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  Speaker 1: The following He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot
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  Speaker 1: Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: This He's Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I am Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 4: It is Monday, October the fourteenth. Wow, it's it. Wow,
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  Speaker 4: What what a week What a weekend that was for
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  Speaker 4: the Cowboys, And yesterday's game against the Lions not what
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  Speaker 4: anyone really expected. And if you say you did, that's fine.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just talking about the ones that called in the show.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think anyone was expecting that a loss, Yes,
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  Speaker 4: that that was. That was one that I thought would
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  Speaker 4: happen or could happen, for sure, but certainly not in
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  Speaker 4: that fashion. And we haven't seen a game like that
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  Speaker 4: hardly ever in in Cowboys history, especially one at home
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  Speaker 4: like that. Just just too much, too much Lions, not
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  Speaker 4: enough Cowboys defense, of course, and we knew the defense
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  Speaker 4: was gonna be in trouble, but but you thought they'd
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  Speaker 4: have some help, you know, on offense, and they certainly
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  Speaker 4: did not. Three field goals is probably not going to
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  Speaker 4: beat your best high school team, certainly not a really
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  Speaker 4: good Lions squad as well, So let's talk about it
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  Speaker 4: As always, I think it's it's good to point out,
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  Speaker 4: let's be let's be or respectful the best we can
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  Speaker 4: be in a show like this, and then let's also
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  Speaker 4: try to move on and try to get as many
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  Speaker 4: people to call as possible. Have a feeling, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people have things to say. All right, let's get started.
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  Speaker 4: Ronnie in New Jersey, Ronnie.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, make good morning, morning.
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  Speaker 4: What's up?
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  Speaker 5: Not much?
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  Speaker 6: Not after that? Nick?
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  Speaker 5: How do you do it? I mean, I know, I
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  Speaker 5: know you're a Cowboys fan. We're Cowboys fans and grew
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  Speaker 5: up Cowboys fans. But damn, when you watch something like that, it's, uh,
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  Speaker 5: it kind of hurts a little, you know.
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  Speaker 4: H yeah, it hurts. It hurts for a few days
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  Speaker 4: and then and then usually you have a game the
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  Speaker 4: next week, so you just like you just move on
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  Speaker 4: to the next game, you know, and that that doesn't
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  Speaker 4: happen this week, but because because of the bye, which
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  Speaker 4: is needed. But after a loss like that, typically you
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  Speaker 4: just kind of, you know, because everyone says.
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  Speaker 7: Or yeah and try to fix it.
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  Speaker 5: But I see the number one thing that I think
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  Speaker 5: this team needs it hasn't had for years, Nick, It
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  Speaker 5: hasn't had it for a long time since since the
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  Speaker 5: Bill Parcells days. And I know everybody's tough, but it
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  Speaker 5: lacks it lacks that toughness. Even when.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't like Jason Garrett, even when Jason Garrett was there,
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  Speaker 1: at least they had some toughness. You know, they ran
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  Speaker 1: the ball, they sort of stopped the run every once
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  Speaker 1: in a while.
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  Speaker 5: They were pretty good. But this team, the offensive line,
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  Speaker 5: the defensive line, it's like it's just not there. Does
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  Speaker 5: they come from the coaches? I mean, I know we're
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  Speaker 5: drafting the players that are tough in college, but once
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  Speaker 5: they get into our program, it seems to kind of
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  Speaker 5: like disappear. So is that on coaching? Is that on
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  Speaker 5: ownership of what's going on? What's your point of view?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, Ronnie, thank you for the call. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: when you can't stop the run and you and you
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  Speaker 4: don't run the ball, it does it does lead to
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  Speaker 4: people saying that, I mean, like what else would it
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  Speaker 4: would it be? It isn't it's a toughness, it's a
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  Speaker 4: it's a mindset. And so I can't argue with you
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  Speaker 4: on on that. You know, for whatever the reason. You
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  Speaker 4: can't just tell me it's scheme on both sides. I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think so. I do think it's a mindset
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  Speaker 4: to run the football and to stop the run. That
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  Speaker 4: that's how you win games, that's how you lose games. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You see that all these teams that are that are
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  Speaker 4: beating the Cowboys, especially the ones here at home back
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  Speaker 4: even dating back to the playoff loss last year. It's
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  Speaker 4: the ability to come in here and play smash mouth football,
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  Speaker 4: run the ball, and which leads to everything else. So
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  Speaker 4: to answer your question on who who it comes to,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's everybody. When you're talking about the culture,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's the it's the players as well. So
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  Speaker 4: don't just don't just put that on the coaches. It's
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  Speaker 4: the players as well. And too many times this year
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  Speaker 4: I've heard it from Dak Prescott and others about how
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  Speaker 4: they how they practice, how they prepare, And I've said
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  Speaker 4: it so many times, you know, in the last ten
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  Speaker 4: to fifteen years, just how important it is in the
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  Speaker 4: middle of the week, and it just seems like the
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys are are struggling in midweek to be on the
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  Speaker 4: same page to practice the right way to prepare hair
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  Speaker 4: and other teams are just way more prepared, and so
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  Speaker 4: that that does fall on your coaches, but it also
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  Speaker 4: falls on the players as well. So yes, I think
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  Speaker 4: it's a it's a toughness issue, but I think it
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  Speaker 4: kind of stems from bigger things as well. All right,
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  Speaker 4: let's go to Robbie Coco Beach, Florida.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Nick, how are you today?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Well, you know, yeah, yeah, I hear you.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, the same place, man, But just we knew we
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  Speaker 8: were we knew we'd probably lose. I mean the chance
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  Speaker 8: we're not as many starters as we have, as many
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  Speaker 8: injuries as we've got, but I would have hoped it
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  Speaker 8: would have been a little more. Yeah, yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 8: other than that, man, we got a goodbye. It's a
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  Speaker 8: good time. We'll get some guys back healthy, coming into
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  Speaker 8: the after to buy. Hopefully we'll get back to playing
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  Speaker 8: good football.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I mean right, yeah, And and thanks you
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  Speaker 4: don't think you got anything else, Robbie or are you good?
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  Speaker 8: No, that's it, my brother. You have a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: Appreciate it. Thank you say that again.
