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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning. Welcome to Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette. I'm
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  Speaker 4: Nick Eatman. It is Tuesday, October the 20th. Let's hear
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  Speaker 4: from you guys. What's on your mind? Cowboys. Brian Schottenheimer
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  Speaker 4: says he's pissed off. Says the players are pissed off.
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  Speaker 4: I know this. The fans are pissed off. I'm pretty
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  Speaker 4: sure about that. I don't know about all the callers
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  Speaker 4: that are going to call in if they're how pissed
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  Speaker 4: off they are, but they are. So, cool. Glad everyone's
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  Speaker 4: on the same page with that.
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  Speaker 5: 888-855-2297.
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  Speaker 4: Let's figure out how the Cowboys can get back on track.
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  Speaker 4: not be so upset with things. Nothing cures a bad
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  Speaker 4: situation or bad feeling than beating the Eagles. I know that.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's go to the phone lines. Chris in
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  Speaker 4: Saratoga Springs is first. What's up?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Chris.
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  Speaker 7: What's up, Nick?
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  Speaker 8: Hope you're doing better today than yesterday. I know it
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  Speaker 8: was a tough day to answer calls from us when
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  Speaker 8: we lose like that.
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  Speaker 4: That's all right. Part of it is all good.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 8: My call today, it's solution Tuesday for me.
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  Speaker 6: Here's what I want the Dallas offense to do. For me,
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  Speaker 6: it's obvious.
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  Speaker 8: They need to run the ball. We need to be
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  Speaker 8: more balanced. I would love to see Dak under center
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  Speaker 8: a little bit more, and I would love for Shottie
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  Speaker 8: to start using Hunter Lemke more as a fullback. even
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  Speaker 8: maybe some of you mentioned yesterday, Overton. But we need
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  Speaker 8: to use some of those interior lines to start moving
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  Speaker 8: people off the ball. We need to run the ball.
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  Speaker 8: That's number one. Number two, my second solution would be
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  Speaker 8: we need to move George Pickens around more to get
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  Speaker 8: him involved early in the game. We can't keep waiting
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  Speaker 8: until the second half to get him going. He needs
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  Speaker 8: to be involved in the game a little bit more early.
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  Speaker 8: Those are my two main points. And I do want
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  Speaker 8: to give out a shout-out to somebody who was getting
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  Speaker 8: a lot of shade the last couple weeks around Bland.
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  Speaker 8: I thought he played much better last week. And I
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  Speaker 8: think with having Joey Porter there and Bland covering the
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  Speaker 8: number two wide receiver, I think that's going to be
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  Speaker 8: huge for him, and it's going to help Dallas' defense
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  Speaker 8: moving forward. That's all I got for today. And, again,
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  Speaker 8: thanks for taking our calls and putting up with us.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we get a little upset sometimes, but that's
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  Speaker 8: what fans do.
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  Speaker 4: No, I appreciate it. Thanks, Chris. Yeah, you were a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, you know, I wouldn't say– sad or upset
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  Speaker 4: but i could tell the frustration was kind of there
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  Speaker 4: but you know what i would ask all the time
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  Speaker 4: is is hey uh let's don't just say uh blow
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  Speaker 4: it up you know this you know this this team
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  Speaker 4: sucks and then they're not going to do this and
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  Speaker 4: let's talk about the draft and all that kind of
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  Speaker 4: stuff i mean so much more football to play so
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  Speaker 4: i appreciate calls like this to say all right let's
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  Speaker 4: let's have some solutions this is what i would do
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  Speaker 4: uh run the ball I agree. You know, I looked
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  Speaker 4: at some of the stats. We have a mailbag question.
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  Speaker 4: Why can't they run? What's the problem? You know, they
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  Speaker 4: have all this talent. Why can't they run? And my
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  Speaker 4: answer to the question that should be on the website
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  Speaker 4: now is it's a commitment thing. I don't think that
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  Speaker 4: they can't run. They may not be great at it, but,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Javante Williams ranks 17th in the league in
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  Speaker 4: rushing right now, you know, as far as lead backs go. So,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's just ranked 17th. So when you think
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  Speaker 4: about everybody's got a lead running back, then, you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's right there in the middle. Now the Cowboys are
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  Speaker 4: last in attempts per game running the ball at 20.
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  Speaker 4: So that I think it's the issue. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: think if they continue to run and, you know, look,
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  Speaker 4: look at Green Bay, Green Bay, they couldn't run it
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  Speaker 4: against the Cowboys and they averaged 2.2 yards, but they, they,
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  Speaker 4: you know, now they were winning and I understand that,
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  Speaker 4: that point, but Still, they kind of had more of
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  Speaker 4: a commitment to it. And, you know, what does that
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  Speaker 4: do really well? To me, it's the play action. Well,
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  Speaker 4: if you're going to throw it 32 times in a row,
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  Speaker 4: what does play action do? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: It's like you're faking it. It's not even there.
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  Speaker 3: Anyways.
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  Speaker 4: And then move pickings around. I like that. get the
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  Speaker 4: ball in his hands, get him going, get him, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because he's that type of player. He is that kind
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  Speaker 4: of player when he's got, when he's feeling good and
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  Speaker 4: doing his stuff and all his little moves that he
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  Speaker 4: does and all that, you know, he's got to get
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  Speaker 4: in the rhythm. And he hasn't been, especially in the
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  Speaker 4: first half, in a while. So I like both of
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  Speaker 4: those moves, and I think both of them would be
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  Speaker 4: very beneficial because they kind of play off each other too.
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  Speaker 4: If you get Pickens going, get him in the move,
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  Speaker 4: you're also running the ball a little bit. I'm definitely
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  Speaker 4: fine with that. And you said something about Deron Bland. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I thought Bland played better, and Joey Porter certainly helps
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  Speaker 4: with that. I kind of like it of just playing
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  Speaker 4: their sides, you know, sometimes. Now, if you want to
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  Speaker 4: move them around and have somebody follow a guy, that's fine.
