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  Speaker 1: And the Dallas Cowboys football club. This is Cowboys Storyline
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  Speaker 1: presented by Gillette, the official shave of the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette. It's October the 12th, Monday,
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  Speaker 2: reset this show, this team, this season. Who knows? We'll
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  Speaker 2: see if they can hit the reset button. We'll find
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  Speaker 2: out about that. See if the Cowboys can get this
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  Speaker 2: thing turned around and use the mini break to their advantage.
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  Speaker 2: Come back ready to play a Green Bay team that
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  Speaker 2: had a nice win against the Bears. I think, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I think you got Green Bay exactly where you want them. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the way this weird league is, They've won
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  Speaker 2: two in a row. They're looking pretty good. I think
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  Speaker 2: going into Lambeau Field, that's about as good as you
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  Speaker 2: can get. I know that people look at it differently,
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  Speaker 2: but I just think once you figure out what you
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  Speaker 2: think these teams are and the league is, it kind
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  Speaker 2: of gets flipped upside down. We saw that Thursday night,
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  Speaker 2: so maybe the Cowboys can get healthy, get this thing
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  Speaker 2: turned around, and go to Lambeau Field and try to
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  Speaker 2: get back to. 500. All right, 888-855-2297. I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about some of the games that happened. I just
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  Speaker 2: can't imagine. I can't imagine being on this show and
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  Speaker 2: listening to you guys if the Cowboys had lost an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity or a game like Washington and the Giants had
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  Speaker 2: the other day or yesterday. That was unbelievable. Or Philly.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think we've experienced that one before. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about it. All right, let's go to Pete
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  Speaker 2: in Connecticut.
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  Speaker 3: Pete, what's up? Hi, Nick.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. What's up, man?
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  Speaker 4: Good, man.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to ask how they think that Green
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  Speaker 5: Bay will be favored in this coming game. And I
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  Speaker 5: think Barham's should be our starting linebacker.
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  Speaker 6: For the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 5: And if Overshawn could possibly get on the field at
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  Speaker 5: the same time as Barham, I think that could help
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  Speaker 5: our defense with the run greatly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Are you asking why Green Bay is favored or if
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  Speaker 2: they are? I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think Dallas is favored to win. I
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  Speaker 5: just don't see how that's possible.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm just wondering what your take on that is.
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  Speaker 2: I would think Green Bay would be favored, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I haven't seen that yet. I guess they
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  Speaker 2: come out. But, yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Usually the home team gets three points. I can't imagine
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  Speaker 2: why Dallas, I mean, Green Bay's three and two, and
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys are two and three, and kind of banged up.
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  Speaker 2: They handled the Bucs on the road, and the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: got beat pretty bad at home. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how it would even be close to that. That looks
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  Speaker 2: like Green Bay is a four-point favorite to me, but
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea. Anyways, we'll find out, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: None of it really matters. Even though Vegas is typically
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  Speaker 2: pretty good, they've missed some here lately pretty bad. So
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't really matter. All right. Well, but, yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: agree with you on Barham. I think the Overshawn return–
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  Speaker 2: Overshawn is such a unique player that I just– I
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  Speaker 2: would love for them to find a way to get
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  Speaker 2: him on the field. in a way that can compliment
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  Speaker 2: other players and just make him kind of dynamic, because
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  Speaker 2: he is. I mean, he's not a middle linebacker, in
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  Speaker 2: my opinion, for every single snap. He's proven that he
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  Speaker 2: can't really stay healthy for that. I don't think he's
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  Speaker 2: fast enough to be a safety. I don't think he's
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  Speaker 2: really big enough or maybe twitchy enough to be an
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  Speaker 2: end on the outside and to play the run and
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  Speaker 2: all that. He's just kind of a unique, maybe a
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  Speaker 2: player just for... the nickel and dime situations, but which
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  Speaker 2: they play a lot. So I just think that they're there.
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  Speaker 2: If they get creative, there is a role for him. Um, and,
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  Speaker 2: and one that could maybe keep him on the field.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Davion in Illinois is next.
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  Speaker 3: What'd it do? What'd it do?
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  Speaker 7: My boy, what's going on, man? Everything, everything good.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's good. What's going on with you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh man.
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  Speaker 7: Just, uh, Upset about the game, of course, but I
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  Speaker 7: had a weekend. Got, you know, got some deep thought.
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  Speaker 7: I'm getting better. But I'm happy that the Eagles lost
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  Speaker 7: and the other two tied. So that was always a
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  Speaker 7: good thing. The division coming back to us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: A couple questions for you, and then I'm going to
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  Speaker 7: roll out. First one, what do you think– We need
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  Speaker 7: to do with Bland once Durant is healthy.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I'll answer that. And then what's your next question?
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  Speaker 7: Are you in favor of like a 50-50 snapshot between
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  Speaker 7: Fergie and BSF?
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Davion. Thanks for the call. What would I
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  Speaker 2: do with Bland?
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  Speaker 3: Wait.
