Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Mick
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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys apt Now here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Okay, we've got some music to start
Speaker 1: this fabulous football Friday not till Monday, Boys. The grand
Speaker 1: entrance for Everson Walls, who's not in the studio right now.
Speaker 1: Stand now. That should get you fired up for playoff football,
Speaker 1: Super wild Card Football on Monday night. And we did
Speaker 1: that on Friday because we're making our picks on Friday
Speaker 1: because Mickey Spagnola will be in Tampa, Florida on Monday
Speaker 1: and the finds will be distributed at that time. Has
Speaker 1: Everson Walls? Everson, you missed, you missed stampede and you
Speaker 1: came stampeding into the SWBC podcast studio. I was on
Speaker 1: the Irving Friar podcast. I was just up in the
Speaker 1: parking lot. I tell him, you gotta let me go
Speaker 1: so I can get down here. Say let me go. Early.
Speaker 1: Where is he doing a podcast from? He's going from Philly. Oh,
Speaker 1: so he says, hey, if there's a possibility that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and Eagles could play, And I ended up to
Speaker 1: him and said, and we're gonna kick y'all's ass. So
Speaker 1: I left him with that. Now, he didn't play there,
Speaker 1: did he? He played in Philly? Did he? Yeah? He
Speaker 1: played way Boston. Was it New England? Right with New England? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Philly used to be the Boston Patriots. I remember my time.
Speaker 1: I remember that before time, coach Joe, that's where he played. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he played for the Boston Patriots. I didn't know that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Fenway Park, I believe that's right. Yes, he did play
Speaker 1: for Philly nineteen ninety six through ninety eight. Irving Fryar
Speaker 1: played for the Eagles former number one overall draft pick
Speaker 1: of the New England Patriots in nineteen eighty four out
Speaker 1: of Nebraska. It was up for the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: but didn't make it. I think it wasn't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was Minding David Now, I don't think it.
Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't Minding Day, but he was up for
Speaker 1: I didn't make it. Was that when this is like
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, No, no, no, no, I
Speaker 1: meant eighty four was that Fairbanks? No, well, well the
Speaker 1: Patriots who was coaching? Oh, I think it was Ron
Speaker 1: Meyer or Meyer. I think it might be all right.
Speaker 1: I'll have that for you shortly, but let's kick off
Speaker 1: the show, Mickey with something from your legal pad. In
Speaker 1: the meantime, Well, let's go over the injury update, right. Uh.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said, well, Tyrann Smith ended up on the
Speaker 1: injury report yesterday with a knee. Um. Sounds like it
Speaker 1: was a just a tweak or whatever. He was limited
Speaker 1: and uh, McCarthy said today that he should be good
Speaker 1: to go to their day to have padded practice today. Uh.
Speaker 1: He thought that Tyler Biadishu was good yesterday, but again
Speaker 1: in pads he said, this will be a big day
Speaker 1: for him. But everything looked good yesterday. And Xavier Rhodes,
Speaker 1: who we got a chance to talk to in the
Speaker 1: locker room yesterday. Somebody I was asking him, you know,
Speaker 1: are you good? Can you play? And he goes, well,
Speaker 1: if I wasn't, I wouldn't be here spoken lack of
Speaker 1: true yes exactly, And so they he felt like, yeah,
Speaker 1: whatever they ask of him, he feels like he can do.
Speaker 1: McCarthy also said, since this is our padded practice. This
Speaker 1: will be a big day for him also, So he
Speaker 1: didn't seem like he was worried about anything else. And
Speaker 1: I've been I've been told that Sam Williams took care
Speaker 1: of whatever he needed to do with the Frisco p
Speaker 1: D and that he will he's at He'll be at
Speaker 1: practice and is available to play on Monday. And the
Speaker 1: head coach of the New England Patriots in nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: four when Irving Friar was drafted number one over all
Speaker 1: was Ron Meyer and he was fired at mid season,
Speaker 1: replaced by a Hall of Famer Raymond Barry. Oh I
Speaker 1: came the head coach midway through that at nine when
Speaker 1: was Fairbanks would have been Banks and you go back,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna it's got to be before that Ron Meyer
Speaker 1: was coaching. I think. Oh wait, I came into the art.
Speaker 1: Was there in eighty one. I'm going back, going back,
Speaker 1: it would have been early seventies. Yeah, it was early
Speaker 1: seventies season with it Ou and then Colorado. Then no,
Speaker 1: I thought it was you Fairbanks. Um he went from
Speaker 1: Colorado to New England see nineteen seventy seven. Fairbanks was
Speaker 1: the head coach of the Patriots through and he was
Speaker 1: let go uh late in the seventy eight season. Right,
Speaker 1: So anyway, there you go. Here's your new England Patriots trivia.
