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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys at now. Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. It is a Tuesday at noon inside
Speaker 1: the SWBC podcast studio here at the Star in Frisco,
Speaker 1: and it is officially Buccaneers week around here Bill Jones,
Speaker 1: Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola. As we are now less
Speaker 1: than a week away from the Super wild Card playoff
Speaker 1: matchup in Tampa against the Buccaneers. That's what the NFL's
Speaker 1: call it, super wild cardot. Bill was just being hyperbolot. Oh. No,
Speaker 1: Roger Gennell is being high uperbolic about what is the
Speaker 1: difference it's super? I don't because they've added another another
Speaker 1: wildcard team. What I don't know why it's super? Now,
Speaker 1: what's the difference. Maybe it's not. It's not like there's
Speaker 1: another round of games, but you're still you still could
Speaker 1: have teams playing. They added two more games. I think
Speaker 1: that's why, and that's why we have That's why it's super.
Speaker 1: That's why we have the Monday right, the Monday game, correct,
Speaker 1: because we added teams. It wasn't super Before we added
Speaker 1: these other teams, we didn't play on Monday. Yeah. We
Speaker 1: used only be four games, right, true, you could play
Speaker 1: two on Saturday, two on Sunday. Now we got Monday.
Speaker 1: So get to go to Tampa Bay on Monday, oh
Speaker 1: in that night? Yeah, that's right, aolutely, and then turn
Speaker 1: around on a short week and play Philadelphia or San Francisco.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you're wild. You're assured. You're assured
Speaker 1: of playing on Sunday the second during the divisional playoff round, right, yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not playing on Saturday that you would hope? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So would you rather have if you're the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: the second round, we're looking past him. Forget to forget
Speaker 1: Brady now, we don't need those guys, and don't concern
Speaker 1: us with three point favorites. Right, Well, here's what you prefer.
Speaker 1: You prefer that Seattle beat San Francisco and the Giants
Speaker 1: beat Minnesota. Yeah, and then and then you would be
Speaker 1: playing get home home game. That's right, You get a
Speaker 1: home game the Giants because by the way, it's been
Speaker 1: pointed out that Cowboys can't win on grass. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind going to Minnesota, which I was going
Speaker 1: to ask you, Yeah, what's the playing on grass because
Speaker 1: both teams, as Jerry said, have to play on grass. Yes.
Speaker 1: The best thing about me and playing on grass is
Speaker 1: it slows down the white receivers. But does it slow
Speaker 1: down the other team's wide receivers too? Yeah it does,
Speaker 1: but yours and there with me, I need it because
Speaker 1: I was slow period. So it gave me time to think.
Speaker 1: When you've got them guys slow you down, it's it's slowed.
Speaker 1: I was always slow. When you're accustomed to slowness, and
Speaker 1: then you know it helps me. You're the same slow
Speaker 1: on grass, but it gives me a chance to decipher
Speaker 1: what the receivers are doing because they're running slower in
Speaker 1: grass then not nearly as quick. You put a quick guy,
Speaker 1: you put up tywy Hill in Texas Stadium, Yeah, at
Speaker 1: old school Texas Stadium, that's one thing. But if you
Speaker 1: put them on in San Francisco at Candlestick, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's read that. The problem for you is that we
Speaker 1: always played in sand well, the San Francisco it's depending
Speaker 1: on how they treat the grass there. That's true, that's true.
Speaker 1: I just never I just never believe that stuff because
Speaker 1: if it slows a fast guy down, it should slow
Speaker 1: a slow guy down, a fast guys accustomed to going quickly. Okay,
Speaker 1: So what about a pass rush. This is what Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett was bragging up the other day, is that he
Speaker 1: thinks it affects the Cowboys pass rush playing on grass.
Speaker 1: They can't get off as fast as on turf. If
Speaker 1: you look at it, So if you're going up against
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, then not slow him down. It does
Speaker 1: slow him down. But if you look at what Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons does, you look at the speed rushes that he
Speaker 1: always uses. Okay, you gotta know that he can't make
Speaker 1: the same moves on turf. It's not as effective on
Speaker 1: turf as it is on grass. It is on turf.
Speaker 1: It's just the way it is because in many cases,
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman is a stationary object and he's just
Speaker 1: got to run around them, and so he can't run around,
Speaker 1: can't run as fast. It's fact. That is fact. That's physical. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's pass I just want to know for as the
Speaker 1: dB is not a stationary object yet they still have
Speaker 1: to maneuver around a defensive back, and you can do
Speaker 1: that much quicker with a quick footed guy as opposed
Speaker 1: to a guy who's accustomed to be a slow foot
Speaker 1: Four of their five games have been lost on grass,
Speaker 1: So that's merrit. Yeah. Four the five games that we
Speaker 1: lost like the four and I don't think I sacked
Speaker 1: toldal was all that that good either? Yeah, but the
Speaker 1: four games were against they were all they were all
Speaker 1: other than green Bay. It was all playoff teams. Right. Still,
Speaker 1: they could look at green Bay at that time making
Speaker 1: the playoff move and who did they Who did they
Speaker 1: beat on grass? Tennessee. The other thing is they had
Speaker 1: the greatest receiver coming out in the draft in years,
Speaker 1: and Christian Watson the Packers dead right, and he showed
Speaker 1: it on and he was faster. Yeah, he seemed to
Speaker 1: be a matter of fact, after that game, nothing slowed
Speaker 1: him down even this last game. Now, when you when
Speaker 1: you're talking great does one thing. We all have to
Speaker 1: worry about maneuverability, not slipping and things of that nature,
Speaker 1: more so on glass, But when it comes to the
Speaker 1: speed aspect, it does make a difference. It didn't slow
Speaker 1: down hinds that I assume they got grass and buffalo.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what grass and buffalo. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: guy that returned to kick two kickoffs Buffalo. I mean
Speaker 1: they have grasses and used to Oh they got turf.
