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- 0:19Speaker 1: Here's Nick Eatman.
- 0:24Speaker 3: What's up? Welcome to Cowboys storyline presented by Jilette. It
- 0:28Speaker 3: is Friday, December the twelfth. You know, I had a
- 0:33Speaker 3: conversation with our director of social Media, Brittany Johnson, and
- 0:38Speaker 3: I said, why why don't we make Friday twelve twelve?
- 0:41Speaker 3: I mean, why isn't it just Roger Strawback Day? You
- 0:44Speaker 3: mean it should be twelve twelve Roger Strawbacks, the only
- 0:47Speaker 3: twelve really that Cowboys have ever had, ever will have.
- 0:51Speaker 3: I don't know. I think it should be Roger Straw.
- 0:53Speaker 3: Unofficially here on the Cowboys storyline is Roger Strawback Day.
- 0:56Speaker 3: So if anyone does play the game from yesterday about
- 0:59Speaker 3: the whole Mount Rushmore of Cowboy quarterbacks, I mean, obviously
- 1:04Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think there will be a group
- 1:06Speaker 3: that has doesn't have Roger strawback in it. I don't
- 1:09Speaker 3: think that's really the question, whether it's Roger or Troy.
- 1:13Speaker 3: I did it yesterday I think it was Roger, Troy
- 1:16Speaker 3: and Dak and Rummel. Those are the four that I
- 1:20Speaker 3: picked in there. And and I love Danny White. I
- 1:22Speaker 3: mean I love Danny White. That was that was the
- 1:24Speaker 3: guy that when I was a kid, and I didn't
- 1:26Speaker 3: really watch Don Meredith. I know he was great, but
- 1:28Speaker 3: those are those are my form all right. Anyways, A
- 1:31Speaker 3: A A eight five five two two ninety seven. Last
- 1:33Speaker 3: show up the week. We'll get prepared even more for
- 1:37Speaker 3: the vikings. See what to expect from that game. Let's
- 1:41Speaker 3: get to the phone lines, Danny and Henderson, Nevada. He's first,
- 1:44Speaker 3: what's up?
- 1:46Speaker 4: Good morning, Nick?
- 1:46Speaker 1: How are you good? How are you?
- 1:49Speaker 4: I'm doing great. I'm a little worried about this game.
- 1:52Speaker 4: I think more than most people. Their defense is a
- 1:56Speaker 4: lot better than I thought. I haven't watched a lot
- 1:58Speaker 4: of their games, but they're ranked in the top eight
- 2:02Speaker 4: in total defense, fourth and passing. Maybe we can rush
- 2:06Speaker 4: on them. They're twenty second in the rush and we're
- 2:09Speaker 4: kind of the opposite of us, like their offense is
- 2:11Speaker 4: twenty eight, so they have kind of a bad offense
- 2:14Speaker 4: and a good defense. I hope that Ibra flusful rush
- 2:20Speaker 4: rush five and maybe keep our cornerbacks closer to the
- 2:25Speaker 4: line of scrimmage. Don't give McCarthy too much time to
- 2:29Speaker 4: think out there. I think they need to fluster him
- 2:32Speaker 4: as they can. My Mount Rushmore is just like yours,
- 2:38Speaker 4: Roger Aikman, Dak and Tony. There's team's also beating the
- 2:43Speaker 4: Lines and the Bears and we didn't. So my final
- 2:47Speaker 4: score is going to be Cowboys twenty four, the Vikings sixteen,
- 2:54Speaker 4: and have a good weekend, all right.
- 2:56Speaker 3: You know they play the Eagles. I mean I think
- 3:00Speaker 3: they did and they didn't win, so you know, remember
- 3:05Speaker 3: and who else had me beating them? I haven't looked
- 3:06Speaker 3: at the schedule. Usually I have a Chris has a
- 3:10Speaker 3: print out sheet here has everybody who they've beaten and
- 3:13Speaker 3: stuff like that, which is good this time of year.
- 3:16Speaker 3: They they've they've lost the teams. They couldn't score point
- 3:19Speaker 3: against Seattle, they shut out Washington the next week. You know,
- 3:24Speaker 3: they're they're a tough team to to gauge. Yeah, they
- 3:27Speaker 3: they beat the Bears first week of the season. They
- 3:30Speaker 3: beat the Lions too. You know, those are divisional games
- 3:33Speaker 3: that that I'm sure that they they know well. And
- 3:36Speaker 3: then they play just like the Cowboys play. You know,
- 3:39Speaker 3: the Eagles probably you know this year better than than
- 3:42Speaker 3: other teams have. So I'm not worried about who's beaten
- 3:45Speaker 3: who and all that. This looks like a combination of
- 3:48Speaker 3: of good versus good, you know, offense versus their defense,
- 3:51Speaker 3: and bad versus bad, you know, the Cowboys defense versus
- 3:54Speaker 3: their offense. So which one is gonna kind of break
- 3:57Speaker 3: through and and and have and shine on that side
- 4:00Speaker 3: of the ball, and which one is going to have
- 4:01Speaker 3: the most success over there? So you know the Vikings, Yeah,
- 4:06Speaker 3: I mean their defense is good. And when we've seen
- 4:08Speaker 3: the Cowboys struggle get some some aggressive defenses, you know,
- 4:12Speaker 3: like when Carolina was one right up the middle, Cowboys
- 4:16Speaker 3: had problems with. So we'll we'll see how the Cowboys
- 4:19Speaker 3: monitored that. Ceedee Lamb talked yesterday, looked like he's gonna
- 4:23Speaker 3: he's gonna play, So that should be good news for
- 4:26Speaker 3: the Cowboys offense. All right, Irene False Church, Virginia.
- 4:30Speaker 5: Hey, good morning, how are you good?
- 4:32Speaker 1: How are you good?
- 4:33Speaker 6: Okay?
- 4:34Speaker 5: So first I got to start by saying today my
- 4:36Speaker 5: dad would have been eighty three today, and he's the
- 4:38Speaker 5: one who gave me this blessing and curse of a fandom.
- 4:40Speaker 5: So I'm sure he's thinking, how did I get so
- 4:43Speaker 5: obsessed that I blew across the country and watch them
- 4:46Speaker 5: practice and be on the show. But anyway, I have
- 4:48Speaker 5: to say.
- 4:49Speaker 3: That that's awesome.
- 4:50Speaker 5: I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna. I'm nervous about this game.
- 4:54Speaker 5: See similarities to the Panthers. I just heard what you
- 4:56Speaker 5: were talking about.
- 4:56Speaker 6: Agree with you.
- 4:57Speaker 5: We'll see I'll have a pulling it off in reverse
- 5:01Speaker 5: of that. Score twenty seven twenty four. And then quick
- 5:05Speaker 5: question for you. I know that teams do silly things,
- 5:07Speaker 5: like when we were carrying coaches on stretchers during training camp,
- 5:11Speaker 5: but I need to know, and since you've been there,
- 5:13Speaker 5: has there been anything as silly as the positivity rabbit?
- 5:17Speaker 5: All right, that's it, have a good weekend, Joe Cowboys.
- 5:21Speaker 3: Uh. The mannequin, That's that's what I was. Chris helped
- 5:29Speaker 3: me out with this one. Remember the mannequin? I do
- 5:32Speaker 3: remember the manic that was Garrett, Right, there was Garrett.
- 5:35Speaker 1: And it would travel.
- 5:36Speaker 3: We brought every a body back where it was and
- 5:41Speaker 3: it was nameless, faceless.
- 5:43Speaker 7: Opponent, right, yes, nameless face, and so they would take
- 5:46Speaker 7: it everywhere.
- 5:47Speaker 3: They took this thing like Adam.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Be coming off the plane.
- 5:50Speaker 8: Yeah, like you know, because it needs to go to
- 5:52Speaker 8: the hotel.
- 5:53Speaker 3: You were like walking the mall J C. Penny or
- 5:55Speaker 3: something to see this game. This is the mannequin right there,
- 5:58Speaker 3: and they had a number fifty five years on it
- 6:01Speaker 3: and uh if I remember correctly, and I took this
- 6:04Speaker 3: thing everywhere.
- 6:04Speaker 9: Yeah, so coming off the little thing flat, I mean,
- 6:08Speaker 9: come on.
