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Speaker 1: morning everybody out there. Happy Victory Monday to you wherever
Speaker 1: you may be. If you're listening to us live, thank
Speaker 1: you so much. If you're gonna listen to us later,
Speaker 1: we thank you for that too. You're joined once again
Speaker 1: by Nate Newton, super Bowl champ in his own right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite guys to watch football games with
Speaker 1: on a nightly basis and sometimes on a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 1: Brian brought us Douglas producing today. We're gonna try and
Speaker 1: break this thing down for you because the big fellow
Speaker 1: across from me is still trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: He's still trying to figure out how this team somehow
Speaker 1: managed to win that football game last night. And he
Speaker 1: asked me he goes. Be specific, Brian, when you have
Speaker 1: a question today, be specific. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: Cowboy fans are like that Nate right now. They're they're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how in fact do you you
Speaker 1: win a game? And you know, going in, Nate, we
Speaker 1: thought it was going to be a difficult game. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know I picked the score on gut feeling like
Speaker 1: twenty six to sixteen or twenty sixteen something like that,
Speaker 1: but I didn't feel like that, you know, and going
Speaker 1: and going in and then a half I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: make the Raiders quit. The Cowboys never could make him quit.
Speaker 1: And at times I thought, holy smokes, the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: about to quit with Bruce Irving. Yeah uh Khalil Mack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they didn't quit. No, they didn't. They did not went
Speaker 1: to play. And it's just as I was praising um
Speaker 1: my man like college, like yo, college is out of
Speaker 1: this business, all of a sudden it's started collapsing on
Speaker 1: our tackles. Yeah. That, and that was just one of
Speaker 1: many things that as the game went on. It's like
Speaker 1: the momentum they took it from us right before the
Speaker 1: right at the end of the first half, and then
Speaker 1: he just gained it like it just kept steamroller. We
Speaker 1: couldn't get our run game together back with Marris and
Speaker 1: Smith and we're doing puns. I felt like it was
Speaker 1: a tricker you know what. It was a tricker treat Thanksgiving, Christmas.
Speaker 1: It was just an all holiday affair, boy, and didn't
Speaker 1: be getting look look cute cards like you got there?
Speaker 1: You know. Oh yeah, I'm muddled. Have you ever have
Speaker 1: you ever seen that happen in the game. You know
Speaker 1: what I want to say, that happened to me in
Speaker 1: high school. Man, I want to think, Wow, I'm looking like, man,
Speaker 1: it's so muddled. Man. You look at this third down Dale,
Speaker 1: how do we ten? Yeah? You know downs? I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: how Oh yeah, the game is muddled. Man. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: always like to say this, and people give me a
Speaker 1: lot of They like my saying they're ready for the
Speaker 1: T shirt. The NFL is a strange lady. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: she was a strange lady for the Cowboys last night.
Speaker 1: They do get the victory twenty to seventeen. Talk about
Speaker 1: that offensive line a little bit, you know, that's that's
Speaker 1: something I mean, you know, you being an old old
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, you know, going into that game You're thinking,
Speaker 1: how how can the Raiders hurt us? How can they they?
Speaker 1: Can they hurt you with the you know, can they
Speaker 1: hurt you with the past? Can they hurt you with
Speaker 1: the rung? We thought they were saying, but I think
Speaker 1: going in we really thought. I know Friday, when I
Speaker 1: was on your show, we talked about, like you said, say,
Speaker 1: Bruce serving Mac, what they can do. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like though, that they really hurt you or did guys
Speaker 1: like Byron Bell and Lyle Collins and those guys step
Speaker 1: up today? What bothered me is we and I hate
Speaker 1: to kind of criticize, we want yeah, but oh no,
Speaker 1: you have to you have to cast an eye on that.
Speaker 1: Though we did not continue to run mars Uh was
Speaker 1: was having great success in the first half. You were
Speaker 1: screaming for him to stay in that game. Where it
Speaker 1: because yes, because okay, if you define that Smith is
Speaker 1: our third down back. Yeah, okay, let let's let's continue.
Speaker 1: You you you like consistency, let's continue with what we
Speaker 1: were how it was successful. Yeah, we we made and
Speaker 1: I feel partly on the coaches and players we we
Speaker 1: we put Mac and Bruce Irving in the game man,
Speaker 1: and part of the game yeah, but by not taking
Speaker 1: care first and second down. Yeah, and so all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, now third down becomes an issue. Right, Like
Speaker 1: I said, they snatched the momentum. Uh, Dad's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Dad's on a quick slat, and like last night, you know,
Speaker 1: we laugh about it. But I remember when nor Al
Speaker 1: Turner used to tell us on Wednesdays, we're getting ready
Speaker 1: for the you know, getting ready for the for the
Speaker 1: weekend preparation. And he would say, Mike, we're gonna ask
Speaker 1: you to go to go up big for the team. Sure,
Speaker 1: And I would like, go up big? What you mean? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So he I'm like, coach, go up big? You know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm like if I don't know, I'm like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, go up You're trying to learn? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said, Well, mikeel has to run a couple of slants. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe a safety or linebacker sitting in there, right, so
Speaker 1: Troy gonna put the ball on him or he gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, do what he can and get make sure
Speaker 1: Mike getting the ball. Because there was we was running
Speaker 1: certain plays off of that slant. Yeah, and uh, just
Speaker 1: little plays like that where you have to go up
Speaker 1: big sometime or you make sure that the other guy
Speaker 1: don't get the ball and that was the interception. Hey,
Speaker 1: we kind of seen that a little bit too much
Speaker 1: from Dez. I'm not talking about playing short on the route,
Speaker 1: you know, or or where Press got through the ball.
Speaker 1: And you know, Navarro Bowman was right there, and Bowman,
Speaker 1: to his credit veteran player backed up, thinking, Okay, if
Speaker 1: I take a run at Dez, Y're probably gonna flag
Speaker 1: me here. But the ball wasn't in a grade spot.
Speaker 1: Dez hesitated on the route. But we've seen this from
Speaker 1: and okay, let me do this. Not so much Dez,
Speaker 1: but how about all the cowboy receivers? And again here
Speaker 1: I am. They get a victory and I'm nippicking about
Speaker 1: receiver play, but we all have to kind of wonder
Speaker 1: how all of a sudden does five receivers have seven
Speaker 1: catches in a game, you know, and that in the
Speaker 1: weak point. Everybody out talks with the secondary secondary to yeah,
Speaker 1: how you not getting open against this Raiders. Now, they
Speaker 1: showed during the game, and I'm quite sure you've looked
Speaker 1: at it. Yeah, they've shown doing a game that they
Speaker 1: was semi double cover, right. Yeah, So that took pressure
Speaker 1: off Beasley Williams. Yeah. And and I gotta give our
Speaker 1: coaches credit because that why don't we throw it deep? Well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we threw Beasley deep. We th down the field, Illiams deep. Yeah.
Speaker 1: On the handback, he threw Williams deep and he dropped
Speaker 1: the ball. And so my my issue is always gonna
Speaker 1: be when and you said it read at half when
Speaker 1: we did our show for the dot com Right, Hey,
Speaker 1: make make plays when they come to you, right, make
Speaker 1: an interception, right and and and like I woke up
Speaker 1: this morning and I'm like, did we win? Yeah? Did we? Oh? No?
