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- 0:04Speaker 1: The following.
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- 0:10Speaker 1: Cowboys.
- 0:13Speaker 3: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:22Speaker 1: What is up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It is Monday,
- 0:26Speaker 1: October seventh. I think sixth seventh, October the seventh. I
- 0:31Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what day it is. I
- 0:32Speaker 1: think it's Monday. It's always been Monday. It was Monday
- 0:35Speaker 1: when the Cowboys were beating the Steelers last night, this morning.
- 0:38Speaker 1: However you want to say it, however you want to
- 0:40Speaker 1: slice it, Cowboys did it. They did a thing. They
- 0:43Speaker 1: beat the Steelers twenty to seventeen. And it was it was.
- 0:48Speaker 1: It was a game that it was. It was not
- 0:51Speaker 1: always the most beautiful thing except for the end. Except
- 0:53Speaker 1: for the end, it was. And it was certainly a
- 0:56Speaker 1: well deserved win for the Cowboys. Very very tough, heart
- 1:00Speaker 1: fought just like you would expect it to be in Pittsburgh.
- 1:04Speaker 1: That's the way they play. That's the way they've always played.
- 1:07Speaker 1: You're not gonna win if you don't hit back, if
- 1:09Speaker 1: you don't if you don't roll up your sleeves as
- 1:11Speaker 1: well and go, you know, do the work, get the win.
- 1:15Speaker 1: And that's that's exactly what happened. I give the Cowboys
- 1:18Speaker 1: a ton of credit for the way they fought in
- 1:20Speaker 1: that game, a lot of adversity all week. I mean
- 1:23Speaker 1: we're talking about all week long injuries. Oh this guy's out,
- 1:26Speaker 1: Oh Mic is out, Okay, Tanks out, Brandon Cooks is out,
- 1:30Speaker 1: anyone else? And uh and then yeah, they're like yeah, wait,
- 1:34Speaker 1: wait for the game to start, because then Marshaw Neeland
- 1:37Speaker 1: is out, and and then Tyler Guidon and then Zach
- 1:40Speaker 1: Martin for a little bit. Uh, they still found a way.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Look at the cast of characters that they won with
- 1:46Speaker 1: in this game, I mean that was it was a
- 1:48Speaker 1: very very uh and to me, it was a very
- 1:51Speaker 1: impressive win. Not not saying that this thing is fixed,
- 1:55Speaker 1: that their Cowboys are rolling, that they're you know, they're
- 1:59Speaker 1: gonna make way and go to the you know, playoffs,
- 2:02Speaker 1: the deep run. I don't know. I just think this
- 2:03Speaker 1: is the way this season is going to be. But man,
- 2:06Speaker 1: it was. It was a really good answer by the
- 2:08Speaker 1: by the Cowboys to figure it out and win the
- 2:10Speaker 1: way they did on last last play the game. Basically
- 2:13Speaker 1: in the past two Jalen Tolbert, all Right, who's another guy.
- 2:17Speaker 1: He just kind of stepped up. He just did it.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Eight eight eight five five two two nine seven is
- 2:22Speaker 1: the number to call. We already have some callers on
- 2:24Speaker 1: the line. Let's get to it. Let's start us off.
- 2:26Speaker 1: Gary in New Mexico.
- 2:29Speaker 4: Hey, Nick, way to overcome and persevere and show up
- 2:31Speaker 4: at work this morning after a long night last night. Man,
- 2:34Speaker 4: that's that's good stuff.
- 2:36Speaker 1: I got it an hour, I an hour.
- 2:39Speaker 4: You're making plays, man, You're you're setting a good example
- 2:42Speaker 4: for the team.
- 2:43Speaker 1: Thank you all.
- 2:43Speaker 4: I got a comment and then I got a question
- 2:45Speaker 4: for you, a couple of comments on the game. Okay,
- 2:48Speaker 4: that to me is somebody that played the game, not
- 2:50Speaker 4: not at a high level, but if somebody that played
- 2:52Speaker 4: football and as a hardcore football fan, that to me
- 2:55Speaker 4: was a beautiful game. That that game last night. I mean,
- 2:58Speaker 4: football is such a metal four for life and about
- 3:01Speaker 4: overcoming adversity and all of those cliches. You saw that
- 3:05Speaker 4: in that game last night. We need to give credit
- 3:08Speaker 4: to Mike McCarthy for developing a program. He does a
- 3:11Speaker 4: good job. When players go down of bringing other players
- 3:16Speaker 4: in developing draft and developed draft and develop people get
- 3:18Speaker 4: tired of hearing it but we saw the fruit of
- 3:21Speaker 4: that last night. Dak Prescott. So many times, Dak Prescott
- 3:26Speaker 4: is not part of the problem, but he's never really
- 3:28Speaker 4: the solution either, you know what I mean. Last night
- 3:31Speaker 4: he was the solution. I thought Dak Prescott last night
- 3:36Speaker 4: played one of the best games I've seen him play
- 3:38Speaker 4: because last night he lifted that team. He had to
- 3:42Speaker 4: put that team on his back last night, and.
- 3:44Speaker 2: He did that.
- 3:45Speaker 4: Those two fourth quarter drives. That was great stuff by
- 3:48Speaker 4: Dak Prescott. I was thoroughly impressed by that. Yeah, and
- 3:52Speaker 4: he made some mistakes, but you know, I don't care
- 3:54Speaker 4: about the mistakes. The interception bright before halftime, I was
- 3:57Speaker 4: upset about that. But I remember Danny White when I
- 3:59Speaker 4: was a kid saying one time, it's not that a
- 4:01Speaker 4: quarterback throws an interception, but how can he come back
- 4:04Speaker 4: from that? Can he come back after a bad play
- 4:07Speaker 4: and lead his team to victory? That's what Dak Prescott did. Man,
- 4:09Speaker 4: that was just so gutsy and clutch. That was just
- 4:13Speaker 4: that was just a great game. Now here's my question.
- 4:16Speaker 4: I'll shut up and hang up and listen to you.
- 4:18Speaker 4: What do you think. I love Tyler Gotton, but he's struggling,
- 4:22Speaker 4: and that pass protection in the first half last night
- 4:24Speaker 4: was poor. Yeah, do you think maybe they might be
- 4:28Speaker 4: better off moving Tyler Smith out to guard or moving
- 4:32Speaker 4: Tyler Smith out to tackle and plugging TJ Bass in
- 4:35Speaker 4: at guard. Give me your thoughts on that, now hang
- 4:37Speaker 4: up and listen. Thank you.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that's that's that's a tough situation that
- 4:42Speaker 1: the Cowboys are going to find themselves in because Tyler
- 4:46Speaker 1: Geiiton is their first round pick. He's going to be
- 4:49Speaker 1: their left tackle. That's that's what he's supposed to do,
- 4:53Speaker 1: and he's going to get there. He's going to get there.
- 4:55Speaker 1: It's just how how much can you deal with the
- 5:00Speaker 1: growing pains because they're there, we see them, and I
- 5:04Speaker 1: think it was better when he wasn't. I mean, it
- 5:07Speaker 1: was better when Tyler Smith was there, TJ Bass. They
- 5:11Speaker 1: ran the ball better, they moved it better, they actually
- 5:14Speaker 1: scored touchdowns. It was better. So you can't you have
- 5:18Speaker 1: to you can't deny that. But at the same time,
- 5:21Speaker 1: he's not going to get better if he doesn't go
- 5:23Speaker 1: out there and play. Terrence Steele was not very good
- 5:27Speaker 1: early on. You know, in his career. He had to play.
- 5:30Speaker 1: He got to get better. Tyron Smith wasn't dominant early
- 5:34Speaker 1: in his career. He was good, he wasn't dominant, and
- 5:36Speaker 1: then you know, so they all developed, but they developed
- 5:39Speaker 1: by playing. So that's a tough dilemma that they're gonna
- 5:43Speaker 1: have to deal with. I agree with with you on Dak.
