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- 0:14Speaker 1: Storyline with Nick Eatman. What's up everyone, Welcome to Cowboys Storyline.
- 0:24Speaker 1: I am Nick Eatan. It is Friday, September thirteenth. Friday
- 0:28Speaker 1: the thirteenth, if you believe in that kind of stuff,
- 0:32Speaker 1: should be a fun day. I've never seen that movie once,
- 0:36Speaker 1: any of those movies at one time, so I don't know.
- 0:39Speaker 1: I just know I just always heard about Friday the thirteenth.
- 0:42Speaker 1: I don't think anything crazy happens. We'll see, We'll see
- 0:46Speaker 1: how it goes. We'll see how this show goes. If see,
- 0:48Speaker 1: maybe we can get thirteen callers. We've been we've been
- 0:50Speaker 1: right around there. I got thirteen or fourteen yesterday. I
- 0:54Speaker 1: guess the less that I talk here, the more we
- 0:56Speaker 1: can get to the call. So let's let's roll to that.
- 0:59Speaker 1: Eight eight, five five to two nine seven. You can
- 1:02Speaker 1: text the show also. Eight one seven two nine zero
- 1:04Speaker 1: three two nine eight. Injury report is kind of what
- 1:09Speaker 1: it is. Still looking at Jake Ferguson. We'll see if
- 1:13Speaker 1: he has a shot to play. Has not practiced the
- 1:15Speaker 1: first two days of the Week Wednesday, Thursday. You know,
- 1:19Speaker 1: you'd like for him to be able to do some
- 1:20Speaker 1: of that, but he's kind of ramping himself up and
- 1:23Speaker 1: and Dak sounded optimistic about it. Maybe, but he also
- 1:27Speaker 1: said that the Luke Schoonmaker plays, he has complete confidence
- 1:29Speaker 1: in him as well. So h looking at him on
- 1:32Speaker 1: the injury report. He did not practice in neither did
- 1:34Speaker 1: John Stevens. Uh. With the hamstring and reach of both
- 1:38Speaker 1: those tight ends, that could be an issue that they're
- 1:41Speaker 1: gonna have to deal with. Good news on rookie Marshawn Neeland.
- 1:44Speaker 1: He's got a calf injury. He was limited yesterday. On Thursday,
- 1:48Speaker 1: we'll see if he could get himself ready to play.
- 1:51Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the phone lines, Michael and Colton, California.
- 1:55Speaker 1: He has a knack about being first on the show.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Uh maybe he calls like thirty minutes ago. I'm not sure,
- 2:00Speaker 1: but Michael, you're up. What's that? Man?
- 2:02Speaker 4: Let's go shout out to the whole Cowboys Nation. Happy
- 2:06Speaker 4: Friday to everybody. And I just want to give I
- 2:10Speaker 4: think the storyline to this game right here is going
- 2:13Speaker 4: to be our running leg, running game, finding this leg.
- 2:16Speaker 4: Excuse me, I think we're going to get that going.
- 2:19Speaker 4: I think that's what we'll be talking about at the
- 2:21Speaker 4: end of the day. But for a score prediction, I
- 2:24Speaker 4: want to say that my score prediction is going to
- 2:27Speaker 4: be thirty four Cowboys and twenty one the Saints, and
- 2:31Speaker 4: we're going to get that w And that's it. Hey, Nick,
- 2:35Speaker 4: I just want to say thank you very much for
- 2:37Speaker 4: my storyline shirt, and I got a shirt going your way.
- 2:40Speaker 4: I'm just talking to Chris. But you have a great day,
- 2:42Speaker 4: and thank you guys very much, have a great weekend.
- 2:44Speaker 1: Thank you man. Michael, if that shirt says to show
- 2:48Speaker 1: me State, that would be the coolest thing of all time.
- 2:51Speaker 1: I doubt that's what it is. But if it does
- 2:53Speaker 1: say that, and if you know, you know on that
- 2:55Speaker 1: Michael and Colton California, would you wear it? That's my guy. Yeah,
- 2:59Speaker 1: I would wear that. I would definitely wear it. When
- 3:01Speaker 1: Arkansas plays Missouri, I would definitely wear the California is
- 3:07Speaker 1: show me state? For sure. It was one of those things,
- 3:11Speaker 1: if you guys, if you don't know, is the call
- 3:13Speaker 1: right after the season ended in the terrible loss to
- 3:16Speaker 1: the Packers, and Michael he got after me a little
- 3:19Speaker 1: bit and it was fun. We had a good back
- 3:22Speaker 1: and forth. But he always Michael always calls right off
- 3:25Speaker 1: the bags a leadoff hitter for the most part. On
- 3:28Speaker 1: our lineup here, he says the running game is going
- 3:31Speaker 1: to be an issue, or not issue. He's going to
- 3:33Speaker 1: be a storyline in this game, and I don't disagree
- 3:35Speaker 1: with that. I think the Cowboys need to establish that
- 3:38Speaker 1: that they can run the football. I said it, you
- 3:41Speaker 1: know yesterday. I think you've got you know about an identity.
- 3:45Speaker 1: You've got it to show you can win in a
- 3:47Speaker 1: lot of different ways. And I think that that's the
- 3:49Speaker 1: best way for the Cowboys to kind of to show
- 3:52Speaker 1: that that, yes, they can run the football. They got
- 3:54Speaker 1: to get a lead, a score like he predicted thirty
- 3:57Speaker 1: four to twenty one, very similar to what I have.
- 3:59Speaker 1: In a game like that, looks like you are going
- 4:01Speaker 1: to have to run the ball. You're you're gonna have
- 4:03Speaker 1: to run out the clock that they're not too far
- 4:05Speaker 1: behind you, and you're gonna have to figure out a
- 4:07Speaker 1: way to put them away. And being balanced and being
- 4:10Speaker 1: able to run it and run that clock is probably
- 4:12Speaker 1: the best way to do that. All right, Let's let's
- 4:16Speaker 1: go with zach In Germany.
- 4:20Speaker 5: Nick, what's going on, man?
- 4:21Speaker 1: How are you doing? Good? Good?
- 4:24Speaker 5: I think I think it's it's time I have to specify.
- 4:26Speaker 5: I'm in kaiserslaughter in Germany. I know we got Reggie
- 4:29Speaker 5: calling from way up north. I don't think I can
- 4:31Speaker 5: claim the whole country for myself anymore.
- 4:33Speaker 1: So well, that's you know what for us here in Texas.
- 4:38Speaker 1: I mean Germany's Germany and and I don't know the
- 4:42Speaker 1: difference of everything, but but yes, for sure, and whatever
- 4:46Speaker 1: you just said, I would never be able to write
- 4:49Speaker 1: down on my sheet. So I'm just gonna go with Germany's.
- 4:51Speaker 5: That's okay, fair enough, And next week I'll try to call.
- 4:55Speaker 5: I'll be in a different country for work, so I'll
- 4:57Speaker 5: try to give you a call. But all right, add
- 4:58Speaker 5: to the list, and so, yeah, what I want to
- 5:01Speaker 5: go over today, I'll be honest, I haven't. I'm really
- 5:04Speaker 5: surprised nobody else has mentioned it. I am not a
- 5:06Speaker 5: big fan of the DAK contract, and I'll give my reasoning.
- 5:11Speaker 5: I wanted us to sign Dak, but at that price point,
- 5:14Speaker 5: I think it was a failure on the Cowboys. And
- 5:17Speaker 5: I'll tell you why. A couple of factors we gave
- 5:20Speaker 5: Dak a good contract the first time around, and in
- 5:23Speaker 5: some ways you also have to earn that. But the
- 5:26Speaker 5: second piece is and he has he's he's earned it
- 5:28Speaker 5: in certain ways, but obviously the back end of the
- 5:31Speaker 5: playoff push, you know, hasn't gotten there. Where I'm concerned
- 5:34Speaker 5: with is once again, it's a contract that he has
- 5:40Speaker 5: all the control in, no trade clause, can't franchise tag him.
- 5:43Speaker 5: Four year deal and he's a highest paid player when
- 5:46Speaker 5: you look at him and CD now as a combined total,
- 5:49Speaker 5: that's ninety million a year allotted into two players. The
- 5:53Speaker 5: second piece is when you look at teams or championship
- 5:57Speaker 5: caliber mindset, which he has to a certain extent, but
- 6:00Speaker 5: you look at the guys like Mahomes and Brady over
- 6:02Speaker 5: the years where they were willing to either take a
- 6:05Speaker 5: little bit less to build the team around them. Those
- 6:07Speaker 5: are the guys that are going to have their names,
- 6:10Speaker 5: you know, in that legacy category. Dak's made a lot
- 6:12Speaker 5: of money throughout his career and he obviously just got
- 6:14Speaker 5: paid again. But I'll tell you you know, whoever wins
- 6:17Speaker 5: the Super Bowl for the Cowboys after a thirty year drought,
- 6:20Speaker 5: that guy is going to be put in a different category,
- 6:23Speaker 5: you know. Yeah, And so I'm a little disappointed in that.