Speaker 1: And they are nine in the playoffs this year. There
Speaker 1: are that try it's because Tom Brady's with Tampa Bay. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: has something to do with it, which brings us back
Speaker 1: to the task at hand. And um, and it sounded
Speaker 1: like the Bucks. They completed all their padded practices in
Speaker 1: the regular season. So I think you get you get
Speaker 1: an extra in the in the postseason. Think you get
Speaker 1: one one? Okay for a week? I think yeah, I
Speaker 1: think okay. Uh. I meant to ask Mike when he
Speaker 1: walked off and he got away from me, so I
Speaker 1: didn't get to verify that, but I think that's what
Speaker 1: it is. So today's their padded practice. Um. Also from
Speaker 1: you know the injury report, you know this, the center
Speaker 1: may not make it in this game. Uh. Haines is
Speaker 1: at Haines Robert Hainesy. Yeah, so that means they got
Speaker 1: to move to do a little line dance there with Leverett.
Speaker 1: Nick Leverett out of Rice, very good Bill and so
Speaker 1: and the other college free agent in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: has been starting for at guard, you're perturbing Spagnola man.
Speaker 1: And then and then actually the guy, the guy that
Speaker 1: would take lever spot you do have, has been limited. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll see if you got this one down, Molshan John motion,
Speaker 1: he would have to jump a lot of illegal motion.
Speaker 1: All right? What wait? What schools he from? Too late?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna says probably one of the Frisco heis.
Speaker 1: He's out of Cincinnati Muller, but I want to say Michigan,
Speaker 1: but I may be way off on that and I
Speaker 1: don't have it written down in my voluminous notebook. All right, Um,
Speaker 1: but otherwise on their offensive line, they're getting healthier. Haynes,
Speaker 1: he got hurt in their last game. He was only
Speaker 1: in there for like sixteen snaps their last game. Boy,
Speaker 1: Like I said, John Bulchen is from Boise. So wait,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Nevada. So you're saying that when they got hurt,
Speaker 1: I mean, did he just leave or did he get
Speaker 1: hurt in the game we're talking about. He left the
Speaker 1: game and they were resting some players, but he did
Speaker 1: come out of the game with an injury. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard to diagnose that. And he's been
Speaker 1: limited so we'll see what that does. But you got
Speaker 1: an extra day. Yeah, that doesn't sound like he's he
Speaker 1: was hurt not they're not. Well, that was another resting
Speaker 1: situation right there. Yeah. And they had issues on their
Speaker 1: offensive line from the get go this season with injuries,
Speaker 1: and they had Ali Marpett retired in the offseason. They
Speaker 1: were replacing him. Um and so Ryan Jensen is their
Speaker 1: guy that has been their veterans center who got hurt
Speaker 1: in a preseason I mean, I think if I remember
Speaker 1: from the season opener, the only offensive lineman they had
Speaker 1: in place from the year before was Donovan Smith, the
Speaker 1: offensive Tristan Warps at right tackle them. Yeah, but there's
Speaker 1: a two time Pro bowler now. Yeah, but they still
Speaker 1: ran on us. They ran on us very well. They did.
Speaker 1: They did the only team in the league that they
Speaker 1: ran against this year. His first game, they sacked Tom
Speaker 1: Brady I believe twice. Yeah, Micah Mica had one and
Speaker 1: a half of them. Was that right or he had
Speaker 1: both of them. Let's go, let's go in both. I
Speaker 1: think both, because he was he was at averaging two
Speaker 1: to a game. Well, every time he'd get one, he'd
Speaker 1: get two. Youd never just get one, would you like
Speaker 1: to clean up the mess that was left yesterday? In
Speaker 1: regards to the season opener in twenty twenty one, when
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay came back to beat Dallas thirty one to
Speaker 1: twenty nine, Everson Everson asked a question that there was
Speaker 1: and we couldn't recall exactly what the play was, but
Speaker 1: there was some controversial push off or something at the
Speaker 1: end of that game. And sure enough I went back
Speaker 1: gone NFL Plus and looked at that end of that game,
Speaker 1: and I can't sign on to mine. I can't what's wrong.
Speaker 1: I just they said they fixed it. And every time
Speaker 1: I tried to sign okay, want to, but it was
Speaker 1: on that boot off Cowboys. Cowboys kicked a field goal
Speaker 1: to go up twenty nine twenty eight, as you all recall,
Speaker 1: and then Brady brought the Bucks down the field and
Speaker 1: it was about at the forty five forty three yard
Speaker 1: line with twenty seconds left in the game, crucial, and
Speaker 1: I shoulder to Chris Godwin. He pushed off on Jordan
Speaker 1: Lewis that put him in Dallas. Clearly a puss. I mean,
Speaker 1: he shoved them down. It was clearly a puss, and
Speaker 1: I think that's what I was looking at. I didn't
Speaker 1: have a vision of a flag either way, but I
Speaker 1: know that I knew that something happened with a p I. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you said pass interference, I'm looking for passing. Yet there
Speaker 1: was nothing. There wasn't called, he was not called. And
Speaker 1: even the guy that was analyzing the game, when he
Speaker 1: got to look at it again, he goes, that was Chris.
