WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Memory Lane 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.320 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:16.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.560 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:24.639 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.560 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:34.680 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:41.640 Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Thursday, January thirteenth, twenty 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.640 twenty two, Season seventeen, episode number ninety seven. Welcome to 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.040 the latest edition of The Break, live from s WBC 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.120 Mortgage Studios at the Star. We've got a lot to 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.120 get into. We're getting you guys ready for Cowboys versus 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.360 forty nine Ers. That happens this Sunday, three thirty pm 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:57.480 at AT and T STADI will be joined in a 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.640 little bit in the second segment by Bucky Brooks NFL Network. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.160 He'll help us break down the San Francisco defense versus 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.720 Dallas offense. But let's get this thing started, and it 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.000 give me a ninety seven. Let's get this thing started. No, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.120 Roy Glover, don't do that. Glover was a great football player. 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.080 He was, Yeah, I mean he I think he was 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.040 the first guy to have four straight Pro Bowls in 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.400 his first four years. Zach Martin has since done that, 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.400 but he was announced standing player on some bad teams. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.640 I'm kind of surprised he doesn't get more, doesn't get 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:29.800 at least to being a finalist for the Hall of Fame. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:31.800 He was one of those players. I was so good 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:34.440 and he was so underrated, and he was on bad 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.520 teams at the Cowboys. I assume I don't know what 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.560 the Saints were like while he was there. Roy that 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.920 stung that I hated. I hated the Cowboys for because 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.680 he was one of the saints best players at a 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.440 time when I mean the Dome Patrol obviously, but they 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.680 were always second fiddle to the Niners. Those teams, they weren't. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.840 They never like commanded their division, and so like late nineties, 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.800 early two thousands, it was like the first taste of 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.680 the Saints being like a playoff type team. And Leroy 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:06.640 left in free agency, and I think it was like 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.640 the first time the Saints had a player than anybody 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:10.880 else wanted. And I just I was probably like twelve, 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:14.200 and I just like damn count He used to piss 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.600 off the TV cameras too, because he would sit in 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.160 his locker and we'd go to interview him a couple 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.560 of riders, and then the cameras you would show up 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.520 late and h after you do the work, and then 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.040 he had this big dip in his mouth and he'd 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.359 be like, no cameras, just just you know, writers only, 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.040 and they were like they were getting pissed about it. 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:33.760 Was like, because they had this big dip, want to 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:36.480 show what's my kind of guy? Screw the TV people 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.320 didn't It didn't It didn't matter if we're doing it. 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:40.560 You know, He's like, well, they're a good team. That 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:42.919 doesn't matter, so you know you don't, but you don't 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.040 translate that. He was such a good player. I mean, 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.040 and that's the other thing about it. Sometimes when you 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.959 talk about interior defensive lineman, they don't get all the shine. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.760 But that guy was a really, really good player. And 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:54.359 you could see it on a bad team, which is 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.320 sometimes even harder to do. But he was really really 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.200 a good player. All right, Nick, I want to also 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.280 take a little moment and i'll Amber and Dave. I'm 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.040 not sure if you guys have any but I'll open 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.079 it up to you if you if you do, but 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.320 i'd like to start to show off today getting just 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:11.040 some memories of Cowboys forty nine ers, because there are 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.840 this is one of the most storied rivalries probably in 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.680 the NFL. Um and Nick, I know because I've had 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.720 some conversations with you and you have lots of memories 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.880 from that. But let's let's just kind of see if 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.200 you have something, if you guys to have some by 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.959 by by all means jump in. My favorite play of 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.480 all time is in this series. I mean, and we're 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.280 gonna do a video here in a little bit about 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:33.400 my favorite moments from the Cowboys forty nine ers. But 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.240 Alvin Harper Catch to me was the play it was. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.920 It was, It's my favorite play of all time because 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.200 that is what the catch was for the forty nine ers. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.680 Was what that was for the Cowboys. It kind of 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.960 propelled them for the entire dynasty, and it was more 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:52.360 of um, you know, yeah, nice comeback. Crowds into it. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.520 Four minutes to go. We've been in these games, we've 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.440 seen them, were like, how do you get rid of this? 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.800 Four minutes? You're gonna run the ball, they're gonna call timeouts, 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.080 you're gonna put They just said, we're gonna throw it 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.000 over to Alvin Harper and he's gonna break away, and 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:04.880 we're gonna win this thing right here, right now. It 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.480 was a mentality that they had with Jimmy Johnson that 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.800 right there. There's a lot of great ones. I got more, 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.160 but that play right there symbolized more than just the play, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.680 symbolize kind of what they were about to be in 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.760 taking control over the dynasty there from the Niners. I 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.880 let Nick have the shine there, Like, I mean, my 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:24.760 answers just aren't gonna be that good. I really, I'm 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.880 old enough to remember that stretch of time, but not vividly. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.960 Especially I wasn't a Cowboy fan so I or a 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.600 forty nine er fan, so I wasn't invested in it. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.000 But I just remember those two teams there. They were 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.160 just always on, like you were just always aware that 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.040 that was a big deal and like the winner was 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.279 probably gonna win the super Bowl. For me, my most 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.560 vivid Cowboys Niners memory, other than games I've actually covered, 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:53.520 is again, probably I don't know, thirteen or fourteen, watching 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.840 whatever Saints game was happening that day, and you know 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.080 that Jim Brown does the break in. He's like, let's 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.839 see what's going on in Tio's standing on the star 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:06.080 and you're like, okay, okay, that's interesting, Like what the hell? 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:07.880 And then they were like and then you're like, JB, 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.280 something else is happening in Dallas. Let's cut away from 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.680 the Saints ray oh my god, like Emmitt Smith, Tio's 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.400 doing it. Like I vividly remember that. It was like 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.119 they just kept cutting into that game, and like Dallas 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:21.880 wasn't good that year, right, and so you didn't really 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.280 have a reason to be paying attention to it until 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.680 all of that started, and it was like riveting and 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:28.920 by the time George Tigue finally hit him, I feel 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:31.280 like I was more interested in that than whatever the 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.400 Saints were doing. Yeah, that was that kind of game, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.919 And to be honesty, that was probably my most vivid 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.440 memory of Cowboys forty nine ers as well, just because 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.960 of the craziness of the game. Again, this was not 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:44.440 a good team that year, but the way that game transpired, 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.320 it just there was just all these moments where it 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.840 was kind of like TiO goes to the Star, then 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.000 Emmett goes to the Star, then it TiO goes to 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:54.640 the Star again. It was just kind of kept going, 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.120 and it was like, Okay, this is probably the most 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.280 excitement we're gonna see all season, so let's just lean 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.480 into it. That's fun. That's a very unique NFL thing 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.040 because I mean it sucks, but like the way that 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.120 they still broadcast the league is so outdated. You know, 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.680 like if unless you have NFL package, you get two 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:15.280 games even in twenty twenty two, which is insane, but um, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.240 but every now and then you'll have a moment like 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.440 that where there's like drama playing out in the other 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.000 game and they're like, let's get you back to Texas 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.720 Stadium where all hell has broken loose, you know. So 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.840 we had a game and it turned into something else. Yeah, 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.360 you know, I I never no one's ever really said this, 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:34.040 And I asked he know this, and he kind of 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.200 just smiled or and didn't really answer it. But I 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.680 always believe that he did that because he recently, right 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.640 before that, had filmed the movie Any Given Sunday, which 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.320 was filmed at the stadium, and he was on the 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:50.480 other team, and he I think he did that in 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.360 the middle of the movie or you know, like a 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.360 play or something like that. So I think, you know, 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.000 he'd just been there and he'd done. I think that 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.200 was part of it too, I asked him once again. 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:01.520 He didn't really answer, or you're just kind of like whatever, 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.160 you know. I mean, well, obviously it was perceived as 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.160 much more than that, and it's you've seen it over 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.920 the years. It's continued to play out, you know, teams 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.200 that go out to the logo of the other team 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.200 on the fifty and during their warm up and they're 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.720 jumping around on it, and it turned into this whole 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.680 level of disrespect that then they feel like they have to, 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.280 you know, do something to to show it. I mean, 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.280 it's just like it has become a thing. And I 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.320 don't know if before that i'd really seen it be 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.240 a thing, but it certainly became a thing. That day 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:36.280 was Oh, I'm not that old, Sorry to be honest, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.200 and this is gonna sound ridiculous, but I am just 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:45.400 now this week finding out how big this game is 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:49.640 as far as like rivalry and this being a classic 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.880 game and going back to those times, like to me, 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.480 the times that I've been working here and covering this team, 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.040 the forty nine ers have never been like such a 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.480 big deal. You know. You you talked about the opponent, 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.560 the week you're playing them and all that, but never 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.560 like this. I didn't know that there was this kind 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.760 of history behind the Cowboys and forty which And don't 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.880 let anybody call you silly for that, by the way, 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.560 because I mean, if you've been a fan of the 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.880 game for years and years, you know. But but I mean, 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.160 I've worked here since thirteen, and so they played here 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:23.000 in fourteen. We've been out to Levi's a bunch, like 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.840 I've lost track of it all. And they even at 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.960 one of those games, I think I think the Cowboys 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.400 kicked their ass because they've the last few times they've 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.000 gone out there, the forty nine ers haven't been a 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.720 very good team, but they honored Dwight Clark at halftime 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.160 and one of those games it was when he was 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.960 still alive, and I remember kind of not being surprised, 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:43.599 but I was like, oh yeah, Like I guess this 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.000 did used to be a big deal, because even the 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.640 four or five times that they've played in the regular 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.079 season while I've been here, it hasn't felt like that 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.560 to me, Like it hasn't been like it's nine Ers week. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:57.000 So it's been very fun to have all of this 0:08:57.160 --> 0:08:59.800 kind of rekindled this week and have everybody sharing all 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.920 of these memories, and you know that's the thing too. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.000 You think about this forty nine ers matchup, like even 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.400 recently when there hasn't been as much consequence to the game, 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.600 there's still drama. Like you think about Jesse Holly's game 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.079 like that. We did a documentary on Jesse Holly and 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.839 it was all built around that game because there was 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.360 so much in that game for him that was, you know, 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.920 kind of this crowning moment. Obviously he makes the game 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.040 winning play in overtime, and so it's there have been 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:27.840 those kind of moments. This is that kind of drama 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.240 that tends to happen when these two teams match up, 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.080 and there's history that goes back even before the nineties, 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.160 obviously the catch that we talked about. So there's so 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.360 many dramatic wonder because we know there are a lot 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.640 of young players here on the roster. So it makes 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.800 me wonder when you have older coaches, people like Dan Quinn. 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.320 He mentioned that how big this game is and all 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.800 that people that know the history that are passionate about 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:54.640 it that I want to go out there and compete 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.079 with everything, Like how do they transmit that kind of 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:02.040 passion a message to the younger players and get them 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.480 pumped up the same type of I mean, they're gonna 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.720 be pumped either way. They're gonna go out there play 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.720 playoff game. But you know, just I'm curious to see 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.839 what those meetings look like and what kind of like 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.319 fiery message they take. It matters. I think that does matter, 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.200 even though they don't know it. I think that they 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.839 just kind of understand how big the moment is. It 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:22.880 is bigger than they even thought, you know, and we'll 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.959 see if they rise to it. But they've said something about, 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.040 you know, just you always knew that these two teams 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.000 were good and all that. I wrote this in the 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:31.800 mail bag this morning, and on a question like that. 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.920 The greatest line ever said to me, I mean you 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.120 ever said was in about this Robert was Pat Somemer 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.480 all in then open for the ninety four game, ninety 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.440 four NFC Championship. They've played ninety three. Here they are 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.840 again and that was when the Pro Bowl was after um, 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:50.640 I think they had twelve and thirteen players each team. 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.960 And he says at the end of this whole intro, 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.720 he says, he says in two weeks. The super Bowl 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:00.320 will be played after that, the Pro Bowl today, we'll 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.120 play both. And I just thought that that right there, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.440 because it's like it is, it was the super Bowl. 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.760 The charges weren't gonna be any of them. Oh yeah, 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.679 for those years, it was everybody knew the NFC Championship 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.760 game was the super Bowl for those years. I thought 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.880 it was cool Troy. Troy talks to thirteen ten the 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.200 ticket here every week, He's done that forever, and they 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.920 asked him about being part of that, and it was 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.800 cool how candid he was, because I mean he went 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.120 through the whole stretch of all of those years and 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.320 he was like, yeah, I mean, it definitely hurt because 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.920 we knew that we would have treated San Diego the 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.400 same way they did like we we would have won 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.679 that game, There's no question about it. Just it just 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.679 speaks to the level that those two teams were on. 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.800 He said that they would win four straight because they 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:43.360 you know, they didn't win that year, but then they 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.960 came back, and I don't know that it's true. I mean, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.680 because I don't know if if Jerry breaks the bank 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.360 for Dion after that, because they you know, I don't 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.199 if you don't have the on that fourth year. Maybe 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.079 I don't know, you know, maybe I mean, does he 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:57.640 go kind of all in in ninety five if he 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.480 won three in a row, did they lose more guys? 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:01.840 It's hard to say, but they certainly would have competed 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:03.640 for it. But yeah, it's kind of thing we talk 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.719 about with games all the time, like one thing kind 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:10.040 of precipitates another, so you can't really say good, no, no, no, 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.120 you didn't really say what it's gonna be. Yeah, if 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.280 those things don't happen before that. I just he said 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.439 another really interesting thing to me, which was that he 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:23.120 said losing the ninety four game, which like any Cowboy 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.079 fan that remembers that game, it's like they go to 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:27.959 a different place when you bring it up like it 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.600 without fail. See Nick, it hurts every fan I've ever 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.360 talked to who remembers that game. They just their eyes, 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:36.839 They just go to a dark place. I was a 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.520 freshman college and man that that I mean, crying wouldn't 