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  Speaker 2: How about this, Cowboys?
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  Speaker 3: Let's go, Cowboys!
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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 4: Good morning and welcome to Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette.
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  Speaker 3: It's Tuesday, October 27th. Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 4: Let's talk some Cowboys victory. Victory Tuesday, if you want
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  Speaker 4: to call it that. Cowboys get a win in Philadelphia, 38-21.
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  Speaker 4: And much needed. Much needed win. It was as much
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  Speaker 4: of a must win as I think you can have
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  Speaker 4: in the month of October. And just the circumstance of everything.
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  Speaker 4: two and four for both teams playing on the road
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  Speaker 4: division game. And not only that, but playing a team
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  Speaker 4: that was certainly compromised, um, you know, Philadelphia's got some injuries.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, a lot of injuries, um, nobody cares, but
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  Speaker 4: you know, that's, that's what it is. And so I
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  Speaker 4: saw somebody wrote on, on Twitter about this game gets
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  Speaker 4: an asterisk. And I just thought that's, you know, that's
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  Speaker 4: just trolling stuff like that. Like, you know, You're an
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  Speaker 4: NFL team. Go out there and compete.
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  Speaker 3: And they did. And they battled. I'll give the Eagles credit.
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  Speaker 3: They battled.
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  Speaker 4: But the better team, the better quarterback, and the better
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  Speaker 4: players won. And when you play 60 minutes, you end
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  Speaker 4: up winning. And you win by 17. And so the
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys did exactly what they're supposed to do. Are all
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  Speaker 4: the problems fixed? No, they're not. But I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 4: They won in a way that we haven't seen. They
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  Speaker 4: were balanced. They ran the ball. And, I mean, we
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  Speaker 4: can say this on the show, they ran it right
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  Speaker 4: down Philly's ass. I mean, they just did it all
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  Speaker 4: game long. So they just took it to them, and,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they bullied the Eagles on the ground, and
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  Speaker 4: that was kind of fun to see. Couldn't happen to
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  Speaker 4: a better team. All right, let's go to the phone lines, 888-855-2297.
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  Speaker 4: Michael in Bowling Green, what's up?
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  Speaker 5: What's up? Well, I had a— I had a big number,
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  Speaker 5: but they still won by 17. They made improvements during
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  Speaker 5: the game. They only had one penalty, I believe, in
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  Speaker 5: the second half, and that was when they did an
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  Speaker 5: intentional delay of game. So they improved on that in
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  Speaker 5: the first half.
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  Speaker 4: That was the only penalty in the second half? I
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  Speaker 4: know that they were at seven. It was seven to
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  Speaker 4: nothing as far as penalties go. Seven to nothing at
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  Speaker 4: one point. And then they finished with eight.
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  Speaker 3: So that was it. That was the last one.
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  Speaker 5: And they let the play clock run out on purpose. But,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it was great. I loved it. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: got the interception. I mean, they didn't look perfect, but,
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  Speaker 5: you know, who does? What I'm wondering, I got a question.
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  Speaker 5: Why did they pull Barham from the game? What was
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  Speaker 5: he doing?
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  Speaker 4: He got benched. I mean, Shamar James got the start.
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  Speaker 4: Shamar James started the game over him. He's been playing better,
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  Speaker 4: practicing better, and they feel like he may cover the
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  Speaker 4: guy out in the flat.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'm just saying
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  Speaker 3: he's not a rookie.
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  Speaker 4: He's ready to take that role. You know, and I
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  Speaker 4: think as more as we've seen Barham, he still needs
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more time to develop, just like Shamar
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  Speaker 4: James did.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: They're not far off from where they were drafted and
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  Speaker 4: what they were doing and stuff like that. So, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the Cowboys made the change. Now, the starting lineup says
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  Speaker 4: that James started and so did Barham, but as Overshawn
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  Speaker 4: played more, he played more for Barham. But James got
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  Speaker 4: the start.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Well, we've got to beat the Cardinals. We've
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  Speaker 5: got to keep this going. But the other question I
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  Speaker 5: have is a caller called in a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. He's a captain. But he was talking
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  Speaker 5: about it and said that our kicker, that he's like
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  Speaker 5: next to last in some kind of stat. And I
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  Speaker 5: was watching the game last night when he kicked that
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  Speaker 5: one field goal. They said he hadn't missed a field
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  Speaker 5: goal within under 50 yards in two years. So I'm
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  Speaker 5: just wondering, what exactly was.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know that stat.
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  Speaker 4: I really honestly don't know exactly where Aubrey ranks.
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  Speaker 3: As far as kickers and stuff like that go.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I haven't looked that up, but I know
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  Speaker 4: a lot of his misses are pretty far. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he's not just missing short kicks or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: There's been some blocked, and then the ones that are blocked.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that goes as a miss, but, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's not always his fault.
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  Speaker 3: It's usually not his fault, but anyways. All right.
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  Speaker 5: That's all I had. I'll make room.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I'm happy with the results. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Michael. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you should be happy with the results, and, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you said it's not perfect.
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  Speaker 3: It's never going to be. You know, it's just not.
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  Speaker 3: It's just not. This isn't.
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  Speaker 4: A league that it's going to be perfect. But, you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's some things that you can do really well. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I would love to see them play that way.
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  Speaker 4: I know there's been a lot of talk about identity
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  Speaker 4: and all this kind of stuff. And I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if this team's consistent enough to have an identity of
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  Speaker 4: what they do and how they play.
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  Speaker 3: And how they go out. But I can promise you this.
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  Speaker 4: If you stacked a few of those games together and
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  Speaker 4: played that way, and you had a 200-yard rushing game
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  Speaker 4: and 200 yards passing, and you ran the ball like that,
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  Speaker 4: and Javante was.
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  Speaker 3: was running the way he was running. It was just
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  Speaker 3: on that left side.
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  Speaker 4: That left side, Tyler Guyton and Tyler Smith were just
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  Speaker 4: manhandling people, and Bebe and Tyler Booker, they all did.
