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- 0:02Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
- 0:05Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
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- 0:11Speaker 1: This is these Cowboys.
- 0:14Speaker 3: Storylines with Nick Eatman.
- 0:20Speaker 2: What is up?
- 0:21Speaker 3: It is time for Cowboys storyline. I'm Nick Eatman here
- 0:24Speaker 3: and it is a Wednesday, getting Cowboys ready to go
- 0:28Speaker 3: for the Cowboys Patriots game coming up this week. Turning
- 0:32Speaker 3: the page officially from the last game. Obviously, we can
- 0:35Speaker 3: still talk about whatever you want, but I think it's
- 0:39Speaker 3: time to make sure that this focus is here for
- 0:42Speaker 3: the for the next game. Ezekiel Elliot's coming to town,
- 0:46Speaker 3: Bill Belichick and the new England Patriots should be a
- 0:50Speaker 3: fun game. Cowboys storyline is always, you know, I let
- 0:55Speaker 3: you guys kind of talk about whatever you want. So
- 0:58Speaker 3: eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven
- 1:01Speaker 3: the storylines are, you know, can this team turn the
- 1:05Speaker 3: turn this around? Can they bounce back from a game
- 1:08Speaker 3: like that? History shows, you know, recent history shows that
- 1:12Speaker 3: they do. The Cowboys are really good coming coming off
- 1:15Speaker 3: of a loss. I was looking this up last uh
- 1:19Speaker 3: about last season? Five losses?
- 1:22Speaker 2: Last year?
- 1:23Speaker 3: Uh, the Cowboys came back and won every single game
- 1:26Speaker 3: the next week, and not only that, but they beat
- 1:28Speaker 3: every team that they beat was either a playoff team
- 1:31Speaker 3: or had a winning record. So uh, some of the
- 1:34Speaker 3: best games of the season came back from from losses.
- 1:37Speaker 3: I mean at the Minnesota game, everyone remembers they lost
- 1:39Speaker 3: to Green Bay. The week before, they lost to Jacksonville,
- 1:42Speaker 3: and they came back and beat Philadelphia. Of course, they
- 1:44Speaker 3: lost the Washington end of the year and beat Tampa Bay,
- 1:47Speaker 3: so they they they have done a pretty good job,
- 1:50Speaker 3: a really good job of bouncing back. Let's see if
- 1:52Speaker 3: they can do that this week. So it's gonna be
- 1:55Speaker 3: a kind of a different show. We'll we'll take as
- 1:58Speaker 3: many calls as we can right now, say, and half
- 2:00Speaker 3: of the show going to be joined by a guest.
- 2:03Speaker 3: So I made a friendly wager over the weekend for
- 2:08Speaker 3: my own college football team, Arkansas and LSU, and did
- 2:13Speaker 3: not get that win. So uh, Danny McCrae will be
- 2:17Speaker 3: coming in and sporting a a some memorabilia for me
- 2:23Speaker 3: to wear. It's kind of a controversy a little bit
- 2:25Speaker 3: because it was supposed to be a jersey and he
- 2:26Speaker 3: didn't do that, So I don't know. I think that
- 2:29Speaker 3: we're going to talk about it here in the second
- 2:31Speaker 3: half of the show. He'll come in and I have
- 2:33Speaker 3: to wear some god awful purple. But that's okay because
- 2:36Speaker 3: that's what happened.
- 2:37Speaker 2: All Right, We're gonna go.
- 2:38Speaker 3: To the phone lines. We'll start this thing off. Chris
- 2:39Speaker 3: and Mississippi. Chris, what's up?
- 2:42Speaker 4: How you doing?
- 2:43Speaker 2: Mary Mick? I'm good, Chris.
- 2:46Speaker 4: Earlier this week kind of sicken under the weather, but
- 2:48Speaker 4: I'm back better than ever. And I'm just gonna say this, man,
- 2:53Speaker 4: I wanted to call and be positive like I was
- 2:55Speaker 4: last week, But the more that I think about it,
- 2:59Speaker 4: the more that and I just wish that cowboy fans
- 3:03Speaker 4: would lay the blame where he's supposed.
- 3:05Speaker 2: To be laid.
- 3:06Speaker 5: I mean, come on, now, where is that?
- 3:09Speaker 4: This is professional team, professional coaches. Y'all are getting paid
- 3:13Speaker 4: a bunch of money. There is no sense I've seen
- 3:16Speaker 4: pee wee teams more ready to play a game than that.
- 3:19Speaker 4: The coaches cannot blame anybody but theirselves. There's no way
- 3:25Speaker 4: you knew all week you didn't have Zach Martin. You
- 3:28Speaker 4: had a really good choice. You know what was it
- 3:31Speaker 4: Wednesday when we be Oddish went down? You had a
- 3:33Speaker 4: really good idea that you may not have be Oddish.
- 3:36Speaker 4: And you always need to have somebody ready for the
- 3:39Speaker 4: left tackle, because we all know Tyron missus at least
- 3:41Speaker 4: three to six games every year, so there's no choice
- 3:45Speaker 4: in this. And I mean that was awful. And everybody
- 3:49Speaker 4: wants to blame Dak for that pick and say, oh, well,
- 3:52Speaker 4: you know he rushed it. He rushed it. Hello, if
- 3:57Speaker 4: you're getting hit from behind and you don't trust your
- 4:00Speaker 4: left tackle, you're gonna rush stuff regardless of what people say. Yeah,
- 4:05Speaker 4: he may have played decent all games, but that's also
- 4:08Speaker 4: on the coaches too, because you had an all Pro
- 4:12Speaker 4: or not all Pro, but Pro Bowl tackle last year,
- 4:18Speaker 4: had left tackle that's playing guard for what I mean,
- 4:23Speaker 4: this is starting to become ridiculous and I want to
- 4:27Speaker 4: be like every other Cowboys fan every now and then,
- 4:30Speaker 4: I'm tired of seeing the same old stuff. And hey, Nick,
- 4:34Speaker 4: you know this as good as I do. You have
- 4:37Speaker 4: the leading tackler on your and the SEC last year
- 4:41Speaker 4: at linebacker on your practice squad. I mean tyros Week
- 4:48Speaker 4: he led the SEC last year as a linebacker in tackles.
- 4:52Speaker 4: And if Marcu's Bell and Lanier Thomas and stuff like
- 4:56Speaker 4: that are not big enough to take on linemen and
- 4:59Speaker 4: get run over every game. Why don't you try something different,
- 5:03Speaker 4: put somebody else there with some beef.
- 5:05Speaker 3: I mean probably, and they probably will. I mean they
- 5:08Speaker 3: they have to do. Thanks for the call, Chris, and
- 5:10Speaker 3: obviously and loyal to your Mississippi ties, and and I
- 5:13Speaker 3: don't I don't fault you for that at all.
- 5:16Speaker 2: I don't.
- 5:17Speaker 3: I don't know if the coach's staff is blaming anybody else.
- 5:19Speaker 3: I think the coaches blame them themselves, you know, I mean,
- 5:23Speaker 3: the only coach that really talks about it, I mean
- 5:25Speaker 3: the coordinators and and uh and of course Mike McCarthy,
- 5:28Speaker 3: and they took ownership for it, you know. I I
- 5:32Speaker 3: disagree with some of that a little bit. You know,
- 5:35Speaker 3: some of that stuff happened later in the week Thursday Friday,
- 5:38Speaker 3: I think. I think on Friday there was a there
- 5:40Speaker 3: was a pretty good sense that that they were going
- 5:42Speaker 3: to have all of their linemen. So I don't know
- 5:45Speaker 3: if you if you can say all week long that
- 5:47Speaker 3: they they thought this, but still you you got to
- 5:50Speaker 3: be prepared for especially, like you said, Tyrone Smith, you
- 5:52Speaker 3: got to be prepared for that. I don't know if
- 5:54Speaker 3: they have a good enough plan there knowing that that
- 5:59Speaker 3: that could happen.
- 5:59Speaker 2: To it at any moment.
- 6:01Speaker 3: But but I was disappointed with the way the whole
- 6:04Speaker 3: team just kind of failed to rally. You know, it
- 6:07Speaker 3: is supposed to be next man up, and it's not
- 6:09Speaker 3: just the guys that get hurt, it's the you know
- 6:10Speaker 3: you you you carry. Everyone has supposed to to rise
- 6:14Speaker 3: to the occasion, and they didn't. I think that they
- 6:18Speaker 3: they all figured they could go win win that game.
- 6:20Speaker 3: I mean they could just whatever the circumstance was, they
- 6:22Speaker 3: would go and they would win. And it definitely didn't happen.
- 6:27Speaker 3: I thought Dak played okay. I mean the interception is
- 6:30Speaker 3: just easy for for the haters to kind of say, well,
- 6:34Speaker 3: here we go again. I don't you know, they were
- 6:37Speaker 3: trying to rush to get back in the game. You know,
- 6:40Speaker 3: they had to get a touchdown. There was not a
- 6:43Speaker 3: good decision. Everyone knows that. He knows it, so but
- 6:46Speaker 3: don't I don't look back and go, well, they lost
- 6:48Speaker 3: the game because of Dak. That's ridiculous, all right. Another
- 6:52Speaker 3: call Darien from Houston. Darien, what's up, yo?