- 6:25Speaker 5: And it's not that I didn't want Dak to be
- 6:27Speaker 5: getting paid. You know, I think forty five to fifty
- 6:29Speaker 5: would have been, you know, sufficient. And like I said,
- 6:32Speaker 5: he's he's definitely made his money, especially off the first
- 6:34Speaker 5: contract and other deals. I was just really surprised that
- 6:37Speaker 5: that number has a six in front of it instead
- 6:38Speaker 5: of instead of something a little bit more realistic. So
- 6:41Speaker 5: that's what I have to They want to hear your feedback.
- 6:43Speaker 1: But you know what, Zach, They they they wanted they
- 6:45Speaker 1: did not want to drag this along. They they wanted
- 6:48Speaker 1: to get it done. That was important for them to
- 6:51Speaker 1: get it done. So Dak held the cards. He said,
- 6:54Speaker 1: you want to get it done, that's finals. This is
- 6:55Speaker 1: the number. It starts with, the six. If you don't
- 6:58Speaker 1: want to get it done, then that's fine. We'll take
- 7:00Speaker 1: a chance. You know, you'll, you'll and it's and it's
- 7:03Speaker 1: always a chance the cowboy, I mean, think about it.
- 7:06Speaker 1: If you're the Dolphins, you just paid a lot of
- 7:07Speaker 1: money for Tua. Is he gonna play? I mean win?
- 7:11Speaker 1: And so so it's a risk that all of them
- 7:14Speaker 1: have to take. I mean, yeah, you can play it
- 7:16Speaker 1: out and play that game, or you can say we
- 7:18Speaker 1: don't want, we don't want to do that, we want
- 7:20Speaker 1: we want to sign them up. So but I think
- 7:23Speaker 1: that's the difference.
- 7:24Speaker 5: Just though like the I think they if they would
- 7:26Speaker 5: have held firm and in that regard to it, because
- 7:28Speaker 5: it isn't. At the same time, it's kind of talking
- 7:30Speaker 5: out of both sides there too, saying hey, money's not important,
- 7:32Speaker 5: but now you want to be paid with six in
- 7:34Speaker 5: front of it. So I mean, it's it's a give
- 7:37Speaker 5: and take. And I'm what I'm implying is is you know,
- 7:39Speaker 5: I'm a basketball fan. Jalen Brunson. You know, he was
- 7:42Speaker 5: a Dallas guy, came to New York. He took one
- 7:43Speaker 5: hundred and twenty million less than if you would have
- 7:46Speaker 5: signed the max contract next year, and he wants to
- 7:48Speaker 5: build a team around him. Mahomes is the twelfth highest
- 7:51Speaker 5: paid player and he's not even a top ten paid quarterback.
- 7:54Speaker 5: And obviously we all believe he's the best out there.
- 7:57Speaker 5: But he's winning super Bowls because he could put players
- 7:59Speaker 5: aroud him to build that team. And Dak's proven he
- 8:03Speaker 5: needs guys around him, you know, And next year, in
- 8:06Speaker 5: the year after, it's gonna get harder and harder to
- 8:09Speaker 5: do that when you have, like I said, ninety million
- 8:11Speaker 5: top receiver, top quarterback. You know, that's that's almost half
- 8:15Speaker 5: of our cap. I know it's two forty to fifty,
- 8:18Speaker 5: but it's a significant budget into two players. And it's
- 8:21Speaker 5: not that they're not talented, but you know, are we
- 8:24Speaker 5: just going to get more of the same?
- 8:25Speaker 1: So all right, all right, good good thought there. I
- 8:29Speaker 1: appreciate the call Zach from from Germany. Not many people
- 8:33Speaker 1: have had that that that thought about you know that
- 8:35Speaker 1: it's not I think more than anything, people just wanted
- 8:38Speaker 1: the deal to be done. Just who's our quarterback this year?
- 8:43Speaker 1: We knew that who's the quarterback next year moving forward?
- 8:45Speaker 1: And so that's probably I think why most people are
- 8:48Speaker 1: kind of just happy that it's done. And yeah, you'll
- 8:51Speaker 1: you'll deal with the cap. You'll deal with it when
- 8:53Speaker 1: you deal with it. But you know, that's that's a
- 8:55Speaker 1: good thought there, you know, by Zach to not just
- 8:59Speaker 1: say all right, well this is what my team did
- 9:01Speaker 1: and I'm excited about it. Good. You know, it's okay
- 9:04Speaker 1: to have your your opinion. And that was and you
- 9:08Speaker 1: might be right. I mean that's kind of my point
- 9:10Speaker 1: about the tour. I mean situation, you can sign somebody
- 9:13Speaker 1: and then they get hurt and then the deal doesn't
- 9:14Speaker 1: look good. And you always knocked on Wood on that.
- 9:17Speaker 1: It's always a it's risk reward there when you're trying
- 9:20Speaker 1: to get these deals done. So all right, let's go
- 9:23Speaker 1: to Esteban and Austin.
- 9:26Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, how you doing good?
- 9:27Speaker 1: How are you?
- 9:29Speaker 6: I'm doing well. It's been a while since I've been
- 9:32Speaker 6: able to get through to talk to you, and so
- 9:34Speaker 6: I'm happy to be able to get Always enjoy the
- 9:37Speaker 6: show though, and I've been really excited with the whole
- 9:42Speaker 6: off season. Started off slow, but it's starting to take shape.
- 9:47Speaker 6: Everything that they did, it seems like they were pretty
- 9:50Speaker 6: methodical about everything that they the signings, the draft picks.
- 9:54Speaker 6: It wasn't like they just sat back and waited for
- 9:57Speaker 6: stuff to happen. But one thing I'm a little bit
- 10:01Speaker 6: concerned with is just the run game. I don't think
- 10:05Speaker 6: that they have enough to go very far with it.
- 10:10Speaker 6: I think it's lacking a little and I don't know
- 10:12Speaker 6: if it's with the scheme or the runners.
- 10:16Speaker 5: What are your thoughts on it?
- 10:17Speaker 1: Well, I mean, what are we going off of here, like,
- 10:22Speaker 1: I mean, like that's that's my thing. I don't. I
- 10:24Speaker 1: don't want to jump to anything here. I mean they
- 10:27Speaker 1: they ran the ball, they moved the ball when they
- 10:30Speaker 1: needed to, and once once they led at halftime, and
- 10:34Speaker 1: and then Turpid scored, the game was over. I mean,
- 10:37Speaker 1: the game was over at that point. So I I
- 10:39Speaker 1: don't know. I saw. I didn't have any worries about
- 10:43Speaker 1: the about the running game in the first half. I
- 10:45Speaker 1: thought they moved the ball fine, So I don't. It's
- 10:49Speaker 1: like almost like a preseason game I saw in the
- 10:52Speaker 1: first half. Now the second half doesn't. It doesn't matter
- 10:54Speaker 1: because it was it was not a real performance, a
- 10:58Speaker 1: real test for what you know, Yes, they could have
- 11:00Speaker 1: run the ball, but they're they're being very vanilla and
- 11:04Speaker 1: and and the Browns are daring them to kind of
- 11:07Speaker 1: throw it. They know they're not going to throw it,
- 11:09Speaker 1: and they're a good run defense. So you know, that
- 11:11Speaker 1: was like the Jets game last year in Week two
- 11:13Speaker 1: where I'm not worried about that. I'm not saying the
- 11:16Speaker 1: running games fixed. I just haven't seen enough yet, so
- 11:18Speaker 1: I can't. I can't be worried about it just yet.
- 11:21Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess I'm just hoping that going forward and
- 11:26Speaker 6: they they're able to find their stride of And I'm
- 11:30Speaker 6: not sure that the runners we have, I don't know.
- 11:33Speaker 7: Maybe we do, and.
- 11:34Speaker 6: I'm just I do However, like the the passing game,
- 11:38Speaker 6: I think Mike McCarthy called a really good game. I
- 11:41Speaker 6: think towards the end they just didn't execute and weren't able.
- 11:44Speaker 5: To close it out.