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.520 have helped, but I could have. But Troy, Troy said 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.240 something that I thought was interesting. He's like, he was 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:47.559 like that, That's one of the proudest feelings I've ever 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.080 had leaving a football field, and I got it when 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:52.719 he explained it made a lot of sense. He was like, 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.800 you know, by then, we had just become associated with dominance, 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.440 Like you know, we killed the Bills in two Super Bowls, 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.240 Like every time we play a big game, we just 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.120 show up and kick ass. And for us to get 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:07.680 down big like that and look vulnerable and not look 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.360 our best and still fight back, he was like, I 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.360 was proud to show America like what we were really 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.319 about that, like we wouldn't go down without a fight 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.600 or whatever. I have two rewind moments in my life 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.719 for the Cowboys, two that I would just want to 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.400 rewind and replay it and see what happens. One of 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.120 them is twenty fourteen in Green Bay. I don't know 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:28.760 if they would have won, but I just would have 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.240 liked to seeing a touchdown there. See if they go 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.720 for two ye see what Rogers does. And we're talking 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.800 obviously the Desk game. Then the other one is the 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.520 ninety four game. I think Dion Sanders definitely had a 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.320 past interference on Urban. They call that at the five, 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.559 they're gonna go score. It's gonna be thirty eight thirty 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.160 five with five minutes to go. I want to see 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.480 that because I think they could have stopped up in won, 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.880 you know, and that don't even remember all that five 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.160 minutes ago. There are the thirty five like, oh my god, 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.079 because I just rose my hand like that one hurt. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.480 Those moments, those moments turn into your brain, they really do. 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.959 Everyone's got a moment like that. And you're right, I 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.280 mean you went too straight. This is the game and 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.360 it's their down twenty one to nothing before you can 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.120 even get get through the first beer. I mean it 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.679 was twenty one nothing, you know, and not to go 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.240 too off the rails. I'm sure you want to take 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.200 a break. I've been thinking about this all week though, 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:20.600 because it got like this is what I said when 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.280 they hired McCarthy. Obviously, right now, in this moment, their 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.400 goal is to win the Super Bowl. It will be 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.720 very disappointing if they don't win this game. All that 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:34.200 good stuff, but like, that is the goal when you 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.640 hire Mike McCarthy, I said it. Then it's like year 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.000 after year being in the playoffs, like Huhet three was great, 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.960 but ninety four was heartbreaking, Whereas around here recently it's 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.360 been more like it's been three years since they've been 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.280 in the playoffs, Like, I hope these guys remember what 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.760 it takes, Like that's what needs to change, like they 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.760 need to success for Mike McCarthy is getting back to 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.560 a standard of like every year you're in the playoffs 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.800 and sometimes it's going to go really well and sometimes 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.000 it's not. But you're there every year. And you know, 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.280 something that's interesting. I actually was thinking about this this morning. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.400 I don't know how many fans out there. Started to 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.360 see this word victory that's on a lot of the 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.040 stuff that we do, and it came actually from coach McCarthy. 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.400 It's something he's been preaching to the team all season. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.440 It's been talking about this word victory, and for the 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.560 first time it kind of hit me. He basically took 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:20.640 away their safety net. You know, you have a lot 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.480 of the thing back to when Garrett was here. He 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.280 talked about what's important is the process, what's important is 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:28.760 the fight, Like it's all these things that you can control, 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.040 right and so, but it does leave that that little 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.960 gray area that even if you don't win, you should 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.720 be happy for the fight, you should be happy for 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.400 the process. If you do those things, that's enough. I 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.000 think Mike McCarthy took away that safety net. There is 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.320 nothing else other than victory. There is nothing else other 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:48.000 than winning. That's a really scary way to kind of 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.080 put everything because that means you either are successful or 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:52.880 not and it's all dependent on the end of the day, 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.680 did you get the W and A. That's a pretty 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:57.560 bold thing to do, and it also can be a 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.400 very scary thing to do. But it goes to what 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.280 Dave's talking about. Being a coach and creating the standard 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.120 of our standard is not necessarily just the process. Yeah, 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.640 we want you to do the same things and be 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.240 good at doing the same things and even preparing. But 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.680 at the end of the day, you're judged by did 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.920 you win or did you lose? There is no moral victory. 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.440 You either one of you didn't. And I think that, 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.960 I know, I think that to me is one of 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.160 the things I look at. I'm like, that's kind of 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.160 that tells you a little bit about his mentality and 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.120 what he wants, how he wants his team to think. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.600 That's a little bit different than maybe the previous regime. 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:31.920 All Right, were gonna take our first recon we co back. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.680 We're gonna be John by Bucky Brooks of NFL Network. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.440 We're gonna talk about this San Francisco defense versus the 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.840 Cowboys offense. We'll be right back. This is Dallas Cowboys 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:44.120 dot Com Radio. At ATNT, everyone new and existing customers 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.080 get our best deals on every smartphone. Why because you 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.440 deserve it for turning your living room into your office 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.920 and your gym. We're teaching. 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First of all, tell me what 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.520 is it that they do best and where are they 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:17.919 most vulnerable. The thing that they do well is they 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:20.639 dominated the point of attack. They are a team that 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:25.800 has always put their premium and invested in the defensive line, 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.000 and the defensive line allows them to control of the game. 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.280 The most notable guy is Nick Bolson. He has sixteen 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.720 and a half sacks coming off in Ato, which is remarkable. 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.520 But he's joined by two guys on the inside. Eric Olmstead, 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:39.720 who's done a great job I think six and a 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.280 half sacks, and then you have Art and t who's 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:45.080 the situational pass rusher that has given them some help. 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:46.600 So this is a team that wants to rush for 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:48.960 They want to drop seven and they believe that they 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:52.359 can whip you upfront with the D line and then 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.520 they can protect the back end and coverage. Their secondary 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.840 is their weakest part. But a lot of times you 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.280 can't get to attack the back end because Nick Won 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.120 the company are knocking you around and making you leave 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.680 the pocket before you can really attack. Bucky. How we 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:10.280 talked yesterday about the running game. They're the forty nine 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.320 ers defense. Is it good because of those guys you said? 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:16.399 Or are they even better when their offense is actually 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.720 running the ball, getting the clock and kind of controlling 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.200 the game and allowing them to kind of take advantage 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:26.400 of that. Yeah, it's a complimentary approach. I mean they're good. 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:29.720 I wouldn't say that they're necessarily like top five good 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.560 on their own accord. I would say that it's the 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:34.840 way that they play that helps them when you're running 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:36.639 the ball. Then the forty nine hasn't done this in 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.040 a couple of games where the first drive is fifteen play, 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:41.159 they make you punted and they get it and go 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.080 another fifteen plays and before you know a year, I 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:46.240 mean midway in the second quarter and you have no 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:48.760 rhythm of field on the offense and you're chasing point. 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:51.440 And so that allows them to play the kind of 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:53.239 style of defense that they want to play because they 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:54.880 want to rush the pass that they don't really want 0:20:54.880 --> 0:20:56.320 to have to go straight up and deal with the 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:59.399 running game and stuff like that. And so as much 0:20:59.440 --> 0:21:03.040 as we talk the forty nine ers running game, making 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:08.520 opponents with and fear them, they also don't want to 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:10.840 face a steady data run because that's not necessarily what 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:14.320 they're built for. They're built to rush to pass. Bucky, 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:17.440 speaking of which you just talked about him, imagine my 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:20.840 surprise when I turn on this tape and my old 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:25.640 friend from LSU arden Key is not just playing well 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.200 for them, but doing it at a new position Like 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:30.000 it seems like they use him a lot as a 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.280 d tackle. Just what I mean, what have they found 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.399 in this guy? And how much of a problem is 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:40.480 that for the interior alignment on the Cowboys. Well, what 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:42.399 they have wanted to build line coaches in pullball and 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:46.600 Chris cons and he is unlocked. Arden Key arden keyed 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:50.040 is found at home by playing on the inside, and 0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:52.439 they are a team to use a lot of movement 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:56.320 at the line of scrimmage, slamming, stunning, getting them on 0:21:56.359 --> 0:21:58.920 the move by whether the ball goes jumping in guests. 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:01.200 I mean, he's skilled, and you're seeing when you put 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:03.560 a defensive in a guy who's a natural two hungere 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.640 and forty pounder on the inside, he's working the edges 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:10.560 of the offensive line. So he wins with quickness and 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:13.480 hand skills as opposed to like sheer strength and power. 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:15.600 And it's working for them. And if they get you 0:22:15.680 --> 0:22:18.080 in those situations where they're able to unleash him, he 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.320 doesn't have to worry about the run. Well, then it 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:22.440 becomes a problem. And so you see an art and 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:26.040 he kind of playing the way that maybe some imagine 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:28.679 him being a disruptive force. He's just doing it at 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:34.040 a different position. Man, I don't really even know what 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.240 to ask because I feel like every week it's like, Okay, 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:39.520 we'll always have one more week, but then this week 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:42.320 it's like this is it. They're all in with this. 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:45.119 So I guess what I want to ask you, Bucky, 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:48.960 is after seeing the way that they played last week, 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:50.960 even though it was with an opponent that didn't have 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:54.359 many of their starters or anything like that. What are 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:56.959 some of the things that you think that the Cowboys 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:00.680 might still struggle with this fight of the kind of 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:04.720 performance they put out last week. This game comes down 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:07.159 to the offensive line. It comes down to how well 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:09.639 they play at the point of attack. If Sen Smith 0:23:09.720 --> 0:23:13.080 play all Colin Zach more in time betters and kind 0:23:13.080 --> 0:23:15.080 of willing to play well, then the Cowboys win. If 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:17.520 they have any problems, then it's gonna be a long day. 0:23:17.800 --> 0:23:19.520 And that's just what it comes down to. And so 0:23:19.960 --> 0:23:23.159 if the ability to control the guys upfront, and if 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:26.840 you can do that and slow down Bosa and Aunstead 0:23:26.960 --> 0:23:29.840 and contain Fred Warner and those guys at the second level, 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:32.879 then you dominate the game and you do it the 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:34.680 way that you've done it for most of the season. 