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  Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. Here's Nick Eatman.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Cowboys Storyliners. This is Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: October 14th. I'm Nick Eatman. And it's ready to talk
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  Speaker 2: this through, see what's going on with this football team
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  Speaker 2: and how they can get this thing turned around. Two
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  Speaker 2: and three. Don't need a major turnaround. Definitely need to
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  Speaker 2: get this thing going in the right direction. Still got
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time to do it. There's been some
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  Speaker 2: changes going on. We'll talk about that. We talked about
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  Speaker 2: it some yesterday. We'll talk about it more. Want to
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  Speaker 2: hear from you guys.
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  Speaker 3: 888-855-2297.
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  Speaker 2: That is the number to call. That is the number.
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  Speaker 2: And that will always, I don't know about always, but
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  Speaker 2: that's the number right here and right now in Dallas.
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  Speaker 3: 888-855-2297.
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  Speaker 2: We had a different number on Twitter. If you saw that,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a 214. It's this number right here on
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  Speaker 2: the screen. 888-855-2297. Didn't have any callers for a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: We're like, what's going on? Got to the bottom of that.
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  Speaker 2: But we do have a couple on the line, and
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  Speaker 2: let's start us off. Derek in Houston is first. Derek,
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  Speaker 2: what's up, man?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, what's up, Nick?
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  Speaker 6: How you doing, man? I've been trying to call. I
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  Speaker 6: was finally able.
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  Speaker 5: To get in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, today's the day. Today was the day to call.
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  Speaker 6: How you been doing, man?
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  Speaker 7: I'm good.
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  Speaker 5: I'm good.
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  Speaker 6: How are you? I can't complain. So, I have a
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  Speaker 6: couple things. First thing I would like to talk about,
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  Speaker 6: I would like to see them, I don't know, I
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  Speaker 6: see they did just sign a final bet. I would
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  Speaker 6: like to see RB2 get some snaps, man. Like, For
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  Speaker 6: whatever reason, it's like they'll give Goodson one snap today
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  Speaker 6: and no snaps. I would like to see like a
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  Speaker 6: little switch of pace. I'm not saying he needs to
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  Speaker 6: get half the carries or nothing like that, but it'd
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  Speaker 6: be nice to just kind of get RB2 involved.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And then second, another thing that was probably going to
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  Speaker 6: be imperative for us to get started is.
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  Speaker 5: To go on a run, man.
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  Speaker 6: We've got to put some wins together. And it just
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  Speaker 6: seems like in the two years that Schottenheimer's been coach,
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  Speaker 6: we haven't been able to string any wins together. But
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  Speaker 6: for us to make the run that we need to make,
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  Speaker 6: where we see ourselves going in the playoffs, we're going
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  Speaker 6: to have to put some wins together. So starting with
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  Speaker 6: Green Bay would be the perfect time to, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and you can't win two before you win one. So
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  Speaker 6: I would just like to see us get a win
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  Speaker 6: this weekend. And that's all I got. And I'll listen
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  Speaker 6: off air.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for.
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  Speaker 8: Taking my call.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Derek.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. Pretty sure I heard the first part.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't the easiest call to hear, but you're talking
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  Speaker 2: about RB2. So Tyler Goodson, right? Isn't that his name?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of Tylers, right?
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Goodson. Okay, that didn't sound right when I was
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  Speaker 2: saying it. Getting him some more carries. It's hard to
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  Speaker 2: knock what Javante Williams has done. He's done a nice
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  Speaker 2: job of scoring touchdowns. He's had some moments there, and
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  Speaker 2: I thought they kind of went away from the run.
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  Speaker 2: I think Javante's done a really good job, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: with you on this, on the On the change of
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  Speaker 2: pace back, he's got some speed elements to him that
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  Speaker 2: no one else has from the running back position. So, Javante,
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  Speaker 2: I think you've got a situation like you had a
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  Speaker 2: few years ago. with Zeke and Pollard. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to call Tyler Goodson exactly Tony Pollard, but I think
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  Speaker 2: it's that type of difference in the type of runner.
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  Speaker 2: You have a guy to go in there, the linebackers,
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  Speaker 2: and then the defensive linemen, safeties, kind of get a
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  Speaker 2: gauge of what this back is and how quickly he
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  Speaker 2: gets that next level. And then you put another guy
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  Speaker 2: in with a different level and it just changes things.
