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  Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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  Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: This is these Cowboys Storylines with Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, it is time for Cowboys storyline. I'm Nick
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  Speaker 2: Eatman and it is October ninth, Monday morning. What was that?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I was still trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: what happened with the Cowboys and forty nine Ers on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night with the whole world watching, and that was
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  Speaker 2: about as bad as of a game you could possibly
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  Speaker 2: have for the Cowboys and humbling, demoralizing, embarrassing. All of
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  Speaker 2: the words have been said. All of them seemed to
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  Speaker 2: be true. And you know, it was supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: a barometer game, and let's hope not from the Cowboys standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: because if that's the case, then obviously this is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a long season.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: This is not the team that we thought that they were. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone knew this was gonna be a tough challenge with
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  Speaker 2: the forty nine ers because they, you know, they have
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  Speaker 2: had the Cowboys number and they've had everyone's number there.
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  Speaker 2: They've been the best team in the league right now
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  Speaker 2: this year. But but to go out and play the
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  Speaker 2: way they did. You know, you thought it was going
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  Speaker 2: to be a statement game. Let's let's hope you know
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  Speaker 2: that it there wasn't, but let's talk about it. We know,
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  Speaker 2: we know how we know the drill eight eight eight
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  Speaker 2: eight five five two two nine seven. As the lights
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  Speaker 2: went out here a little bit. The lights went out
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  Speaker 2: on the Cowboys the other night or last night as well.
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  Speaker 2: So all right, let's go. Let's go right to the
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  Speaker 2: phone line. Darien and Houston, you're the first caller.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, what's something, Hey, what's up?
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  Speaker 5: Not much? Man?
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  Speaker 6: Look, I'm gonna start by saying that I'm with this
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  Speaker 6: team for the long haul. That three and two and
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  Speaker 6: it's a long season, but we got beat up, man,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm worried about the injuries were sustained more so
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  Speaker 6: than the Week five loss. And I'm normally somebody that
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  Speaker 6: tries to find a way to defend our guys and
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  Speaker 6: look for a silver lining. But that loss is as
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  Speaker 6: bad as it gets. And people are going to come
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  Speaker 6: for Dak and McCarthy. You know what, anything they say
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  Speaker 6: will probably be warranted, and they're entitled to whatever opinion
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  Speaker 6: they have with this group after that showing. But if
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  Speaker 6: you come for those guys need to come for everyone else.
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  Speaker 6: CD could not get open. This old line did not
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  Speaker 6: block well Tony Pollard, who is now the feature back.
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  Speaker 6: You know, this is what people have been asking for.
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  Speaker 6: He got stuffed, looks slow, looked like he wasn't running hard.
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  Speaker 6: He also flumbled. Michael Parsons no showed, but I'm glad
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  Speaker 6: you got to get his jersey swap with McCaffrey. The
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  Speaker 6: D line got taken out completely, got no pass rush,
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  Speaker 6: secondary got picked apart, and then boneheaded penalties. You know,
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  Speaker 6: this team no showed at every level, and I don't
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  Speaker 6: think it was any one person's fault, but to me,
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  Speaker 6: there was a singular moment that I feel like this
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  Speaker 6: game was lost, and it was right before the two
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  Speaker 6: minute warning in the second quarter. We have the ball down,
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  Speaker 6: two touchdowns for them too, and they decided to.
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  Speaker 5: Punt the ball.
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  Speaker 6: Now, granted we're at our own forty three, but not
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  Speaker 6: feeling like you could get two yards there so that
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  Speaker 6: you could try to score before half and then get
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  Speaker 6: the ball back and try to tie this thing up
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  Speaker 6: or get get closer showed me that they just didn't
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  Speaker 6: have it this week.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway.
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  Speaker 6: Those are my thought. What did you think about not
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  Speaker 6: going for it there, and then any updates if you
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  Speaker 6: have any on the injuries would be great. I know
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  Speaker 6: it's only like twelve hours out of the game. Anyway,
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  Speaker 6: I'll hang up and listen. Thanks thanks for the time, man.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you Darren. Thanks for the call. Great call.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, A lot of it hit hit the
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  Speaker 2: nail on the head. I think in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've said this statement before and it holds
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  Speaker 2: true in this game. You don't have enough. You don't
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  Speaker 2: have enough fingers if you're going to fingerpoint, I mean
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  Speaker 2: you just don't. You can go you can toe point,
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  Speaker 2: finger point, elbow point, whatever. Everybody gets a little bit
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  Speaker 2: on this one, and you know rightfully, so I agree
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  Speaker 2: with you one hundred percent about the fourth and two.
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  Speaker 2: I tweeted it and I said something to the point of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this is it's not ideal. I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be going for it here, but being
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  Speaker 2: down by fourteen points isn't good either. When did you
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  Speaker 2: think you're going to get these possessions back? It didn't.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't add up to me. And then the next
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  Speaker 2: possession they were calling timeouts and and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: When I was thinking at that point, let's just get
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  Speaker 2: into halftime, you know. But but yeah, just to just
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  Speaker 2: to show the team that it's fourth and two and
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  Speaker 2: we we can't get these two yards, so we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: punt it and we're gonna hope that our defense makes
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  Speaker 2: plays or something. But yeah, I thought that was very
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  Speaker 2: indicative of the of the entire game, that that that
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  Speaker 2: play right there, that that moment where just you just
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  Speaker 2: kind of felt like fourteen points felt like twenty eight,
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  Speaker 2: and over time it got there, it got to what
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  Speaker 2: thirty two. Injury wise, it's a it's a little bit early.
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  Speaker 2: Leton vander Esch, though, I get the sense that a
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  Speaker 2: lot of what we saw was precautionary with his neck injury.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime you see any kind of neck stinger, which is
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  Speaker 2: what I believe he had, they're going to be very
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  Speaker 2: very cautious on every player, especially a guy with the
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  Speaker 2: neck history like Leyton Vandresh. I think he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be okay, that's my my from what I was told.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think this is going to be a serious thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, remember they got the game this week and
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  Speaker 2: then the bye that might effect on some of these
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  Speaker 2: injuries could be high ankle sprain on Turpen. He could
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  Speaker 2: be a little bit CJ. Goodwin. I know they're looking
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  Speaker 2: at his shoulder arm. That one might be actually the
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  Speaker 2: worst of them all. But it looked bad with him
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  Speaker 2: limping off a lot. But I think they're not going
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  Speaker 2: to be too bad when it comes to injuries. Again,
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  Speaker 2: Let's see it what happens later in the day with
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  Speaker 2: some of these MRIs. Maybe that happened. And what McCarthy
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  Speaker 2: says in his press conference, All right Raza in Virginia?
