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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Nick Eatman. What's up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented
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  Speaker 2: by Gillette. I am Nick Eatman. Let's talk a little
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys football after a win 37 to 20 over the
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  Speaker 2: Washington Commanders. They needed it. They couldn't go 0-2. They
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  Speaker 2: had to get a win, do whatever it takes. And
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if you think it looks good. It
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  Speaker 2: was a pretty win. It was an ugly win. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter if it was a win. They needed it.
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  Speaker 2: They had to have it. They got it. And now
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys can go to Brazil with a 1-1 record,
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  Speaker 2: just like the team they will be facing. But the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing was that they bounced back, figured out
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  Speaker 2: a way to avoid an 0-2 start in the division. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at times it was not... Not easy, especially
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  Speaker 2: in the second quarter. Looked like there was a good
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  Speaker 2: chance that Washington was going to probably be up by
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  Speaker 2: seven points when the Cowboys got the ball back. Very
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  Speaker 2: similar to what we saw last week with the Giants,
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  Speaker 2: but the defense was able to make some plays there.
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  Speaker 2: And then, of course, the very unfortunate injury to Jayden Daniels.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen it, and I won't, but I hear
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  Speaker 2: it's bad. But I know he didn't, obviously... He's going
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  Speaker 2: to be out for a while, and that changed their team. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Mariota is still tough to bring down, but they weren't
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  Speaker 2: as good on offense, and the Cowboys were able to capitalize,
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  Speaker 2: get the win. I thought the defense did look better.
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  Speaker 2: They played better, and I thought the offense did some
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  Speaker 2: really good things, especially with Dak. What a day and
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  Speaker 2: what a moment for him. Record-setting day for Dak. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about that, too, but this team still has some
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  Speaker 2: issues running the football. And I didn't think the Tyler
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  Speaker 2: Smith injury would affect them as much as it has.
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  Speaker 2: But that's kind of where we are right now. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's get us started here. 888-855-2297. Chris, why don't you
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  Speaker 2: just throw out the caller.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on, Nick? How are you?
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  Speaker 2: What's up, man?
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  Speaker 3: Not too much. Just happy we got the win. Trying
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  Speaker 3: to stay positive. First of all, congratulations, Dakota Prescott, all-time
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  Speaker 3: passing touchdown leader in Cowboys history. Unbelievable. Class act. Couldn't
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  Speaker 3: happen to a better guy. I'm very happy for him.
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  Speaker 3: He passes my all-time favorite, Tony Romo, but I could
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  Speaker 3: not be more happy for this man and what he
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  Speaker 3: does for this team. No words can express the gratitude
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  Speaker 3: that I have as a fan to be able to
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  Speaker 3: call Dak Prescott the starting quarterback of our Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: So I want to start off by saying congratulations, Dak.
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  Speaker 3: I just listened to what you said, and I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: agree more. Defensively, he played better. we got close to
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback a couple times a lot of times actually
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  Speaker 3: just couldn't get him down defense definitely needs to play
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  Speaker 3: a little bit better I say progress so that's a
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  Speaker 3: positive better than last week so that's good offensively we
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  Speaker 3: have to be able to be more balanced we got
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  Speaker 3: to be able to run the ball and I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: agree more I thought with Bass in there he's a
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  Speaker 3: really good player I thought we wouldn't miss too much
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  Speaker 3: of a step as far as some of the running, running, um, lanes,
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  Speaker 3: but obviously we're missing, uh, our all pro guard. So
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  Speaker 3: we definitely need to be more balanced on offense because it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's just, we gotta be able to run the ball.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't mind opening, I don't mind passing to
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  Speaker 3: open up the run, but we couldn't even do that.
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  Speaker 3: We couldn't even run one, you know, when we were
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  Speaker 3: passing whenever we wanted to. So we definitely need to,
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  Speaker 3: to fix that for sure. Um, That's all I got
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  Speaker 3: for today. I'm just glad we won. At the end
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  Speaker 3: of the day, we're 1-1, and we're going to play
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  Speaker 3: the Ravens. So that's all we could hope for. So
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks for the call, Chris. Let's try to
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  Speaker 2: keep it moving as quickly as we can today and
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  Speaker 2: try to get some people that want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: this win. Yes, Dak, like you said, I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: said what I had to say in my post-game column
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  Speaker 2: about him, and I– I'm happy for him as well.
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  Speaker 2: That was my favorite part of the day was the
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  Speaker 2: press conference with him and just hearing some of the
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  Speaker 2: questions towards him about, did you ever think this? Did
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  Speaker 2: you ever expect this type of success? And he said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I would have. Young Dak would have said, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: can believe. that I'm going to do all those things. Um,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, if you're one of those that says, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you haven't done anything cause you haven't won a Superbowl.
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  Speaker 4: Fine.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? And that's, and that's fine. He doesn't
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  Speaker 2: really disagree. Um, but for him to, to, to be
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  Speaker 2: the all time leading passer and yards and completions and
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  Speaker 2: attempts and now touchdowns, um, it's, it's pretty special. And,
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  Speaker 2: and especially for where he came from and how, how it,
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  Speaker 2: everything started with him. But, um, That arrogance, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: that cockiness, that's why he's here because he always believed it. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, first game, I mean, Romo hurts his back.
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  Speaker 2: Kellen Moore's foot's broken, you know, and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: Dak's like, where's the ball? Let's go. Hand me the ball.
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  Speaker 2: And he has never looked back. So it's pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Anthony in Miami, what's up?
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  Speaker 5: Isn't it great?
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  Speaker 2: What's up, man? Let's go. How you doing?
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing good.
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  Speaker 2: Let's roll.
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  Speaker 5: Let's roll, Dan. You said never looking back. That need
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  Speaker 5: to be your title. We don't look back. We look forward.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's a lot of ways to get to
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  Speaker 5: a destination, Nick. I'm quite sure you know that. I
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  Speaker 5: know that. All the callers know that. As long as
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  Speaker 5: you get to the destination right. So we got the dub.