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  Speaker 2: And it can be I remember Skip Pete, the former
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  Speaker 2: running backs coach here, a couple of times, and he's actually,
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  Speaker 2: I just saw him the other day at Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 2: He's their running backs coach, but he always talked about
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  Speaker 2: how that's what a change of pace really does. It
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  Speaker 2: kind of throws off the timing a little bit. So
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  Speaker 2: I would like to see Tyler Goodson doing that at times. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: everybody else seems to do a screen. It would be
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  Speaker 2: nice if Cowboys could kind of execute a screen. I
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  Speaker 2: think he'd be a pretty good player in to do
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  Speaker 2: that with. And then as far as the other part
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  Speaker 2: of the question or really comment about stringing games together. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's a level of consistency that, you know, we just
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen here in a while. And that's, that's, it's
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  Speaker 2: not just, you know, with McCarthy was here. I mean, they,
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  Speaker 2: they had some, you know, those teams were pretty good,
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  Speaker 2: but before that with Garrett, I mean, that's just kind of,
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  Speaker 2: that's just what a, what the league is, is designed
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  Speaker 2: to be. It's designed to be a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: teams are going to be in that, in that range
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  Speaker 2: of seven, you know, 9, 7 and 10, you know, 8, 9,
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  Speaker 2: 9 and 8, that kind of stuff. So you've got
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  Speaker 2: to be either good enough to overcome it all or
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  Speaker 2: you're not good enough, you know, to even be in
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  Speaker 2: that level. And the Cowboys haven't really been either way.
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  Speaker 2: They've kind of been right there at the middle for
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  Speaker 2: most of this. All right, let's go to Irene in
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  Speaker 2: Falls Church, Virginia. Irene, what's up?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, good morning. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Good. How are you?
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  Speaker 7: Pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: I have a little bit of COVID, whatever.
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  Speaker 7: So.
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  Speaker 4: I have a question for you. Patton Parker, you know,
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  Speaker 4: shout out to Travis in San Antonio. Four days before
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  Speaker 4: the hire, he actually mentioned that, I guess, Parker wanted
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  Speaker 4: him in the offseason. I had never heard that, and
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  Speaker 4: now there's this whole drama about that's the spin. So
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  Speaker 4: I assume that Travis in San Antonio is not some
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  Speaker 4: secret insider and that there is truth to that. So
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  Speaker 4: I wanted you to talk about that, if you know
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  Speaker 4: if he was brought in or if he was called
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  Speaker 4: or how that kind of went down. And then also
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  Speaker 4: his defense versus Parker. It seems like it has a
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  Speaker 4: lot more blitzing and man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll go back to what I said when I
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  Speaker 4: saw Porter for the one game. Sad that he got
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  Speaker 4: sick for last week, but I saw him in man, right?
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know if Parker wants to be in
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  Speaker 4: zone as much or if he wants kind of a
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  Speaker 4: hybrid because he allowed Porter to be in man. So
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they're that close. necessarily that far apart.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you can comment on that. And if, and I
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  Speaker 4: think maybe Rick brought this up and I'm not sure, um,
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  Speaker 4: a mere speed he's been doing really well and his
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  Speaker 4: limited reps. So is there a chance that he takes over,
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  Speaker 4: gets more reps in there? I know there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of money involved with bland, um, but yeah, that's just
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  Speaker 4: a question. And then I just want to throw my
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  Speaker 4: hat in with, I can't remember the other caller, but
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  Speaker 4: overshown at will. and keeping Barham at mic even with
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  Speaker 4: the growing pins. That will be it for me for now.
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  Speaker 4: Talk to you hopefully later this week.
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  Speaker 6: Bye.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: That was a lot. I'm trying to figure out where
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  Speaker 2: to go with all that. So I have a pen.