Speaker 1: I think they have turf. Okay, yeah, I figured they
Speaker 1: had your grass because they're in the North and you
Speaker 1: gotta play. Everything's got to be on grass. So when
Speaker 1: it has to be out doors, doggy, everything has to
Speaker 1: be outdoors in the North, not necessarily the new stadium
Speaker 1: and not use a put a roof on it. Okay,
Speaker 1: get your two feet of snow. Okay. I have a
Speaker 1: lot of questions, so that was my first that's your
Speaker 1: first question. Yeah, all right. Can I ask you a question.
Speaker 1: Did you listen to Jerry on the radio this morning?
Speaker 1: I did? Okay, would you like to explore his thoughts
Speaker 1: or is there something else you would like to forward?
Speaker 1: What thought would you like to I just grass? You
Speaker 1: know what his answer to grass was? What he said,
Speaker 1: My point is they have to play on grass too,
Speaker 1: And I said, thank you very much. He's been he's
Speaker 1: been listening to mix shots. Although he said, you know,
Speaker 1: he respects Jason and he knows Jason's pretty smart. But
Speaker 1: he said, my point is they have to play on grass,
Speaker 1: and once again that that still has married of course,
Speaker 1: so each has to make the adjustment. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: from a dB standpoint, Yeah, you slew those wide receivers down.
Speaker 1: It makes you think a little bit. But maybe the
Speaker 1: first step, well, where they can close the gap on
Speaker 1: your fast So yeah, the first two or three steps
Speaker 1: that makes a big difference. Okay, if a DB's back there,
Speaker 1: I'm lined up off right, I'm about eight yards off,
Speaker 1: seven yards off, and on turf they can close that
Speaker 1: gap extremely quickly. On grass they just can't. So when
Speaker 1: Bob Hayes set the world record, was he got turf
Speaker 1: or grass? He was on sinder in borrow shoes on
Speaker 1: the inside lane. Right, Okay, so we can build that up.
Speaker 1: It's even more spectacular than what it was. All right.
Speaker 1: So that was in Tokyo, wasn't it. I think, what's
Speaker 1: your next question? Well, did you tell me what what
Speaker 1: you got out of Jerry? Yeah? Uh. They asked him
Speaker 1: about Mike McCarthy's status. Wonder you'd get to that if
Speaker 1: the playoff game would impact it one way or another,
Speaker 1: and he said no, And there was a pregnant pause.
Speaker 1: They didn't know what to say next. You expect him
Speaker 1: to answer his answers to go wronger than one word.
Speaker 1: And after the paulic the fact that he gave pause
Speaker 1: and then he said, I don't even want to know,
Speaker 1: he goes that's it. I don't need to go into
Speaker 1: all the pluses and minuses. I've got a lot more
Speaker 1: to evaluate Mike McCarthy than a playoff game. And that
Speaker 1: was that I like his optimism, but I have to
Speaker 1: I have to think that I like that, I beg
Speaker 1: the different. Can I just say that, yeah, it won't
Speaker 1: be it won't be a I don't. I think it's
Speaker 1: a more comfortable conversation if we go further, very uncomfortable
Speaker 1: conversation if we're out at the end of Monday night.
Speaker 1: So when's the last time he got rid of a
Speaker 1: coach coming off a season twelve winning two straight twelve
Speaker 1: wins seasons, Yes, Mickey, because Barry Switzer was six and ten,
Speaker 1: Jimmy left on his own, Tom Landry was coming off
Speaker 1: with three and thirteen season. Chan Gailey eight and eight
Speaker 1: a competitive Yeah, Chan Gailey eight and eight. H Wade
Speaker 1: Phillips one in seven, Bill parcels left on his own.
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett eight and eight last season, is that right? Remember? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was eight and eight, So there's no precedent for saying, well,
Speaker 1: we lost the playoff game, you're out, other than chan
Speaker 1: Gailey at eight and eight in losing two straight. The
Speaker 1: only thing I can compare this too is when when
Speaker 1: Tom was coaching before I got there in eighty lost
Speaker 1: to Philly Championship, got there in eighty one, lost to
Speaker 1: San Francisco Championship. Eighty two, lost to the Skins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was your guy's fault. Yeah, of course, that's championship
Speaker 1: in the vow. So Tom, I'm instead of firing coaches,
Speaker 1: are making you know, just continuing on the same path. Right.
