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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Well here, it is a Monday, not
Speaker 1: a high noon. We are an hour early. It's eleven
Speaker 1: am on a Monday, and I'm just happy my key
Speaker 1: worked to get in the building. This is just any
Speaker 1: other Monday, right now? You Monday Monday? In that the
Speaker 1: Beatles in that the in that the Beatles's beatles. That's
Speaker 1: just another Were you worried that there there are other
Speaker 1: keys have been taken away? There's a lot of other
Speaker 1: keys have been taken away. When since we last convened
Speaker 1: last Tuesday, has there been anything that's happened around here?
Speaker 1: I think there were eight keys that were taking He's
Speaker 1: taken away? Crazy, is it? That's right? Yeez? I was.
Speaker 1: I was looking looking for my keys. Ever got a kid, right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I wondered if I was gonna be able to have
Speaker 1: to knock away I did get in, how can I
Speaker 1: get in? I had great confidence in myself. I hadn't
Speaker 1: done anything wrong. Well, there's probably some of those that
Speaker 1: get the keys taken away that I do exactly all right.
Speaker 1: And we have two Super Bowl teams that have been
Speaker 1: determined now and so sixty years after one team left
Speaker 1: the city of Dallas, they're going back to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: That would be the Dallas Texans. Yes, and it's a
Speaker 1: routine for these guys, that's right, it's on the team
Speaker 1: for him. Well, it's three out of the last four
Speaker 1: years now that the Kansas City Chiefs had made it
Speaker 1: and they're playing another team from the NFC East. And
Speaker 1: what was the biggest play of the weekend? Each time
Speaker 1: a quarterback got hit was knocked out of the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the biggest play of the week. The biggest player
Speaker 1: of the week, The biggest player of the weekend is
Speaker 1: brock Party getting hurt. I think took all the drama
Speaker 1: out of that. Again, we found out the teams with
Speaker 1: the best offensive line when very good, couldn't protect a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Neither one of the losers San Francisco. How did that happen?
Speaker 1: They were they couldn't protect anybody. Bring in the next
Speaker 1: guy and he gets a concussion. Well, I mean you
Speaker 1: could see how well our defense played against him that
Speaker 1: they were going to have some problems. I don't care
Speaker 1: if Pardy would have finished the game right, I think
Speaker 1: he would have had major issues with him. And when
Speaker 1: you look at the difference in the ball game, it
Speaker 1: all had to do with what we did versus what
Speaker 1: Jalen Hosts did not do. And let's turn over the ball, right,
Speaker 1: And once you do that and you play solid, you
Speaker 1: played to your defense, and that defense handled their offense
Speaker 1: just the way I would defense was handling their offense.
Speaker 1: So I knew they were going to have a problem.
Speaker 1: I think Perdy was going to come back down the earth.
Speaker 1: That's why we all picked Philadelphia. That's right. Think about
Speaker 1: the Dallas San Francisco game and really, as you said,
Speaker 1: the turnovers were huge, and so you're playing from behind
Speaker 1: rather than from ahead, which is what Philadelphia has been
Speaker 1: able to do all season. But they in the second
Speaker 1: half of that game, San Francisco was able to mount
Speaker 1: a ninety one yard touchdown drive and it was a
Speaker 1: thirty yard completion to bobbling completion to a reception by
Speaker 1: a tight end who was on the backside of the play.
Speaker 1: Wasn't one of the primary targets on the play. He
Speaker 1: had checked down and he had been basically he was
Speaker 1: he was guarded by those goals and exactly and Gallas
Speaker 1: Jason kittled down the field and that put him in
Speaker 1: position into four down territory you know, at midfield, and
Speaker 1: they were able to uh And even with that, as
Speaker 1: we talked about last week, Kittle made the smart play
Speaker 1: getting into the grill of Donovan Wilson on a third
Speaker 1: and eight play that negated a sack that would have
Speaker 1: been a field goal attempt of about forty yards for
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and said, they get a first down at
Speaker 1: the ten yard line and they get the touchdown, which
Speaker 1: was the difference of the game. They went by a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Why does that stuff happen to the Cowboys? Why? Because
Speaker 1: with suckers, that's why. Why why he got he got suckered.
Speaker 1: Why didn't the Cowboys have a catch that wasn't a
Speaker 1: catch and didn't get challenged? To me, that was the
Speaker 1: play of how young when I see a white and
Speaker 1: I don't think the white receiver they're smart enough to
Speaker 1: fake it out, like when he gets up and say like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's go up. Have they had a signal right, it
Speaker 1: was something yeah, yeah, we gotta snap it. That should
Speaker 1: tell him even if I haven't seen it's okay, it's
Speaker 1: a timeout being on time. It's not like it's going
Speaker 1: to be a game winning drive. And I don't have it,
Speaker 1: and it's like, challenge it. I mean, when he gets
Speaker 1: up with that sense of urgence, yes, and he does
Speaker 1: something like this and everybody's running to the line of scrimmages,
Speaker 1: I should tell you something. Challenge it. Oh gosh. And
Speaker 1: then you know, and his you know, his explanation was, well,
Speaker 1: I never got to see it. Well, they're not gonna
Speaker 1: show you that the really right. And TV didn't help
Speaker 1: their guys in the in the box because they didn't
Speaker 1: show the replay that showed it that the ball came
Speaker 1: out until after the next play. So he was a
Speaker 1: little bit hamstrung. But still just go ahead and challenge it.
Speaker 1: It's such a big play early in the game. I
Speaker 1: think Andy Reid challenged it, right, they did the same
Speaker 1: kind of situation and he won or no, did he lose.
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't remember that. I just remember he
Speaker 1: challenged it in the San Francisco game. I what disappointed
Speaker 1: me was how well, I saw that's Philly offensive line
Speaker 1: handle the San Francisco defense, right. I mean, these guys
Speaker 1: have been dominating all year long, and they just just
Speaker 1: wore them down. As time went on, you could just
Speaker 1: see them getting weaker and weaker. And of course the
Speaker 1: turnovers didn't help at all in regards to San Francisco,
Speaker 1: but their defense would usually answer regardless. They couldn't answer
Speaker 1: every bell this time. Too many quarterbacks going down, too
Speaker 1: many turnovers, and it wasn't It didn't seem like they
Speaker 1: were necessarily physically being handled. I think their spirit left after, like, okay,
Speaker 1: another fumble of the twelve and it's right, the fumble
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half. I mean it's
Speaker 1: a fourteen seven game and San Francisco is in shotgun.
