November 17, 2023 • 24 mins
Big win against the Giants? Check! Record-breaking numbers? Double-check! The Dallas Cowboys are riding high, and this week, they're ditching the regular uniforms for some real tree camo. Why, you ask? They're going big game hunting for those Panthers!
Nate's got a lot on his mind about this one, and you definitely don't want to miss it. The banter between Nate and Rhads is set to be epic—tune in for the inside scoop and some serious football wisdom!
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Nate Newton and myself, John Radagan. As we both sit here anxious
to get into our sports talk.And Nate, the name of the program
is what Let me tell you something, man, And we're gonna talk about
a lot. We're just gonna talkin general about sports because I'm not gonna
fool you. I feel about theCarolina I mean the Carolina Panthers. The
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Cowboys should beat the brakes off ofthem. It should not be a game.
I mean, they may stick youfirst two series, but after that
we should just go to just man, treating them like a step child man
like Cinderella. Okay, but Raan, I ain't gonna go to the right
now, Ray, what you wantto talk about, rad what's on your
mind? Man? I know theMavericks of eight and three, But well
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that's so much, so much,So let's start. Let's start this week
the Monday night football game. Right, everybody has had Buffalo circled on the
calendar, like for the Cowboys,you know that December seventeenth trip to Buffalo,
and of course that still could betough because there could be snow,
right tons of snow up there then. But that Buffalo team does not look
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that formidable to me. It doesnot look like there's somebody we should really
be that worried about, in partbecause somehow their kid, who's so talented,
Josh Allen, seems to have regressed. You know, he's always had
a bit of an interception problem.Man, it seems worse than ever now.
He seems lost out here. Andthe reason I believe is they lost
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this. Their offense coordinated to theNew York Giants. Coach. Day Ball
is the Giants head coach, andI think he's missing him too. I
think Josh is missing coach day Balland think coach Dave Ball is missing Josh.
They were very good together. Healways kept this kid in check.
And you know ras what bothers methe most in this league is once you
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make a dollar amount, all ofa sudden, coaches stopped coaching. This
kid needs to be coached. Whenyou're throwing one two interceptions every game,
you're missing something. You can haveelite talent and you can have a gunslinger's
mentality, but when it's when yourteam is trying to overcome you a great
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talent. They tried to win thisgame anyway without him, but he just
would not let them win the gameone interception after another interception. He has
a fumbling problem. H what Hehas over two hundred touchdowns running and receiving
over the sixty seven years he played. But he also leads the league with
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over ninety turnovers in that same span, right, yeah, and that leads
it. So you deal with akid that is going through some mental issues.
And I ain't talking about you knowwhere you need to go see a
you know, a specialist. I'mtalking about on that field, they just
kept when you when you're that starthey just kept the camera on him,
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and you saw no fire. Yousaw it each interception, you saw a
livid leak out of him, alivid and no one. No one came
up to him, no one pattedhim on the shoulder, no one.
And I'm saying, he needs coachthe ball, die ball from from the
Giants. Somebody to step in andsay, hey, son, this is
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how we're gonna fix this. Becausehe thinks he's the running game. He
thinks he's the passing game. Andyou know what, it don't work that
way. Rad. You got teammates, you got great players, you got
what digs at wide receiver, yougot the little running back Cooks, James
Cooks. You know, you gota nice tight end. But all of
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a sudden, you just think thatyou can put this thing on your right
arm with eve do us a greatright arm. I don't think it's gonna
work, Rad. If he don'tchange his mindsetting and how he looked at
the game, they gonna continue tofall. Buffalo is all right. So
that actually brings up a thought tome. I wonder you're talking about even
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you know, a great player needsto be coached. You need to keep
coaching him you know, this kid'swhat five six years in the league,
you still got to coach him.Did a guy like Nate late in his
career? I mean like I meantlike Troy Nate did he did he get
coached a lot at the end ofhis career or did he even need it?
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This is a Hall of Fame dude. I realized not everybody has that
talent and works that hard. Butwhere there's still dudes out there coaching Troy
aiight Menner, Michael Irvin, anotherHall of Famer late late in their career.