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  Speaker 4: That means Bland's following number two and Porter's following the
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  Speaker 4: number one, whatever. But I like playing the sides, too,
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  Speaker 4: because if a team doesn't want– their guy to play
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  Speaker 4: against Joey Porter, then they're going to have to be
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  Speaker 4: the one to change. They're going to have to rotate
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  Speaker 4: their guys a little bit or say, all right, let's
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  Speaker 4: move this here. Because if you're just going to say, well,
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  Speaker 4: whatever you do, we'll do, then that kind of plays
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  Speaker 4: into what an offense that they probably feel like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: we're pretty confident in what we've got, and so whoever's
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  Speaker 4: covering us is covering us. But, you know, if you
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  Speaker 4: keep guys on the same side all the time, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: then that might dictate what they want to do also.
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  Speaker 4: Let's say Porter's always over here. Well, now the receiver's
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  Speaker 4: going to move over here. So I just think it's
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  Speaker 4: a cat and mouse game. It's not something, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's not a perfect science there. But I think having
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  Speaker 4: Porter there does give some of the other, you know,
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  Speaker 4: players a chance to be better. And I'm not saying
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  Speaker 4: Porter's Deion Sanders. But, I mean, we saw it. Deion
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  Speaker 4: was here. All of a sudden, Larry Brown became a
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  Speaker 4: better player. And I think Deron Bland is going to
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  Speaker 4: be a better player. Derek in Springfield, Missouri.
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  Speaker 5: Derek.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, how's it going, Nick?
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  Speaker 9: Good.
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  Speaker 4: How are you doing? It's been a little bit.
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  Speaker 10: Pretty good. It has been a long time. When I
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  Speaker 10: call all the time, I can never get in. Last
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  Speaker 10: time I talked to you, we were going through the
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  Speaker 10: Micah trade. So, anyway, I'll be quick. I just got
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  Speaker 10: a couple things.
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  Speaker 4: Dave, here we go, just because it's been a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: So, Hey, um, a couple of things, um, uh, James Houston,
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  Speaker 10: I think he needs to be on the field. I
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  Speaker 10: think other than clowning, it was your best pass rusher
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  Speaker 10: last year. He got home, got to the quarterback, um,
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  Speaker 10: pretty regularly, um, when he had the opportunities. And so
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  Speaker 10: that's one point I wanted to make. I think Von
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  Speaker 10: Miller needs to get off the field. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 10: great guy, great player, hall of famer, but not in Dallas.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: Um, And then I know the defense improved a little bit,
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  Speaker 10: but do you think that we could, instead of trying
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  Speaker 10: to disguise so much on defense, could we just try
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  Speaker 10: to simplify this thing until everybody gets on the same
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  Speaker 10: page and everybody gets back healthy, you know?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe trying a little hard to just disguise stuff and
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  Speaker 10: trick the other team, and maybe you're tricking yourself, you know?
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  Speaker 6: And then.
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  Speaker 10: One other point I want to make or question or favor,
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  Speaker 10: I guess, is, dude, go up to Shottie this week
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  Speaker 10: for me and just have him go watch the Chiefs
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  Speaker 10: game last year on Thanksgiving and tell him to do
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  Speaker 10: that with Pickens, what we did in that game with Pickens.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, get that guy running slants and get the
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  Speaker 10: ball in his hands and let him work. I mean,
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  Speaker 10: that guy's the best in the NFL when he has
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  Speaker 10: the ball in his hands on a slant route, in
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  Speaker 10: my opinion.
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  Speaker 9: So I love a deep.
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  Speaker 3: Ball to Pickens.
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  Speaker 10: He can draw those PIs. But, I mean, dude, let's
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  Speaker 10: get him running across the formation. Let's get the ball
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  Speaker 10: in his hands quick, you know. Fangio's going to blitz
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  Speaker 10: just as much as these other two teams have in
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  Speaker 10: your last two games. Get the ball out.
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  Speaker 7: Anyway, have a good day.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for your time.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Derek. Don't disagree with that. I think it
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  Speaker 4: is time to see, you know, somebody, I mean, like,
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  Speaker 4: James Houston has been solid, and there's some times where
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  Speaker 4: he's been pretty good. And he's just sitting there, and
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  Speaker 4: he's not doing anything, and he's not a lot worse
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  Speaker 4: than the guys that are out there. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 4: just the simple facts of it. I mean, these guys
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  Speaker 4: aren't doing anything. And so if you're going to keep
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  Speaker 4: tweaking stuff, this could be one. That could be one
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  Speaker 4: thing that you do. Two callers now. Two callers think
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  Speaker 4: that we need to move Pickens around and get the
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  Speaker 4: ball in his hand, do it quickly, and I'm with you.
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  Speaker 4: You've got to feed that monster. He can be. He
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  Speaker 4: can be a monster. You've just got to feed him.
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  Speaker 4: That's the case in situations like that. I think that
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  Speaker 4: you're paying $ 27 million for this guy as a franchise tag.
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  Speaker 4: He's playing for a contract too, but and CD's benefited
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  Speaker 4: from some things, but I don't think teams are doing
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  Speaker 4: things crazy different this year. I still feel like you
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  Speaker 4: just can't do everything. You just can't. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not trying to name drop, but it's always fun to
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  Speaker 4: talk to Darren. I talked to Darren this morning, and
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  Speaker 4: we were talking about some stuff. I'm trying to get
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  Speaker 4: him back here on the show at some point, and
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  Speaker 4: he was just like, he's a, you know, And he
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  Speaker 4: even said something. He goes, I hadn't seen all the games.
