WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Playoff Ready 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.760 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:12.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:16.959 Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:22.239 official Dallas Cowboys apt Now here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls, 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:33.120 and Nicky Spagnola. Okay, we've got some music to start 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:46.479 this fabulous football Friday not till Monday, Boys. The grand 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.920 entrance for Everson Walls, who's not in the studio right now. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:01:06.920 Stand now. That should get you fired up for playoff football, 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.600 Super wild Card Football on Monday night. And we did 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.720 that on Friday because we're making our picks on Friday 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:19.640 because Mickey Spagnola will be in Tampa, Florida on Monday 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:26.360 and the finds will be distributed at that time. Has 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:31.600 Everson Walls? Everson, you missed, you missed stampede and you 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:37.440 came stampeding into the SWBC podcast studio. I was on 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:42.760 the Irving Friar podcast. I was just up in the 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.360 parking lot. I tell him, you gotta let me go 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.880 so I can get down here. Say let me go. Early. 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:51.480 Where is he doing a podcast from? He's going from Philly. Oh, 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:56.640 so he says, hey, if there's a possibility that the 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.440 Cowboys and Eagles could play, And I ended up to 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.520 him and said, and we're gonna kick y'all's ass. So 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.880 I left him with that. Now, he didn't play there, 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.880 did he? He played in Philly? Did he? Yeah? He 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.760 played way Boston. Was it New England? Right with New England? Yeah, 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:19.320 Philly used to be the Boston Patriots. I remember my time. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:28.000 I remember that before time, coach Joe, that's where he played. Yeah, 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.160 he played for the Boston Patriots. I didn't know that. Yeah, 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.040 Fenway Park, I believe that's right. Yes, he did play 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.440 for Philly nineteen ninety six through ninety eight. Irving Fryar 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:43.480 played for the Eagles former number one overall draft pick 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.040 of the New England Patriots in nineteen eighty four out 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:48.960 of Nebraska. It was up for the Hall of Fame, 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.880 but didn't make it. I think it wasn't. I don't 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.480 know if it was Minding David Now, I don't think it. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.359 Maybe it wasn't Minding Day, but he was up for 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.360 I didn't make it. Was that when this is like 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.200 the last couple of years, No, no, no, no, I 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.880 meant eighty four was that Fairbanks? No, well, well the 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:14.480 Patriots who was coaching? Oh, I think it was Ron 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:18.239 Meyer or Meyer. I think it might be all right. 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.320 I'll have that for you shortly, but let's kick off 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.799 the show, Mickey with something from your legal pad. In 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:30.160 the meantime, Well, let's go over the injury update, right. Uh. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:35.680 Mike McCarthy said, well, Tyrann Smith ended up on the 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:41.320 injury report yesterday with a knee. Um. Sounds like it 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:46.120 was a just a tweak or whatever. He was limited 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:50.600 and uh, McCarthy said today that he should be good 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:57.000 to go to their day to have padded practice today. Uh. 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:02.200 He thought that Tyler Biadishu was good yesterday, but again 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.480 in pads he said, this will be a big day 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.960 for him. But everything looked good yesterday. And Xavier Rhodes, 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:12.920 who we got a chance to talk to in the 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.760 locker room yesterday. Somebody I was asking him, you know, 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.440 are you good? Can you play? And he goes, well, 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.160 if I wasn't, I wouldn't be here spoken lack of 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:26.000 true yes exactly, And so they he felt like, yeah, 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.839 whatever they ask of him, he feels like he can do. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.880 McCarthy also said, since this is our padded practice. This 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.359 will be a big day for him also, So he 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.039 didn't seem like he was worried about anything else. And 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:43.680 I've been I've been told that Sam Williams took care 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:46.920 of whatever he needed to do with the Frisco p 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.520 D and that he will he's at He'll be at 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.679 practice and is available to play on Monday. And the 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.400 head coach of the New England Patriots in nineteen eighty 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.320 four when Irving Friar was drafted number one over all 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.760 was Ron Meyer and he was fired at mid season, 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.680 replaced by a Hall of Famer Raymond Barry. Oh I 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.560 came the head coach midway through that at nine when 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:16.200 was Fairbanks would have been Banks and you go back, 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.400 I'm gonna it's got to be before that Ron Meyer 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.880 was coaching. I think. Oh wait, I came into the art. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.960 Was there in eighty one. I'm going back, going back, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.719 it would have been early seventies. Yeah, it was early 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.640 seventies season with it Ou and then Colorado. Then no, 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.800 I thought it was you Fairbanks. Um he went from 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:40.560 Colorado to New England see nineteen seventy seven. Fairbanks was 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.040 the head coach of the Patriots through and he was 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:47.600 let go uh late in the seventy eight season. Right, 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:52.400 So anyway, there you go. Here's your new England Patriots trivia. 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.560 And they are nine in the playoffs this year. There 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.800 are that try it's because Tom Brady's with Tampa Bay. Well, yeah, 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:01.680 has something to do with it, which brings us back 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:07.320 to the task at hand. And um, and it sounded 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.920 like the Bucks. They completed all their padded practices in 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.760 the regular season. So I think you get you get 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.560 an extra in the in the postseason. Think you get 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.920 one one? Okay for a week? I think yeah, I 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:24.280 think okay. Uh. I meant to ask Mike when he 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.400 walked off and he got away from me, so I 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.600 didn't get to verify that, but I think that's what 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:34.040 it is. So today's their padded practice. Um. Also from 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.719 you know the injury report, you know this, the center 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:41.240 may not make it in this game. Uh. Haines is 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.240 at Haines Robert Hainesy. Yeah, so that means they got 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.719 to move to do a little line dance there with Leverett. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.240 Nick Leverett out of Rice, very good Bill and so 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.160 and the other college free agent in twenty twenty two 0:06:55.200 --> 0:07:01.280 has been starting for at guard, you're perturbing Spagnola man. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.920 And then and then actually the guy, the guy that 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:13.640 would take lever spot you do have, has been limited. Um, okay, 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:18.720 we'll see if you got this one down, Molshan John motion, 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.320 he would have to jump a lot of illegal motion. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:29.600 All right? What wait? What schools he from? Too late? 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:34.920 You know, I'm gonna says probably one of the Frisco heis. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:38.680 He's out of Cincinnati Muller, but I want to say Michigan, 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.440 but I may be way off on that and I 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.720 don't have it written down in my voluminous notebook. All right, Um, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:53.600 but otherwise on their offensive line, they're getting healthier. Haynes, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.680 he got hurt in their last game. He was only 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:59.680 in there for like sixteen snaps their last game. Boy, 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.640 Like I said, John Bulchen is from Boise. So wait, 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.520 Las Vegas, Nevada. So you're saying that when they got hurt, 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:09.920 I mean, did he just leave or did he get 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.000 hurt in the game we're talking about. He left the 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:15.640 game and they were resting some players, but he did 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.800 come out of the game with an injury. Yeah. Yeah, 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:20.760 it's kind of hard to diagnose that. And he's been 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.520 limited so we'll see what that does. But you got 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.960 an extra day. Yeah, that doesn't sound like he's he 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.920 was hurt not they're not. Well, that was another resting 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.319 situation right there. Yeah. And they had issues on their 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.720 offensive line from the get go this season with injuries, 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:41.360 and they had Ali Marpett retired in the offseason. They 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:47.960 were replacing him. Um and so Ryan Jensen is their 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.400 guy that has been their veterans center who got hurt 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.400 in a preseason I mean, I think if I remember 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.160 from the season opener, the only offensive lineman they had 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.280 in place from the year before was Donovan Smith, the 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.600 offensive Tristan Warps at right tackle them. Yeah, but there's 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.080 a two time Pro bowler now. Yeah, but they still 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.520 ran on us. They ran on us very well. They did. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.360 They did the only team in the league that they 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:14.800 ran against this year. His first game, they sacked Tom 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.640 Brady I believe twice. Yeah, Micah Mica had one and 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.920 a half of them. Was that right or he had 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.079 both of them. Let's go, let's go in both. I 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.920 think both, because he was he was at averaging two 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.840 to a game. Well, every time he'd get one, he'd 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.240 get two. Youd never just get one, would you like 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.880 to clean up the mess that was left yesterday? In 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:40.040 regards to the season opener in twenty twenty one, when 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.400 Tampa Bay came back to beat Dallas thirty one to 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:50.480 twenty nine, Everson Everson asked a question that there was 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.760 and we couldn't recall exactly what the play was, but 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.079 there was some controversial push off or something at the 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.880 end of that game. And sure enough I went back 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.680 gone NFL Plus and looked at that end of that game, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.760 and I can't sign on to mine. I can't what's wrong. 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.120 I just they said they fixed it. And every time 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.880 I tried to sign okay, want to, but it was 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.960 on that boot off Cowboys. Cowboys kicked a field goal 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.880 to go up twenty nine twenty eight, as you all recall, 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.760 and then Brady brought the Bucks down the field and 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.680 it was about at the forty five forty three yard 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:32.959 line with twenty seconds left in the game, crucial, and 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:38.199 I shoulder to Chris Godwin. He pushed off on Jordan 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.920 Lewis that put him in Dallas. Clearly a puss. I mean, 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.760 he shoved them down. It was clearly a puss, and 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.079 I think that's what I was looking at. I didn't 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.240 have a vision of a flag either way, but I 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.920 know that I knew that something happened with a p I. Yeah, 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:58.880 you said pass interference, I'm looking for passing. Yet there 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.160 was nothing. There wasn't called, he was not called. And 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.400 even the guy that was analyzing the game, when he 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.960 got to look at it again, he goes, that was Chris. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.200 Came by the way, he was a wide receiver too, 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.360 and yeah, that was Chris. He said, Oh that's that 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:17.600 was shoved him down, obvious to see. And that's when 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:22.600 that's when you know that the referees they read as well. 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:27.120 You know, they know who's who, they know the reputations, 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:31.559 and they are I think influenced at times by the 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:35.920 goat well or even the goat less well. He got 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.280 me to tell you about influence. Did you guys watch 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.400 the Maveris game last night? I did. I thought I 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:45.160 was watching w W and it was like a wrestling 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.719 man were going at it the whole game. Huh, Yes 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:49.719 it was. It was a hell of a game. I 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.640 saw it. I saw it. Hell of a game. Lebron James, 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:58.000 the big bully he is. He barrels over everybody right 0:11:58.080 --> 0:11:59.959 and somebody hits him with an elbow and he goes 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.400 flopping like he's in soccer. It's like, give me a break. Well, 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.280 I happened to be a Lebron James fan, but I'm 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.600 also a Luca fan, and both of them were out 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:15.440 there crying like babies the whole night. But he's so big. Okay, 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.719 that doesn't mean it, Yes it does. Cry s h. 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.160 Luca is just as big as he is. Oh, I 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.160 don't think so. Luca is a big dude. Have you 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.520 not seen him? He is huge. He lost weight to 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.400 still be huge. And I'll tell you what after the game. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:35.440 After the game, I'm not hugging Westbrook by the way, Yeah, 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.320 that's the guy that was going crazy. That's the one 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.760 that was going crazy. You're talking about Lebron. He just 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:45.240 sideswiped Luca, not him on purpose. He ran into him 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.960 after the ball was being taken out and again yeah, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.080 just boom, and then they're hugging afterwards. I said I'd 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:56.280 be d d D if I would hug him. Oh man, 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.600 anyway here, you won't have done You're done? Yes? Sorry, 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.160 that was that a mix shot. That was that's too late. 