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  Speaker 2: You still there, Davion? sorry when you say yeah when
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  Speaker 2: i say that yeah yeah well i i probably should
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  Speaker 2: have asked him what his thought was on that uh
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  Speaker 2: the fact that he's asking what i should do what
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  Speaker 2: do you think the starter should do when the backup
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  Speaker 2: comes back it's probably a pretty good indication of what
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  Speaker 2: he thinks should happen and the same with ferguson and
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  Speaker 2: and uh span for it so That's what I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to assume. I'm going to assume that you're probably in
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  Speaker 2: that boat. The thing about corner to me is that
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  Speaker 2: I've never really worried too much about. the second and
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  Speaker 2: the third, or even the third and the fourth, because
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  Speaker 2: they're out there and they're going to play. And you're
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  Speaker 2: going to move them around. And you know how I
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  Speaker 2: feel about just keeping the same guys on one spot.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like that. I move it around. I try
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  Speaker 2: to get, you know, I don't want the quarterback to
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  Speaker 2: be comfortable with what he thinks it's going to look like.
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  Speaker 2: So I like a rotation. I think they all four,
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  Speaker 2: and I include Porter, Junior and Revel in that group,
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  Speaker 2: they all four can play. They can play, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Bland can play some on the inside. Durant can as well. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: Downs can mix in there. I just feel like if
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  Speaker 2: they're healthy, have them in the rotation and they can
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  Speaker 2: play because you're going to need all of them. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's unfortunate that Bland missed that interception because
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  Speaker 2: I think he could have, you know, it could have
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  Speaker 2: been very, I don't know if it's redemption for the,
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  Speaker 2: you know, for the, you know, avenge all of the plays,
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  Speaker 2: but I, you know, if he goes and scores and
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  Speaker 2: who knows how that game ends up and, and, and
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  Speaker 2: that would, that would have been so, you know, on point,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on brand, I guess you would say, for
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  Speaker 2: Deron Blanton to kind of, you know, because he gave
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  Speaker 2: up some plays during that year that he, you know,
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  Speaker 2: would get the interceptions. He gave up some. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the reason why he got so many is they were
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  Speaker 2: throwing at him. So he's always been a guy that's
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  Speaker 2: given up some plays, but he's taken some back. And
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  Speaker 2: so hopefully he's still that type of player. Uh, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to see though. I like Durant as a core.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I, I think, I think that you just,
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  Speaker 2: this is one that you just, it's not quarterback. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to number it. You don't, you, you can
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  Speaker 2: just say you're out there. Porter's going to start. Um,
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  Speaker 2: after that, I still think bland would start, but those
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  Speaker 2: other guys are definitely going to play. All right, Nate,
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  Speaker 2: the great, he calls himself in Albuquerque.
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  Speaker 4: Nate. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Hey, Nick, Does anybody else call you Nate the
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  Speaker 2: Great or just you?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, a couple people, a couple of my buddies.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's my third time calling, but I
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  Speaker 8: tried calling, but it's been pretty busy with the lines
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  Speaker 8: and stuff. But my concern is, and this has been
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  Speaker 8: before the season started, is with Christian Parker, is that
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  Speaker 8: he's never called plays before, and that's great. Everybody's like, hey,
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  Speaker 8: you've got to give him time. But we don't have time, right?
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  Speaker 8: Even Jerry Jones said, like, he doesn't have time. We're
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  Speaker 8: trying to win now. We're still a good football team.
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  Speaker 9: We've got a good offense.
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  Speaker 8: So I don't understand why they hired him to call
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  Speaker 8: the plays because he's never called plays.
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  Speaker 4: I get it.
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  Speaker 8: Like, he's a good secondary coach.
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  Speaker 9: You see him.
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  Speaker 8: You see them getting him help.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe have him focus on secondary. We don't even have interception.
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  Speaker 8: I think we're the only team in the NFL right
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  Speaker 8: now that doesn't have an interception. Have him focus on secondary.
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  Speaker 8: And get someone in there that's seasoned, that's called plays before,
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  Speaker 8: that can get this defense going. Because we're defensive last year,
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  Speaker 8: and we got better Jimmys than Joes. We all thought
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  Speaker 8: in the offseason, there's no way this defense is going
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  Speaker 8: to be as bad as it was last year, and
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  Speaker 8: somehow we are. So my thing is, maybe it's a scheme,
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  Speaker 8: maybe it's motivation, but it all points.
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  Speaker 4: To Christian Parker.
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  Speaker 8: Do you see them getting him some help?
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  Speaker 6: Or maybe, if.
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  Speaker 8: Not, we could get pressure on the quarterback because that
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  Speaker 8: makes the whole defense better. Do you see him getting
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  Speaker 8: maybe not a great guy, but maybe some kind of
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  Speaker 8: guy that can get pressure on the quarterback?
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  Speaker 4: Or do you see them.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe trying to get Christian Parker help, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Is my question.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, you're throwing a lot out there, and
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  Speaker 2: I think the Cowboys are all of that's on the
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  Speaker 2: table at this point. As far as getting him help,
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  Speaker 2: you mean like a coordinator help, like a veteran guy
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  Speaker 2: that's sitting on his couch right now?
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  Speaker 4: Defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 8: I don't care how he looks. I like Rob from Vegas.
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  Speaker 10: I like his take.
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  Speaker 8: I don't always agree with him. I don't care what
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  Speaker 8: he looks like. I don't care if he has a
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  Speaker 8: backwards hat, cowboy hat. As long as they get the job.
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  Speaker 7: Done.
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  Speaker 8: Get another defensive coordinator in here and just be like, hey,
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  Speaker 8: you know what? I think we gave Christian Parker too.
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  Speaker 7: Much on his plate.