- 6:56Speaker 4: Nick Man?
- 6:57Speaker 2: Good?
- 6:57Speaker 3: How are you doing?
- 6:58Speaker 5: Man?
- 6:59Speaker 6: I appreciate you doing that the good work there back
- 7:01Speaker 6: in my boy, Dak Man. I think this team's gonna
- 7:03Speaker 6: be fine. I think they got caught looking past the
- 7:07Speaker 6: Cardinals a little bit like we all did. Really, two
- 7:10Speaker 6: quick questions.
- 7:11Speaker 2: Lyle Collins was.
- 7:12Speaker 6: Released about like two weeks ago. He was going to
- 7:14Speaker 6: start the season on PUB but he's free to sign
- 7:16Speaker 6: anywhere pending of physical Would you bring him back?
- 7:19Speaker 2: Is maybe a.
- 7:19Speaker 6: Swing tackle or a backup guard if he clears? You know,
- 7:23Speaker 6: I think these injuries, injuries are probably gonna be a
- 7:25Speaker 6: thing this year. I think they need a guy with
- 7:27Speaker 6: some experience and position flex And then secondly, how concerned
- 7:32Speaker 6: are you going into this weekend with the Patriots having
- 7:35Speaker 6: Zeke and now Will Greer kind of getting them to
- 7:39Speaker 6: tip off what kind of things we're doing offensively with
- 7:42Speaker 6: hand signals and maybe audibles and whatnot.
- 7:45Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for the call, good good stuff. The Liel situation,
- 7:50Speaker 3: you know, I think you always, you know, kick the
- 7:53Speaker 3: tires on on anybody really that that's played in the
- 7:56Speaker 3: league before and see if they still have some left.
- 7:58Speaker 3: I mean, there's a reason why he was really least
- 8:00Speaker 3: obviously reason why he hasn't been signed yet. But but
- 8:03Speaker 3: that but I think, you know, I'm sure the Cowboys
- 8:05Speaker 3: have done their homework on this, and and and you know,
- 8:09Speaker 3: have have discussed it. I mean, I think you have to.
- 8:11Speaker 3: You have to discuss all options, you know. I think
- 8:16Speaker 3: I would look into it, But then again, I don't
- 8:18Speaker 3: know some of the situations that he's been dealing with,
- 8:20Speaker 3: and I don't really know all the backstory of kind
- 8:23Speaker 3: of what happened. I don't think he left with a
- 8:26Speaker 3: situation that he would never return. I didn't think it
- 8:30Speaker 3: was that bad. I know, a little bit of animosity
- 8:33Speaker 3: here and there, but usually that that's what happened anytime
- 8:35Speaker 3: you you part ways, you know, I think and he
- 8:38Speaker 3: was excited about it, fresh start and all that. I
- 8:39Speaker 3: don't I just don't know where he is physically or
- 8:43Speaker 3: mentally for that matter. But I would imagine the Cowboys
- 8:46Speaker 3: have at least looked into him, just like they look
- 8:48Speaker 3: at all free agents that are out there, especially ones
- 8:50Speaker 3: that have played at a high level before the Patriots
- 8:54Speaker 3: coming in. I mean, the the Willgerer stuff. I never
- 8:58Speaker 3: put a lot of stock in and all that. You know,
- 9:01Speaker 3: I think that, yeah, he's he's been here, and he's
- 9:04Speaker 3: he knows the team, But I don't I don't think
- 9:06Speaker 3: he's gonna I don't think he would he could tip
- 9:08Speaker 3: off a whole lot of stuff like that. I mean,
- 9:11Speaker 3: if so, shame on the Cowboys if they let that happen.
- 9:14Speaker 3: You know, I mean you you mix things up all
- 9:16Speaker 3: the time. I just don't think that that Will Grier
- 9:18Speaker 3: being here affects that much. I do think Zeke, though
- 9:21Speaker 3: he ran the ball well last week, you know, he's
- 9:23Speaker 3: gonna be running as hard as he possibly can. Uh,
- 9:26Speaker 3: They're gonna get him some some opportunities. And and you
- 9:28Speaker 3: know they they run the ball well with Stevens and
- 9:30Speaker 3: and and him, like they already run the ball well.
- 9:33Speaker 3: They ran it well against the Jets. So I think
- 9:36Speaker 3: that you know, this is something to watch. Uh for sure,
- 9:39Speaker 3: This's gonna be a big key in the game, is
- 9:41Speaker 3: what happens there in the run. Let's go to some
- 9:43Speaker 3: text line questions here. This is a raquel from Walnut Creek, California.
- 9:48Speaker 3: I love and I miss Zeke. What Dallas Cowboy player
- 9:51Speaker 3: did you love? And was bummed that the Cowboys traded?
- 9:57Speaker 3: Remember Zeke wasn't traded. But but I don't know what
- 9:59Speaker 3: you would are saying, Uh, what a former Cowboy player
- 10:02Speaker 3: do you love? And wish that they wouldn't have traded well,
- 10:06Speaker 3: I mean I didn't. I didn't love the trade for
- 10:09Speaker 3: a Marii Cooper.
- 10:11Speaker 2: I didn't.
- 10:11Speaker 3: I didn't love that. But that's not really kind of
- 10:14Speaker 3: what you're asking.
- 10:15Speaker 2: You know.
- 10:15Speaker 3: I was a huge deon sa Anders fan in my
- 10:17Speaker 3: first year covering the team. Dion was there, but that
- 10:20Speaker 3: I hated that they released him. Uh for you know,
- 10:23Speaker 3: it was I was it was early into my you know,
- 10:26Speaker 3: writing career and then covering this team, and I didn't
- 10:29Speaker 3: always understand the salary cap and that kind of stuff.
- 10:32Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't love the fact, especially that he
- 10:34Speaker 3: went to Washington, but you know, he was kind of
- 10:36Speaker 3: on the on the tail end of his career, but
- 10:37Speaker 3: he had Dion was one that I that was one
- 10:40Speaker 3: where you didn't really understand that one. But let's okay,
- 10:44Speaker 3: let's go to the callers. Uh, Travis in San Antonio, Travis,
- 10:47Speaker 3: what's up?
- 10:49Speaker 7: Happy Wednesday to you.
- 10:50Speaker 3: How are you doing you too? I'm doing good, Thanks Travis.
- 10:54Speaker 7: I just wanted to say I'm gonna go kind of
- 10:55Speaker 7: a not so much this week, just kind of more
- 10:58Speaker 7: big picture thing. I've been doing it this for like
- 11:00Speaker 7: three weeks but haven't said it. And like for for
- 11:04Speaker 7: all the Cowboys fans out there that watch like national
- 11:06Speaker 7: media and all these personalities, I'm pretty much and this
- 11:10Speaker 7: is me. First, I just like shut down that. I
- 11:12Speaker 7: just watch your show. I watched The Break, I watched
- 11:14Speaker 7: Talk you know, Vatch, Lombardi, Jeff Kavanaugh, Brian brought us
- 11:18Speaker 7: one O five. If you're a Cowboys fan, just watch
- 11:21Speaker 7: that stuff. The personality is on national meters, so a
- 11:25Speaker 7: large part of not all of them are so uninformed
- 11:27Speaker 7: with what's going on in the in the building that
- 11:29Speaker 7: I just if you want to if you want to
- 11:31Speaker 7: get actual information, then these are the places you need
- 11:34Speaker 7: to watch.
- 11:35Speaker 3: And uh, the way I look at that though, Kevin,
- 11:37Speaker 3: I mean, like like those guys that you're talking about,
- 11:40Speaker 3: I mean the stephen A is is that what you're
- 11:42Speaker 3: saying like those type of guys. Yeah, it's those to
- 11:47Speaker 3: me that you know. And and stephen A specifically, like
- 11:52Speaker 3: I I put him in the same category as like
- 11:54Speaker 3: The Rock or Triple H. Seriously, I mean just entertainment.
- 11:58Speaker 3: It's not it's it's scripted. I mean, I I you know,
- 12:03Speaker 3: it's it's all for for shock value. I don't think
- 12:06Speaker 3: he believes half the stuff he says, but he's just
- 12:08Speaker 3: trying to draw people off side, you know. And that
- 12:10Speaker 3: other show in Fox that they got the wannabes that
- 12:13Speaker 3: are trying to do the same thing.
- 12:15Speaker 2: You know.
- 12:16Speaker 3: Now, when they had David Hellman on there, it was
- 12:18Speaker 3: a better show, and they and they need that a
- 12:21Speaker 3: little bit. But but yeah, I agree, I hear what
- 12:23Speaker 3: you're saying. I mean to me that that stuffs fake.