- 5:45Speaker 1: I mean, Dak, he he struggled early, you know, with
- 5:48Speaker 1: some of the the the interception, the fumble, but when
- 5:52Speaker 1: it was time to go win the game, you know,
- 5:55Speaker 1: everyone's thinking it. I mean everyone's thinking, oh, this is
- 5:58Speaker 1: what they pay you for, Dak. This is what they
- 6:00Speaker 1: that they pay the money. And he goes out and
- 6:02Speaker 1: he you know, he drives him down the field and
- 6:05Speaker 1: you know, not only does he throw to two touchdowns
- 6:07Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, I mean makes a game saving
- 6:10Speaker 1: fumble recovery too, that from Rico Davil that you know
- 6:13Speaker 1: obviously that that that saved the game. But he was
- 6:17Speaker 1: It wasn't as bad as the Romo Buffalo game where
- 6:20Speaker 1: Romo had all the picks and then then at the
- 6:22Speaker 1: end figured out a way, but it was it was
- 6:25Speaker 1: in the neighborhood of that for sure. All right, let's
- 6:27Speaker 1: go to Dylan Northport, Florida.
- 6:30Speaker 5: Hey, Nick's going good.
- 6:31Speaker 1: How are you good.
- 6:33Speaker 5: I'm just I'm prepping for the hurricane down here, putting
- 6:36Speaker 5: up these shutters. And I read your article last night
- 6:38Speaker 5: and you referenced that old Diamond Rio song from like
- 6:41Speaker 5: the two thousands. Man, I've been jamming out now nostalgic
- 6:44Speaker 5: this morning, putting up these shutters to this like two
- 6:46Speaker 5: thousands country music and Rio Grand Darth Brooks, Darth Brooks
- 6:50Speaker 5: and all these guys, Tim McGraths and great. So thanks
- 6:52Speaker 5: for sending me down that rabbit hole.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Thank you. And and the first caller, Gary said it
- 6:57Speaker 1: was a beautiful game. You're right. I wrote that it
- 6:59Speaker 1: was a beautiful mess and that's the name of the
- 7:02Speaker 1: Diamond Rios song that I was referencing. But it was
- 7:05Speaker 1: it was a beautiful mess because the whole day, the
- 7:07Speaker 1: whole the weather delay, all the turnovers, block kick all that,
- 7:12Speaker 1: it was a mess, but it was a beautiful mess
- 7:14Speaker 1: at the end.
- 7:15Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that's kind of what I think a
- 7:17Speaker 5: lot of people expected in the weather kind of broke out,
- 7:19Speaker 5: and it was even more so. I mean, you're missing
- 7:22Speaker 5: like one point three million starters out there. I mean,
- 7:24Speaker 5: it's crazy amout of people that are heard you got
- 7:26Speaker 5: nobody on the edge and all these guys stepped up.
- 7:29Speaker 5: I mean, that's just the way that you're going to
- 7:30Speaker 5: win those kind of games is going to be ugly.
- 7:32Speaker 6: And yeah, I was going to say.
- 7:33Speaker 5: You mentioned the Buffalo game. I mean, that's exactly what
- 7:35Speaker 5: I had written down here. I was going to mention
- 7:37Speaker 5: that it reminded me a lot of that game, even
- 7:39Speaker 5: not as dramatic.
- 7:40Speaker 1: Yeahs that one.
- 7:41Speaker 5: But but Dak himself, he was going to be a
- 7:42Speaker 5: reason why the Cowboys lost the game, but he's also
- 7:44Speaker 5: a reason why they won the game at the end.
- 7:47Speaker 5: And uh, just a little nugget here about Jayaln Tolbert.
- 7:49Speaker 5: You know, he was he was nuts out there, call
- 7:51Speaker 5: out of balls and he was testing just really fun
- 7:54Speaker 5: to watch. And I'm glad that he shined through here
- 7:57Speaker 5: without cooks and I'm excited to see what he can
- 7:59Speaker 5: do the stew reeks here with that with cooks out.
- 8:01Speaker 1: But what that's that, man.
- 8:02Speaker 5: I'll let you go and I have a great day.
- 8:06Speaker 1: You too. You know, I've got I'm working on like
- 8:09Speaker 1: one hour sleep now. I think I caught all those
- 8:11Speaker 1: references there that you were trying to say, Yeah, I
- 8:17Speaker 1: maybe maybe I missed it maybe, but Dylan, I think
- 8:20Speaker 1: thanks for the call. Jalen Tolbert. You know, it's is
- 8:27Speaker 1: he got racked. Okay, he got racked the play before
- 8:30Speaker 1: the game, before the catch, and and I thought two
- 8:33Speaker 1: critical plays in the game where the fact that they
- 8:36Speaker 1: called time out and then the Steelers called time out
- 8:39Speaker 1: because it's fourth down. It's fourth down, like this is
- 8:41Speaker 1: this is the play of the game. But it's you know,
- 8:44Speaker 1: it gave Jalen Tolbert time to catch his breath and
- 8:48Speaker 1: then catch the game winner. And that's that's kind of
- 8:50Speaker 1: how how it went down. But got a ton of
- 8:54Speaker 1: credit for him. I mean, he he looked good. And
- 8:58Speaker 1: you know, Derek Eagleton was saying it all last week.
- 9:03Speaker 1: He was like, he can be a number two. I
- 9:05Speaker 1: think he can be that guy. And he had some
- 9:08Speaker 1: great moments in the game. I think he you know,
- 9:10Speaker 1: he caught, he caught, it was targeted ten times, caught
- 9:13Speaker 1: seven eighty seven yards, had a forty eight yarder, So
- 9:16Speaker 1: that that tells me that he can go down the field.
- 9:18Speaker 1: He also has a bunch of other catches here, you
- 9:21Speaker 1: know that were short that were possession like, but the
- 9:25Speaker 1: touchdown catch, I mean, you got to have strong hands.
- 9:27Speaker 1: I mean, you got to you gotta pluck that ball.
- 9:28Speaker 1: He's covered and and he had to go and make
- 9:31Speaker 1: that catch and reel it in for the score. It
- 9:34Speaker 1: was awesome. All right, let's go to Brian in Kansas City.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Good morning, Nick, Hey Brian.
- 9:40Speaker 7: Well, I first, I just want to say thanks for
- 9:43Speaker 7: you guys being on the air giving us a chance
- 9:45Speaker 7: to call in and do this this morning. I know
- 9:47Speaker 7: it's a long, long night after an hour and a
- 9:50Speaker 7: half game delay.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. I give a lot of credits to Chris.
- 9:53Speaker 1: Let's don't forget. I mean, Chris was here an hour
- 9:55Speaker 1: earlier than me with the other shows, and we'll be
- 9:57Speaker 1: here for all the shows. So h shout out to
- 10:01Speaker 1: him as well.
- 10:03Speaker 7: They don't they don't call him producer supreme for for
- 10:06Speaker 7: for for no reason.
- 10:07Speaker 1: Right, I've never heard that one, but I like it,
- 10:09Speaker 1: and I think he likes it too. That's good.
- 10:13Speaker 7: So you know that game last night, that's why we're
- 10:16Speaker 7: all fans. That's right, That's that's the game, you know,
- 10:19Speaker 7: you know, besides the game, you know, the weather delay
- 10:22Speaker 7: is just kind of an oddity, but you know, you
- 10:24Speaker 7: got snoop. I was watching the pregame show, and you know,
- 10:28Speaker 7: you're like, hey, maybe I can get Snoop over here
- 10:30Speaker 7: to talk on the you know, and you know, just
- 10:34Speaker 7: the all the oddities of the build up of the
- 10:37Speaker 7: game and then the game itself. You're you're down three starters,
- 10:41Speaker 7: two more go down during the game. You know, you
- 10:45Speaker 7: just think it's like, is there any chance we can win?
- 10:49Speaker 7: And somehow, some.
- 10:50Speaker 1: Way, right, Yeah, yeah, it's I'm just looking, you know,
- 10:54Speaker 1: I'm looking at them, at the defensive players. I mean,
- 10:57Speaker 1: the starting lineup was Kneel and ogat O, Diggi, Zuoa, Mazzi,
- 11:01Speaker 1: Smith and Golston and then you know, Neeland goes down
- 11:04Speaker 1: and Lawson comes in, and I mean Lenvaal Joseph played
- 11:08Speaker 1: a lot. I mean he he was making a lot
- 11:10Speaker 1: of plays out there, you know. So it was just
- 11:14Speaker 1: hats off to Mike Zimmer and Mike McCarthy, of course,
- 11:16Speaker 1: but Mike Zimmer's defense, I mean they they did a
- 11:19Speaker 1: really good job.
