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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:04Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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- 0:11Speaker 4: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:19Speaker 1: Good morning everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I'm Nick Eatman.
- 0:23Speaker 1: It's Friday, December twenty ninth, and we are one day
- 0:26Speaker 1: away from the Cowboys taking on the Detroit Lions. Don't
- 0:29Speaker 1: be that person that forgets the game is on Saturday
- 0:32Speaker 1: and then looks at your phone on social media and
- 0:34Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, they won or whatever. Don't be that guy.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Saturday Night, Saurday Night football, Cowboys and Lions. It's one
- 0:42Speaker 1: that a lot of fans have been waiting for a
- 0:43Speaker 1: long time, especially the halftime ceremony. Jimmy Johnson going into
- 0:48Speaker 1: the Ring of Honor finally, and that should be fun
- 0:51Speaker 1: to see, not only just that interaction, but also you
- 0:54Speaker 1: know the players that well that we'll be back to
- 0:57Speaker 1: celebrate that. There should be a lot I know Nate
- 1:00Speaker 1: Newton's excited about that. But around that halftime thing, the
- 1:04Speaker 1: Cowboys have a huge game to play against Detroit and
- 1:09Speaker 1: we all know what's at stake there. The Cowboys got
- 1:11Speaker 1: to stay live for a chance to win the NFC
- 1:14Speaker 1: East still stroll on the table. Eagles aren't running away
- 1:18Speaker 1: from anybody right now. But Cowboys got to do their
- 1:20Speaker 1: part and win this game, all right. Eight eight eight,
- 1:23Speaker 1: five five two two nine seven is the number to
- 1:25Speaker 1: call Before we do that. I wanted to give a
- 1:28Speaker 1: shout out. We've done birthday shoutouts all week and this
- 1:33Speaker 1: is one of those things. But I want to give
- 1:35Speaker 1: a shout out to Rob Schultz. He probably listens to
- 1:39Speaker 1: every single show, and he has since we started doing
- 1:42Speaker 1: the storyline. He's with my mom text O Canada, Texas.
- 1:46Speaker 1: They watch every single day. Give some critiques. Happy birthday
- 1:50Speaker 1: to him as well. I know he'll be watching, maybe
- 1:53Speaker 1: not live, he'll be watching later on. It's a big
- 1:55Speaker 1: part of their day and that means a lot to me.
- 1:57Speaker 1: All right, let's give us start. Tyrone is in Georgia.
- 2:02Speaker 1: He I guess, was just starting talking Cowboys doing the
- 2:05Speaker 1: double dip with the storyline. What's up?
- 2:08Speaker 5: Yeah, I just can't get enough. I'm excited about the
- 2:13Speaker 5: playoffs coming up. By the way, Happy New Year and
- 2:20Speaker 5: I was, I was, I really enjoyed you getting fired
- 2:23Speaker 5: up this week.
- 2:24Speaker 1: Was yeah, yeah, I went. I had to go back
- 2:28Speaker 1: and watch that one. And see it was like because
- 2:30Speaker 1: a lot of people were like, wow, you were really
- 2:32Speaker 1: into it, and I didn't notice it as much on
- 2:35Speaker 1: the air, went back and watched it and was like, yeah,
- 2:38Speaker 1: tone it down a little bit. But you know, I mean,
- 2:41Speaker 1: I mean, fans are passionate. I'm passionate. I mean, it
- 2:45Speaker 1: happens as long as it's not too bad.
- 2:47Speaker 5: No, that's what that's what makes it great. And you
- 2:51Speaker 5: are generally very very patient with everybody, and uh, you know,
- 2:58Speaker 5: but it was fundable. Yeah, I've got a little story.
- 3:03Speaker 5: And then and then a question. I grew up in
- 3:06Speaker 5: Dallas and when I was about ten years old, my
- 3:11Speaker 5: dad was a Gideon, you know, those guys that distribute
- 3:14Speaker 5: the Bibles and all that. And he asked me, and
- 3:18Speaker 5: he goes, I've got a prayer breakfast tomorrow. Do you
- 3:21Speaker 5: want to go? You'd have to get up about like
- 3:23Speaker 5: five o'clock on the other side of Dallas. And I'm like,
- 3:29Speaker 5: he goes, by the way, Tom Landry is going to
- 3:33Speaker 5: be there, and I went really counting in. So we
- 3:39Speaker 5: drove across there and when I walked in the room,
- 3:43Speaker 5: Tom Landry was sitting down and he stood up and
- 3:46Speaker 5: he walked over to me and he shook my hand
- 3:48Speaker 5: and I was like, I couldn't believe how big he was.
- 3:53Speaker 5: And he goes Son, He goes, I'm glad you're here.
- 3:56Speaker 5: He said, did you come to pray with us or
- 3:58Speaker 5: did you just come to meet me? And I said,
- 4:02Speaker 5: oh both. I said, I got to be honest, I
- 4:07Speaker 5: came to meet you. And he goes, good answer. He goes,
- 4:10Speaker 5: I like somebody that's honest. And he went and sat
- 4:13Speaker 5: down and I just I was in heaven.
- 4:15Speaker 1: That's awesome, that's great. Yeah, never met him. I never
- 4:19Speaker 1: met Tom Landry. Yeah, yeah, well that's cool. Well what
- 4:24Speaker 1: do you think about this game coming up?
- 4:25Speaker 5: Man?
- 4:26Speaker 6: Man?
- 4:27Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be tight. I hope people don't
- 4:30Speaker 5: take the lines too lightly, you know from their past records.
- 4:37Speaker 5: I just hope that we can get that running game
- 4:42Speaker 5: on both sides where it needs to be. Uh. You know,
- 4:47Speaker 5: we need to go into the playoffs with a strong
- 4:50Speaker 5: and positive attitude. What do you think it will take
- 4:54Speaker 5: to spark them?
- 4:55Speaker 1: Yeah? Maybe?
- 4:57Speaker 3: Uh?
- 5:00Speaker 1: I think you know. I was gonna say, like, well,
- 5:01Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson going in the Ring of honor, getting that
- 5:03Speaker 1: crowd going, But I think the crowd will be going regardless.
- 5:06Speaker 1: I think the crowd will be electric for that Saturday
- 5:10Speaker 1: night game. You know. I think I think that they'll
- 5:14Speaker 1: have a good week of practice. I think they have
- 5:15Speaker 1: had a good week. So it's losing too straight. Losing
- 5:20Speaker 1: too straight knowing what's in front of him, knowing that
- 5:23Speaker 1: this is a good football team, you know, Dan Campbell
- 5:26Speaker 1: and that group. You know, they'll be coming here ready
- 5:28Speaker 1: to take the Cowboys head off. So I think I
- 5:31Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna need a lot to be to
- 5:33Speaker 1: get a spark. I think you know, this, this is
- 5:36Speaker 1: this team knows what's at stake, he knows what they
- 5:38Speaker 1: need to do in front of them, So I think
- 5:41Speaker 1: they'll be they'll be ready to go, ready to fire.
- 5:43Speaker 1: So all right, Tyrone, thanks for the call, appreciate that.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Let's get Let's get right to Greg. He's in Columbus, Ohio.
- 5:52Speaker 6: Hey, Greg's up.
- 5:53Speaker 1: Greg.
- 5:54Speaker 6: Hey, Uh, I'm kind of excited for this game. I'm
- 5:57Speaker 6: really happy Jim is getting in finally. Yeah, and uh,
- 6:02Speaker 6: I remember when I first started driving a semi truck.
- 6:06Speaker 6: I was I took a trip down to Dallas and
- 6:08Speaker 6: I stopped at Texas Stadium during the off season, and
- 6:11Speaker 6: I think it's like the ninety four right before the
- 6:13Speaker 6: ninety four season, and did a tour of the Texas
- 6:16Speaker 6: Stadium and it was it was so weird, how to
- 6:19Speaker 6: see that arch in the field and stuff. Yeah yeah,
- 6:22Speaker 6: And then took a tour of the like a conference
- 6:26Speaker 6: room where they had all the flags and stuff, but
- 6:29Speaker 6: they had every flag except one. Do you know what
- 6:33Speaker 6: what flag was missing out of that room?
- 6:36Speaker 1: No, what kind of flags are we talking about here?
- 6:38Speaker 1: Like the NFL teams, Oh, NFL teams.
- 6:43Speaker 6: It was one flag that was missing. It was the
- 6:47Speaker 6: San Francisco forty nine ers. And uh, the guy who
- 6:51Speaker 6: did the tour, he just said that Jerry just didn't
- 6:54Speaker 6: like him.
- 6:55Speaker 5: Oh but but.
- 6:58Speaker 6: My one of my favorite players I was beginning to
- 7:02Speaker 6: be a Cowboys fan was mister.