- 12:25Speaker 3: I really believe that that stuffs fake.
- 12:28Speaker 7: And I only say that just because I guess I
- 12:30Speaker 7: could think because you know, with we're a polarizing team,
- 12:33Speaker 7: so like, but so many people get so upset when
- 12:36Speaker 7: they hear stuff like that, and that's what I'm saying.
- 12:38Speaker 7: It's just easy to just dismiss it. It's just not
- 12:41Speaker 7: not informed. But I also wanted to say from your
- 12:43Speaker 7: stuff yesterday, if I had to wear a Patriots jersey,
- 12:48Speaker 7: I'll go with Vince Willpork. Yeah, and I just bought
- 12:54Speaker 7: my first coup I'm not a big jersey guy, but
- 12:55Speaker 7: I did buy a Larry Allen jersey.
- 12:58Speaker 3: Larry Allen, So you clearly like the guys in the
- 13:00Speaker 3: trenches like you you respect the big linemen on both
- 13:04Speaker 3: sides of the ball. That's kind of you seemed like
- 13:06Speaker 3: your thing.
- 13:08Speaker 7: Oh yeah, all right, have a great week.
- 13:09Speaker 3: You too, Thank you, Travis appreciate that. Let's go to
- 13:14Speaker 3: Kevin in New Jersey. Let's go back to the phone
- 13:16Speaker 3: line here, Kevin in New Jersey, still with us?
- 13:19Speaker 5: Hey, Nick, how are you?
- 13:21Speaker 2: How good?
- 13:21Speaker 8: How are you doing great? Love the show, A longtime
- 13:25Speaker 8: fan of yours.
- 13:26Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 13:27Speaker 8: The thoughts I have about this upcoming game are concerned
- 13:32Speaker 8: with Bill Belichick. I really believe rosters across the NFL
- 13:37Speaker 8: are somewhat even. But my opinion is that the schemes
- 13:42Speaker 8: that are put into play for each week play a
- 13:45Speaker 8: huge part in the outcome. So I'm looking ahead and
- 13:47Speaker 8: I see Belichick and I know what he's going to
- 13:50Speaker 8: do is focus on taking Parsons out of the game.
- 13:53Speaker 8: I just wanted to hear your thoughts on concerns with
- 13:56Speaker 8: the upcoming week. I mean, I feel like we have
- 13:58Speaker 8: a great roster. I feel like we've got great defensive coordinator.
- 14:01Speaker 8: But a little concerned belichicks out schemus this coming week.
- 14:05Speaker 2: You know, fair.
- 14:06Speaker 3: I appreciate the call. I mean, you can definitely, you know,
- 14:10Speaker 3: you can definitely talk about that and and and that
- 14:13Speaker 3: that would be fair because go back and look at
- 14:16Speaker 3: at what happened with with Parsons the first time that
- 14:20Speaker 3: they played. Uh, he was you know, he was early
- 14:22Speaker 3: in his rookie year, and I think that was probably
- 14:25Speaker 3: the least production that he had in any game.
- 14:28Speaker 2: Uh that whole year.
- 14:29Speaker 3: He didn't have a sack, he didn't have a quarterback hit.
- 14:35Speaker 3: And so they they did a pretty good job of
- 14:36Speaker 3: taking him out of that game. Now, the Cowboys did
- 14:39Speaker 3: win in overtime, but you know, and he said yesterday
- 14:43Speaker 3: or earlier this week, I think he said on a
- 14:45Speaker 3: radio show up there in New England that that he's
- 14:48Speaker 3: he's a lot like Lawrence Taylor and that you have
- 14:51Speaker 3: to locate him first and then he could do everything well.
- 14:53Speaker 3: And so it was a really nice quote. I think
- 14:55Speaker 3: we put a story on the on the website Dallas
- 14:58Speaker 3: Cowboys dot com about that, you know, just just that
- 15:01Speaker 3: quote that Belichick said. So, yeah, he's gonna definitely, you know,
- 15:05Speaker 3: try to take him out of the game. Easier said
- 15:08Speaker 3: than done. But but if there's somebody that can do that,
- 15:10Speaker 3: it would be it would be him. But you know,
- 15:12Speaker 3: that's why you have all this depth, that's why you
- 15:13Speaker 3: have the guys like Dorn's Armstrong and Sam Williams and
- 15:17Speaker 3: Fowler and Tank. Of course, Tank's playing really well. I
- 15:20Speaker 3: you know, he's played He's had some really really good
- 15:23Speaker 3: moments there early in the season. So you know, it's
- 15:26Speaker 3: easier said than done. And I would imagine dan Quinn's
- 15:28Speaker 3: gonna have to do some some different wrinkles as well
- 15:31Speaker 3: with him. But yeah, that's gonna be something to watch
- 15:34Speaker 3: all week. We got some text message questions that I
- 15:37Speaker 3: want to get to here. Jason from Pennsylvania says, do
- 15:40Speaker 3: other teams have dramatic ups and downs from game to game?
- 15:44Speaker 3: I would imagine, I mean, I you know, I don't.
- 15:47Speaker 3: You don't follow these other teams, but yeah, just look
- 15:49Speaker 3: at their records. I mean, there's a lot of teams
- 15:50Speaker 3: that are in between the eight to nine, nine and eight,
- 15:55Speaker 3: you know, seven and ten, ten and seven. You can't
- 15:58Speaker 3: do that without going up, down, up down. That's that's
- 16:01Speaker 3: the nature of the NFL is to make everybody equal.
- 16:04Speaker 3: And when that happens, yeah, you play well one week,
- 16:06Speaker 3: you play well at the next. I don't know if
- 16:08Speaker 3: it's just as dramatic, because I don't think the Cowboys,
- 16:11Speaker 3: you know, I don't think other teams are viewed the
- 16:13Speaker 3: same way nationally. But yeah, I mean I do think
- 16:16Speaker 3: that and that's just the way it is. And I
- 16:18Speaker 3: think a lot of fan bases.
- 16:19Speaker 2: Are that way.
- 16:20Speaker 3: You know where I mean McCarthy was, you know, they
- 16:24Speaker 3: they were getting all kinds of praise two weeks ago,
- 16:26Speaker 3: and now that you know he wasn't prepared, wasn't prepared.
- 16:28Speaker 2: For the game.
- 16:29Speaker 3: And then you know, same with Dak So it happens.
- 16:32Speaker 3: That's that's the way it is. I would imagine it's
- 16:33Speaker 3: the same with with a lot of teams. All right,
- 16:35Speaker 3: Michael and Bowling Green Kentucky fan since nineteen eighty. Any
- 16:38Speaker 3: chance they would bring Trey Lance in for a goal
- 16:40Speaker 3: line or need one yard on fourth and inches, I
- 16:44Speaker 3: don't think we're there for that yet. And and you
- 16:48Speaker 3: know that would that would kind of make they'd have
- 16:50Speaker 3: to make some changes on how they structure the game
- 16:52Speaker 3: day roster. If that was the case, Cooper Rush would
- 16:54Speaker 3: have to be the third quarterback. I don't think they're
- 16:56Speaker 3: They're I don't think that's going to be a thing
- 16:58Speaker 3: right now. I think I think the idea with Trey
- 17:00Speaker 3: Lances to just kind of keep him developing this year,
- 17:04Speaker 3: learning the system, being a good scout team quarterback. Things
- 17:07Speaker 3: like that, don't I don't see that the packages for
- 17:10Speaker 3: him right now? All right's back to the phone lines,
- 17:13Speaker 3: Joe and Stanford.
- 17:14Speaker 9: Joe, what's up, Hey, morning, sir. So A couple of things. First,
- 17:19Speaker 9: you're our first caller of the day, gentlemen from Mississippi
- 17:22Speaker 9: is talking about the line. What I saw was we
- 17:26Speaker 9: moved the ball pretty dang well, honestly, up and down
- 17:30Speaker 9: the field. We ran it decently, actually pretty well. We
- 17:36Speaker 9: just when we got to the red zone, we just
- 17:38Speaker 9: didn't execute again. So I'm not so sure I would
- 17:41Speaker 9: blame it even on having all those backup linemen in there.
- 17:46Speaker 9: As far as looking forward and sort of looking at
- 17:51Speaker 9: it at Micah, I don't get why we are having
- 17:56Speaker 9: the same issues that we had last year. I feel
- 17:59Speaker 9: like that the things that they're doing to Mica to
- 18:04Speaker 9: to neutralize him are the same things that he was
- 18:09Speaker 9: getting done to him last year. And I feel like
- 18:10Speaker 9: maybe we need to figure out why that's happening, what
- 18:15Speaker 9: what or what are we not doing to to make
- 18:19Speaker 9: sure that that doesn't happen in the future.
- 18:22Speaker 3: Joe, he's getting he's getting double teamed. I mean like
- 18:25Speaker 3: like that he's getting double team since his rookie year.