- 11:21Speaker 7: Two guys. I'm gonna try it. Yeah, was out there.
- 11:27Speaker 7: Nobody threw at him. You know, I can remember him
- 11:30Speaker 7: being in the TV screen twice for you know, for
- 11:34Speaker 7: for being the dB on the other side.
- 11:36Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know he didn't know he is. He's
- 11:39Speaker 1: a good solid corner. And yeah, no one's gonna say, oh,
- 11:42Speaker 1: we don't need Deron Bland back. No, but Land needs
- 11:45Speaker 1: to come back. But I, like you know, is on
- 11:48Speaker 1: the practice squad for now, there's no way they can
- 11:51Speaker 1: keep him there, like they gotta. They need to move
- 11:53Speaker 1: him up. Don't even let someone try to poach him.
- 11:56Speaker 1: He needs to he needs to come up to the roster.
- 11:58Speaker 7: Yeah, so I got a question, and then I was
- 12:01Speaker 7: going to ask you to do the same thing I
- 12:03Speaker 7: had last time after game day, is you know, maybe
- 12:06Speaker 7: give us the quick rundown on the you know what
- 12:08Speaker 7: you know about who's coming who might be coming back
- 12:11Speaker 7: this week and whatever you've heard on the early mornings
- 12:15Speaker 7: on the two guys from last night. But my question
- 12:18Speaker 7: is is my understanding is Lawson's had all the call
- 12:21Speaker 7: ups he can have, right, So do you think I mean,
- 12:24Speaker 7: I think it's a no brainer. I think they have
- 12:26Speaker 7: to put him on the fifty three, especially now. Yes,
- 12:28Speaker 7: I don't think there's a choice. And then if you
- 12:31Speaker 7: just give us a quick rundown on what you know
- 12:33Speaker 7: about Guidon Neelan and do you think Bland or Carson
- 12:38Speaker 7: can make it back for next week, and I'll let you.
- 12:40Speaker 1: Go, brother, all right, thank you, Brian, appreciate that. I'll
- 12:44Speaker 1: start with the corners. I was a little surprised that
- 12:49Speaker 1: Carson did not make it back last week, buddy, but
- 12:52Speaker 1: you know, he was trending up, you know, as the
- 12:56Speaker 1: week went on, he was limited. I think he will
- 13:00Speaker 1: be able to be ready, but again, not sure they're Bland.
- 13:07Speaker 1: Stephen Jones said last week he thought that there was
- 13:10Speaker 1: there'd be a good chance for Bland to actually come
- 13:13Speaker 1: back and play. So but that sounds great. Then again,
- 13:18Speaker 1: when you have the bye week afterwards, you know you
- 13:22Speaker 1: really have a chance to get him at full full strength. Personally,
- 13:27Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind playing him. See what if he's ready
- 13:30Speaker 1: and see what, you know, what kind of rust you
- 13:32Speaker 1: might have, and then you should be you know, and
- 13:36Speaker 1: then you get the bye week, then you should be
- 13:37Speaker 1: able to you know, good to go for the forty
- 13:39Speaker 1: nine ers after that. So if he's ready, I would
- 13:42Speaker 1: put him out there. You're about to play. This could
- 13:45Speaker 1: be the toughest game of the season coming up. Honestly,
- 13:47Speaker 1: the more I think about this game coming up against Detroit,
- 13:50Speaker 1: this is this might be the toughest game the Cowboys
- 13:53Speaker 1: have to play with everything involved and the matchup Detroit
- 13:57Speaker 1: has how pissed off they are. How about the Cowboys
- 14:01Speaker 1: their bye week that they've had their coach coming in here.
- 14:05Speaker 1: It's just gonna be one of the toughest games that
- 14:07Speaker 1: they're going to have to, you know, play, So well,
- 14:10Speaker 1: we'll talk about that as we get a little closer
- 14:12Speaker 1: to it. I really don't know a ton about guiding Nielan.
- 14:17Speaker 1: That doesn't look good. I mean, it was on crutches
- 14:19Speaker 1: the whole the whole day, whole night. That that's that's
- 14:23Speaker 1: probably gonna be some significant time. But I don't Again,
- 14:27Speaker 1: I don't want to speculate. I don't. I don't know
- 14:29Speaker 1: much about that. It really wasn't a lot of people
- 14:31Speaker 1: talking about those injuries, at least not that I heard.
- 14:34Speaker 1: So we'll get more later on about that, all right,
- 14:38Speaker 1: Travis and san Antonio.
- 14:41Speaker 8: Happy victory Monday. Shout out to Beemer in the back.
- 14:44Speaker 8: He said, all gas, no breaks today, and shout out
- 14:47Speaker 8: to you for being on. We were talking about it
- 14:48Speaker 8: last night. Dylan already called in, So we appreciate the
- 14:53Speaker 8: even shorter night that you had that we that we
- 14:55Speaker 8: knew you guys were gonna have with the delay. It
- 14:56Speaker 8: was like the first thing we said was like oh.
- 14:58Speaker 1: Crap, yeah yeah, but uh well, you know what it makes.
- 15:02Speaker 1: It makes it a lot easier when Tolbert makes that
- 15:05Speaker 1: catch and and they win, because it's easier in the
- 15:08Speaker 1: locker room and make plain ride. I tell you, it
- 15:12Speaker 1: was a pretty rowdy plane ride for a while up
- 15:14Speaker 1: in the up in the front where the where the
- 15:17Speaker 1: veterans are. It was for a while, and then and
- 15:20Speaker 1: then it got there was like okay, it's four in
- 15:22Speaker 1: the morning, like or three in the more whatever it
- 15:24Speaker 1: was when they kind of cooled down. But uh yeah
- 15:26Speaker 1: they were. They were pretty exciting. They should be. It was.
- 15:29Speaker 1: It was you know, three and zero in the road.
- 15:30Speaker 1: I mean there, that's that was. That was something. Now
- 15:33Speaker 1: I went too at home and and have a tough
- 15:35Speaker 1: one to face it this week, but you know, going
- 15:38Speaker 1: going on the road and and winning, it's tough. And
- 15:40Speaker 1: they've they've done it three times now, yep.
- 15:44Speaker 8: So just got like three quick things for me, like, uh,
- 15:48Speaker 8: you know, the first half and maybe a little bit
- 15:50Speaker 8: into their core we were I was in there saying
- 15:52Speaker 8: like I was like I was really hoping they weren't
- 15:55Speaker 8: gonna waste the defensive performance because those guys really held
- 15:58Speaker 8: it together and right stepped up and play well, and
- 16:00Speaker 8: because I was just saying, like the offense need to
- 16:02Speaker 8: pick its end up the couch. However, in the end,
- 16:04Speaker 8: at the end of the day, Nick, they did what
- 16:06Speaker 8: needed to be done and they won the game, So
- 16:08Speaker 8: you get full credit for that. That's the bottom line.
- 16:11Speaker 8: And like I remember, last time I call, I was saying,
- 16:14Speaker 8: it could be a game where they maybe this is that,
- 16:16Speaker 8: maybe this starts the belief a little bit. So hopefully
- 16:19Speaker 8: that's the case. The running game, I don't know if
- 16:21Speaker 8: you want to call it a switcher and adjustment, and
- 16:23Speaker 8: they highlighted down the broadcast, but those duo blocks weren't noticeable,
- 16:28Speaker 8: and I'm hoping so they kind of abandoned a little
- 16:30Speaker 8: bit of the inside zone and did more of the duos.
- 16:32Speaker 8: And I hope that wasn't just a matchup thing. I
- 16:34Speaker 8: said after the game. I hope that's something that they
- 16:37Speaker 8: kind of keep going forward. And because it was noticeable,
- 16:40Speaker 8: and you know, the run game, love was he was improved,
- 16:43Speaker 8: so that's a good thing. The gritty fight is what
- 16:45Speaker 8: I wrote down of the several players the overshown almost interception.
- 16:50Speaker 8: You know where he was wrestling h Georgia tied end
- 16:52Speaker 8: of the ground, Like even after the whistle, he was like,
- 16:55Speaker 8: I'm still trying to get this ball, even though it's
- 16:56Speaker 8: not going to be a pick. Jordan Lewis, you know
- 16:59Speaker 8: his thing same pickings is weak in the needed wide
- 17:03Speaker 8: receiver in Pittsburgh.