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  Speaker 5: Defense didn't look great. Offense seems to have to carry
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  Speaker 5: us again. But the one thing that gives me hope...
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  Speaker 5: is even with the putrid defense last year, you still
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  Speaker 5: beat Kansas City. You still beat Philly. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: how that happened. So I'm going to stay on the ride.
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  Speaker 5: You know me. I'm just on the ride. I got 10, 6,
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  Speaker 5: and 1. We're going to get there, and we're going
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  Speaker 5: to make the playoffs. My dad went in the division.
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  Speaker 5: So how we get there, I don't care. They'll work
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  Speaker 5: that stuff out. I'm not an analytics guy. I talk
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  Speaker 5: to my football players and teammates and all their friends
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  Speaker 5: about that. Not on these shows. I just bring positivity
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  Speaker 5: and tell you what you need. I tell you every
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  Speaker 5: time in part. 11-11 and win the game by any
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  Speaker 5: means necessary, that's what the Cowboys do. So they'll fix
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  Speaker 5: all that stuff during the week. And hopefully they'll get
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  Speaker 5: to the destination and get to the playoffs. That's all
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  Speaker 5: I got to say. Alright.
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  Speaker 6: Alright.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Well, yeah, I mean, I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 2: get to Brazil first about all of that. And again,
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to hear me talk about playoffs and
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  Speaker 2: any of that stuff right now, it's just too early.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just got to, you got to stack them.
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  Speaker 2: You got to, you got to get these wins. You
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  Speaker 2: got to figure out how to, how to win this
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  Speaker 2: next game, you know, and, and the, the unique travel, uh, that,
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  Speaker 2: that surrounds this game and figure out how to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: be locked in and focused and all that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting that shoddy said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is a short week for them. It's not, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you're playing on Sunday for you guys. It's not,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's going to be a game and there's
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  Speaker 2: going to be like, depends on where you are, but
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  Speaker 2: you know, 5 o'clock maybe central time or 3 o'clock
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  Speaker 2: central time. And so, I mean, it's really about the
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  Speaker 2: same as what it was last week. But how they
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  Speaker 2: get there and all the long flights and walkthroughs and
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  Speaker 2: things like that, they're going to kind of try to
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  Speaker 2: get it all done before they leave Thursday evening. And
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  Speaker 2: then Friday and Saturday from there, they'll just kind of
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  Speaker 2: try to get their legs back and get ready to
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  Speaker 2: play the game. But that's kind of the focus for me.
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  Speaker 2: You can get excited and say, all right, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get to the playoff. The division still is winnable. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how good the Giants are yet. They looked
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  Speaker 2: good against the Cowboys the other day, but we'll see tonight.
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  Speaker 2: But then Philly is 2-0, but they haven't looked that great.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter. You don't have to if you
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  Speaker 2: can stack wins together. The good thing is everybody plays
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  Speaker 2: each other, and you're going to have to figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: But the Cowboys are going to have to play better.
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  Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it. They're going to have to
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  Speaker 2: play better. Running the football and stopping the run, two
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  Speaker 2: basic things that football teams have to do well at,
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  Speaker 2: and they haven't so far yet, and that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: why they're one and one. All right, Albert in Tucson
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  Speaker 2: is next.
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  Speaker 5: Nick, my man.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, brother. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. How are you?
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing good, too. Victory Monday, and I'm happy. And,
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  Speaker 7: you know, I... I hate to win a game because
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  Speaker 7: of injury in a sense, but I kind of see
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  Speaker 7: it that way, and I don't because I want us
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  Speaker 7: to realize that Mariota is a capable backup. He put
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  Speaker 7: points on the board, so we did beat a good team.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I mean? And I think moving forward,
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  Speaker 7: I still have that positive outlook. But the only thing,
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  Speaker 7: like how you talked about, and I was going to
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  Speaker 7: bring it up, was stopping the run. You know, what
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  Speaker 7: do you think about, and I get it with injuries,
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  Speaker 7: but you know, you got a mobile quarterback coming up.
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  Speaker 7: What do you think about them putting a spy on him? Because,
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  Speaker 7: you know, big chunks like that from a, from a
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  Speaker 7: running quarterback will hurt you. So anyway, that's all I
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  Speaker 7: got and go Cowboys.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. You know, The spies on the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: it's always interesting. When you throw that term out there,
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  Speaker 2: a spy on a quarterback, this is a little different
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  Speaker 2: than even your other running quarterbacks. And we don't need
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  Speaker 2: to get too far in the weeds about Baltimore yet
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  Speaker 2: because I still have the stats here from the game.
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  Speaker 2: I like to kind of keep it. We have five shows. Well,
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  Speaker 2: this week, four shows. four shows. We won't have a
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  Speaker 2: show on Friday. There will be some podcasts on Friday,
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  Speaker 2: but ours, obviously, we won't be there. But we'll do
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  Speaker 2: something from Rio for sure. But we can talk a
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  Speaker 2: lot about that, but still, you know, you do look
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  Speaker 2: at it and say, man, they're having a hard time
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  Speaker 2: with Jaden Daniels, having a hard time with Mariota. What's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen with Lamar? And so, yeah, he's one
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  Speaker 2: of the best of all time. But having... you know,
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  Speaker 2: when I look at it, just having a spy, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like who, like who, who, who, just because Shamar James
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  Speaker 2: is looking at him the whole time doesn't mean he
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  Speaker 2: can do anything about it. So, you know, and then,
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  Speaker 2: and then sometimes having a spy just to sit there,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, teams can, can kind of, you know, use
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  Speaker 2: that to their advantage too. So whatever you do, I
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  Speaker 2: say it all the time, you don't do it the
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  Speaker 2: whole time. You, you, you, you know, try to pick
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  Speaker 2: and choose your spots and, So that's what the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: are going to have to do is come up with
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  Speaker 2: a good game plan, obviously, for him. But, yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: was a good win. I mean, it was. It was
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  Speaker 2: a good win because it was so needed. And they
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  Speaker 2: bounced back. And every phase, that's what I think was
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  Speaker 2: a good win about it, is every phase improved from
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  Speaker 2: week one to week two. Your defense looked better. Your
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  Speaker 2: defense got the ball out again and had another turnover. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, limited some plays in the red zone. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you look at that, three red zone trips for Washington,
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  Speaker 2: only one touchdown. So that's good. On the flip side,
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys got in the red zone four times, three touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: So 75% is good. You know, when it's first to
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  Speaker 2: go up to 10, it's always a problem. It's always
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  Speaker 2: going to be hard. And it was. And they had
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  Speaker 2: first to go up to 10. They got it twice.