- 6:08Speaker 3: That's the first thing I can think of. So that's
- 6:10Speaker 3: the one that that I was with. I don't really
- 6:13Speaker 3: know all the things that the Irevens even talking about,
- 6:16Speaker 3: So I just to answer the question. Though, it's gonna
- 6:19Speaker 3: be hard to beat the mannequin. But you know, I'll
- 6:22Speaker 3: say this about Garrett man he he uh. He did
- 6:26Speaker 3: the same thing for what nine years? Same thing, I
- 6:30Speaker 3: mean every day was I mean, you couldn't be more
- 6:33Speaker 3: consistent than Jason Garrett as right every time, every time guys,
- 6:40Speaker 3: same same blue navy blue shirt every day, same haircut
- 6:44Speaker 3: for nine ten years. Everything.
- 6:46Speaker 1: Uh, but you know everybody knows the slogan.
- 6:50Speaker 3: Yeah. But he got he got them playing well, he did.
- 6:52Speaker 3: I mean, he got them playing hard just you know,
- 6:55Speaker 3: and even even when they weren't that good. Even when
- 6:58Speaker 3: they had quarterback issues. He's still that message got through
- 7:02Speaker 3: to those twenty eight twenty nine thirty year old adults
- 7:05Speaker 3: until it just wore too thin and it was time
- 7:08Speaker 3: to move on. But I think Jason Garrett would be
- 7:11Speaker 3: a really good coach. I think he'd be a good
- 7:13Speaker 3: college coach, especially now that's a little bit more professional
- 7:16Speaker 3: than it was you're dealing with, you know, it's more
- 7:19Speaker 3: transactional than it ever was. That message, I think to
- 7:22Speaker 3: two younger kids that are still almost adults, I think
- 7:27Speaker 3: I think it could work. I mean, I think for
- 7:29Speaker 3: the right place, and I know he's had some opportunities,
- 7:32Speaker 3: he's interviewed to places and almost took the Stanford job,
- 7:37Speaker 3: I think. But but you know he I think he'd
- 7:39Speaker 3: be a good coach anyways, But the mannequin, where the
- 7:42Speaker 3: mannequin was one that was that was a little different.
- 7:45Speaker 3: All right. Elijah in Phoenix, Arizona. Elijah, what's up hey, Nick?
- 7:52Speaker 10: Nice to me too. This is my first time calling.
- 7:54Speaker 4: Actually it is, what's up hey?
- 7:58Speaker 11: Doing?
- 7:58Speaker 12: Good?
- 7:59Speaker 10: Beautile out here in Phoenix, Arizona. Nice and sunny?
- 8:02Speaker 3: All right? Well, is it going to be sunny Sunday night?
- 8:06Speaker 3: When the Cowboys play the Vikings.
- 8:08Speaker 10: Well, I hope, So, I hope this is a win
- 8:11Speaker 10: for us. Every game we have to take it seriously
- 8:15Speaker 10: from now on. I mean, every game is always serious.
- 8:18Speaker 10: And just because the Vikings have like a losing record,
- 8:20Speaker 10: they're not doing so good, we still got to show
- 8:23Speaker 10: our a game. We can't we can't take it easy.
- 8:28Speaker 10: And I was just looking at the last time.
- 8:30Speaker 13: We played the Vikings, like a couple of years ago.
- 8:33Speaker 10: I hadn't realize we dropped a forty to three burger
- 8:35Speaker 10: on them. We went forty to three. Yeah, And I
- 8:38Speaker 10: don't think that's gonna happen this time. But my prediction
- 8:43Speaker 10: for this game, I say the Cowboys win twenty eight
- 8:46Speaker 10: to twenty. And I think we just got to watch
- 8:51Speaker 10: out for the Vikings defense man, because they're a pretty
- 8:53Speaker 10: good group. And I don't know what the status for CD.
- 8:57Speaker 10: Hopefully he plays this weekend, and I think and I
- 9:02Speaker 10: think that we have I like Pickens a lot, and
- 9:06Speaker 10: I really hope we keep them moving forward. And I
- 9:08Speaker 10: just don't like how the media is with him or
- 9:12Speaker 10: both of them, because if they have a bad game,
- 9:14Speaker 10: they call them like, oh, they're the worst wide receiver
- 9:17Speaker 10: duo and then when they have a good game, they're like, oh,
- 9:19Speaker 10: they're the greatest duo. So they clip and flop back
- 9:22Speaker 10: and forth on them, but overall them really happy with Pickens,
- 9:27Speaker 10: and I hope we keep them going forward to the
- 9:30Speaker 10: next year and the years going on forward. Right, But
- 9:34Speaker 10: other than that, I really don't have nothing much. It
- 9:37Speaker 10: was a pleasure to call. I never get the call
- 9:39Speaker 10: because usually I'm working, and I recently discovered the Cowboys
- 9:43Speaker 10: storyline podcasts this year, so I'm glad I'm in the family.
- 9:48Speaker 3: Now you're in. I love it. Thanks, thanks for the call,
- 9:52Speaker 3: and good to hear from you. Obviously, the West Coast callers,
- 9:57Speaker 3: you guys have to get up a little bit earlier,
- 10:00Speaker 3: uh to to call in, so I always appreciate that
- 10:02Speaker 3: we've had a couple already on this show. So no,
- 10:06Speaker 3: that's something people get up at different times. I mean,
- 10:08Speaker 3: what's early to one is not necessarily early to others.
- 10:12Speaker 3: Chris Bean will tell you that one. But but you know, thanks,
- 10:17Speaker 3: thank you for the call. And and you're right about Minnesota.
- 10:20Speaker 3: I mean, you're right, it's all about matchups. It's who
- 10:22Speaker 3: they've played that's been tough for them. And and also
- 10:25Speaker 3: when you're playing a young with a young quarterback like
- 10:27Speaker 3: JJ McCarthy's not a rookie, but pretty much just because
- 10:30Speaker 3: it is his first year, you know, I'm you're You're
- 10:32Speaker 3: gonna it's gonna be ebbs and flows. He's gonna have
- 10:34Speaker 3: his good games, he's gonna have ones where he struggled,
- 10:36Speaker 3: and and that's that's gonna be the key. Can the
- 10:39Speaker 3: Cowboys figure out ways to give him some problems up front,
- 10:43Speaker 3: because I would imagine just with any team, especially a
- 10:46Speaker 3: young quarterback, how they go is how the team goes.
- 10:48Speaker 3: So Cowboys are gonna have to to rattle him the
- 10:51Speaker 3: best that they can. But if they don't, if they
- 10:53Speaker 3: if they make him comfortable and and he gets into
- 10:57Speaker 3: a rhythm early in the game and that defense is
- 11:00Speaker 3: able to play like they want to play, then yeah,
- 11:02Speaker 3: it could be. It could be a tough game. Expect them.
- 11:05Speaker 3: You know a lot of purple in the stands. I mean,
- 11:08Speaker 3: it'll it'll probably be that like that. This is one
- 11:11Speaker 3: of those destination type places for teams to to to
- 11:16Speaker 3: go to it. You know, if you're in Minnesota, you're like,
- 11:18Speaker 3: let's go to Let's go to Dallas. On December the fourteenth,
- 11:21Speaker 3: it's going to be a lot better than it is
- 11:22Speaker 3: here weather wise, or it should be. But good place
- 11:27Speaker 3: to go, good indoor stadium, fun place, just like on Minnesota.
- 11:31Speaker 3: Minnesota is one of the coolest stadiums that I've been to.
- 11:36Speaker 3: They just just the way they all chant together and
- 11:40Speaker 3: and and then the snow falling before kickoff, and just
- 11:43Speaker 3: a cool stadium. It's got the downtown kind of skyline
- 11:46Speaker 3: a little bit back there, and the Cowboys have never
- 11:48Speaker 3: lost there, so you know, that's always kind of a
- 11:51Speaker 3: fun fun thing as well. All right, we'll see. Do
- 11:53Speaker 3: we have any other callers? Yeah, we did. Lewis Langston, Oklahoma. Lewis,
- 11:58Speaker 3: what's up?
- 12:00Speaker 8: What's going on?
- 12:01Speaker 3: How you doing?
- 12:02Speaker 12: My bad man?