Speaker 1: Came by the way, he was a wide receiver too,
Speaker 1: and yeah, that was Chris. He said, Oh that's that
Speaker 1: was shoved him down, obvious to see. And that's when
Speaker 1: that's when you know that the referees they read as well.
Speaker 1: You know, they know who's who, they know the reputations,
Speaker 1: and they are I think influenced at times by the
Speaker 1: goat well or even the goat less well. He got
Speaker 1: me to tell you about influence. Did you guys watch
Speaker 1: the Maveris game last night? I did. I thought I
Speaker 1: was watching w W and it was like a wrestling
Speaker 1: man were going at it the whole game. Huh, Yes
Speaker 1: it was. It was a hell of a game. I
Speaker 1: saw it. I saw it. Hell of a game. Lebron James,
Speaker 1: the big bully he is. He barrels over everybody right
Speaker 1: and somebody hits him with an elbow and he goes
Speaker 1: flopping like he's in soccer. It's like, give me a break. Well,
Speaker 1: I happened to be a Lebron James fan, but I'm
Speaker 1: also a Luca fan, and both of them were out
Speaker 1: there crying like babies the whole night. But he's so big. Okay,
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it, Yes it does. Cry s h.
Speaker 1: Luca is just as big as he is. Oh, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. Luca is a big dude. Have you
Speaker 1: not seen him? He is huge. He lost weight to
Speaker 1: still be huge. And I'll tell you what after the game.
Speaker 1: After the game, I'm not hugging Westbrook by the way, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the guy that was going crazy. That's the one
Speaker 1: that was going crazy. You're talking about Lebron. He just
Speaker 1: sideswiped Luca, not him on purpose. He ran into him
Speaker 1: after the ball was being taken out and again yeah,
Speaker 1: just boom, and then they're hugging afterwards. I said I'd
Speaker 1: be d d D if I would hug him. Oh man,
Speaker 1: anyway here, you won't have done You're done? Yes? Sorry,
Speaker 1: that was that a mix shot. That was that's too late.
Speaker 1: It's been a while since we've had the mix shot
Speaker 1: sounder and the would be because of the Mavericks though No.
Speaker 1: And the worst part was as I stayed up to
Speaker 1: watch it in double overtime, I couldn't go. It was midnight.
Speaker 1: The game goody, but yes to the point that Tampa
Speaker 1: got a call yes in that situation, and it resulted
Speaker 1: in a last second field goal. Tampa got to reprieve
Speaker 1: they didn't get a call. They got a no call,
Speaker 1: and that could have made the difference if you take
Speaker 1: away that that pass and then you put it, you
Speaker 1: put on ten yards on that. So they're back at
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They were at the Dallas Uh for what
Speaker 1: did I say? Forty two? That would have knocked them
Speaker 1: back to their own their own forty eight right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And then they couldn't have sat there and went uh.
Speaker 1: Then that was with twenty seconds left, they would have
Speaker 1: been facing second and twenty. It was eighteen seconds left
Speaker 1: on the next snap. Yeah, and then he just threw
Speaker 1: three complete passes to three incomplete to burn the clock
Speaker 1: getting down to seven before suck up. And otherwise he
Speaker 1: wouldn't Those three pack got to play. They have to count.
Speaker 1: There are people in Tampa listening and they were saying,
Speaker 1: no Brady facing second and twenty at his own forty eight,
Speaker 1: he would complain pass Still there is. That's why yesterday
Speaker 1: I said, you asked what the X factor in this
Speaker 1: game is. I said, Tom Brady is the X factor
Speaker 1: and it's not And obviously its Tom Brady. You don't
Speaker 1: normally consider the quarterback. But it's those moments and we
Speaker 1: saw it this season where they haven't played very well
Speaker 1: the entire game, and then there are a couple of
Speaker 1: times late in the season where he pulls out a
Speaker 1: victory somehow after a horrid performance. It's for their offer.
Speaker 1: Most time he does not need help. Just that particular
Speaker 1: day he got help. Just need to be up by
Speaker 1: nine with a minute to go, if he's got the
Speaker 1: ball in his hands. You know, I remember back, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't be up by eight, you get the touchdown hand
Speaker 1: the two boys. I go back to when Everson in
Speaker 1: the Giants beat UH San Francisco for that NFC tile.
