December 14, 2023 • 43 mins
HERE WE GOOOO! Nate and Rhads are pulling no punches as they tackle the aftermath of the Cowboys' major defeat against their arch-rivals, the Eagles. But fear not, as they gear up for the next challenge against Buffalo, analyzing how the pieces might fall into place.
Nate dives deep into the rhythm of Dak's cadence, a heartbeat for all Cowboys fans. And that's not all – he shares his take on the long-term effects of playing on turf, offering insights into its toll on the body and a player's career.
But the surprises don't end there! Nate spills the beans on his reluctance to shake hands after a game. Curious? Tune in and get the insider scoop on this week's gridiron drama!
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Nate dives deep into the rhythm of Dak's cadence, a heartbeat for all Cowboys fans. And that's not all – he shares his take on the long-term effects of playing on turf, offering insights into its toll on the body and a player's career.
But the surprises don't end there! Nate spills the beans on his reluctance to shake hands after a game. Curious? Tune in and get the insider scoop on this week's gridiron drama!
#cowboysnation #GridironInsights #wedemboyz
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show with a former Dallas Cowboys player. I'm John Redigan. He's Nate Newton,
and you know he's going to veryculturally look at the camera very soon,
and he's going to say those famouswords, Nate, let me tell
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I can say to start this showis here we go, Here we go.
Yeah, Ready, Ready, herewe go. And I want to
get to Cadence and stuff later inthe show, but I think, first,
Nate, We've got to start.We can't bury the lead. We
got to start with the starting point, which is that big victory over the
Eagles. And I mean, youknow, thirty three to thirteen, Nate,
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it felt to me like that score, like the game wasn't even as
close as that score, and itwas a twenty point win. You know,
what we did in the first halfwas big to wash the Eagles,
you know, and they kind oftapered off, and then we had that
deal where Fletcher Cox came in andyou know, hit hit Dak for a
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sack. And then I think itwas I want to say, Joe and
Davis a jailing uh Jordan Davis,either Jalen or Carter one of the suits
scooped up the score. And thatwas a good thing. Rad. But
for the first time, I think, you know, out of all of
these five games, because I felt, I feel they have to win one
more to really have a shot atthis thing. But for the first time
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in five games, you know,well, I say for the first time,
but consistently games were out of outof reach. And what I mean
by that my inner self, andmaybe you can explain how you felt was
you never felt they were in thegame. Uh, I thought that it
would be a closer game. Iknow that Philly has been used to playing
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big games, but I think forthe first time, Philly is starting to
feel what we call that post SuperBowl effect, where whether you win it
or whether you lose it, thehunt is on for Red October and he
they're one of those red houtss andteams are coming at them repeatedly with their
best games. And now after theforty nine or debacle the week before and
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then coming in to the Cowboys deal, then we are hyped at home,
you know, fourteenth straight, now, fifteenth straight. I think it just
was a little bit too much.I think they were just trying to get
out of that game healthy, justto try to recover this week. Now,
in fairness, they were at theend of sort of a murderer's row
of games against the best in theNFL. The Cowboys are now just beginning
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theirs. They go to Buffalo thisweek, to Miami the following week.
Nate does a game. The successthey had against Philadelphia bolstered the Cowboys,
as they had towards this tough stretch, which concludes, of course, with
the Detroit Lions at home on theday before New Year's Eve. Yes,
I think right here is where youtest the mental of the Cowboys. You
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know, people say the medal ofthe mental whatever you want to see,
even you check your dentals, man, because ivory is hard. Because that's
what it's going to take the Cowboysto be. This is when we started
I Run. As you reach back, rad and you were with me,
and if we started I Run,you won that first big game to show
who you were, not to thepublic but more to yourself. But Jimmy
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and I'm quite sure Coach McCarthy tosome extent in Sam Fellers, you want
to show the world how serious youare. You know, it's one thing
to beat a team that's well abovefive hundred. It's another thing to come
back and beat another good team.Forget Buffalo's record. I think Buffalo has
a good team to have a core, a set core players who are superstar
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type players, and if they playat the top of their level, we're
going to have a ball game onour hands. Going up to Buffalo.
It looks like there won't be hugeconditions right, there won't be nine inches
of snow. That won't be havingto clear the site. You know,
the line markers and all that stuff. Does that favor the Cowboys just so
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it'll be kind of forty and windyor whatever. Well, you know,
I would like to say that itshouldn't make a difference, but cold weather
win. And you playing in theperfect world of Jerry World, and you
know that big spaceship that they play. You know, you've had two or
three games in a row where you'vebeen home and it's been comfortable. Seventy
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two degrees zero win factor. Youknow, tilt the stadium how you want
it so the sun won't come inon you. Anything up on the sixty
is gonna be tough for the Cowboysbecause that your quarterback has to make the
suggestment, your wide receivers and runningbacks, and to some extent, everybody
on the team is trying to makesure that extra warm and stay loose.
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So it's different things you gotta haveto do during this game. And you
gonna have to drink twice as muchfluid as though you were going into a
eighty degree heat because you will dehydrateup in that that type of weather.
Oh that's very interesting. All right. So along those lines, let's talk
a little bit about this success thatthe Cowboys have had at home. Most
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players in the NFL. A recentAthletic survey of anonymous survey of players said,
you know, I think it's likeseventy percent of the players in the
NFL just can't stand turf. Andyet I'm sure nobody on the Cowboys would
say that because of the turf athome that they are so successful on.
But why are they Why are theyso good suddenly at home? Names they're
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fast, they use their player speed. How fast was turfing last year up
under the old coordinator? But theydidn't use him. But now you get
to see turf and speed he hadas long as you run from scrimmage as
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you know, and I'm talking abouthanding the ball off on a reverse of
twenty two yards and you saw thatspeed. You see that. You get
to see the quickness of Tony Pollardand all of these guys the seeedee Lamb
catching them quick slants and breaking runsfor long because they just good at home
and they good on that turf.Now I'm gonna go back a little bit
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rad what players be getting to understandafter about six years are running on that
turf. Come Monday and Tuesday,you still hurting. Come Wednesday, you
still hurting. And that's when youstart realizing the turf ain't no good.
And by your seventh and eighth andninth year, you want off of it
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because it's taken away from your career, all that speed and all that quickness
and genitally. Even when I wasa young, young young guy, I
used to be like, man,I love this turf. Oh man,
you know you can grip, youcan do this. But those days after
about the sixth year, when it'stime to heal, falling on that stuff,
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rolling on that stuff is unforget.Given what God's natural grass can do
is so much better over the longhaul. What's what's the worst turf you
ever played? On the link Philadelphia? Sorry? Sorry? Even the new
place, the new place or justback to State in the day they new
place is probably just the same.I mean, you gotta understand, even
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up in Buffalo, once the weatherdrops down around zero, how do you
protect that field? How do youpreserve it? If you're not going to
rip that turf up every year andreplace it with fresh that stuff gets hard,
that stuff wears out. I knowthey keep maintenance on it, and
I know turf is better than itwas twenty years ago, but not much
better. Still. It's still basicallycarpeting placed over contract. Just you get
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to go go get old good yeartires and break them down. I don't
know what rubber they use. Idon't want to be the wrong sponsor.
We get old burnt down rubble andall of this right here. Get you
four inches of slab a ceement,put the rubber there, put the green
carpet on, and throw some morerub in it, and hey, we
got the fastest turf in the world. Yeah, yeah, all right,
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So it's fun to watch the Cowboysplay at home, honestly, Yeah,
hasn't been terrible to watch him playon the road, but they haven't been
nearly as good on the road there. Their missteps have come on the road.
So there's a lot on these nexttwo weeks. Nate, Yes,
yes, they would have we haveBuffalo and then we uh and then you
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have is it? I want toI don't want to say. The cut
managers is that Detroit is our lastgame? Right? So who Didami?
Miami? Is went Intwe can Iforget the fastest and newest show on turf
Miami? Yeah, but you knowwhat, Miami got that thing hanging over
the head that the Cowboys had tolast week. Can you beat a team
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over five hundred? You just lostthis past week to a em under five
hundred. So Miami is having theirhard times right now. They're trying to
deal with their identity a lot oftimes, right and I know I'm kind
of getting off. Is when you'rea young team still developing. People think
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that Miami is there, but theyhave a new coach and he's still trying
to form his team. Miami isnot there yet. Offensively, I think
they can do it with anybody.Defensively, can you make the situation a
big plays that need to be done? And I'm gonna jump back even further.