- 12:03Speaker 8: I didn't get the call last week. I was disappointed
- 12:06Speaker 8: in the game, but I'm moving on like everybody else is.
- 12:09Speaker 8: And I was just I'm not the big stat guy
- 12:12Speaker 8: like some of the other people are. But I watched
- 12:14Speaker 8: a little bit of the game against Washington and they
- 12:17Speaker 8: played a lot of zone and McCarthy, I mean, if
- 12:21Speaker 8: you're gonna play zone and you give the rookie time
- 12:24Speaker 8: to throw the ball, I mean he made him. He
- 12:26Speaker 8: made him look real bad. Now I know he didn't
- 12:28Speaker 8: hit the big receivers and stuff like that, but he
- 12:30Speaker 8: made it work with the tight end. And so my
- 12:32Speaker 8: biggest thing is listening to eba Flus's FRESS conference and
- 12:36Speaker 8: him telling like he didn't he changed the game, playing
- 12:39Speaker 8: up where he seems sick and if it's not working, like,
- 12:42Speaker 8: why not change it again? So I feel like when
- 12:44Speaker 8: you watch a game like this on tape and me,
- 12:47Speaker 8: as just a fan, noticed that McCarthy is killing us,
- 12:51Speaker 8: killing them in the zone, why would you not Why
- 12:53Speaker 8: would you go into a game play thinking, all right,
- 12:56Speaker 8: the zone is going to wait and not play man.
- 13:00Speaker 8: He throw it in there every once in a while,
- 13:01Speaker 8: the kid if you can shake things up, And I
- 13:03Speaker 8: think sometimes like I'm not a I'm not a big
- 13:06Speaker 8: proponent of people losing their job or nothing like that,
- 13:08Speaker 8: but I'm like, at some point you have to be
- 13:10Speaker 8: accountable for what you've seen. And like I said, I'm
- 13:13Speaker 8: not a coach, I'm a fan looking at it from
- 13:16Speaker 8: the TV, But at some point, if you don't see
- 13:18Speaker 8: it's working, why are you not changing it? Because I
- 13:20Speaker 8: feel like we've seen him make in game changes, and
- 13:23Speaker 8: we've seen him make a change last week, but then
- 13:26Speaker 8: it didn't work, and then it was like I'm not
- 13:28Speaker 8: going to change again, Like you make one change and
- 13:30Speaker 8: then you've done. And I think that's my biggest frustration
- 13:33Speaker 8: is like I've seen him make changes in game, but
- 13:36Speaker 8: like sometimes he makes in game changes and then he
- 13:39Speaker 8: won't revert back to whatever it helping the team. And
- 13:43Speaker 8: so I think that's where I come when it comes
- 13:45Speaker 8: to frustration. And you want to play somebody like a rookie,
- 13:47Speaker 8: make it hard for him.
- 13:48Speaker 12: To throw the ball.
- 13:49Speaker 8: Don't give him windows to throw it in. Especially with
- 13:52Speaker 8: right now the way that our zone is working, it
- 13:54Speaker 8: hasn't been working. So I would really like for him
- 13:58Speaker 8: to try to play a little bit of men. But
- 13:59Speaker 8: like I said, I'm saying, I can't really make no changes.
- 14:02Speaker 3: I'm just talking, all right, No, I mean, and that's fine,
- 14:05Speaker 3: and and you should be able to do that and
- 14:07Speaker 3: and uh, you know, there's a lot that that goes
- 14:10Speaker 3: into this, you know. I I'm not I'm not gonna
- 14:14Speaker 3: sit here and defend you know, the the quarter I mean,
- 14:18Speaker 3: the the coordinators here and on, you know, and every
- 14:22Speaker 3: every facet of of what's happening here. I think that
- 14:25Speaker 3: that the coaches need to be accountable. I think the
- 14:28Speaker 3: players need to be accountable. You know it doesn't you don't.
- 14:35Speaker 3: You practice for a reason, right, you know, and so
- 14:38Speaker 3: you can't sit there and just make constant adjustments. I
- 14:42Speaker 3: mean what you're doing is on defense is not a
- 14:46Speaker 3: light switch. I mean you're not just flipping it here
- 14:50Speaker 3: and then turning it here and and and and changing
- 14:53Speaker 3: this and changing that, and and there's there's reasons why
- 14:56Speaker 3: you practice and you prepare a game plan for what
- 14:58Speaker 3: it is. Now you do have to adjust, there's no
- 15:00Speaker 3: doubt about it. But wow, and that doesn't work, then
- 15:02Speaker 3: flip to here and all that. You know, the players
- 15:05Speaker 3: have to be good enough to do that. You know
- 15:07Speaker 3: they have to be They have to be good enough
- 15:10Speaker 3: to adjust. I think that the biggest key for any
- 15:13Speaker 3: coach is to figure out a way to simplify it
- 15:16Speaker 3: for your players and not simplify it for the opposing coordinator.
- 15:20Speaker 3: That's because if you make it easy for the players
- 15:22Speaker 3: to understand, well, I bet you that coordinator whose job
- 15:25Speaker 3: all week long is to figure you out, can get
- 15:27Speaker 3: that done. So, how do you make this complex defense
- 15:31Speaker 3: from the opposition from the coordinator, from the quarterback and
- 15:35Speaker 3: all that not really understanding what they're doing. And so
- 15:38Speaker 3: when you talk about JJ McCarthy and what's going to
- 15:40Speaker 3: happen with the Vikings, you know, who are they going
- 15:42Speaker 3: to play man? They get plays on, they've got to
- 15:44Speaker 3: figure out ways to confuse him one way or another.
- 15:48Speaker 3: Give him looks that they haven't seen. That's what Minnesota's
- 15:51Speaker 3: going to do. And Dak's been in the league ten years.
- 15:54Speaker 3: Dak expects that understands Brian Floores' defense for Minnesota. It's
- 15:58Speaker 3: going to give him a lot of disguise looks and Dak,
- 16:02Speaker 3: you know, and he should be able to figure it out.
- 16:03Speaker 3: But it's not going to be easy. Well, do whatever
- 16:07Speaker 3: you've got to do to make it look confusing for
- 16:09Speaker 3: the rookie that you know, ten years ago, he was
- 16:13Speaker 3: probably you know, in junior high so and Dak was
- 16:17Speaker 3: a rookie in the league. So if it's confusing for
- 16:21Speaker 3: a ten year veteran, it should be that and then
- 16:25Speaker 3: some for the first year quarterback. All right, Zach in Atlanta?
- 16:29Speaker 3: What's up?
- 16:29Speaker 1: Man?
- 16:31Speaker 6: What's up?
- 16:31Speaker 10: Nick?
- 16:31Speaker 14: And Frisco? How are you doing?
- 16:32Speaker 11: Dude?
- 16:32Speaker 3: I'm good you I'm good.
- 16:35Speaker 14: Man Ready for Sunday night. I was driving around Metro
- 16:39Speaker 14: Atlanta this morning, just kind of chewing on man. The
- 16:43Speaker 14: four games in eighteen days. I was pumped for it.
- 16:45Speaker 14: Buckle up, you know, looking back and looking at every season,
- 16:52Speaker 14: it's just it's punishing, man.
- 16:53Speaker 10: It's tough.
- 16:53Speaker 14: And so obviously the Thursday games of the Thanksgiving Game
- 16:58Speaker 14: is a tradition. I would do away with that. That
- 17:01Speaker 14: fourth game, the one I think they're giving back. That's tough, man.
- 17:06Speaker 14: And and they did us a dirty this week because
- 17:09Speaker 14: we've got Sunday Sunday and then Thursday Christmas against the Commanders.
- 17:13Speaker 14: So I mean, it's just, uh, I don't I don't
- 17:16Speaker 14: like it. I don't like more than like two Thursday
- 17:18Speaker 14: games in a season. That's just me, and we've got
- 17:22Speaker 14: like five.
- 17:23Speaker 3: I don't think anyone's gonna look at the schedule from
- 17:25Speaker 3: the Cowboys when it comes out and it's traditional Thanksgiving.
- 17:29Speaker 3: No one's gonna look at the schedule and be like,
- 17:31Speaker 3: what the hell, why are we not on any other
- 17:33Speaker 3: Thursday night? Like nobody cares. No one cares about that
- 17:37Speaker 3: the only other Thursday night the Cowboys should ever be on.
