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  Speaker 1: Is a production of dallascowboys.com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 1: This is Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette, the official shave
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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Cowboys Storyline presented by Gillette.
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  Speaker 2: It's Thursday, November the 5th. I'm Nick Eatman. Cowboys taking
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  Speaker 2: on the Indianapolis Colts. Interesting series history there between the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys and the Colts. Had some trivia questions that we
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  Speaker 2: put on the website already today. And they've, of course,
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  Speaker 2: obviously met in the Super Bowl, way back, Super Bowl V. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Cowboys have only won two games in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like they play a lot. But the two
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks that have won the games in Indianapolis, Troy Aikman
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  Speaker 2: and Chris, do you know? You probably were there.
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  Speaker 3: I remember that game really well.
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  Speaker 2: Peyton Manning.
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  Speaker 3: Peyton Manning.
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  Speaker 2: Threw touchdown passes to Sean Lee in Orlando, Kansas.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember the quarterback?
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  Speaker 3: For the Cowboys that game, I don't think it was Dak.
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  Speaker 2: 2010? It would not be.
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  Speaker 3: It would not, Dak. I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Not Romo. It was John Kitna. That's right, John Kitna.
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  Speaker 2: John Kitna and Troy Aikman are the only two quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: to win in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 3: That was the middle of the Spygate scandal. And I
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  Speaker 3: remember because they only gave us one credential for the sidelines.
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  Speaker 3: I had to shoot behind Peyton Manning.
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  Speaker 2: Ha ha.
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  Speaker 3: And I had a security guard would follow me around
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  Speaker 3: the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: You were messing up Peyton Manning because he was throwing
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  Speaker 2: to Scandrick.
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  Speaker 5: Well, no.
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  Speaker 3: I told the security guard, I want to be on
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  Speaker 3: this side anyways because he's going to throw the ball
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  Speaker 3: right to our guys and he's going to pick six.
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  Speaker 3: And sure enough, that's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Look at you.
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  Speaker 6: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I was just trying to be him.
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  Speaker 2: David Beeler won that game.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 7: He did.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 2: That was a different time.
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  Speaker 4: 2010.
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  Speaker 2: Not really. It was kind of a tough year. This
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  Speaker 2: has been a tough.
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  Speaker 9: Year, too.
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  Speaker 2: But the Cowboys haven't played there since 2018. That was
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  Speaker 2: a weird game, too, because the Cowboys, I.
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  Speaker 8: Believe, won.
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  Speaker 2: We got blown out. They won like eight out of
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  Speaker 2: nine that year. That was when Amari Cooper traded, and
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  Speaker 2: they were just rolling. But except for that game, they
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  Speaker 2: lost 23 to nothing. So, fun fact, the Cowboys have scored,
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  Speaker 2: the last time they played the Colts, they scored 54 points.
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  Speaker 2: And the last two times they've played the Colts, they've
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  Speaker 2: scored 54 points total. So 54-0 the last two times.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see if the Cowboys can go somewhere in between that.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Armando in Mexico City is first off. Armando,
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  Speaker 2: what's up?
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  Speaker 10: Hey, Nick.
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  Speaker 8: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. How are you?
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  Speaker 10: Good, good.
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  Speaker 8: Taking some grief from my Steelers friends and my 49er
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  Speaker 8: girlfriend that I don't know if she's going to survive
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  Speaker 8: the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 11: But anyway, here we go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So how do you see the outlook for the rest
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  Speaker 8: of the season, Nick? I think they have to do
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  Speaker 8: some major changes. I think coaching hasn't been what we wanted,
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  Speaker 8: you know? The small details, like you talked yesterday about
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  Speaker 8: adjustments and the halftime and stuff like that. I remember
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  Speaker 8: a play a couple of weeks ago in the Packers
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  Speaker 8: game when there's this completion to the tight end. I
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  Speaker 8: think it was Tucker Kraft. And then he just goes
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  Speaker 8: to the ground, and nobody touched him. There are two
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  Speaker 8: defenders there, and they don't even touch him. Unfortunately, the
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  Speaker 8: play was called dead, but still he could have just
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  Speaker 8: stand up and run. So those things, I think, is coaching.
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  Speaker 8: How do you think about that?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you for the call, Armando. Coaching, that was
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  Speaker 2: the theme of yesterday's show. That will probably be the
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  Speaker 2: theme of this show until they change things around. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's easy to look at that with the
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  Speaker 2: coaching and the issues this team has. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: an easy target. I don't think it's the entire thing,
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  Speaker 2: but it's some of it. I think the players don't
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  Speaker 2: execute like they should. They make bonehead decisions, too. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I put it all– I don't put it all in
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  Speaker 2: the coaching, but I do put some of it. There's
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  Speaker 2: no doubt about it that that's part of this thing,
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  Speaker 2: and you just don't feel like situational football is where
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  Speaker 2: it should be. And I've said it yesterday so many times.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the end of the half, almost every week,
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  Speaker 2: it just feels like they could have done something different.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not just about execution. It's about just– their
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  Speaker 2: decision-making and, and, and how aggressive they were and all that.
