WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: The March To Victory 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:06.720 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:18.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.959 Straining live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:34.519 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Browns, Rob Phillips, 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:42.240 and Bill jonesols. As we start this edition of Talking Cowboys. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:47.720 We think we're starting here, are we starting? There's talk? Yeah? 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.599 I think Bill, they turned your microphone on. I think 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:57.360 Rob and Okay, Hi, Brian brought us on. Mickey Spagnola, Yeah, hello, Hello. 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.480 Joining us in a moment will be Bill Jones and 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:03.120 Rod Philip. You talking a little bit? I didn't say, Rob, 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:08.000 didn't I? And did I slur it? Okayis well? You 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:10.880 know what, By time your mike gets fixed, it'll be 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:16.039 Rob Phillips there it is. Yeah, Yeah, Rob Phillips is back, 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.120 and I'm on Rob Phillips microphone over here because I've 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.440 got TV duty that I've got to do here. Hey, 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:25.240 it's a victory Monday. You guys coms the microphones. Yeah, 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.039 there you go talk to each other here. All good. 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.600 We are all good, and the Cowboys are all good. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.679 A four and old record The last four weeks for 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.760 the Cowboys ever since they fell to three and five. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.880 And I think someone in here harkened back to Dak 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.720 Prescott's college days at Mississippi State when he in the 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.440 locker room said something about he's never been three and 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.120 five before in his life. And I went back and 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.240 looked at Mississippi State and he was three and four 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.920 at one point, and then he ran off twelve straight victories. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:58.800 That's when I predicted this team is going to have 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.520 a parade in February with twelve straight wins, and they're 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.440 on their way. Mickey, I don't know that they need 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.680 twelve for that to happen. Well, they didn't know we 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.560 did the math off. You did, because they did. They 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.400 got the first four and then they got four in December, 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.320 and I'm gonna assume they're not gonna have a first 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.600 round buying the playoffs, and that would be four in 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.679 January ending in Atlanta. If you got the parade, I'm 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.080 dready I'm debating whether to do Arlington or downtown Dallas. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.679 Get all of North Texas involved, that's right. Yeah, And 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.320 I as giddy as Jerry was last night, you know what, 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.040 And and good for him, Good for him that that 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:33.960 was a that's a tough team to play, and we 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:37.720 all knew that going into that game. And he's made 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.000 some moves. I mean, you look at what they did 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.919 to get Cooper and to change the offensive line coach, 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.560 and and then you know, draft a guy like Jalen 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.679 Smith too, you know. I mean he's made a lot 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.000 of moves. And yeah, there were three and five at 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.760 one time. But you have to have players to beat 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.000 that team you beat last night, and they had enough players, 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.200 and your players were good enough to go toe to 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.720 toe with them. And I think that's a credit to 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.360 the front office, to the coaching staff. They had a 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.720 great game plan. Defensively, they harassed Drew Breese all night. 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.520 I was really really impressed how they were able to 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:16.639 pull that one off. Absolutely, Um who predicted thirteen ten? 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:22.440 I just transcribed it transposed, transposed, sorry, r inscribed. I 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.839 had thirty thirty one. Yeah, so you were half right. 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.720 I mean you picked a win, but you thought that 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.600 you thought they'd have to score thirty plus points like 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.040 the rest of America. When you get older, you know, 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:40.119 you get the lexic and things. I could create new words, Yeah, sure, 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:45.440 transcribe and this like this leg No, you get this 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:48.000 lexic doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. Yet I 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.360 knew exactly what I was talking about because you correctly 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.240 so go on young man Um. Back when they made 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.840 the Amari Cooper trade, I said they did it because 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.520 the way this defense has been playing the early part 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:06.080 of the season, you could argue that's a championship level 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.840 defense at that point, that hey, they could go in 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.080 the playoffs in January and win games the way they're 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.560 holding teams to fifteen, sixteen, seventeen points. And Brian astutely 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.279 pointed out at that point they still had some tough 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.160 offenses to play. Well. Now they've played Atlanta. Absolutely, Now 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:23.440 they've played a team averaging thirty seven points a game, right, 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.719 and you hold them twenty seven points under their average. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.400 That's as good as it gets. And Jerry could barely 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.240 get words out. Yeah. Outside the locker room after the game, 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:38.080 he was shaking. Yeah, he was so excited, and he said, 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:42.120 they exceeded my expectations and by far, that's this is 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.799 the best defense and maybe not statistically that the Saints 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.760 had played all season, especially judging by that performance DeMarcus 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:54.599 Lawrence vander esh Smith, those DB's making plays on the ball. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.599 Asked them, Yeah, Jerry asked them to play the super 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.479 Bowl level every play. Mickey pointed at out to you 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.080 the other day before this game started, and you know, 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:04.840 he said, hey, you have to go out there and 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:06.880 play every play like it's the Super Bowl. And they 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.240 sure did. The way the early part of that game 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.440 where they were denying the football, the way they were 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.719 able to get pressure in the middle with Woods and 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.200 those guys, you know, the way that you know, hey, 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.080 they had some bumps along the road, but you play 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.039 a team like that, you're gonna have some bump. But 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.279 they just didn't have a lot of bumps. Yeah. Drew 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.680 breesens thorn for one hundred and twenty seven yards. He 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.400 does that in the first two drives of a game. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:30.760 He threw for one twenty against Minnesota. They won that game. 0:05:31.000 --> 0:05:33.479 And I stopped at two thousand and six trying to 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.440 find another lower total. And I don't think he finished 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.600 that start. He only had like forty six yards in 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.560 some game in OH six. I don't think he set 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.560 his feet perfectly until about the second half. The first 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.760 drive of the second half. That was the fewest total 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.040 yards they've had since two thousand and two, Yeah, two 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:55.240 thousand and two. Yeah, Saints collectively. Yes. Wow, it was 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:57.599 just it was just a brilliant game plan and it 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.040 was so well executed. It really was. And you think 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.479 about how it could have been even it could have 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.960 been even better. You know, Randy greg and if you 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:07.840 go back, when you guys go back and watch Randy 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.800 Gregory wasn't lined up off sides. He really wasn't. And 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.200 guess what, I'm not trying to get on the fish. 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:14.560 Let me just finish on this one and make if 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:16.680 I could before you go into the white hat rant. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.360 I think that, like I said, that's one of those 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.000 things where you have to sit there. You know that 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.279 that is to me watching it is you see worse. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.719 You see far worse than the games. But you know, 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:31.400 for the way that they were able to get that 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.520 the games they ran up front the way and let's 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.960 be honest that that Saints offensive line only minus their 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.800 left tackle, that's a that's a team that'd only given 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:44.200 up ten eleven sacks, and and and they they looked 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.680 like a team, you know, Dallas gave up their traditional 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:48.920 seven sacks for the game. You know, that kind of thing. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.080 But you said which offensive line looked the far worse 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.000 in this game, You'd probably have to say the Saints 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.040 offensive line look where even though Dallas got seven sacks 0:06:57.080 --> 0:07:01.080 against them, But that was that was prepressive. That really 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.080 really you if you want to, if you want to 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.560 go out and beat people and get recognition and talk 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.240 about being a top flight defense, go out and beat 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.400 some team like that offensively, beat them up and you 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:16.320 get recognition around this league. We're ready for the white 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:21.920 hat rant, white hat rant. He's right on the neutral 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:26.200 zone and this is white hat rant music for this. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:30.320 Guess what what the flag? I'm looking at the replay. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:36.160 The flag doesn't come out until the forced fumble. That's 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.600 when he threw the flag. I thought it was It 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.080 was funny because it was thrown from the Dallas sideline. Yes, 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.480 and that was it was number sixty eight, by the way, 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:51.160 and cursing him right now row yeah yeah, yeah, okay, okay, 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.000 you can see it. He dropped some serious bombs, the 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.360 f bomb on him and he was walking right by. 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.560 Yeah yeah. And the flag did not come If you're 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.600 in the neutral zone, as soon as the ball snap, 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.960 you throw your flag, right. You don't wait till the 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.760 balls bouncing around on the field. What's the guy thinking about? Yeah, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.600 what's he looking at? He wasn't offsides, he was not, No, 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.280 because the way if you look at the ball is 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.920 on the hash and and the center Unger's got the 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.200 ball in the hash and Randy's hand is on the 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.040 other side of the line. So there was a blue 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:24.600 line there. Yeah, the ball was on the saint side 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.040 of the blue line. Absolutely, his hand was on the 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.360 boy side of the blue line. So there was a 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.120 middle there. Yeah, there was there was room. And I've 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.439 seen what was neutral. I've seen far worse. But why 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.920 why does it like it was a delayed reaction of 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.040 throwing the flag as soon as the ball snap throw it? 