- 7:04Speaker 7: Doug donal.
- 7:07Speaker 6: Nice from the Ohio State University.
- 7:10Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 7:10Speaker 1: I think I think fans kind of thought he was
- 7:14Speaker 1: going to be the next like Golden Richards. I mean
- 7:16Speaker 1: they had the same hair, maybe even were the same number,
- 7:19Speaker 1: and it was like, this is the this is the
- 7:21Speaker 1: new version. It didn't really work out, but yeah, yeah
- 7:25Speaker 1: he had.
- 7:25Speaker 6: To hair like Tommy Wildfire rich and Flair and all
- 7:29Speaker 6: this guy.
- 7:29Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, definitely. All right, Greg, you.
- 7:33Speaker 6: Have a nice weekend and enjoyed tomorrow night, you too, Greg.
- 7:37Speaker 1: And the Columbus Ohio I would say there's probably a
- 7:40Speaker 1: lot of people from Columbus Ohio here in this area
- 7:43Speaker 1: right now. Is Ohio State takes on Missouri tonight in
- 7:47Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl. Maybe maybe a lot of Ohio State
- 7:51Speaker 1: fans there, I mean, there's Ohio State fans everywhere. But
- 7:54Speaker 1: should be should be interesting game. I mean, bowl games
- 7:57Speaker 1: are bowl games are are are just interesting. I don't
- 8:00Speaker 1: know how else you can say it. I watched them
- 8:02Speaker 1: last night. You just don't know, you know, they matter?
- 8:04Speaker 1: Do they care? If the players that are playing in
- 8:07Speaker 1: the on the team don't even care to play in
- 8:08Speaker 1: the game, it's kind of hard to get everyone else involved,
- 8:11Speaker 1: but still still something to watch right now here during
- 8:15Speaker 1: the during the holidays. All right, Ron in Silver City,
- 8:18Speaker 1: New Mexico.
- 8:20Speaker 7: Ay, I'm going a just to honor your dad. Ron
- 8:25Speaker 7: six foot four and fifty story linebacker.
- 8:29Speaker 1: Yes, nice, so nice. You'll love that storylinebacker.
- 8:37Speaker 7: Yes, sir, six foot four, two fifty.
- 8:39Speaker 1: I can start, dang. Yeah, let's go, man, let's go.
- 8:43Speaker 1: Can you play? Yes, we need you, Mike. We got
- 8:47Speaker 1: a linebacker in here. Yeah, awesome. What do you think, Ron,
- 8:51Speaker 1: what's going on? What's on your mind?
- 8:54Speaker 7: Okay, well I got to start off with I've been
- 8:57Speaker 7: on with you one time, and I'm a baseball player
- 8:59Speaker 7: on my mind baseball okay, okay, So.
- 9:02Speaker 1: So baseball player, Yes, sir, catch your first base.
- 9:09Speaker 7: I had a gun, so I'm in the outfield and
- 9:11Speaker 7: then he let's stay. Because of the size, they put
- 9:13Speaker 7: me in first base. But I prefer third base. I
- 9:16Speaker 7: still still play. A two time world champion. I still
- 9:20Speaker 7: play chap block, but any of of me. But my
- 9:24Speaker 7: mind is my mind is is like baseball, and Mike
- 9:28Speaker 7: McCarthy drives me nuts. Let's go with a Dolphins game
- 9:33Speaker 7: real quick. If he just defers, we have the football
- 9:37Speaker 7: one more time in the second half, we win. If
- 9:43Speaker 7: when we are at first and whatever you want to say,
- 9:48Speaker 7: let's just go with the yard. You have a six
- 9:51Speaker 7: foot four, two d and thirty pounds quarterback. Four stinking
- 9:57Speaker 7: times he dives for a touchdown. He does not try
- 10:00Speaker 7: to hand off one time to the left side, one
- 10:05Speaker 7: time to the right side. If you want to go,
- 10:07Speaker 7: you want to go a third. But with that being said,
- 10:10Speaker 7: I need to start some controversy because I am a
- 10:13Speaker 7: dak fan. Okay, but let me ask a question, Trey Lance,
- 10:19Speaker 7: how's he looking? How's he looking at practice?
- 10:23Speaker 1: I honestly, I'm not going to even lie to you
- 10:25Speaker 1: and tell you that he's noticeable because you don't watch practice.
- 10:29Speaker 1: We don't really get to see a lot of practice.
- 10:31Speaker 1: And where he's doing. What he's practicing a lot is
- 10:35Speaker 1: he's on the scout team. So that's I mean, from
- 10:39Speaker 1: my perspective, we really wouldn't know how he's looking. He
- 10:42Speaker 1: looks tall, and he looks like he throws the ball
- 10:45Speaker 1: around and pat and go session and stuff like that.
- 10:48Speaker 1: That's not something you're really going to see a lot
- 10:50Speaker 1: during the sea, during our little fifteen minutes of practice.
- 10:54Speaker 7: So okay, I'm willing to take a chance. This is
- 10:58Speaker 7: a this is what I would like.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Let that go.
- 11:03Speaker 7: Let's try to get a draft pick with a sixty
- 11:06Speaker 7: dollars or fifty dollars, which we're gonna be good. Gimme somebody,
- 11:10Speaker 7: and somebody also a free agent stud linebacker, somebody's stud lineman,
- 11:18Speaker 7: somebody's stud offensive lineman, and let's get a very good
- 11:22Speaker 7: running back and let that go. I guess we'll have
- 11:25Speaker 7: all that extra money.
- 11:28Speaker 1: Your thoughts, okay, I mean I that's that's your thought.
- 11:34Speaker 1: I mean, I and I I don't agree with that.
- 11:38Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep I'm gonna keep that. I'm gonna I'm
- 11:40Speaker 1: gonna keep him. I'm gonna keep this thing going right here, honestly.
- 11:43Speaker 1: And that's that's what I would do. And you know,
- 11:47Speaker 1: keep keep tweaking some things. I think Dak still got
- 11:49Speaker 1: a lot of football left. I think he's figuring some
- 11:51Speaker 1: things out. I mean with this, with this, you know,
- 11:54Speaker 1: with the coordinator, and I mean this year, I mean,
- 11:56Speaker 1: I think he's been better this year. This wouldn't be
- 11:59Speaker 1: the time for me to let him go because I
- 12:03Speaker 1: I don't look at it like he's it's eight years.
- 12:06Speaker 1: This is what he is. I see a big difference
- 12:08Speaker 1: this year in how he's playing and and and you know,
- 12:12Speaker 1: the way that he's the way he runs the ball
- 12:14Speaker 1: as well, and he's just playing like a football player
- 12:17Speaker 1: that I've always wanted him to be. And so I'm
- 12:21Speaker 1: seeing it this year. So the money doesn't doesn't bother me.
- 12:24Speaker 1: I mean, you got to pay quarterbacks. I I just
- 12:26Speaker 1: don't go to that theory. But I know what you're saying.
- 12:32Speaker 1: I mean, what you're hoping for is to do all
- 12:36Speaker 1: that and find the next rock party. You know that
- 12:38Speaker 1: that's what you want because you can get a cheap,
- 12:40Speaker 1: nine hundred thousand dollars quarterback that can play like that
- 12:43Speaker 1: and then have all these other weapons. Just look around
- 12:47Speaker 1: the league. Just look around the league at all the
- 12:49Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are playing. It's that's that doesn't really work.
- 12:54Speaker 1: It doesn't work that way a lot, but it some
- 12:57Speaker 1: some teams do. Some teams that strikes gold and it
- 13:00Speaker 1: in San Francisco. You're not wrong with that theory. I
- 13:04Speaker 1: probably wouldn't go that route, and I don't think Jerry
- 13:08Speaker 1: would either. I think Jerry would rather pay Dak and
- 13:10Speaker 1: try to make this work around him. That's what I
- 13:12Speaker 1: think he'll try to do. All right. Pastor James in Midland,
- 13:16Speaker 1: Texas is our next caller.
- 13:18Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, has it going today?
- 13:20Speaker 7: Brother good man?
- 13:21Speaker 1: How are you doing? James?
- 13:22Speaker 7: Doing well?
- 13:23Speaker 8: Doing well? I have a quick Cowboys story for you,
- 13:26Speaker 8: right quick, right, and then I'll go into what Okay,
- 13:30Speaker 8: my dad you know, of course, I'm a pastor and
- 13:32Speaker 8: my dad pastored for over fifty years and that's the
- 13:35Speaker 8: reason we moved to Midland, and when I was a baby,
- 13:39Speaker 8: I was maybe two or three years old, probably maybe
- 13:42Speaker 8: four the most.
- 13:43Speaker 7: A young lady.
