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  Speaker 2: Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 3: Hello and welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette. Thursday
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  Speaker 3: is September the 10th.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Nick Eatman. You guys are you guys. Let's do
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  Speaker 2: this thing. Let's go.
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  Speaker 4: 888-855-2297.
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  Speaker 3: I like that we got a little bit more callers yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see if I can do that again today. Everyone
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  Speaker 3: knows the drill. Getting closer and closer to this first
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  Speaker 3: game of the season. Can't wait. Giants, they seem ready
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  Speaker 3: over there. Cowboys ready. Not a lot of injuries on
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  Speaker 3: the injury report. Obviously, Tyler Smith is the big injury
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  Speaker 3: that the Cowboys have been dealing with lately. But as
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  Speaker 3: far as the injury report goes and who's there and
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  Speaker 3: question marks and things like that, I think both teams
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  Speaker 3: are about as healthy as it's going to get. So
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  Speaker 3: let's get to the callers. Chris in Saratoga Springs, New York.
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  Speaker 2: Chris, what's up?
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  Speaker 5: How about them Cowboys?
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  Speaker 2: You're surrounded by a lot of Giant fans over there.
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  Speaker 6: Whole family of Giants. It's just me and my dad
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  Speaker 6: and my son on a lone island.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I would imagine there's some good optimism over
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  Speaker 3: there with the Giants, and you see that a lot,
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  Speaker 3: but it's okay.
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  Speaker 6: It's early. They always have that optimism week one.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I bet you there are fans that think the same
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  Speaker 3: about the Cowboys, so that's fine. NFL season is underway.
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  Speaker 3: We know that. There was a game last night. It's
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  Speaker 3: a crazy ending, but what's your take on what do
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  Speaker 3: you got?
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  Speaker 2: What do you got for me?
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  Speaker 6: That game was not a great game last night. I
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  Speaker 6: hope our game is a little bit more entertaining than
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  Speaker 6: that one. I watched it with a buddy. It wasn't
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  Speaker 6: a great game to watch, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 6: As far as what I got for you, you give
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  Speaker 6: me your favorite... Giants-Cowboys opening night game. I'll give you mine.
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  Speaker 6: It was 2007 in the old stadium. I think Sam
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  Speaker 6: Hurd caught one pass that game for a touchdown. I
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  Speaker 6: think that was probably my favorite opening game against the Giants.
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  Speaker 6: What was yours?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when Emmitt Smith took the opening handoff for
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  Speaker 3: a touchdown and waved at the Giant defender behind him.
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  Speaker 2: That one, like, That was a good one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because I wasn't working here then, but it was 1995.
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  Speaker 3: They did not win the year before, and what kind
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  Speaker 3: of season are they going to have? And Emmitt Smith,
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  Speaker 3: he was injured last year. What's he going to do?
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  Speaker 3: And he just takes the opening handoff for 60 yards
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  Speaker 3: and kind of just waves at the defender, and they
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  Speaker 3: went 35 to nothing.
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  Speaker 2: That was up there.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I'll say this, though, working here, 40-0 against the
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  Speaker 3: Giants when we did it.
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  Speaker 2: That was the first year of this show.
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  Speaker 3: Coming back here, I was probably as arrogant as I've
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  Speaker 3: ever been on this show when they won that game 40-0. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, who scored the first touchdown of the year?
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  Speaker 3: How about that one? How about that trivia question?
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember who it was?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, God. That's a good one.
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  Speaker 3: It was a blocked field goal returned by... Noah Igbenogany,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's.
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  Speaker 2: How you say it. I forgot how to say it.
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  Speaker 3: But, yeah, he wasn't on the list of the guys
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  Speaker 3: we thought would score the first touchdown of the season.
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  Speaker 2: But that was a fun one, too.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. The only thing I'm really looking forward to, I
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  Speaker 6: want to see how CP– releases, you know, releases, uh,
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  Speaker 6: Caleb down. I want to see, I'm interested to see
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  Speaker 6: where he's going to put him, how he's gonna, you know,
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  Speaker 6: where he's going to be, how much he's going to play.
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  Speaker 6: You know, he don't, you know, me, Ohio state guy,
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  Speaker 6: he's my favorite player. I'm glad we got him and
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  Speaker 6: I'm just ready to see him, what he can do
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  Speaker 6: opening week.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I am too.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's the number one guy for me as
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  Speaker 3: far as guy I'm ready to watch. Um, you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of them though, Chris, thanks for the call.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate that. Good luck up there in New York and,
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  Speaker 3: and hopefully you'll have the last laugh on Tuesday morning
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  Speaker 3: after that. But as far as guys that you just
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  Speaker 3: kind of want to see what they've got, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's a long list, but yeah, Caleb Downs is kind
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  Speaker 3: of the first one. We talked about that a little
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  Speaker 3: bit yesterday when I got asked a similar question, and
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  Speaker 3: he's the first one I think about because he's the
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  Speaker 3: one that I think has gotten so many people excited
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  Speaker 3: about what this team can be, especially on defense. All right,
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  Speaker 3: let's go to Albert in Tucson, Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: Albert, what's up?
