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- 0:13Speaker 2: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:24Speaker 1: What's up? It's time for Cowboys storyline. I am Nick
- 0:27Speaker 1: Eatman here. It's Wednesday, November the fifteenth. Let's get this
- 0:31Speaker 1: thing rolling. Cowboys six and three taking on the Carolina
- 0:35Speaker 1: Panthers on Sunday in Carolina. It's not a place we've
- 0:38Speaker 1: been to a whole lot, but uh, you know, ironically,
- 0:43Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Panthers have some pretty memorable games. You know,
- 0:48Speaker 1: some of them favorable for Carolina, a couple of playoff
- 0:51Speaker 1: wins there, but you know, they have a decent history
- 0:56Speaker 1: of games, and I think we're actually gonna highlight that
- 0:59Speaker 1: on our on our website, on our rank them. Kurt
- 1:02Speaker 1: Daniels is a nice job of doing that every week,
- 1:04Speaker 1: ten memorable moments, and whether it be in series history
- 1:09Speaker 1: or maybe it's Monday night games or or after the bye,
- 1:12Speaker 1: depending on what we've got, I think it is ten
- 1:14Speaker 1: ten games against the Panthers, and you know, they have
- 1:17Speaker 1: some pretty pretty memorable ones in this series, and so
- 1:21Speaker 1: it's always a fun place to go to and in
- 1:24Speaker 1: a good press box, you know, as long as you
- 1:27Speaker 1: don't eat too many donuts. I did that once with
- 1:30Speaker 1: pink Eye at halftime happened, real story, two thousand and seven.
- 1:35Speaker 1: But other than that, pretty good, uh, pretty good place
- 1:39Speaker 1: to be. Let's see if the Cowboys can get to
- 1:40Speaker 1: seven and three. Let's hear from you guys, eight eight, eight, eight,
- 1:44Speaker 1: five five to two ninety seven. You can text at
- 1:46Speaker 1: eight one seven two nine zero and three two nine eight.
- 1:50Speaker 1: Let's don't waste any more time. Let's get right to
- 1:52Speaker 1: the phone lines. Dylan in Northport, Florida. You're leading off.
- 1:57Speaker 1: What's up, hey, man?
- 1:59Speaker 3: How's it going?
- 1:59Speaker 1: H's going good? How are you good man?
- 2:03Speaker 4: Feeling good?
- 2:04Speaker 3: Feeling good?
- 2:04Speaker 4: This is my last call of the week. I'm heading
- 2:06Speaker 4: up to Disney tomorrow. Can't call Maam, got the tablits charging, can't.
- 2:10Speaker 1: Call from Disney. Call from the line.
- 2:13Speaker 4: I want to hear. I don't know if you want
- 2:14Speaker 4: to hear these kids in the car tomorrow, man, I
- 2:16Speaker 4: don't know what they might be, A sleeping screaming who knows?
- 2:19Speaker 1: No, I hear you? Well, good luck with that. That
- 2:22Speaker 1: is quite the journey. I'm glad my analogy actually played
- 2:26Speaker 1: out truth to you this week and feel sorry for
- 2:30Speaker 1: your wallet because I'm sure it won't be cheap, but
- 2:33Speaker 1: it'll be fun. It'll be good memory.
- 2:35Speaker 4: Tell me about it. Yeah, I hope that Dak Prescott
- 2:38Speaker 4: twenty twenty three Super Bowl mvpns up there too at
- 2:41Speaker 4: the end of it, and we'll see.
- 2:42Speaker 1: All right, sounds good, got Yeah, I'm.
- 2:46Speaker 4: Gonna give you my score prediction, I guess here since
- 2:48Speaker 4: this was my last call, and then I just want
- 2:50Speaker 4: to hand out some flowers for this season so far.
- 2:53Speaker 1: All right?
- 2:54Speaker 4: So oh real quick to yesterday, Rob asked favorite team
- 2:58Speaker 4: mine was the twenty fourteen Cowboys. That was a special season.
- 3:02Speaker 4: It was the second time, the last time I've cried
- 3:04Speaker 4: over a football game. Seeing Romo in that tunnel in
- 3:07Speaker 4: the end with his family. You know, I'll hold it up.
- 3:09Speaker 4: That was that was hard to see. And it got
- 3:11Speaker 4: stolen from them. Honestly. You know, who knows what Aaron
- 3:13Speaker 4: Rodgers would have done with the ball after that, but
- 3:15Speaker 4: that could have been Romo's defining moment in his career,
- 3:17Speaker 4: and you know it was. It was taken so fortunate.
- 3:20Speaker 1: True, that was a fun team, and I think what
- 3:23Speaker 1: makes them those seasons fun is kind of like any
- 3:28Speaker 1: movie you've ever seen about sports movies. I mean, what
- 3:31Speaker 1: happens at the first of the sports movie. They suck, right,
- 3:34Speaker 1: they're not very good, this is gonna be a bad
- 3:36Speaker 1: year whatever, and then you know, all of a sudden,
- 3:39Speaker 1: Jimmy chip Wood joins the Hoosiers and then they win
- 3:42Speaker 1: and they win State. You know that that season started
- 3:45Speaker 1: out against the forty nine ers and it was a
- 3:47Speaker 1: sea of red, literally, and they couldn't beat the Niners,
- 3:50Speaker 1: and Romo got hurt and it looked bad and it
- 3:52Speaker 1: was like, this is gonna be a bad year, and
- 3:54Speaker 1: then boom they take off. So you know, it was
- 3:56Speaker 1: a movie that had a bat and that had a
- 3:58Speaker 1: bad ending.
- 4:00Speaker 5: Horrible.
- 4:01Speaker 4: It was a nightmare ending. And that was that was
- 4:03Speaker 4: the next level Romo. He was a field general at
- 4:05Speaker 4: that point in his career. Man, he's never played like
- 4:07Speaker 4: that in his career. That was the best he's ever been.
- 4:09Speaker 1: I agree, well.
- 4:11Speaker 4: Bolt prediction for this week, man, I got Tony Pollard
- 4:14Speaker 4: hasn't scored since Week one. He's going to get two
- 4:16Speaker 4: touchdowns this week from at least fifteen yards out right,
- 4:20Speaker 4: So we'll see less Pollard. We'll see less Pollard. But
- 4:23Speaker 4: it'll be a better performance than what we're used to seeing.
- 4:27Speaker 4: Panthers haven't scored more than fifteen points the last three weeks,
- 4:30Speaker 4: so that'll keep going. That trend will continue and we'll
- 4:33Speaker 4: go thirty one to ten.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Doallas all right?
- 4:36Speaker 4: And then some flowers here, Man, I'll go as quick
- 4:39Speaker 4: as I can. I got a couple of them. I
- 4:41Speaker 4: just want to shout out Jerry Steven and Will. They've
- 4:43Speaker 4: put together a competitive team for as long as I
- 4:46Speaker 4: can remember. They've been out of rebuild mode for a
- 4:49Speaker 4: very long time. This team, I don't know the last
- 4:52Speaker 4: season that we've gone into a year. It's like, man,
- 4:54Speaker 4: this team I finished eight and night like they don't
- 4:56Speaker 4: have anything going here. There's no talent. Hasn't been that
- 4:59Speaker 4: way very long time, and they get a lot of
- 5:01Speaker 4: the blame when stuff goes wrong, and I don't hear
- 5:03Speaker 4: a lot of their their names mentioned when things are
- 5:05Speaker 4: going right. So I just want to give him a
- 5:06Speaker 4: shout out for building a super deep team.
- 5:08Speaker 6: We have some key.
- 5:08Speaker 4: Injuries like Trayvon and where we're surviving, and we're not
- 5:11Speaker 4: only surviv we're thriving as well, but guys like Land,
- 5:15Speaker 4: So shout out to them for building this team. McCarthy
- 5:18Speaker 4: year started out bad on offense, and you know, he
- 5:21Speaker 4: recognized that something needed to change, and after that forty
- 5:24Speaker 4: nine Ers game, he really cut back loose. And we're
- 5:27Speaker 4: seeing a big development in this offense now as hopefully
- 5:29Speaker 4: we can get that running game going. Maybe we see
- 5:31Speaker 4: a little more doubtle and that helps with that. But
- 5:34Speaker 4: his offense is like night and day from what it
- 5:35Speaker 4: was just a two weeks ago. All right, yep, all right,
- 5:39Speaker 4: and then hey, last last one, man, I just want
- 5:42Speaker 4: to give you some flowers to you and Derek and
- 5:43Speaker 4: Chris too. Chris is back there. He's killing it. Yeah,
- 5:46Speaker 4: shout out to him, and then you you and Derek. Dude,
- 5:48Speaker 4: I've been listening to you guys for a long long time,
- 5:50Speaker 4: and you know what you guys have said over the years,
- 5:53Speaker 4: it's kind of shaped me, I think, into the fan
- 5:55Speaker 4: I am today. You know, I was a young man
- 5:57Speaker 4: started listening to you guys, and I hear myself saying
- 6:00Speaker 4: things that you know, you guys say, having the kind
- 6:02Speaker 4: of attitude that you guys had when I'm talking to
- 6:04Speaker 4: other fans, and I'm like, Yep, there goes my internet,
- 6:06Speaker 4: there goes my inner Derek and another guy's to Helman
- 6:09Speaker 4: and Nicky Spaggs and brought us. All of you guys
- 6:10Speaker 4: are great, So I appreciate all the wus going over
- 6:12Speaker 4: the years.
