Cowboys StoryLine: Optimistically Frustrated

Two things can be true and did the callers, they were obviously disappointed in letting that game get away but still encouraged with what this season can be.

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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Here's Nick Eatman, what's up? Welcome to Cowboys Storyline. It
is September, the fifth. Friday. Doesn't feel like a Friday.
Doesn't feel like anything right now, kind of numb. It's
a long, long night, long morning. I'm not going to

(00:44):
complain too much. Chris beams down. This is like show
number three for him. Let's talk this thing through. Cowboys
lose a tough one twenty four to twenty to the Eagles.
Should they have won? Could they have won? Definitely? I
know that answer. Should they of one? I think that's
something we all can debate. But they're they were there,

(01:05):
and you know that. That's why, as I wrote in
my column that you know, this one hurts because they
had it, They had chances, and and you know, you
you put the ball in the hands of your best
players and and you you know, you hope it stays there.
And it didn't too many times, and and CD obviously

(01:25):
took you know, he took the blame for it, and
it was more than just that. But you know, when
they went up there, the Cowboys went up there, I
thought they they were prepared, scoring touchdowns on the first
two drives of the season, running the ball in from
the one yard line, getting everybody involved. But like we
thought with you know, when you trade away Micah Parsons,

(01:50):
uh and and Kidney Clark is gonna be fine in
the middle. And I thought, you know, they did okay
job there, especially in the second half and stopping the run,
but they they they missed the pass and they're gonna
miss that all year long until somebody steps up. But
I mean, you can't just be sending corner blitzes all
the time and expect to get home that. You know
that that was a problem. And I thought it was

(02:12):
one of the differences in the game. You know, Jalen
Hurts really he was. He was tough. I mean, the
Eagles are tough. We know that. But I don't know,
We'll well, we'll let you guys decipher on what you think.
You know, from a positive standpoint, on what you saw
from the game there there were certainly some positive things

(02:34):
to take from it. And I and I think when
you when you talk about a seventeen game season, Uh,
are they moving in the right direction? And I mean,
I don't know how you could say that that they
they they're not so good. First start obviously not what
you wanted because they had chances to win and they
didn't make make the plays at the end. All right,

(02:55):
let's go to the phone. So let's go Zack in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
He's first, Hey, good morning, Nicking Frisco.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, I'm okay, man, I mean, what else is there
to say but spitty weather, tough, spit Yeah, I mean,
not to make light of the jailing card thing, and
that's unexcusable, terrible way to start this season. But yeah,
the Cowboys were given a gift in him being ejected,
and I feel like they were able to run the

(03:26):
ball for a good bit but just didn't capitalize on
that opportunity. And if we're calling this Cowboys storyline, I
think the storyline is the drops from CD. He's the
best player on your team now now that Mic is gone,
and you expect him to show up. I know he
took accountability, he holds himself to that standard, but there

(03:48):
were encouraging things. I did not think it was going
to be that close, and you know, you would have
liked to have that opening night in their house, their
super Bowl banner night, and you just didn't seize every opportunity.
But like you said, long season, the play calling was fun.
It wasn't vanilla, which I appreciate. And you know, we'll

(04:11):
see we need some help on the pass rush and
at the linebacking linebacker area overshown as needed. Some of
the young guys hopefully can step up. But shout out
to you, Shout out to Beam, Shout out to all
y'all doing the pods today because I know it was
a long night, so uh, shout out Caws nation. It's
going to be a fun year.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
Let's do it all right. Thank you, Zach, appreciate that.
And you know, week one is always it's always a
challenge to kind of figure out what you have and
and and and I always you know, you guys have
heard it. I always say week two is so important
because you really need to, you know, build off of
a win or definitely get a win if you've lost

(04:53):
the first game. So I'm you know, I'm anxious to
see that what happens next week against the Giants. It's
it's it's an early must win situation in my opinion,
just because of it with the division, Boy, you really
can't go down oh two. But you know when when
you when you just Zach, you just said, you know,
the linebackers and the pass rush and and and everything.

(05:14):
You know, these are the things that need to be fixed,
and and you might be right. I just want to see,
you know, what happens when you're not facing Jalen Hurts,
Saquon Barkley and and DeVante Smith and and A. J.
Brown and Dallas Goddard in an offensive line. That that's
that's pretty good. That that's just that's who they are.

(05:38):
I mean, they're that they're the world champs. And I
should have put Jahan dottson in there because he made
one of the biggest plays of the game, uh there
with the in the second quarter with a lunk pass.
So you know, it's it's early obviously for the panic
button and all that stuff. But you know, I think
the defense is going to be fine. But but that's fine,

(05:59):
not not necessarily good enough. I mean, they're gonna be fine,
but I want to see them really, you know, take
it to another level and be and be dominant. All right,
let's go to Anthony and Miami.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Take the quick. What's up, my guy, I'm doing pretty good.
How you doing, nig All right, I heard your commentary
just then, and I think the Cowboys will be fine.
Number One thing, you take a guy like Kenny Clark.
He made a big difference in that game. And I'm
not saying he's going to replace Michaeh. All you needed
was a Kenny Clark with Michaeh. That's what makes the