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  Speaker 4: When you play like that, if you played like that consistently,
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  Speaker 4: you would definitely have an identity. Your identity is that
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  Speaker 4: the train's rolling right over your ass. That's basically what
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  Speaker 4: would be the identity of the team. Not there yet,
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  Speaker 4: but it was last night.
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  Speaker 3: It was fun to see. All right, Chris, Saratoga Springs.
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  Speaker 8: Chris.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Let's move it on. Can't wait. Can't wait forever.
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  Speaker 3: Is Steve ready? Steve?
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  Speaker 7: Hello?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Steve. Hello.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Whoever you are, let's do it. Is this Steve?
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  Speaker 8: Steve?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, this is Steve, Newport, Washington.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's go. What do you got?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, I got, it took.
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  Speaker 9: Me almost through the remote, through the television on that
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  Speaker 9: first drive.
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  Speaker 3: Don't break remotes. Sorry, I do it.
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  Speaker 9: But it finally, it took me a while, but I
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  Speaker 9: finally figured out by the end of the third quarter
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  Speaker 9: what our defensive strategy was.
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  Speaker 6: What is it?
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  Speaker 9: You let them get 20 yards of play. And then
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  Speaker 9: by the end of the third quarter, they're so overconfident
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  Speaker 9: and worn out from running around that much that you
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  Speaker 9: can finally make some plays on them and stop them.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a joke? I mean, are you joking?
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  Speaker 9: No, I kind of thought that's what was going on.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, didn't that first drive, wasn't it more than
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  Speaker 9: 20 yards a play?
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  Speaker 4: Speaker 2 I, yeah, maybe I, I didn't, I don't
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  Speaker 4: remember exactly. I know Barkley had that big run, but
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  Speaker 4: you could tell he was hurt. I mean, he, he,
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  Speaker 4: he was, he tried, but you could tell he did
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  Speaker 4: not have, he did not have it in him, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Barkley for 12.
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  Speaker 9: Speaker 3 It kind of looked like it was, you know,
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  Speaker 9: 11 players on offense against like four or five players
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  Speaker 9: on defense.
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  Speaker 3: Speaker 2 But okay. But they figured it out.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 9: They figured it out by the second half.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: And I think that in the first half, though, again,
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  Speaker 9: I saw, you know, Bland just looked like he, I
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  Speaker 9: couldn't tell whether he was running zone or running man,
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  Speaker 9: but he just looked lost.
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  Speaker 10: Really?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see that.
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  Speaker 4: I thought Bland actually played really well in the game.
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  Speaker 4: I know the touchdown to Barkley, but he didn't, he
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  Speaker 4: took the wrong angle.
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  Speaker 3: Barkley got it around.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't, again, I watch it. I've watched it once,
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  Speaker 4: maybe you'd say one and a half times because you
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  Speaker 4: watch the game and then.
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  Speaker 3: You get a little bit of a delay.
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  Speaker 4: So I see it a little bit more, but I
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  Speaker 4: don't get to go back and watch it that much.
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  Speaker 4: I certainly didn't watch it last night. So there might
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  Speaker 4: be some plays I didn't see. These cornerbacks, I don't
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  Speaker 4: see a lot out of Porter. I didn't see a
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  Speaker 4: lot out of Bland, and that's a good thing. But
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  Speaker 4: then again, you've got to remember the receivers. Their receivers
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  Speaker 4: are all banged up. Their starters are out. So they
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  Speaker 4: didn't get the biggest challenge that they're going to get.
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  Speaker 4: as the year goes on.
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  Speaker 9: But I think that was, I think the defensive ends again,
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  Speaker 9: I don't know if they got a sack again last night.
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  Speaker 9: I think it's, like the pressure and the sacks were
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  Speaker 9: coming up through the middle and nothing from around the outsides.
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  Speaker 9: But I, it just, the first half, I just couldn't
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  Speaker 9: figure out a defensive strategy at all going on up there.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I'm glad they corrected it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Steve.
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  Speaker 3: All right. We're not going to drag it down. All right, Steve.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: It was not perfect. It's not going to be perfect.
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  Speaker 3: And I get it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, but my thing is this. I'm not trying to, like,
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  Speaker 4: pump sunshine in this, but we do this show every day.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: And it's for two weeks we've been listening, you know,
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  Speaker 4: to what's wrong with them. They couldn't beat Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 4: They couldn't beat Green Bay. I mean, what's the problem?
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  Speaker 4: Who's the play caller and all this stuff? And they
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  Speaker 4: come back in a game like this, and I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not just going to talk about the fact that
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  Speaker 4: they didn't get pass rush from the outside or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, Azaraku got a sack. He actually did.
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  Speaker 4: He got a sack in the game. And a lot
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  Speaker 4: of those times, the pass rush from the outside forces
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  Speaker 4: quarterbacks to step up into a pocket, and that's where
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  Speaker 4: some of your defensive tackles get those sacks. So Again,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not saying let's get the map out for where
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  Speaker 4: the parade is going to be.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm saying that when you do this show as much
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  Speaker 4: as we do the show and we talk about all
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  Speaker 4: the negative stuff, I'm not going to sit here and
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  Speaker 4: waste a lot of time on that. They had a
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  Speaker 4: must-win game on the road against a desperate Philadelphia team
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  Speaker 4: that was banged up and they went and they kicked
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  Speaker 4: their ass. I don't really have a problem with how
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  Speaker 4: that game went down. We can talk about some of
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  Speaker 4: the issues and that's fine, but I think we should
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  Speaker 4: be We should focus on the negative all the time.
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  Speaker 4: This would probably be a good time to focus on
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  Speaker 4: the other side. All right, Sebastian, Savannah, Georgia.
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  Speaker 12: What's going on, buddy? Man, listen, winning is a cure-all.
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  Speaker 12: We won the game.
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  Speaker 5: It was great.
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  Speaker 12: The caller just called and asked, I think it was
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  Speaker 12: Michael from Bowling Green, what happened with Barham. Barham hit
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  Speaker 12: that rookie wall, but teams figured out a few things
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  Speaker 12: about his speed and the difference in his speed and
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  Speaker 12: how they can move against him. Football is a very
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  Speaker 12: physical and mental sport, and he's hitting that area. And
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  Speaker 12: I believe it was Leighton Van Der Esch when Micah
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  Speaker 12: Parsons first got here who sat him down and said, like, listen.