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  Speaker 4: because you you know more than me and i'm like
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  Speaker 4: no i don't think so i don't think so at
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  Speaker 4: all but he's but he was like he was just
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  Speaker 4: saying that because he doesn't he's not watching a lot
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  Speaker 4: but he's like you just can't cover every i'm i'm
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  Speaker 4: believe me i've been there you cannot blitz all the
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  Speaker 4: time and take away two great receivers you can't it's
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  Speaker 4: impossible so that's from a hall of fam i'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: call him hall of fam because he is until the
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  Speaker 4: They get their head out of it. You know what?
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  Speaker 4: He's going to be a Hall of Famer. And if
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  Speaker 4: a Hall of Famer says you can't cover everybody, then
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  Speaker 4: you can't. So then it's back on the offense. Figure
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  Speaker 4: out how to do it right because, you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: just stuff left on the table. All right, Dylan in Northport, Florida.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, yeah, you're 100% correct there. You know, we have
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  Speaker 11: a pretty large sample size of this coach as a
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  Speaker 11: play caller. I was the deck throughout his career, the receivers,
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  Speaker 11: all that. I'm confident that, you know, we'll be more
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  Speaker 11: of what we had been before versus what we've seen
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  Speaker 11: the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: But they do have to.
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  Speaker 11: Figure out the situation versus the blitz. And something Schottenheimer
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  Speaker 11: pointed out was their teams are crowd and line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 11: They're killing these run plays that they're calling in favor
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  Speaker 11: of these pass plays. And at a certain point, you've
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  Speaker 11: just got to put your you-know-what on the table and say, no,
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  Speaker 11: I'm going to do what I want to do. If
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  Speaker 11: I'm calling a run, you can use misdirections like counters.
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  Speaker 7: You can do draws.
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  Speaker 11: If you could execute a screen, screens are great, but
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  Speaker 11: apparently we can't do that. We haven't done a successful
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  Speaker 11: one since Teddy Roosevelt was president, I don't think.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Dorsett ran the last good screen here.
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  Speaker 11: I don't understand that. It's not that difficult. I mean,
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  Speaker 11: the receivers can't block, so that sucks. But at some point,
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  Speaker 11: you've got to execute something in that realm. But you
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  Speaker 11: don't have to completely abandon what you want to do
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  Speaker 11: because the defense is dictating to you what you should
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  Speaker 11: be doing. Um, so I'd like to see them stick
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  Speaker 11: with that, you know, more often. And you're even seeing
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  Speaker 11: like green Bay was bailing out of the blitz. Like
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  Speaker 11: they will travel on a scrimmage. Dak would kill the play.
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  Speaker 11: And all of a sudden they're only sending four guys.
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  Speaker 11: So it's not even a blitz. They're just playing this
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  Speaker 11: chess game masterfully on the defensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 11: And I think, you know, the play caller and the quarterback,
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  Speaker 11: whatever that, that relationship is, they're, they're just kind of
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  Speaker 11: taking the cheese and, and, uh, Unfortunately, they've got to
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  Speaker 11: put their stuff out there and just do what they
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  Speaker 11: want to do at some point in time.
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  Speaker 4: Dylan, I'm going to ask you a question. I know
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  Speaker 4: you had another point, but I was going to ask
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  Speaker 4: you one. You're a captain. So Derek from Springfield, Missouri,
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  Speaker 4: he was like, hey, simplify this defense. Simplify it. Try
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  Speaker 4: to get too cute and all that stuff. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to ask you, do you think does that work
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  Speaker 4: in your mind to simplify the defense and just kind
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  Speaker 4: of run it basic, or do you feel like teams
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  Speaker 4: with a hundred coaches and analytics guys just would feed
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  Speaker 4: off into that and, and have a field day.
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  Speaker 11: We saw it really simple last year and you saw
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  Speaker 11: quarterbacks around 400 yards a week on us because it
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  Speaker 11: was too simple.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 11: So I don't want to see it simplified. In fact,
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  Speaker 11: they spent the entire training camp and off season getting
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  Speaker 11: guys and, and putting in the work to make this,
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  Speaker 11: you know, we talk about multiple all the time and
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  Speaker 11: being able to do different things. And, I think injuries
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  Speaker 11: have forced them out of their ability to do that somewhat.
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  Speaker 11: You know, this last thing that put Downs back into
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  Speaker 11: the slot, I don't think he needs to be a
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  Speaker 11: full-time slot guy. I think he was there too much
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  Speaker 11: this week. But, you know, we saw a lot of
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  Speaker 11: double mug looks and guys coming off the edge, like
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  Speaker 11: Barham and stuff during camp. And I feel like we've
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  Speaker 11: seen that here and there, but it just hasn't worked
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  Speaker 11: for one way or another. I'll tell you one thing
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  Speaker 11: I do want to see, Nick, defensively. Can we, like,
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  Speaker 11: get somebody out in the flat at some point in time?
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  Speaker 11: I mean, these running backs, you get impression of the quarterback,
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  Speaker 11: all of a sudden the running back is over there,
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  Speaker 11: and there ain't a guy around him for 12 yards
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  Speaker 11: on third down. That's where I'm confused.
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  Speaker 4: That's getting comical, and it's not funny.
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 4: It's the same thing. It's the running back in the
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  Speaker 4: flat to the left. It's almost like the Cowboys are
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  Speaker 4: just not allowed over there. You know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 4: I can't go there. You know what I mean? That's
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  Speaker 4: like the kids zone. I'm too old. I can't go.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I don't know what's going on. But every time
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  Speaker 4: that happens, they just kind of motion a guy over
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  Speaker 4: there and it's like, ah, there he is.
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  Speaker 5: Can't go.
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  Speaker 11: And then you flip it offensively for us. And it's like,
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  Speaker 11: they're beating our blitz that way. Why can't we do
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  Speaker 11: that to them? Oh, because their guy recognized the play
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  Speaker 11: immediately from the linebacker position and went and made the
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  Speaker 11: tackle two yards behind the line of scrimmage. So that
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  Speaker 11: should be a play.