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  Speaker 2: Once they did score with Ferguson. And another time they
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  Speaker 2: just didn't. And settled for a field goal. But, you know, turnovers.
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  Speaker 2: We got third down. They got off the field a
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  Speaker 2: little bit better. That wasn't great. But they made some stops.
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  Speaker 2: And then special teams. You know, they missed an extra point.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Aubrey missed the extra point. Other than that.
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  Speaker 2: Line drive kick that didn't make it to the 20.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to make it to the 20. I thought
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  Speaker 2: that was the only thing, but Turpin looked pretty good
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  Speaker 2: in his returns. So offense, defense, special teams, they all
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  Speaker 2: played a little bit better from week one, and that's,
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  Speaker 2: I think, one of the reasons that you saw the win.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Michael in Bowling Green is next. Michael Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I'm just going to be super quick because
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  Speaker 4: I know people want to get in. Just to shadow
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  Speaker 4: what you were just saying, what I was going to
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  Speaker 4: say is so much better than last week. And, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: during the game, you could see the defense improving, I believe.
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  Speaker 4: And they didn't quite get there a few times, but they,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's like, all right, downs, he's not going
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  Speaker 4: to mess up on that play where he didn't follow
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  Speaker 4: his guy toward the sidelines, the left sidelines. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to get better at that. Aubrey kicked a 70.
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  Speaker 4: It may as well have been a 70-yard. It would
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  Speaker 4: have been good for 70. I mean, just so much better.
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  Speaker 4: And I am just not as worried about Baltimore as
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  Speaker 4: I was. I mean, I just see improvements everywhere. And
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  Speaker 4: I just loved it. I just wanted to put my
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  Speaker 4: two cents in. That's it.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Michael. Appreciate the call. You know, Derek Eagleton asked
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  Speaker 2: me a question right before the game. We were going
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  Speaker 2: back up to the press box. And I guess he
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  Speaker 2: had told me that Baltimore just lost to the Saints.
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  Speaker 2: And he goes like, man, he goes, I kind of
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  Speaker 2: wish that the Ravens had won that game. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think I want them to be 2-0 and not 1-1. Matt,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what do you think? And I said, I
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  Speaker 2: get that theory. You know, I don't know if it
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  Speaker 2: really matters. But to me, I always say, give me
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  Speaker 2: the team that loses to the Saints. I mean, at home.
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  Speaker 2: Give me that team. The fact that you can lose
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  Speaker 2: to the Saints, and I'm not saying the Saints are bad.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be competitive, whatever. But I'm just saying...
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  Speaker 2: To me, I look at it like you're not really
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  Speaker 2: that good. You can be mad if you want to.
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  Speaker 2: You can be focused, whatever. You're still going to have
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  Speaker 2: to go to Rio and play the game, whatever. But
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  Speaker 2: if you can lose to the Saints at home, then
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  Speaker 2: you can lose to the Cowboys in Rio. It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of the way I look at it. Again, I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of Ravens talk here. I'm not trying to.
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to talk about, you know. But that's what happens.
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  Speaker 2: You get a win. You're like, all right, who's next?
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  Speaker 2: Who's next? So that's kind of where we are. So
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  Speaker 2: we can talk about whatever we want. Dylan, Northport, Florida
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  Speaker 2: is next.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, happy Victory Monday.
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  Speaker 2: All right. How are you?
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  Speaker 9: I'm doing good, man. I'm doing real good today, actually.
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  Speaker 9: Really good, huh? Yes, life feels better. The sun shines
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  Speaker 9: a little bit brighter. Everything is just better after a
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  Speaker 9: win like that.
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  Speaker 10: It is.
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  Speaker 9: Before the game, one of my keys was to trust
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  Speaker 9: Dak and these receivers to air it out early. And,
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  Speaker 9: you know, you look at the commander secondary. They got
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  Speaker 9: a slot corner playing out wide because of injuries they got.
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  Speaker 9: they're you know lulu the linebacker out with injury so
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  Speaker 9: tight ends we're going to be open uh receivers are
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  Speaker 9: going to be open and why would we want to
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  Speaker 9: sit here and bash our head up against the wall
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  Speaker 9: and get in the third and ten situations when on
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  Speaker 9: first down you can go throw 15 yards 12 yards
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  Speaker 9: whatever it might be and they did that right and
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  Speaker 9: i actually picked them to score 37 points i'm going
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  Speaker 9: to my own horn a little bit there on that
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  Speaker 9: score prediction um And it was just nice to see,
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  Speaker 9: to recognize the strength versus weakness matchup and attack it
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  Speaker 9: throughout the entire game. Well into the fourth quarter, by
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  Speaker 9: the way. I was actually pretty surprised late that Dak
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  Speaker 9: was still kind of throwing the screw you balls over
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  Speaker 9: on the sidelines in the cover, too. That was a
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  Speaker 9: beautiful throw. A little risky, but a beautiful throw. And
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  Speaker 9: then the touchdown there at the end as well. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 9: throughout the whole game, you know, they recognized that was
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  Speaker 9: a weakness of the commanders and the strength of the Cowboys. Man,
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  Speaker 9: they attacked it. And it was a beautiful thing to see.