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  Speaker 2: I should write this down. Let's start with the petting stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that Christian Parker, you know, has–
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  Speaker 2: you don't forget the guys that hire you, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so he, you know, he's been in the mix and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of coaches that were talked
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  Speaker 2: about to be added to this team. And so I
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  Speaker 2: think when you're looking at the staff and how are
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  Speaker 2: you building, you know, certain elements of it, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if, cause he didn't really have a position coach
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. And there's, I think there's been some talk
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  Speaker 2: that this staff is pretty large anyways. And so I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. It wouldn't surprise me if you tried to
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  Speaker 2: hire him and bring him in here, but at what spot,
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  Speaker 2: how many run game coordinators, passing game coordinators, how many
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  Speaker 2: do you really need? So I bet you his name
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  Speaker 2: was mentioned, but it was like, all right, I think
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  Speaker 2: we'll be good for now. Now you get five games
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  Speaker 2: into the season and it's not working out and you
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  Speaker 2: need You need to, you know, who can help fix
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  Speaker 2: this thing? And then his name probably at the top
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  Speaker 2: of the list. That's how I would imagine it went,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know that kind of firsthand. Christian Parker,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when it comes to what you're going to play,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're going to play. If you've got corners
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  Speaker 2: that can man up, you're going to do that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's just the way it goes. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 2: most teams would like to play. If you have a corner,
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  Speaker 2: they might say, yeah, well, I like to play zone.
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  Speaker 2: but that's because you don't have the corners to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you, you know, it's like with anything,
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  Speaker 2: do you want two people to do a job or
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  Speaker 2: we want one person to do the job? It's because
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  Speaker 2: then the other person could do something else. So that's
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  Speaker 2: usually how it comes down. I'm sure, you know, Patrick Sertan,
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  Speaker 2: when he was with, you know, Denver, he played a
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  Speaker 2: lot of man, you know? I mean, so like, I
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  Speaker 2: think Joey Porter, I think he wants him to play
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  Speaker 2: man because he can do it. You, you have a
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  Speaker 2: guy that, that can actually line up and do that.
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  Speaker 2: And then, It makes you do so many other creative
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  Speaker 2: things on the other way. And then linebacker, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not taking Barham off the field. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's the guy. He needs to develop. He's a rookie
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  Speaker 2: that has shown so much promise. And so if he's
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  Speaker 2: comfortable in this position, then, you know, that's where I
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  Speaker 2: would probably want to keep him. I think overshown, ease
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  Speaker 2: him back into it, play him in some different roles,
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  Speaker 2: different spots, maybe back to the will. But, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not worried about contracts. I'm not worried about anybody's money.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you shouldn't be. You should be worried about
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  Speaker 2: playing the best guys, and I think that they've shown
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  Speaker 2: that they're able to do that. All right, let's go
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  Speaker 2: to Chris in Saratoga Springs.
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  Speaker 7: How you doing, Nick?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Chris, how you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Not too bad. I'm excited to get Joey Porter back
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  Speaker 7: this week. You know, we need him on the field. Hopefully,
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  Speaker 7: Demo gets back on there as well.
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  Speaker 3: Like you said, I.
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  Speaker 7: Don't want to keep Barham off the field. I want
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  Speaker 7: him to stay in the middle and have Demo more
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  Speaker 7: replace Winters in there. I definitely think if we have
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  Speaker 7: those two back on the field, it's definitely going to
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  Speaker 7: help our defense. I love the move, putting Parker up
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  Speaker 7: in the booth. I like the addition we made on
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  Speaker 7: the coaching aspect of it. I like how Dallas is
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  Speaker 7: not just sitting there putting their hands on their They're
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  Speaker 7: sitting on their hands. They're not doing anything. They're doing
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  Speaker 7: everything they can for an office as a team, in
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  Speaker 7: my opinion, and I like that. They're not just talking
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  Speaker 7: the talk. They're walking the walk. They're doing everything they
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  Speaker 7: can to try to make this team better, and I
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  Speaker 7: appreciate that for sure. My score prediction I want to
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  Speaker 7: give you this week because I haven't been able to
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  Speaker 7: get in this much. I've been busy, but I like
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  Speaker 7: Dallas 30, Green Bay 17. I guess the only question
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  Speaker 7: I have for you really is do you have any
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  Speaker 7: updates on maybe Kobe Durant as far as injury-wise or
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  Speaker 7: on that aspect of it coming back maybe this week
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  Speaker 7: or he might be another week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks for the call, Chris. I can answer that
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  Speaker 2: or at least try. I mean, I don't have the
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  Speaker 2: answer Wednesday. It's today. It's the day that I think
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  Speaker 2: if he's going to play, he's going to have to
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  Speaker 2: at least get limited in practice. So we haven't seen
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  Speaker 2: it yet. He was not limited in, well, I say that.