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:44.480 Let me ask you, guys, this was this another one 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.280 of those games where Dallas really kicked their ass and 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.920 then the scoreboard didn't show them kicking their asses. You know, 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.360 if if Dak were on Internet radio, so I guess 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.600 I could say that, yes you can. If Dak Press 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.960 got hit Michael Gallop deep down the right sideline, Yeah, 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.640 he's over three hundred yards in the game. Probably, it's 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.320 probably got about a one fifty QB rating for the game. 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.440 And yeah, the score is looking even at its twenty 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.600 to ten, twenty to ten, but how many other times 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.720 another one you make a trip down there in the 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.360 red zone and have to kick a field goal. You 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.560 know that that's getting old. I mean, they won the game, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:19.960 but my gosh, that's getting old. I mean just think 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.520 if you, if you could, you could help this defense 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.800 even more with some of that stuff. If time and 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.760 nine trips inside the ten. That was what was funny 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:30.880 about the first half, I thought was you talked about 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.760 they had to play nearly perfect football, right, you think 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:35.760 about what they did in that first half. They held 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.880 the ball for over twenty minutes out of thirty, grind 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.880 out the clock, you're stopping them defensively, great drive off 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.720 your own goal line, and two field goals, perfect field 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.920 goals by your kicker were really the only blemishes of 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.920 the half because you kept thinking they can't they can't 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.400 get away with this, and it's gonna come back to 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.160 get them in the second half. Yeah, and you're sitting 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:56.360 there looking at it, going okay, it's ten nothing, and 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:58.719 you make one mistake, it's ten to seven. That's all 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.400 game on r That's what start Joe Bucks said at halftime. 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.040 You know. Yeah, and then they and then they ended 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.760 up be snarky you know this that he gives you 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.199 that smuggy I'm Joe fuck, you know, and then they 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.320 end up and you don't know, they end up holding 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.760 the ball for thirty seven minutes in the game to 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.040 thirty seven minutes. Yeah, yeah, that's that's what the Saints 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.040 are supposed to do. That was the plan though, right. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.200 I mean, you want to score, you want to score, touch, 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.720 finish drive, but you want to keep them off the fields. Yeah, yeah, great, 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.600 I mean I just I just can't get over how 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.000 in f they made the Saints look. Yes, and that's pressure, 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.960 that's that's that's knocking you. You talk about what's what's 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.280 the written? You gotta knock Drew Breese around, and then 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.800 Mickey comes at you with they're giving up ten sacks. 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.080 This here, Brian, you know you want to say, that's 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:45.840 what's your key to the game. You gotta knock Drew 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.160 Brees around. Okay, they've got up with ten sacks. How 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.320 are you gonna do that? Yeah? But they did, Yeah 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.280 they did. They got after Drew Brees when they made him. 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.120 Will McClay and the scouting staff too, some of those 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.600 guys that the Cowboys have in there on that defensive line, 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:03.040 the human log you know, and Collins he is there. Yeah, 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:07.040 they were. They affected the middle of the pocket, got 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:13.240 in yeahs to five eleven. Quarterback Micky's play a quarterback. Yeah, 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.280 I've got to go do TV Vicky Nicky to tell 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.480 no one came by and wait the flowering Scott Purcell. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.360 He did Hi sign be great Bill as always, Mickey 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.160 interviewed Jason Garrett after the game last night. So what 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.320 you have to do? I have to go. We got 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:32.040 to cover for you. Now. We spent our whole career 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.160 covering for that man. When you're talking at no one 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:38.040 covered for me ever, Yeah, no one ever, no one ever. Whatever. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.120 Bill is about to go do it and they do it. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:44.560 They couldn't cover me on the field. Well, I'll be 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.640 back in here, okay, I'll just be doing I take 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.839 something for about twenty minutes. I do appreciate that, though, 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.280 I'm expecting as long as I can knock it out 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.800 with one take on everything, of course you're gonna knock 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:01.800 it out. I know. Mickey did the hard work, all right. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.280 It was easy after a win like that, right, Thank goodness, yeah, 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.840 and you got your ref rant and already like we're 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.320 rolling along here, we're in good shape. We get you 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.040 one more. No, No, it's okay. We won this game. 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.040 This game, they didn't call on that Dak. When I 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.120 talked to him after the game, I think I told 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.480 you this last night is Jim Strap was on his nose. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.400 Guess what the guy reached in so far? He said, 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.920 lip was bleeding. Yeah, boy, Dak was a bloody mess 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:33.120 hand elbow. He had all kinds of step going on. 