- 17:04Speaker 1: Loved it.
- 17:05Speaker 8: Signed that guy out to your extension. That's my guy,
- 17:07Speaker 8: most underappreciated cornerback in the league, Tyrus Wheet. We all
- 17:10Speaker 8: know that was a bogus call, but I tell you
- 17:13Speaker 8: all the time, Nick, I'll take one of those a game.
- 17:15Speaker 8: I didn't even care that it was a flag because
- 17:17Speaker 8: it just sets a tone for that defensive line where
- 17:20Speaker 8: it's like, yeah, they're beat up, but like we're gonna
- 17:22Speaker 8: be here all day. So to me, I'll take one
- 17:25Speaker 8: of those a game. That's cool. And then the last
- 17:28Speaker 8: thing was I told people I was gonna riot if
- 17:31Speaker 8: Turpin wasn't more involved. I don't know how many targets
- 17:33Speaker 8: he got, but I said, if he didn't get like
- 17:35Speaker 8: seven to ten, I was gonna riot. So I was
- 17:37Speaker 8: happy to see Turpin, who is not a gadget guy.
- 17:39Speaker 8: He's not a toy guy. Everyone keeps saying that go
- 17:42Speaker 8: watch him at TCU when he was there. He's a
- 17:43Speaker 8: full fledged wide receiver and he can do this. And
- 17:46Speaker 8: I hope that we don't see a Turpin and Tolbert
- 17:49Speaker 8: get involved and the next week they're not involved. So
- 17:52Speaker 8: take your pick out which one of those you wanted
- 17:53Speaker 8: to talk about? And I hope you have a great
- 17:54Speaker 8: week and get some.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Wrestling, all right, thank you. You know when I asked
- 17:59Speaker 1: before the game, interviewed Stephen Jones for the pregame show
- 18:02Speaker 1: and asked him about losing Cooks, and he said, you know,
- 18:04Speaker 1: Turpin can be that same type of guy. We haven't
- 18:08Speaker 1: seen him use that way, but we did in this game.
- 18:12Speaker 1: You know, down the field, you know, down the field
- 18:15Speaker 1: passes to him, you know, had a kickoff return that
- 18:20Speaker 1: you know, at least one that he got to come
- 18:22Speaker 1: back with thirty eight yards. And so yeah, I thought,
- 18:25Speaker 1: I thought Turpin, they did a nice job with him.
- 18:28Speaker 1: How about how about mixing in a fake reverse? I mean,
- 18:31Speaker 1: we keep seeing these sweeps and jet sweeps and reverse
- 18:34Speaker 1: type runs. I mean a fake I mean, because I
- 18:37Speaker 1: think they're kind of onto you there on some of
- 18:39Speaker 1: that the gritty fight that you talked about, Yeah, it was,
- 18:43Speaker 1: it was. It was that. Now now Tyrus Weeds play that.
- 18:50Speaker 1: I don't know. I I get it. I know that
- 18:53Speaker 1: what they're always going to do that they're always going
- 18:56Speaker 1: to protect the quarterback. But it's just so frustrating because
- 19:02Speaker 1: he's not a quarterback at that moment. He's not. He's
- 19:06Speaker 1: running around, he's about to he's about to to beat
- 19:09Speaker 1: you down the field, and you know you can't you
- 19:14Speaker 1: can't tackle him. And so you know, Week comes up
- 19:16Speaker 1: and hits him like that, and you know, most of
- 19:19Speaker 1: these quarterbacks are shorter than the defensive end, so of
- 19:25Speaker 1: course you're gonna hit him high. I mean, you know,
- 19:27Speaker 1: like how you can't hit him low. So there's only
- 19:30Speaker 1: so it's only it's not so easy to just to
- 19:33Speaker 1: hit him right in the chest or the you know,
- 19:36Speaker 1: the the mid section there. I thought it was it
- 19:38Speaker 1: was a it was a bank bank play and it
- 19:41Speaker 1: was one that. Yeah, it was. It was a nice hit.
- 19:43Speaker 1: But it also give give Fields credit because it got
- 19:46Speaker 1: him going. He actually then got back in the game.
- 19:49Speaker 1: They drove down, they scored, and then he scored again later,
- 19:52Speaker 1: so he wasn't having a great game until he took
- 19:54Speaker 1: that hit, and then he started to play well. So
- 19:56Speaker 1: I got to give him credit for that as well.
- 19:59Speaker 1: So right, let's go to Gabe in Knoxville, Tennessee. Hey, Nick,
- 20:05Speaker 1: how are you doing?
- 20:06Speaker 6: I'm good?
- 20:07Speaker 1: How are you? I'm good?
- 20:08Speaker 6: Sleep deprived a little bit.
- 20:10Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit. Let me ask you this, I mean,
- 20:14Speaker 1: what was your Was your Sunday team better than your
- 20:18Speaker 1: Saturday team?
- 20:20Speaker 6: And I knew you were going to bring up to Tennessee.
- 20:22Speaker 1: Well, you know, I just was asking. I don't know
- 20:25Speaker 1: who your team is. I didn't ask who your team was.
- 20:27Speaker 1: I just I just guessed, you know, out of Knoxville. Yeah.
- 20:30Speaker 6: I'm not a big college fan in general. Yeah, but
- 20:34Speaker 6: I live here in Knoxville since twenty nineteen, so we
- 20:36Speaker 6: support them, I bet, yeah somewhat, you know.
- 20:40Speaker 1: You know what, Let me just say this, I love football.
- 20:44Speaker 1: I love I just love football.
- 20:46Speaker 9: You know.
- 20:47Speaker 6: And I watched that game.
- 20:48Speaker 1: It was a great weekend. It was a great weekend.
- 20:50Speaker 1: It was for me. It was a great weekend for me.
- 20:54Speaker 1: I have my daughter's high school team, rallied back to
- 20:57Speaker 1: stay defeated with a touchdown in the final two minute
- 21:00Speaker 1: it's Arkansas wins in the final minute. They cow always
- 21:02Speaker 1: win in the final ten seconds or thirty seconds. Three
- 21:07Speaker 1: wins by three, four and five points. I love football.
- 21:10Speaker 7: That's awesome me.
- 21:12Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe next week I won't say that as much,
- 21:14Speaker 1: but this weekend, I love football, all right, Gabe? What's
- 21:16Speaker 1: up man?
- 21:17Speaker 2: Uh?
- 21:18Speaker 6: Yeah, this game, I'm feeling much more hopeful. I think
- 21:21Speaker 6: there's lots of things to take away from this game,
- 21:23Speaker 6: but my I don't want to keep this call too long.
- 21:26Speaker 6: So my biggest takeaway was like, was it Brian, No, No,
- 21:32Speaker 6: it was Travis. It just called He mentioned the gritty fight,
- 21:35Speaker 6: and that's basically was my biggest takeaway. I mean, the
- 21:39Speaker 6: Steelers as a whole maybe not, you know, a powerhouse team,
- 21:43Speaker 6: but their defense is up there with forty nine Ers,
- 21:47Speaker 6: well Ravens.
- 21:48Speaker 1: They have a game wrecker, that's what they have. I mean,
- 21:51Speaker 1: anytime you have a game wrecker, We've seen the Cowboys
- 21:53Speaker 1: do it with Mica, But I mean TJ. Watt was
- 21:56Speaker 1: flirting with wrecking that game.
- 21:58Speaker 6: He was really trying, and I mean he kind of
- 22:00Speaker 6: did yeah in the first half, really when he got
- 22:03Speaker 6: when he sucked back and then not just him, you know,
- 22:06Speaker 6: Hayward and that guy fifty one on the right side
- 22:10Speaker 6: of the Steelers. Yeah, yeah, and he was if TJ.
- 22:13Speaker 6: Watt wasn't there, he was there, my god.
- 22:17Speaker 1: But he got hurt, right he did.