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  Speaker 2: Is that how I say that? Right? Raza?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, correct?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Hey good?
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  Speaker 8: You know, longtime listener, love your work, make great Thank
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  Speaker 8: you on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: I just want to say, man, I've been a Dak
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  Speaker 8: defender his whole career. It's just I don't know if
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  Speaker 8: I could defend him anymore. I just want to get
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  Speaker 8: your thoughts on why can't we do more of the
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  Speaker 8: Texas part of the Texas Coast, go back to what
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  Speaker 8: was working last year, and do you think somehow, some
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  Speaker 8: way we can just eat Dak sixty one million next
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  Speaker 8: year and then just let him play this year next
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  Speaker 8: year and see what Crey Lance has got. Yeah, I'll
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  Speaker 8: listen and all right, you know, just having a tough
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  Speaker 8: time hopefully. I know it's a long season.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, wow, tough right now. Yeah, it is,
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  Speaker 2: it is, you know. And Dak he didn't play well,
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  Speaker 2: I mean at all. He did not He did not
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  Speaker 2: play well, you know. But but again, as the first
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  Speaker 2: caller says, I think, you know, there's there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of reasons for that lot of I don't know who did.
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  Speaker 2: I really, I don't know who played well in the game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I know Patrick Walker writes his game Breaker
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  Speaker 2: story and he puts some guys in there. I've been
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  Speaker 2: I don't know who had a great game or even
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  Speaker 2: a good game. That offensive line didn't I mean that,
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  Speaker 2: and that that was a you know, Dak wasn't comfortable,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know how he could be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with with that. And I'm not I'm not defending Dak
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  Speaker 2: on that he didn't play well at all, but I
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  Speaker 2: mean the offensive line didn't didn't help much. The receivers, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they they didn't do a whole lot for
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  Speaker 2: him either. I'm just gonna keep it at that right now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not I I said to myself, you know,
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  Speaker 2: yet last night and this morning that we're not going
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  Speaker 2: to get into a lot of off season talk right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the narrative will change it. That's just that's
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  Speaker 2: how this thing goes. I'm not gonna sit here and
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  Speaker 2: and and speculate on on who's gonna, you know, do
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  Speaker 2: what with contract wise. It all that. I mean, they
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  Speaker 2: have to beat the Chargers. That's what they have to do.
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  Speaker 2: They have to go beat the Chargers, and that's you know,
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  Speaker 2: We'll see how they respond. They've they've responded well to
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  Speaker 2: to losses in the last couple of years. That has
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  Speaker 2: been well documented. We'll see how they respond to this
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  Speaker 2: ass kicking. Basically, there's no other way to really say it.
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  Speaker 2: So all right, let's go back to the Let's go
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  Speaker 2: to callers from grape Vine, Texas ten and grape Vine, Texas.
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  Speaker 9: What's up man, Nick, Good morning, sir, Happy october Man. Hey,
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  Speaker 9: I'm gonna try to stay positive. I want to say
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  Speaker 9: one thing and then ask you a question. So all right,
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  Speaker 9: let's it's it's time. We've had enough sample size. It's
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  Speaker 9: time to go ahead and say what McCarthy is. He's
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  Speaker 9: he's outdated as a play caller and I hate to
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  Speaker 9: be the guy to bash the coach. It's a hard job,
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  Speaker 9: but he.
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  Speaker 5: May have used that year off.
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  Speaker 9: And became less innovative and that and that pains me
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  Speaker 9: to say because we do have a lot of talent.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, this is a top five roster in the NFL,
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  Speaker 9: and last night we were exposed.
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  Speaker 4: We were listless.
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  Speaker 9: It was it was a bad performance. And I think
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  Speaker 9: the offense is a reflection the McCarthy's thought process and
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  Speaker 9: how he wants to attack a defense, and it's just
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  Speaker 9: not very good. Yeah, So my question is what can
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  Speaker 9: salvage this season? Is there anything he and Schottenheimer can
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  Speaker 9: do in that system to get this train roll? And
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  Speaker 9: I don't hang up, thank you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I you're not wrong on on you know,
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  Speaker 2: with obviously being frustrated, but also just from what it
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  Speaker 2: looks like, it just doesn't look like it was two
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  Speaker 2: different offenses. When we saw from from the forty nine ers,
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're scheming their guys open in ways. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the goal line play when there's no receivers
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  Speaker 2: on the field, it's just you know the full back
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  Speaker 2: you used check and you know he's wide open. I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's just you know, the way that they they
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  Speaker 2: another touchdown that they had to guys kind of going
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  Speaker 2: in the same direction and then one guy peels off
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  Speaker 2: and kittles wide open. I mean, i mean, how do
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  Speaker 2: you scheme open like Pro bowlers? You know, But but
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  Speaker 2: they do. They they they've got it figured out, just
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  Speaker 2: the way they go in motion. I mean I told
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  Speaker 2: this to Derek on the game. I mean, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: it's a borderline false start. I mean, really, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's kind of what what it looks like. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that that it's against the rules of
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  Speaker 2: just saying the way that they've got their guys going
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  Speaker 2: in motion right before the snap like that, it's just
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  Speaker 2: very innovative. And and they and they were they were
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  Speaker 2: on pointless you know last night for sure, the Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: were not. And yeah, that what what they're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're gonna they're gonna get into the lab
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  Speaker 2: and figure it out. I mean, we saw we saw
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  Speaker 2: with the with the push play that the Eagles have perfected.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we saw that in the game like that
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  Speaker 2: actually happened. That was their first first down of the game,
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  Speaker 2: was was actually copying what's done around the league. We'll
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  Speaker 2: do more of that, more copying, figure it, figure out
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  Speaker 2: what other other people are doing it, and install it,
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  Speaker 2: get it in and play. I mean, you get a
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  Speaker 2: long week. I mean I'm not saying you fix it
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  Speaker 2: all in one week, but I mean there are there's different, different,
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  Speaker 2: you know, alterations that they have to do throughout the season.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, Dak said it the other day that
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot more of this offense that hasn't been revealed. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's time to start throwing some of that out because
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  Speaker 2: it looked like the forty nine Ers were three steps
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  Speaker 2: ahead of the Cowboys in every single way, especially on
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  Speaker 2: that defense against the offense. Now, I'll say this, the
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  Speaker 2: forty nine Ers can do things on defense that other
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  Speaker 2: teams can't do, really, and it's because of their pass rush.