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  Speaker 2: And so I've, you know, I've come to the realization
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  Speaker 2: that I just, I feel like with Dak, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and the amount of money that they've given to him
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  Speaker 2: and how long he's been in the league that I
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  Speaker 2: just feel like they should put the ball in his
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  Speaker 2: hands even more. Now that sounds weird. He's the quarterback, but,
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  Speaker 2: let him go make, make plays and don't try to
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  Speaker 2: handcuff him too much about, well, let's be smart about
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  Speaker 2: this and don't give up this. And, um, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we got the fuel goal type stuff. Fuel goal is
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  Speaker 2: going to get you beat with this defense. We just
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  Speaker 2: know that 30 points isn't enough to win games for
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  Speaker 2: this team. It's just not, they they've lost. I mean, they're,
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  Speaker 2: they're winning 60% of their games when they score 30 points.
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  Speaker 2: That's just, that's ridiculous. So, That's something that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and that's tough to do because do you
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  Speaker 2: go for it every time? No, you don't. But when
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  Speaker 2: it's first, second, third down, you know, you go for it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you go for it on third down. You
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  Speaker 2: don't just throw some pass over here. So, anyways, I
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  Speaker 2: just feel like coaching is part of it. The play
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about, you know, they didn't touch him.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You're dealing with rookies, you know. And that's one of
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  Speaker 2: those situations where, you know, I can– You can make
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  Speaker 2: the argument about should players be playing more in the preseason,
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  Speaker 2: especially the young rookies and even drafted first round, second round.
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  Speaker 2: That's one where I could see just get them to
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  Speaker 2: feel the defense, feel the game, all that stuff. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's go to Tony in Fairview, Texas. Tony, what's up?
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  Speaker 10: Hey, Nick, am I on?
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  Speaker 5: You are.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing? Hey, good.
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  Speaker 12: It's been a while. I know I didn't call in
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  Speaker 12: this year yet, not.
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  Speaker 10: Of last year.
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  Speaker 12: It was probably a year before that, and I don't
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  Speaker 12: know if you recall, but we had just moved to Fairview,
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  Speaker 12: Texas from D.C. We had built a house and blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 12: But anyway, I tried to get on, but it's just
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  Speaker 12: been tough, as some of the other callers say. But
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  Speaker 12: one thing I wanted to touch on, and I'm glad
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  Speaker 12: I got in today because I didn't want this to
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  Speaker 12: get forgotten about before, because everybody's kind of moving ahead
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  Speaker 12: to the Colts game. So a question I have for.
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  Speaker 10: You, is there a reason why Dak.
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  Speaker 12: In particular or the offense or what have you will.
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  Speaker 7: Hike?
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  Speaker 12: Because you have the play clock and you have the
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  Speaker 12: game clock. With the play clock winding down, is there
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  Speaker 12: a reason why they're snapping the ball? like, you know,
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  Speaker 12: with 15, 16, 17 seconds left.
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  Speaker 7: On the clock.
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  Speaker 12: And the reason why I ask that is because I
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  Speaker 12: rewatched the fourth quarter and I counted nine plays where
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  Speaker 12: there's like 15, 16, 10 seconds, 11 seconds, eight seconds
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  Speaker 12: left on the clock before they actually snap the ball.
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  Speaker 12: And if you take those nine plays and take like
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  Speaker 12: five seconds off those nine plays, that would equate to
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  Speaker 12: 45 seconds if my math's correct. At the end of
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  Speaker 12: the game when the Cardinals get the ball and there's
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  Speaker 12: like a minute nine or something left, if you take
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  Speaker 12: 45 seconds off that, They've only got 23 seconds to
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  Speaker 12: try and drive down to potentially win the game. They
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  Speaker 12: missed the extra point, but tie and win the game.
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  Speaker 12: So my question is, is there a reason why they're
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  Speaker 12: doing that? Because one thing I do got to give
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  Speaker 12: Romo during his era, he was really good at paying
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  Speaker 12: attention to the play clock, especially if you're ahead because
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  Speaker 12: I figure if you're ahead, you're trying to shorten the game,
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  Speaker 12: whereas if you're behind, you're trying to catch up and
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  Speaker 12: you need all the time you can. But if you're ahead,
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  Speaker 12: especially like by two scores or three scores like we
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  Speaker 12: were a lot of portion of that game, then you're
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  Speaker 12: trying to shorten the game by winding the clock down,
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  Speaker 12: especially the play clock or the game clock as much
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  Speaker 12: as you can. Funny, I was actually at that game,
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  Speaker 12: and we left when we were up by, like, what,
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  Speaker 12: 10 points, and then we get in the car, and
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  Speaker 12: on the way home, we see that we lose the game.
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  Speaker 12: It was your fault.
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  Speaker 11: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: It was your fault.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Can't leave now. So you're saying that was, like, what,
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  Speaker 2: fourth quarter?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, fourth quarter, fourth quarter. At the beginning of the
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  Speaker 12: fourth quarter, I counted nine plays. I literally sat there,
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  Speaker 12: rewatched the fourth quarter, and looked at when they were
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  Speaker 12: snapping the ball with the game clock running. Because if
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  Speaker 12: the game clock's not running, it doesn't count. But if
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  Speaker 12: the game clock is running and you're snapping the play
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  Speaker 12: clock with 15, 16. One time there's 26 seconds left
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  Speaker 12: on the game clock and they snap the ball. And
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  Speaker 12: I'm like, what are we doing? Why aren't we running
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  Speaker 12: the clock down? We're ahead in the game. Why aren't
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  Speaker 12: we shortening the game? But if you could maybe answer that.