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  Speaker 5: Nick, my man.
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  Speaker 9: Good morning, my brother.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I'm doing beautifully.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 10: I'm fantastic, fantastic. Whatever word rhymes with tastic.
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  Speaker 5: Whatever, anything.
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  Speaker 10: It's Cowboys season. It's here. Football is here. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 10: I'm excited for the season. You know, those little puffs
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  Speaker 10: of wind that take the wind out the sail like
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  Speaker 10: Smith's injuries, it's going to happen, right? Yeah. um, the
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  Speaker 10: best thing is to stay positive. And like how you
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  Speaker 10: told me over and over and over again, being a
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  Speaker 10: Dallas Cowboy fan is there's no amusement park that has
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  Speaker 10: a ride like it.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 10: It has them highs, them lows, them twists and turns
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  Speaker 10: up and down. And, but you know what, man is
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  Speaker 10: Dallas Cowboys for life.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 10: Um, I have this team on my arm, and I
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  Speaker 10: show it to a lot of people, and I'm proud
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  Speaker 10: of it. But I'm excited. I just want to wish
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  Speaker 10: you guys a great 2026 season, and I wish all
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  Speaker 10: the Cowboy fans out there a 2026 season. Let's all
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  Speaker 10: enjoy it, have fun, stay safe. I got the Cowboys
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  Speaker 10: winning 38-13. And with that, I'll let the next person
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  Speaker 10: get in.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, Albert. 38-13, that would be one heck
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  Speaker 2: of a start to the season.
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  Speaker 3: And, you know, I don't know what I was expecting
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  Speaker 3: the year that they won 40-0. So, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: happened before, you know, when you have this first game
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  Speaker 3: and you don't really know what to expect from the
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  Speaker 3: new team, from the Giants, what they've got. But as
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  Speaker 3: I said yesterday, I think the Cowboys are very similar
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  Speaker 3: in that regard.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a new.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, but it does feel like a new team, maybe
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  Speaker 3: even a new era, if you will. And a lot
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  Speaker 3: of it is because of what we've seen on defense.
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  Speaker 3: So you're right, it's a rollercoaster ride for sure. And
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a fun one. I mean, just because
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  Speaker 3: you never really know what to expect. And unlike going
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  Speaker 3: to the amusement park, though, you're like, oh, I've been
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  Speaker 3: on that one before. It's like a new ride every time.
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  Speaker 3: You think that it's going to be different.
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  Speaker 2: But it's fun.
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  Speaker 3: And along those lines, I always kind of say this,
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  Speaker 3: because early in the year, everyone wants to talk about,
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  Speaker 3: you know, what are they going to do?
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  Speaker 2: What are they going to do?
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  Speaker 3: Are they going to go to the playoffs? Is this
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  Speaker 3: the year? So everyone's sort of talking about January and
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  Speaker 3: maybe even February. And as I always say, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you have to enjoy the ride. I mean, enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: Not really sure where it's going. You know where you
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  Speaker 3: want it to go. But let's enjoy it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: let's enjoy this game for what it is. And if
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  Speaker 3: it's a win, if it's a loss, I mean, whatever
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  Speaker 3: it is, and not try to put this big overarching
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  Speaker 3: theme to what this season's going to be. I think
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  Speaker 3: we get lost in that. That's just my take. Again,
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  Speaker 3: I don't ever tell people how to fan and all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. But I'm here every day. You guys are
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  Speaker 3: here every day too. So I don't like to get
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  Speaker 3: ahead too much. I'd like to, you know, let's focus
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  Speaker 3: on what's in front of us. It's the Giants right now.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens if the Cowboys can go in
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  Speaker 3: and win this game.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 2: We got Michael in Bowling Green. Michael, what's up?
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  Speaker 11: What's going on, man?
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  Speaker 2: You hear me?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, can you hear me?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I can.
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  Speaker 3: I think Beam can hear us all too, so that's
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  Speaker 3: a good thing. Michael, what do you got going on?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I want to add a couple little things to
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  Speaker 11: what I was talking about yesterday. I might be the
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  Speaker 11: last person in the world to hear about this. Maybe
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  Speaker 11: nobody knows. But George Pickens, this will be his first
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  Speaker 11: time ever, college or pro, that he's got the same
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  Speaker 11: starting game one quarterback two years in a row. It'll
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  Speaker 11: also be the first year that he's got the same offense.
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  Speaker 11: So he's always had a different offensive coordinator. So he's
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  Speaker 11: got the same offense two years in a row and
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  Speaker 11: the same quarterback. So I'm hoping that maybe... with that
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  Speaker 11: continuity that he's going to be even better than last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good stat. I don't know if I've
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  Speaker 2: heard that.
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  Speaker 11: I heard it yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't sure what he had going.
