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  Speaker 1: This is Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette, the official shave
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, welcome to Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Nick Eatman. It's Thursday, October 29th, a couple of days
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  Speaker 2: away from Halloween, if that's your thing. If you have kids,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure it is their thing. It certainly is in
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  Speaker 2: my house, but see what the Cowboys are going to
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  Speaker 2: dress up as this Sunday when they take on the
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  Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals. It'll be November at that point. Roll the
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  Speaker 2: clocks back an hour, all that stuff for the noon game.
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  Speaker 2: It's nice to have an afternoon game for once. It's
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  Speaker 2: three straight night games, so it'll be sunny out there,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe not, but at least it'll be daylight and
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys take on the Cardinals. How do they win?
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  Speaker 2: How do they beat these pesky Arizona Cardinals that they've
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  Speaker 2: only beaten two times in the last 20 years? I
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  Speaker 2: looked that up. I was like, I remember the game
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  Speaker 2: when Romo was a young quarterback back in 2006, and
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  Speaker 2: it was like his second start maybe, and they won
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  Speaker 2: that game, and they've only won twice since then. They
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  Speaker 2: haven't beaten the Cardinals at home since 2005, so it's
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  Speaker 2: only been a couple of times. But, wow, see if
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys can reverse that trend and get on. Track here,
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  Speaker 2: there's been a trade in the NFL, another one. Jeffrey
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  Speaker 2: Simmons was sent to the Bears from the Titans. So
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  Speaker 2: a couple things there we can talk about as the
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  Speaker 2: show goes on, but it's very important to win this
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  Speaker 2: NFC East, and it's very important to have these next
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  Speaker 2: few games. They have to win these games because it's
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  Speaker 2: laying out right in front of them. There's been trades
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  Speaker 2: all through that are impacting the Cowboys' next four games.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Davion in Illinois first. Davion,
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  Speaker 2: what's up?
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  Speaker 3: What it do, what it do, my boy? What the
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  Speaker 3: business is?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Man, doing good, doing good. You said something right there,
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  Speaker 3: the Simmons trade. Man, like you said, starting to lay
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  Speaker 3: out for us pretty good there. I'm not even going
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  Speaker 3: to front. We got to get these next three. We
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  Speaker 3: got to get them. We got to line it up
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  Speaker 3: so we can go and see what we can do
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  Speaker 3: against these 49ers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: A couple questions. First one, we got two IR spots left,
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  Speaker 3: I believe, right?
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  Speaker 2: Two what spots?
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  Speaker 3: IR. Oh, IR.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, IR for return. Yes, two.
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  Speaker 3: So I think we got like three guys. We got Locke.
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  Speaker 3: Leo Fowler and JT. How do you think that's going
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  Speaker 3: to play out?
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  Speaker 2: I don't, maybe you don't, maybe you're misunderstanding what that
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  Speaker 2: spot is. They, they, they're all coming back when they
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  Speaker 2: want to, when they can come back, they'll be back.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 2: Those spots, they're already taken. They've used six out of
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  Speaker 2: the eight. Those three of them are in that group.
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  Speaker 3: So they have two.
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  Speaker 2: More players at some point this season that will be
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  Speaker 2: injured that they can use for an IR to return.
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  Speaker 2: Those three guys are already included in your six. The
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  Speaker 2: other ones are, I think, Devin Moore. I can't remember
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  Speaker 2: the other ones, but yeah. No, I mean, that's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: those are the guys that are expected to come back.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I got you. Okay, yeah, I guess I did.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I was, yeah, I guess I misunderstood what
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  Speaker 3: they were saying. I was like, wait a minute, I
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  Speaker 3: got like three guys coming back and I only got
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  Speaker 3: two spots left to do. Okay, gotcha. Oh, also, happy
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  Speaker 3: that we won because it was Eagles week. I know
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  Speaker 3: we already turned the page, but, you know, I can't
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  Speaker 3: stand the Eagles, so I love them more. Getting beat down.
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  Speaker 3: I think the way we win the game, we just
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  Speaker 3: got to go figure out, do what we did last week,
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  Speaker 3: and do it better, even better, so we can really
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  Speaker 3: just get up on the team and not let the
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  Speaker 3: Cardinals get any kind of life. We just got to
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  Speaker 3: get on early, start fast, finish faster.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I like the plan. I mean, starting fast
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  Speaker 2: is definitely a key factor. Thanks for the call, Damion. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: definitely got to start fast in this game. Anytime, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and the Cowboys did start fast, especially on offense, and
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  Speaker 2: I think that that helped. Now, the defense, you know,
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  Speaker 2: certainly it took a while to kind of start getting
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  Speaker 2: some stops, but think about how important it was that
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys continued to do that. So, all right, let's...
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  Speaker 2: Let's keep it going here. I want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: these next three games, four games here on the Cowboys schedule.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at Arizona, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Tennessee, that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be the first four games of November. Philadelphia
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  Speaker 2: is after that. Also in November, of course, Thanksgiving. But
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  Speaker 2: these next four games, there have been trades that have
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  Speaker 2: impacted all of these games. Arizona... If you remember a
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  Speaker 2: couple weeks ago, Marvin Harrison Jr. had a big game
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  Speaker 2: against Dallas last year. He has been traded to Houston.