These guys worked so diligently on theircraft. I used to see Michael
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Irvin and Troy Away a throw passdoing practice, and it did. If
it didn't feel right to Troy,if it didn't feel right to Mike Will,
they'll run it again in practice.And if it still didn't feel right,
Mike said, May, we're gonnaneed to throw five or six of
those out the practice. Troy said, hey, man, just get with
me after practice because we gotta wegotta fix this, but we gotta finish
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practice now. Uh. These guysalways working on the steps and they're released
and their timing to make sure thatthey're on the same page. Uh,
coach North Turner. You know alot of times I know, Coach Turnament
will hear me say, you knowwhat, I'm glad you got a head
coach a job. But ain't nogreater coordinator, our offensive coordinator, all
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quarterback coach. I think in theworld. I think, well, whenever
he touched a quarterback or he's aheadof our offense, I think, you
know, if he got the players, things gonna click. And that's what
Jimmy demanded that his coaches do.Coach your players, know your players,
interact with your players so that whenwe get in game type situations, they
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won't feel like they're on an island. I felt like that kid during that
game, whether he chose to be, whether the team just gravitated away from
him, he seemed like he wason an island. And when you're a
great player like that, you cannever be on the island. Even the
best players need help during the gameat some point in time, because it's
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all players. What makes Josh Allendifferent than say Herbert at the Chargers is
success. Success makes you, andsuccess breeds confidence. And when you're confident,
sometime you have to be put incheck because you'll go to throwing them
wild balls all over the field,throwing in the double covered Well, I
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can get this ball in there.Oh, I got the arm. Everybody's
told me I'm great. And whenyou start believing that and not reading the
defense, not taking that extra timeor moving around or just throwing the ball
away, you get these ugly turnovers. Yeah. Yeah, So here's the
other thing that's been on my minda lot this week, Nate. There's
a lot of people still and Iget it. You want to talk Cowboys
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all the time, right, Andwhen they beat the when they beat the
Giants forty nine to seventeen, it'skind of like, yeah, yeah,
great game. I mean, youknow, whatever, it's I'll get you
know, da Dad, there's notmuch to say, right. So now
they go to looking, right,people, the talking heads and the writers
and stuff, they go to looking, and they go to saying, Okay,
now, if Philadelphia loses to eitheryou know whatever, if they lose
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to either Kansas City or Yeah orBuffalo or what, then the Cowboys win
and this that and the other,and now you'd have a tie for the
And so it goes down to youknow, head to head competent and I'm
like, man, no, tooearly. We're a halfway point. We're
just starting the second half of theseason. Am I wrong about that?
Are guys in the in the lockerroom like doing that or what are they
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thinking? The better coaches in theleague won't let that happen. The better
players in the league won't let thathappen. We talked off air, and
I'll tell anybody this, you know, And I'm there serious when I tell
people this whole home on one minute, brother rad Eye forgot to do something.
I gonna light I'm gonna like this, brother, other livid. I'm
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gonna light this. Brother. You'reso I'm gonna tell you something. Man,
you cannot look across that fence atall at all until after Thanksgiving.
You are in the meat of yourschedule. You have to force five or
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six games where you're learning who youare, you're trying to find a rhythm,
and you're trying to find the identityof your team. And then from
six from the game, say seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve, you're in the meat ofthe schedule and your only thing is
regardless of whether assault schedule is SOLFor whether it is a tough opponent's you
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got to get on a four orfive game winning streak, and in that
winning streat it don't matter who youplay. You can play a Philadelphia,
a forty nine er, a SeahawkDetroit. You have to beat those teams.
You have to be at some pointin the season. You have to
have the invincible feeling. And wehad three or forty when we was on
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our Super Bowl runs. We wouldhave at least two times and during the
season where we would have that feeling. But man, we can't be beat.
And I've never and coach mccarthin beforehe got here, I've never seen
that run where you said, man, the Cowboys invincible, you know,
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because they'll wind up losing to ateam that they shouldn't should never be on
the field with them, or theyarizon to a team that's I like to
say above two games above five hundred. You know, rad I don't know
which one is more important, Baseballtwo games above five hundred of football two
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games five hundred above five hundred.But I know at one hundred and sixty
two games, you need to bea way way above more than two games
above five hundred because you're not goinganywhere but in football, you can have
a bad season like the NFC Southis, and you can get in with
one win above five hundred. Soyeah, yeah, together, you know,
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so we have not beaten what I'mtrying to say, We have not
beaten a team that's been two gamesabove five hundred. I don't know when.
