We got to see who on this defense is holding
- 37:46Speaker 14: guys accountable, And you know they're going to test that
- 37:49Speaker 14: side because he's had a couple of last game, he
- 37:52Speaker 14: had like three or four I counted like OLA's where
- 37:54Speaker 14: he was trying to come up in the wrong game
- 37:55Speaker 14: just kind of I just missed and whatever. And if
- 37:59Speaker 14: they're going to turn this thing around, I think that's
- 38:01Speaker 14: a big part of it, right, It's that self accountability,
- 38:03Speaker 14: and he's got to be able to force that back
- 38:05Speaker 14: inside let his linebackers make those plays. So that's one thing.
- 38:09Speaker 14: And then specifically on this game, Nick, I think everyone's
- 38:12Speaker 14: talking about the wins right as far as the win
- 38:14Speaker 14: lost record. I'm looking at it as far as like
- 38:17Speaker 14: we talked about the belief before, right, and I think
- 38:19Speaker 14: this team needs the belief. I think this is a
- 38:21Speaker 14: bigger game for their mentality. And I don't care that
- 38:24Speaker 14: the Niner because I know everyone's gonna say if we
- 38:26Speaker 14: beat them, all this guy was out, that guy was out.
- 38:29Speaker 14: But it's beating it's beating their boogeyman, right like it's
- 38:32Speaker 14: I think if they they'll get a mental boost in
- 38:34Speaker 14: my opinion, if they can just figure out I don't
- 38:36Speaker 14: care if it's ugly, even if they figure out a
- 38:38Speaker 14: way to beat this team, they can sort of put
- 38:40Speaker 14: that to bed, right, kind of move forward and use
- 38:43Speaker 14: it for a little bit of belief going forward. And
- 38:45Speaker 14: then the last thing I'm hoping to see. I think
- 38:48Speaker 14: we've been having the wrong approach in Cowboys Nation with
- 38:52Speaker 14: like saying Dak has to be perfect every game, and
- 38:56Speaker 14: where everyone's asking him every week, like, hey, just go
- 38:58Speaker 14: be superman, go go play take three whatever they if
- 39:02Speaker 14: we want to have any chance going forward. The way
- 39:05Speaker 14: I look at this, Nick Wiscui, is there's two issues,
- 39:07Speaker 14: right we could talk about. There's running the football and
- 39:09Speaker 14: stopping the run. Which one do I think is more
- 39:12Speaker 14: likely for us to fix, Probably running the football. So
- 39:15Speaker 14: I'm hoping this week we see more thirteen personnel, we
- 39:18Speaker 14: see more big gap, maybe extra offensive linemen. I want
- 39:21Speaker 14: to in boot camp, Nick, there were two things you
- 39:23Speaker 14: either strong or smart, And I hope we just stick
- 39:27Speaker 14: to the running game. Give them thirty carries, Mike McCarthy,
- 39:31Speaker 14: be patient with it, and it may not even hit
- 39:33Speaker 14: this game, Nick, but it may hit the next game.
- 39:35Speaker 14: It may hit the next game. And I think if
- 39:37Speaker 14: we give Dack that running game, it's the only way
- 39:39Speaker 14: to support him that we're actually going to be able
- 39:41Speaker 14: to make a run.
- 39:42Speaker 4: So I just want to see if you thought on that,
- 39:43Speaker 4: all right, I mean, I like, I like what you're saying.
- 39:46Speaker 4: It's just I do think it's easier said than done
- 39:51Speaker 4: when you just stick with it. Stick with it. I mean,
- 39:54Speaker 4: think about what you're asking. Think about you sitting there,
- 39:56Speaker 4: you're watching the game, you get your jersey on, you're excited,
- 39:59Speaker 4: let's go, you know, and all of a sudden, it's
- 40:01Speaker 4: a one yard run. It's a minus one yard run.