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  Speaker 8: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. It does. And it opened things up early,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like you said, just the way that they, they,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: they attacked early and then everybody else gets involved. Those
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: complimentary players become big, you know, in the second quarter,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: third quarter, and you start to see Flannoy and Ferguson
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: and all that. So yeah, it, but it starts, you know,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: CD is still the dude now. Like, like I thought
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: that was really, really a good moment for him to
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: have a game like that. And, and, you know, and
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Pickens gets all this love at training camp and all
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: this stuff, but CD, like, let's not, you know, make
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: no mistake. He, he still got it too. So it's
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: a good, it's a good thing for, for this team
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: to have two of those dynamic players. And so Dylan,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: are you still there?
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:37
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: I was going to say he's a dude for sure.
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: I was a little surprised they couldn't get their run
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: game going late. I thought it'd be a pass to
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: open up the run type situation. So, something there they
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: got to work on for sure, heading up against the Ravens.
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: But I think that's going to be another type of
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: shootout game there where, uh, that the offense sees a
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: weakness on the defense. And I haven't looked at the
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: Ravens defense yet, so I have no idea what it
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: looks like, but man, just, just air that thing out.
• 17:57
  Speaker 9: That's what you got to do. So appreciate it, man.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Have a good day.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Thanks Dylan. Appreciate it. Um, yeah, he had 34 to 20,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: so he was, he was right there. Um, that's a,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: that's a good pick. I mean, I, I had it 31, 26.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I had a little closer than that. And, you know, um, Washington,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: you know, they'll go back and look at this, and
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: how many chances did they have? I mean, how many
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: touchdowns they had were three times where there was one
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: they called a touchdown, and then they came back and
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: said they reviewed it and that it was incomplete in
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: the back of the end zone. Another time, Washington challenged it,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: thought that they had scored a touchdown. A lot of
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: people did, too, that was going to be ruled a touchdown.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: and then they had a throwback pass that McLaurin's wide
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: open and the receiver, who's a receiver, he's not a quarterback,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: and underthrows it and it's incomplete. But those two plays
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: right there, and I just always think this way. I
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: don't remember which coach said this to me, but you
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: start doing that in the game, you start going throwback
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: pass and all this kind of reverse and trickery and
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: all that, you've lost. You've pretty much lost the game. So, like,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: once you start doing that, you're telling everybody, the whole world, like,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: we're not good enough. We can't win just straight up playing. So,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: we're going to do all this stuff. If it works,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: it works. You might buy yourself some time to win
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: some games, you know, to take the lead or whatever.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: But overall, you know, you're not going to win usually
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: when you do that, you know. You see a team
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: that starts off first play of the game with, like,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: a flea flicker, which, you know, I love.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: But.
• 19:40
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• 19:43
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• 19:45
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• 19:49
  Speaker 2: start the game. They got the ball, too. They got it.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: They lost 31-0, but they got that ball to start
• 19:55
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• 19:59
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  Speaker 2: by Gillette is... Oh, how about Dak Prescott? How about him?
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: How about setting the Cowboys record for all time? Passing touchdowns.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Now he's the leader in just about every category.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Absolute piss missile up the sideline.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Okay. That was from Tom Brady, who was talking about
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Dak's touchdown to Ferguson?
• 22:52
  Speaker 13: No.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: CD?
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: I don't remember. Anyways, no one cares either about who
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: he was throwing to. It was like, wow, he really
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: said that?
• 23:00
  Speaker 14: That was the one down the sideline that he dropped
• 23:03
  Speaker 14: in between the two players.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay. It was like a third down and long.
• 23:08
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Right in there. So, Tom Brady... I would say taking
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: some heat for that, but I don't think Tom Brady
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: cares about that. But Dak actually tied Tom Brady in
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: another NFL record, 20 straight wins at home against the
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: NFC East. And he tied the NFL record for a
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: player with consecutive home games within the division. Brady had
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: 20 straight against the AFC East opponents at some time. So,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I guess, what is that? Philly? I can't remember. Philly
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: or the Giants, whoever comes in next. Philly. It is Philly. Yeah.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Philly is the next one. So, if they can do that,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: that would set the, you know, not that that's a
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: record that, you know, I mean, if Dak's saying that
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: the ball that they threw to CD for the touchdown
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: is going to probably get some dust on it, then
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know what that kind of record is. But,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: You know, you play a long time and you have
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: some success. You're going to get some records like that. But,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: you know, it's really awesome for Dak. All right, let's
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: go to Josh in Chicago.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: Hey, man, yeah, that was a precision throw by Dak
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: on that third down. That was like the same play
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: that they ran against the Giants with GP. So that
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: was a pretty ball and great catch this time by CD. Hey,
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: so I just got two points really quick, and then
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: I'm going to jump off. The first one is I've
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: heard some people saying, like, hey, if Jaden Daniels stays in,
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: then we might not win that game and this and that.
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: And going back to some of the plays that were called,
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: like the trick plays that you're talking about, too, that's
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: just part of the game, man. Our running game would
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: look a lot better if Tyler Smith were here. That's
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: injury part of the game. That's how the ball bounces sometimes, right?
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Like having four punch outs and only getting one ball,
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: that's how it goes sometimes. So I just don't like
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: that talk because that's just part of the game. The
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: injury sucks for Daniels. I hope it gets better. But
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: at the end of the day, every team deals with it.
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: The other thing.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I was going to say this, especially since you're from Chicago.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I've got a lot of friends crying in text messages
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: right now. 59 points to three? I was thinking, what's
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: the NFL record for the biggest drop-off between one... It's
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: got to be that, right? 56-point drop-off from week one
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: to week two? But you're talking about quarterbacks going down.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I'm sure that changed a lot. The weather, too, there
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: in Chicago. But it happens. I mean, yeah, no one's
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: crying when it happens to the Cowboys or whatever. Would
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: it have been a different game?