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  Speaker 12: You can't make every play. You've got to figure out
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  Speaker 12: which plays are yours, and somebody has to settle Barham down.
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  Speaker 12: So you don't have to hang the jerseys up. Barham,
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  Speaker 12: I believe, is still going to be one of the
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  Speaker 12: best linebackers that we ever had on this team in
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  Speaker 12: the long run, but right now he's hitting a bit
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  Speaker 12: of that rookie wall. Another bright spot that I really
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  Speaker 12: enjoyed last night was we won all three phases, but
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  Speaker 12: Deshaun Gibson is something in the return game. I like
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  Speaker 12: a guy who catches the ball and just goes. And
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  Speaker 12: even though it got called back, that was such a
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  Speaker 12: beautiful kick return. Me and Irene and Sue were talking
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  Speaker 12: about it. Man, that catch that GB3 made really kind
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  Speaker 12: of settled things down. And as far as Brian goes,
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  Speaker 12: none of the negative stuff that happened with Brian last
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  Speaker 12: night at all got washed away at the end of
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  Speaker 12: the game when we won that thing. But I think
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  Speaker 12: a really important part of the game that settled him
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  Speaker 12: down is at one point, They scored, and we went pass, pass, pass,
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  Speaker 12: and it was about to be a three and out,
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  Speaker 12: but we got a penalty, and that settled Brian back
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  Speaker 12: into the, okay, let's go ahead and start running this
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  Speaker 12: thing game. So I really like that. Going forward, I
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  Speaker 12: hope we can continue to run the ball at a
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  Speaker 12: consistent clip, and I'm cool. You have a great day,
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  Speaker 12: and I'm going to listen.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Sebastian. Thanks for the call. Yeah, that was
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  Speaker 4: a great kickoff return by Goodson. You know, if you're
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  Speaker 4: familiar with the article that I write after the game,
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  Speaker 4: I've been doing it for months, Long time.
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  Speaker 3: Almost 20 years. Five plays. Don't forget these five plays.
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  Speaker 4: And they're random plays that, you know, sometimes it's a
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  Speaker 4: penalty before this or that. It's usually something that leads
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  Speaker 4: to something else. And I've been doing it for a
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  Speaker 4: long time. And usually, you know, Cowboys win. There are
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  Speaker 4: five plays that benefited them. And then the other team wins.
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  Speaker 4: It's five plays that, you know, it kind of changed
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  Speaker 4: the outcome of the game. I don't think I've ever
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  Speaker 4: included a play like I did last night. It was
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  Speaker 4: a first for me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I've.
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  Speaker 4: Ever included a play where the touchdown for the Cowboys
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  Speaker 4: got wiped out for a penalty. And I used it
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  Speaker 4: as a positive play. Um, And hear me out on this.
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  Speaker 4: You can disagree if you want. Because I didn't like
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  Speaker 4: to see the penalty. I mean, I want to see
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  Speaker 4: kickoff return for a touchdown. It was an unbelievable run.
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  Speaker 3: But did that penalty actually help the team? I think
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  Speaker 3: it did.
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  Speaker 4: Because the Cowboys had just given up a 14-play drive
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  Speaker 4: to the Eagles. Their defense is gassed. That's two touchdowns
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  Speaker 4: now in a row that Philly has scored. They kick off.
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  Speaker 4: Goodson returns it for a touchdown. That's great. Seven points.
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  Speaker 4: But now guess what? The defense goes back on the
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  Speaker 4: field again. And what do you think is going to happen?
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  Speaker 4: I think Philadelphia is probably going to go score again. Now, penalty,
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  Speaker 4: Cowboys are backed up. They still drive, and they still score.
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  Speaker 4: Pickens scores a touchdown. The defense gets to rest that
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  Speaker 4: whole time. Great touchdown by Pickens. Cowboys take the lead.
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  Speaker 4: Then the Eagles get the ball back, and the Cowboys
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  Speaker 4: get a stop. So I'm sticking with this. You don't
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  Speaker 4: have to agree with me on this, but I believe
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  Speaker 4: that that penalty holding on Barron, second one on Barron,
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  Speaker 4: but that holding penalty, which wiped out a great return
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  Speaker 4: by Goodson, actually helped the team overall because it gave
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  Speaker 4: the defense a little bit of a rest. The Cowboys
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  Speaker 4: still scored. And then when they came back, they were
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  Speaker 4: able to stop them. So I don't think I've ever
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  Speaker 4: done that before. I don't think I've ever included a
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  Speaker 4: play that wiped out a great touchdown like that. But
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  Speaker 4: I think in the long run, that did help them.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go back to our phone lines. Keith, Fernandina Beach, Florida.
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  Speaker 12: No, Chris.
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  Speaker 7: Chris.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, Nick.
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  Speaker 13: Hey.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, Chris? It's Chris.
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  Speaker 14: How are you, my man?
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  Speaker 10: I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good.
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  Speaker 14: My nephew Adam and his girlfriend actually drove down to
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  Speaker 14: that game last night from New York. It was his
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  Speaker 14: first ever game that he'd ever seen live, an NFL game,
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  Speaker 14: and they got the win. So I'm happy for him
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  Speaker 14: that we beat the Eagles for sure.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yep.
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  Speaker 14: I actually do agree with that point you just made.
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  Speaker 14: Our defense was gassed. I 100% agree with you. That
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  Speaker 14: was a turning point, I think. I actually like what
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  Speaker 14: the special teams have been doing the last couple weeks.
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  Speaker 14: We have progress in the special teams where we were struggling,
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  Speaker 14: I think, at the beginning of the year. I want
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  Speaker 14: to start off by giving Shottie and Adam their props
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  Speaker 14: this week. We all wanted them to run the ball more.