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  Speaker 2: So that's less firepower there for Arizona's offense. Indianapolis is
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  Speaker 2: having a fire sale there. They've traded a couple of
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  Speaker 2: guys already, maybe even more by the time the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: face them. But I can't think of the defensive tackle's
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  Speaker 2: name now that they got traded to Buckner, DeForest Buckner
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  Speaker 2: from Indianapolis. He's been traded. And then also they traded
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  Speaker 2: Quentin Nelson, which I really thought they could get more
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  Speaker 2: for that. He's one of the best guards. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's one of the best guards that we've seen in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL in a long time, not just right now, but,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, in a long, long time. And I kind
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  Speaker 2: of thought they could get more for him, still a
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  Speaker 2: relatively young player. but those two guys off the Colts roster,
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  Speaker 2: and then after that, the Cowboys take on San Francisco,
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  Speaker 2: who got DeForest Bunkner, so they'll be a little bit
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  Speaker 2: better there in the middle, and then the Tennessee Titans
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  Speaker 2: is the next game, and they just traded away Jeffrey
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  Speaker 2: Simmons to the Bears, so that tells me these next
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  Speaker 2: four games, I mean, trades are impacting these games. Also,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be really, really almost impossible, I think,
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  Speaker 2: for the Cowboys to get a wild card if they
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  Speaker 2: don't go win the division. They've got to win the division.
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  Speaker 2: There's just too many teams out there. When you think
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  Speaker 2: about just three wild card spots, I mean, San Francisco
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  Speaker 2: or Seattle is going to have one of those, I
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  Speaker 2: would think. The North, with Minnesota, Green Bay, the Bears,
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  Speaker 2: Detroit's even in there. I mean, that's going to be tough, too.
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  Speaker 2: So you've got to think the Rams are going to
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  Speaker 2: factor back into this at some point. So it's even
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  Speaker 2: more important to not only stack these wins right now,
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  Speaker 2: but you've got to go win the division because anything
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  Speaker 2: other than that seems– Seems really tough at this point,
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  Speaker 2: especially at 3-4. All right, let's go to Rosa in Springfield, Virginia. Rosa.
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  Speaker 2: Not what it says, but Rosa, what's up, man?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, what's up, Nick?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Good, good, good.
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  Speaker 7: I just want to say I agree with you. These
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  Speaker 7: are games that we should win.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if you heard Troy Aikman, but I
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  Speaker 7: kind of, after the Monday night game where they asked him,
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  Speaker 7: how do you feel about this team now after this win?
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  Speaker 7: And then he was kind of like, nothing has really changed.
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  Speaker 7: I'm kind of in the same boat. They still got
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  Speaker 7: to prove it to me. Get these wins. The defense
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  Speaker 7: didn't look that great. I know in the second half
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  Speaker 7: they did turn it around. But I was happy the offense...
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  Speaker 7: I mean, we played good Philadelphia defense, so I was
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  Speaker 7: happy the offense got back on track. We just have
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  Speaker 7: to continue and keep on winning. But I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: This is going to be a tough game against Arizona.
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  Speaker 8: I want to know.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know why we struggle against this team, but
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  Speaker 7: hopefully we can get the W. And I just want
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  Speaker 7: to give a shout-out to Rob from Vegas. I kind
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  Speaker 7: of agree with a lot of his takes. I know
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  Speaker 7: some of the fans have their opinions on him, but
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  Speaker 7: I kind of agree with some of his takes. But
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  Speaker 7: I just didn't agree with him when he was talking
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  Speaker 7: about coach at first, so I kind of got on board.
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  Speaker 7: But I definitely did not agree with him when he
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  Speaker 7: said the things about our defensive coordinator, Charlton, uh, Christian Parker,
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  Speaker 7: how he, and you kind of put him in his spot.
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  Speaker 7: And I agreed with you, like who cares what he wears.
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  Speaker 7: If he was doing great, we would say a flagger,
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  Speaker 7: but I just want to say like, uh, hopefully Christian
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  Speaker 7: Parker turns it around.
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  Speaker 9: Um, and then like, uh, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And I just want to know what you think about, um,
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  Speaker 7: Arizona and how this game is going to go. I'm
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  Speaker 7: still worried. I, I, I, we make every quarterback look good.
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  Speaker 7: So I'm just worried about.
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  Speaker 2: You should be. I mean, thanks for the call, Roz.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I, I I'm with you. I think, um,
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  Speaker 2: I I'm still on the fence on where I want
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  Speaker 2: to pick this game because I just haven't seen the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys handle success yet and that you can't stack any
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  Speaker 2: wins if you don't build off of what you've done.
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  Speaker 2: The first game was Washington. Then they go to Rio.
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  Speaker 2: You're a few seconds away from that game going to overtime.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you could have won the game down there at
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  Speaker 2: the two-yard line. We wouldn't be talking about how they
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  Speaker 2: handled success and all that. That was such a unique
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  Speaker 2: trip and They had a chance to win the game.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like they didn't play well enough to win it.
