Speaker 1: The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
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Speaker 1: official Dallas Cowboys apt Now Here are Bill Jones, Everson Walls,
Speaker 1: and Nicky Spagnola. And here we are back in the
Speaker 1: s w ABC podcast studio at Ford Center, the Star
Speaker 1: in Frisco and Mickey Spagnolan. How does it look outside?
Speaker 1: Suns came up, the sun came up, and the sun
Speaker 1: came up, the sun came It was done yesterday and
Speaker 1: I never see it again. And it's a beautiful day
Speaker 1: here at the Star in Frisco, right making, Except we're
Speaker 1: not playing the Cowboys stamped Nope, that would We played
Speaker 1: it Fridays. We played it right to get this team
Speaker 1: fired up. No, no, did not pay attention. You know
Speaker 1: what we need to do. We need to play the
Speaker 1: Cowboys Stampede on Sunday morning as they wasn't too early
Speaker 1: as they come out onto the field. Wow, that would
Speaker 1: be cool. Uh huh, dwell back, everybody else is come
Speaker 1: on try Yeah, you don't forget your roots, dude, that's right.
Speaker 1: So how did our picks in our picks to click,
Speaker 1: Hey pick to click my pick to click work great
Speaker 1: Tony poll on the opening kickoff. From there, the opening kickoff,
Speaker 1: I said, I'm gonna willing go to the game ended.
Speaker 1: If the game ended after the opening kickoff, I win
Speaker 1: the pick to click Tony Pollard. So he didn't think
Speaker 1: much of his four carries for eleven yards, no or
Speaker 1: one one catch? Wait, you had one catch for thirty
Speaker 1: two yards. There you go. I don't even remember it
Speaker 1: was that at the end. Yeah, it was. I do recall,
Speaker 1: and it was a drop pass right off the bat.
Speaker 1: I do remember that. I remember, I do recall everything
Speaker 1: that we said, if it's gonna go wrong, this is
Speaker 1: how it's going to happen. Then Denver was listening because
Speaker 1: it happened. You know, like I said, quarterback, solid quarterback.
Speaker 1: What was the key to Denver's victory? The old line,
Speaker 1: the trenches, and they were playing with basically the most
Speaker 1: of the entire game with three backup offensive linemen. Well,
Speaker 1: their backup offensive lineman did a better job than the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and their defensive linemen. Man, I don't know these guys.
Speaker 1: I waited. At one point during the game, Tyron Smith
Speaker 1: is a pretty good player. Ye there you go, And
Speaker 1: Terrence Steele's probably not ready for the Ring of Honor.
Speaker 1: Just just and see. That's why I asked the question
Speaker 1: last week. Are we going to give him the same
Speaker 1: help like we've been covering for him? Didn't give him enough? Well,
Speaker 1: now the help wasn't good. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: to tell you. I don't Well, you can pick this
Speaker 1: whole thing apart, but let me tell you this little
Speaker 1: story before the game. I use it for my lead
Speaker 1: to my column for today. I'm in the press box
Speaker 1: about hour before the kickoff and Babe Laufenberg comes walking
Speaker 1: by and he looks at me and he goes, tell
Speaker 1: me this. He goes, why am I nervous about this game?
Speaker 1: That I wasn't nervous all week? Like you know, I
Speaker 1: wasn't nervous about this game. Now suddenly I am. And
Speaker 1: I said, I'll tell you why. I got tell you
Speaker 1: my my little NFL theory. The more you win, the
Speaker 1: closer are losing. Right, And he looked at me and
Speaker 1: he goes, I like that. I like that the percentages
Speaker 1: At some point you as you got a field goal
Speaker 1: thing that you on the scene. Yeah, and the more
Speaker 1: you kicked closer yard to lose. So basically you're like
Speaker 1: a gloom and doom doo. No, I'm very real thing,
Speaker 1: and I don't need analytics to have a number for this.
Speaker 1: I just you can just sense it that if you
Speaker 1: won sixth straight, at some point you're gonna lose one.
Speaker 1: You know what I have I you in one note,
Speaker 1: number two defense in scoring remember that. Yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: talked about that last way. That's crazy. Number two scoring
Speaker 1: defense in the league. Vic Fangio's unit at Denver, and
Speaker 1: he was pretty fired up. He was especially Okay, well,
Speaker 1: just you've mentioned or Everson did about the kicking field goals,
Speaker 1: So just go right to the second possession for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: fourth and two at the twenty yard line. What do
Speaker 1: you do, Mickey? That was the That was the play
Speaker 1: where Fangio was so fired up after the incompletion, and
Speaker 1: I got some things I want to read to you
Speaker 1: about all that. Um I I was, I was good
Speaker 1: going for it. I know you probably should take the
Speaker 1: field goal there, but you got the number one offense
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, the number two rushing offense,
Speaker 1: and the number three passing offense. And I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: kicking a field goal that close. I gotta go. And
Speaker 1: even after even after the other one and the first one, okay,
Speaker 1: take back to the first one. I had no problem
Speaker 1: at all going forward fourth and one after that one
Speaker 1: because and even from a strategic standpoint, okay, it was
Speaker 1: like Pollard's kick return was your punt. If you didn't
Speaker 1: make it, you know, you took over the position. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: now you can make the case where you can punt
Speaker 1: them down or whatever. But I had no problem at
Speaker 1: all on that one the second one. So here's what
Speaker 1: kind of got in my mind. After they missed the
Speaker 1: second one. I started thinking, Oh, guess what Denver's thinking.