- 18:27Speaker 3: I mean, like what I explain that a little bit
- 18:31Speaker 3: more when you're say why this is keeps happening? I mean,
- 18:34Speaker 3: he's got four sacks in three games. I think he's
- 18:37Speaker 3: he's making a huge difference in the game.
- 18:39Speaker 9: Well, well, there were several there were several plays or
- 18:42Speaker 9: at least two or three that I remember and happened
- 18:44Speaker 9: a lot last year where he's running free and missing
- 18:48Speaker 9: this running quarterback, letting the guy just run right past him.
- 18:52Speaker 5: Yeah, it happened.
- 18:54Speaker 9: So that's that's specifically what I'm talking about. Yeah, and
- 18:58Speaker 9: who Parsons is running free? He needs to be making
- 19:01Speaker 9: the play?
- 19:01Speaker 3: Who were putting that on? I mean, to me, I
- 19:04Speaker 3: don't know, that's one that's on Mia Parsons, that's on
- 19:08Speaker 3: Micah Parsons. That to me, that's Michael Parsons. Has got
- 19:11Speaker 3: to be better at doing that.
- 19:13Speaker 4: Like like, yeah, I.
- 19:15Speaker 9: Don't disagree with you. I'm just we need to help
- 19:18Speaker 9: him be better. I don't know what we need to do,
- 19:20Speaker 9: but he's good enough to make the plays. He needs
- 19:22Speaker 9: to be making those plays.
- 19:24Speaker 3: One hundred and that's that's you know, And Joe I
- 19:27Speaker 3: I appreciate it. And and that's one thing that it's
- 19:29Speaker 3: kind of it's kind of frustrated me a little bit,
- 19:31Speaker 3: is that you know that that Dak is getting all
- 19:33Speaker 3: this that this heat for throwing a you know, pretty
- 19:36Speaker 3: much a desperation type fourth quarter interception, when when when
- 19:40Speaker 3: a guy that's been touted as MVP wants to be
- 19:43Speaker 3: you know, he even said himself, you know, like why
- 19:45Speaker 3: why don't defensive guys get put in m v P.
- 19:48Speaker 3: So so he's putting that on himself as well. And
- 19:50Speaker 3: I think I think this whole team, they're so fascinated
- 19:53Speaker 3: with getting sacks all the time, to get sacked, sack
- 19:56Speaker 3: sacks where you know you're missing some plays, you're missing
- 19:59Speaker 3: a room team runs. So you've got to be disciplined.
- 20:02Speaker 3: I mean, I'll go back and think of a guy
- 20:04Speaker 3: Dwight Freeney back in the day with the Colts. Man
- 20:07Speaker 3: love to get sacks, but they can run the ball
- 20:09Speaker 3: right past them sometimes, And so you've got to be
- 20:12Speaker 3: disciplined to not only stay in your lane, but but
- 20:15Speaker 3: you've got to make the play first. If it's a sack, great,
- 20:18Speaker 3: but if not, you've got to have containment. And that
- 20:20Speaker 3: doesn't always happen, all right, Bruce and Houston. Bruce, what's up?
- 20:25Speaker 5: Hey, Nick, good good show.
- 20:27Speaker 10: Thanks for the call. That kind of leads into what
- 20:29Speaker 10: I was thinking about on the RPO, because Micah missed
- 20:33Speaker 10: that first forty plus yard ran that Dobbs took off
- 20:37Speaker 10: on him. To me, I would whoever's on the outside,
- 20:40Speaker 10: whether it's Micah or Lawrence or whoever they've got to,
- 20:45Speaker 10: in my opinion, on a running quarterback like that hit him,
- 20:48Speaker 10: whether he's got the ball or not, he's he's like
- 20:50Speaker 10: a running back, then you're not going to get penalized
- 20:52Speaker 10: if I'm if I'm if I'm correct on tackling him,
- 20:56Speaker 10: not pile driving because you're going to get flag for that, but.
- 21:00Speaker 11: Can help you do that about four or five times.
- 21:02Speaker 10: And that quarterback gonna tell that offensive Cordner, Hey, let's
- 21:05Speaker 10: let the running back do that. But that's how like
- 21:08Speaker 10: you said earlier, you've got to maintain your lanes. I
- 21:11Speaker 10: just think we're gonna find out about our cowboys this
- 21:16Speaker 10: Sunday because you're you're not as good as they say
- 21:19Speaker 10: you are. You're not as bad as they say you are.
- 21:21Speaker 10: But until you get punched in the mouth, then you're
- 21:23Speaker 10: gonna find out who they are. I think they were.
- 21:25Speaker 10: We all had them. Hey, it's gonna be four and
- 21:27Speaker 10: o's Hey, Francisco, and we forgot to think about the
- 21:30Speaker 10: Cardinals are the Patriots, and the Patriots can run the ball.
- 21:33Speaker 10: You know, Ellie is gonna be trying to just smash
- 21:35Speaker 10: mouth everybody, so I'd like to see him go eight
- 21:38Speaker 10: in the box and make Jones beat him over the top.
- 21:40Speaker 10: But great show.
- 21:42Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that you and I think
- 21:44Speaker 3: you have to do that. I think you have to
- 21:46Speaker 3: be like that with with you know, the way the
- 21:48Speaker 3: Patriots are probably gonna run the ball, you have to
- 21:52Speaker 3: be closer to the line of scrimmage. I think they're
- 21:54Speaker 3: gonna have to maybe figure out ways to have a
- 21:56Speaker 3: little bit more beef back there. And let's be clear too,
- 21:59Speaker 3: this is just about Markue's Bell now, Marquis Bell and
- 22:03Speaker 3: jay Ron Curse. It's not just about them. Like you've
- 22:06Speaker 3: also the linebackers Dimone, clark Leyton Vanderush. They got to
- 22:10Speaker 3: get off some blocks as well, so it's not just
- 22:13Speaker 3: about them all the time. Real quick, we're gonna take
- 22:16Speaker 3: another call Steve in New York.
- 22:19Speaker 12: Hey, make great show Man.
- 22:21Speaker 3: Thanks Steve.
- 22:22Speaker 12: Just quick, I spoke to you before the season started
- 22:26Speaker 12: about where the Cowboys we're going to get that those
- 22:29Speaker 12: short yardage plays and whatnot red zone two and I'm
- 22:32Speaker 12: just you know, this is just my opinion. You know,
- 22:36Speaker 12: we're trying to replace two guys that were real red
- 22:40Speaker 12: zone targets last year. I mean, Zeke's twelve touchdowns were
- 22:43Speaker 12: all red zone last year. I'm pretty sure Dalton Schultz
- 22:46Speaker 12: were too. And I know nobody probably wants to hear it,
- 22:48Speaker 12: but do you think it's going to take time to
- 22:51Speaker 12: acclimate Dak Prescott to find guys to replace their production
- 22:56Speaker 12: because those.
- 22:57Speaker 5: Guys were big in the red zone.
- 22:58Speaker 12: And I'm not making an.
- 22:59Speaker 2: Excuse, no, I hear you, I hear you.
- 23:01Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, twelve touchdowns doesn't just happen overnight. I mean,
- 23:06Speaker 3: that's that's significant. So you're right, they haven't figured that
- 23:10Speaker 3: this this part out yet. They really haven't figured out
- 23:14Speaker 3: how they want to do it and how that how
- 23:16Speaker 3: you know they're gonna be able to utilize that.
- 23:19Speaker 12: I know that, you know, Ronald Jones was the kind
- 23:21Speaker 12: of quick fixed thing that never obviously didn't pan out.
- 23:24Speaker 12: But what do you think the chances of them uh
- 23:27Speaker 12: going out and maybe get it. I'm not going to
- 23:30Speaker 12: say a four net, but somebody brings somebody in.
- 23:33Speaker 3: I really don't see that. Thanks for the call, Steve,
- 23:36Speaker 3: I don't really see that. I think that they they're
- 23:38Speaker 3: they're good with the running back situation.
- 23:40Speaker 2: Now.
- 23:41Speaker 3: The one thing I could I could see happening a
- 23:43Speaker 3: little bit more is Hunter Lipke getting getting more involved.
- 23:45Speaker 3: I mean, like he's everything that they've given him, he's
- 23:48Speaker 3: done well. I could see him continuing to to get
- 23:52Speaker 3: a little bit more reps. Maybe maybe some in the
- 23:54Speaker 3: red zone. You know, but but you know, but to
- 23:57Speaker 3: do that, he probably to be more effective. You're probably
- 24:00Speaker 3: gonna have to be the tailback, not so much the fullback.
- 24:04Speaker 3: But there's different ways that they can do it. Then
- 24:07Speaker 3: then they have to figure it out. I mean, there's
- 24:09Speaker 3: no doubt about it. You can't just keep kicking field
- 24:11Speaker 3: goals all the time, especially when you go against better offenses.
- 24:15Speaker 3: All right, we're gonna take a break. When we come back,
- 24:18Speaker 3: I'm gonna change some clothes. We're gonna have a guest
- 24:20Speaker 3: in here. Cowboys storyline will be right back.