- 11:44Speaker 6: I think he had a couple of drops. And but
- 11:47Speaker 6: going forward, I'm excited to see what happens. And I
- 11:50Speaker 6: appreciate you get I'll talk to you later.
- 11:54Speaker 1: All right, thanks. As I mean, I again, I'm not
- 11:57Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and try to, you know,
- 11:59Speaker 1: pump sun shine into this running game like, oh this
- 12:01Speaker 1: is great, no problems. I it may not be. It
- 12:05Speaker 1: may be the one thing that's that still needs to
- 12:08Speaker 1: really be cleaned up. And I don't know where do
- 12:12Speaker 1: you go from that is. I mean, they have options.
- 12:14Speaker 1: They did pick up Dalvin Cook and they're getting him
- 12:16Speaker 1: ready to go, and I think before too long he'll
- 12:19Speaker 1: be an option too. So and I think the running
- 12:23Speaker 1: the you know, Cooper BB and Tyler, Guyton and these
- 12:26Speaker 1: guys you know, have to kind of get better, uh
- 12:29Speaker 1: as well. So I think I think this is it's
- 12:31Speaker 1: kind of is what it is. You've got some backs,
- 12:33Speaker 1: You've got older guys, you've got younger guys, you've got
- 12:35Speaker 1: short guys. You've got you know, a Rico Daddle who
- 12:39Speaker 1: can do a little bit of everything. You've got young linemen.
- 12:42Speaker 1: You're just trying to get this thing going. It might
- 12:44Speaker 1: be a process that it has to take some time
- 12:46Speaker 1: and and they have to get better and better and
- 12:48Speaker 1: hope that the passing game can score some points and
- 12:51Speaker 1: and and really help aid the running game as well.
- 12:54Speaker 1: But I don't know if there's a lot of things
- 12:56Speaker 1: you could really do at this point to change it.
- 13:00Speaker 1: All Right? Rob in Vegas? Hey, Nick, what's up? Rob?
- 13:04Speaker 7: How's everything?
- 13:05Speaker 1: Good man? How are you?
- 13:07Speaker 7: I'm good. You know, big weekend in Vegas. You got
- 13:09Speaker 7: UFC at the sphere, which is going to be kind
- 13:12Speaker 7: of cool.
- 13:14Speaker 1: So who's fighting? Is that O'Malley?
- 13:17Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, O'Malley's on the card. I mean, I haven't
- 13:20Speaker 7: been to the sere, but I hear it's wild. So
- 13:23Speaker 7: I'm just curious how they're going to do it. Yeah,
- 13:25Speaker 7: I know they paid twenty million dollars to have it there,
- 13:27Speaker 7: so it must be pretty nice.
- 13:30Speaker 8: Cool.
- 13:31Speaker 7: Well, you know, watching that game last night, I think
- 13:34Speaker 7: the Cowboys should get on the phone with Miami and see, hey,
- 13:37Speaker 7: you want Trey Lance. You know, let's see.
- 13:40Speaker 1: What if that's not who they want?
- 13:43Speaker 7: Well, you just you got to make the phone call.
- 13:45Speaker 1: I mean, but I'm saying, what if they call you
- 13:48Speaker 1: and what if it's Scooper Rush?
- 13:53Speaker 7: What are you willing to give up for Cooper Rush?
- 13:55Speaker 7: What would you think fifth?
- 13:58Speaker 1: I would give up? Uh, I would ask for a
- 14:01Speaker 1: third because I don't. I don't. I don't need to
- 14:05Speaker 1: move him. You know, I don't. I don't know. You
- 14:08Speaker 1: know that. That's my point is that, like that's probably
- 14:11Speaker 1: too rich. But I'm not the one needing the quarterback.
- 14:13Speaker 1: You're the one needing the quarterback.
- 14:15Speaker 7: So oh, I agree. If if Mihami calls and says
- 14:18Speaker 7: they're willing to give a third for Cooper Rush, I'd
- 14:20Speaker 7: do it immediately.
- 14:22Speaker 1: Right, And that's what I'm saying, Like it's it's kind
- 14:24Speaker 1: of like Dak saying I don't need to sign. If
- 14:27Speaker 1: you want to pay me sixty million a year, then
- 14:30Speaker 1: I'll sign.
- 14:32Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that's one of the other caller. Yeah,
- 14:34Speaker 7: the other caller who said, you know, he's disappointed in
- 14:39Speaker 7: the deal, and maybe she's thinking he was just going
- 14:42Speaker 7: to take forty five fifty. Where'd you come up with that?
- 14:45Speaker 7: I mean right, I mean yeah, if fifty five, if
- 14:47Speaker 7: the numbers started at fifty five.
- 14:49Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
- 14:53Speaker 7: I think, listen, you make the you make the call.
- 14:55Speaker 7: Who knows?
- 14:56Speaker 9: Uh.
- 14:57Speaker 7: I don't think Trey Lance will be back next year
- 14:59Speaker 7: because I don't think twenty four year old wants to
- 15:02Speaker 7: sit on the bench. I think he wants to have
- 15:03Speaker 7: a chance to start. And any team that just says, hey,
- 15:07Speaker 7: come in and fight for the job, I think he's gone.
- 15:11Speaker 7: So the running game, there's not too many teams that
- 15:14Speaker 7: have a great running game that the league is different now.
- 15:17Speaker 7: We don't need a great running game. We need a
- 15:19Speaker 7: good running game. And we had a good running game
- 15:22Speaker 7: in the first game. I mean it was good.
- 15:25Speaker 3: It got over one.
- 15:26Speaker 7: Hundred yards, we talked about it, ran it in from
- 15:29Speaker 7: you know, the three four yard We just need a
- 15:31Speaker 7: good running game. How they do it, it really doesn't
- 15:34Speaker 7: matter to me.
- 15:35Speaker 1: Right, well, and I'm with you, Yeah, I totally agree
- 15:39Speaker 1: with you. Good, go ahead with your next point.
- 15:40Speaker 7: And my prediction for the game last week, I had Turpin.
- 15:45Speaker 7: This week, Ceedee Lamb and Dak, I think are going
- 15:48Speaker 7: to make a statement. I think they're a little disappointed
- 15:51Speaker 7: in their performance. And I think the final score is
- 15:54Speaker 7: Dallas thirty thirty seventeen. I think the crowd.
- 15:58Speaker 9: I just think this that's is just going to keep better.
- 16:01Speaker 7: And I don't see this team they're going to average
- 16:03Speaker 7: around thirty or sew a game and I see thirty seventeen.
- 16:07Speaker 1: Thirty to seventeen. Yeah, did you say I was looking
- 16:10Speaker 1: at last week? Did you What did you say about Turpin?
- 16:14Speaker 7: I said Turpin was going to be a game. So
- 16:16Speaker 7: he's going to make a play, He's going to do
- 16:17Speaker 7: something that's going to change the game. I want to
- 16:21Speaker 7: t you know. I thought it'd be more in the passing,
- 16:24Speaker 7: but it was great to finally see, you know, a
- 16:27Speaker 7: guy that he was so close on so many punk returns.
- 16:31Speaker 7: So I just had a feeling Turpin was going.
- 16:34Speaker 8: To do something.
- 16:35Speaker 7: So this week I just think it's I think it's
- 16:37Speaker 7: the Dak CD show. I think last week they were
- 16:39Speaker 7: a little off. Dak kind of said it in his
- 16:41Speaker 7: press conference, and I think at home, I just think
- 16:46Speaker 7: it's going.
- 16:46Speaker 1: To be done okay right last week? I mean, I
- 16:49Speaker 1: honestly I went back to look, I have you have
- 16:52Speaker 1: you down? I have a twenty four to twenty score,
- 16:54Speaker 1: and I wrote Kendricks, I guess you talked to me.
- 16:56Speaker 1: I should have written down Turpin, big play Turpin. Not
- 17:00Speaker 1: that I don't. I don't believe you, just I do.
- 17:04Speaker 1: I think you nailed the contract, like to the penny
- 17:07Speaker 1: for a CD.
- 17:08Speaker 10: Uh.
- 17:09Speaker 1: So so you've got that that working. Uh, But now
- 17:11Speaker 1: I got a CD deck show. I like it. I
- 17:13Speaker 1: like you guys throw out some predictions out there. It's
- 17:16Speaker 1: always good. It's always fun to be to be right
- 17:18Speaker 1: every once in a while, and then for you look
- 17:20Speaker 1: more than once in a while. So all right, Rob,
- 17:22Speaker 1: thank you for the call. Good insight there. Let's go
- 17:26Speaker 1: to somebody that hasn't called much in the last a
- 17:31Speaker 1: couple hours. Is Pete in Connecticut?