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  Speaker 3: Again, I try to stay focused with what's going on
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  Speaker 3: with this team, and I don't really know who the,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Steelers quarterbacks were and where he was starting
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  Speaker 3: or playing or, or, or whatnot. But that's a, that's
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  Speaker 3: a good stat and continuity is good for everybody and everything.
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  Speaker 3: And it showed that, that kind of continuity definitely showed
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  Speaker 3: at training camp this year. So that's a, you know, if,
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  Speaker 3: if that's a beneficial thing, you know I'm all for it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, I think a guy like, like George
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  Speaker 3: needs that. I thought his interview yesterday, if you haven't
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  Speaker 3: checked it out on the, on the website or on YouTube,
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  Speaker 3: on our Cowboys channel, I mean, I thought.
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  Speaker 2: His interview was amazing. I mean, it really was.
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  Speaker 3: You know, well-thought-out answers, and he seems like he's as
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  Speaker 3: ready to go ever. And I love what he says
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  Speaker 3: about the duo, you know, about... you know, Giants cornerbacks
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  Speaker 3: chirping over there saying, yeah, cool. You know, he's like,
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  Speaker 3: that's fine. We think the same thing. I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: should think that we think that here, no hard feelings,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean? And that's, that's a good
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  Speaker 3: mature answer to that. You know, I hope you do
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  Speaker 3: think you're the best. Cause I think I'm the best,
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  Speaker 3: you know? So I like that.
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  Speaker 11: And I got my, I'm going to go ahead and
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  Speaker 11: give a prediction for the game. I'm, I'm going to
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  Speaker 11: go Dallas 24 and, And I'm going to go the Giants, 17.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 3: A little different game than what Albert picked, but still
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  Speaker 3: a win. And thanks for the call, Michael. I'm kind
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  Speaker 3: of with you there. I haven't really figured out a score,
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  Speaker 3: but I think I could see it being something like that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if the Cowboys defense is at that
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  Speaker 3: point where it's, you know, 17 points. I kind of
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  Speaker 3: think it's going to be a little bit more high
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  Speaker 3: scoring than even that. And I think when that happens,
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  Speaker 3: then I think that the game kind of takes a
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  Speaker 3: life of its own. And then the Giants, if the
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  Speaker 3: Cowboys can go out there and score, I kind of
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  Speaker 3: think they will. I think that they'll go out and
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  Speaker 3: have some success. And you've got to remember, what is it,
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  Speaker 3: week two with Russell Wilson as their quarterback, it was
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  Speaker 3: back and forth, back and forth, 40 to 37, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Know if it'll be that high scoring, but I do
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  Speaker 3: think that there'll be some points. scored in this game, and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Cowboys win 31 to 24 or 35
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  Speaker 3: to 30 or whatever, you know, I don't think it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be, you know, a dark cloud hanging over
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  Speaker 3: the defense, you know, I mean, I think sometimes, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be hard, you know, with an offense
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  Speaker 3: like this, you know, the Cowboys should score some points,
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  Speaker 3: and teams are going to be, you know, pressured to
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  Speaker 3: go and score as well, so I don't I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that the Cowboys have.
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  Speaker 2: To go out and.
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  Speaker 3: Limit people at 15, 17, 18 points to be a
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  Speaker 3: good defense. I mean, I think it can be good.
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  Speaker 3: You got to get off the field when it's time
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  Speaker 3: to get off the field. You got to get those stops.
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  Speaker 3: You get the ball out, turnovers, things like that. The
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  Speaker 3: point of the point, you know, when it's time to
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  Speaker 3: go make a play, make a stop and get off
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  Speaker 3: the field. That's what this team needs to do, and
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  Speaker 3: to me, that's going to be the best sign for
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  Speaker 3: if this defense has improved.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Blair, Newport News, Virginia. Blair.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Nick.
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  Speaker 12: How's it going?
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  Speaker 10: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Two days in a row.
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  Speaker 12: I know I'm trying to play myself onto the game
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  Speaker 12: day roster. That's the way I look at it.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: That's how you do it, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Well, persistence. You know, I think Darren Woodson said being
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  Speaker 12: available is the key to getting opportunity in the league.
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  Speaker 12: So I'm trying to make myself available from 11 to
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  Speaker 12: 12 every day of the week.
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  Speaker 2: I like it. I like it.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 12: Well, listen, with all due respect to one of the
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  Speaker 12: callers yesterday, it might have been Mike from Bowling Green.
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  Speaker 12: I can't remember. But somebody said they wanted to see
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  Speaker 12: our defense.
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  Speaker 11: Get, uh, punched.