Speaker 1: They've a minute, minute and half left. Whatever it was
Speaker 1: they're thinking, Okay with even with Josh Johnson, who's changed
Speaker 1: teams thirteen times in his career and was on the denverfield,
Speaker 1: doesn't know how to take a snap, but he was
Speaker 1: on the Denver practice squad last month. Okay, he hadn't
Speaker 1: been with you all year, and he's going to against
Speaker 1: the pass rush like that is going to engineer a
Speaker 1: last minute drive to get you in field goal range.
Speaker 1: Just go to the house, Okay, just get to the house. Now,
Speaker 1: it was simply a shotgun snap that he fumbles. Okay,
Speaker 1: but that was huge. I mean, if if they get
Speaker 1: to the house at halftime down fourteen seven, okay, even
Speaker 1: without a quarterback, it's still you're one score game. But
Speaker 1: but and even though he fumbled it because it was
Speaker 1: right to him, he had the ball until his offensive
Speaker 1: lineman stepped on offensive lineman stepped on it, he still
Speaker 1: seemed to be hesitant. I didn't see him go with aggression.
Speaker 1: It was as if he was ashamed of to have
Speaker 1: the ball, you know what I'm saying. But he's like,
Speaker 1: you gotta bring it in, bro. I mean, he wasn't
Speaker 1: bringing it in. He was kind of like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: got it, guy, No, you have to bring that in.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is football. This is not like you're
Speaker 1: kicking him down a water balloon. But you know that.
Speaker 1: But to take Bill's point, at that point it was
Speaker 1: fourteen to seven, you just go in halftime, right this guy,
Speaker 1: And why are we being aggressive here? And then you know,
Speaker 1: and I think I don't remember if Olsen said or
Speaker 1: not he goes, well, we're gonna find out. If they
Speaker 1: get that first first down, then they're probably gonna go right,
Speaker 1: because they took over at like the I want to
Speaker 1: say the twelve or something fourteen and then they got
Speaker 1: the first down right, and then and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. What Josh Johnson, who by the way,
Speaker 1: came into the league at age twenty three in two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, and this was his fortieth game of
Speaker 1: that he's gotten in gotten into in the NFL, won
Speaker 1: an eight record as a starting quarterback in his thirteen years.
Speaker 1: And you know where his career was headed before yesterday,
Speaker 1: straight into the coach's office. That's where it was headed.
Speaker 1: He had a clipboard has already been put in his
Speaker 1: hand more than a football. In his entire career, he's
Speaker 1: had a clipboard probably in his hand more than these
Speaker 1: had a football in his hand. So ten years in
Speaker 1: the league, right, thirteen teams? Come on, man, Come on,
Speaker 1: that means he's friend with San Francisco three times? Three times? Yeah,
Speaker 1: come on? That just waiting for him to just say, hey,
Speaker 1: when you when do you need another integram coach? But
Speaker 1: the point is your approach with playing Everson Walls at quarterback.
Speaker 1: It would be the sixty three year old Everson Walls
Speaker 1: at quarterback. You're not going to approach the game the
Speaker 1: same as you would, right, obviously not. I can see
Speaker 1: it wasn't. He did not. It's just, oh man, he was.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he had been in the league that long.
Speaker 1: I knew, I knew the name when I saw the
Speaker 1: number of teams that he had been with. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll look at it this way. If
Speaker 1: I've been with this many teams, I'm not gonna be scared.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna be out there ready the ball
Speaker 1: because hell, I'm older than almost everybody out there. Okay,
Speaker 1: why be afraid? All right, obviously we buried the lead story.
Speaker 1: Yes I know, and get back to where we So
Speaker 1: let's get back to the point of emphasis that we
Speaker 1: should have here, and that is to change us on
Speaker 1: the coaching staff. We'll get back to the games too,
Speaker 1: because they're fun to talk about. But it finally comes
Speaker 1: down officially on Sunday night that Kellen Moore as mutually
Speaker 1: agreed with the team the way that they it was
Speaker 1: worded to part ways and Doug nuss Meyer as well,
Speaker 1: which makes now eight assistant coaches who have either not
Speaker 1: had their contracts renewed or mutually agreed to part ways.
Speaker 1: So mutually meaning he had a year left on his contract, right,
Speaker 1: And it's like, okay, so I get paid for that year,
Speaker 1: and okay, fine, I'll go see if I can find
Speaker 1: another job that's mutual. And there's a lot of offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator openings around the league. It's gonna have no problem
Speaker 1: finding a job. Yeah. The whole thing to me started
Speaker 1: to be somewhat puzzling. And I heard Mike McCarthy during
Speaker 1: his press conference on Thursday. Twice in the press conference,
Speaker 1: the word came out of his mouth economics, and I'm
Speaker 1: going economics. There's no salary cap on a coaching staff, right,
Speaker 1: And it sort of dawned on me that when that happened,
Speaker 1: that maybe somebody decided that we got too many coaches
Speaker 1: twenty nine. Okay, I don't know what the norm is,
Speaker 1: but it sounds like a lot of coaches. All I
Speaker 1: know is I went back and looked in nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 1: when the Cowboys went to the first NFL Championship game,
Speaker 1: it was Tom Landry and five assistants. In nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: one when they won the Super Bowl for the first time.
Speaker 1: It was time Landry and eight assistants twenty nine and
Speaker 1: that included quality control analytics guys, you know, and some
Speaker 1: positions had some assistant coaches. At a position had an
Speaker 1: assistant to the assistant right, And so I don't know
Speaker 1: if somebody decided it was too many or what. Well,
Speaker 1: if you look at the wiches outside, I mean I
Speaker 1: would imagine it grows every year. If you look at
Speaker 1: the team pictures, well I did go do that, and
Speaker 1: you know what, but back in the sixties, they didn't
Speaker 1: have the assistance in the picture. It was just the players.
Speaker 1: Give you an idea how many coaches there are. This
Speaker 1: is my flip card from the preseason, which I keep
Speaker 1: in my briefcase. Okay, on the backside of it is
Speaker 1: all the information on all the assistant coaches on the team.
Speaker 1: It fills and took coaster board basically, and I was
Speaker 1: about to go through it and mark out the ones
Speaker 1: who are no longer here. I'm gonna have to do
Speaker 1: this whole board again for the preseason games this year.
Speaker 1: You will have more room on that board, that's right.