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  Speaker 2: They have an unbelievable pass rush. They don't have to
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  Speaker 2: blitz a lot their linebacker. I mean, Fred Warner was
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  Speaker 2: the best player on the field, I thought, and he
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  Speaker 2: has been the last couple of times they faced the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Their secondary doesn't have to be special because they can
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  Speaker 2: play back. They can be a little bit more conservative
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  Speaker 2: because they know that they have a pass rush Er there.
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  Speaker 2: The Cowboys aren't going to see teams like that, you
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  Speaker 2: know that much. But still the difference between what they
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  Speaker 2: were and what the forty nine was was astronomical. And
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  Speaker 2: so that's the demoralizing part. Doesn't matter if you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: face teams not as good as that. That was the
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  Speaker 2: elite and the Cowboys were nowhere close to that. So
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  Speaker 2: to be the team that they want to be, maybe
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  Speaker 2: make it to the even make it to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: that's gonna be something that I think that is in
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  Speaker 2: question right now because really, when you think about it,
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  Speaker 2: what is what is this team? How good are they?
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  Speaker 10: Like?
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  Speaker 2: You really don't know are they good at all? I
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  Speaker 2: mean you we just don't know that. I mean, their
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  Speaker 2: wins against the Giants and Patriots are not impressive really,
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  Speaker 2: I mean that, yeah, it was one sided, but those
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  Speaker 2: teams don't look good at all. The Jets, you know,
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  Speaker 2: who knows what the Jets really are right now? It's
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  Speaker 2: hard to kind of figure them out. I guess they
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  Speaker 2: did win yesterday, but but you know, the Cardinals aren't
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  Speaker 2: going to be a good team and you couldn't beat them,
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  Speaker 2: and then of course, you know you had a chance
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  Speaker 2: to kind of send a message and show the world
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  Speaker 2: what kind of team they laid an egg, laid several
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  Speaker 2: of them. All, Right, Travis and san Antonio are next.
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  Speaker 2: Call Travis, and I'm going next.
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  Speaker 3: This is one of those could be better days. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a long season. Like the other caller said,
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  Speaker 3: there's still a lot of football that be played till
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  Speaker 3: things can change or you know, narratives can change by
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  Speaker 3: the end of the year. But I do I have
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  Speaker 3: to like gether caller said the same thing, and I've
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  Speaker 3: been I know we're not gonna get you want to
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  Speaker 3: get too much into offseason talk, but I couldn't watch
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  Speaker 3: the game last night and not think, like, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know why I got there, but I was just thinking
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  Speaker 3: about Dak's agent, and I was just like, if you
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  Speaker 3: don't get to a Nancy Championship game or change as
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  Speaker 3: a narrative, there's no way that he can that agent
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  Speaker 3: can walk into Jerry's office and you don't you just
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  Speaker 3: say this is what we want without going really like
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  Speaker 3: this game, I mean, there's there's no there's no way
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  Speaker 3: you can't. And now there's plenty of blame to go around, However,
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  Speaker 3: you just we just know, like the way that it works,
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  Speaker 3: like you're not going to pay that guy sixty million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: It's just not going to happen. And what's worse than that.
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  Speaker 3: The thing was more disheartening than the injuries and all
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  Speaker 3: that was Mike's comments. I just were like out of
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  Speaker 3: left field. I didn't I didn't understand his comments as
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  Speaker 3: far as he was saying, like we basically were on
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  Speaker 3: par with them, but we just got out played. I
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  Speaker 3: just those comments were actually more of a red flag
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  Speaker 3: to me than anything. So I just want to see
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  Speaker 3: what you thought about this comment.
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  Speaker 2: Ye have a great week, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of bouncing around in the locker room
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  Speaker 2: trying to listen to you know that have four or
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  Speaker 2: five guys talking at once sometimes and so you know
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  Speaker 2: you I was listening to some I know, we had
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  Speaker 2: another one of our writers in there, but I did
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  Speaker 2: I heard some things like that, and I also heard
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  Speaker 2: like this is a blessing, you know, game like this
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  Speaker 2: is a blessing, and I was like, I it felt
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  Speaker 2: like a didn't feel like a blessing. I didn't hear
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  Speaker 2: all of the comments that he was making. I did
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  Speaker 2: read that one though, the one you're talking about about
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  Speaker 2: basically saying that we you know, they they got this one,
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  Speaker 2: but we feel like it's about the same. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I think you do that when when you lose an overtime,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and maybe you do that last year in
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  Speaker 2: last year's game. I could see a comment like that
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  Speaker 2: in last year's game. I thought the Cowboys were right
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  Speaker 2: there with them. I thought they had some unfortunate, you know,
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  Speaker 2: bad breaks that happened in the game last year that
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  Speaker 2: you could kind of say that, And it got me
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  Speaker 2: thinking that going into this game, that you know, the
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  Speaker 2: Cowboys were right there. That's why I picked them to win.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't feel great about it, but I picked him
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  Speaker 2: to win because I said, you know what, they were
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  Speaker 2: there last year, they could have won that game. They've
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  Speaker 2: gotten you know, they've done things to make this better
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  Speaker 2: a better football team. But what's happening is is I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if they are better. They don't look better
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  Speaker 2: than they did last year. I mean, this team that
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: the defense, you know, the defense plays really well, but
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: you know they can't keep sustaining injuries. I mean, let's
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: face it, the Trayvon Diggs injury was really it hurts
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: this team I mean, of course it does. He's a
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: All pro corner who saw it in a game last night.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: When you're going up against a team that has a
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: lot of weapons, I mean, you have to match them
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: with the defensive playmakers. And so, yeah, Bland and Gilmore
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: are good, but I mean they were good for two
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: and three on your depth chart, not not necessarily one
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: and two. And so that's that's something that it's not
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: going to get fixed. I mean, they got to get
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: better than that. But yeah, I'm just I'm I'm just
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: not here for the dek talk right now on the
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: long term. I mean, just because that's not It isn't
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: long term. It isn't long term unless you're calling me.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: If you're gonna call and say, hey, Cooper Rush, it
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: should start Monday night against the Chargers, then say that.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Because that's kind of where we are. We're still early October.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: That's what this is. This is not a January conversation.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: And and and because I know how this goes, I'm
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: not in the question. But if Dak goes out and
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: plays lights out against against the Chargers or any other game,
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: and they win some games and they start, you know,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: getting this thing rolling and no one's going to be
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: saying that as much. It's like, well maybe they should
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: do this and this, maybe they'll work with them. I mean,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: because we got too much football to go to be
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: talking about things that aren't gonna be changing right this second.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: So I think we need to figure out and focus
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: on the stuff that could be changing, all right, Fernando
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: in Miami. Fernando, next caller, and.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Thank you for taking my call.