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Three turnovers. Six games ago,Cowboys lost three turnovers. This past
week, Cowboys won convincingly. Theystill had a few penalties, but not
the dumb plays. Not running theroute deep enough, putting your toe on
the line as you're trying to cutup the score, a touchdown, guy
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not checking into the game. Youknow, we had another one of those
guys not checking with a ref andit costs them a game. But we'll
get into that later. But sometimewhen you're playing a better competition, are
you playing within your conference or yourdivision, and you need to win.
These are the things that can crushyou. Not checking in, stepping on
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the line, not running the routedeep enough, you know, bad penalties
at the wrong time. Rad You'vebeen around long enough to know that no
matter what sport. Baseball, youknow, you got to hit and run
and the guy forget, don't don'tread it and don't take off and run.
The guy gets a perfect hitting,the guy slowly about getting there to
run, and the centerfit of recoverythrow him out. So it's always something
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Basketball, you know, you're tryingto go too. For one, you
know you got a good open shop, but you got a rookie to understand
what's going on. He make thatextra pass in the clock go off.
Yeah, So it happens in everysport. It normally happen to teams that
are immature or don't understand the bignessthe normity of the game, you know.
But once everybody understands what's at stake, to focus it to detail becomes
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better. All right, So let'stalk about the potential ramifications of this big
win Nate the Cowboys, you know, I mean, even if both teams
went out, the Cowboys lose outon the NFC East because of the tiebreaker.
Philly owns the tiebreaker, so theywouldn't, excuse me, if both
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went out, they wouldn't have homefield advantage. Would facing Philly again at
their place sometime during the playoffs,you know, would the game that happened
last Sunday still resonate enough with theCowboys if it's not in their own home,
would they draw from it? Wouldthey be able to duplicate it on
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the road. That is why Isaid six in a row to me,
Ra had Let me tell you something, That is why the old wily,
krusty vet nate new So they neededsix in a row. Not only beat
Philly at your home, but nowgo to Buffalo and at verse situation all
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around, their team is good,the weather is kind of going to be
hectic years you're not gonna face thatin Philly if you go to that route.
So, yes, win against Buffalo, and now that shows that,
hey, we can play back toback good teams. We can win against
back to back good teams. Nowwe can go in any type weather and
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deal with that, because that's whatwe had to do. You know,
we had to get past the NewYork Giants. That was our nemesis back
then. We had to go upthere, remember the image shoulder. We
had to go up there and winthat game, because if you go up
there and win that game, that'sputting the world on notice that we are
the Cowboys. We them boys.And speaking of cold and Philadelphia, by
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the way, the Load Left game, you remember that one. Yes,
so the lost The Load Left gamemight have been the coldest I've ever been
in my life. And I grewup in Michigan. That was a cold
day in Philly. Nate Rad,that was a terrible day for me because,
Yeah, the world turned on NateNewton. The world turned on the
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fat man the kitchen. I wentin the locker room and I have never
been cussed out and ied and calledfat son of us more than what I
was that day. I'm like,hold old fellas. We played sixty minutes
of football versually three hours. Hereit come down to one play. I
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loving guys on offense and the worldwas dropping the bombs on me. Rad.
I mean, we went into thatlocker room. Troy didn't say nothing,
but the look he gave me.Mike Irwin cussed me out. Oh,
Tony Tober looked at me once,speak to me for a week.
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That's my roommate. I mean itwas, but you know what it did.
It galvanized us. And the followingweek the first shortyardist played the first
touchdown that was in the red zone. Guess what, we ran load left
and scored and got the first downbecause we were supreme. Even though we
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lost that game, we were supremein our confidence. Whether we were on
the road and whether we was atat home, we were securing who we
were and our physicality. That's kindof how the forty nine ers feel.
Forty nine ers have beat up everybodythat's supposed to be somebody. They have
physically beat them up, and thatwas our nature back then. Now,
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can the Cowboys get a little bitmore physical so to the point where no
matter what happens in the game,you can go on the road and when
you go to Philly, because Phillymade Philly has a good chance of winning
out two against Washington, one againstthe Cardinals. Okay, really well,
I mean Washington hadn't showed up fora game in a while, you know,
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not offensively and defensively. You know, they may have their highlights on
defense, so they may have aspurred hire on offense. But Washington hasn't
shown up, Left New York hasn'tshowed up. I don't know. They
got Danny DeVito, they got goodfellows. I don't brother. They just
wanted they want, but three ina row. So yeah, so that
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you know, But I don't hopeon other teams. I hope on only
my team. That's the Cowboys.Yeah. Yeah, And to your point,
you can't count on Philadelphia losing again. They might, but you can't
count on it, and you can'tshout on anybody else failing. You got
to count on your own self.That's right, that's right. Let me
say this right quickly. Rad coachSirianni, whether you like him or not,
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I think he has the pulse ofhis team, and I think collectively
looking at him, looking at theirplayers, and I tell people, for
two weeks in a row, youcould tell towards the end of the games,
you know, people how they gaveup. No, they didn't give
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up. Player and coaches were tryingto survive. These two events. They
was just trying to get out ofthat healthy You see right now, aj
Brown is raising Kane. Why aren'twe throwing shorter passes like the Cowboys?
Why aren't we doing this? Whyyou you get so sensitive to this losing
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because you know that you should bewinning, are competing better than what you
are And you know, as aplayer, and you know as the coach,
the coaches thinking, hey, whatcan we do to get these players
in better position? What? Andthe players are thinking what, hey,
man, what are we doing wronghere as players? And what can these
coaches do get us in better positions? So they're going through their little hiccup,
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you know, with the new offensivecoordinator, the new defensive coordinator.
That's what I tell folks. Phillyhas their own problems, you know.
And once they came off that,like you call it murderer's role ending with
us the Cowboys, I'm telling you, Coach Syrian and got in his office
that night. He probably didn't gohome. He probably went to his office,
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him and the other coaches and probablyeven the owner because I've seen Jerry
do the same thing. I thought, two bad losses and say, fellas,
what do we do to fix this. Don't believe me. They was
on the plane, huddle up inthe front saying, Hey, starting to
say, what do we do tofix this? We Philadelphia is not that
team we saw. It's like whenwe played the forty nine ers, we
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were not that team. Just whenwe you know, just when that bad
moves, we have affility to getfirst time you saw a better team.
I just don't believe that we're wouldwe. I don't believe that the forty
nine Ers, the Cowboys, Detroit, Philadelphia go into the playoffs And I
could be wrong. It has happenedbefore and fall on their face. I
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think those are the four best teamsin the NFL, not the NF,
not the just the NFC I'm talkingabout. I think Detroit will be top
over in the AFC. I thinkthe forty nine Ers will be top in
the same over there, and Iknow Philadelphia will. Now the Cowboys,
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I'm gonna be reserved about that becausethey don't bring the back to back physicality
that I think the other teams bring. Mm hmmm, very interesting. All
right, let's go to that Cadencething. NBC. Yeah, yeah,
the NBC was ready, man.I think the first game NBC had It
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was the first game of the year, and they didn't notice. Then the
last time NBC had the Cowboys,we got crushed by San Francisco, So
he couldn't talk about the Cowboys anyway. Man, they were having a field
day Collinsworth, and I like collinsWorth, but they were having a field
day with the who we Go?And Collinsworth was trying to explain it Nate
with the whole cadence thing, andI don't think he did a very good
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job. So let's talk about thecadence. That's obviously the phrase, right,
the phrase that pays yes for DakPrescott. Is that always present in
the cadence? Is there always atrigger word or a trigger phrase like that?
We have all back in the daywhen I played, You've always had
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offensive line calls in a quarterback.We'll give you chance insience to get your
offensive line calls back, and sometimethe offense is the quarterback would help you,
especially the center because normally that's thecenter at ninety percent of the time
making these calls. Well, Ithink Joe Montana did a little bit.
