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Speaker 1: live in Ohio. Hi, everybody, Welcome to the Wednesday Morning Podcast.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite people, the incomparable Matt Mosley, will
Speaker 1: be joining me in about ten minutes. Two things to
Speaker 1: talk about, as I always start with an opening rant
Speaker 1: on the Colin Coward Podcast. So, Lebron James has been
Speaker 1: complaining about out officiating recently this year a lot, and
Speaker 1: he tweeted the other day his quote was, all they
Speaker 1: keep telling me to my face on the court. I
Speaker 1: didn't see it. It wasn't a foul. It's not making
Speaker 1: sense to me, seriously, Lebron said, frustrating as hell. Anyway,
Speaker 1: keep going, squad. So the Lakers bigger problem why they're
Speaker 1: losing close games is because they can't shoot. I think
Speaker 1: they're twenty fourth in the NBA and three point percentage,
Speaker 1: I'm close. And this has been a problem in the
Speaker 1: organization for a decade. As everybody else has moved into
Speaker 1: the three point shot. The Lakers gave up guys like
Speaker 1: KCP and Kyle Kuzma who could actually hit three point shots,
Speaker 1: and they brought in Russell Westbrook, the worst three point shooter.
Speaker 1: So this is on them. If they shot better, they
Speaker 1: win more close games, they wouldn't worry about officiating as much.
Speaker 1: And also, because basketball is a seven game series, singular
Speaker 1: calls can't be blamed for losing a series. But I
Speaker 1: thought about I watched the Tim Donnege special on I
Speaker 1: think Netflix the other day about you know, he was
Speaker 1: the rogue official that he didn't change winners and losers.
Speaker 1: He simply got teams into the bonus faster so they
Speaker 1: would they would hit the over, the over and under.
Speaker 1: He said he can manipulate a game by about six points,
Speaker 1: but he didn't. He claims he didn't change outcomes, just
Speaker 1: the total points. So be that as it may. In
Speaker 1: my life of being a sportscaster, the sport that is
Speaker 1: constantly under attack is basketball, and I think there's a
Speaker 1: reason for it. So MLS, NHL, Major League Baseball, NFL.
Speaker 1: Many of the calls are, say, objective offsides, you're out
Speaker 1: at first. What is the most difficult call in football
Speaker 1: for an official, The one we complain most about, pass interference.
Speaker 1: In basketball, ninety five sent of the calls are essentially
Speaker 1: pass interference. Two great athletes leaving their feet, one trying
Speaker 1: to score, one trying to defend, sometimes seeking one ball.
Speaker 1: It's hard to officiate. It's a really difficult sport to officiate. Hockey, soccer, football,
Speaker 1: you're clearly offsides, too many men on the field. Even
Speaker 1: the objective calls in basketball three in the key is
Speaker 1: never truly three in the key. Even goaltending, you have
Speaker 1: to in a split second judge the arc of a
Speaker 1: ball still ascending or now going down. So in college
Speaker 1: this is not really analogous, but in college I officiated
Speaker 1: innermurals and I took it seriously. I made eight bucks
Speaker 1: a game. It paid for some of my college books.
Speaker 1: My parents were divorced, didn't have a lot of money,
Speaker 1: so I officiated two in three games a night make
Speaker 1: twenty five bucks. Thirty years ago, that was something and
Speaker 1: one of the things I took it really seriously, and
Speaker 1: one of the things I noticed almost immediately was in basketball,
Speaker 1: the better the athlete, the more they can manipulate you
Speaker 1: with body control. And I think it's more difficult for
Speaker 1: athletes to do that in other sports. You know, a
Speaker 1: catcher can frame a ball to a strike, but umpires
Speaker 1: are pretty keen on that is that. I found myself
Speaker 1: always giving better players the call. They're quicker, they get
Speaker 1: a first step. The less athletic players always a step
Speaker 1: behind reaching in. The better players have better body control,
Speaker 1: they can manipulate you. And I remember thinking when I
Speaker 1: was doing this, because for a brief time in my life,
Speaker 1: I thought about officiating, being a college basketball official, a
Speaker 1: pro basketball official. I was twenty one. You know, I
Speaker 1: knew I wanted to be a broadcaster, but you know,
Speaker 1: you're thinking about things to what to do with your life.