Speaker 1: It was fifteen thirteen, and I remember writing that the
Speaker 1: key to this game was at the end the ball
Speaker 1: was not in Joe Montana's hand. Now, Joe couldn't even
Speaker 1: feel his hands right at that time. He couldn't even
Speaker 1: feel his hands. He was on the bench. We had
Speaker 1: just knocked him out of the game. Yeah, Lena Marshall,
Speaker 1: So yeah, we weren't there with Steve Young. He didn't
Speaker 1: want him in the game. At the end. You guys
Speaker 1: had the ball, if I remember at the end, that
Speaker 1: was the key, that was it. You wouldn't be confident
Speaker 1: in um the Bucks chances against the Cowboys if your
Speaker 1: guy Blaine Gabbert was in the game at the end
Speaker 1: or Missouri Tiger who was the Kyle trask Is finished
Speaker 1: it off. I would rather take my chance with that
Speaker 1: and see being the defensi defensive player. You know, statements
Speaker 1: like this insulting, they really are. I mean, yeah, we
Speaker 1: gave it up to Joe Montown, Yes we did. Gave
Speaker 1: it up to Joe Tisan the you after that, Yes
Speaker 1: we did. But I'm not going to go into a
Speaker 1: game thinking, oh, here we go. You just don't. You
Speaker 1: cannot think that, right, because once you start thinking that,
Speaker 1: then you play like that. And so if as an
Speaker 1: individual you really can't think like that, as if you
Speaker 1: think like that as a team, then you're infected. Speaking
Speaker 1: of the thinking of the team going into this week,
Speaker 1: coming off the loss and the way the team performed
Speaker 1: on offense and special teams, especially against Washington. If you're
Speaker 1: the head coach of this team, how are you, um,
Speaker 1: what's what's your message to the team this week? Getting
Speaker 1: you know, we talked yesterday about thirty years ago when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are going into playoffs in ninety two, which
Speaker 1: was their first Super Bowl season of the nineties, and
Speaker 1: Jimmy cut Curvin Richards after the last game of the
Speaker 1: regular season. Team was playing very well going into that
Speaker 1: playoffs and that was all And that was getting the
Speaker 1: team's attention in a different way because Okay, there was
Speaker 1: one negative play that happened in the fourth quarter, but
Speaker 1: Jimmy's making sure that no, we gotta be on our
Speaker 1: you know, uh, you can. What about coming out of
Speaker 1: this game? But what about this this year? Coming off
Speaker 1: the performance they had, but also coming off what happened
Speaker 1: over the last half of the season. What is your
Speaker 1: motivational theme or message to the team going into this game?
Speaker 1: The game plan, the game plan itself has to be
Speaker 1: something that inspires you know you us coaches have to
Speaker 1: show that you're putting your effort in to this as well.
Speaker 1: We're not just rolling it out like we used to.
Speaker 1: We're not coming up with the same necessarily the same
Speaker 1: game plan. We're not changing it too much, but there's
Speaker 1: going to be an emphasis on certain things in this
Speaker 1: game plan to where the players are going to say,
Speaker 1: that's the point. Yeah, that's one of the issues right there.
Speaker 1: So McCarthy's philosophy on that was we'll watch it on Monday,
Speaker 1: and we're burning the tape and we're going to take
Speaker 1: into account the body of work over the entire season.
Speaker 1: The reason the reason I was asking the question, i'd
Speaker 1: take the Coaches Show last night and exactly what I
Speaker 1: said my preface to asking about the offense was over
Speaker 1: a nine game stretch after Dat came back, your offense
Speaker 1: is averaging thirty six points a game, leading the league
Speaker 1: in so many categories, and yet the interception issue. Where
Speaker 1: do you view your offense now going into the playoffs?
Speaker 1: And he laughed and said, oh, there's some positive things
Speaker 1: about the offense. You found some positive notes about the offense.
Speaker 1: All I've heard about is how bad our offense. So
Speaker 1: I think I'm thinking he is still in that team.
Speaker 1: And just what Mickey said there that hey, it's the
Speaker 1: So he got asked, the reason you're here is because
Speaker 1: what you did over the season. He got asked it again,
Speaker 1: and he said, the biggest interceptions. The biggest thing is
Speaker 1: you got to look at the whole picture. You got
Speaker 1: to look at the productivity too. So you don't sit
Speaker 1: there and tell Dak, oh, you did this, this and this,
Speaker 1: because if you look at the season he's had overall,
Speaker 1: with the productivity of the offense. Oh, in those nine
Speaker 1: games when Dak was came back during that stretch, we
Speaker 1: were averaging thirty six points a game. And so I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of the way. And would how would
Speaker 1: the quote unquote master motivator from the nineties approach this?
Speaker 1: He would do the exact same. Yeah. And he went
Speaker 1: on to say, and he says, what you don't want
Speaker 1: to do And he said, it's it's any player. If
Speaker 1: you play thirty plays and you had two bad plays, well,
Speaker 1: twenty eight plays were real good. Yeah, And he said,
Speaker 1: we don't want to lose what we're doing on the
Speaker 1: on the other plays, right, No, not just those two plays.