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  Speaker 7: Pathetically.
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  Speaker 11: But we can't, and other teams are, and our guys
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  Speaker 11: are way out of position.
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  Speaker 7: So, yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 11: I don't want to make it more simple on defense
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  Speaker 11: because that was kind of the whole point of this
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  Speaker 11: offseason was to not do that and to confuse the
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  Speaker 11: opposing quarterbacks and stuff. But they do need to figure
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  Speaker 11: some stuff out. I do think Joey Porter helps in
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  Speaker 11: that realm. And, you know, you've got a guy that
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  Speaker 11: can just man up on his side of the field
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  Speaker 11: and I can do, you know, whatever you want with downs.
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  Speaker 11: and whoever else there. So I think, you know, adding
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  Speaker 11: Porter helps in that realm, but yeah, no, I got
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  Speaker 11: to keep sending blitzes. I like to see Dallas do
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  Speaker 11: more of what like green Bay and Tampa Bay did
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  Speaker 11: this week. I like to see them send more blitzes
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  Speaker 11: and incredible line of scrimmage and make the quarterbacks guess
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  Speaker 11: who who's coming, who's going, but I'm not sure if we'll,
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  Speaker 11: we'll see that this season or not.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Dylan. Appreciate the call overshown should be back
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: this week. And you know, which is, it's not like,
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: you're getting another player back. You're basically just, I mean,
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: he's just replacing now D winners because D winners is hurt.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: D winners, the only guy who can catch the ball
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: on defense and do a lot more than that. You know,
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: you have to put them on offense the way he
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: was running, running that back. But Overshawn's a guy that
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: I think can be disruptive. We've seen it. We've seen blitz.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: We've seen him make some plays there. So, you know, that,
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: that might be a situation that gives them a different,
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: you know, different dynamic. And you mentioned Joey Porter jr. And,
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: You know, I think Devontae Smith is, I think he
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: was playing last week, so he should still be fine.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: I don't know much about what the Eagles have going on.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously, they're a huge story that I see
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: right now on NFL Network, and everyone's talking about the
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts situation. We talked about that yesterday. It's scary
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: for him, and, you know, hopefully he will be okay,
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: and I, you know, I hope he comes back to
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: play football. I mean, for sure. And I think he will.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not, I don't know. I don't know
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: the whole situation here, but, uh, hopefully he will. He's a,
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: he's a really good player. Um, but, um, moving to
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: the game, you know, they, they, they got backups and
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, is it McKee? And then I think after that, um,
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Joe Milton, but, uh, we'll see. I mean, Cowboys got
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: their own problems going on and they, they've, they've let some,
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: some guys that haven't been that great and turned them
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: into good players, so they've got their own things to
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: figure out. All right, Jeremy in Salt Lake is next.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Hey, what's going on, Nick?
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: How you doing?
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: I'm a little better today than I was yesterday. I'm
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: probably glad I got in today and not yesterday because
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: you probably kicked me off the air for what I
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: had to say. I mean, I don't want to turn
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: this into too much of an echo chamber. We all
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: kind of have the same kind of opinions. I mean,
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: it was ridiculous. The thing is, is it, it was,
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: it got painful to watch on Sunday. Do you know
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: what I mean? And I feel like when shoddy starts
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: to panic, it's, it seeps into the whole team. I mean,
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: you know, your leader, their coach for a reason.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: And when you always hear the old adage, you know,
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: a team takes on, you know, the personality of his
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: coach and, And I feel like he panics in game times.
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: And I don't know if it's because of all the
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: other responsibilities that come as a head coach. And I'm
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: not saying that I necessarily, maybe if he wasn't the
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: head coach, he'd be better at calling plays. But, you know,
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: obviously it's different for every team and every organization. But
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: this thing of having these guys, these head coaches call plays, dude,
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: it just always seems like, You have bad clock management.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: You saw it last night in Washington. I don't know
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: if Dan Quinn calls his own plays, but, I mean,
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: so many of these head coaches that were good coordinators
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: don't make good head coaches on game day because of
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: their clock management and their dumb, you know, emotional. And
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: I just feel like that's what we got caught into.
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: We got caught into a bunch of emotions, you know,
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: passing 32 times. It's like, you know, when you start beating–
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: your your kid or your little brother at madden dude
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: and they start you know sorry yeah when you're beating
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: your kid at madden dude and you start crying and
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: getting pissed off and throwing it 32 times you know
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: what i mean that's kind of how it felt and
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: to all of us fans watching i just i don't
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: understand how there's not more emotional awareness and that coaching
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: staff to be like, hey, man, you are running with knives, bro.
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: You need to chill the heck out and run the
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: ball and just, you know, at some point it comes
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: down to blocking and tackling. I mean, that's a phrase
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: we use in the business world, right?
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Wait, you were worse yesterday?
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I was.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, man. Man, you're on fire today. So, all right.
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: Simple blocking and tackling, right? We call that in the
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: business world the price of admission, the basic things that
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: come along with the job. That's where we're getting beat
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: the most, and it just pisses me off. That's why
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: everybody's the same way. I'll let somebody else get on.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: Thanks for the opportunity, and go Cowboys.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: All right. Thanks for the call, Jeremy. Yeah, I mean,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: you know, There are some basic elements here that Cowboys
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: certainly need to do much better. And, you know, do
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: you simplify it? And that's the biggest key. The biggest
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: thing to do for a defensive coordinator, I say it
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: all the time, it's probably the hardest thing to do.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: And it's not just defense, it's offensive coordinator. It's figure
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: out ways to simplify it for your own players to
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: understand without anything. every other coach and opposing team and
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: player also figuring it out as well. You know, figure
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: it out how to be complicated to them and simple
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: for your own players. That is probably the biggest thing,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: the most difficult challenge for any coach, especially in the NFL.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: And that's, you know, that's what the good ones are
• 20:26
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• 20:28
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  Speaker 4: slash NFL. All right, let's go to Lester. He's in Minnesota, Lester.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Lester.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Good morning, Nick.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Good morning.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: That wasn't a very good game the other day.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: No?