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Probably.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, probably so.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: But I would say ESPN had an article out on
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: Thursday or Friday and said the top backup quarterbacks in
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: the league, the number one was Mendoza, I think, which is,
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: I think, you know, weird since he hasn't played a game.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: But the number two best backup that they had listed
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: was actually Mariota. And I think that's real. I think
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: if you look at that on paper, you look at
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Mariota and say, that's a really good backup I'd like
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: to have.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: I agree.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I bet Atlanta would like to have a backup quarterback
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: like that right now.
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: Jeez, yeah.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: What's going on with that? I'm sorry. I like Cooper Rush,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: but my lord. I mean, I said this earlier, too.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I don't think Atlanta could– they could pick up Joe
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Milton on the practice squad right now and be more
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: competitive than what they're having right now.
• 26:25
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: So anyways, do you have anything else, Josh?
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the other point I was just going to make
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: really quick is– Caleb Downs, man, he can play, and
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: I know he had that one bad coverage play, but
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: that blitz off the edge that he has, that's what
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: caused that forced fumble. Mariotta rushed that throw, and I mean,
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: Downs was coming down, and Barham read that so well,
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: and I love that play. I think that they need
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: to run that maybe even twice a game, because Downs,
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: he can close. He's got closing speed, and he's fast,
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: and I know you're giving up a nickel corner when
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: you have a blitz like that, But the way he
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: gets in and how he can get into the quarterback's face,
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: he causes some pressure, and I love to see it.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: Thanks, Nick.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Appreciate the call, Josh. Yeah, Caleb Downs, with the awareness
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: and timing, that's what makes a really good defensive player
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: and safety, and he's kind of got that. He's got
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: it after two games of his career, so he's only
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: going to get better. And remember, there was eight snaps
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: of the preseason for him. You know, he's still learning.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: He's learning on the fly, but it's a pretty good
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: starting spot for Caleb Downs, for sure. All right, let's
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: keep it going here. Irene in Falls Church, Virginia is next.
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: Irene. Irene.
• 27:42
  Speaker 19: All right, I got five words for Cowboys Nation. Cowboys Nation,
• 27:45
  Speaker 19: stand up tall.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: We did it.
• 27:47
  Speaker 19: We got a win. No, it was ugly, but.
• 27:50
  Speaker 20: We did it.
• 27:51
  Speaker 19: That's how I want the offense to operate. I am
• 27:55
  Speaker 19: still so concerned about the defense, but I will say this.
• 27:58
  Speaker 19: I saw some improvement. And I'll ask you this. I
• 28:01
  Speaker 19: have no idea what's going on with Quinnen and Kenny.
• 28:04
  Speaker 19: I'd like you to talk about that after, but I
• 28:06
  Speaker 19: will say Malachi Lawrence, I know he didn't get any
• 28:10
  Speaker 19: real pressure, but I saw... a little bit more channeling
• 28:14
  Speaker 19: of where he needs to be and some power. So
• 28:17
  Speaker 19: if he can get a little bit better, that'd be great.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: Easy.
• 28:20
  Speaker 19: He's so close, but how do we reign him in?
• 28:22
  Speaker 19: And that's, so those are my questions about the line
• 28:25
  Speaker 19: and how do we get that to go?
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: Thanks.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, as a rock, who's got a little
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Anthony Spencer in him right now, a little almost Anthony.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: It's just close. He's just, he's right there. And he's,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: he's got, um, got to get to that next level. Um,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Quinnen and Kenny Clark hasn't been as dominant as you
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: would maybe have thought early on. Jonathan Bullard was the
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: one guy that no one talked about at all at
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: training camp. He just kind of went under the radar,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: just didn't practice a lot, and comes in here and plays.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's had some pressure. He's had a half
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: of a sack. I mean, to be the fourth defensive tackle,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: he's pretty good, and Abonia's not bad either, so Um,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: but I, I, you know, Quentin's got some, some, some moments.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, I was up in the press box and
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: we're looking at him and saying, you know, I just
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: want to see a little bit more out of him.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: And then like the next play, I don't know if
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: you guys saw it. He's just, I mean, he's just
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: getting blocked by two guys and he's basically just like
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: busting through, like he's the Hulk, you know, and he's,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: he's just like carrying these two guys back there and
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: mariotta kind of might have been daniels i think it
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: was mariotta he kind of like rolls right and throws
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: the ball away or whatever but like he's got the
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: power he's he's got it it's pretty cool um but
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: no i i think uh your concerns on defense are valid.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, you should, you should have some, some concerns there. Um,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: they don't have a Tyler Smith that's, that's coming back
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: like that. I know over shown's hurting. He's going to
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: come back, but I don't, you know, I don't know
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: if it's going to be much different than what you saw, uh, from,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: from Barham. Um, you know, I think he'll, you will,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: you want more linebackers out there and more, more veteran guys. But, um,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know if, you know, he was there for
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: a lot of the, what was going on with the giants. So,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: You know, so he's got to, you know, they've got
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: to figure this thing out. And I don't know. And
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: maybe this is, you know, you get another win like that.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: You get another win the way they did where you
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: got the W, so you're still in this thing, but
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: you have problems, glaring problems. That's where I think Jerry
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: might make a move. You know, I don't think he's
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: going to do it for a team that, It may
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: not be a one or two players away, but if
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: you can have some success on offense and still know that, man,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: we've got to fix this here and there, that might
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: be a move where Jerry says, all right, it's worth
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: doing because you've got something around it. All right, let's
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: go to Sebastian in Savannah, Georgia.
• 31:13
  Speaker 11: Good morning, Mr.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: Eamon.
• 31:14
  Speaker 15: How are you doing?
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I am good. What's up?