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  Speaker 2: So that's hard to really fault them for that. But
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  Speaker 2: then Houston winning that game, bouncing back, then going short
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  Speaker 2: week and not handling that with Tampa Bay. So that's
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  Speaker 2: what I want to see. I want to see them
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  Speaker 2: just kind of, hey, good emotional momentum building win and
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  Speaker 2: then carry it on to the next game. That's what
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  Speaker 2: we need to see. So I haven't seen it yet.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's lining up for them. that you know
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  Speaker 2: they should be able to stack some wins right here
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  Speaker 2: but they the consistency has to be there and you're
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  Speaker 2: right whatever it is they just let their guard down
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  Speaker 2: with with the cardinals the cardinals obviously you know and
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  Speaker 2: we're talking 20 years now we're talking how many different
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  Speaker 2: coaches is that for both teams i mean that's probably
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  Speaker 2: 10 different coaches and 15 different quarterbacks and so you
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  Speaker 2: know the only thing that's the same is really the
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  Speaker 2: fans and the uniforms and so but Whatever it is,
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  Speaker 2: see if the Cowboys can turn that around this week.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Oscar in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: Oscar, what's up?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, good morning, Nick.
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  Speaker 9: How you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 5: Good.
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  Speaker 9: How are you?
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  Speaker 10: Good, brother.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you for having me on. Yeah, in regards to
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  Speaker 9: the Cardinals game this Sunday, I truly feel we're due
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  Speaker 9: for one against that specific team finally. I just think
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  Speaker 9: it's going to be on their mind how badly it's
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  Speaker 9: gone against Arizona specifically. So I just think we're due
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  Speaker 9: for one. For me, most importantly, man, I just want
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  Speaker 9: them to have a complete game for the first time
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  Speaker 9: all season. Can you score some points and can you
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  Speaker 9: stop their offense It feels like we have some really
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  Speaker 9: great offensive games, like, for example, the Baltimore game or
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  Speaker 9: the Washington game, but we've just never had that defense
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  Speaker 9: come up and also show out as well. So I
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  Speaker 9: think we're due for one against the Cardinals, and then
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  Speaker 9: we just need a complete game after, what, seven, eight weeks.
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  Speaker 9: Really quickly, Nick, I think... Regarding the trade deadline coming up,
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  Speaker 9: I really think they need to make a move one
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  Speaker 9: way or the other. And what I mean by that
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  Speaker 9: is either get an elite pass rusher or you've got
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  Speaker 9: to trade pickets and get a first from Casey or Buffalo.
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  Speaker 9: You absolutely cannot stand Pat with the makeup of this roster.
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  Speaker 9: You have to go one way or the other.
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  Speaker 6: What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Well, okay, I'll ask you, though. When do you go
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  Speaker 2: one way or the other, though? Like, they lose to Arizona?
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  Speaker 2: then are you saying, all right, this is probably, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're behind the eight ball too much here, and then
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  Speaker 2: they should do that? I mean, because if you beat
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  Speaker 2: Arizona and you're 4-4, I think this team looks like
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  Speaker 2: they're going to go forward and not backwards. I can
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  Speaker 2: see them adding, but at this point, I don't see them.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Philly game was the one that kind
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  Speaker 2: of swung the momentum more like, all right, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be, any move that they make is going to
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  Speaker 2: be to help this team, not really for future capital,
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  Speaker 2: I think. Your team is completely different without Pickens on
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  Speaker 2: offense now. And so I'd have a hard time thinking
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  Speaker 2: that they would trade Pickens with, with the NFC East
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  Speaker 2: the way it is and, you know, a chance to
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  Speaker 2: go and win the division. I mean, they're still in
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  Speaker 2: a good spot to go win this NFC East, in
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  Speaker 2: my opinion.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, man. I think in two weeks it's going to
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  Speaker 9: say a lot. I just think if you don't get
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  Speaker 9: an elite rusher, you're still probably going to win the division,
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  Speaker 9: but you're going to be one and done picking 21st, 22nd.
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  Speaker 9: So that's where I'm at with the pickings trades. If
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  Speaker 9: you don't get Max Crosby, Alex Highsmith, I can't think
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  Speaker 9: of any other lead rusher at the moment. But you
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  Speaker 9: may still win the division, but you're going to lose
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  Speaker 9: out on a first-round pick for Pickens because I think
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  Speaker 9: he's going to be worth less in the offseason.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think what the– thanks for the call, Oscar.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I think what they could do is
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  Speaker 2: you could also franchise him again and then look to
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  Speaker 2: trade him. and, you know, you'd like to do that
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  Speaker 2: before the draft so you can get something, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for that, you know, coming up there, if that's what
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  Speaker 2: you want to do and if that's the route that
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  Speaker 2: they want to go. You know, he's a different guy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's no doubt about it. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: always going to be a little bit of a challenge,
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  Speaker 2: I think, for them as far as some of the
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  Speaker 2: behind-the-scenes stuff, but not to the point where it's, you know–
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  Speaker 2: too problematic. But, you know, he gets his share of
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  Speaker 2: fines and he pays it.
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  Speaker 8: $ 27.
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  Speaker 2: 1 million a year. That can help. That goes a
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  Speaker 2: long way. But, you know, he's just, that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: He's different. I don't think he's Terrell Owens where he's
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  Speaker 2: dividing the locker room. I don't think he's that. I
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  Speaker 2: think he could be somewhat of a distraction. But he's
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  Speaker 2: a really good player too. And I think you know,
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  Speaker 2: CD lamb is going off this year because of the
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  Speaker 2: way the teams continue to try to stop pickings. And
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  Speaker 2: if that's going to continue to happen, then I mean,
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  Speaker 2: CDs on a pace for, you know, 15, 1600 yards
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. So I don't think that'll, that'll, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, hold up either. So I, I think it'll,
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  Speaker 2: it'll swing back around. I think you'll see some more
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  Speaker 2: games where pickings really, really goes off. So I just
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  Speaker 2: have a hard time trading him right now. Um, when,
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  Speaker 2: when I think it's, it's still on the table. Now
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  Speaker 2: you don't win this game and Maybe lose another one.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember when it is. Do you know when
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  Speaker 2: the trade deadline is? November 9th.