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  Speaker 2: We only saw the first 15 minutes of practice on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: They don't put out an injury report because it was
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  Speaker 2: kind of an extra practice because of the day off
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  Speaker 2: that they had or the extra time from last week's game.
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  Speaker 2: So it was an extra practice. They don't have to
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  Speaker 2: put out an injury report until today. Now, we did
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  Speaker 2: see Overshawn in there with individual drills. Maybe Kobe Durant
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  Speaker 2: later on went into a limited role, but I didn't
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  Speaker 2: see it. So we'll see. Coming off that injury, a
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  Speaker 2: hamstring injury, and as a corner, he's going to have
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  Speaker 2: to do some work practicing. We'll see if he does
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  Speaker 2: it today. We'll see if he can maybe get in
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  Speaker 2: there on Thursday, but, um, that I think it's too
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  Speaker 2: early to tell, you know, when this, when we take
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  Speaker 2: this show here early on Wednesday morning, we haven't had
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  Speaker 2: the practice yet, but I think we'll have a better
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  Speaker 2: understanding later this afternoon. And then of course, tomorrow, see
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  Speaker 2: how that, how that goes, but good, good questions there. Um, and, um, yeah, I'm, I'm,
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you about Joey Porter Jr. I'm sure it
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  Speaker 2: would be nice to have him have him back out there. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, this whole cornerback room, I mean, that illness
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  Speaker 2: has kind of gone through the room there. Kalen Carson
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  Speaker 2: and Duran Bland were sick on Monday, kind of with
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  Speaker 2: the same stuff. So we'll see how it goes and
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  Speaker 2: make sure. I saw Revel running around yesterday. He looked
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  Speaker 2: like he was pretty good. So hopefully it hadn't hit
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  Speaker 2: him or, you know, he kind of escaped it. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's keep going here. We got Joel in Tampa, Florida. Joel,
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  Speaker 2: what's up, man?
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  Speaker 7: How you doing, Nick?
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 10: I'm doing good. I got a question for you on
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  Speaker 10: the defensive.
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  Speaker 9: Side of the ball.
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  Speaker 10: They added a few key pieces to it over the
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  Speaker 10: offseason and through last season. And on paper, it looks
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  Speaker 10: like it would be at least middle of the pack.
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  Speaker 10: My question to you is, Are they a few players
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  Speaker 10: still off from being at least a decent defense, or
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  Speaker 10: are they more on the coaching side, you know, with
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  Speaker 10: a new defense coordinator, you know, a little off from there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, before you go, I want to
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  Speaker 2: say this is the first time that you've called, so
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  Speaker 2: I want to welcome you. Here we go. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: calling in. And I bet that it's not easy to
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  Speaker 2: be a Cowboy fan in Tampa this last week, but anyways.
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  Speaker 2: You have another question, or is that it?
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  Speaker 10: And then offensively, this will be my last question. Again,
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  Speaker 10: it's kind of the same thing where they've got the players,
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  Speaker 10: it seems like, to be a top offense, but it
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  Speaker 10: seems like they're lacking. I don't know if they're still
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  Speaker 10: missing a few pieces, especially in the run game, or
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  Speaker 10: is it more of like a coaching style that's letting
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  Speaker 10: them down on that?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Joel, I appreciate it. Thanks for the call,
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  Speaker 2: and again, welcome to the show. As a first-time caller,
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  Speaker 2: make sure and call us back. I'll answer, well, the
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  Speaker 2: offense part, this offense is good enough to win. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is a good offense. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: top offenses in the league. They need the ball a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more. You know, I think some of these
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  Speaker 2: long drives from the defense, they can get off the
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  Speaker 2: field and get some turnovers, get the ball back to them.
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  Speaker 2: I think they can even be even better. I don't
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  Speaker 2: have a, I mean, I'm not saying it's perfect, but
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  Speaker 2: I think it's really, it's a good offense. It's good
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  Speaker 2: enough to win the quarterback, the receivers, the The offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: they'll get better with Tyler Smith back in here and 100% healthy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he was fine to play, but he'll be
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  Speaker 2: in better shape, I think, for this game and the
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  Speaker 2: other games moving forward. As for the defense, the question
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  Speaker 2: you asked, good question, too, about are they a couple
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  Speaker 2: players away? You said, are they a couple players away
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  Speaker 2: from being decent? Yeah, I think from that, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that they're just ready to just be a dominant defense.