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- 26:26Speaker 1: The Cowboys storylines.
- 26:30Speaker 3: Gross basically, it's all I could really say. Not Shannon gross,
- 26:33Speaker 3: but just gross. All right, Back to the storyline. Got
- 26:36Speaker 3: Danny McCrae, proud l s u alum, former Dallas Cowboy.
- 26:41Speaker 3: He's also on the Players Lounge every Day Survivor finalist.
- 26:49Speaker 2: You look good man, You alumna or you.
- 26:56Speaker 3: All right, So we made a friendly deal, jersey deal,
- 27:01Speaker 3: jersey deal, and this guy couldn't couldn't get a jersey,
- 27:06Speaker 3: so he gets this nasty purple color. This is LSU
- 27:10Speaker 3: versus Arkansas. There's a lot of story behind this whole thing.
- 27:14Speaker 3: We talked all week. I basically said, I thought that
- 27:17Speaker 3: Arkansas was going to win the game, even though they
- 27:19Speaker 3: were what eighteen point underdogs, eyes, I knew the way
- 27:21Speaker 3: they would play, we would play well. I knew they
- 27:24Speaker 3: would play well, and I thought they were they were
- 27:25Speaker 3: going to win the game. And you look at the game.
- 27:26Speaker 3: They lost thirty four to thirty one. At the buzzer
- 27:29Speaker 3: LSU one. Good for them, good for Danny. But it
- 27:32Speaker 3: was a jersey bet. It was supposed to wear a jersey,
- 27:35Speaker 3: you know. I mean, like, you know, I got my jersey.
- 27:39Speaker 3: I've got my jersey to wear it, so you want
- 27:41Speaker 3: to wear this.
- 27:41Speaker 2: I mean, look, we didn't.
- 27:42Speaker 17: We didn't beat like a really good team, so it
- 27:44Speaker 17: was more like a T shirt win versus a jersey win.
- 27:48Speaker 2: It was like Alabama somebody.
- 27:49Speaker 3: Anyways, nobody cares everyone everyone, you know, you listen to
- 27:53Speaker 3: your show, Okay, cool, all right, good for them. Go Tiger,
- 27:56Speaker 3: We're gonna we might end early here now. So I
- 28:01Speaker 3: absolutely hate this color.
- 28:03Speaker 2: Just wear Barney Royalty.
- 28:05Speaker 3: Anyways, all right, so I lost, Arkansas lost the game, Danny,
- 28:10Speaker 3: they won, l s U got to win. Yeah, good
- 28:13Speaker 3: for y'all. Anyways, Cowboys, Cowboys, Cardinals. Yeah, you're you're on
- 28:21Speaker 3: the show players lounge. What what's the what's the sentiment? Like,
- 28:25Speaker 3: I mean, what's going on here with with in your
- 28:27Speaker 3: mind with with the with the Cowboys and how they
- 28:30Speaker 3: lost that game, and you know it's the sky falling
- 28:32Speaker 3: all that stuff.
- 28:34Speaker 17: I don't think the sky is falling. I think you know,
- 28:37Speaker 17: I was very high on Big Mic this year, Mike
- 28:40Speaker 17: McCarthy calling plays and him saying that, hey, I'm going
- 28:43Speaker 17: to make sure I play to my defense. I think
- 28:45Speaker 17: the first two games you saw was getting out into
- 28:47Speaker 17: the red zone and instead of worry about what everybody
- 28:49Speaker 17: else said about how our red zone, how we were
- 28:52Speaker 17: performing in the red zone, we kicked the field goals.
- 28:54Speaker 2: We got out of there.
- 28:55Speaker 17: And I'm watching the game and I'm like, Okay, Big
- 28:57Speaker 17: Mic is going to kick this field goal no matter
- 28:59Speaker 17: what's happening to us on defense. And he's gonna trust
- 29:01Speaker 17: that we're gonna be able to make a play and
- 29:03Speaker 17: he goes for it on fourth Yeah, And at that moment,
- 29:06Speaker 17: I was like, this ain't the same as the first
- 29:08Speaker 17: two games.
- 29:09Speaker 3: Why do you think you think it was a lack
- 29:10Speaker 3: of trust or do you think it just the feel
- 29:13Speaker 3: in the game.
- 29:14Speaker 2: I think it was.
- 29:14Speaker 17: I think it's you go into the first two games
- 29:17Speaker 17: and you don't perform very well in the red zone.
- 29:20Speaker 17: Well when you compare it to how many touchdowns versus
- 29:22Speaker 17: how many field goals you're scoring, but for me, it's
- 29:24Speaker 17: you're ending the drive with a kick, you're getting points,
- 29:26Speaker 17: and you're letting your defense go out there and do
- 29:28Speaker 17: what they do. Previous two games, we kicked a lot
- 29:31Speaker 17: of field goals. We weren't scoring touchdowns in the red zone,
- 29:34Speaker 17: and what were people saying once you got out of
- 29:36Speaker 17: those games, man, we turn those in the touchdowns, like
- 29:39Speaker 17: that's going to be that much better for us as
- 29:41Speaker 17: we go through the season, and we didn't do it.
- 29:43Speaker 17: So I think when we got into the red zone
- 29:45Speaker 17: this game, it's like, you know what, I got to
- 29:46Speaker 17: score a touchdown in the red zone. We went for
- 29:48Speaker 17: it on fourth down, and it changed the whole dynamic
- 29:51Speaker 17: of how we had been playing that first two weeks.
- 29:53Speaker 3: And it wasn't just the fact that you didn't score,
- 29:55Speaker 3: but you let them get what thirty five yards out
- 29:58Speaker 3: of it. I mean, there's one thing. If you can
- 29:59Speaker 3: just go three now and they punt, you're probably gonna
- 30:01Speaker 3: be back down there again. But they got a big,
- 30:03Speaker 3: big play out of it, and you're right, it kind
- 30:06Speaker 3: of changed the whole momentum. It was kind of like,
- 30:08Speaker 3: all right, the Cardinals were like, we can take their
- 30:10Speaker 3: best way, Well, how many times we throw the ball?
- 30:12Speaker 2: Right?
- 30:12Speaker 17: It changed the way we played the entire game. And
- 30:15Speaker 17: I know, like they were driving the ball on us
- 30:18Speaker 17: on defense, But that's first half.
- 30:20Speaker 2: Second half we came out and we played.
- 30:21Speaker 17: We played better, But I think we had an opportunity
- 30:24Speaker 17: to say, all right, listen, we got a whole second half.
- 30:27Speaker 17: We're gonna get these three points and we're gonna stick
- 30:29Speaker 17: to the plan that we've been doing for the first
- 30:31Speaker 17: two games. And I think it changed for some reason
- 30:34Speaker 17: when we went on fourth now, and I think it
- 30:38Speaker 17: was just different. It was just different. I don't think
- 30:39Speaker 17: the sky's falling. I think we'll get back to what
- 30:41Speaker 17: we were doing because we saw that it didn't work,
- 30:44Speaker 17: and I think we'll be okay. It won't be as
- 30:45Speaker 17: easy as I thought it was gonna be there.
- 30:47Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that's the same with a lot
- 30:49Speaker 3: of fans right now. All right, this first time you've
- 30:51Speaker 3: been on this show. We take a lot of callers
- 30:54Speaker 3: on here. We've got a couple that are on the
- 30:55Speaker 3: line right now, so we're gonna We're gonna go back
- 30:57Speaker 3: to the phone line here. Sebastian is in Savanna to Georgia. Sebastian,
- 31:01Speaker 3: what's up, Budd.
- 31:02Speaker 18: I'm doing great. How you guys doing today?
- 31:04Speaker 3: I'm good.
- 31:05Speaker 18: Danny McCray, mister McCray, I see you out here doing
- 31:08Speaker 18: your thing on Sivira.
- 31:10Speaker 3: Man.
- 31:10Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.
- 31:12Speaker 5: Hey.
- 31:12Speaker 18: First off, I didn't know you were gonna be in
- 31:13Speaker 18: a show, so I'm keeeking out little bit. I love
- 31:17Speaker 18: the Player's Lounge as well. I watch all the shows
- 31:20Speaker 18: first we call the players Lounge. I have not seen
- 31:22Speaker 18: one other show that tears the players up as much
- 31:24Speaker 18: as you guys riot every single day. My question is that,
- 31:29Speaker 18: what exactly do you think is the issue that's going
- 31:32Speaker 18: on with Dak Because right now he's sitting that in
- 31:33Speaker 18: my mind, if we're being honest, the number two quarterback
- 31:36Speaker 18: in the nfcast, he's not running and tucking the ball
- 31:39Speaker 18: and running and he gets tuck the ball and run.
- 31:40Speaker 18: It seems like he's a little indecisive. Is it just
- 31:42Speaker 18: the offensive line or is there something more, maybe like
- 31:45Speaker 18: some remnants of thinking from like, hey, back when I
- 31:47Speaker 18: got injured for running and stuff like that, that's stopping
- 31:49Speaker 18: him from being the Dak that.