- 22:20Speaker 6: He came out in the second half. But I just
- 22:23Speaker 6: loved how the Cowboys, this team, you know, went up
- 22:26Speaker 6: against that defense with all their toughness and physicality and
- 22:32Speaker 6: matched it, you know, in the running game especially, and
- 22:36Speaker 6: didn't back down like we've seen against the Niners. And
- 22:41Speaker 6: so that gave that gives me a lot of hope
- 22:43Speaker 6: for the season. That's my biggest takeaway. I hope that continues.
- 22:47Speaker 6: I want that to continue. I hope it gives them
- 22:49Speaker 6: confidence against this powerhouse teams in the future, like the
- 22:53Speaker 6: Niners coming up in two or three weeks, even next week,
- 22:58Speaker 6: to bring that same physicality. So I hope they keep that.
- 23:01Speaker 6: I have two questions. My first was, man, that first
- 23:06Speaker 6: that the first time out that McCarthy took the fourth quarter,
- 23:11Speaker 6: it was like a minute and a half left in
- 23:13Speaker 6: the game. Yeah, and I'm just thinking, what, I don't know.
- 23:17Speaker 6: I don't understand why you're taking that first time out
- 23:19Speaker 6: the second time out whenever, right before the last play
- 23:21Speaker 6: I get that, but the first time out, why are
- 23:25Speaker 6: you you're you're stopping the clock for the other team.
- 23:28Speaker 6: Seems like to me but early, and I thought it
- 23:32Speaker 6: was early too. And I mean it's a Steelers, it's
- 23:34Speaker 6: justin fields. Their offense is not not Patrick Mahomes.
- 23:38Speaker 1: But yeah, you can't, Yeah, you can't.
- 23:40Speaker 6: You don't want to give them time like that. I
- 23:42Speaker 6: didn't like that timeout.
- 23:43Speaker 1: No, I didn't like that time out either. And I'm
- 23:44Speaker 1: fine taking a time out if you feel like you
- 23:46Speaker 1: need it, but you know, you don't have to go
- 23:49Speaker 1: forty seconds off the clock. But how about twenty how
- 23:51Speaker 1: about half of it? How about half the play clock?
- 23:54Speaker 1: Let's lead it down a little bit and then call
- 23:56Speaker 1: the timeout. It called it with fifty two seconds. You
- 23:59Speaker 1: say it was, it was fifty two. That's still that
- 24:03Speaker 1: was still a little too much for me because it's
- 24:05Speaker 1: first down. You only need I mean, you're gonna run
- 24:07Speaker 1: four plays right to get a touchdown. So how much
- 24:10Speaker 1: do you need? I mean, you have some timeouts, I
- 24:12Speaker 1: mean thirty seconds.
- 24:14Speaker 6: They were like at the one yard line.
- 24:15Speaker 1: I think at that point, well it all it all
- 24:18Speaker 1: worked out.
- 24:19Speaker 6: Yeah, I did it did My second question, sorry, real
- 24:21Speaker 6: quick there was a lot more motion I noticed. Yeah,
- 24:24Speaker 6: I'm tracking. Wait, my gosh, McCarthy, I don't know. Is
- 24:26Speaker 6: he listening to us? Is he just doing it because
- 24:30Speaker 6: of this defense he was playing. Is he going to
- 24:33Speaker 6: continue it.
- 24:33Speaker 7: For the rest of it?
- 24:34Speaker 6: I hope he does. But all right, that's all I got.
- 24:36Speaker 6: I'll hang out.
- 24:37Speaker 1: Thanks right, Well, yeah, thanks for the call, Gabe, and
- 24:39Speaker 1: a good sport as well. I he's not listening to us. Okay,
- 24:45Speaker 1: he's not listening to y'all. I'm sorry he's not. But
- 24:47Speaker 1: he's listening to his analytics team, and his analytics teams
- 24:51Speaker 1: showed him that. I mean, that's one thing that I
- 24:54Speaker 1: did hear that that they did talk about motion. They're
- 24:58Speaker 1: one of the last teams in the league at They
- 25:00Speaker 1: also looked at how they're throwing the ball, not they're
- 25:04Speaker 1: not throwing it down the field as much. They're throwing it,
- 25:07Speaker 1: you know, short of the sticks a lot. That was
- 25:09Speaker 1: an emphasis in this game to go vertical a little
- 25:12Speaker 1: bit more. We saw it with Tolbert, we saw it
- 25:15Speaker 1: with Turpin. You know, they did try to stretch the
- 25:18Speaker 1: field a little bit more that way, and I think
- 25:21Speaker 1: it helped. So all right, let's go let's go to
- 25:23Speaker 1: our first break here on Cowboys storyline. Be right back
- 25:26Speaker 1: to answer more calls.
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- 27:24Speaker 1: let's keep this thing going. We got Gavin in Oklahoma City. Gavin,
- 27:27Speaker 1: what's up, hey, Nick?
- 27:29Speaker 11: How you going? How's it going, good man?
- 27:32Speaker 1: How are you doing?
- 27:33Speaker 7: Uh?
- 27:34Speaker 11: Considering it felt like the Cowboys just tried to and
- 27:37Speaker 11: the Steelers to win, and they want I guess I'm
- 27:40Speaker 11: doing pretty good as far as the football FIRNT goes
- 27:42Speaker 11: and Alabama loss, I always want Hallard.
- 27:47Speaker 1: Wow, what a crazy weekend?
- 27:49Speaker 11: Yeah, what are the chances that the Cowboys turned the
- 27:53Speaker 11: ball over in the red zone at home two or
- 27:56Speaker 11: three times against the Steelers at their home? Sorry? And
- 28:00Speaker 11: also Arkansas's beach Tennessee?
- 28:03Speaker 1: What do we do? What are weekend? Yeah? You know,
- 28:09Speaker 1: I'll say this. I said to Chris actually on the field,
- 28:14Speaker 1: I said, I think the Cowboys are gonna I said,
- 28:18Speaker 1: I think they're gonna kick their ass. That's what I said.
- 28:21Speaker 1: I go, I go, I go. It's a it's a feeling.
- 28:24Speaker 1: What did I say, Chris, Well, we don't need to
- 28:28Speaker 1: get into that, but I said, I think they're they're
- 28:29Speaker 1: gonna win. They're gonna win big.
- 28:31Speaker 11: And I literally had the opposite feeling. My gut told me, now,
- 28:36Speaker 11: g Harris is gonna go for fifty yards and two
- 28:39Speaker 11: says down, we're gonna get behind.
- 28:41Speaker 1: No, I don't think he's done that since he left Alabama?
- 28:44Speaker 1: Has he? Like? I mean, I just hadn't heard a
- 28:46Speaker 1: lot about him.
- 28:47Speaker 11: But I just felt like the Cowboys struggled with power runners,
- 28:51Speaker 11: but the defense is sir en up the rank game
- 28:54Speaker 11: a little bit and is given me some hope.
- 28:56Speaker 1: But we'll see next week. Okay, yeah, next Definitely Detroit.
- 29:02Speaker 11: I would argue that they have the best run game.
- 29:06Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, there, and they're and they're gonna be it's
- 29:09Speaker 1: gonna be smash mouth, it's gonna be taking. But hey,
- 29:12Speaker 1: let's well worry about that when you get to it,
- 29:13Speaker 1: and you know, getting the win is good, and you're right, Gavin,
- 29:18Speaker 1: I mean, it was. That's but my point of the
- 29:21Speaker 1: reason why I said that about I thought they were
- 29:23Speaker 1: gonna they were gonna really smash them. They they probably
- 29:27Speaker 1: should have. I mean, I mean, they just just let's
- 29:31Speaker 1: just don't even give them touchdowns. Just say the miss,
- 29:35Speaker 1: the block field goal, and the two turnovers in the
- 29:37Speaker 1: red zone, let's just say they were field goals. All
- 29:40Speaker 1: of that. That's nine points, and that's that you're controlling
- 29:45Speaker 1: that second half because now you're putting a lot of
- 29:47Speaker 1: emphasis on fields to go throw the ball because he's
- 29:50Speaker 1: down by two scores exactly. So I did think the
- 29:55Speaker 1: Cowboys were a much better team, but they didn't. They
- 29:58Speaker 1: didn't put them away like you know, and that could
- 30:01Speaker 1: be a problem. But they were better, and that's a
- 30:03Speaker 1: good sign considering all the injuries, all the you know,
- 30:06Speaker 1: the turmoil that they've gone through to be a better
- 30:09Speaker 1: football team on the road.