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking very early, is man, I'm always
Speaker 1: giving the best players the calls. It's hard to avoid it.
Speaker 1: And so I think when players complain about this, this
Speaker 1: is why basketball pro basketball, the best team always wins.
Speaker 1: In college basketball, the best team usually wins, but all
Speaker 1: it takes is a star player. In march madness, getting
Speaker 1: into foul trouble off a couple of quick fouls, and
Speaker 1: the best team doesn't have their best player in basketball.
Speaker 1: Like last year in the NBA Finals, the Warrior shot
Speaker 1: forty four and a half percent in the finals. The
Speaker 1: Celtics shot forty three and a half percent in the finals,
Speaker 1: and that was the difference. The Warriors, by a slight margin,
Speaker 1: were able to shoot a slightly better percentage, and that's
Speaker 1: the difference over the course of six or seven games
Speaker 1: winning the championship inches not feet. So when I look
Speaker 1: at people complaining about basketball officiating, I've been doing this
Speaker 1: for thirty years. It's always the professional sport we complain
Speaker 1: most about. And I worried about when sports scambling legalize
Speaker 1: in America. This is what would transpire, every gambling loss,
Speaker 1: every gambling degenerate claiming, well, it's rigged. There's too much
Speaker 1: money in the sport for that. I just think sometimes
Speaker 1: add context to sports basketball. Somebody listening to me right
Speaker 1: now is a college official, and it's very likely a
Speaker 1: person listening to me because I see my downloads. I
Speaker 1: know how many people download and listen to this podcast.
Speaker 1: There's probably five or six people listening that officiate college
Speaker 1: basketball and football, and if you asked them what was harder?
Speaker 1: Now you have more ground to cover in football. Basketball's hard.
Speaker 1: These are the world's best athletes battling for basketballs. Twitchy leaping,
Speaker 1: it's past interference every play. It's really really hard, and
Speaker 1: I think by and large, NBA officials do an excellent job.
Speaker 1: The Lakers issue. They don't have any easy baskets. They
Speaker 1: don't get any easy threes. Therefore, those critical near the
Speaker 1: basket calls become very punitive when they don't get them.
Speaker 1: They don't get a lot of easy baskets. Teams that
Speaker 1: shoot poorly don't. So I saw where the Chargers decided
Speaker 1: to keep Brandon Stalely and instead fire their offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: and their passing game coordinator. I rolled my eyes at
Speaker 1: it because seven of the eight remaining head coaches in
Speaker 1: the NFL playoffs, seven of eight are offensive coaches. Last year,
Speaker 1: all seven NFC teams that made the playoffs had offensive coaches. Folks,
Speaker 1: It's not an offensive coordinator issue for the Chargers. It's
Speaker 1: a defensive head coach issue. If you go look at
Speaker 1: the Chargers first and second half splits, they were a
Speaker 1: horrible second half team offensively and defensively. What does that
Speaker 1: tell you? It tells you they have a young coach
Speaker 1: who is struggling once off the script, game time decisions,
Speaker 1: situational play calling. They're a bad second half offense. How
Speaker 1: they have Justin Herbert, Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Austin Eckler,
Speaker 1: above average offensive line. I went and looked at the
Speaker 1: second half offensive numbers for the Chargers. Their bottom six
Speaker 1: in the league. The other five teams surrounding them are
Speaker 1: all anemic at quarterback. Justin Herbert is the only top
Speaker 1: ten quarterback in the league that is in the bottom
Speaker 1: of second half offensive statistics. That's not your offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: that's your coach. The only defensive coach left in the
Speaker 1: playoffs is Sean McDermott. He can't figure out the Bill's
Speaker 1: old line for five years. Their run game is not
Speaker 1: substantial outside of Josh Allen, and Alan has regressed as
Speaker 1: a quarterback since Brian Dable left. It's a defensive organization
Speaker 1: and culture, I mean the Chargers. Sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: take a deep breath and look at how a business
Speaker 1: landscape is changing. Football now is rewarding offensive head coaches
Speaker 1: and offensive cultures. Look at the Patriots. Bill Belicheck feels
Speaker 1: out of touch. Bears defensive coach, last place, Washington defensive coach,
Speaker 1: last place, Jets defensive coach, last place, Houston defensive coach,
Speaker 1: last place, Chargers. You made a mistake. You could have
Speaker 1: hired Brian Davile. You hired Brandon Staley. And my sources
Speaker 1: tell me at times he can be a notable. At
Speaker 1: times he can be stubborn. They basically gave an ultimatum,
Speaker 1: make coaching changes or you're out. He made coaching changes,
Speaker 1: but I don't think in the end it will change anything.