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  Speaker 2: But I think, you know, there's just getting off the field,
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  Speaker 2: get some stops. A couple of, you know, are they
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  Speaker 2: a player or two away from getting more sacks, more pressure,
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  Speaker 2: some turnovers? You know, an interception would be awesome. How
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  Speaker 2: about that? How about a pick? I mean, I know
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  Speaker 2: Deron Bland had a shot, and that could have changed
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  Speaker 2: the whole game. Changed a lot of narratives on him, too.
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  Speaker 2: But he didn't. He dropped it. And he's had really
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  Speaker 2: good hands, and he's been one of your better players
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  Speaker 2: of getting interceptions and, of course, taking it to the house.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: And he almost did it again, but he didn't. And
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: nobody has. Nobody's had an interception here in five games.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: They're the only team in the league that doesn't have one.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Of course, Green Bay's tied for first with picks, so
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: it's not a good sign. But I think that, you know,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're that far away from being just– average,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: and I know it seems like they're not right now
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: because they're giving up so many plays, but a tweak
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: here or there and maybe changing with some of the
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: run fits and getting some of these other guys back
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: in the secondary and figuring out how you want to
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: play Joey Porter Jr. and then what happens with Overshawn
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: and where you're going to play him. If they can
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: start getting some of these guys healthy, clean up some
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: of the areas of mistakes, get a couple of balls
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: that bounces their way, then, yeah, I think that you
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: have a defense that can be average, solid, and then
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: that's only going to make your offense even more explosive.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: So as daunting as it seems right now, and this
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: team's 2-3, and they've only beaten a couple of teams
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: that aren't very good right now record-wise, it's still early,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: but I think these next two games are going to
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: show it. show everybody a lot of what are they.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: They're going to go on the road, two night games,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: one in Green Bay, one in Philly, two places that
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: hate the Cowboys almost as much as Houston. You've got
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: to go in there and figure out how to win.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: A split would be great. I mean, you want to
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: do better than that. But at this point, I think
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: if you go out there, you've got to show that
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: you can beat some of these teams here on the road.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: All right, let's go to Randy in Texarkana.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: Randy.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Randy.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: What's up, man?
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Good to have you, brother.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Hey, dude.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: How are you doing?
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Good. How are you?
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: I'm all right. Hey, so the expectation on this team,
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: especially aiming towards the defense, I think the fault lies
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: with all of us, starting with Jerry being a good salesman,
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: going to the media for believing his sales pitch and,
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: you know, all the preseason stuff, you know, oh, they're
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: going to be Super Bowl champs, all that. And then
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: our fault as fans for believing in that and going
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: with it when– all everything was in our face the
• 18:40
  Speaker 8: reality of it was in our face and we just
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: chose not to look at it i mean you've got
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: a young defensive coordinator that's never done that before you've
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: got a completely flipped defense of new players that's never
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: played together a lot of young moving parts that don't
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: even know the defense but i think that if we
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: could have come into this season not saying Super Bowl
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: or bust and just looking at the reality of the
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: fact that, hey, if these guys can go, you know,
• 19:10
  Speaker 8: split their wins and losses the first half of the
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: season until they learn each other and then go from there,
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: I don't think there would be that much outcry that
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: we're having right now on you got to do this,
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: you got to do this, you got to do this. Like,
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: I blame it all on us. Honestly, those guys are
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: going out there and killing themselves. Yeah, they're not making
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: the plays we want them to make, but this is
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: not a video game. I can barely get out of
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: bed in the morning and straighten up sometimes. These guys
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: are going out there and doing the best they can.
• 19:39
  Speaker 8: Until they all learn, gel, come together, and then they
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: start playing, right, that's going to be the true judgment
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: of their team. So we really do need to give
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: them about a half a season. And I realize it's
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: a win today type of thing. The money involved, everything
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: that goes into the NFL, it is such a win
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: now movement. But in reality, you can't. You can't just
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: live your life like that. Like, you've got to give
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: these guys a chance to learn and build. And maybe
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: we need to take a step back and just breathe
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: a second and let this thing happen. You can't bake
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: a cake in five minutes.
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: You know what I mean?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: No, I'm with you. I'm with you. I mean, so
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: you're basically saying let's have a little patience here.