- 13:45Speaker 8: From our church married Robert Newhouse's brother. Okay, so they
- 13:51Speaker 8: came to I think the wedding was in Odessa, and
- 13:57Speaker 8: Robert Newhouse, of course, was in the wedding, and my
- 14:00Speaker 8: dad was a huge Cowboys fan, and my mother really
- 14:04Speaker 8: wasn't into football. But when my dad told her who
- 14:08Speaker 8: Robert Newhouse was and they were introduced to him, he
- 14:12Speaker 8: ended up grabbing her hand and kissing it. And all
- 14:16Speaker 8: I heard all my life and all their lives was
- 14:18Speaker 8: how once Robert Newhouse kissed her hand, all she could
- 14:21Speaker 8: say was, oh, I'll never wash this can again. So
- 14:25Speaker 8: you know, after that, she knew exactly who Robert Newhouse was.
- 14:28Speaker 8: She may not have known who anybody else on the
- 14:30Speaker 8: Cowboys team was, but yes, she definitely knew who Robert
- 14:34Speaker 8: Newhouse was. So that was my little quick story about
- 14:37Speaker 8: a past Cowboy.
- 14:38Speaker 7: Okay.
- 14:39Speaker 8: Now I've been trying to I've been trying to get
- 14:41Speaker 8: on for the last couple of days because I heard
- 14:43Speaker 8: all of that pessimism and stuff going on that day
- 14:46Speaker 8: that they kind of had you hot under collar. But
- 14:49Speaker 8: like you said, everybody has their own opinion. But for me,
- 14:51Speaker 8: who I've been a Cowboys fan all my life, I
- 14:55Speaker 8: look at it like this, We're fortunate enough to have
- 14:58Speaker 8: Super Bowl trophies in our trophy case, where some teams
- 15:01Speaker 8: don't have any at all. Now, true enough, we may
- 15:04Speaker 8: have gone through a lull, and people want to see
- 15:07Speaker 8: things this way or that way. But I'm an optimist
- 15:09Speaker 8: and I really feel like that this team can really
- 15:13Speaker 8: go further than they have gone before. I believe that
- 15:17Speaker 8: last loss to Miami was a loss that they couldn't,
- 15:21Speaker 8: you know, take and improve on and say, Okay, we
- 15:24Speaker 8: went to Miami well against one of the top teams,
- 15:27Speaker 8: and we played fairly well. It just you know, it
- 15:31Speaker 8: was just that we left too much time on the clock.
- 15:33Speaker 8: But I just feel like people should be thankful for
- 15:36Speaker 8: what we already do have, because there's a lot of
- 15:39Speaker 8: teams that don't have any trophies in their trophy case
- 15:42Speaker 8: at all from Super Bowls, And I mean, just take
- 15:46Speaker 8: it as a grain of south. There's too many people
- 15:48Speaker 8: that want to talk so much about Dak and aboaut
- 15:52Speaker 8: coach and about this that and whatnot, but just be
- 15:54Speaker 8: grateful to know that we have championships. We want to
- 15:58Speaker 8: see another one, but there's teams don't have any. And
- 16:01Speaker 8: I believe this week the Cowboys are going to come
- 16:04Speaker 8: out with their haird five, with the great Jimmy Johnson
- 16:08Speaker 8: being able to get put into the Ring of Honor,
- 16:11Speaker 8: and I just feel like they're going to come out
- 16:13Speaker 8: just encouraged and ready to play, and they're gonna win
- 16:17Speaker 8: thirty eight to twenty four.
- 16:19Speaker 1: All Right, all right, thanks James, thank you for the call.
- 16:22Speaker 1: Now you two have a goode.
- 16:24Speaker 6: You know.
- 16:25Speaker 1: The thing. The thing about that is, and I'm just
- 16:28Speaker 1: gonna just play both sides of this is you're right
- 16:33Speaker 1: when you've been around a long time and you know
- 16:35Speaker 1: you have stories and your family has stories about Robert
- 16:39Speaker 1: Newhouse and things like that, which I have. You know,
- 16:42Speaker 1: I have a Robert Newhouse story as well. I don't
- 16:44Speaker 1: know if I'll tell it, but I mean I've been
- 16:46Speaker 1: a fan of his for a long time as well.
- 16:48Speaker 1: But there's probably a lot of people listening right now
- 16:52Speaker 1: that don't know who Robert Newhouse is because they he
- 16:55Speaker 1: played in a different, different time, different era. And these
- 17:00Speaker 1: Cowboy fans, they don't really care about the five Super
- 17:05Speaker 1: Bowls that happened because they weren't even alive or they
- 17:08Speaker 1: barely even knew anything about them, and they heard their
- 17:11Speaker 1: parents talking about them, they hear their grandparents talking about it,
- 17:15Speaker 1: and they just want to experience it as well, and
- 17:17Speaker 1: so like, it's just different perspectives, like we can be
- 17:23Speaker 1: thankful of things like that because we've seen it, but
- 17:27Speaker 1: it's been a long time where you know, I'm I
- 17:29Speaker 1: don't necessarily fault the fans that are like, man, you know,
- 17:33Speaker 1: I need to see this happen now, because you got
- 17:35Speaker 1: to think about the especially the callers, you guys you
- 17:38Speaker 1: know that are on every day listening to these podcasts,
- 17:41Speaker 1: getting on the website, looking at stories, looking at it
- 17:44Speaker 1: at you know, the injury reports, just trying to get
- 17:46Speaker 1: everything they can because they're living in the moment. And
- 17:49Speaker 1: so you're living in the moment every single day. It's hard.
- 17:52Speaker 1: You can't just rely on the past. You want you
- 17:54Speaker 1: want this to be the moment. So I don't fault
- 17:58Speaker 1: I don't fault in your attitude for thinking, hey, be
- 18:00Speaker 1: thankful for what we have or what we've had. We
- 18:03Speaker 1: just got to remember there's a lot of fans that
- 18:05Speaker 1: have never had that at all. They don't even know
- 18:08Speaker 1: what this is, so uh, it's it's it's for both.
- 18:11Speaker 1: I mean, you just got to find find the balance.
- 18:13Speaker 1: That's the key for me. All Right. Michael's in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
- 18:18Speaker 9: Finally got your book. Uh if these walls could talk.
- 18:22Speaker 9: And it's kind of funny you you kind of read
- 18:25Speaker 9: this book to us a little bit during your show
- 18:27Speaker 9: because there's a lot of stories.
- 18:29Speaker 1: You shay not tell the same stories over and over.
- 18:32Speaker 1: Is that what you're saying, Michael?
- 18:35Speaker 9: You know you a few weeks ago you basically read
- 18:38Speaker 9: page one hand page two by the Emma Smith stuff.
- 18:41Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 18:44Speaker 9: One thing I've got a comment about, just curious what
- 18:48Speaker 9: you think. I've heard rumors that I've seen little things
- 18:52Speaker 9: that there's two very successful coaches that might get excused
- 18:57Speaker 9: from their jobs because they have done good in the
- 19:01Speaker 9: PAHD years. And it's been mentioned Dallas get rid of
- 19:05Speaker 9: McCarthy and get one of these guys. I'm sure you
- 19:08Speaker 9: know what I'm talking about. Yeah, we'll mention another team
- 19:12Speaker 9: thing on the on the you know, but I think
- 19:15Speaker 9: that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I Mean, if
- 19:19Speaker 9: I think Dallas gonna win their last two. That would
- 19:22Speaker 9: be three straight twelve wins games the season for Mike McCarthy.
- 19:28Speaker 9: I mean, I can't see getting rid of under any circumstance.
- 19:32Speaker 9: That's my opinion.
- 19:33Speaker 1: Just yeah, I think I agree with that. I mean,
- 19:39Speaker 1: and I think, you know, it's also to you know,
- 19:41Speaker 1: him calling the plays. I mean, let's see what these
- 19:43Speaker 1: last two games look like. But I mean, I I
- 19:46Speaker 1: I feel like he's done a really good job this year.
- 19:49Speaker 1: And you know, he kind of he kind of put
- 19:51Speaker 1: it on himself. He said, Hey, if I'm going down,
- 19:53Speaker 1: I'm going to go down the way. I think we
- 19:55Speaker 1: should do it, and let me call the plays. I've
- 19:58Speaker 1: worked with Kellen. Kellen was here when I got here.
- 20:01Speaker 1: You wanted me to work with him. I did. We
- 20:04Speaker 1: did our best, but it didn't really work out. I
- 20:07Speaker 1: don't necessarily agree with everything, you know, from a philosophical standpoint,
- 20:11Speaker 1: So let me try it my way. And he's doing it,
- 20:13Speaker 1: and and I think Dak is playing better than he's
- 20:16Speaker 1: played really ever, you know, and so especially doing it
- 20:22Speaker 1: with a running game that isn't really there. So I
- 20:26Speaker 1: think you can, you know, you can do some things
- 20:27Speaker 1: to help him around it. But I think Mike's done
- 20:29Speaker 1: a good enough job, and i'd like to I think
- 20:32Speaker 1: we just got to, you know, run it back, and
- 20:35Speaker 1: that's what you're trying to do, You're trying to build it.
- 20:37Speaker 1: I think Jerry has learned his lesson over the years
- 20:40Speaker 1: of just quit trying to to change up coaches all
- 20:44Speaker 1: the time. You got to build continuity. You got to
- 20:46Speaker 1: keep building this thing. And I think Mike has done
- 20:49Speaker 1: everything that you would want him to do, other than
- 20:52Speaker 1: you know, you want to win in the playoffs. But
- 20:55Speaker 1: the problem is is that other than maybe that first
- 20:58Speaker 1: year when they did lose it home to the forty niners,
- 21:01Speaker 1: but they haven't been the better team. I mean, they've
- 21:04Speaker 1: been good, but they haven't been the top team. So Michael,
- 21:09Speaker 1: I appreciate the call. Thank you. Sorry I thought he
- 21:13Speaker 1: was off the line. But yeah, that that, uh, that's
- 21:17Speaker 1: just my opinion. I mean, I think I think he's
- 21:20Speaker 1: had a good, good football teams here, but you know
- 21:23Speaker 1: that they've run into teams that have just played better
- 21:26Speaker 1: and are better. And right now, you know, they still
- 21:30Speaker 1: Jerry's out on on where they where they rank with
- 21:33Speaker 1: Philly and Detroit, but it's pretty clear that the forty
- 21:36Speaker 1: nine ers are a better team. Doesn't mean you can't
- 21:38Speaker 1: go beat them, but but I mean I think that
- 21:41Speaker 1: that's that's kind of where they are. You got to
- 21:42Speaker 1: get over the hump and and beat these teams. I
- 21:45Speaker 1: mean just think but like Green Bay, you know, back
- 21:49Speaker 1: in the nineties with like Mike Holmgren, you know, like
- 21:52Speaker 1: building this team, and they just couldn't beat Dallas or
- 21:55Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. You know, they just weren't better
- 21:57Speaker 1: than them. They and then it's so they did so
- 22:00Speaker 1: they got there, so they finally got better than them.
- 22:02Speaker 1: But I mean, you didn't just say, well, let's get
- 22:04Speaker 1: someone that you know they can take us over the hump,
- 22:06Speaker 1: you know. I mean you got to remember this guy
- 22:08Speaker 1: has got them to this point. So I changing coaches
- 22:11Speaker 1: to me just seems irresponsible. I wouldn't do that. Scott
- 22:15Speaker 1: from New Hampshire. It's our next caller.
- 22:17Speaker 6: Scott Nick.
- 22:20Speaker 5: How's it going man?
- 22:21Speaker 1: Good? How are you doing good?
- 22:23Speaker 5: Good?
- 22:24Speaker 3: Long time listener, First time callers, got to stay off
- 22:26Speaker 3: the bat. I'm really good. One of your calls. Yeah,
- 22:31Speaker 3: I think it was like a week ago you mentioned
- 22:33Speaker 3: you never had anyone calling from No.
- 22:35Speaker 1: This is it, this is it.
- 22:36Speaker 10: This is our first one, So I had to check
- 22:39Speaker 10: that box off for you. I've tried in the past
- 22:41Speaker 10: and never was able to get through. But lucky enough
- 22:44Speaker 10: today and I was listening and I heard it was
- 22:46Speaker 10: a couple of calls ago. It was James called in
- 22:49Speaker 10: and was talking about how it just wants to be,
- 22:51Speaker 10: you know, just positive and think about what we have
- 22:53Speaker 10: in the championships.
- 22:55Speaker 3: And I do like agree with that in a sense.
- 22:58Speaker 3: It started, like I just the history of what our
- 23:01Speaker 3: franchise is, yeah, and just the pride in that. But
- 23:04Speaker 3: I mean, I'm twenty nine years old and I've been
- 23:07Speaker 3: supporting this team since jeez, if I can remember. I
- 23:10Speaker 3: mean I grew up. My dad was putting me in
- 23:11Speaker 3: a Cowboys onesie. So I've been I grew up, you know,
- 23:15Speaker 3: going through it, going to middle school and being surrounded
- 23:17Speaker 3: by Patriots fans and they're just winning NonStop and celebrating
- 23:21Speaker 3: all these Super Bowls, and you know, for me and
- 23:24Speaker 3: people a like kind of like my age group, we've
- 23:26Speaker 3: never seen it, right, right, So it's tough to find
- 23:31Speaker 3: that positivity that maybe James has and to reflect on
- 23:35Speaker 3: those Super Bowl trophies. And because it is, it does
- 23:38Speaker 3: feel like it's the same issues. You know, it's I've
- 23:41Speaker 3: grown up through seeing the Romo era and you know,
- 23:44Speaker 3: even the blood Cell era, but like these years and
- 23:48Speaker 3: we look back and it seems like it's always the
- 23:50Speaker 3: same thing, whether it's a different coach or a different quarterback.
- 23:53Speaker 3: It's the turnovers, it's the penalties, it's being undisciplined, and
- 23:59Speaker 3: it's it's frustrating because it seems like with even the
- 24:02Speaker 3: changes with the Romo to Dak and these new players
- 24:06Speaker 3: coming in, it's like those same things that are you know,
- 24:09Speaker 3: hitting us in the back are continuing to right. It's
- 24:13Speaker 3: so odd that it's you know, whether it's different faces
- 24:16Speaker 3: and different teams, it's the same little thing. Yeah, But
- 24:21Speaker 3: it's in saying that, you know, I remember the Giants
- 24:25Speaker 3: year very very you know, I was our year that
- 24:28Speaker 3: we were thirteen and three. We were gonna win it all.
- 24:31Speaker 3: We were the one seed and the Giants came in
- 24:32Speaker 3: and they really spoiled our whole time. And thinking that
- 24:37Speaker 3: that team can do it, you know, if they can
- 24:39Speaker 3: turn it on, anything's possible. There's punch your ticket into
- 24:43Speaker 3: the playoffs and anything can happen. So I mean there's
- 24:47Speaker 3: we always find hope and we find a reason to
- 24:51Speaker 3: think our team can do it, but it seems it's
- 24:55Speaker 3: always ended in disappointment so far. But I'm hoping, I'm positive,
- 25:00Speaker 3: and hopefully, you know, we can we can finally get
- 25:03Speaker 3: one of those.
- 25:04Speaker 1: Scott who who is the is it New England? Is
- 25:07Speaker 1: that is that the number one team up there in
- 25:09Speaker 1: New Hampshire? It's the Patriots and then like Giants, Jets.
- 25:16Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd say so. The New York teams kind of
- 25:18Speaker 3: come come around us too, but they're also sort of
- 25:21Speaker 3: like a rival. I mean the Giants and obviously from
- 25:24Speaker 3: there back and forth the Super Bowls and the Jets
- 25:26Speaker 3: just being in the AFC. But I mean growing up
- 25:29Speaker 3: that was they were. They weren't even an after thought.
- 25:31Speaker 3: I think the only time they ever gave him an
- 25:33Speaker 3: issue was when like it was Mark Sanchez and like
- 25:35Speaker 3: Plaxico Buris were in New York. So like very different team.
- 25:39Speaker 1: All right, cool. I don't know much about New Hampshire, uh,
- 25:43Speaker 1: but you know, it's one of those states where I
- 25:46Speaker 1: can't see myself going to. I mean I might one day,
- 25:49Speaker 1: you know, but just up there with Vermont, I don't
- 25:51Speaker 1: I don't know what's there. I mean, I am fascinated
- 25:53Speaker 1: by it though, So.
- 25:54Speaker 3: It's uh, I would say, yeah, it's it's coming to summer.
- 25:58Speaker 3: Don't come in the winter. If you're ever gonna come.
- 26:00Speaker 3: The Adam Sandler, if you ever seen one of his movies,
- 26:02Speaker 3: he highlights Lake Winnibesaki a lot. Okay, you ever go,
- 26:05Speaker 3: get to get the chance come out to Lake Winnipesak.
- 26:08Speaker 3: It's a beautiful place.
- 26:10Speaker 5: Uh.
- 26:10Speaker 1: What movies is that? Is that one of them? Growing up?
- 26:16Speaker 3: Okay, that was highlighted camp yep Okay, brown yep. So
- 26:20Speaker 3: he has the whole cast that goes to Lake Winnibasaki
- 26:22Speaker 3: and he's wearing a U. N H hat and things
- 26:25Speaker 3: like that. But now the mountains, it's mountains, it's lake.
- 26:28Speaker 1: I was thinking, like mister Deed's or something like that,
- 26:30Speaker 1: Like that's what I thought.
- 26:31Speaker 3: That's I think that actually might be mentioned. I think,
- 26:36Speaker 3: I mean a lot of it's featured in New York
- 26:37Speaker 3: in this, but I think ne Hampshire is actually part
- 26:40Speaker 3: of that as well.
- 26:41Speaker 1: Scott from New Hampshire, I love it all right, thank
- 26:44Speaker 1: you for the call. Knocking off another state? Is it?
- 26:49Speaker 1: I think, Chris? Is it Montana? I think it's Montana
- 26:52Speaker 1: and Rhode Island. I think those are two that that
- 26:55Speaker 1: we're not we're not really sure on. We did get Alaska,
- 26:58Speaker 1: I've got Hawaii, Alabama, so we're rolling there. We've got
- 27:02Speaker 1: North Carolina. How about that? Eric from North Carolina?
- 27:06Speaker 4: Hey, Nick, good morning.
- 27:07Speaker 6: How are you sir? Good?
- 27:08Speaker 1: How are you doing?
- 27:10Speaker 2: Oh?
- 27:10Speaker 4: I'm doing well. I'm not quite as nervous as when
- 27:14Speaker 4: I called last week. Yeah, calm down, calm down a
- 27:18Speaker 4: little bit. But what I wanted to ask you was
- 27:21Speaker 4: I wanted to talk about Pollock for a second. It
- 27:24Speaker 4: seems I know, our our O line uh isn't creating
- 27:28Speaker 4: the whole that that we would like. But it still
- 27:31Speaker 4: seems to me like Pollard is really pressing the whole,
- 27:35Speaker 4: like really pressing the line. It seems like he needs
- 27:38Speaker 4: to be a little bit more of a patient runner.
- 27:42Speaker 4: And and I just wanted to, you know, you know,
- 27:45Speaker 4: ask your opinion there. Uh and then uh uh a
- 27:50Speaker 4: question about the center. I know, I know, Beatish this
- 27:55Speaker 4: is the last year of his contract, and I noticed
- 27:57Speaker 4: the Cowboys haven't tried to re sign.
- 28:00Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 28:01Speaker 4: I just kind of a curious thing there. You don't
- 28:03Speaker 4: want to talk drafts.
- 28:05Speaker 1: That's tricky. I mean that that one the honest deal
- 28:08Speaker 1: is a little bit tricky. I think that they have
- 28:11Speaker 1: looked into it. I think his long term health is
- 28:15Speaker 1: going to be a factor to just kind of where
- 28:18Speaker 1: he is health wise, and he plays through some things.
- 28:21Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, I know he always has ankle, pro.
- 28:24Speaker 1: Got some stuff. Yeah, And you know, it's just one
- 28:27Speaker 1: of those positions like can they get better there? You know,
- 28:30Speaker 1: can they get you know, does he is he ever?
- 28:33Speaker 1: Is he going to improve to the point where you
- 28:36Speaker 1: know he's I don't think he's a liability, but I
- 28:40Speaker 1: just think he's just solid. And he made the Pro
- 28:43Speaker 1: Bowl last year. There were some circumstances there, you know,
- 28:47Speaker 1: there's some I mean I think the Eagles guy went
- 28:50Speaker 1: in and there was a couple of injuries as well.
- 28:53Speaker 1: I don't see him making the Pro Bowl this year.
- 28:55Speaker 4: But yeah, probably not.
- 28:58Speaker 1: But going back to the parlor thing, you know, Pollard
- 29:01Speaker 1: is a He's an undersized you know, tailback. I mean,
- 29:05Speaker 1: his speed and quickness is his thing. So being patient
- 29:10Speaker 1: is harder for the guys like that because on one hand,
- 29:14Speaker 1: you could say, be patient, find that hole and then
- 29:16Speaker 1: hit it, but he's also got to get there because
- 29:19Speaker 1: he's not Because also when you're patient. That's when the
- 29:23Speaker 1: defense comes and you're not going to be carrying defenders
- 29:27Speaker 1: seven to eight yards down the field, you know, like
- 29:30Speaker 1: you've got to see it, hit it and go. And uh,
- 29:33Speaker 1: you know, I thought he does. He does a nice
- 29:35Speaker 1: job with it, but but it's not you know, he
- 29:38Speaker 1: made a mistake the other day and he admitted it.
- 29:40Speaker 1: I mean he was like, I should have gone to
- 29:42Speaker 1: the outside. I thought it was an easier route to
- 29:44Speaker 1: just go inside. And I think he was surprised that
- 29:46Speaker 1: he got picked up and thrown down like that. I mean,
- 29:48Speaker 1: he was right there, he could sniff the end zone,
- 29:51Speaker 1: and you know, I still think that was probably the
- 29:54Speaker 1: biggest play of the game because of what happened afterwards.
- 29:57Speaker 4: Yeah, he just like swift and kind of thin. I
- 30:01Speaker 4: wish you had just dove, dove.
- 30:04Speaker 1: If you just died, there's no way that they're they're
- 30:07Speaker 1: they're knocking him out. There's no way.
- 30:09Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I was I was like, oh no, you know,
- 30:13Speaker 4: just yeah, that is really I mean the best thing
- 30:16Speaker 4: about our offense is our passing game. And uh yeah,
- 30:21Speaker 4: and uh, of course I'm know o line coach, but
- 30:24Speaker 4: but I wish they were they would try a few
- 30:26Speaker 4: draw plays. Yeah, yeah, things like it seems like that
- 30:31Speaker 4: would work.
- 30:32Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm always been a big fan
- 30:35Speaker 1: of that, of the of the lead draw. But they don't. Yeah,
- 30:40Speaker 1: they don't. They don't do it as much, they certainly don't.
- 30:44Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, it's like and it seems like it
- 30:49Speaker 4: seems like the Cowboys O line like like like has
- 30:53Speaker 4: never been a good screen team, which which I know
- 30:57Speaker 4: that takes all the O linemen to be you know,
- 31:01Speaker 4: you know, almost choreographed. You know, they have to work.
- 31:04Speaker 1: In athletic and get get out there in space and
- 31:07Speaker 1: have patience too, you know that's one. Yeah, they haven't been.
- 31:10Speaker 1: They haven't been great at it. You know, they've seen
- 31:13Speaker 1: we've seen it some, I mean we have seen it.
- 31:16Speaker 1: They have thrown it. But yeah, they've never been They've
- 31:20Speaker 1: never been great at it. And I can't tell you
- 31:23Speaker 1: a good reason why that. That is because you know,
- 31:26Speaker 1: you've had running backs that can catch the ball, You've
- 31:28Speaker 1: had linemen that can get out in space. So it's
- 31:32Speaker 1: just it's one of those that just doesn't seem like
- 31:33Speaker 1: it's it's a lot of it too. As the coordinator,
- 31:36Speaker 1: you know, maybe like in the play caller just just
- 31:39Speaker 1: their experience over the years on certain plays of what's
- 31:41Speaker 1: worked for them, and you know that's I'm sure that's
- 31:44Speaker 1: part of it too.
- 31:46Speaker 4: So oh yeah, I appreciate you. And the last thing
- 31:49Speaker 4: I'll leave you with is uh is like another favorite
- 31:54Speaker 4: obscure player that I wish that we had longer than
- 31:58Speaker 4: we did, which is uh Laurence Robinson, wide receiver, and
- 32:03Speaker 4: I think we only had him for a part of
- 32:05Speaker 4: a year, but he and Romo had such a connection
- 32:09Speaker 4: and Robinson was so fluid, and I just wish we
- 32:15Speaker 4: had a resigned him. I think he went to the Bucks.
- 32:18Speaker 1: And he had some concussion issues there when he went
- 32:21Speaker 1: to the next team. I mean, so thanks for the call, Eric. Yeah,
- 32:25Speaker 1: Robinson he was kind of a mystery because when he
- 32:29Speaker 1: got to the Cowboys, I think we'll be talking here
- 32:33Speaker 1: twenty eleven, maybe eleven or twelve. Those years, those eight
- 32:36Speaker 1: and eight years, I get kind of mixed up because
- 32:38Speaker 1: they're all like they're the same. But he came here
- 32:42Speaker 1: and he was with Atlanta, and the Cowboys had a
- 32:46Speaker 1: couple of coaches from it that had been with Atlanta
- 32:49Speaker 1: and been with him there, and they weren't really keen
- 32:53Speaker 1: on him. They didn't. I don't think when he was
- 32:55Speaker 1: with the Falcons, he was you know, he was a
- 32:57Speaker 1: young player and just didn't do a whole lot. And
- 33:01Speaker 1: I don't think that their expectations were high at all.
- 33:04Speaker 1: And he got here and he had a really big season.
- 33:06Speaker 1: He had eleven touchdowns, you know, and he didn't do
- 33:10Speaker 1: a lot other than that. I'm not saying he's Chris
- 33:13Speaker 1: carr Aly does catch touchdowns, but I mean, he had
- 33:16Speaker 1: a good season, but he was just catching a lot
- 33:18Speaker 1: of touchdowns and that turned it into a contract for him.
- 33:21Speaker 1: And then I think he had some concussion issues. He
- 33:23Speaker 1: just wasn't wasn't the same. I want to say Jacksonville
- 33:27Speaker 1: maybe is where he went, but I could be wrong,
- 33:29Speaker 1: But but he went, he went, he went to another
- 33:32Speaker 1: team and just wasn't the same. Didn't didn't have that
- 33:35Speaker 1: that that big year that he had here with Romo
- 33:37Speaker 1: for sure. All right, let's go with look at a
- 33:42Speaker 1: text question mark. He's from Elkridge, Maryland. He said, if
- 33:46Speaker 1: the Cowboys get a first and goal, would you give
- 33:49Speaker 1: the full back the ball? I certainly would. I don't
- 33:52Speaker 1: think one fumble should stop the team from adding another
- 33:55Speaker 1: possible threat. Yeah, I would I would, especially the way
- 34:01Speaker 1: he kind of like plunged in there without the ball.
- 34:04Speaker 1: I mean, like, but but I think you know he
- 34:07Speaker 1: was getting first downs. I would do that. I wouldn't.
- 34:10Speaker 1: I wouldn't go away from it. Figure out what happened.
- 34:13Speaker 1: There's some miscommunication that sounds like I don't think he
- 34:16Speaker 1: just dropped the football. I think there's some miscommunication. Figure
- 34:19Speaker 1: that out and and give him the ball a little
- 34:21Speaker 1: bit more, you know. I mean it's he was new
- 34:24Speaker 1: and he's still he still hasn't got the football a ton.
- 34:27Speaker 1: So if you think it's something that can help, then
- 34:30Speaker 1: you know, get back on the horse and do it again,
- 34:32Speaker 1: all right, Robin Vegas Nick, Hey, Rob, I look at.
- 34:38Speaker 2: The Lions and I see the Cowboys. I mean they're
- 34:41Speaker 2: very similar to They're both trying to prove to the
- 34:44Speaker 2: league that they're good and that they could win. I mean,
- 34:49Speaker 2: they got blown out by the Bears, we lost Arizona.
- 34:53Speaker 2: There's questions can they really beat you know, good teams.
- 34:56Speaker 2: Jared goff is, you know, number one draft pick?
- 35:00Speaker 5: Is he good enough?
- 35:01Speaker 2: Dak is still trying to prove that he could win, right,
- 35:04Speaker 2: So I look, I look at these two teams and
- 35:06Speaker 2: they're just so similar to me. They got Cowboys have
- 35:11Speaker 2: to have this game because first of all, Saturday night,
- 35:13Speaker 2: everybody's going to be watching. We lost two in a
- 35:17Speaker 2: row for the first time, so that's out the window
- 35:19Speaker 2: where you know, oh, we don't lose a row, and
- 35:21Speaker 2: now you're at home where I think we won fourteen
- 35:23Speaker 2: or fifteen in a row.
- 35:24Speaker 5: If you lose at.
- 35:25Speaker 2: Home, now you got nothing to hang your hat on.
- 35:28Speaker 2: I think this game is simple. We are zero and
- 35:32Speaker 2: four when we don't get turnovers on defense. If we
- 35:36Speaker 2: create turnovers, we're going to beat the Lions.
- 35:40Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, and I think.
- 35:42Speaker 2: The score would be like thirty seven to twenty three Dallas.
- 35:46Speaker 2: I just think this game, I think the Cowboys are
- 35:50Speaker 2: going to look at the Lions like it's the Lions.
- 35:53Speaker 2: I know they're good, but there are certain teams, you know,
- 35:56Speaker 2: like when Dallas looks at the forty nine as they say,
- 35:59Speaker 2: oh man, you know where I'm not saying we're intimidated,
- 36:01Speaker 2: but maybe we are, but they're not towards the Lions.
- 36:05Speaker 1: And I just think, is that a good or bad
- 36:08Speaker 1: thing for this team?
- 36:10Speaker 2: It's a good thing. This team don't like to get
- 36:11Speaker 2: punched in the mouth. This team, like I said, is
- 36:15Speaker 2: fast break basketball. This team wants to go up and
- 36:18Speaker 2: down the field offense and defense. They don't want smash
- 36:22Speaker 2: mouth football. Well, the Lions are going to try to
- 36:27Speaker 2: do that. If they're smart, They're going to try to
- 36:30Speaker 2: run the ball out of us. They'd be stupid not to.
- 36:33Speaker 2: And that's why the offense needs to be the defense.
- 36:36Speaker 2: We can get a lead ten to fourteen points and
- 36:39Speaker 2: put the ball in Jared goff hands. Oh, I love
- 36:42Speaker 2: our chances because he's not going to scramble out of there.
- 36:45Speaker 2: And every time I envision Michael Parsons just all over
- 36:49Speaker 2: him when I remember them playing him. So but I
- 36:53Speaker 2: think this is a must win, not technically but just psychologically. You're,
- 36:59Speaker 2: like I said, you're at home Saturday night. It's the Lions,
- 37:03Speaker 2: ay the top dogs that you think, who are the
- 37:06Speaker 2: top dogs Eagles in the forty nine ers. You got
- 37:09Speaker 2: to beat this team, and I think they will. I
- 37:12Speaker 2: think if they create a couple of turnovers. I just
- 37:14Speaker 2: think this is this is the game that the Cowboys
- 37:17Speaker 2: usually shine.
- 37:19Speaker 1: I agree. I think they will too. I think that
- 37:22Speaker 1: and the way it's kind of working too with you know,
- 37:25Speaker 1: they've lost two straight and and the Lions do have
- 37:28Speaker 1: the record that would get your attention, and the Lions
- 37:31Speaker 1: have won some games here. It just seems like it's
- 37:34Speaker 1: a good recipe for the Cowboys to, you know, get
- 37:37Speaker 1: back into what they're doing and take care of business.
- 37:39Speaker 1: And you know, the Lions, Hey, they're good. I mean,
- 37:42Speaker 1: look at their record. I mean they are what they are.
- 37:45Speaker 1: The did get their ass kicked by the Bears. I
- 37:47Speaker 1: mean like a couple of weeks ago. I mean like,
- 37:49Speaker 1: and you can say the same Cowboys against the Cardinals
- 37:53Speaker 1: Cowboys as the Bills. It happens. I'm not saying that
- 37:57Speaker 1: you're the Cowboys, aren't you know, can't the same thing
- 38:00Speaker 1: to them. I'm just saying if you've if you've been
- 38:02Speaker 1: beaten by the Bears like this month, then then you
- 38:05Speaker 1: can get beat by the Cowboys here at home. I
- 38:07Speaker 1: mean you can. They're going to bring their intensity too.
- 38:09Speaker 1: I mean there's no doubt they'll bring it.
- 38:11Speaker 2: But Dan Campbell is definitely let's say that he's good.
- 38:14Speaker 2: He would love to win in Dallas. Yeah, especially Jimmy Johnson.
- 38:19Speaker 2: I but uh, I just think like you said, and
- 38:21Speaker 2: plus I think it was the last team that played
- 38:23Speaker 2: the lions of the guy through for four hundred, right,
- 38:27Speaker 2: I don't even know. I think it was Mulling or somebody.
- 38:29Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, like Dan Marino. So this is a
- 38:34Speaker 2: DAK game. You know, Let's forget about the running game.
- 38:37Speaker 2: It's it's whenever we're not having the the Emmitt Smith
- 38:41Speaker 2: Zeek Rookie year running game anymore. A little bit of running,
- 38:44Speaker 2: Let's get some big plays. Let's that cook. Let's do
- 38:47Speaker 2: our thing, and like I said, get a couple of
- 38:49Speaker 2: turnovers defense, and I think we could blow this team out.
- 38:53Speaker 2: Thirty seven twenty three.
- 38:55Speaker 1: All right, sounds good? All right, Rob, thanks for the call.
- 38:57Speaker 1: Look forward to hearing from you next week. I know
- 39:00Speaker 1: you'll get in there a few times. Speaking of doing that.
- 39:06Speaker 1: Anthony and Rhode Island.
- 39:08Speaker 11: Nick, it's a pleasure to talk with you.
- 39:10Speaker 1: What's up?
- 39:11Speaker 11: Oh, nothing much, but.
- 39:14Speaker 1: Hold on though. Something tells me though that I have
- 39:17Speaker 1: you have called before?
- 39:19Speaker 11: Oh but no, no, No, I haven't years ago when you
- 39:23Speaker 11: were on Talking Cowboys, But I have. I've tried to
- 39:27Speaker 11: call in, okay, but I've never yet to got in
- 39:29Speaker 11: so to talk with you. But it is an honor
- 39:32Speaker 11: to talk with you today.
- 39:33Speaker 1: Honor to talk to you too. Here we go. Yeah,
- 39:35Speaker 1: first time caller, and I think it's first time state.
- 39:39Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know about We've had another one
- 39:41Speaker 1: from Rhode Island, so we're going to go with It
- 39:44Speaker 1: doesn't matter now because we definitely have how's it going.
- 39:47Speaker 11: It's going good. Actually I do have a story, and
- 39:51Speaker 11: this is when the Patriots were training at Bryan College
- 39:56Speaker 11: back in the day. So I'm walking on the side
- 39:58Speaker 11: of the line to the field with Bill Parcels and
- 40:02Speaker 11: I said to him. I said, hey, Bill, I says,
- 40:04Speaker 11: aren't you glad you don't coach the Giants anymore? And
- 40:07Speaker 11: he says, then, why is that you don't have to
- 40:09Speaker 11: play the Cowboys twice a year?
- 40:11Speaker 6: You know.
- 40:11Speaker 5: He just looked at me.
- 40:12Speaker 11: He just looked gave I got that's a stupid Yeah.
- 40:15Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 40:16Speaker 1: Bill's not going to like that, like he Yeah, He's like,
- 40:19Speaker 1: we beat them all the time. Yeah.
- 40:21Speaker 11: Well no, I wouldn't look that good. But it was
- 40:24Speaker 11: just an honored up being near him and talk with him.
- 40:26Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I got his fire going a little bit.
- 40:30Speaker 11: But I'm excited about tomorrow night's game because of Deuce Bawn.
- 40:34Speaker 11: I feel like if they just utilize this guy's talents.
- 40:38Speaker 11: Instead of just running, I'm ramming him through the middle.
- 40:40Speaker 11: I think the speed that this guy has can really
- 40:43Speaker 11: bring a spark to the team. I just want to
- 40:45Speaker 11: hear what you had to say about that.
- 40:46Speaker 1: All right, thanks for the call, Anthony. I appreciate that.
- 40:50Speaker 1: Knock another state off the list. I think Wyoming, we're
- 40:55Speaker 1: looking at you, Wyoming and Wyoming or you're the Cowboys.
- 40:58Speaker 1: I mean that's that's where the boy the real cowboys are,
- 41:01Speaker 1: So Wyoming is the one that we're looking at now.
- 41:04Speaker 1: I think that would be the last state. Uh, Douce
- 41:07Speaker 1: fun I have a hard time thinking that that he
- 41:13Speaker 1: is going to just be the true backup here. I
- 41:16Speaker 1: if I were, then I'd get creative. I'd figure out
- 41:19Speaker 1: a way to get Mileage Davis on the roster. You
- 41:20Speaker 1: can get him on there. I don't know how there's
- 41:23Speaker 1: a there's a there's somebody you can you could move
- 41:25Speaker 1: gjured reserve if you need to, or try to get
- 41:28Speaker 1: back to the practice squad or just outright release I
- 41:31Speaker 1: I don't know. I think there's something you can do there.
- 41:35Speaker 1: I would I would get Maleague Davis on the on
- 41:38Speaker 1: the team. But Deuce, Yeah, he's not going to just
- 41:41Speaker 1: be your traditional back. He's not just going to come
- 41:44Speaker 1: in and say, all right, this is this is his
- 41:46Speaker 1: series of snaps. Uh. But you know they've had them
- 41:49Speaker 1: all year long. They know what he could do. They
- 41:51Speaker 1: know that he's a unique player, and so they're going
- 41:54Speaker 1: to have to figure out different different plays for him.
- 41:56Speaker 1: You know, we talked about the screen. What what better
- 41:59Speaker 1: play to run the screen then douce, because number one,
- 42:02Speaker 1: you gotta find him. You got to you got to
- 42:04Speaker 1: locate him, and then he's gonna you know, before you
- 42:06Speaker 1: know it, he could be right past you. So if
- 42:08Speaker 1: the Cowboys can can and we've seen some plays that
- 42:11Speaker 1: they can be creative with him, but you know, he
- 42:15Speaker 1: he's got to prove that he can kind of do
- 42:17Speaker 1: it at this level. He's done it in preseason games,
- 42:19Speaker 1: probably against guys that aren't on rosters, like these guys tackle.
- 42:24Speaker 1: You know, these guys make plays, and you know he's
- 42:26Speaker 1: got to be able to do that. He's got to
- 42:28Speaker 1: be able to to you know, make some make some
- 42:30Speaker 1: guys miss in the open field and and and kind
- 42:32Speaker 1: of show that that I'm not saying he belongs, but
- 42:35Speaker 1: he's got to show that he can make plays on
- 42:37Speaker 1: in regular season games, so not not easy to do.
- 42:40Speaker 1: He's probably gonna get opportunity to do that. I still
- 42:42Speaker 1: would figure out a way, I mean, from a special
- 42:45Speaker 1: team standpoint and everything. I think they got to try
- 42:48Speaker 1: to find a way to get Malik Davis up there
- 42:50Speaker 1: if possible. Alan in Long Island.
- 42:53Speaker 12: Hey, good morning, Nick. A couple of points to like
- 42:56Speaker 12: to make number one. Something you said earlier always stuck
- 43:00Speaker 12: with me, and it's so true. You don't choose to
- 43:02Speaker 12: be a Cowboys fan, right, Cowboys to do? You're still
- 43:06Speaker 12: right on that.
- 43:06Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and that's not that's not my original. I mean,
- 43:09Speaker 1: somebody told me that long time ago about being a
- 43:11Speaker 1: fan of teams, and I always think that way. You know,
- 43:15Speaker 1: it doesn't it chooses you. And so and all these
- 43:18Speaker 1: fans that are like, hey, i've never seen the Cowboys win.
- 43:20Speaker 1: I've never seen them. You know, I'm young, I'm thirty,
- 43:23Speaker 1: I'm twenty five and whatever, I've never seen him win,
- 43:25Speaker 1: like you know, and y'all deserve it, y'all deserve it.
- 43:28Speaker 1: But because but somebody passed it down and said, hey,
- 43:31Speaker 1: we're we watched the Cowboys in this house, you know,
- 43:34Speaker 1: and it's it's awesome. But Uh, you know, you guys
- 43:37Speaker 1: deserve it too.
- 43:38Speaker 12: So, I mean, I'm the son of immigrant parents and
- 43:42Speaker 12: they don't know a damn thing about football, American football.
- 43:45Speaker 12: But uh, you know, being a little kid, what's the
- 43:47Speaker 12: thing I see on TV? You know, I'm thirty six,
- 43:49Speaker 12: so when I'm six years old, seven years old, I
- 43:51Speaker 12: see on TV. If you're a star on TV. Nice,
- 43:53Speaker 12: So kudos to Jerry for that. And you know that's
- 43:56Speaker 12: the reason why I'm a Cowboys here in Long Island.
- 43:59Speaker 1: You know, kudos to you because living out there and
- 44:01Speaker 1: and and seeing other teams win. You know, you've seen
- 44:04Speaker 1: the Giants win a few times. You've seen the Patriots win.
- 44:07Speaker 1: I mean, you've seen Eagles win. You've seen teams win
- 44:10Speaker 1: up there. And the Cowboy you know, I mean, Kudro's
- 44:12Speaker 1: to you for sticking with it. So so I.
- 44:14Speaker 12: Mean, yeah, hundred percent, I appreciate that. So just two points.
- 44:17Speaker 12: You like to make Luke Schoonmaker. Obviously we're playing the Lions,
- 44:23Speaker 12: so I think Luke Schoolmaker, he's our second round pick.
- 44:26Speaker 12: And you see how well Laporta is doing. But like
- 44:29Speaker 12: I still love Ferguson. Ferguson is my opinion. I think
- 44:33Speaker 12: he's our future tight end. We saw that last year.
- 44:35Speaker 12: We saw glimpses last year of ferguson how good he
- 44:38Speaker 12: can be. He obviously has a connection with Dak. I'm
- 44:42Speaker 12: just wondering, like you know, for I believe Schoolmaker's a
- 44:44Speaker 12: little older. I think he's twenty five when we drafted
- 44:46Speaker 12: them from Michigan. Are we having any regrets to them
- 44:49Speaker 12: drafting this guy when clearly we have a linebacker, need,
- 44:52Speaker 12: a running back need. That's that's my first point. You
- 44:54Speaker 12: can know. Yeah, My second question.
