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- 0:04Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Cowboys
- 0:13Speaker 1: Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:21Speaker 2: What's up everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It is Wednesday, June,
- 0:26Speaker 2: the fourth day is important in our household. It is
- 0:30Speaker 2: my daughter's birthday. So Camilla, my little sweet Camella, is
- 0:36Speaker 2: turning five years old. Man, it's making me old or young,
- 0:39Speaker 2: one of the two are both at the same time.
- 0:41Speaker 2: I can tell you this, This is going to be
- 0:43Speaker 2: a memorable birthday for her, for sure. All right, let's uh,
- 0:47Speaker 2: let's talk some Cowboys football. Another OTA practice, getting closer
- 0:52Speaker 2: to the mini camp next week, three day mandatory mini camp,
- 0:56Speaker 2: and uh, I guess Michael Parsons is going to be here.
- 1:00Speaker 2: He's made that clear. He's made a few things clear.
- 1:03Speaker 2: And the tweet that he sent out the other day,
- 1:06Speaker 2: and that the ball's not in his courts and Jerry's court.
- 1:10Speaker 2: I bet you, I bet you. Both sides kind of
- 1:12Speaker 2: have their own opinions about that. But one way or another,
- 1:15Speaker 2: at least this is not the first or the last
- 1:18Speaker 2: of these negotiations. They'll get done. I think you know.
- 1:21Speaker 2: I give Mike a credit for being I mean, he's
- 1:24Speaker 2: he's still being here when he needs to be here,
- 1:26Speaker 2: and he was here yesterday. He did some things that
- 1:30Speaker 2: the Cowboys needed him to do from an internal standpoint.
- 1:33Speaker 2: As far as media responsibilities, he was there doing that.
- 1:38Speaker 2: He'll be at the mini camp apparently. And you know what,
- 1:41Speaker 2: I think they call these the it a holdout, maybe
- 1:44Speaker 2: it's a hold in. He's not the first one to
- 1:45Speaker 2: do that last few years too. As far as wanting
- 1:48Speaker 2: a contract, not doing everything, And I don't think anyone's
- 1:52Speaker 2: too concerned about where he is and what he's doing.
- 1:56Speaker 2: He seems to be mostly committed to what what's happening here,
- 2:00Speaker 2: and I think what it's really time to play, he'll
- 2:02Speaker 2: be here and it's time to practice in mandatory, he'll
- 2:05Speaker 2: he'll do what he needs to do, so she shouldn't
- 2:07Speaker 2: be a concern there. George Pickens had a pretty nice
- 2:11Speaker 2: practice yesterday. Looks good in his new uniform. Looks like
- 2:14Speaker 2: number three is going to be the number for him.
- 2:16Speaker 2: He made a switch with Dante Fowler. I talked to
- 2:19Speaker 2: him yesterday and Dante said that Pickens is gonna do
- 2:23Speaker 2: a little something for him. As far as you know,
- 2:26Speaker 2: maybe compensation do something as far as making that that trade.
- 2:29Speaker 2: But Fowler, he didn't seem to mind too much. And
- 2:32Speaker 2: he's kind of big on the Fowler of the thirteenth,
- 2:35Speaker 2: which I believe is coming up here this month. So he's, uh,
- 2:39Speaker 2: he's excited about the change. And then everybody wants these
- 2:43Speaker 2: low numbers, and I guess for Fowler, thirteen is low
- 2:46Speaker 2: enough there, all right? Eight eight eight eight FI five
- 2:48Speaker 2: two two nine seven is the number to call. We'll
- 2:51Speaker 2: start out in California very early out there, Michael and Colton, California.
- 2:55Speaker 2: What's up?
- 2:57Speaker 3: What's going on? Everybody? Shout out to all the Caps
- 3:00Speaker 3: and shout out to you and thank you for taking
- 3:02Speaker 3: my call. Hey, Nick, I just want to say, man,
- 3:05Speaker 3: I love what the Jones that are doing this offseason.
- 3:08Speaker 3: You know, I have no problem being critical when things
- 3:11Speaker 3: go on that I don't like, and at the same token,
- 3:13Speaker 3: you know, I like to give props where props are due,
- 3:16Speaker 3: you know, and I really love it.
- 3:18Speaker 4: You know.
- 3:19Speaker 3: I just one thing, man, I have some trust issues,
- 3:22Speaker 3: you know that. I'm really like, I love what they're doing.
- 3:26Speaker 3: I'm just like, I'm scared to drink the kool aid,
- 3:28Speaker 3: you know what. I mean, I'm like, man, they're gonna
- 3:31Speaker 3: let us down again in the playoffs. And I know
- 3:33Speaker 3: we're talking, you know, way down the line and everything,
- 3:36Speaker 3: but man, I would love to see our Cowboys at
- 3:38Speaker 3: least make a championship game, you know, at least advanced
- 3:41Speaker 3: a couple of rounds in the playoffs. And and I
- 3:44Speaker 3: just want to hear your thoughts on that, and I
- 3:45Speaker 3: want to see if you can talk me off that ledge,
- 3:47Speaker 3: you know. And I'll hang up and go ahead and listen,
- 3:49Speaker 3: and once again, thank you for taking my call. I'd
- 3:51Speaker 3: best you on have a great day.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Thanks, Michael, appreciate that. You know, I'm not talking anybody
- 3:56Speaker 2: off the off the ledges or anything like that. I
- 3:58Speaker 2: don't think that's where you are. I think you know
- 4:01Speaker 2: you you you've been there for a long time, and
- 4:04Speaker 2: you've seen a lot of you know, a lot of
- 4:07Speaker 2: off season moves and or maybe some some off seasons
- 4:10Speaker 2: whether it weren't enough moves. And but either one way
- 4:14Speaker 2: or another where where you know, the optimism is high,
- 4:17Speaker 2: everyone's excited about the team, and then next thing you know,
- 4:21Speaker 2: there's there's a big loss. I mean, nothing, in my
- 4:24Speaker 2: time here, nothing seemed seems to be as worse as
- 4:27Speaker 2: the as the Packers lost just a couple of years ago.
- 4:30Speaker 2: That that's the worst worst loss that I can remember,
- 4:34Speaker 2: because you just had so high of expectations and hopes
- 4:39Speaker 2: and and then you got your ass kicked by a
- 4:42Speaker 2: team that was very lucky to even be in the playoffs,
- 4:45Speaker 2: and they came in here and and dominated the game
- 4:49Speaker 2: from the very start. And so that was one of
- 4:51Speaker 2: the more demoralizing losses. So I get it. I mean,
- 4:54Speaker 2: why why everyone doesn't want to be too excited, But
- 4:59Speaker 2: I I just look at it a little differently. I
- 5:01Speaker 2: just think, I mean, you get excited about football season.
- 5:05Speaker 2: That's what I do. I mean, I'm not gonna say
- 5:08Speaker 2: I don't speak for anyone else, and we don't tell
- 5:10Speaker 2: anybody else. I't a fan. But for me, I just
- 5:13Speaker 2: get excited that it's football season. And I can relate
- 5:16Speaker 2: because my college team is very similar, well not very
- 5:21Speaker 2: similar as far as like Arkansas and the Cowboys is
- 5:25Speaker 2: not very similar because they don't have as much success.
- 5:28Speaker 2: But you know, for me, the expectations, I don't expect
- 5:31Speaker 2: them to be a competing at a high level. So
- 5:35Speaker 2: it's to me, it's kind of fun to see what
- 5:37Speaker 2: things are, But it doesn't matter what your expectations are.
- 5:39Speaker 2: It's football seasons getting there. We're getting closer, getting closer,
- 5:42Speaker 2: And what is happening with the team. Do you like
- 5:44Speaker 2: in some of the moves? And I think two or
- 5:47Speaker 2: three months ago, especially when the hire was made, there
- 5:50Speaker 2: just wasn't a lot of optimism at all. And now
- 5:53Speaker 2: Schottenheimer has turned some things around. He's impressing people, he's
- 5:57Speaker 2: braced some eyebrows he's gotten and they've made some moves
- 6:00Speaker 2: to go along with that. They were pretty aggressive by
- 6:03Speaker 2: their standards in free free agency. They made They did
- 6:06Speaker 2: make some moves. They made some trades, but for trades
- 6:09Speaker 2: and then the biggest one of being being pickings. But
- 6:11Speaker 2: when you look at this roster and you think, well,
- 6:14Speaker 2: you know that they they've they've definitely filled some holes.
- 6:17Speaker 2: They've also you know, they're getting some guys back injury wise,
- 6:21Speaker 2: so you know it's it's one to look at and say,
- 6:23Speaker 2: you know, it's things go right. This team could be
- 6:26Speaker 2: a team that that's right there in the mix, but
- 6:29Speaker 2: certainly fun and and and I understand the hesitant nature
- 6:34Speaker 2: of well, I just don't know if this is going
- 6:37Speaker 2: to be the year no one knows, but I do
- 6:39Speaker 2: think I do think they've done enough to kind of
- 6:41Speaker 2: win the offseason, if that's a thing, And I think
- 6:43Speaker 2: they've done that all right, Jeremy Salt Lake Cities next.
- 6:48Speaker 5: Hey, what Nick?
- 6:49Speaker 2: How you doing?
- 6:51Speaker 6: I'm doing good.
- 6:52Speaker 5: I've been been a few weeks since I got to
- 6:54Speaker 5: talked to you before the sched came out. Yeah, you know,
- 6:59Speaker 5: as far as that last last exchange there, Yeah, I'm
- 7:03Speaker 5: I'm with you, dude. I'm just by the time rolls around,
- 7:07Speaker 5: I'm so excited for football period that I can't not
- 7:11Speaker 5: be excited excited for my favorite team. Even in the
- 7:14Speaker 5: Campo days when I knew, you know, it's gonna be
- 7:17Speaker 5: rough years, for some reason, I got excited about Peppi Zellner.
- 7:23Speaker 7: Right.