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  Speaker 12: And I was thinking about that and I was like,
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  Speaker 12: basically our whole defense got punched in the face last year. Um,
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  Speaker 12: I mean, this defense is the response in my mind
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  Speaker 12: to getting punched because I mean, they went out, they
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  Speaker 12: got a new coach, they're putting in a new scheme
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  Speaker 12: and they got a ton of new personnel and we
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  Speaker 12: haven't seen that. I'm The response to getting punched in
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  Speaker 12: the face is what we will see on Monday night
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  Speaker 12: when they take the field for the first time and
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  Speaker 12: for the rest of the season because it seems like
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  Speaker 12: this is kind of a big universal response, the way
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  Speaker 12: this defense has been retooled. And I'm just excited to
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  Speaker 12: see it. I don't care if they allow points. I
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  Speaker 12: don't care about the statistical side. I want to see
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  Speaker 12: the heart of that defense go out there and at
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  Speaker 12: least control whether to give the offense all the opportunity
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  Speaker 12: that they need and just be aggressive. Get turnovers when
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  Speaker 12: you can. Make stops when you have to. Get the
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  Speaker 12: other team off the field. I'll take a few touchdowns
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  Speaker 12: if it happens, learning curve kind of stuff. But ultimately,
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  Speaker 12: this is the response to getting punched.
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  Speaker 9: In my opinion.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think if we're using that analogy based
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  Speaker 3: off last year, I mean, I don't know if they
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  Speaker 3: got punched in the face last year. I think they
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  Speaker 3: got hit with like a baseball bat like several times.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that was kind of what happened. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I get your point. Like, this is the response. I
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  Speaker 3: also understood it might have been Brian from Kansas City.
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  Speaker 3: And I think what he's saying is that how do
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  Speaker 3: we respond? Because teams in the NFL have firepower. They
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  Speaker 3: have good players. They are going to score. They're going
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  Speaker 3: to make big plays. How do you respond from that?
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  Speaker 3: So I get your point. This is the first big
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  Speaker 3: response to last year's adversity. But I think that what
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  Speaker 3: he's saying is, is how does this team.
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  Speaker 2: You know, do they go in a shell early?
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  Speaker 3: If they give up a 65-yard touchdown pass on the
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  Speaker 3: third play of the game and the Meadowlands is rocking,
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  Speaker 3: what happens then? How do the Cowboys respond? And then
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  Speaker 3: how do the Cowboys defense come back after that? So
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  Speaker 3: both things can be true here. It's all about the response.
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  Speaker 3: And it's all about how do you make adjustments as
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  Speaker 3: the game's going on.
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  Speaker 7: Agreed.
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  Speaker 12: I get a little nervous when we talk about seeing
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  Speaker 12: that hit. I get it'll happen, and I definitely want
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  Speaker 12: to see the response, but it's not something I'm looking
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  Speaker 12: forward to. I am looking forward to the response, and
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  Speaker 12: you're right. We didn't get punched in the face. There
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  Speaker 12: were people standing around last year at defense, stay down.
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  Speaker 12: Just stay down.
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  Speaker 5: Don't get me in any more trouble.
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  Speaker 12: And I love the callers here, so I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 12: too aggressive in challenging them.
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  Speaker 3: Well, everybody's got their own opinion of things, and anytime
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  Speaker 3: someone says, I can't wait to see us get punched
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  Speaker 3: in the face, it's like, whoa, whoa.
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  Speaker 9: Hold up.
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  Speaker 3: Because we're not that far removed from a 40-0 game
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: against the Giants when I don't know if they even
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: landed a punch.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: So, anyways, all right.
• 17:22
  Speaker 12: Thanks so much, Nick. We'll see you on Victory Monday,
• 17:25
  Speaker 12: if not before.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: All right, sounds good.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Like the optimism there from Blair. Thanks for the call.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Ime. Ime's in Napa.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Ime, what's up?
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Hey, what's up, Nick? How you doing, man?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I'm good. How are you?
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: I'm great.
• 17:41
  Speaker 10: Thanks for asking.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Man, the line was hot today. The line was hot today.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: It was tough trying to.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Get in, but, man, I'm so happy and thankful that
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: anyways i i got a couple statement i don't really
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: know what where the show is going to step so
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: so busy trying to get on uh.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: but uh.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: i got a couple statement another question for you this
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: is for the game uh... met my statements are discount
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: i get the hope for that i hope that the
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: cowboys i i know that the uh... the way the
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: roster folded out they didn't probably plan for this so
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: they went more receiver heavy but i'd like to see
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: them run a lot of said to tight end fit
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: and You know, even with Lepke and, you know, back
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: in there and still be like a single receiver. And
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: I know that sounds crazy talking about taking Fournay or
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Pickens or Lamb off the field. But I just really
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: feel like we can line up and look like we're
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: going to run at teams but then throw out of
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: those sets. And once we get teams, you know, thinking
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: that we can, you know, they don't know if we're
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: going to run or throw, out of those certain sets,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: you know, I just think we could take advantage of
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: those things. And, again, I know we're not really tight
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: and heavy, so it's not like we'll be playing a
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: lot of two or three tight end sets. But I
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: really think that we could take advantage of the teams
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: with that. Like, I love Ferguson and I love, you know,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: the development of Brevin Spanford, Schoonmaker, you know, we'll see. But, yeah,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: that's kind of my statement or my hope for it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: And then my question for you is, do you think that–
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: I know I didn't really see it in camp, but
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: do you think that Downs gets– like matches up with
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: tight ends? Like he'll match up with– is it likely?