(06:34):
defense special, the defensive line. So now you know what
you gotta get on the outside of it. You know
what I'm saying. If you can ever look up into
a player like Michael with a Kenny Clark or another
guy like that, you got something. I don't believe in
moral victories, only when little kids are concerned, So I'm
not demoralized.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
Though.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
You made second half adjustments. We never do that. We
lacking that on defense. You made second half adjustments. You
play damn good in the second half. You had a
couple of drop balls, you had a fumble, and that
kind of turn the tide of the game. Right there,
you were in the game. You played against the world champs.
Best damn defense almost best defensive line, second best after

(07:13):
the Giants, maybe offensive line number one. I'm happy at
what you did. That My quarterback, my quarterback. You know
what I'm saying. Takes all this stuff. Man, This man
stood in the pocket. This man saved the dog on
game with a tackle. And this man dropped some dimes
that you know, A couple of people dropped one ceed

(07:36):
he dropped a couple. Okay, that happens. You did it
in the first game. You did it against the World champs.
Now let's move forward. You have to beat the Giants.
You know, the defense is vaunted. The defensive line you
pass protect. I think you beat the Giants by ten.
That's all I gotta say. People, hold your head up,
hot man. I always did good. Talk to you next week.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
Don't disagree with anything that you said there. I mean, well,
other than I do believe in moral victories. I don't
think that's the standard, obviously, but and I think and
Shody said after the game that there are no moral victories.

(08:17):
I'm not arguing with him, but in my my take
and from what I saw, I felt like it was
and I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. You
know this, Like you said, Anthony said, it's World Champs
first game of the season. This is the team that
that that blew you out by thirty points both games
last year. Without that, Is that gonna make that much

(08:39):
of a difference, is pickings? Is this team is shoddy?
Is all the change is gonna make that much of
a difference? And yeah, I mean it definitely seemed to
do so. And Jalen Carter is a great player. But
I mean I still kind of think that that that's
kind of what it would have been. I mean, it
might not they may not have scored on first down
from the one yard line, but they're probably gonna score.

(09:01):
So I I think, you know, I look at that
and and and I I talked to a few players
and they walked out and and you can just see it.
You could see it and them nod in their head
and be like, we're gonna be all right. I talked
to like two or three of the veteran players. We're
all right. So that to me is is I don't
care about that. That that term. We could just throw

(09:23):
that term out. But I know this morales high, And Anthony,
you said it, you're not demoralized, So morale is high.
Confidence is going to be high going into this Giants game.
And and I think that you know, they, like I said,
I've said it a couple of times, they they did
not win the game. We know that. Did they take
a step forward? I definitely believe so. And I think
that we all can can tell that that they might

(09:45):
have a little something here this year. I mean, you're
not You're not going to face an offense with like
five different weapons like that. I thought they did. They
did a pretty good job, especially in the second half,
you know, holding them to a field goal in the
second half, you would have that probably would be enough
to win the game. But the Eagles defense was was
even better on their own. All right, let's go to

(10:08):
Mike E's in Birmingham, England.

Speaker 6 (10:11):
Hey, Nick, how are you doing good?

Speaker 1 (10:12):
How are you? Mike?

Speaker 6 (10:14):
I'm good, Thank you. Probably round about as tired as
you because I was up in the night in the
night watching it, so probably had a similar amount of
sleep to you. And can I just I'll probably speak
for most people when I say this, that was so frustrating.
We were so close and we have them and oh man,

(10:35):
but that's as negative as I'm going to be because
I'm feeling good about what I saw yesterday.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Both things can be true. You can be frustrated and
you can still feel good about the team. But that's why,
that's why you know you're frustrated, because this wasn't about
just staying close. This was a chance to win. And
so yeah, yeah, you got to be frustrated by that.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 6 (11:01):
And you know, I heard the tail end of your
comments just now about you know, last season and being
blown out by thirty points. You know, my expectation of
this year, whatever is going to happen at the end
of the season, will happen, but my minimum expectation this
year is progress. And boy, this is massive progress, you know.

(11:25):
And if our biggest problem last night was ce D
Lamb can't catch, well, then I'll take that because c
D Lamb, if he stays his whole career with the Cowboys,
he's going to win US one hundred games. He's not
going to have many games like that. So so I'm
not worried about c D at all. And you know,
he doesn't need the support of a fifty year old

(11:45):
Englishman that's never played the game, but he's got it.
CD will be absolutely fine, and I just wanted to
say as well, you know, it's inevitable that people were
talking about Micah, especially in the first half when we
weren't getting through to hurts. You know, would Micah have
improved that, probably, But what would have improved it is

(12:08):
Micah and Kenny Clark in the same team, and that
was never an option. And I really liked what I
saw in the middle yesterday. I really like the fact
sak One is as good as they come a running back,
and we kept him quiet. So that's all I got.
I'm feeling good. Bring on the Giants and yeah, let's
have a great season.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
All right, Thank you mate, thank you. And you know
I said, you said, bring on the Giants, and I
first thought was, well, you know, got to wait a
little bit. You know, that's that's a good thing. You know,
Cowboys had to play early obviously on Thursday night, but
now you get ten days and it seemed too banged up.
Maybe just a CJ. Good one or something like that.