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  Speaker 5: 9th.
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  Speaker 2: So, thanks, Chris. So, November 9th gives you two games.
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  Speaker 2: Gives you the Colts game and the Cardinals game. So,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think if you lost both of those games, then, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: now you're sitting at, what, three and six?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You would probably look to move if that's the case.
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  Speaker 2: But I just don't see that happening, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: think they're going to lose both these games, if any.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that now you've got a problem with
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  Speaker 2: their offense with not having another elite receiver there. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's go to Chris in Saratoga Springs.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on, Nick?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Not too bad.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not moving GP. CD's having an unbelievable year, and
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  Speaker 8: a big part of that is because of GP and
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  Speaker 8: the coverages he's seeing, getting double a lot, opening it
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  Speaker 8: up for CD.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not moving him.
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  Speaker 8: I do think we're going to make some sort of
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  Speaker 8: move for an edge rusher, I do believe. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 8: mind somebody over there in maybe the Chargers area. One
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  Speaker 8: of those guys over there would be nice. But I
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  Speaker 8: do think Gary will make one move. It's not going
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  Speaker 8: to be a big move like what the Bears just did, um,
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  Speaker 8: for Simmons, but it will be some small move. I,
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  Speaker 8: I'm pretty sure that's going to happen. Um, I just
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  Speaker 8: want to give you my prediction. I'll let everybody else
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  Speaker 8: get in, but I really think we're going to, we're
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  Speaker 8: going to hand it to the Cardinals, um, this, this Sunday, uh, 34, 17. Um,
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  Speaker 8: I know we haven't had good luck beating this team,
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  Speaker 8: but We have to win this game. These next few
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  Speaker 8: games are must-wins. We cannot drop any of these next
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: few games if we think we're going to have a chance.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: And the only way we're making the playoffs, let's be honest,
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: is if we win the division. We're not going to
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: get a wild card. Nobody in the NFC East is
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: going to get a wild card. So we have to
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: take care of business these next couple weeks and win
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: these games.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. I just don't see any other
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: way that both these teams are going to just get hot.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about the Cowboys and the Giants. They're both
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: going to get up there and get a wild card
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: and just don't see it happening. But, yeah, I'm with you.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I'm with you. I think that at some point it's
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: going to turn around and beat the Cardinals. It's a
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: weird one because in the 20 years, I mean, they
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: haven't been a better franchise. They haven't. They've still... It's
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: still Cowboys-Cardinals like it was in the 80s, 90s, all that.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: It's still the same. It's just the Cowboys haven't won
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: the game. They've been upset almost every single time.
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: Hey, real quick. Do you know Aikman's favorite place team
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: to play when he played back in his day?
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: Aikman?
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Who it was. It was Arizona.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Was it?
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, my buddy Stan, he used to do the card
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: show syndicate there where they had all the card shows.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: And his job was to sit next to the players
• 19:11
  Speaker 8: while they signed autographs. And he asked Troy, he's like, hey,
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: where's your favorite place to play? And he goes, yeah,
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: it's Arizona. And Stan goes, that's because you always beat Arizona.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: And this was before we went on this huge losing
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: streak against them. But, yeah, he definitely said Arizona.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can see that.
• 19:26
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, also, he didn't like to really throw the
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: ball in the cold weather and That didn't happen there either.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Very true.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: So, yeah. Now, his very first game in Arizona, I
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: bet he doesn't remember that much of it because that
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: might have been his first real concussion he had in
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: that game. And I'll never forget that game, 1989, against
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: the Cardinals when he stood up there and threw a
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: 75-yard line. touchdown pass got hit in the head and
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: for a concussion but ended up losing that game but
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: still it was it was it was like an early
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: defining moment for Troy and his toughness and his ability
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: to really you know throw the ball on a dime
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: and and and just you know take big hits and
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I thought that was kind of a big moment for him.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I'll never forget that game against Arizona. But, yeah, he
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: didn't lose that many of them. All right, thanks, Chris.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. All right, let's go to Michael
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: in Bowling Green.
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Michael.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: What's up, Michael?
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: What's up?
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: You came in and all I heard was Michael. Hey,
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: I kind of wish this game was in Arizona. because
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: it's been 413 days since the Cardinals won in Arizona.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: So that's an impressive record.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: How many days has it been since the Cowboys won
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: in Dallas? Like as far as beating Arizona?