• 19:32
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: Like, you know, when they get into, you know, where
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: he's going out, where they flex him out or anything
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: like that, do you think that Downs, you know, They
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: put the downs on the tight end.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I think it's possible. All right, thanks for the call.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Good point. good questions.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I'll start with the downs stuff. You know, I think
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: he's a football player, and so he's going to be
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: matched up at times with a slot receiver. You know,
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: if you saw the game last night, New England, he
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: has a guy, you know, Douglas, a little slot guy.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: He'll be matched up with him. If he was playing Seattle,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: there may be some time with, with Jackson Smith and Jigba.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: And then there's going to be, you know, tight ends
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: as well. I think, I think when you play in,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: in the slot, that's what makes it so tough is,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: you know, depending on who they lined up there across
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: from you now, likely who you're talking about, who comes
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: over from the Ravens to the giants with, with Harbaugh,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: you know, he's, he's kind of that, it's like, okay,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: he's really a receiver, you know, like I get in
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: fantasy football, you can put them in the tight end
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: slot and that's what makes him cool. But he's a,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: he's a big receiver to me. But to your point though, can,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: is that the kind of guy that, that, you know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Caleb Downs can match up with and, and we'll see.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, like, you know, that's, that's going to make
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: this thing really tough for him. If he can be
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: that player that, that can play deep safety, can also play,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: in the slot, can also match up with receivers and
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: tight ends, then he's going to be every bit as
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: good as we anticipated him being.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: It's a tough place to play. We talked about it yesterday.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I think that there's going to be times where he's
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: going to get beat, and hopefully he's not judged that
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: way every single time.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought he was the savior. I thought this guy. Well,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: he is.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: He's going to be really Really valuable for him because
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: he's a guy that you could stay on the field
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: and still play multiple schemes. Along the same line, on
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: the other side, to your point about tight ends, that's
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: what two tight end sets really can give you, is
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: if you can go with two tight ends, be able
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: to run it, but also pass.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Out of that.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Now, I don't know if I want to be taking
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: off CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens that often, for the
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Spanfords and the Schoonmakers, but you'll see a lot of
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: different packages there. Really what you're saying is your second
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: and third tight end, when you have Spanford out there,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: when you have Schoonmaker, can they still open up the
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: offense and pass out of that to the point where
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: you can be effective down the field? And I think
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: if that happens, then I think the offense becomes even
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: more dynamic than what we saw last year. Let's take
• 22:27
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• 24:26
  Speaker 3: let's go to Brian in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 2: He's been holding. Brian, what's up, man?
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: Good morning, Nick.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: Morning.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Good morning.
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I appreciated Blair's comment. Our entire offseason was dedicated to,
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: you know, we got punched in the face over and
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: over again last year. Right. And this is the response.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: And good on the organization to say, hey, guess what?
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: We totally failed the defense last year. We got to
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: just scrap this thing and start over. And good on
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: them for doing that. You know, I don't know if
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: I've ever mentioned this, but I've been to a lot
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: of NFL games all over the country, not just Cowboy.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Games, lots of games.
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: I've only been to one famous game, and I was
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: at the Emmett game in whatever that was, 93?
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: Oh, with the shoulder?
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah. So when we moved from Texas, we moved to
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: Jersey in the 70s. Let me just tell you what
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: kind of culture shock that was.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: You know, a little kid moving from Texas.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: To New Jersey.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: But I ended up having a family member up there
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: who had been a season ticket holder all his life.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: And in the 90s, he gave me his tickets every year.
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: And he could have made a ton.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Of money off of those tickets. That game was worth
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: a lot of money.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: But he didn't.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: He just gave them to me. Yeah, that's the only
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: famous football game, any kind of ball game, that I've
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: ever been to.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: I was at the Emmett game.
• 25:58
  Speaker 15: Wow.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: What a great memory it.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: Was, I'll tell you that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah. But let's get to this week. You know, the
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: thing that I really want to– I'm kind of really
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: hoping for is that we can run the ball. Because
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: of the– you know, we've had some questions at offensive
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: line on the right side. Now we've got a backup
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: in on the left side. I'm really hoping that we
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: can still run the ball. That's kind of what I'm
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: going to be looking for early on in the game.
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: And I'll give my prediction. I don't think I'll call
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: in tomorrow. I'm going to go with a weird score
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: because the easy ones never seem to fit. I'm going
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: to go 29-22. Good to talk to you, Nick.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Appreciate that.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: 29-22.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I didn't know where you were going with that when
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: you were talking about just like famous games. games and
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: whatever and I'm I was thinking myself like I don't
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: know if I've ever I don't know what game I've
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: been to like that but then I was like well
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: in the last what 26 years 20 27 years I
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: mean have the Cowboys been in any of them because
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: if so then then yeah I would I wouldn't say
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: I've been there so I was starting to think about
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: that like you know 25 years from now are we
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: still talking about certain games and I guess so.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, T.O.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: And George T., you know, hitting him off on the
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: star and Dez caught it game. And I mean, I
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: know it wasn't the greatest game ever, but I mean,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: until I see another referee pull out an index card
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: and put it there and to try to measure to
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: see if the ball is actually touching the chain or not,
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: then that's going to be an iconic moment as well.
