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- 0:12Speaker 4: This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.
- 0:21Speaker 1: What's up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. I am Nick Eatman
- 0:25Speaker 1: and it's time to talk full hour of Cowboys football
- 0:29Speaker 1: with you. Cowboys get the big win over Tampa Bay
- 0:33Speaker 1: on Sunday twenty six to twenty four. This will be
- 0:37Speaker 1: our Christmas edition of Cowboys Storyline and a nice President.
- 0:41Speaker 1: The Cowboys got to open there last Sunday beating Tampa
- 0:45Speaker 1: Bay in dramatic fashion. They just basically took the game away,
- 0:49Speaker 1: just like Jordan Lewis took the interception away, just like
- 0:53Speaker 1: Duran Bland took the fumble away. That's what the Cowboys did.
- 0:57Speaker 1: They took this game and beat the Bucks to get
- 1:00Speaker 1: to seven and eight. They've won four out of five.
- 1:05Speaker 1: Is that rolling? It looks sounds like it. I mean,
- 1:08Speaker 1: for this team, it is. Baker Mayfield. Say what you
- 1:12Speaker 1: want about him, he's the best quarterback. I think the
- 1:14Speaker 1: Cowboys have defeated this year him or Jayden Daniels, and
- 1:18Speaker 1: so you know, it was it was a tough one.
- 1:21Speaker 1: It was a tough game that could not run the football.
- 1:23Speaker 1: We saw that. Everyone could see that. They had they
- 1:25Speaker 1: had their struggles. They were one dimensional, but they figured
- 1:29Speaker 1: out a way. They scored it off. They got I
- 1:31Speaker 1: mean they had a weapon. Brandon Aubrey's a weapon. Anytime
- 1:34Speaker 1: you made four field goals of forty nine yards or more,
- 1:37Speaker 1: three fifty yarders set an NFL record for most fifty
- 1:40Speaker 1: yarders in a season. And and and a lot of
- 1:43Speaker 1: times you know you have to punt. And that's the
- 1:45Speaker 1: Cowboys were able to get points because of that, because
- 1:49Speaker 1: of him. It's he's been there all year long, and
- 1:52Speaker 1: he was he was certainly the difference maker and the
- 1:57Speaker 1: Cowboys getting that win. So let's talk about it. Eight
- 1:59Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven is the number to call. Let's
- 2:03Speaker 1: get right to the phone. Calls Irene in Falls Church, Virginia.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Is what is up? First? What's up?
- 2:08Speaker 5: Hey?
- 2:08Speaker 6: Good morning?
- 2:09Speaker 7: How are you good morning?
- 2:10Speaker 1: How are you?
- 2:11Speaker 7: Oh right?
- 2:12Speaker 5: All right?
- 2:12Speaker 8: So yeah, they they this team keeps going. They will
- 2:17Speaker 8: not quit on Mike or Mike. So I think we're
- 2:20Speaker 8: probably getting the two of them back unless we completely
- 2:25Speaker 8: fall off the rails the last two weeks. But it
- 2:26Speaker 8: doesn't look like this team, you know, they have fight.
- 2:30Speaker 8: I don't know whatever it is they and the defense
- 2:33Speaker 8: is pretty impressive, so.
- 2:36Speaker 9: Offense obviously you know good.
- 2:38Speaker 10: It was good to.
- 2:38Speaker 8: See back on the sideline, so hopefully steps together next year.
- 2:42Speaker 8: But I want this game plan for Dak. I feel
- 2:46Speaker 8: like we've been having a better game plan to manage,
- 2:49Speaker 8: to help Cooper Rush manage, and I want to see
- 2:52Speaker 8: back have that luxury next year if Mike is back.
- 2:55Speaker 11: So I agree.
- 2:59Speaker 12: Yeah, I have a question.
- 3:00Speaker 8: We're just a post of the callers, so I'm curious
- 3:03Speaker 8: now what we want to see, what people want to
- 3:06Speaker 8: see with these last two games, because there were a
- 3:09Speaker 8: lot of people yesterday, even people who wanted us to
- 3:13Speaker 8: tank for draft picks who also wanted Philly to lose
- 3:18Speaker 8: yesterday so mess up their seedings. So my question is
- 3:21Speaker 8: for next week's game, what are we what are we
- 3:24Speaker 8: rooting for? What's the more important priority to people? Nothing
- 3:28Speaker 8: with Philly or getting the draft pick. But I really
- 3:33Speaker 8: don't care because now we're officially eliminated. That last game
- 3:37Speaker 8: of the season matters way more to me than Philly.
- 3:40Speaker 8: But yeah, I'll be I'm good if we win, and
- 3:42Speaker 8: if not, we have the silver lining.
- 3:44Speaker 12: Of the draft picks.
- 3:45Speaker 8: So I'm just curious what people think.
- 3:46Speaker 1: All right, thank you.
- 3:49Speaker 7: You know, I.
- 3:51Speaker 1: Can't remember the last time the Cowboy fan was like, man,
- 3:54Speaker 1: I really hoped we lose to the Eagles. Like, man,
- 3:58Speaker 1: that will just be better for us in every way.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Lose to the Eagles. No, not happening, Like, like,
- 4:06Speaker 1: I just don't I don't think people are gonna root
- 4:08Speaker 1: for that again. Like, like we've said all along, you know,
- 4:12Speaker 1: it doesn't happen if you don't win. All right, Well,
- 4:15Speaker 1: you know that that's that that will probably help your
- 4:18Speaker 1: your draft status. But you know, Philadelphia's playing for stuff.
- 4:23Speaker 1: They're they're you know, they they're still trying to win
- 4:26Speaker 1: the division. They had a chance. I didn't think about that.
- 4:29Speaker 1: They they had the hats on the sideline to win
- 4:33Speaker 1: the division and the DeVante Smith drops the ball. That's
- 4:38Speaker 1: the second time this year Philly has lost the game
- 4:40Speaker 1: because one of their key players dropped the drop the
- 4:42Speaker 1: pass or the game would have been over. And so
- 4:46Speaker 1: that that's a that's a tough way to lose. It's
- 4:48Speaker 1: a tough way if you have Jalen Hurts on your
- 4:52Speaker 1: fantasy team and you lose in the playoffs. Whatever that's fine,
- 4:56Speaker 1: but yeah, that was It was a tough loss all
- 4:58Speaker 1: the way around for Philly. But we'll see what happens
- 5:01Speaker 1: this week. I just can't imagine anybody from the Cowboys
- 5:04Speaker 1: not wanting to go out there and win that. If
- 5:07Speaker 1: it means something to Philly, go beat them. And the
- 5:11Speaker 1: same with Washington in two weeks. All right, let's go
- 5:13Speaker 1: to the next caller, Joe in Stanford, Texas. What's up, Joe,
- 5:17Speaker 1: Merry Christmas?
- 5:18Speaker 5: Brother?
- 5:18Speaker 1: How are you good? How are you good to hear
- 5:20Speaker 1: from you?
- 5:21Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 5:21Speaker 13: You know, I get, I get until after Christmas off
- 5:24Speaker 13: and this is this was my number one priority of
- 5:26Speaker 13: my first day off.
- 5:28Speaker 1: All right, I appreciate it, love it.
- 5:30Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 5:30Speaker 13: Well, to answer Irene's question, uh.
- 5:33Speaker 7: Screw that.
- 5:34Speaker 13: We need to beat Philly. Whatever we can do to
- 5:36Speaker 13: ruin whatever we can for them makes me more happy
- 5:39Speaker 13: to extra slot for a draft picks, No thanks, Yeah,
- 5:44Speaker 13: I hate the Philadelphia Eagles with the purple passion.
- 5:46Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I are you.
- 5:52Speaker 13: A couple of things. First, you know, I called it
- 5:54Speaker 13: a couple of weeks ago talking about the coach thing,
- 5:56Speaker 13: and Irene brought that up as well. I said, damn
- 5:59Speaker 13: that I wouldn't bet money on them returning. After listening
- 6:03Speaker 13: to Jerry Copp last night, I think I probably would
- 6:06Speaker 13: put a little money on it. I think generally speaking,
- 6:09Speaker 13: we're gonna have the same coaching staff next year, and frankly,
- 6:13Speaker 13: I feel like it's probably the right move.
- 6:14Speaker 5: You know.