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Well, in the last eight times they played, Dallas has
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: only won one.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: But just like I said with the Eagles, this is
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: going to be a game in January where we look
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: back and go, that's when things started to change. Because
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Dallas is not going to give up a touchdown in
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: this game. It's going to be 31-12. Arizona's only going
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: to be able to get field goals. But real quick,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: the last thing I got before I go, a lot
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: of people are moving. They just– The Titans just shipped
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: off Simmons to Chicago. So I believe we need to
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: be in that. I think we need to get a
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: solid pass rusher or really change our game. Do you
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: believe for a bona fide, Hall of Fame pass rusher,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Do you think we should give up Pickens for something
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: like that? Do you think that would make– lose Pickens
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: and get somebody like that? Do you think that would
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: really change our season? And I'll take that off air.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: That's all I got.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. I'm glad the game's at home.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: We've been on the road now. It felt like forever.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: And suitcase is just sitting out in the living room.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I guess it's been staying there. I've been living out
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: of that. And yeah, missing Halloween would probably not be
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: great there at home. So yeah, I'm glad it's a
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: home game. As for, we talked about this. Michael obviously
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: didn't listen to the show before he called. But yeah,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: we did talk about it. I don't know who's out there. Well,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know who's out there that everyone talks
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: about as a potential trade. But, I mean, you know
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: what you've got in Pickens. Pickens is really helping your
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: team right now. I mean, he's really, like, I mean,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: what other player can get these defense to lose focus
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: on CD like they're doing? I mean, this is CD Lamb.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: He's one of the best receivers in the game. And
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: he's getting to do a lot what he wants to
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: because of the way teams are playing him because of Pickens.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: You take that away for a pass rusher that I don't...
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'll believe it when I see it on
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: a guy that can just come right in and dominate.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: I just don't see that happening of them trading for
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: that guy, whoever that would be.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: So.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I just don't see that happening. I
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: don't think Pickens has to be involved with the pass
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: rush help that you're getting. And if you're getting pass
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: rush help to help your team, then why are you going–
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: why is it to be a wash? Why are you
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: losing your– now you've got problems on offense. I don't
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: think this offense is going to be as good and
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: dynamic as it is without him. I just– I don't.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, everyone's got a one. Everyone's got a good
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: receiver out there, a really good one. Most teams have that.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying as good a CD, but most teams
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: have a really good receiver. They don't have two. And
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: so you figure it out. I mean, these other teams
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: are adding all these other players. They're adding all pro
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: guard and they're adding an all pro defensive tackle and
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: they're not giving up, you know, they're giving up picks
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: for it. Now the Cowboys don't have a ton of it,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: but I'm not trading pickings for, you know, that to me,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I just feel like that's just, that's the definition of
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: robbing Peter to pay Paul, not doing that. Let's go
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: to break though. We'll do that. We'll be right back
• 24:41
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• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Josh in Chicago. Josh, what's up?
• 26:45
  Speaker 14: Hey, man, so switching gears, talking more about Arizona, I
• 26:48
  Speaker 14: agree with you about all the stuff with Pickens. You've
• 26:49
  Speaker 14: got to keep him as long as this season, at least.
• 26:52
  Speaker 14: Next season, we'll see what happens. But for right now,
• 26:54
  Speaker 14: I'm in the same boat. Look at Arizona this week.
• 26:58
  Speaker 14: I think the biggest things that need to be improved
• 27:00
  Speaker 14: on still with this defense is penalties. They really still
• 27:03
  Speaker 14: need to clean those up. You've got to get off
• 27:04
  Speaker 14: the field. We had too many penalties last week on
• 27:08
  Speaker 14: third or fourth that allowed them to stay on the field.
• 27:10
  Speaker 14: So they need to get off the field and eliminate
• 27:13
  Speaker 14: the penalties. I think they still lead the league on
• 27:14
  Speaker 14: defense and penalties. So that's what's got to stop this week.
• 27:18
  Speaker 14: Other than that, man, I think just keep running the ball.
• 27:21
  Speaker 14: Talk with you soon.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Just keep running it. Yeah, I like it too. You know,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: it's not like they're not having success with it. Even
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: the games where you felt like that they could have
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: run the ball more. Green Bay is the one that
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: obviously stands out. But there's other games where, you know,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: they didn't run it as much. But, you know, I
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: think it was Tampa. I felt like first drive, you know,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: that you see some success there. And I think you
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: also have to factor this part in, too, that, You
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: run the ball three, four yards, two yards, eight yards,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: four yards, five. You keep running it, though, especially with
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: the way that the Cowboys have their offensive line built.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Tyler Smith, Tyler Booker. Even Tyler Guyton has become a
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: good run bug. Terrence Steele, he loves games like that too,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: that they can run the ball. Of course, you get
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Beebe there at the center. But I think if you
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: continue to run the ball, and it's not just I
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: think this. I had this conversation last night with Nate
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Newton when we did the Cowboys Crosstalk at the Cowboys Club.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Keith Davis was the guest. Always fun to talk to him.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: But Nate was talking about how the same play in
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: the first and second quarter is different in the fourth
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: quarter if you keep doing it, if you keep pushing
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: and you keep leaning on them, that now these runs
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: are five yards, six yards, seven yards, 10, 15, maybe
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: 40 yards. The running back gets stronger, your offensive line,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: and it just wears out the defense. And so that's
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: why you stick to it is because you just keep
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: pushing and keep pushing. And so that's, you know, I
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: just think that it's a style that Shottie has to–
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: understand Dak, understand it. Like it's better for this football
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: team to play this way. You can have success. It'll
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: open up the passing game. It helps your defense. You
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: can still, and you can still score 38 points by
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: running the ball like that. I mean, the Jets game
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: a couple, you know, last year, same type of thing.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: They ran the ball a lot with Javante. He still
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: scored a lot of points. You can still score points.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: That's what they look at at the end of the day.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: They don't look at passing yards as much. They're looking
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: at the points. You can get there even if you run,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: especially Javante. He's not going to go 80 probably, but
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: he can still have some of these big runs. So anyways,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: let's go to Robbie Coco Beach.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: What's up, Nick?
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Hey.
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: How are you today? Good.
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: What's up?