Speaker 1: Don't go out the baby with the bath, right, And
Speaker 1: then how they say it, Yeah, that's how they say.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was a pretty good philosophy. And
Speaker 1: after the break, I'll tell you what his philosophy is
Speaker 1: on all this history, that this failure, that this team
Speaker 1: is facing thirty years worth of failure, right, going back
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Speaker 1: down because there's a leopard on the loose. Oh really, yeah,
Speaker 1: where do you hear this? I gotta notice on my phone. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's a it's called a clouded leopard. It's and it's
Speaker 1: not in its cage. So they had to shut the
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Speaker 1: started reading about a clouded leopard, uh, it's said they
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Speaker 1: the zoo until the code blue has been removed. I
Speaker 1: wonder why I didn't get that. You've is it the
Speaker 1: zoo a lot? No, No, it came up. I think
Speaker 1: it was my Dallas Morning News. Oh, that's it. That's
Speaker 1: that's the reason. By the way, so much for sports
Speaker 1: and was still tracking that leopards exactly right. No, wonder
Speaker 1: I don't have sports hits at four and five talking
Speaker 1: about the live shot outside animal Man. You called it.
Speaker 1: You're gonna show it to the rest of the class
Speaker 1: right here. It is that thing. Look at the teeth
Speaker 1: on that thing. Yeah, I wouldn't been one of the
Speaker 1: mess with that. So why aren't teams called the leopards?
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Is anybody I know a couple
Speaker 1: of high schools love joy is all right? All right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't remember what it was that you teast. I
Speaker 1: tease that everything going into this game, other than the
Speaker 1: Cowboys being two no playoff history against Tampa Bay, by
Speaker 1: the way, is the last time the Cowboys won a
Speaker 1: road playoff game, which was nineteen ninety two. One of
Speaker 1: the great victories in Cowboys history. Might be one of
Speaker 1: the best games I think, maybe my favorite ever cover
Speaker 1: other than the ninety four NFC title game that they
Speaker 1: lost the way they came back after turning the ball
Speaker 1: over the first three times they had it. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy is not tone deaf, and he knows what
Speaker 1: his players are hearing all this history stuff about you know,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady seven and oh against the Cowboys. You know,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys you know haven't gotten or haven't won a
Speaker 1: divisional playoff game, and this and that, and then the
Speaker 1: fact that since it's been thirty years since they won
Speaker 1: a road playoff game nineteen ninety two San Francisco. So
Speaker 1: what he did, he said in a team meeting, he
Speaker 1: got ten players who had baby pictures in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: two to emphasize how long ago that was. It's not bad,
Speaker 1: that's not bad, and he put them up. They put
Speaker 1: him up only ten players on the team that were
Speaker 1: born before nineteen ninety two or in nineteen ninety it
Speaker 1: would be before for that game. And there wasn't eleventh.
Speaker 1: By the way, Jason Peters was ten years old, but
Speaker 1: he had a beard. I like, somebody said when we
Speaker 1: were when we walked off, somebody said, yeah, Peters was
Speaker 1: probably out there with a cigarette. But he put them
Speaker 1: up to explain about Peters. Tom Brady was fifteen, right,
Speaker 1: explain how long ago that was and that that history
Speaker 1: is not on your shoulder. And you know, and I
Speaker 1: thought Michael Parsons was good about it. He said, you
Speaker 1: know what, I He basically said, I can control today,
Speaker 1: I can't control history. So that doesn't have any effect
Speaker 1: on me. No one's talked about it much but you know,
Speaker 1: you can be inspired by other games. I mean, let's
Speaker 1: just look at the green Bay Detroit game. Right, We
Speaker 1: hadn't talked about that much at all. It was set
Speaker 1: up for history to repeat itself, like it has over
Speaker 1: and over again with with the Lions, right with Rogers
Speaker 1: robs at the end. Yes, I mean that it was
Speaker 1: all set up for, you know, Aaron Rodgers to show
Speaker 1: everybody that how wrong they were, how smart he is,
Speaker 1: the coach himself. You know, Detroit Lions are fighting history
Speaker 1: of ineptitude and then here this guy. They come out
Speaker 1: and they say, screw that. They blitzed the hell out
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers. They did not care. They were aggressive
Speaker 1: the whole game. They fell behind guys in the game
Speaker 1: in green Bay, right, Well that was in green Bay,
Speaker 1: and they come back and win that ball game, and
Speaker 1: they made air and look like a justin average quarterback
Speaker 1: with I think three interceptions that game, well I know
Speaker 1: one was called back, Yeah, but definitely into some uncharacteristic plays.
Speaker 1: That was all because of the determination of that team.
Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with the history. They didn't
Speaker 1: give a damn about what Aaron Widger was all about.
Speaker 1: It was all about the Detroit Tiger, Detroit Lions. But
Speaker 1: Detroit would have done that if they could have made
Speaker 1: the playoffs. The Detroit that would have that would have
Speaker 1: played a factor at it. Their history, Oh, their history,
Speaker 1: their history. Yet Green Bay would have all right, But
Speaker 1: as McCarthy said, we have no we have zero responsibility
Speaker 1: for the San Francisco game, I meaning we didn't win
Speaker 1: that game. Could have put Kellen Moore's picture up there too.