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Speaker 1: All right, I bring in my longtime friend Matt Moseley,
Speaker 1: co host of the Doomsday Podcast with Ed Werner. How
Speaker 1: is Ed? I haven't seen Ed in sometime. How is
Speaker 1: the old gent doing? Doing fine? Doing fine? Put in
Speaker 1: a full day of work on that playoff game, and
Speaker 1: certainly let me know about that. That was out there
Speaker 1: for about twelve hours. So the man loves to get
Speaker 1: to a game early, stay late, and he was shutting
Speaker 1: it down with the Doomsday podcast from the from the
Speaker 1: stadium there with the ship with the pirate ship in it.
Speaker 1: Last night at about one or two in the morning,
Speaker 1: he was podcasting, So he's a he's still getting after so. Um.
Speaker 1: The bad news, let's just get that out of the way,
Speaker 1: is the Niners were done Saturday afternoon. The Cowboys have
Speaker 1: almost a two and a half day preparation debit going
Speaker 1: into this game. I bet they're not happy about it. No,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it'll happen again. I do think
Speaker 1: the league will address it. But everybody, including people who
Speaker 1: are not with us anymore, Lamar Hunt being one of them,
Speaker 1: are looking down and think at the Cowboys over this
Speaker 1: because he fought for years thinking they had a Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: you know, the whole Thanksgiving and how that went and
Speaker 1: how they got to be home every game on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: That was a huge deal over the year. So some
Speaker 1: people think the Cowboys have been getting favors from the
Speaker 1: league for many, many years. So if one team needs
Speaker 1: to a franchise needs to suffer this fate, it should
Speaker 1: be the Dallas Cowboys. But I think in the future
Speaker 1: you won't see a team finish up more than forty
Speaker 1: eight hours before another team who's then coming to their place.
Speaker 1: I think the league will find a way not to
Speaker 1: have that happen again. And I think it is somewhat
Speaker 1: of a factory and it provides it provides a built
Speaker 1: an excuse if the Cowboys lose to the great Brock Purdy.
Speaker 1: One of the things about Dallas, you know, I said
Speaker 1: this today in defense of Mike McCarthy, this is a
Speaker 1: top five offense in the league. Building the old line.
Speaker 1: Still don't have a clear number two. Tyron Smith out
Speaker 1: for most of the year, Dalton Schultzmith's two games and
Speaker 1: really wasn't good until post Thanksgiving. All that said, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers red zone poor, Aaron Rodgers offense poor. That divorced
Speaker 1: the more and more you look at it. Mike went
Speaker 1: four and one with Cooper f and Rush that it's
Speaker 1: easy because Aaron's on every commercial. He's a star quarterback,
Speaker 1: he's an MVP to weigh in on that breakup and
Speaker 1: favor Aaron. But I look at this season for Mike.
Speaker 1: They're playing their best football now. Dalton Schultz is now
Speaker 1: a real factor. I didn't think he was eight weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Do you think has there been anything that you, Matt,
Speaker 1: have changed your opinion on regarding McCarthy this year where
Speaker 1: you may have been a tad cynical and you've come
Speaker 1: to appreciate him. Yeah, I think I was more than
Speaker 1: a tad cynical. Colin, you're being kind to me to
Speaker 1: say just a tad cynical. I don't know if really
Speaker 1: I ever had the full respect that I do now.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned it. The Cooper Rush aspect of this
Speaker 1: weighs heavy on Jerry, and it weighs out everybody, and
Speaker 1: a lot of lately people are trying to figure out, Okay,
Speaker 1: what was going on with Dak I mean, what happened
Speaker 1: last night with the way Dak played was the enormous
Speaker 1: story coming out of this game. And I do think
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy one thing he did, and I think he
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job with aaron of this boy.