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: I got three things. One, I sent a text in,
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: but I don't think you guys see the text as
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: much as you guys used to. You guys are so
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: busy on the phone now because you're so popular.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: We almost went to it here early in the show.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Lines weren't open.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: We were like, we've got to do something here.
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: That's funny. My text was, what did RJ predict last week?
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: I know you always write things down. He said he
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: predicted my son. I called in and said, RJ gave
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: his prediction. He said, I'll write it down. I don't
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: know if he did, but he said like 38-13 or 38-17.
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: I'm like, I don't know. I think he said 38-18.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I got a big win.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: That's what I wrote down. I said big win, yeah.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: I told you.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: I got a big win.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: Must not have written down with RJ. That's all right.
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: I was just trying to check him because he's like, Daddy,
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: I called that score. I'm like, no, you didn't.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: I have 42-19. 42-19 I have also written down on Friday.
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: Okay, that's what it was then. Okay, it was close.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: Two things. Can you give us a KD story that
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: you didn't give last night? Because Keith Davis and you
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: seem to really have some history and some fun times.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: And I think we win this game again. I'll try
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: to give you a predictor from RJ tomorrow. But I
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: think we've won it big. Like, we hold them to
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: one touchdown and a couple field goals.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: So, 13-ish. Yeah. So, we're going to put up points
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: over 30, 31, 33. All right, that's it. All right.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: Let's hear some stories. Talk to you.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Keith Davis is one of my favorite players of all time. Just–
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: he's just a real one. You know, there's just no
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: doubt about it. And I don't know– you know, I
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: don't want to hang out with him. You know, off
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: the field. field he had he had some wow do
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: you i mean like like he said it he said
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: it last night i mean he got shot he got
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: shot four times as a player i mean he got
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: i mean four different times you know he got he
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: got shot he even said that you know you don't
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: want to hang out with me uh nicest guy in
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: the world so i don't know what's going on when
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: he's not playing but anyways he told some he told
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: a lot of good stories my my favorite ones like
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: when he was a player and i said this on
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: the on the show last night um My favorite one
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: of all time is just when they played the Bears
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: in 2007, and he was established as a great special
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: teams guy at this point. And Devin Hester was, you know,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: he was the dude back then. It was the second year,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: and everyone was scared of him. Don't kick to him.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: But they said they were going to kick to him
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: this game. The Cowboys weren't, you know, first kickoff, they
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: just try something different, try to kick away from him.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: It goes out of bounds. They get the ball at
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: the 40. Keith Davis runs over to the special teams coach,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Bruce Reed, and just got in his face and said, like,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Kick it to him. If he gives up a touchdown,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: then you know what? You can take me off special teams.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: You can do whatever you want, but kick it to
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: this guy. Make him beat us. We'll tackle him. Next
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: time down, they kick it to him, and they kick
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: it right to Hester. KD's the first one down there.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Strips the ball. Forces a fumble. Said he got hurt
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: in the process of doing that, but they held Hester
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: to the best game, the lowest game ever for him
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: that season. And I think it's just a good example
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: of like your coaches are going to prepare you. Players
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: have to trust the coaches. But at the same time,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: the coaches have to trust the players, especially an established
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: veteran that says, hey, trust us. We can go make
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: these plays. And so I thought that was a real
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: cool moment there. Keith did that. And then he also
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: said something to me one time. I said, hey, you know,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: this is you ever been to the stadium? You know,
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: the new. AT & T Stadium, and he goes, I
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: hadn't been over there. I'm not going over there unless
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: one of two things happen. Number one, if my son
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: ends up playing there, then I'll go. And if they
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: put Darren Woodson in the Ring of Honor, then I'll go.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: And his son went to Texas Tech and played safety
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: at Texas Tech, and they played Baylor at the stadium.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: And he was there. I saw him there. And then
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: about a few months later, Darren Woodson goes in. Maybe
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: it was the next year. Darren Woodson went into the
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Ring of Honor. And there he was. Now Keith goes
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: there all the time. But he was true to his word.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: He's like, I'm not going there for some reason. And
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: it's not like he had animosity with the Cowboys. He
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: just said, you know, these are the two reasons that
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I will go to that stadium. And they both happened.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: And so now he goes there all the time. He's awesome.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: And one day we're going to do a documentary on him.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know if we can tell the whole story,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: but we'll be able to tell some of them.
• 34:37
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: Keith in Fernandina Beach, Florida is next.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Keith.
• 34:41
  Speaker 9: Good morning, Nick.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: How are you?
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: I'm good.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: Doing great. Listen, I've got a different take on this
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: as far as trades go. I know for the next
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: two weeks, that's pretty much what we're going to be
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: talking about. Should the Cowboys be buyers or sellers? I
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: personally think that we need to just stay put with
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: what we have on defense. And just hear me out
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: on this. I think our biggest problem besides our ends
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: not setting the edge, I think it's just simply these
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: guys just haven't played enough together. And I think when
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: it comes to defense or good defense, you need some trust.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: And the only way you can get that trust is
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: just to get down there and play. I feel like
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: that if the game script goes the way we hoped,
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: where the Cowboys are scoring and we're outscoring our opponent,
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: then in the fourth quarter, you're going to see the
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: pass rush. You're going to see it kind of like
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: we saw last week against Philadelphia. but it's in the day.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: I just don't see that this defense is going to
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: get better by adding whoever as a, as a pass rusher,
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: because the game script's not really going on our side.