- 17:35Speaker 10: Nick, how's going, Bud, Pete?
- 17:37Speaker 1: It's going? Well, here's the thing. Get all of your
- 17:40Speaker 1: points in right now, like this is it? This is it?
- 17:42Speaker 1: Because yesterday it is funny. If you didn't watch yesterday's show,
- 17:46Speaker 1: Pete didn't just call once or twice three times three?
- 17:50Speaker 1: Pete from Connectic man, So I'm gonna ask you get
- 17:55Speaker 1: all your points in today's and because you never know,
- 17:58Speaker 1: you never, maybe you can't call back in. But you
- 18:00Speaker 1: had it, you had it working. There's people that haven't
- 18:02Speaker 1: called in and it hadn't gotten through in like a month,
- 18:04Speaker 1: and you got in three times. That's awesome. What do
- 18:06Speaker 1: you got to be for us? All right? Nick?
- 18:08Speaker 10: So three quick points. One, I'm very excited to see
- 18:11Speaker 10: Hunter Lipke get some playing time in because I think
- 18:14Speaker 10: he's a junk yard dog like Ferguson. And Two, with
- 18:17Speaker 10: the recent injury of Tua, do you think there's any
- 18:20Speaker 10: chance Dallas gets a phone call for a potential trade.
- 18:22Speaker 8: For Trey Lance? All right, man, have a great day.
- 18:25Speaker 1: Let's go Cowboy. Thank you. You know, we just talked
- 18:27Speaker 1: about that a little bit. Trey Lance and or Cooper
- 18:32Speaker 1: Rush or or whatever. I mean. I don't think I
- 18:36Speaker 1: wouldn't trade for Lance if I was another team. I
- 18:41Speaker 1: just one thing that we've seen from him. He needs
- 18:45Speaker 1: to be in a system and he needs to be
- 18:47Speaker 1: able to kind of get better and better with it.
- 18:50Speaker 1: He didn't, he didn't, you know right away just go
- 18:52Speaker 1: into San Francisco and light things up. He came here
- 18:55Speaker 1: for a year, uh and you know, didn't he was
- 18:58Speaker 1: on the scout team. And then we saw even in
- 19:00Speaker 1: preseason games. So it's been about a year and a
- 19:03Speaker 1: half at that point, and we saw a guy still
- 19:06Speaker 1: kind of you know, I wouldn't say struggling all the time,
- 19:09Speaker 1: but I mean he's just trying to figure it, figure
- 19:11Speaker 1: it out. So to trade for him to go play
- 19:17Speaker 1: in a new system, I don't know that that seems
- 19:20Speaker 1: like that wouldn't be And then and then he's a
- 19:22Speaker 1: free agent, so you know, I don't you wouldn't get
- 19:24Speaker 1: a lot for it, but maybe maybe teams would want
- 19:27Speaker 1: to do that and that that would be their way
- 19:30Speaker 1: of getting an inside track to maybe sign him for
- 19:32Speaker 1: next Who knows, but I I don't know. I don't
- 19:38Speaker 1: know if what Miami's thinking right now, there's I mean
- 19:40Speaker 1: every team in the league's got one back up, maybe two,
- 19:43Speaker 1: so they're probably looking at that. And and they are
- 19:46Speaker 1: a team that that needs to figure it out. I mean,
- 19:50Speaker 1: because they have enough talent, They have enough. I mean,
- 19:53Speaker 1: they've they've got firepower there at receiver that they they've
- 19:57Speaker 1: got to make sure they get some guys in here,
- 20:01Speaker 1: a guy in there that can that can help. Again,
- 20:03Speaker 1: this is not this is not dolphin storyline here, so
- 20:06Speaker 1: I but if it does affect the Cowboys, I'm just
- 20:08Speaker 1: saying there might be shows like this around the league
- 20:11Speaker 1: where they're like, do you think they'll be calling for
- 20:14Speaker 1: this backup or this backup? I would think Cooper Rush
- 20:18Speaker 1: has one of the best winning percentages of any backup
- 20:22Speaker 1: in the league. I mean it's a smaller sample size,
- 20:24Speaker 1: but it's it's I mean, was he six to one
- 20:27Speaker 1: something like that as a starter? I mean that's that's
- 20:30Speaker 1: probably the best of any backup quarterback in the league.
- 20:33Speaker 1: And that's probably the best of any quarterback in the league. Again,
- 20:37Speaker 1: he hasn't played a whole lot, but when he's in
- 20:39Speaker 1: there and he's had guys around him, and that's the key.
- 20:41Speaker 1: You go to a place like that, well you got
- 20:42Speaker 1: guys around him. But if the Cowboys were calling for
- 20:46Speaker 1: Trey Lance, I would yeah, I'd be I would say,
- 20:48Speaker 1: all right, what do you got? But if they were
- 20:50Speaker 1: calling for Cooper Rush, he would have to be pretty high.
- 20:52Speaker 1: I mean, like, I don't I need my backup. So
- 20:54Speaker 1: if you're going to try to take him, you better
- 20:57Speaker 1: better ask for a lot. So that's the way I
- 20:59Speaker 1: look at all right, Let's go to Let's take a
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- 22:46Speaker 1: straight on what we've got going on. And what we
- 22:48Speaker 1: have going on is Cowboys Saints on Sunday at noon
- 22:52Speaker 1: at and T Stadium. Let's hear from Michael in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
- 22:57Speaker 12: Well, my question is, like somebody's already asked, I think
- 23:02Speaker 12: we can get a running back from the Dolphins for
- 23:05Speaker 12: Cooper Rush. But let me ask you this, since I'm
- 23:08Speaker 12: sure you are you already been talking about that. Well,
- 23:11Speaker 12: how about Ferguson? Is is Ferguson looking like he's going
- 23:15Speaker 12: to be playing against the Saints? Are they gonna give
- 23:19Speaker 12: him a week off?
- 23:20Speaker 1: I would guess that he does not play again. This
- 23:24Speaker 1: is Friday morning. If you're watching this later not Live
- 23:29Speaker 1: with Friday at ten thirty Central, I you know they
- 23:32Speaker 1: don't have a full practice today. They do like walkthroughs
- 23:34Speaker 1: and stuff, and they will have an his report later
- 23:37Speaker 1: this afternoon.
- 23:38Speaker 8: And I.
- 23:40Speaker 1: Have a feeling that he won't play. But I would
- 23:43Speaker 1: be surprised if they ruled him out right now. And
- 23:47Speaker 1: so I maybe maybe he's questionable, doubtful, but I would
- 23:51Speaker 1: I would have a hard time thinking they ruled him out.
- 23:54Speaker 1: But to me, I would just think because he did
- 23:58Speaker 1: not practice Wednesday or Thursday, you know, and he said
- 24:01Speaker 1: he hurt a pop in his knee. Now he doesn't
- 24:03Speaker 1: feel anything right now, but he was wearing a brace yesterday.
- 24:06Speaker 1: He did not practice. I just feel like they probably
- 24:09Speaker 1: won't play. But I hope I'm wrong, but I hope,
- 24:13Speaker 1: you know, you know, he's obviously healthy for it.
- 24:16Speaker 12: I hope they don't need him. I hope they're good
- 24:19Speaker 12: without him. To let him have a week to risk.
- 24:22Speaker 1: Yeah, and you might be right. I mean, uh, I
- 24:27Speaker 1: I haven't seen that at a schoonmaker, but I'm curious.
- 24:29Speaker 1: I want to see that, Like I really want to
- 24:32Speaker 1: see him as the starter and see see what happens.
- 24:36Speaker 1: He just hasn't shown us yet that really really anything.
- 24:40Speaker 1: I mean, he had to touchdown I guess Carolina last year,
- 24:43Speaker 1: but down the scene, it was nice play and he's
- 24:47Speaker 1: a you know, good blocker, but I'd like to just
- 24:50Speaker 1: see him with a little bit more opportunities and maybe
- 24:52Speaker 1: this will give him a chance to do that. So well,
- 24:55Speaker 1: all right, thank you, Michael, Uh yeah, thanks for the call.
- 24:58Speaker 1: Nobody hadn't talked about an actual trade for a running back,
- 25:03Speaker 1: and we won't get into specific names. We don't want
- 25:05Speaker 1: to talk about other names from other teams. But we
- 25:08Speaker 1: didn't talk about a trade for a running back from
- 25:10Speaker 1: the Dolphins. I know they have I guess they have
- 25:12Speaker 1: a few, but yeah, and I get I don't I
- 25:16Speaker 1: don't know if if the Cowboys are looking to do that,
- 25:19Speaker 1: they don't know what they have just yet. En Rico o'dowdell.
