WEBVTT - Mick Shots: No Joy 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:06.640 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:08.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:11.440 Cowboys. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:18.280 This is nick shot, streaming live on Dallascowboys dot com 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:23.599 and the official Dallas Cowboys apt now. Here are Bill Jones, Savannah, 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:33.839 Hugh Mooller, Everson Walls, and Mickey Spagnola. 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:38.040 High noon on a Tuesday, here inside the SWBC podcast 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.559 studio at the Star in Fresco, where it is, well, 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.440 it's in here. It's not eighteen degrees, but outside it is, 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.080 and it sure feels like it, and things are chilly. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:53.400 And Cowboys Nation too. Bill Jones, Savannah Humoler, Mickey Spagnola, 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:57.800 and Everson Walls is not here today. He's got other commitments. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.840 He's decided he didn't want to talk about fixed. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:02.720 I think chicken, come on. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:05.840 So here we are. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.600 I don't know if this was indicative everything, but just 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.800 as soon as you started the show up on the 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.800 NFL network was the divisional. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.200 Round schedule of games. 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:19.800 It's like, okay, throw it right in our face. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.720 Yeah there you go, exactly all right, lot so much 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.399 to talk about since we weren't together. I know, Mickey, 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:31.560 you did a joint podcast yesterday for some of that yesterday, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.679 and so you've got things about the game that you've 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:39.240 gotten off your chest. But new audience here for mixed 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:40.559 shots fire away. 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:46.920 Yeah, thanks, open ended. Right. So, as I was telling 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.200 Savannah before we started that, you know, it's one thing 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:55.920 to lose a playoff game, and then it's another thing 0:01:55.960 --> 0:02:00.960 to get beat as bad as they did, almost competitive. 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.320 I mean, at twenty seven to nothing, did you have 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:09.040 any hopes that they were going to recover? It was 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:15.320 somewhat reminded me of that ninety four NFC play, an 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.680 NFC title game against San Francisco that. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.880 Was twenty one and nothing was still fifty five minutes. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.880 Yeah, I know, that's what I said. I said, well, 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.079 you know, they almost came back from that, but they 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:30.120 still had three and a half quarters to play. They 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.360 were down twenty one nothing, but when it got to 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.360 twenty seven nothing, it was like, are you kidding me? 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:37.639 This is not really happening. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:39.840 That was also a team that had already won two 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:40.840 straight Super Bowls. 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:47.480 Yes, yeah, I know, and yeah it was you know, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.800 and I know what the feeling is out there. You know, 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:57.040 everybody should get fired. But as I try to caution 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:02.600 everyone that firing the head coach means you fired the 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:08.080 offensive coordinator, and so whoever the new head coach would 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.840 be better have an offensive coordinator if he's not the 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:16.480 offensive coordinator. So it's not as easy as just taking 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:20.600 off the head because there's too many other body parts 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:25.920 that follow along with making changes. And I'm not trying to, 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:33.000 you know, overly defend Mike McCarthy, but if you do something, 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.800 then are you guaranteeing me that they're going to win 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.240 twelve games next year? And you're guaranteeing me that that 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.040 change is going to win the playoff game. So you've 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:50.360 got to be careful. I think normally Jerry tries to 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.840 take the emotion out of it and kind of just 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:58.120 calm down and then look at things pragmatically before you know, 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.920 making a move or not making So I think that's 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.720 kind of where we're at. But I just thought that 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:13.000 that might be the most unexpected, devastating loss that I've 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.120 seen in my time covering Cowboy playoff games. And I 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:21.760 counted them up before before the game, Derek had asked me, so, 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:26.000 how many playoff games have you covered since I started 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:27.880 cutting them up? And I said, well, this sounds like 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.719 it's thirty two. I said, do I get to count 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:34.440 the two I watched on TV for the NFL Championship 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.040 with the Cowboys and the Packers. He goes, no, you 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:37.839 had to be there. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.159 I said, Okay, this. 