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: But I mean.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: You know, when you look at.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Some of the playoff losses, I mean, Romo dropping the
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: ball and things like that. There's been some moments, but, yeah. But,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: you know, when you said the Emmett game, I was like,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: my first thought was him breaking the rushing record. But,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: of course, the Emmett game is the one with the shoulder.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Chris, we have another caller. Lines are open, maybe.
• 28:11
  Speaker 12: 888-855-2297.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I got one for you. Do you have
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: a caller? Yeah, J.R. in Avondale. Let's go. It's been
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: a little bit, man. What's up?
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: Hey, what's going on, Nick? How you been?
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: You?
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: Not so good. I wanted to tell the story. I
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: know we talked about me going to Europe and my
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: wife inviting me along last time I talked to you,
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: but I went back to work, and... I just want
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: to tell everybody, don't neglect yourself.
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: Go to the doctor.
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: Get the checkup done and find out what's going on.
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: I found out yesterday that, you know, me personally, I
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: had a couple of issues and never did anything about it.
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: I found out yesterday that I'm going to have to
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: have a bypass surgery.
• 28:58
  Speaker 10: Oh.
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: And kind of out of nowhere here in the next
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: couple of weeks. So kind of a shocker.
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: So I haven't been– I've been keeping up with things.
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: So if I talk about something that y'all have already
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: talked about, I'm sorry about it. So I just wanted
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: everybody to know, man, work is important, of course, because
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: that's how we support our family. But don't neglect yourself, man.
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: Go get those checkups done and listen to your body.
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: So anyway.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: Well said.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: And, JR, before you get to Cowboys, and I appreciate
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: you doing that because sometimes things like, you know, football
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: and sports can kind of take your mind off of things.
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: Momentarily.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: But I will say for myself, and I'll speak for everybody,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: because I know how this community is, we're pulling for you,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: we're rooting for you, and, you know, hope things turn
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: out the very best that they possibly can.
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: Well, I hope so, too. You know, I'm a little
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: bit ahead of it. It's not to the point I
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: didn't have a heart attack or anything like that, but
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: that's kind of in my future if I don't do something.
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: So I'm going to deal with it now so I
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: can be healthy and happy for plenty more years up
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: here with my Cowboys. But anyway, I appreciate that a lot.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Hey, the check engine light came on and you got
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: to go get it fixed up. So I'm glad you
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: did that. I'm glad you did that.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: That's exactly what my wife said. You know, I just
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: need to go get some parts.
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: We're playing some parts.
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: So anyway, I don't know what's been talked about, but
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: my question to you would be, who can the Cowboys
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: not let take over the game? And him running or
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: Scataboo getting that crowd. And I know how he affects
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: the crowd and, energy for the team and momentum or neighbors.
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: I know he's a problem and was last year. So
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: which one of those guys do you think can't let
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: get out of control? And I'm excited about the defense.
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: That's how my homework, how I'm going to talk about it.
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: I'm excited to see what Ray does and what Steve
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: does because I haven't really heard much about him. Anyway,
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: that's all I got, and I'll try to call back
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: soon and show Cowboys.
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: What it's getting.
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: All right, J.R., thank you so much. Obviously, we had
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: some trouble hearing some of that. Doesn't sound like the
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: phone lines is the biggest issue we've got going on
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: there in Avondale, Arizona. J.R., we're pulling for you. uh,
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: hopefully everything, you know, turns out, um, uh, turns out
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: great for you, for you. So, uh, I'm glad you
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: were able to go and check those things out and, and, and,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: and get on, uh, get on the road to recovery
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: for sure. Um, the one thing that I did hear
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: him say about the game was just the question was
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: about which, which giants player you can't let, you know, go,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: go crazy. Um, you know, we've seen it, you know,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: we've seen neighbors and they had, uh, Wandale Robinson, who
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: is not there anymore, and he was a problem. I
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: don't know if Odell Beckham is going to be that
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: guy for them and if he still has some in
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: the tank. But any kind of running game for them,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I think if you get to a team that can
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: run it and be balanced and effective that way, that's
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: always going to be a problem. And that's something that
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: we've seen– The Cowboys last year, I mean, they had
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: some trouble with backs that you didn't think were on
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: that level. I mean, Rico, you know, slash Barry Sanders, Dattle,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, had a huge game. And we know what
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Rico is.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: He's been good.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: He was solid, but not to the point of getting for, what, 180, 190,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: whatever he did that day in Carolina. Maybe 170, but still,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, like, you know, that was a product of
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: the Cowboys' defense not being able to get off the
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: field and letting– you know, average running backs have successful days.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Randy in Texarkana.
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: Good morning, sir.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: How are you?