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: I mean, it sucks. We don't want to. We want
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: to win every game. But at some point, we might
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: just need to... I mean, think about it. When you're
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: throwing down with your wife or your brother or your sister,
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: and you're in that moment, if you just stop, take
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: a step back and breathe, you can usually kind of
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: work things.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Out a little better.
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: Maybe that's what us as fans can do.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I mean... You're right. You're right about that. And kind
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: of what you have to go off of is you
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: look at things and you're like– and I said this
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: the other day. If you lose to Tampa Bay at
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: home with a quarterback that's barely– he's never won a
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: start in his life, it just makes you wonder how–
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: it's going to get worse than this. It's going to
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: get tougher than this. Some of these teams coming up.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: And so if you can't get that win, which wins
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: can you count on? And I understand where the frustration is. Um,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: but you know, and I've, we've seen turnarounds before, but
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, so I, I get your point about being patient,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: but I also get on, you know, the, the point
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: about being frustrated about, you know, is this loss telling
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: for what it's going to be the rest of the year?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: And I.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Don't know.
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: It's such a losable argument. because that's not what we
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: want to hear.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: But I like yours better. I like your argument better.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I like it. Especially in the seat that I have here.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I feel like every single thing that happens, everybody in
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the media, everybody likes it. If Ferguson drops a pass,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: then Ferguson's terrible or or if they lose the game
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: here then the whole team it's like every single game
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: in every moment every play is like the judge and
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: jury of this team it's like the final play like
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: this is it and it's like let's just take it
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: for what it is let's worry about this game with
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: green bay instead of like christian parker can't be a
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: coordinator well how about he's just struggled right now through
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: five games you know so and and and.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: History showed especially with players that We cut short because
• 22:39
  Speaker 8: we're like, oh, this guy's no good. Then he goes somewhere,
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: and two years later, he's a star. If everybody's jumping
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: on the Christian Parker's not a good, man, he's like
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: 12 years old up there trying to be a defensive
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: coordinator for the first time. You know, five years from now,
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: we may all be going, my goodness, that guy was
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: one of our coaches, and he might be up there
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: with three rings on his hands because he's one of
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: the smartest guys in the NFL.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: We might just need to let this thing brew a little. Now,
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: you know, come past Thanksgiving, like Parcells always says, if
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: we're in the same boat, then, hey, everybody call in
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: and act nuts. But, you know, but right now, you.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Know, yeah.
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: You get what I'm saying.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have to act crazy, though. I don't
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: have to deal with it. All right, Randy. Thanks for
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the call. I appreciate it. And that's a good perspective.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: And you've got to remember, the Cowboys took a shot
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: on Krisha Parker. They interviewed a lot of coordinators there.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: But he was the one that kind of blew everybody
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: away in their interviews. And, you know, around the league,
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, this was one of those, you know, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that, you know, well, everyone else said
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: it was good, but they did. I mean, around the league,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: this was one of those hires that was like, yeah,
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: this is, the Cowboys got a good one. You know,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, a lot of places that he's been and
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: the players he's been around and they were like, yeah,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: this is going to be, you know, a really good hire.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: And he could be. He really could be. I mean,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: after five games and there's been some, some you know
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: situations here out of his control and um could it
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: could it be better yeah it could be better you
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: know it could be the Baltimore game is still going
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: to be there you know and the way they they
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: covered that last play still going to be there so
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: um it's hard to get around that and and I
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: wonder now like I I wonder this like how much
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: can things really get better for him you know because
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: if this thing does turn around will he get the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: credit I mean I I don't know so It'll be
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: interesting to see kind of how this thing plays out.
• 24:46
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• 24:47
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• 26:08
  Speaker 2: William in West Virginia has been on the line. William,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: what's up, dude?
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: Nick, how we doing, sir?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I'm doing well. Thank you.
• 26:16
  Speaker 9: I tell you, I always hate when they go to
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: Green Bay. Every time they go up there, rarely does
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: anything good happen. I'm hoping for something different this week. But,
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: you know, I just don't like it. I'm just glad
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: it's not minus 45 and the wind blowing when you
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: go up there.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: My question is, I'm really excited about this Mike Pettenhire.
• 26:36
  Speaker 9: You may not know this yet, but just in your opinion,
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: do you think he's just here for this season to
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: kind of help out a little bit? Or do you
• 26:43
  Speaker 9: think he might have a future with the organization and
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: going beyond this year?
