WEBVTT - Mick Shots: Happy New Year 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:04.920 Mickey Spagnola. That is Everson Walls, but that is not 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:10.799 Bill Jones, who's away on assignment. Nate Newton once again 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.640 coming out of the bullpen to help out on Mitch 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:21.400 shots and dressed for the occasion, big nude. What's up? Man? 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:23.480 Just glad to be here with you guys. Man this 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:26.520 you know, to work with pure relics to where I 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.000 mean old excuse me, young and gentlemen like y'all is 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:36.280 a great thing. Hey, hold on, black Santa, come on, Oh, 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.560 I just want to know, did you buy that sweater? No, 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.040 they give them to us every year, shandom make sure 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.760 we have them and make sure you wear it too. 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:51.400 I see, yeah, well we wear them man like. Yeah, 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:52.919 I keep my tax so I can turn it in 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:59.360 up to that's what. And Everson, you have the bed man? 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:03.200 You look look good the build. I like the build. Yeah, 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.880 I'm glad. I'm good. You ignore Mick he said, you 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.080 have on a hoodie? Yeah, I got on my fifty 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.560 one fifty. This is George Lopez and this boy as 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.920 they kind of uh do this little thing here. My 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:16.840 cousin kind of deals with him a little bit. He's 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.240 called the People's Choice, so they just mailed this to me. 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:25.040 It's brand new. I took off my tag though, Nate. Yeah, 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:29.360 I'm keep in mind that a nineteen sixty five helmet 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.160 behind you that you gotta wait wait, is that a 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:38.240 void behind you that you have behind you? Some mess? 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.800 My wife. I think it's a picture the moon. I'm like, wow, 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.800 I think the ugliest thing in the man. I said, Babe, 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:46.759 this ram going to show the world that you are 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:52.400 not interior decorator. So so it looks like I've got 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.840 my NFL shirt out. I'm the only one that bought 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.800 the shirt we're wearing today. By the way, yes you are, Mick. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.920 All right, Well, good to have you guys with me today. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:07.920 Like I said, Bill had his duties with CBS eleven, 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:10.760 so he couldn't be with us for this final show 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:16.000 of the year. As thank god, we're turning the calendar 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:20.840 to twenty twenty one tomorrow with the Cowboys still in 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:25.560 this NFC East race with one game to go, and 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:30.600 as we've been talking about, uh, the the Cowboys have 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.280 to win. They got to beat the Giants, and they 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:37.520 need Philadelphia to beat the Redskins. And the Cowboys were 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:43.960 busy today not beat the Washington football team. You can't 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:47.440 get me to go along with you today on my 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.720 own show. Well, I was the first time I've done 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:54.040 that in ages. May. He only does that when you're 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:57.760 around Okay, I think you're nervous, man. He does it 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.360 right every time. That's the first time he's ever said that. No, Actually, 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:04.000 I get too comfortable when I'm around Nate, right, I 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.840 just kind of let my hair out. Yeah, he brings 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:13.320 out the worst today. I think maybe sometimes Nathan Ie fags. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.600 We are the We are the optimists. We are the 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:21.360 most optimistic Cowboy fans as as as former players. I 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.000 don't know about if Nate's changed his style, but minus 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:27.799 still the same. I never pick against the Cowboys, no 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.880 matter how bleak the situation. So thank you we have 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.680 that in common. Guess we don't have to spend that 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.120 last segment then making picks because I know what your 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.400 gates are doing. Yeah, yeah, just just to pick the click, 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.560 not about who's gonna win, just to click. Hey, let 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.920 me let me give everybody a little bit of a 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.560 practice update from today, since it was pouring down rain 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:54.480 and the Cowboys did practice indoors, which means the media 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.280 was not allowed to watch, so myself and Rob Phillips 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.840 were the pool reporters keeping an eye on the portion 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:05.560 of practice that we were able to see. And I 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:10.480 can tell you that Ezekiel Elliott, who practiced fully yesterday 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:15.120 and was off the injury list, opened up the first 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:18.680 portion of practice working on the resistant chords. But he 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.839 looks like he's ready to go, so that's a good sign. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.160 Mike McCarthy seemed very confident that he would be good 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:32.200 to go. Also, a Xavier Woods and Chitabey Awoozier both 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.480 limited yesterday. They look good to me. If I was 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:40.479 a betting man, I'd say they're eighty ninety percent ready 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:44.800 to go. On Sunday. They were moving well in the 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.160 drills we got to watch. I would imagine yesterday they 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:52.360 were limited because they just didn't want to overdo it 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:56.760 in practice, but they looked good to go. Not practicing still. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.280 Darren Thompson in concussion protocol. I don't think he makes 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.800 it back in time for the game. Uh Nora will 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.520 Layton Vanderish with a high ankle sprain. I would imagine 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.480 he's a week or two away from even thinking about 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:16.360 playing again. And Donovan Wilson, who we reported yesterday on 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.200 this show that he was not at practice. He wasn't 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.800 there because of an illness, and he's not there again today. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:26.359 So you hope that whatever he has clears up in 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.680 time for the game. And Rashad Robinson, who's been having 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.200 I believe it was a knee problem. I don't. He's 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:37.479 not there, he's not going to practice, yes, Nate, you 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:41.280 said don You said Donovan Wilson. Yeah, Wilson, Yeah, he 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.840 was ill, Yes, and he was ill again today. Go 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:49.120 to work, Nick, if one guy we need on the 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.400 defenses him, Okay, so find out before the show over 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:56.239 with please Donovan Wilson you perk may use. That felt 0:05:56.240 --> 0:06:00.839 like a German show but almost a Yeah. Now, Donovan 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.560 had the growing problem yesterday. We talked about growing yesterday. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.440 Rights facts. Yeah, but they listened. They listened, and they 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.320 listed it as an illness because the groin was what 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.239 bothered him why he missed the pre the two games ago. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.760 But they had listened with an illness. So to me, 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:22.560 that's encouraging because whatever you have, you can take something 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.000 maybe and you just rest now and get back out there. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.600 So uh, for Ninja standpoint, you know they were indoors 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:31.760 And here's one thing, and I bet you guys will 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.400 like this. Uh, they opened up the garage doors on 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:40.159 the I think it's the east end of the Ford Center, 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.360 so they would get some cold air in there for practice, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:47.600 maybe to simulate working at the Middle Lands on Sunday 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.279 just a little bit. Well, now what they have to 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.360 do then is to actually kick a field goal while 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.760 those doors. Yeah, right, and worked, didn't That how it 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.120 worked in Jersey? That's that's what I always heard. I 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:02.000 was there. I didn't know protocol, but I know that 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.320 even with the Cowboys, and when I left the Giants, 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:09.880 they talked about opening up the breezeway and therefore the 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.880 kicks will go a ride. So that's something that we 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:14.880 need to practice. But I wanted to ask Nate what 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.560 you like about Donovan Wilson man talk to his energy, 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:25.120 his ability to come up and hit people, you know, 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.640 like I know ever since when y'all played great Ball 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.400 as corners, you you and went fellows, when y'all were 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.880 playing nicest corners, y'all knew y'all Satans was lights out 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:41.640 with Michael Downs And I think and see, for the 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.440 life of me, and I keep trying to and I'm hoping. 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:49.160 I know, this kid maybe not a premial starter in 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.240 our league, but I hope he is that glue. That's okay. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.040 At least we got to thumper back the striking. I 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:57.960 gotta when you come across that middle. Now, he's got 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.280 to be a little bit smarter with you know, with 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.640 some of his shots, to keep his head up, put 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.360 his shoulder in a little bit more. But we this 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.960 is what we've been missing, a kid that will help 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:12.560 us get turnovers. This this kid's a striker man and 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.119 he and he to me, he's valuable. Now to somebody else, 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.560 he may be just another guy, but to me, he's 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.160 a valuable guy because he brings energy. He I mean he, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.920 I mean, I love that man. When the last time 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:28.120 we had a guy excited that's doing something, not excited, 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:32.040 that's just running around excited and doing you see, that's 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:36.240 the different thing. That's a huge difference. He knows what 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:40.920 he's doing back there. He's approach to the ball is precise. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.640 I don't want somebody back there who's got great intentions. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.880 Yeah right, but he goes out there and he misses. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.280 Everything comes up at the wrong angle. You know, we're 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.439 turning the fifteen yard en route to a sixty yard touchdown. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.160 See there's the kind of thing stop cut this guy. 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:05.240 You know. My thoughts on Donovan Wilson as he couldn't 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:12.200 be the second coming of drive by right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.280 But I know what I liked about him, not just 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:18.800 his attack attacking style Nate. I liked the way he 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.600 got that football the other day. He cut the wide 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:26.440 receiver off to make that play. If he doesn't cut 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.120 in there at the right time, that tight end has 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.560 a chance to catch that ball. That was a very 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.360 timely interception for us, and to me, it's kind of 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.680 shows the other kids and the other safeties especially, this 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.120 is how you attack a ball. Next thing, you though, 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.160 Anthony Brown's got two and all of a sudden we're 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.000 a prolific secondary. So that's what I'm talking about. The 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.720 team that is so nice about this. You know, I've 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.319 had people say, well, it ain't against the top flight quarterback. Okay, 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.880 I grant you all of that, but whether it was 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:58.800 top flight or not top flight four games ago, when 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:03.040 nobody getting interception, that's right there. There was no fight. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.560 You have to start somewhere. Yeah, you have to start 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:11.000 somewhere and That's why I give these cowboys a fighting 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:16.800 chance to be successful, because they're they're enthusiastic about it. Uh. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.960 It's amazing how we're not even talking about the defensive coordinator, 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.080 because that's all we could talk about for the first 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.000 up until four weeks ago. Now it's about the football players. Now, 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.800 the coaches are getting the chance to see, Okay, he's 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.120 a starter, he's not a starter. If I can get 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.640 him twenty five plays, if we can bring it, they 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.679 know when this off season comes, they would know their 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.800 team ever since Mickey. They would know their team, you know, 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.640 and this is gonna be and this is gonna be significant. 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:50.439 It's gonna be significant since we're talking about the defense 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.440 because the Giants have been struggling over the last month 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:58.720 scoring points. Uh you know, last games they haven't scored 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.120 any more than nineteen points. And during their three game 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:06.640 losing streak they've scored seven, six, and thirteen. So they've struggled. 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:11.760 So this defense, yeah, they need to step up and 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.200 make sure that all of a sudden they don't have 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:19.400 some renaissance and start scoring points. This defense has to 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.120 play that well to give this team a chance to 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.400 go up there and win a game that not only 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.920 that they need to win, they should win, no matter 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.400 sitting there at six and nine, whatever the record is, 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:38.640 that's a team that they should beat if indeed they 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:44.080 want to earn a spot in these playoffs. And you know, 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.360 go ahead, and they go ahead. Ask you a question 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:50.000 to mek A question I got into a little difficulties 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:53.680 with my last gentleman on our show. Do you look 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.439 at this team as just an average team? On some 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.280 of the Dallas Cowboys are a good team. I think 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.360 they're a good team team because now they're beating the 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.040 average teams and I think they're just a good team. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.040 And they're not a great team by no needs, But 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:09.559 I think they're a good team because the holes are 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.319 not as big. To me, they're still defensive holes that 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.880 need to be filled, but they're not as as massive 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.880 as I first stopped up until four weeks ago. What 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.320 are your thoughts ever since? Mickey? I want to just 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.280 get some different opinions. Go ahead, Okay, Well I will, okay, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.680 because you know what, you know what the thing I 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.640 want to say, go ahead, Here's I wanted to say. Fact, 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:34.080 when you don't when you don't talk about your defensive coordinator. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.480 That's when you know you're bawling, right, Natan. Yeah, when 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.199 you when you keep When Mike Nolan's name is not 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:44.319 mentioned for the last four weeks or so, that means 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.840 something good is going down and we're not looking for 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.640 a scapegoat. Okay, And as far as I'm concerned about 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.000 this team, this team is a good team. And the 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.760 reason it's a good team now is because the defense 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:00.480 came to the table right. Offensively, we all has had 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.880 some type of production, but we always need the defense 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.320 to answer for us, to be that that support for 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.360 us offensively. And if you're talking about an entire team, Nate, 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.640 this is what I tell Spags and the guys all 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.199 the time. You gotta be good and all fastest of 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.920 the game, that special teams as well, And I think 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.880 we have a very good special teams with Ceedee Lamb 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.120 back there. I'm looking for this guy to break one 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.760 real soon. I'm talking about to the house because the 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:31.280 special teams is right for making for continuing to make 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.000 big plays for us. So I think when you're looking 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.280 at all fastests, like you said, just a good team, 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.480 not a great team yet. But I'll take that good 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:43.880 team when that entire units together. They're all thinking together, 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.120 and no matter who fails or who doesn't make or play, 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.040 somebody's gonna cover your butt. That's the kind that's a 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.880 team right there. See. And I think that what happens is, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.440 I know everybody wants to diminish what they've done in 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.400 this three game winning streak because of who they've beaten. 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.560 You can only beat who they tell you to play, right, 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.719 and they beat teams that were kind of their own ill, 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.600 which they should have done what a good team would do. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.319 But I also wanted to point out that since the 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:19.080 Cowboys beat Cincinnati, they ended up beating Pittsburgh and Houston. 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:24.680 Since the Cowboys beat San Francisco, they beat Arizona. Now 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:28.240 the Eagles will see what happens this week. But during 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.320 their losing streak here, I believe they've lost six of 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.840 the last seven. Their one win was against the Saints. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.400 So these teams have kind of showed that they can 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:42.680 win some games. But you beat them and that's all 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.640 that counts. And you scored thirty points in each one 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.240 of these games and came away with ten takeaways. Those 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.440 are the things you should be doing against the team 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.360 that you don't think is very good or everybody else 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:01.800 doesn't think it's very good. So I'm sort of with this, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.600 you know. And Andy Dalton said it last week after 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.840 the game, you know, say they get into the playoffs 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.560 and everybody's gonna go like, oh, they're seven and nine, 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.280 They're in the playoffs. Whatever you did before doesn't matter. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.520 It only matters now going forward. And thank god it's 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:23.520 a new year. Maybe something's changing that once we get 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.560 past today, that twenty twenty one will be much kinder, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:31.120 uh than twenty twenty has been, uh, not only to 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:37.200 the Cowboys but basically to the all of us. Right, yes, right, hey, 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.200 hey did you have did you see how new quarterback? 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.680 Did you see how new quarterback? From from from the 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:50.800 Grease production Andy Dalton and Dalton? Did you see it? Is? 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.440 I was like, hey, funds, let it go, Funds And really, 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:03.920 all the all the all the all the jel in 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.520 the world wouldn't even when I had here, wouldn't let 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.800 my hair stand up? He has he him with Jimmy 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:16.080 Johnson locker room because he was ready for that interview. 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.760 You know what. You know, from a style standpoint, Dalton 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.840 might have him, right, might have Jimmy yeah, yeah, Jimmy. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.640 Jimmy was perfect too, man. And see himmy walls got 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:32.280 into that fistisope welcome? No non till he came out 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.560 of the until he came out of the shower trying 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.800 to find out what I said to the media. That's 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.840 that's the Jimmy hairstyle. That was all messed up. 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And we continue here 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:23.800 with Mick shots, Everson Walls, Nate Newton, myself, Mickey Spagnola, 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:27.479 and I promised you a story, and I want to 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:33.960 take you guys back thirty years ago today and I 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:39.680 want to say that Nate Newton and I were celebrating 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:46.480 New Year's Eve in the exact same place, Cowboys Cafe, 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:52.639 December nineteen ninety and it was the final game of 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:58.960 the NFL season, the Saints and the Rams, and we 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:02.560 were watching the that game because the by the way 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:08.280 seven and nine Cowboys had an opportunity to go into 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:14.720 the playoffs if the Rams beat the Saints that night 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:19.360 in New Orleans. And the Cowboys players, a bunch of them, 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:23.000 probably a dozen or so, all met at Cowboys Cafe 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:27.080 to watch the game that night, And I want to 