- 44:56Speaker 1: Is go ahead, Dak. Yep.
- 44:58Speaker 12: I do like Dak, and I'm not gonna hit it
- 45:01Speaker 12: with a butt like everyone else did.
- 45:03Speaker 5: But no, but I'm sorry.
- 45:06Speaker 1: Question about Dak.
- 45:08Speaker 12: Obviously, it appears that Jerry and him they want to
- 45:11Speaker 12: Elgin an extension. Now, when you look at Brady Rogers,
- 45:16Speaker 12: they're obviously two of the all time greats. He obviously
- 45:20Speaker 12: took a pay cut. Now Dak. I truly do think
- 45:24Speaker 12: that Dak wants to win, But he's the quarterback of
- 45:29Speaker 12: America's team. I see this guy on a commercial every
- 45:34Speaker 12: ten minutes. Is is it possible that he would take
- 45:38Speaker 12: a pay cut, not a pay cut, but to takes
- 45:40Speaker 12: less money so that we could sign other players to
- 45:43Speaker 12: help this organization win a Super Bowl or is that
- 45:48Speaker 12: something he's not allowed to do because the NFLPA won't
- 45:50Speaker 12: allow it. I'm just curious about that. If you can
- 45:52Speaker 12: educate me and the other well.
- 45:54Speaker 1: The NFL, it' I mean, you can, you can do it.
- 45:57Speaker 1: I mean, look at I mean, Tom Brady didn't take
- 46:01Speaker 1: a lot of money towards the end of his career
- 46:04Speaker 1: when he was clearly the best. So yeah, you can.
- 46:07Speaker 5: You can.
- 46:07Speaker 1: You can take whatever contract you want. They don't maybe
- 46:10Speaker 1: they don't. They frown against it. And it's kind of
- 46:12Speaker 1: a one of those things where the the agents, you know,
- 46:16Speaker 1: they they they want everyone to kind of be on
- 46:19Speaker 1: on the level there. But Dak could take any deal
- 46:23Speaker 1: that he wants, and he certainly could do that, and
- 46:26Speaker 1: and and and and we went through that whole thing,
- 46:30Speaker 1: you know, with Dak being the quarterback, and and he
- 46:34Speaker 1: can make more money doing that. But you got to
- 46:36Speaker 1: remember this. You're you're right, you can make more money
- 46:40Speaker 1: as the quarterback of the Cowboys than you could maybe
- 46:42Speaker 1: in another team. That's that's a fact. But you're not
- 46:46Speaker 1: going to get the same I mean, it's a different job.
- 46:49Speaker 1: It's a different for your for your life, for your livelihood,
- 46:52Speaker 1: for your family, for your friends, for your own peace
- 46:55Speaker 1: of mind. You deal with a lot more crap be
- 46:58Speaker 1: in the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. So what's the
- 47:00Speaker 1: price tag for that? I don't. I don't know, and
- 47:02Speaker 1: I don't. That's why I think it's always kind of
- 47:05Speaker 1: balanced itself out, and that's why we've never really seen
- 47:08Speaker 1: I'm gonna take less money because I get these endorsements,
- 47:12Speaker 1: because you get a lot. There's a lot that comes
- 47:15Speaker 1: with being the you know, quarterback of the Cowboys, good
- 47:18Speaker 1: and bad. So I think it always that part just
- 47:21Speaker 1: kind of evens itself out and they pretty much get
- 47:24Speaker 1: what they're gonna get. That's my opinion on that. So
- 47:28Speaker 1: all right, Alan, good call, Thank you. We got one
- 47:30Speaker 1: more call to make. Thank you for the call, Chris
- 47:33Speaker 1: and Corpus Christi Texas. But I think you're a lot
- 47:36Speaker 1: closer than.
- 47:36Speaker 6: That, right, Yes, that's right.
- 47:39Speaker 13: I'm at the Omni here the start Frisco in town.
- 47:42Speaker 5: For the game.
- 47:43Speaker 1: Nice. All right, Well, maybe we'll see you walking around there.
- 47:45Speaker 1: We're gonna go get lunch here in a little bit.
- 47:47Speaker 1: Maybe we'll see you around. What do you got how's
- 47:49Speaker 1: how's the star looking over here?
- 47:51Speaker 8: Is the first time you've been, first.
- 47:53Speaker 6: Time we've been.
- 47:53Speaker 13: Yes, it's we're overlooking the Tostitos Plaza. It's beautiful, It's right,
- 47:58Speaker 13: It's everything I thought it would.
- 48:00Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh. They they didn't cut any corners, said that.
- 48:03Speaker 1: That's the line Brandon Cook said when I interviewed him
- 48:06Speaker 1: the very first time. He said, I love this place.
- 48:09Speaker 1: They didn't cut any corners when they were making it
- 48:11Speaker 1: and I and that just kind of stood out to
- 48:13Speaker 1: me because they don't. I mean, they don't do that
- 48:16Speaker 1: when when it comes to building the stadium, building, you know,
- 48:18Speaker 1: building the Star and all this stuff, and it's it's immaculate.
- 48:22Speaker 1: It's really awesome.
- 48:23Speaker 7: Agreed.
- 48:24Speaker 13: Agreed. No, So I've been longtime listener, longtime fan. Just
- 48:28Speaker 13: wanted to call and, uh say hello to everybody. Congratulations
- 48:31Speaker 13: on the show. I listened to them all so you
- 48:34Speaker 13: could tell everybody else says hello.
- 48:35Speaker 6: All right.
- 48:36Speaker 13: Overall, I mean just enjoying the I mean, yeah, there's
- 48:40Speaker 13: a lot of there's a lot of folks that that
- 48:42Speaker 13: call in and complain about this and that, but overall,
- 48:44Speaker 13: this is a it's been a great season. The ups
- 48:47Speaker 13: and downs and everything we got going on. I feel
- 48:49Speaker 13: like it is, uh is all contributing towards the end goal,
- 48:53Speaker 13: which is a playoff run and ultimately a super Bowl title. Yeah,
- 48:57Speaker 13: I mean I I agree with what everybody's saying as
- 49:00Speaker 13: far as complaints here is, here and there, but overall
- 49:02Speaker 13: they just got to sit back and enjoy the ride.
- 49:04Speaker 1: Enjoy enjoy the ride. Yeah, and uh, you got anything
- 49:10Speaker 1: else or is that it?
- 49:12Speaker 3: No?
- 49:12Speaker 7: That's it? Thanks for taking my car.
- 49:14Speaker 1: Right, Thank you, Chris. You know, I'll say this real quick.
- 49:16Speaker 1: I gotta get off the air. Cowboys break coming in.
- 49:19Speaker 1: But this is kind of a weird time. It's I
- 49:21Speaker 1: call it kind of the whole holding pattern because there's
- 49:24Speaker 1: not a whole lot that's happening right now. They're gonna
- 49:27Speaker 1: make it to the playoffs outside chance to win the division,
- 49:31Speaker 1: so you still got things to play for. You want
- 49:33Speaker 1: to see this team win on the road. That's not
- 49:35Speaker 1: gonna happen right now. You're not going to see a
- 49:37Speaker 1: road win, so nothing that's Yeah, they could beat the Lions,
- 49:41Speaker 1: which will help your confidence, but nothing's really really gonna
- 49:44Speaker 1: happen that will get you super excited and feeling better
- 49:48Speaker 1: about how they do in the playoffs, because we're just
- 49:52Speaker 1: they're running out of opportunities for that. So it's kind
- 49:55Speaker 1: of that's why it's kind of weird. You know, what,
- 49:57Speaker 1: where where do we go? What? What do you look
- 49:59Speaker 1: forward to for these next two or three weeks? And
- 50:01Speaker 1: so I, you know, I look at records, I look
- 50:04Speaker 1: at history of you know, Jimmy Johnson going in and
- 50:06Speaker 1: things like that. There's a lot to be excited about.
- 50:08Speaker 1: But I do understand how it is kind of this
- 50:11Speaker 1: weird holding pattern for fans right now. But we'll see
- 50:14Speaker 1: what happens when the Cowboys take on the Lions. We'll
- 50:16Speaker 1: talk to you guys on Tuesday about it. There will
- 50:18Speaker 1: be no shows on Monday, you guys will we all
- 50:21Speaker 1: will be celebrating Happy New Year, see if they will
- 50:24Speaker 1: be celebrating a Cowboys win. But we'll talk about it
- 50:26Speaker 1: all on Tuesday on Cowboys Storyline. For Chris Beam, I'm
- 50:29Speaker 1: Nick Eaman. We'll see you next week, see you next year,
- 50:32Speaker 1: see him.
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