- 40:04Speaker 4: And then on third and eleven it's a draw for six,
- 40:07Speaker 4: and you punt. Stick with the running game. Okay, Well
- 40:10Speaker 4: they went down and scored a touchdown. So now you're
- 40:12Speaker 4: down seven to another. Now now you got the ball and
- 40:14Speaker 4: you throw a quick past here, and then you tried
- 40:16Speaker 4: to run. Then you ran again. Now you're punting. You're
- 40:18Speaker 4: sticking with the running game. You're sticking with the game.
- 40:20Speaker 4: Now you're down ten to nothing and it's that kind
- 40:22Speaker 4: of stuff and it's not working as much. So you
- 40:26Speaker 4: only teams only stick with something when it's working. And
- 40:31Speaker 4: so it's all about fix the running game. Fix the
- 40:34Speaker 4: running game. Nothing pisses me off more than watching, Like
- 40:37Speaker 4: if my college team like runs the ball for twelve seventeen,
- 40:41Speaker 4: eight twenty one, it's fourteen, and now now they're down
- 40:46Speaker 4: in the red zone and they pass past sack and
- 40:48Speaker 4: they have to kick a field goal. Like that's the
- 40:50Speaker 4: part that's frustrating. But when you're not running it well
- 40:53Speaker 4: and then you say stick with it, I mean nobody
- 40:56Speaker 4: does that, you know what I mean? And so it
- 40:59Speaker 4: it's you're not wrong, it's just it's gotta be fixed. Okay,
- 41:03Speaker 4: fix the running game. Fix it. Put more emphasis on it.
- 41:06Speaker 4: Like you said, I like what you're saying, Jumbo packages
- 41:08Speaker 4: things like that, try help the running game, and then
- 41:11Speaker 4: that will open up more. But you can't just say
- 41:14Speaker 4: block better, run harder. I mean, it's got to get fixed.
- 41:18Speaker 4: And this is the week to do that. All right,
- 41:21Speaker 4: let's keep going here. We got Mark in northern California. Mark,
- 41:24Speaker 4: what's up?
- 41:25Speaker 1: Hey, what's up next?
- 41:26Speaker 2: First?
- 41:26Speaker 1: Time color.
- 41:29Speaker 4: All right, good to hear from you. You're going to
- 41:32Speaker 4: the game.
- 41:33Speaker 11: Uh no, man, no, unfortunately, unfortunately my uh I know
- 41:37Speaker 11: it's off off topic, but my daughters passed recently on
- 41:39Speaker 11: May first of this year.
- 41:40Speaker 4: So I'm so sorry. Man. I can't imagine.
- 41:44Speaker 11: It's been a world win.
- 41:45Speaker 5: Man.
- 41:45Speaker 11: So I'm a lifelong Cowboys fan, but I have I've missed.
- 41:49Speaker 11: I finally watched three games this year because everything's going
- 41:52Speaker 11: on so anyhow, but yeah, I know I got a
- 41:54Speaker 11: lot of buddies, A couple of them are going. But anyhow, now,
- 41:57Speaker 11: I just I really want to get this win.
- 41:59Speaker 5: Man.
- 41:59Speaker 11: It's been a while, a couple of years, what two
- 42:01Speaker 11: three years since we beat San Francisco.
- 42:02Speaker 8: So a little longer hopefully, yea a little longer than that.
- 42:06Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, but no, hopefully we get this. And I
- 42:08Speaker 11: think if we get can get an early lead, an
- 42:11Speaker 11: early lead on these guys, uh, you know what I mean,
- 42:14Speaker 11: get up, even even if we're just stup a touchdown
- 42:16Speaker 11: or something, you know what I mean to kind of uh,
- 42:18Speaker 11: you know, give the uh you know, get up on them,
- 42:21Speaker 11: and uh maybe maybe the outcome will be different, you
- 42:23Speaker 11: know what I mean. Instead of playing from thirty points down.
- 42:26Speaker 11: You know what I mean, kind hard that you got
- 42:28Speaker 11: to throw it pretty much at that point you do
- 42:29Speaker 11: got to throw the throw the running game out the
- 42:31Speaker 11: window and you're playing back from playing from behind. But anyhow,
- 42:35Speaker 11: that's about it, man, thanks for taking my call. And
- 42:37Speaker 11: then one other thing, what's the what's the deal on? Like,
- 42:41Speaker 11: uh Carson Kid and Carson and bland.