- 7:24Speaker 5: So, anyway, as far as the schedule goes, you know,
- 7:31Speaker 5: obviously I heard you talking the last week. I think
- 7:34Speaker 5: with somebody about first of all, the NFC East is
- 7:38Speaker 5: one of the first divisions of football, would you agree, Yeah, yeah,
- 7:42Speaker 5: it is now, and then the NF and then the
- 7:44Speaker 5: NFC North right right, and then when you look at
- 7:48Speaker 5: the AFC, probably the hardest division, especially this year now
- 7:52Speaker 5: with the Raiders getting Pete Carroll and gent And and
- 7:56Speaker 5: Gino and the AFC West. Right, So if we can
- 8:04Speaker 5: compete and do well, and I'm not saying run the
- 8:08Speaker 5: table or any of that kind of stuff, but if
- 8:11Speaker 5: we can get I think we're a better team than
- 8:13Speaker 5: we are last year, and we could have sports record
- 8:17Speaker 5: just because of the schedule. But if we get through
- 8:20Speaker 5: this schedule and make it to the playoffs, this team
- 8:25Speaker 5: will be battle tested and will be one of the
- 8:27Speaker 5: badass teams in the NFL. Think of it that way, right,
- 8:31Speaker 5: Every game you know that isn't a pushover, is iron
- 8:35Speaker 5: sharpen than iron, And you're gonna get better as you
- 8:39Speaker 5: go throughout the year. And we're not playing any I mean,
- 8:43Speaker 5: I think there's what maybe four games that no games
- 8:48Speaker 5: to give me, right, But there's four that we should
- 8:50Speaker 5: definitely win, right, But the rest of them, you know,
- 8:55Speaker 5: are kind of all up in the air. And I
- 8:59Speaker 5: think this team, by having a tougher schedule and having
- 9:04Speaker 5: to go through tougher divisions, you know, to a certain extent,
- 9:08Speaker 5: we're all going to beat up on each other. And
- 9:11Speaker 5: I think whoever comes out of this NFC East, especially
- 9:15Speaker 5: because we have to play the AFCU wes the NFC
- 9:18Speaker 5: North is going to be the best team in football. Yeah,
- 9:23Speaker 5: and that could be US. That could be US. I
- 9:26Speaker 5: think we you know, obviously we've got a few worries
- 9:30Speaker 5: of d tackle, right, and then maybe depth at corner
- 9:34Speaker 5: and stuff. But once our injured people over shown and
- 9:39Speaker 5: Diggs and all these guys start coming back in the
- 9:41Speaker 5: middle of the year, I think it's going to give
- 9:43Speaker 5: this team a boost and like I said, will be
- 9:46Speaker 5: battle tested if nothing else.
- 9:48Speaker 2: Right, right, all right, I like it. I like what
- 9:52Speaker 2: you're saying. What you're saying there, all right, Jeremy.
- 9:56Speaker 4: Let's talking to you.
- 9:58Speaker 2: Take care of man, Thanks a lot, you know. I
- 10:00Speaker 2: think there's something to be said for that, as you know,
- 10:03Speaker 2: getting to the playoffs and having you know, the journey
- 10:07Speaker 2: to get there that it seems like two years in
- 10:10Speaker 2: a row the Cowboys have, or really two out of
- 10:13Speaker 2: three years when they were in those three straight twelve
- 10:16Speaker 2: and five seasons. I guess it was twenty one and
- 10:17Speaker 2: then the twenty three where they faced the team that
- 10:22Speaker 2: just got in in the forty nine Ers, and then
- 10:26Speaker 2: a couple years later the Packers and that team. I
- 10:29Speaker 2: think this is kind of what Jeremy's talking about. It's
- 10:31Speaker 2: like you have to kind of fight and to get in.
- 10:34Speaker 2: You've been playing playoff type games before the playoffs actually start.
- 10:39Speaker 2: You're battle tested, as he said, and you're getting there.
- 10:44Speaker 2: And I think you know that there is something to
- 10:46Speaker 2: be said for that. And if the Cowboys are going
- 10:49Speaker 2: to make it to the playoffs off of this schedule,
- 10:51Speaker 2: then yeah, they're probably going to be playing some December
- 10:54Speaker 2: light playoff games there at the end of the season.
- 10:59Speaker 2: But you know, for me, when I look at the
- 11:01Speaker 2: schedule and I you know, there's you can dissect it
- 11:04Speaker 2: so many different ways, but you know, I think of
- 11:07Speaker 2: four games that are against teams that were really really good,
- 11:11Speaker 2: had good records last year, great records. So the Eagles
- 11:15Speaker 2: obviously he had place play him twice. It'll be the
- 11:17Speaker 2: toughest on the road, at the Lions, the Chiefs, and
- 11:21Speaker 2: then the Vikings at home. So those four games, and
- 11:23Speaker 2: I'm saying at the Eagles, which is the first one
- 11:26Speaker 2: of the year, of those four games, those are the
- 11:30Speaker 2: games that people are probably saying, wow, that's probably a loss.
- 11:33Speaker 2: That's a loss. Maybe the Vikings at home. You never know,
- 11:36Speaker 2: but you don't the Cowboys have to win these games,
- 11:39Speaker 2: not all of them, but they need to win some
- 11:41Speaker 2: of them. They need to win at least one. Beat
- 11:45Speaker 2: the Chiefs on Thanksgiving, beat the Eagles a week one,
- 11:48Speaker 2: go go a week later after Thanksgiving and go beat
- 11:51Speaker 2: the Lions. I mean, last year it was very evident
- 11:55Speaker 2: they were not anywhere close to the top teams in
- 11:58Speaker 2: the league. So playff teams. You know, there's a difference
- 12:02Speaker 2: between the guys that make the you know at seventh
- 12:04Speaker 2: and then that make it first or second. But one
- 12:06Speaker 2: way or another that you have to show that that
- 12:08Speaker 2: you can you can compete and you can win some
- 12:10Speaker 2: of these games. And so that's what I'm looking at is, yeah,
- 12:13Speaker 2: you can go all day long and say, well they
- 12:15Speaker 2: better beat the Broncos, they better meat the Cardinals, better
- 12:17Speaker 2: with the Raiders. All that, yes, but one of these
- 12:19Speaker 2: games they're going to have to win. They're going to
- 12:21Speaker 2: have to go beat the one of these elite teams.
- 12:25Speaker 2: And who knows if they are going to be on
- 12:27Speaker 2: that same level this year. But I think the Cowboys,
- 12:30Speaker 2: you know, you can't just because there's so many great teams.
- 12:33Speaker 2: You can't just get by beating the teams you're supposed
- 12:35Speaker 2: to beat. Because if you look at this this schedule,
- 12:38Speaker 2: they're probably not supposed to beat most of them, so
- 12:40Speaker 2: they're going to have to kind of prove that and
- 12:43Speaker 2: then and that starts right off the bat against the Eagles.
- 12:45Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Brian in Kansas City.
- 12:47Speaker 8: Brian, what's up, Good morning, mister Eatman.
- 12:50Speaker 2: How you doing.
- 12:52Speaker 7: I'm doing good, man, I'm doing good.
- 12:54Speaker 9: You know, everybody's talked about the schedule since it came
- 12:58Speaker 9: out and that it doesn't look like third place schedule, right,
- 13:01Speaker 9: it looks really difficult, and you kind of explain, Hey,
- 13:05Speaker 9: you know that third place finish only.
- 13:07Speaker 10: Affects a couple of games, right. All the other stuff
- 13:10Speaker 10: has to do with we just happened to be playing
- 13:12Speaker 10: AFC North in the AFC West this year, and you
- 13:16Speaker 10: know that was set long ago, long before anything had
- 13:20Speaker 10: to do with our schedule.
- 13:21Speaker 7: We do.
- 13:22Speaker 10: We have a really, really tough schedule, and you know,
- 13:24Speaker 10: no question about that. I agree with that caller. But
- 13:28Speaker 10: you know, I watched I rewatched the twenty eighteen playoff
- 13:33Speaker 10: game against the Seahawks, and I picked that game to rewatch,
- 13:37Speaker 10: and I had thought about it before because guess who
- 13:39Speaker 10: was the offensive coordinator at the time, yep Shott. He
- 13:43Speaker 10: was their offensive coordinator. So and they didn't have a
- 13:45Speaker 10: great game that game, but they were in the playoffs.
- 13:48Speaker 10: And one of the things I had forgotten this is
- 13:51Speaker 10: this is without beast mode. This is this is they
- 13:54Speaker 10: had a guy Carson was there was their primary running back.
- 13:57Speaker 10: At the time. They led the league in rushing. So,
- 14:04Speaker 10: you know, one of the things we heard when he
- 14:06Speaker 10: took over is, you know, we're going to emphasize the
- 14:08Speaker 10: running game. Where you know, they brought in the coaches
- 14:11Speaker 10: that seemed to indicate that, you know, a bunch of
- 14:15Speaker 10: offensive lineman coach guys that are you know, let's run
- 14:19Speaker 10: the ball. So I had forgotten that they were that
- 14:22Speaker 10: much of a running team that year. They they averaged
- 14:26Speaker 10: one hundred and sixty yards a game and they didn't
- 14:31Speaker 10: have beast mode. Yeah, so that really gives me some
- 14:35Speaker 10: hope that, hey, you know what, if you give them
- 14:37Speaker 10: somebody you know who's competent.
- 14:41Speaker 2: I can't remember their receivers. Was it I know Lockett
- 14:44Speaker 2: was there, but was.
- 14:45Speaker 10: It Lockett was? I don't remember who the other it
- 14:47Speaker 10: was not. It was not a big name guy, but
- 14:50Speaker 10: Lockett was the primary guy. They didn't have a real
- 14:54Speaker 10: top name tight end either you know it was you know,
- 14:58Speaker 10: but still Lockett a good receiver. And at the time,
- 15:02Speaker 10: coming into that game, Wilson was eight and four in
- 15:06Speaker 10: the playoffs. He was he was a top tier quarterback. Still, yeah,
- 15:10Speaker 10: you know, he was a good So I just gave
- 15:13Speaker 10: you a lot of hope about that. And I think
- 15:15Speaker 10: for my question this week, I think I just want
- 15:17Speaker 10: to know, because obviously you've been to you were at
- 15:19Speaker 10: that game, what.
- 15:20Speaker 8: Memories do you have of that game?
- 15:21Speaker 10: Then I'll hang up and listen. Good to talk to you.
- 15:23Speaker 2: All right, thanks. I only have one I mean, and
- 15:26Speaker 2: it's one of the greatest plays in Cowboys history. We
- 15:29Speaker 2: did a list not too long ago about greatest non
- 15:33Speaker 2: touchdowns in Cowboys history. You know, there's some great plays
- 15:37Speaker 2: that weren't exactly touchdowns, and I'm pretty sure Dak's flip
- 15:43Speaker 2: right right there near the goal line. It was if
- 15:47Speaker 2: memory serves, it's third and twelve or something like that,
- 15:51Speaker 2: from the from the fourteen yard line or thirteen yard line,
- 15:55Speaker 2: and he goes up the middle and does a flip
- 15:58Speaker 2: and gets to the one and gets first down. And
- 16:00Speaker 2: that that was a huge play because it not only
- 16:04Speaker 2: gave the first down, but you know, took a lot
- 16:07Speaker 2: more time off the clock. They ended up scoring, I think,
- 16:09Speaker 2: to take a two score lead, and then Seattle did
- 16:12Speaker 2: come back and scored a late touchdown, but I don't
- 16:15Speaker 2: think it mattered. I probably had to get an on
- 16:17Speaker 2: site kick. But I remember that play by Dak and
- 16:19Speaker 2: it was Deck's first playoff win, and you know, it
- 16:23Speaker 2: kind of got the monkey off its back a little bit.