Speaker 1: Did you did you include the consultant on there also,
Speaker 1: which which consultant? How many consultants do they have? Brian Schottenheimer, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Brian Schotenheimer was not He didn't make your board. They
Speaker 1: did not make it at that time. It was of
Speaker 1: Jacksonville games when he made my board because he was
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator with Jacksonville last year. So yeah, so
Speaker 1: twenty nine and I had a feeling when those guys
Speaker 1: on offense were let go Pete And if you think
Speaker 1: about it, the three main guys that were let go,
Speaker 1: like position coaches, Philbin, Pete and Edwards, they've been in
Speaker 1: the league the longest, I think twenty five, twenty four,
Speaker 1: and nineteen years, So it was almost like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if they were trying to get younger or if
Speaker 1: they were trying to get new voices in the room.
Speaker 1: It brought me back to nineteen ninety seven when Switzer
Speaker 1: got fired and all the assistants are most the majority
Speaker 1: of them went along with him, and this hadn't even
Speaker 1: happened yet. And I was walking down the hallway at
Speaker 1: the Ranch and I ran into Ernie Sampeazy after they
Speaker 1: lost the final six games of the season, and he
Speaker 1: just looked at me and he goes, well, we're all
Speaker 1: out of here, and I go, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: He goes, well, you know, sometimes they quit listening to you,
Speaker 1: and you got to get a new voice in there.
Speaker 1: And he goes, and I got a feeling they quit
Speaker 1: listening to us. And he goes, so we're gone. And
Speaker 1: sure enough, like a day or two later, Switzer got
Speaker 1: fired and everybody else got fired, and you know, and
Speaker 1: Ernie was a really good coach, but they decided a
Speaker 1: new voice. So I don't know if that was part
Speaker 1: of it. I got a few guys got a theory,
Speaker 1: but that's my theory that definitely entered my mind. You
Speaker 1: look at the ages of the play of the coaches
Speaker 1: that were let go. Rob Davis fifty four years old now,
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore is only thirty four. Doug nos Meyer's fifty two.
Speaker 1: Skip Pete turns fifty nine today. As a matter of Oh,
Speaker 1: happy birthday either fifty nine or sixty today January Today's
Speaker 1: day January thirty, uh, twenty eight, twenty nine, thirty Today's birthday,
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Skip Pete. Yeah, Joe Philbin sixty one. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see see Edward. George Edwards is fifty five. He
Speaker 1: turned just turned fifty five, but I want to say
Speaker 1: he was. He was in the league the longer I
Speaker 1: want to say he was. He's twenty five years twenty
Speaker 1: five years, was twenty four, and Philbin was nineteen. Leon
Speaker 1: Let twelve years with the Cowboys, fifty four years old,
Speaker 1: assistant to the assistant and Rob Davis was basically Mike's
Speaker 1: kind of right hand man, so he wasn't really coaching anything.
Speaker 1: So I think Kyle Valero was a quality nine years here.
Speaker 1: I think for Kyle the linebacker coach, what was his name,
Speaker 1: the linebacker coach, George George, senior defensive assistant linebacker. Now
Speaker 1: that one somewhat surprised me from the production of the
Speaker 1: linebackers and how the defense played. So now dan Quinn
Speaker 1: was under contract with dan Quinn was interviewing for head
Speaker 1: coaching jobs and in fact had a second interview with Arizona.
Speaker 1: And then that's when after that interview is when he
Speaker 1: announced he's coming back. So they sweetened the pot for
Speaker 1: dan Quinn. And you know what, got how they afford
Speaker 1: getting rid of all that into it at economics economic?
Speaker 1: Or did did they have to? Because again, if you're
Speaker 1: going into your second go around as a head coach,
Speaker 1: don't you want to go into a good situation, not
Speaker 1: a bad situation. And I know those five were bad
Speaker 1: situations because of the quarterback. Do you want to coach
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons or Kyler Murray? Yeah, that's the way I
Speaker 1: look at it on the Arizona job or Russell Wilson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I don't have any first round picks Indianapolis who whoever? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Sam Ellinger or whoever? At quarterback? I mean, just look
Speaker 1: at the coaches and the quarterbacks in those those five teams, right,
Speaker 1: there's a reason why they didn't win. And know what
Speaker 1: they were doing at quarterback? Houston? What are you doing
Speaker 1: at quarterback? So where they're getting one of the two? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But but yeah are they are they really good? I
Speaker 1: mean are they you know? Get sink your teeth into
Speaker 1: them now. I think the kid from Alabama is pretty
Speaker 1: dark and good. Um, but still, it's an unknown. It's
Speaker 1: not a sure thing. You never know what the guy
Speaker 1: above you is going to do in the draft. They
Speaker 1: could trade it and say no, I want three picks,
Speaker 1: not one. So but yeah, if I'm if I'm Quinn,
Speaker 1: I'd have been choosy because I don't want to fail.
Speaker 1: You fail the second time. He's already been there once,
Speaker 1: so it's not like it's something new for him. You
Speaker 1: can dangle that carry in front of again and he's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I've seen this before. I'm gonna go in here, you know,
Speaker 1: a little more cautious. Yeah, yeah, and I'm gonna If
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take one, it's got to be a really
Speaker 1: good situation, which those situations don't occur. Right, If it's
Speaker 1: a really good situation. All right, let's dive in when
Speaker 1: we come back, because we're already twenty minutes in. Let's
Speaker 1: dive into who the new play caller is for this
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Speaker 1: the off season. And we are twenty two minutes into
Speaker 1: this thing, and we've talked about the movement on the offensive,
Speaker 1: the coaching staff in general, and as far as the
Speaker 1: offensive play caller goes. Kellen Moore, of course, has officially
Speaker 1: been let go. And your new play caller, Mickey Spagnola,
Speaker 1: who would you like it to be? I said all along.
Speaker 1: If they made this change, then Mike McCarthy needs to
Speaker 1: be the offensive coordinator, and I don't know that he'll
Speaker 1: have that title, but if he's calling plays, it might
Speaker 1: as well be Mike McCarthy the offensive coordinator. I would
Speaker 1: imagine they hire somebody to help out with the day
Speaker 1: to day work practice schedule, you know, setting up stuff.