- 42:44Speaker 2: On those guys.
- 42:45Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, all right, Mark, thanks thanks for the call. Uh,
- 42:49Speaker 4: stay stay strong. I mean, that's all I can say
- 42:52Speaker 4: to that. Just wow, I can't even again came and
- 42:56Speaker 4: imagine that, But I appreciate you calling in the show
- 42:58Speaker 4: and and and hanging in there with with the cowboys
- 43:01Speaker 4: and and we'll see if they can turn this this
- 43:03Speaker 4: thing around. They just to answer your question, they beat
- 43:08Speaker 4: the forty nine twenty twenty that that year McCarthy's first
- 43:11Speaker 4: year COVID year. Uh, they did beat them at the
- 43:14Speaker 4: end of the season, the forty nine ers. I forgot
- 43:16Speaker 4: Mullins maybe was their quarterback that day. So but but yeah,
- 43:19Speaker 4: this hasn't been like forever ago. It wasn't like, you know,
- 43:23Speaker 4: Steve Young wasn't playing. It wasn't like back then. But
- 43:25Speaker 4: they've you know it's been four years, but but what
- 43:28Speaker 4: we remember is those three losses of course the last
- 43:30Speaker 4: few years, uh, two of them in the playoffs. To
- 43:32Speaker 4: answer your question about injuries, Uh Kayln Carson, he's he's
- 43:37Speaker 4: been out a little bit with his shoulder injury. I
- 43:40Speaker 4: think he I think he'd be ready to be for
- 43:41Speaker 4: this game. I think he's he should be back ready
- 43:44Speaker 4: game time decision on deron Bland. That's what Jerry Jones
- 43:49Speaker 4: said Tuesday. Same with Michael Parson Parsons. So well, we'll
- 43:52Speaker 4: see if if those two guys, uh, how they practiced
- 43:55Speaker 4: this week, and we'll probably have a better indication before
- 43:58Speaker 4: that that happens. I would I would think Land has
- 44:00Speaker 4: a better shot to play than Parsons, But again it's
- 44:03Speaker 4: early in the week. Still got a few more days
- 44:06Speaker 4: to practice and rehab and get ready and we'll see
- 44:09Speaker 4: if they can get them out there. All right, let's
- 44:10Speaker 4: go to Gavin in Oklahoma City. How are you?
- 44:15Speaker 16: I'm good? Yesterday I brought you two different things that
- 44:18Speaker 16: I thought we could change on both sides of the
- 44:21Speaker 16: ball coming out of the bye week and have the
- 44:23Speaker 16: same thing for you today, but just two different things.
- 44:27Speaker 16: I wanted to talk about utilization, specifically Michael Parsons and
- 44:31Speaker 16: CD Lamb. I wanted to know your thoughts about coming
- 44:33Speaker 16: out of the bye week and maybe getting the CD
- 44:35Speaker 16: Limb in the slot more instead of just keeping them outside,
- 44:38Speaker 16: and that could really go for all the receivers. I
- 44:41Speaker 16: just feel like some of our receivers haven't been interchanging
- 44:44Speaker 16: as far as going into the slot going outside, and
- 44:46Speaker 16: we have guys that can do both, and it just
- 44:48Speaker 16: says like we did some of those things last year
- 44:51Speaker 16: and we're not taking advantage of that so far this
- 44:53Speaker 16: year for whatever reason, and then winning if Michael Parsons
- 44:57Speaker 16: come back, I wanted to know your thoughts on may
- 45:00Speaker 16: be utilizing him more in a way such as TJ Watt,
- 45:03Speaker 16: because I feel like in Zimmer's defense so far, we're
- 45:06Speaker 16: using him more as a Bosa brother or a Miles
- 45:10Speaker 16: Gear to say, but he doesn't really have the size
- 45:13Speaker 16: of those players. If we could, like you said yesterday,
- 45:16Speaker 16: run more of a three four throw in some three
- 45:18Speaker 16: four looks and get him on the outside running around
- 45:21Speaker 16: after running back as well as you know, getting after
- 45:24Speaker 16: the passer on the outside more unpredictably, maybe like a
- 45:27Speaker 16: Mike Tomlin type of defense. Which they also run four
- 45:30Speaker 16: three a lot, so I'm not saying you can't run
- 45:33Speaker 16: four three. Maybe just make some of that in. But anyway,
- 45:36Speaker 16: that's all I got for you, and thanks for taking
- 45:37Speaker 16: my phae.