- 6:15Speaker 13: The only thing that bugs me in the thing that
- 6:18Speaker 13: really makes me not is the penalties, and we just
- 6:22Speaker 13: haven't Still this last game, we did really well, but
- 6:25Speaker 13: overall McCarthy just has teams to get penalized so much.
- 6:30Speaker 13: But still, I think it's probably the right move.
- 6:33Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 6:34Speaker 13: Yeah, other thing, I can't believe at any point that
- 6:40Speaker 13: I thought that we had a better chance of winning
- 6:42Speaker 13: games with Trey Lansteady Cooper Rush. Cooper Rush deserves a
- 6:45Speaker 13: lot of credit. Man, That dude is playing great. Yeah,
- 6:48Speaker 13: and we really, the whole team owes him. The hell
- 6:54Speaker 13: the coaching staff owes him. As far as I'm concerned.
- 6:57Speaker 13: Without him, this four and five streat we just talked
- 7:00Speaker 13: about definitely not be materialized.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Yeah, he gets a lot of credit, There's no doubt
- 7:07Speaker 1: about it. Joe favorite Christmas movie before I let you go.
- 7:10Speaker 13: Favorite Christmas movie. Well, this is not very much Christmas movie,
- 7:14Speaker 13: but they call it a Christmas movie. I'm gonna go
- 7:17Speaker 13: with Stard.
- 7:18Speaker 1: All right, all right, sounds good, thank you. Bruce Willis
- 7:23Speaker 1: has come out and said that it is not a
- 7:24Speaker 1: Christmas movie. He had a pretty big role in the movie,
- 7:28Speaker 1: so he doesn't think it is. I'm kind of on
- 7:31Speaker 1: the fence there. I kind of say no to that.
- 7:34Speaker 1: But that's all right. It's gotten some votes. Who cares?
- 7:38Speaker 1: So all right? The penalties, you know, if it happens
- 7:46Speaker 1: over and over and over again, and I guess I
- 7:48Speaker 1: haven't seen if that is the trend with McCarthy's coached
- 7:51Speaker 1: teams this year. I'm not you know, when you're dealing
- 7:57Speaker 1: with so many injuries and so many plays that are
- 8:00Speaker 1: that are elevated here in this game and not playing.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Now this guy's inactive and now he's on IR and
- 8:07Speaker 1: now he's back, and I mean, you've got you You've
- 8:09Speaker 1: just dealt with so many guys, guys that aren't even playing,
- 8:12Speaker 1: not not practicing. Not that happens that that's to be expected.
- 8:17Speaker 1: I'm not calling giving them a pass for them, because
- 8:20Speaker 1: some of them are veteran guys that should know better,
- 8:22Speaker 1: and and and and those things. But you know, you
- 8:26Speaker 1: just can't expect to roll these many players in and
- 8:28Speaker 1: out of the lineup the way they do and expect
- 8:30Speaker 1: them to it to be, you know, just just clean
- 8:34Speaker 1: every time. I do think it's starting to look like
- 8:38Speaker 1: there will be some of the coaches back. But again,
- 8:41Speaker 1: I think there needs to be some wrinkles though. If
- 8:44Speaker 1: you're going to do that, I still think you have
- 8:45Speaker 1: to make some changes on on the offense. I'd like
- 8:48Speaker 1: to see some some changes maybe in the way that
- 8:51Speaker 1: the calls are played, the way the offense is designed,
- 8:54Speaker 1: maybe a new scheme there. There just needs to be
- 8:57Speaker 1: something tweaked or changed on the staff. Yeah, they're playing better,
- 9:03Speaker 1: but at the same time, I still think that, you know,
- 9:06Speaker 1: you've got to figure out some some new ways here.
- 9:09Speaker 1: You can't just roll this out the same because let's
- 9:11Speaker 1: be honest, even before some of these major injuries, it
- 9:14Speaker 1: wasn't looking good. I mean, like, you can't explain the
- 9:18Speaker 1: Saints game, the Saints that most of the starters were here,
- 9:21Speaker 1: the key players were there, they were coming off a
- 9:23Speaker 1: big win. I just the Saints aren't any good, so
- 9:28Speaker 1: you have to figure out, I mean, what what happened there?
- 9:31Speaker 1: And that was the first sign of of struggle. This year.
- 9:34Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Jeremy and Washington, d C.
- 9:40Speaker 1: What's up, man, How brother good? How are you?
- 9:43Speaker 7: I'm doing all right?
- 9:45Speaker 1: Holiday YouTube?
- 9:46Speaker 2: Man?
- 9:47Speaker 12: Yeah, man, that was a good dog fight we put
- 9:50Speaker 12: up yesterday. I like it.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it was a fight. There's no doubt about it.
- 9:54Speaker 1: They showed a lot of fights.
- 9:56Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 9:56Speaker 12: I like how like even though the run wasn't and working,
- 10:00Speaker 12: we were still sticking to it to keep him honest,
- 10:03Speaker 12: you know what I'm saying. Because that play action was
- 10:06Speaker 12: coming in a handy for Cooper Rushland and I was
- 10:08Speaker 12: just loving it. I just wanted to call in and
- 10:11Speaker 12: say that I like how they was getting my man
- 10:14Speaker 12: Torpedo involved and they tried, they tried to hold up
- 10:18Speaker 12: Vi the bed the best way to could, but that
- 10:22Speaker 12: he's a pro bowler for a reason, know what I'm saying.
- 10:25Speaker 12: And I want to get big up to CD Lambs.
- 10:29Speaker 12: That's my favorite CD. I keep it on repeat, you
- 10:32Speaker 12: know what I'm saying. That's my guy, and I just
- 10:35Speaker 12: want to I just want to give him his flowers, man,
- 10:38Speaker 12: because you don't we don't have to do that. But
- 10:41Speaker 12: he's putting his body on the line for us. That's
- 10:44Speaker 12: all I got to say Nick and my number for today.
- 10:48Speaker 12: I already know we got us. What's the rookie with
- 10:53Speaker 12: the ninety four with the kneeling is ninety four already,
- 10:57Speaker 12: But I wanted to say ninety four DeMarcus win and
- 11:00Speaker 12: then I'll leave you with that, and then.
- 11:05Speaker 1: To appreciate that. Man, I don't I don't really know
- 11:09Speaker 1: any other nineties. I mean, Randy Gregory is the only
- 11:11Speaker 1: ninety four I could think of other than Whereing Haley uh,
- 11:15Speaker 1: and then Marshawn Kneelan. I mean Randy Gregory wore it
- 11:18Speaker 1: for a little bit and kept it for a few
- 11:22Speaker 1: years even when he wasn't playing and stuff like that.
- 11:25Speaker 1: So between Haley, where Gregory and now Marshaan Kneelan Uh,
- 11:31Speaker 1: that's about all I can I can really remember about
- 11:33Speaker 1: ninety four because the thing about the nineties, they didn't
- 11:35Speaker 1: even really have a lot of They didn't even wear
- 11:39Speaker 1: the numbers in the nineties until I think, I think
- 11:42Speaker 1: it was like the eighties, So you know, you just
- 11:45Speaker 1: don't have a lot of players that are wearing that.
- 11:48Speaker 1: But yeah, I thought I thought you mentioned Ceedee Lamb.
- 11:53Speaker 1: I'll share a little story that I had with him
- 11:57Speaker 1: Tuesday or Wednesday. It was one of the shows that
- 12:00Speaker 1: you guys were just saying, man, I have a lot
- 12:03Speaker 1: of respect for him. He's been great. It was like
- 12:05Speaker 1: I think it was like Tuesday show and Tuesday Wednesday,
- 12:09Speaker 1: and then later that day on Wednesday, I saw him
- 12:11Speaker 1: in the locker room and I just told him, I said,
- 12:14Speaker 1: you know, I do a show with a lot of
- 12:15Speaker 1: fans calling in, and I just hope you know how
- 12:18Speaker 1: much they appreciate the way you're playing. And a lot
- 12:22Speaker 1: of times guys get the money, get the bag like
- 12:24Speaker 1: this and they kind of like, well, you know, I
- 12:27Speaker 1: why would I hurt myself even more? What are we're
- 12:29Speaker 1: playing for? And he kind of cut me off, and
- 12:32Speaker 1: he's like, the thing is is that I love football.