- 31:50Speaker 9: We know he can be.
- 31:51Speaker 18: I'll hang up and listen.
- 31:52Speaker 2: You know what. Thanks.
- 31:54Speaker 17: I actually think that Dak has been running more at
- 31:57Speaker 17: the beginning of this season than he has the previous
- 31:59Speaker 17: two seas. I think it's getting more comfortable running the ball.
- 32:04Speaker 17: Do I wish he does it? We'll do it more
- 32:06Speaker 17: in the red zone?
- 32:07Speaker 2: Yes, I do. I wish he would.
- 32:09Speaker 17: I think what we're the issue that we're having with
- 32:11Speaker 17: Dak now is one we came out the first two
- 32:15Speaker 17: games and we were throwing a lot of short passes,
- 32:17Speaker 17: a lot of get them out quick. The Dallas Coast offense, Hey,
- 32:21Speaker 17: three yards, get the ball in their hands. And I
- 32:22Speaker 17: think now you're going to see a lot of teams
- 32:24Speaker 17: sitting on those routes same way that they sit on
- 32:26Speaker 17: those routes when you get into the red zone, and
- 32:28Speaker 17: it's taking those spaces away from him. So he has
- 32:31Speaker 17: to be able to open up the defense by completing
- 32:33Speaker 17: some of those deep routes. And when I say completing them,
- 32:36Speaker 17: I don't mean back show to fade, go out of
- 32:38Speaker 17: bounds and then we come back to running next play.
- 32:41Speaker 2: I mean Tyreek Hill type, Hey, run.
- 32:43Speaker 17: Underneath the ball, get you a sixty yard pass, and
- 32:46Speaker 17: then make the defense respect the fact that you can
- 32:48Speaker 17: make that throw and they'll have to play a little
- 32:50Speaker 17: deeper and that'll spread them out a little bit.
- 32:52Speaker 2: But we haven't been completing those type of passes.
- 32:54Speaker 3: And honestly, and you know, as a safety, I mean
- 32:57Speaker 3: like you don't always even have to complete it to
- 33:00Speaker 3: send a message. I mean, if you throw a deep
- 33:02Speaker 3: ball to a guy and even if it's incomplete, least
- 33:05Speaker 3: at least they know that.
- 33:06Speaker 17: All Right, If I'm playing deep middle safety and I
- 33:10Speaker 17: gotta get on the gas and go one hundred percent
- 33:13Speaker 17: because I feel like I'm behind or this dude might
- 33:15Speaker 17: catch this sixty yard pass the next play, I'm gonna
- 33:18Speaker 17: make sure that I'm probably five yards deeper, right if
- 33:20Speaker 17: it's third whatever, it is. I'm gonna make sure I'm
- 33:22Speaker 17: a little deeper, and that is going to spread out
- 33:24Speaker 17: the entire defense because now the corners are gonna feel
- 33:26Speaker 17: the same way, and that makes the linebackers have to
- 33:28Speaker 17: get a little bit deeper in their drops because there's
- 33:30Speaker 17: a little bit more space than if they don't.
- 33:31Speaker 2: That opens it up for you.
- 33:33Speaker 17: And I think we're taking those shots, but if we
- 33:36Speaker 17: don't complete them or that thread of like, hey, ceedd
- 33:39Speaker 17: Lamb's about to catch the sixty yard bomb on us.
- 33:41Speaker 17: We got Brandon Cooks back there, Michael Gallup. We don't
- 33:43Speaker 17: start completing those passes, you're gonna see a lot of
- 33:45Speaker 17: people sitting on sitting on these routes.
- 33:47Speaker 3: All right, all right, let's go to David and fort Worth.
- 33:50Speaker 3: David's our next caller, David, what's up?
- 33:53Speaker 19: Hey, how you doing guys?
- 33:54Speaker 2: Good? David?
- 33:56Speaker 19: Yes, sir, Yes, sir, Hey real quick, mission crazy Danny.
- 34:00Speaker 19: I didn't know you're going to be on man. I
- 34:02Speaker 19: want to let you know, I didn't watch an episode
- 34:04Speaker 19: of Survivor my entire life when I heard you were
- 34:06Speaker 19: going to be on it.
- 34:07Speaker 5: Man.
- 34:07Speaker 19: My wife and I were on it every single everying
- 34:10Speaker 19: was it Wednesday? I think it was watched every single
- 34:12Speaker 19: one and Bro that chick should not have won, many
- 34:16Speaker 19: voted out, should have never came back. That was I
- 34:18Speaker 19: was upset, but your God, Cowboys. At the end, I
- 34:21Speaker 19: was like icnic Bro, it was iconic, But I wanted
- 34:23Speaker 19: to ask a real quick question about Zeke man Zeke's returning.
- 34:27Speaker 19: I have the same little feeling that ever Dead was
- 34:29Speaker 19: going to have an opportunity to come back and play
- 34:31Speaker 19: when he was with the Ravens, and unfortunately he couldn't.
- 34:34Speaker 19: And I never want any player to come back and
- 34:37Speaker 19: beat the Cowboys because I'm a Cowboys fan through and through.
- 34:40Speaker 19: But I want him to have a little bit of
- 34:41Speaker 19: success because like I like, so I know, I know,
- 34:45Speaker 19: and I wanted to get your perspective as a player,
- 34:47Speaker 19: like I want Zeke to come to come back. I
- 34:49Speaker 19: wanted Dez to come back and play well because I
- 34:51Speaker 19: still believed in them. Does that make me a bad fan?
- 34:54Speaker 19: I'll hang up and listen.
- 34:55Speaker 2: Man.
- 34:55Speaker 19: Honestly, it.
- 34:57Speaker 17: Doesn't make you a bad fan, because, as you're rooting
- 35:00Speaker 17: for a team, you do feel a personal connection to
- 35:03Speaker 17: certain players, So you wanting him to do well doesn't
- 35:07Speaker 17: make you any less of a fan for the Cowboys
- 35:09Speaker 17: because the truth is he might all right, but we
- 35:12Speaker 17: don't want him to win. We don't want him to win.
- 35:14Speaker 17: I don't there's nothing against you for wanting Zeke to
- 35:17Speaker 17: do well, because honestly, as a former player, I want
- 35:19Speaker 17: everybody to do well. But at the end of the day,
- 35:21Speaker 17: I want my team to win, So don't feel bad
- 35:24Speaker 17: about it. Zeke got eighteen carriages last week for eighty hours,
- 35:28Speaker 17: so he's gonna get some rips. So we're gonna get
- 35:30Speaker 17: tested again like we did this week in the run
- 35:32Speaker 17: and we'll see what he can do.
- 35:33Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I certainly not a bad fan. I mean,
- 35:36Speaker 3: David's one of the callers that calls almost every day
- 35:40Speaker 3: and so certainly certainly not. And I think it makes
- 35:43Speaker 3: you a human. I mean that more than anything. I mean,
- 35:45Speaker 3: that's the good thing about this situation with Zeke is
- 35:49Speaker 3: that you know, his career is a lot of ups
- 35:52Speaker 3: and downs and for the most part, but he like
- 35:55Speaker 3: he can leave. He left the Cowboys on good terms,
- 35:58Speaker 3: and I think, I think, you know, their Cowboys are
- 36:01Speaker 3: going to do something for him. You'll see, you know,
- 36:04Speaker 3: in the stadium, they'll they'll they'll have something for him
- 36:06Speaker 3: and I'm sure you know, he said all the right things.
- 36:09Speaker 3: So this is going to be a good homecoming. Now,
- 36:12Speaker 3: at the end of the day, he's definitely gonna want Yeah,
- 36:15Speaker 3: he're gonna want to win this game. But uh but yeah,
- 36:17Speaker 3: it's you know, everything is so far is on good time.
- 36:21Speaker 17: Well, listen, they need to do something for him because
- 36:23Speaker 17: this is the last play that he had here. We
- 36:25Speaker 17: want to see we want to see something different from
- 36:28Speaker 17: Zeke's return to AT and T Stadium because he gave
- 36:31Speaker 17: us the.
- 36:32Speaker 2: Kettle, the red kettle, Jones, all the positive stuff. It
- 36:35Speaker 2: just for me to remember that that's how you went out.
- 36:38Speaker 2: But the last play of Dallas.
- 36:39Speaker 3: You don't think they're going to be like former Cowboys center.
- 36:44Speaker 17: I'll tell you they're not showing that play on the
- 36:47Speaker 17: video boards. Appreciation for watching Survivor. Tell the wife, I said, hello,
- 36:52Speaker 17: great experience. Yeah, actually the season starts tonight, So why
- 36:55Speaker 17: season forty five tonight?
- 36:56Speaker 3: Okay, but that's not the only thing you're on.
- 36:58Speaker 2: I mean in the Challenge.