• 31:17
  Speaker 11: Hey, I'm doing real good, man. Hey, listen. First up,
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: prayers to Jaden Daniels. That was a freak injury, and
• 31:23
  Speaker 11: we at Cowboys Nation know firsthand all about freak injuries
• 31:26
  Speaker 11: over here. As a matter of fact, one of the
• 31:28
  Speaker 11: members of our Storyliners team had a little freak injury
• 31:30
  Speaker 11: going on, so shout out to my boy, Sue.
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: Get well soon, of course.
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: Outside of that, I won't complain on a victory Monday
• 31:37
  Speaker 11: because the ball has to bounce your way sometimes, and
• 31:39
  Speaker 11: the ball bounced our way that particular game. And shout
• 31:42
  Speaker 11: out to the defense because they did get some three
• 31:44
  Speaker 11: and outs, and we were making a goal line stand
• 31:47
  Speaker 11: before that three seconds where he got hurt. So I
• 31:49
  Speaker 11: don't know for sure if he would have got in,
• 31:51
  Speaker 11: and we never have to find out. We won the game,
• 31:53
  Speaker 11: and I'm happy with that. I was super happy for
• 31:55
  Speaker 11: Barham because I caught him getting, I think, a strip
• 31:58
  Speaker 11: sack fumble, and he got the strip fumble. So I
• 32:01
  Speaker 11: was super excited, and I was talking to Dylan and
• 32:04
  Speaker 11: everybody on Twitter about that. And, uh, man, I just
• 32:07
  Speaker 11: want to just have a little bit of positivity going
• 32:09
  Speaker 11: into today. It's been a hard year for a lot
• 32:11
  Speaker 11: of people. And this is something that we really needed.
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: We couldn't go into a third week with our heads
• 32:17
  Speaker 11: held low and the defense getting beat up again, and
• 32:19
  Speaker 11: then go play the Ravens rather than not be lost,
• 32:22
  Speaker 11: but see them lose. They're human too. You know, I'm
• 32:24
  Speaker 11: looking forward to this weekend. You guys have a great trip.
• 32:26
  Speaker 11: Be very safe out there and I'll catch you guys
• 32:29
  Speaker 11: next time.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, Sebastian. Appreciate the call.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: Um, Yeah.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I'm with you guys. You guys are saying the right
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: things in my mind, as far as, you know, the
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: ball does have to bounce your way. And, um, it,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: it did. And, you know, it's such an unfortunate injury to,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: to Daniels and, you know, and, and what that, what
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: that does for their, for their season. Uh, you, but like,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: like the last caller had said, you know, Mariota will,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: you know, he'll, he'll be serviceable for sure. Um, and they'll,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: they'll be competitive. Um, They don't have a lot of talent, though,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: in the secondary. So that's why CD and Pickens kind
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: of had their way with them. But, you know, I
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: still think that they're going to be a competitive team.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: And you want them to be. You know, they play
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: the same schedule that you do for the most part.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, a couple of games in the NFC that
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: are different. But for the most part, you know, they're
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: going to be playing the NFC, I mean, AFC South
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: and and all that. So, and obviously the division games,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: they can play the Giants, Eagles, all that. So you
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: want them to, to, to be competitive. But yeah, you can't,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: you can't worry about that. The other team and the
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: injuries and all that you play who you play. And
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I thought the Cowboys defense, you're right. You know, they,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: they did make a nice stand. One of the key
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: plays for me was the third. It was a second
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: down play, but it was, it was before the injury
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: and it was second goal from the one, you know,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: and they, they threw it to the end zone, didn't
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: get in and, And, you know, that was big. That
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: set up a third down. You know, a lot of
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: people were saying, hey, why not kick the field goal
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: right then and there? With the ball coming out in
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: the second half, if you go down 17-13, you get
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the ball, you go down and drive the score, all that. Obviously,
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Dan Quinn would, you know, knowing what happened, going for
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: it there changed the whole season just because of the
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: injury that happened.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Paul in New York is next.
• 34:28
  Speaker 18: Hi, morning, Nick.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 34:29
  Speaker 18: I am doing great today, Victory Monday.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:34
  Speaker 18: So the fumble that Jason caused, I know it was talked.
• 34:39
  Speaker 20: About a little bit, but they mentioned before that he
• 34:42
  Speaker 20: went out with his fingers.
• 34:43
  Speaker 18: So to come back in and make such a big hit,
• 34:46
  Speaker 18: like you heard it throughout the stadium, I think that
• 34:50
  Speaker 18: shows a lot of mental toughness, not.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Just physical, for the guys.
• 34:53
  Speaker 18: They'll be like, oh, I just went out. I was hurt.
• 34:56
  Speaker 18: You know what?
• 34:56
  Speaker 20: I'm just going to go in and put everything on
• 34:58
  Speaker 20: the line still. And so I like that. I want
• 35:02
  Speaker 20: to ask, though, about our running game. Because is it
• 35:05
  Speaker 20: more on the running backs or is it more on
• 35:07
  Speaker 20: the line?
• 35:08
  Speaker 18: Or was it just, like, they had a couple of
• 35:10
  Speaker 18: nice runs that were called back on penalties. So it
• 35:14
  Speaker 18: might not have been as bad as it looked. And
• 35:16
  Speaker 18: a lot of teams have that issue where they get
• 35:18
  Speaker 18: a couple of short ones and they pop.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Off the big ones.
• 35:21
  Speaker 18: And it averages out well.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: So what do you think about that?