- 12:35Speaker 1: He said, I just love football, So I'm going to
- 12:37Speaker 1: play football. Is any time that I get the chance
- 12:39Speaker 1: to play football, I'm going to play football. And you know,
- 12:43Speaker 1: I thought, what a great answer. I mean, and that's
- 12:46Speaker 1: and it shows, I mean, it shows that that's what
- 12:48Speaker 1: he's doing. He's laying you know, he's layding on the line,
- 12:50Speaker 1: is his shoulders basically dragging the floor. But he's still
- 12:55Speaker 1: he's still playing through the pain. And it's it's we've
- 12:57Speaker 1: seen it before. That's an injury that We've seen him
- 12:59Speaker 1: at Smith do it. We've seen Darren Woodson, We've seen
- 13:02Speaker 1: a lot of players do that. Dez Bryant did that,
- 13:04Speaker 1: and it's just how much pain can you tolerate? And
- 13:07Speaker 1: that's that's what we're seeing. And I think there's a
- 13:10Speaker 1: ton of respect going out for CD. He was he's,
- 13:16Speaker 1: you know, everyone's favorite player, you know already, but what
- 13:19Speaker 1: he's doing and you know, coming back in, I mean,
- 13:21Speaker 1: you gotta think he goes that. He goes out and
- 13:24Speaker 1: they make an announcement on in the press box that says,
- 13:27Speaker 1: ceedee LAMB shoulder injury return is questionable. And then I'm
- 13:32Speaker 1: sure people are tweeting that out. He's in the game
- 13:35Speaker 1: and catching the ball and almost scoring a touchdown, which
- 13:37Speaker 1: he said he did score. That was a really close one.
- 13:40Speaker 1: And so that's how quick it was, Like that's when
- 13:42Speaker 1: we got the report. He's still out there playing and fighting.
- 13:45Speaker 4: Uh.
- 13:45Speaker 1: Just just awesome display, uh for for CD. All right,
- 13:49Speaker 1: let's go to Lester, Lakeville, Minnesota.
- 13:54Speaker 10: Man.
- 13:55Speaker 5: Hey, Lester, Now that's the way you play football. You
- 13:59Speaker 5: like that, the way you call the game that's the
- 14:02Speaker 5: way the offense have been. Defensive line on one play.
- 14:05Speaker 5: I want you to play like that all the time, Cowboys,
- 14:08Speaker 5: All right, what I'm talking about?
- 14:11Speaker 1: Well, they they did it. I mean it was a
- 14:14Speaker 1: tough that was a tough, tough matchup that was like
- 14:17Speaker 1: a team. It looked like a team that was fighting
- 14:19Speaker 1: for the playoffs, you know, and not a team that
- 14:21Speaker 1: had just been told they're not they're not in. That's
- 14:24Speaker 1: what was impressive to me. They showed fight like they
- 14:28Speaker 1: didn't want their season to end, even though it basically
- 14:31Speaker 1: had ended.
- 14:33Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's what I'm talking about.
- 14:35Speaker 10: Nick.
- 14:36Speaker 5: Hey, I got a question for you. I know it's
- 14:38Speaker 5: kind of early, but the Philadelphia quarterback hurts. Yeah, is
- 14:44Speaker 5: he gonna play this Sunday? Or Usually a concussion protocol
- 14:49Speaker 5: you say out at least one game, so.
- 14:52Speaker 1: You know, it used to be a full week, but
- 14:57Speaker 1: we have seen that a little bit more now I've
- 15:00Speaker 1: seen Ferguson and Bebie, both of them. They both of
- 15:07Speaker 1: those injuries happen on short weeks I believe, and so
- 15:11Speaker 1: happened on like a Monday night game or whatever. So
- 15:13Speaker 1: it was a short week and they did not play
- 15:16Speaker 1: the next game. I don't know. It looked like Hurts
- 15:20Speaker 1: gave the thumbs up, he was ready to come back in,
- 15:22Speaker 1: but they saw something else, and so I don't know.
- 15:25Speaker 1: I really don't know what the situation is. Hopefully he's
- 15:30Speaker 1: fine in general, you know, but I don't think anyone's
- 15:34Speaker 1: feelings are going to be hurt you if he didn't play.
- 15:36Speaker 1: I mean, Cowboys dealt with their quarterback being out for
- 15:38Speaker 1: a long time. And you know that's the thing. That's
- 15:40Speaker 1: what I've heard several times about about that game. Well,
- 15:43Speaker 1: you know, yeah, if they it Hurts plays they beat Washington,
- 15:47Speaker 1: that probably, you know, but you know, backup quarterbacks have
- 15:51Speaker 1: gone into Washington this year and won before I've seen it.
- 15:55Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, well that's all I have. I think that, uh,
- 16:01Speaker 5: the score of the game, this is coming up, with
- 16:04Speaker 5: or without hurt. Cowboys win twenty three, twenty Merry Christmas,
- 16:08Speaker 5: Happy holidays, everybody.
- 16:10Speaker 1: Great Cowboys appreciate that. Thank you. All right, let's keep
- 16:13Speaker 1: this thing going. Let's go to Rob in Vegas. Rob.
- 16:16Speaker 1: What's up?
- 16:16Speaker 13: Man?
- 16:18Speaker 5: Hey?
- 16:18Speaker 7: Nick?
- 16:19Speaker 1: How are you?
- 16:21Speaker 5: I'm good?
- 16:22Speaker 2: Uh. I got to give it up for Magic, Mike
- 16:25Speaker 2: and the crew. Uh, you know the.
- 16:29Speaker 1: Fact that you call it magic. Mike, Wow, the visual
- 16:33Speaker 1: there right, all right?
- 16:36Speaker 9: I listen, you know I've been calling for a coaching change,
- 16:41Speaker 9: and uh, you.
- 16:45Speaker 13: Know, I'm torn now.
- 16:47Speaker 9: And I think my father has something to do with
- 16:49Speaker 9: it too, because you know he's watching the game him
- 16:52Speaker 9: and he says, listen, you gotta give a guy. I
- 16:56Speaker 9: thought Tampa Bay had the edge because they were playing
- 16:59Speaker 9: for something. Yeah, and like everybody says, it looked like
- 17:04Speaker 9: the Cowboys were playing to go to the Super Bowl, babe.
- 17:08Speaker 9: And it's very weird you see that because we usually
- 17:11Speaker 9: see the opposite see where like like a CD Lamb
- 17:15Speaker 9: would have took himself out of the game. Nope, micaeh, No,
- 17:20Speaker 9: it was just I don't know what was said. I
- 17:23Speaker 9: don't know who said what, but you know it's easy
- 17:27Speaker 9: to say, let's go out there. That was the hardest
- 17:31Speaker 9: hitting game they played it in a long time. That
- 17:34Speaker 9: the players were everybody was making plays. Donovan Wilson probably
- 17:38Speaker 9: had his best.
- 17:38Speaker 1: Game in a year, no doubt. He was flying around
- 17:42Speaker 1: the boy.
- 17:43Speaker 9: I mean Jordan Lewis and and listen, Jerry, I don't
- 17:47Speaker 9: know what Jordan Lewis has to do to get a
- 17:49Speaker 9: more than a one year contract. I mean, this kid
- 17:53Speaker 9: just plays hard. He may not be the picture of
- 17:57Speaker 9: what you want in size, but doesn't matter. He's he
- 18:01Speaker 9: like they say, he's a he's a pickbull and he
- 18:05Speaker 9: deserves it. They need guys like him. Darron Bland I
- 18:07Speaker 9: thought played great. They said, wherever Mike Evans goes, you go,
- 18:15Speaker 9: and Mike Evans is a great wide receiver, and it
- 18:19Speaker 9: was just it was such a fun game to watch.
- 18:22Speaker 9: It got dicey at the end and and Brandon Aubrey.
- 18:26Speaker 9: I mean, you get over the fifty that that kid
- 18:30Speaker 9: was on fireless that. I don't know if I see
- 18:32Speaker 9: him kick the ball better, but I got to give
- 18:35Speaker 9: love to Mike McCarthy. I think he's going to get
- 18:39Speaker 9: a three year extension, and I think it should come
- 18:41Speaker 9: this week. I think Jerry already knows it's Christmas. Jerry,
- 18:45Speaker 9: let's let's go. I'm okay with it after seeing what
- 18:50Speaker 9: I've seen, I agree tweak something.
- 18:55Speaker 5: Now.
- 18:56Speaker 9: I don't know, do you take the play calling duties
- 18:59Speaker 9: away from him? I want to be against that, but
- 19:02Speaker 9: would he go for that? You know, given him an extension,
- 19:05Speaker 9: So that's that's kind.
- 19:06Speaker 1: Of that's gonna be tricky. You're right, you're right about that.
- 19:09Speaker 1: You give him extension. But you know, but then again,
- 19:12Speaker 1: what what options do you think he really has? I mean,
- 19:15Speaker 1: do you think he's gonna like walk and say, no,
- 19:17Speaker 1: I'm going to go and be the head coach at
- 19:19Speaker 1: this team. I don't see that happening.
- 19:21Speaker 9: No, no, I don't see that. I don't see that
- 19:23Speaker 9: happening either. But I think if you're going to reward him,
- 19:28Speaker 9: you're you're rewarding him for what he's been doing. And
- 19:31Speaker 9: like I said, tweak it.
- 19:34Speaker 2: Zimmer.
- 19:35Speaker 9: You gotta love how Zimma closed the game. It's like
- 19:38Speaker 9: he goes, I don't care who's on this field. I
- 19:39Speaker 9: don't care how Nick digital playing, you know, linebacker, He
- 19:44Speaker 9: doesn't care. He just says, I'm I'm gonna go after you.
- 19:48Speaker 13: And it works.
- 19:48Speaker 14: He yeah, he's.
- 19:51Speaker 9: It's it was a listen.
- 19:53Speaker 13: It was a great game.
- 19:54Speaker 9: It's it's a shame that we can't really build on
- 19:58Speaker 9: it in the sense of taking that momentum to the playoffs.
- 20:02Speaker 9: Cooper Rush was outstanding. It's like, you know, I think
- 20:06Speaker 9: he's ninety four. I think they said, is Cooper Rush
- 20:10Speaker 9: now have the chance to be a starter somewhere else
- 20:13Speaker 9: because there's a lot of teams out there. Yeah, I mean,
- 20:17Speaker 9: is he playing his way off this team?
- 20:20Speaker 2: You know, to you know the Raiders.
- 20:23Speaker 9: You know, I'm assuming they're going to try to draft
- 20:25Speaker 9: a high draft pick tea, But is he playing his
- 20:28Speaker 9: way off this team that teams may actually start to
- 20:30Speaker 9: look at him and say, dude's nothing in four Yeah.
- 20:34Speaker 9: So but it was great, but yes, well got it.
- 20:38Speaker 9: I gotta give Magic Bike all the love.
- 20:41Speaker 1: I love it. I love it all right, Rob, appreciate
- 20:43Speaker 1: the call and the nickname and the visual and all that.
- 20:46Speaker 1: You know, you say that about Cooper Rush. He's playing
- 20:50Speaker 1: himself into a situation now he's a free agent after
- 20:53Speaker 1: the year where he looks like he should be a backup,
- 20:57Speaker 1: not to a sixty million a year quarterback in Deck Prescott,
- 21:01Speaker 1: but one of those quarterbacks drafted high, you know, drafted
- 21:05Speaker 1: in the first first round, I mean first round pick
- 21:09Speaker 1: or something somebody that you're like, maybe he's ready to play,
- 21:11Speaker 1: Maybe he's not. Think about what Andy Dalton did for
- 21:14Speaker 1: you know, Bryce Young. And I know there's other other
- 21:17Speaker 1: examples too, where where you know the guys, the guys
- 21:20Speaker 1: the future, you know that. But you know, if we
- 21:22Speaker 1: if we need to play. Uh, you know Cooper Rush
- 21:26Speaker 1: right now, he can do that, so it might be
- 21:29Speaker 1: a situation where that's a better fit for him. But
- 21:32Speaker 1: then again, you know, he he's he's home here in Dallas,
- 21:37Speaker 1: and and and you know he almost he almost took it.
- 21:40Speaker 1: We'll tell the story when we come back from break.
- 21:41Speaker 1: But he almost went with the with the Raiders, and
- 21:45Speaker 1: you know, the weather actually kept him in Dallas, which
- 21:48Speaker 1: is which is kind of ironic. All right, let's let's
- 21:51Speaker 1: go to break here on Cowboys storyline. We'll be right
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- 23:35Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Cowboys storyline. We're talking Cowboys football
- 23:40Speaker 1: and the Cowboys win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on
- 23:42Speaker 1: Sunday twenty six, twenty four, from proof to seven and eight.
- 23:45Speaker 1: They won four out of five and they got two
- 23:48Speaker 1: games to go, both against the division Philadelphia and Washington.
- 23:53Speaker 1: What better way to wrap up the season and beat
- 23:55Speaker 1: those two teams and get to nine and eight? If
- 23:58Speaker 1: that happened, you can just you can get Mike McCarthy
- 24:01Speaker 1: can just come in with a pin, just be like,
- 24:03Speaker 1: where do I sign for a new extension? May it
- 24:06Speaker 1: may be the case. Already, Let's go to the phone lines.
- 24:09Speaker 1: Travis and san Antonio has been holding Travis. What's up?
- 24:13Speaker 11: Hey, Mary?
- 24:13Speaker 1: Christmas? Nick too?
- 24:15Speaker 11: How are you shout to Chris as well? I'm good.
- 24:19Speaker 11: Fun game, wild game. I'm sure you were up in
- 24:21Speaker 11: the booth trying to not make so much noise. But
- 24:23Speaker 11: it was a wild game to watch, which was fun.
- 24:26Speaker 11: Good present this week. And it's a weird this is
- 24:31Speaker 11: a it's starting to become a weird evaluation. I know
- 24:34Speaker 11: you just kind of hit on that with Mike McCarthy
- 24:36Speaker 11: was starting to fl a weird evaluation on Mike. And
- 24:38Speaker 11: I mean before the game, I was probably seventy five
- 24:41Speaker 11: percent he was going to come back, so it's probably
- 24:43Speaker 11: only gone up. The only thing that still gives me Pausemic,
- 24:47Speaker 11: And I don't know what you think, is just the
- 24:49Speaker 11: I still can't forget what I saw the first I
- 24:54Speaker 11: guess it was the eight games that Deck was in
- 24:55Speaker 11: before you went down. Like that still sticks in my brain,
- 24:58Speaker 11: is like it has to be a part of the
- 24:59Speaker 11: value of how did it look before, because we can
- 25:01Speaker 11: you know, the injuries only got worse. But like, and
- 25:05Speaker 11: maybe it's just a case Nick where.
- 25:06Speaker 13: He's just late or slow.
- 25:09Speaker 11: To make because we've we've seen this with him. We've
- 25:11Speaker 11: started out slow in other years and then all of
- 25:13Speaker 11: a sudden pick it up. So I don't know what
- 25:15Speaker 11: if he does come back, what he has to change
- 25:17Speaker 11: to get this team off to faster starts. But that's
- 25:21Speaker 11: definitely a thing, so we'll see how that goes. I
- 25:23Speaker 11: did want to shout out Jordan Lewis, I'm sure, as
- 25:27Speaker 11: a bunch of people did last night.
- 25:28Speaker 1: I don't know how he.
- 25:29Speaker 11: Doesn't get the game ball. I know that Bland made
- 25:31Speaker 11: the last play of the game, but that interception for me,
- 25:34Speaker 11: that interception for me was that was game ball worthy.
- 25:38Speaker 11: So and if a dude hasn't earned a two year extension,
- 25:41Speaker 11: like as a priority going into the offseason. I know
- 25:44Speaker 11: we've said it before, but I'm gonna say it again,
- 25:45Speaker 11: Like that dude's play like he's been. He's like Brian
- 25:49Speaker 11: brought us to call him, like gum. He just sticks around.
- 25:51Speaker 11: People have been trying to get rid of him for years,
- 25:53Speaker 11: and like, give that dude a two year extension because
- 25:56Speaker 11: from what I've heard from the broadcast of like what
- 25:59Speaker 11: the guys think of him the locker room, Like we
- 26:01Speaker 11: always say if we need more leaders, and he probably
- 26:03Speaker 11: is one. He just doesn't get enough pub for it, sure,
- 26:06Speaker 11: and probably doesn't care either. But I just wanted to
- 26:08Speaker 11: see if you could hit on Matt and uh yeah,
- 26:11Speaker 11: we'll see how it goes last two games and then
- 26:14Speaker 11: go from there. But I just wanted to wish you
- 26:15Speaker 11: guys a merry Christmas and have a good one.
- 26:17Speaker 1: Thank you, Travis appreciate it. Yeah, I thought. I thought,
- 26:20Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis, that was one of the greatest interceptions that
- 26:24Speaker 1: I've seen in a while, because you got to remember,
- 26:27Speaker 1: like it's a deep ball, he's getting hit in the face,
- 26:31Speaker 1: Like they they're not going to call that, but it
- 26:34Speaker 1: looked like it was, you know, hands to the face
- 26:37Speaker 1: or face mask or something right off the bat. So
- 26:39Speaker 1: he's getting hit. Then he turns and looks at the
- 26:42Speaker 1: ball and it just he just grabbed it. He just
- 26:45Speaker 1: he just got it. I thought I thought it was
- 26:46Speaker 1: a touchdown. I really did. I thought it was a touchdown.
- 26:49Speaker 1: And the next thing I know, he's got the ball
- 26:51Speaker 1: and I was like, well, wait a second. You know,
- 26:52Speaker 1: they always give it to the offense here, if he's
- 26:54Speaker 1: got it for a millisecond, they're going to give it
- 26:56Speaker 1: to him. And he never did. He never, he never
- 26:59Speaker 1: had it. That was it was an unbelievable play. And
- 27:01Speaker 1: and same with with Duran Bland, you know, for him
- 27:05Speaker 1: to take the ball away and ain't gonna lie when
- 27:08Speaker 1: when they punted it back, I was like, this is
- 27:11Speaker 1: you know, I was looking at the Cowboys timeouts to
- 27:13Speaker 1: see if they were going to have time after Tampa
- 27:17Speaker 1: Bay has scored, are they going to have time to
- 27:19Speaker 1: do something and maybe get another field goal, because it
- 27:22Speaker 1: just looked inevitable that they were going to go do that,
- 27:24Speaker 1: but they didn't. They didn't, and Duran Bland made the play.
- 27:28Speaker 1: And Baker Mayfield, I mean, he's tough. You know, he
- 27:31Speaker 1: he's tough, and he gives them another dimension and that's
- 27:36Speaker 1: something that Cowboys just don't have with Cooper Rush. That's
- 27:39Speaker 1: the one thing that you don't have there is you
- 27:42Speaker 1: just don't have a guy that can that can kind
- 27:44Speaker 1: of make some plays and if they're if they're on him,
- 27:48Speaker 1: it's pretty much a sack or a throwaway or whatever.
- 27:51Speaker 1: But you know, you'd like to have a guy that
- 27:53Speaker 1: can kind of run around in the pocket and and
- 27:56Speaker 1: and go forward and get ten yards, get a first down,
- 27:58Speaker 1: get out of bounce, you know, make some plays like
- 28:01Speaker 1: like some of these other quarterbacks do. And so that's
- 28:04Speaker 1: what's even more impressive. You don't have a running game
- 28:07Speaker 1: in that game. You don't have a running quarterback. So
- 28:11Speaker 1: what it is is what it is. And and you
- 28:13Speaker 1: know it was just good enough, just good enough, and
- 28:16Speaker 1: that's a that's a big deal, you know, because that's
- 28:20Speaker 1: what they had. The difference was they have a kicker
- 28:22Speaker 1: that they were in range, a comfortable range at the
- 28:26Speaker 1: forty yard line. And that's just not something that every team,
- 28:29Speaker 1: every team has. All right, let's go to Robbie Coco Beach, Florida.
- 28:33Speaker 2: What's up, Nick what's up Robb, hey man, I got
- 28:37Speaker 2: to get him a shout out to their uh oh captain,
- 28:39Speaker 2: my captain, captain Rob. I like that he's changed his
- 28:42Speaker 2: tune on a magic Mike. That's pretty awesome. I've heard
- 28:46Speaker 2: called freaky might be four by maybe Jesse Holly, but
- 28:49Speaker 2: I like magic Mike too. He works some magic.
- 28:52Speaker 13: Hey man.
- 28:52Speaker 2: Everybody's given a given love to all our star players
- 28:55Speaker 2: and all the big ones. And I thought Nick Vigil
- 28:57Speaker 2: played a heck of a game. Man. He seemed to
- 29:00Speaker 2: be around the ball all the time. And for a
- 29:02Speaker 2: guy that's ninety nine percent special teams coming up for
- 29:05Speaker 2: a I can't remember his name now with my mind.
- 29:11Speaker 2: Yeah they heard, uh yeah Kendricks. Thanks for Kendricks. I
- 29:17Speaker 2: think he did phenomenal, man. I mean the whole defense
- 29:19Speaker 2: played good. Jordan Lewis and I agree he needs to
- 29:22Speaker 2: get a contract to this poor guy. Yeah, too small,
- 29:25Speaker 2: but he's a pit bull man in there fighting.
- 29:28Speaker 7: He's great.
- 29:29Speaker 2: Yeah that's it, man. I'm loving that we won. I
- 29:32Speaker 2: was hoping the Eagles would have won yesterday. But that's
- 29:34Speaker 2: all right. Now, let's beat the Eagles and ruin their
- 29:37Speaker 2: season a little bit. Put him back in the seats
- 29:39Speaker 2: and to beat Washington the week after that? Why not'
- 29:42Speaker 2: that'd be a great way to end the season, wouldn't that.
- 29:47Speaker 1: Eight?
- 29:47Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. We get eighteen a couple of
- 29:51Speaker 2: years ago. Wasn't that the Marcus Ware when we got him, even.
- 29:54Speaker 1: He was eleven?
- 29:54Speaker 2: Eleven?
- 29:55Speaker 1: Yeah, a Bobby Carpenter at eighteen? Maybe?
- 29:57Speaker 2: Oh god, we want to reach Bobby Coper.
- 29:59Speaker 1: Yeah, I think vander esh eighteen.
- 30:04Speaker 2: You know solid, that's true?
- 30:06Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean Tyler Smith twenty three. Depends
- 30:10Speaker 1: what you're what you're drafting. That's the thing. You have
- 30:12Speaker 1: a lot of needs. So you know you because you
- 30:15Speaker 1: have needs. Thanks for the call, Robbie, Because because you
- 30:19Speaker 1: have needs, you can justify some of these picks. You know,
- 30:24Speaker 1: you can. You can get a a a left tackle,
- 30:27Speaker 1: maybe not going to be the best one, but but
- 30:29Speaker 1: you can get one. You can get a defensive tackle
- 30:31Speaker 1: if you want to do that again, try to find
- 30:33Speaker 1: a pass rusher is not going to be probably elite,
- 30:35Speaker 1: but he'll be somebody that you know, he's got some traits.
- 30:39Speaker 1: It's a good spot for a corner, you know, if
- 30:42Speaker 1: you if you want to go that route, you know,
- 30:46Speaker 1: a guard I mean, Zach Martin may not be back.
- 30:49Speaker 1: If you if you wanted a guard, you'd get a
- 30:51Speaker 1: really good guard probably that at that age to think
- 30:54Speaker 1: about the center, remember Graham Barton who that played against them,
- 30:58Speaker 1: just like just Monday Sunday night. And you know, I thought,
- 31:02Speaker 1: I thought, anytime you're you're gonna get an interior player.
- 31:06Speaker 1: I mean, so you you can definitely get a guy
- 31:09Speaker 1: that that's going to be uh A, you know, a
- 31:12Speaker 1: solid center guard, interior guy. You can get them at
- 31:16Speaker 1: any point in the draft. So the fact that they
- 31:17Speaker 1: have a lot of needs running back as well, I
- 31:20Speaker 1: mean that you have a lot of needs. I don't
- 31:23Speaker 1: know if it matters that much where where you're you're drafting,
- 31:27Speaker 1: because like like we said, I mean if it's a
- 31:30Speaker 1: if it's a player that can help them, there's a
- 31:33Speaker 1: lot of positions for that. So that's why I think,
- 31:36Speaker 1: just keep winning, just keep winning, keep building something here,
- 31:39Speaker 1: and wherever you pick is where you pick. All right,
- 31:41Speaker 1: let's go to Brian in Kansas City.
- 31:44Speaker 17: Merry Christmas, sir, how are you? I'm doing fantastic man,
- 31:50Speaker 17: you know, listening to what you were saying about the
- 31:52Speaker 17: draft status and and you know what, the needs are
- 31:55Speaker 17: for next year. All I can all I can think
- 31:57Speaker 17: of is Lester. I think his name is Lester from Minnesota.
- 32:00Speaker 17: But I got the right guy. Yeah, get me somebody
- 32:04Speaker 17: in the trenches. Yeah, get me somebody down there, you know, big,
- 32:09Speaker 17: you know, trash can full of dirt guy or in
- 32:12Speaker 17: the middle or or and I think Mozzie's playing better lately,
- 32:16Speaker 17: but you know, just something in there. Obviously, you know,
- 32:20Speaker 17: there's a there's a lot of speculation about martin retirings
- 32:25Speaker 17: and whether he'll be back, so anything on both sides
- 32:28Speaker 17: of the ball. Hey, who had the green dot yesterday?
- 32:30Speaker 5: Do you know?
- 32:32Speaker 1: I think it was vigil Wow, So he.
- 32:35Speaker 17: That really says something I heard was that Robbie. I
- 32:39Speaker 17: think that just said he played out of his mind.
- 32:41Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 32:42Speaker 17: I was watching and on the broadcast, I never did
- 32:45Speaker 17: see anybody with a green dot that I could see.
- 32:47Speaker 17: And he really did something specialist. He was doing both
- 32:51Speaker 17: of those that he's playing like that and making the
- 32:54Speaker 17: calls at the same time. That was really incredible.
- 32:58Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, he was the middle linebacker in the game
- 33:01Speaker 1: started and usually that is the spot that that that
- 33:05Speaker 1: gets the green dot, is the one that that can
- 33:07Speaker 1: hear the coaches calling in for fifteen seconds or so
- 33:11Speaker 1: before they cut the mic off. But basically he's the one,
- 33:14Speaker 1: like you said, that makes the calls. So yeah, I
- 33:16Speaker 1: mean he he played like a middle linebacker. His stats
- 33:20Speaker 1: look like one ten tackles. You know, you wish you
- 33:24Speaker 1: It's hard to tell these players to do that, but
- 33:27Speaker 1: you know, you wish you would have slowed down a
- 33:29Speaker 1: little and just just to get that that fumble. I've
- 33:33Speaker 1: seen I've seen them practice that play to bat the
- 33:37Speaker 1: ball back inside and then you know, if you get it,
- 33:41Speaker 1: you get it. But I think he thought he had
- 33:43Speaker 1: enough room where he was gonna he was gonna grab
- 33:46Speaker 1: it that fumble. Uh, and that that would have been
- 33:48Speaker 1: a huge play in the game. But Cowboy still went
- 33:51Speaker 1: and got a field goal after that. But still you'd
- 33:54Speaker 1: like to get the ball at the forty yard line
- 33:55Speaker 1: of of the of the bucks there and and and
- 33:58Speaker 1: go play downhill. But still, great play by Micah, great
- 34:02Speaker 1: play by you know, the forcing that that fumble and
- 34:05Speaker 1: then jumping on it like that. All right, let's go
- 34:07Speaker 1: to Zach in Atlanta. Zach, what's that man?
- 34:13Speaker 10: Hey?
- 34:14Speaker 2: What is up?
- 34:15Speaker 3: Nick?
- 34:15Speaker 6: Merry Christmas? You got a Zach in the box.
- 34:19Speaker 1: There you go.
- 34:20Speaker 11: There's there's your snarky.
- 34:21Speaker 2: Comment for today.
- 34:23Speaker 6: Well I got a few more. Actually, So we got
- 34:26Speaker 6: Magic Mike, he loves him a mojo moments, and we
- 34:30Speaker 6: saw the defense come through and kind of bail bail
- 34:33Speaker 6: out Magic Mike. Questionable play calling, but it all worked
- 34:38Speaker 6: out in the end. This just feels like a moral victory,
- 34:42Speaker 6: like typically the team loses, but you're looking for.
- 34:45Speaker 13: The moral victory in that.
- 34:46Speaker 6: Yeah, the team had nothing to play for, and yet
- 34:48Speaker 6: they went out and busted it and and there was
- 34:52Speaker 6: some hits like it was two thousand and two out there. Yeah,
- 34:56Speaker 6: you know, you know, and it was clean man, I
- 34:58Speaker 6: you know, you like it fields like football still and
- 35:01Speaker 6: there's no laundry. Everybody's alive and healthy. But you just
- 35:05Speaker 6: got some big hits. Man, that was a lot of fun.
- 35:07Speaker 1: It's sad, and it's sad that you see that. In
- 35:10Speaker 1: the first thing, you're just you're just waiting for a hit.
- 35:12Speaker 1: I mean, you're just waiting to say, oh, certainly they're
- 35:15Speaker 1: going to call flag on that. You just can't hit
- 35:17Speaker 1: them too hard anymore.
- 35:19Speaker 7: But right, they let.
- 35:20Speaker 1: Him play and they let.
- 35:23Speaker 2: It was good.
- 35:24Speaker 6: Yeah, they were clean hits. So but yeah, man, I uh,
- 35:29Speaker 6: you know, in the next couple of games. And I
- 35:33Speaker 6: think somebody brought this up Friday, but I really wonder
- 35:36Speaker 6: if we have a number two receiver on the roster
- 35:39Speaker 6: right now. I'm just thinking about you know, next year
- 35:43Speaker 6: and prolonging or making the most of Dak's contracts and
- 35:47Speaker 6: CD and you know, hopefully Micah and just capitalizing with
- 35:51Speaker 6: talent and weapons. And it just depends how we build
- 35:55Speaker 6: the team after this. You know, uh, do we be
- 35:59Speaker 6: fun the line, commit to a good running game that way,
- 36:03Speaker 6: we're not leaning so much on CD or you know,
- 36:07Speaker 6: if we're going to continue to be a more pass
- 36:11Speaker 6: heavy team, we got to have some better weapons to
- 36:14Speaker 6: to take the pressure.
- 36:15Speaker 7: Off of CD.
- 36:16Speaker 2: But we'll see.
- 36:18Speaker 6: We had a Ryan Flinoy siding a few times.
- 36:20Speaker 1: That was cool.
- 36:21Speaker 13: Mayor's Lea Faud.
- 36:21Speaker 6: Doing his thing. We had you know, Nick Vigil He's
- 36:25Speaker 6: gotten some praise already, so you know, we just this
- 36:30Speaker 6: is a season to explore who's on the roster right now,
- 36:34Speaker 6: make sure we have depth for going forward. So that's
- 36:38Speaker 6: that's what I'm watching the next couple of games and
- 36:42Speaker 6: some more moral victories. Let's win out.
- 36:44Speaker 2: Why not.
- 36:46Speaker 6: Anyways, man, Merry Christmas to y'all. Take care and go Cowboy.
- 36:50Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks Zach. Now that's a moral victory. I think
- 36:53Speaker 1: Nate Newton could could get on board with. You know,
- 36:56Speaker 1: we've gone back and forth for years on on the
- 36:59Speaker 1: moral victory part. But if you actually win in the game, Uh,
- 37:03Speaker 1: that's even better for sure. All right, let's take another
- 37:06Speaker 1: break here on Cowboys storyline. We'll be right back to
- 37:08Speaker 1: wrap this thing up.
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- 38:42Speaker 1: All right back here on Cowboys Storyline. Got a few
- 38:44Speaker 1: more minutes, take a few more calls. Let's go to
- 38:47Speaker 1: Doctor Sunshine and Fort Worth. I know this guy. What's up? Hey?
- 38:51Speaker 10: Nick? Second time I've talked to you this morning.
- 38:54Speaker 2: Are you doing oh good?
- 38:56Speaker 10: I just want to wish all your callers and their
- 38:58Speaker 10: families and Merry Christmas. I'm sure I join you in
- 39:02Speaker 10: gratitude for their loyalty and their class.
- 39:06Speaker 7: And I'll probably.
- 39:07Speaker 10: Embarrass you for saying this, but I'm gonna I'm your dad,
- 39:10Speaker 10: and I'm gonna say it anyway.
- 39:11Speaker 2: Okay, okay, how are you.
- 39:16Speaker 10: No sports show host in the world gets as much
- 39:19Speaker 10: respect from their callers as you do, because no sports
- 39:23Speaker 10: show host in the world respects their callers like you do.
- 39:27Speaker 10: And you relate to cowboys fans because you are one,
- 39:31Speaker 10: and you have been just about a week after you
- 39:34Speaker 10: learn how to talk as a baby. But you've built
- 39:37Speaker 10: a great family for this show, just like the great
- 39:40Speaker 10: one you and Julia built at home. And I know
- 39:43Speaker 10: I also speak to your mom in Texas, Canada when
- 39:45Speaker 10: I say I'm proud of you and I love you
- 39:47Speaker 10: and have a great day.
- 39:49Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much. That's my dad. He's
- 39:52Speaker 1: calling in, doctor Sunshine. I call him Dad. Thanks for
- 39:57Speaker 1: the call, and thanks for the kind words. And and
- 40:00Speaker 1: I do think that that you know what makes this
- 40:03Speaker 1: show work, and I think it works is the fact
- 40:06Speaker 1: that you know I can relate, I relate to you,
- 40:09Speaker 1: to you guys, I relate when Robin Vegas when he's
- 40:14Speaker 1: he's you know, resigned, Mike. You know, next week, if
- 40:18Speaker 1: it doesn't look good in Philly, it'll be like, hold on,
- 40:20Speaker 1: let's let's rethink this. That's what it'd being a fan is.
- 40:23Speaker 1: It's back and forth, it's roller coasters, it's it's you know,
- 40:27Speaker 1: always got an eye towards the future. But you're also
- 40:29Speaker 1: you know, you don't you gotta win. You gotta win
- 40:33Speaker 1: every game. That's what a diehard fan is that you
- 40:35Speaker 1: just don't want to. You're not going to lose the
- 40:37Speaker 1: to the Eagles because it helps your draft status or
- 40:39Speaker 1: Washington or anybody. It didn't matter if it was Philadelphia
- 40:42Speaker 1: this week. It could be the Colts, the Chargers here,
- 40:45Speaker 1: irrelevant Chargers. You know, you're like, no, let's win. So
- 40:49Speaker 1: but I appreciate the call, and thanks for for saying that. Yeah,
- 40:54Speaker 1: let's let's keep it rolling. Let's go to Griff in
- 40:57Speaker 1: San Angelo, Texas.
- 40:59Speaker 14: Griff, how are you, sir?
- 41:01Speaker 1: Good? How are you doing?
- 41:03Speaker 7: I'm good.
- 41:04Speaker 14: I called a couple of weeks back and made the
- 41:07Speaker 14: bold prediction that it sounded like a three and fourteen season.
- 41:10Speaker 14: I kind of missed the mark on that which is
- 41:13Speaker 14: a good thing.
- 41:13Speaker 1: And you're glad you did.
- 41:14Speaker 14: Yeah, that's yes, I am. A couple of things have
- 41:17Speaker 14: stood out every why we know Zimer Zimmer's been here before.
- 41:24Speaker 14: It's a whole new defense. And you don't see very
- 41:27Speaker 14: many defensive coordinators come in in one year and from
- 41:32Speaker 14: the first game to the end game, their system works
- 41:36Speaker 14: like they want it to. You usually have people that
- 41:39Speaker 14: don't fit that system. You have to make some changes.
- 41:43Speaker 14: And so I think what we're seeing is the fruits
- 41:45Speaker 14: of Zimber staying with it and not and the team
- 41:49Speaker 14: staying with it, believing in, buying in and just keep
- 41:52Speaker 14: working at it. I would hate to see what this
- 41:57Speaker 14: looks like if we go away from Zimmermer next year,
- 42:00Speaker 14: because you've already got a foundation for what he wants
- 42:02Speaker 14: to do and it works. Yeah, so to me, I mean,
- 42:07Speaker 14: and if that means keeping McCarthy. When you have a defense,
- 42:12Speaker 14: your offense can do a lot of different things. And
- 42:15Speaker 14: for the first part of the year, everybody was trying
- 42:18Speaker 14: to figure out which way to go and how to
- 42:20Speaker 14: get there. And now I think you're seeing the proofs
- 42:23Speaker 14: of that learning process.
- 42:26Speaker 1: I agree.
- 42:27Speaker 14: So you know, I just I think you probably I
- 42:30Speaker 14: wouldn't It wouldn't break my heart to see them come
- 42:33Speaker 14: back in fac I think it would be money ahead
- 42:36Speaker 14: to bring both on them back simply because of how
- 42:40Speaker 14: much progress that they've made. And if you make a
- 42:42Speaker 14: change and everybody's starting.
- 42:44Speaker 6: Over from the square one at the beginning of the year,
- 42:47Speaker 6: and to me.
- 42:48Speaker 14: You lose a year when you do that.
- 42:50Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, Well, I mean you've seen some success, you know,
- 42:55Speaker 1: you see some sometimes new new coaches come in, and
- 42:59Speaker 1: I mean we're seeing it in in Washington, you know,
- 43:03Speaker 1: you're you see every now and again. But a lot
- 43:07Speaker 1: of that has to do with with just you know,
- 43:09Speaker 1: you whether it be just a you know, one dynamic
- 43:13Speaker 1: player that comes in and just sometimes they just need
- 43:16Speaker 1: a new voice. The Cowboys wouldn't be starting over from
- 43:21Speaker 1: scratch completely, you know, just with a lot of some
- 43:23Speaker 1: of the holdover players. So I do think it makes
- 43:26Speaker 1: sense to keep Zimmer back. And you know it just
- 43:32Speaker 1: it really sucks about overshown. You know, you'd like to
- 43:34Speaker 1: see how much overshown end digs both of those guys. Uh,
- 43:38Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard for them to be back, you know,
- 43:42Speaker 1: before the season starts, or you know, definitely at training camp.
- 43:45Speaker 1: But you know, if you if you can't have Bland
- 43:49Speaker 1: back and Leah Foul coming on and we'll see what
- 43:51Speaker 1: happens with Osa. He's a free agent. But you know,
- 43:54Speaker 1: you pair anybody on the other side with Micah and
- 43:56Speaker 1: you're gonna have a pretty strong, uh a defensive of
- 43:59Speaker 1: line there. All right, let's go to Sergeant Sue. He's
- 44:02Speaker 1: in Fort Worth, Texas. Sergeant Sue.
- 44:04Speaker 2: Hey, at ease, everybody.
- 44:05Speaker 18: How you doing, Nick? All right, man? We had our storyline.
- 44:11Speaker 18: Buddy Davian came into town last night and I took
- 44:14Speaker 18: him out to go watch the game and we had
- 44:15Speaker 18: a couple of drinks and I might still be feeling
- 44:18Speaker 18: it a little bit, to be honest, but that feel
- 44:20Speaker 18: pretty good.
- 44:20Speaker 10: Man.
- 44:21Speaker 13: Man.
- 44:22Speaker 18: It was a great game, obviously with great company, but
- 44:24Speaker 18: it was a great game. I loved watching it. The
- 44:26Speaker 18: defense was out there hitting, man hitting, and I love.
- 44:28Speaker 13: To see that.
- 44:29Speaker 18: I love to see, love to hear it, love to
- 44:31Speaker 18: see it. You know, we're in in the bar restaurant
- 44:34Speaker 18: that we were in, and you hear the whole like
- 44:35Speaker 18: you know, everybody in there like ooh ah, you know
- 44:37Speaker 18: what I mean?
- 44:38Speaker 2: Like I love I love.
- 44:39Speaker 18: That, the feeling, the atmosphere, and it just makes me appreciate,
- 44:41Speaker 18: you know, the fact. Like again, I know I've said
- 44:43Speaker 18: this all season, but it just makes me appreciate the
- 44:45Speaker 18: fact that we're still watching football. You know, it may
- 44:47Speaker 18: be meaningless, we may not be going anywhere, and we have.
- 44:49Speaker 2: A couple more games to cherish.
- 44:51Speaker 18: But I was able to do that. I was able
- 44:52Speaker 18: to cherish. I was able to enjoy it, and the
- 44:54Speaker 18: top was putting on a show for me. You know,
- 44:56Speaker 18: I've never ever wanted them to tank and and and
- 44:58Speaker 18: not do well like I just love I was watching
- 45:00Speaker 18: it and it was really really good time. And shout
- 45:03Speaker 18: out to shout out to Captain rob Man. He's the
- 45:05Speaker 18: if he wasn't doing whatever he's doing in life, he
- 45:07Speaker 18: should be a professional stunt driver, the way he's able
- 45:10Speaker 18: to whip that car and and one eighty that thing
- 45:13Speaker 18: back and forth.
- 45:14Speaker 5: You know.
- 45:14Speaker 2: Mike McCarthy's our guy.
- 45:15Speaker 7: Fire by McCarthy No.
- 45:17Speaker 2: Three three three years.
- 45:18Speaker 1: Just called being a football fan. It's being a fan
- 45:21Speaker 1: of the Cowboys. I mean, you have to do that,
- 45:23Speaker 1: you have to be figure that out right.
- 45:25Speaker 18: And yeah, like I said, we're in the chat, so
- 45:27Speaker 18: he knows, you know, we're always talking and like, you know,
- 45:31Speaker 18: just talking with each other, you know what I mean,
- 45:33Speaker 18: So he knows that it's all I love, man. But
- 45:35Speaker 18: we were just talking about it in the chat like
- 45:37Speaker 18: we have Rob, you know, we just turned it around.
- 45:38Speaker 18: So it was cool, man.
- 45:40Speaker 7: So yeah, I just wanted to call him.
- 45:41Speaker 18: And I enjoyed it. I'm excited and you know, hey,
- 45:44Speaker 18: my name's not Jesus, but I am a prophet. We're
- 45:46Speaker 18: gonna win out, brothers.
- 45:47Speaker 1: All right, you have a good day, nice all right?
- 45:50Speaker 1: Well why not? I mean, why why not? I love
- 45:54Speaker 1: though he said that about about Rob or really any
- 45:57Speaker 1: any of the fans. I mean, that's just kind of
- 45:59Speaker 1: that's what it what happens. I mean that what happens
- 46:01Speaker 1: with this team. The Cowboys forced you to be that way,
- 46:04Speaker 1: but ultimately, you know, winning games is where it's at,
- 46:08Speaker 1: and that that kind of gets I mean, you're just
- 46:11Speaker 1: feeling better after a win. You get a win like that,
- 46:14Speaker 1: especially a hard fought game where they weren't favored. You know,
- 46:17Speaker 1: the Cowboys haven't been favored a lot of games this year,
- 46:19Speaker 1: but they've still figured out ways to win. Sometimes it's
- 46:22Speaker 1: on the road. Hey, they get another win at home,
- 46:25Speaker 1: and it was It was kind of like the Bengals
- 46:27Speaker 1: game a couple of weeks ago, where the Cowboys just
- 46:29Speaker 1: found a way to lose. This time they found a
- 46:32Speaker 1: way to win. Let's go to Champ, Grand Island, Nebraska, Champ.
- 46:37Speaker 7: What's up, hey, Nick, Good morning, Happy Victory Monday.
- 46:40Speaker 1: Yeah, how are you doing?
- 46:42Speaker 7: I'm doing well, man. I love victory Mondays. So I
- 46:47Speaker 7: don't care if it moves us from the eleventh to
- 46:49Speaker 7: the fifteenth. I don't care about any of that. I
- 46:52Speaker 7: like to win. There's no better feeling than winning and
- 46:56Speaker 7: knowing that we are one miscued special teams play away
- 47:00Speaker 7: from possibly being on a five game winning you know,
- 47:04Speaker 7: five game losing streak, the world's falling down five game
- 47:07Speaker 7: winning streak the world would have been wonderful.
- 47:11Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 47:11Speaker 7: So I think that this is huge these last three weeks,
- 47:16Speaker 7: winning these games. And you know, I'm not getting ahead
- 47:19Speaker 7: of myself. I know we got two tough games coming up.
- 47:21Speaker 7: But going back to the Green Bay game last year,
- 47:23Speaker 7: in the hangover we had at the beginning of this
- 47:26Speaker 7: year that I think that affected that team early on,
- 47:29Speaker 7: along with a lot of this stuff, you know, new
- 47:31Speaker 7: defensive coordinator and whatnot. But hey, we could build that
- 47:35Speaker 7: momentum at the end of this season. Let's let that
- 47:38Speaker 7: carry over in the next year. Maybe we started a
- 47:40Speaker 7: little quicker and we have something going a little sooner.
- 47:44Speaker 7: I don't care about draft picks right now. I want
- 47:47Speaker 7: to win games.
- 47:48Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 47:49Speaker 7: I thought McCarthy called a really good game for the
- 47:52Speaker 7: most part. I liked that he opened the offense up.
- 47:55Speaker 7: It seemed Mike. I don't know why we hadn't seen
- 47:58Speaker 7: that before. Maybe it was just right time. Got a
- 48:02Speaker 7: little nervous there at the end. I thought, oh man,
- 48:04Speaker 7: I've seen this play out way too many times. But
- 48:07Speaker 7: then we have do Ron Blam save the day. There
- 48:11Speaker 7: A defense played great. I keep going back, like you
- 48:14Speaker 7: said earlier. I believe it was the I'm not sure
- 48:16Speaker 7: if he's here on Talking Cowboys. Somebody said something about
- 48:19Speaker 7: Mike is saying when he said by the end of
- 48:21Speaker 7: the season, you'll be saying this is a great defense,
- 48:24Speaker 7: and everybody laughed at us, laugh at him, and they're there,
- 48:29Speaker 7: that's right. So with that, I just want to say that, Hey,
- 48:32Speaker 7: we got a great week coming up. Let's beat Silly
- 48:35Speaker 7: and marry Christmas. The U and Ben hope you guys
- 48:38Speaker 7: have a wonderful holiday, Go Cowboys.
- 48:40Speaker 1: Thanks all right, Champ, thank you so much for the call.
- 48:44Speaker 1: And yeah, like I like what you said, and you're
- 48:47Speaker 1: right about that. You know, Micah said it a few
- 48:49Speaker 1: weeks ago, he said this is this is a good team,
- 48:52Speaker 1: and you're right. He did get laughed at. And you know,
- 48:57Speaker 1: they're playing good right now. I don't think this is
- 48:59Speaker 1: a good team. I mean, I seven and eight isn't
- 49:02Speaker 1: a good record. Uh, it's it's below average a little bit.
- 49:07Speaker 1: You know, they have a chance to be about an
- 49:08Speaker 1: average team. This is this is where a lot of
- 49:10Speaker 1: the league is. They're not a good team this year.
- 49:14Speaker 1: They're not a bad team. And that's that's what we've seen.
- 49:17Speaker 1: When they play the good teams, they they typically don't win.
- 49:21Speaker 1: They you know, beat Pittsburgh, they beat Washington. I think
- 49:25Speaker 1: they're better than Washington. I'll stand on the table for that.
- 49:28Speaker 1: I mean, I just think they are. Just think that,
- 49:29Speaker 1: you know, records, schedule matters and things like that. But
- 49:32Speaker 1: I think the matchup wise, I think that they're better.
- 49:35Speaker 1: That they'll get to play them again at the end
- 49:36Speaker 1: of the season, we'll see, But but I just think overall,
- 49:40Speaker 1: I think, you know, it's not a bad team. It's
- 49:43Speaker 1: not it's not a good team really, but but they're
- 49:46Speaker 1: playing good right now, and uh that's there's something to
- 49:50Speaker 1: be said for that. And I think I think you're right.
- 49:52Speaker 1: I think Rob was right. I think a lot of
- 49:53Speaker 1: these callers are right. I think Mike McCarthy deserves some
- 49:56Speaker 1: credit for the way that he's got this team playing.
- 49:59Speaker 1: He's got them prepare, he's kind of playing hard for
- 50:01Speaker 1: whatever the reason. They're out there hitting people that they're
- 50:04Speaker 1: playing to play football. It was a fun game and
- 50:07Speaker 1: you know, it's one of those things where we'll see,
- 50:10Speaker 1: you know, two more games and maybe the Cowboys can
- 50:12Speaker 1: do that again. So all right for Chris Beam, I'm
- 50:15Speaker 1: Nick Eatman. With schedule is on Tuesday. We will be
- 50:18Speaker 1: have another show on Tuesday. We'll have a show every
- 50:21Speaker 1: week but Wednesday for Christmas Day, but we'll have a
- 50:24Speaker 1: shows Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. I hope everyone has a
- 50:27Speaker 1: merry Christmas and we will see on Tuesday on Cowboys Storyline.
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