Speaker 1: He takes care of his quarterbacks and he takes care
Speaker 1: of the relationship. And early on when Dak had some
Speaker 1: injuries and was coming back from some things, there's some
Speaker 1: stories about Mike McCarthy going over to his house and
Speaker 1: spending hours upon hours with him. So he's sly, you know,
Speaker 1: it is funny. Sean Payton a guy you like a lot,
Speaker 1: and i've pretty pretty well over the years. He's a
Speaker 1: sexier choice. I mean, is he a better coach, Sure,
Speaker 1: sure he is, just because he's a brighter, more innovative
Speaker 1: offensive mine. But McCarthy has sort of a way with
Speaker 1: these players, and I don't know if we ever fully
Speaker 1: give him credit for that. But I thought you saw
Speaker 1: it with a Cooper Rush thing, because on this very podcast,
Speaker 1: when they opened with that awful loss a deck injury,
Speaker 1: he was already playing poorly before the injury. It looked
Speaker 1: like there was no hope for this team. So who
Speaker 1: else do you give a credit for? I mean, you
Speaker 1: gotta give us some to Cooper Rush, maybe to Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore for maybe the way he called some of these games,
Speaker 1: but Mike sort of presided over all of that, you know,
Speaker 1: and I think that's I think the thing that's been
Speaker 1: tough for him over the years is, you know, not
Speaker 1: calling plays because a lot of these guys is there
Speaker 1: a whole identity is tied up in that, and it's
Speaker 1: why sometimes we don't even know what the chiefs right.
Speaker 1: It's like, wait, who wait, who's calling plays? Its Andy is?
Speaker 1: You know? Is bingemy? I mean, there's there's some debate
Speaker 1: because some of these head coaches have such a hard
Speaker 1: time giving that up. So there have been coaches for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys that have been told, okay, you're not doing anymore.
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett had taken away from him. McCarthy just said,
Speaker 1: you know what, this is what it requires of me
Speaker 1: to become the head coach there. I've got to give
Speaker 1: this up. And he's done a pretty good job with it.
Speaker 1: And he's certainly you can't accuse the guy of micromanaging
Speaker 1: like you can, you know. I mean, he's he's got
Speaker 1: the laminated chart. He likes to fold it over, but
Speaker 1: he's not even like think about that. Last night we
Speaker 1: talk about how great Dak was. How did he start
Speaker 1: that game? Two? Three and out stories oh for three?
Speaker 1: He looks shaky, Akman, Sandy looks jittery. To him, it's
Speaker 1: not going well. And I think Mike McCarthy's just kind
Speaker 1: of like he's a stay the course kind of guy.
Speaker 1: And I think that's, you know, for now, it seems
Speaker 1: like what the Cowboys need. You know, there's always been
Speaker 1: turbulence associated coaching the Cowboys that other coaches don't face.
Speaker 1: Your owner goes public every week you have more national
Speaker 1: TV games. Those are often game times are disrupted a
Speaker 1: lot of Sunday night, Monday night. It's a very you know,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville doesn't have to deal with that much. Dallas has
Speaker 1: to deal with at seven to eight times a year.
Speaker 1: That's why there's now a limit on how many times
Speaker 1: you can play in primetime. It's the Cowboy rule. So
Speaker 1: the Cowboys don't have to have a night game. I
Speaker 1: know when the Giants had Eli manning and were pretty
Speaker 1: good for multiple stretches, I knew somebody inside the Giants
Speaker 1: he's like the organization hates these night games. We all
Speaker 1: get home at two. They're just r of all week.