- 17:39Speaker 3: And if they ever won the Super Bowl, they get
- 17:43Speaker 3: to host the Thursday night, you know before the season.
- 17:46Speaker 3: I believe that when I see it, But yeah, I don't.
- 17:48Speaker 3: This back to back Thanksgiving Thursday, that's that's brutal that
- 17:52Speaker 3: that that's it.
- 17:53Speaker 14: And you know the line have the same schedule. It's
- 17:55Speaker 14: no excuse, but uh yeah, every season anyways. But I
- 18:00Speaker 14: was chewing on that this morning, right the four games
- 18:02Speaker 14: all that, I was like, man, can we do this?
- 18:05Speaker 14: Can we run the table? And I looked in the
- 18:07Speaker 14: right lane. I saw a fat blue star on the
- 18:12Speaker 14: back of a tundra. Couldn't see out the back rear
- 18:15Speaker 14: view mirror. So that's his problem, but it wasn't mine.
- 18:18Speaker 14: I said, yes, Cowboys, buy one hundred on Sunday nights football,
- 18:21Speaker 14: keep jeep, let's get it all later.
- 18:25Speaker 1: Love it.
- 18:26Speaker 3: I love it how some some guy driving down the
- 18:29Speaker 3: street just inspire you. It's all about signs, right, everybody's
- 18:33Speaker 3: got a sign and uh and and and every everything.
- 18:36Speaker 3: You know, you look for things and go, okay, that's
- 18:39Speaker 3: a that's a sign. So now that guy couldn't see
- 18:42Speaker 3: out the back window, but it doesn't matter. He's he's
- 18:46Speaker 3: he's thinking about this season. He's eyes forward, he's not
- 18:49Speaker 3: worried about what's behind him. All right, let's go one
- 18:52Speaker 3: more here before I break. Albert Tucson, Arizona. What's up?
- 18:55Speaker 15: Albert?
- 18:56Speaker 16: Hey? What's up? Nick? How are you?
- 18:58Speaker 3: My brother been a little bit.
- 19:00Speaker 16: Yeah, it's been a little bit, you know, And it
- 19:02Speaker 16: hasn't been for lack of trying. I just I want
- 19:05Speaker 16: to give a shout out to a lot of especially
- 19:08Speaker 16: what the guys that get in, you know, but also
- 19:12Speaker 16: the guys that don't get in, because on my phone,
- 19:16Speaker 16: I got sixty two. Let me se, Yeah, sixty two
- 19:20Speaker 16: attempts to try to get in. So it's not for
- 19:23Speaker 16: the lack of trying that we don't get in. And
- 19:26Speaker 16: I always want to give those guys that don't get
- 19:28Speaker 16: in a shout out. I'll just you know, for fun trying,
- 19:32Speaker 16: you know. Yeah, the thing I have and I've always wondered,
- 19:36Speaker 16: I want to get your opinion on this. I've always
- 19:39Speaker 16: wondered why a coach, you know, it's this game also
- 19:45Speaker 16: is about momentum, right, you know, you see a team
- 19:48Speaker 16: get momentum, and I get it. You want to kind
- 19:52Speaker 16: of keep them. You want to have that gang management
- 19:54Speaker 16: thing in in the pocket. But you know, sometimes when
- 19:59Speaker 16: the floodgates open for a team, all it took was
- 20:02Speaker 16: just that one play. How Come how come coaches don't
- 20:06Speaker 16: use a time out to stop you know what I mean,
- 20:09Speaker 16: because like they're doing basketball like they do in other sports,
- 20:12Speaker 16: you know, to stop that momentum.
- 20:15Speaker 12: You know.
- 20:16Speaker 16: I've always wondered that.
- 20:18Speaker 3: Well, I mean, timeouts are pretty valuable. And and you
- 20:22Speaker 3: know you're down, you're down seven and then you know,
- 20:24Speaker 3: or say you're down ten points with three minutes to
- 20:28Speaker 3: go and you need to kick a field goal to
- 20:30Speaker 3: cut it to seven. Well, you want all your time
- 20:32Speaker 3: out so you can, you know, you can stop them
- 20:34Speaker 3: and get the ball back and all that. You don't
- 20:36Speaker 3: have that that's forty seconds and that that could be
- 20:38Speaker 3: really critical. So you know, stopping momentum, I don't, I
- 20:44Speaker 3: don't know. I mean, it's it's different. It's different in basketball.
- 20:47Speaker 3: I hadn't really thought of that way. For for football,
- 20:51Speaker 3: usually when you call time out, you don't bring eleven
- 20:53Speaker 3: guys over there, so you could. I'm not saying it's
- 20:56Speaker 3: it's bad. I just know it's the value of the
- 20:58Speaker 3: of the time out that's so important. In basketball, they
- 21:01Speaker 3: had like seventeen timeouts, so a little different, but not
- 21:05Speaker 3: a bad thought.
- 21:08Speaker 16: Okay, that's okay, that makes a lot of sense, just
- 21:10Speaker 16: because I've always wondered, you know, like I mean, we
- 21:13Speaker 16: can still stop the clock right by by spiking it right,
- 21:16Speaker 16: you know, or certain ways to stop the clock.
- 21:19Speaker 12: Yeah, you know.
- 21:21Speaker 16: Anyway, Yeah, so I got a prediction for my boys.
- 21:25Speaker 16: We're going to rebound from this tough loss. We're winning
- 21:29Speaker 16: thirty eight fourteen and God bless you got blessed the
- 21:33Speaker 16: producer of stordinair in the back and keep on doing
- 21:36Speaker 16: what you're doing and go Cowboys.
- 21:37Speaker 3: All right, love it Producer extraordinaire Chris Mean, but that
- 21:42Speaker 3: on a business card. Love it? You know what? Were
- 21:45Speaker 3: we're doing shout outs? I'm going to shout out some
- 21:49Speaker 3: of them to my my family. I know that I
- 21:53Speaker 3: talk about all the time. My mom she listens every
- 21:55Speaker 3: day with her husband or Rob, and my dad listens
- 21:58Speaker 3: every day as well. But you know what, my brother, Evan,
- 22:02Speaker 3: he listens every day also, and he's he's become a
- 22:05Speaker 3: really big Cowboy fan. He went to the game against
- 22:08Speaker 3: the Chiefs and had to talk to him on the phone.
- 22:11Speaker 3: He was kind of getting a little mouthy, I think
- 22:13Speaker 3: in the parking lot and talking about my homes and
- 22:15Speaker 3: all that. I was like be careful, man, be careful
- 22:18Speaker 3: walking to the car. But he was feeling it. He
- 22:20Speaker 3: had a good time. And he listens to this show
- 22:22Speaker 3: all the time and he'll critique me on it and
- 22:25Speaker 3: send me some messages as well. So I want to
- 22:28Speaker 3: give a shout out to him. I know he listens
- 22:31Speaker 3: every day, So shout out to my older brother Evan.
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- 24:38Speaker 3: we had talked a couple of days ago. I thought
- 24:40Speaker 3: we had an interesting conversation about what this season would
- 24:44Speaker 3: be like if they don't make the playoffs. Is it
- 24:47Speaker 3: a failure?
- 24:47Speaker 6: Is it not?
- 24:49Speaker 1: You know?
- 24:50Speaker 3: I think Dylan in Northport, Florida talked a little bit
- 24:53Speaker 3: about it was really started about Shoddy and his shoddy
- 24:57Speaker 3: gonna could he be, you know, have a successful first
- 25:00Speaker 3: season if they don't make it. Rob from Vegas chimed in,
- 25:05Speaker 3: uh said, it's not a failure that you know. I mean,
- 25:07Speaker 3: it is a failure because the goals to make the playoffs.
- 25:10Speaker 3: Blame Jerry a little bit kind of I thought changed
- 25:12Speaker 3: the narrative a little bit. But that's okay. Interesting enough.
- 25:17Speaker 3: Yesterday at the in the locker room, just outside the
- 25:21Speaker 3: locker room in the couple, there's one reporter that was
- 25:24Speaker 3: obviously doing that story, and so he asked the question
- 25:28Speaker 3: to Dak and CD about could this season be a failure?
- 25:34Speaker 3: Is it a failure if you don't make the playoffs?