Speaker 1: You know, And that's the thing you talked about, the
Speaker 1: line and the receipt the thing that I was I
Speaker 1: thought the line played really well. I think the tape
Speaker 1: showed that. I think they got some help. I think
Speaker 1: some guys did some good jobs in the backfield with
Speaker 1: Blitz pickup stuff, you know that putting in Mac and
Speaker 1: Irving on the same side of the field. I knew
Speaker 1: it was going to be a problem because that's the
Speaker 1: one way they get pressure. But I, you know, the
Speaker 1: focus I think is what is wrong with the receivers?
Speaker 1: You know, what is wrong with why? You know, why
Speaker 1: can't other other teams. You watch tape against the Raiders
Speaker 1: and other teams are winning on the outside and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys just didn't win nearly enough in that game, you know,
Speaker 1: and we wonder, oh, well, what's Prescott doing? And I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not saying Prescott's perfect by any means. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that at all, but he's made some throws
Speaker 1: where you know, you know, you're thinking, you and I
Speaker 1: are watching the gaming, like, throw it, throw it, you know,
Speaker 1: because you're starting your clock and your head is going, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna be it. You know, Jason Witten is
Speaker 1: not gonna hold Khalil Mack for four seconds here today.
Speaker 1: You know, the ball has got to be out. And
Speaker 1: so I'm kind of sitting here thinking, and as I'm
Speaker 1: watching the tape, I'm like, why are they not winning?
Speaker 1: Why are the routes not you know why? But again,
Speaker 1: that that's something that you know, we we focus in
Speaker 1: on on what's what offensively are some of the issues. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're gonna get Ezekiel Elliott back, which
Speaker 1: helps you tremendously. Where and you always like to say this,
Speaker 1: where is the safety playing men? Where is the safety playing?
Speaker 1: And is Are they gonna be able to double days?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna be able to double be I thought
Speaker 1: Beasley was gonna have a huge game. I thought Beasley
Speaker 1: was going to be the guy that have seven catches.
Speaker 1: But five guys had seven balls caught last night. See
Speaker 1: that That to me is that's an issue. That's an
Speaker 1: issue with me ever since Zeke left out. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: the first thing I think I was talking to you about,
Speaker 1: I say, okay, the question of them days, the question okay, well,
Speaker 1: now we have to throw to you, right. We need
Speaker 1: to keep to feel spread right. We kept it spread
Speaker 1: with with with with Zeke, but now we need to
Speaker 1: keep it spread with with you. You have a big play, right,
Speaker 1: And you know I don't buy into the coaches in them.
Speaker 1: I don't buy into well, this is the offense we run.
Speaker 1: I don't buy into that. Because you were Dad's first
Speaker 1: round pick. You are Dad's the guy we elected to pay.
Speaker 1: Make a difference whether you have to go to the
Speaker 1: coaching staff position coach, you're head coach, your offensive coording
Speaker 1: and demand that you they find a way. Well, they
Speaker 1: brought they brought back a play on third down. I
Speaker 1: wrote about this morning on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and
Speaker 1: my game notes that they brought a play back where
Speaker 1: they ran trips formation and ran Williams behind up the field,
Speaker 1: Beasley and up the field. Witten as moving picks to
Speaker 1: get Williams under. They know that the Raiders are playing
Speaker 1: man coverage third down to get the protection, they dump
Speaker 1: at the Williams it's a first down. See, there's the
Speaker 1: creativity that you know that. That's something that you want
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, how do you get Dez going? How
Speaker 1: do you get You saw when Dez got the ball
Speaker 1: that come back he ran with some violence there. He
Speaker 1: came back, snatched that ball and took off. It kind
Speaker 1: of reminded me that Jacksonville game in London where he
Speaker 1: caught the crossing route and just exploded up the field.
Speaker 1: But they have to do more of that, you know,
Speaker 1: And that that's where I kind of look at the
Speaker 1: coaching staff and say, Okay, it's on the players, yes,
Speaker 1: is it on Prescott, yes? But is it on the
Speaker 1: coaches to come up with more creative ways like that?
Speaker 1: You have to as a coach, But I mean, you
Speaker 1: can't get in games where you just get stagnant on
Speaker 1: off and you especially the next two weeks and you
Speaker 1: can't settle for it as a player. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you look around in the league, and I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to compare Dazz to other other receivers. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: he's odd number better. Yeah, the highlight receivers. He's odd
Speaker 1: number one receivers. So you know, you you have to
Speaker 1: demand it a get me the ball. I don't care
Speaker 1: how you do it. Well, how about be more consistent
Speaker 1: kind of catching football though, too, But you know what
Speaker 1: they do a craft tree? How many times last seventeen? Okay?
Speaker 1: And he called seven? Okay? But this as the offense,
Speaker 1: but the offense spreads, it's better. But come up with
Speaker 1: some of those ways. I mean again, I love the
Speaker 1: fact that he drug Williams underneath and got the first
Speaker 1: That was an easy pitch and catch. Yeah. See that
Speaker 1: Those are the kinds of things that you kind of want.
Speaker 1: And again, here the Cowboys win a football game and
Speaker 1: I'm complaining about But I think that's an issue for
Speaker 1: this team right now. I think that's what's the issues
Speaker 1: keeping them from being that. It's not just Zeke being
Speaker 1: out of the lineup, it's being it's being you know,
Speaker 1: it's hey, do you get the protection, and do you
Speaker 1: and then do you get the do you get the
Speaker 1: plays the creativity of the play. And I think that's
Speaker 1: where everybody takes takes ownership of this. Again, I'm not
Speaker 1: just totally pointing my finger at the receivers, but somebody's
Speaker 1: got to find a way to get open against a
Speaker 1: secondary that has been given up huge plays all year,
Speaker 1: all year long. The corners. Everybody that I talked to
Speaker 1: the corners was was was the was not up to par? Yeah?
Speaker 1: In the last oh no, in the last, Like, wow, man,
Speaker 1: we need to make something happen here. We need a
Speaker 1: big play, because what you said going in halftime, you know,
Speaker 1: was hey, we gotta make a We gotta make a
Speaker 1: play that will make these guys packing up. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: trying to make them. Never did ever made that play.
Speaker 1: Never didn't make that play, you know, never did, never did.
Speaker 1: And so that's that's that's worsome. Yeah, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take some calls here to Nate today. The
Speaker 1: number is I think it's on the screen. It usually
Speaker 1: is two one four eight seven two twenty one O
Speaker 1: two two. Yeah. We got Joe in San Antonio. Joe,
Speaker 1: welcome to the program. Thanks for having me. Great win.
Speaker 1: Don't want to knit ticket, but I think they could
Speaker 1: have done a lot better. Sure. When I say that,
Speaker 1: I mean Ryan and Terence Williams. Yeah, Dez is a
Speaker 1: huge part of our salary cap. He's our number one guy.
Speaker 1: He's the base of the franchise. He has got to
Speaker 1: stop pulling up short. He has got to step up
Speaker 1: in the middle of that field and make those catches.
Speaker 1: That's why he is there. Yeah, Terrence Williams, great guy,
Speaker 1: but man, we can do bad with a lot cheaper receiver.