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: I don't really know how effective that person is going
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: to be. And again, it's in the day. I just
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: feel like this defense was at eight new players this year.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: They just need time to play and hopefully you can
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: get victories while they're learning how to play together.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I'm, You know what? I like that. Thanks for the call.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: My gut is to probably stay put. I feel like
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: they've done a lot. Now, if there's another situation where
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: there's maybe a pass rusher who's got an expiring contract,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: and so you're not going to have to give up
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: a lot there, and you basically would just be renting
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: the player. then I think I'd be okay with that. Um,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: but it's kind of jumbled right now. I mean, I still, I'm,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: I'm with some of the fans that think James Houston should,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: should get some opportunities and he was actually active last week,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: but he didn't really get in there. I'm just not
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: seeing anything from Vaughn Miller. He just doesn't, we don't,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: we don't see it. I know PFF graded him pretty high,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: higher than, than anyone else on defense. I didn't really
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: notice much from, from him. Um, So, you know, Ezraku
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: got a sack. Gary gets the most pressures of anybody,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: but you're not really seeing it from the sacks standpoint.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: So if you add another guy that just kind of
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: added him into the mix, you just wonder if he's
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: just going to be in there with everybody else and
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: is really going to be impactful. And if you get
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: one of those dudes, then what do you got to
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: give up for that? So I just.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I feel like they've done a lot. It's not like
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: if you don't do anything, I don't think the Cowboys
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: should be criticized for why they didn't go do anything.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: They've done a lot now. They've already made their big trade.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: It was just early. That's the thing. They didn't wait.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: They got Joey Porter Jr. That was a big, big
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: trade for them. And they made some earlier on in
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: the preseason with Broderick Jones. I'm not saying that's a
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: big trade, but he was a former first-round pick. They
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: gave up, I think, a third for him. So this
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: team is not sitting on their hands. I mean, they, they,
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: they've been doing things and they've done things earlier than,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: than most. So I think at this point, I wouldn't say,
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: you know, standing pat, I would just, they, they've done, they,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: they've made their, they've made their moves. So they've, you know,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: got to, got to just let this thing continue to
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: grow and, and develop. And I'm not saying close the
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: door on anything, but you know, you're just running out
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: of picks for, for next year to even try to trade.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: And I just don't know who they have on their,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: on the team. I mean, Somebody need a guard? I mean,
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: TJ Bass, maybe? I mean, he's a good player that
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: could help someone, but I don't think you're going to
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: get much in return for what you want there. All right,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Lester in Minnesota is next.
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: Good morning, Nick.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 38:51
  Speaker 10: Hey, before I get on to my rant, I'm going
• 38:54
  Speaker 10: to give my score. I believe the Cowboys... Get off
• 38:59
  Speaker 10: the schneid against Arizona, I'm going to say 24-13. All right.
• 39:08
  Speaker 10: As far as the trade deadline, yeah, I think we
• 39:11
  Speaker 10: should look, you should always try to improve your team,
• 39:14
  Speaker 10: of course. So whatever the head people there think we need,
• 39:21
  Speaker 10: then they should go out and try to get it.
• 39:24
  Speaker 10: But I want to just, Say something about someone said
• 39:28
  Speaker 10: trade and pickings. I think a couple people said something
• 39:31
  Speaker 10: about trade and pickings. And I don't agree with that
• 39:34
  Speaker 10: because addition by subtraction, in my opinion, don't work, i.e.,
• 39:42
  Speaker 10: Jordan Lewis, i.e., The receiver we let go from the
• 39:48
  Speaker 10: Raiders that we traded for, I'm not going to mention
• 39:50
  Speaker 10: his name because I know it's a sore subject, i.e.,
• 39:54
  Speaker 10: and I'm going to say it, McCarthy. The reason why
• 39:59
  Speaker 10: I'm bringing up him, Coach McCarthy, is because we had three, 12,
• 40:03
  Speaker 10: and five, 12 and six seasons or whatever it was. So,
• 40:08
  Speaker 10: in my opinion, you build on that. Whatever he wasn't doing,
• 40:11
  Speaker 10: he wasn't running the ball or whatever it was, then you–
• 40:15
  Speaker 10: Make him comply to doing that, whatever it was.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, I know there's.
• 40:20
  Speaker 10: Some issues there, but three straight 12-5 seasons, I think
• 40:24
  Speaker 10: that's worth keeping him a little bit more and building
• 40:28
  Speaker 10: on whatever his things that he didn't do well or
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: should have been doing. Let me ask you this, Lester.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Lester, real quick, let me ask you this. Would you
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: rather have McCarthy and Von Miller, or would you rather
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: have Shottie and Micah Parsons?
• 40:46
  Speaker 10: McCarthy and Miller because, again, he had three, 12, and
• 40:55
  Speaker 10: five seasons in a row, and we haven't seen that
• 40:57
  Speaker 10: in a long time.
• 40:59
  Speaker 11: I mean, I know one.
• 41:01
  Speaker 10: Season he didn't do well, but Dak was hurt, so
• 41:03
  Speaker 10: I don't really count that because the quarterback is the
• 41:06
  Speaker 10: most important piece of the puzzle. And that also gets
• 41:10
  Speaker 10: back to what I've been saying for a while.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: You know, as.
• 41:17
  Speaker 10: A company that I call the Dallas Cowboys, as a company,
• 41:21
  Speaker 10: whoever makes these decisions, I don't know who it is,
• 41:24
  Speaker 10: or it could be a committee or whatever, you identify
• 41:28
  Speaker 10: five to ten core players, and you lock them up.