- 25:37Speaker 3: Interesting answers here and Chris has got them both as
- 25:40Speaker 3: Dak first that I think actually CDs first, okay, because
- 25:45Speaker 3: that's fine. He was asked first, CD had a I
- 25:47Speaker 3: thought CED had a really good answer to this. That
- 25:49Speaker 3: Dak's more like, don't ask me this right now, but
- 25:51Speaker 3: it's funny. So here are they? The question is, and
- 25:54Speaker 3: you might hear the question on there. Can this season
- 25:56Speaker 3: be a success if they don't make the playoffs? Would
- 26:01Speaker 3: can this feel.
- 26:02Speaker 2: A successful season if y'all don't make as well?
- 26:04Speaker 7: Yeah, it can because I mean as far as as
- 26:07Speaker 7: far okay, so like being a successful season, man, you
- 26:10Speaker 7: get better. I feel like for us as a team,
- 26:12Speaker 7: we've gotten better. We've learned, we've gotten over a hump
- 26:17Speaker 7: in this in this building, and we all know what
- 26:19Speaker 7: it is. You know what I'm saying. And I feel
- 26:21Speaker 7: like us as a group, we gel together, we've gotten better,
- 26:24Speaker 7: we build great bonds, and we set ourselves up for
- 26:26Speaker 7: the future. And even if that doesn't count this out,
- 26:30Speaker 7: but if we don't make it, that's cool. We know
- 26:33Speaker 7: for sure, Like we know we know what we got,
- 26:35Speaker 7: we know what we're dealing with it in the future,
- 26:37Speaker 7: and when we do make it, them boys know what's
- 26:39Speaker 7: gonna happen in the peace. So just just getting ourselves together, plan,
- 26:43Speaker 7: continue to build this bond, the hood flight, fight for
- 26:45Speaker 7: each other, fight for one another, fight for our families,
- 26:47Speaker 7: and let's play again that we love together and enjoy it.
- 26:51Speaker 16: Successful season.
- 26:52Speaker 7: If you don't make it, playoff, talk about that. If
- 26:55Speaker 7: that happens, When.
- 26:56Speaker 3: It happens, all right, obviously acts down to business.
- 27:02Speaker 4: C D.
- 27:04Speaker 3: He had a concussion a week ago, Just just just
- 27:07Speaker 3: throwing that out there. I mean that was Thursday, and
- 27:09Speaker 3: it was the previous Thursday, and I know this, if
- 27:12Speaker 3: I had a concussion, I'm not giving an answer probably
- 27:14Speaker 3: like that. I thought, you know, any he wasn't prepared
- 27:17Speaker 3: for it. I mean I I was. I thought it
- 27:18Speaker 3: was pretty good answers about getting better, you know, get
- 27:21Speaker 3: getting getting better, and really the question kind of was
- 27:25Speaker 3: was this a good hire? I mean that's that's what
- 27:28Speaker 3: people are asking. You know, look at some of the
- 27:30Speaker 3: other first year coaches and look, you know, look at
- 27:34Speaker 3: with Schotty. Is he is he has he done a
- 27:37Speaker 3: good job, and so far I think he's done a
- 27:39Speaker 3: pretty good job. Still, you know, the jury's out. This
- 27:43Speaker 3: game is huge for me. This game is very very important.
- 27:48Speaker 3: You guys know what we do. I mean, you guys
- 27:50Speaker 3: know that we're sitting here every single day we do
- 27:51Speaker 3: this show, and I have to listen to you guys.
- 27:54Speaker 3: Get to listen, get to talk, get to chat about
- 27:56Speaker 3: what's going on, the fact that you guys are calling
- 27:59Speaker 3: in talking about what the Vikings are doing and how
- 28:01Speaker 3: much they blitz and how you know their defense does this,
- 28:04Speaker 3: and what McCarthy does against his own. That's what we want.
- 28:07Speaker 3: That's what I want. Don't win this game. Is that
- 28:11Speaker 3: going to be the case for the Chargers? Is that
- 28:14Speaker 3: going to be the case on Christmas Day? All that
- 28:16Speaker 3: kind of stuff? So I think if they could win
- 28:18Speaker 3: this game, that'll probably keep them in it at least
- 28:22Speaker 3: for the next couple of weeks. I mean, And that's
- 28:25Speaker 3: all we really want here. So that's why I think
- 28:27Speaker 3: that this is It's not gonna be easy, but this
- 28:30Speaker 3: is a real important game for me because you don't
- 28:32Speaker 3: want to answer all these big picture questions. Dak didn't
- 28:35Speaker 3: want to answer it. CD. I thought I did a
- 28:37Speaker 3: good job with it. But you know, everyone has their
- 28:40Speaker 3: own opinion of what success is, honestly, and so therefore
- 28:45Speaker 3: you're always going to get kind of a different answers.
- 28:47Speaker 3: All right, Lester and Minnesota. Sorry for holding Lester, what's up? Man?
- 28:52Speaker 3: Come on, Nick, I don't talk about weather. Hold on now,
- 28:55Speaker 3: I don't talk about weather usually. But from what I
- 29:01Speaker 3: understand that it's gonna be it's gonna be like twenty
- 29:04Speaker 3: five degrees in Dallas. That's gonna be like shanger lock
- 29:07Speaker 3: compared to what's going on in Minnesota. Right.
- 29:10Speaker 12: Yeah, twenty below wind chill tomorrow, So the air temperature
- 29:14Speaker 12: will feel like it's twenty below. It's gonna be like
- 29:17Speaker 12: one or minus one as far as temperature temperature wise.
- 29:21Speaker 12: But it's just like the heat index. You know, they
- 29:24Speaker 12: say heat index, it feels like one hundred or whatever.
- 29:26Speaker 12: Wind child is the opposite. It's gonna feel like twenty
- 29:29Speaker 12: below tomorrow. Man.
- 29:32Speaker 3: Wow, that's that's that's nasty.
- 29:34Speaker 1: All right?
- 29:34Speaker 3: Man? What do you got?
- 29:37Speaker 12: I concur with CD. Excellent answer, CD, because it's a
- 29:43Speaker 12: building you build. I mean, nothing is building one day.
- 29:48Speaker 12: I mean on any job. If you your first year
- 29:50Speaker 12: in any job, you're not gonna have all answers and
- 29:53Speaker 12: whatever you learn and you you build. So I concur
- 29:58Speaker 12: with that. You know, it's just getting better. Yeah, I
- 30:04Speaker 12: just called in the day with with my scores. But
- 30:07Speaker 12: I want to just make a comment on a couple
- 30:09Speaker 12: of other callers that called in. As far as the
- 30:13Speaker 12: caller that's called about the timeout, you can use your
- 30:17Speaker 12: timeouts in the first half. I mean you're not, that's
- 30:20Speaker 12: not the end of the game to stop momentum. I
- 30:22Speaker 12: agree with that. You sometimes we should use our timeouts,
- 30:26Speaker 12: and then what are we saving them for in the
- 30:27Speaker 12: first half. It's nothing to be saying. They don't roll
- 30:30Speaker 12: over to the second half. So if someone is doing
- 30:33Speaker 12: a hurry up offense or whatever, or the momentum is
- 30:36Speaker 12: going time.
- 30:37Speaker 3: Out, I can see that. I can see that in
- 30:39Speaker 3: the first half, especially when you know that they've got
- 30:42Speaker 3: the ball and they're driving for Yeah, I mean slow
- 30:45Speaker 3: down now sometimes that might help the offense too, but
- 30:48Speaker 3: but that, yeah, I'm fine with that. If you have
- 30:50Speaker 3: an answer, if you have if you have something to say,
- 30:53Speaker 3: you know, like if you just want to give the
- 30:55Speaker 3: offense more time to help do that. You know that
- 30:58Speaker 3: that's one of the reasons why I don't think that
- 31:00Speaker 3: the defense does it.
- 31:02Speaker 4: Well.
- 31:02Speaker 12: I'm just saying, even if you're on defense, you could
- 31:04Speaker 12: see if you guys, I win it especially Lineman, Hey,
- 31:08Speaker 12: time out, let's get them, let's get let's change them out,
- 31:11Speaker 12: and let's let's get them from air or whatever. The
- 31:14Speaker 12: other thing I wanted to make a comment on was
- 31:18Speaker 12: someone was saying something about oh oh, I already said
- 31:23Speaker 12: that with CD. I was gonna comment on on that,
- 31:25Speaker 12: but CD would win. CD answered that bous my comment.