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:37.680 But if you have issues and it cracks up front, 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:40.359 it's going to make it very uncomfortable because you won't 0:23:40.359 --> 0:23:42.280 be able to run the football. And in death, you 0:23:42.480 --> 0:23:44.320 have to maybe do too much in terms of like 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:46.680 having to make more players, because I wouldn't want to 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:49.240 see him have to throw it forty plus times, even 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:51.359 though he's more than paple of being able to do that. 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:54.240 That's not the game that the Cowboys should want to 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:56.520 be able to get into and the pole season. So 0:23:56.560 --> 0:23:58.680 it's all about the trenches. Whoever wins the trenches often 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:00.920 is gonna win the game. Bucky, I'm gonna ask you 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:03.159 a bigger picture question. We actually got this question from 0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:06.480 one of our listeners, Colin Brennan. He says, he asked, 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:09.879 what areas on offense and defense? Does Dallas have the 0:24:09.880 --> 0:24:12.840 advantage over San Francisco Because I think all week listening 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:14.639 to our show and listening to a lot of media, 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:17.280 Everybody's like, man, this is a tough matchup for Dallas. 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:21.280 Where's it a tough matchup for San Francisco? I mean 0:24:21.600 --> 0:24:24.359 defending the Cowboys. I mean, let's be honest, like the 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:28.120 star power is real and it We do play these 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:30.359 narratives in the media like, oh, you never want to 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:32.639 face the Niners, get the hottest team, but look, they 0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:35.400 got seven losses on their legends, so they have issues too. 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:37.639 And the big thing with the Niners is you have 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:39.760 to make sure that you're attacking. What you want to 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:42.480 do is you want to play from in front and 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:45.399 put the game on Jimmy Garoppolo. So the advantage is 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:49.360 for the Cowboys quarterback, wide receiver. Even though Dego saying 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:52.840 is legit, the wide receivers still go that way. The 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:57.040 offensive line, I would say, is almost a bit of 0:24:57.119 --> 0:24:59.880 a push defended upon, like which version of Trent will 0:24:59.880 --> 0:25:02.200 you comes back? Because he's played it at a great level. 0:25:02.880 --> 0:25:07.119 The defensive line, I would say it's fairly even. Linebackers. 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:09.760 I mean, it's kind of even. The defensive backs would 0:25:09.760 --> 0:25:12.000 go to the Cowboys, and so it's kind of an 0:25:12.080 --> 0:25:15.840 even matchup. The really style, it's who's able to impose 0:25:16.040 --> 0:25:18.520 their style early in the game and make the game 0:25:19.040 --> 0:25:21.880 be played out a certain way. If the Cowboys jump 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:23.960 in front and are able to play the game from 0:25:24.000 --> 0:25:26.560 their front dinners, it's an easier game for them. If 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:29.280 it's one of those games where the Niners shorten the 0:25:29.320 --> 0:25:31.320 game and they run it, then it becomes an all 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:34.680 day affair. But now we have overblown it and maybe 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:36.879 where the forty nine or the forty nine is from 0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:39.920 the nineties and the nine that yeah, So that being 0:25:40.000 --> 0:25:44.080 said about playing in the lead, when when the referee 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:47.359 announces before the kickoff that the Cowboys have won the toss. 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:51.200 What's your decision? What do you think it should be? Well, 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:53.880 I'm always always want to defer because the reason why 0:25:53.880 --> 0:25:56.560 I want to deferge because at the end of half, 0:25:57.040 --> 0:25:59.640 there is what we call a double score opportunity. Right, 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:02.680 So if you score at the end of the half 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:04.560 and then you get the ball back, you get a 0:26:04.680 --> 0:26:07.440 chance to really separate and explode from the opponent. So 0:26:07.560 --> 0:26:09.720 I would rather play it that way, even though I 0:26:09.840 --> 0:26:12.280 understand what you're saying. If you feel like your offense 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:15.560 is debt potent that you want to go ahead and 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:18.440 jump on him, I steal with out for that. Even 0:26:18.520 --> 0:26:20.600 though I know if the Niners getting the opening kick, 0:26:21.200 --> 0:26:23.080 they're gonna sit on the ball. Now. I mean, it's 0:26:23.119 --> 0:26:26.359 gonna be like watching Wisconsin play basketball. It's half court, 0:26:26.800 --> 0:26:29.000 it's the cloud. I mean, it's the cloud draining and 0:26:29.080 --> 0:26:30.880 all that. So that's why it's gonna be really important 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:33.760 for them to jump on the running game early and 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:35.520 get them out of that. Because if you can force 0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:39.320 Jimmy Garoppolo to pass, I would say more than twenty 0:26:39.440 --> 0:26:43.000 seven times the Cowboys winning. He's not gonna throw that 0:26:43.160 --> 0:26:47.880 much and be effective. Do you think that they? I mean, 0:26:48.200 --> 0:26:51.239 if they try this because it seems like there's there 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:53.159 should be a lot of plays to be made against 0:26:53.200 --> 0:26:57.000 their secondary. Do you trust the Dallas offensive line to 0:26:57.359 --> 0:27:01.120 keep Dak on his feet long enough to take advantage 0:27:01.160 --> 0:27:04.520 of that? Basically, I would say they can do that, 0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:06.320 But I said the ball needs to come out quick. 0:27:06.800 --> 0:27:08.840 I say I would say that looking at how they 0:27:08.840 --> 0:27:10.880 want to play, because they want to drop seven and coverage. 0:27:11.240 --> 0:27:13.560 They're not necessarily a Tampa two or a Cover two team. 0:27:13.600 --> 0:27:17.080 They kind of play single high safety or some quarters. 0:27:17.840 --> 0:27:21.000 You want to get the ball out quickly. Let him 0:27:21.000 --> 0:27:23.240 Maury Cooper and CD Lamb. You want them to go 0:27:23.320 --> 0:27:26.679 to work on run after the catch plays you can 0:27:27.240 --> 0:27:29.399 attempt to kind of push you down the field, but 0:27:29.480 --> 0:27:31.159 you have to set those up. We saw how the 0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:33.560 Rams struggle when they just got grief for no reason 0:27:33.720 --> 0:27:36.280 because they're gonna play over the top because just like 0:27:36.440 --> 0:27:37.879 we can see it, let me go it runs. No, 0:27:38.160 --> 0:27:40.440 a man, my corners are not the best. Let's keep 0:27:40.520 --> 0:27:43.320 everything in front. Let's not let it flow over ahead. 0:27:43.560 --> 0:27:45.280 And so you have to be patient. So it's gonna 0:27:45.320 --> 0:27:49.080 take some patience, some discipline. And I heard you guys 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:52.520 talking before about the playoffs. And like it's been three years. 