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I hadn't thought about more than
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: just this game coming up and all that. But, you know,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: his track record, I'll have to look at that, but
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's one where he's just chilling for,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: you know, three or four years. I mean, he's been
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: in a lot of places, so it makes me wonder, like,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: he doesn't stay in long.
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: His resume is impressive to me. I think it's an
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: impressive resume.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: It's impressive, but it's impressive. I'm not saying it's not.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: It's just like when you've been at a lot of places,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: it's like, well, you know, he's kind of moved to
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: different places, but not long enough to stay that long,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: but enough to get hired. It's kind of like that
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: journeyman player that, you know, keeps getting signed by other teams,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: and you're like, well– You know, teams want to sign him.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: But they also are okay letting him go, too. So,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying? So, you just kind of wonder.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to knock the hire or anything like that.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying his track record doesn't say that he
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: stays at the same place for that long.
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: Well, coaches are kind of like, you know, got to
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: always have their bags packed anyway. So, I think part
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: of the job hazard.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Right, right, right. Again, I'm probably talking out of turn
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: here because I don't know much about that situation and
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: why each thing happened and they didn't. I'm just saying–
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: let's don't get too far down the road because it
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: doesn't seem like he's a guy that stays, you know,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: he stays at one team for that long. But they
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: ain't worried about that right now. They're worried about how
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: to stop, you know, the Packers and Christian Watson, Jordan Love,
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: and these guys right here. That's what they're worried about. And,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: you know, here's a guy that's been in Green Bay.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: That's the ironic part of it is I think he
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: hired Christian Parker at Green Bay to be on the staff.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: So here they are going to coach together in Green
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Bay trying to stop the Packers.
• 28:46
  Speaker 9: I appreciate it, Nick.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: You're doing a great job on the show.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: Have a good one.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: All right, William in West Virginia, the OG. Let's go
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: to Houston. It's our second call down in Houston. Mike
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: in Houston.
• 28:58
  Speaker 7: Mike?
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: Hey, Nick.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: How's it going, man?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Good, man.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: How are you?
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Not too bad. Hey, first of all, I mean, I'm
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: a little disgusted with my team, but Boy, am I
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: glad we won that game here because I would have
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: to find a rock to crawl under if they didn't. So, hey,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: I got a question, and it's probably a stretch, but
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: do we have the same secondary injuries if we have
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: a pass rush? I just wonder if there's any correlation
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: to like, maybe the guys having to play harder, try harder,
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: or do things because, you know, they're having to cover longer. Yeah.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean... That's fair. You're right. I think the
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: pass rush affects everything. I really do. That's where I
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: think this team hasn't hit the mark in the last
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: couple of years. They did trade away one of the
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: best pass rushers in the NFL recently. And since then,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: they haven't figured out how to create that pass rush.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: And then because of that, these corners and safeties that
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: have been good players, Malik Hooker and Deron Bland, they've
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: been good players. And now all of a sudden, they're
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: not good anymore? Like, I have a hard time believing that. Now,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: is that correlating with the injuries? I don't know. I mean,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's not. Maybe it's a stretch. Maybe
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: it's not. It's something. It's something. It's something.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, because that's the brunt of the
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: injuries that, you know, this team has faced in the secondary.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: So I just wonder if it's, but anyway, yeah, that's
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: the question I had. So appreciate you taking my call. Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate, you know, the call too. And, and,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: you know, that's, that's what I like about this show.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: I really do. It's like, Nobody has the answers and
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: no one knows what it is, but we're trying, you know,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: like I, I appreciate that call. I appreciate that. I
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: bet you could go ask someone about that. Like you
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: think these injuries are, or, you know, you ask an
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: athletic trainer about that. It's because of the password. So
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: they're going to be like, no, it's not. It's because,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: you know, every injury is different or whatever, whatever it is.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: But I like that. We're throwing out theories, you know, maybe, maybe,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: maybe something to it. I know this. It would be
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: nice if they didn't have to cover so long, whether
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: that's leading to injuries or not. It would be nice
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: if they could, you know, one-two the ball's out, you know.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: And I think they could get there. But this defense
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: to me is still going to be, you know, contingent
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: on them getting pass rush, figuring out ways to get
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: to the pass rush. And, you know, if Joey Porter Jr.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: can play man and be, you know, kind of, check
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: his guy and blitz more, because of that, then I'm
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: all for it. They're going to have to figure out
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: how to get to the quarterback. So far, who have
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: they faced here? Jackson Dart didn't even have a full
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: season of starts underneath it. Jaden Daniels until he got hurt.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Then Mariota. Lamar Jackson wasn't great, but he was Lamar
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Jackson when he needed to be. C.J. Stroud. Good, Jalen Daniels'
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: second career start. I mean, it's going to get better here,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: or worse, depending on how you look at it. But
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: these quarterbacks, I mean, Jordan Love, you know, Jalen Hurts,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Scobie Brissett, he still beat the Cowboys, you know, Daniel Jones, Purdy,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Cam Ward, Hurts again, Darnold, Stafford, Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, it's
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: going to get, I think the better quarterbacks, are still
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: to be played. And so this thing has to get
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: turned around. All right. What do we got next there?