Speaker 1: And who knows now that they let or are not
Speaker 1: renewing dougman nuss Meyer's contract as the quarterback coach. Maybe
Speaker 1: whoever becomes that guy taking care of Mike day to
Speaker 1: day is also a quarterback coach. And maybe you hire
Speaker 1: a veteran assistant who as can be on the sideline
Speaker 1: too or up in the booth as a game manager
Speaker 1: type too, because if you're if your head coach is
Speaker 1: also the play caller, there are things during the course
Speaker 1: of a game he might have to be involved in
Speaker 1: where he can't you need you. He might need some
Speaker 1: assistance managing the game. Yes, I always thought that there
Speaker 1: were times when mccauthy was calling the place. I'm wrong
Speaker 1: about that. Now. There was a moment during the season
Speaker 1: where he's like, look, I don't think he was called
Speaker 1: on the way in heavily on this one this week.
Speaker 1: And I and I always told people when they you know,
Speaker 1: they don't want to blame Kellen for everything, and it's
Speaker 1: like he's not an independent contractor, right, Mike's got to
Speaker 1: say yes during the week, Yes he does. And you
Speaker 1: know there's a reason why he's got a headset on
Speaker 1: and a sheet in his hand. Yes, that's the plays
Speaker 1: that they decided, right. And I'm sure there were times
Speaker 1: it's like, oh you know, let me. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know that happened with Jason Garrett when he was the
Speaker 1: head coach. Um. You know, I know for a fact
Speaker 1: that he vetoed plays and it's not no, we don't
Speaker 1: want to do that, right right, Um? So yeah, um,
Speaker 1: but I thought if they were gonna make a change,
Speaker 1: and I'm the head coach, and this is what my
Speaker 1: expertise is. If I'm gonna go down, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: down on my own right because of my offer, you know.
Speaker 1: And the hard thing to say is to figure out
Speaker 1: is nine games in a row, nine games in a row,
Speaker 1: they averaged thirty six points a game with that guy
Speaker 1: as the coordinator, right, And I understand what happened in
Speaker 1: the playoff game with San Francisco the last two San
Speaker 1: Francisco right off, Yeah, what they score seventeen and twelve,
Speaker 1: so twenty that's twenty nine. Two is fourteen and a
Speaker 1: half again. And then when you look at yesterday's just
Speaker 1: the first drive by the Eagles, right, the first play
Speaker 1: I saw, I think it was his name, Lance Johnson,
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman fore Lane Johnson. I saw them just
Speaker 1: blowing forty niners off the ball. He and Kelsey were
Speaker 1: dominating yesterday. I have the first drive, I saw nothing
Speaker 1: but holes to run through, and I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 1: where were those man? I mean they handled a forty
Speaker 1: nine their defense. That was the first in everything. But
Speaker 1: here comes the offense also, that is first in everything,
Speaker 1: and in this particular case, offense one out. I mean
Speaker 1: they came out double team in the right. The blocking
Speaker 1: scheme was amazing. All you saw was daylight for the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia running backs on that first drive. I took some
Speaker 1: pictures of it because it was just that glaring. And
Speaker 1: see that to me, let you know that there's got
Speaker 1: to be room for improvement for the Cowboys, right, and
Speaker 1: either the offensive line or how you maybe ski against
Speaker 1: that defense, right, because guys that dominated for them against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys did not dominate against Philadelphia, did not, but
Speaker 1: the Eagles offensive line stepped up and played, you know,
Speaker 1: and and then on the other side, think about it,
Speaker 1: Phillis defense. It's like, and I know what happened, right,
Speaker 1: you're on the third quarterback. The Cowboys held him. There's
Speaker 1: no fourth quarterback, and then the third guy's got to
Speaker 1: come in and he can't throw. Okay, you're done, right,
Speaker 1: But you know the Cowboys, without those turnovers, they would
Speaker 1: have held him to thirteen points. Debo, debo did nothing
Speaker 1: in that No one did anything except for Kittle. And
Speaker 1: and if you look at what they did against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: he did very little. McCaffrey did very little. They used
Speaker 1: those turnovers to get six points. If you don't get
Speaker 1: those turnovers and give them just six points. And then
Speaker 1: the plays that Bill pointed out on the touchdown drive,
Speaker 1: you know, you held them till six. By that time,
Speaker 1: they were already depleted, you know, the our defense by
Speaker 1: that time, yeah, we were already you know, we were
Speaker 1: just like San Francisco's defense ended up being they were
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, just tired. The spirit was
Speaker 1: out of them at that time. And you know, after
Speaker 1: a while, they lay on you long enough and you
Speaker 1: keep putting them in position. Your offense keeps putting their
Speaker 1: offense in position to score. That's deflating for a defense.
Speaker 1: I don't care how good you are. Well, we saw
Speaker 1: that San Francisco did the same thing. Their defense was
Speaker 1: deflated as well, and they played like it. And San
Speaker 1: Francisco's offense was able to be two dimensional against Dallas.
Speaker 1: They had the lead in the game, just like what
Speaker 1: the formula for success for Philadelphia all season long, they've
Speaker 1: been playing from ahead. I mean, you look back at
Speaker 1: the Cowboys back in twenty sixteen, Dak and Zeke's first
Speaker 1: year in the league, and invariably the Cowboys would start
Speaker 1: the game with a touchdown drive. They go seventy five
Speaker 1: yards every single game for a touchdown. So you're playing
Speaker 1: from ahead seven. Start to think about the Dallas San
Speaker 1: Francisco playoff game. We talked going into that game how
Speaker 1: inexperienced the interior offensive line for San Francisco was. They're
Speaker 1: starting a guy, Jake Brendle out of Plaino East High School.
Speaker 1: He's been a journeyman back up his entire career and
Speaker 1: he came in this year started for Alex Mack, a
Speaker 1: perennial pro Bowler who retired, and they've got two offensive
Speaker 1: guards who are first year starters, three guys in the
Speaker 1: interior offensive line. So it's a little wonder that Philadelphia
Speaker 1: dominated the interior of their offense of line when they
Speaker 1: were having to be one dimension because the earlier the
Speaker 1: game against San Francisco, you remember osa first play of
Speaker 1: the games breaking through to get a sack. Yeah, they were,
Speaker 1: they were, they were, they want five exactly, But the
Speaker 1: way that game played out because of the turnovers that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys had in the first half of that game,
Speaker 1: you're playing from behind, and San Francisco was able to
Speaker 1: maintain maintain control of the game, don't turn the ball over,
Speaker 1: and they could use the run to set up the
Speaker 1: pass basically. So the other thing that occurred to me is, um,
Speaker 1: San Francisco during their winning streak. So what was at
Speaker 1: eleventh straight going into the Cowboys game. The fewest points
Speaker 1: they scored during that street going into the Cowboys game
Speaker 1: was thirteen. The Saints lost to him thirteen to nothing.