• 41:32
  Speaker 10: I know it ain't easy. I know you got to
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: go through all this stuff, but you identify that. You
• 41:37
  Speaker 10: lock them up, and you.
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: Build from that.
• 41:40
  Speaker 10: So that's all I got to say. Let's go, let's go,
• 41:44
  Speaker 10: let's go, Cowboys.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Sounds good.
• 41:47
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Another example. Everybody has different opinions when it comes to that.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I think Mike did a good job, but I also
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: think that I think Micah Parsons was the reason that
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: this team was doing what it was doing. I really
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: believe that. I mean, he just gave a consistent pass
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: rush that we just haven't seen before. Did he have
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: to go? Yeah, he had to go. As soon as
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: he laid on that table, he had to go. So
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: it's unfortunate. But they haven't replaced that type of player.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: You don't need the person. Green Bay can have the person.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: But the player, the Cowboys need that player. And I
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: really believe that. All right, let's go to a break
• 42:33
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  Speaker 2: Albert in Tucson, Arizona. Albert, what's up?
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Nick, my man.
• 44:02
  Speaker 11: Good morning, brother.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Good morning. How are you doing?
• 44:04
  Speaker 11: I'm doing pretty good, brother. It's actually beautiful outside. It's
• 44:09
  Speaker 11: a great day to be alive. And, you know, this
• 44:14
  Speaker 11: whole episode, this podcast today has been up and down about,
• 44:21
  Speaker 11: you know, about the Cardinals. And, you know, honestly, Arizona
• 44:26
  Speaker 11: is from, you can go to the Four Corners, you
• 44:30
  Speaker 11: can go to Winslow, you can go to South. It's
• 44:33
  Speaker 11: all Cowboys country. You know, there's a lot of Cowboys
• 44:38
  Speaker 11: fans here. And, you know, I can see why Troy
• 44:43
  Speaker 11: Aikman liked playing here, you know, or playing the Cardinals.
• 44:49
  Speaker 11: But I actually agree with you also.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: You know, once.
• 44:56
  Speaker 11: Micah laid down on that table, it was over. He
• 45:00
  Speaker 11: showed me his true character. You know, he showed me,
• 45:03
  Speaker 11: you know, the best thing is to go and– Yeah,
• 45:09
  Speaker 11: I understand he had some production, but it's kind of sad, too,
• 45:17
  Speaker 11: because we haven't been able to find that production.
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, that's the worst part about it is that you,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: you know. He turned his back on, you know, Isaiah Land,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Tyrus Wheat. I'm just thinking of defensive ends. Maybe not
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Tyrus Wheat. I'm just thinking of the younger defensive ends
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: and playing that third and fourth quarter. This is their moment.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: They've got to go try to make a job, see
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: if they can be in the NFL. They've been spending
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: all this offseason together, all this time, and this is
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: their time to go out with the lights on on
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: a meaningless game. But for them, it's their whole career
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: on the line. If they can go get a sack
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: or two, they can maybe make the practice squad. And
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: he's supposed to be the leader, and he's laying down
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: like he's asleep. Like he turned his back on his guys.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: It may not be a big moment for him. It
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: was a big moment for his teammates, and he showed
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: right there. He didn't give two craps about the team
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: at that time. And he is the most talented player
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: that I think we've seen in the last few years.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: And it's just unfortunate when it's like, man, it's like
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: a parent. You're like, I... you have to be grounded,
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: or whatever it is. You're not going to get rid
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: of the kid, but I'm just saying you had to
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: make a tough decision, even though you knew that it's
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: going to hurt your team. That's one of the moves
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: that Jerry has made that I'm actually the most impressed
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: by in his whole time here, because he loved Micah.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: He absolutely loved Micah, and he knew what Micah meant
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: for the team, and he had to make that move.
• 46:45
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I agree a thousand percent. And even, you know,
• 46:48
  Speaker 11: that's speculatively all we want, but They had such a
• 46:54
  Speaker 11: good relationship. They had a handshake agreement. And to Jerry,
• 46:59
  Speaker 11: a handshake is like spitting in your hand. It's a
• 47:04
  Speaker 11: signed contract. So I just wanted to give my prediction
• 47:08
  Speaker 11: real quick. I know we're going to win. I think
• 47:10
  Speaker 11: we're going to blow them out. I got us winning 44-10.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: That would be cool.
• 47:16
  Speaker 11: So keep on doing what you guys are doing. Thank
• 47:18
  Speaker 11: you for everything. Thank Chris back there for, you know,
• 47:22
  Speaker 11: holding it down. And shout out to all the story
• 47:24
  Speaker 11: liners out there.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, he definitely holds it down down there, back
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: there for sure. All right, 44-10 would be a great
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: score for you there in Tucson, Arizona. But like you said,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: there's more Cowboy fans than anything. But I'm sure you've
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: got your share of Cardinal fans around you. And they're
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: probably like, we own the Cowboys. I'm sure that people
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: say that. And lately, they have been. If you're in
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: your 20s or even in your early 30s, you haven't
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: really seen a lot of Cowboys success against Arizona. Hopefully,
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: it'll change on Sunday. But we got one more show
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: between now and then. We'll come back and do it
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: again on Friday. So for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: See you next time on Cowboys Storyline.
• 48:08
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• 48:11
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