• 16:22
  Speaker 14: We all wanted them to be more balanced. That's exactly
• 16:24
  Speaker 14: what happened last night. 38 rushes, 27 passes. The running
• 16:27
  Speaker 14: backs looked good. It was contributed, obviously, by one, calling
• 16:31
  Speaker 14: and sticking to a running play, and two, the offensive
• 16:33
  Speaker 14: line played outstanding last night. against a really, really good
• 16:36
  Speaker 14: defensive front. Let's make no mistake about it. The Eagles
• 16:39
  Speaker 14: have two great defensive tackles, and we just handled them very,
• 16:43
  Speaker 14: very well. I think Booker, for me, stood out last night.
• 16:47
  Speaker 14: I thought he had a bunch of really good run
• 16:50
  Speaker 14: plays with him, so I'm happy with where that was. Obviously,
• 16:55
  Speaker 14: the defense needs to stop with itself in clicking plays
• 16:58
  Speaker 14: and penalties. I think we're going to get there. As
• 17:01
  Speaker 14: far as defensively, last night, Quinton Williams, that's the Quinton
• 17:05
  Speaker 14: Williams I know. That's the Quinton Williams the Dallas Cowboys
• 17:08
  Speaker 14: need every week. He played great. So I want to
• 17:10
  Speaker 14: give a shout-out to Q. Demo, unbelievable interception. Not many
• 17:15
  Speaker 14: players are going to make that play. He's so athletic.
• 17:19
  Speaker 11: Outstanding.
• 17:20
  Speaker 14: I'm glad to see him back. And, you know, I
• 17:22
  Speaker 14: tweeted this last night. The number one availability, the number
• 17:25
  Speaker 14: one attribute for me is availability. He's got to be
• 17:26
  Speaker 14: on the field. Shout out to Britt Brown, getting him
• 17:29
  Speaker 14: back on the field. We need Demo on that defense.
• 17:33
  Speaker 14: The only question I got for you is, what do
• 17:35
  Speaker 14: you think, how soon do you want to lock up
• 17:37
  Speaker 14: Joey Porter, Gene?
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Chris, for the call. Joey Porter, he's good. He's
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: really good. He changes how things are going, and he's
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: he's not Deion Sanders. I don't, there hasn't been another
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Deion Sanders in my opinion, but, but as far as
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: like really good shutdown type corner, he's his closest thing,
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: you know, for this era. And, and I always say this, how,
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: how Larry Brown just suddenly overnight became a better corner
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: and got to make interceptions and make plays because Deion
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: was on the other side. And I think that's going
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: to happen with these, with these corners. I think bland,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: you know, now bland is making a lot of money. Now,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: I don't know if, you know, if, if they can
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: do this forever, but, and have that much money paid
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: up in the cornerback position. But for this year, yeah,
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Joey Porter Jr. is playing really well. You're right about
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: Quinton Williams. That was a really great game for him.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, and think about it. He had an offsides penalty.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: I think he had two, two offsides penalties, one that
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: negated a fumble and a fourth down stop, and they
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: went and scored off that. So, you know, they had
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: a couple of these penalties, and Overton had one too,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: which I, you know, hate that. that call. But I mean,
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: I guess, you know, it's the right call. You can't
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: hit a quarterback in that face mask. But I thought
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: that was kind of weak. But, you know, but but
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: in an overshown. That's the best game I've ever seen
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: him play. I mean, by far, best game. Now, he's
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: had some other plays that were pretty dynamic. But when
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: you think about what he did in the game, he's blitzing.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: He knocks the ball away. I mean, it was perfectly
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: timed blitz. Then there's another play where he has a
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: great tackle in the backfield. Then there's another one where he.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Downs had a chance to maybe get an interception.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: The ball's in the air.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: But Demo just wrecks the whole thing back there. This
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: is 15 yards back down the field a little bit.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: And then, of course, the interception. The interception just shows
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: the playmaking ability that he has. So when you think
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: about where those plays were on defense and what he did,
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: that's the kind of dynamic, catalytic player that you're looking
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: for that can just do things everywhere. And maybe it's
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: not a normal position. Maybe it's just one where You know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: he can blitz. He can be back here. You just
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: don't know where he's going to be and how he's
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: going to line up. But if he can figure it
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: out and the guys around him can figure out how
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: that's going to work, then I think you have a
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: chance to have a really dynamic player.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: He was very impressive. All right. Now we can go
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: to Keith.
• 20:19
  Speaker 12: Good morning, Nick.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: How are you?
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: I'm good. How are you?
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: Doing great. I guess I'm just going to echo what
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: everyone else has said so far. Shout out to Shoddy,
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: first and foremost. I called you last Monday and was
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: kind of boo-hooing on him a little bit. And, you know,
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: he got mad. And if this is him being mad,
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: I'm all for it.
• 20:40
  Speaker 12: I loved it.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Balanced.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: We were running the ball. It opened up the play action.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: and I see incremental improvements in the defense. So we're
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: feeling really good today, and let's continue this with Arizona
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: this Sunday.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. Got to do that. Thanks for the call, Keith,
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: and you're right.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: And I'm glad that you said that because, you know, coaches,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: they get a ton of criticism. They don't always get
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: the praise, you know, when they have games like that.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: But he was dealing. I mean, he really was, and
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: You know, what's funny is that I hear some of
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: the criticism. You know, like, you just can't please everyone.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: They had nine drives. They scored seven times, you know,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: and some.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Of these were field goals. But, you know, like, I
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: don't have a problem with running the ball.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: I can't believe how many people that have asked me
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: about this run to Lipke up the middle. On third
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: and eight, Dak checked into that run. It wasn't like, hey,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: let's put Lipke in and let him try to get.