Speaker 1: He was only four at the time in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 1: You go, um, how were old were you in nineteen nine?
Speaker 1: Old enough to be out there? But it was. It
Speaker 1: was a great week. I was out there all week covering, uh,
Speaker 1: the San Francisco side of things leading up to that game,
Speaker 1: at Dwight Clark's restaurant, talking to him and stuff. Anyway,
Speaker 1: just a regular state Yeah, it was a sports bar,
Speaker 1: That's what it was. I have ever since a picture
Speaker 1: up on capture. It was prominently dispointed. It was on
Speaker 1: the billboard, the marquee out front. Yeah. The restaurant was
Speaker 1: called the Catch, right, Yeah, there's one. Oh, I don't
Speaker 1: get a diameter that good stuff out all right? All right,
Speaker 1: all right, you're looking through your legal pad I don't
Speaker 1: want to lose anything off your legal pad. You prepare
Speaker 1: so hard for this and I want to make sure
Speaker 1: because everything covered here so far, I think everything we
Speaker 1: needed to talk about. I believe we've talked about um,
Speaker 1: which will set the stage for our picks coming up
Speaker 1: in the next segment. So I I just saw a
Speaker 1: snippet of it. The NFL All Pro teams can yes,
Speaker 1: and I believe Michael par Mica, and this shows the
Speaker 1: media does a better job of picking the all protein
Speaker 1: than the players do. Is that what you're about to say? Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't you dare fix your mouth to say that. All
Speaker 1: I know is Micah said yesterday when they tried to
Speaker 1: set them up with that, he basically said, I didn't
Speaker 1: even vote. Really. Yeah, you know what, when they do
Speaker 1: that thing with a poll like that, like NFLPA and
Speaker 1: they have the players, they should give you the percentage
Speaker 1: of players that voted, because I guarantee you every player
Speaker 1: did not vote. And see, that's not cool and this
Speaker 1: is well, the main issue that everyone would have with
Speaker 1: it was the fact that that Aaron Donald, as great
Speaker 1: a player as he is, was first team defensive tackle
Speaker 1: on that player's team. Well, it said it said that
Speaker 1: you couldn't over the first fifteen games, so that tells you, right,
Speaker 1: and the voting went down you couldn't and he played
Speaker 1: in eleven games this year. He didn't play enough games
Speaker 1: and didn't have enough stats to merit it. There are
Speaker 1: more deserving players this year, and as is reflected on
Speaker 1: the AP All Pro Team that was announced and running
Speaker 1: it down, Zack Martin again first team All Pro, right
Speaker 1: guard on the team. You want me to give you
Speaker 1: the list or what? No, that's all right, but yeah, Micah,
Speaker 1: all right? Everon, well ever, once here, I can do
Speaker 1: it real quick. Patrick Mahomes is your quarterback. To running
Speaker 1: backs Josh Jacobs tied end Travis Kelsey. Receivers are Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and Davante Adams. Lineman or Trent Williams, Lane
Speaker 1: Johnson at tackles. The guards are Joel Betonio and Zach Martin.
Speaker 1: The center Jason Kelsey. Defense was the NFLPA one basically yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: defense edge rushers Nick Bosa and Michael Parsons, so Micah
Speaker 1: got it as an edge rusher over Miles Garrett who
Speaker 1: was on the players team. Interior lineman Chris Jones and
Speaker 1: Quinnin Williams. Quinnin Williams gets it over Aaron Donald at
Speaker 1: that position. Linebackers are Fred Warner, Roquan Smith and Matt Mlano.
Speaker 1: Corners Sas Gardner who was not on the players list,
Speaker 1: and Patrick Certan. And the safeties are Mica Fitzpatrick and
Speaker 1: Tolnga who Funga of San Francisco. Special teams place kicker
Speaker 1: Daniel Carlson, punter Tommy Townsend, kick returner Keishan Nixon, punt
Speaker 1: returner Marcus Jones, special teamer Jeremy Reeves, and long snapper
Speaker 1: Andrew Depolo. So those special teams was all different, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were all different. Yeah, and Turpin made it on
Speaker 1: the players team, so I'd have to double check this.