- 36:59Speaker 3: Yeah, what's the latest with the Challenge?
- 37:01Speaker 17: The Challenge comes on Thursdays. Now is USA Season two
- 37:05Speaker 17: is going on, and it's a very good season. They
- 37:07Speaker 17: brought some of the old MTV vets in to shake
- 37:10Speaker 17: things up a little bit, and it's actually been a
- 37:12Speaker 17: very exciting Like Banana Bananas is there, Wes was there.
- 37:17Speaker 17: CT is not there, but he is making his return.
- 37:21Speaker 17: He is making his return.
- 37:22Speaker 3: So how many things have you been on? You've been
- 37:24Speaker 3: on the Survivor.
- 37:25Speaker 17: I did Survivor and I did two seasons of the Challenge.
- 37:27Speaker 17: I did the Challenge USA one and the Challenge World Championship.
- 37:31Speaker 3: Is that come out yet on TV?
- 37:33Speaker 17: Yes, it's over. I got second, You got second. I
- 37:35Speaker 17: got second place because my partner couldn't ride a bike.
- 37:38Speaker 17: But yeah, you know, well that was that was a
- 37:40Speaker 17: big reason she couldn't ride back. I don't want you know,
- 37:43Speaker 17: I'm not I'm not a finger pointer.
- 37:47Speaker 3: You basically just said she didn't have the same skills
- 37:49Speaker 3: most like, you.
- 37:50Speaker 2: Know, very riding bike.
- 37:53Speaker 3: All right, Miguel in pearsall Texas, Miguel, what's up?
- 37:58Speaker 2: I was going good?
- 38:00Speaker 3: How you doing?
- 38:00Speaker 9: Hey?
- 38:01Speaker 5: Good morning man? I got a question, bro.
- 38:03Speaker 11: So we picked up Brandon Cooks. He's had several thousand
- 38:07Speaker 11: yard rushing seasons throughout his career. I feel like it's
- 38:12Speaker 11: with him, we're underutilizing them with too many under routes
- 38:15Speaker 11: and not giving them the opportunity to get the separation
- 38:19Speaker 11: and take off the top of the defense like we
- 38:21Speaker 11: were supposed to take off, you know, Like this past
- 38:23Speaker 11: couple of games, Yeah, he's had a couple of catches.
- 38:25Speaker 11: You know, he's picking up good first downs and moving
- 38:28Speaker 11: the ball like we need to. But I just feel
- 38:31Speaker 11: like whenever you get a player like that that you know,
- 38:33Speaker 11: that can take off the top off the defense, and
- 38:36Speaker 11: you're just not putting them on top of the defense,
- 38:40Speaker 11: you know, like I just don't understand, Like you got
- 38:43Speaker 11: Ceedee Lamb, which has been amazing basically catching everything that's
- 38:46Speaker 11: been getting thrown his way. You know, Michael Gallup, which
- 38:49Speaker 11: is the sideline boss that you need a freaking first down,
- 38:52Speaker 11: you throw it to the sideline, he's gonna toe tap
- 38:54Speaker 11: it in and Brandon Cooks. You know, He's just I
- 38:57Speaker 11: feel like if the.
- 38:58Speaker 5: Way that things are going that it's.
- 39:01Speaker 11: Just gonna be one of those seasons if he don't
- 39:03Speaker 11: meet he's not gonna meet that thousand yard mark.
- 39:07Speaker 3: Well, thanks for the call, Miguel. I mean, I'll get
- 39:11Speaker 3: your thoughts on this, Danny. I just think it's early.
- 39:13Speaker 3: He's played two games. One game was in the rain.
- 39:17Speaker 3: They're not gonna throw the ball deep around and they
- 39:19Speaker 3: didn't have to. The game was over before basically started.
- 39:22Speaker 3: And then last week, you know, coming off the knee injury. Yeah,
- 39:25Speaker 3: I don't think he moved the ball down the field
- 39:27Speaker 3: with him as much. But I think we're still pretty
- 39:30Speaker 3: early in this whole process with Brandon Cooks.
- 39:33Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the same.
- 39:34Speaker 17: It would be unfortunate if, like this is the team
- 39:37Speaker 17: that he comes to and he's not able to crack
- 39:38Speaker 17: that thousand yard I think it will be telling you
- 39:41Speaker 17: in my opinion, But it is early. He missed the game.
- 39:45Speaker 17: This is a new team, a new system, new quarterback.
- 39:48Speaker 17: I think he still needs some more games to get
- 39:50Speaker 17: on the same page with Dak and I think that's
- 39:51Speaker 17: honestly back with a lot of his receivers. As far
- 39:54Speaker 17: as throwing the deep ball, I don't want to see
- 39:56Speaker 17: Brandon Cooks just get out here and just run straight
- 39:58Speaker 17: deep shots.
- 39:59Speaker 2: I think he is.
- 40:00Speaker 17: He is a factor in the middle of the field
- 40:01Speaker 17: as well, and we saw it on that third down
- 40:03Speaker 17: catch that that he knows how to run the routes
- 40:06Speaker 17: and get in those zones, So I still want to
- 40:08Speaker 17: see him do that. But I think our offense as
- 40:11Speaker 17: a whole needs to find a way to make those
- 40:13Speaker 17: connections on the deep balls, and I think it'll come
- 40:16Speaker 17: with Tom.
- 40:16Speaker 3: You know, are you talking about the one where him
- 40:18Speaker 3: interping basically ran the same route? Like as weird as
- 40:21Speaker 3: that looks, I'm sitting here thinking that works.
- 40:25Speaker 2: Right that time?
- 40:28Speaker 3: It worked that time, your speedy guy turping it in front.
- 40:32Speaker 3: And I was going to ask you about Turping too.
- 40:33Speaker 3: Do you feel like they don't use him as much here?
- 40:36Speaker 3: I mean, he's a guy that they could take the
- 40:39Speaker 3: top off.
- 40:39Speaker 17: Yeah, listen, I think, honestly, I think they're using them
- 40:43Speaker 17: more than I expected them to use them. I didn't
- 40:45Speaker 17: expect them to have this much to get this much
- 40:47Speaker 17: time because you have Brandon Cooks, Michael Gallup and Ceedee
- 40:50Speaker 17: lamb uh. You're looking at ferguson the hindershot. You already
- 40:52Speaker 17: got a lot of people who you're trying to get
- 40:54Speaker 17: the ball to. And I think he played running back
- 40:56Speaker 17: in Week one. He's been getting jet sweeps. He's been
- 40:59Speaker 17: catching balls out of backfield, I mean at the receiver position,
- 41:02Speaker 17: So I think he's actually getting a lot more attention
- 41:05Speaker 17: than he had been getting previously, So not surprised.
- 41:08Speaker 2: But we got enough weapons.
- 41:10Speaker 17: We need to we need to maximize the weapons that
- 41:12Speaker 17: we have with cooks Michael Gallup and Ceedee Lamb, because
- 41:15Speaker 17: I think you know we're we're at the upper echelona
- 41:18Speaker 17: of the league with talent at the wide receiver position.
- 41:20Speaker 3: All right, we can get two more calls in before
- 41:22Speaker 3: I think we can wrap this thing up. Irwin and Denver.
- 41:25Speaker 9: I what's up, Hey, Good morning guys.
- 41:27Speaker 2: How you doing morning?
- 41:29Speaker 4: Hey, this is a question for Danny.
- 41:32Speaker 18: Well, first off, thought I really enjoyed watching him on
- 41:35Speaker 18: Survivor watch it every year.
- 41:36Speaker 7: I thought it was awesome watching.
- 41:38Speaker 4: Uh.
- 41:39Speaker 9: The question that I have for Danny McCrae is what
- 41:42Speaker 9: does it think about our linebacker?
- 41:45Speaker 8: I mean, obviously we're missing.
- 41:49Speaker 9: Honestly, what do you think about what's going on with
- 41:52Speaker 9: our linebacker?
- 41:53Speaker 8: Thanks?
- 41:54Speaker 17: Uh, listen. I think our linebacker corps had a rough game.
- 41:59Speaker 17: I think Arizona came out with a scheme that that
- 42:03Speaker 17: really confused our linebackers a little bit. They pulled a
- 42:06Speaker 17: lot of linemen from one side to the other, a
- 42:09Speaker 17: little bit of misdirection, and I think when you're a
- 42:11Speaker 17: step late at the linebacker position against a team that's
- 42:14Speaker 17: pulling guys and then blocking you with receivers and their
- 42:17Speaker 17: officsive linemen are athletic. I think that that really plays
- 42:21Speaker 17: against you, right, So you would see Damon Clark in
- 42:23Speaker 17: the situation to where he was a step behind and
- 42:25Speaker 17: all of a sudden, the officeive lineman was right on
- 42:27Speaker 17: the shoulder and he was getting sealed off. That happened
- 42:29Speaker 17: a few times and I just think that was a
- 42:30Speaker 17: bad game.
- 42:32Speaker 2: Dan Quinn.