(12:48):
And he even came back, you know, so I think
they got out of the game pretty clean. So you
know that that's and then you're right, you have the
Giants game coming up. But I but I think, like
you know, you're you're saying, I mean, it's okay to
be to be frustrated by that and ceedee, Lamb's gonna
be gonna be fine. But but you know, I I

(13:10):
I thought overall when I look at some of those
guys that that that played that that first game, you
know Kenny Clark, Yeah, that they're gonna be okay stop
in the run, and it's not always gonna be Barkley.
I mean, I said next to Derek Eagleton, like I
always do, and we several times maybe five, six, seven

(13:33):
times where you know, from our view in the press box,
you know it's not bad. It's it's not the best,
but you know you're you're up there a little bit
and you know, you see the guys rally the ball,
they make the tackle and all that, and then he's like,
all right, four yard game, Barkley second six four yards
like he it felt like it was one or maybe
no gain, but he's so good at just getting extra yards.

(13:56):
And and on the flip side, Vante Williams did that
a couple of times too, where you know he was
getting good yards on first down. But Barkley, man, it's
just so so tough. I mean, sometimes they get him
right there as the whole and he still spends and
and you know, jukes here and kind of dips under
and gets five yards and it's like, you know, and

(14:16):
that that that puts their offense in such great shape
when that happens. All right, let's go to Erwin. He's
in Colorado.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Hey, good morning, Neck.

Speaker 7 (14:25):
How are you doing good?

Speaker 1 (14:26):
How are you?

Speaker 7 (14:27):
I'm doing great.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
Hey.

Speaker 7 (14:28):
Just don't want to touch on a couple of things.
I won't take too long because I know you probably
got a lot of callers.

Speaker 8 (14:33):
But I thought, I really think that all Cowboy fans
should really be encouraged for what they saw last night.
And it wasn't the outcome that we would all like
to see.

Speaker 9 (14:42):
But just a couple of things.

Speaker 7 (14:44):
One thing for sure, I would have loved to see
Blue the running back in there instead of Sanders. I
know they're thinking experience and everything, but I just think
Blue gives that extra, you know, speed element, and there's
no I don't believe he would have been caught from
behind like that on that breakaway run. And then the
other thing is I really think that the Cowboys need

(15:05):
I don't know what's going on with our tight ends.
But Ferguson should have caught that ball. I know he
got popped pretty good, but he actually had his hands
on that ball. He really should have scored and caught
that that touchdown. You know, I just think our offense
is missing that element with a really impact tight end.
Just wanted to get your thoughts on.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
That, all right, Thanks for the for the call. You know,
the Cowboys gave him a pretty nice contract, so he's
the guy at tight end. You know that that's not
one I mean, if we're talking about the same play,
the one where they they got flagged for the Eagles
got flagged for targeting or hitting a defensives receiver, same thing, really,

(15:48):
but you know that that was one where I don't
really fault him for that. I mean I didn't look
at that. I mean mainly I was more like the
okay alive, I mean, like that was a huge hit.
But I will say that the tight ends are are

(16:10):
that they don't have that dynamic pass catcher. They've got
some guys that are that are big and then they're
gonna you know, span Forward and spoon Maker both are
pretty good in the run game blocking and all that.
But down the seam. I mean that was the play
that was there several times and Dak went went for
it and just he just missed a couple of times.
The ball just needed to be higher. But another point

(16:34):
you made about Jaden Blue, I mean the knock on
Jayden Blue in college was that he fumbled. You know,
super fast, pretty good running inside the tackles and willing blocker,
but he'd have an occasional fumble. Well for him not
to play. Miles Sanders plays in the game and here

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he is, gets a forty nine yard run and gets
walked by a linebacker and then fund a couple of
plays later, then you're like, yeah, I can see where
everyone would be like, all right, well tell me again
why we're not playing Jayden Blue because Miles Sanders is
not the veteran back, because you have that in Javonte Williams.
You need a speed element. And I even said it
at one point in the game, this is where I'd

(17:16):
like to see Jayden Blue. I've seen you know, I've
seen Javontay Williams. I just think that he would he
gives you more of that thunder and lightning if you will,
you know, I think Sanders is kind of in between
both of them. But I think you've got completely different
backs and back to what you had what four or
five years ago with Zeke and Tony Pollard, and that

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was a pretty pretty good one two punch because of
how different they were as runners. And I would imagine
you're gonna see Jayden Blue sooner than later. I would.
I would think they probably do it next week. All right,
let's go, Uh, let's go Christy's in Saratoga Springs, New York. Good.
How are you doing? Chris?

Speaker 9 (18:00):
A little tired from last night, has a long game
with that delay.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Sure, but you know I want to I'll say this.
So we're supposed to get in at three fifty five am.
That's when we were supposed to land. How long was
the delay?

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Hour?

Speaker 1 (18:14):
Forty five minutes? Yeah, I mean yeah, we got in.
I mean we landed the four o four. So I
don't know, I don't know what happened. I don't know
if we we got we were speeding in the air,
I don't know, but it wasn't it wasn't that much
of a difference. But anyways, what you got man.

Speaker 9 (18:32):
Definitely encouraged. I want to give a shout out to
the coaching staff to be honest, I.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Mean they were that's a first.