Speaker 1: Cowboys held in the nineteen points. You know, you had
Speaker 1: a chance to win. And then the other thing, if
Speaker 1: you look at Philadelphia talking about their defense, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Cowboys put forty on them, and that had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with Jalen Hurts not playing right. They put forty
Speaker 1: on them. That was the most they'd given up all
Speaker 1: year long. So when everybody says, well, how do the
Speaker 1: Cowboys matchup with Philadelphia, well, darn well right the game
Speaker 1: they lost, it was twenty seventeen, what going in in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and they gave up that drive and
Speaker 1: made it twenty seventeen with your backup quarterback, by the way,
Speaker 1: So they played them, They played their pants off. You
Speaker 1: would have loved to see the third time around, and
Speaker 1: they came up seven points shorter. When when you look
Speaker 1: at this Cowboys team and you look at the playoff
Speaker 1: game against the forty nine ers, that was the game
Speaker 1: that could have been won by any either team. And
Speaker 1: that's just how how tight that game was. Right, and
Speaker 1: of course the turnovers made the difference in the ball game.
Speaker 1: But you see how we match up. We match up
Speaker 1: extremely well against any team in the NFL period. And
Speaker 1: that's what I was thinking on the way over here.
Speaker 1: We put for the on these guys. I mean we
Speaker 1: put for the on them. Forget what they did to
Speaker 1: our defense. We put our offense put forty on this
Speaker 1: defense that's supposed to be so good, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: like their offense put them in any bad positions any
Speaker 1: more unusual positions and bad positions than our offense put
Speaker 1: our defense in and we still handle them. We handled
Speaker 1: them offensively extremely well. So I'm you know, when you
Speaker 1: start making changes. I remember Tom Ladig making changes back
Speaker 1: in eighty three. He said, we're always we're right there.
Speaker 1: All we gotta do is just get over the hump. Well,
Speaker 1: the changes he made set us back bigger, hump bigger,
Speaker 1: and we never got back to where we were. So
Speaker 1: I hope they're very strategic and how they're handling this,
Speaker 1: this coaching departure. But getting back to Kelly Moore his
Speaker 1: position of strength now, right, do you are you feeling
Speaker 1: bad about yourself because you don't have a job and
Speaker 1: you can go get all these these opportunities now? Or
Speaker 1: don't you think you're stronger if you're uh, you know,
Speaker 1: having negotiations while you have you have a job, that's right?
Speaker 1: I mean he is interviewing for the Carolina Panthers head
Speaker 1: coaching job last Tuesday wednesdaycond interview. No, he hadn't been
Speaker 1: released yet, from the Cowboys, okay, And they reports out
Speaker 1: of Carolina were that they were blown away by his
Speaker 1: interview and he made it a ball game all the
Speaker 1: way down to the wire because Carolina wanted to hire
Speaker 1: a Frank Wright. But he gave Carolina pause that, well,
Speaker 1: maybe we should hire this guy instead. All right, he
Speaker 1: comes back to Dallas, has a meeting with Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: and now he's without a job, and he's not as
Speaker 1: you say he's he's not negotiating with other teams from
Speaker 1: a position of strengthens us. Got an interview with the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Try and the Chargers yeah wow, offenseive coordinator shop offensive coordinator. Yeah, yeah, sorry, yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody somebody tweeted out. I thought it was it was
Speaker 1: very fitting. It said, uh, Kellen morro will be the
Speaker 1: next offensive coordinator for the University of Alabama. Well they're
Speaker 1: looking too, right, they are. But I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: go down to college from as long as I'm not
Speaker 1: the head coach. Bill O'Brien did it. Bill O'Brien did it,
Speaker 1: and he was in the last couple of years has
Speaker 1: been the OC for Alabama after Sark took the All right,
Speaker 1: Sark did n't bring Sar Okay, Sark did it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good, Bill o'brior. And now he's what happened with Sark?
Speaker 1: What that was thought? Okay, he was he was well,
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan got if I'm not mistaken on this, wouldn't
Speaker 1: Sark with the Falcons? And then he goes to Atlanta
Speaker 1: to Alabama? Right, and now he's the head coach University
Speaker 1: of Texas. Okay, So there are so many coaches. I
Speaker 1: would love to get a count on the number of
Speaker 1: coaches who have gone to Nick Saban and Ben either
Speaker 1: a consultant or a coordinator on their staff at Alabama
Speaker 1: for a year just to revive their career. It's like
Speaker 1: a rehab center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Nick Saban and Bill Belichick. Uh,
Speaker 1: they've got a feed meal going well, getting Kivin do
Speaker 1: it too? Yeah? Sure? Right Lane Kiffin, Lane Kiffin after
Speaker 1: he got fired and he went to Alabama and then
Speaker 1: he gets hired at Oldness. He's all Belichick and and
Speaker 1: Saban tentacles, Jason all over the place. And Garrett after
Speaker 1: his playing career, I mean it was his first coaching
Speaker 1: job was with the Dolphins under under Nick Saban and
Speaker 1: then he got the hey wound up going to Dallas
Speaker 1: and began the head coach of the Dallas Council. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe McCarthy and and uh calla Moore have this wink wink, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you go. You can well think about
Speaker 1: it though. On Kellen Moore, he really should should look
Speaker 1: into that Alabama job because it would it would open
Speaker 1: up avenues for college opportunities and he would still have
Speaker 1: the NFL opportunity. He's just spend a year there with
Speaker 1: Saban and you know they I don't know who they
Speaker 1: got coming back at quarterbacks and not and not just
Speaker 1: that can also kill your career. Yeah right, but his
Speaker 1: other plus is look at what he did for DAK
Speaker 1: So if you need them guide, it's your coordinator, but
Speaker 1: can develop a quarterback. Right, he did it, right, he
Speaker 1: did it. Now he goes to Los Angeles and it's
Speaker 1: the Chargers, O see, and he gets Justin Herbert over
Speaker 1: the hump. Yeah, then he's going to get a head
Speaker 1: coaching job really quick. So anyway, all right, we got
Speaker 1: it very very interesting, and we got a break, another
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Speaker 1: legal pads in front of him. So what is these
Speaker 1: were my championship game? Oh yeah, championship kind of notes on.
Speaker 1: You're sitting on your couch and taking notes. Every once
Speaker 1: in a while, i'd write something downe okay, Well, you
Speaker 1: pick from whichever legal pad you want to pick, your
Speaker 1: Cowboy legal pad or your Championship Sunday legal pad, and
Speaker 1: set the agenda for this segment, our last segment this week.
Speaker 1: I was doing this. Look, I was doing the sauce
Speaker 1: for a memory, and I had this down Edwards twenty
Speaker 1: fifth year in the NFL Pete twenty fourth film in nineteen.
Speaker 1: I will start worry about See that proves my point.
Speaker 1: That's that's why you write it down. I remember my
Speaker 1: little flip cards for preseason games. If I write it down,
Speaker 1: I remember it. Yeah. There you go. Absolutely so he
Speaker 1: can't remember what he's got on his legal pad though
Speaker 1: you get there. He's got I gotta, I gotta gotta
Speaker 1: go through it. Now. My question is do you want
Speaker 1: to talk cowboys? You want to talk championship games. We
Speaker 1: didn't settle who's taken who spots, but I think there's
Speaker 1: a possibility some promotions from within. Um what what? What
Speaker 1: do you think about my idea about um? Brian Schottenheimer
Speaker 1: didn't he he was a offensive course, sure, right, and
Speaker 1: I think he was. Maybe that's how world did they
Speaker 1: do quarterback? Wow, I didn't check that out. You're talking.
Speaker 1: He was never a head coach, was he? No? But
Speaker 1: his dad was. His dad was of pretty darn good
Speaker 1: and Mike knew him, right. Yeah, going back to when well,
Speaker 1: Mike was on Schottenheimer's staffa City in the nineties, Brian
Speaker 1: was around a kid at that point. I think he
Speaker 1: talked about it at one point. All right, So you
Speaker 1: want to know the coaching resume of one Brian Schottenheimer,
Speaker 1: who is forty nine years old, so he's just ten
Speaker 1: years younger than Mike McCarthy starting back in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: seven the Rams, an assistant with the Rams Kansas City
Speaker 1: and ninety eight an assistant then a Syracuse in ninety nine,
Speaker 1: USC two thousand, Washington Quarterbacks coach in O one, Chargers
Speaker 1: for four years quarterbacks coach O two through O five KA.
Speaker 1: So that's when Brees came into the league as a
Speaker 1: right kay, when Philip Rivers came into the league, quarterbacks
Speaker 1: coach Jets O six through twenty eleven, so six years
Speaker 1: as the offensive coordinator of the Jets, three years with
Speaker 1: the Rams offensive coordinator twelve through fourteen. So I'm Sam
Speaker 1: Bradford in there, fifteen Georgia offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach,
Speaker 1: a one year back in college. There you go, there,
Speaker 1: get the old college now back into the NFL with
Speaker 1: the Colts quarterbacks coach in sixteen and seventeen, Seattle offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator eighteen through twenty with Russell Wilson, and then urban
Speaker 1: Meyer seventeen. That would be sixteen seventeen with the Connapolis
Speaker 1: with Andrew Luck still playing there quarterbacks heyday. And then
Speaker 1: he goes to Seattle as the offensive coordinator for three
Speaker 1: years from eighteen through twenty, and then urban Meyer hired
Speaker 1: hired him as the passing game coordinator for Jacksonville and
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence's rookie season in twenty one and a coaching
Speaker 1: analyst this year with the Cowboys. So when that staff
Speaker 1: got wiped out, he got wiped out at Jacksonville, right,
Speaker 1: So so I can't take credit for anything that Lawrence
Speaker 1: is doing, yeah, right, or blame maybe for what happened
Speaker 1: his rookie year when they threw him into the deep end.
Speaker 1: So I mean he's got a resume to you know,
Speaker 1: he's affiliated with depending. Yeah yeah, I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: unless somebody hires him for one of those OC jobs
Speaker 1: that are open to really beat the play call, right,
Speaker 1: so that'll be And I haven't heard his name being
Speaker 1: mentioned bandied about, yea, So we're gonna banty it about now.
Speaker 1: We're getting it out there for this job. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean he's familiar with it, um, you know. And
Speaker 1: the big thing, what do you think the big thing
Speaker 1: is for whoever is in Dak's ear. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about necessarily during the game, but on a daily basis.
Speaker 1: What is it about that where you could see the
Speaker 1: most improvement that that could make when what you saw
Speaker 1: this year, maybe coaching standpoint, maybe emphasize and this hasn't
Speaker 1: happened before. That's why this is weird, right, emphasizing patients
Speaker 1: Maybe just slow down, I mean, trying to progress too fast.
Speaker 1: Look at the game he played against Tampa Bay in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I mean sometimes I just think this offensive
Speaker 1: stuff comes down to matchups and in the bottom line
Speaker 1: against San Francisco was the Cowboys were one wide receiver
Speaker 1: short short they were not if they took CD away,
Speaker 1: where's he going? You know? And Hilton helped, But the
Speaker 1: guy hadn't played all year long. Now in spots, but
Speaker 1: he's not going to be an every down player all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, and Michael Gallup just was not the
Speaker 1: same Michael Gallup that he was the year before before
Speaker 1: he tore his acall and we didn't We didn't even
Speaker 1: use him the same either. No, if you recall before
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup got hurt, he was our only deep threat.
Speaker 1: I still have visions of Dak dropping dimes writing his
Speaker 1: right front pocket and on the sideline where they perfected
Speaker 1: that pade route. And it wasn't always in the red zone.
Speaker 1: There were plenty of times it was out in the field,
Speaker 1: perfected that fade route. Throw yards down the field. He's
Speaker 1: on the sidelines, Dack's dropping in there. They've done that
Speaker 1: many many times, but think about did not do that
Speaker 1: this year's situation. They were in though, with Amari Cooper,
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb and Michael Gallup And now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you started the season off with Ceedee Lamb, Noah Brown
Speaker 1: and Dennis Houston for those first couple of games, right, U,
Speaker 1: And they were banking on Jalen Tolbert being that next guy,
Speaker 1: and he never stepped into the role, or didn't get
Speaker 1: the opportunity or whatever stepped on out of the role,
Speaker 1: right yeah, and even and even then when when he
Speaker 1: got back, it was him and Noah Brown and teams
Speaker 1: were just like and in despite all that, Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 1: goes for what one hundred and seven catches for thirteen
Speaker 1: hundred yards. I just thought in that it showed up
Speaker 1: in this and it always happens in the playoffs, right,
Speaker 1: whatever your weakness is, somehow it gets exposed will and
Speaker 1: I just think they were a wide receiver short. So
Speaker 1: how long do you think it will take for Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore finds a job? End of the week, how about
Speaker 1: the end of the hour? He already got one, Yes,
Speaker 1: Chargers Kellen Moore expected to become the Chargers OC. What
Speaker 1: does that tell you he's going to Los Angeles? Well?
Speaker 1: Does I tell you make here that somebody thought he
Speaker 1: was pretty darn good at what he does, because that's
Speaker 1: the hell of a quarterback that he's right, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be calling plays for him as soon as he became available.
Speaker 1: Chargers and jumped right on it. Yeah, and his history
Speaker 1: with that team, any of those coaches you know that
Speaker 1: they're Brandon Staley is the head coach, and they can't
Speaker 1: off top of my head, can't think of you know,
Speaker 1: the the offensive coordinator before it was Joe Lombardi, who
Speaker 1: is with Peyton with New Orleans for years, right, so
Speaker 1: he was there, he was the OC. Got like he
Speaker 1: got laid off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't that's kind
Speaker 1: of unfair. I mean it did a decent job. It
Speaker 1: was some of the play calling to me, I don't
Speaker 1: mean offensive play call him, but some decisions made by
Speaker 1: the head coach. Coach. Yeah yeah, that really kills the charge.
Speaker 1: I mean he for it all the time, the time
Speaker 1: down from his own fifteen yard from the frying pan
Speaker 1: into the fire. Maybe he'll give the get make the
Speaker 1: guy be a little more concernative. I guess our Alabama
Speaker 1: ideas not working. He didn't have to, he didn't have
Speaker 1: to go to rehab that quick rehab. He rehabbed a
Speaker 1: lot of coaches. There's exactly right, that's right. That's why
Speaker 1: it's funny. Staley in the NFL has been with the
Speaker 1: Bears obviously on the defensive side of the ball the
Speaker 1: Bears for two years, then the Broncos for one year,
Speaker 1: and then was a defensive coordinator with McVeigh with the
Speaker 1: Rams in twenty If I remember, the Chargers had Fangio
Speaker 1: guy in the in they were in the playoffs, right
Speaker 1: first ground. Yeah, they had wide receiver problems. They had
Speaker 1: guys hurt. If I remember watching Williams, I think, well,
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen to start the year was hurt, right then
Speaker 1: Mike Williams. Mike Williams. They also lost guyton an injury too,
Speaker 1: that's right, and he was year big third, the third
Speaker 1: receiver was awfully good. So he's stepping into a pretty
Speaker 1: good situation with Umbert. I'm trying to think. I was
Speaker 1: going to say Eiler. Yeah, so that that's not a
Speaker 1: bad situation now, not at all. It's very glamorous as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, as as everyone's talking about everyone's
Speaker 1: giving Herbert he's he's the next Patrick Mahomes already giving
Speaker 1: it to him. Yeah, and he's he hadn't even had
Speaker 1: to earn that yet. Okay, think about this though, all right,
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore is let me look at I gotta look
Speaker 1: at my Chargers. All right, what you know what of
Speaker 1: what often happens is a coach goes someplace else and
Speaker 1: now he starts picking players in free agency from the
Speaker 1: team he just left, right, Dalton Schultz, Chargers, Tony Pollard, Chargers,
Speaker 1: they could be players for those free agents. Well, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys just need to make sure that Tony Pollard's not
Speaker 1: a free agent in there. It's there in it's in
Speaker 1: their power to do that, right, the hard part on
Speaker 1: that one. And boy, we can spend a whole show
Speaker 1: on free agents, right, Um, we will be and maybe
Speaker 1: maybe next week we'll have the in between week for
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? Right? Um? What's his market value? Because
Speaker 1: I just saw somebody you're Tark Pollard? Yeah, somebody ranked
Speaker 1: was NFL network, somebody picked their top fifty one free agents.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have twenty of them, right, I think twenty
Speaker 1: of their top fifty one. No, no, no, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have twenty free agents. Yeah. You jumped the gun on that.
Speaker 1: And I think of all the guys the Cowboy has
Speaker 1: had it free agents only I want to say two
Speaker 1: of them were in the top fifty one and it
Speaker 1: was Polar and Schultz. So where are people what you
Speaker 1: think the market value is going to be for Tony Pollard?
Speaker 1: Is he a guy that's your lead running back, He's
Speaker 1: never done it before. That's a telephone. You're going to
Speaker 1: hand it to him twenty twenty five times a game
Speaker 1: for seventeen games? Or is he going to be used
Speaker 1: the way the Cowboys used him, which is very valuable,
Speaker 1: But from a financial standpoint, what's the value for that? Right?
Speaker 1: Because for if you franchise him, it's ten point one
Speaker 1: million on a one year deal. So I'm sure his guy,
Speaker 1: whoever it is, is saying, Okay, whatever I if, whatever
Speaker 1: I sign for, I got to make ten million dollars
Speaker 1: this year, and I'm wondering if you know that's going
Speaker 1: to take place. I mean, but to me, the glaring
Speaker 1: thing is what about his injuries? What about surgery? How's
Speaker 1: he going to play after this? Right? Yeah, how's he
Speaker 1: gonna feel? What's what's kind of mobility we have? We
Speaker 1: still haven't even talked about the second part of his injury, right,
Speaker 1: and that's the ankle. No, the ankle part, that's where
Speaker 1: the surgery was. Okay, they ended up not doing surgery
Speaker 1: to put a plate on the fibula, but the tibia
Speaker 1: and fibia down by the ankle were you usually have
Speaker 1: a high ankle spring is where they did the surgery. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah, what you know, where's he at? Um? And
Speaker 1: then with Schultz, you know they franchised him. Once you
Speaker 1: franchise him again, it goes from eleven million to fourteen million. Um,
Speaker 1: you're going to take a chance there. Do you like
Speaker 1: Ferguson pender Shot? I like him Hendershot, but I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if I like him as the league tight end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you don't know by the way, the Chargers they
Speaker 1: have Gerald Everett at tight end, who has one year
Speaker 1: left on his contract. He's he'll be twenty nine and
Speaker 1: he had had fifty eight catches this year. So and
Speaker 1: then Eckler has one more year on his contract. He's, uh,
Speaker 1: he'll be twenty eight years old. Get me back to
Speaker 1: the tight ends. You know, that was a time when
Speaker 1: we didn't trust Scholtz that much either. You know, we
Speaker 1: had Jarwin and Schultz was the big you know, the
Speaker 1: big guy. That was when we want some blocking done,
Speaker 1: let's bring in Schultz. Then he turned into Jarling all
Speaker 1: of a sudden. He doesn't block as well, but he
Speaker 1: said he was surely catching that ball. He first came
Speaker 1: into the year. We had Whitten too, right, So now
Speaker 1: why can't hender Shot or the other young man be
Speaker 1: developed like Ferguson. I mean I could see them being developed,
Speaker 1: both of those guys, right, very good. And then mckewan
Speaker 1: served a role too as a third tight end. Three
Speaker 1: right there, you have to McEwan. I don't think is
Speaker 1: gonna develop to be all around Ferguson as the chance
Speaker 1: and and hender Shot as especially as receiving. You know,
Speaker 1: you can see both of them being a pretty good tandem.
Speaker 1: And they can blocker and both of them can block.
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see how other people value him, right,
Speaker 1: What were they willing to pay him? Because he's he's
Speaker 1: not kittle, right, He's not that type of tight end,
Speaker 1: but he's solid. He's not he's solid though, but he's solid.
Speaker 1: He is solid. Yeah, I mean he's gonna you know,
Speaker 1: the last this last game, but unusual. But he has
Speaker 1: always been dependable. I mean he's made it some plays,
Speaker 1: of course, some mistakes like anybody else, but he's always
Speaker 1: been somebody that your quarterback can depend on for that outlet.
Speaker 1: See that last game kind of stigmatize. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: you don't you hate. I didn't even want to bring
Speaker 1: it up. It's not the last game, it's the last
Speaker 1: series of the last Yeah, I don't want to for
Speaker 1: him the whole the whole offense, right, everybody just thinks
Speaker 1: back to that game. They forget what they had done
Speaker 1: offensively the whole season despite the interceptions, right, and in
Speaker 1: spite them, and we're talking, we're talking shelter here. He
Speaker 1: has been as consistent as anyone in this on this
Speaker 1: receiving corps and made big catches, big catches, touchdowns time. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and the offensive line played decently, and then
Speaker 1: the playoff game, it's like, well what happened to the
Speaker 1: offensive line? Well it becomes a money issue though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean, if all things are equal, and you
Speaker 1: you know, you don't have to be concerned about your salary, captain, Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you keep them to get people try? I mean,
Speaker 1: don't you want to keep Donovan Wilson? You know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen there? Definitely? Yes, yeah, we do right, right,
Speaker 1: And and you know vander vander esh and then what
Speaker 1: happens with Anthony Brown? Because you saw when you didn't
Speaker 1: have them. What happened? You play two cornerbacks your last game,
Speaker 1: you're only two cornerbacks run and you saw yesterday. Still,
Speaker 1: my guy, you saw the Chiefs game yesterday. They lose
Speaker 1: the cornerback early in that game to a concussion. You
Speaker 1: see the kid that had interception on the tip pass.
Speaker 1: Fourth round rookie Joshua Williams out of Fayetteville State had
Speaker 1: the interception. The AC champion was the one that tipped it.
Speaker 1: But the guy that ed Kie and the Cook, Bryan Cook,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a rookie safety place septop yesterday. That's right,
Speaker 1: that's secondary's really stepped up to the Chiefs yesterday. But
Speaker 1: the point is you need and it's an old saying
Speaker 1: in the league, you can't ever have enough cornerbacks. Well,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys ran out of I've never heard that before.
Speaker 1: I never heard that before. That's not what Gil Brent
Speaker 1: said when we were negotiated. And as we close here, yes, okay,
Speaker 1: the end of that Kansas City game, Uh, sad, sad.
Speaker 1: Joseph hate, I hate, I hate endings like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Joseph Osi out of Texas. What a good kid
Speaker 1: he is. I mean, he is a great person, and
Speaker 1: he was just and he was playing, and he was
Speaker 1: playing so well and so hard. He was you know,
Speaker 1: he was in my big green notebook going into last year,
Speaker 1: and then he didn't get much playing time. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's heard or whatever, and so I was
Speaker 1: just very pleased to see here late in the season
Speaker 1: and in that game and in the place. Right before
Speaker 1: that they were talking about how what a great game.
Speaker 1: He's all over the place. Yeah, and then that happens
Speaker 1: time the game was over. I knew who he was
Speaker 1: everybody where. He sat on the sidelines long enough for
Speaker 1: every man, and you know, like, man, get in the
Speaker 1: let's go to the locker room. Don't let them break
Speaker 1: you down like that. You know, that's not the that's
Speaker 1: not the visual that you want when they think, okay,
Speaker 1: this guy what was his name again, Joseph, Oh that's
Speaker 1: not oh side, when you think about side, that is
Speaker 1: not the visual you want everyone to see by him,
Speaker 1: like the last guy to feel like that. I've been
Speaker 1: there to put the Cats game. I took my butt
Speaker 1: in the locker room. Last what to do but be
Speaker 1: out there looking around like, oh, what was me? No?
Speaker 1: Get your butt in the well? He kind of hurt
Speaker 1: himself too well, yeah, he got hurt on the boy also,
Speaker 1: and a little bit my homes sold it too well.
Speaker 1: It looked worse in real time, yes, but then as
Speaker 1: you saw the free the replay, it's clear clearly out
Speaker 1: of bounds. But it's clearly it wasn't as eguigious as
Speaker 1: it looked. Yeah. Well, and the other thing is it
Speaker 1: was like, I mean, it's easy, and then he goes
Speaker 1: flying into Yeah, the man over there that got rolled up.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, and I don't know if Osai
Speaker 1: has a history of late hits out of boundary. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are guys that play that we see on a
Speaker 1: regular basis that yeah, okay, he did it again. Okay,
Speaker 1: And what the Bengal fans may may be saying, osa,
Speaker 1: oh there's Osai and did it again. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But it's so much easier when we're watching on television
Speaker 1: and we see where that sideline is, or we're up
Speaker 1: in the press box and we're we're looking down from
Speaker 1: where we're not running ninety miles an hour across the
Speaker 1: field and see what the low bounds is. And as
Speaker 1: he explained after the game, his goal was to get
Speaker 1: him pushed back like forward progress. His goal was to
Speaker 1: get there fast enough to where they would count him
Speaker 1: as being down in bounds. So I was gonna say, oh,
Speaker 1: I thought you were flashing. It was time to go anyway.
Speaker 1: Rinded me and my mother when I was sitting in
Speaker 1: the drivingway with somebody in the chief story, we gotta go,
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