Speaker 1: He said, we have to make a move to make
Speaker 1: us that much better because we're being stagnant at the championship.
Speaker 1: And of course the standard at that time were Super
Speaker 1: Bowls for the Cowboys, right right. We made moves, but
Speaker 1: it made us voice. Yeah, it didn't make us better.
Speaker 1: So I got beat again in eighty three. In the
Speaker 1: first run. We didn't even go. We didn't even make it.
Speaker 1: We made it to no more championships, Tom Legend, Sure,
Speaker 1: just the playoffs. Yeah, just the playoffs. Didn't make it
Speaker 1: in eighty four and got beat in the first run, right,
Speaker 1: we but we barely won the NFC East by a
Speaker 1: miracle after I be getting blown out to Cincinnati and
Speaker 1: the Bear, not just losing, no, blowing out forty something
Speaker 1: to nothing whatever that compared to this. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: thought about that. So and what did we do? We
Speaker 1: came back and won the East. Anyway, That was his
Speaker 1: That was his answer, um, And I think my point is,
Speaker 1: be careful how the moves you make from here, depending
Speaker 1: on whether you win or lose. Yes, be careful because
Speaker 1: if you bring in a new coach, right, chances are
Speaker 1: he's not going to say, Okay, I'm picking up where
Speaker 1: we left off. Yeah, it's gonna change things. It's gonna
Speaker 1: change a lot, right, And sometimes change takes a while
Speaker 1: to change things. So you gotta be careful on that one,
Speaker 1: even though I'm guaranteeing you. The national perspective out there
Speaker 1: is if Mike McCarthy doesn't win, he's out as the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: right right, Well, everybody likes to say something but bombastic
Speaker 1: things about the Cowboys, but that's what's going to take place.
Speaker 1: That would love the media would actually those those critical
Speaker 1: sports talk TV shows or whatever, they would love for
Speaker 1: that to happen because they give him something to talk about. Right,
Speaker 1: It's not about what's the right thing to do, it's
Speaker 1: just being able to talk about it. He had a
Speaker 1: he had another one. It was like a profound philosophical quote.
Speaker 1: They asked him if the adversity of losing to Washington
Speaker 1: playing the way they did will help them in this
Speaker 1: coming game, like, you know, make you mad and you're
Speaker 1: going to try harder and all that stuff. Actually, where
Speaker 1: your head is on the right cam by the tone?
Speaker 1: Is that a wake up call? He said, I know
Speaker 1: that success, successes are the prospect of being smart and
Speaker 1: got all the answers. Success is every bit the undermining
Speaker 1: flaw that failure is. And to have that and to
Speaker 1: have had some meaning failure to think that's what you
Speaker 1: are is also a fraud. Both are frauds. So he
Speaker 1: was basically saying success and failure it doesn't translate into
Speaker 1: going forward and making you a better team. They're frauds.
Speaker 1: And the answer they had for that one is we're
Speaker 1: going to put that on a T shirt. I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta decide for that one. Yeah, I did too.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, wait a minute, I was. I
Speaker 1: was on stationary bike and I'm going think, okay, wait wait,
Speaker 1: I want to write that down, and then I came
Speaker 1: back to basically listen to it. He was positive about
Speaker 1: the injuries, as was McCarthy, basically um pointing out that
Speaker 1: he felt like Layton was ready to go, that dron
Speaker 1: Bland could practice on Wednesday. Hankins and whom I forget
Speaker 1: about late be honest. Also, uh that and I've had
Speaker 1: people tell me that his workout yesterday was really good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and to me, that's that and vander ash and Bland. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I know they need Hankins, but those three guys,
Speaker 1: I think that's critical to this game. And I saw
Speaker 1: where Tampa Bay, although I don't know why I'm going
Speaker 1: to bring this up because it was the same thing,
Speaker 1: and the opener having problems at center of their starting
Speaker 1: center wasn't the starter at the beginning, right because somebody
Speaker 1: else had gotten hurt Ryan Jenson. Jensen, well he's the
Speaker 1: starting center now, Hanzy, and uh he came out of
Speaker 1: the game because of an ankle, not because they started
Speaker 1: resting guys. And so they were going to move their
Speaker 1: left guard or one of the guards over to center. Uh,
Speaker 1: nick Leverett, and then they were going to have to
Speaker 1: move somebody else into left guard. Luke Getticky was their
Speaker 1: second round draft pick. He started against the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: the opener, and he was the starter at left guard
Speaker 1: the first half of the season. He got hurt and
Speaker 1: missed about seven games right and actually was has been
Speaker 1: the backup and because they were resting guys, he was.
Speaker 1: He started in their last game against Atlanta on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But he so Nick Leverett, who is a undrafted guy
Speaker 1: out of Rice in the twenty twenty draft, became the
Speaker 1: starter at left guard at mid season actually about what
Speaker 1: would it be five games ago, but they moved him
Speaker 1: to center right, and so he has a background as
Speaker 1: a center. And then John Melchin Melkin replaced Leverett at guard. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they've got but you know, we made a big
Speaker 1: deal of that about the opener. It didn't mean deadly right.
Speaker 1: They were k beating the Cowboys nineteen to three. But
Speaker 1: from an injury standpoint for the Cowboys, Uh, you know
Speaker 1: Bland with the chess injury. When you hear chess, what
Speaker 1: do you think of that? Or that, yeah, that too,
Speaker 1: now you do. Yeah, although you know, what would be
Speaker 1: a very good story for someone to do is to
Speaker 1: explain what the teams go through to have the preparation
Speaker 1: Buffalo had in place before the game. And I think
Speaker 1: I knew this, but I got reminded of it that
Speaker 1: before every game, for one hour, the entire medical staff,
Speaker 1: not just the Cowboys trainers and doctors, the spotters that
Speaker 1: are up in the booth, the other doctors that are
Speaker 1: there with the e MT people, They have a meeting
Speaker 1: for sixty minutes before every game to go through their protocol,
Speaker 1: to go through the plan in place where they would
Speaker 1: go if something like that happened. And I was told
Speaker 1: that they already have a police escort planned that if
Speaker 1: something happened at at and T Stadium, they can get
Speaker 1: to Baylor downtown in fifteen minutes with a police escort.
Speaker 1: So that stuff, And then in the summer they have
Speaker 1: a seminar where they all have to go through and
Speaker 1: they go through the whole plan of what has to
Speaker 1: happen and what type of doctors you have to have there. See,
Speaker 1: we know they got orthopedic doctors, they've got back specialists,
Speaker 1: next spine specialists. But they also have for a better word,
Speaker 1: air specialists. If you're having trouble breathing, they have a
Speaker 1: specialist for that. They got all these specialists there that
Speaker 1: we don't know, and it's it's it's pretty detailed. So
Speaker 1: just I thought i'd throw. I think it's not just
Speaker 1: a personnel, but it's the equipment. Yeah, and the most
Speaker 1: important right to have that. And again I think we
Speaker 1: talked about this. The most important thing was for him
Speaker 1: to get breathing again before. They didn't want to waste
Speaker 1: time going into the e MT ambulance. They needed to
Speaker 1: get him breathing when he was on the face. And
Speaker 1: it sounds like unless he has underlying conditions that you know,
Speaker 1: he should be fine, and then he would have to
Speaker 1: make a decision if he wants to play again. Decision Yeah, yeah, right, Um,
Speaker 1: So anyway, I just thought i'd throw that. That wasn't
Speaker 1: part of Jerry's no, but you were you you went,
Speaker 1: you were talking about darn Bland, yes, right at the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so chess to me is a peck usually is
Speaker 1: the injury, and that's serious. But I think they felt
Speaker 1: good at after the game and McCarthy thought he would
Speaker 1: be able to practice on Wednesday. So that's significant to
Speaker 1: me if he can play, because now you've only got
Speaker 1: to fill one spot. If Bland stays in the slot
Speaker 1: on the nickel, then you got to find a left corner.
Speaker 1: If you're playing two tight ends, Bland can play on
Speaker 1: the outside right, and then you have to decide on
Speaker 1: the nickel. Am I better putting somebody outside Bland inside
Speaker 1: or leaving Bland outside and putting somebody else in the nickel?
Speaker 1: And McKenzie Alexander did that and then he strained and
Speaker 1: I keep saying a groin. I haven't checked on it.
Speaker 1: And he had some leg injury why he didn't play
Speaker 1: last week In hockey they call that a lower body
Speaker 1: in yeah, which I should have just covered myself with that, right,
Speaker 1: So there's a chance he would be ready this week.
Speaker 1: And I think they liked it him in the slot
Speaker 1: and then Bland outside, And then how quickly can Rhodes
Speaker 1: be ready to go? And I mean he he was
Speaker 1: on the loss, Yeah, but he was, and he hadn't
Speaker 1: played that much. I think he only played in a
Speaker 1: couple of games. I thought I read um, but he
Speaker 1: was sort of the backup guy. And then what happened
Speaker 1: is they had uh hide, their safety was out, and
Speaker 1: then Hamlin got hurt. He's out and they needed safety help.
Speaker 1: And they signed Jared Maiden out of thank You, out
Speaker 1: of Saxy High School and and so they signed him
Speaker 1: off a practice squad onto their fifty three man roster
Speaker 1: because they needed safety help. So they were looking where, well,
Speaker 1: how do we make that spot, and Rhodes was, well,
Speaker 1: they need it because was out. They were down in numbers,
Speaker 1: and so they needed a safety I guess they didn't
Speaker 1: think Rhodes could play so unlike ever since Wall, well
Speaker 1: not just myself. You got all old cornerbacks out there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: looking for a safety position. I'm just surprised they didn't
Speaker 1: just insert him into that. I'm sure he could do it.
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Speaker 1: T Stadium. So there you go. That's a pretty big affair.
Speaker 1: I found out. I went walking out there and for
Speaker 1: one of the games this year. Yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff going on. No I knew they did, but
Speaker 1: they expanded it right. Yeah, the food trucks are out there,
Speaker 1: have a little little plaza. Yeah yeah, So that's the
Speaker 1: place to go to get ready for the game on Monday,
Speaker 1: your wild Card watch party. Not only you're ready for
Speaker 1: the game, but you watch the game there. You know.
Speaker 1: I was at a TCU watching party, was just going
Speaker 1: to ask that Shoalmeyer Arena on the TCU campus, and
Speaker 1: those fans were so fired up for the start of
Speaker 1: that game. I didn't stick around once the game started
Speaker 1: I don't know how long they stayed because I don't
Speaker 1: think so far. Yes, which, by the way, did you
Speaker 1: see the downside of so Far, the way it's built. Yes,
Speaker 1: it started raining and the wind was blowing and the
Speaker 1: water was coming into the stadium. There was it was
Speaker 1: raining sideways night right. Yeah, they had nothing, but it's
Speaker 1: not that open high but it's open air around comfort.
Speaker 1: And one of the issues that they had because of
Speaker 1: that is the concourse area. It was wet and they
Speaker 1: were having people slip and fall and they were taking
Speaker 1: people out on stretchers. No way, Yes they were. People
Speaker 1: were suffering injuries, but they didn't realize it was slippery. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's weird. You know. Uh, I was talking with people
Speaker 1: the rains. They were just falling out because the score.
Speaker 1: Now they were they brought up on the broadcast it
Speaker 1: says insult to injury. It was only happening on the
Speaker 1: TCUs side. It looked like an umbrella was over the end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what that's what it is. Yeah, it's a canopy.
Speaker 1: It's like a big canopy, big canopy. That's cheap. No,
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty expensive candidate. But still it
Speaker 1: was a great building. A facility like like AT and
Speaker 1: T that can actually support its door. They have the
Speaker 1: other part of that, it's an ongoing um debate. No,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say something that had to do with cheapness.
Speaker 1: You don't have to pay for air conditioning too when
Speaker 1: you when you have an open air facility like that.
Speaker 1: Jerry did not consult him on that. Well, didn't they have?
Speaker 1: Didn't they have? I don't think was it? It wasn't.
Speaker 1: The preseason game when the Cowboys were they had a
Speaker 1: problem with tornado warnings and they were delaying maybe the
Speaker 1: start of the game because they were worried about the
Speaker 1: wind coming. And well they had a was that a
Speaker 1: lightning warning? That's what it was. Lightning in the area
Speaker 1: and everybody and they had to delay like a Monday
Speaker 1: night or Sunday night football start because of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they were worried the lightning was going to sneak
Speaker 1: under your cheap roof. And I'm worried about the wind
Speaker 1: coming onto the cheap roof. I mean, if the wind
Speaker 1: catches it, the whole stadium never ring in Southern Another
Speaker 1: thing they had a problem with with the Cowboys game.
Speaker 1: Remember when we played the Rams and the opener is
Speaker 1: they had fires out there and they were concerned about
Speaker 1: the remember that air quality problems and with the dryness
Speaker 1: around the n LA. No, that's that's that's an ongoing issue. Okay.
Speaker 1: Then my last question is your face in Georgia, they
Speaker 1: might as well be in the NFL, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: try to play a three man defensive front. When I
Speaker 1: when I saw that, I said, I don't like my pick.
Speaker 1: When I saw how big every win three d plus
Speaker 1: pounds walking on his toes, I'm telling you, how do
Speaker 1: you telling you? It's a different brand of football in
Speaker 1: the SEC as opposed to elsewhere and anyway. And it
Speaker 1: comes down to so if you are building a team
Speaker 1: to win the Big twelve, you don't need those big
Speaker 1: defensive linemen like Georgia and Alabama have, Okay, because you're
Speaker 1: they're throwing the ball all over the lot. You don't.
Speaker 1: You don't go up against an Alabama or a Georgia
Speaker 1: to win your conference championship. That's why Oklahoma and Texas
Speaker 1: back in two thousand through twenty ten, when they were
Speaker 1: in championship games, winning championship games, and they would have
Speaker 1: NFL players in their front seven on defense, Okay, they
Speaker 1: built their team that way since then with the advent
Speaker 1: of the spread offense and the success so the SEC,
Speaker 1: these players do not want to go to a Big
Speaker 1: twelve school because their path to the NFL is to
Speaker 1: go play in the SEC. And that's why the SEC
Speaker 1: has become an NFL junior league. And you do not
Speaker 1: recruit defensive tackles in the Big twelve like you would
Speaker 1: in the SEC they had. And that's why Oklahoma and Texas,
Speaker 1: if they want to win a national championship, they need
Speaker 1: to go to the SEC so that they can recruit
Speaker 1: those type of players because otherwise they're going to run
Speaker 1: into as Oklahoma has over the last decade several times
Speaker 1: they get into that college football playoff and they don't
Speaker 1: have the personnel to compete against Alabama LA because it
Speaker 1: because it's happened, it's happened in the last ten years.
Speaker 1: Prior to that, prior to the domination of Nick Saban's
Speaker 1: teams at Alabama, it was spread out where the Big
Speaker 1: twelve was able to recruit those players too. And but
Speaker 1: since then it's it's been your path to the NFL
Speaker 1: as you go to the SEC and so and that's
Speaker 1: that really started with Sava right right, really success that
Speaker 1: Alabama had starting in two thousand and seven or whatever.
Speaker 1: All I know is that year I went to the
Speaker 1: SEC title game in Atlanta. Missouri was playing Auburn, and
Speaker 1: Auburn had a very good running game, and the Missouri
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, who didn't last very long after that, played
Speaker 1: a three man front. And I'm sitting there watching this
Speaker 1: three hundred and forty pound offensive linemen picking off the
Speaker 1: Missouri linebackers because there was no start. They ran and
Speaker 1: Missouri stayed with him. I think it went into the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. It was forty five forty two. They ran
Speaker 1: for five hundred yards five hundred and I'm yelling, what,
Speaker 1: you put another guy on the maybe two more guys
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage and force him to throw
Speaker 1: the ball. I wouldcall from watching that game, I would
Speaker 1: call days days gone by. You talk in those years
Speaker 1: when the running back was the guy on the team,
Speaker 1: and in the Southwest Conference, I just remember every team
Speaker 1: had at least three running backs. If Earl would go down,
Speaker 1: somebody else would come in and just pick Thurman Thomas
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State. Who's waiting behind him, Barry Sterry Sanders, I
Speaker 1: mean you just had that. You had that on every
Speaker 1: Southwest Conference team. A running back would go down or
Speaker 1: just get some rest because the only game about two
Speaker 1: hundred yards Billy Siems gaining two hundred yards. Then you
Speaker 1: put in another guy, but a peacock or somebody like that.
Speaker 1: They're waiting in the wings. That used to be every
Speaker 1: Southwest Conference team, a big twelve team. You don't have
Speaker 1: that anymore, simply because of the way they changed the game. Well,
Speaker 1: all I know is they kept saying TCU is having
Speaker 1: a hard time setting the edge. There was no edge.
Speaker 1: There was no one there. It's like at some point
Speaker 1: you kind of change. Well, no, they don't have the
Speaker 1: personnel toy. It's a completely different brand of football. If
Speaker 1: it worked against Michigan, he's thinking, why not, I'm thinking, Michigan,
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't. They don't have a fourth defensive
Speaker 1: lineman to put on the field. Basically, I mean, they
Speaker 1: do have backups, but they're not you know. And then
Speaker 1: and then you got a three man pass rush against
Speaker 1: five behemoths, and the twelve you don't get sacks because
Speaker 1: they get the ball out so quick. That's right. There's
Speaker 1: no such thing as play face they actually on defense.
Speaker 1: I don't know which one it was, but I thought
Speaker 1: it was the highlight film of Duran Plane just taking
Speaker 1: his arm and moving the guy out of the way.
Speaker 1: It's like, get out of my way. And so that's
Speaker 1: why on offense you can't you can't miss on passes
Speaker 1: early in the game like Duggan did in that game.
Speaker 1: You have to score, Okay, I mean, it's just like
Speaker 1: TCU played Michigan. It was game when when Oklahoma played
Speaker 1: Georgia in the semifinal game with Baker Mayfield in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: it was a fifty one, fifty eight score, whatever it was.
Speaker 1: You have to score half a hundred. Remember you had
Speaker 1: two defensive scores for TCU about last week, that's right,
Speaker 1: they had two pick sixes, that's right, playing pinball, and
Speaker 1: you had for Michigan last week. You had a touchdown
Speaker 1: taken away that should have been a touchdown on review,
Speaker 1: and they fumbled on the next play on the goal
Speaker 1: line and their first possession of the game, Michigan went
Speaker 1: forward on fourth down at the one yard line and missed.
Speaker 1: And so there's twenty eight points right there that went
Speaker 1: against Michigan that didn't go against Georgia last night. M
Speaker 1: And the other part of it is it's the attitude
Speaker 1: that they have on offense. I mean, they could have
Speaker 1: kept that score under control. In fact, one of the
Speaker 1: biggest play you look at sixty five to seven, but
Speaker 1: one of the biggest plays of the game was made
Speaker 1: by Stetson Bennett to Brock Bowers. They're tight end, who
Speaker 1: is a fabulous man? Can I draft him? Yeah? Not,
Speaker 1: you gotta wait till next year. But I'm given the
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy to him next year. Guy there, all right,
Speaker 1: But they were facing Georgia. It was twenty four to
Speaker 1: seven with two minutes left in the first half. Georgia
Speaker 1: was ahead George's facing third and fifteen and Benet thread
Speaker 1: of the needle to Bowers for a first down and
Speaker 1: they scored on that possession and then to make it
Speaker 1: thirty one seven, and then TCU throws another pick. They
Speaker 1: score another touchdown before they have if TCU makes that
Speaker 1: stop on third and fifteen with two minutes left in
Speaker 1: the game, and it's a twenty four to seven game,
Speaker 1: and they just run the ball and get to the
Speaker 1: house at twenty four to seven. The game never gets
Speaker 1: away from them like that. But then they even when
Speaker 1: it's fifty nine to seven with eight minutes left in
Speaker 1: the game and you're facing fourth and six at your
Speaker 1: own twenty nine yard line and you go for it,
Speaker 1: you deserve to give up seventy points. Well that's what's yeah,
Speaker 1: And also I don't know that's Bennet need to be
Speaker 1: in the game as long as he was. They took
Speaker 1: him out with nine minutes left. Yeah, but they was
Speaker 1: still fifty points right before, well the fifty nine point,
Speaker 1: they could have taken him out. Yeah, and had half
Speaker 1: times they really go wow, if they hadn't taken dugging out,
Speaker 1: you're gonna take your starter out. We're gonna keep ours.
Speaker 1: All I gotta say is welcome to the sec. That's right,
Speaker 1: And you just filled up that segment. Yeah, thank you. Okay,
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Speaker 1: no no, I thought Mickey, I thought Mickey stepped up
Speaker 1: his game on that he did step it up. That's right,
Speaker 1: all right? Um, I started my study of the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers course studied them before the season opener this year,
Speaker 1: and you have it right, Well, no, it's just you
Speaker 1: see what what's happened since then, and when I look
Speaker 1: at their roster and what they've been doing, kind of
Speaker 1: manipulating things to get to a division title, a coveted
Speaker 1: division title in that NFC South, winning that and getting
Speaker 1: their guy. They're gonna have their guys ready to play
Speaker 1: on Monday as far they've been trying. As with every team, okay,
Speaker 1: you're especially any team that's quarterbacked by Tom Brady, it's
Speaker 1: all about the postseason. And even though their record is
Speaker 1: only eight and nine, they knew about mid season that well,
Speaker 1: all we gotta do is be better than Carolina and
Speaker 1: New Orleans and Atlanta. That's right, and so it was it.
Speaker 1: You could see the marathon the of the season there
Speaker 1: are getting their veteran guys ready at the right time
Speaker 1: so that they're ready to play Monday night against the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And so it's going to be very interesting to see.
Speaker 1: And they played Brady half the game anyway, at thirty
Speaker 1: one snaps against Atlanta last week, even even with a
Speaker 1: makeshift offensive line in front of they played all three quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: They getting them ready to gabbered and trash. They just
Speaker 1: they just that was kind of cool that Brady has
Speaker 1: played the entire season every snap. Yep, that's kind of cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it wasn't his best season by far, but I think
Speaker 1: that says a lot about how he takes care of himself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and even takes care of himself in the middle of
Speaker 1: a play where it doesn't matter, it doesn't I know
Speaker 1: what you're saying, but even he you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: times he was sacked this year twenty two, twenty two sacks,
Speaker 1: and the many times he was sacked last year in
Speaker 1: seventeen games twenty three, it's basically the same. So I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if anybody's you know, how the Cowboys win a
Speaker 1: game and it gets questioned because should have beat them worse? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I understand they finished eight and nine and didn't
Speaker 1: really play that last game against the Falcons, but I
Speaker 1: saw where they beat the four and thirteen Cardinals on
Speaker 1: a field goal in overtime, and they beat and what
Speaker 1: happened with the Cardinals coach yesterday who got fired canned yesterday?
Speaker 1: And then they beat the Rams? Did the Rams win
Speaker 1: five games? Maybe something like five? They beat them with
Speaker 1: a touchdown with nine seconds left in the game, And
Speaker 1: I bet no one's looking back and going, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to minimize those wins those wins. Or Winds
Speaker 1: beat New Orleans seventeen to sixteen, and that was that
Speaker 1: was after New Orleans, that beating them, I think three straight.
Speaker 1: How'd they do when they went to San Francisco? I
Speaker 1: think they got clavered. They lost thirty five to seven. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: and he still played every down. But it's Brady, right, yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Brady. And I noticed that on their depth chart
Speaker 1: that they released on their website that Fournette was like
Speaker 1: the backup running back. Well, he's been um, he bothered
Speaker 1: by an injury. He did, he did, He did play
Speaker 1: against Atlanta three snaps, his stomach muscles are well, they
Speaker 1: listened tight. Yeah, I forgot the guy's name. They listed
Speaker 1: another running back as their as their starter, Um, Rashad White, Yes,
Speaker 1: I believe that was it. Yes, When you look at
Speaker 1: the game, belt strange right when you look at them
Speaker 1: up three a's actually three R A C H A
Speaker 1: A D. Yeah. Oh yeah. When you look at the
Speaker 1: game like this, this is gonna be about matchups, that's all.
Speaker 1: It is. The defense that the Tampa Bay defense is
Speaker 1: going to try and hold us down as much as
Speaker 1: possible offensively, and when Tampa Bay comes out, Brady is
Speaker 1: going to try and attack us from a personnel standpoint.
Speaker 1: If he thinks he has a matchup, he's gonna go, well,
Speaker 1: you know where he's going. You know where he's going.
Speaker 1: He's going to his right side of the field. That's
Speaker 1: exactly where he's going. And we have to know that
Speaker 1: this is gonna be just man on man. And when
Speaker 1: I said man on man, I don't mean like man
Speaker 1: on man. I mean you're going to have to beat
Speaker 1: your man. The scheme to me is secondary when it
Speaker 1: comes to games like this. You're going to have to
Speaker 1: be successful against a person in front of you. That's
Speaker 1: going to have to happen. Otherwise we're not going to
Speaker 1: win this game if we don't approach it in that matter.
Speaker 1: And they will test the Cowboys quote unquote big nickel
Speaker 1: defense with two tight ends and running the ball and
Speaker 1: see if they can hold up running the football. And
Speaker 1: they know they need to keep the Cowboys offense off
Speaker 1: the field. I understand if circuited this last game, but
Speaker 1: they know what this offense did all season long, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna want to keep that offense off the field.
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys better buckle up and get ready to
Speaker 1: worrying about Brady. They're gonna keep trying to run that ball.
Speaker 1: Brady's gonna trying to hit you with the you know,
Speaker 1: surprise and don't and when he gets the fifty yard line,
Speaker 1: you better be ready. It's going down the field. And
Speaker 1: as Jerry said, you know, everybody's making a big deal
Speaker 1: out of the Cowboys never beating Brady. Jerry's point was,
Speaker 1: we've never beaten the team Brady was playing a problem,
Speaker 1: and he says, we are playing a team, yes, not
Speaker 1: that guy, and we have to be ready for what
Speaker 1: they do. And let's let's be real there, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a time in the game if it's crucial enough.
Speaker 1: So where you are playing bre you, yeah, there's going
Speaker 1: to be that time that comes. That's where you have
Speaker 1: to be prepared. That's when you're gonna have to match
Speaker 1: man on man. There is no scheme that's going to
Speaker 1: make he or you better. Is you playing against that guy.
Speaker 1: Beating that guy, that's what's gonna help win the game
Speaker 1: for you. You just gotta get to him. And I
Speaker 1: know it's hard, and I know the ball comes out quick,
Speaker 1: it's on grass, you better might slow his self. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's about slow down as he's gonna get
Speaker 1: right now. And it doesn't stop his release. And when
Speaker 1: it's fourth and one, it's a quarterback sneak. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: it ain't Philly, but it's still a quarterback sneak. All right.
Speaker 1: That's my game preparation, all right. And uh, you know
Speaker 1: many passes that Tom Brady through this year? They were
Speaker 1: second in the league in passing offense, thirty second in
Speaker 1: running offense. Okay, and that's because they never run the ball.
Speaker 1: How many how how many I don't know how many
Speaker 1: offensive snaps they had, let's say eleven hundred snaps? All
Speaker 1: told you many times they threw the ball five hundred,
Speaker 1: seven hundred thirty three pass attempts. He set the NFL
Speaker 1: record with four hundred ninety completions on seven hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty three pass attempts. Of course, that's a seventeen game
Speaker 1: season now, but that's the NFL record. So anyway, and
Speaker 1: how many times did the Cowboys throw the ball? You
Speaker 1: got the stat sheet right there in front of You're
Speaker 1: gonna tell you here in a moment when I get
Speaker 1: to it. They threw the ball five hundred and nineteen times,
Speaker 1: more than two hundred more pass attempts. So do the
Speaker 1: people that cover the Bucks sit there and go, you
Speaker 1: gotta run the ball. Why aren't I running the ball?
Speaker 1: I gotta run it. Why are you running it? On
Speaker 1: first down? They don't run, Tom Man, It's just the
Speaker 1: way it is. Seven hundred, seven hundred and thirty three
Speaker 1: pass attempts tied. So that Bucks, including the pass attempts
Speaker 1: thrown by and throw any trash. Well, I guess Atlanta
Speaker 1: those guys has ever soon pointed out the only games
Speaker 1: they got into with offensive snaps were the Atlantic. They
Speaker 1: pulled him with just less than five minutes to go
Speaker 1: in the first half. Is that what it was? Okay?
Speaker 1: So Gabbert was six out of eight and trash three
Speaker 1: out of nine, So they're seventeen more pass attempts. So
Speaker 1: the number of pass attempts was exactly seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty four teenpas. They didn't have any other none. No,
Speaker 1: that was it. No, No, the off come on in
Speaker 1: testament to him. I don't know what's in that arm,
Speaker 1: but whatever he's shooting up in it, keep doing it well.
Speaker 1: It's not even the arm, because you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: have your legs to throw the ball. Right, He's so okay,
Speaker 1: seven hundred and thirty three pass attempts and twenty two sacks.
Speaker 1: You're throwing the ball that many times in your only
Speaker 1: sacked twenty two times. That well, pretty good percentage, right, Well,
Speaker 1: because he just gets rid of them, that's right exactly,
Speaker 1: That's how that's how he's still playing at age forty five.
Speaker 1: Ricott just get rid of the damn thing. There you go. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe that's why they're eight nine, right, they don't run
Speaker 1: the football. We'll stay on Monday night and we will
Speaker 1: see you again on Wednesday at noon. Go Cowboys. This
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