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Speaker 5: I'm calling it. We're getting the ten.
Speaker 4: We're getting the ten.
Speaker 5: At least that wouldn't be the record though. Now what
Speaker 5: is the talking record? Did you look at up?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: The talking record?
Speaker 7: Or no?
Speaker 5: What's the record?
Speaker 4: I have the storyline record fifteen or sixteen. There's no
Speaker 4: way we're going to get the not at all.
Speaker 2: Our fans are too good or too good, Patrick Nocy, Walker,
Speaker 2: Josh Rides, Chris Beam in the back.
Speaker 5: I'm Kyle Yeoman Joker.
Speaker 4: Oh Pat, Pat?
Speaker 7: Pat?
Speaker 8: What's up?
Speaker 5: What are we going to do with you?
Speaker 7: Hey? You know? Okay?
Speaker 5: Why are you out here? Rupturing tendons and whatnot.
Speaker 7: Not ruptured. Oh just torn, sorry, just torn. Rupture.
Speaker 5: Rupture would be even worse. So you did not require surgery.
Speaker 7: I did not not yet.
Speaker 4: Now I'm going to go on to ie.
Speaker 7: I'm limited. I am not going to I R. I'm
Speaker 7: gonna I'm gonna work through away.
Speaker 5: He's questionable going to the area.
Speaker 7: I'm questionable going into each week and two further, day
Speaker 7: to day. Baby today, baby.
Speaker 5: Now I'm going to ask what all of Cowboys Nation
Speaker 5: is thinking right now? What the hell did you do?
Speaker 7: And what the hell did do?
Speaker 5: How did you rupture tear your tendon?
Speaker 7: All right? So, uh, powers of deduction. The only way
Speaker 7: it could have happened is I was I was on
Speaker 7: a baseball field and I was making a throw from
Speaker 7: the fence to home plate. So I was shooting four.
Speaker 7: Right after I made that throw, effect something weak twinge
Speaker 7: in the elbow. Now, it's not the first time that's happened,
Speaker 7: so I'm thinking, Okay, just a little strain or whatever.
Speaker 7: Given a week or so, ice rest, sam anti inflammatories,
Speaker 7: it'll be good as new. But I actually did not
Speaker 7: give it a week because two days later I was back.
Speaker 5: On the base I was in the gym.
Speaker 7: I was in the gym and I was doing up
Speaker 7: for bodywork. I was lifting. I got to like the
Speaker 7: third set of some hammer curls, and it just felt
Speaker 7: like somebody shot me in elbow, like just bang. And
Speaker 7: I was like, yeah, that's that's not great. So me
Speaker 7: being me and for those of us that have been
Speaker 7: athletes and our athletes, you know, you procrastinate getting the news. Okay,
Speaker 7: So I let it.
Speaker 5: So this was three years ago.
Speaker 7: This damn here right, So they slept. This happened four
Speaker 7: weeks ago. So three weeks subsequent to that, I just
Speaker 7: kept holding out hope. I even I took a two
Speaker 7: week hiatus from the gym, came off the field. Well
Speaker 7: the season was over anyway as far as ball was concerned. Sure,
Speaker 7: So gave it like two or three weeks and just
Speaker 7: no progress at all. So I started to get concerned.
Speaker 7: Went to see an orthopedic surgeon on yesterday afternoon, ran
Speaker 7: some skins, came back in and he was like, so
Speaker 7: young got some good news and some bad news. Which
Speaker 7: do you want first? I was like, give me the
Speaker 7: good news. He was like, oh, so you.
Speaker 5: Go good news for good news instead of bad news.
Speaker 7: I am a sociopath. I want the good news first.
Speaker 5: Well, yesterday you decided to go bad news first.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's because I'm you know, teamwork, right, I know
Speaker 7: you guys like at the end verse, so you know.
Speaker 7: So he gave me the good news. He was like,
Speaker 7: it's not fully torn, not fully ruptured, so we don't
Speaker 7: need to talk about surgery right now. But he was like,
Speaker 7: it is partially torn, moderately partially torn. So they put
Speaker 7: me on the plan. I have you know, physical therapy
Speaker 7: for the three times a week for the next eight weeks.
Speaker 7: After being the slang for several hours of day, I
Speaker 7: got to brace on under the slang as well. So
Speaker 7: it's fine. Everything's finn. Yeah, Murphy's law with this season,
Speaker 7: like even the reporters are going downs.
Speaker 5: Don't say that because I've got a lot going on.
Speaker 5: The next couple man, protect yourself, protect you.
Speaker 7: So so yeah, we got to They have me on
Speaker 7: a ninety day plan, so follow up after ninety days
Speaker 7: and then if we see some progress or a good
Speaker 7: bit progress, good bit of progress, then you know, we'll
Speaker 7: just stick to the plan. But if it's not improving,
Speaker 7: then comes the surgery conversations.
Speaker 5: But we are not going with us now, Well, yeah,
Speaker 5: I hope for the best there.
Speaker 4: You'll do what you need to do.
Speaker 7: I've had worse. I mean when you're an athlete your
Speaker 7: whole life, you know, and everyone who's been an athlete
Speaker 7: their whole life or most of their life, you've had
Speaker 7: You've had some bangers.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised this wasn't from your drill with Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 5: That's what it actually was.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it would have been Jordan's Yeah, sit it, I'm
Speaker 7: gonna say it. I'm going to say it. I'm not
Speaker 7: going to see it. Yeah, I'm not gonna say I'm
Speaker 7: not going to say it. But no, Yeah, So it's fun.
Speaker 7: It's fun, everything's fun.
Speaker 5: Everything's good.
Speaker 9: Everything.
Speaker 5: You'll be all right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know you'll have had much worse. This is
Speaker 7: not a big deal.
Speaker 5: All right, here we go. We've got some callers lined
Speaker 5: up already.
Speaker 7: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go into our first caller. So we're going
Speaker 2: to ten guys. Ten callers.
Speaker 5: That means if you are gonna call, you've got a
Speaker 5: great shot to be on the show.
Speaker 10: One.
Speaker 2: That's the number one thing to take in consideration here. Secondly,
Speaker 2: be quick, get in get out. We're we're gonna try
Speaker 2: and set a record. Here we go start with right now.
Speaker 2: It is time to go to Dano in Florida. Dano,
Speaker 2: you're a talking Cowboys. Nobody better to get us kicked
Speaker 2: off here on this talking Tuesday. What's going on?
Speaker 8: How are you doing? No, Sea's got that bad wing.
Speaker 8: Hope he gets better soon.
Speaker 7: You appreciate that much love, much love.
Speaker 8: Hey, guys, you know, I watched the big boys up front,
Speaker 8: and I'm somewhat fortunate I get to bounce some of
Speaker 8: my football stuff off my old college coaches down here.
Speaker 8: And he also coached with the Cowboys for eighteen years,
Speaker 8: so he kind of knows what he's talking about too.
Speaker 8: You know, at the beginning of the year, I was railing
Speaker 8: on Taron Steele, just railing on him. Last couple of games,
Speaker 8: he has played exceptionally well. I think, Okay, to me,
Speaker 8: I don't know. You know, I used to sit there
Speaker 8: and say his feater and cement run blocking, he's pretty
Speaker 8: darn good. He's gotten better in past blocking. You know.
Speaker 8: The offensive line coach, you know, they always said the
Speaker 8: game passed by Landry, the game passed by Nolan, the
Speaker 8: game passed by certain coaches. I know he coached with Landry.
Speaker 8: I'm wondering if the game has passed by him because
Speaker 8: I you know, why did it take so long to
Speaker 8: maybe coach steal up will say? That's my opinion Defensively,
Speaker 8: I got to be honest. I've always liked Osa, Mozzie
Speaker 8: Smith seems like he's coming around. Chauncey Goldstein to me,
Speaker 8: is an unsung hero almost. I mean he's solid. Okay,
Speaker 8: he's very solid. So you know, whether I don't know
Speaker 8: what's going to happen this year and if the owner,
Speaker 8: general manager, player personnel guy can do some things in
Speaker 8: the off season. It's not like this is a huge
Speaker 8: rebuild at all. I don't believe that. I like what
Speaker 8: I see from Brock Kaufman. What I like most about
Speaker 8: him because he brings that nasty attitude and that's going
Speaker 8: to rub off on some other guys and that's not bad.
Speaker 8: That's my opinion there. That's what I got to say.
Speaker 8: I know you said keep it quick. That's what I'm
Speaker 8: gonna do again. I just think I think I like
Speaker 8: McCarthy a lot. I hope he comes back. I hope
Speaker 8: he's brought back. I would go find you know what,
Speaker 8: I'd have Mark Lumbo on speed dial. That's what I
Speaker 8: would do. So with that being said, guys, good to
Speaker 8: talk to you. You guys have a great week.
Speaker 5: Appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Dano as always a couple points there. I'll start with
Speaker 2: Terrence Steele. I absolutely agree. He's been fantastic last two weeks.
Speaker 2: And I know on this show we were very critical
Speaker 2: of Terrence Steele at the beginning of the year, and
Speaker 2: for good reason. Six pressures against New Orleans, five pressures
Speaker 2: against Detroit, four pressures against San Francisco, four against both
Speaker 2: Philadelphia and Houston. But the last two weeks combined, gentlemen
Speaker 2: to him, he's had one pressure in each game. He
Speaker 2: had one pressure or one hurry against Washington, one QB
Speaker 2: hit against New York, and that's what's all they've got.
Speaker 2: So he's been fantastic. In the film backs it up
Speaker 2: as well. He's helped run game. He's actually been pretty
Speaker 2: good in the run game throughout the years. That's not
Speaker 2: necessarily a huge change. It's been the pass blocking that's
Speaker 2: been his big bugaboo, and that's not the case over
Speaker 2: the last two weeks. So at least we're seeing some
Speaker 2: things in.
Speaker 4: The right direction. Thankful for that because his Terrence Steele
Speaker 4: is actually playing like the player you paid for, right,
Speaker 4: And I don't mean that in a derogatory way, true though,
Speaker 4: when you look at how he was playing before his
Speaker 4: injury the year before last, that's the reason why he
Speaker 4: was starting, that's why he got paid. You didn't see
Speaker 4: that last year and a big part of it. And
Speaker 4: when we talked to Nate about it, I was talking
Speaker 4: about this boy's coming back from a crazy injury, a
Speaker 4: catastrophic injury in the middle of the season. For him
Speaker 4: to start that next season game one was a long shot,
Speaker 4: and he did it. He didn't play well last season
Speaker 4: at all by any means, you know, throughout the course
Speaker 4: of the year, but you're starting to see that comeback
Speaker 4: the reason why you paid him.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly with Daniel. First of all, that
Speaker 7: had its fire. My god, my word inspire change. But
Speaker 7: it's funny that Daniel brings this up and we are,
Speaker 7: like mine's on the same wavelength. Here driving in prior
Speaker 7: to Jerry's spot on the one O five three the fan,
Speaker 7: I was just kind of going through my head sitting
Speaker 7: at the red light, and I was thinking of guys
Speaker 7: who have taken steps forward over the course of the season,
Speaker 7: and one of the headliners for me was Terrence Steele.
Speaker 7: So I love that Danil brings this up because in
Speaker 7: the in past pro like you said, Kyle, he has
Speaker 7: absolutely stepped it up one hundred. But although he was
Speaker 7: solid in his run game, not but but And although
Speaker 7: he was solid in his run game, what he's doing
Speaker 7: now is even leveled up. If you go back and
Speaker 7: you look at that Rico Dwo touchdown against New York Giants,
Speaker 7: he was escorted into the end zone by Terrence Steele,
Speaker 7: who wald off one guy, got him out of the way,
Speaker 7: and then went to the second level and knocked another
Speaker 7: guy out of the way. It was a police escort basically.
Speaker 7: So yes, absolutely, Terrence Steele shouts out to him. He
Speaker 7: has caught a lot of flak this season, caught a
Speaker 7: lot more flak last season, keeping in mind he was
Speaker 7: coming off of that torn acl he needed some time.
Speaker 7: You would have liked to see him start this year
Speaker 7: the way he's playing right now, But the fact he
Speaker 7: is playing this way right now votes well for twenty
Speaker 7: twenty five.
Speaker 5: I want to see it more. I want to see more.
Speaker 5: I've seen it in two straight games, Kobe Bryant, gift more, more,
Speaker 5: more more I needed for the next five games.
Speaker 2: If you can string it together and you've got seven
Speaker 2: straight games of legitimate contribute or contributions, I feel really
Speaker 2: really good about Terrence still going into next year.
Speaker 4: And one more really quick point on this call. Really
Speaker 4: appreciate the call. Chauncey Golston is a name that you battle,
Speaker 4: and I want to if you've been listening to talking,
Speaker 4: you understand. But whenever Mike Parsons went down, whenever Marcus
Speaker 4: Lawrence went down, whenever uh Marshall Neilan went down, everybody
Speaker 4: else was looking outside. Everyone else was saying, all right,
Speaker 4: who's out there on the free agency market?
Speaker 5: Go get this name.
Speaker 4: Let's go get this name. Patrick no C. Walker. I'll
Speaker 4: give him his flowers today. But he was one of
Speaker 4: the few on on any podcast platform that looked internally
Speaker 4: and said, Chauncey, Chauncey Golston, Good for you, Pat, Good
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 5: Pat. Appreciate even with a bat wing you're out here
Speaker 5: making great points.
Speaker 7: Let me too.
Speaker 5: But I'm not out all right, Let's go to Cynthia
Speaker 5: and Laredo.
Speaker 2: Cynthia what's going on talking cowboys?
Speaker 3: Hi guys, good morning Thanksgiving.
Speaker 11: I actually I live in Converse and I went down
Speaker 11: to Laredo for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Okay, we've just got you known and tabbed as Cynthia
Speaker 2: from Laredo. So so that's incorrect. Now we should change that.
Speaker 7: No, she still eats good in Laredo, that's true.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what's on your mind?
Speaker 12: Well?
Speaker 6: Hey Coyle, I forgot to tell you before.
Speaker 10: I'm a Mean Green graduate. What go?
Speaker 7: I knew why?
Speaker 5: I like you, Cynthia go mean Green.
Speaker 3: Let's go what class nineteen eighty?
Speaker 9: We were MTSU back then.
Speaker 2: Yeah, North Texas State University Eagles. Now you're in the North
Speaker 2: Texas Mean Green love it class baby woo.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I thought I throw in there guys real quick.
Speaker 6: I know you have a lot of collars coming in.
Speaker 11: There's something that I've been wandering a lot, like.
Speaker 1: What do you attribute to our cowboys getting hurt so much?
Speaker 13: Is it preak? Is it the done? I just kind
Speaker 13: of like, what the heck is going on with the cowboys.
Speaker 3: Uh So I'll just do.
Speaker 11: It there And I wish you guys a great day.
Speaker 11: And Patrick, I'll be praying for you.
Speaker 5: Thank you Donald, You're the sweetest since Cynthia. A great question.
Speaker 5: Is it just luck of the draw?
Speaker 7: I mean, am I supposed to answer this?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough, Josh doesn't.
Speaker 7: It's tough. That's what protect yourselves. Protect yourselfs fellas, No,
Speaker 7: I honestly think, man, it's because the Cowboys have a
Speaker 7: phenomenal training staff. So that's that's not the crux of
Speaker 7: the issue. It's like I said several times, it's just
Speaker 7: Murphy's law. At this point, it's nothing because this is
Speaker 7: the same preparation they were doing last season and the
Speaker 7: season prior and the season prior. As far as the
Speaker 7: McCarthy era, I know that Jason Garrett era had a
Speaker 7: couple of seasons that were similar to this, but not
Speaker 7: even this bad. But if you look at just the
Speaker 7: McCarthy era since he came in in twenty twenty, there's
Speaker 7: been nothing like this as far as being ravaged by injury.
Speaker 7: Week after a week, headline name, headline name, headline name, Hey,
Speaker 7: next man up, you're going down to with the injury.
Speaker 7: Talking about Josh Butler, you lose him for the season
Speaker 7: with a torn acl and he's a perfect example of
Speaker 7: what I mean as it feels like no one on
Speaker 7: the roster it's safe. Dak Prescott obviously franchise quarterback, he
Speaker 7: signs his big deal, you get him for a few weeks,
Speaker 7: and then he's done for the season with that torn
Speaker 7: that ruptured hamstring more or less. So I don't think
Speaker 7: that there's any rhyme or reason to it at all.
Speaker 7: It is quite simply just bad run of luck and
Speaker 7: it doesn't seem to be turning around at any point.
Speaker 7: So but you know that makes me give that much
Speaker 7: more that many more roses or bouquets of roses. Two
Speaker 7: players like Chauncey Ghosten and some of these other guys
Speaker 7: Carl Lawston who have come in and stepped up and
Speaker 7: been able to show things. So yeah, it's a league
Speaker 7: of a opportunity. And sometimes the opportunity that you get
Speaker 7: presented is not because something you know good came for
Speaker 7: the guy, but when it happens.
Speaker 4: When it rains, it pours, and I don't think the
Speaker 4: narrative has so yeah, I don't think the narrative necessarily
Speaker 4: has been that way. If you look at the forty
Speaker 4: I mean, right now, good morning football, it is just
Speaker 4: going to bring that up. We're looking at the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers, who just placed Christian McCaffrey, Jordan Mason and
Speaker 4: I are the narrative all season has been the forty
Speaker 4: nine Ers have been ravaged by injuries all season, not
Speaker 4: necessarily take and Cowboys have been in public enemy number
Speaker 4: one because of how poorly they've played, especially early on
Speaker 4: in the season. Are we getting that grace though of
Speaker 4: our star players going down.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, I don't know if their situation.
Speaker 2: I don't think our situation is worse than THEIRS. I
Speaker 2: think THEIRS is probably the worst in the NFL across
Speaker 2: the board. They are ravaged.
Speaker 5: But if there's any close second place, it's this team.
Speaker 4: And you could argue they've had more success, especially in
Speaker 4: the playoffs. You could argue that they're the better team,
Speaker 4: which is why you're not going to get comparatively, and
Speaker 4: they did more in the off season. Two Yeah, whereas
Speaker 4: the Cowboys have been sort of a I don't want
Speaker 4: to say a meme, but like they've.
Speaker 5: Been, they've been a punching bag.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've been a punching bag. For the lack of
Speaker 4: moves this off season, Brandon, A lot of those were
Speaker 4: pretty decent.
Speaker 2: So who has the longer Super Bowl drought a San
Speaker 2: Francisco correct, just so.
Speaker 7: You know, But the narrative isn't going to change in
Speaker 7: Dallas and too. Dallas changes the narrative, and then a
Speaker 7: new narrative will problem and then it'll pop up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Josh and Chicago, you were on Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 5: What's going on? Josh?
Speaker 14: Look, hey, guys, what I want to say just listening
Speaker 14: about the injuries is, Man, I hope we can get
Speaker 14: trade on bigs back this weekend. I want that that
Speaker 14: cornerback servers three headed dog out there.
Speaker 4: Man, for the first time since like week five last, the.
Speaker 5: First time as starters is like periods.
Speaker 7: That's true Cincinnati's offense.
Speaker 14: Yeah, we could really use all three of those guys
Speaker 14: out there. Got no Hey and Chase, no.
Speaker 5: Doubt, no doubt. What's on your mind? O?
Speaker 14: That's it, guys?
Speaker 15: Yeah, quick, I want to hit that record.
Speaker 4: Josh and Chicago.
Speaker 5: That's my guy.
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Speaker 2: This is caller number four of the day.
Speaker 5: Nebby. What's going on?
Speaker 12: Hi, guys, Thank you so much for taking my call,
Speaker 12: and happy holiday to everyone. All right, listen, I have
Speaker 12: a comment and then I have a question. My comment
Speaker 12: is I agree with what you guys said yesterday. We
Speaker 12: cannot afford to get into a shootout with the Cincinnati
Speaker 12: Bengal we Uh. What we have to do in order
Speaker 12: to win is we have to control the clot We
Speaker 12: have to score touchdowns uh, and we have to keep uh.
Speaker 12: We have to keep uh uh Joe Burrow and the
Speaker 12: potent Cincinnati Bengal offense off the field. If we can
Speaker 12: do all that, uh, we can get a win. On
Speaker 12: Monday Night Football this coming Monday, And my question is
Speaker 12: what grade would you give Cooper BB so far this season?
Speaker 12: Considering that prior to this year he had never played
Speaker 12: center because he never played center in college and he
Speaker 12: obviously made the adjustment to playing our center, how do
Speaker 12: you think he's playing as a rookie center in the
Speaker 12: National Football League? And just so you know, so far,
Speaker 12: I would give Cooper BB a B plus because, yeah,
Speaker 12: he's had some rocky points without question, but for the
Speaker 12: most part, I think he's played really really well. So
Speaker 12: uh So. All that said, I give Cooper BB a
Speaker 12: B plus for his play uh so far this season?
Speaker 12: What grade would you guys? Uh? I give him? I
Speaker 12: take care, thank you so much for being patient with me,
Speaker 12: and have a great week.
Speaker 5: You appreciate you, man, great question. I give him a
Speaker 5: B plus too. That was exactly the great I was
Speaker 5: where I was going.
Speaker 2: Again, you take it all into consideration. The way that
Speaker 2: he's played up front solid? Is it perfect?
Speaker 5: No? No, it's not, but solid.
Speaker 4: What game would you say was his worst graded past
Speaker 4: block grade? I want you to guess.
Speaker 2: I want you to guess, yes, okay, going to it
Speaker 2: might really was it that week? Four Giants game.
Speaker 4: No, it's actually pretty decent. It's great. It was a
Speaker 4: sixty eight for that one.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, actually not that bad. This is oh man,
Speaker 5: this is tough. I'm gonna hurry it along, all right,
Speaker 5: go for it. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So the lowest graded game that he's had so far
Speaker 4: this season Week ten against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, that's not super shocking, not super shocking.
Speaker 5: No, that's Philly, so Philly's front.
Speaker 4: Baltimore, he was a sixty six. It was a bad game. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but Baltimore's front isn't like, isn't scary scary?
Speaker 7: Not scary scary.
Speaker 4: Atlanta his greade was a thirty five.
Speaker 5: I'd agree that would have been shocked. Yeah, that I
Speaker 5: would have been shocked.
Speaker 4: Shocked at thirty five against the Falcons, who didn't have
Speaker 4: a crazy intense defensive line. Now let me, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: give him a bee so far. Okay, I think he's
Speaker 4: met fair, I think he's met and sometimes has exceeded expectation.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I like, I'm gonna be plus with it. That's
Speaker 7: what I was thinking right before Nebs told us what
Speaker 7: he's great was. So he nailed it, nailed it. With
Speaker 7: a B plus for me, I.
Speaker 5: Think I give i'm a little extra sprinkle because of
Speaker 5: the position change.
Speaker 7: And that's what I mean.
Speaker 5: If he was a center in college, I would Okay,
Speaker 5: bb I do.
Speaker 7: I was waiting.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Carry in South Carolina, what's going on?
Speaker 6: Hey, guys, this is Larry. Look lifelong Cowboys. Been watching
Speaker 6: this and you got the last two years. I love
Speaker 6: no season of breakdown like Isaiah's breakdown, Like oh you guys,
Speaker 6: will y'all talk about the game and uh like following
Speaker 6: them with y'all on Twitter, keeping up with all the
Speaker 6: news and notes that you can't and get the real stuff,
Speaker 6: not like you get on the television for the people.
Speaker 4: Actually good morning football, all.
Speaker 6: Right, exactly exactly. I love you guys that I'm gonna
Speaker 6: be at Charlotte Panthers. I hope to see you guys.
Speaker 7: Get loud.
Speaker 6: There you go, all right, we are right, we will
Speaker 6: don't worry.
Speaker 15: All right.
Speaker 6: Uh, thank y'all for the show, and I'll let you
Speaker 6: get some more callers, and thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 5: Appreciate it. There you go, Larry in South Carolina. Appreciate
Speaker 5: you man.
Speaker 7: Uh yeah, out there Carolina.
Speaker 5: Larry in South Carolina. He said he's going to the
Speaker 5: Panthers game.
Speaker 4: Let's say Carolina, that'slin.
Speaker 5: To two nine seven.
Speaker 2: We're sitting at five collars now five, so we're halfway
Speaker 2: to our goal of ten. We got a long way
Speaker 2: to go if we're going to break this record. We
Speaker 2: got eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven.
Speaker 2: The lines are open right now.
Speaker 4: So A T L K C B Y S.
Speaker 7: I like that.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 2: We're got to be the only one that uses it
Speaker 2: like that, and I feel like we're the show that
Speaker 2: needs to use it like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it's talk cowboys.
Speaker 2: Come on, it's not break cowboys or cowboys break.
Speaker 4: Nope, No, it's not even storyline.
Speaker 5: And we're not just hanging no, hanging with the boys.
Speaker 4: Certainly not girls talking about boys now, not at all.
Speaker 4: We're not players. Lounge hair is still luxurious, though, So.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 7: That's factors.
Speaker 2: While we're waiting for this line to open eight eight
Speaker 2: eight eight five five two two ninety seven, we're waiting
Speaker 2: for this next caller. As soon as I get the
Speaker 2: text message, I'm going to cut you guys off. But
Speaker 2: the one thing that we didn't get to touch on
Speaker 2: a little bit earlier was Mozzi Smith again getting to
Speaker 2: I asked coach yesterday what his what his evaluation was
Speaker 2: of Mozzi. He said, he continues to do the little
Speaker 2: things right, which is something you didn't hear about Mozzi previously.
Speaker 2: I'm excited about that. I'm excited about it. I know
Speaker 2: it's just the little things and he's stacking good games
Speaker 2: on one on top of the other.
Speaker 5: But and even Jerry talked about it this morning.
Speaker 2: They use the Bill Parcells where you Tom Tom Landry,
Speaker 2: where you can't grade a defensive lineman until your three,
Speaker 2: can't give up on a guy until your three were
Speaker 2: in your two with Mossi Smith, And if there's been
Speaker 2: anybody that you could give up on, it would probably
Speaker 2: be Mozzy. But they haven't done so, and he's starting
Speaker 2: to turn the corner.
Speaker 5: You just got to keep on going.
Speaker 4: It's the fact that he's a first round pick. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's the fact that he was driving in the first
Speaker 4: round and a very important draft for the Cowboys. I
Speaker 4: think that is the stigma that has put on him,
Speaker 4: you know, and that will be put on until he
Speaker 4: is a star defensive tackle.
Speaker 2: You know where he went to school, Michigan, which is
Speaker 2: in the Big Ten. Sure, there's another school in the
Speaker 2: Big Ten. It's Minnesota. It's the Minnesota Golfers. We're going
Speaker 2: to last in Minnesota. Leicester, you're on talking cowboys.
Speaker 5: What's going on?
Speaker 7: Smooth?
Speaker 19: Hey guys, good morning to you, Good morning.
Speaker 5: What's on your mind?
Speaker 19: Well, I'm I mean an old school type of guy.
Speaker 19: And uh here's here's what I call storyline a lot.
Speaker 19: And then my motto is simply this. We need to
Speaker 19: build the team with a very good a good it's
Speaker 19: a very good offensive and defensive line, and we need
Speaker 19: to both have them both at the same time. We
Speaker 19: over the years we've had one or the other and
Speaker 19: one is dominating. That's fine, but we need to build
Speaker 19: the team that way. In my opinion, we need to
Speaker 19: have both lines good to very good at the same time.
Speaker 19: And I'll hang up. I'll let you get another call.
Speaker 4: Man, Are we sure this wasn't Natan Frisco calling?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Fresco. And you just said it was Lesterer in Minnesota, because.
Speaker 4: Darned if he didn't talk about though the offense and
Speaker 4: defensive line is not wrong. He is not wrong.
Speaker 7: And I've said it timing again when asked I build
Speaker 7: my defense front to back. I ply as much pressure
Speaker 7: as I can up front stopping the run, and that
Speaker 7: helps even those cornerbacks that are just simply good or
Speaker 7: average or working to be that that helps those cornerbacks
Speaker 7: find another gear, find another level because they don't have
Speaker 7: to cover for that long and they can take risks
Speaker 7: and jump routes, build it inside out. I level lester stuff.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, thankfully, you kind of already have the
Speaker 4: back figured out, you have the secondary figured out, you
Speaker 4: have the linebackers figured out, you have now now and
Speaker 4: you have part of this defensive line figured out. I think,
Speaker 4: like we're saying, and we talk about it all the time,
Speaker 4: but it's moving in the right direction. And if you
Speaker 4: find those guys in the very middle of that defensive line,
Speaker 4: that can really start pushing people back, really start getting
Speaker 4: in the backfield.
Speaker 2: Well, part of the encouraging side of what we're talking
Speaker 2: about and what we've seen the last I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: the last month, because even some of these things go
Speaker 2: back to the Houston and Philadelphia games, they just didn't
Speaker 2: necessarily take the step forward.
Speaker 5: For a win yet.
Speaker 2: Is the good play on the defensive line we're talking
Speaker 2: about Mazie, Chauncey Gulst and Karl Laws and Micah being back,
Speaker 2: Demarve and overshown at the second level helping all those
Speaker 2: guys out a little bit. And then you're talking about
Speaker 2: the guys on the offensive line taking a step forward.
Speaker 5: Cooper double b't, You've got.
Speaker 2: Terrence Steele, You've got some of these guys that are
Speaker 2: playing better football. And I think all of that helps
Speaker 2: us feel more confident about what's happening here in dallassuming
Speaker 2: of the call.
Speaker 7: Yes we do.
Speaker 5: Okay, go ahead, Orlando and New Mexico. You're on talking Cowboys.
Speaker 5: What's going on? Orlando?
Speaker 7: In mix?
Speaker 10: Orlando and mixing pretty good, a sunny New Mexico.
Speaker 15: Yeah, working hard every.
Speaker 5: Day, Yes sir, Yes, sir, what's going on?
Speaker 10: Yes, I know that we're like trying to get into
Speaker 10: the playoffs and everything, but I'm looking forward to, like
Speaker 10: the draft part. And I was thinking of this to say,
Speaker 10: our boys drop all these games, right, is there a
Speaker 10: possibility I know I'm jumping the head now, there's a
Speaker 10: possibility of us getting Austin Genty from Boise States.
Speaker 5: Let me just answer this question.
Speaker 4: Did you call in somehow?
Speaker 5: I did?
Speaker 7: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Orlando for your call, and I will answer this vrentuloquism
Speaker 5: for me.
Speaker 2: Whether you're picking at number nine or you're picking at
Speaker 2: number twenty, there will still be a shot to get
Speaker 2: Ashton genty. Let me be abundantly clear, because it's not
Speaker 2: because of him as a player. It's because of the
Speaker 2: way the running back position is seen nowadays.
Speaker 5: Robin B.
Speaker 2: John Robinson was the exception where he was a top
Speaker 2: ten pick in the modern day NFL because he played
Speaker 2: at Texas against a considerable schedule in competition level, and
Speaker 2: he's an all around back, and there's a lot of things.
Speaker 5: Ashton gent is a.
Speaker 2: Great prospect, don't get me wrong, a phenomenal prospect. But
Speaker 2: he's playing at Boise State, He's playing against the Mountain West.
Speaker 2: He'll have a shot as long as they take care
Speaker 2: of business is Friday, he'll have a shot to play
Speaker 2: against some really good competition. And of course he ran
Speaker 2: really well against Oregon earlier in the year, the number
Speaker 2: one team in the country almost single handedly beat Oregon himself.
Speaker 2: By the way, he would be my Heisman vote right
Speaker 2: now if I had one, But I don't have one.
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, Oh you don't.
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 2: No I would say yes, absolutely over to Travis Hunter
Speaker 2: all day, every day, and that's a different conversation, but
Speaker 2: I would totally say Ashton Gent.
Speaker 4: Do you think?
Speaker 2: Sorryhead, But the way that the NFL looks at running backs,
Speaker 2: I don't think you're going to see a team take
Speaker 2: a pick on him in the top fifteen rounds unless
Speaker 2: it's this one or top fifteen picks. Unless it's this
Speaker 2: one fifteen rounds, we're going back to nineteen seventy. But
Speaker 2: I think he's a player. I think he's a first
Speaker 2: round pick no matter what. But I just don't see
Speaker 2: him in the top fifteen from another team because I
Speaker 2: don't see another team being desperate enough at running back
Speaker 2: to take him that high.
Speaker 4: But if you look at the NFL this season, you
Speaker 4: look at two of the MVP prospects in the league,
Speaker 4: I think the narrative of star running backs is starting
Speaker 4: a little bit, a little bit because you can see
Speaker 4: what one really great running back does for a team
Speaker 4: that is on the cusps.
Speaker 2: And Bijon's right there, but on the CUSP so teams
Speaker 2: that are in in the laties to thirty two.
Speaker 4: But could you not argue trading for a guy like
Speaker 4: like genty you could. Yeah, if you want to say,
Speaker 4: if you're to go up and get it, if you're close,
Speaker 4: if you're close and you're in the fifteens or or later, Okay,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I can see it.
Speaker 4: I don't know, man. I think based on the season,
Speaker 4: you have say Kwon doing his thing, you have Dereck
Speaker 4: Henry doing his thing. I think the the value of
Speaker 4: that position is starting to eat.
Speaker 7: You know, because everything works in cycle jamyor Gibbs, Yeah,
Speaker 7: everything works in first Yeah, because this used to be
Speaker 7: a Drew Brees combination. Everything we're so now things are
Speaker 7: coming back to the running game and the running back
Speaker 7: and how and teams are starting to reevaluate how that
Speaker 7: position looks and what it can do to contribute. As
Speaker 7: far as my answer to this, absolutely November twenty fourth,
Speaker 7: at ten thirty one pm, someone on Twitter said, congratulations
Speaker 7: to win today. That was against the Commanders, and the
Speaker 7: win against the Giants will cost them three spots in
Speaker 7: the draft lol. And then my quote tweet is as follows,
Speaker 7: just means y'all will be less mad when the Cowboys
Speaker 7: use a pick on Ashton Gent. That's my end. It
Speaker 7: is true it's true.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get into the draft show talk and then
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tick up all the time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want to do it.
Speaker 4: We got to move along.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's an opportunity to draft ash genty Orlando. Phenomenal question,
Speaker 2: and that'll continue to be I guarantee you that will
Speaker 2: be a topic of conversation until April twenty fourth, no
Speaker 2: matter what the record, no matter what happens, it's going
Speaker 2: to be a conversation.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: When we come back, I'm going to take our next break.
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Speaker 5: Oh man, I could not hear anything of that.
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Speaker 4: What was that?
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Speaker 15: Guys?
Speaker 5: What's going on? What's on your mind?
Speaker 9: It's been a minute.
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Speaker 9: So trying to get you guys up to the record
Speaker 9: ten calls for you today. I just want to give
Speaker 9: a shout out to you guys. First and foremost. These
Speaker 9: past few offices have been pretty tough for me in
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Speaker 9: help that I've been distracted and getting some upgrades in
Speaker 9: my home and then retiring one of my four so
Speaker 9: I kind of haven't been able to watch a whole
Speaker 9: lot of it, which is good because I'm a passionate
Speaker 9: Cowboys fan and when they lose I'll get upset. But
Speaker 9: I just want to give a shout out to you
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Speaker 7: Abe's over there doing home improvements. I love it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, getting that take care of home bab. Yes sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 5: The reason we cut off Nigel is you can't cuss
Speaker 5: on the air, guys. Yeah, you can't do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even if you're making funny points, you can't can't
Speaker 2: puss on the air.
Speaker 5: We gotta be careful about it, all right, all right?
Speaker 2: Eight five, five, two, two nine seven. Ab was our
Speaker 2: ninth caller. So we're getting close to double digits here.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we'll get to sixteen. That would
Speaker 2: be we would have to have like Josh and Chicago
Speaker 2: level calls from here.
Speaker 5: On, APP I know, I know, but uh, we get
Speaker 5: to ten.
Speaker 7: How about this.
Speaker 5: Let's get to ten right now. Let's go to Chase
Speaker 5: in Tulsa, Oklahoma. So what's going on Chase?
Speaker 13: Hey, guys, love the show. First time caller, Hey, love,
Speaker 13: I just wanted to I just wanted to say that
Speaker 13: defense was like bismal earlier on in the season. What
Speaker 13: do you guys, I know you might have talked about
Speaker 13: it a bit and I missed it, But what's the
Speaker 13: biggest attribute that they reversed that curse?
Speaker 5: No great question, Chase.
Speaker 7: I'm going with the uh. The return of Micah combining
Speaker 7: with the level that the Marvey on Novshown is now
Speaker 7: playing at so cameats that duo. They're sitting in the
Speaker 7: tone for the whole defense.
Speaker 4: Chohnsey Goldson said it on the middle of Like Cowboys
Speaker 4: Hour last night. It's I think it's a big part
Speaker 4: of it is actually believing in the scheme. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: buying into to Mike McCarthy or Mike Zimmer's scheme. And
Speaker 4: you know, these are guys that have been playing on
Speaker 4: Dan Quinns scheme for the last three years, you know,
Speaker 4: so it took a lot of a learning curve to
Speaker 4: understand what this defensive scheme is. And I think they're
Speaker 4: starting to really buy into that. Not to mention, you're
Speaker 4: getting healthy guys now too, And I had to Ron
Speaker 4: Bland is now in.
Speaker 2: The picture, which is huge And there's not a wrong
Speaker 2: answer here at all. I think both of those are
Speaker 2: significant factors. The one thing I will add or is
Speaker 2: the guys that were stepping in, And Mike Micah talked
Speaker 2: about a postgame the other day where there's guys stepping
Speaker 2: in that maybe didn't anticipate, getting a lot of playing time,
Speaker 2: having to learn the scheme themselves, having to learn when
Speaker 2: to be where and what to do when.
Speaker 5: That kind of things that takes time to shift.
Speaker 2: Takes time for these backups, in these second and third
Speaker 2: string guys to take a step forward. And I think
Speaker 2: we're starting to see that with guys like Loss and
Speaker 2: guys like Ghost and guys filling in. Maybe even Mazzie
Speaker 2: Smith in a new system second year. He's had two
Speaker 2: years in the NFL, both with with a completely different
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator. Maybe he's had to take that step as well.
Speaker 2: But it's a lot of elevation from play across the board.
Speaker 2: Then you add in Micah, then you add in to
Speaker 2: Marvey and overshown, and then that's where I think that
Speaker 2: buying comes from. I think it's all these puzzle pieces
Speaker 2: that are just starting to come together and click. For
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. They've got some tough matchups coming up. One
Speaker 2: this week, Monday Night Football will be a tough matchup
Speaker 2: for this defense's got to be on point.
Speaker 5: The Bengals are really good offensively.
Speaker 7: You need takeaways this week you most certainly better have
Speaker 7: taken Oh, it would be big time.
Speaker 5: It would be big time.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 5: I appreciate the call, Chase. We've gotten the ten guys.
Speaker 2: We've got some more of though. How about this Josh
Speaker 2: in North Carolina, Josh shan talking cowboys?
Speaker 5: What's going on?
Speaker 8: Are we doing?
Speaker 7: Gentlemen?
Speaker 5: Are you with your class today?
Speaker 12: I am not.
Speaker 11: I actually have a no day, So I'm actually in
Speaker 11: my classroom by myself.
Speaker 4: No, that's the best dodate with talking cawboy is absolute best, man.
Speaker 11: No days are the best. Yes, you're exactly right.
Speaker 4: I miss a snow day.
Speaker 5: I didn't even know that out there.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, well I live in the mountain of
Speaker 11: North Carolina.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, that makes more sense.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm not on the Tennessee.
Speaker 7: So you're in western North Carolina on the yes, sir,
Speaker 7: you're at Black Mountain.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, black writer, Black Mountain. Oh okay, sorry, what's
Speaker 5: on your mind?
Speaker 3: Josh?
Speaker 11: So I'm the mind frame. I'm also a high school
Speaker 11: coach and uh, I'm in the mind frame. My dad
Speaker 11: always taught me, you show me someone that doesn't mind losing,
Speaker 11: and I'll show you a loser. And I think this
Speaker 11: Cowboys team hates to lose. You can see the fight
Speaker 11: in them. You can see the defense fighting, the offense
Speaker 11: starting to put it together. So my question to you, gentlemen,
Speaker 11: is this. Let's say hypothetically they go on a run here,
Speaker 11: and I think they're more than capable of doing it.
Speaker 11: They just run the table and they squeak into the playoffs,
Speaker 11: maybe the number seven seed that warrant at the wild
Speaker 11: cards correct. That would be crazy and that would be
Speaker 11: like one of the greatest stories in recent memory for
Speaker 11: this team. So my question is, would that warrant Mike
Speaker 11: McCarthy coming back for another season because in twenty twenty
Speaker 11: he had he was decimated by injuries and he put
Speaker 11: he put it back together three back to back years
Speaker 11: of great teams, and then he puts it together this year.
Speaker 11: Does that warrant him coming back for another year? Because
Speaker 11: I do I do believe this team trusts Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 11: I want to believe that that they they love their
Speaker 11: coach and they're playing for them, playing for him and
Speaker 11: playing for each other. So what do you guys think
Speaker 11: about that? I appreciate it, guys.
Speaker 5: Phenomenal question.
Speaker 4: That's the big question. That is the big question.
Speaker 2: Here's here's my word, and I'll just it's one word. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: If if they turn this thing around, you're at three
Speaker 2: and seven with a five game losing streak in the
Speaker 2: middle of nowhere, in the middle of the season, and
Speaker 2: you somehow turn around, you would go five and one
Speaker 2: against your division. First off, if you do run the table,
Speaker 2: you would finish five to one against the NFC East,
Speaker 2: with that one loss being at home in Philadelphia. If
Speaker 2: you end up winning out and you squeak in with
Speaker 2: a five in one record in your division, you end
Speaker 2: up with nine wins total or no, it'd be ten wins,
Speaker 2: be ten and seven. Absolutely, that's the greatest coaching job
Speaker 2: you could ever ask for from a head coach, other
Speaker 2: than winning at all, other than winning the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5: The fact that you're able to turn it around.
Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of Cowboys fans out there
Speaker 2: that are probably saying, oh, and they're rolling their eyes
Speaker 2: and it's like, oh, but you're gonna lose in the
Speaker 2: wildcard round. At that point, who cares you did what
Speaker 2: you were supposed to do, that's win and get to
Speaker 2: the postseason. Sure, this team's not good enough to go
Speaker 2: win a super Bowl, but if you get another tournament,
Speaker 2: who knows what happens. Whatever happens happens. You lost to
Speaker 2: the bottom seed in the NFC last year in the
Speaker 2: first round. Two, if you're at the bottom seat in
Speaker 2: the NFC, things can happen. You can make a run.
Speaker 2: I would absolutely and I would anticipate if they do
Speaker 2: make a run and they win out, there's no way
Speaker 2: you let him walk.
Speaker 5: You resign them.
Speaker 2: And it may not be a one year or a
Speaker 2: two year deal, it may be a three year or
Speaker 2: a four year deal, but Mike McCarthy would be back
Speaker 2: in Dallas.
Speaker 7: Listen, there's a reason that Jerry Jones said today on
Speaker 7: one to File three the fan that the odds were
Speaker 7: of making the playoffs were outlandish. That's why he used
Speaker 7: that word, and it's because I'm not even going to
Speaker 7: give you the percentage. Just know that it's not pretty
Speaker 7: because the Cowboys would not only have to win out,
Speaker 7: they'd have to get a lot of help from other
Speaker 7: teams collapsing. But I say that to say, like Cole said,
Speaker 7: you were three and seven, and what do you happens?
Speaker 7: The injuries continue to rack up and you lose your
Speaker 7: franchise quarterback as one of those injuries for the entire
Speaker 7: for the remainder of the season. If you then somehow
Speaker 7: rally the troops to go five to one in the
Speaker 7: NFC East, run the table, and get yourself into the playoffs,
Speaker 7: how can you not that would objective. That will have
Speaker 7: been one of the most stunning and superbly fantastic coaching
Speaker 7: things I've ever seen it. No, because then it's going
Speaker 7: to the almost maybe curse. But you absolutely perfect word. Absolutely,
Speaker 7: it's a no brainer for me. Now, I'm not with
Speaker 7: Kyle on the three year because what I would say
Speaker 7: is I would split the difference. Okay, I would say, it's.
Speaker 5: Not gonna be a one year deal.
Speaker 7: No, it's not gonna be a one year deal. What's
Speaker 7: between one and three?
Speaker 5: Two and three?
Speaker 7: Exactly? Give me a two give me a two year deal.
Speaker 7: If this were to happen. Based on what Chase is saying.
Speaker 5: You able to do team options on coaching contracts.
Speaker 7: Good question.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you are or not.
Speaker 7: I don't know because I don't think it matters keep
Speaker 7: the coaching you don't. So I would give him a
Speaker 7: two year deal based on this just cosmic turnaround and say, okay,
Speaker 7: prove in twenty twenty five with a much healthier roster,
Speaker 7: because let's be clear, what we're seeing injury wise at
Speaker 7: twenty twenty four is not going to replicate itself in
Speaker 7: twenty twenty five to this not to this degree, no
Speaker 7: freaking way, right, So assumably, presumably you will have a
Speaker 7: much healthier roster, you'll have Deac back, you will make
Speaker 7: moves in free agency. We'll see what those are. Ashton
Speaker 7: Genty's going to be on the roster, and then we'll
Speaker 7: see the defense looks better, right, and I will say
Speaker 7: give me twenty twenty five, and then we will reassess
Speaker 7: after twenty twenty five on that two year deal. Maybe
Speaker 7: I'm willing to eat the second year if things don't
Speaker 7: go right in twenty five.
Speaker 4: To answer your question, yes, you can add team options
Speaker 4: to coaching deals.
Speaker 5: Oh interesting.
Speaker 4: My simple point is this, if you win out you
Speaker 4: do that with Cooper Rush. That is the most telling
Speaker 4: I believe that is the most telling statistic to me
Speaker 4: is the fact that if and you know, we've only
Speaker 4: won two games.
Speaker 5: Guys, let's not Yeah, we kind of chickens before they
Speaker 5: have qualify.
Speaker 7: We're answering Chase's.
Speaker 4: Question exactly, so to be fair, that being said, if
Speaker 4: we do somehow possibly in a chance went out. He's
Speaker 4: doing that with Cooper Rush and or Trey Lance, which
Speaker 4: I think is indicative of a stellar coaching job. He
Speaker 4: is a great coach, he really is. I think it's
Speaker 4: been a tough go at it this year. I think
Speaker 4: the defense was slow moving at the very beginning of
Speaker 4: the season, obviously if you look at it statistically, but
Speaker 4: now they're starting to come together. But the players have
Speaker 4: not quit on Mike McCarthy clearly. So if he does that,
Speaker 4: does he does a ten and seven record record with
Speaker 4: a backup quarterback, which I think is just remarkable. He
Speaker 4: has to come back.
Speaker 7: Look at the Giants locker room before Thanksgiving, look at
Speaker 7: the Cowboys locker room before Thanksgivings different. That tells you
Speaker 7: coach versus coach what's going on. Culturally?
Speaker 2: They believe across the way that they can win out
Speaker 2: and make the playoffs.
Speaker 5: That's what they believe.
Speaker 4: We may not believe it.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we believe they've They've still got
Speaker 2: really good Bengals and that's what matters offense.
Speaker 5: Let me say it that way, Bengals offense.
Speaker 7: Because Chas post game reporter asked him about the defense,
Speaker 7: which you as the receiver one, Yeah, say, Jamar looks
Speaker 7: back and over at the defensive section and then comes
Speaker 7: back and drops his head and said, they got to
Speaker 7: figure it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we's gotta beat the Bengals, really good Bengals offense.
Speaker 5: You've got to turn around.
Speaker 2: You've got to beat the Philadelphia Eagles on the road,
Speaker 2: and you've got to beat the Washington Commanders at home,
Speaker 2: which will be a sweep, which would be a sweep
Speaker 2: of Washington and your former quarter defensive coordinator Baker Mayfield
Speaker 2: either Yeah, Tampa Bay is.
Speaker 7: Getting healthy too, and Caroline is no longer a cake walker.
Speaker 7: Young is away starting to feed.
Speaker 5: He has a weekend, so things will not be easy.
Speaker 2: But yes, if the Cowboys do run the table and
Speaker 2: that very slight chance they sneak into the playoffs, I
Speaker 2: think you you definitely see, absolutely see.
Speaker 5: Michael Carthur back next year. All right, really quickly, we're
Speaker 5: gonna get the twelve collars. Eddie and Virginia. You gotta
Speaker 5: be quick. We're almost out of time here. What's up, Eddie?
Speaker 15: Hey man, what's going on? Fellows? Hey, this is my
Speaker 15: first time calling.
Speaker 5: You're the man.
Speaker 15: I like you talking cowboys, but I do want to
Speaker 15: see a couple of things. One is, don't like losing.
Speaker 15: I hate when people talk about we get the draft.
Speaker 15: They'll screw that because you might not get off the draft.
Speaker 7: Any talking talking.
Speaker 15: Might not get nobody. I'm all for bringing Mike back
Speaker 15: to Okay. That's not wasting the time. It's going to
Speaker 15: get this man at least three years. And that's all
Speaker 15: I got, Fellas. I'll have a great day.
Speaker 5: Thank Thank you very.
Speaker 7: Much, Eddie and right listener, Edie Kimy with a couple haymakers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, win, hit it out and get it strong. All right.
Speaker 5: That's it for us. You're on talking cowboys. Got the
Speaker 5: twelve today, guys. Good job everybody done. Good job. Beamer
Speaker 5: in the back, he's been busy.
Speaker 6: Is that one.
Speaker 5: No, that's how you tore That's how you tore it.
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 2: That does it for us, For Chris Beam, for Josh Rudder,
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