- 42:34Speaker 17: He is proven that he's going to go back to
- 42:35Speaker 17: the to the lab and he's gonna get these guys right.
- 42:38Speaker 17: And that's probably all they're going to be practicing on
- 42:40Speaker 17: this week, because you know, Bill Belichick is gonna come
- 42:42Speaker 17: in here and say, hey, what.
- 42:43Speaker 2: Did Arizona do to beat these guys? Oh, they pulled Lineman.
- 42:46Speaker 17: You're gonna see lineman getting pulled from the sideline like
- 42:49Speaker 17: all game my bad. But you're gonna see him getting
- 42:52Speaker 17: pulled from the from the sideline until the Cowboys shoulder
- 42:54Speaker 17: they can stop it.
- 42:55Speaker 3: I think what Damon Clark needs is this shirt, I
- 42:58Speaker 3: mean shit shirt back all right. Last caller of the show,
- 43:04Speaker 3: al and Merkele Texas. Al, what's up hey?
- 43:07Speaker 5: That ky you man. I just want to say once again,
- 43:10Speaker 5: I love this show. Thank It's the highlight of my morning.
- 43:15Speaker 5: I'm calling a lot and sometimes negative, but I want
- 43:19Speaker 5: to get something positive with all this negative craft going on. Yeah,
- 43:22Speaker 5: if you always ask about our favorite Cowboy moments, I
- 43:25Speaker 5: date myself right here. My favorite Cowboy moment I was
- 43:29Speaker 5: nine years old and we beat the Denver Crush or
- 43:33Speaker 5: the Orange Crush in the Super Bowl. And I'm just
- 43:36Speaker 5: wondering if you and Danny can tell me your favorite
- 43:39Speaker 5: memories of being Cowboy fans and I'll shut up and
- 43:42Speaker 5: get off the air. Thank you so much for taking
- 43:44Speaker 5: my call. Nick.
- 43:45Speaker 2: I appreciate you awesome.
- 43:46Speaker 3: Thank you, Al. I appreciate that favorite moments. And as
- 43:50Speaker 3: as a fan, I mean it's kind of weird for you, right,
- 43:55Speaker 3: I mean because you were a player. So how about
- 43:57Speaker 3: how about we go there? I mean, favorite moment as
- 43:59Speaker 3: a as a player.
- 44:01Speaker 2: Man.
- 44:01Speaker 17: You know, that's that's tough because for me, it's like
- 44:04Speaker 17: more of a personal moment of the fact that like
- 44:06Speaker 17: undrafted free agent came in from LSU, got to try
- 44:10Speaker 17: out for five thousand dollars and I thought that was
- 44:12Speaker 17: a lot and I would to spend and then all
- 44:14Speaker 17: of a sudden, Jody's like, hey, listen, I'm gonna do
- 44:15Speaker 17: whatever I can to make sure you make this team.
- 44:17Speaker 17: You just have to perform, and then I make the team.
- 44:19Speaker 17: So for me, cowboy moment is, Hey, I'm here as
- 44:23Speaker 17: an undrafted free agent, make the team as a special
- 44:25Speaker 17: teams guy, and then I get the starting job and
- 44:27Speaker 17: I run out through that tunnel for the first time.
- 44:30Speaker 17: And that was probably the most exciting thing that I've
- 44:32Speaker 17: been a part of because running out as a special
- 44:34Speaker 17: team's guy with the entire team versus getting announced on
- 44:36Speaker 17: the big board, which your family taking pictures of it
- 44:38Speaker 17: is totally different. So for me personal but that's my
- 44:42Speaker 17: biggest Cowboys that's perfect.
- 44:43Speaker 3: I mean, can I tell a story on you. I mean,
- 44:46Speaker 3: you're already already embarrassing me, so I mean, no, no,
- 44:49Speaker 3: it's not that bad, because I mean, I wouldn't expect
- 44:52Speaker 3: anything different. But like I remember interviewing you, you made
- 44:56Speaker 3: the team. You're wearing number forty, You're an undrafted player
- 44:59Speaker 3: from an SEC school playing special teams at number forty,
- 45:02Speaker 3: And I was like, you know then, I mean, it's
- 45:05Speaker 3: a pretty big deal. You get to wear number forty,
- 45:06Speaker 3: you know, a special teams guy. You hear the Cowboys
- 45:09Speaker 3: and he was like, I don't know what you're talking about.
- 45:12Speaker 3: I was like number forty, you know, like Bill Bates,
- 45:15Speaker 3: I don't know. I was like, oh, okay, all right,
- 45:19Speaker 3: well you know, of course not but I learned.
- 45:21Speaker 2: You learned, but I learned. I learned, and now I know.
- 45:24Speaker 17: Bill Bates is great, very hard she was to feel,
- 45:27Speaker 17: didn't quite do it, but it was an honor to
- 45:29Speaker 17: wear the forty and then have people say, hey, man,
- 45:31Speaker 17: you're a special teams player.
- 45:32Speaker 2: That reminds me of a Bill Bass type guy.
- 45:34Speaker 3: I think only three players in Cowboys history have led
- 45:37Speaker 3: the team in tackles on special teams back to back years.
- 45:39Speaker 3: Bill Bates, you and CJJ. CJ. Goodwin has done that.
- 45:43Speaker 3: It's pretty pretty good company there for me. You know,
- 45:46Speaker 3: for me, the best moments was probably just just like
- 45:50Speaker 3: you know, when as a fan, just watching them, you know,
- 45:53Speaker 3: go to the Super Bowl, you know, and and stuff
- 45:55Speaker 3: like that, you know, getting getting back to those days.
- 45:58Speaker 3: You know, I was in high school, but I mean
- 46:00Speaker 3: I just remember when they nineteen ninety one, they didn't
- 46:03Speaker 3: win the Super Bowl that year. But when they beat
- 46:04Speaker 3: the Eagles to actually, you know, they beat the Eagles
- 46:07Speaker 3: up in Philadelphia punt return touchdown by Kelvin Martin, but
- 46:11Speaker 3: that was like they're back, you know, because as a fan,
- 46:14Speaker 3: when you when you go through the one to fifteen,
- 46:17Speaker 3: the three and thirteen seasons and all that, and you
- 46:19Speaker 3: finally get back to that as a fan, like, that's
- 46:21Speaker 3: what it's about. And so I just I just remember
- 46:24Speaker 3: kind of feeling those moments, and I know that's what
- 46:26Speaker 3: these fans are waiting for as well. That's why you
- 46:28Speaker 3: go through it. That's why you go through this so
- 46:30Speaker 3: you can have moments like that.
- 46:31Speaker 2: So is that why I herds so bad to watch
- 46:33Speaker 2: us play late that against the Cardinals.
- 46:35Speaker 17: Because you know, most fans who are watching were saying,
- 46:38Speaker 17: oh man.
- 46:39Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm scared to say it, but this looks like yeah.
- 46:42Speaker 17: And then all of a sudden, you play the Cardinals,
- 46:43Speaker 17: You're like, oh wait, hold on, wait, I remember these
- 46:45Speaker 17: last twenty was it twenty six, twenty seven?
- 46:47Speaker 2: Short? Like I remember it, and I remember this.
- 46:49Speaker 3: Is the same like this well, because because you try
- 46:51Speaker 3: so hard to think this is going to be different,
- 46:53Speaker 3: this is going to be different. But it's like, well,
- 46:55Speaker 3: this is the same old stuff. But think about it.
- 46:57Speaker 3: If this is the same stuff as it's been, this
- 46:59Speaker 3: is a twelve and five football team that's getting to
- 47:01Speaker 3: the getting to the playoffs and have it has a
- 47:03Speaker 3: chance to win.
- 47:04Speaker 2: I mean that's oh yeah, okay, if it's the same
- 47:06Speaker 2: old stuff.
- 47:07Speaker 3: Well that's what I'm saying. Like, like, I think everyone
- 47:09Speaker 3: was just looking ahead, looking and thinking, oh, well, you
- 47:11Speaker 3: know how they can do against the Niners, how they
- 47:12Speaker 3: can do against Eagles. And you know you got reality.
- 47:16Speaker 2: Check, Yes you did. You bet to buckle up this week.
- 47:20Speaker 3: All right, Well, we're gonna we're gonna end this show
- 47:23Speaker 3: and I'm gonna take this off really quick. But now
- 47:25Speaker 3: I appreciate you coming by.
- 47:27Speaker 2: No, I'm good.
- 47:27Speaker 3: You can have it back. Uh And the light took
- 47:30Speaker 3: the tags off, you could take it back, all right.
- 47:32Speaker 3: Danny McCrae joins the show. Appreciate that. And for Chris
- 47:35Speaker 3: Beam as well. I'm Nick Eatan. We will see you tomorrow.
- 47:38Speaker 3: I'll be wearing regular clothes tomorrow on Cowboys storyline. See then.
- 47:43Speaker 1: This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and
- 47:46Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
- 48:00Speaker 13: Yeah,