Speaker 9 (18:38):
They were prepped, they were ready to play. You know,
normally I always make an excuse of the coaching and
you know they didn't have him ready to play. You know,
shot he had him, He had him ready. The defense
made adjustments after the second half, which we never do,
so I want to give up definitely a shout out
to Shotty. I think he did a great job getting

(18:58):
these guys ready. Like all NFL games, it comes down
to a couple of plays every game and we make
a couple of these plays. See he makes a couple
of these catches, you know, the games. It's a different
outcome of the game, but definitely encouraged with the coaching
aspect of it. I think the defensive line played outstanding
in the second half. I also think, you know, coming

(19:21):
down the pipe, if we get when we get overshone back,
he's going to make a huge different that second game
versus Philly because I don't see Hurts doing what he
did hurting us that bad with Overshon in the game
because he's just yeah, he's a free So I really
think getting him back that second game will will definitely
help us. Last thing I guess I wanted to point
out is Mazzi being inactive. That's a huge telltale for

(19:44):
me and him not being active this game. What are
your thoughts on him moving forward?

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, all right, thanks Chris. You know, in the pregame show,
I asked Stephen Jones that question about Mozzie being inactive,
and Steve and said that we're gonna we're gonna need
him throughout the year, you know. I mean, it didn't
didn't didn't sound like it was one of those or like,
you know, the fifty third guy on the roster or whatever.

(20:11):
Just thought from this, you know, matchup right now and
for this particular game that you know. But I mean,
let's not let's not mistake the fact that I mean,
Jay Toya is playing, you know, over him, I mean,
seventh round pick UCLA, he's he's playing in the game.
He was active. Speaking of that position, I thought Solomon

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Thomas was was very active. I mean as far as
just being in there and playing and playing behind the
line of scrimmage. I mean, he did a nice job.
But if I'm gonna get you know, the you don't
give game balls or anything like that. But the the
guys that that really were impressive to me. I gotta

(20:58):
give it up to Trayvon Diggs. I mean, he's he
hasn't practiced much at all, and it's been so much
has been talked about and the rehab coming back from
a knee injury and was he gonna be ready? And
he wasn't here And he took five hundred thousand dollars
hit to you know, of a basically to forego his

(21:18):
bonus so he could work out somewhere else. And there
was obviously a lot of tension, and of course, you
know his best friend on the team seems to be
Michael Parsons and so you know, all of this kind
of hanging on it. Now it's like, focus on Trayvon.
Are're gonna be able to play this game? And you
know it's a great matchup. And we didn't hear anything
about him, and that's a good thing for a corner.

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And I even asked him after the game. I certainly
won't repeat what he said, but he basically said, yeah,
the Eagles didn't didn't throw at him much. And I mean,
that's what a great sign that is, because you know,
cornerback about three weeks ago, You're like, man, who was
going to play corner you know, like with this this

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position doesn't look good at all. But Diggs comes back
in and plays the way he did. Diggs elam Bland.
It's a pretty good trio of corners, maybe even top
ten in the in the league as far as you know.
Certainly they're getting paid that way. But but I mean,
I think from one to three at cornerback's that's not bad.

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Because if we're really being honest about it, the pass
rusher wasn't that great at all in the first half,
and yet they still were holding up and they still
you know, covered pretty well. So I got to give
a shout out to Trayvon Diggs. And in the secondary,
I thought I did a pretty good job all right.
Before we go to break, let's go to Rob in Vegas.
See what Rob has to say.

Speaker 10 (22:46):
Hey, Nick, Hey Rob, listen. I better than expected. I thought. Defensively,
the defensive line looks different. They weren't getting pushed around.
Kneeland played really good, Solomon Thomas, Kenny Clark. I think
the outside, I think Fowler missed a few plays, and

(23:09):
I think Donovan as Araka, who's not ready yet even
in preseason. This is he's playing against men now and
I think he you know, just he's a little light.
I thought when they put Houston in, yeah, I thought,
and Sam william Sam, I thought played it. Yeah, Sam
Williams played excellent. Yeah, let's stop with the Damon Clark.

(23:31):
Get him off the field. He should only be on
special He's not a willing tackler. One thing about Maris
lea foul is he may be a smaller linebacker, but
he's going to come up and hit you. Uh, that's
the guy that should be on the field. I agree.
When you hold Saquan to sixty and you hold aj
Brown the one catch you you got to win that game. Unfortunately, offensively,

(23:54):
I thought Dak foot the ball great. I think he
threw the ball so good. I don't know if it
caught Ceb. I mean he was dropping the ball when
you see it on TV, and it's how the ball
would just come right over the I mean, these are
tough catches. And I know we talk about preseason, but
to me, a box set doesn't get into the ring.

(24:14):
He spas first. These guys are now playing full speed.
They've seen colors flash across their eyes. They they're in
especially a couple of CD plays where it's in the
middle of the field there's people around, And did they
lose because of that? I think so? Now coaching, I
wanted I got it. Listen, I thought Schottenheimer called the

(24:35):
good game until three minutes and then I think he panicked.
With three minutes left and two three timeouts, they stay panicked.
They should have ran the ball some. They were running
the ball good. I think Williams to me, he looked
really good since I had never seen him, you know,
I thought he looked really good, and I think he

(24:56):
panicked a little bit. I think they could have ran
the ball more.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
You know, it's funny that you're you're talking three minutes
ago in the game, right, Yes, Yeah, I actually really
hated the calls three minutes to go in the first half.
I didn't like the way they passed past past to me,
could because the Eels went right down and got a touchdown.
And I to me, I'm looking at that like, hey,

(25:22):
you've you've got to make sure that you you get
to the two minute warning. Run run, run, And they
didn't do that. So yeah, both of those, but you
know that, I mean, I'm not we don't give any excuses.
But but you know, like you said, and and it's

(25:43):
not always it's not excuses, it's just it's just the reason,
uh that that certain things are the way they are.
But I mean his first game, calling the plays and
all the emotions in there. Yeah, there's going to be
some issues. But I thought overall, I thought, you know,
I got to give credit to the way Shoddy had you.