0:27:53.160 --> 0:27:56.440 The people that I'm really looking at are not the players, 0:27:56.920 --> 0:27:59.800 it's Kellen Moore and Dan Quinn and how they handle 0:28:00.080 --> 0:28:03.320 calling the game in the postseason. Kellen More in particular, 0:28:03.760 --> 0:28:07.399 as a young play caller, when the game is very emotional, 0:28:07.840 --> 0:28:10.440 you can deviate and leave the running game when it's 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:13.840 not successful early. How patient is he going to be 0:28:14.040 --> 0:28:17.320 with taking a balance approach that might be the deciding 0:28:17.400 --> 0:28:19.760 fact in whether the Cowboys win or not. How Killing 0:28:19.840 --> 0:28:23.280 Moore handles the playoff environment and atmosphere, having never called 0:28:23.320 --> 0:28:25.600 the game in the Vosseas, Hey Bucky real quick. As 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:27.439 a follow up to that, how much do you put 0:28:27.520 --> 0:28:29.680 on the head coach though he has a lot of experience, 0:28:29.800 --> 0:28:31.960 knowing that he has a young play caller, is it 0:28:32.080 --> 0:28:34.560 his responsibility to also be able to get in Kellen's 0:28:34.600 --> 0:28:36.560 ear if he feels like he's not being patient enough 0:28:36.600 --> 0:28:38.920 and say, hey, let's remember, let's stick to our plan, 0:28:39.240 --> 0:28:41.040 let's continue to run the ball even if it's not 0:28:41.160 --> 0:28:44.520 necessarily working. I would say this, if we're looking at 0:28:44.560 --> 0:28:45.840 the game, you guys will be there. But if you're 0:28:45.880 --> 0:28:47.440 looking at the game on TV, if you don't see 0:28:47.480 --> 0:28:50.200 Mike McCarthy doing a lot of talking. He is doing 0:28:50.280 --> 0:28:52.600 his job at disservice. This is a game where a 0:28:52.640 --> 0:28:55.880 Super Bowl winning head coach has to put his imprint 0:28:56.000 --> 0:28:58.400 on the game. He needs to be more active, more 0:28:58.520 --> 0:29:00.440 involved in the stuff. And I'm not saying take to 0:29:00.560 --> 0:29:03.880 play card from killing Moore, but this game has to 0:29:03.960 --> 0:29:06.840 go according to the script that Mike McCarthy has. That's 0:29:06.880 --> 0:29:09.040 why he was hired. He was hired because he's been 0:29:09.080 --> 0:29:10.960 the one to win super Bowls, not those other guys. 0:29:11.240 --> 0:29:13.680 He has to lead this team until. Yeah, he has 0:29:13.680 --> 0:29:16.520 to play a bigger role in managing the game. And 0:29:16.640 --> 0:29:18.480 I know for some of us that makes the squeamish 0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:20.680 based on what we've seen, but he has won it. 0:29:21.000 --> 0:29:23.080 He needs to play and perform and make sure the 0:29:23.240 --> 0:29:28.160 game looks like a championship level game. Bucky, And then 0:29:28.200 --> 0:29:30.440 I just want to ask you, how good is their kicker. 0:29:33.880 --> 0:29:36.520 I think the thing about Robbie Gold is you kind 0:29:36.560 --> 0:29:40.760 of just know what you're getting. Look, he's made some 0:29:40.880 --> 0:29:42.680 big kicks throughout this time. He has some This is 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:45.400 this year. I think if we're comparing the two, he's 0:29:45.440 --> 0:29:48.680 been more consistent this year. But look, man, in the game, 0:29:49.160 --> 0:29:51.120 it's a fifty to fifty proposition when you're dealing with 0:29:51.280 --> 0:29:54.600 kickers of all levels. So you know, you just hope 0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:59.320 that Grigs is on if he's called upon to make kicks. 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:02.240 But Rod, oh the solid you know. And so it's 0:30:02.280 --> 0:30:04.240 just one of those things where you just hope that 0:30:04.360 --> 0:30:06.520 Gregg V is on his game. If he's on his game, 0:30:06.560 --> 0:30:09.200 then you don't worry about Man, they squeamish because I 0:30:09.280 --> 0:30:11.920 heard you guys talking about two point conversions or whatever yesterday. 0:30:13.440 --> 0:30:15.000 You don't want it. You don't want it to get 0:30:15.040 --> 0:30:17.320 to that, and you can't. And that's the thing, because 0:30:17.480 --> 0:30:18.920 I didn't get a chance to say it. But in 0:30:19.000 --> 0:30:21.320 the playoffs, the one thing that you can't do is 0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:24.360 you cannot change if you've done things a certain way 0:30:24.440 --> 0:30:28.160 the entire time. You cannot decide in the playoffs we're 0:30:28.200 --> 0:30:30.400 switching it up. We're more aggressive, we're going for it 0:30:30.480 --> 0:30:32.640 on fourth downs. That's not I am up. You still 0:30:32.640 --> 0:30:34.280 got to play the way that you've always played it 0:30:34.360 --> 0:30:36.959 because players would look around, like coaches trip and why 0:30:36.960 --> 0:30:39.360 do you panicking? So you just gotta player straight. If 0:30:39.400 --> 0:30:41.120 Greggs teams you got, you gotta trust them. You just 0:30:41.120 --> 0:30:43.760 gotta live with it all right, give us a prediction. 0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:46.040 What do you think is gonna happen this Sunday. I 0:30:46.080 --> 0:30:47.720 think the couple was gonna win. I think the couple 0:30:47.800 --> 0:30:50.160 was an a better team. I think it has to playoff. 0:30:50.160 --> 0:30:51.920 I think it would be tight, just because I worry 0:30:51.920 --> 0:30:56.000 about the inexperienced um for some of their guys Micah 0:30:56.200 --> 0:30:58.080 and Trey Vine and some of those guys. But if 0:30:58.120 --> 0:31:00.520 they can get through the first quarter and the game 0:31:00.560 --> 0:31:03.040 is either even or they're up, I think they begin 0:31:03.120 --> 0:31:06.320 to separate away from them late. All right, we appreciate that, Bucky. 0:31:06.360 --> 0:31:09.080 We will talk to you hopefully next weekend as we're 0:31:09.120 --> 0:31:11.000 getting your heady for round two. We'll see about that. 0:31:11.080 --> 0:31:12.640 We're gonna take our final break. We'll come back. We 0:31:12.720 --> 0:31:14.800 got some questions for these guys about this Dallas offense. 0:31:15.160 --> 0:31:18.160 We'll write back Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio. I want 0:31:18.160 --> 0:31:20.640 to use what the pros use. 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It's gonna look end zones are 0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:42.960 gonna look like, you know, like a little I'm not worried. 0:33:43.080 --> 0:33:46.120 I'm not worried about this. There will be red in 0:33:46.200 --> 0:33:48.840 the stadium, but it won't it won't be like last 0:33:48.880 --> 0:33:51.440 week when they come close to looking like that. It's 0:33:51.440 --> 0:33:54.000 gonna stand out a lot more snap it will. It's 0:33:54.000 --> 0:33:56.120 gonna stand out because it's red. I think that's the 0:33:56.160 --> 0:33:58.640 big thing. It's just it's the easiest color to notice 0:33:58.680 --> 0:34:00.400 of any but just if you're white, if you've got 0:34:00.520 --> 0:34:02.760 a white out. I don't remember if I said this 0:34:03.120 --> 0:34:07.240 here or on something else, but like they played Green 0:34:07.320 --> 0:34:10.799 Bay in the playoffs, and then nobody said did Ley 0:34:10.840 --> 0:34:13.400 about this? And Green Bay's just like San Francisco, like 0:34:13.480 --> 0:34:15.680 they've got fans in every building in the league. I 0:34:15.800 --> 0:34:18.520 just playoffs are different. Yeah, and it ain't gonna be 0:34:18.640 --> 0:34:21.360 that big of a deal. We will see. It'll be interesting. 0:34:21.400 --> 0:34:24.200 And I do think that they're better on the road anyways. 0:34:24.640 --> 0:34:26.840 I mean, it's not like it really matters the Cowboys 0:34:26.840 --> 0:34:29.160 are a better football team on the road, or do 0:34:29.200 --> 0:34:31.960 they have a better record on the road than I 0:34:32.080 --> 0:34:34.759 don't like that, which it won't happen. But like Matt 0:34:34.760 --> 0:34:36.759 Stafford had to go to a silent count in his 0:34:36.840 --> 0:34:39.279 own building last week. You don't want that. But that's 0:34:39.280 --> 0:34:41.160 also the thing about at and T Stadium. It's and 0:34:41.280 --> 0:34:43.399 Jerry talked about this on the Fan earlier this week. 0:34:43.760 --> 0:34:46.399 It's such as it's one of the largest stadiums from 0:34:46.400 --> 0:34:48.960 the standpoint of number of seats that it accommodates or 0:34:49.040 --> 0:34:51.640 number of people that it accommodates, And so by the 0:34:51.800 --> 0:34:54.120 nature of that, you're going to have more visiting fans 0:34:54.200 --> 0:34:56.480 that will be at the stadium than you typically see 0:34:56.520 --> 0:34:58.400 all around the league. So I think there's gonna be some. 0:34:59.360 --> 0:35:01.080 I just don't think there'll be a ton of Cowboys 0:35:01.120 --> 0:35:04.600 fans or wearing cell tickets for a playoff game. And also, 0:35:04.680 --> 0:35:06.600 I think you got to remember that game was all 0:35:06.760 --> 0:35:09.160 obviously on the schedule. That's the first time the forty 0:35:09.200 --> 0:35:12.440 nine ers have ever played in so far where the 0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:15.520 fans could come in. Yeah, so you know they didn't. 0:35:15.560 --> 0:35:18.040 They weren't allowed last year, So that one's probably been 0:35:18.120 --> 0:35:20.799 marked on calendars for a long time to go see 0:35:20.840 --> 0:35:22.680 the stadium and go watch them play the Rams and 0:35:22.760 --> 0:35:24.279 all that. So that was probably a lot of that. 0:35:24.400 --> 0:35:26.600 All right, real goad Ama can I ask a question. 0:35:27.200 --> 0:35:30.440 I didn't ask Bucky because we were already finishing up. 0:35:30.480 --> 0:35:33.200 But when one of the last things he said he 0:35:33.320 --> 0:35:36.759 mentioned was inexperience and how they might struggle with that 0:35:36.880 --> 0:35:41.719 with the younger players. But I'm wondering, like, how, like 0:35:42.560 --> 0:35:45.480 how does that really change at a playoff game with 0:35:45.600 --> 0:35:49.200 guys For example, he mentioned Mica, how would his quote 0:35:49.239 --> 0:35:53.440 unquote inexperience effect in a playoff game the first week 0:35:53.480 --> 0:35:56.000 because you get into the playoffs and it's not like 0:35:56.160 --> 0:35:59.600 you instantly got ten times better as the opposing team, 0:35:59.640 --> 0:36:03.439 you know, So you know what I'm trying, Well, yeah, 0:36:04.760 --> 0:36:07.720 it's just to me, it's it's how are they mentally? 0:36:07.960 --> 0:36:10.000 You know? I mean, how do they how do they 0:36:10.120 --> 0:36:13.200 handle the pressure all this talk and now especially with 0:36:13.320 --> 0:36:17.120 the historical significance if that even matters. I mean, it's 0:36:17.160 --> 0:36:18.839 just you're just putting a lot of pressure in there. 0:36:19.000 --> 0:36:21.080 Are they focused on what they need to do? Can 0:36:21.120 --> 0:36:23.520 they block all that and still perform? Some players do it, 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:26.319 some players don't. And the idea, I mean, it's over, 0:36:26.480 --> 0:36:29.120 it's over if you lose this, and that's so the 0:36:29.200 --> 0:36:33.120 stakes are higher. You're you're not only you're one loss 0:36:33.160 --> 0:36:37.200 away from eight months of whatever, and you're only three 0:36:37.239 --> 0:36:39.239 wins away from the Super Bowl. So I mean that 0:36:39.760 --> 0:36:42.640 that way, and it ratchets up each time you advance. 0:36:42.680 --> 0:36:45.239 You're like, if we win two more games, like we're 0:36:45.320 --> 0:36:48.120 super Bowl champs. I mean that, that's only human nature 0:36:48.160 --> 0:36:49.839 that that would get to you. I don't I don't 0:36:49.880 --> 0:36:53.880 worry about it, especially with Mica. Mica hasn't been phased 0:36:53.920 --> 0:36:56.120 by anything that's happened to him this entire time. I 0:36:56.120 --> 0:36:59.560 would be surprised if he's not up for that challenge. 0:36:59.600 --> 0:37:01.839 But it is a mental challenge, yeah, And a lot 0:37:01.920 --> 0:37:03.799 of that mental I think also goes to the fact 0:37:03.840 --> 0:37:06.640 of the intensity of the game. I remember first time 0:37:06.760 --> 0:37:09.280 I just started working for the Cowboys, Nick, you might remember, 0:37:09.320 --> 0:37:12.480 it was that that playoff game against Minnesota, and I 0:37:12.560 --> 0:37:15.319 was standing on the sideline watching the teams come out 0:37:15.920 --> 0:37:18.320 and you could just feel it. It's a different feeling. 0:37:18.360 --> 0:37:20.600 It's a different level of intensity. And again, once the 0:37:20.640 --> 0:37:24.000 whistle blows, is still a football game. But for every round, 0:37:24.440 --> 0:37:27.360 that intensity ratchets up because all week you got friends 0:37:27.400 --> 0:37:29.680 and family like, oh, it's the playoffs, Like it's it's 0:37:29.719 --> 0:37:31.880 just that, Like Day said, it is that mental of 0:37:32.600 --> 0:37:34.680 being able to get rid of the noise and the 0:37:34.800 --> 0:37:38.080 distractions and the thoughts of how big and the magnitude 0:37:38.120 --> 0:37:40.200 of the game, and being able to settle in and 0:37:40.239 --> 0:37:43.000 play football. So when you're experienced, you have a little 0:37:43.000 --> 0:37:44.919 bit more to rely on, like, Okay, this is still 0:37:45.000 --> 0:37:47.640 just the football game. When you're less experienced, it's like 0:37:48.040 --> 0:37:49.640 sometimes you can get caught up in that and it 0:37:49.719 --> 0:37:51.480 can take you a while to settle down into the 0:37:51.560 --> 0:37:53.799 game and just play football. You know Brett Farve had, 0:37:53.920 --> 0:37:55.520 you know that that was a big problem for him. 0:37:55.560 --> 0:37:57.320 He's one of the best quarterbacks of all time, and 0:37:58.160 --> 0:37:59.800 you know, he was an MVP, and he would go 0:38:00.040 --> 0:38:03.560 in to the Cowboy games and it take him a 0:38:03.600 --> 0:38:05.440 second quarter before he could set it up, before he 0:38:05.480 --> 0:38:08.320 realized that there is an actual crown on the stadium 0:38:08.360 --> 0:38:10.560 and you got to throw those out routes. He's throwing 0:38:10.640 --> 0:38:12.800 him in the stands because he's so jacked up. So 0:38:13.160 --> 0:38:14.799 even some of the best players, it kind of gets 0:38:14.800 --> 0:38:18.120 to him. Well, and you'll see it. Watch every game 0:38:18.160 --> 0:38:21.280 of this magnitude. Whoever makes like the first few plays 0:38:21.280 --> 0:38:23.279 of the game, the first guy that makes a big 0:38:23.400 --> 0:38:26.960 hit or a nice catch, it's gonna be over the top, 0:38:27.080 --> 0:38:29.520 like if Mica gets a tackle for loss on like 0:38:29.560 --> 0:38:31.920 the first series of the I mean the flexing and 0:38:32.040 --> 0:38:34.640 the scream. I mean, it's just it's a different level 0:38:34.680 --> 0:38:37.880 of intensity. And Bucky's right, I mean getting through like 0:38:38.040 --> 0:38:40.719 the first quarter, once you get into the flow of 0:38:40.800 --> 0:38:42.719 the game and you're just kind of in the zone 0:38:42.719 --> 0:38:45.239 and not worrying about it. That's that's really important in 0:38:45.280 --> 0:38:47.080 these types of games. And to give you an indication. 0:38:47.120 --> 0:38:50.000 I've heard players talk about this in Super Bowls. It 0:38:50.000 --> 0:38:52.319 will just tell you the magnitude. When the magnitude goes up, 0:38:52.600 --> 0:38:55.879 sometimes feeling like they're hyperventilating when the game's starting because 0:38:55.920 --> 0:38:58.120 they're so hyped up, they're so ampt there's so much 0:38:58.480 --> 0:39:01.080 juice flowing through them that it just it can get 0:39:01.120 --> 0:39:02.560 you and you can take you away a little bit 0:39:02.600 --> 0:39:04.239 and you you kind of have to settle back into 0:39:04.320 --> 0:39:06.680 playing football. So yeah, I think when you talk about 0:39:06.680 --> 0:39:10.200 the playoffs, it is an increased level of intensity and 0:39:10.680 --> 0:39:13.080 it gets a little bit tougher mentally. I think the 0:39:13.160 --> 0:39:14.799 game's still going to be the game, though, and once 0:39:14.840 --> 0:39:17.120 they settle in, I think they're fine. I do think, 0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:20.120 I really do think a lot of the key guys 0:39:20.160 --> 0:39:22.600 on this team are well suited for it, though. I agree. 0:39:22.719 --> 0:39:24.200 I mean, there's just a lot of guys on this 0:39:24.280 --> 0:39:26.359 team where I just don't think things get to them 0:39:26.480 --> 0:39:29.040 very easily. Yeah, and Nick, I remember we were in 0:39:29.160 --> 0:39:33.760 Carolina and that pre game and we were both standing 0:39:33.800 --> 0:39:36.560 down there and every fan's going crazy. The teams are 0:39:36.600 --> 0:39:39.239 like seething at each other and it's just and Nick 0:39:39.400 --> 0:39:41.040 turn to me. He said, we're not winning this game. 0:39:42.360 --> 0:39:45.840 That's just where the white towel theories started. Yeah, it 0:39:46.000 --> 0:39:49.399 was like when they introduced Stephen Davis, They're running back 0:39:49.520 --> 0:39:52.319 and it was like and they had just beating them 0:39:52.440 --> 0:39:54.560 like a thanksgivings, just beating them and it was a 0:39:54.600 --> 0:39:57.799 big win, and you're it just felt different. Well, you're 0:39:59.760 --> 0:40:02.200 that was went out of the game when nine and seven. Yeah, 0:40:02.200 --> 0:40:05.960 well Steve Smith hit him with the let he say. 0:40:06.000 --> 0:40:08.680 He said something pretty pretty crazy after the game. I 0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:10.399 couln't even remember what he said, but he said something 0:40:10.440 --> 0:40:12.640 like we whipped as Yeah, but it was it was, Yeah, 0:40:12.680 --> 0:40:15.719 it was. It was pretty clear that Steve Smith, now right, 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:18.200 it doesn't sound like him, but that you could just 0:40:18.360 --> 0:40:20.480 you feel it like you go down on the sideline 0:40:20.480 --> 0:40:23.040 for a regular season game. For all the regular season games, 0:40:23.080 --> 0:40:25.239 and then you go down for one for postseason game. 0:40:25.480 --> 0:40:27.880 It is a very very different feeling. It is a 0:40:28.120 --> 0:40:31.480 very high level. I'm so ready for this game, cannot 0:40:31.520 --> 0:40:35.719 wait play to play. Yeah, I do not want all 0:40:35.960 --> 0:40:37.960 brought us like, let's play. Let's go play the game. 0:40:38.239 --> 0:40:40.320 That's a wrap. We got another show to do tomorrow, 0:40:40.400 --> 0:40:42.160 so we do. And when we come in tomorrow, our 0:40:42.480 --> 0:40:44.799 goal will be to get these guys, these listeners ready 0:40:44.840 --> 0:40:47.080 for this game. Will have lots of thoughts about what 0:40:47.239 --> 0:40:49.400 we think is going to happen, what we think is 0:40:49.440 --> 0:40:51.040 going to have a good and bad for the Cowboys 0:40:51.200 --> 0:40:52.800 that tomorrow. Till then for Nick Even, Dave helm and 0:40:52.840 --> 0:40:55.640 Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagletons. We've been The Break live 0:40:55.760 --> 0:41:00.480 on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been production 0:41:00.640 --> 0:41:04.319 of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.