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  Speaker 8: And have him focused on the secondary.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think they'll do that. Thanks, Nate, for
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  Speaker 2: the call. I don't think they'll just, you know, demote
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  Speaker 2: him here after five games or so and say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: great story. And one of the youngest guys in the league.
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  Speaker 2: And everyone loves this guy and thinks he's a great mind.
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  Speaker 2: And after five games, now you're back to a secondary
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  Speaker 2: coach and we're going to go find someone else. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think they'll do that. I think that there's ways
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  Speaker 2: to bring in, you know, I don't know. Again, I
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen anybody come in here. So I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to say that they'll necessarily do that. I think there's
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  Speaker 2: different ways to kind of give him some help here
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  Speaker 2: within the building. There's a lot of coaches. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot on this staff. So that's one of the things
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that they'll be talking about all week and
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  Speaker 2: Who knows, maybe tomorrow morning, Jerry Jones, when he talks
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  Speaker 2: on his radio show, maybe he'll kind of allude to
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  Speaker 2: some of those changes or shoddy talks maybe this afternoon
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  Speaker 2: of some of that. I don't think they'll get into detail.
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  Speaker 2: But without a doubt, there's some change that's needed. When
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  Speaker 2: you get into your other question about the pressure, and
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  Speaker 2: that reminds me, I did not answer Davion's question about
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  Speaker 2: tight ends. But when you're getting into the pressure part
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  Speaker 2: of it, I mean... These guys aren't getting home. They're
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  Speaker 2: just not. They don't win. The win rate isn't there. Ezeraku,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of what I'm seeing right
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  Speaker 2: now just because I think if he meets a really
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  Speaker 2: good offensive lineman that's been around this league and seen
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  Speaker 2: all the kind of moves you've seen, he's not having
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  Speaker 2: a lot of success. I don't see him with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of success on some of the tight ends, so
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  Speaker 2: that's concerning too. Gary, it's been okay, but not like
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  Speaker 2: we thought. And then, you know, Malachi Lawrence, still a
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  Speaker 2: young rookie, still learning. And Von Miller, you know, we
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  Speaker 2: just haven't seen it. I haven't seen it yet. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, do you go out and waste, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know about waste is the word, but spend more capital
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  Speaker 2: to try to add, you know, to this? And I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know if you can do that at this point.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if this team has showed at two
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  Speaker 2: and three, If that's a smart move, too, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It depends on who's out there. But as Jerry has
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  Speaker 2: said when he's asked about this, it would not be
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  Speaker 2: a move for right now. They're not bringing in another
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  Speaker 2: Von Miller type. They would have to bring in a
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  Speaker 2: guy that makes sense for the future because that's what
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  Speaker 2: you have to give up. You have to give up
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  Speaker 2: future for draft picks. It's got to be a guy
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  Speaker 2: that can't just be a rental. All right, Doc in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Nick.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, Doc.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 10: Two points I want to make. One is this. You're
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  Speaker 10: the Cowboys historian, so you might appreciate this. During my childhood,
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  Speaker 10: I had to suffer through the last Meredith throwing the
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  Speaker 10: interception against Green Bay on the last play, then the
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  Speaker 10: ice ball with the quarterback sneak, then two years of
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  Speaker 10: losing to Cleveland in the first round, and then the
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  Speaker 10: first Super Bowl. A pass from Craig Morton goes off
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  Speaker 10: Dan Reeves' hands into Mike Curtis' interception, and they kick
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  Speaker 10: a field goal. Broke my heart. And we were next
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  Speaker 10: year's champions was our moniker back then. And then the
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  Speaker 10: next year, we beat Miami.
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  Speaker 4: But the two.
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  Speaker 10: Plays I remember is, of course, the Bob Lilly sack
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  Speaker 10: of Bob Greasy, which is still the record for the
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  Speaker 10: biggest loss. But I remember, and this is why I
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  Speaker 10: bring it up, Mike did that. catching a touchdown pass
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  Speaker 10: in that game, and I'm dancing around as a little
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  Speaker 10: boy in our living room, so happy that we finally
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  Speaker 10: could put together a win. So rest in peace, Mike Ditka.
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  Speaker 10: I just wanted to bring up from historical Cowboys. But
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  Speaker 10: what you were just talking about, the defense, I'm in
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  Speaker 10: agreement with you. This is a complicated defense. It's not
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  Speaker 10: something easy, and it's looked terrible. I don't doubt that,
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  Speaker 10: but you've got to give this guy a chance. He's
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  Speaker 10: a young, first-time coordinator, and we have seven new starters,
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  Speaker 10: and we've got tons of injuries, especially on the defensive
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  Speaker 10: side of the ball. So I have patience. Green Bay
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  Speaker 10: is beatable. I know they look like a Super Bowl
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  Speaker 10: team against the.
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  Speaker 3: Bears, but.
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  Speaker 10: I think they're beatable, and the Eagles look terrible, which is,
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  Speaker 10: you know, being from Allentown, that's a thrill for me.
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  Speaker 10: So my thought is I don't want to give up
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  Speaker 10: any draft capital to bring in as a stopgap. I
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  Speaker 10: think we get our guys healthy. They make them learn
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  Speaker 10: the system. I don't know if they're studying enough or
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  Speaker 10: what the reason is, but they've got to learn to tackle.