- 6:12Speaker 6: Thank you today.
- 6:13Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I appreciate that, and thanks for saying that.
- 6:16Speaker 1: And yeah, I'll take the flowers. I'll put them right here.
- 6:20Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Dylan. Yeah, I mean that could be a
- 6:23Speaker 1: scary thing, you know, to your inner Derek or internick
- 6:27Speaker 1: or whatever. But I mean, you know, everybody kind of
- 6:29Speaker 1: has their own perspective, and I think that's what kind
- 6:32Speaker 1: of makes these podcasts fun and unique, is that you
- 6:35Speaker 1: can listen to one, you know, looking at the whole
- 6:37Speaker 1: line up here. It's just it's just a different perspective
- 6:39Speaker 1: each week. And you know that that's what was fun
- 6:42Speaker 1: about being on the Break is just that you know
- 6:44Speaker 1: it was it was always different Derek. Derek and I
- 6:47Speaker 1: see it differently sometimes, but for the most part, we
- 6:50Speaker 1: have the same view on a lot of things, and
- 6:53Speaker 1: that's probably us just sitting next to each other at
- 6:55Speaker 1: every single game for the last twenty something years. But
- 6:59Speaker 1: but yeah, it's fun and we appreciate it. Appreciate the call.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Thank you so much. A lot of good stuff there.
- 7:05Speaker 1: All right, let's keep rolling.
- 7:06Speaker 7: Here.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Irene in Virginia is our next caller. Irene, are you there?
- 7:13Speaker 3: I'm here.
- 7:14Speaker 8: Hi.
- 7:15Speaker 9: Hey, yes, Irene from Falls Church, Virginia.
- 7:18Speaker 1: How you doing?
- 7:19Speaker 6: Good? Good?
- 7:21Speaker 1: I'm on the air, right you are, You're right, you're rolling.
- 7:24Speaker 9: Let's let's do this awesome okay, first time call.
- 7:28Speaker 1: All right, I've met you before, right, I've met you
- 7:30Speaker 1: in at a Washington game, right, you did? All right?
- 7:34Speaker 9: Okay, and I'm hoping I don't sound as awkward as
- 7:37Speaker 9: I did there because I was I used to work security.
- 7:39Speaker 9: I'm in real estate now. I used to work security.
- 7:41Speaker 9: And I've never been more starstruck than seeing like you
- 7:44Speaker 9: all and the team. I mean, I've like escorted random people,
- 7:48Speaker 9: celebties didn't hit.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Me say anyway, you all and the team. That's awesome.
- 7:54Speaker 9: Well what you guys. I mean, you've for twenty five years, right,
- 7:58Speaker 9: I feel like we get to know you.
- 7:59Speaker 5: Guys even more.
- 8:00Speaker 9: The players don't will laugh that long, unfortunately, but yeah.
- 8:05Speaker 9: So I've been listening to though since well before this show,
- 8:08Speaker 9: obviously following you. I was nervous though when you when
- 8:12Speaker 9: you were off the break, I was like that was
- 8:15Speaker 9: just in the first couple of weeks because I was
- 8:16Speaker 9: so nervous. But the show has been awesome, So thank
- 8:19Speaker 9: you for that.
- 8:19Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. I appreciate that you guys have
- 8:21Speaker 1: you guys are helping me get through this this first year.
- 8:24Speaker 1: It's been a lot of fun. And yeah, that the
- 8:26Speaker 1: first the first few episodes out in Oxnard were you
- 8:29Speaker 1: didn't have the fans. I had players, which was which
- 8:32Speaker 1: was good too. So kind of wondering how it's going
- 8:34Speaker 1: to be when I get back to Oxnar next year
- 8:36Speaker 1: we'll have we'll have players again. And unless from the fans,
- 8:39Speaker 1: unless you guys just want to come out to Oxnard,
- 8:41Speaker 1: come out to Oxnard, I'll put you on the air.
- 8:43Speaker 5: That's awesome.
- 8:44Speaker 9: But the players were great too.
- 8:46Speaker 8: In the summer.
- 8:46Speaker 9: Sure, all right, start with this Brett the Hitman Heart
- 8:50Speaker 9: There is was.
- 8:52Speaker 4: N e the world here.
- 8:53Speaker 1: I just got done watching a documentary not too long
- 8:56Speaker 1: ago on the Montreal screw Job. Just saw that.
- 9:00Speaker 10: Man.
- 9:01Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty cool too, because it's like wrestling's fake whatever,
- 9:05Speaker 1: but it's still a business and that that was an
- 9:07Speaker 1: interesting documentary. If you haven't seen that one.
- 9:10Speaker 9: Yeah I have. Yeah, I'm not a wrestling fan as
- 9:14Speaker 9: much anymore because of that. Okay, anyway, okay, for me,
- 9:19Speaker 9: I wrote down notes like the color from yesterday said,
- 9:22Speaker 9: so for me, the most iconic. So I'm thirty seven,
- 9:26Speaker 9: so you know sometimes people are like, oh, your team
- 9:28Speaker 9: with the nineties, and like that was my dad and
- 9:30Speaker 9: brother's team, right, I rooted for them. I did see
- 9:33Speaker 9: some Super Bowl kind of as a as a child,
- 9:37Speaker 9: but you know that ever't Smith's shoulder game though, was
- 9:40Speaker 9: one of the most vivid memories I have, and he
- 9:44Speaker 9: was my favorite player growing up. But I will say
- 9:46Speaker 9: as the team became more of my own as I
- 9:48Speaker 9: got older, it became Darren Woodson because he was that
- 9:51Speaker 9: he was like the only one there. And then I
- 9:53Speaker 9: guess George Teague I think lasted for a while as
- 9:57Speaker 9: you started to get into the two thousands, but he's
- 10:01Speaker 9: my guy for that. Idea for a topic maybe in
- 10:05Speaker 9: the off season is having people talk about how they
- 10:08Speaker 9: became fans. Yeah, and then I don't think I have
- 10:12Speaker 9: a question for you because I got too many comments.
- 10:14Speaker 1: So that's okay, I'll try to all right, Well, appreciate that.
- 10:19Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Irene. Thank you for the call and
- 10:23Speaker 1: that immittt Shoulder game. You know, hey, Chris Bean, what
- 10:26Speaker 1: do you think we should do a documentary on that game?
- 10:28Speaker 8: We have?
- 10:29Speaker 1: We actually did do one on that a few years ago.
- 10:32Speaker 1: Chris and I worked a lot of long hours of
- 10:35Speaker 1: training camp getting that getting that documentary out. It was
- 10:39Speaker 1: nominated for an Emmy. We did not win it, but
- 10:42Speaker 1: we were proud of it. Called the Cold Shoulder as
- 10:45Speaker 1: Emmett gave the Giants the cold shoulder on that day
- 10:48Speaker 1: in January, helped him win a championship. Good stuff there.
- 10:52Speaker 1: Let's go to some text question questions here on Doug
- 10:55Speaker 1: from Florida. What will be the focus for the Carolina game?
- 10:58Speaker 1: Continue to work on the run game idea of sharing
- 11:00Speaker 1: the carries seem to work well, but need to see
- 11:02Speaker 1: more than once. So yeah, yeah, I think so. I mean,
- 11:06Speaker 1: I think this is a game that you can run
- 11:09Speaker 1: the ball. I mean, I think Carolina stats are a
- 11:12Speaker 1: little deceiving that they're only I think they're like fifth
- 11:15Speaker 1: or sixth in the league in passing yards against them,
- 11:18Speaker 1: But then again, they're one and eight and teams are
- 11:21Speaker 1: winning by a decent margin there, so they're not all
- 11:25Speaker 1: close games. So you're obviously not going to be throwing
- 11:27Speaker 1: the ball at a high level at the end of
- 11:29Speaker 1: the game, so that could be some of it. But
- 11:31Speaker 1: still I think teams have been able to run the
- 11:33Speaker 1: ball and this could be a good week that they
- 11:35Speaker 1: do that. Another one, Dan from Philly once a birthday
- 11:38Speaker 1: shout out for his wife Michelle. Happy birthday, Michelle, thanks
- 11:42Speaker 1: for listening and Dan obviously or letting Dan listen as well.
- 11:48Speaker 1: This is your day, you guys, have a great one
- 11:52Speaker 1: or a happy birthday to Michelle. Another storyline, This is
- 11:55Speaker 1: from Jeff in mount Airy, Maryland. He said, good morning
- 12:01Speaker 1: Sunday at Carolina home game for the Cowboys. Question mark,
- 12:04Speaker 1: I think so. I mean, I think it'll be a
- 12:06Speaker 1: lot of Cowboy fans about home game, but certainly will
- 12:08Speaker 1: be a lot of a lot of Cowboy fans. There's
- 12:10Speaker 1: greatest of all time, he says. Stallbackers throwback is Jay Saldy.