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: No, no, no.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: It was third.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: On second and long, I didn't like the second and
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: long call. I thought they should have kept running it.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: But he rolls out and almost got sacked and just
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: threw it away. And then on third and eight, they
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: didn't get the look they wanted and they checked into it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: And at this point, Dak's already thrown it away on
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: second down. stop the clock. They're up by seven. The
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: most important thing here is get a field goal. Most
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: important thing. No, no touchdown. It'd be great, but getting
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: up by 10, putting Tanner McKee in that offense down
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: by two scores in the fourth quarter is what you
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: needed to do. And that's what they did. So on
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: third and eight, just run the ball up the middle.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I had no problem with that. Kick your field goal,
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: take your 10 point lead. And that's, you know, now
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: before the half, That was a little tricky too. You'd
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: like to see them maybe handle it a little differently,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: but they could have called the timeout with about 45
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: seconds to go, so they let a lot of time
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: go off. However, As it was explained to me, the
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: reason why they kept doing that is because they loved
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: what the personnel they had, the mismatches they had with
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: the Eagles' defense, and they were not letting them substitute.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: So they didn't really want to call a timeout there
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: and let the Eagles go and substitute. They had them
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: in a mismatch. They kept going, and if you saw
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: the double move, that cd had a lot of that
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: was because of the fact that they they did not
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: have the personnel on there even one play when pickens
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: went out of bounds they kept going they they kept
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: going even though the play was stopped they ran to
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage and in a hurry up because
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: they wanted to keep philadelphia from substituting so that was
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: the the plan they got down there they had a
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: shot they they didn't take aggressive shots at the end
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: zone they wanted to get to get that field goal
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: too so um that one could have been done a
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: little differently but i'm not going to sit there and
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: fault them for that. Let's go to Lester in Minnesota.
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: Lester.
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: Now, that's how you run the ball.
• 23:46
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: That's how you run the ball.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: For sure. From now on, that's what I want to
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: see you run the ball, run out the clock, time possession,
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: have the defense rest a little bit. I didn't get
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: a chance to call in last week, man, but I
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: heard a lot last week, and I really wanted to
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: say this last week, so I said this week. Please
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: let the defense develop. It's a work in progress. It's
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: going to take time. It's a new defensive coordinator. It's
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: a new system. You got new players. It's going to
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: take time. As far as us letting them come out
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: in the first quarter, first drive or whatever, the defense
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: giving up stuff, It's going to take time. The guy
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: is new. He needs to see what he has. The
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: players have been out. Players are coming back. We saw
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: Demo last night. It's going to take time. It doesn't
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: happen all at once. So please, fans, the defense has
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: been getting better little by little. I see it. So
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: it's not going to be... All of a sudden, 15th-ranked
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: defense is going to take time. Relax. Let's go, let's go,
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: let's go, let's go, Cowboys.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: All right, it's.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Going to take time. And, you know, I don't disagree
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: with you on that. But, you know, I mean, I
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: think the argument there is, you know, Cowboy fans will
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: say to you, and it's not this team's fault. It's
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: definitely not Shoddy's fault. But they want, you know, they
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: feel like there's been a lot of time. A lot
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: of time in between the feelings that they want to
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: have about this team.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: But you're right.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: The process is going to take some time. They're still
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: figuring things out. The defense thing, it just feels different.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? You're starting to see some
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: more things out of this team, more stops. And I
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: think Quentin Williams is one of the reasons he's playing
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: really well. Joey Porter's another one. They have really good
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: players that are playing well, and I think that'll help
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: the complementary players do their job as well. Okay, let's
• 26:08
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  Speaker 4: with Javante Williams how about that he was uh He
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: was doing his thing.
• 27:47
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• 27:53
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• 27:57
  Speaker 4: he first got hired that they want to be a
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: violent running team, and he's the type of back to
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: be that way. Now, we haven't always seen the consistency
• 28:06
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• 28:09
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  Speaker 4: lines again. Who we got Dylan.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: It's Dylan next. Keith.
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: Sorry.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I'm dealing with a different phone system today. All right, Kevin,
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Kevin in New Jersey. Kevin, what's up, man?
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: Sorry. Hey Nick, what's going on?
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: How are you doing?
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: I'm doing, I'm doing pretty good. I'm, I'm feeling pretty
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: refreshed today, which is good.
• 28:46
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: It's been rough, you know, as everybody knows, but that
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: was nice. It was nice to watch. I'm glad that
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: you gave the Gillette Award to Javante Williams. I loved
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: him as a running back. And when I think about
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: the Cowboys and the success that they've had, it's always
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: been a really solid running game. So, you know, I
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: sit there and watch the games with my sons, and
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: I just– beg the coaches just to run. I want
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: them to run every single play, especially what's been going on. So,
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: you know, I mean, I've recently been putting a lot
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: of emphasis on the struggle they've had on the coaching.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: And I know we're talking about Shadi, and I'm not
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: going to knock anybody at this point, because obviously we've
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: seen a good outcome, right? But, you know, how do
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: we know that all the criticism that the guy was
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: taking from the media and from fans wasn't what did
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: the trick, wasn't what was necessary to to get things
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: to turn around? Because I'm saying to myself, why did
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: it change all of a sudden? Because he should have
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: been doing this all along, and I know every game
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: is different, but in my opinion, I feel like what
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: happened with shoddy listening to what was being talked about
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: and being short with the media after the game because,
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: you know, he was being criticized. I think it was
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: a learning moment for him. I think everybody has to
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: remember he's a young coach, right? And as is Christian Parker.
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: I mean, even Bill Belichick struggled in Cleveland before he
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: went on to New England. So he's a young coach.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: He's got to learn. And I think this was a
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: good learning moment for him. So I'll take it off
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: the air. That's sort of my point. You know, obviously
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: I'm super happy about the win, but I kind of
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: feel like the criticism was necessary in this case. And
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: I think he made a change and, and it really
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: worked out well. So I'm hoping it continues down that trajectory.
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: All right. Thanks, Nick. All right.
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Kevin.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: This one, this one's a tricky one because, you know,
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: we've all been saying that they, they need to run
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: the ball a little bit more. And so it's like
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: we could see it. And, you know, it's not like
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: they weren't running with some success. You could just tell
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: that if you just keep doing that and keep leaning
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: on them, especially with the back that you have and
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: the linemen that you have, you don't, I say this
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: over and over, but you just don't draft Tyler Smith
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: and play him at guard like they're playing him. And
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: you drafted Cooper Beebe in the third round. And then
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: obviously in the first round, Tyler Booker, you don't draft
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: those three guys and put them in the interior of
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: your line if you're not planning to be that type
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: of team. And so I'm not saying they were wasting
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: their talent at all.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying that they can play the type of
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: football that we saw last night. Now, going back to Shottie,
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: and it took two questions to realize. I was in
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: there last night to realize, okay, this is different. He's
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: in a different mindset right now, especially with us. And
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: was criticism warranted?