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  Speaker 8: I hope people aren't rude to you today, seen as
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  Speaker 8: at Cowboys.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fine. Got a little bit of that on
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  Speaker 4: Twitter last night. But then again, you know, not anyone
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  Speaker 4: that actually puts their real name on anything. So uh,
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  Speaker 4: that's that's happens. Everyone's tough on Twitter. But I appreciate
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  Speaker 4: you guys calling in and and and you know, trying
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  Speaker 4: to be as respectful as possible. But it hurts, man,
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  Speaker 4: when you're a cowboy fan like this. I mean, it
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  Speaker 4: hurts games like this, you know. I mean, this isn't
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  Speaker 4: disrespectful to the Lions, but beat by the Lions like that,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's not that. I mean, that's that's pretty bad.
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  Speaker 4: I Mean I got asked on a radio show today
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  Speaker 4: about about, you know, were the Lions rubbing it in
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  Speaker 4: and disrespectful and all that? Maybe, but it's the Lions.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, how many games have they ever had like that?
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  Speaker 4: And you know, and in their franchise, I mean probably
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  Speaker 4: two or three like that a year. So stop them,
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  Speaker 4: you know, stop them, stop them from doing all that.
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  Speaker 4: Score some points, score touchdown every now and again, and
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  Speaker 4: and and make that game a little bit closer. So uh, anyways,
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  Speaker 4: thanks for the call. Robbie thinks, yes, that's all they
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  Speaker 4: can do is kind of get ready. Well, it's not
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  Speaker 4: all they can do. There's things that they can do,
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  Speaker 4: and I know that there's a lot of talk about
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  Speaker 4: making some changes. They've got to make some changes, you
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  Speaker 4: know what that is. We'll see They've they've got time
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  Speaker 4: to do it. I'm sure Jerry Jones's UH radio interview
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  Speaker 4: on the one O five to three the Fan tomorrow
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  Speaker 4: morning will probably be UH listened to as much as
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  Speaker 4: as any in the last few years, for sure. All right,
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  Speaker 4: lines are open eight eight eight eight five five two
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  Speaker 4: two nine seven is the number to call. We have
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  Speaker 4: We do have another caller on the line. We go,
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to that Bob in Rio Grand Valley, Bob Nick, Hey,
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  Speaker 4: how you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Oh like you and everybody else in the Cowboy Nation
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  Speaker 6: in the state of shock totals rebocle. But I didn't
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  Speaker 6: see it coming. I don't think any of us saw
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  Speaker 6: it coming. But I'll tell you what this this bye
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  Speaker 6: week time is. It couldn't come at a better time
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  Speaker 6: because we definitely got to get it together and regroup.
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  Speaker 6: Here's the sunny days. Thanks for taking my call.
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  Speaker 4: I'm crying right with you, all right, Well not crying,
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  Speaker 4: but I get your your reference there you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's they're three and three, you know, And that's that's
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  Speaker 4: the thing, like you have to you have to factor
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  Speaker 4: that in that that you know, you could lose an
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  Speaker 4: overtime heartbreaker and you might feel better about how the
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  Speaker 4: situation was. You'd still be three and three, of course,
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  Speaker 4: and so but but the thing that's the most concerning,
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  Speaker 4: I would think is that you know, you heard it
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  Speaker 4: after Week two against the Saints, Like you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 4: this happens, right you know, it just happens in the NFL. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: but it usually doesn't happen twice. If you're a decent team,
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  Speaker 4: even a good team or a decent team, it happens
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  Speaker 4: on a regular basis. If you just can't, if you're
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  Speaker 4: just not good enough to compete, that's kind of what
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  Speaker 4: what could happen right now that I mean, that's that's
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  Speaker 4: something that's on the table. You know, just just where
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  Speaker 4: this team is. I mean, they they haven't beaten a
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  Speaker 4: good quarterback. I think the Steelers are a pretty good team.
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  Speaker 4: Their record says they are, but I don't think they
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  Speaker 4: have a good quarterback. So you know, you beat Deshaun Watson,
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  Speaker 4: Daniel Jones and and Justin Fields, So you haven't. You
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  Speaker 4: haven't beaten a quarterback. That's that's you know, that's won
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  Speaker 4: a lot of games in this league. It's been accurate
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  Speaker 4: that knows how to go and move an engineer and offense.
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  Speaker 4: You haven't been able to do that. When you face
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  Speaker 4: a team with a good quarterback, it hasn't gone well
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  Speaker 4: at all this year. So that's that's problematic because you know,
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  Speaker 4: Rock Purty is pretty pretty good, Kirk Cousins is good.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Jalen Hurts good. You know, you've got good quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know about great, great quarterbacks on the schedule,
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  Speaker 4: but I mean when you look at See Stroud and
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  Speaker 4: what jayde Daniels is doing, and Joe Burrow and Baker Mayfield,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you got good quarterbacks on the schedule. You
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  Speaker 4: just lost to Jared Goff. He made him look phenomenal,
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  Speaker 4: you know, So that's that's kind of problematic for sure.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Clause in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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  Speaker 9: Morning. How are you good? You know, I've been a
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  Speaker 9: die hot fan since I came to this country, you know,
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  Speaker 9: and then I moved with the military into Albaza, Texas,
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  Speaker 9: went to a lot of Dallas Cowboy games and been
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  Speaker 9: a tie Hout fan forever, you know, but I really
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  Speaker 9: questioning Alf for the performance, Like from our quarterback miss
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  Speaker 9: to then press cut. You know how we could justify
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  Speaker 9: to made him the highest paid player in NFL history.
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  Speaker 9: You know, as a he couldn't even do a single
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  Speaker 9: decent drow. Yeah, and you know, I think for a
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  Speaker 9: man that gets this kind of up for money, you
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  Speaker 9: could expect a little bit more. Yeah. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 9: know not a lot of people probably liking it, but
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  Speaker 9: I think he is to work overpaid quarterback in NFL history. Sadly.
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  Speaker 4: All right, thank you, thanks for the for the call.
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  Speaker 4: He did not play well in the game yesterday for sure.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, when you when you get that kind of
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  Speaker 4: money and you're gonna you're gonna get well. First of all,
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  Speaker 4: when you're the quarterback of the Cowboys, regardless what you're making,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna get that kind of pressure on you and
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  Speaker 4: the target on your back. But if you get that
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  Speaker 4: kind of money on top of it as the quarterback
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  Speaker 4: of the Cowboys, you you yes, it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: Especially the way it went down. I mean it was
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  Speaker 4: he was like, I'm not I don't need to sign
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  Speaker 4: a deal this year. I will go to free agency.