I could be wrong. I thinkhe did a little bit. Steve Young,
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that's always I think been similar tothe West Coast and how they did
things because they changed plays as theywalked to the line, whereas by our
old offense, we didn't change players. We just adjusted to whatever defense you
gave us. And so when theysee something that's right, they like to
hurry up and get out of thehuddle. And so you would hear,
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what's the great quarterback for Green Bay? Now he's in with the Jets,
Rogers, Rogers, you know hisgreen nineteen Green nineteen. You know,
some guys be like, set,set, here we go, here we
go, just letting the offensive lineknow, get your stuff in order,
because we're getting ready to go.We're getting ready to stop with all the
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talk and stop with all the youknow, because the players in because it's
kill kill kill Yellow nineteen Yellow nineteenreverse reverse reverse. We don't know what
to reverse mean. It ain't necessarilygonna be ceedee lamb turping, you know,
reverse reverse. He can be flippingto play from one side to the
other if he got too tight.Ends. So they always got then there
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say hey, then they'll slow itdown. Ready, ready, here we
go, and then they start hiscadence. Interesting, so you know,
ready, hut ready. Hut.You know it's just just and only they
know it because they have practices andthat takes a lot of pressure. So
only they know what he said justbefore that here we go, Yes,
but does that not trigger the defensetoo, like, oh dang, time
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for me to pay attention to Youcan think you on it, but what
happens when you go ready to go? Ready to go? And go?
So right office line, don't move, you think you don't got you think
you don't got it down, Youdon't jump on cowboys? Got a yeah?
So they he now that he isloud, and our fans have gotten
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so much smarter and they're quieter now. Uh, even when we get to
the red zone, our fans aregetting quieter. Now. I'm like,
you know, I used to tellpeople our fans ain't the smartest in the
world, People like, oh,we got the smart No, no,
no. When your quarterback is tryingto get a playout and it's a tight
situation and you cheering, you cheering, it's fourth and one, it's third
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and eighteen, and we were acrossthe fifty. We if we can get
this first down or get close tothis first down, we may have a
fourth down. That we possibly goand you cheering. That don't make you
a smart fan. That makes youwear your quarterbacks saying, oh my god,
all of a sudden, you gotyour right tackle jumping outside. So
your left guard that you do jumpingoutside, but you won't be quiet.
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Yeah. So but now our fansthey are so in tune to it because
I think now they want to hear. They want to hear this quarterbacks go
through his cadence and do what hehas to do. And Dak is really
starting to master this offense. He'sstarting to move around. I'm loving this
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old Dak. I'm loving this MississippiState Dak. This is the guy I
saw back in college in his firsttwo years in the NFL. Man move
around, give us a receivers asecond chance. But that cadence thing,
that is something that that I thinkhas always been a part of the West
Coast. I saw. I sawBrett Farb We went up there to play
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them. He beat us to deathwith that. I'm here he I mean,
he just I think for like fouror five series straight he called the
place. He depending on whether they'reAaron Woolson was coming up into the slot
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on the cover of the slot backon the cover tight end. He'd be
like ready ready, oh ho hoho, and he'll point ready woody,
he'll say something, here we go, here, we go, yellow this,
blue that, and he beat usto death. I got hurt that
game. Hurt my knee. Andthat's one of the blessings God gave me
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to get out of that cold andnot to take that whooping. That's another
cold place up there. Now,Yes, that's really interesting. I get
that that it's a West Coast thing. And speaking of the West Coast,
you know you talked about aj Brownsaying, hey, why don't we do
these quick passes like the Cowboys doingstuff? Man? Like, it isn't
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that easy, is it. Thishas taken a minute to get it fully
installed. But it appears to meand the offense scored on each of their
first four possessions in the first halflast week. Man, it looks like
this offense has really begun to clickwith the West Coast. Nay, is
that accurate? That is accurate,because you understand we was getting the ball
out quick the first part of theseasons. But what everybody was saying,
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oh, we have no loan plays, we have no loan developing place we
can't throw the ball along. Well, they had to get the offense in.
They got the offense in. Wegot our offensive line playing well together.
We got our running backs and syncwith the offensive line. And now
every day and now and then younotice we'll drop back there with a seven
step drop and take it deep.So when you sit on us, they'll
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they'll take you deep, or they'lltake you mid range. Or we got
a nice outside running play that wecan get a Ceedee Lamb turping, Tony
Pollard or even Rico o'donald has shownabilities to get outside. So, uh,
Mike is calling plays. Man isthe This is the guy I wanted
from day one to be calling plays. That is why I think we hired
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him from day one, is tocall plays. I mean, and maybe
they always had to kill him morething there. And I have nothing against
his kid, but as I saidwhen he was leaving here, he has
never shown to be a coach tocare anything about situational football. And that
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when you get into the playoffs andyour defense need a breather, or you
need to hold the ball right beforethe half so the other team don't get
it back because they're on fire.You need to shut this thing down with
four minutes. You can't just doit always with passing. You just cannot
do it always with passing. Youknow, when it comes time to kill
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that clock, you got to sometimerun the ball. Yeah, excuse me,
Nat, And along those lines.If it's forty and windy this week
in Buffalo, that is situational football, right. The Cowboys need to rely
on the Ricodougalds and the Tony Pollardsand those two wide receivers that can run
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the ball out of the backfield.I mean, they need to emphasize the
run game. If the weather dictatesthat situational football too, isn't it.
Oh yeah, definitely. It's alla part of the game. I mean,
it's certain passes you can throw.You know. The thing that you
hated about New York anytime you're inNew York playing any type football is the
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wind don't blow directional. It swirls. It swirls. One minute is blowing
this way, the next minute isblowing another way. It's kind of like
fantished car. You just didn't know. And so you know, hey,
second half, we can pass alittle more because we're going this way.
You know, the first quarter wecan go this way because that'll always happen.
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So you find out what your strongsuit as a quarterback, which you
can throw in these type games,you pattering your receivers around that you you
try to have a dominant running game. But I just think your short passing
game coming to effect and all thisgetting the ball out quickly. This is
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this a help? This This willbe that time where this type thing of
help. And this is where TonyPollock with his ability to catch out of
the backfield, should killed, youknow, have a great day. I
shouldn't say kill people in the sameway with Fergie. Fergus should be having
that wild option like Jay just runfour or five yards off the ball,
depending on what the safety, thelinebacker whoever sticking him h and he runs
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that, you know, have anoption to in and out or either hit
the scene. You know, soit's gonna be a good game. Man.
Buffalo has underachieved. It's two orthree teams in this league. I
think that the Chargers have underachieved.Buffalo is one of those scenes they have
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underachieved. I just cannot believe thatnobody's gotten a handle on this strong wheeled,
ultra talented quarterback. I mean,he's gonna give you a pick.
He's going to give you a pick. And if you and if you get
up in his face and get himto chirp and and get his mind off
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the game, he'll give you twoor three. So if you can stay
poised and chirp at him a littlebit, bump on him a little bit,
because they want him to run theball. And I tell people that
you're right here now. I've neversaid, hey, Dak needs to run
the ball. No, you've alwaysheard me say, Dak needs to move
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around to extend plays. I thinkthis kid has lost that ability to extend
plays at the right time. Hewants to take off and run. He's
not getting out of the pocket tolook to see him to pass, because
even when he does that, hehave some of the weirdest and craziest of
passes. I'd be like, whatare you doing, young man? You
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are better quarterback the coach. Whenthe coach, the New York Giants head
coach Dave Ball, was his cocoordinator, things were ran much better.
They're off as the coordinator now,is uh Joe Brady. Mister Brady.
I'm not saying it's you, myman. Maybe this guy's arrogant and don't
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want to listen to you. Butit's not working now. They won last
week in Kansas City. Yeah,they won last week and and uh,
you know they I think they goton Kansas City. I looked at a
little bit of that film. Ilike what he did to Kansas City.
Yeah, and that's that's a bigone for them, curse. They've had
those, you know, monumental gamesin the playoffs and in recent years,
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so that that was a huge oneto go up there for the Bills and
win that. Uh. And andat the end of that game, Nate,
Uh, there was a first ofall, a wild play where it
looked like Kansas City pulled a rabbitout of a hat again and and won
that game against the Bills, Butit got called back because the wide receiver
had lined up off sides. I'llcall you don't very often see in the
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NFL. But what you people didn'tnotice. You don't ever ever see this,
But on every play, it seemsto me, every play I've walked,
when I'm down on the field andso forth, that wide receivers always
looking over at the ref am.I cool, am I cool? And
the reff will let him know right, he did. Tony didn't do that,
and consequently they flagged him for offsides. Man, that was a
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controversial ending. Well, how didyou see it? You know what?
You know what? Rad You knowthat ain't even worth for Let me tell
you something that's for real. Itake my hat off to the reffs.
