November 25, 2025 • 48 mins
All season long, the Cowboys have had to overcompensate for a struggling defense but are we now at the point where Brian Schottenheimer can start trusting the defense more?
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Here's Nick Eatman. What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Welcome to Cowboys storyline presented by Gillette. It's one of
those short weeks, quick turnaround. Cowboys with a huge win
against the Eagles twenty four to twenty one last Sunday,
can't celebrate too long because Patrick Mahomes come to town for
Thursday's Thanksgiving Day game.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
They get a win as well.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
They're just a half game better than the Cowboys, but
they have been to a Super Bowl or three the
last few years, and you just kind of get the
sense that they're gonna get it turned around. And maybe
the Cowboys are turning things around as well. They've won
two straight games and they're five to five and one.
See if they can get over five hundred for the
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first time this year with the win. Sure would be
a lot of fun. Let's talk about it all right.
Eight five, five, two two nine seven is the number
to call. Irene in Falls Church, Virginia is first. She's
a captain of the show. She starts us off.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Hello, good morning mob, in honor Thanksgiving. I love people
answer this question. Who are you more thankful for? GP
three or Q dubs?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
For me?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Right now, it's GP three for entertainment value in the
larger sample size. But if we make this playoff push, Oh,
huge testament for Quinn Williams. All right, that's it for me.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Chris and all the storyline family.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh awesome, what a great call, What a great way
to start us off here, Irene.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, we've got kids. Now.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You know, when you have kids, you don't pick your favorites, right,
I have favorites, but you don't.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You don't say them. Who am I most thankful for?
Speaker 6 (02:14):
You know?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I think I think I'm thankful that George Pickens has
been here all year to help keep this thing afloat
and help them win some games even without CD. I
had to be there by himself. So I'm thankful for
him getting there, And I'm also thankful for Quinn Williams
to kind of get here and now get this defense
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to the point where they could go win the game.
The defense won the game, I mean defense won won
the football game against the Eagles. And we just wouldn't
expect that to be said, but it happened. And you know,
they they did a great job of getting those necessary stops,
eight in a row, to be exact. And you know,
when you when you really look at how the game
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went down, I mean even the first three drives, I
mean the Eagles got the ball twice at the fifty
or inside the fifty, and then the second touchdown drive
they got gifted two first downs based off of penalties
when the Cowboys looked like they had gotten stops and
gotten off the field. So really, when you break it down,
the Cowboys outplayed the Eagles. It took a while to
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get there, but once they settled down and played football,
they were better than the Eagles were for that day.
All right, let's go to Gary in New Mexico. Gary,
what's up hey?
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Happy Thanksgiving week? Nick?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
All right, how are you?
Speaker 7 (03:32):
I'm doing good it man?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Real quick? Name the other two times the Cowboys came
back from twenty one down to win the game.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
The other three times times, yeah, yeah. They beat the
Saints in eighty four, they beat Washington in ninety nine,
and then they beat the Rams in two thousand or
in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Okay, yeah, you're right, I forgot about the RAM game. Okay,
cool deal. See hey, y'all miss one. Y'all missed one
last week on your trivia on the website.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
Y'all got one wrong.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Mike Quick caught that touchdown my Harold Carmichael.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yeah, you know what you know?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
All right?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
You know what's funny about this, Gary, is I had
it wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I had it wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I had Harold Carmichael and and.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
You got that program.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
No, no, but go ahead, go ahead, Gary.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Let's talk about this week's team this week, Man, Sunday's
win was different. That was a different win. That was
a signature win. That is a building block win. They
can build off that win, Man, And you're absolutely right.
The defense won that game. But for the Cowboys to
overcome what they they had to beat two teams on Sunday.
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They had to beat themselves in Philadelphia because they were
fighting against themselves the entire first half and the mental
toughness that they displayed and pulling.
Speaker 9 (04:52):
Out that game.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Man, they can build off of that. And I am
excited about this team. Let's just be patient. Let that
defense cook. That defense is so much better with these
new players. Let's see what we can do against Kansas City.
Re signed George Pickens, get him signed right now. Pickens
is your best receiver. I love Cdee Lamb, but right now,
in this moment, Pickens is your number one. And I
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hope cd gets back on track because I mean this
this team is fun to watch. And that was that
game Sunday, Nick, that was the funnest game I've watched.
That was old school NFC east Man. It just did
my heart good to watch that football game. But yeah,
I'll hang up and listen to your comments. Let's go
beat Kansas City on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
All right, it sounds good. I like it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Signature when for sure and Gary always throws trivia questions
in there. And I had it wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You're right.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And here's when I realized it. It wasn't just now
when you said it. I was actually walking in the
from one press box to another over to the radio side,
and the Eagles play, uh, the Eagles play by playing
and then their color guy is Mike Quick, and I've
seen him for years because he's he does the games,
and he's walking past me and I'm like, oh, that's
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Mike Quick.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And right then and there it hit me.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Wait a second, I think it was Mike Quick that
scored that touchdown. It's not gonna be Herold Carmichael in
his thirteenth year getting past the coup. It was Mike Quick,
And I was like, dang, I think we got that wrong.
And I didn't think about it again until you just
said it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But you're right.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Gotta be gotta be gotta do a little double checking
on that one. All right, let's go Lewis at Langston, Oklahoma. Lewis,
what's up?
Speaker 10 (06:29):
What's going on? I just want to say thanksgiving everybody.
I might not get in later on. Secondly, I was
I want to celebrate the win, but I kind of
was a little frustrated with shotty play calling. And it
kind of frustrated because you get inside the ten yard
line and I know Geydon got that flag football start,
but he does this thing where he gets inside the
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tiny he starts trying to throw the ball. You have
a two hundred and twenty pounds running back, like let
him four. Don't get me wrong, I know Dak Kreshcot
can throw the ball, but like, let the man get
in the end zone. He worked us all the way
down there and then that fourth and three was kind
of dropping me crazy. At the beginning of the game.
I'm like, I know, you want momentum, and I don't
know if you know, if the trustal defense or not,
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you want to try to take the momentum away. But like,
I mean, he says it all times. You don't win
the game in the first quarter, you don't win the
game in the second quarter and the third quarter, you
win in the fourth. But like, so punch the ball
and let us go, you know, like he hasn't challenged
the play, He hasn't challenged anything this year, So I'm like,
nothing against my I love it, but like sometimes, hey,
just throw the flag. I mean, the best you could
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do is like you say, I mean, if you lose
it in the first quarter, we got to take a
half to figure it out, but throw the flag. So
that was my only gripe I had at the game,
outside of being down from the one zero. I enjoyed
the entire game from beginning to end. But I'm gonna,
you know, I'm gonna get off and I'll let everybody
else you know. But I had to get that off
my chest for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
So I talked to y'all later, all right, well, I
agree with you, I really do. I thought that's a
great point you just said. He said it in his
post game. You don't win it in the first, you
don't win the second. You don't lose it either. So
so it's, you know, play smart, play smart football. He's
got it. He's got to balance that better. He's got
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to balance that. You can't put your whole football team
in a bad way because you're the offensive coordinator and
you watch these guys practice all week and you know
they can get this fourth and three and it's not
the smart football play. It wasn't at the time, and
so you know, there's a lot of things people do
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like that he as a coordinator, And it's I saw
it in a game in the Monday night game when
when Carolina there was a penalty on the extra point,
so they took the point off the board because the
ball was getting moved from the two to the one.
So let's put the now, let's go out there and
go to a two point conversion. But then they throw
the ball. I mean, what's the point of going from
the two to the one If you're gonna throw it that,
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you're not really getting helping you you're gonna run it
and push push in.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
But if you're going from the two to one so
you could throw it that, it makes no sense to me.
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Speaker 3 (10:54):
All right, welcome back to Cowboys storyline. I got a
big week. I love Thanksgiving Week. I say it all
the time. I know I've never I haven't had Thanksgiving,
you know, dinner with my family on Thanksgiving and I
don't know, almost thirty years, but uh, you know, we
make up for it. I mean we figure out, you know,
Thanksgiving is kind of when you can get together and
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but I don't know what it is. It's it's my
favorite holiday for sure. To to be able to to be.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
At the game. I mean, it's a it's a tradition.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I mean we all we all remember as kids, you know,
wherever you'd go eat, get your meals, and and and
and you know what, watched the game, but you were
watching the Cowboys or the Lions, maybe ever early but
then the Cowboys. It's just such a tradition now to
be a part of it. Yeah, you don't get to
be with your family but during Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
But but it's a great excuse.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
When when I've learned that you know where where's Nick, Well,
he's at the game, the game that we're watching. So
it always works out, all right, Sergeant Sue is on
the lines, he's from Fort Worth.
Speaker 15 (11:58):
What's up at everybody?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
How you doing? Nick?
Speaker 16 (12:02):
Man?
Speaker 17 (12:02):
Dude, I'm still on a high from that game. Man.
The defense played lights out and what I'm hoping that
change is now. And I think it's kind of like
your last call maybe was touching on it. I didn't
get to hear it all, but I'm hoping that is
changing now. Is shoddy in the offense knows what the
defense can bring, So maybe that means they'll press a
little bit less. You don't have to go forward on
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fourth down. You don't have to you know, you know,
go forward at midfield, you know, to try to make
a statement. You know what your defense can do.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Now, you know what I mean.
Speaker 17 (12:29):
And maybe it's a small sample size, but it's a
sample size that I enjoyed, is tasting. So that's what
I'm hoping going forward, especially under the leadership of Quinn
Williams coming in and being that vocal leader, being that
guy that's rallying the troops on defense. I don't feel
like we haven't had a guy like that in a
long time because quite frankly, I hate to bring his
name up, but Micah in that situation, I feel like
he would have started pouting and started just worrying about
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his own stats. We don't got that guy no more.