- 30:10Speaker 11: Oh yeah, I was pleasantly shocked by the D line. Yeah.
- 30:14Speaker 11: I like what Ghoston did. Not necessarily, you know, superstar
- 30:20Speaker 11: type of play, obviously, but I like what Ghoston did
- 30:22Speaker 11: and some of the other backups mary solid play any
- 30:26Speaker 11: more than what you can expect from yeah people filling in,
- 30:30Speaker 11: And that pleasantly surprised me because I didn't see that coming.
- 30:32Speaker 1: Yep. They were just solid and sound all the way across.
- 30:36Speaker 1: And that's that's fine, you know, And it was just
- 30:39Speaker 1: enough to let the d let the offense go and
- 30:42Speaker 1: win the game when they had to.
- 30:44Speaker 11: Exactly, I got a couple of things for you. I
- 30:47Speaker 11: don't want to hog the phones, but so I feel
- 30:52Speaker 11: as if maybe this year the offense may not be
- 30:59Speaker 11: good enough areas to victory as they have in years past,
- 31:02Speaker 11: and I think maybe that's some of what we're seeing.
- 31:04Speaker 11: I'm not saying, you know, the offense can't turn up
- 31:07Speaker 11: a notch, but I think this year the defense is
- 31:10Speaker 11: really gonna have to keep us competitive as far as
- 31:12Speaker 11: keeping the game in check like we saw last night,
- 31:16Speaker 11: you know the game before, But I could be wrong
- 31:19Speaker 11: on that front. It is week five. The running game
- 31:22Speaker 11: certainly encouraging. So what I saw from that against a
- 31:27Speaker 11: great stealers front, do you have to be able to
- 31:30Speaker 11: carry that forward? You would think at least some of it,
- 31:33Speaker 11: some of that momentum. And the other thing I had is,
- 31:36Speaker 11: I want to know your thoughts on do you think
- 31:38Speaker 11: maybe the play calling is on the offense is maybe
- 31:44Speaker 11: not simplified enough. And I feel like the weeks before
- 31:47Speaker 11: it was the opposite. But I kept seeing CD and
- 31:51Speaker 11: single coverage several times when I was thinking, just just
- 31:54Speaker 11: get the man the ball, and then as soon as
- 31:56Speaker 11: it gets double team, it feels like Dak finally threw
- 31:59Speaker 11: them the ball. And then also I was screaming at
- 32:02Speaker 11: my TV because I am a football nerd and I
- 32:05Speaker 11: do notice some things. They're running cover three and they're
- 32:08Speaker 11: all backed up. Just run corner routes. They're begging you
- 32:11Speaker 11: to run a corner route. I kept saying that to
- 32:13Speaker 11: the CV, and they finally did it. To Jake Berg
- 32:15Speaker 11: on one play, him and CD both ran a corner route.
- 32:18Speaker 11: CDs was a little bit deeper and Jake picked up
- 32:21Speaker 11: the first down. I think, but I don't know. I
- 32:24Speaker 11: think maybe when you're calling the plays, maybe you should
- 32:28Speaker 11: just look at what the defense is giving you and
- 32:31Speaker 11: call based on that. I feel like maybe they were
- 32:33Speaker 11: sticking sticking to the script too much. I don't know.
- 32:36Speaker 11: I was just wanting to hear your thoughts from that,
- 32:38Speaker 11: but I'll get off here, Car, thank you, all right.
- 32:41Speaker 1: You know, I there's a lot there. I think that
- 32:45Speaker 1: the the play calling, uh it was. It was better
- 32:50Speaker 1: I thought in the game, and we saw some different plays.
- 32:53Speaker 1: I mean, it looked like they had a little extra time,
- 32:55Speaker 1: like they did, you know, coming back from the Thursday game,
- 32:58Speaker 1: so we kind of saw some of that early on.
- 33:02Speaker 1: I noticed that too, when they play that single safety
- 33:05Speaker 1: high you're like, you know, back shoulder and corner routes,
- 33:09Speaker 1: but you know, back shoulder passes the CD or even
- 33:11Speaker 1: even the top routes because CD is the one guy
- 33:14Speaker 1: that that that will break some tackles. They don't have
- 33:17Speaker 1: a lot of that with the receivers other than CD,
- 33:21Speaker 1: but me and CD is really hard to stop in
- 33:24Speaker 1: the open field. And and I do I do think
- 33:27Speaker 1: that they need to they need to throw the ball
- 33:29Speaker 1: short to him a little bit more. Uh, you know,
- 33:32Speaker 1: give Ferguson credit to Ferguson had some wiggle out there too,
- 33:36Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, got got free and and
- 33:39Speaker 1: and broke some tackles. And so they're gonna need that.
- 33:42Speaker 1: They're gonna need a little bit more. They're gonna need
- 33:44Speaker 1: another guy that could that could make those plays too.
- 33:46Speaker 1: But I thought, overall, I was happy with how how
- 33:49Speaker 1: that went for them. All Right, we got to keep
- 33:52Speaker 1: moving here. Sorry, let's go to Robbie and Coco Beach, Florida.
- 33:56Speaker 7: What's my friend to?
- 33:59Speaker 2: Little tired?
- 34:00Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot tired?
- 34:01Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet, I bet hey, we all all of
- 34:05Speaker 2: the fans. Man, I hear everybody say it, we appreciate.
- 34:08Speaker 1: You, and that's gat. I appreciate you guys recognizing that
- 34:11Speaker 1: and all that. But you know what, I'll say, just
- 34:13Speaker 1: like y'all, y'all got up early too. I mean, it
- 34:15Speaker 1: was late night for everyone even.
- 34:17Speaker 2: If what are you talking about? I took the day
- 34:19Speaker 2: off from work today, man, all.
- 34:21Speaker 1: Right, all right, we'll good, all right, Robbie, what's up?
- 34:24Speaker 2: Not that?
- 34:25Speaker 4: Man?
- 34:25Speaker 2: I just loved the game. I loved your article about it.
- 34:28Speaker 2: The five things, always good, always good, man, it was
- 34:31Speaker 2: definitely gritty and uh not putting the cart behind before
- 34:36Speaker 2: the horse because I liked it, wouldn't enjoy each game
- 34:40Speaker 2: separately and just you know, take it for what it's worth. However,
- 34:44Speaker 2: didn't McCarthy have like nineteen guys go to a reserve
- 34:49Speaker 2: that year he won the Super Bowl with Green Bay?
- 34:51Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, we got to be getting close to that.
- 34:54Speaker 1: It's up there. Yeah, and it's done a nice job
- 34:58Speaker 1: of you know, and and then the game is have
- 35:00Speaker 1: a good job of developing, getting those players together, getting
- 35:03Speaker 1: them on the same page, and and and winning, winning
- 35:06Speaker 1: with you know, just players like that. You just don't
- 35:09Speaker 1: know who's going to step up. But it was, you know,
- 35:11Speaker 1: it was great. It was great everybody. It was great
- 35:13Speaker 1: to see. I mean, you could probably make the argument
- 35:16Speaker 1: five guys, I'm just gonna say five had their best
- 35:19Speaker 1: game of their career and probably more, but I'm talking
- 35:24Speaker 1: about their career. I mean, definitely Tolbert.
- 35:28Speaker 2: And in Rico, Daddle and Rico. Yeah, and I've been
- 35:33Speaker 2: whining about the run game the whole year, but yeah,
- 35:36Speaker 2: looked better yesterday, that's for sure. And Span four all right,
- 35:40Speaker 2: I know lots of people want to call in on
- 35:43Speaker 2: enjoy my brother.
- 35:44Speaker 1: That's stuff all right, Robbie, thank you. Let's keep going here.
- 35:47Speaker 1: Let's go Lewis and Langston, Oklahoma. Lewis, how you doing?
- 35:54Speaker 1: What's up?
- 35:54Speaker 3: Man?
- 35:55Speaker 10: Not much?
- 35:56Speaker 12: Man, just came from an interview, so I'm all over
- 35:59Speaker 12: the place, all right, Well what do you got?
- 36:02Speaker 5: Not much?