- 31:28Speaker 12: So my score will be twenty nine, twenty.
- 31:34Speaker 3: Nine, twenty Okay, I don't have no Cowboys. I don't
- 31:36Speaker 3: have one for that twenty nine to twenty.
- 31:38Speaker 1: I like that.
- 31:39Speaker 3: I didn't have one from twenty eight to twenty either.
- 31:41Speaker 3: I haven't been doing that that good with those with
- 31:43Speaker 3: those scores. It's hard to just come up with a
- 31:47Speaker 3: random game based off of score. But twenty nine. I
- 31:49Speaker 3: can't even remember that many games that have twenty nine
- 31:52Speaker 3: in it. All right, let's go, well, Irwin, Colorado, Good morning, neck.
- 31:56Speaker 6: How are you?
- 31:58Speaker 3: I'm good? How are you?
- 32:00Speaker 13: I'm doing all right? So I got a couple of
- 32:02Speaker 13: questions for you, more of a statement if I will.
- 32:04Speaker 13: But I don't want, by any means anybody thinking that
- 32:09Speaker 13: I'm looking towards next season or anything like that. And
- 32:12Speaker 13: you know, brushing off the last four games that we have.
- 32:14Speaker 13: I really hope that the Cowboys are able to you know,
- 32:16Speaker 13: win the last four games and get themselves in position
- 32:19Speaker 13: that possibly get in the playoffs. Depends what other teams
- 32:21Speaker 13: are doing, I suppose, but I wanted to get your
- 32:24Speaker 13: thoughts on two players this upcoming draft. Like, I really
- 32:29Speaker 13: don't want to talk too much about the upcoming draft
- 32:31Speaker 13: because we've got these four games still that we can
- 32:33Speaker 13: still get in the playoffs possibly, But I really really
- 32:38Speaker 13: think the Cowboys could do themselves a great deal of
- 32:42Speaker 13: get themselves a great deal of help with Rodriguez from
- 32:45Speaker 13: Texas Tech and you know, really good linebacker, and then
- 32:49Speaker 13: of course not in disorder, but Downs from Ohio State,
- 32:54Speaker 13: just to kind of build that middle. I know it
- 32:55Speaker 13: would take a lot to possibly get Downs move up
- 32:58Speaker 13: in the draft, but I think, you know, if they
- 33:01Speaker 13: you know, play their cards right, they might be able
- 33:03Speaker 13: to maneuver around and you know, get those two types
- 33:06Speaker 13: of impact players to really help the defense out. And
- 33:09Speaker 13: I just want to get your thoughts on that.
- 33:11Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I I thanks for the call, Irwin,
- 33:14Speaker 3: and I think both things can be true here. You're
- 33:16Speaker 3: not You're not giving up on your team by by
- 33:20Speaker 3: doing that, you know by by looking in the next year.
- 33:24Speaker 3: It's I mean, I talk about that a lot like
- 33:28Speaker 3: I like the focus to stay here obviously, because there's
- 33:31Speaker 3: so many things when you're talking about draft, there's anythings
- 33:33Speaker 3: you don't even know. We don't even know certain players
- 33:35Speaker 3: that have declared for draft. You don't know what order
- 33:37Speaker 3: you're in. You don't know what what players in free
- 33:39Speaker 3: agency are leaving and who you signed and all that
- 33:42Speaker 3: kind of stuff. That's why it's it's kind of hard
- 33:44Speaker 3: to figure that out. But it's also you know, knowing
- 33:49Speaker 3: that that you know, this is it, this is this
- 33:51Speaker 3: is your life, this is our life, this is what
- 33:52Speaker 3: we do, and so this may not work out, but
- 33:55Speaker 3: when you know, get get yourself excited about when it
- 33:59Speaker 3: can get get better. And so I don't think there's
- 34:01Speaker 3: anything really really wrong with that. Just knowing that, it's
- 34:04Speaker 3: it's kind of hard to to determine who's who's available
- 34:08Speaker 3: and what you're gonna need and all that. But you know,
- 34:11Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm about those you know, defensive players that
- 34:15Speaker 3: that can that you know, to have the ball. No,
- 34:18Speaker 3: those defensive players that have the ball in their hands,
- 34:20Speaker 3: I mean that that means that they're catalytic players. I'm
- 34:23Speaker 3: fine with that. I think the Cowboys are going to
- 34:25Speaker 3: need some of that on you know, defensive ends, maybe safeties, linebackers,
- 34:31Speaker 3: and and on offense. You know, I think I could
- 34:34Speaker 3: see a running back being drafted here, even if you
- 34:36Speaker 3: do resign Davante. I think that there's a running back needed,
- 34:40Speaker 3: and you know, probably maybe an offensive tackle too. Who
- 34:45Speaker 3: knows that wide receiver. I mean, I would imagine they're
- 34:47Speaker 3: going to resign Pickings, but maybe maybe they don't. I
- 34:52Speaker 3: would think that they will, though I would think that
- 34:54Speaker 3: they will. But but you know, there's a lot of
- 34:57Speaker 3: there's a lot of ways you can go this team,
- 34:58Speaker 3: this teem's if they do make the playoffs, it's going
- 35:01Speaker 3: to be it's going to be, you know, be They'll
- 35:04Speaker 3: be very fortunate, and they're still going to have holes
- 35:07Speaker 3: one way or another. So you know, you might just
- 35:10Speaker 3: want to stand in there and pick and don't don't
- 35:13Speaker 3: have to trade up or anything. You might may trade
- 35:15Speaker 3: back a little bit, but you know, whoever you get
- 35:18Speaker 3: that that that falls to you, you're probably gonna need
- 35:20Speaker 3: because this team has that many holes. All right, let's go,
- 35:24Speaker 3: Let's go to rob in Vegas. Hey, Nick, what's up?
- 35:31Speaker 15: So that CD comment, that's typical wide receiver talk. That's
- 35:38Speaker 15: the difference between a wide receiver and a quarterback. A
- 35:42Speaker 15: wide receiver is they're judged on their stats. That's all
- 35:47Speaker 15: they're judged on, where a quarterback is judged on championships.
- 35:53Speaker 15: That was ridiculous what he said, He talked, He talked nothing.
- 35:59Speaker 15: Brother It is that it's meaningless, meaningless.
- 36:03Speaker 3: Stuff, meaningless for a guy in Las Vegas who's not
- 36:06Speaker 3: in the locker room. But if the guys in the
- 36:08Speaker 3: locker room and does get on the same busses and
- 36:10Speaker 3: planes with these guys, maybe brotherhood's a little bit more important.
- 36:13Speaker 15: But for a guy that's got in there, that's that's
- 36:16Speaker 15: invisible stuff. Just like when when they talk about Dak
- 36:22Speaker 15: and they say a lot of people say the first
- 36:24Speaker 15: thing is he's a great leader. That's that's invisible. That
- 36:29Speaker 15: shouldn't be the first thing to describe Ac. I said
- 36:33Speaker 15: this the other day on the that's like my friend's
- 36:36Speaker 15: setting me up on a blind date, and when I
- 36:39Speaker 15: asked him to describe the girl, the first thing he
- 36:41Speaker 15: says is she has a great personality. No, that's not
- 36:45Speaker 15: what I want to hear. Dak is more than a
- 36:47Speaker 15: leader that could throw the ball, that could read defenses.
- 36:51Speaker 15: But you notice Dak didn't give an answer because he
- 36:54Speaker 15: knows that in four if they don't win out and
- 36:58Speaker 15: they don't get the place to see, isn't successful Because
- 37:01Speaker 15: for a quarterback, that's what they're judged on. And that's
- 37:04Speaker 15: why you see CV sitting on the sideline pouting and
- 37:12Speaker 15: you know, and you don't see Dak doing that. Dak
- 37:14Speaker 15: is that's why the quarterback gets paid. That's why the
- 37:17Speaker 15: quarterback is the leader of the team. No coach wants
- 37:21Speaker 15: to hear their players being satisfied. When did we lower
- 37:26Speaker 15: the bar for the Dallas Cowboys this much? That's the
- 37:30Speaker 15: only thing that bothers me. I mean that we've lowered
- 37:34Speaker 15: the bar. Jerry lowered the bar. We used to talk
- 37:37Speaker 15: super bowls. Now we're happy winning seven eight games. That's ridiculous.