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  Speaker 10: That tackling, I think, is our biggest problem, and I
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  Speaker 10: just wanted your thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Doc. Appreciate the call. And as you pointed out,
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  Speaker 2: rest in peace to Mike Ditka. We actually have a
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  Speaker 2: story on the website there and another kind of story
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: highlighting the other Hall of Famers. Cowboys have 22 Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Famers, traditional Hall of Famers from the Cowboys. really
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  Speaker 2: 10 others that have played for the Cowboys that aren't
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  Speaker 2: considered longtime Dallas Cowboy players or coaches, but are also
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  Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame. And we focused on eight
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  Speaker 2: of them that have actually played a full season for
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  Speaker 2: the Cowboys, Mike Ditka being one of them. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Ditka coached and played for the Cowboys, but I
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  Speaker 2: think he's a rare person that had Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 2: credentials as a player and Hall of Fame credentials as
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  Speaker 2: a coach. I'm sorry, but you can't have a good
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  Speaker 2: defense and then somebody doesn't refer you to the 85 Bears.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're the head coach of the 85 Bears,
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  Speaker 2: I think you're a Hall of Famer. So either way,
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  Speaker 2: he's in the Hall of Fame, but I think he's
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  Speaker 2: one of those that's actually in the Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 2: for multiple reasons. I would put John Madden in there
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  Speaker 2: also as a Hall of Fame coach and then obviously
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame broadcaster. All right, Robbie in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, Nick.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing?
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  Speaker 5: I'm good.
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  Speaker 4: It's a beautiful day.
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  Speaker 11: A little upset on Thursday night. RJ and I watched
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  Speaker 11: the game. You know, but we still tried to, you know,
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  Speaker 11: even at the end, we were like, hey, we're down
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  Speaker 11: by eight.
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  Speaker 4: We're good.
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  Speaker 11: I hear a lot of people complaining, bitching, phoning, whatever,
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  Speaker 11: about going for two when we scored the first of
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  Speaker 11: the two touchdowns when we were down by 16.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: I wonder why do people seem so upset about that?
• 17:13
  Speaker 11: I think that was the right call.
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 17:15
  Speaker 11: My opinion.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Why do you think that's the right call? As it
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: played out, it didn't really matter because they didn't score again.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: But if Bland catches it and scores a touchdown, they
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: go for two and miss it. They lose 24-22. Tell
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: me why you thought that was a good move. I'm
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: just curious. Why would that have been a good move?
• 17:35
  Speaker 11: Well, because you're playing for the win, and our team
• 17:37
  Speaker 11: was winded and out of it. And we were playing, like,
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: bad all night. I almost said a bad word on
• 17:43
  Speaker 11: the air. We played poorly all night, and we needed
• 17:46
  Speaker 11: any little boost. And, hey, we didn't get it because
• 17:49
  Speaker 11: we were horrible the whole night. But I still think
• 17:53
  Speaker 11: it's the right thing. You've got to go for it,
• 17:54
  Speaker 11: don't you?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I don't agree, actually, because when I look at it, like,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: if you're starving, okay, and someone hands you you know, food,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, why are you giving some of it back
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: to them? And that's what they did. They gave some
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: momentum back. It was 24 to, what, you know, 10
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: or whatever, and then you score, and it's 24-16, and
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: then you go for two, and then you don't make it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Now you definitely have to go for two just to tie.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: I don't like that. I think if you just play it,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: just play, just keep getting points, and you can get
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: this game tied, now the pressure goes, now you're going
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: to see a rookie. You're going to see a rookie quarterback,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: which you already saw him a little bit trying to
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: throw in and make plays and all that. So it's
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: a little different when you're going up there and you're
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: down by eight, you're a nine-point favorite underdog, you go
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: out there Thursday night, nothing to lose and play and
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: all that. Once that game gets tied and now things
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: are tightened up a little bit, now we'll see. I'll
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: take Dak in that situation.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: So.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: I just feel like they gave him, they kind of
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: gave the Bucs a little bit of an out by
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: doing that, but ultimately didn't matter because they didn't score again.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: But can you imagine if we were to sit in
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: here talking about them losing 24-22? Like, why?
• 19:13
  Speaker 11: Well, look, I'm not a big stats guy like Dylan,
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: who's awesome at it, but I bet the national record
• 19:22
  Speaker 11: for people going for it on fourth down excuse me,
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: go for the two point conversion. It's gotta be around 50%.
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: So you'd think you'd make at least one of the
• 19:31
  Speaker 11: two tries. And I think that's why they go for
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: two in those situations. But Hey, what you said, Nick,
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: it makes a lot of sense with the rookie. And
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: I agree. Pressure is a good thing. So maybe you're right.
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: In hindsight, it's 2020, but it didn't come to that
• 19:45
  Speaker 11: for either of us.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Right, right.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: But like you said, go ahead, Robbie. Go ahead. We'll
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: talk about this.
• 19:50
  Speaker 11: I am really sick of our defense making every quarterback
• 19:56
  Speaker 11: look so good. I mean, I don't know what their
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: quarterback rating is on all these guys, but I know
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: it's probably the best when they play us.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: It's frustrating.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: With all that said, though, I still love my team.
• 20:08
  Speaker 11: I think we got some people coming back. I hope
• 20:11
  Speaker 11: we start getting on a going streak and win some
• 20:13
  Speaker 11: ball games because, you know what, if we win the
• 20:17
  Speaker 11: Super Bowl this year, which would be awesome, it would
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: be even more awesome because we have these down times.