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  Speaker 4: This is gonna be my number. If you want to
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  Speaker 4: hit it and make it, you know, get this thing done,
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  Speaker 4: then it has to start with the six. It has
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  Speaker 4: to be sixty million a year. That's what I'm gonna do.
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  Speaker 4: If not, I'll go to free agency and probably make
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  Speaker 4: a lot more than that. So and and that is
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  Speaker 4: that is true. It's not like Jerry's the only you know,
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  Speaker 4: owner that would have done that. He just had first
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  Speaker 4: DIBs because he's he's under contract. So that's that's that's
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  Speaker 4: what the asking price is and what what it would
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  Speaker 4: have been and all that kind of stuff. So but
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  Speaker 4: when that happens, and it happens right before the season,
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  Speaker 4: every throw, every pass, every game, every play is going
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  Speaker 4: to be used right alongside that that that price tag.
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  Speaker 4: And and and that's the way it is. So and
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  Speaker 4: he's not looking like that guy right now. He hasn't
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  Speaker 4: played that way this year, hasn't he need? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: when you sign a quarterback and a receiver, you're what
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  Speaker 4: you're saying is is, hey, these these are the two
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  Speaker 4: guys for this year for years to come. And and
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  Speaker 4: knowing that it's going to be hard to build the
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  Speaker 4: team around it. They're good enough to carry the team.
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  Speaker 4: And when you have a game like they did yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: where the defense is absolutely gutted with injuries, you've got
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  Speaker 4: to be able to know your quarterback has got to
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  Speaker 4: be able to lead the offense in a better way
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  Speaker 4: than that. And so, and I get it, where the
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  Speaker 4: defense is, you know, doesn't help. And so now you're
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  Speaker 4: you have to be a little one dimensional and all
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  Speaker 4: that that stuff. I understand that, but but there were
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  Speaker 4: chances the game doesn't get out of hand completely until
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  Speaker 4: like the second half ever, So I mean it's you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you're down seventeen points, twenty points, still can do you
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  Speaker 4: can still function, you can still score. Scoring touchdown would
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  Speaker 4: have been fine. You could do all that stuff, and
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  Speaker 4: the Cowboys just never could, never could get it together.
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  Speaker 4: Three field goals. That's just that's not unacceptable. So, yes,
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  Speaker 4: I understand that the price tag comes with every everything
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  Speaker 4: he does. That's part of it. He's not he's not
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  Speaker 4: playing that to that caliber at all. Right now, All right,
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  Speaker 4: Rob in Vegas, Hey.
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  Speaker 5: Nick.
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 10: So one thing about losses like this is it doesn't
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  Speaker 10: affect me like if they lose like twenty eight, twenty seven,
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  Speaker 10: because they were never in the game. I mean maybe
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  Speaker 10: the first fall five minutes and that's it. We've never
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  Speaker 10: seen this. The worst loss I've ever seen before this
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  Speaker 10: one was in nineteen eighty five when the Bears beat him,
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  Speaker 10: but they weren't a good team. Then they're just flat
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  Speaker 10: out getting embarrassed by these teams. I mean the Lions. Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: the Lions embarrassed them. I mean they were they were joking.
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  Speaker 10: I mean they were. And if you look at the teams,
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  Speaker 10: the teams that just blue a source the field, they're
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  Speaker 10: bully teams, they're tough teams, and we're not. We're we're
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  Speaker 10: a white collar team. I always say that we're not
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  Speaker 10: a blue collar team. And you can't you can't fix that,
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  Speaker 10: especially what eleven games left. That's a culture change. Dak
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  Speaker 10: Dak is just he's regressed because he he doesn't use
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  Speaker 10: his legs anymore. We've always said that that's a good quarterback.
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  Speaker 10: Now when you throw his running ability in, that makes
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  Speaker 10: a very good quarterback. But he doesn't run anymore. Uh,
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  Speaker 10: And they don't call any r p O s and
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  Speaker 10: as they do, he doesn't keep Yeah, no, Fergut, Ferguson
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  Speaker 10: isn't playing as good. Lamb isn't playing as good. Trayvon
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  Speaker 10: Diggs made a couple of business decisions yesterday. Uh, when
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  Speaker 10: you when your high priced players are supposed to carry
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  Speaker 10: the team are not doing it, this is what's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 10: And that's why I always say you got to go
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  Speaker 10: for it because as fans and we we we figure, oh,
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  Speaker 10: you know, well, last year with this good, we should
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  Speaker 10: be better next year. It doesn't work that way. You know,
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  Speaker 10: you you can't guarantee you know this guy's good one
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  Speaker 10: yet you just assuming he'll be better like a Ferguson
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  Speaker 10: were assuming he's going to be better. No, right now,
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  Speaker 10: he's not. He hasn't been better than Schultz. It's just
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  Speaker 10: I don't know you Mike McCarthy. You know people talk
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  Speaker 10: about they're not going to fire him. We won't do
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  Speaker 10: that because I've never seen this team get embarrassed like this.
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  Speaker 10: Three games, home games, national television game, and if he
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  Speaker 10: has a bit fire, then I confirmed. I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: You can't.
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  Speaker 10: I don't think you can fix.
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  Speaker 11: This this year.
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  Speaker 10: Jerry Jerry kind of said it was a soft rebuild,
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  Speaker 10: and this is what we see. Unfortunately, I think we're
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  Speaker 10: gonna see this again next week when we play Sam Ram.
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  Speaker 10: You know, the this is this is now, it's just
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  Speaker 10: gonna be. We're just gonna to write it up.
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  Speaker 4: All right, all right, Rob, Well, I agree with a
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  Speaker 4: lot of things you said there. I don't I don't
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  Speaker 4: agree that's not what they're going to see next week,
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  Speaker 4: though I can. I'll promise you that one they're not.
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  Speaker 4: You won't see that. You won't. You won't see that
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  Speaker 4: kind of game that next week. And I get what
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  Speaker 4: the forty nine ers did to them the last game.