Yeah, okay, you know muchless much less seven games above five
hundred and eight and one like theEagles are right, that's the first thing
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you gotta worry about, beating themhead to head. I mean, they's
no giving. So let's talk aboutLeyton van der Ash the terrible news.
Poor kid. You know, he'sgoing to be out for the year and
and his career might be done.Have you gone back and looked at the
hit the black on the injury.You know, some people are saying it
was a you know, an illegalblock in the back. It didn't look
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heinous to me. But have youlooked at it? What are your thoughts
on that? Brother? I feelbad for Layton and his family and all
those that connected him. Let metell you something, man, the block
was a by the left tackle bythe forty nine ers. Forty nine ers,
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yip, we call that throwing adude out of the club. I've
had many blocks like that, andI feel so bad for Laighton vander esh
But I will say this, ifwe take the physicalness out of football,
we might as well take off allthe pads and join the Olympics and do
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some flag football. Because if everytime somebody get hit hard, every time
somebody get roughed up, physical whichthe games supposed to be, and we
cry wolf and we cry sheep,and we go BLib live live, bla
stop. Man. I am sosick and tired of announcers saying that should
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have been a flag, that shouldhave been this. Then when the rep
throw the flag and they go toa review, this take it too long.
This we all We're never satisfied asfans. We're never satisfied as announcers.
We're always looking for something. Asreporters. Instead of trying to push
the game forward and have fun withinthe game, we're always putting the negative
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spin on it. The game isgoing to have injuries like what happened to
Layton, and worse, the kida couple of years of Buffalo with a
heart attack, he was back onthe field. This path, I'm saying,
the game brings enough tragedy without usas talking heads to it was nothing
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wrong. That dude just got wasphysical with Laighton. Too bad, very
very sad that it turned out thisway. You know, it's just but
that's life. That's life. Youknow, that's football. Yes, that's
football. You know. So becausethat and that you know that injury?
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Was it Moose? Then how thatone is that the one he had to
Mike Irvin? Uh, Michael,I thought so, okay, so that
got them both out the game.And I just tell people that right here,
as soon as they get the kickoff out of the game, then
they'll get the punt out of thegame. Then all of a sudden,
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we'll be lining up on the twentyfive on everything that we do, and
you know, how do you changethat show? Oh well, we don't
want to punt, that's just okay, let's stop back. Okay, let's
say if you're on the on yourown twenty, we'll we'll just place the
ball on the other team forty five. I mean, you just turning the
game into you know, virtual realitything you know AI coming anyway, what
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virtually intelligence that's coming anyway. Sothe next thing, you know, we
won't even know if it's real footballplayers out there are just something they don't
created. You know, they don'truint, they don't ruin Hollywood, those
you know, yeah, those AIthose AI players won't get next genosis and
all that stuff. Yeah no,so I just yeah, you know,
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you know, I'm been a littlefunny about it, cracking the little jokes,
but uh, virtually, any teamthat decides to be physical win games.
The one thing, did you shortlines have always had talent, you
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know, maybe not a team fool, but they've always had high quality talent,
you know, Megatron, Stafford.I can't think of the great tackle
that came from the universe, youknow, Sanders. I mean, they
have always had great talent. Butwhat separates them now is they're physical.
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They're tough, they're mean, andif you take away that right there from
Detroit, you will not have avery good team. Same with same with
the forty nine ers. Take awayto their toughness and they're not a very
good team. And so interesting Buffalothey are a tough team. Now their
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quarterback has hurt them, but Buffalonormally is a physical team. They have
lost a litt bit of that thelast few weeks, but that's who some
teams are. When we run intothe forty nine ers, it ain't that
we worry about their talent. Weworry about they ain't. Ain't a bit
or quit in them. That's whatscares everybody, because ain't a bit of
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quit in them. And they're physicaland they can for this, but their
their their main thing is being physical. Yeah, So how worried should I
be about the trend of the Cowboysdefense right now? Now? First of
all, losing Leyton vandersh is abig deal. Obviously they already lost Digs
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obviously earlier in the season. Butit just seems like this defense, which
at the beginning of the year wasdominating. You know, it seems like
they're fine. Now it doesn't seemlike they're dominating seeing it right or not?
Ninety five is I can't think ofa kid's name, but let me
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let me get this right. Letme Jonathan Hankins is doing a hell of
a job. Gallimore, number ninetysix is doing the hell of a job.
Osa Ozui Digga Diggi number ninety sevenis doing a hell of a job
of stopping to run along with theMarcus Lawrence, Darrence Armstrong. These guys
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are stopping to run. And whenyou stop the run, that makes it
better. That makes it easier forus to have Marquise Bell and other guys
up in in that linebacker position.Dumont Clark at the linebacker position. They're
trying to bring in Richard Evans,now, who's ten pounds bigger than Marquise
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Bell. So that is the key. That is what has kept us stabilized,
is that we have not given upmore than one hundred and ten yards
in these last two or three games, you know, And we haven't given
up one hundred yard Russia. Butto me, a hund of yard Russia
don't have no value in my newNFL, you know, because if you
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wind up with one hundred and seventyfive yards Russian, it don't matter who
got him, if it was oneguy, five guys one hundred and seventy
two yards and almost dictate a lossfor the Dallas Cowboys. So they've been
able to keep guys right around onehundred yards a game or so, and
so that's been big. That iswhy our defense is playing well, being
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taking advantage of the opportunities. Youknow, Blayd got another interception, so
he's taking an advantage of opportunities thatpresented to him, and you have to
continue to play for tomorrow. It'sone thing about a coaching staff and the
scouting staff is they see the gameand they prepare for the game today,
but they are always looking trying tosee what they can add or what they
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can tweak for tomorrow, because teamswill catch up with you quick, and
when they catch up with you,they can put you in a slump.
You know, you can go ona slump real quick. Yep. Now
that's what the Cowboys have to avoid, right. How devastating because great at
home? The Cowboys right eight,No, in the last couple of seasons
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already game eight or nine, winningstreak at the crib, twelve straight twelve
talk and winning streak at home?Yeah, okay, but they're but they're
they're two and three on the road. Okay, so they're going on the
road this week. How devastating?Would have lost their hold on? They
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going on the road, ain't theAre they home this week? Yeah?
That's going on. I'm looking atthem, man, I don't know,
I don't know why. I thinkwe was playing the towns at the crib.
I don't know, man, Thankyou. I had to look at
my paper, got it, riddyou'd have been in the wrong spot for
your your your pregame show the stage. That's funny. That's funny man.
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Yeah, but Rad Cuba Hubbard isthey running back the backup? Got it?
That Oklahoma state guy H Miles Centersis the other running back. DJ
Chalk is to receive Ray. Ithink me and you will put up a
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better fight than them. I'm justokay. I like you. I wish
I could uh lie to the peopleand make these guys great or make them
something special. Uh. You know, hey, Bryce Young first pick?
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You know, no, not noteven Carolina saying we need to fire the
GM because they go c J.Stroud over to Houston. Yeah. So,
I mean it's just amazing how thingswork. Uh. And it leads
me back to one thing. It'sNew York that's the first. Panthers is
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the second, Washington is the third. Now me and you can look ahead
when you can talk about it.Not the Cowboys. Washington is not a
good team, right. The Seahawksare and is a good team, a
well coached team and got a defensethat would knock your head off. We
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have them at home it's no.You know, people laugh for you know,
I do other little show. Peoplelaugh because I would not give Carolina
in a respect I'm not and Ididn't give New York any respect. New
York was we beat them with theirfull repertoire Ford it to nothing. I
was hurt when we let them scothe other day. We have a lesser
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quarterback the offensive line. I waslying, is hurt you trade away Leonard
Williams and we let these dudes scoreten. We should have let them score
not a points. The first onlypoints I felt they should have got was
in the first how to kick thefield goal? If I was them,
that was dumb on coach day ball, and bet I would have punished him
after that. I wouldn't even letthem score nothing. They you know,
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they should have got what they wereoled for twelve on third downs. Come
on, man, come on,man, he's more tor Hey, Hey,
I like it when you tell mesomething, Nate. Yeah. Yeah,
every time you say let me tellyou something, you say about ten
times a show, and I likeit. That's my favorite part of the
show. Hey, hey, wedid another one, Niagro. We appreciate
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you guys so much. And uhman, It's been fun as always.
Now your thoughts, your insights arereally cool, really special. I hope
the viewers are enjoying this thing asmuch as we are. Man, thank
you, rad You have a bestThey tell you, family and everybody.
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Niagara. Welcome. It's another weekwith the big Man number sixty one,
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Nate Newton and myself, John Radagan. As we both sit here anxious
to get into our sports talk.And Nate, the name of the program
is what Let me tell you something, man, And we're gonna talk about
a lot. We're just gonna talkin general about sports because I'm not gonna
fool you. I feel about theCarolina I mean the Carolina Panthers. The
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Cowboys should beat the brakes off ofthem. It should not be a game.
I mean, they may stick youfirst two series, but after that
we should just go to just man, treating them like a step child man
like Cinderella. Okay, but Raan, I ain't gonna go to the right
now, Ray, what you wantto talk about, rad what's on your
mind? Man? I know theMavericks of eight and three, But well
(01:38):
that's so much, so much,So let's start. Let's start this week
the Monday night football game. Right, everybody has had Buffalo circled on the
calendar, like for the Cowboys,you know that December seventeenth trip to Buffalo,
and of course that still could betough because there could be snow,
right tons of snow up there then. But that Buffalo team does not look
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that formidable to me. It doesnot look like there's somebody we should really
be that worried about, in partbecause somehow their kid, who's so talented,
Josh Allen, seems to have regressed. You know, he's always had
a bit of an interception problem.Man, it seems worse than ever now.
He seems lost out here. Andthe reason I believe is they lost
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this. Their offense coordinated to theNew York Giants. Coach. Day Ball
is the Giants head coach, andI think he's missing him too. I
think Josh is missing coach day Balland think coach Dave Ball is missing Josh.
They were very good together. Healways kept this kid in check.
And you know ras what bothers methe most in this league is once you
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make a dollar amount, all ofa sudden, coaches stopped coaching. This
kid needs to be coached. Whenyou're throwing one two interceptions every game,
you're missing something. You can haveelite talent and you can have a gunslinger's
mentality, but when it's when yourteam is trying to overcome you a great
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talent. They tried to win thisgame anyway without him, but he just
would not let them win the gameone interception after another interception. He has
a fumbling problem. H what Hehas over two hundred touchdowns running and receiving
over the sixty seven years he played. But he also leads the league with
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over ninety turnovers in that same span, right, yeah, and that leads
it. So you deal with akid that is going through some mental issues.
And I ain't talking about you knowwhere you need to go see a
you know, a specialist. I'mtalking about on that field, they just
kept when you when you're that starthey just kept the camera on him,
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and you saw no fire. Yousaw it each interception, you saw a
livid leak out of him, alivid and no one. No one came
up to him, no one pattedhim on the shoulder, no one.
And I'm saying, he needs coachthe ball, die ball from from the
Giants. Somebody to step in andsay, hey, son, this is
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how we're gonna fix this. Becausehe thinks he's the running game. He
thinks he's the passing game. Andyou know what, it don't work that
way. Rad. You got teammates, you got great players, you got
what digs at wide receiver, yougot the little running back Cooks, James
Cooks. You know, you gota nice tight end. But all of
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a sudden, you just think thatyou can put this thing on your right
arm with eve do us a greatright arm. I don't think it's gonna
work, Rad. If he don'tchange his mindsetting and how he looked at
the game, they gonna continue tofall. Buffalo is all right. So
that actually brings up a thought tome. I wonder you're talking about even
(04:59):
you know, a great player needsto be coached. You need to keep
coaching him you know, this kid'swhat five six years in the league,
you still got to coach him.Did a guy like Nate late in his
career? I mean like I meantlike Troy Nate did he did he get
coached a lot at the end ofhis career or did he even need it?
(05:19):
This is a Hall of Fame dude. I realized not everybody has that
talent and works that hard. Butwhere there's still dudes out there coaching Troy
aiight Menner, Michael Irvin, anotherHall of Famer late late in their career.
These guys worked so diligently on theircraft. I used to see Michael
(05:40):
Irvin and Troy Away a throw passdoing practice, and it did. If
it didn't feel right to Troy,if it didn't feel right to Mike Will,
they'll run it again in practice.And if it still didn't feel right,
Mike said, May, we're gonnaneed to throw five or six of
those out the practice. Troy said, hey, man, just get with
me after practice because we gotta wegotta fix this, but we gotta finish
(06:03):
practice now. Uh. These guysalways working on the steps and they're released
and their timing to make sure thatthey're on the same page. Uh,
coach North Turner. You know alot of times I know, Coach Turnament
will hear me say, you knowwhat, I'm glad you got a head
coach a job. But ain't nogreater coordinator, our offensive coordinator, all
(06:28):
quarterback coach. I think in theworld. I think, well, whenever
he touched a quarterback or he's aheadof our offense, I think, you
know, if he got the players, things gonna click. And that's what
Jimmy demanded that his coaches do.Coach your players, know your players,
interact with your players so that whenwe get in game type situations, they
(06:54):
won't feel like they're on an island. I felt like that kid during that
game, whether he chose to be, whether the team just gravitated away from
him, he seemed like he wason an island. And when you're a
great player like that, you cannever be on the island. Even the
best players need help during the gameat some point in time, because it's
(07:15):
all players. What makes Josh Allendifferent than say Herbert at the Chargers is
success. Success makes you, andsuccess breeds confidence. And when you're confident,
sometime you have to be put incheck because you'll go to throwing them
wild balls all over the field,throwing in the double covered Well, I
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can get this ball in there.Oh, I got the arm. Everybody's
told me I'm great. And whenyou start believing that and not reading the
defense, not taking that extra timeor moving around or just throwing the ball
away, you get these ugly turnovers. Yeah. Yeah, So here's the
other thing that's been on my minda lot this week, Nate. There's
a lot of people still and Iget it. You want to talk Cowboys
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all the time, right, Andwhen they beat the when they beat the
Giants forty nine to seventeen, it'skind of like, yeah, yeah,
great game. I mean, youknow, whatever, it's I'll get you
know, da Dad, there's notmuch to say, right. So now
they go to looking, right,people, the talking heads and the writers
and stuff, they go to looking, and they go to saying, Okay,
now, if Philadelphia loses to eitheryou know whatever, if they lose
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to either Kansas City or Yeah orBuffalo or what, then the Cowboys win
and this that and the other,and now you'd have a tie for the
And so it goes down to youknow, head to head competent and I'm
like, man, no, tooearly. We're a halfway point. We're
just starting the second half of theseason. Am I wrong about that?
Are guys in the in the lockerroom like doing that or what are they
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thinking? The better coaches in theleague won't let that happen. The better
players in the league won't let thathappen. We talked off air, and
I'll tell anybody this, you know, And I'm there serious when I tell
people this whole home on one minute, brother rad Eye forgot to do something.
I gonna light I'm gonna like this, brother, other livid. I'm
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gonna light this. Brother. You'reso I'm gonna tell you something. Man,
you cannot look across that fence atall at all until after Thanksgiving.
You are in the meat of yourschedule. You have to force five or
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six games where you're learning who youare, you're trying to find a rhythm,
and you're trying to find the identityof your team. And then from
six from the game, say seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve, you're in the meat ofthe schedule and your only thing is
regardless of whether assault schedule is SOLFor whether it is a tough opponent's you
(09:50):
got to get on a four orfive game winning streak, and in that
winning streat it don't matter who youplay. You can play a Philadelphia,
a forty nine er, a SeahawkDetroit. You have to beat those teams.
You have to be at some pointin the season. You have to
have the invincible feeling. And wehad three or forty when we was on
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our Super Bowl runs. We wouldhave at least two times and during the
season where we would have that feeling. But man, we can't be beat.
And I've never and coach mccarthin beforehe got here, I've never seen
that run where you said, man, the Cowboys invincible, you know,
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because they'll wind up losing to ateam that they shouldn't should never be on
the field with them, or theyarizon to a team that's I like to
say above two games above five hundred. You know, rad I don't know
which one is more important, Baseballtwo games above five hundred of football two
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games five hundred above five hundred.But I know at one hundred and sixty
two games, you need to bea way way above more than two games
above five hundred because you're not goinganywhere but in football, you can have
a bad season like the NFC Southis, and you can get in with
one win above five hundred. Soyeah, yeah, together, you know,
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so we have not beaten what I'mtrying to say, We have not
beaten a team that's been two gamesabove five hundred. I don't know when.
Yeah, okay, you know muchless much less seven games above five
hundred and eight and one like theEagles are right, that's the first thing
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you gotta worry about, beating themhead to head. I mean, they's
no giving. So let's talk aboutLeyton van der Ash the terrible news.