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.320 Man cut his non throwing hand. He also had a 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:41.120 scab come off his elbow. He said he was whea 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.120 was on his none of his elbow was completely covered 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.439 in blood. His his white sleeves on. And I think 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.440 it was on one of those runs he had, by 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.520 the way, with a couple of guts he runs he made. 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.599 He made three guys miss in the open field. We 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.079 want to be a linebacker too, dragged a guy three 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.400 yards from first down. Zeke did a lot of that 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.920 too last night. I want to find your your next 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:08.480 gen stats yards after contact for Zeke because I mean 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.160 he was carrying guys with him. Yeah, I think on 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.120 full displolling call killed us up. I keep saying us, 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.960 it's them, They're they're playing well. But that the holding 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.839 call on Looney that wiped out a first down right there. 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.800 It was a tough run to you know, and it 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.440 set them back and all that. So, yeah, that's part 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.559 of it. That's that's tough right there, man, when you 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.800 get you know that they couldn't afford that, even though 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.400 they overcame it. You know, they get a first down 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.160 and then they get called Looney gets Is that the 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:36.880 one that they said? It was Collins and yeah, yeah, 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:41.520 get it right, Yeah, committed he did. But when I 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.360 watched Collins, I going, are you serious? Yeah, Collins didn't 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.719 get his block at all. He was trying to get 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.400 the guy from behind. Yeah I was. I'll tell you 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:54.280 another one, white hand rant, uh that the non passenger 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.040 ference calling. If you go back and watch the tape, 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.560 the field judge is reaching for his flag and he 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:03.079 can't get it out of his belt. Which one is that? Yeah, 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.679 the touchdown, the field judge is literally going for his flag. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.840 He's running sideways, going flag, flag, flag, he can't reach it, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.800 and then he by by the time the ball is caught, 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.960 then the other officials signaling touchdown and he just mosey's 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.520 on through the play, Kirkwood, because he gave a little, 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.360 he gave a show, gave the fuel. Judge. The guy 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:23.640 in the middle of the field was going to call. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.360 I think that's the fuel judge, back judge, he's gonna 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.240 make the call. You can clearly see him on tape 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.920 reaching for his flag and then he doesn't throw the 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.840 flag because he can't get it out of his belt. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.800 A nudge Dave in the press boxes, and I think 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.960 he got away with one there. Even even Ferrera said, yeah, 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:41.480 you gotta call that. Yeah, yeah, Well I'll tell you what, 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:45.000 Like I say, one more thing, Brob. I know Sean 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.400 Payton now coached himself last night so well with the 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.200 challenges and stuff like that, like yeah, early challenges, and 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.320 he didn't leave him with the Beasley thing. Was clearly 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.320 two yards short Beasley on the third down catch. At 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.120 the end of the game, he had no challenges left. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.440 He was clearly short on that play, you know. And 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.440 if he'd have challenged that, then he would have forced 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:05.720 Jason Garrett to have to make a fourth and one call, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.160 which I think you'd probably gone forth there. But he 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.320 was But that was a that was a key point. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.760 That was a first down. The Saints had no challenges, 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:14.920 the fact he went for it on fourth down on 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:16.960 his own goal on the on the Dallas, you know. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.600 And tremendous plays by those guys up from Jalen Smith though, 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:23.240 and I've talked about him earlier. Jalen Smith tackle on 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.920 Kamara to keep him out of the end zone. Huge play. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.040 I mean, it's it's stirred down and it's like Kamara 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.560 is like Byron Jones misses him and here's here's Jalen 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.880 Smith comes flying from the middle of the field. He 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.280 tackles Kamara to keep him from the going. Now it 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:42.760 sets the fourth in two and lombhole. What do they do? 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:47.040 They stop him? Then on fourth and one, fourth one 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:51.160 Kamara stopped. Crawford is there and I think Lawrence again, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:57.360 Lawrence coming across the Collins, Oh, Vander esh Collins, Smith, Crawford. 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.160 They all played square and I'm guessing everybody was a 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.280 plotting Seawan for going forward instead of kicking a field 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.160 goal and you lost by three. Great job two by 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.920 Lawrence coming from the back side. They didn't block him. 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.360 They had like a stunt on and it was a great. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.560 That was a great play because even if Breeze would 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.000 have pulled the ball, you had Xavier Woods over the 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.520 top in case it was going to be one of 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:22.000 those those read option bits. So good job, good defense 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.280 understanding what the Saints potentially we're gonna do. So going 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.560 back to that Beasley deal, I'm trying to replay it 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.120 in my head. He runs the in and out round. Yeah, almost, 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.040 and he almost down and he dove for the first down. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:36.360 His knee was Did somebody hit him though? Yeah, because 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.160 I didn't think he got tackled. He was dying. He was. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.760 He was the reason why the official gave him the 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.080 favorable spot, just because he dove and lunged the ball forward. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.200 If he just kind of falls down, it's gonna be 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.600 probably a yard short, but his knee, he gets tackled 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:54.120 where his right knee hits and then he's he's going forward. 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.040 But it was it was a good yard and a 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:57.840 half two yards short. I thought, you know on the 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.360 goal line stand that we just talked about second quarter, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.320 keeping the Saints out of the end zone. Dak was 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.159 asked about it after the game and he said, you know, 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.320 it's one of those plays where you feel like, all right, 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.400 we got this, and not that the game's over at 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.479 that point, but the way our defense is playing tonight, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.040 the way we're playing tonight, the juice we've got, we're 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.119 not gonna be denied tonight. And that was kind of 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.480 a that was a signature playing the game. Great job 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:25.360 of Dak and then getting off the goal line though, Jeff's, 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:30.520 uh my guy, Blake Jarwin, Blake Jarwin and he doesn't 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.160 catch anything because it's third down, right, yeah, it's like yeah, 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:34.959 and they flipped the ball to him in the flat 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.200 and he and he's presence of mind to catch it, 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.160 turned up field, get the first down. I mean, those 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:41.720 are the kinds of play we were we were trying 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.440 to say, Okay, you know, our guy man of the match, 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.399 picked the click. Whatever you want to talk about. It was. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.960 You could talk about forty six guys. Everybody had a 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.080 turn at the bat yesterday. Do you know there's guys 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.760 that hadn't had really they gone six weeks without doing something, 0:17:58.200 --> 0:17:59.600 and all of a sudden they make a play and 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.640 you're like, went, ah, that's that guy. That's Blake Jarwin. 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.760 Catch the ball, get up field, get a first down. 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.880 You know, yeah, Joe Looney on the on the Dak 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.800 scramble on third down, the third and eleven, you know 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.120 that the that they're able to convert, Joe Looney gets 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.000 a great block to give Dack the opportunity to go. 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.120 You know, those are things you just talk about again. 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.359 Have about credit to the offensive line. They're playing with 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.240 three backups, Rob. I think you said this in the 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:27.880 pregame show. I think you said this, backup center, backup, 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.239 left guard, backup left tackle. You know, think about that, 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.920 and they gave up seven sacks. Yeah, but and the quarterback. 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.360 When you guys go back and watch it, the quarterbacks, 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.000 he's got to do a little bit better job of 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.320 anticipating some stuff. Now, not all of them are on 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.800 the quarterback, but he heard them. A couple It was 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.440 hard to tell from the press box, but yeah, I 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:47.800 kind of felt like a couple of them. It's like 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:51.720 you gotta gotta feel your wait, watch WAITCHI watch and 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.439 see and you'll say, oh gosh. But there were seven 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.359 of them. Five of them were you know, bad ones. 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:00.479 Two of them probably on the quarterback. But you know, 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.639 the poise the Dack showed. Andy and Mickey pointed us 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.040 out bloody mess out there playing yea walk into the 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:09.119 car last night from the press box. Uh, he had 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:13.120 four inn completions, yeah, twenty, shame on him, and one 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.120 of him was one of him was down the right sideline. 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.119 They were trying to throw the bomb. Then gall the 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.199 gall It missed on two deep balls. Remember the one 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.199 they wanted threw out a bounce, yeah, and then the 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.840 other one. I just thought Gallbert could have made a 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:29.240 more aggressive try for the ball. You know what happened, though, Mickey, 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.679 when you watch it, you're gonna see he wants to 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.320 throw the ball in the double move to Cooper on 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.200 the other side. And then he came to me and 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.560 he came back and it was and by the time 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:43.320 he got back he probably wasn't sure how far he 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.199 threw the ball more in a line, he threw it 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.160 more on a He said, I should have put more yeah, 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:50.240 and and but he his eyes came back late over there. 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.680 He wanted to hit he now, by hey, speaking of 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.840 Amari Cooper, all eight of his receptions were against that 0:19:57.440 --> 0:19:59.879 their best corner. Now think about more. Think about that. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:01.960 And we were all worried. Brian brought excuse me, was 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.359 worried about you know, pregame, he's saying, well, if they 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:06.800 travel out of more, this could be difficult for him. 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:11.159 I don't see it being nah. Eight catches and it 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.840 was almost on the other side. Early it was like 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:16.920 where's Eli Apple? Yeah, oh no, you know they were 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:19.800