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  Speaker 4: It kind of was very similar forty two to ten. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: And so that's what it looks like they that won't
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  Speaker 4: happen in this game. I just there's no way coming
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  Speaker 4: off of bye week that that that will be the
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  Speaker 4: case with the with with the guys that I would
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  Speaker 4: expect to come back. But then again, who knows. Like
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  Speaker 4: again the Kendricks thing, I don't really know the situation
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  Speaker 4: there with the shoulder, I mean, shoulder calf is what
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  Speaker 4: it said on the injury report. You know, if it
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  Speaker 4: both of those could could be bad depending on what
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: it is. I mean, it could be a lot longer
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: than that than just a couple of weeks, so hopefully
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: that for him it's not darn Bland. I think he
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: got some soreness uh there that that he you know,
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: they just decided to hold him back. He wasn't as
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: ready as they thought he would be. We'll see about
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Michael Parsons. That's that's huge test where it should start.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Michael Parsons changes a lot of that, what they're doing
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: on defense and the pressure that they can provide. So,
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: you know, I think the forty nine ers are getting healthy,
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: they're looking better as well. But I'll be real surprised
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: if the Cowboys have of a bye week and then
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: come back from that and and and and play like that.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: If that's the case, then then there will be changes
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: across the board. I would think in the middle of
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: the year if that happens, because now you're starting to
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: see a pattern, you know, and it's hard to say
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: that right now with the injury situation that they have,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: but you start getting a little bit healthier and still
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: that same type of thing happens, then that's that's one
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: where I do think you'll see some changes there, but
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: who knows, it's still we still got a couple of weeks,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: so that let's try to We'll see if they can
• 18:24
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  Speaker 4: go back to the phone lines. Zach in Atlanta. What's up, Zach?
• 20:30
  Speaker 14: Here we go? Huh yeah, I said, here we go.
• 20:38
  Speaker 14: I don't think we can flush this one. Man, I
• 20:40
  Speaker 14: think the plumbing is all shot. Yeah, I mean this
• 20:44
  Speaker 14: has clearly been an issue since the playoff game against
• 20:47
  Speaker 14: the Packers, being able to stop the run and just
• 20:50
  Speaker 14: getting trampled at home. And I think a microcosm of
• 20:55
  Speaker 14: the story of my fandom. I'm thirty one years old.
• 21:00
  Speaker 14: The microcosm of my fandom is Jalen Tolbert losing the
• 21:03
  Speaker 14: ball in the sunlight yesterday. I mean, it feels like,
• 21:08
  Speaker 14: you know, this great stadium has been built without consideration
• 21:11
  Speaker 14: of how it's going to affect the game. And then
• 21:13
  Speaker 14: even when problems are presented about the stadium, put curtains up.
• 21:18
  Speaker 14: You know, there's no attempt to address that. And I'm
• 21:21
  Speaker 14: talking about the team. We're not physical. The stopping the
• 21:24
  Speaker 14: run has been a problem since the Rams playoff game
• 21:27
  Speaker 14: in twenty eighteen.
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: C J.
• 21:29
  Speaker 14: Anderson still is in my nightmares right, Like I can
• 21:33
  Speaker 14: maybe count on two or three fingers times that I
• 21:36
  Speaker 14: really felt this team, this franchise was dominant. I know
• 21:41
  Speaker 14: we were banged up yesterday and we're gonna be banged
• 21:43
  Speaker 14: up all season, but we don't have the talent. It
• 21:47
  Speaker 14: feels like this is a hollow team. It has been
• 21:51
  Speaker 14: for a long time. I love them, and I'm gonna
• 21:54
  Speaker 14: watch every game. I've gone down with the ship every
• 21:57
  Speaker 14: single year. But it's just this appointing, and this is
• 22:01
  Speaker 14: the product that we get. I I I don't know
• 22:05
  Speaker 14: what else there is to say. Even if they go
• 22:07
  Speaker 14: on a run, I'm not confident they're playing football, you know, violent,
• 22:12
  Speaker 14: smash mouth. We can we can beat you whatever way
• 22:17
  Speaker 14: you present. You know, I don't think that's the state
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: of this team, and hasn't frankly been the state of
• 22:24
  Speaker 14: any team in my fandom.
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: And so.
• 22:28
  Speaker 14: You know, onto the buy, hit a reset, and we'll
• 22:31
  Speaker 14: see about San Francisco.
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: The Lions did.
• 22:34
  Speaker 14: To us yesterday what we longed to do to San Francisco,
• 22:39
  Speaker 14: and I fear that we're about to get punched in
• 22:41
  Speaker 14: the mouth again. So I'll hang up, but have a
• 22:44
  Speaker 14: good one, Nick, Thanks for taking the call.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: All right? Thanks? All right, let's go to Dylan in Northport, Florida.
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: Again.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: So what's up?
• 22:55
  Speaker 9: Hey?
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: Can you hear me?
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: How are you doing good? How are you man?
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: Hey?
• 23:03
  Speaker 11: Sorry? Yeah, I just clicked over. So just a couple
• 23:05
  Speaker 11: of quick things. So, like most games, it's kind of generic.
• 23:08
  Speaker 11: But this game was won and lost in the trenches.
• 23:10
  Speaker 11: One team showed up, one team didn't. I think we
• 23:12
  Speaker 11: can put to rest the Tyler Smith on the outside
• 23:15
  Speaker 11: conversation because the inside of your your align just collapsed
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: and that couldn't I mean, he had no time to
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: do anything, and when he did he wasn't good either.
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: But I mean the offensive line was in shambles yesterday.
• 23:26
  Speaker 11: Taking the ball to start the game. It's getting old.
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: I don't I don't agree with the logic. I'll never
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: agree with the logic back to that possessions. The potential
• 23:33
  Speaker 11: for that is way too powerful. So especially when your
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: offense can't score touchdowns, I'm not sure why we continue
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: to take the ball to start the game. And then
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: the last thing here, nobody's gonna want to hear it,
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: but Dallas has six to eight games. You games and
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: quarterbacks earlier. They've got six to eight games left versus
• 23:50
  Speaker 11: the average or below average team, so they'll be competitive
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: in those games. I don't know if they win all
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: eight of them if It really depends on a lot
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: of different factors. But I can see them winning six seven,
• 24:00
  Speaker 11: and now you're at nine wins, ten wins, getting the playoffs.
• 24:03
  Speaker 11: You're one and done in the playoffs, and so for
• 24:06
  Speaker 11: that reason, I don't think Dallas is going to move
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: on from Mike McCarthy mid season. They don't fire coaches
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: mid season anyways, typically wait till this is the last one,
• 24:13
  Speaker 11: I think, the only one they've ever fired mid season.