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: I'm upset about that, of course, but I want to
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: ask you a question. Our left guard, how long has
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: he been there? Three, four years? I'm not sure.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I think this is his fifth season. He hasn't
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: always been a left guard. Are you talking about Tyler Smith? Yeah,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Tyler Schmidt, I think, is his fifth year in the league.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: Fourth year at guard, I believe.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: Okay, so I'm going to go back to an old
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: rant that I had.
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Terrence Steele. Now, I remember before we even got left guard,
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: left tackle, first left guard, I was saying move Steele
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: to left guard. Had we done that, And we're still
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: talking about Steele. Is he a problem? Is he this?
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Is he that?
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: Maybe he's good, maybe not, maybe this, that, whatever. Had
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: we done that before we got our left guard now,
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: he would probably be a left guard and he'd probably
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: be off the team still. And we would have had
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: our left tackle at that point because at first, like
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: you said, he played left tackle. So we're still talking
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: about Steele against. We need to do something about him.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: I mean, make him a swing tackle or something. I
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: don't know what we need to do. I'm not a coach,
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: but we're still talking about him. Check the tape. I
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: said this before we got Tyler. So, anyway, I'm not
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: going to get off into that so much. Just to
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: put it in perspective about the passes we're talking about,
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: about the game the other day.
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: Actually, this is the prospectus.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: After we scored the touchdown, the running touchdown, we threw
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: the ball 37 out of 38 times. I know you
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: guys have been saying 32 in a row, but it
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: was actually worse than that. It was 37 out of
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: 38 times. That's way, way too many, man. You know
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: I'm a run guy. I mean, so we need to,
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: as everyone's been saying, I agree, we need to get
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: some balance here. And as far as people have been
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: talking about pickings, I agree we should be able to
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: get them the ball a little bit more, a little
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: bit earlier. But we need balance as well. Because I
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: was watching the game the other day. Ajigma, I think
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: that's his name, for Seattle. He's the only receiver. Well,
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: he's not the only receiver, but he's their best top receiver.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: And they were doubling him. They were bracketing him. They
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: were doubling him. They were doing a lot of things.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: And they still threw the ball to himself. 14 times,
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: and he called 11 passes. Now, come on, you got
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: two guys like Ajima.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: No, you don't.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: You really don't, though. That's the problem, though. You really
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: don't have two guys like him. I think you have.
• 25:11
  Speaker 14: One, maybe.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry. You have two very good receivers. They're not
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: exactly like him, no.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: Let me clarify that.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: All I'm saying, Lester.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: Two very good receivers. You should be able to get
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: them the ball. especially when people are blitzing.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: You're right.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: I'm not in the meetings.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: I don't know exactly what their plan is. I watched
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: the tape. It seemed like Pickens was open a few
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: times and Dak missed him. I know it's fast and everything.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: I play football myself. But, I mean, come on, man.
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: You got two of them.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: True.
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: You can stay to get.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: The ball to them.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: No, you're right. You're right. All right. All right, Lester.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Appreciate the call. I'm going to talk about both these
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: points that you mentioned. Thank you for the call.
• 26:01
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks, man.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Have a good one. You know, and the only reason,
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: and I'm not arguing with you about, they have two really,
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: really good receivers, two of the best in the NFL,
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: and they've got to figure out how to get them
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: the ball. There's no doubt about that. The only reason
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: I'm saying that about Seattle, Jackson, Smith, and Jig, but
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: he's special because just of how you line him up
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: and where he is and where you can double team him,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: but then you can put him kind of off the
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: line a little bit. The value of players that can
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: play multiple spots is very, very strong. If you've got
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: guys that can line up in just about every spot
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: on the field, that makes you so much more valuable.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: And so Pickens doesn't do that as much. C.D.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: Can.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: And, you know, that's why he can have a 17
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: catch game and things like that, because you're just putting
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: them all over the place. Jerry Rice was the best
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: in the history of the NFL. He may be the
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: best football player to ever play. He's certainly the best receiver.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: And he could play everywhere. You know, he could play everywhere.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: So that's kind of the standard on that kind of stuff.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: And so If they had that a little bit more
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: where you had multiple players that can do that, I
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: think they'd be even more valuable. And then the Terrence
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Steele part, you know, you want to put him at guard.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: It seems out of position to me. But, you know,
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: I think Tyler Smith needs to be playing guard. I
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: think he's a really good player there. And obviously Tyler
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Booker too. But, you know, talking about the running the ball,
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: 37 out of 38 or even 40 out of 41
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: of passes to end the game. You know, Terrence Steele's
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: a better run blocker, I think, than he is a
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: pass blocker. And these guys, all of them are. And,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: you know, Tyler Booker, Tyler Smith, you know, Beebe, they
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: like to run block. And so I think it plays
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: to their strength a little bit more, too. So I
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: think that's where the balance is. These guys are, I mean,
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: they're probably gassed, too, having to pass block that many
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: times in a row. You know, they don't mind going
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: forward and leaning on people. I think that would be one.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: It's not only balance, but it also helps everybody out
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: and puts them in positions that they're better when they're
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: run blocking. All right, let's go to Don in Philly.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: Hello.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Hey, Don.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Hey, how you doing, Nick?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Good, what's up? Oh, man, shoot.
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: Well, I was at that game, that Tampa Bay game
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: Thursday night. Sorry.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: I really was embarrassed.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: I was embarrassed.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: So let me.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Get to something.