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  Speaker 12: I know there's several callers that call in and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 12: it's trade pick-ins, blah, blah, blah, blah. In my opinion,
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  Speaker 12: I'm not trading him because, God forbid, if C.D. Lamb
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  Speaker 12: goes down, We trade George Pickens, and CeeDee Lamb goes
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  Speaker 12: down three games from that. Then who are we rolling
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  Speaker 12: out there as far as our starting wide receivers? Who's
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  Speaker 12: your receivers you're rolling out there with? Pickens gone and
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  Speaker 12: CeeDee hurt. Who are you rolling out there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Doesn't matter, honestly.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Tony. Thanks for the call.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where the fans split on the trading
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  Speaker 2: pickings part. I feel like I've heard both sides of that.
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  Speaker 2: It's all going to come down to what you would
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  Speaker 2: get for that. I'm sure next week, Monday, Tuesday of
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  Speaker 2: next week, the phone might ring a little bit. If
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  Speaker 2: it's a deal that you want to take, take it.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? And that you don't really
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  Speaker 2: worry about. I mean, like, if you're trading pickings, then
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  Speaker 2: you're not worried about what happens to the CD. You're
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  Speaker 2: not really worried about that anyways, you know, really. So,
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  Speaker 2: to answer your question about shortening the game, you're not wrong.
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  Speaker 2: You're not wrong with that. I mean, like, that's fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: You should do that. I mean, you should be a
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  Speaker 2: lot more conscious of that. I'm not saying snap it
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  Speaker 2: at one, but... inside of five you know and and
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  Speaker 2: the thing about that is you don't have to break
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  Speaker 2: the huddle that late um one of the theories i've
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  Speaker 2: always been told about that is you you want to
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  Speaker 2: give yourself time to kind of break the huddle see
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  Speaker 2: what they've got see what the defense is make some
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  Speaker 2: changes if you need to at the same point you
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  Speaker 2: don't want your linemen sitting in in their stance for
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  Speaker 2: that long because that's usually when you'll get some kind
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  Speaker 2: of penalty there whatever so you don't want to just
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  Speaker 2: break the huddle real quick and have them sit there
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  Speaker 2: for 20 or 30 seconds but there's a balance there,
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  Speaker 2: and we're up by 14, up by 10 in the
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  Speaker 2: fourth quarter. That's certainly not the balance, and you're right.
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  Speaker 2: You do the math, and I'm all for that. Same
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  Speaker 2: in basketball. Why are we shooting with 20 seconds to
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  Speaker 2: go on the clock when you're up by 10 or whatever?
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  Speaker 2: Shorten the game, like you said. So I think that
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  Speaker 2: needs to be done more, and that's offensive coordinator and
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  Speaker 2: head coach and all that stuff playing together. All right,
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  Speaker 2: Lester in Minnesota is next.
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  Speaker 7: Morning, Nick. Hey, Lester.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, how's it going, man? I just wanted to, the
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  Speaker 10: last caller took my second point I wanted to make,
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  Speaker 10: but I'll still make the point anyway. First point I
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  Speaker 10: want to make, what I was saying last week about,
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  Speaker 10: you know, the addition by subtraction, and I mentioned subtraction.
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  Speaker 10: a couple things, maybe three things, and I mentioned the
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  Speaker 10: coach in Pittsburgh now. I wasn't saying that to advocate
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  Speaker 10: for getting rid of Shottie. I mean, Shottie is our coach.
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  Speaker 10: I want Shottie to be successful. I was just only
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  Speaker 10: making a point of, you know, the 3-12-5 season, and
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  Speaker 10: addition by subtraction doesn't work. But I want Shottie to
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  Speaker 10: be successful. I just want to make that clear. Second point.
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  Speaker 10: Like I said, the last caller took my second point.
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  Speaker 10: It's all about time management, man. I mean, you got
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  Speaker 10: to protect the defense. And what he was saying, I
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  Speaker 10: totally agree with that. Because the offense is our focal point,
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  Speaker 10: so you want to protect the defense. And that's part
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  Speaker 10: of protecting defense, by clicking the clock down a little
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  Speaker 10: bit more. And my last point is.
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  Speaker 10: Let's still be patient with our defense, man. I mean,
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  Speaker 10: it looked a lot better in the first half last week.
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  Speaker 10: And even in overtime, it got a stop. The defense
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  Speaker 10: will get better. I mean, the guy, our defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 10: is a new coach. Give him some time. And also
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  Speaker 10: with Shottie, he's a new coach. It's only his second year.
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  Speaker 10: So I say all that to say, let's go, let's go,
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  Speaker 10: let's go, Cowboys. Have a good day, Nick.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Appreciate it. You know, there are aspects of
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  Speaker 2: the defense that is getting better. And since Mike Pettin
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  Speaker 2: got here, he got here after five games, and the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys had five sacks. So they were averaging, obviously, one
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  Speaker 2: sack a game. He's tripled the sack total in three games.
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  Speaker 2: So now, after eight games, they have 15 sacks. So
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  Speaker 2: 10 sacks in the last three games, including five last week.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he's supposed to do. That's what he kind of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's been his MO to come in here
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  Speaker 2: and dial up pressure. And they've done that. And it's
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  Speaker 2: the same type of guys, really. It's not anybody different.
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  Speaker 2: I think you guys that were saying that James Houston
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  Speaker 2: needs to play, I mean, you were right. He does
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  Speaker 2: need to play. I mean, for who? For what? You know,
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  Speaker 2: now he's going to play some with Von Miller, also
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  Speaker 2: with Malachi Lawrence out for Probably a few weeks here.