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: So I don't really expect that change un lest they
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: start losing to these below average teams on their schedule
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: down the road here. So yep, that's all I got me.
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: I want to get yourself on that.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: I appreciate it, all right, you.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Know, you're right, they they don't typically do that in
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: the middle of the season. That was a one in
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: seven team and that went to Green Bay got completely embarrassed.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: McCarthy was the coach on the other side there, but uh,
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: you know, completely embarrassed in that game. And so yeah,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: you've seen games like that here, So you keep doing
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: that a lot, and that's that's that'll that'll be what
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: takes him down that road. And you know that team
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: lost Tony Romo to injury is well, and had probably
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: some other injuries there too. So but I still think
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: the way the defense and just the amount of injuries
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: that you that you have on one side of the
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: ball that's not you know, it's just the reason it's
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: it's the reason why they're the defense can't stop anyone
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: right now is you just can't have that many injuries
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: on one side and in one year and expect it
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: to be better. But what you do expect is that
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: the offense can can play complimentary football to the point
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: where where you try to keep them in the game,
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: try to make it competitive a little bit. Can't can't
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: do it. Can't do it with three field goals. It's
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: not going to happen, all right. Mike in Birmingham, England, Hello, Nick?
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: How are you good?
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: How are you doing?
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Probably much the same as everyone else today? To be honest, Nick,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I didn't know if i'd get in today. I thought
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: this is going to go one of two ways. Either
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: everyone will be boycotting or the phone will be ringing
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: off the hook. But despite the circumstance, it's very good
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: to speak to. And let me say, last Thursday, when
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: you were doing the Who's Hot and Who's Not? I
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: tried to get in that day and who was hot?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Was you in that shirt? That was a very nice shirt.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: I thought you were maybe had a job interview after
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the show or something like that.
• 26:15
  Speaker 9: Very nice.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: You know, if you guys, if you guys boycott the
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: show like you said that it could happen, then I
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: might have to do a job interview. But let's not
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: do that.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you, then we'll never leave you. So look, I'm
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: not going to be one of those people that comes
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: on and claims to have the answers. Really, I've just
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: rung up for a bit of therapy, if that's all
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: right with you. I was pretty cross last night. I
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: mean I stayed up till about quarter one it finished
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: last night. I first I should say, as well, thoughts
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: to Aiden Hutchinson that was that was pretty horrible.
• 26:56
  Speaker 15: Great player.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I hope he's on the Men's pretty soon. But yeah,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: and I Randy was there yesterday, wasn't he. He took
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: the time to do a two hundred mile journey two
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: hundred miles back again to watch that. And I just
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: think the players there. I know nobody sets out to lose,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: and I know the circumstances, but I think those guys
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: that were playing yesterday needed to just have a look
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: around at the ninety thousand people. They're vast majority Cowboys fans.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: People like Randy who have traveled, and you know, most
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: of us would trade our grandma to have the opportunity
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: to do what they do. And you know, one day
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: I'm going to come to that stadium and watch a game.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: And I've done the math. It's not going to be
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: this year, but I've done the math. It's going to
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: be eighteen hundred dollars plus for hotel flights, ticket tripped
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: us South Fork while I'm there, you know, And I
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: accept that we might not win because that is sport.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I'm a fan of Watford f C and the England
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: cricket team. Believe me, I can accept losing, but I
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: do not accept that last night that was pathetic. To
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: a man, that was pathetic. And we need a big
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: reaction against Sam Franz and we might not win that one,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: but we need to compete and players, you know, second
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: string players who had their opportunity last night to say, hey,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: I may not be as good as Micah Parsons, but
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: look at me. This is what I can do, this
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: is what I can offer, and we got nothing. And
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: that's as cross as I've been watching this team unfortunately.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: So if you can cheer me up, Nick and or
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: you know, tell me, I'm being ridiculous. Then that's absolutely fine.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I'm happy for.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: That, all right, Mike, thank you for calling, Thank you
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: for supporting. I mean, obviously as later a game over
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: there for you in England, so it was already what
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: one and morning when the game was over. I'm not
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: gonna change your mind on that. There's nothing to cheer
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: you up for right now. I mean like there's I
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: mean you could say, well, it's a long season. There's
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: still you know what, eleven games to go. Is that
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: good or bad? I mean, like I don't know, I
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: don't know if it's gonna be more of those. No,
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: that's not a good thing. I mean, guys, it's not
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: my job to try to cheer people up for it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: This is I'm gonna let you guys have the mic
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: and and and and rant today as long as you,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: you know, keep it respectful, which you guys have done.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, like, I get your frustration. I totally understand
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: that you expect more, expect more from from this team.
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: You know, you hear it all the time when people say, well,
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: those guys get paid too, Well what about with your
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: own team? I mean, you know these guys get paid
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: to Yeah, they're they're not they're not star players, and uh,
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: but you still expect a better showing than that. You know,
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: some of these injuries happen later in week. Some of
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: them did not, though, so it's not like a surprise.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Get these guys ready to play, and you know, you
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: had a couple of nice, gutsy wins at the Giants
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: at Pittsburgh, you know, where you had to kind of
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: fight and bond together. But man, it certainly didn't happen
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: in this game, and the offense just really let them
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: down and allowed the defense to kind of do what
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: you expect from the defense, especially if you're getting no
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: help from the other side of the ball. I can't
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: stress that enough. I mean, I'm sorry the defense, you
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: know they get somewhat of a pass. But the offense,
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: what's the excuse there? I mean, you switched up the
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: offensive line to get your best starting five. Apparently you
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: got your quarterback, you know, Jalen Tolbert. You know they
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: told us Jalen Tolbert interpin, you know that they could
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: help with with cooks and you don't have any problem
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: at running back because they don't change anything there. So
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: they're good at running back. In their mind, and then
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Jake ferguson a tight end. You get all you got it,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: so you got I can't stress it enough. You got
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: three field goals from that offense. That's that's where the
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: problem was right there. Yeah, you can say forty seven points,
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: but one interception went into the one yard line. Two
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: interceptions got thrown into the ind zone. So I mean
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: the score touchdown on some of those field goal drives too.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: You're getting more points. You're probably taking points away from them,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: shortening the game and making it more competitive, putting a
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: little bit more pressure on the Lions to go make
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: a play. Not to say that they wouldn't, but you
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: know they You're putting a little bit more pressure on
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: them by scoring some points, and that never happened. So
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: I can't. I can't say it Enough's it was the
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: offense there for me? All right? Travis and san Antonio?
• 31:49
  Speaker 15: Nick, what's going on?
• 31:50
  Speaker 12: Hey?
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Are you?
• 31:54
  Speaker 15: We appreciate you? I'm here checking in from my Cowboys therapy,
• 31:59
  Speaker 15: So man, it's I mean, I picked. I've been sort
• 32:05
  Speaker 15: of struggling since last night to this morning because I
• 32:07
  Speaker 15: was like, am I really angry?
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: No?
• 32:09
  Speaker 15: I'm not. I wasn't angry, I should say, because I
• 32:12
  Speaker 15: picked the Lions to win, so more disappointed. But man,
• 32:16
  Speaker 15: this team has got me going through the seventh stages
• 32:18
  Speaker 15: of grief, and I think I'm at the anger point
• 32:20
  Speaker 15: because it's just it's you're right, there's no there's no excuse.
• 32:24
  Speaker 15: This is not a one I'm not I'm not gonna
• 32:27
  Speaker 15: be the guy that's gonna sit there. This is a
• 32:28
  Speaker 15: one player issue or whatever. This is a everybody owns
• 32:32
  Speaker 15: this and from the top to the bottom, I mean,
• 32:36
  Speaker 15: it's it's a lingering stench that's coming in from last year.
• 32:39
  Speaker 15: Because I heard players were talking about referencing last year
• 32:43
  Speaker 15: in some of their postgame comments. And I really think
• 32:46
  Speaker 15: that this team. I've said it before, and I don't
• 32:47
  Speaker 15: say it lightly because I was in the military just
• 32:49
  Speaker 15: like David from Fort Worth was, But I really think
• 32:52
  Speaker 15: that this team has PTSD from that that Green Bay
• 32:55
  Speaker 15: game has PTSD on this team and the front office,
• 33:03
  Speaker 15: they're part of it. That they own and I'm not
• 33:05
  Speaker 15: making up anything. They just said it. I mean, they
• 33:06
  Speaker 15: didn't move on from Mike because they were they had
• 33:09
  Speaker 15: Mike under contract. That was what they what they said, right,
• 33:11
  Speaker 15: And when you do that and then you have Mike
• 33:15
  Speaker 15: who after the Green Bay game tells the players, well,
• 33:18
  Speaker 15: I had them unprepared. I could see how the players
• 33:21
  Speaker 15: might look at it and go, well, how are we unprepared?
• 33:24
  Speaker 15: Like do we have the right coach?
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: Then?
• 33:26
  Speaker 15: And then it goes back to the Niners game where
• 33:28
  Speaker 15: he said the players are nervous. So I can understand
• 33:31
  Speaker 15: why the players might look at it and go like, man,
• 33:33
  Speaker 15: do we have the right guy? Because a lot of
• 33:36
  Speaker 15: people don't want to say it, but I'll say it, Nick,
• 33:39
  Speaker 15: that's about as close as you get to the quit word.
• 33:41
  Speaker 15: To get beat that badly in this league. That's damn
• 33:44
  Speaker 15: near quitting in my opinions. Maybe not all the way
• 33:47
  Speaker 15: there yet, but it's it. I said at the Normans game,
• 33:51
  Speaker 15: it's got waite philos vibes. I hate to be that guy,
• 33:54
  Speaker 15: and I always say, Nick, with the with the with
• 33:58
  Speaker 15: the uh. I hope I'm wrong, but that's just the
• 34:01
  Speaker 15: way I feel we are. We have got to stop
• 34:05
  Speaker 15: being the every time we have this loss. I got
• 34:08
  Speaker 15: totally just before. I keep thinking about CD in the
• 34:10
  Speaker 15: Green baking getting push in the back and doing nothing
• 34:13
  Speaker 15: about it, and it just it's sitting in my head
• 34:15
  Speaker 15: and we have got to stop being the kid at
• 34:17
  Speaker 15: school that just is they're handing our five dollars over
• 34:21
  Speaker 15: telling the bully, like go have a great lunch, all right.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: We got to be the.
• 34:25
  Speaker 15: Team that Okay, fine, he might take our five bucks,
• 34:27
  Speaker 15: but you're gonna come away with a scratch. And I
• 34:30
  Speaker 15: and Buddy knows something and I just don't see it
• 34:34
  Speaker 15: from individual. There's a couple of guys individually, you know,
• 34:37
  Speaker 15: Jordan Lewis is that guy, but like you need a
• 34:40
  Speaker 15: collective to do that, and there has to be a
• 34:43
  Speaker 15: line that's wrong in the stands here, and I just
• 34:47
  Speaker 15: I don't see it.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean like and I hear that. I mean
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: like the whole bully lunch room thing. I mean that
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: that that that sounds like oh and six vibes a
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: little bit, you know, like like I get it, like
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: they got pushed around. There's no doubt about it. But
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: I mean you make it sound like it's that every
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: every game type of thing.
• 35:05
  Speaker 15: But it's happened four times.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: No, It's okay, all right, it sounds sounds good. Thanks
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: for the thanks for the call. You're right, it is alarming.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: It's it's it's not they're getting they they do not
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: stop the run, and then and then they can't run
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: the ball. So it's all a trenches thing right now
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: for this team. And that's that's a big h that's
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: a big issue. I that analogy goes a little far
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: for me. I don't think it's been like that. But
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: you know, well, we'll see, We'll see what they're made
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: of in two weeks. I mean, like like they this
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: is the bye. We couldn't come at a better time.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: We'll see, but we'll see if they use it to
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: the right way, you know. I mean that's the Lions did.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: I mean they came in here fresh and rested and
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: pissed and and all that kind of stuff, and and
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: and played like it, you know, so you know you
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: can kind of see it coming, but not not to
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: that extent, but you could see that it was going
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: to be an issue. I don't remember a game that
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: that I've that I've covered, 're restly one at home
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: where you're just like, I don't see it. I don't
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: see how this is going to, you know, be favorable
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: for the Cowboys. But I thought it would be closer
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: than that. I thought I thought the offense would chose
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: some pride and get get clicking and get it rolling
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: a little bit, and did not did not do that.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's go back to the phone lines here. Uh,
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Chris in Saratoga Springs, Chris, Hey, Nick, how are you good?
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: How are you doing?
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: Not too bad? We spoke on Friday and I told
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: you I didn't agree with you. I thought we might
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: win this game, and all I can say is I
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: was wrong. I was definitely wrong. And that was on
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: the worst games I've ever seen watched. I don't know
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: they changed their game plan though, why they stopped running ricodoudle.
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: Zach Martin played probably the worst game I'd seen him
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: play his entire career. I really thought the only way
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: we could beat Detroit is with our offense, holding on
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: long drive and scoring in the red zone, in which
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: again turned the ball over in the red zone. That
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: hurt us. You can have as many excuses as you
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: want on defense, but your offense has to step up.
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: And I agree with you one hundred percent. They did
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: not at all. DAK and CD again seemed a couple
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: of times not in the same page. I don't know
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: how that's even possible. They've been together so long. What's
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: your thoughts on one, Rico Dowdle not getting the ball
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: and to DAK and CD miscommunications again.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, all right, thanks thanks for the call, Chris.
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: You know, the the offense with with I mean the
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: running game with with Rico O'Donnell. I guess I'll have
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: to go back and look. And of course I dropped
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: my stats, which I didn't think I would need, but
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: they're down here. But the thing about it is, I
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: thought I thought Rico got the ball to start the game.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: I thought he was kind of the main pack. Then
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: later they kind of switched to to Zeke some for
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: for pass protection, but for the most part, you know,
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: and then at the end of the game, I mean,
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: in the game, it was awesome, Richards was playing Cooper
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: Rush Jalen Brooks and then Zeke's the running back, so
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: that's that's the position we haven't seen out of him
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: in a long time. That's what I think that they
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: think of him and with his role. So I don't know,
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: I thought, you know, I thought they they mixed it
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: up a little bit. I mean, again, Rico had a
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: nice game against against Pittsburgh. But on that last drive
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: before they got down there, I mean it was a
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: third and one, right, a fourth and one, a third
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: and one, I believe, and Zeke got the ball. So
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: it's not like they had just completely switched to Rico
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh and then now he's the starter. That they
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: were mixing it up, and there's a lot of people
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: that thought Zeke should have got the ball there at
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: the end against Pittsburgh down on the one, I'm sure
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: they had to do it again, they probably would have
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: given it to Zeke. So I don't think Rico has
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: did anything. It's not like he went for two hundred yards.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: We went for like eighty seven so against Pittsburgh. So
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: it's not like he's done so much where like he's
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: the dude. You know, they still mix it up and uh,
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: but at the end of the game, they were playing
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: a mop up duty. They were playing Zke. So that
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: should tell you a little bit with with what they
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: think about, you know, the running back situation right now,
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you if you, if you can't
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: go to Dalvin Cook at some point just to see.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not expecting him to make big, big changes,
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: but right now you've got nothing. I mean from the
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: running back situation. I mean i'd try anything. I'd try
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: to to turn over every stone possible. So if he's
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: got anything left in the tank, let's see, this will
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: be the time I think to try it, coming off
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: of bye week. But you know, who knows? Who knows,
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: because I'm kind of surprised with that one. All right,
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: we got to get a couple more callers here. Taylor,
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: Santa Barbara, California. Taylor, Hey, good money, Mack. How's it going?
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 41:50
  Speaker 17: I've just got to breaking it down here. I think
• 41:54
  Speaker 17: I'm a little tired of us just kind of making
• 41:57
  Speaker 17: every one of ours a highest player is this is
• 42:00
  Speaker 17: like Tom Brady? How many sees him? How many Super Bowls?
• 42:04
  Speaker 17: I don't think he was ever you know, top ten,
• 42:07
  Speaker 17: top fifteen, maybe like in his bracket a lot his
• 42:11
  Speaker 17: team to you know, finances here and there to build
• 42:15
  Speaker 17: stuff around them, and like, I just feel like we
• 42:17
  Speaker 17: can't strap ourselves every year, don't sign any more of
• 42:21
  Speaker 17: them with the pick up bottom of the guys, and uh,
• 42:25
  Speaker 17: it ain't working anymore then. Like I was an athlete
• 42:29
  Speaker 17: when I was younger, you know, obviously not now, but
• 42:33
  Speaker 17: I just don't see the competitive visions. Everyone's just like money, money, money, money.
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: And.
• 42:38
  Speaker 17: Yeah, it's just heart right into this point.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, Tom Brady is really the only example
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: there that you have. I mean, that's what players do now.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: I mean players, and I'm not defending them, but that's
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: that's it. That's that's the game. It is the money
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: and it's and it's making sure that they get what
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: you know, they feel like they're they're you know, owed,
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: and there's very very few players. I mean, Tom Brady
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: is one of them. But this is I think after
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: he was winning four or five rings and you know
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: where it was. It was about him trying to be
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: the goat and trying to win as many rings as possible.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: And you know, he's still got enough money to put
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: a bid in for an NFL team, So I mean
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: he's doing something, you know, I mean obviously, so I
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: don't know. I just think that that's a rare case.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: You don't really see that a lot anymore. I'm not
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: faulting any player for going to get get the money,
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: because that's what most of all of them are are doing.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: I don't even know if Tom Brady was doing that,
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: you know, kind of taking less until later on in
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: his career when it was the focus was really was
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: to try to keep getting you know, keep having a
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: championship caliber team.
• 43:45
  Speaker 17: Yeah, understandable. Fair, Yeah, that's just kind of my thoughts.
• 43:49
  Speaker 17: But just it surve to see that, you know, you know,
• 43:52
  Speaker 17: the CD top paid back to Paide and then this
• 43:55
  Speaker 17: is the result that.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: I get it. I get it. Uh.
• 44:00
  Speaker 13: You know.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: I talked to my brother in law last night, Andy Marino.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: He's in Stamford, Texas as well, and he had a
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: good point of just about that. He was just like,
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: I think the frustrating thing for the fans is the
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: fact that you do pay all these players and then
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: knowing that that you've got, it's hard to build a
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: team around it. And I get that, I mean I
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: that's the scary part of it all. This isn't basketball
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: where like one guy, you know, one Lebron James can
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: kind of carry you, and you hope you get other
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: guys open. I mean, you really you need eleven. Every
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: coach will say it takes all eleven. But yeah, they
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: don't get paid the same way. And so when you're
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: paying this guy and this guy you know the majority
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: of it, you wonder who you're gonna have to fill
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: in with the other nine. That's just on one side
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: of the ball. So uh, that's a frustrating part. And
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: I totally understand that. And then you know, I understand
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: where if you if you don't do that, if you
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: don't sign that player, then what you know, we've all
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: seen that that as well. So it's it's a it's
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: a very slippery slope that that the NFL teams have,
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: especially with the salary cap and trying to resign these
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: great players. All right, let's go to our last caller today.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: We'll be Rebecca in Minnesota. Rebecca, Hey, how are you
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: doing well?
• 45:21
  Speaker 18: I know I'm I'm a hypocrite because I'm gonna call
• 45:23
  Speaker 18: them after a spanking like set only to tell the
• 45:25
  Speaker 18: world how I really feel about the Cowboys. I mean,
• 45:28
  Speaker 18: like everyone, I love them. I'm a born a fan.
• 45:30
  Speaker 18: My parents were life on Cowboys fans, and it's just
• 45:32
  Speaker 18: a part of my family's identity. But's for the love
• 45:34
  Speaker 18: of God, this is embarrassing and other than hanging my
• 45:38
  Speaker 18: hat on our history, which I'm released to contative billion,
• 45:40
  Speaker 18: there's not a whole hell of a lot to be
• 45:42
  Speaker 18: proud of anymore as a fan base. Can we stop
• 45:44
  Speaker 18: celebrating number three and three or whatever few stats that
• 45:47
  Speaker 18: we have to claim to claim to that we're not
• 45:49
  Speaker 18: at the bottom of the barrel? We are in the
• 45:51
  Speaker 18: atrocious team. We are a bad team. The few things
• 45:54
  Speaker 18: that we do well are not things you want to
• 45:56
  Speaker 18: brag about. Am I supposed to be happy that we
• 45:58
  Speaker 18: have the best field kicker around, supposed to feel batter
• 46:00
  Speaker 18: that better because we have injured players coming back, Because
• 46:03
  Speaker 18: I really don't think that's going to make a huge
• 46:05
  Speaker 18: impact going forward. I don't want to celebrate that we
• 46:09
  Speaker 18: have old, washed up coaches who have the creativity of
• 46:11
  Speaker 18: a wet mop. I don't feel good that my team
• 46:13
  Speaker 18: can't play vulleyball, can't run the ball, doesn't have an
• 46:16
  Speaker 18: explosive or threatening vertical vertical game, or has a historically
• 46:19
  Speaker 18: bad defense. I don't feel optimistic going forward that we
• 46:22
  Speaker 18: have our team hogtie to a thirty one year old
• 46:25
  Speaker 18: franchise quarterback. I'm going to challenge you right now how
• 46:28
  Speaker 18: many teams are going to take this inflighted contract and
• 46:31
  Speaker 18: would trade us straight up right now for that. But
• 46:33
  Speaker 18: back I doubt that there's any out there. We have
• 46:36
  Speaker 18: outdated coaches, We have a bunch of overpriced, overhyped, and
• 46:39
  Speaker 18: deeper players as well. Last year was the year that
• 46:42
  Speaker 18: Jerry should have been all in. He's too late. That
• 46:44
  Speaker 18: window slams shut. The entire situation collapse last year when
• 46:49
  Speaker 18: we pee their parents against the Cockers last year in
• 46:52
  Speaker 18: the playoffs, and that's what we still haven't changed their pens.
• 46:54
  Speaker 18: We are the lasting stuff of the team, to our
• 46:57
  Speaker 18: history and our legacy to insist that we are so
• 47:00
  Speaker 18: important and relevant, and we're not. We just aren't to
• 47:03
  Speaker 18: prove my point. Games like yesterday do nothing except exactly
• 47:07
  Speaker 18: what the calories want to do. We're in the news,
• 47:09
  Speaker 18: we're relevant. We are nothing but a marketing plot. How
• 47:12
  Speaker 18: nice for this upcoming draft, Seeds knowing that we're probably
• 47:15
  Speaker 18: going to have a top fifteen pet and how nice
• 47:18
  Speaker 18: would that be going into that draft knowing that we
• 47:20
  Speaker 18: could have got young very fast, just like these other
• 47:23
  Speaker 18: good teams aren't knowing that we would not hit at
• 47:25
  Speaker 18: hog times through the contract that we just signed ourselves in.
• 47:28
  Speaker 18: Jerry went all in, and he went in all in
• 47:30
  Speaker 18: ways too late. Have good week.
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: Everyone, nice, thanks, nice, good job Rebecca, well written and uh,
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: you know, not that not really from the cusp there,
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: but hey, it took the time to do that, write
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: that out, read it for us. Appreciate it. I mean,
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: that's that's how a lot of people feel. I get it.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: I'm sure you'll call back when when you know the
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: Cowboys can kind of turn this this around. This is
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: what it is. I understand the frustration, get it. Uh,
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: you know, it's it's it's a good time to take
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: the shots at everybody. But you know, the fact of
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: the matter is is that you know, they're six games in,
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: they are three and three. If you want to give up,
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: give up. You know there's a draft show that that
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: they'll they'll be starting, you know, next spring, go for
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: that if that's the case. But you know, personally, it
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: was a terrible embarrassing loss. You said it. I don't disagree,
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: but you know what, we're not giving up here because
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: that's not what we do. That's not what I can do.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: We're gonna be here next Monday, for sure. I'm sorry.
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: I mean we'll be here next Monday. We'll be here tomorrow,
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: be here Wednesday, and then we'll get this thing next
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: Monday and get get ready and get things going for
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: the forty nine ers. Jump on if you want to
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: jump off, if you need to that that's fine as well.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: But but you know, maybe things like that help, you know,
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: get that off your chest. Great, wonderful. This is a
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: show for that. Congratulations. But we'll be here, We'll be
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: here tomorrow. We'll talk it, We'll see what we can do,
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: try to talk this thing through. I know it's been
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: a tough day and it will be a tough couple
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: of weeks until the Cowboys play again. But I appreciate
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: you guys today a lot of good stuff, respectful for
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: the most part, and appreciate that because it's not easy
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: to do after a game like that. Hang in there.
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: We'll be back tomorrow on Cowboys storyline. For Chris Beam,
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: I'm Nick Eatan. We'll see tomorrow.
• 49:20
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