• 28:34
  Speaker 15: Let's go to our head coach.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Shottie, because I really like Shottie. And when they moved.
• 28:40
  Speaker 15: On from Mike McCarthy, I was like, wow, he's a
• 28:42
  Speaker 15: good coach.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to move on from Mike. But then
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: they brought Shottie in. I felt like, okay, it's some
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: familiarity with him and Dak. Let's go with it. Let's
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: keep it in-house a little bit. But now I'm starting
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: to question Shottie now because– Okay, they told us this
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: was going to be Gotti, the greatest offense there is.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: But then the very first series in the season, we
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: get a.
• 29:06
  Speaker 15: Fourth and inches, and Shottie.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Fakes like he's going to go for it and tries
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: to draw them all sides. And then the Giants were
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: celebrating when he did that. And I think you set
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: the mentality for this team that we're just going to
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: be average. We're just going to settle. I didn't like
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: that decision. That throws the ball up in the air,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: and the guy catches the ball and slides out of balance.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Nobody questioned that because we've seen him do it before.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: He threw it up in the air last.
• 29:32
  Speaker 15: Year, and the receiver caught.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: It for us. But we let it ride.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Man, I don't like the direction.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I don't like the.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Mentality that this team has. It's like it's okay. That
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Baltimore game, that just.
• 29:46
  Speaker 15: Threw the damn— oh, excuse me.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: He threw the ball away, and there was a chance
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: for Pickens to catch it. And he just gave up
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: on the play. He got mad at Shottie for whatever
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Shottie said to him. Okay. And then another thing I
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: want to get to. Do you see what George Pickens
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: is doing? When he comes out the huddle, everybody knows
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: what the play is because if it's going.
• 30:07
  Speaker 15: To him, he puts that mouthpiece in. If it's not
• 30:09
  Speaker 15: going to him, he leaves the mouthpiece out. If I
• 30:12
  Speaker 15: can see that, don't you think these NFL scouts and teams,
• 30:15
  Speaker 15: other teams see that?
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I even seen Pickens quit on a couple of routes. Like,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the ball ain't going to him.
• 30:21
  Speaker 15: If he's got the first read, then he kind of
• 30:24
  Speaker 15: gives up. And I like Pickens, but.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Man, oh, man, this is getting bad, man. This is
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: getting bad.
• 30:30
  Speaker 15: I'm going to let you go, man, but.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: All right, Don. I appreciate it. Well, you're fired up.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: I don't think you could be a Cowboy fan in
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: Philly and not be. You have to be, right? It
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: sounded like a wrestling promo, man. You were getting into it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: And just kind of goes through the whole season, too.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, we're moving along this season, six games in,
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: going into week seven. But the very first, I mean,
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: you're talking about the fourth play of the season. And
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: I agree. I said it then. I'm saying it now.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: It set the tone of that game. And so far,
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: it hasn't really changed the tone of the season. they
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: don't want to run it. They don't have as much
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: confidence there. Now, Tyler Smith wasn't there, but, I mean,
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: let's just be honest. I mean, they've been better. I
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: hate to say this. This is just the cold facts
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: of it. They've been better the first four games than
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: they have been the last two, right? That's a fact.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: They're averaging 30 points a game, and now they've scored
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: 29 in two weeks. Tyler Smith is back. I am
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: not saying that's the reason. I'm just saying that I
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: don't know if they do have their five best linemen
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: out there. I don't think that they do. So that's
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: one of the things that needs to be evaluated. But
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: that first drive against the Giants, the very first time,
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: fourth and inches, you think you have the first, you don't.
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  Speaker 4: I would have gone for it. I would have. I
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  Speaker 4: would have said, you know, stop us.
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: And they didn't.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: And I think that that set the tone for things.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: And I agree. I mean, I still believe that it
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: hasn't really changed that mindset yet that the Cowboys are
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: going to go and be the aggressor and take it
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: and say, hey, come stop us.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Chris in San Angelo.
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  Speaker 9: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Nick, good morning to you, sir.
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  Speaker 4: How are you doing?
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: You know, I'm doing great. Thank you for asking. I'm
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: probably going to. take it down a notch maybe from
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: that last one, but you know, not too much. I
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: heard you mention earlier that Overshawn is coming back this week.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: And it kind of got me to thinking, you know,
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: in the off season, he would, you know, he did a,
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: he did a lot of talking to anyone that wanted
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: to know that this was his, you know, final year
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: of his contract. So with him coming back, if he
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: plays injury-free for the rest of the season and is
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: pretty much effective, but with his injury history, what would
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: be your choice of direction to go with him going
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: forward as far as contract, one-year prove-it deal, whatever? I
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: was just wondering. what you think they should do with
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: that situation when it happens?
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, they're not in
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: any hurry to sign him. You know, you can't be.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, he hasn't proven what he is. He hasn't
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: proven really anything. The number one thing he hasn't proven
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: is that he can be healthy all the time. He
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: just hasn't done that. And it's unfortunate injury. It's not
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: stuff that's really his fault, but it is what it is.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, it hasn't been available. And then when he
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: is out there, you still don't know exactly the best
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: place to play him. And to his fairness, this is
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: his fifth year, and I think he's seen a different
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: defensive coordinator every year. So, I mean, they haven't, he
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: hasn't gotten into a rhythm with the same scheme, and
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: he hasn't been available. So it's tough to say. I
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: think the jury's out. What happens from now to the
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: end of the season, not only with him, but his
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: development and Barham's development and the linebackers around him, just
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: to kind of see what you have and what your
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: alternatives are.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: Right on. And, I mean, if it were me, I mean,
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: I'm not, I'm not pursuing anything big, but to me
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: he's going to have to settle on something maybe. You've
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: got to stay healthy for one more year before we
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: give you anything. And I think that's going to be
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: the mindset. I would think that would be the mindset
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: of other teams that would be looking at him. But
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: we'll see, man. You did a great job yesterday. I
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: wanted to mention that.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: You looked no worse for wear or sounded no worse
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: for wear.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: Well, I was tired like you guys are. Tired of
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: seeing all this.