Speaker 1: So Mike hasn't done himself favors through the years. You know,
Speaker 1: he's just you know, at the podium, he's pretty average.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know what, I think Mike deserves
Speaker 1: a little more respect. I guess that's my takeaway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think you're onto something. And where he'll
Speaker 1: ultimately get it is if he wins this game. Oh
Speaker 1: my next next Sunday. Um. You know, I hear people
Speaker 1: say and I even heard Troy say something to the
Speaker 1: effect of, you know, Dallas is only measured on Super Bowls. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: because of course Troy won three of those things. It's
Speaker 1: been so long. And you and I talked about this
Speaker 1: before you go back to the nineteen nine season. They
Speaker 1: that's not how people think around here anymore. Cowboys win
Speaker 1: that game on the road, and it is winnable. That
Speaker 1: is a winnable game. Like I know, Brock Party's undefeated,
Speaker 1: but Brock Purty still a seventh round draft pick. Who's
Speaker 1: I mean his second playoff game. I mean that we
Speaker 1: can't just coordinate him and go like it act like
Speaker 1: I mean, is he surrounded by really good coaching and
Speaker 1: really good players? You bet he is. But the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have a guy with seven years experience, twenty nine year
Speaker 1: old peak of his career, and the Cowboys have possibly
Speaker 1: one of the best schematic and one of the best
Speaker 1: defensive thinkers in the game on that side of the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want somebody to take on a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback in disguise things, I mean, all you have
Speaker 1: to do is look at last night. Tom Brady was
Speaker 1: just like baffled. I mean, and we can blame it
Speaker 1: all whatever, but he blame it on the offix line.
Speaker 1: But something happened to cause him to just that that weird.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. Think of all the people
Speaker 1: calling that game last night. They were trying to give
Speaker 1: him an excuse. Was he wanting the receiver to come back.
Speaker 1: Was he trying to throw the ball out of the
Speaker 1: out of bounds? He threw some kind of crazy ball
Speaker 1: in the red zone, you know, And so I think
Speaker 1: that's a huge advantage for the Cowboys. Still, as much
Speaker 1: as I like rock Perty and by the way, I've
Speaker 1: watched him a ton because I watched a lot of
Speaker 1: Big twelve football, so I have a sort of a
Speaker 1: body of work to but I can't because I've watched
Speaker 1: him so much, I can't buy into They're just so
Speaker 1: good they're gonna kind of carry Brock with them. I
Speaker 1: think dan Quinn will have something for him in a
Speaker 1: big way on Sunday Afternoon. You watched a lot more
Speaker 1: of him in college than I do. When I saw him,
Speaker 1: I thought he was talented, because Iowa State doesn't have
Speaker 1: nearly the talent of Baylor, TCU, Oklahoma Texas. So when
Speaker 1: I saw him, I thought of he's a gamer, average arm,
Speaker 1: but kind of a gamer, pretty athletic. Iowa State went
Speaker 1: into the tank without him this year, and that's with
Speaker 1: a good coach. So the knock on him was, and
Speaker 1: I didn't see enough of him to have an established opinion,
Speaker 1: was that he was a little erratic. Yet with San Francisco,
Speaker 1: he's not a radic at all, So go back to him.
Speaker 1: There's a reason he fell to the seventh round. He's
Speaker 1: not a big guy, didn't have a huge arm. Was
Speaker 1: he an a ratic college quarterback? Yes, yeah, he was
Speaker 1: someone who elevated them in a lot of ways and
Speaker 1: had a great career. But the head scratching where in
Speaker 1: the world a debt turnover interception come from in the
Speaker 1: red zone was absolutely part of his back. That was
Speaker 1: part of that was part of Rock Purty. And there's
Speaker 1: no Iowa State fan listening to us that doesn't know
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Now. Again, he had great moments.
Speaker 1: He here's what he was great at doing, and it
Speaker 1: has a little bit like dak At times he would
Speaker 1: fall down like twenty one nothing. I saw some of
Speaker 1: these Baylor games. It's like they had him and then
Speaker 1: Purty one by one. Now, of course he had some
Speaker 1: of those guys that are in the NFL now, like Kohler.
Speaker 1: You know that, you know that tight end, Charlie Kohler.
Speaker 1: He had those guys. He had those big, huge tight ends.
Speaker 1: Those Iowa for some reason creates these monstrous tight ends.