We won't the reff and coach Reid. That's why he changed this wording came
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Monday. Come Monday morning. That'swhy we haven't heard a lot from the
quarterback. We won't the reff tonot make an obvious call. Big up
on enough scrutiny as it is.And any fan that's Kansas City. I
am a Mahomes fan. I watchhis games. I don't watch other I'm
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a cowboy and I'm a Raider,and I haven't been watching the Raiders lately,
but I would turn on some Cowboysand I would turn on some Raiders.
You have to earn my right theother teams, and Mahomes have earned
my right. Mahomes don't do that. Bro, you're mad at your wire
receivers. You're not mad at theref You're mad at your wide receivers.
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Because in the biggest of moments theycan't bring that ball down for you.
That is why this kid is mad, and that's probably why you haven't heard
much from him, and that's probablywhy Andy Reda has said what he said
after the game. You don't wantthe ref to not make the calls.
So I mean, na, whatis right was what the ref did?
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And what fan is you know,even chirping the other way? Come on,
man, get out of fantasy football, stay out of Vegas and you'll
be all right. Yeah. Theone thing we saw Mahomes I think maybe
yesterday Mahomes came out and said heregrets, you know, the way he
acted on the sidelines, because youknow, it sends a message to the
kids and all that. You guysknow all about that, that sort of
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you know, people look up toyou kind of attitude and stuff, and
it's it's more cute for a quarterback. But the thing he said he really
regrets is the way he responded toJosh Allen. And I suppose that's another
quarterback thing, right. I guessquarterbacks have to sort of let coaches do,
right. They have to go greeteach other. I mean, the
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left guard, you don't have togo seek out the left guard from the
other team at the end of everygame, right, No, now,
quarterbacks. Even when we played Troy, would you know Troy didn't like Philadelphia,
troyan like New York, but healways readed their quarterbacks. It's always
been a quarterback. OK. Thatwas Hey, man, you know I'm
getting paid after this year. Heyhave a great season, because that's show
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need to get paid this year.You know they got the little hit double
hand. You know, money,money, you know, oh man?
But you know how how I was. I remember when I first started covering
the NFL, because you know,we were allowed on the field right there
at the end of the games.And I would see guys leaving the field
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and they would see and then youknow, they lost again. I was
covering the lines at first, sothey lost almost all the time. And
uh and they would see college teammatesand stuff, man and come up be
hugging on him. I was sohappy to see him, big smile.
Then I'd get in that locker roomand man, it was like a funeral
in there, and I'm like,wait, I just saw you on the
field. You were happy a minuteago. What the hell happened here?
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Right? I wanted to get agood interview out of that fake hey,
that fakeness. Yeah, the guysthat the guys that hate losing you and
you would know because you'd like tosay you would see him shake, you
know. And I was so gladwhen Jimmy came. I was so glad.
I loved Tomry, I love CoachLandry, but I was so glad
when Jimmy came. And Jimmy,we ain't got to shake hands if you
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if you, if it hurts youto lose, you ain't got to you
know, you ain't got to shaketheir hands forget them. I ain't shaking
no hands. Why you're like,thank you, coach. And from that
day on, I ain't shake nomore help and I and I brought Rad
listen to me. My gamesmanship isduring the game I do. I've never
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played the only way you would geta dirty Nate. If you hurt,
you try to hurt. And theyof my stars, uh, just out
of meanness, ignorancy. I'm comingat you. I'm coming at you with
everything I got, But you can't. You can't find a player to say,
Nate ever slap that a guy spiton, a guy did an extra
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shove clip the guy. I wouldtell guys doing games, man, we're
gonna get after your knees a littlebit. And people used to look at
me crazy, like I don't wantto hurt nobody. I've never I would
never been. That was my gamesmanshipright there after the game was over.
I'm gonna play a good, cleangame. I'm ana player as hard as
I can. Then I'm getting offthe field. If if you're gonna judge
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me because I don't shake your kid'shand, because my kid don't shake your
kid hands, so be it.Life goes on. So you would literally
warn a guy that, yeah,we're gonna, we're gonna for the game
start. I'm saying, yeah,I said, brouh, this game here,
man, we're gonna, we're gonnaget at your needs a little bit.
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Yeah, I just you know,coach used to get on me.
Coach Y'll Tony Wise used to geton me. I've been like, coach,
do we gotta cut him? Dowe do? We got it?
And see now it's against the rulesbecause we got a pimally the other day.
They thought the guy was wrong.The guy was right, our center
was right. He didn't do anythingillegal, you know. But uh,
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back in the day boy we ohmy god, we go through the knees,
roll them up. Are like,Man, I just did not want
to hurt nobody. That right therewas, you know, and so that
got to But I tell people youtalk about gamesmanship, that was play the
game clean, play it hard.Then if you feel like just walking up
the field because you've done the rightthing, that that's your right. You
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know a lot of times our mediaand moms and dads who cussing. Let
me tell y'all something, I donot listen to the fans anymore. I
take the fans with a grain ofsalt because the same people that tell you
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to shake hands after a game,it's the same person that's up in the
stands in front of their kids cussing, drinking, acting food. I've been
to Pop Warner games, moms,dads cussing, acting crazy. Which would
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you rather have? And I'm justbeing honest as a parent. I'm talking
about as a parent, I'd ratherfor my kid to see me up in
the stands cheering for my team doingthe right thing game over walk away,
or be up in the stands cussingtalking about the other player. I've been
at college games where after games.These kids don't play their heart out,
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and the parents over there just talkingabout the quarterback and time. I mean,
is that is that gamesmanship? Andpeople? And one lady tried and
give me what do you think aboutthe quarterback? He was so sorry the
defense played so great. I said, ma'am, I don't do that.
Became as over you know, sowhen I when I hear fans want to
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chirp in about uh, about beingthe right type of person and being the
right type of guy, and oh, shake their hands. And I know
what I tell you. If youplayed as hard as I played and clean
as I played, you can walkoff to feel good, feeling good about
yourself. That's that's what I tellpeople. People said, Nate Man,
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nice at you are? You didshake hand? No? I didn't.
I didn't share. I didn't wantto shake hands to a man that beat
me half to death. But Iain't shake Jerome, Brian Jerome used to
be like see you later home.We was homeboys. He was from Brooksville,
Florida. I was from Orlando,Florida, our or two away.
We knew each other in college.We knew each other when we got to
the pros. To Mike Uran,but I want shaking his hand. That
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was some of the terriblest whoopings Itook. I want to shake your hand.
I should ahead the Pro Bowl.Yeah, shake had a white you
know what I'm saying. Yeah,you gonna shake a man hand, slap
you around and beat you half todeath and got your job put on the
line and be like hey we cool. Yeah yeah. So last we haven't
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talked much about the defense from lastweek's game and now facing what we know
can be a very explosive Buffalo offense. So let's just finish this up,
Nate, because we're running a littlelong. Let's finish this up. What
can we What can our defense doto make sure that they get inside of
Josh Allen's head and then make surethat old Roan Bland gets another pick six
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osa number ninety seven. Keep playing, make a few more bigger plays,
keep playing hard. Uh, you'redoing you on your way, Make a
few more bigger plays in the middle. And I liked Parsons even though he
was there. I liked that hegot a sack early to lead the team.
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I like that our safeties showed upand made plays and man, and
I was so wrong on Gilmore fortwo weeks in a row. He's done
that spot check and following that guyaround. I was so wrong. I
thought I thought the old man wasnot very good at that. But I
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think I don't know how a wholegame. But if he spot check you,
you know, to slow you downa little bit, like he did
a j Brown, that man.That was nice to see our safeties,
you know, show up the waythey did. Marquise Bell doing his thing,
you know, and so Donovan Wilsonjust to see our safety show up
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because they had. Man, Iwas I was checking milk carton boxes on
them guys. I thought it waslost. You know. I'm talking about
the safety is not Marquis Bell.But yeah, I am so glad our
safety showed up. And I'm soglad we got those three turnovers because turnovers,
like sacks, come in bunches.You can miss the too few games,
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you know, but every time wehave turnovers, man, it go
up forty better chance of us andon the road you want. That is
the recipe for a victory against theBuffalo. Bill's another big one for the
Cowboys this week. Nate been greatfun as always, love chatting with you,
Love talking old times and hearing aboutyou walking off the field without shaking
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jer Own Brown's hand, and man, we thank you for doing this.
Yeah, thank you Niagara. Butlike I was saying, you want somebody
to beat me after death? Weso your kid can be happy. Nikky
Big Newon got beat up Mama,and he's still shaking the man hand,
not me. You let your kidget it beat up. Fantastic. We'll
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show with a former Dallas Cowboys player. I'm John Redigan. He's Nate Newton,
and you know he's going to veryculturally look at the camera very soon,
and he's going to say those famouswords, Nate, let me tell
you something. Good to see youthis morning, John, oh man,
it's good to see you. Weappreciate Niagra for bringing us let me tell
you something, And there is somuch to tell you and Nate. All
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I can say to start this showis here we go, Here we go.
Yeah, Ready, Ready, herewe go. And I want to
get to Cadence and stuff later inthe show, but I think, first,
Nate, We've got to start.We can't bury the lead. We
got to start with the starting point, which is that big victory over the
Eagles. And I mean, youknow, thirty three to thirteen, Nate,
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it felt to me like that score, like the game wasn't even as
close as that score, and itwas a twenty point win. You know,
what we did in the first halfwas big to wash the Eagles,
you know, and they kind oftapered off, and then we had that
deal where Fletcher Cox came in andyou know, hit hit Dak for a
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sack. And then I think itwas I want to say, Joe and
Davis a jailing uh Jordan Davis,either Jalen or Carter one of the suits
scooped up the score. And thatwas a good thing. Rad. But
for the first time, I think, you know, out of all of
these five games, because I felt, I feel they have to win one
more to really have a shot atthis thing. But for the first time
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in five games, you know,well, I say for the first time,
but consistently games were out of outof reach. And what I mean
by that my inner self, andmaybe you can explain how you felt was
you never felt they were in thegame. Uh, I thought that it
would be a closer game. Iknow that Philly has been used to playing
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big games, but I think forthe first time, Philly is starting to
feel what we call that post SuperBowl effect, where whether you win it
or whether you lose it, thehunt is on for Red October and he
they're one of those red houtss andteams are coming at them repeatedly with their
best games. And now after theforty nine or debacle the week before and
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then coming in to the Cowboys deal, then we are hyped at home,
you know, fourteenth straight, now, fifteenth straight. I think it just
was a little bit too much.I think they were just trying to get
out of that game healthy, justto try to recover this week. Now,
in fairness, they were at theend of sort of a murderer's row
of games against the best in theNFL. The Cowboys are now just beginning
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theirs. They go to Buffalo thisweek, to Miami the following week.
Nate does a game. The successthey had against Philadelphia bolstered the Cowboys,
as they had towards this tough stretch, which concludes, of course, with
the Detroit Lions at home on theday before New Year's Eve. Yes,
I think right here is where youtest the mental of the Cowboys. You
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know, people say the medal ofthe mental whatever you want to see,
even you check your dentals, man, because ivory is hard. Because that's
what it's going to take the Cowboysto be. This is when we started
I Run. As you reach back, rad and you were with me,
and if we started I Run,you won that first big game to show
who you were, not to thepublic but more to yourself. But Jimmy
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and I'm quite sure Coach McCarthy tosome extent in Sam Fellers, you want
to show the world how serious youare. You know, it's one thing
to beat a team that's well abovefive hundred. It's another thing to come
back and beat another good team.Forget Buffalo's record. I think Buffalo has
a good team to have a core, a set core players who are superstar
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type players, and if they playat the top of their level, we're
going to have a ball game onour hands. Going up to Buffalo.
It looks like there won't be hugeconditions right, there won't be nine inches
of snow. That won't be havingto clear the site. You know,
the line markers and all that stuff. Does that favor the Cowboys just so
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it'll be kind of forty and windyor whatever. Well, you know,
I would like to say that itshouldn't make a difference, but cold weather
win. And you playing in theperfect world of Jerry World, and you
know that big spaceship that they play. You know, you've had two or
three games in a row where you'vebeen home and it's been comfortable. Seventy
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two degrees zero win factor. Youknow, tilt the stadium how you want
it so the sun won't come inon you. Anything up on the sixty
is gonna be tough for the Cowboysbecause that your quarterback has to make the
suggestment, your wide receivers and runningbacks, and to some extent, everybody
on the team is trying to makesure that extra warm and stay loose.
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So it's different things you gotta haveto do during this game. And you
gonna have to drink twice as muchfluid as though you were going into a
eighty degree heat because you will dehydrateup in that that type of weather.
Oh that's very interesting. All right. So along those lines, let's talk
a little bit about this success thatthe Cowboys have had at home. Most
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players in the NFL. A recentAthletic survey of anonymous survey of players said,
you know, I think it's likeseventy percent of the players in the
NFL just can't stand turf. Andyet I'm sure nobody on the Cowboys would
say that because of the turf athome that they are so successful on.
But why are they Why are theyso good suddenly at home? Names they're
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fast, they use their player speed. How fast was turfing last year up
under the old coordinator? But theydidn't use him. But now you get
to see turf and speed he hadas long as you run from scrimmage as
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you know, and I'm talking abouthanding the ball off on a reverse of
twenty two yards and you saw thatspeed. You see that. You get
to see the quickness of Tony Pollardand all of these guys the seeedee Lamb
catching them quick slants and breaking runsfor long because they just good at home
and they good on that turf.Now I'm gonna go back a little bit
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rad what players be getting to understandafter about six years are running on that
turf. Come Monday and Tuesday,you still hurting. Come Wednesday, you
still hurting. And that's when youstart realizing the turf ain't no good.
And by your seventh and eighth andninth year, you want off of it
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because it's taken away from your career, all that speed and all that quickness
and genitally. Even when I wasa young, young young guy, I
used to be like, man,I love this turf. Oh man,
you know you can grip, youcan do this. But those days after
about the sixth year, when it'stime to heal, falling on that stuff,
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rolling on that stuff is unforget.Given what God's natural grass can do
is so much better over the longhaul. What's what's the worst turf you
ever played? On the link Philadelphia? Sorry? Sorry? Even the new
place, the new place or justback to State in the day they new
place is probably just the same.I mean, you gotta understand, even
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up in Buffalo, once the weatherdrops down around zero, how do you
protect that field? How do youpreserve it? If you're not going to
rip that turf up every year andreplace it with fresh that stuff gets hard,
that stuff wears out. I knowthey keep maintenance on it, and
I know turf is better than itwas twenty years ago, but not much
better. Still. It's still basicallycarpeting placed over contract. Just you get
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to go go get old good yeartires and break them down. I don't
know what rubber they use. Idon't want to be the wrong sponsor.
We get old burnt down rubble andall of this right here. Get you
four inches of slab a ceement,put the rubber there, put the green
carpet on, and throw some morerub in it, and hey, we
got the fastest turf in the world. Yeah, yeah, all right,
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So it's fun to watch the Cowboysplay at home, honestly, Yeah,
hasn't been terrible to watch him playon the road, but they haven't been
nearly as good on the road there. Their missteps have come on the road.
So there's a lot on these nexttwo weeks. Nate, Yes,
yes, they would have we haveBuffalo and then we uh and then you
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have is it? I want toI don't want to say. The cut
managers is that Detroit is our lastgame? Right? So who Didami?
Miami? Is went Intwe can Iforget the fastest and newest show on turf
Miami? Yeah, but you knowwhat, Miami got that thing hanging over
the head that the Cowboys had tolast week. Can you beat a team
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over five hundred? You just lostthis past week to a em under five
hundred. So Miami is having theirhard times right now. They're trying to
deal with their identity a lot oftimes, right and I know I'm kind
of getting off. Is when you'rea young team still developing. People think
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that Miami is there, but theyhave a new coach and he's still trying
to form his team. Miami isnot there yet. Offensively, I think
they can do it with anybody.Defensively, can you make the situation a
big plays that need to be done? And I'm gonna jump back even further.
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Three turnovers. Six games ago,Cowboys lost three turnovers. This past
week, Cowboys won convincingly. Theystill had a few penalties, but not
the dumb plays. Not running theroute deep enough, putting your toe on
the line as you're trying to cutup the score, a touchdown, guy
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not checking into the game. Youknow, we had another one of those
guys not checking with a ref andit costs them a game. But we'll
get into that later. But sometimewhen you're playing a better competition, are
you playing within your conference or yourdivision, and you need to win.
These are the things that can crushyou. Not checking in, stepping on
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the line, not running the routedeep enough, you know, bad penalties
at the wrong time. Rad You'vebeen around long enough to know that no
matter what sport. Baseball, youknow, you got to hit and run
and the guy forget, don't don'tread it and don't take off and run.
The guy gets a perfect hitting,the guy slowly about getting there to
run, and the centerfit of recoverythrow him out. So it's always something
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Basketball, you know, you're tryingto go too. For one, you
know you got a good open shop, but you got a rookie to understand
what's going on. He make thatextra pass in the clock go off.
Yeah, So it happens in everysport. It normally happen to teams that
are immature or don't understand the bignessthe normity of the game, you know.
But once everybody understands what's at stake, to focus it to detail becomes
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better. All right, So let'stalk about the potential ramifications of this big
win Nate the Cowboys, you know, I mean, even if both teams
went out, the Cowboys lose outon the NFC East because of the tiebreaker.
Philly owns the tiebreaker, so theywouldn't, excuse me, if both
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went out, they wouldn't have homefield advantage. Would facing Philly again at
their place sometime during the playoffs,you know, would the game that happened
last Sunday still resonate enough with theCowboys if it's not in their own home,
would they draw from it? Wouldthey be able to duplicate it on
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the road. That is why Isaid six in a row to me,
Ra had Let me tell you something, That is why the old wily,
krusty vet nate new So they neededsix in a row. Not only beat
Philly at your home, but nowgo to Buffalo and at verse situation all
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around, their team is good,the weather is kind of going to be
hectic years you're not gonna face thatin Philly if you go to that route.
So, yes, win against Buffalo, and now that shows that,
hey, we can play back toback good teams. We can win against
back to back good teams. Nowwe can go in any type weather and
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deal with that, because that's whatwe had to do. You know,
we had to get past the NewYork Giants. That was our nemesis back
then. We had to go upthere, remember the image shoulder. We
had to go up there and winthat game, because if you go up
there and win that game, that'sputting the world on notice that we are
the Cowboys. We them boys.And speaking of cold and Philadelphia, by
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the way, the Load Left game, you remember that one. Yes,
so the lost The Load Left gamemight have been the coldest I've ever been
in my life. And I grewup in Michigan. That was a cold
day in Philly. Nate Rad,that was a terrible day for me because,
Yeah, the world turned on NateNewton. The world turned on the
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fat man the kitchen. I wentin the locker room and I have never
been cussed out and ied and calledfat son of us more than what I
was that day. I'm like,hold old fellas. We played sixty minutes
of football versually three hours. Hereit come down to one play. I
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loving guys on offense and the worldwas dropping the bombs on me. Rad.
I mean, we went into thatlocker room. Troy didn't say nothing,
but the look he gave me.Mike Irwin cussed me out. Oh,
Tony Tober looked at me once,speak to me for a week.
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That's my roommate. I mean itwas, but you know what it did.
It galvanized us. And the followingweek the first shortyardist played the first
touchdown that was in the red zone. Guess what, we ran load left
and scored and got the first downbecause we were supreme. Even though we
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lost that game, we were supremein our confidence. Whether we were on
the road and whether we was atat home, we were securing who we
were and our physicality. That's kindof how the forty nine ers feel.
Forty nine ers have beat up everybodythat's supposed to be somebody. They have
physically beat them up, and thatwas our nature back then. Now,
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can the Cowboys get a little bitmore physical so to the point where no
matter what happens in the game,you can go on the road and when
you go to Philly, because Phillymade Philly has a good chance of winning
out two against Washington, one againstthe Cardinals. Okay, really well,
I mean Washington hadn't showed up fora game in a while, you know,
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not offensively and defensively. You know, they may have their highlights on
defense, so they may have aspurred hire on offense. But Washington hasn't
shown up, Left New York hasn'tshowed up. I don't know. They
got Danny DeVito, they got goodfellows. I don't brother. They just
wanted they want, but three ina row. So yeah, so that
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you know, But I don't hopeon other teams. I hope on only
my team. That's the Cowboys.Yeah. Yeah, And to your point,
you can't count on Philadelphia losing again. They might, but you can't
count on it, and you can'tshout on anybody else failing. You got
to count on your own self.That's right, that's right. Let me
say this right quickly. Rad coachSirianni, whether you like him or not,
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I think he has the pulse ofhis team, and I think collectively
looking at him, looking at theirplayers, and I tell people, for
two weeks in a row, youcould tell towards the end of the games,
you know, people how they gaveup. No, they didn't give
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up. Player and coaches were tryingto survive. These two events. They
was just trying to get out ofthat healthy You see right now, aj
Brown is raising Kane. Why aren'twe throwing shorter passes like the Cowboys?
Why aren't we doing this? Whyyou you get so sensitive to this losing
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because you know that you should bewinning, are competing better than what you
are And you know, as aplayer, and you know as the coach,
the coaches thinking, hey, whatcan we do to get these players
in better position? What? Andthe players are thinking what, hey,
man, what are we doing wronghere as players? And what can these
coaches do get us in better positions? So they're going through their little hiccup,
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you know, with the new offensivecoordinator, the new defensive coordinator.
That's what I tell folks. Phillyhas their own problems, you know.
And once they came off that,like you call it murderer's role ending with
us the Cowboys, I'm telling you, Coach Syrian and got in his office
that night. He probably didn't gohome. He probably went to his office,
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him and the other coaches and probablyeven the owner because I've seen Jerry
do the same thing. I thought, two bad losses and say, fellas,
what do we do to fix this. Don't believe me. They was
on the plane, huddle up inthe front saying, Hey, starting to
say, what do we do tofix this? We Philadelphia is not that
team we saw. It's like whenwe played the forty nine ers, we
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were not that team. Just whenwe you know, just when that bad
moves, we have affility to getfirst time you saw a better team.
I just don't believe that we're wouldwe. I don't believe that the forty
nine Ers, the Cowboys, Detroit, Philadelphia go into the playoffs And I
could be wrong. It has happenedbefore and fall on their face. I
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think those are the four best teamsin the NFL, not the NF,
not the just the NFC I'm talkingabout. I think Detroit will be top
over in the AFC. I thinkthe forty nine Ers will be top in
the same over there, and Iknow Philadelphia will. Now the Cowboys,
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I'm gonna be reserved about that becausethey don't bring the back to back physicality
that I think the other teams bring. Mm hmmm, very interesting. All
right, let's go to that Cadencething. NBC. Yeah, yeah,
the NBC was ready, man.I think the first game NBC had It
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was the first game of the year, and they didn't notice. Then the
last time NBC had the Cowboys,we got crushed by San Francisco, So
he couldn't talk about the Cowboys anyway. Man, they were having a field
day Collinsworth, and I like collinsWorth, but they were having a field
day with the who we Go?And Collinsworth was trying to explain it Nate
with the whole cadence thing, andI don't think he did a very good
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job. So let's talk about thecadence. That's obviously the phrase, right,
the phrase that pays yes for DakPrescott. Is that always present in
the cadence? Is there always atrigger word or a trigger phrase like that?
We have all back in the daywhen I played, You've always had
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offensive line calls in a quarterback.We'll give you chance insience to get your
offensive line calls back, and sometimethe offense is the quarterback would help you,
especially the center because normally that's thecenter at ninety percent of the time
making these calls. Well, Ithink Joe Montana did a little bit.
I could be wrong. I thinkhe did a little bit. Steve Young,
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that's always I think been similar tothe West Coast and how they did
things because they changed plays as theywalked to the line, whereas by our
old offense, we didn't change players. We just adjusted to whatever defense you
gave us. And so when theysee something that's right, they like to
hurry up and get out of thehuddle. And so you would hear,
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what's the great quarterback for Green Bay? Now he's in with the Jets,
Rogers, Rogers, you know hisgreen nineteen Green nineteen. You know,
some guys be like, set,set, here we go, here we
go, just letting the offensive lineknow, get your stuff in order,
because we're getting ready to go.We're getting ready to stop with all the
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talk and stop with all the youknow, because the players in because it's
kill kill kill Yellow nineteen Yellow nineteenreverse reverse reverse. We don't know what
to reverse mean. It ain't necessarilygonna be ceedee lamb turping, you know,
reverse reverse. He can be flippingto play from one side to the
other if he got too tight.Ends. So they always got then there
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say hey, then they'll slow itdown. Ready, ready, here we
go, and then they start hiscadence. Interesting, so you know,
ready, hut ready. Hut.You know it's just just and only they
know it because they have practices andthat takes a lot of pressure. So
only they know what he said justbefore that here we go, Yes,
but does that not trigger the defensetoo, like, oh dang, time
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for me to pay attention to Youcan think you on it, but what
happens when you go ready to go? Ready to go? And go?