We got a like, like Daveon said, we got a dude.
Also the YouTube chat, I just want to shout out Alan,
he wanted me to ask you Nick, which I'm sure're
gonna give it the into the show. What your prediction
is for the game. Appreciate you, Nick, and have a
happy things getting all right?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Thank you. I'm not ready for a prediction yet. We'll see.
I don't know, I haven't even thought about that one yet, but.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I do get the sense just like AJ Brown, you know,
I was just like I've seen it all year long,
all this mess with AJ Brown, and I'm like, oh, watch,
you know, he'll he'll he'll play the Cowboys, He'll get
it turned around.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And he did.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Just like that's the way I feel about the Chiefs.
You know, I feel like they're going to get it
turned around, and they they sort of are. You know,
when the balls in Mahomes' hands, you know you expect
he's gonna go make a play. You know, we were
talking about the question you just said about sergeant who
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you were talking about hope hoping that Schottenheimer kind of
trust the defense even more. And there's two ways to that,
because you can also say, well, I do trust the defense.
That's why if we don't get it, I trust the defense.
You know, you could make that argument. When the ball
was at the one yard line, fourth and one with
three minutes to go, I didn't really hate going for it,
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but I would have run it.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I would have run it because.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I the last thing you need if you don't get it,
last thing you need is an interception in the end zone,
which we've already seen in that game, and then it's
a touch bag.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
So did it not work? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
You can say that it worked because even though you
didn't get to think about it, if you kick the
field goal, okay, three minutes to go, you kick the
field goal, you kick off, Eagles gonna get the ball
about the thirty yard line, maybe thirty five, depending on where.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
The kickoff is.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
They're gonna go get a field goal. They're probably gonna
go get a field goal. They're probably if maybe a touchdown,
you know, like that's that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Is that.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah, you can say, well they well you know, hadn't
stopped them. But it's a difficult you know, you get
in that two minute mode, you have good field position,
the Eagles can kind of play a little bit downhill
and they can go and I would imagine they'd get
in a position to go to go score. So by
not getting it, now they're down there, back there at
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their own one yard line.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Now they got out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
A little bit, but ultimately they had to punt, and
when they did, the Colwis had just enough time. So
I think it's still I think going for it. What's
the right call. I don't know if passing it when
you're running back is running the way that he is.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
All right, let's go. Ronnie is next. Hey Nick, Good
morning Ronnie in Union City.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
New Jersey. Hey, how you doing. Nick? Good morning Nick again.
Just in case, Happy holidays to everybody, have a happy Thanksgiving.
Answering Irene's question real quick, I'm thankful for Jerry Jones,
Jerry Jones and the Jones family. First of all, he's
like the coolest owner. There's people that don't like. I
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love Jerry Jones. I love every crazy stuff he comes
out with. Sometimes he's one of the funniest guys out there.
So yeah, I love Jerry Jones. And he allows you
guys to do what you do and let us make
the calls that we're making right now. So I love
Jerry Jones. I'm thankful for him and finally opening his
eyes and let him see that we needed a big
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three technique and a nice defensive line in the middle.
Stuff in that middle. So yeah, I'm thankful for all
of that. Kansas City's not who they once were. They're
still a little scary because they got my homes. But
I think we're going to win this one thirty one
twenty eight, Nick, all right, thirty one twenty eight, thanks
for taking my call. How a good one?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Thirty one twenty eight. You know, usually I talked about
this last week or earlier this week. When I get
some get calls and scores that come in, I immediately
try to think of a game that happened with that score.
And so you say thirty one twenty eight. I think
that was the score of the game that they beat
the Chiefs. Was it twenty years ago in two thousand
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and five? I think they played them in two thousand
and five at home. I think they won thirty one
twenty eight. It was something like that. Dan Campbell scored
a touchdown in that game. So I know they played
them in ninety five on Thanksgiving, and they played them
in two thousand and five at home at Texas Stadium.
So now here they are twenty twenty five playing for Thanksgiving.
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All Right, I'm a in Napa, California's next I may.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
Hey, hey, Nick, How's it going, man, good, you feel
like I'm great. I feel like a kid in a
candy store every time I get through, man, just because
it's like you can never know how many times it's
going to take or if it's going to get through
or not, and so it's like it's ringing. He answered,
all right, yeah, so yeah, it's great, great to talk
to you. Awesome, man. I haven't had a chance to
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listen this morning because I was obviously trying to get
in on my phone and stuff, so I'll know what
you guys been covering. But I wanted to kind.
Speaker 15 (17:53):
Of go back really quick.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
I had a quick question about the Eagles game, and
then I wanted to just put in my input about
the Chiefs. My question for the Eagles. Number sixty five
on the offensive line for the Eagles, didn't it feel
like in the first quarter he wasn't getting set at
all and they weren't calling anything on him, Like he
stood up and he would look back at the at
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the quarterback and then he just he never seemed like
he got set and they he would just turn around
and they would hike the ball, and it was like
I didn't understand that. I don't know if anybody else
bought that up or well they call.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
They called it once, but it might not have been
on him. They called it with another guy that popped up.
But you're right, when when a wide receiver like goes
in motion or the wide receiver is shifting, he's gotta
he's got to get set, he's got to get established.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And you're right, I don't think that the guard does that.
I think that he.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Isn't it weird where like if you were in your
stance and you just do a one little flinch, that's
a penalty. But if you stand up and point and
then and then go like that and then all of
a sudden get back down, like that's okay, Like you
can do that, but you can't like just like blink.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Too much because that would be a penalty.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
But if you're standing up and pointing and saying hi,
you know all that, it's crazy And it's crazy that
the Cowboys couldn't time that little bit better, you know,
because once he goes down, it's they're hiking it. But yeah,
the Eagles always seem to do it like they it
always seems to be a penalty and whatever they're doing.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
But yeah, I completely agree. I was thinking, man, just
just blit somebody up his hole or something like that.
After after a minute of like, man, get them somehow
get him to stop if they're not going to call it.
But it is what it is. It came out on
top man, just really quick. Again. I've I've already talked
about how much I love winning Williams trade, and you know,
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obviously we've seen in two games. You know how big
of a difference it is. It's just amazing that we
were able to make seven eight stops in a row. Yeah,
it was great. But my point is is, do you
feel like Shoty has to maybe change his mindset. We're
like before he was changing his mindset towards the defense
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not being able to make stops, and so he's going
for it, going for it. And I think we've seen
some of that in the beginning of the game, like
or throughout the game, of him going for it and
not trusting on his defense. And I feel it feels
like now it's like we have a defense you can trust,
let's play more of both sides of the ball, and
you know, complimentary football type thing. But I'd like to
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hear what you have to say about that. Man, if
I don't get in, you know, because it's tough man.
Go Cowboys. I think we got it. Low scoring game
this time twenty seven twenty one, something like that, right,
twenty three twenty one. Anyways, kept going, Nick, I love you.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
Thanks all right, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Appreciate that. All right.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
We've we did touch on that a little bit about
Schottenheimer already, you know, maybe needing to change as far
as that mindset a little bit, playing a little bit
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Speaker 5 (22:39):
How are we doing, sir?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
How are you doing?
Speaker 20 (22:42):
I'm doing good man. I went back and watched that game. Normally,
when I would go back and watch a game, I
watched a condensed version on like the NFL APP. I
have to watch the whole game game that game the
Cowboys versus the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
No, no, you watched the whole game.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Yeah, Brady version all that.
Speaker 20 (23:00):
It was literally crazier than my bipolar ex girlfriend, and
I loved every minute of it, just like I loved her.
I think what's going on with the Kansas City Chiefs though, However,
since we're moving on to the next game, they've become
like the team of the nineties to late nineties of
the Cowboys. They started to show their age. You know,
Kelsey's not doing as much as they used to do,
so they're kind of at that transitional period where their
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drafts aren't necessarily hitting as hard as they used to.
They don't have as much speed, and I think we
could take advantage of that. I've been watching their defense,
very solid defense, but they're successible to tight end. So
this is going to be a big game for spam
Ford and of course our boy Ferguson. I'm kind of
out on Schoolmaker this year. He's really disappointed in a
lot of it's not just blocking, but his catching. He
hasn't really made any plays that make me think that
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he's going to be the tight end.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
To do the job.
Speaker 20 (23:47):
So we can hit them with the tight ends and
then of course when it comes to like CDMGP, you're
going to need both of them. CD haves to realize
that he's not George Pickens, and George Pickens is not CD.
Speaker 15 (23:56):
CD.
Speaker 20 (23:57):
He's a technician, and George Pickens is a type of
superstar receiver that we normally see in the number eighty eight.
So I don't believe in switching on that guy because
in the long run, a guy like CD is going
to have a much longer career in this league because
once George Pickens's body starts to break down a lot
like that did, you're gonna need those technical skills. We'll
see if he has. I mean you have, Ay, I'll
hang up and listen.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, that's that's a really good point because you're at
that stage in your career where you can kind of
out athlete people. But the difference is I'm gonna say
this about about George Pickens. He's a pretty good route runner,
you know, like he is. He's very crisp in the
in running those routes. He runs a slant as good
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as anyway. Now, I know that's a basic route, but
not everybody runs it perfectly. He does a really good
job of kind of finding, you know, the holes in
the in the coverage.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
So he does.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
He he is, He's not just freelancing out there. I
don't think he's. But but you're right, they both they're
gonna have their games. There's gonna be a game where
Pickens has two catches for for twenty yards and maybe
five or six targets or whatever. It just didn't work
out that way, But you hope on the other side
that's where CD goes to work, because defensive coordinators are
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not just gonna sit there and go, all right, just
just let him throw up to Pickens. I mean, you're
not gonna do that. He's so good with the ball
that that you're gonna you're gonna have to to roll
some more coverage that way. It's exactly what CD wants
and what he needs. So it's it's a good problem
to have, you know, but you hope that they both
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kind of handle it the right way.
Speaker 15 (25:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
First game of the year, I'm you know, in Philly,
of uh, CD dropped those passes, but Pickens didn't really
have a huge game. I think he had three catches
for thirty yards or something like that. All right, I
do want to say, I'm a in in NAPO, and
he was calling. He called the previous call. You kind
of said the same thing as maybe what Sergeant Seoue
(26:02):
had said earlier, just about you know the defense is
coming along now you don't necessarily And Lewis from Langston
said it too, You don't have to to go for
every every pass. You know, you don't have to go.
If we can kick some field goals, you could punt
if you need to. Just remember this. The Cowboys have
scored forty points against the Giants, forty points against Green Bay,
thirty eight points, I believe against the Jets, forty four
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points against Washington, thirty four against the Raiders. That if
CD that might be where the whole thing started with.
Seed dropped that pass at the very end of the
game against the Raiders, But if he catches that ball
for a touchdown, that's forty one points. It should be
forty one points in all of those games, forty forty,
thirty eight, forty four, and then could be forty one
in every one of those games the Cowboys kick the
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field goal, if not too so. Kicking field goals does
not mean it's going to be You're only going to
score fifteen points or so. Kicking field goals means keep
it rolling, keep adding those points up. You're going to
score touchdowns as well. You can have high number games
and still kick field goals. Is the point that I'm making.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Matt in La is next, Matt.
Speaker 8 (27:08):
Good, Early morning, Nick, Happy Thanksgiving from California. I'm gonna
be pretty quick right here. I just wanted to ask
you two things. The first thing is, I think you
mentioned it a couple of times. We weren't really sure
if Rico Dado was going to stay with the Cowboys.
(27:28):
You had a feeling he wanted to go back to
North Carolina.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
I've heard you say.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
But when we look right now, why I'm telling you,
Malie Davis sorta looks a little bit like Rico Dado,
and I don't think we really want to let him
walk out of the building after this year. I don't
know what his contract status is. I think that that's
a point of emphasis. And then the second thing I
wanted to ask you is, in all reality, what is
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the chance that we are able to keep Javonte Williams,
any Clark and Fine Pickens. And I'm just listen, I'm
gonna give you half predictions the game. I'm going to
say Cowboys twenty seven, She's twenty three.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
Thank you for your time, Nick, all.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Right, thank you.
Speaker 15 (28:13):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
You know, re signing all those guys, I wasn't expecting
the Melik Davis resigned question or anything. You know, he
was on practice squad until this week. I mean they
finally put him on the team this week. I you know,
I think every I think every team in the league
has a Melik.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Davis, has a guy like that.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
But what I like about him is he's it seems
like he's he's he's running the ball, he's playing special teams.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
He's doing it with more of a purpose.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
When you've been cut three or four times and you
elevate it down back to the practice squad and all that,
your paycheck's different obviously than than the others. Uh, you're
you're you're playing in a different way. Not everyone does that,
but it does feel like you're getting the best version
of Malik Davis. The Cowboys would love to play Jayden Blue.
They would They would love for him to be that
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guy hey drafted him. They want him to be a contributor.
They want to see what kind of speed you know
that he can he can showcase, but he's not playing
better than Malik Davis. Malik gives him more production, more
plays on special teams, probably even better as a runner.
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This isn't the forty yard dash. This is going out
and playing football, and so what it's It's more than
just speed. So I credit Malik Davis for being that
guy and and and maybe that a lot of fire
and Jayden Blue and anyone else on the practice squad
to say, hey, that could be me. I'm not saying Malik.
I'm not saying Jayden Blue is on the practice squad.
(29:56):
I'm saying maybe he can light a fire to him
because they're in the same position. And then also anybody
else on the practice squad that kind of sees that
the journey in the path Belink is making. As for
those drafts, as for those guys that you mentioned about
re signing, uh, I think Jerry said it on the
radio this morning that he doesn't he doesn't see Piketts
not playing here next year, that they'll they'll get it
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done now. He said the same thing about Micah.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
We know that, but I don't.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I just have a hard time thinking that that's not
gonna be uh. Something that happens, they'll figure it out.
I mean, you always franchise him. You're not gonna love that.
He's not gonna love that, but that's that is something
that that's on the table.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You'll you'll franchise him if you need to.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And that what that does is buys you a little
time in the off season to maybe work out a
deal as well. I think Kenny Clark is under a contract,
but still they may have to want to rework some
things there. They could rework Quentyn Williams' deal maybe too,
you know what I mean. I mean, he's he's a
younger guy that that's gonna be here something too. So
there's options. Uh, and then Javonte Williams, we'll see, well,
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you know, we'll see what the money looks like. I mean,
think about this. Rico didn't get a lot of money
after he going on a thousand yards whatever. He didn't
get a ton of money. I don't think Davante is
gonna get a big, big deal. I think I think
it's a good chance for Javonte to being back. I
really I think so. All right, Rick and Webster Massachusetts.
Speaker 16 (31:20):
Hey, they can't be doing Hey, Rick, happy Thanksgiving to
you and your family and Christmas to you too, think
and still liners and stuff like that. But I have
a couple of questions. One to Irene's question, I would
go with QW because he's made this defense better. Without
the defense would still be just throwing up points and
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may be scoring more points. So I'm going with QW.
As far as the previous question about you know, the
Philadelphia Eagle guy who just kept them looking up, maybe
he was a signal caller instead of the center, because
I don't know, but that was you know, I would
agree with you guys that it looks like you might've
been just stop trying to create things. But for that,
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my score would probably be the Kansas City or it's
gonna be the Cowboys twenty eight in Kansas City twenty.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Twenty eight twenty yeah, all right, okay, all right, thank you,
thanks for the call. Twenty eight to twenty. No game
pops up in my head for that score.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yeah, you know, if I was understanding you correctly, Rick,
what you were, were you saying maybe this that that
was the actual place, that was actually the guy that
that was gonna that was calling the snap, you know,
like by doing that instead of Jalen hurts, Actually, you know,
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making the sound that you have for the snap that
maybe it's it's it's that guy at the line of
scrimmage who knows who knows it looks weird. It doesn't
look like normal football when you have a guy standing
up like that.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
The guards and centers, again, I don't know understand it.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
But you know, the the Eagles kind of always seem
like they're a couple a couple of seasons ahead of
everyone else, and then they'll figure it out. Like I
would imagine the touch bush is going to go away
this year, especially because now you're seeing all these false
starts and it's just almost it's it's hard for them
to monitor that and to to officiate it correctly. I
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don't know what they do as far as you know,
pushing guys forward or whatever. I know what I would
do is the rule that I would make I was
the commissioner. First thing I would do would be eliminate
the stiff arm to the face. But the next thing
I would do would be take away the touch push.
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What I would say is is that if you are
an eligible receiver, you cannot shove anyone in the back.
If you're an eligible receiver. Now if your alignment and
the ball seven eight yards down the field, and then
they still want to do that, which if they they
let people push the pile, that's fine, but you would
be alignment doing it. But if you're an eligible receiver,
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I mean, you can't line up behind the quarterback and
you can do that. It doesn't take away the quarterback sneak.
You can still do that your center. If your center
can do that, get low and your quarterback is strong
like Jalen Hurts, you can still do that. You just
can't have Saquon Barkley and his thunderquads. But behind it
pushing forward like that, I mean, it's just it's it's
(34:33):
just leverage and it doesn't make any sense. So if
you can tell those two, those two rule changes, if
there's a theme to it, it's it's hypocritical.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I mean, it really is.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
It's like, on one hand, you can't know you can't
have hands to the face unless you have the football.
Then you can shove a guy and club him right
in the face. That's fine because you have the ball.
And the same thing about leverage. You can't jump on
a guy's back to block a field goal. But you
can push them in the back for a yard. That
makes sense. Let's make it makes sense. I can't do
anything about the concussion protocol for a whole week and
(35:04):
all that stuff, but yet we still play Thursday games.
Can't do anything about that. That's the NFL and that's
their money, all right. Josh in Chicago was next.
Speaker 21 (35:13):
Hey, Nick, how you doing good?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
You well?
Speaker 21 (35:16):
Resigning Elik Davis was the last square in my Bengo cards.
So I just hit on that.
Speaker 15 (35:20):
Got it, man, Yeah, I got it. Now we're good.
Speaker 21 (35:24):
That's for Chris.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
But I mean what's funny about that is it was
like he wasn't even on a roster until like three days.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Ago, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Now now we're worried about resigning him. No, I don't
think you're worried about that one.
Speaker 21 (35:41):
But he plays hard, you know. I mean he reminds
me of Joe Looney right when we had like Joe
was kind of like sticking around. It would just kind
of come back and forth and like always go out
there and just like play hard. So yeah, the reason
I called today I was hearing the comments and I
just want to bring up the stuff with like Javonte
and the play especially in the goal line. And what
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bugs me is, you know we used to sit behind
like watching Jason Garrett or Mike McCarthy, and they would
have these calls whereas like, hey, we're going to run
right up the middle, and we know we're going to
Everyone knows we're going to run right up the middle,
and we would do it anyway and get stopped here.
It's like it's working, and then we just go away
from it, and that, you know, that's something that cannot
be done against this Chiefs team, right, Chiefs are they're
(36:22):
too good. They can come back from down by twenty eight.
So we just got to take what we get and
we got to keep moving and doing what's working and
just keep the ball moving and hopefully that leads to
one on Thursday, have a good Thanksgiving, right.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Football coaches, they they'll outthink themselves too, you.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
And it well, this has been working so well, they're
probably going to think that we'll do it again because
it's working, so let's not do it.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
But after a six yard run on first and goal
from the eight and now it's second and goal, from
the two.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
You gotta show me that they can stop it first
before I just go away from it.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Second doun run, third down, play action, fourth fourth down run.
You know, that's that's what I would think if you
need to, that would have been perfect, you know. I
mean the most perfect thing you could have done there
is run the ball on second down, get stopped, run
the ball on third down, get stopped, run the ball
(37:30):
or whatever you do on fourth down, but score. That
would have been perfect because of all the time that
would come off the clock and you know, the timeouts
or whatever they call. You know, we're analyzing a game
that the Cowboys won, which is a little different usually
when you're still talking about all these plays they didn't win.
It worked, It worked, you know what I mean. We'd
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be talking about Jake Ferguson fumbling the ball. If they
would have recovered it, it won the game with a
field goal. We would have been talking about that, but
it didn't, you know, or we been talking about Cavante
Turpin with his with his half halfway you know, uh,
a fair cat signal. But the ball, it just it worked.
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It went their way. Aaron in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Speaker 15 (38:17):
Aaron Hey Good, Good morning. How's it going good?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
How are you doing?
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Oh?
Speaker 15 (38:22):
Doing all right? Doing all right? Just coming into work actually,
but still kind of celebrating that game. That was a
wild game, man. Just a couple of quick things here,
just uh uh. I kind of thought going into last week,
if we could win these three games the Eagles and
then beat Chiefs here on Thursday, and then beat the Lions,
what's that do for the rest of our season? You know?
(38:44):
I think that builds a lot of momentum and stuff.
And I just kind of heard you talking about that
that second down call, that second a goal down there
towards end of the game. I was right, everything you
said is exactly all I thought about it. Why why
would we go to a pass instead of trying of
just pounded in?
Speaker 6 (39:01):
But but hey.
Speaker 15 (39:02):
It worked right, right. So I'm looking forward to the Chiefs. Chiefs,
you know, they're not as dominant, so I think we
have a real chance on Thursday. You know, we haven't
looked the greatest on Thanksgiving Day in a couple of years,
but I think this might be the year. I think
it just feels like there's momentum building on some things here,
and you know, if we can make it out of
this this three game stretch. It's three and oh, I
(39:22):
think all bets are off and everything's ahead of us.
So anyway, that's all I had today. Man, Hey, happy Thanksgiving,
enjoyed the show, and take care, Bud.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
All right, thank you, good good to hear from you.
You know you said it hadn't looked good on Thanksgiving
one three in a row.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I didn't realize that. I looked at it yesterday. I
didn't realize they had won three games in a row
on Thanksgiving Day. I've kind of remembered some some games
that didn't go so well. But as we have some
people in our social media a team and they're all
pretty young, and they're all having nobody's been here really
that long, and they have never seen the Cowboys lose
on Thanksgiving. So they yeah, they beat the Giants in
(40:01):
twenty two, and then Washington twenty three, and then the
Giants again in twenty four. Now the competition, those quarterbacks
aren't Patrick Mahomes. I know that, so we'll see. But yeah,
they're not the same. But there's you know, still s
Patrick Mahomes. Still you know, all right, let's go, let's go,
(40:23):
Bob and New Jersey first time caller, Bob, Yeah.
Speaker 22 (40:28):
A long time listening, Nick, Thanks for having me on
up to be a Cowboys fan up here in New Jerseys,
but lifelong Cowboys fan going way way back, like thirty
five years back.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Awesome, Bob, Yeah, I'm gonna buy I gotta get to here.
We go in there all right, A longtime fan, right,
So you've been there for a while and stuck through
it all.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
So what you got with on your mind?
Speaker 22 (40:52):
Sure, Quintin Williams and the kid Wilson, they seem to
be making a big difference in hours. They've got some
guys help you, Bud, what is your feelings on the
Cowboys defense for the rest of the year?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
That thank you, thank you, And I'm going to piggyback
that question with kind of what Aaron said before too.
If they were to beat the Chiefs and the Lions,
you're seven to five and one, and I think at
that point you'd be disappointed if you weren't eleven five
and one. I mean, at that point, if you're going
from three to five and one and you've got the
(41:25):
Raiders coming off the bye week and after the Marshawn
nieland tragedy to get that win and then to go
beat the Eagles, and then if you beat the Chiefs,
and then if you beat the Lions, well you're certainly
not expecting to lose to the Chargers at home, the
Vikings at home, at the Giants at Washington. I mean,
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you got four very winnable games. You know, these are
these two are would be very difficult to win. I
think beating beating the Lions is going to be a
huge challenge. But same with the same with the Chiefs.
But you know, let's see how let's take it one.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
At a time. I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Right down the center of the defense is where it's
gotten better, and that changes everything. Quinn Williams right down
the middle. That's made Kenny Clark and Osa even better.
But those three guys right there, now, you got Overshown
and Logan Wilson right there kind of playing in that
middle at defense. You got your safeties back Hooker and
Donovid Wilson, and I think they're just better football players
(42:25):
now that you got these other guys around. It's kind
of funny how that works. So right down the core
of the defense, you see in some big improvement there
let's go to JR and Avondale, Arizona.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
Board and Nick, how you doing good?
Speaker 15 (42:39):
You all right?
Speaker 5 (42:41):
Man? I guess I got in seventeen days in a
row and I kind of took that for granted because
I haven't been able to get in for anything for
anything little last.
Speaker 9 (42:49):
Week or so.
Speaker 5 (42:50):
But anyway, I haven't able to listen to the show today.
Did y'all give any props out to.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Woody Darren Wilson? Yeah, not yet, but no, you're go
for it.
Speaker 5 (43:02):
He's in the next level of the finalist.
Speaker 21 (43:05):
Yeah, semi final fucked out to him.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
Yeah, and I saw that on ESPN this morning. I've
got my fingers crossed.
Speaker 8 (43:12):
He makes it.
Speaker 5 (43:12):
This tis on my favorite players.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Darren Woodson and Jason Witten were two of the twenty
five semifinalists for the Cowboy for the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. So it'll get knocked down to fifteen finalists
as we get a little closer to it. What he's
been here before, this is and he's got he's been
at the finalist before, so this is where you expect
him to be. Expect Witting and and uh Woody to
be there or if they both make it in the
(43:36):
same year, twenty eight eighty two, in the same year.
That's my two favorite players that I've ever covered to
make the Hall of Fame the same year. Uh, that
would that would be awesome. Number one and number two.
Just get ready to go to Canton for the Hall
of Fame game because.
Speaker 9 (43:51):
We'd be in it.
Speaker 5 (43:52):
Oh, definitely, I'm going as we are so anyway, I
don't believe in analytics. I think analytics. Analytics don't get fired.
I'm old school. If you can take the points, I
think you take the point, and I don't. I don't
like going for it on fourth down. I think he
gives the other team all the momentum and just don't
(44:12):
like it. I want to see Turpin get the ball
in the middle of the field. Every time that guy
gets the ball, stand up out of my seat. Just
get in the ball some way. And about George Pickens
on the slant, I watch that over and over. He
is such a long strider. His first two steps out
of his break, he just puts distance between whoever's covering.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
He does.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
Anyway, my prediction for the game, he's a little bit
high scoring. I'm going thirty five, thirty one Cowboys win
this one, and happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Everybody,
be safe and go Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
All right, sounds good. You mentioned that about the analytics.
I'll say this like, I don't really don't. I don't
if I want to see what fourth and three at midfield,
what the analytics are for that, whatever that is, whatever
the percentage that it tells you to do.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
That.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Tell me what the percentage is between getting it on
fourth and three from the third from midfield and what's
the percentage of the the opposing team going ninety yards
for a touchdown starting at their own ten yard line
and going ninety what's the percentage of a touchdown there
(45:30):
versus a percentage? Because that's what it is to me, Like, yeah,
I understand you for fifty two percent, you can get that,
but what's the percentage of them because the anger is
gonna get it up there, they're gonna fair catch it
at the nine yard line, ten yard line now they
first drive of the game and they gotta go ninety
what's the percentage of that because if it's not as
as high, then they're probably gonna punt it back to
(45:51):
you at your thirty five or forty Now, you're going
in there again. It's a field position game, so that
that that's to me where analytics needs to play in.
It's not just about you can get this, it's okay,
but if you don't, if you save it. It's like
with anything. Yeah, do you have the money to pay
for this third car that you don't need?
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Yeah, I'm sure you could, but it'd be better if
you didn't and you saved it for whatever else you need.
All Right, here we go.
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Cowboys against the Eagles. But you know that that's what's
the beauty of the NFL is that you you got
to just pick it up and keep it going to
the next week. And the next week is right here.
It's the Chiefs game. It's it's always tough to kind
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of get that turnound, but to get that win and
then you know, it makes a short week a little
bit longer because you know, you got a little momentum
there and the Chiefs have it too. Now Let's not
forget that the Chiefs had an overtime win. They hadn't
won any close games all year until they won that one.
So they're gonna be coming in fired up, of course,
and you know there'll be a lot of fans, and
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Here's Nick Eatman. What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Welcome to Cowboys storyline presented by Gillette. It's one of
those short weeks, quick turnaround. Cowboys with a huge win
against the Eagles twenty four to twenty one last Sunday,
can't celebrate too long because Patrick Mahomes come to town for
Thursday's Thanksgiving Day game.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
They get a win as well.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
They're just a half game better than the Cowboys, but
they have been to a Super Bowl or three the
last few years, and you just kind of get the
sense that they're gonna get it turned around. And maybe
the Cowboys are turning things around as well. They've won
two straight games and they're five to five and one.