• 31:42
  Speaker 11: Sure. Sure.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Definitely.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: You know, as the play caller and they weren't scoring
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: and they weren't doing what they needed to do. And
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: as a team that's built the way that they are
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: right now, the offense can't struggle because they're not going
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: to win any games because of the way this defense is.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: But I think what really set him off was getting
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: asked questions. probably on his radio show on Friday, if
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: he should give up his play-calling duties. I think that
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: really bothered him. And then he doubled down and said, well,
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: I'm an elite play-caller. So I think when the game started,
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: I think it was, and I wrote this, it was
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: the most pressure he's ever been under as a head
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: coach of the Cowboys. Because the offense is struggling. He's
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: the play caller. Not only is he getting questioned, then
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: he doubled down and said, I'm elite. So now it's
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: self-inflicted pressure, but he put it on himself. Not to mention,
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: this is a must-win game on the road against another
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: desperate team. So everything had to align perfectly for him because,
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, there was a lot of pressure going into
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: this game. And he comes out and he calls his
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: best game, maybe since he's been here, but definitely this year.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: And he answered the call and his players had his back.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: And that said he was hungry and pissed off all week. Well,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: he called plays that way and his players played that way.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: And as a coach, Isn't that what you're supposed to do?
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: Isn't your mindset supposed to kind of feed into what
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: the players feel and play, and they kind of feed
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: off of you? So, I mean, maybe I'm going too
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: far with that, but I'm just saying that's what a
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: coach is supposed to do. And if he's feeling a
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: certain way, he goes out and he executed it the
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: right way, and his players followed his lead. So it was.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: A tricky one.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: I understand why he was a little upset. It wasn't unwarranted.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: But I think after two games, for anyone to suggest
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: that maybe he should give up the play-calling duties, that's
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: just a knee-jerk reaction that was proven. I think it
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: was proven last night that that would be a dumb idea.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: All right, Dylan in Northport, Florida.
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with that.
• 33:46
  Speaker 17: He got 20-something games with him being a pretty good play-caller.
• 33:49
  Speaker 17: He had two in a row that were super-duper ugly,
• 33:52
  Speaker 17: especially the last one. And I said the same thing
• 33:55
  Speaker 17: last week.
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: Just relax.
• 33:58
  Speaker 14: Just relax.
• 33:58
  Speaker 11: It's not a loss.
• 33:59
  Speaker 17: And now we call people's jobs.
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Just got to chill.
• 34:02
  Speaker 17: Um, you mentioned earlier what I wanted to talk about the, um,
• 34:06
  Speaker 17: the drive before the half, the clock management was super
• 34:09
  Speaker 17: duper gross. I absolutely hated that. Um, but the third
• 34:12
  Speaker 17: and eight to Lipty, I loved it. And you just
• 34:14
  Speaker 17: said it wasn't actually the called play. Maybe Dak checked
• 34:17
  Speaker 17: into it, but just, I think that having that as
• 34:20
  Speaker 17: an option to kill too, um, if you get the
• 34:23
  Speaker 17: right look or need to switch, that's fine. Um, I
• 34:26
  Speaker 17: think that that is a head coaching call and not
• 34:29
  Speaker 17: an offensive coordinator call, meaning that we're all asking for
• 34:32
  Speaker 17: Shottie to focus holistically as a head coach, take into
• 34:35
  Speaker 17: account the game flow, look across the field. You've got
• 34:38
  Speaker 17: backup quarterback, backup receivers, backup running back, a banged up,
• 34:41
  Speaker 17: messed up offensive line. You're saying, okay, go score twice
• 34:44
  Speaker 17: in eight minutes, please. And you saw immediately in the
• 34:47
  Speaker 17: next drive, quarterback dirts the first ball, throws interception on
• 34:50
  Speaker 17: the third ball, and it's game over. So immediately that
• 34:54
  Speaker 17: decision paid dividends. But I still see people up in
• 34:57
  Speaker 17: arms about the decision. I don't care if it's Lutke
• 34:59
  Speaker 17: carrying the ball. I don't care if it's Chavante. I
• 35:01
  Speaker 17: really don't care because the point was to go drain
• 35:04
  Speaker 17: clock and score three points. That was the goal of
• 35:06
  Speaker 17: the whole thing once you got to that point after
• 35:08
  Speaker 17: second down. And second down, I would have ran the
• 35:10
  Speaker 17: ball myself like you said. But that second down play, too,
• 35:12
  Speaker 17: I think that also convinced Shoddy to run it on
• 35:16
  Speaker 17: third down because it was a weird play. Dak almost
• 35:18
  Speaker 17: got sacked. And that's one of those things where you
• 35:20
  Speaker 17: have a really good play, touchdown or touchdown. An interception, right?
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: So let's just take the three, go.
• 35:24
  Speaker 17: Up by 10, and make these guys play catch-up with
• 35:29
  Speaker 17: a quarterback in his third start, I should say, and you.
• 35:31
  Speaker 14: Saw a payoff.
• 35:32
  Speaker 17: So good call by Shadi there.
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: On the team.
• 35:34
  Speaker 11: I agree.
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: I agree with that. Thanks for the call, Dylan. And,
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: you know, I like what you said there about sometimes,
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: and it's the same guy, but you wear different hats.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: And so, yes, that was more of a– a head
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: coach decision.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: There on, on what, you know, what are we going
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: to do?