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.240 Was the most I think. I mean, they've gotten beat 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.680 bad before, right, but it was it was almost somewhat 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.360 expected a road game at Detroit in the ninety one 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.760 season when they got wiped out. They got wiped out 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:59.200 by Minnesota that one year. It was ninety nine I believe, 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:04.080 or O nine or nine. Yes, sorry, I think it 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.600 was ninety nine two. By the way, there you go, 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:10.120 because it was it was Tarrell Owens, not Aroll Owens. 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.960 It was Randy Moss, right. He was all pissed off 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:15.600 that the Cowboys didn't draft him. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.200 The minute of the nine game was thirty four to 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:20.680 three at Minnesota. 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.479 Right, And then and then ninety nine would have been 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.919 at Minnesota also because they were a wild card team, 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:28.240 as I remember. 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.760 But that team didn't have the same hopes this team. 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:34.159 No, definitely not. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.520 You're right, And it was twenty seven to ten and 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:41.000 it was only eight and eighteen, right, yeah, and then 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.320 in nine they got wiped out again by Minnesota. Yeah, 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:51.400 So yeah, I just this was not expected. This was 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:55.760 not oh we didn't get one more play, or oh 0:05:55.920 --> 0:06:00.600 it was a catch, no catch, or Aaron Rodgers throwing 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.880 basically a hail Mary to set up the winning field goal. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.240 This was just a butt whipon. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:16.040 So Savannah saying, I had to let Vicky do is 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.320 his rant first and then you know, see where we're at. 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.039 But I mean, I also knew it was the turning 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.839 point in that second quarter. I was actually standing in 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:33.800 the end zone tunnel right when Dak had thrown the 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.920 interception and they ran it back in at Green Bay, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:42.680 and the entire Green Bay defense is just running right 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.679 at me, right at the cameras everything, and just the 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.320 fans around me because there were like one of the 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.000 field suites and then people behind me. The amount of 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:57.000 just screams and all the thing. I just was shocked 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.320 in that moment, and that's when I realized, I don't 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:00.000 think we're coming back. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.039 It was like watching a horror movie. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.279 Correct a slow, slow car. 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.240 Crash and then got very fast right there, and then 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:14.880 all of a sudden, oh, okay, here we go, so 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.360 here we are, and there's there are so many questions 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:24.280 to be answered and you have to let the let 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:28.120 time pass and we're people upstairs figure things out. 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:37.440 Yeah. I ran into Steven yesterday and I I can't 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:41.720 remember how it happened, and something about how's it going? 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:47.240 And he goes hanging hanging tight, just like that, which 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.000 was not the answer question to ask, right. I learned 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.320 that from Bill Parcells after a loss. When we saw 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:57.080 him the next day, he said hi, and I said Hi, 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.960 how's it going? He goes, not real, Well, he was honest. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.440 So now I've learned to just say hi to him 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.360 and not ask how it's going, out. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.000 Of just what you normally say. 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:17.440 Right, But yeah, so to me, you know, there's also 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:22.280 there's always personnel questions, but then there's also you know, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.840 why in the world did you decide to play zone 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.000 on defense in the secondary, And it seemed like they 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.360 did it more than normal from what I can tell. 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.400 And my only answer to that is they were trying 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:41.640 to hide Steph on Gilmour's injury, that they didn't want 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.240 him having to play man the whole game and not 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.359 benjam and putting the Sean right out there to play cornerback. 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:53.840 But it looked like they hadn't played much zone all year. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.960 I've never seen so wide open receivers in my entire life. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:03.280 Like there was just miscoverages And the worst was the 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:09.640 touchdown passed the Musgrave when he stood there by himself. 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.880 It seemed like forever waiting for the past to get there. 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.320 What is back to the end zone standing still. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.800 To catch like hot right? 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.319 Yes, all I could think of, he's got to be thinking, 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:23.560 oh my god, don't drop this. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.680 And it's just a mental bust on that play, right, 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:26.960 you know. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:31.760 Defensively, yeah, it wasn't like they beat somebody. 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:35.559 Or communication mix up, you know, and it was like. 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.240 But how many of those were there? And so I 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:44.520 went back and I got the big play type things, 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:50.080 and so they give you the top ten. Nine of 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.920 them were fifteen yards or more. They had a twenty, 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:58.240 a twenty two, a twenty six, a twenty seven, a 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.280 thirty nine, and a forty six. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:02.199 I believe it. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:07.280 We saw it right, and it was just so uncommon 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.880 for that defense to give up that many big plays. 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.480 And so, you know, hand it to Green Bay. I 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.040 thought they had a really good plan, and I thought 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.760 they had a really good plan defensively that I think 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.680 we've seen before from other teams. That have beaten the 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:29.640 Cowboys that they're able to stop the run with a 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.679 normal front, and they decided that they were going to 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:37.640 put undue pressure on Dak Prescott and they end up 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:44.880 sacking him four times. They hit him nine times. He 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.400 was forced to run with the ball six times. A 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.040 couple of them were good runs, but that wasn't the 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.120 design play. It was because of the pressure. And he 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.680 had six more passes defense, meaning he's trying to fit 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.400 the ball into tight situations and the passes were getting 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:07.800 broken up. So those two things, I think really held 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:13.439 this offense down to sixteen points until they decided that okay, 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.760 we're not giving up any big plays. You can gain 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.800 all the yards you want, score all the touchdowns you want. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:23.160 We still got forty eight points, right, Well. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.400 The most disappointing thing for me was the play of 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:29.959 the defense, and you could see it coming in the 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.280 last month of the season, and I spent a good 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.440 part of yesterday morning just trying to figure out the 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:41.000 linebacker situation. It's been It's bugged me the whole second 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:45.199 half of the season when Leyton vander Esh wasn't replaced. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.520 And I understand that you have difficulties during the middle 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.920 of the season finding players to replace other players. But 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.160 those are contingency plans that you have to have in 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.360 place earlier in the season too. Or was it that 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.520 dan Quinn said, hey, and win with this, you know? 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.400 And it was successful in games where you get ahead. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.360 It's not successful in games when you get behind and 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:12.000 teams can just run on you. But I mean, you 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.760 go back and look at the linebacking depth chart on 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:17.800 this team, and I don't look at Marquise Bell as 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.959 being a linebacker. Bless his heart. I think he played 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.640 had a great season moving from safety playing linebacker for 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:27.040 the first time in his life and subpast. And then 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.680 the idea was after Overshown went down with the injury 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.800 in the preseason that okay, he's in sub packages. He's 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:37.040 basically replacing Overshown, similar size player. Overshown two hundred and 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.360 twenty pounds. Bell's listed at two ten on the roster. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.400 But okay, you get into a situation now late in 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.760 the year against Buffalo and the games on the line 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:52.199 against Miami and Detroit, and you know, and he was 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.320 nicked up in one game where they were playing jy 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:59.240 Ron Curse at linebacker alongside the Montclark, but you basically 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:03.319 only had one linebacker who got any defensive snaps and 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.920 DeMont Clark in the last half of the season. And 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.760 you know the Packers when they prepared to face and 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.960 that's why they take the football to start the game. 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.640 They want that they knew the key to this game 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.480 is get ahead, get ahead, and stay it. And then 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:22.680 you stay ahead exactly. And and so it's a defense 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:28.120 that is small and aggressive. And when things are going 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.920 well and you've got the lead in the game, it 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:33.720 it can come up with picks, it can come up 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:39.080 with you know, turnovers, and but when you get behind 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.560 and a team can just pin its ears back and 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.920 run at you with a running back like Aaron Jones 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.679 slasher who you know, they do a great job up 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.640 front as far as him being able to have holes 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.680 to run through. And you've got I mean, it's you 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.480 look at the goal line situation first and goal at 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:04.240 the one, and the Cowboys have four They had Parsons 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.360 at left defensive end, two defensive tackles, Lawrence at right 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.280 defensive end, and de Monte Clark on the right side. 