Speaker 1: And so he was good. He would lead you in
Speaker 1: a comeback. But boy, the crippling mistake, even as he
Speaker 1: got way into his college career and it was a
Speaker 1: mature senior quarterback, still made some really bad mistakes. So
Speaker 1: it's in there now. They may be coaching around that
Speaker 1: and think about it. You can think you've coached that
Speaker 1: out of somebody, and then it crops up seven eight
Speaker 1: years into their career. What happened with Dak the last
Speaker 1: seven weeks, although last night Dak was unbelievable. After being
Speaker 1: extremely shaky first two drives, he played arguably the best
Speaker 1: game of his entire Cowboys career. So Brett Mayer had
Speaker 1: a very good year. He had an awful night. And
Speaker 1: Mike Silver pointed this out. When kicking gets into a
Speaker 1: kicker's head, you don't turn around in a week and
Speaker 1: become Jon stener Route or Morton Anderson. Is that these
Speaker 1: things It usually takes weeks. It's like a golfer when
Speaker 1: you get the yips. You don't fix it in a tournament.
Speaker 1: You got to go to your coach. You gotta slowly
Speaker 1: get it back. So if you go to his go
Speaker 1: back to his season and his Cowboy career, good kicker,
Speaker 1: pretty good leg. What do you think happened? Well, absolutely,
Speaker 1: it got in his head. And we've even heard a
Speaker 1: story today that they lost a couple of what they
Speaker 1: call the k balls, the kicking balls, because he kicked
Speaker 1: them so poorly they ended up in the stands. They
Speaker 1: didn't even hit the net, and the Cowboys literally were
Speaker 1: down to one caball over there on the sidelines trying
Speaker 1: to figure out kind of like how to get through
Speaker 1: the game because for some reason they couldn't get the
Speaker 1: kick the kicks out of the stands. That's how bad
Speaker 1: that was. He overcorrected on the hook, remember that. And
Speaker 1: then I mean, to miss that mini in a row
Speaker 1: is just unthinkable. Four and then of course the game before,
Speaker 1: so it was actually five. Dak was very nice after
Speaker 1: the game and said, hey, I've played horribly the week before.
Speaker 1: He'll be okay. But it has to be a concern.
Speaker 1: It has to be a concern. I mean, used to
Speaker 1: you played in Candlestick the wind was going crazy. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the case really at Levi, but
Speaker 1: it's a huge concern for the Cowboys to somehow hopefully
Speaker 1: get him right. And how could you how could you
Speaker 1: feel great about your kicking game going into it? And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, you're talking about McCarthy earlier. He
Speaker 1: already is a guy who likes to go for it
Speaker 1: and has really bought into some of the fourth down analytics,
Speaker 1: and with knowing what this kicker's going through, I think
Speaker 1: he'll lean into that even more. And you saw it
Speaker 1: last night. They get down there and it was fourth
Speaker 1: and four on like the eighteen yard line and they
Speaker 1: could make it twenty seven to six, and he went
Speaker 1: for it and they got they got to score, and
Speaker 1: then by the time he finally made an extra point,
Speaker 1: it was like a big joke. It was like everybody
Speaker 1: was laughing about it. But I think Troy was onto
Speaker 1: something last night, like if Jimmy were the coach, he
Speaker 1: would literally be holding kicking tryouts this week. I think
Speaker 1: this era, it's not just McCarthy. I think this era
Speaker 1: of coaching. It's like, Ah, this guy's been good for us.
Speaker 1: He's been really consistent, he's got a huge leg, he's
Speaker 1: been good from over fifty. Let's just ride it out.
Speaker 1: We got more to lose than we have to gain
Speaker 1: by bringing in some kind of kicking competition, because there's
Speaker 1: that going to even plant more seeds of doubt if
Speaker 1: we bring more kickers in. I mean, as I say this,
Speaker 1: I kind of think back about Jimmy, and you know,
Speaker 1: I go back over some of those moments. I don't
Speaker 1: think maher would be kicking in that playoff game next week.
Speaker 1: We're Jimmy the coach, and he's not the only coach.