Speaker 10 (26:00):
Look to me, the difference in the game is Jalen
Hurts versus Dak. And the difference is Jalen Hurts will
use everything in his toolbox. His legs is what won
the game. Yes, Dak doesn't run. We hear it. He's
gonna say I'm gonna run more. They may practice like

(26:23):
he's going to run more, but he does not, And
so that's that makes it easier. On the defense. That
was the whole difference of the game. We would get
close to Jail and he break out and he's a stout. Guys,
you're not going to bang into him and he's gonna
fall down. And I and I just think that's what
makes him so good. He's not a great thrower of

(26:45):
the ball, but all around, he's just gonna do whatever
it takes to get the job done. And as the
Cowboy said, I hate that.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
I know, Rob. I remember when you guys came out
to training camp and uh and I remember sitting now,
we were kind of all, you know, at night at
one of those one of those establishments out there knox NARDA.
You said, you know where I'm going with this, right,
You said that if they didn't if they played, you know, well,

(27:14):
even if they don't win, you're you're going to be encouraged.
And I mean what you were saying then, and all
the people around you were surprised to hear you say that.
But what you described was pretty much how it played
out last night. Don't do you agree?

Speaker 10 (27:28):
Yes, I thought they were going to lose by at
least ten. I thought they were the better team all around,
and I think that's probably why they're pissed. I thought
they were the better team. Not Jalen Hurts was the
only one that was really hurting us, even Saquon I
thought they controlled him. I thought Dak I thought they

(27:50):
were a better team. Now, obviously it's on the week one,
and we always, you know, let's see what happened to
week two. But I'm encouraged. Listen, I'm a fan. I
got sixteen more weeks of this. I gotta be encouraged.
But I am, I'm truly am. I'm not just being sad, No,
I'm they were better then I thought. I think the

(28:10):
pass rush. I think Sam Williams needs to be your guy,
and I think Donovan you need to put him in.
But he can't be on the end as much. He's
just a little too light in the pants, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah, Well he'll he'll, you know, he'll, he'll get there.
I think over over time, and yeah, I see the
same thing. It might be the number two forty one
just seems like, I mean, it just seems like now
it's Terrence Newman, just right off the edge. All right, Ron,
thanks for the call. I know everybody wants to hear
from you, and I figured that you would. You would

(28:46):
kind of have those sentiments there about about you know,
obviously chances to win, should have won and not played
him at times. But and so that's why it kind
of stings. But still when you big picture wise, it's good.
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We'll be right back on storyline.

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of the Year. All right back here on Cowboys storyline.
Cowboys take a tough loss to Philly twenty four to twenty.
It looked different, felt different. The result wasn't. They still
lost the game, but it still had those vibes of
the last time the Cowboys played that Thursday game against

(31:21):
the defending champions, and they did that in Tampa Bay.
And another you know, similar aspect to that was when
you know, Dak was coming back from from an injury
in that game and missed, you know, most of the
season and that was his first game back and he
played great and they lost the game at the end,

(31:41):
but they went on and they had that look in
their eye. You could just tell when they're walking off
the field, they were like, all right, we got we
let that one step away, but we're gonna be all right.
I felt the same thing last night. Now, are they
gonna go win five in a row like that team did?
I mean, sure would be nice. Looking at the schedule,
I mean, is it and it's it's possible. I mean

(32:05):
it really is. I mean you play like that, you
know they'll let let's get to the schedule. I got
I got Dylan in Northport, Florida. That's holding Dylan? What's
that man?

Speaker 14 (32:15):
And yeah, I was holding better than Vincidia was onto
those passes last night. You know that one. It hurts
because that's the kind of game expectations out the window.
You know, they definitely played better than I think a
lot of us expected. But that's the kind of game
that you steal and at the end of the year
you look back and you're like, thank God, because you
know we're fighting for the NFC East. We're fighting for

(32:35):
second seed instead of you know, six or seventh seed,
and it's like those are the kind of games where
it's like, man, I seed, He's called a couple of passes,
we'd be in much better position at the end of
the year. You know, Shody, I know some people had
issues and I haven't been listening, so maybe some people
have given us some credit. But Shaddy does so much
credit to him and the play calling as far as
just i'll call him Big Cojone's plays right, like just

(32:58):
having the guts on thirty and one or only in
the game to go deep to Pickens. That sets the
tone and you obviously do the p I in that play.
That sets the tone for not just this game, but
hopefully the whole season where Okay, you want to single
up either CD or or or Pickens. I don't care
what the down and distances, We're gonna shuck it up
because it's a good chance to get p I, good
chance to make a catch. And hopefully we see more

(33:19):
of that throughout the season. They ran the ball well.
And if you told me too defensively that they held
Barkley to fifty yards or so, Diggs gave up Diggs
and Blands gave up of eleven yards combined. Smith and
Brown had what I think it was, it was less
than twenty yards combined. And you know, we lose the game.