Speaker 1: They disrespected us. They thought they were just going to
Speaker 1: come in here and everything's gonna wear us, right everything,
Speaker 1: We're not good enough. So I didn't see this until
Speaker 1: this morning. So let me read you a couple of
Speaker 1: these things. Tim Patrick. I had no idea who Tim
Speaker 1: Patrick was until he catches a forty four yard touchdown
Speaker 1: pass digs L Defensive Player of the Year the year.
Speaker 1: So here's what he said about when he was asked,
Speaker 1: Yeah right, still anyway, here's what he said about the
Speaker 1: fact that they actually went for the fourth downs disrespectful.
Speaker 1: That as disrespectful. They're trying us, and that's what happens
Speaker 1: when you try us. Teddy Bridgewater, you take the field
Speaker 1: with a little anger, honestly said of the team going
Speaker 1: for it on the fourth down, it's like, hey man,
Speaker 1: they're going for it because they're saying our offense is
Speaker 1: not going to score or something. We talked about it
Speaker 1: in the huddle. We use that as motivation. It was
Speaker 1: one of those deals where you take the field and okay,
Speaker 1: you have a little added motivation to it. You can
Speaker 1: see that today. And then Fangio says, everybody wants to
Speaker 1: go for it on fourth down, right, fourth and one,
Speaker 1: fourth and two. They cite all the numbers, so on
Speaker 1: and so forth. But when you don't get them, it hurts.
Speaker 1: And we were the beneficiary of the hurt. And he
Speaker 1: took advantage of that after they and that's why he
Speaker 1: was so fired up after they stopped him on the
Speaker 1: fourth and the second, fourth and two, and so they
Speaker 1: played and smart coaching, I mean smart for the team
Speaker 1: to and you know part of that too. Even coming
Speaker 1: into the game. You know what they were hearing in Denver.
Speaker 1: They just traded away the face of the franchise, and
Speaker 1: and those players, they're not waving a white flag. And
Speaker 1: they can't beat a team with at least a five
Speaker 1: hundred record. They excuse me. They lose to all the
Speaker 1: teams that are five hundred or better, and they beat
Speaker 1: all the teams with losing records. And I'm sure they
Speaker 1: heard all of it. And when that those those fourth
Speaker 1: down plays and then they stopped him on third and
Speaker 1: one also forced the punt that time, I'm sure that
Speaker 1: they were fired up, and it added motivation. I gotta say, man,
Speaker 1: you know as a form of player that that kind
Speaker 1: of kills me, It really does. I just got a
Speaker 1: problem with this, uh selected motivation. Yeah, well I understand,
Speaker 1: but losses me. Come on, but but but in the game, yeah,
Speaker 1: the game four, I don't I don't go for you
Speaker 1: get telling, those are the four games that you lost.
Speaker 1: You weren't motiva. You weren't motiva. We're just gonna it's
Speaker 1: like the uh what they called the frog in the
Speaker 1: the crab in the in the water. Yea, you just
Speaker 1: heat up slowly, Okay, we just he we disrespect you slowly.
Speaker 1: So then you're just gonna lay down. Let's kick your butt.
Speaker 1: But we turned up to fire a little bit and
Speaker 1: disrespect you out rightly. Then all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 1: fired up. So we'll okay to lose as long as
Speaker 1: you don't disrespect us. So we're okay with Lucy the
Speaker 1: the But those things that got that team excited. Not
Speaker 1: only that, but half the crowd was Bronco fans, Cowboy
Speaker 1: fans sold out. There was more orange than that. I
Speaker 1: thought it was Halloween all over again. They looked like
Speaker 1: a bunch of that's the first time that happens. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jerry's world is a vacation. No, it's a it's it's
Speaker 1: the cowboy fans selling out to make money on a
Speaker 1: game they weren't interested in. Yeah, I was there, and
Speaker 1: I was interested until I wasn't. You know, it's bad
Speaker 1: when they kick a field goal and you can't tell
Speaker 1: if it was good or not by the crowd reaction
Speaker 1: because both sides were cheering one way or the other.
Speaker 1: And that was that was a that was shameful. Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: After the fourth and two, what at Denver do they
Speaker 1: drove eighty yards for a touchdown? Eighty yards and eleven plays,
Speaker 1: and eight of those plays were running plays. Yep. That
Speaker 1: was the key to this victory is Denver's ability to
Speaker 1: run the foot. They ran for one hundred ninety two yards.