Speaker 1: Some old school coaches and most of those coaches back then,
Speaker 1: you know, they just couldn't. Who else modern day can't
Speaker 1: stand their kickers. Mike Zimmer, for instance, had a really
Speaker 1: tough time finding a kicker and he couldn't trust anybody.
Speaker 1: And I think it's an issue, and it is. When
Speaker 1: you start losing your kicking balls in an NFL game,
Speaker 1: you can't track them down. That's a problem. The line
Speaker 1: is surprisingly low Niners minus three and a half. That
Speaker 1: tells me dan Quinn brought pretty your theory. Vegas sees
Speaker 1: it that they think it's going to be lower scoring,
Speaker 1: so do I. Seattle's a bad defensive team. Dallas has
Speaker 1: some spectacular players. I still think they need another corner
Speaker 1: and that will be at some point exposed against Philadelphia
Speaker 1: or San Francisco. UM. I think I think it has
Speaker 1: a twenty seven twenty feel to it. What do you
Speaker 1: what do you think the game looks like? You know,
Speaker 1: with it being three and a half, I would lean
Speaker 1: toward betting the Cowboys getting those points. Um. I saw
Speaker 1: it open, I thought about four and a half and
Speaker 1: I was really thinking, okay, I would lean that way.
Speaker 1: I agree. Um, I think it's gonna be interesting because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys at times have been susceptible to the run.
Speaker 1: You know they've they've struggled with the group. The thing
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have, it's they've got a versatile group on
Speaker 1: the line. Two guys that were inactive last night, Bohannah
Speaker 1: and Neville Gallimore, are big, huge plugger types. Last night
Speaker 1: they got Hankins in there, and so that was their big,
Speaker 1: huge guy. But the rest of the people they went
Speaker 1: with all thin, long pass rushers. Cowboys can go either way,
Speaker 1: and so I think what you'll see him do is
Speaker 1: really load up to stop that run game. I think
Speaker 1: the fastest you think about this, I think you maybe
Speaker 1: leaning the right way. I think it's a low storied game.
Speaker 1: I think it's rare that San Francisco finds somebody that
Speaker 1: will play as physical as they will. I don't normally
Speaker 1: think we think of the Cowboys like that. I've heard
Speaker 1: you over the years say finesse, speed, all those kinds
Speaker 1: of things. The Cowboys team that showed up last night, yeah,
Speaker 1: was incredibly physical, Yes, and the safeties were hitting like crazy.
Speaker 1: Vander Esh was a good edition. He came back Bjory.
Speaker 1: He helps in the run against the run as well,
Speaker 1: and I like, I mean, that's where Purdy's gonna have
Speaker 1: to watch it because they're gonna use Parsons. Quinn loves
Speaker 1: to do what he did last night. Move him back
Speaker 1: off the line a little bit, sometimes get him outside,
Speaker 1: line him up, maybe in the middle standing. You never
Speaker 1: know where he's gonna be. And right now, he's the
Speaker 1: biggest defensive weapon in the NFL. He's there's just not
Speaker 1: there's not a game wrecker like him. There are people
Speaker 1: that may have more sacks or may even put up
Speaker 1: bigger numbers, but there's no one. And he used to
Speaker 1: have somebody like that, DeMarcus Ware there's no one there.
Speaker 1: They spend more time worrying about. And that's a great
Speaker 1: thing when you have somebody like that, and it's great
Speaker 1: for those other players. DeMarcus Lawrence, Dorance Armstrong. I mean,
Speaker 1: think about we kind of beat up on the Cowboys
Speaker 1: for not being able to land Randy Gregory in the offseason.
Speaker 1: What did Randy Gregory do this year for Denver? Nothing?
Speaker 1: He was hurt most of the time and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: ended up So your point earlier, though it is the
Speaker 1: right one. It's a little scary at cornerback, like it
Speaker 1: really comes down to, you know, whether it be deebo I,
Speaker 1: you I mean, you know, how deep do they truly go?
Speaker 1: And your comparison of the receiving units Cowboys, I will say, Gallup,
Speaker 1: who's not getting much separation, can make plays. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I do think. I do think he gives them something.