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.000 It's been a while since we've had the mix shot 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.880 sounder and the would be because of the Mavericks though No. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:11.719 And the worst part was as I stayed up to 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:16.440 watch it in double overtime, I couldn't go. It was midnight. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:22.720 The game goody, but yes to the point that Tampa 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.520 got a call yes in that situation, and it resulted 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.720 in a last second field goal. Tampa got to reprieve 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:31.880 they didn't get a call. They got a no call, 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.880 and that could have made the difference if you take 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:38.599 away that that pass and then you put it, you 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.880 put on ten yards on that. So they're back at 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:45.920 the Cowboys. They were at the Dallas Uh for what 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.280 did I say? Forty two? That would have knocked them 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:53.960 back to their own their own forty eight right, Yeah, 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.679 And then they couldn't have sat there and went uh. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.040 Then that was with twenty seconds left, they would have 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.880 been facing second and twenty. It was eighteen seconds left 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.600 on the next snap. Yeah, and then he just threw 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.760 three complete passes to three incomplete to burn the clock 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.679 getting down to seven before suck up. And otherwise he 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.800 wouldn't Those three pack got to play. They have to count. 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.640 There are people in Tampa listening and they were saying, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.120 no Brady facing second and twenty at his own forty eight, 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:34.760 he would complain pass Still there is. That's why yesterday 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.560 I said, you asked what the X factor in this 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.440 game is. I said, Tom Brady is the X factor 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.720 and it's not And obviously its Tom Brady. You don't 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:49.280 normally consider the quarterback. But it's those moments and we 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.000 saw it this season where they haven't played very well 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.160 the entire game, and then there are a couple of 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.520 times late in the season where he pulls out a 0:14:56.600 --> 0:15:00.640 victory somehow after a horrid performance. It's for their offer. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.680 Most time he does not need help. Just that particular 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.280 day he got help. Just need to be up by 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:08.360 nine with a minute to go, if he's got the 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.040 ball in his hands. You know, I remember back, Yeah, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.880 don't be up by eight, you get the touchdown hand 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:20.440 the two boys. I go back to when Everson in 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:25.080 the Giants beat UH San Francisco for that NFC tile. 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:32.000 It was fifteen thirteen, and I remember writing that the 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.360 key to this game was at the end the ball 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:39.280 was not in Joe Montana's hand. Now, Joe couldn't even 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.040 feel his hands right at that time. He couldn't even 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.440 feel his hands. He was on the bench. We had 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.080 just knocked him out of the game. Yeah, Lena Marshall, 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.200 So yeah, we weren't there with Steve Young. He didn't 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:51.960 want him in the game. At the end. You guys 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.000 had the ball, if I remember at the end, that 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.760 was the key, that was it. You wouldn't be confident 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.640 in um the Bucks chances against the Cowboys if your 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.320 guy Blaine Gabbert was in the game at the end 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:10.240 or Missouri Tiger who was the Kyle trask Is finished 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.280 it off. I would rather take my chance with that 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:19.080 and see being the defensi defensive player. You know, statements 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:23.040 like this insulting, they really are. I mean, yeah, we 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.720 gave it up to Joe Montown, Yes we did. Gave 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.240 it up to Joe Tisan the you after that, Yes 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.240 we did. But I'm not going to go into a 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.760 game thinking, oh, here we go. You just don't. You 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:36.760 cannot think that, right, because once you start thinking that, 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.400 then you play like that. And so if as an 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:41.720 individual you really can't think like that, as if you 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.560 think like that as a team, then you're infected. Speaking 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.920 of the thinking of the team going into this week, 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.120 coming off the loss and the way the team performed 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:57.080 on offense and special teams, especially against Washington. If you're 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.280 the head coach of this team, how are you, um, 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.480 what's what's your message to the team this week? Getting 