- 12:14Speaker 1: Nice random is Peppe Zelner. Zellner loved that one and
- 12:20Speaker 1: favorite wrestler King Kong Bundy. Good stuff. I love Peppe Zelner.
- 12:27Speaker 1: Thought he was gonna be better. I mean he was
- 12:29Speaker 1: a get off the bus guy. I mean, get him
- 12:32Speaker 1: first off the bus. You're like dang, like you know,
- 12:34Speaker 1: just not like the he was tall, but not like
- 12:37Speaker 1: the biggest, but just like mean, you know, like really
- 12:41Speaker 1: when he had that switch, he would be pretty good.
- 12:43Speaker 1: Random fact. This is this is this is how my
- 12:46Speaker 1: mind works. This is in I think it was two thousand,
- 12:50Speaker 1: the Cowboys had four players on the team. Four players
- 12:55Speaker 1: on the team that had z e LLL in their
- 12:59Speaker 1: name zell. Four players z e l L. One of
- 13:03Speaker 1: them was Peppe Zelener. Maybe you guys can get some
- 13:07Speaker 1: of the others as we go through the show. All right,
- 13:10Speaker 1: Curtis in Oklahoma, you're.
- 13:11Speaker 11: Next, Hey, good morning, what's up? How much? Just thought
- 13:15Speaker 11: i'd call in, you know, and represent for Oklahoma today.
- 13:18Speaker 1: All right, you know, I lived there. I lived there
- 13:21Speaker 1: for about it seven years and.
- 13:22Speaker 11: Lived I was going to ask where you lived at Miami.
- 13:25Speaker 1: It's not Miami. It's felt like Miami, but it's Miami,
- 13:29Speaker 1: very very northeast corner in Oklahoma. Lived there for about
- 13:33Speaker 1: seven years, but most of my eighties life in Oklahoma.
- 13:36Speaker 11: You gotta get that, right.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Definitely not to be confused with Miami. A
- 13:40Speaker 1: little bit different. Been to both different, different places for sure.
- 13:45Speaker 11: Just a few things I wanted to say is I
- 13:47Speaker 11: want to see black uniforms, black pants, black jersey, black
- 13:51Speaker 11: helmet on.
- 13:53Speaker 1: Who like Colorado or like on the for the Cowboys.
- 13:57Speaker 11: Yeah, and I'll throw my all time great Cowboys out there.
- 14:03Speaker 11: When I was younger, I lived in Kansas City, and
- 14:05Speaker 11: it was it was Dion Like seeing him high step
- 14:09Speaker 11: to the end zone and dancing, you know what it is.
- 14:12Speaker 11: Touchdowns really resonated with me. But now that I'm older,
- 14:17Speaker 11: it's Troy Aikman, and I just remember seeing a clip
- 14:21Speaker 11: of him on the sideline, like just ripping people out,
- 14:25Speaker 11: like these people don't care, and these people don't give
- 14:28Speaker 11: an F and coaches aren't giving a f.
- 14:29Speaker 1: We got a play, Yeah, Twitzer, It's what he was
- 14:33Speaker 1: talking about for sure.
- 14:35Speaker 11: Yeah, I think that's a little more of my temperament
- 14:37Speaker 11: now that I'm older.
- 14:38Speaker 1: You know what's so funny about that? I know you
- 14:40Speaker 1: have other questions, y'all. I'll just say this. I was
- 14:43Speaker 1: walking past. They have a if you ever been to
- 14:45Speaker 1: the Star here and Frisco is pretty awesome.
- 14:48Speaker 5: Man.
- 14:48Speaker 1: They have tours that they give out, you know, walking
- 14:51Speaker 1: around and one part of the tour is that they
- 14:53Speaker 1: show on scouting reports they actually have the scout reports
- 14:57Speaker 1: of certain players. It turns to the page. It's the
- 14:59Speaker 1: real scout report written by Jim Garrett, Jason Garrett's dad,
- 15:02Speaker 1: who was a longtime scout on Troy Aikman, and one
- 15:04Speaker 1: of his scout and report things that he put in
- 15:07Speaker 1: there coming out of college was that a negative? This
- 15:10Speaker 1: is that he's too hard on himself. He thinks every
- 15:13Speaker 1: pass should be a perfect pass, and if it's not,
- 15:15Speaker 1: that he spends hours and hours trying to correct it.
- 15:18Speaker 1: I'm like, that's a negative, you know, like that, but
- 15:21Speaker 1: that was his negative right there. So that seems like
- 15:25Speaker 1: a guy that might be in the Hall of Fame
- 15:26Speaker 1: one day, which he certainly turned out to be. So
- 15:29Speaker 1: what else you got, Curtis.
- 15:30Speaker 11: I was just surprised when it came to random players
- 15:33Speaker 11: that nobody said Taco and that's all I got.
- 15:38Speaker 1: Yeah, no they did. No one said that. I think
- 15:41Speaker 1: he doesn't have that that fun loving like, oh remember
- 15:45Speaker 1: Taco will remember now? No, not so much. But to
- 15:51Speaker 1: this day, I think if his name was was Michael,
- 15:54Speaker 1: you know, Michael Charlton, I don't think he would be
- 15:57Speaker 1: a first round pick. I don't know. I'm not saying that.
- 16:00Speaker 1: I just think there was something about the novelty of
- 16:02Speaker 1: the whole thing, and he was a decent, good, good
- 16:04Speaker 1: size and all that stuff. You know, Let's go get taco,
- 16:07Speaker 1: Charlton and it just work out all right, Sebastian and
- 16:13Speaker 1: Savannah Georgia. Sebastian, good morning.
- 16:17Speaker 5: How are you doing there, Receiven doing very well. Uh,
- 16:21Speaker 5: Hanging with the Boys used to be the people show Man,
- 16:23Speaker 5: It's it's pretty much changed to the corner now. I
- 16:25Speaker 5: love that you guys gave a voice to that Voicelets
- 16:28Speaker 5: what I said, I said, Hanging with the Boys used
- 16:31Speaker 5: to be the People show I said, it's pretty much
- 16:33Speaker 5: the changing of the tides after this storylines came out.
- 16:36Speaker 5: You know, I love that you guys gave the people
- 16:38Speaker 5: a voice. There's some some really wide voices out there. Well,
- 16:40Speaker 5: I have a question for you.
- 16:41Speaker 1: Go ahead, go ahead, Sebastian.
- 16:43Speaker 5: Yeah. My question is this. You've been around for a
- 16:45Speaker 5: couple of regimes now, and I would like to know
- 16:48Speaker 5: how you would say the cultural shift this happened with
- 16:51Speaker 5: Mike McCarthy's team versus some of.
- 16:53Speaker 3: The past teams.
- 16:54Speaker 5: One thing that I really like is he allows young
- 16:58Speaker 5: players to play something that I always thoughts hurt and
- 17:01Speaker 5: the Jason Garrett era was they were very veteran dominant,
- 17:04Speaker 5: and you've been here for a couple of changing of
- 17:06Speaker 5: the tides. Now I'd like to know how he compares
- 17:08Speaker 5: to some of the other regimes that you've lived through.
- 17:10Speaker 5: And you have a great thing and I listen, all.
- 17:11Speaker 1: Right, thank you. You know what. Someone asked a similar
- 17:15Speaker 1: question yesterday and just to like compare the two, and uh,
- 17:20Speaker 1: it was harder than I thought, you know, just just
- 17:22Speaker 1: to sit down and think about the difference is because yes,
- 17:28Speaker 1: coaches are different, but overall it's kind of the same.
- 17:34Speaker 1: The mindset and the philosophy hasn't really changed. And so
- 17:39Speaker 1: when you when you think about things that you see
- 17:41Speaker 1: and and you know, Will mclay's been here for a
- 17:43Speaker 1: lot of years obviously, Jerry and Steven, so this is
- 17:46Speaker 1: kind of, you know, not to steal Montell's line, but
- 17:49Speaker 1: this is, you know, this is how we do it.
- 17:50Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of like that. And then from
- 17:53Speaker 1: a coaches you know, from a philosophy standpoint, players that
- 17:56Speaker 1: they bring in. One thing that that I that I
- 17:59Speaker 1: think is noticeably different between the two is that McCarthy
- 18:05Speaker 1: having been in the league, you know from another team. See,
- 18:08Speaker 1: that's something Jason Garrett, he wasn't. I think he was
- 18:11Speaker 1: with the Dolphins for a couple of years, but like
- 18:13Speaker 1: you know, he was with the Cowboys for a long time.