• 20:21
  Speaker 11: You know, that roller coaster is a fun thing. That's
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: why we love football, right?
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: I mean, if we won them all like Madden, it'd
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: be kind of boring, wouldn't it?
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Well, let's get closer to that, though. You know what
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I mean?
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd like to see those.
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: Farther away.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: All right, Robbie. Appreciate it. Yeah, I guess Robbie sort
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: of made my point when he said if you go 50%
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: to go for two, you're going to get one out
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: of two. You're just back where you were if you
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: just kicked two extra points. And I take my chances on,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: you know, I think it's a much more higher probability to,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: you know, probably miss both of them. than to either
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: miss one of your extra points. So it just doesn't
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: make sense to do that in that case. Unless you've
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: got a play that you just like... And I've seen
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: college teams do this. Like Oregon, I feel like, does
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: it a lot. We've got a play that they're not
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: going to stop. So we're going to do it, and
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: we're going to be up 8-0. They're just not stopping it.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: If the Cowboys have that, fine. I don't think the
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: pass to Turpin in the back of the end zone,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: who you've got to get it over the defender... And
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: then to Turpin, yeah, I don't see that being one
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: of them. I never answered Davion's question about Spanford and
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Ferguson as a tight end splitting time there. And to
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: be fair, they might already be there because there were
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: some 11 personnel plays where Spanford was the guy. So
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're that far away from that. If
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: you can make that work in a way where it
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: doesn't tip your hand too much, you know, like I
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: say this all the time. If Ferguson's going to be
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: on the field, he's going to have to block for
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: the run. And if Spanford's going to be on the field,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: he's going to have to go down the field and
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: make catches. You can't just have a, this isn't a
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: thunder lightning situation for tight end. They both have to
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: do what they do. And so it's not like you're
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: giving Ferguson a pass. He's going to have to block better.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: And Spanford's going to have to be a guy to
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: catch the ball down the field. But guess what? Ferguson
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: needs to do that too. because he hasn't been that
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: great at that either. So anyways, let's take our first
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: break here on Storyline. We'll be right back after this.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get back into the swing of this.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Keith in Fernandina Beach, Florida.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Hey, Nick, how are you?
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Good.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: What's up, man?
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: So, interesting place we are with our Dallas Cowboys right now.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: You know, I was watching a lot of football yesterday,
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: and I got a chance to see, for example, the
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: 49ers and the Seahawks. And the 49ers look incredible. And
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: they got a lot of injuries. But, man, that team
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: looks really formidable. And the one thing that the 49ers
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: have that we just don't have is continuity with their coaching.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: You know, when Jerry decided to hire Brian Schottenheimer, great.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: Sounds great. I mean, give the guy a chance because
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: everybody's got to start somewhere. And then one year after
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: one year, we were bringing in a brand-new defensive coordinator. well,
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: this is what we have to work with, and I
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: think we just got to give both of these guys
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: some time. I don't think anybody comes into the NFL
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: and just automatically lights it up as a coach. And
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: that's kind of the choice that the Cowboys have made. So,
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: you know, I was very disappointed with Thursday like everybody,
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: but I'm also going to play the long game because
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: it is truly a long season. And Maybe if we
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: get a little healthier and the defense starts to get
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: a little better, then maybe we've got better days ahead
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: of ourselves.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: All right. I mean, I'm with you. I think that's
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: a healthy outlook. Keith, the NFL showed us yesterday, they've
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: showed us all year, so that is possible. I mean,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: you're not too far away. You had some bad losses
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: here and there, and you come back the next game,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: and you look different. So as long as this team
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: is committed to doing that, and I think they will.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I think they've got enough veterans that can do that.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: But there's some big problems on this team on defense, too,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: that they've just got to get figured out. And you're
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: running out of time to kind of do that. I
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: say that you're running out of time. You know, I mean,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Washington and the Giants ran out of time right in
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: front of them. You know, and the Eagles didn't have
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: enough time either. So nobody in the NFC is running
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: away from anything.
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: All right. Every week.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: It's a little bit better every week.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: It's all we can do.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Nick.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Keith.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: You know, hey, Chris, I have a question for you,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: and you might know this, and I really haven't got
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: a good feeling on this. When the Eagles kicked the
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: field goal, and I'm not saying you were watching the game,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: but you might know this. Did the, did Jacksonville have
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: a timeout? Like, cause that's the big question is, you know,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: should they Philly have kicked it through the end zone?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: They kicked it short and they got a big, big return. Um,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: cause I was screaming that the whole time for the
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Cowboys of, of even, even before they did it, don't, don't,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: you know, kick this out of the end zone, go
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: down there and return it. Um, Did Philly have a timeout?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Did the Jaguars have a timeout? Because if they don't
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: have a timeout, then you do kick it out of
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the end zone. That's what Dallas should have done, just
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: kick it out of the end zone. But if Jacksonville
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: does have one, then they would have done the same
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: thing maybe that Flowers did to the Cowboys and all that.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: So that's the big question. Either way, bad things can
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: happen when you just have a few seconds on the
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: clock and, you know. It's funny that Cam Little, who
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: just missed an extra point for Jacksonville... ends up drilling
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: that kick.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Interesting enough, I remember Jacksonville didn't have their deep snapper.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: There was a guard or something like that. He did
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: pretty well during the game.