- 37:43Speaker 15: And another thing is everybody keeps talking about carrying over this, Well,
- 37:49Speaker 15: how come we didn't carry over? We went twelve and
- 37:52Speaker 15: five three years in a row, and we've been bad since.
- 37:55Speaker 15: It doesn't nothing carries over because the players changed so much.
- 38:01Speaker 15: Injuries you just can't foresee, So you're not you're not
- 38:05Speaker 15: guaranteed anything next year, So I don't believe in momentum.
- 38:10Speaker 11: Uh.
- 38:12Speaker 15: It's hard to carry momentum from game to game, let
- 38:14Speaker 15: alone the following year. So no, that's why every year
- 38:20Speaker 15: is at point you got to go for it. I
- 38:21Speaker 15: didn't like what he said, but like I said, I
- 38:24Speaker 15: expect that from CD. I expect that from most wide
- 38:27Speaker 15: receivers because they're not judged on Super Bowls, they're judged
- 38:30Speaker 15: on stats.
- 38:31Speaker 3: Yeah, well, all right, thanks for the call. I loved
- 38:35Speaker 3: what CD said, and uh, and I think it's I
- 38:38Speaker 3: think it'd be great to have, you know, if I
- 38:40Speaker 3: was on a blind date with someone's a great personality. Actually,
- 38:43Speaker 3: so you know what it's. It's it's ironic that you're
- 38:45Speaker 3: talking about, you know, how we're judging players and judging
- 38:49Speaker 3: people with with with that comment. But hey, everybody's different.
- 38:53Speaker 3: I thought what CD said was great on the fly
- 38:55Speaker 3: for that question and lowering the bar. I don't think
- 38:59Speaker 3: anybody's lowered the bar. I don't I don't believe that
- 39:01Speaker 3: that I think you are. It is what it is,
- 39:04Speaker 3: and you have to deal with with the moment. No
- 39:06Speaker 3: one's sitting here in training camp going man. I just
- 39:08Speaker 3: hope we have a winning record. No one says that
- 39:11Speaker 3: everyone knows what what what the goal is. Everyone knows
- 39:14Speaker 3: what what they're trying to do, and everyone's fighting right
- 39:16Speaker 3: now to try to get there. If it doesn't happen,
- 39:22Speaker 3: I don't think it's looked upon as failure as far
- 39:26Speaker 3: as the team. You know, the team now goal wise, yeah,
- 39:31Speaker 3: you you you fall short of your of your goals.
- 39:34Speaker 3: But I guess when when I when I say that
- 39:36Speaker 3: about failure, I'm thinking of of ripping it up and
- 39:40Speaker 3: just all right, we gotta we gotta totally try something
- 39:42Speaker 3: different because this didn't work. So now let's look at
- 39:46Speaker 3: this guy, this guy, and it doesn't work that way
- 39:48Speaker 3: obviously because of contract in the NFL and all that.
- 39:51Speaker 3: So you don't you don't really look at it. And
- 39:53Speaker 3: I do think you can build momentum. I I think
- 39:55Speaker 3: I think what you're doing is building a team, building camaraderie,
- 39:59Speaker 3: building you know, the ways to to to win games.
- 40:05Speaker 3: And I've seen it happen. I've seen I've seen some
- 40:09Speaker 3: some success carry over and and and I think that
- 40:12Speaker 3: you know it does it does happen. But Rob's right
- 40:16Speaker 3: when in the in the fact that there's turnover there's
- 40:19Speaker 3: certainly a lot of turnover there. So all right we
- 40:23Speaker 3: need uh let's go to Chris in the Saratoga Springs.
- 40:29Speaker 6: Hey, Nick, how's it going good? I love what Seed said,
- 40:33Speaker 6: to be honest with you. For me, success, the main
- 40:37Speaker 6: work for me is growth. Have we grown as a team,
- 40:39Speaker 6: have had shoddy grown as a coach? Have we grown
- 40:43Speaker 6: our young players? And I think we have definitely grown.
- 40:48Speaker 6: I obviously want to make the playoffs slim chance we do,
- 40:52Speaker 6: but you know, I'll always want to hang out the
- 40:54Speaker 6: hope that we do make it. But really it's it's
- 40:57Speaker 6: about it's about growing as a team. And I think
- 41:00Speaker 6: if you're looking at growth, we definitely have grown. And
- 41:02Speaker 6: I think the next couple of weeks we could grow
- 41:05Speaker 6: even more. And I like where we're going. I like
- 41:09Speaker 6: our draft picks next year. I'm looking forward to that
- 41:11Speaker 6: as usual because I'm the big draft guy, so I'm
- 41:13Speaker 6: definitely looking forward to him. I agree with you one
- 41:16Speaker 6: hundred percent. If we don't make it, you know, do
- 41:19Speaker 6: we make our goals of making the playoffs? No? But again,
- 41:22Speaker 6: big word again is growth for me. Other than that,
- 41:25Speaker 6: I hope you guys have a great weekend. Chris Beam
- 41:28Speaker 6: in the back, always looking like a dog. Much appreciated
- 41:31Speaker 6: what he does behind the scenes. I just wanted to
- 41:33Speaker 6: give him a quick shout out for sure.
- 41:35Speaker 3: All right, thanks, Chris, appreciate that. Let's go to break
- 41:39Speaker 3: here on Cowboys storyline and be right back.
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- 42:57Speaker 3: Got a few more minutes here, of course, I'm not
- 42:59Speaker 3: going anywhere, and if you're listening to this live, I'm
- 43:02Speaker 3: actually gonna stay here. I'm going to be on Cowboys
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- 43:12Speaker 3: be filling in on Cowboys Break like old times. All right,
- 43:15Speaker 3: I may and not play California. I may. What's up?
- 43:19Speaker 6: Hey?
- 43:19Speaker 12: What's up?
- 43:20Speaker 11: Nick? How are you doing good?
- 43:21Speaker 3: How are you?
- 43:22Speaker 11: I'm great? Man, I'm great. Thanks for taking my call.
- 43:25Speaker 11: Wanted to talk a little Cowboys obviously, man, as far
- 43:30Speaker 11: as like the season and what CD said and stuff.
- 43:33Speaker 11: I mean, man, I know that there's turnover from year
- 43:37Speaker 11: to year, but if you're building on you know what's
- 43:42Speaker 11: happening this year, and you know you're going to be here,
- 43:44Speaker 11: you know, certain guys are the corp. The team's going
- 43:46Speaker 11: to be here next year. You know, there's nothing wrong
- 43:50Speaker 11: with him saying, you know, again building for next year
- 43:53Speaker 11: or anything like that. Again, it's year to year, man,
- 43:57Speaker 11: I think still in it. Obviously. You see what happened
- 44:00Speaker 11: last night. You know there's four games still left, so
- 44:04Speaker 11: who knows what will happen. You know a lot of
- 44:06Speaker 11: a lot of things will happen with other teams. So
- 44:08Speaker 11: you know, everyone thought Tampa was gonna win last night
- 44:10Speaker 11: and you saw what happened to them. So yeah, I
- 44:13Speaker 11: mean seasons have been fun. I mean going in trading
- 44:17Speaker 11: your best player right before the week starts, and then too,
- 44:22Speaker 11: you know, not being able to stop anybody when he
- 44:26Speaker 11: counted the most, or just even throughout the game too.
- 44:29Speaker 11: Now feels like, you know, you got a chance in
- 44:31Speaker 11: every game. It's like, man, it's been fun. It's been fun.
- 44:35Speaker 11: And I think I guess because I had the least
- 44:39Speaker 11: amount of expectation this year, you know, starting week one,
- 44:43Speaker 11: it's it's probably been the least stressful and the most fun.
- 44:48Speaker 11: I think, you know, like you were saying earlier, McCarthy's
- 44:51Speaker 11: a young quarterback. You got to you got to mix
- 44:54Speaker 11: it up and blitz it with them in and out.