See if they can get over five hundred for the
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first time this year with the win. Sure would be
a lot of fun. Let's talk about it all right.
Eight five, five, two two nine seven is the number
to call. Irene in Falls Church, Virginia is first. She's
a captain of the show. She starts us off.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Hello, good morning mob, in honor Thanksgiving. I love people
answer this question. Who are you more thankful for? GP
three or Q dubs?
Speaker 5 (01:40):
For me?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Right now, it's GP three for entertainment value in the
larger sample size. But if we make this playoff push, Oh,
huge testament for Quinn Williams. All right, that's it for me.
Happy Thanksgiving to you, Chris and all the storyline family.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Oh awesome, what a great call, What a great way
to start us off here, Irene.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, we've got kids. Now.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
You know, when you have kids, you don't pick your favorites, right,
I have favorites, but you don't.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
You don't say them. Who am I most thankful for?
Speaker 6 (02:14):
You know?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I think I think I'm thankful that George Pickens has
been here all year to help keep this thing afloat
and help them win some games even without CD. I
had to be there by himself. So I'm thankful for
him getting there, And I'm also thankful for Quinn Williams
to kind of get here and now get this defense
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to the point where they could go win the game.
The defense won the game, I mean defense won won
the football game against the Eagles. And we just wouldn't
expect that to be said, but it happened. And you know,
they they did a great job of getting those necessary stops,
eight in a row, to be exact. And you know,
when you when you really look at how the game
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went down, I mean even the first three drives, I
mean the Eagles got the ball twice at the fifty
or inside the fifty, and then the second touchdown drive
they got gifted two first downs based off of penalties
when the Cowboys looked like they had gotten stops and
gotten off the field. So really, when you break it down,
the Cowboys outplayed the Eagles. It took a while to
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get there, but once they settled down and played football,
they were better than the Eagles were for that day.
All right, let's go to Gary in New Mexico. Gary,
what's up hey?
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Happy Thanksgiving week? Nick?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
All right, how are you?
Speaker 7 (03:32):
I'm doing good it man?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
Hey?
Speaker 7 (03:34):
Real quick? Name the other two times the Cowboys came
back from twenty one down to win the game.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
The other three times times, yeah, yeah. They beat the
Saints in eighty four, they beat Washington in ninety nine,
and then they beat the Rams in two thousand or
in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
Okay, yeah, you're right, I forgot about the RAM game. Okay,
cool deal. See hey, y'all miss one. Y'all missed one
last week on your trivia on the website.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
Y'all got one wrong.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
Mike Quick caught that touchdown my Harold Carmichael.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yeah, you know what you know?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
All right?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
You know what's funny about this, Gary, is I had
it wrong.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I had it wrong.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I had Harold Carmichael and and.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
You got that program.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
No, no, but go ahead, go ahead, Gary.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Let's talk about this week's team this week, Man, Sunday's
win was different. That was a different win. That was
a signature win. That is a building block win. They
can build off that win, Man, And you're absolutely right.
The defense won that game. But for the Cowboys to
overcome what they they had to beat two teams on Sunday.
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They had to beat themselves in Philadelphia because they were
fighting against themselves the entire first half and the mental
toughness that they displayed and pulling.
Speaker 9 (04:52):
Out that game.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Man, they can build off of that. And I am
excited about this team. Let's just be patient. Let that
defense cook. That defense is so much better with these
new players. Let's see what we can do against Kansas City.
Re signed George Pickens, get him signed right now. Pickens
is your best receiver. I love Cdee Lamb, but right now,
in this moment, Pickens is your number one. And I
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hope cd gets back on track because I mean this
this team is fun to watch. And that was that
game Sunday, Nick, that was the funnest game I've watched.
That was old school NFC east Man. It just did
my heart good to watch that football game. But yeah,
I'll hang up and listen to your comments. Let's go
beat Kansas City on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
All right, it sounds good. I like it.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Signature when for sure and Gary always throws trivia questions
in there. And I had it wrong.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You're right.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
And here's when I realized it. It wasn't just now
when you said it. I was actually walking in the
from one press box to another over to the radio side,
and the Eagles play, uh, the Eagles play by playing
and then their color guy is Mike Quick, and I've
seen him for years because he's he does the games,
and he's walking past me and I'm like, oh, that's
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Mike Quick.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And right then and there it hit me.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Wait a second, I think it was Mike Quick that
scored that touchdown. It's not gonna be Herold Carmichael in
his thirteenth year getting past the coup. It was Mike Quick,
And I was like, dang, I think we got that wrong.
And I didn't think about it again until you just
said it.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But you're right.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Gotta be gotta be gotta do a little double checking
on that one. All right, let's go Lewis at Langston, Oklahoma. Lewis,
what's up?
Speaker 10 (06:29):
What's going on? I just want to say thanksgiving everybody.
I might not get in later on. Secondly, I was
I want to celebrate the win, but I kind of
was a little frustrated with shotty play calling. And it
kind of frustrated because you get inside the ten yard
line and I know Geydon got that flag football start,
but he does this thing where he gets inside the
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tiny he starts trying to throw the ball. You have
a two hundred and twenty pounds running back, like let
him four. Don't get me wrong, I know Dak Kreshcot
can throw the ball, but like, let the man get
in the end zone. He worked us all the way
down there and then that fourth and three was kind
of dropping me crazy. At the beginning of the game.
I'm like, I know, you want momentum, and I don't
know if you know, if the trustal defense or not,
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you want to try to take the momentum away. But like,
I mean, he says it all times. You don't win
the game in the first quarter, you don't win the
game in the second quarter and the third quarter, you
win in the fourth. But like, so punch the ball
and let us go, you know, like he hasn't challenged
the play, He hasn't challenged anything this year, So I'm like,
nothing against my I love it, but like sometimes, hey,
just throw the flag. I mean, the best you could
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do is like you say, I mean, if you lose
it in the first quarter, we got to take a
half to figure it out, but throw the flag. So
that was my only gripe I had at the game,
outside of being down from the one zero. I enjoyed
the entire game from beginning to end. But I'm gonna,
you know, I'm gonna get off and I'll let everybody
else you know. But I had to get that off
my chest for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
So I talked to y'all later, all right, well, I
agree with you, I really do. I thought that's a
great point you just said. He said it in his
post game. You don't win it in the first, you
don't win the second. You don't lose it either. So
so it's, you know, play smart, play smart football. He's
got it. He's got to balance that better. He's got
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to balance that. You can't put your whole football team
in a bad way because you're the offensive coordinator and
you watch these guys practice all week and you know
they can get this fourth and three and it's not
the smart football play. It wasn't at the time, and
so you know, there's a lot of things people do
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like that he as a coordinator, And it's I saw
it in a game in the Monday night game when
when Carolina there was a penalty on the extra point,
so they took the point off the board because the
ball was getting moved from the two to the one.
So let's put the now, let's go out there and
go to a two point conversion. But then they throw
the ball. I mean, what's the point of going from
the two to the one If you're gonna throw it that,
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you're not really getting helping you you're gonna run it
and push push in.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
But if you're going from the two to one so
you could throw it that, it makes no sense to me.
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Speaker 3 (10:54):
All right, welcome back to Cowboys storyline. I got a
big week. I love Thanksgiving Week. I say it all
the time. I know I've never I haven't had Thanksgiving,
you know, dinner with my family on Thanksgiving and I
don't know, almost thirty years, but uh, you know, we
make up for it. I mean we figure out, you know,
Thanksgiving is kind of when you can get together and
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but I don't know what it is. It's it's my
favorite holiday for sure. To to be able to to be.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
At the game. I mean, it's a it's a tradition.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I mean we all we all remember as kids, you know,
wherever you'd go eat, get your meals, and and and
and you know what, watched the game, but you were
watching the Cowboys or the Lions, maybe ever early but
then the Cowboys. It's just such a tradition now to
be a part of it. Yeah, you don't get to
be with your family but during Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
But but it's a great excuse.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
When when I've learned that you know where where's Nick, Well,
he's at the game, the game that we're watching. So
it always works out, all right, Sergeant Sue is on
the lines, he's from Fort Worth.
Speaker 15 (11:58):
What's up at everybody?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
How you doing? Nick?
Speaker 16 (12:02):
Man?
Speaker 17 (12:02):
Dude, I'm still on a high from that game. Man.
The defense played lights out and what I'm hoping that
change is now. And I think it's kind of like
your last call maybe was touching on it. I didn't
get to hear it all, but I'm hoping that is
changing now. Is shoddy in the offense knows what the
defense can bring, So maybe that means they'll press a
little bit less. You don't have to go forward on
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fourth down. You don't have to you know, you know,
go forward at midfield, you know, to try to make
a statement. You know what your defense can do.
Speaker 9 (12:28):
Now, you know what I mean.
Speaker 17 (12:29):
And maybe it's a small sample size, but it's a
sample size that I enjoyed, is tasting. So that's what
I'm hoping going forward, especially under the leadership of Quinn
Williams coming in and being that vocal leader, being that
guy that's rallying the troops on defense. I don't feel
like we haven't had a guy like that in a
long time because quite frankly, I hate to bring his
name up, but Micah in that situation, I feel like
he would have started pouting and started just worrying about
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his own stats. We don't got that guy no more.
We got a like, like Daveon said, we got a dude.
Also the YouTube chat, I just want to shout out Alan,
he wanted me to ask you Nick, which I'm sure're
gonna give it the into the show. What your prediction
is for the game. Appreciate you, Nick, and have a
happy things getting all right?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Thank you. I'm not ready for a prediction yet. We'll see.
I don't know, I haven't even thought about that one yet, but.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I do get the sense just like AJ Brown, you know,
I was just like I've seen it all year long,
all this mess with AJ Brown, and I'm like, oh, watch,
you know, he'll he'll he'll play the Cowboys, He'll get
it turned around.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And he did.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Just like that's the way I feel about the Chiefs.
You know, I feel like they're going to get it
turned around, and they they sort of are. You know,
when the balls in Mahomes' hands, you know you expect
he's gonna go make a play. You know, we were
talking about the question you just said about sergeant who
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you were talking about hope hoping that Schottenheimer kind of
trust the defense even more. And there's two ways to that,
because you can also say, well, I do trust the defense.
That's why if we don't get it, I trust the defense.
You know, you could make that argument. When the ball
was at the one yard line, fourth and one with
three minutes to go, I didn't really hate going for it,
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but I would have run it.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
I would have run it because.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I the last thing you need if you don't get it,
last thing you need is an interception in the end zone,
which we've already seen in that game, and then it's
a touch bag.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
So did it not work? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
You can say that it worked because even though you
didn't get to think about it, if you kick the
field goal, okay, three minutes to go, you kick the
field goal, you kick off, Eagles gonna get the ball
about the thirty yard line, maybe thirty five, depending on where.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
The kickoff is.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
They're gonna go get a field goal. They're probably gonna
go get a field goal. They're probably if maybe a touchdown,
you know, like that's that's the thing.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Is that.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah, you can say, well they well you know, hadn't
stopped them. But it's a difficult you know, you get
in that two minute mode, you have good field position,
the Eagles can kind of play a little bit downhill
and they can go and I would imagine they'd get
in a position to go to go score. So by
not getting it, now they're down there, back there at
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their own one yard line.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Now they got out of it.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
A little bit, but ultimately they had to punt, and
when they did, the Colwis had just enough time. So
I think it's still I think going for it. What's
the right call. I don't know if passing it when
you're running back is running the way that he is.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
All right, let's go. Ronnie is next. Hey Nick, Good
morning Ronnie in Union City.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
New Jersey. Hey, how you doing. Nick? Good morning Nick again.
Just in case, Happy holidays to everybody, have a happy Thanksgiving.
Answering Irene's question real quick, I'm thankful for Jerry Jones,
Jerry Jones and the Jones family. First of all, he's
like the coolest owner. There's people that don't like. I
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love Jerry Jones. I love every crazy stuff he comes
out with. Sometimes he's one of the funniest guys out there.
So yeah, I love Jerry Jones. And he allows you
guys to do what you do and let us make
the calls that we're making right now. So I love
Jerry Jones. I'm thankful for him and finally opening his
eyes and let him see that we needed a big
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three technique and a nice defensive line in the middle.
Stuff in that middle. So yeah, I'm thankful for all
of that. Kansas City's not who they once were. They're
still a little scary because they got my homes. But
I think we're going to win this one thirty one
twenty eight, Nick, all right, thirty one twenty eight, thanks
for taking my call. How a good one?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Thirty one twenty eight. You know, usually I talked about
this last week or earlier this week. When I get
some get calls and scores that come in, I immediately
try to think of a game that happened with that score.
And so you say thirty one twenty eight. I think
that was the score of the game that they beat
the Chiefs. Was it twenty years ago in two thousand
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and five? I think they played them in two thousand
and five at home. I think they won thirty one
twenty eight. It was something like that. Dan Campbell scored
a touchdown in that game. So I know they played
them in ninety five on Thanksgiving, and they played them
in two thousand and five at home at Texas Stadium.
So now here they are twenty twenty five playing for Thanksgiving.
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All Right, I'm a in Napa, California's next I may.
Speaker 9 (17:22):
Hey, hey, Nick, How's it going, man, good, you feel
like I'm great. I feel like a kid in a
candy store every time I get through, man, just because
it's like you can never know how many times it's
going to take or if it's going to get through
or not, and so it's like it's ringing. He answered,
all right, yeah, so yeah, it's great, great to talk
to you. Awesome, man. I haven't had a chance to
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listen this morning because I was obviously trying to get
in on my phone and stuff, so I'll know what
you guys been covering. But I wanted to kind.
Speaker 15 (17:53):
Of go back really quick.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
I had a quick question about the Eagles game, and
then I wanted to just put in my input about
the Chiefs. My question for the Eagles. Number sixty five
on the offensive line for the Eagles, didn't it feel
like in the first quarter he wasn't getting set at
all and they weren't calling anything on him, Like he
stood up and he would look back at the at
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the quarterback and then he just he never seemed like
he got set and they he would just turn around
and they would hike the ball, and it was like
I didn't understand that. I don't know if anybody else
bought that up or well they call.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
They called it once, but it might not have been
on him. They called it with another guy that popped up.
But you're right, when when a wide receiver like goes
in motion or the wide receiver is shifting, he's gotta
he's got to get set, he's got to get established.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
And you're right, I don't think that the guard does that.
I think that he.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Isn't it weird where like if you were in your
stance and you just do a one little flinch, that's
a penalty. But if you stand up and point and
then and then go like that and then all of
a sudden get back down, like that's okay, Like you
can do that, but you can't like just like blink.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Too much because that would be a penalty.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
But if you're standing up and pointing and saying hi,
you know all that, it's crazy And it's crazy that
the Cowboys couldn't time that little bit better, you know,
because once he goes down, it's they're hiking it. But yeah,
the Eagles always seem to do it like they it
always seems to be a penalty and whatever they're doing.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
But yeah, I completely agree. I was thinking, man, just
just blit somebody up his hole or something like that.
After after a minute of like, man, get them somehow
get him to stop if they're not going to call it.
But it is what it is. It came out on
top man, just really quick. Again. I've I've already talked
about how much I love winning Williams trade, and you know,
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obviously we've seen in two games. You know how big
of a difference it is. It's just amazing that we
were able to make seven eight stops in a row. Yeah,
it was great. But my point is is, do you
feel like Shoty has to maybe change his mindset. We're
like before he was changing his mindset towards the defense
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not being able to make stops, and so he's going
for it, going for it. And I think we've seen
some of that in the beginning of the game, like
or throughout the game, of him going for it and
not trusting on his defense. And I feel it feels
like now it's like we have a defense you can trust,
let's play more of both sides of the ball, and
you know, complimentary football type thing. But I'd like to
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hear what you have to say about that. Man, if
I don't get in, you know, because it's tough man.
Go Cowboys. I think we got it. Low scoring game
this time twenty seven twenty one, something like that, right,
twenty three twenty one. Anyways, kept going, Nick, I love you.
Speaker 8 (20:49):
Thanks all right, thanks for the call.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Appreciate that. All right.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
We've we did touch on that a little bit about
Schottenheimer already, you know, maybe needing to change as far
as that mindset a little bit, playing a little bit
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Speaker 5 (22:39):
How are we doing, sir?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
How are you doing?
Speaker 20 (22:42):
I'm doing good man. I went back and watched that game. Normally,
when I would go back and watch a game, I
watched a condensed version on like the NFL APP. I
have to watch the whole game game that game the
Cowboys versus the Eagles.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
No, no, you watched the whole game.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Yeah, Brady version all that.
Speaker 20 (23:00):
It was literally crazier than my bipolar ex girlfriend, and
I loved every minute of it, just like I loved her.
I think what's going on with the Kansas City Chiefs though, However,
since we're moving on to the next game, they've become
like the team of the nineties to late nineties of
the Cowboys. They started to show their age. You know,
Kelsey's not doing as much as they used to do,
so they're kind of at that transitional period where their
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drafts aren't necessarily hitting as hard as they used to.
They don't have as much speed, and I think we
could take advantage of that. I've been watching their defense,
very solid defense, but they're successible to tight end. So
this is going to be a big game for spam
Ford and of course our boy Ferguson. I'm kind of
out on Schoolmaker this year. He's really disappointed in a
lot of it's not just blocking, but his catching. He
hasn't really made any plays that make me think that
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he's going to be the tight end.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
To do the job.
Speaker 20 (23:47):
So we can hit them with the tight ends and
then of course when it comes to like CDMGP, you're
going to need both of them. CD haves to realize
that he's not George Pickens, and George Pickens is not CD.
Speaker 15 (23:56):
CD.
Speaker 20 (23:57):
He's a technician, and George Pickens is a type of
superstar receiver that we normally see in the number eighty eight.
So I don't believe in switching on that guy because
in the long run, a guy like CD is going
to have a much longer career in this league because
once George Pickens's body starts to break down a lot
like that did, you're gonna need those technical skills. We'll
see if he has. I mean you have, Ay, I'll
hang up and listen.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Yeah, that's that's a really good point because you're at
that stage in your career where you can kind of
out athlete people. But the difference is I'm gonna say
this about about George Pickens. He's a pretty good route runner,
you know, like he is. He's very crisp in the
in running those routes. He runs a slant as good
(24:39):
as anyway. Now, I know that's a basic route, but
not everybody runs it perfectly. He does a really good
job of kind of finding, you know, the holes in
the in the coverage.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
So he does.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
He he is, He's not just freelancing out there. I
don't think he's. But but you're right, they both they're
gonna have their games. There's gonna be a game where
Pickens has two catches for for twenty yards and maybe
five or six targets or whatever. It just didn't work
out that way, But you hope on the other side
that's where CD goes to work, because defensive coordinators are
(25:16):
not just gonna sit there and go, all right, just
just let him throw up to Pickens. I mean, you're
not gonna do that. He's so good with the ball
that that you're gonna you're gonna have to to roll
some more coverage that way. It's exactly what CD wants
and what he needs. So it's it's a good problem
to have, you know, but you hope that they both
(25:37):
kind of handle it the right way.
Speaker 15 (25:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
First game of the year, I'm you know, in Philly,
of uh, CD dropped those passes, but Pickens didn't really
have a huge game. I think he had three catches
for thirty yards or something like that. All right, I
do want to say, I'm a in in NAPO, and
he was calling. He called the previous call. You kind
of said the same thing as maybe what Sergeant Seoue
(26:02):
had said earlier, just about you know the defense is
coming along now you don't necessarily And Lewis from Langston
said it too, You don't have to to go for
every every pass. You know, you don't have to go.
If we can kick some field goals, you could punt
if you need to. Just remember this. The Cowboys have
scored forty points against the Giants, forty points against Green Bay,
thirty eight points, I believe against the Jets, forty four
(26:25):
points against Washington, thirty four against the Raiders. That if
CD that might be where the whole thing started with.
Seed dropped that pass at the very end of the
game against the Raiders, But if he catches that ball
for a touchdown, that's forty one points. It should be
forty one points in all of those games, forty forty,
thirty eight, forty four, and then could be forty one
in every one of those games the Cowboys kick the
(26:46):
field goal, if not too so. Kicking field goals does
not mean it's going to be You're only going to
score fifteen points or so. Kicking field goals means keep
it rolling, keep adding those points up. You're going to
score touchdowns as well. You can have high number games
and still kick field goals. Is the point that I'm making.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Matt in La is next, Matt.
Speaker 8 (27:08):
Good, Early morning, Nick, Happy Thanksgiving from California. I'm gonna
be pretty quick right here. I just wanted to ask
you two things. The first thing is, I think you
mentioned it a couple of times. We weren't really sure
if Rico Dado was going to stay with the Cowboys.
(27:28):
You had a feeling he wanted to go back to
North Carolina.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
I've heard you say.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
But when we look right now, why I'm telling you,
Malie Davis sorta looks a little bit like Rico Dado,
and I don't think we really want to let him
walk out of the building after this year. I don't
know what his contract status is. I think that that's
a point of emphasis. And then the second thing I
wanted to ask you is, in all reality, what is
(27:53):
the chance that we are able to keep Javonte Williams,
any Clark and Fine Pickens. And I'm just listen, I'm
gonna give you half predictions the game. I'm going to
say Cowboys twenty seven, She's twenty three.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
Thank you for your time, Nick, all.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Right, thank you.
Speaker 15 (28:13):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
You know, re signing all those guys, I wasn't expecting
the Melik Davis resigned question or anything. You know, he
was on practice squad until this week. I mean they
finally put him on the team this week. I you know,
I think every I think every team in the league
has a Melik.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
Davis, has a guy like that.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
But what I like about him is he's it seems
like he's he's he's running the ball, he's playing special teams.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
He's doing it with more of a purpose.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
When you've been cut three or four times and you
elevate it down back to the practice squad and all that,
your paycheck's different obviously than than the others. Uh, you're
you're you're playing in a different way. Not everyone does that,
but it does feel like you're getting the best version
of Malik Davis. The Cowboys would love to play Jayden Blue.
They would They would love for him to be that
(29:13):
guy hey drafted him. They want him to be a contributor.
They want to see what kind of speed you know
that he can he can showcase, but he's not playing
better than Malik Davis. Malik gives him more production, more
plays on special teams, probably even better as a runner.
(29:35):
This isn't the forty yard dash. This is going out
and playing football, and so what it's It's more than
just speed. So I credit Malik Davis for being that
guy and and and maybe that a lot of fire
and Jayden Blue and anyone else on the practice squad
to say, hey, that could be me. I'm not saying Malik.
I'm not saying Jayden Blue is on the practice squad.
(29:56):
I'm saying maybe he can light a fire to him
because they're in the same position. And then also anybody
else on the practice squad that kind of sees that
the journey in the path Belink is making. As for
those drafts, as for those guys that you mentioned about
re signing, uh, I think Jerry said it on the
radio this morning that he doesn't he doesn't see Piketts
not playing here next year, that they'll they'll get it
(30:17):
done now. He said the same thing about Micah.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
We know that, but I don't.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
I just have a hard time thinking that that's not
gonna be uh. Something that happens, they'll figure it out.
I mean, you always franchise him. You're not gonna love that.
He's not gonna love that, but that's that is something
that that's on the table.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
You'll you'll franchise him if you need to.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
And that what that does is buys you a little
time in the off season to maybe work out a
deal as well. I think Kenny Clark is under a contract,
but still they may have to want to rework some
things there. They could rework Quentyn Williams' deal maybe too,
you know what I mean. I mean, he's he's a
younger guy that that's gonna be here something too. So
there's options. Uh, and then Javonte Williams, we'll see, well,
(31:02):
you know, we'll see what the money looks like. I mean,
think about this. Rico didn't get a lot of money
after he going on a thousand yards whatever. He didn't
get a ton of money. I don't think Davante is
gonna get a big, big deal. I think I think
it's a good chance for Javonte to being back. I
really I think so. All right, Rick and Webster Massachusetts.
Speaker 16 (31:20):
Hey, they can't be doing Hey, Rick, happy Thanksgiving to
you and your family and Christmas to you too, think
and still liners and stuff like that. But I have
a couple of questions. One to Irene's question, I would
go with QW because he's made this defense better. Without
the defense would still be just throwing up points and
(31:40):
may be scoring more points. So I'm going with QW.
As far as the previous question about you know, the
Philadelphia Eagle guy who just kept them looking up, maybe
he was a signal caller instead of the center, because
I don't know, but that was you know, I would
agree with you guys that it looks like you might've
been just stop trying to create things. But for that,
(32:04):
my score would probably be the Kansas City or it's
gonna be the Cowboys twenty eight in Kansas City twenty.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Twenty eight twenty yeah, all right, okay, all right, thank you,
thanks for the call. Twenty eight to twenty. No game
pops up in my head for that score.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
Yeah, you know, if I was understanding you correctly, Rick,
what you were, were you saying maybe this that that
was the actual place, that was actually the guy that
that was gonna that was calling the snap, you know,
like by doing that instead of Jalen hurts, Actually, you know,
(32:45):
making the sound that you have for the snap that
maybe it's it's it's that guy at the line of
scrimmage who knows who knows it looks weird. It doesn't
look like normal football when you have a guy standing
up like that.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
The guards and centers, again, I don't know understand it.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
But you know, the the Eagles kind of always seem
like they're a couple a couple of seasons ahead of
everyone else, and then they'll figure it out. Like I
would imagine the touch bush is going to go away
this year, especially because now you're seeing all these false
starts and it's just almost it's it's hard for them
to monitor that and to to officiate it correctly. I
(33:25):
don't know what they do as far as you know,
pushing guys forward or whatever. I know what I would
do is the rule that I would make I was
the commissioner. First thing I would do would be eliminate
the stiff arm to the face. But the next thing
I would do would be take away the touch push.
(33:48):
What I would say is is that if you are
an eligible receiver, you cannot shove anyone in the back.
If you're an eligible receiver. Now if your alignment and
the ball seven eight yards down the field, and then
they still want to do that, which if they they
let people push the pile, that's fine, but you would
be alignment doing it. But if you're an eligible receiver,
(34:10):
I mean, you can't line up behind the quarterback and
you can do that. It doesn't take away the quarterback sneak.
You can still do that your center. If your center
can do that, get low and your quarterback is strong
like Jalen Hurts, you can still do that. You just
can't have Saquon Barkley and his thunderquads. But behind it
pushing forward like that, I mean, it's just it's it's
(34:33):
just leverage and it doesn't make any sense. So if
you can tell those two, those two rule changes, if
there's a theme to it, it's it's hypocritical.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I mean, it really is.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
It's like, on one hand, you can't know you can't
have hands to the face unless you have the football.
Then you can shove a guy and club him right
in the face. That's fine because you have the ball.
And the same thing about leverage. You can't jump on
a guy's back to block a field goal. But you
can push them in the back for a yard. That
makes sense. Let's make it makes sense. I can't do
anything about the concussion protocol for a whole week and
(35:04):
all that stuff, but yet we still play Thursday games.
Can't do anything about that. That's the NFL and that's
their money, all right. Josh in Chicago was next.
Speaker 21 (35:13):
Hey, Nick, how you doing good?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
You well?
Speaker 21 (35:16):
Resigning Elik Davis was the last square in my Bengo cards.
So I just hit on that.
Speaker 15 (35:20):
Got it, man, Yeah, I got it. Now we're good.
Speaker 21 (35:24):
That's for Chris.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
But I mean what's funny about that is it was
like he wasn't even on a roster until like three days.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Ago, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Now now we're worried about resigning him. No, I don't
think you're worried about that one.
Speaker 21 (35:41):
But he plays hard, you know. I mean he reminds
me of Joe Looney right when we had like Joe
was kind of like sticking around. It would just kind
of come back and forth and like always go out
there and just like play hard. So yeah, the reason
I called today I was hearing the comments and I
just want to bring up the stuff with like Javonte
and the play especially in the goal line. And what
(36:01):
bugs me is, you know we used to sit behind
like watching Jason Garrett or Mike McCarthy, and they would
have these calls whereas like, hey, we're going to run
right up the middle, and we know we're going to
Everyone knows we're going to run right up the middle,
and we would do it anyway and get stopped here.
It's like it's working, and then we just go away
from it, and that, you know, that's something that cannot
be done against this Chiefs team, right, Chiefs are they're
(36:22):
too good. They can come back from down by twenty eight.