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Do we have another caller? Lester in Minnesota. Lester. Go for.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: It.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: Morning, Nick.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: Doing good. Man, I hope you didn't mind my little
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: rant yesterday.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: No, you were bringing it. You were bringing it. You
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  Speaker 2: seem like kind of a chilled dude most of the time. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, two and three and losing to the Bucs
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  Speaker 2: at home may do it for you. So I get it.
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  Speaker 2: What you got today? How you feeling today?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel pretty good, man. I just wanted to
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: just follow up on what I was saying just in
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  Speaker 5: my own experiences. Like I said, I played football in
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: high school. I also played chess in high school. And
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: for those who don't play chess, you have 16 pieces
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: out there. My favorite piece was the night, okay? And
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  Speaker 5: everybody knew that I was coming after you with the night.
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  Speaker 5: My thing was stop it because that's what I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to do. I'm not going to change. I'm not going
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  Speaker 5: to do anything else.
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  Speaker 6: Stop that.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what I was saying about our football team.
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  Speaker 5: We have to establish what we are. Are we going
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: to pass the ball? Are we going to run the ball?
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: Are we going to mix it up? Whatever it is,
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: we have to establish that. And then once we establish that,
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: it's an attitude. So once you have that attitude established,
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: you have an attitude, now you have the power to
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: say to the other team, this is what we're going
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: to do, stop it, because you have the attitude. So
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: my score this week would be 27-13 Cowboys. And like
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: I was saying last week before the game with Tampa Bay,
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: I'll say it again this week, let's not underestimate anyone.
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: Let's not take anyone for granted. Let's just go out
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: there and play Cowboys football. Let's go, let's go, let's go, Cowboys.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks for the call, Lester. Yeah, I don't
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: see the Cowboys kind of underestimating anyone at this point.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: And I said this yesterday, I'll say it again. I mean,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: if you lose the game that you lose in Tampa Bay– you're,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: there's nobody that, that, you know, you should be overlooking anyone.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: You shouldn't have been overlooking them either. And I'm not
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: saying that they were, I'm just saying that at this point,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Arizona coming in here, Tennessee coming in here, every game
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: is going to be, is going to be, I think
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: that's just the way this, this team is built. I
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: don't think that they're a blowout type of team. And
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: you know, They haven't really been blown out either. They've
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: lost a couple by eight. Tampa was the one game
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: that kind of put it on them pretty good. But
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I think all of these games are going to come
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: down to the end. Let's just kind of buckle up
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: because that's the way it's going to be. All right,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: let's go to a break here again on Cowboys Storytime.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be right back after this.
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Cowboys Storyline, presented by Gillette.
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  Speaker 2: and on Yeti.com. All right, well, we've had some first-time
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: callers here today. We've had a couple of callers we
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: haven't heard from In a while, a couple of captains
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: as well. So it was a nice little mix here.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: We started off with a different phone line that was posted.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: So it took a little bit to get the calls.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Our lines are open right now, 888-855-2297. Obviously, we'll be
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: back here Thursday and Friday to do this. But, Chris,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: if the lines are open, we'll roll this thing out. Open.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: All right, we're going to wrap it up then. So
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: I don't want to hear any more about, ah, it's
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: hard to get in, it's hard to get in. It
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: wasn't hard to get in today. So, hey, some shows
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: will be like that. That's fine. No big deal. I'm
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: sure the phone will ring as soon as we turn
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: this show off. But we'll do it again tomorrow. So
• 38:11
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  Speaker 2: How about this, Cowboys?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah! Thank you.