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: I think I know what could change everything here.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: I'm fifty eight years old. I've been watching the Cowboys.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: I think my first time with the Cowboys was in
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: seventy five. I got through the eighties, the nineties, and
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: now I think what's killing us in the red zone
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: during the game. This thing that we draft tackles and
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: we try to turn them in the guards. You've got
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: Tyler Smith who's blocking guys that are two forty two fifty.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: He's a tackle and he's doing the pancakes on them.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: Were like, oh this, I could do this. Dougle block
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: a Sue you know who's three point thirty, and he
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: can't do it. And that's the thing they can't have
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: seen Richards all the time him that guard. When you're
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: a guard, you're a guard, when you're a tackle, you're
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: a tackle. It's different Bobby types. You got to be
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: able to move your feet. I think that's why we're
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: not blowing holes open. We can't get in the red zone.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: We're having problems. It's turned changing players, you know, to
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: do that. I mean, I think it's horrible. Draft the
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: guard and draft the tackle. They did that in the nineties.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: They didn't get Eric Williams and try to make him
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: a guard. You know, it was your tackle, your tackle,
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: your a guard, your a guard. The backups were guard
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: and the backups were tackles. It wasn't this flip flop
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: thing they got going. Now, that's why they can't run
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: the ball. And that's it. What do you think.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily agree with that part about I mean,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I mean comparing him to the nineties, I mean, Nate
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Newton was a tackle. They made him a guard to
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Larry Allen as a tackle and he's a guard. I mean,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I think if you could block, you can block. I mean,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I really do. I there is more to it than that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: I'm not just saying. I mean, there's a reason why
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Zach Martin doesn't want to play tackle. He wants to
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: play guard. I mean it's not the same position. I
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: understand that, but I don't look at this game. I
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: don't look at the game and go, man, they need
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: to move Tyler Smith out to tackle. You know, he's
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: not getting it down again. There's just not enough fingers
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: to go around. That offensive line though, wasn't. I mean,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: it wasn't blocking. I mean, there's no doubt about it.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, the offensive line, it didn't. It wasn't what
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: we were hoping for. When we're like, oh, we got
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: these five guys, they're all back, they're ready to go.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: It certainly wasn't what they expected. I can't go with
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: you there on just the Tyler Smith part. I think
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: he's been really good at guard this season. He wasn't.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: I haven't looked at the tape to go. He wasn't good.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: But nobody was. I mean, nobody was moving the ball. No, nobody,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: nobody blocked, nobody ran well. They I mean Dak didn't
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: have a good game at all. Dak did not play well.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: He knows that. He said that the receivers weren't getting open.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Just you can go down the line. I mean, I'll
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: be I'll be done. With the show. If I go
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: through every single person out there, you know, it just
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: it was. It was as bad as it gets. It
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: was as bad as it gets. And the forty nine
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: ers were just flawless, and the Cowboys just couldn't do
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: anything right. And you add that up and you get
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: you get a forty two to ten blowout win like
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: like they got. All right, got a couple of questions
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: here text questions. This is JD from North Carolina. Was
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: there an injury to Decks throwing hands? TV suggested there
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: was one. I think he got a cut on his
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: middle finger and gets what it was. I mean, he
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: dismissed it afterwards, he said, you know the touchdown, the
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: touchdown came after that, you know, so you know, I
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: mean that that was I don't think it mattered too much.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, certainly when you're holding the football and you
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: don't want to have tape on there, But I don't
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I don't think it affected too many things. He's he didn't.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: He didn't say that. He downplayed that for sure. All right,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Let's go back to the line. Brian in Kansas City. Brian,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: You're next.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Nick, Good morning, Brian. Well, you know to
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: borrow from the old Belichick line, We're onto the Chargers.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Know, the the last caller. I do agree that we
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I have one hundred percent all night thought we lost
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: the game in the trenches. And that's I'm an older guy.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I'm fifty six. I've been watching the Cowboys forever, and
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: I'm kind of the Parcels era, you know, everything is
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: one and lost in the trenches kind of thinking. And
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: I one hundred percent thought we lost the game in
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: the trenches. At no point did our defensive line look intimidating,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: and our offensive line just just looked out of shrink.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: So that was my thoughts while I was with the
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: last guy. So, you know, here's where I'm at with
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: with with what's going on now. Is very quickly after
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: having two really surprisingly bad losses to you know, you know,
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: the Niners, not that we could lose to them, but
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: in the way we did, and just losing the Arizona period,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I think we're gonna hear a lot of this person's
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: on the hot seat, whoever it is, you know, whether
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: it's McCarthy, dak right, you know, the people that get
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: to blame when when, when these things happen and you know,
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: they they can respond and you know, pull out with
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: a couple of good games and maybe that'll quiet it.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: But I think that's kind of where we're at right now,
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: and you hope for the best, but you know that's
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: that they put on some the tape from these two
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: games that they lost was just awful, and uh, you know,
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: we'll we'll try to clean it up, come back on
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Monday night and see what we can do and not overreact.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: I lived through the eighty nine season and that was
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: as bad as it gets. So yeah, anyway, as those
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: are my thoughts, brother, I hope you have a good leak.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Thanks for taking the call.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Man, Thank you Brian, you know, and let's let me
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: go back to the last caller as well. Though. I mean, like,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you about the offensive line and
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: the and and getting beat in the trenches. I mean,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: that's not what I'm saying. I'm not trying to dismiss
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: what you're saying about about the you know, needing to
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: make a change there. And it starts, it starts, you know,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: in the line. I mean, because they did not they
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: did not block up front. The running game is was
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: non existent, you know, Tony Pollard. He does look the
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: same as as you know. And and this is not
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: a surprise. It should not be a surprise because I
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: mean I heard Skip Peete, the former running backs coach,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: say this multiple times in the last two years, like
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: it's not it's it needs to be Zeke and then Pollard.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: It's not just a it's not I mean, Pollard will
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: not be as effective if you make him the lead
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: running back. That's what That's what he said over and over,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: and we're kind of seeing it now. I mean, he
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: it's it's different when you're taking all of the hits
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: and not just the hits with the ball, but having
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: to step up and block and do those things. I
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: mean it's a wear and tear on your body that
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: his body just doesn't look like it would hold up.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: And he's never been that guy. Even in high school.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: He split carries. He split carries at Memphis, he split carries,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: you know, early in his career here. So it's uh,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: he you know, he he probably needs to split more carries.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: But but the running, the holes really weren't there, even
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: the ones that Rico Daldle was trying to run through.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, like he was running through people, and and
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: there's just they're just not schemed up and have these
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: wide open, gaping holes. It's not it's not there. And
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: so the offense when when the changes, you know, this week,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: when they're trying to correct things, offensive line's got to
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: be right there. Uh with everything else. All right, let's
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: take a break real quick. We'll come right back on
• 25:00
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  Speaker 1: To Cowboys storylines.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Welcome back Cowboys storyline here second half of the show.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: And you can just kind of hear it in the
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: voices of the of the callers. Uh. And that was
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: a tough one. You know, I appreciate you guys calling though.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys trying to figure this out. You know,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: it's it's not easy those You know, I did not
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: expect to be done with my column at the end
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: of the game last night. I thought, you know, usually
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: it was gonna be one of those last second things
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: right on the plane and all that, but felt like
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: a preseason game from the standpoint of being able to
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: be finished because it didn't take long to really get
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: the story of the game. And the forty nine ers
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: just just outclassed them in every way. I mean, they
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: just were so so much better. And you know, it's
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: back to the drawing board. I mean it should be
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: at least to try to figure out how to fix
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: this issue, all right. I mean before we go to
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: the calls, I do have a couple of text questions
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: nine to one five area code. It says, does moving
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: the pocket help Dak in the offense? Maybe getting more
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: play action in the game plan? But you know, the
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: play action works when you run. I mean like when
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: you could run the ball and then the teams are
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: kind of worried about your run and then they suck
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: down you know, the safety's and linebackers to make sure
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: and stop that, and that's where you go play action
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: if you're not running the football and not worried about
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: your playfakes. There was times in the game where I
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: thought Dak is over here faking too long, like like
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: start of throwing it, because both says like right, behind you, like,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: what do you Why are you, you know, still trying
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: to run a fake when the running backs not even
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: not even there anymore? And so I think that that
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: part needs to get cleaned up. But I mean it
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: does start with running the football, all right. Next caller,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Rob in Vegas. Rob, what's up?
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: Okay?
• 29:00
  Speaker 16: Nick?
• 29:01
  Speaker 17: Hey, So let's talk about Cooper Rush because I think
• 29:04
  Speaker 17: he's a better fit for this offense. You know the
• 29:09
  Speaker 17: thing that we kept saying what separates them as well?
• 29:12
  Speaker 17: Dak is much more mobile, No, he's not. That doesn't
• 29:15
  Speaker 17: move anymore, that doesn't run. I think Cooper Rush would
• 29:19
  Speaker 17: be better mentally for this offense. And I think he
• 29:22
  Speaker 17: has a better arm. I mean, you're asking Dak to
• 29:25
  Speaker 17: be a game manager. He used to be an athletic quarterback,
• 29:29
  Speaker 17: and he regrets he looks like a shot fighter. I
• 29:32
  Speaker 17: mean he totally went back to the old dack when
• 29:37
  Speaker 17: the heat was on, just throwing the ball up. Three
• 29:39
  Speaker 17: picks and they weren't even you know, sometimes I give
• 29:42
  Speaker 17: the quarter you know that's not on the quarterback. Those
• 29:44
  Speaker 17: are bad picks. So I think Cooper Rush would be
• 29:48
  Speaker 17: a better fit. He was a great game manager last
• 29:51
  Speaker 17: year and he went I believe for in one so
• 29:54
  Speaker 17: but they're not going to do that, of course, because
• 29:55
  Speaker 17: they're paying Dak way too much money. But I do
• 29:59
  Speaker 17: think Cooper Rush would be a better fit. And I
• 30:02
  Speaker 17: think McCarty has no confidence and that that's why he
• 30:06
  Speaker 17: calls the game the way he does. And I got
• 30:09
  Speaker 17: to tell you the guy that i'd lost a lot
• 30:10
  Speaker 17: of You know, Micah Parsons, what do you do in
• 30:15
  Speaker 17: exchanging jerseys at the end of the game when you
• 30:19
  Speaker 17: just got killed forty two to ten. And those comparisons
• 30:23
  Speaker 17: to LT, they need to stop right now, because the
• 30:28
  Speaker 17: difference is LT played the run, the pass, He played everything,
• 30:33
  Speaker 17: and he would build his players up. If you watched
• 30:35
  Speaker 17: Michael Parsis yesterday, he was disinterested after the first quarter.
• 30:40
  Speaker 17: It's like if he's not getting to the quarterback and
• 30:42
  Speaker 17: he's not trolling on the ground, he doesn't want to
• 30:44
  Speaker 17: do any of that other stuff. He doesn't want to
• 30:47
  Speaker 17: play the run, he doesn't want to get beat up.
• 30:49
  Speaker 17: And I understand he's too small, so they've either got
• 30:52
  Speaker 17: to play him at linebacker. Well, he's got to gain.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: Thirty pounds if he's going to be on the line.
• 30:57
  Speaker 17: But doing this to him right now, because I'm sure
• 31:00
  Speaker 17: next week they're going to do the same thing. They're
• 31:02
  Speaker 17: going to run right at him. If Cardinals ran right
• 31:04
  Speaker 17: at them, and that's what teams are gonna do, they're
• 31:06
  Speaker 17: not gonna let him chase them down. So the Cowboys
• 31:09
  Speaker 17: need to figure out what they're going to do with
• 31:11
  Speaker 17: my put But he needs to he needs to grow
• 31:13
  Speaker 17: up and stop with the podcast and the exchange of jerseys. Bro,
• 31:17
  Speaker 17: he just got dominated in front of millions of people.
• 31:21
  Speaker 16: Yeah, she'll supplied.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's thanks for the call the jersey thing.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Let's let's not just single him out. Okay, Luke schoom
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Maker was walking off with a red jersey hanging off
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: his shoulder. They all do it, Okay, they all do it.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: And I don't necessarily understand it or agree with it.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: I feel like, if you you can, you know, you
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: can get jerseys. You guys get jerseys all the time.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: You guys get jerseys in different ways. I don't know
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: why it has to be right then in the game,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: and and that's just that's just the nature of it.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: If fans actually saw and knew how things went like
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: after the game and on the plane and stuff like that,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: they you know there would be a lot of guys
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: even more upset than than what it is because the
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: players are built differently when it comes to that. So
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily agree with it. I think it looks bad.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I think it's a terrible look. I saw it against
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Arizona when Chumanidoga did not have a good game at
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: all and walking off with the red jersey, and you
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: just kind of you know, it's it's different, But that's
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: that's that's a players are built differently that way. He
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: can't get into into the mind of that. So I'm
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: not gonna I'm not gonna single out anybody because that's
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: how a lot of them are. Micah, though, I mean
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: he I don't care about the podcast. I don't care
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: about all that stuff. I mean, he's got to play
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: better though that. He's got to play better. He he
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: can't sit there and talk about wanting to be Why
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: is you know why he's not getting mentioned for MVP
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: instead of Defensive Player of the Year. I mean he's
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: talked about that kind of stuff. I mean, the Defensive
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Player of the Year might have been playing last night.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I mean there's no doubt about it. I mean Fred
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Warner was was on block unblockable. I mean, he he
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: set the tone. He reminded me of Troy Polamalu back
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: in the day when he was just everywhere he was running,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: he was top of the runs path everything. But but
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: to go back to the main thing that that that
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Rob said was Cooper Rush, you know, and that's and
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: that's the thing. If you're gonna if you're gonna come
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: in and talk about Dak, I mean, that's that's the option.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: If you want to say that, I'll put you down.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: I'll write you down for that. I don't think they're
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: gonna make that change, but that's you know, that's what
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: what would have to happen, is they're going to have
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: to go and and and put in a different quarterback
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: in and I don't know if it would be Cooper Rush.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it would be Trey Lance. I
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: don't think they're ready to make that that move. I
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: think you need to see some uh consistency in a
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: bad way of of of this being more of a
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: pattern to to make that change. But but but certainly,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: you know, and I think before McCarthy starts pulling, you know,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: the quarterback and that I think that they need to
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: fix the offense as well, like fix the play call
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: change that up. You might see that change. Maybe maybe
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: you see a change in play callers. Something's got to happen.
• 34:11
  Speaker 12: Though.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: You can't just get beat forty two to ten in
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: in the biggest early test of the season and say, well,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: you know, we'll do better next week. I mean better better,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: we'll we'll we'll get you beat by twenty Okay, I
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: mean you got beat by thirty two. It needs to
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: be appreciably better. It needs to be there needs to
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: be some changes here. I think the bye week is
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: going to come at the right time. Maybe maybe the
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Cowboys can can do some of those big changes in
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: that time. All right, Andrew and in Colorado, Andrew, what's up?
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: Hey, Good morning, Nick, One time listener, first time caller.
• 34:46
  Speaker 7: I've always kind of been a you know, Dak apologist.
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: I heard Nick Harrison on Talking Cowboys this morning, and
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: you know, I am kind of agreeing with him or
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: on mindset is kind of changing in regards to kan
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: Dak actually do this. However, I don't think they set
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: him up for success last night, and my observation being.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: You gotta get back on the move.
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: But with the play call. I think he was staying
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: alongside the hugging the line of scrimmage, you know, trying
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: to make that play look downfield other stuff. Just just
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: take a run, take three, take four, you know, keep
• 35:20
  Speaker 7: those down the distance and manage all positions. Because I
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: also hear from other folks on other shows too, saying
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: like this whole West Coast offense is predicated on short yardage,
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: So keep it short. You know, take what the defense
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: gives you, you know, get those first down opportunities.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: And keep the ball moving.
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: I see other quarterbacks across the league do it, you know, run,
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: take what they get, and then keep the down and
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: distance short. Right, And then my question to you is
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: this feels very very similar to twenty eighteen when the
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: Cowboys traded for Amari Cooper. Not because we're in lack
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: of hacking game right now, but just we need to
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: splash change something up with the pieces that we have
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: currently on the defensive side of the ball. Even though
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: we're missing Trayvon Diggs, we still got talent. Does that
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: feel like were there quite yet?
• 36:07
  Speaker 13: Could be?
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: They be there soon? Maybe during the bye week.
• 36:09
  Speaker 16: What do you think?
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: Thanks?
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Thank you? You know, I mean they're always gonna gonna
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: say that. They'll they'll be looking for trades or looking
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: for you know, to try to help the team, and
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: and so they'll have their eyes open for for situations
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: like that. I'd be careful doing that though, just because
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: it needs you know, if you're going to do a trade,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: you need to trade for someone that is going to
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: be a part of this team for a while, because
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: you know, that's what happened. They traded for a Maari Cooper.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: But they you know, they they they kept saying, well,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: he's twenty four years old, so he's going to be here.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: But he was only here for what three three seasons
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: or so, So you've got to make sure that, you know,
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: you have a lot of holes to fill. Uh, you
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: got to keep getting better, and so you're going to
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: have to probably trade, you know, a draft picker or
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: to to get somebody like a splash that you say,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: you don't your other part of the call about you
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: know this offense Texas Coast keeping it short, you know
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: against the forty nine ers, you've got to have guys
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: that can break tackles though, because three yard passes have
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: to go, I mean it has to go. Get ten yards.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: You can't just throw it three yards and just and
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: get tackled at the line of scrip, tackled right there
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: on the spot and expect to do anything. And a
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: big example to that was the one that one of
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: the previous callers talked about the fourth and two before halftime,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: at the two minute warning, where the Cowboys decided not
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: to go for it. Well before that, it was third
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: and five or third and six, and Dak threw underneath
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: to Ferguson. You know, he kind of rushed it and
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: he threw it underneath. Ferguson caught it, was caught, was
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: tackled immediately, and you know, they're not throwing it at
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: the sticks. And so that play call to me suggested that, okay,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: you're going to try to get a little bit so
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: you could have a more manageable fourth down, but then
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: when you go and punt, it doesn't make any sense
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: at all. So they they are lacking some playmakers and
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: and I thought that that was going to be something
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: that would be addressed from last year, but that was
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: a huge difference in the game that they had. They
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: don't have the type of playmakers that that they they
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: need to compete in a game like that, to help
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: your quarterback throw the ball, turn around, make some plays.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, the way that this offense is designed and
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: the way Dak is playing, he definitely needs more help
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: and he's not getting it. So it's a big problem.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, it seems like a chicken and egg type
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: of thing. Really, is it? Is it the playmakers? Is
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: it Dak? Is it the play calling? Is it? Is
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: it both? I mean, it's it's there's a lot going
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: on here, all right, Ronnie in New Jersey? Is that right, Ronnie?
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I'm good, Thanks for calling.
• 38:48
  Speaker 16: Uh no, thank you, Nick. First thing I called last
• 38:53
  Speaker 16: week and asked Darren Woodson about the office line, how
• 38:57
  Speaker 16: to be how to have that mentality, and he said,
• 39:00
  Speaker 16: Tyron Smith. I believe Tyron Smith played well last night.
• 39:04
  Speaker 16: I saw him play and he played well. Now, Tyler,
• 39:07
  Speaker 16: he got beat on one play, like everybody's calling and saying, oh, Tyler,
• 39:11
  Speaker 16: you know, gotta.
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: Make a guard and guard and tackle a tackle.
• 39:14
  Speaker 16: No, man, Tyler had one bad play. Now the other tackle.
• 39:18
  Speaker 16: He got beat a few times. But the old line,
• 39:21
  Speaker 16: from what I heard, this was the first week they've
• 39:23
  Speaker 16: been together in two years. Two years. So with that,
• 39:28
  Speaker 16: the more they play together, the better they're going to get.
• 39:31
  Speaker 16: But Dak, Dak, I don't agree with you when he
• 39:36
  Speaker 16: said that if he comes out and plays lights out
• 39:39
  Speaker 16: for the next few weeks and has great games, we're
• 39:42
  Speaker 16: all on the bandwagon again. I don't believe it, because
• 39:46
  Speaker 16: all year he just hasn't been He's been throwing bad throws.
• 39:51
  Speaker 16: He's been lucky that they haven't been catching the ball.
• 39:54
  Speaker 16: The other teams they just have. They dropped the ball
• 39:56
  Speaker 16: a few times. He's been making the same mistakes that
• 39:59
  Speaker 16: the forty Imus always seemed to expose him on. That's
• 40:03
  Speaker 16: that's my opinion. Dak is who he is now, playmakers.
• 40:07
  Speaker 16: That's what you said we had, I mean, everybody said
• 40:10
  Speaker 16: we have when we got uh the wide receiver. They're
• 40:13
  Speaker 16: just not using him the right way. They're not using
• 40:15
  Speaker 16: this whole offense the right way. That's what I see.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: What do you think, well, I mean, thanks for the call.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, uh yeah, I don't know if if they're
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: if they're getting open, you know, and the right way.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: But but there are some throws that that the Cowboys
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: just don't make. I mean that that Dak doesn't make,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: that they don't call. You know, you watch the game
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: and you see what perty see some of the plays
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: that pretty throws, you know, deep deep crossing routes over
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: the middle. That's not this offense. And maybe it would
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: be with a different quarterback. I don't know that. All
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: I'm saying is is that they those are certain throws
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: they don't they don't even attempt. But you know, like
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Cooks was here so he can be, you know, a
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: speed guy, and here he is. I mean, they get
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: him on a mismatch with Fred Warner who's doing everything,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: but he can't run with Brandon Cooks, and Cooks runs
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: right by him and Dak throws it to the cheerleaders.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, like that's that. That was a huge moment
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: in the game. Is one of my five plays that
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: I that I pointed out is that you finally you
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: schemed it up where you could get your guy on
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: there on a linebacker and he's running free down the
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: field and you don't even give him a chance. That
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: one was huge. There's fifty three yards of field and
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: and and you don't give them any of that and
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: you throw it out of bounds. I thought that one
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: was a huge miss, miss opportunity in the game for Dak.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: But I mean my point is is that is that
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I don't think that you're gonna be sitting here talking
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: about contract if he if he does play well, if
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: he if he plays like we've seen him play like,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: it's don't act like he doesn't play well, like like
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: like he hasn't had these moments. So my point is
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: that there's a lot of season left, a lot of seasons.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: There's twelve games to go, and so what we think
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: things are going to be right now, It's going to
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: be different. It's going to be different later on in
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: the year. Let's let it play out. There's no reason
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: to sit here and talk about contracts at this moment.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: If you're going to talk about changing the quarterback, then fine,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: say that, which one of the callers did. But I
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: I as for like how things are going to be
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: in January, I just don't think we're there for that.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: All right, Blake in Phoenix, Blake, what's up?
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: Hi?
• 42:29
  Speaker 10: This might be a little repeat after the last few callers,
• 42:31
  Speaker 10: That's all right, But uh yeah, but I was just
• 42:34
  Speaker 10: going to see what you've thought about the situation, just
• 42:36
  Speaker 10: because it's in three years of being decent but not
• 42:40
  Speaker 10: good enough.
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: Man, last year.
• 42:41
  Speaker 10: I know, the statistics were good on paper, but then
• 42:43
  Speaker 10: you go to the game and it's a completely different story.
• 42:46
  Speaker 10: You know, we've changed the offensive coordinator. You know, we've
• 42:49
  Speaker 10: put a bunch of talents. He's gone now to you know,
• 42:52
  Speaker 10: we're supposed to have two a decent running back, but rotation, right,
• 42:56
  Speaker 10: and then it's like we still are not able to
• 42:58
  Speaker 10: be these like top ten mean and so it was curious, like,
• 43:03
  Speaker 10: like how you think that reflects Dac and just his
• 43:08
  Speaker 10: do you think his play style fits the West Coast
• 43:11
  Speaker 10: kind of scheme?
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, that's a that's a tough question to
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: answer right now, you know, because it's still you know,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: it's still early enough in this season where it's kind
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: of it's it's just tough to figure out what what
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: his style is compared to what it's been in the past.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, I I don't. I don't have a great
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: answer for you. I really don't. I mean, I know
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: this offense is struggling. It's struggling to move the ball.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: You know, you can you can blame every area. Uh,
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: you can blame that, the receivers, the runners, the offensive line,
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Dak tight ends, you know, like they they they just
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: don't seem to have anything that they can just kind
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: of lean on and and and when it comes to
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: the offen and I know that was a question that
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: was asked in the locker room a couple of times
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: about offensive identity, what's the identity and all that, and uh,
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: you know, it's just they just don't have something that
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: you can say, all right, get the ball to Pollard
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: and let him do his thing, or get the ball,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: get Dak on the move, or you know, like what
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: is it? And that was going back to the callers
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: before about fourth and two. They just don't have a
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: play for it. You know, they didn't have a play
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: for it. And that that right there kind of shows
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: that you know, it's it was. It was an uphill
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: battle for sure. All right, let me get one more
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: caller in and we'll finish the show. Sam and Philly. Sam,
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: what's up? Man?
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: You there?
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Nope? Hanging up? That's okay? Hello, Hey Sam? Hey Sam?
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 44:51
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I don't know what all this like, what all
• 44:53
  Speaker 16: this talk is about?
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: That this is what Dak was was gonna be. Dude.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: He was drafted in the fourth round.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: His best attribute was supposed to be running the ball.
• 45:00
  Speaker 16: That's how he got to the NFL.
• 45:02
  Speaker 18: Nobody wanted him.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: In the first three rounds. This is why.
• 45:05
  Speaker 18: And now we're saying because he doesn't run anymore. He
• 45:08
  Speaker 18: snapped his ankle.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: He doesn't do that anymore. So this is what you get.
• 45:12
  Speaker 18: Now you can change everything around. They've been changing things
• 45:15
  Speaker 18: around him this whole time, and still the same thing.
• 45:18
  Speaker 18: He doesn't get rid of the ball fast enough and
• 45:20
  Speaker 18: he doesn't know what he doesn't know what he's looking at.
• 45:22
  Speaker 18: That's what it looks like on TV. It looks like
• 45:24
  Speaker 18: he doesn't know what he's looking at.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: So it's frustrating.
• 45:30
  Speaker 18: They need to start looking for a new quarterback. I'm
• 45:32
  Speaker 18: sorry to say that through the defense got deflated. They're
• 45:36
  Speaker 18: on the field all night. You're the first like two
• 45:39
  Speaker 18: quarters on the field all night. They can't get a
• 45:41
  Speaker 18: first down. And they're an emotional defense. There are a
• 45:44
  Speaker 18: bunch of emotional guys on defense. If they see that
• 45:47
  Speaker 18: things aren't going right, they shut down too. And that's
• 45:50
  Speaker 18: a problem too. But I'll hang up and listen.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, Well that's that's it in a nutshell.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's it. That's I mean, And I
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: say that like from a caller standpoint, that's what Monday
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: morning feels like after forty two to ten. And I
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: bet you Sam and Philly have to be in Philly
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: is not is not a great place to be being
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: a Cowboy fan in Philly, especially after a game like this.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if they're looking for another quarterback.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: They probably I'm not going to say that they are
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: saying that. They all. They're all you're always looking for that,
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: You're always looking for your next move. You're always started
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: to trying to figure that out. So I don't think
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: those are conversations necessary that we that are having right now.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: But but yeah, I mean you have to you have
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: to look look down the line. And I know I said,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: we're not gonna sit here and talk about it, but
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: that's not for us to do. I mean, the decision
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: makers are the ones that are that need to talk
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: about that. But they were, more than anything, need to
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: figure out how to fix it for right now. Fix
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: fix this thing, turn it around, figure out how to
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: how to go beat the Chargers. Uh in seven days? Now?
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: You know, next Monday, you gotta go. You gotta go
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: win that game. You gotta go. You made the decision
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: to not have Killen Moore and call the plays. And
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: now he's calling the plays with the Chargers and you're
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: calling the plays here and it's not working out. And
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: guess what, you get to play them and we get
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: to talk about it on Monday night. And that's what's
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: going to happen. And so you know, this was a
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Barama game and the Cowboys failed. Well, they got another
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: one coming up here right before the buye. Because you
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: go lose to the Chargers and we have to sit
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: and talk about it for fourteen days, there's gonna be
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: some there will be some changes after that. So I
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: don't know if last night's game was the biggest game
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: of the year. I think this one might be.
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: Though.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: This one might be way bigger than that, because if
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: the Cowboys are anything close to the team they want
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: to be, they need to figure out how to get
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: up dust themselves off. Get that it's not even a
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: bloody lip. I mean, they got a lot of bumps
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: and bruises from last night. Figure that out and go
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: beat the Chargers and go, you know, win win a
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: game up there. If they can do that, then then
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: you know it might it might save the season. But
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: as it stands right now, this was a terrible loss.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: You guys, I appreciate all the callers that they called
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  Speaker 2: in today. Uh not feeling good this Monday morning, and
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: he really shouldn't. But again, long season. We'll see if
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: they if the Cowboys have what it takes to turn
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  Speaker 2: this thing around. All right, we're gonna turn this around
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: to Cowboys. Break will be coming that. It's gonna be
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: interesting to hear what they say. I'm gonna get out
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  Speaker 2: of here. Uh well, we'll see you tomorrow on Cowboys storyline.
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