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.640 And your middle linebacker is fourteen Marquise Bell. You've got 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.280 six DB's on the field on first and goal at 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.640 the one yard line. And that's been going on here 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:23.120 for the whole last month of the season, right, I'm okay. 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.480 And so you don't have the personnel to stop the run, 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:27.000 in my. 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:31.280 Opinion, and probably the same when they ranted in from 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.360 three yards out or nine yards. 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.560 Or in the third quarter, where you need to stop them. 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.280 But they're going to run the football, and when you have, 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.280 you know, six DB's on the field, and then it 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.800 causes problems when you're converting safeties down into the box. 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:53.120 They haven't played linebacker for a living and reading and 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.440 reacting and so forth. Now I don't know, you know, 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.000 I got as much knowledge about football and my peaky 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.480 finger as the guys down the hallway do. And so 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.520 there's a reason why they were doing it. But it 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.080 certainly didn't work in this game. 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:12.880 And they tried, and I thought somewhat successfully putting Parsons 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.680 at linebacker and having that tiger's front at times, but 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:21.600 not often enough, I didn't think. And you don't let 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.280 him run to the ball, don't just let him get 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.400 overwhelmed at the line of scrimmage. 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:30.840 Well, I think most of these issues started being a 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:35.200 parent In that Bills game, that's when you really saw 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:40.000 how they played and how the run defense was. And 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.600 I think we can say from the Bills and then 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:45.520 you go to Miami and then from there you beat 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:50.400 the Washington Commanders, who you know, that was almost a 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.960 given that you that you're going to win that game. However, 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.920 I think we almost were all fooling ourselves a little 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:58.520 bit going into the Screen Bay game. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.360 I think what you're looking at is you go back 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.080 into October, and I agree wholeheardly with the everything you're saying. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.920 At that point in the season, there are no linebackers 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.000 to go find, yeah, you know, to go get and 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:13.360 they tried and they brought Brashaun Evans in earlier, didn't 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.400 war they brought Shaq Leonard in and he wound up 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.880 going with Philadelphia instead. And so those were the two 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:24.160 at mid season that were available. But and so to 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.520 Dan Quinn's credit and the defensive coaches credit, they figured 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.680 out a way to make it work and get on 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.360 a roll towards the you know, winning seven of their 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.800 last nine games after Leyton vander esh goes down with 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.480 the injury. But at some point it was going to 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:40.320 catch up with them. 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.280 So tell me if you sent a pattern here. They 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:49.280 lost Arizona two hundred and twenty two yards rushing, They 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:53.320 lost to San Francisco one hundred and seventy yards rushing. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.600 They lost to Philadelphia one hundred and nine, which was 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:04.040 they were in the game. They lose to Buffalo two 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:08.119 hundred and sixty six yards rushing, They lose to Miami 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:14.720 one hundred and twenty five, no. Ninety one yards rushing, 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.639 and then they lose this playoff game one hundred and 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:21.040 forty three yards rushing. So there's a year six losses, 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.440 five of them for at least one hundred and nine yards. 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:31.679 So and that's been there. Their problem in the last 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.480 couple playoff games too, given up last three playoff games. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.760 If you look at it, when they gave up two 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.200 hundred and seventy three the twenty eighteen season to the Rams. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.200 Okay, so you're going back to twenty eighteen, Yeah, you're 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:48.200 talking about the three three losses. Well, I mean against 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.159 San Francisco last year in the playoff it was a 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.280 tight game and they actually contained the run game. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:57.000 You're right, the year before they did, the year before they. 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.360 Didn't, and in fact, in fact let's take a we'll 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:05.120 come back and I'll I spent yesterday morning looking back 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.000 at last year in the playoffs versus this year in 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.399 the playoffs at the linebacker position and be able to 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.640 underscore more of what I'm talking about when we come 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:15.720 back here on mix shots in a moment. 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.960 I'm Dak Prescott, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.640 And they snapped the press guy who looks right, it's 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.400 not there. 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Wrap up 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:44.840 my thought on we were talking about the linebacker position, 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:49.680 and I mentioned last year in the playoffs. Let's all 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:53.400 recall that your linebackers in the playoff games last year 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.760 against Tampa Bay and San Francisco, you had sixty four 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.280 two hundred and fifty six pounds Layton vander esh In 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:02.160 sixty five two hundred and fifty seven pound Anthony Barr 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.720 at linebacker. This year you have sixty three two hundred 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.200 and forty pound de Monte Clark and sixty three two 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:12.879 hundred ten pound Marquise Bell at linebacker. So there's the 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:17.120 mark difference in the size of the guys that you're 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.959 putting out there trying to defend the run. And credit 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:25.639 Clark and Bell doing the best they can, but you know, 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:30.000 I just think that they were overmatched in some certain situations. 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:34.200 Aaron Jones averaged five point six yards of Carrie three 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:41.399 rushing touchdowns, which tied the Packers playoff single game record. 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:50.200 He's now got seven playoff touchdowns rushing, most in Packer history. Wow, 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:56.200 which means more than Jim Taylor and Paul Horny, who 0:21:56.200 --> 0:21:58.400 are both in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.320 By the way, the other thing about vander ash and 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:03.800 bar last year, they got all the defensive snaps in 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:06.399 the playoff games last year. Clark was strictly a special 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:08.679 teams player in the playoffs last year, so this was 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:12.520 his first time to play defensive snaps in a postseason game. 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:16.080 See. And the reason we bring this up is it 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:20.280 doesn't look like it was that significant, but it was 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:25.040 so efficient that it was a hidden factor in the game. 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:28.440 Right talked about all the big plays, right, and it 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:31.560 was like, well, the past defense sucked well, but they 0:22:31.560 --> 0:22:36.560 were running the ball effectively to keep their attention and 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:42.080 they did not get pressure. Now, there was one or 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:45.080 two plays where Parsons got there a half step late 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.840 to hit Love, but he didn't get sacked. He didn't 0:22:49.920 --> 0:22:52.040 get sacked, and all of a sudden, you start getting 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:56.000 so run conscious. You're a half step slow trying to 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:58.560 get to the quarterback. And he only got hit like, 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:03.840 what was it, four times maybe, and he never really 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:08.600 had to I don't think he ever ran the ball, 0:23:09.000 --> 0:23:13.399 or maybe one time because he he kneeled down for 0:23:13.760 --> 0:23:15.880 a loss of one, or maybe he tried to run 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:24.159 at that time. But defensively, the Cowboys had three quarterback hits, 0:23:24.400 --> 0:23:28.560 no sacks. So that was a continuation of what we 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:33.280 saw down the stretch. Other than the four sacks I 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:36.840 believe they had against Washington, they had no more than 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:40.160 one sack the previous five games, I want to say, 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:43.919 and I can tell you that for sure. It was 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:49.640 one against Seattle, one against Philadelphia, one against Buffalo, one 0:23:49.720 --> 0:23:54.600 against Miami, one against Detroit, and they got none in 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:58.600 this game. So their inability to put pressure on the 0:23:58.600 --> 0:24:00.720 opposing quarterback also showed up. 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:04.600 You got to give credit to Green Bays a line. 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:07.639 I mean, they really did block for Jordan Love and 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:10.879 they gave also the ability for him to pass in 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:13.479 those moments when they weren't running the ball, and it 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:14.160 worked for them. 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:16.560 And you know what, and he was as good as advertising. 0:24:17.040 --> 0:24:20.200 We talked about it, right, throwing off his back foot, 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:24.679 reading the field, but then again when you got guys 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:27.880 that wide open, but he dropping the ball in the bucket. 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:29.960 He was awfully, awfully good. 0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:35.399 And the other thing is it really shows. And then 0:24:35.400 --> 0:24:38.960 I think this can be an encouraging thing to Cowboys 0:24:39.000 --> 0:24:42.119 fans when you see what the Packers are able to 0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:44.960