• 35:24
  Speaker 18: I'll leave you there.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: Thanks.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, Paul. I, you know, I typically
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: the running backs are, are, you know, good enough. I
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: think that the group that they have here, these guys
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: are good enough. They, there are some veteran players and
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: they they've had success and you know, it's got to
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: get blocked and it's just not, it hasn't been, hasn't
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: been blocked up front. Now, I'll say this, the first
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: two games of the season from a defensive line perspective,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: opposing defensive line, it's pretty good. I mean, pretty good
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: competition there. Not everybody... I mean, say what you want
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: about the Commanders, but they've always been pretty good up there,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: especially with Dan Quinn there, but... I mean, Deron Payne
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: in the middle and Chase on Dorrance Armstrong. I mean,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: those guys are solid. I'm not saying they're world beaters.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying the Cowboys don't have issues. They do.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: They have some issues running the ball, and they know it.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, they don't even hide from that. They're throwing
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: it down there, and you know they're not going to
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: be able to just run it in. So I put
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: most of it on the— the ability to move people
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: up front, and I think Tyler Smith, that injury has
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: certainly been a problem, but, you know, you want Beebe
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: to be able to move some guys a little bit
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: more than he has, and Booker too, and, you know,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Guyton and Steele, I think Guyton's, you know, more of
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: a pass blocker there, and Steele more of a run blocker,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: but They've both been okay. I mean, you know, I
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: think both of those guys have been okay. But, yeah,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: running the ball, it's... And you asked about the scheme.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: I think that's part of it, too. I mean, like,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I kind of think with Lipke there, I wouldn't mind
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: seeing him a little bit more as a fullback. I've
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: always said this. Give me a guy like L.T. Overton.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: You know, on defense. Put a defensive guy in there.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: You see it a lot in college. You see it
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: some in the pros. I want to see a big
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: defensive tackle type guy that has a little quickness to
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: him to be able to do that. Remember a few
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: years ago they used to put Connor McGovern, kind of
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: a Swiss Army knife type guy. He would be back
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: in there as a fullback. But maybe a little bit
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: more power. They know you're going to run it. You
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: know you're going to run it. At least, you know,
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Be the bigger team with bigger blockers. All right, William
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: in West Virginia is next.
• 38:04
  Speaker 21: Nick, how we doing, sir?
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: I'm good. What's up?
• 38:07
  Speaker 13: Well, isn't it apropos that an OG original caller calls
• 38:12
  Speaker 13: through and gets through whenever beating probably the team I
• 38:15
  Speaker 13: despise most in the league in Washington?
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 38:19
  Speaker 13: I can never get enough of beating them.
• 38:21
  Speaker 22: You know, all the years I've watched the Cowboys fight
• 38:23
  Speaker 22: against them, and it's not the same as it was,
• 38:25
  Speaker 22: but it's really good always beating them and I will
• 38:28
  Speaker 22: say that's one of the best games I've seen Dak play,
• 38:32
  Speaker 22: but I'm afraid that 78's going to get him killed
• 38:34
  Speaker 22: if they don't do something about that soon. But I
• 38:37
  Speaker 22: did have one question. After the game, as Jerry always does,
• 38:42
  Speaker 22: he goes and makes statements and stuff like that. He
• 38:45
  Speaker 22: said something yesterday that said, and he said, this is
• 38:49
  Speaker 22: my remark for the game, be careful of an old
• 38:51
  Speaker 22: man with money. I was just wondering if you could
• 38:54
  Speaker 22: somehow translate that.
• 38:55
  Speaker 13: I'm thinking he might.
• 38:56
  Speaker 22: Have something going around the trade deadline, or maybe you
• 38:59
  Speaker 22: could catch something I didn't there.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, that's what he said, and I don't
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: know what that means. And he's right. Guy is dangerous
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: like that. I don't know. He's being coy about it
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: or trite, as he likes to say. I don't know.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: But they have money. They have money to spend. if
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: they wanted to. They have room to go and make
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: a move if they want to do that. So maybe
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: they are. Maybe they got a little something up their sleeve.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: But like I said before, you got to win some
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: games and make it worth it. You don't want to
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: be sitting here and say, it doesn't matter who you
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: bring in. This isn't going to help this year. And
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: it's got to be a position that you can kind
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: of plug and play in. And it's not going to
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: be a wide receiver, but one thing that I've learned
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: is that adding a receiver to a group doesn't really help.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: You've got to add a guy that can come right in,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: get his help, and say, what are we doing? Okay,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: how do you guys call it? What's the terminology? Cool,
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: got it, bet, let's go. And you need that type
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: of guy if they're going to go and make a move.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: But I don't know. I don't know what he meant
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: by that, but it sounds fun.
• 40:11
  Speaker 22: But, hey, like I said, I think the way Span
• 40:14
  Speaker 22: Ford was hitting on special things, maybe they should consider
• 40:17
  Speaker 22: putting him a linebacker or something like that. That guy
• 40:19
  Speaker 22: was laying the wood yesterday.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he definitely was. He definitely was. All right, William.
• 40:24
  Speaker 13: I appreciate the conversation.
• 40:25
  Speaker 21: I appreciate getting through there. I appreciate the show. You
• 40:27
  Speaker 21: take care of yourself.
• 40:28
  Speaker 22: We'll talk to you later.
• 40:29
  Speaker 18: All right.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Sounds good. William from Beaver, West Virginia. You know, Span Ford,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: he listed as a tight end. It might be slash
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: defensive end. I mean, the way he was. running down there.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: He's got some nastiness to him. You need guys like
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: that on your team, and he definitely has that, brings it.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: So that was a little spark there on special teams.
• 40:51
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  Speaker 2: couple more callers here. Anthony, Marysville, Washington. Over by Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: I think. Anthony, what's up?
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: Hey, what's going on, Nick, man? It's been a minute
• 42:28
  Speaker 8: since I've been able to call in, brother. Yeah. But
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: I'm glad I was able to get through. I'm out
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: of touch with what has been discussed thus far on
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: the show, so I don't want to miss any special
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: themes or questions you may have thrown out there to us.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 42:44
  Speaker 8: OK, so one of the things I was thinking about
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: and I wanted to get your perspective on this and
• 42:52
  Speaker 8: my understanding of football, man, whenever you're playing zone, a
• 42:55
  Speaker 8: lot of guys are actually on the defense are facing
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: the quarterback or at least looking towards the quarterback and
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: just kind of playing their zone. So I don't make
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: too much of these running quarterbacks that are able to escape.