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: And just to make sure that you get the three,
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: you know, we've seen, we've seen interceptions down in the
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: red zone this year. Some, some, we've seen Dak with
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: bad decisions. We've seen receivers slip and fall and, and,
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: You know, it's an interception. We've seen the tight ends
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: knock the ball up in the air and they get intercepted.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: So plays happen down there. And, you know, you can say, well,
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: you know, got to step on their throat. But to me,
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: kicking a field goal and going up 10 is doing that.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: It's doing that. It's playing smart. You know, I've said
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: this a thousand times, and I will argue with this
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: point all day long about the people that feel like
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: you play to win and you play not to lose.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: And I'll sit and argue with anybody all day long
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: that it is exactly the same thing. It is. It's
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: the same thing. There's no difference to me. about playing
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: to win and playing not to lose. There's no difference.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: There's times when you are very aggressive and you've got
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: to go take it, and that seems like that's playing
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: to win. And then there's times when you're like, let's
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: be smart, let's punt, let's be smart and play defense,
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: and that's playing not to lose. But at the end,
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, the difference is last night, the Cowboys won
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: the game and they also didn't lose, so it is
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: the same. Rarely, yes, there'll be a tie, but I
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: think that there's times where you step on the gas
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: And you punch it, and then there's times when you said,
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: let's slow down. Let's not hit anyone. We're not in
• 37:26
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  Speaker 4: couple more calls. Let's start with Blair in.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Newport News, Virginia. Blair, what's up?
• 38:59
  Speaker 11: Hey.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Hey, not much, Nick. I got to say, it's always
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: good for the soul to leave Philly either with a
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: win or without a loss. Either way, it's a good
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: day today.
• 39:15
  Speaker 11: For sure.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Yep, for sure.
• 39:17
  Speaker 10: And one question I had for you about the game.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: First off, I really.
• 39:21
  Speaker 10: Like the point that you made uh in the article
• 39:24
  Speaker 10: that you wrote about the the uh touchdown that was
• 39:28
  Speaker 10: taken back and given our defense arrest by driving you
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: know in a sustained way down the field and you
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: know a little bit about shoddy being in the bag
• 39:38
  Speaker 10: in terms of play calling so my big question is
• 39:40
  Speaker 10: do you think um it's kind of frustrating that we
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: we had to goad uh shoddy into running the ball
• 39:47
  Speaker 10: more but but do you think this works as a
• 39:50
  Speaker 10: to convince him as well that maybe this might be
• 39:53
  Speaker 10: the better recipe for the rest of the way. I'll
• 39:57
  Speaker 10: take that off the air.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Thanks so much, Mick.
• 39:59
  Speaker 10: Glad you made it back safely.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Blair. Appreciate that.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: Tough turnaround for us, but easier when there's a win
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: as far as just the logistics of it all getting in.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, I, I think I, I, I went to
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: sleep at 4 30 AM. And so it was, I was,
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: I was driving the kids to school at seven. So, Hey,
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: that's the way it is, but yeah, it's easier with,
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: with a win. I, I think coaches evolve. I think,
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: I think the way shoddy and Dak and these guys
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: wanted to play, want to call offense, throw this thing
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: around and all this, but, but you're, they're going to see,
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: and he saw it last night and, You're going to see,
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: I think, as the year goes on, that if you
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: can run it like that, that's the recipe. Because that
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: sets up your play action. It keeps the ball in
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: your hand. It keeps your defense somewhat fresh. And it's working.
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: They're not just picking up first downs now. I mean,
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: Javante Williams, he's six yards a pop.
• 41:01
  Speaker 11: 6.2.
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: 25 carries, 155.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's doing some work. So, yeah, I think
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: that should be the way that they tried to do it.
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: And then they were mixing it up. I thought Goodson
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: did a pretty good job. I like the change of
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: pace there with him. I mean, he got 10 carries too.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: And he's one of those guys that he'll break one
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: every now and again. It may be tough running at
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: times for him. but then he's got the speed that
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: he can break one. So I think I would like
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: to see this kind of change. Every game is different,
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: but I'd like to see how it starts. All right,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: let's go to Travis in Utah.
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: Hi, Nick.
• 41:49
  Speaker 18: I was going to ask about the defense, but it
• 41:52
  Speaker 18: looks like that was– pardon me, about the running game there.
• 41:56
  Speaker 17: I was really excited to see that.
• 42:00
  Speaker 18: Just in full force there. And I was thinking, I mean,
• 42:03
  Speaker 18: we've got, what, I think, three first-rounders on the offensive line.
• 42:09
  Speaker 18: I mean, it feels like we could replicate some of
• 42:12
  Speaker 18: that success that we've had from 2014, 2016, when we
• 42:17
  Speaker 18: would just run the ball, wear down the other team's defense,
• 42:21
  Speaker 18: keep our defense fresh. And do you see we could
• 42:25
  Speaker 18: really take advantage of the offensive line we have to
• 42:28
  Speaker 18: have a great um, running game.
• 42:31
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, I, I think, I think that, uh, that's,
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: that's how it's built, you know, and it's big, big
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: guards that, that are, that are physical. I mean, Booker
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: and Tyler Smith, those, those two right there. I mean, they,
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: they were paving the way. I mean, and Tyler Guyton too,
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: and the left side, it felt like there was four
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: or five runs in a row. It was just left, left, left, left,
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: and it's working, you know?
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: And so, I mean, I, I get it. Philadelphia was
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: banged up on offense. There's no doubt about it.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: But when I look at their defense, I mean, Grenard, Davis, Carter, Hunt, Bond, Campbell, Dejean, Woolen, Mitchell.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: isn't that their defense? I mean, like they might be
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: missing it. I mean, but I mean that defense that's
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: considered one of the better defenses in the league and
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: the Cowboys just bullied them. So I, yes, they were
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: definitely shorthanded on offense and that that's not what a
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: real NFL team usually looks like. And they fought and battled,
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: but that defense, you know, that defense wasn't caring. Hell
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: Cowboys won a few games in a row with Cooper
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: rush because of their defense, because the defense was able
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: to step up.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: So I, They didn't step up. They got ran over. Really?
• 43:42
  Speaker 18: Yeah, those runs were gorgeous.
• 43:46
  Speaker 13: Just watching those lanes open and those 10-plus yard rushes,
• 43:55
  Speaker 13: I was really happy to see that.