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.320 set the scene for you because that was before they 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:34.320 expanded the cafe, and there was over a hundred people 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:38.399 in there. Along with ABC, which was televising the Monday 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:41.720 night game at that time, sent a TV crew there 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:44.680 to be able to interview these guys and get their 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:49.320 reaction during the game. So here's what happened. And Nate, 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:54.119 you'll remember this better than probably myself. But the Cowboys 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.800 started the season off three and seven, very similar to 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.800 this year, and went on a four game winning streak 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:03.920 to get to seven and seven, and because they had 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:07.679 beaten the Saints early in December, all they had to 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.600 do was win one of the last two games, either 0:21:10.720 --> 0:21:15.560 beat Philadelphia or beat uh Atlanta, and they were going 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.680 to the playoffs at eight and eight. Well, first quarter 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:24.520 of the Philadelphia game, Troy separates his shoulder that incomes 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:32.840 Babe Laufenberg and unfortunately, the offense didn't function too well, 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:38.520 so the Cowboys lose. The offense didn't function well. The 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:43.240 offense did well, that's nice, Babe. Babes numbers worked great, 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:47.000 So they lose that game, but still they had a 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:50.119 chance to go to Atlanta, and had they beaten the 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:52.720 Falcons in the final game of the season and finished 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:55.399 eight and eight, they're going to the playoffs as the 0:21:55.520 --> 0:22:00.920 third wild card team. Well, it's raining in Atlanta, right, Nate. 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:08.119 The field is muddy, torn up, Uh County Stadium. The 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.719 Peach Bowl was the day before, and they tore up 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:16.719 that grass field. Uh. Babe ends up getting intercepted three times, 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:22.280 won by some and took one back to the house. 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:28.520 Cowboys got beat twenty six to three. They had a 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:32.960 kickoff return for a touchdown, and poor Babe got the 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:37.280 ever living daylights beat out of him. They blitzed and 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:41.000 blitzed and blitzed, right. And here was a line from 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:46.520 my story that day. I said they they pounded Babe 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:51.960 Laffenburg harder than you would round steak. That was kind 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:58.080 of stupid, right, He was getting hit every time he 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:02.320 dropped back the pass. Oh, it was unbelieved. Oh my god. 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:08.520 So you remember that game right there? Yeah, because Babe 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:10.280 was so bad. So I think I fell on him 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:17.040 a couple. Then you got a half a sac game. 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:20.680 Oh man, It's like baby game so many time. One 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:23.280 time Babe was giving me a hand up, like bro, 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:29.120 I know how bad it was. As a matter of fact, 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:32.200 there was a quote after the game, Date was apologizing. 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:35.240 He he was like, oh my gosh, I thought we 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:41.439 were gonna get that guy killed. Was Atlantis. They were like, 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:44.960 didn't know, They're just blitz. They had Dione out there, man. Yeah, 0:23:45.040 --> 0:23:47.960 and that took care of that side of the field. 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:50.480 We wasn't gonna throw the ball over there at all. 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:54.240 But things Babes was. Babe was under such siege at 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:56.840 the time to Babe was throwing it anywhere. But he 0:23:57.240 --> 0:23:59.560 I'm not holding on to this ball, y'all what you 0:23:59.600 --> 0:24:05.600 wanted to So so anyway, did did the Falcons make 0:24:05.640 --> 0:24:11.720 the playoffs? No playoffs? They only won five games? For games, yeah, 0:24:11.760 --> 0:24:14.800 that was their fifth. But they had Prime out the man. 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:17.000 They had Prime out there on one corner. I don't think. 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:19.399 I don't know who the other corner was. Man. They 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:25.800 they they was braying it man. So anyway for the 0:24:25.920 --> 0:24:29.280 Ba Babe man. So anyway, the Cowboys still had an 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:32.760 opportunity because they had the tiebreaker over the Saints and 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:35.880 they just needed the Rams to win the game. So 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:39.280 we're sitting there watching this game. The Saints get off 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:43.040 to a seventeen to three lead, but the Rams come 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:45.760 back and tie it up with a minute seventeen to go. 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:51.840 Seventeen seventeen, and the guy the Cowboys traded away early 0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:57.120 in the season, Steve Walsh, leads the Saints back down 0:24:57.200 --> 0:25:01.400 the field into field goal position. Now, get this here, 0:25:01.440 --> 0:25:04.359 here's how close they were to getting in at seven 0:25:04.400 --> 0:25:06.919 and nine, which would have been the first team to 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:10.760 go from one win to the playoffs. The next season, 0:25:11.800 --> 0:25:15.680 Martin Anderson's lining up for a twenty nine yard field 0:25:15.720 --> 0:25:19.400 goal less than ten seconds to go to tie the game, 0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:24.119 to win the game, right, to win the game. The 0:25:24.119 --> 0:25:29.640 field goal gets blocked. Cowboys Cafe goes crazy, right, Well, 0:25:29.680 --> 0:25:36.679 there's a flag on the field off sides. That cookily, 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:45.520 that's all about it. That's so I'm the retail everybody 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:48.120