(33:40):
You basically lost because Jalen Hurst converted a bunch of
third downs in the first half. That's that's one of
the big stories of the game, and that was it.
And you know, you can't just put a spy on
him because now you're giving up a player to cover
the other guys. So I get somewhat the understanding that
of what we were doing on defensive to the defense
the defensive side schematically sorry, but at a certain point

(34:01):
I would have personally put uh Leafou in the game
to have him spy maybe, because that's that's what you're
getting beat. So you got to at some point address that,
and they did there in the second half, but I
would have put him over Murray or Sanborn in the
first half. I think when you know, Hurts kept runner
for these first downs. But listen, I'm more optimistic for
the season moving forward. I need to go back and
look at the schedule to see who they're playing, to

(34:22):
see what these next five weeks look like. But if
this offense plays like that, man, I'm excited.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
It's very excited.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
All right, thanks Dylan, And guess what I have the
schedule right here. I was gonna I was gonna talk
about it. You know, It's funny how one game can
kind of change your approach a little bit, and and
every game is going to be different. There's going to
be some in there that that really surprised you. That
one was a surprise too. But when you look at
you know, can this team get off to a good start? Yeah, yeah,

(34:50):
that was a that was a loss there against Philly.
You got the Giants at home. That's you got to win.
You have to win that game and and the probably
should win. Well, we don't know what the Giants are
gonna do yet. I know they're gonna have a pretty
good pass rush, but I you know that that's a
game at home. You gotta win at Chicago. You know,
Chicago and the Cowboys are probably you know, gonna be

(35:12):
those teams that are fighting for for wild card spots.
You know, it's still early, but I'm just saying that's
kind of what's being projected. And then you know, I
don't know if you guys know this, but September twenty eighth,
the Packers come to town. You know, I don't know
if you've heard that or at all, and they have,
you know, a new player over there, and assuming he
can get over that that nagging back injury, but I

(35:35):
have a feeling he's gonna be fine. And but that's
a game, you know, you gotta win that one, and
it's gonna be tough. But I mean that that's one
that that still think they have a shot after seeing
what you what you saw there. If you break down
the schedule, Giants at home, at the Bears, Packers at home,
and then at the Jets, at the Panthers, so you know,

(35:56):
and then Washington and home and at Broncos and Arizona
and at the Raiders all the way up until you
play the Eagles again. So you know, seeing what we
saw there, the standard is now is now high. It's like,
if you want to say moral victory, that's fine, but
you don't get two. You get the one, and now

(36:16):
it's like, all right, should have won you lost, but
that doesn't happen again. Now it's like, we know what
you can do. It's like when you when you finally
when you finally had a great report card after a while,
and you know, I'm speaking from experience, and you finally
say all right, I'm focused in and you have a
good six weeks, nine weeks whatever. Well, you know, that's

(36:37):
kind of the standard now and now that they know
you can do it, so that's what you get help to,
and that's where I think this team's gonna get held
to as well. All right, let's go to Josh in Princeton, Texas. Josh, Hey, Nick,
how you doing.

Speaker 8 (36:52):
I'm doing pretty good. This is my second time coln Okay,
you just want to share my thoughts on the game,
and yeah, go for it. So I'm encouraged by the
offensive line play and just the offense in general. It
seems to me that the offense looks a little more modern.
I don't know if if the way they're lining up,

(37:13):
the motions, stuff like that. So I'm excited about that.
Sure we can blame the Miles standards fumble or the
CEE the drops, but I think the game came down
to not being able to contain the scrambles from hurts yep.
And you know, I think it just boils down to that.

(37:35):
I mean, they figured something out after the weather's delay,
you know, by sending the pressure, but I think it
just came down to not being able to stop him.

Speaker 4 (37:48):
Now.

Speaker 8 (37:48):
One thing I am worried about is I don't think
the linebackers played particularly well. I need to see more
from Kenneth Murray and Jack Sambourne, Like I felt like
they were out of the play too much in the
late I saw the one stiff for him, said Murray, Guy,
you just got obliterated, you know, by sake one. But

(38:09):
I think we need to get better at lineberk. I
think they need they need overshrown more than ever. So
hopefully he can get back. But uh yeah, I just
wanted to share my thoughts.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
Okay, all right, Josh, I appreciate it. Let's give an
update on Overshewn. I mean, obviously he won't be able
to do anything for the first four games. Uh he's
on you know, injured reserved reserved to return, so he
will not be able to come back until at least
the October fifth at the Jets game. That's the earliest
he can come back, and I'm not I'm not sure

(38:41):
if if that's gonna gonna happen for him, uh that early.
But we'll see, we'll see how it goes, you know.
I'm I'm just I'm reluctant to see good and bad,
I think. But but in this case, I'm reluctant to
say the linebacker you know, didn't play as well. That's

(39:04):
that's a really challenging matchup, you know, with the way
the way the Eagles play, I mean, you have to
you have a quarterback that's built like a running back.
They basically have two Saquon Barkleys, but one of them throws.
That's basically what you have to do against them. And
then you know, you get all the receivers locked up