Poor kid. You know, he'sgoing to be out for the year and
and his career might be done.Have you gone back and looked at the
hit the black on the injury.You know, some people are saying it
was a you know, an illegalblock in the back. It didn't look
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heinous to me. But have youlooked at it? What are your thoughts
on that? Brother? I feelbad for Layton and his family and all
those that connected him. Let metell you something, man, the block
was a by the left tackle bythe forty nine ers. Forty nine ers,
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yip, we call that throwing adude out of the club. I've
had many blocks like that, andI feel so bad for Laighton vander esh
But I will say this, ifwe take the physicalness out of football,
we might as well take off allthe pads and join the Olympics and do
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some flag football. Because if everytime somebody get hit hard, every time
somebody get roughed up, physical whichthe games supposed to be, and we
cry wolf and we cry sheep,and we go BLib live live, bla
stop. Man. I am sosick and tired of announcers saying that should
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have been a flag, that shouldhave been this. Then when the rep
throw the flag and they go toa review, this take it too long.
This we all We're never satisfied asfans. We're never satisfied as announcers.
We're always looking for something. Asreporters. Instead of trying to push
the game forward and have fun withinthe game, we're always putting the negative
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spin on it. The game isgoing to have injuries like what happened to
Layton, and worse, the kida couple of years of Buffalo with a
heart attack, he was back onthe field. This path, I'm saying,
the game brings enough tragedy without usas talking heads to it was nothing
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wrong. That dude just got wasphysical with Laighton. Too bad, very
very sad that it turned out thisway. You know, it's just but
that's life. That's life. Youknow, that's football. Yes, that's
football. You know. So becausethat and that you know that injury?
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Was it Moose? Then how thatone is that the one he had to
Mike Irvin? Uh, Michael,I thought so, okay, so that
got them both out the game.And I just tell people that right here,
as soon as they get the kickoff out of the game, then
they'll get the punt out of thegame. Then all of a sudden,
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we'll be lining up on the twentyfive on everything that we do, and
you know, how do you changethat show? Oh well, we don't
want to punt, that's just okay, let's stop back. Okay, let's
say if you're on the on yourown twenty, we'll we'll just place the
ball on the other team forty five. I mean, you just turning the
game into you know, virtual realitything you know AI coming anyway, what
(15:09):
virtually intelligence that's coming anyway. Sothe next thing, you know, we
won't even know if it's real footballplayers out there are just something they don't
created. You know, they don'truint, they don't ruin Hollywood, those
you know, yeah, those AIthose AI players won't get next genosis and
all that stuff. Yeah no,so I just yeah, you know,
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you know, I'm been a littlefunny about it, cracking the little jokes,
but uh, virtually, any teamthat decides to be physical win games.
The one thing, did you shortlines have always had talent, you
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know, maybe not a team fool, but they've always had high quality talent,
you know, Megatron, Stafford.I can't think of the great tackle
that came from the universe, youknow, Sanders. I mean, they
have always had great talent. Butwhat separates them now is they're physical.
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They're tough, they're mean, andif you take away that right there from
Detroit, you will not have avery good team. Same with same with
the forty nine ers. Take awayto their toughness and they're not a very
good team. And so interesting Buffalothey are a tough team. Now their
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quarterback has hurt them, but Buffalonormally is a physical team. They have
lost a litt bit of that thelast few weeks, but that's who some
teams are. When we run intothe forty nine ers, it ain't that
we worry about their talent. Weworry about they ain't. Ain't a bit
or quit in them. That's whatscares everybody, because ain't a bit of
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quit in them. And they're physicaland they can for this, but their
their their main thing is being physical. Yeah, So how worried should I
be about the trend of the Cowboysdefense right now? Now? First of
all, losing Leyton vandersh is abig deal. Obviously they already lost Digs
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obviously earlier in the season. Butit just seems like this defense, which
at the beginning of the year wasdominating. You know, it seems like
they're fine. Now it doesn't seemlike they're dominating seeing it right or not?
Ninety five is I can't think ofa kid's name, but let me
(17:44):
let me get this right. Letme Jonathan Hankins is doing a hell of
a job. Gallimore, number ninetysix is doing the hell of a job.