• 27:51
  Speaker 9: The one he missed, though, was really high and the
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: guy had to go up and get it down.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: That's the one they missed. Also, the game winner. The
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: game winner was high. He had to go up and
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: get it and break it down. That was crazy. I
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Let me speak to the Giants-Commanders game. I'll be honest.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I'm watching that game. Two things that I noticed, and
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: it was funny. First of all, I noticed, why is
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Cam Scadaboo, with no gloves, banging the wet turf there
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: in Washington? Why is he doing that out of excitement
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: and all that? You don't wear gloves. Why are you
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: doing that? That dude's going to fumble. Next play, maybe,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: or two plays later, fumbled, lost the chance to win
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: the game. Okay, you're wondering if who had a timeout?
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Jacksonville? Middle of the point. The second point
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: was that Washington was driving, and I'm watching that, and
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I'm like, they're not, this isn't adding up right. There's,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: wait a second, either, they need to either speed up,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Or slow down. What's happening here? And I'm literally seeing
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: this at about 38, 40 seconds. I'm like, this isn't
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: adding up right. Is that on the quarterback or the coach?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: What now? Is that on the quarterback or the coach?
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: Both.
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: Both.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: You should have said something in his ear. Say, okay,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: be quick. You know?
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: Right? Yeah.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, let's go to the phone lines. Rick
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: in Webster, Massachusetts.
• 29:31
  Speaker 9: Hey, Nick.
• 29:31
  Speaker 13: How you doing?
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 29:34
  Speaker 13: What's up?
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: No.
• 29:36
  Speaker 13: This story line, a group that we had, it was
• 29:38
  Speaker 13: in our thing. We were watching both those games and
• 29:40
  Speaker 13: talking about both the Philadelphia and the Giants and Manders game.
• 29:44
  Speaker 13: We were just like, after the thing was over with,
• 29:47
  Speaker 13: we're like, oh, wow. We're laughing. We're having a hilarious
• 29:52
  Speaker 13: time just talking about it. But no teams won, so
• 29:58
  Speaker 13: that was good for us. But all I can say
• 30:01
  Speaker 13: is as far as I don't think any of them
• 30:03
  Speaker 13: should be fired because you've got to give them a chance.
• 30:06
  Speaker 13: You've got to give them like if, you know, it's
• 30:08
  Speaker 13: bad defense. But, hey, just give them a chance to
• 30:12
  Speaker 13: see what he can do. He's been making changes and
• 30:15
  Speaker 13: there's not one working out. So let's just work to
• 30:17
  Speaker 13: see it. But the point was coming up was probably
• 30:22
  Speaker 13: having maybe taken some snaps from Ferguson and give them
• 30:28
  Speaker 13: to Spanford. They're still both on the field. They're still
• 30:31
  Speaker 13: both going to start, but just give more to Spanford
• 30:34
  Speaker 13: and less to Ferguson. As far as Bland and thing,
• 30:39
  Speaker 13: I think when JPJ comes back, he's done one side,
• 30:44
  Speaker 13: and you probably have Durant comes back, put Durant on
• 30:46
  Speaker 13: the other side and just have Bland sub in when
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: they need to. And Speed, a couple of the plays
• 30:53
  Speaker 13: I've seen, clips I've seen, Speed looks like he was
• 30:56
  Speaker 13: doing good against the Texans and against Tampa Bay, so
• 31:00
  Speaker 13: he would be another person that could get more time, too.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:03
  Speaker 13: Same with James Houston as well.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:06
  Speaker 13: But that's all I have for that. All right. I
• 31:10
  Speaker 13: think we can beat Green Bay. You know, we just
• 31:13
  Speaker 13: have to step up and show them what we can
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: do because they're coming off a high. So we can
• 31:19
  Speaker 13: go from there and go Cowboys. Talk to you later.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: All right, thanks, Rick. The one corner you didn't mention
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: was Revel, and he'll factor into that as well. There
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: are some people out there that feel like your best
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: corners are Joey Porter Jr. and Durant. Durant just hasn't
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: played long enough to kind of see that. He's been
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: banged up some as well. I mean, the Cowboys would
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: want it to be Revel. That's what they want. you know,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: to be the best one out there. But he just
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: hasn't been as consistent yet either, and none of them have.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, Joey Porter Jr. included because he's only played
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: one game, and he got sick for the next game.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: So there hasn't been any consistency at the cornerback position
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: with guys either. You know, Deron Bland hasn't been consistent
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: with his play. Revel and Durant haven't been consistent with
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: their health. Neither has Joey Porter Jr. So that's kind
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: of a problem. And then you talk about the pass rush.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: It hasn't been consistent with anybody. And they're all pretty
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: much healthy. And the linebackers haven't been consistent either. So
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: we're kind of finding out why this defense really hasn't
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: played well at all. All right, let's go to Allen, Clearwater, Florida.
• 32:49
  Speaker 9: Hey, good morning, Nick.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Good, good.
• 32:54
  Speaker 9: So a couple of things about today's show to chime
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: in on. Well, first, that caller that called before about
• 32:59
  Speaker 9: being in the 60s and watching those old cowboy games
• 33:03
  Speaker 9: with Ditka. Definitely, that's my era. And those memories are
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: pretty fond memories, even though there was some heartache there, too.