(39:24):
and out of that. And then Dallas Goddard goes seven
catches on seven targets. I mean, whenever they wanted to,
they could get get the ball to him. He didn't
go crazy. It was forty four yards, but some of
them were you know, first down catches, and they move
the sticks and so I think let's just wait on
the linebackers. But I mean before we say, oh, you know,

(39:45):
it's one game and all, and the same goes with
the other side. Cowboys offensive line didn't give up a sack. Well,
you know, the Eagles lost their best player right before
the game, and we'll see, we'll see what happened, you know,
because next week. I know this, when you get to
third and you know, if you if you don't run

(40:05):
the ball early and you get in a third and
long situation against the Giants. I mean, across the board,
I don't know if I can name all of them,
but the guy they just drafted, Carter Thibodeau. I mean,
they got Dexter Lawrence, Brian Burns. I mean, they got
guys right, So that's gonna be a challenge too. And

(40:29):
I'm not trying to get ahead to the Giants. All
I'm saying is, you know, let's just like I'm saying,
let's let's hold off before we panic too much about linebackers.
Some of the good things that we saw too that
we're encouraged about. Let's let's wait and see. It's just
one game, both sides of the ball, all right. Let's
go to break real quick here, get one more break
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Speaker 16 (42:35):
Can you yet the cornerback room, indeed in bad shape,
was exaggerated. The run games not gonna do good against
Eagles exaggerated, the run defense exaggerated. Dak looked like mid

(42:56):
season four from two or three years ago. That dude
is ripped down. My gosh, he didn't need to play
any preseason. If we went toe to Toads defending world champs,
we had the ball on the last drive where we
could have won the game. It just didn't go our way.

(43:19):
But this whole these sports writers saying all Dallas the
only gonna win seven, six, seven, eight games over exaggerated.
I give us a twelve. That's that's what I took
from that game. I would have loved to win, but
I enjoyed the truth. I mean, twenty one to twenty

(43:39):
in the first half and then three to nothing in
a second.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
I mean I liked it all right.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Well, I mean, yeah, it's a first game of the year,
and now I think, to be fair, I mean, what
if the Eagle suck. I mean, we don't know that.
I mean I doubt it, but I'm just saying, what
if it comes out that they're not as good? I mean,
we we just don't know that. It's one game. I
don't think they they do. I think I think they're

(44:07):
They're gonna be a good team. But from what it
looks like, I think the Cowboys have chances to be
to be really good too. But they're gonna have they
need some of these guys to take that next step.
I said Diggs, and you mentioned Diggs. I think we
we also need to talk about Tyler Geiton. I thought
Geyiton played a really good game yesterday. Yeah, he played well,

(44:28):
especially for a guy who didn't practice much and looked
like maybe he was gonna be out for the season
and to come back and play that first game was
a shocker that he was even ready and he played well,
and I saw I saw like that dog, you know,
mentality for him. I didn't always see that as rookie
year saw that more so, I think the offensive line

(44:49):
is gonna be gonna be pretty good. I I I
hear the enthusiasm, and I agree with you. I'm just saying,
it's one game we gotta be you know, I gotta
be careful on both sides of the ball. If we're saying, oh,
you know, the cowboy was gonna win more game, well,
they also have to make sure make the plays. I mean,
they were there and that was that's a step up.
You know, they got blown out twice last year. They

(45:11):
didn't get blown out. They went toe to toe like
you said, but they still got to make the plays
at the end of the game. And when your best
player is the one that that didn't make the play,
I mean that that's not a great sign. But I
have a feeling he's going to be better than that,
you know, I definitely do. So that's that's at least
somewhat encouraging. Let's go to the Sergeant Suiese in Fort Worth.

Speaker 17 (45:35):
What's going on with surready's everybody good, really good?

Speaker 10 (45:39):
Hey?

Speaker 17 (45:40):
Yeah, I mean I share the same sentiments. There's a
lot of people regarding the game last night. One thing
that I do want to point out, something that you've
already pointed out, is the three minute offense.

Speaker 11 (45:50):
Man.

Speaker 17 (45:50):
You know, we were in the group chat last night
and I was just like, why did we decided to
abandon the run here? I thought we were doing pretty
phenomenally running the ball. I mean, it could be tailored
by expectations, because I don't know whether a lot of
us expected us to run the ball really well, but
we were and it got me excited. You I mean,
one thing that I did like is the defensive adjustment.

Speaker 16 (46:10):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 17 (46:11):
I don't think Eberflush is really a blitz type of guy,
but he realized that, you know, we weren't getting home.
He realized that, you know, we needed to make an adjustment,
and he did and it was a very great adjustment
in game adjustment. And that's something that coaching staffs of
the past, you know, maybe you don't really necessarily see that.
I know that, you know, Shody coming in, you know,
it's a really awesome thing to kind of see him

(46:33):
and his game plan and his vision kind of come
to fruition and things start to work really well. And
I want to say just one thing, you know, for
anybody listening that, like, if you need any more reason
to kind of be excited about Shoddy and kind of
have faith in him, I want to point out that
I think it was last week he was having one
of his press conferences and he was saying that how