- 18:15Speaker 1: McCarthy saw it from a different perspective, and so when
- 18:18Speaker 1: there were players, veteran guys, you see, the Cowboys get
- 18:21Speaker 1: a lot more of these veteran players from other teams,
- 18:25Speaker 1: moves that they would never kind of make before. But
- 18:28Speaker 1: the last few years, you know, I don't think the
- 18:31Speaker 1: Garrett team would have just picked up Anthony Barr, you know,
- 18:34Speaker 1: or Jason Peters or Xavier Rhodes or you know, just
- 18:37Speaker 1: guys like that, big names you typically don't get. But
- 18:41Speaker 1: this guy's played against him, you know, like he played
- 18:43Speaker 1: against him for a lot of time. And having Dan
- 18:45Speaker 1: Quinn in things like that. So you know, that's another
- 18:49Speaker 1: thing that you saw a lot of head coaches on
- 18:52Speaker 1: the staff too. When McCarthy first got here, I think
- 18:55Speaker 1: there was five guys that had been head coach at
- 18:57Speaker 1: other teams before. So you know, it's that's just a
- 19:00Speaker 1: lot of experience, a lot of the leadership. Those are
- 19:03Speaker 1: good questions though, and it's really not one to just
- 19:05Speaker 1: sit there, and and and and you know, kind of
- 19:08Speaker 1: spot off here in a few minutes, a little bit
- 19:10Speaker 1: more philosophical. I hope I answered it well, but but
- 19:13Speaker 1: I don't know about that one. All right, let's go
- 19:15Speaker 1: to uh Doug in Springfield, Illinois.
- 19:19Speaker 10: Doug, Hey, Nick, how you doing?
- 19:21Speaker 1: How you doing?
- 19:22Speaker 3: I'm doing great?
- 19:23Speaker 7: You got congratulations on your show.
- 19:25Speaker 1: Man appreciated this. First time call. First time call, right first, Yeah, yeah,
- 19:30Speaker 1: we're going to create a drop. What you've been to
- 19:34Speaker 1: the new Stadium.
- 19:35Speaker 3: I was there in O nine.
- 19:37Speaker 7: I saw that h awesome seven to six win over
- 19:40Speaker 7: the Redskins. You know, my comment is this, after after
- 19:45Speaker 7: watching the struggles with Steel, especially during the Eagles game,
- 19:49Speaker 7: I was having flashbacks to Chas Green, and I was
- 19:52Speaker 7: hoping that they just stick somebody out there to help
- 19:55Speaker 7: him out a little bit, especially on the you know,
- 19:57Speaker 7: last few drives. They knew he was struggle woman. That's
- 20:01Speaker 7: just an adjustment I hope they make going forward. If
- 20:03Speaker 7: you know, if they start seeing a situation like that occur,
- 20:07Speaker 7: you know that that they'll give the guy a little help.
- 20:10Speaker 7: I mean, maybe it would have been a different outcome
- 20:12Speaker 7: if they just, you know, have somebody chip there a
- 20:14Speaker 7: little bit.
- 20:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I don't. I don't think anything's as
- 20:18Speaker 1: bad as that game. I mean, the chests bereat. I mean,
- 20:20Speaker 1: it's okay to have no flashbacks, but it wasn't that. Okay,
- 20:24Speaker 1: that was just completely I mean the Eagles, the guy
- 20:27Speaker 1: was blocking is going to be in the Pro Bowl,
- 20:28Speaker 1: you know, I mean, like like Reddick. I mean, I
- 20:31Speaker 1: mean he's a great player, and he was a great
- 20:33Speaker 1: player before this game. The guy do you remember the
- 20:35Speaker 1: guy that had six sacks against Chess Green? Do you
- 20:37Speaker 1: remember who it was? See? That's all.
- 20:40Speaker 7: I can't think of his name right now.
- 20:42Speaker 1: And that's the problem that that's why it was so bad.
- 20:44Speaker 1: It wasn't a guy, Okay, Yeah, it sure was Adrian Claiborne.
- 20:49Speaker 1: I think he had eight sacks on the year and
- 20:51Speaker 1: six in that game. So that's kind of an issue.
- 20:55Speaker 1: It's not like you're giving up six acts to Lawrence
- 20:58Speaker 1: Taylor here, even though he looked like in that game.
- 21:01Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean I get it. They could have
- 21:03Speaker 1: helped a little bit more. It's it's tough because you know,
- 21:08Speaker 1: you want to get all these guys involved. You want
- 21:10Speaker 1: to you want to move the football, move the chains.
- 21:13Speaker 1: This is kind of what you have. And so by
- 21:14Speaker 1: doing that it shifts the offense a little bit. But
- 21:17Speaker 1: it had to it had to be done. It needed
- 21:20Speaker 1: to be done because they've got playmakers. You know, if
- 21:23Speaker 1: you show up this offensive line, I think Cooks can
- 21:26Speaker 1: get open for sure, gallup obviously, CD. I think it's
- 21:30Speaker 1: more important to make sure the line is short up
- 21:33Speaker 1: and then and then from there you go and let
- 21:35Speaker 1: your playmakers play.
- 21:37Speaker 7: Hey, and I love the direction they're going, I really do.
- 21:40Speaker 7: I think they've kind of hit their stride at the
- 21:42Speaker 7: right time. And and uh, it's looking good. Not going
- 21:46Speaker 7: to ruin my turkey this year with the commanders and
- 21:49Speaker 7: uh and DC for life, baby like, congratulations on the show, Nick, Thank.
- 21:53Speaker 1: Great, Thank you appreciate that. For the first time caller.
- 21:56Speaker 1: Thank you. That is Doug in Illinois. All right, let's
- 22:00Speaker 1: keep it going here with Bruce and Houston.
- 22:03Speaker 12: Bruce, Hey, Nick, good morning, How you doing morning?
- 22:06Speaker 1: How you doing?
- 22:07Speaker 12: I'm doing fine. You know, I want to first give
- 22:10Speaker 12: a shout out to all the listeners.
- 22:11Speaker 8: You know, cowboys.
- 22:13Speaker 12: I've been cawboy fans in sixty five, so that's how
- 22:15Speaker 12: old I am. And through the years, you know, when
- 22:19Speaker 12: saw back and Landry were there. You know, they were
- 22:22Speaker 12: docile Cowboy fans. But obviously the social media is that's different.
- 22:27Speaker 12: But especially here in Houston, I mean, we're Cowboy fans
- 22:30Speaker 12: are hated, you know, because of the orders and all
- 22:32Speaker 12: that stuff. But that's a whole different story. But it
- 22:35Speaker 12: seems like Cowboy fans always get you know, they're obnoxious
- 22:38Speaker 12: and it's all about them and we're always going to
- 22:40Speaker 12: Super Bowl. But I tell you, listening to your listeners
- 22:43Speaker 12: and I include myself there as well, they're very you know, articulate,
- 22:50Speaker 12: and they ask good questions. I've been really impressed. I
- 22:53Speaker 12: wish some of the other people would hear this, but yeah,
- 22:56Speaker 12: so all those that are calling me me.
- 22:59Speaker 1: Too, I'll say this, I've been very impressed as well.
- 23:02Speaker 1: And the fans are I mean, there's some smart fans,
- 23:05Speaker 1: I mean out here, you guys know. I mean I feel,
- 23:07Speaker 1: you know, I'm a fan of my team. I feel
- 23:09Speaker 1: like I'm a smart fan of my team. What's going on,
- 23:12Speaker 1: you know, and the same goes here. And I've learned
- 23:16Speaker 1: a lot. This has really helped me this year. Is
- 23:19Speaker 1: really helped me because it gives me an idea of yeah,
- 23:23Speaker 1: you might think about this perspective, and you talk to
- 23:25Speaker 1: other media people and people on our podcast, but you
- 23:29Speaker 1: really get a good pulse of what's going on from
- 23:31Speaker 1: what the fans perspective as well, and which isn't wrong
- 23:34Speaker 1: because when you think about it, the podcast that we do,
- 23:38Speaker 1: the articles we write for it's for the fans. It's
- 23:42Speaker 1: for you guys, and so it's great for me to understand.
- 23:45Speaker 1: You know, it's only ten to twelve fifteen maybe opinions
- 23:49Speaker 1: a day, but it adds up over time and you
- 23:51Speaker 1: kind of get a good idea of what's going So
- 23:52Speaker 1: I appreciate it as much as you guys appreciate it
- 23:54Speaker 1: saying thanks for the show, I say thank you because
- 23:57Speaker 1: it's really helped me this year as well well.
- 24:00Speaker 12: And you know, when I'm watching the game, sometimes they
- 24:03Speaker 12: go to blogging the boys and then you know, they
- 24:05Speaker 12: have that constant thread going on. Man, some of the fans,
- 24:09Speaker 12: I don't know if they're drinking or not, but man,
- 24:10Speaker 12: they want play. They want to fire everybody, and then
- 24:13Speaker 12: the next they want to you know, handed the keys
- 24:15Speaker 12: to the kingdom. But yeah, that's fans, that's why they're
- 24:18Speaker 12: calling that.
- 24:19Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that's what happens.