- 25:22Speaker 1: They want to give him an opportunity, you know, it's
- 25:25Speaker 1: the system. He's been here and they feel like he
- 25:28Speaker 1: can be a good play, you know, the same as Zeke.
- 25:30Speaker 1: Now you also have a deuce. You want to give
- 25:32Speaker 1: him some opportunities. And then you got Dalvin Cook there.
- 25:34Speaker 1: So that's why I just don't see them trading for
- 25:37Speaker 1: someone unless you're trading for a running back. That's like, Okay,
- 25:41Speaker 1: he's the guy, he's he's the starter, he's on his
- 25:44Speaker 1: last year of his deal. He's twenty six years old.
- 25:47Speaker 1: He's going to be a free agent next year. That's
- 25:48Speaker 1: why we're getting him for a fourth round pick. That
- 25:51Speaker 1: makes sense if you're going to do if you're going
- 25:53Speaker 1: that route, you know, if you're going to do like
- 25:55Speaker 1: an Amari Cooper type of trade like they did. Okay,
- 25:58Speaker 1: but I just don't even see that being case because
- 26:01Speaker 1: teams don't value running backs that way, and then you'd
- 26:03Speaker 1: have to try to re sign him next year. But
- 26:06Speaker 1: we'll see. I mean, I wouldn't roll out anything there.
- 26:08Speaker 1: All right, let's go to a champ in the three
- 26:11Speaker 1: H eight area code, which is Nebraska Champ in Nebraska.
- 26:15Speaker 8: Hey, Nick, Happy Friday. How's it going, good?
- 26:17Speaker 1: Bet? How are you doing?
- 26:19Speaker 8: I am wonderful. Getting ready for my daughter's sweet sixteen
- 26:22Speaker 8: birthday party tonight. I got the day off, so finally
- 26:26Speaker 8: got a chance to call in.
- 26:27Speaker 1: Congrats with that a couple of things.
- 26:30Speaker 8: Thank you. The call that they called about Dak's contract.
- 26:35Speaker 8: I agree to him to a certain point. The money part.
- 26:39Speaker 8: I don't agree that he's not worth it, you know,
- 26:42Speaker 8: I just think that just my belief, no one on
- 26:46Speaker 8: this planet is worth sixty million dollars a year.
- 26:49Speaker 1: Yeah, get that out of it. Yeah.
- 26:51Speaker 8: Yeah, that's the market, that's what it is, and he's
- 26:55Speaker 8: earned it. Now he's got to go and prove it.
- 26:58Speaker 8: He wins the super Bowl, everyone was gonna say it
- 27:01Speaker 8: was totally worth it, and I think he can do it.
- 27:04Speaker 1: Yeah. Number two's key here.
- 27:08Speaker 8: Yep. The super Bowl last year, Week three, we had
- 27:12Speaker 8: a huge letdown against an Arizona team that I think
- 27:16Speaker 8: we expected to just go in and walk all over.
- 27:19Speaker 8: I'm not expecting that we are thinking that we expect
- 27:23Speaker 8: to just go in and walk all over New Orleans
- 27:25Speaker 8: this week, But I think we have a strong possibility
- 27:29Speaker 8: that we could beat these guys. Listening to some of
- 27:32Speaker 8: the other shows, they talk about their defensive scheme and
- 27:35Speaker 8: how we have an opportunity to make a statement. I
- 27:39Speaker 8: don't think we can go in there have that let down.
- 27:41Speaker 8: We go in there, take care of business, have a
- 27:44Speaker 8: big week to win, and get ready for that game
- 27:46Speaker 8: next week against the Ravens, And I think we're setting
- 27:49Speaker 8: ourselves up early in the season yet, but we're setting
- 27:52Speaker 8: ourselves up for a good role.
- 27:55Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 27:56Speaker 8: I appreciate the time. I'm going to get back to
- 27:58Speaker 8: helping my wife with this part. I hope everybody has
- 28:01Speaker 8: a great weekend, and we'll talk to you next week.
- 28:04Speaker 1: Thank you. Well. By the way, I mean your your
- 28:07Speaker 1: your wife doesn't she says she needs your help, but
- 28:10Speaker 1: she's not going to take any of your suggestions. So
- 28:12Speaker 1: you can just be there for support. But if you
- 28:14Speaker 1: say I think it needs to be like this, she's
- 28:16Speaker 1: gonna be like mm hmm. So it doesn't really Just
- 28:18Speaker 1: being there is fine. But you know, I'm probably not
- 28:21Speaker 1: gonna gonna matter what you have to say. But unless
- 28:23Speaker 1: you have to lift something, carry something, I get it.
- 28:26Speaker 1: Been there all right. I agree about the Dak part.
- 28:30Speaker 1: And again, you know, sixty million a year, like yeah,
- 28:34Speaker 1: if you think in that terms, then you know you're
- 28:38Speaker 1: just you're just wasting time because I mean, the Cowboys
- 28:42Speaker 1: could give Dak a steal at thirty three million a year,
- 28:46Speaker 1: which is also in the in the realm of wow,
- 28:49Speaker 1: somebody makes that kind of money. I mean, so look
- 28:52Speaker 1: at it from a standpoint of now, he's the number
- 28:54Speaker 1: one paid quarterback in the NFL right now. And if
- 28:56Speaker 1: you want to have a problem with that, fine, but
- 28:58Speaker 1: understand how it works. He was the I think it
- 29:01Speaker 1: was the same maybe he was number two when he
- 29:03Speaker 1: was forty million a year and he got to like
- 29:06Speaker 1: fourteenth at some point in his career. I mean at
- 29:09Speaker 1: some point in the last few years, he got to
- 29:10Speaker 1: like he's the fourteenth highest paid quarterback. That will happen.
- 29:14Speaker 1: Teams will keep jumping him, our players will jump him.
- 29:17Speaker 1: That's just that's just the nature of it. That's that's
- 29:19Speaker 1: the way it is. It's it's my turn and it's
- 29:21Speaker 1: your turn, and that's that's how it goes. So all right,
- 29:25Speaker 1: let's go to Bob in Rio Grand Valley.
- 29:30Speaker 9: We're in nick great show.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Thanks man, appreciate it.
- 29:34Speaker 9: It appreciate that got in a couple of.
- 29:38Speaker 8: Something.
- 29:38Speaker 9: I will throw out that for you to consider. But
- 29:40Speaker 9: before I do that, I'm going to state this. It's
- 29:43Speaker 9: obvious if you live in the valley, there's gonna be
- 29:46Speaker 9: more Cowboy flags flying down here this weekend and particularly
- 29:50Speaker 9: tomorrow at our Sunday than there are lone Star flags.
- 29:54Speaker 9: The other thing I want to point out at is
- 29:57Speaker 9: we got a chance to really get some breathing room
- 29:59Speaker 9: in our division this week. This game I'm going to
- 30:03Speaker 9: be watching, in addition to the Cowboys game and keeping
- 30:06Speaker 9: an eye on, is Atlanta against Philadelphia. I think Atlanta's
- 30:11Speaker 9: got a real good chance of winning that ball game.
- 30:13Speaker 9: I'd like to know what you think. Thanks for having
- 30:15Speaker 9: my call. I have a great weekend, all right.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Thank you me personally, I don't think. I don't start
- 30:22Speaker 1: thinking division until November. I just I just don't. I mean,
- 30:29Speaker 1: there's so much that that can happen. I mean, now,
- 30:32Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. When the Eagles are playing, I'm
- 30:36Speaker 1: for the other team. I want the other team to win.
- 30:38Speaker 1: I mean, unless it's just very late in the season
- 30:41Speaker 1: there's something crazy and they need to win to help
- 30:44Speaker 1: you in the playoffs or whatever. Even then it would
- 30:46Speaker 1: probably be difficult. But so I don't you know, I'm
- 30:51Speaker 1: always rooting for the other team. That's the way it is, right,
- 30:57Speaker 1: That's the way it always is. But I'm not necessarily
- 31:00Speaker 1: looking at that because a minute you say that, like
- 31:02Speaker 1: you think that Atlanta is a team that could beat them,
- 31:06Speaker 1: My first thought is, wha, really, well, when's that game?