Speaker 1: But I think when I was doing my deal with
Speaker 1: the fan, they pointed out that uh Parsons would have
Speaker 1: been the only Cowboy defensive player to make All Pro
Speaker 1: in his first two years. Did you not make it
Speaker 1: your rookie year, Now you made Pro Bowl, Pro Bowl? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So that that I thought spoke volumes if you consider
Speaker 1: how great defensive players, And that's always where I would
Speaker 1: start my argument with Darren Woodson going into the Pro
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame that he leads this team that
Speaker 1: has had so many great defensive players in tackles and
Speaker 1: it's not sexy. I mean the status, Yeah, the stat
Speaker 1: is not sexy. And unfortunately more than Bob Lilly, more
Speaker 1: than Randy White, all those defensive players. Unfortunately, that's that's
Speaker 1: that does not And see that's where the press sometimes
Speaker 1: can can be a little bit distant. You know, they
Speaker 1: don't realize just Cordon that is, you know, to lead
Speaker 1: the team in tackles. It's just not sexy interceptions of
Speaker 1: one thing tackles from not only did he lead them
Speaker 1: in total tackles, he led them in total special teams
Speaker 1: tackles For a college, they're definitely not looking at that
Speaker 1: right that Avazzano would not let him off special teams. So,
Speaker 1: and that's that's something that in house has to take
Speaker 1: care of. If if if you're management with Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: or part of marketing or whatever it is, get that
Speaker 1: out there that needs to be known. Not everyone knows
Speaker 1: that last week they had the press conference with Woody
Speaker 1: and DeMarcus were they should have done that years ago
Speaker 1: with for Woody, Yeah, I mean that's you know what
Speaker 1: I mean we're so we lived so much on our laws.
Speaker 1: We don't understand there are other guys that have exhibited
Speaker 1: greatness that needs to be recognized. That's just the way
Speaker 1: it is. What do he is want of them? So anyway,
Speaker 1: I just thought I throw that out of all right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: is our last time to convene before Monday night and
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Speaker 1: in Tampa, I could call, but I am planning to
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Speaker 1: person that won't be here. The person that won't be
Speaker 1: here that we can't have a show is Chris Beam
Speaker 1: producer supreme. He won't be here. What's doing Chris be
Speaker 1: in Tampa? That's okay, you're we could do a show
Speaker 1: from Tampa. Well, there is no shows on Monday, no
Speaker 1: shows on Monday because there are pregame shows pre games
Speaker 1: and people who are working later on Monday. That's right.
Speaker 1: So but we'll be here Tuesday, okay, to preview the
Speaker 1: next round of the playoffs. Probably, just that's right. We'll
Speaker 1: just be getting in yep, all right, it's time to
Speaker 1: make our picks to click and our picks for the game.
Speaker 1: And I'll just preface this by saying, you get gas today.
Speaker 1: I made a trip to the gas station. Yes, that
Speaker 1: ain't gonna work out so well, what do you mean?
Speaker 1: Where is Nate from Frisco? When you know? What do
Speaker 1: you mean it's not going to work out so well? Well,
Speaker 1: because it hasn't yet. You know what, I worked out
Speaker 1: for the National Championship game. I believe I just didn't
Speaker 1: get enough gas. Remember I told you, I told you
Speaker 1: it was gonna be more fifty four sixteen you put in.
Speaker 1: I had a problem with that little equation when I
Speaker 1: filled up this week, Oh you did so, you did so?
Speaker 1: It went through your mind. Okay, through my mind, I
Speaker 1: looked at it. You would not give him the satisfaction space.
Speaker 1: And it came, Man, it came up forty nine dollars flat,
Speaker 1: forty nine to nothing. And that was just just pulling
Speaker 1: off the handle it. I usually tried spontaneous get it
Speaker 1: to zero zero, just because right, yeah, that's a round
Speaker 1: with all the scents. And so I said, yeah, not
Speaker 1: like he's writing down plus eight. Not gonna work today,
Speaker 1: all right, so ever singing kick us off? All right?
Speaker 1: Of course, you know I'm pulling for these Cowboys to
Speaker 1: win this. We started talking about the two score lead
Speaker 1: that's going to keep the Cowboys cushion where it needs
Speaker 1: to be. I'm looking at us twenty eight to seventeen
Speaker 1: Cowboys winning, and I'm taking the chance because every time
Speaker 1: I pick some one, he's on the injured list or
Speaker 1: something by the time practice is over. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: at my dude, freds Noo Fresno State, my man Bland
Speaker 1: been bawling coming back from the chest injury. I look
Speaker 1: for him to ball out in the slot and get
Speaker 1: at least one one interception, at least one at least
Speaker 1: one aption and at least two PBUs So what was
Speaker 1: your score again? Twenty eight to seventeen? Cowboywenty eighth seventeen Cowboys,
Speaker 1: All right, very good, Duran Bland twenty eighth seventeen Cowboys,
Speaker 1: make you you next? I can go next, okay. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give them that much cushion. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm going Cowboys twenty seven, twenty two, twenty two, twenty two.
Speaker 1: Where did that come from? Oh? It'll this will be
Speaker 1: a weird one. So there'll be a two point conversion
Speaker 1: involved there, there'll be field goals attempts for two point
Speaker 1: conversions that don't work. And so who's gonna have the ball?