- 36:03Speaker 12: Man, I'm actually I'm gonna just say I'm proud of
- 36:05Speaker 12: I'm proud of the team, witheries and the bad weather
- 36:09Speaker 12: and stuff. And I was kind of mad because I
- 36:13Speaker 12: would have had to score right on the dot with
- 36:15Speaker 12: twenty four to seventeen, but they got that block field
- 36:18Speaker 12: goal kind of mess me up. So but outside of that, man,
- 36:23Speaker 12: I think the defense is taking strides. I know it's
- 36:27Speaker 12: hard watching it sometimes, especially with all the flags. Man,
- 36:31Speaker 12: it's a flag fast every time.
- 36:33Speaker 5: Now.
- 36:33Speaker 12: I think they're really good teams, but they're very undisciplined,
- 36:37Speaker 12: and I don't know if that's is that the players
- 36:39Speaker 12: or is that the coaching. And I find myself fussing
- 36:44Speaker 12: at the TV because I'm like, I know that y'all
- 36:47Speaker 12: know what the counter the ball is, what the snap is,
- 36:51Speaker 12: and I know y'all know how to tackle and all
- 36:53Speaker 12: of that, but it just seems like you take two
- 36:55Speaker 12: steps forward and then you take three steps back every
- 36:58Speaker 12: time you do something positive. And uh, I mean, but hey,
- 37:02Speaker 12: we've pulled it out. And I'm not even going harpoon
- 37:04Speaker 12: the bad. We pulled it out real good. I mean,
- 37:06Speaker 12: we pulled it out. I'll take away and I've just
- 37:09Speaker 12: listened and take.
- 37:10Speaker 1: It all right, thanks. Yeah, penalties were a problem, and
- 37:15Speaker 1: the fall starts. I mean there were seven fall starts
- 37:17Speaker 1: at one point in the third or fourth quarter. I
- 37:20Speaker 1: don't know how many it ended with. It might have
- 37:22Speaker 1: just it might have just been seven. But you know,
- 37:26Speaker 1: it's four for the Cowboys, three for the Steelers, you know,
- 37:28Speaker 1: I mean it was it was a lot. I mean,
- 37:30Speaker 1: and and and they're obviously sometimes you get a crew
- 37:33Speaker 1: that that that calls that a lot. But yeah, I
- 37:36Speaker 1: mean it. The penalties have have hurt this team over
- 37:41Speaker 1: the last few years. At times, felt like last year
- 37:43Speaker 1: they were a little bit better, but we're seeing it now.
- 37:46Speaker 1: I mean Tyler Dighton, who's playing at left tackle and
- 37:49Speaker 1: he's having issues. I mean, there's there's no doubt he's
- 37:52Speaker 1: he's a big culprit there. I think he's one of
- 37:54Speaker 1: the top, you know, uh, top guys in the league
- 37:58Speaker 1: and penalties in force. Uh and and he missed a
- 38:01Speaker 1: lot of that time. And we'll see how much he's
- 38:03Speaker 1: gonna miss uh. You know, moving moving forward here, do
- 38:06Speaker 1: not get back in the game with a with a
- 38:08Speaker 1: knee injury. So I still I did feel like it
- 38:13Speaker 1: got better when he was out just because of you know,
- 38:18Speaker 1: I just thought they run the ran the ball betal better.
- 38:20Speaker 1: Let's let's also remember this about Tyler Smith, like what
- 38:26Speaker 1: he what he's doing is pretty amazing, like he he
- 38:29Speaker 1: I don't know if he's getting enough credit for that.
- 38:33Speaker 1: If practice didn't matter, they wouldn't do it, you know,
- 38:36Speaker 1: I mean they just they just wouldn't because they would
- 38:38Speaker 1: be like, oh, there's a chance for you to get hurt.
- 38:40Speaker 1: It matters. Okay, practicing matters. He's not practicing at left tackle,
- 38:45Speaker 1: So for him to go out there and do that,
- 38:47Speaker 1: that's it was phenomenal. And then do it well, really
- 38:50Speaker 1: really well. If that's where what they decided to do,
- 38:54Speaker 1: I think t J basts will be fine. He's not
- 38:56Speaker 1: practicing much either. He gets in the game, does a
- 38:58Speaker 1: good job, so you know, they might be better off.
- 39:00Speaker 1: But I will say this, Tyler Gus got to get
- 39:03Speaker 1: He's got to play to get better, and he will.
- 39:06Speaker 1: He'll continue to get better. So when he's ready to
- 39:09Speaker 1: get out there, I think I think they need to
- 39:11Speaker 1: use him for sure. We're gonna take a break here
- 39:13Speaker 1: on Cowboys storyline. We'll be right back to finish up
- 39:15Speaker 1: the show. We got a couple more callers.
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- 40:50Speaker 1: are rallying right now. It's to keep this thing rolling.
- 40:53Speaker 1: But let's go to Rob in Vegas. We'll see what
- 40:57Speaker 1: Rob has to say.
- 40:58Speaker 14: Rob, how you do I'm doing good?
- 41:02Speaker 1: How are you I'm good, good, good. Would you think
- 41:04Speaker 1: of the game?
- 41:06Speaker 14: Hey, we talked about it. They needed it because of
- 41:08Speaker 14: what's happening, what's coming up. I thought Dak made some
- 41:14Speaker 14: bonehead plays in the in the first half that he
- 41:18Speaker 14: shouldn't be making, but he turned it around and he
- 41:23Speaker 14: let him on a drive. I think the best thing
- 41:24Speaker 14: that happened to them in the game, unfortunately, is when
- 41:26Speaker 14: Dyton went out, because I don't think the last play
- 41:29Speaker 14: actually happens if Geyton is in. What people don't realize
- 41:34Speaker 14: is with Dyton now they were able to help steal
- 41:37Speaker 14: and if you watch the last play Ferguson Chips on
- 41:41Speaker 14: steel side, Dak had like I think they said like
- 41:44Speaker 14: four seconds and it's just we hear it. You should
- 41:48Speaker 14: have your best fives. That's their best five.
- 41:50Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I mean I agree then and again
- 41:55Speaker 1: what I said before. That's what makes it tough because
- 41:57Speaker 1: this is their first round pick. He's and they investing
- 42:00Speaker 1: in him and he's got to get better. But as
- 42:02Speaker 1: of right now, I don't know if that is your
- 42:04Speaker 1: best five and he's not.
- 42:06Speaker 14: He doesn't physically, he needs to get into the gym,
- 42:10Speaker 14: he needs to get strong. He don't look like a
- 42:13Speaker 14: professional athlete. He needs to get bigger, stronger. I just
- 42:17Speaker 14: think Dak is more comfortable. We've seen it. When he's
- 42:22Speaker 14: not comfortable with the left tackle, he doesn't play as good.
- 42:26Speaker 14: I just want to see Dak be a playmaker the
- 42:28Speaker 14: whole game and not wait till he thinks he has
- 42:32Speaker 14: to do it the whole game. Runs of RPOs. It
- 42:35Speaker 14: gets them in the flow. But I think I thought
- 42:38Speaker 14: that was the best game they played all year. They
- 42:40Speaker 14: ran the ball good. They didn't just run it to
- 42:43Speaker 14: run it. They were actually successful. We talked about needing
- 42:47Speaker 14: a second wide receiver. Tobat's got great hands because every
- 42:51Speaker 14: catch he makes is contested. He's not a breakaway guy.
- 42:57Speaker 14: They used turpid like we've been talking about. That guy's
- 43:02Speaker 14: got juice and Uh. On defense, I want to get
- 43:04Speaker 14: some love to weep and last it looked good.
- 43:08Speaker 7: Uh.
- 43:09Speaker 14: I'm not saying they of course they missed Michael Parsons,
- 43:11Speaker 14: but I don't think they missed the Marcus Lawrence as
- 43:14Speaker 14: much because I think loss of then we UH played
- 43:17Speaker 14: really good.
- 43:18Speaker 1: I just thought it was all three of them go ahead.
- 43:26Speaker 14: I thought it was a gutty win. I love how
- 43:28Speaker 14: they matched Pittsburgh you know Pittsburgh's attitude. They're at home
- 43:32Speaker 14: that are kick in the ass, and the cow was like, no,
- 43:35Speaker 14: we ain't going for that. And they were the ones
- 43:38Speaker 14: that were hit hitting harder, and you started to see
- 43:42Speaker 14: what on the sideline more, which helped out. I just
- 43:46Speaker 14: think it was a It was a great win. I
- 43:48Speaker 14: wish you know, I agree. I think they would have
- 43:50Speaker 14: blewed them out if if they don't turn the ball
- 43:54Speaker 14: down there. But maybe some of these wins. Winning like
- 43:57Speaker 14: this sometimes is better, yeah, then blowing somebody out. And I,
- 44:03Speaker 14: like I said, I think if you keep this starting
- 44:06Speaker 14: five offensive line, I think it'll be better. And I
- 44:09Speaker 14: also think Dak will be better. I thought Dak looked
- 44:13Speaker 14: just more comfortable. And listen, sixty million dollar guy, I was,
- 44:17Speaker 14: trust me. I was cursing him out during the game,
- 44:21Speaker 14: but when he had to pull it out he did
- 44:24Speaker 14: on long drive.
- 44:25Speaker 1: So that's what you want game. Yeah, all right, all right, Rob,
- 44:29Speaker 1: thank you. You know. I like that point. I don't
- 44:33Speaker 1: know if I've thought of it, just like that about
- 44:36Speaker 1: they they did hit harder. I mean, I mean the
- 44:39Speaker 1: Steelers were hitting, but I mean Golston had a really
- 44:42Speaker 1: big stone wall hit there on it was that feel.
- 44:46Speaker 1: I can't remember who that was where, you know, he
- 44:48Speaker 1: just stopped them coldness tracks. And of course we all
- 44:51Speaker 1: saw the hit from Wheat. You know, you can make
- 44:55Speaker 1: your case on that, but I to me, he becomes
- 44:59Speaker 1: a runner at that point. So I hate, I always
- 45:03Speaker 1: hate those rules with when it comes to the quarterbacks
- 45:05Speaker 1: and and how they get treated and hit. I mean,
- 45:07Speaker 1: I understand that the quarterbacks are, you know, drive this league,
- 45:11Speaker 1: but you know, I always say, on this side of
- 45:14Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, treat him however you want, you know,
- 45:18Speaker 1: pamper them if you want they come to this side.
- 45:20Speaker 1: They want to be a runner and actually be a
- 45:22Speaker 1: football player, then they should be treated as one. So
- 45:24Speaker 1: if you want to stay on that side of the fence,
- 45:26Speaker 1: go for it. But come over here now. Now that
- 45:30Speaker 1: play we're talking about with Wheat, I still think he
- 45:32Speaker 1: was on that side of the and he was throwing.
- 45:33Speaker 1: So I get all that it was a bank bank play,
- 45:37Speaker 1: but you know he Wheat was bringing it, and so
- 45:40Speaker 1: was Golston. Lost in those three guys right there all
- 45:43Speaker 1: got half of a sack, so that, you know, I
- 45:47Speaker 1: thought that that was good that they helped stop the run.
- 45:49Speaker 1: They also stop the pass and you know, and then
- 45:53Speaker 1: I mean Lenval Joseph's over here, rush in the pass
- 45:55Speaker 1: or you know, he's turning back the clock. All right,
- 45:58Speaker 1: let's go to Travis in pennsylvani and you Hey, how
- 46:03Speaker 1: you doing good?
- 46:04Speaker 15: How are you good?
- 46:05Speaker 1: Good?
- 46:06Speaker 5: Cold?
- 46:07Speaker 15: Last week? It's been only a second time I called,
- 46:09Speaker 15: but I went. That was at the game last night,
- 46:11Speaker 15: so I so you're tired. I drove home and got
- 46:13Speaker 15: home at about five am time.
- 46:15Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well how was it from the stands in.
- 46:20Speaker 15: The wild atmosphere. The fans are all nice, but they're
- 46:22Speaker 15: crazy up there that much.
- 46:24Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great place.
- 46:26Speaker 15: This is my fourth game i've been to now, the
- 46:29Speaker 15: first Buffalo Monday night, and then Detroit a couple of
- 46:33Speaker 15: weeks after through a couple of year after that they
- 46:34Speaker 15: came back in two minutes, and the last two in
- 46:37Speaker 15: Pittsburgh and they both been crazy.
- 46:40Speaker 2: All right, Well we got to go to but it's
- 46:42Speaker 2: pretty awesome.
- 46:43Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome. That's great, Travis. Yeah, what else again,
- 46:49Speaker 1: I've seen.
- 46:50Speaker 15: The seen that I was right on that and then
- 46:52Speaker 15: where they were he fumbled and then got the past
- 46:55Speaker 15: October and it was just great play by Dack to
- 46:57Speaker 15: jump on the ball and just awesome to see view
- 47:01Speaker 15: of it. Yeah, pretty high, you can see it. Awesome.
- 47:04Speaker 1: Yeah, well it was. It was definitely. It was one
- 47:08Speaker 1: of those things where you're like, don't score too early,
- 47:10Speaker 1: don't score too early, just score, just score, you know.
- 47:15Speaker 15: So yeah, all right, I wanted to tell you thanks
- 47:21Speaker 15: for all you doing. Thanks, awesome game.
- 47:23Speaker 1: Appreciate that, all right, thanks Travis. Yeah, and I appreciate
- 47:28Speaker 1: you guys, you know, recognizing that it was, but but
- 47:32Speaker 1: it was. It's fun to be here to talk to
- 47:34Speaker 1: you guys. I mean, this is this is what we do.
- 47:36Speaker 1: This is you know, this is my favorite part of
- 47:38Speaker 1: the day, and especially on a on a win like that. So, uh,
- 47:43Speaker 1: I know I can say that because I do. I
- 47:45Speaker 1: do one show. I don't know if if Chris feels
- 47:48Speaker 1: the same, because he's got you know, he's got to
- 47:50Speaker 1: turn this around and do another one. Cowboys Breaks coming
- 47:52Speaker 1: up here in just a second, and then full full
- 47:55Speaker 1: slate of shows all day, so make sure and stay
- 47:58Speaker 1: tuned for all of that. But but for us, you know,
- 48:01Speaker 1: it's great to talk to you guys. You have a
- 48:03Speaker 1: great perspective. Everyone kind of saw it. I think the
- 48:05Speaker 1: same way you know, this team's got some issues. I mean,
- 48:08Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it. I mean there's I mean
- 48:11Speaker 1: the injury front, it just is what it is. I mean,
- 48:14Speaker 1: it's not excuses, it's just that it's you can't keep
- 48:17Speaker 1: having the same positions have the same injuries. I mean,
- 48:21Speaker 1: you keep losing defensive ends. Before you know it, you're
- 48:24Speaker 1: gonna be calling a guy like George Selvey back or
- 48:27Speaker 1: something like that. I mean, you just don't have the
- 48:29Speaker 1: depth there. Same with cornerback. I mean, Bland gets hurt,
- 48:32Speaker 1: Carson gets hurt. You're bringing in Overuaria and he's doing well.
- 48:36Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, you keep having injuries to the
- 48:38Speaker 1: same position and it gets very, very challenging. But that
- 48:41Speaker 1: I give the Cowboys a lot of credit for figuring
- 48:43Speaker 1: out a way to win that game. And I said
- 48:45Speaker 1: it all week, I thought they were gonna win. I
- 48:48Speaker 1: wasn't sure how or who was going to be the
- 48:50Speaker 1: reason that they won. And I still, you know, I
- 48:53Speaker 1: stick to that, they just figured it out. Good teams
- 48:57Speaker 1: figure it out. I don't know if this team is
- 48:58Speaker 1: a good team yet or not, but they were good
- 49:00Speaker 1: enough to win last night, and they're gonna need that
- 49:04Speaker 1: because I mean it doesn't the schedule doesn't get any
- 49:07Speaker 1: easier at all, but still that's why you got to
- 49:10Speaker 1: get those wins when they did, and the Cowboys did
- 49:12Speaker 1: it so great. Great to be on with you guys today.
- 49:15Speaker 1: Appreciate it. We'll be back tomorrow, maybe a little bit
- 49:18Speaker 1: more arrested and we talk a little more about this
- 49:20Speaker 1: game and start looking ahead to the Lions as well.
- 49:23Speaker 1: So for Chris Beam, I'm Nick Eatman. We'll see tomorrow
- 49:26Speaker 1: on Cowboys storyline.
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