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: Doing good, and good morning to my storyline teammates and
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: fellow captains. Hey, before I get to my question, I'd
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: like you to just sit there and be pretty for
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: a second, and let me talk to my teammates. As
• 33:31
  Speaker 9: a captain to this team, I just feel like I
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: need to say this. You know, you listen to the
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: show and you hear that Nick is only able to
• 33:39
  Speaker 9: get 10 to 11 callers on average a day. If
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: you call and you get in once, maybe twice a week,
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: maybe you should ease back on the calling in and
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: giving other people a chance because we're having to redial
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: 200 plus times to get through. And you got to
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: think about the new callers. They're already going to be
• 33:58
  Speaker 9: nervous enough to call. And if they can't get through,
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: they may never try to get through. So, Yeah, please
• 34:04
  Speaker 9: be thankful of other people there. And that's all I
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  Speaker 9: got to say on that.
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  Speaker 16: All right.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: And then on my question for the day, I love
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: your stories that you tell, like when you had to
• 34:18
  Speaker 9: push around the country singer on the sideline. And this
• 34:21
  Speaker 9: show is called Storytime. So I want to hear some
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: stories out of you and with the upcoming road trip.
• 34:28
  Speaker 9: If in your inner circle of your career, and it
• 34:31
  Speaker 9: can be front office, it could be teammates, it could
• 34:34
  Speaker 9: be players, coach, it could be anybody. If you were
• 34:37
  Speaker 9: taking a road trip with two people, who would you take?
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  Speaker 9: And give me a good story of why on both.
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: And you don't have to answer that now because you
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: might want to think about it because you don't want
• 34:48
  Speaker 9: to hurt nobody's feelings. But, yeah, give me two stories
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  Speaker 9: and two people you'd like to take a road trip with.
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: That's all I got. I got, I got, I'll, I'll
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: take one with Pam from the office and Chuck Norris,
• 35:04
  Speaker 9: because with the high gas prices, his car runs off
• 35:07
  Speaker 9: of fear. So we wouldn't have to worry about that.
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  Speaker 9: All right, brother, you have a good one.
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  Speaker 2: You have a good one. Thanks, Randy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's, that's his take on people. We know who,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: who should call and how often you call and stuff
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: like that. Like, you know, I, I, the phone lines
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: are open and it's kind of, it's, it's one of
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: those things. It's like, I, I don't even know if
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: I necessarily agree with that because I'm just like, if
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: you got something to say, you got something to say,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: you know, the minute you start, you know, someone says,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to call today. And then we might
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: get six callers. I don't know if I want that either. So, um,
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: you know, it is what it is and get in there.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: I appreciate the ones that do call. And if they
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: call four or five times a row, that's, that's great too. Um,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: As for road trips, I mean, you know, as far
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: as inner circle goes, I mean, I don't know. I mean,
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: the last few years, Beam and I, we go just
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: about every road trip, you know, we're getting into something.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: We don't even know what it is, but it's like
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: getting into something. And, you know, I mean, I'm not
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: going to get into details, but he did pretty much
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: save my life on one road trip. So, I mean,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I'm definitely going to take Chris. And then on And then,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm going to go with my guy, Shannon, who,
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: you know, he was, we went around for, what, eight
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: or nine years together. And, I mean, it's a little different, though.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: You know, we get back to the hotel at different times,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: maybe with, you know, with Beam and then Shannon. And
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Shannon sometimes will see the sunrise. But that could be fun, too. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's an easy one for me. I'll go
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  Speaker 3: with Shannon and Chris there. Let's go with Lester in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 15: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, Nick.
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  Speaker 16: Morning, Cowboys. Storyliners.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 36:52
  Speaker 16: I just got a couple questions. Who is our starting corners?
• 36:58
  Speaker 16: Do we know that yet, or are we still.
• 37:00
  Speaker 11: Looking for them?
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Our starting corners?
• 37:03
  Speaker 16: Yeah, this week.
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  Speaker 2: I think we kind of know who they are, right?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Is it not Bland and Revel and Durant?
• 37:14
  Speaker 16: I meant to, you know, if we line up with
• 37:16
  Speaker 16: the two, the two, the main two.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, if it's going to be Duran or Revel. I'm
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: leaning towards Revel on that one. But again, I say
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: it all the time.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. I mean, like, like they both could
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: start the game. They, they both could play.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: So this is one of those to me doesn't matter
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: that much because they are all, they're going to be
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: out there.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: They're going to play.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: It's kind of like the backup tight end. It's fan
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: forward on the depth chart.
• 37:44
  Speaker 15: Cool.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Schoonmaker's going to play a lot. So I just look
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: at that backup spot like it's not that big. I
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: just hope they both can play and they both can
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: do a good job when asked upon.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 16: Well, and then the next question I have is, I
• 38:01
  Speaker 16: know we signed a free agent or something, Tom Olson.
• 38:05
  Speaker 16: I think that's his name or something. Do you have
• 38:08
  Speaker 16: any information about him?