• 43:57
  Speaker 18: I hope that continues.
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, appreciate the call, Travis.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: I think we all kind of hope that it continues
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: like that because it does. you know, that's just complimentary
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: football in every way. I mean, when you look at
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: balance and what does balance look like, I'm not saying
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: this was my recipe before the game and, like, this
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: is what I consider, but when I look at this
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: stat sheet and I say, all right, describe what balance
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: looks like, and I'm like, all right, well, 204 rushing
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: yards and 212 passing yards. I mean, you got over
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: 400 yards of offense and it's, basically split down the middle.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: So that's as good as you want it. I mean,
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: you ran it 38 times, you passed it 27, and
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: you're both sitting right there at 200 each. That, and
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: then also scoring eight points in every quarter.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: Eight or more.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: They went 10, 10, eight, 10. And every, I mean,
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: that's 38 points.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: That's as balanced as you're going to get it. And
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: in the third quarter, I mean, Philly took the ball
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: and took a 10 minute drive and the Cowboys still
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: came back and got the eight. They only had one possession,
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: but you know, their, their, their possessions were, uh, this
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: is what the Cowboys possession chart looked like. Field goal, touchdown, touchdown, punt,
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: field goal, touchdown, field goal, punt, touchdown. So, I mean, nine,
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: nine possessions, they scored seven times and, and they were,
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: you know, they were as balanced as you could be.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: And then on the defensive side, they, they stepped up
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: and did some things too.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Let's see. Do we have another call? Yeah, we will.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: Mike in England.
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: Thanks for England, Nick. Happy victory Tuesday.
• 45:38
  Speaker 11: I nearly, I nearly got caught out because our clocks
• 45:42
  Speaker 11: went back and yours haven't yet. So I thought I'll
• 45:45
  Speaker 11: phone on, on Tuesday and then I nearly missed the show.
• 45:48
  Speaker 17: So happy to just get in.
• 45:50
  Speaker 11: Um, Really happy.
• 45:53
  Speaker 12: About the win.
• 45:54
  Speaker 11: Obviously, it was a little bit hairy at times in
• 45:57
  Speaker 11: the first half. But you can't enjoy a win away
• 46:02
  Speaker 11: at Philadelphia, no matter the circumstances. Then what is the point?
• 46:08
  Speaker 11: You remember a couple of years ago when we took
• 46:11
  Speaker 11: a really banged up roster to Philadelphia, got blown out.
• 46:17
  Speaker 11: Do you remember all the Philadelphia players and fans saying, oh, yeah,
• 46:22
  Speaker 11: it doesn't really count because the Cowboys had lots of injuries?
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: No.
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: They didn't.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: No, I don't think of it. No, it didn't happen.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: There was no asterisk by that loss, too. Absolutely.
• 46:34
  Speaker 11: So neither should there be by this one. Does it
• 46:37
  Speaker 11: mean that we've got everything fixed? No, it doesn't. But
• 46:40
  Speaker 11: having said that, we seem to have discovered a running game.
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 46:45
  Speaker 11: Long may that continue. Loved Gervonta and Tyler Goodson last
• 46:49
  Speaker 11: night and the O-line creating the avenues for them. So
• 46:55
  Speaker 11: it's just a really nice result after a bad few weeks.
• 47:00
  Speaker 11: And looking at the games coming up, Francisco looks a
• 47:04
  Speaker 11: bit scary. But, you know, if they can keep the
• 47:07
  Speaker 11: improvements going, the opportunity is still there. So a big
• 47:11
  Speaker 11: win and I'm really happy about it.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: All right. Thank you so much for the call, Mike.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: You're right.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: I'll run down the schedule. I'm sure you guys have
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: probably seen it. It's typically what happens after a win.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: It's like, all right, who's next?
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: And so we know who's next. It's the Cardinals.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: The Cardinals Sunday at noon. And then it's at the
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: Colts at noon. And then three home games in a
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: row after that. San Francisco, Tennessee, Philadelphia. So, I mean,
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: you can look at this and go, oh, man, they
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: should win, win, win, lose. You know, you can do
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: that game, but it doesn't always work as we've seen.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: Just go back to the other part of the schedule. But,
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: you know, I think what I do like about what
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: I think is encouraging is on defense, your star players
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: that you're leaning on, Quinnen Williams and Joey Porter Jr.,
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: they're playing well. they're playing really well and it's letting
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: everybody else play well and then on offense if you
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: can play like that or at least it's not always
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: going to be you're not going to dominate the running
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: game like that but if you can have that kind
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: of balance even if you run half of that even
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: if you have 100 yards rushing and that's not a
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: great game but i mean at least it you know
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: if you can if you can be somewhat consistent and
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: run the ball when you're supposed to run it um
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: and pick up some yards and run it into the
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: end zone when you need to do that, then this
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: team can be balanced. I think if the Cowboys, this
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: offense has a consistent running game, it could be one
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: of the best in the league. It really could be,
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: just the way it's structured. It's a nightmare to try
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: to cover all these receivers. If you're going to add
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: a running game on top of that, that's going to
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: be really, really tough. It's one game, but it was
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: a fun game. It was a needed win. And now
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: let's see on a short week if this team can
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: come back and somehow figure out these damn Cardinals. I mean, seriously,
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: they're the Cardinals, and they're always going to be the Cardinals.
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: Why are they, you know, the Cowboys don't have any,
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: they can't figure this out. It's been like nine years
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: since they beat them. So hopefully we can see a change.
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: We'll talk about that starting tomorrow when we kind of
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: turn the page a little bit. But if you still
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: want to talk Philly, we'll do that. Games like that
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: we can talk about for a while.
• 49:39
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: Chris Beam, I do one show. Chris Beam produces like
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: eight today, and he's dealing with no sleep either. So, Chris,
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: appreciate you. I know you've got a long day ahead
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: of you, but, you know, you're kind of a warrior,
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: so you'll be good. So, for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman.
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: We'll see you tomorrow on Cowboy Storyline.
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  Speaker 11: How about this, Cowboys?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah!