Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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Speaker 1: Shot screaming live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the
Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at No. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. Well, what's the saying? Two out of
Speaker 1: three ain't bad? Bill Jones still under the weather, but
Speaker 1: coming in out of the bullpen is Nate Newton. You
Speaker 1: know what, man? They told me Bill Jones got hit
Speaker 1: by A J. Dillon. He ain't. No, he's still sick
Speaker 1: over that loss. We all got on black. So what
Speaker 1: are we gonna turn to page? We feel bad after
Speaker 1: last night? Yeah? You know what I You know what
Speaker 1: I really is when you when you win the game, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: and you get to Tuesday here on mix shots in
Speaker 1: the SWBC podcast studio. At the start, you're onto the
Speaker 1: next game. But when you lose, you're still analyzing the loss. Yes, right,
Speaker 1: and it kind of hangs with you. And um, you
Speaker 1: know the players are off today. We'll see if it
Speaker 1: hangs with them, but they better get over it by
Speaker 1: time they show up on Wednesday for the first practice
Speaker 1: getting ready for the Vikings. So in the meantime, we've
Speaker 1: heard from Mike McCarthy again, We've heard from the coordinators again,
Speaker 1: and this morning we heard from Jerry Jones. Uh, kind
Speaker 1: of still analyzing the thirty one twenty eight overtime loss
Speaker 1: to the Green Bay Packers. Did they have any any
Speaker 1: new revelations uh? During the press conference the Q and
Speaker 1: as any anything different? Did he go off on somebody,
Speaker 1: did he talk about the refs? Did he, you know,
Speaker 1: stop the run? That's it the obvious. It seemed to
Speaker 1: be the pre eminent discussion point. Uh from McCarthy. Still
Speaker 1: from Jerry Quinn. So Quinn when asked about the loss
Speaker 1: or when he got started, the first thing, he said
Speaker 1: that one stinks, uh. And then he went on to
Speaker 1: say that the thing that hurt the most was losing
Speaker 1: the league as big as anything. We've got to close
Speaker 1: it down. So that's what he was most disgusted with. Uh.
Speaker 1: Talked about uncharacteristic errors and uh kind of a reminder
Speaker 1: of do your job. Ah. So it wasn't the system, No,
Speaker 1: that's what he said. It sounds like he's pushing that
Speaker 1: off on the players. All right, so do your job
Speaker 1: because the system works well when he asked about the players,
Speaker 1: he if he had the right players to be able
Speaker 1: to stop the run. He said, so, Um, it's about
Speaker 1: do your job. So everybody's got to give him the
Speaker 1: same page. Yeah, they tried to give an excuse the
Speaker 1: other night, talking about lack of practice. That's why you've
Speaker 1: leg Yeah, why Yes, lack of practice being the reason
Speaker 1: you have so much inconsistency going around the league. You
Speaker 1: look at last night. Hell, the Eagles had the same
Speaker 1: problem we have. You can't stop the run. Now, we
Speaker 1: were known for not being able to stop the run.
Speaker 1: This is a surprise for Philadelphia. No, I don't know
Speaker 1: how why it was so much a surprise because I
Speaker 1: saw Zeki Elliot and totally running all over them. So
Speaker 1: I'm not that surprised that the commanders had that that
Speaker 1: that running game going. Nate, we already talked about this,
Speaker 1: how persistent the Washington team was to run the ball right? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: uh you know they say, great mind thinkinglike and uh,
Speaker 1: I want to commend you coach Quinn. Yes, sir, do
Speaker 1: your job. Yeah, that's what you said yesterday. Do your job.
Speaker 1: This has nothing I know the history of coach Quinn.
Speaker 1: We all do. He was. He was the leader of
Speaker 1: that legion of boom. He was the man. If he
Speaker 1: had stopped trying to be a head coach in Atlanta
Speaker 1: and just take over his defense, that would have been different.
Speaker 1: They would have had the super bowler. Yeah. So I
Speaker 1: am this is only players, fellas, and I'm not changing
Speaker 1: away from that. Everybody has made adjustments. Tell him Moore
Speaker 1: has made adjustment and committed himself to the run. Coach
Speaker 1: mccarthur is more until the offense. Now you see this,
Speaker 1: dan Quinn has went out and got what his name
Speaker 1: both Bohannah, I mean I want to call him, you know,
Speaker 1: both Ham. They went out and got a big dude,
Speaker 1: They got a Hankerson. We have the personnel, now, we
Speaker 1: just got to redirect their minds earned the right to
Speaker 1: rush the passer, and I'm I'm gonna go back quiet.
Speaker 1: Y'all do what you do. And here's here's here's my issue,
Speaker 1: and it's all about the linebackers. For me, I think
Speaker 1: the defensive lineman, you know, they're trying to do their
Speaker 1: job as best they can. You have to have active
Speaker 1: linebackers for this defense, and active linebackers to try and
Speaker 1: hold down that the edge for this this particular team.
Speaker 1: They start off just like they did in Tampa. Tampa
Speaker 1: saw it right away, and we've been getting killed by
Speaker 1: it ever since the first game. They can't hold down
Speaker 1: the edge. And then as soon as we make the
Speaker 1: adjustment to hold down the edge, they started hitting us
Speaker 1: up the middle. So we need to be smarter. Number one,
Speaker 1: we need to be smarter as a defense. Number two,
Speaker 1: we need we need linebackers. And I know I'm talking.
Speaker 1: I'm going way back. I was accustomed to playing when
Speaker 1: I was in with the Giants. I was accustomed playing
Speaker 1: with linebackers who had that attitude. One of those New
Speaker 1: York Giant linebackers happened to be from the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: and now Steve deoss Gary Reasons went down during that
Speaker 1: year in nineteen ninety and Steve Deosse came in and
Speaker 1: he and Pepper Johnson, they weighed in at about two
Speaker 1: fifty five. By the time the weekend was over, they
Speaker 1: were about two sixty five. You know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: two seven, and boy way was ready to play. They
Speaker 1: were ready to play. And they would hit that guard
Speaker 1: and they would stuff that guard in the hole, and
Speaker 1: there was nowhere to go. When I see this this,
Speaker 1: these linebackers that we have on this defense parcels excluded.
Speaker 1: But I still need to get into his technique. They
Speaker 1: need to understand what the priorities are. You cannot go
Speaker 1: around your block. You gotta meet that block. You cannot
Speaker 1: go around the block. I love. We always talk about it.
Speaker 1: The ute Locker had two hundreds steth the tackles all
Speaker 1: of those ten yards down the field. Well that's what
Speaker 1: Van the rest is looking like. He's making the tackles,
Speaker 1: but he's all the way down the field. I gotta
Speaker 1: have some guys that's gonna stuff that thing in the
Speaker 1: hole because we have too many decreases, and those defensive
Speaker 1: linemen are getting, they're getting, they're getting, Uh, they're getting.
Speaker 1: They're getting hung out when it comes to them getting hooked,
Speaker 1: and no one is filling that hole. Nate knows more
Speaker 1: about blocking schemes than I do. I know about stopping
Speaker 1: blocking seams. So Jerry Jones was buying into it too,
Speaker 1: because he said, here on out, the one constant is
Speaker 1: stopping the run, meaning their priority. Uh. And he said, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: we're jumping right out of the frying pan and into
Speaker 1: the fire because they got to face Minnesota. Uh that
Speaker 1: I had heard that one in a little while, so
Speaker 1: uh yeah, and so that's kind of where all the
Speaker 1: and and to just kind of you know why there's
Speaker 1: so much talk about it, and you were right. You
Speaker 1: went back to the first game. In the NFL rankings
Speaker 1: this week when it comes to yards, the Cowboys ranked
Speaker 1: twenty ninth against the run, twenty ninth. They were no.
Speaker 1: They they fell, you know. And the amazing thing is
Speaker 1: they're still ranked twelfth overall on defense. So well, and
Speaker 1: it makes sense, right, if you can't stop the run,
Speaker 1: who's gonna throw against you? You know, they're gonna run,
Speaker 1: sort of like what we saw last night. We talked
Speaker 1: about it with the Washington and Philadelphia. You know, Washington
Speaker 1: ran for one hundred and fifty two yards, but it
Speaker 1: took them forty nine carries to do it. But they
Speaker 1: stuck with us because that in my math, that's like
Speaker 1: three yards of carry. It wasn't like they were killing them.
Speaker 1: And as Nate said, uh, it's like the Eagles never
Speaker 1: had the football's right, they never fellas Uh, this league,
Speaker 1: it's slowly because of how the defenses have called up
Speaker 1: to the offense. This league is slowly getting back like
Speaker 1: you know what fellas, we better hold on to this
Speaker 1: football while we got it, because it's it's about who
Speaker 1: was more determined to run this ball? And uh, it's
Speaker 1: just it was good to see last night. It was
Speaker 1: good because to see that this old fashioned football and
Speaker 1: now when we see a player action passed, we know
Speaker 1: that thing is for fifteen sixteen yards. The intermediate game
Speaker 1: had took over the shortest intermediate game. But when you
Speaker 1: run the football more, all of a sudden you saw
Speaker 1: seeing more and more big players. Art seemed to be
Speaker 1: bigger players because every time they hit one of them
Speaker 1: wide receivers, it seemed like it was for fifteen to
Speaker 1: sixteen yards. Was about in the Cowboys game, you talked
Speaker 1: about that we were doing very good job running the ball,
Speaker 1: and boy, when we came with the play action, Dak
Speaker 1: looked like he dropped back fifteen yards and he eyeballed
Speaker 1: ceedee lamb the entire way and before he threw the ball,
Speaker 1: everybody was watching with a group of people. Everyone in
Speaker 1: the house knew that's gonna be a dime. It was
Speaker 1: gonna be because he's open. He looked out in the
Speaker 1: whole time he took his time and that was a touchdown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and so that's what you're talking about. You know, we had,
Speaker 1: we had established that run, and that's what we're doing
Speaker 1: throughout the entire NFL. So when it comes down to it,
Speaker 1: Heineke had, God, wasn't his rating wasn't that good? He
Speaker 1: had he had no touchdowns and one interception two hundred
Speaker 1: plus yards. He didn't really need to get to be
Speaker 1: great because what they did was they kept the third
Speaker 1: downs to a minimum. Yeah, I mean third It was
Speaker 1: always third and short. It was always third and short.
Speaker 1: They second down was important for them. They would get
Speaker 1: six yards, they would get seven yards, and they kept
Speaker 1: the pilots off the tape. And the Green Bay game
Speaker 1: go back and look it opened up the same way
Speaker 1: for Green Bay. Man, Yeah, because they third and short
Speaker 1: all the time. They had a stat last night like
Speaker 1: this was the third or fourth straight third and one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and all you have to do is quarterback sneak or
Speaker 1: you know it's yeah, we get a symbol R. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: So they're sixty minutes in a game and the Eagles
Speaker 1: only had the ball for nineteen forty four, So that
Speaker 1: means the I go on to say Redskins Commanders. The
Speaker 1: Commanders had the ball twice as long, twice as long
Speaker 1: as the Eagles. They had it for four they just
Speaker 1: they use all what was the score? It then U
Speaker 1: thirty two to twenty one Washington. But you know that
Speaker 1: that last test, I laughed because a lot of times
Speaker 1: you dominate in these games in the NFL are still
Speaker 1: so close. Yeah, for the domination that Washington showed, the
Speaker 1: game still seems to be a little bit closer, you know,
Speaker 1: And so UH coach coach McCarthy said, I feel for
Speaker 1: these guys because you need to learn how to win
Speaker 1: games this close. Yeah, and and that is the key man.
Speaker 1: And I'll give you. I'll give you two plays, see
Speaker 1: you Normally you have to go back and pick yeah,
Speaker 1: mix up in the end zone interception to CD that
Speaker 1: will either gave us a twenty one point league or
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty four point league. Right, So I'll tell
Speaker 1: how people that it's right here. You cannot relax, especially
Speaker 1: when you're in that type of game. You own the role.
Speaker 1: The role. Your defense is gonna need help, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to be precise on offense. You're playing against
Speaker 1: the future Hall of Fame yes, so it's looking for
Speaker 1: it was desperate. So here's here's I looked at the
Speaker 1: scores this week, and seven teams one scoring at least
Speaker 1: twenty seven points at least twenty Yes, sir. Only three teams,
Speaker 1: including the Cowboys, lost when scoring at least twenty eight points.
Speaker 1: So normally if you scored twenty eight points, you're winning.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys losing overtime by three, the Bears lose by one,
Speaker 1: and the Bills losing overtime by three. So I know,
Speaker 1: you know, and I know the consent. What you said
Speaker 1: is right about scoring points offensively, but you did put
Speaker 1: up twenty eight points. That should be enough to win
Speaker 1: a ball, especially with the defense we've been bragging on
Speaker 1: since Yes we one yes, and so uh yeah, and
Speaker 1: I you know, and I hear all this. Well, now
Speaker 1: they really need Odell Beckham junior? Well can he play cornerback?
Speaker 1: Can he play right? We didn't show that we were
Speaker 1: lacking it? Why can he played defensive end? You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's like twenty eight points is twenty eight points? Uh?
Speaker 1: So here we are. But the thing is, and I
Speaker 1: heard you earlier on your on your hit, yes it
Speaker 1: we scored twenty eight points at the right time, and yes,
Speaker 1: we do have to play because the old garbage camp points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these were not garbage Okay, would not implicate they were.
Speaker 1: They were. They were strong points. And so that that's
Speaker 1: why I like, no, Mick, you right, becaucause we scored
Speaker 1: this the right way. Uh, our defense did not hold up.
Speaker 1: And I said this five years ago and I've been
Speaker 1: saying it and I'm gonna keep saying it. Fellas, it
Speaker 1: ain't that we're giving up those big chunk yards in
Speaker 1: the run. It's no. The killer is. The killer is
Speaker 1: whenever we play a good quarterback that teams that can run, yes,
Speaker 1: off of the playoffs. And that's what That's what Aaron did.
Speaker 1: Aaron likes saying, in my mind, I ain't got to
Speaker 1: throw this ball. Tom Brady's like, Hm, I ain't got
Speaker 1: to throw this ball today so that we can beat
Speaker 1: the Barons. We can beat we can beat the Lions,
Speaker 1: look at the quarterbacks. But nah, that is ain't happening
Speaker 1: against the good teams. We're gonna be all right as
Speaker 1: long as we understand who we are playing. We talked
Speaker 1: earlier this year about how close all the games were,
Speaker 1: and all of them within two scores. Yes, So everything
Speaker 1: right now is you might look at the outcome of
Speaker 1: a game and say, oh, they got them by this, Well,
Speaker 1: it was really closer than it appeared. The score did
Speaker 1: not dictate how close that game was. So every game
Speaker 1: we played this year is going to be like that.
Speaker 1: And when you go to Minnesota you have to think, Okay,
Speaker 1: we still have a chance to win every game as well,
Speaker 1: just like we have a chance to lose every game.
Speaker 1: So we can't we can't go into a game thinking
Speaker 1: that we're out. Man. You always pick Cowboys to win.
Speaker 1: I always put Cowboys to win because I know they
Speaker 1: can win anytime they really put it together. We've done
Speaker 1: it ourselves. That's why it's hard to pick against them,
Speaker 1: because we've seen it happen. We've done it ourselves. Nine
Speaker 1: games were one score. Come on this week and I'm
Speaker 1: counting eight right points? Yeah yeah, and and really ten
Speaker 1: because that that was the last trash touchdown. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it was. It ended up being a one scoring game.
Speaker 1: Uh so, yeah, I thought this was interesting. I was
Speaker 1: going through what Aaron Rodgers had to say after the game,
Speaker 1: and he said, we hadn't scored thirty points in a
Speaker 1: long time. It seemed like. And so he was saying,
Speaker 1: you know, we we got the offense going. But the
Speaker 1: key thing was, I felt like I threw the ball
Speaker 1: just about exactly where I wanted to tonight, and I
Speaker 1: wanted a chance to go win the game. Meaning what
Speaker 1: he'd through was good. I did quality. I didn't wanted
Speaker 1: to throw thirty or four quality that passes to be
Speaker 1: able to win the game. And see now that leads
Speaker 1: me right into this right quickly, like dak, don't take
Speaker 1: no more from them, guys, don't don't follow the sword. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I ain't saying you gotta call him out in the media.
Speaker 1: But when we're walking up the tunnel at halftime, when
Speaker 1: we're going when we over there on the bench, I
Speaker 1: don't care about CBS, NBC or ESPN. Man, let them
Speaker 1: guys know this can't be. This can't happen. This cannot happen.
Speaker 1: And stephen A, I love you, man, Stop for that
Speaker 1: foolishes say that. Ain't give it. Jerry's money's worth well,
Speaker 1: he don't even know how everything went down. All these
Speaker 1: seeds is I love him, screaming brother all all he wants.
Speaker 1: It's this funny thing about the Cowboys about how the
Speaker 1: punts treat the Cowboys themselves. I don't know what it
Speaker 1: is about the Cowboys for some reasons, because they are
Speaker 1: when we when we lose, it's like it's the first
Speaker 1: thing that's gonna be on whatever those shows are. I
Speaker 1: don't even want to give them any love. All those shows.
Speaker 1: That's the first thing that you're gonna see. If I
Speaker 1: wake up, I'm gonna see that start if we lose.
Speaker 1: If we win, I'm not gonna see that start. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna look another game. Buffalo, How did they put it?
Speaker 1: The Cowboys haven't been to a super Bowl, and I
Speaker 1: don't know how long. Buffalo too right, that's my point.
Speaker 1: No one talks about Buffalo Washington too right. I'm glad
Speaker 1: they talked about it. Yeah, Buffalo, Buffalo is a team.
Speaker 1: I said to myself, Hell, when if they made it?
Speaker 1: I talked to myself, what if they made it to
Speaker 1: a super Bowl? Where's the last time Buffalo has been
Speaker 1: to a super Bowl? With me? There? You go, right,
Speaker 1: you guys, with you guys, you know what, I don't
Speaker 1: care keep talking about us. Well, and I know we
Speaker 1: got to go to a break, but I was and
Speaker 1: I think we talked about it yesterday. I can't remember,
Speaker 1: but Dak was chewing somebody out on the sidelin. They
Speaker 1: caught him. Kept going like this right, and they said, oh,
Speaker 1: he was saying it was on me, and I'm going, no,
Speaker 1: that's not what he was saying. At that point when
Speaker 1: when Ceedee Lamb was was getting on Sholtz, I think
Speaker 1: it was kind of he was just making sure that
Speaker 1: they talked. Y'all got talked because that was on y'all
Speaker 1: and you saw a see and he like, man, you
Speaker 1: gotta get out of my way. You know what Jerry
Speaker 1: called those things. He called them faith throws, like I've
Speaker 1: got faith that you're gonna do what you're supposed to
Speaker 1: throwing them. Yeah, the past to Dalton Sheltz, it wasn't
Speaker 1: a first down, but man, either a dime he had
Speaker 1: to with Shelts better turn around. The ball is gonna
Speaker 1: hit him in the back of the head. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It was a hell of pass, hell
Speaker 1: of a catch and that said, that's up with the
Speaker 1: third and short. So yeah, all throws to me in
Speaker 1: these timing offenses, especially talking West Coast offense, when that
Speaker 1: backfoot hits it's coming out I learned that against San Francisco.
Speaker 1: It's the first time I played against it back in
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty one. When that ball hit and you better
Speaker 1: be ready. Okay, you better be ready. You can't be
Speaker 1: back there going. I got decipher this and decipher that. No,
Speaker 1: you gotta go now. That's that's the way the game
Speaker 1: has been since the nineteen eighties. And there you have it, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: And you know the amazing thing, I know everybody's downed.
Speaker 1: Cowboys lose a game that you think they should have won,
Speaker 1: their six and three, but Washington helped out, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: because now I think Nate was talking about with assuming
Speaker 1: that Eagles would have won, they would have been nine. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And so the standings are, let me cut you off.
Speaker 1: You uh you got that? Oh man, We're not We're
Speaker 1: not down were no no ones. Now, well you will
Speaker 1: listen listen to talk radio. And the reason I say that,
Speaker 1: the reason I say that because I said this, Yes,
Speaker 1: I listened to everybody's podcast. Yeah, at least once a week,
Speaker 1: and none of y'all said wholeheartedly during the week we
Speaker 1: got Aaron Rodgers right now, Yeah, you know that was
Speaker 1: my biggest concern, right, So I'll just now the fans
Speaker 1: are down, but we all in this in this world say, well,
Speaker 1: we hope to say the game and I did. How
Speaker 1: did we say, Cowboys offense start off slow? Yeah? Defense? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it. So Saturday night on the road for this
Speaker 1: game the Star Sports Tour, like most a little reception
Speaker 1: and it was a really good group. There was about
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe thirty people, and they go, what
Speaker 1: concerns you about this game? And I said, well, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys got to stop the run, and Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: still out there. I said, I don't care what their
Speaker 1: record is. I don't care how many they've lost in
Speaker 1: a row. In fact, the more they're losing, the right
Speaker 1: the more nervous one. And I told him my philosophy
Speaker 1: about the more you lose, the closer yard to winning,
Speaker 1: and the more you win, Eagles, the closer yard of losing.
Speaker 1: And so that then I said, I'd just I'd still
Speaker 1: scared of Aaron Rodgers. And then there it was so
Speaker 1: the way it stands right now. The Eagles eight and one,
Speaker 1: the Giants next at seven and two, the Cowboys six
Speaker 1: and three, and how about this, the Commanders five and five.
Speaker 1: They're right there on everybody's tail almost now. And so
Speaker 1: they tried to lose it too, Yeah, they tried. That
Speaker 1: was so much that went down that the Phillip Philly
Speaker 1: could not take advantage of. And we started looking at
Speaker 1: that secondary for the Commanders. They were on it last night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they were hungry. They were still getting beat. There was
Speaker 1: some great plays by the by Philly, but boy, they
Speaker 1: were hungry. They never gave up. It's like that sense
Speaker 1: of urgency was at its highest height. And when you
Speaker 1: saw that was mostly unique interception I think I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Because Brown had the ball in his hands, everybody did
Speaker 1: their job, he had the ball, The dB hitting his
Speaker 1: hands allowed that ball to pop up into the other
Speaker 1: defender's hands. Yeah, that was really odd. I don't think
Speaker 1: I've ever seen it happen. And then the ball landed
Speaker 1: in his chest. Yeah yeah, it was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: guess I'll grabbed that. Yeah, because he was going he
Speaker 1: was I think he was trying to go for the ball,
Speaker 1: but he missed it. It actually hit Brown in the hands.
Speaker 1: He will always think about that because it actually hit
Speaker 1: him in the hands. The other dB never gave up.
Speaker 1: The cornerback never gave up as he hid him, bounced
Speaker 1: up in the air. Number twenty five came and got it.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. So the interesting thing with the records
Speaker 1: in the nfcum So, the Cowboys are still in the
Speaker 1: top seven, right, so they would be in the playoffs
Speaker 1: if the playoffs started today, and the only teams with
Speaker 1: a better record than the Cowboys the Eagles eight and one,
Speaker 1: the Giants seven and two, and Minnesota seven and one,
Speaker 1: eight and one, I think, yeah, so yeah, it's like okay,
Speaker 1: and then there's the Cowboys at six and three. Um
Speaker 1: so I win this week, it would be a lot
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, in in in the East, depending on I
Speaker 1: was meant to look at that to see the what
Speaker 1: the Giants have this week. They in playing Detroit at
Speaker 1: the Giants and Philadelphia is at Indianapolis, So there you
Speaker 1: go there. And the Cowboys got to take care of
Speaker 1: their own business. I wouldn't I wouldn't put it past Detroit.
Speaker 1: Now they have they have a taste of the they
Speaker 1: keep giving when they won. They won this last week.
Speaker 1: Now they're feeling it. They got they won on the road.
Speaker 1: When is the last time the Lions won on the road.
Speaker 1: They just think about that. That's they're they're feeling it now.
Speaker 1: They're kind of a surprise. You know what the other
Speaker 1: surprise team is. And I think I need to remember
Speaker 1: to watch this tonight Hard knocks the Arizona four and six. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't sound like they're getting along. I heard that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I heard that that. You know, you've got the face
Speaker 1: of the franchise and the coach. Yeah, they're not getting
Speaker 1: along at all. They're not warming fuzzy. Funny how that
Speaker 1: happens when you lose. Because when I was reading they
Speaker 1: won this pass, right, so that's a good thing. When
Speaker 1: I was reading the Green Bay paper last week, it
Speaker 1: was like, well, I don't think Aaron Rodgers and La
Speaker 1: Fleur or see a night eye and a whole lot
Speaker 1: of things, right, And then I even leave it to
Speaker 1: us to save their relationship. Yeah, and even at halftime
Speaker 1: when they didn't or know the end of the game,
Speaker 1: the game, why don't you run the ball? Right? He said,
Speaker 1: why don't you run the just every single play? Probably,
Speaker 1: And he asked what he's upset about the last drive
Speaker 1: and then he uh yeah, and he said, yeah, I
Speaker 1: felt like we were like thirty yards from ending the
Speaker 1: game and regulation and also felt it was a two
Speaker 1: minute so why are we calling all these plays that
Speaker 1: they were calling. He had no problems calling out as coach.
Speaker 1: But I guess that's what I like about the veterans.
Speaker 1: That's what I like about the veterans. They're able to
Speaker 1: talk to their coaches, not the way we couldn't talk
Speaker 1: to our coaches back then either, But nowadays you can
Speaker 1: talk to your coach. Your coach depends on the players
Speaker 1: a lot more than they used to. They take all
Speaker 1: their advice, and I think the Cowboy and Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: especially just started taking advantage of the fact that you
Speaker 1: don't have to be the nice guy in the franchise.
Speaker 1: Just because you make all the money and being a
Speaker 1: leader doesn't mean that you take on all the responsibility.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're a leader, then you know how
Speaker 1: to delegate power, You know how to delegate du you
Speaker 1: do this, you do that, you do that. That's the
Speaker 1: leader that don't make you. Did Troy wait till after
Speaker 1: the game to choose somebody out or yah was the
Speaker 1: huddle hot. Nah. First of all, hey, man, let's just
Speaker 1: say I condole. This is to Troy. Yes lost his mother.
Speaker 1: Oh yes. And so I found out last night during
Speaker 1: the game and and tweeting him out, man, and I
Speaker 1: love you, Troy, bro, we love me, my man. Troy
Speaker 1: has always been enough for me, man. And I was
Speaker 1: gonna beat Tru up doing a game for getting on
Speaker 1: my behind, for for holding me accountable. Yeah, I ain't
Speaker 1: thinking he told me in the right way, but hey,
Speaker 1: he told me. Uh and and that's been my thing.
Speaker 1: That's you know, I try not to wrinkle feathers over
Speaker 1: there because I know one day I'm gonna go to
Speaker 1: the playoffs for something. But I got I got to
Speaker 1: call it how I see it. And the first year
Speaker 1: or two he fell on the sward, I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: Mickey's going to be like, wow, Okay, that's great. Yeah, third, fourth,
Speaker 1: fifth year, No, we gotta quit following on the sward.
Speaker 1: We gotta start sticking. And in somebody I remember it
Speaker 1: might have been his second year. Yeah, and they finished.
Speaker 1: He finished this little group in view and I was
Speaker 1: hanging around and I was kind of looking like this,
Speaker 1: and he goes, what are you looking at I said,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for the stab room, thank you, because you
Speaker 1: keep falling on your sword. And he just looked at
Speaker 1: me and laughed, like if you've just figured me out,
Speaker 1: because I knew what he was saying, right, and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: those weren't your fault, right, they sold you out? And
Speaker 1: he at least laughed. I know with this last week,
Speaker 1: I have not had a commentator like Olsen. They really
Speaker 1: pointed that out right away on what happened on the
Speaker 1: combination route between Shelts and and CD. Otherwise I've been
Speaker 1: kind of ignorant like everybody else was, like because at
Speaker 1: first when he ran that back and that was great
Speaker 1: of them in Fox he called it to run that
Speaker 1: right away, I tell and even the other one because
Speaker 1: he said CD's got to flatten the round. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: come to know that. I've got plenty of interceptions like that.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you know that when they're in the
Speaker 1: end zone so tight and so quick, yeah, hit quick,
Speaker 1: and uh, I don't believe that faith. I'm gonna believing
Speaker 1: this if you're allowed to walk out of that locker room.
Speaker 1: And this is the difference when we play Everson and
Speaker 1: and Mick and Galloway and all of these guys and
Speaker 1: Charad and they knew they knew enough football and they
Speaker 1: could get to them coaches quick enough after the game,
Speaker 1: the pointing fingers really quick, right, hey man, But resorts
Speaker 1: say that you didn't flat out across the safety right,
Speaker 1: you know, why didn't you do that? Come to the
Speaker 1: cornerback and ask him? Was that on you? Yeah? That? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so they could ask and tell us questions. Now guys
Speaker 1: get to get on their phone tweet out, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I did this and did that? Did you see me?
Speaker 1: And and and guys like you said with Stephen, They
Speaker 1: and those guys before they can even know what happened,
Speaker 1: they've really judged I please Stephen. They said that Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott is a detriment. No yesterday, No Phil, he said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not exactly he said he is not
Speaker 1: a detrian, but he's a weak link. He called him
Speaker 1: the weak link of the team. That's well, good thing.
Speaker 1: We have no weak links on shots. Wow, our last break.
Speaker 1: Wow we paid how much for those lessons? She's doing great?
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Speaker 1: com slash United um. I wanted to bring this up
Speaker 1: because I thought it was worth mentioning after listening to
Speaker 1: John Fossil yesterday. Luke Gifford on Special Teams he had
Speaker 1: five tackles, three solo, two assists. No one does that
Speaker 1: on special teams, right, and he had the fumble recovery
Speaker 1: by the way. So they have this little board up
Speaker 1: there where they it's a kind of a scoreboard for
Speaker 1: special teams. You get so many points for this or
Speaker 1: this or this, and he said, usually, Uh, what's really
Speaker 1: good is if you get to five hundred points at
Speaker 1: the end of the season. He said, well, Gifford in
Speaker 1: that game probably earned one hundred points for what he did. Uh.
Speaker 1: We talked about it when we left, by the way, linebacker.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. He doesn't get many chances
Speaker 1: to play regular downs, um, but on special teams so
Speaker 1: he had. Um I think he had ended up with
Speaker 1: twenty six uh, twenty six plays on special teams. Um.
Speaker 1: So that was one almost one play per five. That's
Speaker 1: pretty good on special teams. So yeah, I thought after
Speaker 1: he pointed that that that out. So he played eighty
Speaker 1: seven percent of the special teams plays. We brought it
Speaker 1: up yesterday after the show. We should have talked about
Speaker 1: it on the air. Yeah, but I remember yelling out, man,
Speaker 1: you know, Gifford, we love the shot. Yeah. I got
Speaker 1: to give him a shout out. That's I think that's
Speaker 1: one of the better, you know, forgotten not returning punts
Speaker 1: and things, that's one of the better special teams performances.
Speaker 1: I think I've ever seen to be that prominent in
Speaker 1: in throughout the entire game. That's That's a tough call,
Speaker 1: but I don't think I've seen anybody that involved, especially
Speaker 1: when you're talking about fumble recoveries. Did he cause of
Speaker 1: fumble as well? I thought he did, but they didn't
Speaker 1: give him credit for one after he got hurt and
Speaker 1: he came back in and played. Um so yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: Luke Gifford, pretty you know, I guess we have to
Speaker 1: do a game by game of build three facets. Three facets. Yeah, offense, defense,
Speaker 1: and special teams. That's the only way we're gonna make
Speaker 1: it all the way. And um oh, I know what
Speaker 1: the thing I wanted to point out, So Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: He was asked, um if he was surprised the Cowboys
Speaker 1: didn't kick the field goal on fourth and three in overtime,
Speaker 1: and he said, I mean, I'd want to go for
Speaker 1: it there. The field goal is not the end of
Speaker 1: the game. They had a good drive, they hit some play.
Speaker 1: So no, I would have wanted to go for that there.
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if uh. And then he pointed out
Speaker 1: on the fourth down if Dak's knee had hit the ground,
Speaker 1: because they would have had even better I don't think
Speaker 1: I think you got it all. But see, that was
Speaker 1: that was my point, not only the conditions we talked
Speaker 1: about that yesterday, just the fact that the field goal
Speaker 1: doesn't win the game, and you're and and it's not
Speaker 1: a given you're gonna make it, and you're gonna give
Speaker 1: them ten yards from wherever you're snapping the ball. I
Speaker 1: still think I would have gone for the field goal,
Speaker 1: but they would have lost. Yeah, why do you say that?
Speaker 1: Because they drove right down the That don't mean they're
Speaker 1: gonna do it this time? Well why not? Well you
Speaker 1: just maybe somebody make a play this time. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I gave up a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of touchdowns and eighty one, but eventually I got the pick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just saying sometimes it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: the way they have given up all the plays, but
Speaker 1: see if the pick is the pick. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't understand this. I don't understand this. We went from
Speaker 1: nobody can can move the ball our defense to not
Speaker 1: it would have lost. Yeah, I would lost. Which one
Speaker 1: is it? Well, that's what it is. They got the
Speaker 1: ball at the thirty five yard line, okay, after the
Speaker 1: fourth down. If you think about it, when they were
Speaker 1: kicking off and they were kicking off so short, they
Speaker 1: were getting the ball at the thirty yard line, Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones one yard, Jones eight yards, and then they hit
Speaker 1: them with the thirty six yard pass. Jones fifteen yards.
Speaker 1: Uh oh, no, five yards, and then a face mask
Speaker 1: another fifteen yards and there they were at the Cowboys seven. Okay,
Speaker 1: just that what he build up. Yeah, they have this
Speaker 1: revision history to what they say. Well, you know, if
Speaker 1: you would just do this and they do that, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be the exact same way. No, it isn't. If
Speaker 1: you hit kick a field goal three and I mean
Speaker 1: they gotta get seven, and then your momentum is different. Mentally,
Speaker 1: you're different. And I've seen it happened too many times.
Speaker 1: And though you have two SPADs to our team, that
Speaker 1: defense sucks all all game. But now we need you
Speaker 1: to come through. Come on. That could have been Minnesota
Speaker 1: did a buffalo down there on the one. Will you
Speaker 1: tell him, you tell him it got Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: all I know, all I know is our defense went
Speaker 1: from the wrecking crew. It was a defense that needed
Speaker 1: a nickname. It needed. Now we're gonna Automaic give it up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just gonna automatic. Anyway, they scored, They scored if you
Speaker 1: don't count the last possession under the game when they
Speaker 1: basically sat on it. Right, they scored four consecutive possessions.
Speaker 1: So what we did more, it changes your entire mentality
Speaker 1: not a field goal. You know, sometimes you gotta believe
Speaker 1: like Muhammad Ali believe like what they said by the
Speaker 1: Aliman's gonna kill him. Yeah, man, he got him and
Speaker 1: he had it shaken in the rest of his life.
Speaker 1: Had that fourth and that fourth the fight, that fourth
Speaker 1: score would have been a touchdown. They were at the
Speaker 1: seventh yard life, they would have scored. Defense went from
Speaker 1: the cares of I can't give him up on him
Speaker 1: like Daron Rodgers knew what he was talking about. Wow,
Speaker 1: Mick Big like wow a week ago. They couldn't do
Speaker 1: no wrong. So what they rushed for twe yards, I
Speaker 1: did not because they also gave up twenty nine points
Speaker 1: to the good that they gave him fifty yards. We
Speaker 1: won the game. Faith, Oh my goodness, it's not about
Speaker 1: where you see where that faith gets you in your
Speaker 1: throwing the football? Yeah, good faith throws stop me turn
Speaker 1: the team in here we about to get off. Mike
Speaker 1: shot a score. Yeah, you got it. You'll see if
Speaker 1: I got anything else on my notes here you rally.
Speaker 1: You just went up on the field goal. Yes, still
Speaker 1: thinking that Aaron Ride is gonna come down and do
Speaker 1: whatever the heck he wants to do. I've seen it
Speaker 1: too many times twenty sixteen and even and check this out,
Speaker 1: and this is always funny. So we keep kind of
Speaker 1: gigging McCarthy about to catch. No catch. I mean, there
Speaker 1: were signs in the stands it was a catch, right,
Speaker 1: And and McCarthy was talking about, you know the reason
Speaker 1: he challenged it because he had the referee read them
Speaker 1: the rule. And he goes, okay, if that's what it is,
Speaker 1: I'm challenging this, and we're going yeah, but it was
Speaker 1: still a catch, and he goes, well, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: I had a drive. We're gonna go down and score
Speaker 1: and beat the way they have. No not even makes
Speaker 1: a why have you turned on the defense. You see that.
Speaker 1: I got this number right here. It says four four seven.
Speaker 1: Those are rushing yards they've given up in the last
Speaker 1: two games. Four hundred and forty four, four hundred forty
Speaker 1: seven yards rushing the last two games. You know what, Walls,
Speaker 1: I've been saying this for six seven years now and
Speaker 1: everybody ignored. So why is it so important now? Because
Speaker 1: you lost? Okay, okay, if you overcut, if you start forty,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a moment that's gonna be similar to this. Yes,
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna bring it up because someone's gonna defy
Speaker 1: the odds. According to mix shot oology, four straight possessions
Speaker 1: they scored, that's all. I'm gonna tell you what. In
Speaker 1: scored on four straight possessions? Still lost? There you go? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because why you scored forty nine? Yeah? Right, and you're
Speaker 1: not gonna score forty nine every week to win? And
Speaker 1: can trust me? Poor man? No, we got you. I
Speaker 1: got you. I got analytics. Always favor yet analytics right here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: much as he dogs analytics, he's analytics. No, it's not analytics.
Speaker 1: You just went four four seven? Common sense? Who gives
Speaker 1: up four hundred and forty seven yards? Rushing in two games.
Speaker 1: We do well. Yeah, I got themselves. I had them
Speaker 1: at one hundred and fifty. I say, if we evol
Speaker 1: them to one hundred and fifty, we got him at
Speaker 1: out fifty seven yards. Show there you go. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: there is mick shot. Since we've used our five minutes
Speaker 1: of what do they call it in soccer? Uh? Not
Speaker 1: over extra time? Not over time. It's extra time and
Speaker 1: we've used it up. Nate, thanks for joining us a man.
Speaker 1: See you tomorrow and we'll see if Bill's ready to
Speaker 1: God be side shoe? Is aj Dillon? What side shoe?
Speaker 1: Because he must stepping and be a check? No, he
Speaker 1: just made him sick. That's all all right, that's it
Speaker 1: for mick shots. We'll see you tomorrow. Go Cowboys. This
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