So right office line, don't move, you think you don't got you think
you don't got it down, Youdon't jump on cowboys? Got a yeah?
So they he now that he isloud, and our fans have gotten
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so much smarter and they're quieter now. Uh, even when we get to
the red zone, our fans aregetting quieter. Now. I'm like,
you know, I used to tellpeople our fans ain't the smartest in the
world, People like, oh,we got the smart No, no,
no. When your quarterback is tryingto get a playout and it's a tight
situation and you cheering, you cheering, it's fourth and one, it's third
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and eighteen, and we were acrossthe fifty. We if we can get
this first down or get close tothis first down, we may have a
fourth down. That we possibly goand you cheering. That don't make you
a smart fan. That makes youwear your quarterbacks saying, oh my god,
all of a sudden, you gotyour right tackle jumping outside. So
your left guard that you do jumpingoutside, but you won't be quiet.
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Yeah. So but now our fansthey are so in tune to it because
I think now they want to hear. They want to hear this quarterbacks go
through his cadence and do what hehas to do. And Dak is really
starting to master this offense. He'sstarting to move around. I'm loving this
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old Dak. I'm loving this MississippiState Dak. This is the guy I
saw back in college in his firsttwo years in the NFL. Man move
around, give us a receivers asecond chance. But that cadence thing,
that is something that that I thinkhas always been a part of the West
Coast. I saw. I sawBrett Farb We went up there to play
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them. He beat us to deathwith that. I'm here he I mean,
he just I think for like fouror five series straight he called the
place. He depending on whether they'reAaron Woolson was coming up into the slot
(25:02):
on the cover of the slot backon the cover tight end. He'd be
like ready ready, oh ho hoho, and he'll point ready woody,
he'll say something, here we go, here, we go, yellow this,
blue that, and he beat usto death. I got hurt that
game. Hurt my knee. Andthat's one of the blessings God gave me
(25:23):
to get out of that cold andnot to take that whooping. That's another
cold place up there. Now,Yes, that's really interesting. I get
that that it's a West Coast thing. And speaking of the West Coast,
you know you talked about aj Brownsaying, hey, why don't we do
these quick passes like the Cowboys doingstuff? Man? Like, it isn't
(25:45):
that easy, is it. Thishas taken a minute to get it fully
installed. But it appears to meand the offense scored on each of their
first four possessions in the first halflast week. Man, it looks like
this offense has really begun to clickwith the West Coast. Nay, is
that accurate? That is accurate,because you understand we was getting the ball
out quick the first part of theseasons. But what everybody was saying,
(26:07):
oh, we have no loan plays, we have no loan developing place we
can't throw the ball along. Well, they had to get the offense in.
They got the offense in. Wegot our offensive line playing well together.
We got our running backs and syncwith the offensive line. And now
every day and now and then younotice we'll drop back there with a seven
step drop and take it deep.So when you sit on us, they'll
(26:30):
they'll take you deep, or they'lltake you mid range. Or we got
a nice outside running play that wecan get a Ceedee Lamb turping, Tony
Pollard or even Rico o'donald has shownabilities to get outside. So, uh,
Mike is calling plays. Man isthe This is the guy I wanted
from day one to be calling plays. That is why I think we hired
(26:52):
him from day one, is tocall plays. I mean, and maybe
they always had to kill him morething there. And I have nothing against
his kid, but as I saidwhen he was leaving here, he has
never shown to be a coach tocare anything about situational football. And that
(27:14):
when you get into the playoffs andyour defense need a breather, or you
need to hold the ball right beforethe half so the other team don't get
it back because they're on fire.You need to shut this thing down with
four minutes. You can't just doit always with passing. You just cannot
do it always with passing. Youknow, when it comes time to kill
(27:36):
that clock, you got to sometimerun the ball. Yeah, excuse me,
Nat, And along those lines.If it's forty and windy this week
in Buffalo, that is situational football, right. The Cowboys need to rely
on the Ricodougalds and the Tony Pollardsand those two wide receivers that can run
(27:56):
the ball out of the backfield.I mean, they need to emphasize the
run game. If the weather dictatesthat situational football too, isn't it.
Oh yeah, definitely. It's alla part of the game. I mean,
it's certain passes you can throw.You know. The thing that you
hated about New York anytime you're inNew York playing any type football is the
(28:19):
wind don't blow directional. It swirls. It swirls. One minute is blowing
this way, the next minute isblowing another way. It's kind of like
fantished car. You just didn't know. And so you know, hey,
second half, we can pass alittle more because we're going this way.
You know, the first quarter wecan go this way because that'll always happen.
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So you find out what your strongsuit as a quarterback, which you
can throw in these type games,you pattering your receivers around that you you
try to have a dominant running game. But I just think your short passing
game coming to effect and all thisgetting the ball out quickly. This is
(29:00):
this a help? This This willbe that time where this type thing of
help. And this is where TonyPollock with his ability to catch out of
the backfield, should killed, youknow, have a great day. I
shouldn't say kill people in the sameway with Fergie. Fergus should be having
that wild option like Jay just runfour or five yards off the ball,
depending on what the safety, thelinebacker whoever sticking him h and he runs
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that, you know, have anoption to in and out or either hit
the scene. You know, soit's gonna be a good game. Man.
Buffalo has underachieved. It's two orthree teams in this league. I
think that the Chargers have underachieved.Buffalo is one of those scenes they have
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underachieved. I just cannot believe thatnobody's gotten a handle on this strong wheeled,
ultra talented quarterback. I mean,he's gonna give you a pick.
He's going to give you a pick. And if you and if you get
up in his face and get himto chirp and and get his mind off
(30:06):
the game, he'll give you twoor three. So if you can stay
poised and chirp at him a littlebit, bump on him a little bit,
because they want him to run theball. And I tell people that
you're right here now. I've neversaid, hey, Dak needs to run
the ball. No, you've alwaysheard me say, Dak needs to move
(30:26):
around to extend plays. I thinkthis kid has lost that ability to extend
plays at the right time. Hewants to take off and run. He's
not getting out of the pocket tolook to see him to pass, because
even when he does that, hehave some of the weirdest and craziest of
passes. I'd be like, whatare you doing, young man? You
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are better quarterback the coach. Whenthe coach, the New York Giants head
coach Dave Ball, was his cocoordinator, things were ran much better.
They're off as the coordinator now,is uh Joe Brady. Mister Brady.
I'm not saying it's you, myman. Maybe this guy's arrogant and don't
(31:10):
want to listen to you. Butit's not working now. They won last
week in Kansas City. Yeah,they won last week and and uh,
you know they I think they goton Kansas City. I looked at a
little bit of that film. Ilike what he did to Kansas City.
Yeah, and that's that's a bigone for them, curse. They've had
those, you know, monumental gamesin the playoffs and in recent years,
(31:33):
so that that was a huge oneto go up there for the Bills and
win that. Uh. And andat the end of that game, Nate,
Uh, there was a first ofall, a wild play where it
looked like Kansas City pulled a rabbitout of a hat again and and won
that game against the Bills, Butit got called back because the wide receiver
had lined up off sides. I'llcall you don't very often see in the
(31:56):
NFL. But what you people didn'tnotice. You don't ever ever see this,
But on every play, it seemsto me, every play I've walked,
when I'm down on the field andso forth, that wide receivers always
looking over at the ref am.I cool, am I cool? And
the reff will let him know right, he did. Tony didn't do that,
and consequently they flagged him for offsides. Man, that was a
(32:21):
controversial ending. Well, how didyou see it? You know what?
You know what? Rad You knowthat ain't even worth for Let me tell
you something that's for real. Itake my hat off to the reffs.
We won't the reff and coach Reid. That's why he changed this wording came
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Monday. Come Monday morning. That'swhy we haven't heard a lot from the
quarterback. We won't the reff tonot make an obvious call. Big up
on enough scrutiny as it is.And any fan that's Kansas City. I
am a Mahomes fan. I watchhis games. I don't watch other I'm
(33:09):
a cowboy and I'm a Raider,and I haven't been watching the Raiders lately,
but I would turn on some Cowboysand I would turn on some Raiders.