Speaker 1: That's right. I have here in my notes Melvin Flash,
Speaker 1: Gordon and I didn't say this. I'm listening to what
Speaker 1: you guys said last week. Melvin Flash over one hundred
Speaker 1: I think a four hundred yards on the season. He's
Speaker 1: right right under Williams four hundred yards. He has over
Speaker 1: four hundred, just a little under Gordon. But it was
Speaker 1: both about both of them. We talked about. These are
Speaker 1: the notes I took coming from you guys Mouth, Jeffonte,
Speaker 1: Matt Truck, Williams, Man and Man. I remember leading up
Speaker 1: to the draft. Leading up to the draft, I was
Speaker 1: looking at his North Carolina tape. I was going, Wow,
Speaker 1: this guy is and then Will McClay showed me on
Speaker 1: the tellustrator three plays if you watch the Mike McCarthy Show,
Speaker 1: and is available on Dallas Cowboys dot Com the Athleticism
Speaker 1: and he was on display on Sunday afternoon at at
Speaker 1: and T Stadium too. So they paid the players on
Speaker 1: the other team, Well, yeah, absolutely. Stephen Steven pointed that
Speaker 1: out this morning too. By the way. But again they
Speaker 1: took advantage of what would be our normal worries. Right.
Speaker 1: They took advantage of Terrence Steele at left tackle. We
Speaker 1: saw Lell Collins okay, and then as the game wore on,
Speaker 1: he looked like he wore down too, and everybody wanted
Speaker 1: to know, well, I didn't he play last week? Right? Well,
Speaker 1: you got your answer, right. And then the other thing
Speaker 1: we've been worried about was the and we thought they
Speaker 1: solved it in Minnesota the way they played defensively, right, Well,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, as I said, just when you
Speaker 1: thought it was safe to come out in the dark,
Speaker 1: the Boogeyman got you right. They couldn't stop the run
Speaker 1: on the edges. The defensive ends got taken advantage of.
Speaker 1: You know, they sort of stayed away from Randy Gregory's side,
Speaker 1: but boy, they attacked whoever was playing defensive end on
Speaker 1: the other side. We thought, you know, Goldston was coming along, Armstrong,
Speaker 1: all oxnar right, bash them. Those guys couldn't. They couldn't
Speaker 1: hold the edge against the run. And they were making
Speaker 1: a concerted effort to go right there. So and you
Speaker 1: had your linebackers working there, yes, and they were on
Speaker 1: their own because the offensive line was getting to them right.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing that I'd been harping on
Speaker 1: all year last week it disappeared, but boy did it
Speaker 1: come back, giving up chunk plays, big plays. And as
Speaker 1: I counted here, they had seven plays of nineteen yards
Speaker 1: or more. And let me count them for you. Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater forty four yard touchdown pass to Tim Patrick. Who, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll give you another. Who Tendy Bridgewater over the middle
Speaker 1: forty yards Kellen hinting, Kendall hitting, See sorry, Kendall, thank
Speaker 1: you for Javonte Williams thirty yard run. Jerry Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was where he dragged he like Jim Brown, I just
Speaker 1: hate that thing. Okay, by talking about the peanut tilman
Speaker 1: punch or whatever. You gotta have the guy on the
Speaker 1: control before you start trying and they're grab you. Gotta
Speaker 1: get you, you take you, get him under control, I
Speaker 1: come and punch you. Gotta be coordinated. If we're doing
Speaker 1: it that way, you're never getting a bunch yet. Javonte
Speaker 1: Williams run twenty yards, pass to Jerry Judy twenty yards. Oh,
Speaker 1: Tim Patrick pass nineteen yards, seventeen yards, seventeen yards, sixteen
Speaker 1: yards That's what I had worried about up until Minnesota
Speaker 1: because they lived in them to three plays of twenty
Speaker 1: yards or more. And in this game, it they didn't
Speaker 1: get any takeaways right, and the defense just couldn't hold up.
Speaker 1: But if Bill has a chance, go back to the
Speaker 1: eighty one season, we were going well, so so well,
Speaker 1: you know, we lost maybe a game or so, and
Speaker 1: my season was going well, you know, interceptions and all
Speaker 1: of that. You know, he gets some, they get song.
Speaker 1: That's Tom Langie's quote. We went up there and to
Speaker 1: Campbellstick Park nineteen eighty one mid season. Who were they
Speaker 1: laid it on us so bad? That was it was
Speaker 1: this game. It was like we were I think we
Speaker 1: had They had thirty plus points, songs before we could blink.
Speaker 1: First time we'd ever seen the West Coast offense. There
Speaker 1: was week six weeks said first time we've ever seen
Speaker 1: the West Coast offense, and that thank god for the
Speaker 1: experience we had on the team and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: But man, they ride home, that flight home, that was
Speaker 1: a tough flight home, and you could we were kind
Speaker 1: of jacking joking about it, but you could tell underneath
Speaker 1: that it was that shook us. Final score was forty
Speaker 1: five to fourteen. That shook us bad in a season
Speaker 1: that they finished twelve and twelve and four. But we
Speaker 1: had experience, okay, we had a special team also, of
Speaker 1: course the veterans coming along with us young guys. This
Speaker 1: is this is the this is the moment where we
Speaker 1: always talked about it for this game and weeks before.
Speaker 1: How are you going to handle this type of situation?
Speaker 1: So there's always a unique hurdle to clear. This is
Speaker 1: one of those moments, and obviously the most crucial of
Speaker 1: this season. Where do you go from here? You know,
Speaker 1: we can say all we can forget about it, and
Speaker 1: I was gonna come in joking about what game that
Speaker 1: was gonna be my joke to that, because games like that,
Speaker 1: you coaches don't even want to watch them anymore, So
Speaker 1: how are they going to handle this from from here?
Speaker 1: That's what coaching comes in on this and some leadership.
Speaker 1: You don't have to see that. And you know what
Speaker 1: you did the next four games after that San Francisco
Speaker 1: game or what's that You're won and then you lost
Speaker 1: one and then you won four more, so you won
Speaker 1: eight of the next nine games, and of course made
Speaker 1: it to the NFC Championship. Yeah, so there you go.
Speaker 1: The more you win, you're gonna lose one at some point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's not gonna win them all. And how do you
Speaker 1: count for all the goofiness? Right, all the goofiness that
Speaker 1: took place. Um, you know, we'll get to the punt.
Speaker 1: That's probably a segment on its own. Teddy Bridgewater on
Speaker 1: the quarterback sneak for the touchdown, he's not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: What happened to forward progress? Right? And then he reaches
Speaker 1: up and the ball gets knocked out and you still
Speaker 1: can't tell if he broke the main all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: They're so good at getting it right. Yeah on the
Speaker 1: gold line, how did they see even the overhead you
Speaker 1: can't tell. But no, stop forward progress, just let him
Speaker 1: keep going nowhere and then he leaps and the ball
Speaker 1: gets knocked out. But that was typical of what was
Speaker 1: going on that day. I know we got to go
Speaker 1: to break, and I'll lead you to break by saying,
Speaker 1: even when you block a punt, it didn't turn out well. Okay,
Speaker 1: sounds like Mickey wants to talk about the block punt
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Speaker 1: listened to Stephen Jones on that I did I did
Speaker 1: anything of note? Uh. He said that, um, there's a
Speaker 1: possibility that they can get Tyrn Smith ready to get
Speaker 1: back in the game this week. That's a priority. And
Speaker 1: he says, and you know if he improves upon um
Speaker 1: that early in the week, maybe he'd get in the practice.
Speaker 1: He also sounded like, uh, they can get Michael Gallop
Speaker 1: back this week. So he said, we missed Tyring yesterday
Speaker 1: and get Michael Gallop back this week. So and they
Speaker 1: have to make the move this week because this is
Speaker 1: his third week of practicing. And then you got to
Speaker 1: make a decide who Michael gallup because he's on Indian reserve.
Speaker 1: So you said Thanksgiving, Remember I asked you about you
Speaker 1: really want Tyron Smith to play against Atlanta. Yes, we
Speaker 1: don't need to remember back to A twenty seventeen. The
Speaker 1: guy made all the money he needed to make that
Speaker 1: because he got a big five, No, five, four or five?
Speaker 1: They had seven, I think seven or eight. I think
Speaker 1: he seemed like I thought he had sixteen. I thought
Speaker 1: he had more than I thought. It was five and
Speaker 1: and and they weren't all on Chaz Green because the
Speaker 1: backup came in and yeah, he didn't do nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he went backup, back up to the back. How he
Speaker 1: did look like, hey, so here's the thing before we
Speaker 1: move on into the punt. What the heck is going
Speaker 1: on with dad man? What the heck? Was not a
Speaker 1: good talk? To me? A conspiracy? I just just to
Speaker 1: uh on clay Adrian Clayborne. It was six sacks, it was.
Speaker 1: It was six sacks against the Cowboys. So well maybe
Speaker 1: it was six, but it wasn't. They weren't all against
Speaker 1: chen Yeah, I'm sure I think he was. He got
Speaker 1: four on Chaz Green, one and another guy and then
Speaker 1: one was just he looped into the middle and they
Speaker 1: didn't pick it up. So how many did they finish
Speaker 1: in the game? Then it was it eight? Yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1: I remember that magic number. No, No, Well, I'll have
Speaker 1: to look it up. It's longer. That's okay, never mind,
Speaker 1: now go ahead. I was asked about what the heck's
Speaker 1: going on with Dak and these throws. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know that there was pressure a bit, but there
Speaker 1: were times when you know, you expect so much more, right,
Speaker 1: and now of course you're gonna want deal. Okay, Well
Speaker 1: do you trow with your your calf or do you
Speaker 1: use your hips more? And well was that part of it?
Speaker 1: See he moved well enough to dispel what I was
Speaker 1: thinking early because he was high, and I'm thinking, when
Speaker 1: you throw flat footed, you're high, right because you're not
Speaker 1: pushing off your back foot. But the times he scrambled
Speaker 1: and moved around the one to ceedee lamb, I just think,
Speaker 1: let's touch down. But see, here's the deal. Some of
Speaker 1: those that other than the fourth was at the fourth
Speaker 1: and two one he missed. He came short, and he
Speaker 1: kind of explained that he changed his arm slot because
Speaker 1: he thought he was gonna hit the other guy, so
Speaker 1: it was almost like a one hop. But some of
Speaker 1: those that you thought he'd hit, like, you don't make
Speaker 1: a living on throwing the ball on the run. And
Speaker 1: the reason he's throwing the ball on the run. Was
Speaker 1: the pocket continued to break down? Yes, yes, and and
Speaker 1: so okay, yeah, he threw the ball on the run
Speaker 1: for the winning touchdown passing overtime against New England. But
Speaker 1: you're not going to make a living off of throwing
Speaker 1: those passes. And he was off, He was long so
Speaker 1: many times, and just watching him in the pocket, I
Speaker 1: don't think he ever got comfortable. There were very few
Speaker 1: times he stood in the pocket, look, look, and then
Speaker 1: stepped in and through because he didn't have time for that. Now,
Speaker 1: while he didn't get all those sacks in there, he's
Speaker 1: the number one passer with pressure well, and this pressure
Speaker 1: I know, but this pressure just seemed to and they
Speaker 1: blitzed a little, but not that you know what it was.
Speaker 1: They were playing that wide nine deal, especially on passing
Speaker 1: downs where they widened out their defensive ends and then
Speaker 1: they crashed in which Number one kind of kept him
Speaker 1: in the pocket and number two gave the tackles just
Speaker 1: an awful lot of trouble. But I just say his
Speaker 1: feet were never quiet in the pocket. They kept moving
Speaker 1: pepper like that. They go again, you get that once,
Speaker 1: They only get that once. But that's What happened, you remember,
Speaker 1: I don't remember what year it was, is a game
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia mid season. Dak had an off night. It's
Speaker 1: just his second or third year. It's either twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: twenty eight, I can't remember. And his footwork was off,
Speaker 1: and he came back the next week and was right
Speaker 1: on target with everything. And I think, and I know
Speaker 1: nothing about it, I say, okay, but it's just a
Speaker 1: theory that I have. When you look back at his
Speaker 1: bill is conspiracy. I wrote that right at the last
Speaker 1: three weeks. Well, what's he been doing the last three
Speaker 1: weeks after the calf injury? Okay, he got the buye
Speaker 1: week and he's rehabbing that. Okay, he's not working on
Speaker 1: his footwork that week. The next week it's kind of
Speaker 1: the same deal. He's doing a lot of stuff, but
Speaker 1: he's not working on footwork and passing the football. So
Speaker 1: there's basically two weeks now. He's back this week. And
Speaker 1: I think with him, and with most every quarterback there
Speaker 1: is that it gets underestimated how much footwork matters in
Speaker 1: their accuracy and so forth. And I think what you're
Speaker 1: going to see is he's going to put his nose
Speaker 1: to the grindstone like he always does this week, and
Speaker 1: he is going to be right back where we have
Speaker 1: seen him the first half of this season, where his
Speaker 1: accuracy is right on and stuff. But that playing a
Speaker 1: factor in that is the fact that he wasn't sure,
Speaker 1: you know, the pocket is collapsing on him and so
Speaker 1: and then to make matters worse. At one point in
Speaker 1: the game, I think I wrote this down. They had
Speaker 1: as many first down No, they had as many drop
Speaker 1: passes as they had first downs, five five of each.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, man, How do you, Michael? I mean the
Speaker 1: Murray Cooper right through the bread basket? Right? How does
Speaker 1: that happen? I was waiting to hear Bills. Bill's whole
Speaker 1: thing shoals, the whole lam, The whole weekend was crazy. Bill.
Speaker 1: That's why what Bill is an expiracy theory. You got something, man? Okay,
Speaker 1: So what the heck? All weekend wells and this is
Speaker 1: in the stars, right, let me let me support you know,
Speaker 1: in this league, you know, every week, strange stuff happens. Right,
Speaker 1: So the Cowboys basically thirty to nothing right before they
Speaker 1: get two gifts touchdowns. Atlanta goes to New Orleans and
Speaker 1: wins Jacksonville. Jacksonville beats Buffalo and holds them to six points.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is supposed to be the player of the year.
Speaker 1: When was this play? The game? Was that Jacksonville? But
Speaker 1: what kind of home field advantage do they have? Cleveland
Speaker 1: goes to Cincinnati with all their turmoil and beats the Bengals,
Speaker 1: holds into sixteen in first place in the division. The
Speaker 1: Giants beat Las Vegas. They had won two in a row.
Speaker 1: Rich Basach is not undefeated anymore. Baltimore has to go
Speaker 1: into overtime to beat Minnesota, the team that we stomped
Speaker 1: right with a backup quarterback, Kansas City takes out Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Now I can understand. No, you know, Rogers, that was
Speaker 1: an ugly game all the way, but they beat them
Speaker 1: thirteen looks so bad they only scored thirteen points. I agree.
Speaker 1: And then last night Tennessee goes into La and beats
Speaker 1: the Rams. That to me was just as alarming as
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and Buffalo game. Look, I mean, look at all,
Speaker 1: how do you make sense of and the Chargers. By
Speaker 1: the way, he had to go right down to the
Speaker 1: wire to beat Philadelphia. We gotta be careful with Philly guys. Right,
Speaker 1: they're gonna give us a weird stuff happens in this league.
Speaker 1: You know when just when you think four teams were
Speaker 1: favored by seven points or more loss got beat. Just
Speaker 1: when you think you got this thing figured out, it
Speaker 1: comes back and says, not so fast. All right, I've
Speaker 1: got a flashback for you. This reminds me of Barry
Speaker 1: Switzer at a press conference in nineteen ninety four or
Speaker 1: whatever he was. You know how Barry it his press conferences.
Speaker 1: He'd uh, he'd lose his train of thoughts, and then
Speaker 1: he'd say, I just had a flashback, he said, A
Speaker 1: Fireman's fun flashback. You remember that at all? You remember
Speaker 1: the fireman's fack? Yeah, all right, I've got for you
Speaker 1: right here it is, if you can see it here America,
Speaker 1: a Fireman's fun flash back. We take you back to
Speaker 1: Week nine of last season. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers play
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints. The six win Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: against the Saints and what was the final score, thirty
Speaker 1: eight to nothing. The Saints beat the Buccaneers. What happened
Speaker 1: to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: They eventually got on a roll and won the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Now let me take you back fifty one years ago
Speaker 1: to nineteen seventy Everson, you remember this at the Cotton
Speaker 1: Bowl in Dallas Monday Night football. It was week nine
Speaker 1: of the season. Just like this was week nine of
Speaker 1: the season and the Cowboys were playing the Saint Louis
Speaker 1: Cardinals and the final score of that game thirty eight
Speaker 1: to nothing. The Cowboys lost. In the fourth quarter of
Speaker 1: that game, Cowboys fans of the Cotton Bowl were chanting,
Speaker 1: we want Dandy, we want Dandy. Dandy. Don Meredith was
Speaker 1: in the ABC Monday Night Football booth his first Cowboy
Speaker 1: game that he ever did as a Monday Night football announcer.
Speaker 1: What happened to the Cowboys the rest of that season?
Speaker 1: They went on a roll and went all the way
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, and not four a ridiculous call
Speaker 1: by Jack Fettie in that Super Bowl against Baltimore, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys would have won their first World chap That would
Speaker 1: be the double tip that and on the goal line
Speaker 1: the day Manders recovered a fumble on the goal line
Speaker 1: Fireman's fun flashback, And do you remember when they asked
Speaker 1: Dandy Don in the booth? So they want you back,
Speaker 1: do you want to go down there? And he goes, hell,
Speaker 1: no not. So you got your conspiracy theory. It's a
Speaker 1: week nine deal in NFL history, okay. And I was
Speaker 1: thinking of that when it was thirty to nothing. In fact,
Speaker 1: I was halfway rooting for Denver to score another touchdown
Speaker 1: to make it thirty seven to nothing and it would
Speaker 1: be really like nineteen seventy all over again. Yeah, absolutely, So,
Speaker 1: all right, there you have it. Do you like that?
Speaker 1: I like, I love It's going to be part of
Speaker 1: it to tease. So it was a good thing. It
Speaker 1: happened yesterday. This team's gonna get on a roll. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm glad it happened before I'd say week thirteen, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, fifteen something like. And having said
Speaker 1: all that, when I look at the standings here, so
Speaker 1: two teams seven and one in the NFC, Green Bay,
Speaker 1: Arizona and six and two Cowboys, six and two, Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay five and two New Orleans and seven and two Rams,
Speaker 1: and the AFC only one team is seven and two
Speaker 1: and that's Tennessee. Yeah, it looked pretty good last night.
Speaker 1: Then they did, especially on the road without Derrick Henry, right, so,
Speaker 1: and then Now that's funny. How you look at our
Speaker 1: schedule now as it comes up all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: That's like in some urgency. Because we always talk to
Speaker 1: abody on this show. No one's gonna keep on losing.
Speaker 1: No one's gonna keep on winning. That's just the way
Speaker 1: it is. So now, all of a sudden, Falcons look good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that game doesn't look so easy now, you know. Now
Speaker 1: we're looking at you know, Saints looking good. Maybe they'll
Speaker 1: come out over confidence. Whoever quarterbacks for the Saints. We
Speaker 1: have to go there and win. So now, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, and the weaknesses in between that chack Kansas
Speaker 1: City Thanksgiving against the Raiders come on. Yeah, Now, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they're looking old cowboys in trouble. Well,
Speaker 1: the first she was saying, look how easy that schedule is.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, it's now, oh, look at these
Speaker 1: next four games. Were saying, he's a easy game. So
Speaker 1: I love I love the EBB and flow. Don't get
Speaker 1: ahead of yourself, right, just play it all right, we're
Speaker 1: going to examine the punt in the third quarter. Didn't
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Speaker 1: for today? What's happening today? Mike McCarthy has a press
Speaker 1: conference at three pm three less than an hour away.
Speaker 1: The coordinators to follow usually around four four thirty something
Speaker 1: like that, and the players come in and get their
Speaker 1: run in and they have their meetings. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're gonna watch tape or you're gonna burn it,
Speaker 1: burn it? What do you do that? Well, I'm watching
Speaker 1: it because I still don't think this team has accomplished
Speaker 1: anything to be sitting there strutting along and go, okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's. That's that he You know, even Tom probably
Speaker 1: got along, because when this happened with us, there were
Speaker 1: times when Tom would just say forget it. But most
Speaker 1: of the time, either you're gonna they're gonna throw it
Speaker 1: away or it's gonna be the longest film day that
Speaker 1: you've had. Because offense, defense, and special teams will be
Speaker 1: in the same rule. So everybody will get the gist
Speaker 1: of the criticism. You know, Fangio's comment about the Cowboys offense,
Speaker 1: it was pretty complimentary, like they are really good, and
Speaker 1: he goes and the other teams didn't figure out how
Speaker 1: to stop him. He didn't say we did. He goes in,
Speaker 1: how do you stop all that talent? He goes in,
Speaker 1: I guarantee you they'll continue scoring thirty five points a game,
Speaker 1: and uh, they won't have another game like that, will
Speaker 1: They will not? But he said we rose to the
Speaker 1: occasion to the point where I guess he started his
Speaker 1: press conference off was well, how about those Broncos? He
Speaker 1: goes In't that what Jimmy Johnson used to say? See
Speaker 1: how long he stays up like that? Yeah? With his
Speaker 1: with his job, well, I think he wouldn't have any
Speaker 1: problem if he's okay being a defensive coordinate. There's been
Speaker 1: one for thirty five years in this league. Yeah, or
Speaker 1: one stint in college at Stanford. All right, um, punt
Speaker 1: pun Before the punt, Before Stevens say anything about Zeke
Speaker 1: in his knee, he said that he didn't feel like
Speaker 1: they came out of the game with him, or maybe
Speaker 1: they didn't even ask him about Zeke with any injury concerns.
Speaker 1: So it was a bruise. Um, I think they were
Speaker 1: putting a heating pad on it or something. So I
Speaker 1: think you can deal with a bruise better to deal
Speaker 1: with a sprain. And the way he was running towards
Speaker 1: the end, I mean, I'm sure sore today, but it
Speaker 1: didn't seem like it limited to many, although it was
Speaker 1: concerning early in the game. And by the way, Cowboys
Speaker 1: fans are hoping the Broncos keep this role going for them.
Speaker 1: They beat Washington last week, Dallas this week, and they've
Speaker 1: got Philadelphia coming up this week. So go ahead, and
Speaker 1: Bronchos and knock yourself out. Keep doing your things. Philly
Speaker 1: and the Giants are now just three games back instead
Speaker 1: of three. Oh I can, I can. I can feel
Speaker 1: their breath on my nick all right now. The blocked punt, boy,
Speaker 1: that was gonna be a great momentum changer in this game.
Speaker 1: It was just typical of the day, right, what what
Speaker 1: could go wrong? Even when you did something right, ends
Speaker 1: up going wrong. They they're gonna they're blocked the punt,
Speaker 1: They're gonna get the ball back inside the twenty yard line.
Speaker 1: You score there. I think it was sixteen to nothing
Speaker 1: that point. Malik Turner, the wide receivers touchdown, two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: comes right through through the middle, blocks it and doesn't
Speaker 1: get at all. But it flutters up and goes over
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and Nashan Wright standing there and
Speaker 1: he sees the ball coming by and he goes to
Speaker 1: grab it, grab the butterfly. And yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: weird spin on it because yeah, because of the block, right,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't like he could just catch it deflects it. It
Speaker 1: It was. It was actually coming like almost upwards, and
Speaker 1: the deflection made it a live ballum So it was
Speaker 1: not considered a block punt. It was. It was considered
Speaker 1: a muff How about that. It's the block punt, but
Speaker 1: once it goes past the line of scrimmage, it becomes
Speaker 1: like a punt, and so that is a muffed punt.
Speaker 1: He doesn't even get first person in history to kits
Speaker 1: what two touchdowns, two touchdowns, block a punt one game
Speaker 1: the first time? And how about this? Because of that,
Speaker 1: so the punt ends up going like technically three yards.
Speaker 1: That poor punter's punting average, there's thirty one yards a punt.
Speaker 1: He'll take it he'll take the win, I'm sure. So
Speaker 1: the weird the weird thing on that is, so you
Speaker 1: block it, you recover it, and you get a first down,
Speaker 1: like the possession changed, right, So my thought is, like,
Speaker 1: what happens if you block it? The ball goes up
Speaker 1: and it comes down on some poor s OB's head.
Speaker 1: It's a muff muff. You can't You're not gonna call
Speaker 1: may day and all of a sudden the guys on
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage are gonna start scrambling, right, So
Speaker 1: that that's the only thing that well about the rule.
Speaker 1: But it is what it is. No, it is, and
Speaker 1: they can't. You can't all of a sudden that's say, well,
Speaker 1: we need to change that rule. No, you don't need
Speaker 1: to change the rule. Well, somebody suggested that to McCarthy afterwards,
Speaker 1: and he goes, I ain't gonna do us any good
Speaker 1: to day. I it's gonna happen again. I mean, you'd
Speaker 1: be lucky if it does. Well. You do have the
Speaker 1: option of stopping them after they recover. The best true
Speaker 1: you do when to do it. And then they drove
Speaker 1: for a field goal, right, made nineteen to and even
Speaker 1: at night there was the thirty yard run was right
Speaker 1: after that, right, Yeah, the two players. I'm still feeling
Speaker 1: good at nineteen nothing. Yes, I was too. I was thinking, okay,
Speaker 1: they're gonna you know, but the key thing was is
Speaker 1: you were down sixteen to nothing. You did squat in
Speaker 1: the first half, you got them three and out, You're
Speaker 1: gonna get the ball you blocked it. Chances are you're
Speaker 1: gonna get the ball around the twenty yard line and
Speaker 1: if you score, go for two. It's sixteen eight ball
Speaker 1: game on. Right. Imagine if you had kicked the field
Speaker 1: goal early in the game and then he did just
Speaker 1: scored the touchdown and you kicked the extra point at
Speaker 1: sixteen ten. Right, it was the Mojoe moment that didn't
Speaker 1: Joe h They got moved and that would have been
Speaker 1: that could have been a huge momentum change in the
Speaker 1: game right there. Right, they're feeling down, they got a
Speaker 1: punt block, you're feeling great. It's like a fifty four
Speaker 1: yard kickoff return. Right, this is how we're starting the
Speaker 1: second half. And it was a it was a you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny you mentioned that about Babe. I was at
Speaker 1: the game, and it wasn't odd feeling. It just really
Speaker 1: was I just I don't know. I just did not
Speaker 1: feel comfortable. Uh. You we talked last week about fan hesitancy, right,
Speaker 1: You're like, hey, don't worry about yes why? And I
Speaker 1: talked last week about it's time for us to believe
Speaker 1: in the Cowboys, you know what I mean? So so
Speaker 1: now right back where I was, well, no, because when
Speaker 1: you when you look at it, they needed a final
Speaker 1: minute touchdown to beat Minnesota, they needed over time to
Speaker 1: beat New England, right, um, and they needed a walk
Speaker 1: off field goal to beat San Diego. I mean San Diego,
Speaker 1: the Chargers, yes, yes, right, And so it wasn't like
Speaker 1: they were just romping over the only people they romped
Speaker 1: over or the NFC East teams, right, And I wasn't
Speaker 1: worried about them womping over anyone. I liked the We
Speaker 1: talked about the Mojo moment, right, we because we won
Speaker 1: those games in such dramatic fashions, because that is our
Speaker 1: creed right now, you know, we answer the bell, no
Speaker 1: matter what's going on before that. Now it's time to
Speaker 1: make a play. Yesterday that just didn't exist. They couldn't
Speaker 1: get the game into the final minute. But boy, they
Speaker 1: came on March, right, down and got two consecutive touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So how many times in the game did the Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense get off the field without Denver scoring. I'm thinking
Speaker 1: first possession the Denver had put then it was here's
Speaker 1: the Denver's next possession was a touchdown. Denver's next possession
Speaker 1: was a touchdown, and then Denver's next possession was a
Speaker 1: field goal. And then came the final possession of the
Speaker 1: half where they were just they weren't they were milking
Speaker 1: the block, and then they got to the midfield and
Speaker 1: then uh Parsons and Lewis got the sacked in the
Speaker 1: half whatever. Okay, so there were I mean scoring drives,
Speaker 1: but there were three, and so then you got there.
Speaker 1: And then the first possession of the third quarter you
Speaker 1: got you got out with the buck punt, and then
Speaker 1: that happened. Well, then they proceed to go for a
Speaker 1: field goal on that possession, of field goal on the
Speaker 1: next possession, and then a touchdown on the next possession,
Speaker 1: and a field goal on the next possession, and there's
Speaker 1: your thirty points. So they had they had twelve possessions
Speaker 1: and they scored on one, two, three, four, five, six.
Speaker 1: One was the end of game. One was a miss
Speaker 1: field goal. So and one was the end of half
Speaker 1: the punt. Is that considered a continuous drive? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't you say it an't in the field goal?
Speaker 1: I don't. Well, let me see. So is that you know?
Speaker 1: They went they went to fourth down, count the muffs
Speaker 1: a successful fourth down try. No it so technically it
Speaker 1: finished as a punt, and then the next possessions started
Speaker 1: two yards behind where they where the other drive began
Speaker 1: and ended in a field goal. So they yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's like a change of possessions,
Speaker 1: like you turned the ball over, so but technically you
Speaker 1: didn't have the ball yourself, and so that's why the question.
Speaker 1: So it was like it was like last year all
Speaker 1: over well, they had the ball for almost seven minutes
Speaker 1: and then had the ball for over forty one minutes
Speaker 1: in the game. What's the what's the record? It's gotta
Speaker 1: be record for time of possession versus points, versus points?
Speaker 1: Is that what you mean? Or just few fewest few points,
Speaker 1: fewest time of possession, right, fewest minutes, time of possession, points,
Speaker 1: time off. It's in the media, guy or not here
Speaker 1: you keep talking, So as you look for that. What
Speaker 1: about the Josh Allen weirdness? You see that Josh Allen
Speaker 1: sacking Josh Allen, Yes, not just sack, it was interception
Speaker 1: and fund the recovery man. It's a weird day, weird day.
Speaker 1: I just knew you were gonna come in with like
Speaker 1: some type of well I did. I gave you a
Speaker 1: fireman's fun flashback. If that's not that big a deal,
Speaker 1: Week nine happens, Week nine happens in this late nine.
Speaker 1: We tried that, tried. Think he's not gonna be I
Speaker 1: don't think they have a time of possess. We'll have
Speaker 1: that that your homework assignment for them all on your
Speaker 1: own show. That's right, okay, And so we are our
Speaker 1: pastime here nothing and again. Mike McCarthy's press conference coming
Speaker 1: your way in about forty five minutes from now at
Speaker 1: three o'clock, and we will talk at you again tomorrow
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