Speaker 1: Ass Uh? They are going to get the monkey off
Speaker 1: their back and the guy that's gonna do it or
Speaker 1: help do it, because I don't think Tom Brady is
Speaker 1: afraid of anything. And he's going to use all his
Speaker 1: wide receivers. It's gonna be treyvon Digs, okay, because they
Speaker 1: he's not going to shy away from three if he's
Speaker 1: following Mike Evans. I think you think that he's not
Speaker 1: going to throw that way out guarantee he's coming as
Speaker 1: him absolutely, and so Brady down five will have the ball,
Speaker 1: to end the game. Is that where you're saying yes, yes,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys will make a play, will make a
Speaker 1: play to stop. Wow, that will be an exciting game. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's like take that history, all right. How many points
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys average over that nine game stretch? Okay?
Speaker 1: You know I decided when I went to the gas
Speaker 1: station that the score will be somewhere in the thirties. Okay,
Speaker 1: if I filled up the whole it would be seventy
Speaker 1: five to something, and so that would be impractical. So
Speaker 1: this is very practical. This is the final score right there,
Speaker 1: if you can see it, if I got it lined
Speaker 1: up right on the camera, and can you see that?
Speaker 1: Can you see that? Thirty five thirty is your final score.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are winners over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers five
Speaker 1: point game, just like you at this thirty five, I
Speaker 1: decided I was going around the thirty. Now. I decided
Speaker 1: the score is going to be around thirty five points
Speaker 1: because the Cowboys average thirty six over that nine game stretch.
Speaker 1: And what was the score when Carolina When Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: played Carolina a couple of weeks ago, and they were
Speaker 1: clicking in that game, it was thirty to twenty four,
Speaker 1: and so there it is. Thirty five thirty Cowboys are
Speaker 1: winners and my pick to click one of the newest
Speaker 1: cow Boys road. No. I knew you were going to
Speaker 1: say that. Well, you said the news. No, I said
Speaker 1: one of them. Why, well score a touchdown in this game. Okay.
Speaker 1: So this dawned on me because I remember looking at
Speaker 1: their scores through the season and I said, well, how
Speaker 1: many points has that team scored this year? They've only
Speaker 1: scored three hundred and thirteen divided by seventeen, comes to
Speaker 1: eighteen points a game. That's it. Well, they had nineteen
Speaker 1: on us first, right, that's right there, right at the average. Right,
Speaker 1: So if they get night, that's what I should have done,
Speaker 1: like twenty seven nineteen. You can too late, But they
Speaker 1: haven't scored that many points. No, No, That's why I
Speaker 1: tell you that defense for them is extremely important. They're
Speaker 1: gonna give him as many opportunities as they can. Trust me,
Speaker 1: that's why you have offensive line. Our offensive line needs
Speaker 1: to be the MVPs of this game. They have lost
Speaker 1: more games than they've won. Yeah, and if we threw
Speaker 1: out those seventeenth then they were a five hundred team, right,
Speaker 1: somebody beat them. Yeah, a few people, right, And I
Speaker 1: think six of those wins were by six points or
Speaker 1: a fewer for Tampa Bay, which is the scary thing
Speaker 1: because their defensive ball. So they have won how many
Speaker 1: did you say, six? Six, six six points or last
Speaker 1: six wins twenty one, fifteen, sixteen, thirteen, seventeen, sixteen, nineteen sixteen,
Speaker 1: and thirty twenty four against Carolina and it was our
Speaker 1: line was able to run the ball a little bit
Speaker 1: on them, just a little bit, not as good as
Speaker 1: they were against the previous week, it just enough to
Speaker 1: keep him on balance. I think one of the things
Speaker 1: that which really stood out to me was the fact
Speaker 1: that Fournette has caught seventy three passes, So he didn't
Speaker 1: he didn't light it up running except probably in that
Speaker 1: Cowboys game. But he seventy three passes. And once again, guys,
Speaker 1: you can look at numbers all you want, it's all
Speaker 1: about when you make those yards. It's all about are
Speaker 1: you moving the chain right? If you move the chain,
Speaker 1: then I take a two yard average. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, right, if we're moving the chain every every
Speaker 1: every third and two, which means I'm keeping with Brady
Speaker 1: off the basil, right right, that's right, and in that
Speaker 1: case they want to keep our offense off the field
Speaker 1: as well. It's interesting Fournette hadn't been on their injury report.
Speaker 1: He's been. He's been battling stuff late in the season.
Speaker 1: Early in the season. I thought I saw in here
Speaker 1: on their starting lineup. They had the other running first shot.
Speaker 1: Why yes, listed as the starter. The stomach ache he's
Speaker 1: so do he was thick this year. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: that does it for your preview of the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Buccaneers game on Monday night, and Mickey will be there.
Speaker 1: We will be back here on Tuesday and again that
Speaker 1: free watch party at the stadium Miller Lighthouse at AT
Speaker 1: and T Stadium five thirty on Monday in Joy the game, everybody,
Speaker 1: and we will shout at you again on Tuesday at noon.
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