You have to earn my right theother teams, and Mahomes have earned
my right. Mahomes don't do that. Bro, you're mad at your wire
receivers. You're not mad at theref You're mad at your wide receivers.
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Because in the biggest of moments theycan't bring that ball down for you.
That is why this kid is mad, and that's probably why you haven't heard
much from him, and that's probablywhy Andy Reda has said what he said
after the game. You don't wantthe ref to not make the calls.
So I mean, na, whatis right was what the ref did?
(33:53):
And what fan is you know,even chirping the other way? Come on,
man, get out of fantasy football, stay out of Vegas and you'll
be all right. Yeah. Theone thing we saw Mahomes I think maybe
yesterday Mahomes came out and said heregrets, you know, the way he
acted on the sidelines, because youknow, it sends a message to the
kids and all that. You guysknow all about that, that sort of
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you know, people look up toyou kind of attitude and stuff, and
it's it's more cute for a quarterback. But the thing he said he really
regrets is the way he responded toJosh Allen. And I suppose that's another
quarterback thing, right. I guessquarterbacks have to sort of let coaches do,
right. They have to go greeteach other. I mean, the
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left guard, you don't have togo seek out the left guard from the
other team at the end of everygame, right, No, now,
quarterbacks. Even when we played Troy, would you know Troy didn't like Philadelphia,
troyan like New York, but healways readed their quarterbacks. It's always
been a quarterback. OK. Thatwas Hey, man, you know I'm
getting paid after this year. Heyhave a great season, because that's show
(34:59):
need to get paid this year.You know they got the little hit double
hand. You know, money,money, you know, oh man?
But you know how how I was. I remember when I first started covering
the NFL, because you know,we were allowed on the field right there
at the end of the games.And I would see guys leaving the field
(35:22):
and they would see and then youknow, they lost again. I was
covering the lines at first, sothey lost almost all the time. And
uh and they would see college teammatesand stuff, man and come up be
hugging on him. I was sohappy to see him, big smile.
Then I'd get in that locker roomand man, it was like a funeral
in there, and I'm like,wait, I just saw you on the
field. You were happy a minuteago. What the hell happened here?
(35:44):
Right? I wanted to get agood interview out of that fake hey,
that fakeness. Yeah, the guysthat the guys that hate losing you and
you would know because you'd like tosay you would see him shake, you
know. And I was so gladwhen Jimmy came. I was so glad.
I loved Tomry, I love CoachLandry, but I was so glad
when Jimmy came. And Jimmy,we ain't got to shake hands if you
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if you, if it hurts youto lose, you ain't got to you
know, you ain't got to shaketheir hands forget them. I ain't shaking
no hands. Why you're like,thank you, coach. And from that
day on, I ain't shake nomore help and I and I brought Rad
listen to me. My gamesmanship isduring the game I do. I've never
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played the only way you would geta dirty Nate. If you hurt,
you try to hurt. And theyof my stars, uh, just out
of meanness, ignorancy. I'm comingat you. I'm coming at you with
everything I got, But you can't. You can't find a player to say,
Nate ever slap that a guy spiton, a guy did an extra
(36:52):
shove clip the guy. I wouldtell guys doing games, man, we're
gonna get after your knees a littlebit. And people used to look at
me crazy, like I don't wantto hurt nobody. I've never I would
never been. That was my gamesmanshipright there after the game was over.
I'm gonna play a good, cleangame. I'm ana player as hard as
I can. Then I'm getting offthe field. If if you're gonna judge
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me because I don't shake your kid'shand, because my kid don't shake your
kid hands, so be it.Life goes on. So you would literally
warn a guy that, yeah,we're gonna, we're gonna for the game
start. I'm saying, yeah,I said, brouh, this game here,
man, we're gonna, we're gonnaget at your needs a little bit.
(37:36):
Yeah, I just you know,coach used to get on me.
Coach Y'll Tony Wise used to geton me. I've been like, coach,
do we gotta cut him? Dowe do? We got it?
And see now it's against the rulesbecause we got a pimally the other day.
They thought the guy was wrong.The guy was right, our center
was right. He didn't do anythingillegal, you know. But uh,
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back in the day boy we ohmy god, we go through the knees,
roll them up. Are like,Man, I just did not want
to hurt nobody. That right therewas, you know, and so that
got to But I tell people youtalk about gamesmanship, that was play the
game clean, play it hard.Then if you feel like just walking up
the field because you've done the rightthing, that that's your right. You
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know a lot of times our mediaand moms and dads who cussing. Let
me tell y'all something, I donot listen to the fans anymore. I
take the fans with a grain ofsalt because the same people that tell you
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to shake hands after a game,it's the same person that's up in the
stands in front of their kids cussing, drinking, acting food. I've been
to Pop Warner games, moms,dads cussing, acting crazy. Which would
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you rather have? And I'm justbeing honest as a parent. I'm talking
about as a parent, I'd ratherfor my kid to see me up in
the stands cheering for my team doingthe right thing game over walk away,
or be up in the stands cussingtalking about the other player. I've been
at college games where after games.These kids don't play their heart out,
(39:24):
and the parents over there just talkingabout the quarterback and time. I mean,
is that is that gamesmanship? Andpeople? And one lady tried and
give me what do you think aboutthe quarterback? He was so sorry the
defense played so great. I said, ma'am, I don't do that.
Became as over you know, sowhen I when I hear fans want to
(39:47):
chirp in about uh, about beingthe right type of person and being the
right type of guy, and oh, shake their hands. And I know
what I tell you. If youplayed as hard as I played and clean
as I played, you can walkoff to feel good, feeling good about
yourself. That's that's what I tellpeople. People said, Nate Man,
(40:12):
nice at you are? You didshake hand? No? I didn't.
I didn't share. I didn't wantto shake hands to a man that beat
me half to death. But Iain't shake Jerome, Brian Jerome used to
be like see you later home.We was homeboys. He was from Brooksville,
Florida. I was from Orlando,Florida, our or two away.
We knew each other in college.We knew each other when we got to
the pros. To Mike Uran,but I want shaking his hand. That
(40:32):
was some of the terriblest whoopings Itook. I want to shake your hand.
I should ahead the Pro Bowl.Yeah, shake had a white you
know what I'm saying. Yeah,you gonna shake a man hand, slap
you around and beat you half todeath and got your job put on the
line and be like hey we cool. Yeah yeah. So last we haven't
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talked much about the defense from lastweek's game and now facing what we know
can be a very explosive Buffalo offense. So let's just finish this up,
Nate, because we're running a littlelong. Let's finish this up. What
can we What can our defense doto make sure that they get inside of
Josh Allen's head and then make surethat old Roan Bland gets another pick six
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osa number ninety seven. Keep playing, make a few more bigger plays,
keep playing hard. Uh, you'redoing you on your way, Make a
few more bigger plays in the middle. And I liked Parsons even though he
was there. I liked that hegot a sack early to lead the team.
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I like that our safeties showed upand made plays and man, and
I was so wrong on Gilmore fortwo weeks in a row. He's done
that spot check and following that guyaround. I was so wrong. I
thought I thought the old man wasnot very good at that. But I
(42:08):
think I don't know how a wholegame. But if he spot check you,
you know, to slow you downa little bit, like he did
a j Brown, that man.That was nice to see our safeties,
you know, show up the waythey did. Marquise Bell doing his thing,
you know, and so Donovan Wilsonjust to see our safety show up
(42:31):
because they had. Man, Iwas I was checking milk carton boxes on
them guys. I thought it waslost. You know. I'm talking about
the safety is not Marquis Bell.But yeah, I am so glad our
safety showed up. And I'm soglad we got those three turnovers because turnovers,
like sacks, come in bunches.You can miss the too few games,
(42:52):
you know, but every time wehave turnovers, man, it go
up forty better chance of us andon the road you want. That is
the recipe for a victory against theBuffalo. Bill's another big one for the
Cowboys this week. Nate been greatfun as always, love chatting with you,
Love talking old times and hearing aboutyou walking off the field without shaking
(43:15):
jer Own Brown's hand, and man, we thank you for doing this.
Yeah, thank you Niagara. Butlike I was saying, you want somebody
to beat me after death? Weso your kid can be happy. Nikky
Big Newon got beat up Mama,and he's still shaking the man hand,
not me. You let your kidget it beat up. Fantastic. We'll
(43:37):
see you next week. Hey,Niagara, thank you,
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