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:07.120 you know, we talked yesterday about thirty years ago when 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.480 the Cowboys are going into playoffs in ninety two, which 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.960 was their first Super Bowl season of the nineties, and 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.440 Jimmy cut Curvin Richards after the last game of the 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.000 regular season. Team was playing very well going into that 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:22.520 playoffs and that was all And that was getting the 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.840 team's attention in a different way because Okay, there was 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:28.440 one negative play that happened in the fourth quarter, but 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:32.360 Jimmy's making sure that no, we gotta be on our 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.960 you know, uh, you can. What about coming out of 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.600 this game? But what about this this year? Coming off 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.040 the performance they had, but also coming off what happened 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.280 over the last half of the season. What is your 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:48.360 motivational theme or message to the team going into this game? 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.680 The game plan, the game plan itself has to be 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:57.639 something that inspires you know you us coaches have to 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.640 show that you're putting your effort in to this as well. 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.920 We're not just rolling it out like we used to. 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.640 We're not coming up with the same necessarily the same 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.879 game plan. We're not changing it too much, but there's 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:12.000 going to be an emphasis on certain things in this 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.840 game plan to where the players are going to say, 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:19.080 that's the point. Yeah, that's one of the issues right there. 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:24.439 So McCarthy's philosophy on that was we'll watch it on Monday, 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:27.400 and we're burning the tape and we're going to take 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.960 into account the body of work over the entire season. 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.360 The reason the reason I was asking the question, i'd 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.760 take the Coaches Show last night and exactly what I 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:43.360 said my preface to asking about the offense was over 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.800 a nine game stretch after Dat came back, your offense 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.800 is averaging thirty six points a game, leading the league 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:54.640 in so many categories, and yet the interception issue. Where 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:57.400 do you view your offense now going into the playoffs? 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:01.040 And he laughed and said, oh, there's some positive things 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:05.000 about the offense. You found some positive notes about the offense. 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:08.600 All I've heard about is how bad our offense. So 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.040 I think I'm thinking he is still in that team. 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:14.920 And just what Mickey said there that hey, it's the 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.920 So he got asked, the reason you're here is because 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.200 what you did over the season. He got asked it again, 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.960 and he said, the biggest interceptions. The biggest thing is 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:27.280 you got to look at the whole picture. You got 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:31.600 to look at the productivity too. So you don't sit 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.879 there and tell Dak, oh, you did this, this and this, 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.480 because if you look at the season he's had overall, 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:43.040 with the productivity of the offense. Oh, in those nine 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:46.240 games when Dak was came back during that stretch, we 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.359 were averaging thirty six points a game. And so I 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:53.720 think that's kind of the way. And would how would 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:58.560 the quote unquote master motivator from the nineties approach this? 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.560 He would do the exact same. Yeah. And he went 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.720 on to say, and he says, what you don't want 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.679 to do And he said, it's it's any player. If 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:13.280 you play thirty plays and you had two bad plays, well, 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.440 twenty eight plays were real good. Yeah, And he said, 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:20.159 we don't want to lose what we're doing on the 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:25.240 on the other plays, right, No, not just those two plays. 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.200 Don't go out the baby with the bath, right, And 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.280 then how they say it, Yeah, that's how they say. 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:32.520 And I thought it was a pretty good philosophy. And 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.159 after the break, I'll tell you what his philosophy is 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:39.120 on all this history, that this failure, that this team 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.680 is facing thirty years worth of failure, right, going back 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:48.680 to the last road playoffs, right, that's coming up next. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:52.320 You're on mix shots. The Medal of Honor is our 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:56.080 country's highest military award for valor in combat. More than 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:59.200 forty million individuals have served in the armed forces since 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.520 the Civil War. Fewer than four thousand have received the 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:06.080 Medal of Honor. The National Medal of Honor Museum will 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:09.480 be a place to preserve these legacies and inspire America. 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.720 It's being built right next door to the Dallas Cowboys 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:16.800 in Texas. Help us honor our country's greatest heroes. Learn 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.040 more and get involved at moh museum dot org. We 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:24.600 paid how much for those lessons? She's doing great? Oh yeah, totally. 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:30.720 Can you pass me a pepsi zero sugar? Great job, honey, 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:35.400 Oh oh, look at that. That's not the end, no way. 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.679 Now it's time for the encore. You know what, You're right? 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:42.080 Five times not enough times for everyone who traded in 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:46.199 rock concerts for their kids recitals. You've compromised enough Pepsi 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:49.879 zero sugar. That's what I like. Nobody protects you from 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:55.600 mayhem like All State. You hear that I'm a torrential downpour? Torrential? 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:59.040 What does that even mean? It means you can't see 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:02.360 out of your wind and if you have the wrong 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:04.879 car insurance, you might have to make a rain to 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:08.359 fix your bumper. So switch to all State, save money 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:11.359 and be better protected from mayhem like me based on 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:14.080 coverage in them, it's selected subject to terms, conditions, and availability. 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:15.920 In most states, prices vary based on how you buying. 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:18.560 All State Garden Couchty Insurance Company in affiliates, North Book, Illinois. 0:22:19.400 --> 0:22:21.119 What do you call a group of grown men and 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:24.000 women with their faces painted silver and blue who get 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.760 together every week to share a three hour long ritual 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:30.359 of jumping, sinking, and toasting Miller light and Tim Gallant 0:22:30.400 --> 0:22:33.760 hats while yelling how about them cowboys? You call it 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:40.480 Miller Time in Dallas. Here's to the cowboys, Here's to 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:45.560 the original light beer. It's Miller Time. Celebrate Responsibily twenty 0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:50.040 twenty one Miller Brewing Company for orth Texas Back to 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:57.280 Mick Shots. Get the ultimate fan experience for the ultimate 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:02.520 Cowboys fan joined Dallas Cowboys United presented by Globe Life, 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:06.040 starting at just twenty bucks. Join now and get your 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:11.400 fan pack, exclusive benefits and more. Visit Dallas Cowboys dot 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:16.040 com slash United for details and join today and for 0:23:16.280 --> 0:23:20.800 my PSA for the day, The Dallas Zoo has closed 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:25.080 down because there's a leopard on the loose. Oh really, yeah, 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:29.560 where do you hear this? I gotta notice on my phone. Wow, 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:35.040 it's a it's called a clouded leopard. It's and it's 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:37.960 not in its cage. So they had to shut the 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:41.120 zoo down till they find it. Did they feed him yet? Oh? 0:23:41.240 --> 0:23:44.040 I don't know about that part. And then when we 0:23:44.200 --> 0:23:48.199 started reading about a clouded leopard, uh, it's said they 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:53.960 have two inch K nine teeth, So don't go to 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:57.840 the zoo until the code blue has been removed. I 0:23:57.880 --> 0:24:00.280 wonder why I didn't get that. You've is it the 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:02.520 zoo a lot? No, No, it came up. I think 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:07.320 it was my Dallas Morning News. Oh, that's it. That's 0:24:07.560 --> 0:24:10.600 that's the reason. By the way, so much for sports 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:16.280 and was still tracking that leopards exactly right. No, wonder 0:24:16.359 --> 0:24:19.399 I don't have sports hits at four and five talking 0:24:19.440 --> 0:24:24.879 about the live shot outside animal Man. You called it. 0:24:25.520 --> 0:24:27.320 You're gonna show it to the rest of the class 0:24:28.480 --> 0:24:32.800 right here. It is that thing. Look at the teeth 0:24:32.840 --> 0:24:36.480 on that thing. Yeah, I wouldn't been one of the 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:38.800 mess with that. So why aren't teams called the leopards? 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:44.000 That's a good question. Is anybody I know a couple 0:24:44.000 --> 0:24:49.080 of high schools love joy is all right? All right? Yeah, 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:53.240 I can't remember what it was that you teast. I 0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:57.720 tease that everything going into this game, other than the 0:24:57.840 --> 0:25:03.040 Cowboys being two no playoff history against Tampa Bay, by 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:07.560 the way, is the last time the Cowboys won a 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:12.240 road playoff game, which was nineteen ninety two. One of 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:14.840 the great victories in Cowboys history. Might be one of 0:25:14.920 --> 0:25:19.080 the best games I think, maybe my favorite ever cover 0:25:20.520 --> 0:25:23.760 other than the ninety four NFC title game that they 0:25:23.880 --> 0:25:27.040