- 44:56Speaker 11: No matter if you blitz them or not. You got
- 44:59Speaker 11: to keep a spy on. The guy's gonna run, you know,
- 45:01Speaker 11: whenever he has a chance, he's quick to pull it
- 45:03Speaker 11: down and run. So keep a spy on him. All right,
- 45:08Speaker 11: And I feel good about it. Cowboys keep on scoring
- 45:12Speaker 11: just like they do every week. Expect them to put
- 45:14Speaker 11: up thirty. So thirty twenty four.
- 45:17Speaker 3: All right, thank you, imany, thanks for the call. Let's
- 45:19Speaker 3: go one more real quick granding texta canna.
- 45:22Speaker 21: Well, hello, I I tried to do it my missing
- 45:25Speaker 21: out fire that didn't work out too well, and.
- 45:30Speaker 16: I have to make it quick.
- 45:31Speaker 21: I guess it's hard to call in and have something
- 45:34Speaker 21: new without sounding really repetitive over you know, all the
- 45:38Speaker 21: same topics.
- 45:39Speaker 6: So tell me.
- 45:41Speaker 21: Let's say, I'll come up with two good ones here.
- 45:43Speaker 21: Tell me what's the real reason why Blues fell off
- 45:46Speaker 21: the face of the earth. Is it an upstairs thing
- 45:49Speaker 21: like he can't get it up there, or what's really
- 45:53Speaker 21: going on with him? Because they made him out to
- 45:54Speaker 21: be a possible starter in training camp and then number
- 45:59Speaker 21: ninety nine camp, they made him out to be a monster.
- 46:03Speaker 21: What's going on with him? And with that, I'll let
- 46:05Speaker 21: y'all go and have a good Friday.
- 46:08Speaker 3: All right. I appreciate it, Randy. Now, I don't know
- 46:11Speaker 3: who they is. I mean, because you're you're they could
- 46:14Speaker 3: be anybody. Uh. Twitter loves Perry and Winfrey just they
- 46:19Speaker 3: just do. I don't know why. I don't know what
- 46:23Speaker 3: he's done in the past to kind of get I mean,
- 46:25Speaker 3: but there's excitement there and it was it was evident
- 46:28Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago. I mean, the Cowboys traded
- 46:30Speaker 3: for Quinn Williams. He's tearing it up. They've won two
- 46:33Speaker 3: three in a row. Now Os is playing the best
- 46:35Speaker 3: he's played. Kenny Clark's doing his thing, and yet it's
- 46:38Speaker 3: like Win's Winfrey coming back, and I'm just like, I
- 46:40Speaker 3: didn't get it.
- 46:41Speaker 1: I don't.
- 46:41Speaker 3: I still don't understand it. I don't know if the
- 46:43Speaker 3: coaches do either. But there's some excitement there. I don't
- 46:46Speaker 3: know if it's just I mean, shot, he loves him,
- 46:50Speaker 3: but right now, I mean, it's kind of tough he's
- 46:52Speaker 3: having He's got some pretty good guys ahead of him there.
- 46:56Speaker 3: We'll see, you know, if he get in there, and
- 46:58Speaker 3: then as far as Jayden Blue goes, I mean it's
- 47:01Speaker 3: just guys, this is a fifth round draft pick that
- 47:03Speaker 3: that that wasn't even starting on his team, you know,
- 47:05Speaker 3: I mean he was he was a uh, you know,
- 47:07Speaker 3: kind of not a gadget player but kind of a
- 47:09Speaker 3: specialty type guy with a lot of speed. But to
- 47:12Speaker 3: be an NFL running back, you know, I mean it
- 47:15Speaker 3: takes more than that. And you know, maybe he was overrated,
- 47:19Speaker 3: but I tell you who was underrated was Javonte Williams.
- 47:21Speaker 3: I mean a training camp, it was like, is it
- 47:23Speaker 3: Miles Sanders? Is it Javonte Williams? Is Jaydon Blue gonna
- 47:26Speaker 3: come in? What about MafA? And we would have known
- 47:28Speaker 3: what Javonte Williams was gonna do and bring then I
- 47:31Speaker 3: don't think it would have ever been a question. So,
- 47:34Speaker 3: you know, Javonte, I think those guys were getting talked
- 47:37Speaker 3: up because maybe they have to be the starter. But
- 47:39Speaker 3: Javonte has been heading shoulders better than anyone. You know.
- 47:42Speaker 3: My leak Davis has come in here and and he's
- 47:45Speaker 3: you know, you just give you more value, special teams
- 47:49Speaker 3: and and and and all the all the things that
- 47:51Speaker 3: you have to do there and so you know, and
- 47:54Speaker 3: then when it comes to running the football, I mean,
- 47:56Speaker 3: Leak's done a good job. So as far as Jaydon
- 47:59Speaker 3: Blue goes, kind of like in college, there's just better
- 48:02Speaker 3: options right now, just better options than what we've seen.
- 48:04Speaker 3: It's more than just running full speed. Because speed wise, yeah,
- 48:09Speaker 3: Jayden Blue is really good, but some of the other
- 48:10Speaker 3: things involved. And I don't know what the practice habits are.
- 48:14Speaker 3: I don't know what his meetings look like. I don't
- 48:16Speaker 3: know if he's trying you know, how much he's trying
- 48:18Speaker 3: to get better. I don't know all that. I just
- 48:19Speaker 3: know this that there are better options and the Cowboys
- 48:21Speaker 3: are going that way. One more point, kind of about
- 48:24Speaker 3: the CD quote that we played and Rob's you know,
- 48:28Speaker 3: take on it, and it doesn't matter what your take
- 48:30Speaker 3: is on it, just just remember this that attitude of yes, yes,
- 48:36Speaker 3: we can continue to get better. Even if we don't
- 48:38Speaker 3: make the playoffs, We're gonna continue to grow and all that.
- 48:41Speaker 3: You want that you say you don't want to hear it,
- 48:45Speaker 3: but you want to see it. And my point to
- 48:47Speaker 3: that is there's four games left. Maybe they make the playoffs,
- 48:51Speaker 3: maybe they don't, but I can promise you this, they're
- 48:54Speaker 3: gonna go out there and compete. You're gonna watch regardless
- 48:56Speaker 3: of what the situation is. You're gonna watch and you
- 48:58Speaker 3: want them to give their best. Stepford, there was a
- 49:01Speaker 3: guy on this team last year that when they were
- 49:04Speaker 3: out of it, he decided he was out and it
- 49:07Speaker 3: never played again. And so you know what, because for
- 49:10Speaker 3: what I mean what we're.
- 49:12Speaker 1: Out of it?
- 49:13Speaker 3: So what am I going to fight for? Yeah? Ceedee,
- 49:15Speaker 3: Lamb's shoulders falling off and he's over here fighting until
- 49:18Speaker 3: the end. So that mentality of these are the things
- 49:21Speaker 3: we can do to get better. It's not the They're
- 49:24Speaker 3: not saying that that this is the new standard. They're saying,
- 49:27Speaker 3: all right, based off the situation we're in, how do
- 49:30Speaker 3: we make the positive make it a positive situation the
- 49:34Speaker 3: best we can. Let's go out, let's try to win
- 49:36Speaker 3: these games, and let's try to you know, for these
- 49:39Speaker 3: reasons alone. Sure, they want to make it to the playoffs,
- 49:42Speaker 3: but they're going to keep fighting and they're getting paid
- 49:45Speaker 3: very very well to go out there and play this game,
- 49:47Speaker 3: regardless if they're in the playoffs or out of it.
- 49:50Speaker 3: Deep down, as a fan, I think you want that
- 49:53Speaker 3: because lord knows, if they didn't do it that way.
- 49:55Speaker 3: You would kill him for other reasons like oh, now
- 49:58Speaker 3: that they're out of it, now that they give up. No,
- 50:01Speaker 3: they're not Notre Dame. They're gonna fight all the way
- 50:03Speaker 3: to the end. Here. All right, great show, great week.
- 50:07Speaker 3: Let's see what happens on Monday. It's gonna be different
- 50:09Speaker 3: schedule where they don't have a Tuesday show next week,
- 50:11Speaker 3: So we'll be here Monday to talk about Cowboys and Viking.
- 50:15Speaker 3: Stay warm everyone wherever you are out there for Chrispy,
- 50:18Speaker 3: I'm Nick Eatman. We will see you next time on
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