- 45:38Speaker 4: I appreciate the call, Gavin. You know, it's again, it's
- 45:42Speaker 4: a bye week. It's time you can make some tweaks.
- 45:47Speaker 4: That's that's gonna gonna be a challenge to see how
- 45:50Speaker 4: much you can tweak and how many things you can
- 45:53Speaker 4: do and implement throughout the week. I remember they had
- 45:58Speaker 4: ten years ago, eleven years ago. Rob Ryan was their
- 46:01Speaker 4: defensive coordinator that year, twenty thirteen, maybe twenty twelve. I
- 46:04Speaker 4: can't remember one of those two years, but you know,
- 46:06Speaker 4: and every week it was a different thing. It was
- 46:09Speaker 4: all kinds of you know, this week they had a
- 46:12Speaker 4: lot of different stuff happened, and sometimes he would really
- 46:14Speaker 4: hit and it would just surprise the offense and it
- 46:17Speaker 4: would work a lot of times. Though that year there
- 46:20Speaker 4: was thirteen guys on the field. Twelve guys on the field.
- 46:23Speaker 4: Here are confusion here, a lot of busts. So when
- 46:26Speaker 4: you make a lot of changes like that, it sounds great,
- 46:30Speaker 4: but move mikeh here and here, but you're moving a
- 46:32Speaker 4: lot of other guys around different spots too, And when
- 46:35Speaker 4: you do that, it proposes a challenge for your defense.
- 46:41Speaker 4: And so I think that's what training camp OTA is.
- 46:44Speaker 4: Those things, those installations are for. I think it's limited.
- 46:48Speaker 4: I don't know how many things you can change in
- 46:50Speaker 4: the middle of the season. But as far as big
- 46:53Speaker 4: picture goes, if they're committed to Micah Parsons, which I
- 46:56Speaker 4: really believe that they will be, I think Jerry Jones
- 46:58Speaker 4: will be committed to it to re signing him, they've
- 47:01Speaker 4: got to figure out a way to build a defense
- 47:03Speaker 4: around him. If he's a three to four outside linebacker, fine,
- 47:06Speaker 4: get the pieces to do that. He's a special, dynamic player,
- 47:09Speaker 4: and if you're gonna pay him, then you make sure
- 47:11Speaker 4: and put him in the spot where he's going to
- 47:13Speaker 4: be best effective. All right, that's gonna be our last
- 47:16Speaker 4: call for the day. I appreciate you guys. A great
- 47:19Speaker 4: show as always, getting us ready. A lot of talk
- 47:22Speaker 4: about the forty nine ers, a lot of talk about
- 47:24Speaker 4: the history. You know, Danny White talked this week that's
- 47:27Speaker 4: great love talking about that trivia, all all that good stuff.
- 47:31Speaker 4: Focuses this week trying to get this cowboy team to
- 47:34Speaker 4: turn things around. We will be back tomorrow. It'll be
- 47:38Speaker 4: ten am and eight eight A eight FI five two
- 47:41Speaker 4: two nine seven the number to call. Make sure and
- 47:43Speaker 4: get those phone lines ready for us tomorrow. We'll get
- 47:45Speaker 4: it going. Chris for Chris Beam. I'm Nick Eatman. We
- 47:48Speaker 4: will see tomorrow on Cowboys storyline.
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