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: We're getting really, really close, and I think it's just
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: a matter of time of just gelling and communication as
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: the season goes on. But I'm curious what your take
• 43:21
  Speaker 8: is on that from the defensive standpoint and how all
• 43:25
  Speaker 8: of these running backs or these quarterbacks are just able
• 43:28
  Speaker 8: to make plays with their legs. But then the other piece, too,
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: I don't think is being– maybe it is being considered.
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: Maybe other callers have said it. But how much we
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: miss Tyler Smith. Like, our running game is, like, it's
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: obviously not as powerful, it seems, thus far within the
• 43:48
  Speaker 8: first two weeks as it was last year. But, man,
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: Tyler Smith is– desperately missed and no disrespect to TJ Bass,
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: but wondering what you're thinking in regards to that as well, Nick. Yeah.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call, Anthony. Appreciate it. Good to hear
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: from you. It's been a little bit, like you said, uh,
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I'll start with the Tyler Smith stuff because more than
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: just a guy that's super strong, um, and, and he can,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: he brings power and, you know, physicalness to the line
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: of scrimmage, probably more so than, than, than TJ Bass. Um,
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: But one thing I know, and I'm only going to
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: speak to Tyler Smith here, not any other lineman, but
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Tyler Smith might be the smartest guy in the locker room,
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: the entire locker room. I mean, this dude is really,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: really smart. And he understands how to play tackle, then guard,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: and then back he can move around. And the reason
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: why you do that is because you do understand– The concepts,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: all the techniques, what teams are trying to do, where
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: the blitz is coming from, the run blocking schemes, everything.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: He can do it just like that. He doesn't need
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: an offseason. He can just kind of... He's super smart.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: They're missing that too. They're missing a guy that's what
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: makes him so great. I'm sure he can pick up
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: things here and they can make adjustments more on the fly. Again,
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not speaking to anybody else other than the fact
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: that Tyler Smith He's going to be one of the
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: best football players the Cowboys have ever had, in my opinion.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: When it's all said and done, and hopefully it's a
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: long time from now, but he's just that good. And
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: so I think we're seeing it more than we had before.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: We're definitely seeing it. What you said about the running quarterbacks, yeah,
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of that is awareness from linebackers.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: standpoint you're trying to get everything covered and some of
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: it is just the breakdowns it's one thing if just
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: to do a scheme run and and and they beat
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: you on that I thought the best thing that the
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Cowboys defense did yesterday and I saw it a lot
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: from Rashawn Gary he did a really good job of
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: this they didn't worry about that that run up the
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: middle so much now you get you give up some
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: runs but you're not getting you're not letting your quarterback
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: bootleg to the outside and get like 15 20 yards
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: and so I thought Gary did a good job as
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: a Raku at time. Malachi Lawrence, staying home there and
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: keeping your eyes on the quarterback. Definitely that will happen
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: next week as well. All right, let's go. Our last
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: caller is Lester in Minnesota.
• 46:23
  Speaker 21: Good morning, Nick.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Hey, Lester.
• 46:28
  Speaker 18: Hey, man.
• 46:30
  Speaker 21: I don't want to be a Debbie Downer. So at
• 46:33
  Speaker 21: first I'm going to say, hey, victory Monday. Very good.
• 46:37
  Speaker 21: I'm glad we won. Second thing I want to say is,
• 46:42
  Speaker 21: you know, as far as the smaller players in the NFL,
• 46:47
  Speaker 21: generally speaking, there's always exception to the rules. Man, smaller players,
• 46:52
  Speaker 21: and what I mean by that, smaller skill players like
• 46:54
  Speaker 21: quarterbacks that run and linebackers that play middle linebacker that
• 46:59
  Speaker 21: shouldn't play good, good, little, does not win over good big,
• 47:05
  Speaker 21: especially over time. So that's all I'm going to say
• 47:08
  Speaker 21: about that. And one more thing. I think we're getting
• 47:11
  Speaker 21: thin in linebackers. We should go ahead and go and
• 47:14
  Speaker 21: get Bobby Wagner or somebody before we get down to
• 47:18
  Speaker 21: the nitty-gritty. But like I said, victory money. Monday, go Cowboys.
• 47:23
  Speaker 21: Let's go, let's go.
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: Let's go.
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 47:26
  Speaker 18: All right.
• 47:27
  Speaker 11: Victory.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: Victory money. I like that, too. We'll see. We'll see
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: about that. Jerry was talking about having– an old man
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: with some money. And so I got asked on the
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: radio about that. And I said, uh, I'm, I'm 50
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: years old. So I'm, I'm one for two on those
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: two categories. But, um, But yeah, I don't know anything
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: about the combination of that. But maybe there's still time.
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: No more time for this show. We have to end it.
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: Cowboys break will be up here in a few minutes.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: So stay tuned for that. We got shows all day long,
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: as Chris Beam can attest to. Stay tuned to the schedule.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a little different schedule this week, obviously,
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: with the Cowboys going to Brazil. But different schedule throughout
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: the week as far as practice and and um shoddy's
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: press conferences and and things like that it might alter
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: some of the podcasts but i don't i don't think
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: so not not too too much but on friday there
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: will be uh a handful of podcasts some of us
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: that are going uh fortunate enough to go to brazil
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: uh will not be on uh friday's shows but you
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: know we'll be keeping the cowboys and doing all kinds
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: of behind the scenes uh things and some some fun
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: stuff there so all right it's been a good show
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: 12 calls love it we will i'll Talk about it tomorrow.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: See if we can get some special guests to call
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: in tomorrow or Wednesday. All right. For Chris Beam, I'm
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: Nick Eatman. See you next time on Cowboy Storyline.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah!