December 22, 2023 • 38 mins
Rhads and Nate get real about the Dallas Cowboys' challenges in stopping the run, stressing the crucial need for a dominant team mentality. Dive into their analysis of how penalties and individual mistakes impact the game, and why smart football and flawless execution are non-negotiable.
Looking ahead to the upcoming showdown against the Miami Dolphins, they dissect the challenges presented by the Dolphins' potent run game. It's a strategic breakdown that goes beyond the playbook.
And in the spirit of the season, the conversation wraps with a heartfelt reminder to fans: steer clear of sharing personal player information and cherish the importance of family during the Christmas week.
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Looking ahead to the upcoming showdown against the Miami Dolphins, they dissect the challenges presented by the Dolphins' potent run game. It's a strategic breakdown that goes beyond the playbook.
And in the spirit of the season, the conversation wraps with a heartfelt reminder to fans: steer clear of sharing personal player information and cherish the importance of family during the Christmas week.
#cowboystalk #gridironwisdom #cowboysnation #GridironInsights #wedemboyz #lemmetellyousomethin #dubnetwork
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no doubt about that. And it'sa great time for you to sit
with us and talk a little Cowboysfootball. I'm John Raddig, and that's
Nate Newton. This week. Hemay add a little whole ho ho before
he leads into the camera and saysto you, let me tell you something.
Yeah, my god, oh thisweek, Nate, I don't want
you to tell me something. Ineed you to tell me something, and
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I think all our viewers do too. Look, eventually, I'm gonna need
you to tell me how the Cowboyscan possibly win against the ten and fourteen
on the road after what we've seen. But first things first, Nate,
how how can the Cowboys look likethey looked? Just like almost like a
no show in Buffalo? The thingabout it, and this has been since
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the Jason Garrant era. I havebeen begging, I have been pleading,
and over those years we've maybe hadone or two guys that came in here
with a mindset and a built anda determined nation to stop the run.
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You go back into every game thathas been the biggest and most important game
to try to turn the page,and the run has destroyed us ever since,
especially since starting two thousand and seventeen. You go back and you check
playoffs, guys running for one hundredand seventy two hundred yards, and it
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just continues to haunt us. Welose Hankins and like our whole world fell
apart, right, and that cannothappen. Now, you're finna face a
Miami team that's fourth in the leagueone hundred and thirty nine yards one hundred
and thirty nine yards a game,five point two or five point seven yards
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per carry. This is not gonnawork. Everybody's telling me, hey,
we never lose two games in arow. Yeah, but you never run
up against teams that rush the ballwith the determination like the Buffalo did,
and like what Miami would do tous if we're not careful. Okay,
And that's the interesting part of it, Nate, Buffalo is not a rushing
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team, right. They got thatbig, strong statue of a quarterback back
there. He only threw the balllike eight times or something. Yeah,
fifteen times. The thing, yeah, the thing that let me break it
down to you. Let me reallytell you something. I did a couple
of shows, and I try notto compare teams. I mean, every
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team is his own entity. Butit's certain things that you have to have.
It's a certain mentality that you haveto have to be successful. People
are saying, what is the differencebetween the road games and the home games?
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And I'm gonna tell you, now, tell me this is This is
where I tell fans you can makeup what you want. You can go
to the media and let them makeit up however they want. I'm telling
you from what I've seen, whatI know, and what I have been
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a part of. When you becomea team that truly says we are a
dominant team. We are a goodto great team. Now, it doesn't
matter where you play. Eric Williams, Charles Hayley, Troy Aikman, Michael
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Irvin and Mit Smith, Tony Tolbert, Larry Allen, Ken Norton, James
Washington, Darren Woodson, Deon Sanders. It did not matter in the stadium
they played in. We were comingto get you. It didn't matter whether
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it was raining, whether it wascold, whether you had Briant Young,
Dana Stubblefield, Reggie White, theGreat Lawrence Taylor. We were coming to
get you. It's called players whodon't give a damn. It is called
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the ultimate alpha male. It iscalled I'm gonna hike my leg in your
yard, innate in your grass.That is the difference, man, That
is the difference. Players that don'tcare where you at. When we went
on the road back then, JimmyJohnson had a mom by one hundred or
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by one point, we win thegame and come home. We play smart
football and come home. We playclean football, and we come home.
No dumb penalties, no bad plays. We limited the playbook so we would
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not have bad plays. We executedthe plays that we know that we can
run against any defense. That iswhat is missing. Rad Now everybody else
say or make up every kind ofexcuse in the world. Well, maybe
it's the fans, Maybe it's thefast feel, maybe it's this, maybe
it's that. How about being smart, playing hard and doing your job?
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All right, So that begs thequestion is this team good enough to be
or is it so? In otherwords, is it just a mental thing
about being that alpha male and liftingyour leg or maybe are there some you
know, some talent deficiencies, somephysical deficiencies that prohibit this team from being
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that good. You know what,I'm beginning to believe that it's physical.
Yeah, you can't continue every timeto play a run team, a team
that has the ability to run andit's determined to run, and you can't
keep saying it's the eye candy off. We were over aggressive? How you
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over aggressive to the tune of twohundred and sixty six yards? Yeah,
Now, ain't somebody got to stopand say, hey, man, let's
do a niagara, let's flush thisdown the drain, let's get rid of
this. You know what I'm saying, Thanks to Diagoris wisponsor just trying to
be that guy throw that in there. I appreciate that. That was well
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done. Plus they were up thereby Niagara Falls, which is a nice
tie out. Hey see what I'msaying, right, that was sweet the
right that pave me the big boxman. You know this team, how
can you not address And they triedwith Mazie, they tried. This kid
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has not lived up to the billing. I'm not saying he can't, but
as of right now, he's nota valuable threat. And and there's so
many things that hurt them. Youyou come up, curse, come up
with a with another penalty that costus points. Sam Williams great athlete,
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but every game he do two greatthings. But is he gonna do something
that cost us point? Yavonn curse. It ain't been a game that we've
played that we've played in great againstgreat competition where he's not cost us points.
That is not you know, Idid the show last night for the
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Cowboys and I told him, Troyme just come in and say, all
right, load left, all right, thirty six this so thirty six that
we're gonna hard count him. Andhe was stopped before we walk out of
the huddle, Nate hard count onthree because I was that guy. If
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anybody was gonna jump, I wasgonna be that guy. Yeah, and
so Sam Williams. If you geta free run at the center layout,
don't lay out some people. Youjust have to give us a hug,
give a squeeze. Hey, curse, we can't have it today. We
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can't have a a bad play now, Tank DeMarcus Lawrence are not calling his
name because he normally don't make thoseboot boo plays like that. Yeah so,
but I'm talking about guys that arerepeatedly our fenders. Man. If
you know, if this was adui man, these guys would be they
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be throwing away the key on thesecats, man. Yeah. Yeah,
So, I'm just being honest.You have to when you go on the
road. It's several things have tohappen. Number One, you have to
take your run game. You haveto take your run game. That is
the stabilizer to everything. Number Two, you have to have your defense playing
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lights out. We can't. Youcan't give up any big plays on the
road. They're too hard to recover. And number three, your special teams
have to show up. We failedin all three phases. No run game,
even though Tony looked good the fewplays. Yeah, no run game
defense got you know, they justtold me the other night. I was
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I was just scanning through the weather. They told me the other night they
finally had a traffic jam and theystopped everything from moving. I'm like,
oh, they finally stopped running.It's like these kids, the way they
was running on it was like justback in the COVID days and everybody's running
and down highway at ninety five hoursan hour. Yeah. So I'm just
saying, and then we made thatbad play on special teams and it cost
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us. It costs us. Okay, whip with regard to that one,
Nate, Now, obviously Sam Williamswas very close to blocking that punt too.
What's the you know, what's thedeal there? What do you I
mean, like, you know thatis one and everybody's been on him.
But that's whe where I'm going.Man, The dude was so close.
I don't know that your back off? What do you do? What's the
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play there? I mean, obviouslythe players make sure you block it and
then you don't get called for roughing. I'm just on the roads three and
four. Yeah, how close dowe need to get because if I'm gonna
tell you how close it is,because if the Cowboys would have beat Buffalo,
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the Cowboys would have beat the Cardinals, then the lost for Philly would
have really meant something. Now everybody'sstill hoping and dreaming that Philly continued to
lose so we can cripple our wayinto the playoffs. Yeah, and I
met what I said. We canjust half get ourselves into the playoffs.
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That don't work. No, thatdon't work. How close is it?
Don't do it? Don't even rush. The rest of the team was on
a hold up. The coach believedin you so much, so he said,
if you can get in there andblock that, we need for you
to block it, so it'll helpedturn the game around. He did.
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He didn't turn the game around.He just poured more salt into the wound.
See rad as a football player,even a guy that never blocked punts,
we are talked to layout on thefoot. So the worst, the
best thing can happen is that kickerkicks it, kicks it and gets it
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off. Now his feet up andyou slide up under And the worst thing
can happen is you hit that footin its five yards. Yeah, come
on now, I mean yeah,don't. And I'm telling you don't be
one of the guys because you keepexcusing the bad he's a great athlete.
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Well I'll go even further. Wedon't have that situation if he don't run
down the quarterback on third down.Remember this guy was frying to go for
a first down. Sam William closesand shuts it down. Yep. So
now he got a chance to haveback to back great plays. One great
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play to get the punt, onebad play to get them points. Yeah,
that's how close it was. No, but that was way worse,
right, And that's the scales tipdramatically at that point in the game.
No doubt. You mentioned too.You've got to be able to run the
ball yourselves. Cowboys didn't do thatin part And again here I am with
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the excuses again. Zach Martin wasout, it looks like he'll be back.
Is that enough to revitalize the rungame this week? If you tell
me that the Cowboys is gonna onlygive up maybe one hundred and one yards
rushing on their own, If youtell me that our defense only gonna give
up maybe one hundred yards Russian ZachMartin on the other end, maybe enough.
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But this, you know, everybodywants to say it fell apart because
of Zach Martin. It did notfall apart because the offense couldn't generate anything.
These teams. Our offense, wetry to get a lead so we
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can play to the strength our defense. But our defense has to get turnovers
so our offense can continue to letthem sit on the bench. It still
works hand in hand, even inlosses and even in wins. You get
the turnover, we drive the ball, get we drive the ball. We
scored. We give you a lead, you rush, you rush, you
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get precious, you get sacks.This is what bothers me is we can
make all these excuses and then itbecomes a one and done situation in the
playoffs. Okay, what excuses doyou have when your home in the second
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round every year? Okay, I'mgonna give you the excuses. We couldn't
stop the run. We couldn't geta running game. So if that's been
an excuse every year, you haveto address it. During the off season.
They tried with Mazie there did abetter job with keeping the offensive line
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healthy. But we have an olderoffensive line. So our depth is not
there. You know, when youknow TJ. Bass is not played enough
to just have a great rhythm,a doga is their awsome freeman is not
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played enough to make a difference.Still, that's coming off of a major
service, which I think he shouldhave been coming back by the eighth game
of the year. You know,and people say, well, nature crazy,
who was gonna play. Well,you're gonna play Austin Richards. He's
gonna play a young guy and sobut they say, we can't lose this
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season. I agree, we can'tlose this season. So you're doing what
you're doing, but it doesn't erasethe same issues you've had over the last
ten years. When we played thebiggest of plays. And the reason I
keep saying this was a big game. You heard me say six weeks ago
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rad that we needed to win sixin a row. And the reason I
said that because you beat Philadelphia totie it up. And that's what I
was thinking. Okay, if everythingworks right, if you keep winning,
Dallas, you tie this up.Then the next week you go face what
I think is a good quarterback,a potentially great quarterback if he can get
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out of his own way in JoshAllen yep. And a great defense,
I thought, and it showed,and a decent run game, and you
going on the road where the elementscould be a little bit difficult. Now
that is why I say, areyou gonna hike your leg? Are you
just gonna squat like a puppy andcontinue to do it that way? Okay,
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so we know the results on that. So now you have another week
to get the hackles up on yourback of your neck, face it up,
tail straight in the as how you'regonna do it this week? We'll
see. Yeah. Now you mentionedthat the Miami run game and the efficiency
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and the success of that run gameover five yards of carry all season long,
and yet and they kind of runon the perimeters a little bit more,
Nate, how much does that change? And again it doesn't look like
Hankins will be back this week week, But so does that change the way
you approach it defensively trying to stopthat run if they're going to, you
know, take it outside a littlebit more. Thanks to NFL stats,
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ESPN, whoever else, the NFL, whoever, it didn't matter. They
got eight yards one way, theygot five yards the other way. They
got four yards this way. Itdidn't matter way. James Cook, who
was virtually unknown now he's known thanksSitting Down Cowboys. He ran any and
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everywhere he wanted to go. AndI'm telling you, they say they Sawry
out there on one of Buffalo majorhighways. Man, still running, Just
do it. They've been stopped yet, bro. Wow, I mean,
come on, this dude was incollege man. Yeah, and then get
them in the yards, even outrushed us, out gained us. Yeah.
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So yeah, one hundred and sixtyseven or something like that by himself.
And heck you was with the Lionsfor years. I don't even know
him then, man, I'm aLions fan. I'm like, who is
that dude? So yeah, hehad a breakout game, no doubt without
So when I when I read andhear what coach McCarthy says about Mazzy,
because we have to we have tocount on him again. He got his
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first start last week. You've mentionedhim already once. He'll start almost for
sure again this week. Coach saysthat it is he's okay with his gaps
and his reads. It's pad levelthat they're a little concerned about. Break
that down. Explain that more inLayman's terms. For me, what about
his pad level is wrong? Well, it's all about Bennie and hips and
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Bennie and knees. Low man wins. It's called leverage. When you play
up high, you don't have nostrength. You just you up. It's
like, you know, the onlything that can play off high and survive
is a palm tree they built becausethey're roots. If you have a ten
foot palm tree, they got tenfoot of roots in the ground. Yeah
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so, but man, the onlyhat do have no roots in the ground.
So when you get up highing theother guys in your chest, they
can control the majority of your body, so they can push whoever they want.
If you get down low, getyour hands inside. Now becomes a
vicious struggle about who's got better handplacement and center of gravity. So it's
all about the center gravity. Ifhe can't get low. But the thing
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about it, once he gets low, will he fire off the ball or
will he be laid off the ball? When he finally get that done,
will he make the right read whenthe guy stepped right where he stepped,
you know, steping courtings with theguy. So this guy got a lot
to work on yeah, but timeis running out. You don't want to
you don't want to stumble in December. The worst you can be is two
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and two in December, you're one, You're one and over. I mean,
oh and one right now. Theworst you want to be in December
is two and two and behind theeight ball. Uh. And you're playing
a team that's eerily built like youare. Offensively, Miami wants to get
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a lead, and they defense wantto rush the pack. They got forty
eight sacks. They got four guyswith four or five sacks, and they
got three guys with seven sacks.They got a kid called Wilkinson, number
ninety four. You know, Ohmy god, this guy, this guy
can dance and he's on the inside. This guy can dance for the best
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of them. You know. Theygot Bradley Chubb, I think got about
nine. I mean, what you'regonna do? Yeah, they coming to
get you. If you get down, they coming to get you. Bro.
The big dogs are hunting. Yeah, yeah, they got They got
a funny little coach too, youknow. Yeah, but right he is.
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And that's what it takes, isn'tit right? I mean back in
the day, and look obviously,so many coaches weren't not great players.
They played somewhere, but they werenot great players. In fact, often
the best players can't coach very wellbecause they just be like, well do
what I did? Well, wecan't, We're not you right. So
so but this guy, you know, does this surprise you that he was
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even you know, accepted from theget go just because he's he's so unique,
he's so different from other end one, ugly enough, fat enough,
rough looking enough to even Bill coachhe hadn't looked at this dude like,
man, you can't leave no mannot looking like this. Yeah, it
looks no battle baby. Now what'sin your head? In what you can
get your players to believe? Hegot a good rapport with his players.
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He got his players believing that whathe's gonna put them in a position to
be successful. That's all players arelooking for is guys that can put his
system in place that allows them tobe successful. And this thing all starts
with Cheetah, you know, itall starts with Tyreek. I mean,
once he gets going, it opensup the world because then Wadle gets to
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do his thing. And now howyou you cannot they you cannot stack the
box You can't stack the box againstthe Miami Dolphins. You can't. Somebody,
I'm gonna stop the run game againstthe mind. You can't because you
don't have nobody that can consistently oneon one deal with Tariq. No one
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in the league he consistently deal withthis guy one on one. So you're
gonna have to disguise your coverages.You got to have your help here and
there, and then wadle break loose. They got decent tight ends. They
got too lightning fast power for runningbacks. One kid got twenty touchdowns.
I call it monster. It ain'this real name, Mozart, whatever his
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name. He's a beast. Letme get the kid name right. Let
me look here, Let me lookhere, Let me look here, running
back right most strict. The dudeis a beast. Ye got twenty touchdowns.
That's more than some teams got alltogether. Russian, I mean he
got twenty Yeah, man, comeon man, this this dude is so
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unique. And then the guy thatbacks him up a tran, A tran.
Yeah yeah, come on man,This dude average almost seven yards of
carry. Uh. This dude coachuh coaches this coach here, this opposite
with this coach Mike Daniels Eve.The closest thing to all Madden game is
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you can get I mean with hisformations, with his movement. Uh,
the way they do things. Uh, you know everybody, well damn and
I love our media. They haven'tbeat any team that's at over five hundred
record. They haven't beat any teamthat's over five hundred record, I said,
y'all, And then but y'all wantto shoo y'all put on the other
side of that plate is but theCowboys ain't really stop the real rushing team,
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our team that's determined to rush,you know, our team on the
road, right man. And mything is and this is and this is
what I learned from Coach Landry,Coach Johnson and all great players. Take
care of your own home. Yeah, take care you uh, fix your
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own home. They trying to findchinks in Miami armor, but you won't
fix your own home, you know. So you know, you can turn
on any station anywhere within two hundredmile radius and they'll be trying to They'll
be trying to fix Miami. Miamiis the same got the same record we
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have. We are we tending forThey tending three. So they got to
turning four. Yea, both turnand four. So I mean their numbers
are better than our numbers. Theirtheir numbers they you know, you know,
on the road and and at home, their numbers are better than ours.
So yeah, they got at leastsome plays of over sixty yards?
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Wow? Yeah, so is isare Masi's uh, you know, the
things he needs to learn. Idon't even want to call him deficiencies.
He just hadn't learned it all yet. That's is that correctible enough in a
week if he wants to, ifhe wants it to be See, I'm
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through talking about Oh Mike McCarthy,Oh you know the the is a coordinator
dan Quinn. No, no,no, I am through with that.
That pro football whatever had a missingseventeen tackles. Coach macarthy had a missing
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twelve tackles. You mean to tellme that dan Quinn got a related thing
from the press box, come downthere on the side and then tell the
players what to do. Then hegot to run out there on the field
and make the tackle too. Comeon, man, come on, that's
too much. Don't you think he'llbe tired? Then he got to run
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up to the press box assess thedefense assessed office, run back down,
tell them to play and make thetackle. Come on, man, I
don't want to know what I amthrough. This is on the players.
This ain't on no coaches. Man. Yeah, you know, now offensively,
you can kind of you know,get that coach MacArthur a little bit.
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You know, you could have rana little bit more. They telling
me that, hey, they couldhave put an extra guy in the box
to stop the bleeding and stopped andrunning. They could have put an extra
guy in the box. Man,stop stop. By the time they would
have put a guy in the box, okay, yeah, they would sit
a rush for two undred sixty sixyards at the rush for two hundred okay,
all right, yeah, okay,fine, and Ty and Trayvon Diggs
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would have much bigger numbers. Imean, something's got to give, because
you couldn't. They threw only onlyonly when they thought they had to,
and they had to be forced todo it then because we were thirty six.
They was getting almost seven yards ofcarrying in the fourth quarter. So
if it was thirty six, theystill run the ball. Yeah that's short
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yardage. Yeah, yeah, that'sshort yardage. Oh man, all right,
so uh a bad thing also happenedafter the game. We're fans,
and I get it, you knowmore than any of us how fans in
this town are. But fans putout a couple of player addresses and a
couple of player phone numbers. Man, First of all, come on,
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fans, stop that. That's ridiculous. Let me say this to the fans.
Uh, don't don't make it thatpersonal, because right when you do
that, you bring in, youbring it and the law, and you
bring it. It ain't gonna justbe the local law. I'm talking into
my mic so you can hear me. It just won't be something. It'll
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be the FBI and and and youwon't be like the guy in Philadelphia the
next week you're sitting up in thepress box eating eating, you know,
coin chips and toritos and all that. It'll be a little bit difficult different
from you, ma'am and sir.So don't you know, don't cheer form
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cheer form, hate them in thestands, kill them on Twitter, kill
them on X. But lead thosephone numbers and lead those house addresses alone,
because it will not favor you inthe end. That's great, Now,
that's really true, and it's great, and it's I just don't.
I think it's one of the problemsthat we've had with the way the game
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has gone with regard to fantasy asmuch as anything, but also probably the
video games too. Now what people, people, John, I love you,
let me tell you what has happened. We football, basketball, baseball
and all sports started as an entertainment, right, and now it has become
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obsession. Is I got that right? Yeh? And on top of that,
on top of what you've just said, now people are betting their houses
on this stuff. Their lives aredepending on it. They're waydering it.
So I understand you know, youdon't start up there and base your whole
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Christmas funds on what the Cowboys gonnado and Mama won't gifts for babies and
you don't stand out they embedded itall on the Cowboys. Be smart.
I'm not telling you not to betnow. I'm not telling you not to
be excited about the Cob and theCowboy. Since I was ten eleven years
old, I'm sixty two years old. But I am not going to lose
my mind, no or my moneyon whether Sam Williams and Javon Kurt's gonna
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do the right thing in a biggame, and nah, it's no sirtain,
So be careful. How you lovedit, loved the Cowboys by a
jersey every nine and then buy ahat every nine, and then go to
a game every nine and then.But don't it's not that big a deal.
It's not that big a deal.I promise you, it's not that
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big a deal. Man. That'sI love that. That's great perspective.
Now it's we mentioned that at thetop, it's Christmas week. How tough
is it? Especially you know youwere going through it with little kids and
Christmas and getting ready for big gamesand all that stuff. This year,
the game is actually on Christmas Eve, which means, you know, at
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least the Fellas will be back intime for Christmas morning. But but I
just wonder if you can put inperspective how tough a week like this is
to really just completely focus on football, especially when you have a young family.
It's easy when you're at work,love on your team, Marry Christmas.
When you're at home, spend thattime. Go home after practice,
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don't lillygad when you get your treatmentwhatever, go home, spend time with
the kids and that's what I learned. Spend time with the kids. Wake
up that morning, just a libit, early kids out, wake them up,
eat breakfast with them, boom,go to work. It's easy.
It just depends on if you gotyour priorities right. At first, I
didn't have my priorities right, butthen I learned, Okay, no,
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they don't make this difficult. Nowyou wake up Christmas Eve. You know
you in Miami. You know what, you got a million dollars, Go
on and fly the family down.What's up? Fly down? And if
they can get out that night,they not the hook on this. If
they make a fly the next day. So you know, hey, but
you ain't got to come back either. You just stay there and you can't
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get hurt. But you can staythere Christmas in Miami. I either get
back on the plane and your kidswake up. Hey, the real Santa
Claus is home, daddy. That'sthe real Santa Claus. Daddy's gonna make
it. Help, don't ruin itfor our little kids watching. I'm telling
you who said it, you know, like I just tell my kid the
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blacker Claws is here, baby.Spoiler alert. Yeah, no, it's
great. Uh that's also a goodperspective, So give me. Then let's
finish this up with So you know, I think I'm gonna know what you're
gonna say. But what do theCowboys have to do? Uh, to
make sure they don't lose two ina row, which I think they haven't
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done basically in two years. It'stwo ways you can handle this. If
you win, if the coin toss, go out and score first. Okay,
you know everybody's saying it's gonna bea shootout. Okay, that's fine.
But if you get inside the twentyand it's fourth and three, now
fourth and one, and you onthe nineteen, get the field goal.
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You got a sure thing kicker,get the field goal, because if you
don't get the first down, theygoing they going back the other way to
score because they got momentum at thecrib. So I'm saying, score everybody,
it's gonna be a shutout. Yougot to take chances. Don't take
chances in the first half. Youdon't have to not in the first half.
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Now in the second half, youdown by more than ten, then
you may have to panic a libit. Listen, rad, if you're down
by more than ten, if youlook, because if you look at the
last few games. Over the lastthree weeks, teams have been down by
seven, eight, ten points goinginto the fourth and have won games.
Don't panic, right, don't panic. I hate go ahead. I hate
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when teams abandon everything they've done toget him there because whoa, we're down
by ten. We can't pass.We got to run. We can't run,
we gotta pass whatever is so,don't pan. And another thing,
the defensive guys who are supposed tobe your defensive studs has to show up
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in all phases of defense. Yeah, not only pass rush, but versus
the run. I would like tosee Michael Parsons do more than just rush
the passer. I need for DeMarcusLawrence to show up big, run and
pass. I need for Flowers toshow up big, veteran guy, been
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in big games before. I needfor these guys to show up big.
I need for our linebackers, BellClark Evans, they have to show up
big. You have to show upbig. Our secondary would be all right
(37:00):
if I front seven do their job. Okay, that you know showed me.
I'm telling you. I'm telling you. Rad if I, if I,
if I was still playing and Icame to your house man. Only
only thing I would tell you istell your wife to turn ahead because I'm
finna hack my leg in yard bro. I'm gonna tell you. I tell
you why turn a head, becauseI'm a for male. I'm coming.
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I'm coming in with your yard.I'm coming with your yard, bro.
All right. So that's what theygotta do. They gotta go down to
Miami. They all got to liftthe legs. Yes, there you go.
That's it. Either go simple.It's called drop yo and lift yo.
Yeah, yeah, fantastic. It'son that note that we will say,
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Mary Christmas, thank you for beinga part of let me tell you
something with me and Nate. Nateman, it's been so much fun.
I know we'll do it again nextweek. But having Merry Christmas, you
and Michelle and the whole family.Same to you. Rad. You're out
there with wats and hatches. Igot there. I'm out here. Yeah,
I'm out here, and I'm trying, like you know, you wouldn't
believe. I'm trying to tell differentWi Fi companies to go out there and
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compete so we can have these services. Yeah, please get me some.
Give me some high speed internet outhere. I appreciate you. Got PU
Yeah, I love you man.
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no doubt about that. And it'sa great time for you to sit
with us and talk a little Cowboysfootball. I'm John Raddig, and that's
Nate Newton. This week. Hemay add a little whole ho ho before
he leads into the camera and saysto you, let me tell you something.
Yeah, my god, oh thisweek, Nate, I don't want
you to tell me something. Ineed you to tell me something, and
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I think all our viewers do too. Look, eventually, I'm gonna need
you to tell me how the Cowboyscan possibly win against the ten and fourteen
on the road after what we've seen. But first things first, Nate,
how how can the Cowboys look likethey looked? Just like almost like a
no show in Buffalo? The thingabout it, and this has been since
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the Jason Garrant era. I havebeen begging, I have been pleading,
and over those years we've maybe hadone or two guys that came in here
with a mindset and a built anda determined nation to stop the run.
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You go back into every game thathas been the biggest and most important game
to try to turn the page,and the run has destroyed us ever since,
especially since starting two thousand and seventeen. You go back and you check
playoffs, guys running for one hundredand seventy two hundred yards, and it
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just continues to haunt us. Welose Hankins and like our whole world fell
apart, right, and that cannothappen. Now, you're finna face a
Miami team that's fourth in the leagueone hundred and thirty nine yards one hundred
and thirty nine yards a game,five point two or five point seven yards
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per carry. This is not gonnawork. Everybody's telling me, hey,
we never lose two games in arow. Yeah, but you never run
up against teams that rush the ballwith the determination like the Buffalo did,
and like what Miami would do tous if we're not careful. Okay,
And that's the interesting part of it, Nate, Buffalo is not a rushing
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team, right. They got thatbig, strong statue of a quarterback back
there. He only threw the balllike eight times or something. Yeah,
fifteen times. The thing, yeah, the thing that let me break it
down to you. Let me reallytell you something. I did a couple
of shows, and I try notto compare teams. I mean, every
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team is his own entity. Butit's certain things that you have to have.
It's a certain mentality that you haveto have to be successful. People
are saying, what is the differencebetween the road games and the home games?
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And I'm gonna tell you, now, tell me this is This is
where I tell fans you can makeup what you want. You can go
to the media and let them makeit up however they want. I'm telling
you from what I've seen, whatI know, and what I have been
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a part of. When you becomea team that truly says we are a
dominant team. We are a goodto great team. Now, it doesn't
matter where you play. Eric Williams, Charles Hayley, Troy Aikman, Michael
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Irvin and Mit Smith, Tony Tolbert, Larry Allen, Ken Norton, James
Washington, Darren Woodson, Deon Sanders. It did not matter in the stadium
they played in. We were comingto get you. It didn't matter whether
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it was raining, whether it wascold, whether you had Briant Young,
Dana Stubblefield, Reggie White, theGreat Lawrence Taylor. We were coming to
get you. It's called players whodon't give a damn. It is called
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the ultimate alpha male. It iscalled I'm gonna hike my leg in your
yard, innate in your grass.That is the difference, man, That
is the difference. Players that don'tcare where you at. When we went
on the road back then, JimmyJohnson had a mom by one hundred or
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by one point, we win thegame and come home. We play smart
football and come home. We playclean football, and we come home.
No dumb penalties, no bad plays. We limited the playbook so we would
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not have bad plays. We executedthe plays that we know that we can
run against any defense. That iswhat is missing. Rad Now everybody else
say or make up every kind ofexcuse in the world. Well, maybe
it's the fans, Maybe it's thefast feel, maybe it's this, maybe
it's that. How about being smart, playing hard and doing your job?
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All right, So that begs thequestion is this team good enough to be
or is it so? In otherwords, is it just a mental thing
about being that alpha male and liftingyour leg or maybe are there some you
know, some talent deficiencies, somephysical deficiencies that prohibit this team from being
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that good. You know what,I'm beginning to believe that it's physical.
Yeah, you can't continue every timeto play a run team, a team
that has the ability to run andit's determined to run, and you can't
keep saying it's the eye candy off. We were over aggressive? How you
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over aggressive to the tune of twohundred and sixty six yards? Yeah,
Now, ain't somebody got to stopand say, hey, man, let's
do a niagara, let's flush thisdown the drain, let's get rid of
this. You know what I'm saying, Thanks to Diagoris wisponsor just trying to
be that guy throw that in there. I appreciate that. That was well
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done. Plus they were up thereby Niagara Falls, which is a nice
tie out. Hey see what I'msaying, right, that was sweet the
right that pave me the big boxman. You know this team, how
can you not address And they triedwith Mazie, they tried. This kid
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has not lived up to the billing. I'm not saying he can't, but
as of right now, he's nota valuable threat. And and there's so
many things that hurt them. Youyou come up, curse, come up
with a with another penalty that costus points. Sam Williams great athlete,
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but every game he do two greatthings. But is he gonna do something
that cost us point? Yavonn curse. It ain't been a game that we've
played that we've played in great againstgreat competition where he's not cost us points.
That is not you know, Idid the show last night for the
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Cowboys and I told him, Troyme just come in and say, all
right, load left, all right, thirty six this so thirty six that
we're gonna hard count him. Andhe was stopped before we walk out of
the huddle, Nate hard count onthree because I was that guy. If
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anybody was gonna jump, I wasgonna be that guy. Yeah, and
so Sam Williams. If you geta free run at the center layout,
don't lay out some people. Youjust have to give us a hug,
give a squeeze. Hey, curse, we can't have it today. We
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can't have a a bad play now, Tank DeMarcus Lawrence are not calling his
name because he normally don't make thoseboot boo plays like that. Yeah so,
but I'm talking about guys that arerepeatedly our fenders. Man. If
you know, if this was adui man, these guys would be they
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be throwing away the key on thesecats, man. Yeah. Yeah,
So, I'm just being honest.You have to when you go on the
road. It's several things have tohappen. Number One, you have to
take your run game. You haveto take your run game. That is
the stabilizer to everything. Number Two, you have to have your defense playing
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lights out. We can't. Youcan't give up any big plays on the
road. They're too hard to recover. And number three, your special teams
have to show up. We failedin all three phases. No run game,
even though Tony looked good the fewplays. Yeah, no run game
defense got you know, they justtold me the other night. I was
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I was just scanning through the weather. They told me the other night they
finally had a traffic jam and theystopped everything from moving. I'm like,
oh, they finally stopped running.It's like these kids, the way they
was running on it was like justback in the COVID days and everybody's running
and down highway at ninety five hoursan hour. Yeah. So I'm just
saying, and then we made thatbad play on special teams and it cost
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us. It costs us. Okay, whip with regard to that one,
Nate, Now, obviously Sam Williamswas very close to blocking that punt too.
What's the you know, what's thedeal there? What do you I
mean, like, you know thatis one and everybody's been on him.
But that's whe where I'm going.Man, The dude was so close.
I don't know that your back off? What do you do? What's the
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play there? I mean, obviouslythe players make sure you block it and
then you don't get called for roughing. I'm just on the roads three and
four. Yeah, how close dowe need to get because if I'm gonna
tell you how close it is,because if the Cowboys would have beat Buffalo,
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the Cowboys would have beat the Cardinals, then the lost for Philly would
have really meant something. Now everybody'sstill hoping and dreaming that Philly continued to
lose so we can cripple our wayinto the playoffs. Yeah, and I
met what I said. We canjust half get ourselves into the playoffs.
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That don't work. No, thatdon't work. How close is it?
Don't do it? Don't even rush. The rest of the team was on
a hold up. The coach believedin you so much, so he said,
if you can get in there andblock that, we need for you
to block it, so it'll helpedturn the game around. He did.
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He didn't turn the game around.He just poured more salt into the wound.
See rad as a football player,even a guy that never blocked punts,
we are talked to layout on thefoot. So the worst, the
best thing can happen is that kickerkicks it, kicks it and gets it
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off. Now his feet up andyou slide up under And the worst thing
can happen is you hit that footin its five yards. Yeah, come
on now, I mean yeah,don't. And I'm telling you don't be
one of the guys because you keepexcusing the bad he's a great athlete.
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Well I'll go even further. Wedon't have that situation if he don't run
down the quarterback on third down.Remember this guy was frying to go for
a first down. Sam William closesand shuts it down. Yep. So
now he got a chance to haveback to back great plays. One great
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play to get the punt, onebad play to get them points. Yeah,
that's how close it was. No, but that was way worse,
right, And that's the scales tipdramatically at that point in the game.
No doubt. You mentioned too.You've got to be able to run the
ball yourselves. Cowboys didn't do thatin part And again here I am with
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the excuses again. Zach Martin wasout, it looks like he'll be back.
Is that enough to revitalize the rungame this week? If you tell
me that the Cowboys is gonna onlygive up maybe one hundred and one yards
rushing on their own, If youtell me that our defense only gonna give
up maybe one hundred yards Russian ZachMartin on the other end, maybe enough.
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But this, you know, everybodywants to say it fell apart because
of Zach Martin. It did notfall apart because the offense couldn't generate anything.
These teams. Our offense, wetry to get a lead so we
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can play to the strength our defense. But our defense has to get turnovers
so our offense can continue to letthem sit on the bench. It still
works hand in hand, even inlosses and even in wins. You get
the turnover, we drive the ball, get we drive the ball. We
scored. We give you a lead, you rush, you rush, you
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get precious, you get sacks.This is what bothers me is we can
make all these excuses and then itbecomes a one and done situation in the
playoffs. Okay, what excuses doyou have when your home in the second
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round every year? Okay, I'mgonna give you the excuses. We couldn't
stop the run. We couldn't geta running game. So if that's been
an excuse every year, you haveto address it. During the off season.
They tried with Mazie there did abetter job with keeping the offensive line
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healthy. But we have an olderoffensive line. So our depth is not
there. You know, when youknow TJ. Bass is not played enough
to just have a great rhythm,a doga is their awsome freeman is not
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played enough to make a difference.Still, that's coming off of a major
service, which I think he shouldhave been coming back by the eighth game
of the year. You know,and people say, well, nature crazy,
who was gonna play. Well,you're gonna play Austin Richards. He's
gonna play a young guy and sobut they say, we can't lose this
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season. I agree, we can'tlose this season. So you're doing what
you're doing, but it doesn't erasethe same issues you've had over the last
ten years. When we played thebiggest of plays. And the reason I
keep saying this was a big game. You heard me say six weeks ago
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rad that we needed to win sixin a row. And the reason I
said that because you beat Philadelphia totie it up. And that's what I
was thinking. Okay, if everythingworks right, if you keep winning,
Dallas, you tie this up.Then the next week you go face what
I think is a good quarterback,a potentially great quarterback if he can get
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out of his own way in JoshAllen yep. And a great defense,
I thought, and it showed,and a decent run game, and you
going on the road where the elementscould be a little bit difficult. Now
that is why I say, areyou gonna hike your leg? Are you
just gonna squat like a puppy andcontinue to do it that way? Okay,
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so we know the results on that. So now you have another week
to get the hackles up on yourback of your neck, face it up,
tail straight in the as how you'regonna do it this week? We'll
see. Yeah. Now you mentionedthat the Miami run game and the efficiency
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and the success of that run gameover five yards of carry all season long,
and yet and they kind of runon the perimeters a little bit more,
Nate, how much does that change? And again it doesn't look like
Hankins will be back this week week, But so does that change the way
you approach it defensively trying to stopthat run if they're going to, you
know, take it outside a littlebit more. Thanks to NFL stats,
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ESPN, whoever else, the NFL, whoever, it didn't matter. They
got eight yards one way, theygot five yards the other way. They
got four yards this way. Itdidn't matter way. James Cook, who
was virtually unknown now he's known thanksSitting Down Cowboys. He ran any and
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everywhere he wanted to go. AndI'm telling you, they say they Sawry
out there on one of Buffalo majorhighways. Man, still running, Just
do it. They've been stopped yet, bro. Wow, I mean,
come on, this dude was incollege man. Yeah, and then get
them in the yards, even outrushed us, out gained us. Yeah.
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So yeah, one hundred and sixtyseven or something like that by himself.
And heck you was with the Lionsfor years. I don't even know
him then, man, I'm aLions fan. I'm like, who is
that dude? So yeah, hehad a breakout game, no doubt without
So when I when I read andhear what coach McCarthy says about Mazzy,
because we have to we have tocount on him again. He got his
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first start last week. You've mentionedhim already once. He'll start almost for
sure again this week. Coach saysthat it is he's okay with his gaps
and his reads. It's pad levelthat they're a little concerned about. Break
that down. Explain that more inLayman's terms. For me, what about
his pad level is wrong? Well, it's all about Bennie and hips and
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Bennie and knees. Low man wins. It's called leverage. When you play
up high, you don't have nostrength. You just you up. It's
like, you know, the onlything that can play off high and survive
is a palm tree they built becausethey're roots. If you have a ten
foot palm tree, they got tenfoot of roots in the ground. Yeah
(20:59):
so, but man, the onlyhat do have no roots in the ground.
So when you get up highing theother guys in your chest, they
can control the majority of your body, so they can push whoever they want.
If you get down low, getyour hands inside. Now becomes a
vicious struggle about who's got better handplacement and center of gravity. So it's
all about the center gravity. Ifhe can't get low. But the thing
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about it, once he gets low, will he fire off the ball or
will he be laid off the ball? When he finally get that done,
will he make the right read whenthe guy stepped right where he stepped,
you know, steping courtings with theguy. So this guy got a lot
to work on yeah, but timeis running out. You don't want to
you don't want to stumble in December. The worst you can be is two
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and two in December, you're one, You're one and over. I mean,
oh and one right now. Theworst you want to be in December
is two and two and behind theeight ball. Uh. And you're playing
a team that's eerily built like youare. Offensively, Miami wants to get
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a lead, and they defense wantto rush the pack. They got forty
eight sacks. They got four guyswith four or five sacks, and they
got three guys with seven sacks.They got a kid called Wilkinson, number
ninety four. You know, Ohmy god, this guy, this guy
can dance and he's on the inside. This guy can dance for the best
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of them. You know. Theygot Bradley Chubb, I think got about
nine. I mean, what you'regonna do? Yeah, they coming to
get you. If you get down, they coming to get you. Bro.
The big dogs are hunting. Yeah, yeah, they got They got
a funny little coach too, youknow. Yeah, but right he is.
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And that's what it takes, isn'tit right? I mean back in
the day, and look obviously,so many coaches weren't not great players.
They played somewhere, but they werenot great players. In fact, often
the best players can't coach very wellbecause they just be like, well do
what I did? Well, wecan't, We're not you right. So
so but this guy, you know, does this surprise you that he was
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even you know, accepted from theget go just because he's he's so unique,
he's so different from other end one, ugly enough, fat enough,
rough looking enough to even Bill coachhe hadn't looked at this dude like,
man, you can't leave no mannot looking like this. Yeah, it
looks no battle baby. Now what'sin your head? In what you can
get your players to believe? Hegot a good rapport with his players.
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He got his players believing that whathe's gonna put them in a position to
be successful. That's all players arelooking for is guys that can put his
system in place that allows them tobe successful. And this thing all starts
with Cheetah, you know, itall starts with Tyreek. I mean,
once he gets going, it opensup the world because then Wadle gets to
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do his thing. And now howyou you cannot they you cannot stack the
box You can't stack the box againstthe Miami Dolphins. You can't. Somebody,
I'm gonna stop the run game againstthe mind. You can't because you
don't have nobody that can consistently oneon one deal with Tariq. No one
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in the league he consistently deal withthis guy one on one. So you're
gonna have to disguise your coverages.You got to have your help here and
there, and then wadle break loose. They got decent tight ends. They
got too lightning fast power for runningbacks. One kid got twenty touchdowns.
I call it monster. It ain'this real name, Mozart, whatever his
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name. He's a beast. Letme get the kid name right. Let
me look here, Let me lookhere, Let me look here, running
back right most strict. The dudeis a beast. Ye got twenty touchdowns.
That's more than some teams got alltogether. Russian, I mean he
got twenty Yeah, man, comeon man, this this dude is so
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unique. And then the guy thatbacks him up a tran, A tran.
Yeah yeah, come on man,This dude average almost seven yards of
carry. Uh. This dude coachuh coaches this coach here, this opposite
with this coach Mike Daniels Eve.The closest thing to all Madden game is
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you can get I mean with hisformations, with his movement. Uh,
the way they do things. Uh, you know everybody, well damn and
I love our media. They haven'tbeat any team that's at over five hundred
record. They haven't beat any teamthat's over five hundred record, I said,
y'all, And then but y'all wantto shoo y'all put on the other
side of that plate is but theCowboys ain't really stop the real rushing team,
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our team that's determined to rush,you know, our team on the
road, right man. And mything is and this is and this is
what I learned from Coach Landry,Coach Johnson and all great players. Take
care of your own home. Yeah, take care you uh, fix your
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own home. They trying to findchinks in Miami armor, but you won't
fix your own home, you know. So you know, you can turn
on any station anywhere within two hundredmile radius and they'll be trying to They'll
be trying to fix Miami. Miamiis the same got the same record we
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have. We are we tending forThey tending three. So they got to
turning four. Yea, both turnand four. So I mean their numbers
are better than our numbers. Theirtheir numbers they you know, you know,
on the road and and at home, their numbers are better than ours.
So yeah, they got at leastsome plays of over sixty yards?
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Wow? Yeah, so is isare Masi's uh, you know, the
things he needs to learn. Idon't even want to call him deficiencies.
He just hadn't learned it all yet. That's is that correctible enough in a
week if he wants to, ifhe wants it to be See, I'm
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through talking about Oh Mike McCarthy,Oh you know the the is a coordinator
dan Quinn. No, no,no, I am through with that.
That pro football whatever had a missingseventeen tackles. Coach macarthy had a missing
(27:56):
twelve tackles. You mean to tellme that dan Quinn got a related thing
from the press box, come downthere on the side and then tell the
players what to do. Then hegot to run out there on the field
and make the tackle too. Comeon, man, come on, that's
too much. Don't you think he'llbe tired? Then he got to run
(28:18):
up to the press box assess thedefense assessed office, run back down,
tell them to play and make thetackle. Come on, man, I
don't want to know what I amthrough. This is on the players.
This ain't on no coaches. Man. Yeah, you know, now offensively,
you can kind of you know,get that coach MacArthur a little bit.
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You know, you could have rana little bit more. They telling
me that, hey, they couldhave put an extra guy in the box
to stop the bleeding and stopped andrunning. They could have put an extra
guy in the box. Man,stop stop. By the time they would
have put a guy in the box, okay, yeah, they would sit
a rush for two undred sixty sixyards at the rush for two hundred okay,
all right, yeah, okay,fine, and Ty and Trayvon Diggs
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would have much bigger numbers. Imean, something's got to give, because
you couldn't. They threw only onlyonly when they thought they had to,
and they had to be forced todo it then because we were thirty six.
They was getting almost seven yards ofcarrying in the fourth quarter. So
if it was thirty six, theystill run the ball. Yeah that's short
(29:23):
yardage. Yeah, yeah, that'sshort yardage. Oh man, all right,
so uh a bad thing also happenedafter the game. We're fans,
and I get it, you knowmore than any of us how fans in
this town are. But fans putout a couple of player addresses and a
couple of player phone numbers. Man, First of all, come on,
(29:45):
fans, stop that. That's ridiculous. Let me say this to the fans.
Uh, don't don't make it thatpersonal, because right when you do
that, you bring in, youbring it and the law, and you
bring it. It ain't gonna justbe the local law. I'm talking into
my mic so you can hear me. It just won't be something. It'll
(30:08):
be the FBI and and and youwon't be like the guy in Philadelphia the
next week you're sitting up in thepress box eating eating, you know,
coin chips and toritos and all that. It'll be a little bit difficult different
from you, ma'am and sir.So don't you know, don't cheer form
(30:30):
cheer form, hate them in thestands, kill them on Twitter, kill
them on X. But lead thosephone numbers and lead those house addresses alone,
because it will not favor you inthe end. That's great, Now,
that's really true, and it's great, and it's I just don't.
I think it's one of the problemsthat we've had with the way the game
(30:52):
has gone with regard to fantasy asmuch as anything, but also probably the
video games too. Now what people, people, John, I love you,
let me tell you what has happened. We football, basketball, baseball
and all sports started as an entertainment, right, and now it has become
(31:18):
obsession. Is I got that right? Yeh? And on top of that,
on top of what you've just said, now people are betting their houses
on this stuff. Their lives aredepending on it. They're waydering it.
So I understand you know, youdon't start up there and base your whole
(31:41):
Christmas funds on what the Cowboys gonnado and Mama won't gifts for babies and
you don't stand out they embedded itall on the Cowboys. Be smart.
I'm not telling you not to betnow. I'm not telling you not to
be excited about the Cob and theCowboy. Since I was ten eleven years
old, I'm sixty two years old. But I am not going to lose
my mind, no or my moneyon whether Sam Williams and Javon Kurt's gonna
(32:07):
do the right thing in a biggame, and nah, it's no sirtain,
So be careful. How you lovedit, loved the Cowboys by a
jersey every nine and then buy ahat every nine, and then go to
a game every nine and then.But don't it's not that big a deal.
It's not that big a deal.I promise you, it's not that
(32:30):
big a deal. Man. That'sI love that. That's great perspective.
Now it's we mentioned that at thetop, it's Christmas week. How tough
is it? Especially you know youwere going through it with little kids and
Christmas and getting ready for big gamesand all that stuff. This year,
the game is actually on Christmas Eve, which means, you know, at
(32:51):
least the Fellas will be back intime for Christmas morning. But but I
just wonder if you can put inperspective how tough a week like this is
to really just completely focus on football, especially when you have a young family.
It's easy when you're at work,love on your team, Marry Christmas.
When you're at home, spend thattime. Go home after practice,
(33:14):
don't lillygad when you get your treatmentwhatever, go home, spend time with
the kids and that's what I learned. Spend time with the kids. Wake
up that morning, just a libit, early kids out, wake them up,
eat breakfast with them, boom,go to work. It's easy.
It just depends on if you gotyour priorities right. At first, I
didn't have my priorities right, butthen I learned, Okay, no,
(33:34):
they don't make this difficult. Nowyou wake up Christmas Eve. You know
you in Miami. You know what, you got a million dollars, Go
on and fly the family down.What's up? Fly down? And if
they can get out that night,they not the hook on this. If
they make a fly the next day. So you know, hey, but
you ain't got to come back either. You just stay there and you can't
(33:59):
get hurt. But you can staythere Christmas in Miami. I either get
back on the plane and your kidswake up. Hey, the real Santa
Claus is home, daddy. That'sthe real Santa Claus. Daddy's gonna make
it. Help, don't ruin itfor our little kids watching. I'm telling
you who said it, you know, like I just tell my kid the
(34:20):
blacker Claws is here, baby.Spoiler alert. Yeah, no, it's
great. Uh that's also a goodperspective, So give me. Then let's
finish this up with So you know, I think I'm gonna know what you're
gonna say. But what do theCowboys have to do? Uh, to
make sure they don't lose two ina row, which I think they haven't
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done basically in two years. It'stwo ways you can handle this. If
you win, if the coin toss, go out and score first. Okay,
you know everybody's saying it's gonna bea shootout. Okay, that's fine.
But if you get inside the twentyand it's fourth and three, now
fourth and one, and you onthe nineteen, get the field goal.
(35:07):
You got a sure thing kicker,get the field goal, because if you
don't get the first down, theygoing they going back the other way to
score because they got momentum at thecrib. So I'm saying, score everybody,
it's gonna be a shutout. Yougot to take chances. Don't take
chances in the first half. Youdon't have to not in the first half.
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Now in the second half, youdown by more than ten, then
you may have to panic a libit. Listen, rad, if you're down
by more than ten, if youlook, because if you look at the
last few games. Over the lastthree weeks, teams have been down by
seven, eight, ten points goinginto the fourth and have won games.
Don't panic, right, don't panic. I hate go ahead. I hate
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when teams abandon everything they've done toget him there because whoa, we're down
by ten. We can't pass.We got to run. We can't run,
we gotta pass whatever is so,don't pan. And another thing,
the defensive guys who are supposed tobe your defensive studs has to show up
(36:13):
in all phases of defense. Yeah, not only pass rush, but versus
the run. I would like tosee Michael Parsons do more than just rush
the passer. I need for DeMarcusLawrence to show up big, run and
pass. I need for Flowers toshow up big, veteran guy, been
(36:37):
in big games before. I needfor these guys to show up big.
I need for our linebackers, BellClark Evans, they have to show up
big. You have to show upbig. Our secondary would be all right
(37:00):
if I front seven do their job. Okay, that you know showed me.
I'm telling you. I'm telling you. Rad if I, if I,
if I was still playing and Icame to your house man. Only
only thing I would tell you istell your wife to turn ahead because I'm
finna hack my leg in yard bro. I'm gonna tell you. I tell
you why turn a head, becauseI'm a for male. I'm coming.
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I'm coming in with your yard.I'm coming with your yard, bro.
All right. So that's what theygotta do. They gotta go down to
Miami. They all got to liftthe legs. Yes, there you go.
That's it. Either go simple.It's called drop yo and lift yo.
Yeah, yeah, fantastic. It'son that note that we will say,
(37:43):
Mary Christmas, thank you for beinga part of let me tell you
something with me and Nate. Nateman, it's been so much fun.
I know we'll do it again nextweek. But having Merry Christmas, you
and Michelle and the whole family.Same to you. Rad. You're out
there with wats and hatches. Igot there. I'm out here. Yeah,
I'm out here, and I'm trying, like you know, you wouldn't
believe. I'm trying to tell differentWi Fi companies to go out there and
(38:05):
compete so we can have these services. Yeah, please get me some.
Give me some high speed internet outhere. I appreciate you. Got PU
Yeah, I love you man.
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