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: I do not. I do not. I do not have
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: information on that.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: I'm on this show, so I didn't see anything that
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: has come through on that.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 38:20
  Speaker 16: Because I heard the other show talking about him, but
• 38:25
  Speaker 16: I didn't catch all the information. So I was just wondering.
• 38:30
  Speaker 16: I try to keep up with who our players are.
• 38:33
  Speaker 16: I have a little chart that I keep. So that's
• 38:36
  Speaker 16: all I want to know, man.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: What position?
• 38:42
  Speaker 16: I think he's a.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Who's he talking about, Chris? The guard we signed to
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: the practice squad yesterday. Okay. No, no, I'm good. I'm
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: good on that.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: No, I don't know the guard that they signed to
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: the practice squad.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: I apologize. Okay.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: And I could, and I probably should because... These days,
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: these are the kind of guys that get moved up
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: on game day. So it could be a guy that plays,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: but I apologize. I do not have information on him
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: and what he'll bring to the table. But the fact
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: that they did move Nick Leverett up from the practice
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: squad to be that game day backup, really, at center
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: and guard. So it could be a situation where they
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: also elevate at 30%. position as well so we'll get
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: we'll get up to speed on on that for sure
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: and then you know I'm not trying to diminish the
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: cornerback situation I'm just saying who starts between Revell or Durant,
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if they line up and they're
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: both out there on the field on the very first
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: play of the season because that's just the position that
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: you see a lot there. All right, let's go to
• 39:53
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  Speaker 3: what's up.
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  Speaker 6: Dude You made it. What you got?
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: What's your take on the game? Uh, man, I think, honestly,
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: before Ty, before T-Sizzle went down, I was looking at
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: another 40 to zero. I thought we were going to
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: smoke them, man. But, uh, T-Sizzle going down, I really
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: kind of had to, well, I still think we might
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: can't beat them, but I think Bass is going to
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: do fine. I know we had a lot of fans
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: getting tripping about it, but I think Bass will be fine.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: He'll be great in his role, and I think we'll
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: move along like we need to. Just, uh, I'm looking
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: for everybody to go out and play well and no injuries.
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: My prediction is probably 31-21. I said it on the
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: space last night. I think if we go out, stop
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: the run, then I think the Giants really ain't got
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: too much more after that. We can just keep letting
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: their run game. I know they got like four running backs,
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: and they're going to try to come out the bus running.
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: So if we stop the run... Go ahead and do
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: that and then make Jackson Dark. See what he got
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: against CP. I think we're going to be just right.
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: I can't wait to see how we actually play him.
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: Whether CP is going to have downs position, Thompson. All
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: I can say is really honestly, I think the front
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: seven should be all right. I know Q and Clark
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: are going to do their thing.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: All right, well, thanks for the call, Davion. Appreciate it.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Glad to have you back in here. Let's keep this
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: thing rolling. I think anyone would take a 31-21 win. So,
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: all right, let's get going here. We got Cowboy Nico
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: in Colorado Springs.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, what up, Cowboy Nation?
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: What up?
• 43:35
  Speaker 16: First off, I got to do it.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: I got to say it, right?
• 43:38
  Speaker 16: Good morning, sir.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: Because I'm going to tell you right now, it is
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: a good morning.
• 43:44
  Speaker 8: Cowboy fans, we are alive.
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: We are awake.
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: We are ready to go.
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: Now, with that being said, I'm going to cut a
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: small promo. It's going to be a little what you're
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: going to do, brother kind of promo.
• 43:56
  Speaker 7: Here it is, guys.
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  Speaker 11: What you're going to do, brother, when CP and the
• 44:00
  Speaker 11: Dallas Cowboys run wild on the Giants.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: And all I got is touch your body and.
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: Hug your mom.
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: Have a great day, guys. Cowboy Nation, let's go.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: I told Chris in the break, I was like, I'm
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: not sure. And I hadn't heard or obviously don't screen
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: the calls. I'm like, it's been a long night. I'm
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: like dragging right now. I was like, I don't know
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: if I got the energy for Nico. I definitely can't
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: match that. Uh, but, uh, I don't know if anyone can,
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: but that, that's a good one for us to say,
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: is that a good one for us to end on Chris?
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Or is that, we have any other callers or we
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: can get there? That's it. All right.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: It's hard to top anyways. So, um, you know, honestly, the, the,
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: I will say this, uh, Lester's call, um, talking about
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: the guy that Cowboys added on the practice squad.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's, he's played 173 games. So he's a
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: veteran guy, Tomlinson. He's played a lot.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: So there's a good chance if he's ready to play,
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: there's a good chance that he could be a backup
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: or a game day elevation may not even be on.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: There for long.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: So we'll see what that situation looks like there. But guys,
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: appreciate the calls. Got to 11 again today. So we're
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: going in the right direction. Let's have a good week tomorrow.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: And finish this thing off strong. So, for Chris Beam,
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: I'm Nick Eatman. See you tomorrow on Cowboy Storyline.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah!