Cowboys StoryLine: Bringin’ the Wood

In a surprise visit, Darren Woodson joined the show to discuss everything from coaching changes, player accountability and his Hall of Fame chances.

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Speaker 1 (00:16):
The following.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and
the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Oh Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
This is Cowboys Storyline with Nick Eatman.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
What's up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It is Thursday, December
of the nineteenth and last show of the week. We,
like I've said all week long, we have a different
schedule for the podcast. So on Friday, we're only going
to have half of the shows. Your afternoon shows slide
down to the morning. Your morning shows will be canceled,

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and that includes this one. All right, I'm Nick Eatman,
and it's time to talk Cowboys for the next forty
five minutes to an hour. Forty five minutes to fifty minutes.
Probably they don't go an hour because of the Cowboys break.
We'll be coming in here and Derek will give me
the stink guy. So we're not going to do that.
All right. Let's talk though, Let's talk about uh Cowboys

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in Buccaneers Sunday Night football. Bucks are won four in
a row. Cowboys won three or four two of the
hottest teams in the NFL in the last month. I mean,
that's as funny as that is to say that, that
is to the reality, and especially when you look at
the Cowboys standpoint. I mean, Rico Daddle is running the
ball better than anyone here in the last month. The
Cowboys as a defense are as good as anybody as

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far as sacks, you know, I mean when since Micah
Parsons has returned from his injury, the Cowboys lead the
NFL in sacks with twenty four and I think the
second closest team is eighteen. So it's not it's not
by just a little. I mean, they're third in turnovers forced,
so he's making a difference. And then therefore they're getting

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the lead, and they get the lead, they're running the
ball and you know, so this complimentary football is what
we're seeing here. So the Cowboys are gonna have a
tough test though, in next three games against teams that
are all in the playoff picture as it stands, and
two of them leading their division, Tampa Bay one of them.
Philly is next, and then Washington is sitting in that
final playoff spot as well. So all right, let's talk,

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let's get the toll lines, let's do this. So the
Zach in Atlanta started this off.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
Hey, good morning, Nick and Frisco.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
How are you.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
I'm good man, how are you doing good?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
What kind of snarky stuff do you have for me today?

Speaker 4 (02:43):
I don't have a snarky comment, but maybe initiating a
fun game or comment for the show today. Okay, So
I'm putting together a Christmas wish list and here are
my two wishes. One we get Trey Lance in the game,
and I think he's going to score a touchdown. Christmas
wish number two, I really want to see us retry

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the Brandon Aubrey field goal, either tying the record or
setting the record. I don't think the conditions were great
for it last week, so you know, let's have fun.
So I think the Cowboys win thirty one to twenty seven,
and I think it'll be a fun game. But Merry
Christmas to you and beam in all the holidays to come,

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and let's enjoy a fun game on Sunday night.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Take care sounds good. I'll tell you my wish this
is that I get a pen that actually works. That's
the one that I wish. All right, cool game, Trey
Lance in the game scoring touchdown for the Cowboys, I
would think is what you're asking for. And then a
better attempt by Brandon Aubrey. Yeah, I mean indoors, I'm

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for that. Sixty six. Let's go for another. That is
the record, right, sixty six, so you need sixty seven? Yeah, seven,
I just seventy outdoors off the grass. I just it
just didn't it didn't seem like it was going to
happen at all. Uh, turf, which you can, you know,

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get more of the ball obviously with when you're talking
about turf, and then then you're talking about no conditions comfortable.
I'm for it again, it's got to be the end
of the half. It's got to make sense or any
of the game. But six sixty seven, sixty eight. But
I just that didn't seem right at all at seventy.
But I mean in again, I've said this before, for

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God misses the Pro Bowl because you were messing around
doing all those kind of kicks and you know, and
I know it's bigger than that, but I'm just saying
the fans that are like, man, I can't believe he
didn't make it or whatever. You know, his stats won't
look that great because you're doing stuff like that. That's
for Trey Lance playing in the game. Yeah, it's got

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to be a good situation as well. I'm for him.
Like like the other day, you know, they call time out,
two minute warning in the first half. It's third and one,
there's ten nothing Cowboys and they want to run some
kind of read option and he fumbles the ball. Well,
you know, you just came off the time out. Put
Trey Lance in the game. If that's the call you
want to do, put him in the game. Let him

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do that that. I think that was a good opportunity
to do that, And then Cowboys missed on that. But
as far as going out there and playing to win,
I mean, I'm still Cooper Rush. I think gives you
your best chance to do that. All right, let's go
to Robbie Koco Beach, Florida.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Good morning, Mark Christmas, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (05:46):
I am? Phenomenal, outstanding, wonderful. All right, it's good life.
How about you?

Speaker 1 (05:53):
You're good?

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Good, decent?

Speaker 5 (05:55):
Hey, you know I always decent. Come on, we talked
about it before. You get the best job in the world.
You've got great family, great wife, great kids, great.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Son, decent right now, decent right now?

Speaker 5 (06:05):
The stupid right now? Yeah, maybe because I'm talking too
much that what's up?

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yes, he saved me, saved the day. Now I'm doing awesome.
Now I'm doing great. What's up?

Speaker 5 (06:18):
I love you?

Speaker 6 (06:18):
Christine.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Hey, I wanted to give a shout out first, and
I want to talk about the Bucks a little bit.
My shout out is all the people that make storylines
so good. Obviously you and Chris first, that's it. Dylan
in Northport, Yeah, I uh, I can't forget Randy. I mean,
there's just so many people that have so much knowledge
of football and they just add so much to show

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and you just let him go sometimes and it's it's
awesome to hear everybody else's opinions, and even though I
disagree with them, sometimes it's wonderful to hear. And I
love what you guys have put together, and I love
what the fans have done together with you guys.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, well thank you. I mean, it's a it's a
fun community.

Speaker 7 (06:54):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
And and I'm a little worried they don't need us anymore,
you know, they kind of they're doing their own little
thing on on on Twitter, and now am I it
might blow up, might be the biggest thing we've got.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
So I need to learn how to get on that
thing because I can't ever find it, but I'll figure
out one of these days. Yeah, okay, Cowboys Sunday night. Man,
if we keep playing the way we playing, I'm I'll
tell you now, I'm drinking a kloid.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Ma.

Speaker 5 (07:20):
I think we can beat him. I know Baker's playing phenomenal,
but he'll give up the ball. I know Mike Evans
is great, but his run after the catch is not
what it used to be. Their run game is not
nearly what it was. Our run game is kicking a gear.
I think we got a good chance, and I know
we don't have a call tomorrow. So yeah, what about
twenty eight twenty four?

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Right, twenty four? Just like Zach at thirty one twenty seven,
So four point games both times. I like it. That's
it man, You guys, all right, thanks, thanks for having
you too, Merry Christmas. Do you I think that you
know Tampa's playing well? I mean they're they're they're doing
a good job right now. And that that game last week,

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I mean saying, uh, the Chargers wherever they are the Chargers,
I mean they got smashed at home by by Tampa.
You know, that was a game that I think a
lot of people were surprised about just at least the
final outcome there. So, uh, without a doubt, Tampa's playing better.
But if they have a you know, a Bucks storyline

(08:29):
or Bucks break or talking Bucks whatever they got over there,
they'll be saying the same thing. If they're honest about it,
they'll be like, you know what, this Cowboy team is
playing a lot better than than what they did earlier
in the year. I'm not saying they're better than the record.
I'm just saying they're playing better than some six and
eight teams are playing right now. It's just the way
that it goes. All right, let's go to Ali in Florida.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
Good money, sir.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
How are you pretty good?

Speaker 6 (08:55):
Buddy?

Speaker 8 (08:56):
A couple of questions very quick.

Speaker 6 (08:59):
First of all, I have the highest respect for you.
I never call any podcasts or watch any podcasts. My
home is your podcast, honest to God. Having said that,
I didn't, I got to clarify my last comment that

(09:19):
you work for the company. You've always been fair, but
sometimes we put you in on comfortable position because you
work with these people. That was the only thing I
tried to get.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, I didn't take that. I didn't take that wrong way.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
Okay, So a couple of things. I leave literally crossed
the street from Box Place one Box Place. Yeah, and
I'm a very good friend with Derek Brooks. He's an
one the only box I like that couple. But I
do a lot of charity work with him. So I
ran into him two days ago and they know I'm

(09:55):
a big Cowboys fans, and he says, you're not taking
this Cowboy game since uh that that that is out,
So they're not looking like they're gonna come walk all
over us.

Speaker 9 (10:07):
Trust me on that one.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
So the last another thing is the reason I use
I send you that elephant group. I give you a
backdrop so you know that is the largest elephant park
in Africa and they have the largest elephant in the
world and it's right underneath the Mount Kilmanjorow. And then

(10:30):
they do a lot of poach in there, so they
literally killed ninety elephant a day. At the same time,
Chris Long has how it's done. He has this program
called water Boys, and we on my younger days, I
used to have been there twice already in top of
the Kilmanjoro, but not anymore. I'm getting a little bit older.

(10:54):
But to have this water program, they take a lot
of NFL players and their pay and the money goes
with the water sources for all the kids in Toms
and ill And the last thing my question to you
is this, you personally a one your honest opinions, would
you like to see McCarty back? And I hang up

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this Mary Christmas?

Speaker 8 (11:15):
What he love you?

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Thank you appreciate that. Thanks again for for the really
generous gifts to me and Chris and the and the
outstanding you know photography that you do. I mean, everybody's
got their own talents and you certainly have the as well.
So Merry Christmas to you and that now and then

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and then you just said, you know, we put you
in awkward positions and then you're like, okay, do you
want McCarthy back? Okay, bye, my honest opinion. See, I'm
torn on this one because from a personal standpoint of
let me just say, I do not like coaching changes here.

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It's not a fun offseason, okay at all of what
it what it is for us because when the season
is it's a it's a grind, and so you want
to just breathe. When the season's over, you're like, all
right then and you have a little chance to do that,
and then the days aren't as long and your head's
not spinning as much about what's going to happen next.

(12:24):
So this from a personal standpoint, it's a lot more work.
It's a lot more you know, it's a lot less
of an off season. There's always something new, something different,
new coach. Here's all this and and and I get
it that there could be an excitement level to that,
and then the fans it won't matter to them either way.
So the fans are just wanting somebody hello. Uh so,

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somebody that knows a little bit about coaching changes. We
can talk about that. Here comes Darren Woodson to save
the day. As I'm over here trying to answer, do
I want Mike McCarthy back? Oh, I don't even remember
the question. Darren Woodson, what is up with this?

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Can you?

Speaker 9 (13:01):
Can you get can you?

Speaker 10 (13:03):
I'll move over, man, I'm just walking in on my god,
I can hear you outside. And I told you I
was going to come in. I thought I was gonna
be on the other part of town. But I'm here
and I got a couple of minutes.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
I'll tell you what. Whoever the next caller is and
he deserves it. He's gonna get the biggest treat because
it's it's Darren Woodson's here real quick, Darren, thank you
so much for for being here. Merry Christmas. And I
know you don't have a lot of time and you're
probably you're just walking through the building.

Speaker 10 (13:30):
I told you I was I was gonna be south
today and I ended up coming up north and I
needed to come see you, and then I was gonna
ho there.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Wow. And somebody just asked their Christmas wish for yesterday
on the show was that they want you to be
in the Hall of Fame this year. It'd be nice
that would be talking about it.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Uh No, I'm not.

Speaker 10 (13:50):
I have been in the past, but it's this time
of the year that I'm kind of like, yeah, man.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Let's talk about it. Let's have the discussion.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
You do you have any sense or feel.

Speaker 10 (14:01):
I've always, you know, last couple of years, I've had
a sense of, yeah, maybe this is the year, Maybe
this is the year, and then it hasn't happened. So man,
I've just relegated thisself myself to say, hey, it's got
on God's time and it's not all my time.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Well, if I'll just say this if it happens in
New Orleans celebrating, Oh my.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
God, yeah yeah. If I'll be able to talk.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
You'll be there. You'll be able to recover by the
time you're going in all right. So I just got
to ask the question about coaching change Mike McCarthy and
all this kind of stuff, And I won't ask you
the same thing, but but you've you've been there when
when it was time for coaching changes. You've been there
when it was time for it wasn't and there's still
a change. So do you get the sense like when

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do you know as a player, as somebody in the
organization of like, man, we need a new voice. Do
you do you know that? I mean, did you feel
that way when Switzer?

Speaker 10 (14:51):
Yeah, well it wasn't. I don't know if it was
so much Switzer. I just thought that when the players
start to lose respect for the day to day calls
that you're supposed to be doing, like, you know, showing
up on time, getting treat man, doing all the little
things that it takes to go win a game. When
you when the coach loses that part of the players

(15:11):
and you know, guys are lacks a daisical about studying
and preparing for games. That's when you kind of know.
And I don't get that feel. I honestly don't get
that feel. Look, I don't think that, you know, coach
McCarthy is a guy that's you know, coach for a
long time. He has a winning percentage is unbelievable guys
that play. I mean, he's done great things in this league.
I don't think he forgot how to coach like I mean,

(15:33):
it could be a personnel issue as well, right that
that goes along with that. And they've had some bad
luck to boot and they didn't do a lot in
the free agency last year, so there was a lot
of there's a lot of things that come along with that,
and it just happened. So happens that he's gonna take
the burden for this. But I think he's a damn
good coach, man, I think I honestly.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
This is just me.

Speaker 10 (15:53):
I know, I know a lot of Cowboy fans are
still out there because we're everything. You know, all the
emotions are heightened right now and everybody wants someone's head.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Someone's heads got a roll.

Speaker 10 (16:03):
Yeah, Look, man, sometimes you gotta step back and go
like this, this this is the guy.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, let's just ride with them.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah. Well, and then you're saying it without without really
saying it, And I and I think you're right listening
to you talk about that. I mean, the team is
playing better for they're playing better to getting their guys back. Yeah,
And injuries and we say it all the time, they're
not an excuse, but sometimes they're the reason. Yeah, And
it's not just an excuse.

Speaker 6 (16:28):
You know.

Speaker 10 (16:28):
You can really tell though, I mean you could tell
if the team's really playing hard. Watch the special teams. Okay,
watch the guys that aren't there, your highest paid guys.
Watch the special team guys that are like the bubble guys. Right,
if they don't play well, they get cut or whatnot,
or they're always watch those guys perform.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
What like if there's a block punt and it's rolling
around and you're not supposed to get it and then
they grab it. What about that?

Speaker 10 (16:50):
That's that's not Hey, we've been there before. Yeah, with
the championship team. Those things do happen, you know. Young
football player, uh just makes a big mistake and it
sucks and it gets who takes the burden for that, Well,
Macarthy's gonna take the burden for that, right, But.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Did Jimmy take the ball?

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, he's taking a hit, man.

Speaker 10 (17:07):
I mean, look, it all went to Leon, and that's
a great story to tell at some point. We'll get
into that story after the game and how Jimmy hugged
him up, loved him up, made sure that we went
back into the back room and loved on Leon. Yeah,
and we didn't lose a game afterwards, so we built
on that deal. So but I would, honestly, man, I
look at it.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
Lost game.

Speaker 10 (17:28):
Yeah, So I look at that team and this team now,
and the effort is there. Guys are playing hard, man,
Because I've seen teams this time of the year they're
out of the mix and things happen and things are
going their way.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
And they just lay down. This team is not laying down.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Wow, that's awesome. Let's let's you want to take some
couple of phone calls.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, all right?

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Dylan in Northport, Florida, Dylan, you're still.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Holding Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 3 (17:54):
How about your lucky day? How about that?

Speaker 2 (17:57):
You know, I had a whole other thing planning here
to talk about. I would want to talk about you
yesterday one to five three? What year said? But you know,
I'm going to call it an audible Omaha, omaha, am audible.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
There you go, there you go.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
All right, Darren, all right, First off, this is the year, bro,
this is it. You're getting in this year?

Speaker 11 (18:13):
All right?

Speaker 1 (18:14):
I appreciate that, Dylla, thank you.

Speaker 6 (18:16):
It's a bad time.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
But you know, I wanted to ask you, first off,
if we want to be competitive in twenty twenty five.
I agree, we got to keep McCarthy. We got to
do some stuff with some contracts, but we got to
keep McCarthy. If you know, you get a new head coach,
it's gonna take him a couple years to get the
system in place, revamp everything, whatever. So that's fine keeping McCarthy.
I did want to ask you. You know, they lost
at Green Bay last year, maybe one of the worst

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playoffics losses in Cowboys history, maybe the worst. Right, Is
there such a thing in the locker room? Because there
is from a fan base perspective, there's been a dark
cloud over the fan base, from contract negotiations to players
holding out, to just the general feel about the owner,
the GM, all that stuff fans have done. Just Matt,

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is there any sort of like roll over into the
locker room that exists after a playoff loss like that,
and as there is how do players deal with that
and get over that?

Speaker 10 (19:10):
Yeah, but it's hard, that's a great question, Dylan, And
and it is hard when you take that type of loss,
especially after you've had so much success throughout the year.
And and they played extremely well last year, they played
extremely well at home. Uh, And then for Green Bay
to come in win that game and then have to
go into that locker room afterwards, that's a hard that's
a hard deal. And it's like any other business that

(19:31):
you're ever in after a hard low after you know you,
if you're in the business world which I'm in, if
you have some big losses, man, it's hard to walk
back in and look at your peers in the eyes
after after the that that those type of situations. So
to overcome that, man, you And here's the thing with
this organization and with this team, your your leaders really

(19:53):
have to step up in roles when that happens, like
really have to take the lead in. Okay, we lost
this playoff game. We were expected to win, we were
playing at home. Things didn't go our way. We lost
the game, and now the next day it starts all
over again. It's almost like you have to have amnesia

(20:14):
and think about Okay, I can use this as a
chip on my shoulder.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
But the leaders of this defense.

Speaker 10 (20:20):
And on the office side of the ball have to
go out of their way to step up, and they
have to shed it.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
They have to take it on the chin.

Speaker 10 (20:28):
But the leaders are really the ones who have to
get rid of it and move on and start working
in the off season. See, I'm a firm believer that
you just don't build teams with just talent. You just
don't bring in guys and go, Okay, you guys are
in the room. He has are talented. You go, do
you do your thing. It doesn't work that way. It
works with when you show up in the offseason whenever
that offseason program starts, even before the program starts, show

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your ass up, be a leader. Do the little things
that it takes. Take criticism, Look at all the film
from last year and season it starts in February, March,
whatever it is. Start looking at all the mistakes and
how you can get better. Take that look back. They say,
how can I get better? How can we get better?

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How can I be a better leader? Do I need
to start playing on the special teams. How can I
help the team win?

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Right?

Speaker 10 (21:17):
I mean, those are the aspects of the game that
leaders need to take advantage of early on in the
off season, and that's where it starts. And then those guys,
then the young guys start to look at you, and
they start to follow your lead.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
You want to be a coach?

Speaker 1 (21:29):
No? Hell no, I love what I'm doing.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
I think you could be a great coach. I'm ready.
I'm ready to play right now. I've never played a
lick in my life, but I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
All right.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
Steve in New York is up?

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Man?

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Steve? What's up?

Speaker 12 (21:42):
What's going on next?

Speaker 3 (21:44):
How are you doing?

Speaker 12 (21:45):
Okay?

Speaker 9 (21:46):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Did you have a trivia question? Because you always have one?

Speaker 12 (21:49):
Of course I do.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Is it one that Darren could answer?

Speaker 13 (21:53):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (21:54):
Maybe? All right, maybe give it to I just want
to say that that's a Hall of Famer sit next
to you, and it's gonna happen. It's a it's a
cowboy believe it happened in the seventies and with the voters,
the writers, whoever he's getting.

Speaker 9 (22:10):
I thank you hopefully this year, best of luck with that.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Thank you.

Speaker 12 (22:15):
Okay, my my trivia. So Cowboys Bucks they played like
twenty two times. I think five starting quarterbacks between the
two teams have won Super Bowls in the history.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Of the.

Speaker 9 (22:31):
The meeting.

Speaker 6 (22:31):
Who are they?

Speaker 3 (22:35):
So in all the games of the Bucks Cowboys games,
there's been twenty two quarterbacks and five of those twenty
two quarterbacks have well, no, not twenty two.

Speaker 12 (22:44):
Well, they played twenty two times, but five quarterbacks who
started games won super Bowls.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Okay, well give.

Speaker 12 (22:53):
You the first game was in seventy seven, So that.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
That's one I've got. I've got the five. I've got
the five Doug Williams and Doug Williams, Troy Aikman, Yeah,
Trent dilferd.

Speaker 12 (23:09):
No, No, well you know what that would be.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
That would be.

Speaker 12 (23:15):
Another one. Okay, Oh, I don't I don't know if
Bilford I was thinking, was Brad Johnson.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Steve Young No, No, no, he never he never played
the Cowboys because he was with the Bucks. But I
don't know, if you I don't know if.

Speaker 12 (23:28):
They did not he did not start.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah, he probably didn't.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Okay, so they had to play on Yeah, the both teams.

Speaker 9 (23:34):
You got who else you got between both?

Speaker 12 (23:36):
But you got you got you got Brady.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Oh, Tom Brady, So how many do you have on there?
How many of this? Because we got more seven?

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah, I got it.

Speaker 12 (23:46):
Okay, Jill for six now I mean starting yet.

Speaker 11 (23:50):
I.

Speaker 12 (23:52):
Don't know as far as the guys who started.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Okay, Okay, that's fair, Okay, all right, yeah, Tom Brady,
I do that all the time. I do that all
the time. I can get Yeah, I'm sorry here thinking
about Brad Johnson's I give you get them, all right, Steve,
you got anything?

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Real quick?

Speaker 3 (24:11):
We're gonna have to time, yeah, real quick.

Speaker 9 (24:13):
I just I was going to ask you.

Speaker 12 (24:14):
I was going to say, if you was coach eat
and I'll say coach Woodson. I'm glad they did not tank.
I hate tanking. Players don't tank. I want to win
every game. But just for argument's sake, if they lose
Sunday or they get eliminated, you guys have the decision.
Is Trey Lance starting the last two games?

Speaker 1 (24:33):
I'd like to see him? Yeah, I'd like to see him.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yeah, I think so. Thanks for the call. Probably at
least playing.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
More, exactly playing more.

Speaker 10 (24:41):
I can imagine playing what he would would his first
game be Philly?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Yeah? Oh my god?

Speaker 3 (24:46):
But but the thing again, I keep saying this Cooper
Rush is a free agent. Trey Lance is a free agent,
So what are you trying? And here here's another thing,
like who are you? Who are you playing them for?
And then also next year, just think about that. Who
would you like to bring back? I would like to
bring back Cooper Rush as the backup. So we are

(25:09):
we worried about that relationship at all? Were worried about saying,
all right, I'm going to play this guy. I mean,
he understands the business and gets it, and I think
I think he'll play some. I don't know if he'll start,
but all right, let's go to Let's go to Randy
and san Antonio. Hey, Nick, how are you doing? Randy?

Speaker 8 (25:25):
I'm doing great. First of all, I want to talk
about I had a kind of a different thing. I
was going to talk about a coach that had started
with the Bucks and it's now with the Cowboys that
I watched in college. But now that Darren Woodson's on,
just really want to wish him well with his process
getting in the Hall of Fame, really deserve it. And

(25:46):
then ask him, I know, when you guys did the
Deep Blue on Roy Williams who talked about the hit
against the Giants. But I want to know what's Darren
Woodson's favorite of his own? He talked about how he
thinks about Roy's hit. What's his favorite of his own?
That's all I got.

Speaker 10 (26:00):
Good.

Speaker 8 (26:01):
Love getting in the Hall of Fame, love the show.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Thank you, ah, thank you man. The favorite hit, my god,
I've asked it. Man.

Speaker 10 (26:10):
I just saw a highlight the other day and I
think we were playing Buffalo and my son, my eight
year old, showed it to me. I came up and
Roy hit the running back. It was Henry and hit
the running back and stud him up a little bit
and I finished him. Yeah, I forgot about It's crazy.
It's been so long, I forget about some of the hits.

Speaker 14 (26:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (26:32):
I think the most obvious is that Darryl Jackson hit
on against Seattle. But that wasn't like that. I'd never
considered that. One of my famis you know I had one?

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Why would you? Because you lost the life.

Speaker 10 (26:42):
I lost like seventy five thousand dollars just to be exact,
that FedEx package came in. But I would say we
were playing the Cardinals. I can't remember what year it was,
had a running back.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
They did.

Speaker 10 (26:52):
They ran a toss suite and I was in. We
were playing quarters, and I was like twelve yards d man,
and it's almost like God just opened up the door
right and I could see at the timing was coming down.
I was running downhill at a lane and the running
back couldn't see me.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
And he finally hit the lane.

Speaker 10 (27:13):
He was toss sweep and then that he he you know,
grabbed the ball and he finally hit that lane and
I was coming like man, I was running a four
to three just and hit him.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
The ball went up and it fell.

Speaker 10 (27:27):
And see oh yeah, the ball went straight up in
the air. But it felt like you ever had a
golf swing when you hit and you don't feel anything.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, that's how it felt.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
It's usually on the seventeenth hole after the worst round
of your life.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
And then he hit that.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
All right, Darren, real quick. I know you said you
got to go. You have been the captain of many
teams and you're okay, so you would appreciate this. And
our show we have the regular callers. We have the
captain Robed from Vegas is our captain, and I know
he called in. He calls in a lot most more
than anybod And I know you got to go, but
he would be he would come after me. So we're

(28:05):
got to make this quick. This can't be a normal.

Speaker 15 (28:07):
Rob You got it, You got it all right? Hey,
how you guys doing, Darren? I want to thank you
for making my early twenties a lot of fun in
Vegas as a winner. It really was a big out
of fun.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Thank you.

Speaker 15 (28:21):
And being a great player and a class act. That's
something to be said.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Thank you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 15 (28:28):
AF So we were talking about coaches and I want
to run this bike, Darren. You played for two of
the best walk around head coaches in Jimmy and Bill Parcells,
and today it seems like they want to go to
play callers. They want the young, hot shot play caller
as the head coach. What do you think is more

(28:48):
successful in today's NFL?

Speaker 10 (28:52):
The game has just changed so much, it really has.
It's become such an offensive game. And you gotta forget
and don't forget that Jimmy was a defensive coach, defensive
minded coach. Parcels kind of the same, and they ran
the organization as a CEO like they were. So Jimmy
was so involved with the coaching staff and and implementing

(29:16):
the right coaches in certain situations and if the coaches,
and he used to always say, hey, it rolls downhill, right,
So if things didn't go right with particular our defensive
back group, Dave Campbell.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Got it like oh my god.

Speaker 10 (29:29):
Like it was like he just drilled into the Campo
and then Campbell came and drilled into us, right, So
you kind of saw his dynamic and how he ran
a team. I just think it's you know, today, in
today's game, it's always who's the hot coach?

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Who is it been.

Speaker 10 (29:44):
Johnson in Detroit right now because their offense is playing well.
That's just I think it's it's more of an offensive
minded thinking of who the next head coach is going
to be because of the quarterback position, right, And I
think that's the big dynamic right now is your highest
paid player is making fifty million dollars a year, you

(30:05):
better satisfy for first, yeah or sixty, and you better
satisfy the thirst of the quarterback first because that's your
greatest asset. And that's just the way it is.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Man. It sucks.

Speaker 10 (30:13):
I don't like it, but I just think that's the
way it lays out now, all right, I'll bounce, guys.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
I know, I know you do. Favorite christmist movie of all.

Speaker 10 (30:20):
Time The Grinch. Dude, Grinch, Oh my god, hands down,
just watched it last night.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you so much.

Speaker 14 (30:26):
Man.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Always a pleasure.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
This is the best. Happy holiday time.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Happy holidays to you as well. We'll talk to you
before you go to New Orlands.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
All right, sounds gre We're going to.

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Man of the Year. All right, thank you so much
for Darren Woodson coming by. And I know that that
kind of changed things with the with the callers, and
you guys did a great job of pivoting. I feel
bad here. Chuck d in Bridge City in Texas is next.
I know he probably wanted to get in and talk
to Darren. He had to bounce. I'm sorry.

Speaker 16 (32:53):
Yeah, Nick, I'd actually called you all back, and that
was one of my requests whom we were going to
get Darren back.

Speaker 9 (32:59):
I just missed him.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
I'm sorry, man, I'm really I hate that. I always
hate that for the guy that that is like the
next one. I mean, he told me he had to
go and but where I won from Vegas on the line,
I was like, well, we're gonna, we're gonna do one
more call here. I apologize, Chuck, So.

Speaker 16 (33:17):
It's all good. It wasn't from the lack of effort.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
I called about forty times.

Speaker 16 (33:22):
Look, sorry, this is what I was going to tell
him and I'll ask you. I've called and I've called it,
and I'll say Bridge City, Texas. Well, it's a town
between Orange, Texas and Port Arthur, Texas.

Speaker 9 (33:35):
Can you tell me?

Speaker 16 (33:37):
Can you tell me if that rings a go to
youth any cowboy being from either one of those towns.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
Uh, Jimmy's from Port Arthur, right, No, that's right, Okay,
I don't know about Orange.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
Orange.

Speaker 16 (33:48):
And this is how I was going to tie back
to Wood he is, Uh, Kevin Smith is from Orange, Texas.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Okay, I bet Darren that. Yeah, yeah, well I was
going to.

Speaker 16 (33:58):
Say that, but I was gonna tie into Overshawan getting
hurt like this, and Kevin Smith was the same way.
I think he was going to be a superstar and
he got hurt.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, and you know, and Kevin Smith
actually like he got hurt in ninety five and then
they signed e on. They were going to sign you
on anyways, but he came back and you know, he played.
He played till till ninety nine or at least two thousand,
because I know one of the years that I was here,
he was on the team. So he played. He just

(34:30):
it wasn't he I don't know. If he was as
great as he could have been. But yeah, he had
a couple of injuries there, but he was He was
a good solid player. So and I think Overshrown could
come back from that as well.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (34:41):
I remember him in the ninety championship game, had.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
A covered jay right yep.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
He he was a rookie.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
I think, yeah, he did.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
He did.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
It was ninety two. You're right he did. He recovered
a fumble in that game. And he played ninety three
and ninety four championship game. He was. He was out
there playing. Uh, you know they were coming back. Cowboys
were coming back in that game. I would have loved
to scene a different ending there. They called p I
on Darren woods on Deon Sanders than they might. But yeah,

(35:12):
are you got anything else, Truck.

Speaker 16 (35:14):
No, next time, maybe I'll talk to Woody about it.

Speaker 1 (35:16):
I know I.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Had no heads up on that one. I texted him
a couple of days ago and he said he told
me he would do it. He said he was out
of town all this week and then maybe he comes
back and we can do it in January. It's like, okay,
sounds good. Happy Holidays. And I didn't hear from again
until he came in scared the crap out of me.
I was like, what's going on here? Yeah, Darren Woodson,

(35:40):
all right, let's go to Armando in Mexico City. Armando?
Are you good? How are you.

Speaker 13 (35:49):
Fine? Final A little surprised because I was able to
get in only on my fourteen or fifteen try. So
I guess it's been a slow space.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (35:58):
Maybe maybe the gang okay something.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
Maybe, I mean like the other guy took forty fifty,
Chuck had forty or fifty. It's just it's all about timing,
you know. I mean, I'm sure some people have done
it in one or two rings. I don't know, but
I we appreciate the commitment.

Speaker 15 (36:17):
Well here we are.

Speaker 13 (36:18):
So anyway, Nick, I was just thinking about the salary cup,
you know, yeah, because this quarterback contracts are just getting
out of hand. I was really happy when they signed back,
but I think it's getting out of hand. I think
they're gonna have to do something about it. Maybe a

(36:39):
separate salary cup, like somebody has proposed or something. Yeah,
because like remember when the number one draft Kicks used
to hold out because they didn't even have played one
singles up and they were already demanding millions and millions
until they put in the rookie scale something like that,
because otherwise they're gonna out of him.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
I think, yeah, well, it certainly is out of control
right now. And Darren even just talked about it too,
about the coaching, you know, and and you have a
quarterback making that kind of money, I mean, you've got
to get a coach in here that that can help
him get to that level and maximize the investment that
you're making. So yeah, I mean it's there's there's got

(37:25):
to be something that can be done here because it
is getting out of hand. But you know, not everybody
has a high priced quarterback, and and you know, some
of those teams are doing well when you don't have that.
You know, I think the forty nine ers benefited from it.
I think the Cowboys benefited from it. Before Dak even
got his money, you know, he was making two or
three million dollars a year, and so you know, there's

(37:49):
there's I don't know, if there's got to be a quarterback,
I think that there should be one player on your
team that gets an exemption of forty million or whatever. Now,
if your quarterback banks more than that, then you have
to pay the difference. But something like that where you know,
even because if you don't have a high priced quarterback,
you have a high price something somebody and maybe he

(38:09):
could go that route, but I don't know, they have
to figure something out.

Speaker 13 (38:13):
Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 9 (38:15):
I hope that.

Speaker 13 (38:16):
I really like that, and I really like McCarty. I
hope they next year. I would like to bring them
something like, you know, a quarterback whisper to try to
get back on the right track like they did with
young kidnap before.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 13 (38:32):
Yeah, well with somebody other that can't do that.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah, you know, I appreciate it. Thanks for the call, Armando.
You know, it's kind of hard to say that, you know,
when you got a guy in this what ninety year,
tenth year, next year, so you know, to bring in
a quarterback whisper for a guy in his tenth year
making sixty million a year, I mean, yeah, you almost

(38:58):
would would think he would be quarterback whisper at this point,
you know, you know what I'm saying. So it's kind
of who who would come in and has seen more,
done more. It didn't have to be Maybe that's not
the right term. Maybe it's just somebody that that has
worked with quarterbacks that can kind of get him to
see things a little bit different than he's done. If
if McCarthy does come back, I still think they've got

(39:18):
to make some kind of changes with the offense as
far as you know, whether who's calling the plays or
how it's designed or whatever. I think there's definitely some
some room for improvement there at the quarterback I mean,
at the quarterback position and play calling and all that
kind of stuff. All right, let's go to Sergeant Seue
and for Worth. How you doing? Nope, not there anymore?

(39:45):
All right, Sergeants Sue you there?

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Hey, how you doing good?

Speaker 3 (39:51):
What's up?

Speaker 8 (39:52):
Much?

Speaker 4 (39:52):
Whether everybody?

Speaker 8 (39:53):
Hey, he's not.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
I'm sorry, man, he had to go.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
It's just you.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
Yeah, it's I'll talk to you, that's all right. It's
always I don't know if you will. I don't know
if you will talk to me now. It's kidding bad.

Speaker 17 (40:11):
It's always an honor to talk to you, man, no
matter what. It's really awesome when you have special guests
on and stuff. I got to talk to Woody last season,
got to talk to Danny last season. But talking to
you every day, every day that I get a chance
to it is always an honor as well. Man, it's
a magnificent person yourself.

Speaker 12 (40:26):
And I wanted to say this.

Speaker 17 (40:27):
I know Dylan wanted to touch on this. He actually
forgot to mention it, and I know he'll touch on
it more later on. But the storyliners group, man, we're
only we're only who we are because of you and
the opportunity that you've given us. You know what I mean,
Like every single time we get an opportunity on the spaces,
we give credit to you guys, and give credit to
you and your story and your storyline show. We just

(40:47):
appreciate everything that you've done to give us a voice.
And I know we say it all the time.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
So yeah, and I know that I was kind of
joking around a little bit. You guys are doing great
and it's growing and that's awesome. I was I was
really joking, you know, but but you guys are doing
a great job. And when I've gone on there before,
it's been very respectful. It's been very good. I mean,
it's it's you guys. Got a lot of people that
don't even get to call that that are you know,

(41:11):
it's kind of cool to see different names, different voices
in there really getting getting aftered. You guys have a
good time, yes sir, yes, sir.

Speaker 17 (41:17):
Hey, Just like I said, all credit to you, brother,
all credits sing Chris and everybody else obviously setting it up.
But you know, real quick, I wanted to talk about
one thing that I'm interested with with this with this game,
and I'm sure some people have maybe touched on it,
but I'm interested to see how good are rush defense.
I mean, I'm sorry our rush offense has really gotten
you know, we're facing a more formidable part right now
with the Bucks, and you know, Vida Veya is just

(41:39):
a just a big old huge dude in the middle,
and uh, you know, I want to see how our
offensive line is really starting to shape up. I want
to see how Ricodalo really is starting to play. And
I also want to see how Mike McCarthy is because yes,
we've been giving them credit for sticking to the run,
but what happens when it's not as successful? What happens
when you're not averaging seven a pop? You know, are
you gonna are you going to say true to that run?
Are you going to continue to stick to that run?

(42:00):
So I've that's something I'm interested in seeing regardless.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
You know, I think we lost year. Say that again,
Say that again.

Speaker 17 (42:11):
Dallas, Dallas Cowboys favorite Christmas movie is The Grinch. All right,
have a good day, brother sounds good.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
So Darren Woodson said The Grinch, which is you know,
he's very ungrinched like and so it was Sergeants sue,
but no, it's it's uh, you can appreciate it for
different reasons, uh as well. All right, Yeah, good good
question and good good thought there as far as what
happens when it's not going as well, because this this

(42:39):
will be a tougher matchup than what we've seen before,
uh for sure, just because you know, the quarterbacks that
they've beaten this year are not the top quarterbacks of
the league. I mean, I mean, I think when you
think about which quarterback that they've defeated is the best
in the league. And man, Daniel Daniel Jones isn't even

(43:02):
with this team anymore. But I mean they've they defeated
Deshaun Watson, who's not starting anymore, he's on ir They
defeated Daniel Jones, who's not with the Giants. They defeated
Justin Field, who's not starting. They defeated Jaden Daniels, who
is not as playing. He's not playing as well as
he was before. It looked like he was a lock
for Rookie.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Of the Year.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
He may not.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
Anymore.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
And then Drew Locke, who's still starting, but he hasn't
been much. And they defeated Bryce Young, who was benched
at some point this year, so you know, they lost
to Joe Burrow. Close game. They lost, though, and then
Baker Mayfield, who's not on that level, but he's made
it to a Pro Bowl before and he's playing pretty
good football. All right, It's taking one more quick break
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more calls in real quick here before we end the show.
Christ San Angelo, Texas.

Speaker 9 (45:18):
Mister Nick, how you doing today?

Speaker 1 (45:20):
Man?

Speaker 3 (45:20):
How are you?