- 16:24Speaker 2: But but that that play was a really big play
- 16:26Speaker 2: because it was a football play. You know, It's just
- 16:28Speaker 2: it's just a guy playing football. And that's when I
- 16:31Speaker 2: think Dak is at his best when he's not a
- 16:34Speaker 2: quarterback playing. You know, he's just a football player that
- 16:38Speaker 2: plays quarterback. And and I'm that's just the way I've
- 16:41Speaker 2: always described certain players I've always saw. Walter Payton was
- 16:44Speaker 2: a football player playing running back. Brett Farves was a
- 16:47Speaker 2: football player, plays the position, plays quarterback. And you know,
- 16:51Speaker 2: when Dak is doing that, you know, then now you
- 16:54Speaker 2: have to be the quarterback. I'm not saying you know,
- 16:56Speaker 2: you don't. You just have to go out there and
- 16:58Speaker 2: wing it. But but that was just, hey, there's the
- 17:02Speaker 2: first down. I'm here, I've got to go get this
- 17:05Speaker 2: and I'm gonna do whatever it takes. And you know,
- 17:07Speaker 2: when he's when he's playing like that, then then I
- 17:11Speaker 2: think that he's a much better football player. And I'd
- 17:13Speaker 2: like to see a little bit more of that. And
- 17:14Speaker 2: I don't know if you have to flip like that
- 17:17Speaker 2: and do make those kind of plays, but you do
- 17:19Speaker 2: have to kind of go be a player, and and
- 17:21Speaker 2: he he can do that, and I still think he's
- 17:23Speaker 2: got that in him. All right, let's go to Dylan Northport, Florida. Good,
- 17:29Speaker 2: how are you doing?
- 17:31Speaker 4: Hey?
- 17:31Speaker 11: All right, happy birthday, Camilla.
- 17:33Speaker 2: Thank you, thanks for saying that.
- 17:34Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a good age exciting times.
- 17:38Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know about good or anything
- 17:41Speaker 2: as exciting, but it's it's definitely something that's something she's
- 17:45Speaker 2: she's got.
- 17:45Speaker 11: To I've got a four in a six. Yeah, yeah,
- 17:49Speaker 11: I get it.
- 17:50Speaker 2: Yeah for sure.
- 17:53Speaker 11: Before I ask my question, I was going to say, boy,
- 17:56Speaker 11: how do the people in the chat that are I
- 18:00Speaker 11: think that the biggest problem with this team is Dak Prescott.
- 18:03Speaker 11: I don't know what to say. I know we want
- 18:04Speaker 11: to tell people how to fan, but you know, go
- 18:06Speaker 11: turn on some tape, go pay for the All twenty two.
- 18:08Speaker 11: It's a hundred bucks a year. Go pay for that
- 18:11Speaker 11: and go watch some of the routes, the strolling interceptions
- 18:13Speaker 11: on not saying Dak's without faults, but my god, to
- 18:16Speaker 11: place the entire franchise on back when there's clearly other
- 18:19Speaker 11: issues going on Dick gets me going a little bit
- 18:22Speaker 11: and it's a little bit frustrating.
- 18:23Speaker 8: Yeah, but that's.
- 18:25Speaker 4: Not my question.
- 18:27Speaker 11: Just putting that out there.
- 18:28Speaker 4: My question for.
- 18:29Speaker 11: You, And I put this on the Twitter page the
- 18:31Speaker 11: other day, between Tyler Geiton and Mazzie Smith. Which one
- 18:35Speaker 11: do you think the Cowboys need to step up more
- 18:37Speaker 11: this year? What's more instrumental to their success?
- 18:42Speaker 2: Well, I mean Tyler Goeydon you know, like like I
- 18:47Speaker 2: think it's it's without a doubt it's Tyler Geyiton. And
- 18:50Speaker 2: the reason for that is because of you know, when
- 18:53Speaker 2: when if it doesn't go well, the guy you're talking about,
- 18:56Speaker 2: Dak Prescott, I mean, he feels it. You know, you
- 18:59Speaker 2: may not see it, but he'll deal feel it because
- 19:02Speaker 2: he's you know, he's he's guarding the blind side there.
- 19:05Speaker 2: So I think it's it's Tyler Guidon for sure. When
- 19:10Speaker 2: you look at the supporting cast around the line and
- 19:12Speaker 2: you look at the sporting cast around Mazi. You got
- 19:15Speaker 2: Osa there, you got you know, you drafted some players.
- 19:18Speaker 2: Of course you have Micah, But when you think about
- 19:20Speaker 2: that offensive line, they have to have their left tackle,
- 19:23Speaker 2: uh be a good player. Now he's he's sitting next
- 19:25Speaker 2: to Tyler Smith. There's no doubt about that. But but
- 19:28Speaker 2: he he can make the tight ends better if they
- 19:31Speaker 2: don't have to stay in and help. And so I
- 19:33Speaker 2: just think it's Tyler Guyden for sure.
- 19:35Speaker 11: Yeah, on the flips that I have a different opinion
- 19:38Speaker 11: on that.
- 19:38Speaker 3: All right, on the.
- 19:39Speaker 11: Flip side, you can help Tyler Guidon And you don't
- 19:42Speaker 11: want to write with the tight ends like you just said,
- 19:44Speaker 11: you want them to go out, but you do have
- 19:45Speaker 11: the option to help Tyler Guiton.
- 19:49Speaker 7: You know.
- 19:49Speaker 11: The issue with the one technique is you can't really
- 19:51Speaker 11: you can't really help them. Like he's the guy that
- 19:53Speaker 11: helps other people. He helps the linebackers. And the Cowboys
- 19:55Speaker 11: have done a great job and taking one of these
- 19:59Speaker 11: holes they have this off season and turning them into
- 20:01Speaker 11: question marks. Like right now the linebackers are question marks.
- 20:03Speaker 11: They could be good, could not be good. Like Murray's underperformed,
- 20:06Speaker 11: but he has a highest ceiling Sanborn. We don't really
- 20:10Speaker 11: know what to expect his floor and ceiling, but he
- 20:11Speaker 11: could be good. But those guys are not going to
- 20:14Speaker 11: be good if they have offensive linemen in their lap
- 20:16Speaker 11: every single play. I know that free techniques are more
- 20:18Speaker 11: important in Eberflus's system and one techniques, but at the
- 20:20Speaker 11: same time, you know you can't let them lineman get
- 20:23Speaker 11: to the second level all game long. And I don't
- 20:24Speaker 11: want to sit on my couch again this season and
- 20:27Speaker 11: watch teams running for two thirty, two fifty and just
- 20:29Speaker 11: sit there defeated and miserable. So that's not a fun
- 20:31Speaker 11: way to spend a Sunday. Yeah, so you know, I
- 20:34Speaker 11: agree with you and everything you said about Tyler guy,
- 20:36Speaker 11: and I don't think there's a wrong answer on this
- 20:37Speaker 11: when the responses on Twitter were like, fifty fifty is
- 20:40Speaker 11: plit down the middle? Yeah, but you know, I'm just
- 20:42Speaker 11: worried about teams running the ball against us again all
- 20:45Speaker 11: season and I don't know if we've made enough adjustments
- 20:47Speaker 11: on the roster to really fix that problem. Although other
- 20:50Speaker 11: than just maybe Eberflus can bring something different with some
- 20:52Speaker 11: of these edges and interior guys like oh said these
- 20:55Speaker 11: three techniques to do something different than we've seen in
- 20:57Speaker 11: the past.
- 20:58Speaker 2: Right, and that you can said that on the other
- 21:00Speaker 2: side too, you know, because they haven't done a whole
- 21:03Speaker 2: lot of offensive tackle as far as you know, saying, well,
- 21:07Speaker 2: this guy will compete with with Geydon and so you
- 21:10Speaker 2: just like you're thinking, maybe Eberflus can kind of help that. Well,
- 21:13Speaker 2: maybe you know the the scheme of you know, Clayton
- 21:16Speaker 2: Adams and you know, you know Connor Riley as the
- 21:19Speaker 2: O line coach, and they can do some things differently
- 21:21Speaker 2: to kind of help their their linement there. But you know,
- 21:25Speaker 2: I think, I think and Mazzi both have have been
- 21:29Speaker 2: have had really good off seasons. Again, that doesn't always
- 21:33Speaker 2: translate to the to the field, but sometimes it does.
- 21:36Speaker 2: I mean, like I've seen it happen a lot. So
- 21:38Speaker 2: we'll see if they if they make that that jump.
- 21:40Speaker 2: You know, we wanted Mazi to make that year to
- 21:43Speaker 2: jump and okay, he did, but it was he was
- 21:47Speaker 2: pretty far down there, you know. And we'll see if
- 21:49Speaker 2: Geydon can can make it as well. So both of
- 21:51Speaker 2: them didn't have great rookie seasons, say the least, we'll
- 21:53Speaker 2: see if they can turn it around. But you're you're
- 21:56Speaker 2: absolutely right. I mean the answers both. I mean that
- 21:58Speaker 2: they need both. They need with their first round picks
- 22:01Speaker 2: from the last two seasons to to act like it.
- 22:04Speaker 2: And that's that's so. I don't think it's asking too
- 22:06Speaker 2: much to say both of them needed to step it up.
- 22:09Speaker 11: Yeah, this is make or break form Ozzie at this point. Yeah,
- 22:12Speaker 11: Guiden probably has a little bit longer of a leash.
- 22:14Speaker 11: But if he's as bad as last season, which I
- 22:16Speaker 11: don't think he will be, it sounds like he's moving
- 22:17Speaker 11: in the right direction. But we can't have another season
- 22:19Speaker 11: like last year. He was getting replaced by tou Many
- 22:21Speaker 11: Delica for of all people, So hopefully they both come through.
- 22:26Speaker 2: All right, thanks Land, appreciate the call. All right, let's
- 22:30Speaker 2: go to Michael and Bowling Green. Michael, what's up man?
- 22:38Speaker 12: Are you pretty good?
- 22:40Speaker 2: Okay?
- 22:44Speaker 12: So, first of all, you gotta tell that order happy
- 22:48Speaker 12: birthday from all the storyline people wishing her happy birthday.
- 22:53Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you appreciate that. It's a birthday. It's
- 22:58Speaker 2: a birthday week. I mean, she's been celebrating for a
- 23:01Speaker 2: while here, so oh yeah, that's just that's how it goes.
- 23:05Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and.
- 23:08Speaker 12: So I ain't scared. I ain't scared to be optimistic.
- 23:11Speaker 12: I'm ready to go. I'm like I said, fourteen to three.
- 23:16Speaker 12: I'm gonna stand by that until they so they either
- 23:19Speaker 12: you know, make it or they lost more than three.
- 23:22Speaker 12: And I just got a question, Okay, I got a
- 23:26Speaker 12: scenario I'm wondering about from you. All right, Let's say
- 23:31Speaker 12: the first game of the season, the Cowboys beat the Eagle.
- 23:36Speaker 11: Okay, all right, for the.
- 23:39Speaker 12: Help and the mental and everything for the next sixteen
- 23:44Speaker 12: to nineteen games, would you rather them be the Eagles
- 23:50Speaker 12: by say sevent to ten points. Would you rather them
- 23:54Speaker 12: blow the Eagles out? Or would you rather them be
- 23:58Speaker 12: the Eagles for the last second sixty two yards field
- 24:03Speaker 12: goal to win the game.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Hmm, Well, I I and I know it's going to happen.
- 24:15Speaker 2: I mean, I'll take a you know, I'll say this,
- 24:18Speaker 2: The plane right home is gonna feel the same either way.
- 24:21Speaker 2: I promise you that. And I've I've experienced that over
- 24:24Speaker 2: the over the time, so that that is cool. All
- 24:28Speaker 2: three scenarios are great, you know, for my heart, I'll
- 24:33Speaker 2: take a blowout over the Eagles. I'll take that just
- 24:36Speaker 2: because the other ones, you know, I don't want to
- 24:39Speaker 2: know if I want to deal with a sixty two
- 24:41Speaker 2: yard er. Sure would be nice to see how quiet
- 24:44Speaker 2: that would be. But when you're down there at the
- 24:47Speaker 2: end of the game, you got to deal with that crap.
- 24:50Speaker 2: You got to deal with those fans, and so if
- 24:51Speaker 2: you're blowing them out, half of them are gone. So
- 24:55Speaker 2: I'll take that. I'll take a blow out over the Eagles.
- 24:58Speaker 2: But either they all they all sound fun. You know,
- 25:01Speaker 2: if those are my three, if those are my only
- 25:03Speaker 2: three options, then this it seems like it would be
- 25:06Speaker 2: a fun night one way or another. What about you,
- 25:08Speaker 2: what's your pick?
- 25:09Speaker 12: I would like the sixty two yards field goal. Yeah,
- 25:13Speaker 12: we're down one or two and we can only make
- 25:18Speaker 12: it to just not quite midfield and comes out there
- 25:24Speaker 12: sixty two yards just just just drops over the cross.
- 25:31Speaker 2: It would be it definitely would be memorable. Put your
- 25:34Speaker 2: helmet on for all players when you're running out, I
- 25:37Speaker 2: put your helmet on, because that would be They would
- 25:41Speaker 2: piss off those those drunk Eagle fans for sure. But hey,
- 25:46Speaker 2: that would be a cool scenario, and I think he
- 25:48Speaker 2: could do it. I think he could definitely make it.
- 25:50Speaker 2: But you know, if you give me those three. I'd
- 25:52Speaker 2: like them, you know, I'd like to see Joe Milton
- 25:55Speaker 2: handing the ball off there in the fourth quarter. Yeah,
- 25:59Speaker 2: I'd like to. All right, man, all ahead, appreciate it.
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- 28:04Speaker 2: to Cowboys storyline here. Phone lines are open eight A
- 28:08Speaker 2: A eight five five to two ninety seven, or at
- 28:10Speaker 2: least one of them will be open after this. So
- 28:12Speaker 2: we got Chris san Angelo. What's up man?
- 28:15Speaker 6: Hey, mister Nick, how you doing today?
- 28:18Speaker 3: Man?
- 28:19Speaker 6: If I was any better, i'd be you, buddy.
- 28:21Speaker 7: Hey.
- 28:22Speaker 6: First off, happy birthday to your daughter five or five
- 28:27Speaker 6: years old. There's about the age they start realizing they're
- 28:32Speaker 6: the smartest person in the room.
- 28:35Speaker 2: I thought it was. I thought fifteen was the number,
- 28:38Speaker 2: but it has gone down as the years have gone
- 28:40Speaker 2: on the internet, cell phones and stuff. At five. Yeah, yeah,
- 28:44Speaker 2: very much so.
- 28:45Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, mister Nick, was gonna talk some running backs today.
- 28:51Speaker 6: You know, you got like, as far as I know,
- 28:53Speaker 6: six people in the room with the two free agents,
- 28:57Speaker 6: Javonte Sanders, two draft these Blue and MafA, and then
- 29:03Speaker 6: you got lip Key and Deuce and there could be
- 29:06Speaker 6: someone else that I don't know about. But let me
- 29:09Speaker 6: just put this way. Let's say, at the whenever we're
- 29:12Speaker 6: starting out, who do you believe will be the ones
- 29:17Speaker 6: out there on the field? Or better yet, I could
- 29:20Speaker 6: ask who do you think will be the odd man
- 29:22Speaker 6: out or odd men out?
- 29:24Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, before I'll answer
- 29:29Speaker 2: it offline, I'll flip it around to you, who do
- 29:33Speaker 2: you think is going to be the leader?
- 29:36Speaker 6: Okay? At the end of it, man, oh man, I'm
- 29:39Speaker 6: thinking Okay, I think they have a plan for Blue,
- 29:42Speaker 6: so I think he's going to be there, yea. And
- 29:45Speaker 6: I kind of do with the other rookie too, So
- 29:48Speaker 6: with me, it's a matter of do they start out
- 29:51Speaker 6: young and run those two or do they go with
- 29:55Speaker 6: like the Javante and Miles thing. I think. I hate
- 30:01Speaker 6: to say this, but I kind of think Miles Induce
- 30:05Speaker 6: could be the ones that yeah, could be getting getting chopped.
- 30:09Speaker 6: But I hate to say that without any knowledge about it.
- 30:14Speaker 6: But so I don't know. Let's go with the let's
- 30:18Speaker 6: go with the rookies. Let's let them get in there
- 30:20Speaker 6: and go, yeah.
- 30:21Speaker 2: MafA and Blue and then and then you know, one
- 30:24Speaker 2: of them between Javonte and Miles Sanders. I just kind
- 30:27Speaker 2: of feel exactly. I feel like they're both gonna make it,
- 30:30Speaker 2: Miles and Uh and Javonte Williams. And for me, I
- 30:35Speaker 2: think I'm I'm going against the grain by most people,
- 30:38Speaker 2: but I kind of think it's going to be Miles Sanders.
- 30:42Speaker 2: I think he is probably the better of the two backs,
- 30:47Speaker 2: but I think they both do something a little bit different.
- 30:51Speaker 2: And so the wild card here is MafA. If Blue
- 30:55Speaker 2: is gonna make the team, MafA is the one that
- 30:57Speaker 2: if he comes in and does some really nice things
- 31:00Speaker 2: in the preseason and says, you know, we got to
- 31:03Speaker 2: keep this guy, that's going to put pressure on one
- 31:05Speaker 2: of those veterans Javonte and Miles. But if he doesn't
- 31:08Speaker 2: really take the lead there and then you can go
- 31:11Speaker 2: with Blue as your rookie, then they both make it.
- 31:14Speaker 2: But MafA to me is the.
- 31:15Speaker 6: Wild card, right, Maybe he could, I don't know. Blue
- 31:19Speaker 6: doesn't doesn't make it to practice.
- 31:20Speaker 8: Squad, but maybe MafA could.
- 31:22Speaker 2: Maybe depends on what happens in those preseason games and
- 31:25Speaker 2: what he looks like and on that. But yeah, Jayden Blue,
- 31:28Speaker 2: I mean, and if Jaydon Blue hangs onto the football
- 31:31Speaker 2: and can can pass block, you know, well enough to
- 31:36Speaker 2: be trusted out there. If he can hang onto the
- 31:38Speaker 2: ball and be a nice, you know guy to catch
- 31:41Speaker 2: the ball out of the backfield, then he could even start.
- 31:44Speaker 2: You know. I think that that was the knock on him,
- 31:46Speaker 2: was just the fumbling. But if that's not as much
- 31:49Speaker 2: of an issue and he can be the dynamic runner,
- 31:52Speaker 2: then he has a chance to start over over those
- 31:54Speaker 2: two guys right on.
- 31:56Speaker 11: Man.
- 31:57Speaker 6: Well, Nick, I appreciate that information because that got me
- 31:59Speaker 6: with Miles. Yeah, I guess he's Look yeah, I.
- 32:03Speaker 2: Mean I think he had a pretty good practice last
- 32:05Speaker 2: two practices, and I just you know, he's he's done it.
- 32:10Speaker 2: He's done it. He's been in the Pro Bowl. I mean,
- 32:12Speaker 2: he's had a thousand yard season. That doesn't mean a
- 32:15Speaker 2: lot for running backs because when it's over, it's over
- 32:18Speaker 2: for them. I mean, it's it's a short window for
- 32:20Speaker 2: them to be successful. But I just I liked what
- 32:24Speaker 2: I saw from him the other day. It's hard, though,
- 32:25Speaker 2: with running backs. It's hard to figure out you know,
- 32:28Speaker 2: who's who's gonna be, what who's gonna do. You know
- 32:30Speaker 2: that they they know what their assignments are and then
- 32:32Speaker 2: they know the quickness, speed and burst and all that.
- 32:35Speaker 2: But you know, just from the outside, they they take
- 32:38Speaker 2: every run to the house. You know, they don't get hit.
- 32:40Speaker 2: So it's it's it is kind of hard to see,
- 32:43Speaker 2: you know, is this is this a guy that you know?
- 32:45Speaker 2: Because breaking tackles is the big thing. So when you
- 32:47Speaker 2: see a guy catch the ball out of the backfield
- 32:49Speaker 2: and here comes the linebacker, and the linebacker, you know,
- 32:52Speaker 2: he starts screaming like, ooh, I got you and all that.
- 32:55Speaker 2: I mean, who's to know what's going to happen until
- 32:57Speaker 2: the Pats come on and it's live and all that.
- 32:59Speaker 2: So that's when the best running backs are the ones
- 33:02Speaker 2: that could get you know, take those three yard games
- 33:04Speaker 2: and make it a seven yard game and that changes
- 33:07Speaker 2: the entire play, maybe even the drive. So we'll see
- 33:10Speaker 2: what happens. I think they they're probably both gonna make it,
- 33:15Speaker 2: Davante and Miles Sanders. But it's a good problem to have,
- 33:18Speaker 2: especially if if MafA kind of does his thing and
- 33:22Speaker 2: and shows, you know, the ability to be a violent runner.
- 33:25Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Lester and Minnesota.
- 33:29Speaker 6: Good morning.
- 33:30Speaker 3: Next.
- 33:30Speaker 4: How's it going man?
- 33:31Speaker 17: Man?
- 33:32Speaker 2: How are you doing?
- 33:33Speaker 4: Hey, I'm doing good up here in Minnesota. Hey, I mean,
- 33:38Speaker 4: I know you guys are there. How's how's the practices going,
- 33:44Speaker 4: especially with my offensive and defensive line or they looking
- 33:48Speaker 4: like out there? I know they're not being hit and
- 33:49Speaker 4: all that, but what's your acception of it. Defensive line, yeah, yeah,
- 33:57Speaker 4: and the offensive line.
- 33:58Speaker 2: Both lines? Yeah, what you're looking like, Well, it's it's
- 34:02Speaker 2: for defense. It's looking like just a healthy rotation. I mean,
- 34:05Speaker 2: just there's just a lot of guys. Uh, it'll weaed
- 34:08Speaker 2: itself out and I'm sure they'll the cream will rise
- 34:10Speaker 2: to the to the top, you know. But but uh,
- 34:13Speaker 2: I think for right now, it looks like they you know,
- 34:15Speaker 2: they're having a lot of options for the defensive line
- 34:18Speaker 2: and then the offensive line that they're moving. They're moving
- 34:21Speaker 2: guys around as well. It's hard to kind of get
- 34:24Speaker 2: a gauge on where some of these players are going
- 34:27Speaker 2: to be. Bb Hoffman, Rob Jones, Awesome Richards. You know,
- 34:32Speaker 2: they're they're they're trying to put them in different positions
- 34:35Speaker 2: because that's what happens in a game. I mean, you
- 34:37Speaker 2: got to see who can who can play what. So
- 34:39Speaker 2: not easy to tell right now. They're not hitting each other,
- 34:42Speaker 2: but but you can tell there's a lot of rotations.
- 34:46Speaker 4: All right. Well, basically they say that Shotty wants to
- 34:53Speaker 4: run the ball. I think that's the probably the best option.
- 34:57Speaker 4: I mean, of course, we got to pass the ball.
- 34:58Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not saying on the all I'm just
- 35:00Speaker 4: saying again, especially the competition we're playing this year, man, Man,
- 35:07Speaker 4: we need to keep Dak upright and healthy. So to me,
- 35:11Speaker 4: in my opinion, the best way to do that is
- 35:14Speaker 4: to run the ball a lot, right. And you know,
- 35:19Speaker 4: of course, if they're going to crowd the line, of course,
- 35:22Speaker 4: throw the ball or whatever Dyck sees reading the defense,
- 35:26Speaker 4: if he sees.
- 35:27Speaker 8: Something, throw the ball.
- 35:28Speaker 4: But I'm just saying I believe the foundation of our team,
- 35:31Speaker 4: our offense this year, should be running the ball because,
- 35:35Speaker 4: like I said, that'll keep the you know, people like
- 35:39Speaker 4: the Kansas City quarterback off the field if we're running
- 35:44Speaker 4: the ball. So that's all I got today, Man, run
- 35:49Speaker 4: that ball, all right, all right, Nick Man, I talk
- 35:54Speaker 4: to you next week, man, Cowboys, all.
- 35:56Speaker 2: Right, appreciate that. You know, Brian and Kansas City had
- 36:00Speaker 2: had that that stat earlier about the twenty eighteen Seahawks
- 36:04Speaker 2: and how they didn't have a lot of dynamic players,
- 36:07Speaker 2: and but yeah, they still found a way to run
- 36:09Speaker 2: the football and they made it obviously made it to
- 36:11Speaker 2: the playoffs, and you know that was kind of their
- 36:15Speaker 2: foundation of success that year. And I think that that
- 36:18Speaker 2: could sort of happen with the Cowboys. I mean, I think,
- 36:21Speaker 2: you know, that's why I just have a feeling that
- 36:25Speaker 2: they're both going to When I say Miles Sanders, Davonte Williams,
- 36:29Speaker 2: and Jayden Blue, I mean there's not a dynamic runner,
- 36:33Speaker 2: but there's there's well I say that now we'll see
- 36:37Speaker 2: if Jayden Blue becomes that. But you know, he's a
- 36:39Speaker 2: fifth round pick. I mean he gets scouted like everybody else,
- 36:42Speaker 2: and and you know, obviously the speed and the pass
- 36:46Speaker 2: catching ability is one thing, but you know, maybe the
- 36:49Speaker 2: lack of size and and also you know, just some
- 36:52Speaker 2: of the fumbling issues. He wasn't like the main starter
- 36:56Speaker 2: for for Texas, but when he got in and he's
- 36:59Speaker 2: used of that, he's used to that kind of rule.
- 37:01Speaker 2: So I think he's gonna fit in nicely of just
- 37:03Speaker 2: coming in and when it's your time, go go shine.
- 37:07Speaker 2: But I think because running the ball is so important
- 37:10Speaker 2: and they don't have that bell cow runner, I think
- 37:13Speaker 2: that they're going to probably keep three there and one week,
- 37:17Speaker 2: you know, you'll see a little bit more of Williams,
- 37:20Speaker 2: maybe morph Sanders, and you know, in another week they'll
- 37:23Speaker 2: be split right down the middle. But I think that
- 37:25Speaker 2: they'll probably play the hot hand when it comes to
- 37:28Speaker 2: the running back position because they don't have that that
- 37:31Speaker 2: stud and it is a priority. But still we'll we'll,
- 37:35Speaker 2: we'll see. I mean, I like what they did. If
- 37:37Speaker 2: they get it blocked up front, then they should be
- 37:39Speaker 2: they should be fun, all right. Next color is Robin Vaas. Hey, Nick, Hey, Rob,
- 37:50Speaker 2: Oh good man, how are you doing.
- 37:53Speaker 4: I'm good good.
- 37:56Speaker 18: I have to address a couple of little cold So Dylan, uh,
- 38:00Speaker 18: you know, asked who's more important Mazia a guy, and
- 38:02Speaker 18: I agree with you. It's it's guiding. Because we've seen
- 38:08Speaker 18: when the left tackle doesn't play good or Dak doesn't
- 38:10Speaker 18: trust them, he doesn't play good, right right, So that's
- 38:13Speaker 18: to me, that's that's simple. And I and I think,
- 38:16Speaker 18: I don't think. I think they're going to pick up somebody.
- 38:19Speaker 18: You know, somebody's gonna get cut now, so post June first,
- 38:22Speaker 18: and I think they're going to pick up a big
- 38:25Speaker 18: fatty in the middle there. I don't think they're just
- 38:29Speaker 18: rolling at Mazi. I'm hearing. I'm hearing. You know these
- 38:34Speaker 18: callers say, oh, and he asked. You know, there are
- 38:37Speaker 18: certain people that the biggest concern is Dak and that's
- 38:42Speaker 18: my biggest concern. And it's not because Dak is a
- 38:46Speaker 18: good quarterback. He's a to me, he's a top ten
- 38:49Speaker 18: He's not seventeenth like whoever ranked him that I mean,
- 38:53Speaker 18: and they had Gino Casino ahead of him. I mean,
- 38:55Speaker 18: that's crazy. But he's the most important player on the team.
- 39:00Speaker 18: So if he doesn't play good, you can't win. If
- 39:03Speaker 18: he gets hurt like he has been, you can't win.
- 39:06Speaker 18: So he is my biggest concern, and I need him
- 39:09Speaker 18: to play better against better teams. He struggled, So he's
- 39:14Speaker 18: my biggest concern. Listening to people talk about how this
- 39:20Speaker 18: the Cowboys have to become a great running team. They
- 39:23Speaker 18: got to become a running absolutely not you have a
- 39:27Speaker 18: top three wide receiver. I just said, a top ten quarterback.
- 39:31Speaker 18: You just brought in Pickens. You're hoping your tight end.
- 39:35Speaker 18: I don't need them to be a great running team.
- 39:37Speaker 18: I need them to be a good running team. Get
- 39:40Speaker 18: me more than two yards on first down. You know,
- 39:44Speaker 18: get us in third and five, third and four and
- 39:46Speaker 18: set at third and seven. That's what took place last year.
- 39:50Speaker 18: This team is still going to be a passing team.
- 39:52Speaker 18: They'd be stupid not to because that's what they do best.
- 39:56Speaker 18: And I just like I said, I don't need them
- 39:59Speaker 18: to grind out two hundred yards a game. It wouldn't
- 40:03Speaker 18: happen anyway. And I just need them to be good.
- 40:07Speaker 18: I need them to be efficient. And I think Jaden
- 40:10Speaker 18: Blue is the guy I want on the field more
- 40:13Speaker 18: than the others because he has the juice. Yeah, you know,
- 40:16Speaker 18: the other players, I don't, I don't. I think the
- 40:18Speaker 18: running backs are better this year than one last year
- 40:21Speaker 18: because they're proving proven backs. Who's going to be on
- 40:24Speaker 18: the team, who's going to start? I don't know. But
- 40:27Speaker 18: I think Jaden Blue is the guy that I want
- 40:30Speaker 18: to see on the field just because he could take it.
- 40:34Speaker 18: He could take it to the house.
- 40:36Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're you're right. I think you know
- 40:40Speaker 2: they're not going to be a great running team. But
- 40:43Speaker 2: if they if the offense, the the weapons you're talking about,
- 40:47Speaker 2: do you know, play up to the expectations, then they're
- 40:50Speaker 2: going to have the lead in certain games, and they
- 40:54Speaker 2: then if you could run it efficiently, then you know,
- 40:57Speaker 2: you will you will probably have you could be a
- 41:00Speaker 2: good running team with great running stats because of you know,
- 41:05Speaker 2: and I think you could say that in the nineties,
- 41:07Speaker 2: that's what the Cowboys were. And yeah, they were a
- 41:09Speaker 2: great running team, but their stats were even better than
- 41:11Speaker 2: that because they were able to run a lot and
- 41:14Speaker 2: that's because of their entire offense.
- 41:16Speaker 18: So and I mean, that's that's what they I want
- 41:21Speaker 18: to see if it's if we've been running the ball
- 41:23Speaker 18: successful and it's third and two, run the ball, you know,
- 41:28Speaker 18: then you know. What I didn't like is when we
- 41:30Speaker 18: would get eight yards on first down and then Mike
- 41:33Speaker 18: mccauthy decided to throw, just throw, throw throw. We see
- 41:36Speaker 18: it so many times that I want to get away from.
- 41:41Speaker 18: So last week I didn't get a chance to call in,
- 41:43Speaker 18: but I heard a call call me out for Lawrence
- 41:47Speaker 18: Taylor being my.
- 41:49Speaker 6: Favorite football player.
- 41:50Speaker 2: Is that what you said?
- 41:53Speaker 18: No, No, Lawrence Taylor is the greatest defensive player that
- 41:59Speaker 18: ever lived. And growing up in New York when I
- 42:03Speaker 18: was in high school, I wore number fifty six because
- 42:06Speaker 18: I played linebacker. Because of Lawrence Taylor. Lawrence Taylor was great,
- 42:10Speaker 18: and to be honest, it was early eighties, eighty two,
- 42:14Speaker 18: the Cowboys were eighty three eight four. The Cowboys were bad,
- 42:18Speaker 18: and Lawrence Taylor was just the man. But my two
- 42:21Speaker 18: favorite Cowboys are Roger Starback because how I became a
- 42:26Speaker 18: Cowboy fan as my father bought me my first uniform
- 42:28Speaker 18: and it was it was the Cowboys. It was Roger Starback.
- 42:31Speaker 18: I was five years old and I had I didn't
- 42:33Speaker 18: even know who he was. I wanted Joe name it,
- 42:37Speaker 18: but it was nineteen seventy two and everybody wanted Joe
- 42:39Speaker 18: name it. But I needed a uniform to go play,
- 42:42Speaker 18: and NAOI had Roger. And my father says, that's Roger Starback.
- 42:46Speaker 18: And that's why I'm a Cowboys fan. And Roger was
- 42:50Speaker 18: my favorite. And then when I was in my early twenties, EMMITTT.
- 42:53Speaker 18: Smith was my favorite because he he was the man.
- 42:58Speaker 18: He was the the most important Dallas Cowboy in the
- 43:02Speaker 18: for the nineties teams and they just posted something on
- 43:05Speaker 18: a Facebook or something saying, who's the greatest running is
- 43:09Speaker 18: Emmitt the greatest? And Emmett is the greatest running back.
- 43:12Speaker 18: I always said Barry Sanders was the greatest runner I've
- 43:16Speaker 18: ever seen. But Emmett did everything and he never left
- 43:21Speaker 18: the field. He blocked, he could catch, he could short yardage.
- 43:26Speaker 18: Barry could not. Barry could not do short yardage.
- 43:28Speaker 8: He was a.
- 43:29Speaker 18: Liability blocking and he didn't catch the ball very well. Emmett,
- 43:34Speaker 18: to me, is the greatest all around running back that
- 43:37Speaker 18: I ever saw.
- 43:39Speaker 2: Yeah, now I don't disagree with that. I mean EMMITTT.