Speaker 1: He is not catching these balls, and you know, it's
Speaker 1: like one out of ten that this guy makes a play.
Speaker 1: They have got to step up and catch the ball.
Speaker 1: It's fundamentals and they are not practicing them. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: Hey Joe, real quick, Why I got you on the
Speaker 1: phone real quick. If you didn't know how much money
Speaker 1: does made and Terence Williams made, would you still have
Speaker 1: a problem without they're playing, Yes, sir, because he is
Speaker 1: a mean So you're not basing this. You're not basing
Speaker 1: this on the fact that Dez makes twelve fifteen minute
Speaker 1: howevery much money he makes and Terrence Williams just got resigned, right,
Speaker 1: it's human nature to do that. But sure didn't know
Speaker 1: his salary. He is a DeFi number one. We all
Speaker 1: know regardless of a salary. We all know. And they
Speaker 1: have got to step up. We will not go any
Speaker 1: further than a first round if them two men do
Speaker 1: not step up. They have to help Dak. Prescott, he
Speaker 1: is a junior, junior quarterback, help the man. Well, let
Speaker 1: me ask you this, Prescott, you put any blame it
Speaker 1: on him? Yes? He is? Okay, And this and this
Speaker 1: is where it goes goes back to my point, Dad,
Speaker 1: Brian has to step up and help his quarterback. He
Speaker 1: is the man on the field. If you're gonna be
Speaker 1: the man, play like the man. Yeah, okay, Well okay, Well,
Speaker 1: now I ask you about Dak. Is Dak do you
Speaker 1: pointing the finger at Dak a little bit on? What's
Speaker 1: the receiver's problems have been? Yes, some of it is.
Speaker 1: And that's and that's where I go back to Dad. Okay,
Speaker 1: make up for that, Okay, because he's the man. He
Speaker 1: got to make up for that, all right. Uh you know, brother,
Speaker 1: And I'm glad you consistent because I'm consistent in that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Thanks Joe for Paul. We appreciate you. Man, Joe, I'm
Speaker 1: loving it because you know what, we're sounding like we
Speaker 1: are nippicking, aren't we? But you're trying to figure out
Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out why you you why we
Speaker 1: should have blew that game, blowing that game out? It
Speaker 1: ain't Nick picking, Yeah, it's reality. Uh. When you're a
Speaker 1: young quarterback, it's nothing more soothing than to have an
Speaker 1: elite receiver, yeah you know, uh, to help you get
Speaker 1: to get to get going. Yeah you know, and uh
Speaker 1: it's nothing like having to the elite receiver to get
Speaker 1: everybody else going. Yeah, Da Das has the ability. He
Speaker 1: had the ability because I don't know to to to
Speaker 1: raise everybody's else level to play. And when it spread
Speaker 1: the field because now, uh, like I said, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: they threw cold Beast the one, yeah, right off his fingertips.
Speaker 1: They how about how about you throw the ball down
Speaker 1: the field they threw they threw with and uh and
Speaker 1: they hit him more than fingertips. Yeah, and don't you
Speaker 1: know what that would have did for that sure if
Speaker 1: you would have caught those balls. Absolutely, you know, the best,
Speaker 1: the most the best deep there we have nows Hannah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how about that. Yeah, Calvin in Atlanta where they just
Speaker 1: got the power back at Hartsfield Airport. Calvin, what do
Speaker 1: you got for us? Good morning, Good morning, Hey. I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you first h Once. Once the left
Speaker 1: tackle for the Raiders went out, did the Cowboys defensively
Speaker 1: ever tried to Yes, yes, yes, yes they tried. They
Speaker 1: took that DeMarcus Lawrence. They shoved him over on that
Speaker 1: right side. Yeah, they knew, they knew, they knew that
Speaker 1: Marshall Newhouse wasn't capable. We talked about that in the pregame.
Speaker 1: We talked about that leading up to the game. Marshall
Speaker 1: Newhouse was the weak link. And I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: On the scramble play that he knocked car out of bounce,
Speaker 1: let Go and Lawrence both were right there and could
Speaker 1: not get him to the ground. Because they that he
Speaker 1: clearly beat Marshall Newhouse around the corner, but just couldn't
Speaker 1: make it happen. It's called it's called closing the deal.
Speaker 1: We could not wide received. We couldn't close the deal.
Speaker 1: Sure we third in short, we could deal. Uh several
Speaker 1: times we right there on the quarterback. We couldn't close
Speaker 1: the deal. Yeah, what do you got Calvin? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard you guys talking about um, the you know,
Speaker 1: the creativity, the creativity, you know why we can't win
Speaker 1: out that? Sure? Like that? Sure? And I've just noticed
Speaker 1: I've never I've never been an fan. Now wait a minute,
Speaker 1: wait a minute. They won thirteen games with Lenahan last year.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you were a fan. Then don't go there. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, I wasn't a fan. I wasn't. Oh sir,
Speaker 1: don't lie. No, listen, don't let me tell you. Without
Speaker 1: Romo he is lost. Oh whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Now
Speaker 1: with Romo playing on the sideline, we'll just come out
Speaker 1: and say you're a Romo fan. Just come out and
Speaker 1: say your Romo. Just come out and say you're a
Speaker 1: Romo fan. I'm a Romo fan, but I'm not a okay,
Speaker 1: good enough? And where has he won it? You know
Speaker 1: he doesn't outside of Dallas? Where has he won? All right?
Speaker 1: All right, cowboy, get off the phone quick. I was
Speaker 1: about to curl him on that one. Don't you picked him?
Speaker 1: You picked him clean? But you know what we have
Speaker 1: to uh, we have to do a better job from
Speaker 1: top to bottom. Oh sure, I mean even us is
Speaker 1: as announces, is you know Covid like we picked him
Speaker 1: like a rookie quarterback and last year we're picking over
Speaker 1: the carcass of a win. Yeah, that's wrong with that?
Speaker 1: All right, Hey, we're gonna take our first break. Calvin.
Speaker 1: We love you, Joe, we love you. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the call. We'll take some more calls if you feel
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Speaker 1: not gonna like you guys too much being a Louisiana
Speaker 1: Tech guy. Give us a little bit out. We guys
Speaker 1: had a good season this year though, right, yes, we
Speaker 1: way seventy five this year. All right, what's the outlook
Speaker 1: coming to the game? You guys ready to go? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: so we've been ready. You've been ready, sir. Y'all got
Speaker 1: a new hair head coach? Yeah I got that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: came from CAW. I liked him back that they throw
Speaker 1: it around. Everybody likes that when you throw the ball
Speaker 1: around that defense. Are we ready to go? We've been right, man?
Speaker 1: This is gonna be one of our busy defensive games.
Speaker 1: Do you think so? I'm calling for a victory? Right,
Speaker 1: I'm all about that, you know what? Y'all come around, man,
Speaker 1: come on around, Gotta get everybody on camera here, right,
Speaker 1: everybody around the world's football team, these guys. Man. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: how about that camera man? Yeah, everybody gets to talk
Speaker 1: like Clint caught right now in the building. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. It's great to have you guys here. Great
Speaker 1: to have everybody here. Yeah, man, say something, bron what's
Speaker 1: your name with them beats? Bro? We were having no
Speaker 1: beats up in Judabell. You see. Yeah, wow, man, you
Speaker 1: got on your cowboy hat. Man. So, now what this
Speaker 1: is the offense or the defense? A mixture of everybody? Everybody? Yeah,
Speaker 1: mixture of everybody? Well cool? So now who's the senior
Speaker 1: up in here? And it seniors? Okay? Teen minutes right
Speaker 1: here when this thing first started, WI your coach that left.
Speaker 1: Did y'all feel like y'all was gonna be at this
Speaker 1: level where y'all at right now with the seven wins? Uh?
Speaker 1: Because it was It was a grind, wasn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was it was a grind. But you know, I
Speaker 1: feel like we all come together as a team, and
Speaker 1: we know now he's getting the coach speak down. I
Speaker 1: like that we coach speak there. You know, it's all
Speaker 1: about the players right there. Hey, it's always about the
Speaker 1: jimmies and Joe's remember that, right. Wow, Well that's good.
Speaker 1: What's great to have all you guys here. Best to
Speaker 1: luck to you as well. What you seem about the
Speaker 1: Cowboy game last night? Good Cowboy fans in the building.
Speaker 1: Are you guys from Yeah, several Cowboy fans. Most of you
Speaker 1: you guys from Texas? Right, anybody from the Houston area
Speaker 1: right now? Yeah, we lost that quarterback all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: that thing went came to south right. Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: We'll great to have all you guys here. Yeah, thank y'all.
Speaker 1: The best to luck to you. But smart guys in here.
Speaker 1: But may we'll be working for these guys one day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a bunch of smart guys there at sea. I'm checking
Speaker 1: them out. Yeah yeah, I'll be good man. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you guys, take care of best man. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: me mess dangs in the building here. You're gonna play
Speaker 1: Louisiana tech in the Frisco dude. Yeah, great to have him.
Speaker 1: Great to have a guy. Yeah. But yeah, so it's
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Speaker 1: we'd go back to the phones. Let's go to Robbie
Speaker 1: in Belton, Texas. Robbie, you're up. What do you got? Hey? Guys,
Speaker 1: first time I get to call in I'm usually working
Speaker 1: during the week. Well, very good, good to have you.
Speaker 1: What do you got man? I'm just a Cowboys fan
Speaker 1: and yesterday I was screaming at TV. We all were.
Speaker 1: I can't help it. I just every time I see that,
Speaker 1: I'm like screaming, why didn't you do that? Why didn't
Speaker 1: you make that play? So what's stood out for you
Speaker 1: this Yeah, let it stood out? Give us something to
Speaker 1: get something to hang our hats on here. M I
Speaker 1: kind of thought this season would go the way it's going,
Speaker 1: you know, with the secondary being changed around, in the
Speaker 1: quarterback being new. I just I figured it'd be a
Speaker 1: long shot for us to make the playoffs. But I
Speaker 1: just think, do y'all think that the coaching staff could
Speaker 1: have done a better job this year? Okay? Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: all right, appreciate that, Robbie, thank you. You know, when
Speaker 1: you when you go through this type of year here,
Speaker 1: you you always can look at games. And that's one
Speaker 1: thing with me and brought us that you always make
Speaker 1: a game. Man. They could have did this, uh, they
Speaker 1: could have fixed this, su But our coaching staff is set.
Speaker 1: We know who they are defensively, and they're gonna do
Speaker 1: uh not a lot of scheming. They're gonna be They're
Speaker 1: gonna run their scheme and ask that you hustle and
Speaker 1: played within this game as hard as you can. I
Speaker 1: see a lot of adjustments are made on the field
Speaker 1: with Sean Lee. I saw that yesterday for the first time.
Speaker 1: I saw what he was making. Some adjustments to the
Speaker 1: run game and to the passing game. But other than that, sir,
Speaker 1: the little little movements that he has them do. I
Speaker 1: on the field, our defense is set offensively. I just
Speaker 1: think that we can't give a little bit more. As coaches,
Speaker 1: I would tell you what to do. I've been very
Speaker 1: critical of Jason Garrett over the years, very critical of him.
Speaker 1: I've said that he probably should be fired several times.
Speaker 1: But you know what, this is a chance. This is
Speaker 1: a chance where this is a chance where he won
Speaker 1: the football game. Yes he did. He put the he
Speaker 1: put the players in the situation to win that game.
Speaker 1: And to his credit. You know, again, I've been very
Speaker 1: very critical of him and the staff's inability to make
Speaker 1: those adjustments that we've talked about. But yeah, he his
Speaker 1: decision making won that football game yesterday. For him to
Speaker 1: go for it on fourth I'm surprised he didn't go
Speaker 1: for it on fourth and one on the goal line. Myself,
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna try and end that game
Speaker 1: or at least make the Raiders have to go ninety
Speaker 1: nine yards on him right there. So with all that
Speaker 1: being said, though, give them a little credit for pulling
Speaker 1: it out yesterday. Yeah, because it could have very well.
Speaker 1: It could have very well gone. It could have gone
Speaker 1: the other way. They could have let things some bad
Speaker 1: things could have happened there, you know, with the way
Speaker 1: it went. I mean, it was a close game and
Speaker 1: he made some decisions that helped his football team win.
Speaker 1: The one thing that we get on him a lot,
Speaker 1: as fans get on him a lot about I think
Speaker 1: this is what took us down to the wire and
Speaker 1: he kept us is his calmness. Yeah, that no emotion,
Speaker 1: even when the big. You know, he was dying inside,
Speaker 1: you know, even with the big you know what the punt, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the fake pun and goes his own third and eleven
Speaker 1: on his twenty four. Yeah, I mean that's a decision
Speaker 1: that wins the game. Now he gets killed for that
Speaker 1: if that doesn't work. Yeah, but you got good blocks,
Speaker 1: you got a good decision by Chris Jones. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give him credit because I'm the one usually kicking him in.
Speaker 1: You know what. Yeah, because that yeah, that that was
Speaker 1: that was he went and won that football game for
Speaker 1: them yesterday. If he would have as the game started
Speaker 1: caving in, because I like your columnists, I like your
Speaker 1: colmnist start when when when it started caving in? And
Speaker 1: and everybody's coming back out to every bad play, every
Speaker 1: every bad third, Now every bad third, he continued to,
Speaker 1: you know, if people, people can get all they came about,
Speaker 1: get about clapping, keep your head up, next play? Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: even all the way into the Jeff Heath last ditch effort,
Speaker 1: an effort by Wow, it got David and Oklahoma Day, Oklahoma, Dave,
Speaker 1: what's up? You're on with two for the road. What's up?
Speaker 1: I'm so glad to finally get in. Let me take
Speaker 1: you go, Cowboy. Yeah, there you go. What do you got, hey, Nate, Nate, Yeah,
Speaker 1: tigg you guys. Man, Oh my god, I'm I'm fifty
Speaker 1: eight years old. I was born in fifty nine. I
Speaker 1: started watching the Cowboys when I was ten. Yeah, and uh,
Speaker 1: other than doing the Marine Corps six years the Marine Corps,
Speaker 1: I missed about five games only. Yeah, thanks for your service.
Speaker 1: What do you got man? Uh? What that game yesterday?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, you know I don't call it a victory.
Speaker 1: I just called her a wigan, you know. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: some of them play callings. Come on, man, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: well just said the head coach won the game for
Speaker 1: you yesterday. Yeah, some of them. Oh no, no, give
Speaker 1: him some credit. You gotta give him to give the credit.
Speaker 1: But but you know, you can see how much we
Speaker 1: do seek. Sure you do. We've seen that for six weeks.
Speaker 1: Oh my lord, yeah, you know, and that and in
Speaker 1: that third down and gold on that third down and
Speaker 1: gold man, come on, man, you know, uh wow, we
Speaker 1: just we got it. Put the second of our teeth
Speaker 1: that game, that guys. Yeah, well, thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: very much for the call. Man, appreciate that. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something, man. Yeah, but you know
Speaker 1: what it is. So like I said, I woke up
Speaker 1: this morning and normal I can wake up. I've been
Speaker 1: gonna wrap my head around. Then I work out and
Speaker 1: I'm watching the game and I'm I'm and I'm saying
Speaker 1: to myself, we won this game, and they be excited
Speaker 1: because wins are so hard in his league. Sure, in
Speaker 1: my mind, I kept saying, but brought us, said he's
Speaker 1: gonna look at the wire receivers. Brought us. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I expected this game to be tight until about the
Speaker 1: middle of the third and I thought we were blow
Speaker 1: it over. The we was doing the datas uh Cowboys
Speaker 1: dot Com. I'm like, we got this will but we
Speaker 1: never never did. We never blew it open. No, And
Speaker 1: that's but you know again, that's the some of the inconsistencies.
Speaker 1: You know, if you want, hey, David, try inconsistency on
Speaker 1: play call, if you wanted to say that, inconsistency on
Speaker 1: personnel groups, inconsistent of guys making plays. We talked a
Speaker 1: bunch some big opportunities. You talked about Williams on the
Speaker 1: handback after the fake punt they had that play. There's
Speaker 1: a good call, right there. You gotta come up with
Speaker 1: you gotta come up with plays. It's as fans. We
Speaker 1: have to be better than just the coaching aspect. There's
Speaker 1: some teams that have bad coaches that overcome bad coaching, yes,
Speaker 1: and still make plays. You know that, Hey, that coaches
Speaker 1: are only as good as the players they have. That
Speaker 1: guy Alabama wins every week because he's got good players.
Speaker 1: The guy in New England wins every week because his players.
Speaker 1: He puts his players in situations on the goal line
Speaker 1: and when it's a fake spike, everybody's covering. He just said.
Speaker 1: But that guy in New England puts his players. He does.
Speaker 1: He does, You don't do. You don't agree on that
Speaker 1: he does. But how about how about the defense they
Speaker 1: had on the spike play? They had it covered? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had the spike play covered. I mean there was something.
Speaker 1: How about on the Super Bowl that they when they
Speaker 1: when they tried to throw the ball to Russell Wilson. Guy,
Speaker 1: isn't that what the guy said? That the players just
Speaker 1: had the guys to be a little more creative and
Speaker 1: put them in play. You gotta make play, Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: reach I'm this nitpicking. No, No, we're all nitpicking. Right now,
Speaker 1: there's a victory victory. Cowboys do win twenty to seventeen.
Speaker 1: Bobby in California. Did you go to the game last night, Bobby, No, sir,
Speaker 1: but I watched every second of it in total nervousness,
Speaker 1: as I usually do. I'm a Cowboy fan since nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy one. Thank you, h And what I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk about, particularly for I guess Brian brought us, is that, Uh,
Speaker 1: you talked last night. I believe it was after the
Speaker 1: game on the OTA that you were going to look
Speaker 1: at the film and see if the receivers were not
Speaker 1: open or Dak wasn't getting the ball two of the receivers,
Speaker 1: and you probably didn't have time to see. I saw it.
Speaker 1: I left here at two o'clock last night, got back
Speaker 1: here at seven, So yeah, I saw it. They weren't
Speaker 1: getting open. You got from it and hang up listen
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah they didn't. I mean when they when
Speaker 1: they were open, they didn't make enough places that I
Speaker 1: know for a fact. But they Nate was talking about it.
Speaker 1: You got some double coverage to death side. I don't
Speaker 1: they think that they were really expecting that if they're
Speaker 1: double covering desks. Other guys got to make it happen.
Speaker 1: I've talked about the underneath route to Terence Williams. That
Speaker 1: was a good play. I don't think they got Cole
Speaker 1: Beasley open enough in this stuff. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Raiders are not a good secondary, and they played
Speaker 1: like a good secondary last night the way they covered
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. You know, and that's a problem. You know,
Speaker 1: It's kind of been the theme all year long, Nate,
Speaker 1: when they've played against teams that have been able to
Speaker 1: cover them. You know, that's something we have to work on, man,
Speaker 1: work on it. I mean, wow, it's just so nerve
Speaker 1: wracking that this team has been fortunate enough in these
Speaker 1: last three games where they could have really build some momentum,
Speaker 1: especially going into the Raiders game. Yeah, we could have
Speaker 1: built more momentum. Now I know that, I know, we
Speaker 1: know what Zeke brings to the team. Yeah, he helps
Speaker 1: the play caller because I because I you know, he's
Speaker 1: been my MVP since the day he walked in this building. Sure,
Speaker 1: and and and I hate to say this, because they
Speaker 1: won three three games without him, He's still my MVP.
Speaker 1: You're surprised that, did you You surprised that they went
Speaker 1: three and three, or are you happy they went three
Speaker 1: and three? Now I'm I'm over with joy that they
Speaker 1: went three and three because sometimes you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of people joked that mister Jones when he said that
Speaker 1: Dak is better for this situation, you weren't buying that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think he's right home. I think he's
Speaker 1: right on. When when a quarterback gets to experience this
Speaker 1: these lows and get all of these reps, you know,
Speaker 1: it's good to get it when you when you when
Speaker 1: you're the high man and the man, when you get
Speaker 1: to see the ugly side of it, it drives you
Speaker 1: even even more to be able. You're buying into the
Speaker 1: Jerry quarterback. I mean, I remember when we went one
Speaker 1: and fifteen thirteen and Jimmy used to tell us, do
Speaker 1: not ever forget that feeling. Yeah, because we don't need
Speaker 1: that feeling coming back again. Let that feeling drive you
Speaker 1: to be a better human being only on the field,
Speaker 1: but off the sure. So when you had that adverse
Speaker 1: stuff and you come through it and you still physically
Speaker 1: and mentally intact hey day, you'll be a better person
Speaker 1: for it. We got Jordan, he called in on two one, four,
Speaker 1: eight seven two twenty one h two. Jordan, what do
Speaker 1: you got? Hey? How's it going? Guys? Good? Hey, it's
Speaker 1: got two quick questions. Um, I want you to get
Speaker 1: your y'all take on the defensive backs from the safety's
Speaker 1: played last night, and on that third and goal on
Speaker 1: our offensives last possession, why get it we try to
Speaker 1: run it in with Rod Smith? I agree with you
Speaker 1: on that that part. I do agree with you on Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: they'd run it in earlier in the game with Rod Smith.
Speaker 1: Why not just let him go right behind? You know?