So we just got to take what we get and
we got to keep moving and doing what's working and
just keep the ball moving and hopefully that leads to
one on Thursday, have a good Thanksgiving, right.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:33):
You know.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Football coaches, they they'll outthink themselves too, you.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
And it well, this has been working so well, they're
probably going to think that we'll do it again because
it's working, so let's not do it.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
But after a six yard run on first and goal
from the eight and now it's second and goal, from
the two.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
You gotta show me that they can stop it first
before I just go away from it.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Second doun run, third down, play action, fourth fourth down run.
You know, that's that's what I would think if you
need to, that would have been perfect, you know. I
mean the most perfect thing you could have done there
is run the ball on second down, get stopped, run
the ball on third down, get stopped, run the ball
(37:30):
or whatever you do on fourth down, but score. That
would have been perfect because of all the time that
would come off the clock and you know, the timeouts
or whatever they call. You know, we're analyzing a game
that the Cowboys won, which is a little different usually
when you're still talking about all these plays they didn't win.
It worked, It worked, you know what I mean. We'd
(37:52):
be talking about Jake Ferguson fumbling the ball. If they
would have recovered it, it won the game with a
field goal. We would have been talking about that, but
it didn't, you know, or we been talking about Cavante
Turpin with his with his half halfway you know, uh,
a fair cat signal. But the ball, it just it worked.
(38:12):
It went their way. Aaron in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Speaker 15 (38:17):
Aaron Hey Good, Good morning. How's it going good?
Speaker 1 (38:20):
How are you doing?
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Oh?
Speaker 15 (38:22):
Doing all right? Doing all right? Just coming into work actually,
but still kind of celebrating that game. That was a
wild game, man. Just a couple of quick things here,
just uh uh. I kind of thought going into last week,
if we could win these three games the Eagles and
then beat Chiefs here on Thursday, and then beat the Lions,
what's that do for the rest of our season? You know?
(38:44):
I think that builds a lot of momentum and stuff.
And I just kind of heard you talking about that
that second down call, that second a goal down there
towards end of the game. I was right, everything you
said is exactly all I thought about it. Why why
would we go to a pass instead of trying of
just pounded in?
Speaker 6 (39:01):
But but hey.
Speaker 15 (39:02):
It worked right, right. So I'm looking forward to the Chiefs. Chiefs,
you know, they're not as dominant, so I think we
have a real chance on Thursday. You know, we haven't
looked the greatest on Thanksgiving Day in a couple of years,
but I think this might be the year. I think
it just feels like there's momentum building on some things here,
and you know, if we can make it out of
this this three game stretch. It's three and oh, I
(39:22):
think all bets are off and everything's ahead of us.
So anyway, that's all I had today. Man, Hey, happy Thanksgiving,
enjoyed the show, and take care, Bud.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
All right, thank you, good good to hear from you.
You know you said it hadn't looked good on Thanksgiving
one three in a row.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
I didn't realize that. I looked at it yesterday. I
didn't realize they had won three games in a row
on Thanksgiving Day. I've kind of remembered some some games
that didn't go so well. But as we have some
people in our social media a team and they're all
pretty young, and they're all having nobody's been here really
that long, and they have never seen the Cowboys lose
on Thanksgiving. So they yeah, they beat the Giants in
(40:01):
twenty two, and then Washington twenty three, and then the
Giants again in twenty four. Now the competition, those quarterbacks
aren't Patrick Mahomes. I know that, so we'll see. But yeah,
they're not the same. But there's you know, still s
Patrick Mahomes. Still you know, all right, let's go, let's go,
(40:23):
Bob and New Jersey first time caller, Bob, Yeah.
Speaker 22 (40:28):
A long time listening, Nick, Thanks for having me on
up to be a Cowboys fan up here in New Jerseys,
but lifelong Cowboys fan going way way back, like thirty
five years back.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
Awesome, Bob, Yeah, I'm gonna buy I gotta get to here.
We go in there all right, A longtime fan, right,
So you've been there for a while and stuck through
it all.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
So what you got with on your mind?
Speaker 22 (40:52):
Sure, Quintin Williams and the kid Wilson, they seem to
be making a big difference in hours. They've got some
guys help you, Bud, what is your feelings on the
Cowboys defense for the rest of the year?
Speaker 3 (41:03):
That thank you, thank you, And I'm going to piggyback
that question with kind of what Aaron said before too.
If they were to beat the Chiefs and the Lions,
you're seven to five and one, and I think at
that point you'd be disappointed if you weren't eleven five
and one. I mean, at that point, if you're going
from three to five and one and you've got the
(41:25):
Raiders coming off the bye week and after the Marshawn
nieland tragedy to get that win and then to go
beat the Eagles, and then if you beat the Chiefs,
and then if you beat the Lions, well you're certainly
not expecting to lose to the Chargers at home, the
Vikings at home, at the Giants at Washington. I mean,
(41:45):
you got four very winnable games. You know, these are
these two are would be very difficult to win. I
think beating beating the Lions is going to be a
huge challenge. But same with the same with the Chiefs.
But you know, let's see how let's take it one.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
At a time. I agree with you.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
Right down the center of the defense is where it's
gotten better, and that changes everything. Quinn Williams right down
the middle. That's made Kenny Clark and Osa even better.
But those three guys right there, now, you got Overshown
and Logan Wilson right there kind of playing in that
middle at defense. You got your safeties back Hooker and
Donovid Wilson, and I think they're just better football players
(42:25):
now that you got these other guys around. It's kind
of funny how that works. So right down the core
of the defense, you see in some big improvement there
let's go to JR and Avondale, Arizona.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
Board and Nick, how you doing good?
Speaker 15 (42:39):
You all right?
Speaker 5 (42:41):
Man? I guess I got in seventeen days in a
row and I kind of took that for granted because
I haven't been able to get in for anything for
anything little last.
Speaker 9 (42:49):
Week or so.
Speaker 5 (42:50):
But anyway, I haven't able to listen to the show today.
Did y'all give any props out to.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Woody Darren Wilson? Yeah, not yet, but no, you're go
for it.
Speaker 5 (43:02):
He's in the next level of the finalist.
Speaker 21 (43:05):
Yeah, semi final fucked out to him.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
Yeah, and I saw that on ESPN this morning. I've
got my fingers crossed.
Speaker 8 (43:12):
He makes it.
Speaker 5 (43:12):
This tis on my favorite players.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
Darren Woodson and Jason Witten were two of the twenty
five semifinalists for the Cowboy for the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. So it'll get knocked down to fifteen finalists
as we get a little closer to it. What he's
been here before, this is and he's got he's been
at the finalist before, so this is where you expect
him to be. Expect Witting and and uh Woody to
be there or if they both make it in the
(43:36):
same year, twenty eight eighty two, in the same year.
That's my two favorite players that I've ever covered to
make the Hall of Fame the same year. Uh, that
would that would be awesome. Number one and number two.
Just get ready to go to Canton for the Hall
of Fame game because.
Speaker 9 (43:51):
We'd be in it.
Speaker 5 (43:52):
Oh, definitely, I'm going as we are so anyway, I
don't believe in analytics. I think analytics. Analytics don't get fired.
I'm old school. If you can take the points, I
think you take the point, and I don't. I don't
like going for it on fourth down. I think he
gives the other team all the momentum and just don't
(44:12):
like it. I want to see Turpin get the ball
in the middle of the field. Every time that guy
gets the ball, stand up out of my seat. Just
get in the ball some way. And about George Pickens
on the slant, I watch that over and over. He
is such a long strider. His first two steps out
of his break, he just puts distance between whoever's covering.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
He does.
Speaker 5 (44:33):
Anyway, my prediction for the game, he's a little bit
high scoring. I'm going thirty five, thirty one Cowboys win
this one, and happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Everybody,
be safe and go Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (44:48):
All right, sounds good. You mentioned that about the analytics.
I'll say this like, I don't really don't. I don't
if I want to see what fourth and three at midfield,
what the analytics are for that, whatever that is, whatever
the percentage that it tells you to do.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
That.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
Tell me what the percentage is between getting it on
fourth and three from the third from midfield and what's
the percentage of the the opposing team going ninety yards
for a touchdown starting at their own ten yard line
and going ninety what's the percentage of a touchdown there
(45:30):
versus a percentage? Because that's what it is to me, Like, yeah,
I understand you for fifty two percent, you can get that,
but what's the percentage of them because the anger is
gonna get it up there, they're gonna fair catch it
at the nine yard line, ten yard line now they
first drive of the game and they gotta go ninety
what's the percentage of that because if it's not as
as high, then they're probably gonna punt it back to
(45:51):
you at your thirty five or forty Now, you're going
in there again. It's a field position game, so that
that that's to me where analytics needs to play in.
It's not just about you can get this, it's okay,
but if you don't, if you save it. It's like
with anything. Yeah, do you have the money to pay
for this third car that you don't need?
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Yeah, I'm sure you could, but it'd be better if
you didn't and you saved it for whatever else you need.
All Right, here we go.
Speaker 3 (46:19):
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All right, welcome back to Cowboys storyline. Real quick, we
can wrap up this show. Huge, huge win for the
Cowboys against the Eagles. But you know that that's what's
the beauty of the NFL is that you you got
to just pick it up and keep it going to
the next week. And the next week is right here.
It's the Chiefs game. It's it's always tough to kind
(47:55):
of get that turnound, but to get that win and
then you know, it makes a short week a little
bit longer because you know, you got a little momentum
there and the Chiefs have it too. Now Let's not
forget that the Chiefs had an overtime win. They hadn't
won any close games all year until they won that one.
So they're gonna be coming in fired up, of course,
and you know there'll be a lot of fans, and
(48:16):
don't forget that there will be a lot of Kansas
City fans here. But that's okay the Cowboys. It'll bring
the Cowboy fans up there a little bit better. We'll
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.