Speaker 1: He can beat people down the fields. He's a straight
Speaker 1: line runner. I feel like CD can get the drops
Speaker 1: at times. I think he's a pretty average one a
Speaker 1: stupendous two. I think Schultz's outstanding and they have a
Speaker 1: one two punch. I think their offensive line and you
Speaker 1: gotta credit McCarthy on this, it is much better post Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: It is a better offensive line. That's what it feels
Speaker 1: like to me, it to you, does it? Yeah, It's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting because you know, they had to make
Speaker 1: some changes last night. Peters came out of that game
Speaker 1: and they kicked Dollard Smith out. He's been good out there,
Speaker 1: and they had to put McGovern out there. They had
Speaker 1: to put McGovern in at guard. I think that'll be
Speaker 1: fascinating to watch. The other thing I would bring up is,
Speaker 1: and I said this before yesterday's game, Pollard was going
Speaker 1: to be a huge key and it's like a real
Speaker 1: bell Weather for this team is if he has seventy
Speaker 1: five or more rushing yards, they tend to perform so
Speaker 1: much better. And and what you have to watch in
Speaker 1: this game is what did what did Zeke end up
Speaker 1: for rush in this last game? It's like two point
Speaker 1: one He's been doing that for several weeks now now
Speaker 1: short yard, it's still good. He still go get you
Speaker 1: a yard. But when you find yourself after a game
Speaker 1: and you look at the stats and Zeke has taken
Speaker 1: up twelve to fifteen of your carries, you've probably made
Speaker 1: some mistakes. And I think Kellen called a really good game.
Speaker 1: But each time you run Zeke, you're taking about a
Speaker 1: twenty five yard opportunity away from your offense. Because ye again,
Speaker 1: Zeke does some good things. He brings some really good leadership.
Speaker 1: But Pollared is your home run hitter, and you heard
Speaker 1: him talking about it last night, and it's true. And
Speaker 1: plus if there's only a small hole, powered is a
Speaker 1: tougher back than he's given credit for. So he's got
Speaker 1: great balance. We Pollered. I mean, you have to approach
Speaker 1: this game like this is our bell cow. And but
Speaker 1: they'll treat Zeke like the ceremonial starter. But you better
Speaker 1: get you better get Pollered in there early. Well, Matt Mosley,
Speaker 1: you are our bell cow guest. I thought you really
Speaker 1: crushed it today. Now what Now he really did? So listen,
Speaker 1: murder works very hard. He gets a little cranky. So
Speaker 1: are you going to give ad if if the season ends,
Speaker 1: do you give d some time off to reboot and
Speaker 1: relax with his beautiful family? Yeah? I mean Ed does
Speaker 1: not exactly understand like rebooting for Ed is only spending
Speaker 1: eight hours a day on Twitter. That's so. But Ed
Speaker 1: does have wonderful family and he's got grandkids now and
Speaker 1: that's changed his life, and he spends a lot of
Speaker 1: time in Colorado. So yeah, he'll I'll give him some
Speaker 1: time and then, you know, depending on how well he
Speaker 1: does in this last podcast or two, I may kick
Speaker 1: in a little extra money for him. But that's the
Speaker 1: kind of guy you are. You're very giving, you know.
Speaker 1: That's that's just that's how I'm wired. Yeah, yeah, yeah, same, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I love just a giver all the time. I do.
Speaker 1: That's exactly. That's what I've always heard. All right, Mosley,
Speaker 1: You're pretty good. Doomsday podcast with Sir Ed, a long
Speaker 1: time Fox Sports ESPN guy, and just a friend funny.
Speaker 1: My guys like you a lot. So I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: now and I'm gonna do some meditation. I do that
Speaker 1: in the afternoon. Jane Mosley, if you've done meditation, hell, Lee, man,
Speaker 1: it almost sounds spiritual. Get you down here. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what spiritual means, but I do that. I'd
Speaker 1: meditate about twice a week. Yeah, move down here and
Speaker 1: you'll find out what spiritual means. Yeah. All right, thanks
Speaker 1: for having me. Thanks for having me. I've got to
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