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  Speaker 2: He's in a walking boot. Looks like it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a situation where he– I don't know if they'll
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  Speaker 2: put him on the IR to return just because they're
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  Speaker 2: running out of spots there. They only have two more
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  Speaker 2: spots for that spot. So I think the defensive end
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  Speaker 2: has been a position that's been inactive anyways, Tyrus Wheat
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  Speaker 2: or James Houston or whatever. So it'll probably now be
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  Speaker 2: Malachi Lawrence. All right, Sebastian in Savannah, Georgia.
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  Speaker 6: How you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, how's it going?
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  Speaker 6: Doing fine, doing fine. I was giving a lot of
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  Speaker 6: thought to the Brian thing, and Zach Prescott came into
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  Speaker 6: my mind recently. I don't think, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 6: of people are calling for Brian's head, and understandably he
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  Speaker 6: looks like he's playing connect four while everybody's playing Mahjong
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  Speaker 6: out there, but it's okay. But I think he's tied
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  Speaker 6: to the hip with Zach Prescott, and Zach Prescott currently
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  Speaker 6: has a two-year window where he has to get this
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  Speaker 6: thing done because next year we can't move on. We
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  Speaker 6: owe him $ 76 million. But that being said, what I
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  Speaker 6: say next, I preface with this. I love Dak Prescott.
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  Speaker 6: I do believe he's a great quarterback. You have to
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  Speaker 6: look at his successor going forward into 2028. We need
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  Speaker 6: to get less expensive on the quarterback so that we
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  Speaker 6: can pour more into the defense and into other offensive weapons.
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  Speaker 6: So they're going to have to start looking for his
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  Speaker 6: successor in this upcoming draft, which is why I don't
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  Speaker 6: think we can make a big splash move during the
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  Speaker 6: trade deadline for, like, a pass rusher that won't be
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  Speaker 6: named or something like that.
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  Speaker 5: But if they.
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  Speaker 6: The window is a quarter of the way done. It's
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  Speaker 6: a two-year window. We owe him $ 76 million next year,
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  Speaker 6: so he's here no matter what. If you bring his
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  Speaker 6: back up next year, he can sit, learn, and you
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  Speaker 6: can still, in free agency, make moves that you can't
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  Speaker 6: make because we don't have the draft picks next year.
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  Speaker 6: So we have to be big players in the free
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  Speaker 6: agent offseason. I believe that Brian is tied to Dak
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  Speaker 6: Prescott over these next couple of years. So for people
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  Speaker 6: who are calling for his head, I don't think he's
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  Speaker 6: going anywhere. It wouldn't make any sense to get a sixth.
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: head coach in here with a quarterback that may or
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: may not be here for three more years because there's
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: only three years left in the contract. With that said,
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: I'll hang up, and you guys have a great day.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I agree with that just because
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: not from Shottie's standpoint. I mean, I agree with the
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: stuff you were saying with the window with Dak and
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: all that and just follow the money there. You're not wrong.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think that Shottie is tied to that,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: I think. just because we're not, we're talking about different
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: salary caps and, and you know, there's been a lot,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: much has been made about what, you know, what Jerry
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: pays for coaches and all that. But there's also a reason,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: you know, there's, there's a flip side to it as well.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: You know, you don't pay out 10 million, 12 million
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: a year, then you're on the hook for it, you know?
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: So that being said, if he needed to get out
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: of a situation, he could do that. So I just,
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: And to your point of if they brought a new
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: coach in, and, again, we talked about this yesterday. I'm
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: not sitting here talking about scenarios and all that and
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: different people. But, you know, a new coach that came
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: in here with a veteran quarterback, I mean, anybody, if
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: you bring in a new coach, you want them to succeed.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: So whether or not he's here for one year, two years,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: whatever that might be. But I don't necessarily think that Shadi–
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: you know, has to be the coach as long as
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Dak is the quarterback. I don't necessarily agree with that.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: All right, Randy and Tex Arcana.
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: What's up, brother?
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: So I've got a little bit of a psychic thing
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: going on here.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: It's kind of weird.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: So like Tuesday or so, I was thinking, all right,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: I'll call in and I'll talk about how the press
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: conferences sound exactly like they did like on week two
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: or whatever. And then Jesse starts talking about it on
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: their show. And I was like, well, crap, there went that.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: So I started thinking yesterday, you know what? I'm going
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: to call in tomorrow and And I'm talking about how
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: the coaches don't scare the players like the Jimmy Johnsons
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: or Parsa. And then Ambar talks about it for 30
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: minutes on her show yesterday. So that gets me to
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: thinking either I'm psychic or the glaring problems are just that,
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: glaring problems, and everybody can see it. So it's like,
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: all right, do the players, are they so tunnel vision
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: they don't see it? Well, no, because Trey Diggs proved that,
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: that they go in there at halftime and look at
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: social media. So they clearly know what's going on around them.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: They see what we're saying, whether they say, well, we
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: don't look into it or all that. So I kind
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: of think we're at that point where people that don't
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: want to be fixed are not going to get fixed.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: They're going to have to do this themselves, like individuals.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: each person's going to have to do this i don't
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: know that us and you're saying firing coaches or do
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: this or change that i don't know that there's that
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: easy of a fix once you get into this situation
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: um trying to make your job easier because all these
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: people are calling you and saying the exact same thing
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: it's just I don't know that there's a quick, easy fix.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: They're all going to have to come to Jesus and
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: just do it themselves.
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: You know what I mean?
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: It's a different type of coach. It takes a different
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: coach now than it did. Because what you're talking about
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: with Jimmy and Parcells and all that stuff, you could
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: do that out of fear. You could cut the player
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: because it didn't affect your salary cap and things like that.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: But you don't have the same type of situation now.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: So as coaches, you have to figure out how to
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: motivate these players and what pushes them, what drives them.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: So it's not easy. It's certainly not easy at all.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Especially when they're going out there in the parking lot
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: and getting in a $ 300, 000 car and going home to
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: a $ 40 million house. It's like, you know, these guys...
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Once the game's over, I mean, I'm not talking bad
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: about James, the linebacker, because what he said was exactly true.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: But when they walk out of that building, they're turning
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: it off. They're going home to their family so that
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: they don't take that stuff home with them. And I
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: get that 100%. I would be the same way. But
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: that lets you know that I think as fans, we
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: take this stuff a lot more serious than what they do. Plus,
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: you know, hey, they're set for life a lot.
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: Not all of them.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: I get some of them are on the bottom end
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: of the salaries. But for your big guys, they're set.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: They're not as worried about it like we think they
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: should be. So to move on from that, this game
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: coming up this weekend, it's a 50-50 game on how
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: it goes. If we lose it, I think we're just
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: going to– be a dumpster fire at that point, and
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: we're just kind of screwed for the year. If we
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: win it, same scenario. They're going to say, well, that team,
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: we just beat a bunch of backups, and we're supposed to.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: So I think we're in a lose-lose this weekend. I
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: think our first real test will be the 49ers, honestly.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Okay. All right, Randy.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: You see what I'm saying?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I see exactly what you're saying. I'm going to disagree
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: with it, but I'm going to do it off the air.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Okay, bye.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Randy. And the only reason I'm disagreeing with that
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: is that the real test, you know, I want to
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: see how this team bounces back. And so, yeah, we've
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: seen it. They're supposed to beat Washington in week two.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: They did. They were supposed to beat the Eagles a
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: couple weeks ago. They did. They're supposed to beat the
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Cardinals and the Bucs, and they haven't. So there's about
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: four or five games where you really look at it,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: and I think they were heavy favorites, and they were like,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: you're supposed to win this game. And they're really batting.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: 500 in my book on those games. I think Houston
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: was tossed up. Maybe they were supposed to lose. Baltimore
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: was close. Giants game, I think they were supposed to
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: win that, but nobody knows anything in week one. But
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I think in the games that you look at, the
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Cowboys are really supposed to win these games. They're only
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: two out of four. So when I look at this one, yeah,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: they're supposed to win. I don't care what people say afterwards.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: You know, no one cares about that. You're supposed to win.
• 23:13
  Speaker 9: Cool.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: And we did.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Moving on. It's a huge issue, you know, when they lose.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: You don't see ESPN talking about that if they win,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: which is fine. It's not going to be get right. Like, oh,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: everything's good now. But it's good, you know. It could
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: be really bad if they don't. So I look at
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: it like it's not a lose-lose. It's a chance to
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: win and win this game. You could really lose if
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: you don't win this game because it could change the
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: course of the season and the direction and all that.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: So preventing that would be what this game is all about,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: in my opinion. All right, let's go to break here
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• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Let's go back to the line here. Brian in Kansas City. Brian,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: what's up?
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Nick.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Morning. How you doing?
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: I'm all right. Thanks for asking, man. Hey, I know
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: I say this a lot, but you got a decent wardrobe.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I like the shirt, man.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Brown.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Brown shoes.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I can't reach up there.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: That's not Colts color, man. You're supposed to be wearing
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Colts colors. You started the year saying you were going
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: to do that, remember?
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: I did remember that, and then I looked at the schedule,
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: and I looked at two consecutive road games at the
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Packers and at the Eagles, and I thought, I ain't
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: doing that. I ain't going to be on the sideline
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: wearing green and then get razzed for it and then
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: come back a week later and do it again and
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: just double down. I'm like, nah, I'm not doing that.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: And I didn't know what I was going to do
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: in Rio because purple's just not really in the wardrobe,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: so I was like, nah. That sounded good, but I'm
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: okay on that.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: That was one of those things that sounded good in theory.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not good.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: So, hey, two things for you today. I think... that
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: right now, because of the amount of control you would
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: have over him, Pickens' value is as high as it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: going to get. A team that is a contender right now,
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: and I live in one of those cities, that they
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: don't have a top-tier number one. They've got a really
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: good running back, and they've got Mahomes. But they don't
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: have a real... And the Bills have been brought up
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: a couple of times being connected to would they want
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: to go get a top-tier receiver, and maybe the Niners.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: But one of these teams, because they would have control
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: over them for the remainder of this year, and of
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: course they could franchise them again next year or work
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: out a deal or whatever they want to do. But
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: I think, based on how the season's going... To me,
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: if it's a contender, we're talking about a late first-round
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: draft pick. But to me, I think that's a no-brainer.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: The season's just not going anywhere. We win one, we
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: lose one. You just brought up sometimes we win the
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: games we should, sometimes we don't. To me, I would
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: rather sign JPJ next year and keep him in the
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: fold And I think you're stretching things to try to
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: say you could do both. I'm not saying you can't.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: I'm sure there's some gymnastics on the Excel spreadsheet that
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: could make it possible, but I don't think it would
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: be the greatest thing. And we've seen this before. team
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: be very good with CD as the number one and
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: then a host of complimentary players. So, and then the
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: other one was, you know, everybody's talking about, you know,
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: do we get rid of all the, you know, if
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: we're blaming the coaching, do we get rid of everybody
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: and start over again? I'm curious what your preference is,
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: not what you think the Cowboys would do if they
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: were going to restart over again. Is your preference get
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: rid of everybody or and start over again with a
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: fresh coaching staff? Start with the head coach and let
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: the head coach pick everything? Or do you favor, like
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: we've had Linda Wells for a while, And he's brought
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: some consistency. Plus, those coaches that you keep one or
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: two or three positional coaches, they can tell the new coaches, hey,
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: this is what we know about this guy. So I'm
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: just curious. I'm not saying that that's what's going to
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: happen at the end of the year. I'm just curious.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: if you're rebuilding, what's your preference in that? And mine
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: would be keep two to four of those guys. And
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: I'll listen to your answer off air, man. Thanks.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: That's it. Yeah, thanks for the call. I remember when
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Wade Phillips was brought in here, You know, he said
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: the same thing, how you always want to keep some
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: holdover coaches. Because if you don't, then you end up
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: making the same mistakes with the players that, you know,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: that the previous staff did. So holdovers are always important
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: when you decide to do that. And, you know, you've
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: got some, you know, guys. But again, you know, that's
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: just a generic statement on what would happen there. You know, again, I.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Just.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: We got a lot of shows. We do five a week.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: We do it all year. And so I just, you know,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: no one's calling in telling me what the Colts do,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: you know, how they play, what they do. I get it.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: A lot of talk about what hypothetical coaching changes and
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: all that. And, you know, as I said to the
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: previous callers or so a couple of calls ago, I mean,
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I don't think you know, somebody said shot. He's not
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: going anywhere for two years. I don't know if I
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: agree with that. I mean, I think you gotta, you know,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I think these next three games are important. I mean, I,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't necessarily see a coaching change in
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: the middle of the year. We've seen Jerry do that before.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: It was really bad. It was one in seven. I
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: don't know if he'll do that again. I don't know
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: if you, I mean, you know, you're not going to
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: make a move unless you think it's the best move
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: for the team. And so, um, you know, do you
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: have a recourse? Do you have a plan? All that
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. And I'm sure you could call up
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: here and say, this is what I would do. But
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: right now I don't think that's, that's necessarily the focus.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: And one of the things I think Brian said, that's
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: really interesting though, about trading. If you, if you were
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: to trade Pickens, it's, you know, if you don't trade him,
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: then you're probably going to have to franchise tag him
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: so you can get his rights. Cause it'd be a
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: free agent. And then, so you can make a move
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: after that. Um, But if you traded him now, then
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: you could, if that's the move you think you're going
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: to have to do with Joey Porter Jr. to franchise him,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: you obviously can't franchise both players. So I think that's
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: one that, you know, are these guys kind of tied
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: together in that you need to figure out what you're
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: going to do on both of these guys because you
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: can't sit there and say, well, we'll just franchise them.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: You can't do that with both players. All right, Chris
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: in Saratoga Springs is next.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Hey, Nick.
• 32:22
  Speaker 11: How's it going?
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: Good.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: How are you doing, Chris?
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: Not too bad. I know you're like me. You're not
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: a coffee drinker, so I always see you drinking something.
• 32:30
  Speaker 9: What's your drink of choice in the morning?
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Why are you going to ask questions? It's just like
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: an energy drink. It's usually like pink or red or whatever,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: but it's in my little cowboy storylines. I don't know
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: if this is a Yeti, though, honestly. I don't think
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: it is, but it's still a Cowboy Story. Yeah, it's
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: like a spark energy, you know, something, but that I
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: probably drink too often now that I don't even, you know,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: like I don't even feel it.
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I'm tired all the time. So, anyways.
• 33:04
  Speaker 9: First off, I just want to send out thoughts and
• 33:09
  Speaker 9: prayers to the family and friends, teammates of the late
• 33:11
  Speaker 9: Marshawn Nealon. It's about a year ago today he passed away.
• 33:15
  Speaker 9: Obviously lost, but never forgotten. So I just wanted to
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: say thoughts and prayers go out to everybody involved. We
• 33:22
  Speaker 9: miss you. You know, that's why I wanted to say
• 33:25
  Speaker 9: that to start off. This week I want to fix
• 33:29
  Speaker 9: two things, really. We need to be better, you know.
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: ending decisions before the half and late in the fourth quarter, obviously.
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: We've got to be better with the decision-making there, and
• 33:40
  Speaker 9: we need to stop the self-afflicting penalties. And I think
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: if we can do that, we're going to be just
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: fine against the Colts. The Colts are not a good
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: team against the run. I think they're seventh-rated against the run,
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: like the worst, seventh-worst. So I think this is a
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: get-right game for the running game again. So we need
• 33:58
  Speaker 9: to take care of that. My score prediction today– I'm
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: going with 38 Dallas 21 Colts. I do think this
• 34:06
  Speaker 9: is going to be a get-right game, and I think
• 34:08
  Speaker 9: we're going to win the game, and I'm going to
• 34:11
  Speaker 9: be a little bit happier come Monday.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: All right. We all will be, for sure.
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Chris, for the call. Thanks for mentioning that about
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Marshawn Nealon. Tomorrow is November 6th. Tomorrow would be the
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: one year. I don't like saying anniversary, but, you know,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: obviously one year ago when that tragic situation occurred with
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Marshawn and this team, you know, dealt with that. And
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: it was it was obviously nothing compared to what his
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: friends and family. dealt with. Um, but, you know, we're
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: talking about a football team and that's, you know, it
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: was something that they, they still, you know, talk about him,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: still remember him. And I think some, there will be
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: some things done here in the next few days, uh,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: maybe on game day that they'll, you know, make sure he's, uh,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: definitely not forgotten. Um, I think Dak, Dak Prescott will
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: talk today and I'm sure that will be mentioned there. Um,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: seems longer than a year, honestly, that when, when that happened, but,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: To answer, it's hard transition into football from there. But yeah,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: you know, the way that they run the football is
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: going to be key and how they, you know, how
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: they bounce back. And I think that that does just
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: sets up their the balance of their team. But, you know,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: if it's not working, you know, there's got to be
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: ways to kind of offset that. Yes, you want to
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: keep doing it. You want to. That's that's the. That's
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: the nature of any good coach, any good play caller,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: is how do you balance when it's not working? Do
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: you say, hey, I'm going to stick to it and
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: stick to it. I trust the process. Or, okay, it's
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: not working for sure now, so pivot. I mean, seriously,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: act like Ross picking up that couch in France and
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: pivot if it's not working right. All right, Michael, Bowling Green,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: what's up?
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: My lucky day, Nick, I called one time and got through. Wow.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's good or bad, Michael.
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: I was listening to a Cowboys podcast this morning, and
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: they were saying the exact same thing you said about
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: coaches with Super Bowl experience, that they haven't paid the
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: coaches a lot. They pay them after they have the
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: Super Bowl experience. But the past is the past. We're
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: moving to the future. I'm going to go Cowboys 27,
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: and I'm going to go Colts 13. And I think
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: Shottie's been playing coaching like everybody wants him to. I
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: think he's going to go back to his style. I mean,
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: you know, just do his thing and not do what
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: everybody thinks he should do. I think they'll be better
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: off that way.
• 37:05
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: And that's a different take, too. I mean, you know.
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: You can tell he's mad. I think he's mad because
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: he's been told, you know, hey, you got to run
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: the ball, you got to run the ball, and he
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: just wants to coach his way.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. All right, thanks, Michael, for the.
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: No, no problem.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: One of my favorite movies, and I like... I'm a
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: cheesy for those sappy Disney, you know, sports movies, but
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite movies is Glory Road about the
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Texas Western basketball team turned into UTEP, but back in
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: the 60s. And I remember.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: When when the head coach says, you know, he wants
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: to have a more disciplined style and then there's the
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: point guard wants to be, you know, fast break and
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: all that. And he's like, we can't win this way.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: And he's yelling back to the coach and the coach says,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: all right, you play your way and you play my way.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: You play discipline, you play fast and all that stuff
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: and still be smart, disciplined with the ball. And I
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: thought it was one of those pivotal moments in the
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: movie and all that. But it's true in that, okay,
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: you know what? You want me to run the ball? Fine,
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: we're going to run the ball. I'm still going to
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: play my style. That's what the head coach of the team,
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: offensive coordinator, that's what they're doing all week. That's why
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: you get here at 5 a.m. and you stay until
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: midnight or whatever time that they– They stay here working.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: It's to figure out that balance. That's on them. Figure
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: out how to play a running style, but also be
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: wide open as well. You've got freaking George Pickens and
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: CeeDee Lamb. Use them and use them in a way
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: that's going to hurt the defense, but at the same time,
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: run the ball right down their throat with Javante Williams
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: and behind Tyler, all the Tylers in the world. So,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: you know, figure that out. That's the thing. Be both.
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: Be both.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: It's not just one thing.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: No.
• 38:47
  Speaker 11: No.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Have a little gray in you.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: It's not black and white. Have a little gray. Josh
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: in Chicago is next.
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: Hey man.
• 38:54
  Speaker 15: Uh, I was just thinking, um, we haven't heard from Dr.
• 38:57
  Speaker 15: Sunshine in a while. How's he doing?
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: He's doing all right. He's about to get a lot
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: of sunshine. He's about to move, but he's doing, he's
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: doing pretty good. He's he, he's, uh, he's doing good.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: He listens to all the shows. So yeah, he's, he's
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: doing good. I just saw him last weekend and he's
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: making little changes in his life, but, uh, for the better,
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: I think. And, uh, No, he still listens, and he
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: still has opinions, and he texts a lot. He texts
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: me on game days a lot more when they lose
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: than when they win. I can promise you that. It
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: could be years.
• 39:30
  Speaker 15: Shout-out to him.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Great. Thanks for saying that.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
• 39:35
  Speaker 15: And yesterday when I was calling, too, I wasn't necessarily
• 39:37
  Speaker 15: calling for Shadi's job. I just want to be clear
• 39:39
  Speaker 15: about that. I don't know if he's the long-term guy,
• 39:41
  Speaker 15: to be honest.
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: I don't.
• 39:42
  Speaker 15: But we're in the season right now and I'm focused
• 39:45
  Speaker 15: now on the Colts. I had to get that off
• 39:46
  Speaker 15: my chest, but now I'm, now I'm focused up on
• 39:48
  Speaker 15: the Colts.
• 39:48
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 39:50
  Speaker 10: Good.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 39:51
  Speaker 15: So look at the Colts team stats. They're pretty, um,
• 39:54
  Speaker 15: they give up a lot more yards in the running
• 39:56
  Speaker 15: game than they do in the passing game. So I
• 39:58
  Speaker 15: really think that we need to get back to how
• 39:59
  Speaker 15: we ran the ball against Philly. Uh, you gotta see
• 40:02
  Speaker 15: a better bounce back performance from the, from the offensive line. Um,
• 40:06
  Speaker 15: And then looking at the Colts, they also lead the
• 40:09
  Speaker 15: league in turnover differential being negative. They're negative 11 in
• 40:14
  Speaker 15: the turnover differential, and we're actually negative 1. We've got
• 40:18
  Speaker 15: to get some takeaways on defense. I think that's something
• 40:20
  Speaker 15: that's obviously improved over the past couple weeks since Pets
• 40:23
  Speaker 15: got here. So any takeaways we can get are going
• 40:26
  Speaker 15: to be helpful, and then obviously just running the ball,
• 40:29
  Speaker 15: pounding the rock is going to be the key to success.
• 40:32
  Speaker 15: It's not anything advanced or crazy, but, I mean, that's
• 40:35
  Speaker 15: what you've got to do, just be disciplined. Personally, I'd
• 40:37
  Speaker 15: also like to see Rashawn Gary benched for the first half.
• 40:40
  Speaker 15: I know with Malachi Lawrence, it's not going to necessarily happen,
• 40:42
  Speaker 15: but I think that there needs to be some accountability there,
• 40:45
  Speaker 15: and we've got to see that.
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: Thanks, man.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Cheers.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. I mean, that question was asked
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: to Shadi, and he was like, we took him out
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: for like three or four plays, put him back in.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: He still played 11 out of 19 snaps, I think,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: after that. So I don't know if that's really the
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: accountability that you're looking for. But I'm with you there.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like you're missing a lot. I mean,
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: he does leave the team in pressures, apparently. I don't
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: really notice that that much. But he's got one sack
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: against Houston, but not– he pushed the guy out of
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: bounds behind the line of scrimmage. Hasn't really gotten home
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: like you expected him to. All right. Let's go to
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: break here on Cowboy Storyline. I'm going to be right
• 41:32
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  Speaker 2: All right, back here for just a few more minutes
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  Speaker 2: to wrap up the show. We do have another caller,
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  Speaker 2: Albert in Tucson. Albert, what's up?
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: Nick, my man.
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  Speaker 11: Good morning, brother.
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: How are you? Good.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
• 42:59
  Speaker 11: I'm doing pretty well. Doing pretty well.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Um.
• 43:04
  Speaker 11: I'm just going to give my prediction. You know, honestly,
• 43:08
  Speaker 11: I'm not a delusional Cowboys fan. Last week I did
• 43:13
  Speaker 11: give a 44-10 prediction that we were going to go
• 43:18
  Speaker 11: out there and win. But see, the thing is, that's
• 43:23
  Speaker 11: how I want my team to win. That's how this team,
• 43:29
  Speaker 11: with all the talent that they have, is supposed to
• 43:32
  Speaker 11: beat these teams.
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 43:35
  Speaker 11: And, you know, believe me, I know we haven't won
• 43:41
  Speaker 11: since 2017. You know, I.
• 43:48
  Speaker 11: All the mathematics is there in my mind. But I
• 43:52
  Speaker 11: pick it with more than my heart. One more with
• 43:54
  Speaker 11: my heart, I guess. And, you know... That's the right
• 44:00
  Speaker 11: of being, like we said, there's no right like this
• 44:05
  Speaker 11: of being a Dallas Cowboy fan. Six Flags has nothing
• 44:10
  Speaker 11: on the Dallas Cowboys. And, you know, that's a feeling
• 44:15
  Speaker 11: I wouldn't change for the world. So I got my
• 44:19
  Speaker 11: boys winning, I'd say, 28-14, and that's all I got.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Go cowboys all right appreciate the call 14 you know
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: it is that'll be our last caller actually but but
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: i i will say this like i i understand that
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: that point about you know always having faith in your
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: team yeah that that's what being a fan is about
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: you know um at least some, some people, some people
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: kind of look at it from a negative standpoint of
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: everything's like, well, what could go wrong and all that,
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: or this guy, this guy's not the right coach and
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: this guy's not the right guy. And I, and I
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: get that. It's kind of how you, you probably how
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: you look at life, honestly. Um, you know, I always
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: kind of look at a little more optimistically, like maybe,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: you know, like probably not supposed to win this game.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking like just in other games, not, not this
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: one specific. Um, but yeah, this is a game that,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: that you, you should win and, the Colts, they look
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: like they're going in different directions. Their record's not that different,
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: but they've lost four straight games. I think the big
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: key for this game, we'll talk about it a lot tomorrow,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: but the big key is going to have to be
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: trying to establish an early lead just because what the
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Colts do well, they've got a great running back there
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: in Jonathan Taylor, and they can run the ball against
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: this Cowboys defense. They're going to try it for sure.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: What the Cardinals showed you is down 14 in the
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: fourth quarter. They're not going to stop. they're not going
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: to stop running, and it ended up working for them.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: So the Cowboys, even if they have a lead, a
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: big lead, it doesn't mean the Colts will stop running
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: the ball, but that turnover differential is something the Cowboys
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: got to tap into and starting to see a little
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: bit of turnovers. It would be nice if a defensive
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: back could get an interception. We've got three linebackers have
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: had interceptions, no defensive back. Maybe that can change this week.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: But we'll talk about all of that and more tomorrow
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: when we do this again. One last show of the week.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: So for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. See you next
• 46:22
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