Speaker 9 (45:21):
I'm doing wonderful. I had a yeah, I had one
for Darren, but I guess I missed him. So I
guess you could. You could just shoot him my number.
I'll kay, I'll get yeah, I'm sure you'll get right
on that, and I'll ask him, uh to him to
you know, to his face or my hey anyway, Uh,
I was gonna ask you a question about the upcoming

(45:44):
roster for next year. Do you think that the uh
the wild the wide receiver too for next year is
on our roster right now? I'm just gonna ask that.
And then I had a prediction about the game. I
think the Cowboys will probably take this one thirty two

(46:05):
to twenty seven, just because they're just not going to
make it easy on anyone to say the other shoe
has dropped in. Yeah, they're that, you know what I mean,
Like they're they're done for. They're a horrible squad. But
other than that, my friend, just you and Chris have
a very merry Christmas and we'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
All right, Thank you appreciate it. Chris, you bet you
all right, Yeah, why is he for two on the roster?
Great question. I think Jalen Tolbert his salary jumps up
a little bit. He hit a he hit an escalator
in his in his contract, so he's going to be
like a three million dollars. It's been the last year
of his deal. But I think he's I think he

(46:47):
will be on the roster. I think is he the
number two? We'll see. We'll see. But I don't see
them making a move in free agency that would that
would be better than him, more expensive than him. I
don't see that in free agency. I see them drafting
someone and it'll be up to that guy to come
in and be better than than a guy entering his
fourth year. That that seems unlikely but possible. Brandon Cooks,

(47:10):
I don't see being on this team next year. Greg
and Sacramento is our last caller, Greg, what's up?

Speaker 6 (47:16):
Hey?

Speaker 19 (47:16):
How's going?

Speaker 11 (47:17):
Nick?

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Good? How are you?

Speaker 19 (47:19):
I'm doing okay. I finally got to join in on
the storyliners on on X or Twitter or whatever yesterday,
so that was pretty cool. I like how you know,
I like hearing from from a lot of those guys,
so it's pretty cool. But I did want to go ahead, man, oh,
I do want to come in on something that Rob
said the other day, Robin Vegas, so he had mentioned

(47:43):
something about getting getting rid of Mike McCarthy, like, I
know you really want him out of there. Uh, But
but he made it a come he said he hasn't
done anything, or he's not better than Jason Garrett was.
And I just I don't know. I mean, after three,
you know, twelve seasons, how already is he not? I mean,
Jason Garrett was here for a long time, and I
know he kind of went a little bit further in

(48:03):
the playoffs, say McCarthy, But to me, I think McCarthy
is is already better than Garrett was in my opinion.
I mean, maybe not as a play caller, and and
and I guess that's where most of the frustration is
with McCarty.

Speaker 8 (48:18):
And then I'm for sured too. You know, some of those.

Speaker 19 (48:20):
Calls he made in the excuse me and the Bengals game,
we're pretty questionable, especially you know how good Rico Donald's
playing and stuff and not staying with a run. But
so maybe I would say Keith McCarty as coach, as
said coach, but maybe get a different play caller, and
I just want to know your thoughts on that. And
one other thing was that I want to know your
thoughts on is what do you attribute Rico o'donald's kind

(48:44):
of uh success more? Do you attribute more to the
offensive line or do you think that Rico O'Donnell kind
of kind of had something Because personally, I think rico'
donald's good, Like I think he's you know, I think
he's better than serviceable. I think he's actually a pretty
good back because even when the line was having his
struggles earlier in the season, when Rico o'dodell was the

(49:05):
feature back, he was he was getting you know, piecent yardage,
he was getting the eighty plus yards that got us
so few wins. So what are you attributing?

Speaker 5 (49:15):
All right?

Speaker 8 (49:17):
The line?

Speaker 1 (49:18):
All right?

Speaker 19 (49:18):
And I just want to say and hope you you too.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Thanks so much, Greg. Happy holidays to you as well.
Thanks for calling. Again. I've said this so many times
this year. It's not a cop out answer. Sometimes the
answer is both. I mean it can be both. The
offensive line is blocking better. I think it's three things. Really.
The offensive line, even though they're they're they're buying in
even though they got different players in there that this
goes to show that the overall scheme, they're doing a

(49:43):
really good job of blocking up front. I think rico'
donnell's running very hard. He's running hard, he's he's seeing
the seeing it better, he's hitting that hole, and he's
running violently. Uh and he's hanging on to the ball
for the most part. He's had a couple of times
where he's fumbled, but he's gotten bailed out, but and
because he was down, but he's running the really hard.

(50:03):
And then also let's look at the defense. The defense
helps the offense as well. When the defense is getting
after it, they're they're making plays, they're keeping you in
the game, they're they're they're you know, in these last
four games, they have been winning in the fourth quarter
in all four games. Obviously they've won three of them,
but even they were they were, you know, winning at
one point in the fourth quarter against the Bengals, and
they were tied for most of that. So they have

(50:25):
been in position to run the ball the entire game.
And I think that's a big part of it. As
well as for the Garrett McCarthy thing. You know, they
both have gone to the divisional round that nobody's gone
further than that. Uh so you can't really say from
that standpoint, Garrett was here longer, had some you know,
a lot more eight and eights and a couple of

(50:45):
you know, down seasons as well. There's been a little
bit more consistency with McCarthy. I would give him the
edge over Garrett in his time here. And because I
think if you gave McCarthy, what three more years and
Garrett was here like a eight or nine, If you
give him three or more years, I think you'll see,
you know, a lot more wins and probably more playoff

(51:07):
wins and probably just more overall success. That's my opinion.
It's close. It's kind of like the dak Romo comparison,
and they've kind of done the same thing. It just
kind of depends on how you look at it. All right, guys,
great great show, twelve callers plus Darren Woodson. What an
outstanding show and outstanding surprise for him to join us.
And so our last show of the week, we don't,

(51:28):
like I said, we don't have a show tomorrow unfortunately,
but there are there will be shows in the morning,
three of them, I believe Tomorrow morning, so check them
out as well. But we'll be back on Monday. Monday
and Tuesday twenty third twenty fourth will be of two
times at the first part of the week, so I
think we're only missing Christmas Day for shows next week,

(51:49):
but definitely here on Monday to talk about the Cowboys
and the Bucks. For Chris Bean, I'm Nick Eatman. See
on Monday. The Cowboy storyline.

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