Speaker 1: Sometimes again, there's where your personnel groups get me kind
Speaker 1: of confused. If you're gonna take a big back, use
Speaker 1: a big back, especially down there, especially if you've proven
Speaker 1: to them that you could take a big back and
Speaker 1: score with a big back. I love Alfred Morris, I
Speaker 1: really do. But you know what happened Alfred Morris last night?
Speaker 1: They pulled him out of the game and he lost cold.
Speaker 1: He went real cold, went cold. And see because he
Speaker 1: tried to make some moves, man as just not him
Speaker 1: and just fall to the ground. Alan's problem and George's
Speaker 1: question was also about the young defensive backs last night.
Speaker 1: You know what Brodess. My issue at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year, and I have no problems with the way
Speaker 1: they played. My issue is, when you're young, the first
Speaker 1: neat two things. I care about technique and no one
Speaker 1: wa the lineup, right, This league gonna teach you the rest,
Speaker 1: right and they and they are learning. They are learning
Speaker 1: the rest as we speak. How about a Woozier stepping up.
Speaker 1: Everybody thought that that beast Mode kind of you know,
Speaker 1: kind of punked in there on that play. Watched the table,
Speaker 1: now you watched the tape. Yeah, he took right shoulder
Speaker 1: into beast Mode and he went knocked him sideway. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know what I was saying when I saw it,
Speaker 1: I was like, don't duck your head. No, But he
Speaker 1: caught him shoulder clay, he went for him, he went
Speaker 1: form tackle. Next play he comes back, yeah, and stops
Speaker 1: the third down. There you go that, Yeah, that's yes.
Speaker 1: After you have a big bang bang playlist. Yes, I
Speaker 1: mean he took on a physical back at the point
Speaker 1: and and and yeah it looked bad like he was
Speaker 1: a tennis ball bouncing off a tank r But he
Speaker 1: but when he hit him, beast Mode went sideways and
Speaker 1: went out of balance, he didn't continue momentum up the field.
Speaker 1: I get the kid credit for stepping up and like
Speaker 1: you said, making the play. And the next game and
Speaker 1: the next it was what was about third and eleven
Speaker 1: or third and ten, and he stopped what was third
Speaker 1: and seven, third and eight, and he stopped him. Oh
Speaker 1: joys shot, Yeah, I'm talk about the receiver. So the
Speaker 1: next play he came up and got a team off
Speaker 1: the field. That's what you gotta do. Okay, We're gonna
Speaker 1: take our final break here for Douglas so he can
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Speaker 1: of calls, let's go to Mark in Keen, Texas. Mark,
Speaker 1: what do you got hello, guys? You demand me on? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: I had a comment about the ball to DEAs that
Speaker 1: was really high. He's got a dacks thrown a lot
Speaker 1: that we're in a safe spot and they weren't caught
Speaker 1: down low. So sure, everybody all ye're saying he needs
Speaker 1: to get it up, But the question is, y, I'll
Speaker 1: talk about about being in twelve person down thirteen, but
Speaker 1: it seems to me like when they're in the twenty
Speaker 1: one personnel, you know, with the fullback in the game,
Speaker 1: that the ball comes out on time to the routes better,
Speaker 1: especially when Zeke is there. You know, it's not everybody
Speaker 1: talks about the safety, but the how the linebackers react
Speaker 1: even though they're in the box. You know, they're not
Speaker 1: playing the run without Zeke there. So my question is
Speaker 1: do you think when z gets back to he'll be
Speaker 1: hitting the routes on time better like last year? Because
Speaker 1: last year Dak just looks to me, you know, really
Speaker 1: good when when the play action and then hitting the
Speaker 1: route on time you know, the Beast or whatever. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you, Barne. Yeah, I think you're I think you're
Speaker 1: on something there. It's just it's just cleaner. It's just
Speaker 1: cleaner because you know what the linebackers, if they bring
Speaker 1: an eighth this extra safety up, it's just cleaner because
Speaker 1: you have to make that one or two steps before
Speaker 1: you drop back. You know, on play action pass, you're
Speaker 1: gonna make that one or two steps because if Zeke
Speaker 1: act like he got the ball, people are gonna respond to.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get a great example of that this weekend
Speaker 1: next weekend against Seattle. Because of what happened to Seattle
Speaker 1: in that game with Gurley in the way he just
Speaker 1: slammed the ball at him, they have got to figure out, okay,
Speaker 1: we have got to stop somebody in the running game
Speaker 1: and Seattle. I mean, I haven't watched the tape, but
Speaker 1: I'm watching Gurley hit some massive holes and so all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I'm starting to think, Okay, you get
Speaker 1: you get Zeke back. What does that do for your
Speaker 1: play action game? What does that do for Scott Linehan
Speaker 1: calling the game? What does that do for your waggle,
Speaker 1: your boot game? All those things? Yeah, if you want
Speaker 1: to if you want to take away the wagon boot
Speaker 1: and play ends wide, run the ball up inside on
Speaker 1: these guys. Oh day, all day long, all day long.
Speaker 1: So I mean to me, I think that. I think
Speaker 1: that when you when you talk about what Zeke brings,
Speaker 1: you'll see it. You'll see different adjustments as far as
Speaker 1: linebackers stepping out and that's all you need. Let these
Speaker 1: NFL receivers tight ends, give them a step and they
Speaker 1: can make some good things happen. Let's go to Peyton
Speaker 1: in Mississippi. Peyton, what's going on in the great state
Speaker 1: of Mississippi. Oh, yeah, I appreciate you taking my call,
Speaker 1: no problem. I'm a Missipi side along, so of course
Speaker 1: I'm a Jack fan. Go Bulldogs. Yeah, I know Jack.
Speaker 1: It's got all the intangibles and that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: I wonder, are you guys concerned or do you think
Speaker 1: the coaches are concerned about his accuracy? No, that's just
Speaker 1: that's just a mechanics thing that maybe gets away from him.
Speaker 1: That he will work on it. He continues to work
Speaker 1: on it. Uh, he just I'm with broad. As they
Speaker 1: started the game well and the way he was doing things,
Speaker 1: but as the game went on and he got tighter.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden he begins to feel pressure. He
Speaker 1: may not look like it, but I tell you you
Speaker 1: may not look like you feel pressure. But all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the windows get tighter. The raiders got more
Speaker 1: and more confidence in the side of the game omentum.
Speaker 1: They was taking more chances. Irvin and Matt coming off
Speaker 1: the end. So things getting little hectic, and I just
Speaker 1: think through mechanics and Zeke getting back, and we're looking
Speaker 1: for answers. Yeah, we are looking for answers, Peyton, And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you an answer that I you know, you
Speaker 1: saw him play his career at Mississippi State, and he
Speaker 1: didn't probably didn't see a bunch of tight window throws.
Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden he's having to make
Speaker 1: tight window throws with receivers that are having trouble making
Speaker 1: contested catches. How many times he's he throwing the ball.
Speaker 1: If you know, you think of catch radius, So Terrence Williams,
Speaker 1: anything behind him is gonna get knocked in the air.
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, you're trying to throw balls
Speaker 1: perfectly to guys because you're worried about the catch radius.