- 24:20Speaker 12: Yeah, and you know though, as far as the running
- 24:24Speaker 12: do I want to see. It's been talked that gnaws
- 24:27Speaker 12: him about Pollard being the Bellcot. Well, he's not a Bellcot.
- 24:30Speaker 12: That's just not what he is. And I still think
- 24:32Speaker 12: he's hurting from that injury. But when you combine the
- 24:36Speaker 12: two players together with their numbers, that's you know, I
- 24:38Speaker 12: don't know where they'd be on the you know, yards
- 24:42Speaker 12: wise and other players, but probably compartable. I mean, but
- 24:46Speaker 12: I think Ron Jones was going to be that Ezekiel Elliott,
- 24:50Speaker 12: if you will, tough yards. I don't know if he's
- 24:52Speaker 12: still playing. I know they cut him because of the trouble,
- 24:54Speaker 12: but I think that's what they initially had, was maybe
- 24:57Speaker 12: him going for the short yard and just because that's
- 24:59Speaker 12: where they're they're hurting inside the five. But that's why
- 25:02Speaker 12: I said a couple of weeks ago, man, I really
- 25:04Speaker 12: want them to use a higher graphic, maybe not first,
- 25:07Speaker 12: but second to third for sure, and get a get
- 25:11Speaker 12: a stud running back. I mean, that's what this team needs.
- 25:15Speaker 12: And you're gonna have to every four years. I'm sorry,
- 25:18Speaker 12: that's just the nature of the position. They don't last
- 25:20Speaker 12: more than six years. There's no more Emmitt Smith out
- 25:22Speaker 12: there than last twelve and you just got to you know,
- 25:25Speaker 12: draft one every four years. I'm sorry it is unless
- 25:28Speaker 12: the Players Association could change that to where it's every three,
- 25:33Speaker 12: you know, three years they can get a contract instead
- 25:35Speaker 12: of four.
- 25:36Speaker 1: Because something needs to change. Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Joe Nick, thank you, Thank you. Bruce. Yeah, I agree.
- 25:43Speaker 1: I think there's some there's some things that need to
- 25:45Speaker 1: need to happen, for sure with the running back position
- 25:49Speaker 1: because it's such an important position. It's very you know,
- 25:53Speaker 1: it's popular to fans and all that, and you know
- 25:56Speaker 1: it's tough because you know the way the teams are
- 25:58Speaker 1: just looking at it from a different perspective. But I
- 26:01Speaker 1: think there's some things that the NFLPA and the NFL
- 26:04Speaker 1: can do about that position. Maybe it's something to do
- 26:07Speaker 1: with the amount of touches that you get, you know,
- 26:11Speaker 1: some kind of you know, because they do have perform
- 26:13Speaker 1: performance bonuses, you know, based off of what you're making
- 26:17Speaker 1: and how much you played. Like for instance, a guy
- 26:19Speaker 1: like Deron Blam, you know, he's probably going to get
- 26:22Speaker 1: a performance bonus on top of his salary every year
- 26:25Speaker 1: now because of his fifth round pick, second year he's
- 26:28Speaker 1: not making less, he's less making less than a million
- 26:30Speaker 1: in base salary. But look look what he's doing. So
- 26:32Speaker 1: you get performance bonuses there. Maybe they can do some
- 26:35Speaker 1: kind of calculation on the amount of touches you get
- 26:39Speaker 1: or snaps you're getting relative to to that or you know,
- 26:42Speaker 1: there's got to be something I think that you can do,
- 26:44Speaker 1: because you know, it's a very very high profile position,
- 26:48Speaker 1: is just not getting paid the same, which is unfortunate.
- 26:51Speaker 1: All Right, I got some text message questions here, David
- 26:53Speaker 1: from fort Worth, would you really put someone on the
- 26:55Speaker 1: show if they fly out to Oxnard because my family
- 26:59Speaker 1: could use a vacation. Lol. Yeah, I mean we'll have
- 27:05Speaker 1: to see about that here. I am just throwing out,
- 27:07Speaker 1: you know, extra passes for people. But we can figure
- 27:10Speaker 1: something out. We can figure something out on people, especially
- 27:13Speaker 1: especially ones that are diehard listeners that that are that
- 27:16Speaker 1: are fans of the show. Yeah, we can figure some
- 27:18Speaker 1: some some fan uh part portion of every day. Yeah,
- 27:23Speaker 1: well let us let us work on that. We'll let's
- 27:25Speaker 1: get through, let's get through the season. Figure that out.
- 27:28Speaker 1: But yeah, I think David and fort Worth's the one
- 27:31Speaker 1: with the newborns. He's already talking about vacation. Okay, been
- 27:34Speaker 1: there all right? Chris and Wisconsin reading this, Chris, I mean,
- 27:40Speaker 1: I wonder did I type this? Did I type this before?
- 27:43Speaker 1: Or just from Chris and Wisconsin, because this seems like
- 27:46Speaker 1: somebody something that I would write his. He's got his
- 27:48Speaker 1: favorite Cowboy too, Taul Jones and Tony Dorsett, which, of
- 27:53Speaker 1: course is mine favorite game of all time, ninety two
- 27:56Speaker 1: championship game against the Niners. Agreed, favorite play Alvin Harper's
- 28:00Speaker 1: catch in that game. Agreed, Cowboys chose me after that
- 28:06Speaker 1: catch in the eighty one championship game. I can remember
- 28:09Speaker 1: that game as well, about six years old, but I
- 28:11Speaker 1: remember that game and just just the fact that they
- 28:14Speaker 1: had lost and it was tough. So I'm with you
- 28:17Speaker 1: here because he's a huge Rocky fan and his favorite
- 28:21Speaker 1: wrestler is Thunderlips is Hulkogin in Rocky three. Chris, you
- 28:27Speaker 1: and I need to hang out. I feel like we
- 28:29Speaker 1: already have good stuff, all right. Seventh collar we got
- 28:33Speaker 1: is Nigel and Arizona. Nigel, what's up? How you doing,
- 28:38Speaker 1: bro good? How are you very well?
- 28:41Speaker 2: Nice to hear your voice once again, real simple, real quick,
- 28:46Speaker 2: red zone. Right, Obviously we're having these issues trying to
- 28:50Speaker 2: punch the ball in and I know you're not the
- 28:53Speaker 2: you know, the magician who can answer everything, But my
- 28:57Speaker 2: question is why not Hunter? I mean, we drafted the
- 29:01Speaker 2: guy as an all around flow back. Once in a
- 29:04Speaker 2: while you see him in there, but they never give
- 29:07Speaker 2: give him the ball. I think he's proved enough. I
- 29:10Speaker 2: think he's tough enough. And you know, we've given it
- 29:14Speaker 2: to Dow, We've given it to Pollard. Why don't we
- 29:18Speaker 2: try giving it the Hunter. That's it, so.
- 29:23Speaker 1: All right, appreciate that, you know. I kind of thought
- 29:26Speaker 1: at some point they they would give the give the
- 29:29Speaker 1: ball to him a little bit more. I thought, I
- 29:31Speaker 1: thought he would, you know, have a role in the
- 29:34Speaker 1: offense as a runner. I think there's they're still just
- 29:39Speaker 1: kind of working through some things. I mean, let's okay,
- 29:42Speaker 1: let's be honest about Hunter Lifkey. Now, he didn't just
- 29:45Speaker 1: come into the to the league and the preseason and
- 29:47Speaker 1: all that, and wasn't just lighting it up like the
- 29:49Speaker 1: last game of the season is what you remember. Last
- 29:51Speaker 1: preseason game, he had a couple of nice plays and
- 29:54Speaker 1: he I think he made the team. I don't think
- 29:56Speaker 1: he was on the team before that performance. I think
- 30:00Speaker 1: it was very close. I mean, for the first couple
- 30:02Speaker 1: of games, it looked like it was a little too
- 30:04Speaker 1: big for him. So but give him credit. I mean,
- 30:06Speaker 1: he's North Dakota, I mean or in No v Zakota State.
- 30:09Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and it's a transition from that
- 30:12Speaker 1: to the NFL. So he's still working on some things.
- 30:15Speaker 1: But I mean, I think they've got to figure out,
- 30:18Speaker 1: like what he is. Is he a big running back
- 30:21Speaker 1: or is he an undersize full back? You know, because
- 30:25Speaker 1: if he's going to play fullback, he's going to probably
- 30:27Speaker 1: need to put on a few more pounds if that's
- 30:29Speaker 1: going to be his role, and be a blocker and
- 30:32Speaker 1: kind of be a linebacker type body, if you will,
- 30:34Speaker 1: for special teams and one of those core players, which
- 30:37Speaker 1: he could do. Or do you want to keep him
- 30:39Speaker 1: like he is and just let him develop more as
- 30:41Speaker 1: a running back, So you know, he's he's a he's
- 30:44Speaker 1: a rookie. I mean, he's still he's still working on things,
- 30:47Speaker 1: you know. I don't I don't know if he's necessarily
- 30:50Speaker 1: the answer. He's a bigger back, but remember bigger backs
- 30:54Speaker 1: take a little bit of a little bit more time
- 30:56Speaker 1: to get to that hole. You know, that's always the question.