- 43:44Speaker 2: You know, you said when he never came off the field.
- 43:47Speaker 2: When they when he was injured, they weren't the same.
- 43:50Speaker 2: They could win with backup quarterbacks. Berlin won some games
- 43:53Speaker 2: and Steve Wolfs won games all that they couldn't win
- 43:55Speaker 2: without Emmett. They just couldn't. And the Garrett yeah, GARYT. Yeah,
- 43:59Speaker 2: of course. But but and no disrespect to that, you know,
- 44:02Speaker 2: because when I look at that offensive line, you look
- 44:04Speaker 2: at those offensive lines and compare which line was better
- 44:08Speaker 2: as great as the old line was. And people always say, well,
- 44:10Speaker 2: Barry saying it, anyone could have run. They didn't those teams,
- 44:14Speaker 2: those guys didn't run behind them when the backup Sherman
- 44:17Speaker 2: Williams and Derek Lassek and those guys. So yeah, I'm
- 44:20Speaker 2: with you. I think it gets a little EASi the
- 44:22Speaker 2: all time leading rusher. I think he's underrated, if that's
- 44:25Speaker 2: even a thing, because you're right, I don't think. I
- 44:27Speaker 2: don't think people throw in his ability to be durable
- 44:31Speaker 2: and to be out there every single you know, year,
- 44:34Speaker 2: for that long. I mean, that's why his record probably
- 44:36Speaker 2: will never be broken. I mean, and even if they
- 44:38Speaker 2: go eighteen game schedule, it's gonna be hard to break
- 44:41Speaker 2: that record because these runner backs just don't last as long.
- 44:44Speaker 18: And they don't and there's no belcal running backs really anymore.
- 44:47Speaker 7: Yeah, uh, and they don't.
- 44:49Speaker 18: Let's say that, they don't run the ball.
- 44:50Speaker 11: Don't like that, you know, like they did back then.
- 44:53Speaker 18: But yeah, it was the man.
- 44:54Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thanks for the call, Robin, And that's good.
- 44:57Speaker 2: I didn't know that story about about Roger Strawback and
- 44:59Speaker 2: all you ask. You know, we we've done polls on
- 45:03Speaker 2: the greatest Cowboys of all time, top fifty, top sixty lists,
- 45:08Speaker 2: and you know it's it's they're one two right there.
- 45:11Speaker 2: It depends kind of depends on how old you are,
- 45:13Speaker 2: I guess a little bit. But Strawback and emit one
- 45:16Speaker 2: and two. Some people may say, Bob Lily, but the
- 45:19Speaker 2: greatest Cowboys of all time. I mean it's usually those
- 45:21Speaker 2: two and for me and probably because he old I am,
- 45:24Speaker 2: I'll say m A Smith. I mean, just for that
- 45:26Speaker 2: reason that Rob said, so Rob, we're agreeing a little
- 45:29Speaker 2: bit today. I don't know if that's a good or
- 45:31Speaker 2: bad thing. It's always good. Let's go to Casey Joe
- 45:35Speaker 2: as our next caller.
- 45:37Speaker 19: Casey, He's good morning, Nick. How are you doing today, sir?
- 45:40Speaker 12: How are you good?
- 45:42Speaker 19: I was thinking about our offense with that speed coming in,
- 45:47Speaker 19: with the wide receivers blue in the backfield. I'm just thinking, man,
- 45:52Speaker 19: the offense could look really good this year.
- 45:54Speaker 2: But could it really could? I mean, there's some things
- 45:57Speaker 2: that have to go right, but that's the way it
- 45:58Speaker 2: is every year. But yeah, yeah, I mean if there's
- 46:02Speaker 2: always there needs to be a couple of guys that
- 46:04Speaker 2: are these swing players. Can they take it to the
- 46:07Speaker 2: do they make that leap and always, you know, like
- 46:10Speaker 2: Doron Bland did on the other side, like Jake Ferguson
- 46:13Speaker 2: did a couple of years ago. Who's gonna make that
- 46:15Speaker 2: leap that you think is a good player that actually
- 46:18Speaker 2: became a great player, And if they can get two
- 46:21Speaker 2: or three of those. Then I think this team has
- 46:24Speaker 2: a chance to be to be really good too.
- 46:26Speaker 7: I do.
- 46:27Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 46:29Speaker 19: Well, I didn't have much to say, but I just
- 46:31Speaker 19: thought i'd say good morning.
- 46:32Speaker 8: And okay and.
- 46:33Speaker 19: Oh and uh, you know, I think they should change
- 46:36Speaker 19: the name of the girls talk boys talk to hanging
- 46:38Speaker 19: with the girls and talking about the boys.
- 46:40Speaker 6: See, that's what.
- 46:41Speaker 19: They need to change that name to.
- 46:44Speaker 20: Anyway, have a good.
- 46:45Speaker 2: Day, all right, sounds good. Yeah, I'll stay in my
- 46:50Speaker 2: own lane on that one and just we'll worry about
- 46:53Speaker 2: the storyline on that one and let other people change
- 46:56Speaker 2: names that they want to. I'm gonna go to break
- 46:58Speaker 2: here on Cowboys storyline. I'll be right back after.
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- 47:33Speaker 13: There is no eye in Dallas. There is no eye
- 47:35Speaker 13: in heart, either no eye in blue star or a
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- 47:45Speaker 13: Football is a wee thing and experience that is best
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- 47:51Speaker 13: We rally together, we cry together, and we always rally
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- 48:22Speaker 2: the phone lines here on Cowboys storyline. Got a few
- 48:24Speaker 2: more minutes to go and have a little bit of
- 48:26Speaker 2: shorter show this time than usual. Got a got another
- 48:31Speaker 2: birthday party to go to. Hopefully this one's better than
- 48:34Speaker 2: the last. All right, let's go to Chris and Saratoga Springs,
- 48:37Speaker 2: New York.
- 48:39Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, how's it going?
- 48:40Speaker 2: Good?
- 48:41Speaker 12: Hair?
- 48:41Speaker 8: Are you not too bad.
- 48:43Speaker 7: Thanks.
- 48:44Speaker 8: I do have a question, but I just want to
- 48:46Speaker 8: give you a quick story. Everybody asked me, how do
- 48:48Speaker 8: you live in New York and whole families giant fans,
- 48:52Speaker 8: and how do you become a Dallas Cowboy fan? Yeah,
- 48:55Speaker 8: quick story about my dad. He you grew up in
- 48:58Speaker 8: the children's home in Sarah Toogas Rings as a kid,
- 49:01Speaker 8: and the guy that ran the children's home was a
- 49:04Speaker 8: huge Cowboy fan, and he would tell my father. You'd
- 49:08Speaker 8: be like, hey, Bob, He's like, if you if you
- 49:10Speaker 8: do all your chores, he'll be week, you know, and
- 49:13Speaker 8: you act right and you're you know, you're a good kid.
- 49:15Speaker 8: He's like, every Sunday, I'll let you come in here
- 49:18Speaker 8: and in the office and we'll watch the Dallas Cowboys game.
- 49:21Speaker 8: So that's how my dad became a Dallas Cowboy fan.
- 49:24Speaker 8: And it's like I tell the story all the time
- 49:26Speaker 8: because it's in New York and everybody giants and they
- 49:29Speaker 8: always asked how to become a Cowboy fan. Well, that's
- 49:32Speaker 8: that's how we all became a Cowboys fan.
- 49:34Speaker 2: That's two stories in a row, now from you and
- 49:36Speaker 2: from from Rob in Vegas. And again it's I say
- 49:40Speaker 2: it all the time. You don't choose to be a
- 49:42Speaker 2: cowboy fan. It chooses you. And that's that. You didn't
- 49:46Speaker 2: choose that. He could have been any team, but you're
- 49:49Speaker 2: you were just trying to you know, trying to hang
- 49:51Speaker 2: out there and and with the with the boss and
- 49:54Speaker 2: uh yeah, or he was he was your dad was, Yeah,
- 49:58Speaker 2: but he passed.
- 49:59Speaker 4: It on to you.
- 49:59Speaker 2: You didn't choose that either, And so I love it.
- 50:02Speaker 2: It's it's great, I know. All right.
- 50:05Speaker 8: My question to you, what's your thoughts on the big
- 50:08Speaker 8: situation with him not working out with the best rehab
- 50:13Speaker 8: person that I know? Uh, what's your thoughts on him
- 50:17Speaker 8: working on on the zone and not being with the
- 50:20Speaker 8: team right now?
- 50:22Speaker 2: It's not great. I mean, it's not a great situation
- 50:25Speaker 2: at all. You know, you're right the you know, the
- 50:29Speaker 2: the rehab team they have here with Jim Ayer, Britt Brown,
- 50:33Speaker 2: Greg gaitheror those guys. Uh, they're they're they're the best
- 50:37Speaker 2: and and or they you know they I say they're
- 50:39Speaker 2: the best. They're really great at what they do. I
- 50:42Speaker 2: don't know where it ranks with others. They're really great
- 50:45Speaker 2: at what they do. Their track record speaks himself. And
- 50:48Speaker 2: not being here, it's there's more to it than just
- 50:51Speaker 2: rehabbing here. It's also you know, it's also being around
- 50:55Speaker 2: the guys and and and being part of the action.
- 50:58Speaker 2: So yeah, it's disappointing and and and it's it's not
- 51:02Speaker 2: you know, it doesn't bode well for the future in
- 51:05Speaker 2: my opinion. But because these rehabs, there's good days, there's
- 51:10Speaker 2: bad days, there's you know, and you you want to
- 51:12Speaker 2: kind of figure out how you know how to handle
- 51:16Speaker 2: these things. All right, today, we're only gonna do this,
- 51:18Speaker 2: We're gonna do that. And then all of a sudden,
- 51:20Speaker 2: when it's mandatory, he's gonna get here and and the
- 51:22Speaker 2: trainer is going to be like, well did you do
- 51:25Speaker 2: this and this and this? And it's just the communication
- 51:27Speaker 2: is just not gonna be good. He I think he
- 51:29Speaker 2: should be here, and it's unfortunate that he's not.
- 51:32Speaker 8: Do you do you think it's a possibility that they
- 51:35Speaker 8: trade him?
- 51:37Speaker 2: Nothing? Nothing would surprise me at this point. Yeah, I think,
- 51:40Speaker 2: of course, I think that would be a possibility. For
- 51:43Speaker 2: what I don't I don't know. I mean stories. You know,
- 51:47Speaker 2: it's the Internet, so stories are nationwide, so everyone what
- 51:50Speaker 2: my point is, everyone knows what's happening. So it's not like,
- 51:54Speaker 2: you know, they'll be I don't I don't know what
- 51:56Speaker 2: the market will look like. I don't know. I don't
- 51:58Speaker 2: know if it's if it's gonna be a terrible situation before.
- 52:01Speaker 2: I mean, he came back last year from an ACL injury.
- 52:04Speaker 2: I thought he played pretty well. This is a different
- 52:06Speaker 2: injury though. This is not just a standard ACL knee injury.
- 52:12Speaker 2: This this one's a little bit more serious. And so
- 52:15Speaker 2: we'll see. Though you know right now it is mandatory.