Osa Ozui Digga Diggi number ninety sevenis doing a hell of a job
of stopping to run along with theMarcus Lawrence, Darrence Armstrong. These guys
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are stopping to run. And whenyou stop the run, that makes it
better. That makes it easier forus to have Marquise Bell and other guys
up in in that linebacker position.Dumont Clark at the linebacker position. They're
trying to bring in Richard Evans,now, who's ten pounds bigger than Marquise
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Bell. So that is the key. That is what has kept us stabilized,
is that we have not given upmore than one hundred and ten yards
in these last two or three games, you know, And we haven't given
up one hundred yard Russia. Butto me, a hund of yard Russia
don't have no value in my newNFL, you know, because if you
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wind up with one hundred and seventyfive yards Russian, it don't matter who
got him, if it was oneguy, five guys one hundred and seventy
two yards and almost dictate a lossfor the Dallas Cowboys. So they've been
able to keep guys right around onehundred yards a game or so, and
so that's been big. That iswhy our defense is playing well, being
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taking advantage of the opportunities. Youknow, Blayd got another interception, so
he's taking an advantage of opportunities thatpresented to him, and you have to
continue to play for tomorrow. It'sone thing about a coaching staff and the
scouting staff is they see the gameand they prepare for the game today,
but they are always looking trying tosee what they can add or what they
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can tweak for tomorrow, because teamswill catch up with you quick, and
when they catch up with you,they can put you in a slump.
You know, you can go ona slump real quick. Yep. Now
that's what the Cowboys have to avoid, right. How devastating because great at
home? The Cowboys right eight,No, in the last couple of seasons
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already game eight or nine, winningstreak at the crib, twelve straight twelve
talk and winning streak at home?Yeah, okay, but they're but they're
they're two and three on the road. Okay, so they're going on the
road this week. How devastating?Would have lost their hold on? They
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going on the road, ain't theAre they home this week? Yeah?
That's going on. I'm looking atthem, man, I don't know,
I don't know why. I thinkwe was playing the towns at the crib.
I don't know, man, Thankyou. I had to look at
my paper, got it, riddyou'd have been in the wrong spot for
your your your pregame show the stage. That's funny. That's funny man.
(20:48):
Yeah, but Rad Cuba Hubbard isthey running back the backup? Got it?
That Oklahoma state guy H Miles Centersis the other running back. DJ
Chalk is to receive Ray. Ithink me and you will put up a
(21:14):
better fight than them. I'm justokay. I like you. I wish
I could uh lie to the peopleand make these guys great or make them
something special. Uh. You know, hey, Bryce Young first pick?
(21:37):
You know, no, not noteven Carolina saying we need to fire the
GM because they go c J.Stroud over to Houston. Yeah. So,
I mean it's just amazing how thingswork. Uh. And it leads
me back to one thing. It'sNew York that's the first. Panthers is
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the second, Washington is the third. Now me and you can look ahead
when you can talk about it.Not the Cowboys. Washington is not a
good team, right. The Seahawksare and is a good team, a
well coached team and got a defensethat would knock your head off. We
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have them at home it's no.You know, people laugh for you know,
I do other little show. Peoplelaugh because I would not give Carolina
in a respect I'm not and Ididn't give New York any respect. New
York was we beat them with theirfull repertoire Ford it to nothing. I
was hurt when we let them scothe other day. We have a lesser
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quarterback the offensive line. I waslying, is hurt you trade away Leonard
Williams and we let these dudes scoreten. We should have let them score
not a points. The first onlypoints I felt they should have got was
in the first how to kick thefield goal? If I was them,
that was dumb on coach day ball, and bet I would have punished him
after that. I wouldn't even letthem score nothing. They you know,
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they should have got what they wereoled for twelve on third downs. Come
on, man, come on,man, he's more tor Hey, Hey,
I like it when you tell mesomething, Nate. Yeah. Yeah,
every time you say let me tellyou something, you say about ten
times a show, and I likeit. That's my favorite part of the
show. Hey, hey, wedid another one, Niagro. We appreciate
(23:36):
you guys so much. And uhman, It's been fun as always.
Now your thoughts, your insights arereally cool, really special. I hope
the viewers are enjoying this thing asmuch as we are. Man, thank
you, rad You have a bestThey tell you, family and everybody.
We say hello and get better WiFi Tom W.
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