- 30:59Speaker 1: Is it better to have a big back that can
- 31:02Speaker 1: plow through people or a quick back that gets the
- 31:05Speaker 1: whole when it's there and hits it and then can
- 31:07Speaker 1: get a few more yards as well. And that's a
- 31:09Speaker 1: good thing about Zeke because for most of his careers,
- 31:12Speaker 1: Zeke was able to do both and did it at
- 31:14Speaker 1: a very very high level. All right, some questions here.
- 31:21Speaker 1: This is who we got. Mario from South Texas. He
- 31:23Speaker 1: says his favorite player all time. Darren Woodson agreed. Random
- 31:27Speaker 1: player Chris Brazzle. He graduated from the same high school
- 31:32Speaker 1: as me twelve years prior. Caught a slant from Akman
- 31:34Speaker 1: and took it almost to the length of the field
- 31:36Speaker 1: when he finally got a chance to play his favorite wrestlers,
- 31:39Speaker 1: Dwayne the Rock Johnson, Brandon Cook's production is sustainable or
- 31:44Speaker 1: is it substainable? Or is it a great match up
- 31:45Speaker 1: versus a bad defense? I think it is sustainable. I
- 31:48Speaker 1: think I mean he's a great player. This guy's been
- 31:50Speaker 1: a great player at a lot of different stops. He
- 31:52Speaker 1: knows how to get open, he knows how to work
- 31:53Speaker 1: with He's very friendly for each offense. So yes, I
- 31:56Speaker 1: think they can do that. I think they're figuring things out.
- 31:59Speaker 1: Sure was not a defense, but you know, they put
- 32:02Speaker 1: up a lot of points. That's a lot of yards
- 32:04Speaker 1: and everyone got a chance to get involved, so that
- 32:06Speaker 1: that was good about that. Chris Brasel interesting that you
- 32:12Speaker 1: mentioned him because what I said earlier about the four
- 32:15Speaker 1: players on one team with the had ze l L
- 32:18Speaker 1: in their name, Chris Brasel is one of them, as
- 32:23Speaker 1: is Peppi Zelner. Got two more to go, see if
- 32:25Speaker 1: we can get those names mentioned at some point. All right, uh,
- 32:30Speaker 1: we got Ronnie and Jersey. What's up?
- 32:33Speaker 6: Hey, good morning? Nick? Eleven or twelfth time caller.
- 32:40Speaker 1: I think it's more than that, honestly.
- 32:43Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I wasn't sure, so I was like, let.
- 32:45Speaker 1: Me just I like it. I like that, and you know,
- 32:49Speaker 1: you guys know I love the first time callers because
- 32:51Speaker 1: that means we're Adams and you know, we're growing the
- 32:54Speaker 1: show and all that stuff. I appreciate the eighteenth time
- 32:57Speaker 1: callers just as much. I really do. You can't. You
- 33:00Speaker 1: need a combination of both, just like veterans you need rookies.
- 33:03Speaker 1: You need to mix them all in together.
- 33:06Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, we could be calling like every day, but
- 33:09Speaker 6: I'm telling you even for for us, for the guys
- 33:12Speaker 6: that have been calling, it's hard to get on. You
- 33:14Speaker 6: gotta like, I gotta keep on hitting that button, you know,
- 33:17Speaker 6: like fifty times before I get on the what you
- 33:19Speaker 6: guys go through?
- 33:21Speaker 1: You need the secret number, don't you do? You not
- 33:23Speaker 1: have the secret number? Beams beams in the back, Like,
- 33:28Speaker 1: what the hell are you talking about. I'm just kidding.
- 33:30Speaker 1: There's no secret number. That's been the number for a
- 33:34Speaker 1: long time.
- 33:36Speaker 6: Oh he got it like.
- 33:36Speaker 10: Crazy, yep, Nick, I was gonna say.
- 33:40Speaker 6: The one thing that I keep on seeing that I
- 33:43Speaker 6: think we gotta fix with this team is penalties. Man
- 33:46Speaker 6: Like they keep on committee penalties in this game. Yeah,
- 33:50Speaker 6: you know, it was a clean game in the first half.
- 33:52Speaker 6: But the only reason we gave up that touchdown, I
- 33:55Speaker 6: think it was because of the penalties when when when
- 33:57Speaker 6: they got that the first touch style, it was all penalties, penalties,
- 34:02Speaker 6: penalties back.
- 34:05Speaker 10: If they clean up.
- 34:05Speaker 6: Those penalties, this is a good team. I mean, we
- 34:08Speaker 6: could hang with anybody. I think we could beat those
- 34:11Speaker 6: teams that we haven't been able to beat if we
- 34:14Speaker 6: just clean up, plate clean.
- 34:16Speaker 3: That's all that.
- 34:17Speaker 6: The offensive line is starting to click, which is a
- 34:20Speaker 6: great time of year, Like everybody always said, right, November
- 34:23Speaker 6: is when you want to see you are who you
- 34:25Speaker 6: are in November and from from this point on, if
- 34:28Speaker 6: they just keep on. I don't agree with one of
- 34:30Speaker 6: the callers. He said, Tony Potter shouldn't be the primary.
- 34:35Speaker 6: We should start giving Donal the ball. No no, no,
- 34:37Speaker 6: no, no no no. Tony Potler is our primary. You just
- 34:41Speaker 6: gotta you gotta use Tony Potter the same way you
- 34:44Speaker 6: used them last year and the year before that.
- 34:46Speaker 1: Well, hold up, hold up. I think what what the
- 34:48Speaker 1: caller said was, he's not a bell cow. He's not
- 34:51Speaker 1: the guy that's gonna get thirty carries. He's not just
- 34:53Speaker 1: you just keep giving him the ball, you know, and
- 34:55Speaker 1: he gets stronger as the game goes on. I think,
- 34:58Speaker 1: And then that's kind of what you're saying. I think
- 34:59Speaker 1: that's what but he's saying. He is the lead back,
- 35:02Speaker 1: but you got to be smart with him, and he's
- 35:04Speaker 1: got he needs a little bit more help than maybe
- 35:06Speaker 1: some other number one backs get. I think that's what
- 35:09Speaker 1: he's saying. And I think you're saying the same thing exactly.
- 35:12Speaker 6: You need that bruiser like we had with Sikh Seek
- 35:14Speaker 6: was the Bruiser and Tony Potter came in and you know,
- 35:17Speaker 6: you see different styles and and we have Bottle is
- 35:21Speaker 6: not as big as seat. But I mean, have you
- 35:24Speaker 6: seen you see how he runs in between the tackles.
- 35:27Speaker 1: This guy runs hard, He runs hard, runs angry.
- 35:30Speaker 6: Yeah, it's people he's not you know, you know I'm
- 35:33Speaker 6: gonna get hit and that's it. No, he keeps on.
- 35:35Speaker 6: He fights for those yards. Uh, That's that's what I'm seeing.
- 35:39Speaker 6: And aside from that, Nick, if one more thing I
- 35:42Speaker 6: wanted to say, I know we we've been I like Dak,
- 35:46Speaker 6: I don't want Nick. I don't love that. I love
- 35:49Speaker 6: that because he's in my team. That's it. But Dak,
- 35:53Speaker 6: there was that one interception that he threw. It seemed
- 35:56Speaker 6: like that was a predetermined pass when he threw it,
- 35:59Speaker 6: because he threw it right in some double coverage and man,
- 36:01Speaker 6: that gave me a little flashback back to that forty
- 36:03Speaker 6: nine Ers game. Are you seeing it the same way?
- 36:06Speaker 6: Like it seemed like they were playing man, but they
- 36:08Speaker 6: went into show them real quick and as soon as
- 36:11Speaker 6: he just threw it out there no matter what, like
- 36:13Speaker 6: she's just I mean a way you can't see two
- 36:17Speaker 6: guys in front of you.
- 36:18Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was it was one. Thanks for
- 36:20Speaker 1: the call running, Yeah, it was one from the press
- 36:22Speaker 1: box as soon as he threw and you can kind
- 36:24Speaker 1: of see like, oh, oh this is this is bad
- 36:26Speaker 1: just because the defender had kind of a read on
- 36:30Speaker 1: it from the start. You know, one thing I think
- 36:32Speaker 1: has always got to be important, and this isn't. This
- 36:36Speaker 1: isn't just an excuse for Dak or any quarterback. But
- 36:39Speaker 1: you also got to remember our view from the TV
- 36:42Speaker 1: screen or even from the press box or whatever. This
- 36:44Speaker 1: up high view. You know, it's not the same sometimes
- 36:48Speaker 1: when you say this guy was wide open, you know,
- 36:50Speaker 1: like he missed, he miss ferguson Robert the middle. You
- 36:53Speaker 1: know he didn't see him. You know you had a
- 36:54Speaker 1: guy right over here. Well yeah, I mean there's a
- 36:57Speaker 1: hand right here, like like, yeah, there's a reason why
- 37:00Speaker 1: I didn't see him there. And we don't always look
- 37:02Speaker 1: at that. You don't always look at what the vision
- 37:04Speaker 1: of the quarterback is. It's not an excuse on Dak.