- 52:18Speaker 2: Maybe he'll be back you know, for the for the
- 52:21Speaker 2: voluntary I mean for the stuff that's I mean, it's
- 52:23Speaker 2: it's voluntary now. Maybe he'll be back for mandatory and
- 52:25Speaker 2: then stay stay longer as well.
- 52:28Speaker 8: Didn't have that same yeah that he had.
- 52:32Speaker 2: Yeah, it took a little bit of time, but he
- 52:34Speaker 2: came back and he played well. But different type of
- 52:37Speaker 2: player in different position obviously. Noah Brown is a big, strong,
- 52:42Speaker 2: physical receiver and you know, it wasn't dynamic played it
- 52:46Speaker 2: never has been a dynamic player, uh not asked to
- 52:49Speaker 2: go cover the fastest players in the world. So a
- 52:52Speaker 2: little different when when you're talking about corners receivers and
- 52:55Speaker 2: you know he gets the side when he wants to
- 52:57Speaker 2: cut and cornerbacks don't, and so you know, we'll we'll
- 53:01Speaker 2: we'll see if that's if that's how it all factors in.
- 53:04Speaker 2: But yeah, you would like to see him here, and
- 53:06Speaker 2: everybody would want to see uh, you know, hit him
- 53:10Speaker 2: here and rehappen and and and you know, trying to
- 53:12Speaker 2: get better as quickly as he can.
- 53:16Speaker 8: All right, happy birthday to your daughter. This party goal
- 53:19Speaker 8: is better than the last.
- 53:20Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, appreciate it has to be. All right,
- 53:23Speaker 2: let's go to Sebastian Savannah, Georgia.
- 53:26Speaker 21: What are you doing, mister Evens?
- 53:27Speaker 2: Good? How are you?
- 53:28Speaker 21: I'm doing just fine. Happy birthday to the little lady.
- 53:30Speaker 21: You know, shout out all the girl dads out here, got.
- 53:32Speaker 7: Two of them, mount there you go.
- 53:34Speaker 21: Hey, how you guys doing today?
- 53:38Speaker 2: We're good, man, We're good. What do you got on
- 53:40Speaker 2: your mind?
- 53:41Speaker 21: Hey, I'm doing great. I was just looking at the
- 53:42Speaker 21: schedule and working it out. I think the first team
- 53:46Speaker 21: to get to eleven wins can win this division for
- 53:48Speaker 21: the NFC. Yeah, so I think, you know, I got it.
- 53:50Speaker 21: I had it going in and seventh. We got to
- 53:54Speaker 21: find a way to get that eleventh win. But as
- 53:55Speaker 21: far as the first game of the season goes. I
- 53:58Speaker 21: think we pull that off. And here's the reason for that.
- 54:00Speaker 21: We have a lot of our starters working back from
- 54:02Speaker 21: injury and it's gonna take at least a couple of
- 54:04Speaker 21: weeks for everything in the jail. And you're talking about
- 54:06Speaker 21: three of our five starting corners are coming back to Faith,
- 54:10Speaker 21: two of the best wide receivers in the league, who
- 54:12Speaker 21: just came off of a Super Bowl, the highly emotional game.
- 54:15Speaker 21: They're gonna be dropping their banner. They're going to want
- 54:17Speaker 21: to book your butt at home. So if we drop
- 54:19Speaker 21: that game and it's a very competitive game, I'll be
- 54:21Speaker 21: very happy with the performance there. Like you say, no
- 54:24Speaker 21: moral victories, it's a loss of a loss, but I
- 54:26Speaker 21: think we go ten and seven for sure. We got
- 54:29Speaker 21: to find a way to get an end to the eleventh
- 54:30Speaker 21: game in there and try to win this division because
- 54:32Speaker 21: it's going to probably come down to a type breaker
- 54:34Speaker 21: between Washington and whoever the last team is in this division. Yeah, yeah,
- 54:39Speaker 21: that's it for me.
- 54:40Speaker 6: Man.
- 54:40Speaker 21: You guys have a great day, machine Man, and I
- 54:42Speaker 21: up and.
- 54:42Speaker 2: Listen appreciate it. I mean, yeah, I mean there are
- 54:46Speaker 2: moral victories. I mean I believe that, and I still
- 54:50Speaker 2: agree with the other part. A loss is a loss
- 54:54Speaker 2: and it counts the same. It's all the reason why
- 54:57Speaker 2: I say that about moral victories. Whatever it's it's just
- 55:00Speaker 2: it's how you respond. And that's just that's a motto
- 55:03Speaker 2: of life. It's how how do you respond? And how
- 55:06Speaker 2: do you respond? For the good and the bad. But
- 55:09Speaker 2: but you know, how are you taking a tough loss?
- 55:13Speaker 2: Of guy it? Michael from Bowling Greens put out these
- 55:15Speaker 2: three scenarios about he would love to see a sixty
- 55:18Speaker 2: two yard field goal win the game. You know, go
- 55:21Speaker 2: win the game and beat the Eagles. Okay, what if
- 55:23Speaker 2: it hit What if it hits the crossbar? You know,
- 55:26Speaker 2: what if it what if it hits the post and
- 55:28Speaker 2: goes off? And how gut wrenching would that be? Okay, well,
- 55:33Speaker 2: what happens in week two? I mean, what what happens
- 55:36Speaker 2: after that when you go play the Giants at home?
- 55:39Speaker 2: That's that's why week two is always important to me,
- 55:42Speaker 2: So win, lose, whatever it is. I mean, I just
- 55:47Speaker 2: I think it's it's how you handle certain things and
- 55:51Speaker 2: if and if you know, if you if you can
- 55:53Speaker 2: figure out a way to bounce back after a tough loss,
- 55:57Speaker 2: then and you know, and that's why I always think
- 55:59Speaker 2: that Tampa Bay game when twenty is it? I guess
- 56:02Speaker 2: it was twenty twenty two when they maybe it was
- 56:08Speaker 2: twenty one. It was twenty one when they went to
- 56:11Speaker 2: Tampa Bay and lost a very close game. You know,
- 56:14Speaker 2: they were the defending champs. Same thing, Thursday night football
- 56:16Speaker 2: and the banners raised and Tom Brady and they had
- 56:19Speaker 2: they had him on the ropes and they lost in
- 56:21Speaker 2: final seconds. That was tough. That was a tough loss.
- 56:23Speaker 2: Came back won five in a row after that, though,
- 56:25Speaker 2: So you know, was that a moral victory? In my opinion,
- 56:29Speaker 2: it was because I think that they everyone they fared
- 56:32Speaker 2: better than they thought, and they came back and then
- 56:34Speaker 2: they bounced back from it and they said, all right,
- 56:37Speaker 2: we're gonna be all right, And they were all right.
- 56:39Speaker 2: They were twelve and five teams. So if you handle
- 56:42Speaker 2: it the right way, then you know, you can you
- 56:44Speaker 2: can have some losses and still and they could still
- 56:47Speaker 2: help the team. Uh, but you know, you can have
- 56:49Speaker 2: some wins that that don't help the team if you
- 56:52Speaker 2: don't handle it the right way. So I think there's
- 56:54Speaker 2: two sides to it, As Parcells would say, two sides
- 56:57Speaker 2: to that pancake. All right, A couple more calls here,
- 56:59Speaker 2: Josh and Nick.
- 57:01Speaker 4: How you been good man?
- 57:02Speaker 2: How are you?
- 57:03Speaker 22: Oh my gosh. I've been trying for the past two
- 57:05Speaker 22: months to get in like crazy, so I'm so happy
- 57:08Speaker 22: to get through and talk to you today.
- 57:09Speaker 2: Oh man, how you doing?
- 57:11Speaker 10: You know, I'm uh.
- 57:13Speaker 22: I'm happy there's football because I'm a White Sox fan.
- 57:15Speaker 22: So you want to talk about some misery. One hundred
- 57:18Speaker 22: and twenty one games of Dying hard is misery?
- 57:20Speaker 2: Man? Yeah?
- 57:21Speaker 22: So looking a little Yeah, the team's looking a little
- 57:24Speaker 22: bit better this year, but you know, talking football, it's
- 57:27Speaker 22: been a couple months. So I just got to say, first,
- 57:28Speaker 22: thank you so much for the All Storyline team. When
- 57:31Speaker 22: you announced it, I was like, no way, I'm making
- 57:33Speaker 22: it if I didn't make honorable mention. So once I
- 57:35Speaker 22: saw a second team, I was like, thank god, that's awesome.
- 57:38Speaker 21: So thank you so much.
- 57:39Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, thank you for dedication and calling and
- 57:42Speaker 2: doing what it takes to get in.
- 57:44Speaker 8: Yep.
- 57:44Speaker 22: And then I know it's a little bit old, but
- 57:47Speaker 22: I kind of wonder what was thinking here? What kind
- 57:49Speaker 22: of grade would you give the off season acquisition so far?
- 57:53Speaker 22: And I say so far, because hopefully Mike's contract gets
- 57:55Speaker 22: done and they can sign another cornerback or detackle. But
- 57:59Speaker 22: I really like what they've done so far with Samber
- 58:01Speaker 22: and pick in Solomon Thomas, those type of guys. Even
- 58:03Speaker 22: the running backs I think are smart pickups, hoping that
- 58:06Speaker 22: they can get you know, maybe Gilmore back or somebody
- 58:09Speaker 22: else who's a cornerback with some experience. With the injuries there,
- 58:12Speaker 22: maybe you know, once some cap you know, freeze up
- 58:14Speaker 22: or something happens with Micah, then they can go out
- 58:17Speaker 22: and sign another cornerback there or pick up another d tackle.
- 58:19Speaker 22: But good to talk with you, and I'll jump off
- 58:22Speaker 22: the phone line, all.
- 58:23Speaker 2: Right, great, thanks for the call, Josh. Great grades for
- 58:27Speaker 2: you know, I mean, obviously the grade is an I.
- 58:30Speaker 2: It's incomplete, It's always been incomplete. But but you know,
- 58:34Speaker 2: I'll play a long I mean, like, I think it's
- 58:38Speaker 2: been a A B plus and and some people would
- 58:44Speaker 2: say maybe an A that's based off of the expectations
- 58:48Speaker 2: of what they've done in the past. But but you know,
- 58:51Speaker 2: I think they had they weren't overly aggressive and free agency,
- 58:55Speaker 2: but they they did pick up more players than they've
- 58:59Speaker 2: had in the past, and I think that just comes
- 59:00Speaker 2: down to the fact that you're a seven and ten team,
- 59:02Speaker 2: you had a lot of free agents. You know, are
- 59:05Speaker 2: your guys better than the guys that are out there
- 59:08Speaker 2: and a lot of seasons the answer is yes, So
- 59:11Speaker 2: keep your guys, and fans don't even call that free agency. Really,
- 59:15Speaker 2: I don't think fans are sitting here thinking, you know,
- 59:17Speaker 2: if the Cowboys had signed a defensive tackle for four
- 59:20Speaker 2: years eighty million from another team, I think they would
- 59:24Speaker 2: be more excited about it than just resigning Osa for
- 59:28Speaker 2: that price. But it still counts still free agent. He
- 59:31Speaker 2: was almost out the door and they got him, So
- 59:35Speaker 2: I'd say p plus it's been pretty good, has a
- 59:41Speaker 2: chance to be higher than that, and we'll see if
- 59:43Speaker 2: they add some more guys. And you said that about
- 59:45Speaker 2: maybe signing Mica to get another player. They can get
- 59:50Speaker 2: whoever they want right now, Like they've got the money
- 59:52Speaker 2: to go do that kind of stuff if they wanted to.
- 59:55Speaker 2: And the reason why those guys whoever's available, they want
- 59:59Speaker 2: to be avail. You know, they're not begging for a
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: job right now. They probably had a huge fan of
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: the offseason program, or don't need that right now, or
- 1:00:08Speaker 2: rehabing an injury or whatever it is, and getting themselves
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: ready to play when it matters. So there's a reason
- 1:00:15Speaker 2: why players are on the street right now, and it's
- 1:00:17Speaker 2: usually two ways. All right, let's go to Jeremy and DC.
- 1:00:23Speaker 20: Hey, Yo, Nick, what's up, man?
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: How are you doing?
- 1:00:26Speaker 20: I'm doing, man, I'm doing good. Book.
- 1:00:28Speaker 2: How you doing, buddy, It's been a minute.
- 1:00:31Speaker 20: Yeah, Man. The last time I told I got disconnected,
- 1:00:34Speaker 20: I was out in West Virginia working troup.
- 1:00:36Speaker 4: All right, all right, he yeah, I was.
- 1:00:41Speaker 20: Trying to get through.
- 1:00:42Speaker 8: Man.
- 1:00:42Speaker 20: I had to call one day. I called over like
- 1:00:44Speaker 20: one hundred and some times.
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm glad you got through today, man, what
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: do you got?
- 1:00:51Speaker 7: All right?
- 1:00:52Speaker 20: So my number for the day, because I've been forgetting
- 1:00:55Speaker 20: for the last couple of times, but my number for
- 1:00:57Speaker 20: the day. This was gonna be tough for you because
- 1:01:00Speaker 20: be found one other player with this number, number twenty,
- 1:01:04Speaker 20: Tony Pollin's old number. Right, So this is kind of
- 1:01:07Speaker 20: a trivia question for you. At the same time, let
- 1:01:10Speaker 20: me see if you can guess that one. And then
- 1:01:12Speaker 20: I just want to say, man, I'm I'm I'm I'm
- 1:01:15Speaker 20: glad that we been making free agent moves. Man, I'm
- 1:01:20Speaker 20: so happy with the moves they've been making. Only thing
- 1:01:23Speaker 20: that I need them to do is get like a
- 1:01:27Speaker 20: veteran defensive tackle to you know, something like Hankerson to
- 1:01:31Speaker 20: help out, you know, when Mazie and them guys get tired,
- 1:01:34Speaker 20: and to show them guys how to be professional, because
- 1:01:37Speaker 20: there's no really like no veteran in the defensive tackle rooms.
- 1:01:41Speaker 20: So I just think that they just need a veteran
- 1:01:44Speaker 20: to show them guys and lead them guys, show them
- 1:01:47Speaker 20: how to be more professional, you know what I'm saying.
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: Yeah, well, so what are you asking me about twenty?
- 1:01:53Speaker 2: You just just name another number twenty.
- 1:01:56Speaker 20: So usually, you know, usually I'll give you a number
- 1:01:59Speaker 20: and then I'll if you could think of another player
- 1:02:02Speaker 20: with that same exact number, and if you have a
- 1:02:05Speaker 20: story about that player or a story about a player
- 1:02:09Speaker 20: with that same exact number.
- 1:02:11Speaker 2: All right, well I've got three other number twenties. So
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: and I know I know those weren't that, but I
- 1:02:18Speaker 2: mean Ron Springs from the from the eighties. I mean
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: Ron Springs was it was great, it was he was
- 1:02:24Speaker 2: a really good player and of course, you know, great
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: story there sad sad ending to his his life. But
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: you know, Derek Ross wore number twenty. I think at
- 1:02:35Speaker 2: one point it might have switched to twenty one too.
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: Ray Horton Ray Horton were War twenty as a veteran
- 1:02:43Speaker 2: corner there in the early nineties. So I know there's
- 1:02:46Speaker 2: there's more than that, but those are those are the
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: ones that come to mind for me.
- 1:02:49Speaker 20: So all right, okay, all right, all right, man, And
- 1:02:54Speaker 20: I want to say thank for the third team mentioned there.
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: You got all.
- 1:03:00Speaker 20: I'm trying to get in more than I can.
- 1:03:02Speaker 2: Man, sounds good.
- 1:03:04Speaker 10: Don't hurt nobody, all right, we won't.
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: We won't for sure. Thank you, Jeremy. Let's go. This
- 1:03:09Speaker 2: will be our last caller today. Ronnie in New Jersey, Ronnie,
- 1:03:12Speaker 2: what's up? Man?
- 1:03:13Speaker 7: Hey? How you doing? Nick?
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: Good?
- 1:03:16Speaker 7: Well, I'm pretty good. First of all, I wanted to
- 1:03:18Speaker 7: say congratulations to your daughter for happy birthday. Congratulations to
- 1:03:23Speaker 7: Christmas kids for I know they won a couple of
- 1:03:26Speaker 7: championships or are doing pretty good in their baseball teams,
- 1:03:30Speaker 7: so congrats to them. And so I know everybody's asking
- 1:03:35Speaker 7: you about, you know, the roster and this, this and that,
- 1:03:39Speaker 7: but I was gonna ask you considering everything they've done
- 1:03:43Speaker 7: this year. I mean they they have made moves like
- 1:03:46Speaker 7: this in a while, right, Like it's been a few
- 1:03:48Speaker 7: years since Jerry Jones and the staff has made these
- 1:03:51Speaker 7: many moves trades and stuff like that. So do you
- 1:03:56Speaker 7: see them going like into training camp and you know,
- 1:04:00Speaker 7: not waiting until later in the season and stuff like that.
- 1:04:03Speaker 7: If they see like they're missing holes like a defensive
- 1:04:06Speaker 7: tack or or anything like that, you see them making
- 1:04:09Speaker 7: a move. I mean, considering everything they've done and everything
- 1:04:11Speaker 7: they're doing for your new head coach, our new head coach,
- 1:04:15Speaker 7: which I mean, the guy seems like he's putting this
- 1:04:18Speaker 7: team in the right direction and and everybody's like in
- 1:04:21Speaker 7: on it now. Everybody's in right now. So I was
- 1:04:24Speaker 7: just wondering, like, are they going to continue to making
- 1:04:27Speaker 7: moves if they see according to how the boss is
- 1:04:31Speaker 7: going you know what I'm saying.
- 1:04:33Speaker 2: Well, I mean they did that last year. Yeah, I mean,
- 1:04:38Speaker 2: that's one thing that Mike McCarthy did a lot of
- 1:04:41Speaker 2: was make moves towards the you know, start of the
- 1:04:44Speaker 2: of the season and right you know, during training camp.
- 1:04:47Speaker 2: I mean Anthony Barr, Jason Peters last year trading for
- 1:04:53Speaker 2: was Jordan Phillips. I mean yeah, I mean they they
- 1:04:57Speaker 2: they've done that a lot. So I don't know if
- 1:04:59Speaker 2: at that well will change, if that mindset changes, but no,
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: Linval Joseph was another one. So yeah, that's something that
- 1:05:07Speaker 2: they have done in the past. This has been a
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: little bit more unique of the trades early, but yeah, yeah,
- 1:05:15Speaker 2: you're always going to do that. You're gonna fill some
- 1:05:16Speaker 2: holes and and and and so yes, I think that
- 1:05:19Speaker 2: will certainly happen. And let's let's just not forget that
- 1:05:22Speaker 2: this past coaching staff did that too, but not to
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: the level not that we've seen this year and this early.
- 1:05:31Speaker 7: And that that's my question because I've seen that they've
- 1:05:34Speaker 7: traded for some players. Hey we needed a wide receiver.
- 1:05:37Speaker 7: We desperately needed by receiver. They thought they were going
- 1:05:40Speaker 7: to get him in the draft, but hey, you know
- 1:05:41Speaker 7: what they made that move to get that that wonder
- 1:05:45Speaker 7: that receiver they really needed or for this team to
- 1:05:48Speaker 7: to prosper and even the offensive side, are they are
- 1:05:52Speaker 7: they going to continue? That's what I was wondering, Like, Wow,
- 1:05:54Speaker 7: I mean Jerry Jones, there they're going in like it's
- 1:05:57Speaker 7: like last year he went up he did it a
- 1:05:59Speaker 7: season league you know how he was we're all in,
- 1:06:01Speaker 7: We're all in, and everybody was, what's he talking about?
- 1:06:04Speaker 7: He hasn't done anything, but this year it's like, you know,
- 1:06:07Speaker 7: it came in a little bit later, so he's actually
- 1:06:10Speaker 7: we're all in next year. Yeah, because of the moves
- 1:06:15Speaker 7: they made, right, But I was just wondering, like if
- 1:06:17Speaker 7: it seems like, hey, this run defense is going to
- 1:06:21Speaker 7: be a problem, you know what, let's let's make a train,
- 1:06:23Speaker 7: Let's let's get somebody that could actually help us with
- 1:06:26Speaker 7: the bun defense stuff like that.
- 1:06:28Speaker 9: Uh.
- 1:06:28Speaker 7: But you know, thanks for taking my call, Naked. I'll
- 1:06:31Speaker 7: listen to you on the other side.
- 1:06:33Speaker 2: All right, appreciate it, Thanks, Ronnie. Uh yeah, you know,
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: it is funny this this does seem a little bit
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: more all in like than than what we saw last year.
- 1:06:42Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, I don't think that they're done
- 1:06:45Speaker 2: making moves, but I do think that they've they've made
- 1:06:48Speaker 2: a lot already, more than than the normal. But they
- 1:06:53Speaker 2: still you know that there are players, it's not just
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: the Cowboys Fosphy. There are players that are that are
- 1:07:00Speaker 2: getting themselves ready to go for this time of year.
- 1:07:03Speaker 2: I mean, and they maybe they don't want to go
- 1:07:06Speaker 2: to camp or they you know, they're they're they don't
- 1:07:08Speaker 2: feel like they need to they're not even looking to sign,
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: or their price tag will we'll will drop when it
- 1:07:14Speaker 2: gets to that that point one way or another, though,
- 1:07:17Speaker 2: there there's always a market for some players that are
- 1:07:19Speaker 2: still out there that aren't ready to sign just yet.
- 1:07:22Speaker 2: So we'll see if the Cowboys decide if they want
- 1:07:26Speaker 2: to go that route. All right, it's been a good show,
- 1:07:28Speaker 2: really good show. Appreciate you guys calling in, and we
- 1:07:31Speaker 2: will do it again next Wednesday. Stay tuned for the
- 1:07:33Speaker 2: schedule might be a little bit different with what you
- 1:07:35Speaker 2: got the mini camp next week, but Chris Beam will
- 1:07:38Speaker 2: have it all figured out for you and hopefully we'll
- 1:07:40Speaker 2: be on normal time next Wednesday. All right for Chris Beam,
- 1:07:45Speaker 2: Nick Eatman, see you next week on the Cowboys story line.
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