Speaker 1: Other than Dez Bryant and Cole Cole Beasley being a
Speaker 1: small guy. But what happened when the ball went down
Speaker 1: the field? Maybe Bryce Butler runs that ball down. Maybe
Speaker 1: Bryce Butler extends to make the play. So all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, now you're throwing balls into areas and you're
Speaker 1: worried about if it's going to be a contested play.
Speaker 1: Perfect example is Cook on the push off against Sean Lee.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, big as radius as well. There you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just if if you are gonna make plays, you
Speaker 1: gotta you got those plays that that helps quarterbacks not
Speaker 1: it'll take that chance, right. See. The one guy that
Speaker 1: can make a contested play is Dez Bryant, but you
Speaker 1: have to throw him the slant and you have to
Speaker 1: throw him the end so he can use his body
Speaker 1: to make the play. But when you're when you don't
Speaker 1: have a whole hell of a lot of confidence that
Speaker 1: you're gonna make a tight window throw and it's not
Speaker 1: gonna get knocked up in the air, then and I
Speaker 1: think that's where your problems are. It's not all on Dak,
Speaker 1: but let's you know, let's look at, okay, the routes
Speaker 1: that are run the receivers contested plays, but you're asking
Speaker 1: him to maybe do something he's not capable of doing.
Speaker 1: He's now, I don't think he's ever gonna be Tom
Speaker 1: Brady or Drew Brees or any of those guys throwing
Speaker 1: people open. But what he's gonna do is he's gonna
Speaker 1: beat you with his feet. He's gonna beat you with
Speaker 1: his toughness. He's gonna beat you with his mobility. And
Speaker 1: when he has to make a good throw, you gotta
Speaker 1: reward him with a catch. Terrence Williams down the field,
Speaker 1: throw a deep ball down the field. You gotta make
Speaker 1: that play. Can't drop that ball. So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's a lot to it. Peyton myself, thank you for
Speaker 1: your call. I went a long way on that one.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying that Dak is just totally
Speaker 1: that we should just wash our hands of, you know.
Speaker 1: But if I'm him and I'm throwing the ball and
Speaker 1: it's a little bit behind a guy, and I see
Speaker 1: it getting knocked up in the air all year long,
Speaker 1: I am I confident throwing it in there on that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and hold all the other results as a sack,
Speaker 1: and let's and let's be yeah and when you hold
Speaker 1: the ball. You're right, you know there's there's some scheme
Speaker 1: issue too. I mean, you're asking nothing against Jason Witton
Speaker 1: because on the play to James Hannah, the thirty one
Speaker 1: yard play to Hannah, Witton stays in and blocks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he gives them a chance to get the ball
Speaker 1: down the field. But to ask him to hold Khalil
Speaker 1: Mack for four seconds because you're waiting for a receiver
Speaker 1: to get open because you're afraid if you throw him
Speaker 1: a contested ball it's gonna go up in the air. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that to me? Is that? Yeah, that's not good business.
Speaker 1: That's not good business at all. Andre Hey in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: How you doing, man? Good? I'm glad. How y'are doing today? Excellent?
Speaker 1: Thank you. I got a quick question, um, especially to me,
Speaker 1: what do you think about teams getting up for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Have a crappy year, but for some reason
Speaker 1: when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys, they want to
Speaker 1: show up. Yeah, you gotta understand, man, We've had how
Speaker 1: many Nationals have last game? We've been a Game of
Speaker 1: the Week twice. I know, we've had a couple of
Speaker 1: Monday Monday Night a sun. I mean, you know, not
Speaker 1: only what the cow who the Cowboys are supposed to be,
Speaker 1: but the nationally televised games. People people's you know, they
Speaker 1: stand up watch that the Raiders had something to play
Speaker 1: for the last night, even though their situation was Yeah,
Speaker 1: very dim that. Yeah, I mean the Raiders and the
Speaker 1: Cowboys don't meet that often. Two iconic franchises meeting that
Speaker 1: last night in that game, and both are kind of
Speaker 1: tread and water right now. But still, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you're always going to get the Cowboys special. Your Cowboys
Speaker 1: are always gonna get someone's best shot. One more thing
Speaker 1: the caller earlier was mentioned about debt performance. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: you have a rookie receiver in a veteran quarterback, that
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback, if you want, trust me, he won't go
Speaker 1: to them. Right. So, at what point does the veteran
Speaker 1: receiver comes comes to the quarterback assistance? I mean they
Speaker 1: have to step up. They do have to make them please,
Speaker 1: they do. They have to get their self opened. They
Speaker 1: do not. I have seen uh quality receivers that's being doubled. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they get open, they do. Thank you for the call, Andrew.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that man, he's right, He's it's to your point, Nate,
Speaker 1: here where we're winning football by the way, Cowboys one
Speaker 1: twenty to seventeen. Trying to figure out the man, trying
Speaker 1: to figure out things here and see one thing about it, Man,
Speaker 1: I got selective memory. I just remember he's hitting him
Speaker 1: in the back and he and he fumbling it into
Speaker 1: an end zone. Were winning. I just can't really remember
Speaker 1: the rest of that game. Yeah, that game that that
Speaker 1: you're very close to losing. That football took, it took,
Speaker 1: it took some unusual I can I give the head
Speaker 1: coach credit, and I know a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: want to give the head coach sneak. Yeah, yeah, go
Speaker 1: for it on your own end of the field. See. See,
Speaker 1: that's what you gotta do. You gotta be able to
Speaker 1: come up with stuff like that. If you know the
Speaker 1: can do of your team, you got to find a
Speaker 1: way to make your team, you know, respond, And I
Speaker 1: think he did. Tony in Atlanta respond to us, what
Speaker 1: do you got brought us a Nate? What's up? Brothers?
Speaker 1: We're rolling? What's going on with you? Sir? As well? Hey, look,
Speaker 1: you know watching that game last night and I've been
Speaker 1: trying to call. Call you for a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: brought us sure, because I've been wanting to ask the
Speaker 1: question about these receivers typically Cole Beasley. Sure, and if
Speaker 1: he's a one trick pony or are they only using
Speaker 1: him like a one trick pony? And then last night
Speaker 1: I saw him go up the right sideline sure and
Speaker 1: get a forty yard path or on too him right.
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, maybe they maybe they knew I
Speaker 1: was gonna ask this question and decided to go ahead
Speaker 1: and do it. So is he a one trick pony
Speaker 1: or they just using him like a one trick pony?
Speaker 1: And do you think Switzer is going to be used
Speaker 1: the same way or as he a one trick pony?
Speaker 1: I hang up and listen, guys. Appreciate y'all. Thanks Tony,
Speaker 1: appreciate the call. One trick ponies? Huh? He asked you
Speaker 1: the question brought us I'll tell you what. You know
Speaker 1: what though, I I do. I do think that I
Speaker 1: think Switcher has better downfield capabilities than what Cole Beasley does.
Speaker 1: And that's not a slap at Cole Beasley, but throwing
Speaker 1: him a forty yard ball, you saw what can potentially happen.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have the extension if the ball is thrown
Speaker 1: just a little too far. Hell of an effort. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what teams have figured out how to
Speaker 1: play Cole Beasley. Don't let him escape, you know, don't
Speaker 1: let him run pivot routes. Don't if you single Okay,
Speaker 1: And this is where I thought the Raiders and watching
Speaker 1: their tape, there was plenty of time where Travis Carey
Speaker 1: was singled up on a slot player. I'm thinking, oh,
Speaker 1: Beasley's gonna wear this cat out. But no teams have
Speaker 1: figured out you gotta walk a safety over there. Look
Speaker 1: at what happened on the big play the other day
Speaker 1: against the Giants where where a Smith caught the ball
Speaker 1: for you know, the big touchdown. What they do. They
Speaker 1: doubled Bryant and they doubled Beasley and they don't give
Speaker 1: him a scape. They play the slant and they and
Speaker 1: they don't allow him to run the pivot. And I
Speaker 1: think that I think that's more about not being a
Speaker 1: one trick pump. But I think that's teams that figure
Speaker 1: out take away what he's really really good at, and
Speaker 1: they've tried, they've tried to put him in the backfield.
Speaker 1: They've tried to move him around. You know, this haven't
Speaker 1: had a whole lot of success doing it. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Ross and Houston Ross. What is up? How's it going, guys?
Speaker 1: It's going well? Thank you. Uh So, here was my
Speaker 1: question after watching the game last night. Are we better
Speaker 1: off without Zeke? Well? Do we have a better chance?
Speaker 1: Games about Hyron Smith? Yeah? Lee? Oh there you go,
Speaker 1: all right now you qualified it. I thought there you'd
Speaker 1: taken your crazy pills with the cup of the cup
Speaker 1: of Gatorade. Well, no, I just don't. I just don't.
Speaker 1: I don't see as winnings, we gotta have Sean Lee
Speaker 1: and we can't win without Hiring. I think you can. No, No,
Speaker 1: I think you can win without Turns Smith as long
Speaker 1: as you have Ezekiel Eliot. I do, I mean, because
Speaker 1: I know you can. I think, I mean, I do.
Speaker 1: I mean I feel like that. And it sounds like
Speaker 1: talking to some people this morning, I mean listening to
Speaker 1: Brad Sham. I know those guys were Kay got home
Speaker 1: at four forty this morning. Brad kind of felt like
Speaker 1: that maybe Tyron would miss this game, which you know,
Speaker 1: and you know the grand scheme of things. I mean
Speaker 1: you need all hands on deck for Seattle. I mean
Speaker 1: they're really banged up as well. But yeah, but I
Speaker 1: think Ezekiel Elliott makes up for a lot of ills
Speaker 1: that you might have with your offensive line if things
Speaker 1: are not blocked perfectly. He is not going to take
Speaker 1: a negative play where last time the playoff, Oh you
Speaker 1: no way, you said Tyren Smith, I didn't. Smith and
Speaker 1: saw Lee. I think they're more valuable than Absolutely they
Speaker 1: are not. I don't know if they're more valuable than
Speaker 1: You're three and three with your three and three with
Speaker 1: Zeke and and Shawn Lee and Tyron Smith. You know
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Well, you're right, and and
Speaker 1: and and the thing about it is that also what
Speaker 1: I told contradict what I said, don't do that. That's
Speaker 1: that's quarterback rating his forty three points higher with z. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. So he helps, he helps the coordinator,
Speaker 1: he helps the defense. There's a reason why Rod Marnelli
Speaker 1: signed off on him two years ago. Rod Marinelli knew
Speaker 1: what was going on. He's like, well, you're gonna control
Speaker 1: the ball, you're gonna get you know, you're gonna run
Speaker 1: from first down? Yeah sure, Oh yeah, Jalen rams about him.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this question for Lee? Who is
Speaker 1: your MVP his team? That's the question. Yeah, I'm asking you.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, don't hang up, don't
Speaker 1: hang up? Is you who ask you a question? Is
Speaker 1: Shaun Lee you MVP? Is uh Smith you MVP? Who
Speaker 1: is your MVP? That that's the question. Is of those three?
Speaker 1: I think it's Shaun Lee because our defense is thirteen
Speaker 1: points the game higher without him. I think we have
Speaker 1: a better chance winning in the playoffs with Shaun Lee
Speaker 1: without z with Zeke, without Lee, I would take I
Speaker 1: would take my chances without Tyron Smith. Because I asked you.
Speaker 1: I asked these guys the other day if I thought
Speaker 1: they thought that that Lyle Collins is the third best
Speaker 1: offensive lineman playing right now? How do use a second?
Speaker 1: Oh second? Bath? This is fun, in't nate you know what?
Speaker 1: Thank you for the call, ROSS appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But I don't seek your VP any I don't challenge
Speaker 1: people a lot. But see that that that's where quit
Speaker 1: looking to listen to these people on the quick listening
Speaker 1: to just listen to me because Zeke is hit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's where it begins. And that's where it ends. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know if you know you you you you think
Speaker 1: Sean Lee or Tyron Smith, you can be missing both
Speaker 1: of them and Zeke will fix it. Was ailing you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all we need is a half of block. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and we go. And I didn't think that any burn belt.
Speaker 1: I didn't think he played terrible. I'd say something, thirty
Speaker 1: two minutes with Zeke controlling the ball, you get seven points?
Speaker 1: Yeah versus no, Zeke? You got the other two guys
Speaker 1: you get you you you you handled thirty two minutes,
Speaker 1: all you scoring is three. You still lose the game.
Speaker 1: With Zeke. You get there. There was no question, there
Speaker 1: was no question. Get seven, you get seven points everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't don't don't don't you know, I don't. Don't get
Speaker 1: out in fantasy land. Football is real, bro. And what
Speaker 1: Zeke does, he's a one He's a one in a
Speaker 1: million type player. Yeah, you know, he makes it. You
Speaker 1: survived it. Now, both both coordinators a better A better coordinator, absolutely,
Speaker 1: you know, absolutely, Just think if we would have had
Speaker 1: Zeke and we was and was willing to take all
Speaker 1: them chances that we took last night. Sure, there's a
Speaker 1: no brain that that thing. They're not sticking a card
Speaker 1: in between the poll. That's the first I'm going now, yeah,
Speaker 1: come on now exactly. I'm with you, Nate, I'm with
Speaker 1: you on that. All right. Well, hey, that's all the
Speaker 1: time we have for two for the road today. I
Speaker 1: want to thank everybody that called in. We do a
Speaker 1: pre question. That last callum, that's old Ross. Oh Ross, wellyo, Ross,
Speaker 1: I'm out to make sure you come on last show.
Speaker 1: Educate you. But no, thanks again everybody, Thanks for everybody.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the SMU football team. Yeah, man, man, But
Speaker 1: if you're in the area and you want to go
Speaker 1: see and you're hanging out in Frisco, Frisco, go yeah,
Speaker 1: go out there and hang out. It's you, Louisiana Tech
Speaker 1: and SMU in the Frisco Bowl just down the street
Speaker 1: from us here, So make sure you take a part
Speaker 1: of that. But again, hey, Nate, thank you so much
Speaker 1: getting that burden with me today and making this work.
Speaker 1: Sir Douglas, make sure checking out Yeah Douglas too, it's
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Speaker 1: So have a great day, make sure you're Christmas shopping
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Speaker 1: In that case, give me and give Nate a lot,
Speaker 1: take care of, take care of some people out there
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