- 31:09Speaker 1: Because the Cowboys got to go up to Atlanta. You know,
- 31:11Speaker 1: if Atlanta can can can beat the Eagles, then you know,
- 31:14Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not putting that game on my
- 31:16Speaker 1: list of like watch out for the Falcons again any
- 31:19Speaker 1: road games. It could be a challenge. But so my
- 31:22Speaker 1: point is I'm not I'm not necessarily looking for that.
- 31:25Speaker 1: I'll be watching that game, probably for fantasy football purposes
- 31:28Speaker 1: or something like that, but but I'm not really ready
- 31:31Speaker 1: scoreboard watching on what happens, you know, in the vision.
- 31:36Speaker 1: But I think it's a Monday night game, so yeah,
- 31:39Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll be watching that. I'm trying to think
- 31:42Speaker 1: the other point that he just said. I lost it
- 31:44Speaker 1: because I wrote down my point from the caller before
- 31:48Speaker 1: Champion Nebraska. He said something about Arizona game last year,
- 31:51Speaker 1: and and we've mentioned it again. I just don't think
- 31:53Speaker 1: the Cowboys are at that point to be overlooking anyone,
- 31:56Speaker 1: and I don't think that they will, and I'm not
- 31:59Speaker 1: sure if they overlooked at Arizona. I think I think
- 32:03Speaker 1: it was just a it was a weird week. A
- 32:05Speaker 1: lot of injuries happened in the middle of the week.
- 32:07Speaker 1: That was a really, really tough game for the Cowboys
- 32:10Speaker 1: to happen. All those injuries and all that uncertainty from
- 32:13Speaker 1: Thursday to kickoff. They they didn't anticipate losing their cornerback
- 32:19Speaker 1: and their left tackle and their right guard. Uh, they
- 32:22Speaker 1: lost the center to so it just it just was
- 32:24Speaker 1: a bad timing of it. Yeah, you say, next man up,
- 32:26Speaker 1: but you'd like you'd like for them to practice. That's
- 32:29Speaker 1: that's the key. Yeah, next man up is always good,
- 32:32Speaker 1: but next man up for practice, next man up in
- 32:34Speaker 1: the middle of the game. It's it's it's a challenge.
- 32:37Speaker 1: I mean it always is because they don't the backups
- 32:39Speaker 1: don't get as much practice and so and it showed
- 32:42Speaker 1: in that game again, no excuses, you got to go
- 32:46Speaker 1: win the game. I think this is just different scenario.
- 32:48Speaker 1: And I don't I don't see the Cowboys overlooking New
- 32:50Speaker 1: Orleans at all. All right, let's go to Greg and Sacramento.
- 32:55Speaker 7: Hey, Nick, good morning, I DoD.
- 32:57Speaker 1: Man, how are you doing.
- 32:59Speaker 4: I'm will two times in one week, so it's that's
- 33:02Speaker 4: a good sign.
- 33:03Speaker 1: That's good, good job.
- 33:05Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 33:05Speaker 11: Uh.
- 33:07Speaker 4: What I wanted to ask was, what what do you
- 33:09Speaker 4: think Deuce Barm's role is going to be kind of
- 33:12Speaker 4: more in the run game?
- 33:13Speaker 9: Like I know he's kind.
- 33:13Speaker 5: Of showing up as a as a really good special
- 33:16Speaker 5: team guy, but do you think they're gonna do you
- 33:18Speaker 5: think they're gonna incorporate him at all in.
- 33:20Speaker 7: The running game, like at all this season or do
- 33:23Speaker 7: you think it's just gonna be the Zeke and Dallas show?
- 33:25Speaker 1: No, No, I think I think Deuce is gonna gonna
- 33:28Speaker 1: get some some carries. I think he'll be involved. I
- 33:32Speaker 1: think he'll be involved. I'm gonna I'm looking up his
- 33:37Speaker 1: I'm looking up his spot here on the on the
- 33:39Speaker 1: media guide. I wanted to see what he did last
- 33:40Speaker 1: year because it's not going to be too hard for
- 33:43Speaker 1: him to have career highs. But I think that he
- 33:45Speaker 1: will in this game. I think he'll have he'll have
- 33:49Speaker 1: the most you know, touches that he's had in a game.
- 33:52Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't really do a lot. Uh. You know,
- 33:56Speaker 1: he had twenty three carries last year. That that that
- 33:59Speaker 1: seems surprising to me. I would have guessed, yeah, five,
- 34:05Speaker 1: like twenty three, is that right? Twenty three carries in
- 34:09Speaker 1: last year? I know, I know that's not preseason. No, No,
- 34:13Speaker 1: that's not the preseason. And he caught seven passes. I
- 34:16Speaker 1: would if you said that he touched the ball thirty
- 34:19Speaker 1: times last year, I would have said, no, way, I don't.
- 34:23Speaker 1: I don't remember that. You know, I know that's not
- 34:27Speaker 1: a lot. I mean that's averaging you know, less than
- 34:30Speaker 1: two touches a game. But even that, I mean he
- 34:32Speaker 1: only played seven games, so I mean he was inactive
- 34:36Speaker 1: for the other nine, so that that does surprise me
- 34:39Speaker 1: a little bit. But anyways, I think he'll get he'll
- 34:41Speaker 1: get more touches this week, I really do. I think
- 34:43Speaker 1: they're going to try to get him involved, and i'd
- 34:45Speaker 1: like to see him. I'd like to see him on
- 34:47Speaker 1: kick return. I know that they put one game back there,
- 34:50Speaker 1: but you know when when they kick it, yeah, because fast,
- 34:57Speaker 1: he's fast, and and and I don't think that if
- 35:00Speaker 1: you kick it at Turpin, I don't think. I think
- 35:03Speaker 1: they wanted one year to get up there and help
- 35:05Speaker 1: with the blocking and all that. But I just don't
- 35:06Speaker 1: think you have enough time to get over there and
- 35:09Speaker 1: help anyway. So I don't think that other returner is
- 35:11Speaker 1: really going to get it, get in there and get
- 35:13Speaker 1: in the mix. You want Turpin to go north. So
- 35:16Speaker 1: that but my point is that I don't think they're
- 35:19Speaker 1: really going to ask the other returner to be to
- 35:23Speaker 1: do anything. And so you know, you saw what Turpin
- 35:25Speaker 1: did last year. Last week, I think they're going to
- 35:27Speaker 1: kick it at one year. They'll kick it at the
- 35:29Speaker 1: other guy. Hey, one name might surprise me, but I'd
- 35:32Speaker 1: like to see Duspac there. I'd like to see him
- 35:33Speaker 1: both back there.
- 35:34Speaker 9: So I agree.
- 35:36Speaker 5: And then if I could just make a real quick prediction,
- 35:38Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna be
- 35:40Speaker 5: a twenty thirteen.
- 35:41Speaker 1: Cowboys twenty eight thirteen. All right, sounds good. Thank you
- 35:44Speaker 1: so much. Greg. Appreciate that we do have a caller
- 35:47Speaker 1: on the line. But I'm going to go to break
- 35:49Speaker 1: one more break here on Cowboys storyline. We'll be back.
- 35:52Speaker 1: We've got Zach in Atlanta waiting. We're gonna go to break.
- 35:55Speaker 1: We'll be right back for that.
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- 37:04Speaker 1: On September of the fourteenth, check out Rally Days presented
- 37:08Speaker 1: by seat Geek. That would be tomorrow Rally Days at
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- 37:23Speaker 1: get your tickets today. All right, let's keep it rolling here.
- 37:27Speaker 1: We've got a few more minutes, maybe ten or so.
- 37:30Speaker 1: We got Zack in Atlanta. He's been waiting, Zach. What's up, Bud?
- 37:33Speaker 8: Hey? What's going on? Nick?
- 37:35Speaker 1: Are you?
- 37:36Speaker 13: I'm great man. We're talking football. It's not justin Rogers anymore.
- 37:41Speaker 12: It's not contracts and what ifs anymore.
- 37:44Speaker 13: We're just in football season and it feels really good.
- 37:46Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, it feels great, great.
- 37:50Speaker 13: So I love it. I think this weekend we'll be
- 37:55Speaker 13: kind of like last you know, people talking up the Saints.
- 37:59Speaker 13: This week I think kind of like the Browns. You know,
- 38:01Speaker 13: maybe maybe they've got something more, maybe they don't have
- 38:05Speaker 13: as much is what people are saying. And so I
- 38:08Speaker 13: think we're gonna win, all right, maybe twenty nine to fourteen,
- 38:12Speaker 13: something like that. And ahead of this game, I was
- 38:16Speaker 13: reflecting on old Cowboys Saints games. My first game was
- 38:20Speaker 13: a Cowboy Saints in twenty fourteen. But rewinding it further
- 38:25Speaker 13: than that, Julius Jones had a big run touchdown run
- 38:30Speaker 13: against the Saints. And so in honor of Julius Jones,
- 38:33Speaker 13: do you have any thoughts, stories, or comments on twenty one?
- 38:37Speaker 13: And with that'll hang up.
- 38:38Speaker 1: Thanks thank you for the call. That play right there
- 38:43Speaker 1: YouTube Julius Jones touchdown against the Saints. It was like
- 38:48Speaker 1: it was six. It wasn't a fun game because I
- 38:50Speaker 1: mean that was the one that Sean Payton came in
- 38:52Speaker 1: here and they just like blew them out. But that
- 38:56Speaker 1: play that Julius Jones is like a seventy seven yard touchdown.
- 39:02Speaker 1: Well Beck could watch Terrell Owens on that play, like,
- 39:05Speaker 1: you know, Arrell Owens was a guy obviously, you know,
- 39:09Speaker 1: great great receiver, big strong guy, and he made all
- 39:12Speaker 1: these kind of plays. I run after catch was amazing.
- 39:15Speaker 1: I don't I think his at his pure speed didn't
- 39:18Speaker 1: ever get like mentioned as much as it probably should
- 39:22Speaker 1: have with him, then some of that's on him, because
- 39:26Speaker 1: you know, he was always a show. But his speed
- 39:29Speaker 1: he could still run today. I think he still tries
- 39:32Speaker 1: to just go back and watch that run. Julius Jones
- 39:35Speaker 1: a nice touchdown run seventy seven yards, but t O's
- 39:39Speaker 1: like flat if I remember, he's like flat footed, he's
- 39:41Speaker 1: trying to block, and the next thing you know, he
- 39:43Speaker 1: was like, oh okay, we're running. We'll watch this, and
- 39:45Speaker 1: I mean just just takes off of me. It's pretty
- 39:48Speaker 1: cool to see. That's what I remember about that. But
- 39:50Speaker 1: if you're asking me about Julius Jones and plays like that.
- 39:54Speaker 1: His rookie year, he he only played like seven or
- 39:59Speaker 1: eight games, but he had some runs in there. Like
- 40:02Speaker 1: he looked fantastic his rookie year, and then he had
- 40:05Speaker 1: a high ankle sprain his second year and I thought
- 40:07Speaker 1: him and Parcels kind of got sideways and how how
- 40:10Speaker 1: they had to how they rehabbed it, and he never
- 40:13Speaker 1: really was the same. Of course, he did break off
- 40:16Speaker 1: his seventy seven yard touchdown run like six, but in
- 40:20Speaker 1: his rookie year, I mean, he had a run against
- 40:22Speaker 1: the Giants in the last game of the season where
- 40:24Speaker 1: it was probably a five yard run, but he went
- 40:27Speaker 1: way way outside just to get the angle and he
- 40:30Speaker 1: made it. I mean, he had some really really nice plays.
- 40:33Speaker 1: I liked watching him. I thought he was going to
- 40:35Speaker 1: be better, and I wish he was, you know, wish
- 40:38Speaker 1: his career would have turned out differently. But if you
- 40:40Speaker 1: go back and watch that play against the Saints, check
- 40:42Speaker 1: out too, because he's like, I mean, he could have
- 40:45Speaker 1: been a sprinter based off of that. All right, Dylan
- 40:48Speaker 1: in Northport, Florida, Dylan, can you hear me?
- 40:52Speaker 8: Okay?
- 40:52Speaker 1: I can. I didn't think you were falling this week.
- 40:55Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 40:56Speaker 14: I just got back just now from my cruise, man,
- 40:58Speaker 14: so I just made it right.
- 41:01Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 41:01Speaker 14: I ended up buying the Internet Package. I was having
- 41:03Speaker 14: the drawls from the follow of the podcast, so I
- 41:05Speaker 14: bought the Internet Pact or second to Last Big All
- 41:07Speaker 14: caught out.
- 41:08Speaker 1: Good to go, all right, I've got your priorities in check.
- 41:11Speaker 1: Love it?
- 41:13Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, I just want to I guess cruise through
- 41:16Speaker 14: a couple of points here.
- 41:19Speaker 1: Yeah, I know I got you.
- 41:21Speaker 14: I'm a dad, so I and your dad. I'm sure
- 41:23Speaker 14: you can appreciate the dad jege.
- 41:24Speaker 1: Right, I appreciate it. I got it. Good good stuff.
- 41:29Speaker 14: Backing CD contracts. Uh, don't look at there, and I
- 41:32Speaker 14: know you know this, but just for the callers, don't
- 41:34Speaker 14: don't look up their average per year. Look at the
- 41:36Speaker 14: cat percentage they're taking up. I go like over the
- 41:38Speaker 14: caap dot com. Their cap percentages don't equate to their
- 41:42Speaker 14: annual per year. So just a quick point on that,
- 41:45Speaker 14: and it's surprising what a small percentage they take up.
- 41:47Speaker 14: It's like twenty most years instead of fifty.
- 41:51Speaker 5: So we'll tidbet there.
- 41:53Speaker 14: Trey Lance, he's fighting for his NFL life right now,
- 41:56Speaker 14: so I don't I can't see the Dolphins calling for
- 41:58Speaker 14: a guy that has very last tape he put on film.
- 42:02Speaker 14: There's last play he put on film was five interceptions.
- 42:06Speaker 14: He did some good things in that game too, But
- 42:08Speaker 14: I can't see a team giving up a player or
- 42:09Speaker 14: draft capital to get a guy like that who's really
- 42:13Speaker 14: just abandoned anyways. And then the point I wanted to
- 42:16Speaker 14: make the call about originally was the special teams is
- 42:20Speaker 14: crazy right now because Brandon Aubrey, boy howdy, is that something?
- 42:25Speaker 14: Even on kickoffs, if he's doing his knuckleball like line
- 42:28Speaker 14: drive head kicks, right, the guy bobbled the ball twice,
- 42:30Speaker 14: And I mean that's two fold because you might get
- 42:32Speaker 14: a fumble there. Also, they got to stop and catch
- 42:34Speaker 14: the ball right, so that gives your team a chance
- 42:36Speaker 14: to get down there closer before he even starts to
- 42:38Speaker 14: turn the ball.
- 42:39Speaker 5: So he's got that.
- 42:40Speaker 14: And then on the flip side, obviously you got turf
- 42:42Speaker 14: and you got a real chance to score there. So
- 42:44Speaker 14: teams got to decide on the kickoff. Am I going
- 42:46Speaker 14: to kick it to him and give him a chance
- 42:47Speaker 14: to score? I'm going to kick out of the back
- 42:49Speaker 14: of the end zone. And at the kick out of
- 42:50Speaker 14: the back at the end zone, cowboys are like two
- 42:51Speaker 14: first downs.
- 42:52Speaker 7: Away from field goal.
- 42:53Speaker 8: Rang.
- 42:53Speaker 14: So this special teams is crazy dynamic right now, and
- 42:57Speaker 14: such a strong point on this.
- 42:58Speaker 1: Team is a really really good point. That's a that's
- 43:02Speaker 1: a good point, Dylan, Thanks for the for the call.
- 43:05Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's just something that people don't always
- 43:09Speaker 1: talk about. You know, it's just easy to say offense
- 43:11Speaker 1: and defense. But it's always been special teams as well,
- 43:15Speaker 1: and that, to me is the reason why it's not
- 43:18Speaker 1: the reason. It's one of the reasons why this team
- 43:21Speaker 1: has won twelve games three years in a row. I mean,
- 43:23Speaker 1: it's continuity and and what they have with their special
- 43:27Speaker 1: teams with John Fossil and and the fact that, like
- 43:31Speaker 1: you said, field position, you don't you don't think about
- 43:34Speaker 1: stuff like that. You don't you don't think about you
- 43:36Speaker 1: know why if he's you know, if when you when
- 43:41Speaker 1: you're kicking off of that knuckleball kick you're talking about, Yeah,
- 43:44Speaker 1: they they may not catch it and cleanly, and that's
- 43:47Speaker 1: going to take some time. And if they decide that
- 43:49Speaker 1: they don't want to catch it and it rolls into
- 43:52Speaker 1: the end zone from like the five Indian zone, that
- 43:55Speaker 1: was a perfect kick. That is the ideal perfect kick
- 43:57Speaker 1: for this rule because that that means the ball gets
- 43:59Speaker 1: put the twenty. So that's exactly what you're trying to do.
- 44:02Speaker 1: If they want to catch it cool, they may not.
- 44:04Speaker 1: They may fumble it and you may get it or
- 44:06Speaker 1: you know, you may you may tackle them down inside
- 44:09Speaker 1: the twenty. So that's that's certainly the plan there. And
- 44:14Speaker 1: they just have such a weapon. And don't don't forget
- 44:16Speaker 1: Anger as well. I mean, I mean Brian Ainger, I
- 44:19Speaker 1: mean what he's doing, and I mean he can angle
- 44:21Speaker 1: these ponts and with hang time. Uh, and you're not
- 44:25Speaker 1: really getting a huge return around and they give up
- 44:27Speaker 1: a little bit in this last game that that was
- 44:29Speaker 1: something from a punt return standpoint. But I think for
- 44:32Speaker 1: the most part though, you've got three weapons there, uh
- 44:35Speaker 1: in interpen obviously Aubrey and then Uh and then Anger
- 44:41Speaker 1: as well. All of them have been in the Pro Bowl,
- 44:42Speaker 1: so uh that that is something that that you know,
- 44:45Speaker 1: these games are going to be close, and you've got
- 44:47Speaker 1: to be able to win the special teams battle. All right,
- 44:49Speaker 1: let's go to Sebastian and Savannah Georgia.
- 44:52Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning, sir.
- 44:53Speaker 1: How are you doing today? Good? How are you doing?
- 44:56Speaker 3: I'm doing it real well. I'm just calling to give
- 44:58Speaker 3: the weekly scout and report for the opposite. I actually
- 45:01Speaker 3: sat through that travesty that was last week. But don't
- 45:03Speaker 3: be fooled, guys. I think the Saints are sneakily better
- 45:08Speaker 3: than we give them credit for.
- 45:09Speaker 1: Right.
- 45:10Speaker 3: First off, Alvin Kamarkins still scoop.
- 45:13Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 45:13Speaker 3: And their offense, what they do is they bunch you
- 45:16Speaker 3: up and then they spread you out once they start moving.
- 45:18Speaker 3: So we gotta bottle up. Alvin Kamara, you really got
- 45:21Speaker 3: to watch out for Taysom Hill. No, he's not Travis Kelsey,
- 45:24Speaker 3: nor is he Cam Newton, but he is a dangerous
- 45:27Speaker 3: weapon on their team. And then they have that the
- 45:29Speaker 3: receiver's need kick and burn like he's like turping for us.
- 45:33Speaker 3: He flies, So we can bottle that up. Because I
- 45:35Speaker 3: think the strength of their team is the offense and
- 45:38Speaker 3: their defense is decent. We can run against them, but
- 45:40Speaker 3: we're gonna need somebody with a little bit more speed
- 45:42Speaker 3: running this week. I'd love to see Duke get like,
- 45:44Speaker 3: you know, three or four carries as well. I think
- 45:46Speaker 3: he earned it last week with that beautiful block that
- 45:48Speaker 3: he put on twelve for turping. But you guys, have
- 45:51Speaker 3: a great week. I had a really good time watching
- 45:53Speaker 3: the games last week. Was very exciting. Love what you
- 45:56Speaker 3: guys were doing.
- 45:57Speaker 7: Have a great day.
- 45:57Speaker 1: Thanks appreciate as always calling in good stuff. And you know,
- 46:02Speaker 1: I don't know if anyone, at least no one that
- 46:05Speaker 1: I'm hearing here is overlooking him them that much. Most
- 46:11Speaker 1: of the scores I see ten twelve, thirteen points. I'm
- 46:14Speaker 1: a little surprised with the Vegas line of six and
- 46:17Speaker 1: a half. I'm again, I mean, they know more than
- 46:22Speaker 1: us typically. I mean, they get it wrong some too.
- 46:25Speaker 1: But I do think the Cowboys are, you know, gonna
- 46:29Speaker 1: win by two touchdown or double digits. I think I
- 46:32Speaker 1: have at thirty four to twenty three. That is my
- 46:34Speaker 1: score that I picked. And you know that game, that's
- 46:39Speaker 1: a close game. You know, if the Cowboys score late
- 46:42Speaker 1: to put the game away. So it's going to be
- 46:45Speaker 1: a challenge. And I agree. I mean, I think the
- 46:46Speaker 1: weapons that they have the Saints have is things you
- 46:49Speaker 1: really got to watch out for. But you know, the
- 46:51Speaker 1: good thing about the Cowboys defense is they have weapons too.
- 46:54Speaker 1: I mean like they have they have defensive backs that
- 46:58Speaker 1: can make play on the all with good hands. They've
- 47:01Speaker 1: got a couple of pass rushers that have you know,
- 47:04Speaker 1: made the Pro Bowl this last year, one of them
- 47:07Speaker 1: all Pro and Micah Parsons. And now they've got a
- 47:10Speaker 1: little bit more beef in the middle where you have
- 47:13Speaker 1: to watch for them as well. So it's it's gonna
- 47:15Speaker 1: be a very really good matchup. I think it'll be
- 47:18Speaker 1: a much better test for both teams than what they
- 47:21Speaker 1: had last year. And you're right about Taysom Hill Taysom Hill,
- 47:24Speaker 1: and they didn't show anything with with Carolina. Why would
- 47:26Speaker 1: you You're you're blowing them out. You don't need to
- 47:27Speaker 1: put that on tape of what they have in store
- 47:30Speaker 1: for him. All right, last caller here and if but
- 47:32Speaker 1: your thirteenth caller on Friday the thirteenth, Love it Robbie
- 47:35Speaker 1: and Coco Beach, Florida. Robbie, what's up?
- 47:37Speaker 8: What's up? My friend?
- 47:38Speaker 15: As Anthony from Miami says, what's up?
- 47:41Speaker 1: Nick?
- 47:41Speaker 15: To Quick, that's right, Hey, happy Friday, brother having Friday
- 47:45Speaker 15: the thirteenth. Hey, listen, I got at first. I gotta
- 47:48Speaker 15: apologize to you. So what I called it on Tuesday?
- 47:52Speaker 15: I asked questions that other people had already asked. And
- 47:55Speaker 15: I may do that again today, but I hope not.
- 47:58Speaker 1: It happens. You guys can't always you're trying to call,
- 48:00Speaker 1: he's trying to call, trying to call. You can't be listening. Yes,
- 48:03Speaker 1: I get it, that's fine. I repeat myself all the time.
- 48:05Speaker 1: Sounds good?
- 48:06Speaker 15: All right, all right, First of off, how's the Jake
- 48:10Speaker 15: and rest of the family.
- 48:10Speaker 1: Hope good. He's doing good. He's doing good. He's ready
- 48:13Speaker 1: for us a second game. Had a good practice yesterday
- 48:16Speaker 1: all time. Center had a couple of targets in his
- 48:18Speaker 1: last game and then one was a little low, one
- 48:21Speaker 1: was high. He didn't get it. But let's see. Let's
- 48:23Speaker 1: see what he does this week.
- 48:24Speaker 15: All right, let's hope best for him.
- 48:26Speaker 8: I'll pray for him.
- 48:27Speaker 15: It's cowboys about our cowboys, listen, man, I hope that
- 48:31Speaker 15: this game we get to see what our run defense
- 48:33Speaker 15: or our run offense looks like against a team that
- 48:37Speaker 15: was not the number one against rushing last year. So
- 48:39Speaker 15: we get some more a better look at it and
- 48:42Speaker 15: see what's actually going on.
- 48:43Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
- 48:46Speaker 8: And my prediction is I.
- 48:47Speaker 15: Think we're gonna put two field goals.
- 48:49Speaker 7: It's three touchdowns, four touchdowns, so thirty four twenty four
- 48:54Speaker 7: something like that.
- 48:55Speaker 1: All right, sounds good. That's about what I've got as well.
- 48:58Speaker 15: Alright, man, we'll have a great weekend and enjoy the
- 49:01Speaker 15: game on Sunday. It's the early one, so enjoy my friend.
- 49:04Speaker 1: All right, thank you? Robbie appreciate that. All right, good stuff.
- 49:07Speaker 1: Like I predicted thirteen callers on Friday the thirteenth, you
- 49:11Speaker 1: guys did a great job. It's been a great week.
- 49:14Speaker 1: Thanks for all of the calls. We will get after
- 49:16Speaker 1: it on Monday when we'll talk about Cowboys and Saints.
- 49:19Speaker 1: So for Chris Beam, I'm Nick even. We'll see you
- 49:21Speaker 1: next week on Cowboys Storyline. See you.
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