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: So I just want to say a shout out to
• 33:14
  Speaker 9: that caller. On your other two topics today, Overshawn, it's
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: funny that you brought this up about the idea of
• 33:23
  Speaker 9: safety because one of my favorite players of all times
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: is yours, Darren Woodson. And it's very interesting to me
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: that nobody has really found success taking a linebacker in
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: college and putting him in safety at.
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: The pro level.
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: I mean, Darren Woodson, maybe nobody... There's a reason for that.
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: I guess it's a very it's not as easy as
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: it looks when you have the right body type and
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: skill set. But if anybody, you know, I trust the
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: coaches that as much as I know about football, they
• 33:58
  Speaker 9: know more and they know about the talent. And you
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: pointed out that you don't think overshown. He may not
• 34:02
  Speaker 9: have the he may be fast. but he may not
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: have the speed. But if there was anything that would
• 34:07
  Speaker 9: get him on the field, what it looks like to me,
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: and in fact, I think he played safety his first
• 34:13
  Speaker 9: year or two at Texas, if I'm not mistaken, before
• 34:16
  Speaker 9: they moved him to linebacker. I would love to see
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: him in that position because to me, when I watch him,
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: his skill set would translate pretty well. And I think
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: he's got the right size. So I'd love to see
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: that happen. But again, they'll do it or they won't
• 34:34
  Speaker 9: do it based on what they think is best for
• 34:36
  Speaker 9: the team and whether he.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Can do it.
• 34:37
  Speaker 9: And the other point about the coaching is, of course,
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: I agree with you. You can't change at this point
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: in the season. Yes, it is bad, but we got
• 34:49
  Speaker 9: to stick with, this is the coach we brought in.
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: This is the bed we made. We have to try it.
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: And in my opinion, bringing in other players, is not
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: the answer. We have pass rushers. We have four pass
• 35:03
  Speaker 9: rushers on this team, good pass rushers, that have been
• 35:05
  Speaker 9: successful either at other levels or in other systems. We
• 35:09
  Speaker 9: have two defensive tackles that have been successful. We have
• 35:12
  Speaker 9: Deron Bland, who was a Pro Bowl player. We have
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: the pieces. In my opinion, it's pretty reasonable and rational
• 35:21
  Speaker 9: to conclude that that the lack of success on defense
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: is matching the players to the scheme. And I was
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: excited about a new scheme. He said he was going
• 35:29
  Speaker 9: to match his scheme to the talent that the team
• 35:32
  Speaker 9: had and they brought in talent. Clearly that's not working.
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: So what I'm waiting to see is the adjustment from
• 35:40
  Speaker 9: the coaching staff to put these players who I think have,
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: they're as good as anybody out there, put them in
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: a position to make plays, change the scheme and, And
• 35:50
  Speaker 9: if the players aren't able to do it, then you've
• 35:54
  Speaker 9: got to find new players. But you can't really do
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: that right now. So that's my two cents.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: All right, Alan. Appreciate the call. And, yes, I agree
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: with the timing of it. They're just going to have
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: to keep working, keep grinding. I mean, you don't just
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: try to. overall everything and i i don't even know
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: who's saying that is that if that's what people are
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: really saying that that they should change the defensive coordinator
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: right now like i i don't think that that's that's
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: what they're going to do um but you you know
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: you've still got a couple of you got two or
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: three games in a row here where you're gonna be
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: well i say two or three every game at this
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: point you're gonna be challenged i don't even want to
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: say it's just two or three i mean if If
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: you got challenged by Jalen Daniels and an 0-4 Tampa team,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: then every single game from here on out is going
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: to be a challenge for this team. They can expect that,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: and that includes Arizona at home, Tennessee at home, at Indianapolis,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: every game you can think of there. All right, let's
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  Speaker 1: To Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette, the official shave of
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: This last segment is brought to you by Yeti, officially
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  Speaker 2: and on Yeti.com. All right, Paul in North Carolina has
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  Speaker 2: been on the line. Paul, what's up?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Nick, first-time caller.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Go, Paul. What you got?
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: I've been a Cowboys fan now for 51 years, and
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you, Thursday night is my most
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: disappointing loss since maybe the catch. I don't know what's
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: going on with this team. My question to you is,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: is James Houston hurt?
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Why is he not playing?
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Why is he not on the field? When he's on
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: the field, it seems like to me he gets pressure
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: on the quarterback.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: He's not playing.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Because he's not a first-round draft pick, Paul.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Well, come on. Take the politics out of this. Let's
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: win some football.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: I'm with you. I was trying to be a little
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: sarcastic there. I think he's better than Malachi Lawrence right now.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: I think he gives you more, and um i'm with
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: i'm with you i mean i i definitely think you
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: you're on to something you're not the first one that
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: has said james houston's name today so yeah i'm with
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: you But seriously, since the catch, none of the other–
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Dez caught it. Romo dropped the snap. None of those
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: were the best.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, the Romo game and the Romo game,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: you know, yeah, it was tough. But the catch for me,
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: I was a young boy. And, you know, that is
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: the only football game that I cried about. And I
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: wanted to shed a tear this past Thursday night because
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: I just could not believe– the egg that they laid
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: against the Tampa Bay Bucs. I just couldn't.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: And you're right about it. And let's see, we're still
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: like at that early stage in the season of like,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: is this what the team is? And I think that's
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: where the big frustration was. It's like, if you can't
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: win this game, then you're not going to win a
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: lot of these others. And so, you know, you're not
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: saying the season's over, but it's like this, the hope
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: is really, it's tough to have, a lot of hope
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: for the season if you're losing a game like this.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: But we've seen it so many times. Let's just see
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: how they bounce back. They've got some tough ones. Two
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: road night games in a row against Green Bay and Philly.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, they want to beat you as bad as
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: you want to beat them. So you're going to have
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: to figure it out. Find a way like you found
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: a way in Houston. They're going to have to find
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: a way here in those games.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Also, at the end of the season or sometime, can
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: we send our coaches to some kind of seminar for
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: situational coaching or something?
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to sit right next to Dan Quinn.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: And John Harbaugh.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: That's what's going to happen.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: They're going to be like, all right, you guys are here.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: We've got 32 coaches here tonight, you know?
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, I say that, and I don't know about
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: John Harbaugh. He's pretty good at it. But, I mean,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: and I don't mean to say it like everyone does it,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: but it is a problem around the league. I mean,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: it's a problem. And it's not just the Cowboys' problem,
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: as we saw. It's shocking to me, really, how it
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: goes down to it. But, all right, thanks for the call, Paul.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. Good to have you calling us.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Make sure and call back.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: No doubt.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: What I wonder is, and they have, you know, the
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Cowboys have a guy and the other teams have a
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: situational guy. I just wonder what kind of experience those
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: people have doing it. That's my biggest thing because it's not–
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: it can't just be analytics. It just can't be because
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: the analytics can't tell you the same, okay, this is
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: the plan. But what about when your deep snapper is
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: out and you're on your second deep snapper or what–
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: just different factors in the game. There is a human
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: element in this that has to be– so it has
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: to be a combination. And I'm fine with analytics. But
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: I also want it to be somebody that's actually coached, scouted, played,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: maybe a little bit of everything. So that's what I
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: wonder is the one that's in the coach's ear, what
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: experience they have. Let's go one more caller here. Ronnie
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: in New Jersey. Ronnie, what's up?
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: Hey, Nick.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: How you doing?
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Hey, good, Ronnie.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: Uh, Nick, the one thing that I keep on seeing
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: that hasn't changed, and it seems like, I don't know
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: why it's not going to change, is that everybody says
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: we're inconsistent. We're inconsistent.
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: No, no, no, no.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: We're consistent. We're consistent at being inconsistent.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: Whenever it's like these type of teams that we're going
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: to play... I wasn't even mad. I went to sleep
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: around the second quarter because I was like, we're going
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: to lose. I've seen it before. I know the story.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: It plays out the same way. So I went to bed.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: When I woke up, I wasn't surprised.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: I'm like, we lost.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it figures. I think everybody's putting blame on the
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: defensive coordinator. I don't think it's him. Yeah, he had
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: a couple of bad calls versus the Ravens, but... If
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: you see the players, he's putting them in the right spot.
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: They're just either the defensive ends are crashing in when
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: they should be staying outside. I mean, it's on the players.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Most of this is on the players. That's what I'm
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: seeing from seeing the game. I want to see your
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: point of view because I would like to hear what
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: your point of view is because that's what I see
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: when you watch the film. Man, he's putting them in
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: the right spot. He blitzed Barham. Barham missed the tackle.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: The running back goes by Barham, and then he goes
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: by our just recently acquired defensive tackle from the Jets.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's putting them in the right spot. Are they,
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: you know, is the scheme great? I don't think so.
• 44:12
  Speaker 11: Not yet.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: But you've got to give these guys time. Remember, you've
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: got to yell. You've got to get them to play
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: together for a while before you start seeing some type
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: of change.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: So you're saying we need a little bit more patience.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: From the guy that turned off the TV at halftime
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: of the game the Cowboys were winning. Cowboys were winning
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: that game at halftime, and you turned it off. So
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: just tell me you had to get up at 4 a.m.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: and your job and all that because— I actually— I did.
• 44:39
  Speaker 11: I did.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: But at the same time, I knew the outcome. I
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: saw the way they were playing offensively. Shoddy's got to
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: stop playing. Listen, Bill Purcells, when we have Bill Purcells,
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: and not to sound like one of those guys, but
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: when we have Bill Purcells, what did he do when
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: he had a bad defense, when he knew his defense
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: was struggling? He will run the ball, shorten the game.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: That's what you got to do. If you're a good coach,
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: if you're a smart coach like Shadi pretends to be, bro,
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: stop passing. This ain't Madden. Run the ball. Shorten the game.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: If you know they're going to try to play keep away,
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: you play keep away. You keep your defense fresh. You
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: keep your new defensive coordinator. Give them a lead. Give
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: them a real good lead. Shorten the game. That's my
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: point of view, Nick. All right. Sounds good.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: That's a great plan. And I'm not saying you're wrong
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: at all. It doesn't add up to when you have
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: a situation when you have a pass catching tight end
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: that makes $ 12 million a year. You have a receiver
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: that makes $ 34 million, one makes $ 27 million. and a
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: quarterback makes 60, you're going to throw the ball around.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: But the ball control offense to help your defense is
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: not wrong. And if there's a way that they can
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: figure out to do both of this, I think that's
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: what definitely needs to happen. All right, guys, we're going
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: to call it a show on this one. We'll be
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: back tomorrow to do it all over again. So for
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. See you next time on
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys Storyline.
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