- 37:07Speaker 1: There's times yeah the reed is there, he went there.
- 37:10Speaker 1: I mean he missed them, kind of like the Cooks
- 37:12Speaker 1: over the middle, you know, against the Eagles, Schoonmaker there.
- 37:15Speaker 1: I mean I think if if if the read from
- 37:18Speaker 1: the start was was you know, these guys are going
- 37:20Speaker 1: to cross and he's going to be wide open, That's
- 37:22Speaker 1: what I would have started with, and I think he
- 37:24Speaker 1: would have been there for a touchdown. But sometimes you
- 37:27Speaker 1: need to remember same with the receiver. The guy's about
- 37:29Speaker 1: to catch the ball and it's like, how do you
- 37:31Speaker 1: drop it? Well, the defender's hand. I mean sometimes you
- 37:35Speaker 1: got to you got a view of what the player
- 37:36Speaker 1: is seeing. Uh too, you gotta be fair about about
- 37:39Speaker 1: that thing. I'm not saying that for this interception. I'm
- 37:41Speaker 1: just that's just the point in general. Sometimes I think
- 37:44Speaker 1: people need to remember that. All right, next caller we've
- 37:47Speaker 1: got is Dallas in Duval. Where's Jack can Ville? Jackson? Okay,
- 37:56Speaker 1: got it? Oh Jackson? I was thinking, what town is
- 37:59Speaker 1: that I got? I gotta go Jack? Yeah? Got you.
- 38:02Speaker 8: The first time, first time called alone time listening.
- 38:05Speaker 1: Boom love it.
- 38:07Speaker 8: First first time called a long time listening. All right,
- 38:10Speaker 8: I got something like hey, hey, all right, yeah, I
- 38:14Speaker 8: want to get it.
- 38:14Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. When you said something that Chris approves of
- 38:18Speaker 1: Boom like like, for instance, like the best producer we've
- 38:21Speaker 1: ever had, Crisp. Right, there you go. He works his butt.
- 38:30Speaker 8: I got I got a trivia thing. Trivia just a
- 38:33Speaker 8: just a fact.
- 38:34Speaker 1: What do you got?
- 38:36Speaker 8: W almost started his game. His first career start was
- 38:38Speaker 8: against Carolina in O six one more. Last game to
- 38:42Speaker 8: start in the regular season was against Carolina Thanksgiving. Mm hmm, yeah,
- 38:49Speaker 8: definitely got hurt.
- 38:50Speaker 1: That's his last start. That's right, that's right. Yeah, I
- 38:55Speaker 1: didn't Why Why did I not ever know that? I
- 38:58Speaker 1: mean that that seems very thought.
- 39:00Speaker 8: Maybe I thought I thought, maybe you're gonna write about it,
- 39:02Speaker 8: So well, there you go, they're trying to write about Yeah,
- 39:05Speaker 8: your team was that was? That was his last start?
- 39:08Speaker 1: Yeah? Is Romo doing the game this week? Doubtful? This
- 39:16Speaker 1: is this is like Fox's fifth crew. Probably I would think, yeah,
- 39:19Speaker 1: you never know, I could.
- 39:21Speaker 8: Find it's Greg Olsen.
- 39:25Speaker 1: Oh he's just going home. This is the number one
- 39:26Speaker 1: crew for Fox. But of course Olson being a former Panther,
- 39:30Speaker 1: and when else is he gonna go cover the game?
- 39:32Speaker 1: So yeah, that makes sense.
- 39:35Speaker 8: And my favorite, my favorite player on defense was he's
- 39:40Speaker 8: like a I don't know, that's why I bring his
- 39:41Speaker 8: name up to Mickey or Brian, they like, you know,
- 39:44Speaker 8: they changed the subject they don't talk about.
- 39:46Speaker 3: It's Jay Rattins.
- 39:47Speaker 1: He was.
- 39:47Speaker 8: He was one of my favorite players. Was he was mean.
- 39:49Speaker 8: I never seen him smile. He started the gorilla swamp,
- 39:52Speaker 8: the gorilla stump. He was, he was, he was the man.
- 39:55Speaker 8: He was very, very very mysterious. I love him and
- 39:59Speaker 8: part failing and and maybe you can bring this up
- 40:02Speaker 8: to fans that wanted poller it in last year, you know,
- 40:05Speaker 8: wanted him more because he was old, he was slow.
- 40:07Speaker 8: It was everything. But they said the same thing. Randall
- 40:09Speaker 8: came in for market, for the market. They said the
- 40:12Speaker 8: same thing with when when when Felix and they wanted
- 40:15Speaker 8: marry him Mary.
- 40:18Speaker 1: And on and on.
- 40:20Speaker 8: They wanted, they wanted, they wanted, they want to Hamburg.
- 40:23Speaker 8: They wanted everybody. So just remember I said yesterday, Uh
- 40:27Speaker 8: you know, fresh legs get you know, fresh legs get
- 40:29Speaker 8: the baby. You know fresh legs or is the thing.
- 40:32Speaker 8: So uh think again, thank you again, and now I
- 40:35Speaker 8: love your children all.
- 40:36Speaker 1: Right, appreciate that you're you're right about that. We say
- 40:38Speaker 1: it a lot. The backup running back always gets the love,
- 40:41Speaker 1: always has been. Doesn't matter what the running back has done.
- 40:44Speaker 8: Uh.
- 40:44Speaker 1: And in his career, it's what he can do now.
- 40:47Speaker 1: And it's just something about when the guy comes in,
- 40:50Speaker 1: he's fresh, he's ready. It's it's like it's almost like,
- 40:55Speaker 1: you know, people look at it like a reliever that
- 40:57Speaker 1: comes in in baseball, like, but why don't we just
- 40:59Speaker 1: pitch this guy? This guy comes in throwing a hundred,
- 41:01Speaker 1: you know, well because he's fresh and he's only going
- 41:04Speaker 1: to play for a little bit. So yeah, he can
- 41:06Speaker 1: throw it for one hundred. I mean, so it's a
- 41:08Speaker 1: little different. Maybe that's not the best analogy, but it's
- 41:11Speaker 1: just that guy looks different when he's been sitting there
- 41:14Speaker 1: for a while. Who can can can sustain it? We're
- 41:17Speaker 1: finding out, you know. With Tony Pollard, it's tougher to
- 41:19Speaker 1: do that. I don't know if he's lost a step.
- 41:22Speaker 1: I just think he gets hit a lot more than
- 41:25Speaker 1: he has and and I think maybe he's a little
- 41:28Speaker 1: bit better as a change of pace back comes in.
- 41:31Speaker 1: But that's not the role that they have for him
- 41:32Speaker 1: right now. All right, Reggie in Germany is our next caller. Reggie,
- 41:36Speaker 1: what's up?
- 41:37Speaker 3: Hey, Chris? I got you, what's up? Ben?
- 41:39Speaker 1: What's up? I'm Nick?
- 41:41Speaker 3: But that's okay, Nick, No, I got you know what
- 41:43Speaker 3: happened because when I called it, Nick called me Nick.
- 41:46Speaker 3: Chris called me Chris, and I said, no, Chris, I'm Reggie.
- 41:49Speaker 3: You're Chris. That's what. When I got to you, I'm
- 41:52Speaker 3: still thinking, Chris, I'm confused.
- 41:54Speaker 1: I have no idea what's going on. But we've got
- 41:56Speaker 1: Reggie in Germany. What's up?
- 41:58Speaker 12: Man?
- 41:58Speaker 3: Me too? Man, You to listen, I'll call him. What
- 42:01Speaker 3: a suggestion for you? You should ask the fans what
- 42:06Speaker 3: what made them a Cowboy fan.
- 42:09Speaker 1: That's the second time I've heard this today. I got
- 42:11Speaker 1: this new idea, Reggie. Let's start it off. Reggie, Okay,
- 42:15Speaker 1: what made you a Cowboys fan? When did you become
- 42:17Speaker 1: a Cowboys fan? Don't don't go too long on the story.
- 42:20Speaker 1: Don't go too long.
- 42:21Speaker 3: Just no, no, no, I'm going to hit you real quick.
- 42:25Speaker 3: I became a Cowboy fan this way. My father finally
- 42:28Speaker 3: got the color TV back in nineties and sixty seven.
- 42:32Speaker 3: That's all. That's how long I've been a Cowboy fan.
- 42:35Speaker 3: And so my brother and I decided to pick teams
- 42:38Speaker 3: to be fans of. My brother picked the team in
- 42:41Speaker 3: green and gold, and I picked the team in blue
- 42:45Speaker 3: and white.
- 42:46Speaker 1: Oregon.
- 42:47Speaker 3: Yep, No, that's Cowboys, Cowboys and blue and white, and
- 42:51Speaker 3: he picked the Green May Packers got it. And so
- 42:55Speaker 3: the game I remember is the Ice Bowl in sixty seven.