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  Speaker 5: I got you. Good stuff, buddy.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: Appreciate it.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: Have a good one.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: You too. Thanks for the call. Let's go to Robbie
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: in Cocoa Beach.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: Hey, Nick.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Hey, Robbie.
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: Man, what a... What a damn rough game, man, huh?
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:45
  Speaker 9: That was hard to cheer for that one. A third down.
• 35:48
  Speaker 9: I don't know what the heck we're doing, man. We're like, oh, look.
• 35:52
  Speaker 9: RJ and I are screaming. Hey, we stopped on first
• 35:55
  Speaker 9: down for a yard gain. We stopped on second down
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: for a yard loss. Third and 11. Oh, first down.
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: RJ even said to me, he's like, what's going on, Dad?
• 36:03
  Speaker 9: Why are they just letting him go? And I heard
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: Dylan say it. Can we get somebody out in the
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: flats to stop that a little faster? Can you be running?
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: I'm usually pretty damn positive about this game. And I'm
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: going to watch the next week's game, but we've got
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: to do something on defense. It was embarrassing. And then
• 36:25
  Speaker 9: the 41 passes, come on, we've got to run the ball.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: I agree.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: I mean, I agree.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: These are the topics. These are the ones. And it's
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: still Tuesday, so we haven't moved on yet. And still,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: you know, we've got a long... week with the Monday
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: night game. So, yeah, we haven't turned the page just yet.
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: Speaking of which, though, let's be positive. We're still not
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: that bad in the division because everybody else sucks like
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: we do. Everybody's losing everything.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: So we could still win the division and make the playoffs.
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: I don't know if we're going to do anything in
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: the playoffs, but we could. And something on a side note,
• 37:05
  Speaker 9: I noticed you in the video today, and I watched
• 37:08
  Speaker 9: the video of you Sometime from last year. You're looking good.
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: You've lost a lot of weight.
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: Keep it up, man.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Well, thanks, man. I appreciate that.
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: We'll talk to you later.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: All right. Thank you. Well, I mean, it's the same stuff.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: You know, I mean, like everyone's in the same boat.
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, when you look at the things people are
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: talking about, you know, the solutions. First caller we had
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: was Chris. He was like, you know, I'm here about
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: some solutions. Number one, run the ball. That's some of
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: the things that everyone's saying now. Um, last couple of
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: weeks now, a lot of James Houston talk. Um, he's
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: not going to go in and be DeMarcus Ware, but he,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: he could get maybe a sack, another two, you know
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: what I mean? Like the guys in front of him
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: aren't doing anything. So, and he's, he's been proven. So
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: he's just sitting there inactive. I mean, that, that makes
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: no sense when you look at like, what's the problem
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: with the defense? I would say, oh, cause they, they
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: can't get a pass rush. So is there any– you
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: got any help? You got anybody on the team that
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: can help? Yeah, well, this guy's done it. He's had
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: an eight-sack season in Detroit. He had, like, five last year.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: He can do it. He can do more than what
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: you have here. So, yeah, I think there are some
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: solutions out there. And I still think they're going to
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: do something maybe with the offensive line. All right, let's
• 38:27
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back to Cowboys Storyline. This segment brought to you
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  Speaker 4: to get a couple more calls in. Albert in Tucson.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Albert.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Nick, my man, good morning.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: All right, what is that? Sorry, I almost let it
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: out right there. That's all the frustration, the... The anger,
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: everything that I have. I had to let it out.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: And I'm sorry. I had to do it here on
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: this show. I don't understand how you can consecutively. And
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: then what I don't get was the timeouts before the
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: half that you're giving them. You're preserving their time. I
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: get their idea. but because they wanted to go back
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: and have enough time to possess the ball and see
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: if maybe he could go down and score. But you
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: weren't doing that. I mean, I'm a big fan of Shadi.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: I like the guy. I don't think we should blow
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: it up. There's no point in that right now. I
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: can see if, I mean, it gets worse. It will
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: get worse. But I think we have the right pieces
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: in place to not be the 7-9 team, not be
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: a 7-8-1 team. What I want to do is see changes.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: How Shadi says he's got an advisor, too, which is
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Ken Dorsey. I think he needs to kind of start
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: working with an advisor himself, especially on pay calls and
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: game management. So I think, like I always say all
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: the time, it's not how you start, it's how you finish.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: And hopefully we get it going, and that's all I got.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Go Cowboys.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: All right, Albert. Appreciate the call. Try not to be
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: as frustrated. I understand. The timeouts before the half for
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: me is trying to get the ball back, try to
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: go get a field goal or something like that. That's
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: always that tricky part right before the half of, you know, there's,
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: there's a time where like, are you calling timeouts for
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: you or for, to help them or, you know, and, but,
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: but the Packers had timeouts too. So they weren't in
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: any hurry. They, they, the Packers were going to go
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: down there and try to score a touchdown. And that
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: was their, their plan. They were going to just bleed
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: off more time, more time. And then, you know, it's
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: not like they were scrambling, you know, they, they were
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: going to go, they were in good position to go
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: get a touchdown. And so, They just wanted to take
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: some time off the clock so the Cowboys wouldn't come back.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: So I don't disagree with that mindset to stop the
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: clock there. That's always the case, though, especially in more
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: than like a minute 30, minute 20, and the ball's
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: at midfield. I mean, are you trying to help them
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: go score, or do you want the ball back? It's
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: a cat-and-mouse game, too. All right, Sebastian and Savannah will
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: be our last caller. Sebastian, what's up?
• 43:03
  Speaker 14: I'm glad I could get through today.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, good.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: Well, trying to figure it out, buddy.
• 43:09
  Speaker 14: And I went back and I'm looking at the last
• 43:11
  Speaker 14: six games. I didn't have time to make it to
• 43:14
  Speaker 14: the games from the 2025 last year. But through this
• 43:17
  Speaker 14: first six games, I'm looking at our running share and
• 43:20
  Speaker 14: how much we run on the shotgun. It's a good 50%
• 43:22
  Speaker 14: right now, right? Jermontee Williams is obviously not the fastest back.
• 43:26
  Speaker 14: But even in those 50% of the running plays, so
• 43:29
  Speaker 14: there's 712 running plays, 50 of them have been shotgun runs.
• 43:33
  Speaker 14: Of those, he still gained about four yards. So you
• 43:36
  Speaker 14: can only imagine what he could actually do if he
• 43:38
  Speaker 14: wasn't running into the teeth of defense every single time
• 43:41
  Speaker 14: he took a handoff. That's the first thing that he
• 43:43
  Speaker 14: needs to focus on. And then the share of plays,
• 43:47
  Speaker 14: I think Javante needs to be the focus. You need
• 43:49
  Speaker 14: to focus inside-outside because that is getting the majority of
• 43:51
  Speaker 14: his pressure straight down the middle. And they are teeing
• 43:54
  Speaker 14: off on him in every single game right through the center.
• 43:57
  Speaker 14: It's not like the tackle is always giving it up.
• 43:59
  Speaker 14: A lot of times, Steele is giving up play.
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: Steele is looking.
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: Lost out there.
• 44:03
  Speaker 14: I won't deny that, right? But a lot of the
• 44:05
  Speaker 14: pressure comes straight down the middle and nails Dak right
• 44:07
  Speaker 14: in the chest, and he's starting to look a little
• 44:08
  Speaker 14: nervous out there. This is an odd thing, but I
• 44:12
  Speaker 14: honestly think that year with Ibraflux really jacked up Brian
• 44:15
  Speaker 14: because I think he had confidence in the veteran on defense,
• 44:20
  Speaker 14: and it caused him to overcorrect. So now he's spending
• 44:22
  Speaker 14: so much time on the defense that he thought he
• 44:24
  Speaker 14: could just run it back with the offense that he
• 44:25
  Speaker 14: had last year, and it's not looking as clean and
• 44:28
  Speaker 14: as crisp as it was before. The responsibility is being
• 44:31
  Speaker 14: spread too thin. I don't know if you go to
• 44:33
  Speaker 14: Clayton Adams because I don't know if he's ever called plays,
• 44:36
  Speaker 14: but he has to figure out how to get back
• 44:37
  Speaker 14: in that offensive room and to let CP and the
• 44:42
  Speaker 14: older gentleman go ahead and run the defense room because
• 44:46
  Speaker 14: he has to focus on one of the two. I
• 44:47
  Speaker 14: don't think he can do this in special teams and
• 44:50
  Speaker 14: all of the other head coaching things that you have
• 44:51
  Speaker 14: to do. But the share of plays needs to get
• 44:54
  Speaker 14: down to about 40% runs. I'm cool with 60% passes. 40%
• 44:59
  Speaker 14: runs is like 25 runs a game between Javante and
• 45:02
  Speaker 14: whoever else. That's all I need to see, and I
• 45:05
  Speaker 14: think we'll start to course correct. But outside of that,
• 45:08
  Speaker 14: that's all I come up with over the last six games.
• 45:10
  Speaker 14: I'm going to start looking at the old games tomorrow
• 45:11
  Speaker 14: to see what it was like last year. You have
• 45:13
  Speaker 14: a great day, man, and I'll talk.
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: To you next time.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: Appreciate it.
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: Thanks.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: All right, good stuff. And I agree with that. I think...
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: I think the mindset, when you have an offensive coordinator
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: or play caller as the head coach, I mean, obviously
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: that's where your mindset is. And they go out and
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: they have all this confidence, or they say they do,
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: that they're going to go out and make all these
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: plays and do this kind of stuff. But it's not
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: the smartest thing for your team. It really isn't. Because
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: your defense is giving up plays. Your defense is lasting
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: in the league and stopping the run. and one of
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: the worst teams just overall in defenses, yards allowed. So
• 45:59
  Speaker 4: the type of offense that you should be playing should
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: be complementary to protect that side. And it's not. It's
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: just not. It's kind of like two different units that
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: aren't really working together because if you could go stop someone–
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: you know great and then you could just go have
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: these track meets but you can't play that way so
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: you should run the ball more and it doesn't matter
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: if you have two receivers making over 27 million a
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: year and a quarterback that's the highest paid player in
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: the history of the of the league and all that
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: it shouldn't matter what should matter is is that how
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: do you move the ball and and and be balanced
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: on this side and also protect this defense on this
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: side and that's that's not happening and it just feels
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: like it's like we can score we can score let's
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: go let's go do this let's pass pass pass And
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: it's not always working. And then when there's a three
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: and out, then now you got the defense was already gassed.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: It's back on the field again. So to me, it's
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: not complimentary football. It's not complimentary offense. It's not complimentary
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: football over, you know, overall. And that's, I think what
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: the biggest problem is, but I do appreciate the call today.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: You guys did great. 10 callers, nine different States, Florida
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: gets the win from Dylan and Robbie calling from Florida,
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: but I appreciate all the calls. And it's been a,
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: Another good show. I know it's a frustrating week. It's
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: going to continue to be frustrating. Frustration is still going
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: to be there until they get this thing turned around.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: But I appreciate the calls and the solutions that you
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: guys are trying to throw out there because it doesn't
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: matter if you don't have a solution. You can't get
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: things fixed. You guys are doing the best you can
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: from where you sit. All right. For Chris Beam, I'm
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: Nick Eaton. We'll see you tomorrow on Cowboy Storylines.
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