(46:53):
he had taught, he had talked to the team and
he had to let him know like he kind of
fired them up and you know, we're going to the
EG was defending champs and this is that, and you know,
like you know, did all this extra theatrics, and then
that he said that he went home and he laid
down in bed and he thought to himself, like what
am I doing? I mean, like, this is just another game.
And the reason why that excites me is because you

(47:15):
know coaching staffs. You know, coaches not only are they
always evaluating their teammates. I mean, I'm sorry, there are players,
but I think that was the indication that he's always
constantly evaluating himself. And if that is any indication of
what's to come from him and his self evaluation, and
his willingness to be like, you know what, maybe I
was wrong in handling this situation that way. Maybe I
was wrong in handling that this situation this way. Then
maybe he's gonna look back at the film and he's

(47:37):
going to be able to not have pride and reevaluate
and understand like, hey, I have a lot of room
to grow. And I think that's something that shot he
had talked about a lot. But I think that he
has a really great opportunity right now to show us that.
And and I'm a full believer of it. Man. So
you know, I told, I told you I thought it
was gonna be thirty twenty seven. I knew that, you know,
I said, Dak his daddy, you know what I mean?

Speaker 10 (47:56):
For the NFC East.

Speaker 8 (47:57):
Unfortunately it didn't.

Speaker 17 (47:58):
It didn't come out that way. But I wasn't too
too surprised by a whole lot of it.

Speaker 18 (48:02):
Man.

Speaker 17 (48:02):
I'm still really optimistic about the team. I always tell
the group chat man, my delusion is delicious. I'm gonna
keep on eating it, man. So no cowboys, I appreciate
you taking my car by all appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
Let's go to one more caller here, Greg and Sacramento.
He's next.

Speaker 9 (48:18):
Hey, Nick, I'm going.

Speaker 18 (48:22):
You know, I'm I'm I'm very frustrated, yet somehow optimistic.

Speaker 9 (48:27):
Still.

Speaker 18 (48:29):
I do like what I what I saw that in
some of the things in that game yesterday, that that
initial drive, that first drive where they just ran Johnson
Williams ran down the field and you know, they went
down and scored. That was an awesome drive. I feel
like we have not seen that in sometimes from the Cowboys.

(48:50):
It did get a little frustrating though, that they didn't
continue to run in certain instances.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
Like.

Speaker 18 (48:56):
I would say, like both at the end of the
half and that end of the game, We're I mean,
we're running so well. I don't know why they didn't
just at least run a little bit more with with
Javonte Maybe the fumble from Miles Sanders kind of scared
him a little bit or something. I'm not sure, but
I did like what I saw. I like what I
saw from the defense, So, like I said, I am

(49:18):
so optimistic. I do have one question for you, though,
If you know Jalen Hurts was kind of killing us
over the legs, do you know why the coaching staff
wouldn't pun't maybe put like a spy on him or something.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
Understand My understanding about the spy is that, I mean,
you you can't. It's hard to do that with Philadelphia
because Jalen Hurts isn't trying to run. He's trying to
make plays down the field throwing the ball. But if
he has to, he will. He's not trying to actually
say I'm going to go out there and find, you know,
find a running lane and go. He's trying to stand

(49:51):
in the pocket. So if you put a spy on him,
he's that's fine. He leah foul whoever it is. He
could just stay there. But that means he's not guarding
the running back out of the backfield. He's not guarding
the tight end. I mean, they teams have done that,
and you can try to do that, but but you
also are taking away a player off the middle of

(50:14):
the field for that. And so that's why they're good.
I mean, that's just that's why they have a running
back that went for two thousand yards. They've got a
wide receiver that looks like a linebacker and a J.
Brown DeVante Smith Heisman Trophy, you know type player, and
he's number two receiver, and you know they they've they've
just got weapons and got it. It's a really good
complimentary player too, So you know, I'm not saying that

(50:38):
maybe they shouldn't have mixed it up, and they did
mix it up a little bit, but that's what you
give up when you go for the spot. You give
that up. Now, I'll say one point I wanted to
make really from sergeants who was saying calling about the preparation.
What I you know, last year to the Cowboys, I
think they scored one or two touchdowns all year long.
In the first drive of the game and also coming

(51:01):
out of the of halftime, they just didn't look prepared
at times. This team comes out scores the first two
times of the game, scored their first four possessions, and
then in the third quarter, I mean they didn't score,
but Miles Sanders goes fifty yards and they're down there
and you know, they ended up fumbling the ball. They're
probably gonna get a field goal, maybe even a touchdown,

(51:23):
and probably could have scored right right right there. I
don't put that on the preparation or you know, the adjustments.
So coming out of the out of the half and
out of the game, they they you know, move the
ball and had chances to score. And that is encouraging
for me. So all right, great, great calls for you guys.
I know it was a tough night, frustration, but also

(51:45):
you know in encouraging as well. It's gonna be a
long season. I mean not to say that in a
bad way. I mean, football season is a long season.
It's fun. We get to do this sixteen more times
at least, so it's we've got a long ways to go.
But as I said several times, you know, tough, tough
way to lose a game, even tougher when you know

(52:06):
that you had a chance to win. But having that
chance to win against that football team, uh, in that circumstance,
to me, that shows growth for where where what we've
seen last year to this year, and I think everybody's
deep down is pretty excited about what this team could
be this year. All right, great stuff for Chris Beam.
I'm Nick Eeman will we will see you Monday on

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