- 42:59Speaker 3: And I still hate Jerry Kramer to this day because
- 43:05Speaker 3: he dogged jeffro Pew. They everybody dogged Jeff Ropew for
- 43:08Speaker 3: that play. Jerry Kramer in many years later that he started,
- 43:11Speaker 3: he was off side, he started early right, and Jerry
- 43:15Speaker 3: wasn't Jeff Roe's fault. He couldn't get putting in the ice.
- 43:19Speaker 3: And I cried over that game. So that's how I
- 43:21Speaker 3: became a Cowboy fan, and I've been a Cowboy fan
- 43:24Speaker 3: ever since.
- 43:24Speaker 1: Awesome, That's awesome.
- 43:27Speaker 3: Here's the question. Another question I got for you. They'll
- 43:30Speaker 3: let you go. Do you guys talk to Jerry often?
- 43:36Speaker 3: Because here's the deal. I mean, all those games that
- 43:39Speaker 3: being played down in Germany, they're all being played down
- 43:43Speaker 3: in the south of Germany, way far away from the
- 43:45Speaker 3: from the north side of Germany. And Hamburg is the
- 43:50Speaker 3: most beautiful city in Germany. It's got a lot of
- 43:54Speaker 3: cowboy fans, huge amount of cowboy fans. And yeah, there's
- 44:00Speaker 3: there's a golden, gorgeous stadium called the Aol Arena to
- 44:04Speaker 3: play the games, and we need to get some games
- 44:06Speaker 3: up north, you know, not everything down south. You know,
- 44:10Speaker 3: we need to try and get get some some love,
- 44:12Speaker 3: so some love up north for some games. So I
- 44:16Speaker 3: kind of stut of it today, all right, all right,
- 44:19Speaker 3: going on.
- 44:20Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate it. Thanks, thanks for the call, I know,
- 44:24Speaker 1: and and thanks for being a fan way over there
- 44:27Speaker 1: in Germany. Now he wants he wants the north side Germany. Uh,
- 44:31Speaker 1: not just not just in South Germany. Wants once, uh,
- 44:34Speaker 1: spread it out a little bit. First game, first time
- 44:36Speaker 1: that they've played over there. I guess this is the
- 44:38Speaker 1: second year they've played over there. But I don't know
- 44:41Speaker 1: if that's a Jerry I mean, Jerry is on the committee,
- 44:44Speaker 1: he's a longtime owner. I mean, I'm sure he has
- 44:47Speaker 1: a voice on it right now. I think right now
- 44:48Speaker 1: they're excited to be over there and playing. Uh maybe
- 44:51Speaker 1: they'll they'll spread it around a little bit, uh in Germany.
- 44:55Speaker 1: But thanks for the call, Thanks for telling us where
- 44:59Speaker 1: you became, when you became fan and how, and that's
- 45:01Speaker 1: stuff to do. You know, it's tough to do to
- 45:03Speaker 1: be a cowboy fan of a loss. That's the second
- 45:06Speaker 1: time someone has said that the Catch and then also
- 45:11Speaker 1: the Ice Bowl. You know, any game that has a
- 45:14Speaker 1: name to it, you know, like the Catch game or
- 45:17Speaker 1: the Ice Bowl Game. No, nobody's got more names than
- 45:21Speaker 1: the Raiders. The Raiders have about seven games with names
- 45:25Speaker 1: associated with them. But yeah, anytime you got those that
- 45:28Speaker 1: are obviously memorable, they stick with your good or bad.
- 45:31Speaker 1: All right, Chris, and Georgia is next.
- 45:34Speaker 10: All right, Hey, Nick, how you doing? How you doing?
- 45:37Speaker 1: First time caller?
- 45:38Speaker 10: Yes, sir, first time caller?
- 45:40Speaker 1: Oom? All right?
- 45:43Speaker 10: So yeah, so really New York, I've only been in Georgia. Well,
- 45:49Speaker 10: I've been in Georgia about just about fourteen years. But
- 45:53Speaker 10: growing up in New York, uh, you know, being a
- 45:56Speaker 10: Cowboys fan not a really good thing, you know, caught
- 46:01Speaker 10: a lot of flak for that. I'm fifty eight, so
- 46:04Speaker 10: I don't think I really had a choice as to
- 46:06Speaker 10: who my team was going to be because my mom
- 46:08Speaker 10: is from Texas. Actually got a lot of family in
- 46:11Speaker 10: Wichita Falls. Yeah, so you know, so you know, the
- 46:16Speaker 10: Cowboys was my team by default, you know, so you know,
- 46:21Speaker 10: favorite player of course, the reason why I wore thirty
- 46:23Speaker 10: three Tony dor Set, but also what was the the
- 46:29Speaker 10: player uh who wore thirty three before door set.
- 46:35Speaker 1: I mean Dwayne Thomas.
- 46:37Speaker 10: Dwayne Thomas kuoting Princes I came. I'm sorry I forgot
- 46:39Speaker 10: his name, but yeah, And you know, in terms of
- 46:44Speaker 10: Mike McCarthy, I think, you know, because of this time
- 46:50Speaker 10: of the season, I mean, it's been a while since
- 46:52Speaker 10: he called plays, right, so you know, I think he's
- 46:56Speaker 10: kind of getting his sea legs under him, you know,
- 46:58Speaker 10: and maybe you know, he was a rusty early on
- 47:01Speaker 10: and and really wasn't in tune with everything. But you know,
- 47:05Speaker 10: you know, I don't think it's so much the team
- 47:07Speaker 10: getting you know, you know, executing better. In terms of that,
- 47:10Speaker 10: I think he's calling better plays as opposed to just
- 47:13Speaker 10: getting in a better groove and a better rhythm.
- 47:16Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that, I definitely agree. I mean,
- 47:19Speaker 1: it takes a little bit of time. And also it's
- 47:21Speaker 1: not just about calling plays. It's also understanding the personnel
- 47:24Speaker 1: that you have and and calling toward them, figuring out
- 47:28Speaker 1: what you have. You know, his idea of what Cede
- 47:31Speaker 1: Lamb was going into the season is probably not what
- 47:34Speaker 1: it is right now. I mean, I mean, even though
- 47:36Speaker 1: he's been here his whole career, I mean, you're you're
- 47:39Speaker 1: seeing what CD can do with a Brandon Cooks and
- 47:43Speaker 1: with what Jake Ferguson's doing. So these players are evolving
- 47:46Speaker 1: and it's probably changing the play calling. It's not just
- 47:49Speaker 1: well now I'm getting in the hang of it again,
- 47:51Speaker 1: it's also you know, I mean, once you realize Jake
- 47:54Speaker 1: Ferguson can make this play or this play, maybe we
- 47:57Speaker 1: need to call it more, or maybe CD needs to
- 47:58Speaker 1: have this play a little bit, or maybe Turpid now involved.
- 48:01Speaker 1: So it's it's the it's the evolving of the players
- 48:04Speaker 1: in this offense just as much as it is getting
- 48:07Speaker 1: back in the groove of calling plays.
- 48:10Speaker 10: I agree, I agree, but I hang up like for
- 48:14Speaker 10: you know, taking my call.
- 48:14Speaker 1: We have a great day, Thank you, Chris, appreciate that
- 48:17Speaker 1: good stuff. All right, Well that'll do it for our
- 48:19Speaker 1: show today. I was talking about the four players on
- 48:23Speaker 1: the team at once that had ze Ll in their name.
- 48:28Speaker 1: Pep pepe Zelener was mentioned in Chris Brasel beam. Do
- 48:32Speaker 1: you know the other two? He's busy doing other stuff,
- 48:35Speaker 1: but I don't don't. One of them's name is flow
- 48:38Speaker 1: Zel Adams flows Zell. And then along those lines, we
- 48:42Speaker 1: had a safety by the name of is Zel Reese
- 48:46Speaker 1: Peppy Zelener, Flowzell Adams, Izel Reese, Chris Brasel all at once.
- 48:52Speaker 1: That is why I was not a good student in school,
- 48:55Speaker 1: because I did my mind works like that instead of
- 48:59Speaker 1: caring about American history or whatever. But speaking of you know, geography,
- 49:04Speaker 1: Florida and Georgia with the tie today both had two
- 49:07Speaker 1: colors from Florida and Georgia. Of course we said it before,
- 49:11Speaker 1: Germany should count twice, so we'll put them in as
- 49:13Speaker 1: a tie since they called them overseas great great stuff.
- 49:16Speaker 1: Levin calls a lot of texts. You guys were awesome
- 49:18Speaker 1: as always. We'll be back tomorrow to talk more. Talk
- 49:22Speaker 1: a little bit more about cowboys and panthers and anything
- 49:24Speaker 1: else you want to talk about. We're here for it
- 49:26Speaker 1: for Chrispy. I'm Nick Eatman. We will see you tomorrow.
- 49:29Speaker 1: Cowboys storyline, see you later.
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